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So we are compelled or we have to do some segment on Drake and Kendrick Lamar. Now, I'm not going to try to pretend I know what I'm talking about here. I have read some of it. I have listened to some of it. It's like one of those things that I pay attention to and you follow a little bit.

But once you start to go down that rabbit hole, I think you just get too caught up into the entire beef where I would rather be on like the outside looking in for this beef than being like in the inner circle and getting fully just taken down the road of obsessing with this topic. And, you know, I've been obsessing with other things. Last night, big night, not the Brady roast, was not priority number one. It was Real Housewives of New Jersey did return.

So I did watch that. You got to see Teresa and Melissa Gorga in the same room as it's the start of fireworks season for Real Housewives of New Jersey. Big reality TV fan, as you guys know.

So I've been entrenched also in Jersey Shore. So I'm not you know, there's only so much drama that I could take on. And I don't have that much free time on my hands. Well, if you listened earlier in the show, I had some free time on my hands. But I'll do a segment here off the Drake Kendrick beef. And I'm not going to rap like Hickey. And I give credit to Hickey for trying. It just, you know, it wasn't that great. Like he tried to study for the test.

And then when the test came around, he got a zero on the paper and it was like, oh, that's ugly. So with Kendrick and Drake now being a rivalry, by the way, before I get to this, who's your favorite rapper? Like my favorite rapper is Jay-Z. And if not Jay-Z, Biggie, Notorious B.I.G.

Those be my two favorite rappers. You know, we never really talked music on it. Like I am everywhere with music. I could listen to rap. I could listen to EDM.

I could listen. I dabble a little and I mean a little, little, little, little bit in country. Obviously, I love rock and roll. Bruce Springsteen is my favorite. But country wise, I've been listening a lot to Zach Brian recently, who is absolutely phenomenal. And Santa, when we went to the sphere together at the Super Bowl and we saw U2, I actually had tickets that night for Zach Brian. And at the time, like I knew who Zach Brian was, but like I wasn't like a fan.

And for whatever reason, the last four or five months, it was because I know why. He went on stage. He had Springsteen on stage. And then he talked about how much of an inspiration Springsteen was to his career. So I just started listening to him more.

And I like, you know, Zach Brian now. So I'm everywhere with music. Like I listen to Dave Matthews.

I could listen to Green Day. I could, you know, obviously love Bruce Springsteen, Jay-Z, Biggie, EDM, all that stuff. But who are do you guys have favorite rappers? Are you guys big rap fans, Santa? I was in the 90s. Like I love Snoop.

I love the East Coast, West Coast battle. Were you a Pac guy? What? Were you Tupac guy? Tupac I loved.

Tupac or Biggie? Nas was great. Lost Boys, Mase, even like P Diddy back in the day. But P Diddy was a little bit too cheesy for me.

And now clearly has all of their issues. But like that whole East, I was more of the East Coast side of it. Tupac started getting me on the West Coast side of it. You know, Dre was great and all that. But for me, it was like Nas.

It was the Lost Boys. And it was probably Tupac a little bit as well. Gotcha. Stu, outside of Taylor Swift, who's your favorite? I'm not a big rap person. You love Kanye, though, being a Taylor Swift person, right? Yeah, exactly.

I guess Jay-Z, I would probably say. But again, I'm not too deep into the weeds on. Gotcha. So you're not going to be rapping when they give you the Stuart Kovacs? That's right. I'm not. Definitely not.

I like his word of choice. Too deep into the weeds is what he said. Cold 45? Two zigzags? Maybe that's all we need? Head to the park after dark? All right, I'll stop after that.

But anyway, here's a little musical portion of the show. But based off Kendrick and Drake, what's the five best current, let me emphasize that word, current rivalries in sports? Like, I did not include Celtics against Lakers. All-time great rivalry. One of the best rivalries you've ever seen in sports. But currently, that rivalry does not have juice. Other honorable mentions, Giants and Dodgers, Auburn and Alabama. And also, Army-Navy is always a great rivalry game.

But my five current best sports rivalries, in at number five, Ravens and Steelers. Anytime, oh, I get to use all my favorite words, you have an AFC North matchup, it is a slobberknocker. Always love that word.

