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Didn't get a good explanation on that one. Earlier on the show, actor Taran Killam, pro football focused, lead NFL draft analyst Trevor Sikkema. Coming up, actor Eric Winter. And now, it's Rich Eisen. Hour number three of the Rich Eisen Show is on the air and the comp for Rich Eisen is me. What?

We were talking about comps in hour two. Who is the young Rich Eisen out there, Brock? Maybe we and you should give him his call. Like, who could it be? Who's the young Dickie I's out there? I'm compless. Connor in New York. Connor in Long Island. I'm compless. Connor in Long Island.

Compless in Seattle. That's me. What's going on, Chris? How are you over there, man?

I'm great, man. Are we ready to jump into this thing, TJ Jefferson? Are we ready to jump into this thing?

We've been having some serious clashes. You know how you see these Star Wars movies or Star Trek movies where they just light years beam in or they zoom right in and they go right into this battle. They're in the middle of a firefight, right?

Above some planet, right? They just, oh my God. Lightspeed.

Lightspeed it in, right? And we've been doing that in the baseball front for the last several shows. We've been coming in hot. I know. Me and you.

Which I like. You and me and then you and me, TJ, right? You're hating on my guys. Well, we haven't had a you versus Chris one yet. Because we have no real, you know, we beat them in the World Series in eighty six.

I got no problem. Eighty six. My God. That is when I was the only time we really crossed paths.

Unlike you two. I mean, I wasn't even a Sox fan. I mean, and it's so it is amazing that that the century began with the Yankees defeating the Mets in the subway series. And now it's a Mets town. Twenty five years later. It's crazy. And how many times have the Mets won since then?

Zero. So, you know, the Yankees won at least one won in 2009. They made it back more recently. Not really, because you were there last year. I mean, we were there last year. We got there in fifteen. Doesn't mean they got there. They got there.

But also, you know, this thing, this thing, Chris, about being a Mets town that he's so caught up on. They put up a better fight than you did last year. What, against the Dodgers? Yeah, against I mean, against the Royals, they put up a better fight. Yeah. Oh, and plus we beat you for the nothing last year.

OK. Well, listen, it's now time for you to gang up on me, because I'm sure you view this. And this is honestly the best news that could have happened. This is like Ryan Day getting extended for Michigan.

That's what I'm talking about. It's fantastic news. Aaron Boone has a two years more run. Well, that's it.

That's a great lifetime, lifetime, lifetime. It's interesting how the Yankees tweeted it out that he had a two year contract extension. And, you know, like, you know, and the word the word it's the headline is extended like that.

That's a thing people are doing now. I know, like, you know, like I saw somebody who's getting the Curt Gowdy Award in the NBA this year. Somebody somebody I forget what it was. And they put up this is the word recipient, right, is the headline. It's just like I'm also very I'm very sensitive when it comes to that, because, you know, we're just getting it. It's what you're getting it. Yeah. Recipient. Can we come up with it?

Like, hey, recipient, you know, hey, Mr. Extended. It doesn't sound good, right? You know, wait four hours. It doesn't it doesn't hit the history. You know what I mean?

Consult your doctor. Yeah. He's holding a bat, too, right?

It's like those commercials throwing a football through a tire next to a flowing river. It's going to be in a bath in an open field. Find out if that's right for you. That's right for you.

You don't need to consult your doctor. But if you're experiencing these symptoms for four to six hours, I'm sensitive to that because, you know, back up hanging up in our green room right now is the is the New York Times Sunday magazine cover that I was on back in the early aughts when they were doing a feature on me and Sports Center or whatever. And then it shows up. And the guy who wrote it, his piece was about a bunch of guys who were hanging out at two in the morning by themselves.

And they're looking for a friend and and they find it in somebody like me on an overnight sports center or calling a baseball game in San Diego, as I did between the Padres and Expos that finished at one nothing in the 10th inning. But anyway, the guys, that was his theme for the story. And so the headline is Mr. Lonely Nights over my face.

And it's just like, that's not what I'm looking to be called Mr. Lonely Nights extended extended anyway. So congratulations. I love this news. Why?

Why do you love it? It's consistency. The Yankees are staying consistent.

They're manager that that managed them to the World Series last year. Oh, real tough to manage. Hey, Aaron. Hey, Aaron, hit the ball far.

I'm sure that's really, really hard. I'm sure that's all he did. Well, he does whatever the book tells him to and whatever Cashman tells him. Oh, God, like like every man, every other manager is the Lone Ranger. Everyone else is going rogue. Get out of here, man. Every manager does the same thing. He's got the same situation.

