July 22, 2025 • 34 mins
The Dodgers open their series with a much needed W against the Twins in LA. And 45-year-old Rich Hill is expected to pitch for the Royals this week!
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Speaker 3 (00:33):
Greetings, welcome in.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
It's the final hour of the program here on a
beautiful Monday night into Tuesday morning.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
We appreciate you being with us here as we roll on.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Jason Smith off for the week and instead tonight my
goy Chris Blank at Plank Show is where you find him.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
You'll hear him after.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Us on Friday from his eleven pm Pacific times slot,
coming in you live from Oklahoma at Plank Show where
you find him there, and then hear him again on
Sunday night alongside Arnie Spanier. Chris, you're a big Dodger fans,
so you just probably exhaled, maybe did a couple of
fist pumps. Very happy and now we'll figure out what's next.
(01:12):
How much you needed win for the Dodgers five to
two tonight over Minnesota. We've seen the Dodgers and the
swoon here in July, Mookie Betts much chronicled struggles at
the plate. We've seen the team struggle on the base
paths and certainly defensively.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
All season long.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
But we've also watched the bullpen having to carry a
heavy load, and they did so again tonight in the
form of Dustin May, who gave you four and two
thirds inning of shutout ball, five hits, allowed four strikeouts,
He won a full hundred pitches in relief of sho
hey Otani, who gave you the first three four hits,
the one urn run, the home run to Buxton, and
(01:54):
then Scott came in gave you twenty two pitches before
departing with an injury. And that's part of the background
as we get deeper into the review of this game
and where we are going forward. Dodgers with the w
Yates gets the save. But let's hear it from Dodgers
TV as to how this sounded, because I'm still can't
(02:15):
believe what I saw.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Going two pits.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Driven to center field, outman goes back, he's at the wall.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
A game.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Close there you have it Dodgers TV on the call.
You had a ninth inning, so Scott starts it. You
get a walk, then you have a flyout hit by
pitch Yates in walk, a sack fly, and then that
big fly to the deepest part of the park. I've
(02:51):
already seen the That's why they call him out man cheesy,
I know, but we'll run with it for what it's worth.
A you know, but you got the w you're supposed
to laugh heartily after a victory, will take a loss
if I don't have to hear that again. You know
what's gonna make already run it for you on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
I'm already you wouldn't know how to run audio if
you get if you spotted him, every single possibility to
do it.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
Fire, he would fire.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
He would count on the producer who he refuses to
acknowledge by their name. Am I being way too overly optimistic?
If even just one hit from Mookie Betts makes me happy?
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Long road begins with the first step. He had a
walk and he went one for three with a run score. Yeah,
I mean baby steps. After that, Start to July, I say,
start to July. What do we know our final six
days of July. Well, but the fact that he's back
in the leadoff spot right, so that makes sense, you know,
a much maybe necessary move. You're like, you're trying to
(03:48):
jumpstart things right and trying to figure out how to
activate his bat, whether it's something going on between the ears. Mean,
baseball guys are very superstitious and routine oriented, so you know,
to see Freddy Freeman back too, I mean I shouldn't
say back, you know, not missing any time, did have to.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Miss any time?
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Yes, one for four on the night, but a lot
of concern after he got hit by the pitch over
the weekend.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
And he is a major, major cog. You're one through
three drove in four of the five runs, and of course,
as you mentioned three four on every run was home
run tonight. That's it. Baby steps, baby steps. But they
three and a half game lead over the Padres. Get
a game on third. I think it's up to seven now,
and I think, listen, the win is what matters most.
(04:36):
But for the Dodgers tonight, after what Dustin May had
in his last outing, to see him do what he
did four and two thirds scattering the five, it's not
allowing a run still high walk numbers, right, three walks
and four and two thirds. Don't like that, but the
four strikeouts. I'm a big fan of Dustin may like.
I love him. I love his presence, I love his aura.
I think he's got a chance to be really good,
(04:58):
but it's just not connecting con insistently. Gets to win
tonight being that guy that comes in for show. Hey,
and we'll see if show he can extend beyond three innings.
I mean he he gave up the leadoff home run
and it wasn't smooth, but he got hit hard. But
it was you know, you hit him. They hit him
where they were right. So man, that's that's my guy.
(05:20):
I want to believe that he can be the dude. Yeah,
it's just curious right as we watched Scott leave with
the injury, so we'll await word as to to how severe,
what kind of time he's gonna miss, because much chronicled
over the course of the year and even going back
to last year, despite the World Series win, the number
of pitchers the Dodgers had to go through in the
starting rotation, and certainly how much and well traveled that
(05:43):
bullpen was many a weary mile and tough out along
the way, and we're looking at it here on July
twenty first. Scott has already appeared in forty seven games Vessia,
forty seven games, banda forty six Jack Dryer, who it
seems like since he joined the squad hitched every day.
So it's, you know, that curiosity trying to get through
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the back end, and even if you know you've got
guys like Blake Snell and others getting ready to ride
back into business here that trying to navigate this for
the Dodgers' front office ahead of the trade deadline, and
certainly Dave Roberts and going up to the front office
as they try to pull the strings on this. It's
it's going to be a dicey day to day proposition.
(06:28):
You've got a lot of advantageous games ahead, as you mentioned,
looking at the Tankathon strength schedule going down the stretch.
You know you're the face the fourth worst or.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Best depending on how you look at it record, you
know in terms of opponents coming forward, So a lot
of opportunity, But is that really getting you set and
setting the table for what you're gonna need to do
when it comes to the end of September and in October.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
I think it's going to be fascinating to see if
it's offensive help, bullpen help, are just a belief in
what you have at the trade deadline getting healthy For
the Dodgers, I.
Speaker 6 (07:07):
Think they'll make a move.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
But you know, every every year there's a team that
makes a move with the trade deadline too that you're
kind of not expecting.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
It's like, well, where'd that come from? Why'd they do that?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
I wonder if anyone's going to try to pull that
off and make a make a late push here. I
know Milwaukee did a couple of years ago. Heck, even
back when the Dodgers got Carl Crawford and that massive
deal with what it was Hernandez, they weren't in the
playoff Markansalex excume they wanted the playoff mix. But I
wonder who's going to be that team that makes a
big swing here. And what'd you say? Ten days now?
(07:36):
Or are we doing over midnight? So is it nine now?
Are we a nine days and a trade down? Still
just Monday here? So you know we still got to
get to a Hall of Fame game day and trade deadline,
so we'll get all that fun together as we close
out the month. But it's just that.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Curiosity And as we talked about and alluded to a
little bit earlier in the show, Chris, that decision is
razor thin, deciding whether you're actually playing for something or
playing out the string. Yeah, you know, are are you
looking ahead to twenty twenty six and just saying all right,
we'll ride this out. We don't want to give up
our prospects because we're still growing, or is there someone
(08:14):
in the pipeline that you decide, hey, we need to
go find an arm And that's the problem is every
year it's the same thing. We have, all the rumors
of would be pitchers going somewhere as like well, aces
command a lot right. One of the great quotes from
Andrew Friedman from earlier this year, quote, my goal.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Is not to buy in July dot dot dot. It's terrible.
