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Hopefully, wherever you are, wherever you're taking in this program, you just had a fantastic Summer weekend here in Los Angeles. The sun is brighter. Luca is skinnier. And basically, what I'm saying is, wherever you were this weekend, may your weekend have been as great as possible. May your caddy have dropped your golf ball in a better lie.
Wherever you are, is basically all I'm saying. 844-204-Rich is the number to dial here on this summer Monday. Last. Monday, if I'm not mistaken. In the month of July?
That's fair. Rich going fast. Good to see you, Chris from Brockman. How are you, sir? Great.
Good to be seeing. What's up, man? DJ Mikey D is indeed. Is this one of five or two of five? One of two?
Going to do the big baseball game in Tennessee. Oh, you're doing the baseball game in Bristol, Tennessee. Bristol, Tennessee. Nice. It's going to be very hot.
How about that? Shorts and short-sleeve shirts. Excellent.
So if anybody has a problem, you can't hear anything, blame him. I actually did two big games. I did Dodgers, Red Sox, and then I did. the uh Euros Championships for the women. On Sunday morning.
That's what myself has been up to this weekend.
So you're arrested now, though. Rick was back from PA. You're wearing a pirates lead? What's going on over there?
Well, you know, I can just get in touch with my roots, and plus, it matched my color scheme with my Malcolm Jamal Warner Gordon Gartrell shirt.
Okay, very good. Plus, I got the sneakers. I'm just, you know, it's a color thing. It is. I mean, I'm back in here.
I'm black and yellow. How are you guys going? I'm TJ. Listen, I'm a fashion plate myself. I could never wear the hat of another team just because it matched my belt.
And that's the difference between us. I guess that's one of them. Good to see you over there, TJ. Happy to be here. How was the family reunion?
Everything good? It was awesome, man. I love being back in Altoona. Like I told you earlier, I think every black person in Altoona watched Family Feud. Most of the Caucasians as well.
And it was very huge. Fantastic.
So you met a lot of people. This weekend, who saw you mention Little Steve on Tyler? Aren't you proud? Is your mom proud? A lot of older family members too.
That was just like, oh. Very good. We're off and running here on this program. Good to see you back. Good to see you back.
Again, when we start with the Dallas Cowboys, we do it because we have to. Not because we want to, not because it's... It's clickable. Honestly, we're.
Well, that's a little above the table. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. We're above that, Fray. Really? More ability?
Yes. Marvelous. It's marvelous. Yes. You know, the guests.
Because listen, training camp stories. It's about Quarterback competitions, if they exist. Injuries if they unfortunately occur. Or People who haven't gotten paid. You know, people who have not gotten the contract that they feel that they deserve or everybody knows that they richly deserve.
You know? Why we're talking about Terry McLaurin, who showed up. In Washington Commander's Camp, Jamar Stewart. is coming from the cold. That had something to do with a contractual language thing, not a money thing.
Otherwise, if it was a money thing, we'd be playing. The Cincinnati Bengals noise. We haven't heard that for Trey Hendrickson. Not yet. No.
If Trey Hendrickson gets paid, we know that the Velcro wallet in Cincinnati, Ohio. That's been open. I can't tell if I like that or if it's nails on a chalkboard. It could be both. It's close.
Yeah. It's close. You know what I mean? White shoes. We're about nuance.
It doesn't have to be one thing or the other. Great point. Yeah. Great point. Micah Parsons is in.
camp, but he's not gotten paid yet. And every single time someone's in front of a microphone, that's basically going to be the question asked. Like when is it? What's going on? Certainly if apparently fans are chanting You know, Payne Micah at Jerry Jones, whose response to that wasn't anything.
Feeling shame or feeling nervous or anxious. It's him kind of laughing it off, saying he heard that chant louder last year. Yeah. And now that sounds like, oh, so CD is more popular than Micah. Um and Jerry, you know, given a chance to add a little bit more meat on those bones.
Said, no, it's about the cheers were louder for the guy who's not here. Yeah. So, when a guy's literally not physically there, like CeeDee Lamb wasn't last year, get him here. It's louder than the guy who's standing right there.
So, it's got nothing to do with popularity. Don't read anything into that. Yeah, don't. Which is, you know what? Unfortunately, too late.
Yeah. But we'll always shoot you straight. And again, that's Jerry just. Having a microphone in front of his face and sounding off about something, giving you a soundbite about something. Not sounding off, but.
And that that's what he means, that it's about the guy who's not there from last year. That's why the Chants about pay CD were louder than the ones that he's hearing right now for Mike. Anyway, long story short, Dak. Let you tell it. Dak, who's been down this road, we still have a bunch of.
Drops from the DAC years a few years ago in his contractual situation was up in the air and, you know, takes a nice chunk out of the pie when you're signing him. You know, there's a that might not be room for other people. All of that stuff, right?
