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July 16, 2025 • 41 mins

Jason and Mike with all the greatness from the 95th MLB All-Star Game. Caitlin Clark's struggles from beyond the arc on the road continue. Plus, some BIG bold Emmy predictions! 

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Speaker 1 (00:31):
Back back back, back back, back, back, back, back back back.
Come on, Pete Alonzo. You may not like how boring
his pre is in inning interview was being miked up,
but it doesn't matter. What did I tell you right
after the inning was over? I said, well, not every
miked up interview is great in an All Star game. But

(00:51):
I said it doesn't matter because why because he hits dingers.
What did Pete Alonzo just do really boring in game
interview at first basically star game and now a big
three run dinger to give the National League a five,
five nothing lead. Pete one Alonzo three four five sweet meat. Pete, Well,

(01:15):
but he doesn't have to be exciting in the field.
He sounded out of breath taking those three steps. Either way,
while they were interviewing him. Uh, but it's kind of
like the uh the old laugh was sing a song,
win a Grammy, right, if you performed, you were you
were walking away with a ward back in the day,
except Metallica when Jethro Tull beat him for hard rock

(01:38):
heavy metal. But for Pete Alonso, here's your opportunity, you know,
say a couple of pithy things about your squad, move on,
and then come up and conserve that energy for an
opposite field home run. I mean, look, I mean right now,
you gotta think All Star Game, MVP, th you run Homer, Peter.
They were already up to nothing. It does not Marte

(01:59):
with a story from a couple of weeks ago with
the White Sox fans and everything he wins. It's not
Pete Alonso. What s this at this end of the
game to nothing? It's still a game five nothing, It's
not a game. And one of the few times you
are seeing a pitch change in the middle of an inning.
Not the ceremony game because we saw it earlier, but
it was a ceremony ceremonial for Clayton Kershaw. I know
this is hey, we we we We're gonnake a change

(02:21):
here in the inning. Pete Alonzo All Star Game MVP.
Here it is right here. There you go. I met
could win the All Star Game MVP. Pete Alonzo again.
Does it matter if he's a boring interview, doesn't matter
if he's miked up and he just tells you kind
of generic things. Well, he hits Dingers, it's all you
care about. My name's Pete. I hit Dingers, Okay, but
I'm not the problem though, what's the problem Frostberg? They

(02:41):
were already up. It doesn't matter, That's what I said.
But it was still a game. I'm pigging take at
two nothing. It's a game, had five nothing. Pete Alonzo
clinched the game. That's it. He's They already had two
insurance runs. It was Look, we saw the meme going
around Paul Skeins had more runs support after one inning
of an All Star Game that he's had his last

(03:02):
three starts combined. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, think about that
for a second. Yeah yeah, and that was off boobit. Yeah.
But poor guy. During the course of the year seven
and six, he's like Skiings seven and six. He's got
a two four eight e r A but he's seven
and six. They just had to take him out the middle.
He got hammered opposite field, home run got her guy
Alonso got to take out Ben. I'm sorry about that.

(03:24):
He gets just what what did he get for a
bonus for making the All starting with every day, even
even a home to stop, even a home run in
the All Star Game, every passing day, that contract just
gets bigger. Oh yeah, bigger, bigger. They kind of elluded
to it. They were trying to get him to drink
some water on that thing. During his interview in the field,

(03:47):
he's just, you know, I just want to win going
out there every day. Yeah, like he went full on
nukluch cliches. Oh yeah, yeah, I know, you know Ray
and she's a stay on you know the Motley Crue
song and it's okay never but Pete Alonso a three
run jack for the National League. They lead the American

(04:08):
League five nothing now here we are right now bottom
of the sixth and then again pitching change Brett Saberhagen
coming out of the game for the Royals. But I
gotta say overarching because there's so many things to talk
about in this game, which is which is fantastic. But
I really come around to this, right, here's your big
overarching point. If you're watching this game and you don't

(04:29):
and you're not really enjoying what you're getting from the
broadcast and what they've seen so far, maybe baseball's not
your thing, right. I mean, if you're if you're not
enjoying all the different things that we've seen, eye opening, groundbreaking,
maybe baseball's not your thing, right, Because Okay, I don't
like the I don't like the opening today. I don't.
I don't like the whole lunacro is doing. Welcome to Atlanta,

(04:51):
What do you know? I like, you want to just
introduce the players? Just I don't like it. I don't.
I don't like when the players are miked up. You
don't like Clayton Kershaw's my indgame miked up. It's the
highlight of the baseball season so far. We'll play it
as soon as the game ends. It's two and a
half minutes of glory. I mean, the the uniforms are
back to where they should be wearing your uniform, your
team's uniform. If you don't like what you're getting from baseball,

(05:12):
just might not be your thing. And like Okay, so
maybe just just go do something else good, because because
tonight this is what you watch All Star games for.
You can only ask so much of an All Star game.
You can't ask for it to be competitive. You can't
ask for it to be Hey, they should be doing
the things they are doing. This is an entertaining broadcast.
Entertaining for any baseball fan. If you don't like I said,
if you don't like it, maybe baseball is not your

