July 16, 2024 • 37 mins
Doug weighs in on the Clippers and Kawhi Leonard admitting they were disappointed in Leonard being left off of the US Olympic team. Doug and the crew weigh in on the National Anthem that united America. Doug welcomes FSR MLB Insider Jon Morosi onto the show to talk about the All-Star game and the second half of the baseball season. Plus, Monse Bolanos takes Doug through a Tuesday edition of "The Press".
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Speaker 2 (00:42):
There's a story going around that the Clippers are upset
that Kawhi Leonard was essentially sent home from USA Basketball,
and it's part of what's led to this ancillary discussion
over who should have been added to UH the US
national team. This is Lawrence Frank of course, as the
president of the LA Clippers. He had this to say
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about the national team's decision to replace Kawhi.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Letter It was usav's call, and I was quite frankly,
very disappointed with the decision. Qui wanted to play. We
wanted him to play. I was there the first two practices.
He looked very good participant, was a full participant in
everything that they did. I really wish that they would
have given Qui more time. You know, we have the
benefit of having been around Kahi for five years to
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see his body and see where he's at.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
He looked good to me.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
I know all the sacrifices he made in order to
make this commitment to the Olympics. So it was very disappointing.
We were really disappointed for Kawhi and this is something
we really wanted for him. But with that being said,
you know now I think we have to move forward.
We support USAV desperately want to see them win the
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gold medal. I know that's how Kaui feels too.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
I think there's a couple of things here. I don't
I don't think we're getting the whole story, the real
story from Lawrence Frank and again a good portion of it,
A good portion of it is. This is sadly the
way it works in the NBA, where you know, we
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so badly, or maybe we don't so badly, but teams
feel that they have to like stick up for their
players even when their players don't need to be stuck
up for What I was told very recently was that
no one thought Kawhi that spot is I don't want
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to say twelfth man, but it wasn't a position where
you're going to play a ton, and Kawhi knew that and.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Was okay with that.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
But he's just not fully healthy, and they felt like
he was just going because Kawi just wanted to be
a part of the experience. So somewhere in there there's
either a failure to communicate or maybe there's a lack
of honesty in that you want to have Kawhi's back
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and say Kawhi is fully healthy, but the feeling was
that Kwai is not fully healthy. He knew he wasn't
fully healthy, he didn't think he'd have to play a ton,
and he wanted to be on the team. They felt
like they needed to name him on the team even
though he wasn't good enough to go in the healthy
enough to go in the playoffs. Why would he be
healthy enough to go in USA Basketball in the summer.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
But again, like some of this is this is just the.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Way sadly the NBA works, where you have to go
above and beyond and put yourself out there and say
things which you know are patently false in an effort
to support your players, like their egos are so fragile.
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Like Kwi Leonard just got a contract extension, a three
year deal, max money. You know he'll end up with
a billion dollars in the bank. He's a great, not good,
great player by my masturbation. When he's been healthy the
past two years, he's been, in any conversation, the best
player in the NBA, but he hasn't been healthy a lot.
So he's gonna play USA basketball Why because he wants
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to when they have somebody else who they think fits.
I would also tell you that, like there's a world
there where Steph Curry, he's not great in international competition
because he's little and it's very, very physical. And if
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you want to know what Steph would have looked like
on some level with the old officiating, this is your snapshot.
So I think there's a lot of different things that
work more so than just, Hey, Kawhi wanted to play
and they cut him.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Nah. I don't think that's it at all.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
But you're noticing a pattern here with how people talk
about Lebron James's son, how they talk about Kawhi, how
everybody handles their guys. No one has ever done anything.
I mean even the Jalen Brown thing with the hey
they get along great now. Then Jason, then he doesn't
get picked for that last spot, and Jason Tatum's like,
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there's a lot of guys out there.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
That want that spot.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Yeah, there's only one who's the finals. That is your
teammate who, along with you, is making three hundred million
dollars in his next contract. Jase, do you assuredly see
the correlation between all these stories, right, Jason?
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Sorry, go ahead, Monts.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
You know the first thing I thought of when I
heard all this, as you know, a Clippers fan, I
felt the same way. I was like, why isn't Kawhi
still on the team and just playing limited minutes since
it's his first time or able to get like a
gold medal, especially when there's a lot of other players
on the roster that are also dealing with injuries, Like
why I found it all weird? And then when it
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first came out that it was like together the Clippers
and USA Basketball decided this, and now Laurence frank Is
saying this, Yeah, is it?
Speaker 6 (06:07):
Is it just to say face is what I what
I thought about.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
I did find it weird just because there's other players
that are also dealing with injuries, you know what I mean?
Like why just remove Kawhi?
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Good question?
Speaker 7 (06:19):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Why because I think they need they I think they
operated under the understanding he wasn't going to play a
bunch And when they've seen him practice and play, they're like,
h we made any other guard the only thing I
can think of the only thing I can think of.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
So and and remember.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
It's like we talked about what day say, we talked
about going back to last week, which is you know,
at least a portion of this, a portion of this
is that, uh that USA Basketball wants guys that have
played for USA basketball.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Mm hmm, right, like you if you've.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Been and you know whether or not it should matter
to anybody else. But you know, they took Derek White,
who he had played when they finished in seventh place
in the World Cup?
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Was that two years ago?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Derek Why was on that team, And so they know him,
they know how he operates, They like him, he fits
with the team, he's okay not playing a ton and
he's he's played and understands international basketball. It's it's a
different way of playing the same sport. So, I mean,
I think the best the best parallel is this. We
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do talk radio, but we don't do talk radio the
way that talk radio political talk radio does talk radio.
Imagine if you did that, you know, or imagine if
you did talk radio in a different country, granted English speaking,
but different country. It would be the same thing. You're doing,
same job, only completely different. Right, That's what international basketball
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is like. The rules are the most of the rules
are the same, but the way in which their officiated
is different. The use of zone defense changes everything. The
physicality is completely different. And so you know, I tell
people all the time, like we think of we look
at these rosters like, well, Canada should be our biggest challenge. No,
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they won't because Canada plays more American style western western
style basketball, like in Feba. The way to compete with
better teams is the way that Argentina, Spain, Italy, France.
Those teams will play, and France also has great players,
but they traditionally have not been good in the international
competition because their guys are much more athletic. They play
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they like much more of up tempo, kind of Western
style of basketball, but in Foba it's a lot it
can be a lot slower, a lot more grab and holed,
and and.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Takes a little bit of a different skill set.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
So I find the whole thing to be fascinating, fascinating,
but I don't buy for one second that Kawhi Leonard
was perfectly good to go super healthy and Lawrence Frank
is stunned by this.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
That feels like he's trying.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
To save face, right, especially with the whole Paul George
thing too.
Speaker 8 (09:12):
Sure, yeah, sure.
Speaker 9 (09:14):
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Speaker 2 (09:29):
Pretty appropriate song here Doug Golib Show on Fox Sports Radio.
So good. The only issue Ryan with this song is
she did od right? This is how she died? Chase,
do can you confirm her?
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Deny?
Speaker 8 (09:49):
Oh? I confirm yes.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
I mean that is the only thing about it. It's
the perfect song for this. So I never heard of
Ingrid at Andress. Had anyone ever heard of Ingrid? And
I listened to country music. Apparently she's a GRAANDMA nominated artist.
She's Is she a country artist?
Speaker 8 (10:07):
I don't know. She kind of sounds more alternative to.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Me, but I as so too. Yeah, I think she's just.
