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Pitching and hitting home runs. That guy is as radical as they come though. I don't know if we're Tony. Yeah. Oh, Tony. Oh yeah. The other way has a complete appreciation on how ridiculous he is. No, I don't think people are appreciating the greatness when it's right in front of our face and we did this. Like you've seen this, like with LeBron, like people, when he was in his stretch of incredibleness, like how did he not win more MVPs? I don't know. I think people get tired of the fact.

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that you're just seeing someone do something so great over and over again, that you stop appreciating exactly what this athlete and this human is doing. And we're seeing that with Shohei Otani. We've never seen anyone in the game do what he's doing right now. Be almost, he's an ace, he's an ace on a pitching staff and he was leading the league in home runs up until he got injured a couple of weeks ago. And at one point during the season, he was number one on every offensive and pitching staff.

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for the Angels. It is insane. He becomes a free agent this off season. And I think he's probably gonna get a half a bill contract wherever he ends up. But it's, yeah, it's gonna be crazy. Hope he goes to the Braves. I don't know if they're even in market for him. I don't know. That's not their style though. The Braves get them young, lock them into a contract young. And then it either pans out and they have a great. They're pretty bad ass this year. It's who's gonna be able to afford it.

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My gut is saying the Dodgers. Yeah, probably. It's going to be a big market team. Yeah, for sure. Big market team. It'll be interesting. What's your favorite sport? Is it baseball? You're doing flipping bats now. I'm hearing a lot of baseball, but what's the favorite sport? Yeah, it's different. So it's like, what's my favorite sport to watch on TV? What's my favorite sport to watch in real life? What's my favorite sport to cover? It's crazy. We talk about this a lot. I see the best live sport to watch is hockey.

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Um, cause I think you really have to be there for it, hockey and basketball. Uh, I love watching football, but I love being able to see what's happening and hearing what's happening. So I love watching that on TV. And then there's just something, I guess, cause I grew up in a ballpark at Dodger stadium, so baseball is just, it feels like picnic in the park. That's just like family time, hang out. And I spent a decade of my career.

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watching games every day during the summer and covering games. I love it all. And soccer was hard. Once I stopped playing, it took me a moment to get that anxiety of missing not playing. It was hard to watch because I wasn't playing. Covering it was one of the more special things I've been able to cover. And then obviously having it be at the World Cup and watching the U.S. women win the World Cup was pretty incredible. Yeah. And it was. And then...

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I imagine I couldn't help but I was thinking today, cause it's like Alex Curry is coming on. And obviously our show is pretty evergreen, but it's such a, how many times did you talk about Aaron Rodgers today? Did that come up in anything? Constantly. That was the most roller coaster of an evening, watching him run out there with the American flag on 9-11 in New York.

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between what it looked like, two twin towers onto the field, to the middle, putting the flag right on the Jets logo. Like it felt like hearing, again, all of his off-season conversations of just how happy he was. He felt like he was in a dream. He felt reborn. He was rejuvenated. It just, it felt like he had the best, like off-season, pre-season, running onto the field in that moment. And then four plays into the game,

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And it was just like, wait, what? Like that emoji where the mind is like exploding. Is this not so on brand for the Jets right now? My heart just hurts so bad for all of the Jets fans and for Aaron Rodgers, he's 39 years old. So now the question is, does he retire or is he gonna rehab and come back and play at 4041? This is not an easy injury to come back from, let alone the mental side of it, of getting yourself

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back to that place of being the best of who you can be and back to that MVP form. I know. The jest just cursed. Good God. I don't know. It could be. I don't know. I hate it. It's not even funny. But then the end of the game, you have an undrafted rookie. He did. Walking off with a crazy punt return who like made the team a week ago. Yeah. Like it was just, it was the most roller coaster of a game. But again, that's what makes sports so beautiful because it can be.

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so heart wrenching and then it come back and just be so beautiful at all in one game. That's what you got right there. I know it's going to be interesting. I hope tells me Aaron's so competitive that he won't go out that way. I don't know. I just, it probably just be what his body. I think if his body will allow him, he'll probably come back. And then like you said, at 40, I was just talking with Mark Sanchez earlier today. Obviously he was the last quarterback to get the jets to the post season.

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But he was talking about the time when he ruined his shoulder and he was out for the rest of the season. He goes, the way he explained it was so, it really put you in that mindset of where he's at right now. He goes, think of it like Bruce Wayne, when he goes into his dark lair, right? You're Batman, you gotta go down there. You are by yourself. You are in a dark, deep, dark mental place that only you can be there with and you have to get yourself through. Because the game's still going on.

