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I'm happy we won so I can like really enjoy the last couple days. Today's gasps. NFL Network insider Tom Pelissero. Entrepreneur and fitness personality Jake Steinfeld.
Plus your phone calls, what's more likely and more. And now it's Rich Eisen. That's right. Welcome to the Body By Rich Show. It'll be fun. Back here on the program everybody. Right here on the Roku Sports Channel. Right here on the Infinity Sports Network.
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I've got a top five list on the top five quarterbacks in a better situation now than they were last year. That's a lot of fun and then whatever's on your mind as we're getting ready to see if the Indiana Pacers are going to stick it to the Knicks again tonight. Now the Eastern Conference Finals second game as we're getting set to talk a little bit of hoops and hang with you. Again 844-204rich is the number to dial here on the program. A lot of people wanted to play the win-loss game yesterday but we were too busy chatting it up with Rich Paul.
Our friend Jeff Saturday zoomed in as well last second. So we left a lot of folks on hold. Happy to have you back on this program today at 844-204rich.
Number to dial. Good to see you over there Christopher Brockman. How are you sir? Rich, great to see you. What's up man? I'm doing well.
Thank you so much. Good to see you over there Jason Feller. Jay Felley everybody. Good to see you Jay Felley.
TJ Jefferson. Candles already lit. What's going on over there? I just got a question. We got body by Jake today.
That's correct. Jake Steinfeld is here. Does that mean that we're also going to get like Kianna Thom and Corey Everson and Giard. Can we get all of them? If you're asking Denise Alston is zooming in. Okay. That was my next one. By the way, in. On all of them. All of them. Love that.
Early morning fitness lineup on the deuce. Nothing better. Okay.
Okay. Shout out to like I said Kianna and Corey. Who knew that Chris Brockman was a body shaping fan. Loved body shaping.
Everybody was. Get fit with Denise Alston. That was kind of my jam. By the way, one of my favorite human beings on planet earth. I'll give her a shout out Jennifer Dempster and Chris Fowler. They got married.
They're a couple. Jennifer was on body shaping. Wow. But she is not here today. Although it would make our day. She truly is one of the greatest human beings on planet earth. But Jake Steinfeld will be here.
Nice. But you're sure Kianna Thom's not coming? I believe Kianna. We can ask. This is like the fourth time you've said her name. I mean I.
Would you like me to spend real estate with Jake later on? Do you have Kianna Thom's phone number and if so can we call him? Can we FaceTime Kianna Thom? Because without him there's no Kianna Thom. There's no body shaping. There's no.
He started the whole thing. Yeah. We're going to have a great day today.
Thank you so much. We are going to have a great day. Tom Pelissero will join us and if he covers up that head of hair again I'm going to be really pissed. That should be his hat. That should be part of his contract.
Normally he tries harder. That's like wearing. That's like the Seinfeld. The Seinfeld. Not Seinfeld.
But Seinfeld. You know wearing sweats. You give up.
If you wear sweats out of your house you've given up. Give it up. All right. I remember you adopted that a few years ago too.
He and I can can share something in common. Neither of our teams have won a game in the conference finals. Nick's trying for their first one tonight after getting gutted by the Indiana Pacers on Wednesday night. And a funny thing happened on the way to crowning Anthony Edwards as the next Michael Jordan.
What happened to him so far appears to be the MVP of the NBA. Shea Gilges Alexander. Once again great game.
Incredible game. Say it. I'll say it. Name me another guy who's got a hard G and a soft G in the same line. That's my last name. That's why people screw it up.
They don't know how to pronounce it. But he's the M-V-A-M-V-P. And I mean you just gotta love it. Gotta love it.
And the folks in Oklahoma City are loving it. And you know you gotta love a guy who when he accepts his award he's in tears thanking his wife. Puts it all out there.
I mean this one too. When asked about if he's proud of his younger self, what his younger self would think, right? Shea you once mentioned my whole life is consistent. When you think about the younger teenage Shea, how proud of you are of that younger Shea that got you to that point of hoisting up the trophy tonight? Yeah I'm very proud. I'm glad he never gave up. I'm glad he listened to the right people. And I'm glad for those people giving me that advice that they did throughout the years.
They know who they are and I'm very appreciative. Ladies and gentlemen, SGA. Folks here in Los Angeles not terribly happy with this development. Hey Rich Paul mentioned it yesterday, right? Everybody blames LeBron. Oh he's the guy behind the scenes pulling strings. He's the one making rosters happen and the rosters don't happen to his liking. He makes a move and he's really he's running teams stuff like that and he basically was saying how come nobody blames Kawhi for that sort of thing?
