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talk about, John. Let's start with baseball.
Baseball. Padres had a heck of a a
road trip, Lee. I mean, I'm I'm feeling
encouraged about this team. Roadie. Holy cow. They
go 7 and 2 in what I thought
had to be a must win series road
trip.
Went to Cleveland,
beat the Guardians,
went to Washington,
swept the rebuilding nationals, went into Baltimore and
punched the Orioles in first place in the
mouth. They go 7 and 2.
Like, Dada got it done with dominance starting
pitching. Of course, there was the Dylan c
snow hitter right in the midst of all
that. They got it done with timely hitting.
Xander Bogart comes off the disabled list, had
a 2 12 batting average when he went
on. He's now hitting 2 72. He hit
almost 500
since coming off the deal, so that was
really impressive.
I think the Padres showed
that 1st place Cleveland, 1st place Baltimore are
not complete baseball teams.
Cleveland doesn't have a lot of power hitting
around
their their one big bat.
Baltimore played really sloppy defense.
Baltimore left a lot of guys on base.
Baltimore looks a little threadbare
in the pitching staff. So the Padres
hit those guys at the absolute right time.
I thought both Cleveland and Baltimore really look
like tired baseball teams in the series. And
Baltimore really look like tired baseball teams in
the series they played against the Friars.
So the Padres come home. They take a
deep breath.
What's that ringing in your ears right now?
If I close my eyes, I hear ringing.
Tinnitus.
Beat LA. Beat LA. Beat LA. Okay. Here
we go. Yeah. Padres Dodgers Tuesday,
Wednesday, and we're gonna see the aces of
the staffs. I mean, Glass now is gonna
start. Dylan Cease is gonna start in one
of the games in this series. So this
is gonna be fun. And here's the bigger
story.
When they get through Wednesday night,
the next 15
are against the Rockies, the Marlins,
and the Pirates.
15 in a row
against the bulk of the bottom feeders in
baseball.
I mean,
if they're gonna force their way into 1st
place in a pennant race, now is the
time to do it. So we'll see if
they can beat the Dodgers Tuesday, Wednesday, and
then they play 15
against the Dregs in the National League.
Gonna be fascinating.
John, give me a quick response what you
saw on the road trip, and do subscribe
that my ears are ring or your ears
ringing? Go ahead. Yeah. My ears are ringing
already. Yeah. What a great road trip. You
know, 2 out 3 Cleveland, they swept to
the Ashills, got the no hitter, 2 out
of 3 in Baltimore.
And and, you know, we all give crap
to Mike Shilton how,
you know, how forthcoming and honest is he
really in those press conferences. But he used
to always say, hey, I love my guys.
They've got fight. They never give up. And
we saw that on Sunday, you know, the
way they clawed back, you know. So you've
gotta be encouraged here about how they're playing,
but I'll tell you what, facing the Rockies
scares me. I mean, that's when they usually
screw it up. That's when they usually lose
3 out of 4 and it drives us
mad. So there we are. The schedule is
right there in front of them. When I
saw that,
I said, holy cow. 15 straight Miami, Colorado,
Pittsburgh, and then they go on the road
and play the same guys.
Great opportunity
to go after 1st place.
Baseball trade deadline is upon us. The Padres
make the first deal.
I like the deal, but I don't like
the deal. And I know there's counseling for
my bi bipolar
attributes here. They get Jason Adams,
32 year old relief pitcher who's reinvented himself
in Tampa Bay,
had bounced around, and factually had been with
the Padres for a brief period of time,
found himself, got healthy, developed extra pitches.
But in the process, they give up the
number one draft pick from a year and
a half ago, Dylan Lusko, pitcher.
They give up Homer Bush, 2nd round draft
pick last year. They give up another, JD
Gonzalez,
a young developing catcher. Now granted all these
guys are in the lower minors.
The problem I have is this is this
is typical
AJ Preller.
He paid nearly 5,000,000
above signing bonus
money
to get Dylan Lasko coming out of high
school, coming off elbow surgery. Mhmm.
He paid,
I wanna say almost a1000000
to get Homer Bush, 2nd round draft pick.
Rather than have the kid go to college,
they signed him. And then they signed JD
Gonzalez to, I wanna say, $800,000
package.
So in essence, he he spent
$6,000,000 for those 3 hot prospects at the
top of the draft boards 2 years in
a row,
and he bailed on them a year and
a half into their careers. He did that
to get a 32 year old pitcher,
who's had 2 decent years in Tampa Bay.
It's just typical the way he does his
business. Overpays,
get them,
trade
them, takes on age.
They needed relief pitching. So we'll see what
Jason Adams is gonna be like in San
Diego. I tend to think he's pretty competitive
and he'll be a good setup guy with
all the other guys that they've kinda latched
on to now to get him to Robert
Suarez. Let me let me just comment on
that trade for a minute. Alright. When I
when I heard the name, I went, who
who is this guy? And, yeah, he's had
better than decent seasons. He's been pitching with,
like, a 2 and a half ERA,
high leverage, and that's exactly what they need.
Now, yeah, they gave up Lesko, and they
gave the big up the big bonus for
Lesko, but he wasn't performing very well. He's
a kid. But he's a kid, but he's
still coming off the surgery.
I like how AJ is going for it,
you know, and he's getting pieces we need
and trying to capitalize on this window. And
you're the one that always says he's got
boots on the ground, so he could go
and just restock and reload. I mean, so
he's just moving currency around. I love kind
of the swashbuckling
AJ Preller. And you know what? He's not
done. He's gonna get at least a starter,
I bet you, before the deadline. He has
now traded 9 prospects this year. 9 of
the top 12 players in the farm system.
He has traded to go get Dylan Cease,
to go get Luis Arise, and now to
get Jason Adam. But
well, look at those guys. You got a
no hitter. You got an all star. I
mean, that's that's good return on investment. I
guess part of me says
he knows what he needs on the roster,
so he overpays to get what he needs
to fill the hole on the roster.
Better win. Better be in the playoffs this
year or next year, because there is no
future. There is no Padre future at all.
Because a year from now, a year and
a half from now, when we're doing this
podcast,
he'll have a roster on the other side
of 3435
year olds with long term contracts and no
farm system to replace anybody. Oh, he'll keep
reloading, Lee. Okay. If you say something. I
wanna ask you a pointed question.
Yu Darvish, he he talks to Darvish every
second or third day back in Japan.
They discuss when he might return, if he
will return.
He says, Darvish will tell him when he's
ready to come back to baseball, if he
wants to come back to baseball.
I guess the burning question I have,
do the Padres owe it to the fans
and to the media to explain what has
happened to Darvish, or is it a personal
family matter? And I bring that up because
it is a personal family
off the field matter,
but it's costing the team $7,000,000
in salary and it's costing the team a
frontline pitcher
and the most important part of the season
as they try to fight to get into
a pennant race. So that's a big issue,
or is it Yu Darvish's story to tell?
Joe Musgrove is going to throw his sim
game in Arizona on Tuesday.
He's gonna throw 2 innings against Seattle minor
leaguers in their summer league camp.
He'll throw 20 or 30 pitches, rest for
8 to 10 minutes, come back and try
to throw a second inning to gauge where
he is. He's gonna have to make rehab
starts if he gets through this next one.
So your response to Darvish, how it should
be handled, is it being handled correctly, what
do they owe the fans, what do they
owe us the media?
And your thoughts on Musgrove.
The the Padres don't owe an explanation for
you, Darvish. Not any explanation.
It's just a you, Darvish thing. It's up
to you, Darvish, to disclose that sort of
matter. So I I think the Padres are
handling this like a first class operation. You
know? This is terrific, The way they're managing
it. And, oh, by the way,
Darvish isn't getting paid, which opens up a
little bit of a gap, you know, that
they can use during this trade deadline situation.
You know, Hart goes out to the guy.
There's rumors, innuendo about what's going on, but
is it gonna change my opinion
of the team if I find out it's
a family issue, a medical issue, something else?
I mean, it doesn't really matter.
Musgrove, I'm encouraged by. I mean, if he
can come back sometime in August,
wow. I mean,
cease,
Musgrove,
Waldron,
King.
That's looking pretty good.
Okay.
So we go from all things Padre Baseball.
And if you have an opinion,
thumbs up, thumbs down,
the price paid to go get
Jason Adam from Tampa Bay to be part
of the bullpen.
We go from that to the next team,
the next topic on the table. The Dodgers.
Man, they're wheeling and dealing, Lee. 1st place
Dodgers.
Interesting
Monday.
1st big trade for the Dodgers. Another trade
maybe to come. We'll detail that in a
minute.
This injury situation just goes on and on
and on.
That had 17 pitchers on the disabled list
this season.
Max Muncy, I don't think is gonna play
the rest of the year.
He may have a torn oblique.
He does not feel right. He's been on
the disabled list since early spring.
He can't do any baseball related stuff because
of this oblique.
Betts is flexing his hand finally, but he's
gotta go through the whole thing of swings,
catching balls,
and see if there's any reaction.
Walker Buehler,
first rehab assignment Oklahoma City didn't go real
well for innings, 4 runs, 8 hits clocked
at 93,
but his location was all over the place.
Good news on Bruisedar, Greaterall, and Michael Grove,
They've
pitched 6 different outings in Oklahoma City, 1
inning each time, 6 innings combined,
no runs allowed. 1 of them might be
back. They need somebody back because the damn
bullpen is imploding.
