January 16, 2025 • 37 mins
Doug reacts to long-time reporter Ed Werder's report that Deion Sanders would take the Cowboys head coaching job if Jerry Jones wants him. Dan Beyer gives his reaction to FOX Sports providing LIV golf a broadcast partner. Doug and the crew talk about the life and career of Bob Uecker as the legendary broadcaster passed away at 90 years old. Plus, Dan Beyer takes Doug through a game of "I Feel A Draft".
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Speaker 2 (00:35):
Hey, welcome in.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Yeah, we'll get to the Bob Bucker story this hour
of the show. I mean, there's like several parts to it,
like you're sad, but he was also ninety, so it's
like a life well lived, like you never want anybody
to pass away, and he was still very full of
life in this last year of broadcasting with the Milwaukee Brewers.
But let's not act like, you know, it was something
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that happened to a child or somebody who had not lived.
That's the true crime of life being stolen. From that
person or from their family, But still sad because just
an absolutely legendary figure in broadcasting. But I think probably
stamped at least the three of our childhood. I'm talking
about Dan Byer, Happy birthday to you, Dan by the way,
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Dan Bayer, and Jason Stewart myself, because we're all in
that age where Bob Buker was. We invented a seat
at a game, the seats, the nosebleed seats were renamed
Ucher seats because of a commercial that he was in.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Then he was in a sitcom.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Then he was in one of the iconic sports movies
of our childhood. The sitcom was actually pretty good and
long running, and he just became synonymous with Brewers baseball
and that aug sh Duck's kind of way of broadcasting
a game and making you feel better. Right, In many ways,
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Bob Youker was mister Baseball because he seemed to love
what he was doing and had a good time. And
sports is supposed to make us feel better about life
than worse about life, despite what social media we'll do sometimes,
and I thought he did a great job of capturing that.
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All right, we'll get to that upcoming on in the show.
The big story of the day is this story that
Dion Sanders would take the Cowboys job if offered. Here's
Ed Werder always has more on with Dan Patrick this morning.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Regarding Dion, we know that he has not yet formally
interviewed for the job. The Cowboys have extended invitations to
Leslie Frazier and Robert Salah to be the first two
to interview formally.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
For the job.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
But Dion told Adam Schefter the other day that Jerry
Jones reached out to him and they discussed the job
and everything I continue to be told Dan is that
Jerry is interested. It was described to me as he's
enamored with the idea. Obviously, it's hard to imagine any
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coaching candidate who could create more interest, someone that Jerry
could more sell to the fan base here, which needs
to happen, and make Jerry more money than Dion Sanders.
I mean, he won a Super Bowl here as a player.
There are also people around Dion who tell me that
he's being urged by his supporters in Colorado to take
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the job, and that they believe if Jerry ever does
offer him the job, that he will take that he
has an extension to remain at Colorado on his desk
that he hasn't even looked at as he considers these
other possibilities. There are also people close.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
To Dion who tell me they don't see.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
It happening, but they've seen things happen with Jerry Jones
that they didn't expect to happen before.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
I think the biggest issue with it is his his
remarks that he'd only want to coach to coach his son.
Just the reality is that Dak Prescott contract looms large.
Like it it's virtually impossible to field a quality football
team if you have one hundred and six million dollars
some dead cap money. And it would also be equally
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impossible to draft Shador Sanders and not play him and
have Dak Prescott be a quarterback for a year or two,
because one, you wouldn't be any good and two like,
how do you think that works? The coach's son is
a first round pick quarterback and he's not playing or
staring over the eyes of Dak Prescott. Yet none of
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that works. As for Kenny Coach, Yeah yeah, I mean,
he's often said he doesn't fit the modern NFL, but
I think all of us know that's not true because
now the big issue with him is whether or not
you can sacrifice your ego and make it about other people.
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He's done a good job and make it about Travis
Hunter when he's at Colorado, But when you're in the NFL,
can't be about the coach, can't be about the coach.
It just can't ask me about everybody else. And you
get credit for wins and losses, but it's not about
your personality, or at least it never has been.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
So I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
I think the whole thing is fascinating.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Again, no true knowledge, and we do want to lead
with the positive because then you hear from Ed Werder, well,
there are some people think it's never going to happen,
but Jerry. You never know with Jerry, which means, okay,
what if he told Jerry like it only happens if
you draft your door and Jerry's like, I can't get
rid of Dak Prescott a hundred six million dollars dead
cap hit if we do that, we trade him.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
So going to be fascinating.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Birthday boy, Dan Byer, what do you think the like
good is of Dion? Because now Dion's putting the pressure
squarely on Jerry. That story doesn't get out unless Dion
wants it out. It's out from multiple sources. That's Dion
putting on the full court press. Now it's on Jerry
because and it becomes really hard to hire anybody else.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
I still think it's slim. I think that we're still
so early in this Cowboys situation where I mean it
was just a couple of days ago that they decided
to part ways. What was it on Monday? Because Mike
McCarthy's contract expired on Tuesday. They haven't interviewed anybody, Yeah,
at least as of yesterday. So I just I think
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this is all just posturing in a way for Dion
to maybe get that contract with Colorado. I don't think
Jerry Jones will ultimately offer it to Deon Sanders. I
don't think they need a splash higher, if that's the
term that's used. So I think that the chances are
slim that he goes to Dallas.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Doug Gottlieb Show here on Fox Sports Radio, Jay s Doo,
what do you think.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
Is there an eight million dollar buyout in this whole
thing as well?
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Yeah, I mean that's not gigantic money, and.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
So Jerry Jones would buy his salary out at Colorado
and then give Dion a new salary. Sure, and then
there is this this whole thing of as you mentioned before,
I'm not going to coach unless I coach both my sons.
If he goes to the Cowboys, he won't coach either son. Right,
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it doesn't sound likely. But I will say this for
those saying that this isn't like a good job this
year and maybe even for the next couple of years
because of the Prescott salary, do you think Dion really cares? Like,
if Dion could be the head coach of the Dallas
Cowboys and all that comes with that, whatever brand wise
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and fame wise and legend wise, you think he wouldn't
just jump at that prospect. Like, I don't think the
the state that the Cowboys are in and if they're
going to win anytime soon has anything to do with this.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
I don't think that anything you can do with either,
And I don't think all that stuff is that difficult.
The one part that's difficult to change with the Cowboys
that's different from everybody else is the Dak Prescott contract.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Right. You know, there's some of these jobs You're like,
is it a good job?
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Is it a bad job? Well, it's a good job
if you have a quarterback. Well, they have a quarterback,
but what is his actual ceiling? And is he so
massively overpaid that it hinders you from fixing the rest
of the roster because the rest of the roster does.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Need needs to be fixed, needs to be fixed.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
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Speaker 1 (09:02):
It's the Gottleeb Show. Fox Sports Radio mentioned a big
happy birthday our guy Dan Byer DraftKings on the Draft
Kings sportsbook gap. Right now, Ohio State's an eight and
a half point favorite overt not tre Dame in the
National title game that's on Monday night at the Draft
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Kings sports app right now, the total the game is
forty six and a half.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
And here's an interesting prop bet.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Ohio State wide receiver Jeremiah Smith is plus eleven hundred
to get over one hundred and seventy five receiving yards.
That is a talented, talented dude buyer. If this is
a hard one, right when it's your team, and you
yet have to advise people on betting. If you were
to put all this birthday money, you know, you get
that birthday card from your grandma.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
That.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Which is always your age. Everybody's grandma I know did
the same thing.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Like I played seventeen dollars there because it's your seventeenth birthday, right,
So if you had to put all that hard earned
birthday money in, what would you bet on?
