July 4, 2025 • 41 mins
Dan & Monse are on #LeWatch2025 as LeBron James continues to be passive aggressive towards the Lakers, which NFL team is signaling that mediocrity is A-OK for the 2025 season, another edition of The Press, and more!
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Speaker 3 (00:27):
Somewhere. The hot dogs are ready somewhere in America. It's
time to bun up, time to get those condiments ready.
Down a dog, Iowa, Sam spick and all, I got DIBs.
It's a happy Fourth of July. The veggie burger is
on the grill, Mozzi. We are ready to go for
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the fourth And.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Before we get these burgers and hot dogs, you're treating
to some pizza, which you know is my favorite.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
Yes, so thank you for that.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
The reason be true story. I wanted to make sure
that my stomach muscles were ready for what I'm about
to eat after the show today, any of you, I
did not, Yes, I did not want to go in
on an empty stomach. When we've got burgers, dogs and
ribs corn on the cob ready to go, I'm like
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I'm not going there on an empty stomach, then I
won't be able to enjoy it more. We're going to
allow the pizza that's on its way that I made
Ryan Berschinger get again, and he's going to bring us
this delicious goodness.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
Oh yeah, this is how we're gonna kick off the day.
I was wondering, I.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Wonder how many people at their own barbecues have their
own many hot dog eating contests.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
I feel like that's something guys would do. How many
can you eat? How many can you eat? And then
they end up just passed out.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
There's the timing aspect of it, and Joey Chestnut regains
his belt today, but it's the in the ten minutes
of it. Honestly, it's I feel it's similar to the
old pretzel gag, when like how fast could you eat
six pretzels that.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Like crunchy pretzels? Yeah yeah, yeah, okay, oh.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Yes, yes yes, and you think like, oh, let me
down them, and then like it's all, you know, clogged
up in your mouth and you just have this dough
you're trying to chew and it takes it forever. I
feel like it's the same thing with hot dogs. Not exactly.
But the point is is if you rush like after three,
I think you're done.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Absolutely, no, absolutely, and then you know I'm super weird.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
I don't put anything on my hot dog.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
I don't either, I'm playing Jane.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Nothing like, don't give me anything.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
And they're like, what like maybe like sometimes I'll have
like a veggie sausage and I can put like onions
and peppers.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
But that's not a hot dog. That's like something else, correct,
you know, just a hot dog. I just want the
dog and the hot.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Are they veggie dogs?
Speaker 6 (02:49):
Now?
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (02:50):
And you wouldn't even notice. You wouldn't even notice if
I handed you a veggie dog.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
I was sam to hot dogs, did not take veggie dogs.
Isaac Clown's Cron's been giving you the thumbs down.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
He really has been.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Oh what is our pizza here? I know this is not?
Is it here? There is all right there? It is
the za is here?
Speaker 7 (03:10):
Perfect?
Speaker 5 (03:10):
Also?
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Am I talking with my hands a lot? I know
I do, but you were just mocking me, like.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
I'm not mocking you. I was just using my hand.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Oh I thought you were doing it.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
No, those hands, look at I always use my hands too,
So no, that was that was just me.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
That's just me being animated on this Sport of July.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
I'll use my hands to signal this.
Speaker 8 (03:30):
I've watch twenty twenty five. I'm watch twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
The latest from the Lebron James watch in twenty twenty five.
There's a lot. There's a lot going on. It started
out with Lebron James posting on Instagram his new passion
and I honestly want to read into everything and make
fun of everything and be like, my goodness, Lebron, how
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good you? But Lebron was playing golf and I am
here for it. I loved it until I turn the
sound on of this Instagram story and listen. Not safe
for kids. Yes, if you're driving around and you want
to hear it, and you're gonna listen to Lebron James
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play golf on ig by all means just do it.
Don't do it around where kids are. Yeah, yes, don't
want to. We can't play it on a national network. Lebron, though,
hits a shot in his second video of four all
te shots by the way, which is gutsy. Because people
will critique your swing, they will make comments about it.
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It's easier to make like an eight foot putt and
be like, great putt, Yeah, way to go, dog, good shot.
He's just off the tee. But the great thing about
recording shots off the tee, most of the time, you
really don't have any idea where they go, except when
Lebron James. If you're driving down a fairway that's at
twelve o'clock on a clock, he hits a t shot
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and it's he looks right to three o'clock like it
is right of right, it is so right it is left.
But and he popped it up. So because he looked
straight up in the air, it was an awful shot.
But whoever was recording goes good bleep. That was like,
you know, now they're trying to trick us because Lebron
just popped one up off the toe one hundred yards
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to the right, not even close to the fairway, and
they're trying to convince you that all right now, he
smoked one, smoked one down the fairway. It did not happen.
It just it did not Like that's you don't look
directly right when you hit one down the fairway. So
even though the guy goes good bleep, it was not.
He was in the bleep. I guarantee you that, but
I love that Lebron was was active and out there,
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and I didn't recognize the course. It didn't look like
a southern California course. And that's when it all started.
Because then, Mancy, as we continue on our day long
event of not watch twenty twenty five, we'll watch twenty
twenty five. Lebron James was spotted at the Calves practice
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facility today. The ball Out media gave us the heads
up that Lebron was there in slippers, no shirt and sweatpants,
which is how I will be showing up to the
barbecue later today with a player that was at the
Cavs facility as well. And Lebron then took to the
tweets because of course Monty it is.
Speaker 8 (06:26):
You've not watched twenty twenty five. Not watched twenty.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Twenty an hour ago, tweeted, I've been here every summer
since it was built. I live here still and train
every summer. You'll all are board, Go get a plate
of food somewhere and enjoy the Fourth of July. So
he's all over social media on the fourth of July.
There's the welcome home hat that he wore over the
last couple of days. There is so much going on
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with Lebron James since the news of him signing his
extension and what could happen that I just feel that
none of this, none of this is natural, that there's
something behind it all. So as much as I want
him to love golf, it's not natural.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Absolutely everything he does is calculated, and I'm loving all
of this as well. We spoke to our NBA insider
Mark Medina in the first hour, and he sounds so
confident that Lebron is going to finish his career as
a Laker, and I cannot believe that. I don't think
he finishes his career as a Laker. I think they're
figuring out what exactly people are gonna.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
Give up for him.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
There's reports that nobody wants to, you know, deplete the
roster to get Lebron James, and I think he knows that.
So all of this is just setting up for a
big move, the decision coming in twenty twenty five. Again,
the decision fifteen years ago. I think it was the
first one. Yeah, right, And so he had the information
that we also got was of this past week of
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Rich Paul saying that he values, you know what, the
winning another championship and knows that the Lakers are moving
in the direction of the future, but he values wanting
to win right now. You're not gonna win right now
with the Lakers. You have a much easier path. As
we've talked about going back to the East, he has
to go back to Cleveland.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
That's the only logical move here. He can't go anywhere else.
Don't give me the Knicks, don't give me.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
The MAVs are interested. If he buys out with the Lakers.
They want to take him. No, the only way Lebron
can kind of salvage the end of his career because
right now, during our pre show meeting, both said at
pervles like, I feel like he's been around so long,
but the end of his career leaves a bit of
a bad taste in your mouth, and it's more of
that he's a little.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
Bit annoying that he's like, oh, Lebron around right, but
here we are.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
I feel like if he went back to Cleveland and
then ended his career there, it would be a much
more positive ending to the Lebron James era.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
I agree. I think that that would be a welcome
site for him.
Speaker 9 (08:55):
Hmm.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
I don't know how many Calves or Calves fans would
feel it. But again, if this was next year, if
we fast forwarded to next year, Monzi and the Calves
fell out in the Eastern Conference semifinals like they did
this year, I think that they would be more willing
to accept that. But right now, when Lebron left the
Cavaliers to go to the Lakers, it wasn't like the
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decision in twenty ten. This was an understanding that both
sides were probably going to part ways anyway. The Calves
were kind of done with what went on, and Lebron
wanted something new that we felt was likely to end
up in Los Angeles, and it did. And so now
the Calves can say we started from the bottom then
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without Lebron, and now we've been able to make moves.
We've had draft picks, we've got Donovan Mitchell, we've got
these pieces. We had the best record in the East
this year, and maybe if they were healthy, they could
have put more for them, an competition or resistance to
the Indiana Pacers, maybe win that series. Who knows, But
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that's I think what you're saying is a Cavs fan
right now. But if you were to lose next year,
then you say, Okay, we need to shake something up
because this isn't working. We need something different, and I
think would be open to Lebron. I think that all
of this. I think Lebron plays for the Lakers next season.
I don't think he plays for them. I think he's
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I think he's gonna play two or three more years.
So it's the Lakers one season and then after that
it's his new team. But all of this stuff to
your point of how what Rich Paul is saying, the
words that they use the Lakers building for the future
doesn't necessarily mean that Lebron wants to go and win championships.
