June 30, 2025 • 37 mins
In this installment of Love AND Hate, Doug and the crew share what they loved and hated most about the sports weekend. Doug weighs in on the news that the Steelers traded a pro-bowl safety for All-Pro corner Jalen Ramsey. Plus, Dan Beyer takes Doug through The Press.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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I mean that well, I mean Greenmay, Wisconsin. I'm looking
out the lake. Amazing, beautiful, flat, glassy, sunny, little humid,
but not so much that it's annoying, warm but not hot.
There's a breeze, but it's not cold. It's it's it's summer.
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It's awesome. Hope you had an awesome weekend. I got
an awesome crew guys. Dan Byer, thank you to ever
fixed his internet. Appreciate that. Jason Stewart and a big
app Why I was Sam. We talked a little bit
in your I heard Dan Byern the update, and I
don't know if this is love and hate. So if
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if I steal from you guys, we'll get to love
and hate in the second. So the WNBA is gonna expand.
It did say by two thousand and third, two thousand
and thirty, right, that's right, two thousand and thirty. So
it's not like it's happening next week and there's a
build up of it. But again, all of these things
work together. And my fear for the WNBA is there's
such a push for more by their players that you
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don't necessarily understand what it means. What I mean is,
when you get to eighteen teams, can you keep it
within the window of time in which the season already
exists or do you have to expand because the more
they expand, they get into that. It's like right now,
when you're undering the NBA playoffs and you have some
bleed over in terms of the network carrying it, right,
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you'll still have ESPN, assuming there's still an ESPN deal,
and you have Caitlin Clark. It's fine. But the more
teams mean longer seasons, longer seasons, longer playoffs, longer playoffs.
If you go into anywhere near September, you're dead, right,
You're dead. Do not compete with NFL football or college
football for that mount, You're dead. And the more team
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ad I think obviously you want to down the product.
I don't think that matters as much as here's something
you haven't thought of, Like there are women's basketball is
more talented than used to be. I'm not into a
denial of it. The sport is better, is healthier, but
healthier does not mean healthy enough to support more teams,
because now you put fifteen women on a team, and
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the more you expand, the more you have to work
to the overseas market. And the overseas market. Does that
work with the current model? And remember many of these
women who are the most sought after for advertisers, the
most popular. If we just go the two young three
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youngest ones, right, you had pagebackers into angels and obviously
Caitlin Clark. What they all have in common was they
had great college careers, which elevated the visibility. We knew
who they were before they get the WNBA. I mean
more this goes on, the less we're going to know
about these people. So I'm not saying the WNBA can't
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smartly expand. And I do like the fact that it's
a like a five year lead up, but I also
you know, you gotta warn you. NHL did it to
mix results. NASCAR has done it to mixed results, and
you'll make more money, but you do have the the
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possibility of ruining all the equity you've gained. Let's get
to love it hate.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
What did you love? God?
Speaker 1 (03:49):
I love you?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
And what did you hate?
Speaker 1 (03:52):
These Claire hay Is. Every Monday on the Doug Gottlieb Show,
we go around the room and say, hey, man, I
loved it this week. I love this. Our resident lover
boy who watches more sports than the rest of us
is Dan Byer Dan would you love on the weekend?
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Doug?
Speaker 4 (04:09):
You know I did take a couple of vacation days
on Thursday and Friday, so mine kind of dates back
to that point. But it was an event that spanned
the weekend US Senior Open, and there was some drama
at the broad Moor between Podrig Harrington, your eventual winner,
and NBC En Course reporter Roger Maltby. This dated back
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to Thursday, with their confrontation coming Friday and then malty
trying to clear the era give some context to what
happened on Saturday. But Podrig Harrington was mad because he
hit a ball in the in the junk, hit it
in the woods. And you have three minutes to find
your golf ball. But Roger Maltby, who was following that group,
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did not help them look for the golf ball. Now
there have been encurse reporters that have done this. What
Malty's excuse was, I'm about to do an on air
report with these with the network, so I've got a
producer in my ear saying stuff. And Padrick Harrington is
still saying, you've been in the game forty years, you
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know to help. But it's a bigger picture to me, Doug,
is when you are golfing with someone, and you're playing
with someone, usually with your buddies, there's a line to like,
how long I'm going to help you look for your
golf ball? Yes, And that's what I get to. It's
also of how high are the weeds or the shrubs
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that we're looking through, how high are those How much
of an effort am I going to give? And there's
also the balance of I'm someone who just feels bad
that somebody would help me look for my ball, so
I'll just take a drop. But there are other people
who sit there and look for five minutes, and I
feel like you have to show some sort of effort
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to it. It is just a it's it's one of
those things in golf that I think is different with
everybody on how you deal with the lost golf ball.
But Padrick Harrington was not happy with Roger Maltby, and
I thought this brought to light the dilemma that so
many of us face when either yourself or someone else
hits one out of bounds.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
Or as a golfer, I could definitely relate to this
as a goal. As a bad golfer who's only out
there because a friend of mine was nice enough to
invite me to a round, the last thing I want
to do is take up one more second of his time.
So I will take thirty six balls to an eighteen
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hole golf course and spend almost no time looking for
my balls. I think that's the way to do it.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
If if well still go.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Ahead, Doug, No, And I was gonna it was actually
mine was gonna be related to golf, and I thought
you'd appreciate it. So I but I agree with you,
Like there's a basically, well, here's what you get, okay,
there's like a general rhythm to it. You get like
one circle of looking at it in the golf cart.
If you're if you're if you're driving the golf cart, right,
you're like, yeah, we'll go over there. I'll take a look. Nope,
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Now it is your job. I think if you're playing
a foursome, to keep an eye out and point in
the general direction makes sense.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Yes, keep an eye out.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Yeah, I think it's over by that tree. Then you
go make one loop. They're like, all right, I'm good,
I'm out because it can't be slow for the people
behind you.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Also, if the if the junk is like waist high, yeah,
and you're like navigating through that, like, I'll just try
to nicely be like, yeah, I think it's lost, bud,
I think this one's gonna be a tough one to find.
And then just but some people just are not having it.
They will sit there and look and look. If it's
ankle high stuff, that's no problem. I'll take all the time.
And if I'm at that side of the course, even better.
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Probably not gonna walk across the entire fairway if I
sliced one and someone pull hooked it. So we're on
opposite ends. But there is there is a little dance
in helping and how much you actually help considering where
someone hits the golf ball watch out for takes. Yes,
it's a good call. I always checked out.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Especially this time of here. Yeah, okay, well this kind
of relates to it. I got new clubs, dan or
at least I got my new woods. The irons are
not it. Shout out, shout out to Sean Rusjack who
uh he fitted me for them, and I got some
new clubs. So yeah, who said it, tailor.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Mates, nice work.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
So uh so I'm playing at Oneida and uh Luke
Getzy was in the group out of us. This is
an apology to Luke Getzy, but it's a love from
the weekend. So I'm on a whole nine and I
had a nice drive, okay, right to the two sixty
five off the tee, two fifty to the hole. So
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Luke Getsy's they're on the on the green. So I
pull out the three wood and I'm thinking, I mean,
the best I ever hit a three wood, And you know,
I used to tee off with the three wood because yeah,
I I couldn't hit the driver. So like, you know,
like two point forty is crushing it. When I'm slinging,
It's like two thirty is great for a three wood
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for me, great when I could hit it straight. So
he's two fifty to the to the to the UH
to the flag and it looks like they're putting in
and all right, So I get up. I addressed the ball.