I'm totally paraphrasing but he said that with SGA. Trust me I feel it Rich. Morgan right? I mean I feel it. Jerry West saw something in this kid. The Clippers drafted him. He was here in LA and all of a sudden Kawhi wins up in Toronto and he's willing to come to Los Angeles. Not the Lakers. LeBron was here already. Not the Lakers but the Clippers and the Clippers essentially said who else do you want and he chose Paul George who's sitting there in Oklahoma City who the prior year was lighting cigars with Russell Westbrook saying he pulled a full wolf of Wall Street. I'm not leaving. And then he leaves and kudos to the Oklahoma City front office. They're like we will take Shea Gilges Alexander. And every one of your draft picks for the next 30 years.
Which by the way has them set up for Giannis right now if they so choose but why would you? All right. Why would you? Don't do it again. Don't do it again. Listen. For the love of God. We're here to protect you.
Why would you mess with what is happening? This kid is totally becoming the manchild that everybody expected the Timberwolves star to be right now. Now there's still more games to be played. I'm just saying right now the way they're feeling in Oklahoma City has got to be great. This listen even in the Durant hey days right with coach Scotty Brooks.
Remember Billy Donovan had a cup of coffee there? They were never up 2-0 in a Western Conference Finals. Even the year and they made the finals they weren't up 2-0 in the Western Conference Finals. As a matter of fact they were down 0-2 to the Spurs and won four in a row and got there.
Okay. So they are up 2-0 in a Western Conference Finals in Oklahoma City for the first time. You know the last time they were up 2-0 in a Western Conference Finals?
I looked it up. When they were the Seattle SuperSonics. Yeah. In 1995-96 season. In May of 96 last time they were up 2-0. They were up 2-0 on Karl Malone and the Utah Jazz. There's Gary Payton just throwing lobs at Sean Kelly.
Okay. Rain Man. And the last time we saw a 30-point game five games in a row in the playoffs by a member of the Oklahoma City Thunder or the Seattle SuperSonics.
Apparently never. You're looking at it. 38-8 and three steals and this is after he gets the trophy from Adam Silver. After the game he was saying he'd try to keep within himself being overhyped. I feel like my emotions are like so high that I was like a little bit like tired out there. Especially to start I was like a little too juiced up. But yeah special moment. I'm happy we won so I can like really enjoy the last couple days and soak it all up.
That really helps. But yeah shout out to the team. Played well again tonight and heading to Minnesota up 2-0. All right. The irony of a guy from Toronto being traded Oklahoma City because a guy just won a championship there saying I want to come to you here in Los Angeles and I want to choose somebody of my liking. I guess if you have a problem in Minnesota with what I've had to say you can do what a lot of people are doing in this country right now.
Blame Canada. A lot to like there and there was another the thing I was most impressed with and by last night is if you recall it was a 70-64 game. It was tight third quarter.
Could have gone anyway right even though Julius Rando was having another brutal off night. You know the Timberwolves kept on chipping away and chipping away and chipping away. Suddenly it's like a two possession game. It's on the verge of being a one possession game and then boom.
Boom. Three pointers keep falling. SGA keeps getting whistles which pisses. I don't know what is going on. I guess if you're winning an MVP in this league you're a lightning rod no matter what right.
I guess that's what it is. He's getting whistles. He doesn't deserve the whistles. He's flopping a little bit. You know are these really fouls? Are they not?
Everybody's wearing the same t-shirt. They're going crazy. It's tough to stop when three pointers are falling and then the long defenders are creating problems on a three-point arc for you and Chet Holmgren is Gumby damn it. He's throwing things down and he starts yelling and screaming. They're calling timeout for Minnesota. Did you see SGA come back?
The ESPN camera's calling him basically. Tell me. Tranquilo. Calm down.
Tranquilo. Calm down. I mean if he's going to have the presence of mind in moments like that now to be that leader. They won 68 games. Alex Caruso is doing things for the ball brotherhood that I'm very proud of. We're gonna have to own him soon.
Hartenstein's doing his stuff that as Knicks fans loved. Yep. They look unstoppable. They look inevitable. You think so huh? Yeah it really does.
I don't know dude. The Indiana Pacers they don't care how much you're falling down by. That's true. But and the Timberwolves still have five games of runway to win four against the 68 win team who has two of those five. Seems like a tall task.
Don't you think? How about us talking Oklahoma City basketball? Well in the Western Conference Finals for the first time like honestly. I don't know what the main street is in in Oklahoma City.
Probably main street but there might be a parade there in about three weeks. You know I don't know. Rich getting back to the SGA Clipper thing though. I've told you I've been feeling this for a while but yesterday I was lucky enough I sat in with Jimmy Jackson on his pod and kind of brought it up and he kind of made me feel a little bit better about it and the fact that you know.
Which is available right now. Paul George was a top 15 NBA player at that point right? There was no debate. There was no question that that was the right move at the time to go out and get Paul George and my whole thing as a Clipper fan is like what if that never happened and Jimmy kind of rests assured that maybe SGA wouldn't have gotten the reps. You know he wouldn't have got a chance to be ball dominant with the Clippers at that time as he did with the Thunder and it helped with his development. So maybe this isn't the guy that would end up on the Clippers. I don't know.