What it also means is, hey, if I stay in LA,
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it's not my fault because they didn't. They are looking
for the future. But I'm still here even though my
goal is for the championship, and I want you fans
to know that I'm all about titles. They are the
ones that made the decision to try to go young,
and it takes all of the pressure off of him.
So everything that is done with a welcome home hat
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to playing golf and what I believe is probably suburban
Akron somewhere at a golf course to all of that
happening to showing up at the Cavs facility, all of it,
All of it is contrived from what happened last Sunday.
And I've just looked on Twitter just to scan during
the break and how many tweets Lebron is tweeted about
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the same amount in the first four days of July
then he did all of June. Oh yeah, so's there's
a reason why that this is happening. Is now he
is out there and he's a part of the conversation
because he wants to be a part of the conversation
and he knows what's at stake.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
I don't necessarily agree with you on the sense that
him saying that the Lakers are trying to plan for
the future and that takes pressure or blame off of
him in case it doesn't go well.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
I actually don't think that. I think regardless of what.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
Unfortunately, he's gonna get blamed with the Lakers.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
With the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Agreed, yes, but Lebron's messaging, they're trying to say, we
will always think that like it's it's probably a burden
of Lebron. But I think that they're What they're trying
to say is I know you're gonna blame Lebron, but
don't because look at what they're doing, Look at how
they're doing it. It's spin mansie. They're just trying to
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that's I know time.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
I'm dizzy. I know I thought rings didn't matter, but
now they do matter. I'm dickey.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
They matter to Lebron, they don't matter to the Lakers.
That's what I think they're trying to say, the Lakers
this year. And I truly believe that the Lakers were
the ones to say to Lebron, we we are going
to be going this this way. We're not going to
give you a one on one contract that he had
wanted that I feel that he probably would have wanted.
And when they said that we don't want you here
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for the long term, his only option was to, I
feel opt in. I know he's got I always worth
the billion dollars, but you just, you know, turn fifty
two million dollars down. You just don't. Maybe you put
the pressure on them to make a move, and if
you end up staying in LA and get all your
affairs sorted and then leave after that on your own terms.
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I just I don't think that. I don't think he
gets the money. He doesn't get the money that he
gets fifty two million dollars if he just opts out
and becomes a free agent, and the teams that he
would want to go to weren't ready to bring him
on board for the price egg that he would likely cost.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
I hear what you're saying that he didn't have many options.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
But at the same time, it does feel like maybe
there is right now who's gonna blink first, the Lakers
or Lebron Because this new ownership of the Lakers has
no ties to Lebron. There's no loyalty here that's going
to be broken, And I part of me wants to
think that Genie Buss and the Bus family were like,
this is the only way to get rid of Lebron,
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and like cut this tie that we kind of got
ourselves into by selling the team, and now we can
say we're not making the decisions.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
When you're talking about it's them, it's them.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
There is no loyalty here, no reason for them to
be like, yes, Lebron, whatever you want.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
Just like Genie Bus and Rap Polinka have been doing.
They don't have to do that.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
And I am wondering if there is a bit of
a standoff here, a bit of who's going to blink first,
happening behind closed doors, and that's why he's doing all
of this.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Did you hear how I characterize the Lakers and Lebron's relationship.
I don't know if you've because we haven't crossed paths.
I've called it a marriage built on convenience. There's marriages
that are that are that are made with the you know,
the partners are madly in love with each other, and
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there are others that this works. This works for what
I want to do in life, and at some point,
when one side is getting too much or the other
side's being short changed, that's when it breaks off. And
that's what I think happened here. I don't know if
it was use the sale of the Lakers. I do
think it's the acquisition of Luka Danci changed everything, like
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it changed on how the Lakers are going to chart
their future, and Lebron was not a part of that.
I think that if they don't acquire Luca, that Lebron
does get his one in one contract and then ends
up retiring as a Laker ultimately. But I do think
that they're they're not on the same page now. And
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if you're seeing all of this in the first five
days since he's decided to opt in, what's it going
to be like for eighty two games in the season.
And that's what I to that point of. Even though
I think Lebron stays, I do wonder if you're Rob
Polinka and you're now saying, well, we can't have this
for all of next year. We can't have this three
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ring circus moving on. It'd just be an absolutely toxic year.
And then to your point, I don't know if new
ownership would want to It would be different if it
was maybe the Bus family, but I don't know if
new ownership would put up with that.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
I would love if he does, like if he starts
the season off with the Lakers and then he gets
like traded because of this environment, that how is DeAndre
Ayton going to handle this? He hasn't been able to
handle the lights in Phoenix, in Portland. Now he's coming
to the Lakers. There's pressure on DeAndre Ayton to do something.
Even though I don't like the way he has handled
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himself in the NBA, to be honest, like, I.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
Think he thinks he's better than he is.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
But he's gonna go and play with Luca, which is
gonna be a great, you know, lobbing duo.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
I can see that already.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
But I do think there can be issues in the
locker room, and I can I just can't wait for
Lebron to be in a press conference and be like, well,
you know, things are real toxic in there.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
If DeAndre Ayton was of value, I think we would
have heard a lot more teams. Absolutely absolutely, And so
now this is and I mean, didn't work out in Portland,
didn't work out in Phoenix. I don't know how it's
going to be different with LA. I think it's completely
that story is so overblown and so because everybody's injured
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and the free agency period hasn't been like it was
what eight years ago when Kevin Durant ended up leaving
the Golden State Warriors. Today was the anniversary of that,
I believe Bo said earlier. Because of that, like we
kind of we want something big to happen and it
hasn't necessarily, so we blow out of proportion. The DeAndre
Ayt and staff Oh, I'm.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
With you, Like I don't get it. I understand that
they had no other options and this.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
Is what you had to do. Like that's really what
it is. This is another marriage of convenience. I love that.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
By the way, that was a perfect description. This seems
to be right now. This is convenient for us to
sign you on for a one year deal and.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Throughout, and I honestly think it's been convenience for his
entire time for the previous seven years. Oh yeah, it's
worked for both parties. It gave the Lakers a superstar,
and it gave Lebron a landing spot. He wanted to
go to La, wanted to be Hollywood, had his kids
in school. Now Bryce is going off to college. Browny's
obviously in the NBA. That all worked out, But now
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it's a time for maybe a different part of his life.
And whether that's back in Cleveland where he's playing golf
or wherever, we shall see. But these signs are of
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an update of what happened not only at the hot
dog eating contest, but what went down at Wimbledon today
and in Major League Baseball game already in the books,
a couple of games in the books as well on
this fourth of July. It is the balance, the delicate balance, Manzi,
of do you have day baseball because it's fourth of July,
or do you have night baseball so you can have
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fireworks at the ballpark at fourth of July?
Speaker 4 (20:12):
You have it all a little bit of everything, you
know what I'm saying. I think there's perks to having
an early game and then you can go home and
enjoy Fourth of July. At watch your on fireworks exactly exactly,
and then there's a perk of you, Oh, maybe you're
doing the barbecue thing right now, like in Los Angeles,
and then you're gonna go.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
To the game. That's that's what's cool about it.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
I think that the options depending on where you're at,
but that you can have it in.
Speaker 5 (20:35):
The morning, in the afternoon, at night.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
I mean, great, well, they're putting on quite a show
in New York.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
Yeah they are.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Yankees have just taken a lead the Alien.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Yes, Jason Dominge is another homer. He homewred in the
first inning, so he's got in another one.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
I thought you were gonna go as the wing is,
as you would, Yeah, there you go, there it is.
And the j I thought I was going to be like,
just yes, there it is. But five to three Yankees
up on the Mets. But Isaaco give us an update
again in about eight minutes or so of what is
happening throughout Major League Baseball and so much more. I
said earlier that if I were to watch fireworks from
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a ballpark, it would be from PNC Park in Pittsburgh,
one of the great venues, and not only in baseball,
but in all of sports. Just down the block in Pittsburgh,
the Pittsburgh Steelers gave their general manager Omar Khan a
three year extension. He had been the GM with the
team since twenty twenty two, but he's now been with
the franchise for twenty five years, again keeping with the
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family tradition of the Pittsburgh Steelers. But at what point
do you have to break from that and be the
Pittsburgh Steelers of the NFL winning championships? Because it hasn't happened.
It hasn't happened in a while. It's been a long time.
Super Bowl forty three the last time. It's now going
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on seventeen seasons in the NFL that we haven't seen
the Pittsburgh Steelers win a Super Bowl, and they gave
Omar Khan a three year contract extension this week, Mancy
one that just has both you and me scratching our heads.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Yeah, just like huh okay, because this whole off season
right now for the Steelers. You and I sat here
with Aaron Rodgers talking about it. How Aaron doesn't all
of a sudden help you win the division.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
It keeps you afloat.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
They've made some moves and you know, we'll see what
happens if they.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
Make more moves. But it just seemed when I heard.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
About this signing, I was like, oh, so you're cool
with just going through the motions here, You're okay with this,
which is what's shocking. Why now, why did you extend
him now? Don't you want to see what happens this
season before you maybe give him an extension?