Speaker 8 (10:12):
In the genre of drunk drunk artists.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Yeah, I get it again.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
My my question is there's a bunch of things, but
the big question.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
So she announced it on social media. Oh just you know. Yeah,
here's her national anthem from last night.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
Oh say, can you see by the dawns?
Speaker 7 (10:40):
Like?
Speaker 6 (10:42):
Whatso proudly we by the trilight? Last cleanly? Who's broad shape?
Speaker 4 (10:55):
So by.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
Food pairs fine?
Speaker 5 (11:04):
Oh the rest, but we watch We're so Gayly Street.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
Gets read the bombs burst.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Yay, pro do the night.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Yeah, we et the plans bad uh No, parts of
that are are particularly good. And she started out, okay,
kind of breath et. But I guess the thing is
it's one of those we all think when we get
up there and sing karaoke and we've been drinking, we
sound good. Yeah, that's that's what a Grammy Award winning
artist sounds like when she's been drinking and she gets
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up there a cappella. Anyway, So she announced on social
media she's going to rehab that's the plane. And I
think sometimes maybe the statement is what has people wondering, like, Okay,
she taking this thing seriously.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
I'm not going to bs y'all. I was drunk last night.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
I'm checking myself in the facility today to get the
help I need. That was not me last night. I apologize,
dam will be all the fans and this country I
love so much for that rendition.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
I'll let y'all know how rehab is. I hear it's
super fun.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
This is one of those like you start joking people
and they go like yeah, and you're like, yeah, you
can't say your mama jokes and my mom's got cancer.
Can we not make fun of her now because she's
going to rehab? Jase, do what you're ruling.
Speaker 8 (12:36):
I think you can totally make fun of it because
it was her choice to make that decision.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
And I thought you, I thought you're powerless over it
when you're if you're an alcoholic, you're powerless over those decisions.
Speaker 8 (12:48):
Well, I mean, you're still going to serve the time
if you do uy and kill somebody.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Understand, h Ryan, Ryan, what is your feeling on whether
or not we can make fun of her when she's
hammered but says she's going to rehab.
Speaker 10 (13:04):
I think you can still make fun of her, And
it reminds me of a great Norm McDonald rest in
power joke. Yeah, you have a disease, but I think
you have the best one line.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Lie uh manci what's your what you're calling? Are you
allowed to make fun of how some how a drunk
acts when they're drunk and then they check in a rehab?
Speaker 6 (13:33):
I emn with the fellas.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
I also, can we just make fun of the incident,
but not making fun of her, because I mean that.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
Was like we're.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Like when Hasselhoff was eating was it a cheeseburger? Off
the ground? Is that right? Do I remember this correctly?
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Remember when when when the Hoff was just completely hammered
and he was like he was like eating the eating
a cheeseburger? I want to say, off like off the ground?
Speaker 4 (13:59):
Is that?
Speaker 3 (13:59):
My?
Speaker 4 (14:00):
I remember that? Jay, Dude, this is much more.
Speaker 8 (14:02):
Vaguely vaguely remember this. I vaguely remember that one.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Like people crushed Hasselhof for it, and he was a drunk,
so it's, uh, it's a different one.
Speaker 8 (14:14):
It was to me, it was the least offensive of
the two. In other words, Manci, I'm going to ask
you to please clarify who this is. Marcello Hernandez. Uh huh,
he's famous.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
I don't know when me look him up.
Speaker 8 (14:30):
Okay, so he's the guy that did the introductions for
the home run derby last night.
Speaker 6 (14:34):
I actually thought he was pretty good. Oh no, I
thought he was pretty good.
Speaker 8 (14:37):
This is where we take issue. So Marcello Hernandez, I guess,
is also a SNL. Yeah, he is an achro okay
over the top, ridiculous shouting into the microphone. And I
think him having eight no names to introduce as a
problem because if if you're just a sports fan and
not a baseball fan, you tune into this and he's like,
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why is this guy yelling at me? Who are these
people that he's talking about?
Speaker 7 (15:02):
Uh?
Speaker 8 (15:02):
It just seemed utterly ridiculous. And then you had the
national anthem and I'm like, man, can majorly Baseball get
one thing right? Ever? It just never seems to get
anything right. Last week was their draft, and the thing
that people most talked about from the draft on Twitter
was how bad they botched up the technology on the
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introductions of the players, Like, why can't we get anything
right in Baseball.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
I thought the intros were really great.
Speaker 8 (15:29):
Actually, I'm going.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
To try to hold those. Yeah, I'm I'm with Jason.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
I was just over the top, just too too much,
too much, wwe to like too much, too much.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
I don't know. It's it's a hard one.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
It's it's a space that like, only two people occupy
and they're both brothers, right, and they do UFC and
boxing together. But outside of that, and very few people
can own those type of introductions. Let's get you to
Manci Belanos stuck gotlib show here on Fox Swartz Radio.
Let's welcome in. He's the absolute best in the business.
(16:10):
He's John Palmer Rose. See of course, he's Fox Sports
Radio's MLB insider and he worked for the MLB network.
What can you say, like, I don't even I don't
even know who won the home run derby last night.
I don't know anyone talking about the home run derby
last night because they couldn't get past the intros in
the National Anthem JP.
Speaker 7 (16:30):
Yes, that certainly became quite a story the Anthem and
obviously some continued follow ups with that story here today
as well. But yes, the eventual winner of the home
run derby was taskar Anandez of the Dodgers, who had
actually two very close matches, the semi final against Alec
Bohm and then the final against the hometown favorite because
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he's from the area, Bobby Witt Junior. So the new
format seemed to have a lot of fans like the
pace of it. The excitement created some late drama and
who would have thought that when the season began that
the man of Monday Night, at least at the All
Star Game, was wearing a Dodger uniform. But he was
not Otani or Betts or Freeman, but tascar Adnandez, who
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was one of the best findings I believe, Doug, in
terms of dollar for dollar last offseason.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Okay, let's let let's dive into as we get ready
for the second half of the season. What do you
think is the biggest question mark in baseball heading into
part two?
Speaker 7 (17:33):
What are the Dodgers going to do with their pitching staff.
It's amazing to say it, Doug, but there was not
a team that needed the All Star Break more than
the Los Angeles Dodgers. I just could not have fathomed
that when the season began that they would have all
these different Arms on the IL. But it's a there's
basically an entire rotation plus for the Dodgers all on
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the injured list. You can begin with glass now, Kershaw
still there, Yamamoto is there. They've sent Bobby Miller to
the minor League's Walker Buehlers on the il, dust and
the Dusty May is out for the season. It's an
amazing amount of attrition on that rotation. At the moment,
they have to start openers in basically three of their
last four games, Doug, before the All Star break. So
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they are now under pressure. They did all that spending
in the off season and yet they're scrambling. They are
scrambling for pitching. They believe that Glasstow and Kershaw will
be able to start games for them at some point
in time this month, Doug. But this is now in
a lot of ways, if you're selling pitching, if you're
the White Sox, if you're the Tigers, if you're possibly
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the Cincinnati Red the Toronto Blue Jays, you have the
ideal scenario. You've got a team with a massive budget
and a good farm system, with tremendous pressure to add
at the deadline, and the Los Angeles Dodgers now faced
exactly that pressure ahead of July thirtieth, all.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Right, And before we can get to that, of course,
you've got the All Star Game tonight. What's the level
of excitement seeing Paul Skeen's the guy who's the first
number one pick to go basically straight to the biggs,
you know, pitching college baseball right to the bigs now
right to start in the All Star Game. What's the
level of excitement around the league to get a talent
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like this that has been the talent has been translatable,
you know, so oftentimes college stars it takes them a while.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
What's the level of excitement?
