July 15, 2026 • 39 mins
Dan and Monse filling in for Stu and the guys as they discuss the MLB All-Star Game and how much more interesting the event on Monday night was. Dan hosts a game called "Honors Course" pitting Monse against Iowa Sam. Dan gives his thoughts on Michigan amid all of the reported scandals.
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
Happy Wednesday to you and MONSI. I'll tell you what.
I'll tell you what. There is nothing like going to
a spot and getting delicious Mazzarelli sticks.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Oh, I know where you would and I know I
knew that you and I would be on those same
that same wavelength.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I wasn't saying wings, even though you love wings, your vegetarian.
Now we can, we can be on common ground where
a good mot stick goes a long way. All right?
You ever had mozzarella sticks? Be better than the actual
meal that you've had more often than not. Welcome to
Major League Baseball in the All Star festivities, because I
don't know what that meal was last night, National League.
(01:06):
But maybe get the shoulders off your bats. Score some
runs quit being dominated by the American League. I'm on
senior circuit right with it.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Going into the All Star Game, I think everybody was like, obviously,
National League's gonna win because the American League is.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
Ass right now. But boy did they did They show us?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yes, they said it right.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Their cheeks as a kids say.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
The game was over before the NL even went to
the plate. The AL was up three to nothing in
the top of the first. It finished four nothing, trashing
the home run derby the night before. Ended up being
the Mazzarella Stick because the National League can't swing the
stupid bats man stemied by the AL pitching.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Yeah, no, said no one ever, No, no one ever.
It's every I didn't watch it, and I don't think
I missed anything. I caught all the highlights after, and
there weren't many. In fact, the highlight lights I did see.
I was like, these are the highlights.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
It flew by, and here's my Joe Davis scoreless again
for the NL. We head to the top of the sixth.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
Davis, Yes, I don't get that one.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
I didn't expect you to uhgrade it, But that's my Joe.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
You do others better. There's other impersonations you do that
are better. So that one was not.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
When I go about, what is this what does this
mean Bobby Witt Jr. What does this mean to you?
What are we doing here?
Speaker 5 (02:27):
What does this? What does it mean to you?
Speaker 4 (02:29):
If I was Bobby wit Junior in that moment, I'd
be like, what does this mean to you?
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Talking to me?
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Artem stinks. I'm fine. I'm glad to win a game. Finally,
I'm glad to be on the running side instead of
what's going on in Kansas City. All right, this is
this is this is our our recap of the All
Star Game. Listen, I'm not going to try to fix anything, Manci.
Jason Stewart is here, Iowa Sam. We're not going to
try to redo the All Star Game. But there were
a couple of things that stood out to me last
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night and why the All Star Game is in the
spot that it is. And I just thought it was
a tough look when fans were leaving the stadium in
the ninth inning, when it was kind of a foregone
conclusion and everybody's kind of off into the sunset. I've
been to All Star games before. One of the reasons
why they had to put the rule in to allow
home field advantage was because players left. Because the players
(03:18):
that actually had to play in the All Star Game,
didn't get much of a break. So the sooner they
could leave the All Star Game, that was more of
a vacation they had on the other end, So they
were taking a flight out maybe that Tuesday night, to
go where they needed to go, just for a couple
of days, to get a bit of a refresher. I've
been to those places. I understand what those things are.
(03:38):
The Yankee Stadium game that we talked about yesterday with
the Josh Hamilton home run, that game went to like
two am in the morning. We were in the Bronx waiting.
I remember we were in the tunnel and k Rod
Francisco Rodriguez when he was with the Angels, had already
pitched his inning. He was done, he left, he was gone.
And I'm not putting this on Francisco Rodriguez, but this
is everybody's kind of got that feeling. And I felt
(04:01):
like that was the feeling last night, that all right,
let's just get this thing done. And that has been
the case in Major League Baseball for for a long
long time. In all right, the break is kind of
taken up more than we already wanted to. Were the
All Stars, We've been putting in work these last forty
eight hours here in Philadelphia or whatever city, and now
let's just kind of move on with it. And that's
(04:22):
kind of how I felt like the game went last night,
and that was disappointing.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
This isn't the first time of players kind of using
the All Star Game as there as a break, because
wasn't it last year that show Heyo Tani or maybe
it was two years ago show Heyo Tani started pitching
for the All Star Game and then he left, like
you said, like after he was done, because there's so
many people that have to get out into the onto
the game to play, and then he left, and it
(04:46):
just kind of.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
Is it's not it's not a good look.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
It is not if you don't want to be there,
why do the fans want to be there? And it's
a I don't blame I don't blame these players for
wanting to feel like they should take a day two
days before starting the second half of the season, but
it is a bad It is a bad look and
to see or you know, the highlights, as you mentioned,
the fans gone in the ninth Inny, that's just a
bad look.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
It's like everyone seems to feel like, what's the point
of this.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Even Cody Bellinger joked when he got the MVP award. Yeah, yeah,
you joked.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
I joked, And you're in the email. I said, was
this a participation trophy? Why did he get the MVP?
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Well, he said that he didn't know what to do,
and somebody said keep your jersey on, like he was
ready to shower, so he couldn't go and shower and
clean up or do whatever he wanted to do. So
he's like, I may win the MVP, so I'm gonna
hang out here with my Yankees jersey on and lo
and behold. Then when Mike Schmid came out and gave
him the All Star Game MVP trophy, Cody Bellinger was
(05:45):
in his uniform, couldn't leave.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
He could not leave. He's getting ready to dip and
they're like, you know, you can't leave. Wait why?
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Maybe that's why the National League just decided to not
get any hits. They just wanted to leave.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
They just wanted to I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
How you fix it, and I don't think that this
is a fix it com I just think this is
where we are in Major League Baseball, And what really
struck me Moncey. Last night was when junior Kevin Nio
was hit by a pitch and went down. And now
you're saying to yourself, if he broke his finger, he
could miss a month for a team that has World
(06:18):
Series aspirations. And this is when one of the best
stories of the first half in Major League Baseball all
for what taking a pitch inside and then what the
second inning of an All Star Game like that would be?
We would be like, what are we doing here? And
then I thought, and Jason, I'm only relying on you
because we're a similar age. Moncey and Sam are younger
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than us. But I feel if you broke your finger
in the seventy six All Star Game and missed a month,
you would be like, remember when Jim Rice broke his
finger in the All Star Game missed a month, wasn't
that awesome? Like it was a badge of honor that
you were playing in the All Star Game. In the
All Star Game meant so much that you actually injured yourself.
The Pete Rose highlight is one that we see over
(07:02):
and over again, and now that same sort of injury
we would look at completely different. I don't know, do
you find any parallels to what I'm saying or anything
with our generation and how the All Star Game used
to be looked at and how we look at it now.
Speaker 6 (07:15):
Yeah, so it's Ray FOSSi, right, Ray FOSSi was on
the receiving end of that Pete Rose infamous play. It's
on all the highlights, but it literally ruined Fossi's career.
He was never the same afterwards, but it's the most
memorable thing of his life, and he has looked upon
as like, this is how serious they took it back then.
(07:35):
This is how this is. This is why you guys
nowadays are a bunch of a bunch of princes because
they've cared about the Exhibition game back then that it
really mattered to them. So you're right, that injury last
night is going to look back on like this is
why guys shouldn't be at the All Star Game. This
is why Shoho Tani said no thanks with a with
(07:57):
a bad knee, because if you show up something like this,
you might get hurt, and nobody wants to risk that
with the salaries and what's on the line.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Yeah. I looked at it last night and I thought
the rays are like, oh my goodness, we're never having
a player play there play. Yeah, Dodger's like, show, hey,
you have played in your last you are not playing
anymore because that could happen to you. Yeah, that's how
I felt that last night, and just I brought up
the mindset, Manzi, because it is a different mindset and
there's no way of changing it. Every team last night
(08:27):
put themselves in the place of the Tampa Bay Rays,
wondering what if it was our star player that was
at the plate and got hurt and it is their
star player because they're All Stars and for a player
that's in contention, I don't know why a team wouldn't
have that, So I don't know. That's why this isn't
to fix it episode here on Fox Sports Radio. How
(08:49):
do we fix the All Star Game? We can't. There's
no there's no way to do it. Maybe just have
the NL hit like that would be the best way
to do it. But in trying to figure out ways
to make it more are exciting. I'm sorry, and she's
just she's choking.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
He made me laugh, So that was like the worst.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
But just just get or do something. That's the only
way that it's gonna work. But in ways of fixing it.
I think that it's it's so far out of the
barn because I think every team had a lump in
their throat when they saw Kim and Yarrow on the
ground during last night.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
I have a lump in my throat. But while I
get through it, when did the All Star Game change
where the winner didn't matter when it came to who
had home field advantage during the World Series?
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Did that matter?
Speaker 6 (09:33):
Like?
Speaker 5 (09:33):
I feel like now when that changed, it really stopped matter.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
We all know when it started, because that was in
two thousand and two when they had the tie in Milwaukee,
and then the next year they're like, well, we need
to sort out a winner and figure it out. But
I think it's been what ten years now since they've
done they've done away with it. I don't know the
exact Google tell me twenty sixteen. So yep, yeah, ten
years so and this time it counts ten years ago.
