Steve Hartman & Monse Bolanos Recap Final Week Of NFL Preseason, React To Week 0 Of College Football, and Much More!

Steve Hartman and Monse Bolanos recap the final week of NFL Preseason with what is happening with Brandon Aiyuk, and the final duel between Russell Wilson and Justin Fields. Steve and Monse also react to week 0 of College Football with Georgia Tech upsetting Florida State to start us off. Plus, Steve and Monse chat with NFL Insider Adam Caplan, look into more interesting NFL storylines, have fun with "Who's Your Daddy", and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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football game that counted. I know we didn't have another
these the preseason. I'll get into that later, but anyway,
final week of the preseason, the NFL these throwaway games,
we actually had college Football's Week zero, limited fanfare, but
we did have a game between tenth rank Florida State

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and Georgia Texas. Game was in Dublin, Ireland, which I skin,
I don't understand. They started using the Dublin as a
place for a Notre Dame game sometimes against Boston College.
That makes sense, Notre Dame Boston College, Dublin, Ireland makes
a little sense. No sense of Florida State in Georgia Tech.
But this was a game and we were talking about

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it before we got on the air.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
We both watched this game, I was riveted. I was very.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
Anxious to see about dj Ouyung la La, who I
have been following since his high school days, and he
came out the same year as Bryce Young. They were
the two celebrated LA based high school quarterbacks that were
not going to stay home. Bryce was going to Alabama

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and DJ was going to go to Clemson, who were
the two big powers in college football. And there was
DJ his first year, having to fill in for Trevor
Lawrence for a couple of games through for like almost
five hundred yards against Notre Dame, led a big comeback.
You're like he's on his way, and then the next
year the tables turned. Bryce wins the Heisman and DJ

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throws more interceptions than touchdowns for Clemson. Eventually ends up
at Oregon State for a year and then they pulled
the plug on the PAC twelve and now is at
Florida State. And I think a lot of people thought
the reason that Florida State had a top ten ranking
is all right, they got Uyonga la Lay, fifth year
quarterback a lot of experience, played pretty well for Oregon

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State a year ago, and I just saw a guy
that seems to be suck in the mud. He didn't
do much of anything today and Florida State, as a
lot of people were saying, coming at that devastating bowl
loss sixty three to three, when of course they had
lost their starting quarterback, that.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
This team seems a little overrated.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
They were certainly no better than Georgia Tech, and they
end up losing this game on.

Speaker 4 (02:43):
A field though you know, college football, college basketball, it's
my it's the area where I have the least fandom.
I don't have any dog in any fight when it
comes to any of these teams. So I truly just
watch to watch football. Now, DJ, You're right, there were
a couple of four down plays that he executed, but
he didn't stand out in the game.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
But this game gave.

Speaker 5 (03:05):
Me everything I would want to kick off football.

Speaker 4 (03:09):
You had both teams scoring early on great, You had
a close game at halftime wonderful, and then you had
the fourth quarter where they were tied.

Speaker 5 (03:17):
But then Georgia Tech takes the lead.

Speaker 4 (03:19):
And it was Georgia Tech's defense that I thought stood
out the most. They made it hard for Florida to
get down like they ended up scoring and tying the game,
but they made it hard for them, and they took
up like the entire half of that fourth quarter just
to score.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
They had to.

Speaker 4 (03:34):
They had three fourth downs in a row that they
had to get through because the defense from the yellowjackets.

Speaker 5 (03:39):
It was an entertaining game.

Speaker 4 (03:40):
For me because I just didn't care from beginning to end.
And then I right when Georgia Tech took over the ball,
I was like, they are going to drain the clock.
That's what do They're gonna drain the clock? And I
told you my least vandom here. So I saw that
their kicker isn't like maybe the greatest kicker, Like, he
hadn't done anything like that in the fourth quarter. So
I was like a little bit nerd.

Speaker 5 (04:00):
And when he kicked, I was like, oh.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
It was cleared. I just was just hang it on,
hanging on that hooks a little bit. You know, he
ain't gonna make it.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
It just stayed straight, just inside that upright inside.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
So for me on football season, oh, I'm so excited.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
I'm so excited about a whole new look for college
football this year. Although I have to say this, so
I'm looking at you know, any of the websites and
they'll have the conference standings and I'm looking at the
Big Ten.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
There are eighteen schools.

Speaker 3 (04:34):
I mean, it's like this long of a list, and
I see my UCLA, you know, somewhere in the middle
of this.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
I'm like, wow.

Speaker 3 (04:41):
Yeah, they don't even have it broken down by divisions.
I mean, it's just one mass of schools. And they
still list the PAC twelve. And there's two schools, Oregon
State and Washington State, and they're still listed as the
PAC twelve. So you have the Big ten with eighteen
school the Big twelve I think has sixteenth Street. I think, yes, yeah,

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and they're still called the Big twelve. Yeah, and then
the PAC twelve has two correct. Okay, So I don't
know why we.

Speaker 5 (05:14):
Can't pack should be Pack one two.

Speaker 3 (05:16):
Well, here's the thing. When the Pack eight happened. This
is in the late sixties long story shirt. The old
Pacific Coast Conference had dissolved. They rebuilt it into eight schools,
which was the two Washington schools, two Oregon schools, Stanford
call UCLA USC and so it was the Pack eight
when I started college, and then the Arizona schools were

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brought in and they renamed it the PAC ten. And
then when they brought in Utah and Colorado. They renamed
it the PAC twelve, which makes sense, right, right, We
got from Pack eight to PAC ten, Pac twelve. Why
are you still calling it the pack? Is there anything
wrong calling it the Pack two?

Speaker 5 (05:56):
They just want to keep us confused.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
They just want to keep confusing and no confusion. Just
give me.

Speaker 3 (06:03):
I want to know how many schools are in each
one of these conferences. If you want to use a number,
I look, ACC doesn't use the number, at SEC doesn't
use the number. But for the Big twelve, the Big ten,
and the PAC twelve, they're not even close to those numbers.

Speaker 4 (06:18):
No, But at this point, I assume it's more just
like you don't want to lose that name.

Speaker 5 (06:23):
Why that's the only thing that would make sense. But
you're right, you're right. The fact that we're here wondering.

Speaker 4 (06:28):
How many are there?

Speaker 2 (06:28):
Sixteen?

Speaker 6 (06:29):
Right? No?

Speaker 2 (06:29):
This was eighteen?

Speaker 5 (06:30):
Yeah, No, it's let's make it easy for everybody.

Speaker 3 (06:33):
One of the things I was interested in today was
a further explanation of the college football playoff. So you
go from four schools to twelve. This is a good thing.
It's a legitimate playoff now. But when they announced this,
we still had five power conferences. Now we only have four.
So the way this is going to work, and this

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is going to be interesting. So you're going to have
the five highest rank conference champions the top and then
seven at large teams. So the way the seeding works
is the top four rank and you have to win
your conference championship. You have to be conference champions, and

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the four highest ranked conference champions will be the top
four seeds and they get a first round by what's
interesting to me is the fifth seed, which we'll have
to play a first round game against the twelve seed,
will be the fifth highest rank conference champion, and unless
Washington State or Oregon State has an undefeated season that

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is not likely. It's going to be one of the
group of five conferences that gets the five seed. And
then from that point on, obviously the at large teams
will be seated by rank. So already, for see, there's
going to be controversy about this. There's always controversy, least

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the idea that there could be a team outside of
the top twelve that you say, wow, they were robbed
of a chance of winning the national championship.

Speaker 5 (08:09):
You won't hear that you should not you should not
hear that.

Speaker 3 (08:12):
You know, there's gonna be probably complaints because I can
already foresee a few first round matchups are going to
be pretty one sided, and they're going to say there's
too many teams. Rich Ormberger insists it should be a
sixty four school tournament, just like basketball.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
Okay, Rich, that's rich, that's rich Ormbergs. Just play on this.

Speaker 4 (08:30):
I mean, that's better than how I heard it started,
where you would have put the teams in a computer
and a computer would decide who goes to the championship.

Speaker 5 (08:38):
I heard that that's how it used to be.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
That's crazy. Well what's going to be crazy?

Speaker 7 (08:42):
Though?

Speaker 2 (08:42):
They still have a conference championship game. So add up
the numbers.

Speaker 3 (08:47):
If you are in the conference championship game, you're gonna play,
if you get to the championship game at least sixteen
or if you're not a top four seed, seventeen games.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
Seventeen games, that's a lot the NFL season. That's the
same as an NFL season. A getting ready.

Speaker 3 (09:05):
Yeah, So it's going to be an exciting year for
college football, no question about that. But Florida's state overrated.
It's hard again. The thing about today's game was and this.
You know, we talk about the NFL and the preseason
and why we still have a preseason. Look, we didn't
have a preseason in twenty twenty because of COVID. We
got right to Week one and it was a little

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bit shaky, but you know, within a couple of weeks,
everybody got up to speed. That's that's what we do
to college, that's what we do in high school or
no preseason games. Yeah, so I eventually, hopefully we don't
have to, you know, pretend to put any significance on
any preseason game in the NFL.

Speaker 4 (09:46):
You know, last week I argued with you about this
because I do think there should be a preseason, But man,
it's getting hard to stand by that. It's getting harder
and harder to stand by that because what is the
point this week? In particular, it really does feel like
what is the point of this week?

Speaker 3 (10:06):
Well, I know this, if you were a Cowboys fan.
Right now, we got the Chargers and the Cowboys playing.
All right, we got about seven minutes to go in
the third quarter, Chargers of leading this game. Charger fans,
I think have seen enough of East and Stick this preseason.
By the way, in this game, He's eight for twenty two.
That's been pretty much on par for him. He has
one seventy yard play. Well actually that was a run

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for seventy yards by Darius Davis, but he had a
seventy eight yard touchdown to a receiver that I've never
heard of. And then if you're a Cowboys fan, you're like,
how much more Trey Lance can I take? So basically,
these two teams really personify what the preseason's all about.
If you're a Chargers fan, you've gotten a steady stream

(10:51):
of East and stick because Justin Herbert isn't ready to
play yet. And if you're a Cowboys fan, no, they're
not going to be throwing out Dak Prescott in a
preseason games. So a lot of Trey Lance showing that
Trey Lance was a terrible draft pick by the forty nine.

