July 16, 2024 • 37 mins
Brian Noe & Eddie Garcia are in for Ben Maller and break down the Home Run Derby and the ear-splitting National Anthem that preceded it, Dustin May's esophagus injury, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
Evening to you, Eddie Garcia.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
So we had the MLB home run derby on Monday night,
and as you just said, right there, Teoscar hernandez one.
I thought that that was not the lead story here.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
In this one.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
We'll get to Taoscar and the drama. But the national
anthem here has gotten quite the reaction, Eddie. Remember when
Fergie sang the national anthem? I think it was during
the NBA All Star Game, and it was It was
freaking terrible. It was really bad, but very memorable. I
think she's got some competition over here. This is Ingrid Andres.
(01:02):
Are you familiar with Ingrid over here?
Speaker 3 (01:04):
I'm not, no, I I've never heard of her before.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
I haven't either. I'm looking it up on Spotify.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
She's got a couple of hit songs, more hearts than mine,
over one hundred and fifty one million listens right there.
We also have Wistful Drinking and that's got one hundred
and thirteen either listens or likes. Not exactly sure how
it goes on Spotify, but she's got a couple of
(01:30):
country hit songs. Right This was not her best, This
is not her a game before the home run derby.
This is a portion of how the anthem sounded of
(01:58):
that's what we're looking at, Eddie. So that's what we're
working with right there.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Not so good, not great, not great.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I did love at uh kind of like midway through
the anthem, she didn't exactly hit the high note, and
you can hear the crowd in the background and try
to be respectful, but they're at the same time like, whoa,
what is happening here?
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Less?
Speaker 3 (02:34):
It's not funny? Why my laughing? It's not funny?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Oh man? That was rough.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
It's rough right there, and you can imagine Eddie. A
lot of uh comments on social media, people make comments
about that. Yeah, comments here and there on the the
anthem right there. I like this from C. Trent Rosecrans.
He covers the reds for the Athletic. He wrote, remember
(03:00):
Whitney Houston's national anthem performance at the Super Bowl. This
is the exact opposite, is what he wrote. And I
like the the Phillies Third Basement Alec Bohm. He actually
had to hold back laughs during the anthem. They showed
him for a couple of seconds and he's kind of
doing the Draymond Green thing, you know, when Draymond was
listening to Fergie Butcher the anthem. That's what happened before
(03:24):
the derby, so that that was the beginning of it.
And then did you catch any of the derby? Eddy
I had it on in the background. You'd probably be
happy to know I didn't gamble on it. He might
be surprised.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
I'm very, very relieved to know that you didn't do it.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Yeah, I'm just not into it.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Didn't you? Why didn't you?
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Because I didn't have a strong feeling, you know, like
I'm not into just kind of like closing your eyes
and hoping to hit a bull's eye.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Really actually think you're good at it?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Well, I'm not saying I'm good at it.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
I'm just saying i'd rather bet on something I feel
strongly about. You know, I don't want to.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Just I'm proud of you Brian for that. I most
most gamblers, you know, you're gonna put something on something
God have some action.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
No, I didn't have anything on it, but I was
getting ready for the show and I had it on
and it was all right.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
I saw the rules before this and I'm just like,
what are they doing? I have no idea what's going on.
I read them a couple of times and I'm like,
this is this could not be more baseball like, making
it as complicated as possible, and then when the derby started,
I'm like, oh, it's really not that complicated. It's just
(04:37):
maybe I'm just slow. I don't know. But when I
read the rules, I'm like, I have no idea what's
going on here?
Speaker 3 (04:43):
But I thought it was smart. They they've decided it
looks stupid if we have, you know, brackets, and some
guy hits you know, I'm just throwing a number out there,
twenty five home runs and the other guy hits twenty six,
and they were by far the two highest totals and
the twenty five guys out it's kind of dumb. So
so they got rid of the brackets for the first round.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Yeah, and that was smart I think it's kind of
like the Three Point Contest in the NBA. They don't
have brackets for that first round.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
I think I think it's probably more similar to that
because there was a limit to the number of pitches. Yeah,
you could get kind of kind of like the limit
to the number of basketballs you could shoot in the
three Point.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Contest, exactly right, And that's how they started to explain it,
like the night of I wish they would have said
that earlier. I would have kind of grasped it a
little bit better. But yeah, they each hitter had three
minutes and they had forty pitches to hit within those
three minutes, and they just tried to hit as many
home runs as possible. Then there was a bonus round
(05:39):
after that, and YadA, YadA. But I actually thought it
was a good time. I thought it was pretty fun
and there was some drama at the end. Like you
said at the top of the hour, ready, ti Oscar
Hernandez of the Dodgers. He's the first ever Dodger to
win the home run derby in the final round.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Yeah, crazy, isn't it a little bit?
Speaker 2 (05:56):
It is pretty Yeah, it is wild.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
But he had fourteen homers in the final round, he
was going up against the royal shortstop Bobby Witt Junior,
and Bobby had thirteen home runs.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
He needed one more home run.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
He had one more out and he sent a moonshot
to like left center field. And this is the way
it sounded on ESPN.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
O Good, lady, good, leads.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
Oscarnandus is your twenty twenty four team All home run
Derby Champ.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Just missed it.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
It looked like a couple of feet. He just needed it.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
How about that Bobby Witt Junior hits the wall on
the final hit, right, He's trying to get a home
run to tie it up, and he hit the wall,
falls one home run short. There was some dramas good
they had Michael Buffer. I love Michael Buffer. What fight
fan doesn't love Michael Buffer with Let's get ready to Rumble?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
He's enough?
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Is it either he or the Rock that has to
show up for every like, you know, major sporting event.
Now to start it off?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Does the Rock have?
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Does he have like a let's get ready to rumble catchphrase? Right,
he's got a few of them, But what does he
say before?
Speaker 3 (07:15):
I don't really pay attention, but I used to see
him out there like he wasn't at the super Bowl, right.
Speaker 6 (07:19):
Or I.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Know he's done like the whole.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Out there in like a tank top or whatever.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
You know.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Yeah, I don't know if it was the super Bowl,
but he's done the XFL, I guess UFL now stuff and.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
He's I know he was at some NFL. I think
it was the Super I think he was at the
super Bowl. Maybe it was last year. I don't I
don't remember. He's been out there. I don't know. It
just seems like it's you know, him or Buffer. They
have to be out whatever big event.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
I haven't seen Michael Buffer as much because Bruce buf
Buffer has been the man, right, he's doing all the well.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
I'm a hockey guy. So they just had the NHL
Draft at the Sphere, not the spear, as Ben Maller
would say, the spear in Las Vegas, and Michael Buffer
was was there for that.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
So oh, really did he did the let's get ready
to rumble.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Things the crap though? That's kind of cool. Ben says
the spear.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
He does the spear. Yeah, he doesn't say he can't
say spear.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
That's pretty funny, man. That's good. Did you catch any
of the Home Run Derby Eddie or you like, you know.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
I don't want to. It's funny because I I don't know.
My wife gets mad when I say how old I
am because she thinks that people won't want to hear
me because I'm not. But I'm turning fifty five this year. Wow,
And uh, but I still have some tendencies of a
of a younger person as far as my attention span. Yeah,
(08:49):
so if I'm not really invested in it, I'll just
watch like the YouTube highlights and uh and get my
get it in that way. I don't I don't need
to watch three hours worth of but when I got
to watch three minutes of it, So that's.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Totally understand that nothing wrong with that at all.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Would you say you have the attention span of what,
like we were talking like a twenty five.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Year old, I don't know. I'm not around too many
twenty five year old so I can't really say I'm
I don't think it's that bad, yeah, but I do.
