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Willard and Dibs join Guru and Evan (in for Steiny) on a Wednesday edition of the Crossover.
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00:00All right, Matt Steinmetz out today.
00:01Evan Giddings in with Daryl, the guru Johnson, Mark Willard, Dan Dibley.
00:04Time for the crossover brought to you by Bay Alarm.
00:07Rest easy.
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00:10The fellas.
00:11Yeah, what's going on, guys?
00:12Hey, boys.
00:13What's going on?
00:13Oh, boy.
00:16That's an E on somebody.
00:18I need security.
00:20And speaking of the E, E said something earlier that I didn't take full umbrage with,
00:27but I thought that you kind of miscast it because you talked about the crossover and,
00:33you know, Stiney staying till 212 and how, honestly, he should leave as early as possible
00:40to give us room to set up our show and do our show.
00:43But the reality is the crossover with Grandy, with you, Stiney, whoever it is, it's the biggest
00:50thing we do on the station.
00:52So, in fact, the most selfless thing that all of us could do would be to stick and
00:57stay and help the entire station in totality.
01:02You are correct, but my point was not that it was bad.
01:05My point was, for how smart of a person Matt Stine-Metz is, I'm shocked he hasn't used that
01:11excuse yet to try and get out of the crossover.
01:14Right.
01:14That's what I said.
01:15What's the excuse?
01:16That he's trying to give you guys more time because he wants you to have the full allotment
01:21of your show.
01:22Yeah.
01:22It wouldn't work, though.
01:23And that's what I said.
01:25We would scoff at such a concept.
01:28Which is what I said.
01:29There you go.
01:29Right.
01:30It would be a little bit like Steph Curry saying, you know what, guys, I'm only going to shoot
01:33the ball 13 times tonight because I want to make sure that LJ Cryer, joining us in about
01:38an hour, I want to make sure that you get your shots.
01:40And I want to make sure that all the rest of you guys, Charles Bassey, I want to make
01:44sure that you get yours, even though Steph shooting and Stiney staying is great for business.
01:50Well, I know you're trying to be modest about this, but I would never compare you to Charles
01:54Bassey.
01:55You know, but if if I was trying to get 13 shots to give it to Durant and Clay, you
02:00know, I mean, it's a little bit of a different situation.
02:02I mean, Guru, I've always said this and he tries to rebut it, but he's the curry of the station.
02:08And there's no doubt.
02:09And the evidence came Monday.
02:12So let me see the endorsement list and then we'll see if I'm curry.
02:15How about that?
02:16I mean, that's how I look at that.
02:18I'm sorry about that.
02:19I'm Allen Iverson.
02:20I'm getting my 20 shot attempts at night.
02:22Baby Shaq.
02:23Baby Shaq.
02:23But we're doing the show at Sobrado, Evan.
02:25And I don't know if you were looking at the YouTube number, but Mark and I are doing
02:28our thing and we got a good number on YouTube.
02:31And Willard is promoting the fact that you're about to take the first tee at 250.
02:36And by the time you take the tee, the YouTube number went like, shout out to the Pixar movie.
02:44It went up.
02:45He's not exaggerating.
02:46Evan, I didn't even know.
02:47It went up 30%.
02:49I guess it's more about 50.
02:51By the time that you got up there and your untouched shirt, dude, it was, that thing exploded.
02:57I had no idea.
02:58It was a 50% increase.
03:00And then you hit.
03:01And then you hit.
03:02And then you hit.
03:02And then you hit.
03:02And then you hit.
03:02And then boom.
03:03Yeah.
03:04Oh, man.
03:04People like car accidents.
03:05So, you know, rubbernecking.
03:07That's true.
03:07I mean, not all car accidents are the same, although Matt Miller's car accident footage
03:12has been released.
03:13Willard was safe in his.
03:14Yeah.
03:14Knock on wood.
03:15Yeah.
03:15Wow, dibs.
03:17Yeah.
03:18Well, I need security today.
03:19Yeah.
03:20Why?
03:20We want to talk about Dunleavy's smile that makes me think Ron's coming.
03:25I love this conversation.
03:26I just, something was up there.
03:28But real quick, quarterback list.
03:30Guys in the morning did it.
03:31I had Purdy at six and I think I need security until Evan, he has his own dropper going with
03:37his list.
03:38But Brock at six is fair to me.
03:41With, I don't, with everything he's done, I think six is, I'll stand on it.
