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Speaker 2 (00:23):
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Speaker 1 (00:31):
Always great to watch a Mets walk off and then
start the show. Is it really though, Yes it is, yes,
it is, yes, Yes, the great. That's the great. That's
the greatest way I could ever start a show. Mets
walk off we come on the air.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
I mean, it does get you excitable because in the
pre show environment we were cursing about the US men's
national team.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
We'll we'll get to them in a second.

Speaker 3 (00:55):
We'll get okay, just get we have negativity, and now
we get the wave of positivity. We've got the angst
and the anger going on between the Dodgers.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
And the Padres. I mean, there's just lots going on
the way the wave of the wave of happy right now,
and then we get to then we get to you,
and you.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
Were dance and that might have been more air than
you've ever gotten out. Hey, hey, the way you jumped,
just so you know you leapt.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
I've got Louis Ange Lacuna to home plate without a throw.
Go go, go go. I'm screaming. Goes ran me over
trying to get to the TV.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
Because what you were really sizing up was as soon
as he crossed the plate, how quickly you can get
in front of the window and taunt or celebrate with
Steve Disager.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
I'm not quite sure what that was. That was a
That was a Mets walk off. And now we get
the best ribvaly in baseball. Second night night we got
the Dodgors and the Padres. Last night was everything you
could have hoped for with the resumption of the best
rivalry in baseball and the top five rivalry overall in sports.
I mean, it's the top of the second It's nothing nothing.

(01:56):
I'm feeling I'm let down a little bit. Last night
by this point, what was it was four four by
this time last night.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
Now, maybe they punched themselves out like a boxing match.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
And I think my favorite part of the day, uh,
because we talked about this last night, when had happened
that the umpire, the home plate umpire video of Manny
Machado after he gets called out on strikes in the
tenth inning and just getting right up front to the
the umpire and right in his face and yelling at
him and disagreeing with the call. I mean, phenomenon like
this is now I'm all in on the umpire cam

(02:27):
right when you see stuff like that was right in front.
But I love how and Frost prog sent to me
earlier today someone superimposed it like it was a ring
doorbell and like Manny Machado was going up to your door,
and that was the video you had that or the hey,
we have the full audio.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
Because they remember they clipped it, started cursing, yeah, yeah,
you know.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
You've got to cut it. Uh, and then it was
just a crying baby. Yeah yeah. So you got those
running in parallel, ring doorbell, ring doorbell, Like he's going
right up to the door, yelling at you. You didn't
chip me, you didn't me.

Speaker 3 (03:03):
I mean it's reminiscent of so many door dash huber eats.
And I was like, I'm taking your food back usually
like no, no, you gotta you gotta delivery fee.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
I'm a thing that when I see a ring doorbell video,
I know one of two things is happening. Okay, there's
either some kind of crazy uh thing happening with food delivery,
or there's gonna be an animal I'm not used to seeing.
That's gonna be on the front por Part three. It's
a full work just for engagement. Oh look at this
black bear eating this deer on these people's ports. Wow,
look at that. That's you. You don't normal read that

(03:33):
in a while. Oh, here comes some other bears. Oh,
it's gonna be a big boy. I hope you weren't
going out anytime soon. You guys, stay in your house.
It really one of those two things. No, it's good
that that is. That sums it up. N uh so, yes, yes,
So we start with the Mets walk off and now okay, now, now, okay, okay, okay.
Now now we get to something we touched on briefly. Uh,

(03:56):
Monday night on the show Monday, what's today? Tuesday? Yea
last night. It seems later in the week immediately, does
I mean we just watched Switzerland be the United States
in a friendly as the United States?

Speaker 4 (04:07):
Right?

Speaker 1 (04:07):
Was it really that friendly?

Speaker 2 (04:09):
No?

Speaker 4 (04:09):
Not?

Speaker 1 (04:09):
Well, you know it's friendly. It was friendly for Greg Burhalter,
it was not friendly for poaching. Do you think it
was after Do you think he and he and Klinsman
hang out and watch games together? The zoom call?

Speaker 3 (04:20):
Yeah yeah, absolutely, Hey yeah, And then it's going back
and forth by who's laughing louder as opposed to who's speaking?

Speaker 1 (04:28):
Hey, you're good a gb Hey, what's happening?

Speaker 5 (04:30):
Man?

Speaker 1 (04:30):
You're ready?

Speaker 2 (04:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (04:31):
Ready?

Speaker 1 (04:31):
Let's watch ire Hey, way, let me go. I got
I got a I got a sandwich coming out of
the microwaveng let me go grab it. Let me come back. Wait,
who's call? Who's that calling? Oh, it's Polistic's dad. It's
like it's like their own personal manning cast that they
have when I watched a US men's team play, No,
that sounds about right. Look, this has been an absolute disaster.
This is probably Boy twenty eighteen not qualifying for the

(04:54):
World Cup, but also not qualifying because of some questionable
officiating and other game that contributed to US not qualifying.
But this, this is right now. I'd say it's the
low point of men's soccer in the United States in
the past six seven years, because here they are now,
you know, getting ready for the Gold Cup and it's

(05:14):
the B team, right, it's definitely a B team coming
and in a Polistic and other players. Robinson's not playing,
so it is a B team. But still they get
absolutely drugged by Switzerland after a loss over the weekend
and it's for nothing after the first forty minutes of
this game. And the big thing, right, well, you can
sit here and say, well, Poachtino is building. It's all

(05:34):
of these things happening. But you know, we mentioned this
very briefly last night. You know you can take this
any way you want to and say, yeah, yeah, let's
make excuses. But the bottom line is when was the
last good story coming off of the men's national team,
either on the field or off the field. I can't
even tell you because you can't count Poctino being hired
because so far it's been a disaster.

Speaker 4 (05:56):
Right.

Speaker 1 (05:56):
I don't know if it's the players don't respond to him,
they don't want to play for him, but clearly, you know,
guys like Polistic and Robinson you want to play here
because the oh, by the way, the World Cup is
next year. Don't you want more as much time with
your teammates as possible? I you know, I hear you
can say, hey, we're gonna play a pre tournament. Say, okay,
I understand, but I mean they automatically qualify, But don't

(06:18):
you want to have as much time with your teammates
as possible. Like I get that people are upset at
Landon Donovan because he's a guy that actually skipped took
time off earlier in his career. So when you sit
here and say, oh, you know, these guys should be playing,
politic should be playing, I get where that's met with
with a bit of a side eye by politic and
politics dad. But I look at what's going and I

(06:39):
don't even know what they're about. I don't know what
their identity is. I don't know how well how much
the players are are excited about playing. I don't know
how motivated they are. You know, I watched them, and
I'm watching the first half. I'm going they just look
like they're they're playing. They don't look like they're motivated,
they don't look like they are they have any kind
of edge to them. And again it's still this is
now how many years, this is like the fifth year

(06:59):
in a row. Oh, I could say with the third
head coach, I could say, I don't know who we are.
I don't know, I don't know what we want to be.
I just don't get a feel that everybody is all
on board with US soccer going forward when this is
the pride of all other nations, right and certainly it's
the prime. You look at the women's side, and they
figured it all out, They hire the right coaches, they
have the right players, and look, obviously they have a

(07:20):
big head start because they were the biggest We're the
biggest country in the world in women's soccer for a
long time. But at this point you United said the
men's thing needs to catch up. Oh, we have all
these great young players. Well it's been seven years we've
been we've been hearing about these young players and I
don't even know if can you even win a game
in the World Cup, Like, I don't even know they're
gonna have enough time to get together. I don't even
know if there's any togetherness about this team.