I guess I feel the younger generation as far as
I don't know if it's there short attention span or
maybe it is, but for me, it's just I just
don't have the time to invest into sports like I
(09:30):
used to, like, you know, when I was younger. That's
all I did. There was like nothing else. Yeah, I'm
not you know, I look for the big events or
for something I really really care about. I will obviously
invest the time, but it's something I'm just mildly interested in.
I'm just yeah, I'm just good with the highlights. Now,
I don't need to watch the entire thing.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Hey, that makes sense. What did you do in the
meantime right?
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Like?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Take me through the evening leading up to the show.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Oh, you don't want to know that there was nothing.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
I'm very curious.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
What was Oh, there's nothing exciting at all. I mean
there was a nap involved. And you know, that's not
so much about the age though, it's about the you know,
the hours I work. I make sure I get in
a nap, you know every day before I come into works.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
What is your kind of like your hours of nap
time before the show?
Speaker 3 (10:14):
It depends. Today we had our neighbors getting like some
work done in their house. Usually it's a pretty quiet neighborhood,
but they're getting some work done. And so I was.
I was awakened earlier than normal and so I felt
like I needed to get a little extra nap in before.
So okay, yeah, I had an extra long nap today.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
So you're just you're going to be spitting fire tonight, right,
I don't.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Know about that. Okay, all right, I'm spitting fire every night.
What are you talking about.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
I didn't mean to make it sound like you didn't,
you know, but I thought extra rested revitalized the whole thing.
I could expect some hot takes from you tonight.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
You know that sort of depends on what we talk about.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Okay, all right, I'll try to keep them in your
wheelhouse over here. You know, I'll do my best. Okay,
So all is good?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Right?
Speaker 1 (11:04):
We got the home run derby in very nice. Didn't
start off great with the national anthem, but we rallied.
We rallied with some drama with Ti Oscar and Bobby
Witt Junior, and we had Buffer involved there. I think
there was a lot to be gained, good stuff all
the way around. Solid dumbs up, I would say.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Yeah, I'm not bad. I'm looking forward to the All
Star Game because being a Pirates fan, Yeah, don't get
a lot of All Star Game starters. I think the
last time. I remember a pirate pitcher I think might
have been like Rick Russell. Wow in San Francisco at
Candlestick Park. I mean, you remember Rick Russell. He's a big,
(11:41):
fat guy out there. I don't really, Oh my god,
yeah he didn't. I mean he did not look like
a professional athlete I'm at all at all. It was
really weird, but he was a pretty good pitcher.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
I'm looking forward to it tomorrow night. You know what's
funny is I just had no idea. When I was
a young kid, I didn't know, and I just had
this story popping in my head where I was I
don't know how old, Eddie. I was maybe like nine
or ten years old something like that, and my dad
and my uncle were like, hey, let's go out and
(12:13):
grab some pizza right now. And I'm like, it's the
All Star Game. Why on earth would we go anywhere?
I just want to watch the MLB All Star Game.
And I remember when we left to go grab pizza,
there were people out. There were people in their cars
driving wherever. And I was stunned, Eddie. I was amazed
(12:35):
that anybody was out of their homes and they were
not all watching the MLB All Star Game.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
I just didn't realize any better. I was so young.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Have you ever gone out during the Super Bowl at all?
I know you haven't. That's a stupid question for me
to ask. But I mean, like halftime, I don't care
about the you know this, well maybe you don't. You
forget a lot of things, but I notoriously hate the
halftime show and it's extra long. Make sure I go
do something during that. And uh, yeah, have you ever
(13:04):
ventured out just to see you know that you know,
the traffic or in your neighborhood and stuff like that
during the Super Bowl. It's kind of cool. Actually it's
not a lot of people around.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Yeah, all right, so it's kind of like a I
don't know, like a Friday night lights like Texas high
school football thing going on right where nobody's driving anywhere.
You're saying, it's like no one's around, is what you're saying, right.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Yeah, pretty much. I don't know about the Texas high
school think. I've never been in Texas for a high
school first.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
That's what they say all the time. They're like, yeah,
there's just tumbleweed going through town. Everybody's at the game.
You know, they're not doing.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
It that makes sense. No, I understand that.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Yeah, no, I really have it. I can't think there
might have been some random scenario where I caught the
first half with some people and then ran over for
the second. Maybe something like that, Eddie. But for the
most part, I'm at one spot. You know, I'm not
messing around with that too much. But you know you
(13:58):
could gather that based on my football session. Yeah, you're
right about that. All right, plenty to do this evening.
A lot of ball, meaning football, of course. We got
hoops on the agenda, some fun stuff, some non sports
stuff that we got to get to as well. Right
around the corner, the news didn't get much better, but
(14:18):
there is one story that's halfway positive associated with this player.
We'll get to that right around the corner.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
He's Eddie Garcia. I'm Brian.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
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Speaker 5 (14:33):
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Speaker 2 (15:51):
No Oh Eddie.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
So summer league action was heating up in a major
way where it wasn't Bronnie James. Okay, Bronnie did not
crush it. More on that in a second. But there
was positive news, right, A lot of it's been very
very negative. He hasn't shot well, doesn't have great stats,
that sort of thing. But something positive with Bronnie James
(16:16):
associated with the NBA Summer League. He a he won
a Call of Duty tournament at the NBA Summer League.
He won ten thousand bucks Eddie and a cut.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
God.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Yeah, he got money, that's right. He needs the cash.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
And he got a Call of Duty Championship belt as well.
So not not a complete loss for Bronnie that NBA
Summer League here.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Now as far as.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
The probably the probably the best you'll do the entire
summer league, I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Yeah, that's the highlight of it, because it didn't get
any better on the court. So Bronnie was one for
five the Lakers they lost to the Celtics in Summer
League action on Monday night. Bronnie was one for five
from the field. He was oho for three from three
point range. So now in four summer league games, Eddie,
(17:14):
we're looking at Bronnie's stats. Here is collective stats. He
is seven for thirty one from the field. He is
oh for fifteen from three point range.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
That's great.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
I could do that.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
I think you absolutely what.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
I might hit one. I might get lucky and hit one.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
You know what, if we gave you fifteen shots in
an NBA summer league setting, I feel confident that one
of those bad boys goes.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
I'll be honest, though I have not shot some hoops
in a long time.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Man, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
If you're not used to shooting from NBA range, it
is back there.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Yeah, Okay, I'm gonna you know what I'm gonna say. No,
I'm gonna say'm gonna i'd be I go, Bronnie, I
go for fifteen.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Man. It's uh yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
I was at my sister in law's place. They have
a dog and they lived near us, and they asked, Hey,
can you go over and let the dog out. You know,
we're not going to get home for a while and
dog would like to go out and do its business.
Could you just stop by? Yeah? Absolutely, So. The dog
loves to play, as you say, ball, dog loves to
play with the ball. You throw the ball, dog gets
(18:23):
the ball, brings it to you, and he'll do that
all damn day. So I decided to play a little
ball with the dog. And I had realized I cannot
throw a ball anymore to save my life. Oh man,
Like we used to do that every day when I
was a kid. I'd throw it some kind of ball somewhere.
I'd throw it up off the roof and catch it
or whatever, let it bounce down. I just I don't
throw throw balls much anymore. And I was I was
(18:45):
chucking the ball, and I was like, man, I have
a total weeny arm. It's just they don't do they
don't do it for a while. You don't. You're not
very good at it.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Yeah, as a member of the noodle arm club.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
It's okay, Eddie, thank you. It doesn't really help because
I used to throw the ball well yeah, yeah, yeah.