I don't know if what you saw what
happened this past week with Evan Phillip, their
quote, closer.
Four outings
lasted 3 innings, gave up 6 runs, 9
hits. All of a sudden, he can't get
anybody out, and this guy was nails for
a chunk of time. And then Plaigtrianon,
Daniel Hudson, who was supposed to be the
setup guys, they got shoved into the closer
row because Evan Phillip couldn't be trusted. They
got lit up. So the Dodgers have had
a really
rocky week.
Trades,
big trade.
Dodgers just made an 8 player trade with
the White Sox and the cardinals.
The dodgers wind up getting
2nd basement center fielder Tommy Edmond of Saint
Louis,
and they wind up getting Michael Kopeck,
set up long relief guy, part time starter
from the white sox,
but they give up their young infielder, outfielder
Miguel Vargas, and they give up 3
lower
rookie league a ball players, all having good
seasons in the minors. So the Dodgers,
they paid a significant price. And John Ryway
from left field talks dodger blue baseball. The
the dodgers, you know, on one level, you
think, oh, these guys are world beaters. They
have unlimited money. They got Shohei and Mookie
and Freddie, and they're rolling, and then you
realize that they're not, you know, as tough
as you think. They're not bulletproof. Exactly. They've
got an Achilles heel. They're they have weaknesses
just like any team in baseball. So
this to me is intriguing and because what's
the what's the distance between the Padres and
Dodgers? Like, 6a half. Right now, 6a half.
Could be down to 4a half by Wednesday
morning breakfast, but it could be 8a half
by Wednesday morning. Exactly. Yeah. So, you know,
in this this series, by the way, Dodgers,
Padres, is it in LA or San Diego?
San Diego. Petco. Petco. No. Beat LA. Beat
LA. Oh, yeah. Duh. Of course. Okay. So
this is gonna be a great series, you
know. And then Bruce star graderol, that guy,
man, he's always doing this, looking up, and
he's trying to, like, get into some squawking
matches with Machado. That guy is just full
of it, you know, but we'll see him
again when it gets into the, you know,
the end of the season for sure. So
that's where we are with the Dodgers. You're
a dodger fan. Do you like what they
just executed?
And everybody of the opinion, there is a
second deal coming involving this team.
Injuries. Man, what a bad weekend of something
real significant. Let's start first of all with
the Angels.
Mike Trout got shut down after the first
two innings of his comeback from the scope
knee surgery for the meniscus.
Mike Trout has not been able to run
or swelling back in the knee again. Now
there's nothing torn. They did an MRI. It
is scar tissue. And the only way he's
gonna
get through that is he's gotta have movement,
and he's gotta have the ability to run,
and he's gotta be able to move side
to side, but he's not been able to
do it since they shut him down after
the 2 winnings in Salt Lake City. So
that's another setback for Mike Trout.
Really bad story with the White Sox, Mike
Clevenger
gone rest of the year,
major neck surgery,
disc damage in his neck for Clevenger.
His career has really unraveled. He hadn't been
the same guy since he got here,
from Cleveland, and they had multiple injuries here.
So that's tough news there. And worst news
for the Mets who are playing really good
ball,
Kodai Singa from Japan who came here last
year and pitched really well. He got hurt
in spring training with a lat injury in
a shoulder. He did all the rehab, and
he's been out since February. Did all the
rehab till last week of July,
successful
on the mound,
tears a calf in his first
start, gone for the rest of the year.
My god. Big blow for the Mets. So
you talk about a guy that's been out
and did everything religiously,
goes out and throws maybe 24 pitches and
goes down with a calf injury,
not not good news at all. But
poor Mike Trout, he just can't get healthy,
stay healthy, and now there's setback. But luckily,
there's no more meniscus damage. This is just
scar tissue and takes time to work through
scar tissue, but you gotta work through it.
This is insane. I mean, the amount of
injuries he's had for all this time. I
mean, there's been NFL and NBA players that
always seems to be injury prone. I think
a Chad Pennington maybe, you know, who was
hurt a lot. But I saw this video
on Twitter, and it was about some guy
just going off about Trout saying it's incredible
he's never won a gold glove, which I
didn't realize that he hadn't. And it showed
this video clip of him robbing a home
run over the center field fence, and dude's
got hops, man. He got way up there.
And I I mean, that guy, Trout is
a stud athlete, but it just seems as
fans, we're being robbed of the opportunity because
not only is he hurt, but he's playing
for the darn angels, and we don't ever
get to see him. He runs in defenses,
and he's had some flukish injuries. Yeah. I
mean,
Achilles and calf and knee and getting hit
by pitches on the hand. They're just real
fluke stuff, and it's it's tough. Okay. So
we go from
baseball injuries
to what everybody in baseball's talking about at
least through tomorrow afternoon. Yeah. The trade deadline.
Look at these logos, Lee. 23 trades
so far
since Friday. Let's just run through the hot
names. I just told you about the Dodgers.
Dodgers make a three way trade with the
Cardinals
and the White Sox. The Dodgers get a
really good I hate to use the word
super utility man because that means he can't
play, but he can play. Tommy Edmond can
play 2nd, short, 3rd, and center. Yeah. He
solves a lot of
issues for the dodgers. Lifetime 264
career hitter. I think you said about 58
home runs, so you got a little pop
in the bat. They also got Michael Kopeck,
who at one point was a really good
starter with the white sox. They moved him
into the bullpen,
and he's kinda scuffled a bit as a
long reliever, but that's a bad situation in
Chicago. What's her record?
2789,
I think. And I think he's 28. Yeah.
28, but he's been pretty competitive now. If
he pitching for the dodgers, he'll have runs,
and maybe maybe he'll do better. But that
that's the first significant deal the Dodgers have
made.
So the thing is, is Kopech Cohen go
back to be being in the rotation, or
is gonna be part of this bull pen
brigade to try to put out all these
fires that Evan Phillips and the other guys
have committed? Now they give up Vargas, who's
a bright young guy, and they give up
3 kids. I went back and looked at
the records of the 3 kids in the
rookie league and class say they're good, but
they're prospects and they're 18 19 years of
age. So the Dodgers get 2 pennant race
contributors
and they still have
the guys they can trade.
They still have Outman
in the outfield.
They still have young pitching at Oklahoma City
and there just seem to be deep and
deep and deep of guys they can use
as trade bait if they want. So it's
it's kinda fascinating to me,
that the Dodgers continue to make deals, but
still have their their marquee guys. The cardinals
get Eric Fedde, who reinvented himself when he
pitched over in Korea,
has come back. He was a former Washington
national.
Fedde comes to the cardinals now, becomes one
of their 4 top starters. He's had a
really good season and a bad situation,
with the white sox.
Over the weekend,
big trade.
Philadelphia Phillies get closer. Carlos Estevez,
Angels had 20 saves and 23 ops. Really
good ERA. Good guy.
Good clubhouse guy. They give up 2 of
their top minor league pitchers.
So the Angels
inherit
a double a pitcher and a class a
pitcher. I mean, thing that jumped out of
me when I looked at the stats of
the 2 pitchers they got, it's like neon
light blinking. One guy got a 0.97
ERA, the other guy to 1.870
ERA. Wow. In the lower minor leagues. That's
awesome. So that that's real positive.
Angels give up Estevez.
Orioles, now they've made
major deals.
Baltimore, of course, got Zac Efelen from Tampa
Bay, took on the big money contract,
and then they made a deal with the
Phillies. They got sir Anthony Dominguez,
who had been a setup guy in Philadelphia,
one of these hard throwers they keep running
out there,
and he could turn out to be their
closer because they've kinda lost faith in Craig
Kimbrough, who just continues to give up home
runs. So Baltimore's made a deal. The red
sox got James Paxton,
for a class a third baseman,
from the Dodgers. Paxton goes back to Fenway
Park, although
his record is is kinda
it it's misleading. He's 8 and 2, high
ERA,
and all the metrics
the He was a former starter with the
Oakland A's, went to Miami. They flipped him
into the bullpen,
like, taught him a new pitch. He's got
an ERA of sub two zero zero. So
he goes to Arizona. And the the the
intangible about the diamondbacks is they got all
these injured pitchers, you know, they've got nothing
out of Eduardo Rodriguez, the Detroit Tiger
race,
and next to nothing,
out of, Jordan Montgomery. Now he both those
guys are back or coming back. So Arizona
may make a a tremendous push in August
September when they get this whole whole pitching
staff put together. The cubs traded for 3rd
basement, Isaac Paredes.
He comes out of Tampa Bay. Tampa Bay
is trading everybody.
The Cubs get him to be a cornerstone
power hitter at 3rd base. That's got to
help them.
Yankees desperate. The first deal they've made so
far is to get Jazz Chisholm. They got
him from Miami,
in a deal for lower minor leaguers. Chisholm,
obviously, can play second, can play center,
dude hits.
That's kinda interesting.
And then the Mariners,
in the first trade they made, they get
Randy Arozarena,
all star outfielder. He comes from Tampa Bay.
He's gonna hit probably better in Seattle with
better bats around him, and they they need
somebody at the top of the batting order.
It's gonna be a trigger man. So those
those are the deals that are out there
right now, that have been made. As I
say,
my eyes are falling out of my head
trying to follow certain 23 trades
since Friday night, and the deadline is at
3 o'clock
Tuesday
afternoon. So, John, I threw a lot on
the wall here. Go ahead. Pick a team.