Speaker 3 (07:40):
Well, I think that's the biggest point coming out of
this land. And Donovan flap is that normally you see
some inspired soccer, football, basketball, whatever, and take take it
what you will. We've joked about it and we'll get
into the NBA Finals in a little bit, but of
the you know, whether you've got to take it person

(08:00):
and have the chip on your shoulder as an individual
or as a squad. Right when Landon Donovan's making comments, yeah,
he's calling out the guys that are there, but he's
saying the secondary guys aren't good enough. Right, he's saying
that without saying it. And when you put up a
listless effort like this, you're only reinforcing it. And we've

(08:22):
been talking for as long as we've been doing the show, right,
we've been doing it in eleven years. We touch on
anything that's big and moving, and we incorporate, and we
always have women's sports, women's.

Speaker 1 (08:33):
College basketball and soccer, the men's national team as there's
big headlines. And we've had the selling of hope time
and again. All right, here's the new striker. Meet the
new striker, same as the old striker, hurt, ineffective and
no build, time and time again.

Speaker 3 (08:51):
All right, here's the coaching problems. Well, here's the next
guy coming in. He's going to fix it all. And
it takes time, obviously, rebuilds and trying to put yourself
on par with some of these other nations.

Speaker 1 (09:03):
Yeah, you're not expecting to be top tier, you're expecting
to be competitive. Right, There's been a couple of generations
at this point. Right, this is not a new invention.

Speaker 3 (09:14):
I remember in the mid nineties that that all right,
soccer's on the comp Right, I'm finishing high school, I'm
into college. And I got a lot of friends that
started playing in high school and went on and played
some college soccer, and like, no, no, no, it's starting to build.
And you saw it in the city of Chicago where
I grew up, and nationwide leagues popping up, and certainly

(09:35):
my daughter being involved, your daughter being involved. You watch
the proliferation of all these club sports and the build nationwide.
It's not translated into anything for the national team to
this point.

Speaker 1 (09:46):
No, Andre's and here's the thing, here's the bet. Like
we talked about this, they're an absolute dumpster fire right now.
They hire Pochatino to come in, and the biggest hallmarks
for him are his culture, physical play. Hey, you're going
to get the best effort out and the United States
team has always been a team that. Boy, at times,
they look like they're going to run people off the

(10:06):
pitch and then after fifteen minutes of that, they kind
of sit back and just meander through the course of
the game. Right, they get a goal early and they
try to just play on the war. There's no killer instinct.
They do it very for very brief periods of time.
But this is where, okay, this is where I get
that kind of effort because you see that, you know
the talent potentially is there. But I go back to
this and I'll give you a hot take on the

(10:27):
US men's I oh, you a great hot take. Right
before they got ready for the Gold Cup. For this
prep for the Gold Cup, poach Tino said, what did
he say, Hey, if you're coming to play, leave your
golf clubs at home, right, this is not going to
be something where we go out like everybody's gonna come
and work hard. And what happened. Three of the best players,
including your captain, said yeah, no, I'm not there. So

(10:47):
if you know how important it is to get ready
and get on the same page with everybody else for
the World Cup, you know how important these games are
because you're not playing together. The fact that they still
stayed home and things are going this bad, Honestly, I
wonder if he even makes it to the World Cup.
If Bochattino still is a guy that makes it to

(11:07):
the World Cup makes But if they if they have
an awful flame out here, if they keep playing poor,
can you really stick with them or is it?

Speaker 4 (11:14):
Hey?

Speaker 1 (11:14):
You know what, Yeah, we're gonna give them time because
clearly maybe maybe nobody wants to play for me.

Speaker 2 (11:19):
How about that?

Speaker 3 (11:19):
I take Tom Timbada's got time on his hand. Oh,
Tim would show up and he would just standing.

Speaker 1 (11:24):
With his arms.

Speaker 3 (11:24):
He'd get him to work hard. Well, well, he would come.
He would grind him too much.

Speaker 1 (11:28):
Some like more guys know there, there would be no substitution,
so his starting eleven would be his starting but everybody
would leave.

Speaker 3 (11:34):
Yeah, you're the start. You're working me too hard. No,
it's it's a very good point, very good question going
forward because look after each loss, it's the cell of
what's going well. You can't you can't try to sell
this effort today.

Speaker 1 (11:54):
No, you can't. And and it's all about culture and
going forward and how we're going to play and how
they're going to win. I really, I I can't. I
can't even say that. I really I can't even say
that what we're going to what he's trying to build.
Right if this Gold Cup goes badly, I I really
wonder if he makes to the World Corps, it's gonna

(12:14):
be we maybe to bring burr Halter back, but maybe
it's it's somebody else that comes in, because I don't
know how much the team wants to play for any
of the coaches they had, from Kleinsman to you know,
to burr Halter. Here's it's the same kind of lack
of effort, lack of cohesion, lack of desire. There's nothing
that could I don't know what fixes it, but but
I know this right now. If it continues like this,

(12:37):
I really wonder if he makes to the World Cup
next year, bring back Cleansman. That would be something. Laala's
out of the booth, Ted Laso, well, I would go
if Ted well, listen, If Ted Lasso, Oh boy, let
me see if we had if you had everybody, if
you had Ted and Beard and Roy Kent and Nate

(12:58):
the Great, then I'd be Okay, we got I have
all of them, though, gotta have all listen to me. Wow,
come on, he's a wonder kid. But what's the end
for then it's wonder kinnut kid. It's kind it's wonder kid.
What does that mean? It's just it's really the that
really is problematic. All right, You're okay, that whole thing
never really happened. I really if it continues like this,

(13:19):
I really want if they're gonna have a new head
coach for the World Cup. Yeah, they cleaned that up
a lot easier than they will for the men's national team.
That's for damn sure exit. How about a Fresco exit
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(13:40):
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Speaker 3 (14:03):
But coming up next, maybe of the women's jing staff
can take over. Hayes coach both, let Jay's coach both
coach both go ahead, go ahead, bring the trident over,
let them, let them play, Let them play there too,
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(14:27):
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Speaker 2 (14:28):
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Speaker 1 (14:39):
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my best friend Mike Harmon. We get into the big
reveal from the NFL earlier today, coming up in a minute,
the big reveal. WHOA we found out something? WHOA I
didn't know this?

