July 12, 2023 • 33 mins
Mike Harmon and Olden Polynice update you on the 93rd MLB All-Star Game. White Sox OF Luis Robert is out for the All-Star Game after feeling calf tightness in the Home Run Derby. And Warriors GM Mike Dunleavy is confident the Dubs are title contenders with their current roster.
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Speaker 3 (00:51):
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bit of the MLB All Star Game. The pageantry, the
pomp and circumstance, the terrible uniforms put everybody out in force.
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Had a beautiful Tuesday in Seattle.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
How you doing, man, I'm great.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
While I had a couple of days off, I was
off in the Midwest, sweating my head off. I think
I came back a little leaner and meaner daughter soccer tournament,
and then obviously me being the resident Northwestern guy amongst
the staff here. It's been a weird couple of days.
I got a say, you and I talking briefly as
we get ready to get started here. We'll get into
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that a little later. I fired for cause the latest.
Oh ah, but yeah, it's it's from Friday news dump
to Monday and into today. It's it's a new world
new world order and.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Can so culture.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Well it's look, you know, we'll get into it in
earnest a little bit. But here's the the you know,
thirty thousand, you know, mile high view kind of thing
that we look at here is that you made your decision,
you made your announcement, tried to dump it on Friday
while you're on vacation. You're not because look, I'm calling
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for everybody's heads at this point the way they've handled
this thing. But you major determination. You made a deal
with Fitzgerald and then you decided the court of public
opinion was enough to say, you know what, we should
re examine this. You know, maybe maybe we didn't get
this right. In other words, we'd look bad, the university
looks bad, and this is a terrible thing. So now
we have to change that up. But we'll get into
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that as we flow. As you can tell them a
little bit fired up from.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
This because you in Stork.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
I was in Saint Louis. I was in Chicago for
about twenty four hours. So you're hearing on the local radio.
You're hearing people when you're at a restaurant, you're standing
in line. I was at the Art Institute with my daughter.
You know, we're taking a couple hours and going and
seeing the money exhibits and all of that fun stuff,
and people are talking about it while they're watching and
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taking a look at these classic paintings. So it really
cut through the clutter. And so you know, in a
city like Chicago, as we know, we're loud and we
get after it. And we've got a lot of loud
voices in our sports media world. That's one of the
places where Northwestern has thrived through the years. Some of
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those folks have been quiet. Some are tied to the
university so they can only say so much because they're
part of the decision.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Process, which so weird.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Well, but it's it is the nature of the beast, right,
your board of trustees and people that you bring in.
But we have the Major League Baseball All Star Game
today right now. It is the bottom of the six.
We got one out in a one to one game.
Sho Hao Tani obviously the the darling of everybody's eyes.
They're off right, you know, we cut to.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
It right away.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Right, you've got these teal things. What you're fine, right,
Mariner colors. But here's the thing. This is where and
I know it's a different world than you and I
grew up in, right where we can see every team,
we can see every game. Now you've got the stupid
blackout restrictions and all of those things that apply. But
in the end, if you really want to work and
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watch players beyond just the Sports Center and Fox Sports
Highlights or the little clips that show up on whatever
social media platform you're using, Threads or Twitter or whatever
hasn't been I didn't see you get invented today, whatever
you're using, this is your opportunity. Need to really showcase
a lot of these young players, right, first time, second
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time All Stars. We've got a lot of representation from
the Oels. Nobody nationally knows who these guys are unless
they collect baseball exactly.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
And that's why I was upset about the Elie de
la Cruz thing, because I'm like, dude, all SAW games
should be about entertainment and putting you know, the best
player that kid is and he's impressed.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Well, that's just it. You've got to figure out a
way and then and this goes to baseball. This goes
to that for every sport, right because Summer League basketball
is as odd and weird as it can be. And
we'll talk about it, but when Minyama played his two games,
it was a spectacle.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
I can't wait till we test but people.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Got excited right for Summer League basketball right up in Sacrama.
But but but I'm just saying, look sport, the sport,
you have these things that cut through where you can
push through. Here, you've got an all star game, and
people have seen clips of Elie Dela Cruz right the
other day, steals second, steals third, and as the pitcher
gets lazy, steals home. He's been unbelievable. And Jason and
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I we've talked about it a lot. He was on
my radar again, you know, as my prospecting in the
sports collectibles world whatever. But people know a lot of
these young guys there and they see, you know, a
little bit of breakthrough in the Twitter verse of whoever
they follow that covers the game. But here's the opportunity
in their home uniforms like they did once upon a time.
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Everybody keeps putting up the great class pictures of old,
especially the pillbox hat wearing Pirates right, the Covira, right,
the Cobra, Dave Parker, You've got Willie Start, You got
those guys, But like all just the array of uniforms
because they're identifiers, right, because we have a lot of
fun here, right, You talk to the players in the field.
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You're talking to the managers. Pitcher finishes an inning, right
you I struck out Otani. Look what they did for
me and all this stuff. This is great, all these
great things. So get the visual right because we're a
visual of course people. So if I'm seeing them in
these uniforms, that really their nondescript. Here's your kind of blue,
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darker blue National League and then your Teel American League
again it then the nod to the home city of
the All Star Game. But here's an opportunity to showcase
people in their uniforms. You know why, because you're probably
gonna get more people to buy those than you are
a national national team jersey of Juan Soto or any
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of these guys.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
It's all financial anyway. I don't like the San Diego
Padres uniforms. By the way, that doodle brown.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Well, I'd like it to go back. If we're going
to commit to it, let's just go back to the
Tony Gwynlins. Oh yeah, okay, like I mean brown brown.
But to your point about Elie de la Cruz, you
have an exhibition, you know, and and summer league guys play.
It's their team whatever. But the idea is you've got
to be an opportunity for a spectacle. So if someone
breaks through the noise of a season, especially as we
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get to Game eighty eight five and a lot of
teams are kind of settling into who they are. And
it's great that you have a lot of smaller market,
mid market teams that are part of the mix. Right,
there's that's very exciting. Right, Pittsburgh had their great run
to start the season. Everybody's looking around, going what Baltimore
has been great, Tampa has been great except for the
last week, and eventually, you know, we'll talk about your
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Yankees and and the consternation there hitting coach. I know
you bring in Sean Casey, career three ZHO two hitter
to try to turn things around. But it's the idea
where you have an exhibition. Why is there not the
extra exemption for the roster ad whether you want to
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add a veteran who's probably gonna retire as we've done
in years past. Right, those guys made teams because you're
assuming might be the last time they're going to be
in an All Star Game. Showing the love here, you've
got a guy like de la Cruz. People are seeing
highlights feature to him, give him an opportunity.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
That's that's why I'm upset we're not seeing enough a
Della Cruise because he plays for the Reds, you know.