That's always a fun word to use on the good old radio. But that is a game that is physical. It's violent. And it's one of the few games that we see in the NFL where everyone's fine with the final score being like 17-14. Usually, we are like a bunch of whores when it comes to points now.

And it's like, oh, we need more points, we need more points. 35-31 isn't even enough now. You give me a great AFC North showdown, I'm pretty good with any of those rivalries. But there's just something different in the last 20 years, when you hear the two names of the teams and it's Ravens and Steelers. In at number four, this has been a one-sided rivalry for a long, long time. But doing a national show, you always realize the hatred between these two fan bases and how Bears fans could usually define a season successful or not. Like, even if they were a six-win team, if they got a victory up against the Packers. Bears, Packers, wonderful rivalry. Rogers in his final year. I still own you, I still own you.

And now, it's really going to be fun. Because you look at that NFC North, great division, right? Like, we know what the Lions are. They're the team to beat right now.

You know what Minnesota is. We'll see if JJ McCarthy can be super successful with those weapons. But the Bears have potentially a franchise quarterback in Caleb Williams.

And the Packers, Jordan Love in his first year as a starter, showed you he could be their guy for the next 10 years. To have those two young quarterbacks with those two fan bases, those two legendary franchises, Bears and Packers, I put them at number four, my best current rivalries. And at number three, this is the one take in sports media that I will vehemently disagree with, and I'm not a fan of either of these teams. Yankees-Red Sox. That is still a great rivalry. I know the Yankees haven't won a World Series since 09.

I know the Red Sox have been a putrid product as of late. But whenever you hear Yankees-Red Sox, it just brings back so many memories. And there is always great animosity between those two fan bases. Like, I was at the Sixers game the other night. And at the Sixers game, they're doing the Eagles chant. You go to any event in Boston, Celtics, Bruins, Patriots, it doesn't matter. Those teams could be winning championships. You always hear in the crowd, Yankees suck, Yankees suck, Yankees suck.

And I won't get a head bob out of a Santa or stew when I say that. And we know the Yankee fan hates the Red Sox fan as well. And even though the Red Sox have won all those championships since breaking through the curse of the Bambino, they've been a better team than the Yankees in terms of winning titles since 2004, the Yankee fans still looks to the Red Sox fan as if they're little brother. In at number two, it's Duke and UNC. And we got to see in Coach K's final season, then meet up in the Final Four. Duke-UNC, it's just one of those matchups, just like Yankees-Red Sox.

Whenever you hear it, you know you have to watch. Obviously, I'm talking about basketball here. Not so much for football, but it's just one of those historical matchups that never, never, ever does fade, even though Roy Williams and Coach Krzyzewski, Coach K, are not coaching for either of those teams anymore. And in at number one, I got to be a part of this rivalry this past year, going to Ann Arbor, going to the Big House. Michigan-Ohio State for football, the game. For me, it's the best current rivalry in sports. I'll be curious, the next chapter of it, like you know that hatred's not going away, but the fact that they could play back-to-back weekends with the Big Ten championship with all the changes that are going on, and you know the college football playoff expanding all the way out to the ridiculous amount of teams, the 12 teams that it's going to. It may take a little juice out of that game, because it's a landing spot, but whenever those teams do play, there's great hatred. Now it stinks Jim Harbaugh's off to the Chargers, because that Ryan Day-Harbaugh thing was getting really, really, really ugly, and there was going to be intrigue if this could finally be the year for Ryan Day. But now with Sherone Moore taking over, it's like, okay, Ryan Day. Cryin' Ryan, you don't get the job done up against Michigan this year.

Well, then people are really, really, really, really, really then going to be calling for your job. So those are some of my best current rivalries in sports. Samter, let me ask you, what is the best rivalry right now currently in sports, if you had to pick one? I mean, it's still Michigan-Ohio State for sure. Ravens-Stealers feels like it's lost a little bit of its luster, just because, I don't know, it just hasn't felt the same way.

