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Get ready now. And the 2023 Arizona Diamondbacks are headed to the World Series. Live from the Rich Eisen Show studio in Los Angeles. The Rich Eisen Show with guest host Susie Schuster. So what do you think is going on with Raider Nation now? We got the wrong guy at the helm.

Josh McDaniels is not a good football coach. Today's guests, Fox Sports College football insider Bruce Velding. Chris Brockman, CBS Sports NFL analyst Amy Trask. And now, sitting in for Rich, it's Susie Schuster. Hey everybody, here for Rich Eisen.

I'm Susie Schuster. Thrilled to be with you as Rich is in New York and he'll be back by tomorrow unless of course he misses a plane and I'll be here again. So there you go. Good to see you Chris Brockman. How are you this morning? What's happening? I got a lot of espresso in this mug.

I'm just saying this could go off the wheels at any time. I think that's a good thing. Right? Mikey D. How are you? Good morning Susie. I'm doing well. Good to see you TJ. How are you sir?

What's up Susie? Were you watching some association last night? Because I tuned in. Of course I did.

I had to go see my guy Devin Booker put in work to give me a lead over your husband in our fantasy basketball. And Devin Booker closing out the game with a plum last night don't you think? Did you see a plum? A plum.

A plum. Look at that. Oh yeah that's one of those fancy words.

Yeah it's a fancy word. Look it up. But Suns over Golden State 108-104. Lakers over against 119-107. Chance of who's your daddy as LeBron put in 21 points at 21 minutes last night. 29 minutes 21 points on 10 for 16 shooting. 8 boards 5 assists. Who's your daddy as Denver unveils one of the sweetest looking rings I've ever seen. A lot of Ice Ice Baby.

Chris has been singing awful songs from the 90s this morning. So let me add Ice Ice Baby to that. And by the way 844-204 Rich. This is a good day to call. I'm chippy. I've been up since 3 in the morning.

Why? I had a kid come in at 3. I had a kid come back in at 4. And you know when you're lying in bed and you're like please let me sleep. Please let me sleep. And then you're like well it's got to be 5.30 so I check my alarm in at 6.12. I'm like oh no. So you overslept.

Oh no. So I overslept. Usually my prep time is right around from about 5.40.

5 to 6.30. And so I'm a little chippy. I'm a little over caffeinated. Like it.

Yeah. So it's going to be a hot day. Let's go. Coming in hot.

844-204 Rich. Call us. Amy Trask will be here. My compadre from What the Football. We're going to talk about the sound bite from Warren Sapp from What the Football that's kind of taking over the intranet. And that's he had a couple things to say about Josh McDaniel. So Raider Nation. Is this the end of the Bill Belichick era as Warren Sapp said it was indeed. Find What the Football wherever you find your podcast.

Or on the Rich Eisen Show YouTube page. But take it in. It was pretty feisty yesterday with Warren who was holding a beer during the entire Zoom.

So I kind of love that. Didn't he have a dip in too it looked like? I think he had a dip, a mohawk and a beer.

I think he had all three going. Bruce Feldman will join us too. Start bench cut for Warren next time he comes on. And by the way I am back in the chair on the 8th and the 9th while Rich is in Germany so I could actually say Warren come back in studio for a start bench cut. That might be nice.

We'll do one with Amy Trask today. Also Bruce Feldman will come in and we'll ask him what is going on with Michigan. What is happening? By the way it doesn't seem to me like that much new or different than ever it's been in college football. It's just that somebody got caught.

Yeah they're just not as good at it as everybody else. I mean Connor meet me right here. Maybe don't put your credit card down. Don't use your own name. Rich always says oh I went to a school of higher education and blah blah blah and I'm like dude. Maybe don't use your name then?

I don't know. Even though he kind of has a made up name from the valley Mike. Like he has kind of one of those names. By the way he does have a... You know what I'm talking about? He's got one of those names TJ.

When your last name is Stallion. I mean Brock Landers. You have to wonder.

Gotta wonder. Friends of the valley. There's like three names I want to say but I don't think I should so I'm not. He's good buddies with Chest and Brock. We'll ask Bruce Feldman what in holy heck is happening there because it's a hot mess and Rich will lose his mind if his coach leaves. It reminds me a lot of the years that I covered USC when Reggie Bush was getting in trouble and the scandals about taking money then suddenly Pete Carroll got a one-way ticket out of Los Angeles. And I wonder if that's what's ahead for Jim Harpo. Yeah smells like it. Especially if maybe the bear season goes super south and Eber Flus gets the ax and they have two of the top three picks in the draft and suddenly it's like hey Jim want one hundred million dollars in complete control? Cool.

Who says no to that? I don't know. I feel like we... Wasn't I talking about Eber Flus last time I was here and like the exact same positioning?

I think I was right. I mean is it Groundhog Day? Eber Flus. Just yell Eber Flus. Make yourself feel better. By the way good bless you. It's National Pasta Day by the way people so let's talk about important things because Chris and I are gonna have a throwdown.

844-204 Rich. You can call in about questions to Amy Trask. I mean you got the highest ranking woman in the history of the National Football League coming in.

You can ask her questions. We can talk about Reggie Jackson's strange tripping of LeBron James last night. Does anybody care? It's game one. I mean are we through one game? You're all dressed up in green. You're excited for...

I'm green. Banner 18 starts tonight. Celtics let's go. I'm excited. 65 and 27 minimum TJ so I'm ready to rock. MVP for Tatum. Tonight's like the beginning of the rest of your life tonight right?