And so it's like when we do get the opportunity
with seeing the highlights, and I'm like, Okay, come on now,
I want to see more of this guy. I'm looking
for Cincinnati Reds Baseball. I literally am no.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
And that's the great thing, you know, for for Major
League Baseball. If they're smart, they're marketing. And as we're
watching the broadcast, if you're smart, you're you're going and
you're showing every way you can consume this. You want
to get the audio package, get the audio package you want.
Mlt TV great, But Sunday Night Baseball, with the way
they're playing right now, since he got called up, since
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Joey Vado came off the IL, Sunday Night Baseball doesn't
need to be the Red Sox and the Yankees again,
even the Red Sox manager, we're saying we did this
two weeks in a row. Who wants to watch this
plus their schedule and what it does to their their
rhythms and timing if you have to change to a
prime time when it would have normally been a getaway
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day afternoon game.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
This reminds me of I can't remember the title of
the movie right now, but it was an Eddie Murphy
movie when he he he was a com man. The
title will come to me. But anyway, he ran for office,
right He went to d C and ran for office,
and all he was running on was his name. You know,
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he had the last name of a guy that was
very popular. So he milked it and ran on that ticket.
And so it reminds me of that. It's like we're
getting and I'm a Yankee fan, but we getting Boston
Yankees all the time. That no, it was both oh
my god, no, I know that title bow Finger with
Steve Martin.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
But but the point.
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Speaker 5 (11:01):
MLB is like stuck on stupid in a way, because
it's like, well, let's just give them Yankees, Red Sox,
Let's give them Dodgers whomever, because that's it. And you
limit yourself you know, it's like, man, I still remember
the Big Red Machine. Back then, they had stars, you know.
I think back then you got to see and get
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to know more players. I knew guys on the Oakland
A's back then, as well as the Yankees. I knew
guys Cincinnati. I knew guys on Pittsburgh, you know, Willie
Stargo and all them guys. So it's like I knew
more players back then than I do now because now
I'm just seeing six seventeen.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Well, I mean to be fair, I think back in
the day it was the same circumstance because you had
really only your one National game on Saturdays. But I
still knew more, right, No, no, but that's the thing, right,
there's a passion for it.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
We have baseball cards right well, so we kept up
with that. We do. Oh yeah, huge business that a
long time ago into that you.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Want to make some money. Right now, the LEDA cruise
market is through the roof. But the just I've been
doing dabbling for years, but like the prospecting is still there,
just like you did years ago. Not to mention the
vintage stuff, but we'll make a collectible segment maybe later
in the show. But the idea being that you do
have all of these venues by which to promote right
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between social media, between your MLB TV, but all these that's.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Still only promoting a futile well.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
And that, and that's the thing that's gotta gotta change
in terms of.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
Should have been playing right now? Period? Sure twas period.
Let him play is exciting.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
But we as we know baseball. Look, I give him
credit because they were the first to go to getting
you your audio broadcast and everything. Well, yes, fraud whatever.
Remember we also have a Dodger fan, so he's going
to have a long standing gripe with Rob Manford it
deservedly so. But this is a case where the commissioner, Yeah,
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come over the top, do something positive for the game.
A guy that gave you a lot of run. What
is it about a month since he's been called up.
He's in the news every day, So you're right justin
it's the all right, here's my executive order. I can
tell you a lot and do a lot of how's
the power right? All the songs and dance about who's
moving where and what and tap dancing around all that,
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but you have the opportunity to just say, you know what,
the fans love this kid. He's good for baseball. I
love that he put Dave Martinez in his place last week.
You want to talk about it, to talk about a whiner,
Oh Dave Martinez. Seemingly every two to three games, we've
got something silly. But the fact that he turned to
him is like, you want to check it out.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
Well, he came through.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
No, that's it.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
He came through, and then like check this, that's.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Heroic stuff there as we're coming to you alive for
the diraq dot com studios, having a blast with you,
Mike Carmen, alongside old and polonies. It is good to
be back in the chair. A couple of days off
running around the Midwest uneven tournament, but everybody came out
I think relatively healthy. Yeah, I'm not sure who actually
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won the thing. I know, I know we didn't. So
it became a all right, are we winning our next game?
And they played well so bad breaks a lot of crossbars.
If there was a crossbar hitting competition.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
We would have won.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
We would have won by far. But you know, yes,
the good, the bad, the ugly.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
But how about this? Did they have fun.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Most of the time?
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Well, you get used to winning old and you know this, right,
it's like anything in life. If we could tie it
to the Northwestern story, we could tie whatever. If everybody
tells you how great you are and you're rolling over competition,
adversity sometime punches you in the face, so the fun
goes out really fast, you right, and you need to
you know, snap, snap back into it, get that clear
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the mechanism kind of moment, and get back after it,
which they did, and they found that that hunger again.
But now that's it a little for love of the game.
By the way, the movie referenced before was the distinguished General.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
Distinguished gentleman, my lord, I can't believe I didn't remember that.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Well anytime you can include the great Charles in a
segment of Fox Sports Radio, we've all won.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
It didn't get.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
There, you go stay and now movie reviews along the way, Hey,
coming up X, We'll stay with Major League Baseball because
you know what, sometimes you can't have nice things. Be
careful what you ask for in some of these exhibitions
along the way, because just like I'm crying a little
bit about my university and the slings and arrows and
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and what was going on. Well, my baseball team took
a gut knee capped as well.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
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Speaker 3 (16:11):
Welcome back in It is Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith
Show with Me Mike Carmon. No Jason Smith. Tonight, Olden
polonies in his stead as we watch the glory of
the All Star Game where am I runs at it's
two to one seventh NY.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
I'm not even watching that. I'm watching the Proud of
the Yankees over here.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
We got Pride of the Yankee. It's a sports celebration.