(05:33):
I still wish it counted because that's always been a
fun thing. But alas that went the way of the
Dodo bird, which might return. You never know, but the
Dodo bird's coming back. That'll come back to But you've
got stars, and I guess guys opted out and for
whatever reason, they're spot in the rotation. Uh and it

(05:54):
was a non work day or whatever. They just wanted
a couple of days off. That's all fine. The rest
of the guys showed up and they showed out, and
the interviews have been fun. We talk about the Kershaw
wand the Pete Crow Armstrong interview was pretty fun because
he had to make a play during that a little
bit of a potential collision situation with teammate Kyle Tucker
out there. All of that to say, you've got your

(06:16):
big flies, you've got the pageantry of the pomp and
circumstance ludicrous. If you don't like that, then you don't
have a pulse. I mean, come on, yeah. Look. He
also had the first ABS challenge, where the players can
challenge a pitch right away, immediately looking at each other. Again,
if you don't, as we watch Corbyn Carroll now go
deep boy. Not a great night for Tiger's pitchers. Oh boy,

(06:40):
good looking Jacob and Jack Wilson moment. I mean, the
father son having both played in an All Star Game.
It's just great stuff. The Atlanta stuff, Freddie Freeman get
getting taken off for Pete Alonso so the Atlanta crowd
could give him some more love as he exited the field.
I mean, it's good stuff. Yeah, I mean, I don't know.
I got it here because obviously were in the show.

(07:01):
But I wondered, did the did the Atlanta crowd did
they cheer Pete Alonzo when he hit his home run
or what did they? Did they? Because they boot all
the Mets during the pregam, which is great, right, Okay,
I get the hey, they're playing for your team, you're
rooting for the National League. But I get, But what
am I understand? But what did he get booed there?
Because this is gonna win? Answer? Yes, oh did he
get booted? Really? Did he get after he hit a
home run? Really well? While they might have done that too,

(07:25):
and we just saw a great graphic after that Carroll
home run. First time two National League home runs in
an inning since nineteen seventy seven. Yeah, look, the National League,
if you want to look back the last few years,
it's not great. I mean, the American League is ten
and one. They've won basically every All Star Game since
you and I were kids, when the National League would
win every game, that's right, and now here it is

(07:45):
it's six nothing National League like this. I mean, Pete
Alonzo MVP posing in the dugout. It's gonna be Marte,
It's gonna it's got to be Barte. He clinched the
game with a three. Yeah, I'm a game win three.
But who's got the game winning RBI? That doesn't matter.
It's Marte. What are you nineteen eighty four with? You're
only saying this because it's a met that got the
home run if I said, oh, there's a big three

(08:06):
at Homer by Shoe Heo Tawani, are you gonna say no,
it's Marte. Of course you would say, yeah, you're only
doing it because it's a met I see now I'm
doing it. I'm doing it for real. You're not. That
might be Frost, it's not mine. I three. I'm just
a realist. I see three by the way to finish
the point two home runs in an inning NL Last
Time nineteen seventy seven by Joe Morgan and Greg Luzinski. Yeah, yeah,

(08:27):
that's a that's a long way to go. That's you're
going back. I mean, that's that's almost fifty years. You're
going back to the last time that happened. Unbelievable. Real Mart's
your MVP. It's but it's great. We're Skeenes. This is
not I notice how nobody cared that Skeen started the
game with a four and eight record. Can of miserowski
can't no, I can't be in the game. But wow,

(08:47):
Skeens is four and eight. Yeah that's okay. But he's
got an eer a lower I use your best analogy there.
I mean, he's he's been dominant, uh time and time again,
and we always talk about wins and losses and how
important they may or may not be. Well, look so far.
Look the biggest things for the All Star Game right,

(09:08):
the number one the fact that now they're back at
the player's uniforms. Not everything that is nostalgia and was
a long time ago is great just because it was
a long time but it was a long time ago,
so we have to go back to it exist great.
Not everything from a long time ago is great, and
not everything from now flies in the face of tradition

(09:29):
and we can't stand it. Oh, just quote Billy Joel
and be done with it. It's it's a good old
days weren't always good, right, as bad as it's. Some
ideas from the past are great that baseball should le another,
sports should lean on, and some aren't. Right idea from
the past, Yes, baseball players wearing their their team uniform
and you have a hat. However you want to make
it with the with the you know, but the All

(09:51):
Star logo on it. Yeah, awesome, Right, I get that. Oh,
we're not selling as much merch because players are wearing
their uniforms. But I don't think you're selling a lot
of merch anyway, Well, that would be the number I
want to see now, though, not gonna buy those crazy
ass uniforms, And like, boy, I don't like these colors.
They're just inventing color schemes and throwing stuff up at
it like it's a polyock painting. But that uniform, Yeah,
I got a great video. I'll show you him like

