July 17, 2026 • 20 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
This SEGM brought to you by Shop dot Steelers dot Com.
Go to talk to Tim Bins about the Bucos at
the bottom of the hour. We've had some great baseball
talk today, but right now, well, when I put together
the list every day, which is hopelessly outdated and cliched,
I've done it ten years longer than Jericho did, although
he brought it back I guess one time only recently
(00:29):
in all elite wrestling. But I could pick like ten
or twelve people for the list every day because people things,
situation so much annoys me greatly, And today I'm not
sure who annoys me more. Lebron James for talking all
these teams at forty one, making the decision all over
(00:52):
again in search of an unearned ring and a pathetic
level of validation. Is it him or is it Odell
Beckham Junior for starting this pathetically narcissistic trend among athletes
of millions eight millions in large part because you get
taxed because regular people like you and me don't get taxed,
(01:15):
only rich athletes.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
And then that Telfair guy bitch because he couldn't.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Earn generational wealth over his ten year NBA career, but
he only averaged.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Seven points a game.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Dude, seven points per game in the NBA doesn't earn
generational wealth. You were a career on your achiever and
are lucky you made what you did. So let's go
with tel Fair and his seven point average. In his
mooching family, he had to support fourteen brothers and sisters,
mom and dad.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Get a job.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Or like I, like Denzel Washington, did an American gangster?
And I suggest it's what I would do. Make them
all drug dealers. Hey, Sebastian Telfair, guess.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
What you just made the list?
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Like I said, the list book was my shop dots
Steelers dot com.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
We have phones ringing.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Is anybody answering that number to call? Eight three three
four one two WXDX. You know I would have been
good at running a drug empire. I could have got
shot or put in prison for life, but until that moment,
I would have been really good at running a drug empire.
(02:46):
I gotta talk about the World Cup final Argentine and
Spain Sunday at three pm. Come watch the game with
me at Pittsburgh Brewing Company in Creighton. I'm out of giveaways.
I gotta go to the script District tomorrow and try
to find some that and for my pirates viewing parties
Monday and Tuesday at All Star and Robinson. Excuse me,
(03:08):
All Star and South Point. Wish I could erase that
All Star Sports Bar and Grill and Robin God. I
did it again, All Star Sports Bar and Girl at
South Point Monday and then uh Schoolhouse, Tavern and Clarridge
on Tuesday Bucco watch parties because I am in demand.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Anyway. In the World Cup Final, I like Spain. I
like Spain.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
They are getting the most out of what they got,
and they got a lot. They're making the whole greater
than the sum of the parts. But it's hard to
bet against Messi. I'd like to see Alexis McAllister of
a big game for Argentina in the midfield because he's Liverpool.
But the key player in this game isn't Lionel Messi.
(03:52):
It's Rodri in the midfield for Spain, a defensive and
tactical field general Uh. Argentina has a great midfield anchored
by Enzo and McAllister, but Rodri is a good bet
to cut off the supply lines to Messy and if
that happened, Spain fau Show wins the World Cup. I
(04:16):
feel like jam All for Spain on the wing is
due for a game. The teenager hasn't really got a
lot going came into the World Cup hurt, not even
sure if he's one hundred percent now, But I think
Spain wins two to one, and I expect an absolute
cracker of a game. Well, I want to double back
on with Gorman and Noah. We were talking about this
(04:38):
stretch for the Pirates where they play four pretty good
teams all in a playoff Well, Arizona's not, but the
other three in a playoff spot, they're all over five hundred.
You got tonight against Cleveland and that series, then the Yankees,
then the Cubs, and then Arizona, and you're in a
competition for a wild card spot with both the Cubs
(04:59):
in Arizona. You know, Noah said they gotta have a
winning record. Gorman said, they just got to tread water.
