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Talk baseball, man, the pod
They just... They're looking good right now even
though they lost yesterday. What do you think
out there, lee?
John, let me come up with a word
to describe. I think what we've experienced in
the last 10 days, maybe the last 2
weeks, and the word resiliency.
The pod come off winning 2 of 3
at Fe Park.
9 to 02:11
1 Victories.
By the time they got done, Red sox
fans were booing the Bo socks off the
field at P Park. Where had the 9
run inning in 1 game. Mach had 2
bombs in the second 1.
Matt W knuckle ball was pretty impressive although
they lost on Sunday,
I thought it was fascinating that w through
a knuckle ball with the first pitch in
honor of the late Red sox popular knuckle
ball pitcher
Tim Wake field who lost his life to
cancer. That was really cool. I thought it
was really cool. That Don Cl who spent
16 years broadcasting Red sox baseball bowl was
honored by the fans it turned towards the,
the television booth and
clap for him. So the pad on the
stretch, won 9 of 10
and then got knocked out by the Red
sox on Sunday, off day Monday, Now they
go to Texas.
I think the most amazing thing to me
as we talk about Ponder baseball right now.
Arise is having a spectacular all star type
season. Top hit in major League baseball.
Most amazing aspect of that,
the Miami Marlin our pain is almost his
full sour. That is absolutely amazing. On top
of that, pro far having a career season.
Gotta be in the all star game. He's
playing for 1500000.0
dollars plus incentives.
And W, the fifth starter in the rotation
has had a lot of really good starts.
8 and 9 quality starts in a row
that kinda kept the pad
with sight of the first place dodgers.
Are showing, I just think
unbelievable
resiliency. That's my
Sesame Street word of the day brought to
you by resiliency. John reaction.
Well, you know, I think you can make
a case that Jackson Merrill maybe should be
in the All star game too. I mean,
there aren't very many players in center field
that are hitting as well as him. But
you gotta love this. But, you know, we're
missing 4 stars. There's no tat, no bog
arts, no must grove, no da and yet
they're winning. I mean, how do you explain
this?
Well, right now, they're hot. Now is that
they're going against substandard pitching. Yeah, that's probably
part of the equation. But this is a
piece of the schedule where I thought they
could really put a run together. You know,
2 weeks ago, 3 weeks ago. I thought
they had had the ability to get on
a 10 game winning streak and they screwed
it up on the road and screwed up
against bad teams, and then they go on
the road and they face a Bo botox
team they'd won 10 or 13 and they
conduct batting practice against them. So that was
really, really impressive. They just need to keep
trucking this because once they come through this
next homes John,
that schedule gets really tough, because they go
back out on the road and they play
first place, Cleveland. They face the second place
or or play really good ball and then
they get the dodgers when they come back
here. So they really need to try to
close the gap against the dodgers in the
next 10 days. So that's the storyline. The
word that I'm using today
resiliency as it relates to the pod.
Next topic on the table involves the other
teams in Southern California. Well I I up
with another pod question for you Lee. Apparently,
there was an article written in the local
news newspaper in Boston about Don or solo.
And his homecoming to Boston. And he has
fond memories of Red sox fans, and, you,
he grew up there and went to school
there.
But he said that, you know, the loyalty
has to go 2 ways, and the team
was not loyal to him. They fired him.
So he's sort of arms length with Med
sox ownership the manager. What's your take on
that?
At Arm length with the people that made
the decision. But that was a very unpopular
decision by for Red sox fans. They were
really unhappy with what the organization did, at
that point, the Bo socks had kinda hit
a down skid, and they took it out
on the announcing crew. How stupid
is that. But it all worked out well.
Donny become an icon might be as popular
if not the most popular Pod Tv broadcaster
link with Mud grant and you add into
that,
you know, Boston fans haven't forgot what a
valuable guy he was to them even if
management at that point in time for some
reason,
decided to make a change as the team
went sour. So... And the fact that the
fans turned around and gave him a thumbs
up. That credit hat was kinda cool.
Yeah. All good. I mean I just... I
did just an interesting side story on the
whole, but love on the Pad. But, yeah,
let's let's go take a look at the
Dodgers and Angel. There's got a lot going
on with these 2 teams as well.
If if I'm looking for words as it
relates to the dodgers. Let me use the
word holding on. Was holding on until their
pitcher get healthy or holding on until Andrew
Friedman turns around and makes a trade. Is
there gonna be a trade for another bat
by Louis Robert of the white sox? Is
there gonna be a trade for a short
stop because they're not gonna have milky bets
back for a while? Or is it gonna
be a trade for an arm
because of had these setbacks,
obviously,
K shut down again, the setback with Walker
Walker B The fact that Dust may is
still ways away, and they still seem to
be a little bit shaky, a little bit
wafer thin as it relates. To the bull
pen. Now they got chips to trade. If
Andrew Friedman can pull the trigger on the
right deal, he could trade out fill the
James Alt or he could trade shorts stop
gavin luxe. He's got a really good catch
that's had a bounce back season, a aa
diego Kart.
So there are guys with the dodgers to
do, my word of the day, dodgers holding
on till they get healthy arms back or
holding on to land ruth Friedman.
Execute a tree. The angel situation.
Could you see this coming? I didn't see
this coming. I'm sure angel fan didn't see
this coming, Halo, 6 game Streak, playing much
better baseball.
Now
now we see if the angels take the
next step forward.
Because coming for back of the disable shortly
will be Anthony Ron has started taking batting
practice
and Mike Trout. This past weekend, for the
first time confirms he is pain free, post
knee surgery with the meniscus, and it looks
as if he's gonna start running this week,
and he's kinda pushing his target data up
maybe to August first. So those are my
Dodge and my angel headlines and John riley
says,
Alright. Did you see the replay of the
ball boy saving S hey Tonya from getting
hit? I mean, that Yep. That was pretty
cool. But, you know, we you look at
the at the dodgers. I mean,
who is their starting rotation right now. You
get down to starters 4 and 5. I'm
not sure if I recognize the names.
And all of a sudden, James Pax who
at 1 point was
5 and o 7 and 1 can't get
guys out. I mean, he got smoked over
the weekend. And so the dodgers right now
are kinda running out of arms.
Gavin Stone right now is has become kind
of the frontline guy on the staff. I
don't really know where Bobby Miller is at
this point.
Because a couple of innings he's pitched after
coming off this long stay on the disable
list. He got banged around, and he wasn't
throwing a lot of strikes etcetera. So the
vouchers right now are just... I I just
think that they're running short. So the question
is, will Andrew Friedman,
pull the trigger on a deal well before
the deadline or do they just wait to
hope that they can get K back and
and b back. But those those 2 guys
have got both had setbacks
And so the... Their stay on the D
is probably gonna be extended. And your thoughts
on the halo? Could you imagine? Did you
ever imagine? 6 wins in a row. Anytime
this season with that team? On Washington's got
these guys believing themselves and the kids? Zac,
and Logan Hop or are really kinda carrying
this team. Yeah. I love that. I mean,
it's nice to see them have some success.
Now you say Mike trout is pain free.
Do you think that he might be on
the trade block in July?
Well, that rumor had surfaced that that his
name had been possibly discussed. I don't know
whether it was the angels making the call
or whether the giants was the name that
I heard, whether the giants made the call.
But, again, the trade deadline does not come
up till July 30 first, He has to
prove now. He can go through batting practice
with no setbacks. Then he has to prove
he can get on the bases.
And Run with no setbacks and us to
prove that he can pound it in set
field unless they're gonna make him a designated
hit with no physical setbacks there. So there's
still things in the rehab process that had
to take place, but the fact he's pain
free and was hoping
maybe they start running real quickly sometime after
July fourth and with a target date now
of August first, which rings and chimes in
with the baseball trading deadline. Yeah. You gotta
love that. I mean, you know, just seeing
the angels being competitive.
