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lot of different directions. I'm gonna challenge you
to get in into fan's form with each
of these different topics, I spent the entire
day,
watching the weather in Tron Scotland. Mh. And
watching Xander or Sc and what he did
to win the British open but what a
spectacular
group of hours it was
to see what he accomplished
and John to see what happened to everybody
else that was chasing him. I tried to
come up with a word to describe what
we saw.
And III just... I couldn't come up with
a right adjective adverb to describe it. So
you're the smart guy in the room. Give
me a word to describe with that. Kid.
It's not a kid anymore. Well without San,
with that ast
accomplished at the open.
I was getting Tiger wood vibes. I mean,
because, you know, went in 2 2 of
these majors this year, he's finally arise because
he's been on the on the edge of
being 1 of the top. Golfers in the
Pga,
what a run for or for Ast tech
for a life Xander sc.
I'm gonna use the word because I think
it's arrived. I think he's a superstar. No
but no doubt. I mean, he had 1
tournaments prior. He had been on the periphery
of
accomplishing something in the most important tournaments. Hadn't
haven't gotten there. Till he got here with
the Pga championships and then what he did,
Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday was just spectacular.
He's got ice water in his veins.
You know, there were 8 golfers
separated by 2 shots.
At the turn in the final round yesterday,
8,
and they were all chasing him,
and he ripped off birdie
Birdie 11, Birdie 13, 14 16.
Stayed out of bunker. He stayed out of
the high grass. He got lucky bounces along
the way. He did not self des
Thursday, Friday, Saturday and the weather
I love that type of weather. I'd love
Scotland's weather. That weather was miserable
for the golfers.
Dude shot a 65 on the final day,
he finishes at a minus 9, and he
did that with everybody chasing him. There was
a confidence.
There was a calm.
There was a maturity to fight off every
1 of those guys that made runs at
him.
And maybe he didn't pay attention to the
leader board. Maybe he wasn't looking over his
shoulder.
He did say in the post,
tournament golf con
conversations with a global media.
What he learned at the Pga championships about
the pressure,
of trying to win a grand slam, help
them a great deal. There was there was
just a calm about him
in his game, especially on the final 9
holes when he reel off all those birdie.
And then prior to that, there was just
a focus despite everything that was happening with
the weather and the weather just got worse
and worse Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
I mean, this guy came together. And I
don't think this is a once in a
lifetime weekend.
I think if he can continue to play
with that level of focus that level of
intensity and the ability to make every conceivable
shot possible.
Like I said, my word of the day,
on Sesame street in Superstar. Yeah. He's definitely
arrived the first half before the turn on
Sunday, he missed a couple of birdie putt,
just by millimeter. So that that lead that
he had could have been even greater, But
I just love seeing the local boy doing
good here San Script ranch ast tech for
life. But I... The other part about this
term that I enjoyed is is all the
different holes, of the railroad track hole, the
postage stamp pull, all the weather issues. It
just made it, like, a, like, a... Fun
obstacle course. Oh, it was. And as we
march through, and I watched a lot of
this British show. I probably watched more British
open this weekend that I have in the
last group of years. But all I could
think about was what you and I talked
about Thursday is the first round was beginning.
The pothole hole bunker 6 to 8 feet
deep. A holy holy cow.
The railway hole, of, the coffin hole, the
623
yard mile hole,
the rain, the wind, the s, the slate
gray sky.
I mean, it was so hard. Let's just
talk briefly
about
the other group of golfers and what happened
to each of them. Okay. Let's bring it
up here. If it wasn't Za,
I was rooting for Justin Rose because he's
just been a Pure pro
for more than a decade and a half
on the tour. He he'd had won the
open way back as a young golfer.
He had only 3 bogey in his first
54 holes and think about he was fighting
elements like everybody else with 3 bogey and
54 holes. Now. In the middle of Sunday's
round. He hit about a 6 hole stretch
where his game kinda got away from Some
of the shots weren't good. He missed a
few putt and that kinda knocked him down
the board and eventually
kinda sealed his fate that he wasn't gonna
be able to win the tournament. They did
rally back and wind up in second place.
Billy H.
Best major of his life.
He had the lead.
He got a erratic off the tea on
the front 9,
And then somehow,
he dialed it back in. He reel off
3 straight birds, 16 17 and 18, climbed
back into second place,
Billy H, Justin Rose tied for second.
Shane Lowry,
fans favorite from across the border in Ireland.
He lost his comp.
I started to read really bad body language
he just struggled.
And what killed him, most of this happened
on Saturday where it kind of fell back
of the pack. He couldn't survive a bogey
double bogey on back to back holes. And
all of a sudden he was spraying shots
everywhere. He struggled.
Scott Sc has just never solved how to
play links golf, and that's a big issue.
His body language was really bad. His putter
went away. You could just read the frustration
level
of of Scott,
off the t,
hitting the fairway or hitting.
Out of the fairway having to hit it
back. His struggles on the green. So he
obviously wasn't wasn't himself, and he's never quite
figured out. He struggles over in Scottsdale on
the links scores there. He just had never
figured it out, and then you throw in
hold the weather and the elements,
it just beat him up,
Bryson Des cha, I expected much more. What
a fatal start?
Bogey 4 the first 6 holes on Thursday.
Never a candidate in the tournament wound up
9 over par. The shocker to me was
Rory Mc,
And he's in a mental fun right now
with his game.
I don't call it a grand slam curse.
It's been 10 years since he's won
a major. But he went Double bogey posted
a stamp hole, another double bogey on the
railway hole. He just was never in it.
Minus
There there was nothing on the scorecard that
said he was gonna get it back together.
Wound up going 12 over par missed the
cut completely and left.
And his game is not where his game
many thought would be. And this is a
guy that I think it was emotionally damaged
after what happened in the Us open and
boy he played poorly.
And there was Tiger woods sad site, 79
and 77 the first 2 days.
6 bogey, 2 double bogey, the... First round,
came back with more bogey the second round.
Off the tea didn't hit it for yard.
Hit it off the fairway. Was in all
kinds of trouble. He had bad putter problems.
It was really a pity party just to
to watch Tiger Woods.
And maybe the worst display is what I
saw the first day
John Daly. Remember him once upon a time
was a hot guy, and now he's now
he's grossly overweight and he's got this big
beard, and he he smokes and he drinks,
shot a shot an 82 on the first
day and started the second around and quit.
You know, I understand he won and and
he he...
He's eligible for up till age 60 because
he's won a major,
wouldn't an embarrassment to golf.
Just not the way he dresses. He dresses
like a billboard and a jerk, but just
the way he conducts himself. He it, and
I've interviewed him a couple times, and I
just kinda got turned off by the whole
persona. You know, he's got sticks.
He's got a smokes, and he likes su
Why the hell is on the... Still on
the Pga tour. Unfortunately, he's got the exemption
because it were 1 grand slams in the
gifted year or 2 He had on the
course old knife just unravel. So I mean
to see him on the course was just
an odor embarrassment. So
hats off to Xander, Knife
superstar, I think has arrived. And the other
guys. They all made runs Adam and Xander
held them off and then they all self
constructed. And I just I sat there, and
I just watch the elements. The elements were
brutal. I mean, a wind is blowing sideways,
and the rain is blowing sideways, and guys
are on the greens putting and the you
you could see the ball
because of the wind.
And guys are off the tea.
18 to 20 mile an hour winds in
their face. They hit it high, and it
s comes down. And I think I told
you the in the first round.
Guys played the front 9
along the the bay of... I think it's
a Bay of Funding, ci I received. He
played the front 9 with the wind in
the face.
So they get ready to go to the
tenth t to go back the other way,
Inland,
and the weather had changed. The win was
in their face going back. These guys were
so psyche out. And just mentally these poor
guys fell apart, and it was just... You
know I'm a big believer in body language.
You know, But I I think you have
to seal yourself from it and say, okay,
I just... Poor I had a shot that
went aw because of the weather and the
elements and not lose your mind over it
because everybody else in your group and everybody
group behind you Got to... Playing the same
elements. Some of these guys just didn't cope
with it. So
Superstar from San Diego was arrived and John
Reilly says, Playing Yeah. He's arrived. And and
you could see that. Like, on the on
Sunday, Dude was focused. Meanwhile, Justin Rose, you
know, local, he was British.
Yeah he was really emotional. You know? As
he was trying to get this thing together,
and he missed a few putt and kinda
got angry. And the fans are with... With
the emotion, but Xander was like Robo golfer.
You know, it's just grinding through everybody. But
I wanna go back to the British open.
Isn't there like, a... And a collection of
of courses that they tend to rotate? Yes
they all do. So how often do we
get to see it at t? Maybe 1
every 8 to 10 years. I mean, there's
so many different courses. I think they go
to Northern Ireland next year, You know, and
the historic prestigious 1 of S. Andrews to
in Northeast Scotland, and... But they they all
rotate Corn and a whole bunch of others.
So it's just special. I mean, this thing's
been played since the 18 fifties. I this
was the hundred
50 second
open. Wow. Pretty cool. And a hundred and
58 guys tee off, and you how many
broke par, by the time they got to
the finish line Sunday night in the rain
and the wind and the cold?