Speaker 6 (14:57):
Did you really have that reaction? A kind of sort
of sort of kind of so I had assumed.

Speaker 1 (15:09):
It would have been reality. And in the end, it's
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walk off giving yourself a five count five game lead,
you get to be the play of the day. Aaron

(16:04):
Tyser just pulling out. I'm done hearing of the Mets,
the Mets one. I'm just gonna take it out.

Speaker 3 (16:09):
Well, I mean it was the play, right, he didn't
need the aftermath, the aftermath of the play of the day. Yeah, okay, okay,
and you had already talked about your excitement and jumping
up and down and all of the festivities that went
through there. Yeah, I'm, you know, to some degree salty
that you you know, ham handed, you know, and and

(16:30):
force the the Mets into the play.

Speaker 1 (16:32):
Wait wait, wait, wait wait, ham handed. I just want
to say, but that you made it, you know all
about the Mets. Well, no, it's a walkoff to walk off.
We can't use anything from the Dodger and the Padres
actually in the third inning.

Speaker 3 (16:46):
Yeah, but didn't we have a complete game thrown somewhere
in Major League Baseball? Doesn't that doesn't that win just
by default because we get so few of them.

Speaker 1 (16:55):
And I know, by the way, let me just say
this before we get to Aaron Rodgers. Let let's let
me just say this. Okay, you want to take a
look at the last four games for Juan Soto. Don't
look now, but guess who's heating up? Did he take
it personally? Guess who's heating up? Juan Soto? All right?

(17:16):
Really reach base six times on Sunday, He had three
hits on Friday against Colorado. Another big night tonight, all
of a sudden, Oh so miserable. He wished he was
a Yankee. Yeah, remember remember those are the days three
weeks ago.

Speaker 3 (17:29):
Well but I mean he still may be miserable. He
still may wish he's a Yankee, but he's hitting.

Speaker 1 (17:34):
Nah. Well yeah, well okay, yeah, if that's the thing.

Speaker 3 (17:37):
No, but legitimate, right, like he could be salty like
we can some of us. You know, in your individual lives,
whatever you do for work, however you deal with your family,
I mean, you know one or the other may not
be going great. Yeah, but you then put all your
energy in somewhere else. So he may not like the
guys in the clubhouse. They've been razzing him about something,
maybe the way you know he styled his hair or something.

Speaker 1 (17:58):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (17:59):
Uh, And they gets notes from Aaron Judson, miss you,
Andy's salty that he's not there. But then he says,
you know what, I'm gonna take that aggression out in
between the white lines. I've got to refocus and channel
that energy into greatness.

Speaker 1 (18:13):
And guys, don't forget to vote for him. Oh yeah,
you get them both of the All Star Game, Mavericks.
Those kids need your help. You might not like the
guys you're flying with, they may not like you, but
who sorry do you want? Anyway you think? Maybe they
get him the top guns as hey one, you might
not like the guys you're playing with. They might not
like you, but who's sorry do you want? All right?

(18:34):
I better start hitting. Then that's it. You recognized what
you need to do. Hay hits in his last four games,
all of a sudden, All of a sudden, all my
text from Fabiano where he's send to me, oh we
got ben Rice is playing just as good for so
less money. Yeah, it's been a ghost Town for the
last few days. Ghost Town for the last few days.
Remember New York, I like Ben Rice though, home of

(18:55):
the best team in baseball and the New York So
the show is to know. The show is tonight, Frostburg. Hey,
this is a big Listen Dodger Dodgers Potters in October.
Dodgers Potter is a big deal for the battle to
be the second best team in the National League. It's
really being fought hardly between these two teams. Man, this
is a big deal for you. I get it. I

(19:17):
guess I get it.

Speaker 3 (19:19):
Uh speaking, he thinks he does protest too much, speaking
of saying things to everybody's face.

Speaker 1 (19:27):
Aaron Rodgers met the media today for the first time
as the new starting quarterback of the Pittsburgh Steelers. He
talked about how joining the team is best for his
soul and a lot of things Rogers, good night. But
he also addressed the elephant in the room because of
the very carefully posed picture of him signing his Steelers
contract with oh, his left ring finger has a ring

(19:49):
on it. Oh, is Aaron Rodgers married? Well? Aaron Rodgers
confirmed that today during his press conference. Is that a
ring or anything else? It's a wedding ring, congratulation, thank you,
how long it's been a couple of months. No, it's

(20:09):
about Mary.

Speaker 4 (20:10):
Now.

Speaker 1 (20:11):
I'm married. Now, I'm married now now. The first thing
I thought of is, Okay, who could he be married to,
you know, And I'm trying to think it was famous
actresses under forty he could be dating or around forty.
And I'm thinking, okay, no, it's no Hailey Steinfeld. No,
it's not her. No, it's not she. She married Josh Allen.

Speaker 3 (20:27):
Let's get to say she she got married. It's not publicly,
Shanlee Woodley.

Speaker 1 (20:31):
It's not because I think Hailey Steinfeld Shanley Woodley people
kind of confuse them a little bit. Sometimes. Oh okay,
they think they were both in Pitch Perfect. They were,
but were they not? I don't know. So it's it's
not her because not Olivia Munt. They're broken up, not
Olivia Mutton.

Speaker 6 (20:43):
No, No, that's a whole other story.

Speaker 1 (20:47):
Yeah, there's a lot. I was just saying, it wasn't her. No,
it's not. No, And I'm trying to like, who could
it possibly be, And I'm trying to think of it's
not Scarlet Johansson, still with Colin Jost no matter what
Michael she says on on SNL and the jokes and
whether she's at I've had it, okay, Colin, I've had
it with Shay when you write each other's jokes and
I'm in everyone now people know we're married, all right?

(21:08):
Can you just get him to stop it? Hey, hey,
take it easy, take it ease.

Speaker 3 (21:12):
That's the best bit they've got going. Actually, it is
the jokes for each other because they haven't seen it,
and all of a sudden it's in the prompt.

Speaker 1 (21:22):
Oh no, yeah, oh I have to read this. Yeah, yeah,
I mean I'm trying to think, like, like, who could it?

Speaker 4 (21:28):
You?

Speaker 1 (21:28):
Like, who could it possibly be? You know, I'm trying
to think, can it could be? Is it Zendeia? Maybe?
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (21:36):
Sang it out with Spider Man, Yeah, Spider Mad Spider Man.
And there there's rumors they may be secretly married Spider Man.
She's married to Spider Man.

Speaker 1 (21:45):
She may be married to Spider Man.

Speaker 4 (21:46):
Man.