No they got to make a move. They've played ninety
seven games hanging around, hanging around. Maybe that worked in rounders,
I'm not sure it works for the Pirates and Wess
they improved dramatically the deadline and and Noah made a
real good point. With the guys they're getting back from injury,
(05:22):
it'll be like they're adding players, especially Griffin as long
as he has been on, Will be out.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Horwitz do back soon, cruise long after that.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
I'm not sure about any but mark my words, when
Eddy comes back, will be the backup catcher to Davis,
because Davis hit a couple of home runs and they
love him even though he sucks.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Let's go to Matt. Matt, you're on with double.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
M what mine? Mark, I'm curious if your change of
heart on Will Howard has anything to do with your
recent trip to Kwamus.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
No, it happened before that, although you might have noticed.
I read it out a picture of the Ring of
Honor at the Horseshoe at Columbus, and it had not
his name on it, but had his national championship team
twenty twenty four on it. And I do and I
do love, I do love Ohio State's campus. Such a
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big school like that, it is such a youthful electricity
about it.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
And there was some orientation going on.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
I want to say some parents were there with their kids,
just seeing like the kind of wide eyed I don't
want to say curiosity, but it was like, oh man,
this is where I'm going to school.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
How great is this? It was? It was really fun
to witness.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Fair Enough, I'm a Michigan fan, so I can't get
on board.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
But you guys stink. Let's go to lou and Neville Island. Lou,
you're own with Double M. Mark.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
I've got two questions with the.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Hello, Okay, we lost Lou. Let's go to Dave. Dave,
you're on with Double M. Hey, Hey, now that the
head up you are.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Are you aware that that Cleveland game has been postponed
due to the Canadian fires? Your thoughts on that.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Game? Yes, sir, oh I didn't see that. When did
that move?
Speaker 3 (07:12):
I believe it moved about twenty minutes ago. They're going
to be having a doubleheader Saturday one ten and seven
to ten tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Well, how do they know the smoke's going to be
any better tomorrow?
Speaker 3 (07:23):
I guess they don't. They might be kicking the preliminary
can down the road.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
But okay, it just came out. It just moved on
my Twitter. Game postponed. That sucks, yeah, I but the Pirates,
I mean they navigated a doubleheader against Milwaukee. Maybe they'll
have a good feeling about it. I yea, that's still disappointing, though,
then again, I'll be a Motley Crue.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
I was surprised that Motley Crue has a.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Postponed didn't postpone? Yeah, I agree hopefully you Then.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Again, all you do, you know, I mean, I don't
know what their level of concern is for the fans.
All you do if you're Motley's put a bunch of
fans at the front of the stage, you know, not
not fans as in spectators, like literal fans blowing the
smoke away.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Right, I hope they're not blowing the smoke towards you.
Who's your all star player for the Pirates this season?
The best player top tier, who hasn't missed all year?
Speaker 1 (08:18):
In other words, who's the most valuable Pirate to date? Yes, sir,
that's a good question, you know. I would say Brian
Reynolds because he's been incredibly consistent after the first six weeks.
But those games they lost when he sucked, they're still
in the lost column right now. I don't know, you know,
(08:38):
always seems to be coming up big as Brandon Law.
What would you what would you think of I said Brandon.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Law I would agree one hundred percent for the price
we have on my I would I would certainly agree.