I hit it. It lands like three feet behind him.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Yeah. So one, I mean I crushed it. Two it
was straight. Three I nearly killed a guy who was
a coach of the packers, who would look really bad.
He's fine, and he was really cool. But I'm like,
oh my god, what did I do? But I love
I mean, it's that everybody knows ever play golf, right,
that one swing that makes you like, yes, it's nice today.
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When we're done, guess what I'm going to do. I'm
going to hit balls.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
I would rather have your situation than be the one
to wait for them to completely clear and then chunk
at fifty yards because that is normally what happens.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
That's exactly. And they were like, hey, don't worry about it,
we were taking too long. Anyone's like no, no, I wasn't
trying to be a jerk. I thought I had no
chance of getting it to the green. There zero good
work anyway, Jase Stu, what'd you left in the weekend?
Speaker 5 (10:17):
You know the Dodgers have taken I think seven of
the last nine and are you.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Going to go real sports here? My goodness.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
Here's a good news though for Dodger fans. And I
do want to promote Ryan Berschinger, Bo Benson Monsey Bolgios.
They do these Sick Dodgers podcast check it out, rate
review Sick, and what they're going to probably say in
the next podcast is that the Dodgers are doing something
that they haven't done a whole lot of the last
twelve years, and that they're just beating up on teams
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they should beat. The Dodgers have always had this I'm
going to play down to my opponent thing, especially in
the postseason. So they're beating teams. They just got off
of the Royals. I think they took two or three
over the weekend. Showed shal hay O Tanni pitched two inning.
He threw the ball one hundred and two miles an hour.
It's the fastest pitch he's ever thrown as a baseball player.
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So the Dodgers are getting healthy. They've been in teams
that they're supposed to. They're in first place. There really
is nothing to complain about. And trust me, if there was,
I would that.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
I can second that he will complain about anything. That
it all right, Sam, Sam, we got.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
I love how little mind I paid to this Jake
Paul Hulu Caesar Chavez Junior fight. I paid no mind
to it at all. I heard about it Thursday or Friday,
and then I existed through the weekend. I lived through
the weekend and I completely forgot about it. And I
was actually here at FSR yesterday Sunday doing afternoon evening shows,
and I don't remember anybody even talking about it. So, yeah,
(11:50):
I woke up today and then I read about the
result and all the feedback it's been getting negatively, and
uh yeah, it's good.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Good that I was it yesterday. It was a Saturday night.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
It was Saturday.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
It was at the UFC fights are on.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
I watched those, Yeah, probably a better product. It was
going the the Jake Paul Caesar shov As Junior fight
was down in Anaheim at the Honda Center. You know,
it's a couple of hour drives away, you know, hour
or two drive away, and I was completely oblivious to it.
I love that.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Hm. I like that as well. There was one of
the fights, one of the three rounders the UFC was amazing.
I'm trying to think which one was.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
I don't since when have you been a UFC guy, Doug.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
I'm not. I look, I'm not gonna sit here and
lie and tell you I can quote chapter and verse UFC.
But a bunch of my guys are and I like
watching them. I just don't know nothing about it. And
I like the when they beat the crap out of
each other. And I love the striker versus a grappler
and if the guy, I'd get him to the ground.
And I don't know, I enjoyed it, enjoyed it like
good fight fight. Let's get to what we hated. So
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the end of the Yang, it's a good and the bad.
It's the Dan Byer and the j stou Right, you
have the love and the hate. Let's start with our
resident hater, Jastu wit jap in the weekend.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
I just picked up a bonus hate over the last hour.
So one of the things that I just can't stand
as a guy who's been in this business for thirty years,
I don't like off the air take guy at work,
the guy who off the air just fills your ear
with takes and you're like, Okay, I do this for
a living. I don't need to have it out with
(13:23):
you and do a take session with you off air.
Sam has been doing that to me for the first
ninety minute of this show, and his take is contrary
to Doug's take on MWNBA expansion. And so now Sam
has filled two breaks with his very like passionate take
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on the WNBA's in a good place and they should expand.
And I'm like, why don't you go to the air
with this? Yeah, Doug has talked about it twice now
and Sam has not not well on the air.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Yeah, the name on the show is a Doug Guyley show.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Wait you can listen. This is the perfect opportunity you
can hate on my takes. I hate Doug's taken. Here
is why.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Let me just say this. I will say that the
Valkyries are one of the expansion teams. They're the thirteenth
team in the WNBA and they're doing very well. They
have a lot of money fans. Sport's been wild, So
I mean, honestly, expansion into San Francisco, into Toronto I
think that's a very very good thing. Dan brought up
that like Detroit and what was the other teams getting
another Eland, Yeah, Cleveland, going back to these rockdred cities,
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and that's you know, you're you're you are banking on
the golden goose, Caitlin Clark keeping this excitement going for
the next ten years. So maybe there's some trepidation there.
But the Valkyries are a good team and so they're
they're an example of expansion working in the WNBA so far.
So just got to keep those takes back.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Now, this is a totally cynical take, Sam, Yeah, but
I can tell you what I actually believe is taking place. Yes,
when you expand Okay for people to understand, I think
they do all those fees to get expansion team, where
do those fees go.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
To the other teams?
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Correct? So those owners that year after year after year
are losing money, it's like, hey, we got you, we
got three new teams. Then it'll balance your books for
those three years, make you look far more profitable. But ultimately, though,
you're still going to be losing money. And I think
that again, the the the amount of money you're going
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to lose is probably bigger because what people say as well,
this will allow us to get a new TV deal whatever,
like yeah, but with every deal you're gonna have to
spend more money on the players, and the players even
now ratio wise percentage wise make a gargantuan some consider
the profits aren't there. So I think it's a little
bit of phony accounting, is what's gonna happen.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
I hear you on that.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
I would just say say this, like, do you think
that twelve or thirteen teams is enough for the WNBA.
I guys feel like they need more teams? Like are
you just there's too much familiarity with playing the same
teams over again? Like it I think six Wood.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
So you've woken up going like, man, you know I
need more WNBA team?
Speaker 3 (16:06):
It's right, baby, every day.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Yeah, I can't say I'm there.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Cleveland team, Yeah, Cleveland lost their team because they couldn't
find an owner back in the day, so nobody wanted
to buy them.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
So they just nobody wants to sign up to lose money.