So good this century. Guess what? The Dodgers are the same thing and the Reds. Your guy Alex Kors is able to Alex Kors doesn't get notes on who should be the the first baseman.

If it's a one score game. I care about the two. I care about the third baseman right now.

You know, you should. OK. Lifetime contract. He's supposed to do just fire the guy to have him go in without. No, two years. I hear someone.

That's fine. You can hire someone better. Keep extending Aaron Boone until the end of time. Won the American League last year, Chris. Really tough to do with the players that you had. Really tough.

Actually, the players that they had. That's great job, Aaron. Wow. Managing Juan Soto and Aaron Judge is so difficult.

Congratulations, Chris. Can we talk about a New York team? You know, the team that actually runs New York and let's do it.

I would love to talk about news out of New York Mets Cambridge. It was a tale, I would say, of giving a tale of welcoming and receiving and just being what you call a mensch, so to speak, would be the man named Juan Soto. What about Juan Soto? Do you know what Juan Soto happened to do for a young Brett Beatty? Well, the Soto Beatty Beatty relationship is off to a great start. Great start.

I would say great doesn't even describe it. You see, Juan Soto came to the New York Metropolitan's, New York's number one team. He wore number 22, but unfortunately someone else had that number.

So what do you do in this case? Well, the youngster decided that he would give his number up to the veteran. What did the veteran do?

Oh, let's check this out radio fans. Brett Beatty walks out to the parking lot at Port St. Lucie, I believe, and he spies Juan Soto. He daps him up.

He gives him a hug. What is Juan Soto standing in front of? With the keys to a brand new blacked out tow that he's giving the youngster in exchange for his number 22. What a great story. What a great gesture.

In today's new cycle Chris, there's so much just, you know, division. To see Juan Soto, the King of New York, like Frank White, just bring everybody together. Brett Beatty probably has Juan Soto's phone number too.

I think that's awesome. He can't buy love. He can't buy love. It wasn't about buying it. He's buying a teammate. Is that your new background on your phone, TJ?

Oh, it already is. Brett didn't ask for anything. He was just giving it up and won, you know, being the giving person that is. He said, let me reward you young buck. Okay. Yeah.

Something there in judge. That's what happens when you're a mercenary. You could start buying people's affection. That's what you can do.

A single dad. But Chris, he didn't have to because nothing was asked for the nothing. You're right.

He's the kindness of his heart. We have a new headline of extended. There's extended right there. That should be the headline. That's the real one. That's fake.

I don't care what anybody says. I also like where our logo is. It looks like it's home plate. It makes sense.

And so congratulations to Brett Beatty for wearing number 22 at the right time. Yeah, that's lovely. It is. That's great. Now they're going to be great, but you guys got extended. That's a great story too. We are.

We have an X and an extended manager. So we got some very good and you got one of your power hitters out for a while. Who's that? Oh, is it Giancarlo Stanton is out for a while.

Yeah. He might not make opening day Giancarlo Stanton. I do like Stanton.

So I'm not going to age 35, age 35 Giancarlo Stanton already having elbow issues going into opening day. That's not good. You know what? It's great. That's great. So no, no, no, it's all great. This, this is all great. What can we do?

Who's going to have the most wins in major league baseball out of our three teams. You're out of this job. No, no, no.

Because you're talking about buying. Let's talk about mercenaries. How dare you? No, you're the mercenary mercenary. You're the mercenary.

I wanted to come to us. This guy's not the mercenary over here. You're deferred. You defer. Okay.

You must demand at all times. There is a fan sitting here now. Okay. I mean, you know, O'Shea blessed del tufo yesterday. O'Shea has no, I would love to ask O'Shea junior's dad embarrassing. If a law of lifelong Yankee fan should be allowed to say, I'm a Dodger fan now.

And there is no way cube would at all say that the son of cube should be embarrassed to welcome Mike. Tell them, tell del tufo that he's fine to be a Dodger fan. It's pathetic. I agree with you. It's pathetic.

It's pathetic. Well, we know del tufo. He'll tell you. He's not going to lie in line. He's got a Yankee hat still sitting here. Exactly. That's signed by somebody.

Exactly. I'm sure Yankees Mets. Red Sox.

Who has the most wins at the end of 2025? You say, okay, let's put it up on Twitter machine. Put it out there because the people of X are very, you know, we'll say, you know, I wonder what Vladimir is going to vote on that. So listen, we've got to come up with something here. We got a month till opening day.