Well here's the deal Susie and you know this because you're from my neck of the woods. It was pretty depressing watching the Red Sox all summer. This Patriots season is an unmitigated disaster despite last week's win against Buffalo so all I've really had to look forward to is since the end of the Eastern Conference Finals was this year's Celtics team. Porzingis is now in the mix. Drew Holiday's in the mix. Obviously Tatum and Brown the best starting five in the NBA along with Derek White. Al Horford coming off the bench. Peyton Pritchard big season. Is he going to be 6th man this year TJ? I don't know. It's going to be amazing.

Maybe 72 and 10 I think. Coops already asked for his Santa Claus gift. You know what it is? Celtics Lakers ticket. Kristaps Porzingis jersey. Tell him I'll buy it for him.

Hey I got something you could tell. You'll buy it for him? I'll buy it for him. Last gift you gave him. I'm going to make up for it. He's going to make up for that gift. Last gift you gave him was used Tupperware in a paper bag.

I don't know about used. I did washed it and I wrapped it. Whatever. I cleaned it and wrapped it.

What a jackass. It was not wrapped. It was in a paper bag. That's not wrapping. I did wrap it.

No I specifically remember wrapping them. That's even worse. That was the whole bit. What's the word? It was pre whatever it was. Premeditated. Premeditated. Premeditated. That means he thought about it beforehand. Are we premedicated? We might be premeditated by the way. Insubordinate and churlish. Yeah churlish.

That's what it was. TJ you ready for your eclipse? Am I ready? So you're banning the Sixers this year? You know I never abandon. I threaten to leave. No one can get on me for this because think about how many people out there are in relationships and marriages where they hate the spouse but they're comfortable and infuse the leave. Let's talk about the Clippers and the Sixers. Every year I want to leave them and I just can't bring myself to do so.

In other words you're settling. I'm going to be an observer and an admirer of Victor Wambunyama for sure. But yeah I'm ready. I'm ready for this Clippers Sixers final that I've been waiting my whole life for at least. James Harden back in the building. How do you feel about that by the way?

We'll see how long that lasts. Is he just here so he doesn't get fined? He's not making the trip to Milwaukee. You know you guys love top five lists. I want a top five list of players I don't want to coach.

Like honestly that's my I think I'm in such a salty mood from not sleeping. I'm really New England today so I want like a top five list of players I don't want to coach and Harden is number one. I would rather coach Rashid Wallace. Rashid will always play hard for you though. Yeah he's so weird. We love Rashid. You know what was really fun? Interviewing him. That was fun.

Like here's a wall and here's water and let me pull it out. But I mean I can't think of a player I want to deal with less than James Harden because he's so talented but he doesn't love the game. Because if you love the game you play hard.

He can't love the game. Can he possibly love the game and go in with the attitude like he's had and then everyone's talking about where is he going to go back? Would Houston take him back? Do the Clippers want him? You really want him in the clip joint? You want that kind of attitude?

That is pervasive and it is it's like a fungus among us. I don't know. I don't want him. Brock what do you got? You're sitting there like making a look and don't test me today Chris. I'm very very salty.

I'm not going to test you today. This might surprise you about Chris. I do. I have been a James Harden fan in the past. Tough to defend his kind of off court quit quitter action. Of the last few years.

You know quitting on Houston and quitting on Brooklyn and now quitting on Philadelphia. That's kind of tough to defend. I did like the way he played basketball during his MVP and during his you know absolute height as a player. But this is a tough look and I definitely would not want him on my team. It seems like I don't know if the Clippers should go out. It seems like Miami should go for him.

He needs a little heat culture injected into his veins. And maybe he's the missing piece that they're looking for down there. You know, it's so funny. There are certain personalities that can deal with these peculiar players, right? I do think Pat Riley is specifically built to look at him and be like it's like the Christopher Walken thing. Like, you know, what was that?

What's the line from I got from the Cal about put on my pants and I make gold records. Yeah, right. And that's kind of the that's kind of the way you look at him. Like are you kidding me? You're going to deal with me this way.

Like are you talking to me? Yeah, but I wouldn't want him on my team. And then you look at Kevin Durant who came back into Golden State last night and I hadn't realized that he hadn't been back there at all since that covid season and he was hurt and they unveiled a video for him and then he went in and put on a clinic but he's he's an example of a player who just, you know, he's not the most touchy feely player in the world, but his attitude works.

Don't you think? I mean, like I'm just looking at some of these guys of this year of this era of players that actually want to coach versus players. I wouldn't want to coach. I'm in for Durant. I would take him, but no way on hard. Yeah, he loves basketball and you can tell it. Do you think Kawhi loves basketball?

Oh, good question. I think he loves bad. I think Kawhi is exceptionally talented at basketball. I would say, yeah, he would. I don't know Kawhi, but I would assume that he loves basketball.

Yeah. Why don't you go get to know him? Why don't you start going to Clip James? You can go to Clip Games with the Rich Eisen Show credential.

I average about 15 games a year. Yeah, but you got to go work the locker room. You got to be around. You got to do that. You got to put in the time to know these guys.

I don't need to do all that. I mean, I'm just asking him to go out there on behalf of the Rich Eisen Show nation and get to know Kawhi. Shouldn't he? I think that TJ should be an insider. He should be at these games. You becoming best friends with Kawhi would be awesome.

Tremendous. Why don't we make this a goal for the year? And then we can drop like TJ bombs instead of Woj.

But why is Woj and Shannon? Why are they the only ones who can drop bombs? I want to drop a bomb. There you go.