The v I'm good.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
The Valkyrie is part of the Warriors ownership team, and.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Right they need to write off they make a lot
of money. What do you got there, Dan bart.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
So, Doug, this is a story that so many of
us talked about last week, and as Jason Stewart likes
to point out, we just forget about things so quickly
we move on from them. And the Kittel Marte situation
is one that Mike Carmon and I talked about yesterday
on our show, and I wanted to talk about it
because I think people have moved past it. And the
(16:48):
reason why I don't think people should move past it
is because of what it's done to Katel Marte. So
this whole thing that he was basically a victim from
the fans saying the line, which turned out to be
a mom joke. Itd just you did it to the
wrong person, and I feel that there should be some consequences,
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but nobody realizes what could tell Marte has been through
Over the last four games since that has happened, He's
two for sixteen, He's homeward twice on Homeward Saturday, on
Howard Sunday. But this is also a guy who struck
out three times in his return to Arizona, and everybody
was giving him a standing, you know, ovation welcoming him
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back with open arms, and while I'm sure it's appreciated,
it can't necessarily feel comfortable that this is continually now
being brought up. And as part of the conversation in
that game on Friday against the White Hot Floida, Marlins
could tell Marte struck out three times in that game?
How many times this season has cut could tell Marte
struck out three times in a game prior to Friday,
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zero correct none, struck out twice on Wednesday. This has
obviously affected him, and we forget about things and how
things move on. But then because we move on from him,
but the standing ovation that he gets on Friday still
probably not comfortable. White Sox putting out a statement, putting
on the scoreboard on Wednesday probably not comfortable. So that
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one interaction for people that want to downplay it. It's
now obviously affected him. He's was hitting like three twenty
now he's down to like three three h five in
this recent slump. This obviously has had something to do
with his play. And I don't think that we should
forget about it and move on from it.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
What what should the punishment be, though, Dan, when you
don't know, yes, I understand, I think it's a It's
a really hard one, right because if you watch the video,
the guy clearly had no idea about Mark. I like,
unless he was really playing it off.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
It's one of those like, yeah, where there's there's a
consequence because of what happened. I used yesterday with Mike,
and Mike didn't love this analogy, but I used just
of running a stop sign. How many times do you
run a stop sign and not get busted? Well, the
time that you hit someone on a bike man, you know. Yeah,
Like so there's got to be some sort of penalty.
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Even though it was thought to be an innocent mom joke,
it doesn't like it has obviously affected him and it's
hurt Marte. I feel some sort of you know, donation,
some way to work with either the White Sox or
the Diamondbacks or major League Baseball to try to get yourself.
You shouldn't be banned for life for it. It was
an indefinite band. But I do think that there's something
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needs to be done, And by all accounts, the fan
was remorseful when he found out about the situation. Marte
has even said that he prays for him. There seems
to be a way that they can bridge this, and
I think if you do that, you should be good.
But to just think like ah Marte is soft and
move on from it. This obviously has had an effect
on him and the effected the Diamondbacks as a team seemingly.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Okay, Samuel, to get to you.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Tomorrow is the first day of July, and this time
last week we were reacting to Game seven of the
w or the of the NBA Finals. I should say,
and July. It's tomorrow's July, is it? Does anybody ever
make the argument that July is the best sports month? No,
they don't, because it's the worst sports month because we're
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now we have shifted past the NBA Finals. Uh, there's
no more men's basketball we do. There's a bit of
a silver lining here. We will cognitively restructure and I
will focus on my afternoon w NBA games. But the
month July is like, it's a weird, sort of tweener month.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
You get to watch the Valkyries.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
I get to watch the Valkyrie. I get to watch
make a fastball. That doesn't you?
Speaker 1 (20:46):
So you hate the month of July.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
The month of July and sports month is a tough
one to get through because we are yes, we're ramping
up for the NFL in college football, but it's just
it's slow.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
I ask you a question, what do you think of August?
Like why why isn't it August? They're one A, one B.
Because I would say this, maybe the baseball is a
little bit more meanful. August gets saved because first week
of college football anticipation. But it's also like people say,
like I love Illinois as a state, Well, you love
Chicago because the rest of Illinois is nothing like it is.
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It's Chicago, And I feel like that would be like
calb Oasis would like a word, trust me that.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
What about Rockford? What about Rockford.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
Illinois' you're down playing thinks but no thanks?
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Sorry?
Speaker 3 (21:31):
What about that Carbondale, Saluky Cities? Sorry my quad cities
a normal lean? Sorry about that? I mean real quick?
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Yes, sorry, Okay, I I hate this act of rich Paul.
I hate the act of Rich Paul. Like usually when
you get to the end of somebody's career, okay, usually
it's like when old people who are really really grumpy
and you didn't like them, like my grandma, Grandma Bernstein,
Like she went the nice for a long time, then
(22:04):
she got really old and she was the sweetest old
lady ever. Here we are at the end of Lebron
James's career, and yeah, Lebron has bounced team to team. Yeah,
Lebron has set up super teams. Hey, Lebron hasn't always
He's had some ups. He has now generally, though it's
hard to pick apart. He's had an unbelievable run. Unbelievable run.
He's the all time leading scores, won four NBA times,
(22:26):
won four MVPs. He is, in the conversation, the greatest
player of all time. So what do you do in
one weekend? You wipe out any sort of good will,
any sort of good will, and oh yeah, by the way,
you kind of make Lebron look petulant, right, because again
(22:48):
I don't know what their intent was, but how it
feels to us is I want to win a championship,
but you clearly think Lucas better. So I'm gonna go
elsewhere because I like being the guy and I want
to be on it. Like, hey, dude, if you want
to be on a championship team and you're really the
greatest player of all time, then I don't know whyt
(23:09):
don't you figure out how to make this team a
championship team. But the messaging is far different. And then
when you couple it into the they made him draft Bronnie,
they made him you know, hey, we want to hire
JJ Reddick. That's my guy. Like all these things where
they acquiesced to right, they never said a word when
Lebron James showed up on the bench with the goblet
(23:29):
of wine back when he's hurt, like it is like
everybody in the organization was first. Nobody said anything publicly,
but you just take all the good will and dump
it out. Unlike Kobe, who was a petulant brat for
a good amount of time, but late in his career,
people were like, you know, I love Cobe Cobs. You know,
he just changed because he knew it was his last
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sad he just he went very good at the end,
and he didn't act like he was very good at
the end. And because of it, and of course because
his undiminally death, Kobe is beloved and Lebron. I hope
he goes in place somewhere else because if he does,
most hardened true Laker fans be like, hey, on a Laker,
I don't care if you played eight years we won
(24:10):
one title. There was a bunch of disappointment, a lot
of noise and not a lot of substance. Crazy. How
one trade which is one of the great trades in
the history of the sport, Rob Polincoln pulled it off?
And what's it meant by by Lebron James oh Man?
I could be next? I could be traded. Yeah, he
is jealous of Luca and Luca's treatment when he has
(24:34):
acted in this entitled way for so long, and he's
entitled because he's been great. But I don't think this
is how you end an illustrious career. And that's eleven eight.
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Sports Radio. Okay, so they get Jonah Smith, so get
a tight end, right, and you get Jalen Ramsey, so
they get a little older. But I mean this kind
of tracks to what they're doing. By the way, how
many tight ends did the Steelers have? Don't They didn't?
(25:48):
They draft a couple. It feels like they're just like
loading up a tight we got. Yeah, that's a lot
of tight ends. No, I'm not gonna pause on that one.
Jay stew Of just again, I'm just gonna keep plowing forward.
