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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. Step, ride up and
sweep the Mets.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Just kill yourself.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
The Mets are swinging in, missing that ball. The other
team's home runs over the wall.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
This isn't entertaining anymore.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
This is I would really like. You know, here's my favorite.
I ask for so little, right, I asked for so
little here. I would really like if the Mets are
gonna lose this game right where where you know, they've
allowed five and the seventh of the Mariners, they're losing eleven,
nine and the ninth inning. If they're gonna lose, lose
before the Dodgers padre starts. Okay, so I can have
a clean slate for the biggest baseball series of the year.
(01:12):
All right, I don't want to have this hanging. If
you're gonna lose. I don't want to hang it over
me and have to worry about going back and forth
everything I like lose so I can go right to
Padres Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Well, I mean, you gotta have a little bit of
suffering in. You gotta pay for your sins.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
What do you mean, what do you think it's been
all suffering? What are you talking about.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
To?
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yeah, allowed levelbrated Beatles day and everything. Yeah, yeah, that's great,
and another l and another it's gonna be another yet yeah, okay, Well,
I mean it's inevitable. As he walks, the base is full.
Of course it is, of course it is. It's I mean,
if you're gonna, I mean I may just I may
just have to pull the plug and just go over
to Padres Dodgers and in uh in six minutes, I
just have to do it. And so you know, it's sorry,
(01:57):
I gotta just go. I gotta. I'm sorry. I can't
be in a Anymoreguez hits a grand slam on you.
But then I'm gonna throw my TV out the window,
which is one of my favorite chips is the guy
that yanks's TV out of the wall and.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Throws throw yourself out the window. They're so bad.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
The better one is just going back to the old
Elvis theory of having a long line of TVs and
waiting and if you didn't like what was on, you
just shoot it.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Yeah no, but here's it, shoot it now. But here's
the thing is is I don't really I don't really care.
I I can't do that because you know the Knicks.
I mean, come on, this is gonna be our year, right,
this is the finals. It gives you a couple of
months to replace it. Give me a bigger TV.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Look, you got out of the inning, first ball, swinging
Rodriguez lines to write, and now you get you just
need three in the bottom of the ninth.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Then I'll tell you, well, all right, I'll take two.
I'll take two. I'll also take a quick one two
three so I can get over to Padres Dodgers. No,
that's really I mean this screen experience. Let's go. I mean,
so this is the baseball series of the year. There
has not been one bigger where the Dodgers somehow enter
this series trailing by a game in the NL West.
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It has been a trade deadline where the Padres have
just continued their hot play. They've added to their bullpen,
They're closing games out, They're bringing relievers in the third inning,
even can shutout games. When the starting pitchers given up
no hits and hasn't thrown a ball, they're still going
to the bullpen and the third they are winning. This
is they are playing as well as they have. The
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Dodgers are questionable. If this is a Padres sweep, and
clearly you look at which team is playing better going
in like that, that that might that might basically have
the Dodgers have to settle for a wild card if
this is a four game lead coming out, and I
can't say it's not gonna happen even Look, Dodgers are
home everything. But the Dodgers aren't playing well. They got
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problems up and down the lineup, problems with pitching. The
Padres have none, which is clearly means the Dodgers will
get five in the first and win this game nine
to one.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
But look what you're doing, You're you're salting them away
before the soul used of them all. Clayton Kershaw takes
the mound and throws that first pitch at seven, ten,
seven eleven, not seven or nine, seven ten, because he's salty.
You're talking sweep already. I man, that's that's dangerous stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
You don't think if you're Manny Machado, you're finding some
way to delay the start of the game by a
minute to get so at seven eleven, there's another minute
when Kershaw.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Throws the trying to get under his skin. Like you
start walking up towards the batter's box and somebody you
got a cramp in your cap allegedly.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Oh yeah, give me a second, give me a second,
oh for a second. Yeah yeah, And they bring out
the the the what the cold stuff that they spray on,
and they need the band and the whole nine yards hold.
The trainer says, listen, it's nothing. It's just like all
that just it just protects you. Don't worry. It's nothing.
I just here you go. Okay, very good to get
up there a hit, all right, that's fantastic.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
About Yeah, eight and a half runs is the was
the open. It's up to nine and a half. As
we get ready for first.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Pitch, it's seven twelve. We can start now. He's never
going to get out of the first inning. Uh this again,
this is some see again, biggest baseball series of the year.
Nothing else has closed. Padres Dodgers just a few minutes away.
Will of course keep you updated on this.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Throughout the stats stats on Kershaw. If it does get delayed,
how does that first inning?
Speaker 1 (05:14):
I don't, I don't. I don't you know what I
would have to ask Ai, But I don't think it's good.
I don't. I don't think it's good. What what happens
when Kershaw? Okay, what happens? Okay, it auto filled for me.
What happened to Odell Beckham Junior? Right, that's the auto film.
That's what happens when Kershaw has a game start late.
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Let's see. The answer is uh, it makes him difficult
to regain his ramp up. It could lead to a
shortened outing, with the team opting to use the bullpen
to cover the longer duration of the game. Basically, Frostburg,
you're screwed.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
There you go, there's any I'm not a nuts fan.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Yeah, but there was no specificity to that at all.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Own or not? You the way?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Oh yeah, he's saying I'm screws bonded.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Oh if they start the game late, I just read it.
The whole thing off of AA what happens when the
game starts late.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
AI also has the Mets winning tonight.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
They did get in one hundred thirteen bucks for this game,
Oh boy, fifty strong as the Dodgers host the Podgers.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
So we'll keep you updated on this throughout the night.
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two preseason games in the NFL tonight, and it's really
hard to do this. I mean, first Onile we got
Kansas City. Seattle is just underway. Titans lead the Falcons
right now, twenty three to twenty late in the fourth court,
and the Chiefs are already cheating this already, they're they're
giving They gave him a first down. They said, Mahomes
got laid hit on a handle.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
They don't even have the ball. They gave him a
first down.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
But this is really hard to do, Mike. But absolutely
this has happened. The number one overall pick in the
NFL draft, who is a quarterback, has been absolutely invisible
and off the radar screen since the NFL draft. Well,
cam Wharf to being drafted by Tennessee. But but still though,
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I mean, this is this is It's not you know,
in the NBA, I get it because you see that
you need guys to start in bigger markets. It happens
that way. But the NFL, they find you everywhere, they
find you everywhere, and here's the number one pick. And
it's not it's not like he's an offensive tackle, it's
a defensive end. This is a quarterback. It's about a
quarterback man and cam Ward who has been perfectly acceptable
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so far. Right, he had an okay first game, He
had an okay first quarter tonight, you know, finished two
out of seven for forty two yards in limited play,
but still led the Titans down to his score in
the first quarter before he came out. Everything was you know,
he's been perfectly acceptable so far. And there has been
absolutely no buzz, no attention, no anything, nothing about the
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number one overall pick in the draft. And that that
you know, in a in a time when not a
lot in the NFL shocks me. This does because it
shouldn't be no buzz on cam Ward. It's wild that
this is the case that we talk way more about
Shador Sanders, who is fourth string not playing this weekend,
and all the drama that goes along with it. If
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you had a pie chart, it would be ninety nine
point nine nine percent Shador Sanders in the in the country.
And the only reason it's point point one percent cam
Ward is because we're talking about it right now. This
is the first time he's been mentioned since he got drafted.
This is done, and he's a quarterback and he's exciting,
and he throws for a lot of yards, and still
it's like, oh, yeah, yeah, how's cam Ward gonna do?
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He's let he's not even on page one of of
you know, you're not even below the fold. He's what
Bin o'cook would say, it would be page f eight
in the agate type on the bottom of the page.
That's how unimportant is That's how low. That's how low
cam Ward has been. And he's the number one pick
in the draft.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Yeah, I think a couple of things come into play, right.
We've been talking a lot about the veterans. You know,
the back stuff with Matthew Stafford the last week or so,
Aaron Rodgers. For the longest time, was he going to play?
Where was he going to go? Was the thing with
Pittsburgh inevitable? It ended up happening, and here we are,
And then you've got so many questions about the second
year guys. I mean, look at all the hot air
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being blown about Caleb Williams. Just every every day, it's
a new headline, it's a new breakdown, it's a new Hey.
Maybe this was an AI driven bot versus an actual
source telling you something about what's going on behind the scenes. Right,
You've got so much chaos and all of that, and
the shedor Sanders because of the surname and what we've won.
(10:00):
Watch that takes up a bit of the pie chart.
Travis Hunter, how much is he gonna play on both
sides of the ball. We gotta give it a sliver
off to him. So, yeah, cam Ward has been able
to operate in relative anonymity there in Tennessee. Not often
you get to do that as a number one pick.
But when last year's is drawing so much higher and
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slinging ink in one of the big metroplexes.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
That's what it does. I mean, just think about what
the the preseason has been so far. As we get
into week two, think about what it's been so far,
which has been basically Shador Sanders has been the story.
