July 25, 2025 • 41 mins
Mike Harmon and Dan Beyer react to the Raiders releasing standout DT Christian Wilkins, Little Leaguer allowed back in state tourney after judge overturns bat flip suspension. And New Orleans Pelicans are all in on Zion Williamson. Plus, some fantasy TE rankings!
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in his stead tagging in from parts unknown. All right,
(01:02):
He's from Wisconsin. It's Dan Byre Dan Byre on pop.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
I tried to stay away from our next story because
I want it to be surprised, but I screwed it up.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
The cab out of the bag.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Which is too bad. Because I hate cats, but that's
a whole other topic for another time. Everybody in my
family's allergic to them, so like, I just get scared
when I see them. But suddenly I'm gonna have like
hair that gets on me, and suddenly I'm causing, you know,
a catastrophic, no pun intended, chain reaction of events from there.
But as we continue, we'll get back into the memory
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the legacy, Hey, the good side, because the good and
the bad and the ugly, as the life and times
of Hulk Cogan on an industry and what it meant
to us pop culture wise, and where we're at in
our sports and entertainment connection and really that bringing the
bridge to it all going all the way back to
nineteen eighty four, eighty five and the legends they're in
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and some of them they're still with us and have
comented Ted d Biassi doing an interview on AM five
seventy a little earlier with our guys Petros and Matt
and then you know, the Honkey talk Man and everybody
else that are still out there putting their condolences up
some great tributes and then for the younger wrestlers to
be like, hey, if it wasn't for him, I wouldn't
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have tried. And I collected his trading cards and action
figures and everything else, all those admissions coming through, no
question about it. So we'll get into that a little
bit more. But as you relate there, Dan will continue
on your store of abandoned players, forgotten players, historic player.
We got to figure out what the proper term is
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for it, but I think it has legs.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
It all stemmed from seeing these random concerts and I
actually I'm curious on if if Big A and now
Big A's got an audience. I needed to weigh in
on him. I figured that he'd be a music guy.
You're a music guy. I know all of our mancy
at the news desk has probably gone to shows Frostburg
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the same deal. We see these random NBA jerseys. Sure
pictures people taking random shots of or wearing their replica
NBA jerseys, and it's like the more random you can get,
the better. But when I saw the Ashton gent D
Raiders number two jersey, and it happens and you see
a thirty four jersey as well, like kJ Wright. In
a short time with the Raiders war number thirty four,
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other players have worn thirty four. How do you not
look at that and see bo Jackson. When I saw
number two, I saw JaMarcus Russell, and I thought to myself,
I know that there's no way that I can do
it because it's all NFL licensing, And if you wanted
a JaMarcus Russell jersey, you could probably go get one
personalized for a Raider store. But how great would it
be if we started the trend of just wearing And
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I'm not saying bad players, but just players that had
a story that just didn't work out for that organization.
Because I don't want to disrespect the players entirely for
what they put forth to the game, But you can't
tell me it would be It wouldn't be funny to
see someone rocking in Antonio Brown eighty four Raiders jersey somewhere,
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considering he never played down for the team. In fact,
when I brought NFL souvenirs home for my cousins, my
poor ten year old cousin Manny, got an Antonio Brown
Raiders T shirt because I was in Las Vegas.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
I'm one of my stops, and I.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Thought, all this would be great. He's the newest Raider.
Let's give him an Antonio Brown T shirt. Now that
T shirt's probably worth about one hundred and fifty bucks
right now. But I think that there is a group
of people that would wear their jerseys of the players
of their teams that maybe just didn't have the Hall
of Fame ending to their career that we would have hoped.
(04:42):
And I'm not talking about randos, like just somebody that
you know played thirty years ago. I'm talking about That's
why I'm talking about JaMarcus Russell and how bad the
tenure was. The Christian Wilkins tenure was just five games.
You mentioned Jake Cutler with the Bears. I'll tell you
what I've seen some Bosworth Seahawks, jur Magnificent right, like.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Absolutely, But I think this is where it becomes the
all right, you decide how much seed money, Lisa, if
you're listening, this is how we do this is that
you got to put us oute a little bit of money. Sorry, Brod,
you're not going to uh.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
This, I got to wave to college for the year.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
No, No, well, you're gonna have to delay it or
we're gonna have to, you know, figure this out. Maybe
a little extra work study or more dinosaurs. I don't
know you're gonna have to peddle some dinosaurs. My kids
they odd jobs, babysitting, whatever they need to do along
the way. But it's the kind of thing where you
have a certain amount of money, I might actually do this.
(05:37):
I kind of dig this, but as a guy gets
released right ages out because think about it, at one
point you could have gone and found Seahawks or Broncos
Jerry Rice merchandise in local stores. Right when he was trying.
I had the tops and Bowman cards to prove it
that those tenures existed. Don't believe it, go look it
up people. He tried to keep moving on. Never played
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in actual games, but he was there. But it's it's
that kind of thing. Like the cutler thing was just
funny because the timing at a store in the mall
here in southern California is you know, they're one of
those superstores. You can get the mugs and tumblers and
you name it. If it's got the team logo on it,
sure it's you know, the cheap Hey, we need a
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birthday gift. This guy likes the team, go get it.
But then you would have some legitimate jerseys to your
point of you know that not the on field, but
that second tier, right, you got the two hundred, and
then you got the you know, seventy nine dollars version,
a lot of those. But then if a guy was
no longer with the squad, they were on the discount racks.
So suddenly the jerseys, those eighty dollars jerseys were not
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twenty dollars. Yes, And the jerseys the T shirt that
looks like a jersey right with the name and name
played on the back, you know, not iron on kind
of thing, those were five. So I went in into
the store. At one point, if I really wanted to
hustle it, they had about one hundred Collin cap for
Nick jerseys, and that was at the height of Colin
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Kaepernick's movement at twenty bucks apiece. There's no question I
could have made a bunch of money. Would have taken
a bunch of work, sure, but I could have made money,
and I would. I would guess, city to city, there's
something you could do with that, especially if you're paying
nickels on the you know, on the dollar for said jerseys.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
I think that there.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
I just think it would be it would be fun
to have that jersey be new because we see, like
if there was like an Achilles Smith Bengel's jersey, like
it's Warren, it's faded, it's a different company. But how
about like a new, fresh one and you hear it
like you're owning it, like you're owning your fandom, you're
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owning your team.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Every once in a while, I go into, uh, you know,
a good Will here or a Salvation Army and there'll
be a couple of jerseys and it's so damn tempting,
particularly if you do start. It's like, all right, there's
an old ray Allen Sonics. There's an old you know,
Kevin Garnett Celtics. Or every once in a while I'll
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find a t Wolves, but I'll be missing half of
the name on the front door of the back and
they're like, oh, it's really cool. It's like eight bucks, Like,
but what the hell am I going to do with that?
In this case, I now have a place to send
it out.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
DK Metcalf Seahawks jerseys were on sale at the store
that I looked at when I saw this Ashton gent jersey,
and yeah, there, you're right, they're fifty percent off.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
There's seventy percent off.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Whatever the case may be, but DK Metcalf had enough
of a career where it's not you just kind of
look dated, right, They're like it just they're like, okay,
But those.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Are the kind of thing though, when if he has
a couple of good years and we start talking about retirement,
there's always gonna be a mark because he's always gonna
have sure people needing that sign.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
I'm doing this just for just for the novelty and
the funness of a forty nine Ers fan wearing a
Giovanni Carmazzi jersey, Just like, how great would it be,
like just to the nines, Like it's dressed up.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
And you have them sign it. This should have been Brady.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Just like I think, like that is fandom. Jim Drunken Miller, Right, yes,
just do that if you're a Niners fan, I think
that they're I don't think it's a huge audience. I
don't know if there's if there's the ability to really
do something like that. I would just like to see
those made, to see a place where you could just
go get them. Sure, you could go and order one
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online and it would be funny, but I felt that
there was a market, Like how great would it be.
If you're a Raiders fan just rocking your NUW JaMarcus
Russell Jersey.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
You're owning it.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
You're owning your fandom, You're owning your the the you
know the days that were just absolute headaches for you.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Oh, it's fantastic. It's I've always had the idea that
eventually I will have a wall that is the wall
of mean because I love the dump truck guys in
the middle of the defensive end or a defensive line, right,
So guys like Casey Hampton, Vince will Form, all of
those guys were were my guys always my favorite going
through So the idea being if I had the money
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to do it to find gamers of all of those
guys to put on the wall. I don't care about
the quarterbacks. I mean, I love them. The guys I've
talked to. The wide receivers always were great with a
quote as I was on the highways and byways of
training camp trips all those years ago. But the guys
that I always loved to watch because I was a
short fire plug dude my own self were the defensive linemen.