(10:14):
a very quick you know, babe Ruth kind of running
around the basis thing of him smoking with some cool
jazz playing in the background. But I really want to
see the numbers of how many jerseys they sold. Now, Yes,
that's really kind of curious, but that's it. It's a
clean look. The fans love it. It's some great nostalgia
is awesome, and honestly, for most fans, they know who
the players are, right because if you if you, if

(10:36):
you're even if you're a really big baseball fan, and
you see guys on deck, you see guys in the field,
you're going, who is that? I can't tell because that's
just the way the camera angle is. But you see
the guys, you go, oh, okay, that's Howvey Bias. Oh
that's pie Crow Armstrong. That's just like it's it's it's
a better it's a better broadcast. It's a better thing.
It's a better thing. And when fans like it, okay,
great again, not everything because it's the past is great.

(10:58):
Like I saw so many people on social media just
hating on the on the pre show, which again, new idea,
great idea. It's a party. I mean, Ludacris doing Welcome
to Atlanta. What else do you want? Oh? I don't
I like it? While you want just when the players
came out and just tip their cap, you still get that,
but now you get their big WWE introductions. Dave Roberts
ran faster than he did anytime I've seen him since

(11:19):
he scored from third base on that sacrifice fly and
in the two thousand and three ALCS. Right, like, it's
it's a fun thing. Okay, here's a new idea. It's
fun for baseball to have that.

Speaker 2 (11:29):
I don't like it.

Speaker 1 (11:30):
Oh so really you just don't want fun, you know,
I mean really not every idea from the past is great,
but this one was for the uniform. Not every idea
from the present is great. But putting on a show awesome, right,
players get to be you get into it. It's exciting.
It's not like it was thirty forty years ago, where oh,
and I get to see the guys running stand on
the line and tip their cap. Well, okay, they're gonna

(11:51):
still gonna do that. You're still gonna get that moment, right,
So this is a way to say, hey, guess what.
I'm watching the pregame show and I'm watching Ludacris do
his song and that's pretty cool. And I'm seeing all
all the fireworks go off and then come out of
the tunnel like they're all Ray Lewis on an NFL Sunday.
It's kind of fun. It's a fun thing. I mean,
if you don't get what you like out of this game,

(12:12):
out of this broadcast, I mean, really, baseball's not your thing.
You got the running the gamut of players right. Part
of the Pete Alonso interview was the fact that it's
his fifth All Star Games. So he's saying, hey, there's
guys far more veteran than me, and he started naming off,
you know, Kershaw and even Manny Machado. He goes, wow,
he's not much older than me, but he's got more
All Star Games. And Freddie Freeman, who he replaced, I

(12:34):
mean nine times. I think for Freddie Freeman. So you're
looking at the history and kind of passing. I thought
it was funny. The two guys that you mentioned at
as examples of guys you would know are the guys
that the Mets brought in and watched leave in Pete
Crow Armstrong and Hovey Bias. So that was kind of funny.

(12:56):
That was not lost on me. But they just did
a tribute to Hank Aaron. You had the stand up
to cancer moment, our old our friend Scott Miller who
passed away, a lot of guys showing love for him.
He's one of the finalists for the Hall of Fame
as well. So like all of these things, all of
these moments, and Baseball always does it right and you

(13:18):
may not like it. It may not be your cup
of tea, New things, or as we see time and
time again, people curse him and then they realize how
vital they are to their everyday existence. Right, So for
Major League Baseball, they do history well. They return to
the uniform piece. It's a nice nod, right, and folks
get to see their home colors represented. That's what you're

(13:41):
trying to do. You're you're trying to bring everybody in
and some are going to be salty, and let's face it,
that's what social media is all about. It's gonna be
It's like when you contact customer service. How often do
you contact them just to tell them how great that
delivery of your Amazon product or whatever else was. No,
you can because the guy was two hours late, or

(14:02):
they forgot your toothpaste or it was the wrong color
or whatever. You're gonna contact them ninety nine percent of
the time because you're you're pissed off. And that's social
media in a nutshell. You're you're posting because you're mad,
not because wow, that's really cool. Now I want to
throw this by you two as again. The All Star
Game is six nothing nationally leads American League. Top of

(14:23):
the seventh inning. On one of our other televisions, we
just watched the end of the Fever game against the
Connecticut Son Not a great game for Caitlin Clark, though
the Fever do win. However, late in this game, after
a pass, she left the court, did not look like
she was moving well, had her hand near her groin

(14:43):
almost like she was and watching her limp a little
bit off the court. Now she came out of the
game with about a minute left to go and was
not moving well. Again, we don't know anything yet, but
you can just see and they showed the replay she
puts her hands there like oh boy, and she bangs
the stanchion. Showed her on the bend with the look
in her eyes was pretty telling. Caitlin Clark left the game.