And you want to say, what's the second story. Well,
if there's drama with Jerry Jones about paying or not
paying Micah Parsons or Jerry Jones saying something or doing something,
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or just general Cowboys, the Shenanigans, right that there's number
two state in general. Yeah, that's it. Yeah, that's it. Really,
that's been it like like it. I know that the
draft didn't go well with a lot of big playmakers
at the top, and obviously Travis Hunter, you know we're
waiting it's basically just seeing him play both sides of
the ball. But this that's why I thought, for sure,
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well we're gonna at least default to cam Ward that
the number one pick in the draft's gonna get something. Nope, Nope,
he's even he's even being looked over in every kind
of dynasty draft I'm doing in fantasy where he's the
only quarterback you're gonna take, and I'm seeing dynasty rookie
drafts where he's making it out of the first round,
like no one's even not to but he's a starting
quarterback and when you do Dynasty, it's it happens that way, like,
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oh my goodness, No, no, no, he's making it out of
the naa no, don't like Cam woard to going out
of the first round, number one pick of the draft.
This is how much it is, and I really it
really shocks me. I hope he has some sort of
incredible run beginning of the season. He bursts on the
scene like Cam Newton and all of a sudden, it's,
oh my goodness, he throws for four hundred yards and
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look at what Cam Newton did you know? Remember his
first couple of games with the Panthers were like eight
hundred yards passing and Steve Smith had like six hundred
yards receiving. Like, I hope he does that because he
should be getting a little bit more of the spoils
that go along with being the number one pick in
the draft. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
I mean, look, sometimes it's good to not have the
spotlight be quite so loud and bright for you. But
you know, I get what you're saying. Let's see, they
are currently at plus seven seventy five to win the
AFC South one that we've discussed at at nauseum, going
back to some of the Jacksonville stuff and our discussion
(12:25):
of the Colts, and look, the Texans are the favorite,
but they're just minus one oh five, so not exactly
a prohibited favorite by any stretch of the imagination. So
you know, things break right, you have the opportunity to
go make some noise. You got a couple of playmakers
in there, some decent wideouts that have been added over
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the course of this offseason. We'll see what Calvin Ridley's got,
but to bring in Tyler Lockett. Van Jefferson has shown
as a third at spots. Now he's got to take
on a bigger role Tony Pollard. You lost Spears to injuries,
so keeping an eye on the running back position behind Pollard.
But you got some playmakers. Hell, you got a guy
named Gunner running a tight end along a conquo. He
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had a big game tonight, So yeah, curiosity, no question
in that division. So maybe he'll start getting some noise
in some pub But you know, I think most guys
would rather come into their first camp and be left
alone as opposed to the constant headlines and talking heads
right to go and owing back to Denzel Washington or
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going back to Shador Sanders trying to find his guy
Tony Grossi afterwards like, hey, why do.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
You hate me?
Speaker 4 (13:37):
So all of that to say for cam Ward, wish
him the best. We certainly watched a lot of his
games the last couple of years in the studio and
he made his share of big plays. So with that
he'll get his He'll just due. But for the off season,
sometimes it's okay to just go go do your work
behind the scenes.
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And uh yes, I do want to thank the Mets.
Pete Alonzo grounded out to second. I was able to
flip right over to see Clayton Kershaw throw his final
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warm up pitch. I did not miss the opening pitch
of Padres Dodgers Padres go out one, two three. Top
of the first Dodgers coming to the.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
First picture was at seven eleven.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Though it was it could be a short out, and
that was a great first inning.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
And I gotta give credits to the Mets. They clearly
wanted to watch the Dodgers and Podcas.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Mike wash your mouth out with soap for giving credits
than that.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Well, no, just because they went meekly in now what
we do here?
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Come?
Speaker 1 (14:46):
I wanted to watch some real baseball.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Buddy, Come on, you can't give credit to them.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
The Mets lost in time so nobody could look. The
game was on MLB network, was a big thing. Was okay,
we're all good man, what's happening? What's that? But coming
up next We'll keep you posted, of course on Dodgers padres.
But coming up next. Finally, after what seems like a
decade but really more like three years, the most controversial
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story in college football has come to a close. We
got that next right here, Jason and Mike. This.
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top of the second inning, My dad on the hook
our streak for the MLB dot com thestreak, you know,
get the fifty six games, win five and a half
million dollars. We are at ten. We are at ten,
and my dad took Otani for tonight, so he's feeling
the pressure right now.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
So almost as long as your underwear streaks.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
All well, one day for putting my underwear on the
right way after my seventeen thousand plus day of doing that. Yeah, nobody's.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Nobody's looking to verify that though. So how do we
know you're telling the truth?
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Well, I told the story last night of you think
I'm doing that enough, I'm gonna tell you a bad story.
I not lie to you about it.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Tell us bout stories all the time.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Dude, I tell you great stories. I tell you great
Maybe you decided you kind of liked it. No, I no,
I didn't know. I didn't. Okay, in case.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
At the last pressure and snugness, no.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Reason to rehash and keep it moving.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
But you bring it up. I got at least I
found out last night at about ten thirty. You know,
my pants hadn't been feeling.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Great, Mike, what's going on?
Speaker 1 (17:25):
How you doing? I'm good. I know what was going on.
And I realized it after like this, I had my
underwear on backwards. I put my underwear on backwards for
the first time in my life.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
I lost it.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
I was the cal ripken of putting my underwear on
the right way over seventeen thousand days in a row
my life. I looked it up seventeenth that now I'm
at one day and somehow I did that. You know,
you got to pick a lane Frostburg. You can't bring
it up and then say no, we hadn't talked one
or the other.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Ju Just because it was brought up does not mean
you have to tell this whole story again.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
One Mason. People got to know. Going to talk about
the Mets, I mean really, I mean, I'd rather talk
about putting my underor on backwards in the Mets. It's
where we're at right now in the season, which is
more embarrassing. Eight ninety we've lost fourteen out of sixteen.
What's where the Mets losing fourteen out of sixteen or
me wearing my underwear back both horrible for about eight
and a half hours last night. It's terrible. Yeah, they're
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both bad. They're both bad. But I've seen the Mets lose.
I've seen them lose lots again. I will see them
lose a lot again. I will see that I've never
done that before again. I'm like cal Ripking at the end,
I'm I'm high five and with the fans going up
and down the side of the field that the streak
is over, he put his underwear on backwards and didn't notice. Okay,
now I'm at day one. One day it was. It
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was a big fail. It was a big feel. But
but this is how it goes now. So now there
you go, Frostburg, I told the story. Are you happy now? No?
Speaker 3 (18:51):
I didn't want to hear it.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
All right, all right, Well, I think the the fates
punished you because we just got that is as a
foul run. Loreano a solo home run off of Clayton Kershaw.
It took a little bit to see if the ball
was fair or not. So the Padres with a one
nothing lead over Dodgers and Kershaw. It would have been
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a strikeout, but Frostburg decided to be haughty about my
underwear story. And so here the baseball fates have punished
you with a home run by Ramon Loreano. Oh yeah,
it hit the pole. It hit no I really do
you like? You watch baseball? Do you watch baseball?
Speaker 3 (19:32):
I watched real baseball, unlike you.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
That's insane because it landed in faul territory. Smith, it
should be a foul ball.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
It's actually if it hits the foul pole and then
lands in foul territories, it's also called the foul pole,
so if it hits it, it should be foul. They can't.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
I was thinking more that the padres hit it, so
it's fell ball.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Oh okay, well the home field advantage, okay, all right?
That the umpire should have overturned it, right like uh
angel underwear? Yeah, I should have. I wish I should have.
I would have had a more comfortable day yesterday. I mean,
really like eight hours of why is why do my
pants feel?
Speaker 2 (20:07):
So?
Speaker 1 (20:07):
I don't understand this? Why what's going on? I don't
get this. I don't get it. I never thought to chat.
I just thought, okay, I ate too much or whatever
it was. And I'm kind of a bummed because I'm
gonna have my way in this week with PhD weight
loss and everything that's gonna be No, and I realized, oh,
I just had my underwear on backwards. Okay, So I
felt good in the moment, then I felt bad overall.
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Did you then shame me? I did not shame it. No,
I just I was able to move past it. And
then Frostburg brought it up. And now now it's a
sad thing. And now I you know, to that end,
since the.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
Brewers won again, coming back from a huge deficit to
Cincinnati to extend the winning streak to thirteen games. Does
that add an extra day of burgers or is it
only when they to mark the twelfth.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
I would think it's got to be a burger a day, right,
especially when I mean they were getting killed was eight
to one in this game.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Yeah, because they announced that it's August twentieth is the
burger day?
Speaker 1 (21:01):
To go and get your burger? Yeah, I don't know,
I must. I would say if you if you're who
is it? Is it? Who is it? A Chuck Web?