So... You know, the officer game is in
what, like a week and a half. Right?
Yes.
Okay. Have... Is there been any news about
Ot? If he's... Is he gonna do the
home run Derby?
At this point, I don't think the doctors
want him to do the derby. But at
this point, I also tend to think that
he he and his people are saying we'd
like to do it. They've they've
rigged, reworked,
change the home run derby
deliveries.
That the guys are gonna only have a
max number of 40 pitches. The guys are
gonna be able to take step out of
the box, tape of breath, because they were
concerned the players have been the last 2
years that that so many pictures are being
thrown, and these guys are swinging at full
force,
that they're gonna wear themselves out, they could
have a bleak injury. They could do something
to a rib cage
for an exhibition. So what baseball did over
the weekend was kinda hit the reset button
a little bit just to change.
What the batting practice pitches would look like,
and they're gonna limit how much time they
run in the box. And limit how many
swings are gonna get?
I mean, to me, the home run Derby
is better than the All star game itself.
And what do you think?
Well, I like it. And I experienced it
when the All star game came to San
Diego. I sat down wolf field seats right
on the foul line. I was watching at
that point,
Jim carlos stand in the Miami Marla, hit
home run after home run after home run.
I said this is unbelievable what what power
this guy has it's unbelievable this Guy could
take as many fierce force wings
and and not get fatigued not get worn
out, but players players are concerned just about
that that factor of home run derby as
as Neon light an an issue as it
is. It's really kind of a cool event,
but you don't wanna get Guys.
Yeah. Exactly. So good time. It's July. It's
heating up, And this is a great time
for Baseball.
Baseball notebook. M ml b got some things
here to to talk about real briefly.
This is not good for Philadelphia, Philadelphia. Best
team in Major League baseball, John. I mean,
red Hot, and now they're hurt. Bryce Harper
and Kyle Sc go down in the same
game. And both are on the disabled list
right now, 1 with a groin Harper, the
other sc their lead off home run hit,
with a ham. So that's not good.
Not good in San Francisco. The ownership has
gone public it's kinda come out from behind
the doors.
And as used the phrase,
we're gonna never do this again ever. He's
talking about signing free agents late. And he's
making direct comments about the whole blake sn
situation whose Yet to get them a win.
Sn, of course, got signed late at the
end of spring training.
Got hurt really early, e of around 10
is still on the disabled list. Now he's
thrown 2 rehab assignments. They think he'll be
back. But what kind of blake sn. Are
they gonna get back because he sure doesn't
look like he was the guy who had
been in San ago. In fact, the giants
have got 7 guys on the disabled list.
They've got a whole bunch of starter still
on the deal, and ownership has gone public.
Never again, while a sign a free agent.
This late. It's a big issue that's really
led to kind of a substandard giant season.
And in Washington,
when we get to Tuesday, I just want
you to look at the Washington Nationals fox
score. His name is James Woods. He will
make his debut Tuesday for the Washington Nationals,
who's he? He was 1 of the guys,
along with Mackenzie and Cj j abrams broom
who was dealt from the Pad.
The Washington Nationals, and the ill fated juan
so trade that never worked out for the
fryer. James Woods just recalled over the weekend
reported today will be in the lineup up
tomorrow, hitting 03:46
at aaa syracuse
is the next x pod rate prospect that's
gonna make us debut.
In major league baseball. So John, your reaction
to Philly, can they overcome this. Your reaction
to the giants ownership saying, we're never gonna
do this again.
Well, first of all, it's amazing how many
injuries are going on all throughout major league
baseball. You know, Bryce Harper, the... You know,
he's got the most votes in the all
star game. He's probably not gonna be there
or maybe you'll just be there in Spirit.
The the whole blake sn. It's like a
slow train crash that you could see coming.
We all knew he got off the slow
starts. He signed late, came out of the
box late, and now he's having a typical
slow start and an injury. I mean, it's
gotta be the most frustrating thing for giants
fans right now because the dude is just
not doing anything and he's making 31000000 dollars
this year. Well, I signed him in a
2 year deal, he could opt out after
the first year, but his ready of season
as he's had He'll probably opt in and
stay in the giants will be on the
hook for another 31000000,
and then, we'll see what kind of season
he has for next year. But this year,
obviously has just been a massive disappointment and,
you know, Blake sn lousy starts a part
of Blake sn Dna. The injuries, that's a
that's a side
situation, but it goes to show how you
really need the ramp up the build up
time for baseball spring training. So that being
said, we just put topics on the table
for fans form people to get involved,
pod raised. Do you agree with me the
word we're looking for right now is resiliency?
Anybody out there got an assessment where the
dodgers are hanging on for dear life, and
can you believe which you see what's going
on with the angels. So those are all
things baseball. Next topic on the table, John,
here we go. Hoops.
Hoops. Yeah. Lakers, clippers. Now they're trying to
figure out which free agents to sign.
Well, the free agent window has open. The
Nba draft was last week. Let me run
through good news bad news and the wheat
and dealing in the last 24 hours of
the Nba has just been unbelievable.
Item 1,
Lebron James opted out of his contract. Item
2, he will be offered a 3 year
162000000
extension. Item 3, Lebron indicated he was willing
to take a dis count on the extension
to stay there
if they got the right player. Item 4
they drafted his son Ronnie James, which is
brought a lot of different reaction, but he's
on the roster and he's gonna sign at
contract, Live with it La fans. Now here's
the next part of the story that has
really taken the lakers off track.
They had hoped to be able to make
a deal to get a significant 3 point
shooter on the guy they want it was
D Murray of Atlanta.
They refused to give up 2 number 1
picks end players in the trade, and instead
Atlanta traded Des jean Murray to the new
Orleans pe.
Lakers shut out there.
Item 2,
Lebron talked to clay thompson,
leaving golden state.
Instead, golden state traded clay Thompson at this
hour.
It looks as if it's a 3 way
deal Clay Thompson goes to Dallas.
Josh Green goes from Dallas to Charlotte with
draft picks, and the warriors somehow are gonna
pick up draft picks and salary cap relief
and Clay Thompson's 3 point shooting will be
in a Dallas uniform, not a lake uniform.
So everything that Lebron and his agent had
worked through Rob Po and a Hope would
work out,
none of its really worked out. And then
the complicated,
and this is really strange. Dean angela Russell
opted into his contract to stay.
Everybody around the league was of the opinion.
He was gonna opt out, go back on
the free agent Mark. And I had a
great season shooting threes last year, and then
he totally disappeared went into a fun. In
the playoffs. So this is a massive surprise
as it relates to the lakers that now
they're, quote, stuck with D angela Russell contract.
Now, did might well be, the Russell will
find his way under Jj re, the new
head coach. Couple of other guys also opted
in
to stay in Los Angeles with the new
coaches who's gotten pretty good reviews in terms
of jj Red
conversations. So John, there's a Gran plan.
Headline by the word discount. Now it's probably
been erased headline by the word disappointment. Because
the lakers failed to get any of the
guys quote, they were looking to add around
Lebron James. John Reilly, you're out left field
with an opinion. Thoughts.
Well, Clay Thompson was rumored to go to
the lakers for a long time. People were
speculating it. I mean, wasn't his his dad
was Michael Thompson. Right? Mean isn't he's still
1 of the announcer for the lakers? Yes.
He is. Yeah. But the problem was he
he refused to take a massive pay cut.
And the lakers could only give him 12000000
per year, and instead he it did wanna
go to the lakers at last minute Golden
State work out the sign and trade
that puts him in Dallas maverick uniform. To
me, this this is just a big setback,
because now we I have a new coach
for the same set of roster players
that didn't perform last year and the guys
they wanted to go after, notably, Jean and
Tay Murray, K Thompson. We're gonna be wearing
somebody else's colors not purple and gold. I
think it's a big setback to the lakers.