So like that's where I would be so you could
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get me in a whole section of just you know,
the bigger guys.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Well, I'll say this to also the Jersey portion of it.
You have to have the older jersey. So for like
that first, like you wouldn't you wouldn't use the vikings
for example. I was just I was thinking of like
Ontario Smith with the Wizard Ale, Like you wouldn't want
to put them in the current vikings that you would
have to be the Oh no, you got to it's
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got to be of that era, like the Bosworth one
would be the royal blue Seahawk or the white you
know throwback that we expect to see in a few days,
Like that's what you that's what it has to be
with with the Raiders, because their uniforms stayed the same.
It's that allows you to just get a regular JaMarcus
Russell one. But if there was a way where you
could get the throwback. Even when the forty nine ers
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did their their change a little bit, I call it
the Jeff Garcia era because that's when it seemed like.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
It was a tweak yeah, where they added black to it.
It was kind of funky.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
There was outlines, and that's the era that the Jersey
would have to be not necessarily the current forty nine
er one.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Now they teased a new logo in the Team store.
There was a hat that was making its rounds on
social media of a reworked forty nine er logo, so
be curious to see what transpires there. I've also found
the site where I can go back and find game
used helmets from the original XFL that made become a
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very expensive hobby for a young Mike Harmon here.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
I've looked up draft helmet phones within the past two weeks.
There are some out there. The white ones are pretty faded.
I would get a landline just use that.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
That is fantasm would I would?
Speaker 1 (12:02):
I would call them up and say, guess what. I
am ready to bundle. I am ready to bundle home phone.
I just bought a Seattle Seahawks nineteen eighty eight draft phone.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Let's go, let's hook this up.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
And the proper corresponding aluminum pop thirst bucket that they
would sell other cheap hoosts. Go for the real phone.
I love it.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
No, that's great, like three hundred bucks on eBay.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
I know a couple of cards right there, let's go,
let's flip.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
But again, then there's the cost of the landline. That's
the other part might be worth it because I would
use it.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
I don't know. Do you have to buzz people in
where you live, because then you can make an excuse
that you want to get it off your cell phone
and just make sure that the helmet phone has to ring.
See what I did, problem solver. I may have added
costs to your monthly nut, but you would have that
helmet bunch.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
I got nineteen ninety seven Seahawks helmet phone nine. Yeah,
there's a Vikings won five hundred and fifty dollars. Packers
won right now, two hundred and twenty three dollars.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Is it the new leather looking helmet that the No.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Gosh, I think it's awful.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Why do we Why are we doing throwbacks for one
hundred years later? Like why we're not? There's nobody there
that wants to look back at the nineteen twenty five
season or whatever, Like, no, we want to look back
to the eighties. We want to look back to the
to the nineties or the seventies. There's I they're sick.
(13:32):
People say, oh sick, they are sick. They make me
want to throw up, like I can't. It's just it's
so annoying. It looks stupid, it looks ridiculous. Stop throwing
back to one hundred years ago.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
You know, it's only just slightly a different shade of
brown than what we recognized with the with the Browns yesterday. See,
it all comes back to the dude ones. Yeah, I
got that skiff.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
It really does that new Brown's one though, maybe in
the mini helmet purchased shopping cart.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
I kind of dig that. Yeah, we'll see if we
can find you in the appropriate Brown's legend to sign
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of weekends of summer and the last Thursday without football,
Dan Byer, which leads us to an interesting story that
we had part one of yesterday, a bit of a
cliffhanger in Little League baseball. And when we last brought
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you this story, it was Marco Arocco of Haddonfield, New Jersey,
back on July sixteenth. He had a sixth inning two
run home run. Team goes on to win eight nothing
in the final of the sectional tournament, but he was
ejected and suspended for a game over what the family
were told unsportsmanlike horseplay, one of my favorite words in
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the English language. He launched the bat into the air
after hitting the home run, excessive celebration. But a judge,
just hours before they were going to play in the
next round of the New Jersey State tournament, Judge Robert
Maleestine ruled that Marco could play. Quote, I'm going to
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grant temporarily the injunctive relief. I'm going to allow him
to play in tonight's game. His father said, Well, justice prevailed.
So was playing for Haddenfield against Elmorra Little League in
the first game of a four team double elimination tournament.
There at the complex bunch of big statements and talking
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about creating positive experience for all players and families throughout
the tournament. Trusted by parents and communities around the world,
Little League holds the integrity of the game, the sanctity
of the game, as we always say here, respect for
game officials, and sportsmanship of teams as core tenants of
the program. Goes on and on from there. Little leagues,
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you know, talk about the discretion of the umpire, but
still kind of pushing back because remember the almost hit
the moon, like I mean, and the basis for what
we were talking about actually, one, you're showing up your opponent.
Two it's in the rule book. Know the rules, never
respect the game, respect the process, et cetera. The main
defense that they made as a family and the coaching
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staff was we learned it from watching you. It was
in the videos, and that was part of the way
it ruled against them, is that there was preponderance of
evidence that there had been a celebration of such things.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
Well, the ruling allowed him to play like there was.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
I would say that the case that they brought against
was just to make sure that nothing could go further
and that the kid would be allowed to play in
the game, which is the reason why you have the
injunction and if he's going to be suspended some other game,
I don't know they want or lost.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
Whatever the case is.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
But it's also the point of if you complain enough
and how you can get your way and get away
with it.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Yeah, the court complaint they also were noted as well
Marco tossed his bat and celebration in prior games and
he didn't get punished. So why now all got caught? Now,
well you got started to make it a deal.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
I I'll tell you. I'll say this. That bat flip again,
was not a regular bat flip. It was so high
in the air. And if you're a fan of baseball,
you're watching that for the first time like I am,
and thinking, Wow, the kid's excited. Kids excited, just hit
a walk off home run. Who wouldn't be excited. Then
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Mike told me no, they were up eight. Nothing. That
changed everything for me. It's one thing to do a
bat flip in excitement in a matter when you're twelve
and you can't handle your emotions. There's another one for
that's complete taunting of another team and showing off, which
is what you don't want in baseball. If I'm the
team that's playing that team in that game and I'm
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hitting a home run, heck, after a single, I am
chucking the bat up every single time to prove a
point on how ridiculous this is. I don't want to
hurt a twelve year old's feelings, but this is we were.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Taught how to drop the bat in the batter's box.
That was something that was taught.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
I didn't play baseball at nearly a high level at all,
but I did play when I was young enough to
realize that we were told to drop the bat.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
Here.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
This is where you drop the bat because you can't
throw the bat, let alone do a bat flip that
goes twelve feet in the air with an aluminum bat.
Not that it wouldn't hurt anything less with a wood bat,
but serious like it doesn't. It's so absurd because they're
just saying State championship game, it's for twelve year olds. Sorry,
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it's a lesson that you learn. I can't believe that
they allowed them to play.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Here's more from the judges ruling. Quote, there's no specific
Little League rule that prohibits bat flipping. It's not illegal,
it's not a violation of any express rule, and it
appears to be promoted parenthetical by the league itself. What
a coward.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
Yeah, judge, I agree like this.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
This This could have gone so far in teaching a lesson.
It's an example. It's it's I think it's what parents do.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Ano.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
The kid didn't file it, his parents did.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Yeah, and so like, that's the point of it, as
I understand you want what's best for your child, but
sometimes everybody makes mistakes. Unfortunately, this kid made a mistake
and now he gets bailed out for it. And what
kind of lesson is that to learn?
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Well, you also put it back in the face of
the umpires. Is where the Little League expressed their disappointment
and the ruling of saying, look, we're having enough trouble
getting people to come and office. Sure, now in some
cases you're paid, like some of the tournaments my daughter
is paid. And I know those guys they get flown
out from Texas or wherever because they could make a
really good coin for a couple of days officiating some
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high level games. Otherwise, you know you're trying to like
when she was in ayso it was parent points. Well,
guess what I had to learn how to try to
officiate soccer games. By time I did that, the only
game I could get on the on the card to
get credit was a U twelve boys game. No ars
showed up for said games. So it's me with a
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bunch of kids elbowing each other upside the neck and
me being uh, probably about forty pounds heavier and just
salty as hell that I had to do it. Fortunately,
it was like a nine to nothing burial, so there
really wasn't much for either of the coaches to complain about.