Whatever you wanna talk about. Well, do you
still keep track with, like, on your paper?
Because you do that for the NFL draft
and I mean, the NF the and Major
League Baseball trade deadline, it's just it that's
you're in the zone. I am zoned out.
Yes. Thank you. So what what what'd you
think about the Dodger deal to get Edmond
a super utility guy and then get Michael
Kopech? Well, Edmond, you know, he's local La
Jolla Country Day guy, you know, and he's
very versatile. He's kind of like Chris Taylor
that that can hit. Yeah. You know, because
Chris Taylor ain't hitting. Hey. You left out
my guy, Tommy Pham. You know, he was
in that deal too. And he's going back
to the Cardinals and, you you know, I
have such a love hate relationship with Tommy
Pham, but I love that he's, you know,
still relevant in Major League Baseball. And look
at these other teams here. Sir Anthony, that
was always kind of a fun name. I'm
surprised the Phillies gave up on him,
but, you know, this is a great time.
Everyone's jockeying for positionally. And we're not done
yet. And we're not done yet. We've got,
like, another, what, 24 hours or so. On
we go to the trade board. Let's look
at who's available. Now there's a late breaking
name I'm gonna put at the top of
the board. I'm violating the code.
I don't know what's fact or fiction, I
can only tell you what my network guys,
that I email back and forth, or on
the beat tell me.
The giants are talking to the Yankees about
Blake Snell. Nice.
Blake Snell, of course, had the record start,
reported late,
got hurt.
His last four starts, 0.95
ERA.
His last start, he had 15 strikeouts. All
of a sudden, he's dialed in.
San Francisco
signed him to a 2 year
60 mil deal. 30 mil this time, and
option,
his option next year. They don't think he's
coming back.
So the question is, they're shopping them. The
Yankees have stepped forward, and the Yankees negotiated
with them last winter.
The Yankees have got a plethora of young
players they could use as trade bait and
they definitely need
a dog at the top of the rotation
to work with Gerrit Cole, who's not not
been what Gerrit Cole was prior to his
injury in spring training.
Now the problem was with Blake Snell.
If you if you trade a load of
minor leaguers to get them,
you get them for the final 2 months
of the season and hopefully post season.
But if dude opts out,
now now you don't have me goes on
the open market, unless you think I'm just
going to re sign them regardless, and that
means the price tag goes up etcetera etcetera.
But boy, he he could be what the
yankees need, and I don't think there's probably
a hell of a lot of other takers
out there. I don't know if San Francisco's
dealing from a disadvantage because everybody knows he
can opt out November 1st and go back
into the free agent market represented by Scott
Boris. There you go. And that always means
price tag. Yeah. So this is fascinating. So
Blake Snell is right there. In Detroit, I
just don't understand it. I mean, they are
shopping their ace left hander, Tarek Skubal.
Jack Flaherty, we hear is gonna be traded.
Dodgers are in the running for him. Yankees
are in the running for him. Padres are
in the running for him.
3rd name on the board is Garrett Crochet.
White Sox are trying to shop him, but
there's a huge issue that just developed because
Crochet's agent says
before we accept a trade, we want somebody
to guarantee us there's gonna be a contract
extension. This guy's gonna be in somebody's pennant
race. He wants to be paid like a
front line starter. All of a sudden, that's
just kinda
shown up. Luis Robert, outfielder.
Dodgers had interest in him. Does the Edmond
trade from the cardinals mean they won't trade
and have to pay steeply steeply
for Luis Robert?
Toronto, depends who you talk to, covering the
Blue Jays. One says Chris Bassett, Kevin Gaussmann
are gonna be traded. Others say absolutely not.
3rd group of writers say Vlad Guerrero is
being shot.
Reds are shopping Frankie Montes. He's bounced around.
He's had injury problems. He's never quite lived
up to what he thought he would. And
Texas, which has already traded 1 pitcher away
is now talking about shopping Nathan Eovaldi. So
there's a there are more dominoes that are
gonna fall here between now and Tuesday afternoon,
3 PM San Diego time when the window
closes. So John,
your reaction to Snell,
Frisco,
New York, where,
and then other hot names that catch your
attention? Well, the other hot name, I was
just looking online while you were
outlining this segment.
Justin Turner just got flipped. He just went
to Seattle.
You know? So all of this action is
going on. This makes this time of the
year just it's like Christmas. So the Mets
Mets get a Rosarina and Turner
to go with Julio Rodriguez
and JP Crawford to try to fix their
weak ass batting order. Yeah. So the Mariners,
can they fix it? I don't know. You
know? So Well, they got pitching now that
added some bats. There you go. That's a
good run. I like Tristan Turner. I agree.
I mean, he looks like the AM PM
guy. Yeah.
But,
the the Blake Snell thing is very interesting
to me because first of all, I'm very
happy that he's performing like we had him
last year when he was you know? And
he's always a slow starter and all that.
And the Giants seemed to like it was
like a desperate a desperate kind of a
move when they signed him in the first
place. That contract doesn't work for them. So
I think if Blake Snell were to be
traded, that's great. I mean, the Yankees are
a great place for him to land. If
Blake Snell were to be traded, that's great.
I mean, the Yankees are a great place
for him to land. If Blake Snell were
to be traded, that's great. I mean, the
Yankees are a great place for him to
land if he can handle the New York
media, which I think is a big question
mark. But wasn't the Martha Padres kind of
like, you know, poking their nose around with,
Blake Snell? Yeah. But that's what the understanding
he is owed,
I wanna say at least 10,000,000 for the
rest of the season. The Padres, last I
checked, the Padres had about 8 to 12,000,000
total,
and have already taken on Jason Adams contract.
And Giants are gonna let him come to
this team in this division, and what do
the Padres got left that they're gonna give
up? I don't think he's gonna come cheap.
San Francisco is not gonna send them to
San Diego
as a favor. Yeah. So I mean, how
much more does AJ Peller got that he
can actually move that makes any sense? And
the fact that the Yankees
have dealt with Boris, have a relationship with
Boris, who are in the running to key
a bid on
Snow last year. That makes a lot of
sense to me. And the Yankees, I still
think, have a a lot of chips
that they can use. And New York could
handle a $30,000,000
opt in payroll
price tag next season. Fascinating to see. Yeah.
And then meanwhile, the Giants have already unloaded
an outfielder. Was it Tashman, I think? Yes.
So they're they're they're definitely in sell mode.
So, yeah, this Blake Snell deal is gonna
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notes around the NFL. Where do you wanna
start here, John? Well, let's start with the
Rams and the chargers. Let's talk about the
bolts.
Jim Harbaugh has given us a big sales
pitch about this roster,
the players on the roster, the team he
inherited, what he wants to change.
Players gotta be on the field to stay
healthy, and they're hurting.
A week in the camp, Rashaan Slater, their
pro bowl left tackle,
outstanding rookie year, decent 2nd year hurt
appears to have a calf injury.
This early in camp, you don't want to
have calf injuries because that takes time to
come back from.
Junior Colston, rookie linebacker,
Michigan played for Harbaugh
appendectomy,
acute appendicitis
attack during the rookie portion of the camp
at the end of last week. He's out.
Harbaugh lectured the media.
It was his opinion
that young wide receiver, Quentin Johnston, 1st round
pick last year, who'd hardly made an impact
at all,
got a bum rap from the media.
He was wide receiver group 1 in the
rookie camp. He's been demoted
to the 2nd backup group.
Now with all the veterans in camp, why?
Drop passes. Right. So he didn't get a
bum rap. Now he's young. You're not gonna
give up on him. He's big. He's got
great speed. They have to teach him the
mechanics
of catching the ball.
I do like the 3 receivers they're running
with with Justin Herbert now with the number
one unit. I've always liked Josh Palmer, the
kid out of Tennessee. He's had 2 good
years.
DJ Chark is a big play receiver. They
signed from the Carolina,
Panthers,
and Ladd McConkie is catching a lot of
stuff coming out of the slot position. He,
of course, is the rookie from Georgia, but
you need more than 3 receivers, so a
little bit wafer thin there. And Jesse Minter,
the new defensive coordinator, man, he is praising
the pass rush group. And on paper,
that group looks really good. Tocquembosa,
Khalil Mack,
Tuya Poloto,
plus the inside linebackers
Perriman and Henley.
And then, obviously, when they get Colston back
coming off the appendectomy, it looks like the
edge rushers and the blitz package
is gonna be really the heart and soul
of the defense. My burning question, do you
have enough guys in the secondary? My other
burning question, who the hell is gonna play
defensive tackle? They let go of the top
three defensive tackles. So that's what's going on
in the charger camp.
Bad news. A week into the Rams camp,
they have lost 2 of their top 3
cornerbacks.
Darion Kendrick has gone down with torn knee
ligaments,
gone for the year.
His backup Darius Williams, who they signed as
a free agent, went down over the weekend
with a severe hamstring,
does not appear he's gonna be able to
play at all during the course of the
rest of the preseason camp. They solve the
money problem with Matthew Stafford, the quarterback.
He He
had
He had 2 more years on his deal,
but there was no guarantee at all
in the 2025,
2026
contracts. What they did was they took some
cash out of next year's deal, flipped it
into this year, which pushes him over the
40,000,000 guaranteed mark and they put in roster
bonuses for next season,
they gave him in a total of 9,000,000
total, some this year, the next year, so
they've solved the contract problem with Stafford. So
you got a Horvath sales pitch,
you got some guys nicked up in the
charger camp, and the Rams losing 2 cornerbacks.