He's a bat that keeps coming through an RBI situation. Singles, doubles,
just getting on base has been amazing for him all season.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Long's that said, the offensive explosion has been a group
of I mean, they didn't have a single bat at
the All Star Game, yet they lead Major League Baseball
and runs. And I gotta be blunt, I'm not sure
any of the bats as individuals deserve to be at
the All Star Game.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Maybe Lyle.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
But the whole is greater than the sum of the parts,
and that's how you win. That's how you make the
playoffs when the whole is greater than the sum of
the parts. Thank you for the call. That was a
good call. And we get so few good calls. You
can get more calls in if you want. Eight three
three four one two w xdx eight three three four
one two w xdx.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
It's the Mark Madden showing one oh five nine double.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
I'm on the X gonna talk Boco Baseball with Tim
Benz and just a few.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Uh one thing.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
I'm gonna talk about a lot on Monday after the
World Cup final. If Messi wins, I think he's the
greatest of all time in soccer. Like with most sports,
I think there's a group of people clustered into the
goat conversation. In the case of the real football, it's Messi, Maddonna,
(10:02):
Pele and Chris Johanna Ronaldo. But I think of Messi
can win a second straight World Cup at thirty nine,
and he's the goats. I think his tangibles are overwhelming,
and it's big to declare somebody to goat because in
football there's no goats. There isn't Is it Jim Bron
or is it Tom Brady? There's a debate. In baseball,
(10:27):
there's no goat. You say, Showy Otani, Right, Yeah, his
stats won't come close to Babe Bruce and Babe Ruth
pitched two In hockey, I've always said the three man
race from you, Gretzky and or whoever you pick.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
You're not wrong.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
The one sport where I think there's a nailed on
great is basketball. Michael Jordan. I think he's number one period.
I don't think James can catch him. In fact, I
think Lebron has hurt his cause by sticking around.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
And just looking stupid.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Still a good player, just look and stupid with all
the team switching that the journeyman act. He's gonna do
it again now. And in golf you can argue Nicholas
or Tiger. Nicholas with more majors, Tiger with more tournament
wins overall. But if Messi wins a second straight World
Cup at thirty nine, then he's the goats. I haven't
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talked much Steelers because I don't want to, although we're
gonna get the serious Steeler talk soon with camp starting.
I'm gonna be at Dino's and Sharky's. I don't have
the dates in front of me, but I'll do my
show from there. I love Latrobe, love wes Mooreland County,
and I can't wait for the exhibition games. Gonna see
(11:43):
Will Howard play finally, Gonna see Drew Waller play fin well,
not finally, but.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
He's gonna play. It's the most typed.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Those three exhibitions will be the most typed preseason games
in Steelers history. Now, if you want just just way, maass, dumbass, Josh,
I've asked dealer talk.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Well, let's take this call first let's go to Rye
and Ryan. You're on with double M. I was double
M goodnight.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Hey.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
I was just calling about some soccer questions.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
I was wondering how you thought Ariola was going to
do his first time managing Liverpool this season.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
I haven't seen his his team play one match yet.
I'll be going to the second friendly of their US
tour in Nashville.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
I think that's next weekend. It is next weekend.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
I'll be seeing my buddy Mark boulgerd On there too,
who lives in Nashville.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Who knows. Maybe I'll run into Greta van Fleet they
live there now.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
But I want to see Ariola's team play. I want
I've not seen them even train. But he says he's
going to bring back football that the fans will like,
which on a slot after he won the league, he
just slowed everything down and became way too conservative. So
I'm anxious to see what Ariola does, and I have
a lot of confidence in him. I have a lot
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of confidence in this squad of players, especially once guys
like eat Sec get healthy. The palindrome is going to
be out for a while after that. Achilles, but uh,
but no, I still, as I always do, have absolute
faith in Liverpool Football Club.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Thank you for the call. You want to get more.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
And by the way I just mentioned, I think Jordan
is absolutely the goat in basketball to my mind, Lebron
had even second. I think Will Chamberlain or Bill Russell
or even Kobe's probably second.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
I don't think it's Lebron.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Uh turning out to just lame Steeler talk. ESPN dot
com had an article, this is a dumb article, but
you got to do NFL. I don't, but but ESPN
certainly especially feels you do. All their TV shows are
NFL year round. That's the majority of the talk is
NFL year round, and that's why I don't often watch
(13:55):
ESPN anymore. But ESPN had this article that listed every
player on every team that could be traded for a
first ground pick, and there were six players on the Steelers.
It's an interesting list. Benton, Fatanu, Fraser, Harmon, Herbig and Porter. Okay,
(14:16):
but the Steelers aren't going to trade any of those guys.
Although I would trade Benton for a first round pick,
I trade Herbig too, but you wouldn't Herbig for first
round pick. Then again, if you seeing him as the
successor to Watt and or high Smith.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Yeah, maybe I wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Anyway, the trickle down there he's talking about is that TJ.