Yep. Got a month till opening day. We got to come up with something here and we got to make it hurt like financially or not financially.

Cause I'm not, I'm not in your tax bracket. So I'm not saying that like maybe, maybe we find out like we got to buy, you got to buy a cameo or something to somebody interesting. He's came here.

Cameos are fun. A jury. We could do a Jersey bet. What's the Jersey bet. You have to wear the Jersey to buy it, buy a Jersey for the winter. So the losers have to wear the Jersey of the, so you don't have to wear a Yankee Jersey. No, I was going to say the losers have to split a Jersey and buy it for the winter. Like if the Mets win, we'd have to buy TJ a Soto Jersey. I don't, but that's not, that's not that's punishment for us.

What do you mean? It's gotta be public. I'd rather rich wear a Mets hat on air for three hours.

It's gotta be shamefully public. That's what it's gotta be. Maybe we have to wear the cap of the team.

The last place team. The guy in the middle gets no blood. I got to figure something out here. I think that's punishment enough. I don't know here.

I mean, if you make me wear a Red Sox hat, I'm probably going to be like, no, the loser's got to buy the other one. A a blacked out. What is it? Yukon.

What are you? Look only Jason feller feller back into this. Cause he's the only one of us right now. It's not even the most expensive car he could have bought the kid. Right. Maybe it might be pretty expensive. It's not expensive. Well, I mean, compared to when you, when you're making the most money, it's not a G wagon in major league baseball. It's really Steve Cohen's car. Really?

I mean, it's all beans. It's in Brett's name. I was going to find parking for it. Yeah. That is a pain. I had when I had a title when I moved out here.

It's bad New York city. He actually just caught cost Brett Beatty money. Yeah. Now is he paying for a lot? Is he giving him a gas card? Like what is it? Just the car.

He's paying for him to store the car in his neighborhood. Oh, you've heard that now. No, I made that up just like this minute. It just sounded good.

You should leave it up to people to call in suggestions. Oh man. I shouldn't even care. Cause I'm, I'm clearly going to win the bet.

Okay. Yankees will have more wins. How are you going to have more wins when you don't win the AL East?

I'm very confused by that. Or do we just say, cause we, we all play each other, right? Do the Red Sox play the Mets?

They should. Everybody plays everybody. Everybody plays everybody. So I know that I just got to see, I know that I know the Yankees and the Mets play each other because that's the way it's got to go. You know, the Yankees have to play everybody difficult.

Same way that Michigan does in the big 10. Oh, we knew that would somehow work its way into the conversation. These are all called facts. You might have a problem with facts.

I don't know why you have problems with facts. Goodness gracious. We have a three game set in May. There you go. And then you got another one? You got another one? You got a second one? Let's see.

Second half. Where are you in Queens? You're in Queens? That's it. We're just three games against the Mets this year. All right. There you go. So let's see. Who's got the better overall record.

And then the best head to head is the tiebreaker. I don't know. Or just like I'm spitballing here, bro. I just want somebody to have an embarrassing moment. Unless it's you.

Yeah. It won't be me. That's why I want it to be an embarrassing moment. I don't know about that. I don't know why you're so confident. Why would I be your roster isn't as good as definitely the Red Sox is. And I don't know about the Mets, man.

Chris, do I got to reread that Twitter email and that Twitter about like the over 30 and past this prime? It's not as good as Boston's, man. Let me ask you a question. Does Boston have as great a one two in Cole and Fried?

No. Do the Mets have as great a one two in Cole and Fried? Let me introduce Sean Manita. Who's your opening day starter?

Gary Karikou. What do you mean? Great. And then who's two? I'm not having this conversation because you don't know it. I'm not having this conversation. What about you, Sean Manita? OK. And who's to Senga? OK. Case closed.

What is the matter with the people? Oh, I'm sorry. When they only pitch five innings. OK. Winning two to nothing after five. That's right. I mean, the end of the game. I forgot who's closer. My manager is the only manager who's who's who's an absolute boxed in manager due to what's being told of him.

That's my bad. I don't understand where this confidence is coming from. This is going to be so much fun. Your team absolutely fell apart in the World Series. Let me know the the the key phrase in the World Series. Part of the phrase in the World Series. Did you win the final game of the year? Key phrase. Would you rather get embarrassed in the World Series or not make the playoffs?

I would rather make the World Series and be embarrassed than whatever you had yesterday, which last year, which was an entire nightmare of a long season of mediocrity. And you wondering if there's any possible way to get out of it and then complain incessantly throughout the winter that your team was doing nothing only to have them finally sign somebody to some Frankenstein type contract where you got to get out every single year of just three years to play. Wait a minute. The number three. This is like Sesame Street brought to you by the number three.