This is what I'm saying. I want to break news. I want to be an insider. You have to go into the locker room.

I'm getting the NBA's version of Tom Pelissero. Right. So then do it. Who's stopping you? Get that ping pong table out of the way. Leave your house and go to games.

Because that's how you get to know these guys. You got to be in the locker room. I love it. Great idea, Suze. I have to think of everything. Are we going to talk about pasta here? Alright. Let me ask you this. 844-204-RICH. Reach out on Twitter, whatever it's called. National Pasta Day.

Reach out to these numb nuts here. Because Chris is the worst idea. You cannot pair angel hair with bolognese. It's a bad combo. Angel hair is light and lovely. Yeah, I like it. Nice and thin. On top of that.

That's ridiculous. But I'm eating bolognese because I want the meat sauce. Okay. I don't want to be on my mouth overrun with pasta. Spaghetti is just a little too thick for what I'm looking for. You know, light, nice, thin angel hair kind of melts in your mouth.

So you get the full flavor of the sauce and the meat. Right, Mike? You're Italian. Back me up here. Like I said, I've eaten every fruition of any type of pasta.

You didn't use that, right? Keep going. Keep going. Okay. But in saying that, you can do anything with pasta. Theoretically. Because it's like you mishmash.

You can do whatever you want. Mike, this conversation is going to come to fruition with a quick break here. When we come back, we'll invite Rich Eisen on his own show and see how he falls on the pasta front. It's a debate, people.

It's hot. What are we putting on the poll then? Because we want to do the what's the best pasta for the poll. It's got to be what's your favorite pasta? Is it bucatini? Is it spaghetti? Bucatini. What's that? It's fresh past to get a grip and get, you know, education here.

Angel hair or all of the above or or lasagna. People understand this. This this argument got real heated this morning. Oh, yeah. I'm on fire. You know, I just I stood out of the way. I am.

I know part of it. You can get I got to put Ziti on there. Come on. Okay. Ziti, bucatini, spaghetti and bucatini, fresh pasta.

Oh, fine. Oh, we need a fettuccine. There you go. Fettuccine spaghetti.

Ziti and angel hair. And I guarantee you, I know the answer. Got to put lasagna. All right.

Five. I'm doing it. Pasta, though. I'm handling this. Coming in hot this morning. Rich is up next. All right.

Rich Eisen, when he comes back, he joins his own show and he's going to break down this pasta war when we come back. Serious reactions can occur before treatment. Get checked for infections, including tuberculosis. So tick to can lower your ability to fight infections. Don't start if you have one serious infections, cancers, including lymphoma, muscle problems and changes in certain labs have occurred. Tell your doctor if you have a history of these events or if you have an infection or symptoms like fever, sweats, chills, muscle aches or cough, or if you have history of hepatitis B or C liver or kidney problems, high triglycerides or had a vaccine or plan to so tick to inhibits tick to which is part of the Jack family people 50 and older with heart disease, risk factors who use a jack inhibitor are at increased risk for certain side effects, sometimes fatal.

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That is insane. So you're basically wearing a machine. And by the way, that's very subtle. I mean, look at this ring. The lever, as you called it, it has 1967, which was the year the team was founded. And if you twist it as the video is showing, then it turns the top blue. Oh, that's cool.

So you go from white diamonds to blue diamonds. You need a bodyguard to wear that. I mean, that's insane. I just think every year these rings get more and more ridiculous.

Have you ever tried to ring on? The last time I saw Ray, I think, was Lombardi came in with his. Yeah. Mike Lombardi came in with his Patriots ring, and we tried that on a few different ones. Yeah.

More than a few. Tori Smith's Ravens ring back in the day on the old podcast. I tried Jerry Jones Super Bowl ring.

Oh, Bernie Kosar's. You've had the Hall of Fame. We sat at his table one year, and Jerry Jones gave me his ring. The trial.

You know, the Angels gave me a commemorative kind of World Series ring, like the plea bring. Yeah, I have no idea where that is. I've tried on Shacks rings before. By the way, it fits in my. His ring size has got to be. I was just going to say.

Yeah, but I mean, every year these rings get more and more complicated. But I think what Jason of Beverly Hills does now, at least last year, they now make it so you can take the top off and right back on radio. I'll let you welcome us back back here on the Rich Eisen show back on the Rich Eisen show radio network sitting at the Rich Eisen show desk furnished by Granger with supplies and solutions for every industry. Granger's got the right product for you.

Call click Ranger dot com or just stop buying. Granger, can you show my house, please? Can you clean Rich's office? It's just a disaster. Wow.

But now that he's out of town, he's out of town for what? Twenty four hours. Do I have time to go in there and just Hoover it?

No, I think I should wait till Germany, right? Yeah, you've got more important things to do with your twenty four hours. Yeah, you want to lay low. Oh, oh, hi. None of this is cool.

None of this is cool. You know, I'm here. Oh, hey, you heard that. Rich is here.

Somebody's got to let us know. Hey, everybody, what's up? Oh, hey. And joining us on the Rich Eisen show, it's Rich Eisen. Hey, Suze. Hey, everybody. That's my Kara Henderson trying to be like keeping up with the two of you at a table. Listen, how do you like my view?

What do you think? Take a look. I could see New Jersey from my house. There it is. Right behind me.

It's the old river. So what do you think? Not a bad setup, huh? And I'm doing what Suzy loves, which is wearing my own swag and public.