Speaker 4 (10:08):
My gramma knocked it out of the park on birthdays.
I'll tell you that much my money. Jeremiah Smith, the
number is pretty high. It's a significant amount against a
good Notre Dame defense. But when you look at what
happened against Oregon, you're saying, man, Jeremiah Smith was on fire.
There was no stopping him. Except that's exactly what happened
in the game against Texas. So it's quite the reach
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to have a guy of you know, one hundred and
seventy five yards. It's what were the odds plus eleven hundred?
Was that what it was? Yeah, that's pretty pretty far fetched.
I believe that Jeremih Smith will have a better game
than he had against Texas. It's not that he had
a bad game. He just was a non factor, only
had one catch for three yards in that game. So
there was they Texas said, Jeremiah Smith is not going
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to beat us, and it almost helped him fifty eight
minutes in the yard away from scoring. But Jeremi Smith
going to have a better game against Notre Dame. I
just think that maybe people are underestimating Notre Dame's defense
and how they can can maybe try to slow down
Ohio State. Ohio State that's not been perfect. They were
not perfect against Texas, and I think that we saw
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that and we get wrapped up in the Jack Sawyer
play or maybe the screenplay. But yeah, at times Ohio
States offense does stall and Notre Dame can take advantage
of that.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Stug Gottleeb show here on Fox Sports Radio, I mentioned
something to make you you really happy. Obviously, Danny is
our biggest golf fan, golf advocate.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
We've done shows in the US Open.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Fox doing a deal with Live Golf, which you know,
for so long live golf was you know, no one
would put it on TV. It was the anti Christ
for all things golf. What do you think this does
for live golf?
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Well, I do have to I don't think there's an
elephant in the room. But if we're gonna be honest
about this, I have never ever been a fan of
Live Golf. I have been critical of it from the beginning.
I feel it's been the sole reason on why golf
has been ripped apart. Others may disagree and argue, but
the beginning of Live I think has really changed the
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world of golf, and I would think that the world
of golf has not had great momentum over these last
couple of years because of this split. Live Golf needed
something like this to help legitimize it even more. But
there's the other step of it. If there is a
significant deal. As we thought that there was going to
be some sort of partnership or merger with the Public
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Investment Fund and the PGA Tour, and that has not
yet come to fruition. And even though the rhetoric had
been well, both tours will end up existing even if
there is a deal struck by the PGA Tour and
the Public Investment Fund. But I'm not sure how many
people actually believe that. I think this shows, Hey, Live
is going to be around you here for a while.
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It's here to stay now with the legitimate broadcasting partner.
I don't believe in the team format. I know that
the TGL that we had the other night was one
of the one of the reasons on why that was developed.
I know that there were others, but one was to
try to combat what the team format with Live was.
I just don't think it works on a week to
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week basis in golf. I just don't think that there's
an appetite for it. So that's another issue that I
have with Live Golf is I just don't think team care.
People care about the fireballs or the four aces. I
just they're not going to become the Lakers or the
Celtics or the Dallas Cowboys. That's not going to happen,
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and that's not what golf is. Golf likes team sports
every two years with the Ryder Cup, and that's about it.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Yeah, I think a little bit. And there's been so
much talk.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Cowherd had Adam Silver on today and they're talking about
the ratings, the reason the ratings are down, and talking
about power forwards and physical basketball like that's not why
then it's there's too.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Much of it on TV. It's not all the time.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
There's literally nothing special about watching an NBA regular season game.
How do I know? So guys skip games all the time.
I mean, Jason, you've pointed it out, and you're right.
The quality of football in the NFL is not great.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
It's not great. It just isn't.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
But they still, for the most part, have stuck with
one game Thursday night Sunday one or two games Monday night.
And anytime they put more on TV, for example, when
they do the two Monday night games, even when they
do them back to back or they have overlap, those
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numbers are half of the Sunday games. Why football falls
into very specific windows which work for our viewing. And
the more you proliferate, there's more money out there to
be had, but less people watch the more you put
it on TV. It's the same thing with golf. Golf's
obviously going to struggle without Tiger Woods. People just don't
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care no matter how good the players are, how great
their stories are, because there's a lot of great young golfers,
great stories in it, but it's not Tiger and Tiger
was that. It was the Haley's comment of the sport,
and now you have more of it and more.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
It's not only more water down.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
But now you have multiple options on a you know,
like Spring TV. Most people don't watch anyway, we watch
less and less Baseball. Why it's on all the time.
We're looking on all of this stuff the wrong way
in my opinion. If you want higher ratings, you got
to put it on less. All these other sports are
now becoming volume in sports plays which have value. Right
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Obviously Fox because it's like a four to five. You
can put a six hour window whatever live sports programming.
You can make a lot of money on it, but
it's gonna hurt the overall popularity of the sport in
terms of how many people watch.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
You know, there's there's there a golf connection in terms
of the Masters as well, and I don't think it's
apples to apples, so it's please don't take me for
saying that. But what happens around Masters time is everybody
complains that it's not wall to wall coverage all day long, right,
And I think that that aside from all the other
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great things about the Masters. Now there's so many different
ways to consume it online through Masters dot Com and
the apps that they provide and the coverage that they provide,
but it still gives you this sense, a little sense
of okay, what am I You know, we're still not
getting all of it. There's still this little bit of
mystery to it, and I think that plays into it,
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maybe not entirely, but with you know, with golf, it's
truly the four majors, and honestly, for us in the States,
it's the Masters, and you hope the US Open and
the PGA Championship are competitive or have great storylines to follow,
and overseas, and it's the Open Championship. I don't think
that rates great here in the States, unless Tiger was
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actually playing in it. But considering we have to get
up early in the morning to watch it and it
ends here on the West Coast at about eleven am
on Sunday, you're not getting huge TV ratings from the
Open Championship. But it's really the four majors, Doug in
what people want to view. And then there's like this
next tier of golf events where Rory McElroy, Scottie Scheffler
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and honestly Brooks, Koepka, Bryson to Shambeau. You know, we're
a part of that. Phil Mickelson as well. But now
with the split of them, Scotty Scheffler and Rory McElroy
just aren't enough and they're only playing in certain events,
which really waters down all the other ones. And that
was my problem with live is you had all these
PGA tour communities that always hosted. You talk about the
days back in Connecticut, Doug and I always mentioned the
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Quad Cities and the John Deere. John Deere doesn't get
the strongest of fields, but it's a pretty big deal
to that community, and the more that you lessen it,
or you say that certain players aren't going to be
there or that it's not a signature event, it really
hurts so those communities or hurts those events. And that
was all came about in defense and trying to combat
live golf.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
So yeah, that's my issue with it.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
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Speaker 2 (18:22):
Just like it's hard for people.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
To fathom what I'm trying to explain to people what
the NBA was really like back in our childhood. The
reason we didn't watch it every night. It wasn't on
all the time. People didn't have cable, and when they did,
there was like two channels that had sports on cable.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Instead. What we would watch or sitcoms? Sitcoms, right.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
And Jay stew were the three of us are about
the same age. Obviously, again, happy birthday to Dan. He's
younger than me. Jason, you're a little older than me,
but we're all kind of relatively same sort of window.