Speaker 6 (08:39):
And you don't know.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Are you gonna be able to keep them around for
a while or is it just gonna be one or
two guys? Hey, I will I will ask this though,
if you're the Dodgers or I don't know me, let
me see what teams we might want to throw in
this mix that are currently contending and might have a
decent enough farm system where they can make a move
for schemes. I think the Door Years would be in
that I think the Cubs might be in that mix.
(09:02):
Phillies might be in that mix. Would you go make
a play for Paul Skins and risk some of these
young guys? Absolutely go, I go put the phone call
out right. Pirates may tell me to go pound saying,
but you know, we go back to one of their
great faults of the offseason. They couldn't come up with
a million dollars to try to kiss his ass on
(09:23):
that baseball card that went up out at the tops product,
you know, the patch from his debut jersey, you know,
just as a good will of hey, we love you.
We joked about it the other day. In terms of
run support, there was nothing going on in the All
Star Game. Still as good as anything he'd seen from Pittsburgh.
His win today was his first since May twenty eighth.
(09:45):
And you're talking about a guy who had a sub
to eer that it didn't matter, right, You got a
contract you know that is under control for a long
while here, and now it's just the question of you know,
do you see the writing on the wall how much
does he love playing in Pittsburgh. I gotta imagine every
fifth day going out there busting your ass and getting
zero run support gets old pretty fast. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Absolutely, you're gonna be one of the good. We joked
about it a month ago, Right, all right? Can he
win a cy Young winning fewer games than de Gram
did with the Mets a few years back? Because what
was he ten and eleven or something like that with
the ridiculous er and whip and war and strikeout for
walking ratio and all of that stuff.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
It's like, you know, you're talking about a guy at
a five hundred record winning the cy Young? Can can
he actually schemes win it with fewer wins eleven and eight,
eleven and eight? Okay, yeah, people in the cy Young
in twenty eighteen and twenty nineteen.
Speaker 6 (10:44):
I forgot about that with the group though.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
I am counting on Ai, which, as we've learned during
the show tonight, can be very wrong.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Well, well, every once in a while, it'll come back
and bite you in the ass, there's no question about it.
Speaking extemporaneously and just trying to pour salt in the
wound of any Mets fan that we're listening out there
more in term of.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Him and eleven and eight in his two Cy Young
Award winning seasons seventeen not Cy Young numbers. When you
talk about win loss records in two years for a.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Bitch twenty eighteen he had a one point seven era
he was ten and nine unreal And when we look
at schemes as we stand here today, you know the
the numbers and what he puts forward. But just to
pull it back to your larger point, it's always worth
the phone call, right, you catch the GM at the
(11:34):
right moment, frustrations and maybe there's an opportunity, but it's
the curiosity. You know you've got the guy, but you
need to realize you know where you're at in this process.
You know, it's it's the you're not turning the corner
anytime soon, and what kind of hal can you get.
(11:54):
The problem is with large, larger positional players that are
already established going to meet their next contract, so so
in the end it's a losing proposition. It's one of
the few times Rob Manford's spoken to where I say,
all right, I actually understand and I agree with what
he's saying. When we talk about the disparity and that's
not to talk about the big bad evil empire, whether
(12:15):
it's the Dodgers or the Yankees or any of the
top spenders out there. It's more the where's the floor?
And that's where I always fight about the floor of spending.
More so than restricting at the top. It's forcing owners
who get so many tens of millions of dollars off
national TV deals to make sure that it's reinvested. And
(12:37):
if you can't afford to play poker, guess what? You
grab your hat, you nod, nod towards the table, take
a last sip out of your drink, and you leave
and cash out for billions of dollars, which is the
going rate for any team and franchise.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Man, what are the Rays? One point seven billion? Yeah? Maan,
what's most of that cost in the Ray tank? He
two fingers, two fingers on that Ray. I guess I'm
fascinated by more than anything else. Going back to your
Manford conversation, do you uh well? And maybe something we
(13:13):
get into a little bit more in depth, Like he
cries about an unsustainable financial future for baseball just as
a side here, But yet they just sold the Rays
right right now, their home is kind of in tatters,
and they just sold them for a massive amount of money. Like,
I don't know what to believe anymore with what's real
and what isn't with money in sports, and I live
(13:33):
in the college world where I don't know what's real
and what isn't real in IL deals, I sure as
hell don't know when it comes to people crying poor
and then all of a sudden you're selling a franchise
for the upward of the billion that they did with
the Rays.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
No, and right, well, it goes to some of the
conversation we had with the WNBA about forward looking statements
and revenues that you're expecting to as more people come
on board and you get back into the rights deals.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
But certainly it's the big toy, right, the big chess.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
Piece and tip one of the prouder moments of our
eleven years at Fox Sports Radio Smith and I when
Balmer bought the Clippers.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
I said, what a deal? What a deal? At two
billion dollars? Like, what do you mean?
Speaker 4 (14:17):
It's like, franchise in LA don't open up very often,
even if it is the Clippers.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
There you go obligatory shot at the Clippers. As we
go to. But there is some potential news on another
rights transaction to come through that you pointed out to
me a little bit earlier, news that was breaking, an
update on a little bit of a rights share opportunity
coming to bear in the.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
National Football League. We'll talk about that as we continue.
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Speaker 4 (16:09):
Welcome back in Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith Show with
Me by Carmon Jason Smith off this week and instead
tonight our buddy Chris Blank at Plank shows where you
find him in the Twitter verse. There you go, there's
an endorsement from Jason Smith for you. I'll take it
nicely again. As we sit here in the Fox Sports
(16:29):
Radio studios, Dodgers with the winds still looking at information
on Tanner Scott and the injury, and there as he
left the game, leaving way before Yates comes in to
close down the deal. So we've got that we're talking
a little bit about rights deals and and moneies while
(16:51):
we're talking league to league and something you broached a
little earlier today that started to circulate gaining some steam
long room, but the idea that there's a long pending
deal that's coming to Fruition to sell all or most
of NFL media to ESPN parenthetical Disney. So now that
(17:14):
becomes the next iteration when we talk about rights deals
and holdings, and when you're talking about divvying up the
pie between Amazon and Apple and all of these different
players that want a seat at the table. When you
look at NBC Slash, Peacock Fox and going on down
the line, that this would now mean that the NFL
(17:38):
would become an equity partner. And now we've got a
relationship that complicates matters, but certainly would lead to one's
belief that anything that's still kind of out no man's
land to be amended. You know, the annexation of Puerto Rico,
the old play from Little Giants, that it would be
(18:00):
an ESPN, ABC slash Disney one up on the crew.
But when we're talking about billions and billions of riots, Chris,
this is no small matter here. I remember NFL media,
NFL films way back in the day when I was
part of a fledgling operation called the Football Network. Yeah,
(18:20):
that's right before before the NFL began had its NFL Network,
there was something called the Football Network, and it was
a fledgling operation. I was part of a show Get
This alongside Danny Shearon in the odds maker.
Speaker 6 (18:35):
Ah Yes USA Today, Danny Sheridan.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
And the great Jerry Glanville, who was obsessed with my cheekbones.