9.
9 guys broke.
At of a hundred 58 who tee off.
That's a brutal course. It's top. Well, It's
the British open. Yeah.
Reaction to Tiger.
You always talk about the pity party and
and Tiger hanging around. And Tiger's like like,
John Daly, in in that respect we're their
former majors winners and they get out there
and, you know, they... They've got the legacy.
But, you know, when when Tiger was bending
over to pull football of the hole. It
look like an old man with a bad
back. I mean, you could tell he's just
a shell of himself and it's disappointing. Out
But I'll tell you what, when I saw
Za, especially walking up to the eighteenth hole
with his cat as former San Diego state,
golf teammate his partner.
Man, that was just so dynamic. It was
like another tiger woods. We got a new
young kid that's come in here and taking
the Pga. Hey. You're a golf fan. And
we have not taken a lot of fans
forum comments on Pro golf. Did you watch
the British open? Do we have a new
soup... Superstars is the next great 1 from
the States. Feel free to jump on board
if you're in into golf. From golf. Let's
talk baseball, John. Baseball Pod,
Dodgers Angels Woody got? We had all kinds
of headlines here? What a weekend for pottery
pitching? How about the Pod starters in the
Cleveland series. That was the first place Cleveland
Guardians,
k, Mike Cleveland Indians. First place.
And the Pad starters
W, cease
king,
20 innings gave up 2 runs beautiful. To
a first place team.
And Dylan sees has obviously made some structural
changes in his delivery.
Second straight,
unbelievable performances as Tommy throws a 1 hit.
Strikes out 10. Michael King came back on
Sunday, 6 snow hit innings.
W gave him 6 quality innings of 1
run ball before the bull pen imp on
Friday night. Starters were really impressive.
Now.
Day off today, they go to Washington,
Randy Vas who has a tendency to get
beat up. He's gonna have to start. They're
still short on starting pitching. He got another
problem. They sent Johnny Breed to triple,
El paso to get him ready to come
back.
To be extended, put into the rotation, shutdown
down, got 4 problems in El paso.
And adam a maze, whom they sent down,
he showed up damaged
He's gotten lit and his El Paso starts.
He had A774
Era here should not have been on the
major leagues, but val try to hang in
there.
Back to a paso has got a knee
down there now 7.29
brutal. So they're, you know, we're we're marching
towards the trade deadline that becomes a big
issue. So The pad went 2 of 3
in Cleveland.
Off day day, Washington then they go play
play the first place, Baltimore oreos.
Who are really, really good. That's that's the
Pod notebook.
Dodgers.
They've been waiting.
They have arrived.
They have just activated Tyler Glass now
Clayton K shaw, both will start against the
San Francisco giants this week. 4 game series.
La San Francisco.
They're gonna put K shaw on a pitch
count, but he had 4 minor league agree
rehab starts,
He pitched pretty decently,
glass now, who's got... There's an innings issue
with him because he's never thrown
hundred 80, and he's on on this track.
Towards that. Glass now seems to be completely
healthy coming off would appeared to be a
minor hip issue.
New trade talks
Lad dodgers are talking to Detroit
about the Ace of their staff. I can't
believe the tigers are gonna trade a 13
game winner.
But they can only control to reach Sk
cabal for 1 more year and they put
them on the trade block. So he's available,
Nathan O is available. Cal quan is available.
Jesus Lo, Miami is available.
I gotta believe the dodgers are gonna get
into this bidding war. And I think they're
gonna get 1 of these pictures, they were
trying over the weekend
to try to move to the front of
the line in this Tiger trade for Ski
escobar. And And the question is what are
they gonna trade.
What we hear is Alt,
luxe,
and possibly the young in field they're out
field in Miguel vargas. Or the kid catcher
a Aa who's had a good bounce back
season, Cart.
But the dodge, the help from the Dodgers
pitching staff has started to arrive,
and they just sent today,
Bruised our greater role has been sent out
on rehab as well as 1 of the
other pictures on the D. Again, the dodgers
at 1 point Had 16 on the disable
list. Now they got 4 of them, that
looked like they're about ready to possibly come
back. So we'll keep an eye on that.
We've not had a lot of good news
to talk about the angels there's a piece
of good news. It's gonna bear watching.
Mike trout, left Anaheim. Is in Salt Lake
city tonight to begin rehab. Hey. He's been
running. This is after this extended knee, Meniscus
scope surgery
running
ticking dry swings, then in a cage at
Angel stadium. He's gonna play at least 3
games, if not 4 in Salt Lake City,
he could be back when the halo and
the lineup up on on Thursday.
Keep an eye on that. And I don't
know why they did this. Every time the
angels have an opportunity to get a get
a player that might upgrade, they always go
shopping at the dollar general store. They just
signed Johnny Quit to a free engine contract.
Quit had been in the Texas farm system
on extended rehab never got called up so
he opted out. I'm, you know, once upon
of time, I was a hell of a
starting picture for the Cincinnati reds and the
San Francisco giants,
career a record 01:14 and 01:01, but he's
just not the same guy.
Instead of trying to do something in terms
of a trade to get another quality arm.
They go to Dollar general store and sign
Johnny Quit. He's at Salt Lake City.
2. So those are the news and notes
about the local teams. You wanna talk about
the Pad? Doctor Blue. Halo. Go ahead. That
Pod,
you know, 2 out of 3 in Cleveland.
Now and that's an accomplishment. That's a... They
have the best record in Ml. Don't they?
Yeah. But the division is pretty weak and
they've been doing it.
They've been doing it with great pitching, and
they do have a lot of young arms,
and they went in 211 nothing 3 1
games.
Did not happen of the. This week. Pottery
starters shut them down. Yeah. I mean, I
love this king. I mean, is turning out
to be better than I expected. Bulldog Yeah.
In the trade with the yankee and C.
Remember you were down on C a few
weeks ago. But boys, he turned it around.
I told you, don't worry. About him. He's
gonna get it right. They changed his mechanics
and talking about cease. Not johnny Nico quit.
Pardon of me. C cease. Man another.
It's another
5 letter word the starts or the c.
But Dylan sees... I mean, I'm telling you
he it looks so sharp. And dialed in
dialed in, and then W fantastic, but Must
grove is not gonna be for, like another
week, da nobody knows. I mean, there's still
a lot of question marks. And then people
are talking about, maybe we should trade H
on Kim, but who's gonna wanna trade for
him to get 2 months worth of a
guy that's hitting, you know, like, around 02:30.
Unless you're gonna trade to sign him. Anything's
possible. Mh. You know, Granted has not had
the statistical season this year that the all
star season had a year ago.
But I still think he's really a gifted
player. But
to get something in the trade market, you're
gonna have to turn around, and you're got
to give something. And if it's not gonna
be a a hot prospect in the farm
system, then it's got to be a proven
major league. So who knows? It's... I'm not
saying
they have to trade, Kim or Camp, the
other name that I'd mentioned. But
to get, you're gonna have to give up
something a quality to get the right picture.
Yeah. Well, they will have to give up
some quality to get what they need, but
they don't have a lot of assets to
deal with. But I... I'm also
intrigued by Xander Bog. Coming back. He's been
hitting pretty well. And so imagine if Tat
and Bog arts become the the the old
Tat and Bog arts. And they come back,
but but Tat ts is still, like late
August. Right? Yeah. I mean, he's not even
running. He they did a second Mri.
And the inflammation and the fluid buildup has
dissipate.
It's gone away. However, there are still signs
of the stress
fracture
reaction in the bone area,
which means he can't do any heavy duty
baseball stuff until
there's a healing in that bone area
So the inflammation in the fluid or the
blood gone, which means now the healing can
occur, but you're not gonna have do heavy
duty running and all that
because then he he could had the stress
reaction return or or actually fracture the thought.
So I I think we're talking end of
August before
and we we have... I had no confidence
right now, but must because all these done
is just throw fast pulls in the bull.
And that's not the same as ramping up
the pitch, Max effort
on a start on a Thursday. So I
think we're ways away from that. And nobody's
talking about the significance of do. So aj
aj a aj gotta find... He's gonna have
to find some pitching along the way.
And
China Quid o to
Anaheim. You kidding me?
You know, I I agreed to you When
he was with the reds, he was terrific
and he was good, but not great with
the giants.
But the... When I think of Johnny C,
I always think a Mark Grant. Because Mark
Grant would always talk about how C was
innovative and he'd be like Louis Tia. Sometimes
sliver. And do the Flaming
stance, and all these different things, and Mark
Grant was always saying, oh, if I had
to do it all over again. I would've
have tried some of that, you know, stick.
Some of this uniqueness
to try to create some deception.
But, you know, C is hanging around. When
he's right, he's good. Well, and writing a
long time because he did have armed problems.