I mean, for all of you listening on the Rich Eisen Show radio network or wherever you get this. That's me. He's wearing. So this was a. So this is a logo that I made. I said, you're wearing a logo that is the size of your head. No, it's not. It's a big it's not.

No. You know what? It's it's it's got my name on it. And I walked just down 7th and 8th Avenue and got a couple go blues. And hey, love the show. So that's why I'm sitting up straight and feeling good about myself today.

So there's nothing wrong with that. You are out on the street. Where are you sure those people didn't spy you from across the street on the eighth floor and yelled? I'm very confused. Eight floor. Pal, pal, you're times it by five. And that's where I'm sitting right now. I'm on the fortieth floor like Felix Unger. Hey, did you get ahead of time?

Did you book it under your own name with your own credit card? No, I'm here. I'm here courtesy of the National Association of Broadcasters. I'm hosting the Marconi Awards tonight. And everybody is on pins and needles to see if Mike Del Tufo's college radio station is going to get one.

So everyone, that's honestly when I was walking up and down seventh and eighth avenues in between compliments for our work and our show, I was like, do you think Del Tufo is going to get Marconi like 15 times removed through his college radio station? You think that's what's going to happen tonight? So it's going to be lit, as the kids say this evening. Are you going to be lit? I have about three hours of meet and greet pregame, so I'm going to feel like I'm a Saints fan at a night game in New Orleans. That's the way I'm going to be. We just want to know, we just want to know, Rich, are they going to have a dry bar or no bar like the Emmys do where they make us suffer through 17 hours of a dry show?

I don't know, this is radio. I'm hoping it's a looser atmosphere tonight. I'm hoping it's going to be a better spot for that sort of thing.

It's also in the Javits Center this evening, so that's a massive complex. You can definitely get some alcohol around the corner. Do you walk there? Do you walk there from your hotel? No, there's two words in my life that you know when I'm on the road. It's called courtesy and car, so that's this evening.

Before we start here on other matters, there's some housekeeping. I've got some questions about today's rundown, if you don't mind, from afar. First up, I saw you guys on the Roku Channel Only segment talking about the new Nuggets ring. And, you know, Suze, I know you were dispensing information because you feel that is your gig as the host of the Rich Eisen Show is dispensing what is in the ring. I really want to know what you think of the ring, Suze, just as somebody who I know personally for almost, well, we've been married 20 years and we just do some math and I'll stop doing the math.

That takes this long because I should know this off the top, I guess a quarter century of knowing each other. So I know you like bright, shiny objects that can be worn in public, sort of the way I view my zip up right now. What do you think of the ring? I would find the ring a lot like your zip up, gaudy and awful. But I love you.

Really? I mean, that's that's I don't like the ring because I don't like I'm not I don't like oversized. Look, I don't like I'm not into gaudy. I find I find this to be gaudy. Are you saying you're understated?

Is that what you're saying? Your default is you're understated. I think I'm understated. What do you think, Chris? Like when have you ever seen me wearing my engagement ring? I don't wear I don't wear labels.

I don't wear I don't think of myself as gaudy. I'm going to bring Chris in. Look, I'm a little I'm a little salty.

That's not from not sleeping. But you should just tap out, Chris. Chris, just tap out, man. I feel like any ring that has a lever to change colors is a lot of that's a lot of metal for me. That's next lever.

You know what I mean? That's next lever. It's next lever. I brought that to fruition.

And you missed it. I love you, Mikey D. You said that you need security to walk around with the ring. It's called an enforcer in the NBA, right? Like you need like Rick Mahorn to put people on their ass if they come for the ring. It's not you could have Dennis Rodman accompany you anywhere you go with that ring. But look, I mean, how do I feel about that ring? I just think it's like every year they become more and more contrived. I like something.

I like some of the classic old rings, some of the old Yankees rings that are just beautifully made. And I get I mean, you they've literally written Exodus into the side of this ring. I mean, it's like it's like it's it's so insane. Well, it's funny, you know, I was on the plane flight out here to New York last night while the Nuggets were tipping off and the Lakers were playing the Nuggets. And obviously it's a big game when the defending champs are playing the the Lakers to start a season in LeBron and season.

What is this, 21 for him? So I was wondering what was happening. And and I didn't really see the game, but I turned to Twitter and I got all I needed. Once again, from the sports phone of Twitter, Magic Johnson, he kind of summed it all up for me.

There it is on the screen right there. Tonight, we learn the world champion Denver Nuggets are going to be very tough to beat in the NBA playoffs. So I got all I needed right there based on based on that. And I'm assuming that's accurate, right?

I'm assuming that's an accurate portrayal of what happened. It's also breaking news. It's also breaking news. The the world champs are going to be hard to beat breaking as you learned it here in the playoffs, by the way, on the show. Magic is already.

Yeah. Magic's already jumping ahead to late April. I don't know if Denver trailed in the game last night. They looked at complete control. My only my only my only pushback there is I didn't get the final score, which is usually how I get my final scores through through Magic's tweets.

He gives me the full, you know, final score. And also, oh, I knew that things were potentially not going well when I saw this is great. How fantasy changes things. Chris Brockman bitching and moaning about LeBron not getting calls, which is truly well.

I was looking last moment. I'm going to love that season of LeBron James playing basketball for your fantasy team. A tongue in cheek response to diehard Laker fan O'Shea Jackson Jr., who was complaining. And I was like, yeah, the king never gets calls the king. So I was kind of making fun of him. Rich, did you see that?

So saying I have a lot of fantasy. Did you see the play where Reggie Jackson basically tripped LeBron into falling and falling back? And T.J. was like, yeah, Reggie Jackson's at the game.