He really wanted to know my heritage and if he
could have swabbed my cheeks for a twenty three in me.
He wanted to prove that I was some part Native American?
Speaker 6 (18:50):
Are you some part Native America?
Speaker 4 (18:52):
I don't believe, so I've never done the twenty three
in me Okay, But nothing anybody's ever told me about
my family history would lead me to believe that there
was a potential. Doesn't mean it's not true, and they
could all be liars and covering up really strange past.
Some of the stories I've heard about, you know, going
back in generation or two, I could probably pen a
(19:16):
mini series for HBO with some of the stories I've heard.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
H Yeah, I would think so, especially with that group. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
But you know, in this particular case, when we're talking
about the Football Network, they ran out of money because
as they started to fight for rights, and this is
in the early iterations of trying to get a you know,
low Division one college football game rights. But they were
negotiating for NFL films, John Facenda and all of that,
and then all of a sudden those were off the
(19:44):
table because the NFL Network was coming to bear. So
I've seen this first and foremost. We're gonna do fantasy
playoffs stuff, right, No, we're canceled, go back to work.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
No, we're not gonna be fantasy playoff stuff. We're gonna
have Stephen A. Smith argue with Mike Greenberg about which
team's legacy is going to be most affected by a
win today.
Speaker 6 (20:05):
And then we'll have a.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Panel of eighty six former players and we'll throw Mike
Tannembaum in there to give you eighty six different opinions
on the same thing. Or Cam Newton's quarterback rankings This
is the worst thing that could happen in the NFL.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
And I don't know why they're doing it. I don't
know why they're doing it it.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
You know, I didn't realize how in the NFL was
with private equity. So and by the way, private equity.
You want to talk about people that want to make
sure they have their stake, I'll make sure they have
their steak. Well, private activity.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
That was part of what we just had with the
consultant of the Carlisle Group. That was exactly NFLPA issue
with Lloyd Howell that we're just navigating now.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Do real Well, I don't know the why behind it.
Maybe the NFL is tired of having the staff and
pay the NFL network employees. I mean, we had the
story this week where Scott Hansen told Jimmy Traina on
the SI Media podcast about how challenging the negotiations were
for him to just continue as the host of the
(21:01):
Red Zone channels. So maybe maybe the NFL is like,
we're tired of this, We're tired of this. Just listen,
you guys run the NFL network and we'll just continue
to make money off the product itself. Am I getting
close to what could be going on here, because it
seems like they've got a pretty good thing going with
very low maintenance on the NFL network. Well, we've seen
(21:22):
changes right in terms of coast to coast and shows
that have gone away and then move them all in LA. Right,
you've got the the out out post here alongside so far.
So you've got that which comes with costs of course, right,
(21:42):
and consolidation and all of that. We've certainly seen a
change of jobs and structures there be curious to see.
I haven't seen an unveiling of a network approach for
what they're going to do come football season. Certainly recently,
I've been watching a lot of ten Greatest Games of
this that or the other. Uh, And I've seen an
(22:02):
awful lot of Chiefs and Buffalo Bills football, not that
I minded, mind you, but Derwin James Top ten games
the There's been a bevy of very unique programming. No,
but that's just it.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
It's like, hey, what are your favorite favorite games of
the last year or decade, or go team by team
and circumstances like that. But you know, we're talking about
a very robust rights and history from which you can
draw a ton of programming and you have you call
from that highlights and interviews and all all of those
(22:35):
snippets that you've got, So certainly it's a huge catalog
to program your many channels worth, no question about that.
And then we talk back into live games and what
it might give you in terms of exclusivity and windows there.
It's the last bastion of of programming that anybody goes to.
(22:56):
We we have fun with events like the home Run
Derby and we see where all of a sudden you
chart it out, you know, during the swing off you
get to an eight point one million audience or things
of that nature. Talking about the WNBA three point contest.
But otherwise, what are we talking about? Love Island and
shows like that? All right, DeVante Smith and the Eagle's going,
(23:19):
I know, but so many you know, you've got some
reality shows and occasionally you hit on a network show
and I know, you know, this is something that you
guys do a little bit on the Sundays, you and
Arnie and Steve in terms of the week that was,
you know, in terms of our viewing habits and what
we're looking into over the course of a week and
(23:43):
outside of live sports and not a lot of stuff
moves the needle, right, everything else is watched today and
then it's on our streamer, and how do we promote
the streamer as best we can?
Speaker 6 (23:52):
Like that?
Speaker 4 (23:52):
That is the running jokes, like, all right, how quickly
do they adapt to whatever streaming platform they're on?
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Right? Go watch this paramount HBO.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
Peacock is obviously the one we see most in because
I'm a law and order guy, so you know that's
what I get any law and order on there, right,
especially with Jerry Orbach. I mean we were talking a
little bit about dirty dancing and Patrick Swayzee in the break,
pulling the curtain back a little bit. I mean, Jerry
Orbach's the dad there. He was Lumiere, He's everything to us.
(24:25):
He was on singing you know, forty second Street and
you know all of that stuff back on Broadway legend.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
And of course Detective Brisco see what I did there,
I tied it all together, brought it all back together.
That's what I do. You know who else will do that?
Speaker 4 (24:40):
Because he's going to encapsulate the world that was and
the night that was in sports, and maybe he's got
an update on injuries or at least celebrating a Dodgers win.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
At Steve Desager at the news desk.
Speaker 8 (24:50):
Actually it was a muted celebration according to the manager
because of the Tanner scut injury. But as you mentioned,
the NFL network studios that they built right alongside the
RAMS new stadium. When that got built, people talked about, oh,
how many billion dollars to build that. It's not just
the stadium that got built that the RAMS owner stand Kronky,
it's the entire property around the theater.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
The NFL network's building there and they.
Speaker 8 (25:18):
Have just started construction of what's going to be called
Hollywood Park Studios. It'll first be the International broadcast Center
for the Olympics when they're in LA twenty twenty eight,
and then literally become a movie and production studio after that.
Also on the same property. But what you mentioned where
NFL network headquarters are, that's so close to where the
(25:40):
football stadium is. If you are behind the press box,
you could literally throw a football and hit the window
of NFL Net.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Have you done that? It is allegedly.
Speaker 6 (25:51):
No, I have not.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
I could.
Speaker 8 (25:54):
As for the late ballgame at Dodger Stadium, LA five
to two over Minnesota, the Twins left thirteen men on base,
including in the ninth when they were so close to
hitting the tying three run homer. At the end, the
ball was caught at the top of the center field
wall by James outman. Dave Roberts, the Dodger manager, said,
reliever Tanner scott Linging leaving in the ninth was because
(26:16):
of a sting in his forearm after a pitch. That's
not good that the pitcher is not emotionally well after that,
and we'll get an MRI tomorrow. Yeah, I agree with that.
Houston won six' three At. Arizona the lost To Zach.
Gallon although A Henneo suarez of The diamondbacks hit home
run number thirty six At Dodger, stadium it was home
(26:36):
run number thirty five for Sho Hey, otanni the starting pitcher.