I don't know, it just hasn't felt the same. Spill's offense has also been a mess for a while. Yeah, and like we talk about current rivalries, right? Like you think about some of the big ones recently, like Yankees-Astro's feels like a bigger rivalry right now than Yankees-Red Sox, because the Red Sox have been bad for a while, and the Astros-Yankees, you have the cheating scandal that was there, right? But I think that's lost its luster just because, for it to be a rivalry, and I know I put Bears-Packers on that list, but like people would always say, oh Patriots-Chetts is a rivalry, and I'm like, as a Patriot fan, I go, I never, like, I know I hated the Jets, but I didn't view the Jets as a top rival, right? Like Patriots-Colts, to me, in my lifetime, Brady Manning was the biggest Patriot rival. The Steelers ever beat the Patriots, but they felt like more of a rival than the Jets as well. So the Yankee-Astro, I think a lot of people are past the cheating scandal now, so that also takes away a big element of the rivalry, but for a while, you know, baseball, we talk about how just, you know, dull it can be, and how there's not a lot of personalities getting marketed the right way. That animosity was there, Yankees and Astros, and it was the rare time a lot of people were rooting for the Yankees, but the Astros just kept on banging those trash cans and kicking that ass, and the Yankees were never able to live up to the hype. Yeah, like Cubs-Cardinals has always been a long time one, but it feels like that's kind of- What about Cubs-Brewers now with the whole council stuff?

Yeah, there's a lot of stuff there. So like, I'm looking at more like current day rivalries over the past five, ten years. Lakers-Warriors, Sixers-Celtics, those have been big ones over the past decade, half decade. Chiefs-Bangles is a budding one, even Chiefs-Bills, that's been also one-sided, but it's been like four or five great games. Chiefs-Bangles is actually an excellent one.

That's building up. I would actually move Ravens-Stealers off my list right now to put Chiefs-Bangles there, just because of what it can continue to be with Mahomes and Burrow being the two best quarterbacks in the NFL right now. Yeah, and then, you know, I also put like Eagles-49ers because there's been a lot.

Yeah, that's good. But that's been like two or three years. I need to see a little bit more of that for it to really build up, but it's interesting to see the cycle of how some of these rivalries ebb and flow throughout. Like Auburn-Alabama, to me, outside of Ohio State-Michigan, is the biggest rivalry in sports, but it's just been so down because Bama's just dominated Auburn for so long since Cam left, basically, that we haven't really seen that really good Auburn team that can really help. This year was a great game, and Alabama still found the way to one on that. You think about the kick six. Crazy Mill Road play. The kick six, that was amazing. That was the last time that the game really mattered because Bama's just been dominating over Auburn for so long, but once that rivalry is good, when Alabama-Auburn, when it's always something you watch, that to me, outside of Michigan-Ohio State, is the best rivalry in sports.

Put it this way. There are three college football games that you always watch. Michigan-Ohio State, Auburn-Alabama, and then Army-Navy. Those are the three that, if you say Zach, you could only watch three college football games, going into a season without knowing anything about these teams, and without knowing where they're going to be standing-wise, it would be Michigan-Ohio State, Auburn-Alabama, and then Army-Navy.

Those would be the three. The only thing I'll say about Army-Navy, not to discredit the game at all, I watch for the pregame stuff, and then like midway through the first quarter, I turn off. Just because of the low scoring and the lack of passing. The game is fine, but for me, I tuned in to watch the pageantry. I watched the fans and the bands and the music and the flyovers and all the generals and all the patents. I love that stuff, but once the pregame is over, I'm done midway through the first or second quarter.

Maybe I'll tune back in towards the end. I'll also give you two that could potentially be great rivalries, and I know people will say, oh it already could be a rivalry for one of them, or for both of them actually, but I think more people are going to talk about these for the next five years. Kentucky-Arkansas, basketball, with the Coach Cal connection now.

Massive. And also, I went out of my way to watch any time these two teams played this past year, and they played three times, Providence-Georgetown basketball, with how slimy Ed Cooley was in that departure. I was, and how much I've fallen in love with Kim English, the way that those two programs are. I know Georgetown is not a good program, but I hope Cooley gets them back and then Providence kicks their ass every time they play them, just because of the way that Cooley left and how he was dishonest and he was disloyal. So that's like, I want to go, I don't think they call it the Dunkin' Donuts or whatever it is, whatever they call that. I don't think, I think they had a name change in the stadium. I was annoyed I didn't go this year. I would love to go see that game in Friartown next year, because that's not going anywhere. And that's absolutely awesome. Stu, what's your favorite rivalry?