That's so weird. Like you can't be in sports and have the name Reggie Jackson started. Rich, she just we were just sitting around. She goes, did you see Reggie Jackson at the at the game last night? And so my thought is, when you say. It's Reggie Jackson, right?

Somebody Reggie Jackson sit in court side in the branch. Yeah. Over him.

I didn't like like Shannon. Yeah. Listen, you know, it's funny that he would break the ankles of LeBron.

It makes sense because, as you know, he would kill the king because Reggie's already, as you know, killed the queen years ago. So that's my way of wrapping that all up. Thanks so much. I'll be here all night trying to make sure Del two and his college station wins wins. Marconi, another aspect of our rundown. I have a question about as well. I want to get to the pasta later on, if you don't mind. Is it true, Susie Schuster, that you are having our 12 year old son on in the second hour of this program?

Is that a true story? I walk in and Chris says, I want to talk to Coop. Can we FaceTime him during the show? Because I want to make a trade. And you know, the whole don't look gift horses in the mouth thing. And I said, I really think that we're going to have you on with him after what you did to him as a mere tyke. Handing him back, Tupperware wrapped up as a present. First off, first off, if I may, Coop is 12, right?

Twelve, twelve and taller than you. He's a young man. No chance he remembers what I gave him as a lovely Hanukkah gift.

That's true. But his parents do. His parents do. His parents do. Hilarious bit. You guys don't get humor. Hilarious bit. Hilarious bit the day after Thanksgiving.

I'm going to make him. It was probably like three weeks later. There's no chance you gave him back that fast.

Who am I kidding? This is this is way back in the day when Chris was just a mere bachelor, when fatherhood and spousehood was way, way down the road. And we wouldn't have you, Chris, over. We would have you, Chris, over for major holidays. So you could have a hot meal and you could have a sense of family and send him home with food for a week.

You absolutely loaded him up. And the most important thing, and I think many of our show listeners and viewers will appreciate this, that we would give the fact that Susie would give you our it wasn't even it was glassware. It wasn't really good Tupperware. It was a really high quality. I would not much pirate to give you the junk from a Chinese restaurant next time. And then and then and then then Chris would repay us in twofold.

Chris. Now, you might imagine, you know, when you're a guy. And you're a guy, friend or colleague receives this sort of glassware from his wife. And the material is not, say, returned in a timely fashion. How many times do you think I heard from Susie about this? Well, the problem is that you never brought it up to me. And actually, if I remember correctly, it was cleaned, washed in the back of my car.

I just kept forgetting to bring it into the podcast studio. But it doesn't matter until it is returned. This is going to be a hilarious bit. Let me wrap the lid. Let me give this to a child. Children on wrapped as if it is their Hanukkah present for you. I thought that was really funny that you would you would place these children in the line of comedic fire like that is truly untenable.

And so no one is shielded. Susie's bringing up right now, I think is hilarious. But so is Cooper joining this program? So is the ultimate coach coops on a flex day from school flex in a flex day.

And they're flexing out of Bears Chargers Cooper in school. Yeah. OK. Breaking news. Taylor's home, too, with a sore throat.

So that's great. Cooper's getting low management. It's low. He's got a flex. He's going to flex managed.

Look, it's true. He had five games this weekend. He's he's in the middle of an intense legacy schedule.

Well, yes. So is he coming on? Yeah, he's coming on. He's going to come on at the end of the second hour. We're going to talk a little fantasy with Coop.

You know, full slate action after the two games last night. And I got a little trade proposal for Coop to throw out there. Also, also, I have prepared him, if you don't mind me producing from afar, because he really wants to do this. He has his World Series prediction. Oh, good.

OK, OK. He's ready to tell you who's going to win the World Series, the Rangers or his newly adopted. He loves watching the Diamondbacks. Oh, he's the loves watching the time Marte Carroll. He's been loving them all seawalled. He's been, you know, gallon. He has been watching from afar since his is is his favorite team has fallen.

What's the word for it? Way freakin short of giving him anything. It was literally the worst Yankee team of his 12 year old life. But he's ready.

He's ready for that. Do you remember being in person for that Diamondbacks Yankees last game? I remember that like and I don't remember much, as you know. But I remember where I was sitting the moment that wasn't it.

Luis Gonzalez is that he's. Yeah. You were covering the Fox Sports.

Yeah. It was like I was calling it for a little. Was it a flare, a blooper? And the reason why it got to his head is because the Yankees had a little flare.

Gina would have caught it if he was a regular depth. What a mess. We were there, Suze. You and I were sitting behind home plate in what turned out to be the the Diamondback Wives section, watching the eighth inning of Rivera coming in and retiring the side convincingly, and watched all the spouses of the Diamondbacks start to cry because they thought this thing was over. And then you and I went our separate ways for the ninth inning to cover the postgame.

Right. Me free SPNU for Fox Sports. And then I watched that whole thing unfold and it was a complete and utter nightmare for me as a Yankee fan, despite having had multiple years of watching the Yankees win World Series, some even back to back. And then that worst moment of my entire sports life came even worse. Hearing the fact that in the postgame locker room, one of the members of the New York Yankees whipped him a baseball to you with his phone number on it. That happened. That happened. Do you still have that baseball?

I don't have anything. Are you kidding? Come on.

Oh, yeah. That was so funny because I was standing. I was standing with said first baseman in the infield before.

