Luka Doncic on Men's Health cover is an Inspiration!

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25:32Rich Eisen:What are you guys talking about? And this one was Sarah Jackson, Rich Eisen show makeup artist extraordinaire, Rich Eisen show co-executive producer Liz Wailed and Mike Del Tufo all talking about going to the same concert together. And and based on the songs you were singing, Chris, I assumed it was Dua Lipa. I'm not going. I'm not. No, I know that. But you were having your fun. I was having fun. Yeah, I was trying to do the dance. But Mike Del Tufo, you referred to her as Dewey Lippa. I always say the name wrong. It's Lippa. Dewey Lippa. It's Lippa. Is what you referred to, right? Lippa. Like, there she is.

26:15Rich Eisen:There's Dewey. Now, are you making the woof noise? What was that? You're making the woof noise because you appreciate her fashion, her talent. No, I like her music, and I've been a fan since the first one, Electricity. So much so. I'm a DJ, so I like her music. her like she's like one of the Disney ducks of Donald's like Dewey like Dewey Dewey Dewey and Louie yeah Dewey Dewey Dewey like a 22 22 answer Dewey Lippa has been has entered the chat Dewey Lippa you do not know it's Dua Dua no it's Dewey Lippa D-O-O oh is that right it's that's not correct I say the name wrong Mr. Dewey Lippa is telling me I'm saying it wrong too?

26:58Rich Eisen:Yes. Chris. Chris. Chris. Chris. Leepa. Is this like do is this like Bijon Robinson saying don't call me Bijon? Is that what you're saying and everybody's been calling him Bijon? Not everybody. No you're not right. No. Yes. Dua Leepa. Leepa. The name Dua Leepa is pronounced Dua Leepa. Dua. Yeah. No you just said do. You said do. Like your rent is do. Yeah. Dua. No. And then you said D-O-O a second ago. Good Lord. Why are you entertaining this? What is happening over there? He's making it up as he's going. Dewey Lippa. Man, Mike. Going to be a great concert. She might not let you guys in now. Back on the Rich Eisen Show radio network.

27:41Rich Eisen:We were trying to get Jeff Passan on the program, but he was like, I'm working on a story. Is he ever? And that's going to kind of prevent me from being camera ready. He offered to do a phoner. I told him those were so 2021. And plus. We need to see his hair. You've got to be kidding me. Yeah. Right? You know, the person who puts the plus in ESPN Plus and Disney Plus and all the pluses is the hair. Pert Plus. And by the way. Pert Plus. Right? I mean. Jojoba. Pellicero. We were fixated on his hair styling. Man, I got to say, I'm looking at these videos of Tom from Back Together Weekend. It didn't look like he got a cut.

28:17It's still like nice and thick and flowy. Well, it's all about the styling. And definitely a shade of chestnut that it wasn't before. Are Passan and Pellicero having the hair off?

28:26Rich Eisen:So the story that Jeff Passan was working on is that Rob Manfred, the commissioner of Major League Baseball, has a tour that he goes on of all 30 clubs. And the, I guess, the meetings that Manfred conducts, he calls it, he said, Manfred conducts annually these meetings in an effort to improve his relations with every team's players. Well, didn't go very well in terms of his relationship with one particular player on the Philadelphia Phillies, whose name is Bryce Harper. Speaking of hair, heard of him. Right. And according to Jeff, well, it's not just according to him because a player is actually confirmed this.

29:17Rich Eisen:Did you, are you reading this article? Yeah. Yeah. No, I saw the, I saw the big quote. Philadelphia Phillies star Bryce Harper stood nose-to-nose with Rob Manfred during a meeting between the Major League Baseball commissioner and the team last week. I'm reading the first paragraph of Jeff's story, telling him to, quote, get the F with three dashes out of our clubhouse if Manfred wanted to talk about the potential implementation of his salary cap. Now, you know, there is a collective bargaining agreement that is needing to be renegotiated shortly, I'd imagine, or sooner rather than later. And there's been some talk about putting a cap on some of these things, huh?

30:00Now, according to Jeff, the multiple owners have

30:07Rich Eisen:stumped for a salary cap in the MLB, the only major men's North American sport without one. The CBA that I'm talking about is, it's, wow, man, that's right around the corner. It's expiring December 1st of next year.

30:23Rich Eisen:And so Manfred was talking about the economics of the game with the Phillies in their clubhouse. According to Passon, quiet for the majority of the meeting, Harper sitting in a chair and holding a bat eventually grew frustrated and said if baseball were to propose a cap, an old firm to it, players, quote unquote, are not scared to lose 162 games. Harper stood up, walked toward the middle of the room, faced up to Manfred and said, quote, if you want to speak about that, you can get the F out of our clubhouse, to which Manfred's sources said responded that he was, quote, not going to get the F out of here, saying it was important to talk about MLB's business and ways to grow the game.