03:46And where'd you have me?
03:47He was not in my top 10.
03:49Oh my God.
03:50Well, I mean, this is.
03:52Not in your top 10?
03:53No, because I, I typically have Jared Goff and Brock Purdy in the same place.
03:57And I, Jared Goff is not a top 10 quarterback to me.
04:00So again, people come down a road for different things.
04:02It's a subjective list.
04:03It is.
04:04He was going off of what he's done in his career.
04:06Yes.
04:07I'm just looking at going into next season, who are the top 10 guys?
04:11And I didn't, I didn't have Purdy in my top 10.
04:12I don't know.
04:13How do you guys react to that?
04:15Two reactions for me.
04:16One is the whole like QB ranking thing for me is kind of misguided.
04:22My whole thing is like the QB coach or play caller combo.
04:27That to me is more, it's more impactful.
04:29So like Brock Purdy in a vacuum.
04:31Yeah.
04:32He might be, I don't know, nine, 10, 11, 12, wherever, but Purdy and Shanahan, what Shanahan
04:38asks him to do and what he's able to do.
04:40That to me elevates him to a spot that we don't normally see from, you know, the average
04:46quarterback.
04:47And I think about Trevor Lawrence, where Trevor Lawrence went from, wow, you flashed as a
04:52rookie.
04:52And then, oh my goodness, you're not very good.
04:55And then you go from there.
04:56Like now you have an actual play caller and you're good again.
04:59So I do think a lot of it is situational and that's kind of the way I look at it
05:04anyway.
05:04I'm not mad.
05:05And I wonder why ESPN didn't do the combos.
05:08Well, because they want to stir a conversation, but you know, it's like, damn it.
05:13Yeah.
05:14Go ahead.
05:15Not out, Argentina.
05:17Yeah.
05:18Knocking on the door.
05:20Not done.
05:21But this is what they do.
05:22Yeah.
05:22This is what they do.
05:23Oh, it's not done.
05:25No, it's not done.
05:25Well, it's done.
05:26No, it's not done.
05:27No, they got, wow, damn.
05:28Yeah.
05:29Admit it.
05:29That's okay.
05:30All right.
05:30Go outside.
05:31Let me just ask one question out of nowhere.
05:33Sure.
05:34How do you feel about pineapple on pizza?
05:36It is the worst conception.
05:38Oh, I love it.
05:38Except ketchup on eggs.
05:40Those are my top two worst concoctions.
05:42That's also not bad.
05:43I sort of feel the same way.
05:44Pineapple on meat?
05:45Sweet and savory?
05:46I feel toppings on pizza is no different than where you put Brock Purdy on your quarterback
05:50list.
05:51That's a great pivot right there.
05:52Do you?
05:53That's a nine.
05:53All right.
05:54Do you?
05:54It's your list.
05:55I can tell you, I can tell you, if I'm buying pizza tomorrow, you get to tell us what's
06:02on half of the pizza.
06:04There will not be pineapple on the full pizza.
06:06And that's fine.
06:07You guys got a pizza bit.
06:09Yeah.
06:09Yeah.
06:10Yeah.
06:10Yes.
06:11And he just went from underdog to famous in a hurry.
06:14Right.
06:14He just came in the room.
06:15You hate to see it.
06:16You do hate to see it.
06:17I don't mind.
06:18We didn't, it was not a stipulation sensation.
06:21Unlike when I made the famous foot rub bet with Loneo.
06:25I'll never forget it.
06:26Yeah.
06:27I will never forget it either because I think that it was the Giants.
06:31I don't even know what team it was, but they had to make the playoffs and it came down to
06:35the last week.
06:36And if my team, I think it was Washington or the Giants.
06:39If they made the playoffs, I got a thousand bucks.
06:42But if they didn't make the playoffs, I had to rub his feet for 10 minutes.
06:45That's a good bet.
06:46But, but part of the bet was I got choice of lotion.
06:49And so you get down to that last choice.
06:52I don't know where that is.
06:54What the hell does that do?
06:55I wanted a whole lotion advantage.
06:57I wanted a lotion that I could work with.
06:59And so we get down to the last week and my team's up like 16 to 11 or some cockamamie
07:05score.
07:06And then they, you know, a pick six or whatever.
07:08And I lose.