Speaker 7 (19:28):
Like I think that to your point and Monthy's update
coming in, I mean, I said to me, there's such
a curiosity about if we're going to see Aaron Judge
bat against him and have Juan Soto making I think
a really fun prediction that Judge is going to bat
in the first inning, which I love, by the way,
and just think about it. There are a lot of
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starting pitchers, a lot of very quality starting pitchers in
this league right now, But for how many other pitchers,
Doug would you and I be talking hours before first
pitch wondering who's gonna come the point in the first
inning with such curiosity and excitement. You're right, Paul Skins
was the number one pick in the draft basically this
week one year ago, and that to me is emblematic
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of the way that developing baseball players has changed. I
think we're seeing in certain these schemes is an exception,
but we're seeing more and more players and pitchers, especially
rushed because there's an awareness that, hey, given the amount
of injuries that we're seeing in Major League baseball right now,
it is in our best interest and probably even the
player's best interest in a certain financial sense, to have
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as many of his pitches as possible count in the
Major League. That's the goal here, get him up to
where his pitches have the best chance to help us
win a World Series. And at the moment, the Pittsburgh Pirates,
while there are distance away from being of that caliber
and chasing after a World Series title, certainly playing very well,
much much better baseball of late, and I for one
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just cannot wait to tune in tonight on Fox and
here what John smolt has to say in the first
inning about what he's using ball schemes that is what,
as Tory le Bello said, the NL manager, why he
shows schemes to start this game. It is what the
people want to see.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Yeah, and that's why in the All Star Game did
Rob Manfred talked about using robot umpires in spring training?
Speaker 4 (21:21):
How close to reality is that?
Speaker 7 (21:24):
I think, Doug, we're getting closer. We are getting We're
getting closer. It's now. And for clarification, what robot umpires
means to I think us as a baseball community is
you're still going to see an umpire behind the plate,
but the misses and the challenge system, which it seems
like a lot of people like to correct. Basically the
egregious miss the pitch that's called a ball and is
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actually a strike or vice versa and totally swings the
leverage in and at bat totally changes everything in terms
of what's what's happening. That is the kind of situation
that will be reviewed via the challenges and the rest
of the game is going to be normal. But you
now have the ability, just like we just got done
watching Wimbledon, it's that level of technology to where we
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see the outcome, we see the ability to then discern, Okay,
was it a ballrus strike and the ruling Doug is instantaneous,
is it is second? And I think in terms of
the pace of play and the overall concerned about the game,
I think it actually helps because the amount of time
that used to see the umpire turn and look at
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the dug out and he says, hey, where'd you have that?
That pitches up, that pitches down, that in, that's out.
That's all gone because you just tap your helmet, review
it and within five seconds you have the answer. So
I think it's it's going to be a much better
system for everybody involved.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Yankees lost Ady the last twelve and Brian Cashman took
to the road with the team. What changes do you
see for them in the second half of the season.
Speaker 7 (22:56):
My goodness, it is I think a team that has
a lot of pressure. I think even more so, probably
than the Dodgers in a strange way, because the Dodgers
are at the beginning of this Otani era as much
as the Dodgers steel pressure to win. Mookie Betts is
still part of their team next year, Freddy Freeman is
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still part of their team next year. Show is still there,
Will Smith is still there, Yamamoto is still there, with
the Yankees, it's the big one two punch between Judge
and Soto, and one of them Soto is a free
agent when the season is over, And if the last
couple of weeks Doug have shown anything it is that
this team really is dependent upon those two players. Ben
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Rice has come in and played a very good first base,
but the Baltimore Orioles right now have the better lineup
depth one through nine. And you could actually argue that
the Orioles, even though they're bullpen ashen in perfections, that
even that bullpen is probably better than what the Yankees
have right now. The Yanks have it all Start Closer
and Clay Holmes, but the bridge is not what you
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would expect it to be. So it's always a fun deadline, Doug,
when teams like the Dodgers and the Yankees have a
lot of pressure on them to do something. And one
more team I'm watching carefully the Seattle Mariners. Jerry Depoto,
Justin Holland are their front office. They almost always make
a move, and they only have a one game lead
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on the Houston Astros, who have gotten up off the
canvas and made this into a preally compelling American league.
West Race Heers begin the second half, So I can't wait, Doug.
It's gonna be a lot of fun tonight and then
a lot of fun ahead of the trade deadline on
July the thirtieth.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
I've got to see the Brewers play in person. I
don't know how they've done this thing with all their
pitching injuries. I know Knig's back close to coming back.
He was in Triple A, so is Joe Ross, but
this thing's kind of held together patchwork with all the
injuries they've had.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Brewers going to make any moves here.
Speaker 7 (24:54):
Late, I think they will, but it's probably gonna be similar, Doug,
to what we've already seen them do with with the
Aaron Stavali deal, where I think they're going to look
to incrementally improve their team. Maybe they would make a
play for someone like Frankie Montoss with the Cincinnati Reds,
who's available. I know it's in division, but the Reds
to me look like a selling team. Maybe a pitcher
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like a yusse Ki Succi with the Toronto Blue Jays.
I could see that kind of a move. I don't
think it's going to be a massive salary or a
massive long term commitment. The Brewers really do a great
job of managing well their identity and what they've got.
And to your point, it's been the somewhat unheralded trio
of Colin Ray, Freddie Peralta, Tobias Myers who have really
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kept this group going from a rotation perspective. And again
I mentioned Aaron Stavali. He has come in. He has
started a couple of games and done quite well in
his brief time in a Milwaukee Brewers uniform. So I
think they'll probably make an upgrade there with their rotation,
at least a back end guy who'd either start a
game or go potentially into the bullpen, and I their
everyday lineup. I think Bryce Terrang has really emerged as
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a nice player, Doug. He's already stolen thirty bases. I
he's a tremendous athlete. I mean he's he is the
kind of athlete that I believe that that would look
good run on the floor for the for the Green
Bay Phoenix. This is what I would say, Doug, in
terms of he's a good enough athlete that I think
he could play for the Phoenix in the Horizon League.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
You know, it's it's interesting you bring that up. I
was with their front office. It was in draft day.
I was down there when I throughout the first pitch
and they were talking about like, look, everyone in their
position players at some point in their lives, was a shortstop.
And they're drafting athleticism over everything else. It's like, hey,
if you're an athlete, you can hit, we want you.
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That's legit, that's and they feel like the rules of
the game have changed so that athleticism is paramount in
any position you play.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
And oh, yeah, by the way, helps you in the
base past.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
That's part of how they've changed their acquisition of personnel
via the draft or for a free agency.
Speaker 7 (27:00):
That's a great point, Doug, and I think that's why
this week and again the baseball drafts for a long
time sort of been the realm of the die hard
fan or the longtime fantasy league owner and then the
keeper league or people that are really into the prospect world.
But Paul Schemes proves it that was last year and
how impactful that can be. And I think Bryce Terrang
(27:24):
was a draft pick by the Brewers. The smaller your
pay roll, the smaller your market, the more that you
have to hit on the draft, the more important it is.
And you're right. In this new model of baseball where
the shift is out, you've got a better pace to
the game. Base Running is more important, of being able
to really cover your position with athleticism is more important.
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That's where Bryce terrang becomes all the more crucial to
a team. I think overall the Milwaukee lineup has a
lot of younger position players. William Contreras is twenty six
years of age. I still think of him as a
pretty young player. Joey Ortiz played tremendously well coming in
in that trade from Baltimore, Blake Perkins playing center for
They've got a twenty year old right fielder in Jackson Shurio.