Speaker 3 (22:45):
You would think you would think you would.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Think, so you're just going, huh, okay, like you're cool
with just staying above five hundred.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Making all of those moves is one thing. Yeah, having
them work out to your point is an What is
also a completely other step is if it fails. You
obviously haven't shown the ability to really evaluate talent because
you've went in a way all in. You're all in
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on Aaron Rodgers. You just swung a trade with the
Dolphins to bring in Jalen Ramsey again and John Ousmith.
You swung the deal with DK Metcalf and Jennison George
Pickens out because you felt that was better, and you
gave DK Metcalf a new contract. What you've also done
is now you've said, if that doesn't work out. Not
only did that not work. Now you have to rebuild
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this team from scratch. And in their statement, the Steelers said,
we like, we love what Omar Khan has done, and
I'm paraphrasing being aggressive in free agency, building through the
draft over the last three years, and there have been
some good picks. They've tried to replay their offensive line.
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I don't think they've necessarily gotten Their injuries have been
a problem, but I wouldn't say what has happened over
the last three years is warranted enough even before you
made all of these deals. And at what point if
you're the Pittsburgh Steelers, and I think their fan base
is to the point, I just don't think that they
are as an organization of just realizing that again, nine
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and eight doesn't cut it, and it's better to be
four and thirteen than to be nine and eight in
the NFL, because then you can turn things around. My
point is Jacksonville has gone through. Jacksonville was a bad
franchise for a long time. Then they almost made a
Super Bowl with Jalen Ramsey on their team almost a
decade ago. Then they fell off, then they built up again,
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and then they fell off again. They've been through two
roller coaster cycles, Monzi. In the period of time that
the Pittsburgh Steelers have just stayed in their nine to
eight boats sailing along. It doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 5 (24:59):
It doesn't. But they don't think four and thirteen is better.
That's what this says. They don't think that. They don't.
You're right that, and I think we.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
Just keep seeing that move by move that it's like, yeah,
you're you're good. Nobody's saying you're making the moves to
try and and stay afloat. But yes, like this, this
is okay with you, This is what you guys are
good with it, Okay, all right.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
I'm trying to find the equivalent of rewarding someone for
doing something when you don't have the results, and I'm
having just a very difficult time this thing. If this
thing blows up in the face of the of the
Pittsburgh Steelers like it kind of did with the New
York Jets, Joe Douglas lost his job. Joe Douglas doesn't
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work for the New York Jets anymore as their general
manager because they blew it up. Now you can say, well,
Jets ownership is different than the Steelers' ownership. No, doubt
about it, but still at least the Jets ownership, for
as crazy as it may be, realizes that you at
a job to do, it didn't get done. We need
to make a change, And the Pittsburgh Steelers are saying
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you're hours before we even know if the job is
done or not. The job of getting Aaron Rodgers Manzi
was not that difficult, considering you only had about one
or two options, right, So what GM stuff does that do?
You traded away a young wide receiver because you maybe
didn't like his attitude, so you brought it in an
older one and then signed him to a deal that
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is worth way much more money than you were paying
the younger one. How does that make sense?
Speaker 5 (26:32):
None of this has been making You brought.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
In another tight end who works with who's worked with
your offensive coordinator previously? Is John Us Smith and Arthur
Smith had a relationship dating back to the Titans. But
one of the Steelers I guess position of strengths was
tight end when you had Pat Fryermouth. I understand the
two tight ends are valuable in the National Football League.
I am not sold on the valuable the value of
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a corner in the NFL. So acquiring Jalen Ramsey. I
understand Jamar chases in your division, but who else is
in that division? I mean Baltimore Ravens and Lamar Jackson.
I'm move more worried about what Lamar and Derrick Henry
and they do than worrying about what Rashad Bateman's doing
or what the Cleveland Browns. Who's going to throw the
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football to Jerry Judy. I don't need a lockdown all
pro cornerback. So none of that necessarily makes sense in
just in what the Pittsburgh Steelers are doing for this year,
and yet you reward your general manager. Mike Florio wrote
it as much as well that the Steelers are just basically,
you know, they're ready for mediocrity, right, They're just that's
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what they're content with. And it's if I'm a Steelers fan,
I'd be very frustrated to hear this, not because it's
anything against Omar Khan, but because just of what it symbolizes.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
Yeah, it's just you don't see this a lot.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
You either teams are going all in or their punting
so that they can prepare for the future. You don't
see a lot of teams just stay afloat stay there. Yes,
like they're they're competitive, right, and then they it's it's
the NFL. They had a lot of them, a great
fan base, so they're they're successful, you know in the
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grand scheme of things, but you're not winning. You're not
winning when it matters correct.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
And that's in the playoffs and that's in the super
Bowl and that team. We have no idea. If it works,
if everything lines up, then you know what you do.
I know Omar Khan would have been a free agent
after this season and this price tag would have gone up.
Maybe that's the other part of this is unfortunately, maybe
you're trying to be cheap. I don't know. That could
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be could be loyal it could be loyalty, but it
could be cheapness as well that we're just gonna give
him or we just feel comfortable in that way. But
to me, it's just it's so crazy. These are big moves,
like they are all in for the season, and I
think that Omar Khan if it doesn't work out, also
has the capability to fix things if it doesn't go
well this year. Yeah, it could make the Pittsburgh Steelers
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look foolish. I've looked foolish plenty. Do we have anything
from Lebron James right now? Anything happening in twenty twenty five?
Speaker 8 (29:12):
As a watch twenty twenty five. I'm watched twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
He's put up some golf videos lately. He likes the
golf when I do late afternoon, early evening. But right now,
four thirty six in the Cleveland area, you could maybe
be teeing off right about now if you wanted to.
But no word yet from Lebron James. We are on
the watch twenty twenty five. She's Monte milagial So I'm
dan buyer. Let's go to the news desk. Guys at
(29:35):
glow and Cron is here with the latest.
Speaker 7 (29:37):
Yeah, I actually have some Lebron's social media.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Here we go, Here we go.
Speaker 8 (29:43):
We watch twenty twenty not watch twenty twenty five.
Speaker 7 (29:47):
Well, this afternoon, our hero addressed a picture that showed
him at the Cleveland Cavaliers practice facility today. Lebron commented
on Twitter slash x I live here, still in train
here every summer since it was built. G D y'all
board man, go get a plate somewhere and enjoy the
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fourth of July. Don't mind if I do Lebron, don't
mind if I do anyway. In Major League Baseball, the
Chicago Cubs have been a franchise record eight home runs today.
They leave the Cardinals eleven to one after eight innings
at Wrigley Field. That includes three by Michael Bush he
now has seventeen and two by Pete Crow Armstrong. He's
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got twenty three. At City Field, the Yankees have a
five to three lead over the Mets. In the bottom
of the fifth inning, Jason Demega's two home runs for
the Yankees. He now has eight. Aaron Judges thirty second
home run of the year the Mets. Juan Soto a
two run home run against his former team. He now
has twenty three. The Mariners have two nothing over the
Pirates in the top of the second inning on a
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two run home run by none other than Cal Raley
now has thirty four to lead the majors. At Wimbledon today,
American Taylor Fritz won his third round match, but Americans
Madison Keys and Naomi Osaka each lost their third round matches. Finally,
Joey Chestnut won the Nathan's Famous Hot Dog eating contest
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today for the seventeenth time. In twenty tries. He consumed
seventy and a half hot dogs in ten minutes. Here
is the chew by chew call of his final bites.
Speaker 10 (31:26):
We're not gonna get to the record, but seventy bit
would be in a remarkable feat. Watch him here in
the last seconds. Joey's gonna get it in such meat
eating too. The etiquette is just exempl something to aspire to.
Speaker 7 (31:42):
Wow, aspire and unfortunately I did not aspire to that
etiquette when I just devoured the free pizza that Dan
so graciously.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
I know that was the analyst at the end, But
was that Jeremy Shapp doing play by play?
Speaker 7 (31:55):
I don't know, but it sounded like him.
Speaker 9 (31:56):
You're right, it was, Yeah, he was there on scene side.
Speaker 7 (32:00):
It was actually Jeremy Shaft.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Yeah, from I'm pretty sure that was jam.
Speaker 7 (32:04):
Jeremy shaping from outside the lines to Wow.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
I'm not saying I'm not no, I am not saying that.
I'm saying, how well versed is Jeremy Shapp to be
able to do outside the lines and then in turn
do play by play of a hot dog eating content.
