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John Reilly, we got a ton of topics
on the table. It is the all star
in major League baseball. We're gonna go a
lot of different directions talking baseball, and we've
got a lot of all the sports stores
to cover, start. Start. I mean, we'll go...
Let's talk Pod Dodgers. Both teams really kinda
backed into the All star game, you know,
really disappointing to finish the first half. They're
skid. They're get into the all star break.
The dodgers are in enormous trouble right now
with their pitching staff. They they have 16
pictures on the disabled list. And here they
are. They thought a couple were about to
turn the corner.
Walker B is not making progress at Camel
Ranch in Arizona, He, of course, is on
the disable list. The hip jury is gone.
They're trying to work on mechanics, trying to
get his velocity back that has not worked.
Dustin May was about to progress to bull
sessions at Camel back ranch,
rushed to a hospital over the weekend,
surgery on his esophagus,
a torn esophagus
suffered while he was eating dinner. And was
taken to a hospital,
no physical activity for the next 2 months.
He's done for the rest of the season,
won't be back till next spring training as
he tries to ramp up from 2 elbow
surgeries. The only piece of good news, Clayton
K off first rehab start Oklahoma City, John,
3 innings,
no hits,
5 strike outs. No problems. The next 2
days
after the start, where you throw a bull
pen, a light bull pen. So far so
good. K shaw is gonna make another
rehab start at Oklahoma City in the Pacific
Coast this coming Friday. And if that goes
with no setbacks,
maybe coming out of the all star break
he reins rejoin a rotation. They are in
terrible
trouble with their pitching staff, which also then
leads you to the next statement,
or they gonna make a deal or they
gonna go get a picture. The pod.
It to me it's weird. The Pod have
5 all stars.
And the powder are a 500 baseball. Oh,
it's crazy. And the powder are kinda on
the brink,
holding on to the last rung in the
ladder not trying to fall off. In terms
of the wild card Chase.
They win games,
place a surprisingly exciting baseball,
and then they lose series.
There is no answer. They're 50 and 49
And the other thing is they played a
lot more games virtually everybody else in baseball.
Everybody's got games in hand on them.
The All star break comes at the right
time for them. Mach needs to get rested.
The pitching staff needs to take a deep
breath.
Luis R has got the issue with the
thumb problem.
He's he's pulled himself out of the all
star game. Fernando Tat is going to have
another r eye, the pain
where the stress fracture was in the thigh
bone has gone away, but he's not doing
any baseball related activities. In fact, he's yet
to be allowed. To run. So this is
still a long process there.
I mean, the dodgers are in just just
huge trouble
and and I don't know how the pod
are gonna find other players to add to
the roster right now because they're in just
a real tight fit. And we have not
talked about
Mu grove who's only throwing off the front
of the mound is only only throwing some
fast balls and bull pen sessions as thrown
no of the hard braking stuff, which led
first to the shoulder problem, then the elbow
problem. And, of course, da,
reportedly is in Japan because of the family
illness
situation. We don't know when he's coming back.
I assume he's working out on his own
because that's the kind of guy he is,
but they desperately need starting pitching at this
point in time. So John,
Here's the magic wand.
Sprinkle some dust, Solve the da problems in
the powder problems. Well, you, it's nice to
hear Clayton K shot is looking good. And
how old is he by the way. 36
plus old man on arm. He says. Yeah.
So, you know, he's coming back that that's
some hope for the dodgers, but this dust
man is weird. I mean, I've never heard
of a torn esophagus.
I mean, I I remember when George h
w bush choked on a pretzel in Japan,
but I've never heard of a born esophagus.
Of you? No. I was just absolutely strange,
and he got sick of dinner and felt
horrible. He called the Dodge staff. They brought
him in, born they did whatever they did
in terms of examination. Extras, I'd put them
right into surgery.
Well, what's like like, a... Maybe like, a
bone or something that, like, scrape the inside
of the throat something toward tissue in the
esophagus. Yes. That's crazy. I mean, especially bad
luck, you know, with a dust injury kids
can't
cloud. Yeah. Exactly. So I mean, yeah. The
dodgers are gonna make a deal, but are
we still only talking about Quan
and and, Evelyn... I mean, are are there
other big names that are kinda coming up?
At this point, no, but again, we're 2
weeks out? From the trade deadline and maybe
somebody else will get into seller mode. The
problem is there's so many teams in baseball
that are right around the 500 level, damn
pad included. Yes. That there's a lot of
teams to say, well, I'm not gonna blow
this sucker up. I'm gonna try to stay
the course and maybe I'll rent a pitcher
that might push me into posts season in
place. So... But the names that we have
talked about in the last 10 days, the
cal quan trill of Colorado, who I really
like Zac Ef of Tampa bay.
The the met whatever they're gonna do with
Qui
or Sean Men
Those are guys you can probably get at
affordable prices, but from the Pot perspective, everybody
they talk to wants 1 of the young
guys in the farm system.
You know, unless the Pot do a u
turn and change their mind and say, okay,
we're gonna get quality and we're gonna give
you Hassan on Kim. Or we're gonna get
quality and we'll give you the young catcher,
Luis Camp
Because they got another catcher deep in the
farm system, but we're not giving the Ethan
sal, we're not giving you leo degrees, and
we're just gonna go the course with the
the 2 number 1 picks that are struggling
in the minors right now. In Rob snowing
and Dylan Las. And I think that that
mandate comes from above A aj Pre. So
I, you know,
We we spin back to what we talked
about last week. Would do trade On Kim
because he is a walk free agent at
the end of the year. But I only
trade him if I'm getting a really quality
starter. I happen to think Quan trill has
evolved into a very trustworthy starting pitcher. I
might do that.
But I wouldn't I wouldn't deal him for
Sean Man I. I wouldn't deal him for
Jose Katana, then you know, the New York
Met terrible,
So that's where we are. And the other
problem is if there's somebody really good out
there.
The guy's up the road,
who've got... Assets to trade and can take
on salary, aka the dodgers, you're gonna have
to compete against those guys off the field
of the trade table, the deadline, in addition
to having to beat them on the field.
Yeah. I mean, it's it's crazy. And then
if some of those guys get... Like, why
wouldn't don't we give up a lot to
get a Cal. I mean, sure 2 years
left of ownership. But still he's kind of
like a number 4 type of starters, you
know, and that you could get them and
he can go south on you pretty easily.
I don't know Pal. If he's got a
3.01
era at Cor at Cor. Oh, really? Yeah.
I didn't know that. Please see dummy. You
would know outside.
You would know. But that that... He, of
those guys out there that I just mentioned.
He's probably the most trustworthy.
And you control him for 2 more years
and you know him, and you got Ruben
Dia who I think's a very good pitching
coach. You can... Further refine the guy.
You know, maybe maybe that's the guy you
go get. Of course, doing so. Vi Pro
has to admit. They made a mistake. But
trading the guy away in the Cleveland package
to begin with, which there's nobody left from
the Cleveland package and he gave up Quan
and
Josh Taylor who's in the All star game?
Right. So...
So there were 10 former pod in the
All star game according to Kevin Ac article
this morning. And so I'd imagine these other
teams are saying well, hell, yeah. Pro is
willing to deal his top prospects. I'm gonna
get me some.
I don't think the ownership will let him
deal top prospect. I'll be stunned of a
week from now or July 30 first.
That he has been allowed to trade Sal
or degrees who are the the blue chips,
but they're way down the road. By the
way, sidebar note, the baseball free agent draft,
the college, high school kids that's going on
right now. I really like the 2 pad
picks.
The partner drafted 25 and then they drafted
55,
and they've they drafted really well.
They've got a 6 foot 4 high school
pitcher from Oklahoma, who's vibrant. He's 94.
I looked at him and, it was like
I was watching cole camels cole ham on
video. Really, very impressive. And then the second
round they drafted a 6 foot 8 kid,
Texas, Louisiana 6 foot 8 picture, who I
was very impressed with 2 who's got... I
think great upside. Now, they're gonna have to
pay money significant of their signing pool to
keep these kids from going to, Oklahoma state
are going to Louisville, but I think both
those kids have already told them we wanna
sign. So what they did with picks 1
and 2. Now that's Citing for 30 seconds,
The reality is these guys are go into
Class A ball or or the Arizona summer
league. I mean, they are years away. But
these are vibrant, big, hard throwing high school
pictures. So I was I was pretty impressed
what the Fryer did. Well, it's of a
roll the dice. Right? You just try to
mask big arms of big talent and hope
some of them can make it all the
way without getting hurt or some of them
kind can make it here and not have
pro trade them. Yeah. That too. You know,
the the other stat, I went back over
the weekend, I wrote about it, just shocking
of of the 8 first round picks that
Pre has had since he became general manager
2015,
he's traded 6 of the 8 number ones
to other teams, and those guys are playing
pretty well other places. But, you know what
what's it's when... The Pi... Go back to
Josh Taylor for a minute who... You we
said was an all star.
Traded in w. He didn't fit anywhere in
San Diego. Right? He couldn't play out feel.
We didn't have the D h then.
But, yeah, he's legit, but the you know,
he's traded away what? Trey Turner? Who are
the some of the other number ones? My
God. I don't have the list in front
of me, but it's it's a volume.