Speaker 2 (11:07):
Ers third overall a couple years ago. So that's what
you got. That's what you got.

Speaker 4 (11:11):
And so again it's getting harder and harder to stand
by my preseason is needed.

Speaker 2 (11:16):
Maybe I changed my mind fully.

Speaker 3 (11:17):
Next year, well I know this, at least at least
we have games to watch next week.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
Got nothing? Yeah, I know, yeah, we have this crazy bye.

Speaker 3 (11:26):
Week now, but we will have a full week of
college football, all right, So we got a lot of
things going on today, and of course the man on
the other side's going to give us even the latest
on the NFL because there's still a lot of questions
that have yet to be answered as we get ready
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Steve Harvin, Monciblanos. Here a Fox Sports Saturday. We're live
from the Tairaq dot com studios. All right, as we
count down these final preseason games, and by the way,
the Cowboys got in the end zone, big y on there.
What's still to be done? What have we learned from
the preseason? If anything? Has to get ready for the

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real games, which started in a couple of weeks. So
the man that's been following every single second of every
single preseason game is joining us right now. He is
our Fox Sports Radio NFL insider, Adam Kaplan. I know
that you haven't done that. I just want to make
it sound like you are.

Speaker 2 (13:50):
I know you're paying attention.

Speaker 3 (13:51):
Well, I mean, you know, you're looking for storylines emerging
from the preseason. There's certain players that maybe we'd like
to have seen a little more of. You get a
sense of what we're going to seize or coming up
for the start of the regular season. But what has
been your takeaway from this preseason? What sort of stood
out for you?

Speaker 7 (14:10):
Adam? It's actually on what you were talking about.

Speaker 9 (14:12):
So, you know, for obviously, for several decades you had
four preseason games. Then three years ago we moved to three.
And we've seen the last two years that the third
preseason game is no longer the old way where it's
a dress rehearsal game the starters will play a half
or into the third quarter. In fact, now some teams

(14:32):
don't play their starters at all. Some feel like Mike Tomlin,
that he plays his starters in the preseason anyway, and
some just you know, what we'll get them out for
a quarter, maybe a series or two.

Speaker 7 (14:44):
So it's just different.

Speaker 9 (14:45):
There's no I know for people a wager, it's like
you're trying to get an advantage.

Speaker 7 (14:50):
Every team is different.

Speaker 9 (14:50):
Nick Seriana, the Eagles head coach, sit after today's game
against the Vikings. That and he wound up not playing
the offensive start of the preseason. The defensive starters, a
lot of them played the first two games. He felt
that if practices were not good, he would have played
the starters today. And I think that's kind of where
the a lot of these head coaches.

Speaker 4 (15:08):
Are adam with tomorrow's last set of preseason games here.
Do you think that there is a true quarterback competition
in New England?

Speaker 9 (15:18):
Well, if you would have asked me two weeks ago,
I would have said, no way, it's not close. But
Drake may really against the Eagles. Don't let the numbers
fool you. He played very well two weeks ago. And
they will play tomorrow. They're the last game of this
third week. They will play at the Commanders tomorrow night,
and it Brissette's going to start, and again he's most

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likely going to start the season as a number one guy.
But Gerd Mayo, their head coach, left it open. He
did say a week ago, listen, May's coming on here.
Look if he plays lights out, plays even better in practice,
then you know we're not going to roll it out.
But yeah, I think high percentage that it's going to
be present. But I would also bet that A they're

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going to be a bad team and B because of
the pick that they spent third pick overall, he's going
to play majority of the snaps this season anyway.

Speaker 3 (16:09):
All right, so we know at this point that we
are going to have three of these six first round
quarterbacks starting from day one, Caleb Williams, Jayden Daniels and
the guy I predicted how long ago was this, bow Knicks.
I said, bow Knicks will lead the Denver Broncos into
a wild card spot. I don't think the Chargers are
going to be any good this year. The Raiders aren't
going to be any good this year. Denver could sneak

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in nine to eight, ten and seven and maybe get
into a wild guard position. And I think bow Knicks,
with his incredible experience, played more Division one football games,
started more Division One games than any quarterback in history,
at least in the short term is going to work
in his favor working with a coach like Sean Payton.
I'm looking for bow Knicks to play outplay this season,

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both Caleb Williams and Jayden Daniels.

Speaker 2 (16:59):
What do you think about prediction?

Speaker 7 (17:00):
All right, A couple of things here. You are right
with snaps.

Speaker 9 (17:03):
So in terms of playing college football and starts and snaps,
the more you play, the better off you're going to be,
the better chance you have to succeed.

Speaker 3 (17:12):
So like rock Birdy of with all those four years
of experience at Ioway, Yeah, look.

Speaker 9 (17:16):
Look, but now, of course there was a big reason
why he dropped to the last pick overall two years ago,
but it certainly helped him.

Speaker 6 (17:23):
Know.

Speaker 7 (17:23):
It's a fair point. In fact, I'm going to take
a one step further.

Speaker 9 (17:26):
So back at when I was working at ESPN, I
was on a show called NFL and Siders, and you know,
we were putting our information out and I said that
Mitch Trubisky, based on the information I had, would be
a top ten pick. Bill Polly in the Hall of
Fame general manager, said I was Look, he didn't get
mad at me. He thought it was preposterous. He goes
with those limited starts. It's ridiculous because the history going

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back to the sixties, and he didn't know the number offhand,
but a very low percentage of starters who are drafted
to be starters, but only who are first round picks
at quarterback but start less than two years, less than
twenty percent. Yeah, become quality starts to the next level.
So that's on your point. I know bo Knicks did

(18:09):
not play well at Auburn. Let's let's not sugarcoat. He
did not play well at all. He played much better
at Oregon. Now I know of some teams Steve that
had second rounds great I didn't like. I know one
team in a third round grade I didn't like him,
But there are plenty of teams that did. And I
know Champayne came out and said this, and it's actually true.
I know behind the scenes he actually told the personal
people is he saw some similarities to Drew Brees.

Speaker 7 (18:33):
So this is his Drew Brees.

Speaker 9 (18:35):
Now understand that when you look at Sean Payton's career,
there's not a big resume of developing on quarterbacks. He's
worked mostly with veterans, so this is a this is
a good challenge for him and look it, this is
his guy. Like you remember now he came in that
he inherited Russell Wilson. He wasn't there when they brought
Russell Wilson in, so now he's got his own guy.

Speaker 7 (18:57):
So I'll mentioned to see how that's going to work out.

Speaker 5 (18:58):
Perfect transition, Adam Russell Wilson. The Steelers.

Speaker 4 (19:03):
Apparently Mike Tomlin is not ready to make a decision
on who his starting quarterback is going to be, which
is less than two weeks away. Here we are, season
is here. What do you do if you're Mike Tomlin.

Speaker 9 (19:13):
High percentage that it's going to be Russell Wilson. I'm
not saying it's a lock, definitely not, But when you
look at it, Wilson started today, then Fields came in.
Now they'll go over today's tape. I mean, it's just
kind of comical because you know, Wilson plays I think
one or two series and he's out, and then he
completed both passes and they actually block a little better.

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Not to say that Russell's been great, but their past
projection has been atrocious the first two games, and obviously
they're feel a little bit better today and they got
to get Fatano their first round pick. The right tackle
back Brodert Jones didn't play well the second game, and
it's with the Steelers the previous week for two days.
They feel when everyone's back, their offensive line is going

(19:55):
to be very good. They feel like the last two
years where they have five new starters, they think the
going to be good. What I do worry about, though,
is the receiver position. Obviosa George Pickens. I'm told with
Roman Wilson it's actually a high ankle sprain and it
was not just a no more ackles frain. I'm not
being available week one. They got to see what happens
when they gets in practice. But they're just not real

(20:16):
deep at that receiver position. I know they're gonna be
a run team first, but the receiver position for them
is not very deep.

Speaker 2 (20:22):
We're talking with the great Adam Kaplan.

Speaker 3 (20:24):
Here are Fox Sports Radio NFL insider Adam, Trent Williams,
Brandon Ayuk. John Lynch said that he's fielding an urgency
to get both these guys back in to say the least.

Speaker 2 (20:36):
I mean. Trent Williams is a future Hall of Famer.

Speaker 3 (20:39):
He's played his best football late in his career as
a forty nine er and Brandon and Ayuk obviously showed
a year ago. He's a favorite target at brock Purty
give us the ultimate play. But these two guys, yeah,
will they be forty nine ers this year? Will they
be in the lineup Week one?

Speaker 2 (20:56):
What is their status?

Speaker 9 (20:57):
Trent Williams, let's start with him, Number seventy one is
on the did not report less because he's holding out
for a contract adjustment, which he's going to get. He
will be with the team this season, There's no question
about that. They don't have anyone who's ready to replace him.
They're kind of like Jalen Moore, who was a fifth
round a couple of years ago. But they don't have
that guy. So, yeah, look, they knew this was coming.
It's not a secret to them. They have to get

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that done now, Brandon Ayuk, they're still a high percentage
they get done. Boy, they made a lot of progress
over the last two weeks. They're not there yet. I
know some people are pushing the Washington narrative. I would
say this though, if they didn't about face and said,
you know what, we've had enough, we're gonna we're going
to look to trade him. It won't just be Washington,
There'll be other teams involved. But also understand that Ayik

(21:40):
eliminated the Browns, the Patriots. The Patriots who kind of
called like every NFL team during the leading up to
the draft. During free agency, they wanted a veteran badly.
They were in the Calvin Ridley sweepstakes. They thought they
had a good chance to get him. Me I want
to stay down South, but there would be other teams
I think Colin who are hurting it receiver, but they
really want him back. And by the way, Ricky Piersoll,

(22:01):
you have the Hamster injury, which I'm told he's over now.
It's got he's got a shoulder issue.

Speaker 7 (22:06):
It's a first round pick.

Speaker 9 (22:08):
You know, they're making sure that they get the sunder
control and they think it's going to be by week one.
But that's another problem complicating again. And let's not forget, guys,
the big reason why they didn't want to trade Ayuk,
but they felt, you know, obviously it was a problem
for a while trying to get back to the super Bowl.
They don't really they're not in good shape with that Ayuk.
I mean this is not a secret.