Speaker 5 (32:21):
It is impressive.
Speaker 7 (32:22):
Well that analyst had some great insight there.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
I had a buddy of mine years ago take over
a volleyball job or an announcing job for volleyball, and
I said, Tom, I said, listen, I go, I gotta
be honest, I don't know what's good or bad, so like,
so just take it and run with it, because there's
no level of there's no Vin Scully, there's you know,
(32:46):
there's not a Merril Reese or like there's there's no
level to it. And he's done a great job with
it and it's still there doing it and it's one
of the best that there is. So maybe the hot
dog eating content is a bit of the same, but
good for Jeremy Shap to be well rounded.
Speaker 9 (33:03):
All I know is when you're handing an assignment, you
take it and you run with it. You two pride. Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
I'm just curious what what does the analyst do at
other jobs, right, because he's probably does some eating stuff. Sure,
because you do need to know what's happening within the sport.
It's easier for Jeremy Shap to kind of jump in
and tell you what's happening, but you need an analyst
there to tell you why. Joey Chestnut and the other
competitors are doing what they're doing. She's Manti Blaanhos. I'm
(33:29):
Dan Byer. An inside look at the booth of the
hot dog eating contest coming up next. It is the
fourth of July. Isaac Lowenkron runs down all of our
headlines of the day and so much more. She's Monty.
I'm Dan in for Doug on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Be sure to catch the live edition of The Doug
Gottlieb Show weekdays at three pm Eastern noon Pacific.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Happy fourth of July Independence Day. I'm Dan Byer. She's
Monty Belanos Iowa Sam.
Speaker 9 (33:55):
Happy fourth of July to everybody back in Iowa. Happy
fourth of July. This is hot Dog by led Zeppelin.
Speaker 5 (34:01):
Sam's wearing a great shirt.
Speaker 9 (34:02):
By the way, say Corgi for of is it a
Corki fourth July Beach Day twenty sixteen? I think it
is from July, so it's got that patriotic American flag theme. You.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Me and Brian Finley always loved Corgi's.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
Corki's are just so esthetical people aesthetically adorable. There's something
about those little short legs, the big butt just moving around.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
They're expensive.
Speaker 9 (34:31):
They are expensive, correct, Yeah, full what do you call
them thoroughbreds?
Speaker 3 (34:36):
Sor right?
Speaker 5 (34:37):
But they are so aesthetically like, stink and cute.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
They are little hot dogs. Yes the sausages really are
They're not wi dogs. No, those are theductions. No there,
I think they They remind me of e Walks a
little bit orgies.
Speaker 5 (34:55):
Yeah, yeah, I get that.
Speaker 8 (34:56):
Uh huh.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
How about that movie reference for me as well? Job,
Thank you for very much, very well done done, Bo
bents in a happy fourth to you, and glad that
you're hanging out with us as well. Happy for that.
Bo was also coined the phrase.
Speaker 8 (35:09):
I've watch co Watch twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
Then he updated Lebron James news we will bring you
here on Fox Sports Radio again. He went to play
golf not suitable for children, the language on it, but
he hit a shot that was so far right that
and his buddy goes good bleep, and I just like, no, no,
it's not. You're still probably three hundred and fifty yards
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away from the hole, and you're probably behind a pine
tree that's one hundred yards off the tea box in
the rough on the right. Lebron looked again, if you're
looking at noon twelve o'clock. He looked at three o'clock
to see where his ball went, and his buddy's like,
good shot. That's what you could do with golf shots.
Unless you're on the green and you don't see the
ball going the hole, you could pretend that it went
down the fairway.
Speaker 5 (35:54):
But what did you think of the swing itself?
Speaker 3 (35:57):
So I remember Lebron when he was younger and he
tried to a baseball bat. It was the worst thing
I've ever seen. Yes, this is better. This is not good.
This is not good.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
Yeah, you know, I was gonna say it apposed to
look like he was trying to swing really really hard.
But when you see some of these great golfers when
they hit a ball deep, it doesn't even look like
they're trying correct.
Speaker 5 (36:18):
It's effortless. He looks like he's trying to hit it
really hard.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
Yes, yeah, And like when you're at the update desk,
or when Isaac low and Crown's at the update desk,
it's effortless. Speaking of Isaac, he brings us the press,
the press.
Speaker 4 (36:33):
You play golf, No, No, I mean I I go
to top golf, and I've gone to the range, just
a general range a few times.
Speaker 5 (36:41):
And I've told you hitting.
Speaker 4 (36:42):
That stupid little golf ball is one of the most
satisfying feelings.
Speaker 5 (36:46):
It is, it really is.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
That's what hooks. It's hard, Isaac. Do you play it
at all?
Speaker 7 (36:53):
I actually did when I was a kid, if you
count going to the putting grain. But the last time
I went to golf, my wife was out of town
in like twenty thirteen, and I went to the driving
range at a local course here. And what I didn't
realize was I had aged quite a bit and I
was like sore for three days afterwards because you're doing
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the same motion over and over and over again. But
at the same time, I didn't have a crew of
hype men with me like Lebron apparently did he hits
the ball five hundred yards of the ro oh yeah, man,
great stuff, man, Yeah, I want to get hype men
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like Lebron has.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
He has good bleep.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
And by the way, if that would have been down
the down the fairway and ended up in a bunker,
that isn't good bleep, Like you're in the bunker, so
at least wait a little bit, like you can tell.
But the guy the cameraman just wasn't following it was
such a farce. That's what makes it so difficult to
believe anything that he says. He's even got the people.
Speaker 5 (37:56):
Right, like you didn't. Why did you? Why did you
have sound in that video? You didn't need this out
of getting the high as so much.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
See, there were four videos, you know, there were like
eighteen taken. Yeah, so how that one made the final cut,
I have no idea.
Speaker 7 (38:12):
So that was probably the best t shot he at
all day, and it was still two hundred and fifty
miles to the right. But that's our top story on
the press. The Ohio Cleveland related exploits of Lebron James
not only at the golf course, but this afternoon a
picture on social media emerged of him at the Cavaliers
practice facility, leading NBA Twitter and social media go to
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go nuts, and Lebron actually had to take to social
media himself to comment and say, cool it, everybody, I'm
back here pretty much every summer at this facility.
Speaker 3 (38:41):
Yeah, cool a chill out. I'm just I'm taking pictures
in Cleveland again, just like I didn't do last year
and didn't do the year before. But now I'm going
to and this is none of this is organic. None
of this is This is all contrived. I love the
golf thing, but I'm just not gonna sit there and
fooled by it. This is all a part of a
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plan for something. Again. He's tweeted more in the last
five days, and he has the entire month of June.
Speaker 8 (39:08):
I've watched twenty twenty five. I'm watched twenty twenty five.
Speaker 5 (39:11):
I love it. I love it all.
Speaker 4 (39:13):
If I'm completely honest, it's so ridiculous, but I love
it all.
Speaker 5 (39:16):
He's retiring, guys, That's what this means. He's retiring.
Speaker 3 (39:19):
This is it this Calves feel about this. I like
the golf thing. Could be like I am retiring, I'm
learning to play golf because I'm going to retire. You
could take that sort of thing. But being at the
Calves practice.
Speaker 4 (39:31):
Facility saying, I'm just saying, does Donovan Mitchell feel about all?
Speaker 7 (39:37):
I'll be checking his mentions and comments with that coming up.
We've had a ton of home runs today in Major
League Baseball, but we also have a bizarre baseball story
from of all places, Cooper's Town, the home of the
Baseball Hall of Fame. It involves two youth baseball assistant
coaches from Illinois behaving badly. The details now from w
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KTV television.
Speaker 11 (39:58):
Youth baseball co which is were fired after streaking at
Cooperstown All Star Village in Oneonta. The Atzego County Sheriff
says it happened about one am.
Speaker 5 (40:08):
Deputies did get video sent to them.
Speaker 11 (40:11):
This happened on field eight and in the video you
hear kids in the background, meaning they were there. Security
asked the coaches from Illinois to leave, but allegedly refused
to The Atzego County District Attorney's office won't be prosecuting
due to the level of criminality and the fact that
the two are out of state.
Speaker 7 (40:31):
So Pete Rose doesn't get into the Hall of Fame,
but these two jokers apparently do and they go streaking.
Speaker 3 (40:38):
What my kid's not going to play any sports. Just
it's not going to happen.
Speaker 9 (40:44):
You can catch him, you could, Yeah, I could, he could.
Speaker 3 (40:50):
I don't know, well that would go. But yeah, gosh,
that's awful.
Speaker 5 (40:54):
I can coach, I can do volley one, I can
teach him basketball.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
Could look brody. She hit seven threes in one game.
Follow her shot facts.
Speaker 2 (41:05):
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Speaker 3 (00:27):
Somewhere. The hot dogs are ready somewhere in America. It's
time to bun up, time to get those condiments ready.