(15:04):
But we'll get an update on this, but you know,
she left the game with what could be an injury again,
not moving well. Comes out of a close game in
the final minute, was still close within I think six
points when she came out of the game. So we'll
keep you updated on that story as it goes tonight.
This would be her third injury of the season. But
we have more on the All Star Game coming up next,

(15:25):
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way tire buying should be. So okay, So now I
want to ask you, Mike Harmon, now that it's six three,
the National league with the lead can tell Marday is
still the MVP because he hit double in the first
and you got him off to the start. He's still
now it's Corbyn Carroll, He's still the in Oh oh okay,
got it, got it, guys, the insurance so not Petter
al To gets from two nothing to five now it okay, right, okay, okay,

(17:05):
got it, got it. I'm actually trying to find the
odds right now. Yeah, ped Alonso's your MVP, or unless
you want to give it to Clayton Kershaw, because clearly
his in game miked up that was the greatest in
game miked up you will ever hear that. I mean,
we're gonna play it for you as soon as the
game ends. But Kershaw being miked up for what is
probably his final All Star inning is I mean, it's

(17:27):
like I said, if you don't like this broadcast in
Major League maybe baseball is not your thing. But what
he did being able to talk to Smoltz and the
guys and that, you know, asking them what pitches to
throw and talking through his pitches. Ah, man, I didn't
want to throw a strike down. We'll lucky he didn't
hit that one. Yeah, that's just it's just an amazing

(17:48):
that's amazing theater. But so if you want to give
it to Kershaw for the pregame or or for the
in game miked up, I'm okay with that, if not,
it's alone. Well and that big, big strike out right,
So I mean you got that going for you as well.
But yeah, keeping alive trying to find the live odds
for the All Star Game MVP. Now Brent Rooker, who
clearly could have used an extra inju or two in

(18:09):
the home run department last night, has just made this
a game. A three run homer to left center has
made it a six to three National League lead, as
the American League still batting in the top of the seven.
He's still salty twenty four hours later. Yeah, well, I
don't know. I think hitting home run of the All
Star Game, I think you kind of all right? But
the fix was in. Yeah, I mean it was. It's clear.

(18:31):
Hey do we have that data to the one hundredth yes, okay,
use it. Does it give Raleigh the edge? Yes? All right, fine,
how legit is this data? We don't know, but yeah,
let's go and let's Big Dumper and look what do
we do? You know. The funny thing is we were
kidding last night about hey, cal Rally winning is you
know it's fixed for ratings? He was a story coming in.

(18:52):
Everybody loved Big Dumper. They love his nickname. Love the
fact he's got thirty eight home runs at the All
Star Break, cal Rally is the big star. At the
Home Run Derby, he wins. Not only does he win
by an inch getting out of the first round against
Brent Rooker, he wins it. All Okay, maybe okay, maybe
there was a little bit of the fix in for it.
Then maybe suddenly there's something to that, and then what'd
you find out today? Rallies win TV ratings for the

(19:15):
Home run Derby. We're incredibly how about that it's fixed?
It's so good. Hey, the over runners still only ten
and a half runs. That has not been adjusted. We
still got okay, ten and a half at six three
with one out in the top of the seven, you
still have two full innings to go.

Speaker 4 (19:34):
Okay, planning a time, fred Win, he haz to give
up like seven runs.

Speaker 1 (19:37):
Oh you know he's coming in to close. You know,
is your guy there?

Speaker 4 (19:41):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (19:41):
To me?

Speaker 1 (19:41):
L Tim Tim? Oh maybe you saw mister and missus
Matt hanging out with Kermit the Frog at a puppet
do you uh? Do you bring in Edwin d has
to close? Or do you bring in the mizz or
do you yours? Especially if he brings Mike the mizz
with him. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, and you bring him
into pitch like the last three innings. Right, you're just

(20:04):
gonna go, I can't have you on the team and
not pitch you, right, because why did you take him? Then? Right,
that's the whole thing you took him, because the whole
thing that everybody was upset about. Jacob Mezowski again five
games into his major league career. Terrific start, incredibly exciting
young player. Will get to his story in a little bit,
but uh, you know, so many players are upset. The
Phillies to a man, were upset they didn't take any

(20:24):
of their players off. You know, how do you take
like the Savannah bananas and calling it a mockery of
the game. But the integrity of the game is gone
if you're gonna do that, don't you don't you kind
of have to uh let him pitch. I mean, the
game's getting a little short now or top of the
seventh the Yeah, don't you kind of have to bring
him in? Well, it's funny because you brought up the
Paul Skeens record to this point. I mean, isn't the

(20:45):
miss only one win behind in I'm five and two.
This guy's four and eight. But also the he battled
Clayton kershaw Right, who was like, yeah, that was the
kid that was falling off the mount because every got hurt. Right,
He's having a great start, and then he tripped all
over himself on the mound. And then after the Otani
what was it a home run to start the game,

(21:05):
then he strikes out twelve guys like huh yeah, kind
of a big deal. I kind of get it. So
here we are, and your ten and a half run
over under is incredibly close now because I can't believe
they called that a hit. My come man, man, that's
hometown cooking. We had tough to them. But the Braves
players playing first base, all right, all right away, I
want one of those umpire hats. Those are so weet.