So it went. It was scary enough, so it went
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thirteen years and that was that was red anyway. That
was that was an effort to try to keep people interested.
But you had players on last place teams playing in
the eighth and ninth inning that were deciding who would
get home field in the World Series and there there
there was no reason for that, and the players didn't
necessarily care and it seemed very odd, so they ended
up doing away with it. And I don't think anybody
has missed it since there was.
Speaker 6 (10:18):
A Sean Taylor moment last night. And Sean Taylor moment,
I mean this, Sean Taylor infamously lit up a punter
or a kicker in a Pro Bowl game. Right, he
was the one guy on the on the field that
didn't get the memo that we're not supposed to try hard.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
Andy Pajs takes that single to center field from Bellinger
and he tried to throw the guy out at home
play and you could tell, I think it's the catcher
on the A's that was scoring. He kind of looked back, like,
wait a minute, We're supposed to try hard, Like I
don't want to slide. I don't want to slide to
home plate. What's going on here?
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Yeah, there's there's everybody is kind of on the same wavelength,
and it is what it is.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
Call me crazy.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
It seems like these guys want to the ones who
are there, They want to have fun, right, So what
about implementing something I don't know, Savannah Banana, Like.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
I don't some like change it up.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Not that they have to dance, so I'm not saying that,
but some of the silly rules I don't know. Put
a target out in center field and if you hit that, Like,
there's gotta be ways to make it a little bit
more fun because it seems like the guys just want
to have a good time. And if you make it
where they don't feel like they have to go all out,
then then me, I just feel like it's what can happen?
Speaker 5 (11:26):
What can change?
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Like you said, there's nothing to fix it, but can
there be something to make it a little bit more
entertaining than what it is? Because obviously they don't want
to compete, which is fine. I understand it's an all
star game. So some something to make it a little
bit more fun.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
I've I've got an answer. It may not be what
you want to hear. Yeah, I know you're trying. I
know you're trying to. I don't know. Do you have
an answer for her, because otherwise I'm gonna answer it
my own way. I don't The Savannah Bananas are the
night before the Savannah Bananas are the home run Derby.
And that's why I talked about the Mazzarella sticks. That's
(12:03):
because the home run Derby. Look at the stands at
the Home Run Derby, whether it be from the first
at bat or the last at bat, they are full.
And last night, by the eighth and ninth thinning in
a four to nothing ballgame, in a game that doesn't necessary,
doesn't matter to anybody, people just left people behind home plate.
(12:24):
There were empty seats. I'm not saying that the entire
stadium was empty, but people are like, all right, I've
been to the All Star Game. I saw the stars,
and I needed to see I wanted.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
To go, especially at the end of the.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Start, but they stayed for the home run Derby. Like
the home run Derby is not going to be as
great as it was on Monday Night every single year,
something we talked about yesterday, but it does get people excited.
It's the first part of All Star weekend, so you've
already had a taste of it, so you're already full.
And with the drama that it provides and the limited
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number of players with only having eight players as opposed
to the fifty All Stars on teams, I mean there's
nobody knows who every All Star is, and the fans
aren't there standing around waiting to see who the Marlins
representative or whatever. But the All Star Game has been
surpassed by the home run derby, and the fans in
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attendance are the reason for that. And there's nothing that
you can do, Manci to make it interesting except to
have the NL hit like that. It's just got to
be a competitive game, but it's not going to You're
not going to have a home plate collision. You're hoping
that you're not going to get hitters Bean. I'm wondering
now if pitchers will be afraid to throw inside. Sure
(13:38):
just got away from him and Camon Yarrow was a
little late in recognizing it. Maybe that's just something that
you can't avoid in baseball. But I don't think that
there's any fixes, considering the landscape and now how every
other team probably looked at what happened to Cameron Yiro
or what happened in the on the throw by Pajez.
I just think that it's it's too far down the line,
(13:58):
and you take it for what it's worth and hope
you have a competitive game.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Yeah, you're probably right because I feel like the reason
the home run derby is usually a little bit more funny,
even every year last yesterday was or two days ago
this year is was really awesome. But the fans love
the home runs like the fans love the offense. And
that's what baseball has been trying to, you know, push
towards you know, the theory that they change the balls
to make walls go fly a little bit further when
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it's a game like last night and there is no offense,
which is what drives the fans in baseball.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
I don't know, You're right, how do you fix that?
How do you fix that?
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Because the pitchers are over You're like, wait, you talk
about this is what we're supposed to do. We're supposed
to shut these guys out. But in this situation, we
don't want to see that. We actually don't want to
see you guys shut each other out.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
We want the opposite.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Yeah, we want we want some runs, We want some excitement,
We want a little back and forth. Who's gonna win here?
Not just Mason Miller coming in and facing one batter
and then being replaced so you can get more all
stars in. I know that's been more of an All
Star thing. Jason Stewart, you wanted to chime in.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
If you think about it, the way the whole thing
is produced, it's like the the actual gameplay gets in
the way, like if whoever does this, whether it's a
combination of like MLB Entertainment and Fox, they treat the
game as if the actual in game play is secondary
to what they want to produce, the entertainment value, starting
(15:18):
with the red carpet and all the social media that
comes out of the red carpet, and then you get
in the game and it's there's multiple interviews per inning
with in game participants there in the middle of the game.
After the fourth inning, I know we're gonna talk about this.
They stopped the game for some produced thing last night,
so I guess the production is telling the fans the
(15:41):
actual in game stuff is secondary to everything else and
they just want you to tune into we're celebrating our
all Stars, We're celebrating the game.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
You know. I think I think it's the opposite in
terms of I think Fox understands that the game is
what it is and this is our only way to
salvage it. Or Major League Baseball or whoever is coming
up with those decisions in saying, these guys don't care.
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Nobody wants to get injured. People are ready to get
out of town. How do we make this a compelling
broadcast when the game is likely going to lack and
not have any flow, and now they may alter the
flow by inserting a fourth inning break, which brought some
people to tears. And I had no idea what was
going on. You had kids riding on in bikes, and
(16:34):
I know what was going on, manci. They were trying
to make it seem like this is baseball, so much
so that I went and watched The Sandalot last night
on the heels of Jason's movie list, and I'm like,
I read people on Twitter saying that they were in tears.
They had the chicken skin, the goosebumps, and seeing the
kids ride in on bikes baseball. That was what I
(16:58):
did when I was a kid. But that's not what
kids are doing nowadays.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
Yeah, not even a little bit.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
They're like, they should be out there in their travel
team uniforms with their e bikes and their razor blade
sunglasses and their five hundred dollars bats, Like that's what
youth baseball kids Yeah, baseball's trying to sell us on
baseball that doesn't exist anymore. And so there's no kid
(17:22):
riding around Philly with one hundred and thirty dollars Mike
Schmidt jersey that's unbuttoned, Like, there's no way that didn't
happen when Mike Schmidt was playing when I was a kid,
that wasn't happening. No one was wearing their good Robin
Yount or Paul molletor jersey. When I'm playing whiffleball with
my friends back in Wisconsin in the nineteen eighties, it
is not They're not even wearing their Jim Gantner jersey
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or Cecil Cooper jersey. None of that was happening. So
it sure's heck, wasn't happening last night? Or I don't
even know if kids drive around their neighborhood and ride
on bikes and go and play baseball in the parks anymore.
So it's this selling of stuff, and I think that
they're all trying to make up for the game that
is lacking because the players are just kind of going
through the motions.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
They could have used adults because I still ride my bike,
so they could have used me.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
You and Grace. Does Grace have her a glove on
the handle when you pick her up? Can you guys
go over to the natalies?
Speaker 5 (18:10):
Yeah, we actually rollerblade. Actually, that's what I'm saying. You
couldn't used me and my friends.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
We could have absolutely been a part of this, but
you're right, kids don't do that.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
I didn't feel the nostalgia from that video.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
I saw it after the fact, so I'm wondering if
been there it felt a little bit more. But like
I remember, right before the World Cup, I sent you
guys the video in case you hadn't seen it, the
USA World Cup video promoting you know that one gave
me all the feels.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
At the end, I was like, I believe, I believe
you would say can do this. After watching this, I
was like, I don't, I don't. I don't know. It
didn't hit me. Maybe it hit people that were there.
But this whole marketing thing.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
What's what I find so interesting is the red carpet,
the interviews, right, all of this stuff that has happened
in the later years.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
It's in theory like it's.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
Awesome, but it doesn't work because I have access to
all of these players at my fingertips on their social media. Sure, Like,
that's why this doesn't work because I just saw him.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
He actually posted a better video ten minutes ago than
this interview that you're putting.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
So it's like it as much as like, I get
why they're doing it, because they have them there. In reality,
this would have worked thirty years ago when social media
wasn't as big or these athletes weren't as accessible as
they used to be.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
It doesn't. It doesn't work.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
They're trying to add ketchup to that steak, right, that's
what they're trying to do.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
And I think, Sam, did you want to add something? Sam? Sorry?
