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How are you, man?
I'm doing great, I am You think them well?
Well?
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Well, it's great to have you, you know, watching that Mariner game today. Really, the last thirty six hours of Mariner baseball has just been kind of bizarre. You know that crazy one nothing chilly, rainy, is it even going to get played? Game yesterday almost kind of a throw it out game, and then today Larry and I got the emotional swings First of all, I'll tell you what I was thinking during this game. At three nothing, literally five minutes into the game, I was like, well that's over.
I mean, will the White Sox even score three runs in order to overcome this three nothing deficit? Well, they did, and it didn't take them along either. And then you get the home run from Cal you get a Tavaris home run later on. That was just the emotional swings for a game in May were a little bit too much for me today.
Yeah, it was something. Who would think that the Marrors would get a better battle from the Chicago White Sox than the San Diego They did, but those games were tougher. Those three games were tougher than the three in San Diego where they thoroughly dominated. But I thought it was a gutty win today to come back. You just don't want to go into the Houston having lotched the series to the White Sox.
Right. The White Socks actually, unlike last year, they actually have some promise now.
I think they have a pretty good pitching staff, which is why the series was as even as it was. That the guy that started today was pitching almost as well as anyone in the league. But teams like the White Sox find a way to lose, and that's what happened today. Leody Tavares. I thought maybe before today, I thought a topic of our conversation was how long they were going to go with him, But he probably bought himself a little more time with that big home run today.
Yeah, indeed, and you brought up the Padre series, so let's go there. What impressed you about what you saw in San Diego.
Well, the pitching dominance of a of a really good lineup that maybe the best lineup in the National League, and they just throttled them. They shut them down. And not only did they do that, but they did it was their's six seven starters, Logan Evanson and Emerson Hancock starting two of the games and pitching really well. The bullpen was was fabulous. That the hitting was timely, but to me, it was the pitching. Just a lineup that has Takis.
And Merrill and you.
Know, Machado and all those guys arise to hold them one run in each game was just spectacular and very unexpected.
Larry, I'm just looking at the lineup of aces that the Mariners have either handed a loss to or at least won the game that that pitcher was pitching. And I'm looking at the top fifteen in baseball, and let's see Max Fried's number one in era, Nathan Elvaldi's number six in era. Croche is number nine, Shane Smith today is number ten, Michael King the other day is number fourteen. I mean, they have been just giant killers offensively, particularly
on the road. What do you make of what you're seeing from this offense, particularly against aces of staffs which have usually, let's face it, just shoved it up the mariner's tailpipe the last five years.
Yeah, And I mean they also won a game started by Eric Scoba, who might be the best fiture in baseball.
Uh.
Yeah, it's a testament to I think.
Uh, there's they're sort of their new hitting outlook, putting more balls in play, getting on base more. The Hitger cites their influence I think is real. Uh, they're just not used to count on twelve strikeouts the game, night after night after night, and they're just they're just not doing that anymore. And when you put the ball in play, good things happen. And uh and and they got some real legitimate bats in their lineup. Now, talk the top five. Uh, it gets a.
Little weak when you get beyond those. But you know, cal Rawley's having as you know, he's having a superstar year. Uh, JP Crawford's tremendous bounce back year. Polanco started off so well, Julio's coming back strong lately for the last couple of weeks.
And a Rose Arena. Uh, you know that that's a that's a really good lineup at the top of it. So yeah, it's it's the it's the journeymen that are giving him trouble. Like the guy who started yesterday was his name Houser. Yeah, uh, you know, making his first start of the year, just completely shut him down. But when they go against, like you said, the aces, they seem to they seem to step up to another level.
You've seen a lot of young guys come and go.
Larry Stone, Ben Williamson, curious your take on the twenty four year old.
Uh?
Is this guy somebody you think can be implanted at third base for a long period time?
A Blowers type of run?
Uh?
Or is it wait, wait and see mode? Just kind of give us your thoughts on on the youngster.
Williamson, Uh, I think I'm leaning more towards wait and see mode. Hugh, I've been That's not to say I've not been impressed with him. I think he's a He's a major league defensive third basement above average, There's no question about that. And uh, that's what they needed out there at this point with you know, Polanco just wasn't getting it done defensively. Uh, he's really stabilized that position. You know, I want to see how he's going to
develop with it with the bat. You know, he's he's hidden in the two forty to two fifty range, which is all right, but with with no no pop, right, with very little pop. Uh, you know, his ops is under six hundred.
