Best of The Odd Couple
The Odd Couple with Rob Parker & Kelvin Washington
Fox Sports Radio and iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Chris and Rob share their thoughts on the Josh Donaldson suspension and discuss whether or not him calling Chicago White Sox shortstop Tim Anderson ‘Jackie’ was actually racist, and tell us what changes Luka Doncic and the Dallas Mavericks need to make if they want to be taken seriously as a championship contender. Plus, former NBA veteran and FOX Sports Radio NBA analyst Kerry Kittles swings by to discuss the rash of injuries that have hit the NBA playoffs, how today's style of play compares to when he played, and much more!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.2 | Thanks for listening to the best of the Odd Couple podcast. |
| 0:08.0 | Be sure to catch us live every weekday from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Eastern 4 to 7 Pacific on Fox Sports Radio. |
| 0:15.9 | Find your local station for the odd couple at Fox Sports Radio.com or stream us live every day on the iHeart |
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| 0:27.0 | You're listening to the best of the odd couple with Chris Brousso and Rob Parker. |
| 0:35.0 | You mentioned it so you can introduce the story. |
| 0:37.9 | You were talking about it all day on MLB.com. |
| 0:42.0 | Why don't you share it with us? |
| 0:43.8 | Or the MLB Network? |
| 0:44.9 | MLB Network. |
| 0:45.8 | We did talk about it. |
| 0:47.4 | And of course, Chris, the news is that Josh Donaldson from the Yankees has been suspended by Major League Baseball for one game and it sparked from an incident that happened over the weekend with the White Sox and the Yankees and Josh. I'll tell you though, aside, quick, quick tangent. Yep. My white socks came and put it on him. Look at you, Chris. Now he is white socks. I'm just saying. That's right. Hey, you know what? |
| 1:10.9 | I'm going to be, you know what's funny that you say that? This could actually turn around their season. That was big. They swept the day night double header on Sunday from the Yankees. And they needed it big time. But Josh Donaldson and Tim Anderson got into it. Josh Donaldson called him Jackie, as in Jackie Robinson. |
| 1:32.1 | And we do have postgame sound. Yep. And Tim Anderson took offense to it and was like, we're not cool like that. And even Tony LaRusa, can you imagine Chris, the 80-year-old white old man manager saying, hey, that was racist. That's what he said. Right. Tony LaRusa. You know what I mean? Like, that was shocking. And we got, here's Tim Anderson on it. Yeah, he just made a, you know, disrespectful comment. You know, basically was, you know, trying to call me Jackie Robinson. |
| 1:59.0 | Like, what's up, Jackie? I don't play like that, you know, and I don't really play at all. You know, I wasn't really, you know, bothered nobody today. But, you know, he made the comment, and, you know, it was disrespectful. I don't think it was called for. It was an essay. All right. And then next we have Donaldson. |
| 2:00.3 | Here's his explanation. |
| 2:18.3 | First inning, I's his explanation. |
| 2:19.3 | First inning, I called him Jackie. |
| 2:21.3 | 2019, he came out with interviews, said that he's a new Jackie Robinson of baseball. |
| 2:25.3 | He's going to bring back fun for the game. |
| 2:28.3 | 2019, when I played for Atlanta, we actually joked about that. |
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