Speaker 5 (26:02):
But if you if you did push pauls it influid
of men, No, hom.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Up, he said. It's like, it's like you want to
take my thoughts and move me to the add world
of Doug and just completely derail me. And so I
go squirrel, and now I argue with you about it.
I'm not gonna do it. I'm not gonna do it.
Gotta stay focused, Gotta stay.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
Focused some dude named Doug.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Yes, that's what I'm gonna do it. Feels like the Steelers.
It doesn't feel like they're sitting on king Ace high,
but it feels like they're just kind of getting annoyed
of like, ah, sometimes we win a hand, sometimes you lose.
We play it smart, and let's just let's just go
all in to go all in and if it doesn't work,
we'll pack up and go home later. Right, Guys, get
(26:47):
this way at like it's like a long night and
you're sitting there and you're like, ah, I'm even I
was up big, I'm down big it up. I don't know,
I'm down a couple hundred bucks. But like, let me
just put like five hundred one hand of blackjack, and
if I win, great, I'll keep playing. If I lose,
(27:08):
I was prepared to lose this much anyway. And that
feels like what the Steelers have done, whereas previously the
Steelers have been by the book, you know, based on
what the dealer is showing, based on what cards I got,
I'm gonna hit or I'm not gonna take cards, playing
really really smart but boring blackjack or poker or whatever.
(27:30):
And now you're like, I'm just going all in. Hey, uh,
you know, the AFC's kind of loaded right, like your
own division's got the Ravens. They're kind of awesome. Bengals
are gonna be awesome on offense. I don't know if
they can stop anybody, but who cares. Cleveland kind of
a mess. Buffalo, you know, they've turned over their roster
(27:51):
going for the kill. Miami. I honestly think Miami has
gotten rid of They felt like they had some bad
locker room dudes. I think Jaalen Ramsey's frankly one of them.
And I think Jalen when he's done with the place,
he just kind of burns it down. That's just kind
of his style. That's how he got has gotten out
of everywhere he's been. But does it feel very Unsteeler
(28:16):
like to do what the Steelers are doing? The Steelers
have been you know, Gap khakis forever, like Gap Khaki's
polo shirt and normal shoes. Now they're like, you know
those jeans with ripped holes in it, say I'm really cool.
And if I throw in some Barbados top a bunch
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of cologne on. I don't know this. It just doesn't
feel like this Stealers organization doesn't mean it doesn't work.
It's just weird. For them to go all in when
you're like, it's not like they have the best team
in the world. Like the defense is really good. The
offense has got Aaron Rodgers and some pieces. Yeah. Yeah,
(29:00):
Like DK Metcalf's good, he's really good. You know, did
anybody think, like subn dk Metcalf take out George Pickens
and put in Aaron Rodgers at forty years old and
they're the best offense on Earth. I don't think so.
I don't know. It just strikes me as very unstealed. Like,
(29:22):
you know, they have been the king of conservative, the
king of let's just say, we're gonna find ways to
win games. And you get frustrated, like we used to
have a quarterback that would take chances, hold on the ball,
throw it down the field. Now you're searching for a
quarterback you acquiesced to Aaron Rodgers, making you wait an
extra couple of months.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Do you think how the Steelers are going through a
midlife crisis?
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Possibly, yeah, a little bit.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Maybe getting the getting the sports car. Yeah, gonna invest
a little on the offense, just one more year when
we're ride with Aaron Rodgers, let's go Thelma.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
And Louis over the Cliff feel that way, you Dan.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
Yeah, they just feel like this is it and it's
almost like you they're forcing themselves to make that decision.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, putting themselves out there, putting themselves out there.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
And if the end, if it doesn't work out, I
think that they're fine with the yeah reset, yep.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Because they have not done that in forever. Right, it's
been a long time. Patriots did it a couple of
years ago. Right, it's and now it feels like they're
coming out of the reset. You know, they cycled through
a coach that didn't work. Now they got one that
ever rabel Ever knows is gonna work. They got a
quarterback that they liked that you know, Patriots are on
the upswing. I feel like the Steelers have been kind
(30:40):
of in that eh for a while, and I'm like,
let's go all in if it doesn't work, like ah.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
You know, I just quickly I look at Jacksonville as
such a you know, like the opposite of Pittsburgh where
in the last nine ten years, Jacksonville's gone from laughingstock
to almost a Super Bowl contender, to back to laughing Stock,
to playoff contender, back to laughing Stock. All in the
same period where the Steelers just went nine to eight.
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Look at all of those seasons, so to turnaround time
frame isn't as bad as maybe Pittsburgh, you know, always
thinks it is.
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played for the Lakers and he was doing well and
he kind of burst onto the scene, I just wondered
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Speaker 1 (34:14):
Yes, and they.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Were what team?
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What did he play on this year?
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Was Utah?
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Speaker 3 (34:39):
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Make a lot of money. He gets get a lot
of buckets. It has nothing to do with winning, which
is fine. Not everybody can win, correct, Sometimes you gotta
get buckets. But the idea that he's going to go
to contender, like, oh, all of a sudden, like hey,
Jordan Cluckson, that's gonna put us over the top.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Like what.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Well, some teams are hoping that t J.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
Watt would put them over the top, so they've reached
out to the Steelers, but Pittsburgh, according to reports, is
no desire to trade Watt, who's entering the final year
of his contract. This on the heels of the Steelers
Dolphins deal that was pulled off today. Pittsburgh not going
to deal tjire.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Going all in. They're going like, hey, we don't usually
do this, but.
Speaker 4 (35:24):
Oh yeah, I got a couple of other pass along.
Speaker 5 (35:28):
What about your your TJ. Watt joke? Did the TJ watch.
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Wants up with that?
Speaker 5 (35:37):
Sam? Just on your joke?
Speaker 1 (35:39):
What's what's up with that?
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against all right, this, when I'm talking about civil suits
involving this sensitive topic always, that's okay, that's fine. The
civil suit filed against BYU quarterback Jake retzlof accusing him
of rape. Has been dismissed. Rhetzlov plans to transfer from
(36:05):
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violating the school's honor code.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
He's the Jewish quarterback, right, Yes, yeah, so he had
pre marital sex. It's illegal, and so he's out. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (36:20):
Yes, there would have been a violation of the code.
But this case has been dropped against him.
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Yeah, I mean sounds like there was a woman who
engaged in premarital with him and feels like she made
up that part. That's why it's going to be dropped.
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He had said that their meeting was consensual and their
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It's awesome. Hope you had an awesome weekend. I got
an awesome crew guys. Dan Byer, thank you to ever
fixed his internet. Appreciate that. Jason Stewart and a big
app Why I was Sam. We talked a little bit
in your I heard Dan Byern the update, and I
don't know if this is love and hate. So if
(01:03):
if I steal from you guys, we'll get to love
and hate in the second. So the WNBA is gonna expand.
It did say by two thousand and third, two thousand
and thirty, right, that's right, two thousand and thirty. So
it's not like it's happening next week and there's a
build up of it. But again, all of these things
work together. And my fear for the WNBA is there's
such a push for more by their players that you
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don't necessarily understand what it means. What I mean is,
when you get to eighteen teams, can you keep it
within the window of time in which the season already
exists or do you have to expand because the more
they expand, they get into that. It's like right now,
when you're undering the NBA playoffs and you have some
bleed over in terms of the network carrying it, right,
(01:47):
you'll still have ESPN, assuming there's still an ESPN deal,
and you have Caitlin Clark. It's fine. But the more
teams mean longer seasons, longer seasons, longer playoffs, longer playoffs.
