August 24, 2024 • 40 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon react to Shohei Ohtani reaching the 40-40 club by hitting a Walk Off Grand Slam for the Dodgers.
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Well, we'll get to Dion Sanders coming up in a second,
because oh boy, the more time goes on, the more
I think this might be his last year coaching football. However,
we have to get into the drama that we just
saw moments ago, because listen, if we we talked about
a season we're getting out of Aaron Judge that we
haven't seen from someone winning an MVP in over twenty
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years or almost twenty years. What showy Otani has done tonight,
but more importantly, what he's probably going to do. Check
this out game was tied tonight, bottom of the ninth,
raising the Dodgers. Otani, who hasn't really been hitting great recently,
decided to change that narrative.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
With this swing first bitch for what's ser field series?
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Going back, He's at the track, He's at the wall.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
Forty thirty block of Grand Slam Way.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
What a moment history.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
The sixth member of the forty forty club makes the
most dramatic end the club you could imagine with a
walkoff Grand Slam.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Dodgers Radio Network on the Callboy, they hit I love
La really fat. I don't even think Otani was around
the bases, Nolai, but.
Speaker 6 (02:13):
He might have been there live to play it. That's
how fast that came up. Brandy hit my music. Hey listen,
the Mets do this thing with Timmy Trumpet.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Can you show up, Brandon? Yeah, sure, I'm not doing anything.
I've done anything in thirty years. A two out bases
loaded walk off Grand Slam for Shoo Tani. He is
now the sixth ever member of the forty forty club.
In MLB history, forty home runs, forty stolen bases. Hell, Like,
this is something. Look, you're talking about things we haven't
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seen all that often. This is something we watched Ronald
LeCun You do last year forty one home run, seventy
three RBIs. It was really some kind of year. And
I remember because people counted down to this from like April.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Oh, oh, Cocunya is seven and nine, he's ten and twelve.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
I'm like, okay enough, and now he's twenty and twenty four,
he's twenty four.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
We're in thirty seven. Okay enough.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Before that, Alfonso Soriano in two thousand and six, a Rod,
Barry Bonds, Jose Canseco. That is your list of forty
forty players, and it's the forty to forty club is historical,
lizz ro manic.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
How can you not be romantic about baseball? Right?
Speaker 1 (03:16):
It's everything that we think about. We think about players
that combine power and speed and legends of the game,
and again, it's only been done six times in baseball history.
I got news for you. Choyotani has another five weeks
to play, and he hasn't been hitting well, so you know,
likely he's heating up. But you want to look at
what he's projected as I'll tell you this right now,
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he's gonna be the first fifty to fifty player in
Major League Baseball history. He's got five weeks to ten
home runs and steal ten bases. We really think he's
not gonna do it. He's projected right now for home
runs to finish at fifty. That's gonna be the big one.
He'll be able to steal ten bases, right, that's gonna
be something with Tani's gonna be able to do. But
the home runs, but he hits him in bunches fifty fit.
(04:01):
Just think about that forty forty that's the thing in
the past. Now, like that would take the forty forty
club and go, yeah, that's nice. Like the forty forty
would be the new thirty thirty club. Right, Hey, guys
are thirty thirty. That's great, what a great thing. No,
then's a fifty to fifty club. Ohtani will have changed
what becomes acceptable in Major League Baseball. Now you're looking
at an American League and National League MVP. Aaron Judge
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hasn't had a season offensively that we haven't seen in
twenty years and would show Tani be the first guy
in the history of the game to be a fifty
to fifty guy. Like, that's absolutely insane, and we're getting
that right now.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
You know what.
Speaker 6 (04:34):
The biggest thing he can do, though, is what it's
recognized that Mookie Bett should be the leadoff hitter, and
maybe he'd get back to hitting more than just the
home runs.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Look what I did there?
Speaker 6 (04:46):
What about marcell Azuna, Like he's in the middle of
all of this with his thirty seven home runs, ninety
four RB high.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Yeah that's great. Yeah, yeah, that's great. That's nice. Yeah,
that's nice. Yeah, that's great. Great, great seasons, great today.
Speaker 6 (04:58):
He's a guy that potentially, I mean, he's in the
running car triple crown.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Yeah, that's great, that's great. Is he really in the
running though? I don't know, but he is.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
He's only a couple of home runs behind Otani's.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Rise.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yeah, well, I would say this though, I would say
this and rbi wise, he and Otani are basically equal.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Right, So if if battle for the final five weeks, if.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
He wins the Triple Crown, but Otani is fifty to fifty,
Otani gets the MVP.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
I just thought I had to raise my hand. No,
I know, I'm with you.