But like I said, hundred 14 wins, hundred
1 losses. I mean, he was dynamic. He
was just... He was you da before you
da. In terms of release religious points and
is it coming over the top? Is it
coming from the side? Is it a sidestep
to? I mean, he was he was really
different. 1 other baseball note here. I got
some late breaking stores this morning. Yeah. Here
we go. Brave, Red sox and rangers. If
Atlanta not had enough injuries that would sink
them. Now they got this. Aussie A
fractured as wrist. Second base last night
gone at least 8 weeks, probably
into the end of September, early October. And
he's kind of a catalyst. He's kind of
a
a glue type guy
and they've had so many injuries there with
Ac
with Michael Hill, losing the Ace strider. The
catcher Sean Murphy was hurt, Olsen was hurt
then they're still in first place. But, I
mean, it's that's that's a tough below there.
Red sox don't like to see this. They've
had a really good
middle third of the season had had very
young team started really badly, had played much,
much better baseball.
In the last couple of months. They lose
Kin Jan. Again, irregular heartbeat surfaces. And again,
he's had this problem dating back to when
it was the jersey, he had to go
to the hospital
to have
a jolt
to get his heartbeat regulated again and It's
got to do with blood pressure and grid
may have some other issues there. But... So
he's a little bit of shutdown mode right
now.
And in Texas,
it looks like they're gonna be in fire
sale mode with pitching pretty quickly. Max sure
has been shut down again.
He's got discomfort in his forearm and he's
got shoulder fatigue.
And he's had just a... He's been on
the d twice this year with different assorted
arm injuries. So that's that's not good there.
So so the latest breaking news in baseball.
You know, when I think of all Aussie
A. I remember going to Pet, Pod Brave,
A bees, this little 80 bitty second basement
was batting clean. And I'm like, what are
they thinking this should be a like a
1 or a 2 hit. It's sure enough
he hit a a bomb hit back go.
That guy's got power. I mean he's a
legit player. So that's a big loss of
the Brave.
But you said that, you know, sc are
is, you know, setbacks. But imagine the dodgers,
they get glass now. They get cursed shot
back, those guys... Could have setbacks again. The
dodgers could be in some trouble as well.
True. I mean, but but the dodgers are
still in first place and 16 pictures on
the deal almost still in first place. Now
they got 2 back. They're gonna monitor them.
They may get 2 more back. They just
activated Joe Kelly yesterday.
So that's 5 guys off the D. That's
the calvary looks like it's about to arrive.
So if you're a baseball fan, feel free.
Jump on board. Fans form wanna hear what
you've got to say.
We go from that to the Nfl. The
N nfl. Here we go. Here's the big
board.
Lot of topics on the table.
We've been following this whole
Dia tribe with the 49.
Brandon Na.
Meats with general manager John Lynch gets a
course in economics 01:01 why they do... Wanna
do a contract extension right now.
A week ago, he said that's fine with
me. We'll play this entire season a week
later when we got to the weekend. I
He was on social media. I have demanded
to be treated. I don't wanna be here,
etcetera.
New England has surfaced and the patriots are
willing to make an offer
they get brand Eye. They're willing to trade
a number 1 pick.
Knowing how bad the patriots are. That number
1 pick is gonna be pretty high.
I don't think F wants a trade the
wide receiver, but I think if they could
get a high number 1, they'd trade him
and keep D Samuel, who's already signed to
a a contract extension the 2 very, very
different receivers. Speaking of Patriots. Man they are
peeve.
They're opening training camp.
And they've named Job a Jacob Be, the
journey as starting in quarterback rather than North
Carolina Rookie drake May, who is want the
third pick and the draft.
Boston media just banging on them. And they're
saying
we want somebody to run this offense with
this new coaching staff and we'll develop this
quarterback,
And then today, columnist wrote, this might be
the worst modern offense in Nfl history. They
have no game breakers
in Boston with the patriot patriots. So
Patriots are having a really tough time. Let's
talk about the bears and the number 1
draft pick in the quarterback.
Let's first of all, start about the entrepreneur
that is Caleb Williams.
So Caleb Williams has different lawyers representing him
in different talks with the Chicago Bears.
They've all been approved by the players
association, but every time you wanna discuss certain
aspect of the contract, evidently you're dealing with
a different lawyer.
So Caleb Williams
goes
to the bears, and he has 1 lawyer
tell the bears,
We want this 4 or 5 year contract,
which is normal. This is the money, which
is all slot. Do you know what you're
gonna get.
And the first lawyer says,
we wanna clause in the contract that you
cannot franchise tag him
anytime during this year.
During the 4 years over the fifth year.
You can't franchise tag him. You can't keep
him from going to free agency.
So the barriers barriers are taken back by
that.
Second lawyer shows up and as indicated,
once a full no trade clause.
Another lawyer shows up.
I'm going to...
With his approval form a...
Llc Corporation. Mh. Based out of Delaware.
We're gonna take all the money you're gonna
pay him, and it's gonna go into the
L llc, which means it's tax free.
Another lawyer shows up and says, we're coming
up with another plan.
We want you to pay him the amount
of money
4 years 39 mill.
But we want that.
Devised us alone.
So there's no tax.
So Caleb Williams the entrepreneur
comes up with all these demands through these
different lawyers to the bears. The bears go
to the national foot Bo and National football
league refuses
to approve the contract.
They said all this stuff is in violation
of the collective bargaining in agreement.
We're not changing the Cb
for Caleb Williams.
So they took everything and put it in
a brown envelope and gave it back to
the lawyers
and said, no. The contract is the contract
and this is how the Nfl wants us
to negotiate this contract. He eventually signed 4
years 39000000.
He didn't get the franchise Tag clause. He's
gotta be paid like, you me and everybody
else on the Chicago bears. Mh. Not as
alone. It not tax free.
So anyhow, the entrepreneur and Caleb Williams got
off to a rocky start. Now the quarterback
that is Caleb Williams,
everybody is really excited to see. So what
he's gonna be all about.
Third item, Jacksonville real Jaguar. See that logo
there.
This is really intriguing.
You remember the vice president of finance. That
stole all this money from the Jaguar in
off season. Yeah. Yeah. Got caught. He stole
22000000 dollars by...
Rigging accounts and hiding money that was coming
in that didn't... Nobody knew was never recorded
and went to him. This guy's in prison
by the way already.
I think his name is Amin Petite.
Anyhow,
Jacksonville just filed Friday night. 66000000
dollar lawsuit against Petite.
They're fore closing on everything he owns
all his
mercedes benz,
3 politicized states,
etcetera. This guy was living high on the
hog and this guy was a gambling addict.
They are
what what is it? Garnish? Yeah. Yeah Everything
he owns. But like, yeah. He stole from
them. Then
they also file paperwork
with Nfl business partner fan tool. Mh.
They're demanding fan tool give back
all 22000000 dollars
that this vice president gamble and lost. Now
fat chance of that. Said that was ill
gotten money, Mh. That you got from a
guy who stole it from us
and we don't care that you're a partner
with the Nfl. That's our money illegally gotten
by you.
We want that money back. And nfl has
not... Said anything about this yet.
That's kinda different. That's really interesting. Mh.
Final topic. Green Bay packers, everybody's opening camp.
Guess who's not gonna be there. Quarterback. Jordan
Love, really? Jordan Love is in the final
year of his contract. Now going, you know,
this is the Utah State quarterback that has
grown into the job, earned the job, Aaron
Rogers left and a really mystical season
30 32 touchdown last year, 3000 plush yards.
He's only he's only started 1 year. He's
hardly ever played aside from last year's really
good season, 30 and he's slated to make
10.5 mill on the final year. They're trying
to negotiate the extension. It can't be a
free agent. Yet. He's not qualified.
He wants 45 to 50000000.
Right now.
Okay. We're get some 10 5 to 45
to 50000000. Right after 1 season of success
in the league, and they announced this morning,
he's not coming to camp.
Now He's gonna get fined 50000 dollars a
day
because that's the Cb, but again, everybody at
the quarterback position in the nfl.
Whether you're a longtime time veteran in or
1 year daughter,
everybody wants 50000000.
It's just a green bay got them... They
got an issue now with that guy who
obviously has to be there. For them to
be successful. So, John, those are hot topics
on the table. Go ahead and talk about
Caleb Williams.
You know you went to law school. You
didn't cut class that day
but talk about Caleb Williams, Jordan Love, etcetera.
Well, well, kayla Williams. I mean, I I
love the of innovative ideas. Your a capitalist
god. But... It's like S Tanya has kinda
destroy this whole contract thing about all these
innovative ways to move money around. Now, by
the way, if he set up an Llc,
it's still not tax free. It's just structured
to minimize taxes. It's not 0 taxes.
But, you know,
it is a collective bargaining agreement. There's not
much you can do there.
The I
situation in San Francisco, You know, if he
doesn't wanna be there, the 9 should trade
him. And and and if you can get
a number 1 and and, you know, something
else form, I would do that in a
heartbeat if I were you know, the the
diners. Well, the only thing is Deb keeps
getting hurt. So if you're choosing Die samuel
multi position guy, Was already signed,
but you can't keep him on the field
because he's... He can't handle 17 games. And
you got I.
Who had this unbelievable breakout season last year.
I thought Samuel would have been traded by
this point, which would then allow to take
Die money, and give it to I. But
I Ay has just become a a diva.