So, Dak, who's been through, been there, done that, he was asked just after we went off the air, maybe when you were touching foot in Altoona, meeting all the celebrity family feud. Yeah. TJ. Yeah, it was about noon. Dak was asked about the Micah situation.
Yeah. I mean it's an every-year conversation. Whether it's myself, Zach Martin, T De Lamb.
Now, Michael Parsons. The Mad Lib, Dak, right? It's part of it in a sense. It's something that I wish, that any of us are going through? Absolutely not.
But I think Mike is doing a hell of a job. With it being here, he's a great teammate, showing up, obviously not just on the on the field and being focused, but whether it be in the camaraderie, hanging out, dinner, he's not just doing it to sign off and say, hey, Jerry, look at me, I'm but but but he he wants to be out there practicing. And honestly, I'm glad he's not. He can't do that to himself. That's the business of it, and that's the business of a holdout.
And so I do think he's taking some great steps of being here. I I don't I don't know if there's a correct way to handle it, to be honest with you. I will say that I think he deserves to get paid, think he should get paid. Ultimately, if I'm going off of the history of what I've seen, he will get paid. Hopefully, it's sooner than later.
Should we give the response that we gave each other on Celebrity Family Feud after a correct organization? Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Good answer. Good answer.
Good answer. It's up there. Good answer. It's up there. No, no.
Oh, that was us more than Dan. At any rate. It was me for me. I sucked.
Okay.
So. Then Stephen Jones speaks the next day. By the way, this is supposed to be on Back Together Again weekend or whatever it is. Back together weekend. Is that what it's called?
Yeah, hold on. Let me double-check that. Yeah. I think it's back together weekend. Yeah.
Again. I guess the again part is this Mad Lib.
So Stephen Jones, did you hear what Jack had to say? What did Dak say? Did you hear the fans yelling, pay Micah yesterday? And what do you think when you hear that? Doesn't change anything.
I mean, we want to pay Micah too. He's got to want to be paid. He's got to want paid. To be paid. What are we doing?
What does that mean? What does that mean? I have a theory. Please, before I lose my mind, go for what you think. I think that that means that he's going to get paid what we want to pay him.
And it is going to be as we get closer and closer to week one, it's going to keep going down and down and down. And it's going to be a low ball offer because this is what they do. Yes. Mm. That could be it.
Uh That could be it. Um I think something else. And by the way, what you're saying is not out of the realm. At all. It does sound like leverage if you're dealing with leverage, you know, and NFL owners are known to have.
Um An affinity for leverage? He's got a wannabe. He says it like Micah Parsons doesn't want to be paid.
Well, Micah does have leverage. in the fact that if he leaves camp. If he's like, okay. I don't want to get paid. Guess what?
You don't want me to be, you've got to want me to be here. Yep. By paying me. And I can leave camp. And five days after that, you, Dallas Cowboys, need to make a decision.
As to whether to make me inactive for the season or not. Shoot. I mean, he could pull that. lever any time he wants. It's a difficult lever for him to pull for many reasons.
Obviously. But it could go down that road, and I just don't think anybody wants it to go there because at some point this is going to get done. And I don't believe it's going to be lowball. What I believe he's doing right now, again. We uh we put together puzzle pieces here.
Sort of the way Dr. Richard Kimball once did looking for the one-armed man. You know, and he would find a big piece and he'd put the phone down and Have uh Gerard and the rest of his U.S. Marshals come find it. Clarence Hill, the longest-serving beat rider.
Currently on the Dallas Cowboys beat, had this to say. about the mica Jerry Jones relationship. And the negotiations between the two sides. He had this to say last week after Jerry Palooza kicked things off one week ago at a press conference. in Oxnard.
And So I'm viewing everything through this prism. Jerry and Michael Parsons actually reported in March that they had a handshake deal, verbal agreement on a deal to make him the highest paid non- Quarterback in NFL history, certainly the currently highest paid player. And Micah asked Jerry to call his agent. And Jerry and Stephen have not done that. And now, this was in March.
Now we're in Late July, getting ready to go to August, starting a training camp. They still have a deal done. Michael Parsons here, but he most likely will have a hold in.
So Jerry is coming up with reasons why don't have a deal. And he's saying, well, the guy could get hurt.
Well, that's the case with any deal you make with anybody.
So Think about this. If Jerry and Micah had a handshake deal on an agreement back in March, and Micah's like, hey, talk to my agent, and we've had. Folks like Michael Irvin and Demarcus Ware on this program in the past years as we're putting together puzzle pieces about the Cowboys and their ways of negotiating, right? That. Those guys say Jerry likes to go directly to the player.
Demarcus Ware even said you knew Jerry meant business when he had him. when he had you into his office and lit Dallas Cowboys branded votive candles in his office. I'm serious. That's not a joke. He's like, he knew, like, okay, and Jerry likes to deal directly with the player.