(28:07):
It was interesting, Doug I was actually talking about a
cross sports comparison. I was at the NHL Draft in
Vegas last month and one of the gms there at
del Armstrong, made a great point. He said, listen, when
you're negotiating with free agents, their agents and their salary
demands can block what you're trying to do. When you're
negotiating on a trade, the other team's desires can block
what you want to do. The draft is the one
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time of the year, whereas an organization, it's all right
there in front of you. You are totally the master
of your own destiny. And I love that thinking. I
think it really empowers teams to do the right things.
And that's where that's one day you're in this case
with baseball, it's a three day draft. The three days
where you can say, all of these players are what
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we want to represent for our organization. And certainly that's
probably something that coach and Gottlieb could say as well
about the culture. But that's certainly what the Brews are
doing very very well as well.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
John Paul, you are the best. Enjoy the All Star
Game tonight. Look forward to seeing your work and hearing
your work. He's our Fox Sports Tradio MLB insider. He
also works for the MLB Network. John Palm Morosi, JP,
thanks so much.
Speaker 7 (29:11):
Sounds great. And by the way, when you come here
to the great state of Michigan in the Horizon League,
I got to see your team this season. I'm excited
about it.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
I was. I drove to Traverse City through the up yesterday.
How was it amazing?
Speaker 7 (29:24):
Isn't it beautiful? I was? I was born up there.
We could do the whole. This is your life. But
I was. I was born in Marquette. That's my You're
in my territory. Dog, You're gonna love it.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
It was, it was, It was incredible. Can't wait.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Yeah, I come see us. We got Oakland, we got Detroit.
You can, you can.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
You can sit on the bench, behind the bench wherever
you want. Okay, love it.
Speaker 7 (29:41):
That sounds great, dog, I'll take you up on that
sounds great.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
That's John Morosi.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Of course you'll hear him and see him tonight, and
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Speaker 4 (30:38):
Let's get to the press. Some months of belindas.
Speaker 9 (30:41):
The press.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
Mansie, what's up? What do you got? What's the press?
Speaker 5 (30:53):
All right, We're gonna start with wide receiver Davante Adams.
A lot has been said about him. He's starting in receiver,
which you can catch on Netflix. But there is a
lot of outside noise apparently that he is going to
be traded the debts to the Jets and be you know,
with Aaron Rodgers. Well, ESPN tweeted out Adam Schefter that
(31:16):
his agents have made a comment on that and that
those trade rumors are baseless, unfounded speculation, and that there
have been no trade talks with the Raiders. There's also
a gentleman who hosts a Raiders podcast, Hondo S.
Speaker 6 (31:32):
Carpenter Senior.
Speaker 5 (31:33):
On his Raiders podcast, he's he also is saying the
same thing. He's like, this is all outside noise. DeVante
doesn't want to go anywhere. He wants to stay with
the Raiders.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Well, now, what people forget is that video was made
when there was a different coach, a different gentle manager,
and a different quarterback. Right, so the idea it's not
out of the realm of possibility that he does want
to be with Raiders. He just didn't want to be
with a with the with the Raiders based upon Garoppolo,
Josh McDaniel's being quarterbacking coach.
Speaker 6 (32:04):
Right, totally different experience now for him.
Speaker 5 (32:07):
But apparently this, like I said this podcast, they're like
the Raiders are not rebuilding. They are just continuing to
build what they already have because they feel like they
have a good team.
Speaker 6 (32:16):
So there should be no.
Speaker 5 (32:18):
Reason to think that DeVante Adams is leavings. That's what
they're saying. That's what they're saying. Well, let me tell
you what Andy Reid is saying. Andy Reid was in
a new The Athletic has a new podcast, Scoop City
with Diana Russini and Chase Daniel, and this is what
Andy Reid, head.
Speaker 6 (32:39):
Coach of the Chiefs, had to say about his future.
Speaker 11 (32:42):
I know I'm on the bottom side of this thing
and not on the top side. So it's coming, but
I don't know when it is. And there's a great
place to coach, and I've got good players and you know,
so I'll be seventy one at the end of this contract,
and that seems like really old. Uh so we'll see
(33:02):
see where it all goes.
Speaker 6 (33:05):
I mean, no surprise, yeah, I mean.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
I wonder how long he'll do it, I do.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
I mean, you know, at some point you're probably kicking yourself,
going like, man, I want a Super Bowl. I could
have walked out winning a super Bowl. On the other hand,
the idea of chasing getting closer to Belichick has to has.
Speaker 6 (33:25):
To feed you right enticing.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
But what a dramatic turnaround from a guy who was
always a bridesmaid having the bride now once he has
Pat Mahomes winning all these championships.
Speaker 6 (33:36):
Yeah, it's pretty crazy. All right, let's move on to
the NBA here.
Speaker 5 (33:41):
Doug Patrick Beverly, I think this is no surprise to anybody,
says that he is leaving the NBA to play in Israel.
Speaker 6 (33:50):
I don't know how to say this name.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
Well Drew hop well, drews.
Speaker 6 (33:55):
That's exactly it.
Speaker 5 (33:56):
So he's going to talk about it on his podcast.
Apparently the episode is not out yet, but they have
dropped some hints. He claims that they gave him a
historic contract that he cannot turn it down. Instead of
playing on a veteran minimum in the NBA.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Okay that that seems like a lot of money for Israel,
but maybe maybe a They have a beautiful new arena.
Oh do they that opened a couple of years ago. Yeah,
it's really really nice. And I think they're owned by
a guy named Matan Adelson who's like one of the
(34:38):
richest Israelis in the world. So yeah, I mean, like, look,
traditionally they're not the power. Macabi tel Aviv is the power.
But Jerusalem has made some definite headways in recent years.
So you know, you overpay when you're trying to. Last
time they won Israeli Championship was twenty seventeen.
Speaker 6 (35:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (35:01):
Well, I mean again, I don't think anyone is surprised
that Patrick Barry is seeing his way out of the
NBA because he.
Speaker 6 (35:07):
Can't get it.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
You know. The arena is twenty fourteen, so it's pace er.
Oh okay, but it's really nice. It's like eleven thousand seats.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
It looks like a big time, high level Division one
college mini NBA area crime.
Speaker 5 (35:21):
All right, let's move on to a little college football here.
Kirby Smart with speaking at SEC media Days, and you know,
Georgia has had off field issues when it comes to
driving and driving infractions.
Speaker 6 (35:36):
This is what he had to say about his program.
Speaker 12 (35:38):
I think the number one thing is disappointed. Anytime you
have a situation like that, you want your kids, your
players to make better decisions. And I always say, you
can't be outcome related. And I'm very disappointed in the outcomes.
But I am very pleased with our process we put
in in terms of edge cation driver safety, requiring defensive
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driving education, talking about it, having leaders stand up and
talk about it, bringing speakers in and talk about it,
Suspending players, dismissing players, which we've done. I don't know
to this point any coaching college football that suspended a
player for a driving citation. We have, and we've also
dismissed players based on driving citations. Nobody's done that.
Speaker 6 (36:23):
What do you make of those comments.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Doug, Well, it look it's it's the here's here's the
problem that happens is at the highest levels. You know,
in addition to nil, you're getting these guys cars, and
again at the highest levels, you're getting them cars that
they're not they're not equipped to drive.
Speaker 4 (36:40):
Right there?