I was like, that's what you're walking into in a
lot of these situations, and that's where the Little League
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tried to stand up for It's like, well, what are
we gonna do? Like, if you complain enough, it's gonna
get overturned. How do we get people to keep coming back?
It's like the guy made a ruling about sportsmanship and
then one of the things that they brought in quote,
we support the excitement and competition of the tournament. Player
safety and proper sportsmanship among all participants and fans must
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remain a focus. We respect the determination and judgment of
the umpire who was present, and are disappointed that illegal
ruling contradicts the integrity of Little League International's values and rules.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
So if they end up winning, this kid's going to
be able to continue to play and this will this
will be what Hey, thank goodness we had the kid.
But what about if they didn't have it and they won? Like,
what a lesson? What a great moment for that team.
That's all, that's what this is.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Like.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
I I know it's a different time and I the
parents are sometimes more involved than the kid is into it.
But this is just this is This is not what
Little League is about. And I understand all Star teams
is about. Okay, let's get to Williamsport like that's what
it is. There's also an honor to be named as
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a Little League All Star. You have dreams of Williamsport,
and then they may end in the first game, whatever
the case may be, and there's tough luck and it
would stick for the other kids as well. But the
other kids would also learn I'm not gonna throw my bat.
I'm not gonna do that. That is not going to
happen when I play from twelve years old up until
I'm eighteen in high school and then in college.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
Guess what I'm not gonna do.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
I'm not gonna take my bat and throw it at
the moon and have it drop halfway down the first
base line, especially in an Ain't nothing game.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
I'm struggling to find results from tonight to whether he'll
get to potentially launch another bat after this ruling. Yeah. OK.
And I've been known to ask an official for or
an excited utterance. Generally it's one of guys getting trucked
and I'm afraid someone's taking a knee to the head
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in the process. But it is the kind of thing
I feel for referees. It's a difficult proposition.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
And in this case, the umpire made a call, made
a gutsy call and had the backing of his little league,
and uh the international organization instead got slapped in the
face saying, no, it's okay, boys, We'll be boys.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
I think it's an amazing opportunity to teach a lesson.
They're up eight nothing. It wasn't excitement, it was taunting.
That's exactly what it was.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
And also, like we talked about Dan yesterday, the jacked
up videos that used to run, you know that segment
they did on ESPN. You know you can take those away,
and I would suspect all bats chirps, especially those that
or are you either that or that's the greatest bat flip
of all time because you got a judge aside with you,
and you launched it higher than anybody else. Your launch
(25:45):
angle is better than anybody else's.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
Bryce Harper's had some good ones. Was a Bautista, Yeah,
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
If was it Roco Roco. Marco Rocco Roco, a legend
in Haddenfield. He's Dan By for Jason Smith out Mike Harmon.
As we continue here on the show, how about a
little bit from an anonymous team official. This is my
favorite quote of the day. That's our guy. Who are
(26:12):
they talking about. Well, we'll tell you what that's all
about coming up next, but first it's Mantible audience with
an update on the sporting universe.
Speaker 7 (26:19):
I don't know if you saw Shay and I watching
the TV intently because we thought Mike Trout was gonna
walk it off for the Angels. But the Mariners walk
Mike Trout, load up the bases and they win it.
They hold on, they get the next out, but the
Angels left the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth,
benning down two runs. Mariners went it Ford to to
(26:40):
Julio Rodriguez with the home run, randetto Saturday and I
with the home run Hoe Bolanco with another one.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
You like them all, Dan, thank you awesome.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
The Mariners proper right, yes, correct.
Speaker 7 (26:58):
The Mariners are also acquiring first baseman Josh Naylor from
the Diamondbacks, and reports are that the Mariners are not
done trying to acquire Hennie sweats from the Diamondbacks as well.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
So we'll see it.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
I say, I say you.
Speaker 7 (27:15):
Is the correct word, the correct way.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
To say it.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
H so also just doesn't use consonants. It's all vowels.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
But it's only one r in a rose arena. That's
not a role, says I was talking inventory Spanish.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
That was the zi a t h as well, like
can you do that?
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Like, yeah, yeah, yes, yes, are you gonna start saying
barcelonat Oh.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
There's a guy on TikTok that does that. That does
I've showed it to other people. I know, I'm that
annoying guys usual TikTok, I do it the manti all
the time.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Is this right?
Speaker 1 (27:49):
And she totally placates me. She's like, yeah, let me
see what is track man and golf? Thank you for
playing along.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
I knowing that guy.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
No, I don't go on to it very often or
on TikTok.
Speaker 7 (28:02):
So I like when you show me that stuff because
I miss it.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
I do miss it.
Speaker 7 (28:05):
The a snap the four game losing streak as they
topped the Astros five to two, the Cardinals had a
ninety seven victory over the Padres at home. The Tigers
are now one in ten in their last eleven games,
and the Blue Jays today defeated them eleven to four.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Blue Jays are sixty one and forty two.
Speaker 7 (28:20):
The Orioles avoided the sweep earlier today, beating the Guardians
four to three. We'll move on to the NFL where, yeah,
week from today the Hall of Fame game between the
Guardian the Guardians, the Chargers and the Lions.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
That'll be on Thursday, the thirty first of July.
Speaker 7 (28:34):
But the Raiders are releasing defensive tackle Christian Wilkins, just
one year after he signed a four year, hundred and
ten million dollar deal. Apparently the team is not happy
how he has handled his foot injury rehab. They wanted
him to have surgery, but he declined after several opinions.
Wilkins has filed agreements in case he missed a quarterback
Justin Fields just sustained and dislocated toe in his right
foot O day today. More importantly, Travis Kelce has made
(28:58):
his relationship with Taylor Swift Instagram official.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
It's a lot of photos, a lot of photos here.
We are laughing. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (29:06):
He posted thirteen photos, seven of them had her in them.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Fifth anniversary of Evermore today, I think if I'm to
bring my oh my Taylor Swift, No, not my favorite album,
not it's yeah, it's a continuum, right, it's it's mood,
it's time it's released. Where you're at in your life
as you listen to it, right, it's true. My kid
used to be with food. Sorry, no, you're finding she
(29:31):
would do the not my favorite, not my favorite, yeah,
not my thing that got pushed to the side, totally.
Speaker 7 (29:37):
Yeah, And I have a few of those songs on
my phone, just not the whole album the way other
albums are one.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
I'm saying.
Speaker 7 (29:44):
And of course, pro wrestling legend Hulklogan passed away today
at the age of seventy one.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
Passed back to you guys, brother, Thanks Monty. Monty. Milanya
is where you find her in the Twitter verse. Coming
up in about eight minutes or so, we'll get back
into the Fantasy rank. He's taking a look at the
tight ends and one quarterback who's really backing his guy?
Do we But this story I thought was worth a
minute or two Dan, because it just made me chuckle
(30:10):
in an interview with spot Track spot Track, what do
we call it? Keith Smith? So that's where you track
team's money and available cap space and all of that
fun stuff if you want to go full nerd out
and build your and reconstruct your roster. An Anonymous Pelicans
executive an Anonymous Pelicans executive, Zion is still our guy.
(30:33):
We're all in on him. We think he's gonna have
a huge year. We've had some bad injury luck, yeah,
and some things that just haven't worked out. This partnership
hasn't even come close to reaching our best yet. Now.
Obviously he's on the extension and they bought in and
we've seen him be brilliant when he's on the court,
(30:55):
which has been rare. But I love the fact that
you back your guys so much. The guy stand up
for him is the Anonymous Teams.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
It is a new regime in New Orleans, so I
think that they maybe that's maybe that's why, maybe there's
other plans. But honestly, if you're the Pelicans right now
and you look at the Western Conference, like do you
need this show Zion more?