Speaker 7 (22:27):
They know this. They have depth but Ika is an
absolute stud talent.

Speaker 9 (22:31):
He's a true number one on a different team.

Speaker 7 (22:35):
He's not for the Niners.

Speaker 9 (22:36):
He's a one A and that's that's why some people
think they should trade him, but they don't really want
to do that.

Speaker 4 (22:40):
I can tell you that the Jets decided to trade
for Hassan Reddick and they've been watching him just hold
out all summer demand to trade. I feel like somebody
should be at faultier, like, how are we in this position?

Speaker 5 (22:55):
How did they not know that this is what he wanted?
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 9 (22:58):
Yeah, I was with them on Wednesday when they were
us in the Giants for joining practice. Here's what I'm told.
First of all, so At and this is this is
what always happens at the time of a trade. You well,
you should make a contention and getting extension done. So
they could not agree to an extension, they say, I'm
talking to a team source. They were told by Hassan
that it's okay, I'm going to report to training camp

(23:21):
and I'll get my freegent deal next year because they're
gonna ball out. That's I'm paraphrasing here. Whatever, it's kind
of what he said. So on your point. Yeah, they
expected and report they took his word for it. Now
you could blame the Jets. That's fair game. Look, he's
not there. Here's the problem. I don't believe they're going
to give a new deal. He wanned it for reports.
Now is there? Will they adjust this contract? Remember that

(23:44):
the fines are well over a million bucks. They cannot
be rescinded in the new CBA, so it's punitive. It's
it's a problem for him. He's on the last year
vers deal. Now, the Eagles knew they were not going
to extend his contract. It's just crazy. They signed Brace
Souf w Rex supposed to replace for the Jets. They
signed Huff to seventeen million year and by the way,
Reddick this deal here, he missed out on his workout

(24:08):
bonus of two hundred fifty thousand, but he's scheduled to
make fourteen point twenty five million, so he's going to
make Now he's going to make under he's going to
make probably close to twelve million. With all the fines
and everything else. They really can't make it up by
repaying them. They can't pay the fines. Now, obviously they
could adjust this contract. Put some incentives in. It's some upside,

(24:30):
but it's a shame. And look, I could tell you
they really feel good about their roster. This is the
best roster they probably put together in years. They finally
addressed their offensive line the correct way. They also finally
got it right with a backup quarterback. Remember they declined
it wasn't it wasn't Joe Flacco's decision. He wanted to
be back with them last year. They didn't resign him.
That was a major mistake. Then they did bring in

(24:52):
Tyrod Taylor, who they feel very good about being their backup.
You know how bad it was with Tim Boyle, Trevor Simeon,
Zach will who's an absolute disaswer in a nightmare. They're
better there. They like to back up running back Brylan Allen.
They love. Their defense is terrific. They're my odds on favorite.
I they're beating out the Bills. If Rogers plays at
least fourteen games, they're winning the AFC East.

Speaker 3 (25:15):
All Right, I have one final question. I have to
get this in, all right. I mean, this is the
first time in almost a quarter century the Bill Belichick
is not in charge of the New England Patriots.

Speaker 7 (25:26):
It is weird.

Speaker 3 (25:27):
So who has the final say right now for that
Patriots organization.

Speaker 7 (25:35):
Elliott Wolf.

Speaker 9 (25:36):
As far as I'm far as talking to agents and
other teams, everything is gone through Elliott. Now, what I
do believe is, and this goes on a lot when
they share control, the game day decisions should go to
Girod Mayo. And by the way, you should know this.
I don't know if you were aware of this. He
was the head coach of waiting. He he declined in

(25:59):
the twenty three season two intervyw with other teams because
he knew he was in his contract that he would
just wait till Bill either retired or was not retained.

Speaker 7 (26:08):
And so Mayo.

Speaker 9 (26:09):
Now, obviously he's getting paid pretty well, but he I'm
almost certain that he's got the game day decisions. But
Elliot Wolf does everything else, draft for agency and the
final fifty three. Now again, game day is important. Game
days is very important. You just decide who's going to
be playing on every Sunday, all right, So.

Speaker 2 (26:27):
We'll see how it goes through Mayor. They got a
long way to go, though I know I don't see
them be.

Speaker 3 (26:31):
Very Yeah, they they're gonna have a rough season. Indeed,
all right there we go, another session, an extended session
with the man himself, Adam Kaplan.

Speaker 2 (26:40):
What do you do with your week off?

Speaker 9 (26:41):
Next week, Adam, playing a lot of well, playing a
lot of tennis.

Speaker 7 (26:44):
Got to get ready for them.

Speaker 9 (26:45):
By the way, the fifty three man roster deadline is
four pm Eastern on Tuesday.

Speaker 7 (26:49):
Yes, practice squads the day after.

Speaker 2 (26:51):
So good.

Speaker 9 (26:52):
We've seen some trading this week, by the way, a
lot of trading. We're going to see some leading up
to Tuesday, so that's always interesting. And then take a
little breather of Thursday and Friday, but then we get
back to the grind for.

Speaker 3 (27:01):
Week one, absolutely, and we'll break it down with those
final rosters next week. And great stuff has always Adam,
thanks so much. We'll talk to you next week. Thank you,
Adam Kaplan. Our Fox Sports Radio NFL Insider season can't
come soon enough.

Speaker 2 (27:14):
Let's find out what is trending right now.

Speaker 3 (27:16):
Another man excited about the football season being here, although
he got elated, Yes, when Adam Kaplan made the tennis reference, I.

Speaker 10 (27:26):
Did because there is some tennis news and I want
to mention this first. I don't know if I should
be doing that because we are definitely driven by football
here at Fox Sports.

Speaker 2 (27:35):
Hold on, let me.

Speaker 3 (27:36):
Give it a proper intro, Ladies and gentlemen, the latest
tennis development, the one, the only, the great. Brian Fenley
newly went.

Speaker 2 (27:43):
Oh, thank you so much.

Speaker 10 (27:44):
Yes, and that would be Carlos Alcarez who had a
practice today and it looked as if he turned his ankle. Oh,
that's wonderful. It's so nice to have a studio audience too.

Speaker 2 (27:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (27:54):
How often do we get at Monsy and Steve, how
often do we get a studio audience?

Speaker 5 (27:57):
You're not very often, So it's nice to have it today.

Speaker 10 (28:00):
Sometimes we get like a mariachi ban that shows up. Sure, yeah,
sometimes yeah.

Speaker 2 (28:06):
So we don't have canned clapping.

Speaker 10 (28:08):
Can there is a live audience, a live audience, Yeah,
like that it is, and the audience that is excited
to see Carlos Alkirez is going to be happy to
know that even though he turned his ankle today, he
says he's going to be okay for.

Speaker 2 (28:21):
The main draw of the US Open.

Speaker 10 (28:23):
Yes, and now the crowd can get elated because that's
good news for him. What's also good news is that
we have college football going on week zero, and we
have a few games that are going on now, one
notably that already wrapped up, and what a finish. It
was a twenty four to twenty one win for Georgia
Tech against number ten Florida State where Georgia I.

Speaker 2 (28:44):
Know, right, you know what that sounds like.

Speaker 10 (28:47):
It sounds like I missed like a two foot putt
in front of a gallery around the green lit.

Speaker 4 (28:51):
Yes, it does like it's respectful, Yeah, but it's.

Speaker 2 (28:55):
You know yeah.

Speaker 10 (28:56):
And then that that cackle sounds like Steve when he
Duff's's drive on the first hole.

Speaker 2 (29:02):
Yes. By the way, has everyone seen your video?

Speaker 10 (29:06):
No, So I'm going to post it and I'm going
to say I've been meaning to send it to you, Steve.

Speaker 3 (29:11):
Right in fact, you did I DM lit in your DMS. Yeah,
and I never look at that. So then I realized, oh,
there it is, and I gave you my phone number.

Speaker 2 (29:21):
Hey, you get it. I got your phone over. I
don't know you didn't have my phone number. You play
hard to get Steve? Is that the same phone number?
So it's like the beginning of time this live audience.

Speaker 7 (29:32):
Can we.

Speaker 2 (29:34):
Really I didn't realize you're going to be this loud?
You do play hard? To get well, now you have
my phone life? Who doesn't have my phone number? I
thought everyone had my number, all right.

Speaker 10 (29:47):
I mean I was looking at looking through it and
couldn't find it in the yellow pages, so it's definitely there.

Speaker 2 (29:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (29:53):
Well, when we did our award winning interview back in
the day, I must have called you.

Speaker 2 (29:58):
I guess that's the way it worked out.

Speaker 10 (29:59):
No, I I think we have a conversation because Monty,
as you know, when Steve, he gets here very early
before his show, and usually I substitute as kind of
like a therapist to shrink to you.

Speaker 2 (30:10):
I don't call it substitution. You are my therapist.

Speaker 1 (30:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (30:15):
And by the way, that's the way if you've ever
seen Brian Family conduct an interview, and he's done thousands
of these interviews, you pretty much do that with all
of you. Yes, you get inside their heads. I was
talking about things I haven't talked about with a lot
of people.

Speaker 2 (30:29):
Yeah, like when you showed up to a party naked, right, Well, no,
I jumped in.

Speaker 3 (30:33):
I was at a party, took all my clothes up
and then jumped into a pool in front of everybody.

Speaker 2 (30:37):
How old are you in this oven? I was in
high school. High school. But see'st this was two weeks ago.
That's a difference to me.