I think I saw it.
Speaker 7 (19:35):
Oh, all good. I was just gonna say that. So
Dan JK. Simmons's voiceover didn't convince you. He said in
that clip, he's like, this isn't nostalgia because nostalgia is
trying to find that emotion for something that's gone. He's like,
this is still baseball today, and you're saying that's a
big fat lie.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
That is not baseball today.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
It's not baseball today, and it definitely tried to hit nostalgia.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
You're right, he does say that, But I was like, then,
what then why does this look old school?
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Yeah, but that was on percent made for TV event,
Like if you're at the stadium, you're not really catching
on that the kids you just like wire kids on bikes,
Like that's it's I've been to those events before. They
don't translate as well, and.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
I would have gone to get a beer at that point.
Speaker 7 (20:11):
At that point, I was sort of tuned out, like
just on my laptop listening, and I thought they had
gone to commercial, and I was like, what is going
on here? Like where's the game? And then I look
over and it's like this whole pre produced thing and
then these kids, Yeah, they come out of the tunnel
and they start riding onto the field, and I did like,
like I thought, honestly that five minutes was like the
best part of the entire night, even though like I like,
(20:34):
I'm sorry, it was just boring. I thought it was boring.
Speaker 6 (20:37):
A lot of people agreed with Sam, Like I I
live on Twitter, so Twitter almost disappointed me last night.
And how uncynical it was about that, because usually things
are always overwhelmingly negative on Twitter, but a lot of
you gotta saw a lot of positive comments from like
the former Blue Check brigade and like you know, heartstrings
and tears and all those stuff. It's like it was
(20:58):
not happening. It's the mixed messaging to me that really
confuses me with baseball because I care about it. I've
watched a lot of it. It's my sport. So are
we supposed to be appealing to young audiences with all
these rule changes and allowing people to show up pictures
and denigrade the game and all all these things, all
these rule changes that are supposedly trying to appeal to
(21:20):
a younger generation. And then we stopped the all stark
ginga in the middle and talk about all the great
things that we used to love about baseball.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
They need to say. I don't know if did you
want to respond.
Speaker 7 (21:31):
I was just going to say that that five minute
break to go to that pre produced thing that became live,
I wasn't even necessarily super moved by it. I thought
it was neat, but I just thought it was the
highlight of an otherwise sort of you know, a hum
and a sigh of a night, which is not a
good thing.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
No, it's not. I think the Ray Charles version is awesome. Yes,
it was weird. Well from twenty eleven at Chase Field.
You know, like like it was like, it's just I
felt like what I do to Mansi and shore Tiktoks,
like hey, did you see this? Like like like maybe
have it like just just just was odd. It was weird. Yeah,
(22:09):
they were and they looked through the window, which is
why I ended up watching The Sandlot last night because
I'm like, why are people crying? And I just feel
that this is not baseball today when it comes to
the youth of our of America.
Speaker 7 (22:22):
The kids wouldn't be knocking on doors. They'd be texting
their buddies.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Yeah they didn't, didn't They do the peak through the
wall and then they opened it up and then they
all like roll it on their bikes. Nobody does that
these days.
Speaker 7 (22:33):
Did you like though, like once they were on the field,
the fire the fire's were cool, and I did like,
like you're playing, you know, Freddy Freeman playing catch with
the kids.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
This is nice. It was all staged. Yes, yeah, it
was very stage. Yeah, yes it didn't. It did not
pull the heart strings. And I feel that the effort
into a piece like that has to go to those
lengths because the game is turned into what it was
because the game is tougher to watch than a two
dollars steak. The appetizer of the mazzarella sticks way better.
(23:03):
And that's why we get all this other stuff like
the catch up, like the steak sauce, to try to
make that meal better. And you know what, sometimes it
just doesn't work.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
It doesn't work. Does a great, great comparison.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
She's Monty Blagos. I'm Dan Byer. We're gonna go out
on that compliment. England Argentina scoreless. Twenty fourth minute World
Cup Semifinal in Atlanta, winner gets Spain in the World
Cup Final on Sunday. You can see the match going
on right now on Fox. Hit her up at Monti Blagos.
You can find me at Dan Byer on Fox. He's
Jason Stewart. That's Iowa Sam hanging out for Stu Gotzon
(23:35):
Company Live here on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
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Live weekdays at three pm Eastern twelve pm Pacific on
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Speaker 2 (23:50):
Stu Gotson Company Live, Fox Sports Radio. She's Manzi Blaanhos.
I'm Dan Byer. Thirty second minute England and Argentina still scoreless.
Jason Stewart's here our executive producer, Iowa Sammar technical producer,
and I mentioned just hours from now will be the
beginning of the Open Championship at Royal Birkdale. You know
(24:12):
a lot about Royal Birkdale. Monzi, No, that's all right,
it's not in America. I love working with Monzi because
she's new to golf, and so we took her to
her first ever golf event. It was the first time
you had ever been on a golf course last month. Yes,
Riviera Country Club is a great place to have your
first golf course that you've ever been to. We watched
(24:33):
the US Women's Open, and now over the next four days,
golf's final major of the year will be taking place
in what has been a sunny, dry England over these
last couple of weeks, so you won't get the normal
wind and rain that we feel like we're going to
be accustomed to at the Open Championship. It'll be fair
conditions and the course will be playing fast and firm.
(24:55):
So just remember that over these next four days, if
he can remember that it's Royal Burke Day out, even better,
I'm going to quiz you yes, write it down, it's
it's your answer already. Royal Birkdale is where they are
playing this year, and there are a variety of courses
that have hosted Open Championships. They have it. They call
it the Open Championship of Rota with they rotate amongst
(25:17):
you know, yeah, some some more often, some are getting
into the mix again, others have fallen out of the mix.
So that's how we come to the point where you
and Sam have been enrolled in a game. Well, let's
just have Jason Stewart take it away.
Speaker 6 (25:37):
I'll take it from here. It is Iowa Sam the
Moncey Bolanos in a game called Honors Course here on
Fox Sports Radio. Honors Course, Your Honor, Your Honor.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
That's where the drop is supposed to go.
Speaker 6 (25:52):
Mont Viz, Iowa Sam, and here's your host of Honors Course,
Dan Byer.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Thanky, Ladies and gentlemen. It's a real simple game where
Monzi and Sam will test their knowledge on if these
courses actually held the Open Championship at some point during
their time. Now, these courses may be real, maybe fake,
maybe never have hosted before. Winner gets nothing, but whoever
(26:26):
gets the five first and wins by two will be
declared our winner. And you're gonna have two stages of this.
This is the first stage and then there's the second
stage coming up next hour. We hope to be joined
by Eric Winalda. By the way, at some point in
this program, a former World Cup participant weighing in on
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this England Argentina match. I may have just ruined the surprise,
but anyway, let's get it going. You're ready to play
honors course? Iowa, Sam, you bet you Monty? Are you ready?
Speaker 5 (26:57):
I think so?
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Let's go right your first up? Okay, Royal Liverpool as
Royal Liverpool monse ever hosted the Open Championship.
Speaker 5 (27:06):
No, because it's not real.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
It is real. In fact, Rory McElroy went his only
Open Championship at Royal Liverpool. I believe Tiger Woods. I
know Tiger Woods had a record setting Open Championship victory
in two thousand and six at Royal Liverpool.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
Well, I thought you were throwing me something with soccer
INEX of Liverpool. So I was like, he's trying to
trick me.
Speaker 7 (27:32):
This isn't golf Liverpool.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Royal Liverpool jumped back into the rotation somewhat recently with
that Tiger win and now it's back in the road.
All right, Sam, are you ready to play? It is
your turn? I'm ready, all right, Saint Isaac's Saint Isaac's.
Speaker 7 (27:53):
So these sites rotate around the United Kingdom, right, Scotland, England,
even Northern Ireland.
Speaker 6 (28:01):
Sam's tactics to buy time it makes no sense. Saint
Isaac's question makes no sense.
Speaker 7 (28:07):
I'm just wondering because maybe there's like you know, and
there's a never mind, you just go with your gut,
just doing the thought process here. It's it's real.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
It is not. I did it because Isaac Crons usually
at the news desk for US Honors course. So far
you both get f's and identifying. Have these courses actually
hosted the Open Championship? All right, let's keep it with Sam,
then we'll get back to your to Monci. What about
Royal Sofia and Blanche Iowa? Sam, Royal Sophia and Blanche.
Speaker 7 (28:46):
The English in all of the Unit king they have
weird names for stuff. I'm gonna say that's real.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
No, that's half of the Golden Girls, Sophia and Blanche
Dorothy Urthy.
Speaker 7 (28:58):
And Rows two thirds of the Golden girls right or
is there four?
Speaker 2 (29:01):
There were four?
Speaker 7 (29:02):
They're only three another four? You're right, you've got that
one wrong as well. Did Scotland event you got an
F minus. Did Scotland invent golf?
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Dan, there's some debate on if they did or not.
