July 15, 2025 • 18 mins
Doug reacts to a take by Alex Rodriguez about ABS in baseball. Doug chooses among deserving candidates for who Jason Stewart deems as most annoying today. Plus, Matt Barnes makes today's installment of "Because We Can".
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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the Bonus with Doug Gottlieb.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
What up, Doug Gottlieb Show. In the Bonus Fox Sports Radio,
iHeartRadio app. Welcome in Hope.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
You're doing great.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
It's Doug Gottlieb Show, Fox Sports Radio, coming to you
from the direq dot Com studios. Let's get to what
the Fox says and now every day, this time the
Doug Gottlieb Show. In the Bonus podcast, we play for
your portion of previous show Fox Sports Radio, Fox Sports One.
Here's Cabino and Rich filling in for Dan Patrick from
the side of the All Star Game in Atlanta.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
We go to the derby with our credential, we have
our our press pass. We don't have an actual seat,
so I say, Covino follow me, and I just sort
of go to left field, walk down the aisle and
I'm like, all right, I see some empty seats and
like the fourth or fifth row in left field.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
I'm gonna sit there until someone tells us to move.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
And guess what, Danny g No one ever, no one
ever came the girls, nobody ever told us to move. Now,
Rich and I have never caught a foul ball or
a home run out of all the games and derbys
we've been to. Never Yesterday two balls came right at us,
literally one seat behind us, literally one seat in front
(01:31):
of us. But the feeling of that ball coming at you,
it's like a very intimidating feeling because this is up
there forever, and you feel like the chosen one of
fifty five thousand people.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Like, oh my god, it's coming here now.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
One came closer to Rich than it did to me,
and he said, he'll tell you he's shicken down. There
was part of me because so the one in front
of me, someone in the row in front of us
caught one.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
It was too shallow.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
There's no way I could have got it. The one
that the guy caught right behind me, I second guessed.
I'm like, if I would have jumped, I think I
could have got a hand on it. But then I'm like,
everyone's going at each other. If I jump, someone's gonna
body check me and I'm gonna go.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Over a chair. Yeah, I mean, God bless him there
back there being true fans and caught on tape. I
do think that I like, first of all, I like
those guys immensely. But I, you know, living the life
of being a fan and back there fighting for a
ball is it's just kind of super funny to hear
(02:32):
somebody describe it. You know. I'm not sure, but I
if I was in that position when I fight for
a ball, of course, but I don't think I'd ever
put myself in that position. I don't know. We talked
about that some of the radio show. I'm glad we
got to it here. This is Alex Trodriguez on the Hurt.
I agree with you.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
I'm a big rob man for fan and I think
it deserves a lot of credit little single handily. I mean,
with the changes he's made the last two or three
years to really save our game, he probably belongs in Cooperstown.
But the reason why I like this colin technology has
made the game better. Any time you make players and
umpires more accountable, it's a great thing. Going back ten
(03:11):
years that strike you see right there on the screen,
eighty three percent of the time the umpires will getting
it right ten years ago. Today that numbers balloon to
ninety seven percent. So it is a much better quality,
much better game, much better accuracy, all those things are good.
Now the application of it, we have to go see
how it works. I know it's they've been doing in
(03:32):
the minor leagues. I am really looking forward to tonight
to see how that plays out, because I'm a little
bit on the fence, but I'm more pro because I
think Rob Manford deserves some credit. He's built some equity
here of the last three or four years with his changes,
and I think the game has a gift from the
curse of being so married to their history. I think
some of the other leagues have really pushed the envelope.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Yeah, I don't think they need help with the application
of it. It's worked in the minor leagues to work
in the bigs. I do think it's funny that I
saw Jason, you and I have discussed this on the show,
and I saw that who did who did Buyer fill
in for? I saw was he feeling for Covino and Rich?