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Like, Jets have more games, they have another quarterback, they're going on, you are all by yourself and you have to get yourself there. Your Sunday's a different story now, you're gonna have your surgery, then you're gonna be on a scooter, then you're gonna be in a boot, then you're gonna have to start rehab again. It's like your life is completely different to get back to where you were yesterday morning. Yeah. So it's just, it's a journey that only Aaron.

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can go through and understand and whatever he wants to do. Hey, maybe six months into it, he's not healing the way he wants to. If he says, you know what, I gave it a shot. I don't think anyone's gonna blame him. He's gotten, he's accomplished so many things. He's gotten a Super Bowl, he's four time MVP. Like he was the greatest in the game for a point in time. And it's just, this is tough. This is a really hard injury to come back from. Who's, who do you like this year?

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in football, like any surprises, anybody coming out of the woodworks that we might not have expected in the NFL? I think Miami looked really good. God, they look great. Tyree Killen, too, looked really good. I loved Puss McDaniel. I think, wait a second. I think they just threw another touchdown. It's like 500 yards forward, 78 yards. You don't see those stat lines in the NFL that often, right? No, no, they were absolutely insane. I think another like.

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huge surprise. Not really because a you had my homes, you're missing Chris Jones. Yeah. Bro, you're coming off of injury, not being at training camp. I picked this up. So I'm so glad you're going. Josh Allen, I love you so much for going, but I think you're going. You have the three top quarterbacks that went 0 and 1 week one. So I think that shocked a lot of people. I don't think it's telling for how the season's going to be.

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Yeah, but it makes it a fun conversation. We talk about it on my radio show. It's it's great. I picked Detroit to be Kansas City. I told everybody the one who did you really? I was like, that's yeah, I just I think I just think they're up and coming. And I do what they're I don't I'm not saying they're going to Super Bowl contender. I think fringe playoffs, but I just thought they had it. Yeah, I think their coach has a plan. I don't know.

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It just felt like the NFL. I listened to him. Yeah. Have you heard his like posting pressers? I've heard of you listen to any of the speeches. That's a guy that you want to listen to. And you're like, yeah, this is how it it's similar to coach prime Deon Sanders, what you're seeing him do right now in Colorado. If you have a certain leader that can get every single player on the team to buy in a certain way, that's how you create championship teams. Like I've been around a lot of championship teams across every sport.

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And the one common thing is everyone buys in and everyone's on the same page. And it all starts with their leader. And it's, you're seeing that with both those teams. My alma mater struggled out of the gates, but it's been that way. And that's with Clemson with Dabo Sweeney. He's that guy. I mean, you had your moment. You had your moment. We got a lot of talent. They're just going, you can't lose to Duke the first game of the year. You know, that hurt.

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That was a good punch of reality, but we'll see how it goes. Talk to me, is it like, you don't wear this on your sleeve, but I know it's part of it, but being a woman in sports, it's not easy, right? No. It's gotten better. I say this from assumption and not to put words in your mouth, but surely it's gotten better. But it's not great all the time. You have to have thick skin. And I tell any young woman wanting to get into this, make sure it's what you love.

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and everything you want to do because you're gonna go through a lot of tough times to get to where you want to be. Now from when I started to where we are now, there are so many more opportunities for women that weren't necessarily available when I had just gotten out of college, which is why I find it so important to evolve as a woman within sports and which is why I wanted to continue to evolve my career and have a voice and have an opinion and have a space.

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where I can talk about sports just as much as every other person out there who loves all of the games and everything that goes with it. But as a woman, you have to work twice as hard with half the opportunity and you better be over prepared. You better just be so on point. That's just the name of the game. It's what you have to, it's not the same for men and women in this industry. You say one thing maybe.

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mispronounce something wrong. It's actually knows nothing. Get her out of here. It's are you kidding me? I know what I'm talking about. It's just, it's a lot, but I personally choose. I don't, I don't look into it. I know a lot of people do and with social media, it's tough because it's right there all the time in your face. This is why I choose just to have such a positive outlook on life. I choose to be happy every single day. I choose to love what I do. I choose to be the best.