Speaker 6 (05:30):
Particularly you know, he's hitting it in a lineup that's
been fraught with the injury. Not that the Dodgers have not,
but you know, no, Ronald Acunya Junior, you know, the
last member of this for sure. You keep talking about
getting into that, you know, with a secret handshake and all,
but he's still you know, wrapping away.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
So I don't know if you just think it's kind
of curious.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
No, I hey, and and and when are you ever
going to get to say, hey, got a triple crown,
finish a distance second in m VP.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
That would be something.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
But I mean that that's the reality of of how
interesting this becomes. With therew that Ozuna has had, is
that more or less we bring him in and bring
him up because well, we love to talk baseball a bunch,
and well you hate the Braves, but it's the idea
that it's been so much about the greatness of Otani.
And on the other side, what Judge has done. Bobby
(06:19):
Witt Junior. Unless you're a Baseball card officionado or love
the al Central, you have been paying attention.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
To what Bobby wit Junior has been.
Speaker 6 (06:27):
Doing likewise Marcelo Zuna storyline. Now it's been far more
interesting to watch former White Sox now good again, Chris
Sale and potential Cy Young run.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Now, I will say this that this is what breaks
the argument for me for Sho Heo Tani versus if
you win, if you win the Triple crowd, Yes, the
the show Hao Tani Bobblehead Knights will be more than
Marcelo Zuna.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
Well, you know that the next one that comes up
has decoy on there include true Russian gold.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
You're rated.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
You're not real gold like the Olympics, you know where
it's two percent of you will medal or whatever.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
But yeah, you're absolutely right.
Speaker 7 (07:06):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Miguel Cabrera won the Triple Crown in twenty twelve. Okay
won the Triple Crown in twenty twelve. We saw that
Triple Crown was also won by Yustremsky, Frank Robinson, Mickey Mannle,
Ted Williams did it twice, lou Garrey, Jimmy Fox, Rogers,
hornsby Chuck Klein, Ducky Medwick. Not that we remember these,
but in the one hundred and forty seasons of Major
(07:29):
League Baseball, we've seen the Triple Crown about twelve times.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
We've never seen fifty to fifty. We have a ducky
Medwick in we've I know, right, come on, so that
really U pushed. I had him in fantasy that year.
I was very excited, like he really gave me a
lot of points.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
But I mean, you're talking about what we've seen that
twelve times and we saw it a decade ago. Not
to diminish it, but if you're talking about how do
you differentiate a triple crown versus fifty to fifty, I mean,
it's not like you're you've made up a stat like
O shoheo Tani is the first guy with thirty five
home and thirty steals and one hundred RBI.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
With a war over ten and of one.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
I mean that's that Those are stats that're just made
up to make something. The first guy to do that
since Babe Ruth. That's not even a stat. It's just
something you said, right, It's not even a stat like
fifty to fifty is a thing.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
Many to have these chats with a body mass index over.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
With a body mass in you know, we had to
show here Tany's BMI was very low a lot lower
than Babe Ruth.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
So I know what if it was higher, he gets
extra points.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
So if the body mass is higher, Oh, it was.
Speaker 6 (08:40):
It was something that Maher, the women's rugby player, can
bring it.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
I was like, I get it, I get it. I
have a high BMI. I'm an athlete. Shut up. But
but like you know, forty forty is a thing. It's
it's a it's.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Ingrained in baseball. It's ingrained in baseball history, just like
the triple crowd. I'm not saying that crown isn't, but
we've seen that twelve times. We have never seen fifty
to fifty, which is something that I mean, I don't
know how I'll never see it again.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
I don't think you'll.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
I mean, as good as Otani is, we're gonna go
fifty five. There's a reason why no one's done it
in one hundred some odd years, and it took Otani
till he's thirty years old.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
If he winds up doing it, but like that's kind
of why I can Yeah, I can easily.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Say, yeah, I'll give Otani the MVP if he goes
fifty to fifty over some winning triple crown.
Speaker 6 (09:25):
Yeah, dred percent but now I have to question his
entire career ready flame coming, and I know he's been
pitching for part of it. Yeah, his career hide and
stolen bases before this was twenty six. So what you're
saying is, as a member of the Angels, maybe could
you have tried on the base paths to generate some
more runs?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
What can we do that a little bit?