What's the what's the David Webb? What's what's David Webb?
Is Jason Bourne's real name? What's the name of the
George Web? Right? Georgeorge? Like George Web really wants to
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win people over be Hey, free burger every day until
they lose? Right like that? That all of a sudden,
then you got something that's whoa hang on a second,
You had a free burger every day until they lose?
All right? Wow?
Speaker 4 (21:33):
They even have the the the airport George Webb actually
participated by handing out vouchers.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
How about that?
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Probably the airport people tell you to go pound saying
we don't participate in any of those giveaways and stuff.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Yeah, and I believe Mets fans are burning gear with
every passing loss. That's yeah, that's the Colors, the Colors.
Speaker 6 (21:55):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Meanwhile, our fine national nightmare has ended because we got
the final final NCAA decision on University of Michigan's penalties
for their spygates scandal with Connor Stallions from I believe
it was nineteen ninety seven was when this started. Michigan
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gets a series of fines that could be as much
as thirty million dollars, but didn't get a postseason ban,
didn't get vacating victories, didn't have to vacate the National Championship.
As the Committee on Infractions finally ruled on the Wolverines
advance scout in case on Friday, there's gonna be an
extra suspension for Surean Moore, the head coach, he's getting
(22:37):
two games this year, served in Game three in Game
four because Michigan was like, hey, listen, we got like
Western and Nebraska in those two games. You rather be
suspended there, mew while Nebraska's going, hey, come on, man,
you what your coach to be suspended? I thought we
were oh, no, that's a big look in the mirror
moment for Nebraska if they haven't had that already. But
he also is going to get the first game of
(22:58):
the twenty twenty six which potentially could be in Germany,
I think, or somewhere in Europe. They're debating to play
Western Michigan in Europe for opening week next year. So
Sharan Moore is getting game three, in game four this
year and opening game of next year. And finally, this
(23:19):
has been a twenty plus million dollar five which means
about thirty million dollars overall. This is what Michigan is getting.
And finally this story is over. Finally, seventy four page report,
you get the two game suspension. Add on, I mean
he doesn't get to go on a European vacation like
the Grizwolds. That sucks twenty five percent reduction in official
(23:40):
visits for the twenty five twenty six school year. But
seeing as.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
What the football budget is overall, some two hundred and
sixty million dollars or something is what I saw it
estimated at that, I think they'll be able to take
the short term hit. The fact that they don't vacate
wins good Somewhere along the way, the rules in Fraction
committee finally learned something that we all knew. It was
(24:04):
dopey and ridiculous, but I know across the big ten uh,
reaching back to Chicago with the northwestern side of things,
obviously in Buckeye Land keeping an eye on like like,
I'm the dude from the Seahawks and draft damm watching
all the message boards and was reading stuff all day.
Why why don't they they have these these more penalties.
(24:25):
Why aren't they banned from bowl games?
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Why are they?
Speaker 4 (24:27):
And they came down with the well, I mean no
player was ruled ineligible, so you know, no vacating vacating wins,
and then it would be wrong to punish kids who
weren't there.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
What an enlightened stance. How does USC feel about all
of that? And other and other schools who.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
Have faced the wrath of this dying institution low these
many years.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
I mean, really, I mean, the big loser the more
I think about this, the big loser really is Nebraska
because there is there there is no other thing you
need to know how far that football program has fallen,
but the fact that Michigan, Michigan, if their first two
games in New Mexico. And then it's Oklahoma. Right, Oklahoma's
a top twenty team. It's gonna be tough. I'm telling you.
I think uh, I think the tier has a lot
(25:14):
of money on this, kid. No, so you know they want,
they wanted. You're on more for the first two games. Yeah,
we want the next two. Game four is at Nebraska,
Yeah we want. We We're okay without having our coach
for Nebraska like this, there's no other bit of evidence.
He to sh how far Nebraska has fallen than that
right there? Yeah, yeah, we're okay not having our head cut.
It's Nebraska. Come on, man, that's what's gonna happen. Nebraska
(25:36):
is terrible. Like, let me ask you this. This should
be brought bottom for Nebraska.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
Which is worse being the team that your coach serves
a suspension in and a chosen kind of wheel of
fate or you're name the homecoming opponent?
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Oh ah, oh wow, well you know the thing is homecoming?
Ooh no, I think this is it? Like yeah, like
this is everybody coming. Oh man without our head coach.
Oh wow, that's a tough one, Mike. Uh No, I
you know what I'm gonna have to say this. I
think there's more. I think there's more scheduling and situations
(26:15):
that go into scheduling when homecoming is going to be,
when the weekend works best, when it can be, and
yet there's more pieces have to fall into place. This
was Michigan knowing the schedule, going yeah, we're okay with
a two game band went ah, boy, what's the best
two games? Yeah? Three and four? Yeah, three and four. Yeah,
that's what we want right there, that's we want, we want.
We're okay not having him against Central Michigan and Nebraska.
(26:41):
But you know what the thing is, This is why
I laugh about this because I'm so glad this is over.
I'm just embarrassed for all of college football. Not that
this wasn't a big story, because it was not. That
it wasn't something that was shocking and shouldn't have happen.
And I say this living in a Michigan house, knowing
full well that I go to sleep next to a
Michigan grad and now I'm gonna sleep with one eye
(27:02):
open tonight, right, I knowing full well that I toured
the Michigan campus, you know, three weeks ago. Okay, I
say all this knowing this, But I mean, the thing
is is it was a big deal and something should
have been done, but instead the NCAAA, how the blank
do you drag this thing out for three years? Man?
Three and you get you get a suspension for horriball
(27:24):
and another suspension for Harball, and a suspension for Sharon
Moore and now another suspension. You're suspending the coaches for
a total before seasons like somebody's gonna go to college.
Go yeah, all four of my years the coach suspended
at the very beginning of the season. It happened all
the time, like it's embarrassing, man, Like, oh now, and
now the NCAA says, basically, the reason is they didn't
want to penalize people who are at Michigan now that
(27:47):
had nothing to do with the sign stealing scandal, because
basically everybody's gone. The only one left is more so
he's getting the suspension. And I wanted to say, really,
three years is what you needed? You needed three years.
I get that you needed months, I get the needed,
but you needed three years for this. I mean, come on, man,
this is this is You're You're not the you're not
the police department, and you're going after some sort of
(28:09):
long game where people are going undercover, like in the
movies when when somebody screws something up and the grizzled
cop comes in and says, you ruined eighteen months of
undercover work. I think that was a point break. You
were in eighteen months of undercover work because you bought
it to come in like a cowboy here and go
blasting guns. It was it took me so long to
get in with this gang, Like this is not what
(28:30):
that is. Man. If you couldn't get the stuff from Michigan,
you couldn't get Connor Stallion's cell phone because he says
he threw it in a lake and that's where all
the information was. If you couldn't find it, you couldn't
find it three years. It's like what does it even
matter at this point, Like like I'm just I'm just
glad that it's over, and I'm glad that it's done.
It's embarrassing for the NCAA to cit here and say, yeah,
(28:50):
it took us three bleeping years to figure this whole
thing out, Like it was just embarrassing all around. Well,
but you took three years.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
A lot of committee out, there's a lot of investigation
to do what like, is there was there really anything
substantive out of this?
Speaker 1 (29:07):
No, there was there seemed to be. And I'll say
this for overall for the evidence, right if I could
sum it up, because I want to do that, is
that it's one of those cases where when you see
someone lose a case, very highly publicized case, and it
felt like, oh, they should have won. When the lawyer says,
(29:31):
you know, we know a crime was committed, we just
didn't have enough to prove it, right, Which is kind
of an excuse, but still you get that, like, we
know a crime was committed, we just didn't have enough
to prove it. And there's a lot of you know,
armchair lawyers and people that are following big court cases
that go on go, yeah, I can understand that, right,
pretty sure a crime was committed, but we didn't have
enough to prove it. That's kind of where I feel
(29:52):
the NCAA was, where they knew what Michigan did was wrong,
they just didn't have enough evidence to prove it and
they dragged it out. I don't know what they're hoping for,
Hoping for that at some point a long lost witness.
Now now I'm really getting into plotlines and movies would
show up and go, oh, this is so and so
she was there the night of the seventeenth, ten years ago,
and she remembers everything. Why didn't you come forward before? Now, well,
(30:13):
I didn't know. I was out of the country. I
had no idea. I came back in. My sister told
me like like the nca waited for a day that
wasn't coming. And it was just embarrassing that they could
have done something earlier. They could have been strong. They
could have sent a message. They could have made Michigan
ineligible from winning the Big Ten. They could have made
Michigan ineligible from going to the playoff. They could have
done a lot of things that this is what we're doing.