If I always had alarm'd be like, oh, well that's
just me. But yeah, I think of it as a
nice memory, I.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Like with a lot of things. You know, what's funny,
Eddie is like three point range. So I was doing
radio in Portland at the time, and there was just
this random story where Gilbert Arenas had challenged Nick Young,
remember Swaggy P.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
He challenged him to a three point.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Contest, and Swaggy P didn't show up, and so they
just showed Gilbert Arenas in this empty gym taking one
hundred three pointers and he took twenty from each spot
right kind of like the NBA three point contest.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
He just moved.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
He took twenty shots at each of those five spots
around the three point arc. This dude made ninety five
of them. I'm still amazed. He made ninety five out
of a hundred three pointers.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
And I just said.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
During the local show at the time, I was like,
I think I could make forty of them, and there
was another host that was like, you're out of your
freaking mind. That's impossible. You have no chance. It turned
it into this whole thing, And so I was allowed
to practice for this. Beforehand, Eddie and I hadn't shot
from three point range I don't know how long. And
(20:24):
during the course of like practicing for this and doing
the contest, somehow I completely jacked up my shoulder, Like
my left shoulder was just dead, and I didn't realize
you're supposed to keep moving it I thought, I like,
messed up my rotator cuff for I don't know what.
So I didn't use it. I didn't do anything, and
it just got worse and worse and worse and worse.
(20:46):
Finally got it checked out and they were like, you
have frozen shoulder, and I'm like what.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Yeah, I had w and loosen that thing up.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
I didn't even know that was a thing.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
I've never heard of that in my life.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
But it isn't that weird though, too.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
I'm right handed, and so I was shooting these NBA
range three pointers and I messed up my left shoulder.
I still don't understand how that happened.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
I have a similar story, but not me. My wife
currently is dealing with a torn rotator cuff.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Okay, yeah, that how did that happen?
Speaker 3 (21:20):
We have no idea she had shoulder painted, she would
have got it checked out. I'm like, well, no more
fastballs for you. I guess like that just happens in life.
That's crazy. I don't so bad.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
I hate these injuries that you just get old.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
You know.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
I messed up my calf sitting a couple of years ago.
How weak is that?
Speaker 3 (21:44):
I was?
Speaker 5 (21:44):
Just?
Speaker 3 (21:44):
How old are you?
Speaker 2 (21:45):
I am forty six.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Now, okay, well you're you're around that age where things
just start, you just start, things happen. You don't even
like I know it. You're not even doing anything, and
you'll you know, you get out of bed and you
be like hurt your back and you're like, what the hell?
Speaker 6 (21:59):
Man?
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Sad?
Speaker 1 (22:00):
It's sad. I was just sitting on one of those
you know, like the bar chairs that are a little
bit higher, and I just sort of like stretched my
feet out like you always do. I checked up my
calf a couple of years ago, walking around with a
limp for a couple of weeks.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
How sad is that?
Speaker 3 (22:17):
It's very sad. It's it's part of getting old. Just
Coop and Lorrain. We'll find out one day.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Yeah, unfortunately already happening. Lily got a bed in.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
My ankle's broken. I don't know about that, Lorain. Now
that sounds like a bit of an exaggeration. Broken ankle bed?
What do you got that? What do you missus? Glass?
What do we got that? Disease?
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Like? Wow, one of my more recent non injuries that
is still sort of in that category, though, Eddie. I
was getting up in the middle of the night, just
go to the bathroom and I it's pitch black in
the room and I was trying to like feel for
the bed as I walked around it, and I missed
(23:03):
the bed.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
I thought it was there.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
It was not there, and so it was just air
and I fell hard and didn't injure myself.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
But in the middle of the night.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
That's terrible.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
That was well done. Absolutely well timeout that.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Yeah, now I'm falling in the middle of the night.
I'm straining calf muscles. While it's terrible, Eddie, it's awful
over here getting.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
I understand it. Guess what doesn't get any better as
you get older.
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Speaker 3 (23:38):
So the Olympic men's basketball team, yes, it does not
include Kawhi Leonard. And we were told, were told that
Kawhi Leonard was out because of the injury and that
it was I believe it was. Grant Hill said it
was kind of a collaborative decision for the Clippers, for Kawhi,
for the US team. It was best for all involved.
(24:00):
He he not continued, Well, apparently the Clippers are saying, ah,
we didn't, we didn't. We weren't on board with that.
Lawrence Frank, the president of the Clippers, remember him, he
used to coach the nets, little guy. He said they
were disappointed that Kawhi was not kept on the US
Olympic team, saying that was the sole call of USA Basketball.
(24:21):
He believes there has been no setback for Kawhi Leonard
as he is trying to return from a knee injury
that caused the missing good chunk of last season. He said,
Kawhi has been looking good in practices, so HM controversy
kind of quenge.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Yeah, there's a strange story right there, where like Lawrence Frank,
we'll get to this at the top of the next hour.
We got some audio as far as him saying that,
but he was like, oh, we thought they just gave
him a little bit more time. We were really disappointed
he's off the team. And I'm like, really, why why
would you be disappointed if he's missing games at the
(24:56):
end of the season, he had this knee injury, he's
missing games for the clip. Why would you be upset
that he's not playing games for a team USA. I
just that's hard to believe. But he seemed strong with
the stand. So, yeah, that's an odd story right there, Eddie,
We've got even more injury news. This is a block
of injury news right here. How about this, This is
(25:18):
an odd one for you. Hear about this Dodgers starting
pitcher Dustin May. So he was rehabbing an injury. He
had Tommy John surgery a couple of years ago. So
he was expected to be back for the Dodgers sometime
after the All Star break. But that's not going to
be the case because he is gone for the rest
(25:38):
of the season. He had surgery to repair a torn
esophagus and that's the end of his season.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Yeah, Bertie brought this up on last night show, but
he didn't really include us in the conversation for that
portion of the show. Oh man, and when I you know,
sometimes you hear about injuries and it makes you feel
I don't know, uneasy or you're like, oh, you have
a reaction to it. That was my reaction when I
heard about a torn esophagus. That sounds awful. That's I mean,
(26:11):
you know, some injuries like whatever. Uh, you know, Messy
screwed up his ankle and it looked ugly and I
don't want to know, Lorena, I don't want to know,
but I don't know. First of all, how did he
do it?
Speaker 2 (26:23):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
And what do you do to treat you?
Speaker 2 (26:25):
How do you tear your esophage?
Speaker 1 (26:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
That sounds terrible?
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Does sound horrible? I would love to know how, because.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Hold on, Brian. So there are funny things that go
on here at Fox Sports Radio. I like to share
them with the eyes. So Lorena and Cooper in the
next room, and so we.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Can't reach.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
We can't hear each other unless the air. And sometimes
I see the things they do and I know what
they're saying, and it cracks me out. So there was
some there was some discussion of how it tore esopus
might happen, I believe was what was going on in
the other room.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
I can imagine. I can imagine that that was one
thought that most people have. But it's like it's either
food related, which I doubt. I doubt it's got to
be what it is, right, It's either food you swallow
like a pointy chip.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
That's yeah, it hurts, or it's one of those where
whatever you're he's an athlete, but he swallow like a
Chinese throwing star.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
I mean, what the hell sword swallowing?
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Well, now that that would I mean, that would be surprising,
but it would make some sense.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
I guess, what if you're just playing pick up hoops
or something and you'd take right, you could tear your esophagus,
couldn't you.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
I guess I would imagine you could.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Gives me the creeps thinking about it.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
The other injury story here, it's a positive one. Oh
Brown's running back Nick Chubb? Did he not get hurt
against your Steelers?
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Yes, he took a helmet right on the as I recall.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Yeah, ugly, ugly injury.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
But it was one of those ones where they show
it on the Big Street and the whole crowd goes
kind of like the reaction of the national anthem.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
They just go, oh, yeah, it's so bad that they
won't show the replay while you're watching the televison.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Feel about that, by the way, because I don't like that.