Maybe that's because it's more advantageous to his side of making a deal with it. You're keeping representation out of it. And so if Mike is like, talk to my representative, and there has been. reporting that Not only as Clarence said, they haven't called the rep. But Jerry made it sound like he didn't even know the rep's name and David Muguletta is a very Well-known and highly successful representative, representative in our.
in our NFL world.
So what I'm saying is If The Joneses haven't called his rep. And Micah's like saying, talk to my rep. and others underneath the Jones rep World are in fact talking to each other from the Cowboys camp and the reps camp. But These Top-tier individuals need to connect and they haven't yet. And part of the reason why is, sure, the Joneses are like, we're not talking to them.
We had a handshake agreement. And Mike is like, no, you got to talk to my agent. Which, by the way, is an opinion I would have in any negotiation. Talk to my representat representation.
So if this is in fact happening. Listen to the Stephen Jones soundbite again and tell me if you think this is what's at play. Did you hear the fans yelling pay Micah yesterday? And what do you think when you hear that? Doesn't change anything.
I mean, we want to pay Micah too. He's got to want to be paid. TJ? Does that give you a different Perspective? He's got to want to get paid.
We had a handshake agreement. And he wants now us to talk to his representation? I'm just wondering, four years, right? Four years Mike has been in the league. He's started every single game that he's ever played in the NFL.
He has a 256 combined tackles, 52 and a half sacks. Kind of seems to me like he wants. To get paid, well, and he's not. This has again, it has nothing to do, but I'm saying that's how the fans are what you're saying. What you're saying, Chris, it has something to do if Clarence Hill.
Is accurate in his reporting and there's no reason to Think it's not accurate. This is something to do with. We had an agreement. You're like saying, talk to the agent. And They are now in what appears to be what, month?
Five or six of not talking to the agent? Which means they're kind of dug in on that front. And if this sounds to the fan. You, sir, and everybody else at home as Silly. When there's A season to go crush and a Super Bowl to go get.
And a Top-notch all-world player to be paid. and a fan base to be served. in a Cowboys organization. To be Lionized for paying this nittany lion all the cash that he deserves. And it's about We had a handshake agreement and you said talk to the agent and we're not doing that.
And you're still insisting. about having us talk to your representation. Do you want to get paid or not? That's what that sounds like to me. And what that means is at some point, Everyone will go back to their corners.
and number will eventually get agreed to. and drilled down to And it might be a contract that he signs. in whatever Philadelphia hotel room they're in. the night before the kickoff. just like what happened to Dak in Cleveland last year.
That's what this sounds like to me. That's a little bit ridiculous. Like, first of all, this is 2025, right, Chris? This isn't Little House in the Prairie days where Paul Angles would go and have a handshake deal with the Olsons to get stuff from them, you know, throw their food and go churn butter? Yeah, like, we don't, yeah, a handshake deal today.
Come on, in theory, sounds great, but the reality of it is it don't work. You know, it's not going to work. The agent has to get involved. Like I said, the fans are sitting here. We're not looking at all these intricacies.
We're just like. Look at what this kid has done. Pay him his money. Let's get going. Which, now that I've laid all again, I still think with my point of view, I don't know how you guys do this, TJ, every year.
I don't know why people root for these guys. This is the way you do business. This is how you treat your superstars. It's embarrassing. It's embarrassing and insulting that he claims to not know who Micah's agent is and that they're letting this drag on four or five months and it's going to go right up until week one, just like they did with Dak, who's the face of their franchise.
It's embarrassing. They should all feel embarrassed. Yep. Hey, look, it's a clown show, and I love the circus. And I guess that's the reason I still hang around.
But yeah, this is so ridiculous. Simply because we know it's going to happen, like you said, it's going to get done. Let's just get it done and get it over with. Like a partisan should ask for a trade. This is preposterous.
He doesn't have to deal with this. You can go to a professional organization where they value you and treat you like the superstar you are. They are because they do not do that in Dallas. You know, they just do not. He sounds like Shook Knight at the source of words trying to get people to come to death row.
That's what Chris just sounds like. You know who's real happy? Jake Ferguson's happy. They just signed him to a three-year deal. Like, they sign people.
It's not that they don't sign anybody, they sign their own. That's why they're the next point. As a matter of fact, they sign their own. A lot. Unbelievable.
I mean, quite frequently they sign their own. They draft their own, they draft well, and then they sign their own. It just takes a long ass time for the ones that are these guys. But I don't I missed all the shots in the media that Jerry and Steven were taking at Jake Ferguson. I guess I missed that.
Yeah, you didn't. 'Cause you know why you missed it? 'Cause the bow and the quiver never came out the quiver and Oh, they were directed at Dak and Micah Parsons. Yeah. Your two best players.