Speaker 1 (21:47):
If there's video of their wedding and Tom Holland is
dressed in the Spider Man suit, that would be the best.
And he just instead of he just web slings down
the aisle of he lamb. I'm swinging in have you
the ring? Oh yeah, and just brings it down from
like up top of the get. That'd be pretty good.
That's pretty cool. But you know that happened right before

(22:10):
they would say I do. The Green Goblin would come
in and break up the wedding and wow. I mean
like if it gets an appearance by Willem Dafoe, we
all won well, or it could be a new green Goblin. Yeah, really,
William Dafoe is like seventy man, I mean you know, yeah, okay, yeah,
but you just got to ride on that thing across
the city that looks like see the Green Goblin that
whatever that is he rides on. That looks like something

(22:32):
that in real life we could have at some point.
I think we could really have that at some point,
Like I believe that you could probably find some similar
test rug. It's someone who's like one hundred and seventy
five pounds on top of that to stay up like
that's a that's a town. Then, Like we're just the
point now where the Iron Man things are working out. Okay,
and that's still stilted, but that's something I can see.
I can see that green Goblin thing. You know, that's

(22:54):
a lot easier. I mean I would spend a lot
of money on that and ride around the desert and
throw those green Goblin bombs at things like you know,
with all bulls eyes and stuff and like scarecrows of
Peter Parker.

Speaker 3 (23:04):
Might might be the greatest stuff invention that we've come
up with.

Speaker 1 (23:08):
Yet, what are you? What's your experience in the desert.

Speaker 3 (23:10):
You're gonna build a race track so they can simulate
right now that Richard Pett Now Goblin experience mean gobblin
experience like a haunted house. Now now completely you are
the green Gouys fly on his thing, and you have
to have the exoskeleton and little you know, the little
pumpkin bombs and you're able to say and there's big

(23:33):
microphones and then blast out speakers.

Speaker 1 (23:35):
We could just say hello Peter. You get that laugh
going on? Oh that's a great experience. I gotta write
that down, Green Goblin. Let's figure out.

Speaker 3 (23:45):
I mean, look, I can replace paintball really fat taking
that now you're you're throwing balls of paint, Yeah, says
the green gop.

Speaker 1 (23:51):
Yeah, we don't even need the propulsion.

Speaker 3 (23:53):
No, we get like like segways, like those little things
that don't have the handle.

Speaker 1 (23:58):
Yeah you know what I mean. Yeah yeah, like Joe
Bluth when he made those popular back Yeah yeah, like
we don't need the blurt. We need to now look
now this, now, look this thing with Aaron, there's obviously
you know, something different here other than you know, wondering
who it could be like this is This is why
when I say, you know, is Aaron Rodgers as locked
in to football as he has been for most of

(24:22):
his career because with the Jets and here with the
Steelers it's very loose. He's always been very loose with
the team. Now he's a good leader. Teammates like him,
you know, for all this all Rogers is not this.
No teammates like him, you see, even even former members
of the Jets. He's not going to say anything about
the Jets ever. Like the story today, he and Jermaine
Johnson were texting with each other. Jermain Johnson, one of
the best young pass rushers in the NFL, got hurt

(24:43):
early last year. He said, Aaron Rodgers let him work
out with this guy in California, you know, gave him
some big props and said listen, you have a ten
plus year career. Don't worry, it's a speed bump, like
you know, for all this Oh Rogers teammates likes him,
they like him, But this whole overall, his overall attitude
towards the NFL is like I don't get the sense
that the guy is still as all in as he was,

(25:06):
and I get the sense that now he's using football
to further Aaron Rodgers and the optics. Right like he
he comes across as like a Hollywood celebrity that wants
to give you that little bit of mystery, that's always
worried about their image and their optics, and everything they
do is something to make sure that people are talking
about them or they're asking questions, right like why wouldn't

(25:29):
You's not I've been married for a couple of months. No,
but I'm not going to say who I'm married to,
Like just say it's private, right if you don't want to,
if you don't want to talk, like I get it right,
Like when Otani got married, No, no picture me and
my wife until we're ready, because there's you know what
people wanted to pay for back in Japan for picture
of the two of them, Like who is she who
is she? Right?

Speaker 3 (25:45):
So running parallel in terms of the uh, you know, secrecy, privacy,
What the hell is going on?

Speaker 1 (25:50):
Let go tonn.

Speaker 3 (25:51):
He's got a bunch of those, right, But it's not
here's the dog, here's the wife.

Speaker 1 (25:54):
Now we're having a baby. I mean who I mean,
who doesn't love decoy?

Speaker 3 (25:57):
I mean, come on, but I mean, like all of
those the game thing that was there and then but
he disappeared.

Speaker 1 (26:03):
But as far as like for the marriage, it's not
like Otani came out and said anything. People found out
he was married, keeping a try. Aaron Rodgers clearly wants
to flaunt and have people talk about him. So he
wore the ring very prominently in that picture that they
took for him when he's signing his contract. Right, you're
signing a contract with your right hand. Why is your
left hand right in front of the picture unless you

(26:23):
want people to know? Right, this is what I was
trying to get. He's not a copy off your painte.
He's almost like this, don't look at my ring. Don't
look at the terms of this contract. How much you
want to bet the ring is made of hemp? But
I think it's a hemp ring. Well, Is it one
of those rubber ones? Those have gone in very popular
with athletes? Oh okay, are they okay? Instead of your
your traditional metal rings because those tear up your fingers. Yeah,

(26:48):
like the rings you buy, like I said last night,
rings you buy an anthropology. Oh that's a great ring
for eleven dollars, I'm gonna get you brought it back.
So if it's if it's private and the wedding is
private to you then and say, yeah, you know, I
really don't want to talk about it. Thank you for asking,
but it's a ring. Whatever you want to say. But
clearly he wants people to know that he's married. But

(27:09):
it's too much to give away I'm married and who
I'm married to, because if it really was private, he
wouldn't say but oh you haven't married. Oh yeah, married
a couple of months. What are you talking about here?
Making it seem like, oh, you guys are so late
to the party. How do you guys not know I'm married?
But I'm not gonna tell you who I'm married to
because now I want people to dig into it and
people are gonna find out. If Aaron Rodgers didn't want
to know people wanted he would have just said, you know,

(27:31):
it's sorry. You guys got to do your own stuff.
I'm not gonna help you out with anything. Oh but
now we know he's married married a couple of months.
Who's he married to. We're gonna find out who he's
married to. It's gonna become a story. Like I mean,
he's he's at the Hollywood star part of his career
where I keep having to make sure I keep my
name out there and I'm relevant and people are asking

(27:52):
about I'm always worried about my image. What can I
do today that's going to help my image with something,
Whether it's an whether an actor or an actress who says, Oh,
I'm gonna lend my voice to this project and not
tell anybody, or I'm gonna do this and not tell anybody.
People are gonna figure it out. Or there'll be a
story that my public relations people plant about something I
did on the movie set that I'm not gonna say it,

(28:13):
but it's gonna come out there and it's gonna get
people talking about it. Like That's where Rogers is right now.
He's at that I love being famous, and I guarantee
you he would say I wish I was this guy
ten years ago, but he really only hit it big
as far in the fame department where you're the most
famous player in football after he got mad at the
Packers and wanted out because they drafted Jordan Love. So

(28:34):
he's had four years of the fast lane of being
the guy that's moved the needle in the NFL. Now
he sees his coming to an end. And now I'm
using this to foster along me continuing to own the
headlines and be famous. I really I don't know how
much he's into playing as much as he is. Well,
I'm gonna play a little bit here and I'm gonna

(28:55):
use that to help push my fame forward for whatever
I want to do after football. This year, I see
this and that stands for everything. Because if you want
to keep it quiet, and keep it quiet, but no, no, no,
Now you want people to keep asking and keep digging
into what this is because you really want to keep
the headline.