Watt would not fetch a first rounder. Well, of course
he wouldn't. He's old washed. You don't think the league,
the fans, everybody not in Pittsburgh knows that TJ.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Watt is old and washed.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Now, maybe playing under under the new DC, maybe he'll
adjust his game and find an Indian Summer of a season,
but I doubt it. I dot he'll a Justice game enough,
and I think he's out of gas. I will say
on a Super Bowl contender, what might function as a
(15:15):
secondary edge threat, But that don't get your first round
pick unless it's at the deadline. And maybe if that team,
if their primary edge threat gets hurt, maybe then you
get a first rounder.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
And if what's healthy and having a very good season.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
But the Steelers aren't gonna trade, Watch just won't trade
a period because of one helmet, et cetera. Stories like
that at ESPN, it's a total straw man. The good
news is that got me to commercial break and we've
got Tim Benz talking pirates. Next, we got to talk
Buccos here on one oh five to nine the X.
It's Madden on the X.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
It's time for the last word.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Bucco's resumed play tonight at Cleveland, and the Bucco Revenge
Tour has already resumed.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
You know what I mean, the Bucco Revenge Tour. I
talk about it often.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Every time the Pirates win a couple games, the hardcore
Pirates fans lamb based any critics, a lot of name calling,
especially with me. They predict great things and they just
go all adrenaline. But when the Pirates stumble, inevitably again,
the revenge Tour receds like Homer Simpson into.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
That Hedge radio silence.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
And then later, inevitably again, the Pirates win a few
and the Revenge Tour unloads the trucks again. Problem is,
it never adds up with the Pirates. It never adds up.
So now you've got twelve big games against four very
good teams coming out of the All Star Break Cleveland,
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the New York Yankees, the Cubs in Arizona, Yo Buckos,
make your move no more of this up and down.
And if the Pirates fail, if they go like five
and seven over those twelve games. Then I'm begging you
shut down the revenge tour for good because it ain't happening.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
JJ Watt through a.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Hissy fit because he attended an MLS game in Utah
Real salt Lake hosting Burnley of the English League. JJ
Watt is a part owner of Burnley, and the team
welcomed walked to the game in a tweet referred to
Watt and his family and what went not so because
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his wife wasn't identified and she played soccer briefly for
the US women's national team and blah blah blah, look
at me. I'd mentioned her name now, but I forget
what it is. So what through a hissy fit, and
Real salt Lake bent over back backwards to apologize. Dude,
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nobody cares that your wife played soccer. She's not relevant
in this case. You're the guy who part owns Burnley.
The Watts always want extra respect and extra validation, and
that's because they never win. It's a family of meatheads.
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So we got Motley Crue at Starlake Tonight Tesla an
extreme opening, and I'd like to tell my Motley Crue
story from backstage at the Civic Arena in nineteen eighty four.
I've told her before, but those were different times in
radio land Wasted with my friend the late Pete Way
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on base, Motley Crue, Ozzy Osbourne headlining. Yeah, I'd like
to tell that story, but probably shouldn't. But there was
group sex, sadly not involving me. The group sex also
featured amateur photography. There was a lot of alcohol, drugs
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procured by me for Motley Cruz, specifically cocaine from a
security guard I knew. I got to watch Ozzy from
the photographer's pit. I got to meet Ozzy. He was
wearing a dress. I had a great hang with Pete
and Nikki six and a great hang with Tommy Lee
and Finn from Wasteed the singer, a lot of alcohol,
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and I think I wrote a review for the Post
Gazette at the end of all of it. So I
love Motley Crue and shout at the devil. See it, Starlak,
don't forget. You can watch the World Cup Final with
me at Pittsburgh Brewing Company and Creighton just out rough
twenty eight. That's three pm Sunday, Argentina versus Spain one
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oh five nine y X
This SEGM brought to you by Shop dot Steelers dot Com.