Tonight he went three innings forty six, pitches allowed a
leadoff homer To, minnesota but Then otani hit a two
run shot in the bottom of the. First Will smith
with two solo homers and in the win the victory
To Dustin may Of. La he threw one hundred pitches
in relief four and two thirds. Scoreless milwaukee has the
best record in baseball sixty and. Forty Brandon woodriff went
(26:59):
six innings for the win At seattle six. Nothing The
brewers have won eleven in a. Row George kirby took
the loss for The. Mariners he had a no hitter
until the sixth and then allowed four runs top of the.
Sixth seattle never scored. Tonight The brewers lead THE Nl
central by one game over The. Cubs cubby's lost at
home twelve four To Kansas. City cubs Outfielder Pete, Crow
armstrong and All star was out with The bruce. Knee
(27:22):
Salvador perez two homers for The, royals And Kansas city
is calling up veteran Pitcher Rich. HILL i would say Former,
dodger but this is going to be his fourteenth team
in his major league, career so he's a former. Everybody
Saint louis won six to two At. Colorado The rockies
record is twenty four and seventy six victories for The
White sox And Texas atlanta Sent San francisco to a
(27:45):
sixth straight, loss nine to. Five the losing pitcher for The,
giants the, Starter hayden Bird, song couldn't get out of
the first. Inning in, fact he was down five nothing
after not even getting an. Out he allowed three straight
walks to open the, game a wild pitch in there,
well then a, double another, walk a hit, batter and
they finally pulled.
Speaker 6 (28:03):
Them giants lose.
Speaker 8 (28:04):
Again toronto over The yankees four to, One Kevin gosmand
Over Carlos Rodin yankee pitcher an all Star Max freed
is due to start On wednesday after a, blister but
The yanks are now four games back of the first
Place Blue jays in THE Al. East toronto has won
eleven straight at home in THE Nl, East philly still
a half game over The. Mets The philly signed Reliever
(28:25):
David robertson by the Way philadelphia and ten. Innings won
tonight three to two Against boston on a catcher's interference
with basses. Loaded The Red sox Walker, bueler with AN
era over six this, year was great, tonight seven, innings
one earned run, allowed no. Decision we Assume bueller is
going to be pitching At fenway this weekend against The.
Dodgers The mets beat The angels in a comeback seven
(28:47):
to five with two runs in the. Eighth Edwin diaz
a say three straight strikeouts in the ninth wins For
San diego And, washington wins For cleveland And. Pittsburgh paul
skeins in The pirates shut Out detroit three to. Zhing
titans Quarterback Will levis will have shoulder surgery next. Week
he's out for the. Year cowboys pass Rusher Micah parsons
reported to straining training. Camp he does want the contract.
(29:08):
Extension we'll see it if he participates in workouts On.
Tuesday there is such a thing as a hold. In
by the, Way Green bay gave Tackle zach tom a
four year. Extension VETERAN nba Guard Chris paul signed with The.
Clippers Caitlin clark will miss another Game tuesday night with
the groin. Injury back to, you.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
Thanks so, Much, steve appreciate. It you, know doing the
quick search as we were wont to. Do the last
time that there was a walk off catcher's interference, call
The dodgers beat The reds on a call Against Johnny
bench over nineteen seventy, one.
Speaker 8 (29:42):
Over fifty years. Ago, yeah load the bases and then
the batter had a check swing that touched the catcher's.
Glove game over after video.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
Review, YEAH i watched the video review And i'm, like all,
RIGHT i guess he touched.
Speaker 8 (29:55):
It wouldn't you just touch the glove on? Purpose get that?
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Call, Yes, yeah no question about. It it was one
of the oddest sequences That i've.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
Seen and let's stay with The Rich. Hill, Thanks, steve
stay with us Here. Baseball this is something you pointed
out to me, Earlier, chris as we were getting ready
for the, show as tweeted out by our but, WELL
i MEAN i put it in as a one. Liner
you had the, addition which you, KNOW i remember him
from his days, there you, know being a White sox
fan and hating all Things cubs from the real underscore
(30:28):
dv our Buddy David, vasse who covers The DODGERS am
five SEVENTY la sports and television coverage here In Los,
angeles that he starts. Tomorrow Rich hill fourteenth team starts
for The royals where it all started At Wrigley. Field
hill made his Major league debut with The cubs in
two thousand and, five and then he had a couple
of these strong arm emojis because that's one Of dave's.
(30:49):
Guys so his fourteenth team we got to get him
one more, right so we get the halfway.
Speaker 8 (30:54):
Port one of those Was boston where he is. From
remember twenty Seventeen World series with The dogs when they
would never let him go through the line up a third.
Time so you don't care if you've thrown three at
a third you are out of the.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Game.
Speaker 8 (31:07):
Mister there was somebody who pointed out, that now this
is really. Amazing chicago Researcher christopher campb camp Cut Rich
hill in his career has actually Faced Jamie, moyer who
pitched a long. Time moyer in his long, career actually
Faced Steve. Carlton carlton in his long career actually pitched
in the same game As Warren, Spawn oh my, god
(31:29):
And spawn wants Faced Satchel. Page Boom page was a
teammate of a guy who was born in eighteen eighty.
One so, really it's not even six degrees of separation,
there how long some of these, pitchers.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
That is a great. Ladder Thanks steve for That Kevin
bacon degree of.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
Separation but these are always the ONES i, Celebrate, Chris, steve.
Everybody right when the guys are in their mid, FORTIES
i don't feel so damn old.
Speaker 6 (31:56):
As a fifty year. Old NOW i feel old about. Everything,
Everything so everything aches and.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
Pains you couldn't throw a football over a. Mountain like
it's not to say or not, that not like aches and.
Pains more like every little thing makes you feel. Older
they had a video the other day where they asked
a teenage girls you know we have teenage, girls and
they asked him what year is someone born for you
to consider them? Old and the very first answer was
(32:22):
nineteen ninety, Five AND i was, like and then it
was nineteen ninety, eight then it was nineteen ninety. Three
it's just so everything out there right, Now Mike, HARMEN
i feel old whenever it's represented or talked to me
sitting as soon as you say those, years like the,
rolodecks like graduated right?
Speaker 6 (32:41):
EXACTLY si?
Speaker 3 (32:42):
College, okay, great, Awesome well you know, What so you
want to really feel, old, though go buy a pack
of twenty twenty Five bowman baseball cards what and look
at the. Birthdays, okay then you'll feel.
Speaker 6 (32:55):
Old oh you mean for the. PLAYERS i see what you're.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
Saying, yeah, absolutely, yeah so as you flipped, over yeah
he was born in, seven.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Born. Eight Myself we're at the point now where we're
getting to college football right in the college football, world
and you ask some of these, newcomers like the, freshman it's, like,
hey who's your favorite player growing? Up and who'd you
watch as a sooner that you liked growing up whenever
you were a. Kid and they'll say names Like Jalen, hurts,
yeah Or Kyler murray Or Baker. Mayfield like, no, no, no
(33:27):
your answer is supposed to Be Jason white Or Sam.