Down a dog, Iowa, Sam spick and all, I got DIBs.
It's a happy Fourth of July. The veggie burger is
on the grill, Mozzi. We are ready to go for
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the fourth And.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Before we get these burgers and hot dogs, you're treating
to some pizza, which you know is my favorite.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
Yes, so thank you for that.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
The reason be true story. I wanted to make sure
that my stomach muscles were ready for what I'm about
to eat after the show today, any of you, I
did not, Yes, I did not want to go in
on an empty stomach. When we've got burgers, dogs and
ribs corn on the cob ready to go, I'm like
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I'm not going there on an empty stomach, then I
won't be able to enjoy it more. We're going to
allow the pizza that's on its way that I made
Ryan Berschinger get again, and he's going to bring us
this delicious goodness.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
Oh yeah, this is how we're gonna kick off the day.
I was wondering, I.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Wonder how many people at their own barbecues have their
own many hot dog eating contests.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
I feel like that's something guys would do. How many
can you eat? How many can you eat? And then
they end up just passed out.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
There's the timing aspect of it, and Joey Chestnut regains
his belt today, but it's the in the ten minutes
of it. Honestly, it's I feel it's similar to the
old pretzel gag, when like how fast could you eat
six pretzels that.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Like crunchy pretzels? Yeah yeah, yeah, okay, oh.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Yes, yes yes, and you think like, oh, let me
down them, and then like it's all, you know, clogged
up in your mouth and you just have this dough
you're trying to chew and it takes it forever. I
feel like it's the same thing with hot dogs. Not exactly.
But the point is is if you rush like after three,
I think you're done.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Absolutely, no, absolutely, and then you know I'm super weird.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
I don't put anything on my hot dog.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
I don't either, I'm playing Jane.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Nothing like, don't give me anything.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
And they're like, what like maybe like sometimes I'll have
like a veggie sausage and I can put like onions
and peppers.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
But that's not a hot dog. That's like something else, correct,
you know, just a hot dog. I just want the
dog and the hot.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Are they veggie dogs?
Speaker 6 (02:49):
Now?
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (02:50):
And you wouldn't even notice. You wouldn't even notice if
I handed you a veggie dog.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
I was sam to hot dogs, did not take veggie dogs.
Isaac Clown's Cron's been giving you the thumbs down.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
He really has been.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Oh what is our pizza here? I know this is not?
Is it here? There is all right there? It is
the za is here?
Speaker 7 (03:10):
Perfect?
Speaker 5 (03:10):
Also?
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Am I talking with my hands a lot? I know
I do, but you were just mocking me, like.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
I'm not mocking you. I was just using my hand.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Oh I thought you were doing it.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
No, those hands, look at I always use my hands too,
So no, that was that was just me.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
That's just me being animated on this Sport of July.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
I'll use my hands to signal this.
Speaker 8 (03:30):
I've watch twenty twenty five. I'm watch twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
The latest from the Lebron James watch in twenty twenty five.
There's a lot. There's a lot going on. It started
out with Lebron James posting on Instagram his new passion
and I honestly want to read into everything and make
fun of everything and be like, my goodness, Lebron, how
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good you? But Lebron was playing golf and I am
here for it. I loved it until I turn the
sound on of this Instagram story and listen. Not safe
for kids. Yes, if you're driving around and you want
to hear it, and you're gonna listen to Lebron James
(04:17):
play golf on ig by all means just do it.
Don't do it around where kids are. Yeah, yes, don't
want to. We can't play it on a national network. Lebron, though,
hits a shot in his second video of four all
te shots by the way, which is gutsy. Because people
will critique your swing, they will make comments about it.
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It's easier to make like an eight foot putt and
be like, great putt, Yeah, way to go, dog, good shot.
He's just off the tee. But the great thing about
recording shots off the tee, most of the time, you
really don't have any idea where they go, except when
Lebron James. If you're driving down a fairway that's at
twelve o'clock on a clock, he hits a t shot
(05:01):
and it's he looks right to three o'clock like it
is right of right, it is so right it is left.
But and he popped it up. So because he looked
straight up in the air, it was an awful shot.
But whoever was recording goes good bleep. That was like,
you know, now they're trying to trick us because Lebron
just popped one up off the toe one hundred yards
(05:22):
to the right, not even close to the fairway, and
they're trying to convince you that all right now, he
smoked one, smoked one down the fairway. It did not happen.
It just it did not Like that's you don't look
directly right when you hit one down the fairway. So
even though the guy goes good bleep, it was not.
He was in the bleep. I guarantee you that, but
I love that Lebron was was active and out there,
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and I didn't recognize the course. It didn't look like
a southern California course. And that's when it all started.
Because then, Mancy, as we continue on our day long
event of not watch twenty twenty five, we'll watch twenty
twenty five. Lebron James was spotted at the Calves practice
(06:05):
facility today. The ball Out media gave us the heads
up that Lebron was there in slippers, no shirt and sweatpants,
which is how I will be showing up to the
barbecue later today with a player that was at the
Cavs facility as well. And Lebron then took to the
tweets because of course Monty it is.
Speaker 8 (06:26):
You've not watched twenty twenty five. Not watched twenty.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Twenty an hour ago, tweeted, I've been here every summer
since it was built. I live here still and train
every summer. You'll all are board, Go get a plate
of food somewhere and enjoy the Fourth of July. So
he's all over social media on the fourth of July.
There's the welcome home hat that he wore over the
last couple of days. There is so much going on
(06:52):
with Lebron James since the news of him signing his
extension and what could happen that I just feel that
none of this, none of this is natural, that there's
something behind it all. So as much as I want
him to love golf, it's not natural.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Absolutely everything he does is calculated, and I'm loving all
of this as well. We spoke to our NBA insider
Mark Medina in the first hour, and he sounds so
confident that Lebron is going to finish his career as
a Laker, and I cannot believe that. I don't think
he finishes his career as a Laker. I think they're
figuring out what exactly people are gonna.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
Give up for him.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
There's reports that nobody wants to, you know, deplete the
roster to get Lebron James, and I think he knows that.
So all of this is just setting up for a
big move, the decision coming in twenty twenty five. Again,
the decision fifteen years ago. I think it was the
first one. Yeah, right, And so he had the information
that we also got was of this past week of
(07:50):
Rich Paul saying that he values, you know what, the
winning another championship and knows that the Lakers are moving
in the direction of the future, but he values wanting
to win right now. You're not gonna win right now
with the Lakers. You have a much easier path. As
we've talked about going back to the East, he has
to go back to Cleveland.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
That's the only logical move here. He can't go anywhere else.
Don't give me the Knicks, don't give me.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
The MAVs are interested. If he buys out with the Lakers.
They want to take him. No, the only way Lebron
can kind of salvage the end of his career because
right now, during our pre show meeting, both said at
pervles like, I feel like he's been around so long,
but the end of his career leaves a bit of
a bad taste in your mouth, and it's more of
that he's a little.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
Bit annoying that he's like, oh, Lebron around right, but
here we are.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
I feel like if he went back to Cleveland and
then ended his career there, it would be a much
more positive ending to the Lebron James era.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
I agree. I think that that would be a welcome
site for him.
Speaker 9 (08:55):
Hmm.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
I don't know how many Calves or Calves fans would
feel it. But again, if this was next year, if
we fast forwarded to next year, Monzi and the Calves
fell out in the Eastern Conference semifinals like they did
this year, I think that they would be more willing
to accept that. But right now, when Lebron left the
Cavaliers to go to the Lakers, it wasn't like the
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decision in twenty ten. This was an understanding that both
sides were probably going to part ways anyway. The Calves
were kind of done with what went on, and Lebron
wanted something new that we felt was likely to end
up in Los Angeles, and it did. And so now
the Calves can say we started from the bottom then
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without Lebron, and now we've been able to make moves.
We've had draft picks, we've got Donovan Mitchell, we've got
these pieces. We had the best record in the East
this year, and maybe if they were healthy, they could
have put more for them, an competition or resistance to
the Indiana Pacers, maybe win that series. Who knows, But
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that's I think what you're saying is a Cavs fan
right now. But if you were to lose next year,
then you say, Okay, we need to shake something up
because this isn't working. We need something different, and I
think would be open to Lebron. I think that all
of this. I think Lebron plays for the Lakers next season.
I don't think he plays for them. I think he's
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I think he's gonna play two or three more years.
So it's the Lakers one season and then after that
it's his new team. But all of this stuff to
your point of how what Rich Paul is saying, the
words that they use the Lakers building for the future
doesn't necessarily mean that Lebron wants to go and win championships.
What it also means is, hey, if I stay in LA,
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it's not my fault because they didn't. They are looking
for the future. But I'm still here even though my
goal is for the championship, and I want you fans
to know that I'm all about titles. They are the
ones that made the decision to try to go young,
and it takes all of the pressure off of him.