Just wondering. It's probably the Laker Celtics. I know it doesn't have the luster that it did, you know, even 12 years ago. It was an iconic rivalry. It's just iconic. You know what one I really like in college football, and we'll see if it can stay that way with Saban retiring. I think Georgia, Alabama, when they do play, I think is just fascinating. And it's usually for a top four spot. And again, you have the college football playoffs expanding, so maybe it lessens there as well, where the loser won't be kicked out of the playoffs.

But I think that's always a very good game. Where are you at Chiefs Raiders? Just wondering. It's the same thing. It's like they've kicked their ass for the past 10 years. Hey, you guys got a victory this year on Christmas, right? I understand. Yes, they did.

But it's still very one-sided to call it a rivalry. Now I know what my Jets friends feel like. Your Jets?

Interesting. No, my Jets friends feel like when they call the Ryan Fitzpatrick overtime game, where he threw the ball to, was it Eric Decker? I think it was. That was like the last time they beat us up until this past year, the Belichick last game. And I go, wow, that's so, I think that game was like 2015 or something like that. So now I know the other way of that. So it is the Zach Gelb show on the infinity sports network. What is your favorite sports rivalry?

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Bang! He's sensational, but ESPN really dropped the ball getting rid of Jeff Van Gundy and Mark Jackson. And don't get me wrong, I didn't like slobber like everybody else over that trio, but it was a very, very good broadcasting trio and there was no need to change it.

So I guess financially, because of the cuts around ESPN, they make those changes. Breen stays, Van Gundy leaves, Jackson leaves. They're originally supposed to have Doc Rivers there with Doris Burke and Mike Breen.

But then, you know, Doc Rivers takes the Bucks job. But listening to J.J. Riddick and Doris Burke, it's like, they know they have to talk on this broadcast, right? Like, there's sometimes where the color analyst, like Tony Romo, talks too much.

He doesn't let the game breathe. But there were times where Mike Breen would be talking, I would see, right, in the Kaz Magic game, I think that was the game I was watching, yeah, it makes sense, where they would go down one court, back the other end, and then one of them would finally say something. And you could tell, like, Breen, who I love, is great. He's like begging for them to talk at times.

So Doris Burke is fine, right? Like J.J. Riddick, I don't like J.J. Riddick, but I understand what he's done in the podcasting world. But that doesn't feel like a number one booth. Breen gives you the big time feel. He passes the big time bar. But Doris Burke and J.J. Riddick?

No. And we don't even know long term what's going to be that plan because J.J. Riddick takes the Hornets or the Lakers job. I don't think they're just going to have Mike Breen and Doris Burke. So I have realized that in the postseason when you see that trio together and it's only going to be amplified more and more throughout. So we're talking about sports rivalries. Some others that I'll mention, Cowboys versus everybody. That's a rivalry.

Everyone against the Cowboys. Also, we were talking college football and we went through the three where we talked about Michigan, Ohio State, the Iron Bowl with Alabama and Auburn, and then Army Navy. Red River is always a classic between Oklahoma and Texas. And Stu, to your point, yes, all time Celtics and Lakers is a great rivalry. I think the rivalry is now in the NBA is tough. It doesn't seem like any of these players and these teams actually hate one another. That's why when you had the Warriors and the Grizzlies two years ago get into it. That was fun because it was it was different.

It felt unique now. But it seems like everyone's buddy buddy now in these series. And I don't have an issue with them being and Brunson right like dapping it up after the game. But you know, it was it got to a point where it was like, Okay, that was a rivalry that seemed like there was hatred in it this year. And then when the game ends, I get it I series over you respect the opponent.

I thought the embrace was a little bit too long between Embiid and Brunson, especially how dirty Embiid was playing in that series. Let's go to Robert in Tucson, Arizona. He wants to talk a little bit about rivalries 855 212 4227. He's next up on the Zach Gelb show. Robert, what's happening?