And I never. And he said he goes, Where's your boyfriend? I'm like, he's out there somewhere. He goes, he's probably watching us right now. Sure enough. Rich was in, I think, left field watching the two of us have a conversation. And this is just a friend of mine, like. And so after the game, listen, he just wanted to stay in touch.

He just was like, it's the end of the season for a while. Let's let's let's grab a coffee. Stay in touch. All right.

Let's go to five guys. You know, let's honestly, I was completely in a fog of depression. I'm walking in the locker room. There's Steinbrenner in his white dickey and his in his blazer staring holes into anybody that's walking in the locker room.

It was a total morgue. And then suddenly Suzy comes up. You'll never guess who just flipped me a baseball with his phone number on it.

I'm like, what the hell is happening in my life right now? So, yeah, the Diamond Bachelor in the World Series, Suze, thanks for that. That's great. And our 12 year old son is going to join to talk about that, proving with his presence that I eventually won the day. That's all I'm saying. That's all I'm saying. OK. All right. And we should get the last laugh. You know, that's all I'm saying. All right. I figured I should tell that story.

That's great. We're going to take a break. We're going to take a break when we come back. I got my power rankings. We got power rankings and we've got pasta.

And I want you to pine on both. Eight, four, four, four, rich. We've got pasta rankings. We've got power rankings. You can choose in which order.

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What's happening? What are you wearing? Is this a jacket or a sweater? I'm wearing a green jacket because banner 18 starts today.

Take a look, Rich. Gold jacket, green jacket. Banner 18 starts today. Banner 18. Let me make this larger. We might go 75 and 7, TJ.

75 and 7. Anyway. So I ordered Coop all this fanatics. Yeah, yeah you did. Like three or four different shirts.

Let's go. All this like black and green stuff. Guy's a men's medium.

He's not a men's small. Stuff comes, it's too small. It's got to go back. Hey fanatics, I need a rehook. Let's go.

Let's go. I feel that way with Cage. He's three and a half and he's wearing like five tees. Right?

It's upsetting. Coop's 5'10". He's probably taller than you are. By the way, Xander renamed his fantasy league team. Xander just dips his toe in the fantasy world, our 15-year-old, because he's not really into sports all that much. For Cooper's family fantasy league, he drafted Paulo Bonquero and he named his team Cuevos Bonqueros, which I thought was really good. That was a great name. Well done. He did that himself. Well done.

By the way, it's amazing. He actually knows a lot more than we think he does. He just doesn't want to admit it.

I have Paulo also, so I'm excited. So you should rename your team Cuevos Bonqueros instead of Larry Bird's Short Shorts. What do you think about that? Larry Bird's Short Shorts is way funnier. By the way, I can see his legs just by you saying that out loud.

844204 Rich, by the way, I need some calls today, please. I'm willing to spill the beans because I'm a little salty and tired. So lay them out.

What beans are you talking about? Anything. By the way, it's a good shot, don't you think, for the Roku channel? Except you could see the ring light in the mirror. I mean, in the window behind me.

Yeah, but you're giving Roku their money's worth. I like the look of this. Do they know you're in town? Are you going to go to lunch in Charlie? They do, actually.

They do know. Well, lunch. It's lunch now. Instead of doing lunch, I'm lunching with you. Have a cocktail. What about a nice cocktail? Start going to town a little bit. Don't worry.

We'll get it done soon. All right, we're back on the radio here. We're back on the Rich Eisen Show, and Rich Eisen so nicely joins us from New York City to go power rankings. Lest you be concerned that Rich will go anonymous in the city, he's wearing a pullover with a logo the size of the Chrysler Building. Rich doesn't want to blend in. Rich, your logo looks like the Chrysler Building.

Like the Chrysler Building. All right. Since I'm already being heckled, we might as well just go the full route and do my power rankings. Hit it. Hit it. Hit it.

Hit it. Come on. Power rankings. There are many like it, but this one is mine. Power rankings.

That is correct. It's a fascinating power rankings week, if I may say so myself, because not one, not two, not three, but four teams on my power rankings from last week lost in week number seven. So here we go. Hanging on, by a thread. The lowest they have been in my power rankings thus far, I am starting at number 10, the Buffalo Bills.

They are hanging on by a thread. And the only reason why they are still in my top 10 power rankings is out of respect, out of respect to Josh Allen and his skill set and Stefan Diggs and his skill set and Von Miller and his skill set. And just the guys on this team, they are in that locker room to find the way. They're in there. I believe it in my core, which is why I'm putting a four and three team at number 10 on my list. Any other four and three team may be out.

I'll be straight out with you. They're not number 10. Get them out. They're down four spots. I'm not going to put a three and four team in my power rankings, Chris. They've won two out of three.

They're playing great. My power rankings did you not hear about right now and how they're playing right now and looking ahead. But my rankings are a little bit excuse me, Real Bird.

They're a little bit different because they're mine. Did you not hear that drop? There are many power rankings, but this one is mine. And the way I do it is I still feel this team is one of the top third teams in the National Football League because of everything that they've been. What I have seen in flashes this year, they're number 10 on this list down four spots. Number nine down five spots are the Detroit Lions. That curb stopping in Baltimore caused me to stop.

As you know, we had Jared Goff on the program on Tuesday and what I've said about David Montgomery not being there and they didn't have that running back with sand in his pants to go hit people in the mouth and have a play action game that comes off it. The Ravens just absolutely tidal wave them and you'll see where the Ravens wind up on my list because of it. But the Lions are still in the top third. They're number nine on my list. They are down five spots.