Of name players who've gone other places and
had success. Well, think about previous pod history
of all the number 1 draft picks that
towers and some of his predecessor picked that
never even pan out. Have never even made
it to the major leagues. So I like
the fact that pro has aggressive and flexible
and trying to turns, you know, essentially straw
and into gold, like rum still skin.
But, you know, sometimes the deals don't work
out A lot of times deals don't work
out, and the fact you go look at
the baseball box scores. This lot of expat
lots of places doing pretty well. All their
places. Mh. And all that,
all the Pixie he's had, and all the
free agencies signed, and all the money he
spent.
And the pod are 50 and 49 and
not even a wildcard card team at the
All star break. Yeah. That's insane.
Insane. So we have to talk about the
negatives
along with the positives. So that's a storyline
with Pod and Dodge Baseball.
Feel free if you're a pod fan if
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is the All star break. We're gonna do
something a little bit different here. Topic number
2. Topic number 2. Yeah. The all star
break, and we're we're gonna have the home
run derby, the game, but you wanna take
a look at who some of these teams
are that maybe have surprised us. We're gonna
do a little bit of
evaluation here at the All star break. We're
gonna talk about who's had a good first
half of the season. To who's had a
really bad first half of the season? Who
are the surprises who are the disappointment.
All star break,
kind of a report card.
Yankee Baltimore tied for a first place pretty
much in the American League East. That's a
war zone, and the fact that Yankee have
done this.
Without Garrett Cole.
And with injuries to stan and Anthony R
and then judge and the minor nagging things
with so,
That's pretty impressive the yankee or where they
are, right there nip at the heels of
the or.
So that's a surprise.
I think Cleveland is 1 of the best
teams in baseball nobody knows anything about.
Look at the... The Indians have the best
bleep in record in the American league. The
Indian.
The guardians, I'm sorry. My heart is always
somewhere else.
She hyphen gardens.
Jose ever Ramirez is is 1 of the
most underrated all stars
star... Superstars in baseball. He's the cornerstone and
the anchor.
Stephen Kwan leads the American league hitting, like,
in the 3 sixties. Now he was on
the deal for a while he's come back
and he's hitting. Cleveland just got just a
unique collection really
young players with a low payroll.
Boston had a miserable start to the season
and just people, that the media in Boston
was just braid,
the ownership.
That you need to blow this thing up,
well, they the ownership said, these kids are
gonna get better, and these kids have gotten
better led by Jared Duran. So Boston demi
me a surprise team.
You tell me how Houston has 50 wins
this season, which 6 of their top 7
pictures having been on the disabled list with
crippling injuries. And then, of course, we've obviously
got the really good philly team, which is
62 and 34,
just bashing the daylight at every everybody at
Citizens Bank ballpark.
They've got 4 really established starting pictures. I
did think Dave Dumb. Oscar is he's 1
of the best general managers in Baseball. He
never gets any credit,
And for the dodgers to be 56 and
41 with 16 pictures on the disable list,
they have only 1 established daughter in their
rotation. James Pax in the street free agent.
Everybody else is gone. And the dodgers are
still 56 and 41 and half their batting
orders in hitting either.
Top of the battery orders, I think get
to the All star breaks hitting 2 84
the bottom of the battery order hitting 02:08.
And it opens got holes in it. So
those... To me, John,
Baltimore yankee in the east,
Cleveland, what Boston has grown into, the ones
that have survived the injuries,
how dominant Philadelphia is,
Those are the ones to me that I
think are the most pleasant surprises in League
baseball.
Talking about surprises.
I mean, what about the royals? I mean,
they they're doing pretty darn well. They were
and
it's kinda like they hit a wall. Mh.
And they have... They have had some pitching
injuries. And they're just... They are just now
a shade above 500. They've kinda reg.
So unless they do something in the deadline,
they get somebody back healthy. They'll sell Lug
sp is in the All star game. Yeah.
But. But as well as they played the
first 2 and a half to 3 months
of the season. It's
they're just not the same team right now.
So I don't know if that that call
them a big surprise out of the gate.
Yes, but not so much now. Yeah. So...
And then in in the in the National
central, is Milwaukee still leading that division? I
mean, that just seems hard to be kind
of a mess? Is there any surprise team
there? That's the surprise to me. There is
is... I guess, I'm gonna use the word
surprise because of injuries.
Milwaukee had so many
everyday players get hurt.
And they started the season,
having traded away Cor Burns, having lost brandon
Wood
they're down starters, and they got 55 wins.
They're 55 and 45 here at the break.
So to me,
I I think they have to go down
as a surprise considering what happened the pictures
have. And Atlanta got 53 wins. And Atlanta
does not have its ace spencer strider gone
for the year with the Ob, does not
have the Mvp, Ronald Ac,
Gone for the year, and does not have
the other young out field, or Michael Hill.
He's not been able to stay on the
field and stay healthy, and Atlanta has got
53 wins. So they to me,
I think are are a bit of a
surprise team too. Yeah. I mean, just those
pictures on that team are incredible. I realize,
you know, how much depth they have of
really... Ace pitcher because it was sale? And
then who was the kid that is leading
the league in Cra. Lopez? Yes. You're Lopez?
Yeah. And then
Roland Bach who pitched in the middle of
that series was pretty dominant too. You look
at their roster.
That's pretty much all homegrown grown talent. Yeah.
You know, I love watching Aussie A. That
little guy, man he can launch bombs. September.
Yeah. So, Anyhow, those are the best teams
we talked about. These are this... Price teams
let's talk about the disappointment.
Tampa bay,
all those big bets ravaged by injuries.
Yeah, not having Wanda Franco who's been catastrophic,
and he's out of baseball,
Tampa bay 43 and 52,
and they've had a lot of pitching injuries
too. So that's that's a real disappointment.
I thought Detroit was going to arrive this
year in the American League central, and the
pictures just not lived up. To the reputation.
Their big power hitting first basement, Spencer To
got sent back to Aaa baseball for a
while. They're just not pitching and they're not
hitting.
Cincinnati has been a disappointment, they've been building
towards really good things with a lot of
homegrown products, and they lost so many. Of
the cornerstone kids in spring training,
including the shorts stop Mc mclean with it.
He's not played with a, a seasoned threatening
shoulder injury. La d Cruz has just been
fabulous to watch, but there's so many guys
in Cincinnati, just have been all ding up
and they've been on and off the disable
list.
Obviously, the disgrace of Colorado
with ownership was done there what the Oakland
Days have done in the pod.
I'm really disappointed. To me they've under achieved.
How the hell can you have 5 all
stars and be 50 and 49
and be for the third time the season
on an extended
losing streak. So How don't did anybody else
like to add and they wanna argue with
me about disappointment? Well, what about the Texas
Rangers? Mean, they're the World series champs, and
I think last I checked, they're still below
500. Record of injuries. Mh. No pictures.
None. I Corey Sea has been hurt at
least 3 times.
They're out. Their power hitting out fillers have
had injured Ado Garcia. Those guys have been
hurt. So they just never been able to
put a full team on the field. If
it were the team that won the world
series,
last year, they'd probably be in first place
or fighting for first place, but instead. They
got their best part of their team is
on the disable list. Yeah. Well, then the
Met 2 another bomb of a team. And
they got all that payroll and what are...
How they do? They're calling them on the
cusp but they... Yeah. They got... They've had
a better last 2 months than hard start.
But their problem is they're they're living on
borrowed time. They got so many german starting
pictures. And again, these are the guys that
got rid of Max Sc and Ver and
all these guys a year ago, and III
looked at the rotation opening day. I said,
this is what you're putting on the field.
You're not gonna win. I think this is
a transition year, and I think their... The
contracts are expiring and deferred money's by. Now
I think the bets are gonna dive back
in to free agency and crank their payroll
up again, but this is... It's not a...
It's it's a better team right now than
it was
from memorial day weekend. Mh. But it's... I
don't think it's a playoff team by any
stretch and,
you know, their future is gonna be their
future. They gotta deal with Peter Because he's
a walk free agent represented by you know
who? Scott Bo, who takes his people to,
free agents. You got a brother. Yeah. So
that's where we are. So that's the all
star break. We're gonna enjoy home derby. The
game is gonna be fascinating.
Cor Burns
Milwaukee, brewer now with the oils will start
against Pittsburgh, Rookie Paul schemes. With his 100
mile an hour of fast ball, so that'll
be fun at least for the first to
see how sk does
against the superstars and we'll have some pod
there. You gotta comment about your favorite team,
started fast. Hasn't done well. Who do you
blame? Feel free, jump on board of fans
for.
You know the best part of July once
we get beyond vacation and all that,
at the nfl. The Nfl just around the
corner. Next stop Yeah. I mean, it's unbelievable
the Nfl is 24 7 all year long.
Chargers,
first teamed open prices in training camp. Tomorrow.
Wow. Jim H.
Debut,
chargers move into their hundred 50000
square foot
practice facility el gun.
It's really state of the art.
And this is something a span had to
pay for. Nobody gave many money for the
first time in his life. He had to...
He had to float alone to make this
happen, but it's supposed to be a phenomenal
state of the art facility.