There your the sitcoms that your family watched.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
Or what, let's see sitcoms that my family watched. I
think we typically fell into the uh, could you say
Cosby show or is that yes? Yeah, you can say it, right.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Yeah, Cosby Show's not a bad word.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
Yeah, I just and you never know what that freak?
What what's going on?
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (19:32):
I understand, but it's like, again, this is like who
knew he was like America's Oh yeah, that's what makes
the story even worse.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
But go ahead, cheers. Yeah, that was amazing. I watched
a lot of like I watched a lot of The
Brady Bunch reruns, but I don't know if that qualifies.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
No, No, did you have Nickelodeon?
Speaker 5 (19:53):
No? No, No, The Brady Bunch was like on kt
LA every night, every night of the week.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
Yeah, it was on that was TBS for I watched
it on TBS in the afternoon byra What.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Was your the sitcoms or the shows watching your House?
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Yeah, a lot of those Cosby Show, Cheers. As you
guys mentioned, I was a big fan of Growing Pains. Sure,
I really enjoyed Growing Pains. I did like Ties, yeah,
Family Ties absolutely. I did like the TGIF Full House
and Family Matters, early Family Matters when it was all Arkle,
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then I checked out, But those were Yeah, those were
some of the sitcoms.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
So here's again, and if my memory is different than yours,
feel free. I just remember like again, Thursday night was
NBC Powerhouse Night, right where you had it started with
Cosby Show, it ended with Cheers, and then whatever show
in the middle was generally successful but wasn't as good
as the other shows. Right, it was Family Ties and
it was a different world. There's there's a bunch of
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different ones, and then sporadically throughout the week there were
other shows that would all have usually somebody older and
then a kid. Right, you had different strokes was big
for a while. You had mister Belvidere, which, of course,
so I want to get that Webster. Webster had George
Papa Dakas who was the Formeradopolos, sorry, he was the
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former Detroit Lion.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
So he had this, he had the big mustache, he
was the dad.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Then you had ma'am was the mom.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
She was ma'am right, So we had you had this
kind of cornucopia of shows, and you had the Thursday
was all NBC, and those especially.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Those two shows were staples.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
And then you know, you had you had the you know,
you had the night Writer, right, which is David Hasselhoff.
And the car Dukes of Hazzard was more early childhood
than it was late childhood. But mister Belvidere was starred
Bob Buker, right, and Bob Buker went from you know,
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little known major League baseball player to Brewer's announcer. And
because of the tide in Milwaukee, he was in the
Miller commercials as this fun loving guy up in the
He was the guy who would sit in the worst
seats in an empty baseball stadium and they were called
Uker seats. He used that to build this image and
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get a sitcom all while still calling Brewers games. Then
he had yet another life when he was in the
movie Major League, which is probably one of the five
most iconic sports movies of our childhood, probably like the
second most.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Known baseball movie. So what an amazing kind of career
that he had.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
And it was like one began, the other began, the
other began the other, and really such a diverse kind
of a playbook, if you will, it's very he lived
a fascinating life.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
When his appearances on The Tonight Show were really what
I think got everything going with him because it was
always such a big deal too. It wasn't that he
was a stand up guy, but when you would have
comedians are funny guys, to be welcomed back to the
to the seat where Johnny was there, to be brought
back on another episode was always a big deal. And
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Uker was brought back a bunch so that you sit,
you know, next to Johnny and then just would shoot
the bull. And Uker had even talked to think recently
in a piece that he did with Tom Rinaldi on Fox, Uh,
just on how how that relationship formed and then really
kind of set the stage for everything that was as
you laid out happened in his career.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Uh, here's a here's a little bit of the Miller
lighte commercials that that people remember for you.
Speaker 7 (23:52):
Know, one of the best reason about being the next
big leaguers getting previous.
Speaker 6 (23:55):
To the game called the front office finger.
Speaker 7 (23:57):
And once these fans recognized me I brought we won't
even have to pay for my leg purre for Billers.
I love them these mans.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
No, I break white because it's West Philly and it
tastes great.
Speaker 7 (24:07):
Good seats, sir, wrong, safe, buddy, Come on, I must
be in the front of my light beer from Miller.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Everything you always wanted in a beer and less.
Speaker 7 (24:17):
Let's say, say, buddy, he missed the tack, he missed attack.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Of course the last part when he's missed the tag.
His seats were really way up at the top of
the stadium.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
There's a statue of Miller Park behind home plate. Uh,
in the last row of the stadium that you can
if you can make the trek up the seats, you
can go and get your picture with the Bob Yuker
with the Bob Yucher statue that's in the stadium. There's
one outside as well, I believe, but There's one I
know for surely inside in the last row behind home plate.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
It is the ability to be self deprecating, which obviously
was unique. He was always glib and funny with the
one liner, but the self deprecation over his own career
was kind of that was he coreed that market I was.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
I was fortunate because early in my broadcasting career, one
of the jobs that I did when I was working
in Madison, Wisconsin, was I was running the board for
Brewer games. So in two thousand and two and two
thousand and three, and these are not good seasons by
the Brewers, but in those years two thousand and four,
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one of the first things that you can learn to
do at a radio station is run a board. When
you have play by play programming, you end up running that.
That was my job, Doug was the weeknights I'd run
the Brewer game on the news talk station, or if
there was an afternoon game, had come in earlier and
run the board and you'd hear Bob Buker every single day.
And because they stunk, it was actually more entertaining because
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he would be able to riff more right if they
were a winning team, and in contention, and having close
games or competitive games. Maybe he's not as much Bob Buker,
but I feel, because at the time that I was
doing it that stunk, that I got the best of it,
because there would be games when they're down ten to
one and there's just not much action, and then you
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just kind of let Bob Buker do what he wants
to wants to do. Truly a huge deal.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Here's a couple of his calls, same as calls from
when he was their play by play man.
Speaker 7 (26:16):
Morganna smash up the medal, play ship and center. Here
come go up around third a throwing the Browers win.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
The Brewers are moving on on a bay ship by
Nigro Morgan.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
He's being mobbed.
Speaker 7 (26:38):
WHOA what a scene night, dro Morgan. The arm is
back here he comes one two swinging around, good bye
the Hello New York Hie rolling Figer.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
What Kasey is being mop.
Speaker 7 (26:59):
By his team? How the Brewers have come from behind
today to beat deep Ty buy a score up two
to one and Milwaukee will place New York for the
American League Eastern Division championship.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Yeah, we are, We're getting to that. We're getting to
that phase where all these famous radio play by play voices.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Are you know they're leaving us?
Speaker 4 (27:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (27:26):
And you kids go ahead. I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
I was just gonna say, I don't think that Uker
gets put into the Vince Gully class, into the Harry Carey,
you know that that sort of era. He maybe he
maybe he should be considered amongst them. You know, Vince
Kelley's top of the top, and I think you could
tell you as much. But he was the voice of
a team, you know, Ernie Harwell. Same thing with the Tigers.
(27:50):
A lot of longtime great voices, and that's the one
for the Brewers with with Bob Buker. And what was
most heartbreaking dog actually in October when lost to the Mets,
was Bob Buker's final call on that that loss when
Pete Alonzo hits the three run shot and the Mets
end up winning, and Yuker's call was was just you
(28:14):
just felt something was different, and then you wondered like,
could this could the could that be his last call?
Not that he would pass away between that and spring training,
but just the fact of maybe by Bucher's just going
to hang it up, maybe he's not going to do
it again. But the call that he had in the
final game against the Mets. He even said, I think
I think the phrase was this one stings, and I
(28:35):
think that he felt that. I think that maybe he
knew that he wasn't going to be back uh calling
games in the spring, and that's uh. And now you
know we we've lost him entirely. But his call against
the Mets was, Yeah, it was a it was a heartbreak.