He's just... He's like the win that keeps
changing. He says 1 thing on Monday and
it feels different by fry day, and F
coast got an issue now. And then you
remember they we talked about this last week.
They do have to resign Brock p, and
that's gonna be
a Pro's pro quarterback contract. Hey. I saw
a video on Instagram of Jerry Rice son,
catch him balls. Brendan Yes. I mean he's...
Is he legit? Is he at, like, a
real deal Or is in the chargers camp.
He's gonna have to prove he can do?
Oh, he's a charger? Yes. Yeah. He was
a late pick. Okay. Oh, Jerry Rice is
furious that his kid was on the board
to fifth round 6 around, etcetera, but he's
in a right situation they need wide receivers,
so he's gonna get his chance in his
pre season games C does right on. So
that's where we are as it relates to
pro football a couple college football notes. This
is this is tough. Yeah. Fresno State, Utah
State, there's so many coaches that are moving
around here. Yeah, all the veteran coaches in
Mount West conference are gone.
Started with Brady Hope walking away before the
end of last season announcing his quote retirement,
Wyoming coach who done a great job without
a lot of resources. He left lara me
to retire. Jeff Ted from Fresno State has
just retired.
He's got heart disease. And I don't know
whether he needs a heart transplant or whether
it it's got to do with a hard
valve, but he has stepped away. He was
44 and 22.
He was a quarterback guru. I mean, that's
why Fresno states been so good so recently,
and they don't have a lot of resources.
He has just retired.
And Blake Anderson at Utah stage did a
great job flipping that program. He just got
forced out.
And finally, the details came out yesterday, Blake
Anderson
had a defensive tackle that was involved in
a domestic abuse case, a semi sexual abuse
case.
With a woman. And Blake Anderson inter inter
seated. He threw the kid off the program
told the she'd go to the transfer of
portal. Mh. You're not gonna be in this
locker room
but he interviewed the kid.
He conducted his own private interview with the
victim. He did not tell the university that
he had inter seated
in this case, he didn't cooperate with Utah
state. And in essence, it's a title 9
violation. Mh and then the university
started their own probe, and they found out
all those data about their head coach. Who
was running interference.
It wasn't that he was trying to create
the fact that this didn't happen because he
he'd blew the player out already, But he
wasn't honest with the university, which was conducting
a title 9 investigation didn't and he wasn't
ap or anything. He was just really standoff
off. I said, I had to find out
or was fact versus fiction as my player,
I had to know.
Well, that's not the way university structure works
on something serious. Like, domestic abuse for Title
ix. He got he got tossed.
And they said we're terminated hear contract with
with with cause and you don't get the
4500000.0
buyout either. So there's gonna be a lawsuit
come on there. So you look at the
Mountain West Conference
outside of the coach at Air force academy,
Troy Calhoun,
and maybe maybe the guy at Colorado state,
Jay.
Hell a lot of coaches gone who are
really good coaches. Yeah. And a lot of
quarterback are gone. Too.
So, you know, I'm when Ted was rumored
to be 1 of the candidates here at
San diego State like about, I don't know,
20 years ago or something. But he was
at Cal Berkeley, I think before. Yes. He
been around the pack 12. Just a bright
guy. Good guy. Old school guy. Quarterback Guru
guy. I mean, if you just open up,
you know, new Youtube
or Google, how many really quality quarterback come
out of fresno known state? His fingerprints on
a whole bunch of those guys said, mh.
He's a really good man. And unfortunately, you
know, forced into retirement
because of health. Hey. Fans forum is open.
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Alright. Let's talk a little Nba here. Some
notes around the leak. Yeah. Steve Balm, the
owner of the Los Angeles clippers,
said he tried really hard to retain Paul
George, the high scoring guard.
The team offered him 3 years 150000000.
They offered him the exact same thing that
they offered Leonard that Leonard signed immediately, and
Leonard took less money to hold the team
together. Paul George said this is great. Let's
keep this franchise together. They offered him the
exact same thing
and he turned it down. He refused to
respond. Then at the end of the season.
He said that we're gonna open these negotiations
or a free agent. We wanna keep you
here. Keep the core together. They offered the
same amount of money. He turned it down
again. Then he came back with a 4
year offer or then he came back with
a demand for a full no trade clause,
then he came back. He wanted a whole
thing guaranteed.
And Steve Ball just flat out told him,
We need to keep this franchise together. We
can't make exceptions to the rule. This is
what Ka got.
Everybody else is gonna get that or a
little bit less than that so we can
have enough to put a whole team together,
and it's gone. He said the goal was
This is the Nba rules as it relates
to the salary cap, work with us.
Paul George said no, Paul George left never
said goodbye. That's kinda nasty.
La Lakers summer league season is over.
Ronnie James had back to back games of
12 and 14 points.
He sat out the last game of the
season.
Lakers think he made enough progress to come
to camp to be on their 50 man,
15 man roster.
Dalton connect to at a very rocky start.
The big 6 5 shooting forward, 3 point
guy from Tennessee,
He finished upbeat. He had 4 good games
in a row. Johnny averaged 22 points
a game.
In the summer league... Wow. And he shot
41 percent
from the 3 point arc. That was after
a Crummy start Hears 2 games are terrible,
and the last 4 games he played. He
played pretty well. Lakers lost another player today,
Spencer Din wit, Veteran guard first guard off
the bench
left. It went to the
Dallas Mavericks.
So
lakers, lakers have got still 15 guys under
contracts, but they lost 1 of the veterans
that the had interest there.
Denver, we we thought this was gonna happen
and finally happen. Like out the point guard
to replace Can caldwell hope who jumped in
new orleans
as a free agent. They waited waited waited,
and the clippers made the Russell Westbrook trade.
Hope because of the salary cap issues, clippers
traded Westbrook to Utah,
second round draft pick went the other way.
Utah,
bottom out,
released him, signed immediately
with Denver Denver sent a second round pick
to Utah. In essence, it was a clipper
Denver Nugget trade, and the fact is now
r w Westbrook. He's gonna be a starting
guard. So to replace Pcp,
Ent caldwell pope.
Last topic Orlando. This is a really sad
story. This is a... This is 1 of
the really nice gentlemen I ever met and
I heard him a couple times.
His name's Pat Williams. He was the president.
He was the founder of the Orlando magic
team became their first general manager in addition
and it was a little bit of a
different era,
but Pat Williams
drafted Shaq o'neal.
Pat Williams drafted penny Hard.
Pat Williams
drafted Dwight Howard,
all within the first
7 years of the Orlando magic, and they
were a really good franchise. And then, unfortunately,
the Cb changed,
players
left
because the mega contracts, that was the beginning
of the
2 and 3 superstar guys per team, it
went to the major markets Orlando was never
ever the same.
He was really upset that Nba changed the
rules that kinda stripped his franchise of all
of its quality players. But he was a
smart guy. He was a religious guy. He
had 7
adopted children. He was just a special human
being.
Pat Williams just passed away at the end
of this past week. I think he was
84
or 86. He was he was really kind
of a cool cool guy. And Obviously, a
magnificent player personally only evaluator because he brought
all those stars in to Orlando right from
a start. So, John,
No air bubbles. Hit a 3 point shot,
make make public statement about the clippers,
what's happened in Denver.
And if you want about Orlando. Well, yeah.
West sp keeps landing on his feet. I
mean, that guy, you know, he was like
a dog for a while, you know, both
the good side of a dog and the
bad side of a dog. But, you know,
the clippers are trying so hard to make
something work. And then
nothing ever seems to work. You know, It's
the curse of the clippers.
But how about... I a Pat Williams when
you first brought them up, That's the thing
I remember, though all those adopted kids. And
were they... Like, international or... Fins or something
like Well, somewhere, I think Chinese Japanese, but
he's somewhere here on america's his wife got
involved in foundation of helping raise families. See
he's a real... Was a really special gentleman.
Yeah. He was. I mean, I remember seeing
interviewed just a really,
you know, a good soul. You know, So
what is shame, but, you know, remember back
when Orlando had Magic or Had a Shaq
and penny. I mean, that was a pretty
good team back in the nineties. And then
he added a dwight howard, a young dwight
howard. It was a really dominant dwight Howard
at that point in time. Rules changed. Franchise
fell upon hard times. Have never come back.
I like the remember the little penny commercials.
Yeah. Yeah. Those are pretty cool. I enjoyed
that. Lakers... I mean, I like seeing a
connect. Turning into something. I had... No now
I wasn't sure what to think of him.
Terrific he's trying out to be a great
shooter. A whole, you know, Bonnie James thing
is continuing to be ne. I don't know
what to think there.
I am fired up for K Johnson with
the heat. And I think he's doing terrific,
I'm worried about Led d and the timber
was if he's gonna really be able to
stick around. His last game, he's he finally
scored 9 points. He'll he got part of
the offense in the last T Wolves game
that they played before the summer league shutdown.
I don't know if this is going to
equate into a contract whether he's gonna wind
up just in the G league or maybe
there's an opportunity. He what... We not much
of an offensive force in in Minnesota games.
So that's the latest from the Nba. You
wanna talk about the lakers, the clippers,
Ne kid. That's where they started to call
Ronnie James.