So a har with all of his off
seasons
speeches after he got hired from the University
of Michigan.
Now we look at the roster and we
find out what they're really like on the
field and this is gonna be a bit
of a challenge.
This coach is a proven commodity. His quarterback,
Justin Herbert is a proven commodity?
The question is, does he have enough at
all the other
critical positions, and that's that's what the next
7 weeks?
Gonna be about for the chargers. Do they
have the right running backs to replace the
do everything Austin Ne?
Can they replace the hundred reception guys? It'll
be a different receiving core because there is
no keen island There is no mike williams?
I like their offensive front. They have 3
number 1 draft picks and they move tray
pip
inside the offensive guard where I think that
big wide body is gonna do well.
Got approve a little bit about whether or
not they can stop the run defensive because
it's all new defensive tackle, and they do
have the perimeter rush guys. There's no doubt
there that you got Bo. You got Kill
lil Mack and you got the kid to
a From Usc, what a very good rookie
season,
very different secondary.
The question is, can they be tough guys
defensive and they're replacing a bunch of people
in the interior of that difference defensive front?
I'm... I'm fascinated to see what the bolts
are gonna be. It's easy for me to
say, love Har.
Great respect for Justin Herbert.
But, you know, you need a 53 man
roster and I just don't know that the
chargers have enough of the right guys at
this point,
to be,
to be a playoff team,
please don't mention to me Super Bowl. That's
absurd in a very, very tough division. So
lot of things that they gotta get answers
to questions that start tomorrow,
first day in the facility and on the
practice real for Jim Har on the bolts.
And John Reilly riley says, I don't know
what the heck to make of the chargers
yet. It's still such a mystery, you know?
But I'm just going back to Har and
kind of his scheme, his brand
Should we expect the ratio of run pass
to change this coming year, then it's been
in the past? So we're gonna try. That's
why they drafted Joe alt. That's why they
have 3 number ones in the front. That's
why they have blocking tie ins and jumbo
packages and all that.
And they got tough guy running back us
head edwards, but he's got a lot of
miles on them, and he's coming off in
knee situation in baltimore. And he doesn't have
a hiss stan healthy during the course of
the season. They do have J k Do.
They got the young running back Isaiah spill
behind him. So this will be fascinating to
see tree if they from a roster standpoint,
John, are a complete football team. I don't
think they are right now.
Now that I I do think they'll run
at some.
I think they'll better pass protect Herbert,
but then then that spins to the next
question.
Can you tell me who your star wide
receiver is? I like Joshua Palmer. Big 6
5 kid tough guy, catches balls, but he's
been ding. I don't know what to make
a Quentin Johnston, the high number 1 draft
pick. Who dropped more passes last year just
like a drop passes at Tc.
I'm gonna be fascinated to see Jd Chalk
who came from Carolina as a free agent.
Guy is a track record of big yard
plays, but he hasn't stayed on the field
consistently.
Those are your top receivers.
There's is no pro bowl there.
So
we'll have to see how quickly the group
is supposed to catch balls from Herbert
works. And can they run the ball with
the consistency that they need to allow Herbert
to be a great great quarterback. And I
happen to think he's he's a really fine
quarterback.
And the other side, when the other guys
got the ball, you're gonna stop them because
they I haven't stopped them in years.
Right? A big
issue. So that's the charger story.
Other football story, news and notes here. Yeah.
Around the Mountain West. Yeah. This is this
is interesting.
I think it's an... It's the ultimate insult.
The Mountain West Conference pre season Poll picks
San Diego state to finish number 8. I
understand nobody knows who's on this roster because
they have I just back... Went back and
canada. They have 37
who have transferred in this year. Some of
them came after spring football. So when they
get in pads August first for the month
long pre season camp at San Diego State,
they'll be... Wearing in the colors and hitting
with a new playbook and a new head
coach. I understand. That's why they were voted
eighth. I don't understand why nobody paid any
attention. To the brilliant thing Sean Lewis did
at Colorado,
in 2 thirds of a season with s
Sanders, what he did prior to that for
2 straight record setting years at kent state,
what he did before that at Bowling Green,
what he did prior to that at Syracuse,
the guys
offenses statistically
have been phenomenal.
So they're bringing a lot of people in.
37 transfers in.
34
left the program. For all wide variety of
reasons. Here's the shocker to me. Only 16
of the 34 who've left
have signed anywhere.
18 others,
no place to go to play.
And I just... Had I tend to think
too many kids bailed out on Sean Lewis
without giving him a chance to go through
a spring ball
and find out how Vibrant is offense could
be might be etcetera.
Too many people, whispered and kids ears, too
many kids don't the opinion, new coach. He's
not Brady hawk. I'm not gonna stay.
18 aztec
don't have a place to play,
which including the number 1 running back Anthony
Mc from cathedral,
and Garrett Fountain, who was a multi year
starter at defensive event who bailed really early.
Don't understand why why kids would do that.
So that's That's the San Diego state headline.
It's quite a story at Colorado state. Now,
the capitalist
c host here who thinks everything is great
with the transfer portal and the N n.
Here's the story at Colorado State. Jordan Jay
Nor on who I think Done a really
good job as a coach in this conference.
Developing offenses.
Jay Nor got a quarterback that threw for
3400
yards his first year in the program,
and he accused
Kansas state
of tampering
with Brandon Nico pelosi. The star quarterback at
Cs shoot, and Nico pelosi threw for 3600
plus yards
22 touchdown first time we put the uniform
on in Fort Collins.
He says, a Colorado state quarterback was contacted
by Kansas state coaches
who offered Nikola pelosi 600000
dollars of N nih money to leave
to go to k state.
That's happening in a lot of places.
You can't contact a player
if his name's not in the transfer portal.
Now Nick name is not in the transfer
portal. So Jane Real wants the Nc double
to go in and say,
disciplined Kansas state.
For making any legal coaching contacts with my
quarterback who's here in spring football and has
not in the transfer report. Can't allow that
to happen.
But the capitalist is c host says everything's
fine. So those of the stories at San
Diego State and Cs you and as your
turn to respond from La field. From Left
field. Okay. First of all, if you If
you're, you know,
broadcaster, and you've got a great career and
as some other radio station or Nfl team
offers you big money.
I think you should be able to go.
I'd like that. But in this particular case,
there are rules with transfer portal can't contact.
I'm surprised they didn't have, like, 2 or
3 go between, you know, to... Because you
don't ask them directly. You gotta have 2
or 3 in the middle. Right? And how
did the coach it kansas... At Colorado state
get whiff of us? Evidently,
the quarterback said I am staying. There were
rumors that were swirling?
And Nicholas Pelosi said, I'm staying here. I'm
gonna be a Ram. We're gonna play in
the mountain in West Conference. Maybe we're gonna
win all, the conference slip bars. And by
the way, yeah.
The rumors out there or 2 I was
contacted by Kansas state and a coach.
And by the way, my name not in
the portal. I mean, it it's an egregious
violation, I think. It it is a violation
of the rules, but I just wonder about
the rules. But going back to San Diego
State, I love head coaches that are innovative
and experiment, and they They kinda have, like
a, you know, double make care attitude about
trying new things. And I think Sean Lewis
is gonna be that. This whole Aztec fast
brand. I'm anxious to learn about it. I
don't know if they've got the players that
can fit the system. I have no clue,
but I'd like what he brings to the
table. It's interesting. We go to his press
conference I had to bring you to 1
of these, You know, you're kinda in the
working media and now your hands are dirty
too.
The 1 that created this podcast.
His press conferences.
He talks so fast. It's almost like his
offense plays that fast. It just He just
bus through whatever the answer to the question
is next c and.
So I'm fascinated. I'd like him I was
big Brady. Hope fan, Brady from old school
different school. This guy is a new breed
guy. I...
I'll be fascinated to see how they hit
the floor running in the non conference games
which are gonna be hard. And by the
way, it's not my job to sell tickets,
but by the way,
they get Oregon state here, they get Washington
state here from the Pack 2 aka pac
12 at Snapdragon Stadium, Those are gonna be
fun.
Football games to go see. So that's the
coverage of the Aztec techs and Colorado state.
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bonus podcast. Yeah. Nba summer Lee. We got
some updates on some of our locals. Yeah.
Some are doing good. Some are not doing
good and some got hurt
let's just do a quick review. The lakers
are win list right now in the Nba
summer league.
Ronnie James, in the most minutes he's played
played 29 minutes
against Miami
and and then against Houston.
3 for 14 shooting,
0 for 8 from the arc. He's now
6 for 26
in Nba summer league games and the lakers
or her 1. So he is just... He's
overwhelmed. He's not struggling
at all.
I will say Dalton Connect is playing really,
really well. Last so 2 games, scored 20
and 25.
He's looked like he's found his shot. He's
looked like he's found more comfort zones in
terms of the ball on the floor going
to the basket foul in addition to hitting
threes.
We talked about the aztec ticks,
Jayden Lid. I I watched closely. Minnesota first
game against Houston,
and he looked a little bit overwhelmed. He
didn't do anything offensive which kind surprised me.
He was first guy off the bench he
was part of the second unit.
He played a total of 13 minutes. No
points
2 rebound,
1 block shots
and 4 valves in 13 minutes. Say a
little bit overwhelmed
Jaden and Led at this point in time.