The number of bases that you have to actually traverse on the infield to find the fault line of your pissed off start. You did actually pay literally, literally got the best picture in the season. Very good.

Well, literally did that. Tell that to Sarah if she agrees. Does she agree Garrett crochets better than Max Reed? Would you agree with that? I would say so. Yeah. OK. This is going to be great.

I can't wait. And you're just sitting there laughing. I don't know how you did that whole thing without taking a breath, because I am hot air, because he's a Yankee fan. That's why factual. I am only spitting facts. I've never met a rational Yankee fan in my life, and I'm an influencer. Let's take a break.

This guy, Eric Winter of the rookie. He might not want to come out after ABC. Of course, he wants to come out here. He's a fan. He wants to laugh about us. Rearranging debt shares out here.

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Get an expert now on TurboTax.com. Eric Winter of ABC's The Rookie is right here on The Rich Eyes and Show. Our radio audience just returned. And to describe the photos of the pictures that you might not be seeing because you're listening on the radio, I've got two bottles of Palm Republic rum sitting here on my desk. This is your award-winning Palm Republic rum that launched this past June. And you have also brought what appears to be cups.

No pressure. Is this a five o'clock somewhere situation? It's only rum o'clock, right? And this is not your typical rum. You know, it's, you have an eight year age and a silver, but we really set out to try to do something very premium that has no added color, no flavor. It's not sweetened. It's not spiced.

It's not in that world. If you're a bourbon or whiskey drinker, a lot of people have been loving the aged rum because it sits in such a similar profile. And the silver is incredible as well. And that's what I love about it.

It's different. Well, we've just met, so I'm sorry to maybe reveal too much, but my nickname in my own family, based on, on occasion, being fortunate enough to go to the beautiful 50th state of Hawaii, the nickname in my household is Mr. Mai Tai. Oh, wow. That's a great nickname by the way. Cause I'm, you know, I, I do kind of dig my Mai Tais.

I'd hit you with your next best Mai Tai rum. Is that, we can do this. That's what they're here for. You got, you got them. They're yours. Okay. Wow.

Maybe they're ours to keep and maybe have right now. It's anybody, anybody, would anybody like some rum? I'll try anything. Let's jump in. Let's go.

Now I tell you the age is overproof 92. So you get a nice little Jay. What would you like? Which one would you like? Let's go with the clear. Okay. Let's go with the clear. I feel like should I Tom cruise it and flip it in the air.

You should do all of that. Yes. Spin it. Catch it.

It'd be great television. Okay. Here we go. I'm going to, Oh, that sounds great. By the way, you had me at hello on that one right there.

Speaking of another time. All right, here we go. All right. Is that enough or is that enough? That's great. I mean, here we go.

How added people want to get. Come on in. If you don't mind not to, I'll try the dark, which allows me to make that noise again. I mean, is it open the same way every day? It does a nice little pot. And even for me with the silver, as you guys explore, just even a pinch of lime and it's amazing.

And then obviously tons of great cocktails. How many lines dude, what is this? I don't know. We never know what we have here. I'm opening up the bottle.

It was the same. Should I do it? I think you should try to get too far from now. I'm now. Here we go. Oh, I hear that though. Okay, here we go. All right, TJ, would you like any?

Not really. Let's go with a little bit of that clear. Go with some of the clear. Give me some of that dark.

I might start wiling out. Thank you. Some of that clear, not quoting Barry bonds or anything like that. See, I do that for the Dodger fan.

That's sitting right here. Take a shot. You want the clear?

I'll try the clear. So you're so loving it. Wow. You know, it's funny because with the silver, not a lot of silver runs actually very few are sippable. It's not what you think.

And that's one of the things that we were super proud of with coming with that blend. Here we go. Drinking on the air with Eric winter on the rich eyes and show. Cheers skull to you. I mean, Taryn Kelly showed up empty handed before.

What the hell out there? Yeah, come on. You raise a bar high for future guests. No doubt. You are from here in Los Angeles. You're from LA. Yeah. Born and raised. Okay.

Yeah. What part of Los Angeles? I grew up inland city of industry. La Puente is where I grew up, went to college at UCLA. That's when I kind of came out to this area.

Okay. Wanted to be a doctor. Funny enough, ended up being an actor. I was premed at UCLA and fell into this business and shattered all my parents' dreams of becoming a doctor. So you're premed in UCLA. What was the medicine you were studying? I wanted to do sports medicine was my goal. I was an athlete my whole life. So I was kind of like the direction I was headed, but I was a psychobiology major, just kind of going through the early stages of what it took to go to med school.