Speaker 6 (04:14):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Yeah, So I saw the clip of Buyer and he
was talking about what we've been talking about, which is
like steroid users now kind of getting there, you know,
getting being able to show their faces at ballparks and
be kind of back part of it. And I'm like, yeah,
is this happened a couple of years ago, when suddenly
Alex Rodriguez is like the face of baseball, Like, how
did that? How did that happen? You know, we here's
(04:37):
the dude suspended twice for steroid used twice. So I
right message, wrong messenger, And now all of a sudden,
the rob Manfred is doing a great job. Yeah, I
actually think Manfred is doing a good job. I think
the game is better, The game is faster, the game
(04:57):
is more athletic. They made some really smart changes. Obviously,
there's got to be something there that's caused them to
this fight to put replay into baseball. Is feels obnoxious
to most of us, but again, it's fucking Baseball's baseball
can do that. Obnoxis shit, but it will eventually get there. Okay,
(05:23):
that's what the Fox said.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
I'd say be sure to catch live editions of The
Doug Gottlieb Show weekdays at three pm Eastern noon Pacific
on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Let's find out who are what is annoying? Jason Stewart.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
And now it's your annoying.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
It Doug. Four years ago, the country was in the
midst of going crazy. Something happened in twenty twenty. We
faced a worldwide pandemic and then George Floyd died or
was killed, whatever your perspective is on this, and the
world just went crazy and decisions were made that are
(06:12):
complete head scratchers. I have said recently in the wake
of this Ice the Ice raids, that the Dodgers as
an organization keep getting pressured from a very loud minority
to say something against ICE, and they are holding firm
they are not making a public statement, a political statement
(06:32):
because generally speaking, corporations have people along the entire political
spectrum as fans. They're not going to polarize any of
those fans to make a political statement for a bunch
of loud minorities. So here's the deal. Four years ago tonight,
(06:53):
the All Star Game was not held in Atlanta, and
you have to be like what I thought. It was
scheduled for twenty twenty one. No, no, no, no. Georgia passed
a law. It was a election's integrity law, and most
of the left assumed that that just meant Georgia was
(07:14):
trying to prevent black people from voting. That wasn't true.
It wasn't true at all, But I will say this,
they cancel the Major League Baseball decided to weigh in
on a political thing, and they removed themselves from Atlanta
to punish Georgia. Now, little did they know that they
(07:34):
were punishing vendors in Atlanta that were Democratic voters. They
took business away from a metropolitan area as a way
of somehow punishing Georgia for passing a law that has
held up. I've seen some reporting on this. It's held
up in courts for the last three years. It's still
(07:55):
the law of Georgia, this election integrity law. So what
happens is four years later, you have Trump in the
White House because he won Georgia overwhelmingly, and you pissed
off a bunch of the citizens for quote unquote punishing
Georgia over a political reason. So, as the All Star
(08:17):
Game is being pointed tonight, I just want our listeners
to know it was supposed to be in Georgia four
years ago. But the world was crazy.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Uh yeah, yeah, the world was in fact crazy again.
I think you pointed all those things out accurately, including
the fact that the world was crazy, and I think
all of us are now like, would that really happen,
that really really happened, even the Elections Integrity law. You know,
(08:49):
when they've done countless study after study after study in
Georgia and Republicans are like, yeah, there's nothing happened here.
They just Trump lost. So both sides completely lost their mind,
both sides. I think that's accurate.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
I don't know if you're annoyed by this. If I
wasn't a father, maybe I wouldn't be annoyed by this.
So maybe Sam could speak to this. The only thing
I think about when I watch the Home Run Derby
is those fly balls that fall short of the fence
and there are teenagers playing heads up, seven up. I
(09:30):
don't know if anyone played that. Growing up, you hit
a ball high in the air and the first person
that catches it is heads up or whatever. But in
the midst of catching balls you have other kids running
into you. All it takes is one kid to get
(09:51):
hit in the face by a major league hit flyball,
and all of this comes to an end. So whenever
I see a ball all come short of the of
the fence, the father and me says, oh my god,
I hope this does not kill a teenager. And who
the hell signed off on this. Sam, do you get
those same feelings or is this just a fatherly overreaction.
Speaker 7 (10:15):
I think I lean more towards let them do it.
You know there's a risk involved, but I mean they've
been doing this for a while, haven't they, the shagging Yeah,
so I mean I'm kind of against you know, like
the softening of people in this country. So I say,
let him keep doing it.