And at this late date, it's tough to
go get cornerbacks.
Yeah. This is interesting how the camps unfold.
We're still trying to make heads or tails
of these teams.
I was surprised by Quentin Johnson. I was
hopeful hopeful that he was gonna, you know,
kinda have a great sophomore year, but maybe
he still got a chance. But when the
end the season starts like in September. Right?
Yeah. 2nd
week.
I mean, what the Rams and chargers, you
know who their their opening day game is
against?
Off the top of my head, no. But
the chargers have a fairly favorable schedule. The
Rams schedule, I think, is a bitch. Okay.
Okay. We'll talk more about that as we
march through August. Because I guess right now,
we're we're kind of like, you know, it's
like shadow boxing. You know, you're trying to
analyze the team, but there is no opponent,
you know, so you don't really know how
good they are. Yeah. And the other thing
is,
please don't get anybody hurt. Yeah. Exactly. And
the bolts bolts have got some guys nicked
up. The Slater thing with the calf, that
worries me because that's such a physical
force position and if your legs don't hold
up, you got problems. You don't wanna re
injure it. You don't wanna tear a calf
muscle. Yeah. That's Painful. That's a big issue
and I don't know where you go get
cornerbacks at this late date. We're almost to
August 1st and nobody's gonna give you a
cornerback, so
coach them up. That's what they're gonna have
to do. Okay. We go from that to
the NFL notebook, John. Okay. Here's some more
logos on the screens. The Steelers in your
number one spot here. Speaking of injuries, speaking
of Cavs,
speaking
of their quarterback, Russell Wilson, in a span
of 1 week,
tweaks
calf twice.
He's out.
They don't he didn't tear the calf, but
the fact that he's dinged it twice,
that's not good. Now granted, they got 6
weeks
on the rest of camp in Latrobe
for him to go through all the intense
therapy,
wear the wrap and everything. But the fact
that he got nicked up twice in a
span of about 5 days, Pittsburgh is one
of the first teams that open camp, that
that's not good.
This is terrible news in New England,
Christian Barmore,
great defensive tackle. I mean, Belichick drafted a
really good player, he's a warrior,
He's in a hospital. He's got multiple blood
clots. Woah. Very serious. They did not say
whether it's in the lung area or whether
it's in the leg, calf area,
but he's on blood thinners and he's gonna
be out. He he may miss the start
of the NFL season. He's a really fine
player. And we know one thing in history
of medicine,
you don't screw with blood clots. That's very
dangerous stuff
and it just develops. So he's out. Dallas
has lost one of their pass rushers, Sam
Williams, who's also a great special teams player,
defensive end.
Last night, torn
ACL
gone for the entire season.
Bad news,
for
the Detroit Lions,
Michael Badgley,
who is a very good field goal kicker,
torn hamstring,
gone for the season.
Green Bay situation,
the contract,
unique.
They they they gave Jordan love based on
one good season.
He sat for a couple behind Rogers, played
last year, played really well,
55,000,000
average.
55,000,000
for one good season in his career. Good
for him. The capitalist in use case. Yay.
And Miami, 2 attack of Viola, who's done
very well in his career and has really
evolved as a game winner rather than a
game manager. He gets the extension. He gets
53,000,000.
So that's real positive news there.
You got the 49er logo up there. This
is the update on Brandon Iyuk. He's unhappy.
He wants to be traded, this love me
love me not thing in San Francisco just
wears everybody out. New England's interested,
New England's got cap space,
It's obvious the patriots are gonna have a
high number one pick.
They're having trouble signing Matt Judon,
who's one of their top pass rushers.
Frisco needs a pass rusher. The rumor mill
out there
is initially San Francisco
offered IUC
for the number 1, New England's number 1.
Mhmm. Then New England came back and said
well,
we want more than just IUC,
let's take your number 1, put it in
the pot with our number 1 and Frisco
came back and said, add Matthew Judon,
the unsigned linebacker, he's got 1 year left
on his contract, add him into the equation.
So what it would be would Ayuk and
Frisco's number 1 at the bottom of the
board, For the Patriot's number 1, it's probably
gonna be high, and the veteran pass rusher,
Ju Don. That kind of looks like a
win win trade for me.
And thing is that I could be leaving
a Super Bowl team to go play in
Foxborough,
where the weather is ratty in November December,
and by the way, they're not gonna win
any bloody games because they may have the
worst offense in football. So that trade makes
sense. So, John, there's a lot of lot
of names there, a lot of topics. Go
ahead. The trade makes sense, but the grass
ain't always greener. Exactly. You know? And so
he's gonna land over there in the patriots,
and they've got a lot of question marks
at quarterback. I mean, he's not gonna get
the ball the way Brock Purdy can get
the ball to him. But just for the
Steelers, I mean, you know, Russell Wilson, the
calf problems. I mean, how old is he?
He's getting up there. Right? 35, 36, I
believe. Yeah. So maybe, you know, he he's
maybe he might be a bit shaky. And
then they also got the quarterback Fields, right,
from the the Bears. Justin Fields. He took
all the snaps over the weekend,
and he was throwing bounce passes and he
was overthrowing guys. He was all over the
place. Oh my god. Really? Yeah. Oh, that's
a mess right now. But again, they got
6 weeks
to babysit Russell Wilson and get him totally
healthy. But the fact he tweaked the calf
twice in about a 5 day span,
I'm like, I don't like that. And then
wait for the season to start or it's
getting even gonna be worse. Yeah. So that's
where we are. Those are the news and
notes around the National Football League. You're a
pro football fan. Hey. You'd be the general
manager. Would you do this San Francisco,
New England deal? Iyuk to the Patriots
flip flopping number ones, Matthew Judon,
or would you call New England back and
say, why don't you take Deebo Samuel instead?
And we'll just make that an easier trade
to execute because he's under a long term
contract. So that's where we are in football.
Hot topics on the table. We get other
story lines to talk about. Yeah. The high
speed sports fire league. Alright. This is the
latest. We've talked extensively about the TNT NBA
feud.
What was the favorite phrase I used on
Thursday? Lawyer up. Lawyer up. They did. Over
the weekend,
TNT's filed a big lawsuit against the National
Basketball Association
saying that the NBA changed the language in
the matching contract
clause.
Initially,
the NBA was of the opinion.
TNT did have a right to match, but
only over the air broadcast,
only what ESPN
and NBC got, not over this new creative
thing streaming
that Amazon got.
Warner Brothers, the corporation that owns TNT,
you're a big stock market dude. I can
just see this. You you'll understand this. I
cut class today, they taught this,
taught Wall Street.
In 2 days,
their value on Wall Street, Warner Brothers, the
whole thing went down 9%.
They went down
$1,000,000,000
in value
in 2 days after the TNT thing happened.
I believe that. So big big story there.
They lawyered
up. National Hockey League,
for the old Canada network.
Patrick Liney,
former 40 goal scorer, Winnipeg,
traded to Columbus, all kinds of personality clash
problems, did not play well in Columbus.
Left the team,
middle of the season,
broken leg,
put in the substance abuse program.
He's now been released from the substance program
the NHL provides for trouble players,
goes back and meets with the new general
manager in Columbus.
I wanna be traded. So the blue jackets
are putting Lainie on the trade block, 204
career goals. Once upon a time, I thought
this was a star in the making.
He just had a lot of issues
off the ice.
Auto racing,
I've never seen anybody meltdown like these guys
are melting down. You're a Formula 1 fan
and we cover everything. That's why we put
this stuff out there for you.
Team
Red Bull,
Last, this past weekend,
team Red Bull
falls apart
in qualifying.
Max Verstappen,
their superstar who dominated for a year and
a half and hasn't done anything
in the last 5 races.
His team is caught using an illegal engine
booster in qualifying. He gets docked 10 starting
points on the grid.
He was supposed to start 2nd. He wound
up starting 11th. He wound up finishing 6th.
And they just, they continue
to have problems
on the course
with the rules,
in the pits, and personality issues between the
driver and everybody else at team Red Bull.
Can you say divorce court at the end
of the season with him? So that's that's
the latest there. And the other one, last
name on the board,
this kind of came out of nowhere.
Judge in Los Angeles has ruled
that the families of Ron Goldman and Nicole
Brown Simpson
can seize the entire
state
of OJ Simpson.
Sees everything
that this OJ Simpson, the late running back
owned.
Houses,
cars,
yachts,
his Heisman trophy, his investments,
seize it all
to pay off the $117,000,000
civil damage lawsuit that OJ Simpson lost
that was filed by the Goldman and the
Brown family
on the on behalf of those who got
killed in the in the stabbing
of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. So
it's just an absolutely amazing story that this
is resurfaced and the judge says,
you have a right to go in and
garnish everything that was under his name to
pay off the debt.
117,000,000
OJ did not pay on. Well, hell yeah.
You know? I mean, they deserve that. I
mean, they won that case in court for,
you know, their family had their their family
members killed.
But, you know, going through some of these
things, the NBA on TNT, that is just
the inside the NBA, such a great TV
pregame postgame, love those guys. But
I'm surprised that,
the NBA is so hardcore on this. I
mean, why not let your existing longtime partner
match a deal? You know, you think that
you will at least owe them that courtesy.