Hey, how are you? Yeah, Miami, Florida State is the best rivalry in college football. There's you know, you have 1520 years in the 80s 90s early 2000s, where that's a top five matchup. And that's going to have national championship implications every single year. Michigan, Ohio State needs to play for another 40 years before they have that many significant games in the rivalry. Now, Robert, Robert, we said current rivalries, like Miami, Florida State right now. It may be a rivalry if you're a fan of Miami and Florida State like I get that but nationally that doesn't resonate like it once did because both those teams like they well now Florida State but Miami has been able to get back and Florida State just finally started to get back the last two years under Nervell. I put that on NIL and conference jumping more than anything else, which is their own fault.

But I mean, they did it. Yeah, but what's the conference jumping point here? Well, they lost the competition they lost they lost in the big use Miami had a guaranteed conference championship every single year.

Yeah. And then players that draw for players, they're going to be a big bowl game every year. Then they chase money out of conference and they became an average team and they lost their identity as a loud brass program under a democrat hack like Shillelagh trying to polish up the program.

Yeah, but but here's here's the other thing too. NIL has helped Florida State they've dominated the transfer portal and thanks for the phone call. And Miami, their quarterback this year is through the transfer portal now and Cam Ward.

So I, you know, not fully disagreeing with the caller, Robert. But as I said, current rivalries, and Miami, Florida State, huge rivalry. But currently, it's not one of the better rivalries in college football, because Miami has been resting on their past and up until this year, you know, Florida State was pretty much resting on their past. And I love Norvell like what Norvell's done last two years has been phenomenal. But I can't say that that's better right now than just for starters, Michigan, Ohio State. You know, even like Oklahoma, Texas always deliver that game always has juice.

So that's where we'll disagree. All right, let's get to a little onside offside Stu. Zach's taking on the most polarizing issues in sports. Which side of the line of scrimmage will he end up on? Offside, defense number 69. It's onsides offsides with Zach Gelb.

Alrighty, Sam, so what do we got? So the Falcons, as we know, surprised many by taking Michael Penix Jr. 8th, despite their offseason signing of Kirk Cousins. Now, it was revealed that Cousins left the Vikings, in part because they told him they were planning on drafting a quarterback in the first round. Onside offside. Now, obviously, you can't go back, but Cousins would have been better off staying in Minnesota. It's a great question.

I'm going to say offside. And here's why. He has a better chance to make the playoffs this year in Atlanta in that below average NFC South than he would have this year in the NFC North, which from top to bottom is turning into a heck of a division. So that's why, even though there's an expiration date now in Atlanta, it was going to be both in the same place where he was not going to be their long term guy.

Within a year or two, he was going to get replaced. So Atlanta right now, I think it's an easier road to get to the playoffs. So Cousins would have been better off staying in Minnesota.

I would go offside. Future Hall of Famer Aaron Donald announced his retirement this offseason, but Rams GM Les Snead told the Rich Eisen Show he might try to get Donald back for a playoff run. I did mention to Aaron that, going back to our Super Bowl run, that there was a player by the name of Eric Weddle who kind of jumped in the playoffs and we signed him to the practice squad. And we standard elevated him for four straight games to a Super Bowl championship.

So I did mention if we happen to get to the playoffs again, maybe we'll circle back and see if the cup's not quite filled. By the way, Eric Weddle, he once told this to me. When he was in LA and he was back with the Rams after every game that they won, he would go right to the supermarket after the game and he would fill his shopping cart up with ice cream and toppings.

And he would have a big Sunday party with his kids at his house. And he had a big victory ice cream bowl. Like I'm talking about a disgustingly awesome amount of ice cream with all the toppings. I'm a sucker for ice cream. So that's whatever I now think about with Eric Weddle.

Sounds like the munchies. Now, onside, offside. Let's get to the question. Aaron Donald should return if the Rams have a legit shot at a title this season.