Bradford what are you doing if it's A usc guy like,
MAN i grew up watching you, Know Jackson dart in
his first year At USC's like what you're supposed to?
Speaker 6 (33:39):
Say Say Matt. Liiner you, know we gotta go way back.
Here it's, crazy, man it's just.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Wild, yeah at least give me somebody from the last.
Decade give me one that's not over like six years,
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Sunday night alongside Arnie Spanier. Chris, you're a big Dodger fans,
so you just probably exhaled, maybe did a couple of
fist pumps. Very happy and now we'll figure out what's next.
(01:12):
How much you needed win for the Dodgers five to
two tonight over Minnesota. We've seen the Dodgers and the
swoon here in July, Mookie Betts much chronicled struggles at
the plate. We've seen the team struggle on the base
paths and certainly defensively.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
All season long.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
But we've also watched the bullpen having to carry a
heavy load, and they did so again tonight in the
form of Dustin May, who gave you four and two
thirds inning of shutout ball, five hits, allowed four strikeouts,
He won a full hundred pitches in relief of sho
hey Otani, who gave you the first three four hits,
the one urn run, the home run to Buxton, and
(01:54):
then Scott came in gave you twenty two pitches before
departing with an injury. And that's part of the background
as we get deeper into the review of this game
and where we are going forward. Dodgers with the w
Yates gets the save. But let's hear it from Dodgers
TV as to how this sounded, because I'm still can't
(02:15):
believe what I saw.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Going two pits.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Driven to center field, outman goes back, he's at the wall.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
A game.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Close there you have it Dodgers TV on the call.
You had a ninth inning, so Scott starts it. You
get a walk, then you have a flyout hit by
pitch Yates in walk, a sack fly, and then that
big fly to the deepest part of the park. I've
(02:51):
already seen the That's why they call him out man cheesy,
I know, but we'll run with it for what it's worth.
A you know, but you got the w you're supposed
to laugh heartily after a victory, will take a loss
if I don't have to hear that again. You know
what's gonna make already run it for you on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
I'm already you wouldn't know how to run audio if
you get if you spotted him, every single possibility to
do it.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
Fire, he would fire.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
He would count on the producer who he refuses to
acknowledge by their name. Am I being way too overly optimistic?
If even just one hit from Mookie Betts makes me happy?
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Long road begins with the first step. He had a
walk and he went one for three with a run score. Yeah,
I mean baby steps. After that, Start to July, I say,
start to July. What do we know our final six
days of July. Well, but the fact that he's back
in the leadoff spot right, so that makes sense, you know,
a much maybe necessary move. You're like, you're trying to
(03:48):
jumpstart things right and trying to figure out how to
activate his bat, whether it's something going on between the ears. Mean,
baseball guys are very superstitious and routine oriented, so you know,
to see Freddy Freeman back too, I mean I shouldn't
say back, you know, not missing any time, did have to.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Miss any time?
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Yes, one for four on the night, but a lot
of concern after he got hit by the pitch over
the weekend.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
And he is a major, major cog. You're one through
three drove in four of the five runs, and of course,
as you mentioned three four on every run was home
run tonight. That's it. Baby steps, baby steps. But they
three and a half game lead over the Padres. Get
a game on third. I think it's up to seven now,
and I think, listen, the win is what matters most.
(04:36):
But for the Dodgers tonight, after what Dustin May had
in his last outing, to see him do what he
did four and two thirds scattering the five, it's not
allowing a run still high walk numbers, right, three walks
and four and two thirds. Don't like that, but the
four strikeouts. I'm a big fan of Dustin may like.
I love him. I love his presence, I love his aura.
I think he's got a chance to be really good,
(04:58):
but it's just not connecting con insistently. Gets to win
tonight being that guy that comes in for show. Hey,
and we'll see if show he can extend beyond three innings.
I mean he he gave up the leadoff home run
and it wasn't smooth, but he got hit hard. But
it was you know, you hit him. They hit him
where they were right. So man, that's that's my guy.
(05:20):
I want to believe that he can be the dude. Yeah,
it's just curious right as we watched Scott leave with
the injury, so we'll await word as to to how severe,
what kind of time he's gonna miss, because much chronicled
over the course of the year and even going back
to last year, despite the World Series win, the number
of pitchers the Dodgers had to go through in the
starting rotation, and certainly how much and well traveled that
(05:43):
bullpen was many a weary mile and tough out along
the way, and we're looking at it here on July
twenty first. Scott has already appeared in forty seven games Vessia,
forty seven games, banda forty six Jack Dryer, who it
seems like since he joined the squad hitched every day.
So it's, you know, that curiosity trying to get through
(06:05):
the back end, and even if you know you've got
guys like Blake Snell and others getting ready to ride
back into business here that trying to navigate this for
the Dodgers' front office ahead of the trade deadline, and
certainly Dave Roberts and going up to the front office
as they try to pull the strings on this. It's
it's going to be a dicey day to day proposition.
(06:28):
You've got a lot of advantageous games ahead, as you mentioned,
looking at the Tankathon strength schedule going down the stretch.
You know you're the face the fourth worst or.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Best depending on how you look at it record, you
know in terms of opponents coming forward, So a lot
of opportunity, But is that really getting you set and
setting the table for what you're gonna need to do
when it comes to the end of September and in October.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
I think it's going to be fascinating to see if
it's offensive help, bullpen help, are just a belief in
what you have at the trade deadline getting healthy For
the Dodgers, I.
Speaker 6 (07:07):
Think they'll make a move.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
But you know, every every year there's a team that
makes a move with the trade deadline too that you're
kind of not expecting.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
It's like, well, where'd that come from? Why'd they do that?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
I wonder if anyone's going to try to pull that
off and make a make a late push here. I
know Milwaukee did a couple of years ago. Heck, even
back when the Dodgers got Carl Crawford and that massive
deal with what it was Hernandez, they weren't in the
playoff Markansalex excume they wanted the playoff mix. But I
wonder who's going to be that team that makes a
big swing here. And what'd you say? Ten days now?
(07:36):
Or are we doing over midnight? So is it nine now?
Are we a nine days and a trade down? Still
just Monday here? So you know we still got to
get to a Hall of Fame game day and trade deadline,
so we'll get all that fun together as we close
out the month. But it's just that.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Curiosity And as we talked about and alluded to a
little bit earlier in the show, Chris, that decision is
razor thin, deciding whether you're actually playing for something or
playing out the string. Yeah, you know, are are you
looking ahead to twenty twenty six and just saying all right,
we'll ride this out. We don't want to give up
our prospects because we're still growing, or is there someone
(08:14):
in the pipeline that you decide, hey, we need to
go find an arm And that's the problem is every
year it's the same thing. We have, all the rumors
of would be pitchers going somewhere as like well, aces
command a lot right. One of the great quotes from
Andrew Friedman from earlier this year, quote, my goal.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Is not to buy in July dot dot dot. It's terrible.
Speaker 6 (08:39):
And you don't know.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Are you gonna be able to keep them around for
a while or is it just gonna be one or
two guys? Hey, I will I will ask this though,
if you're the Dodgers or I don't know me, let
me see what teams we might want to throw in
this mix that are currently contending and might have a
decent enough farm system where they can make a move
for schemes. I think the Door Years would be in
that I think the Cubs might be in that mix.
