Quick Hits: Denzel Ward buys stake in the Guardians + conspiracy theories

0:00Actually, bass dot coming up in about 40 minutes time Ross Tucker at four o'clock today as well as football is back and we are celebrating it all show long all week long. And yes, despite reservations, I have about to show and watch and I'm still very bullish on the Cleveland Browns. We got we don't have to talk about the pretty significant development in the AFC North that will certainly impact the Browns this year and for years to come coming up in about 20 minutes. But let's go ahead and get to a quick. It's from the latest news and rumors around the sports world to the sound bites you need to hear. It's quick hits Tom Pellicero reported on his sub stack the sweep with Tom Pellicero. The bills actually called the Browns about milescare at the day. The trade leaked that sent him to Los Angeles, but they lacked a Jared verse level player which stalled the deal immediately. So I want to get your honest opinion here. Jared verse a first, second and third or three bills first rounders, which would you

1:03rather have had? Uh, probably three first rounders. Even it's understanding that Jared versus probably worth a first rounder himself. So that would have been two firsts a second and a third. I would have prioritized the three first rounders. So it's tough because like the whole point of being versus worth more than a first, that's a different conversation. That's tough because I look at the first rounders differently. I think the bills are going to be a playoff team Super Bowl contender for the next three years. I don't think that about the Rams. One of the reasons why I said the Rams as a spot that made sense for them beyond less need is one of the bleep them pick originators was that I looked at this and was like, all right, the first two years, those are going to be like the picks in the 20s, maybe the 30s. But that third year, you might end up getting a top 10 pick out of it. What even happened as soon as two years in, I don't know anything that can happen that the bills picks wouldn't have all been picks 25 on. And it was just seeing like a, seeing a Josh Allen injury or something like that.

2:05I don't, I'm not the same way as you are with the Rams. I feel like Sean McVey. It just always finds a way and I feel like they're not only do they have what they think is going to be the quarterback after Stafford. I guys, I don't think it's unreasonable to think that Stafford if healthy will play until he's 40 years old. I have the if healthy is a pretty big thing there. I still, I got to give the Browns credit is I saw the beauty of the Jared verse plan. I really did. And I'm really excited watching. He's one of the guys I'm most excited to see on Sunday. It's not about sacks. It's just about watching that guy play hard and bring some honor to Browns football, which would be real nice. Oh, all right. Let's go to this news out of college football. LSU is adding two players to the school's roster, which will complete it at 105 players, which means Declan Wright is not going to be a part of LSU. And now Shepter is tweeted out in the following like this. Like Declan wrong. Well, I don't know what he does now. They're trying to figure out all sorts of legal options. They don't know if they're going to end up just suing everybody and trying to make a real case that way. If they're not sure if he could just reenter and play in the NFL this year, how that

3:07would work as well. It does seem like Declan Wright found himself in a little bit of a rock and a hard play situation. Yeah. I actually do feel bad for it. It's so funny. People, you know, villainize LSU or they, they, you know, glorify the NCAA or Clemson for fighting this or the conference is whatever. And it's like we do realize that the young men involved, they're just trying to do what's best for themselves financially and career wise. And they're the ones being screwed in all of this. Right. And it made so much more financial sense for him to go play LSU and be a tight end and go do that than it was to start his NFL career, which is if we're just being truthful about it, undrafted. Like, it's going to go nowhere. Yeah. Like we the not, it's going to go nowhere. Now, the Browns do still have a need at tight end. And I, I don't know that they would welcome him back because maybe the way this happened kind of turned them off. Well, they might, Tim, a lot. And I don't know that I thought they were kind of this to him. And so I don't know that there's any bad blood there. Well, and there's no way they didn't, they didn't claim him on waivers without understanding

4:07what he was trying to do. Right. They know it was that, well, maybe it just kind of felt, but I could see him landing on the Browns practice squad. For sure, fairly certain if it happens, you know, in short order here. I'd still sue everybody if I were him though. That's the route. Sue everybody. But it's going to be hung up in courts and then you're not going to have a ruling. And then he's likely going to set out this season with no place to play. And that ultimately is just going to kill his career, which is unfortunate. Congrats to Nordonia's own Browns Corner Backdance Award. As it was announced today, he has become a part owner of the Cleveland Guardians, the Guardians. Here is Ward talking about what this means for him and the Guardians. Yeah, wherever they need me, wherever they need me, we go, we go, we go, have those talks and you know, I'm looking forward to I'm going to go down to the stadium soon. And I think it's going to be like a Denzel or they or something like that. We go, we go, we go, we go, and have a good time. Have fun at the game. But yeah, whatever they need. What I love about this is that nobody really knows what the minority ownership really means for anyone, but it is a feel good moment for one of Cleveland's own. Then same way that when Travis Kelsey bought the team, bought a part of the team here,