It is. And I think, you know, the
lakers needed shooters clay would have been terrific
there. So now, like, like, let's say Lebron
takes a 20000000 dollar pay cut, which is
insane to talk about such numbers. And they
added another guy. That could be kind of
a story book year if they get the
right puzzle pieces, and then you got, you
know, dad and son onto an Nba championship.
I think that's the the story book ending
they're looking for.
Is that you making that statement with your
heart rather than using your head. I don't
know who's out there that he could go
get. And if they refused to give up
2 number when Picks for a star like
des Jean Murray,
they're getting turn, give up 2 number 1
picks now for a lesser player. I
it just didn't work out. And, you know
Lebron is not sign the contract extension. He
indicated if we can get the right guys
in, I'll take a discount. Well, the right
guys are gone,
Lebron will probably say, just give me the
max. I'll just play for 3 years and
1 62,
I won't take less.
It's it's a complicated
story. And like I said, You know, we're
a day and a half into Nba free
agency and the names. The marquee names are
flying off the board. I don't know where
the lakers are gonna go to go get
more quality players. So big story there. What
about 1 of the Lopez brothers? I thought
I saw a rumor about that online this
morning?
What Lopez is out there on the trade
block,
but is is he a difference maker? Yeah.
He's a big
does he complement Anthony Davis Yeah, maybe. I
think he's a pretty good pass. I don't
think he's the type of stud that they
wanted.
Tough call. Tough call. They'll they'll make calls
Question is, we'll
pay the right price to get the right
guy. Huge question there. Now, from that, from
lakers,
let's go to the clippers.
We thought this might happen. We talked about
this happening and it did happen.
Paul George opted out of his contract with
the clippers.
Walked away as a free agent said, no.
I'm not I'm not gonna stay. If he
had opted in, they could turn around and
make a trade.
Instead, he opted it out, and he went
directly to the Philadelphia 76 at 03:30
this morning.
He made reached agreement.
That's a massive blow
to the clippers. Then you add into that
equation.
They they elected at the last minute after
they got word that George was not gonna
negotiate with them, they decided to keep James
Horton, and 35000000
per season. They signed James Harden, 2 years,
70000000.
Had a good season, totally tanked and disappeared
in the playoffs but they gave them 2
years
70000000.
On top of that,
then this was strange
Ross Westbrook opted in. To stay to stay.
Despite the fact he failed them in the
post season,
but I here that Westbrook opted it in,
so they could make a trade send him
somewhere else. That deal has yet to happen.
So the lakers now are just not the
same team. They turned around after Paul, George
went to Philadelphia at 03:30 on Monday morning.
By 8AM, they signed young ford Derek Jones,
the Ex dallas Maverick. They signed a very
controversial productive, but troubled guard in Kevin Porter,
who was out of the Nba last season
on a domestic abuse case did not play
at all in pro basketball.
They brought him back, but please tell me.
You think there at Jones and Kevin Porter
gonna be equal to what you had with
Paul George, so that... That's a big big
problem
for the La clippers they are.
They're not the team they were. And I
think the thing that's calling because they got
Leonard
To take a reduced price. Because he signed
a 3 year deal last year at a
much lower price to keep the team together.
And Paul George stood there, and Paul George
said that is great. That ka combines doing
this, let's keep this thing together, and then
Paul George ups out. And signs it 03:30
on Monday morning to go to Philadelphia. So
they right now, they kind of a team
that's in tat. It's just it's not the
same
franchise at this point in time, and I
don't think we're also Westbrook brings you very
much on the trade block. So that's that's
the story in line there. John, your reaction
to what's happening to
Steve Balm Clippers is always a problem with
the clippers. Isn't it? Always a problem. I
mean, there's the curse of the clippers, and
it goes way back to when they were
the Buffalo Brave, you know, back in the
seventies,
1 thing after another after another with his
franchise. You know, when Paul George came here,
we were all feeling the good vibes. You
know? He's an La guy. With a school
in California,
him at Hawaii. They had that press conference
together. And all of that just, you know,
went away. I mean, traded in the middle
of the night. It's just... This is just
show me the money. Right?
Wasn't traded. He opted out. This pardon.
Show me the money in the middle of
the of the night, 03:30 this morning as
when I got a text that said he
is leaving.
I mean, that's a big, big blow. To
the Ellen Clippers and he was a fine
player. My goodness. He's he's had a really
good career, but he's gone. He's gone to
Philadelphia which now has its own version
of of the big 3. Now, let me
just quickly run through what has happened in
the first
30 hours of free agency for you, John.
Because some of these other guy's names have
mentioned is maybe coming to the clippers are
coming to La. They're not coming either. George
goes to Philadelphia, 4 years, 212000000.
Chris Paul was released by Golden state. He
has promptly signed, and I think this is
a great acquisition in San Antonio.
Instead of making 30000000,
he's gonna make 1 year, 11000000, but he
wants to play for Papa. You talk about
a goo guy to hold the team together.
Orlando,
signed Denver Guard, Kent ta Caldwell Pope, 3
years, 66000000
hope played really well for the former
Nba champions.
Philadelphia, in addition to getting Paul George signed
Andre drum rebound specialist of the Chicago bulls,
detroit landed Tobias Harris.
The shooting forward who left Philadelphia His neighbor
mentioned coming to the clippers. He's gone to
the Detroit pistons from Philadelphia.
Oklahoma city this afternoon signed the fast developing
or the New York Knicks, Only say, our
Hart,
3 years, 87000000
knicks ran out of money because of all
the transactions, the Knicks had made. In the
last couple of weeks.
They lose Hart.
He goes to Oklahoma the city. And, of
course, Dallas makes the trade
We don't know all the components yet because
it's a 3 way deal. Dallas gets 3
point shooter Clay Thompson,
not the lakers
Charlotte gets the young ford, jumping Jack, Josh
Green. Golden state gets cap relief because Clayton
Thompson is off the books. And at the
same time, they're gonna pick up, I think
multiple draft picks along the way. So those
were marquee names that changed teams and I
said, his first
18 to 32 hours in the Nba free
agency has just been... Your your wording is
correct, Wheel in dealing. Has been pretty amazing,
John. Yeah. I I honestly don't know what
to make of all these moves. I'm curious
to know if any of these kids that
were drafted if they're gonna make a big
impact, in year 1 when they're on their
new roster.
Oh, I think I think the the kids
at the top of the draft board definitely.
Or go are gonna make impacts. And now,
you know, the prime example is, a, you
got young kids going to bad team. So
it takes time. But in some cases, you've
got young going into Teams whose arrow was
pointed up. I mean, Chris Paul
joins W Yan in San Antonio.
That's pretty impressive. And, you know, Oklahoma City
last year, drafted Chat home,
the kid from Gon. Now they've gone out,
and they've added veteran people to put around
them. So, you know, it's 1 thing to
draft the young player, the next thing is
do you have the right support people around
the young player and some of these clubs.
Wheeled and deal. A couple of other sidebar
notes. We of course, came through the Nba
draft last Wednesday and last Thursday. We talked
about that. You don't get drafted you to
sign as a free agent. Jaden Led
goes to the Minnesota Timber.
That's a pretty good situation I think for
the ex ast John, and we had talked
about, go where you can play for a
good coach. Go where there's gonna be an
opportunity
is weird.
Jayden Led goes to the Minnesota Timber wolves
as a street free agent. He replaces
Ja Mc
another ex excise tech who was chipped away
on a draft night Nba trade. So Jaden
and Led goes to a really good team
with a pretty good coach and Chris Finch.
In K Johnson, the excise tech who went
to Arizona for 1 year, does not get
drafted then. He goes to Miami as a
street free agent He's gonna get a chance
to learn under Eric Sp,
smart guy coach, really good teacher and Pat
Riley. A hell of a general manager, player
personal guy and knows how to run systems.
So for the Aztec text, I think in
my heart, This workout okay for Lid d.