Speaker 7 (29:12):
England invented soccer right, Yes, okay.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
The Scotts say that they did, but there are other
places that have decided.
Speaker 7 (29:19):
To I'm just trying to get my.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Scotland. Saint Andrews is the home of golf. It is
in Scotland. Speaking of Saint Andrew's, Monzi, Yes, what about
the old course at Saint Andrews. The Old Course at
Saint Andrews. Is that old course Is that hosted an
Open Championship?
Speaker 5 (29:36):
Yeah? I feel like the Open Championship has been around
a long time, so why not?
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Yes, that is correct. The old course is probably the
most famous course in the world. Monzy on first on
the board.
Speaker 5 (29:46):
You have an opportunity to go up to no American
League coming in right now?
Speaker 2 (29:51):
All right? What about Baba course?
Speaker 5 (29:55):
Excuse ba?
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Has that course hosted?
Speaker 4 (30:02):
No?
Speaker 5 (30:02):
Because you're making stuff up.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
It was Baba booie was what I was trying to say.
She caught on.
Speaker 7 (30:07):
She is correct, Baba, see the first one in that
one I would have gotten right.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
I gave you a golden girls. She started laughing when
I said, sois come.
Speaker 7 (30:19):
Up with weird names for stuff on something?
Speaker 5 (30:22):
Blanche?
Speaker 6 (30:23):
I know?
Speaker 2 (30:25):
All right, Sam, you got the last one here? Okay,
Then we got to take a time out. Royal Saint George's,
Royal Saint George's.
Speaker 7 (30:35):
Royal Saint George's. Yes, that's a real place.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
It is a real place. Calamorakowa won there in twenty
twenty one. Darren Clark won there. Ben Curtis is one there.
Royal Saint George's is a course that is hosted the
Open Championship. We'll revisit Honors Course coming up in about
forty five minutes. Nazi, you hold a two one lead,
but Sam will have control. And the next question is
(30:59):
we can see you again. It's your Honors Course on
Fox Sports Radio, Your Honor.
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YouTube for videos from our original podcast. There's only three
minutes of stoppage time in this England Argentina game, which
tells me it's been pretty fluid because there are automatically
three minutes added because of the hydration break, but still
no Scoremonting between England and Argentina. Do you have a
dog in this fight?
Speaker 5 (31:54):
I don't. I don't think I'm rooting for Argentina.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
I look that I hate Argentina, and again I love
thee that FIFA is, you know, uh doing things to
get them to the final here. I love that, but
I don't. I don't hate Argentina, but I think I'm
not rooting for them. I think I'm going for England.
I'm wondering what with Spain wants Spain because I wonder
if Spain like is like, no, let's let's face Argentina
(32:17):
so we can take down Argentina. But I feel like
Argentina doesn't Maybe the better team is England. I know
it's a scoreless game. I'm just wondering what Spain would
want in the situation.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Now, Manzi, I have been following soccer all the way
since I remember the date it was June eleventh, six. Yes,
and I can tell you Spain is much better than Argentina.
Speaker 5 (32:40):
Right, So do they want Argentina because they're right?
Speaker 2 (32:43):
I think England would give them more of a more
of a battle.
Speaker 5 (32:46):
Yeah, it's just do you want to play a team
that's been favored by And.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Again, you're talking to a guy who's followed this closely
for well over a month.
Speaker 5 (32:54):
Yeah, I think you can have all the answers.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Listen. If you don't believe me, ask Jason Stewart. He
he can tell you as well. Who should who Spain
should want to play in this match.
Speaker 6 (33:04):
No, I leaned on Dan. I've been leaning on Dan
for all of my soccer knowledge because I've been doing
a lot of gambling. But ever since he started following
the sport four weeks ago. I've been leaning on it.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
So this is this is where you. I mean, when
when our World Cup, someone who's appeared in three World
Cups could be joining the show at the top of
the hour, I mean, they I think will be impressed.
They may even call in sooner. Who knows what's going
to happen. We'll find out. But still scoreless between England
and Argentina in their match on Fox right now from Atlanta.
(33:37):
There've been a lot of headlines so over the last
couple of days about what's going to happen at the
University of Michigan, where athletic director Ward Manual seems like
he is on his way out. Wall Street Journal did
a piece yesterday. There's been other investigative pieces done justin
Spiro's based in Michigan is uncovered a lot of this
(33:59):
new and getting the behind the scenes work of all
of the problems and the scandal that is involved the
Michigan Athletic Department, including the athletic director and the then president,
knowing about allegations going on, knowing about the relationship between
(34:20):
Sharon Moore and the his athletic department assistant, where we
know how that ended up, that they knew about this,
and not only that that the president may have told
others to not bring forth evidence to try to hide
some of the evidence, which is something that has followed
many other Michigan people throughout these scandals. And it's not
(34:45):
just one scandal, Manzi.
Speaker 7 (34:47):
It's there's a lot.
Speaker 5 (34:49):
You can do a quick Google search.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
It all started with the breaking of the COVID rules
for the football program during the COVID period of the
big deal made about was it just about getting hamburger somewhere?
I know they're breaking the rules that were put in
place during that COVID time period. There was the big
cheating scandal, the spying scandal from counter stallions that happened.
(35:16):
I think a lot of people thought it was absurd.
There were some that still said, well, big deal. Michigan
won the games on the field, Well, it does help
when you know what the other team's plays are. But
even aside from that, there's the Matt Weiss investigation, who
was a former assistant at Michigan that now could face
decades in prison after hacking into thousands of profiles and
(35:40):
secure information about students, including many females, including private pictures and.
Speaker 5 (35:46):
Not just from Michigan, like across other university Yes like that.
It wasn't even just Michigan.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
And there was evidence that officials at Michigan knew about
this with Matt Weiss and allowed him to remain on
st to coach in the College Football Playoff the season
before they won the national championship. This is just going
on and on in the one complaint or the one
thing that I it's not a complaint, it's the one
(36:12):
thing that I see from Michigan fans is saying they
shouldn't strip us of our national titles because how did
this affect the games on the field. How did the
president and the athletic director knowing about these things and
not doing anythings. How did that affect, say, the national
championship that Michigan won when Jim Harbaugh was their coach
(36:34):
and they went undefeated a couple of years ago, if
it even led to anything in the basketball program, which,
by the way, I don't think it's a shocker that
Dusty May left when he did, now in maybe knowing
what was coming down the tracks, and Dusty May was
only their two years one of a national championship. I
don't think anybody on that Michigan men's basketball team had
anything to do with what these scandals are, and I
(36:56):
think Michigan people will point to that, but they will
also point to mancy of both the football National championship
is the one that you can't touch, and the NCAA
already handed down their sanctions, and I do think stripping
them of the national title would have been appropriate taking
those wins away, because I do think that they had
a direct effect, and Michigan fans will tell you that
they don't. But if you are keeping a coach on
staff to try to win a game and want to
(37:20):
allow the money to continue to come in from a
successful football program, in trying to hide evidence and keep
things under wraps because you don't want things to come
out that could derail your success, then that does affect
the on field product because those coaches shouldn't have been
coaching those players that could be tied in and there
could be other scandal still coming. Manzi, if your administration
(37:43):
is actively trying to hide and derail an investigation, it
is to raise more money, which helps you in these situations.
There are so many reasons on why it may not
be this player was allowed to play and that player
wasn't allowed to play. It doesn't come down to that,
but it's about keeping the football program afloat on the
shoulders of all these discretions that they are trying to bury.
(38:04):
It's not different than what Penn State tried to do
in their scandal. The reason they didn't want to do
it is because they didn't want to bring down the
football program that made thousands and upon thousands of people happy.
That's why it was not brought down. And this is
what's going on at Michigan. So yeah, maybe it didn't
want to stop JJ McCarthy and Blake Korum and then
running into a national championship because they won it on
(38:26):
the field, but there would have been coaches, there could
have been other people implicit in all of this. And
the reason that they didn't do anything about it is
because that football team was winning. And that's the problem.
And that's the problem that Michigan fans cannot see. And
some Michigan fans, I think the others are pretty well grounded.
Some of the best people I know are Michigan people.
But there's a portion of the fan base that just
(38:47):
does not want to admit that they were trying to
protect the winning and that is why they ended up
trying to cover up all this stuff, and that's the
biggest problem.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (38:56):
No, it's even from the start of this when that hole,
the stealing of signs or plays, all of that happened,
and it was so quickly swept under the rug.
Speaker 5 (39:05):
I felt from an outsider on college.
Speaker 4 (39:08):
Football that I was like, really, this is how quickly
we move on from this when it seemed like such
a big deal. But there's been so many other issues
within Michigan. You didn't even touch on the gymnastics person
that was hired and related to the to the bad
gymnastics guy.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
Yeah, it's Michigan State.
Speaker 7 (39:24):
Yeah, there's a whole problem in the entire time Michigan.
Speaker 5 (39:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (39:26):
Yeah, like all of that, Like what it's just it's
been there's been a lot, a lot of negativity when
it comes to I feel like Michigan in sports.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
Well, there's the Wolverine's athletic department right now is being
zeroed in and we'll find out Ward Manual's status coming
up tomorrow. The scoreless that that happen between England and Argentina.