So how about that? I got a 10th place team down four spots and a ninth place team down five spots. And I have finally leapfrogged the Seahawks over the Lions. They're number eight. They're up two spots from 10. The Seahawks are sitting there at eight. They beat the Lions in week two. I've had the Lions above them ever since. I'm finally now flip flopping them. I've got Geno Smith and the Seahawks and Witherspoon and and Kenneth Walker and DK Metcalf was out. So Jackson Smith and Jigba and how many times can somebody say the words Jake Bobo?

It's actually a fun name to say. Let's see what these Seahawks can do moving forward. They're sitting there in a nice position, just a half game behind the forty niners. They're number eight on my power rankings list.

Number seven. They crushed the bye week so they didn't play a game and there's no change. I've got the Dallas Cowboys still sitting there at 70, Jay.

I know you're not happy about it. And all I can say are two words to that. I just think that they are still have a little bit that that's off. If they play any of these teams that are above them, I think they would lose. That's my two cents. We will see if I'm incorrect because they do end up playing some of the teams in front of them.

I still have them at seven. With all due respect to Micah Parsons, who I love what he's saying his pop cast, where's the same intensity about laying into Brock Purdy like they do his quarterback doesn't exist. There's seventh on my list.

Tell you that he's kind of right. OK, number six on the list up two spots. I'm putting the Jacksonville Jaguars right here. I could not be more impressed with them. Yeah, but the Jaguars beat the Cowboys last year in Jacksonville. Yeah, that's right.

That happened. And that was part of their terrific run to the division crown last year. In Jacksonville, what they have done after losing two in a row in weeks two and three, going to London and sweeping London and then coming home and taking care of business before a short week trip to New Orleans with Trevor Lawrence wearing a brace on his knee. Travis Etienne has turned into a top three running back in the AFC, which means he's a pro bowler and the defense is doing its job.

I like what they are doing. They're up two spots to number six, down three spots to number five. I've got the Miami Dolphins. I still think they're a top five team in this league. I still think that they beat most everybody when they play them. I'm fearful for your and Susie's Patriots.

Chris Brockman coming up this weekend. I think the Dolphins are still a top five team down two spots. This is the lowest I've had them. You know, I feel about them, but I got to put the forty niners right here. They've lost two in a row. Brock Purdy has been put in positions to try and win the game in the final throws.

Two throws in Minnesota in the final throws wound up in the hands of the purple guys. So they're also a little bit banged up. I need to see how they respond to this adversity against Cincinnati before their bye week. They're still number four on my power rankings. They're down two spots up six spots. I'm putting the Baltimore Ravens third on this list.

Whoa. Yeah. They are third on this list. They have earned it. They got a defense that's championship quality. They got a quarterback that's MVP quality. They've got a running game that can take away your will. They've got a passing game that is kind of into its own, I guess. Boy, if St. Flowers could just do what Jordan Addison did, then this team would be on a different plane.

And I think he's maybe heading in that direction. I can't tell you how good this defense is. Saw it with my own two eyes in London. And what they did to the Lions at home was incredibly impressive. They put it all together. And I think they beat the forty niners right now if they were on the same field the way that the Niners are playing. I think Brock Purdy would have trouble with this defense. And I would be concerned about the Niners playing this team right now. And by the way, the Niners are down two spots because they've lost two in a row since Brockman said on Overreaction Monday podcast that they would beat a team featuring pro bowlers from all the other thirty one. So I blame you for this slide up to up three spots.

Let me make sure I got my glasses up three spots. Number two are the Eagles. I got the Eagles finishing at number two on my power rankings up three spots. I like the way that they're playing. I think that they have the control of the line of scrimmage. Their defense getting better. It's getting better.

And now they had Kevin Byard look out. This team is going to get better on defense. Let's hope Jalen Hurts is healthy so he can continue on in the Chiefs. No change. Second, we can. Have you heard anything?

They leave my power rankings and that, huh? Have we heard anything about any updates on Jalen Hurts? Have we heard anything this week? We haven't heard anything about Jalen Hurts yet, and I don't think you're going to. He's just going to be wearing a brace every now and then, and you're going to see him come out there. He's going to be taken on the Washington commanders this week. And then they got, and they have a buy, I believe. And then we'll see what happens.

Oh no. Then they take on the Cowboys and have a buy that week. Nine game against Dallas is going to be big.

So we will see what happens about Jalen hurts in his knee, but my power rankings, chiefs, Eagles, Ravens, Niners, dolphins, Jaguars, Cowboys, Seahawks, lions, and the bills. That's my two cents. You know, you would have the Vikings in front of the bills for real Chris.

You would really do that. Yeah. Vikings look better than the bills right now.

I think everyone with two eyes can agree with that. Let's see, honest, honestly might have the Bengals winning the bi-week there at number 10 Vikings nine. Come on. No, come on.

No, I'm just, no, I mean, I don't, I will just beg to differ. I still think the Buffalo bills win some of these games that you think that, you know, I'm concerned about them. I can't wait until next week when the Bengals beat the 49ers and you're just going to have some excuse why the Niners are still 10 in your power rankings.

Um, so yeah, I don't know. I mean, I don't know how the Niners would fall out of my power rankings for next week. That's three in a row. I don't know how you keep losing.

I don't know how you're going to have a team with three straight losses still in your power rankings. I mean, come on. Okay. All right. They're mine. Well, I'll see.

I don't, I, you don't think the 49ers are a top third team, even if they lose three in a row in this right now, they're right now. What are we looking at now? Now?