5:08how should the Guardians use Denzel though? How can they maximize their part of this? I think they were already getting as much as they possibly could, right? Where he shows up to certain games in the suite. He does the first pitch and that's really, that's all you really need. I I'm kind of over the, let's give out a tiny, tiny percentage to someone that is famous in the city and let's call that a, it's fun, but I it's just it's not everyone involved. No, it's not what it really is. Okay. That being said, if the, I don't have $10 million or $5 million, if the Guardians did want to break me off, you know, again, I can be one of these celebrity minority owners here. I'll show up to games, I'll sit in the suite. Right now you're still paying for it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, no, that or I have to beg them for free tickets, which I just don't do out of principle, but I appreciate it if they gave me some. But no, I, I think I am willing to be that guy for them since they don't have anyone on the station as of right now that's volunteered their services. Volunteer to be a part owner. Yeah, if you want to give me something worth, let's say, whatever $500,000 gets you and

6:09you give that to me for free. And then you instantly turn around and sell it or what? Oh, no, no, no, I wait. And then I wait for it to mature. And then I sell it. Okay. Yeah. You need the valuation of it to, I, what are you going to wait for it to double? Is that the idea? Yeah, that's about a decade. And in the meantime, a lot of baseball, hobnobbin with a voter and, and, and, and, and, and hegey and oh, I would, it'd be best buddies with Austin, hegey. I don't even think you'd buy respect to the locker room, owning $500,000 of the guardians. Oh, I'd walk around there. They break you off that 0, 0.1% share. I think they look at you like, what are you doing? I would get a fake, uh, fake mint coat. I would walk around like the Mountain Dew guy. Yeah, I don't even know what that guy's bit is, but I'll, I just, I just, I just, the bit is just I'd be Mountain Dew guy and don't, nobody knows his name. I would go ahead and really grow this out. I would look like a mountain near where the mint coat and I'd just be like, top of the mountain, Mr. Kwan. I mean, I feel like when, when, uh, Jay Z was a part owner, but it was like the same equivalence of when usher had that tiny, tiny percentage of the calves. I feel like people like genuinely are like, whoa, owner of a sports team.

7:12This is sweet, but now we just been, it's been watered down. Everyone now, everyone now gets like a percentage of a team. That means absolutely nothing. Athletic wise, not a lot of guys in radio. If you really want to reset the market, you want to, what's the big word that everybody uses were disruptors? You want to disrupt the market? Give it to a fat radio guy that's really got no future beyond this thing. Now, do you think they're giving it? The street will know what to do with it. You think they're giving it or do you feel like he actually is a purchase? The zero is 0.0. He has to purchase it because he's got the money. Yeah, because you don't, like people just giving away, give it to us here. $500,000. Yeah. And by the way, you see this team, they don't even pay for, you know, quality at bats. I promise. Give away 500, 500 K. I promise I won't sell it until I either get run out of radio, which could be any day now, or I'm ready to retire. Pretty honorable of me, right? I'm not just in it for the money. I'm in it for the insurance. Okay. Oh my God. Radio's a risky business, as all I'm saying.

8:12Yeah, I mean, I'm going to, you're not even going to purchase like a big suite for yourself after they give you this, this whole ordeal. I believe we covered this and I can't afford it. I'm not saying it. It feels very one side of all I'm saying. It feels very, I don't have enough one-sided situation on an relationship that's happening between you and the guards. There's a lot of me overdelivering for everyone and I appreciate it. I love it. I can't even promise him. He can't even promise him. I'd be like the ultimate guardians home or if you turn into that 0.05 percent share. No, I can't even promise that. I can't. You still do it for the football team. I know I wouldn't. That's a Matt Festa. That's my guy right there. Matt Festa, that's what I'm going to call it. You takes can be bought. I thought I knew you. Just for the guardians. Not for the Browns. Not for the cast. That's two high stakes. Not for the cash. Okay. At least we know. Now unless James Hardin wants to. You just have that wine money. I was thinking what like some of that speedway money. Why money? 10 percent of what he throws at a stripper on a monthly basis. I would be set for life.

