Live from Southern California. This is the Jim Rome Show.

Brian Weber with you. Hope you had a wonderful holiday weekend. We will keep the verbal pyrotechnics going.

It's officially a big word Tuesday and hopefully by now when you hear me and have to deal with me you know my approach if I'm

lucky enough to be in this chair forklifted in already I'm never going to

bludgeon you with guests. In fact today we're super sizing

your potential to be a part of the show. We're going with the skinny rundown. See what I did there.

They're just two guests along the way and the first

hours wide open. In fact we will not have a outside voice unless we take a phone

call at 1-800 636-8-6-86 because I'm certainly not putting my dear friend

Garrett Ridd on the air. We will not expand the conversation until 140 Eastern time when we talk

MBA with Kurt Heelen, lead

MBA rider for NBC Sports.com.

Understandably, NBA talk is going to dominate the program,

but we will get to some baseball in the final hour when we

say a load to the thoughtful baseball journalist Joe Sheehan check out his great work

at jocian dot com and the Joe Sheehan

Baseball newsletter.

So I am open to being interactive with you.

I'm not going to go through my normal, plaative,

help me, help me, I'm a clone spiel but because we now have summer rules and

every fill and host has a different approach I'm selective when it comes to phone calls but I did format the

show with the real opportunities out there for you at 1-800 636-86, you want to go old school, you can hit me up with an email, Rome and have a take

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