Welcome to Extra Points. Now here's your host, Cousin Sal, and his good, good pals, Dave Damashack and Martin Weiss.

All right, welcome to the Extra Points podcast, part of the Extra Points Podcast Network. Cousin Sal comes to you on a Thursday Thursday morning. We have spaghetti. We have meatballs fiddling with the knobs. We have baby face. Joel Solomon. Yeah, Joel. Yeah, he's producing this mess. And joining me as always, I'm sorry, guys. It's a hot day. My dear pals. Dave Damashek, Martin, Wysheck. I think you're getting it worse there in the Valley. but I feel like it's 80-85 by me and Martin here. Martin and I live together.

I don't know people know that. I think you're getting it worse there in the valley, but I feel like it's 80-85 by me and

Martin here. Martin and I live together. I don't know people know that. Except you've never been

invited to my house. You son of a bitch. Go ahead. What are you going to say, Shaq? No, I'm

interested if the heat or what it is, to what are we all owed this new look of cousinousin Sal? It's like you're trying to take on a new persona or something like beach bump. I'm getting rid of it. You got a salt and pepper beard going now, sunbaked still. I thought it was just a dog's summer, like, you know, like hockey players do a playoff beard. The Mets are so hot right now it's like why why you know I take it off

there's that too I haven't shaved since this Mets streak is uh wow yeah I think I'm taking it off

my mother hates it too she sees she's like I don't want a son with a gray beard and said what does

that make me so it's a good point and I uh i think i just need to take it off a little who

the hell am i full and hey you know it's a nice beard rob parker he's going to join us he is your mentor martin he likes to point out that he's he has a so how many mentees do you think he has oh rob has people he's taught he's yeah go ahead he's in he's been in the sports media business for, he'll let us know about it.

I think to the day, it's over 35

years. He's been in the sports media business for, he'll let us know about it. I think, to the day, it's over 35 years. He'll let you know to the day, just like Mark Goulders, let you know the time and location. But Rob's got to have. I mean, all right, so the conference that I was just at, the reason I was in Vegas was the NABJ conference. Rob is the unofficial mayor of NABJ. He's mentored everybody from Stephen A. Smith down to little old me, and he'll tell you stories about all of it. I promise. I mean, so how many you think that is? I mean, we'll ask him, but do you think it's more than 50, less than 100? I think setting, Mentis? I think,

I had to say, I set the line at 62 and a half and I go over. Okay. I would take the over. All right. Well, ask them about that. All right. And I also, of course, want to know where you rank on these mentees. Are you as favorite? I don't think you're as favorite. I know this.

Do you make top 10? I say this.

At least two or three years ago,

I was his emergency contact.

So a pretty damn high. Oh, is that right? I mean, we moved out here to kind of together. So it's just, you know, it's a story we'll get to. But he brought me here. So he's the one to people that we knew with each other. I don't know, Shaq, does that make someone favorable

if you make

them their

emergency contact?

That seems

like a So we're the only two people that we knew with each other. I don't know, Shaq, does that make someone favorable if you make them their emergency contact?

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