Speaker 6 (10:32):
No, we're here, Oh.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Okay, I'm sorry. You guys are having a guys are
having a combo, and I was like, wait, everybody stop talking.
Speaker 7 (10:38):
No, I just I'm in favor of just like letting
them continue to catch the balls. I mean, we seem
to just have guardrails for everything. Anybody, anybody who could
get their pinky cut, you know, gotta make it safer.
Speaker 6 (10:51):
So no, I'm again.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Yeah, I mean, if you're you're talking about the the
kids in the actual in the outfield catching the balls,
not not the ones at the leaning over the fence.
Speaker 6 (11:01):
Right, the kids that are allowed to yeah, roam in
the outfield shagging balls.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Yeah. Yeah. Sorry, if you're in if you're if you're
going to be in that target rich environment, you have
a glove. You guys got to figure it out. So
I know you're saying, you do kind of sound like
a new mother who's worried about everything happening to their kid.
I'm with Sam on this one. I think I don't
(11:29):
believe anyone has ever been hurt or hurt badly. Again,
that doesn't mean that it can't happen. You're right right,
let's not be a result. Oriented I do think it's
a little bit of a mess out there. Maybe the
middle ground, Jay Stu would be that because I think
a lot of them are kids or relatives of the
(11:51):
actual All Stars. There are a lot of the suns
is we got to cap the number because you just
it does feel like every year there's more and more
out there, and the more and more kids with all
of the noise, because there's kind of like a constant
buzz more so than outright cheering during the home run derby,
and that constant buzz. I don't know if you can
hear it when somebody calls it. I got it, but
(12:13):
I would not end that.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
Anyone who's caught a flyball in this lifetime knows that
the most dangerous part is when someone jumps in front
of you to try to catch it because he can't
say and then the ball you lose sight of it
and you take it in the face. So I'm just
gonna be that I want I want to play this
back because next year, say a teenager is severely hospitalized
(12:34):
or dies, and then talk radio for the next week
is going to be like, how was this ever a thing?
Like why did anyone even think this could happen?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
It's like, you want to be that Yeah, you're that guy.
Speaker 6 (12:44):
Yeah, So I'll be able to play this back for everybody.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
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Speaker 6 (12:56):
Something that I know that you you were actually a
part of this story. And if there's ever a book
written about Freddy Freeman and the Atlanta Braves and the Dodgers,
you would be like a part of a chapter. They've
interviewed Freddy Freeman this week, and it's heart wrenching how
much he still misses Atlanta and the fans. It's he
(13:21):
says stuff like you have to move on, but it's
difficult that it's he's going to fight back tears tonight
if there is an ovation. It's been two three years
now and he's still going through this. I think it's sad,
but it also paints a pretty good contrast. He's the
(13:42):
very opposite of what Lebron is to La Freddy Freeman,
to me in Atlanta represents what we've all loved about sports,
like the local teams, love for the star and the
stars love for the city, star giving back to the
city's are having an emotional connection to the city. All
(14:03):
of that is no one void with Lebron James, who
is what do you call those people that are hired
to fight wars mercenaries. He's a mercenary with a transactional
relationship with a fan base who will choose Kobean Magic
over Lebron one hundred times out of one hundred.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Yeah, I mean, without getting into my end of the
Freddie Freeman, it's one of those It's a tale that
should be told because we get to this transactional part
of sports, and this is good for college kids from transfers, right.
I can tell you, you know, my I don't know if
(14:44):
I'd be where I am today, and I'm in a
really really good place with both of my jobs and
my life. But it hasn't. And again, like I take ownership,
my issues are my own. But I do wonder what
my life would be like had I not left ESPN.
Granted that was before they they made a lot of
cuts and a lot of people the cuts were in
(15:06):
my tax bracket and looked and sounded like me. So
I don't know, but I again, it's one of those
don't don't mess with happy, And I think Freddie Freeman
messed with happy. That's the real story here.
Speaker 6 (15:20):
No doubt. So the Freddy Freeman comparison to Lebron flyball
shaggers who are allowed to put their wives in danger?
And how the hell did atlant to lose an All
Star Game four years ago?
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Wait, so what's annoying about Freddy Freeman? It's the constantly
or is it Lebron James is annoying that he doesn't
have the emotional.