(21:28):
Yeah yeah. The hat's with the logo and the stars
just over the top and the strong embroidered thing on
the side. Garcia steel second goes to third and a
throwing era by Goodman, and then a a a laser
light grounded or first base uh just to be kind
skips off of Olsen's glove uh and brings in the
fourth run of the game. So now it is a six'

(21:50):
Four National league lead over The American. League in the
top of the seventh, inning pitching chain's, coming maybe miss
is coming, In Maybe Edwin diaz is coming. In that's
the hardest hit ball That Jazz chis has. Had though
well it's, well it's of course it's on the. Ground
it's not gonna be in the. Air it's. Okay he
scalded it, though there he, did and it didn't take
thirty eight. Swings so we will have more on this
coming up. Throughout obviously The All Star game, again top

(22:11):
of the seventh, Inning National league leading six to four.
Member they've lost ten out of the last Eleven All Star. Games,
MEANWHILE i don't know how Often i've been able to say,
this BUT i can't believe this Team i'm going to
talk about is doing things, right because they never do
things right and anything they do usually backfires on. Them
but the last two days they have rolled sevens with

(22:33):
getting it. Right, yesterday The jets Signed Garrett wilson to
a four, year one hundred and thirty million dollar contract.
Extension he's the most underrated wide receiver in THE, nfl
putting up the numbers he has with some of the
worst quarterbacks out there. Again why he's kind of The
Tim brown of the modern DAY. Nfl and today The jets, say,
Okay SAARs, gordoner today is your. Turn four, years one

(22:55):
hundred and twenty million dollar, extension highest paid cornerback in THE,
nfl a record setting deal eighty five million dollars, guaranteed
two Time All pro and now Surpasses Derek stingley of
who had thirty point one million dollars a year as
the highest paid cornerback in THE. Nfl and, yeah you

(23:16):
can sit back and, look of, course DO i have
a question for Sauce gard and, going, boy the guy
was as best as a, rookie he was not quite as.
Good it was still great his second. Year last year
not quite as good as his second. Year so kind
of like The Hunger games, movies where the first one was,
great second one wasn't quite as good as the, first
and the third one wasn't quite as good as a.
Second so he's kind of on A Hunger games trend.

(23:37):
Here but when you sit back and, say, okay let's
make sure our twenty four year old talent and the
guys that you should be signing are the guys we.
SIGN i feel like a proud, Dad, like look at
The jets doing things the right, way like how NORMAL
nfl teams do. It we have young, players we lock
them up a year. Early we get them now instead

(23:57):
of okay after next. Year, hey another hundred year season
From Garrett, wilson Another All pro year From Sauce. Gardener
gets what that money is just going up and. Up
like The jets are doing things like a real big
TIME nfl, organization putting on their big boy plants and
saying hey to twenty four year old, guys and are
our guys for the next four. Years. Now we signed
him at twenty, eight we got until thirty, two thirty, Three, No,

(24:18):
no twenty four to twenty. Eight we got him in their.
Window we have a lot of young. Talent The jets
are doing things the right. Way of course it means
it will backfire on them, mentally but still right now
like they've just this is how normal teams do business
and The jets are doing makes you think maybe The
jets have some. Hope, well it's some of the thing
you do when you're in child rearing right early, on

(24:39):
maybe your. Kids it's, like, wow it's just no matter
WHAT i, DO i can't get him him or her
to eat or use a fork or use, this going to.
Whatever so you get him around on other, kids, right put,
him put him into, collective and all of a, sudden
they'll watch the other kids and they'll pick it up
because now there's there's not necessarily pure, pressure but they're
seeing other kids their size. Age, okay if he's doing

(25:01):
it And johnny's doing, IT i could do that. Too
maybe your front office finally opened the blinds and started
looking at around the rest of THE. Nfl, hey if
we get the young talent, secured, maybe just maybe we
can head in a proper. Direction For Sauce, GARDNER i
wonder some of what we talked about when they Fired Robert,

(25:21):
sala how big a step back the defense, took, right
remember that, Process not that they were great out of the,
gate but it really the expectation where that the defense
would at least keep you in, games they'd make some,
plays give you some opportunity to steal a couple. Wins they.
Didn't they regressed terribly After sala's. Departure so little grain

(25:44):
of salt perhaps, there as well as the way the
offenses are scheming and he's still making, plays still one
of your best. Players stingley obviously having a huge, impact
and then we play the for a few dollars more
games in the next. Contract but for The, jets it's

(26:04):
it's a huge step forward that you have two players
that you decided are foundational pieces and you got them
inked before camp issues or any of. This we've watched
it go on With San. Francisco we're watching with baited
breath to see What pittsburgh does and whether they find
a resolution WITH. Tj. Watt we keep watching In dallas