(09:02):
Phillies might be in that mix. Would you go make
a play for Paul Skins and risk some of these
young guys? Absolutely go, I go put the phone call
out right. Pirates may tell me to go pound saying,
but you know, we go back to one of their
great faults of the offseason. They couldn't come up with
a million dollars to try to kiss his ass on
(09:23):
that baseball card that went up out at the tops product,
you know, the patch from his debut jersey, you know,
just as a good will of hey, we love you.
We joked about it the other day. In terms of
run support, there was nothing going on in the All
Star Game. Still as good as anything he'd seen from Pittsburgh.
His win today was his first since May twenty eighth.
(09:45):
And you're talking about a guy who had a sub
to eer that it didn't matter, right, You got a
contract you know that is under control for a long
while here, and now it's just the question of you know,
do you see the writing on the wall how much
does he love playing in Pittsburgh. I gotta imagine every
fifth day going out there busting your ass and getting
zero run support gets old pretty fast. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Absolutely, you're gonna be one of the good. We joked
about it a month ago, Right, all right? Can he
win a cy Young winning fewer games than de Gram
did with the Mets a few years back? Because what
was he ten and eleven or something like that with
the ridiculous er and whip and war and strikeout for
walking ratio and all of that stuff.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
It's like, you know, you're talking about a guy at
a five hundred record winning the cy Young? Can can
he actually schemes win it with fewer wins eleven and eight,
eleven and eight? Okay, yeah, people in the cy Young
in twenty eighteen and twenty nineteen.
Speaker 6 (10:44):
I forgot about that with the group though.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
I am counting on Ai, which, as we've learned during
the show tonight, can be very wrong.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Well, well, every once in a while, it'll come back
and bite you in the ass, there's no question about it.
Speaking extemporaneously and just trying to pour salt in the
wound of any Mets fan that we're listening out there
more in term of.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Him and eleven and eight in his two Cy Young
Award winning seasons seventeen not Cy Young numbers. When you
talk about win loss records in two years for a.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Bitch twenty eighteen he had a one point seven era
he was ten and nine unreal And when we look
at schemes as we stand here today, you know the
the numbers and what he puts forward. But just to
pull it back to your larger point, it's always worth
the phone call, right, you catch the GM at the
(11:34):
right moment, frustrations and maybe there's an opportunity, but it's
the curiosity. You know you've got the guy, but you
need to realize you know where you're at in this process.
You know, it's it's the you're not turning the corner
anytime soon, and what kind of hal can you get.
(11:54):
The problem is with large, larger positional players that are
already established going to meet their next contract, so so
in the end it's a losing proposition. It's one of
the few times Rob Manford's spoken to where I say,
all right, I actually understand and I agree with what
he's saying. When we talk about the disparity and that's
not to talk about the big bad evil empire, whether
(12:15):
it's the Dodgers or the Yankees or any of the
top spenders out there. It's more the where's the floor?
And that's where I always fight about the floor of spending.
More so than restricting at the top. It's forcing owners
who get so many tens of millions of dollars off
national TV deals to make sure that it's reinvested. And
(12:37):
if you can't afford to play poker, guess what? You
grab your hat, you nod, nod towards the table, take
a last sip out of your drink, and you leave
and cash out for billions of dollars, which is the
going rate for any team and franchise.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Man, what are the Rays? One point seven billion? Yeah? Maan,
what's most of that cost in the Ray tank? He
two fingers, two fingers on that Ray. I guess I'm
fascinated by more than anything else. Going back to your
Manford conversation, do you uh well? And maybe something we
(13:13):
get into a little bit more in depth, Like he
cries about an unsustainable financial future for baseball just as
a side here, But yet they just sold the Rays
right right now, their home is kind of in tatters,
and they just sold them for a massive amount of money. Like,
I don't know what to believe anymore with what's real
and what isn't with money in sports, and I live
(13:33):
in the college world where I don't know what's real
and what isn't real in IL deals, I sure as
hell don't know when it comes to people crying poor
and then all of a sudden you're selling a franchise
for the upward of the billion that they did with
the Rays.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
No, and right, well, it goes to some of the
conversation we had with the WNBA about forward looking statements
and revenues that you're expecting to as more people come
on board and you get back into the rights deals.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
But certainly it's the big toy, right, the big chess.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
Piece and tip one of the prouder moments of our
eleven years at Fox Sports Radio Smith and I when
Balmer bought the Clippers.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
I said, what a deal? What a deal? At two
billion dollars? Like, what do you mean?
Speaker 4 (14:17):
It's like, franchise in LA don't open up very often,
even if it is the Clippers.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
There you go obligatory shot at the Clippers. As we
go to. But there is some potential news on another
rights transaction to come through that you pointed out to
me a little bit earlier, news that was breaking, an
update on a little bit of a rights share opportunity
coming to bear in the.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
National Football League. We'll talk about that as we continue.
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Welcome back in Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith Show with
Me by Carmon Jason Smith off this week and instead
tonight our buddy Chris Blank at Plank shows where you
find him in the Twitter verse. There you go, there's
an endorsement from Jason Smith for you. I'll take it
nicely again. As we sit here in the Fox Sports
(16:29):
Radio studios, Dodgers with the winds still looking at information
on Tanner Scott and the injury, and there as he
left the game, leaving way before Yates comes in to
close down the deal. So we've got that we're talking
a little bit about rights deals and and moneies while
(16:51):
we're talking league to league and something you broached a
little earlier today that started to circulate gaining some steam
long room, but the idea that there's a long pending
deal that's coming to Fruition to sell all or most
of NFL media to ESPN parenthetical Disney. So now that
(17:14):
becomes the next iteration when we talk about rights deals
and holdings, and when you're talking about divvying up the
pie between Amazon and Apple and all of these different
players that want a seat at the table. When you
look at NBC Slash, Peacock Fox and going on down
the line, that this would now mean that the NFL
(17:38):
would become an equity partner. And now we've got a
relationship that complicates matters, but certainly would lead to one's
belief that anything that's still kind of out no man's
land to be amended. You know, the annexation of Puerto Rico,
the old play from Little Giants, that it would be
(18:00):
an ESPN, ABC slash Disney one up on the crew.
But when we're talking about billions and billions of riots, Chris,
this is no small matter here. I remember NFL media,
NFL films way back in the day when I was
part of a fledgling operation called the Football Network. Yeah,
(18:20):
that's right before before the NFL began had its NFL Network,
there was something called the Football Network, and it was
a fledgling operation. I was part of a show Get
This alongside Danny Shearon in the odds maker.
Speaker 6 (18:35):
Ah Yes USA Today, Danny Sheridan.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
And the great Jerry Glanville, who was obsessed with my cheekbones.
He really wanted to know my heritage and if he
could have swabbed my cheeks for a twenty three in me.
He wanted to prove that I was some part Native American?
Speaker 6 (18:50):
Are you some part Native America?
