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John? I'm ready. Or you? What a day.
What a day? We're gonna talk about dylan
cease. What an accomplishment?
Pod?
No hit
by the former White sox starter.
Yay.
I don't sure at the Tv. Yellow the
Tv very often, but I came out of
the chair on the bottom of the ninth
inning. Dillon sees throws a no hit in
Washington against the nationals
Don't tell me that Washington's got a aaa
batting order. It's still major league baseball,
and Dylan sees talk his way back onto
the mound in both the eighth and the
ninth innings.
I think he finished north of a hundred
10 pitches in the game, which is a
lot But, boy, I saw the last 2
innings, and he was cruising. He did not
have a lot of stressful innings, and Mike
Sc just looked him in the eye and
said, are you ready? He said, I'm going
back out on the mound. Damn. Don't tell
me anything else. Went out. Had he walked
somebody in the eighth or ninth, had their
been base hit
they probably would have pulled him immediately because
the pitch count, he always throws high pitch
count games. Dylan sees
goes into history.
No hit.
Second no hit, Pod baseball.
And I'll tell you the most unique thing.
His last 3 starts, 1 hit,
1 hit,
no hit. Damn. Now the 2 1 hit
were 6 or. 7 inning starts. They were
not the still horror game.
I went back and and researched this. In
his last 3 starts, 22 innings,
no runs,
2 hits
and 30 strike outs. Is that good? Last
3 game. Holy foul.
I'm it's fascinating. He's such a competitor. He's
such a bulldog.
He's never been really
consistent.
Well, these last 3 starts. Yeah. That's consistency
squared. And I'm gonna make a side comment.
You know, we talk about the Pad
all different dimensions of Pottery Baseball.
And we got the payroll
and the struggle to stay above 500,
the battle, to stay in the penn race
and the wild card chase, etcetera.
Who's the star of the team, Who's the
Mvp of the team?
I'm gonna throw a different name at you.
If this thing turns out to be a
playoff season if they can go deeper in
October,
Mvp,
Ruben ne.
K? What he did with cease mechanically. Mh.
To change the location of the glove and
the
location of the glove and the ball in
his hand as he made his stride on
the mound.
It's amazing. Look at the end results since
they fix the sky. Oh, yeah. You know,
he had 8 starts at the start of
the season, 2 point 11AY.
He had 11 starts in a row after
that as E was in the sixes.
And they went back to video and they
looked and said, we need you, maybe you're
tipping pictures off. We need you to put
your glove close to your chest when you
start your delivery and bring the ball out
from here, not out from here.
What's happened last 3 starts since they made
that adjustment with the location of the glove
and the hand on the ball in the
glove?
What a job by ne?
So you take what Abel has done there,
what he did to refine Michael King who
walked a lot of batteries and gave up
a lot of home runs at the beginning
of the season.
What he's done
with Matt W and y knuckle ball, what
he's done with Adrian Mori
And what he's done to help convert Robert
Suarez into an all star closer when he
was just a guy who would come from
Japan just 2 years ago. So at the
end of the day,
Anybody agree with me?
Possible Mvp candidate, the Potter pitching coach. So
this this was a hell of a day.
And the big picture of things, Fundraiser are
55 and 50. They are still chasing the
dodgers, gotta go into Baltimore next, then they're
gonna come home and they're gonna play the
dodgers.
So
they're a whole season. Their their penn and
hopes, I think really swings
on what they accomplished next 5 or 6
games,
Or
Dodgers.
And John Reilly says, wow. I mean, it
was this a big wow. You know, and
you lose musk scrub and darby, and then
you've got Dylan. I mean, like, As he
want say young or he's come close to
it? He's been in the neighborhood, but he's
always been hot and cold when he was
with a white sox could be dominant,
and then he could be Mia.
But good call on Ruben, You know? Now,
when he... First of all, A aj Pro
signed him Okay. We gotta give props to
a aj for that. Bring up... Brought him
over, but Was he a minor league pitching
coach for the guardians or was he on
the major league was the guy. Okay. He
was the pitching coach Cleveland, Cleveland historically developed?
Good young pictures over the last 4 or
5 years,
lower budget franchise and yet, they've had good
picture in there for a chunk of time,
and they alert them here. He's done just
a master job considering if you looked looked
at the names that I just rattled off
and what they were prior to
interaction with Reuben Ab, Yeah. He's an Mvp
type guy. Well, you know, in the bottom
of the 9 2 outs and who comes
up to the plate Cj j Abrams. And
I'm like, this is where it's all gonna
go wrong. But he lined out to right
field. I mean, just what a great day
for the Pad. How... They won a bunch
of games in a row there rolling, but
Dylan Seas span,
Pod history. Yeah. Second 1, Joe Mu over
the first 1 couple years back.
Must grow over 1 of the first guys
out of the dug out, crushed the guy.
Just bear herb dillon
was it it was cool. For all the
emotional ups and downs of this roller coaster
of a repo season,
that was pretty cool. You're a Pod fan.
Hey. I want you to join us in
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and you can be a fan of another
team out of town. How impressive is what
Dylan Cease has done. Last 3 starts, 1
hit or, 1 hit,
no hit. Okay. So we go from that
topic on the table
to a baseball notebook topic. Yeah, We'll talk
a little Pod raised Dodgers Angels. These Southern
California teams are rolling right now Well, it's
a lot of lot of storylines here to
kinda just run through with you.
First of all, let's talk about this pod
situation. Let's talk about Xander Bull coming back.
Now, Dude was hitting what. 02:19
when he got hurt with a shoulder
dislocation, and the extended period on the D
and it comes back like a new man,
holy cow He was 14 for 29 coming
into today's game since she came off the
disabled list, and he made a significant defensive
place stuck with a hard hit ground ball
knocked it down picked it up was composed
through the guy out at first to preserve
the no hit in the eighth inning of
that game.
But tell you what, if Bog can continue
to hit.
And Jackson Merrill can continue to hit.
And you get got Mach who needs to
start hitting again and Kim needs to start
hitting again. If they can get this line
up clicking all at the same time,
it's gonna be fun. Now,
I take everything with a pound of salt
here pound. I mean, they beat a
aaa Washington National lineup up. Okay? That that
game on Wednesday was really bad was really
ugly and they just kicked the crap
out of the... The National pitching, the national
don't have a lot of pitching.
Putter is at 15 hits and 5 innings.
First 5 innings that they game last night.
I mean, it's it was really lopsided. So
we'll find out now, but boy if Xander
can be Za and be hot. That makes
the lineup up even a little bit more
tougher. So that's that's the pod
situation.
We move on, talk about where the dodgers
are. I have never seen a team
make so many roster
transactions like the dodgers have made
in the last 72 hours, and this has
got a lot to do with injuries.
Tyler Glass now back. Pitched pretty impressively against
the giants on Wednesday night. Clinton K off,
first start back after 4 rehab assignments
we'll see how long his shoulder holds up.
Joe Kelly is back off the D. He
will now become the setup guy in the
bull for them.
Bruised da Adderall and Michael Grove have now
been sent to Oklahoma City. So remember at
1 time, the doctors had 6 team pictures
on the D. Now they're starting to get
some of these guys back. But for every
piece of good news with the dodgers, there's
bad news,
Landon neck, flame throw and young pitcher, elbow
surgery this morning just diagnosed. Oh my god.
He's going on the sample. So they get
guys back. And now they lose another 1.
But all the young guys that they've kinda
of force fed,
including the the the latest 1, Ryan River,
or River Ryan,
very very impressive
coming out of triple.
Yam has started long toss, 200 feet. No
setback. He's headed next to the bull pin,
And and the dodgers just continue
to make moves to try to go find
some additional pitching. And, of course, the trade
deadline is next Tuesday,
and they are right at the front of
the list. So Dodge Baseball, lot to cover
a lot to talk about there.
Terrible news with the angels.
And what a job Ron Washington has done,
convincing these
guys, young team, young lineup.
Kinda young pitching staff convincing them
focus today.
Don't worry about last night, John. Don't think
ahead to next weekend, sir. Focus tonight. Angels
have won 7 of 9 Wow. It's like
the third time this season have had this
spurt.
And you look at the roster and say,
how the hell are they doing this?
Ron Washington sales, pitch just a focus.
Now the negative to the angels,
Mike trout comes off the disable list.
First came back with the angels,
2 innings,
pull him.
Knee flares on them, re injure the knee.
Now he had he played had games at
Salt Lake City and had no problems. He
comes back for the halo,
goes 2 innings, and they have to take
him out of the game. And they're doing
exams again. And maybe it's it's too much
too soon physically.
He's been out for such a long period
of time. And the other negative aside from
the the floor up with Mike trout
is the reality that trade deadlines coming, and
they're shopping a lot of guys. It kinda
looks like they're gonna dump more contracts, which
means I don't even know how they're gonna
put a 25 band roster
on the field.
So John, that's good news, bad news.
Do you believe in the pot. Do you
believe in the dodgers and all the adversity
and what do you believe about the way
the angels are conducting their business? I know.
I think bike trout and Ka Leonard must
be going to the same restaurant eating the
food there is killing both of their knees.
What a shame for the angels to finally
get him back and he messes up the
knee again. Is... I mean, is he gonna
really ever have a healthy season in his
future? He just keeps having in his bad
break. I mean, the knee, prior to that
was a calf. Prior to that was an
ankle. Prior to that was a back.
He just... You know, and it's it's from
a guy who plays hard. I mean, he's
not
weird injuries. These are injuries when you're on
the field. Wow, this is amazing. Yeah. Yeah.
On the dodgers, yeah, the the pictures are
coming back, but I think what, is K
shaw starting the night...
So we're gonna find out how he does.
I I think I read that. They picked
up Jordan L, you know, on the free
agent market just for death peace
the dodgers are just gonna be the dodgers.
You know, we nowhere they're gonna be good,
but the progress are rolling right now. You
gotta love it. You know, coming out of
this I'll star break. They... Well they took
2 or 3 of Cleveland, the light hitting
team. Nope. No bad in order. But they
won 2 agree. So that's good. Maybe beat
Washington's Bla lineup up. I... I swept them.
It sounds like you're ordering world series tickets
from La. I'm just happy. Okay. I'm I'm
gonna... I'm state. Yeah.
And now is for cease for sure. And
the pod are back into the wild card
slot if the season ended today. So all
good here.