We got some summer league. Hey. You know though, Olden,
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the early part of this hour, we were talking about
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Elie Della Cruz wanting to see them participate, and every
year we have these same discussions related to the events
of an All Star Week for the NBA. It's why
is and so and so Dunky? Who is this guy
that gets three point seven minutes at the back end
of the bench playing and jumping out of the gym
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during All Star weekend in Major League Baseball, we got
a lot of the heavy hitters that came to play
for the home run Derby. But in the past it
took a lot of poking prodding. Now you had guys
like Griffy and we've certainly seen all of those heroics
and yesterday Julio Rodriguez with his forty one home runs
and the ridiculousness they're in, you know, Vlad Herrero Junior. Finally, well,
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I mean it's like punching yourself out if your boxer.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
Okay, with that home run derby, I don't like that style.
I don't like the matchups. That's good for bet you
guys could have good days with them. One of the
top two guys, they'll he'll knock the other one out.
I'd rather just the highest numbers advance.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Yeah, I mean this makes a good head to head betting.
Welcome Olden.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Out.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
You see all the spots ship and everything else. That's
where we're at, you know, over unders and uh, you
know what's the betting line for these matchups. I bring
this up because you know, I like to have some
nice things. I don't have a lot of them in
my sports presence, you know, present time, and and and
where I'm at right now, and and over the last week,
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you know, watching what went on and in the Northwestern circumstance.
But my team's in general, right, Northwestern has been terrible.
They had to win in Ireland, but the last couple
of years it's it's been an absolute train wreck. My
White Sox signed, a lot of young players, haven't been
able to come cool through the Bulls, a lot of talent.
Lonzo Ball gets hurt, may never play.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Basketball again at this point.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
All right, but you had a bunch of stars, didn't
come together, didn't coalesce to anything of substance. Blackhawks, they
were bad enough to get the.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Number one overall pick.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
So you've got all that, and the Cubs of the
Cubs hate the Cubs, so we don't we don't talk
about that. I'm a south side or if you if
you can't tell, but just go through all the teams
and it's the all right, give me that glimmer of hope, right,
hope springs eternal spring training. We get excitable about it.
Maybe this is the year that the young guys and
I hate that as a fan of the White Sox,
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nobody cares. Generally they wear the hats. You could, I
could find I could throw a quarter in the air.
It's gonna hit someone wearing the black White Sox hat. Right,
that's how pervasive it is in the culture in terms
of people.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
No, no, no, outside of w A, only a car.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
That's my point is that still holds. So as you
travel you will see White Sox.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
Yeah, not as much as them them boys over there.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
That's also thirty years ago, but with n w A
and all that. Yeah, but when we look at the
White Sox, right, it's like the excitement of all right,
the young guys, will they behealthy? Dot dot dot. And
we'd play that game with a lot of teams, certainly
in Los Angeles. That's the game you play when you're
talking about the Lakers. They could be really good if
this guy's healthy, that guy's healthy, et cetera. With the
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White Sox, we finally have Lewis Robert Junior playing and
playing well, hitting two seventy one but twenty six home
runs and decides to be part of the home run derby.
He tweaked his knee, was not available for Tonight's All
Star Game, and now calls into question whether he'll be
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damaged goods as the White Sox look ahead to the
trade deadline, which is just down the wire here and
seemingly anybody could be had if the price is right.
But because of the inclusion in the exhibition, and he
was swinging a really cool looking bat, the paint job
on them his next lot of stuff holding. But it's
the I always understood why guys wouldn't do it, Personal embarrassment,
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brand management potential for Look, all it takes is one
slip in a meaningless quote unquote exhibition that you got
a guy hurt here. It's just you're tempting fate with
a guy who's been injury prone for the last several years,
and the unfortunate happens. Well, why does it always have
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to happen to me? Olden? This is about a therapy session. Face.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
You know what's so funny? It's like I've looked at
it over the years in all kinds of sports. I
don't believe NFL should have an All Star game like
a pro Bowl because no one plays hard. That's why
they change into flag football and baseball. Definitely, your stars
should be in there because I mean, it's rare that
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you're gonna get hurt playing baseball basketball. I never understood
why guys I wanted to be in everything. Unfortunately I wasn't,
you know, an All Star, but I would have done
every event, you know, because part of it, Yes, because
to me, that's fun. Experience it all because a lot
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of these guys, whether Lebron knows it or not, he'll
be sitting back as a grandfather and he's gonna be like, dang, man,
I wonder what would have happened if I had played.
He's always gonna have that doubt. He's always gonna have
that in his head. I don't care what anybody says.
He can say he didn't want to do it or whatever,
He's always gonna have that doubt. And so to me,
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you have to enjoy everything in this totality, you know,
And so that's what I get out of it. Again,
the All Star Game is about stars, not God, because
a lot of times guys that are playing well don't
even get selected. And so to me, you want to
promote your game. You want to promote your stars, you
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have to do it at any possible moment. And again
they missed a big opportunity. And that's what it's kind
of like off putting to me, is the fact that right,
Manfred should have just been like, hey, you know what
executive order, Ellie you're in.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Well, it just seems like every opportunity you have to
promote when we're talking about the dollars at stake, right,
Rob Manford in his state of the Union rights as
you do at every All Star break, talking about expansion,
talking about changes to the game. Right, the A's are
in process to make their move to Nevada. Okay, you
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got to figure out whether the Rays are moving just
across the freeway and whether Moneys get freed up to
keep them down there. Is it viable, is it actionable
to stay down there? Or do they end up in
Montreal or somewhere else.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
We're going back to Montreal. The potential is there Wait
a minute on Van Washington.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Uh, Tom Shane right with the NBA. The NBA adam.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
Summer Montreal and gone back.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
Well, well but they go back for you know, for
a little talk by franchise. There's gonna be the third
iteration of the exposed question. It's gonna at leads me
the third. I know the original Montreal exposed, then they left,
then they went back, then they left. If they come back,
it's got to be at least three.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Oh no, no, no, in nineteen sixty ninety, two thousand.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
And four, that's the original expose. Yeah, and then they left.