Everything that's happening now is happening. Now go back to when I guess it's my fault to keep thinking and so it's like thinking down the road. All right. So there you go.

Those are my power rankings. Tough. Uh, if you don't like it, I learned the phrase tough. I learned the phrase tough noogies, uh, across the, uh, the Harbor from down here, uh, years ago. I could see Staten Island from my house too.

Some of these buildings would move. Um, one other thing, the pasta, um, uh, poll question that you got going on here, um, the pasta poll question. Um, uh, how do you not see you have ZD? Does that think, is that another way of saying penny? Is that what you're saying? We changed the poll to pasta dishes, rich, because not everyone, not everyone is up to date on what the noodles are actually called hoity toity by putting in bucatini.

And I said, no, I wasn't. No one knows who bucatini is. So it's like lasagna. We've got to go basic here.

Del Tufo straight up. Did you know? I did not know. I mean, that's it. That's it.

You guys are so lame. My mother used to make fresh pasta, rich. And I did not know. Del Tufo is like looking up like names of, uh, of operas, you know, bucatini. Like yeah.

Was that, was that down the street here at radio city? So in Chris's pasta power ratings, he has angel hair with Bolognese. Now no Italian would ever pair angel hair with Bolognese. It's like ridiculous anathema.

I'm with you on that. So what did we land on? Not Italian.

What, what's the, what's the four that we land on? Pasta dish, pasta dish, lasagna, ravioli, ziti and Bolognese. Any type of dish. How is there not cacio cabe? It's a dish.

How is there not cacio cabe? What are you talking about? That's you. That's you. But we're, you gotta think, you know, global. Yes. You gotta think global. You gotta think global. Okay. You know what I mean?

Cacio cabe. Ravioli is losing. Right? Is it still losing? Ravioli is losing, by the way. Ravioli is delicious. Come on.

Ravioli is one of the greatest dishes in the history of. All right. So here are the results. Rich, hit this with an RT so we can get this going.

Lasagna 40%, Bolognese 24%, ziti 21%, ravioli 16%. Really bringing up the rear here. Yeah, but I can't believe that. It's good. I would bet. What would I? What would I? Lasagna is.

I would go for. Lasagna is good. Lasagna is good. Lasagna is good. But your big ziti is pretty amazing, Mike.

And my big ziti is amazing. You know what? I don't remember what it tastes like because it's been so long since you've had it. Brockman's very bad. I haven't made it in so long. Well, and we certainly wouldn't give it to you in his glassware.

The old man had too much wine. I mean, I gotta give Brockman some. And now that Mike's gotten all skinny, he doesn't make us big ziti anymore. That's ridiculous. No, I can't. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Mike, what if I ask you to make it like, screw these two mokes? You're in. Will you make me some, please?

You're in. Okay. Thank you. Okay.

It's a project. I mean, Rich, you're in New York. If I were you, I would walk out. I would make a. Left turn. Okay. That's downtown. That's downtown. And I would go right to La Conde Verde and get yourself a nice pasta. Okay.

There you go. That's only 50 blocks down. Listen, I gotta get on the subway. Come on, you're a New Yorker.

Get on the subway. That's 50 blocks. Hey, this has been great. Yeah. Don't get lost wearing your shirt.

If you do this, somebody can help you back, then they can see your logo and they know who you are. Am I not coming back next hour? Oh, yeah, you are, all right. Yeah, yeah. You are. You can't get rid of me fast enough. First, you've got free salmon, so I don't want to.

Maybe you should put on earmuffs because we're going to talk about Michigan football. Okay. All right. Very good. That's great. I look forward to that. Do you want me to?

That's going to be great. You should go down the street to the hardware store and get some binoculars. So I could what? See New Jersey? Yeah, yeah.

So you can just look at Staten Island and New Jersey and play calls. I didn't know where you were going there. Oh, that's cute. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Bruce Feldman on the other side of this. I do want to chime in about what Kirby Smart had to say. Pay cash. Pay cash.

From Georgia about Michigan. All right. Hour two, you'll be coming back. Still on Rokey here though, Rich. Rich, I did get a text from the FAA though, and your logo is visible from space. Distracting. Distracting.

It's distracting air traffic control. Don't feed. Wasn't this one of the rejects?

I think this was one of the rejects when we had a bunch of them made up, and I said to you that that is way too big. Do not feed Susie's unvarnished and your unvarnished opinion that is wrong. It's wrong.

It's wrong. This is great. Rich, Rich.

I would walk down any avenue in New York City with it. Can you ask your cameraman to zoom out? And by that I mean backup. Cameraman. Backup.

Backup. All right. The king of logos, it's allowed. I want to ask you this. What's bigger, the building to Rich's right or the logo? Nice. Wow.

Just scale. So I feel like this is the equivalent, and we talked about this with Warren Sapp on What the Football, and if you want to listen to What the Football, you can find it wherever you find your podcast about grown men wearing jerseys. This is the equivalent of you being a guy going to a stadium wearing another man's shirt, only it's your own shirt. Warren said, some guy asked him, whose shirt are you wearing when he went to a, maybe it was a retirement ceremony or something like that, and he was being honored. He's like, it's my own shirt. I wore it on the field. Here's a grass stain from playing.

So maybe that's what we're looking at. We've got 20 seconds, Rich. What's your rebuttal?

I don't have one, because that's the way to just give me three seconds before we've got to throw it a break. Very done. That's very well done.

It's a better move. Hey, we'll be right back. Much more Rich Eisen show when we come back, and we just hold Rich to the fire.

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