Speaker 4 (31:21):
Or like could you trade Zion.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
And figure out a way to refresh.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
It seems like some of the stretching of money and
creative accounting that we've seen should be done here.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Yes, And I'm not completely sure, but I just think
the more you hold on to him, the less his
value is somewhere else.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
Right, there might be somebody who still thinks they can
fix whatever's in between his ears, whatever's going on with
him physically. We talked about it. There's a number of
teams in each league where you go what goes on
in those training rooms. Sure, for New Orleans that's been
part of the issue for years, wondering that.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
I just I don't know if it's realistic.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
But you look at the Western Conference right now, and
it's not a quick fix by any means. And I
know that Jordan Pool's there now and Kevon Looney's there,
but that's not the making of a team that is
going to be in the top ten, of the top
eighth of the Western Conference. So kind of what's the
point I get new regime and whoever is anonymous, it's
(32:23):
maybe just towing the party line, but at some point
you're so bad you just got to try.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
To get as much as you can for the guys
that actually have value.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
And if Zion plays more and gets hurt more, I
think it is only his value just continues to go down.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
Well, the only time he can put asses in seats
is if he's actually not on his sure and unfortunately
people aren't coming to watch him in sweat sweatpants sitting
on the sideline. What he actually plays electrifying. We see
highlights all the time, countdowns and what Jason and I
are in here on the regular. You know, we'll watch
a Pelicans game and you'll marvel at what he does,
(32:56):
and then he'll miss the next three games or in
this case half season thirty games.
Speaker 4 (33:02):
This past yearah.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
Difficult proposition average twenty five a game when he did
show up.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
So yeah, the numbers have been there, but there's just
not enough to and still like, if you're a team
to like to acquire him, it's a big deal, but
it's still maybe fool's gold because of just the injury status.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
Do you have enough of expiring contracts to match up
to his? And everybody just say hey, and I just want.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
To clearify it's not a trade Zion segment. I don't
know enough of the numbers to figure it out. It's
just the point of being is I think there's a
new regime. Well, I know there's a new regime. They're news,
so they're going to stick to the guy. But ultimately,
for them or any other team in any sport, in
that position, it's probably better to get rid of the
(33:45):
depreciating assets sooner rather than later.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
No, this is exactly it. Get him the clean bill
of health, let him show out in a practice game
or two, get on the cord. Here's video evidence of
him being able to do the pogo stick stuff. And
then we clap our hands. Let's commentsure, you know, get
some trade together and move it on. Yeah, it's just
to the point. It's like twenty nineteen is a long
(34:08):
time ago, and you've seen glimpses of that guy now
and again is this card market? Oh, it's an absolutely
cratered wastele one. They overproduced because that was the year,
that was the COVID year, so they just kind of
kept going back to the printing press. Just the breaker
world showed up. So now there was an insatiable need
because you had him, you had Jaw, you had Tyler Hero,
(34:30):
the aforementioned Jordan Poole with the Warriors, very deep rookie class,
Ruby Hachimora, Cam Reddish could do this all day long.
Plenty of guys in that class, so they kept going
to the well. So there's plenty of zions out there.
If you want to be by low Dan time, maybe
some other team will as well. He's Dan Bayer. I'm
(34:50):
by Garment. It's Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith Show with
Me Mike Garment, and coming up next, we will take
our turn back into the National Football League the tight
end position, filtering out a top five. Sure brock Bauers
is there atop the list. Is the Taylor Swift loving
Kelsey still a top five? Or has he fallen from favor.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
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Speaker 3 (35:17):
Well I really cranked that up or it got really
loud in my head just that moment. Welcome back in
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Dan Byron for Jason Smith tonight, as we come to
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you're listening, maybe having that evening coffee, maybe having a
(35:39):
little soft serve. I don't know, nightcap, No thanks, I
don't wear one. Wait that movie comes out in a
couple of weeks. As we continue here at Fox Sports Radio,
thank you so much, we're talking about the Fantasy universe,
and we got to our tight end position. Now, Dan,
we've moved down to the next group of pass catchers
(35:59):
and the great witness contained therein There is one guy
front and center. That's Brock Bauers. I think that's the
sharpie guy, just like Jamar Chase was on the wide receiver.
Although there is one contender that's kind of interesting to me,
and I have to wonder if you think perhaps maybe
I'm onto something here, and that is the revamped, reconstituted, recombobulated,
(36:24):
discombobulated Arizona Cardinals and TREYE. McBride. For the fact that
the man was a pass catching machine as Marvin Harrison
Junior was starting to rise up a little bit but
just didn't find the end zone. How much of that
is bad scheme versus bad luck? And now with a
refurbished defense that they put a lot of investment into
(36:47):
maybe you get balance and definition in the forest to
where maybe he can become a bigger player in the
red zone to augment his scoring potential as just a
volume pass catcher.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
And if he would have just scored one more touchdown,
the Seahawks maybe would have made the playoffs. Because there's
the game against the Rams and into the Rams to
lose and broke the lack of touchdown string, and then
you're like, oh my goodness, it's going to happen again.
It's gonna happen again. Lookouts. But I would say look
out for McBride. I am high on him as well.
(37:20):
If Bowers, I think is going to go on name value,
no doubt about it. But I would not be mad
if I had to settle for Trey McBride a few
spots lower. The question is is once Bowers go, does
McBride then.
Speaker 4 (37:38):
Immediately go after.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
That's just the question that I have in a draft
because tight ends does happen in runs, and when you're
looking at this crop of tight ends. George Kittle, I know,
is ranked high MIC, but there's always still the question
of because he's so darn physical, you know, could there's
something happen in a scenario where he just gets injured.
Speaker 4 (38:01):
And that's why I'm.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
With you, Like with McBride number two, but I'm almost
as high on him as I am on Bowers as well.
Speaker 3 (38:09):
Well. With Bowers, I also just keep getting the chant
in Gene oh, Gene oh, and especially here in when
Smith's alongside me. Anytime I can grab a guy that
was once upon a time a would be Jets' future
great quarterback who's found success somewhere else, I like to
dig a little bit. It's fun well in Arizona.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
I mean, there's not the coaching shift in philosophy that
you would have with the Raiders.
Speaker 4 (38:37):
With Gino.
Speaker 1 (38:38):
Smith absolutely comparable, maybe even more so. But because he's
more so, does he rely is he's giving brock Bowers
sixteen targets a game? Is he getting him fourteen targets
a game? Like there was a stretch where yeah, it
was just absolute pinball, it felt like with Brock Bowers.
Speaker 4 (38:57):
But I'm with you and McBride. I wouldn't put McBride
above Bowers.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
But the point is is that think name value wise,
Bowers may go higher, and you just hope that there
isn't a run on tight ends with McBride being picked
up soon after.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
Now there's a guy that's back in the news because
it's a team that we have great expectations for. We
talked a little bit about Drake London in our wide
Receiver segment. All of these podcasts will go up the
iWatch Flex podcast and of course here for the show.
You can find that wherever you download your podcast. But
Michael Pennis Junior saying all the right things of you
noticed I'm getting Kyle pits the ball a lot as
(39:33):
almost to say I don't want any questions about Kyle Pitts. Okay,
this is a guy in his career one hundred and
ninety six career receptions averages about fourteen yards a catch,
ten touchdowns in his four seasons in the National Football League,
and he's always been tabbed as the next the would
be next tight end. Great on the current board, he's
(39:55):
at nineteen. I don't know how much our higher I
can argue.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
In well, I would also say this that you're gonna
look at your draft and if you have Kyle Pitts
on your team, you're gonna say to yourself, I got
Kyle Pitts in the thirteenth round. It breaks right, you know, yeah,
like like he's my second tight end, Like I may
start him week one, Like that's the conversation that you're
going to have. It's only twenty four, which doesn't necessarily
(40:19):
matter in fantasy, but I was surprised that.
Speaker 4 (40:21):
I'm like, wow, Kyle Pitts is just twenty four years old.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
I yeah, I think that with with some guys, not
a lot of guys, you can take a tight end,
especially if you're at the back end of if you're
one of the last ones in your twelve team league.
Partner them up with Kyle Pitts, and I think you're
going to be very happy with how your tight end
room looks, even if you're his numbers don't make you
look happy.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
Well, we finished out the top five. We got Boers,
we got McBride. Kittle's certainly a top five prospect. Is
it just Laporta and Hockinson and be done with it?
Or do you still crack? Maybe Kelsey market Andrews.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
One of the last eleven games was the Mark Andrews
of old for the Ravens.
Speaker 3 (40:59):
But that off season after dropping the ball, how much
how many skeletons maybe revenge to her? How about that
maybe maybe we get a little bit of that Evan
Ingram now in Denver as well, so potential for him.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
And if Hunter Henry would score touchdowns, maybe Drake May's
security blanket in New England's actually done.