Will that develop? Will he will he become more of a Kyle Siegert type guy? Maybe, uh, you know, develop a little more power. I think it could happen, but I think for now, I think I think he's They're they're fine with him at third base. You know, it's it's usually an offensive position, it's usually a slugger's position, and they're really not getting that from from him. So I mean there is I think there is potential to upgrade there, but for now, I think he's fine.
Ler, Are you an MVP voter or have you been an MVP voter.
I've been an MVP voter many times, but now that I'm no longer eligible, I'm not covering the team.
Anymore, gotcha.
I mean the reason I ask is because I understand that Aaron Judge is running away with the MVP award. My god, he's hitting four h three with a twelve fifty three ops. I mean, and his war, his war is almost a full point higher than any other hitter in baseball.
So I get that.
But beyond Aaron Judge, to me, because cal Ray plays catcher and all these other guys that are between two and a half and three war don't play catcher, is there an argument for voting cal Rawley second in the MVP voting, at least through the first third of the season.
Yeah. I think it's probably it's him or Bobby Witt Junior. I mean, you're right, they're both. They all are taking a.
Back seat to Judge. I mean, if the vote were now, he'd be unanimous, and deservedly so. But no, I agree with what you said. You've got arguably the best defensive catcher in baseball. He won the Platinum Glove and not only that, but he's one of the best offensive players in baseball, regardless of position. I don't see how that combination, plus leading a very good staff defensively, you know, or pitch calling and all that stuff. I think if I had a vote'd probably vote him second.
Right now, Well, you think about he's number one. Dick mentioned the stat war cal Rawley's at two point three. You know, so he's first, JP, Crawford second. The gap between first and second rally to Crawford is greater than the gap between second and six, which is on Polanco's
tied for six with Dylan Moore. So I'm curious, you know, I hear this talk about, Hey, at some point rally, I mean, if he hits forty five bombs or even pushing fifty like he's been on a pace to at some point there's talk that maybe he'd be a d h and despite his greatness as catcher, the longevity, what have you. Where are you kind of projecting down the line with Raleigh? Is that is that a legitimate topic or is that you push that obviously way down the road.
But can you see a day where he just says, hey, he's no longer the Mariner catcher.
He's just a d h I could see that day or maybe even first base or something like that, but I don't think that's in the near future. I think he's just too valuable back there. He's so durable. I mean, he's catching more than probably any catcher in baseball behind the you know, getting behind the plate, and I don't see any signs of that showing up. But it does.
You're right, it takes a toll. You know, catchers are like the running backs of Major League Baseball the peak of their career because of how much they get beat up and how tough it is to just crouch pitch after pitch and take You see the sole balls that Cal takes on a nightly basis, off his mask, off his knee, and you know everywhere that just it's going to take a toll. But right now, I don't see
any signs of the of the UH slowing down. What's interesting is they've got a blue chip catching prospect down in the minor leagues and Harry Ford. I don't know if you checked the numbers lately, but he's he's on fire right now. Uh, he's close to three hundred. He's on basing over four hundred, which he's done throughout his career. Uh, they're gonna have to make a decision on him real quick because you just don't want to waste him down
in the minor leagues. Honestly, I see him as being the centerpiece of a of a potential blockbuster, uh trade deadline deal or off season deal, just because there's the redundancy there. There's really not a spot for an everyday catcher. With a new contract that Cal signed for for three or four more years, even with the wear and tear, I think he's going to be a regular catcher at least for three or four Well, you.
Know why he's tearing it up.
And Jackson can attest to this softy and I talked to him in person two weeks ago at the Rainiers game before the game. You just just just go back and look two weeks from this Friday at what his ops has been since then. I mean, that is that is the reason Larry Stone joining us brought to you by the Ram Restaurant in Brewery. Larry's, as long as you're on the topic of war, we were talking with Cal. I mean baseball teams primarily have their top two three
four guys all offensive players. They play every day, so that makes sense that their war would be higher. Then maybe an ace would slot in there as you know, as maybe the fourth or fifth best war guy the team. You know who the second best war guy on this baseball team is. It's a dude that has only pitched twenty one and two thirds innings, but he is sixteen of sixteen and he has not blown a save, and he has not given up a run. And Andres Munos, Larry,
I don't care what War says. I guarantee you that if Andres Munos had not pitched at all this year, the Mariners would be more than two games worse than they are right now.
Would you agree with that?