I'm going to say onsides. He should return, but it is annoying. And I experienced this with my guy Tom Brady as well. It's like you retire and then you can't even enjoy retirement before you or others already speculate about a potential return. Now, I understand sometimes you retire, then you have a change of heart. But I hate the immediate speculation like we're doing right now about someone that just retired. And then all of a sudden it's, okay, maybe they're in a playoff run. We'll give him a call and bring him back. But if I was Donald, yeah.

I don't think there's anything to lose. He's pretty much had a perfect career. He's made the Pro Bowl like every year.

And I think he made the All-Pro first team All-Pro every year, but one year. So you go add a second championship. He doesn't need that, but you just further move up and up and up on the all-time great list when it comes to defensive players. So I'd have no problem if he comes back if he feels like they have a legit shot to win a title.

I just don't want to have that conversation now. Now, Klay Thompson's time in Golden State might be at an end, though Stephen Kerr and Steve Kerr both say they want him back. However, Shands reports that there's mutual interest between Klay and the now ousted Orlando Magic. So onside, offside, adding Klay to the Magic would make them a contender in the East next season.

Offside, I think Klay is a good locker room guy. He's too inconsistent for me as a player right now. And it's unfortunate the injuries have made his career not... He's still a great... He was a great player. We know that.

But his injuries have derailed the later part of his career. It depends what the number is. If you have to... Like, you probably got to overpay if you're the Magic to get him out of Golden State, even if Golden State is trying to get a team-friendly deal. I would not overpay for Klay Thompson with the shape of his knees. And I would go after...

I would go after a star. Klay's not a star anymore. Now, Magic, they should go after Paul George, someone like that. If you're going to go and get an older player with some injury pass rather than Klay Thompson, because that team is not that far away with Boncaro, with Franz Wagner and Jalen Suggs. So you asked me, Klay to the Magic make them a contender in the East next season. I would go offside.

Offside. Now, the Mavs tip off in the second round against the Thunder. And before the game, they gave coach Jason Kidd a contract extension in part to prevent him from leaving for the Lakers job, which apparently he's getting bandied around for. Now, in eight seasons as a head coach... He did the good old James Franklin. You throw your name in the mix of a job you know you're not going to get, just so you get your deal done with your current team.

It's brilliant. Now, in eight seasons as a head coach, Kidd is just 323 and 296. It's about a 52% win percentage. And he's made it past the first round three times in those eight seasons.

So onside, offsides. The Mavs can eventually win a title with Jason Kidd as their head coach. I have a love hate relationship with Jason Kidd. When I was growing up, Jason Kidd was by far and away my favorite basketball player. Wasn't even close.

I can't even think who was second. That's how much I like Jason Kidd. And his introduction was awesome. At six foot four from Cal.

And there'd be a pause, pause, pause. JASON KID! That was the introduction anytime they introduced him in New Jersey at Continental Airlines, Arena, the Izod Center, whatever they call that dump in the swamps of Jersey. So I love me some Jason Kidd. But then Jason Kidd became the reason why I started to dislike the NBA for a bit because he was with the Nets, barely did anything, won a power play, or was trying to win a power play with Billy King when his best coaching moment up to that point was when he bumped into a player on purpose and spilled water. That was like what I remember from him being the Nets head coach. And then he left and he got himself out and he got traded to the Bucks and got off to a good start with Giannis and then it blew up in his face. And now he's with the Mavs and he's having somewhat success. I think with Jason Kidd, his career as a player will be similar as a coach. What I mean by that is he'll go to a place, he'll do really well, and I know he ended up winning a championship with the Mavericks later on in his career, but I think there's always like an expiration date with Jason Kidd because his personality will rub others the wrong way. He has Luca so he could win a championship. He's been able to get Kyrie in a good headspace right now, but who knows how long that lasts. And I think there's always going to be that cloud hanging over that organization. How long will Luca stay? So I'm going to go offsides here, where if he wins a championship, Kidd may like these NBA and these hockey coaches, they got like six or seven jobs. It's crazy.

It may need to be somewhere else. So I'm going to go offside here. We'll do one last quick one. The Kentucky Derby was this weekend and 20 to one odd favorite horse, Mystic Dan took home the crown. And I won me some money. Thank you, Eddie, old check. There you go.