Speaker 10 (30:43):
But see, that's why I'm different with an interviewer, or
that's my style, because I will get to that place
where you're talking about you just taking it all off,
bearing it all, and usually you're not going to get
that in an interview. So I'm not sure if that's
a compliment or not for me, But I'm just gonna
keep moving on here. Speaking to college football, we mentioned

(31:05):
in twenty four to twenty one Georgia tack against Florida State.
Also right now on FS one, our sister station, New
Mexico has a thirty one to twenty lead against Montana State.
So that one happening NFL preseason. We can't wait for
all this to wrap up for the regular seaton to
get season to get underway. But Chargers are leading the
Cowboys twenty to sixteen. That's in the fourth quarter. Trey

(31:29):
Lance a bit of an interception of saurus here. He's
got two picks. He did run in a touchdown from
sixty yards. He's been starting for the Cowboys at quarterback,
but not enough here as they're losing. Not that this
game matters or anything earlier. We had a few other
NFL preseason games, notably a win for the Panthers thirty
one to twenty six against the Bills that saw Bryce

(31:51):
Young throw a touchdown, Lions winning twenty four to seventeen
against the Steelers, And after that game, Steelers said coach
Mike Tomlin said that he's gonna name his starting court
back by the end of next week. He's delaying the inevitable.
I think we all know the answer to that question.
Packers thirty, the Ravens seven. Also the Vikings. Jaren Hall
remember that name. He got in as the starting QB

(32:13):
in this one for the Vikings. Two touchdown passes one
hundred and eighty nine yards and the Texans seventeen to
fifteen winners against the Rams, the legend of Tim Boyle
linkers on. He had two touchdown throws for the Texans.
And lastly, Major League Baseball, what are you laughing at?
You mentioned have these quarterbacks.

Speaker 2 (32:34):
That will never see the light of day in the NFL.

Speaker 10 (32:36):
Is amazing, Well, we're gonna see them in the UFL.
So yeah, maybe we know how big you are into
spring football. Rocky's winning against the Yankees nine to two. Also,
the Angels lose to the Blue Jays three to one.
Monsei and Steve. The Blue Jays nearly had a no
hitter into the ninth inning, and again it's the Angel

(32:58):
so there's not much to be said about what they
can put up offensively. But we did have that lost
in the shuffle of all this football frenzy.

Speaker 3 (33:06):
And they didn't they saw the same picture in the
game going for a no hitter or was this a
group no hitter?

Speaker 2 (33:12):
This was yeah, solo, it was a solo. Yeah, it
was a onn solo. Yeah good.

Speaker 9 (33:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (33:18):
Did I mention he's a newly wit?

Speaker 10 (33:20):
I asked him, no, no, And you know what, months
whenever I want to get marriage advice, you know who
I'm looking.

Speaker 7 (33:27):
At, Steve.

Speaker 2 (33:28):
Yeah, a man been divorced for ten years. It's the
perfect person. He has all the answers I've had the
experience before, during and after.

Speaker 3 (33:36):
What did I tell you? There'll be way more good
than that. I promise you that way more good.

Speaker 10 (33:40):
You revealed some things to me that probably will not
be able to make airy too.

Speaker 3 (33:43):
Which is pretty much this story of my life. I
reveal everything to everybody, even if they don't care.

Speaker 2 (33:49):
And I like that.

Speaker 3 (33:51):
Great stuff has always be Fenn. Thank you very much.
Once again, we are live from the Tairact dot com studios.
All right, we got a lot more coming up in
our next hour, but I gotta get ready for the
next segment.

Speaker 2 (34:05):
Yeah, Who's your Daddy? Who's your daddy? Coming up?

Speaker 3 (34:12):
This is Fox Sports Saturday.

Speaker 1 (34:14):
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Speaker 5 (34:26):
It is Fox Sports Saturday.

Speaker 4 (34:28):
I am Monty Belano's here with Steve Hartman, and we
are coming to you live from the tyrac dot com studios.

Speaker 2 (34:34):
I don't I like this beat.

Speaker 4 (34:35):
Mary, it's from Central Seeds.

Speaker 5 (34:40):
I like it.

Speaker 2 (34:40):
I like the beat.

Speaker 7 (34:41):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (34:41):
I knew that instantly.

Speaker 4 (34:43):
You didn't have no you did not ever, but you
are probably gonna know everything in this next segment.

Speaker 5 (34:49):
Let's get to it all right. Here, we are Happy Saturday.

Speaker 4 (34:52):
It's our favorite segment of the week, Who's Your Daddy,
where we all try to stump Steve Hartman and become
his daddy, but he.

Speaker 5 (35:00):
He's really all of our daddy's. Okay, I'm going to
kick things off.

Speaker 4 (35:02):
This is a topical one, just coming off on the
heels of Shoho Tani's walk off, which we're going to
talk about in a little bit. Okay, who has the
most career walk off home runs in baseball?

Speaker 2 (35:13):
Wow?

Speaker 3 (35:14):
That is a great question. I do not know this
off the top of my head.

Speaker 2 (35:19):
Most walk off home runs in Major league history. I
do not know the answer to this.

Speaker 3 (35:25):
I'm only going to have to guess who would have
the most walk off home runs?

Speaker 2 (35:32):
H I'll only ask this question is is it a
former player?

Speaker 5 (35:37):
Former player I played a long time, like twenty issues.

Speaker 3 (35:41):
Well, all right, and somebody that's probably hit a lot
of home runs. Okay, I'm going to say this is
just a random pick. Which one of the all time
home run hitters am I going to pick?

Speaker 2 (35:54):
I am going to pick? Yeah, Mike Schmidt.

Speaker 5 (36:00):
No, I win, You're not gonna get there. I did
not know this.

Speaker 3 (36:07):
Jim Tomay, Jim Tomy, Yeah, well you you could call
him Tomy, but yeah, Jim Tomy.

Speaker 2 (36:16):
Yeah, he had the most walk off home runs.

Speaker 3 (36:18):
I would I mean had all for six hundred home
runs in the Yes, one of the great hall time
home run hitters.

Speaker 2 (36:24):
Thirteen total thirteen walk off home runs.

Speaker 5 (36:27):
Eight of them came an extra anyth I.

Speaker 2 (36:29):
Love that you are my daddy.

Speaker 3 (36:31):
By the way, again, if you're going to be my daddy,
I expect to be treated like the son that I am,
which means that there's got to be some kind of
allowance food allowance.

Speaker 5 (36:41):
All right, let's add to our producer Patrick, what you got?

Speaker 7 (36:44):
All right?

Speaker 6 (36:44):
Well, we may not be in MLB, but hopefully this
one's a walk off for you.

Speaker 2 (36:49):
Steve.

Speaker 6 (36:50):
We're going to the NFL, Steve, I got one for you.
Who has the most? And this is a team? What
team has the most first downs in one game in
NFL history?

Speaker 2 (37:03):
This one? I think I do know. I should know this.

Speaker 3 (37:07):
Oh, oh, most first downs in a game unless this
record was broken.

Speaker 2 (37:15):
Okay, I have I.

Speaker 6 (37:16):
Have the number, and I know the game and team
and everything.

Speaker 2 (37:18):
I got the stats on it.

Speaker 3 (37:22):
Okay, I'm gonna say the answer is the Los Angeles Rams. No,
incorrect the answer? Do you want any more guesses?

Speaker 6 (37:32):
Here?

Speaker 2 (37:32):
No? No, no, I know this all right?

Speaker 6 (37:33):
It is the New Orleans Saints with forty first downs
versus fellow fellow affiliate here a Rickey's Dallas Cowboys. November
tenth twenty thirteen.

Speaker 2 (37:45):
Okay, well that yes, that broke an old record.

Speaker 3 (37:47):
Twenty thirteen Saints had forty first down forty first downs.

Speaker 2 (37:52):
That's a lot. But when you think.

Speaker 3 (37:55):
About it, I mean, this is the height of the
Drew Brees era short passing game. You know, ten yards
at a time, you know down the field. So that
makes a lot of sense. All right, now I have
two daddies today, I.

Speaker 5 (38:06):
Do, but you may have three. Let's go to Brian Vast.

Speaker 10 (38:08):
It'd be a sweepout, which has never happened before. Definitely
gonna be a third here, thank you, mont se. So
Fox Sports Radio was built on sports. Yes, sports aren't
what they are to how we know them today without jockstraps.
So what year was the jockstrap invented? What year was
the jockstrap invented? So when I played high school football

(38:34):
in nineteen seventy four, we didn't I didn't have a jockstrap.
We just put the cup in my underwear. Okay, so
you weren't necessarily riding solo, but you had Okay, yeah,
I had like.

Speaker 3 (38:46):
The cup, and actually the coaches would. Some guys didn't
like to wear the cup. And then the coaches were
like kick guys, yeah, to just test to make sure
you're wearing one. And you can tell when a guy
wasn't wearing one. Obviously, I always wore one for sure.

Speaker 2 (39:04):
Protect the stuff.

Speaker 3 (39:07):
What year the jockstrap, I'm gonna say nineteen thirty nine,
would say it one more time, nineteen thirty nine.

Speaker 10 (39:16):
Close all the way back in eighteen seventy four, see
close CF So here's eighteen seventy four.

Speaker 2 (39:26):
Yeah. C. F.

Speaker 10 (39:27):
Bennett, a bicycle jockey and founder of the Chicago sporting
goods company that's called Sharp and Smith, invented it in
eighteen seventy four to comfort bicycle messengers as they were
working on Boston's Copplestone streets. The original jockstrap was there
similar to I don't know if I can say this,

(39:49):
but anyway between the in between the behind.

Speaker 3 (39:53):
Okay, let me first of all, when you see those
old bicycles that were had the hard rubber tires and
like you say, on the cobblestone, I can't imagine why
anybody would ride that. I mean, but I'm trying to
figure out what would be the comfort be in that jockstrap.

Speaker 10 (40:10):
I don't know, I mean, I know one of our coworkers,
your big Mike. He works a lot on bikes and
has a unicycle, so maybe he'd be somebody who can ask.

Speaker 2 (40:17):
That's what I want to do.

Speaker 3 (40:18):
I want to get an original, or at least a
fact effect simile of the original, and strap it onto
you and put it to the test.

Speaker 2 (40:25):
See if it works. You do like your sports memorabilia.

Speaker 3 (40:28):
Mm hm. I have never been shut out before, and
I goosegg today.

Speaker 2 (40:33):
Yeah, guys, we did it. I got three days.

Speaker 3 (40:35):
Today and I expect a big allowance this week.

Speaker 2 (40:38):
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(41:01):
college football season kicked off today. Florida State ranked tenth
in the country. Losing this is not uncommon. Happens every
single year where a team ranked in the top ten
by season zen will not even be in the top
twenty five seven years.