Speaker 2 (36:41):
You know, Uh, what is the I can't remember what
the grand cherokey is with the big Hemi Engine and
is it anyway. I mean, the point is that, look,
he's doing the best he can, but it doesn't mean
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Speaker 2 (00:42):
There's a story going around that the Clippers are upset
that Kawhi Leonard was essentially sent home from USA Basketball,
and it's part of what's led to this ancillary discussion
over who should have been added to UH the US
national team. This is Lawrence Frank of course, as the
president of the LA Clippers. He had this to say
(01:05):
about the national team's decision to replace Kawhi.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Letter It was usav's call, and I was quite frankly,
very disappointed with the decision. Qui wanted to play. We
wanted him to play. I was there the first two practices.
He looked very good participant, was a full participant in
everything that they did. I really wish that they would
have given Qui more time. You know, we have the
benefit of having been around Kahi for five years to
(01:28):
see his body and see where he's at.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
He looked good to me.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
I know all the sacrifices he made in order to
make this commitment to the Olympics. So it was very disappointing.
We were really disappointed for Kawhi and this is something
we really wanted for him. But with that being said,
you know now I think we have to move forward.
We support USAV desperately want to see them win the
(01:51):
gold medal. I know that's how Kaui feels too.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
I think there's a couple of things here. I don't
I don't think we're getting the whole story, the real
story from Lawrence Frank and again a good portion of it,
A good portion of it is. This is sadly the
way it works in the NBA, where you know, we
(02:16):
so badly, or maybe we don't so badly, but teams
feel that they have to like stick up for their
players even when their players don't need to be stuck
up for What I was told very recently was that
no one thought Kawhi that spot is I don't want
(02:36):
to say twelfth man, but it wasn't a position where
you're going to play a ton, and Kawhi knew that and.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Was okay with that.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
But he's just not fully healthy, and they felt like
he was just going because Kawi just wanted to be
a part of the experience. So somewhere in there there's
either a failure to communicate or maybe there's a lack
of honesty in that you want to have Kawhi's back
(03:03):
and say Kawhi is fully healthy, but the feeling was
that Kwai is not fully healthy. He knew he wasn't
fully healthy, he didn't think he'd have to play a ton,
and he wanted to be on the team. They felt
like they needed to name him on the team even
though he wasn't good enough to go in the healthy
enough to go in the playoffs. Why would he be
healthy enough to go in USA Basketball in the summer.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
But again, like some of this is this is just the.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Way sadly the NBA works, where you have to go
above and beyond and put yourself out there and say
things which you know are patently false in an effort
to support your players, like their egos are so fragile.
(03:49):
Like Kwi Leonard just got a contract extension, a three
year deal, max money. You know he'll end up with
a billion dollars in the bank. He's a great, not good,
great player by my masturbation. When he's been healthy the
past two years, he's been, in any conversation, the best
player in the NBA, but he hasn't been healthy a lot.
So he's gonna play USA basketball Why because he wants
(04:10):
to when they have somebody else who they think fits.
I would also tell you that, like there's a world
there where Steph Curry, he's not great in international competition
because he's little and it's very, very physical. And if
(04:31):
you want to know what Steph would have looked like
on some level with the old officiating, this is your snapshot.
So I think there's a lot of different things that
work more so than just, Hey, Kawhi wanted to play
and they cut him.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Nah. I don't think that's it at all.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
But you're noticing a pattern here with how people talk
about Lebron James's son, how they talk about Kawhi, how
everybody handles their guys. No one has ever done anything.
I mean even the Jalen Brown thing with the hey
they get along great now. Then Jason, then he doesn't
get picked for that last spot, and Jason Tatum's like,
(05:15):
there's a lot of guys out there.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
That want that spot.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Yeah, there's only one who's the finals. That is your
teammate who, along with you, is making three hundred million
dollars in his next contract. Jase, do you assuredly see
the correlation between all these stories, right, Jason?
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Sorry, go ahead, Monts.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
You know the first thing I thought of when I
heard all this, as you know, a Clippers fan, I
felt the same way. I was like, why isn't Kawhi
still on the team and just playing limited minutes since
it's his first time or able to get like a
gold medal, especially when there's a lot of other players
on the roster that are also dealing with injuries, Like
why I found it all weird? And then when it
(06:00):
first came out that it was like together the Clippers
and USA Basketball decided this, and now Laurence frank Is
saying this, Yeah, is it?
Speaker 6 (06:07):
Is it just to say face is what I what
I thought about.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
I did find it weird just because there's other players
that are also dealing with injuries, you know what I mean?
Like why just remove Kawhi?
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Good question?
Speaker 7 (06:19):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Why because I think they need they I think they
operated under the understanding he wasn't going to play a
bunch And when they've seen him practice and play, they're like,
h we made any other guard the only thing I
can think of the only thing I can think of.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
So and and remember.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
It's like we talked about what day say, we talked
about going back to last week, which is you know,
at least a portion of this, a portion of this
is that, uh that USA Basketball wants guys that have
played for USA basketball.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Mm hmm, right, like you if you've.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Been and you know whether or not it should matter
to anybody else. But you know, they took Derek White,
who he had played when they finished in seventh place
in the World Cup?
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Was that two years ago?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Derek Why was on that team, And so they know him,
they know how he operates, They like him, he fits
with the team, he's okay not playing a ton and
he's he's played and understands international basketball. It's it's a
different way of playing the same sport. So, I mean,
I think the best the best parallel is this. We
(07:35):
do talk radio, but we don't do talk radio the
way that talk radio political talk radio does talk radio.
Imagine if you did that, you know, or imagine if
you did talk radio in a different country, granted English speaking,
but different country. It would be the same thing. You're doing,
same job, only completely different. Right, That's what international basketball
(07:56):
is like. The rules are the most of the rules
are the same, but the way in which their officiated
is different. The use of zone defense changes everything. The
physicality is completely different. And so you know, I tell
people all the time, like we think of we look
at these rosters like, well, Canada should be our biggest challenge. No,
(08:17):
they won't because Canada plays more American style western western
style basketball, like in Feba. The way to compete with
better teams is the way that Argentina, Spain, Italy, France.
Those teams will play, and France also has great players,
but they traditionally have not been good in the international
competition because their guys are much more athletic. They play
(08:40):
they like much more of up tempo, kind of Western
style of basketball, but in Foba it's a lot it
can be a lot slower, a lot more grab and holed,
and and.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Takes a little bit of a different skill set.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
So I find the whole thing to be fascinating, fascinating,
but I don't buy for one second that Kawhi Leonard
was perfectly good to go super healthy and Lawrence Frank
is stunned by this.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
That feels like he's trying.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
To save face, right, especially with the whole Paul George
thing too.
Speaker 8 (09:12):
Sure, yeah, sure.
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Speaker 2 (09:29):
Pretty appropriate song here Doug Golib Show on Fox Sports Radio.
So good. The only issue Ryan with this song is
she did od right? This is how she died? Chase,
do can you confirm her?
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Deny?
Speaker 8 (09:49):
Oh? I confirm yes.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
I mean that is the only thing about it. It's
the perfect song for this. So I never heard of
Ingrid at Andress. Had anyone ever heard of Ingrid? And
I listened to country music. Apparently she's a GRAANDMA nominated artist.
She's Is she a country artist?
Speaker 8 (10:07):
I don't know. She kind of sounds more alternative to.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Me, but I as so too. Yeah, I think she's just.
Speaker 8 (10:12):
In the genre of drunk drunk artists.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Yeah, I get it again.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
My my question is there's a bunch of things, but
the big question.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
So she announced it on social media. Oh just you know. Yeah,
here's her national anthem from last night.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
Oh say, can you see by the dawns?