I don't know how many minutes he's gonna
get, but there is an opening because Minnesota
got rid of, Ja Mc, and K Johnson
goes to play for 2 real. Bright life
gosh John?
Well, I imagine both of those guys are
gonna end up on 2 way deals, some
kind of a g league thing.
But it's interesting you brought at Mc daniels
because I often get him confused because there's
a Jayden and a ja.
And I think it was Jayden that went
to the San Diego State, and jay Len,
I think went to the University of Washington.
Right? Right. I believe phil. And so was
it Jay len or jay Den that was
in the Minnesota that just got moved.
I believe it was Ja.
Okay?
To house. Anyhow. Led... Led gets an opportunity
there for sure. I may have mis spoken
as to Jaiden versus Jail, but it was
Jail deals and wound up getting him got
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talk hoops. John, let's talk Nfl because a
notebook is full of information. Yeah. Lot going
on here, Lee, including that big lawsuit with
the Sunday ticket.
I was stunned. I was surprised that the
Nfl lost the antitrust lawsuit. It was such
a complex issue. I thought it was gonna
end in a hung jury that that was
so complicated
But it only took them 5 hours. That's
absolutely stunning to me as complex of all
the the discussion of contracts and promises and
and money, etcetera. It only took the jury
5 hours.
The end story, and I asked a couple
of sports and legal people about this.
1 told me that he is of the
opinion that Roger God who had never testified
in a federal case got on the stand
and really screwed this thing up for the
Nfl when he talked about the operation of
Sunday ticket as compared to the operation of
Cbs and Fox and how it impacted the
Tv contracts And know the sports law guy
I told me, Lee, it was a paper
trail, a smoking gun.
Connect the dots if you will. When they
read a letter that an executive from Fox
Sent of the National Football league that said,
we are not going to agree to the
financial terms of the Tv contract extension until
we know
or we have input as to what you're
gonna charge for the Tv Sunday program. We
are not signing this deal until we
value is we're not gonna give you the
big dollar. If you're gonna allow listeners, viewers
to walk away from us to subscribe to
something that becomes a competitor. I was told
that letter is the thing that killed the
national football league. And, of course, the Nfl,
units it's
approach to things that, we've always been pro
consumer. We've always been fan. Well, it's always
been about a money grab. And I think
that's steamed
a lot of people. The damages john or
unbelievable is 14400000000.0
because it's an antitrust
awards,
14400000000.0.
How would you like to think if your
span the chargers?
If you're clunky through ramps
because they have to pay their share of
the settlement. Each team
has to give up 449000000
in income to pay their share of this
antitrust settlement if
The case
is not 1 on appeals. That's the next
thing is the national football lake lawyers will
file. They will appeal it
it's gonna take a while. It's not gonna
happen immediately.
But all this is the bottom thing of,
the Nfl and announcing you want you wanna
buy Tv. You wanna see Sunday tickets, 449
dollars,
which was radically higher than it was
under,
the the prior group under direct Tv. So
they lose the lawsuit, we'll find out what
happens on appeal, but this is stunning. Other
topics on the table.
He loves me. He loves me not. We're
talking about the 40 honors. We're talking about
brandon Ay. Star Young white receiver. San Francisco
has got massive salary cap problems.
Brandon Io who had refused to come the
Ot workouts.
No progress has been made at all in
Io
ability to get a contract extension.
Finally met with John Lynch, know, the general
manager
over the weekend, and they indicated that he
will he will stay with the team even
though these contract talks are stalled.
Making 14000000 in the final year of his
contract. Are wants every everybody else is getting.
He wants 25 to 30000000
He wants a jump in a new contract
from 14 to 25 or 30000000.
He was given a lesson in economics 01:01
by John Lynch because they got salary cap
problems and they have to deal with a
big money pay raise that's coming to their
quarterback brock P. I can merge from the
weekend meeting saying, I will play, but I
can't guarantee. He's not gonna be a distraction
during the course of the season. There's another
distraction developing down in Miami
to Taco has got 1 year to go
on his contract. He's making 21000000.
Miami offered him 40.
He rejected it. He wants
when everybody else is getting north of 50000000.
Miami says we're willing to pay him a
fair and marketable going rate contract on the
extension.
They don't wanna go higher than 40000000. So
now we got the 2 a contract that
we got deal with. New York jets, he's
back. He went to greece He went to
Egypt. Aaron Rogers is back. It took a
lot of heat for missing the mandatory Ot
t. This was the same quarterback. They said,
the 1 thing we have to change with
New York jet football. We have to stop
all these distractions. Well, Aaron Rogers is back,
and he's indicated. He's gonna work in the
next couple of weeks with jet receivers on
his own after missing the mandatory mini camp.
And how bad can it be for a
quarterback that was a mess.
Raiders. Remember the name Marcus Russell,
he's been arrested in Alabama for stealing 74000
dollars from a high school boosters group.
He was a fundraiser and a volunteer assistant
coach at at Alabama high school, John, and
he went out and raised 74000
dollars, a booster, businessman in Alabama gave it
to him. He took it, cash the money,
spent 55000
dollars in the 74
and it was supposed to go to a
high school facility. He's been dismissed. He's been
fired. He's been arrested.
How low can your life in your career
go? This was a high number 1 draft
pick. Of of the raiders. So John, that's
what's going on in the Nfl notebook. Are
you stunned with the outcome to the Nfl
lawsuit? And how San Francisco gonna solve this
the this problem that Got with the salary
count.
Well, I mean, as far as the 9
go, you got a lot of star players.
There's only so much money to go around.
But I'm still shocked by the Sunday ticket
thing. To me, and I trust... I mean,
this is kinda a little on the scope
of sports, but and I trust is really
a lot of bo baloney. It's usually when
they just target a big company to tear
them down. And that's what the Nfl is
they just got torn down. Companies are always
making, you know,
pricing decisions based on competitive nature of themselves
and their competitors and their suppliers. To me,
this is nonsense.
If you're an Nfl owner, you've gotta be
furious having to come up with a half
a billion dollars to pay this thing off.
So they've got the money. Thing is It's
no longer their money if they lose on
appeal. And that... That's not gonna happen in
the next 15 minutes that takes an extended
period of time. What's your reaction to the
Miami situation? Have we got another contract controversy
growing there with Tu? Well, this reminds me
a little bit about how the Nfl was
considering a quarterback cap where they could only
have a certain percentage of the total pie.
I mean, what is the Nfl salary cap
right now?
It's gonna be. I think this coming season?
I think it's gonna be at, like, 228000000
dollars. It it it took a big bump.
But the problem is is the cap goes
up. Every position players
contract will probably take a percentage bump too.
So they They got a real issue on
their hands now because all these quarterback backs
are asking for 50000000
plus, and that's what triggered the conversation at
you and I talked about last week, John.
Is that the Nfl says, we're gonna try
to put a cap that a quarterback can
only get a certain percentage of the cap
as his contract It might be 35 percent.
It might be 40 percent. It has to
be collectively bargain. So keep an eye on
this story because this story
is is not gonna go away. Okay. So
we've covered all things football.
Hockey hotline line is open. You're not gonna
believe what just happened
today is the first day of Nhl free
agency, John.
Yeah. It is. So, I mean, lot going
down. There's always a lot of hockey fans
in fans form. So what's the?
Old Canada network will probably be foaming at
the amount to talk about this.
Today was day 1 of N nfl free
agency.
53
agents have changed teams since 09:00 this morning
when the free agent window. Opened up. Let
me walk through this with you. I'll I'll
give you marquee names that hockey fan will
we'll identify with. First off, 57 goal score
Sam Rein. Last seen raising the Stanley Cup
for the Florida Panthers
He just agreed today on an 8 year
extension worth at 69000000
dollars. He stays with the Florida Panthers.
The next big story is what happened in
Boston.