Go to talk to Tim Bins about the Bucos at
the bottom of the hour. We've had some great baseball
talk today, but right now, well, when I put together
the list every day, which is hopelessly outdated and cliched,
I've done it ten years longer than Jericho did, although
he brought it back I guess one time only recently
(00:29):
in all elite wrestling. But I could pick like ten
or twelve people for the list every day because people things,
situation so much annoys me greatly, And today I'm not
sure who annoys me more. Lebron James for talking all
these teams at forty one, making the decision all over
(00:52):
again in search of an unearned ring and a pathetic
level of validation. Is it him or is it Odell
Beckham Junior for starting this pathetically narcissistic trend among athletes
of millions eight millions in large part because you get
taxed because regular people like you and me don't get taxed,
(01:15):
only rich athletes.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
And then that Telfair guy bitch because he couldn't.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Earn generational wealth over his ten year NBA career, but
he only averaged.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Seven points a game.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Dude, seven points per game in the NBA doesn't earn
generational wealth. You were a career on your achiever and
are lucky you made what you did. So let's go
with tel Fair and his seven point average. In his
mooching family, he had to support fourteen brothers and sisters,
mom and dad.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Get a job.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Or like I, like Denzel Washington, did an American gangster?
And I suggest it's what I would do. Make them
all drug dealers. Hey, Sebastian Telfair, guess.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
What you just made the list?
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Like I said, the list book was my shop dots
Steelers dot com.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
We have phones ringing.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Is anybody answering that number to call? Eight three three
four one two WXDX. You know I would have been
good at running a drug empire. I could have got
shot or put in prison for life, but until that moment,
I would have been really good at running a drug empire.
(02:46):
I gotta talk about the World Cup final Argentine and
Spain Sunday at three pm. Come watch the game with
me at Pittsburgh Brewing Company in Creighton. I'm out of giveaways.
I gotta go to the script District tomorrow and try
to find some that and for my pirates viewing parties
Monday and Tuesday at All Star and Robinson. Excuse me,
(03:08):
All Star and South Point. Wish I could erase that
All Star Sports Bar and Grill and Robin God. I
did it again, All Star Sports Bar and Girl at
South Point Monday and then uh Schoolhouse, Tavern and Clarridge
on Tuesday Bucco watch parties because I am in demand.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Anyway. In the World Cup Final, I like Spain. I
like Spain.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
They are getting the most out of what they got,
and they got a lot. They're making the whole greater
than the sum of the parts. But it's hard to
bet against Messi. I'd like to see Alexis McAllister of
a big game for Argentina in the midfield because he's Liverpool.
But the key player in this game isn't Lionel Messi.
(03:52):
It's Rodri in the midfield for Spain, a defensive and
tactical field general Uh. Argentina has a great midfield anchored
by Enzo and McAllister, but Rodri is a good bet
to cut off the supply lines to Messy and if
that happened, Spain fau Show wins the World Cup. I
(04:16):
feel like jam All for Spain on the wing is
due for a game. The teenager hasn't really got a
lot going came into the World Cup hurt, not even
sure if he's one hundred percent now, But I think
Spain wins two to one, and I expect an absolute
cracker of a game. Well, I want to double back
on with Gorman and Noah. We were talking about this
(04:38):
stretch for the Pirates where they play four pretty good
teams all in a playoff Well, Arizona's not, but the
other three in a playoff spot, they're all over five hundred.
You got tonight against Cleveland and that series, then the Yankees,
then the Cubs, and then Arizona, and you're in a
competition for a wild card spot with both the Cubs
(04:59):
in Arizona. You know, Noah said they gotta have a
winning record. Gorman said, they just got to tread water.