I would rather see I would, Yeah, just give me
a just give me a warning.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Yeah right if the swami look away.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Yeah right exactly. I just give a little disclaimer and say,
we want to show you exactly what happened. But it
is graphics. So if you're squeamish, look, oh yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
But I remember when we were a lot younger.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Uh, there was a player for the Bengals, Tim Crumb
ran the Super Bowl. Oh my gosh, the Super Bowl
against the Niners. In his leg just shattered and they
showed it.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Yeah, he showed it both legs and his lower leg
there and it was flop his foot with what was
flopping rock.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
I wonder how many times they showed that replay, just
over and over and over. So maybe there's a middle ground.
You don't show it twenty times all.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Let's just want to see it once so we know
and then that's that's fine.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
But Nick Chubb, so he's eight months removed from that
terrible knee injury against the Steelers, he's already squatting five
hundred and forty pounds Eddie.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
They showed the sport.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
I mean maybe for his mental you know, strength, like
I can still do this, Maybe it's important, but I don't.
I don't. I don't think i'd want him doing that
if I was the Browns. You know.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Yeah, maybe let's just cut back.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Let's just see how much did you say he did
five forty. Let's just go four hundred. How about that.
You know that's still repressive.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Yeah, that's right, but out, let's not go max out.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
You know, I need to have so much weight on
the bar that the bar is sagging like you know,
I know, I saw the video.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
It's crazy.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
It's crazy, like literally both sides just not a little sag,
lots of sag, you know, major bar saggage right there
from the weight on each side. So, man, he's strong,
back to being strong again. That's the good thing. And
he had a I think he had a terrible knee
injury in college too, So yeah, he shubbs fought back
(30:12):
a few times. I think that happened against Tennessee. Do
you remember that eddiewhere? I think he took him moment.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Can't remember the opponent, but yes, I do remember you
got ahead.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Along the sideline. Is terrible. Man, hope he's healthy. He's
such a great running back.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Man, But running backs get your money while you can.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Yeah, gotta do it, no doubt about it. All right
right around the corner. Things have changed in a major
way and also a very funny way for a huge name.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
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It's Brian.
Speaker 6 (31:20):
No.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
You know, I heard from an unnamed source here that
you made a face, possibly with this music here, Eddie
or You're not a Fergie fan, You're not a Black
Eyed Peas fan.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
What's going on here?
Speaker 3 (31:33):
What? What face did I make? Lorena?
Speaker 2 (31:36):
Oh, I don't know it just like you were judging
my Fergie music.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Describe the face I made.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
It looks sour like you were shocked.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
I was trying to figure out what the hell is this?
And then and then I figured it out. Okay, it
was just like, what's this. It's kind of like when
you you taste something and it's a little weird, You're.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Like, what is it again? And get that?
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Yeah, contemplating it was the thought of a philosophical look right,
like hmm, that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
Okay, So, Eddie.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
We had SEC Media Day on Monday and Nick Saban,
he was a guest on Get Up and he was
asked a question about, Hey, you know, you were arguably
the greatest head coach of all time.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Now you're in the media.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Any big differences with this being the first year of that.
Here's the story that Nick Saban told I've never.
Speaker 6 (32:28):
Worn a credential in my life and was always for
seventeen years able to get in the SEC media day
without a credential. I had to go back to the
room today and get my credential to get in. So
that's one of the biggest changes I see. It's not
like it used to be.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
How about that? Arguably the goat good story at college football.
You don't believe no, no, no.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Like to get into like these big events, everybody has
to wear those credentials. It doesn't matter who you are.
You could be Bill Belichick Super Bowl and you're walking around.
You got to wear a credential. Not me, not game day,
but like you know, for the press conferences and all
that stuff, I don't. Actually, they have to wear credentials.
You have to make sure people who are who they are,
you know.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Okay, So you're not saying you believe them this year,
you're saying previous years.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
I believe. It's certainly possible he had forgotten it because
he's not used to wearing it. Sure, sure, but you
do have to wear those things if you're going to
certain places on the field. Not everyone knows who Nick
Saban is, believe it or not. At work at stadiums,
they're just people, you know what I mean saying. I've
been many times at events where a someone who is
(33:37):
clearly a household name is not let in because the
person has no clue who they are and they don't
have the credential, and they get all bent out of shape.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
But it's the rules are the rules, I hear you.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
So you're saying the previous years when he was the
head coach at Alabama, the story he's telling, like I
didn't wear a media credential, well.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Work type of credentially yet.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Right, right, so you're calling bs on that. I'm a
little bit yes, yeah, all right, Hey, I haven't thought
about it.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
But I do think, yeah, I could. I could certainly
imagine he you know, thought I'm Nick Saban and going
to media Dan, you know, it's not something I need
to remember.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Yeah, I do think it's funny with this being Nick
Saban in particular, with someone saying, look, man, you gotta
have the credential. That look on his face, you know,
like like Loraina said, it was maybe like a sour look.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
When you heard Fergie.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Imagine Nick Saban's look when someone was like, yeah, you
gotta have your credential.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
He's like, but I'm Nick Saban. What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (34:41):
It's like, all right, I'll go get that thing. I guess,
you know, but that initial look had to be pretty funny.
How about this while we're talking about the media, you
see this about Bill Belichick.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
He's going to be mister Media. So he's gonna be
on inside the NFL.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
Okay, I saw that it'll.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Be part of the Pat McAfee show. It's going to
be part of the Manning cast. He's going to be
on that on a regular basis. And so here's the question, Eddie,
who's going to be better in the media. Is it
going to be Tom Brady or is it gonna be
Bill Belichick for the twenty twenty four season.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
I got my money on Belichick, you do, absolutely. I
saw he many years ago. He did Super Bowl pregame.
I can't remember which game it was, it was a
few years ago, and he was great. Oh yeah, he's not.
You know, it's not a surprise the guy that we
saw on in the press conferences. That's not the guy
who's right. That's not normal Belichick. I mean, he's not
(35:36):
a damn robot. You know, it's mumbles all the time.
He just did that because he hated to eats the
media and didn't want to talk to him.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
Right, and he never wanted to give away any part
of a game plan or anything like that.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
You've probably seen this on NFL network. He did a show.
I think collins Worth was a part of it. I
can't remember who was the host, but they ranked like
all the greats he was on there, and he was
great on that too. I mean, when you're talking football
or as you like to say ball, and you get
him involved, he's just talking about like especially like the
history of the game. He's all over that.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Yeah, and he's all about it too. He's a you know,
football buff. I think this too, Eddie. I think the
nature of their jobs, it's just so much harder to
be a football analyst and especially hit the ground running
in year one like Tom Brady will be expected to
do with Belichick. You know, he can tell stories and
(36:30):
he can provide analysis, but it doesn't have to be
in these like fifteen second windows right where you've got
to be concise and get to the point. And it's
far more challenging for Tom Brady. That's why he's making
so much cash, right, Like it's his name recognition and
also the demands of the job that it's.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
A lot harder. I think.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
So, I hear you. I think Belichick's going to be
great in his roles. But ask yourself this, if Bill
Belichick were a color commentator in the.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
Booth, how do you think he would do?
Speaker 3 (37:00):
Would departing on if he wants another job or not. Like,
I don't expect him to be very critical of any
of anything we'll see, but I think he does want
to coach again, so he's not gonna do a lot
of ripping. Although I think if he didn't want to
coach again and he really tore into people, that would
be great.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
That would be fun, That would be a lot of fun.