You send these guys into competition in the
summer league and there's risk
Denver lost its first round pick. He's gone
for the year. Now they had just acquired
him right after the draft day,
they've lost Du holmes, a 06:11 kid from
the University of Dayton,
rupture
achilles tend, not good.
In terms of the 1 in 2 picks,
Zachary,
the number 1 pick from Atlanta. Pretty competitive
plan with the pigs, but the kid out
of France,
he kinda struggled at points in time, but
I think I think he wound up with
5 baskets
maybe 5 rebound, couple block shots. He was
really active.
The second pick on the draft of the
other French kid, Alexander Sa,
really overwhelmed. I think he was maybe 3
for 11, couple of foul,
couple of rebound just
that level of play of the big against
the big. He just really had a tough
time. I know it only counts as these
were the first games this weekend.
In the Las Vegas summer league for all
these marquee players. So we'll keep an eye
as as we go in the next 2
weeks to see how the rest of these
draft picks work. But
recession shade was pretty competitive and Alexander Sa
was not.
Well, you say that some of these guys
are overwhelmed by it. But who's playing in
the summer league. I mean, you've got the
rookie that were just drafted or the free
agents they've signed. You've got probably some of
their Gee guys, but are are guys that
are on the end of the bench on
the Nba roster? Are they playing in the
site few, but not a heck of a
lot. Like, there's none of the lakers
Yeah. Veteran ben sitter. They're not part of
the 6. So if you're overwhelmed in this
summer league. I mean, there's no way in
hell they're gonna be able to play in
the Nba.
But you grow. That's that's that's part of
the equation. They are young. Teach them what
it's like to be a pro. You put
them on a weight training program, a dietary
program,
and you grow them and you will show
patients obviously for the guys front. 1 guy
that has really stood out and he's very
checkered
controversial career.
I think it was the University of Illinois
Terrence Shannon.
With Minnesota, holy cow. He... He's lit it
up in the summer league so far, and
he was an explosive kid, but he had
checkered passed in terms of a lot of
stuff off the court, but it may be
that they have... They've... You know, they wound
up picking them
later, he he fell off the top of
the first round. He got picked towards the
back end of the first round.
I don't know if he's the t pick,
30 first pick, but Boy, I I've watched
him closely when Minnesota played Houston and said,
boy, this guy, this guy can play do
a lot of different things going to the
baskets pulling up shooting threes plan. D defense
is all over the floor. So some sometimes
you'll find a gym there,
and
Actually Shannon to me has been the most
impressive Rookie and if of all the young
players Have seen. I think I've watched 3
different games in in the summer... Lost vegas
got summer leg so far. Well, let's go
back to Jade For a minute because Mark
Zig said that even though the the numbers,
which you quoted are accurate.
He was actually made a big difference when
he was not carrying the ball. He was
set in picks, or, he was aggressive, He
was scrambling on the floor for for loose
balls and his plus minus was radically lopsided
in the plus category. Yep. So do you
think maybe the timber Wolves are gonna be
patient with him? Well, I I think so
he's a street free agent. But the 1
the 1 thing that stood out to me
was He did not get intimidated by the
pigs who were jumping jacks.
And those guys could not get to rebound
because they couldn't move them off the defensive
post when he was going for boards. I
mean, he was physically leaning on guys, and
guys are going on the floor. And he
was pushing guys. And he was fighting guys
and who were trying to run pick roles
around him. Offensive then, negligible
contribution. So maybe
maybe they will just work with him and
just use that 692 hundred 50 pound frame
as a defensive bully. Yeah. Well, but he
could shoot too. So... Great. But you know,
he could hit the the shot from the
elbow,
that's coming. You know? I, he's probably still
nerves. Right? Oh, I think so too. Yeah.
You know, you're gonna not, you know, can
make a roster decision on a quality basketball
player after his first game. Mh. In the
summer league, but he he was... He was
not an integral part at all of what
they're running an offensive william and all, his
heavy duty work came.
At the defensive events, so that's the latest
in the Nba.
Ronnie James. You did not give me an
opinion about Bonnie James 6 or 26.
That's just the biggest piece of crap, the
whole thing. It's it's like, yes. It's like
legacy,
ne.
I mean, it's no 1 of these players
don't wanna be just sign with the lakers.
You know? They don't wanna go play in
that environment. This is just a disgrace
because,
I mean, Led is a better player than
Ronnie, James. Led should have been taken. Now
Bro may have much much bigger upside the
year from now. Yeah. But he's still what
61I
mean, you know, that there's too many negatives
there. I just think
they're just the lakers are bent over backwards
to make Lebron happy, and I think they're
losing sight of the big picture to make
the the team better. There was a statement
though that made on the weekend after their
fourth loss in a row and and Ronnie
was asked
if this does not work out, what are
you gonna do? And he said, I'll go
wherever the lakers send me. That includes the
the Nba League. Yeah. So he might be
playing
in the G league, in on, I guess,
in Ontario
for the Lakers
minor league team. With a 4 year guaranteed
contract with that.
Nothing wrong with ne if you're on the
receiving it? Exactly. Okay. We go from that.
Hacks axon headlines, hacks axon headlines, the high
speed sports wire. Let's pull it up. Here
it is.
Let's just talk about different topics on the
table. I don't know if you watch golf
yesterday,
Scottish open. What a phenomenal finish. First of
all, I love.
There they were just outside Glasgow.
That's where Scottish show what I just love.
The Scotland landscape and the wind and the
breeze and they were wearing ski hats like
it was cold and they were... And they
were playing.
Robbie Mc
is from Scotland.
This was a spectacular
performance by him
in the Scottish open.
He roars from behind
and post the victory. I mean, it was
really stunning.
He had a 41
foot
uphill putt,
on 14
for a birdie that started Mac tires run.
And, of course, Scottish Native had everybody behind
him He got an eagle on 16.
He birdie 17,
and then on 18,
needing the pot.
To win the tournament, he had a 21
footer
on 18,
and the gallery
in Scotland just went crazy. I mean, it
was it was really
electric.
And all the name golfers just never a
close on him because once he turned the
corner, when he did what he did at
14 with a 61 foot shot,
it was over.
And and then the question was, was you
gonna be able to chase down the leader
and get the victory and he did, and
he just kept hitting big shot after big
shot and he had everybody boom
behind him. So the Scottish open is the
springboard for this coming weeks British open, which
is in Ent Scotland.
And I'm so fascinated to see because they're
gonna wake up early in the morning to
watch this sucker. I mean, like, 02:30 in
the morning Apparently. Wow, because it's gonna be
televised live. Okay. Scottish show open had t
historic course,
and the matchup gonna be Bryson d cha
wearing Live colors.
And Scotty Sc, who was dominated the Pga
tour. Rory Mc there. Rory did well in
the Scottish show, and that should be the
door to open for him to go get
something accomplished there. So that's that's kind of
fascinating too just to see how that situation
is is gonna play out hundred 58. I
think that's the most golfers of tee off.
In the British open.
Oh, since
19 95.
So
British open. I love the British open because
you're you're facing it very tough conditions in
the golf course,
you're facing a phenomenal field of marquee global
players,
and you're facing the weather man.
And the weather coming off the Irish sea,
it could be anything in different hours of
the day, you knew that. When you went
to Ireland, you were drinking beer, the because
guinness his brewery and, you know, the clouds
move through, and then it's raining, and then
it's sunny, and then it's hailing, and that's
what those guys are gonna face. So that
is gonna be absolutely fabulous.
Tennis
wimbledon just concluded.
Changing to the guard, I guess it...
Is now complete.
Novak Djokovic,
coming off knee surgery 6 weeks ago, forged
his way into the finals, but he got
run out by Carlos A.
It looks as if A ras is the
next star
on the men's side in tennis, because there
is there is no...
Raf.
There is no Federer who's retired.
Yoke
at age 39, looks like he's probably
at to the end of the road, and
A ras looks to be the guy.
I don't know who's the next door on
the women's side. All the top seeds, go
knocked out.
Some of the first round, some in the
third round, none of them got to the
woman's finals. So that'll be fascinating to see.
We're... I think we're going through the changing
of the guard. Soccer holy cow. Was is...
This was a great Sunday. Oh yeah. In
the championships
in the in the European championship,
Spain wins it for the fourth time.
England put up a dog fight to stay
in that thing. It was really impressive.
Spain scored early.
Looked like they were dominating,
England just
manned up defensive, Suddenly, the were turnover
ball go on the other way. The English
had scoring opportunities. They scored on a misha
pass in front of the goalkeeper.
Spain came back, however, and 1 on a
2 on 1 break
in the
80 fourth minute. It was really impressive.
And just just just to see these guys
in what it means to him, Harry Kane
was so exhausted.
They pulled them at halftime time, the English
superstar. So they they were really down, but
Spain is brilliant. Spring is vibrant. And like
I said, it's the fourth time they won
the euro championships.
Today,
king Charles
at Buckingham Palace,
wrote letters
to the Head coach Garrett South gate and
to Harry kane the captain.