Speaker 7 (10:40):
Like?
Speaker 6 (10:42):
Whatso proudly we by the trilight? Last cleanly? Who's broad shape?
Speaker 4 (10:55):
So by.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
Food pairs fine?
Speaker 5 (11:04):
Oh the rest, but we watch We're so Gayly Street.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
Gets read the bombs burst.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Yay, pro do the night.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Yeah, we et the plans bad uh No, parts of
that are are particularly good. And she started out, okay,
kind of breath et. But I guess the thing is
it's one of those we all think when we get
up there and sing karaoke and we've been drinking, we
sound good. Yeah, that's that's what a Grammy Award winning
artist sounds like when she's been drinking and she gets
(11:50):
up there a cappella. Anyway, So she announced on social
media she's going to rehab that's the plane. And I
think sometimes maybe the statement is what has people wondering, like, Okay,
she taking this thing seriously.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
I'm not going to bs y'all. I was drunk last night.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
I'm checking myself in the facility today to get the
help I need. That was not me last night. I apologize,
dam will be all the fans and this country I
love so much for that rendition.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
I'll let y'all know how rehab is. I hear it's
super fun.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
This is one of those like you start joking people
and they go like yeah, and you're like, yeah, you
can't say your mama jokes and my mom's got cancer.
Can we not make fun of her now because she's
going to rehab? Jase, do what you're ruling.
Speaker 8 (12:36):
I think you can totally make fun of it because
it was her choice to make that decision.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
And I thought you, I thought you're powerless over it
when you're if you're an alcoholic, you're powerless over those decisions.
Speaker 8 (12:48):
Well, I mean, you're still going to serve the time
if you do uy and kill somebody.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Understand, h Ryan, Ryan, what is your feeling on whether
or not we can make fun of her when she's
hammered but says she's going to rehab.
Speaker 10 (13:04):
I think you can still make fun of her, And
it reminds me of a great Norm McDonald rest in
power joke. Yeah, you have a disease, but I think
you have the best one line.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Lie uh manci what's your what you're calling? Are you
allowed to make fun of how some how a drunk
acts when they're drunk and then they check in a rehab?
Speaker 6 (13:33):
I emn with the fellas.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
I also, can we just make fun of the incident,
but not making fun of her, because I mean that.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
Was like we're.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Like when Hasselhoff was eating was it a cheeseburger? Off
the ground? Is that right? Do I remember this correctly?
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Remember when when when the Hoff was just completely hammered
and he was like he was like eating the eating
a cheeseburger? I want to say, off like off the ground?
Speaker 4 (13:59):
Is that?
Speaker 3 (13:59):
My?
Speaker 4 (14:00):
I remember that? Jay, Dude, this is much more.
Speaker 8 (14:02):
Vaguely vaguely remember this. I vaguely remember that one.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Like people crushed Hasselhof for it, and he was a drunk,
so it's, uh, it's a different one.
Speaker 8 (14:14):
It was to me, it was the least offensive of
the two. In other words, Manci, I'm going to ask
you to please clarify who this is. Marcello Hernandez. Uh huh,
he's famous.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
I don't know when me look him up.
Speaker 8 (14:30):
Okay, so he's the guy that did the introductions for
the home run derby last night.
Speaker 6 (14:34):
I actually thought he was pretty good. Oh no, I
thought he was pretty good.
Speaker 8 (14:37):
This is where we take issue. So Marcello Hernandez, I guess,
is also a SNL. Yeah, he is an achro okay
over the top, ridiculous shouting into the microphone. And I
think him having eight no names to introduce as a
problem because if if you're just a sports fan and
not a baseball fan, you tune into this and he's like,
(14:58):
why is this guy yelling at me? Who are these
people that he's talking about?
Speaker 7 (15:02):
Uh?
Speaker 8 (15:02):
It just seemed utterly ridiculous. And then you had the
national anthem and I'm like, man, can majorly Baseball get
one thing right? Ever? It just never seems to get
anything right. Last week was their draft, and the thing
that people most talked about from the draft on Twitter
was how bad they botched up the technology on the
(15:22):
introductions of the players, Like, why can't we get anything
right in Baseball.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
I thought the intros were really great.
Speaker 8 (15:29):
Actually, I'm going.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
To try to hold those. Yeah, I'm I'm with Jason.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
I was just over the top, just too too much,
too much, wwe to like too much, too much.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
I don't know. It's it's a hard one.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
It's it's a space that like, only two people occupy
and they're both brothers, right, and they do UFC and
boxing together. But outside of that, and very few people
can own those type of introductions. Let's get you to
Manci Belanos stuck gotlib show here on Fox Swartz Radio.
Let's welcome in. He's the absolute best in the business.
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He's John Palmer Rose. See of course, he's Fox Sports
Radio's MLB insider and he worked for the MLB network.
What can you say, like, I don't even I don't
even know who won the home run derby last night.
I don't know anyone talking about the home run derby
last night because they couldn't get past the intros in
the National Anthem JP.
Speaker 7 (16:30):
Yes, that certainly became quite a story the Anthem and
obviously some continued follow ups with that story here today
as well. But yes, the eventual winner of the home
run derby was taskar Anandez of the Dodgers, who had
actually two very close matches, the semi final against Alec
Bohm and then the final against the hometown favorite because
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he's from the area, Bobby Witt Junior. So the new
format seemed to have a lot of fans like the
pace of it. The excitement created some late drama and
who would have thought that when the season began that
the man of Monday Night, at least at the All
Star Game, was wearing a Dodger uniform. But he was
not Otani or Betts or Freeman, but tascar Adnandez, who
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was one of the best findings I believe, Doug, in
terms of dollar for dollar last offseason.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Okay, let's let let's dive into as we get ready
for the second half of the season. What do you
think is the biggest question mark in baseball heading into
part two?
Speaker 7 (17:33):
What are the Dodgers going to do with their pitching staff.
It's amazing to say it, Doug, but there was not
a team that needed the All Star Break more than
the Los Angeles Dodgers. I just could not have fathomed
that when the season began that they would have all
these different Arms on the IL. But it's a there's
basically an entire rotation plus for the Dodgers all on
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the injured list. You can begin with glass now, Kershaw
still there, Yamamoto is there. They've sent Bobby Miller to
the minor League's Walker Buehlers on the il, dust and
the Dusty May is out for the season. It's an
amazing amount of attrition on that rotation. At the moment,
they have to start openers in basically three of their
last four games, Doug, before the All Star break. So
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they are now under pressure. They did all that spending
in the off season and yet they're scrambling. They are
scrambling for pitching. They believe that Glasstow and Kershaw will
be able to start games for them at some point
in time this month, Doug. But this is now in
a lot of ways, if you're selling pitching, if you're
the White Sox, if you're the Tigers, if you're possibly
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the Cincinnati Red the Toronto Blue Jays, you have the
ideal scenario. You've got a team with a massive budget
and a good farm system, with tremendous pressure to add
at the deadline, and the Los Angeles Dodgers now faced
exactly that pressure ahead of July thirtieth, all.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Right, And before we can get to that, of course,
you've got the All Star Game tonight. What's the level
of excitement seeing Paul Skeen's the guy who's the first
number one pick to go basically straight to the biggs,
you know, pitching college baseball right to the bigs now
right to start in the All Star Game. What's the
level of excitement around the league to get a talent
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like this that has been the talent has been translatable,
you know, so oftentimes college stars it takes them a while.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
What's the level of excitement?