20 to one. Winner winner, chicken dinner. Now, I mean, like, did you put down enough that you're paying off the mortgage and buying a new car? I want 300 bucks.

I'm not paying off any mortgage, but that's like an electric bill. You go off for dinner twice in the city. That pays for two dinners. Beautiful.

That's two nice dinners right there. You got to pay for other people. That's a good point. Now, trainer Kenny McPete refused to commit Mystic Dan to the Preakness in two weeks, citing the fast turnaround, thus potentially giving up a chance at a triple crown. Onside, offside horses who win the Kentucky Derby should be forced to race in the Preakness as long as they're healthy. I know I'm going to get slammed for this because then people are going to be like, what about the animals? We're going to report you to PETA. If the horse is healthy.

Yeah. I that's the only way you really care about horse racing. If if a triple crown is involved or if you just have money off the race, most of us that watch horse racing don't actually know horse racing. Watch it three times out of the year for the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness and then the Belmont. So as long as the horse is healthy, we emphasize that for everyone that wants to report me to PETA. I think the horse, once he wins the Kentucky Derby, as long as he's healthy, should be forced to race in the Preakness.

So I will go onside because you said horses who win the Kentucky Derby should be forced to race in the Preakness as long as they're healthy. So thank you to Mystic Dan. And what a photo finish that was.

Larry Calmes is excellent calling a horse racing. He didn't even have a clue who won. And I was sitting there. I was like, I think I got Mystic Dan.

I think that was him. And it was with nothing of certainty other than I just had money on Mystic Dan. And it's one of those bets where I was like, I put 15 down, should have threw more down if I knew I was going to win.

I don't know. Stu, you should have thrown $1,000 each, right? Would have been a nice win.

Yeah, of course. That would have been a great bet. If we would have put as a show $1,000 down each, that would have been...

So actually include Ack on that too. So if we threw $4,000 down, and I'm not great at math, so I will pull out my calculator. It'd be $8,000. Yeah, $8,000. That'd be pretty damn good. Look at Ack, mental math.

You went to NYU though, right? 20 to one, $4,000. Please. Three plus three, I'll tell you it's 13. Well, hold on a second. Actually read $40,000. Yeah, it's $40,000.

Am I doing the math wrong? $4,000, 20 to one, that should be $80,000. $80,000?

What did Ack say? Ack said $8,000? I heard $8,000. $80,000. Sorry.

Sorry. I saw $80,000 on my screen. I have the calculator here.

I know people can't see it, but I'm not kidding. And Ack just was in, I heard like eight and then the thousands, I thought Ack just said $80,000. Yeah, so it would be $80,000.

That's not bad. That's a couple more dinners there. That would have been great. I could like pick two people up in the newsroom and be like, all right, these are these two people's salaries for the year.

That'd be awesome. We'd make a lot of money. We'd be going to Peter Luger's every day of the week.

For a couple of weeks. No one can drink alcohol. We got to save the money here. We'd fly up to Vegas and eat at Piero's twice a week.

Oh, that'd be good. If you're going to Vegas, you could eat at Peter Luger's in Vegas. Yeah, but Sampthor and I were in Vegas.

We had maybe one of the best meals we've ever had, Piero's. I don't know. I feel like that's sacrilegious to go to Las Vegas and get Peter. Well, if you're there, it's sort of like you're being loyal to the New York Peter Lugers. I guess.

I don't know. I'll go other places in Vegas and I'll keep my Peter Luger love only in Brooklyn. All right. Well, that's okay. I'll go by myself. More steak for me.

And trust me, if you're going with me, there won't be a lot of steak for you. All right. We'll come on back. We'll wrap up shop on the other side. Let's get the latest update in with the Akbar and Rich Ackerman.

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Guaranteed low prices and excellent customer service from the professional parts people at O'Reilly Auto Parts. From what I've seen so far, I did not watch the entirety of it, but the roast of Tom Brady on Netflix exceeded expectations. I was not a fan of the roast initially because it's like, all right, you know, Brady just retired a little while ago.