No they got to make a move. They've played ninety
seven games hanging around, hanging around. Maybe that worked in rounders,
I'm not sure it works for the Pirates and Wess
they improved dramatically the deadline and and Noah made a
real good point. With the guys they're getting back from injury,
(05:22):
it'll be like they're adding players, especially Griffin as long
as he has been on, Will be out.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Horwitz do back soon, cruise long after that.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
I'm not sure about any but mark my words, when
Eddy comes back, will be the backup catcher to Davis,
because Davis hit a couple of home runs and they
love him even though he sucks.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Let's go to Matt. Matt, you're on with double.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
M what mine? Mark, I'm curious if your change of
heart on Will Howard has anything to do with your
recent trip to Kwamus.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
No, it happened before that, although you might have noticed.
I read it out a picture of the Ring of
Honor at the Horseshoe at Columbus, and it had not
his name on it, but had his national championship team
twenty twenty four on it. And I do and I
do love, I do love Ohio State's campus. Such a
(06:18):
big school like that, it is such a youthful electricity
about it.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
And there was some orientation going on.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
I want to say some parents were there with their kids,
just seeing like the kind of wide eyed I don't
want to say curiosity, but it was like, oh man,
this is where I'm going to school.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
How great is this? It was? It was really fun
to witness.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Fair Enough, I'm a Michigan fan, so I can't get
on board.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
But you guys stink. Let's go to lou and Neville Island. Lou,
you're own with Double M. Mark.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
I've got two questions with the.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Hello, Okay, we lost Lou. Let's go to Dave. Dave,
you're on with Double M. Hey, Hey, now that the
head up you are.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Are you aware that that Cleveland game has been postponed
due to the Canadian fires? Your thoughts on that.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Game? Yes, sir, oh I didn't see that. When did
that move?
Speaker 3 (07:12):
I believe it moved about twenty minutes ago. They're going
to be having a doubleheader Saturday one ten and seven
to ten tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Well, how do they know the smoke's going to be
any better tomorrow?
Speaker 3 (07:23):
I guess they don't. They might be kicking the preliminary
can down the road.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
But okay, it just came out. It just moved on
my Twitter. Game postponed. That sucks, yeah, I but the Pirates,
I mean they navigated a doubleheader against Milwaukee. Maybe they'll
have a good feeling about it. I yea, that's still disappointing, though,
then again, I'll be a Motley Crue.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
I was surprised that Motley Crue has a.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Postponed didn't postpone? Yeah, I agree hopefully you Then.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Again, all you do, you know, I mean, I don't
know what their level of concern is for the fans.
All you do if you're Motley's put a bunch of
fans at the front of the stage, you know, not
not fans as in spectators, like literal fans blowing the
smoke away.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Right, I hope they're not blowing the smoke towards you.
Who's your all star player for the Pirates this season?
The best player top tier, who hasn't missed all year?
Speaker 1 (08:18):
In other words, who's the most valuable Pirate to date? Yes, sir,
that's a good question, you know. I would say Brian
Reynolds because he's been incredibly consistent after the first six weeks.
But those games they lost when he sucked, they're still
in the lost column right now. I don't know, you know,
(08:38):
always seems to be coming up big as Brandon Law.
What would you what would you think of I said Brandon.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Law I would agree one hundred percent for the price
we have on my I would I would certainly agree.
He's a bat that keeps coming through an RBI situation. Singles, doubles,
just getting on base has been amazing for him all season.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Long's that said, the offensive explosion has been a group
of I mean, they didn't have a single bat at
the All Star Game, yet they lead Major League Baseball
and runs. And I gotta be blunt, I'm not sure
any of the bats as individuals deserve to be at
the All Star Game.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Maybe Lyle.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
But the whole is greater than the sum of the parts,
and that's how you win. That's how you make the
playoffs when the whole is greater than the sum of
the parts. Thank you for the call. That was a
good call. And we get so few good calls. You
can get more calls in if you want. Eight three
three four one two w xdx eight three three four
one two w xdx.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
It's the Mark Madden showing one oh five nine double.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
I'm on the X gonna talk Boco Baseball with Tim
Benz and just a few.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Uh one thing.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
I'm gonna talk about a lot on Monday after the
World Cup final. If Messi wins, I think he's the
greatest of all time in soccer. Like with most sports,
I think there's a group of people clustered into the
goat conversation. In the case of the real football, it's Messi, Maddonna,
(10:02):
Pele and Chris Johanna Ronaldo. But I think of Messi
can win a second straight World Cup at thirty nine,
and he's the goats. I think his tangibles are overwhelming,
and it's big to declare somebody to goat because in
football there's no goats. There isn't Is it Jim Bron
or is it Tom Brady? There's a debate. In baseball,
(10:27):
there's no goat. You say, Showy Otani, Right, Yeah, his
stats won't come close to Babe Bruce and Babe Ruth
pitched two In hockey, I've always said the three man
race from you, Gretzky and or whoever you pick.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
You're not wrong.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
The one sport where I think there's a nailed on
great is basketball. Michael Jordan. I think he's number one period.