I think he's gonna be honest even when he's on
inside the NFL, the Manning cast. I don't think he's
gonna be mister sugarcoat, but we'll see. I'm interested to
see both Brady and Belichick this coming season. All right,
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
Evening to you, Eddie Garcia.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
So we had the MLB home run derby on Monday night,
and as you just said, right there, Teoscar hernandez one.
I thought that that was not the lead story here.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
In this one.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
We'll get to Taoscar and the drama. But the national
anthem here has gotten quite the reaction, Eddie. Remember when
Fergie sang the national anthem? I think it was during
the NBA All Star Game, and it was It was
freaking terrible. It was really bad, but very memorable. I
think she's got some competition over here. This is Ingrid Andres.
(01:02):
Are you familiar with Ingrid over here?
Speaker 3 (01:04):
I'm not, no, I I've never heard of her before.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
I haven't either. I'm looking it up on Spotify.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
She's got a couple of hit songs, more hearts than mine,
over one hundred and fifty one million listens right there.
We also have Wistful Drinking and that's got one hundred
and thirteen either listens or likes. Not exactly sure how
it goes on Spotify, but she's got a couple of
(01:30):
country hit songs. Right This was not her best, This
is not her a game before the home run derby.
This is a portion of how the anthem sounded of
(01:58):
that's what we're looking at, Eddie. So that's what we're
working with right there.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Not so good, not great, not great.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I did love at uh kind of like midway through
the anthem, she didn't exactly hit the high note, and
you can hear the crowd in the background and try
to be respectful, but they're at the same time like, whoa,
what is happening here?
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Less?
Speaker 3 (02:34):
It's not funny? Why my laughing? It's not funny?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Oh man? That was rough.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
It's rough right there, and you can imagine Eddie. A
lot of uh comments on social media, people make comments
about that. Yeah, comments here and there on the the
anthem right there. I like this from C. Trent Rosecrans.
He covers the reds for the Athletic. He wrote, remember
(03:00):
Whitney Houston's national anthem performance at the Super Bowl. This
is the exact opposite, is what he wrote. And I
like the the Phillies Third Basement Alec Bohm. He actually
had to hold back laughs during the anthem. They showed
him for a couple of seconds and he's kind of
doing the Draymond Green thing, you know, when Draymond was
listening to Fergie Butcher the anthem. That's what happened before
(03:24):
the derby, so that that was the beginning of it.
And then did you catch any of the derby? Eddy
I had it on in the background. You'd probably be
happy to know I didn't gamble on it. He might
be surprised.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
I'm very, very relieved to know that you didn't do it.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Yeah, I'm just not into it.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Didn't you? Why didn't you?
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Because I didn't have a strong feeling, you know, like
I'm not into just kind of like closing your eyes
and hoping to hit a bull's eye.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Really actually think you're good at it?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Well, I'm not saying I'm good at it.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
I'm just saying i'd rather bet on something I feel
strongly about. You know, I don't want to.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Just I'm proud of you Brian for that. I most
most gamblers, you know, you're gonna put something on something
God have some action.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
No, I didn't have anything on it, but I was
getting ready for the show and I had it on
and it was all right.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
I saw the rules before this and I'm just like,
what are they doing? I have no idea what's going on.
I read them a couple of times and I'm like,
this is this could not be more baseball like, making
it as complicated as possible, and then when the derby started,
I'm like, oh, it's really not that complicated. It's just
(04:37):
maybe I'm just slow. I don't know. But when I
read the rules, I'm like, I have no idea what's
going on here?
Speaker 3 (04:43):
But I thought it was smart. They they've decided it
looks stupid if we have, you know, brackets, and some
guy hits you know, I'm just throwing a number out there,
twenty five home runs and the other guy hits twenty six,
and they were by far the two highest totals and
the twenty five guys out it's kind of dumb. So
so they got rid of the brackets for the first round.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Yeah, and that was smart I think it's kind of
like the Three Point Contest in the NBA. They don't
have brackets for that first round.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
I think I think it's probably more similar to that
because there was a limit to the number of pitches. Yeah,
you could get kind of kind of like the limit
to the number of basketballs you could shoot in the
three Point.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Contest, exactly right, And that's how they started to explain it,
like the night of I wish they would have said
that earlier. I would have kind of grasped it a
little bit better. But yeah, they each hitter had three
minutes and they had forty pitches to hit within those
three minutes, and they just tried to hit as many
home runs as possible. Then there was a bonus round
(05:39):
after that, and YadA, YadA. But I actually thought it
was a good time. I thought it was pretty fun
and there was some drama at the end. Like you
said at the top of the hour, ready, ti Oscar
Hernandez of the Dodgers. He's the first ever Dodger to
win the home run derby in the final round.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Yeah, crazy, isn't it a little bit?
Speaker 2 (05:56):
It is pretty Yeah, it is wild.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
But he had fourteen homers in the final round, he
was going up against the royal shortstop Bobby Witt Junior,
and Bobby had thirteen home runs.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
He needed one more home run.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
He had one more out and he sent a moonshot
to like left center field. And this is the way
it sounded on ESPN.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
O Good, lady, good, leads.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
Oscarnandus is your twenty twenty four team All home run
Derby Champ.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Just missed it.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
It looked like a couple of feet. He just needed it.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
How about that Bobby Witt Junior hits the wall on
the final hit, right, He's trying to get a home
run to tie it up, and he hit the wall,
falls one home run short. There was some dramas good
they had Michael Buffer. I love Michael Buffer. What fight
fan doesn't love Michael Buffer with Let's get ready to Rumble?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
He's enough?
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Is it either he or the Rock that has to
show up for every like, you know, major sporting event.
Now to start it off?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Does the Rock have?
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Does he have like a let's get ready to rumble catchphrase? Right,
he's got a few of them, But what does he
say before?
Speaker 3 (07:15):
I don't really pay attention, but I used to see
him out there like he wasn't at the super Bowl, right.
Speaker 6 (07:19):
Or I.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Know he's done like the whole.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Out there in like a tank top or whatever.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
You know.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Yeah, I don't know if it was the super Bowl,
but he's done the XFL, I guess UFL now stuff and.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
He's I know he was at some NFL. I think
it was the Super I think he was at the
super Bowl. Maybe it was last year. I don't I
don't remember. He's been out there. I don't know. It
just seems like it's you know, him or Buffer. They
have to be out whatever big event.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
I haven't seen Michael Buffer as much because Bruce buf
Buffer has been the man, right, he's doing all the well.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
I'm a hockey guy. So they just had the NHL
Draft at the Sphere, not the spear, as Ben Maller
would say, the spear in Las Vegas, and Michael Buffer
was was there for that.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
So oh, really did he did the let's get ready
to rumble.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Things the crap though? That's kind of cool. Ben says
the spear.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
He does the spear. Yeah, he doesn't say he can't
say spear.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
That's pretty funny, man. That's good. Did you catch any
of the Home Run Derby Eddie or you like, you know.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
I don't want to. It's funny because I I don't know.
My wife gets mad when I say how old I
am because she thinks that people won't want to hear
me because I'm not. But I'm turning fifty five this year. Wow,
And uh, but I still have some tendencies of a
of a younger person as far as my attention span. Yeah,
(08:49):
so if I'm not really invested in it, I'll just
watch like the YouTube highlights and uh and get my
get it in that way. I don't I don't need
to watch three hours worth of but when I got
to watch three minutes of it, So that's.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Totally understand that nothing wrong with that at all.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Would you say you have the attention span of what,
like we were talking like a twenty five.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Year old, I don't know. I'm not around too many
twenty five year old so I can't really say I'm
I don't think it's that bad, yeah, but I do.