Speaker 3 (41:17):
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(01:02):
He's from Wisconsin. It's Dan Byre Dan Byre on pop.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
I tried to stay away from our next story because
I want it to be surprised, but I screwed it up.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
The cab out of the bag.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Which is too bad. Because I hate cats, but that's
a whole other topic for another time. Everybody in my
family's allergic to them, so like, I just get scared
when I see them. But suddenly I'm gonna have like
hair that gets on me, and suddenly I'm causing, you know,
a catastrophic, no pun intended, chain reaction of events from there.
But as we continue, we'll get back into the memory
(01:35):
the legacy, Hey, the good side, because the good and
the bad and the ugly, as the life and times
of Hulk Cogan on an industry and what it meant
to us pop culture wise, and where we're at in
our sports and entertainment connection and really that bringing the
bridge to it all going all the way back to
nineteen eighty four, eighty five and the legends they're in
(01:57):
and some of them they're still with us and have
comented Ted d Biassi doing an interview on AM five
seventy a little earlier with our guys Petros and Matt
and then you know, the Honkey talk Man and everybody
else that are still out there putting their condolences up
some great tributes and then for the younger wrestlers to
be like, hey, if it wasn't for him, I wouldn't
(02:18):
have tried. And I collected his trading cards and action
figures and everything else, all those admissions coming through, no
question about it. So we'll get into that a little
bit more. But as you relate there, Dan will continue
on your store of abandoned players, forgotten players, historic player.
We got to figure out what the proper term is
(02:39):
for it, but I think it has legs.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
It all stemmed from seeing these random concerts and I
actually I'm curious on if if Big A and now
Big A's got an audience. I needed to weigh in
on him. I figured that he'd be a music guy.
You're a music guy. I know all of our mancy
at the news desk has probably gone to shows Frostburg
(03:01):
the same deal. We see these random NBA jerseys. Sure
pictures people taking random shots of or wearing their replica
NBA jerseys, and it's like the more random you can get,
the better. But when I saw the Ashton gent D
Raiders number two jersey, and it happens and you see
a thirty four jersey as well, like kJ Wright. In
a short time with the Raiders war number thirty four,
(03:24):
other players have worn thirty four. How do you not
look at that and see bo Jackson. When I saw
number two, I saw JaMarcus Russell, and I thought to myself,
I know that there's no way that I can do
it because it's all NFL licensing, And if you wanted
a JaMarcus Russell jersey, you could probably go get one
personalized for a Raider store. But how great would it
be if we started the trend of just wearing And
(03:46):
I'm not saying bad players, but just players that had
a story that just didn't work out for that organization.
Because I don't want to disrespect the players entirely for
what they put forth to the game, But you can't
tell me it would be It wouldn't be funny to
see someone rocking in Antonio Brown eighty four Raiders jersey somewhere,
(04:07):
considering he never played down for the team. In fact,
when I brought NFL souvenirs home for my cousins, my
poor ten year old cousin Manny, got an Antonio Brown
Raiders T shirt because I was in Las Vegas.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
I'm one of my stops, and I.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Thought, all this would be great. He's the newest Raider.
Let's give him an Antonio Brown T shirt. Now that
T shirt's probably worth about one hundred and fifty bucks
right now. But I think that there is a group
of people that would wear their jerseys of the players
of their teams that maybe just didn't have the Hall
of Fame ending to their career that we would have hoped.
(04:42):
And I'm not talking about randos, like just somebody that
you know played thirty years ago. I'm talking about That's
why I'm talking about JaMarcus Russell and how bad the
tenure was. The Christian Wilkins tenure was just five games.
You mentioned Jake Cutler with the Bears. I'll tell you
what I've seen some Bosworth Seahawks, jur Magnificent right, like.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Absolutely, But I think this is where it becomes the
all right, you decide how much seed money, Lisa, if
you're listening, this is how we do this is that
you got to put us oute a little bit of money. Sorry, Brod,
you're not going to uh.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
This, I got to wave to college for the year.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
No, No, well, you're gonna have to delay it or
we're gonna have to, you know, figure this out. Maybe
a little extra work study or more dinosaurs. I don't
know you're gonna have to peddle some dinosaurs. My kids
they odd jobs, babysitting, whatever they need to do along
the way. But it's the kind of thing where you
have a certain amount of money, I might actually do this.
(05:37):
I kind of dig this, but as a guy gets
released right ages out because think about it, at one
point you could have gone and found Seahawks or Broncos
Jerry Rice merchandise in local stores. Right when he was trying.
I had the tops and Bowman cards to prove it
that those tenures existed. Don't believe it, go look it
up people. He tried to keep moving on. Never played
(05:58):
in actual games, but he was there. But it's it's
that kind of thing. Like the cutler thing was just
funny because the timing at a store in the mall
here in southern California is you know, they're one of
those superstores. You can get the mugs and tumblers and
you name it. If it's got the team logo on it,
sure it's you know, the cheap Hey, we need a
(06:19):
birthday gift. This guy likes the team, go get it.
But then you would have some legitimate jerseys to your
point of you know that not the on field, but
that second tier, right, you got the two hundred, and
then you got the you know, seventy nine dollars version,
a lot of those. But then if a guy was
no longer with the squad, they were on the discount racks.
So suddenly the jerseys, those eighty dollars jerseys were not
(06:42):
twenty dollars. Yes, And the jerseys the T shirt that
looks like a jersey right with the name and name
played on the back, you know, not iron on kind
of thing, those were five. So I went in into
the store. At one point, if I really wanted to
hustle it, they had about one hundred Collin cap for
Nick jerseys, and that was at the height of Colin
(07:03):
Kaepernick's movement at twenty bucks apiece. There's no question I
could have made a bunch of money. Would have taken
a bunch of work, sure, but I could have made money,
and I would. I would guess, city to city, there's
something you could do with that, especially if you're paying
nickels on the you know, on the dollar for said jerseys.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
I think that there.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
I just think it would be it would be fun
to have that jersey be new because we see, like
if there was like an Achilles Smith Bengel's jersey, like
it's Warren, it's faded, it's a different company. But how
about like a new, fresh one and you hear it
like you're owning it, like you're owning your fandom, you're
(07:46):
owning your team.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Every once in a while, I go into, uh, you know,
a good Will here or a Salvation Army and there'll
be a couple of jerseys and it's so damn tempting,
particularly if you do start. It's like, all right, there's
an old ray Allen Sonics. There's an old you know,
Kevin Garnett Celtics. Or every once in a while I'll
(08:08):
find a t Wolves, but I'll be missing half of
the name on the front door of the back and
they're like, oh, it's really cool. It's like eight bucks, Like,
but what the hell am I going to do with that?
In this case, I now have a place to send
it out.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
DK Metcalf Seahawks jerseys were on sale at the store
that I looked at when I saw this Ashton gent jersey,
and yeah, there, you're right, they're fifty percent off.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
There's seventy percent off.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Whatever the case may be, but DK Metcalf had enough
of a career where it's not you just kind of
look dated, right, They're like it just they're like, okay,
But those.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Are the kind of thing though, when if he has
a couple of good years and we start talking about retirement,
there's always gonna be a mark because he's always gonna
have sure people needing that sign.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
I'm doing this just for just for the novelty and
the funness of a forty nine Ers fan wearing a
Giovanni Carmazzi jersey, Just like, how great would it be,
like just to the nines, Like it's dressed up.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
And you have them sign it. This should have been Brady.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Just like I think, like that is fandom. Jim Drunken Miller, Right, yes,
just do that if you're a Niners fan, I think
that they're I don't think it's a huge audience. I
don't know if there's if there's the ability to really
do something like that. I would just like to see
those made, to see a place where you could just
go get them. Sure, you could go and order one
(09:27):
online and it would be funny, but I felt that
there was a market, Like how great would it be.
If you're a Raiders fan just rocking your NUW JaMarcus
Russell Jersey.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
You're owning it.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
You're owning your fandom, You're owning your the the you
know the days that were just absolute headaches for you.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Oh, it's fantastic. It's I've always had the idea that
eventually I will have a wall that is the wall
of mean because I love the dump truck guys in
the middle of the defensive end or a defensive line, right,
So guys like Casey Hampton, Vince will Form, all of
those guys were were my guys always my favorite going
through So the idea being if I had the money
(10:04):
to do it to find gamers of all of those
guys to put on the wall. I don't care about
the quarterbacks. I mean, I love them. The guys I've
talked to. The wide receivers always were great with a
quote as I was on the highways and byways of
training camp trips all those years ago. But the guys
that I always loved to watch because I was a
short fire plug dude my own self were the defensive linemen.