Don't forget Trevon Diggs. Oh, and your other best defensive player in your secondary. See, now you're going to start going down a path, and I don't really want to have to go down that path right here at the Rich Hyden Show in 919, but I'll have to turn the car on and start because you know, I might not. Guess what? Because I'll be a little bit more professional, but other people ain't going to have the same.
Let's button it up by saying the following. Thursday night football. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. kicking things off and BC. September 4th, Micah Parsons will be in number 11, and he will be ready to rush the passer as the highest paid player at the position.
He better be. That's what's going to happen. I don't know how they get to that point B right now. Stop being a bad guy. From this current point, eh?
That's how you do it. I do not know. Stop being goofballs. I do not know. That's great advice.
That should be our motto. I do not know, but at some point, they're all going to come together and they're going to train their side so they're actual opponents. as opposed to what's going on inside. And the Joneses kind of dig it. I think they do.
Some of them don't. No, but it's not all peaches and cream. But that said, he loves the attention, Rich. We all know this. I've eaten a lot of raccoon.
See, you don't say something like that and not love attention. There you go. Yeah. You know what I'm saying, Chris? 844-244.
I don't know how you do it, GJ. I don't know how you do it. Is the number to dial here on the program, Luca. is lean. He looks pretty damn mean, man.
Talk about that. Aaron Rodgers chimed in on the bark chewing comment from Terry Bradshaw. When he was chatting with Kyle Brent on Back Together weekend coverage on NFL Network this weekend. Back together. Yep, back together.
Nico Collins will join us. Cannot wait to check in with one of the top beasts at the receiver position in the National Football League. And of course, ask him the most important burning question. which is how have the last two Novembers gone? For him.
In regards to the relationship with his quarterback, that's the most burning question. Oh, it is. That's the most burning question. To me. And Albert Breer will be chiming in from Cleveland Browns camp, where one of the four quarterbacks in the competition has come up.
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Okay, back here on the Rich Eisen Show.
Some of the best stuff is right before we go. On the air, and I ask questions as I sit down at the desk: what are you guys talking about? And this one was. Uh Sarah Jackson, Rich Eisen Show Makeup. Artist extraordinaire, Rich Eisen Show co-executive producer Liz Wald.
and Mike Del Tufo all talking about going to the same concert together. And um And based on the Songs you were singing, Chris. I assumed it was Dewey Lipa. I'm not going. I'm not an episode.
No, I know that, but you were having your fun. Yeah, and I was trying to do that. But Mike Del Tufo, you referred to her as Dewey Lipa. I always say the name wrong. It's Lipa.
Dewey Lipa. It's Lipa. Is what you referred to, right? Like, there she is. There's do it.
Are you talking noise? You're making it because you appreciate her fashion. I like her music, and I've been a fan since the first one, Electricity.
So much so. I'm a DJ. That you refer to her like. She's like one of the Disney ducks of Donald's, like Dewey, like Dewey. Dewey, Huey, and Louie.
Dewey Dewey. Like a 22. Dewey Lippa. has been has entered the chat. Do Leap.
You do not know it's Dua. Dua. No, it's Du. D-O-O. Oh, is that right?
That's all I'm saying. You're not correct. Say the name of the corner. Mr. Dew Lippa.
Dewey Lippa is telling me. I'm saying it wrong too? Yes. Chris. Chris.
Dewey Lipa. Is this like Bijan Robinson saying, Don't call me Bijan? Do you know what you're saying? And everybody's been calling him Bijan. Not everybody.
No, like you're not right. No, yes, it's Dio Lipa. Lipa. The name Dua Lipa is pronounced Dua Lipa. Dua.
Yeah. Like duo. No, you just said do. You said do. Like your rent is due.
Yeah. D-U-A. No, surely. Du-O- And then you said D-O-O a second ago. Good lord.
Why are you entertaining this? What is happening? He's making it up as he's going. Dewey Lippa. Man, Mike.
It's going to be a great concert. She might not let you back. Back on the Rich Isen Show Radio Network. We were trying to get Jeff Passon on the program. Uh, but he was like, I'm working on a story.
Is he ever? Um, and uh, and that's gonna kind of prevent me from being camera ready. He offered to do a phoner. I told him those were so 2021, yeah, um, and plus. We need to see his hair.
You gotta be kidding me. Yeah. Right? You know, the person who puts the plus in ESPN Plus and Disney Plus and all the pluses. Is the hair.
PERT PLUS. And by the way, right? I mean, Jejoba. Pellicero, we were fixated on his hair styling. I gotta say, I'm looking at these videos of Tom from Back Together Weekend.
It didn't even look like he got a cut. It's still like nice and thick and impressive.
Well, it's a lot of styling. And definitely a shade of chestnut that it wasn't before. Are Passon and Pellisero having a hair off?