If you go into anywhere near September, you're dead, right,
You're dead. Do not compete with NFL football or college
football for that mount, You're dead. And the more team
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ad I think obviously you want to down the product.
I don't think that matters as much as here's something
you haven't thought of, Like there are women's basketball is
more talented than used to be. I'm not into a
denial of it. The sport is better, is healthier, but
healthier does not mean healthy enough to support more teams,
because now you put fifteen women on a team, and
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the more you expand, the more you have to work
to the overseas market. And the overseas market. Does that
work with the current model? And remember many of these
women who are the most sought after for advertisers, the
most popular. If we just go the two young three
(02:56):
youngest ones, right, you had pagebackers into angels and obviously
Caitlin Clark. What they all have in common was they
had great college careers, which elevated the visibility. We knew
who they were before they get the WNBA. I mean
more this goes on, the less we're going to know
about these people. So I'm not saying the WNBA can't
(03:18):
smartly expand. And I do like the fact that it's
a like a five year lead up, but I also
you know, you gotta warn you. NHL did it to
mix results. NASCAR has done it to mixed results, and
you'll make more money, but you do have the the
(03:41):
possibility of ruining all the equity you've gained. Let's get
to love it hate.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
What did you love? God?
Speaker 1 (03:49):
I love you?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
And what did you hate?
Speaker 1 (03:52):
These Claire hay Is. Every Monday on the Doug Gottlieb Show,
we go around the room and say, hey, man, I
loved it this week. I love this. Our resident lover
boy who watches more sports than the rest of us
is Dan Byer Dan would you love on the weekend?
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Doug?
Speaker 4 (04:09):
You know I did take a couple of vacation days
on Thursday and Friday, so mine kind of dates back
to that point. But it was an event that spanned
the weekend US Senior Open, and there was some drama
at the broad Moor between Podrig Harrington, your eventual winner,
and NBC En Course reporter Roger Maltby. This dated back
(04:30):
to Thursday, with their confrontation coming Friday and then malty
trying to clear the era give some context to what
happened on Saturday. But Podrig Harrington was mad because he
hit a ball in the in the junk, hit it
in the woods. And you have three minutes to find
your golf ball. But Roger Maltby, who was following that group,
(04:52):
did not help them look for the golf ball. Now
there have been encurse reporters that have done this. What
Malty's excuse was, I'm about to do an on air
report with these with the network, so I've got a
producer in my ear saying stuff. And Padrick Harrington is
still saying, you've been in the game forty years, you
(05:13):
know to help. But it's a bigger picture to me, Doug,
is when you are golfing with someone, and you're playing
with someone, usually with your buddies, there's a line to like,
how long I'm going to help you look for your
golf ball? Yes, And that's what I get to. It's
also of how high are the weeds or the shrubs
(05:34):
that we're looking through, how high are those How much
of an effort am I going to give? And there's
also the balance of I'm someone who just feels bad
that somebody would help me look for my ball, so
I'll just take a drop. But there are other people
who sit there and look for five minutes, and I
feel like you have to show some sort of effort
(05:55):
to it. It is just a it's it's one of
those things in golf that I think is different with
everybody on how you deal with the lost golf ball.
But Padrick Harrington was not happy with Roger Maltby, and
I thought this brought to light the dilemma that so
many of us face when either yourself or someone else
hits one out of bounds.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
Or as a golfer, I could definitely relate to this
as a goal. As a bad golfer who's only out
there because a friend of mine was nice enough to
invite me to a round, the last thing I want
to do is take up one more second of his time.
So I will take thirty six balls to an eighteen
(06:37):
hole golf course and spend almost no time looking for
my balls. I think that's the way to do it.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
If if well still go.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Ahead, Doug, No, And I was gonna it was actually
mine was gonna be related to golf, and I thought
you'd appreciate it. So I but I agree with you,
Like there's a basically, well, here's what you get, okay,
there's like a general rhythm to it. You get like
one circle of looking at it in the golf cart.
If you're if you're if you're driving the golf cart, right,
you're like, yeah, we'll go over there. I'll take a look. Nope,
(07:08):
Now it is your job. I think if you're playing
a foursome, to keep an eye out and point in
the general direction makes sense.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Yes, keep an eye out.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Yeah, I think it's over by that tree. Then you
go make one loop. They're like, all right, I'm good,
I'm out because it can't be slow for the people
behind you.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Also, if the if the junk is like waist high, yeah,
and you're like navigating through that, like, I'll just try
to nicely be like, yeah, I think it's lost, bud,
I think this one's gonna be a tough one to find.
And then just but some people just are not having it.
They will sit there and look and look. If it's
ankle high stuff, that's no problem. I'll take all the time.
And if I'm at that side of the course, even better.
(07:45):
Probably not gonna walk across the entire fairway if I
sliced one and someone pull hooked it. So we're on
opposite ends. But there is there is a little dance
in helping and how much you actually help considering where
someone hits the golf ball watch out for takes. Yes,
it's a good call. I always checked out.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Especially this time of here. Yeah, okay, well this kind
of relates to it. I got new clubs, dan or
at least I got my new woods. The irons are
not it. Shout out, shout out to Sean Rusjack who
uh he fitted me for them, and I got some
new clubs. So yeah, who said it, tailor.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Mates, nice work.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
So uh so I'm playing at Oneida and uh Luke
Getzy was in the group out of us. This is
an apology to Luke Getzy, but it's a love from
the weekend. So I'm on a whole nine and I
had a nice drive, okay, right to the two sixty
five off the tee, two fifty to the hole. So
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Luke Getsy's they're on the on the green. So I
pull out the three wood and I'm thinking, I mean,
the best I ever hit a three wood, And you know,
I used to tee off with the three wood because yeah,
I I couldn't hit the driver. So like, you know,
like two point forty is crushing it. When I'm slinging,
It's like two thirty is great for a three wood
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for me, great when I could hit it straight. So
he's two fifty to the to the to the UH
to the flag and it looks like they're putting in
and all right, So I get up. I addressed the ball.
I hit it. It lands like three feet behind him.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Yeah. So one, I mean I crushed it. Two it
was straight. Three I nearly killed a guy who was
a coach of the packers, who would look really bad.
He's fine, and he was really cool. But I'm like,
oh my god, what did I do? But I love
I mean, it's that everybody knows ever play golf, right,
that one swing that makes you like, yes, it's nice today.
(09:49):
When we're done, guess what I'm going to do. I'm
going to hit balls.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
I would rather have your situation than be the one
to wait for them to completely clear and then chunk
at fifty yards because that is normally what happens.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
That's exactly. And they were like, hey, don't worry about it,
we were taking too long. Anyone's like no, no, I wasn't
trying to be a jerk. I thought I had no
chance of getting it to the green. There zero good
work anyway, Jase Stu, what'd you left in the weekend?