Speaker 7 (19:28):
Like I think that to your point and Monthy's update
coming in, I mean, I said to me, there's such
a curiosity about if we're going to see Aaron Judge
bat against him and have Juan Soto making I think
a really fun prediction that Judge is going to bat
in the first inning, which I love, by the way,
and just think about it. There are a lot of
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starting pitchers, a lot of very quality starting pitchers in
this league right now, But for how many other pitchers,
Doug would you and I be talking hours before first
pitch wondering who's gonna come the point in the first
inning with such curiosity and excitement. You're right, Paul Skins
was the number one pick in the draft basically this
week one year ago, and that to me is emblematic
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of the way that developing baseball players has changed. I
think we're seeing in certain these schemes is an exception,
but we're seeing more and more players and pitchers, especially
rushed because there's an awareness that, hey, given the amount
of injuries that we're seeing in Major League baseball right now,
it is in our best interest and probably even the
player's best interest in a certain financial sense, to have
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as many of his pitches as possible count in the
Major League. That's the goal here, get him up to
where his pitches have the best chance to help us
win a World Series. And at the moment, the Pittsburgh Pirates,
while there are distance away from being of that caliber
and chasing after a World Series title, certainly playing very well,
much much better baseball of late, and I for one
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just cannot wait to tune in tonight on Fox and
here what John smolt has to say in the first
inning about what he's using ball schemes that is what,
as Tory le Bello said, the NL manager, why he
shows schemes to start this game. It is what the
people want to see.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Yeah, and that's why in the All Star Game did
Rob Manfred talked about using robot umpires in spring training?
Speaker 4 (21:21):
How close to reality is that?
Speaker 7 (21:24):
I think, Doug, we're getting closer. We are getting We're
getting closer. It's now. And for clarification, what robot umpires
means to I think us as a baseball community is
you're still going to see an umpire behind the plate,
but the misses and the challenge system, which it seems
like a lot of people like to correct. Basically the
egregious miss the pitch that's called a ball and is
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actually a strike or vice versa and totally swings the
leverage in and at bat totally changes everything in terms
of what's what's happening. That is the kind of situation
that will be reviewed via the challenges and the rest
of the game is going to be normal. But you
now have the ability, just like we just got done
watching Wimbledon, it's that level of technology to where we
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see the outcome, we see the ability to then discern, Okay,
was it a ballrus strike and the ruling Doug is instantaneous,
is it is second? And I think in terms of
the pace of play and the overall concerned about the game,
I think it actually helps because the amount of time
that used to see the umpire turn and look at
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the dug out and he says, hey, where'd you have that?
That pitches up, that pitches down, that in, that's out.
That's all gone because you just tap your helmet, review
it and within five seconds you have the answer. So
I think it's it's going to be a much better
system for everybody involved.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Yankees lost Ady the last twelve and Brian Cashman took
to the road with the team. What changes do you
see for them in the second half of the season.
Speaker 7 (22:56):
My goodness, it is I think a team that has
a lot of pressure. I think even more so, probably
than the Dodgers in a strange way, because the Dodgers
are at the beginning of this Otani era as much
as the Dodgers steel pressure to win. Mookie Betts is
still part of their team next year, Freddy Freeman is
(23:16):
still part of their team next year. Show is still there,
Will Smith is still there, Yamamoto is still there, with
the Yankees, it's the big one two punch between Judge
and Soto, and one of them Soto is a free
agent when the season is over, And if the last
couple of weeks Doug have shown anything it is that
this team really is dependent upon those two players. Ben
(23:39):
Rice has come in and played a very good first base,
but the Baltimore Orioles right now have the better lineup
depth one through nine. And you could actually argue that
the Orioles, even though they're bullpen ashen in perfections, that
even that bullpen is probably better than what the Yankees
have right now. The Yanks have it all Start Closer
and Clay Holmes, but the bridge is not what you
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would expect it to be. So it's always a fun deadline, Doug,
when teams like the Dodgers and the Yankees have a
lot of pressure on them to do something. And one
more team I'm watching carefully the Seattle Mariners. Jerry Depoto,
Justin Holland are their front office. They almost always make
a move, and they only have a one game lead
(24:22):
on the Houston Astros, who have gotten up off the
canvas and made this into a preally compelling American league.
West Race Heers begin the second half, So I can't wait, Doug.
It's gonna be a lot of fun tonight and then
a lot of fun ahead of the trade deadline on
July the thirtieth.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
I've got to see the Brewers play in person. I
don't know how they've done this thing with all their
pitching injuries. I know Knig's back close to coming back.
He was in Triple A, so is Joe Ross, but
this thing's kind of held together patchwork with all the
injuries they've had.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Brewers going to make any moves here.
Speaker 7 (24:54):
Late, I think they will, but it's probably gonna be similar, Doug,
to what we've already seen them do with with the
Aaron Stavali deal, where I think they're going to look
to incrementally improve their team. Maybe they would make a
play for someone like Frankie Montoss with the Cincinnati Reds,
who's available. I know it's in division, but the Reds
to me look like a selling team. Maybe a pitcher
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like a yusse Ki Succi with the Toronto Blue Jays.
I could see that kind of a move. I don't
think it's going to be a massive salary or a
massive long term commitment. The Brewers really do a great
job of managing well their identity and what they've got.
And to your point, it's been the somewhat unheralded trio
of Colin Ray, Freddie Peralta, Tobias Myers who have really
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kept this group going from a rotation perspective. And again
I mentioned Aaron Stavali. He has come in. He has
started a couple of games and done quite well in
his brief time in a Milwaukee Brewers uniform. So I
think they'll probably make an upgrade there with their rotation,
at least a back end guy who'd either start a
game or go potentially into the bullpen, and I their
everyday lineup. I think Bryce Terrang has really emerged as
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a nice player, Doug. He's already stolen thirty bases. I
he's a tremendous athlete. I mean he's he is the
kind of athlete that I believe that that would look
good run on the floor for the for the Green
Bay Phoenix. This is what I would say, Doug, in
terms of he's a good enough athlete that I think
he could play for the Phoenix in the Horizon League.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
You know, it's it's interesting you bring that up. I
was with their front office. It was in draft day.
I was down there when I throughout the first pitch
and they were talking about like, look, everyone in their
position players at some point in their lives, was a shortstop.
And they're drafting athleticism over everything else. It's like, hey,
if you're an athlete, you can hit, we want you.
(26:42):
That's legit, that's and they feel like the rules of
the game have changed so that athleticism is paramount in
any position you play.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
And oh, yeah, by the way, helps you in the
base past.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
That's part of how they've changed their acquisition of personnel
via the draft or for a free agency.
Speaker 7 (27:00):
That's a great point, Doug, and I think that's why
this week and again the baseball drafts for a long
time sort of been the realm of the die hard
fan or the longtime fantasy league owner and then the
keeper league or people that are really into the prospect world.
But Paul Schemes proves it that was last year and
how impactful that can be. And I think Bryce Terrang
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was a draft pick by the Brewers. The smaller your
pay roll, the smaller your market, the more that you
have to hit on the draft, the more important it is.
And you're right. In this new model of baseball where
the shift is out, you've got a better pace to
the game. Base Running is more important, of being able
to really cover your position with athleticism is more important.
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That's where Bryce terrang becomes all the more crucial to
a team. I think overall the Milwaukee lineup has a
lot of younger position players. William Contreras is twenty six
years of age. I still think of him as a
pretty young player. Joey Ortiz played tremendously well coming in
in that trade from Baltimore, Blake Perkins playing center for
They've got a twenty year old right fielder in Jackson Shurio.