31:07Rich Eisen:Before the situation further intensified, the Castellanos tried to diffuse the tension by saying, I have more questions. Good one, Nick. Meeting continued. Harper and Manfred eventually shook hands. Sources said, though, Harper declined to answer phone calls from Manfred the next day. Wow. Did he hit him with the custom, can I call you back? Or did he just let it go to voicemail? That's a clown comment, bro. He hit the X on the phone. He even let... Nick said, it was pretty intense. Definitely passionate. Both of them. The commissioner giving it back to Bryce, and Bryce giving it to the commissioner.

31:44Rich Eisen:That's Harp. He's been doing this since he was 15 years old. It's just another day. I wasn't surprised. Manford declined comment through a league spokesman when ESPN contacted. Harper declined comment. Oh, boy. Okay.

32:04Rich Eisen:Well, this needs to get hashed out because that's right around the corner. 2026 is the last playing season under the current collective bargaining agreement. The 2025 season is over. for the Yankees.

32:19Rich Eisen:The team you used to love, Mike, because Aaron Judge is now on the IL. But listen, I digress. This doesn't sound good at all. We're willing to lose 162 games. So that would be, what, the 2027 season? Yes, it would be. Yes, it would be. I don't, I mean. Sheesh. I can't imagine the players would ever agree to a salary cap of any way, shape, or form ever. And anybody who buys into Major League Baseball should kind of know that, right? But if you're the commissioner, you're sure going to try, aren't you? I mean, certainly when you've got a guy who's being paid$700 million to hit, and he doesn't even know who's talented.

33:17You know?

33:21Rich Eisen:Am I wrong? It's a Mets town right now. It actually is right now. I kind of walked into that one. You can't talk about a Pirates hat because it matches your shoes. Seven in a row. This guy. Oh, look at me. I'm wearing a Pirates hat because it matches my T-shirt. It's called Fashion Rich, okay? This is my aesthetic. You know what? Thank you. You know what? I don't care about fashion.

33:46Rich Eisen:when my team's big bopper suddenly just throws one in from right field and feels something twinge in his elbow. That's the best home record of baseball. Am I wrong? Yeah, thank you, Chris. You know, you never say never in this world? Never say never, but. Never say never, but never. You can't say that about Major League Baseball players and the association ever sitting here and saying, we will agree to a salary cap. we will agree to a salary cap and we will agree to a salary floor you know and i'm wondering how many teams would would in major league baseball ownership would actually have a problem with a floor the floor is what they should do the floor yeah raise a competitive balance some of these you know teams have 50 60 million dollar payrolls you know it's outrageous they're not trying to win openly yeah and later in the article passing points out going into the season the gap between luxury tax payrolls of the higher spending team and lowest spending team raised ire amongst fans and made salary caps a far bigger part of the rhetoric surrounding the game than in previous years the dodgers payroll is more than tax is more than 400 million and um high spending team the dodgers payroll pardon me more than 400 million the marlins are just under 86 million now that that i i also can understand why fans would have a problem with that and also why ownership would have a problem with that because if i'm spending that much money and i'm popping all that money into a luxury tax and somebody's competing against me isn't even at 25 percent of what worse of what that's spending right then i've got a problem with that that messes with the competitive balance yeah the marlins active payroll is 43.6 million dollars how much is that now active active 43.6 tampa 45.2 washington 51.7 the athletics 54.6 like they're not even trying i mean if the marlins go any lower than superstar players that they reach out to to join the team, even if they do put money on the table, might not even know who they are.

35:58Rich Eisen:As Ichiro pointed out in his Hall of Fame induction ceremony, acceptance speech. And to the Miami Marlins, I appreciate David Samson and Mike Hill for coming today. Honestly, when you guys called to offer me a contract for 2015, team. I have never heard of your team.

36:32Rich Eisen:Ichiro's got jokes. Ichiro's got jokes. What a legend. I'd never heard of your team. That's wild. Now the Marlins, you know, a couple of trophies in the case. A couple of pieces of metal, right? A couple of hunks of metal, yeah. All right. Let's get, I mean, we got a work cut out for us fans here. I mean, honestly, the payroll disparity is ridiculous. That's nuts. And I'd imagine there are some owners, members in the league saying, we got to work on this. But the answer can't just be to take it out of the players. Right. players will be like you figure out your own damn house before you come to us and say that i i need to cough up cash right when you think like and this is man i've heard this before and that's the that is exactly the way labor disputes pop up that is exactly the way it happens and certainly if the commissioner is doing the hey i will come into your locker room i will come in your clubhouse and talk to you face to face i'm not gonna hide in my new york city office I'll come straight to you.