Speaker 3 (29:10):
Well, that had been speculated about for several months, and
certainly going back to that Netflix series, you know what's
going on and talking about his past relationships and the
public nature of those and whether it was good, bad,
and different. Right, we talk reference to the dani Ka
Patrick comments of the last couple of weeks, you go
all the way through that. For Rogers, I just wonder

(29:32):
if he's not in that place where he's found peace,
whatever that is, you know, the Ayahuascar retreats, the darkness retreats,
the you know, whatever it is. Look, everybody's on a
different path. I don't condemn it. I don't understand some
of it, but that's fine to each their own is
not as long as you're.

Speaker 1 (29:51):
Not hurting anybody.

Speaker 3 (29:52):
But for him, I think he's at a place where
he's like, look, I can still sling it. And we
watched at the back end of that season last year
where he's coming back and he's finally fully healthy, puts
up some big numbers, got an opportunity to go to Pittsburgh,
big big marketplace in terms of the global popularity of
the squad that you can say, all right, I'm gonna

(30:14):
go in and give it the old college try and
you can play football and maybe find some balance in
your life where it was always about football and antagonism
and this is a I'm gonna make you work a
little bit. It's like you got part of the story.
Why do the big reveal. Now it's only the first
day of veteran mini cams.

Speaker 1 (30:32):
He's got the because he's got the headlines. And now
here's how I foster this?

Speaker 4 (30:36):
Right?

Speaker 1 (30:36):
But I could go to work over here, you guys
worry about this and we'll all meet in the back
back back nine. Nah, he's he knows you know. Look,
he's masterful with that. He knows it. But he's at
the Hollywood part of his career. Hey, my image is everything.
How do I foster it? And really wears football other
than a tool to keep him famous, Like that's that's
Aaron Rodgers at this point, with that nice little ring

(30:57):
that he had. We gonna win more games for the
Steelers that he did the Jets. But that's not it's
not that difficult to do.

Speaker 3 (31:04):
It's not that well, I mean, you're you're just dismissing
him categorically, like a spurn love hard to do, Like
you're mad he got married somebody else.

Speaker 1 (31:11):
Steelers for a better football team than the Jets. So yeah, okay,
I get that. Uh time not to find out what's
trending in the wide world of sports. But guy's been
called the Aaron Rodgers of Fox Sports Radio. Huh. When
he writes scripts and works. You can see his wedding
ring as well. It's Steve Disager.

Speaker 7 (31:26):
There is no correlation between Aaron Rodgers and except for,
of course, salaries and longevity of career. Okay, maybe not
even that. But you I like no, I like doing
the cut of your Jim Steve. You mentioned the US
men's socker. It was down for nothing in the first half,
lost for nothing to Switzerland and Ashville tonight. Officially, the

(31:46):
US had no shots on goals.

Speaker 1 (31:48):
Yeah, I couldn't played that means I could have played
keeper for the Swiss. Yes, and the score would have
been the same, means the Swiss didn't need a keeper,
no empty net.

Speaker 8 (31:58):
A literal block of Swiss chief could have played goalie
from the Swiss tonight. To Major League Baseball, the Yankees
lead with two outs in the ninth, ten to two
at Kansas City, again their bottom of the ninth. There
Aaron Judge with an early home run, his twenty fourth
Gencarlo Stanton, with the elbow injury, started rehabit double a
at a two run single, at an RBI single. Texas

(32:19):
won sixteen to four at Minnesota. Toronto secured a ten
to nine win at Saint Louis. Victories for Boston, Milwaukee
and the Mets, who won in ten innings in a
comeback over Washington five to four. Jeff McNeil RBI single
and the game winning double victories for Miami and the Cubs.
Cincinnati won its fifth straight winning pitcher Andrew Abbotts six
and one after his complete game one nothing at Cleveland.

(32:42):
Detroit won again five to three at Baltimore. The White
Sox lead at Houston four to two and the top
of the ninth, and Houston is the first place team
in the AL West, three games over Seattle. The Seattle
Mariners are down two nothing at Arizona in the bottom
of the fourth. The Padres have just taken two nothing
lead against the Dodgers in the bottom of the third,

(33:03):
and all bullpen night for La A's at Angels, scoreless
in the top of the fifth.

Speaker 1 (33:07):
A's without a hit so far.

Speaker 7 (33:09):
As for the NFL News, Washington Commander's wide receiver Terry
McLaurin is skipping mandatory mini camp this week. He's due
to finish contract extension this year. Among those who did
not report seeking new contracts, Steelers linebacker TJ. Watt and
Bengals defensive end Trey Hendrickson not at Dolphins mini camp,
or defensive back Jalen Ramsey and tight end John U. Smith.

Speaker 1 (33:31):
We can update.

Speaker 7 (33:32):
It looks like the Padres are extending the lead against
La bottom of the third. Now three nothing, POD's back
to you.

Speaker 1 (33:38):
Hey, this battle to be the second best team in
the National League's team. This is a big deal, and
it's a really big deal right here.

Speaker 8 (33:43):
You know, the Yankees aren't that far behind the overall records.
As much as you may bash the yank They're going
to be forty and twenty five in just a minute.

Speaker 7 (33:52):
Yeah, that's all right, I still look at still look
at another way. Max Freed is going to be nine
and one this year.