(30:33):
Sign stealing, scandal, boom, got it done, We're over. But instead, no,
let's drag it out. And now it's got point where
only the staunchest of Michigan haters really care, and the
NCAA just proves that, Hey, give us enough time and
we'll embarrass ourselves. Don't worry about it. We will do
it one hundred percent time out. If I out what's
trending in the wide world of sports. But guy who's
(30:54):
been called the Connor Stallions of Fox Sports Radio because
one day I saw him break his phono thrown into
a lake. It's steve to say even I have.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Not been to that mini games in the NFL.
Speaker 7 (31:05):
We have two exhibitions tonight and of the first quarter
at Seattle, Seahawks seven nothing over the Chief Sam Darnold
four for four passing thirty four yards. Zach Sharbone have
fifteen yard touchdown. Run on the chief side isazat Pacheco
with a twenty two yard reception. Earlier, Tennessee was a
winner at Atlanta twenty three to twenty. Titans quarterback cam
Ward went two of seven, passing forty two yards, most
(31:28):
of that on the first pass he played.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
Three series.
Speaker 7 (31:30):
Titans led six to three late in the first half
to Major League Baseball. The Padres are leading at Dodger
Stadium one nothing in the bottom of the second on
a solo homer off Clayton Kershaw. The Padres are first
in the NL West, a game over LA. The Dodgers
have lost four in a row, while the Padres have
won five straight. In progress, it is the Rockies in
(31:52):
the lead for to three over the Diamondbacks.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
In the bottom of the seventh.
Speaker 7 (31:56):
Tiger's up seven nothing at Minnesota, bottom of the seventh. Yeah,
thank He's holding on at the end of seven, four
to three now at Saint Louis Angels and A's tied
one to one bottom of the second, raise at Giants,
tied one to one bottom of the second. All the
other games are finals, and that includes an Orioles seven
nothing win at Houston. Just one hit for the Stros
(32:17):
tonight and today. Houston closer Josh Hayter, with a strange shoulder,
was shut down for about three weeks. Dodger third baseman
Max Munsey goes on the injured list with a strained
oblique off the il. To pitch for Milwaukee tonight was
Young All Star Jacob Mazerowski. He got pulled in the
second inning, and at one point it was Red's eight
to one over the Brewers in the second. Milwaukee still
(32:39):
won again their thirteenth straight victory, ten to eight at Cincinnati.
Christian Yelich four hits, five RBIs, including two solo shots.
Pittsburgh beat the Cubs today three to two with a
solo homer top of the ninth. Philadelphia got Kyle Schwarber's
forty third home run of the season and a six
to two victory at Washington, but Phil's closer Joe on
(32:59):
to Ryan left after being hit in the ankle by
a line drive. He was carted off. Seattle won at
the Mets eleven to nine. The lost to Ryan Helsley.
Mets have dropped fourteen of sixteen. Cal Rawley of the
Mariners with his forty sixth homer, he has one hundred
RBIs here. In mid August, Toronto came back with four
runs in the bottom of the eighth to edge Texas
(33:20):
six to five. Boston with a run in the bottom
of the ninth beat Miami two to one, Atlanta two
nothing winners at Cleveland, the Royals had beaten the White
Sox three to one, and Yes, Michigan will appeal its
latest NCAA punishment, including the fines. Old miss gave defensive
coordinator Pete Golding a three year extension. WNBA wins for
(33:41):
Golden States, Washington and LA which won ninety seven ninety
six at Dallas. Kelsey Plum twenty eight points back to you.
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(34:10):
the Play of the Day coming your way and a
big story out of the NFL today that was kind
of shocking but then not so shocking. That's next. Fox.
Speaker 5 (34:22):
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Speaker 1 (34:29):
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buying should be. Well. When you're the biggest home run
hitter in Major League Baseball, check you hit another big
home run to help your team wh game. Check you
do it against the Mets. Checker Rooney, you get to
be the play of the day. Here's the pitch to
Col's going on. That is lifted left field. Bit well,
(35:12):
Mimo back, He's looking up and it is gone second
tack cow Roy number forty six for Col. Yeah, there
it is, Mariners TV on the call. Yay, Mets get
out to lead, doesn't matter, marenis fought back. Let's get
out to tweet against back. Met's get out to a lead.
Oh and then the Mariners decided, Yeah, we're done. We're
(35:34):
gonna score six on this inning against what are your relievers? Uh?
Mariners winning eleven nine and cal Rawley is your play
of the day again. I hate Abner double Day. I
wish he never existed. Wow, but then you wouldn't have
the Mets to love or hate. That's okay, that's all right.
Then I'd watch I just I wouldn't be watching Padres
Dodgers now either, I'd be wide by. I'd be all
(35:56):
in on on the Chiefs and the Seahawks. So you wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
Even with Sam dartled out there for a minute, and
what they.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Sam was perfect tonight. He was four four throwing the football.
Sam had a good night. They look great. So a
big story out of the NFL today there was a
poll conducted. They tried to ask over eighteen hundred players
basically everybody who played in the calendar year nineteen eighty
(36:27):
eight for the NFL. Right, And they wanted to see
this is an independent survey by ESPN and its health
policy research, and they wanted to find out what the
life outcomes of NFL players were who are around the
typical retirement age. That's everybody who played in nineteen eighty eight. Right,
So they tried to contact all fifteen hundred players who
played in the NFL that year. They got five hundred
(36:49):
and forty six players participated. Okay, okay, They wanted again.
They wanted to get players who are around the typical
retirement agent asked them questions about their life, their choices.
Would they do it again? Overwhelmingly, the vet said they
would absolutely do it again, despite the fact they're living
with chronic pain or disability. They're more depressed, more anxious,
(37:12):
they're more likely to report having some sort of cognitive
decline than the average American man. They said they would
do it again despite the physical tolls. And at first
you would say, oh my goodness, how do you say that,
knowing you know, knowing what your life is now. And
I would say, well, hang on a second. I completely
(37:32):
understand this because it's really hard for someone when you're
sitting there at you're retirement eight, you know, you're sixty two,
and you're thinking about your life and you're taking, hey,
would you do your entire life differently if you could?
And a lot of these guys are thinking back, going,
let's see, I was a superstar and pop warner. I
was a superstar in high school. I got to date
anybody I wanted to. I was a superstar in college again,
(37:53):
got today anybody wanted to, got money. I had a
great life. I got to the NFL. I got to
play in the NFL again, I got to do any
thing I wanted. I was treated like a king. That
was my life. I chose that. Of course I would
do that again. Right, of course I would. Because people
it's hard for people to say I regret my entire life,
because what you're saying is would you never play football?
(38:14):
And of course not like it's sixty two people. Yeah,
I mean yes, it's a front loaded deal, right, NFL players,
and sometimes when you and you play something and do
something very physical for a living, it's a front loaded
deal and NFL players enjoy an incredible quality of life
for the most part of their teenagers, twenties, thirties. Then
things start to get you start to deteriorate a bit, obviously,
(38:36):
but you know, players know this going in. I'm trading
this for to set up my family for life with
money and whatever else goes along with it. Yeah, I
completely get people who are sixty two not saying I
regret my whole life, So yeah, I get that why
they would all want to do it again. I think
that goes for a lot of professions.
Speaker 4 (38:55):
I mean there's parts of it and choices and decisions
that are made. You make your decision tree opportunity costs
of what you might have done for a lot of players,
you know. I think some of the question then becomes, well,
what would you have done if you hadn't been a
football player? And I'm going to guess it would have
been a lot of awkward pauses if you were actually
(39:15):
having a face to face conversation or a lot of
times staring at a blank text box on the online survey.
If that's how they were doing it, and you could
do that across all professions. I mean, in this case,
it's football. I mean, all of you out there, ask
yourself what you do on a given day daily basis
you don't love it one hundred percent at the time.
No matter what you do, there's always stuff that's going
(39:38):
to eat at you. In this case, you know, reading
some of the you know, free range responses about different
parts of the physicality of it all just kind of,
you know, get you a little bit sad.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
You know.
Speaker 4 (39:50):
They had the question about did you discourage your kids
from playing football? And one of the first answers was, quote,
didn't want them ending up like me. So you got
that going on, and certainly that's a whole other part
of in permutation of this. But to say, hey, would
you give up your whole life?
Speaker 1 (40:07):
Man?
Speaker 4 (40:08):
That's uh. Who's gonna be brutally honest with themselves and say, yeah,
that that that's something I shouldn't have signed on for Nobody.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
No, they're all gonna say they wanted to do it.
That look. Some regret, sure, absolutely, But you're saying do
you regret your entire life? No, people aren't gonna say
that again. They know I'm trading a front loaded deal
and it's worth it for me because of what I
was able to do and do for my family. Exit
out about a Fresco exit swalling down. Big update from
Padres Dodgers coming up next as well as we get
(40:38):
back into the biggest football story of the day. Keep
it here, Jason and Mike Fox.
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. Step, ride up and
sweep the Mets.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Just kill yourself.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
The Mets are swinging in, missing that ball. The other
team's home runs over the wall.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
This isn't entertaining anymore.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
This is I would really like. You know, here's my favorite.