I guess I feel the younger generation as far as
I don't know if it's there short attention span or
maybe it is, but for me, it's just I just
don't have the time to invest into sports like I
(09:30):
used to, like, you know, when I was younger. That's
all I did. There was like nothing else. Yeah, I'm
not you know, I look for the big events or
for something I really really care about. I will obviously
invest the time, but it's something I'm just mildly interested in.
I'm just yeah, I'm just good with the highlights. Now,
I don't need to watch the entire thing.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Hey, that makes sense. What did you do in the
meantime right?
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Like?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Take me through the evening leading up to the show.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Oh, you don't want to know that there was nothing.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
I'm very curious.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
What was Oh, there's nothing exciting at all. I mean
there was a nap involved. And you know, that's not
so much about the age though, it's about the you know,
the hours I work. I make sure I get in
a nap, you know every day before I come into works.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
What is your kind of like your hours of nap
time before the show?
Speaker 3 (10:14):
It depends. Today we had our neighbors getting like some
work done in their house. Usually it's a pretty quiet neighborhood,
but they're getting some work done. And so I was.
I was awakened earlier than normal and so I felt
like I needed to get a little extra nap in before.
So okay, yeah, I had an extra long nap today.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
So you're just you're going to be spitting fire tonight, right,
I don't.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Know about that. Okay, all right, I'm spitting fire every night.
What are you talking about.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
I didn't mean to make it sound like you didn't,
you know, but I thought extra rested revitalized the whole thing.
I could expect some hot takes from you tonight.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
You know that sort of depends on what we talk about.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Okay, all right, I'll try to keep them in your
wheelhouse over here. You know, I'll do my best. Okay,
So all is good?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Right?
Speaker 1 (11:04):
We got the home run derby in very nice. Didn't
start off great with the national anthem, but we rallied.
We rallied with some drama with Ti Oscar and Bobby
Witt Junior, and we had Buffer involved there. I think
there was a lot to be gained, good stuff all
the way around. Solid dumbs up, I would say.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Yeah, I'm not bad. I'm looking forward to the All
Star Game because being a Pirates fan, Yeah, don't get
a lot of All Star Game starters. I think the
last time. I remember a pirate pitcher I think might
have been like Rick Russell. Wow in San Francisco at
Candlestick Park. I mean, you remember Rick Russell. He's a big,
(11:41):
fat guy out there. I don't really, Oh my god,
yeah he didn't. I mean he did not look like
a professional athlete I'm at all at all. It was
really weird, but he was a pretty good pitcher.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
I'm looking forward to it tomorrow night. You know what's
funny is I just had no idea. When I was
a young kid, I didn't know, and I just had
this story popping in my head where I was I
don't know how old, Eddie. I was maybe like nine
or ten years old something like that, and my dad
and my uncle were like, hey, let's go out and
(12:13):
grab some pizza right now. And I'm like, it's the
All Star Game. Why on earth would we go anywhere?
I just want to watch the MLB All Star Game.
And I remember when we left to go grab pizza,
there were people out. There were people in their cars
driving wherever. And I was stunned, Eddie. I was amazed
(12:35):
that anybody was out of their homes and they were
not all watching the MLB All Star Game.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
I just didn't realize any better. I was so young.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Have you ever gone out during the Super Bowl at all?
I know you haven't. That's a stupid question for me
to ask. But I mean, like halftime, I don't care
about the you know this, well maybe you don't. You
forget a lot of things, but I notoriously hate the
halftime show and it's extra long. Make sure I go
do something during that. And uh, yeah, have you ever
(13:04):
ventured out just to see you know that you know,
the traffic or in your neighborhood and stuff like that
during the Super Bowl. It's kind of cool. Actually it's
not a lot of people around.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Yeah, all right, so it's kind of like a I
don't know, like a Friday night lights like Texas high
school football thing going on right where nobody's driving anywhere.
You're saying, it's like no one's around, is what you're saying, right.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Yeah, pretty much. I don't know about the Texas high
school think. I've never been in Texas for a high
school first.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
That's what they say all the time. They're like, yeah,
there's just tumbleweed going through town. Everybody's at the game.
You know, they're not doing.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
It that makes sense. No, I understand that.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Yeah, no, I really have it. I can't think there
might have been some random scenario where I caught the
first half with some people and then ran over for
the second. Maybe something like that, Eddie. But for the
most part, I'm at one spot. You know, I'm not
messing around with that too much. But you know you
(13:58):
could gather that based on my football session. Yeah, you're
right about that. All right, plenty to do this evening.
A lot of ball, meaning football, of course. We got
hoops on the agenda, some fun stuff, some non sports
stuff that we got to get to as well. Right
around the corner, the news didn't get much better, but
(14:18):
there is one story that's halfway positive associated with this player.
We'll get to that right around the corner.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
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Speaker 2 (15:51):
No Oh Eddie.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
So summer league action was heating up in a major
way where it wasn't Bronnie James. Okay, Bronnie did not
crush it. More on that in a second. But there
was positive news, right, A lot of it's been very
very negative. He hasn't shot well, doesn't have great stats,
that sort of thing. But something positive with Bronnie James
(16:16):
associated with the NBA Summer League. He a he won
a Call of Duty tournament at the NBA Summer League.
He won ten thousand bucks Eddie and a cut.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
God.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Yeah, he got money, that's right. He needs the cash.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
And he got a Call of Duty Championship belt as well.
So not not a complete loss for Bronnie that NBA
Summer League here.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Now as far as.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
The probably the probably the best you'll do the entire
summer league, I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Yeah, that's the highlight of it, because it didn't get
any better on the court. So Bronnie was one for
five the Lakers they lost to the Celtics in Summer
League action on Monday night. Bronnie was one for five
from the field. He was oho for three from three
point range. So now in four summer league games, Eddie,
(17:14):
we're looking at Bronnie's stats. Here is collective stats. He
is seven for thirty one from the field. He is
oh for fifteen from three point range.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
That's great.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
I could do that.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
I think you absolutely what.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
I might hit one. I might get lucky and hit one.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
You know what, if we gave you fifteen shots in
an NBA summer league setting, I feel confident that one
of those bad boys goes.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
I'll be honest, though I have not shot some hoops
in a long time.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Man, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
If you're not used to shooting from NBA range, it
is back there.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Yeah, Okay, I'm gonna you know what I'm gonna say. No,
I'm gonna say'm gonna i'd be I go, Bronnie, I
go for fifteen.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Man. It's uh yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
I was at my sister in law's place. They have
a dog and they lived near us, and they asked, Hey,
can you go over and let the dog out. You know,
we're not going to get home for a while and
dog would like to go out and do its business.
Could you just stop by? Yeah? Absolutely, So. The dog
loves to play, as you say, ball, dog loves to
play with the ball. You throw the ball, dog gets
(18:23):
the ball, brings it to you, and he'll do that
all damn day. So I decided to play a little
ball with the dog. And I had realized I cannot
throw a ball anymore to save my life. Oh man,
Like we used to do that every day when I
was a kid. I'd throw it some kind of ball somewhere.
I'd throw it up off the roof and catch it
or whatever, let it bounce down. I just I don't
throw throw balls much anymore. And I was I was
(18:45):
chucking the ball, and I was like, man, I have
a total weeny arm. It's just they don't do they
don't do it for a while. You don't. You're not
very good at it.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Yeah, as a member of the noodle arm club.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
It's okay, Eddie, thank you. It doesn't really help because
I used to throw the ball well yeah, yeah, yeah.