And the trading deadlines Tuesday, and somebody gonna
make a deal, and then somebody else gonna
make a deal. And a third guy's is
gonna make a deal. These Domino's is gonna
start falling. Yeah. And I the other Pad
and dodgers and angels could see a lot
of roster turnover. Okay. Fans form chat box
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do you believe in what you've seen with
the pot?
Do you believe in the dodgers considering they're
still in first place with all this bloody
adversity?
And do you believe that the angels and
the sale pitch that Ron Washington has done
on this young team. Some baseball fan out
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and join us because fans comes up at
the end of the podcast. Now I've alluded
to next Tuesday, John punched this next note
up on the board you built this.
This is what is out there. Let the
trading begin. I'm gonna run through hot names
from each of these teams.
Who could be probably will be traded by
Tuesday.
Chart Tigers number 1. I'm kinda surprised
I picked the tigers to be the surprise
team in the American league and they kinda
fa. They did not hit very well.
They are shopping the Ace of their pitching
staff Tar school.
It's got 13 or 14 wins. It sure
peers are gonna move them and what's a
shocker is. He's got 2 years control still
left on his contract.
Sc
and Jack Fl. Former cardinal right hand who
who's been be by injuries has pitched really
well. In a bounce back season. Helm if
I'm detroit fan, I think I'd be pretty
peeve.
That ownership has built this to the point
where looks like it's about to compete for
a playoff thing. And now they're can auction
off 2 of the pictures.
White sox,
27
and 77
record That's brutal. 50 games below 500...
They might be threatened in the all time
worst New York Met record of 40 and
01:20.
Black in the 19 sixties.
I think the White sox are gonna trade
Luis Robert the center field,
and they're gonna trade Garrett Crochet,
who's having a mystical season,
even though they still control those guys for
a couple more years, White sox are in
total
rebuild mode. So keep an eye on that.
The weird ones in Toronto.
They... It's like they got everybody on the
trade block. I mean, this team is under
achieved. It's not hitting. It's pitching spend sporadic.
They're talking about now trading
frontline starters, Chris Bass and Kevin Ga.
Bob at the shorts, stop though he's hurt
right now. Still on the trade block. Rumors
won't go wave vlad guerrero on the trade
block, and You sai ka starting pitcher on
the trade block. It's like
we might make... Wake up wednesday morning. Won't
be anybody left
in Toronto because I... They're shopping everybody.
Cubs have given up.
They've been by injuries. They've decided we're not
gonna be a buyer. We're gonna be a
seller, and the name that they're shopping and
he's probably gonna move is James Talia, 1
of their starting pictures.
Texas,
wrecked by injuries during the course of the
season.
They've got some of their injured everyday players
back. They don't have all their pitching back.
That's probably a thing next spring. I don't
know that Nathan Aldi is gonna survive next
week in Texas. He'd... He's being shot too.
Angels.
Carlos est
closer.
I keep here in the Yankee are yankee
are desperate for pitching. Yankee are. 15 and
25 over the last 40. That's incredible. Incredibly
bad. Holy, Cow just got swept by the
Met in yankee stadium 4 games.
Think people in the burrow a little pissed.
Yeah. Any of the angels are shopping Carlos
has,
Tyler Anderson the journey in pitcher.
And now they're put their former number 1
draft pick red D on the trade block.
They... You know, he looked like an Ace
last year. He started the season 3 and
all and he's not pitch well at all.
He's back at Salt lake Citi. He's got
an In the sevens. Evidently they're they're possibly
gonna move him. Rockies logo was up there.
That involves Calvin Quan.
Miami is shopping Jesus La starting left handed
pitcher, and it looks like they're gonna move
the second basement center field
jazz chi home,
and Tampa bay is shopping Randy Or rosa
arena, the sutter field,
and Zac ef when they're starting pitcher, but
I've heard
the big issue with the races. They're refusing
to pay pick up any of the remainder
of contracting. He so it's got a 15000000
dollar deal this year, 18000000 next season and
clubs want Tampa, that were taken ef. You
gotta pay some of the salary and tampa,
not in favor of that. So those are
the names in the news and that's a
lot of names. Most of them pictures, and
we know how many teams are think they're
still in the independent right. So there's gonna
be transactions. And I think somebody gonna be
the first 1 to pull the trigger between
now and Tuesday
I don't know whether it's gonna be the
dodgers or it's gonna be the yankee, but
1 of them does something, and that domino
comes off the board, then all the other
domino is gonna fall fairly quickly.
So John from Left field, do you be
the general manager, tell me what anything's think
gonna happen? Well, all... That means the interesting
names these pictures, but are any of them
like legit number 1 starter
Detroit. You think he is God he's 13
or 14 wins. Yeah. Okay. And But Crochet
isn't? While Crochet are converted relieve having a
mystical season.
The big thing where Crochet is has he
hit his innings limit already, and we're getting
to August first.
So how do you use crochet? You have
to be careful with crochet? He's... But he's
not had recent arm problems and he is
a power pitcher. And he's done very well
in just an absolute miserable
situation. I'm waiting to see if some big
names surprises us, you know, as we get
closer and closer to the deadline. Because a
lot of times there's always a Vi or
a sc are 1 of those legit number
1. Legit, veteran guys, but the problem is
virtually oils veteran guys are hurt.
And you can't you can't trade with the
hope that somebody gets healthy for the last
8 weeks of the season. So those are
the hot names on the trade.
We'll be talking more about it. I bet.
I bet there'll be a deal or 2
between now and we rejoin you on Monday
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a lot to talk about Yeah. Jerry World
and Bill Bella check the hoodie. What do
you got? Like? Big story here that starts.
Jerry Jones. She's got contract problems with his
franchise as it relates to Deck Prescott
as it relates to Micah parsons as it
relates to the hold out wide receiver Cd
lamb, and Jerry's got a court case that
has finally been removed from the court docket
Jerry had an affair with a woman in
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the
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met every aspect of it,
and the woman has no right
to try to seek more money
or order him to a opportunity to test.
So Jerry Jones
cleared
of that controversy. But That was a black
cloud that was hanging over him all over
the place. Wow. I mean that's... Well, you
know, Jerry hooking up with young women and
this is what happens here. But
you know, if if if there was a
contract in place in the beginning, well, then,
yeah. I mean, you can't rene on the
deal, she should have asked for everything in
the beginning.
Second item, the other personality we're talking about
the hoodie.
Bill Bella check was offered the assistant head
coaching job and defensive debtors job by the
San Francisco 49
after he went through the divorce proceedings within
England Patriots. He thought about it and said
no.
I wanna be a head coach. I don't
wanna be an assistant. It would have been
interesting if Kyle Shana would have given Bella
check. Free reign,
Those are your players on the defensive side
of the football. Those are your meeting rooms
do what you wanna do. I'm not sure
Kyle would done that. Maybe that's the rationale
Bill didn't wanna be
second in command.
Bill might have a head coaching job
because there are rumors everywhere about coaches on
the hot seat. Mh.
Anybody in the N nfc East is in
trouble.
This is interesting. So
you got the New York giants who have
had miserable clear personnel
acquisitions, decisions, injuries, salary cap issues,
Brian Davis and big troubles a giant coach.
New York jets
have not been to the playoffs under the
fire brand that is Robert Sole. Now, granted
they do have Aaron and Rogers, but
If Sole does not have a good season
which means plan in January,
he could be gone.
And Nick Ser had an ugly end of
the Philadelphia Eagle season after a year and
a half of really good football, and the
feeling is,
he's in real jeopardy, and he blamed all
of his assistant coaches because they turn that
staff upside down.
So the hoodie
might get his choice
to coach in the northeast.
Giants
jets,
eagles. And that's maybe 1 of the reasons
he didn't take the 49 job,
reaction to what
fall in the Ex New England coach. What
might happen to the Ex New England coach?
Well, the the question I have is is
Tom Brady part of the package? Because without
Brady, Bill Bella checks record is under 500.
I concur with you wholeheartedly. No now Brady
is going to be an owner of the
Las Vegas raiders.
You don't you don't think Bella check carries
any legitimacy anymore. Well, you know, again, he
was always a defensive mind.
You kinda wonder if the game had passed
him by.
Because of all the innovation and the sport,
but then he would always pull a rabbit
out of his hat. He had Tb 12.
So as as long as
Does have a good court. Even with Aaron
Rogers. I don't think he could be successful
in New York. He failed with the jets
before. Okay. Hey failed cleveland too. Did not
fail when he had Tom Brady. So you
don't buy into the sales.
No. I mean, I I like the idea
of having him as a defensive coordinator, but
if I bella check, I wouldn't take that
job either. I mean, after all of his
success He's a a surefire hall of Fame.
You mean, after all of Tom Brady success.
Well. He he wrote the of Tv 12.
But if I were ham, at just get
that get that Tv job and just have
a great retirement. Not gonna retire Pal. I
bet a year from today
if you're still here,
doing this from Love field, y of little
faith. I'd to hear from today. He winds
up as somebody head coach and it might
be
in the big Apple. We thought it was
gonna go to the Atlanta Falcon So what
happened? But that deal fell apart at the
end. And I think there was some
conversation
between Robert Kraft, the owner with the patriots
and Arthur Blank the owner of the Falcon
about how tough it is to deal with
that guy despite the great success they had
New England, and Arthur Blank stepped away. Interesting.
Interesting.
Y little faith.
Okay. We go from that. Group of Nfl
stories to the bigger storylines because there's a
pile of stuff here to talk about. Yeah,
Cowboys, 9, raiders. It's right Here.
Show me the money. A great headline. You
got there, John. Let's just run through this
really quickly.
Dallas has got sour cap issues,
Cd lamb,
has 1 year left on his contract buddy
star. He wants the money right now. He
wants 36000000
right now despite 1 glorious year in Dallas
he's not in camp.
He's pissing away 50000
dollars a day declines because he's under contract
you. The collective bargaining agreement, which the union
agreed to this went into effect about 3
years ago because everybody was tired of the
hold outs and was damaging teams and all
that.
They agreed. If you're under contract, you don't
come to camp. You don't show up to
do this podcast pal, 50000 on you
per day.
Per day. So that taxi meter is running,
but the the Cd lamp... He's gotta be
there. I can't be think he'd be stupid
enough to sit for a month in miss
all training camp, which is then gonna spill
in to the start of the season and
forfeit
all that money.
San Francisco.
He's there
You're not practicing.