I ask for so little, right, I asked for so
little here. I would really like if the Mets are
gonna lose this game right where where you know, they've
allowed five and the seventh of the Mariners, they're losing eleven,
nine and the ninth inning. If they're gonna lose, lose
before the Dodgers padre starts. Okay, so I can have
a clean slate for the biggest baseball series of the year.
(01:12):
All right, I don't want to have this hanging. If
you're gonna lose. I don't want to hang it over
me and have to worry about going back and forth
everything I like lose so I can go right to
Padres Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Well, I mean, you gotta have a little bit of
suffering in. You gotta pay for your sins.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
What do you mean, what do you think it's been
all suffering? What are you talking about.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
To?
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yeah, allowed levelbrated Beatles day and everything. Yeah, yeah, that's great,
and another l and another it's gonna be another yet yeah, okay, Well,
I mean it's inevitable. As he walks, the base is full.
Of course it is, of course it is. It's I mean,
if you're gonna, I mean I may just I may
just have to pull the plug and just go over
to Padres Dodgers and in uh in six minutes, I
just have to do it. And so you know, it's sorry,
(01:57):
I gotta just go. I gotta. I'm sorry. I can't
be in a Anymoreguez hits a grand slam on you.
But then I'm gonna throw my TV out the window,
which is one of my favorite chips is the guy
that yanks's TV out of the wall and.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Throws throw yourself out the window. They're so bad.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
The better one is just going back to the old
Elvis theory of having a long line of TVs and
waiting and if you didn't like what was on, you
just shoot it.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Yeah no, but here's it, shoot it now. But here's
the thing is is I don't really I don't really care.
I I can't do that because you know the Knicks.
I mean, come on, this is gonna be our year, right,
this is the finals. It gives you a couple of
months to replace it. Give me a bigger TV.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Look, you got out of the inning, first ball, swinging
Rodriguez lines to write, and now you get you just
need three in the bottom of the ninth.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Then I'll tell you, well, all right, I'll take two.
I'll take two. I'll also take a quick one two
three so I can get over to Padres Dodgers. No,
that's really I mean this screen experience. Let's go. I mean,
so this is the baseball series of the year. There
has not been one bigger where the Dodgers somehow enter
this series trailing by a game in the NL West.
(03:07):
It has been a trade deadline where the Padres have
just continued their hot play. They've added to their bullpen,
They're closing games out, They're bringing relievers in the third inning,
even can shutout games. When the starting pitchers given up
no hits and hasn't thrown a ball, they're still going
to the bullpen and the third they are winning. This
is they are playing as well as they have. The
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Dodgers are questionable. If this is a Padres sweep, and
clearly you look at which team is playing better going
in like that, that that might that might basically have
the Dodgers have to settle for a wild card if
this is a four game lead coming out, and I
can't say it's not gonna happen even Look, Dodgers are
home everything. But the Dodgers aren't playing well. They got
(03:49):
problems up and down the lineup, problems with pitching. The
Padres have none, which is clearly means the Dodgers will
get five in the first and win this game nine
to one.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
But look what you're doing, You're you're salting them away
before the soul used of them all. Clayton Kershaw takes
the mound and throws that first pitch at seven, ten,
seven eleven, not seven or nine, seven ten, because he's salty.
You're talking sweep already. I man, that's that's dangerous stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
You don't think if you're Manny Machado, you're finding some
way to delay the start of the game by a
minute to get so at seven eleven, there's another minute
when Kershaw.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Throws the trying to get under his skin. Like you
start walking up towards the batter's box and somebody you
got a cramp in your cap allegedly.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Oh yeah, give me a second, give me a second,
oh for a second. Yeah yeah, And they bring out
the the the what the cold stuff that they spray on,
and they need the band and the whole nine yards hold.
The trainer says, listen, it's nothing. It's just like all
that just it just protects you. Don't worry. It's nothing.
I just here you go. Okay, very good to get
up there a hit, all right, that's fantastic.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
About Yeah, eight and a half runs is the was
the open. It's up to nine and a half. As
we get ready for first.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Pitch, it's seven twelve. We can start now. He's never
going to get out of the first inning. Uh this again,
this is some see again, biggest baseball series of the year.
Nothing else has closed. Padres Dodgers just a few minutes away.
Will of course keep you updated on this.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Throughout the stats stats on Kershaw. If it does get delayed,
how does that first inning?
Speaker 1 (05:14):
I don't, I don't. I don't you know what I
would have to ask Ai, But I don't think it's good.
I don't. I don't think it's good. What what happens
when Kershaw? Okay, what happens? Okay, it auto filled for me.
What happened to Odell Beckham Junior? Right, that's the auto film.
That's what happens when Kershaw has a game start late.
(05:37):
Let's see. The answer is uh, it makes him difficult
to regain his ramp up. It could lead to a
shortened outing, with the team opting to use the bullpen
to cover the longer duration of the game. Basically, Frostburg,
you're screwed.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
There you go, there's any I'm not a nuts fan.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Yeah, but there was no specificity to that at all.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Own or not? You the way?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Oh yeah, he's saying I'm screws bonded.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Oh if they start the game late, I just read it.
The whole thing off of AA what happens when the
game starts late.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
AI also has the Mets winning tonight.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
They did get in one hundred thirteen bucks for this game,
Oh boy, fifty strong as the Dodgers host the Podgers.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
So we'll keep you updated on this throughout the night.
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two preseason games in the NFL tonight, and it's really
hard to do this. I mean, first Onile we got
Kansas City. Seattle is just underway. Titans lead the Falcons
right now, twenty three to twenty late in the fourth court,
and the Chiefs are already cheating this already, they're they're
giving They gave him a first down. They said, Mahomes
got laid hit on a handle.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
They don't even have the ball. They gave him a
first down.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
But this is really hard to do, Mike. But absolutely
this has happened. The number one overall pick in the
NFL draft, who is a quarterback, has been absolutely invisible
and off the radar screen since the NFL draft. Well,
cam Wharf to being drafted by Tennessee. But but still though,
(07:27):
I mean, this is this is It's not you know,
in the NBA, I get it because you see that
you need guys to start in bigger markets. It happens
that way. But the NFL, they find you everywhere, they
find you everywhere, and here's the number one pick. And
it's not it's not like he's an offensive tackle, it's
a defensive end. This is a quarterback. It's about a
quarterback man and cam Ward who has been perfectly acceptable
(07:49):
so far. Right, he had an okay first game, He
had an okay first quarter tonight, you know, finished two
out of seven for forty two yards in limited play,
but still led the Titans down to his score in
the first quarter before he came out. Everything was you know,
he's been perfectly acceptable so far. And there has been
absolutely no buzz, no attention, no anything, nothing about the
(08:13):
number one overall pick in the draft. And that that
you know, in a in a time when not a
lot in the NFL shocks me. This does because it
shouldn't be no buzz on cam Ward. It's wild that
this is the case that we talk way more about
Shador Sanders, who is fourth string not playing this weekend,
and all the drama that goes along with it. If
(08:35):
you had a pie chart, it would be ninety nine
point nine nine percent Shador Sanders in the in the country.
And the only reason it's point point one percent cam
Ward is because we're talking about it right now. This
is the first time he's been mentioned since he got drafted.
This is done, and he's a quarterback and he's exciting,
and he throws for a lot of yards, and still
it's like, oh, yeah, yeah, how's cam Ward gonna do?
(08:57):
He's let he's not even on page one of of
you know, you're not even below the fold. He's what
Bin o'cook would say, it would be page f eight
in the agate type on the bottom of the page.
That's how unimportant is That's how low. That's how low
cam Ward has been. And he's the number one pick
in the draft.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Yeah, I think a couple of things come into play, right.
We've been talking a lot about the veterans. You know,
the back stuff with Matthew Stafford the last week or so,
Aaron Rodgers. For the longest time, was he going to play?
Where was he going to go? Was the thing with
Pittsburgh inevitable? It ended up happening, and here we are,
And then you've got so many questions about the second
year guys. I mean, look at all the hot air
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being blown about Caleb Williams. Just every every day, it's
a new headline, it's a new breakdown, it's a new Hey.
Maybe this was an AI driven bot versus an actual
source telling you something about what's going on behind the scenes. Right,
You've got so much chaos and all of that, and
the shedor Sanders because of the surname and what we've won.
(10:00):
Watch that takes up a bit of the pie chart.
Travis Hunter, how much is he gonna play on both
sides of the ball. We gotta give it a sliver
off to him. So, yeah, cam Ward has been able
to operate in relative anonymity there in Tennessee. Not often
you get to do that as a number one pick.
But when last year's is drawing so much higher and
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slinging ink in one of the big metroplexes.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
That's what it does. I mean, just think about what
the the preseason has been so far. As we get
into week two, think about what it's been so far,
which has been basically Shador Sanders has been the story.