So they just shared this. The story that Jeff Passon was working on is that Rob Manfred, the commissioner of Major League Baseball, um has a tour that he goes on. Uh of all thirty clubs And um The uh B. I guess the Meetings that Manfred conducts, he calls it, he said, Manfred conducts annually these meetings in an effort to improve his relations with every team's players.
Well Didn't go very well in terms of his relationship with one particular player on the Philadelphia Phillies, whose name is Bryce Harper. Speaking of hair, heard of him. Right. And according to Jeff.
Well, it's not just according to him because Uh A player has actually confirmed this. Are you reading this article? Yeah, yeah. No, I saw the big quote. Philadelphia Philly star Bryce Harper stood nose to nose with Rob Manford during a meeting between the Major League Baseball Commissioner and the team last week.
I'm reading the first. paragraph of Jeff's story telling him to, quote, get the F. With three dashes out of our clubhouse, if Manfred wanted to talk about the potential implementation of a salary cap.
Now, you know, there is a collective bargaining agreement. Um that is Needing to be renegotiated shortly, I'd imagine, or sooner rather than later. And um there's been some talk about Putting the cap on some of these things, huh? Mm-hmm.
Now according to Jeff. The um Multiple owners have stumped for a salary cap in the MLB, the only major men's North American sport without one. The CBA that I'm talking about is it's, wow, man, it's right around the corner. It's expiring December 1st of next year. And um So Manfred was talking about The economics of the game with the Phillies in their clubhouse.
According to Pass and quiet for the majority of the meeting, Harper, sitting in a chair and holding a bat, eventually grew frustrated and said if baseball were to propose a cap and old firm to it, players, quote unquote, are not scared to lose 162 games. Harper stood up, walked toward the middle of the room, faced up in Faced up to Manfred and said, If you want to speak about that, you can get the F out of our clubhouse, to which Manfred sources said responded that he was, quote, not going to get the F out of here. saying it was important to talk about MLB's business and ways to gross the game. Before the situation further intensified, Nick Castellanos tried to diffuse the tension by saying, I have more questions. Good one, Nick.
Meeting continued. Harper and Manford eventually shook hands.
Sources said, though Harper declined to answer phone calls from Manford the next day. Wow. Did he hit him with the custom can I call you back? Or did he just let it go to voicemail? That's a clown comment, bro.
Now, he hit the X on the phone. He even lets me. Nick said it was pretty intense, definitely passionate, both of them. The commissioner giving it back to Bryce and Bryce giving it to the commissioner. That's harp.
He's been doing this since he was 15 years old. It's just another day. I wasn't surprised. Manford declined comment through a league spokesman when ESPN contacted. Harper declined comment.
Oh boy.
Okay.
This needs to get hashed out because that's right around the corner. 2026 is the last playing season. under the current collective bargaining agreement. The 2025 season is over for the Yankees. Um The team you used to love, Mike, because Aaron Judge is now on the IL.
But listen, I digress.
Okay.
This doesn't sound good at all. We're willing to lose 162 games.
So that would be what, the 2027 season? Yes, it would be. Yes, it would be. I don't I mean I can't imagine the players would ever agree to a salary of any sort, shape, or form, ever. And anybody who buys into Major League Baseball.
Should kind of know that, right? But if you're the commissioner You're sure going to try, aren't you? I mean, certainly when You got a guy who's Being paid $700 million to hit, and he doesn't even know whose town it is. Am I wrong? It's a meth sound right now.
It actually is right. Yeah. I kind of walked into that one here. You can't talk in a pirate's hat because it matches your shoes. Seven in a row.
You saw it.
So those been there. No, look at me. I'm wearing a pirate's hat because it matches my t-shirt. It's called Fashion Rich, okay? This is my aesthetic.
You know what? Thank you. You know what? I don't care about fashion when. You ain't wearing the Black Guard Trail t-shirt.
When my team's big boppers suddenly just throws one in from right field and feels something twinge in his elbow. That's how the best home record of baseball. Am I wrong? You know, you never say never in this world? Never say never.
But Never say never, but never. You can't say that about Major League Baseball players in the association ever sitting here and saying, we will agree to a salary cap. We will agree to a salary cap. And we will agree to a salary floor. You know, and I'm wondering how many teams would would In Major League Baseball, ownership would actually have a problem with a floor.
The floor is what they should do. The floor, yeah. Raise a competitive balance.
Some of these teams have 50, 60 million dollar payrolls. You know, it's outrageous. They're not trying to win openly. Yeah, later in the article, Passon points out going into the season, the gap between luxury tax payrolls of the higher spending team and lowest spending team. Raised ire amongst fans and made salary caps a far bigger part of the rhetoric surrounding the game than in previous years.
The Dodgers. Payroll is more than tax is more than 400 million. And um high-spending team the the dodgers Payroll, pardon me, more than $400 million. The Marlins are just under $86 million.