37:45Rich Eisen:And Bryce Harper goes, I'll just go right in your face. And he's going right back in his face. I'll come over to your joint. But then he does call him the next day. Hey, let's have a relationship. And he's just like sending you straight to voicemail. Unavailable. Unavailable. That ain't good. No. Baseball has been such a high this year, too. You got to expect that carries over to next year. For there to be a work stoppage would be horrible. devastating. And Chris, by the way, it's not bad that Itro didn't know Miami. Remember, he didn't know who Tom Brady was. Didn't know who Tom Brady was. So, you know.

38:24Itro's locked in. He's locked in. That's right. Itro's locked in. Thank you for that perspective.

38:29Rich Eisen:Appreciate that. That he doesn't know one of the member 30 clubs. Who the bleepers? He gets a text. Who the bleepers? Tom Brady. I've never heard of the Miami Marlins as a guy who's all the way on the Pacific Northwest of the country. Exactly. Was there no Italy play? There were no Seattle visits? to miami probably i don't know not i mean because when interweek play started remember it was your rivals that's right yeah yeah it wasn't a fully balanced if you will or unbalanced schedule however you want to put it listen uh bottom line is good lord that's the headline this ain't good so maybe we'll have jeff on a zoom tomorrow he's got enough time to get his hair ready can you imagine i you know i don't understand it because i can break a story and show up in two seconds flat you don't have to get ready no that's the that's the benefit of the bald brotherhood wake up ready baby 2025 but like 1996 you probably was singing a different tune oh well if there was zoom are you kidding me i'd have to get my crew pomade going is there a dead head for for journalism like oh my hair's not ready i've got it all messed up talking about how bryce harper was cursing out Manfred and Manfred's cursing him back.

39:43Rich Eisen:Commissioner's working blue, baby. Let's go. Okay. Let's take a break. It's overreaction Monday on a Monday. On a Monday. And Luca's ripped. Shred it, man. That's all still coming with Nico Collins as well. 844-204-RICH. Number to dial. Rich Eisen here. Running a small business means every hire matters. A bad hire costs time and money, but the right one helps your business grow. The challenge? Finding that person without sorting through resumes. That's where LinkedIn Hiring Pro comes in. It screens candidates so you can focus on conversations with qualified talent. With Hiring Pro, you can hire with confidence and build the team you need.

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41:03Rich Eisen:I always like to think that I'm his most favorite person in the room. But when the Vince Lombardi trophy is sitting between the two of us, I think I lose out. Michael Irvin, right? I think I lose out to this baby, right? It's so funny you start with this because I'm going to tell you something, man. Yes. When I was playing, I made a pact that I would never go to a Super Bowl until I play in the Super Bowl. Okay. Every guest that comes here, they're going to get Super Bowl questions. That's why I always say I would never go to a Super Bowl until after I play in the Super Bowl, so I would not have people like Rich Eisen asking me questions that I cannot answer.

41:40Now, what do you want to ask, Rich? Because I've prepared to answer since I won three of these things.

41:46Rich Eisen:So what was it like picking this trophy up for the first time? It was the greatest thing, and it really was, Rich. It really was the greatest thing. Do you remember the circumstances? Oh, my God, man. First of all, you got to go back and think about, like, we were 1-15. We were 3-13, 1-15. When you're 3-13 and 1-15 Cleveland Browns, I know you don't think there's any chance that you would ever lay a hold of something like this. So to go from those days to coming in 92 and winning that Super Bowl and actually somebody handing you that trophy, the most incredible thing, most incredible feeling in the world.

42:22Rich Eisen:Did you ever step in when you heard that Jimmy and Jerry were not doing well? Or your station wasn't that in life at that point in time? I just didn't think anything would happen, Rich. I really didn't. I was like, are you joking? You know how hard it is doing Super Bowls. And you have a formula that's working. And then when it happened, it was like, oh, my God. Like, you know, I should have done this. Maybe I should have talked to him. I should have tried this. I should have tried that. Jerry Jones, I'm telling you, that's the one thing. I'll never forget Jerry Jones telling me that when I was negotiating with him.