I don't think James can catch him. In fact, I
think Lebron has hurt his cause by sticking around.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
And just looking stupid.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Still a good player, just look and stupid with all
the team switching that the journeyman act. He's gonna do
it again now. And in golf you can argue Nicholas
or Tiger. Nicholas with more majors, Tiger with more tournament
wins overall. But if Messi wins a second straight World
Cup at thirty nine, then he's the goats. I haven't
(11:23):
talked much Steelers because I don't want to, although we're
gonna get the serious Steeler talk soon with camp starting.
I'm gonna be at Dino's and Sharky's. I don't have
the dates in front of me, but I'll do my
show from there. I love Latrobe, love wes Mooreland County,
and I can't wait for the exhibition games. Gonna see
(11:43):
Will Howard play finally, Gonna see Drew Waller play fin well,
not finally, but.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
He's gonna play. It's the most typed.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Those three exhibitions will be the most typed preseason games
in Steelers history. Now, if you want just just way, maass, dumbass, Josh,
I've asked dealer talk.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Well, let's take this call first let's go to Rye
and Ryan. You're on with double M. I was double
M goodnight.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Hey.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
I was just calling about some soccer questions.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
I was wondering how you thought Ariola was going to
do his first time managing Liverpool this season.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
I haven't seen his his team play one match yet.
I'll be going to the second friendly of their US
tour in Nashville.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
I think that's next weekend. It is next weekend.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
I'll be seeing my buddy Mark boulgerd On there too,
who lives in Nashville.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Who knows. Maybe I'll run into Greta van Fleet they
live there now.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
But I want to see Ariola's team play. I want
I've not seen them even train. But he says he's
going to bring back football that the fans will like,
which on a slot after he won the league, he
just slowed everything down and became way too conservative. So
I'm anxious to see what Ariola does, and I have
a lot of confidence in him. I have a lot
(12:57):
of confidence in this squad of players, especially once guys
like eat Sec get healthy. The palindrome is going to
be out for a while after that. Achilles, but uh,
but no, I still, as I always do, have absolute
faith in Liverpool Football Club.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Thank you for the call. You want to get more.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
And by the way I just mentioned, I think Jordan
is absolutely the goat in basketball to my mind, Lebron
had even second. I think Will Chamberlain or Bill Russell
or even Kobe's probably second.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
I don't think it's Lebron.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Uh turning out to just lame Steeler talk. ESPN dot
com had an article, this is a dumb article, but
you got to do NFL. I don't, but but ESPN
certainly especially feels you do. All their TV shows are
NFL year round. That's the majority of the talk is
NFL year round, and that's why I don't often watch
(13:55):
ESPN anymore. But ESPN had this article that listed every
player on every team that could be traded for a
first ground pick, and there were six players on the Steelers.
It's an interesting list. Benton, Fatanu, Fraser, Harmon, Herbig and Porter. Okay,
(14:16):
but the Steelers aren't going to trade any of those guys.
Although I would trade Benton for a first round pick,
I trade Herbig too, but you wouldn't Herbig for first
round pick. Then again, if you seeing him as the
successor to Watt and or high Smith.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Yeah, maybe I wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Anyway, the trickle down there he's talking about is that TJ.