So everything that is done with a welcome home hat
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to playing golf and what I believe is probably suburban
Akron somewhere at a golf course to all of that
happening to showing up at the Cavs facility, all of it,
All of it is contrived from what happened last Sunday.
And I've just looked on Twitter just to scan during
the break and how many tweets Lebron is tweeted about
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the same amount in the first four days of July
then he did all of June. Oh yeah, so's there's
a reason why that this is happening. Is now he
is out there and he's a part of the conversation
because he wants to be a part of the conversation
and he knows what's at stake.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
I don't necessarily agree with you on the sense that
him saying that the Lakers are trying to plan for
the future and that takes pressure or blame off of
him in case it doesn't go well.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
I actually don't think that. I think regardless of what.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
Unfortunately, he's gonna get blamed with the Lakers.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
With the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Agreed, yes, but Lebron's messaging, they're trying to say, we
will always think that like it's it's probably a burden
of Lebron. But I think that they're What they're trying
to say is I know you're gonna blame Lebron, but
don't because look at what they're doing, Look at how
they're doing it. It's spin mansie. They're just trying to
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that's I know time.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
I'm dizzy. I know I thought rings didn't matter, but
now they do matter. I'm dickey.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
They matter to Lebron, they don't matter to the Lakers.
That's what I think they're trying to say, the Lakers
this year. And I truly believe that the Lakers were
the ones to say to Lebron, we we are going
to be going this this way. We're not going to
give you a one on one contract that he had
wanted that I feel that he probably would have wanted.
And when they said that we don't want you here
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for the long term, his only option was to, I
feel opt in. I know he's got I always worth
the billion dollars, but you just, you know, turn fifty
two million dollars down. You just don't. Maybe you put
the pressure on them to make a move, and if
you end up staying in LA and get all your
affairs sorted and then leave after that on your own terms.
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I just I don't think that. I don't think he
gets the money. He doesn't get the money that he
gets fifty two million dollars if he just opts out
and becomes a free agent, and the teams that he
would want to go to weren't ready to bring him
on board for the price egg that he would likely cost.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
I hear what you're saying that he didn't have many options.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
But at the same time, it does feel like maybe
there is right now who's gonna blink first, the Lakers
or Lebron Because this new ownership of the Lakers has
no ties to Lebron. There's no loyalty here that's going
to be broken, And I part of me wants to
think that Genie Buss and the Bus family were like,
this is the only way to get rid of Lebron,
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and like cut this tie that we kind of got
ourselves into by selling the team, and now we can
say we're not making the decisions.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
When you're talking about it's them, it's them.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
There is no loyalty here, no reason for them to
be like, yes, Lebron, whatever you want.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
Just like Genie Bus and Rap Polinka have been doing.
They don't have to do that.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
And I am wondering if there is a bit of
a standoff here, a bit of who's going to blink first,
happening behind closed doors, and that's why he's doing all
of this.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Did you hear how I characterize the Lakers and Lebron's relationship.
I don't know if you've because we haven't crossed paths.
I've called it a marriage built on convenience. There's marriages
that are that are that are made with the you know,
the partners are madly in love with each other, and
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there are others that this works. This works for what
I want to do in life, and at some point,
when one side is getting too much or the other
side's being short changed, that's when it breaks off. And
that's what I think happened here. I don't know if
it was use the sale of the Lakers. I do
think it's the acquisition of Luka Danci changed everything, like
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it changed on how the Lakers are going to chart
their future, and Lebron was not a part of that.
I think that if they don't acquire Luca, that Lebron
does get his one in one contract and then ends
up retiring as a Laker ultimately. But I do think
that they're they're not on the same page now. And
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if you're seeing all of this in the first five
days since he's decided to opt in, what's it going
to be like for eighty two games in the season.
And that's what I to that point of. Even though
I think Lebron stays, I do wonder if you're Rob
Polinka and you're now saying, well, we can't have this
for all of next year. We can't have this three
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ring circus moving on. It'd just be an absolutely toxic year.
And then to your point, I don't know if new
ownership would want to It would be different if it
was maybe the Bus family, but I don't know if
new ownership would put up with that.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
I would love if he does, like if he starts
the season off with the Lakers and then he gets
like traded because of this environment, that how is DeAndre
Ayton going to handle this? He hasn't been able to
handle the lights in Phoenix, in Portland. Now he's coming
to the Lakers. There's pressure on DeAndre Ayton to do something.
Even though I don't like the way he has handled
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himself in the NBA, to be honest, like, I.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
Think he thinks he's better than he is.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
But he's gonna go and play with Luca, which is
gonna be a great, you know, lobbing duo.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
I can see that already.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
But I do think there can be issues in the
locker room, and I can I just can't wait for
Lebron to be in a press conference and be like, well,
you know, things are real toxic in there.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
If DeAndre Ayton was of value, I think we would
have heard a lot more teams. Absolutely absolutely, And so
now this is and I mean, didn't work out in Portland,
didn't work out in Phoenix. I don't know how it's
going to be different with LA. I think it's completely
that story is so overblown and so because everybody's injured
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and the free agency period hasn't been like it was
what eight years ago when Kevin Durant ended up leaving
the Golden State Warriors. Today was the anniversary of that,
I believe Bo said earlier. Because of that, like we
kind of we want something big to happen and it
hasn't necessarily, so we blow out of proportion. The DeAndre
Ayt and staff Oh, I'm.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
With you, Like I don't get it. I understand that
they had no other options and this.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
Is what you had to do. Like that's really what
it is. This is another marriage of convenience. I love that.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
By the way, that was a perfect description. This seems
to be right now. This is convenient for us to
sign you on for a one year deal and.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Throughout, and I honestly think it's been convenience for his
entire time for the previous seven years. Oh yeah, it's
worked for both parties. It gave the Lakers a superstar,
and it gave Lebron a landing spot. He wanted to
go to La, wanted to be Hollywood, had his kids
in school. Now Bryce is going off to college. Browny's
obviously in the NBA. That all worked out, But now
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it's a time for maybe a different part of his life.
And whether that's back in Cleveland where he's playing golf
or wherever, we shall see. But these signs are of
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Speaker 3 (19:27):
Happy for the July, Happy Independence Day. I'm Dan Byers,
She's Monty Blagos in for Doug Gottlieb today. I'm the
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producer and Bo Benson is our executive producer. Isaac have
(19:49):
an update of what happened not only at the hot
dog eating contest, but what went down at Wimbledon today
and in Major League Baseball game already in the books,
a couple of games in the books as well on
this fourth of July. It is the balance, the delicate balance, Manzi,
of do you have day baseball because it's fourth of July,
or do you have night baseball so you can have
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fireworks at the ballpark at fourth of July?
Speaker 4 (20:12):
You have it all a little bit of everything, you
know what I'm saying. I think there's perks to having
an early game and then you can go home and
enjoy Fourth of July. At watch your on fireworks exactly exactly,
and then there's a perk of you, Oh, maybe you're
doing the barbecue thing right now, like in Los Angeles,
and then you're gonna go.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
To the game. That's that's what's cool about it.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
I think that the options depending on where you're at,
but that you can have it in.
Speaker 5 (20:35):
The morning, in the afternoon, at night.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
I mean, great, well, they're putting on quite a show
in New York.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
Yeah they are.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Yankees have just taken a lead the Alien.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Yes, Jason Dominge is another homer. He homewred in the
first inning, so he's got in another one.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
I thought you were gonna go as the wing is,
as you would, Yeah, there you go, there it is.
And the j I thought I was going to be like,
just yes, there it is. But five to three Yankees
up on the Mets. But Isaaco give us an update
again in about eight minutes or so of what is
happening throughout Major League Baseball and so much more. I
said earlier that if I were to watch fireworks from
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a ballpark, it would be from PNC Park in Pittsburgh,
one of the great venues, and not only in baseball,
but in all of sports. Just down the block in Pittsburgh,
the Pittsburgh Steelers gave their general manager Omar Khan a
three year extension. He had been the GM with the
team since twenty twenty two, but he's now been with
the franchise for twenty five years, again keeping with the
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family tradition of the Pittsburgh Steelers. But at what point
do you have to break from that and be the
Pittsburgh Steelers of the NFL winning championships? Because it hasn't happened.
It hasn't happened in a while. It's been a long time.
Super Bowl forty three the last time. It's now going
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on seventeen seasons in the NFL that we haven't seen
the Pittsburgh Steelers win a Super Bowl, and they gave
Omar Khan a three year contract extension this week, Mancy
one that just has both you and me scratching our heads.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Yeah, just like huh okay, because this whole off season
right now for the Steelers. You and I sat here
with Aaron Rodgers talking about it. How Aaron doesn't all
of a sudden help you win the division.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
It keeps you afloat.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
They've made some moves and you know, we'll see what
happens if they.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
Make more moves. But it just seemed when I heard.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
About this signing, I was like, oh, so you're cool
with just going through the motions here, You're okay with this,
which is what's shocking. Why now, why did you extend
him now? Don't you want to see what happens this
season before you maybe give him an extension?