Brandon Na. Love me. Love me not. Mh.
Who a week ago met with a general
manager, John Lynch and was... Went through the
economics 01:01 lesson as to why they can't
upgrade him right now because they gotta sign
the quarterback extension. They're trying to make a
decision what they do with Deb Samuel.
Brandon Io is is staging what they... The
fancy new term in the Nfl is holding
in.
Holding in.
Come to camp, take part of the meetings
stand on the sidelines. I'm not going on
the field risk and injury during pre season
camp. Now they're just 2 days and. So
the question is, and he's not getting fined.
Because he's there in the median and he's
court part of the team.
So that's what Cd Lamp should do.
If he were smart. Yeah. Instead of giving
his money away. So anyhow, that's that's the
latest with San Francisco and Brand N. This
is a real shocker to me because I
thought this kid was gonna be a difference
maker. He played for the cowboys for 4
years. Now he had 1 major knee injury.
But before he got hurt, he was dynamic.
His name was Michael Gallo. Used to play
a Colorado state.
He just walked out on the readers. Does
not wanna play football anymore. And he had
just signed
a free asian contract. He left Dallas unsigned.
Went to the raiders almost immediately and I
thought, holy, Cow what a great option to
have on the other side of Da adams,
and the new tight ends that they brought
in and led by Brock Powers. And he
left doesn't wanna play football anymore. So the
raiders raiders are kinda kinda stunned and shocked
with that. Miami.
Interesting.
Tu is conducting a, quote, holden.
He's in camp. He's only on the field
during the walk throughs.
He's not doing 7 on 7 live action
pass Rush, he's not doing 11 on 11.
The negotiated a contract extension with him. He
wants 50 mil. He was offered 40.
Ty Hill is in camp. He's not gonna
walk out.
Ty Hill once his contract upgraded, I know,
he's got multiple years left on his deal.
He wants his contract upgraded from 25, which
used to be the high watermark mark to
more than 36, which is the high water
mark that the Minnesota wide receiver justin Jefferson
got. So that 1 is interesting.
La rams.
They found a way
to take care of Matthew Stafford, and our
Stafford got 3 years left on deal.
31000000
guaranteed
this year. There's no guaranteed money
next year or the year after. And of
course, Nfl players are really concerned if I
suffer catastrophic injury. I can get cut that
Santa in my career and to my payday.
And there was a lot of rumbling ins,
and he might not coming a camp. Well,
he came to camp and he met with
him and the agent, hammered out,
incentive cost deal.
So if he has another mystical 3900
yard season, another 33
touchdown season
he's gonna get a water bonus money. And
some of that bonus money is gonna kinda
go towards what would be a guarantee next
season. So the ram creatively financed and solve
that.
Cleveland solved their problem with their Wide receiver,
Maurice Cooper. They gave him. I'd guess the
sexy new word in the nfl aside from
hold inn is incentive clauses. They gave him
a series of incentive clauses, it'll get him
if he has a phenomenal season to
25000000
dollars on the coming season.
Jordan Love
is in camp,
not practicing,
green bay trying to get a contract extension
done with him. The big sticking point with
Jordan Love who replaced Aaron Rogers.
Is he sat there for 3 years and
then started the 1 year and really had
a good season, but he's a 1 year
wonder,
and he... Where he wants to go immediately
from 12500000.0
to 50.
Green basically gotta juggle the books to make
that happen. So John, show me the money.
I'll just gave you the storylines. Pick a
team here. Respond to what you just are.
Yeah. Jerry Maguire here. You know? So I
I love these guys are all. Going for,
you know, big money. There's a lot of
money flowing through the Nfl. They've had great
seasons. You can't blame the players. For having
some leverage here, and to try to make
more money. I mean, most normal people, if
they had that leverage at their normal job,
they would be doing the same darn thing.
But it is all the Donna athletes. It's
all the wide receivers all the quarterback backs.
So it makes it entertaining
the raiders, though, I thought the gallo story
was weird. I forgot that he was even
there. And then he were... He he stepped
down. I mean, the raiders, you're not sure
what to make of them because he wouldn't
even know who's gonna be their quarterback. They
got 2 quarterback backs, but in neither 1
of them I think is a massive difference
maker.
They don't have
the the great running back. Well who went
to Green Bay. Jacobs. Josh Jacobs. He's gone.
Now they did get a phenomenal defensive tackle
right of the start of free agency in
Christian Wilkins, and you put front with Max
Crosby.
I mean, that's gonna be a very different
defensive football team, but the raiders raiders have
got some
Got offensive line question marks that only training
camp and pre season games will answer do
they have the right people the right places.
Who's gonna be the quarterback.
And life after Josh Jacobs, what's that gonna
be like. So there's a lot of questions.
And now you'd... Now you lose, and I
thought this... Kid had really grown a lot
while the cowboys In fact, I was surprised
Cowboys did not attempt to keep him. But
Gall signs. I thought, great addition. Now he's
gone, and he doesn't wanna play football. Kid
anymore. So... Well, well, games are gonna start
here real quick. Right? I phrase the hall
of fame. That's what I was thinking is
usually the Hall of fame game is in
July. Job Aye Vance Houston, Texas. Okay.
Williams. Debut.
Alright. Here we go. Cj Str. But will
we see them in that game? I don't
know. I, I believe I believe Williams so...
Play only because it's a marketing thing. I
don't know how many
Snaps he'll take how many series they'll play,
but I believe caleb Williams will start to
Okay. So we go from all things, Nfl
you got an opinion, Feel free to join
us in fans for. Do not sit here
and just watch us on livestream. We want
you to participate, go into the chat box.
Ask a question, make a statement. About this
team, that team, your favorite team. We go
from that, college football. The big 10 with
8, teen teams lee's in a brand. It
doesn't make any sense. They had their national
media day
in Chicago. It was just really strange.
In the in the hotel lobby,
they had as the coaches came out of
their rooms to go to the meeting rooms
and all the press conferences. They walked down
this long dark hallway,
and they had the uniforms
on mannequins of every team in the 18
teens
long and you walk by and you say,
Oregon ducks, green and gold, Washington and hu,
purple and gold,
you know, and and obviously, Southern Cal, Ucla.
Press conferences were really weird,
unbelievably strange reaction from Lincoln Riley
and from Des Sean Foster,
Usc Ucla head coach.
Riley was almost defiant in front of the
big 10 national Media corps.
They they threw him every type of fast
ball hard ball question, couple more knock down
pitches.
And what's gonna be like to travel 22000
miles in 10 weeks.
How are you gonna hold up to start
the season at Ls asu and at Michigan?
How come you lost so many 5 star
blue chip recruits who opted that out after
committing to you?
Have you replaced Caleb Williams?
What's the storyline with all your wide receivers
exiting?
And 1 1 of the national media guys?
Called what Usc football turned into a disaster,
and Link Reilly just he lost his mind
at the podium.
He started lecturing the media about who we
are.
And why we have all these new players,
and we have an I program that has
far beyond what anybody else in the world
got blah blah blah blah. And somebody said,
yeah. And you're 18 and 9 in 2
years
didn't play a liquid defense in 2 years,
fired all these coordinators in 2 years. Do
you know your record is not any better
than the prior coach. Was here homes that
they fired.
He was defiant. It was just... It was
strange. I watched some of the video clips
clubs It was really strange. She and then
there was Ucla new coach to Sean Foster.
And you talk about being overwhelmed and intimidated.
And
making a speech
with apologies.
It was like watching Biden on Tv in
the debate. Oh my god. The Sean Foster
was
Public speaking, Press conferences
Q and A with the media. That's part
of the job pal. Right.
And he just he had no answers and
it was fumbling answers and he was stumbling
through.
He got a little bit better once they
got... Into 1 on ones with some media
that he was more confident around,
you know, but the the thing is. He
just, yeah, We got 9 starters out offense
returning.
And we had to make a lot of
radical changes in the transfer portal, because we
lost a bunch of defensive players etcetera. But
we're confident.
And
nobody else that I know is confident,
and the national media that voted,
voted the burns to finish fifteenth,
in the 18 team, Big 10 fifteenth.
He did talk
openly about Eric Enemy coming on board as
offensive coordinator,
and how he thinks all that Nfl experience
because he's hired a couple of Nfl coaches
to be his right hand man. But he
it was just... Strain set of circumstances like
he wasn't confident, and he was intimidated. And
he looked out at the lights, and he
he couldn't string
adverbs and nouns together in in sentences until
he got off the podium, and then he
did some 1 on 1 sc and he
was a little bit better, but
Not a not a good first impression by
either Lincoln Riley or or by Des Sean
Foster? Well, the questions that were asked of
Riley are fair questions.
You know, every 1 of those are fair
questions. By the way, is Miller Moss still
on the trojan? 60 year guy. He will
be your starting quarterback at Ls with Michigan.
How do you think that's gonna go. My
god. Yeah. That's gonna be terrific. No. He
had the phenomenal 6 touch touchdown game here.
Yeah. In the holiday boys. Wow. This kid's
been sitting for all these times. So so
they may have a a replacement for Kayla
Williams. But does Sean Foster, I'm I'm trying
to remember his background because, I think we're
running back. Yeah. He was a running back
for the T. Wasn't he? But he was
a great running back to at Ucla and
then he came back as an assistant coach.
So he's never been the head coach. This
is probably the first... Time he's ever been
given impress never been a coordinator. Yeah. So
huge nerves. Right? And then and then it's
a big 10.
Know, and they're and you're the new guy
and they're coming after you.
Fifteenth then out of 18 that sounds about
right for the b.
You I wonder what life after Chip Kelly
is really gonna be like. Oh by the
way Chip Kelly was there. He's offering offense
Coordinator at or Ohio State. Oh, that's right.
How did that transfer? Job transfer go. The
wreckage you left behind here. Yeah. And we
acted and treated people. Like god.
So This this big 10 season. Your college
football fan. I think this big 10 season
is just gonna be fascinating
to watch. So we go go to that.
If you wanna to join us on Fans...
Got an opinion about Southern Ka Ucla or
actually
Ohio State and I didn't even mention life
after Har in ann arbor at the University
of Michigan. Mh. With all there, Players gone
too. It's so jump on board into fans
form. We go from that. Let's talk something
really different. Yeah. The Nba and Tnt and
Amazon is a lot changing with their Tv.
The only word I can use at this
hour is
lawyer up, dude.