Was a make a wish foundation kit. Right?
Yeah. For the first couple weeks. Yes.
A lot of derogatory stuff said about Bonnie
James. So jump on board fans form if
you want.
Last topic on the table here. Okay. Yeah.
I like, in the back room, we've got
the high speed sports wire, the ticker, it's
rolling. Tick tick tick tick big horse
story. Churchill Downs.
After 3 years of litigation, they lifted the
ban
on Bob Effort.
This 1 on way too long.
I I thought it was condescending how they
acted towards him. This all spins back to
3 years ago, the Derby Winner Medina Spirit.
Tested positive for illegal ointment,
Ba wrote a letter to churchill downs within
the last month,
indicated
that I take responsibility of what happened. That
was my stable, that was my horse that
was my trainer.
Now, he had been utterly defiant through the
first 2 and a half years and be
cut churchill down said, you violated this had
a history of this.
And he said this was a pure accident.
And it was totally defiant. So therefore, they
banned him. They banned him from the Kentucky
Derby,
other...
Horse racing Federation, New York, California. They banned
him too because they had to
go coin signing with the... The Kentucky thing.
But when the 2 year ban ended, the
others lifted the embargo and they took Ba
horses in New York and California and Del.
If you will, but churchill kept it in
for a third straight because he was still
fighting. Many it's sued, and that case got
thrown out of court, etcetera.
He finally wrote a letter and said I
take responsibility.
They immediately lifted the ban.
So Ba is back, but all those horses
will now be available to run and in
the triple crown races starting a churchill all
downs
next spring, and and obviously have been continued
to run. That's a big item. Formula 1
racing, man is their controversy,
Hungarian Grande prix. There is huge controversy what
happened on Sunday.
Team Mc
finishes 1 and 2 in the race.
Over the final 15 laps, they got on
the side with their top driver Lando Norris,
who has has has really had a good
second half of the season.
And they pleaded with him to give up
the lead,
his teammate Oscar,
was in first blow I was in second
place.
Lando was in first, and they pleaded for
15 laps.
We want you to drop from 1 to
2,
let Oscar pass you let him win the
race,
and Norris kept arguing with him.
What they wanted was, they wanted Lando Norris
to drop the second place, he'd pick up
prize money pickup up driver points. They wanted
Lando to block Lewis Hamilton.
Who they thought was gonna try to make
a run to the lead. Orlando got all
this experience, and he successfully blocked Sir Lewis
and team Mercedes for making the pass. They
afraid of Norris won the race
and Oscar dropped into second place because he
was so inexperienced and Oscar was not gonna
be able to hold louis was Hamilton off.
Instead,
finally, with more than a lap to go,
Lando Norris agreed to pull over, let Oscar
go by, pull back in People block lewis
Hamilton.
They're fixing a race. Is that not some
violation of an f 1 rule. They're fixing
the race. Even on Mc clara finished 1
too.
See, to to me, it seems like they're
fixing the race. And it wouldn't be a
Sunday if we weren't talking about team red
bull, and Max first Happen
and speaking of people who are really unhappy.
They are really upset at, Team red Bull.
This is gonna wind up in divorce. My
even see it on your Tv.
Judge Judy or whoever that is.
For staff and spent the entire race
screaming,
Gordon at everybody in the pit. He just
wasn't running very well. The car setup wasn't
good. That don't seem to have the horsepower.
He's gone 3 straight weeks now.
Without a win, And this is a guy
who had won 16 races out of the
first 18. Team Rod Bull had just owned
the whole f 1 series.
And evidently, this just been terrible fallout last
night and into today
that just all the junk that was coming
out of his mouth and 1 official hear
all that, because they monitor all the communications.
They said it was un unreasonable
that this guy would conduct his business
this way. To we might be talking about
1 of the legends of 1,
weaving
team red Bull with all of its resources
and all of its success for the last
3 years.
That's the reason Lewis Hamilton and Team Mercedes
has fallen off the face of the earth.
Is because the team red bull. And this
guy is... This guy's totally
out of control in the cockpit in the
car on race day.
And they said the stuff he said to
his pit crew
to his engineers and then about ownership as
he was struggling in fifth place and just
been never able.
To get back in the race. Just ab
bomb. So
divorce court baby Is that show run at
04:30 in the afternoon here in San I
think it might. I don't know. Anyhow. John
topics on the table. You wanna talk horse
racing auto racing. Go ahead. Well, you know,
the the whole bit about auto racing. It
reminds me of the tour of France, you
know, where you kinda have the team block
the other guys so your your your lance
armstrong whomever can win the thing.
But versus Snap 1 2 damn much, I
like seeing new names in this thing. Going
back to the Churchill downs bit. To your
point, Bob Ba absolutely should be back in
in in horse racing. But I just got
a comment. III took the family to the
Del Races over the weekend opening day. It
was terrific 1 with with a bad hat.
Right? That was the the bad the big
wide brim mat. But, it was thing is
we walked in, there were people protesting against
horse racing, You know, horses have died on
the track, Yada yada. Seeing And then there's
other protesters there that are supporting horse racing
because, you know, they're part of the industry.
But we got there. It was kind of
a weird vibe on opening day. There was
nobody in the in field. And They said
it was sold out, but there were a
lot of empty seats. Some of the kiosks
where you could bet electronically with your voucher
weren't working.
So it was kind of a rocky day
at Del mar. And, you know,
but it was... And it was by the
way, you were saying, like, it's is it
was really cool there because of the nice
ocean breeze.
Yeah. It was 94 degrees in my driveway
on Saturday. And noon. And I said, I'm
done with this. So I I went to
Del mar Beach, and I sat out there.
A restaurant and drank and watch stuff on
Tv. You know it was how could be
94
Inland North County and 71 in marine layer
in Del mar on me. That's San Diego
weather for you. Oh, my climate. Yeah.
But anyhow. So... I I enjoyed it I
was thinking you losing all your money in
that bad hat. I saw a picture of
John who is bad. I I don't quite
understand. Del normally opens on Thursday.
Right after the fourth of July, but they
pushed it back because the Del or fair
ended on
ran long this year. And they pushed it
back. So I don't understand where where the
crowd was it because there's that that normally
draws I've been out there open day when
43 to 44000.
I don't think oh, not even close. Yeah.
So I was kinda kinda surprised at that.
No, maybe off track betting has changed some
things in terms of the turnout, but oh
still a great place. They've done a phenomenal
job I understand about the protesters,
but they have done a phenomenal job in
terms of their track
and the maintenance of the track.
When they they went from the artificial servers
back to dirt and how they maintain it,
because they had 1 really bad summer. I...
Think they had 18 or 21 horses died
in 1 summer
slate.
And their their fatality rate is way down.
It's not that way, a churchill old downs
and some other places where they're still having
a lot of horses go down and training
that that are running on these artificial services,
But Del is
kinda become a flag carrier for safety, and
they've done a good job and they... They
were 1 of the first ones who made
the bold decision. We're ripping up this artificial
surface,
and we're going back to dirt or clay,
and this is how we're gonna manic it
how we're gonna treat it, how we're gonna
water it,
etcetera. So.
Historically, it's great. And a breeder cup is
coming back in November. Mh. And not and
that's a signature event and horse racing. That's
the... That That's the aftermath of all the
triple crown races,
and they would not be coming back if
they did not have great respect for everything
that the Thorough bird club has done there
at Del. Yeah. I mean, it's it's it
it's a it's special place. Del mar. Yeah.
I remember my father Was saying, you know,
back in the day that it was Del
mar... Our Santa Anita and Hollywood Park were
the 3 classic,
horse racing tracks in California. And I grew
up in Northern California, Golden gate. We had
Golden gate. I I would live kinda near
bay meadows,
but that was sort of like, a minor
league if I recall. Yeah. And most of
those are gone now. No. Oh. Yeah. Absolutely.
Yeah. The industry is
industry gone through some really bad and challenging
times,
but Del is a crown jewel. If you've
never been to Del mar.
You know, you don't have to go on
Saturday when there's a mob saying, go go
go Friday or go the people watching on
opening day was
unbelievable.
And it's not necessarily just women with these
crazy hats, but it's just women and men
that are dressed up for this event, and
it was
people watching par excellence that day. That was
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a guy where Hawaiian shirt, which has a
picture of gas pumps and trucks on it.
That's what John Wore, plus the bad hat
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Call in here to kick us off. Afternoon,
Gents, hey, Lee, are you surprised by how
many players in the Nhl have jumped ship
to play in Europe or in the K
nhl? This must be from the Old Canada
network line out of the Western Canada.
Cal, I they pay a lot of money.
This to me, and I've asked this question
of of Nhl people and actually San Diego
gold people.
Why would a player go play there?
Just because of the uncertainty of how they
treat Americans,
but the hockey players are paid tremendously well
to go to the care H nhl and
the level of competition is nowhere near the
National Hockey League.
A lot of these guys are journey guys.
There's not a lot of stars that go
to play there.
Our relationship with between the Nhl, and the
K nhl is really, really rocky. That's had
to do a lot with politics and obviously,
the mess in Ukraine with Putin.