There must be something with the Amazon package.
Maybe it's the sizzle of the streaming that's
got the NBA really fired up. TNT can't
stream.
This is all about developing a new concept
of how to reach
younger audiences Mhmm. And streaming
provides that. It's also $1,800,000,000
is what Amazon bid. Mhmm.
Come on. To quote Charles Barkley, Hey. Read
the fine print. They didn't read the fine
print. Well, the I know, but the world
this world's changing with streaming. So I I
don't know. I I I just kinda it
feels like the NBA is screwing over Warner
Brothers on this. And Warner Brothers is a
media company. I'm sure they've got partners here
that could provide a streaming package. It's just
weird that this didn't work. The amount of
money though that ESPN and NBC gave the
NBA for over the air broadcast, over the
air
over the air includes TV and cable. Mhmm.
Phenomenal.
They're not gonna allow
Adam Silver to come back and say, hey,
can I cherry pick some of the games
off your NBA or NBC ESPN schedule and
form another package, so we can
mollify
TNT and give them something? The the other
guys who paid volumes of money Mhmm. For
the contract extensions are not gonna give the
NBA the chance to take some games off
their schedule
and develop a 4th package for TNT to
keep TNT happy. That's it sounds like the
NFL and that whole Sunday ticket thing. Exactly.
But they don't have Charles Barkley telling the
people at TNT, why the hell didn't you
read the fine print? Right. So that's where
we are. We go from that to the
other big story.
You're watching it. You can't find it all
on TV because it's all on TV, but
you gotta find the 12 different channels it's
on. We're talking about the Olympics.
John, I thought
the opening ceremonies,
the
parade of nations on the river Seine,
I mean, it was I thought it was
great, great theater. The flags, the boats.
I I thought there were some other things
that happened there that were just unique.
The salute to team Ukraine on their own
individual boat. They have only only 2 medalist
on team Ukraine, and they stayed
in Kyiv and the other cities and trained
while the Russians are bombarding and killing all
the people in those cities. Oh, wow. And
there's a total of 15 Ukrainian
athletes on their Olympic team.
Everywhere they went
on the parade of nations, and then when
they
got off the boat to go into the
stadium, carrying the flag,
the response was unbelievable.
And this is the other thing, the boat
after had nobody on it and that should
have been the Russian boat. And the Russians
were banned. Their athletes are banned from the
opening ceremonies and the Russians who are competing
in the events that started over the weekend
and through this week and next week
cannot wear the Russian uniforms,
cannot carry a Russian flag,
cannot hear the anthem of any of them
metal. I mean, they are quote independent. So
that's that's really interesting,
but I thought the ceremonies were just electric
and then there's the unbelievable heartwarming story. This
is the biggest comeback of all, not comeback
from an injury, but I'm talking about the
comeback of the emotion
of mental health, what Simone Biles has done
and she got nicked, she's got a calf
injury and yet she's staying on there. I
saw her,
event Sunday
on the beam, the single beam. I mean,
she almost got a perfect 15 score and
this is a person that's competing
with an injured calf and she's gonna compete
in all 4 events
in the team competition
and her coming back from the emotional trauma
of what happened in the last olympics,
and in the championships because of mental health.
What a a phenomenal story there.
USA Basketball,
they stomp Serbia.
Kevin Durant, Lebron James, 44 points.
Shot 62%
from the floor, hit 18 threes in the
team USA win. Now they're gonna play South
Sudan on Wednesday in the in their 2nd
round game. But Steve Kerr's got a juggling
he's got some unhappy players.
He did not play
Jayson Tatum of the Celtics did not play
Tyrese,
Hardison
of Indiana
in the 1st round game and they both
kind of barked about it at the press
conference.
So he's he's gotta juggle some guys, but
they're gonna play It's only 1 ball. Yeah.
That's right.
And one game at a time.
I was kind of aghast of this story.
Team USA's women obviously, they stomped Japan today
in their 1st round game, but Dawn Staley,
the legendary coach,
went public and when asked on NBC about
the whole Caitlin Clark story and she made
the comment, well, if we knew what she
was gonna turn out to be as a
pro, she probably
could could have been put on this roster,
maybe should have been put on this roster.
You didn't take any of the accomplishments of
what Caitlin Clark did at Iowa and give
that any consideration at all?
Now Caitlin Clark's not angry about it. She's
not talking about it, but Dawn Staley says,
yeah. I guess we should have considered it
now. Well, you think? Jeez. So we got
that.
USA Soccer,
you're rocking and rolling. Men's team, 3 goals
in 22 minutes. They pounded New Zealand in
their first game.
Women's team is now 2 and o. You
know, last last time we talked about,
the US women's team, we talked about how
young they were. Well, all those young players
are really dominating. Sophie Smith scored 2 more
goals. Mal Swanson now has 3 goals in
2 games. They battered west
Germany,
in their West Germany? No. They battered Germany.
I got a w here,
which signifies win. They battered germ wise ass.
They battered Germany for their 2nd straight win.
They've now moved on to the knockout round.
And then the final Olympic story,
we've not heard the end of this. We've
heard the juicy part of it and it's
really bad and now it's spreading
like a bad oil spill.
Canadian soccer,
they are raging in Canada
about the coach and the 2 assistant coaches
using a drone
to scout Switzerland
before their 1st round game.
Illegally using a drone
to scout an opponent's workout. They've expelled the
head coach, they've expelled
the 2 assistant coaches,
they find the Canadian
soccer program $226,000.
The 3 coaches have now been expelled from
pro soccer for 1 full year.
The fans were brutal.
They booed the Canadian players, the Canadian
any of this junk was going on and
now the investigation
is spread to the Canadian men's team
that they may have used drones
to quote illegally scout,
future opponents in the Olympics. So
that story
still out there. I don't think we've heard
the end of that story. So, John, would
you think about the opening ceremonies?
Oh, it was I like the opening ceremonies
are amazing. I mean, now granted there's the
whole
last supper politics religion. Let's put that aside
just for and really, you know, the the
parade, the boats, it was all terrific. It
was weird that it rained, you know, and
the city of lights
in in in July, and that kinda put
a damper on it. But, you know, it's
the Olympics are a great event, you know.
And it's it's not just because the world
and all that, you know, we can root
for our nation. It's more like everyone's coming
together. To feel good. It's yeah. And and
then you've got these athletes that have been
busting their butt for 4 years, 8 years,
all planning
to peak just at this moment. And, you
know, and then for some of them, they
can put it all together and get a
gold medal. I saw one of the male
gymnasts from Japan, one of the top players
or top performers, and he ended up having,
like, some, you know, brain farts. He froze
and just, you know, it can crack for
them. It's just so emotional. But, you know,
you look at your headlines here. Yes. Simone
Biles is fantastic.
That young lady or it was just really
not a young lady anymore. She's been in
the Olympics. 29. Yeah. So she's, you know,
working her way up there. She is so
athletic, so strong. I mean, it's incredible
given her diminutive size.
USA Basketball, I saw the game against Serbia.
I mean,
Jokic was out there on the opposing team
By himself. By himself, but that was a
route. Yeah. Caitlin Clark definitely deserved to be
here. You know, you know, the the SC
coach, you know, really admitted that they made
a mistake.
But, you know, the whole Canada thing, I
mean, they have Bill Belichick as their GM
or something. What's going on over there? Consultant,
just terrible. I saw a really cool picture
last night, and we're gonna we're gonna go
to fans form in just a second.
I saw a snapshot
of beach volleyball being played right there.
And the stadium was constructed
in a big parking lot
and right in the background is the Eiffel
Tower all lit up. Sweet. What a cool,
cool
picture that was. But the Olympics the Olympics
were really, really great theater. Hey, listen. Our
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John,
your segment
out in left field, stand up. Welcome your
friends on. Yeah. Welcome my friends. Let's go
to Iran, or is it Irene? And she
says, they will always give up early on
give up on guys too early. We're talking
about Padres here, by the way. They always
give up on the guys too early that
Washington trade still was the worst in history.
Well, you'd have to connect all the dots
here. She's making reference obviously to So to,
coming then So to leaving.
But some of the components also allow them
to get Dylan's cease. But at the end
of the day,
and this is my beef with my neighbor,
AJ Preller, is if you overpay for everybody
and then you never stick around to see
if they ever pan out and you do
use them to trade,
you're you're never gonna have a farm system
and you have no insurance if anybody gets
hurt or somebody gets old. And now he's
got a much older roster
with nothing in the farm system at all,
and he's kinda capped out budget wise. So
he has to win this year or next
because I swear to you. And people are
gonna hop on and said, oh, you're being
negative. I'm being honest. There's no future for
Padre baseball if they don't get to the
world series this season or next season, because
there is no farm system left.
And the roster is so top heavy with
older players on long term contracts.
Do you agree or disagree with me? Well,
top heavy, you mean, Louboutjerks and Profar, 1
year deal, 1,000,000 bucks. You know? So he's
Preller's got flexibility.
Preller is plotting. He's scheming.
This is his world series right now. He's
and he's not gonna sleep for the next,
you know,
28 hours probably. It better be. Yeah. So,
I I don't know. I I I think
the Padres, I like the aggressive approach. The
deal with Washington, they gave up a ton.