Speaker 5 (41:20):
That's what's gonna happen to Florida State.

Speaker 3 (41:21):
Well, I would say they're a likely suspect because we
didn't see anything that was too earth shattering against the
Georgia Tech team that most people have picked as a
middle of the pack team in the ACC. So it's
only one game, long season ahead. Speaking of a long
season ahead and how you can be thrown off early
in a season, you remember last year there was a

(41:42):
lot of noise about coach prime Deon Sanders taking over
at Colorado, leaving Jackson State, bringing his son with him,
some of his other players and all kinds of players.
Colorado had won one game the year before. They opened
up against TCU, who had been in the National Championship
Game the year before, and beat him. And the next

(42:03):
thing you know, Colorado's three and ozero and he is
the toast of the town, and he was going off
on any media members that were doubting whether or not
he could turn things around at Colorado, and by years
in he was named the Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year.
They must have missed his last nine games, because after
the three and oh start, they went one in eight.

(42:25):
They finished dead last in the PAC twelve this year
they're moving into the Big twelve, which is going to
be a big challenge for this team and for Deon Sanders.

Speaker 5 (42:37):
Well, obviously just the being the what is it person
of the year, sports.

Speaker 4 (42:41):
Personal sportsman of the year, because they had to decide
by a certain day. So that decision by that time
two week two, you know, well apparently.

Speaker 5 (42:50):
Submitted in after week two. Okay, that's that's not gonna
happened there.

Speaker 3 (42:54):
It's a January first issue. So again, the season was over.

Speaker 2 (42:58):
I guess.

Speaker 3 (42:59):
Look, he was the talk of college football a year ago,
no question about that.

Speaker 2 (43:04):
I'm a big Deon fan.

Speaker 3 (43:05):
As a player, He's the only athlete to have both
a World Series ring and a Super Bowl ring. Dion
Sanders is in the very short list of the greatest
cornerbacks ever to play in the National Football League. So
I've always been a big Don fan. And the problem
for Dion Sanders this goes back to his playing days

(43:28):
when he was with the Atlanta Braves. Tim McCarver, who
was then the lead analyst for baseball, was in the
locker room and he got a bucket of ice dumped
on him by Dion Sanders, who was still upset about
something that Tim McCarver had said.

Speaker 2 (43:47):
It was a very famous video. It's still up there
on YouTube.

Speaker 3 (43:51):
Tim McCarver was not pleased, not pleased at all. So,
but it was sort of got that idea that, hey,
if you're playing with Dion, if you're playing along with Dion.

Speaker 2 (44:04):
He can be wildly entertaining, all is good. But if
you don't play.

Speaker 3 (44:10):
Along with Dion, you will feel his rat And I
guess as we get ready for season two of the
Deon Sanders era with the Colorado Buffaloes, we're already getting
a taste of that.

Speaker 2 (44:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (44:23):
So the Denver Post has said that their columnist Sean Keeler,
who recently had a little bit of a thing with Dion.
They there's a video you can see, but Deon Sanders
right away is like, why do you do this?

Speaker 3 (44:36):
Man?

Speaker 5 (44:37):
You don't like us?

Speaker 4 (44:37):
And the guy's like what, No, He's like, no, you
don't like us, You don't you do this every single time.
So this happened about a week ago, and now it's
come out that Sean Keeler can go to these Colorado
football events, but he cannot ask Deon Sanders any questions.
Apparently this is in deon Sanders' contract that if he

(44:58):
doesn't want to deal with somebody, he doesn't have to.

Speaker 5 (45:01):
This is just a little bit shocking to me.

Speaker 4 (45:03):
You just listed his accolades, You just mentioned how great
he is as an athlete, and I think that's part
of the reason he thinks he can get away with this.

Speaker 5 (45:11):
But it's like you let the outside noise bother you
this much.

Speaker 2 (45:15):
I did not.

Speaker 5 (45:16):
I did not know that.

Speaker 2 (45:17):
I'm gonna give you any example.

Speaker 3 (45:18):
So as you know, I used to work for a
man named Al Davis back in his prime, back in
the eighties. Al Davis, and this is long before there
was any internet. He had every newspaper in the country
sent to the Raider facilities, and there were people whose
job was to look through these sports pages to see

(45:39):
any reference at all about the Raiders. Okay it, and
he would find it again. There's no internet, there's no
shortcuts in those days. This is how insane he was
and paroanoid about any negativity that could be uttered about
the Raiders. But even worse so, we had probably six

(46:00):
or seven writers that were there on the premises every day,
the beat writers for all the papers in southern California,
covering the team, and this was not uncommon where we
would be out of practice and mister Davis would come
over to me and say, remove him from the premises. No, oh,

(46:21):
yeah it was I remember there was a guy named
Eric Nolan. He worked, I believe for the Daily News
at the time, and mister Davis said, get him out
of here. Now, I know this is a complete violation
of you know, like, you can't do that. But at
the same time, I've got my boss telling me remove

(46:44):
him him. Yeah, And so I walked up to him.
These are guys that I worked with on you know,
every single day. They were friends, and I'm like, it's
your day.

Speaker 7 (46:53):
Eric.

Speaker 2 (46:54):
He's like what. I'm like, Yeah, he's telling me to
get rid of me. He goes, you know he can't
do that, I know, but come on, help me out.

Speaker 3 (47:01):
Yeah, Okay, write about it, do something about it, do
whatever you want to do.

Speaker 2 (47:06):
I got to take you out of here. But this
is how some people are.

Speaker 3 (47:09):
They get so paranoid about other people's opinions. I mean,
this happened all of last year where Deon Sanders would say,
you're gonna eat your words and then the team goes
one and eight. The rest of the year they finished
last in the conference. They were getting blown out of
games something, guys sort of rooting. You remember, Oregon really
rolled it up on them, like bo Nicks was just

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you know, throwing the bombs. They're already up, you know,
five touchdowns and bombs away, and uh so, you know.

Speaker 2 (47:38):
He's not going to survive in this business. It doesn't
seem that way business if you're going to be that sensitive,
especially with the locals.

Speaker 4 (47:46):
Yes, it just seems shocking to me that he is
that sensitive because they're saying that he that Keeler Keeler's
past coverage as personal attacks on the football program, that's
what they're citing. And it's just that Healer hasn't been
like sugar coating the situation. You know, like you just said,
they they ended the season what foreign what eight?

Speaker 5 (48:07):
Is that?

Speaker 2 (48:08):
What?

Speaker 10 (48:08):
It was?

Speaker 5 (48:08):
Four and eight?

Speaker 2 (48:09):
So this one an eight in the last nine games.

Speaker 4 (48:12):
Some of the things that this guy has you know,
called or said in his coverage of Colorado. He did
say false prophet. I think he was talking about Deon Sanders.
He did mention Dion kool Aid. He's you know, like
he's just hasn't sugar coated the situation. And to me,
this is also Colorado's saying kind of like what how
your story started? Hey, you better be nice to us,

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you better play nice. If you say accurate things about us,
We're not gonna let you ask questions?

Speaker 2 (48:42):
How? How? Oh? It even got worse?

Speaker 3 (48:46):
At one point they were talking, what was what was
Colorado's biggest problem a year ago? Their offensive line was awful?
Sador Sanders was running for his life. He was sacked
fifty three times. Fifty three times so that he was
running for his life. I mean that's almost five times
a game. And so they were having this line of

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questioning with Dion Local and they said, have you done
anything to bolster the offensive line?

Speaker 2 (49:13):
He's like, bolster?

Speaker 7 (49:15):
What is that?

Speaker 3 (49:17):
What do you mean by bolster? Like we've improved our line?
So he guess he didn't like the name bolster. And
they said, so does this new line have good chemistry?
What do you mean by chemistry? This is what Dan said, chemistry?
What do you mean by so? I mean, if we're
going to play that game. Look, I have been dealing with,

(49:38):
you know, people in interview situations for years and years
and years. There are certain people that I would interview
that if you asked a question they didn't like, we'd
give you the stink eye.

Speaker 2 (49:50):
I'll tell you. One of the most notorious was pat Riley.

Speaker 3 (49:53):
Pat Riley when he was the coach of the Lakers,
he was sort of running ending his Laker run after
all the championships, and I started my on air radio
career after leaving the Raiders, and I asked him a
question that I thought was.

Speaker 2 (50:06):
A legit question, and he didn't.

Speaker 3 (50:12):
He not only did not answer the question, but in
front of everybody did like the stare down at me,
and I'm looking at him like, what the hell are
you looking at?

Speaker 2 (50:25):
I mean seriously, And man.

Speaker 3 (50:27):
I wasn't going to be intimidated by I don't know
what he thought what was going on here. I'm like,
I just work with Al Davis. If you think I'm
going to be intimidated by you, your nuts. But I
don't understand that there's a way if you're uncomfortable with
a question or uncomfortable with situation to just play it
off and move on, because if you're going to pick

(50:49):
on especially the media, they're going to come back at
you yes, and then there's no win in this.

Speaker 5 (50:55):
I was just about to say, how is this a
win win situation.

Speaker 2 (51:00):
It's a lose lose situations.

Speaker 5 (51:02):
For Colorado and for Deon Sanders.

Speaker 2 (51:04):
The politicians know this game, right, Yeah, I mean you can't.

Speaker 3 (51:09):
You can't expose yourself like that. You just gotta You
got to learn how to play it off. If you're
uncomfortable with a question or something, there's there's ways around it.
But I mean, Dion is building digging a hole right now.
Look what did we say at the beginning of last year.
The thought was this, Dion is making it fun. He's

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bringing the fund back to college football, and he's going
to get recruits everywhere jumping to join him at Colorado. Instead,
there's been a mass exodus. So if you're one of
the you know powers to be at that university, you
weren't drawing flies for your games. Now every game is

(51:52):
a sellous you're thrilled out of your mind. But is
this just a flash in the pan?

Speaker 6 (51:58):
Right?

Speaker 3 (51:58):
How is this going to project long term? If you
keep Dion Sanders as your head coach.