But yeah they came Washington.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
But I mean, look, who says you can't go.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
And I thought they went back.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
No, no, no, they played some games there, but they never
went back.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
Oh they ain't put the franchise back there. You sure, Oka.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
So the potential is there to go back now, I'm
to put it be just like going back to Seattle
in the NBA.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
They haven't done that yet, but that's.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Part of this. But but the point is you can
go back again. Times change, circumstances change, viewing, habits, populations change.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
Can I ask you a question if and you know,
I hate doing this, but if Ellie was in there.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Just you're just obsessed with this guy, And.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
If he had been in the All Star Game and
he got on first base, can you imagine what everybody
would be thinking, Well, he's going for a second.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Just run. I mean, you do have some advantages now
if you're a base stealer because of the pitch clock
and everything else, advantage and you watch it in the.
Speaker 5 (25:24):
Big advantage that's huge, all right. And then they just
said that they're gonna.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
You can't do the step off more than once, like
all of all of that is is help. Well, but
that's he's just not stopping. He's gonna run through the
But then again, if you're a starting pitcher and you
do what my man did.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
The said they're gonna look at the pitch timer.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Yeah, we'll talk about that in a minute, because.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
Am I jumping the gun here?
Speaker 3 (25:50):
No? No, no, it's a veritable poe for me and
everything we're talking about here and the conversation just flus.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
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Speaker 3 (26:04):
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Now three two to the National League doing something they
normally don't in All Star games. They're winning Olden polonies.
The American League usually the dominant force when it comes
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to this game year after year. But we've got ourselves
a beautiful exhibition here now in the eighth inning of
three to two game, as we flow through all the
stars except for Elie Dela Cruz and Olden is going
to put on a sandwich board and walk around these
streets of La calling for Rob Manford's dismissal for not
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using his executive powers.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
I'm good, it's all right, you know, I get it.
I was trying for you, but I know it's all right.
It's all right.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
They missed, they missed the boat.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
But the catcher for the Rockies, Elias d Yeah, yeah,
he hands all run and so now three two lead
National League as we get into the eighth inning. But
a story that I got of chuckled at because one
of the famous quotes in the Dave wanstat era of
the Chicago Bears was when he said all the pieces
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are in place, and then they went out and had
a terrible season. Mike Dunleavy Junior, now in charge of
things with Bob Meyer's moving on from the Golden State Warriors.
He decided he's he's got to talk it up and
certainly you're gonna be bullish on your team's outlook for
the season ahead as you go through summer league and
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all this. But he says, quote, I think anytime you
go in off season, you're trying to make adjustments and
changes get yourself back up to the level. First foremost,
you don't want to get the call for your star
players agent asking out. And then he chuckled, said that
didn't happen, so that's good. But says with the talent
on this squad that this is a contender right now
bringing back Draymond Green, and obviously you're hoping that Klay Thompson,
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more removed from the injury, can be the Klay Thompson
you remember as opposed to the guy that couldn't hit
the broadside of a barn. In the playoffs this year
in that series against the Lakers, defensive liability, like all
of that, and recognize the physicality of it and trying
to come back off injuries. Don't dismiss it. But assuming
another year later, another year older that this trio, particularly
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when you look at Draymond Green.
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Speaker 3 (29:20):
Motivator, whatever you want to call him. And still a
good instigator, still a good playmaker, still a good defender.
But bringing him back and excising Jordan Poole is going
to be the thing that and bringing in Chris Paul right,
because that's the other part of it. You bring in
Chris Paul, and with that come a lot of questions
of Chris Paul, how you operate, how you're going to
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work your offense? Is he going to be happy working
a second unit? Is your style of play going to change?
Right to Steve Kerr or Steph Curry and company go
back to the drawing board and have to change things
up to accommodate Chris Paul in terms of how you
run and how you pace your offense as opposed to
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years past.
Speaker 5 (30:04):
No, they're not gonna have to do anything. Here's what happened.
And I appreciate Mike doing that. I remember him being
a little kid. Oh lord, I'm old.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (30:15):
So they brought everybody back, you know, because they were
defending champions and the window is still open for the
Golden Set Warriors. One of the biggest problems that they
have is lack of size. Now check this out. Sacramento
should have beaten the Warriors, but the Warriors experience destroyed Sacramento.
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So they're gonna be a team to wreck moving forward.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Well, Sacramento is gonna be fun to watch.
Speaker 5 (30:40):
The problem when they ran up against the Lakers, they
lost because of the strength that they used to have
became a weakness.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
They became predictable.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
You know, well you have no bench, you had no
big guys, but.
Speaker 5 (30:57):
They became predictable. Exactly, they became put because the warrior
is one of the things we used to always remember
and enjoy is that the way their offense moved and flowed.
It's like, oh my god, you know, we takeing what
the defense gives us, and then they became a that
predictable aspect of it. And so with Chris Paul, that's
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a big difference. It's gonna throw teams off. I thought
that was a brilliant move because Chris is not He's
not gonna play a lot of games anymore. His body's
not gonna hold up well.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
But it's the NBA regular season. Who does But hey,
unless you want to win an award to play your
sixty five games, how many starts are playing sixty five games?
About being healthy in mid April?
Speaker 5 (31:42):
So some regular guys just gonna win on MVP.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Now, regular guy.
Speaker 5 (31:47):
I like that, and so but it's I think it's
gonna be fun to watch them, you know, with a
Chris Paul. But they still haven't addressed the main issue
kaval Looney cannot do it. You know, I admire him
and it's commendable, but he's They need size. They need
to go out.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Yeah, a good defender, good rebounder, but scoring wise, that's
what I wanted him to go find. Porzingis. Originally, in
terms of big men, there weren't a lot available of
any discernible quality.
Speaker 5 (32:20):
They need a defending big. They don't need any more offense,
to be honest with you, they need stand there, cast
a ball and dunket, but can defend on that end
because you got the guy you gotta go through. You're
gonna have to figure out a way to defend, which
is the Denver Nuggets and and Nicola Jokics. People are
going to have to figure that out. They're gonna have
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to bring out big guys all over again to put
a body on him.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Tyler, you better be running sprints these days.