07:09And so next thing you know, old smiling low kneel and those old catchers mitts are out
07:14and about and your boy, because I, I had the forethought to choose lotion and our pizza
07:21bed to bring it all the way back home.
07:23I didn't stipulate yesterday when we talked about it in the show thread, like, oh no, I
07:27get all the toppings.
07:28And so if you want to half and half it, whatever we can do your favorite pizza, which is salami
07:34and olive, you put in what you want on it and then we'll take it from there.
07:41But there's also, there's also time on the clock.
07:43There is.
07:44I'm not trying to victory lap it yet.
07:45Although when England scored their first goal, he did go full, like loop.
07:50I was with him.
07:52I did the same thing.
07:52That's the same thing I did when Guru got knocked out at the, uh, that is the same
07:56dance.
07:56That's the same dance.
07:57That's the same dance.
07:57I think that's why I closed the door.
07:59Yeah, you did.
07:59Yeah, I didn't like that.
08:01I'm like, why is he so happy?
08:03You're not Jason Terry.
08:04You can't be doing that.
08:05You weren't the only one.
08:06I got yelled at by the boss because he's on a Zoom meeting.
08:09Oh, there he was.
08:09Yeah, apparently you're not supposed to run around a corporate office screaming like a crazy
08:13person.
08:14I didn't know that.
08:15I'm on a Zoom.
08:16Yeah.
08:17Oh, yeah.
08:17Anyway.
08:18That's pretty good.
08:18I got the Zoomies.
08:19But the Dunleavy smile, I just, I didn't see anything in Wiggins' eyes, but I saw those
08:24teeth like, he might know something.
08:27I have no idea.
08:28I mean, I think that he is, I don't want to say that he's awkward, but I do think that
08:33he is, when he gets out of that front facing thing, I don't think he's really thinking about
08:38poker face.
08:39He's just trying to answer questions and whether or not he knows something or not.
08:44One thing you guys had earlier, a couple of great calls today.
08:47One of them about the golf acronym, and I'm in my car screaming, like, who's screaming
08:54back there?
08:54This guy's got to go.
08:55Oh, okay.
08:56And then the other one was somebody who was talking about the documentary.
08:59And I do think that's an interesting subtext.
09:03It was Mark and Orinda, I think.
09:05And I was in Orinda at the time, but I was thinking that's an interesting subtext.
09:09Like, maybe that's what's holding this whole thing up is the idea of wherever I go, we
09:14need to do a doc.
09:15So, like, your people and my people, we all need to sit down and figure out, like, how
09:21the proceeds will get divvied up and how we're going to do the doc part of this.
09:25I don't know.
09:25It's insulting to LeBron.
09:28To me, if you're right or allude to that, that he's done with winning and he's ready
09:33about, he's worried about the doc, when he can go to a couple cities here and be in
09:38the mist or top four or five team in the conference.
09:41It's not insulting if he's the one who is dictating it.
09:44And I already have a title for what the doc would be.
09:48It's the last prince.
09:50Not really.
09:51I'm going to give him one.
09:52I'll give you a two.
09:53I'll give you a two.
09:54Grandy?
09:54You were doing well.
09:56Yeah, that was great.
09:58One, two, two.
09:58Maybe if you went to Milwaukee, that would be something.
10:00It's the last prince.
10:02That might be your worst.
10:05If that, whatever, Argentina, a couple minutes away.
10:09If that is his Kelly Rowland, his motivation, then that's what this is.
10:13Like, if you're more concerned about who can I documentize this as opposed to, like,
10:19who can I win with, then that's on him.
10:21So here's the thing, though.
10:22If you're a Golden State Warrior fan and in any way, shape, or form, you backed Kevin
10:28Durant to the Warriors, to me.
10:30And I hated it.
10:31Okay, but I didn't mind it at all, obviously.
10:36Then you have to raise your hand and forevermore say, I'm not coming down people's roads for
10:41wherever they want to go.
10:42The word in front of agent is free.
10:45And whatever the hell is driving this bus is driving this bus.
10:50It's going to have to park sometime.
10:51And he gets to do what, my God, if anyone in the history of sports has earned the right
10:56to do whatever the hell they want to do, it's LeBron James.
11:00So if it's winning a championship or if it's that he wants to play Harding Park, I don't,
11:07like, great, great, dude, do you?
11:10It's what this whole city's about, isn't it?
11:12It's what the whole process is also about, right?
11:14And, you know, you have that free agency.