You know, they had a great season and
they got knocked out of the playoffs look
at split. They they spent a ton of
money. They raided the Vancouver connects. They killed
them. They took 1 of their top center
ice
Elias Lin Home. He signed a 7 year
extension. They took the top defense,
Nik nikita Z, who was paired with Quinn
Hughes who's their elite all star blue liner,
the Z has gone to Boston and they
took Anaheim Ducks physical left winger, Max Jones
Boston.
Has gotten firepower that kinda changed the whole
persona of what was a pretty good team.
Toronto,
which was continued to be a disappointment Le
maple leafs made the deal to get Chris
tan enough of the Dallas stars. They made
a draft day trade to get his rights
to negotiate.
And the minute you heard they gave up
a third round pick to get the chance
to negotiate with the veteran defence, and then
the veteran defense been signed
Mega year contractor to go to the Maple
list and then they followed that by stealing
Oliver Ec Larson of the Florida Panthers. He
leaves a championship seems so the Oh, Maple
leaks as good as they are offensive, go
into the marketplace and help themselves on the
blue line. But maybe the best
group of hours. This whole sucker opened at
O'clock this morning belongs to Nashville.
They signed 42 goals scoring forward Jonathan Marshall
Show of Las Vegas
It's a stun. The Golden Knights let him
walk. They sign Brady sk, a forward from
Carolina.
They signed Steve Stem coast
future hall of Fame, Tampa bay lightning, their
captain
fifth 555
career goals, all those guys are going to
Nashville.
Tampa bay won the bidding war for Jake
Wen, who got out of Carolina.
He got all a lot of offers from
a lot of teams he signed. With the
Tampa Bay lightning.
Couple of other names you'd recognize
off a hockey hotline,
Black hawk, who I thought had a really
good draft They turn around and signed Tyler
Bert, 20 gold score, the Maple leafs and
Alec Martinez,
a former defense and a Las Vegas.
Vancouver
riddle by defect perfection, signs Jake Dip b,
a 30 gold score in winger,
from Boston,
L King sign Warren Fu. He was the
grind the left winger that played so well
for the Edmonton and Or. They also signed
Joel Edmonds,
but defense of the Toronto maple leafs. New
Jersey signs, Brett Pe, defense from Carolina,
Washington signs Matt Roy,
Work like defense, La, Kings. That's a big
loss for La,
Seattle,
signs brandon Mont.
1 of the first pair defense for the
Stanley Kept Champion, Florida Panthers Mont and next
San Diego.
He gets have monster Payday. He goes to
Seattle,
And Edmonton signs Victor our Kind of a
utility man Forward to can score goals. He
comes from the Kings, and they're about to
sign Jeff Skinner of the Buffalo Saber whose
contract was bought out. Not only do we
have 50 free agents signing in the first
3 hours of free agency, John, We also
had 19 trades,
the day of the Nhl draft. So the
player movement is not over, but the player
movement is absolutely amazing and most of the
big names are now off the boards. John?
So in that flurry of names and teams
and everything you just shared.
What's going on with the coyote? So I
mean, are are they active right now or
they just kinda biden time until they move?
Well, franchise move. The franchise is in Salt
lake city. It is called the quote Utah
Hockey club.
And they've been active.
They continue to draft well like stockpile pits.
I I think they signed 1 or 2
second tier free agents today.
They've not traded anybody That's a young team
whose arrow has probably pointed up. It's just
gonna take them some time
to get all their players in, but the
response in Salt Lake City is unbelievable. I
think we talked about it about a month
ago. They have seasoned ticket orders for 34000
fans in an arena this can see just
12000 out. That's not full season ticket orders.
That could be a half season ticket orders.
It could be, you know, Friday, Saturday, Sunday
season ticket orders. But 30 fourth thousand wanna
be part of Utah hockey club going forward
on year 1. Yeah. I'm good on them.
I mean, I think the coyote are gonna
be in a better spotter. Really they're not
coyote. I think the blizzard is a name
they're gonna get. Rightly?
Well, they haven't chosen the final name. It's
gonna be called the Utah Hockey Club in
year 1.
And they're they're gonna make a decision in
the next...
In the next 6 months, there will be
another fans vote
from people as to what the name is.
They came up with things finalist names.
I like blizzard more than like any of
the others. I just like some of the
others that they came up. John, last topic
on the table before we try to get
the fans formed. Yeah. Let's go to the
high speed sports wire. There's a lot of
breaking
news here.
Yeah. Let's just talk names in the news,
this is a big story.
I don't know how to describe what I'm
about to say. I can tell you what
I feel. I'm so sad about this, Dick
Vital, the legendary
voice of college basketball,
Espn and the 1 that crowned, you know,
all the great phrases
in college basketball during his broadcast.
He has fought a brutal fight with throat
cancer. He beat it.
Cancer has come back. Dick Vital now needs
immediate surgery
cancer tumors in his neck. He's a great
gentleman.
He loves college basketball.
Oh he's been the point man for the
cancer fundraiser, the Jimmy V foundation on behalf
of his former friend Jim Val,
and now people are rallying around Dick vital.
I was trying to think of the word
to describe Dick,
and I'm gonna pla it. I'm gonna take
it from him from his dictionary.
He is an aircraft carrier of a guy.
He's a hell of a man. So if
you say prayers, pray for Dick Vital, because
he has had a tough run off pill,
and now he's had another setback. He's gonna
have to have surgery for cancer of the
neck
Bo jackson,
great running back. Bo jackson, hell of a
2 way baseball player, Bo jackson
we over the weekend.
He was ind into the Kansas City Royals
hall of fame. Now his career was short
changed by a career ending hip injury
But he spoke glowing about this experience as
a 2 sport guy. I mean, he did
it before. Dion Sanders did it, and they
both did it. Really, really well, But he
we at home plate and during the press
conference. It was really interesting because he... He's
a big, tough o break.
We follow auto racing
John Force finally released from the hospital,
horrific crash, National Hot Rod Association races, a
week and a half ago, Car exploded at
the finish line doing 300 miles an hour,
blew into flames, debris everywhere. He was in
in the driver's cock hit. He hit the
outside wall, hit the inside wall, car, they
came to a stop. They got him out
of the blaze. Did not could burn, but
obviously the force of the crashes.
Really caused some problems with his inner organs.
He's gonna survive was a hell of a
thing. You wanna see about the integrity of
what auto racing is all about the integrity
of the cockpit of that drag racer or
the the integrity of what Nascar or indy
car or formula 1 cars have now become,
we've not had any deaths since Dale Earn,
senior,
died and what, 20 years ago, But Google
John Force
Hr crash will be amazed.
Soccer or have to play the best games
of their life. It's really been a roller
coaster a ride from team Usa.
Tuesday,
they they they play Uruguay. And it's a
big challenge. They have to win to move
on to the knockout round. They won their
first game very impressively.
Got blown out of their second game. They
lost Tim W,
I midfield, who has been here with the
2 games suspension for a red card for
throwing a forum to the back of the
head of a player. So they're gonna be
down 1 man. And they just... They're gonna
have to bounce back against Uruguay, which is
a a forceful fast team.
At this point in time, a lot of
people wondering,
Greg Bur holt told the guy. I still
think he is, and I still think they
could win this game against her or great
Get to the knockout round we'll see how
they go. Not a good time at Team
Mexico.
We talked about this. I did not agree
with the makeup of the Mexican roster. Belt
trio gets knocked out of group play is
not moving on.
They left 5 veteran players, including their gold
keeper, Oc show off, the cop,
Roster
and Mexico got beat. Mexico not scored a
goal In the last 2 games scored only
1 goal in 3 games and lost.
Guess who's going into the knockout round with
half a England criticizing their coach
and Hurricane Kane sounding off and defense everybody
on the English side, the 3 lions are
going to the knockout round, they won their
group. How impressive was that, Harry Kane in
grudge mode against the British media, but as
he said last night, hey, back home on
the island. We're still playing soccer. You're gonna
follow us and cheer for us next week.