Speaker 6 (15:46):
It's just another reminder of how annoying it is that
Lebron has made zero effort with his fan base.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
I think that's it. That's it, that's it. It's annoyed.
Speaker 6 (15:58):
Why are we doing this.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Because we can?
Speaker 6 (16:06):
Doug Mookie Betts was on up in smoke I want
to say, is the name of the podcast. Matt Barnes
and uh Jerry not Jerry styckouse, what's his face? Steve Jackson?
Steven Jackson and he actually kind of he threw up
a Willhouse sports talk topic. What's the hardest thing to
do in sports? This is Mookie bets take.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Is hitting the baseball and hardest thing sports?
Speaker 8 (16:30):
I think it's Yeah, I think it's by farther.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
I think that and being a cornerback in football.
Speaker 8 (16:36):
Oh, I'm sure corner Like that's a different athlete that.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
That's the two hardest positions in sports to me. I
mean two hardest things to do? Will be a cornerback
and hit a baseball?
Speaker 8 (16:45):
Yeah, I feel like you have a better chance. Now
I'm not debating anything. You have a better chance lucking
up in the quarterback making a bad throw or something
and stopping the receiver. There is no chance you're getting
lucky to hit a baseball, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Yeah, real shit, that's crazy.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
Chance.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Let me.
Speaker 8 (17:12):
Baseball is like, I do it every day and I'll
be hitting that thing.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
That's a great point. Uh, that that's all. That's the
time of the sorda thing as well, right, uh time
of the sort of when when people wuld ask about
are you kidding me? You kid me? You think hitting
in uh a ball just kind of sitting there waiting
for you is harder than somebody trying to throw a
ninety five mile our fastball and late movement by you.
I can't do a time of the sorta. I actually
(17:38):
agree hitting a baseball is the hardest thing. When the
best to ever do it do it, get on you know,
hit it and put it in play three times in ten,
they get on the base four times in ten, maybe
four and a half times in ten. Those are the
best to ever do it. You got no shot. You
don't have much of a shot in the other sports either,
but you got no shot. Why I can play for
(17:59):
you because we can. That's it for the end of
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Doug Ot
All right, this is the Doug Gottlieb Show. Here's in
the Bonus with Doug Gottlieb.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
What up, Doug Gottlieb Show. In the Bonus Fox Sports Radio,
iHeartRadio app. Welcome in Hope.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
You're doing great.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
It's Doug Gottlieb Show, Fox Sports Radio, coming to you
from the direq dot Com studios. Let's get to what
the Fox says and now every day, this time the
Doug Gottlieb Show. In the Bonus podcast, we play for
your portion of previous show Fox Sports Radio, Fox Sports One.
Here's Cabino and Rich filling in for Dan Patrick from
the side of the All Star Game in Atlanta.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
We go to the derby with our credential, we have
our our press pass. We don't have an actual seat,
so I say, Covino follow me, and I just sort
of go to left field, walk down the aisle and
I'm like, all right, I see some empty seats and
like the fourth or fifth row in left field.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
I'm gonna sit there until someone tells us to move.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
And guess what, Danny g No one ever, no one
ever came the girls, nobody ever told us to move. Now,
Rich and I have never caught a foul ball or
a home run out of all the games and derbys
we've been to. Never Yesterday two balls came right at us,
literally one seat behind us, literally one seat in front
(01:31):
of us. But the feeling of that ball coming at you,
it's like a very intimidating feeling because this is up
there forever, and you feel like the chosen one of
fifty five thousand people.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Like, oh my god, it's coming here now.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
One came closer to Rich than it did to me,
and he said, he'll tell you he's shicken down. There
was part of me because so the one in front
of me, someone in the row in front of us
caught one.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
It was too shallow.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
There's no way I could have got it. The one
that the guy caught right behind me, I second guessed.