If I always had alarm'd be like, oh, well that's
just me. But yeah, I think of it as a
nice memory, I.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Like with a lot of things. You know, what's funny,
Eddie is like three point range. So I was doing
radio in Portland at the time, and there was just
this random story where Gilbert Arenas had challenged Nick Young,
remember Swaggy P.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
He challenged him to a three point.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Contest, and Swaggy P didn't show up, and so they
just showed Gilbert Arenas in this empty gym taking one
hundred three pointers and he took twenty from each spot
right kind of like the NBA three point contest.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
He just moved.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
He took twenty shots at each of those five spots
around the three point arc. This dude made ninety five
of them. I'm still amazed. He made ninety five out
of a hundred three pointers.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
And I just said.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
During the local show at the time, I was like,
I think I could make forty of them, and there
was another host that was like, you're out of your
freaking mind. That's impossible. You have no chance. It turned
it into this whole thing, And so I was allowed
to practice for this. Beforehand, Eddie and I hadn't shot
from three point range I don't know how long. And
(20:24):
during the course of like practicing for this and doing
the contest, somehow I completely jacked up my shoulder, Like
my left shoulder was just dead, and I didn't realize
you're supposed to keep moving it I thought, I like,
messed up my rotator cuff for I don't know what.
So I didn't use it. I didn't do anything, and
it just got worse and worse and worse and worse.
(20:46):
Finally got it checked out and they were like, you
have frozen shoulder, and I'm like what.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Yeah, I had w and loosen that thing up.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
I didn't even know that was a thing.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
I've never heard of that in my life.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
But it isn't that weird though, too.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
I'm right handed, and so I was shooting these NBA
range three pointers and I messed up my left shoulder.
I still don't understand how that happened.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
I have a similar story, but not me. My wife
currently is dealing with a torn rotator cuff.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Okay, yeah, that how did that happen?
Speaker 3 (21:20):
We have no idea she had shoulder painted, she would
have got it checked out. I'm like, well, no more
fastballs for you. I guess like that just happens in life.
That's crazy. I don't so bad.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
I hate these injuries that you just get old.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
You know.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
I messed up my calf sitting a couple of years ago.
How weak is that?
Speaker 3 (21:44):
I was?
Speaker 5 (21:44):
Just?
Speaker 3 (21:44):
How old are you?
Speaker 2 (21:45):
I am forty six.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Now, okay, well you're you're around that age where things
just start, you just start, things happen. You don't even
like I know it. You're not even doing anything, and
you'll you know, you get out of bed and you
be like hurt your back and you're like, what the hell?
Speaker 6 (21:59):
Man?
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Sad?
Speaker 1 (22:00):
It's sad. I was just sitting on one of those
you know, like the bar chairs that are a little
bit higher, and I just sort of like stretched my
feet out like you always do. I checked up my
calf a couple of years ago, walking around with a
limp for a couple of weeks.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
How sad is that?
Speaker 3 (22:17):
It's very sad. It's it's part of getting old. Just
Coop and Lorrain. We'll find out one day.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Yeah, unfortunately already happening. Lily got a bed in.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
My ankle's broken. I don't know about that, Lorain. Now
that sounds like a bit of an exaggeration. Broken ankle bed?
What do you got that? What do you missus? Glass?
What do we got that? Disease?
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Like? Wow, one of my more recent non injuries that
is still sort of in that category, though, Eddie. I
was getting up in the middle of the night, just
go to the bathroom and I it's pitch black in
the room and I was trying to like feel for
the bed as I walked around it, and I missed
(23:03):
the bed.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
I thought it was there.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
It was not there, and so it was just air
and I fell hard and didn't injure myself.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
But in the middle of the night.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
That's terrible.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
That was well done. Absolutely well timeout that.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Yeah, now I'm falling in the middle of the night.
I'm straining calf muscles. While it's terrible, Eddie, it's awful
over here getting.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
I understand it. Guess what doesn't get any better as
you get older.
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Speaker 3 (23:38):
So the Olympic men's basketball team, yes, it does not
include Kawhi Leonard. And we were told, were told that
Kawhi Leonard was out because of the injury and that
it was I believe it was. Grant Hill said it
was kind of a collaborative decision for the Clippers, for Kawhi,
for the US team. It was best for all involved.
(24:00):
He he not continued, Well, apparently the Clippers are saying, ah,
we didn't, we didn't. We weren't on board with that.
Lawrence Frank, the president of the Clippers, remember him, he
used to coach the nets, little guy. He said they
were disappointed that Kawhi was not kept on the US
Olympic team, saying that was the sole call of USA Basketball.
(24:21):
He believes there has been no setback for Kawhi Leonard
as he is trying to return from a knee injury
that caused the missing good chunk of last season. He said,
Kawhi has been looking good in practices, so HM controversy
kind of quenge.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Yeah, there's a strange story right there, where like Lawrence Frank,
we'll get to this at the top of the next hour.
We got some audio as far as him saying that,
but he was like, oh, we thought they just gave
him a little bit more time. We were really disappointed
he's off the team. And I'm like, really, why why
would you be disappointed if he's missing games at the
(24:56):
end of the season, he had this knee injury, he's
missing games for the clip. Why would you be upset
that he's not playing games for a team USA. I
just that's hard to believe. But he seemed strong with
the stand. So, yeah, that's an odd story right there, Eddie,
We've got even more injury news. This is a block
of injury news right here. How about this, This is
(25:18):
an odd one for you. Hear about this Dodgers starting
pitcher Dustin May. So he was rehabbing an injury. He
had Tommy John surgery a couple of years ago. So
he was expected to be back for the Dodgers sometime
after the All Star break. But that's not going to
be the case because he is gone for the rest
(25:38):
of the season. He had surgery to repair a torn
esophagus and that's the end of his season.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Yeah, Bertie brought this up on last night show, but
he didn't really include us in the conversation for that
portion of the show. Oh man, and when I you know,
sometimes you hear about injuries and it makes you feel
I don't know, uneasy or you're like, oh, you have
a reaction to it. That was my reaction when I
heard about a torn esophagus. That sounds awful. That's I mean,
(26:11):
you know, some injuries like whatever. Uh, you know, Messy
screwed up his ankle and it looked ugly and I
don't want to know, Lorena, I don't want to know,
but I don't know. First of all, how did he
do it?
Speaker 2 (26:23):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
And what do you do to treat you?
Speaker 2 (26:25):
How do you tear your esophage?
Speaker 1 (26:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
That sounds terrible?
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Does sound horrible? I would love to know how, because.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Hold on, Brian. So there are funny things that go
on here at Fox Sports Radio. I like to share
them with the eyes. So Lorena and Cooper in the
next room, and so we.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Can't reach.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
We can't hear each other unless the air. And sometimes
I see the things they do and I know what
they're saying, and it cracks me out. So there was
some there was some discussion of how it tore esopus
might happen, I believe was what was going on in
the other room.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
I can imagine. I can imagine that that was one
thought that most people have. But it's like it's either
food related, which I doubt. I doubt it's got to
be what it is, right, It's either food you swallow
like a pointy chip.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
That's yeah, it hurts, or it's one of those where
whatever you're he's an athlete, but he swallow like a
Chinese throwing star.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
I mean, what the hell sword swallowing?
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Well, now that that would I mean, that would be surprising,
but it would make some sense.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
I guess, what if you're just playing pick up hoops
or something and you'd take right, you could tear your esophagus,
couldn't you.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
I guess I would imagine you could.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Gives me the creeps thinking about it.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
The other injury story here, it's a positive one. Oh
Brown's running back Nick Chubb? Did he not get hurt
against your Steelers?
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Yes, he took a helmet right on the as I recall.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Yeah, ugly, ugly injury.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
But it was one of those ones where they show
it on the Big Street and the whole crowd goes
kind of like the reaction of the national anthem.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
They just go, oh, yeah, it's so bad that they
won't show the replay while you're watching the televison.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Feel about that, by the way, because I don't like that.