Speaker 5 (32:49):
They're going to be, because that boy is a problem.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Well, it's also the look. You want to talk about
a team that dodged all of the the issues that
other teams did in terms of health, Like the basketball
gods smiled on them this year after smiting them in
years past. Right, all their key players in their rotations
stayed healthy. We're having some fun with you here, our
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Jason Smith, I'm Mike Carmen. And coming up next we
will go back to the prospecting. Did we see enough
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Had a beautiful Tuesday in Seattle.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
How you doing, man, I'm great.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
While I had a couple of days off, I was
off in the Midwest, sweating my head off. I think
I came back a little leaner and meaner daughter soccer tournament,
and then obviously me being the resident Northwestern guy amongst
the staff here. It's been a weird couple of days.
I got a say, you and I talking briefly as
we get ready to get started here. We'll get into
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that a little later. I fired for cause the latest.
Oh ah, but yeah, it's it's from Friday news dump
to Monday and into today. It's it's a new world
new world order and.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Can so culture.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Well it's look, you know, we'll get into it in
earnest a little bit. But here's the the you know,
thirty thousand, you know, mile high view kind of thing
that we look at here is that you made your decision,
you made your announcement, tried to dump it on Friday
while you're on vacation. You're not because look, I'm calling
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for everybody's heads at this point the way they've handled
this thing. But you major determination. You made a deal
with Fitzgerald and then you decided the court of public
opinion was enough to say, you know what, we should
re examine this. You know, maybe maybe we didn't get
this right. In other words, we'd look bad, the university
looks bad, and this is a terrible thing. So now
we have to change that up. But we'll get into
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that as we flow. As you can tell them a
little bit fired up from.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
This because you in Stork.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
I was in Saint Louis. I was in Chicago for
about twenty four hours. So you're hearing on the local radio.
You're hearing people when you're at a restaurant, you're standing
in line. I was at the Art Institute with my daughter.
You know, we're taking a couple hours and going and
seeing the money exhibits and all of that fun stuff,
and people are talking about it while they're watching and
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taking a look at these classic paintings. So it really
cut through the clutter. And so you know, in a
city like Chicago, as we know, we're loud and we
get after it. And we've got a lot of loud
voices in our sports media world. That's one of the
places where Northwestern has thrived through the years. Some of
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those folks have been quiet. Some are tied to the
university so they can only say so much because they're
part of the decision.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Process, which so weird.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Well, but it's it is the nature of the beast, right,
your board of trustees and people that you bring in.
But we have the Major League Baseball All Star Game
today right now. It is the bottom of the six.
We got one out in a one to one game.
Sho Hao Tani obviously the the darling of everybody's eyes.
They're off right, you know, we cut to.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
It right away.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Right, you've got these teal things. What you're fine, right,
Mariner colors. But here's the thing. This is where and
I know it's a different world than you and I
grew up in, right where we can see every team,
we can see every game. Now you've got the stupid
blackout restrictions and all of those things that apply. But
in the end, if you really want to work and
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watch players beyond just the Sports Center and Fox Sports
Highlights or the little clips that show up on whatever
social media platform you're using, Threads or Twitter or whatever
hasn't been I didn't see you get invented today, whatever
you're using, this is your opportunity. Need to really showcase
a lot of these young players, right, first time, second
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time All Stars. We've got a lot of representation from
the Oels. Nobody nationally knows who these guys are unless
they collect baseball exactly.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
And that's why I was upset about the Elie de
la Cruz thing, because I'm like, dude, all SAW games
should be about entertainment and putting you know, the best
player that kid is and he's impressed.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Well, that's just it. You've got to figure out a
way and then and this goes to baseball. This goes
to that for every sport, right because Summer League basketball
is as odd and weird as it can be. And
we'll talk about it, but when Minyama played his two games,
it was a spectacle.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
I can't wait till we test but people.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Got excited right for Summer League basketball right up in Sacrama.
But but but I'm just saying, look sport, the sport,
you have these things that cut through where you can
push through. Here, you've got an all star game, and
people have seen clips of Elie Dela Cruz right the
other day, steals second, steals third, and as the pitcher
gets lazy, steals home. He's been unbelievable. And Jason and
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I we've talked about it a lot. He was on
my radar again, you know, as my prospecting in the
sports collectibles world whatever. But people know a lot of
these young guys there and they see, you know, a
little bit of breakthrough in the Twitter verse of whoever
they follow that covers the game. But here's the opportunity
in their home uniforms like they did once upon a time.
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Everybody keeps putting up the great class pictures of old,
especially the pillbox hat wearing Pirates right, the Covira, right,
the Cobra, Dave Parker, You've got Willie Start, You got
those guys, But like all just the array of uniforms
because they're identifiers, right, because we have a lot of
fun here, right, You talk to the players in the field.
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You're talking to the managers. Pitcher finishes an inning, right
you I struck out Otani. Look what they did for
me and all this stuff. This is great, all these
great things. So get the visual right because we're a
visual of course people. So if I'm seeing them in
these uniforms, that really their nondescript. Here's your kind of blue,
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darker blue National League and then your Teel American League
again it then the nod to the home city of
the All Star Game. But here's an opportunity to showcase
people in their uniforms. You know why, because you're probably
gonna get more people to buy those than you are
a national national team jersey of Juan Soto or any
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of these guys.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
It's all financial anyway. I don't like the San Diego
Padres uniforms. By the way, that doodle brown.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Well, I'd like it to go back. If we're going
to commit to it, let's just go back to the
Tony Gwynlins. Oh yeah, okay, like I mean brown brown.
But to your point about Elie de la Cruz, you
have an exhibition, you know, and and summer league guys play.
It's their team whatever. But the idea is you've got
to be an opportunity for a spectacle. So if someone
breaks through the noise of a season, especially as we
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get to Game eighty eight five and a lot of
teams are kind of settling into who they are. And
it's great that you have a lot of smaller market,
mid market teams that are part of the mix. Right,
there's that's very exciting. Right, Pittsburgh had their great run
to start the season. Everybody's looking around, going what Baltimore
has been great, Tampa has been great except for the
last week, and eventually, you know, we'll talk about your
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Yankees and and the consternation there hitting coach. I know
you bring in Sean Casey, career three ZHO two hitter
to try to turn things around. But it's the idea
where you have an exhibition. Why is there not the
extra exemption for the roster ad whether you want to
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add a veteran who's probably gonna retire as we've done
in years past. Right, those guys made teams because you're
assuming might be the last time they're going to be
in an All Star Game. Showing the love here, you've
got a guy like de la Cruz. People are seeing
highlights feature to him, give him an opportunity.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
That's that's why I'm upset we're not seeing enough a
Della Cruise because he plays for the Reds, you know.