Speaker 4 (18:52):
I don't believe, so I've never done the twenty three
in me Okay, But nothing anybody's ever told me about
my family history would lead me to believe that there
was a potential. Doesn't mean it's not true, and they
could all be liars and covering up really strange past.
Some of the stories I've heard about, you know, going
back in generation or two, I could probably pen a
(19:16):
mini series for HBO with some of the stories I've heard.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
H Yeah, I would think so, especially with that group. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
But you know, in this particular case, when we're talking
about the Football Network, they ran out of money because
as they started to fight for rights, and this is
in the early iterations of trying to get a you know,
low Division one college football game rights. But they were
negotiating for NFL films, John Facenda and all of that,
and then all of a sudden those were off the
(19:44):
table because the NFL Network was coming to bear. So
I've seen this first and foremost. We're gonna do fantasy
playoffs stuff, right, No, we're canceled, go back to work.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
No, we're not gonna be fantasy playoff stuff. We're gonna
have Stephen A. Smith argue with Mike Greenberg about which
team's legacy is going to be most affected by a
win today.
Speaker 6 (20:05):
And then we'll have a.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Panel of eighty six former players and we'll throw Mike
Tannembaum in there to give you eighty six different opinions
on the same thing. Or Cam Newton's quarterback rankings This
is the worst thing that could happen in the NFL.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
And I don't know why they're doing it. I don't
know why they're doing it it.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
You know, I didn't realize how in the NFL was
with private equity. So and by the way, private equity.
You want to talk about people that want to make
sure they have their stake, I'll make sure they have
their steak. Well, private activity.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
That was part of what we just had with the
consultant of the Carlisle Group. That was exactly NFLPA issue
with Lloyd Howell that we're just navigating now.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Do real Well, I don't know the why behind it.
Maybe the NFL is tired of having the staff and
pay the NFL network employees. I mean, we had the
story this week where Scott Hansen told Jimmy Traina on
the SI Media podcast about how challenging the negotiations were
for him to just continue as the host of the
(21:01):
Red Zone channels. So maybe maybe the NFL is like,
we're tired of this, We're tired of this. Just listen,
you guys run the NFL network and we'll just continue
to make money off the product itself. Am I getting
close to what could be going on here, because it
seems like they've got a pretty good thing going with
very low maintenance on the NFL network. Well, we've seen
(21:22):
changes right in terms of coast to coast and shows
that have gone away and then move them all in LA. Right,
you've got the the out out post here alongside so far.
So you've got that which comes with costs of course, right,
(21:42):
and consolidation and all of that. We've certainly seen a
change of jobs and structures there be curious to see.
I haven't seen an unveiling of a network approach for
what they're going to do come football season. Certainly recently,
I've been watching a lot of ten Greatest Games of
this that or the other. Uh, And I've seen an
(22:02):
awful lot of Chiefs and Buffalo Bills football, not that
I minded, mind you, but Derwin James Top ten games
the There's been a bevy of very unique programming. No,
but that's just it.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
It's like, hey, what are your favorite favorite games of
the last year or decade, or go team by team
and circumstances like that. But you know, we're talking about
a very robust rights and history from which you can
draw a ton of programming and you have you call
from that highlights and interviews and all all of those
(22:35):
snippets that you've got, So certainly it's a huge catalog
to program your many channels worth, no question about that.
And then we talk back into live games and what
it might give you in terms of exclusivity and windows there.
It's the last bastion of of programming that anybody goes to.
(22:56):
We we have fun with events like the home Run
Derby and we see where all of a sudden you
chart it out, you know, during the swing off you
get to an eight point one million audience or things
of that nature. Talking about the WNBA three point contest.
But otherwise, what are we talking about? Love Island and
shows like that? All right, DeVante Smith and the Eagle's going,
(23:19):
I know, but so many you know, you've got some
reality shows and occasionally you hit on a network show
and I know, you know, this is something that you
guys do a little bit on the Sundays, you and
Arnie and Steve in terms of the week that was,
you know, in terms of our viewing habits and what
we're looking into over the course of a week and
(23:43):
outside of live sports and not a lot of stuff
moves the needle, right, everything else is watched today and
then it's on our streamer, and how do we promote
the streamer as best we can?
Speaker 6 (23:52):
Like that?
Speaker 4 (23:52):
That is the running jokes, like, all right, how quickly
do they adapt to whatever streaming platform they're on?
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Right? Go watch this paramount HBO.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
Peacock is obviously the one we see most in because
I'm a law and order guy, so you know that's
what I get any law and order on there, right,
especially with Jerry Orbach. I mean we were talking a
little bit about dirty dancing and Patrick Swayzee in the break,
pulling the curtain back a little bit. I mean, Jerry
Orbach's the dad there. He was Lumiere, He's everything to us.
(24:25):
He was on singing you know, forty second Street and
you know all of that stuff back on Broadway legend.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
And of course Detective Brisco see what I did there,
I tied it all together, brought it all back together.
That's what I do. You know who else will do that?
Speaker 4 (24:40):
Because he's going to encapsulate the world that was and
the night that was in sports, and maybe he's got
an update on injuries or at least celebrating a Dodgers win.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
At Steve Desager at the news desk.
Speaker 8 (24:50):
Actually it was a muted celebration according to the manager
because of the Tanner scut injury. But as you mentioned,
the NFL network studios that they built right alongside the
RAMS new stadium. When that got built, people talked about, oh,
how many billion dollars to build that. It's not just
the stadium that got built that the RAMS owner stand Kronky,
it's the entire property around the theater.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
The NFL network's building there and they.
Speaker 8 (25:18):
Have just started construction of what's going to be called
Hollywood Park Studios. It'll first be the International broadcast Center
for the Olympics when they're in LA twenty twenty eight,
and then literally become a movie and production studio after that.
Also on the same property. But what you mentioned where
NFL network headquarters are, that's so close to where the
(25:40):
football stadium is. If you are behind the press box,
you could literally throw a football and hit the window
of NFL Net.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Have you done that? It is allegedly.
Speaker 6 (25:51):
No, I have not.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
I could.
Speaker 8 (25:54):
As for the late ballgame at Dodger Stadium, LA five
to two over Minnesota, the Twins left thirteen men on base,
including in the ninth when they were so close to
hitting the tying three run homer. At the end, the
ball was caught at the top of the center field
wall by James outman. Dave Roberts, the Dodger manager, said,
reliever Tanner scott Linging leaving in the ninth was because
(26:16):
of a sting in his forearm after a pitch. That's
not good that the pitcher is not emotionally well after that,
and we'll get an MRI tomorrow. Yeah, I agree with that.
Houston won six' three At. Arizona the lost To Zach.
Gallon although A Henneo suarez of The diamondbacks hit home
run number thirty six At Dodger, stadium it was home
(26:36):
run number thirty five for Sho Hey, otanni the starting pitcher.
Tonight he went three innings forty six, pitches allowed a
leadoff homer To, minnesota but Then otani hit a two
run shot in the bottom of the. First Will smith
with two solo homers and in the win the victory
To Dustin may Of. La he threw one hundred pitches
in relief four and two thirds. Scoreless milwaukee has the
best record in baseball sixty and. Forty Brandon woodriff went
(26:59):
six innings for the win At seattle six. Nothing The
brewers have won eleven in a. Row George kirby took
the loss for The. Mariners he had a no hitter
until the sixth and then allowed four runs top of the.