So like that's where I would be so you could
(10:26):
get me in a whole section of just you know,
the bigger guys.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Well, I'll say this to also the Jersey portion of it.
You have to have the older jersey. So for like
that first, like you wouldn't you wouldn't use the vikings
for example. I was just I was thinking of like
Ontario Smith with the Wizard Ale, Like you wouldn't want
to put them in the current vikings that you would
have to be the Oh no, you got to it's
(10:49):
got to be of that era, like the Bosworth one
would be the royal blue Seahawk or the white you
know throwback that we expect to see in a few days,
Like that's what you that's what it has to be
with with the Raiders, because their uniforms stayed the same.
It's that allows you to just get a regular JaMarcus
Russell one. But if there was a way where you
could get the throwback. Even when the forty nine ers
(11:11):
did their their change a little bit, I call it
the Jeff Garcia era because that's when it seemed like.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
It was a tweak yeah, where they added black to it.
It was kind of funky.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
There was outlines, and that's the era that the Jersey
would have to be not necessarily the current forty nine
er one.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Now they teased a new logo in the Team store.
There was a hat that was making its rounds on
social media of a reworked forty nine er logo, so
be curious to see what transpires there. I've also found
the site where I can go back and find game
used helmets from the original XFL that made become a
(11:48):
very expensive hobby for a young Mike Harmon here.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
I've looked up draft helmet phones within the past two weeks.
There are some out there. The white ones are pretty faded.
I would get a landline just use that.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
That is fantasm would I would?
Speaker 1 (12:02):
I would call them up and say, guess what. I
am ready to bundle. I am ready to bundle home phone.
I just bought a Seattle Seahawks nineteen eighty eight draft phone.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Let's go, let's hook this up.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
And the proper corresponding aluminum pop thirst bucket that they
would sell other cheap hoosts. Go for the real phone.
I love it.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
No, that's great, like three hundred bucks on eBay.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
I know a couple of cards right there, let's go,
let's flip.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
But again, then there's the cost of the landline. That's
the other part might be worth it because I would
use it.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
I don't know. Do you have to buzz people in
where you live, because then you can make an excuse
that you want to get it off your cell phone
and just make sure that the helmet phone has to ring.
See what I did, problem solver. I may have added
costs to your monthly nut, but you would have that
helmet bunch.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
I got nineteen ninety seven Seahawks helmet phone nine. Yeah,
there's a Vikings won five hundred and fifty dollars. Packers
won right now, two hundred and twenty three dollars.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Is it the new leather looking helmet that the No.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Gosh, I think it's awful.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Why do we Why are we doing throwbacks for one
hundred years later? Like why we're not? There's nobody there
that wants to look back at the nineteen twenty five
season or whatever, Like, no, we want to look back
to the eighties. We want to look back to the
to the nineties or the seventies. There's I they're sick.
(13:32):
People say, oh sick, they are sick. They make me
want to throw up, like I can't. It's just it's
so annoying. It looks stupid, it looks ridiculous. Stop throwing
back to one hundred years ago.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
You know, it's only just slightly a different shade of
brown than what we recognized with the with the Browns yesterday. See,
it all comes back to the dude ones. Yeah, I
got that skiff.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
It really does that new Brown's one though, maybe in
the mini helmet purchased shopping cart.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
I kind of dig that. Yeah, we'll see if we
can find you in the appropriate Brown's legend to sign
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of weekends of summer and the last Thursday without football,
Dan Byer, which leads us to an interesting story that
we had part one of yesterday, a bit of a
cliffhanger in Little League baseball. And when we last brought
(16:29):
you this story, it was Marco Arocco of Haddonfield, New Jersey,
back on July sixteenth. He had a sixth inning two
run home run. Team goes on to win eight nothing
in the final of the sectional tournament, but he was
ejected and suspended for a game over what the family
were told unsportsmanlike horseplay, one of my favorite words in
(16:52):
the English language. He launched the bat into the air
after hitting the home run, excessive celebration. But a judge,
just hours before they were going to play in the
next round of the New Jersey State tournament, Judge Robert
Maleestine ruled that Marco could play. Quote, I'm going to
(17:13):
grant temporarily the injunctive relief. I'm going to allow him
to play in tonight's game. His father said, Well, justice prevailed.
So was playing for Haddenfield against Elmorra Little League in
the first game of a four team double elimination tournament.
There at the complex bunch of big statements and talking
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about creating positive experience for all players and families throughout
the tournament. Trusted by parents and communities around the world,
Little League holds the integrity of the game, the sanctity
of the game, as we always say here, respect for
game officials, and sportsmanship of teams as core tenants of
the program. Goes on and on from there. Little leagues,
(17:56):
you know, talk about the discretion of the umpire, but
still kind of pushing back because remember the almost hit
the moon, like I mean, and the basis for what
we were talking about actually, one, you're showing up your opponent.
Two it's in the rule book. Know the rules, never
respect the game, respect the process, et cetera. The main
defense that they made as a family and the coaching
(18:18):
staff was we learned it from watching you. It was
in the videos, and that was part of the way
it ruled against them, is that there was preponderance of
evidence that there had been a celebration of such things.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
Well, the ruling allowed him to play like there was.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
I would say that the case that they brought against
was just to make sure that nothing could go further
and that the kid would be allowed to play in
the game, which is the reason why you have the
injunction and if he's going to be suspended some other game,
I don't know they want or lost.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
Whatever the case is.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
But it's also the point of if you complain enough
and how you can get your way and get away
with it.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Yeah, the court complaint they also were noted as well
Marco tossed his bat and celebration in prior games and
he didn't get punished. So why now all got caught? Now,
well you got started to make it a deal.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
I I'll tell you. I'll say this. That bat flip again,
was not a regular bat flip. It was so high
in the air. And if you're a fan of baseball,
you're watching that for the first time like I am,
and thinking, Wow, the kid's excited. Kids excited, just hit
a walk off home run. Who wouldn't be excited. Then
(19:38):
Mike told me no, they were up eight. Nothing. That
changed everything for me. It's one thing to do a
bat flip in excitement in a matter when you're twelve
and you can't handle your emotions. There's another one for
that's complete taunting of another team and showing off, which
is what you don't want in baseball. If I'm the
team that's playing that team in that game and I'm
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hitting a home run, heck, after a single, I am
chucking the bat up every single time to prove a
point on how ridiculous this is. I don't want to
hurt a twelve year old's feelings, but this is we were.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Taught how to drop the bat in the batter's box.
That was something that was taught.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
I didn't play baseball at nearly a high level at all,
but I did play when I was young enough to
realize that we were told to drop the bat.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
Here.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
This is where you drop the bat because you can't
throw the bat, let alone do a bat flip that
goes twelve feet in the air with an aluminum bat.
Not that it wouldn't hurt anything less with a wood bat,
but serious like it doesn't. It's so absurd because they're
just saying State championship game, it's for twelve year olds. Sorry,
(20:54):
it's a lesson that you learn. I can't believe that
they allowed them to play.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Here's more from the judges ruling. Quote, there's no specific
Little League rule that prohibits bat flipping. It's not illegal,
it's not a violation of any express rule, and it
appears to be promoted parenthetical by the league itself. What
a coward.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
Yeah, judge, I agree like this.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
This This could have gone so far in teaching a lesson.
It's an example. It's it's I think it's what parents do.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Ano.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
The kid didn't file it, his parents did.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Yeah, and so like, that's the point of it, as
I understand you want what's best for your child, but
sometimes everybody makes mistakes. Unfortunately, this kid made a mistake
and now he gets bailed out for it. And what
kind of lesson is that to learn?
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Well, you also put it back in the face of
the umpires. Is where the Little League expressed their disappointment
and the ruling of saying, look, we're having enough trouble
getting people to come and office. Sure, now in some
cases you're paid, like some of the tournaments my daughter
is paid. And I know those guys they get flown
out from Texas or wherever because they could make a
really good coin for a couple of days officiating some
(22:07):
high level games. Otherwise, you know you're trying to like
when she was in ayso it was parent points. Well,
guess what I had to learn how to try to
officiate soccer games. By time I did that, the only
game I could get on the on the card to
get credit was a U twelve boys game. No ars
showed up for said games. So it's me with a
(22:29):
bunch of kids elbowing each other upside the neck and
me being uh, probably about forty pounds heavier and just
salty as hell that I had to do it. Fortunately,
it was like a nine to nothing burial, so there
really wasn't much for either of the coaches to complain about.