Sal them on behalf of the entire country
for what they did. Right... Yeah. It was
really cool. I saw a copy of the
letter. On a website in London, and it's
just really cool with be about he talked
about how they carry the flags so proudly
and they wore the 3 Lions, Jersey, etcetera.
So that that was really neat because they've
they had taken an enormous amount of criticism
going into the tournament,
and they've not... I don't think they've won.
European championship up maybe 1 time in the
history of all soccer. So they they got
there, but they were exhausted getting there. We
go from that to what happened in Miami
last night, The Cop America championships,
ugly incident before the start
They had to delay the start for an
hour and 22 minutes because
South American fans who did not have tickets
broke down the gates.
To it in.
And it was really ugly. The arm... The
arm guards were there. They couldn't control the
crowd.
Cope taking enormous national heat.
For how they failed at security and put
so many people at risk by allowing all
these people to crash the gates and not
having security to stop this not having proper
procedure to allow the fans in there at
that stadium in Miami.
When they were done, I remember telling you
on Thursday? I think it was... I said,
how many times do you think Lionel messi
is gonna get kicked because Columbia just placed
like,
street fight. Mh. And he got kicked and
he got knocked out. He got knocked out
55 minutes in. He was done, and he
went to the bench and he we and
cried.
Because he was out of the game. Where
he re injured his his ankle again, and
he'd been hammered a couple times prior to
that. And the reps The reps didn't call
it. They just let Columbia mug people. I,
yeah apologies in advance. I don't know there's
any South American soccer fans who are on
our
this podcast.
They are the dirtiest team I've ever seen.
I mean, they they were violent tackle,
spikes high
forearms to the back, hits to the throat.
I mean, when they go up for headers,
on corner kicks,
they were doing this. I mean, I couldn't
believe it. And the referee just
let it go. Maybe that's the way they
play soccer in South America.
But at the end of the day, Argentina
1,
1 nil, they're 1 of their great veterans,
Lam michael Martinez scored the game winning goal,
a message just stood on the sidelines and
looked like a baby and then he was
the first 1 that roar on the field.
And then you then you see
all the players of the Argentinian team, just
weeping what it meant to them to win
the world championship. So just a phenomenal tournament.
It wasn't the world cup.
Man was damn close to it. Yeah. Was
really was.
Let's talk about coaching situations. Team Usa,
little bit surprised. This whole team Usa thing,
the the firing of a Greg Bur holt.
The situations in England that I've been able
to dig up are that they cannot afford
and are not gonna be able to hire
JKA
legendary liverpool,
and do head coach from Germany.
Yeah. He he resigned Liverpool or announced he
was retiring from Liverpool the end of the
season. And it sure does not look like
he is is gonna get hired,
that maybe he doesn't want to negotiate evidently.
He's gonna take. He's gonna take a full
calendar year off. So they're they're going back
to square 1 to try to determine what
they're gonna do. Team Mexico,
you know, we... I critique
their roster before the Cop tournament
became began, and I said, I don't understand
why you're leaving all these veteran players off
there.
Chu Lo, who is with the San Diego,
Ml s club a San Diego c was
left off,
Javier
chic out.
Hernandez was left off. They did not have
a Show of their star tender.
Anyhow, they just fired their coach.
Jaime El.
They keep firing guys every year. There's there's
no foundation. There's no philosophy. They build on,
the feeder program doesn't seem to be working
So Team Mexico.
Seems to be in a lot of trouble.
So, John threw a lot of stuff out
there. If you wish to talk about the
Scottish in British Open in Wimbledon or talk
soccer
the podium belongs to you. Well, it's interesting
if you're a Spanish soccer... Or Spanish sports
fan. It was a great weekend. Right? Yeah
You know, because you got A. You got
the the euro cup, so, you know, good
on those guys. Did you see it in
the Wimbledon though that Yoko vic was in
the finals, but he had surgery on his
knee? Like, about 6 weeks exactly, which is
incredible. Yeah. Well, again, if you have minor
meniscus surgery, that could... You could be back.
Nfl guys come back in 3 or 4
weeks. Baseball players if it's minor. Mh. And
evidently it was minor and he was back
for 6, but he had to grind through
it. He did get a break though because
in semi finals his opponent with drew because
of injury. So he never to semi of
my final match and Extra day's rest there,
But
he had I'd had a tough time of
fans. They are. They are anti yoke fans.
They bomb play him with criticizing
hat resident vaccine and all vaccine and he
just... You know, he brought his tennis racket
out and played it like It was a
vial ordered and, you know, after he won
his quarter final match, he just... He gave
the fans back as much crap as he
happened to take. Yeah. And then go into
the sun Matches. I watch both of those,
and they were fantastic. You know? And to
your point, yeah, Kane, I they showed him
on the sidelines in the euro final Docker
just looking sort of flat lined. You know?
Exhausted? Exhausted. And know you obviously, like, why
is this guy not playing? And then to
see messi, And did you see his ankles
12 Yeah I mean it was really bad.
But Argentina has had a great run for
these last 4 to 6 years.
I 12 was surprised by the ref letting
the the ball... The players play because you're
right. It was rough.
Columbia looked good. I was shocked. They didn't
score in that first half. They had opportunities,
but I just cannot put the ball by.
Are you gonna accept my critique. The Columbia
is the dirtiest team ever seen? Well,
is Columbia, You know? There's this some tough
guys in Colombia. I laid a from any
followers in Bog. Well, but you know, it
it's it's it's it's cool seeing all these
other South American nations and understanding a little
bit more about the personalities and the pros
and cons of each of these seems I
like it. And I like the fact that
there's different
sort of styles of playing depending on the
nation or even depending on the continent. So
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in here. This is from Steve. He says
the pot look terrible. Their stars aren't hitting
what will p do. He's gonna try to
make a trade to get pitching.
You know, I happen I happen to like...
The in... Coverage that the the Ut provides
are Kevin Ac c and Jeff Sanders, and
they play... You know, I play devil's advocate
and They write from their sources, what they
hear, and we talk about from my sources,
what I hear. They're gonna have to make
a deal to get pitch pitching. They don't
have enough pitching right now. Nobody knows the
outcome of vision. We're holding our breath because
must grow although he's throwing
a bull session now, He's just throwing
15 pitches at 80 percent.
He's not throwing any breaking stuff. He's not
throwing game time velocity.
So this is a long process, so... And
he's gonna have to throw some rehab starts
in the minor leagues. So starters 1 starters
too on there. Dylan sees. Just magical and
it looks like they uncovered a... A
mechanical
flaw. I, he came back and struck out
11, and and I think he gave up
1 hit in his weekend start, but Vas
is Vas,
and you... I don't think you can trust
him, and then the bull gets overused, and
they're gonna have to find a way to
get a picture the picture I want is
Cal Quan from Colorado because I think it's
more trustworthy. But I think there's a deal.
At least 1 deal come Any other questions,
they have any resources to be able to
get somebody's relief pitching because they're gonna... They
think they need somebody to help Suarez.
Well, you know,
looking at the Pod, from a hitting perspective,
you get Xander Bog arts back. Well, he
need look pretty good, You know? In his
in his at bats,
So now who's the odd man out In
the feels probably Donovan Sol. He's not a
bad trade chip. I mean, that dude can
hit. So He sitting over 2 80 last
night I checked. But you're not gonna get
Quan trill for Sol. If that were the
case, Colorado, which I no players, what assigned
Was on the street. Sure. So that maybe
it's a throw in.
Only time will tell us to what they
can afford to pay and what they're gonna
get back. In in return. And then the
other
intangible,
the guys up the highway.
The dodgers, they're gonna make a deal they
may be going after the same, you know,
Quan trill at Don stadium with those bats.
And they've got the resources, and they don't
have... Problem taken on additional luxury tax payments
salary.
Interesting.
Okay. Steve. Thanks for joining us. Next stop.
Okay. Let's go here to Dan and he
says, The J are a 6 and 11
team at best. He was making reference to
the chargers.
I don't... At this point, I don't even
know that I could pick the schedule and
tell you how many they're gonna win.
Because there's too many questions,
that have to be answered.
I do think offensive lines gonna be better.
I happen to think moving trade pip
inside the offensive guard
because his big problem was when he had
right tackle had to go out on the
edge,
and his mechanics, his feet weren't... Think he
couldn't get him set because he's a big
thick guy,
and he just could not hold up when
he had to go out on the edge
and he get knocked backwards, etcetera.
Inside a guard.
This is his 3 square feet. That's all
he's blocking whether it's run block and he's
a power guy. Or whether it's pass, it's
3 square feet. He's not going out to
have to go get Max Crosby raiders out
there on the periphery.
So I think they'll be better in that
front.
Does discuss edwards holding up? What do you
can do about the young wide receivers?
Or is it gonna be...
Pass catches by committee.
I just think there's too many questions right
now to indicate what kind of season they're
gonna have, And I I think they got
massive
issues
inside defensive and have had those issues for,
like, 3 or 4 years in a row.
I mean, there's no doubt that that Bo,
Ke,
the kid from Southern Ka Polo,
that those guys are really active, and there's
no doubt that... An old dog like den
Per coming back.
Who had been here early years of his
career, he's gonna help, and we'll find out
how good
the
mint mentor, the new coordinator is in terms
of putting people in right situations, and what
are they gonna run and is they're gonna
work?