Speaker 3 (22:45):
You would think you would think you would.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Think, so you're just going, huh, okay, like you're cool
with just staying above five hundred.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Making all of those moves is one thing. Yeah, having
them work out to your point is an What is
also a completely other step is if it fails. You
obviously haven't shown the ability to really evaluate talent because
you've went in a way all in. You're all in
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on Aaron Rodgers. You just swung a trade with the
Dolphins to bring in Jalen Ramsey again and John Ousmith.
You swung the deal with DK Metcalf and Jennison George
Pickens out because you felt that was better, and you
gave DK Metcalf a new contract. What you've also done
is now you've said, if that doesn't work out. Not
only did that not work. Now you have to rebuild
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this team from scratch. And in their statement, the Steelers said,
we like, we love what Omar Khan has done, and
I'm paraphrasing being aggressive in free agency, building through the
draft over the last three years, and there have been
some good picks. They've tried to replay their offensive line.
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I don't think they've necessarily gotten Their injuries have been
a problem, but I wouldn't say what has happened over
the last three years is warranted enough even before you
made all of these deals. And at what point if
you're the Pittsburgh Steelers, and I think their fan base
is to the point, I just don't think that they
are as an organization of just realizing that again, nine
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and eight doesn't cut it, and it's better to be
four and thirteen than to be nine and eight in
the NFL, because then you can turn things around. My
point is Jacksonville has gone through. Jacksonville was a bad
franchise for a long time. Then they almost made a
Super Bowl with Jalen Ramsey on their team almost a
decade ago. Then they fell off, then they built up again,
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and then they fell off again. They've been through two
roller coaster cycles, Monzi. In the period of time that
the Pittsburgh Steelers have just stayed in their nine to
eight boats sailing along. It doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 5 (24:59):
It doesn't. But they don't think four and thirteen is better.
That's what this says. They don't think that. They don't.
You're right that, and I think we.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
Just keep seeing that move by move that it's like, yeah,
you're you're good. Nobody's saying you're making the moves to
try and and stay afloat. But yes, like this, this
is okay with you, This is what you guys are
good with it, Okay, all right.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
I'm trying to find the equivalent of rewarding someone for
doing something when you don't have the results, and I'm
having just a very difficult time this thing. If this
thing blows up in the face of the of the
Pittsburgh Steelers like it kind of did with the New
York Jets, Joe Douglas lost his job. Joe Douglas doesn't
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work for the New York Jets anymore as their general
manager because they blew it up. Now you can say, well,
Jets ownership is different than the Steelers' ownership. No, doubt
about it, but still at least the Jets ownership, for
as crazy as it may be, realizes that you at
a job to do, it didn't get done. We need
to make a change, And the Pittsburgh Steelers are saying
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you're hours before we even know if the job is
done or not. The job of getting Aaron Rodgers Manzi
was not that difficult, considering you only had about one
or two options, right, So what GM stuff does that do?
You traded away a young wide receiver because you maybe
didn't like his attitude, so you brought it in an
older one and then signed him to a deal that
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is worth way much more money than you were paying
the younger one. How does that make sense?
Speaker 5 (26:32):
None of this has been making You brought.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
In another tight end who works with who's worked with
your offensive coordinator previously? Is John Us Smith and Arthur
Smith had a relationship dating back to the Titans. But
one of the Steelers I guess position of strengths was
tight end when you had Pat Fryermouth. I understand the
two tight ends are valuable in the National Football League.
I am not sold on the valuable the value of
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a corner in the NFL. So acquiring Jalen Ramsey. I
understand Jamar chases in your division, but who else is
in that division? I mean Baltimore Ravens and Lamar Jackson.
I'm move more worried about what Lamar and Derrick Henry
and they do than worrying about what Rashad Bateman's doing
or what the Cleveland Browns. Who's going to throw the
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football to Jerry Judy. I don't need a lockdown all
pro cornerback. So none of that necessarily makes sense in
just in what the Pittsburgh Steelers are doing for this year,
and yet you reward your general manager. Mike Florio wrote
it as much as well that the Steelers are just basically,
you know, they're ready for mediocrity, right, They're just that's
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what they're content with. And it's if I'm a Steelers fan,
I'd be very frustrated to hear this, not because it's
anything against Omar Khan, but because just of what it symbolizes.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
Yeah, it's just you don't see this a lot.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
You either teams are going all in or their punting
so that they can prepare for the future. You don't
see a lot of teams just stay afloat stay there. Yes,
like they're they're competitive, right, and then they it's it's
the NFL. They had a lot of them, a great
fan base, so they're they're successful, you know in the
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grand scheme of things, but you're not winning. You're not
winning when it matters correct.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
And that's in the playoffs and that's in the super
Bowl and that team. We have no idea. If it works,
if everything lines up, then you know what you do.
I know Omar Khan would have been a free agent
after this season and this price tag would have gone up.
Maybe that's the other part of this is unfortunately, maybe
you're trying to be cheap. I don't know. That could
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be could be loyal it could be loyalty, but it
could be cheapness as well that we're just gonna give
him or we just feel comfortable in that way. But
to me, it's just it's so crazy. These are big moves,
like they are all in for the season, and I
think that Omar Khan if it doesn't work out, also
has the capability to fix things if it doesn't go
well this year. Yeah, it could make the Pittsburgh Steelers
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look foolish. I've looked foolish plenty. Do we have anything
from Lebron James right now? Anything happening in twenty twenty five?
Speaker 8 (29:12):
As a watch twenty twenty five. I'm watched twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
He's put up some golf videos lately. He likes the
golf when I do late afternoon, early evening. But right now,
four thirty six in the Cleveland area, you could maybe
be teeing off right about now if you wanted to.
But no word yet from Lebron James. We are on
the watch twenty twenty five. She's Monte milagial So I'm
dan buyer. Let's go to the news desk. Guys at
(29:35):
glow and Cron is here with the latest.
Speaker 7 (29:37):
Yeah, I actually have some Lebron's social media.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Here we go, Here we go.
Speaker 8 (29:43):
We watch twenty twenty not watch twenty twenty five.
Speaker 7 (29:47):
Well, this afternoon, our hero addressed a picture that showed
him at the Cleveland Cavaliers practice facility today. Lebron commented
on Twitter slash x I live here, still in train
here every summer since it was built. G D y'all
board man, go get a plate somewhere and enjoy the
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fourth of July. Don't mind if I do Lebron, don't
mind if I do anyway. In Major League Baseball, the
Chicago Cubs have been a franchise record eight home runs today.
They leave the Cardinals eleven to one after eight innings
at Wrigley Field. That includes three by Michael Bush he
now has seventeen and two by Pete Crow Armstrong. He's
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got twenty three. At City Field, the Yankees have a
five to three lead over the Mets. In the bottom
of the fifth inning, Jason Demega's two home runs for
the Yankees. He now has eight. Aaron Judges thirty second
home run of the year the Mets. Juan Soto a
two run home run against his former team. He now
has twenty three. The Mariners have two nothing over the
Pirates in the top of the second inning on a
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two run home run by none other than Cal Raley
now has thirty four to lead the majors. At Wimbledon today,
American Taylor Fritz won his third round match, but Americans
Madison Keys and Naomi Osaka each lost their third round matches. Finally,
Joey Chestnut won the Nathan's Famous Hot Dog eating contest
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today for the seventeenth time. In twenty tries. He consumed
seventy and a half hot dogs in ten minutes. Here
is the chew by chew call of his final bites.
Speaker 10 (31:26):
We're not gonna get to the record, but seventy bit
would be in a remarkable feat. Watch him here in
the last seconds. Joey's gonna get it in such meat
eating too. The etiquette is just exempl something to aspire to.
Speaker 7 (31:42):
Wow, aspire and unfortunately I did not aspire to that
etiquette when I just devoured the free pizza that Dan
so graciously.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
I know that was the analyst at the end, But
was that Jeremy Shapp doing play by play?
Speaker 7 (31:55):
I don't know, but it sounded like him.
Speaker 9 (31:56):
You're right, it was, Yeah, he was there on scene side.
Speaker 7 (32:00):
It was actually Jeremy Shaft.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Yeah, from I'm pretty sure that was jam.
Speaker 7 (32:04):
Jeremy shaping from outside the lines to Wow.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
I'm not saying I'm not no, I am not saying that.
I'm saying, how well versed is Jeremy Shapp to be
able to do outside the lines and then in turn
do play by play of a hot dog eating content.