But, you know, if you really kinda break
it down, they got really good value, you
know, in terms of having So to and
who they flipped So to for. That's where
we are, but at the end of the
day, he's traded 9 of the top 12
minor leaguers in the system now. Yeah. But
you can like we said, we can always
replenish, and it's not empty. I mean, you
still have Salas and DeVries and, you know,
Snelling. So it it's it's still in okay
shape. Alright. Thank you for the question. Next
one. Okay. Let's go to John. He says
the Padres are in, quote, win it all,
there is no tomorrow, unquote, situation.
I hope these players have some longevity.
Otherwise, it's gonna be years just to clear
the books and afford the rebuild. That's what
you just said.
Exactly. And but, again, AJ knows
he knows players.
I'm a big subscriber and his boots on
the ground philosophy of how you find these
guys and do well. I like the makeup
of the bullpen,
but at the end of the day, there's
no prospects left. The the cupboard is really
bare.
John doesn't care. John only cares about capitalism
and what's gonna happen in the dodger series
and how long were we talking baseball in
October. Well, yeah, you gotta build the minor
league system, but the the prime directive is
the MLB team to make it competitive, and
the Padres had this great road trip 7
and 2. They're rolling. If they could take
care of business with the Dodgers, it might
turn out pretty good. Okay. Ever the optimist
from left field. Thanks, John. Go ahead. Next
one. Alright. The practicing guitarist says, Lee, John,
it is evident that this team seems to
play fine arguably better
without Tatis. Look at 2022 in this recent
run. Thoughts on moving him? Well, he's got
a long term contract. I mean, unbelievably long.
It was I think when he signed it,
it was 14 years total.
I don't think there are no trade Tati's.
I I guess the remarkable thing is dudes
are in the pennant race or kinda hanging
in the pennant race without their number 1
and 2 starters and without El Nino.
That's pretty impressive.
Or is it just the fact, thank God,
they're playing the lowly Washington Nationals and all
the other bad teams in baseball? I don't
know. But, they're hanging in there right now
and I mean, if they if they can
win back to back versus the Dodgers
and get this sucker down to 4 and
a half games and then they play 15
straight against Colorado, Miami, Pittsburgh,
First place is really right there
in their sight lines, but they have to
do it, and they haven't shown they could
do this with any consistency at all.
Better without Tatis. No way. No. Not a
way. So we I mean, they got with
a Johnson guy playing right field. They got
Do you have the 157 batting average? Yeah.
David Peralta, you know, who had a nice
run a number of years ago, but he's
past his prime. They're gonna be better without
Tatis. And by the way, Tatis is in
the dugout with him right now. So if
he's a cancer, El
Nino's
missed
a
lot
of baseball. Well, I mean, you think of
all the injuries. Oh, god. Yeah. El Nino's
missed a lot of baseball. Well, I mean,
you think of all the injuries. Oh god.
Yeah. The wrist surgery, the drug suspension, and
now this thigh injure. He's not doing anything
baseball related because he still can't.
MRIs have been clean
showing healing in the thigh bone area, but
he's not doing a baseball related
start, stop, side to side. Well, I saw
him playing catch in the outfield, but that's
that's soft toss. That's Yeah. But that's at
least something, you know. So that's where we
are. Okay. Thank you for the, comment. Okay.
Let's go to Angel. He goes, finally, the
Padres are gaining ground on the Dodgers. And
if they could sweep or even take one
from LA, they may have a shot at
the NL West,
or HFA
in in the wild card. What's HFA? You
got me home field advantage, I would assume.
Yeah. That's probably what I mean yeah. They
get they get the best of 3 first
round pound, you won it in your yard.
I concur with you. So we'll see. I
mean, this is an opportunity.
Nobody's paying attention to the schedule. I looked
at the schedule at the end of last
week. I said, holy cow, 15 straight against
the rockies, the marlins, and the pirates. So,
Angel, it's right there in front of them.
Next question.
Next question. Okay. Who we got here on
the list? We'll go to,
Casey.
And Casey says, I hope the dodgers get
got another move up their sleeve as Kopech
era scares me and an injured utility guy.
Still hoping they add a closer like either
Tanner Scott or Kyle Finnegan. They're trying hard
with Washington to get Finnegan, the left hander,
but man, they're the Nats are barking
for a a big price. So the the
burning question is
the dodgers still do have
a lot of hot prospects, you know, Hauptmann,
Gavin Lux.
They got triple a pitching standing in line.
Would you rather spend it to get the
ace of the tiger staff, Tarek Skubal, the
left hander or just rather pay a little
bit less and just go get Finnegan?
You know, they've had so many starts and
stops with the guys coming off rehab in
the rotation,
the Kershaw's, the Buellers, who's ready, who's not
ready, who suffers a setback after they get
here. So I I I tend to think
they probably will go after
either Skubal
or maybe Jack Flaherty. Now the Yankees are
out there, and the Yankees are rumored going
after those 2 same guys. And the Yankees
have got a plethora
of of hot prospects notably at AAA. So
Yankees dodgers
will be playing the Price is Right in
which which deal will Detroit take or maybe
Detroit trades them both, maybe they trade Schuubel
and they get Flaherty and then they get
a a Brink's truckload of hot prospects from
both the Yankees and Dodgers. So between now
and 3 PM, Tuesday,
it's gonna be interesting.
How do they decide when the trade deadline's
gonna be? Because it's not always the same
date on the calendar, is it? More recently,
it's been around August 1st.
Yeah. Now there was a move afoot, it
used to be 15th,
prior to that, I think it was August
31st,
but they did not want the pennant race
impacted
right at the end of the season. So
they moved it into August.
It was just kind of a weird conversation
that baseball had with the union about,
is everybody gonna sell all their players the
last month of the season? I mean Detroit
take everybody off their roster and send them
to all the pennant contenders and is that
is that fair to Detroit fan?
So but they they it it was 15th
and then got bumped up to the first
and something because of the calendar this year,
it goes to July 30th. Yeah. Because usually,
you know, obviously, September's off limits because people
are trying to build their playoff roster. They
used to be able to do the waiver
deals in August. That's off the off the
table.
But this trade deadline, sometimes it's August 1,
sometimes it's July 31, sometimes it's July 30.
But that's only a couple days. A couple
of days, but I'm just wondering why it's
inconsistent. I don't know. I think
way back, and this has to go back
decades.
I think it used to be
June 15th. I mean, it was really weird
why why there'd be a trade deadline in
June, but I think way back in the
day it was, but the union gets involved
in that and baseball's trying to protect the
integrity of some of these clubs too that
you just can't conduct a fire sale Mhmm.
And screw your fans, period, exclamation point. So
Well, if I'm the Dodgers, I'm going all
in, man. You got Ohtani, Mookie's coming back.
You know, they gotta go for it. Next
question. Next question. Let's go to Callan. Hey,
Lee. All of us on here are sports
junkies. What's your go to Olympic event? Have
to say these games have been extremely entertaining.
As a broken down distance runner, I love
track and field.
I love seeing the evolvement of our sprinters.
I mean, what we've seen,
with with these sprinters is just been phenomenal.
What Richardson's gonna do in the women's 2
sprint events, what Noah's gonna do in the
2 men's 100, 200 trying to double there.
I mean, those are those are fascinating
things to watch but, you know, I I
sat there mesmerized
watching
Simone Biles
on the balance beam last night
and she's competing with a calf injury and
she pulls off a near 15 perfect score.
I said, wow.
You know, I watched just
a snippet today of Japan
upsetting China
and getting the gold in all around gymnastics.
Wow. All these different events.
So I I I'm a huge track and
field guy, but I like watching some of
the other stuff. And then obviously, I love
the winter Olympics because I'm from snow country
and, you know, I love to see the
downhill. I'd love to see the ski jumping.
It's just fascinating. Like Eddie the Eagle. That's
right.
Gallon, thanks for the question. Yeah. I know.
Speaking for myself, I was watching some of
the men's, rugby. Yeah. And I had never
really watched rugby, but you can see how
it's similar to football and similar to soccer,
and and I'm trying to understand the rules
as it plays out. I was watching a
women's cycling event and in the rain,
riding over cobblestones
and the bike slips out from under them.
Yep. You know, because it's terrible conditions given
the rain. But this is just a spectacular
time. I love it all. You know, bring
me more Olympics more of the time.
You're big on break dancing. They're gonna give
medals out for break dancing. Break dancing. Break
dancing. Break dancing. You talking about break dancing?
Speaking of rugby for the old Canada network,
you know the genesis of the Canadian Football
League was rugby back in the early 1900.
That was. That was a rugby game that
evolved into the Canadian Football League. Interesting. Back
in the day. I didn't know that. Okay.
Let's move on. Let's go to Greg. Lee,
I believe there are too many interleague games.
My suggestion is have all interleague games possibly
in April so the teams can have more
games within their division. Well, I don't know
that playing the Rockies 19 times this season.
See, I think you you and I, Greg,
don't agree with this and John I think
John is on my street corner for once
in his life. I I I like the
fact that we're playing everybody in our division
13 times rather than 19.
I like the packaging
that everybody in the American league is gonna
come in here over a 2 year window.
We'll get to see the entire American league
at our ballpark. They'll, you know, half of
them will be here this year, we go
somewhere this year, next year the other half
comes in here, we go to the other
ballparks next year, I like that a great
deal. The one thing about the interleague and
and when they first started it, I remember,
I think I was talking to Latino at
that point.