Yeah, he's been super valuable. He hasn't given up an earned run yet, he's almost become automatic. Like today's game, they were down a run or upper run, and he gave up a leadoff hit. But I never really felt that there was any danger him giving up that lead that, particularly against the White Sox. But yeah, you know, war's
tough with relief pitchers. And what's interesting is if you look at Fangrass War, you know there's two different war calculations the fan Grass and there's Baseball Reference, and he's much better off with Baseball Reference than he is with Fangrass, where he's way way down there. I'm not sure what the different what they're looking at differently, but you'd think that a stat like that would be pretty consistent between
the two groups calculating it, but sometimes it's not. But regardless of war and what his number is, I think anyone watching this team knows that a lockdown closer is hugely important because we've seen in past years what has happened when they don't have one of those, right, And I kind of like, you know, with Scott Servis, he went more for using his best reliever in high leverage situations, not necessarily in the ninth inning. I like just having the closer close the game as a better strategy.
I think s particlarly when you've got another another guy who can do the leverage work, like a Matt Brash now that he's back, and you know, was supposed to be Santos, but it doesn't look like we're going to see him for a while.
But I think I think mentally, when a guy like Munios knows he's working the ninth. I think I think it.
Helps Larry Stone with us and and Larry in Week one this year, dick was out and uh I kind of engaged Softy and uhh, yeah, we can get another drop on that one. But Softy and Jackson, and the topic that I brought up was that there's for all of us, there's a handful of athletes that, yes, being good is important, but there's a certain aesthetic smoothness and
almost artistic beauty to their craft. For me, Ernie Els, I had once put a screensaver up of Ernie ELS's swing, and of course Braddy Couples, and then of course there's junior swing for me. Eric Dickerson running of football is just almost poet, you know, it's just beauty in motion. Damn Marino throwing a football.
Where I'm going with.
That and where I went then was there is a smoothness to this cat want Brian Wu you know, like Marianna Rivera like in terms of his like everything looks so buttery and yet he can still touch you know, well past mid nineties, upper nineties, and there's just something so graceful and beautiful about his pitching motion. Here we talked about war he's at one point eight, just behind
Mouni is at one point nine. Just talk about Brian wu and and who's been the ace if you look at the numbers, but also maybe touch on on what you think mechanically or or or or maybe other pictures that have caught you where you just say, man, there's there's something pretty about the way he throws a baseball.
Yeah, no, I'm with you, Hugh. I love pictures like that where it doesn't even look like they're throwing. And then you then you look at the gun and it's ninety seven.
Yeah, and then you know, then there's other guys like Robbie Ray who have to put everything that they have into it, and grunt heizer.
Like her seizer looks so choppy, you know, right.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean Scout's called that max effort guys, and he's the he's the he's a min effort guy, you know, the opposite of a max effort guy. Uh, you know, I think that's really practical.
I'm gonna interrupt you. I'm sorry.
I meant Clayton Kershaw, I said hers seizer. My brain was thinking Clayton Kersheye. I'm sorry. I had to it's very to interrupt you. But but Clayton Kershaw, you know that that funky that that is like the ugliest, right, and so at any rate continue, I'm sorry, but but yeah, I had to make that distinction.
Yeah, yeah, I was wondering why you threw her that was.
That that was a big That's why I had to correct myself. No, Millan Claytons the other dodger.
Yeah, yeah, but I think that's what attracted the Mariners to him when he had a you know, mediocre college career at cal Poly. I think it was, uh, they just saw that motion, they saw that delivery, they saw the stuff and felt that they could refine it and uh uh they've done that, but a lot of it is just inherent. And then they smoothed it, smoothed it out a little. He got healthy, He added a couple
of pitches. But yeah, it's rare to see a picture who was as smooth as that as that, you know, I think Madison Bumgarner was kind of like that in his heyday. James Paxton with the Mariners was a real smooth guy who you looked up and it was ninety eight and I put him in you know, he's in that category.
As well, Larry, before we let you go, you know, you get George Kirby back tomorrow. Logan will be coming back,
hopefully very very soon, Bryce Miller, very very soon. Does this baseball team have a fourteen and six, fifteen and five twenty game run in them where they can just really put this division not away, but put a lot of distance between themselves, or do you still think this offense is just gonna sputter, particularly at home, and be in two inconsistent and we're just gonna have to hope for a whole lot of eleven to nine twenty game stretches.