11:16And I think about it in terms of the Giants right now where we're now 19 days from the
11:21deadline.
11:22And trade Chapman, trade Adamas.
11:25Well, you're going to have to ask them hat in hand if they're okay with it.
11:30And so that becomes something in baseball where they have the right to say, nah, I want to
11:36stay here.
11:36A little interesting.
11:38Sometimes this stuff, like, there's a preemptive deal.
11:40Luis Sarai did it a little bit by coming out publicly and saying, if they trade me anywhere,
11:45it better be somewhere where I can play second base.
11:49Matt Chapman and Willie Adamas, neither one of them nor their agents have come out and
11:53said, we're not going anywhere, which they could do.
11:56And they've not done that.
11:57And Scott Boris was asked directly last week about Matt Chapman.
12:01And all he said was, it hasn't come up yet, which is probably not true.
12:07Well, yet, I mean.
12:09But he didn't say, he's not going anywhere.
12:12So maybe they would have proved something.
12:14In 48 of their next 66 games, against teams 500 or below.
12:19Man.
12:19How many do they need to win for you to get your 90?
12:22That's over.
12:23All of them.
12:24The math is there.
12:25All 48 and then one more.
12:28Stop.
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12:37Yeah, I think, I don't know, what was kind of hitting me today is I'm just wondering,
12:41you know, is it because LeBron's decision that he's taken such a long time because he's
12:46got to figure out, I don't know, whether it is camera crews or percentages or where he's
12:51going to build the best story or is it because unlike every other time he's been available,
12:57whether it's by a free agency or in a trade, that teams are not moving mountains to get
13:05him.
13:05I mean, he's, Guru brought up this idea of, you know, you're rushing to Foot Locker to
13:09get the newest Jordans.
13:11And my point was, yeah, because they're 50% off.
13:14Like, you're not having to spend the full amount of money to go get LeBron at this point.
13:19Not a ton of teams, while they're building some space, if money is not really an issue
13:23because of this documentary, well, then pretty much every team should be in line and yet there
13:28are only a few that are.
13:30So, is Miami really making moves for LeBron?
13:33Are they just wondering, okay, come on down and if not, we're going to run with Giannis
13:36and the boys and we'll be good.
13:38Philly, same thing.
13:38Jalen Brown's their big catch.
13:40LeBron James would bring a good player to the team.
13:44But there's a few teams out there that I'm sure would look at LeBron and say, well, like,
13:48are you really the key to a championship for us anymore?
13:51That's why I think the Warriors are still very much in it because I don't think that
13:55basketball is the only thing that matters here.
13:57Yeah.
13:57And I think that that the color kind of struck that in my own mind of, okay, money's not the
14:03thing.
14:03So every team that is rumored to be in the mix, none of them are going to pay him.
14:07And I think you threw out like 40 million or whatever.
14:09And you also had a good point of a guy making 50 whatever million going down to three.
14:15Like, has that ever happened before voluntarily?
14:17I don't, I was trying to think of an example and maybe I couldn't recall one, but if his
14:22goals are in no particular order, play with friends and have fun, compete for something
14:29or have this documentary, if those are his three goals, well, maybe the documentary becomes
14:35one where you go to Cleveland and like Miami, I can't imagine Pat Riley saying, yeah, yeah,
14:41put me on camera.
14:42I mean, so that's a no.
14:44And Cleveland, like, no, we're, we're focused on winning.
14:47We're not interested in your theatrics, but Golden State, maybe it's, you know, Draymond
14:52on his way to a media career.
14:54Steph Curry, he just won the award for humanitarian of the year, Muhammad Ali and Steve Kerr and
15:00Lakob are probably like, yeah, I mean, we wouldn't mind.
15:03Hey, what about this?
15:04I find this kind of weird and maybe it's just because it is taking so long and therefore
15:09as people get, whether it's bored or anxious or whatever it may be on the whole thing,
15:15the more Shams comes out every day and says the Warriors have fallen to the back of the
15:20the pack, people who might be a little bit more forward in knowing a thing or two seem
15:26to be predicting the Warriors.
15:28And that's where I'm at.
15:30Dylan Brooks said today, I think he's going to the Warriors.
15:34The markets are going up on the Warriors.
15:38Something's eating at me, Will.
15:40What it's worth, Cowherd did a whole thing today about it's down to two.
15:44It's Cleveland and the Warriors.