Now that that I also Can understand why fans would have a problem with that and also why. Ownership would have a problem with that. Because if I'm spending that much money and I'm popping all that money into a luxury tax, and somebody's competing against me, isn't even at 25% of what that's spending. Then I've got a problem with that. That messes with the competitive balance.
Yeah, the Marlins' active payroll is $43.6 million. How much is that now? Active. Active. 43.6.
Tampa forty five point two Washington fifty one point seven The athletics, fifty four point six, like They're not even trying. I mean, if the Marlins go any lower, then. Superstar players that they reach out to. to join the team. Even if they do put money on the table, might not even know who they are.
As Ichiro pointed out in his Hall of Fame induction ceremony, Acceptance speech. And to the Miami Mountains. I appreciate David Sampson. and Mike Hill for coming today. Honestly, When you guys called to offer me a contract for 2015, I have never heard of your team.
Ichiro's got jokes. Ichero's got jokes. Yeah. I'd never heard of your team. That's wild.
Now, the Marlins, you know. A couple of trophies in the case of a series of pieces of metal, right? A couple of cases. A couple of hunks of metal, yeah. All right.
Let's get. I mean, we got a work cut out for us. Fans here. I mean, honestly, the payroll disparity is ridiculous. That's nuts.
And I'd imagine. There are some Owners, members in the league saying, we got to work on this. But the answer can't just be to take it out of the players. Right. Players will be like, You figure out your own damn house before you come to us and say that I need to cough up.
Cash Right? When you think. Like, and this is man, I've heard this before, and that's the, that is exactly the way labor disputes pop up. That is exactly the way it happens. And certainly, if the commissioner is doing the hey, I will come into your locker room, I will come in your clubhouse and talk to you face to face.
I'm not going to hide in my. New York City office, I'll come straight to you. And Bryce Harper goes, I'll just go right in your face. And he's going right back in his face. I'll come over to your joint.
But then he does call him the next day. Hey, let's have a relationship. And he's just like. Sending you straight to voicemail. Unavailable.
Unavailable. They ain't good. No. Oh, this That baseball has been such a high this year, too. You got to expect that carries over to next year.
For there to be a work stoppage would be devastating. And Chris, by the way, it's not bad that Hitro didn't know Miami. Remember, he didn't know who Tom Brady was. He didn't know who Tom Brady was.
So, you know.
Well, you know, Hitro's locked in. I know. Hitro's locked in, man. Thank you for that perspective. Appreciate that.
That he doesn't know one of the member 30 clubs. Who the bleepers get to text? Who the bleepers? Tom Brady. I've never heard of the Miami Marlins.
There's a guy who's all the way in the Pacific Northwest of the country. Exactly. Was there no early play? There's no. There were no Seattle visits to Miami.
Probably not. I mean, because when Interleague Play started, remember it was your rivals. That's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It wasn't a fully balanced, if you will, or unbalanced schedule, however you want to put it.
Listen, bottom line is. Good Lord That's the headline. This ain't good.
So maybe we'll have Jeff on a Zoom tomorrow. He's got enough time to get his hair ready. Can you imagine? I don't understand it because I can break a story and show up in two seconds flat. You don't have to get ready.
That's the benefit of the Bald Brotherhood. Wake up, Reddy, baby. It's in 2025, but like 1996, you probably was singing a different tune. Oh, if there was Zoom, are you kidding me? I'd have to get my crew pomade going.
Is there a bedhead for journalism? Like, oh, my hair's not ready. I've got it all musked up talking about how Bryce Harper is cursing out Manfred and Manfred's cursing him back. Commissioner's work in blue, baby. Let's go.
Okay.
Let's take a break. It's overreaction Monday on a Monday. On a Monday. And Luke is ripped. Shredded, man.
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But when the Vince Lombardi trophy is sitting between the two of us, I think I lose out. Michael Irvin, right? I think I lose out to this baby, right? And it's so funny you start with this because I'm going to tell you something, man. Yes.
When I was playing, I made a path that I would never go to a Super Bowl until I play in the Super Bowl. Every guest that comes here, they're going to get Super Bowl questions. That's why I always say I would never go to a Super Bowl until after I play in a Super Bowl.
So I would not have people like Rich Isa asking me questions that I cannot answer.
Now, what do you want to ask, Rich? Because I'm prepared to answer since I won three of these things.
So what was it like picking this trophy up for the first time? It was the greatest thing in the world. And it really was, Rich. It really was. Do you remember the circumstances?
Oh, my God, man. First of all, you got to go back and think about like we were 1 in 15. We were 3 in 13, 1 in 15. When you're 3 in 13 and 1 in 15 Cleveland Browns, I know you don't think there's any chance that you will ever lay a hold of something like this.
So to go from those days to coming in 92 and winning that Super Bowl and actually somebody handing you that trophy. The most incredible thing, most incredible feeling in the world. Did you ever step in when you heard that Jimmy and Jerry were not doing well or you just, your station wasn't that life effective? I just didn't think anything would happen, Rich. I really didn't.