I think they do have that potential. I think they've had a streak like that this year. A lot a lot will depend on how Kirby comes back. You know, just because he's coming back doesn't mean he's going to come back and be George Kirby. Uh so if but if he is, and and they get Logan Gilbert back as well, which is also no guarantee that he's going
to come back anytime soon and be Logan Gilbert. But if they can, I think, uh, that really bodes well for them, uh distancing themselves from the division, because I think the rest of the division is kind of mediocre. I think it's there for the for the taking for sure, even more than we thought it was.
Uh.
The Astros are having a lot of a lot of hit pitching injuries. The Rangers for some reason can't hit even with Brett Boone as they're they're hitting coach. Uh so uh yeah, I think the potential is definitely there. The offense has kind of cooled down a little from that peak in April, so I still think they need to go out and get a bat or two at the trade deadline. You know, you still have some real
dead holds and they all show. But despite what he did today, you know, right field with the airis is still a problem area. You know, first base has been ye, I think it can really be upgraded and even even you know, second or third base could be upgraded as well.
Larry always a pleasure. We'll talk to you next week.
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You know, we kind of keep opening conversation between Softie and myself and Jackson and Hugh. Remember we're a big, big happy team, big happy family. When we've got ideas to throw around on the show, you know, he's throw them around on text, what about this, what about this?
What about this?
And you know, Hugh texted me yesterday and say I'd love to talk about RG three and Ryan Clark, and I was like, I gave him a little thumbs up and I was like, I got no idea what he's talking about because I had not seen it. I had not seen this, But having watched now what he was talking about, I could totally understand why, because I if I would have seen it, I would have wanted to talk about it, and so and then you talked to it,
and then you texted me about it as well. So like, I don't know, I don't know how it like kind of weaved out of my Twitter post thread or something. It just didn't happen to be falling into people were talking about. But we've got some audio here from a couple of very very prominent ESPN analysts, Robert Griffin the Third and Ryan Clark, and it's you know, became. It just started kind of innocuously over a basketball play between
Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese. And we've all seen the video of Angel Reese, you know, fouling or excuse me, Caitlin Clark fouling Angel Reese. And you can either say it was flagrant or it wasn't flagrant. It was dirty or it wasn't dirty, whatever side you're on. And that's kind of how it started. And then it took a very odd twist took a very the topic of conversation took a left turn at Paducah.
There is no question about it.
And so let's start with Ryan Clark ESPN analyst having a feud with former quarterback Robert Griffin. Third argument centered around Griffin's take that Angel Reese quote unquote hates Caitlyn Clark. First, let's hear from Ryan Clark on his Pivot podcast, where he's also now under fire for sharing other opinions about Robert Griffin.
IID, the one thing we know about RG three is he's not having conversations at his home about what black women have to endure in this country, about what young black women and athletes like Angel Reese have had to deal with being on the opposite side of Caitlyn Clark's rise and ascension and to startom, Caitlyn Clark is the most important player in the WNBA and a ton of her fandom has come along with some racial bias or some racial pieces to why people love her so much.
And so, now, if you're RG three, when's the last time within your household you've had a conversation about what she's done dealing with you haven't been able to do that because in both of your marriages, you've been married to white women. You haven't had opportunities to have those conversations to educate you on what they're feeling, what black women deal with, what they're seeing when they think of
a young Angel Reaese. But it also leads to what black women deal with a lot from Black men who have chose to date or marry outside of their race, they always feel like they have to go to extra mile to prop up the woman that they're married or the woman that they're with, over black women by detegrating black women.
So there's the left turn.
At Paducah, we went from a conversation an RG three conversation about Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark and it became very personal by Ryan Clark in that comment, and RG three, in his Out of Pocket podcast has responded.
All of you know, there's a line in life that you just said, don't cross wives and children are always off limits, and Ryan Clark has sprinted past that line. Ryan Clark didn't like my sports take that. Andrew Rees hates Tayling Clark, and that's fine, It's okay, It's part of the game sports media. I'm gonna have an opinion. This person might not agree with it. That person might
not agree with it. But what you don't do is turn around and personally attack me and my family just because you don't agree with a sports opinion that is purely based off the sport. I didn't make it personal. But what that really shows is just how low of a person Ryan Clark is. Is a bad look for ESPN. It's cowardly, it's spineless, and it's weak.
So there you go, wow wow.
I mean it's interesting because usually when we hear spats between radio hosts, right, the volume is usually at ninety seven out of one hundred.