(26:25):
With Micah. Parsons, cincinnati there are a whole other kettle of.
Fish you just get your popcorn, whatever your popcorn bucket of,
choices and you sit back with a nice tasty beverage and.
Watch but for The, jets, yeah you've actually you got
to feel really happy right. Now, yeah, dude it's, amazing
and you, know AND i feel, Happy BUT i don't feel,

(26:46):
burdened right because what IF i would tell you The
jets when they have, expectations when they they have never
been able to handle success in the forty five. Years
i've been A jets fan fifty, Years i've Been jets.
Fan they. Can't they just. Can't they just can't do it.
Right and so the last couple of years With rogers
it was, like oh, man it's, exciting but still the
weight of, expectation all, right then he gets hurt and

(27:07):
there's no. Expectation then he comes. Back, okay the weight
of having to win in last year was such a. Disaster,
well you and so many people jumped on. Board the
Super bowl was a, disaster, RIGHT i mean it's a
disaster because we could play the tay the we have
the quarterback and everything we. Need we had a great. Defense, no, no, no,
no but, okay expectations are, tough. Right the best seasons

(27:28):
as a. FAN i think if you asked any, fans,
hey what's the favorite year you had as a as
a fan of your? Team invariably it will be if
their team won a. Championship it will be a year, where,
hey we came out of, nowhere we weren't expected to
win and we. Won, right that would everybody say that's
my favorite year because that was something where when you're,

(27:49):
playing you're playing with found. Money there's something to the,
hey not having wins being a, relief not having winning
a title being a, relief, Right so that's kind of
that's kind of Where i'm at right. Now, HEY i
expected they have a lot of young, talent they can
be a five hundred is team and maybe sneak into the.
Playoffs and justin, fields they seem to have the offense
going around him the way they want, to and he's

(28:11):
getting rave of use of her again when the football's
fly for reel could be. Different but, remember The jets
have a lot of young talent on this, team and
they let go a lot of the old guard new
leadership in, like these are the fun seasons where, hey
maybe we can. Win there's no. Expectations SO i go
into the season very light and very, excited like that's
How i'm going in last, YEAR i was, pumped BUT
i was, like, okay it's business, MAN i got a tunnel.

(28:32):
Vision this is about a Super. Bowl Now i'm, like,
hey let's get. Out let's surprise. People let's wins can
be exciting and not, relief, Right and that's a big.
Thing ye all five of. THEM i was gonna, say, alf, hey,
hey come on, man we won seven With Zach wilson that,
Right but he just took the under. Idea, yeah very

(28:52):
suddenly through that out there line is currently five and a. Half, okay,
WAIT i Questioned, FROSTBURG a big question for, you big
number this Year jets wins or the number Of chargers
uniforms they're gonna have after? Today chargers Uniform, yeah they
have like hut sweeter way better THAN i think they,
have like, eight, RIGHT i think The chargers unveiled like eight.
Uniforms give me THAT Lt. Navy oh that's ALL i

(29:16):
need to like THAT. LT i ordered every single. Item, no, no, no,
no no. No it's like the LAY i sent him
a link for a prop store thing LIKE pa hates.
Me you're gonna enjoy? This oh, yeah, NO i mean,
serious you're window.

Speaker 2 (29:32):
Shopping.

Speaker 1 (29:33):
LOOK i mean BECAUSE i really think The chargers unveiled
like like seven or eight uniforms. Day but the big
one is The navy blue coming THE lt. Uniforms like
when you see, it you think OF. LT i, mean, awesome.
AWESOME i love. Goals but le but let's but let's
but let's. Not let's not the point is that The
jets are doing the right. Thing when The jets are
doing the right, thing it makes It, okay anything can.

(29:55):
Happen if The jets are doing the right, thing maybe
my team they can't do the right thing at, All
maybe they can get it, going because ALL i got
to look a, dude The jets are doing the right.
Thing come on signing young players who were stars before
they hit free? Agency, like who are you and what
do you do with The? Jets usually you're overpaying for
guys that are just happy to be in the league
and you wind up having to, say we got no
money left in our salary cap and all we're starting

(30:18):
over with a NEW gm and a new head. Coach,
no this is a New if The jets can do,
it this is Like rocky at the end Of rocky.
Four you, know IF i could, change then you could,
change and then The russian guy, go then we can.
Change we're gonna, Change like this is what's. Happening it's pretty. Good,
yeah especially the way you dragged out to. Change i've
seen a lot of changing going. On this is going

(30:40):
on here. Yet so IF i can, Change Iffy die
and chic and that's how it. Goes Number, one The
jets doing the right. Thing knew The jets are doing
the right. Thing your eyes are glazing over your. Six it's, fun,
Man it's fun because like one of my favorite, teams
that eighty Three White sox, squad obviously followed by The
World series, champion that certain big media entities seem to

(31:02):
forget exist actually giving The astros the. Win yeah in
a bunch of, Graphics yeah, yeah yeah yeah during This
White sox. Celebration how about that exit Out Valta fresca
exit swollen down The Jason Smith show with my best
Friend Mike harmon time not to find out what's trending
in the wide world of. Sports But god has been
called the sauce gardener Of Fox Sports. Radio wistenam sauce

(31:26):
from now. On three years ago he was the. Best
two years ago he was almost as good as he
was that. Year last, TONIGHT i am. Rich that was
my whole. FASE i was gonna. Say, now even though
this year not quite as good as last, year he
still is incredibly. Rich it's steve to say.