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
Happy Wednesday to you and MONSI. I'll tell you what.
I'll tell you what. There is nothing like going to
a spot and getting delicious Mazzarelli sticks.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Oh, I know where you would and I know I
knew that you and I would be on those same
that same wavelength.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I wasn't saying wings, even though you love wings, your vegetarian.
Now we can, we can be on common ground where
a good mot stick goes a long way. All right?
You ever had mozzarella sticks? Be better than the actual
meal that you've had more often than not. Welcome to
Major League Baseball in the All Star festivities, because I
don't know what that meal was last night, National League.
(01:06):
But maybe get the shoulders off your bats. Score some
runs quit being dominated by the American League. I'm on
senior circuit right with it.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Going into the All Star Game, I think everybody was like, obviously,
National League's gonna win because the American League is.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
Ass right now. But boy did they did They show us?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yes, they said it right.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Their cheeks as a kids say.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
The game was over before the NL even went to
the plate. The AL was up three to nothing in
the top of the first. It finished four nothing, trashing
the home run derby the night before. Ended up being
the Mazzarella Stick because the National League can't swing the
stupid bats man stemied by the AL pitching.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Yeah, no, said no one ever, No, no one ever.
It's every I didn't watch it, and I don't think
I missed anything. I caught all the highlights after, and
there weren't many. In fact, the highlight lights I did see.
I was like, these are the highlights.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
It flew by, and here's my Joe Davis scoreless again
for the NL. We head to the top of the sixth.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
Davis, Yes, I don't get that one.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
I didn't expect you to uhgrade it, But that's my Joe.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
You do others better. There's other impersonations you do that
are better. So that one was not.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
When I go about, what is this what does this
mean Bobby Witt Jr. What does this mean to you?
What are we doing here?
Speaker 5 (02:27):
What does this? What does it mean to you?
Speaker 4 (02:29):
If I was Bobby wit Junior in that moment, I'd
be like, what does this mean to you?
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Talking to me?
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Artem stinks. I'm fine. I'm glad to win a game. Finally,
I'm glad to be on the running side instead of
what's going on in Kansas City. All right, this is
this is this is our our recap of the All
Star Game. Listen, I'm not going to try to fix anything, Manci.
Jason Stewart is here, Iowa Sam. We're not going to
try to redo the All Star Game. But there were
a couple of things that stood out to me last
(02:55):
night and why the All Star Game is in the
spot that it is. And I just thought it was
a tough look when fans were leaving the stadium in
the ninth inning, when it was kind of a foregone
conclusion and everybody's kind of off into the sunset. I've
been to All Star games before. One of the reasons
why they had to put the rule in to allow
home field advantage was because players left. Because the players
(03:18):
that actually had to play in the All Star Game,
didn't get much of a break. So the sooner they
could leave the All Star Game, that was more of
a vacation they had on the other end, So they
were taking a flight out maybe that Tuesday night, to
go where they needed to go, just for a couple
of days, to get a bit of a refresher. I've
been to those places. I understand what those things are.
(03:38):
The Yankee Stadium game that we talked about yesterday with
the Josh Hamilton home run, that game went to like
two am in the morning. We were in the Bronx waiting.
I remember we were in the tunnel and k Rod
Francisco Rodriguez when he was with the Angels, had already
pitched his inning. He was done, he left, he was gone.
And I'm not putting this on Francisco Rodriguez, but this
is everybody's kind of got that feeling. And I felt
(04:01):
like that was the feeling last night, that all right,
let's just get this thing done. And that has been
the case in Major League Baseball for for a long
long time. In all right, the break is kind of
taken up more than we already wanted to. Were the
All Stars, We've been putting in work these last forty
eight hours here in Philadelphia or whatever city, and now
let's just kind of move on with it. And that's
(04:22):
kind of how I felt like the game went last night,
and that was disappointing.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
This isn't the first time of players kind of using
the All Star Game as there as a break, because
wasn't it last year that show Heyo Tani or maybe
it was two years ago show Heyo Tani started pitching
for the All Star Game and then he left, like
you said, like after he was done, because there's so
many people that have to get out into the onto
the game to play, and then he left, and it
(04:46):
just kind of.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
Is it's not it's not a good look.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
It is not if you don't want to be there,
why do the fans want to be there? And it's
a I don't blame I don't blame these players for
wanting to feel like they should take a day two
days before starting the second half of the season, but
it is a bad It is a bad look and
to see or you know, the highlights, as you mentioned,
the fans gone in the ninth Inny, that's just a
bad look.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
It's like everyone seems to feel like, what's the point
of this.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Even Cody Bellinger joked when he got the MVP award. Yeah, yeah,
you joked.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
I joked, And you're in the email. I said, was
this a participation trophy? Why did he get the MVP?
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Well, he said that he didn't know what to do,
and somebody said keep your jersey on, like he was
ready to shower, so he couldn't go and shower and
clean up or do whatever he wanted to do. So
he's like, I may win the MVP, so I'm gonna
hang out here with my Yankees jersey on and lo
and behold. Then when Mike Schmid came out and gave
him the All Star Game MVP trophy, Cody Bellinger was
(05:45):
in his uniform, couldn't leave.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
He could not leave. He's getting ready to dip and
they're like, you know, you can't leave. Wait why?
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Maybe that's why the National League just decided to not
get any hits. They just wanted to leave.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
They just wanted to I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
How you fix it, and I don't think that this
is a fix it com I just think this is
where we are in Major League Baseball, And what really
struck me Moncey. Last night was when junior Kevin Nio
was hit by a pitch and went down. And now
you're saying to yourself, if he broke his finger, he
could miss a month for a team that has World
(06:18):
Series aspirations. And this is when one of the best
stories of the first half in Major League Baseball all
for what taking a pitch inside and then what the
second inning of an All Star Game like that would be?
We would be like, what are we doing here? And
then I thought, and Jason, I'm only relying on you
because we're a similar age. Moncey and Sam are younger
(06:39):
than us. But I feel if you broke your finger
in the seventy six All Star Game and missed a month,
you would be like, remember when Jim Rice broke his
finger in the All Star Game missed a month, wasn't
that awesome? Like it was a badge of honor that
you were playing in the All Star Game. In the
All Star Game meant so much that you actually injured yourself.
The Pete Rose highlight is one that we see over
(07:02):
and over again, and now that same sort of injury
we would look at completely different. I don't know, do
you find any parallels to what I'm saying or anything
with our generation and how the All Star Game used
to be looked at and how we look at it now.
Speaker 6 (07:15):
Yeah, so it's Ray FOSSi, right, Ray FOSSi was on
the receiving end of that Pete Rose infamous play. It's
on all the highlights, but it literally ruined Fossi's career.
He was never the same afterwards, but it's the most
memorable thing of his life, and he has looked upon
as like, this is how serious they took it back then.
(07:35):
This is how this is. This is why you guys
nowadays are a bunch of a bunch of princes because
they've cared about the Exhibition game back then that it
really mattered to them. So you're right, that injury last
night is going to look back on like this is
why guys shouldn't be at the All Star Game. This
is why Shoho Tani said no thanks with a with
(07:57):
a bad knee, because if you show up something like this,
you might get hurt, and nobody wants to risk that
with the salaries and what's on the line.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Yeah. I looked at it last night and I thought
the rays are like, oh my goodness, we're never having
a player play there play. Yeah, Dodger's like, show, hey,
you have played in your last you are not playing
anymore because that could happen to you. Yeah, that's how
I felt that last night, and just I brought up
the mindset, Manzi, because it is a different mindset and
there's no way of changing it. Every team last night
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put themselves in the place of the Tampa Bay Rays,
wondering what if it was our star player that was
at the plate and got hurt and it is their
star player because they're All Stars and for a player
that's in contention, I don't know why a team wouldn't
have that, So I don't know. That's why this isn't
to fix it episode here on Fox Sports Radio. How
(08:49):
do we fix the All Star Game? We can't. There's
no there's no way to do it. Maybe just have
the NL hit like that would be the best way
to do it. But in trying to figure out ways
to make it more are exciting. I'm sorry, and she's
just she's choking.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
He made me laugh, So that was like the worst.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
But just just get or do something. That's the only
way that it's gonna work. But in ways of fixing it.
I think that it's it's so far out of the
barn because I think every team had a lump in
their throat when they saw Kim and Yarrow on the
ground during last night.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
I have a lump in my throat. But while I
get through it, when did the All Star Game change
where the winner didn't matter when it came to who
had home field advantage during the World Series?
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Did that matter?
Speaker 6 (09:33):
Like?
Speaker 5 (09:33):
I feel like now when that changed, it really stopped matter.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
We all know when it started, because that was in
two thousand and two when they had the tie in Milwaukee,
and then the next year they're like, well, we need
to sort out a winner and figure it out. But
I think it's been what ten years now since they've
done they've done away with it. I don't know the
exact Google tell me twenty sixteen. So yep, yeah, ten
years so and this time it counts ten years ago.