I'm like, if I would have jumped, I think I
could have got a hand on it. But then I'm like,
everyone's going at each other. If I jump, someone's gonna
body check me and I'm gonna go.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Over a chair. Yeah, I mean, God bless him there
back there being true fans and caught on tape. I
do think that I like, first of all, I like
those guys immensely. But I, you know, living the life
of being a fan and back there fighting for a
ball is it's just kind of super funny to hear
(02:32):
somebody describe it. You know. I'm not sure, but I
if I was in that position when I fight for
a ball, of course, but I don't think I'd ever
put myself in that position. I don't know. We talked
about that some of the radio show. I'm glad we
got to it here. This is Alex Trodriguez on the Hurt.
I agree with you.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
I'm a big rob man for fan and I think
it deserves a lot of credit little single handily. I mean,
with the changes he's made the last two or three
years to really save our game, he probably belongs in Cooperstown.
But the reason why I like this colin technology has
made the game better. Any time you make players and
umpires more accountable, it's a great thing. Going back ten
(03:11):
years that strike you see right there on the screen,
eighty three percent of the time the umpires will getting
it right ten years ago. Today that numbers balloon to
ninety seven percent. So it is a much better quality,
much better game, much better accuracy, all those things are good.
Now the application of it, we have to go see
how it works. I know it's they've been doing in
(03:32):
the minor leagues. I am really looking forward to tonight
to see how that plays out, because I'm a little
bit on the fence, but I'm more pro because I
think Rob Manford deserves some credit. He's built some equity
here of the last three or four years with his changes,
and I think the game has a gift from the
curse of being so married to their history. I think
some of the other leagues have really pushed the envelope.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Yeah, I don't think they need help with the application
of it. It's worked in the minor leagues to work
in the bigs. I do think it's funny that I
saw Jason, you and I have discussed this on the show,
and I saw that who did who did Buyer fill
in for? I saw was he feeling for Covino and Rich?
Speaker 6 (04:14):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Yeah, So I saw the clip of Buyer and he
was talking about what we've been talking about, which is
like steroid users now kind of getting there, you know,
getting being able to show their faces at ballparks and
be kind of back part of it. And I'm like, yeah,
is this happened a couple of years ago, when suddenly
Alex Rodriguez is like the face of baseball, Like, how
did that? How did that happen? You know, we here's
(04:37):
the dude suspended twice for steroid used twice. So I
right message, wrong messenger, And now all of a sudden,
the rob Manfred is doing a great job. Yeah, I
actually think Manfred is doing a good job. I think
the game is better, The game is faster, the game
(04:57):
is more athletic. They made some really smart changes. Obviously,
there's got to be something there that's caused them to
this fight to put replay into baseball. Is feels obnoxious
to most of us, but again, it's fucking Baseball's baseball
can do that. Obnoxis shit, but it will eventually get there. Okay,
(05:23):
that's what the Fox said.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
I'd say be sure to catch live editions of The
Doug Gottlieb Show weekdays at three pm Eastern noon Pacific
on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Let's find out who are what is annoying? Jason Stewart.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
And now it's your annoying.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
It Doug. Four years ago, the country was in the
midst of going crazy. Something happened in twenty twenty. We
faced a worldwide pandemic and then George Floyd died or
was killed, whatever your perspective is on this, and the
world just went crazy and decisions were made that are
(06:12):
complete head scratchers. I have said recently in the wake
of this Ice the Ice raids, that the Dodgers as
an organization keep getting pressured from a very loud minority
to say something against ICE, and they are holding firm
they are not making a public statement, a political statement
(06:32):
because generally speaking, corporations have people along the entire political
spectrum as fans. They're not going to polarize any of
those fans to make a political statement for a bunch
of loud minorities. So here's the deal. Four years ago tonight,
(06:53):
the All Star Game was not held in Atlanta, and
you have to be like what I thought. It was
scheduled for twenty twenty one. No, no, no, no. Georgia passed
a law. It was a election's integrity law, and most
of the left assumed that that just meant Georgia was
(07:14):
trying to prevent black people from voting. That wasn't true.