I was like, are you joking? You know how hard it is doing Super Bowls and you have a formula that's working and then when it happens, like, oh my God. Like, you know, I should have done this. Maybe I should have talked to him. I should have tried this.
I should have tried that. Jerry Jones, I'm telling you, that's the one thing. I'll never forget Jerry Jones telling me that when I was negotiating with him. And I was saying, you know, I'll go to Cincinnati. And it was just, I'm just talking, trying to get my monies up.
I said, I'll go to Cincinnati. You get car pickings over here. And let's see what happened. And Jerry said to me, did, Jerry said, Michael, you know, when I see you, I see Michael Irving and the Dallas Cowboys. He said, I kind of see it like Magic Johnson and the Lakers.
He said, What is magic without the Lakers? And what are the Lakers without the magic? He said, You guys, they belong together just like you and the Cowboys. He said, Michael, the best way I can tell you: if a bomb hit Valley Ranch today, that's where we practice and blew everything up, everybody, everything. When the smoke clears, baby, me and you, we're gonna still be here.
So we might as well work this deal out right now. That's what he said to me. My broman shot, this dude is a fool. This dude is a fool. He had me laughing as he was telling me no about my money.
That's why you're in the Hall of Fame together. Michael Irvin, everybody, one of our favorites. All of his many, many, many, many appearances on this program throughout the years, youtube.com/slash rich eisen show.
So, Dion is going to speak in about 15 minutes with his medical team, right? Yeah. And, you know, something's been up. Prime's been holding up.
Something's been up, yeah. And he put out a video on his Instagram. that a lot of people were freaked out by because they didn't see the caption at the bottom of the video. that it took place in early May. Where he said that he He had a difficult previous two days because he was filling out a will.
So But apparently he's fine now and ready for... The season for the Colorado Buffaloes. You know. But we'll we'll hear what this was all about, keeping in. An eye peeled and an ear to the ground on all of that that's coming up at the top of the hour.
Nico Collins of the Texans as well. 844-204, Rich Number to Dobb will take your phone calls. Stay on hold. Listen, I've been living in Los Angeles since 2000. And three, Mike, you've been here forever in a day, right?
30 years, yeah. 30 years. TJ, you've been here for a long time, too, right? Pretty much. Like in LA, 20.
Yeah, this is 26. Christopher, when did you pack up your car? I moved here August 6, 2009.
Okay, so coming up on 16. We've all been here for quite some time. There is no more Los Angeles story that goes back even. Before we got here, decades, long, long time. There is no more of a Los Angeles story than man goes through a horrible breakup and then gets in shape.
Vice versa. That's a Los Angeles story. It is. Normally it's somebody on marriage two, three, four, somebody. much older than all of us, than hooks up with somebody A lot younger than all of us.
Just, I mean, these are Los Angeles stories, not to bog down. But it appears. Luka Doncic. Went through a bad breakup and decided I'm going to get in shape. Revenge body.
Certainly, since, certainly, since. He came from a spot where we used to see the kid who was Wonderkinned. Um What? Going to San Francisco, visiting the Warriors in Hookabar or after. You know, taking his team to the NBA Finals, drinking a beer, having it taken out of his hand by Michael Finley, and then suddenly gets boom traded.
Look at him now. That's what we saw. a few weeks ago and he was wearing a white t shirt like looking like straight Straight from the gap, right? Follow the two. Right?
It's like, what happened to him?
Well, now. Um We're seeing because he's on the cover of Men's Health. Magazine, I must tell you this. This is beyond Expectations. If you had a name, a superstar in the NBA.
Who at least Be the last person to show up on the cover of Men House magazine. It would be him and James Harden, right? It would be coin toss.
Okay.
James Harden is a pretty good one. But look at him. You know, in mid-movement with a dumbbell in his hands, and he's got bands around his waist, and he's. He's jumping little mini hurdles and he's... He's doing all sorts of stuff.
Luca and apparently he's also look at him deadlifting And he's doing this all while we're fasting, apparently. He goes through a 90-minute workout and then starts his day in terms of eating. Um gluten-free, low sugar. Dang, this guy's doing smoothies. Luca's doing smoothies, protein smoothies.
You can see the muscles in his arms now. Yeah. According to Men's Health, he could do everything from trap-barred deadlifts to landmine overhead presses. And you can see he's shooting with a A resistance band around his waist. Quote: According to this article, he moves swiftly from circuit to circuit, banging out hip stretches one moment, working through renegade rows the next.
It's a session with barely any breathers, which is fine. This version of Donchich doesn't need them. This Luca is. Different. Two a days gluten-free low sugar diet that includes at least 250 grams of protein and one almond milk-fueled shake a day.