So it went. It was scary enough, so it went
(09:57):
thirteen years and that was that was red anyway. That
was that was an effort to try to keep people interested.
But you had players on last place teams playing in
the eighth and ninth inning that were deciding who would
get home field in the World Series and there there
there was no reason for that, and the players didn't
necessarily care and it seemed very odd, so they ended
up doing away with it. And I don't think anybody
has missed it since there was.
Speaker 6 (10:18):
A Sean Taylor moment last night. And Sean Taylor moment,
I mean this, Sean Taylor infamously lit up a punter
or a kicker in a Pro Bowl game. Right, he
was the one guy on the on the field that
didn't get the memo that we're not supposed to try hard.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
Andy Pajs takes that single to center field from Bellinger
and he tried to throw the guy out at home
play and you could tell, I think it's the catcher
on the A's that was scoring. He kind of looked back, like,
wait a minute, We're supposed to try hard, Like I
don't want to slide. I don't want to slide to
home plate. What's going on here?
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Yeah, there's there's everybody is kind of on the same wavelength,
and it is what it is.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
Call me crazy.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
It seems like these guys want to the ones who
are there, They want to have fun, right, So what
about implementing something I don't know, Savannah Banana, Like.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
I don't some like change it up.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Not that they have to dance, so I'm not saying that,
but some of the silly rules I don't know. Put
a target out in center field and if you hit that, Like,
there's gotta be ways to make it a little bit
more fun because it seems like the guys just want
to have a good time. And if you make it
where they don't feel like they have to go all out,
then then me, I just feel like it's what can happen?
Speaker 5 (11:26):
What can change?
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Like you said, there's nothing to fix it, but can
there be something to make it a little bit more
entertaining than what it is? Because obviously they don't want
to compete, which is fine. I understand it's an all
star game. So some something to make it a little
bit more fun.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
I've I've got an answer. It may not be what
you want to hear. Yeah, I know you're trying. I
know you're trying to. I don't know. Do you have
an answer for her, because otherwise I'm gonna answer it
my own way. I don't The Savannah Bananas are the
night before the Savannah Bananas are the home run Derby.
And that's why I talked about the Mazzarella sticks. That's
(12:03):
because the home run Derby. Look at the stands at
the Home Run Derby, whether it be from the first
at bat or the last at bat, they are full.
And last night, by the eighth and ninth thinning in
a four to nothing ballgame, in a game that doesn't necessary,
doesn't matter to anybody, people just left people behind home plate.
(12:24):
There were empty seats. I'm not saying that the entire
stadium was empty, but people are like, all right, I've
been to the All Star Game. I saw the stars,
and I needed to see I wanted.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
To go, especially at the end of the.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Start, but they stayed for the home run Derby. Like
the home run Derby is not going to be as
great as it was on Monday Night every single year,
something we talked about yesterday, but it does get people excited.
It's the first part of All Star weekend, so you've
already had a taste of it, so you're already full.
And with the drama that it provides and the limited
(12:57):
number of players with only having eight players as opposed
to the fifty All Stars on teams, I mean there's
nobody knows who every All Star is, and the fans
aren't there standing around waiting to see who the Marlins
representative or whatever. But the All Star Game has been
surpassed by the home run derby, and the fans in
(13:18):
attendance are the reason for that. And there's nothing that
you can do, Manci to make it interesting except to
have the NL hit like that. It's just got to
be a competitive game, but it's not going to You're
not going to have a home plate collision. You're hoping
that you're not going to get hitters Bean. I'm wondering
now if pitchers will be afraid to throw inside. Sure
(13:38):
just got away from him and Camon Yarrow was a
little late in recognizing it. Maybe that's just something that
you can't avoid in baseball. But I don't think that
there's any fixes, considering the landscape and now how every
other team probably looked at what happened to Cameron Yiro
or what happened in the on the throw by Pajez.
I just think that it's it's too far down the line,
(13:58):
and you take it for what it's worth and hope
you have a competitive game.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Yeah, you're probably right because I feel like the reason
the home run derby is usually a little bit more funny,
even every year last yesterday was or two days ago
this year is was really awesome. But the fans love
the home runs like the fans love the offense. And
that's what baseball has been trying to, you know, push
towards you know, the theory that they change the balls
to make walls go fly a little bit further when
(14:23):
it's a game like last night and there is no offense,
which is what drives the fans in baseball.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
I don't know, You're right, how do you fix that?
How do you fix that?
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Because the pitchers are over You're like, wait, you talk
about this is what we're supposed to do. We're supposed
to shut these guys out. But in this situation, we
don't want to see that. We actually don't want to
see you guys shut each other out.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
We want the opposite.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Yeah, we want we want some runs, We want some excitement,
We want a little back and forth. Who's gonna win here?
Not just Mason Miller coming in and facing one batter
and then being replaced so you can get more all
stars in. I know that's been more of an All
Star thing. Jason Stewart, you wanted to chime in.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
If you think about it, the way the whole thing
is produced, it's like the the actual gameplay gets in
the way, like if whoever does this, whether it's a
combination of like MLB Entertainment and Fox, they treat the
game as if the actual in game play is secondary
to what they want to produce, the entertainment value, starting
(15:18):
with the red carpet and all the social media that
comes out of the red carpet, and then you get
in the game and it's there's multiple interviews per inning
with in game participants there in the middle of the game.
After the fourth inning, I know we're gonna talk about this.
They stopped the game for some produced thing last night,
so I guess the production is telling the fans the
(15:41):
actual in game stuff is secondary to everything else and
they just want you to tune into we're celebrating our
all Stars, We're celebrating the game.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
You know. I think I think it's the opposite in
terms of I think Fox understands that the game is
what it is and this is our only way to
salvage it. Or Major League Baseball or whoever is coming
up with those decisions in saying, these guys don't care.
(16:11):
Nobody wants to get injured. People are ready to get
out of town. How do we make this a compelling
broadcast when the game is likely going to lack and
not have any flow, and now they may alter the
flow by inserting a fourth inning break, which brought some
people to tears. And I had no idea what was
going on. You had kids riding on in bikes, and
(16:34):
I know what was going on, manci. They were trying
to make it seem like this is baseball, so much
so that I went and watched The Sandalot last night
on the heels of Jason's movie list, and I'm like,
I read people on Twitter saying that they were in tears.
They had the chicken skin, the goosebumps, and seeing the
kids ride in on bikes baseball. That was what I
(16:58):
did when I was a kid. But that's not what
kids are doing nowadays.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
Yeah, not even a little bit.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
They're like, they should be out there in their travel
team uniforms with their e bikes and their razor blade
sunglasses and their five hundred dollars bats, Like that's what
youth baseball kids Yeah, baseball's trying to sell us on
baseball that doesn't exist anymore. And so there's no kid
(17:22):
riding around Philly with one hundred and thirty dollars Mike
Schmidt jersey that's unbuttoned, Like, there's no way that didn't
happen when Mike Schmidt was playing when I was a kid,
that wasn't happening. No one was wearing their good Robin
Yount or Paul molletor jersey. When I'm playing whiffleball with
my friends back in Wisconsin in the nineteen eighties, it
is not They're not even wearing their Jim Gantner jersey
(17:44):
or Cecil Cooper jersey. None of that was happening. So
it sure's heck, wasn't happening last night? Or I don't
even know if kids drive around their neighborhood and ride
on bikes and go and play baseball in the parks anymore.
So it's this selling of stuff, and I think that
they're all trying to make up for the game that
is lacking because the players are just kind of going
through the motions.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
They could have used adults because I still ride my bike,
so they could have used me.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
You and Grace. Does Grace have her a glove on
the handle when you pick her up? Can you guys
go over to the natalies?
Speaker 5 (18:10):
Yeah, we actually rollerblade. Actually, that's what I'm saying. You
couldn't used me and my friends.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
We could have absolutely been a part of this, but
you're right, kids don't do that.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
I didn't feel the nostalgia from that video.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
I saw it after the fact, so I'm wondering if
been there it felt a little bit more. But like
I remember, right before the World Cup, I sent you
guys the video in case you hadn't seen it, the
USA World Cup video promoting you know that one gave
me all the feels.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
At the end, I was like, I believe, I believe
you would say can do this. After watching this, I
was like, I don't, I don't. I don't know. It
didn't hit me. Maybe it hit people that were there.
But this whole marketing thing.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
What's what I find so interesting is the red carpet,
the interviews, right, all of this stuff that has happened
in the later years.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
It's in theory like it's.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
Awesome, but it doesn't work because I have access to
all of these players at my fingertips on their social media. Sure, Like,
that's why this doesn't work because I just saw him.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
He actually posted a better video ten minutes ago than
this interview that you're putting.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
So it's like it as much as like, I get
why they're doing it, because they have them there. In reality,
this would have worked thirty years ago when social media
wasn't as big or these athletes weren't as accessible as
they used to be.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
It doesn't. It doesn't work.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
They're trying to add ketchup to that steak, right, that's
what they're trying to do.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
And I think, Sam, did you want to add something? Sam? Sorry?
I think I saw it.