It wasn't true at all, But I will say this,
they cancel the Major League Baseball decided to weigh in
on a political thing, and they removed themselves from Atlanta
to punish Georgia. Now, little did they know that they
(07:34):
were punishing vendors in Atlanta that were Democratic voters. They
took business away from a metropolitan area as a way
of somehow punishing Georgia for passing a law that has
held up. I've seen some reporting on this. It's held
up in courts for the last three years. It's still
(07:55):
the law of Georgia, this election integrity law. So what
happens is four years later, you have Trump in the
White House because he won Georgia overwhelmingly, and you pissed
off a bunch of the citizens for quote unquote punishing
Georgia over a political reason. So, as the All Star
(08:17):
Game is being pointed tonight, I just want our listeners
to know it was supposed to be in Georgia four
years ago. But the world was crazy.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Uh yeah, yeah, the world was in fact crazy again.
I think you pointed all those things out accurately, including
the fact that the world was crazy, and I think
all of us are now like, would that really happen,
that really really happened, even the Elections Integrity law. You know,
(08:49):
when they've done countless study after study after study in
Georgia and Republicans are like, yeah, there's nothing happened here.
They just Trump lost. So both sides completely lost their mind,
both sides. I think that's accurate.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
I don't know if you're annoyed by this. If I
wasn't a father, maybe I wouldn't be annoyed by this.
So maybe Sam could speak to this. The only thing
I think about when I watch the Home Run Derby
is those fly balls that fall short of the fence
and there are teenagers playing heads up, seven up. I
(09:30):
don't know if anyone played that. Growing up, you hit
a ball high in the air and the first person
that catches it is heads up or whatever. But in
the midst of catching balls you have other kids running
into you. All it takes is one kid to get
(09:51):
hit in the face by a major league hit flyball,
and all of this comes to an end. So whenever
I see a ball all come short of the of
the fence, the father and me says, oh my god,
I hope this does not kill a teenager. And who
the hell signed off on this. Sam, do you get
those same feelings or is this just a fatherly overreaction.
Speaker 7 (10:15):
I think I lean more towards let them do it.
You know there's a risk involved, but I mean they've
been doing this for a while, haven't they, the shagging Yeah,
so I mean I'm kind of against you know, like
the softening of people in this country. So I say,
let him keep doing it.
Speaker 6 (10:32):
No, we're here, Oh.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Okay, I'm sorry. You guys are having a guys are
having a combo, and I was like, wait, everybody stop talking.
Speaker 7 (10:38):
No, I just I'm in favor of just like letting
them continue to catch the balls. I mean, we seem
to just have guardrails for everything. Anybody, anybody who could
get their pinky cut, you know, gotta make it safer.
Speaker 6 (10:51):
So no, I'm again.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Yeah, I mean, if you're you're talking about the the
kids in the actual in the outfield catching the balls,
not not the ones at the leaning over the fence.
Speaker 6 (11:01):
Right, the kids that are allowed to yeah, roam in
the outfield shagging balls.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Yeah. Yeah. Sorry, if you're in if you're if you're
going to be in that target rich environment, you have
a glove. You guys got to figure it out. So
I know you're saying, you do kind of sound like
a new mother who's worried about everything happening to their kid.
I'm with Sam on this one. I think I don't
(11:29):
believe anyone has ever been hurt or hurt badly. Again,
that doesn't mean that it can't happen. You're right right,
let's not be a result. Oriented I do think it's
a little bit of a mess out there. Maybe the
middle ground, Jay Stu would be that because I think
a lot of them are kids or relatives of the
(11:51):
actual All Stars. There are a lot of the suns
is we got to cap the number because you just
it does feel like every year there's more and more
out there, and the more and more kids with all
of the noise, because there's kind of like a constant
buzz more so than outright cheering during the home run derby,
and that constant buzz. I don't know if you can
hear it when somebody calls it. I got it, but
(12:13):
I would not end that.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
Anyone who's caught a flyball in this lifetime knows that
the most dangerous part is when someone jumps in front
of you to try to catch it because he can't
say and then the ball you lose sight of it
and you take it in the face. So I'm just
gonna be that I want I want to play this
back because next year, say a teenager is severely hospitalized
(12:34):
or dies, and then talk radio for the next week
is going to be like, how was this ever a thing?
Like why did anyone even think this could happen?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
It's like, you want to be that Yeah, you're that guy.