Sixth seattle never scored. Tonight The brewers lead THE Nl
central by one game over The. Cubs cubby's lost at
home twelve four To Kansas. City cubs Outfielder Pete, Crow
armstrong and All star was out with The bruce. Knee
(27:22):
Salvador perez two homers for The, royals And Kansas city
is calling up veteran Pitcher Rich. HILL i would say Former,
dodger but this is going to be his fourteenth team
in his major league, career so he's a former. Everybody
Saint louis won six to two At. Colorado The rockies
record is twenty four and seventy six victories for The
White sox And Texas atlanta Sent San francisco to a
(27:45):
sixth straight, loss nine to. Five the losing pitcher for The,
giants the, Starter hayden Bird, song couldn't get out of
the first. Inning in, fact he was down five nothing
after not even getting an. Out he allowed three straight
walks to open the, game a wild pitch in there,
well then a, double another, walk a hit, batter and
they finally pulled.
Speaker 6 (28:03):
Them giants lose.
Speaker 8 (28:04):
Again toronto over The yankees four to, One Kevin gosmand
Over Carlos Rodin yankee pitcher an all Star Max freed
is due to start On wednesday after a, blister but
The yanks are now four games back of the first
Place Blue jays in THE Al. East toronto has won
eleven straight at home in THE Nl, East philly still
a half game over The. Mets The philly signed Reliever
(28:25):
David robertson by the Way philadelphia and ten. Innings won
tonight three to two Against boston on a catcher's interference
with basses. Loaded The Red sox Walker, bueler with AN
era over six this, year was great, tonight seven, innings
one earned run, allowed no. Decision we Assume bueller is
going to be pitching At fenway this weekend against The.
Dodgers The mets beat The angels in a comeback seven
(28:47):
to five with two runs in the. Eighth Edwin diaz
a say three straight strikeouts in the ninth wins For
San diego And, washington wins For cleveland And. Pittsburgh paul
skeins in The pirates shut Out detroit three to. Zhing
titans Quarterback Will levis will have shoulder surgery next. Week
he's out for the. Year cowboys pass Rusher Micah parsons
reported to straining training. Camp he does want the contract.
(29:08):
Extension we'll see it if he participates in workouts On.
Tuesday there is such a thing as a hold. In
by the, Way Green bay gave Tackle zach tom a
four year. Extension VETERAN nba Guard Chris paul signed with The.
Clippers Caitlin clark will miss another Game tuesday night with
the groin. Injury back to, you.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
Thanks so, Much, steve appreciate. It you, know doing the
quick search as we were wont to. Do the last
time that there was a walk off catcher's interference, call
The dodgers beat The reds on a call Against Johnny
bench over nineteen seventy, one.
Speaker 8 (29:42):
Over fifty years. Ago, yeah load the bases and then
the batter had a check swing that touched the catcher's.
Glove game over after video.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
Review, YEAH i watched the video review And i'm, like all,
RIGHT i guess he touched.
Speaker 8 (29:55):
It wouldn't you just touch the glove on? Purpose get that?
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Call, Yes, yeah no question about. It it was one
of the oddest sequences That i've.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
Seen and let's stay with The Rich. Hill, Thanks, steve
stay with us Here. Baseball this is something you pointed
out to me, Earlier, chris as we were getting ready
for the, show as tweeted out by our but, WELL
i MEAN i put it in as a one. Liner
you had the, addition which you, KNOW i remember him
from his days, there you, know being a White sox
fan and hating all Things cubs from the real underscore
(30:28):
dv our Buddy David, vasse who covers The DODGERS am
five SEVENTY la sports and television coverage here In Los,
angeles that he starts. Tomorrow Rich hill fourteenth team starts
for The royals where it all started At Wrigley. Field
hill made his Major league debut with The cubs in
two thousand and, five and then he had a couple
of these strong arm emojis because that's one Of dave's.
(30:49):
Guys so his fourteenth team we got to get him
one more, right so we get the halfway.
Speaker 8 (30:54):
Port one of those Was boston where he is. From
remember twenty Seventeen World series with The dogs when they
would never let him go through the line up a third.
Time so you don't care if you've thrown three at
a third you are out of the.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Game.
Speaker 8 (31:07):
Mister there was somebody who pointed out, that now this
is really. Amazing chicago Researcher christopher campb camp Cut Rich
hill in his career has actually Faced Jamie, moyer who
pitched a long. Time moyer in his long, career actually
Faced Steve. Carlton carlton in his long career actually pitched
in the same game As Warren, Spawn oh my, god
(31:29):
And spawn wants Faced Satchel. Page Boom page was a
teammate of a guy who was born in eighteen eighty.
One so, really it's not even six degrees of separation,
there how long some of these, pitchers.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
That is a great. Ladder Thanks steve for That Kevin
bacon degree of.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
Separation but these are always the ONES i, Celebrate, Chris, steve.
Everybody right when the guys are in their mid, FORTIES
i don't feel so damn old.
Speaker 6 (31:56):
As a fifty year. Old NOW i feel old about. Everything,
Everything so everything aches and.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
Pains you couldn't throw a football over a. Mountain like
it's not to say or not, that not like aches and.
Pains more like every little thing makes you feel. Older
they had a video the other day where they asked
a teenage girls you know we have teenage, girls and
they asked him what year is someone born for you
to consider them? Old and the very first answer was
(32:22):
nineteen ninety, Five AND i was, like and then it
was nineteen ninety, eight then it was nineteen ninety. Three
it's just so everything out there right, Now Mike, HARMEN
i feel old whenever it's represented or talked to me
sitting as soon as you say those, years like the,
rolodecks like graduated right?
Speaker 6 (32:41):
EXACTLY si?
Speaker 3 (32:42):
College, okay, great, Awesome well you know, What so you
want to really feel, old, though go buy a pack
of twenty twenty Five bowman baseball cards what and look
at the. Birthdays, okay then you'll feel.
Speaker 6 (32:55):
Old oh you mean for the. PLAYERS i see what you're.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
Saying, yeah, absolutely, yeah so as you flipped, over yeah
he was born in, seven.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Born. Eight Myself we're at the point now where we're
getting to college football right in the college football, world
and you ask some of these, newcomers like the, freshman it's, like,
hey who's your favorite player growing? Up and who'd you
watch as a sooner that you liked growing up whenever
you were a. Kid and they'll say names Like Jalen, hurts,
yeah Or Kyler murray Or Baker. Mayfield like, no, no, no
(33:27):
your answer is supposed to Be Jason white Or Sam.
Bradford what are you doing if it's A usc guy like,
MAN i grew up watching you, Know Jackson dart in
his first year At USC's like what you're supposed to?
Speaker 6 (33:39):
Say Say Matt. Liiner you, know we gotta go way back.
Here it's, crazy, man it's just.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Wild, yeah at least give me somebody from the last.
Decade give me one that's not over like six years,
ago exactly At Plank show where you Find. Chris find
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