15:46And then he predicted the Warriors.
15:49So I thought Shams was in the know, but when he's speaking, it's moving markets in the
15:54other direction.
15:56And Wendy's been quiet.
15:57I ain't heard Wendy in a couple of days, but there was a report just up there from Shams
16:02that the Sixers, Brown, Embiid and Maxie pitched LeBron.
16:08Well, I think Max is also a clutch agent.
16:09Did you guys make anything about Curry in New York today?
16:15He's on Good Morning America.
16:17And LeBron's going to be there tomorrow to do a podcast live from the Fanatics event.
16:24Anything kind of lining up there?
16:26Any tea leaves we're reading into?
16:28I mean, no.
16:30I mean, sure.
16:31We're reading into everything by now.
16:33He went to Puerto Rico with Draymond for whatever, three or four days.
16:37And so they're on a trip with Kevin Hart, right?
16:40Yep.
16:40Currently.
16:41Yeah.
16:41I just, the more I think about it, and I guess it's the caller, maybe it's Mark and
16:45Orinda, I'm trying to remember, but the whole idea of a documentary, if LeBron James is looking
16:50to, I don't know, play for three million and he doesn't want to play for three million.
16:55But if you could come up with this doc for the last prance, hashtag trademarked, and
17:01maybe you can make 35 million from that, then all of a sudden making three million is not
17:05a big deal.
17:07Yeah.
17:07I think the whole point of the documentary is, it might be crazy, but it's trying to do
17:12the last dance.
17:13Like he's, he's trying to have a better documentary, but he wants it to be a better documentary.
17:17I don't know how, why, or, or where he's going to get this done.
17:20But I just think that in LeBron's mind, there's only one other person that in his basketball
17:26sanctuary can be in the same room.
17:30And that's Mike.
17:31And he knows he's not going to get six.
17:33He knows there might be people that are never going to give him the mantle of best of all
17:38time.
17:39And so where can he compete now?
17:42Maybe it's off the court.
17:43It's not necessarily, not necessarily banking everything on the documentary, but you can put
17:47the documentary out.
17:48One day you can become a more successful owner potentially than Michael Jordan, which
17:52is something that he was not very good at.
17:54You know, like there's different ways that he in his own mind, I think can validate his
17:57status as the best person, best basketball player of all time.
18:00What if the documentary has already started?
18:02And no doubt about it.
18:04And I believe it has.
18:04Right.
18:05Like Puerto Rico footage with Draymond.
18:06I mean, all of this.
18:07And good morning America with Steph.
18:09I mean, like you don't need this for what you've already done and been and still are.
18:15There's a lot of Warriors stuff buzzing around him right now.
18:19And I'm.
18:20And again, we're all stuck to just like make something out of everything.
18:24Like here we are.
18:25We're doing an hour on Mike Dunleavy's teeth.
18:28Yeah.
18:29Do you know that?
18:29Do you know what I mean?
18:30I got you.
18:31I got you.
18:32And we weren't the only ones.
18:34I don't see him very often.
18:36You don't see him very often.
18:37I'm not taking a shot at you.
18:38I'm just like.
18:39He's grinning.
18:39That's what we're stuck to.
18:41If it goes into three and four weeks, it's like, wow.
18:44What about his ear?
18:45His ear was a little twitchy.
18:46I don't know.
18:47We were there.
18:48You're right.
18:48But there's a lot of Warrior stuff buzzing around him.
18:51All right.
18:51For sure.
18:52And all those voice notes or voice memos.
18:54Voice notes.
18:55Wow.
18:55Don't think that that won't be a part of it.
18:57You know.
18:58Hey, LeBron.
18:59It's Tyrese Maxey.
19:00Boy, I've always looked up to you.
19:01And I'd love to play basketball with you here in Philadelphia.
19:04Meet me at the Rocky Stairs tomorrow at nine.
19:07The Rocky Stairs.
19:08Whatever.
19:08There's the stuff that Shab says, though.
19:10Like, that's not news.
19:11I don't find that.
19:13Like, why is that?
19:14Hey, the Sixers are talking to him.
19:16No.
19:17Yeah.
19:18Duh.
19:19I mean, Draymond's in Puerto Rico with him.
19:22Like, they're all talking to each other.
19:24They're a very tight fraternity.
19:27All day.
19:28So.
19:28I wonder what portion of the trip that Draymond was waiting to give him his pitch.