Speaker 5 (31:44):
Good by the, way you mentioned The charger.

Speaker 4 (31:46):
Uniforms there were eight that they unveiled for the coming,
season including the ones with the navy.

Speaker 5 (31:51):
Blue it's not just The.

Speaker 4 (31:52):
Tomlinsonnari that's When Rodney harrison was A charger and they
will debut them when they Put Rodney harrison in.

Speaker 1 (31:58):
This when you see that, UNIFORM i, say who's the
first player coming from my little l twenty? One. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (32:03):
Absolutely and the all gold The Charger power because there
were Gold Charger POWER t shirts all through the eighties
in the Air coriel days that were all over the
stadium in the nineteen. Eighties and the others are. Easy
it's the powder blue tops with three different pant combinations
and the white tops with three different pant. Combinations we

(32:23):
have an update on The Caitlin clark injury. Tonight there
were TWO wnba. Games we'll get to the baseball in a,
moment But Clark's Indiana fever won Against connecticut eighty five seventy.
Seven late in the, games she came out and the
only update from her coach afterwards is, quote no. Update
she just felt a little something in the, groin so
we'll get that evaluated and see what happens from. There

(32:45):
but it was originally recently a strain left groin that
caused her to miss five. Games this appeared to be the.
RIGHT i can't imagine she's playing, tomorrow but we'll. See
it was announced today THAT.

Speaker 1 (32:59):
I, MEAN i hope in The All Star. GAME i
was just gonna, say, hey she can play in a
three point shooting.

Speaker 4 (33:03):
Call indianapolis is hosting THE Wnba All Star game This,
saturday and it was announced Today clark's going to be
in The friday three point shootout At All star. Weekend
because you, know they don't go by. Stats she's just,
Famous so she's going to be in the.

Speaker 1 (33:15):
Three, yeah he broke Or steve remember the slam That
Sucker Down tour she was going to be.

Speaker 4 (33:21):
On she was already at twenty nine percent from three
point range this season and then one of seven from
long distance in the win. Tonight the late game has
THE La sparks forty four to thirty two On washington
in the second. Quarter as for THE Mlb All Star,
game they've resumed bottom of the seventh In atlanta On FOX.
Tv for a, while it was two Nothing National league

(33:43):
in fact into the, sixth then it became six to,
nothing now six' four Over The. American League pete alonso
soon TO be mvp of.

Speaker 1 (33:50):
This, game yes he is From The New.

Speaker 4 (33:52):
York mets with a three run homer in, the six
The Great sarah langs pointing out that Only two mets
had ever homered In An All star game. Until tonight
one of Those Was lee mizzilly with a. Clutch late,
i'm like how does he not WIN the mv?

Speaker 1 (34:04):
Seventy, Eight right, i'm like how does he not in?

Speaker 5 (34:07):
The Game, Dave, parking yeah.

Speaker 1 (34:09):
He, Made Okay dave parker made. Me okay two of
the greatest. The game but it. Doesn't Matter lee mizzilly
had a home RUN and i think he scored the game.
Winning run, COME on i remember being so mad about
THAT when i. Was nine How Does le mozzilly?

Speaker 4 (34:25):
Not win you See, the, kingdome kids was this indoor
stadium that.

Speaker 1 (34:31):
That was the game where and that's a. Great rant
that's the game where the guy who was famous back
then for getting on fields and getting into like getting
on the field For The super, bowl, Imposter right and
he dressed up in somebody's jersey and he got out
there for the team Picture and lasorda just screamed and
blanked blanked him when he found out who. He was

(34:53):
and that's a great lessorta rant that we don't play.

Speaker 5 (34:55):
That often and there has been a thirty for thirty on.

Speaker 4 (34:58):
This guy if you've never, Seen it ty would recommend
it's something you never knew about.

Speaker 5 (35:02):
The Story But brent rooker Of the a's.

Speaker 4 (35:04):
Tonight For The american league did have a pinch three
run hoper to help him. Come back so bottom of,
the seventh, one out Six' four national league. In The
lead the jets to Give Defensive backs sauce gardner a
four year extension worth eighty five. Million Dollars guaranteed The
Chiefs gaveguard tray smith a. Four year extension, Back to, You.