Play the result a little. The reason why I'm mentioning it here TJ is because of what Rich Paul said yesterday when he was here. Clutch Sports founder, CEO and long time and I love the story he was saying confident and partner of Lebron James because he wore a Warren Moon Houston Oilers jersey to the Akron airport one day and ran into Lebron.
Fits matter. You know what I mean right? Okay but again he's pointing out people complain about Lebron or criticize Lebron for putting rosters together when he really as according to Rich says doesn't have the power even though when he speaks up I think his voice carries maybe a little bit more than in other players right? But Kawhi did that. He did that and it wound up to be Oklahoma City's game years later throughout the years and years later to this very point that guy who got traded to Oklahoma City won the MVP award in front of his frenzied fans last night and then had a 38-point game after that and also had the mindset of everybody chill.
His thoughts, ways to go, people going crazy, you're loving it but let's all let's all gather ourselves here. The move was to get Kawhi period end of story. I mean what he had just done in Toronto right?
Yeah. And you remember in Toronto again the place where SGA was born they were giving away meals to any time to then they have stuff in the window saying hey Kawhi this is a Kawhi friendly store you come in here we're gonna give you a free meal to get them to stay right? Remember all that stuff was happening? It 100% made complete and total sense when Lebron was now here for the Lakers for the Clippers with Doc Rivers sitting there in Malibu and Kawhi coming into his spot saying I'll come to you if you bring a Robin for me to my Batman and I'm choosing Paul Pierce made all the sense Paul George pardon me made all the sense in the world for them to do it. The only reason why I bring it up because if you say it didn't you're playing the result and it's total you know 2020 hindsight. I'm only bringing that up because Kawhi made these moves. And now playoff P is podcast P sitting there in Philadelphia and we'll see.
That's very good point. And I thought the Clippers had the team that could actually do some damage deep into the playoffs. You thought I definitely thought that was it. Right right but another former Oklahoma City Thunder is is run out of time saying through the hourglass to be that man in a game seven that's hard obviously.
But just interesting sliding doors to talk about here on the top of this program. Big time. As the Thunder are halfway to getting back to the NBA Finals and you could make the case that last night in that arena SGA winning the champ the MVP doing that with 38 points everybody going nuts being up 2-0 for the first time in a Western Conference Finals since they were in Seattle is the biggest moment Oklahoma City has seen since they were taking on the Golden State Warriors in the NBA Finals. I mean the end taking on the Golden State Warriors back in the day when Durant was with the Warriors. We're going to the finals against the Heat. Right that's pretty much it. Yeah. 844-204 riches the number to dial here on the the Rich Eisen show so obviously they were taking on the Warriors in the Western Conference Finals last time. But the Heat being in against the Miami Heat yeah.
844-204 riches the number to dial here on the program. Mess sticking up the landing before going to the break. We've got what's more likely Friday you just made a yeah buddy you kind of threw me off you made a face at your computer there.
Oh is there something that just broke? No no no no no no I was looking at NBA Championship odds and the Thunder are minus 340. Oh okay.
They think it's a wrap? Yeah. Then the Pacers are next at plus 600. Knicks plus 850 and the T-Wolf to come all the way back and then win the championship 24-1. So you'd have to bet $34 to win 10.
To win 10? Yeah. Oh okay. Okay. Sounds like you should pass up on that. I am not good about that. Okay very good.
Not good value as we say. I don't get it. I'm so glad to be ignorant about this sort of stuff. I'm so glad. Good value on the Pacers I'm just saying. Or the Knicks fans will be like get in on that.
Totally. I'm totally in on that because we're the greatest team ever. Great value Knicks and Pacers. We're going to celebrate eliminating the Celtics like we're raising a banner.
You know you could do Rich we could just I'm just we could parlay the Knicks with Scottie Scheffler to win this week. That's all I'm saying. Let's put a yard on the yard and a half on the next problem. Let's go. What is a yard?
A hundred. Okay. I'm just saying. You don't know either right? You know what a yard is?
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What is so funny? You're just talking. Oh god. All right. I'm just saying you can go Pacers, Scheffler, Parlay and get 160 to one.
That's all I'm saying. Where's the PGA Tour this week? The Charles Schwab which is in Texas so that's the only reason Scottie's playing. But he's off to a rough start today so he's eight back but like that's nothing for him. He's the best player in the world. What happened to Rory being the best player in the world?
Rory kind of stunk last week. Oh okay. So you just give up on him? No I mean he's number two.
He's the second best player in the world. That's excuse me that's the charter member of the Rich Eisen Show Rory McElroy fan club. Well and it finally paid off. That broken clock was finally right.
Getting Rory to win a major for 40 straight times finally paid off. Am I back to even? I'm not going to answer that.