I would rather see I would, Yeah, just give me
a just give me a warning.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Yeah right if the swami look away.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Yeah right exactly. I just give a little disclaimer and say,
we want to show you exactly what happened. But it
is graphics. So if you're squeamish, look, oh yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
But I remember when we were a lot younger.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Uh, there was a player for the Bengals, Tim Crumb
ran the Super Bowl. Oh my gosh, the Super Bowl
against the Niners. In his leg just shattered and they
showed it.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Yeah, he showed it both legs and his lower leg
there and it was flop his foot with what was
flopping rock.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
I wonder how many times they showed that replay, just
over and over and over. So maybe there's a middle ground.
You don't show it twenty times all.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Let's just want to see it once so we know
and then that's that's fine.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
But Nick Chubb, so he's eight months removed from that
terrible knee injury against the Steelers, he's already squatting five
hundred and forty pounds Eddie.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
They showed the sport.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
I mean maybe for his mental you know, strength, like
I can still do this, Maybe it's important, but I don't.
I don't. I don't think i'd want him doing that
if I was the Browns. You know.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Yeah, maybe let's just cut back.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Let's just see how much did you say he did
five forty. Let's just go four hundred. How about that.
You know that's still repressive.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Yeah, that's right, but out, let's not go max out.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
You know, I need to have so much weight on
the bar that the bar is sagging like you know,
I know, I saw the video.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
It's crazy.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
It's crazy, like literally both sides just not a little sag,
lots of sag, you know, major bar saggage right there
from the weight on each side. So, man, he's strong,
back to being strong again. That's the good thing. And
he had a I think he had a terrible knee
injury in college too, So yeah, he shubbs fought back
(30:12):
a few times. I think that happened against Tennessee. Do
you remember that eddiewhere? I think he took him moment.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Can't remember the opponent, but yes, I do remember you
got ahead.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Along the sideline. Is terrible. Man, hope he's healthy. He's
such a great running back.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Man, But running backs get your money while you can.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Yeah, gotta do it, no doubt about it. All right
right around the corner. Things have changed in a major
way and also a very funny way for a huge name.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
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Speaker 6 (31:20):
No.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
You know, I heard from an unnamed source here that
you made a face, possibly with this music here, Eddie
or You're not a Fergie fan, You're not a Black
Eyed Peas fan.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
What's going on here?
Speaker 3 (31:33):
What? What face did I make? Lorena?
Speaker 2 (31:36):
Oh, I don't know it just like you were judging
my Fergie music.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Describe the face I made.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
It looks sour like you were shocked.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
I was trying to figure out what the hell is this?
And then and then I figured it out. Okay, it
was just like, what's this. It's kind of like when
you you taste something and it's a little weird, You're.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Like, what is it again? And get that?
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Yeah, contemplating it was the thought of a philosophical look right,
like hmm, that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
Okay, So, Eddie.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
We had SEC Media Day on Monday and Nick Saban,
he was a guest on Get Up and he was
asked a question about, Hey, you know, you were arguably
the greatest head coach of all time.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Now you're in the media.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Any big differences with this being the first year of that.
Here's the story that Nick Saban told I've never.
Speaker 6 (32:28):
Worn a credential in my life and was always for
seventeen years able to get in the SEC media day
without a credential. I had to go back to the
room today and get my credential to get in. So
that's one of the biggest changes I see. It's not
like it used to be.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
How about that? Arguably the goat good story at college football.
You don't believe no, no, no.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Like to get into like these big events, everybody has
to wear those credentials. It doesn't matter who you are.
You could be Bill Belichick Super Bowl and you're walking around.
You got to wear a credential. Not me, not game day,
but like you know, for the press conferences and all
that stuff, I don't. Actually, they have to wear credentials.
You have to make sure people who are who they are,
you know.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Okay, So you're not saying you believe them this year,
you're saying previous years.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
I believe. It's certainly possible he had forgotten it because
he's not used to wearing it. Sure, sure, but you
do have to wear those things if you're going to
certain places on the field. Not everyone knows who Nick
Saban is, believe it or not. At work at stadiums,
they're just people, you know what I mean saying. I've
been many times at events where a someone who is
(33:37):
clearly a household name is not let in because the
person has no clue who they are and they don't
have the credential, and they get all bent out of shape.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
But it's the rules are the rules, I hear you.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
So you're saying the previous years when he was the
head coach at Alabama, the story he's telling, like I
didn't wear a media credential, well.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Work type of credentially yet.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Right, right, so you're calling bs on that. I'm a
little bit yes, yeah, all right, Hey, I haven't thought
about it.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
But I do think, yeah, I could. I could certainly
imagine he you know, thought I'm Nick Saban and going
to media Dan, you know, it's not something I need
to remember.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Yeah, I do think it's funny with this being Nick
Saban in particular, with someone saying, look, man, you gotta
have the credential. That look on his face, you know,
like like Loraina said, it was maybe like a sour look.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
When you heard Fergie.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Imagine Nick Saban's look when someone was like, yeah, you
gotta have your credential.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
He's like, but I'm Nick Saban. What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (34:41):
It's like, all right, I'll go get that thing. I guess,
you know, but that initial look had to be pretty funny.
How about this while we're talking about the media, you
see this about Bill Belichick.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
He's going to be mister Media. So he's gonna be
on inside the NFL.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
Okay, I saw that it'll.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Be part of the Pat McAfee show. It's going to
be part of the Manning cast. He's going to be
on that on a regular basis. And so here's the question, Eddie,
who's going to be better in the media. Is it
going to be Tom Brady or is it gonna be
Bill Belichick for the twenty twenty four season.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
I got my money on Belichick, you do, absolutely. I
saw he many years ago. He did Super Bowl pregame.
I can't remember which game it was, it was a
few years ago, and he was great. Oh yeah, he's not.
You know, it's not a surprise the guy that we
saw on in the press conferences. That's not the guy
who's right. That's not normal Belichick. I mean, he's not
(35:36):
a damn robot. You know, it's mumbles all the time.
He just did that because he hated to eats the
media and didn't want to talk to him.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
Right, and he never wanted to give away any part
of a game plan or anything like that.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
You've probably seen this on NFL network. He did a show.
I think collins Worth was a part of it. I
can't remember who was the host, but they ranked like
all the greats he was on there, and he was
great on that too. I mean, when you're talking football
or as you like to say ball, and you get
him involved, he's just talking about like especially like the
history of the game. He's all over that.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Yeah, and he's all about it too. He's a you know,
football buff. I think this too, Eddie. I think the
nature of their jobs, it's just so much harder to
be a football analyst and especially hit the ground running
in year one like Tom Brady will be expected to
do with Belichick. You know, he can tell stories and
(36:30):
he can provide analysis, but it doesn't have to be
in these like fifteen second windows right where you've got
to be concise and get to the point. And it's
far more challenging for Tom Brady. That's why he's making
so much cash, right, Like it's his name recognition and
also the demands of the job that it's.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
A lot harder. I think.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
So, I hear you. I think Belichick's going to be
great in his roles. But ask yourself this, if Bill
Belichick were a color commentator in the.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
Booth, how do you think he would do?
Speaker 3 (37:00):
Would departing on if he wants another job or not. Like,
I don't expect him to be very critical of any
of anything we'll see, but I think he does want
to coach again, so he's not gonna do a lot
of ripping. Although I think if he didn't want to
coach again and he really tore into people, that would
be great.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
That would be fun, That would be a lot of fun.
I think he's gonna be honest even when he's on
inside the NFL, the Manning cast. I don't think he's
gonna be mister sugarcoat, but we'll see. I'm interested to
see both Brady and Belichick this coming season. All right,
coming up next? Do you believe these guys or are
they lying
Host
Ben Maller
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