So hi to me, there's awful lot of
questions. It's way too early to say what
they're gonna be. When we get to the
end of August to have a much better
indication. They... To me the chargers, they got
harbor and his resume and I got Justin
Herbert, and they got a lot of questions.
Yeah. A lot. And at 6 and 11
doesn't sound unreasonable.
But let's go back to when Har was
hired by the 49.
I remember but he had Alex Smith, and
then they they brought in colin Ka, and
then it turned out to be great for
a little while. But was was Har boss
successful in year 1 with the 9? Yeah
Yeah. I think he was. And I, you
know, I think he wound up being in
13 and 3.
Right on. Yeah. So I... I he was
successful at Stanford, and that that was not
a program that had a lot of resources
nor long track rack. I mean, John Way
it stand from was a thousand years ago,
and he did a great job there, and
he went in he fixed Michigan, but again,
he had a lot of blue chip players.
He's kurt a number 1 draft picks at
Michigan. He only gets 1 number 1 pick
year. So it'll... It... It's gonna be fun
watching to see what the, quote, J is
do. The next question. I love the Nick
can gloss. Yeah. Okay. Let's go here to
Casey. Says dodgers need a closer and another
relieve to help the pan and prop gonna
need another starter for the rotation if they're
gonna go far in the posts c's. Well,
I gotta get people back healthy, and that's
what they're crossing their fingers on has not
happened yet. I'll Evan Phillips is really good
the closer, but he's been hurt. He's been
on the deal twice already the season. And
I was kinda stunned. They they used him
in the 6 inning of a game in
Detroit
that that mon
where they wound up losing 11 to 9,
they had A94 lead lost 11 to 9
a opened.
So they got they got pitching depth issues,
but
I think they're gonna make a trade for
starter. I'm not sure which starter it's gonna
be.
But Andrew Friedman historically has always done significant
player acquisitions with big salary contracts at the
Trade deadline, so maybe maybe there's another 1
coming. And the guys at the bottom of
the batting order are starting to hit, not
not with regular,
but
Gavin looks is starting to play like Gavin
lux looks used to play, and then we'll
just see if said, Chris Taylor and some
of these other guys come around. Chris Taylor
had a really weird year. He's usually very
productive. But let's let's kinda have wish thinking
here. Let's say, K comes back. Let's assume
that he's solid.
Let's say, wish your thinking b comes back,
and he's gonna be maybe okay. And then
you've got Pax in and Yam. And Yam,
so he's thrown a ball for the first
time just on the weekend. First time, but
throwing
soft toss in the out field to hell
a lot different than being on the mound
of Don Stadium. So that's
that's a project
that
maybe September first if there's no setbacks with
the Yam. So I wonder if Friedman might
say, you know, we're not gonna trade for
a big arm. Maybe we'll trade for relieve,
but we're gonna kinda hope that our starters
come back. Well, they're hanging on to first
place because the ponder is so
inconsistent, and the pod have their own set
of injury issues.
I mean, there's still what 7 games ahead,
and the... And
everybody's got games and hands on the pod.
Because the powder it played so many games
at go in 50 and 49.
I mean, it's it's gonna be a challenge
to make up that amount of games in
the standings. Now,
maybe we're just building the roster to hope
you can get to the wildcard card race.
That's don't guarantee you're gonna win. I mean,
the Ponder are playing 500 baseball, and they're
hot and cold.
It makes you thinking the 3 game servers
you're gonna win them and move on to
the second round? You don't know. Like you
say it's J and hyde. And we start
to feel optimistic, and then we get frustrated
and disappointed again, it's an emotional roller coaster.
2 weeks. 2 weeks, more trades, they're they're
gonna start falling pretty quickly. Mh. Next question.
Let's go to Steve here another chargers question.
I'm curious how the chargers can be good
with no established receivers. That it's very hopeful
thinking. Well, if they're gonna pound the football.
And they're gonna run it more than the
throw it. Then
the pressure on the wide receivers is a
little bit different. Still gotta catch the ball.
You still want yards after the catch.
But are there gonna be a ball control
team and then let Herbert,
pick and choose select plays. I like Josh
Palmer,
I think he's grown a lot, and he's
been ding a little bit, but he's 6
5 and he's a tough guy.
I don't know what to make a Quentin
Johnston because he's dropped. As many balls last
year as a rookie here as he did
in his last year at Tc.
But boys is he gifted. He is so
big, and he's such a long strider, and
you can beat coverage,
but you gotta hold on to the football.
So the... I mean, those are the 2
marquee guys right now. Everybody that I've Canvas
in college would in the south, says Led
Mc quite a player. He's a kid out
of Georgia was a second round yeah. And
he's a tough guy and he can run
that inside all slot stuff and he gets
open, and there's yards yards after catch with
him. Now he hasn't done it here, and
he hasn't done it against fast inside cover
corner slot quarterback backs,
So would... That's just gonna be a learning
curve process and procedure
for him.
Dj Chalk, now, he'd been ding up. But
when he was in Carolina and healthy, he
was averaging, like, 16 yards of catch,
deep down the field threat. So they got
a mixed bag of guys, There is no
pro bowl. There is no Mike Williams or
keen an allen that scare the whole way
hell out of quarterback backs.
So it is... But if they run on
the football and move the football on the
ground with the... Or 3 running backs I've
got,
then maybe the pressure on the wide receivers
to be stars won't be as great. Yeah.
I forget about Mc. And you're right. He's
a legit
now this is kind of a crazy question,
but going back looking at all of charger
history and everything that you know about this
team. Who do you think are the 2
best wide receivers in the history of the
team? Well, people will tell you,
John Jefferson for the short time he was
here,
West Chandler was absolutely brilliant.
Charlie Joiner was a very different type of
receiver who caught an absolute ton of balls.
Now way back,
Old time charger fans American football league days
will tell Lance All, but that was such
a different era, and that was so long
ago,
modern day chargers.
I mean, there was there's no doubt that
Philip Rivers had people to throw to, but
he also had Tom in it and the
brilliance of Antonio Gates like foul outside the
brilliance at Ke Wins. So... But I I
think those
historically,
All, the greatest players. Keen and Allen was
a great route runner. He didn't terror people
except the fact he's gonna run precise things
and you're have to defend precise things.
And, I mean, Keen and Allen will I
think probably deserves to be in the charges
all of fame. Mh. Once he retire. Mike
Williams was big,
and he didn't quite duplicate
consistency
that he had a cl in, but he
he was hurt a lot, but he was
still a really good
yard receiver down the field. He just wasn't...
Dude he didn't play 16 or 17 games
every year because he kept getting ding because
he kept taking hits, but
I I would say the air cor era
wide receivers are probably collectively the best and
the back of the day, A nfl,
charger your wide receivers
obviously led by Lance And and the, I
guess the John Had Era way back in
the sixties. Man, that's that's a lot of
third downs ago. It is. And and you
didn't mention Tony Martin, who was there in
the nineties. That was for AAA brief period
of time, but Remember back... I was... It
was probably after the Super Bowl era, and
the the chargers signed David Boston. Yeah. You're
all thought this guy's gonna be us. Stud.
He's gonna be a great. And that guy
was like, a head case. He was, like,
Milton Bradley of the of the Nfl. Yeah.
I I mean, he was just my state
and his dad played in the league and
he had it was a great physical specimen,
but there were just too much stuff going
on with him and you couldn't trust him
and mis practices, and they finally said No.
Normally they got rid of them. Next question.
Okay. Let's go here to Cow. He says,
Lee, you might know this better than me
even though I've announced him minor lee hockey
for nearly a decade.
How exactly does the entry level
contract El
actually work?
It's part of the collective bargaining agreement.
Every
rookie who gets drafted
can be signed a... It's a 3 year
minimum
deal,
it's called entry level contract. And
he gets it's like a 2 way deal.
He gets so much if he's in the
minor leagues. He gets so much... He gets
the bare minimum
if he's a first year Nhl player. I
think the Nhl minimum for first year players
because of the union agreement,
is 725000.
If you play in the minor leagues. If
you played in the East Coast Hockey League,
you might get a contract that's
maybe 75000,
in the American hawk league, which is the
top triple 8 league if you will.
The A nhl guys can get anywhere from
hundred thousand to 02:50.
But the the... Those the higher priced A
contracts are really few and far between, But
It is all structured by the collective Bargaining
agreement, and in essence, it's a 2 year
contract. It sounds like, yeah, the Nba 2
way deal. Yeah. Exactly. Okay.
Good question. Yeah. It is a good question.
I agree. Okay. Let's go here to Chris,
and he says saw huge trade rumor. I'm
here in the dodgers about to get Kevin
Go and Bob jet from Toronto for a
package centered around 2 hot kid arms, Dalton
Rushing and Dave Roberts.
Well, Dalton Rushing possibly, and there's a young
catch sure that stalled the aa a by
the name of Diego Cart.