This is gonna be nasty,
Nba changing has signed
a new 76000000000
dollar Tv contract,
covers 11 years,
with Espn
Nbc,
and the new third partner is Amazon Prime.
I'll be coming over here watch games on
your tube on Amazon product. Right on. Tnt,
which it had it forever, Sir Charles Barclays
network. Oh, yeah. Lost out on Tnt says,
in our contract, the last contract we had
with Adam silver,
our contract gave us a right to match.
We are matching
what Amazon paid.
We get the Nba back.
The Nba comes back and says no you
did not.
That clause
is only for over the air
Nba tele.
You could only match either the mega dollar
Espn paid or what Nbc paid.
This
Amazon Prime.
That's streaming. That's a whole different world whole
different universe you don't stream on Tnt.
You can't match that.
Lawyer up, baby.
This gonna be in court it's gonna be
lawsuits. Lot of lawyers are gonna make a
lot of money, but the Nba is stoic,
said, they knew.
That this matching clause in their old contract
pertain only to over the air didn't pertain
to the creative
of streaming,
Big storyline pay attention. Well, it's not over
the air. Tnt, you can't get it with
rabbit ears. I mean, you need a cable
Tv subscription. But it's viewed as over the
because it's much like Espn. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
But streaming is a whole different Auto. Yeah.
And I think this is all part of,
you know, the business of sports trying to
reconcile and figure out this new world. But
it sounds to me like Tnt is getting
screwed here.
I mean, because it sound like they had
the contract And you say, oh, it's streaming,
but it's it's the broadcast. Rights? It's the
primary broadcast.
So over the air broadcast. Again, I think
I I'd love to see how this shakes
out. I don't know the detail, but I
think Tnt got a legit beef. As Sir
Charles Barkley would probably say, hey dude. Read
the fine print.
So that's where we are. Lawyer up. There...
This sucker gonna be a in a court
case. You're an Nba fan jump on board,
by the way. I don't know what happens
inside the Nba.
There was no Tnt
partnership now. But I'm sure they're gonna wind
up somewhere. Could you imagine if Amazon decided
do.
Bring on
Ernie Johnson, sure Charles Kenny Smith, Shaq inside.
Sure. Some
configuration of that will show up at Amazon.
Barclay says he's retired. I mean, do you
believe that? That depends what day of the
week and which weather the winds blowing. Right.
I mean, there's there's money on the table.
Show me you the money. Okay. We go
from the Nba. Because we do cover all
the topics on the table. With apologies in
advance. We do a hell of a job
in terms of content on this podcast.
Hacks cause headlines off the sports wire, John
got a lot talk about. Yeah. N nhl
g. Well, what's going on here Is Bowman.
Is the Gm. Right? Let's start with the
Nhl Edmonton oil. This was a bit of
us surprise because Kenny Holland was removed as
general manager of the Stanley Cup final Edmonton
to Nor the day after they were eliminated
in the playoffs. The and they started, quote,
a a search for a new general manager,
and they hired Stan Bowman. Stan Bowman is
the sun,
of legendary montreal Canadians, coach and general manager...
Scott Bowman. Stan Bowman was with the Chicago
Black Hawk. Had worked with other clothes, but
he was a marquee general manager with a
Black Hawk and he was suspended by the
National Hockey League. And what happened was
maybe a decade ago.
There was a video
assistant coach on the Black Hawk staff who
sexually assaulted 1 of the rookie on the
Black Hawk.
And the Black Hawk,
leadership
did nothing about it. They did not fire
the video assistant coach. There was no legal
action till about 5 years ago and then
the the player Chris Beach, filed the lawsuit
against the Chicago Black And won the lawsuit.
And Stan Bowman was a general manager, Joel
Ken, whom we've talked about in the past
was a very successful coach.
This this incident
and the the story kinda leaked out during
the Stanley Cup finals. Was Chicago was playing
in the playoffs,
and Bowman took no action. They were too
busy. Ken said I'm preparing for games here.
I can't... I can't deal with this,
and they ignored it.
Beach finally filed the lawsuit,
Nhl inter nrc,
They suspended Bowman for 3 suspended Ken,
both reinstated about a month and a half
ago. Ken has not interviewed for a head
coaching job yet. Bowman got hired immediately with
the snap of the fingers. That's that's quite
a story that they they moved on him
as quickly.
As they did, He walks into an unbelievably
great situation with the edmonton and Oil. I'm
sure some of our oc canada fans
probably got something to say there. Let's talk
about the tour.
You know, we've talked about the phenomenal accomplishments
of of Xander Sc.
What he did winning the British open after
winning the Pga?
Big debate going on right now, John? Who's
gonna be the player of the year?
So you got somebody that's won 2 grand
slams in a couple of months, that's pretty
impressive. But over there, you got Scotty Sc,
who's won a grand slam, and by the
way, has won 6 tournaments this season,
aside from 2 Alexander's 2 Grand Slams head
won a tournament all year.
So now a big debate in the National
media,
Za based on the 2 or sc based
on the 6 plus the grand slam event
who is the player of the year.
Tiger Woods.
We've talked about how poorly he's played why
he continues to send himself out to try
to play in grand slam events.
His son Charlie
tried to qualify for the Us
national
junior open.
His son is only 15
and Tiger's been featured in videos playing rounds
with Charlie and Charlie played well. Charlie went
out in the first 2 rounds of qualifying
and shot 22 over par.
Or 264
teenagers
attempting to qualify in the Us junior
amateur
he finished 260 fourth at a 264.
Tough tough day for the kid and for
his father.
Next topic on the table.
Let's talk about
soccer.
Olympics about to begin.
Euro cup decided a week ago.
Cop decided a week ago. Mexico fired its
coach again.
Mexico has gone back and has hired
Spanish coach, Javier Og.
He'd been there 2 other times. Had done
some okay things in Mexico.
But they hired him
to tutor a legendary player. That they've also
hired as his assistant, quote coach and rating
and waiting. His name is Rafael Marquez, great
player in Mexico from back in the day
So they got a new head coach who's
been there twice and had moderate success.
He's gonna spoon feed Marquez to be the
next head coach.
By the next time the world cup rolls
around. That's interesting.
And we got the Olympics. We got the
parade of nations in Paris,
it's gonna be fascinating.
329
events over the next 19 days,
592
American athletes.
Are gonna participate.
Lebron James Cocoa Golf are gonna carry the
American flags
during the parade of nations on Friday.
10:30 Pacific time tomorrow morning, you wanna watch
it on Nbc. It's gonna be fascinating,
but was really gonna be great.
If I throw these names out to you,
it's Must see Tv,
find it on whatever network it's on.
Katie Lad, who's got 10 medals and swimming.
Should carry Richardson,
America's great female sprinter.
America's
legendary hundred meter 200 meter sprinter, no ohio.
The phenomenal comeback physically and emotionally
by simone simone bile and gymnastics.
That's worth watching.
And then you got team Usa,
men and women's basketball.
Team Usa soccer team got beat by France
yesterday,
Their roster just composed of under 23 players.
They got beat 3 nothing. There were in
it to the 70 first minute, and it
kinda unravel Team Usa soccer team, plan right
now against Zambia. So there's so many cool
things about the Olympics with the marquee names
that we're gonna pay attention to So John,
I threw a lot there. A lot of
breaking news go ahead, give me an opinion.
I'll give you an opinion. I think
Xander Sc has to be the player of
the year here because he won the 2
majors
And by the way, he didn't get in
trouble with the law, like She did. So
I think you can make a solid case
for shuffling ensures he's as want any of
the normal events on the Pga tour, but
he's always been right there. Fedex cup is
about to begin. Those are the 3 big
money end indices and tournaments.
If Xander wins 1 of those,
because those are all double points also in
addition to massive prize money or if She
continues to wheel and deal.
I think whoever comes out of the Fedex
cup tournaments here right at the end of
the season.
Probably the 1 gonna win it. Yeah. That's
a good call. I like that. And then,
you know, the Olympics are great. I always
look forward to that. And mean it's good
stuff. The oil in Bowman. Because you had
talked about the the coach was a Ken.
Right Ken. And so he... The He is
still suspended. No. He's been reinstated, and nobody's
touched him yet.
He got okay. He got reinstated right at
the end of the Stanley Cup playoffs while
there were all
these coaching jobs open. I think the guy
should be coaching. The guy he paid a
terrible price.
This was all, quote, indirect. Clay around him.
These were decisions made by by Stan Bowman
and the people above them. I mean, a
Black hawk got stripped the draft picks got
a massive about, maybe a half half billion
dollar fine
for not taking action on behalf of Chris
Beach with this video coach that sexually assaulted
him,
I think Ken more in innocent victim, and
this had to be solved by the people
above them. It's not the beach was a
player. Beach was a practice guy on the
black aces, which meant he practiced, but he
never suited up in in the Stanley Cup
final. So I... The Ken vote is guilt
by association, and I can't believe he still
doesn't have a head coaching, Joe. Well, he
I hate I think this is definitely failed
leadership. Yes. Because when something like this severe
happens, I don't care if you're in the
stanley cut playoffs, you have to...
Temporarily hit the pause button and handle the
the crisis, and they didn't do that. Well
Bowman didn't do it. Right. So, yeah. Yeah.
Those guys were at of hockey for 3
years. So he got reinstated Well, So we
paid the price. Right? I think a 3
year suspension sounds about right. And the the
other factor is the Nhl mandated that Ken,
another assistant coach and
Stan Bowman. The go into counseling programs, and
all 3 of them did exclusively. This well
they spent the last 2 and a half
for 3 years doing was god interacting.
With with programs that would help them with
counseling and help them to understand what had
happened. And all 3 of them did it.
That's why they were finally reinstated
I just can't believe Ken has has not
been hired. Okay. Those are the breaking stories
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John? Ready? Said. Go. Okay. Let's start kick
it off with John. He was, I'm on
the metro after leaving the game in Dc.
The pod sure have the nationals number. Washington
had just swept the reds before the Pad
is visited.
Bet the pad wish they could face Washington's
pinching every day, and then that's are glad
they won't see the Pad until next season.
Kill sees just absolutely amazing. I mean, what
he has accomplished now
in in this last 3 starts. 1 hit
or 1 hit no hit and just dominant.
Just phenomenally dominant.