Right. Started dating a girl. And it's always a girl that sends you down a different path, right? Why aren't you acting remodeling in this town?

You should be doing something like that. And I took her word for it and rolled the dice. And here I am 20 something years later with a career in acting screwed. I'm going to go, I'm going to go in this direction.

It could not have been a Jewish girl because the Jewish mom would want the doctor. I'm just, I just went there. I can go there. You can confirm, right? Like definitely. I had a big pivot.

You know, my mother would be like, why would you not want the doctor? Okay. But so what did you do? Did you start auditioning?

You just got, you got an agent. I mean, how does one pivot like that? It was a, it was a weird thing. It was actually an awkward, funny thing. The girl, she introduced me to a guy who was a manager and then he said, you know, take some pictures of yourself and I can submit some modeling agencies. And you know, if you can do some pictures in your underwear too, that would be great. I was like, this is so weird. Like I'm going to take pictures of my underwear and give them to some stranger. And that's just how modeling works.

And I got lucky and got a, got an agent and very early on booked this big Tommy Hilfiger campaign back when Rebecca Romaine was doing it and I became the guy and she was the girl. And you just kind of make a professional at that point. And I had to tell my family, I said, look, I'm missing class.

My grades are dropping. I went back and finally graduated psychology. Thank you. Made my mom happy that I completed that path.

Absolutely. And but it was hard to say no. At that point, I was traveling all over the world and I was making coin money that I never thought I would see at that stage of my life and started taking acting serious and taking classes and drama classes, et cetera. And then you wound up on a soap. And then I ended up on a soap. That was my first sort of big gig. Did a contract on days of our lives, which was amazing. Great experience, training, learned so much and you know, broke off and done a bunch of different shows and different movies. And then finally you land a show that goes seven seasons. You never, you never see it coming. No doubt.

I mean the rookies and it's seventh season again, Tuesdays at nine on ABC and you could check it out on Hulu, which is available right here on this awesome portal of Roku. And so your character on days, that's right. That's how you shorthand it. Days. It's not lives, right? It's just days.

Okay. So you're on days. I'm on days. Great character you're going to talk about right now. So what's the strangest thing your character did or happened, had happened to your character on days?

Flat out. My character started as a, an alien. I came down in a pod with a twin sister in a tinfoil skirt.

What, which goes back to having my shirt off as a model. Like I was naked in a pod with a tinfoil skirt and didn't speak for six months of the acting gig. So you were a wordless alien, wordless days that ended up being a genetically engineered human being down the road because that's what happens after, you know, 50 years of a soap opera. They got to figure out story. So yeah, I was an alien that, I mean, honestly, imagine you're on a talk, I mean anything, right?

Six months, you don't speak. So I had no lines to remember, which soaps are like the hardest, you know, sort of field to learn lines in. It's a scripted day.

It didn't have to talk at all. I had to look at things and analyze them. It kind of came like silent acting, analyze everything and walk around and take everything in new for the new, you know, for the first time. Cause I was an alien. Did you ever sit there and go, why did I give up medicine? What am I doing? This is the craziest existence.

But it ended up, I ended up learning so much and it was, it was quite an experience. I'll go here as a followup because I know a lot of athletes, especially baseball players when they're on the road would watch soaps. It's actually, that's very true. Cause they would sit, you know, they're just sitting in their hotel rooms, just flipping around and they would watch soaps.

Did you ever run into any of these players? Peyton Manning had come by at one point, Shaq had come by and I swear to God Shaq was, he was like full blown fan of the show, everything. Cause like you said, in between when they have downtime, it's what's on in the middle of the day. Right. And a lot of them knew all about the storylines.

They knew everything Peyton Manning. Yeah. It was the craziest thing. Craziest thing. No kidding.

Yeah. And did they know your character and your plight and stuff like that? They knew about it and loosely, but they just knew days. It was like one of their favorite shows, which is crazy to me. That's the way it is, man.

It is wild that some of the biggest fans of soap operas are some of the biggest athletes that you would never think are. I was shocked. You were? Yeah. I was shocked. I'm like, what is Shaq?

Why does he want to take a picture with, what? Shaq! Like he was prime Shaq.

He was prime. And you're a Laker fan too, right? Yeah. Yeah. It was incredible. That's pretty cool. It was incredible.

All right. So how do you handle the Dodgers just buying their way to championships now? Same way the Yankees did it for however long they did it.