Speaker 5 (10:17):
You know the Dodgers have taken I think seven of
the last nine and are you.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Going to go real sports here? My goodness.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
Here's a good news though for Dodger fans. And I
do want to promote Ryan Berschinger, Bo Benson Monsey Bolgios.
They do these Sick Dodgers podcast check it out, rate
review Sick, and what they're going to probably say in
the next podcast is that the Dodgers are doing something
that they haven't done a whole lot of the last
twelve years, and that they're just beating up on teams
(10:44):
they should beat. The Dodgers have always had this I'm
going to play down to my opponent thing, especially in
the postseason. So they're beating teams. They just got off
of the Royals. I think they took two or three
over the weekend. Showed shal hay O Tanni pitched two inning.
He threw the ball one hundred and two miles an hour.
It's the fastest pitch he's ever thrown as a baseball player.
(11:07):
So the Dodgers are getting healthy. They've been in teams
that they're supposed to. They're in first place. There really
is nothing to complain about. And trust me, if there was,
I would that.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
I can second that he will complain about anything. That
it all right, Sam, Sam, we got.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
I love how little mind I paid to this Jake
Paul Hulu Caesar Chavez Junior fight. I paid no mind
to it at all. I heard about it Thursday or Friday,
and then I existed through the weekend. I lived through
the weekend and I completely forgot about it. And I
was actually here at FSR yesterday Sunday doing afternoon evening shows,
and I don't remember anybody even talking about it. So, yeah,
(11:50):
I woke up today and then I read about the
result and all the feedback it's been getting negatively, and
uh yeah, it's good.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Good that I was it yesterday. It was a Saturday night.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
It was Saturday.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
It was at the UFC fights are on.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
I watched those, Yeah, probably a better product. It was
going the the Jake Paul Caesar shov As Junior fight
was down in Anaheim at the Honda Center. You know,
it's a couple of hour drives away, you know, hour
or two drive away, and I was completely oblivious to it.
I love that.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Hm. I like that as well. There was one of
the fights, one of the three rounders the UFC was amazing.
I'm trying to think which one was.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
I don't since when have you been a UFC guy, Doug.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
I'm not. I look, I'm not gonna sit here and
lie and tell you I can quote chapter and verse UFC.
But a bunch of my guys are and I like
watching them. I just don't know nothing about it. And
I like the when they beat the crap out of
each other. And I love the striker versus a grappler
and if the guy, I'd get him to the ground.
And I don't know, I enjoyed it, enjoyed it like
good fight fight. Let's get to what we hated. So
(12:52):
the end of the Yang, it's a good and the bad.
It's the Dan Byer and the j stou Right, you
have the love and the hate. Let's start with our
resident hater, Jastu wit jap in the weekend.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
I just picked up a bonus hate over the last hour.
So one of the things that I just can't stand
as a guy who's been in this business for thirty years,
I don't like off the air take guy at work,
the guy who off the air just fills your ear
with takes and you're like, Okay, I do this for
a living. I don't need to have it out with
(13:23):
you and do a take session with you off air.
Sam has been doing that to me for the first
ninety minute of this show, and his take is contrary
to Doug's take on MWNBA expansion. And so now Sam
has filled two breaks with his very like passionate take
(13:43):
on the WNBA's in a good place and they should expand.
And I'm like, why don't you go to the air
with this? Yeah, Doug has talked about it twice now
and Sam has not not well on the air.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Yeah, the name on the show is a Doug Guyley show.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Wait you can listen. This is the perfect opportunity you
can hate on my takes. I hate Doug's taken. Here
is why.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Let me just say this. I will say that the
Valkyries are one of the expansion teams. They're the thirteenth
team in the WNBA and they're doing very well. They
have a lot of money fans. Sport's been wild, So
I mean, honestly, expansion into San Francisco, into Toronto I
think that's a very very good thing. Dan brought up
that like Detroit and what was the other teams getting
another Eland, Yeah, Cleveland, going back to these rockdred cities,
(14:25):
and that's you know, you're you're you are banking on
the golden goose, Caitlin Clark keeping this excitement going for
the next ten years. So maybe there's some trepidation there.
But the Valkyries are a good team and so they're
they're an example of expansion working in the WNBA so far.
So just got to keep those takes back.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Now, this is a totally cynical take, Sam, Yeah, but
I can tell you what I actually believe is taking place. Yes,
when you expand Okay for people to understand, I think
they do all those fees to get expansion team, where
do those fees go.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
To the other teams?
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Correct? So those owners that year after year after year
are losing money, it's like, hey, we got you, we
got three new teams. Then it'll balance your books for
those three years, make you look far more profitable. But ultimately, though,
you're still going to be losing money. And I think
that again, the the the amount of money you're going
(15:28):
to lose is probably bigger because what people say as well,
this will allow us to get a new TV deal whatever,
like yeah, but with every deal you're gonna have to
spend more money on the players, and the players even
now ratio wise percentage wise make a gargantuan some consider
the profits aren't there. So I think it's a little
bit of phony accounting, is what's gonna happen.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
I hear you on that.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
I would just say say this, like, do you think
that twelve or thirteen teams is enough for the WNBA.
I guys feel like they need more teams? Like are
you just there's too much familiarity with playing the same
teams over again? Like it I think six Wood.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
So you've woken up going like, man, you know I
need more WNBA team?
Speaker 3 (16:06):
It's right, baby, every day.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Yeah, I can't say I'm there.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Cleveland team, Yeah, Cleveland lost their team because they couldn't
find an owner back in the day, so nobody wanted
to buy them.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
So they just nobody wants to sign up to lose money.
The v I'm good.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
The Valkyrie is part of the Warriors ownership team, and.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Right they need to write off they make a lot
of money. What do you got there, Dan bart.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
So, Doug, this is a story that so many of
us talked about last week, and as Jason Stewart likes
to point out, we just forget about things so quickly
we move on from them. And the Kittel Marte situation
is one that Mike Carmon and I talked about yesterday
on our show, and I wanted to talk about it
because I think people have moved past it. And the
(16:48):
reason why I don't think people should move past it
is because of what it's done to Katel Marte. So
this whole thing that he was basically a victim from
the fans saying the line, which turned out to be
a mom joke. Itd just you did it to the
wrong person, and I feel that there should be some consequences,
(17:09):
but nobody realizes what could tell Marte has been through
Over the last four games since that has happened, He's
two for sixteen, He's homeward twice on Homeward Saturday, on
Howard Sunday. But this is also a guy who struck
out three times in his return to Arizona, and everybody
was giving him a standing, you know, ovation welcoming him
(17:31):
back with open arms, and while I'm sure it's appreciated,
it can't necessarily feel comfortable that this is continually now
being brought up. And as part of the conversation in
that game on Friday against the White Hot Floida, Marlins
could tell Marte struck out three times in that game?