But, 30 strike outs, 2 hits allowed in
his last 30 innings inch. I mean, that's
just phenomenal. And he had he had to
talk his way into the eighth inning and
in the ninth inning. He had to tell
Mike Sc
I am staying in this damn game
and she'll let him do it, and he
he got through the eighth and then he
breeze through the night. I wondered,
I wondered that ninth inning or somebody's gonna
lay a bun down and try to break
up the no hit by
making somebody to come off the mound to
throw the ball out. Yeah. What was that?
That was Kirk Sc and Ben
Davis.
Was it that way back in the day?
Yeah. And he bun to break... A no
hit or is at Bush league you know,
III thought it was great Pair code. It...
Yeah. The screw the code. You know?
Up And, you know, it's not just still
in c. I mean, randy Vas has pitch
really well. I yeah. Pot gotten 4 grade
starts in a row. Now. Yeah. Who are
they doing it against. But still. You know,
it's not like they're playing the Marlin or
the white sox. I mean, the the the
national are close to that. They're they're in
the mix for the wild. So you you
gotta give it up props to the progress.
So I we'll say this, John John is
from the district of Columbia.
It's Riley and I have talked back and
forth about the
citi current uniforms
and hell I dislike a large number of
them. I think the Pad uniforms
with all the colors,
the Rainbow She, uniforms I call. It's grown
on me. Washington's
city current,
Jersey. Today, they wore was really cool. It's
got the silhouette of the capital? Yeah. And
and the block w on it. I thought
that was a... That'd pretty cool. I can't
stand Pittsburgh uniforms, Cleveland uniforms. I hate. The
Dodgers city currently. I don't freaking understand half
the uniforms and why they design them that
way. If you got a logo that fits,
something historical that defines your city.
Like, the wife is a pirate fan? Mh.
What's the logo? The old pirate head? Oh,
yeah. The Jolly Roger? Yeah.
Why don't... Why is that not?
Your city current uniform? Logo. You wear it
on the breast pocket. Big picture of the
the old Jolly Roger B.
Why would you not have that rather than
Pg h? No I I thought I it.
I mean, city connect jersey just give you
a different view. And and granted it is
all marketing. I mean, they just wanna sell
Jersey and sell all this other stuff. Now
the nationals...
I'm trying to remember their uniform they were
wearing today. Is it the gray 1. It
had the cherry blossoms on it too? No.
It's it's a white 1,
with colored sleeves, and it just had
the nation's capital that's.
That's capital building. That's cool. That's cool. I
mean, all, there's a lot of chaos going
in that capital building, But but that's good.
I mean, could... I like it when cities
and their name reflect the city? Like, why
are the hell are pirates in Pittsburgh? I
mean, there's no... It's you know,
pirate ships that are going down the All.
Were you there? Did you know? Can I
verify that? I don't know. I mean, but
I think they just pick the pirates because
it starts with the pee and you get
the
so yeah, the have nationals... I, yeah. It's
class. It's a good looking in Jersey. We
move on. We move on and let's go
here to Robert.
Where is it? There there he is? Robert
says highly lead big fans since 6 90
with all the hard throw ending up on
the D. Would it be advisable to listen
to norm Sherry comment back in 19 61
to a Jewish left hand?
Control over speed? He's talking about Norm Sherry
talking to Anti Ko, Sandy Ko, of course,
had elbow problems,
arthritis and he just walked away from baseball
after
9 years, maybe 5 of the most dominant
years 6 of the most dominant years. We
ever saw and he walked away from baseball.
And, you know, I... We talked in our
our headline segment,
Dodge just lost another pitcher, landon and neck,
1 of the really big physical throw.
He's having an elbow surgery. John, he is
the fiftieth
pitcher
since spring training.
Major league and top prospect.
50 have undergone a surgery this season since
the end of February.
It's an epidemic. We know, we covered that
before. That's incredible. By the way, I love
seeing a guy named Na as a picture.
I to think of my sharon back in
the 19 late seventies. Talk through this cultural
junk on me Alright. Let's go here to
Jason. Hey. Great decision Shi. Unlike Tingle who
pulled Blake now when he was in the
same position of few years ago. Well, you
you gotta make a tough call on on
how many pictures you're gonna let your guy
throw,
especially if he's a real power guy and
both sn
and Seesaw.
Had he walked a batter? I think in
the eighth? Had he had a stressful
8 or 9 pitch batter
he probably would have pulled them if he'd
given up a hit, I definitely would have
pulled them because
as as tougher a competitor as Cease is,
and he does throw a lot of pitches,
and he's such a power guy. You know,
once you get beyond a hundred 405,
that's a great area. Don't wanna go into
very often. And he... I think he wound
up either 01:10 or 01:12,
which is probably the max limit. But he
coast the eighth and there was no stressful
at bat, and he he buzzed through the
ninth pretty quickly. Once again, It was against
a triple
lineup up, but at the end of the
day, Boys he's strung together 3 phenomenal starts
in a row. Oh, it's great. And I
think I think for the players in the
club houses, tested a gal agonizing moment, a
lot of positive energy. And then having your
guide being a tough guy and say, no,
damn it, I'm going back out there on
the mound. And I'm gonna get this thing.
So they're on a what, a 5 game
winning streak right now. So hopefully, they can
keep it going. Where they going next?
Baltimore.
Oh, that's right, Baltimore. Place Or, then home,
first place dodgers. Like I say the next
the next 6 or 7 days will probably
define
how good they're gonna be in terms of
setting the table for the playoff race? Who
will no doubt. Yeah. That'd be a good
measuring stick. Hey, did you see that that
Bob that Sandra Bog made that mer ended
up catching. Yep. And that was something that
was special. Little things like that and no
hit are always granted. And what he did
in the eighth inning with the ball he
knocked in down and I didn't know if
he was gonna be able to grab it
like a bar soap, and he still had
to play and got the guy out by
the snap of the fingers. But that would
have been an air, not a hit. Right?
Right? Well, bo was hit hard. Okay. We
move on. We move on. Let's go to
Angel. Hey, says the break has helped the
dodgers a lot, and a big test tonight
with K
returning the dodgers should be okay. It's little
too early.
I gotta believe K shaw is gonna be
on a pitch count. If he has any
stress patrol innings where he's gonna have, you
know, he has to throw 25 or 30
pitches and then, they're not gonna keep him
out there very long. I think they're gonna
babysit him through
the first couple of starts. But obviously, the
the mileage they've gotten out of some of
their kid pictures has been pretty impressive.
You know, and and they're getting guys back,
You know, now B has just been sent
to Oklahoma City.
Greater always was sent to Oklahoma City. These
guys are and rehab assignments. Joe Kelly was
just activated.
So, you know, they're getting some of these
guys back and only time will tell. But
you know, Glass now pitched well against San
Francisco to the bull pen imp at the
end. So
it we still got 50 games
55 games left,
still out of baseball to be play. Dodgers
have got to get this rotation back in
order. You know, when they got rid of
James Pax.
Which kinda shocked everybody. But... Yeah if they
the D Pax after he... Won his last
start was 8 and 2.
But if you do a deep dive into
his statistics. Z r was like 4.43.
He walked a lot of batteries, a lot
of hard hit balls. So all
all the analytics said this guy's live on
borrowed time, and now
they swallowed
13000000 dollars because he reached all of his
of bosses because he pitched so well the
first half of the season,
you know, in terms of innings
number of starts,
what his record was. So
they're eating 13000000 dollars. And now they put
a D them, which meant they have 10
days to either trade them
or
release them. He's not going to the minors.
I hear he's going to Boston and a
Red sox gonna send something to the dodgers
a young prospect or something. Because Boston is
desperately trying to stay in the race. But
at the end of the day, these were
not what I'd call quality starts. They were
kinda... Can I survive into the fifth inning
and walk a lot of guys and they're
hitting rockets shots off me? And, yeah, I'm
eating too because thank you, Ow tanya and
Freddie Freeman
and and Mu Bits. I was a little
surprised they moved him, but They obviously know
where their other pictures are in terms of
on the rehab road back.
I agree. But the Pax didn't thing when
he was doing so well. I was like,
in the hell is happening? I didn't expect
it. But let's just take a snapshot right
now in time.
What is the dodge starting rotation?
You would ask me that off the top
of my head. Well, you know everything? Well
I know everything, but my brain's a little
fried right. Well, there's K shot you know?
And who... I mean, because... And and then,
is is glass snow back? Glass pitch last.
Night. Yeah. So that's 1. Yeah. K shock
kinda becomes 1 a. Yeah.
Okay.
Yam
is about to go on rehab, but that
that could be 2 or 3 starts before
he gets back.
And then, you know, just whatever kid pitcher
available, they keep bringing them up and back
from Local oklahoma the city just to try
to hang in there so, 1 of them
done really well. Is it Gavin stone. Is
that the 1 who's not in 3. Yeah.
So there's nobody nobody expected that. I don't
think they expected that and yet. He's hung
in there, but he's kinda hitting a wall
in terms of innings and
pictures thrown. So I I don't know what
the last 5 weeks of the season for
Gavin stone are gonna be Yeah. So imagine
how these next 2 months are gonna unfold
for the dodgers. I mean, they're counting on
these guys coming back, but they may not
be, you know, functional
I mean, it still could be a cluster
in September for the dodgers pitching. Even if
they trade for Derek School, the ace so
that August
it change things. Things are gonna change between
now and Tuesday for a couple of these
penn contenders. Now I don't know who's the
first 1 that dives into the water, the
Memorial are after School. The yankee are after
School. The dodgers are talking to a lot
of people about a lot different people, but
thereafter after School.
Bore gonna get the Detroit Tiger ace and
that's gonna set off all types of chain
reaction, all the deals pretty dug on quickly.
I think there'll be an additional... Somebody's name
arm and the Dodge rotation by the time
we have breakfast on Wednesday. Yeah. I agree
with you. I mean, the dodgers are all
in this year win now. Now dear you
agree with me from Love field. Next question.
Okay. Let's go down here to Chris. No.
Let's go to Greg first.
And Greg says, Lee. What do you remember
is the main weakness the chargers had in
that super Bowl against the minors.
Steve Young. Yeah.
It was interesting because that was such a
devastating loss the way it occurred.
You know, Steve Young threw 6 tough touchdown
passes. First 2 possessions, San Francisco scored 2
touch touchdown on bombs and the first 6
plays of the game.
And I'll never forget. Bobby Ross
told me
couple days after we got back from the
Super Bowl.