Speaker 6 (28:49):
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Speaker 1 (29:02):
Can we also admit something, Well, this scene is really
cool in the movie. That is a terrible remake of
a really cool song.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Who's with Me? Jay Stu Are You with Me? By
are You with Me?
Speaker 5 (29:15):
What's the name of the artist X?
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Of that one? Wait? Of this song or of the original?
Speaker 5 (29:24):
No, the cover song. I just remember I worked at
a movie theater when this movie came out. I probably
saw this movie a thousand times. I worked at the
movie theater, and I made sure that whatever I was doing,
I would drop whatever I was doing and go into
the movie theater to watch this scene. So there was
something about this song and the way Ricky comes in
(29:45):
that just got me fired up. So I guess that's
a long answer to I do like the song.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
It's Joan Jet, right, I mean this version is it?
It says it's by a group or an artist called X. Okay,
maybe I thought it was jone Jet, but I could
be wrong.
Speaker 5 (30:02):
Yeah, does sound jone Jetty, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Yes, it sounds jone Jetty, But I don't know if
that is jone Jett or some of you've never heard
of doing a jone Jet impression?
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Sure, right, because Jone Jets.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
I love rock and roll, and it does sound like
it sounds like jone Jet, But I don't know if
that's not by design?
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Can I hear the original wild thing? Is that possible? Right?
Speaker 4 (30:28):
At some point maybe later on in the show, or.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Maybe later on the show, or maybe later on after
game time. Let's get to it.
Speaker 6 (30:39):
This is game time on the Doug Gottlieb Show.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
dB. What do you got? What's the game?
Speaker 4 (30:50):
The game today?
Speaker 2 (30:51):
He is?
Speaker 4 (30:52):
It's a Thursday.
Speaker 6 (30:57):
I feel a draft.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
We're being generous on the heels of the NAST Championship
and kind of bringing a callback earlier of the season.
We'll see if PITT makes its appearance. But college football programs,
you'd give a national title too. You'd be like, you
know what, I'm going to give you a national title,
and I would I would say, let's stay away from
our favorite schools if we can.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Kind of how mean, I give them like they earned it,
they deserve it, they all this.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
You would like to see it.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
Maybe you like their coach, Maybe you've kind of secretly
just have always kind of liked that school. Maybe you
feel that they've had some you know, tough losses where
maybe they should have won a national championship. But yeah,
let's just say, if you were handing them out like candy,
would you give a national championship too? Jason, you are
number one. I am second, Samuel picked third. Doug, you
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have the back to back picks on the swing.
Speaker 5 (31:50):
Wow. Wow, this is crazy, man, This is one really.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Makes hold on, hold on, hold on.
Speaker 5 (31:57):
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Okay, so what's your pick chasing Oh, I.
Speaker 5 (32:05):
Thought you were telling me to hold on, hold on,
hold on. I just I really do think that I
think the UCLA should just be given a national title.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
I actually that's one of the ones on my list.
It's why can you support? Can you support your evidence?
Speaker 5 (32:19):
Because it's thirty five minutes for me.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
I'd like to see them.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Do you reward a fan base that doesn't care enough
to care?
Speaker 5 (32:28):
Yeah, that's the thing too.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
It's like they got uniforms.
Speaker 5 (32:31):
If you live in this city, it's a strange dynamic.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
UCLA.
Speaker 5 (32:36):
It's an amazingly beautiful campus in some of the most
high rent districts in the city, and nobody really pays
attention to UCLA, their football program or just the school,
so they deserve something. They deserve some recognition.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Okay, who's next?
Speaker 4 (32:53):
I am next? Ucla is off the board, and you
know what, I'll give one to Iowa. I actually think
it would be great to see Iowa. And they've had
great seasons every now and then.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Their punter is the MVP of the national.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
Again unable to break through. But hey, we saw the
popularity of Caitlin Clark and what a run that Iowa
would do. I would love to see what it would
be like with Iowa back on that national landscape and
Samson's you can't do it, I'm gonna grant you a
Hawkeye's national champion.
Speaker 8 (33:28):
I appreciate that, Dan the birthday boy. The thing about Iowa,
I put them as a possibility. But if your go
from winning like the Music City Bowl without back Bowl
winning a national championship, it's almost like too much. Like
I think, like a sinkhole would appear in Iowa City
and like the whole town would just collapse into it.
If Iowa won a football national championship and they won
an Orange Bowl fifteen years ago, you know where they're
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an at large for that against Georgia Tech, a team
that really deserves a national championship. My pick is, though,
I'm gonna say Boise State just you know, they've had
a great history over the last twenty five years. Yeah,
you know, they they earned their way into many BCS
Bowl games. You know, got a couple victories, and they
had their they had their chance, you know, this year.
(34:10):
But I think some of those teams, uh, you know,
fifteen years ago, you know, fifteen twenty years ago, ten,
fifteen twenty years ago were better than this version, much
more balanced, not just running teams.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
So I'd say Boise State.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
I'm gonna go with Virginia Tech.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
That's a good one.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
That's a good We talk about things that changed in
our childhood. Thursday Night, Big East Football, Virginia Tech Lane Stadium,
usually playing Miami or Syracuse under the lights.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Enter Sandman.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Right, that was good stuff. That was good stuff. Give me,
give me the Hokies, Give me the Hokies.
Speaker 4 (34:50):
All right, that's number four. Pick Doug. You're back up
at number five.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Left, fast does come at you fast man. There's a
lot of options here. I mean, I like my alma
mater to win one. Now they won one, or we
were kind of awarded posthumously or whatever in the nineteen forties,
which Oklahoma State was just awarded it like or awarded
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to itself a couple of years ago. But I mean,
considering how bad that program was and frankly, how tough
a year it had this year, imagine winning a national
championship at Oklahoma State when OU's won so many.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
Yeah, OSU would be an easy pick.
Speaker 4 (35:31):
All right, Sam, you're up at number six.
Speaker 5 (35:34):
I'm going to say Notre Dame.
Speaker 8 (35:36):
Having won one in what thirty five years, they're part
of the college football landscape. They got to a national
championship game against Alabama, got rolled. They've been in the
playoffs several of the times, I think that you know
they're overdue.
Speaker 4 (35:50):
Give me Notre Dame. I thought for sure was going
to be your love of Pitt, but it did not coll.
You know, Pitt and Georgia tack very near and dear
to my heart. I would really like to give one
to Oregon, but they they just if they were a
little too excited over that win over Ohio State in
the regular season. So we're gonna take it away from
the Ducks, who have very nice fans. Give me Boston
(36:12):
College BC. Let's put football back in the Northeast. BC
was one of those schools with Flutie growing up. One
of my first tastes of college football. Boston College. Let's
give BC a national championship.
Speaker 5 (36:26):
I'm glad you left it for me. I'm glad you
left those for me, Dan, because I want to take
it back to the old packed ten, back to the
old conference I used to call let the rose Ball ordinly,
I want Oregon to win. Give me an ordinarily Oregon one.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
That is game time.
Speaker 6 (36:49):
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Speaker 1 (36:54):
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Speaker 2 (37:06):
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Speaker 2 (00:35):
Hey, welcome in.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Yeah, we'll get to the Bob Bucker story this hour
of the show. I mean, there's like several parts to it,
like you're sad, but he was also ninety, so it's
like a life well lived, like you never want anybody
to pass away, and he was still very full of
life in this last year of broadcasting with the Milwaukee Brewers.