Speaker 6 (09:47):
And you hear my flamethrower revving u as I say that, Okay,
maybe maybe he didn't give Arney Morino every every bit.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
That you could have. I was just too tired from
pitching that I couldn't.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
No, I was too damn tired of carrying your team
because Rendon and Trout were ever on the field.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
How about how about this?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
I'll give you this right now, and and and here's
the thing, Otani with the Angels, how much easier was
it to pitch around him than it is to pitch
around him.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
With the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Right, It's a lot easier to not give him good
stuff to hit, Like the guy walked a hundred times,
you know, and made most of his be right around
one hundred times with the Angels.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
That's kind of a thing, you know.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
I mean in other years, he you know, he missed
a lot of games, right, a couple of years, one
hundred and four games, one hundred and six games, one
hundred and thirty games. So yeah, I mean yeah, when
you're in a lineup that's got Freddie Freeman hitting it,
you know, behind you and Will Smith, you can't really
pitch around you, you know, So you get more strikes,
you get on base more, and you wind up getting
a chance to steal more bases. I mean, I think
(10:59):
I think it's kind of I don't know, I think
it's kind of that simple that you're getting more chances
to run and you're probably dininish because the team, so
you're probably but you're probably getting the green light to
run more because you're not playing the field at all, right,
You're not playing first base, you're just d hing. He
wants to steal, and he feels more confident doing it, Okay.
(11:20):
I mean, like, who's gonna like like, like, what are
you gonna say, Oh, hey, steroids, he's.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Stealing bases the effort before. Come on, man, come on,
hot take nonsense. No, it is really it is, I.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Mean real because I mean, yeah, but but he's one
of those guys that also to take away from the
Angels part, because I really you know, saying about the
Angels like that slow hanging fruit.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
There's certain players that are so good at what.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
They do there are times when they decide, you know
what I want to do this year, I want to
do this, Like Ken Griffy Junior was big for that,
Like I think about not maybe not midway point of
his career, but at some point in the in I
don't know if like I said, I don't know if
it was about halfway through or maybe a little bit
before that where he decided, you know what, I want
(12:17):
to hit fifty home runs a year. Now I can
do that, right because like the first few years of
his career his high was forty five and then he
got to be like twenty seven, twenty eight years old.
All of a sudden, Hey, guess what, you know, he
wasn't on performance because a guy couldn't stay healthy, right
if he was on to be able to stay But
it's like all of a sudden, I think he decided,
I want to hit more home runs and then he
was fifty six fifty six, forty eight for it being
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health I mean, like I think I remember him talking
about that, saying, I think I can hit more home runs,
and suddenly Bank I'm hitting more home runs, like like
Otania could be like you know, I could steal more basis.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Go ahead, show, go ahead and steal basis. You know
how to slide?
Speaker 7 (12:52):
Right?
Speaker 1 (12:52):
We don't want you. Okay, great, if you want to
slide that fide, we'll teach you.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
It's easy.
Speaker 6 (12:55):
We'll put you to the Bears training camp putting out
with Caleb Williams.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
We'll put out the slip and slides. Everybody will slide.
It's fine. I'll tell you to you know, a quick story.
That's how I would do it.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
With with the girls, we would always do sliding practice
that you know, to get them ready for the season
and show them different ways to slide. And I would
always I say, listen, there's a couple of ways you
can slide, a couple.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Of ways you can do it. Uh.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
You know you can slide head first. I'd show some
of them how to slide head first because you could
do it safely, uh, and do it that way. And
then there's also times where I would say, okay, but
let me show you how to slide the right way,
and we would always take not so much. We would
take a slip and slide. We would take like these
like potato sacks and and and and uh sort of
just uh uh uh put them down and they would
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run and slide on the potato sack and and and
go as far as they can. And that was how
they would learn how to slide. They would slide on
the grass on a potato sack, and it was and
it was fantastic. They all learned and it was, Hey,
I feel like I know how to slide. Coach, great, great,
you know there's no potato sacks during the game, so
I understand.
Speaker 8 (13:59):
No.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
I would put soft dirt out and everything else. We
got soft dirt for a year around the bass potato sacks.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Let's go. It's all good. I know. I would it
would h that was a fun way to do it.
I would just say that.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
Just as you're you know, laying that out and talking
about the practices, we watch it. Hey, this guy learned
to do this how I abused my body as a
kid because nobody ever taught us proper techniques to all
of that. So you just threw your body into it.
Here proper tackling technique. Nope, just go stop that guy.
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Catcher's gonna block the plate, slide around him, hook slide.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
What the hell's that run over? Show?