He said we thought we had diagnosed everything
they were gonna do.
They went back on video in the 2
weeks leading up Super Bowl Sunday after the
chargers had Beaten a Steele And Pittsburgh a
c championship game.
They they reviewed
18
49 games. 18 different 49 games over 2
years.
And they they chart every
formation
and every tendency they had. That's why have
computers. These guys behind us scenes they work
on us all the time.
And Bobby said, we chart every formation, the
49 was used over 18 games over 2
year period,
and they went into that game and they
saw 6 formations in the first 2 possessions
they'd had never seen.
Touched touchdown pass, touched touchdown pass.
The lined up Jerry Rei is are running
back.
The lane up Brent Jones is a full
back. He was a star tied in.
They ran Ricky Waters the running back out
as a slot receiver. And I'll never forget.
Think was a third player of the game.
They come to line of sc,
and I'm calling the play, and I I
see Ricky Waters in the slot.
Guy had dinner item him with his number.
You 32. I see Jerry rice line up
as an back.
And I'll never forget look into line of
sc as young as going through his priest
snap eats, and I see junior sail,
turning
and turning and trying to relocate the secondary
because of the formation. Yeah. Said they had
never seen this.
And young takes 3 steps back. Throws a
sla pass, touchdown San Francisco Jerry rice just
boom boom,
and the charge of secondary was just paralyzed.
And they got hit by a bolt of
lightning.
Next possession exact same thing happened they were
in more stuff they had never shown before.
It gave up another touchdown pass.
So now it's was 14 nothing just like
that.
And
they kick off to us and or kick
return guy,
I don't know if it was Gary and
Gordon,
kid out of Stanford. Took it back for
a touchdown, I think. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
I said, okay. We're back in the game.
No, not.
Kick off. They take it back for a
touchdown game over. I'm... And poor Dan Humphrey,
they were running uphill the rest of the
night, and they moved the ball some. Neutron
means they ran it and I said, okay,
they were back in the game back in
the game. But you got a score touch
touchdown. And they were selling for vehicles. And
then guys were wide open. He threw touch
touchdown past to, wide receiver, Mark say, wide
open dropped it vehicles you know, they just
lost opportunities and was gonna be a shootout,
and it couldn't stay in the shootout. And
at the end of the day it was
49 26. So
it... It's weird. I think back to that.
I wish,
I don't have a copy. I... I've told
John on the store. I don't have a
copy of that game on video. I taped
it at home.
My wife taped it at home, and I
didn't wanna watch it. So finally, in late
February on a rainy Sunday night. I'm gonna
pop this thing in, I wanna see this
because I'm big on looking at formations on
how the hell did this play development.
I taped it. I punched it up to
watch it,
and I didn't get the Super Bowl game
because my kids had recorded Sesame street over
this super walking. So I've never I've never
seen the full video
of the game, but
that's how the bolts got beat.
Washington was freaking brilliant.
You know, and
Nfl films,
they they tape the game. They tape the
play by play of the local broadcasters.
And I said in the fourth quarter of
that game 1. It was just totally out
of control.
I turned to my broadcast partners Jim Las
and Pat, and then said, you know what?
If I wasn't the voice of the chargers,
I could really enjoy this game because that
is... That's 1 of the greatest offenses of
all time have I've ever seen.
And
Nfl films took that quote and put it
into the Super bowl highlights.
That was really funny. So It it, was
a tough tough night at the office tough
game. I'm gonna have to go back have
to find the video of the game so
I can look at. How I develop. Just
those things flashed in my mind when when
Greg just brought that up What do you
remember? I remember these how the utter confusion
in the back of the minds of these
guys in the secondary and how they got
hit playing a bolt to lightning, and they
just emotionally it just were not the same
team after that, and Steve Young was brilliant.
It was an incredible game. And what... I...
Just everything leading up to the Super Bowl
in San Diego, the energy around the chargers
that Pittsburgh game. I mean, there's so many
great moments, the party in the rain at
the stadium and had that game on the
late Sunday night all, was so cool. But
it's just so San Diego. It's like, when
the the chargers finally get to the Super
Bowl. They run into a buzz the diners
on 1 of their best years ever.
Same thing happened to the pod race with
the 84 tigers and the 98 yankee. Yes.
You know? So it's just... And then, you
know, San Diego State, you know, gets them
dumped in the... Nc double championship game or
gets that fake flop, You know, from Campbell
Walker in the Sweet 16. I'm glad you
don't hold any grudges. This all the San
Diego Sports curse is, and it's just... I
mean, I just wanna live and enjoy a
major sports championship here in San Diego before
I die. Oh, okay. Well,
I always tell people and people always bring
up bring it up to me about the
the Super bowl run with the bolts and
how good it was. And I said, yeah,
the game was the game and that was
a tough... Tough night at the office, but
the journey, the journey to get to the
Super Bowl and we've done... John and I
have done a special
podcast, and we're gonna run it during a
football season about that mystical
magical
San Diego charger season because there's a lot
of cool storylines lines that probably people have
forgot that voice of the charges hasn't forgotten
and it makes it makes all the ache
and the pain of what happened on Super
Bowl sunday go away because then you think
about all the really cool things that happened.
Especially in Pittsburgh.
And my wife would not talk to me
when I got home. She's
steal fat unbelievable,
3 River Stadium. Yes. On the astro turf,
I can just still see the visual of
the of the turf in that stadium. And
the terrible towel. And the terrible and the
jaw. Bill cow just looking like he'd killed
somebody out there. Yeah. Was a
with with the coconut. Yep. In the touch
touchdown after the game when you touched that.
Yeah That was terrific. It, like I said,
Brent brought a smile back to your face
despite what Steve Young good on Super Sunday
night. Next question. Okay. Let's go to Chris.
Tell saw
unbelievable comments by Colin Cow this morning was
talking about the chargers this upcoming season and
I quote,
complain all you want, but they have a
pretty solid ownership. In inc opinion, react.
Cancel his show. God, what's he talking about?
What's he been drinking?
I mean, everybody's excited about the arrival of
Har rightfully so. That's what is resume says,
success everywhere, but getting from... What's point a,
I'm here, and this is my resume a
point b. We're gonna be a playoff team
or maybe a Super Bowl team. That's a
long distance. They just They just have a
lot of questions that need to be answered.
It it obviously starts with the school people
around a really good quarterback in Justin Herbert,
and it revolves around You guys have been
shown any degree of tough defensive, and you
fired your top 3 defensive tackle. What do
you got to replace them. So there's a
bunch of questions that need to be in
their ownership. My god. Please don't bring up
the word ownership as it relates to they
got anything to do. They finally made a
decision. And they paid an enormous amount of
money to get a really really good coach.
But are are they a playoff team ready
to be playoff team? That, that's that's with
7 weeks of training camp in the start
of the regular season gonna show us.
Colin Cow. When I think of him, I
remember he made a comment a number of
years ago. His yeah. Ml is like a
regional sport. Now, everyone cares about the Red
Sox Yankee, maybe the Cubs dodgers, but everything
else is just regional. You know, we care
about the teams in the big markets. And
Well, now he's pumping up the charger. So
I wonder if maybe it's because they're playing
in La. What do you think? Yeah. It
could be, you, But...
Dodgers,
you know, who drawn 4000000 every season.
Hey, Dude. You ever been Pe Park and
see what this experience is now becoming the
gas quarter?
Colin Coward just
muzzle yourself, please.
He's been making some political posts
of videos as well. Humans Stephen a Smith
just driving me out of my mind. But
that's okay because I've done some of that.
I've written some man's opinion columns that weren't
very well. Received, including people in this room,
but go ahead. Okay. Let's go to the
next guy here. Yen says, come to the
Cf L Bill. Job opening in Edmonton in
his head coach. Well, thank you on the
Old Canada network for Edmonton Es.
Once upon a time and out the Edmonton
Elk. L They were really good franchise and
gone through some really tough times. But it's
no different in Canada than it is down
here. If you don't have quarterback,
your franchises is in big trouble, and Edmonton
went through a bad stretch where they didn't
have quarterback. Aid,
I wanna say they...
I don't if the number is correct in
my brain, but I wanna say they lost
maybe 15 home games in a row. Over
a couple of years span. Yeah, they've been
they've been really, really down, and they were
more competitive last year. But you gotta have
Q. You gotta you gotta keep your quarterback
healthy. It's big issue in the Canadian league.
And they don't...
I don't understand the whole rationale there's so
many quarterback to this side of the border
and why you can't lure some of them
there, but all these guys think, well, I'm
gonna be a third quarterback, and I'm be
on the wall squad. And you're probably never
gonna a chance to play. Yeah, you make
a little bit more money on the mel
than you wouldn't in to Canada. I But
she's, you know, what what Doug flu did
what Joe He did where Warren Moon did
go to Canada and the success they had.
I mean, it's out there and it's an
opportunity and some guys go up there and
they just love it. They never ever come
back. But gotta have a can quarterback in
in Canada and the...
Edmonton Elk,
strange name. They don't... You know, that was
a political thing we can't have him call
the Es o's anymore. And called the Es
in 19 twenties 1 was a Rugby team.
Mh.
You gotta have a quarterback in Cfo.
He came and Bill Be check and the
Cfo with all those different rules. You know,
would would that be, like, a a personal
challenge that he would embrace? Actually or do
you think it would just overwhelm them. Pay
me the money. He's an Nfl coach. She's
not going up Yeah. I know Just when
it goes up. So they were... Yeah. It
was politically correct correcting. Like the Cleveland Indians
changed in their name of the red skin.
Yeah. Made no sense to me at all
because there was heritage of was legacy there.
It's Edmonton Es.
Well. Well, I'm sooner or later. They're gonna
come down on the oil too. Right? Because
people are fossil fuel and they're all said
about that. Alright, let's move on. Let's go
to Manny.
He says, will W
take the Nba to court for the last
Tv rights package, Who will win and why
did the Nba pick Amazon over W?
Potential.
Potential whole worlds on streaming, young world is
on streaming.
They believe that's where the money is. I
mean, the price tag, I think
Amazon paid 1800000000.0
of the 3 contracts they signed with the
Espn
Nbc. That was the lowest tiered.
But as Charles Barkley would say dude, read
the fine print.
You don't have the right to match something
creatively done, You know, It's like it's like
the Nfl and the antitrust lawsuit.