Speaker 5 (32:21):
It is impressive.
Speaker 7 (32:22):
Well that analyst had some great insight there.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
I had a buddy of mine years ago take over
a volleyball job or an announcing job for volleyball, and
I said, Tom, I said, listen, I go, I gotta
be honest, I don't know what's good or bad, so like,
so just take it and run with it, because there's
no level of there's no Vin Scully, there's you know,
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there's not a Merril Reese or like there's there's no
level to it. And he's done a great job with
it and it's still there doing it and it's one
of the best that there is. So maybe the hot
dog eating content is a bit of the same, but
good for Jeremy Shap to be well rounded.
Speaker 9 (33:03):
All I know is when you're handing an assignment, you
take it and you run with it. You two pride. Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
I'm just curious what what does the analyst do at
other jobs, right, because he's probably does some eating stuff. Sure,
because you do need to know what's happening within the sport.
It's easier for Jeremy Shap to kind of jump in
and tell you what's happening, but you need an analyst
there to tell you why. Joey Chestnut and the other
competitors are doing what they're doing. She's Manti Blaanhos. I'm
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Dan Byer. An inside look at the booth of the
hot dog eating contest coming up next. It is the
fourth of July. Isaac Lowenkron runs down all of our
headlines of the day and so much more. She's Monty.
I'm Dan in for Doug on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Be sure to catch the live edition of The Doug
Gottlieb Show weekdays at three pm Eastern noon Pacific.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Happy fourth of July Independence Day. I'm Dan Byer. She's
Monty Belanos Iowa Sam.
Speaker 9 (33:55):
Happy fourth of July to everybody back in Iowa. Happy
fourth of July. This is hot Dog by led Zeppelin.
Speaker 5 (34:01):
Sam's wearing a great shirt.
Speaker 9 (34:02):
By the way, say Corgi for of is it a
Corki fourth July Beach Day twenty sixteen? I think it
is from July, so it's got that patriotic American flag theme. You.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Me and Brian Finley always loved Corgi's.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
Corki's are just so esthetical people aesthetically adorable. There's something
about those little short legs, the big butt just moving around.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
They're expensive.
Speaker 9 (34:31):
They are expensive, correct, Yeah, full what do you call
them thoroughbreds?
Speaker 3 (34:36):
Sor right?
Speaker 5 (34:37):
But they are so aesthetically like, stink and cute.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
They are little hot dogs. Yes the sausages really are
They're not wi dogs. No, those are theductions. No there,
I think they They remind me of e Walks a
little bit orgies.
Speaker 5 (34:55):
Yeah, yeah, I get that.
Speaker 8 (34:56):
Uh huh.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
How about that movie reference for me as well? Job,
Thank you for very much, very well done done, Bo
bents in a happy fourth to you, and glad that
you're hanging out with us as well. Happy for that.
Bo was also coined the phrase.
Speaker 8 (35:09):
I've watch co Watch twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
Then he updated Lebron James news we will bring you
here on Fox Sports Radio again. He went to play
golf not suitable for children, the language on it, but
he hit a shot that was so far right that
and his buddy goes good bleep, and I just like, no, no,
it's not. You're still probably three hundred and fifty yards
(35:34):
away from the hole, and you're probably behind a pine
tree that's one hundred yards off the tea box in
the rough on the right. Lebron looked again, if you're
looking at noon twelve o'clock. He looked at three o'clock
to see where his ball went, and his buddy's like,
good shot. That's what you could do with golf shots.
Unless you're on the green and you don't see the
ball going the hole, you could pretend that it went
down the fairway.
Speaker 5 (35:54):
But what did you think of the swing itself?
Speaker 3 (35:57):
So I remember Lebron when he was younger and he
tried to a baseball bat. It was the worst thing
I've ever seen. Yes, this is better. This is not good.
This is not good.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
Yeah, you know, I was gonna say it apposed to
look like he was trying to swing really really hard.
But when you see some of these great golfers when
they hit a ball deep, it doesn't even look like
they're trying correct.
Speaker 5 (36:18):
It's effortless. He looks like he's trying to hit it
really hard.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
Yes, yeah, And like when you're at the update desk,
or when Isaac low and Crown's at the update desk,
it's effortless. Speaking of Isaac, he brings us the press,
the press.
Speaker 4 (36:33):
You play golf, No, No, I mean I I go
to top golf, and I've gone to the range, just
a general range a few times.
Speaker 5 (36:41):
And I've told you hitting.
Speaker 4 (36:42):
That stupid little golf ball is one of the most
satisfying feelings.
Speaker 5 (36:46):
It is, it really is.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
That's what hooks. It's hard, Isaac. Do you play it
at all?
Speaker 7 (36:53):
I actually did when I was a kid, if you
count going to the putting grain. But the last time
I went to golf, my wife was out of town
in like twenty thirteen, and I went to the driving
range at a local course here. And what I didn't
realize was I had aged quite a bit and I
was like sore for three days afterwards because you're doing
(37:14):
the same motion over and over and over again. But
at the same time, I didn't have a crew of
hype men with me like Lebron apparently did he hits
the ball five hundred yards of the ro oh yeah, man,
great stuff, man, Yeah, I want to get hype men
(37:35):
like Lebron has.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
He has good bleep.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
And by the way, if that would have been down
the down the fairway and ended up in a bunker,
that isn't good bleep, Like you're in the bunker, so
at least wait a little bit, like you can tell.
But the guy the cameraman just wasn't following it was
such a farce. That's what makes it so difficult to
believe anything that he says. He's even got the people.
Speaker 5 (37:56):
Right, like you didn't. Why did you? Why did you
have sound in that video? You didn't need this out
of getting the high as so much.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
See, there were four videos, you know, there were like
eighteen taken. Yeah, so how that one made the final cut,
I have no idea.
Speaker 7 (38:12):
So that was probably the best t shot he at
all day, and it was still two hundred and fifty
miles to the right. But that's our top story on
the press. The Ohio Cleveland related exploits of Lebron James
not only at the golf course, but this afternoon a
picture on social media emerged of him at the Cavaliers
practice facility, leading NBA Twitter and social media go to
(38:33):
go nuts, and Lebron actually had to take to social
media himself to comment and say, cool it, everybody, I'm
back here pretty much every summer at this facility.
Speaker 3 (38:41):
Yeah, cool a chill out. I'm just I'm taking pictures
in Cleveland again, just like I didn't do last year
and didn't do the year before. But now I'm going
to and this is none of this is organic. None
of this is This is all contrived. I love the
golf thing, but I'm just not gonna sit there and
fooled by it. This is all a part of a
(39:02):
plan for something. Again. He's tweeted more in the last
five days, and he has the entire month of June.
Speaker 8 (39:08):
I've watched twenty twenty five. I'm watched twenty twenty five.
Speaker 5 (39:11):
I love it. I love it all.
Speaker 4 (39:13):
If I'm completely honest, it's so ridiculous, but I love
it all.
Speaker 5 (39:16):
He's retiring, guys, That's what this means. He's retiring.
Speaker 3 (39:19):
This is it this Calves feel about this. I like
the golf thing. Could be like I am retiring, I'm
learning to play golf because I'm going to retire. You
could take that sort of thing. But being at the
Calves practice.
Speaker 4 (39:31):
Facility saying, I'm just saying, does Donovan Mitchell feel about all?
Speaker 7 (39:37):
I'll be checking his mentions and comments with that coming up.
We've had a ton of home runs today in Major
League Baseball, but we also have a bizarre baseball story
from of all places, Cooper's Town, the home of the
Baseball Hall of Fame. It involves two youth baseball assistant
coaches from Illinois behaving badly. The details now from w
(39:57):
KTV television.
Speaker 11 (39:58):
Youth baseball co which is were fired after streaking at
Cooperstown All Star Village in Oneonta. The Atzego County Sheriff
says it happened about one am.
Speaker 5 (40:08):
Deputies did get video sent to them.
Speaker 11 (40:11):
This happened on field eight and in the video you
hear kids in the background, meaning they were there. Security
asked the coaches from Illinois to leave, but allegedly refused
to The Atzego County District Attorney's office won't be prosecuting
due to the level of criminality and the fact that
the two are out of state.
Speaker 7 (40:31):
So Pete Rose doesn't get into the Hall of Fame,
but these two jokers apparently do and they go streaking.
Speaker 3 (40:38):
What my kid's not going to play any sports. Just
it's not going to happen.
Speaker 9 (40:44):
You can catch him, you could, Yeah, I could, he could.
Speaker 3 (40:50):
I don't know, well that would go. But yeah, gosh,
that's awful.
Speaker 5 (40:54):
I can coach, I can do volley one, I can
teach him basketball.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
Could look brody. She hit seven threes in one game.
Follow her shot facts.
Speaker 2 (41:05):
We're god straight a game
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