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Best friend mike harmon Alive From the Fox Sports. Or
radio studios, coming up next we got the play of
The day AND mike and i give you Two big
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(36:13):
we are top of the eighth Inning Of The, all
star Game and the. Miz is in the, Most Controversial
player jacob mazerowski all five STARTS of, his mlb career
and here he is in the eighth inning to try
to preserve a two run Lead For. The National league the.

(36:33):
Miz is in like we said a, few Minutes Ago
maybe dave. Roberts is, listening, he said well and, it's
that controversial and, you pick him you kind of have
to put him. In the game you can't just pick, him,
and say okay now. You sit. Out that's great god
should have come out with full sparkly robe and SUNGLASSES like.
HIS wwe, counterpart i, Mean he's hitting he's hitting one
hundred miles an hour, on every pitch like he is

(36:55):
jacked up full of all kinds of. ADRENALINE right now
i mean he's not thrown a, lot of strikes but
he was throwing about one hundred. And every pitch But on,
THE fox telecast i believe it said, what is it
twenty five percent of his pitches. Going, for, miles, now
yeah yeah. It's not bad one out of every four.
HiT's three. Digits about, that so again we'll keep you. Updated.
On This Again the national league looking to do something

(37:17):
really rare Here In The, all star game. And that's
win they gotta protect six outs with a, two run
lead and the miss is in to see if he,
can do it and he gets taken, to the wall
but play is made on. The warning track, miss, is
laughing going, Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness YOU know what.
I call that, it's an. Out stylish, out so again

(37:41):
a fly ball, the warning track one out in the
top of. The Eighth inning national League Being, the american
league we'll Bring you the Play of the day following
the end of this game because we're gonna. Do something
special normally we play a play of the day and
it's Something From The. All Star game if, i'm telling
you it's something that Could Trump the pete. Alonzo home
run you know. It's something special so, we're gonna play
at least, by my count we have well we have

(38:05):
one Home Run. By pete alonzo. WE have, one i
mean That's that's what i'm saying at. Least, TWO things
yeah i think we have, one THING better and i
think the other thing might be a third thing or,
a fourth thing. Third or fourth we got. One thing
better can you Just put Your matt and? Met's hat
away i'm telling the guy at a three run homer
and it could be the. Margin of victory guys GONNA.
Win the mv it's, a great deal but there is one,
Thing Better, still corn carroll would You Stop? With corbyn

(38:28):
carroll you? Just come, on but hey we talked about
A Couple of big bowl predictions outside the Box here
Because i've been i've been not fuming about part of.
This all, day but still you Know When the emmy
noms came Out Today and the bear Got Nominated, for
best comedy which has, always been ridiculous but now even
more so because. The, Main thing look I'M excited because

(38:49):
i never Have To watch. THE bear again i finished
the last season and. It was awful, You'll be back
you'll Be just. Like i'm, done but see If you're from,
chicago like me you find a lot of what is
supposed to be high drama comedy because it reminds you.

Speaker 2 (39:04):
Of family in front and places.

Speaker 1 (39:06):
You've eat man and this is why, it Upset me,
because i'm like. Not that okay they're looking to throw
this in the comedy category because there used to be
at least some fun stuff. You laughed At now the bear.
Is just depressing, it's absolutely depressing and every conversation has
the weight of the world, on their shoulders AND it's,
just i mean find somebody. To love you as Much
as the Emmy Voters, love THE bear which i don't

(39:27):
get because it's. Just not great if you, want to
know the show that Should Win for Best Comedy, is
the studio, without a doubt Without Adopt The studio marche scorsese,
Gets a nomination. Yeah it was scorsese was, great In
It Right ron howard, Immediately he's like, i'll, come, Back
yeah yeah like all these, GUYS are like i want,

(39:48):
it's too much. IT'S too much i gave me an
idea for, something incredibly different, entirely, already, Great great Great
but the studio was that was. The funniest show Is.
Better THAN hacks hacks i think had an uneven. Kind
of year and if, you, going for, hey something new,
fresh and funny, top to bottom all the Episodes of the,
studio were great going going There. With, THE studio see I,

(40:09):
pushed To shrinking which i'm doing a Rewatch, on YE
shrinking which i enjoy the hell. Out Of it harrison
ford is just funny at every moment And just like
nora stole The Season, for ted lasso the kid does
a really Good Job. With. Harrison, FORD Yeah no i

(40:29):
My thing with shrinking is that it's not the best.
Of the season so it's hard for me to say,
It was great like the first season was so, was
so good it was so it was so crisp and
all the, characters they do it was hard for me,
to say yeah, because it's? Okay is it is it? The?
Best Season Knows and krista miller reminds me of a lot,
of family members so that takes it.

Speaker 5 (40:51):
Over.

Speaker 1 (40:51):
The top uh so we'll give you our drama picks
coming up. In a bit but there's our big hot
Takes on the emmy's. Coming up next we got big
Stuff Out Of major league BASEBALL. And the nfl keep,
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