We have the right to creatively
put together unique and different packaging, and that's
why Sunday ticket,
became a big issue and announced why why
they were in court over that. I I
don't know the fine print said over the
air broadcasting. Well, this is not over the
air. This is streaming.
Search Charles read the damn fine print. Yeah.
Read the fine print, but I I... I've
gotta believe that Ernie Johnson and all those
guys are gonna move up over there. I
concur. They absolutely have to go so everyone
loves all 4 of those guys for different
reasons.
So we'll see how this plays out, but,
you know,
I'm generally a a proponent of all this
going to streaming because I think it gives
us options, and we don't necessarily have to
sign up for the 200 dollar a month
cable. You know, bundle. But
I will say this though. It's just like
a week ago, the Pod race had a
game on Apple Tv, and that was kind
of a curve ball for a lot of
the fans. Yeah. A lot of people were
walking around pissed off, I want to see
that it was a noon time game wasn't
or 01:00 game. Yeah or no was a
game in Cleveland. Yeah. I it was at
the Friday night game or the Saturday. I
don't remember, but I'll But it it is
it is difficult. We're in this transition right
now going from when we were a ra,
now than cable. Now it's streaming, and it's
all fragmented.
And you gotta subscribe to a lot of
the streaming stuff. But if you if you...
This is my contention, if you a la
carte all of those different packages, you're gonna
still spend way less. Than you would on
a on a cable Tv bundle. Okay. This
guy's anti cable now. Thank you. Cox cable
is gonna turn all lights out of here
pretty damn quick.
Move on. Moving in up on. Okay. Yeah.
Let's go to Steve here. It says bring
back the out of town score board. Well,
we've done a lot of different things.
Who we created a lot of different things
on the out of town score. Our podcast
is really damn successful. Thank you very much.
Yeah you're. Yeah, yam is best show in
sports. Hey they love. This fits cool. I
mean, we've come across something is really unique
and developing the fans form concept
I think has been just a bona force
us because it's like talk radio. You get
the chance,
to express an opinion. Write an opinion. Have
me yell at you if you want. I
won't hang up on you, but I'll tell
you you're full of crap, but that's okay.
The transformed formed concept is really, really different
and this skies work really hard to make
sure we stay on the air. We don't
have blip that knock us off the air
We've had only
not on wood. I think we've only had
2 or 3 episodes that got
fragmented because of something happened technically. Yeah. I
think we're doing okay there. You know? What
but wood knock on wood. Alright. Let's go
to social media here. Talking a little bit
about the yankee and white people hate them,
and this is from Spade Wolf. I don't
hate the yankee. So I think the dot
are just dis as d tested as the
yankee, 2 teams with great s histories from
2 of the biggest most popular cities. Officers
budget is not a problem, Not in La
and not in New York, and that's probably
why. But,
it's...
I'd love to see major League Baseball change
the structure
of of salary revenue sharing. I mean, if
we could have everybody.
Operating with fair fairly same budgets.
Did have a great product. That's what's made
the national football league such a sick excess
is the competitive balance and the revenue share.
Now you still gotta make the right decision
on the quarterback and need to hope you
don't lose people because it's catastrophic injuries,
but baseball has not done that... And I
don't think. And I think the Nba has
got a problem, John. I just don't think
it's good to have 5 franchises the top
who can... Spend and spend and spend because
they're in the big markets.
And, you have, 25 franchises that can't compete
because they don't have that type of resource,
spend in Pittsburgh or Kansas City or Detroit
or Baltimore.
I don't think that's good for the game.
And I I know that you're a damn
capitalist, and you should make as much as
you can make. But I also think the
overall health of the game is really, really
important. I mean, it's worked in the Nfl.
It should work in baseball. Definitely worked in
the National Hockey League in the Nba too
with their hard caps now and everything that's
been put into effect in the last 3
years in basketball Baseball needs to do a
better job to make more money do available.
By the way, there's a side story. I
just... I meant to mention this it just
broke within the hour and when we were
coming on the air,
as as we're wearing in baseball, these franchises
that have been really impacted and hurt by
the death of regional sports...
Broadcasts, the collapse Ballet, the collapse of Diamond
sports, Baseball the union, 24 hours ago after
negotiations has agreed.
To take a large chunk of the money
that's paid by the big cities and luxury
tax
to take the yankee luxury tax money the
doctor luxury tax, the red side, whoever's over
the tax limit
to take that money that pool and distribute
it. To the teams that have been hurt
by the collapse of diamond sports, ballet sports,
etcetera. Okay. That includes the Pad, the Rockies,
the pirates,
Texas,
Kansas City, Houston so far.
Every team is gonna get a 15000000 dollar
payment,
out of the tax pool,
every team will get that that has been
damaged. So that... You know, the Ponder has
lost their 40000000 dollar a year
Tv package. Well, they're gonna get 15000000 every
year from baseball
until something changes with the structure of of,
the the tele or... So that's good. And
it... And right now, I think there's 5
to 6 teams doing at the instant 15000000
payment
And if diamond force completely goes away, other
their clubs that are damaged are gonna get
the... And be eligible for that payment too.
So that... That's... A different form of revenue
share, but I think it's a positive. That's
interesting. I mean, that's not a bad idea
there. A good solution there to fix a
problem.
But I just wanna comment here on the
yankee and people hating the yankee.
I mean, even if you had a revenue
share deal, People are still gonna hate the
yankee. And my my belief is is that
there are some people in America that hate
winners. You know? And it doesn't matter if
it's the yankee,
or the patriots or the 49 or the
lakers.
You know, if they're a winning team and
they're dominant, people wanna
see them lose. They wanna tear them down,
and we even see that in the world
of business as well. So I think it's
just haters love to hate, and that's what
you're seeing here. Okay. We move on. We
got a lot of goods. Social media comments
here. Go ahead John Fire away. Let's go
Dodgers here. This is from Oscar. Hey, Lee,
a lot of decisions and losing had to
go to Dave Roberts. Social To me, he
has no strategy and relies on analytics. They
had an in field, the play together for
8 years and an out field with 30
home runs each. And sticks with... And he
sticks with his guys. Robert's pulls players out
of places players that can't produce, it's about
time the Dodgers fire, Dave Roberts. The most
amazing thing to me last Sunday,
the La times,
unfortunately, the union tribune doesn't. The only time
still has the letters to the editor page
on Sunday,
and I read 8 straight
letters to the editor negative
about Dave Roberts. Davis got 1 more year
to go in his current contract.
First place dodgers.
8 division titles in a row dodgers.
Been of the world service dodgers, and they
want this guy out.
Now, they've been
by unbelievable injuries. As I say, as of
today would land a neck undergoing elbow surgery.
They now have had 17 pictures on the
D.
And we're Dave Robert's team in the standings
First place. First place. So
I I don't quite understand and buy it.
Does he seed to the wishes the people
upstairs, the analytics? Guys. Yeah. But that's happening
in a lot of places
in League Baseball. Maybe it's maybe it's an
uncomfortable comfort zone that these guys have to
operate in. Guys I still think he's a
good manager. I think he runs a really
good club out. I think, you know, when
you get big money and everybody's making the
kind of bank players are making.
And you get into egos, and you get
into conflicts and you get into agendas, and
you get into attitudes, just ask the Potter
call,
the last couple years, you don't hear any
see any of that. Dave Roberts Think police
is the club about. So at the end
of the day, Oscar, I don't quite agree
with you.
And for them for them to finish in
first place this year with 17 pictures on
the deal,
nobody could survive that and yet that Oz
are still first place. You know, I I
love seeing the dodgers choke in the playoffs.
So that's a very entertaining for me as
a kid who gru up a giants fan
and is now a pod fan.
But firing Dave Roberts now would be worse
than the chargers firing Marty Sc oppenheimer wouldn't
you agree? Probably pretty damn close. Yeah. Then
that's not gonna happen. Yeah. Because the decisions
are coming. I I really believe decisions are
coming from upstairs.
I think the analytics people send down those
2 sheets.
They
inform him that they want.
And the batting order has been rock solid
of the top, and they're trying to fix
the bottom of the bat order. But the
decision is this is the first guy we
recommend you take out of the bull pen.
And if, you know, if you got a
closer
situation, these are the analytic matchup ups when
it's... This left hand versus left handed batteries.
And he's got... He's gotta have all that
data and he understands what they want upstairs.
Sometimes it works. Sometimes it does not work.
Sometimes it works despite the fact. And logic
guy might be wrong because they got great
players with a high high high payroll. So...
But that's what A Pre was doing with
the Pod race. Right? And his staff was...
But for when the pod do it, it's
meddling,
But when the dodgers do it, well, they're
are first class organization. And They're in first
boys. Okay. It's a big issue. So they're
tell Bob Melbourne, we want this and this
and that, and it's not working out. Mh
So
tough call. Sorry, Oscar. I don't buy
this social media message. They're not gonna fire
Dave Roberts. Yeah. No way. Okay. Let's go
here. Let's talk a little Rams and chargers.
This is from Conrad.
Jared Ver and branded F from Florida state
was an unbelievable pick by the Rams. The
Rams defense will be solid. Hope it'll be
enough to topple San Francisco for the Ns
nfc West As for the other team, if
Jim Har can get them to win, no
1 can... But I think Harp can do
it. Hope needs players. He's gonna need some
time. We're not gonna start ordering in super
Bowl tickets of season because I don't think
he's got the roster. You know, you go
back and look at the Rams. Super Bowl
early under Sean Mc
fell down because of injuries. Their last 2
drafts have really been good. They draft... At
a whole offensive line last year, and they
virtually all played, and nobody got hurt, which
is kinda unique. They went in, got defensive
end defensive tackle. There no Aaron Donald, that
they're gonna be a very different team that
kinda rebuilt the secondary.
If if this quarterback, who they got from
Buffalo Trey White.
Can come back from the achilles injury and
be what he was with the bills boy
that they're gonna be really good defensive because
I agree with you, what they got out
of Florida state at the at the top
of the draft? Those guys gonna play immediately.
Can they stay healthy? Remains to be seen.
Can can the office offensive Wei not have
any setback
physically
to protect Matthew Stafford. Obviously, they they think
they're got the right running backs now with
the Not dame Kid Ky Williams and with
Blake Quorum who did really a lot of
diverse things in the mini camps side. I
think the rams are pretty good. I think
the chargers a year from today will have
a much better sense
how close they are to being in a
really good playoff team. As long as they
keep Herbert healthy, but they gotta be able
to run it, and they gotta replace all
these guys at wide receiver that they like
go. So there's huge question marks,
at their camp else are gun...