Speaker 1 (33:58):
Thank you, Steven. Up next, there's a big time NBA
stars we get set for Game three tomorrow night that
I absolutely need more from way do we tell you
who it is? That's next? Jason to Mike Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (34:14):
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about ten minutes, two big takes as we look ahead

(34:44):
to Game three of the NBA Finals tomorrow night. But first,
a guy I need more from in the NBA Finals.
And it's crazy we're saying this considering the playoff that
he's had, the clutch playoff, that he's had what he
had in Game one, But honestly, I need more from
Tyre's Halliburton. Okay, he still has these moments, these wide

(35:04):
swaths enduring series where he looks like the best player
on the court and it's not even close. And the
next game it looks like, dude, are you even trying?
Like he's got a little too much and Edwards in him,
where Edwards was someone who you see, hey in a
six game series two out of every six games, it's like,
what's the guy doing. He's not taking shots, he's not

(35:25):
involved in the game. What is he really doing? Does
he know how to break down the defense? Is he not?
And it's a different situation for Halliburton than Edwards because
Haliburton's a guy. Look, he has the ball in his
hands a little bit more, but like that was a
big thing. This is why the tea Wolves went home
because SGA is a superstar that gives you everything you
need every game. And if he's not impacting a game,

(35:46):
if he's having a tough time lighting it up, he's
getting into the free throw line, He's getting his teammates involved.
This is why the guy's the MVP, right. But Halliburton,
I'm done because I need more from him, and I'm
done with the Halliburton story of being Oh what else
do you want from because he seems like he's only
really motivated when people doubt him or when something happens

(36:07):
to spur him on. Like, if you're a true superstar
in the NBA, if you're this good, right, and Halliburton
clearly is shown he's got the skills to be this good, right,
Anthony Edwards has the skills to be this good. Halliburton
has the skills to be an all NBA player. Why
is it two times in every series you go, wow,
they got boat race in that game?

Speaker 4 (36:25):
Why?

Speaker 1 (36:25):
Well, look, Halliburton was eleven points, you know, three out
of eight from the field, and he had you know,
seven assists and five rebounds. Why if Halliburton had the game,
he has two of those games a series. And if
you're that good, you have to be able to play
a little bit more consistent than that. And I'm not
saying every game needs to be where you're thirty and
ten and ten, but there's got to be times where

(36:47):
I'm controlling the team and I'm out here leading and
I'm doing my damnedest, and if I'm not hitting shots,
and it's me setting things up because I could clearly
I can get my own shots, I can get into
the paint, I can get the ball to the right
guys because everybody on the PACER's cannet threes. So there's
games where he can do he just doesn't. And you
need to be more motivated than just Hey, when people
say I'm overrated, or look at look at the Pacers

(37:09):
series against the Knicks. There's no bigger example. I could
tell you that after Game three where Halliburton was bad
and the Knicks cut that series to two to one,
what did the Pacers do, Hey, your dad's coming back
to the game, we're having your dad come back for
game four. Could have had him come back for Game three,
but it's like the Pacers were saving it knowing that
we may need to motivate Halliburton during the series, which

(37:29):
would be a big red flag. Shouldn't have to motivate
a guy. You could have him come back for game three,
but no, no, no, he had a really bad Game three.
We're down to one. We got to motivate, and what happens.
Haliburton comes back in Game four and he has one
of the best games of his NBA career. Like that
should be. All that tells you about Halliburton is that, dude,
you have to find some way to be this motivat,
be this version of yourself every time you step on

(37:51):
the floor, especially when you get to the NBA Finals
and the conference finals. It can't just be hey, couple
of times, Yeah, don't know what happened in that game.
It's why guys like an it's a home well.

Speaker 3 (38:01):
But on the plus side for him, up until about
two weeks ago, nobody expected any of this. Right with
Ann Edwards, it was he was coronated, right. You might
as well have had the SI cover like they had
for Lebron all those years ago where he then decided
to start calling himself the King and adopted it and whatever.
But for Anthony Edwards, like I played good enough defense,

(38:22):
I did this, I did that right, those were his
comebacks in media sessions. But expectations heavy is the head
who wears the crown or that people are trying to
shove it on his head With Terry's Aliburton, he was
just a guy on a pretty good team, flashed every
once in a while, but clearly has a pension for
last minute shots right now, thirteen of sixteen because that

(38:46):
last one didn't count, but it's but it's the kind
of thing that.

Speaker 1 (38:49):
We want to look at his numbers.

Speaker 3 (38:51):
He's not a volume guy, right he shot thirteen point
eight shots per game this year. You're been talking about
the depth of what Indiana is where he can take
over at times. Even from an assist perspective, You're looking
at a guy nine point two ten point nine a
year ago. That's the career high, ten point four distributing well,
he was fourteen ten and six in the first game.

(39:13):
Makes the big shot, but we don't talk about the
rest of that game because he makes the big shot,
right fourteen, ten and six is a pretty damn good
stat line. Yeah right, Jason Kidd, your next head coach
is the guy that went that was not scoring fourteen.

Speaker 1 (39:27):
Jason Kidd was ten and ten and you know ten.

Speaker 3 (39:30):
Well, But that I'm looking for balance because I'll take
those four off there, I'll put it over the assists
column and now I got ten, ten, ten, Okay. But
it's it's just the idea that he's not been the
guy that we've been trying to crown, and now all
of a sudden we are. It's like we're chasing him
down because we can't give it to Anthony Edwards.

Speaker 2 (39:46):
Just let it be.

Speaker 1 (39:47):
Let it be. He doesn't have to be that guy.
Everybody's got to find a way to bring more to
the party, and it's got to be if you're that great,
Toby Topic got to be that good. Two big hot
takes on the NBA Finals Next.

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(40:32):
longest home run in the history of the Major League Baseball,
or at least it felt like that. Tonight maybe show Hey
Otani is coming back to pitch before the All Star break,
and the best rivalry in Major League Baseball continues. Joining
us now in the hotline to break down all of
these big topics. A man who's on the showcase Game

(40:52):
of the Week for MLB Network on Thursday, the Royals
hosting the second best team in New York, the New
York Yankees. Wow, he's with us now. He's on Twitter
at John Morosi. He is MLB Network insider extraordinaire and
co host of Stearnsy and the Pope Morning Show with
his former college roommate, Met's President of Baseball Operations, David Stearns.

(41:15):
It is John Paul Morosi. What's happening, Bud? How are you?

Speaker 4 (41:18):
I am outstanding? I can exclusively report to you that
here at my home in Michigan, the home run that
Aaron Judge hit just landed beside me. Oh got a
second ago, Because here's the thing.

Speaker 5 (41:34):
Major League players.

Speaker 4 (41:35):
Are used to seeing extraordinary things. They do it every day,
and then many of them author extraordinary things every day.
The Aaron Judge home run that was hit tonight in
Kansas City, if you look at the reaction in the
Yankee dugout, it was even by judge and standards, something
truly out of this world, out of the ballpark, out

(41:58):
of the state, as far as I'm concerned, land on
my front lawn. It was that kind of a home run.
To be honest, it felt like four sixty nine was
an underestimate of exactly how far that ball went. And
again it seemed like the momentum. Hopefully the Royals don't
have to do repairs on the Hall of Fame there

(42:19):
so they've gotten left field because they seemed to crash
right into the windows of that It is just an
absolutely titanic shot. And listen, the Yankees and Aaron Judge,
I mean, it's gonna be a fun storyline. We've got
that game on Thursday. An MLB Network you've got Judge,
You've got with It's gonna be a lot of fun
to watch them both play. But what Aaron Judge is

(42:39):
doing right now, guys, it's just difficult to describe in
any sort of normal terminology.