There's there's a novelty to how you market
interleague play. In the 1st couple of years,
they set out in June July
as interleague play. So you play everybody in
your own league, and we got to June
July and you went heavy duty wall to
wall interleague play and it kind of became
a specialty thing, you know, So we get
to see the Yankees and the Red Sox
versus the Dodgers in interleague play in June
July, but now it's scattergunned
everywhere.
I I think it lost a little bit
of its oomph. It I thought it should
be a special event, and it was for
a couple of years and got rid of
it. Well, yeah, it was special at first
because it was taboo. You never saw the
cross mingling here except in spring training and
the world series.
I I think they got it right now
because it's like the NFL and the NBA
season where, you know, you're you're playing the
other teams in the other conference,
and you play them less frequently than the
teams in your own division or your own
conference, but I think they're finally getting it
right. Yep. I think so too. Thanks for
the comment, Greg. Next question. Next question. Alright.
Let's go to the rap album depot. He
says, everybody who was asked what a LeBron
of soccer would look like, hey. It's Trittany
Rodman.
She's a star. Yeah. Sophie Smith is a
star.
Mallory
is just she's become a star.
It's it's really interesting what women's soccer. And
we saw this coming,
about a year and a half ago, and
we wondered what women's soccer would be. And
now, of course, they brought the the coach
in from Chelsea in England
who's got a great track record reputation of
awards and ceremonies. So, you know, team USA
right there
in women's soccer globally.
And now we'll see where the men, you
know, the men are gonna go after their
second win and
move on into knockout round. And they're doing
remember,
in the Olympics, it's under the age of
23. It's a young roster. You're allowed 3
veteran exemptions on the men's roster and the
women's roster,
but these are 2 really, really young
sides for team USA.
So that under 23 thing applies to the
women too. Yes. Interesting.
I I I'm all for putting your best
players on the pitch, on the court, on
the field.
I I think they they should lift that,
you know, the 23 limit.
Because I I like it the pros are
playing in the league. I I like it
to see the top stars in the world
in the Olympics. But
I I I buy a piece of that,
but I I happen to think the NBA
playoffs and the championship
is the top of the mountain in that
sport, and playing in the Olympics against a
sub, you know, a substandard
team from Japan
or the Philippines.
Well, the gap's closing in international basketball. Not
everywhere. Well, but still it's closing, and so
it's a lot more interesting. I mean, South
Sudan almost beat team USA a few weeks
ago. Yeah. Well, look what happens in game
2 when they get beat by 53. Okay.
Alright. Let's move on. Let's go to Richard.
Fans forum here. With Ohtani deferring his salary
to help build around him, If if this
is the only move LA makes, is this
considered an epic deadline failure? No. Because
if they don't win the division,
it's not that they did not make moves
or did not try. It's because they got
17 pitchers on the disabled list. I mean,
lost in all the argument of why everybody
hates the Dodgers
is the fact they're still in 1st place.
And Dave Roberts, who an awful lot of
people in LA and some in San Diego
don't like his manager.
He's got them in 1st place.
It's a peaceful clubhouse
and the balancing act with all the personalities
and the egos,
he's been able to maintain it and done
a good job. So if they don't get
there, it's a byproduct of how many arms
that they have lost. 17.
I swear to you, I've never all the
years I've covered this and I pay attention
to all this stuff. I've never seen a
team have 17 pitchers on those tables and
virtually, every one of their top starters
has been on the DL for shoulder, elbow,
surgeries, rehabs, reinjures,
etcetera.
At one point, they had none of their
starters in the rotation. After they
they DFA James Paxton a week ago,
all all their top 5 starters gone, for
a wide variety of reasons. Now they're hoping
to get them back, we got 2 months
left in the baseball
season, so we'll see whether they trade and
get flirty out of Detroit or school out
of Detroit. I think they're gonna one is
gonna wind up in LA, the other thing's
gonna wind up at Yankee Stadium. But I
I don't think the season will be a
failure because they didn't try because God, they
got the high highest budget in baseball. It's
just the byproduct of you can't lose that
many players and all the dialogue about 17
on the DL, there is no Mookie Betts.
There's no Max Muncy coming back either.
I I I think, if if the Dodgers
did nothing, it would be a failed,
trade deadline. They've gotta go for it. You
know, they got they're the number one team
in National League in all of baseball, and
they got they got Ohtani. So
they're not done. There's gonna be a Dodger
deal in the next 24 hours. On we
go. On we go. Let's go to Gregory.
He says, I don't like that ruling. That
leaves if there are any family of OJ
Simpson with nothing. Well, they lost the civil
lawsuit. I mean, granted the trial was a
different
egg.
They lost the civil lawsuit with the same
set of circumstances and the jury awarded them.
I don't know that OJ's
children,
who I don't think had very much to
do with him later stages of his career
when he was living in Las Vegas in
a hotel.
I don't know. It's the civil ruling is
that
he had to pay and he did not
pay a dime and he lived high off
the hog in Las Vegas. Thank you lawyers
and appeal courts and all that other crapola.
So I mean the the federal judge ruled
they can seize all of the assets from
the Simpson estate and it can be sold
and distributed.
Yeah. Terrible story. My whole
my whole attitude towards George Simpson
changed after the trial and then when I
found out
Nicole Brown Simpson
called the police
63
times during her marriage because of domestic abuse
cases.
My whole attitude towards OJ Simpson, the person,
not the player, the person totally changed. So
I'm biased, I'm biased.
The Goldman and the Brown family deserves whatever
they can get out of this case because
they didn't get it when OJ was alive.
Yeah. They gotta liquidate the assets and pay
the bill. I mean, that's what that's justice.
You know, just a side note is my
mother
worked closely and is very good friends with
OJ's sister.
They worked at a similar company. It's the
same company in San Francisco for, like, 15
years. My mom is still convinced OJ is
innocent.
I just I'm not gonna I'm not gonna
I don't get it. Degrade
anything on your family tree. Okay. Well, actually,
Angel had another good comment here. TNT could
have put a few exclusive games on Max.
It's just like Amazon and he's right. Well,
but except they're putting a huge amount of
games on Amazon. Not not 3 games of
specialty programming.
I mean, the entire package is is gonna
be on Amazon with a lot of pre
and post stuff, etcetera.
As I don't agree with a lot of
stuff that comes out of Charles Barkley's mouth,
but read the fine print and they didn't
read the fine print. In fact, I think
this this thing may cost the CEO
of Warner Brothers his job.
Yeah. This this is huge. It's a huge
deal. Hey. Let's go to social media. We
got a bunch of comments over here as
well. And, here's another comment
screwing up here. How many people will stop
watching the NBA if there's no inside the
NBA? I don't watch too many games, but
I watch inside. I think the insiders,
I don't watch too many games, but I
watch inside. I think the insiders are gonna
wind up somewhere else. Bidding war, I'm sure
it's going on already.
And Barkley may say one thing on Monday.
I'll guarantee by Wednesday, say something else. And
by Friday, maybe he's gonna announce, we're going
over there. We're taking a whole team over
there. There will be a quote inside the
NBA
on one of these other channels. Well, there's
always a new crop of guys that are
gonna come up. I mean, like, Draymond Green,
people are saying is the next controversial, you
know, Charles Barkley.
Yeah. And I was watching that USA, Serbia
game. I think it was Dwayne Wade was
doing the color commentary.
Some people liked him. Some people did not
like him. Oh, I thought he was commentary.
Some people liked him, some people did not
like him. Oh, I thought he was awesome.
I mean, he really gave you some insight
of what those players are feeling, what they're
going through, and it it sounded like more
authentic than having
some, you know, glitzy, you know, guy behind
the the microphone. Yeah. A lot of people
thought
his insight was kinda cool because he played
the game so well. A lot of people
also thought that because I I I kinda
checked social media. A lot of people thought,
oh, there was too much The brotherhood. No.
That's My my bro. That was the best
part of it. Okay. Yeah. No. You always
like French pastry. I understand that. Next question.
Let's go back to some Dodger comments. This
is from captain Jack.
They're doing it because Doc and Pryor are
working magic, and the bats keep saving them
in most games where we are absolutely outmatched
in pitching. They're overwhelmed in pitching.
And I think the most impressive thing to
me is how they have fast forward and
gotten all these kids out of Oklahoma City
ready
to step up and pitch.
I mean and the stage is not too
big. If you if you if you just
Google
Los Angeles dodger stats in 2024,
I think they have now had 33 different
pitchers
on their roster
this season. 33 different arms that prior has
had to get ready
for starts or come in and play the
role in the bullpen. Now,
none of them none of them have been
intimidated.
There's only one pitcher I think they finally
got rid of, Johan Ramirez, a young reliever
who just fell apart on the mound the
last couple weeks and they they d f
a'd him over the weekend. He got promptly
claimed by Boston, but he's the only one
of the young guys that said, he
doesn't belong here.
So I know I I think Roberts has
held the clubhouse together with a lot of
personalities and a lot of setbacks, and what
Pryor's been able to do
just to
amp these young pitchers
up had been pretty impressive and,
you know, if they could get everybody
back on the active roster between now
and September 25th,
on the on the pitching staff, you say,
wow. I mean, they got a lot of
arms but each of those arms comes
with a risk. I mean, Kershaw may have
pitched competitively first time,
but how's he gonna feel the second time
he throws? I mean,
you're babysitting him through 4 innings and hope
there's not a setback, then he's gotta throw
bullpens between starts, no setback there.