And he's had a bounce back season had
a miserable season last year he's had injuries,
sure there rumors everywhere that they're gonna blow
toronto up. In fact, there's rumors everywhere, they're
gonna blow Ross Atkins, and general manager are
out. And and the manager might get fired
too. But that would be taken on salary,
but that would be a typical
contract
that that Andrew Friedman would make. And Ga,
who used to pitch for the giants and
actually was a pretty competitive veteran who was
in Baltimore I think before that, and maybe
even Texas Su Detroit, But but Ga, the
type of god that the dodgers would get
and be plugged in, doesn't have injury problems,
takes the ball every fourth or fifth day.
But sc had a a tufts season. Not
III
actually think he's on the disabled list right
now. His numbers are not what they were.
You know And if that happens, and it
then it leads to the next question. Are
they gonna trade vlad girl because his name
has also been mentioned out there. I find
that Her to believe Toronto would trade vlad
to the Yankee
you're gonna trade with the enemy in the
division unless the Yankee just give you a
volume of young prospects. So, you know,
connecting the dots that makes sense that maybe
Ga is is the type of guy they
go after, because they're gonna afford to make
this deal because I got so many other
guys in a farm system. He was good
with the giants. Yes. You know, for about
a 2 or 3 year stretch. But isn't
it amazing how Toronto Blue jays we thought.
They had all these kids and they're all
the sons of x major league, and they
were gonna just run rough shot over the
A East, and they just keep struggling. Yeah.
I mean, they got...
Vlad girl,
Bi,
Kevin Bi. Well, he's with the doctors dodgers
now. Yeah. Bob shit.
And then they spent a lot of money
on George Spring, who I was surprised left
Houston to go there,
but they've had a lot of injuries to
their pictures, and then you got pitching injuries
and then guys who just are not performing
everyday lineup up and guys who get ding.
And just... It's it's not a good season
in Toronto and I mean, they're they are
holding Ross had a general manager responsible. I'm
not even sure that he's gonna survive
when we get to the off season. Every
major league team's got injuries, guys underperforming,
contract problems, holes in their roster. This is
gonna be a dynamic 2 week. Yeah. I
think so. I think there's me a lot
of wheel in dealing in a trade deadline.
Thanks, chris. Okay. Let's go to Greg. He
says, Lee, is there a group out there
trying to bring the Nfl back to San
Diego? No. Yeah because there's no stadium. There's
no sight for a stadium.
1 of the biggest disappointment I had was
a, the chargers left and screwed everybody along
the way.
B, we had a proposal that was called
a soccer city proposal
in which we soccer city was gonna build
a soccer stadium,
and go go get an Ml team,
and then maybe allow San diego state to
move in. And after 5 years, soccer city
was gonna give the soccer stadium to San
Diego state and let them operate it. Mh.
But part of the soccer city proposal was
they had a 15 acre tract land
that they were gonna reserve if somebody wanted
to come in and build an Nfl stadium
and try to get an expansion team or
lure somebody,
it'd be there. Well, that proposal from Soccer
City got voted down. San Diego States proposal
wound up winning, San Diego State took over
the entire...
Hundred 43 acres of the of the quote
Qualcomm
site
and
the availability of that land for a stadiums
gone, because that's gonna be a park or
a river park or it's gonna be academic
buildings, it's gonna be research center,
dorm,
That's that's the long range vision of of
what Qualcomm has become. So there's no land
available immediately.
And you can say, well Rich man, he
can go by the land. Well, if the
Rich man's gonna buy the land. So They're
gonna buy land up in ocean side because
that was floated out there as a local
cow. You have to spend the money there.
You have to spend the enormous money to
build the stadium, and then you're gonna spend
money for an expansion team. Where's lot of
money gonna come.
I mean, outside of Jeff Bezos, I don't
know many people that have that kind of
wealth to do all 3 of those things
that need to happen. I think sadly, I
I don't think ever gonna see the Nfl
back here at least in our modern lifetime.
I agree with you. But have... Has the
Nfl? Are there whispers of expansion?
No. But they're
you have to know that there's an enormous
amount of money out there to be made
as an expansion franchise.
You just have to pick the right market.
So I'm not... Outside of San Diego. I
don't know what other right markets are out
there. Hell, you're not going fe North Dakota.
I guarantee that. Well, maybe it's like some
of these
international locals. Well, that's know, that's been talked
about. I mean, they are talking London expansion
franchise. They are talking Mexico city
expansion franchise, but, you I think that's down
road. I don't think that's that's in the
immediate near future in the league. Interesting. Yeah.
Interesting.
Okay. Let's move on. Let's go to Angel.
His all star break couldn't come at a
better time for both the dodgers and Pad.
As for the angels, they've been a surprise
team, I was sure they'd be 33 and
65 at the break. Yeah. I think they
have 41 wins.
I don't know how Ron Washington got this
roster to 41 wins. I think the records
41 and 56 something like that. They just
don't have enough players right now. But, I
mean, they have developed some some guys that
you really like. I think Zac need, the
short stops really become a fan favorite and
logan a hop,
and a little bit of pop in that
bad. Not hitting for great average. He's the
catcher. He's played very well. Although there are
people calling the halo about trades.
That there is... There's a lot of conversation
about Taylor Ward, the left field are possibly
being moved.
They were shopping Joe Dell. He's got... Got
some power he's not hitting for average at
all. And this is really deep into his
career.
I think the shocking thing,
I read a piece.
You know, 2 years ago, no, 3 years
ago, 20 21.
They drafted 21 pictures, all 21 of the
draft were pictures. I remember that. Only 2
of them have gotten other the major leagues
and both of them got hurt, really. Yeah.
Chase Sol seth is 1.
He's the only 1 that got there. He
got hurt. The other 1 got here and
was never healthy.
They traded
a group of them away. The I think
there's 9 of them still left from the
21, but they're all buried in the Angels
farm system, None of them are viewed as
major league picture. So I mean, when you
spend all that, all those picks on arms
and hardly anybody gets there,
Not good. And that's why they're in the
mess they're in right now. Oh, that goes
to player development, and their coaching system and
everything else. And that's spins done back to
Arctic Moreno and philosophy. Yeah. And resources and
where you invest. But
Rod Washington has done a great job there
with the Angels. But remember he was a
consideration for the Pod ray job. Mh Pod
hired Shi. I mean, just imagine for a
moment that Ron Washington was the manager of
the Pad. Do you think the pod will
be better or worse than they are?
His ability to communicate where the players and
teach players?
But he... You know, those... As much as
he may have input in developing the players,
players still gotta do it at home plate.
And veterans,
these are the guys have not really had
great great seasons are not hitting. So I
don't know if he would've have made a
a big difference. I I think
the big issue is that Washington had off
the field problems. And Pad,
a aj Pell just does not get involved
with guys who've got off the field issues,
and I think
indirectly. That's the reason why
Run Washington was not hired in San Diego.
And I I like Sc. I I think
he he runs the club balance. He's got
strong philosophies. He makes too many excuses to
me because he never holds anybody publicly accountable.
But again, the players in the banners box
and players on the amount are the ones
that have to perform and in part that's
got... That goes back to the general manager.
Who you give me and how come they're
not playing well? Well, I like Schultz. I
I know I like them a lot. Here
here's another comment.
Also Pod ray Dodge are related from Richard.
With the dodgers having unlimited resources, what A
aj offer at a deadline. No farm system
capital to work with. Well, he's got farm
system capital, but the ownership has said we're
not treating any of these young players, and
and they're making reference to The top 2
pictures in the organization are really struggling Richard,
dj Las,
who was coming off elbow surgery is a
high school pitcher. He's not pitching well. Rob
sn has just stalled the Aa. He's not
pitching well. Those are the 2 arms.
The third player is Ethan Sal, who's hitting
under 200 at at Class Ab ball, but
he's only 18.
And the fourth player is a kid here
at Lake El,
Leonardo Dev degrees,
who's pushes batting average a little bit over
200 right now. But he's really young too.
Yes. I think he's 17.
So I mean, Potter his philosophy is push
him out there, force him to play a
little bit above their heads, see how they
cope with it, etcetera. And the ownership has
said was stop trading. I mean, he's traded
half the blue chips in this farm system
already. For the transactions that he made to
get Luis rise,
etcetera. So I don't think they've got a
lot of resources to give unless you're gonna
part ways with Hassan hassan Kim
and Kim can be a walk free agent,
and they've got a lot of short stops
in the organization in the system,
maybe a trade cam. Maybe a trade camp.
Because he has shown flashes that he can
hit, and he's a kind of a workhorse
behind home plate. Although there's not an established
everyday major league picture maybe a trade majorly
catcher or maybe you trade the catcher. So
Aj is kinda limited and Aj limited by
by the luxury tax. They told them you're
not going over the threshold to getting near
the threshold.
That limits whether he could take on a
big salary. I do think they're gonna make
a deal. I'd like to see we at
Quan trill because it they own his rights
for 2 more years. So But again, Colorado
is not gonna make the Pad better just
to make them better, Colorado is gonna want.
They wanna
extract something from San Diego. Well, there's definitely
a game of musical chairs going on in
the in field and ADH spot. They got
1 guy that doesn't fit.
Trading Kim would make all those pieces work,
but he's at the end of a deal.
He's gonna be a free agent. I I
don't know if that makes sense.
But, yeah, the the... The pod...