Eric Kane has been in grudge mode against
the Bbc and they're criticism
and coverage. And this was really cool. We
have talked extensively about Caitlin Clark. We've talked
extensively
about how... She's been treated kinda targeted
in the W nba.
Before the tip off on Sunday of the
Indiana fever, Phoenix Mercury game,
Britney G walked across the floor and hugged
Caitlyn Clark for an extended period of time.
It was really kinda cool, and she continues
to play better. The team is getting better
although they're obviously not a first place roster
but that's the first time anybody in the
W nba in about 3 weeks has really
shown any compassion to what Caitlin Clark has
gone through personally.
And how they've mistreated her physically. But yeah
Caitlyn Clark. She's keeps coming down the floor,
making passes taken 3 scoring points and trying
to get better. Defensive but brittany Grind or
made a own personal statement towards Caitlin Clark
that was cool. So John, those are hot
topics on the table. I'll invite you to
reach bond from Coach Vital hal the Boat
Jackson all the way down to the w
nba.
Okay. Just a couple of quick comments. Dick
Fights patel. Obviously a great guy. I mean,
he's the 1 that built all the excitement.
I remember him in March Madness. I think
in the eighties. So when it was really
cooking and it became much more on the
national stage. So best wishes, good prayers for
Dick Vital,
love Jackson what a story and good for
the royals for
recognizing him.
John Forrest is a name I never heard
of. When I first saw his name written.
I thought it might have been a typo,
but no. He's legit. I went to drag
races at the Fremont
speedway up in the bay area as a
kid, and that was always something. There's people
that are really into that sport, and it
would a tragic case for him.
Team Usa, Yeah. That that red card screwed
them.
They have to beat her uruguay. That's a
tough assignment.
But the Caitlyn Clark thing, I love that
story because she's...
Nice to see a public display of affection
for him, especially someone like Britney G. But
I saw Caitlin Clark being interviewed and they
asked her, you know, are you getting advice
from many of the other W nba players.
And she said, no. So it seems like
they're still shu her to a great degree.
So I I concur with you... It's almost
like she's been isolated
on an island by herself because of who
she is, the persona, what her reputation was
a player, but the end of the day,
she's had such a positive impact on the
W nba.
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John, it's time for fans form. I'd say
there's probably a few people got opinions about
the resiliency of the Pad what the dot
should do what we're just saying from the
angels. What's happened to the lakers and the
clippers, what's happened in the Nhl draft. Time
for these people. To pick the topic and
get involved in fans for. What do you
got for me? Okay. Let's go here to
4 r Xl, which the way, reminds me
of the Jim Rome guys, and they have
like, a car, they called the 4 r
Xl Something like that. Anyways, he says, All
the pod have to do is get a
wild spot because the dogs are showing no
indication that they are not gonna get knocked
out in the first round again.
Well, you got the pod who obviously have
to go a further distance,
without you da and a greater distance without
Joe Mu. And have to be concerned about
what's the time window on Fernando Tat. But
I was so impressed with how they just
stepped up and battered Boston Red Sox pitching.
Now, maybe they gotta a break in the
schedule. They got the Rookie part of the
Bo socks
a rotation. But at the end of the
day,
they produced. At the end of the day,
they've shown some real resiliency. Now they just
need to continue to do this in Tram,
Texas which is next on the schedule. They
got their own set of problems going forward
there. So at this point in time,
pad, are they for real? Gonna find out
if they can put together this winning streak
as they come back home. And the dodgers,
this whole thing could change with 1 phone
call Is Andrew Friedman gonna make this phone
call, Dodgers still have a significant lead over
the Ponder is still running uphill. The Pad
czar. Dodgers still have games in hand on
San Diego. But the dodge have also got
this whole time with no issue that that
the K setback back to B setback the
loss of Milky bets but the dodgers do
have resources
and are just not afraid to take on
more payroll. So this will be fascinating going
forward. John, what do you think?
I am so impressed with the pod raise
the way that they're hitting the ball over
the field. I mean, Corona Go on the
other way, Jackson Merrill putting up 2 or
3 hits a game These guys are actually
great bad on ball skills. And then Mach
shot has had a great month in June.
I mean, he's he was hitting bombs this
batting average is up. I mean, we
we're gonna see the resurgence manny Mach matured
to kinda carry his team over the summer.
I knew it's well said. And he's planned.
I mean, he's playing through the injuries, but
the fact that the power now return must
mean that the elbow problem has gone away.
Now can they keep him healthy with the
hip issue run on the base pads because
there's sometimes times where he hasn't looked right
Round the bases, And other times he's taken
violent swings and he kinda buckled
in the better box, but so far. He's
just he's really bounced back. John, next question.
Okay. Let's go here to Cow. And he
says, Holy Cow lee, what a start to
the Nhl free agency today? So many big
names are finding new homes, thoughts on how
Anaheim and Los Angeles drafted.
Well, let, let me give you just an
over the top responses see if I find
all my notes that I made about the
Nhl draft.
The Allied Kings have really loaded their roster
with veteran players. And obviously, rid themselves of
Pierre luke Dub
is huge.
Then then you just turn around on the
situation, getting Darcy Kemp back. I don't know
if he's the solution. I still think they're
not all star quality between the pipes, but
they do have gold scores and that becomes
a big issue. In terms of the ducks,
I was absolutely stunned. What happened at the
draft.
Everybody was of the opinion, they were gonna
take 1 of the
Russian defence
that were top of the draft board and
they didn't. And it just... It it just
absolutely shocked everybody, and it shocked the kid
they took.
Brandon Ce.
Big right winger from Osha, Ontario. Because everybody
thought they were gonna take,
Ci, the 6 with 7 Russian defense. They
bypassed on him, They thought that they might
take Cad Lin,
a center ice who could score from Medicine
hat in the West. They bypassed on him.
And Sam Dickinson, a high scoring defense big
guy from the London knights who played the
memorial cup.
Everybody thought it was gonna be 1 of
those guys, and instead they took Seneca from
Osha.
But I was stunned. And I don't know
if you saw the video you ought of
Google when he got chosen, he stood up
and his jaw dropped, and they showed his
parents standing next to him. They stood up.
And they couldn't believe their eyes were wide
open that their son was taken third. I
went digging in and talk to some people
while I was on the road, and I
said this kid's are grind. This kid's a
tough guy. This kid's a sniper. This guy's
not afraid to go to the net and
b where all the traffic is and all
do all the dirty work. So they got
themselves a young player. He's not ready to
be in the National Hockey. I don't think
he's ready to play for the San Diego
calls. At age 18, but they got a
guy who they don't have that kind of
type of guy to go with all the
young the Trevor zig skull guys that they've
got on the rest of the roster. So
it's a good choice. It's a stunning choice.
Go look up the video. You'll laugh. It's
so funny the kid was speechless
that he got chosen third. The end of
the day, the ducks are still really young
and the Ducks have not done anything in
free agency today, the kings are obviously changing
their chemistry as we go away. Good questions,
Callum. Hope you enjoy our hockey covers, John.
Yeah. I mean, I was wondering that too
because you had said previously, I had too
many kids and not enough veterans. I mean,
but they picked up some free agents, right?
In Anaheim. Not yet. And which just kinda...
Which is kinda hard to believe because they
did have a fair amount of salary cap
money.
Now there could still be a trade coming.
John Gibson name still continues to swirl out
there. He was the veteran gold tender, but
he's earning a significant amount of money, and
that becomes a big issue. As as to
whether or not that An anaheim would have
to pay a piece
of the 6000000 per year. He's got 3
more years left on his contract and clubs
are saying Well, we'll take Gibson, maybe we'll
give you a veteran, but you gotta pick
up, you know, 2000000 or 3000000 every year
of the 6000000 or settlement and Ducks said,
no.