19:34Like, in that cut.
19:36Yeah.
19:36It sounded like, well, you know, while I was there, I had to sneak it in.
19:40Yeah.
19:40I had to ask him.
19:41It's like, well, how long did you wait?
19:43Did you wait a day?
19:44Did you wait until the last conversation you guys had before you left to kind of just.
19:49Obviously, it's the team for us all, right?
19:52But, Dibs, I do.
19:53Willard, I'm in a crazy way.
19:55I want to know when.
19:56Will it be this week?
19:57Stiney feels like something's going to pop off this weekend.
19:59Evan kind of feels that.
20:00It feels like we're, it feels like, is he going to announce it?
20:04I don't think it's going to be a while.
20:05What if it's this podcast you're talking about?
20:07I think, I would take the over on this weekend.
20:10Someone said the World Cup final.
20:11That was my original.
20:13That's Sunday.
20:13And I saw something on Twitter about halftime where, you know, the halftime show is actually
20:18going to be LeBron, so they have to mention it.
20:21Right.
20:21Ladies and gentlemen, Shakira and LeBron.
20:25First of all, look at this from two ways.
20:27First of all, Fox is not involved in the NBA.
20:30Well, that part.
20:32And second of all, the soccer world would thumb their nose at the idea of letting LeBron
20:38overtake the biggest moment of their four-year window.
20:43Like, I don't think that there's anything to do with the cup.
20:47Just me.
20:47I wouldn't think it has anything to do with that.
20:49Yeah, it feels like we're on the final countdown, but.
20:52Shout out Europe.
20:53I don't know.
20:54Wants Monday to lead with a block.
20:56Bigger goat, LeBron or Messi.
20:57So you say over on this weekend.
21:00Yes.
21:00You think it's next week?
21:02Any time beyond this weekend, yeah.
21:04Okay.
21:04Yeah.
21:04I agree with that.
21:05I mean, right now we're already at.
21:07I just don't think it'll be tomorrow or Friday, essentially, is what we're doing.
21:09A couple of softer days, though.
21:11No baseball and no World Cup till the third place game.
21:14Shout out England and France in, you know, a battle for the ages.
21:19And somebody, as he did me on August 6th, which AD can then be traded.
21:24In my mind, I'm like, does that mean extended?
21:27Does that mean anything?
21:29Could that be the whole deal?
21:30Of course.
21:31I just can't help but think now that it's not about that, and it might be about, like,
21:37whoever's going to produce this doc is going around.
21:40Oh, my God.
21:40I'm so sick of this.
21:41But you could be.
21:42You guys could be right.
21:43It's fascinating.
21:44Like, if that really is something that LeBron wants to do, then you need to go to every
21:48team and say, who is, like, who's interested in this?
21:52And we know that Shanahan and stuff has never wanted to do hard knocks, and so they haven't.
21:56But, like, Steve Kerr has been through this.
21:59Would Steve want to do another one of these docs?
22:01I mean, if you guys are on to anything here, then, to me, the Warriors are a massive favorite.
22:06For the dog box.
22:08Yeah.
22:08If you want people to watch, then join Steph Curry.
22:13Philadelphia.
22:14Give me a break.
22:15A documentary with Tyrese Maxey?
22:18Cleveland?
22:18What if he's really thinking like that?
22:20No.
22:21It could be.
22:22It would give us an edge.
22:23Absolutely could be.
22:23The chef?
22:24Yeah.
22:25I mean, I don't think anybody doubts that if LeBron joins the Warriors, this becomes,
22:30like, the highest profile, supposed non-championship contender of my lifetime.
22:38Do they become Conor McGregor?
22:42Or Floyd Mayweather?
22:43They will be accused of it, sure.
22:45Well, but it seems like kind of the way things are going.
22:48There's a lot of high profile guys, exactly, that people want to see.
22:52I would love to see it.
22:52People may knock McGregor and knock Floyd.
22:55I think Pacquiao technically is still fighting, but he's obviously over a hill.
22:59Tyson's another one.
22:59Yeah, exactly.
23:00Tyson in some, like, punchy internet sensation.
23:04But I watched.
23:05Yeah, we sparred about, he doesn't think LeBron knows, and I'm like, I'm adamant, I just feel
23:11like he knows where he's, he's made his decision.
23:13I'm with you.
23:14I've thought there's no, we'll.
23:15I don't think there's any way he didn't know in February.