And you want to say, what's the second story. Well,
if there's drama with Jerry Jones about paying or not
paying Micah Parsons or Jerry Jones saying something or doing something,
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or just general Cowboys, the Shenanigans, right that there's number
two state in general. Yeah, that's it. Yeah, that's it. Really,
that's been it like like it. I know that the
draft didn't go well with a lot of big playmakers
at the top, and obviously Travis Hunter, you know we're
waiting it's basically just seeing him play both sides of
the ball. But this that's why I thought, for sure,
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well we're gonna at least default to cam Ward that
the number one pick in the draft's gonna get something. Nope, Nope,
he's even he's even being looked over in every kind
of dynasty draft I'm doing in fantasy where he's the
only quarterback you're gonna take, and I'm seeing dynasty rookie
drafts where he's making it out of the first round,
like no one's even not to but he's a starting
quarterback and when you do Dynasty, it's it happens that way, like,
(11:28):
oh my goodness, No, no, no, he's making it out of
the naa no, don't like Cam woard to going out
of the first round, number one pick of the draft.
This is how much it is, and I really it
really shocks me. I hope he has some sort of
incredible run beginning of the season. He bursts on the
scene like Cam Newton and all of a sudden, it's,
oh my goodness, he throws for four hundred yards and
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look at what Cam Newton did you know? Remember his
first couple of games with the Panthers were like eight
hundred yards passing and Steve Smith had like six hundred
yards receiving. Like, I hope he does that because he
should be getting a little bit more of the spoils
that go along with being the number one pick in
the draft. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
I mean, look, sometimes it's good to not have the
spotlight be quite so loud and bright for you. But
you know, I get what you're saying. Let's see, they
are currently at plus seven seventy five to win the
AFC South one that we've discussed at at nauseum, going
back to some of the Jacksonville stuff and our discussion
(12:25):
of the Colts, and look, the Texans are the favorite,
but they're just minus one oh five, so not exactly
a prohibited favorite by any stretch of the imagination. So
you know, things break right, you have the opportunity to
go make some noise. You got a couple of playmakers
in there, some decent wideouts that have been added over
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the course of this offseason. We'll see what Calvin Ridley's got,
but to bring in Tyler Lockett. Van Jefferson has shown
as a third at spots. Now he's got to take
on a bigger role Tony Pollard. You lost Spears to injuries,
so keeping an eye on the running back position behind Pollard.
But you got some playmakers. Hell, you got a guy
named Gunner running a tight end along a conquo. He
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had a big game tonight, So yeah, curiosity, no question
in that division. So maybe he'll start getting some noise
in some pub But you know, I think most guys
would rather come into their first camp and be left
alone as opposed to the constant headlines and talking heads
right to go and owing back to Denzel Washington or
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going back to Shador Sanders trying to find his guy
Tony Grossi afterwards like, hey, why do.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
You hate me?
Speaker 4 (13:37):
So all of that to say for cam Ward, wish
him the best. We certainly watched a lot of his
games the last couple of years in the studio and
he made his share of big plays. So with that
he'll get his He'll just due. But for the off season,
sometimes it's okay to just go go do your work
behind the scenes.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
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And uh yes, I do want to thank the Mets.
Pete Alonzo grounded out to second. I was able to
flip right over to see Clayton Kershaw throw his final
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warm up pitch. I did not miss the opening pitch
of Padres Dodgers Padres go out one, two three. Top
of the first Dodgers coming to the.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
First picture was at seven eleven.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Though it was it could be a short out, and
that was a great first inning.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
And I gotta give credits to the Mets. They clearly
wanted to watch the Dodgers and Podcas.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Mike wash your mouth out with soap for giving credits
than that.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Well, no, just because they went meekly in now what
we do here?
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Come?
Speaker 1 (14:46):
I wanted to watch some real baseball.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Buddy, Come on, you can't give credit to them.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
The Mets lost in time so nobody could look. The
game was on MLB network, was a big thing. Was okay,
we're all good man, what's happening? What's that? But coming
up next We'll keep you posted, of course on Dodgers padres.
But coming up next. Finally, after what seems like a
decade but really more like three years, the most controversial
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story in college football has come to a close. We
got that next right here, Jason and Mike. This.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
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Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 1 (15:28):
This is Jay.
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Usually in these promos, they asked you.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
To listen to the show.
Speaker 6 (15:34):
I'm here to ask you please don't listen to the show.
The hosts are two absolute morons who have the dumbest
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Speaker 1 (15:43):
What the hell are you doing out studio?
Speaker 3 (15:45):
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top of the second inning, My dad on the hook
our streak for the MLB dot com thestreak, you know,
get the fifty six games, win five and a half
million dollars. We are at ten. We are at ten,
and my dad took Otani for tonight, so he's feeling
the pressure right now.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
So almost as long as your underwear streaks.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
All well, one day for putting my underwear on the
right way after my seventeen thousand plus day of doing that. Yeah, nobody's.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Nobody's looking to verify that though. So how do we
know you're telling the truth?
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Well, I told the story last night of you think
I'm doing that enough, I'm gonna tell you a bad story.
I not lie to you about it.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Tell us bout stories all the time.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Dude, I tell you great stories. I tell you great
Maybe you decided you kind of liked it. No, I no,
I didn't know. I didn't. Okay, in case.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
At the last pressure and snugness, no.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Reason to rehash and keep it moving.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
But you bring it up. I got at least I
found out last night at about ten thirty. You know,
my pants hadn't been feeling.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Great, Mike, what's going on?
Speaker 1 (17:25):
How you doing? I'm good. I know what was going on.
And I realized it after like this, I had my
underwear on backwards. I put my underwear on backwards for
the first time in my life.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
I lost it.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
I was the cal ripken of putting my underwear on
the right way over seventeen thousand days in a row
my life. I looked it up seventeenth that now I'm
at one day and somehow I did that. You know,
you got to pick a lane Frostburg. You can't bring
it up and then say no, we hadn't talked one
or the other.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Ju Just because it was brought up does not mean
you have to tell this whole story again.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
One Mason. People got to know. Going to talk about
the Mets, I mean really, I mean, I'd rather talk
about putting my underor on backwards in the Mets. It's
where we're at right now in the season, which is
more embarrassing. Eight ninety we've lost fourteen out of sixteen.
What's where the Mets losing fourteen out of sixteen or
me wearing my underwear back both horrible for about eight
and a half hours last night. It's terrible. Yeah, they're
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both bad. They're both bad. But I've seen the Mets lose.
I've seen them lose lots again. I will see them
lose a lot again. I will see that I've never
done that before again. I'm like cal Ripking at the end,
I'm I'm high five and with the fans going up
and down the side of the field that the streak
is over, he put his underwear on backwards and didn't notice. Okay,
now I'm at day one. One day it was. It
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was a big fail. It was a big feel. But
but this is how it goes now. So now there
you go, Frostburg, I told the story. Are you happy now? No?
Speaker 3 (18:51):
I didn't want to hear it.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
All right, all right, Well, I think the the fates
punished you because we just got that is as a
foul run. Loreano a solo home run off of Clayton Kershaw.
It took a little bit to see if the ball
was fair or not. So the Padres with a one
nothing lead over Dodgers and Kershaw. It would have been
(19:13):
a strikeout, but Frostburg decided to be haughty about my
underwear story. And so here the baseball fates have punished
you with a home run by Ramon Loreano. Oh yeah,
it hit the pole. It hit no I really do
you like? You watch baseball? Do you watch baseball?
Speaker 3 (19:32):
I watched real baseball, unlike you.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
That's insane because it landed in faul territory. Smith, it
should be a foul ball.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
It's actually if it hits the foul pole and then
lands in foul territories, it's also called the foul pole,
so if it hits it, it should be foul. They can't.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
I was thinking more that the padres hit it, so
it's fell ball.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Oh okay, well the home field advantage, okay, all right?
That the umpire should have overturned it, right like uh
angel underwear? Yeah, I should have. I wish I should have.
I would have had a more comfortable day yesterday. I mean,
really like eight hours of why is why do my
pants feel?
Speaker 2 (20:07):
So?
Speaker 1 (20:07):
I don't understand this? Why what's going on? I don't
get this. I don't get it. I never thought to chat.
I just thought, okay, I ate too much or whatever
it was. And I'm kind of a bummed because I'm
gonna have my way in this week with PhD weight
loss and everything that's gonna be No, and I realized, oh,
I just had my underwear on backwards. Okay, So I
felt good in the moment, then I felt bad overall.
(20:28):
Did you then shame me? I did not shame it. No,
I just I was able to move past it. And
then Frostburg brought it up. And now now it's a
sad thing. And now I you know, to that end,
since the.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
Brewers won again, coming back from a huge deficit to
Cincinnati to extend the winning streak to thirteen games. Does
that add an extra day of burgers or is it
only when they to mark the twelfth.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
I would think it's got to be a burger a day, right,
especially when I mean they were getting killed was eight
to one in this game.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Yeah, because they announced that it's August twentieth is the
burger day?