What was the...
Regular season record for both of these teams
last year.
Rams made the playoffs, 1 a distance with
Stafford. Did they win 12 games in the
regular season? I don't know the charges were
5 and 12, and that was a disaster,
And they never
never recovered from
The terrible will beat down they took at
the hands of the raiders. So it was
it 62 to 21. That was a brutal
1. You still get people on social media
z you on that 1.
But the the Rams...
We thought they were gonna have have a
lot of trouble last year, and they always
transition year. Yeah. And they exceeded expectations. They
drafted their... They drafted a stud guard, who
I thought was really good, Steve Ava.
He's gonna be their starting center. He's so.
They moved him in immediately this year. Friend
he played every down last played every snap
last he's out. And they the... Right right
guy's right time and a right amount of
luck and nobody got hurt for I Ramps
Ramsey are gonna be fascinating than. And of
course, it it's a tough ass division with
San Francisco, but the San Francisco going to
imp because of all these... I want my
money. Now,
that's an issue with what's going on, San
Francisco with the quarterback and with the wide
receivers. Next question? Next question. Alright. Let's talk
Pod ray baseball with balls 7 09:06.
Hacks all Love, but you don't seem to
understand. The pod are aren't even in playoff
position. They're 52 and 50 and going absolutely
nowhere, you know, side note, this was written
in social media a few days ago. Except
perhaps 6 wildcard card if everything goes right
why give up prospects for that? They should
be sellers, fire a aj and rebuild.
That's a reach. I mean,
you're committed to... Such big money contracts paul
and that's the big issue. She was... They
got guys they can't trade. And now those
guys are their core players.
And and it stripped buying the farm system
for a third time. There's not much left
out there that they can they can move.
But if they did not have injuries at
the front end of the rotation, this might
be a very different storyline. Maybe talking about
a real dog fight with the dodgers.
And, you know, but you can also come
back at me and say, hey, dumbass ass,
The dodgers has 17 pictures on the D.
You just told us about and they're still
in first place. So don't use the injuries
to the Pottery pitching staff to explain why
they're in second place. But they might be
a wildcard team, the proof of the pudding
is or how healthy are they when to
get to the wildcard and can they cause
some damage and go a couple rounds in.
That's the whole key. I don't know that
they can because it it does not look
like da is coming back and must grove
is so far behind the curve now.
I mean, he's he's gotta go through all
the rehab and make sure he can pitch.
And then how's he gonna pitch when he
comes out of the rehab and is he
getting hold up without another setback. So.
Pod pod might be a periphery
wild team, the doctors of the real deal
because they got all their stars.
You how people often say, well, you know,
every team's gonna win 50 and lose 50,
and that's what the power they show. They
were 50 and 50 after a hundred games.
A hundred and 61000000
dollar payroll, it shouldn't be like that. No.
It shouldn't, but they got the injury issue.
But, you know, I I just gotta give
a shout out. So Jake Cro is a
really special player. Oh, scrap. Oh, and he's
just so versatile. He's got the right mindset.
He has the big hits when he needs
him. And to think that he was a
throw in in that Tommy Fam hundred Front
pro trade. He has just been terrific. I
just huge props for that guy. It just
might well be...
Aj boots on the ground. He's got scouts
every everywhere. He's probably gonna stop by that
curtain. I mean, their ability to sight and
scope guys and say, this guy has the
potential to make himself a really good player,
because the problem is that A aj got
this addictive mister to trading.
And he just keeps trading prospects all the
time.
Donovan Sol is gonna be a good trade
ship for him. Do you think? I think
I think that
They've found some guys. They've rented some guys
and rental guys are difference makers over the
course of a hundred 62 games.
Sol is a lifetime
utility guys. He's been with 9 teams.
David Per. Now he started to finally hit.
After having really struggled.
Those are the kind of guys that can
make a difference over a grind of a
hundred 62 games. I mean,
Kyle He S, the catcher from the yankee
he's like, damn. I but the yankee wish
they had him back. He's not gonna play
a hundred 50 games for you, but boys
even been productive behind the plate.
And, obviously, z home runs. And
those those 3 guys that I just mentioned,
they've all been quote plug in deep difference
makers. That's what you need to have a
really good team. Hey Got sci was hitting,
like, under 100.
Like in April. And we're like, oh, my
god, who did brother her trade for. And
there's something very una
about hey got shi. He's not like this
tough guy, this, you know, flamboyant boy guy.
He just served of a mild mannered dude.
And, yeah, he could hit bombs and it's
productive.
In lots of different ways. And his defense
is better than can't be honest. Yeah Definitely.
You know? So, yeah, what a find in
that deal. So, I mean, if this if
this becomes a... Playoff team and they go
around a 2 into the playoffs. You say,
well, it wasn't just the stars. It was
these plug in guys. Mean, Wall that's why
Ga back talked about Ruben.
Mh. And then then these plug in guys,
the guys in the pitching staff that Ne
has...
Hope form. It's just phenomenal. We'll, go back
to the 1 so deal. Okay? You get...
You you you end up getting, so and
Josh Bill. Right. Those those... Well, no 1
no. I'm talking about when So went to
the yankee. Okay okay. Because we got H
who's been productive. We got Vas who's figured
it out. Michael King who is a stud.
Okay And Brit who's hurt. Brit hurt, and
then we had the the
which turned into Dylan Cease. Yeah. He went
to Chicago is part of that multiplayer deal.
And so really talent to be delivered a
year from now. Although he's pitched the major
leagues and his hung in there as a
kid. So that call back from the yankee.
Sets turned out to be a lot better
and I think we expect it. And the
abel have figured out what Cease was doing
wrong. And cease looks so different now than
he did early on when.
You'd watch. I heard you cursing into your
cell phone when he was throwing home run
balls, walking batteries. And strike zone was moving
on him all the way. And they... You
know, they enable it to me is it
Mvp candidate for how he's created all the
stuff.
With the pitching staff. Potter have had a
good history of pitching coaches. They? Yeah. And
I'd...
You know, there there been a couple who
that have been here that I... Thought were
really good and not here not in baseball
anymore. But
so
what enable has accomplished has really been, you
know, really been special. Thought couple more here
on social media. Okay. Let's... We got some
more yankee, you know, haters on here. This
is from v Tiger. His have never forgiven
the yankee for ruining the 19 76 and
19 77 World Series by just being there.
The fact is I and maybe it's got
more to do with who owns them. Stein
runner, all his money, all his bombastic tendencies.
How he treated people. Billy Martin all that.
Or maybe it goes even farther back when
the Yankee had the greatest farm system of
all called the chain gang.
And mantle and Mari and White Ford and
Yogi. I mean, the legacy of Yankee Baseball.
Yeah, C even goes farther back to the
Bam in 19 twenties. So
has, a lot of years of dislike, but,
organizational, it's been with the best run organizations,
most successful organizations in a long time. Stein
Bender personality
notwithstanding.
You know, back in that year, I was
a little kid. And
you know, when the Oakland A's is won
3 World series on their row in the
early seventies, and I was still a young
lad. I was barely watching Tv.
But I remember I watched the Red Sox
reds it's 75, and that was a huge
world series. I ind marked in my mind.
It I was a quote and first world.
Yeah. And that's my my step father bought
a color Tv for our family and my
my mom was so angry at him for
doing it, but we got to watch the
world series in color, but then right after
that.
It was the yankee dodgers. And, that was
Reggie hitting the 3 home runs in the
world series. But the the A playoffs leading
up to that. The royals were a really
competitive team then in the late seventies, and
those those playoff games were terrific. Now. The
dennis leonard of the world and all the
great... Players at Kansas city had for a
a small fragmented
was there for a while, and and Cookie
Ro,
and there are a lot of good players
on that. How Mc mckay and George Brett
Yep very very good baseball for short period
of time, but the Yankee have been so
dominant for Sol. And the dodgers were so
great.
For so long. So that's what makes baseball
ball turn. Couple more here. Couple more. Let's
talk about the empires. This is from David.
He says, Human ups are as much a
part of the game as the players themselves.
Sometimes you get the call, sometimes they get
the call. Also, multiple stop to play for
reviews is counter to all of their recent
efforts to speed up the game. No thanks.
Well, if you're only given the managers 3.
Challenges
next season.
That won't be a lot of interruptions. They'll
save all those challenges for the most important
inning
big rally inning end of the game inning.
They're not gonna do it in the first
and third inning.
Now how many challenges is it gonna be
3? I'd project maybe 5.
I think the Yum are really hard because
these pictures out there are throwing such wicked
stuff now with ball movement.
It's tough. And then when you got catcher
who are moving around that box and trying
to screen pictures.
It's really hard.
I I still think the human element should
be there. I wish the Empire was more
consistent the freaking strike zones just keep changing,
which has been a real problem.
I'm, I apologize if you're an angel Her
as fan, but that's the reason we're gonna
wind up with computers calling
balls and strikes. I don't think they're gonna
take over the whole game. I think it'll
be use of computers,
human elements days. You get 3 challenges or
maybe 5 challenges game and, but I don't
think that delays are gonna be long standing.
That's that's the perspective. I'd sure like to
see be developed.
Yeah. This was weird. Because... In the beginning,
I I agreed with David. I used to
think of, it's part of the the artist
of baseball, the...
Or what... It's what makes baseball beautiful, like
artwork, and,
I was wrong. You know? You you gotta
get the call right, you know? And socials
these angel hernandez and, you know, human element.
I I think it's great if you can
get the robo amp, the computerized balls and
strikes. But I don't like 3 or 5
challenges from the manager who's gonna have to
challenge from the Dug out, who doesn't really
get a good view. So... I've seen the
the the system work in the minor leagues
where the player gets the ability to appeal,
and they could just... Tell the amp, the
pump looks back, and and then he gets
a call right back, like boom boom. There's
no delay. I think that's how it should
work. Players in the minor leagues don't like
it. They still think this is 2 in
the interference, and
I can't see somebody taking control at home
plate instead of I having Mike Sc make
that to decision, no I don't think that's
gonna work. Yeah. So...
We'll we're gonna find out because there will
be
instant replay challenges on balls and strikes, but
there'll be a menace. Fuel amount, and I
don't think the number of interruptions are gonna
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