But let's not act like, you know, it was something
(01:06):
that happened to a child or somebody who had not lived.
That's the true crime of life being stolen. From that
person or from their family, But still sad because just
an absolutely legendary figure in broadcasting. But I think probably
stamped at least the three of our childhood. I'm talking
about Dan Byer, Happy birthday to you, Dan by the way,
(01:29):
Dan Bayer, and Jason Stewart myself, because we're all in
that age where Bob Buker was. We invented a seat
at a game, the seats, the nosebleed seats were renamed
Ucher seats because of a commercial that he was in.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Then he was in a sitcom.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Then he was in one of the iconic sports movies
of our childhood. The sitcom was actually pretty good and
long running, and he just became synonymous with Brewers baseball
and that aug sh Duck's kind of way of broadcasting
a game and making you feel better. Right, In many ways,
(02:08):
Bob Youker was mister Baseball because he seemed to love
what he was doing and had a good time. And
sports is supposed to make us feel better about life
than worse about life, despite what social media we'll do sometimes,
and I thought he did a great job of capturing that.
(02:31):
All right, we'll get to that upcoming on in the show.
The big story of the day is this story that
Dion Sanders would take the Cowboys job if offered. Here's
Ed Werder always has more on with Dan Patrick this morning.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Regarding Dion, we know that he has not yet formally
interviewed for the job. The Cowboys have extended invitations to
Leslie Frazier and Robert Salah to be the first two
to interview formally.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
For the job.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
But Dion told Adam Schefter the other day that Jerry
Jones reached out to him and they discussed the job
and everything I continue to be told Dan is that
Jerry is interested. It was described to me as he's
enamored with the idea. Obviously, it's hard to imagine any
(03:19):
coaching candidate who could create more interest, someone that Jerry
could more sell to the fan base here, which needs
to happen, and make Jerry more money than Dion Sanders.
I mean, he won a Super Bowl here as a player.
There are also people around Dion who tell me that
he's being urged by his supporters in Colorado to take
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the job, and that they believe if Jerry ever does
offer him the job, that he will take that he
has an extension to remain at Colorado on his desk
that he hasn't even looked at as he considers these
other possibilities. There are also people close.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
To Dion who tell me they don't see.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
It happening, but they've seen things happen with Jerry Jones
that they didn't expect to happen before.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
I think the biggest issue with it is his his
remarks that he'd only want to coach to coach his son.
Just the reality is that Dak Prescott contract looms large.
Like it it's virtually impossible to field a quality football
team if you have one hundred and six million dollars
some dead cap money. And it would also be equally
(04:26):
impossible to draft Shador Sanders and not play him and
have Dak Prescott be a quarterback for a year or two,
because one, you wouldn't be any good and two like,
how do you think that works? The coach's son is
a first round pick quarterback and he's not playing or
staring over the eyes of Dak Prescott. Yet none of
(04:47):
that works. As for Kenny Coach, Yeah yeah, I mean,
he's often said he doesn't fit the modern NFL, but
I think all of us know that's not true because
now the big issue with him is whether or not
you can sacrifice your ego and make it about other people.
(05:09):
He's done a good job and make it about Travis
Hunter when he's at Colorado, But when you're in the NFL,
can't be about the coach, can't be about the coach.
It just can't ask me about everybody else. And you
get credit for wins and losses, but it's not about
your personality, or at least it never has been.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
So I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
I think the whole thing is fascinating.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Again, no true knowledge, and we do want to lead
with the positive because then you hear from Ed Werder, well,
there are some people think it's never going to happen,
but Jerry. You never know with Jerry, which means, okay,
what if he told Jerry like it only happens if
you draft your door and Jerry's like, I can't get
rid of Dak Prescott a hundred six million dollars dead
cap hit if we do that, we trade him.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
So going to be fascinating.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Birthday boy, Dan Byer, what do you think the like
good is of Dion? Because now Dion's putting the pressure
squarely on Jerry. That story doesn't get out unless Dion
wants it out. It's out from multiple sources. That's Dion
putting on the full court press. Now it's on Jerry
because and it becomes really hard to hire anybody else.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
I still think it's slim. I think that we're still
so early in this Cowboys situation where I mean it
was just a couple of days ago that they decided
to part ways. What was it on Monday? Because Mike
McCarthy's contract expired on Tuesday. They haven't interviewed anybody, Yeah,
at least as of yesterday. So I just I think
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this is all just posturing in a way for Dion
to maybe get that contract with Colorado. I don't think
Jerry Jones will ultimately offer it to Deon Sanders. I
don't think they need a splash higher, if that's the
term that's used. So I think that the chances are
slim that he goes to Dallas.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Doug Gottlieb Show here on Fox Sports Radio, Jay s Doo,
what do you think.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
Is there an eight million dollar buyout in this whole
thing as well?
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Yeah, I mean that's not gigantic money, and.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
So Jerry Jones would buy his salary out at Colorado
and then give Dion a new salary. Sure, and then
there is this this whole thing of as you mentioned before,
I'm not going to coach unless I coach both my sons.
If he goes to the Cowboys, he won't coach either son. Right,
(07:39):
it doesn't sound likely. But I will say this for
those saying that this isn't like a good job this
year and maybe even for the next couple of years
because of the Prescott salary, do you think Dion really cares? Like,
if Dion could be the head coach of the Dallas
Cowboys and all that comes with that, whatever brand wise
(08:01):
and fame wise and legend wise, you think he wouldn't
just jump at that prospect. Like, I don't think the
the state that the Cowboys are in and if they're
going to win anytime soon has anything to do with this.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
I don't think that anything you can do with either,
And I don't think all that stuff is that difficult.
The one part that's difficult to change with the Cowboys
that's different from everybody else is the Dak Prescott contract.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Right. You know, there's some of these jobs You're like,
is it a good job?
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Is it a bad job? Well, it's a good job
if you have a quarterback. Well, they have a quarterback,
but what is his actual ceiling? And is he so
massively overpaid that it hinders you from fixing the rest
of the roster because the rest of the roster does.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Need needs to be fixed, needs to be fixed.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
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Speaker 1 (09:02):
It's the Gottleeb Show. Fox Sports Radio mentioned a big
happy birthday our guy Dan Byer DraftKings on the Draft
Kings sportsbook gap. Right now, Ohio State's an eight and
a half point favorite overt not tre Dame in the
National title game that's on Monday night at the Draft
(09:24):
Kings sports app right now, the total the game is
forty six and a half.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
And here's an interesting prop bet.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Ohio State wide receiver Jeremiah Smith is plus eleven hundred
to get over one hundred and seventy five receiving yards.
That is a talented, talented dude buyer. If this is
a hard one, right when it's your team, and you
yet have to advise people on betting. If you were
to put all this birthday money, you know, you get
that birthday card from your grandma.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
That.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Which is always your age. Everybody's grandma I know did
the same thing.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Like I played seventeen dollars there because it's your seventeenth birthday, right,
So if you had to put all that hard earned
birthday money in, what would you bet on?
Speaker 4 (10:08):
My gramma knocked it out of the park on birthdays.
I'll tell you that much my money. Jeremiah Smith, the
number is pretty high. It's a significant amount against a
good Notre Dame defense. But when you look at what
happened against Oregon, you're saying, man, Jeremiah Smith was on fire.