And so it's like when we do get the opportunity
with seeing the highlights, and I'm like, Okay, come on now,
I want to see more of this guy. I'm looking
for Cincinnati Reds Baseball. I literally am no.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
And that's the great thing, you know, for for Major
League Baseball. If they're smart, they're marketing. And as we're
watching the broadcast, if you're smart, you're you're going and
you're showing every way you can consume this. You want
to get the audio package, get the audio package you want.
Mlt TV great, But Sunday Night Baseball, with the way
they're playing right now, since he got called up, since
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Joey Vado came off the IL, Sunday Night Baseball doesn't
need to be the Red Sox and the Yankees again,
even the Red Sox manager, we're saying we did this
two weeks in a row. Who wants to watch this
plus their schedule and what it does to their their
rhythms and timing if you have to change to a
prime time when it would have normally been a getaway
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day afternoon game.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
This reminds me of I can't remember the title of
the movie right now, but it was an Eddie Murphy
movie when he he he was a com man. The
title will come to me. But anyway, he ran for office,
right He went to d C and ran for office,
and all he was running on was his name. You know,
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he had the last name of a guy that was
very popular. So he milked it and ran on that ticket.
And so it reminds me of that. It's like we're
getting and I'm a Yankee fan, but we getting Boston
Yankees all the time. That no, it was both oh
my god, no, I know that title bow Finger with
Steve Martin.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
But but the point.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
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Speaker 5 (11:01):
MLB is like stuck on stupid in a way, because
it's like, well, let's just give them Yankees, Red Sox,
Let's give them Dodgers whomever, because that's it. And you
limit yourself you know, it's like, man, I still remember
the Big Red Machine. Back then, they had stars, you know.
I think back then you got to see and get
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to know more players. I knew guys on the Oakland
A's back then, as well as the Yankees. I knew
guys Cincinnati. I knew guys on Pittsburgh, you know, Willie
Stargo and all them guys. So it's like I knew
more players back then than I do now because now
I'm just seeing six seventeen.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Well, I mean to be fair, I think back in
the day it was the same circumstance because you had
really only your one National game on Saturdays. But I
still knew more, right, No, no, but that's the thing, right,
there's a passion for it.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
We have baseball cards right well, so we kept up
with that. We do. Oh yeah, huge business that a
long time ago into that you.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Want to make some money. Right now, the LEDA cruise
market is through the roof. But the just I've been
doing dabbling for years, but like the prospecting is still there,
just like you did years ago. Not to mention the
vintage stuff, but we'll make a collectible segment maybe later
in the show. But the idea being that you do
have all of these venues by which to promote right
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between social media, between your MLB TV, but all these that's.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Still only promoting a futile well.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
And that, and that's the thing that's gotta gotta change
in terms of.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
Should have been playing right now? Period? Sure twas period.
Let him play is exciting.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
But we as we know baseball. Look, I give him
credit because they were the first to go to getting
you your audio broadcast and everything. Well, yes, fraud whatever.
Remember we also have a Dodger fan, so he's going
to have a long standing gripe with Rob Manford it
deservedly so. But this is a case where the commissioner, Yeah,
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come over the top, do something positive for the game.
A guy that gave you a lot of run. What
is it about a month since he's been called up.
He's in the news every day, So you're right justin
it's the all right, here's my executive order. I can
tell you a lot and do a lot of how's
the power right? All the songs and dance about who's
moving where and what and tap dancing around all that,
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but you have the opportunity to just say, you know what,
the fans love this kid. He's good for baseball. I
love that he put Dave Martinez in his place last week.
You want to talk about it, to talk about a whiner,
Oh Dave Martinez. Seemingly every two to three games, we've
got something silly. But the fact that he turned to
him is like, you want to check it out.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
Well, he came through.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
No, that's it.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
He came through, and then like check this, that's.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Heroic stuff there as we're coming to you alive for
the diraq dot com studios, having a blast with you,
Mike Carmen, alongside old and polonies. It is good to
be back in the chair. A couple of days off
running around the Midwest uneven tournament, but everybody came out
I think relatively healthy. Yeah, I'm not sure who actually
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won the thing. I know, I know we didn't. So
it became a all right, are we winning our next game?
And they played well so bad breaks a lot of crossbars.
If there was a crossbar hitting competition.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
We would have won.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
We would have won by far. But you know, yes,
the good, the bad, the ugly.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
But how about this? Did they have fun.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Most of the time?
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Well, you get used to winning old and you know this, right,
it's like anything in life. If we could tie it
to the Northwestern story, we could tie whatever. If everybody
tells you how great you are and you're rolling over competition,
adversity sometime punches you in the face, so the fun
goes out really fast, you right, and you need to
you know, snap, snap back into it, get that clear
(15:08):
the mechanism kind of moment, and get back after it,
which they did, and they found that that hunger again.
But now that's it a little for love of the game.
By the way, the movie referenced before was the distinguished General.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
Distinguished gentleman, my lord, I can't believe I didn't remember that.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Well anytime you can include the great Charles in a
segment of Fox Sports Radio, we've all won.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
It didn't get.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
There, you go stay and now movie reviews along the way, Hey,
coming up X, We'll stay with Major League Baseball because
you know what, sometimes you can't have nice things. Be
careful what you ask for in some of these exhibitions
along the way, because just like I'm crying a little
bit about my university and the slings and arrows and
(15:55):
and what was going on. Well, my baseball team took
a gut knee capped as well.
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Show with Me Mike Carmon. No Jason Smith. Tonight, Olden
polonies in his stead as we watch the glory of
the All Star Game where am I runs at it's
two to one seventh NY.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
I'm not even watching that. I'm watching the Proud of
the Yankees over here.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
We got Pride of the Yankee. It's a sports celebration.