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It was interesting, Doug I was actually talking about a
cross sports comparison. I was at the NHL Draft in
Vegas last month and one of the gms there at
del Armstrong, made a great point. He said, listen, when
you're negotiating with free agents, their agents and their salary
demands can block what you're trying to do. When you're
negotiating on a trade, the other team's desires can block
what you want to do. The draft is the one
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time of the year, whereas an organization, it's all right
there in front of you. You are totally the master
of your own destiny. And I love that thinking. I
think it really empowers teams to do the right things.
And that's where that's one day you're in this case
with baseball, it's a three day draft. The three days
where you can say, all of these players are what
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we want to represent for our organization. And certainly that's
probably something that coach and Gottlieb could say as well
about the culture. But that's certainly what the Brews are
doing very very well as well.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
John Paul, you are the best. Enjoy the All Star
Game tonight. Look forward to seeing your work and hearing
your work. He's our Fox Sports Tradio MLB insider. He
also works for the MLB Network. John Palm Morosi, JP,
thanks so much.
Speaker 7 (29:11):
Sounds great. And by the way, when you come here
to the great state of Michigan in the Horizon League,
I got to see your team this season. I'm excited
about it.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
I was. I drove to Traverse City through the up yesterday.
How was it amazing?
Speaker 7 (29:24):
Isn't it beautiful? I was? I was born up there.
We could do the whole. This is your life. But
I was. I was born in Marquette. That's my You're
in my territory. Dog, You're gonna love it.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
It was, it was, It was incredible. Can't wait.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Yeah, I come see us. We got Oakland, we got Detroit.
You can, you can.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
You can sit on the bench, behind the bench wherever
you want. Okay, love it.
Speaker 7 (29:41):
That sounds great, dog, I'll take you up on that
sounds great.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
That's John Morosi.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Of course you'll hear him and see him tonight, and
of course across all the coverage, across all the networks.
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Speaker 4 (30:38):
Let's get to the press. Some months of belindas.
Speaker 9 (30:41):
The press.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
Mansie, what's up? What do you got? What's the press?
Speaker 5 (30:53):
All right, We're gonna start with wide receiver Davante Adams.
A lot has been said about him. He's starting in receiver,
which you can catch on Netflix. But there is a
lot of outside noise apparently that he is going to
be traded the debts to the Jets and be you know,
with Aaron Rodgers. Well, ESPN tweeted out Adam Schefter that
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his agents have made a comment on that and that
those trade rumors are baseless, unfounded speculation, and that there
have been no trade talks with the Raiders. There's also
a gentleman who hosts a Raiders podcast, Hondo S.
Speaker 6 (31:32):
Carpenter Senior.
Speaker 5 (31:33):
On his Raiders podcast, he's he also is saying the
same thing. He's like, this is all outside noise. DeVante
doesn't want to go anywhere. He wants to stay with
the Raiders.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Well, now, what people forget is that video was made
when there was a different coach, a different gentle manager,
and a different quarterback. Right, so the idea it's not
out of the realm of possibility that he does want
to be with Raiders. He just didn't want to be
with a with the with the Raiders based upon Garoppolo,
Josh McDaniel's being quarterbacking coach.
Speaker 6 (32:04):
Right, totally different experience now for him.
Speaker 5 (32:07):
But apparently this, like I said this podcast, they're like
the Raiders are not rebuilding. They are just continuing to
build what they already have because they feel like they
have a good team.
Speaker 6 (32:16):
So there should be no.
Speaker 5 (32:18):
Reason to think that DeVante Adams is leavings. That's what
they're saying. That's what they're saying. Well, let me tell
you what Andy Reid is saying. Andy Reid was in
a new The Athletic has a new podcast, Scoop City
with Diana Russini and Chase Daniel, and this is what
Andy Reid, head.
Speaker 6 (32:39):
Coach of the Chiefs, had to say about his future.
Speaker 11 (32:42):
I know I'm on the bottom side of this thing
and not on the top side. So it's coming, but
I don't know when it is. And there's a great
place to coach, and I've got good players and you know,
so I'll be seventy one at the end of this contract,
and that seems like really old. Uh so we'll see
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see where it all goes.
Speaker 6 (33:05):
I mean, no surprise, yeah, I mean.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
I wonder how long he'll do it, I do.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
I mean, you know, at some point you're probably kicking yourself,
going like, man, I want a Super Bowl. I could
have walked out winning a super Bowl. On the other hand,
the idea of chasing getting closer to Belichick has to has.
Speaker 6 (33:25):
To feed you right enticing.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
But what a dramatic turnaround from a guy who was
always a bridesmaid having the bride now once he has
Pat Mahomes winning all these championships.
Speaker 6 (33:36):
Yeah, it's pretty crazy. All right, let's move on to
the NBA here.
Speaker 5 (33:41):
Doug Patrick Beverly, I think this is no surprise to anybody,
says that he is leaving the NBA to play in Israel.
Speaker 6 (33:50):
I don't know how to say this name.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
Well Drew hop well, drews.
Speaker 6 (33:55):
That's exactly it.
Speaker 5 (33:56):
So he's going to talk about it on his podcast.
Apparently the episode is not out yet, but they have
dropped some hints. He claims that they gave him a
historic contract that he cannot turn it down. Instead of
playing on a veteran minimum in the NBA.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Okay that that seems like a lot of money for Israel,
but maybe maybe a They have a beautiful new arena.
Oh do they that opened a couple of years ago. Yeah,
it's really really nice. And I think they're owned by
a guy named Matan Adelson who's like one of the
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richest Israelis in the world. So yeah, I mean, like, look,
traditionally they're not the power. Macabi tel Aviv is the power.
But Jerusalem has made some definite headways in recent years.
So you know, you overpay when you're trying to. Last
time they won Israeli Championship was twenty seventeen.
Speaker 6 (35:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (35:01):
Well, I mean again, I don't think anyone is surprised
that Patrick Barry is seeing his way out of the
NBA because he.
Speaker 6 (35:07):
Can't get it.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
You know. The arena is twenty fourteen, so it's pace er.
Oh okay, but it's really nice. It's like eleven thousand seats.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
It looks like a big time, high level Division one
college mini NBA area crime.
Speaker 5 (35:21):
All right, let's move on to a little college football here.
Kirby Smart with speaking at SEC media Days, and you know,
Georgia has had off field issues when it comes to
driving and driving infractions.
Speaker 6 (35:36):
This is what he had to say about his program.
Speaker 12 (35:38):
I think the number one thing is disappointed. Anytime you
have a situation like that, you want your kids, your
players to make better decisions. And I always say, you
can't be outcome related. And I'm very disappointed in the outcomes.
But I am very pleased with our process we put
in in terms of edge cation driver safety, requiring defensive
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driving education, talking about it, having leaders stand up and
talk about it, bringing speakers in and talk about it,
Suspending players, dismissing players, which we've done. I don't know
to this point any coaching college football that suspended a
player for a driving citation. We have, and we've also
dismissed players based on driving citations. Nobody's done that.
Speaker 6 (36:23):
What do you make of those comments.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Doug, Well, it look it's it's the here's here's the
problem that happens is at the highest levels. You know,
in addition to nil, you're getting these guys cars, and
again at the highest levels, you're getting them cars that
they're not they're not equipped to drive.
Speaker 4 (36:40):
Right there?
Speaker 2 (36:41):
You know, Uh, what is the I can't remember what
the grand cherokey is with the big Hemi Engine and
is it anyway. I mean, the point is that, look,
he's doing the best he can, but it doesn't mean
it's actually gonna work. That's the press Doug alib Show
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