I mean, that's all New York did for however long it was. And it drove everybody crazy. I earned that response.

I did. And I will say this, the Dodgers had a more innovative way of doing it, right? They started deferring all these contracts.

You hadn't seen that before. They're be able to bring in more and more people. Well, you got to find people willing to do that to start. Like for instance, Juan Soto said no to that. He said, I will not defer. True. And they then had a billionaire owner who was just like, says, I don't care. I mean, surely set an incredible precedent, but then I also read some insane fact about his endorsement earnings compared to the rest of the entire league. It's not even a, he doesn't need it by any means.

There are few people who at the age of 30 can basically say, I will work for a retirement plan because I have enough of another side gig based on the gig that I'm willing to turn into a retirement plan. It is wild. And I don't know if what I read was totally accurate, but it was something like he would get 50 million a year in endorsements. And then the next drop-off was a single digit million for the next player.

It was a massive chunk of money. Well, you go to what you would use to go to angel stadium or now Dodger stadium. And you see, you know video boards filled with his cologne, you know, and his drink and I mean, why not? We're living in his world.

So smart. Now the pressure is on if the Dodgers don't win the world series about that, but we're in a great, great place. I mean, the pressure is what? Like they can't, they, if they don't win multiple ones, I mean, you're water skiing behind yachts right now is the answer. Yes. They just need to break the, uh, all time winning record for a season. And that would be awesome.

They can, they can for sure. You know, certainly if you keep on adding stars who are willing to just say, I'll, I'll take the 401k plan, please work for food, Dodger dog. Right. I would work for those two sometimes.

Those are really good. Well, you don't strike me as a guy that goes to the stadium and grabs a good Dodger dog. Okay. How's that? How's that treating? I just heard you. You're taking a sip of the public. You got the age, right?

So I might have to wait an hour before driving home. Wow. You are pounding bow over there. What is going on? It's delicious, bro.

I didn't mean, I didn't mean to denigrate, but it's just like, it's supposed to sit back. I love it. Well, actually, you know, I always drink tea, so I poured a little bit into tea too. So I got a little bit of this and a little bit of this. Wow. Somebody called me an Uber. You know what? He keeps, if he keeps drinking like that, the Cowboys might win the Super bowl. Oh wow.

That doesn't mean I get to go back in time when life was great. The Dodgers win total is one Oh four and a half. Like that's insane. That's a temperature.

You got to go to the hospital at one Oh four or five, right? That's like an easy listening radio station. 80 soft rock.

One Oh four, five smooth. Oh, Tony jazz. What the hell, man? Come on.

It sounds about right. What do you think of the Luca trade? We got to win again. We lost last night.

I couldn't believe that loss. I think it's amazing. I think it's going to be the, it's the future of where the Lakers are headed.

I think it's a great setup for, for building. Clearly this was as controversial as a trade as people could think about. I mean, Dallas fans are going nuts that there's threats.

There's all kinds of stuff. I mean, it's gave away a player in his prime. Unreal.

You could even say it's pre prime. Yeah. You know what I mean?

Like, I know he's been in the league, what, six, seven years at this point in time, but he's 25. Yeah. Whatever went on in Dallas that we all don't know exactly the details must be very interesting. Gossip.

I did read something. I don't know if it's true because I think, was it the nuggets that were involved in that or jazz? Who was it that was involved in which Danny Ainge, right? Was he had no idea that he'd be helping the Lakers in this whole thing. He would have never done it, which is wild. Yeah.

He would never have, never have approved it. But it's the future. And you're, you're hearing though, and you kind of see it in the body language that Lucas still is in a fog of being traded, you know, and it's going to take some, some time for him to get his physical sea legs under him. Cause he was out for a month before being acquired.

Yeah. But he's still kind of shocked by the trade. And I was just saying the other day, just to bring, I guess all your fandom in, in one, one mix here that the Lakers should like connect them with Freddie Freeman because when Freddie got, you know, he was told by the Braves, thanks for the world series, but we're not willing to pay you what you were.

We'll let you walk that it took him some time here to realize life is okay. You're still Freddie Freeman. You know, you're not, your identity was that, but now look at Freddie Freeman, you know, world series hero for the Los Angeles Dodgers is Los Angeles, an athlete is there is in this town right now. And maybe, you know, he can call up Luca and just say, I get it, but just sit back and look at the 75 degree weather and be a Los Angeles, you know, stud, stored franchises.