We got some summer league. Hey. You know though, Olden,
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the early part of this hour, we were talking about
(16:52):
Elie Della Cruz wanting to see them participate, and every
year we have these same discussions related to the events
of an All Star Week for the NBA. It's why
is and so and so Dunky? Who is this guy
that gets three point seven minutes at the back end
of the bench playing and jumping out of the gym
(17:15):
during All Star weekend in Major League Baseball, we got
a lot of the heavy hitters that came to play
for the home run Derby. But in the past it
took a lot of poking prodding. Now you had guys
like Griffy and we've certainly seen all of those heroics
and yesterday Julio Rodriguez with his forty one home runs
and the ridiculousness they're in, you know, Vlad Herrero Junior. Finally, well,
(17:39):
I mean it's like punching yourself out if your boxer.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
Okay, with that home run derby, I don't like that style.
I don't like the matchups. That's good for bet you
guys could have good days with them. One of the
top two guys, they'll he'll knock the other one out.
I'd rather just the highest numbers advance.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Yeah, I mean this makes a good head to head betting.
Welcome Olden.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Out.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
You see all the spots ship and everything else. That's
where we're at, you know, over unders and uh, you
know what's the betting line for these matchups. I bring
this up because you know, I like to have some
nice things. I don't have a lot of them in
my sports presence, you know, present time, and and and
where I'm at right now, and and over the last week,
(18:27):
you know, watching what went on and in the Northwestern circumstance.
But my team's in general, right, Northwestern has been terrible.
They had to win in Ireland, but the last couple
of years it's it's been an absolute train wreck. My
White Sox signed, a lot of young players, haven't been
able to come cool through the Bulls, a lot of talent.
Lonzo Ball gets hurt, may never play.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Basketball again at this point.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
All right, but you had a bunch of stars, didn't
come together, didn't coalesce to anything of substance. Blackhawks, they
were bad enough to get the.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Number one overall pick.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
So you've got all that, and the Cubs of the
Cubs hate the Cubs, so we don't we don't talk
about that. I'm a south side or if you if
you can't tell, but just go through all the teams
and it's the all right, give me that glimmer of hope, right,
hope springs eternal spring training. We get excitable about it.
Maybe this is the year that the young guys and
I hate that as a fan of the White Sox,
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nobody cares. Generally they wear the hats. You could, I
could find I could throw a quarter in the air.
It's gonna hit someone wearing the black White Sox hat. Right,
that's how pervasive it is in the culture in terms
of people.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
No, no, no, outside of w A, only a car.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
That's my point is that still holds. So as you
travel you will see White Sox.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
Yeah, not as much as them them boys over there.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
That's also thirty years ago, but with n w A
and all that. Yeah, but when we look at the
White Sox, right, it's like the excitement of all right,
the young guys, will they behealthy? Dot dot dot. And
we'd play that game with a lot of teams, certainly
in Los Angeles. That's the game you play when you're
talking about the Lakers. They could be really good if
this guy's healthy, that guy's healthy, et cetera. With the
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White Sox, we finally have Lewis Robert Junior playing and
playing well, hitting two seventy one but twenty six home
runs and decides to be part of the home run derby.
He tweaked his knee, was not available for Tonight's All
Star Game, and now calls into question whether he'll be
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damaged goods as the White Sox look ahead to the
trade deadline, which is just down the wire here and
seemingly anybody could be had if the price is right.
But because of the inclusion in the exhibition, and he
was swinging a really cool looking bat, the paint job
on them his next lot of stuff holding. But it's
the I always understood why guys wouldn't do it, Personal embarrassment,
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brand management potential for Look, all it takes is one
slip in a meaningless quote unquote exhibition that you got
a guy hurt here. It's just you're tempting fate with
a guy who's been injury prone for the last several years,
and the unfortunate happens. Well, why does it always have
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to happen to me? Olden? This is about a therapy session. Face.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
You know what's so funny? It's like I've looked at
it over the years in all kinds of sports. I
don't believe NFL should have an All Star game like
a pro Bowl because no one plays hard. That's why
they change into flag football and baseball. Definitely, your stars
should be in there because I mean, it's rare that
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you're gonna get hurt playing baseball basketball. I never understood
why guys I wanted to be in everything. Unfortunately I wasn't,
you know, an All Star, but I would have done
every event, you know, because part of it, Yes, because
to me, that's fun. Experience it all because a lot
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of these guys, whether Lebron knows it or not, he'll
be sitting back as a grandfather and he's gonna be like, dang, man,
I wonder what would have happened if I had played.
He's always gonna have that doubt. He's always gonna have
that in his head. I don't care what anybody says.
He can say he didn't want to do it or whatever,
He's always gonna have that doubt. And so to me,
(22:27):
you have to enjoy everything in this totality, you know,
And so that's what I get out of it. Again,
the All Star Game is about stars, not God, because
a lot of times guys that are playing well don't
even get selected. And so to me, you want to
promote your game. You want to promote your stars, you
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have to do it at any possible moment. And again
they missed a big opportunity. And that's what it's kind
of like off putting to me, is the fact that right,
Manfred should have just been like, hey, you know what
executive order, Ellie you're in.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Well, it just seems like every opportunity you have to
promote when we're talking about the dollars at stake, right,
Rob Manford in his state of the Union rights as
you do at every All Star break, talking about expansion,
talking about changes to the game. Right, the A's are
in process to make their move to Nevada. Okay, you
(23:26):
got to figure out whether the Rays are moving just
across the freeway and whether Moneys get freed up to
keep them down there. Is it viable, is it actionable
to stay down there? Or do they end up in
Montreal or somewhere else.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
We're going back to Montreal. The potential is there Wait
a minute on Van Washington.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Uh, Tom Shane right with the NBA. The NBA adam.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
Summer Montreal and gone back.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
Well, well but they go back for you know, for
a little talk by franchise. There's gonna be the third
iteration of the exposed question. It's gonna at leads me
the third. I know the original Montreal exposed, then they left,
then they went back, then they left. If they come back,
it's got to be at least three.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Oh no, no, no, in nineteen sixty ninety, two thousand.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
And four, that's the original expose. Yeah, and then they left.
But yeah they came Washington.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
But I mean, look, who says you can't go.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
And I thought they went back.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
No, no, no, they played some games there, but they never
went back.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
Oh they ain't put the franchise back there. You sure, Oka.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
So the potential is there to go back now, I'm
to put it be just like going back to Seattle
in the NBA.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
They haven't done that yet, but that's.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Part of this. But but the point is you can
go back again. Times change, circumstances change, viewing, habits, populations change.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
Can I ask you a question if and you know,
I hate doing this, but if Ellie was in there.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Just you're just obsessed with this guy, And.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
If he had been in the All Star Game and
he got on first base, can you imagine what everybody
would be thinking, Well, he's going for a second.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Just run. I mean, you do have some advantages now
if you're a base stealer because of the pitch clock
and everything else, advantage and you watch it in the.