Speaker 1 (21:01):
To go and get your burger? Yeah, I don't know,
I must. I would say if you if you're who
is it? Is it? Who is it? A Chuck Web?
What's the what's the David Webb? What's what's David Webb?
Is Jason Bourne's real name? What's the name of the
George Web? Right? Georgeorge? Like George Web really wants to
(21:22):
win people over be Hey, free burger every day until
they lose? Right like that? That all of a sudden,
then you got something that's whoa hang on a second,
You had a free burger every day until they lose?
All right? Wow?
Speaker 4 (21:33):
They even have the the the airport George Webb actually
participated by handing out vouchers.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
How about that?
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Probably the airport people tell you to go pound saying
we don't participate in any of those giveaways and stuff.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Yeah, and I believe Mets fans are burning gear with
every passing loss. That's yeah, that's the Colors, the Colors.
Speaker 6 (21:55):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Meanwhile, our fine national nightmare has ended because we got
the final final NCAA decision on University of Michigan's penalties
for their spygates scandal with Connor Stallions from I believe
it was nineteen ninety seven was when this started. Michigan
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gets a series of fines that could be as much
as thirty million dollars, but didn't get a postseason ban,
didn't get vacating victories, didn't have to vacate the National Championship.
As the Committee on Infractions finally ruled on the Wolverines
advance scout in case on Friday, there's gonna be an
extra suspension for Surean Moore, the head coach, he's getting
(22:37):
two games this year, served in Game three in Game
four because Michigan was like, hey, listen, we got like
Western and Nebraska in those two games. You rather be
suspended there, mew while Nebraska's going, hey, come on, man,
you what your coach to be suspended? I thought we
were oh, no, that's a big look in the mirror
moment for Nebraska if they haven't had that already. But
he also is going to get the first game of
(22:58):
the twenty twenty six which potentially could be in Germany,
I think, or somewhere in Europe. They're debating to play
Western Michigan in Europe for opening week next year. So
Sharan Moore is getting game three, in game four this
year and opening game of next year. And finally, this
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has been a twenty plus million dollar five which means
about thirty million dollars overall. This is what Michigan is getting.
And finally this story is over. Finally, seventy four page report,
you get the two game suspension. Add on, I mean
he doesn't get to go on a European vacation like
the Grizwolds. That sucks twenty five percent reduction in official
(23:40):
visits for the twenty five twenty six school year. But
seeing as.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
What the football budget is overall, some two hundred and
sixty million dollars or something is what I saw it
estimated at that, I think they'll be able to take
the short term hit. The fact that they don't vacate
wins good Somewhere along the way, the rules in Fraction
committee finally learned something that we all knew. It was
(24:04):
dopey and ridiculous, but I know across the big ten uh,
reaching back to Chicago with the northwestern side of things,
obviously in Buckeye Land keeping an eye on like like,
I'm the dude from the Seahawks and draft damm watching
all the message boards and was reading stuff all day.
Why why don't they they have these these more penalties.
(24:25):
Why aren't they banned from bowl games?
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Why are they?
Speaker 4 (24:27):
And they came down with the well, I mean no
player was ruled ineligible, so you know, no vacating vacating wins,
and then it would be wrong to punish kids who
weren't there.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
What an enlightened stance. How does USC feel about all
of that? And other and other schools who.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
Have faced the wrath of this dying institution low these
many years.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
I mean, really, I mean, the big loser the more
I think about this, the big loser really is Nebraska
because there is there there is no other thing you
need to know how far that football program has fallen,
but the fact that Michigan, Michigan, if their first two
games in New Mexico. And then it's Oklahoma. Right, Oklahoma's
a top twenty team. It's gonna be tough. I'm telling you.
I think uh, I think the tier has a lot
(25:14):
of money on this, kid. No, so you know they want,
they wanted. You're on more for the first two games. Yeah,
we want the next two. Game four is at Nebraska,
Yeah we want. We We're okay without having our coach
for Nebraska like this, there's no other bit of evidence.
He to sh how far Nebraska has fallen than that
right there? Yeah, yeah, we're okay not having our head cut.
It's Nebraska. Come on, man, that's what's gonna happen. Nebraska
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is terrible. Like, let me ask you this. This should
be brought bottom for Nebraska.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
Which is worse being the team that your coach serves
a suspension in and a chosen kind of wheel of
fate or you're name the homecoming opponent?
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Oh ah, oh wow, well you know the thing is homecoming?
Ooh no, I think this is it? Like yeah, like
this is everybody coming. Oh man without our head coach.
Oh wow, that's a tough one, Mike. Uh No, I
you know what I'm gonna have to say this. I
think there's more. I think there's more scheduling and situations
(26:15):
that go into scheduling when homecoming is going to be,
when the weekend works best, when it can be, and
yet there's more pieces have to fall into place. This
was Michigan knowing the schedule, going yeah, we're okay with
a two game band went ah, boy, what's the best
two games? Yeah? Three and four? Yeah, three and four. Yeah,
that's what we want right there, that's we want, we want.
We're okay not having him against Central Michigan and Nebraska.
(26:41):
But you know what the thing is, This is why
I laugh about this because I'm so glad this is over.
I'm just embarrassed for all of college football. Not that
this wasn't a big story, because it was not. That
it wasn't something that was shocking and shouldn't have happen.
And I say this living in a Michigan house, knowing
full well that I go to sleep next to a
Michigan grad and now I'm gonna sleep with one eye
(27:02):
open tonight, right, I knowing full well that I toured
the Michigan campus, you know, three weeks ago. Okay, I
say all this knowing this, But I mean, the thing
is is it was a big deal and something should
have been done, but instead the NCAAA, how the blank
do you drag this thing out for three years? Man?
Three and you get you get a suspension for horriball
(27:24):
and another suspension for Harball, and a suspension for Sharon
Moore and now another suspension. You're suspending the coaches for
a total before seasons like somebody's gonna go to college.
Go yeah, all four of my years the coach suspended
at the very beginning of the season. It happened all
the time, like it's embarrassing, man, Like, oh now, and
now the NCAA says, basically, the reason is they didn't
want to penalize people who are at Michigan now that
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had nothing to do with the sign stealing scandal, because
basically everybody's gone. The only one left is more so
he's getting the suspension. And I wanted to say, really,
three years is what you needed? You needed three years.
I get that you needed months, I get the needed,
but you needed three years for this. I mean, come on, man,
this is this is You're You're not the you're not
the police department, and you're going after some sort of
(28:09):
long game where people are going undercover, like in the
movies when when somebody screws something up and the grizzled
cop comes in and says, you ruined eighteen months of
undercover work. I think that was a point break. You
were in eighteen months of undercover work because you bought
it to come in like a cowboy here and go
blasting guns. It was it took me so long to
get in with this gang, Like this is not what
(28:30):
that is. Man. If you couldn't get the stuff from Michigan,
you couldn't get Connor Stallion's cell phone because he says
he threw it in a lake and that's where all
the information was. If you couldn't find it, you couldn't
find it three years. It's like what does it even
matter at this point, Like like I'm just I'm just
glad that it's over, and I'm glad that it's done.
It's embarrassing for the NCAA to cit here and say, yeah,
(28:50):
it took us three bleeping years to figure this whole
thing out, Like it was just embarrassing all around. Well,
but you took three years.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
A lot of committee out, there's a lot of investigation
to do what like, is there was there really anything
substantive out of this?
Speaker 1 (29:07):
No, there was there seemed to be. And I'll say
this for overall for the evidence, right if I could
sum it up, because I want to do that, is
that it's one of those cases where when you see
someone lose a case, very highly publicized case, and it
felt like, oh, they should have won. When the lawyer says,
(29:31):
you know, we know a crime was committed, we just
didn't have enough to prove it, right, Which is kind
of an excuse, but still you get that, like, we
know a crime was committed, we just didn't have enough
to prove it. And there's a lot of you know,
armchair lawyers and people that are following big court cases
that go on go, yeah, I can understand that, right,
pretty sure a crime was committed, but we didn't have
enough to prove it. That's kind of where I feel
(29:52):
the NCAA was, where they knew what Michigan did was wrong,
they just didn't have enough evidence to prove it and
they dragged it out. I don't know what they're hoping for,
Hoping for that at some point a long lost witness.
Now now I'm really getting into plotlines and movies would
show up and go, oh, this is so and so
she was there the night of the seventeenth, ten years ago,
and she remembers everything. Why didn't you come forward before? Now, well,
(30:13):
I didn't know. I was out of the country. I
had no idea. I came back in. My sister told
me like like the nca waited for a day that
wasn't coming. And it was just embarrassing that they could
have done something earlier. They could have been strong. They
could have sent a message. They could have made Michigan
ineligible from winning the Big Ten. They could have made
Michigan ineligible from going to the playoff. They could have
done a lot of things that this is what we're doing.