Speaker 4 (52:04):
It seems like it's not gonna go well if you
can't handle this outside noise. So early on we just
were just getting started and you're already banning a reporter
who is just personal attacks like it's just honestly, it's
just very surprising to me that this is. This is
how sensitive Dion Sanders is.

Speaker 2 (52:23):
He needs in it right now.

Speaker 3 (52:25):
And this is where the administration has to step in
and saying, look, I mean, they're gonna have to draw
the line. You can't do this because not only does
it reflect on you, it reflects on us as a university.

Speaker 4 (52:39):
And we literally see coaches who do not want to
answer questions do it all the time.

Speaker 5 (52:44):
You can give a one word response, I love those.
Let's crack me up.

Speaker 3 (52:47):
Well Belichick, you know exactly. I mean, he was a
mass bitch.

Speaker 2 (52:50):
They didn't want to answer up in Belichick, same thing, the.

Speaker 5 (52:53):
Same thing, and it's like you could do it, like
you said you could play.

Speaker 2 (52:56):
It becomes a humorous it.

Speaker 4 (52:58):
Does like why are you not I'm handling this a
tiny bit better.

Speaker 5 (53:02):
It's very very shocking to me.

Speaker 2 (53:04):
That's all all right.

Speaker 3 (53:05):
Coming up on the other side, ladies and gentlemen. Every
once in a while, history is made in sports and
something is done that no one ever dreamt could possibly happen,
and it could very well happen.

Speaker 2 (53:20):
In twenty twenty four.

Speaker 3 (53:22):
We'll tell you what it is. We'll tell you who
it is. This is Fox Sports Saturday, Steve Harbin and Montciblanios.
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Speaker 2 (53:45):
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Speaker 3 (53:45):
Just search Fox Sports Radio wherever you get your podcasts,
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Speaker 2 (53:54):
So we have in sports. As you know, I'm like
a stack.

Speaker 5 (54:00):
You don't say yeah, you don't say it.

Speaker 3 (54:04):
Is what drew me my fascination with numbers as a
very very young child, and my first baseball cards bought
by accident when I was in first grade, and set
me on my life's path.

Speaker 5 (54:17):
Wait, let a say it.

Speaker 2 (54:17):
What do you mean by accident? What do you mean?

Speaker 3 (54:19):
So when I was in first grade, we moved to
Woodland Hills, California, and there was a little market, Gary's Market,
where I eventually had worked there when I was in
high school. And so I'm in first grade and my
mom and I are at this Gary's market and we're
in line to pay for whatever she's buying. And you

(54:42):
got the candy all there, and I see this baseball
bubble gum five cents five cents, okay, And I thought, wow, like.

Speaker 2 (54:51):
A big square piece of bubble gum.

Speaker 3 (54:54):
So I asked my mom, I go, Mom, can I
get some baseball bubble gum? It's a nickel, yeah, you know,
back in the day. So she said, okay, So I
buy it. I open it up and there's these five cards.

Speaker 2 (55:06):
No gum. Oh, there's gums.

Speaker 5 (55:08):
There's so guma.

Speaker 3 (55:09):
There's a stick of gum that's like a brick, literally
like you, it snaps because it's so stale. So I
look at these cards. I actually still remember the first
five cards I got.

Speaker 5 (55:21):
Of course you do, and please tell the class.

Speaker 3 (55:23):
Ray Sideki, Dick Stewart, Camilla Pasqual, Don Zimmer, and Pete Rickard.
All right, so those are the first five cards. Obviously
I didn't know anything about any of these players. If
you had asked me at that age, do you know
any baseball players? I probably said I would know Sandy Kofax,
I know Don Drysdale because there were the Dodgers and
I probably say Willie Mason, Mickey Manno, those are the

(55:43):
guys I knew. But when I flipped those cards over
and saw these columns of numbers, that's it.

Speaker 5 (55:50):
That was a moment.

Speaker 2 (55:51):
I was like, Okay, I'm not sure who these guys are,
but I'm in love. So then I bought more cards
and more, and then the rest is history.

Speaker 3 (55:59):
Oh so, the thing about numbers, they follow every sport,
there are records, and sometimes a record is set and
you're just thinking it can't go any further. So in
nineteen eighty eight, Jose Canseco of the Oakland A's became
the first player ever to have forty home runs and

(56:22):
forty stolen bases in the same season. At the time,
it was a miraculous, accomplished accomplishment.

Speaker 2 (56:29):
Canseka was unanimous MVP.

Speaker 3 (56:31):
We weren't worried about steroid use at that time, you know.
So it's happened five other times where a player's gotten
into the forty forty club, But the idea of fifty
to fifty doesn't seem possible. Like you're saying, all right,
forty forty, that's as far as it's going to get.

(56:51):
Because you don't see a lot of guys ever hit
fifty home runs in a year, and if you do,
you're not stealing fifty bases. That does don't go to
They don't go together. No player in the history of
baseball has ever led the league in home runs and
stolen bases.

Speaker 2 (57:08):
Well, that's not true in the modern year.

Speaker 3 (57:09):
In the modern era, in the same season, Willie Mays
led the league in stolen bases four times and home
runs four times, with never the same year. So the
idea of fifty to fifty is seemingly impossible. Well, yesterday,
Shoheio Tani became the seventh member of the forty forty club.

(57:30):
And what makes it even more significant is he did
it in twenty less games than any other player has
ever done it his one hundred and twenty sixth game,
and if you look at his projections for the rest
of the year, he's on pace to become the first
player ever to have fifty home runs and fifty stolen

(57:52):
bases in the same season.

Speaker 5 (57:54):
Yeah, no, it's pretty incredible.

Speaker 4 (57:56):
I mean, I'm sure the Dodger organization is very happy
that they paid this man the amount of money to
get him to wear a blue jersey instead of a
red one down the street. And he really Despite the
ups and downs that the Dodgers have had this season,
Shohey has delivered.

Speaker 2 (58:15):
By the way, they still have the best record in
base We still.

Speaker 4 (58:18):
Have the best record in baseball. He really has delivered.
It was his first career walk off home run. He
had two walk offs prelease single hits, but I didn't
know was his first career home run walk off. Make
it a grand slam to add on top of it
like it just you could if you wrote this in
a script for a movie, they would be like, nobody's
gonna believe that has happened.

Speaker 5 (58:39):
This is not real, and yet it happened and it's not.

Speaker 2 (58:42):
He's not done well.

Speaker 3 (58:43):
Here's the significance of the fifty to fifty for show Hey. So,
assuming that he returns to pitching, which is certainly what
the Dodgers are banking on starting next season, He's never
had more than ten stolen bases in the year. So
the idea of a year where he's not pitching stealing
fifty bases, here's what I would predict. Once he becomes

(59:05):
a pitcher again, He's not going to be stealing bases,
probably not, are you know there's too much of a
chance for injury in stealing a base.

Speaker 5 (59:13):
That's a big part.

Speaker 2 (59:13):
You're not going to risk it.

Speaker 3 (59:16):
So this is that year where if he's going to
do something like this, this was the year to do it.

Speaker 2 (59:21):
When you're a DH.

Speaker 3 (59:23):
And the idea that this guy can do whatever he wants.
It doesn't matter whether it's hitting for average, hitting the
long ball, stealing bases, pitching. Whatever this guy wants to do,
he can do. Babe Ruth was that player back in
the day. He didn't continue it, but Shoey is. And

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so sometimes you have to take a step back because
years from now, you know, years from now, you know
they're going to talk to you and you're going to say,
I used to work for the Dodgers organization.

Speaker 2 (59:59):
Where you when show Hey o Tani was there? Yes,
I was. I saw him many times.

Speaker 3 (01:00:04):
You saw show Hey Otani, Like there's only been one show,
Hey o t There's never gonna be another show Hey Tani.

Speaker 2 (01:00:12):
Believe me, there will never be another show Hey Otani.
This is a once in a lifetime player period. You'll
never see anything like this. So you got to soak
it in.

Speaker 5 (01:00:26):
You really do.

Speaker 4 (01:00:27):
And sometimes I wonder Are we taking it for granted?
I actually said this the moment you are. But even
when he was an angel and he was doing it
and he won the MVP, I was like, we're taking
him for granted.

Speaker 2 (01:00:39):
And I don't know if it's.

Speaker 4 (01:00:39):
Because it's the sport of baseball, because I also feel
a little bit like.

Speaker 5 (01:00:43):
Are we taking Aaron Judge for granted?

Speaker 4 (01:00:45):
Yeah, not giving him the credit of what he's doing
for the America song.

Speaker 2 (01:00:48):
Pace, for another sixty home run year.

Speaker 5 (01:00:51):
Another like there is an actual chance he breaks his record.

Speaker 4 (01:00:54):
There is a chance. And I feel like, I don't
know if it's just because it's baseball, but we are.
We are living in the moment of these two great
stars in baseball, and I think we're taking them for granted.

Speaker 3 (01:01:06):
Sometimes this happens, we're whatever the sport may be. Somebody
comes in and does something that's just never been done before.
I mean Steph Curry changed the game with.

Speaker 2 (01:01:17):
His three point shot. Did yes, he did?

Speaker 3 (01:01:19):
He just saw this guy. I mean I saw him
at Davidson. You know he was like, oh, yeah, this
guy's pretty good. As dad played in the NBA.

Speaker 2 (01:01:25):
It was a good player, but he was just a guy.

Speaker 5 (01:01:27):
He was just a guy.

Speaker 3 (01:01:28):
You didn't think like this guy literally changed the game
where everybody now is shooting three point shots because of
what Steph Curry did.

Speaker 2 (01:01:37):
Yeah, change the game.

Speaker 3 (01:01:42):
So this show, Hey, if he does fifty to fifty,
I mean fifty to fifty, first Dodger.

Speaker 2 (01:01:50):
To hit fifty.

Speaker 5 (01:01:51):
He's doing all these things in the first year.

Speaker 3 (01:01:53):
That's my favorite trivia question. Who holds the Dodger single
season record for home runs? The answer is Sean Green.
That's right, Sean Green.

Speaker 5 (01:02:02):
One shy one shy right of fifty.

Speaker 2 (01:02:05):
Yet forty nine home run Sean Green? How many people
remember Sean Green?

Speaker 5 (01:02:10):
I very nice man.