There was no stopping him. Except that's exactly what happened
in the game against Texas. So it's quite the reach
(10:31):
to have a guy of you know, one hundred and
seventy five yards. It's what were the odds plus eleven hundred?
Was that what it was? Yeah, that's pretty pretty far fetched.
I believe that Jeremih Smith will have a better game
than he had against Texas. It's not that he had
a bad game. He just was a non factor, only
had one catch for three yards in that game. So
there was they Texas said, Jeremiah Smith is not going
(10:52):
to beat us, and it almost helped him fifty eight
minutes in the yard away from scoring. But Jeremi Smith
going to have a better game against Notre Dame. I
just think that maybe people are underestimating Notre Dame's defense
and how they can can maybe try to slow down
Ohio State. Ohio State that's not been perfect. They were
not perfect against Texas, and I think that we saw
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that and we get wrapped up in the Jack Sawyer
play or maybe the screenplay. But yeah, at times Ohio
States offense does stall and Notre Dame can take advantage
of that.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Stug Gottleeb show here on Fox Sports Radio, I mentioned
something to make you you really happy. Obviously, Danny is
our biggest golf fan, golf advocate.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
We've done shows in the US Open.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Fox doing a deal with Live Golf, which you know,
for so long live golf was you know, no one
would put it on TV. It was the anti Christ
for all things golf. What do you think this does
for live golf?
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Well, I do have to I don't think there's an
elephant in the room. But if we're gonna be honest
about this, I have never ever been a fan of
Live Golf. I have been critical of it from the beginning.
I feel it's been the sole reason on why golf
has been ripped apart. Others may disagree and argue, but
the beginning of Live I think has really changed the
(12:15):
world of golf, and I would think that the world
of golf has not had great momentum over these last
couple of years because of this split. Live Golf needed
something like this to help legitimize it even more. But
there's the other step of it. If there is a
significant deal. As we thought that there was going to
be some sort of partnership or merger with the Public
(12:38):
Investment Fund and the PGA Tour, and that has not
yet come to fruition. And even though the rhetoric had
been well, both tours will end up existing even if
there is a deal struck by the PGA Tour and
the Public Investment Fund. But I'm not sure how many
people actually believe that. I think this shows, Hey, Live
is going to be around you here for a while.
(12:59):
It's here to stay now with the legitimate broadcasting partner.
I don't believe in the team format. I know that
the TGL that we had the other night was one
of the one of the reasons on why that was developed.
I know that there were others, but one was to
try to combat what the team format with Live was.
I just don't think it works on a week to
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week basis in golf. I just don't think that there's
an appetite for it. So that's another issue that I
have with Live Golf is I just don't think team care.
People care about the fireballs or the four aces. I
just they're not going to become the Lakers or the
Celtics or the Dallas Cowboys. That's not going to happen,
(13:40):
and that's not what golf is. Golf likes team sports
every two years with the Ryder Cup, and that's about it.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Yeah, I think a little bit. And there's been so
much talk.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Cowherd had Adam Silver on today and they're talking about
the ratings, the reason the ratings are down, and talking
about power forwards and physical basketball like that's not why
then it's there's too.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Much of it on TV. It's not all the time.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
There's literally nothing special about watching an NBA regular season game.
How do I know? So guys skip games all the time.
I mean, Jason, you've pointed it out, and you're right.
The quality of football in the NFL is not great.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
It's not great. It just isn't.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
But they still, for the most part, have stuck with
one game Thursday night Sunday one or two games Monday night.
And anytime they put more on TV, for example, when
they do the two Monday night games, even when they
do them back to back or they have overlap, those
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numbers are half of the Sunday games. Why football falls
into very specific windows which work for our viewing. And
the more you proliferate, there's more money out there to
be had, but less people watch the more you put
it on TV. It's the same thing with golf. Golf's
obviously going to struggle without Tiger Woods. People just don't
(15:06):
care no matter how good the players are, how great
their stories are, because there's a lot of great young golfers,
great stories in it, but it's not Tiger and Tiger
was that. It was the Haley's comment of the sport,
and now you have more of it and more.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
It's not only more water down.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
But now you have multiple options on a you know,
like Spring TV. Most people don't watch anyway, we watch
less and less Baseball. Why it's on all the time.
We're looking on all of this stuff the wrong way
in my opinion. If you want higher ratings, you got
to put it on less. All these other sports are
now becoming volume in sports plays which have value. Right
(15:46):
Obviously Fox because it's like a four to five. You
can put a six hour window whatever live sports programming.
You can make a lot of money on it, but
it's gonna hurt the overall popularity of the sport in
terms of how many people watch.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
You know, there's there's there a golf connection in terms
of the Masters as well, and I don't think it's
apples to apples, so it's please don't take me for
saying that. But what happens around Masters time is everybody
complains that it's not wall to wall coverage all day long, right,
And I think that that aside from all the other
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great things about the Masters. Now there's so many different
ways to consume it online through Masters dot Com and
the apps that they provide and the coverage that they provide,
but it still gives you this sense, a little sense
of okay, what am I You know, we're still not
getting all of it. There's still this little bit of
mystery to it, and I think that plays into it,
(16:42):
maybe not entirely, but with you know, with golf, it's
truly the four majors, and honestly, for us in the States,
it's the Masters, and you hope the US Open and
the PGA Championship are competitive or have great storylines to follow,
and overseas, and it's the Open Championship. I don't think
that rates great here in the States, unless Tiger was
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actually playing in it. But considering we have to get
up early in the morning to watch it and it
ends here on the West Coast at about eleven am
on Sunday, you're not getting huge TV ratings from the
Open Championship. But it's really the four majors, Doug in
what people want to view. And then there's like this
next tier of golf events where Rory McElroy, Scottie Scheffler
(17:24):
and honestly Brooks, Koepka, Bryson to Shambeau. You know, we're
a part of that. Phil Mickelson as well. But now
with the split of them, Scotty Scheffler and Rory McElroy
just aren't enough and they're only playing in certain events,
which really waters down all the other ones. And that
was my problem with live is you had all these
PGA tour communities that always hosted. You talk about the
days back in Connecticut, Doug and I always mentioned the
(17:47):
Quad Cities and the John Deere. John Deere doesn't get
the strongest of fields, but it's a pretty big deal
to that community, and the more that you lessen it,
or you say that certain players aren't going to be
there or that it's not a signature event, it really
hurts so those communities or hurts those events. And that
was all came about in defense and trying to combat
live golf.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
So yeah, that's my issue with it.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Yeah, I'm with Doug Gotlieb Show here on Fox Sports Radio.
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All right, I'm all Right's Doug Gottlieb Show here on
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Speaker 2 (18:22):
Just like it's hard for people.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
To fathom what I'm trying to explain to people what
the NBA was really like back in our childhood. The
reason we didn't watch it every night. It wasn't on
all the time. People didn't have cable, and when they did,
there was like two channels that had sports on cable.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Instead. What we would watch or sitcoms? Sitcoms, right.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
And Jay stew were the three of us are about
the same age. Obviously, again, happy birthday to Dan. He's
younger than me. Jason, you're a little older than me,
but we're all kind of relatively same sort of window.
There your the sitcoms that your family watched.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
Or what, let's see sitcoms that my family watched. I
think we typically fell into the uh, could you say
Cosby show or is that yes? Yeah, you can say it, right.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Yeah, Cosby Show's not a bad word.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
Yeah, I just and you never know what that freak?
What what's going on?