Speaker 1 (42:46):
Now, so we're here and getting into the middle of June,
and here's Judge today, two for five, he's hitting three
ninety six. Give me the percentage chance you think that
he can make a run at hitting four hundred this year,
I'll make it one. We're talking about it throughout the
summer into September, like, hey's a percentage he can make

(43:08):
a run at four hundred.

Speaker 4 (43:10):
I think he can. It's it's right there. I'm going
to say better than fifty percent. I'm going to say
fifty five forty five. I'm not going to say that
he's going to finish it at four hundred and predict that,
because that is really hard to do. But what he's
able to do even without necessarily getting a ton of
infield singles, let's say it's just the damage is so great.

(43:34):
And listen, the game has changed a bit with the
shift not being in play, and not that the shift
really matters that much for him, because he usually hits
the ball over the infielders. That tends to be what
he's doing, and off and over the outfielders too. But
he is in a spot where I just have never
seen a player from a power hitting perspective. This locked

(43:57):
in in the last probably twenty five years, and it
is remarkable to watch it on a consistent basis. And
if there was going to be a sort of diminishment
of his of his numbers, and if there was a
regression to the mean, if you will, I think it
would have happened by now. He his performance is the mean.

(44:18):
This is his mean right right now? This is it.
Uh And and again he's upper in the three nineties,
he's taken his walks and I think probably the most
impressive thing too is that. And again we could talk
about which which order they're hitting in Soto Judge, but
Soto's absence has not impacted him at all. And I

(44:38):
think that is that is a really really impressive statement
to make that when you have a player of Sodo's
caliber no longer in your lineup, it does change how
people get pitched to. And with Judge, there's just there's
no impact on his numbers, which says a lot about
him as a person and a professional.

Speaker 3 (44:58):
All Right, So let's grab and a guy who's been
photoshopped in the Yankee uniforms since his debut a year ago,
and that's Paul Skeins. Last year eleven and three. This
year he's four and six. But every other metric is
the same. What's more likely, Judge, it's four hundred or

(45:19):
he creates a new win regular season record for himself
by winning twelve games.

Speaker 4 (45:26):
That's a great question, fall Skins, as you're pointing out
it's not easy to win games you're starting at Pittsburgh Park.

Speaker 1 (45:34):
No, it's just not.

Speaker 4 (45:37):
It's just not. I think there's actually a better chance
of Judge hitting four hundred. I really do. I love
fall team, but this is there, you go, this is
not his this Let's put it this way. As long
as the Skeins is wearing the black and gold of
the Bucos, and as long as they're in their current

(46:00):
lack of competitiveness, wins will not be the stat in
which Schemes is a dominant pitcher in He's going to
be really good in that, in that by those standards,
in that, in that category, but just not not the
league wide he's just I think double digit win seasons.
It's just crazy to say it, but that's just where
the pirates are right now. He's still great, he still

(46:23):
is going to be an All Star, He's still going
to be a perpetual die on candidate, and there'll be
the eight for Team USA at the WBC. All those
things are true. But he might have a losing record
when the season is done, and that is a that
is an indictment of where the pirates are right now.

Speaker 1 (46:38):
I'm just in now. John paulond Is picturing you on
MLB Network tomorrow with Lauren Shahati in the big box
with your head is really huge saying and her saying
to you, did you really say, Aaron Judge get it
four hundred more than Paul Paul Skeins can win twelve games.
You're gonna say, yes, Yes, I did, Yes, I did.
I can see that happening tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (46:55):
I guys, I mean that's the numbers say right now. Yeah,
the look at get where again schemes were about halfway
through the year. It's just my goodness, we have to
go go through and actually look at the statistical likelihood
that a pitcher would have an ERA under two with

(47:15):
by the end, you'll probably pitch one hundred and seventy innings.
So a sub to e R one hundred and seventy innings,
what's the lowest number of wins? And I'm gonna probably
I'm not going to look this up necessarily, right, I mean,
maybe I will while you're asking the next question, I'll
look this up. I cannot, I cannot imagine that it's

(47:38):
that this number is. I mean, how many guys could
have possibly had an ERA under two with one hundred
and seventy innings and one fewer than ten games. We're
about to find out literally as you ask me this question.
I'm going to work on this as as we're talking
right now. It is a that's that is where that
that is where the pirates and schemes are right now,
all right now.

Speaker 1 (47:58):
So speaking of pictures, you'll look. We watched sho Heyotani
warm up during the playoffs last year, thinking, Okay, he's
throwing because he's going to pitch in the playoffs. No, no,
we still haven't seen him. But Dave Roberts said there
is a north of zero chance that he pitches before
the All Star break, meaning it's not zero north of
zero could be ninety percent, it could be fifty percent,
it could be ten percent, it could be five percent,

(48:20):
but north of zero, which tells me that Otani potentially
is on the way back. Like, what are you hearing?
Is this feasible? Could we see Otani pitch before the
All Star break?

Speaker 4 (48:30):
It's feasible. And I think that why it's feasible is
that the Dodgers have certainly let him They I'm not
saying that they've had him take too much time, but
they've been very deliberate about the pace of all this,
and I think part of it is that just that
they didn't want to have him dedicated completely to the

(48:55):
pitching side of things, because obviously he's their DH So
I think that they have been monitoring this very very carefully.
They have been, They have been overly careful to this point.
The reason why I think that the that this has
come up, and I think it's entirely appropriate by the
way that it has, is that the Dodgers need him

(49:17):
right now. Show is probably on a faster track to
coming back than Glass now is, and then Snell is
so as long as that's the case, as long as
Show is ahead of them, then then basically it's kind
of his turn. The Dodgers have had so many issues

(49:39):
with pitchers who have been hurt. They've come back, they've
gone back on the ielt. The need, the acute need
for the Dodgers is today, is this week, is next
week is certainly early July, let's say, And tonight Tonight's
game is a perfect example. The Dodgers do not currently
have the pitching depth to be able to chase wins
on on consecutive days every time. Because of where of

(50:03):
where their depth is, they just don't have the innings
to be covered. They cannot bring in their a bullpen
all the time. Guys like Dryer and Casperri's are too
valuable for them in the bullpen to put in starting roles.
It seems on a consistent basis they're stuck. And the
reality is one of the best and I mean and
not as we can't expect him, by the way to
come back and pitch like Paul scheme, but he's going

(50:25):
to be a well above average starting pitcher because that's
what he's been throughout his career and the need for
him is now. He seems to be by all accounts,
a very healthy player. We see him swinging it all
the time. I think that he's I'm with Dave Roberts there,
and I think that that's maybe Dave Roberts's way of

(50:46):
sort of communicating to the organization this is the time
that we need showing, and I think that it's the
right thing for the manager to say, and it may
just happen right around the All Star Game that Oltani
is back on the Mount.