9:13Yeah. Yeah. Unfortunately. Yeah. But James, you don't do the same things. You don't do the same thing. I could. I got kids getting ready to go college. If I got to hop on the bowl, I'll hop on the bowl. But it sounds very similar. Yeah. Like you're describing and what you describe with the guardians anyway. That's fine. You know, hooring yourself out like that. You know, it sounds very similar. It sounds very similar. You're doing the job. You're doing the job. Might as well just do it for James Hardin. 2026. On the list of people selling themselves for ill-gotten things, I would still be one of the most moral people out there. I believe that. I believe that. Yeah. All right. How old is the show goes? If you land that up for, yeah. How old is the show goes? All right. DK Metcalfehran Rodgers. According to this report from Jonathan Jones of the athletic, it started bonding over their mutual embrace of conspiracy theories. So Rodgers, obviously, we know his conspiracy theories. And DK Metcalfe, apparently he's been long into conspiracy theories. He's got one about Antarctica that he just thinks is a lot solid. He believes that the world's leaders gather

10:13from time to time in Antarctica. And he also thinks there's a whole nother mini civilization that exists inside Earth already. And that's kind of where they live. I, okay, fine, great. But anyway, apparently him and Aaron Rodgers bonding big time over their love of conspiracy theories. I never thought I'd say this. Don't do your own research, folks. Now, just go right to the textbooks, whatever the historical textbooks say. Just believe that instead. Here's the thing. The funny thing is because I find conspiracy theories pretty interesting. I tend to have a lot of them in my algorithm, but I don't believe them all. And it's funny, like there's so much on Twitter that if you just expose yourself to people are so susceptible, our brains are so melded and just completely whittled down in terms of reasoning and intellectual ability that just, you see anything on social media and people go, well, I want that to be true so that must be true. And it is, I gotta say, I wanna thank you to DK Metcalfe

11:13I wanna thank you to Aaron Rodgers. I wanna thank a lot of the former athletes, Lashon McCoy. I wanna thank you, dummies. Because for a long time, people have held up former athletes in a light and being like, they played the game. They know ball. They're really smart. And God bless them. These former athletes are proving that athletes are just as dumb, sometimes dumber, than just common people. And I love every part of it. Yeah, we're getting back to the old trope that used to exist. Oh, dumb jock. That jock, he doesn't know anything. So we're really going back. I do always, I find it funny. Like we know here around the station, the people that just love telling us conspiracy theories, even when we didn't ask them. Marideth is one, K was another. Like they, like we know the people that love the conspiracy theories. The Marideth gets mad about it. It's really weird. Not weird. I just, I'm not that emotional investor. She likes them, so it's fun. But anyway, like the idea of this is that it's Aaron Rodgers and DK Metcalfe are like the two people and around the Steelers that apparently, they just like, they found each other. They needed the other person that is like, you know what? I will listen to that conspiracy theory.

12:15Hell yeah, let's do a TED talk on this and then go down the Joe Rogan podcast route and just figure it all out. I think this is almost endearing in a way. Then a very problematic way, I think this is almost endearing. And like if we take aside the fact that the fair amount of society in general is susceptible to this and social media and AI will be the undoing of us as soon as it, in the next three or four years, if we set that to the side, conspiracy theories are fun. I'm expecting DK Metcalfe to get a lot of passes this year. Yeah. I think Rodgers is really gonna take kindly to the idea that he's not the only whack of do it on the team. This was for Ann Arna Coutty, okay? So he's just not the only one that's got a lot of loose marbles up there. This was for the Hill people. Hey, listen, if the whole goal is like, sometimes you gotta be out of butter up your quarterback to make sure you get the passes, DK Metcalfe is passing that in spades. Yeah, he has warped his own brain to go ahead and maybe have another career year there. Well, Jerry Judy's kinda done it with Deshawn Watson. It's not too far off. Man, you really open the door there and I'm not stepping through it. Thank you very much. I'm gonna step fast believe that Deshawn Watson's awesome at football. It's like, you see how these wide receivers work?

13:15Oh, I was thinking you went to other ways to go ahead and ingratiate himself to the quarterback. Man, like here's a killing hit. Here's a killing hit. Yeah. Look, Mike Kelly doesn't work either. I also get treated. We're a killing spuddies. They're workboos. A huge development in the AFC North will impact the browns and the division for years to come. Find out what it is in five minutes.