Speaker 7 (19:35):
Oh, all good. I was just gonna say that. So
Dan JK. Simmons's voiceover didn't convince you. He said in
that clip, he's like, this isn't nostalgia because nostalgia is
trying to find that emotion for something that's gone. He's like,
this is still baseball today, and you're saying that's a
big fat lie.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
That is not baseball today.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
It's not baseball today, and it definitely tried to hit nostalgia.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
You're right, he does say that, But I was like, then,
what then why does this look old school?
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Yeah, but that was on percent made for TV event,
Like if you're at the stadium, you're not really catching
on that the kids you just like wire kids on bikes,
Like that's it's I've been to those events before. They
don't translate as well, and.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
I would have gone to get a beer at that point.
Speaker 7 (20:11):
At that point, I was sort of tuned out, like
just on my laptop listening, and I thought they had
gone to commercial, and I was like, what is going
on here? Like where's the game? And then I look
over and it's like this whole pre produced thing and
then these kids, Yeah, they come out of the tunnel
and they start riding onto the field, and I did like,
like I thought, honestly that five minutes was like the
best part of the entire night, even though like I like,
(20:34):
I'm sorry, it was just boring. I thought it was boring.
Speaker 6 (20:37):
A lot of people agreed with Sam, Like I I
live on Twitter, so Twitter almost disappointed me last night.
And how uncynical it was about that, because usually things
are always overwhelmingly negative on Twitter, but a lot of
you gotta saw a lot of positive comments from like
the former Blue Check brigade and like you know, heartstrings
and tears and all those stuff. It's like it was
(20:58):
not happening. It's the mixed messaging to me that really
confuses me with baseball because I care about it. I've
watched a lot of it. It's my sport. So are
we supposed to be appealing to young audiences with all
these rule changes and allowing people to show up pictures
and denigrade the game and all all these things, all
these rule changes that are supposedly trying to appeal to
(21:20):
a younger generation. And then we stopped the all stark
ginga in the middle and talk about all the great
things that we used to love about baseball.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
They need to say. I don't know if did you
want to respond.
Speaker 7 (21:31):
I was just going to say that that five minute
break to go to that pre produced thing that became live,
I wasn't even necessarily super moved by it. I thought
it was neat, but I just thought it was the
highlight of an otherwise sort of you know, a hum
and a sigh of a night, which is not a
good thing.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
No, it's not. I think the Ray Charles version is awesome. Yes,
it was weird. Well from twenty eleven at Chase Field.
You know, like like it was like, it's just I
felt like what I do to Mansi and shore Tiktoks,
like hey, did you see this? Like like like maybe
have it like just just just was odd. It was weird. Yeah,
(22:09):
they were and they looked through the window, which is
why I ended up watching The Sandlot last night because
I'm like, why are people crying? And I just feel
that this is not baseball today when it comes to
the youth of our of America.
Speaker 7 (22:22):
The kids wouldn't be knocking on doors. They'd be texting
their buddies.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Yeah they didn't, didn't They do the peak through the
wall and then they opened it up and then they
all like roll it on their bikes. Nobody does that
these days.
Speaker 7 (22:33):
Did you like though, like once they were on the field,
the fire the fire's were cool, and I did like,
like you're playing, you know, Freddy Freeman playing catch with
the kids.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
This is nice. It was all staged. Yes, yeah, it
was very stage. Yeah, yes it didn't. It did not
pull the heart strings. And I feel that the effort
into a piece like that has to go to those
lengths because the game is turned into what it was
because the game is tougher to watch than a two
dollars steak. The appetizer of the mazzarella sticks way better.
(23:03):
And that's why we get all this other stuff like
the catch up, like the steak sauce, to try to
make that meal better. And you know what, sometimes it
just doesn't work.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
It doesn't work. Does a great, great comparison.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
She's Monty Blagos. I'm Dan Byer. We're gonna go out
on that compliment. England Argentina scoreless. Twenty fourth minute World
Cup Semifinal in Atlanta, winner gets Spain in the World
Cup Final on Sunday. You can see the match going
on right now on Fox. Hit her up at Monti Blagos.
You can find me at Dan Byer on Fox. He's
Jason Stewart. That's Iowa Sam hanging out for Stu Gotzon
(23:35):
Company Live here on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Be sure to catch live editions of Stu Gotson Company
Live weekdays at three pm Eastern twelve pm Pacific on
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Speaker 2 (23:50):
Stu Gotson Company Live, Fox Sports Radio. She's Manzi Blaanhos.
I'm Dan Byer. Thirty second minute England and Argentina still scoreless.
Jason Stewart's here our executive producer, Iowa Sammar technical producer,
and I mentioned just hours from now will be the
beginning of the Open Championship at Royal Birkdale. You know
(24:12):
a lot about Royal Birkdale. Monzi, No, that's all right,
it's not in America. I love working with Monzi because
she's new to golf, and so we took her to
her first ever golf event. It was the first time
you had ever been on a golf course last month. Yes,
Riviera Country Club is a great place to have your
first golf course that you've ever been to. We watched
(24:33):
the US Women's Open, and now over the next four days,
golf's final major of the year will be taking place
in what has been a sunny, dry England over these
last couple of weeks, so you won't get the normal
wind and rain that we feel like we're going to
be accustomed to at the Open Championship. It'll be fair
conditions and the course will be playing fast and firm.
(24:55):
So just remember that over these next four days, if
he can remember that it's Royal Burke Day out, even better,
I'm going to quiz you yes, write it down, it's
it's your answer already. Royal Birkdale is where they are
playing this year, and there are a variety of courses
that have hosted Open Championships. They have it. They call
it the Open Championship of Rota with they rotate amongst
(25:17):
you know, yeah, some some more often, some are getting
into the mix again, others have fallen out of the mix.
So that's how we come to the point where you
and Sam have been enrolled in a game. Well, let's
just have Jason Stewart take it away.
Speaker 6 (25:37):
I'll take it from here. It is Iowa Sam the
Moncey Bolanos in a game called Honors Course here on
Fox Sports Radio. Honors Course, Your Honor, Your Honor.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
That's where the drop is supposed to go.
Speaker 6 (25:52):
Mont Viz, Iowa Sam, and here's your host of Honors Course,
Dan Byer.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Thanky, Ladies and gentlemen. It's a real simple game where
Monzi and Sam will test their knowledge on if these
courses actually held the Open Championship at some point during
their time. Now, these courses may be real, maybe fake,
maybe never have hosted before. Winner gets nothing, but whoever
(26:26):
gets the five first and wins by two will be
declared our winner. And you're gonna have two stages of this.
This is the first stage and then there's the second
stage coming up next hour. We hope to be joined
by Eric Winalda. By the way, at some point in
this program, a former World Cup participant weighing in on
(26:47):
this England Argentina match. I may have just ruined the surprise,
but anyway, let's get it going. You're ready to play
honors course? Iowa, Sam, you bet you Monty? Are you ready?
Speaker 5 (26:57):
I think so?
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Let's go right your first up? Okay, Royal Liverpool as
Royal Liverpool monse ever hosted the Open Championship.
Speaker 5 (27:06):
No, because it's not real.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
It is real. In fact, Rory McElroy went his only
Open Championship at Royal Liverpool. I believe Tiger Woods. I
know Tiger Woods had a record setting Open Championship victory
in two thousand and six at Royal Liverpool.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
Well, I thought you were throwing me something with soccer
INEX of Liverpool. So I was like, he's trying to
trick me.
Speaker 7 (27:32):
This isn't golf Liverpool.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Royal Liverpool jumped back into the rotation somewhat recently with
that Tiger win and now it's back in the road.
All right, Sam, are you ready to play? It is
your turn? I'm ready, all right, Saint Isaac's Saint Isaac's.
Speaker 7 (27:53):
So these sites rotate around the United Kingdom, right, Scotland, England,
even Northern Ireland.
Speaker 6 (28:01):
Sam's tactics to buy time it makes no sense. Saint
Isaac's question makes no sense.
Speaker 7 (28:07):
I'm just wondering because maybe there's like you know, and
there's a never mind, you just go with your gut,
just doing the thought process here. It's it's real.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
It is not. I did it because Isaac Crons usually
at the news desk for US Honors course. So far
you both get f's and identifying. Have these courses actually
hosted the Open Championship? All right, let's keep it with Sam,
then we'll get back to your to Monci. What about
Royal Sofia and Blanche Iowa? Sam, Royal Sophia and Blanche.
Speaker 7 (28:46):
The English in all of the Unit king they have
weird names for stuff. I'm gonna say that's real.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
No, that's half of the Golden Girls, Sophia and Blanche
Dorothy Urthy.
Speaker 7 (28:58):
And Rows two thirds of the Golden girls right or
is there four?
Speaker 2 (29:01):
There were four?
Speaker 7 (29:02):
They're only three another four? You're right, you've got that
one wrong as well. Did Scotland event you got an
F minus. Did Scotland invent golf?
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Dan, there's some debate on if they did or not.
Speaker 7 (29:12):
England invented soccer right, Yes, okay.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
The Scotts say that they did, but there are other
places that have decided.