Speaker 5 (25:24):
Big advantage that's huge, all right. And then they just
said that they're gonna.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
You can't do the step off more than once, like
all of all of that is is help. Well, but
that's he's just not stopping. He's gonna run through the
But then again, if you're a starting pitcher and you
do what my man did.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
The said they're gonna look at the pitch timer.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Yeah, we'll talk about that in a minute, because.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
Am I jumping the gun here?
Speaker 3 (25:50):
No? No, no, it's a veritable poe for me and
everything we're talking about here and the conversation just flus.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
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Now three two to the National League doing something they
normally don't in All Star games. They're winning Olden polonies.
The American League usually the dominant force when it comes
(26:46):
to this game year after year. But we've got ourselves
a beautiful exhibition here now in the eighth inning of
three to two game, as we flow through all the
stars except for Elie Dela Cruz and Olden is going
to put on a sandwich board and walk around these
streets of La calling for Rob Manford's dismissal for not
(27:07):
using his executive powers.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
I'm good, it's all right, you know, I get it.
I was trying for you, but I know it's all right.
It's all right.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
They missed, they missed the boat.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
But the catcher for the Rockies, Elias d Yeah, yeah,
he hands all run and so now three two lead
National League as we get into the eighth inning. But
a story that I got of chuckled at because one
of the famous quotes in the Dave wanstat era of
the Chicago Bears was when he said all the pieces
(27:38):
are in place, and then they went out and had
a terrible season. Mike Dunleavy Junior, now in charge of
things with Bob Meyer's moving on from the Golden State Warriors.
He decided he's he's got to talk it up and
certainly you're gonna be bullish on your team's outlook for
the season ahead as you go through summer league and
(27:59):
all this. But he says, quote, I think anytime you
go in off season, you're trying to make adjustments and
changes get yourself back up to the level. First foremost,
you don't want to get the call for your star
players agent asking out. And then he chuckled, said that
didn't happen, so that's good. But says with the talent
on this squad that this is a contender right now
bringing back Draymond Green, and obviously you're hoping that Klay Thompson,
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more removed from the injury, can be the Klay Thompson
you remember as opposed to the guy that couldn't hit
the broadside of a barn. In the playoffs this year
in that series against the Lakers, defensive liability, like all
of that, and recognize the physicality of it and trying
to come back off injuries. Don't dismiss it. But assuming
another year later, another year older that this trio, particularly
(28:48):
when you look at Draymond Green.
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Speaker 3 (29:20):
Motivator, whatever you want to call him. And still a
good instigator, still a good playmaker, still a good defender.
But bringing him back and excising Jordan Poole is going
to be the thing that and bringing in Chris Paul right,
because that's the other part of it. You bring in
Chris Paul, and with that come a lot of questions
of Chris Paul, how you operate, how you're going to
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work your offense? Is he going to be happy working
a second unit? Is your style of play going to change?
Right to Steve Kerr or Steph Curry and company go
back to the drawing board and have to change things
up to accommodate Chris Paul in terms of how you
run and how you pace your offense as opposed to
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years past.
Speaker 5 (30:04):
No, they're not gonna have to do anything. Here's what happened.
And I appreciate Mike doing that. I remember him being
a little kid. Oh lord, I'm old.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (30:15):
So they brought everybody back, you know, because they were
defending champions and the window is still open for the
Golden Set Warriors. One of the biggest problems that they
have is lack of size. Now check this out. Sacramento
should have beaten the Warriors, but the Warriors experience destroyed Sacramento.
(30:36):
So they're gonna be a team to wreck moving forward.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Well, Sacramento is gonna be fun to watch.
Speaker 5 (30:40):
The problem when they ran up against the Lakers, they
lost because of the strength that they used to have
became a weakness.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
They became predictable.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
You know, well you have no bench, you had no
big guys, but.
Speaker 5 (30:57):
They became predictable. Exactly, they became put because the warrior
is one of the things we used to always remember
and enjoy is that the way their offense moved and flowed.
It's like, oh my god, you know, we takeing what
the defense gives us, and then they became a that
predictable aspect of it. And so with Chris Paul, that's
(31:18):
a big difference. It's gonna throw teams off. I thought
that was a brilliant move because Chris is not He's
not gonna play a lot of games anymore. His body's
not gonna hold up well.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
But it's the NBA regular season. Who does But hey,
unless you want to win an award to play your
sixty five games, how many starts are playing sixty five games?
About being healthy in mid April?
Speaker 5 (31:42):
So some regular guys just gonna win on MVP.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Now, regular guy.
Speaker 5 (31:47):
I like that, and so but it's I think it's
gonna be fun to watch them, you know, with a
Chris Paul. But they still haven't addressed the main issue
kaval Looney cannot do it. You know, I admire him
and it's commendable, but he's They need size. They need
to go out.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Yeah, a good defender, good rebounder, but scoring wise, that's
what I wanted him to go find. Porzingis. Originally, in
terms of big men, there weren't a lot available of
any discernible quality.
Speaker 5 (32:20):
They need a defending big. They don't need any more offense,
to be honest with you, they need stand there, cast
a ball and dunket, but can defend on that end
because you got the guy you gotta go through. You're
gonna have to figure out a way to defend, which
is the Denver Nuggets and and Nicola Jokics. People are
going to have to figure that out. They're gonna have
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to bring out big guys all over again to put
a body on him.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Tyler, you better be running sprints these days.
Speaker 5 (32:49):
They're going to be, because that boy is a problem.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Well, it's also the look. You want to talk about
a team that dodged all of the the issues that
other teams did in terms of health, Like the basketball
gods smiled on them this year after smiting them in
years past. Right, all their key players in their rotations
stayed healthy. We're having some fun with you here, our
(33:14):
one coming to an end here olden polonies, and for
Jason Smith, I'm Mike Carmen. And coming up next we
will go back to the prospecting. Did we see enough
from Victor Webb min Yama to whet the appetite
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