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (19:32):
I understand, but it's like, again, this is like who
knew he was like America's Oh yeah, that's what makes
the story even worse.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
But go ahead, cheers. Yeah, that was amazing. I watched
a lot of like I watched a lot of The
Brady Bunch reruns, but I don't know if that qualifies.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
No, No, did you have Nickelodeon?
Speaker 5 (19:53):
No? No, No, The Brady Bunch was like on kt
LA every night, every night of the week.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
Yeah, it was on that was TBS for I watched
it on TBS in the afternoon byra What.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Was your the sitcoms or the shows watching your House?
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Yeah, a lot of those Cosby Show, Cheers. As you
guys mentioned, I was a big fan of Growing Pains. Sure,
I really enjoyed Growing Pains. I did like Ties, yeah,
Family Ties absolutely. I did like the TGIF Full House
and Family Matters, early Family Matters when it was all Arkle,
(20:30):
then I checked out, But those were Yeah, those were
some of the sitcoms.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
So here's again, and if my memory is different than yours,
feel free. I just remember like again, Thursday night was
NBC Powerhouse Night, right where you had it started with
Cosby Show, it ended with Cheers, and then whatever show
in the middle was generally successful but wasn't as good
as the other shows. Right, it was Family Ties and
it was a different world. There's there's a bunch of
(20:57):
different ones, and then sporadically throughout the week there were
other shows that would all have usually somebody older and
then a kid. Right, you had different strokes was big
for a while. You had mister Belvidere, which, of course,
so I want to get that Webster. Webster had George
Papa Dakas who was the Formeradopolos, sorry, he was the
(21:20):
former Detroit Lion.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
So he had this, he had the big mustache, he
was the dad.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Then you had ma'am was the mom.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
She was ma'am right, So we had you had this
kind of cornucopia of shows, and you had the Thursday
was all NBC, and those especially.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Those two shows were staples.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
And then you know, you had you had the you know,
you had the night Writer, right, which is David Hasselhoff.
And the car Dukes of Hazzard was more early childhood
than it was late childhood. But mister Belvidere was starred
Bob Buker, right, and Bob Buker went from you know,
(22:01):
little known major League baseball player to Brewer's announcer. And
because of the tide in Milwaukee, he was in the
Miller commercials as this fun loving guy up in the
He was the guy who would sit in the worst
seats in an empty baseball stadium and they were called
Uker seats. He used that to build this image and
(22:23):
get a sitcom all while still calling Brewers games. Then
he had yet another life when he was in the
movie Major League, which is probably one of the five
most iconic sports movies of our childhood, probably like the
second most.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Known baseball movie. So what an amazing kind of career
that he had.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
And it was like one began, the other began, the
other began the other, and really such a diverse kind
of a playbook, if you will, it's very he lived
a fascinating life.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
When his appearances on The Tonight Show were really what
I think got everything going with him because it was
always such a big deal too. It wasn't that he
was a stand up guy, but when you would have
comedians are funny guys, to be welcomed back to the
to the seat where Johnny was there, to be brought
back on another episode was always a big deal. And
(23:24):
Uker was brought back a bunch so that you sit,
you know, next to Johnny and then just would shoot
the bull. And Uker had even talked to think recently
in a piece that he did with Tom Rinaldi on Fox, Uh,
just on how how that relationship formed and then really
kind of set the stage for everything that was as
you laid out happened in his career.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Uh, here's a here's a little bit of the Miller
lighte commercials that that people remember for you.
Speaker 7 (23:52):
Know, one of the best reason about being the next
big leaguers getting previous.
Speaker 6 (23:55):
To the game called the front office finger.
Speaker 7 (23:57):
And once these fans recognized me I brought we won't
even have to pay for my leg purre for Billers.
I love them these mans.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
No, I break white because it's West Philly and it
tastes great.
Speaker 7 (24:07):
Good seats, sir, wrong, safe, buddy, Come on, I must
be in the front of my light beer from Miller.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Everything you always wanted in a beer and less.
Speaker 7 (24:17):
Let's say, say, buddy, he missed the tack, he missed attack.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Of course the last part when he's missed the tag.
His seats were really way up at the top of
the stadium.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
There's a statue of Miller Park behind home plate. Uh,
in the last row of the stadium that you can
if you can make the trek up the seats, you
can go and get your picture with the Bob Yuker
with the Bob Yucher statue that's in the stadium. There's
one outside as well, I believe, but There's one I
know for surely inside in the last row behind home plate.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
It is the ability to be self deprecating, which obviously
was unique. He was always glib and funny with the
one liner, but the self deprecation over his own career
was kind of that was he coreed that market I was.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
I was fortunate because early in my broadcasting career, one
of the jobs that I did when I was working
in Madison, Wisconsin, was I was running the board for
Brewer games. So in two thousand and two and two
thousand and three, and these are not good seasons by
the Brewers, but in those years two thousand and four,
(25:23):
one of the first things that you can learn to
do at a radio station is run a board. When
you have play by play programming, you end up running that.
That was my job, Doug was the weeknights I'd run
the Brewer game on the news talk station, or if
there was an afternoon game, had come in earlier and
run the board and you'd hear Bob Buker every single day.
And because they stunk, it was actually more entertaining because
(25:46):
he would be able to riff more right if they
were a winning team, and in contention, and having close
games or competitive games. Maybe he's not as much Bob Buker,
but I feel, because at the time that I was
doing it that stunk, that I got the best of it,
because there would be games when they're down ten to
one and there's just not much action, and then you
(26:07):
just kind of let Bob Buker do what he wants
to wants to do. Truly a huge deal.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Here's a couple of his calls, same as calls from
when he was their play by play man.
Speaker 7 (26:16):
Morganna smash up the medal, play ship and center. Here
come go up around third a throwing the Browers win.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
The Brewers are moving on on a bay ship by
Nigro Morgan.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
He's being mobbed.
Speaker 7 (26:38):
WHOA what a scene night, dro Morgan. The arm is
back here he comes one two swinging around, good bye
the Hello New York Hie rolling Figer.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
What Kasey is being mop.
Speaker 7 (26:59):
By his team? How the Brewers have come from behind
today to beat deep Ty buy a score up two
to one and Milwaukee will place New York for the
American League Eastern Division championship.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Yeah, we are, We're getting to that. We're getting to
that phase where all these famous radio play by play voices.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Are you know they're leaving us?
Speaker 4 (27:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (27:26):
And you kids go ahead. I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
I was just gonna say, I don't think that Uker
gets put into the Vince Gully class, into the Harry Carey,
you know that that sort of era. He maybe he
maybe he should be considered amongst them. You know, Vince
Kelley's top of the top, and I think you could
tell you as much. But he was the voice of
a team, you know, Ernie Harwell. Same thing with the Tigers.
(27:50):
A lot of longtime great voices, and that's the one
for the Brewers with with Bob Buker. And what was
most heartbreaking dog actually in October when lost to the Mets,
was Bob Buker's final call on that that loss when
Pete Alonzo hits the three run shot and the Mets
end up winning, and Yuker's call was was just you
(28:14):
just felt something was different, and then you wondered like,
could this could the could that be his last call?
Not that he would pass away between that and spring training,
but just the fact of maybe by Bucher's just going
to hang it up, maybe he's not going to do
it again. But the call that he had in the
final game against the Mets. He even said, I think
I think the phrase was this one stings, and I
(28:35):
think that he felt that. I think that maybe he
knew that he wasn't going to be back uh calling
games in the spring, and that's uh. And now you
know we we've lost him entirely. But his call against
the Mets was, Yeah, it was a it was a heartbreak.