If I stop now, Luca says. Of his effort to rebuild his body, quote, it was all for nothing. According to the article, on May the 1st, a day after the Lakers were eliminated from the NBA playoffs. He called his manager, Lara Beth Seeger, and said, Let's get to work. He chokes down two high-protein meals and one protein shake, and he doesn't have that first meal until he's crushed his 90-minute morning workout.
Obviously, be the best that I can be. Take care of myself, he says. This year with my team, I think we did a huge step, but this is just the start, you know. I need to keep going. Can't.
Stop. The idea is that if he was top five in the world at that weight with no definition and no sense of how to get better. Physically, what's he going to look like now? Also in here for those who want to stir anything up. Uh is the interesting uh stuff that he's uh He's been inspired by the the workout habits And the maniacal off-season training regimens of MJ and Kobe.
No mention of LeBron and his potential workouts. Oh, we know whose team it is now. Mm-hmm.
So there's that.
So look for that in a... Topic bars yeah. Split screen Conversation near you at some point. And then another thing too. You know what?
This is the part of the article that really outraged me here. The moment the Mavs traded him to the Lakers in February, according to the articles, rumors leaked that Dallas didn't want to deal with his love of beer and hookah. Even this summer. The NBA web has chattered that Doncich is on Ozempic, which means They do not listen or watch the Rich Eisen show. It is not Ozempic.
Yeah. It is not. It's spite zemping. It's spite zemping. Which again is a spike glutide injection.
that has minimal draft picks involved and consult your GM before using. To see if Spike Zempeck It's right for you. Man. Bad breakups. Get that remote.
Tale as old as time. As old as time. Comes to LA. decides to just I'll show you Dallas. You know what?
I'm there in Dallas. Living my best life. Slamming beers. You know, ripping hookah bars. Yeah, yeah, yeah, man.
And protein bars. Candy bars, all sorts of bars. Yep. Right? Mini bars.
Like I said, he's European. Yeah, well.
Now he's Los Angeles. Break it up. And getting ripped. It's LA diet ripped. It's like from Wolf of Wall Street.
One of us. One of us. One of us. Dude. I can't wait for the Lakers season to hit, man.
Apparently, the first time we're going to see it in action is when he's. I guess playing for his uh His nation in Euro baskets and stuff like that. Oh, really? Yeah, apparently that's coming up. That's first up.
For the Luka 2.0 that's entered the chat, according to the Men's Health magazine, that's going down. Nico Collins coming up. You know, and then I'm watching this and I'm thinking to myself, you know what? It's kind of inspiring. You know what I mean?
Some guy who's got a dad bod in his twenties can all suddenly get ripped. You know? All it takes is intermittent fasting and laying off the sugar and that's a $60 billion contract. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what I mean?
And as I was thinking to myself, you know what? Jim Harbaugh offered me to work with Ben Herbert. Cross the street. Are we going to do this or what? No.
Come on. Rich, come on. Come on. Then I thought, you know what? We do it as a team.
Yeah. What do you mean it's a team? All of us, we all go. Team, show, show workouts.
So, oh, I'm coming in, and by the way, plus three. It'll be three. Brockman. Yep. TJ and Dewey Lippa.
And Dewey Lippa. And the two Dewey fan fan fan fan fancy. And we just say, hey, when we come work out, can you put Dewey Lippa on? Yeah, I'll make it a playlist. We're good.
No, no, we don't need you. I'll give you a playlist. I'll give you a playlist. I don't know. But it is inspiring.
Yeah, by the way, Slovenia uh uh Euros august twenty eighth. It's his first game. Man, all the months all the Euros over the weekend, too. Do you see Jokic celebrating his winning? He showed more emotion there than the NBA championship.
He's like crying. Or the horse means more to him. He hugged the horse. I love it. Jokic is the man.
Yokich hop the fence. I think he stepped over it. Did you see that video? Yeah. He stepped over and he ran out and he hugged the horse.
Okay.
Okay, okay. You can show me some more of those Luka pictures. They just get you started, don't they? Right? This guy's like, you know what?
I'm not eating. I'm going to go work out. I'm going to go shred for 90 minutes. We need to have the shake has 250 grams of protein in it. Is that what you said?
Yes. That is a high-power shake. I was going to say that's Donchic slogging through two days in Croatia while sticking to a gluten-free, low-sugar diet. That includes at least 250 grams of protein and one almond milk-fueled shake a day.
Okay, so he's eaten 250 total. That's not in one. They never knew that Donchich had quietly constructed a fitness team several years ago.
Well, help enhance his. quote-unquote very dangerous natural gifts and they never realized how much He committed to training in diet this summer.
Okay.
Even if you thought Luca had a dad bod, he was already a top-five NBA player. And after pushing hard this offseason, he can't help but wonder how high. He'll level up. Welcome to Los Angeles, Luca. Nico Collins coming up.
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