Well that's a no. So how did the Mets do yesterday? Were they off? We were off tonight. So it was sort of like Soto against Crochet. He was off.
Oh my goodness. I mean like was he playing? Those stats where it was like he's seen eight pitches and have yet to swang. Was he playing? And he's got three strikeouts. Oh he was playing. He had a home run that game by the way. Oh okay.
Just so you know I didn't see any text message about that. Well it wasn't against Gar Crochet. I don't care who it was against. I mean six pitches he looked at all of them and they were all strikes. There is immaculate. And he struck out twice. Oh god it was just great.
We are nine games above where we were at this point last year. Which is great. Everything is great. You know what he needs? I find out. I found out what Juan Soto needs.
To get away from your team. We need Grimace to throw out the first pitch again. Oh Hawk 2 is back. She's out of hiding. Last year we were stinking and Grimace came and turned it around.
If you remember after the 50 game Mark we caught fire. He's stinking. He's personally stinking. Well you're gonna eat those words come July.
Oh my goodness. Right now he's personally stinking. And we're personally great as a team.
We're back on the Rich Eisen Show radio network. We've been just talking about how the Mets were off yesterday but Soto like took the couple of at bats off. Didn't even didn't even swing the other night. We didn't talk about that yesterday.
An oblique tear in May is diabolical. Hotest team in baseball you're Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. I think they're just the LA Angels now. Seven straight. Phillies have also won seven. With Trout on the on the IL as well.
Yeah he's running bases at 80 percent so he's almost back. So you know. We're all just looking up at the Tigers right now anyway.
Well on the Phillies 33 wins for the Tigers, 32 for Philly. You know so in all honesty though. You know what? What?
Grab my kendo stick. No it's okay. It's okay.
It's okay. The Mets won anyway. Soto's gonna come around. He's just in a new spot called Queens. You ever been to Queens? And he only knows about the Bronx. Have you ever been to Queens? For a guy who knows the new what you know what a sports town New York is it's odd that he would find Queens to be sort of out of body since it's part of the New York scene.
He's so plugged into. Can I ask you a question? Hold on real quick. You know who would know about Queens? Jake Steinfeld coming in. Remember he was a cabbie and coming to America in Queens.
Ladies and gentlemen look at you. We're gonna talk to him about that. You know about Queens and you took that one? Oh yeah.
I liked it. We were. We'll talk about that.
I don't know why Jake was incoming to America. We can't wait to talk about it with him. We're wearing a Mets hat. Wearing a Mets hat. So maybe he needs to throw out a first pitch with Grimace to turn things around for you.
He needs to drive him to Queens like he did Prince of King. Meanwhile the Yankees are. There he is. There's my boy. That's the guy who's gonna get Soto out of his doldrums and make him feel more at home. You joke.
But what if he does come out again and then we go on another historical run like last year? I don't know. You're gonna be sad. How was that parade though last year? Was it fun?
It was attended by a few. Maybe again we'll get a first pitch thrown out by Wontua. Hey stop bringing her up man. She's back. She's out of hiding.
She's not involved with us. Do you know who's actually hitting for the Yankees? It's not Judge who's hovering around 400.
Or Paul Goldschmidt who the Yankees went and got when Soto said no thanks. And it's not Cody Bellinger isn't a 15 game hitting streak. It ended yesterday. It's fine. All good. But it's a guy named The Martian who Cooper told me today. Marvin?
No. You could say his name. Jason Dominguez. Okay. Jason Dominguez. Me and Brockman know Jason. We won a card hunt for him. Okay.
Understandable. When he hit a walk-off home run two nights ago. As Cooper told me this stat leaving the house today. He became the first player to hit a grand slam, a walk-off home run, have a three home run game, and a game in which he's homered from either side of the plate in the same month for the first time in major league baseball history.
It's amazing. And I hit dangers. That's right. The Martian hits dangers and he hits them in different ways from different sides of the plate.
He doesn't have as many home runs as Ben Rice, who has more home runs than Juan Soto. Yeah. Great. So just pointing all these things out as we're heading to Memorial Day weekend, the defacto quarter post poll of a major league baseball season. Okay.
Can I ask you a question? Would you be as BH by this if he hadn't said it was a Mets town? No, I would, I would have, I would have let this go.
I would have, I would have quite literally, I would have quite literally just let this sleeping dog lie. I do not believe that at all. I actually kind of do. I don't, I don't at all, but I think he would be less like, listen, less about it. When mad dog was on with Sue's Monday, he told you, and you played that soundbite the other day to try and so-called own me.
No, no. To sit here and say for Soto, Soto is a carpet bagger and heaves of turn coat and all. He was on the Yankees for a season. And yes, we did give up some players to go get him that are doing very well for the Padres. The Yankees could truly use Michael King right now. That's a fact, but the Yankees also got players with Soto, including a guy who's got better numbers than Soto this season. That includes Trent Grisham, another Yankee who's performed in the first quarter of the season, better than Juan Soto. And we don't, we don't, we don't talk about how he feels like a fish out of water being in a different borough or a different tax bracket, I guess.