Watt would not fetch a first rounder. Well, of course
he wouldn't. He's old washed. You don't think the league,
the fans, everybody not in Pittsburgh knows that TJ.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Watt is old and washed.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Now, maybe playing under under the new DC, maybe he'll
adjust his game and find an Indian Summer of a season,
but I doubt it. I dot he'll a Justice game enough,
and I think he's out of gas. I will say
on a Super Bowl contender, what might function as a
(15:15):
secondary edge threat, But that don't get your first round
pick unless it's at the deadline. And maybe if that team,
if their primary edge threat gets hurt, maybe then you
get a first rounder.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
And if what's healthy and having a very good season.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
But the Steelers aren't gonna trade, Watch just won't trade
a period because of one helmet, et cetera. Stories like
that at ESPN, it's a total straw man. The good
news is that got me to commercial break and we've
got Tim Benz talking pirates. Next, we got to talk
Buccos here on one oh five to nine the X.
It's Madden on the X.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
It's time for the last word.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Bucco's resumed play tonight at Cleveland, and the Bucco Revenge
Tour has already resumed.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
You know what I mean, the Bucco Revenge Tour. I
talk about it often.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Every time the Pirates win a couple games, the hardcore
Pirates fans lamb based any critics, a lot of name calling,
especially with me. They predict great things and they just
go all adrenaline. But when the Pirates stumble, inevitably again,
the revenge Tour receds like Homer Simpson into.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
That Hedge radio silence.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
And then later, inevitably again, the Pirates win a few
and the Revenge Tour unloads the trucks again. Problem is,
it never adds up with the Pirates. It never adds up.
So now you've got twelve big games against four very
good teams coming out of the All Star Break Cleveland,
(16:50):
the New York Yankees, the Cubs in Arizona, Yo Buckos,
make your move no more of this up and down.
And if the Pirates fail, if they go like five
and seven over those twelve games. Then I'm begging you
shut down the revenge tour for good because it ain't happening.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
JJ Watt through a.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Hissy fit because he attended an MLS game in Utah
Real salt Lake hosting Burnley of the English League. JJ
Watt is a part owner of Burnley, and the team
welcomed walked to the game in a tweet referred to
Watt and his family and what went not so because
(17:38):
his wife wasn't identified and she played soccer briefly for
the US women's national team and blah blah blah, look
at me. I'd mentioned her name now, but I forget
what it is. So what through a hissy fit, and
Real salt Lake bent over back backwards to apologize. Dude,
(18:03):
nobody cares that your wife played soccer. She's not relevant
in this case. You're the guy who part owns Burnley.
The Watts always want extra respect and extra validation, and
that's because they never win. It's a family of meatheads.
(18:24):
So we got Motley Crue at Starlake Tonight Tesla an
extreme opening, and I'd like to tell my Motley Crue
story from backstage at the Civic Arena in nineteen eighty four.
I've told her before, but those were different times in
radio land Wasted with my friend the late Pete Way
(18:46):
on base, Motley Crue, Ozzy Osbourne headlining. Yeah, I'd like
to tell that story, but probably shouldn't. But there was
group sex, sadly not involving me. The group sex also
featured amateur photography. There was a lot of alcohol, drugs
(19:09):
procured by me for Motley Cruz, specifically cocaine from a
security guard I knew. I got to watch Ozzy from
the photographer's pit. I got to meet Ozzy. He was
wearing a dress. I had a great hang with Pete
and Nikki six and a great hang with Tommy Lee
and Finn from Wasteed the singer, a lot of alcohol,
(19:32):
and I think I wrote a review for the Post
Gazette at the end of all of it. So I
love Motley Crue and shout at the devil. See it, Starlak,
don't forget. You can watch the World Cup Final with
me at Pittsburgh Brewing Company and Creighton just out rough
twenty eight. That's three pm Sunday, Argentina versus Spain one
(19:56):
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