(30:33):
Sign stealing, scandal, boom, got it done, We're over. But instead, no,
let's drag it out. And now it's got point where
only the staunchest of Michigan haters really care, and the
NCAA just proves that, Hey, give us enough time and
we'll embarrass ourselves. Don't worry about it. We will do
it one hundred percent time out. If I out what's
trending in the wide world of sports. But guy who's
(30:54):
been called the Connor Stallions of Fox Sports Radio because
one day I saw him break his phono thrown into
a lake. It's steve to say even I have.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Not been to that mini games in the NFL.
Speaker 7 (31:05):
We have two exhibitions tonight and of the first quarter
at Seattle, Seahawks seven nothing over the Chief Sam Darnold
four for four passing thirty four yards. Zach Sharbone have
fifteen yard touchdown. Run on the chief side isazat Pacheco
with a twenty two yard reception. Earlier, Tennessee was a
winner at Atlanta twenty three to twenty. Titans quarterback cam
Ward went two of seven, passing forty two yards, most
(31:28):
of that on the first pass he played.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
Three series.
Speaker 7 (31:30):
Titans led six to three late in the first half
to Major League Baseball. The Padres are leading at Dodger
Stadium one nothing in the bottom of the second on
a solo homer off Clayton Kershaw. The Padres are first
in the NL West, a game over LA. The Dodgers
have lost four in a row, while the Padres have
won five straight. In progress, it is the Rockies in
(31:52):
the lead for to three over the Diamondbacks.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
In the bottom of the seventh.
Speaker 7 (31:56):
Tiger's up seven nothing at Minnesota, bottom of the seventh. Yeah,
thank He's holding on at the end of seven, four
to three now at Saint Louis Angels and A's tied
one to one bottom of the second, raise at Giants,
tied one to one bottom of the second. All the
other games are finals, and that includes an Orioles seven
nothing win at Houston. Just one hit for the Stros
(32:17):
tonight and today. Houston closer Josh Hayter, with a strange shoulder,
was shut down for about three weeks. Dodger third baseman
Max Munsey goes on the injured list with a strained
oblique off the il. To pitch for Milwaukee tonight was
Young All Star Jacob Mazerowski. He got pulled in the
second inning, and at one point it was Red's eight
to one over the Brewers in the second. Milwaukee still
(32:39):
won again their thirteenth straight victory, ten to eight at Cincinnati.
Christian Yelich four hits, five RBIs, including two solo shots.
Pittsburgh beat the Cubs today three to two with a
solo homer top of the ninth. Philadelphia got Kyle Schwarber's
forty third home run of the season and a six
to two victory at Washington, but Phil's closer Joe on
(32:59):
to Ryan left after being hit in the ankle by
a line drive. He was carted off. Seattle won at
the Mets eleven to nine. The lost to Ryan Helsley.
Mets have dropped fourteen of sixteen. Cal Rawley of the
Mariners with his forty sixth homer, he has one hundred
RBIs here. In mid August, Toronto came back with four
runs in the bottom of the eighth to edge Texas
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six to five. Boston with a run in the bottom
of the ninth beat Miami two to one, Atlanta two
nothing winners at Cleveland, the Royals had beaten the White
Sox three to one, and Yes, Michigan will appeal its
latest NCAA punishment, including the fines. Old miss gave defensive
coordinator Pete Golding a three year extension. WNBA wins for
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Golden States, Washington and LA which won ninety seven ninety
six at Dallas. Kelsey Plum twenty eight points back to you.
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the Play of the Day coming your way and a
big story out of the NFL today that was kind
of shocking but then not so shocking. That's next. Fox.
Speaker 5 (34:22):
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Speaker 1 (34:29):
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buying should be. Well. When you're the biggest home run
hitter in Major League Baseball, check you hit another big
home run to help your team wh game. Check you
do it against the Mets. Checker Rooney, you get to
be the play of the day. Here's the pitch to
Col's going on. That is lifted left field. Bit well,
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Mimo back, He's looking up and it is gone second
tack cow Roy number forty six for Col. Yeah, there
it is, Mariners TV on the call. Yay, Mets get
out to lead, doesn't matter, marenis fought back. Let's get
out to tweet against back. Met's get out to a lead.
Oh and then the Mariners decided, Yeah, we're done. We're
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gonna score six on this inning against what are your relievers? Uh?
Mariners winning eleven nine and cal Rawley is your play
of the day again. I hate Abner double Day. I
wish he never existed. Wow, but then you wouldn't have
the Mets to love or hate. That's okay, that's all right.
Then I'd watch I just I wouldn't be watching Padres
Dodgers now either, I'd be wide by. I'd be all
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in on on the Chiefs and the Seahawks. So you wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
Even with Sam dartled out there for a minute, and
what they.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Sam was perfect tonight. He was four four throwing the football.
Sam had a good night. They look great. So a
big story out of the NFL today there was a
poll conducted. They tried to ask over eighteen hundred players
basically everybody who played in the calendar year nineteen eighty
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eight for the NFL. Right, And they wanted to see
this is an independent survey by ESPN and its health
policy research, and they wanted to find out what the
life outcomes of NFL players were who are around the
typical retirement age. That's everybody who played in nineteen eighty eight. Right,
So they tried to contact all fifteen hundred players who
played in the NFL that year. They got five hundred
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and forty six players participated. Okay, okay, They wanted again.
They wanted to get players who are around the typical
retirement agent asked them questions about their life, their choices.
Would they do it again? Overwhelmingly, the vet said they
would absolutely do it again, despite the fact they're living
with chronic pain or disability. They're more depressed, more anxious,
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they're more likely to report having some sort of cognitive
decline than the average American man. They said they would
do it again despite the physical tolls. And at first
you would say, oh my goodness, how do you say that,
knowing you know, knowing what your life is now. And
I would say, well, hang on a second. I completely
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understand this because it's really hard for someone when you're
sitting there at you're retirement eight, you know, you're sixty two,
and you're thinking about your life and you're taking, hey,
would you do your entire life differently if you could?
And a lot of these guys are thinking back, going,
let's see, I was a superstar and pop warner. I
was a superstar in high school. I got to date
anybody I wanted to. I was a superstar in college again,
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got today anybody wanted to, got money. I had a
great life. I got to the NFL. I got to
play in the NFL again, I got to do any
thing I wanted. I was treated like a king. That
was my life. I chose that. Of course I would
do that again. Right, of course I would. Because people
it's hard for people to say I regret my entire life,
because what you're saying is would you never play football?
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And of course not like it's sixty two people. Yeah,
I mean yes, it's a front loaded deal, right, NFL players,
and sometimes when you and you play something and do
something very physical for a living, it's a front loaded
deal and NFL players enjoy an incredible quality of life
for the most part of their teenagers, twenties, thirties. Then
things start to get you start to deteriorate a bit, obviously,
(38:36):
but you know, players know this going in. I'm trading
this for to set up my family for life with
money and whatever else goes along with it. Yeah, I
completely get people who are sixty two not saying I
regret my whole life, So yeah, I get that why
they would all want to do it again. I think
that goes for a lot of professions.
Speaker 4 (38:55):
I mean there's parts of it and choices and decisions
that are made. You make your decision tree opportunity costs
of what you might have done for a lot of players,
you know. I think some of the question then becomes, well,
what would you have done if you hadn't been a
football player? And I'm going to guess it would have
been a lot of awkward pauses if you were actually
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having a face to face conversation or a lot of
times staring at a blank text box on the online survey.
If that's how they were doing it, and you could
do that across all professions. I mean, in this case,
it's football. I mean, all of you out there, ask
yourself what you do on a given day daily basis
you don't love it one hundred percent at the time.
No matter what you do, there's always stuff that's going
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to eat at you. In this case, you know, reading
some of the you know, free range responses about different
parts of the physicality of it all just kind of,
you know, get you a little bit sad.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
You know.
Speaker 4 (39:50):
They had the question about did you discourage your kids
from playing football? And one of the first answers was, quote,
didn't want them ending up like me. So you got
that going on, and certainly that's a whole other part
of in permutation of this. But to say, hey, would
you give up your whole life?
Speaker 1 (40:07):
Man?
Speaker 4 (40:08):
That's uh. Who's gonna be brutally honest with themselves and say, yeah,
that that that's something I shouldn't have signed on for Nobody.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
No, they're all gonna say they wanted to do it.
That look. Some regret, sure, absolutely, But you're saying do
you regret your entire life? No, people aren't gonna say
that again. They know I'm trading a front loaded deal
and it's worth it for me because of what I
was able to do and do for my family. Exit
out about a Fresco exit swalling down. Big update from
Padres Dodgers coming up next as well as we get
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back into the biggest football story of the day. Keep
it here, Jason and Mike Fox.
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