I was like, that's what you're walking into in a
lot of these situations, and that's where the Little League
(22:50):
tried to stand up for It's like, well, what are
we gonna do? Like, if you complain enough, it's gonna
get overturned. How do we get people to keep coming back?
It's like the guy made a ruling about sportsmanship and
then one of the things that they brought in quote,
we support the excitement and competition of the tournament. Player
safety and proper sportsmanship among all participants and fans must
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remain a focus. We respect the determination and judgment of
the umpire who was present, and are disappointed that illegal
ruling contradicts the integrity of Little League International's values and rules.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
So if they end up winning, this kid's going to
be able to continue to play and this will this
will be what Hey, thank goodness we had the kid.
But what about if they didn't have it and they won? Like,
what a lesson? What a great moment for that team.
That's all, that's what this is.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Like.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
I I know it's a different time and I the
parents are sometimes more involved than the kid is into it.
But this is just this is This is not what
Little League is about. And I understand all Star teams
is about. Okay, let's get to Williamsport like that's what
it is. There's also an honor to be named as
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a Little League All Star. You have dreams of Williamsport,
and then they may end in the first game, whatever
the case may be, and there's tough luck and it
would stick for the other kids as well. But the
other kids would also learn I'm not gonna throw my bat.
I'm not gonna do that. That is not going to
happen when I play from twelve years old up until
I'm eighteen in high school and then in college.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
Guess what I'm not gonna do.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
I'm not gonna take my bat and throw it at
the moon and have it drop halfway down the first
base line, especially in an Ain't nothing game.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
I'm struggling to find results from tonight to whether he'll
get to potentially launch another bat after this ruling. Yeah. OK.
And I've been known to ask an official for or
an excited utterance. Generally it's one of guys getting trucked
and I'm afraid someone's taking a knee to the head
(24:54):
in the process. But it is the kind of thing
I feel for referees. It's a difficult proposition.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
And in this case, the umpire made a call, made
a gutsy call and had the backing of his little league,
and uh the international organization instead got slapped in the
face saying, no, it's okay, boys, We'll be boys.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
I think it's an amazing opportunity to teach a lesson.
They're up eight nothing. It wasn't excitement, it was taunting.
That's exactly what it was.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
And also, like we talked about Dan yesterday, the jacked
up videos that used to run, you know that segment
they did on ESPN. You know you can take those away,
and I would suspect all bats chirps, especially those that
or are you either that or that's the greatest bat flip
of all time because you got a judge aside with you,
and you launched it higher than anybody else. Your launch
(25:45):
angle is better than anybody else's.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
Bryce Harper's had some good ones. Was a Bautista, Yeah,
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
If was it Roco Roco. Marco Rocco Roco, a legend
in Haddenfield. He's Dan By for Jason Smith out Mike Harmon.
As we continue here on the show, how about a
little bit from an anonymous team official. This is my
favorite quote of the day. That's our guy. Who are
(26:12):
they talking about. Well, we'll tell you what that's all
about coming up next, but first it's Mantible audience with
an update on the sporting universe.
Speaker 7 (26:19):
I don't know if you saw Shay and I watching
the TV intently because we thought Mike Trout was gonna
walk it off for the Angels. But the Mariners walk
Mike Trout, load up the bases and they win it.
They hold on, they get the next out, but the
Angels left the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth,
benning down two runs. Mariners went it Ford to to
(26:40):
Julio Rodriguez with the home run, randetto Saturday and I
with the home run Hoe Bolanco with another one.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
You like them all, Dan, thank you awesome.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
The Mariners proper right, yes, correct.
Speaker 7 (26:58):
The Mariners are also acquiring first baseman Josh Naylor from
the Diamondbacks, and reports are that the Mariners are not
done trying to acquire Hennie sweats from the Diamondbacks as well.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
So we'll see it.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
I say, I say you.
Speaker 7 (27:15):
Is the correct word, the correct way.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
To say it.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
H so also just doesn't use consonants. It's all vowels.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
But it's only one r in a rose arena. That's
not a role, says I was talking inventory Spanish.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
That was the zi a t h as well, like
can you do that?
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Like, yeah, yeah, yes, yes, are you gonna start saying
barcelonat Oh.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
There's a guy on TikTok that does that. That does
I've showed it to other people. I know, I'm that
annoying guys usual TikTok, I do it the manti all
the time.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Is this right?
Speaker 1 (27:49):
And she totally placates me. She's like, yeah, let me
see what is track man and golf? Thank you for
playing along.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
I knowing that guy.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
No, I don't go on to it very often or
on TikTok.
Speaker 7 (28:02):
So I like when you show me that stuff because
I miss it.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
I do miss it.
Speaker 7 (28:05):
The a snap the four game losing streak as they
topped the Astros five to two, the Cardinals had a
ninety seven victory over the Padres at home. The Tigers
are now one in ten in their last eleven games,
and the Blue Jays today defeated them eleven to four.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Blue Jays are sixty one and forty two.
Speaker 7 (28:20):
The Orioles avoided the sweep earlier today, beating the Guardians
four to three. We'll move on to the NFL where, yeah,
week from today the Hall of Fame game between the
Guardian the Guardians, the Chargers and the Lions.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
That'll be on Thursday, the thirty first of July.
Speaker 7 (28:34):
But the Raiders are releasing defensive tackle Christian Wilkins, just
one year after he signed a four year, hundred and
ten million dollar deal. Apparently the team is not happy
how he has handled his foot injury rehab. They wanted
him to have surgery, but he declined after several opinions.
Wilkins has filed agreements in case he missed a quarterback
Justin Fields just sustained and dislocated toe in his right
foot O day today. More importantly, Travis Kelce has made
(28:58):
his relationship with Taylor Swift Instagram official.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
It's a lot of photos, a lot of photos here.
We are laughing. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (29:06):
He posted thirteen photos, seven of them had her in them.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Fifth anniversary of Evermore today, I think if I'm to
bring my oh my Taylor Swift, No, not my favorite album,
not it's yeah, it's a continuum, right, it's it's mood,
it's time it's released. Where you're at in your life
as you listen to it, right, it's true. My kid
used to be with food. Sorry, no, you're finding she
(29:31):
would do the not my favorite, not my favorite, yeah,
not my thing that got pushed to the side, totally.
Speaker 7 (29:37):
Yeah, And I have a few of those songs on
my phone, just not the whole album the way other
albums are one.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
I'm saying.
Speaker 7 (29:44):
And of course, pro wrestling legend Hulklogan passed away today
at the age of seventy one.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
Passed back to you guys, brother, Thanks Monty. Monty. Milanya
is where you find her in the Twitter verse. Coming
up in about eight minutes or so, we'll get back
into the Fantasy rank. He's taking a look at the
tight ends and one quarterback who's really backing his guy?
Do we But this story I thought was worth a
minute or two Dan, because it just made me chuckle
(30:10):
in an interview with spot Track spot Track, what do
we call it? Keith Smith? So that's where you track
team's money and available cap space and all of that
fun stuff if you want to go full nerd out
and build your and reconstruct your roster. An Anonymous Pelicans
executive an Anonymous Pelicans executive, Zion is still our guy.
(30:33):
We're all in on him. We think he's gonna have
a huge year. We've had some bad injury luck, yeah,
and some things that just haven't worked out. This partnership
hasn't even come close to reaching our best yet. Now.
Obviously he's on the extension and they bought in and
we've seen him be brilliant when he's on the court,
(30:55):
which has been rare. But I love the fact that
you back your guys so much. The guy stand up
for him is the Anonymous Teams.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
It is a new regime in New Orleans, so I
think that they maybe that's maybe that's why, maybe there's
other plans. But honestly, if you're the Pelicans right now
and you look at the Western Conference, like do you
need this show Zion more?