Can he amp it up and do max
effort a second time? And is there gonna
be a reaction? Because there always seems to
be reactions, especially with him him and Bueller.
And Bobby Miller is throwing 93, 94 in
a rehab at Oklahoma City, but he's been
up twice and had setbacks twice and had
to go back. So,
gonna be fascinating to see what what they
get done in the next 55 days,
55 games. Well, you know, the the amazing
comment here from captain Jack that caught me
by surprise
is he's praising Dave Roberts. I mean, the
overwhelming majority of people that are reacting to
the social media posts that we're doing
are were down on Dave Roberts. They think
they're winning in spite of his bad decisions.
Well, a lot of that, but, again, he's
doing with a piece of paper that comes
every day in the brown envelope, and the
analytics department says, we recommend you do this.
Mhmm. And he's gotta compound that with all
the bloody injuries. That's a big,
the
the DL, it's it's monstrously big. Like I've
said, I've been doing this a long time
as a talk show host and podcast host
and I write about it. I've never seen
a staff have 17 pitchers on the deal.
Well, remember a few years ago, the Padres
pitching staff imploded. Sure. And we were picking
guys up off the street, and and and
it was terrible. I mean, they couldn't keep
the team together. The team slipped out of
any potential contention.
It's incredible the Dodgers are holding us together.
I'm just lot of arms in the system.
They draft well. They develop well. Now they've
had some bad luck with injuries too. Wow.
Next question. Next question. This is a fun
one. This is about the Padres and your
take on Ruben Niebla as the MVP.
And this is from Buff Time. Is this
AI hacksaw?
No way he says something positive about Padre
baseball. I'm here for it.
I think Brittney Ebel has done an unbelievable
job. And I think Schult, despite the fact
he does not hold people publicly accountable,
I think has done a good job and
I think Preller knows talent. Now, how Preller
pays for the talent, what Preller does with
the talent that he gets that he moves
away. I have a responsibility
to you, the fan, to give you the
information and to have an opinion on the
information.
It's not negative all the time, But at
the end of the day,
in
9 and a half years
of your general manners leadership,
your team is still sub 500.
Has the team been to the world series
yet on AJ Preller's era?
No. So I have to talk about that.
I have to call them out because I
firmly believe. I'm not making junk up. I'm
not saying things to get you on the
edge of their seat pissed. I'm just telling
you what I know. I'm telling you what
I think based on the knowledge I've dug
up
and what I see. So,
no. It's not AI. That's hacksaw being hacksaw.
Stop laughing. Yeah. So it you know, it's
funny is that both Dodger fans and Padre
fans on me. Always. Like, oh, he's so
negative. You know, you're just telling it like
it is. Like Howard Cosell.
Did you ever get to meet Howard Cosell?
I interviewed him a couple times. Tell me
about that. He kept him over spring training,
covered the Padres very early in my stay
in San Diego, and I went over there
and there he was. And I never crossed
paths with a guy. I wouldn't ask to
do an interview, but, you know, Ted Williams,
whomever.
And Eris Cosell,
he was still at ABC.
And I grew up watching Cosell. Hell yeah.
I was a Long Island kid. He's a
New York lawyer, became a sportscaster.
I went up, I introduced myself,
and
he kinda knew my name. Hacksaw, where did
that come from? So I told him the
story.
And so he always referred to me as
young man and you know, he was huge,
he was like 6 foot 4 and a
half, 6 5. He was a really big
man, yeah. Oh, I didn't know that. So
he said, young man, would you like me
to sit in a dugout with you and
do this interview? And he was great. He
was so smart, so intelligent, so aerodite. He
was just
phenomenal.
You remember Chet forty? Oh, yeah. Yeah. You
know, or a friend that worked with us
for a year at,
6.90 and Chet, of course, had been with
Monday night football. He worked with Cosell to
listen to Chet with his New York accent.
It was like listening to Howard with his
New York accent. And both of them,
was like listening to Howard with his New
York accent.
And both of them had unbelievable
opinions on anything and everything, and they would
tell you. But I laughed because he he
kept calling me young man.
You you know, the part about Cosell that
I love
is his relationship with Muhammad Ali. Mhmm. And
and and they would both give each other
a hard time, and they both
but, yeah, that the whole Muhammad Ali is
great. Yeah. Back in the day when when
Monday Night Football
first started taking off, I mean, it was
a huge event in the community
that the game was in. I remember the
early years I worked in Cleveland and the
browns are on a Monday night football game
and they would hold a luncheon,
a press conference and a big luncheon
on Monday at 12 noon before the game
that night at Cleveland's old municipal stadium and
and and and
Giff and Dandy Don
would all be on the dais
and the media would go up and ask
him questions. I mean, it was a huge
That's awesome. Freaking event.
And and Monday night football became must see
TV
because of the persona, not just the games,
but because of
Howard turning to Dandy Donner in the Q3
and say,
Dandy,
your turn.
Turn out the lights. The party is open
to Q3.
So What was it was like if your
team played on Monday night football, you were
legit. I mean, it was it was like,
yeah. You were got some, you know, street
cred.
But also remember Howard Cosell and John Lennon?
You know, not not just that he reported
his death on Monday Night Football, but the
fact that they used to do things together
on Monday Night Football. Mhmm. So Coasell is
is unbelievable,
you know, in sports history. And it's cool
that you're connected to him because you play
a part in sports history too. Young man.
He was actually funny. I'm trying to remember.
Harry Carey used to call me something. I
can't remember what the hell it was, and
I'm not sure I could put it on
the podcast. But Harry Carey.
Let's do one more here. Okay. Let's, let's
talk Yankees and Mets. This is from Paul.
He goes, oh, the Yankees hating goes way
back before Steinbrenner.
My dad, a Brooklyn Dodger fan, loathed the
bombers. He knew the yanks were able to
defeat numerous superior dodger teams in the forties
fifties. The Yankees and their fandom are hated
because they they're so lucky and successful with
27 world championships, 2 times as much as
second place,
which gives their fans an attitude that they
deserve they deserve it. Let's go Mets. Well,
the Mets Mets are trying to rebuild, and
they probably will. They'll be unbelievably active in
the winter in free agency, and I'll be
interested to see what happens between now and
6 PM in Yankee Stadium time on Tuesday
because they're gonna make a deal, they gotta
make a deal to go get a frontline
pitcher and I I think at the end
of the day, because we're run through the
litany list of guys that are there,
somebody's going to wind up with Tarek Skubal,
the Detroit ace left hander, the other one's
going to wind up with Jack Flaherty, the
right hander who's coming off injuries since had
a real unbelievable bounce back season.
I one might be a Yankee, one might
be a dodger, and then we'll see what
happens in the the last month and a
half of the season, and we'll see what
happens in free agency because
Yankees and Mets are probably both gonna be,
quote, players for Juan So to.
Yeah. And I think there there's a the
Blake Snell situation too is cooking. So, you
know, it's funny. It's like in the late
seventies, the Dodgers played the Yankees in the
World Series, and I was so conflicted as
a kid because I was a Giants fan
growing up, so I hated the Dodgers, but
then the Yankees were, like, you know, they
they were like the death star. They were
like the Darth Vader. And so I wasn't
sure who to root for, but the those
Yankees teams with Reggie Jackson hitting 3 home
runs in the seventies in the world series,
that was a special time. So was the
special Mano and Maris.
So was the special the Yankees in the
forties. So was the special of Bambino in
the twenties. Yeah. I mean, there is such
an unbelievable
tradition.
I mean, the the the first time I
went to a major league game, my dad
took me to Yankee Stadium to see my
Cleveland Indians. Because you were a Yankee hater.
Oh,
did not like Mantle Maris and Whitey Ford
and Yobe and they were they were so
great and first time I walked into Yankee
Stadium with my dad, I just stood there
in awe and I was floored at the
overhang
on the top of the stadium with a
white,
not trellis, what do you call that?
Oh, the facade? Facade. Yeah. Then and then
they had the monuments
out in center field against the wall and
I thought somebody was buried
beneath those monuments, Miller Huggins, you know, the
great Yankees of yesteryear. I thought the monuments
was where the bodies were buried. Well, those
are like they look like tombstones. Yeah. They
were. Exactly. But were they in they weren't
in play. They were. They were. Oh, yeah.
Like the ball could rattle around in there?
Yeah. Oh, I didn't know. Game against the
old Baltimore Orioles. Somebody hit a ball that
got past the outfielder and went and ricocheted
off the wall in the back of the
monuments.
Back they were tombstones.
Now they've moved them after they renovated Yankee
Stadium. Yeah. They moved them behind the wall
and they they have all the plaques there
now. But back in the day, when I
was an 8 year old,
they had 3 monuments in dead center field.
And I thought
Yankee legends were buried there. Because it was
Yankee Stadium. Because Yankee Stadium was like a
cathedral. It's like Donald Trump, burying his wives
on the golf course. No.
I know when I was a little kid,
I went to Candlestick Park for the first
time, and I it was a day game,
and it was actually decent weather. I was
just so overwhelmed at how green the grass
was.
And and on a blue sky day, it
was like it was everything was vibrant in
color
and experience. So those first trips to the
ballpark, that's a good time. Yeah. Coldest winter
day I ever spent was watching a game
at Candlestick Park in the summer. In the
summer. It was brutal, man. I'm telling you.
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