Right, it's Stephen A.
Smith, It's mad Dog Russo it's one guy, It's Charles Barkley, you know, it's it's one guy barking and another guy. And this, I mean, both of these guys are very CCC right, calm, cool and collected and in their takes. And Hugh, I'll start with you and you can kind of take a direction you want. I mean, we've got we've really got two different topics here, and I want
to give some appropriate time to these two topics. And we got the angel Ree Caitlin Clark topic and then we also have Ryan Clark turning it into something that has nothing to do with basketball.
Yeah, and for a little context, I mean, when I'm filling in for Dave, You'll call me most every morning like, hey, this is kind of a you know, who our guests are, what we're going to talk about. And I'm on four days this week, so about fourteen hours, you know, so we're saying, okay, what do we get? You know, what are the topics? And so I had said, hey, this is this is a topic that you know it is hot, right.
Yeah, and I hadn't seen and I'm glad I would just say.
You brought it up, and you know I would just I'll start by saying, if a white analyst had sought to invalidate the opinion of another white analyst because he had twice been married to a black woman, that analyst would be fired before the next break.
So, uh, you know, I just think that.
So that that was really, uh way overboard on Ryan Clark. I mean, he clearly made it personal. He wanted to get the jab in you've twice been married the idea. I mean, first of all, RG three has three sisters, he's got a mother, the idea that Ryan Clark can can profess to be in RG three's head and and say the kind of conversation that RG three is or is not having, and and and that somehow RG three would not have empathy for the plight of a black woman because he married a white I mean, that is
just a preposterous assertion. And you know, and look, Ryan Clark has has has had to respond to charges of being a race baiter uh quarterback MVP with Lamar Jackson. He uh he asserted there was racial bias in the door Sanders ball and what have you, and knew. I'm not gonna list the whole things, but he's had to go on, He's had to make comments addressing this. So I think that Ryan Clark, it seems like there's something
personal there. But but the uh uh, the idea that he would cross that line in many ways, I think RG three's response was dead on the money. And I thought that fact, to use your term this, he had the three c's in his response gave more impact to his response because he was measured in that. But I think Ryan Clark was completely out of the line. Now I'll say this, I do think he would be fired. I am of the opinion, and I want to hear Jackson. Jackson's up next, I'm really interested in. But I don't
think that Ryan Clark should be fired. I don't even think it necessarily should be suspended. I'm of the belief my standard for that is so freaking the threshold, because I want to have a marketplace of ideas where people feel safe to say, hey, here's my take, and then that without fear of losing their job or major retribution, Because then what should happen, in my opinion, is that Ryan Clark lobbed out. You know, Ryan, Hey, you're touching
on some points. You kind of miss it on this and that and this and that, and maybe Ryan Clark will refine his take, and then he'll have a better take. And if we all do that in a generation, we can all be we can all be more enlightened, more intelligent, more morally sound in our takes. And so I think that there should be an idea where we can respond without fear of retribution. So I don't agree with Ryan Clark, but I do not want his job taken or threatened.
As some have said, Jackson.
We're going to take a quick time out. I want to hear from Jackson next, I'll give you my thoughts as well. And you know Jackson is in an interracial marriage. I think it's an awesome perspective to have on the radio show.
We'll do it.
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Spending a few more minutes continuing the conversation on this.
Feud podcast feud.
It is twenty twenty five, Jackson, we have podcast feuds.
I mean it's a feud between two respected I would say respected.
Analysts absolutely, Robert Griffin.
The third, as you mentioned, former Heisman Trophy winner Ryan Clark, I mean, one of the top NFL analysts on on ESPN. And it all started with the Caitlin Clark Angel Reese dust up over the weekend, which garnered two point seven million eyeballs by the way, that was just the insane
ratings for that game. And then it kind of devolved into personal attacks when Ryan Clark, you know, accused RG three of just not being able to relate to what a black woman is going through because he's not married to one.
He's married to a white woman.
And Hugh gave his take in the last segment, how about you, Jackson as a as a you're in a interracial marriage, and I'm sure this this kind of affected you when you heard it first.
Basically, I mean, there's a few things, and I think Hugh did a really good job of kind of analyzing the different elements of this last segment, But the basis of this is the fact that there is clearly something personal between Ryan Clark and Robert Griffin, and that the dig of you, you know, this is your second marriage.