How many times this season has cut could tell Marte
struck out three times in a game prior to Friday,
(17:54):
zero correct none, struck out twice on Wednesday. This has
obviously affected him, and we forget about things and how
things move on. But then because we move on from him,
but the standing ovation that he gets on Friday still
probably not comfortable. White Sox putting out a statement, putting
on the scoreboard on Wednesday probably not comfortable. So that
(18:17):
one interaction for people that want to downplay it. It's
now obviously affected him. He's was hitting like three twenty
now he's down to like three three h five in
this recent slump. This obviously has had something to do
with his play. And I don't think that we should
forget about it and move on from it.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
What what should the punishment be, though, Dan, when you
don't know, yes, I understand, I think it's a It's
a really hard one, right because if you watch the video,
the guy clearly had no idea about Mark. I like,
unless he was really playing it off.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
It's one of those like, yeah, where there's there's a
consequence because of what happened. I used yesterday with Mike,
and Mike didn't love this analogy, but I used just
of running a stop sign. How many times do you
run a stop sign and not get busted? Well, the
time that you hit someone on a bike man, you know. Yeah,
Like so there's got to be some sort of penalty.
(19:13):
Even though it was thought to be an innocent mom joke,
it doesn't like it has obviously affected him and it's
hurt Marte. I feel some sort of you know, donation,
some way to work with either the White Sox or
the Diamondbacks or major League Baseball to try to get yourself.
You shouldn't be banned for life for it. It was
an indefinite band. But I do think that there's something
(19:34):
needs to be done, And by all accounts, the fan
was remorseful when he found out about the situation. Marte
has even said that he prays for him. There seems
to be a way that they can bridge this, and
I think if you do that, you should be good.
But to just think like ah Marte is soft and
move on from it. This obviously has had an effect
on him and the effected the Diamondbacks as a team seemingly.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Okay, Samuel, to get to you.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Tomorrow is the first day of July, and this time
last week we were reacting to Game seven of the
w or the of the NBA Finals. I should say,
and July. It's tomorrow's July, is it? Does anybody ever
make the argument that July is the best sports month? No,
they don't, because it's the worst sports month because we're
(20:22):
now we have shifted past the NBA Finals. Uh, there's
no more men's basketball we do. There's a bit of
a silver lining here. We will cognitively restructure and I
will focus on my afternoon w NBA games. But the
month July is like, it's a weird, sort of tweener month.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
You get to watch the Valkyries.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
I get to watch the Valkyrie. I get to watch
make a fastball. That doesn't you?
Speaker 1 (20:46):
So you hate the month of July.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
The month of July and sports month is a tough
one to get through because we are yes, we're ramping
up for the NFL in college football, but it's just
it's slow.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
I ask you a question, what do you think of August?
Like why why isn't it August? They're one A, one B.
Because I would say this, maybe the baseball is a
little bit more meanful. August gets saved because first week
of college football anticipation. But it's also like people say,
like I love Illinois as a state, Well, you love
Chicago because the rest of Illinois is nothing like it is.
(21:18):
It's Chicago, And I feel like that would be like
calb Oasis would like a word, trust me that.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
What about Rockford? What about Rockford.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
Illinois' you're down playing thinks but no thanks?
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Sorry?
Speaker 3 (21:31):
What about that Carbondale, Saluky Cities? Sorry my quad cities
a normal lean? Sorry about that? I mean real quick?
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Yes, sorry, Okay, I I hate this act of rich Paul.
I hate the act of Rich Paul. Like usually when
you get to the end of somebody's career, okay, usually
it's like when old people who are really really grumpy
and you didn't like them, like my grandma, Grandma Bernstein,
Like she went the nice for a long time, then
(22:04):
she got really old and she was the sweetest old
lady ever. Here we are at the end of Lebron
James's career, and yeah, Lebron has bounced team to team. Yeah,
Lebron has set up super teams. Hey, Lebron hasn't always
He's had some ups. He has now generally, though it's
hard to pick apart. He's had an unbelievable run. Unbelievable run.
He's the all time leading scores, won four NBA times,
(22:26):
won four MVPs. He is, in the conversation, the greatest
player of all time. So what do you do in
one weekend? You wipe out any sort of good will,
any sort of good will, and oh yeah, by the way,
you kind of make Lebron look petulant, right, because again
(22:48):
I don't know what their intent was, but how it
feels to us is I want to win a championship,
but you clearly think Lucas better. So I'm gonna go
elsewhere because I like being the guy and I want
to be on it. Like, hey, dude, if you want
to be on a championship team and you're really the
greatest player of all time, then I don't know whyt
(23:09):
don't you figure out how to make this team a
championship team. But the messaging is far different. And then
when you couple it into the they made him draft Bronnie,
they made him you know, hey, we want to hire
JJ Reddick. That's my guy. Like all these things where
they acquiesced to right, they never said a word when
Lebron James showed up on the bench with the goblet
(23:29):
of wine back when he's hurt, like it is like
everybody in the organization was first. Nobody said anything publicly,
but you just take all the good will and dump
it out. Unlike Kobe, who was a petulant brat for
a good amount of time, but late in his career,
people were like, you know, I love Cobe Cobs. You know,
he just changed because he knew it was his last
(23:50):
sad he just he went very good at the end,
and he didn't act like he was very good at
the end. And because of it, and of course because
his undiminally death, Kobe is beloved and Lebron. I hope
he goes in place somewhere else because if he does,
most hardened true Laker fans be like, hey, on a Laker,
I don't care if you played eight years we won
(24:10):
one title. There was a bunch of disappointment, a lot
of noise and not a lot of substance. Crazy. How
one trade which is one of the great trades in
the history of the sport, Rob Polincoln pulled it off?
And what's it meant by by Lebron James oh Man?
I could be next? I could be traded. Yeah, he
is jealous of Luca and Luca's treatment when he has
(24:34):
acted in this entitled way for so long, and he's
entitled because he's been great. But I don't think this
is how you end an illustrious career. And that's eleven eight.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
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Sports Radio. Okay, so they get Jonah Smith, so get
a tight end, right, and you get Jalen Ramsey, so
they get a little older. But I mean this kind
of tracks to what they're doing. By the way, how
many tight ends did the Steelers have? Don't They didn't?
(25:48):
They draft a couple. It feels like they're just like
loading up a tight we got. Yeah, that's a lot
of tight ends. No, I'm not gonna pause on that one.
Jay stew Of just again, I'm just gonna keep plowing forward.
Speaker 5 (26:02):
But if you if you did push pauls it influid
of men, No, hom.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Up, he said. It's like, it's like you want to
take my thoughts and move me to the add world
of Doug and just completely derail me. And so I
go squirrel, and now I argue with you about it.
I'm not gonna do it. I'm not gonna do it.
Gotta stay focused, Gotta stay.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
Focused some dude named Doug.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Yes, that's what I'm gonna do it. Feels like the Steelers.
It doesn't feel like they're sitting on king Ace high,
but it feels like they're just kind of getting annoyed
of like, ah, sometimes we win a hand, sometimes you lose.
We play it smart, and let's just let's just go
all in to go all in and if it doesn't work,
we'll pack up and go home later. Right, Guys, get
(26:47):
this way at like it's like a long night and
you're sitting there and you're like, ah, I'm even I
was up big, I'm down big it up. I don't know,
I'm down a couple hundred bucks. But like, let me
just put like five hundred one hand of blackjack, and
if I win, great, I'll keep playing. If I lose,
(27:08):
I was prepared to lose this much anyway. And that
feels like what the Steelers have done, whereas previously the
Steelers have been by the book, you know, based on
what the dealer is showing, based on what cards I got,
I'm gonna hit or I'm not gonna take cards, playing
really really smart but boring blackjack or poker or whatever.