But they evidently feel very safe over there,
And it's a monster big league,
obviously,
Cs Moscow.
Moscow Dino,
s saint Petersburg. They're all some of the
best franchises there. There's 1 in Finland that's
part of that league. There's 1 in China
that's part of that league.
Young guys come out of there and get
drafted by the Nhl,
and then older veterans
from here, go back there. I'd find it
really uncomfortable to live in Russia at this
point in time when they were arresting Americans
and all that.
But the players evidently... It must be a
safe haven for them because there have been
a fair number of guys that have signed
with the different clubs.
Oh, in the K nhl. Well, after the
whole Britney Grind mess. I mean, I I
would I wouldn't wanna go to Russia to
play. I mean, you don't know what the
hell can happen. The elite leagues are in
Finland,
in
Sweden,
the Swiss
Nhl is has gotten much better and they've
lured veteran players there and they've developed some
young players that have come here,
that have played.
You know, there's second... There's second tier leagues
in Germany. There's 1 in Italy.
But, you know, you have... You're on the
periphery of the national... Hockey League and maybe
you're towards the end of your career and
say, well, I'll go have the international experience
and and Payday. So there are alternatives However,
there's there's also a import ratio,
Sweden and Finland
and Switzerland. You can only have 3 quote
imports either that's Team Usa members. Or Canadians.
Is only 3 per team. It sounds like
the quotas in the Japanese baseball. I think,
you know, But you know, there's a young
man here in Pow that is playing hockey
in England. For... I think it's the Milton
Kane team. Yeah. Which is weird. It's a
an economist. That's the name of the team.
And and he's had a really good run
there. So I'm assuming that's like a minor
league version. That's probably an a or a
aa a version. Yeah. But, I mean, Finland,
Sweden
are really the elite European leagues in Switzerland
has now
really develop. The the leading score of the
Toronto Maple leafs, Austin Matthews when he had
60 plus goals a season.
He left. He's from Scottsdale, Arizona.
When he went and he played for the
Zurich lyon
as an 18 year old, he wasn't eligible
for the draft. And the Nhl yet. So
he went there and played very, very well
as was coached by an Nhl coach at
that point in time, and then he had
a very good season
And, again, it's not... It's out the grind
of a season of the Nhl is, I
think they played maybe 50 to 60 games
max.
There.
But he played, got a lot of experience,
and obviously, there's the first round draft pick
of the Maple leafs since it's got on
to be a super superstar. So
international hockey is really kinda cool, but it's...
It's not the national hockey. Okay. Next question.
Moving on. Okay. Let's go here to Chris.
He says from Carl Back to the Canadian
Rockies show, hey, your lightning bolts that home
run by Ot tonya yesterday was the most
mammoth shot I've ever seen in my 48
years over all the bleach and under the
roof now pull... That bleep and trigger and
acquire an ace and another out feel bat.
Well, I think they're gonna make a deal.
Even though K shaw and glass now have
now been ankle debated and they're gonna pitch
a. Think Wednesday, Thursday
again San Francisco. They're talking to Detroit. All
a Tiger fan. I think I'd be terminally
pissed. Why you trading the ace of my
staff when you're trying to build this franchise,
but they're talking about trading for Tar Sc,
who's near through... I think it's 13 and
04:13 and 5 big strike out guy. But
evidently, they don't think they can res resign
him. So... And the O tonya home run.
I mean, he launched that sucker
the right center field, and that thing just
kept going up and up, and it went
it went over the first
section in the right field stands. When over
the second section,
and I... It hit.
I think there... There's all kinds of Japanese
signage boards now because we talked about Ot
and how the dodgers are marketing them to
corporate Jet japan.
It it either hit
the Japanese sign
above the fans in right center where it
went underneath the but if the sign not
been there, sucker would've have gone out of
Dodge stadium. I don't have anybody. So I
ever hit a home run at a dodgers
state in Ot is just
crushing it. Well, didn't in tat. He hit
1 out. I mean, it was, like, 467
feet a few years. Yeah. But I... The
1... I like the the in in out
field and Dodge your stadium. They have kind
of like a overhang that has like a...
A Vw Yeah kind of a a look
to it like a carp port or something.
But imagine launching a ball over that 4
73.
Holy crap. I mean no. I think the
all time major league record, and this goes
back to when I was a kid, and
I think I saw this on Tv.
Mickey Mantle, I think hit a 565
foot home run
in Washington at the old Griffith stadium
went over the roof.
Against the Washington senators, and it was found
out in the streets,
and they... I don't know how you measure
it, but they they said it was 565.
Feed. Home run. Well, I think today, they
have the technology to get the speed in
the in the launch angle. Yeah. And they
can project the trajectory. Right? And I think
that's how they compute the distance.
Because how can you compute, you know, the
distance if it's in the second deck? It
hasn't gone all the way and hit the
ground on the other side. But maybe when
Man did it, maybe that's how they measured
it. Either that the common joke was actually
2 and a half mile home run because
it landed in the back seat of a
taxi care the guy I was delivering somebody
there. Okay. Thank you for the comment. Go
ahead. Next question. Okay. Let's talk a little
golf here with Jason. He goes, actually agree
about daily. His act is blah. Yeah. It
is. I mean, like, I interviewed him twice,
and I was just kinda turned off, and
I it was at that point. He was
a young golfer 1 grand slam events, and
that's why he's still out there in these
majors, and he's always at the bottom of
the leader board he'd he, you know, he
either
himself or he drops out.
You, he's got a sticks. He's got a
smokes. He's got his su,
But to me, he's really a bad representative
of what the pro golfers of today are
all about. And when his exemption runs out.
You know, then he'll be playing
in your golf course,
miniature golf
Just... It's terrible. Feel I feel really bad
for Tiger.
This should not be happening. It's it's just
a sad sad sack story to watch him
limp
to watch him drag his leg
to see the scores that he's shooting because
he's no near the player physically. And he
can't be. He said 5 different surgeries, and
he could be... He's a always been a
great ambassador an entrepreneur for the game despite
all the messi got himself involved in
with this personal life. But at the end
of the day, he could be a great
comment holder. You know, Take that next step
and leave the tour behind and let us
remember the greatness of the guy that won
15 grand slams and 85 tournaments, not not
a guy dragging his leg up the hill
who is 14 over par. Well, why does
he go to these events Anyways? Does he
just feel like he's entitled. Hey, I'm automatic
qualifier,
screw you. I'm gonna play.
Yeah. For some reason, he holds hope that
he's gonna be able to find it, but
he If you can't practice a lot
just because of the back and the legs,
then how can you play off this tour
against Alexander.
Well, I will say this with John Daly.
When he first appeared on the scene, he
it was really entertaining. And it was fun.
But, you know, Jason's right that it's a
bad act now, because he went down deep
into that rabbit hole of being that guy.
And and now he's what's sponsored by what
is it loud mouth? I think with these
outrageous outfits on the golf course. So he
has become a cartoon character. Exactly. They violates
the dress code. It just It just makes
no sense at all. Next question. Okay. Let's
go here
down the. Get the cow had another comment
here. I wanna get in. Dodgers D, James
Pax.
Seems like a good ad for the Fryer.
We'll see what Aj does I suppose. While
Pax got luck. He had 8 or 9
wins, and he's played pretty well. Now,
maybe he's D because he's hurt... He he's
got a history of a lot of injuries.
So I'd I'll be intrigued to see that
maybe he winds up on the disabled list
But he's he's been hurt a lot, but
yet, he competes he scraps. And like I
say, I think he's either got 8 or
last night pitched against her red sox and
hung in there for a while.
But maybe he winds up on somebody's who's
disabled list. Yeah. He's always been kind of
a broken down guy. You know Seattle Boston
and yet, there were flashes. He pitched pretty
well. Was... At 1 point he was 5
an o out of the gate with the
dodgers, but he was given a walks and
he, you know, had men on base all
the time. Wow, Yeah. I mean, pax in.
I I I'm surprised that the dodge sign
them the from the first place. So let's
go back down here. Derek had comment about
the bears. She goes, the bears... Better hope
Williams is diligent with the playbook as he
is of figuring out his contract. You know,
the entrepreneur I was kinda stunned. And, you
know, I kept getting bits and fragments of
what what these lawyers were proposing, and I
said,
this isn't right? You know, no nobody's ever
done this before. Of course, now we talk
about Ot tony in the deferred payments etcetera.
But
in the... And if it all came back
I said, no. You can't change the collective
bargaining agreement. This is the language. You can
have
incentive bonuses and we're contractors 4 years with
a fifth year option. We're not putting in
loans and we're not putting in all this
other creative financing.
He's good player. And I'll tell you Chicago,
they've... They... I think and we're gonna talk
about the Nfl a a lot more now
that camps rolling.
Chicago did a lot to add talent around
him. I mean, they they, you know, they
got Ken and Allen. That's a big time
route runner.
And they've gotten really good tie and they're
3 deep at running back, and then they
drafted a Dun
in the University of Washington.