Again, I would have turned the page on it, but he had to go ahead and say, no, no, no, this is a Mets town. That's why I made this decision or part of it. Oh, okay.
Now, now it's on like the proverbial donkey cock. You're from a part of New York that most people, according to Brotman, don't even consider New York. Oh, let's not talk about this.
And you're riding harder for them than the people that actually live in Brooklyn and Queens. You don't need to bring me into this. This is between the two of you.
No, no, no. Listen, you are the champion of Staten Island. That's fine. Listen, I've got Method Man on my side. That's true.
You've got the whole Wu-Tang on your side, so holler at your boy. Correct. Thank you. That's one of Staten Island's streetwise troubadours. Yeah, sure.
Why not? As the great arty of the Larry Sanders show, once referred to as the Wu-Tang Clan. The Wu-Tang Clan. Okay. Great baseball update. You feel better? Oh, cool.
Every, I feel, I feel great. They just swept the Texas Rangers, two or three of the Yankees against the Mets in a Mets town. Amazing.
Wow. And now the Yankees show up in Colorado where the Rockies are holding the beer of last year's Chicago White Sox right now. So very pleased. And they're the only team above 500 in the American League East with a five game lead entering Memorial Day weekend. So yes, I am happy.
Thanks for asking for that heat check. Alfred in Kentucky is back here. What's up, Alfred?
What's up, big dog? Are you here? We're here.
Allie out. Are you guys with me? Yeah, we're with you.
Are you with us? What's up, TJ? What up, G? Big dog? What up, cousin? I got high on my big dog.
Y'all's cows for life. What do you got, Alfred? Well, I got a rundown, but I got other things too. First off the bat, I want to apologize to Chris for me being rude yesterday. Thank you, Alfred.
Where I say I ain't like him, but he's a cool cat. You just spoke your mind, Alfred. It's okay. You're not alone. It's all right. It's okay.
Now that the housekeeping is taken care of, do you want to play the win-loss game of the Dallas Cowboys like you did yesterday? Is that what you'd like to do, Alfred? Who am I talking to, an operator? You don't sound like a Rich or TJ Oakridge.
It is not an operator. You are on the phone to honor this right now. Give him some music. You ready? I'm ready. I'm ready like business.
All right. At the Philadelphia Eagles to start the season, what happens for the Cowboys? Well, we call them the Seagulls, but I'm sorry, TJ, but I think we're going to take a loss for all the bad.
I hate that. Home for the Giants. Oh, that's a big W. At the Chicago Bears. That's my brother's favorite team. We're going to beat them down like a cub.
All right. Two and one, home for the Packers. Oh, we're going to pack their cheese.
Anyway, I got money on that bet. Three and one at the Jets. Oh, it took me so long to figure out who your team was because I thought it was the Pittsburgh Steelers, but it must be the Jets. No, it's a double digit loss for you, big dog. Four and one at the Panthers. Hey, look, I'm going to take a knee right now.
I'm sorry, TJ, but we got to take a little ill every now and then. I'm going to take four and two home for the commanders. Oh, we beat the dead skins. Washington, we beat them up. Five and two at the Broncos. Now we're going to get a big W because, you know, they take the Cowboys to ride a Bronco. Six and two home for the Cardinals on a Monday night. Oh, this game really got me a little bit alert, but we're going to get the W. We're going to get the W. Seven and two off the buy at the Raiders on a Monday night. Oh, that's going to be a good win.
We'll be all right on that W. That's four in a row now. That is eight and two home for the Eagles. No, it's not the Eagles.
It's the Eagles. Okay. And we get a W. Nine and two. Nine and two, Thanksgiving Day against the Chiefs. Well, I'm going to take a knee. I'm going to take a knee on that guy. I'm sorry, TJ. It's okay, baby.
I apologize to you for every loss. Nine and three at the Lions the following week on a Thursday. You know what I'm going to do? I'm going to take another L. Uh-oh. That's two in a row. Nine and four home for the Vikings. Oh, we get the W to the I-G-N. Ten and four home for the Chargers. I know you like old boy and hard boy, but we come to California. I was born in LA, but we get the W. All right. Eleven and four at the Commanders. No, they're the Redskins. And I think, listen, Rich, I'm sorry, TJ, but I think we're going to take a little L. All right. So that's now eleven and five at the Giants. Well, I call them the Littles, but we got the W to the I to the N. All right.
Alfred in Kentucky, twelve and five. Thank you so much. Thank you. There you go.
We are men of our words. He said he would call back and we said we would take him. He said born in LA. Yeah. On the way out. He's been in Kentucky a while. Alfred in Kentucky. Big dog. Big dog. Did you lost big dog?
OK. The Littles. The Littles. Not the Giants. The Sheagles. And the Sheagles.