I mean, yes, why is that dig in there? Yeah, it seems completely unnecessary, but it's in there because it kind of very much lends to the thought of, oh, there's some history between these two in some way.
I don't know what that is, but they were teammates earlier.
Sorry to interact, well then perfect, I mean clearly then they you know, I don't know if it was a Sherman Wilson situation like with mat but still, you know,
it's one of those things where there's clearly something. So I think that it's very obtuse and short sighted of Ryan Clark not to be able to look past that and analyze a a argument on its merits and listen, if you think that, if you think that his take about you know, Angel Rees hating quote hating Caitlin Clark is wrong, then have them have the take and give your take on the merits the fact that he brings in the marriage aspect. And I think Dick has you
kind of alluded to. I mean, I've been married to a woman who's whose parents are from Bangladesh. She's fully Bengali, and I've kind of get gotten, you know, very much into understanding their culture, and she's gotten very much understanding. But my culture is a white man and I thought, you mean your soccer yea.
To very much so.
But it's a sort of thing where like just because it's it's such an obvious it's amazing that I have to make this clear because I think it's a very obvious thing. And again this that's why it's just so ridiculous that Ryan Clark is making this point to think that a person does not have an understanding of their own society from the other sex, even though they're married to somebody of a different sex or sorry, a different race,
excuse me, race is absolutely insane. I mean it's it's it's mind boggling to think, oh, yeah, he's married to a white man, so he doesn't understand anything about black women, like I I don't. I have a mom, I have a sister. I don't understand anything about white women because I'm married to a Ben Rally girl. It's absolutely ridiculous.
And and and to use again all coming back to it, to use that as the reasoning incorporating that absolutely useless and needless part into this debate that is centered around Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark in a take that had I mean, Ryan Clark should be ashamed of himself. I agree with Hugh no firings needed here, but I also think that there's there's definitely a bar there.
This doesn't reach that bar.
But I would say that that this absolutely easily reaches the.
Bar of public apologies.
I believe very heavily in public apologies, and they go a long way. Ryan Clark, you need to go on Twitter, Instagram, whatever your preferred things, your Pivot podcast, you need to go on that today, like right now, five minutes ago and issue the public apology for your ridiculous argument that not only it was unnecessary, but it makes absolutely no sense.
Yeah, well, said Jackson.
I mean I wrote writing down notes as I was listening to this, and the quote both of your marriages stuck out? Why did that need to be said? I mean, is out of the blue, as the attack on him having a white wife. Why did both of your marriages need to be brought up? That had nothing to do with anything? And then he doesn't RG three doesn't have these conversations. I mean, at first he says he doesn't have these conversations, and then he clarified, well, he doesn't
have these conversations in his household. But to your point, I mean, did he not have those conversations growing up with his mother? Did he not have conversations growing up with his sister? Did he not have conversations growing up with his African American female friends? I mean, my goodness, are you are you telling me that this that somehow, some way RG three has been completely insulated from any conversations with African American women in his life because he's not married to one.
It's ridiculous. I was just it's just mind boggling and You're right, it's not.
It's not fire worthy, but hey, it is public ridicule worthy, and he is getting he is getting roasted rightly so.
And it's just it's so easy and so many cases where we hammer people. I mean, how many times on phone with audio do we hear somebody with a ridiculous take? Man, it's so easy these days to hop on ig live or to hop on the Twitter video or to literally just do There's a million day forgive and forget and just say, man, you know I said something I wasn't thinking, it was way out of line.
I'm sorry to this person.
I hope we can.
How hard is it to do an apology like that? Ryan Clark?
Just do it?
Final thoughts you?
Yeah, No, I think an apology would go a long way, and I would just say we just had Mother's Day. How does Ryan Ryan Clark know that r G three didn't have his mother and his three sisters there and and maybe others, but there would be four black women right there in his home and they may have had a lengthy conversation. For Ryan Clark to just make assertions about the conversations that are are not taking place in RG three's home, I mean, it's it's just so wildly what did what did RGI say?
They he raced past the line of appropriate.
Yes, well, and I I just mentioned the public. I'm just gonna give you one small example before we get a break. Ryan Clark just tweeted out today, do we have criteria for NFL Protector of the Year. So he's talking about this new award that's come out for the offensive lineman. NFL Protector of the Year was announced today. First response must have a black wife. That was the first response to the tweet. That response got six hundred and six likes.
His original tweet got three hundred and fifty six.
That's the ratio, boys, there you go. That is the Dictionary definition of a ratio.