Speaker 1 (50:59):
Jason Show with me.

Speaker 3 (51:00):
Mike Carmon here from the Fox Sports Radio Studios on
the hotline with us MLB Network, our Superstars, our guy
John Paul Morosi at John Morosi, leave out the h because,
as he said a couple of weeks ago, literally Mom said,
so j O N mr Osi, did you get the answer?

Speaker 1 (51:18):
Because I think I had the answer. I had a guess,
and I think it's been confirmed.

Speaker 2 (51:22):
Oh on on the the Subimber two.

Speaker 1 (51:26):
Eer with at least one hundred and seventy innings.

Speaker 3 (51:29):
Pitch Jacobe, is it Jacob? Well, there's another guy that
from nineteen oh two. O.

Speaker 4 (51:37):
Yes, I actually the year that I found was nineteen
oh four. Okay, the great ned Garvin, oh even better
ned Garviage, but the lowest in.

Speaker 5 (51:49):
The let's see yes, in the divisional.

Speaker 4 (51:53):
Era, the lowest win total of any pitcher with one
hundred and seventy plus innings and a sub two is
It's a tie for Bobby Bolin of the nineteen sixty
eight Giants Indivisional era, Tommy John Okay the eight White Sox,

(52:13):
and Jacob Degram twenty eighteen Mets, all with ten with
men win.

Speaker 3 (52:18):
It fed me a guy named Ed Seaver with the
Tigers in nineteen oh two. No, wow, head, go all
the way down. Yes, Tom Seavers, great great grandfather.

Speaker 1 (52:27):
All right, so ja b Let me ask you.

Speaker 3 (52:29):
Roman Anthony the latest guy to get called up and
Boston the White Sox had their starter tonight.

Speaker 1 (52:35):
He's the eighth guy to make his major league debut.

Speaker 8 (52:38):
Is it just me?

Speaker 1 (52:39):
Or does it seem like we're just seeing this conga
line of young call ups a lot earlier than we
used to.

Speaker 4 (52:47):
We are, and I think that it's for a couple
of reasons. I'll mention a few number one hitters now
have seen through their showcase career there's more pitches, more
at bats than basically any other previous generation of hitters.
They play that now they may not be organized games

(53:10):
all the time, but they see a lot of pitching,
a lot a ton of pitching, so the hitters are
in many ways better prepared. Similarly, on the pitching side,
you don't know when they're going to break down, so
you better. Their innings are more valuable to you in
the major leagues than they are in double as. So
I think that there's an incentive, based on the reality
of the game to promote the players. We also see

(53:34):
this that because of the trade market, teams are very
reluctant to give up their best prospects in trades. So
if you're not going to trade them, you might as
well play them. You might as well promote them and
having part of your major league team. And I think
also you've got a lot of teams that are trying
to be mindful of their budget, and often the least

(53:58):
expensive big change you can make to your to your
club is to promote from within. They're going to make
the major league minimum. So I think that for a
lot of reasons financial and competitive, that's what we're seeing
seeing teams do, and I expect it's going to continue.
It's just this is the way of the modern game,
and you may even start seeing some guys that started

(54:19):
the season at Double A that are that are coming
up quickly, and Anthony Long deserved its call up.

Speaker 5 (54:25):
I'm glad he got it.

Speaker 4 (54:26):
It's kind of a youth movement in Boston. But the
point I'll make on the American League right now, in general,
there's a lot of teams that are flawed. There's a
lot of teams that are that have good enough team,
good enough rosters to make a playoff run to where
the American League is anybody's league. I think in the
n L, I said it tel last week. I think

(54:46):
Jason the Mets of the best team I've seen, they
really are. Yeah, and and so I think that the
NL is a little more top heavy. The American League
is anybody's guests. And uh, you might see a central
team in a America League central team in the World
Series for what would be the first time since twenty
sixteen with Cleveland. So I think we could be headed

(55:09):
for one of those Midwest Baseball kind of a World Series.

Speaker 3 (55:13):
JP, you might as well have just dropped the bar
gold in front of this guy. His eyes glazed over
and it was the biggest.

Speaker 1 (55:18):
Smile I've ever seen. Well, he tell me something I know, yeah,
I know, I remember the best team in the nice
I know, I know they are.

Speaker 5 (55:24):
They are.

Speaker 4 (55:24):
That's my belief based on what I have seen, they're
the best team.

Speaker 1 (55:29):
Now, really are two things before we let you go.
Number One, I need you to reach out to David
Stearns like I did a month ago, and say every
passing day that Alonzo contract gets more and more expensive.

Speaker 4 (55:39):
Okay, just every time day, Doyn Pete, dyn Pete to
get it done.

Speaker 5 (55:44):
Now you got it.

Speaker 1 (55:45):
Second thing is John Paul I forget with all these
guys coming up. What's the name of that rookie in
Kansas City you're going to get to see Thursday in
the showcase? How do you say his name? I have
a tough to how do you pronounce his name?

Speaker 4 (55:57):
Jack Glean Glean? But we're gonna we're gonna work on that.
It's to the anglophone here, it's hagli cagli is. How
is how they've been saying it.

Speaker 1 (56:12):
Yeah, that's that's not as good as how you say it.

Speaker 5 (56:15):
That's that's not fun the fun way, the fun way,
the correct way. Glean and by the way, we uh
we Italy uh finally won a soccer match of consequence
yesterday over over the formidable side from Moldova in World
Cup qualifying so to nil. But the but the manager

(56:38):
Spalletti was he was fired over the weekend, so.

Speaker 4 (56:42):
We've got a new new beginning. We need to find
who that new manager is going to because we cannot
miss the World Cup for a third straight cycle. That
would not be acceptable. So I'm I'm counting on the
suit we to find their way to to get back
in the big dance.

Speaker 1 (56:56):
After tonight. I'll give you a Pochettino free, absolute well
absolutely free, you can have.

Speaker 4 (57:02):
We might he has an Italian surname and uh and
and he probably would be able to find a way
to to lead lead Italy to the qualifying But I
but again, uh the US. I got two teams and
I'm not terribly thrilled.

Speaker 5 (57:17):
About either one of them right now.

Speaker 4 (57:18):
So that's that's where that's where I'm at. I don't
get to be a fan of many things, but world
soccer I am, and right now being a fan of
my two teams is not a ton of fun. So
I've gotta we've we've got to work on that good thing.
I'm trying to build the ambassador role there between the
US and Italy and find a way to somehow cobble
together a team release of Italian Americans that can maybe
sploc some goals.

Speaker 1 (57:39):
He's on Twitter at John Morose. You check him out.
Thursday MLB Network Showcase Game of the Week, Yankees, Royals,
John Paulo is always buddy Evergret, Well, we'll talk to
you really good.

Speaker 4 (57:48):
The conversation is always my friends. Thank you so much
and looking forward to the next one.