Speaker 6 (28:49):
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Speaker 2 (28:58):
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Speaker 1 (29:02):
Can we also admit something, Well, this scene is really
cool in the movie. That is a terrible remake of
a really cool song.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Who's with Me? Jay Stu Are You with Me? By
are You with Me?
Speaker 5 (29:15):
What's the name of the artist X?
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Of that one? Wait? Of this song or of the original?
Speaker 5 (29:24):
No, the cover song. I just remember I worked at
a movie theater when this movie came out. I probably
saw this movie a thousand times. I worked at the
movie theater, and I made sure that whatever I was doing,
I would drop whatever I was doing and go into
the movie theater to watch this scene. So there was
something about this song and the way Ricky comes in
(29:45):
that just got me fired up. So I guess that's
a long answer to I do like the song.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
It's Joan Jet, right, I mean this version is it?
It says it's by a group or an artist called X. Okay,
maybe I thought it was jone Jet, but I could
be wrong.
Speaker 5 (30:02):
Yeah, does sound jone Jetty, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Yes, it sounds jone Jetty, But I don't know if
that is jone Jett or some of you've never heard
of doing a jone Jet impression?
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Sure, right, because Jone Jets.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
I love rock and roll, and it does sound like
it sounds like jone Jet, But I don't know if
that's not by design?
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Can I hear the original wild thing? Is that possible? Right?
Speaker 4 (30:28):
At some point maybe later on in the show, or.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Maybe later on the show, or maybe later on after
game time. Let's get to it.
Speaker 6 (30:39):
This is game time on the Doug Gottlieb Show.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
dB. What do you got? What's the game?
Speaker 4 (30:50):
The game today?
Speaker 2 (30:51):
He is?
Speaker 4 (30:52):
It's a Thursday.
Speaker 6 (30:57):
I feel a draft.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
We're being generous on the heels of the NAST Championship
and kind of bringing a callback earlier of the season.
We'll see if PITT makes its appearance. But college football programs,
you'd give a national title too. You'd be like, you
know what, I'm going to give you a national title,
and I would I would say, let's stay away from
our favorite schools if we can.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Kind of how mean, I give them like they earned it,
they deserve it, they all this.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
You would like to see it.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
Maybe you like their coach, Maybe you've kind of secretly
just have always kind of liked that school. Maybe you
feel that they've had some you know, tough losses where
maybe they should have won a national championship. But yeah,
let's just say, if you were handing them out like candy,
would you give a national championship too? Jason, you are
number one. I am second, Samuel picked third. Doug, you
(31:48):
have the back to back picks on the swing.
Speaker 5 (31:50):
Wow. Wow, this is crazy, man, This is one really.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Makes hold on, hold on, hold on.
Speaker 5 (31:57):
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Okay, so what's your pick chasing Oh, I.
Speaker 5 (32:05):
Thought you were telling me to hold on, hold on,
hold on. I just I really do think that I
think the UCLA should just be given a national title.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
I actually that's one of the ones on my list.
It's why can you support? Can you support your evidence?
Speaker 5 (32:19):
Because it's thirty five minutes for me.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
I'd like to see them.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Do you reward a fan base that doesn't care enough
to care?
Speaker 5 (32:28):
Yeah, that's the thing too.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
It's like they got uniforms.
Speaker 5 (32:31):
If you live in this city, it's a strange dynamic.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
UCLA.
Speaker 5 (32:36):
It's an amazingly beautiful campus in some of the most
high rent districts in the city, and nobody really pays
attention to UCLA, their football program or just the school,
so they deserve something. They deserve some recognition.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Okay, who's next?
Speaker 4 (32:53):
I am next? Ucla is off the board, and you
know what, I'll give one to Iowa. I actually think
it would be great to see Iowa. And they've had
great seasons every now and then.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Their punter is the MVP of the national.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
Again unable to break through. But hey, we saw the
popularity of Caitlin Clark and what a run that Iowa
would do. I would love to see what it would
be like with Iowa back on that national landscape and
Samson's you can't do it, I'm gonna grant you a
Hawkeye's national champion.
Speaker 8 (33:28):
I appreciate that, Dan the birthday boy. The thing about Iowa,
I put them as a possibility. But if your go
from winning like the Music City Bowl without back Bowl
winning a national championship, it's almost like too much. Like
I think, like a sinkhole would appear in Iowa City
and like the whole town would just collapse into it.
If Iowa won a football national championship and they won
an Orange Bowl fifteen years ago, you know where they're
(33:49):
an at large for that against Georgia Tech, a team
that really deserves a national championship. My pick is, though,
I'm gonna say Boise State just you know, they've had
a great history over the last twenty five years. Yeah,
you know, they they earned their way into many BCS
Bowl games. You know, got a couple victories, and they
had their they had their chance, you know, this year.
(34:10):
But I think some of those teams, uh, you know,
fifteen years ago, you know, fifteen twenty years ago, ten,
fifteen twenty years ago were better than this version, much
more balanced, not just running teams.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
So I'd say Boise State.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
I'm gonna go with Virginia Tech.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
That's a good one.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
That's a good We talk about things that changed in
our childhood. Thursday Night, Big East Football, Virginia Tech Lane Stadium,
usually playing Miami or Syracuse under the lights.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Enter Sandman.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Right, that was good stuff. That was good stuff. Give me,
give me the Hokies, Give me the Hokies.
Speaker 4 (34:50):
All right, that's number four. Pick Doug. You're back up
at number five.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Left, fast does come at you fast man. There's a
lot of options here. I mean, I like my alma
mater to win one. Now they won one, or we
were kind of awarded posthumously or whatever in the nineteen forties,
which Oklahoma State was just awarded it like or awarded
(35:17):
to itself a couple of years ago. But I mean,
considering how bad that program was and frankly, how tough
a year it had this year, imagine winning a national
championship at Oklahoma State when OU's won so many.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
Yeah, OSU would be an easy pick.
Speaker 4 (35:31):
All right, Sam, you're up at number six.
Speaker 5 (35:34):
I'm going to say Notre Dame.
Speaker 8 (35:36):
Having won one in what thirty five years, they're part
of the college football landscape. They got to a national
championship game against Alabama, got rolled. They've been in the
playoffs several of the times, I think that you know
they're overdue.
Speaker 4 (35:50):
Give me Notre Dame. I thought for sure was going
to be your love of Pitt, but it did not coll.
You know, Pitt and Georgia tack very near and dear
to my heart. I would really like to give one
to Oregon, but they they just if they were a
little too excited over that win over Ohio State in
the regular season. So we're gonna take it away from
the Ducks, who have very nice fans. Give me Boston
(36:12):
College BC. Let's put football back in the Northeast. BC
was one of those schools with Flutie growing up. One
of my first tastes of college football. Boston College. Let's
give BC a national championship.
Speaker 5 (36:26):
I'm glad you left it for me. I'm glad you
left those for me, Dan, because I want to take
it back to the old packed ten, back to the
old conference I used to call let the rose Ball ordinly,
I want Oregon to win. Give me an ordinarily Oregon one.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
That is game time.
Speaker 6 (36:49):
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Speaker 1 (36:54):
Show Stut Gottlieb Show here on Fox Sports Radio. Okay,
so today's Thursday, which means we got, don't call it
a throwback Thursday?
Speaker 2 (37:06):
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