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Hey, os On, I mean fifty to fifty. He's gonna
be the fifty first fifty to fifty guy in baseball history,
in the history of the game.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
It's amazing, amazing.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
Like you'all say, right, you see baseball every year, we
see stuff we haven't before.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Now, Jason Stark, I'll.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Remember that the rest of my life, every every time
baseball has been played for one hundred and forty years,
and you still every couple of weeks ago, I've I've
never seen that before. I've never seen that before. Uh,
speaking of things you've never seen before. Coming up next,
we're gonna play you the final play of tonight's forty
nine Ers Raiders game. Not gonna tell you how it ended,
(15:16):
not gonna tell you what happened, but I will say this,
I'm pretty sure there were twenty laterals on the final play.
And I'm not overestimating for effect or for a wow factor.
I think there were twenty laterals on the final play.
You'll hear that. More big stuff from football. We'll get
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We'll get to Dion Sanders coming up in a couple
of minutes. However, uh, I can tell you the final
play of the Niners and the Raiders is just perfection,
(17:15):
absolutely outstanding. The game is twenty four to twenty four.
You know, no overtime. Okay, Niners have the ball, so
you know what hail Mary is coming. But obviously hail
Mary is coming. The ball near midfield. Why not throw
it up. Let's see what we get. Well, this is
what happened because the hail Mary was caught at the
(17:39):
ten yard line. But that was just the beginning of
the fun. Take a listen, Dear Francisco.
Speaker 8 (17:48):
Final play of the preseason horna trying to get it
to the end zone.
Speaker 10 (17:53):
All back there.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
HiT's kind of unt.
Speaker 8 (17:58):
Taylor, he tried to.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
It's so loose, Ronnie.
Speaker 8 (18:03):
Bell, that's the football. Oh, it's fun the rusky time
at a legend stadium. Well, you don't expect to see
this at the end of a preseason years Cardy Schrader
still loose Snyders offensive lineman has tackled at the three, so.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
He wouldn't have mattered anyway to flog his down.
Speaker 11 (18:31):
Sebastian Goodiers, this was an absolutely insane play that resulted
in I think nine nine if I counted right, I
could be wrong because I think there were nine laterals,
and even the guys at the end had stopped talking
when it would got to be the most exciting.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
You had alignment running for the end zone and he
got tackled at the three yard line. He was one
on one if he wasn't get tackled. He gets in
the end zone and you just hear, guys, yeah there
it is, and oh tackle it the three?
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Wait? What? Like? The play is incredibly exciting.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Now, yes, it would have got called back because there
was a forward lateral at one point the quarterback got
in the middle of it.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
He ran all the way down you of that wings
the ball out.
Speaker 6 (19:17):
He's the guy that actually commits the penalty with the
forward pass. But no, that's that's about as fun as
it gets because absolute chaos. The ball keeps squirting free,
and you get the offensive linemen who are salivating because
they actually get to touch the football. Oh yeah, the
guy who I was a big kid. We've talked about this, right,
(19:37):
I wasn't much shorter than I am now, still the
fire plug. But they had weight limits in grade school
and I was always over, which meant if you somehow
had caught the ball recovered a fumble, you basically were down,
like you had to give yourself up and that was
the end of the play. So you'd always try to
cut weight. So now you're, you know, just under that
(19:58):
weight limit and you're running over people. I don't know
how much better that was for anything, because now you
got a guy who's I don't know, like me five
pounds under play tight end on occasion and then running
amuck on these little guys that are playing cornerback in
a league where there's not a lot of passing, but
same kind of thing. You touch the ball when you
(20:18):
had the opportunity and you just start rumbling. It's like
it's gonna take three or four people or they're gonna
have to chop my legs out to get me down.
And you saw a little of that in this final play,
where the linemen may be a little more active than
they'd be on a play normally. Now it's downfield, I'm
done here. I might actually get the ball back.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
You want to know how how crazy to play this
was is? I'm looking at the play by play description
in the box score on the on ESPN dot com. Right,
you know that you play by play and it's so
crazy they stop and at the point where the quarterback
when Mordecai commits the penalty, like they don't even they
don't even describe the rest.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Of the play.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Right, It's more to Kai passed deep to Tailor for
forty eight yards. Fumbles touch at Vegas ten recovered by
goudieras at the fourteen. Gudiera is to the fourteen for
no game. Fumbles recovered by Bell at Vegas fifteen. Bell
to Las Vegas twenty two for minus seven yards, lateral
to Schrader at Las Vegas twenty three for minus one yard.