There is, I mean, I, I think you're exactly right. And I see it full for you when you see him on the court, he doesn't look like his swaggy, confident self at the moment. Like he's finding his rhythm. He's finding that match with LeBron and when to defer, when, when is he comfortable telling LeBron I've got this? I think what they say, LeBron's his idol.

That's how he grew up. You know, similar game and style. And I think it's going to take time for them to blend and figure it all out, which I think Shaq even talked about at one point in an interview and it makes sense. I think it's going to come very soon and maybe at the right time. Right. But he just had, I wouldn't be a bad idea actually to see, he just talked to another major star that came to Los Angeles after he was, he was, you know, again, it was his choice eventually lead by free agency, but his choice might've been to stay.

I want to be a brave for life. He just won a world series there for Luca was a bit of an ego blow has to be a lot, like at least, you know, Freeman could get the idea, well, negotiations are tougher than I thought. And, and it didn't just come out of like on a phone call one night, you know, and they said what Luca bought a house, just closed on a house like the day before. I mean, he was, you know, he set up his, uh, his life there and I would say, you know, to help him relax, just give him some Palm Republic rum. I like that idea, but that is counter to his condition. The complaints, that was reason why he might be a Laker is he had a beer taken out of his hand once upon a time, but I'm just, which is a funny clip. I'm just trying to move your product. I'm all about it. If it makes him a better Laker, I'm fine.

And a consumer of Palm Republic. It's perfect. It's cool.

It's what we call a win-win. Um, thanks for coming on, man. Great to meet you. Great to have you here. Thanks for applying.

Uh, uh, rich eyes and show of crew with liquor. Appreciate that. Sure. Um, and I, Mr. My tie, I'm referring myself from the third person as such, uh, appreciate this. I can't wait to have this as a, as a, my tie.

Thank you so much. That's the way I consume my rum, uh, Palm Republic rum. How can people, uh, go, uh, go at Palm Republic rum on Instagram? Our main DTC is at Palm Republic, rum.com. You go to our website, our big market right now that we are, you know, total wines and all in is, is Florida. That's like, it's the rum capital.

You got to kind of put your steak in the ground there first. Sure. Um, and it's been going fantastic there.

So we're starting to look at our expansion in this next phase and other States, but yeah, go to the website for now. Yeah. Recently won a gold medal at the 2024 San Francisco world spirits competition. Interesting that a Dodger fan would win in San Francisco and New York. We won it, which is crazy.

I mean, we've, we don't have to bring that up again about winning in New York. Uh, but thanks for coming on here, sir. And everybody check out the rookie on ABC season seven at nine Eastern on Tuesdays. And then of course on Hulu, which is available right here on Roku.

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That's what still is. Rolling stone music. Now follow and listen on your favorite platform. So I have here word for word verbatim, three of the great sports rants of all time. And we would love for you to do your best Victor Newman. The first one is Herman Edwards.

The first one up Herman Edwards on October 30th, 2002, after a week eight loss to the Cleveland Browns. Here is play to win the game as told by Victor Newman. This is great about sports. This is what's the greatest thing about sports is you play to win.

Hello. You play to win the damn game, right? You don't play just to play it.

That's the great thing about sports. You play to win. And I don't care if you don't have any wins. You're going to play to win. When you start telling me it doesn't matter, get your ass out of here, then retire.

Cause it matters. Well done. That's number one. Next up an October 16th, 2006, after the Cardinals blew a 20 point lead against the bears on Monday night football.

Dennis Green. They are who we thought they were as, as portrayed by Victor Newman. Bears are who we thought they were, you know, that's why we took the damn field.

Now, if you want to crown them, then crown their ass, but they are who we thought they were and we let them off the damn hook. Very good. Very well done. All right. Last one for you. I can feel it.

I'm glad that we got it growing. Cause here's the last one I can feel on May 7th, 2002, the famed practice press conference of one Allen Iverson as recounted by the man who plays Victor Newman, Eric Braden. Hit it.

My God, man, go for it. I mean, listen, man, you're talking about practice. Okay. Not a game. It's not a game, not a game.

All right. It's all my practice. Not a game, not a game that I go out there and die for and play every game like it's my last. Not the game. You're talking about practice, man.

I mean, how silly is that? I know it's important. Yeah, I do. I do. I do. I honestly do. But we're talking about practice, man.

What are we talking about? Practice practice, man. Eric, I think that's your finest work.

If you don't mind me saying thank you very much. Oh man. Oh man. You've got a lot of, uh, of those drops over there. I do. I do. I do. I honestly do. You do. Funny. Gosh. So funny. Uh, back here on the program that was fun with Eric winner. Yeah, that was great.