So you liked how he apologized to me with every boss? Tell that. Tell that. We should drop that one in the next Women's Sports Now with Colleen Wolfe. There you go.
Call them the Sheagles. Ladies discuss. She'll deserve it for leaving me this note that she did saying Dallas sucks. Did she really write that?
Leave it there from last Friday? You didn't know about that. I know you left a very nice note with a candle like that's not creepy at all. It wasn't creepy.
All the girls liked it. OK. She did. She she texted you that she found that cute endearing. Yes. Yes. That you did that. You left for me a note that said this.
What does that say? Dallas still sucks. Yeah. That is respect. That's next level.
Like that's her response to your nice note and welcome to my workspace for the day while we're playing Family Feud. These Eagles fans have the note. Dallas still sucks. Karl-Anthony Towns. Kat will appreciate that. The balance rings. Colleen Wolfe.
Gabe Rizzotto. All you Eagles fans. Just disrespectful.
OK. Dallas still. So was it on the same paper that you wrote your note? Oh no. It was a different paper. OK. Now that would have been next level. That would have been.
I'm sure that got balled up and all trash. Kobe. Well, can we get Alfred to call once a month? We can get him.
I think we need an Alfred. I don't know. He might have had some time on his hands. I don't know.
And some smooth Kentucky was OK. You know what? We're going to take a break. We're going to take a break. We're going to come back. We're going to play. We're going to play. What's more likely to take some more phone calls? It is a Friday.
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Please check it out. A great conversation to start the show based on the Angel Reese, Kaitlin Clark moment in the WNBA season tip-off and Kaitlin Clark now two for two and getting into it. Game two last night. She's dribbling across the game three, pardon me, game three, the third game.
She's now, I guess, two for two in the last two games, right? And she's dribbling across the half court line. Kind of gives a little bit of the business to Ryan Howard who's all over her and Howard just gives her a shove back and all sorts of pushing and shoving. And she tells Howard, I'm not scared of you. I'm not scared of you.
And she gave her like this look. I'm like, not scared of you. I mean, I just can't get enough of it. I can't get enough. It's good.
It's going to be compelling all summer long. Well, it's clear season two for Kaitlin Clark and they are, they're just going to beat her up? Yep. Didn't make a three for the first time in her WNBA career in a game last night. But another Howard, their Howard, Natasha Howard took care of business against the Dream last night.
So they got the win. It appears that her team's better. It does.
It does. That they have made improvements and that their team is better. Although, you know, Howard's been around a while. That said, it's clear they're just going to try and beat the crap out of her.
Seems like a pretty good strategy. I mean, you saw when Steph Curry, I mean, these guys who are shooters, when they get roughed up a little bit, they don't like it. Fever have the third best championship odds, by the way.
Okay. So they're going to be in the mix. I was talking to an individual who is entrenched in the women's basketball, professional women's basketball scene. I don't want to say who, because this person didn't give me a reason to mention it on the air, but he was saying that the true crossover moment, which he also believes has already arrived, but the true crossover moment is when men started gambling on women's basketball sports. So you're sitting here mentioning, hey, these are the odds. And didn't Portnoy show up at the Fever home opener in full Kaitlyn Clark gear, betting an insane amount of money, triple double, and then he did.
I think he won like 400 grand or something on it. So, I mean, if that is a metric that helps, then let's talk about it. I mean, I've had Clark props the last couple of nights. Have you really? Yeah.
And? Did not hit last night. I mean, I've had Clark props the last night.
I'm about to say there ain't no way you hit the other day. Can you start prompting as to whether there's going to be a scuffle involved? I bet you those aren't available because it basically happens every game. Yeah. She gets into something.
Yeah. I mean, she's the favorite for MVP. She's minus money.
Did you start that off by saying she gave the bow to the girl and then you followed by saying that like, they're going to beat her up when it seemed like just they're all over her. She's reacting to the physical. But I mean, she can pull up from 26. You got to pick her up at mid-court. You better be physical with her.
She's going to shoot your eyeballs out. That's true. So that's what's going on. And now that we're back here in the rich, I wasn't sure just one more time to mention women's sports now available on Roku channel. Everybody check it out.
It's a lot of fun and a lot of interesting conversation. 8 4 4 2 0 4 rich number to dial here on this program. What's more likely Friday? Let's do it. Hit it. What's more likely?
Never say never, but never. All right, everybody. What do you got over there, Christopher? Hey everybody. How's it going?
Yeah, we're great. What up? Go.
Happy Friday. Hey, big news this week. The tush push is sticking around at least for one more year. Can we call brotherly shove?
Sure. The brotherly shove is sticking around on my head, but that just seems it's an only Eagles play, which as we know is it is not. Yeah, but that's true. Is it more likely that we see more teams successfully tush push this year or is it still just an Eagles thing? It's still just an Eagles thing. I really think it. So then when you will you admit trying to get rid of this is just anti-Eagles. Like we can't stop it.