Speaker 4 (31:21):
Or like could you trade Zion.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
And figure out a way to refresh.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
It seems like some of the stretching of money and
creative accounting that we've seen should be done here.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Yes, And I'm not completely sure, but I just think
the more you hold on to him, the less his
value is somewhere else.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
Right, there might be somebody who still thinks they can
fix whatever's in between his ears, whatever's going on with
him physically. We talked about it. There's a number of
teams in each league where you go what goes on
in those training rooms. Sure, for New Orleans that's been
part of the issue for years, wondering that.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
I just I don't know if it's realistic.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
But you look at the Western Conference right now, and
it's not a quick fix by any means. And I
know that Jordan Pool's there now and Kevon Looney's there,
but that's not the making of a team that is
going to be in the top ten, of the top
eighth of the Western Conference. So kind of what's the
point I get new regime and whoever is anonymous, it's
(32:23):
maybe just towing the party line, but at some point
you're so bad you just got to try.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
To get as much as you can for the guys
that actually have value.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
And if Zion plays more and gets hurt more, I
think it is only his value just continues to go down.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
Well, the only time he can put asses in seats
is if he's actually not on his sure and unfortunately
people aren't coming to watch him in sweat sweatpants sitting
on the sideline. What he actually plays electrifying. We see
highlights all the time, countdowns and what Jason and I
are in here on the regular. You know, we'll watch
a Pelicans game and you'll marvel at what he does,
(32:56):
and then he'll miss the next three games or in
this case half season thirty games.
Speaker 4 (33:02):
This past yearah.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
Difficult proposition average twenty five a game when he did
show up.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
So yeah, the numbers have been there, but there's just
not enough to and still like, if you're a team
to like to acquire him, it's a big deal, but
it's still maybe fool's gold because of just the injury status.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
Do you have enough of expiring contracts to match up
to his? And everybody just say hey, and I just want.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
To clearify it's not a trade Zion segment. I don't
know enough of the numbers to figure it out. It's
just the point of being is I think there's a
new regime. Well, I know there's a new regime. They're news,
so they're going to stick to the guy. But ultimately,
for them or any other team in any sport, in
that position, it's probably better to get rid of the
(33:45):
depreciating assets sooner rather than later.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
No, this is exactly it. Get him the clean bill
of health, let him show out in a practice game
or two, get on the cord. Here's video evidence of
him being able to do the pogo stick stuff. And
then we clap our hands. Let's commentsure, you know, get
some trade together and move it on. Yeah, it's just
to the point. It's like twenty nineteen is a long
(34:08):
time ago, and you've seen glimpses of that guy now
and again is this card market? Oh, it's an absolutely
cratered wastele one. They overproduced because that was the year,
that was the COVID year, so they just kind of
kept going back to the printing press. Just the breaker
world showed up. So now there was an insatiable need
because you had him, you had Jaw, you had Tyler Hero,
(34:30):
the aforementioned Jordan Poole with the Warriors, very deep rookie class,
Ruby Hachimora, Cam Reddish could do this all day long.
Plenty of guys in that class, so they kept going
to the well. So there's plenty of zions out there.
If you want to be by low Dan time, maybe
some other team will as well. He's Dan Bayer. I'm
(34:50):
by Garment. It's Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith Show with
Me Mike Garment, and coming up next, we will take
our turn back into the National Football League the tight
end position, filtering out a top five. Sure brock Bauers
is there atop the list. Is the Taylor Swift loving
Kelsey still a top five? Or has he fallen from favor.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
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Speaker 3 (35:17):
Well I really cranked that up or it got really
loud in my head just that moment. Welcome back in
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(35:39):
little soft serve. I don't know, nightcap, No thanks, I
don't wear one. Wait that movie comes out in a
couple of weeks. As we continue here at Fox Sports Radio,
thank you so much, we're talking about the Fantasy universe,
and we got to our tight end position. Now, Dan,
we've moved down to the next group of pass catchers
(35:59):
and the great witness contained therein There is one guy
front and center. That's Brock Bauers. I think that's the
sharpie guy, just like Jamar Chase was on the wide receiver.
Although there is one contender that's kind of interesting to me,
and I have to wonder if you think perhaps maybe
I'm onto something here, and that is the revamped, reconstituted, recombobulated,
(36:24):
discombobulated Arizona Cardinals and TREYE. McBride. For the fact that
the man was a pass catching machine as Marvin Harrison
Junior was starting to rise up a little bit but
just didn't find the end zone. How much of that
is bad scheme versus bad luck? And now with a
refurbished defense that they put a lot of investment into
(36:47):
maybe you get balance and definition in the forest to
where maybe he can become a bigger player in the
red zone to augment his scoring potential as just a
volume pass catcher.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
And if he would have just scored one more touchdown,
the Seahawks maybe would have made the playoffs. Because there's
the game against the Rams and into the Rams to
lose and broke the lack of touchdown string, and then
you're like, oh my goodness, it's going to happen again.
It's gonna happen again. Lookouts. But I would say look
out for McBride. I am high on him as well.
(37:20):
If Bowers, I think is going to go on name value,
no doubt about it. But I would not be mad
if I had to settle for Trey McBride a few
spots lower. The question is is once Bowers go, does
McBride then.
Speaker 4 (37:38):
Immediately go after.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
That's just the question that I have in a draft
because tight ends does happen in runs, and when you're
looking at this crop of tight ends. George Kittle, I know,
is ranked high MIC, but there's always still the question
of because he's so darn physical, you know, could there's
something happen in a scenario where he just gets injured.
Speaker 4 (38:01):
And that's why I'm.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
With you, Like with McBride number two, but I'm almost
as high on him as I am on Bowers as well.
Speaker 3 (38:09):
Well. With Bowers, I also just keep getting the chant
in Gene oh, Gene oh, and especially here in when
Smith's alongside me. Anytime I can grab a guy that
was once upon a time a would be Jets' future
great quarterback who's found success somewhere else, I like to
dig a little bit. It's fun well in Arizona.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
I mean, there's not the coaching shift in philosophy that
you would have with the Raiders.
Speaker 4 (38:37):
With Gino.
Speaker 1 (38:38):
Smith absolutely comparable, maybe even more so. But because he's
more so, does he rely is he's giving brock Bowers
sixteen targets a game? Is he getting him fourteen targets
a game? Like there was a stretch where yeah, it
was just absolute pinball, it felt like with Brock Bowers.
Speaker 4 (38:57):
But I'm with you and McBride. I wouldn't put McBride
above Bowers.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
But the point is is that think name value wise,
Bowers may go higher, and you just hope that there
isn't a run on tight ends with McBride being picked
up soon after.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
Now there's a guy that's back in the news because
it's a team that we have great expectations for. We
talked a little bit about Drake London in our wide
Receiver segment. All of these podcasts will go up the
iWatch Flex podcast and of course here for the show.
You can find that wherever you download your podcast. But
Michael Pennis Junior saying all the right things of you
noticed I'm getting Kyle pits the ball a lot as
(39:33):
almost to say I don't want any questions about Kyle Pitts. Okay,
this is a guy in his career one hundred and
ninety six career receptions averages about fourteen yards a catch,
ten touchdowns in his four seasons in the National Football League,
and he's always been tabbed as the next the would
be next tight end. Great on the current board, he's
(39:55):
at nineteen. I don't know how much our higher I
can argue.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
In well, I would also say this that you're gonna
look at your draft and if you have Kyle Pitts
on your team, you're gonna say to yourself, I got
Kyle Pitts in the thirteenth round. It breaks right, you know, yeah,
like like he's my second tight end, Like I may
start him week one, Like that's the conversation that you're
going to have. It's only twenty four, which doesn't necessarily
(40:19):
matter in fantasy, but I was surprised that.
Speaker 4 (40:21):
I'm like, wow, Kyle Pitts is just twenty four years old.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
I yeah, I think that with with some guys, not
a lot of guys, you can take a tight end,
especially if you're at the back end of if you're
one of the last ones in your twelve team league.
Partner them up with Kyle Pitts, and I think you're
going to be very happy with how your tight end
room looks, even if you're his numbers don't make you
look happy.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
Well, we finished out the top five. We got Boers,
we got McBride. Kittle's certainly a top five prospect. Is
it just Laporta and Hockinson and be done with it?
Or do you still crack? Maybe Kelsey market Andrews.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
One of the last eleven games was the Mark Andrews
of old for the Ravens.
Speaker 3 (40:59):
But that off season after dropping the ball, how much
how many skeletons maybe revenge to her? How about that
maybe maybe we get a little bit of that Evan
Ingram now in Denver as well, so potential for him.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
And if Hunter Henry would score touchdowns, maybe Drake May's
security blanket in New England's actually done.
Speaker 3 (41:17):
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