Speaker 6 (12:44):
Yeah, So I'll be able to play this back for everybody.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
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Speaker 6 (12:56):
Something that I know that you you were actually a
part of this story. And if there's ever a book
written about Freddy Freeman and the Atlanta Braves and the Dodgers,
you would be like a part of a chapter. They've
interviewed Freddy Freeman this week, and it's heart wrenching how
much he still misses Atlanta and the fans. It's he
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says stuff like you have to move on, but it's
difficult that it's he's going to fight back tears tonight
if there is an ovation. It's been two three years
now and he's still going through this. I think it's sad,
but it also paints a pretty good contrast. He's the
(13:42):
very opposite of what Lebron is to La Freddy Freeman,
to me in Atlanta represents what we've all loved about sports,
like the local teams, love for the star and the
stars love for the city, star giving back to the
city's are having an emotional connection to the city. All
(14:03):
of that is no one void with Lebron James, who
is what do you call those people that are hired
to fight wars mercenaries. He's a mercenary with a transactional
relationship with a fan base who will choose Kobean Magic
over Lebron one hundred times out of one hundred.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Yeah, I mean, without getting into my end of the
Freddie Freeman, it's one of those It's a tale that
should be told because we get to this transactional part
of sports, and this is good for college kids from transfers, right.
I can tell you, you know, my I don't know if
(14:44):
I'd be where I am today, and I'm in a
really really good place with both of my jobs and
my life. But it hasn't. And again, like I take ownership,
my issues are my own. But I do wonder what
my life would be like had I not left ESPN.
Granted that was before they they made a lot of
cuts and a lot of people the cuts were in
(15:06):
my tax bracket and looked and sounded like me. So
I don't know, but I again, it's one of those
don't don't mess with happy, And I think Freddie Freeman
messed with happy. That's the real story here.
Speaker 6 (15:20):
No doubt. So the Freddy Freeman comparison to Lebron flyball
shaggers who are allowed to put their wives in danger?
And how the hell did atlant to lose an All
Star Game four years ago?
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Wait, so what's annoying about Freddy Freeman? It's the constantly
or is it Lebron James is annoying that he doesn't
have the emotional.
Speaker 6 (15:46):
It's just another reminder of how annoying it is that
Lebron has made zero effort with his fan base.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
I think that's it. That's it, that's it. It's annoyed.
Speaker 6 (15:58):
Why are we doing this.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Because we can?
Speaker 6 (16:06):
Doug Mookie Betts was on up in smoke I want
to say, is the name of the podcast. Matt Barnes
and uh Jerry not Jerry styckouse, what's his face? Steve Jackson?
Steven Jackson and he actually kind of he threw up
a Willhouse sports talk topic. What's the hardest thing to
do in sports? This is Mookie bets take.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Is hitting the baseball and hardest thing sports?
Speaker 8 (16:30):
I think it's Yeah, I think it's by farther.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
I think that and being a cornerback in football.
Speaker 8 (16:36):
Oh, I'm sure corner Like that's a different athlete that.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
That's the two hardest positions in sports to me. I
mean two hardest things to do? Will be a cornerback
and hit a baseball?
Speaker 8 (16:45):
Yeah, I feel like you have a better chance. Now
I'm not debating anything. You have a better chance lucking
up in the quarterback making a bad throw or something
and stopping the receiver. There is no chance you're getting
lucky to hit a baseball, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Yeah, real shit, that's crazy.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
Chance.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Let me.
Speaker 8 (17:12):
Baseball is like, I do it every day and I'll
be hitting that thing.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
That's a great point. Uh, that that's all. That's the
time of the sorda thing as well, right, uh time
of the sort of when when people wuld ask about
are you kidding me? You kid me? You think hitting
in uh a ball just kind of sitting there waiting
for you is harder than somebody trying to throw a
ninety five mile our fastball and late movement by you.
I can't do a time of the sorta. I actually
(17:38):
agree hitting a baseball is the hardest thing. When the
best to ever do it do it, get on you know,
hit it and put it in play three times in ten,
they get on the base four times in ten, maybe
four and a half times in ten. Those are the
best to ever do it. You got no shot. You
don't have much of a shot in the other sports either,
but you got no shot. Why I can play for
(17:59):
you because we can. That's it for the end of
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