At this point, he's a backup gold under
with of almost 19000000 dollars left on his
contract. Maybe they'll find a buyer, but they're
having an awful lot of trades
I had thought the night before the draft
and that the red wings were about to
make a move, and maybe it was John
Gibson, but then Detroit went a different direction
in fact, Detroit Sign Cam Talbot former starting
gold tender with the La King. So the
ducks Ducks still got cap space, but the
Ducks still have John Gibson and the Ducks
are still to me, former way way too
young. I understand blueprint, but how long is
this rebuild gonna go on? When are they
gonna to put a quality product on the
and start to win for the fans. John,
next question.
Okay. Next question. Let's go to Joey?
He says, what are the lakers...
What do the lakers pivot to? Because you
know they have a plan b.
Well, the plan b was... Well Lebron is
gonna take a pickup.
Plan b is. We're gonna go get a
player that complements everything we wanna run with
j jj Red New offense.
Plan c was, oh my God. The guys
we wanted to gone. We did not get
to Jean Murray. And now Clayton Thompson's has
gone to the Dallas Mavericks in the Western
conference.
I'm not sure what the next thing is.
There still will be guys out there. You
know, there's another guy out there. There might
have to be trading. Because the Nick boxer
are gonna have luxury tax problems. Talking at
Julius Randall.
But he was here before.
There's gotta be a second tier of veteran
players out there that they might look at.
But they don't have a lot of space.
They have... I think they have only 1
mid level exemption, which is 12900000.0
they can use
to go get a veteran player. Now, maybe
you create space by trading somebody else, but
all these other guys have opted in to
stay. So you're not, and you can't because
they opted it in. I don't believe. They're
gonna be able to find much value out
there for Dean or Russell. And, yeah, everybody
wants Austin reeves, but they don't wanna trade
Austin Reeves. So I'd right now, you know,
what the next plan is remains to be
seen because their ideas, which I thought carried
great, short term rental for Clay Thompson, you
know, or possibly,
the other acquisitions. They made sense, and those
guys are now gone off the board. John?
Wow. I mean, let's go to Chris here
because Chris has another Lakers comment. He says
saw
do not do not stress. The lakers not
making a trade or signing a huge free
agent. They didn't have to. They have Ronnie
James who will shoulder a huge part of
the scoring load this season and he won't
count against the cap much at all. Rob
and Jeannie not getting enough credit period.
Well, that's nice for a lakers fan. He's
like you. He's speaking from his heart, but
he's not really using and Said, please understand.
Ronnie James,
only average 4 points per game at Usc
and could not hold on or job. He's
so young. Had this kid stayed at Usc
next season with muscle men coming as a
new coach who would have taught him. Same
might have made himself a first round traffic
and maybe you be a more complete player.
They really drafted Ronnie James for what they
can build them in.
He 2 years from now. That's the big
issue. It's just gonna take that time. And
that's what your fingers crossed that he has
no physical setbacks
with the cardiac issue.
Did he get drafted because his Lebron kid
probably to a small degree He got drafted
though because of this
potential to grow upside. But that's not gonna
happen on night this season,
despite your taking part and fans form with
your heart rather than your head. Good prospect,
but that's what he is right now. Suspect,
is a prospect until he become a proven
product. John agree, disagree agree? I... I'm still...
I mean, I I think it's gotta be
all about Lebron I mean, otherwise, why would
you take a kid that was,
played only 1 year college, didn't play that
well, has some serious health concerns. I mean,
if we heard any updates on the On
the health issues with Ronnie? He passed all
the physical.
He passed the Nba physical at the combine.
He's passed the private physical that he went
through with a I was told that he
worked out for 14, the agents dropping in
hits the only only practice for 2, which
makes no sense to me. But the reviews
we got when he was at the draft
camp we're very positive in terms of explosive
and ability to play defensive
play, but those are against other Rookie. That's
not necessarily against a proven veteran. In the
Nba Western conference. So it'll be a storyline
line to pay attention to see the growth
factor how much he grows going forward. But
I think from a chemistry standpoint, unless a
unless Re walks in there with the magic
wand,
and and he cast that wand and these
guys buy into his system, and these guys
do defensive what they want done.
Yeah. I'm not sure it's a better ross
now that it was prior to the hiring
of jj re. His playbook is brought sip
to people, then he's gotten he's gotten positive
reviews from a lot of people. But at
this point in time,
until you've done it in live game action
when the regular season starts. It's just too
early to judge anything.
The only only known commodity right now,
It's just they're not able to add anybody
yet, aside from the new head coach, John.
Lee, what's going on in the background where
you are? There's like, kids plan in the
water, and I mean, it's, all good summertime
fun there. Yeah. My cottage is right here
on the lake. In the Northern Na, and
we got kids playing. What's a bean tossed
bean bag thing. The thing that you injured
your rotator cuff doing Yeah. That... That's what's
going on outside. It's not not somebody chopping
woods. Sorry for the Am, but, hey, Dude.
I'm on vacation. And you still working here
doing the podcast. Shut the bleep Next question,
John. You're the hardest working man in sports.
Alright. Let's go to social media, and let's
go here to Abe Fro, the Sausage King
of Chicago. He says, I think the question...
This is about chargers. I think the question
is does Jim want a hundred
catch receiver?
Does Jim want 1900 all purpose yards from
1 man? Nope. He wants W. This is
definitely gonna be a raider 70 types offense.
Run run bomb, run run bomb.
I buy a piece of that equation. That's
the vision going forward.
But let us be realistic here. You gotta
prove you can do it. Let us be
realistic. Their right tackle is a former left
tackle. Who has not been a strong
past blocker
blocker. He's a really good athlete. He's got
phenomenal size. They're gonna build him into being
a good player.
They don't have a healthy running back situation.
Yes, the guys they got from Baltimore, Gus
said edwards in Jk k do.
Have had spurt with it played well, but
the both had knee injuries. So they don't
have a healthy
Austin Ec who had 1800 all purpose yards
that's gonna be an issue. And there's no
hundred yard re... Reception guys there,
from the mixed bag. I like Josh Palmer.
I think there's really good upside there.
Quentin Johnston is work in progress. They they
have to teach in the mechanics of running
the routes, catching the ball and not dropping
passes,
because that was still a problem last year
as a rookie with the bolts like the
problem they had at Tc.
And they don't have a legitimate big time
tied in that's gonna go down the field.
There's no George K if you will. Now
the the hayden Hers who used to be
in baltimore and Caroline but had health issues
with an injury injury. He can catch passive,
but I don't think he's gonna catch 50
to 75 perceptions in a question with him.
Caroline He gets blasted. He gets hurt as
they have another head entry and another setback.
So there's questions. I do understand the blueprint,
har ball, power football. Har ball. We will
throw it with Justin Herbert. Har ball wants
to play tough guy defense, but I don't
know that they got tough guys on defense
while they're still trying to answer the questions
in office. This is work in progress. And
and once we get to training camps
in mid July, we're gonna talk extensively more
about the Nfl. You believe in Har, Lot
of people believe in horrible. But until you've
done it, it takes time to do this,
you gotta approve it. Stop laughing John, what's
your response. A Well, it's interesting to compare
them to the 19 seventies raiders because, yeah,
they had a lot of talent on those
teams, and and it wasn't just 1 guy.