We just had the Brady last man, whatever, in the arena or the man in the arena, whatever it was. And that whole documentary. Then you had the Apple docu series as a complete hit job on Bill Belichick. It's like too much Patriot content for me, legends getting together.

But from all the clips I saw, it was pretty damn good. Here is Tom Brady roasting the Jets front office. Blazer, Schultz, Hinchcliffe, two racist bears. Who picked this line up, the New York Jets front office? The Jets always catch charades.

Let's go to Drew Bletza. He roasts Tom Brady last night. Buddy, you know, you have more rings than I do, but I've experienced a couple of things that you will never experience. The feeling of being the number one overall draft pick in the NFL and a 28th wedding anniversary.

It was yesterday. That's pretty good. That and there was a lot of Giselle jokes last night. There was a lot of low hanging fruit, which is L bunching with the, what, the karate instructor or whatever that she's dating now. I think Kevin Hart was like, Tom, how dumb are you? Like you're such a cerebral quarterback. Your wife's doing eight. I think the line was your wife's doing like eight lessons a day and she stole a white belt.

Like how did you not realize that? So I thought that was some of the good, I thought the Edelman line here, we'll play it for you again. Roasting Bill Belichick. You could tell a lot of pent up frustration throughout the years was unleashed last night from Edelman to Belichick. You remember when you used to yell at us? Look, kids down at Foxborough high can make that play.

I've been waiting for this for so long. Look, Foxborough high is the only job offer you had. Do your job more like need a job coach. And you could tell how excited Edelman was for that. Cause the way he said, do your job, like there's sometimes you get so excited about thinking about landing and just nailing a line that you have like a little slip of the tongue. But that was awesome from Julian Edelman. What made it even better was the Belichick smile that he gave because he was just belly laughing last night.

Here is Mr. Mumbles himself, Bill Belichick, roasting Rob Gronkowski last night. Gronk, I've been watching you on Fox NFL Sunday and I'm begging you, please stop doing your job. Do another job.

Do somebody else's job. That's good. Goodbye, Belichick. And finally, Jeff Ross, he roasted Robert Kraft.

And I thought this was like nothing. And then Brady got up and he was a little, keep my, uh, owner's name out your bleeping mouth a little bit. So we'll, we'll debate if this was actually legit or not, but here's Jeff Ross. Tom became a Patriot, moved up to New England. And on the first day of training camp, that scrawny rookie famously walked into the owner, Robert Kraft's office and said, I'm the best decision your organization has ever made.

Would you like a massage? I love Robert Kraft. Okay.

Okay. So Brady said, don't say that bleep again. What's the verdict? Do you think Brady was serious there or do you think Brady was just kind of playing around? No, I think he was serious. There was another point where Gronk was joking about various different kinds of sensual massages and Belichick kept saying things like, stop saying the whistle. I think honestly that Brady told all the comedians and all the players, nothing is off limits, except for Robert Kraft massage jokes. I think that was the one thing that was all the limits. I think that's so lame.

I think so. I mean, they were making Aaron Hernandez jokes all night long. Well, that was the most shocking because Hernandez, Gronk once left an interview or threatened to leave an interview when they brought up Hernandez. Now I have no problem making a joke at the expense of Aaron Hernandez.

The guy is a vile piece of, you know what? And you know, he was maybe looking up last night and hear him, what was being said about him, but like, I was not expecting them to make jokes about Aaron Hernandez, but the massage stuff, fair game, like definitely something that I thought the Giselle Bunch and stuff, Kim Kardashian showing up. And then Brady's like, yeah, Kim was afraid to come in tonight. Not about the jokes, but there's just Kanye had to watch the kids.

Like that's a good line. There was even a 9-11 joke in there, which I am never a fan of 9-11 jokes, but the one that they said last night about the two jets crashing into Bledsoe was actually kind of funny as the most tragic thing to happen in that September. But man, the Hernandez was the most shocking. And there was a lot of those jokes, but the one that got Brady up was like, yeah, no pun intended there. No massage jokes for Robert Kraft.

Don't make those jokes. Alrighty. Big thanks to Michael Grady. Big thanks to each and every one of you.

We'll talk with you on everybody. We out. Bye-bye.

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