(27:30):
And now you're like, I'm just going all in. Hey, uh,
you know, the AFC's kind of loaded right, like your
own division's got the Ravens. They're kind of awesome. Bengals
are gonna be awesome on offense. I don't know if
they can stop anybody, but who cares. Cleveland kind of
a mess. Buffalo, you know, they've turned over their roster
(27:51):
going for the kill. Miami. I honestly think Miami has
gotten rid of They felt like they had some bad
locker room dudes. I think Jaalen Ramsey's frankly one of them.
And I think Jalen when he's done with the place,
he just kind of burns it down. That's just kind
of his style. That's how he got has gotten out
of everywhere he's been. But does it feel very Unsteeler
(28:16):
like to do what the Steelers are doing? The Steelers
have been you know, Gap khakis forever, like Gap Khaki's
polo shirt and normal shoes. Now they're like, you know
those jeans with ripped holes in it, say I'm really cool.
And if I throw in some Barbados top a bunch
(28:38):
of cologne on. I don't know this. It just doesn't
feel like this Stealers organization doesn't mean it doesn't work.
It's just weird. For them to go all in when
you're like, it's not like they have the best team
in the world. Like the defense is really good. The
offense has got Aaron Rodgers and some pieces. Yeah. Yeah,
(29:00):
Like DK Metcalf's good, he's really good. You know, did
anybody think, like subn dk Metcalf take out George Pickens
and put in Aaron Rodgers at forty years old and
they're the best offense on Earth. I don't think so.
I don't know. It just strikes me as very unstealed. Like,
(29:22):
you know, they have been the king of conservative, the
king of let's just say, we're gonna find ways to
win games. And you get frustrated, like we used to
have a quarterback that would take chances, hold on the ball,
throw it down the field. Now you're searching for a
quarterback you acquiesced to Aaron Rodgers, making you wait an
extra couple of months.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Do you think how the Steelers are going through a
midlife crisis?
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Possibly, yeah, a little bit.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Maybe getting the getting the sports car. Yeah, gonna invest
a little on the offense, just one more year when
we're ride with Aaron Rodgers, let's go Thelma.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
And Louis over the Cliff feel that way, you Dan.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
Yeah, they just feel like this is it and it's
almost like you they're forcing themselves to make that decision.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, putting themselves out there, putting themselves out there.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
And if the end, if it doesn't work out, I
think that they're fine with the yeah reset, yep.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Because they have not done that in forever. Right, it's
been a long time. Patriots did it a couple of
years ago. Right, it's and now it feels like they're
coming out of the reset. You know, they cycled through
a coach that didn't work. Now they got one that
ever rabel Ever knows is gonna work. They got a
quarterback that they liked that you know, Patriots are on
the upswing. I feel like the Steelers have been kind
(30:40):
of in that eh for a while, and I'm like,
let's go all in if it doesn't work, like ah.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
You know, I just quickly I look at Jacksonville as
such a you know, like the opposite of Pittsburgh where
in the last nine ten years, Jacksonville's gone from laughingstock
to almost a Super Bowl contender, to back to laughing Stock,
to playoff contender, back to laughing Stock. All in the
same period where the Steelers just went nine to eight.
(31:08):
Look at all of those seasons, so to turnaround time
frame isn't as bad as maybe Pittsburgh, you know, always
thinks it is.
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Speaker 4 (32:32):
Doug And this is brought to you by sports Betting
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(32:52):
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Speaker 1 (33:24):
By the way, I don't think he's going anywhere. That's
my thing. I don't think he's going anywhere. Could be wrong.
I don't think he's going on.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
So after the twenty six season, twenty twenty five, twenty
six season, do you think he'll still be a Laker
after that or retire?
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (33:44):
All right, so be it.
Speaker 4 (33:47):
The other news in the NBA, Jordan Clarkson and the
Jazz have agreed to go buy out Clarkson, represented by
Rich Paul and Clutch Sports, now make him a free
agent likely to go to a contender. M Jordan Cluckson's
had a nice career. I will say that when he
(34:07):
played for the Lakers and he was doing well and
he kind of burst onto the scene, I just wondered
if it was because they were a bad team.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Yes, and they.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Were what team?
Speaker 1 (34:16):
What did he play on this year?
Speaker 3 (34:18):
Was Utah?
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Yeah, Well they get a bad team. The best player
and a bad team. He's not a winning player. He's
just not. It's like, well he put up good numbers,
did they win? It's like empty calories made you feel
good at first. It's in the mid section.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
I just I think he's carved on a nice career
for him.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Make a lot of money. He gets get a lot
of buckets. It has nothing to do with winning, which
is fine. Not everybody can win, correct, Sometimes you gotta
get buckets. But the idea that he's going to go
to contender, like, oh, all of a sudden, like hey,
Jordan Cluckson, that's gonna put us over the top.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Like what.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Well, some teams are hoping that t J.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
Watt would put them over the top, so they've reached
out to the Steelers, but Pittsburgh, according to reports, is
no desire to trade Watt, who's entering the final year
of his contract. This on the heels of the Steelers
Dolphins deal that was pulled off today. Pittsburgh not going
to deal tjire.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Going all in. They're going like, hey, we don't usually
do this, but.
Speaker 4 (35:24):
Oh yeah, I got a couple of other pass along.
Speaker 5 (35:28):
What about your your TJ. Watt joke? Did the TJ watch.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
Wants up with that?
Speaker 5 (35:37):
Sam? Just on your joke?
Speaker 1 (35:39):
What's what's up with that?
Speaker 4 (35:44):
How about this from college football? The civil suit filed
against all right, this, when I'm talking about civil suits
involving this sensitive topic always, that's okay, that's fine. The
civil suit filed against BYU quarterback Jake retzlof accusing him
of rape. Has been dismissed. Rhetzlov plans to transfer from
(36:05):
the school as he faced a seven game suspension for
violating the school's honor code.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
He's the Jewish quarterback, right, Yes, yeah, so he had
pre marital sex. It's illegal, and so he's out. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (36:20):
Yes, there would have been a violation of the code.
But this case has been dropped against him.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Yeah, I mean sounds like there was a woman who
engaged in premarital with him and feels like she made
up that part. That's why it's going to be dropped.
Speaker 4 (36:37):
He had said that their meeting was consensual and their
side had information or evidence that they felt showed that
the other side of a different story, but that case
has been dropped. Fox will broadcast six women's college volleyball
matches for the upcoming season, the most of any network
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(37:00):
in four of the matches that will be on the network.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
They can playing Nebraska every time.
Speaker 4 (37:05):
Hey, they do have a match against Nebraska in early
October that will be one of them. Featured.
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Big Ken Midwest Volleyball is awesome Wisconsin watch people shows.
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Yes, And finally, Jason Carlos Alcaaz won in five sets. Today,
the second seed of defending champ advances to the second
round at Wimbledon.
Speaker 5 (37:26):
Who do you almost beat?
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (37:27):
Who almost beat him?
Speaker 3 (37:29):
You guys should know this?
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