Speaker 4 (01:02:12):
He still comes to a Dodger events like, and he's
so nice. And the first time I met him, to
him it was like.

Speaker 5 (01:02:19):
Mister four home runs in a game and he's like,
is that still cool? And it was like, of course
it is, yeah, Like is that still cool?

Speaker 3 (01:02:27):
Well, no one's and five somebody will look at that.
One of my all time favorite though records was Fernando
Tatis Senior, so against a picture named chan Ho Park.

Speaker 2 (01:02:38):
Why do you got to bring this up?

Speaker 5 (01:02:40):
Why do you got to poor chan Ho Park?

Speaker 2 (01:02:41):
Why do you got to bring this one?

Speaker 5 (01:02:42):
Up right now, he's just.

Speaker 3 (01:02:43):
Kind against the same picture. He hits two grand slams
in the same inning.

Speaker 2 (01:02:48):
No, but that's the.

Speaker 7 (01:02:51):
Done.

Speaker 1 (01:02:52):
How is that.

Speaker 3 (01:02:52):
Possible to hit two Grand slams in the same inning?

Speaker 4 (01:02:56):
Poor park catching strays. Blame the manager for leaving him and.

Speaker 5 (01:03:01):
Porching Hopark.

Speaker 3 (01:03:02):
By the way, we have something else that's going to
happen baseball that has never been done before. We'll talk
about that, but first, oh, quick reminder. Football fans be
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(01:03:23):
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what's trending right now, Bfenn, Brian Fenland.

Speaker 2 (01:03:42):
A man just setting a bar really high in your profession.

Speaker 10 (01:03:47):
Well, you know what I think of when I think
of you. You're one of a kind like show Hey is,
and I picture you as Russell Crowe in a Beautiful Mind.

Speaker 2 (01:03:54):
You love stats, I do.

Speaker 10 (01:03:56):
There's that scene of him in the Princeton dorm room
where he's riding all the mat medical formulas, and I
just see you doing that with stats. And then you're
just in Gulf buyer rooms with like newspaper clippings in
these rooms, and you just sort of fall into a
tail spin and it all overwhelms you, sort of like
those scenes from.

Speaker 2 (01:04:12):
I Will I Will bring my laptop in, my STAT laptop.
And if you actually were.

Speaker 3 (01:04:18):
To witness, I know you already think I should be committed,
but if you saw what I've done, then you really thought, like,
what what?

Speaker 2 (01:04:29):
What is this? What has happened here?

Speaker 10 (01:04:31):
Is that the only thing that's on the laptop? Yes, okay, yeah,
just making sure on that laptop.

Speaker 3 (01:04:38):
Yes, yeah, I don't want to I don't want anything
going wrong with that laptop.

Speaker 2 (01:04:44):
You stand. Yeah, I'll tell you what.

Speaker 10 (01:04:46):
What did go wrong was New Mexico's You look at
college football and their ability to close out this game.
They led this college football game against Montana State for
fifty nine minutes in fifty seconds, but the final ten
seconds Montana State took a lead thirty five to thirty one.
This was a game that just finished on our sister
station FS one, the Bobcats of Montana State scoring twenty

(01:05:10):
one fourth quarter points. Earlier, Georgia Tech winning in Dublin, Ireland,
twenty four to twenty one against number ten Florida State
a last second field goal. They're settling things in the NFL.
Preseason games are upon us, including one coming up at
ten pm Eastern time. And yeah, you're not going to
see Deshan Watson play for the Browns at quarterback for
that one, and that's not going to affect, according to reports,

(01:05:33):
his status for Week one of the regular season. But
he has been dealing with some quote unquote arm soreness.

Speaker 2 (01:05:39):
So that's what they're calling it these days.

Speaker 10 (01:05:41):
As far as what else is going on in the
world of the NFL, we just watched the Chargers win
a preseason game twenty six to nineteen against the Cowboys.
Trey Lance started in this game for the Cowboys at
the signal caller position. Five interceptions five. You talked about
four home runs in a game. What's harder to do
home runs in a game or five picks in a game?

(01:06:02):
I mean, that certainly is there.

Speaker 5 (01:06:05):
I'm going to say home runs, yes, yeah, probably you
didn't give me thinking. I was like, yeah, it.

Speaker 2 (01:06:10):
Just gets you thinking, Yeah, yeah, I think.

Speaker 10 (01:06:13):
More home runs for sure. Bryce Young was a home
run in the form of what he did on the
field in limited duty today for the Panthers. Had that
one touchdown throw in one drive that he played thirty
one to twenty six, Panthers over the Bills, Lions over
the Steelers. Of course, this is all preseason action lines
over the Steelers twenty four to seventeen, and Steelers head
coach Mike Tomlin said after the game, Yes, yes, he

(01:06:36):
knows that people are wanting to know when he's going
to name that starting quarterback, but it's not officially from
him going to come until the end of next week. Mike,
why are you waiting? We all know the answer already.
Factors thirty to seven. They win against the Ravens. Ravens
had a sixty nine yard punt in that game, and
I can't believe that is what I'm taking from the
that preseason contest. He also watched Jaren Hall start at

(01:06:59):
QB the Vikings and a twenty six to three win
over the Eagles, and Hall had two touchdown throws there,
Rams fall short to the Texan seventeen to fifteen. Cam
Aker's former RAMS seven carries fifty three yards as he
was seen trucking over one of his ex Rams colleagues.
And in baseball, the world of baseball, a few games

(01:07:21):
notably coming and going, including the Blue Jays winning three
to one against the Angels. You look at that score,
and you look at the team's played, and you're like,
why are we mentioning this?

Speaker 2 (01:07:30):
Well?

Speaker 10 (01:07:31):
The Blue Jays had a no no going into the
ninth inning and it was finally taken care of and
knocked aside by an Angel hit, but three to one
one hitter was pitched by Toronto. Rockies win nine to
two against the Yankees, Orioles coming up strong three to
two against the Astros, Brewers over the Athletics nine to five.
Diamondbacks take it to the Red Sox four to one,

(01:07:53):
the Cubs fourteen to two winners against the lowly Marlins,
and the Giants now one game over five hundred with
their four to three takedown of the Mariners and Monsey
and Steve. If I'm a baseball fan, I'll be a
fan of any team right now, but the Mariners that
is it's rough painful to say the least. We were

(01:08:16):
talking about service, the job he was doing. Remember, they
had the lowest batting average of the majors at one point,
I believe they had a ten game lead in the
Al West. And you know, he was a runaway choice
as manager of the year. Now it gets fired. And
the problem is is that this has been going on
for over a decade with this team. Yeah, I remember

(01:08:38):
I worked for a TV station in Spokane, Washington, and
we'd cover we'd show highlights of this Seattle Mariners. And
this is like twenty twelve to twenty fourteen, this seam lethargic,
can't find any offense product that they were putting out.
Then is showing up now Nothing seemingly has changed.

Speaker 2 (01:08:56):
Of what's going on.

Speaker 3 (01:08:57):
So they're hiring Eggar Martinez, you know, who obviously is
one of the greatest dhs of all time.

Speaker 2 (01:09:03):
He's in the Hall of Fame. It took so long.

Speaker 3 (01:09:06):
I mean, like, you have a guy who played his
entire career for the Mariners. He's in the Hall of Fame,
one of the great hitters of all time. Why hasn't
this guy been helping out your hitting for years. Right now,
now you decided, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:09:19):
He was a DH, wasn't he.

Speaker 3 (01:09:21):
He was a DH Hall of Fame. There was always
that question. I mean, but if you look at.

Speaker 2 (01:09:24):
His numbers, I mean they're ridiculous.

Speaker 7 (01:09:26):
I'll tell you.

Speaker 10 (01:09:26):
When I look at your numbers, you know that you
are a Hall of Famer. In my book, there's some
longevity involved. There's a compiler. That's the way I look
at it. I'm a compiler. Bfen, thanks so much. A
plus is always.

Speaker 3 (01:09:40):
Once again, we're coming alive from the tire rack dot
Com studios. Another thing that's going to happen in Major
League Baseball this week that has never happened before and
maybe will never happen again. Danny Jansen is a guy
who had a solid career in Toronto, like a number
two catcher, a little pop in his bad not much
of a bad average, but you know, a very solid

(01:10:02):
backup catcher for a number of years with the Toronto
Blue Jays. So on June twenty sixth, the Blue Jays
were taken on the Red Sox and he literally fouls
a pitch off right when the umpires saying, all right,
it's pouring rain. We're gonna have to suspend this game.
So when you suspend a game, that means you will

(01:10:22):
play it at a future date to finish the game.
So that game will be finished on Tuesday. Well, it
just so happens that Danny Jansen no longer plays for
the Blue Jays.

Speaker 2 (01:10:34):
He got traded to the Red Sox.

Speaker 3 (01:10:37):
That's right, and the Red Sox have confirmed he will
play in that game.

Speaker 2 (01:10:42):
Why not.

Speaker 3 (01:10:42):
Yes, he will be the first player in the history
of Major League Baseball. Think about how many games have
been played in Major League Baseball to actually have his
name in the box score of both teams in the
same game.

Speaker 5 (01:10:58):
Yeah, that's pretty awesome.

Speaker 7 (01:11:00):
That's unbelievable.

Speaker 5 (01:11:00):
That's very awesome.

Speaker 4 (01:11:01):
Yeah, so the Blue Jays are going to have to
start with the pinch hitter right in his position.

Speaker 5 (01:11:06):
And I love that. The Red Sox were like, yeah,
he's gonna play.

Speaker 2 (01:11:10):
Let's do this. Absolutely yeah, because.

Speaker 5 (01:11:12):
There was no reason to not do this.

Speaker 2 (01:11:13):
Come on, come on, give the people what they want.

Speaker 3 (01:11:15):
When you see the official box score of this game,
he will be on both the Blue Jay side and
the Red Sox socke.

Speaker 2 (01:11:22):
That's pretty incredible. That is pretty awesome.

Speaker 3 (01:11:24):
Now we've had players I think the guy whose name
was Joel Youngblood. You got traded to a team in
the middle of a doubleheader and played for one team
in the first game and then the other team in
the second game.