23:18That's just, but that's, that's how I see LeBron.
23:22Doesn't mean we're right, but that's how I, that's how I feel.
23:25I think he knows, but I also believe, you know, the more I think about what next year
23:29will be for LeBron, it's less of a, I want another ring and more of just an outright
23:35coronation.
23:36Remember when Kareem retired?
23:37I don't know if you do, Evan, you might not have been with us at that point, but he was
23:42the first one to do the, I'm retiring and he got the retirement tour and he kind of set
23:47the mold for, he got a motorcycle, he got a bunch of stuff.
23:50Let me throw this in there too.
23:51The more I've, I've learned about how we got here, this Lakers departure was not a surprise
23:57to anyone.
23:59At all.
23:59And there was bad blood.
24:01Not to him and not to them.
24:02Yes.
24:03I don't think either side was interested in another year.
24:06He played good soldiers.
24:08He was pissed off.
24:09I think they knew that months ago.
24:10I think so were they.
24:11He's been calculated.
24:12Not pissed off.
24:13I think they were exhausted.
24:16Lakers exhausted.
24:17Absolutely.
24:18But he was pissed off.
24:19Ready to move.
24:19Well, I think that's probably, chicken and the egg, that might be what pissed him off.
24:23Is that they signaled all year that they would like to move on and become Lucas team.
24:29That probably didn't go well for him.
24:30No doubt.
24:32And then he won him a playoff series without Lucas.
24:34Yeah.
24:34That probably furthered it.
24:37But anyway, so that's why I think he's known for a while.
24:39I don't think the Laker thing was news to anybody on the inside.
24:42I'll leave you guys with this, Evan.
24:45Well, you guys got LJ Fryer in 30 minutes or?
24:48About 45.
24:4945?
24:49Yeah.
24:493 o'clock.
24:503 o'clock.
24:50Yeah.
24:51Rob Parker, this is courtesy of, because he gave me the thought and Evan looked at it.
24:54What happened to the black catcher in Major League Baseball?
24:57Kind of extinct.
24:58If you just think about it, I'm about to get off the air.
25:00But the black catcher in Major League Baseball.
25:03I remember Charles Johnson.
25:05Well, that was Evan.
25:06The University of Miami.
25:07That's the one Ken brought up.
25:08I actually broadcast his games in the regionals.
25:10But after that, man, it's wild crickets.
25:13Like, it's just interesting.
25:14The only one I could recall was Bruce Maxwell, because he took a knee famously while he's
25:18a member of the Oakland Athletics.
25:20But yeah, there just honestly haven't been a ton.
25:22Drake Baldwin.
25:23Shout out to him.
25:23Hashtag random.
25:25Yeah, that was very random.
25:26Yeah.
25:27But, all right.
25:28Smooth transition.
25:30What do you want on your pizza?
25:32I mean, why were we doing it wrong?
25:33Well, what does Dibs want?
25:34He won.
25:35Yeah.
25:35Right.
25:36Apparently, I don't get what I want.
25:37No, you don't.
25:38You get it?
25:38How did they score two goals that fast?
25:40It feels like it's unfair.
25:42They kicked the whole match.
25:43It was 1-0.
25:45And then two.
25:46Three, two, two.
25:46Come in.
25:47Because they're good.
25:48Because they're good.
25:49Had you texted me an actual sentence, I would have given you the pick.
25:53That was Siri, the voice.
25:54I can share it on the other side.
25:56Don't do it, please.
25:57He reached out, apparently trying to get my pick for this match.
26:00It was Siri, the voice text this morning.
26:02Oh, Siri and I are in fighting.
26:03She doesn't know what the hell anybody's saying anymore.
26:06I'm going to change her voice, too.
26:06They got the man version.
26:07He sends me an invite for a Domino's game, which is what we do.
26:10Your wife as well.
26:11You want Domino's tomorrow?
26:12Is that what you want?
26:13Not really.
26:14I like Domino's, but so he sends me a Domino's match invite.
26:18And then the next message is, that's on the soccer match today.
26:23What's on the soccer match today?
26:25Yeah.
26:26My thoughts are Argentina.
26:28That's my thoughts.
26:29Those were already public thoughts.
26:31Right.
26:31Listen to the show.
26:34All that and more coming up next.
26:35LJ Cryer at 3 o'clock.
26:37I'm Willard Dibbs, 95.7 The Game.