They've got their starters,
but we don't know what to expect from
them. We don't... There's no guy like in
aaa or Aa, the... That's... You think is
waiting for his opportunity. Yeah. III
thought
if Sn had another good year and he
was pretty good last year going from Me
to Aa. I thought, okay. He's gonna here.
But he's not gonna arrive here now is
2 and 8 with the E of over
7. So, I mean, he's just kinda hit
a wall. I've where ears have to work
through that and young young guys get overwhelmed,
then you gotta work through that and make
them more complete ball players. But So the
ponder is... They've got some limitations here.
I don't know where it's gonna go. All
I know is we're 2 weeks out. And
if you're Sc and struggling, you'd rather make
the the best trade you can now, if
you can get 2 or 3 starts out
of the next... Scott you're bringing a into
your rotation rather than wait till July 30
first.
Maybe you're better to do that. I do
think the dodgers, this is interesting because they
played so badly. And they have so many
pitching problems. I think the dodgers me the
first ones to dive in and make a
deal because they get the assets to do
that. They do. Okay. They're loyal A couple
more here. Okay. Let's go to David.
Talk a little soccer. He says, they need
to do a better job about the conditions
of the pitch used for the World Cup.
It was bad for Cop America and possibly
cause messi injury. They put so over the
artificial turf. Yeah. It was a real problem,
and then they they watered this... Thought and
was really...
The players are skid. And that... You know,
that's how you get hamstrings or in in
message case. He didn't get hit. Now he
got kicked prior. Thought He got killed prior.
Just
terrible way Columbia place. I mean, spikes up
all the time. Yeah. And so he went
down on an ankle. He was down for
almost 5 minutes they short handed as they
administered to him off the field, and they
went back on and when he was running,
his foot slipped, and he'd already had head
had ankle problems even all the way back
with Miami and Ml,
and he went right down and he was
just enormous enormous pain. So
yeah, Cop has taken a lot of crap.
Field conditions in some of the locals
and the whole ticket distribution thing, and security
at least in the Miami scenario. It was
fascinating you know because they were drawn 70
to 80000,
some of these venues for the games. I
mean soccer in America to me has really,
really arrived. 0IA hundred percent degree. And I
think it's great. You know, considering that the,
you know, it's an international sport, I think
it's fantastic.
Now the the stadium where they played in
Miami. That's where the dolphins play our hard
rock. Okay. So that's why they had, I
guess the turf underneath. That's what they normally
use there.
Interesting. But, I I saw the field and
and I remember seeing the sprinklers at halftime
time, and the... It's interesting when you on
television, It's hard to tell. But the feel
was so perfectly manic. And every time they
fell, they had shards of grass all over
them. You know So I must just don't
know lawn in the thing. But I'm just
amazed that they keep it in such great
condition. But to, you know, to David's point,
there were cases where there were d. Oh,
yeah. And and and a lot of problems.
And that's what took out messi. Yeah. And
they said the the field was really slick,
which meant they watered it a lot. No
granted. It's in... Oh, It's a... It's not
an open roof stadium. It's a hole in
the roof stadium, but it was hot, and
it was humid, and then they water the
hell out of it and a footing. Night
I that... Players are going down the whole
night. So they they've got between now and
20 26 on different venues to figure this
thing out for the World Cup. But that'll
be world cup people not Cop America people.
Right? Now the stadium where Lionel Messi plays
in the Ml is a different stadium. Yes.
That's an Ml built, stadium by David Beckham.
Like built that a couple years ago. So
that's what maybe, like, 30000 capacity, something like
that. Alright. Alright. Next question go to social
media. Yeah. Let's do social media. We've got
a bunch of guys here in line.
How about f f1. Let's talk F 1.
And this is from Peter. He says, that
race was lost by stupidity, more than 1
by greatness. At the end it was only
1.4 seconds splitting them. Oh, he's talking about
Lewis Hamilton
upsetting Max ver
at the British Grande prix at Silver stone.
We've talked about this. Last week. But the
fact that that Hamilton was able to be
running in the top
4 or 5
with a car that's not produced all season
long is amazing. Now Ver has had accidents
for Snap had scripts in the pits, Hamilton
right place right time,
anyone up post in the victory. If they
had to go 2 or 3 more laps,
maybe somebody would have caught them. But it
is interesting,
that's a first win,
since 20 21 for Sir lewis. And, of
course, he's gonna leave
Mercedes here at the end of the season
to go to Ferrari in a very controversial
move, but
it's it's really interesting seeing over stopping right
now is being viewed. There's almost
the enemy.
Like, also nobody likes them. And he's dominated
the sport for the better part of 2
years
with team Red Bull, and, you know, there's
there's situations that maybe they part ways with
this guy. So I don't know the guys
hugo go has gotten totally out of hand.
He said so many incidents the second half
of the season. He's not dominating the races.
It anymore. Some interesting see where it goes
in f f1. But, you know, for Sir
Lewis,
I'd nobody expect. I don't know anybody. Myself
included, and I follow f 1,
expected a hamilton gonna do anything before he'd
reach the end of the road with with
Mercedes and the left to go to Ferrari.
For Snap was winning too damn much. And
we listen it all the races. Yeah. So
it's nice to see a little change of
the guard, but it's really the old guy
that's back. With Lewis Hamilton. But this is
kind of a crazy question. But I remember
as a kid back in the seventies or
so, there were f 1 cars that had
4 wheels in the front. And 2 in
the back. Have you ever seen those before?
Like, l racing? Does that ring a bell?
No. Okay. I gotta go look that up.
Sure. And you weren't drunk when you thought
about that? I don't know Think might Was
a little kid. I was probably playing too
much attention to my slot car racing truck.
No Never... That's a reach. I've never ever
heard that 1. But
1 has grown. It is so
expensive
to operate.
They... What they charge for a city to
host is absolutely phenomenal,
but it's grown. I mean, from a network
perspective, it is must see Tv, especially in
the European venues, which is why now they're
pushing to come here to the states, and,
you know, they they and soccer are trying
to make an impact here in the Us,
and now now we're gonna be up to...
3 f f1 races, and the goal within
a couple of years is to have 5
events here in the states, you know, in
addition to the 1 they have in in
in the Canadian Grande prix.
There was in Montreal. So it's...
I mean, this sport has just exploded Their
personalities. And I mean, it's... It's really just
a very, very different sport now than it
was 5 years ago and Mh. Really different
than it was 10 or 20 years ago
and it was great back then.
Hey, Oh, I'm enjoying it. I'll tell you
what. Can we get 1 more question or
here go. This is about the home run
derby, which is gonna happen tonight. And this
is from do you love it? He says,
I hate how they turn the home run
derby into this rapid fire thing. The crowd
used to be able to admire each long
ball hit, and now the next pitch is
thrown, Before the last 1 even lands and
the hit are out of breath, Let the
big boys go out there and launch some
for the fans and keep it to 2
rounds. And Ps ditch the hideous uniforms, let
them wear their own Uni. Here here, let
that the home team where their home jersey
is in white. So we get to see
all the colors that the road teams with
their road graves, with their own logos. I
think that would be cool. You know, they've
invoked new rules, a lot of a lot
of the guys who've been in the derby
are not in the derby this year in
the injury factors, obviously 1.
And they've they've changed the rules, and it's
not gonna be head to head
competition.
I go up and I take my swings,
and then the next batter. John Reilly goes
up. He takes his swings and the third
batter,
our dog who is our mascot for, it
takes... His swings. Mh. And then they'll just
take the top 4 guys, and then they'll
advance and they'll be semi finals. And also
they're taking down the ratchet down the pitches?
How many pitches you can... Swing at. They're
gonna give these guys a chance to stand
in the box catch their breath before the
next ball. No, do is is is absolutely
correct. It It just became dramatic, throw it,
throw. It hit it, hit it. And, you
know, I'm a player. I'm a manager, a
general manager of a team has got my
star player in home and derby. I want
my guy to suffer oblique injury because he's
trying to do too much. So this one's
gonna be ratchet down and handled a little
bit differently.
I love that the polar bear, Pete Lo.
This is a big deal for him, and
he makes it a big deal. That's exciting.
And then I also go back to remembering
when the All star game was here in
San Diego, and Will Myers had his brother
pitch to him and he got bean by
1 of the balls. This is typical bodies.
Right? Yeah.
You know, but who's not there,
obviously, Ot,
and he leads baseball home runs,
and so is not there.
You know, when you talked about the All
star game in San Diego, I sat down
the love line.
By the Western Metals building,
and I watched at that point, he was
called Mike Stan, Miami Marlin. Kiosk crush home
run after home run I... I mean, it's
just phenomenal. But again, the, you know, the
throwing grapefruit foods up there or any had
a good good guy pitching, and he just
kept hitting and bombs. It was great for
the fans. But I mean, if I'm the
general manager of my team, I don't want
Manny Mach shot,
to suffer rib cage general b injury, trying
to ruin home on derby, and that's that's
a big issue. That's why they change their
rules.
Remember Josh Hamilton? Sure. That was a fantastic
display in the home run derby be probably
my favorite 1 ever. So is it... Is
it a gimmick? Yeah. Have they found something?
Yeah. It's cool. Now they need to structure
it for the safety of the players? Just
don't make it a great event for the
fans.
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