Speaker 7 (01:11:36):
But this is the.

Speaker 2 (01:11:37):
Actual same game, same game.

Speaker 3 (01:11:40):
How else could this happen unless there was a suspended
game like this, so he will be in the box
score for both teams.

Speaker 2 (01:11:48):
Yeah, that's crazy. That's crazy.

Speaker 3 (01:11:51):
Player that would otherwise be pretty much forgotten, you know,
once his career is said and done, solid pro and
everything else. Now he has something that will only be
there forever.

Speaker 4 (01:12:01):
Yeah, because this is this is one of those things
where it's like too many factors have to happen and
we don't have a.

Speaker 3 (01:12:07):
Lot of suspended games to begin with, where you know,
sometimes they call the game short because but in this case,
they suspended the game, meaning we will actually finish this
game at a future date and in the interim, he
was traded to the team that he played.

Speaker 2 (01:12:22):
Against that game.

Speaker 5 (01:12:23):
That's pretty cool.

Speaker 3 (01:12:24):
And he was the actual batter at the play for
the Blue Jays when they suspended the game.

Speaker 5 (01:12:29):
Literally, so they have to start with the pinch hitter.

Speaker 4 (01:12:31):
That's what's It's just so many things had to happen
for this to happen, which is why it's never going
to happen. Danny Jansen, Danny Jansen, three books forever.

Speaker 3 (01:12:39):
And otherwise forgotten name in baseball, but not anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:12:42):
He will do something that will never be done again.

Speaker 3 (01:12:45):
All right, Coming up on the other side, what do
we looking ahead as we get ready for Hey Week zero?
It's been nice to get a little little appotetic college football,
but we got a full blown Week one of college
football coming up. We'll break it down for you. This
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Speaker 2 (01:13:08):
Want to thank our crew today. By the way, everyone's
my daddy today.

Speaker 5 (01:13:13):
That's right.

Speaker 3 (01:13:13):
I'm even gonna say Mary Max my daddy today, even
though she didn't ask me a question.

Speaker 2 (01:13:17):
Actually, I never got to redeem myself. I was your
daddy for like three weeks and then.

Speaker 3 (01:13:20):
I learned was she she wants to sit on her laurels?
Although I did answer one of her questions.

Speaker 2 (01:13:26):
You did back in the Kanye One. Yeah, the Kanye one.

Speaker 3 (01:13:30):
Ufend Brian Finley doing a phenomenal job pat courses are
incredible producer. Good question today. These are good questions. Row
the deffend likes to go off the rail.

Speaker 2 (01:13:44):
Yeah, that's okay.

Speaker 5 (01:13:48):
We're gonna let it.

Speaker 2 (01:13:49):
We're gonna let it.

Speaker 3 (01:13:50):
Even if I don't know the answer. We are learning
the correct answer to question.

Speaker 4 (01:13:54):
I did look up if that if he was right
about the jockstrap, because I was like, what I did look.

Speaker 2 (01:13:59):
At and he is correct? Well, maybe I was thinking
of the modern jobs.

Speaker 5 (01:14:04):
That's also what I was saying.

Speaker 2 (01:14:05):
It's like an evolution. I'm sure to the jockstrap.

Speaker 4 (01:14:08):
Because didn't he start with talking about football? So I
thought he was talking about the modern rush.

Speaker 3 (01:14:13):
Well, I mean college football technically they call it, you know,
eighteen sixty nine Rutgers in Princeton, although what they really
were playing was rugby, you know, but they like to
cite that as the first ever college football game.

Speaker 2 (01:14:26):
You would know that, Yeah, eighteen sixty nine.

Speaker 6 (01:14:28):
Are you sure?

Speaker 4 (01:14:28):
We don't ask him that, guys.

Speaker 3 (01:14:30):
Speaking of the more modern game, the twenty twenty four
season really kicks in the gear this week coming up
week one Thursday is loaded with games.

Speaker 5 (01:14:39):
It is.

Speaker 3 (01:14:40):
We got some games on Friday and then a beefy
schedule of games on Saturday and then Sunday of course,
no football NFL football this week. We're going to get
that USC LSU matchup in Las Vegas.

Speaker 2 (01:14:54):
There's even a Monday game.

Speaker 3 (01:14:55):
There is as Florida State, who already played today, we'll
have their second game taken.

Speaker 2 (01:15:02):
On Boston College. So and I always like.

Speaker 3 (01:15:06):
A lot of these games they have of these neutral sites.
That game will be in Tallahassee there for Florida State.
They'll need that to recover after a disappointing loss today.
But I know you don't have a horse in the
race of college football. I mean, here's my thing about
college football.

Speaker 5 (01:15:23):
And why I wish I did. I just wish I did.

Speaker 2 (01:15:25):
But you know, this is why it reigns supreme to me.

Speaker 3 (01:15:27):
Now, look at my dad went to USC I was
raised Trojan, going back to the Oja days.

Speaker 2 (01:15:32):
I end up going to UCLA.

Speaker 3 (01:15:34):
Because you know, and then I became a Bruin and
so obviously it's been a constant from that standpoint. But
the thing about college football that differentiates itself to me
from other sports. Obviously, the history of the sport is
way precedes the National Football League. The other thing is

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we have I believe a dozen stadiums now in college
football that have seating capacities over one hundred thousand and
they fill it every game.

Speaker 6 (01:16:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:16:06):
Do you do you believe there are NFL teams that
could fill over one hundred thousand seats every single game.

Speaker 4 (01:16:12):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:16:13):
I would have to believe some.

Speaker 4 (01:16:15):
But the fandom and in college football is next level.

Speaker 2 (01:16:20):
It is the next level. It's generational, it's regional.

Speaker 4 (01:16:25):
And it's real. It's generational. I've been you know, I
went to cal State Fullerton. There's no football team there,
so that it used to be, and I was there,
there was they used to have a college for Please
tell me when.

Speaker 3 (01:16:35):
Well back in the dead it ended in the late eighties,
early nineties. I remember when Fullerton had Fullerton State Fullerton State.

Speaker 2 (01:16:43):
Well, I did referred to. I went to cal State Fullerton.

Speaker 4 (01:16:47):
Justin Turner was playing baseball there when I was there.
But there's no football there and so I just didn't
have like a team to like learn about, to follow.
I went to USC games, I went to UCLA games
anytime I got invited, and I was always so impressed
at the fandom and it is generational. I would see
a grandfather with their grandson who was ten years old,

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and they're just walking to their seats, and it's such
an really special type of fandom that I wish I
was a part of, but I'm not.

Speaker 6 (01:17:17):
Well.

Speaker 2 (01:17:17):
Rivalries are a big part of it.

Speaker 5 (01:17:19):
It is aga.

Speaker 3 (01:17:19):
I mean, we mentioned USC and UCLA, but if you
talk about Auburn Alabama. The state of Alabama does not
have an NFL team, But if you live in Alabama,
you're either an Alabama fam or you're an Auburn fan. Okay,
so the Iron Bowl is real Michigan Ohio State. But unfortunately,
with the realignment of all these conferences, we are seeing

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certain rivalries disappear. I mean, for years, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and
the old Big Eight decided which team would go to
the Orange Bowl, and that left when Nebraska ended up
going to the Big Ten. Now Oklahoma's moving into the SEC. Texas,
Texas A, and I'm also divided up Texas because they

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were in the Big twelve and then Texas A and
M had moved to the SEC.

Speaker 2 (01:18:06):
Now they're back together. This one really bothered me though.

Speaker 3 (01:18:09):
Lincoln Riley, the USC coach, is sort of questioning why
they still have to play Notre Dame, and I'm like, okay, dude.
First of all, it's the greatest intersectional rivalry in.

Speaker 2 (01:18:22):
The history of college football. USC and Notre Dame.

Speaker 3 (01:18:26):
Started back in the nineteen twenties when New Rockney, the
legendary Notre Dame coach, was good friends with Howard Jones,
who was the.

Speaker 2 (01:18:33):
Coach at USC.

Speaker 3 (01:18:35):
He used to be a coach at Iowa, so they
knew each other, and you know, he was trying to
get this Notre Dame team on the map, and he figures, hey,
if I go to the West coast, if I go
to the East coast, he would play Army at you know,
like Yankee Stadium. They would do this to travel. And
so they said, well, let's do a home and home.
You come out, you know, you know, like every other year.

(01:18:55):
You can come later in the year when the weather
is not so bad in SoCal, and then we'll come
back to South Bend like earlier, you know, before it
really gets ugly. And this rivalry is part of the
lore of college football. So I'm hoping I don't mind
the realignment. I've sort of accepted the fact that it
has a different look to college football, but don't lose

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some of these rivalries because that's such a big part
of the fabric of college football.

Speaker 5 (01:19:21):
Yeah, I do have a theory about rivalries. Actually, I
think they're dying, and it's.

Speaker 4 (01:19:25):
Because of players moving from team to team, especially now
with money nil. So I even think this with pro sports,
like you don't get the Kobe Bryant and the Dirk
Nooviski's who just stay with one team the entire time.
Everybody's moving and a lot of it has to do
with money. I'm going where the money is, and so
I think rivalries are just dying.

Speaker 5 (01:19:43):
Even though Lincoln.

Speaker 4 (01:19:44):
Riley said this because he's trying to make his schedule easier.
That's what he didn't do this, He's trying to make
a schedule easier. But I do think rivalries are slowly
dying unfortunately.

Speaker 3 (01:19:54):
And the argument is you create new rivalries. Yeah, sure,
just because it's a rivalry. I mean, I used to
kid about there was a stretch when Army played our
Navy played Notre Dame every year and lost forty years
in a row, and I'm.

Speaker 2 (01:20:09):
Like, that's not a rivalry, that's a tradition.

Speaker 3 (01:20:11):
That's a tradition, you know, that's a free spot on
the Bingo board for notre name every year. But you know,
but yeah, there are certain rivalries that I think still
can stand the test at time. So we'll see how
it all plays out, but we're going to see the
beginning of a very different landscape for college football full blown.
Coming up this week, all right, we got a lot

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more coming up. Another busy weekend in sports.

Speaker 7 (01:20:34):
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Speaker 2 (01:20:35):
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