42:51and I was saying, you know, I'll go to Cincinnati. And I was just talking, trying to get my monies up. I said, I'll go to Cincinnati. You can get car pickings over here and let's see what happens. And Jerry said to me, Jerry said, Michael, you know, when I see you, I see Michael Irvin and the Dallas Cowboys. He said, I kind of see it like Magic Johnson and the Lakers. He said, what is magic without the Lakers? And what are the Lakers without the magic? He said, you guys, they belong together, just like you and the Cowboys. He said, Michael, the best way I can tell you, if a bomb hit Valley Ranch today, that's where we practiced.

43:25It blew everything up. Everybody, everything. When the smoke clears, baby, me and you, we're going to still be here. So we might as well work this deal out right now. That's what he said to you? I promise y 'all. This dude is a fool. This dude is a fool. He had me laughing as he was telling me no about my money.

43:47Rich Eisen:That's why you're in the Hall of Fame together. Michael Irvin, everybody, one of our favorites. All of his many, many, many, many appearances on this program throughout the years, YouTube.com slash RichEyesandShow. So Dion is going to speak in about 15 minutes with his medical team, right? Yeah. And, you know, something's been up. Prime's been home. Something's been up, yeah. And he put out a video on his Instagram that a lot of people were freaked out by because they didn't see the caption at the bottom of the video that it took place in early May where he said that he had a difficult previous two days because he was filling out a will.

44:28Rich Eisen:But apparently he's fine now and ready for the season for the Colorado Buffaloes. We'll hear what this was all about, keeping an eye peeled and an ear to the ground on all of that that's coming up at the top of the hour. Nico Collins of the Texans as well. 844-204-RICH-NUMBER-TO-DOLL. Take your phone calls. Stay on hold. Listen, I've been living in Los Angeles since 2003. Mike, you've been here forever and a day, right? 30 years. 30 years. TJ, you've been here for a long time too, right? Pretty much? Like in LA? 20? Yeah, this is 26. Christopher, when did you pack up your car? I moved here August 6, 2009.

45:10Okay. So I'm coming up on 16.

45:11Rich Eisen:We've all been here for quite some time. Yes, sir. There is no more Los Angeles story that goes back even before we got here. Decades. Long, long time. There is no more of a Los Angeles story than man goes through a horrible breakup and then gets in shape. Vice versa. That's a Los Angeles story. It is. normally it's somebody on marriage two three four somebody much older than all of us then hooks up with somebody a lot younger than all of us just i mean these are los angeles stories not to bog down but it appears luka donchich went through a bad breakup and decided i'm gonna get in shape revenge body certainly since certainly since he came from a spot where we used to see the kid who was a wunderkind um what going to san francisco visiting the warriors and uh hookah bar or after you know taking his team to the nba finals drinking a beer having it taken out of his hand by michael finley and then suddenly he gets boom traded look at him now that's what we saw a few weeks ago when he's wearing a white t-shirt like looking like straight straight from the gap, right?

46:33Rich Eisen:Fall into the gap. It's like, what happened to him? Well, now we're seeing because he's on the cover of Men's Health magazine. I must tell you this. This is beyond expectations. If you had to name a superstar in the NBA who would at least be the last person to show up on the cover of Men House Magazine, it would be him and James Harden, right? It would be a coin toss. Okay? James Harden is a pretty good one. But look at him! You know, in mid-movement, with a dumbbell in his hands, and he's got bands around his waist, and he's jumping little mini hurdles, and he's doing all sorts of stuff. Luca.

47:21Rich Eisen:And apparently he's also, look at him deadlifting. Look at that. Wow. And he's doing this all while fasting, apparently. He goes through a 90-minute workout and then starts his day in terms of eating, gluten-free, low sugar. This guy's doing smoothies. Luca's doing smoothies, protein smoothies. You can see the muscles in his arms now. According to Men's Health, he can do everything from trap bar deadlifts to landmine overhead presses. And you can see he's shooting with a resistance band around his waist. Quote, according to this article, he moves swiftly from circuit to circuit, banging out hip stretches one moment, working through renegade rows the next.

48:07Rich Eisen:It's a session with barely any breathers, which is fine. This version of Doncic doesn't need them. This Luca is different.

48:20Rich Eisen:Two a days. Gluten-free low-sugar diet that includes at least 250 grams of protein in one almond milk-fueled shake a day. If I stop now, Luca says, of his effort to rebuild his body, quote, it was all for nothing. According to the article on May the 1st, a day after the Lakers were eliminated from the NBA playoffs, he called his manager, Larabeth Seager, and said, let's get to work. He chokes down two high-protein meals and one protein shake, and he doesn't have that first meal until he's crushed his 90-minute morning workout. obviously be the best that I can be. Take care of myself, he says. This year with my team, I think we did a huge step, but this is just the start, you know.