So the bears offensive are gonna be what
the bears haven't been offensive ever since I
can ever remember. You know, yeah. They were
Super Bowl team, but that was the monster
with Midway defense. Mike Single and Mike Did
and all that. This this is gonna be
a dynamic
offensive team, and I think Williams is a
hell of a
student of the game. And I... You know,
they're gonna build an offense with guys who
can run and Sprinter all running backs and
then Williams may run the ball some too.
So gonna be fascinating and to see what
happens in Chicago. Well, back in the eighties,
they had sweetness. Right? You know, that, you
know, they had payton in there, Jim mc
man. I mean, that top office offense was
alright, And when it wasn't, you know, it
was Walter Payton. Oh, yeah. Okay. It was
paying him. He was fantastic, But the cut...
The the the bears have not been...
Anything since 19 85. Right? I I don't
think the bears
have the bears ever had a 3000 yard
passing quarterback. I don't think so. Oh, I
doubt it. You know. I mean, that's a
young kid growing up. Their quarterback was Billy
Wade, and then their quarterback was a left
handed Bobby Douglas. Good luck with past completion
in that. You know, and then, obviously, Mc
man was a dynamic fire
fire brand leader.
But it's still Walter Patents offense, you know,
sandwiched to wrapped around at just a phenomenally
great. Might have been the bit. Greater Super
Bowl defense of all time, the fridge and
and single and and Dave Du and and
all those guys. Gosh. Just never had any
quarterback.
So now now they got a quarterback I...
It bears watching. I think I think they're
gonna be a fun team to follow. The
bears, bear watching. That bears. Okay. Stop it.
Okay. Let's go to David Talk a little
olympic bit. He says, hey, are you gonna
be covering the Paris Olympics? John Hacks. What's
your favorite Olympic sport to watch?
I'm a big track field guy? I... It's
especially some Olympics. I just love to see
the American sprinter,
and we've got some great female.
Speed queens,
and we got great sprinter.
I love the relay teams.
So I I like Track field
when they had the Olympics here in 84
in Ally, I was working in Phoenix at
that time I came over, and I I
got to see that in Brazilian,
Volleyball team.
Unbelievable, and I had not really been exposed
to much Volleyball. I was really impressed. And
I got to see some great
track and field events at the La Coli
they'll see him and and all that. There's
just... It's so much fun to watch. A
time difference is gonna make it kinda hard,
in Paris because a lot of these events
will have already been run.
So you're not gonna see everything alive that
you'd like to see, but like that. I
I'm a huge winter guy. And, of course,
I'm a... I came from snow country. Mh.
You know? So I'd... I'd I'd love to
see...
I the Bobs s. And,
obviously, I love to see the ski jump.
So, I mean, those guys should talk about
courageous coming off the slopes,
Wow. So I like I like the Olympics.
I don't like the money in the. I
don't like the politics of the Olympics. And
that won't go away. And when they brought
the when the professionals became part of the
Olympics, I think It took a little bit
of the lust off it, but
the end of the day, the then Soviet
Union, those all were army military members were
planned on the Olympic hockey team. Mh That's
why 19 80 and her Brooks,
and Jim Craig the goalie in my Ro.
That's why that was such a great moment
in Olympic history because our college kids beat
t
and all the Russian
professionals.
So... And, unfortunately, the Olympics now been stained
by an awful lot of cheating,
blood doping,
whether it's swimmers, whether it's track and fuel
people in a China,
Russia,
It's a huge issue. And it's also the
great debate because our Russia has done to
Ukraine. Do we take it out on the
Russian athletes and ban them? They're not gonna
wear Russian uniforms are gonna be an independent
federation. Mh. Running by themselves. It's not gonna
be, quote that team. So like the. What
do you like most? I I love them.
I I do think it's funny hacks saw
going out, checking out the Brazilian beach volleyball
team.
You you know, the Sprints are always fantastic.
I... When I was a kid, I raced
Bm, and that was a big thing, bicycle
Moto cross. And now it's an Olympic sport.
I think this is it's... Second year. So
for me, that's a personal thrill to see
that, especially in skateboarding too. But you know
what 1 thing that I seems like there's
so much second swimming. You know, as the
freestyle, the brush stroke. I mean, every possible
configuration of swimming, I kinda get bored with
it. But I don't have a problem with
the pros playing. I mean, what's your take
on team Usa. They almost lost a South
Sudan. Well, South Sudan has a couple of
Nba players there. And they caught him on
a bad night, and I don't think Steve
Kurt knows guys walked in there with the
focus that
we got big game here. And, you know,
that that was their that was their Olympic
matchup for the south Sudan, but they do
have athletes and they... They've got some Nba
guys are kind of part of that whole
mix.
That was a little surprised, but I don't
know, to have the pros,
I you, you know, playing the Nba championship
shit. Been raising the trophies is what it's
all about and you're all making mega money.
How important is it
to get a gold medal, cool plan for
the flag, but you know, if you're dominated
everybody, although they didn't dominate, you know, and
they got screwed by the Russians way back
in the day,
the David Thompson Era so,
IIII
like an awful lot of the Olympic competition.
And we never get to see it. I
I had hoped that Us
track field.
Because of the success we've had with our
Sprinter would take off as an entity in
the non Olympic years and yet the... The
outside of the events in Eugene Oregon, which
is a fabulous facility at the University of
Oregon.
Track and field just seems to be stag.
It's just not grown, and maybe it's not
enough money in there for the... To lure
all the great athletes,
but we should be better across the board
and everything in track and field than we
are Yeah. And know, the the women's sprinter
are are fantastic. And I... And just the
way they look and they're styled. And and
and and all of the the electricity around
it, I think is fantastic.
Hussein Bowl, when did he retire? And need
been out of the Olympics for a few
times. Well, Yeah. 8 years ago, maybe. Yeah.
And I think but jamaica probably gonna still
have some good. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. It was
a big... Story, I think it was in
New York Times about all of our American
distance runners train in flags staff now to
train in the high altitude. Hey, makes sense.
You know, And and those guys, you know,
the great distance runners globally,
they train in South Africa because of distances
because about altitude, etcetera, The Kenyan. I mean,
if phenomenal a number of great great runners,
and they all traded at altitude in America
has just kinda caught up to it. This
is what we should be doing. The What's
that race? It the steep chase where they
have to, like, jump over water? Yeah. Hurdles
and water? And, yeah. Exactly. That's kind of
a funky 1. Different.
Hi. Yeah. The Olympics... I think the opening
ceremonies are Thursday in Paris. They'll would be
an interesting couple of weeks run. Right? On?
Move on. Move. On. Let's go to social
media here. We got a bunch of guys
That wanna get involved.
And, hey, let's talk about the guardians. And
this is from Phil. He says, hey, The
guardians are good. On people forget that they
were the youngest team in the league 2
years ago and forced the yank to a
play a full 5 in the playoffs. Last
year was their sophomore slump season, but they
came back this year ready to rock. Good
for them. Yeah. Great young pitching. A lot
of not, not a lot of household names,
but young big... Arms. And they're doing all
this without
shane Bib Bieber. Oh, yeah. Bieber. Yeah. Yeah.
He's been on the disabled stalled year. It's
she's Hyundai novo surgery.
They don't... They they really need another bat.
I mean, they they've they've got
decent Jose Ramirez is who I think are
the most underrated players in Baseball. And they
got the pod Josh Taylor and they got
his brother Bone nail. That's the extent of
it They don't hit a lot of home
runs, and they play a lot of 211
nothing 3 1 games.
Maybe they're gonna make a deal. What what
they need is just a veteran
rental bet. They need
justin Turner.
They need a Jd d Martinez. Because you
put another
potential power bat in the middle of that
batting in order, But they're drawn really well,
I've been kinda critical of Cleveland ownership for
a long time. Again. I worked in Cleveland.
I grew up as an Indian fan. I
was like, Long Island kid.
That hated the yankee keys, the dodgers and
the giants for some reason. I like chief
Wahoo Lo logo. So I grew up as
an Indians fan, the Rocky C is in
the herbs scores of the world.
But their ownership is has turned what I
think is a potential great regional franchise into
a small franchise because they they don't have
a big payroll.
I went crazy Friday night. I don't...
I know you were getting dressed to go
to the track on Saturday. You didn't see
my 06:30
Sports package on KII
did a commentary on the Ponder losing the
Cleveland. I went crazy Friday night because the
Putter gave up 6 runs in the eighth
inning.
The hundred 61000000
dollar pottery payroll
lost to a Cleveland team. Do you know
what their payroll was Friday night in first
bitch? 57000000.
Really? Yeah. They lost to a 57000000 team.
Now, Cleveland, the organization is great. A lot
of young players really bunches. Stud young pictures,
and have fought through a lot of injuries
along the way just to stay with it
but you lost a 57000000
team. I was just beyond my mind.
Over in the nineties, they were really good.
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Didn't they make the world
series 1 of those years they might have.
My car... Okay. Yeah. And it just... Of
all the great Indians in the past, I
mean, you were just mentioned some of. But
they were in the... They were the team
and I think in the 54 world series,
the good beat by the giants and made.