The Eagles do this so much better than everybody else. I think I want to talk about this a little bit later because it's more than just a what's more likely conversation. I'm just saying we're going to see more now that it's sticking around. Are we going to see more teams do it?
That's my question. Can somebody bench like Jalen Hurts? Honestly. How many times? How many times when Jalen Hurts does it are you concerned about is he going to get up? Is he going to get hurt?
Zero. Right. So who's the another quarterback for whom that would be the case? Josh Allen, right?
Yep. I mean, he's taller obviously than Jalen Hurts. If there's anybody you think that could do it, the Los Angeles Chargers where Jim is all about the O-line.
But you got to be able to squat 600 pounds. That's what I'm saying. I'm just talking about big physical quarterbacks that you're not concerned about. Although Herbert has gotten hurt. You know, Herbert gets a high ankle here. He gets the ribs there. Mahomes is a thick boy.
He could probably. I would never. The guy had his knee twisted on a straight vanilla quarterback sneak. You're not doing it with Mahomes. You're going to do 15 different, you know, snow globe type plays. You've got enough trick plays in the book from Reed. I don't think they're the teams.
They're going to. I'm just trying to identify teams that have the quarterback and the first, the front, the three guys to do it. The, the, the, you know, the three guys in the interior offensive line. Ravens have that, but they do have the quarterback.
They do it with Mark Andrews. So, you know, how about one of the teams that voted against the ban are the Saints. Why wouldn't they try that with Taysom Hill?
Love that idea. But what they normally do with Taysom Hill on, on, you know, must have short yardage is just run options and with him and then he runs for touchdowns. You know what I mean? Like, so, but I'm just wanting, Kellen Moore is now a guy who was the latest offensive coordinator to run this play. He might bring it to the Saints and he's like, I've got a quarterback who can do this right now.
I got this. I would peg the Saints. If I had to peg any team, I'm not kind of surprised that Colts don't do it because Shane Steichen was, I guess, the originator of this whole thing. And, and I don't know if they have the interior line to do it. They do have Anthony Richardson to do it, but I pegged the Saints as a team to look forward.
They, they voted against the band. They have the OC to who, who, who's now the HC there. And they got Taysom and they got Taysom Hill on the roster. I like that. I like that.
What else? Let's talk rookies. Is it more likely Ashton Gente breaks the rookie rushing record?
1800 yards. Or Cam Ward sets the rookie passing TD mark this year? 31. I'll go Gente rushing rookie, rookie rushing record. It's Eric Dickerson.
That's a 40 plus year old record. I'm not saying it's going to happen. You're saying what's more likely?
What's more likely? I will always take the running back to do something over the quarterback because we have no idea how Cam Ward is going to take to being the starting quarterback in the NFL. And boy, are they really just moving him along in a way that we didn't see from the Bears and Caleb Williams last year. First of all, we do believe Brian Callahan will know how to have him watch film as opposed to last year.
Last year Eberflus, and again, I shouldn't keep mentioning him as the way to do it, that he's got the guidelines, the playbook, but he was basically last year. Yeah, there's no competition here. He's a guy. And they're having Cam Ward and Will Levitz split snaps right now. At some point that will end, I imagine. That said Ashton Gente, regardless of whether they're telling him his Michael Myers stance needs to be adjusted or not, is the way that he stands pre-snap.
They're trying to work on that. I'll take Gente over Cam Ward in what's more likely. I think he's going to be... Are you going to take Gente first round fantasy this year? That's a tall order, pal. That's a very tall order. TJ, you're taking him high. I know that.
Maybe. Please take him before me. How about this? $53 million a year quarterback to finish higher in the MVP voting this year. Purdy or? To a Purdy, Goff, Herbert. All these guys make 53 million.
Herbert makes 52 and a half. I round it up. Great question, Chris.
These guys all have the same salary. I know. I understand. Okay.
Boy, I couldn't think over the sound of the grinding ax over there, man. That's for the people in the comments. I got to go. Goff lost his OC. Goff was fifth last year. I know.
He's got the pole position here over everyone in this conversation. Yeah. Purdy's team. I mean, the Whiteouts are just giving us some of the other one.
They're looking at rosters here. Have we forgot about Tua? Yes, we have. As a matter of fact, I've already moved on. Yeah, moved on. If I had to take one out, if we're millionaireing this. Wow.
And I'm going slowly but surely. Tua's fourth here. Dude, what's your best ability in the NFL?
What is it? I mean, available, I guess. He's got to start 17 to be an MVP candidate, doesn't he?
That's true. I guess he doesn't have to start weeks the last week of the year. I mean, Herbert's the only guy who's got a head coach who stares at the ceiling at three in the morning saying, how am I going to get him to the Hall of Fame? Well, you're going to be here, huh? I'll go Goff.