49:02Rich Eisen:I need to keep going. Can't stop. The idea is that if he was top five in the world at that weight with no definition and no sense of how to get better physically, what's he going to look like now? Also in here for those who want to stir anything up, is the interesting stuff that he's been inspired by the workout habits and the maniacal off-season training regimens of MJ and Kobe. No mention of LeBron and his potential workouts. Oh, we know whose team it is now. So there's that. So look for that in a topic bar split-screen conversation near you. At some point. And then another thing, too. You know what?

49:55Rich Eisen:This is the part of the article that really outraged me here. The moment the Mavs traded him to the Lakers in February, according to the articles, rumors leaked that Dallas didn't want to deal with his love of beer and hookah. Even this summer, the NBA web has chattered that Doncic is on Ozempic, which means they do not listen or watch the Rich Eisen show. It is not Ozempic. It is not. It's Spite Zempick. It's Spite Zempick. Which, again, is a Spite Glutine injection that has minimal draft picks involved and consult your GM before using to see if Spite Zempick is right for you. Man, bad breakups.

50:45Rich Eisen:Get that revenge by the goal. Tail as old as time. As old as time. Comes to L.A., decides to just, I'll show you, Dallas. You know what? I'm there in Dallas. Living my best life. Slamming beers. You know? Ripping hookah bars. Yeah, yeah, yeah, man. And protein bars, candy bars, all sorts of bars. Yep. Right? Mini bars. Like I said, he's European. Yep. Well, now he's Los Angeles. Break it up. And getting ripped. It's like from Wolf of Wall Street. One of us. One of us. Dude. I can't wait for the Lakers season to hit, man. Apparently the first time we're going to see it in action is when he's, I guess, playing for his nation in Euro baskets and stuff like that.

51:47Rich Eisen:Oh, really? Yeah. Apparently that's coming up. That's first up for the Luca 2.0 that's entered the chat, according to the Men's Health Magazine. That's going down. Nico Collins coming up. You know, and then I'm watching this, and I'm thinking to myself, you know what? It's kind of inspiring. You know what I mean? Some guy's got a dad bod in his 20s, can now suddenly get ripped. You know? All it takes is intermittent fasting and laying off the sugar and the gluten. $60 million contract. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what I mean? And I was thinking to myself, you know what? Jim Harbaugh offered me to work with Ben Herbert.

52:26Rich Eisen:Across the street. Are we going to do this or what? No. Come on. Rich, come on. Then I thought, you know what? We do it as a team. Yeah. What do you mean it's a team? All of us. We all go. Team. Show. Show workouts. So I'm coming in and, by the way, plus three. It'll be me, Brockman, TJ. And Dewey Lippa. And Dewey Lippa. The big Dewey Lippa fan. And would you say, hey, when we come work out, can you put Dewey Lippa on? Yeah, I'll make it playlist. We're good. No, no, we don't need you. I'll give you a playlist. I don't know. But it is inspiring. Yeah, by the way, Slovenia, Euros, August 28th. It's his first game.

53:11It's his first game.

53:13Rich Eisen:Man, all the... It'll seem like a month. All the Euros over the weekend, too. Did you see Jokic celebrating his horse winning? I know. He was going nuts. He showed more emotion there than winning the NBA championship. He was like crying. Horse winning means more to him. He hugged the horse. I love it. Jokic is the man. Jokic hopped the fence. Wait, are you doing a hop offense? I think he stepped over it. Yes. Did you see that video? He stepped over it and he ran out and he hugged the horse. Okay. Okay. Okay. You can show me some more of those Luca pictures. They just get you started, don't they?

53:49Rich Eisen:Right? This guy's like, you know what? I'm not eating. I'm going to go work out. I'm going to go shred for 90 minutes. We need to have the... Did it say the shake has 250 grams of protein in it? Is that what you said? Yes. That is a high-power shake. I was just going to say, that's... Donchic slogging through two-a-days in Croatia while sticking to a gluten-free, low-sugar diet that includes at least 250 grams of protein and one almond milk-fueled shake a day. Okay, so he's eaten 250 total. That's not in one shake. They never knew that Doncic had quietly constructed a fitness team several years ago.

54:25Rich Eisen:Help enhance his, quote-unquote, very dangerous natural gifts, and they never realized how much he committed to training and diet this summer. Okay. Even if you thought Luka had a dad bod, he was already a top-five NBA player, and after pushing hard this offseason, and he can't help but wonder how high he'll level up. Welcome to Los Angeles, Luca. Dang. Nico Collins coming up.