I mean, they had... Mister a Cliff Branch
and Fred Bull and Dave Mark Van Yi
and all those tough guys in the defensive
of secondary. You see any of that on
the charges roster right now. Well, not really,
but I mean, it's fun to compare them
against the raiders of the seventies if that's
what we get. I'm gonna be overjoyed, but
let's see what happens, You know? Let's go
to another so social media comment also about
the chargers. This one's from Carter Atkins and
says,
Lee, you were down on Marty Ball. Too
back in the day Jeez. Let them get
in the kitchen and cook before you start
judging, Har will turn this around. I wanna
talk sports with Yu, lee too I... Hey
Carter. Let's be realistic here. I was not
down on onboarding Well. I I was concerned
that Drew Bree might not be the right
guy. Because he was so under oversized. And,
of course, he played. He played hard. His
heart was in it, and he got badly
hurt. And he left. Philip Rivers, became a
superstar Philip might be considered to be a
future hall of Fame, and they built that
thing, and they were really good. And Tom
became a mega star and gates was gates
and we know what that was all about
then Philip. And they had good seasons. I
had really good seasons and Marty,
Marty had great seasons too. But Marty playoff
pho
always res resurfaced. There was no surprise in
any playoff game that Oppenheimer team played It
was the same stuff that they ran in
the season, and that's why his record as
a playoff had coach was just
miserable. That being said, Mar Ball 1 200
games, I think, Marty should get some consideration
pushed
as being a member of the pro football
hall of Fame. We know Har, we know
what he did at Stanford in a really
tough situation. We know obviously, what he accomplished
with the 40 honors and what he did
to rebuild Michigan.
This is gonna take some time.
Now, the people run on the streets in
San Diego or those limited number of charge
fans in La, I mean, if you're trying
to tell me these dudes are gonna go
13 and 4. I don't think so until
they prove themselves, Well let's see. Thought they
had a really good draft. I think they
hit 1 of the better drafts in a
league, but until you've done it, Joe alt.
Until you've done it, I lad Mc.
Until you've done it in that line backing
group.
Just gonna have to see how quickly this
all comes together. I mean, that's my spin,
John, you got a different take. Go ahead,
speak from your heart, speak from your head.
You're out left field.
Well, I think,
you know, the the Marty ball era of
the chargers has to go down as 1
of the most talented teams to never make
a Super Bowl. I mean you got Lte.
You got Antonio Gates. You got Philip Rivers.
You've got a lot of great talent and
yet they blew it.
You again, Marty Shot or Marty Ball, you
know, just doesn't work in the playoffs. That's
your take?
Well, Marty never did anything dynamic in a
posts offensive.
When you get to posts season play, you
spring something on somebody that you never ever
saw before. And Marty Marty acted the way
in Kansas city the way that chiefs were
during the regular season where they won a
lot of games and posts season they got
knocked out to the exact same thing with
the chargers. That's... That to me, unfortunately, is
is the black mark of his career his
posts season record and playoff games was miserable.
It was... I wanna say was 5 and
9, maybe 5 and 10.
Now,
What happened in the A championship game was
Tom Got hurt. Rivers got hurt. You know,
Philip had knee scope surgery had stayed on
the field and tried to play, but Tom
mu couldn't play. And at the end of
the day, with it with 2 of their
components that like great offense planned against Bella
great defense in Tom Brady, that could not
win. Big picture, Martin did a hell of
a job in San Diego Thought A J
Sm did of a good job and then
wound up in a divorce case, which was
absolutely brutal as a team team got a
all. But, you know, I'm I always fortunate
because his v of the chargers, we did
have a team that came together
under Bobby Ross, we did get to the
Super Bowl even blown out by the 49
so to was just a segment in which
they under achieved it was a big big
blow
for the bolts. Are are are they gonna
be a Super Bowl team 3 years from
now, 2 years from now. Gotta stay free
of injury. And we'll just have have to
see how quickly
these components come together. That Har, and that
new general manager
drafted. It's... That's gonna be fascinating. I mean,
I love the open federal training camp end
of July and start pre season games because
everybody starts on the same page at 0
and 0, and then we have we'll, debate
and talk about where they're strong, Where they're
weak where they hit the jackpot where they
failed. So it's great fascinating going forward, John?
I I expect Car boss is gonna be
a big improvement over the previous coach daily.
So let's see how this thing all plays
out. Let's jump over here. We got some
Pod comments on social media. And this 1
is from poor man guitars. He says,
talk about will change, work for the Pad
raise and it says wrong hacks law. Baseball
is all about momentum at the end of
the season. You should know that.
Since
you should know that since you've been reporting
on it since the civil war.
Pre is looking like a genius with Pro
far. He got sci and others, as well
as a stock minor league system. Injuries don't
seem to be a problem. You're gonna be
on the bandwagon when when we run the
dodgers out of town during the playoffs,
Well, mister Guitar, let me just respond this
way. You're correct by the assessment, how hot
are you? Are you healthy?
When you get to October. That's a critical
piece of the equation. Puts an awful lot
of mileage. A lot of games the pod
still have to make up against the dodgers.
Now the dodgers are reeling.
John and I last week talked about the
question, while the john dodgers on the brink
of toppling lane because it just continued to
stockpile all the injuries. The difference is A
aj does not have much left in the
farm system that you can trade. And ownership
has told them you're not taking on salary
and you're not trading what few marquee guys
she have left. He's already traded 5 of
the top 10, the season. The dodgers just
have a plethora of young. The dodgers are
una afraid about taking on payroll because they're
gonna draw 4000000 fans per season. So they're
operating in a little bit different playbook than
J K is right now. Ice my my
biggest concern for the pad to be in
the playoffs
in a best of 3 series.
Jeez
you be much feel much better about your
team if there was a healthy derby. If
Must became must back
rather than have to rely on, on Dylan
Sees and Michael King, and then Matt W
Knuckle ball. That... They'd be if they don't
get those 2 frontline, veteran starters back
there may have a problem
even if they get to the wildcard card,
but trade deadlines coming, we'll see what August
first brings us. I think it's just gonna
be hard for a j to make another,
significant acquisition. He's done... He's really done a
unique job finding the right guys so far.
John?
Yeah. I I'd I I like what he's
doing. I mean, and in fact, W has
been magical this year. I mean, he had
a little bit of a setback in Boston,
but it wasn't that bad. I If you
think a lot of the pressure, you know,
was getting to him, you know, with with
his... With Tim Wake field there in Boston?
No. I I just... The knuckle ball didn't
dance that night. Then he got beat. That's
okay. He'd had given him 8 quality starts
in a row. Let's see what the next
start brings next start, obviously, I think it's
probably gonna be at home It might be
in Texas, Where Charlie Hu master the knuckle
ball in the heat and humidity. But you
know, this powder team of recent times has
shown an awful lot of resiliency.
It kinda it nausea at you when you
think about the gruesome losses,
you know, losing that series to the angels
losing in that series. To the rockies, how
the hell do lose to the Marlin
and think, you know, Mach marcelo said at
the point when everybody was emotionally in the
dump that this stuff's gonna come back to
haunt to
I hope it doesn't, but they need a
hot streak if they just can continue this
hot streak before they go back out on
the road, because like I said before, when
they go on the road, they play the
or who hit the hell out of the
ball, and they're playing the Cleveland guardians, the
top 1 of the top teams in the
American League and then they're gonna hit the
dodgers back here, in a showdown series. So
they just need to keep this thing rolling
and see if they can close the gap
a little bit on Dodge Baseball
Well, it sounds like Bog arts is getting
close to coming back, and he's been taking
some swings.
That's true.
But we have to see...
We're talking
violent 4 swings every swing at home plate
in a regular season. What's gonna happen when
we dives for a ball. How's that shoulder
gonna hold up? And which ball guards are
we gonna get back? The 1 that was
a lifetime 2 80 hit. Well, the guys
in 02:19 when he got hurt. Still some
some questions and answers about him and we
don't know when the next Tat
citing is gonna be most everybody in opinion,
you know, this this could be a 2
to 3 month thing. This could be in
into the month of August just because of
the stress fracture
in the thigh bone. Hey, John. This has
been absolute fun as we broadcast this thing
for my cottage in the Northern Ata and
Upstate New York. It worked. You prayed, I
kept my fingers crossed. This thing did not
crash because I'll tell you, connectivity out here
is kinda tough. Because the only things we
have are a few vacation on the lakes
with their boats, and a lot of deer
running across the front of people's front yards,
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