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what I know I can be and that's the best that I can give. And so I'm going to live in a happy space because that's what life is all about. Yeah. Where does that come from? Is that, is it nature, nurture? Is it like, you always been that way? I had a very positive mom. Yeah. A very positive mom, but I also have been through some pretty tough things in life and I've been in some dark places and I did a lot of therapy to get me back.

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to being the human that I wanted to be today. And that's why I choose every single day. Cause I know what it's like to be in those not so great places. So I make it a choice every day to choose happy and to wake up positive and to do the things every day in my life that keep me in this happy, positive space. Yeah. It shows. Cause I really does. That's why I wanted you on the show is I didn't, it doesn't.

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it feels like you like that's the real end. It is. But I will say, I'm glad to hear that you're getting more into the opinion side of it. I think I think part of the it's like we want more of what we're used to a lot of times. And I think the reason for women breaking through, we need more women having opinion on sports so that we hear it and we get conditioned to it and we can respect it. And I think that bodes well for you and bodes well for.

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continuing to drive more and more opportunity. It is, and I don't take this opportunity lightly. And I have to give so much credit to my dear friend, Joy Taylor, who is also on Fox Sports, the co-host of Speak. And the first time I filled in with her on the herd, I always want to get better. So I always tell who I'm working with, I'm like, I love constructive criticism. How can I be better? What can I do better? And I did that with Joy. She said, I want you to have a stronger opinion. I was like, no one's ever told me that before.

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You were the first person in my decade of being in this industry to tell me that. And I took it to heart and I was like, Oh yeah, duh. Why don't I just do this? And it's, it's so crazy that it just takes one person to flip your mindset, to be like, Oh yeah, no, I can do this. Why wouldn't I be able to do this? And it's just, it's awesome to have women in your corner too. There's so many of us within the industry, the women.

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within the industry we have, we're all really close to. We all talk, we all hang out. Some of my best friends are women in the industry, Joy Taylor, Cynthia Freeland at NFL Network, Colleen Wolf, MJ Acosta, like everyone. It's just like we are, Jane Slater works with the Cowboys. Like we are all just so close and champion each other and lift each other up, which I also think is really important just to have people in your corner. No matter what industry you're in, it's just whether it's a mentor or have someone that you can bounce ideas off of, it's so important to, to have

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that soundboard. What are you doing when you aren't working? What makes you happy outside of sports and work? My husband's a musician. And so music and live music is a huge part of like my happy. So he's gone a lot because he's on tour. So I go and I can see him when he's there. But then I'm also super active. I love working out. I love circuit training.

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bike riding, I have two dogs, I take my dogs on crazy adventures. I have a big family, all my sisters, I have four little, or three little sisters. They all still live around here, so it's a lot of family time, just being outside and then doing cool things. I love adventures and doing cool new things. And food, really good restaurants. My mom and sister are private chefs. We're big foodies in the family. Oh, geez. Man, I'd be... Yeah. I'd have to...

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like really work out a lot. Like, I do every day, every damn day. So I can eat that delicious food. What's your favorite meal? What's your favorite? What type of food are we talking?

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What did I make last night? I made taco salad. So I make my own ground taco meat, spicy seasoning, taco salad, everything, fish, meatballs, love sushi. I'm the kind of person that like you could.

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I am also gluten free. I have been for like 16 years, so that's like an issue. But if I'm able to eat it, I will give anything a try. Like I just, I love food. I'm adventurous. Ah, yes. Adventurous, happy, and a badass on TV. Alex, I really appreciate you coming on the show. Tell me everybody that's listening, how they can keep up with everything you're doing. I'll let you do a slip on the damn TV and watch Fox Sports. You probably are one way or another, but besides that, how they keep up with you.

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I post everything I'm doing on my social media accounts on Instagram, Twitter, X, at Alex, underscore Curry. Everything will always be there. Links, tags, listen to me Saturdays every Saturday on Fox Sports Radio from one to three PM Pacific. You can hear me there. Perfect. Hey guys, we really appreciate you coming on. Alex, I've been a fan from afar for a while and really respect the happiness, the joy.

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And soon to be lots more opinion. I'm happy to hear it. There we go. Really appreciate it, Alex. Of course. Thanks, Ryan. Hey, guys, you know, to find us, the Radcast dot com search for Alex Curry, the CURY, you'll find all the highlight clips and everything about Alex. All our highlight clips links and where to find her on Fox Sports. You know where I'm at. Ryan offered on all the platforms with that blue check verified before you could buy it. We'll see you next time.

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