Speaker 7 (29:19):
To I'm just trying to get my.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Scotland. Saint Andrews is the home of golf. It is
in Scotland. Speaking of Saint Andrew's, Monzi, Yes, what about
the old course at Saint Andrews. The Old Course at
Saint Andrews. Is that old course Is that hosted an
Open Championship?
Speaker 5 (29:36):
Yeah? I feel like the Open Championship has been around
a long time, so why not?
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Yes, that is correct. The old course is probably the
most famous course in the world. Monzy on first on
the board.
Speaker 5 (29:46):
You have an opportunity to go up to no American
League coming in right now?
Speaker 2 (29:51):
All right? What about Baba course?
Speaker 5 (29:55):
Excuse ba?
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Has that course hosted?
Speaker 4 (30:02):
No?
Speaker 5 (30:02):
Because you're making stuff up.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
It was Baba booie was what I was trying to say.
She caught on.
Speaker 7 (30:07):
She is correct, Baba, see the first one in that
one I would have gotten right.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
I gave you a golden girls. She started laughing when
I said, sois come.
Speaker 7 (30:19):
Up with weird names for stuff on something?
Speaker 5 (30:22):
Blanche?
Speaker 6 (30:23):
I know?
Speaker 2 (30:25):
All right, Sam, you got the last one here? Okay,
Then we got to take a time out. Royal Saint George's,
Royal Saint George's.
Speaker 7 (30:35):
Royal Saint George's. Yes, that's a real place.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
It is a real place. Calamorakowa won there in twenty
twenty one. Darren Clark won there. Ben Curtis is one there.
Royal Saint George's is a course that is hosted the
Open Championship. We'll revisit Honors Course coming up in about
forty five minutes. Nazi, you hold a two one lead,
but Sam will have control. And the next question is
(30:59):
we can see you again. It's your Honors Course on
Fox Sports Radio, Your Honor.
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YouTube for videos from our original podcast. There's only three
minutes of stoppage time in this England Argentina game, which
tells me it's been pretty fluid because there are automatically
three minutes added because of the hydration break, but still
no Scoremonting between England and Argentina. Do you have a
dog in this fight?
Speaker 5 (31:54):
I don't. I don't think I'm rooting for Argentina.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
I look that I hate Argentina, and again I love
thee that FIFA is, you know, uh doing things to
get them to the final here. I love that, but
I don't. I don't hate Argentina, but I think I'm
not rooting for them. I think I'm going for England.
I'm wondering what with Spain wants Spain because I wonder
if Spain like is like, no, let's let's face Argentina
(32:17):
so we can take down Argentina. But I feel like
Argentina doesn't Maybe the better team is England. I know
it's a scoreless game. I'm just wondering what Spain would
want in the situation.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Now, Manzi, I have been following soccer all the way
since I remember the date it was June eleventh, six. Yes,
and I can tell you Spain is much better than Argentina.
Speaker 5 (32:40):
Right, So do they want Argentina because they're right?
Speaker 2 (32:43):
I think England would give them more of a more
of a battle.
Speaker 5 (32:46):
Yeah, it's just do you want to play a team
that's been favored by And.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Again, you're talking to a guy who's followed this closely
for well over a month.
Speaker 5 (32:54):
Yeah, I think you can have all the answers.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Listen. If you don't believe me, ask Jason Stewart. He
he can tell you as well. Who should who Spain
should want to play in this match.
Speaker 6 (33:04):
No, I leaned on Dan. I've been leaning on Dan
for all of my soccer knowledge because I've been doing
a lot of gambling. But ever since he started following
the sport four weeks ago. I've been leaning on it.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
So this is this is where you. I mean, when
when our World Cup, someone who's appeared in three World
Cups could be joining the show at the top of
the hour, I mean, they I think will be impressed.
They may even call in sooner. Who knows what's going
to happen. We'll find out. But still scoreless between England
and Argentina in their match on Fox right now from Atlanta.
(33:37):
There've been a lot of headlines so over the last
couple of days about what's going to happen at the
University of Michigan, where athletic director Ward Manual seems like
he is on his way out. Wall Street Journal did
a piece yesterday. There's been other investigative pieces done justin
Spiro's based in Michigan is uncovered a lot of this
(33:59):
new and getting the behind the scenes work of all
of the problems and the scandal that is involved the
Michigan Athletic Department, including the athletic director and the then president,
knowing about allegations going on, knowing about the relationship between
(34:20):
Sharon Moore and the his athletic department assistant, where we
know how that ended up, that they knew about this,
and not only that that the president may have told
others to not bring forth evidence to try to hide
some of the evidence, which is something that has followed
many other Michigan people throughout these scandals. And it's not
(34:45):
just one scandal, Manzi.
Speaker 7 (34:47):
It's there's a lot.
Speaker 5 (34:49):
You can do a quick Google search.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
It all started with the breaking of the COVID rules
for the football program during the COVID period of the
big deal made about was it just about getting hamburger somewhere?
I know they're breaking the rules that were put in
place during that COVID time period. There was the big
cheating scandal, the spying scandal from counter stallions that happened.
(35:16):
I think a lot of people thought it was absurd.
There were some that still said, well, big deal. Michigan
won the games on the field, Well, it does help
when you know what the other team's plays are. But
even aside from that, there's the Matt Weiss investigation, who
was a former assistant at Michigan that now could face
decades in prison after hacking into thousands of profiles and
(35:40):
secure information about students, including many females, including private pictures and.
Speaker 5 (35:46):
Not just from Michigan, like across other university Yes like that.
It wasn't even just Michigan.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
And there was evidence that officials at Michigan knew about
this with Matt Weiss and allowed him to remain on
st to coach in the College Football Playoff the season
before they won the national championship. This is just going
on and on in the one complaint or the one
thing that I it's not a complaint, it's the one
(36:12):
thing that I see from Michigan fans is saying they
shouldn't strip us of our national titles because how did
this affect the games on the field. How did the
president and the athletic director knowing about these things and
not doing anythings. How did that affect, say, the national
championship that Michigan won when Jim Harbaugh was their coach
(36:34):
and they went undefeated a couple of years ago, if
it even led to anything in the basketball program, which,
by the way, I don't think it's a shocker that
Dusty May left when he did, now in maybe knowing
what was coming down the tracks, and Dusty May was
only their two years one of a national championship. I
don't think anybody on that Michigan men's basketball team had
anything to do with what these scandals are, and I
(36:56):
think Michigan people will point to that, but they will
also point to mancy of both the football National championship
is the one that you can't touch, and the NCAA
already handed down their sanctions, and I do think stripping
them of the national title would have been appropriate taking
those wins away, because I do think that they had
a direct effect, and Michigan fans will tell you that
they don't. But if you are keeping a coach on
staff to try to win a game and want to
(37:20):
allow the money to continue to come in from a
successful football program, in trying to hide evidence and keep
things under wraps because you don't want things to come
out that could derail your success, then that does affect
the on field product because those coaches shouldn't have been
coaching those players that could be tied in and there
could be other scandal still coming. Manzi, if your administration
(37:43):
is actively trying to hide and derail an investigation, it
is to raise more money, which helps you in these situations.
There are so many reasons on why it may not
be this player was allowed to play and that player
wasn't allowed to play. It doesn't come down to that,
but it's about keeping the football program afloat on the
shoulders of all these discretions that they are trying to bury.
(38:04):
It's not different than what Penn State tried to do
in their scandal. The reason they didn't want to do
it is because they didn't want to bring down the
football program that made thousands and upon thousands of people happy.
That's why it was not brought down. And this is
what's going on at Michigan. So yeah, maybe it didn't
want to stop JJ McCarthy and Blake Korum and then
running into a national championship because they won it on
(38:26):
the field, but there would have been coaches, there could
have been other people implicit in all of this. And
the reason that they didn't do anything about it is
because that football team was winning. And that's the problem.
And that's the problem that Michigan fans cannot see. And
some Michigan fans, I think the others are pretty well grounded.
Some of the best people I know are Michigan people.
But there's a portion of the fan base that just
(38:47):
does not want to admit that they were trying to
protect the winning and that is why they ended up
trying to cover up all this stuff, and that's the
biggest problem.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (38:56):
No, it's even from the start of this when that hole,
the stealing of signs or plays, all of that happened,
and it was so quickly swept under the rug.
Speaker 5 (39:05):
I felt from an outsider on college.
Speaker 4 (39:08):
Football that I was like, really, this is how quickly
we move on from this when it seemed like such
a big deal. But there's been so many other issues
within Michigan. You didn't even touch on the gymnastics person
that was hired and related to the to the bad
gymnastics guy.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
Yeah, it's Michigan State.
Speaker 7 (39:24):
Yeah, there's a whole problem in the entire time Michigan.
Speaker 5 (39:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (39:26):
Yeah, like all of that, Like what it's just it's
been there's been a lot, a lot of negativity when
it comes to I feel like Michigan in sports.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
Well, there's the Wolverine's athletic department right now is being
zeroed in and we'll find out Ward Manual's status coming
up tomorrow. The scoreless that that happen between England and Argentina.
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