Oh, wow. I'll go Goff again. What else you got there, Chris? All right, let's switch gears a little bit. How about this one? More likely to be the higher total SGA.
Bear with me. SGA single game point total in the playoffs this year. So his high for the playoffs right now is 38. Or Rockies wins this season. How many do they have right now?
They are eight and 42. They are on a pace for 26 wins, which would annihilate the single season. And SGA can up it over 38. He's going to probably have at least six, seven more games in which to do that. At least at the very least. At the very least, he's going to have only six more games. And he'd have to finish off sweeps to do it. So last year, the White Sox kind of set the modern record.
They were 41 and 121. Yeah, I'll go. The Rockies are seemingly worse.
I'll go SGA. Okay. Certainly since the Yankees are coming into town this weekend.
What else? They're terrible. I mean, but the Yankees have to remember every town that they're in is a Mets town. Colorado is a Mets town. Do you think there's more Mets fans in Colorado or Yankee fans? There's more Yankee fans everywhere. Interesting.
Except in New York. Chris, you need to get. Is it more likely? It's a good one.
Is it more likely? I didn't think you were paying attention. I kept looking over at you. By the way, that was just like, by the way, I had a pitch clock violation right there because we were not locking eyes.
He was not locking eyes with me. I got peripheral. Is it more likely the Thunder sweep the T wolves or Pacers? Knicks goes seven. Oh, Pacers. Knicks go seven. That's more likely. Interesting. You think the T wolves are going to win a game? What in the last two games have led you to believe that? Well, they're all going to be wearing the same T-shirts in Minnesota too.
Except for Jimmy Goldstein. That's right. All right.
Last one. Is it more likely Giannis gets traded this summer or Aaron Rodgers up and retires? Giannis gets traded this summer.
Giannis gets traded this summer. I mean, the Rodgers is playing football. He's playing football.
It didn't sound like it. I understand what you're saying this week. He's playing football. For the Steelers? Yes. Yeah.
He's playing football for the Steelers. So Giannis being traded this summer is more likely. Okay. Okay. Very good. Okay. Well done.
Thank you. Our number two, Tom Pelosero is going to be joining us. Tommy P. I don't want to talk basketball with him. I don't want to, you know, he was in, he was at these honors meetings.
There's lots to talk about. He was at the basketball games too. I get it. I don't want to talk basketball with him. He's a high roller. He's a local celebrity. I understand what he is. He better not have his hat backwards. I need to see that.
Well, I need to see the lattice today. That should be part of his contract. I'm going to text him.
He doesn't have a contract. I'm going to text him. No hat. No.
I'm going to text him. No hat. All cattle. No hat. Okay. Blue hat. Okay.
I want all cattle. That's what you want. Better not be wearing a hat today. You know, I tend to save my messages to him until he logs on and starts. What?
Will you leave him alone? I can't at this point. Well, now it's a good bet.
Yeah. I mean, we have to do it. But I don't like the bid. The bid doesn't... It doesn't involve you. No, no, no, no.
It's a three-way bid. You're not on the text chain. Guys, guys, guys, guys. That's a text chain.
I actually do answer texts. Excuse me. Guys, there's one, there's one. Listen, there's one way that we operate here. All right.
Lead pipe building. No, we're on fleek. This is another way of saying we're on fleek. Okay. Is that we do hear what's best for the show. That's it.
That's our north star. True. What is best for the show? And is it better for the show for Tom Pilasero to not have his phone buzzing because he's wondering, is it a major breaking story?
And instead he now looks down at his phone and he sees Brockman waving at him or you do is texting him something stupid. Is that what is best for the show? The answer is no. Is that what is best for you to have fun with Tom for your own jollies? Yes. So your jollies best for the show, your jollies best for the show should be, should be more this, this, your jollies best for the show.
You understand? I do, but there's no, but, but my jollies kind of helped the show. Sometimes this is your, your jollies best to win on the price is right.
Your jollies best to win on the price. It's you went this. It should have been this. This is ping pong table. This is two cars.
That's two Harleys, which I wouldn't have rode anyway. All right. What is best for the show on north star? Text Tom. No. And you don't want to see a hat, right? And I go, you better not be wearing a hat today. He sent me back. I don't know if we can zoom in. He's at the dentist. What? Are you serious?
I don't know if this is a live shot, but this is what he sent back to me. I'm willing to bet. It's what's with the glasses. Maybe he's getting a whitening situation. His teeth are like gorgeous.
Yeah. So he's 25 minutes away from zooming in and at present he's, he's in a dentist chair. He must be finishing up with jollies or higher. With blue blockers on? Wearing Ray Charles glasses.
Listen. Right now, it's like, what's best for the show? His teeth. No, no, no whitening. No, it should be Tom's teeth. What's best for the show?
What the hell, Tom? Yeah, that's how you wind up over. If you work as a manufacturing facilities engineer, installing a new piece of equipment can be as complex as the machinery itself.
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