Exactly. Think And they won... Their their last
championship, I think was 48,
a Bill V the team, Mh Boston Brave.
But so it's been few far between, but
they've they've always had good place. I I
think it has a potential be a phenomenal
regional franchise. But because of low budgets, they
turned it into a Cleveland franchise. Did you
like the movie major leagues? It was funny.
Yeah. It was it was kinda...
Weird. But it's okay. It's just... I mean,
it it will do was Hollywood creative stuff
had its best. Yeah. I know I think
it's a great movie. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Alright.
Let's move on here. Let's let's let's talk
about some dodgers here. And this is from
Rose cra Robbie. He says we deal Out
and luck. For value right now, a good
relieve, a better entry staff, a washing machine
at this point, just released them in lower
parking fees. Well, they're not lure parking fees.
I'll grant that. But they they do have
resources to make a deal. They got 2
more pictures at Aaa that 1 1 could
be shopped.
They've obviously got Out,
who is hitting pretty good at Oklahoma City,
Lux.
Horrible start, and Lux starting to hit, and
he's a multi position guy second and short.
If if they're the ones that win the
bidding war for School of Detroit.
They're gonna have to put some of those
names that we just mentioned into that package.
But I will also tell you the yankee
keys
are talking to Detroit. And the yankee have
fine lee decided they're gonna trade
Spencer Jones. Big power hit. He's from San
Diego Carl. Yeah.
They're willing to put him in the package
if they can get Google. Yankee pitching is
terrible right now. It I think the Yankee
are... I wanna say 6 and 16 in
their last 22.
And I think the stat I read this
morning the yankee starting staff in that 22
game window,
starting staff as an Era of 5.2.
And have head injuries, and I mean, gear
Garrett Ko come back, but he's not the
dominant
garrett cold yet.
So the dodgers are talking to about Sc.
Now the yankee have jumped into the bidding.
Baltimore wants another veteran frontline guide, they're talking
to Detroit. Also Sc becomes, The top picture
on the trade block, super city Evo
from Texas and and, obviously, Quan,
Ef down in Tampa. So
1 Domino's is gonna fall pretty quickly, and
then we'll have to see who scramble to
go get the other pictures. You know, the
potter are trying hard, but the powder don't
have the amount of resources that the yankee
have or obviously the the depth of wealth
in the system of the doctors have. I
have always loved this. Time of the year.
Oh, trade, though the trade deadline stuff in
major league Baseball is fantastic. And some teams,
they can really jo and put themselves in
a great position. But what happened to Out
men and luxe? I mean, Almond still has
a future, but his luxe washed up Since
that major knee injury. And he missed more
than a year. And he just hasn't come
back can been the same player, but he
was a hitting machine.
When he marched through the don system, he
got there. And now, maybe he's out a
position. Maybe he's more second base than he
shorts, I stop and, of course, they they
move Mu bets to short stop, and now
he's had this this catastrophic
injury with a fractured hand, and they don't
know whether he's gonna be back in September
yet.
So...
But
guys get hurt and sometimes it takes him
a long time to come back. I mean,
the fact that Lux is hit everywhere. He's
always played. Least nimble believe he lit again.
To hit better after that point where he's
hitting 01:11, you know, first couple months of
the Dodgers season. That was a brutal knee
injury by the way. That was like 2
spring trainings ago. The flu starting was against
sap. Yeah. It just spikes caught. Mh. And
I mean I saw it. Yeah. Was in
between second and third, Wasn't isn't it? Yeah.
Running the basis. Okay. Let's move on. Let's
go chargers here. We're from matt. He says,
hey, Lee. We have a top 5 quarterback,
a top 5 0 line. And a top
5 pass rush group. Just watch.
Awful optimistic. It's awful early, Matt.
You have a top 5 quarterback. I do
agree. Top 5 offensive of line has to
prove itself yet. We don't know that yet.
Now they do have 3 number 1 draft
picks in that old front.
Holes it running back,
help wanted wide receiver.
Now granted, you've got the coach, and he's
changing the culture,
and we'll just have to see whether all
the new parts they brought in, and they
got rid of 11 starters in the off
season.
They do have... There's no doubt they have
edge.
I mean, they're 4 deep at edge, and
they they brought Para back in. They drafted
the kid from Michigan.
But
They have no experience or no success at
defensive tackle. They cut all their tackle. So
who's going be tough guy up inside, and
I still think there's holes in the secondary.
That they got to dressed because they they
ran off a whole bunch of guys in
a secondary. So
it's work in progress. I would think, Matt,
a year from this afternoon.
We're doing this podcast, unless John gets deported
or arrested.
A year from this afternoon, they're gonna be
a a much better team, but they've they've
gotta go through this this
massive shift,
seismic shift,
coordinators,
playbook, better culture. That does not happen overnight
real quick, and they got so many holes.
I mean, if you were telling me Har,
Justin Herbert,
Austin Ec,
Keen and Allen Mike Williams, I'd say, damn
right. A.
Championship possible team.
Those guys are all gone,
and they still have to prove the tough
on defense. So that's when opinion, but usually,
my 1 man's opinions right on and John
Riley says. Well, what about gus said worse?
Because he's injury prone. Right? Have duty coming
off an off knee researcher. Jk k Do
very vibrant guy kinda like Ec. He's coming
off an achilles. He and he was out
on the open market for a long time.
The only reason got a job here is
because the general manager Joe Hicks came from,
Oh, the baltimore Yeah. Yeah. You go. But
but if Edwards gets hurt again. I mean,
they don't really have a power running guy
do they? Not a power guide to be
in the power mode that Har wants to
run the bloody football all the time.
I mean, they do have Isaiah Bill, who's
a third year guy. You see little flashes,
but he's never been given much of an
opportunity.
When somebody gets hurt. He's gonna get that
opportunity. But that to me, There's just... There's
too many unanswered questions with the opening of
of the charger camp. Veterans show up, Tuesday
night first practices on Wednesday. So we'll be
talking a lot more Nfl as as we
march through the next couple of weeks. So,
you know, my private hope is that Justin
Herbert. Go 17 and o 1 of these
years and the jeans span go in 17
but that's the way again. Yes.
That doesn't make any sense. Call these new
viewers have never heard those sales space. Alright.
Alright. Let's let's squeeze in 1 more here
got an Ast comment, and this is from
King Z. He goes, that's
disrespectful at, you know, the number 8 prediction
in the Mountain West. But I don't trust
any of the quarterback personally. If they could
stay big in the trenches and keep their
ground game explosive. They have a chance to
be in the top 5.
Clean piece of paper at San Diego State,
new coach.
I understand the media,
not knowing who Sean Lewis is up. I
know what that guy accomplished. What he did
it at Colorado before the injury set in,
What he did for 2 years, it kent
state, which is like being on the moon?
And for him to flip that thing with
as many skilled people as he did. And
prior to that, what, he did a bowling
green what he did at Syracuse with quarterback
and receivers
this is gonna be fun to watch. So
I'm a Sean Lewis
bak, but a lot of new pieces. I
mean,
I'm trying to think my numbers are so
so confusing right now. I wanna I wanna
say they wound up with 34 transfers coming
in the door.
They wound up losing. There's 42 who transferred
out. I got an awful lot of transfers
on the offense, and that takes time.
This offense is really different.
It's gonna be ast tech fast. I call
it air ast.
They're they're gonna
run snaps every 8 seconds. They're gonna throw
the ball. They're gonna run sprint draws out
of it.
But there's so many new components there.
It it just... It's gonna take time to
see. Now I mean, and the whole offensive
lines has been rebuilt with guys from other
places.
They have more transfers on offense than they
do on defense. They do have younger guys
on defense that I'm gonna start with a
a bunch of big body transfers. So work
in progress, but
I believe in that guy's playbook, and I
I... Nobody else seems to have paid very
much attention. All you need to do is
Google.
Sean Lewis Kent state and watch what he
did formation wise and how many plays there.
In over 6000
yards and offerings offense, John, do you know
how much... How many snaps that is to
get over 6600
all purpose yards running and receiving.
In while a 12 game schedule. Kent state
and he did it back to back seasons
with different quarterback? Wow. I mean, that's, like,
having all 500 yard games, you know, all
season long. You know, I'm intrigued by Sean
Lewis. I'm curious How I'm hopeful for the
aztec text. But the mountain west,
I I think I read somewhere. There's 8
new head coaches, 8 new starting quarterback, so
it could be a wide open feel. Yeah.
Wide open.
Yeah
They they have a really colorful schedule. I
mean, they playing some big time teams here
and they get Oregon state Washington state come
here.
As part of this pack 2
alignment where the Cougar and the beaver are
gonna play everybody in the conference. That's how
they fill their schedule and the pack 12
fell apart. So I mean, they're gonna get
Oregon state Washington state here, which I think
will be fun games to watch. But III
think it's a... This is a really bright
light coach. So you
Go on the message boards, tell them Hacks
believes San Diego states gonna be really good
in football.
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You're not gonna wear that hat. Were you
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yourself. Yeah. At least I didn't have, like,
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that. Some of them are enormous hats. I
don't know how to hell they walk around.
I don't know yours was pretty much off
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