Very rarely do I welcome in a guest for the first time who I've never met before with such a broad side like the woman I did. I don't know what's gotten into me. You know, that's what happens. You're evolving. I'm not evolving. I'm devolving.

That's a, that's a, that's a step back. I should evolve as a human being, which is like not take one segment's argument into the next. I need to, you know what I mean? I don't think that you need to.

I think what you did was right. Oh, you appreciate that then? Of course. Okay.

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Call cook Granger.com or just stop by at the four nations tonight. Right? And now Michael's tomorrow.

Good stuff. I was just looking at some odds here. Like Al can't wait to talk about the four nations. Who do we like for MVP of the four nations?

What do you think? I mean, Connor hell book is the favorite Connor McDavid. Second favorite Sidney Crosby. Good odds. Five to one. Yeah, but they're all team Canada.

I want team USA to win. Okay. So Zach, we're in ski.

I go, I go be a good choice. Good at value. 15 to one there.

I'm just looking to make some money. Any of the two Chuck brothers are a 17, one 22 to one. I think the T silent. Is it? Yeah. Good shot.

Matthew is 17 to one. So that's, that's, maybe that's our, our play there. If we like USA to win. Okay. Very good. How you going to do that hockey? We're going to do that hockey tonight. I will be watching for sure. That is for sure. Five o'clock Pacific eight Eastern.

I know the NBA has got a full slate tonight, but Celtic Sixers tonight, TJ. Hey, you know, it's playing MB. Yes. You're not joking.

Sure about that. That's what Cooper told me last night. I guess Cooper. No, who said that? It seems that's what he told me last night. He goes, dad, MB it's plan.

That's what he said to me. Cause he's got MB in our league. I know he is pissed about that. Look, I tried to give him the trade him to me. He didn't want to, he'd have been so much happier was last year. Not this year.

No, this year too. No, you did not listen. You offered him last year. You wanted him, you wanted, you wanted MB to maxi from him last year. No, that was you explain to him how, you know, who the, some of the players were that you were offering him when you're like, I'll offer you Dave Cowens and I'll offer you like, I was literally offering him LeBron and KD last year. I know you offered him the old, the old guys. Uh, rich, I offer Coop CJ McCollum this year who we had last year and he turned down because he called him the one lung team.

By the way, he had a 43 his last game. So Coop, you kind of messed up. Oh boy. Way to call out an eighth grader while he's at school. I was trying to help him out. Plus I know he was probably listening. Coop is definitely not listening. His school takes the phones basically away.

No kid would ever be. Oh no. Like if, if he's caught with a phone out anywhere, that's a problem. Oh, okay.

I like that a lot. I don't mess around, man. I say don't sell coop Tani short, man. If he wants to hear it, he'll find a way. Okay.

Who might have Roku on in the classroom? Brock coop agrees with me about our conversation. Oh, no way. Your son, the Yankee fan thinks the Yankees are going to have the best record.

Come on. My son. My son is also the Celtic Patriot fan.

That doesn't mean anything. He likes the Yankees first when he goes to college and he meets his new roommates or people on the hall and whatever, like who are your favorite teams? And he says, Patriots, Celtics, Yankees. People are going to be like, who are these?

Who is this? He's going to get so shamed and bullied, shamed and bullied. He will not be now. He's going to be too big to get bullied, but certainly when you have weird sports teams, you get made fun of. Certainly if he does go to the great University of Michigan, does he have a choice?

Like Michael Irvin's kid did not. Of course he has a choice. Of course he has a choice.

Yeah. Watch it. Watch out coop because they'll make a graphic of you with different teams that you like just because you're such a big fan of sports. You can limit your fandom to one. Don't you dare drag my son into your psychosis. Just saying, don't you dread my mentally healthy son into your sports. First of all, you want to get on me. Coop's fandom is all over the map to my men. Psycho is what you want about this.

You need medication to serve whatever you need to have every morning and then sometimes at night. But that's not the point. I'm just saying, don't let the urge to sing along to that catchy tune distract you from that truck drifting towards your lane. I'm selling things. I thought you were still ripping up beside you. I'm keeping the lights on around here.

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I'm looking forward to that. Al Michaels all third hour. Literally from first, second to last of our show. We need to get some steaks delivered DJ.

I've been saying that all week. Let's have a steak dinner. Dan did that.

Dan did that years ago. He called it steak night in Almerica. That's what they called it. They were out here and it was like 7 a.m. Right. Yeah. And guess what Al did? He ate the steak.

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