Fumbles recovered by Mordecai at Las Vegas twenty four Mordechai
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to Las Vegas thirty two for minus eight yards. Then
it just says penalty. Like they don't even tell you
the rest of the play. There were like four more
laterals after that. It's like, Eh, we're done.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
You know what.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
I can't type anymore. I'm finished. I want to go home.
It's eleven o'clock. I'm finished, and it doesn't matter because
that's where the penalty was, so I don't even need
the rest of the play anymore.
Speaker 6 (21:40):
See, they could have done a tribute to former analysts
John Grudenen, just going this guy gets the ball out. No, no, no, no,
it's that guy picks it up, and like there's no
longer surnames or any identifiers this guy and that guy.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
It would have been great if like Keith Jackson would
still be cut, because now we could do stuff like
this at the end of every game. Fumba fumbo, what
other fumble fumble fumble.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
A lot of old Keith Jackson.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Fumball fumble, another fumble fumble, all that's going the wrong way,
fumba fumble.
Speaker 6 (22:18):
I now have to build this out of old Keith
Jackson calls, we had the doc Emrick.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
We need to Keith Jackson, guys, can we end this
game pretty fast? I can't say fumble anymore. Another fumbo
fumbo fumble. It's nine fumbles Fumbo.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
That was some kind of play. So the game ends
twenty four to twenty four. Final play of the preseason
for the forty nine ers. Uh, we'll get to the
big story about Dion Sanders coming up in ninety seconds.
But first, specially delivery Steve Desager, who has never fumbled,
not once in all the years I've known him. It's
gonna tell us what's trending right now in the wide
world of sports.
Speaker 7 (22:54):
Now, just verbally, I enjoyed hearing the Keith Jackson though
fumbo fumble.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
It's not a bad impression. Yeah, well, it's the others.
I an.
Speaker 7 (23:03):
I would like it if you worked in a little
Herschel Walker and Buck Baloo or.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Something like that. Hershelw football got the football football.
Speaker 7 (23:12):
By the way, there are four college football openers tomorrow,
including the game in Dublin, Georgia Tech against Florida State.
Most teams open next weekend. The first game on Fox
TV is Thursday. North Carolina at Minnesota. Then the first
big noon game is Penn State at West Virginia on Saturday,
the thirty first three NFL exhibitions. Tonight, Las Vegas kicked
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a late field goal to get the twenty four all
tie against San Francisco that you mentioned. Four quarterbacks played
for the Niners, including starter Brock Purty, who had ninety
six yards passing in one interception. That Tampa Bay Rashad
White with an early touchdown run twenty four to fourteen.
Bucks over Miami fifty one yard field goal from Chase McLoughlin,
and Jacksonville went three to zero in the preseason, dominating
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in Atlanta thirty one to nothing Tonight, Trevor Lawrence two
touchdown to tight end Evan Ingram. The Jags had an
advantage of thirty first downs to eight. The Brown signed
kicker Lucas Haversik. Cardinals wide receiver Za Jones was suspended
five games after an arrest for domestic battery last year.
The Bears acquired linebacker Darryl Taylor from Seattle. Bears defensive
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back Douglas Coleman got out of the hospital and returned
to Chicago today after being injured on a tackle last
night in KC. This is the final week of the
preseason in the NFL. Most teams play on Saturday. Quarterback
Aaron Rodgers and Jets starters will not play tomorrow against
the Giants. Three games on Sunday, Denver will not play
quarterback Bo Nicks against the Cardinals. Jared Stidham will start
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and Zach Wilson gets most of the work on that
one Sunday, Adam Scott leads by three strokes at the
PGA playoff event in Colorado after a second round sixty
three Hideki Matsuyama withdrew with a bad back. Four WNBA
games tonight, the late game at Minnesota went to the
home team over Vegas. Washington beat La and a back
of six and twenty two teams. Phoenix won at Atlanta
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Britney Griner twenty two points eighty two eighty the final
and at Connecticut's Connecticut's Son eighty two eighty over Chicago
with two late free throws, but rookie Angel Reese did
have twenty rebounds in defeat. And then there's the late
game at Dodger Stadium tonight. Shoe Heotani earlier this evening
had picked up his fortieth stolen base of the season
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and then later his fortieth homer of this season. It
was a game winning Grand Slam. Bottom of the ninth.
The Dodgers beat Tampa Bay seven to three. LA's won
five straight. It is still first place in the NL West,
still four games over Arizona, which won its fourth in
a row. Twelve two at Boston, Dodgers still four and
a half up on the Padres, who shut out the
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Mets seven to nothing. Joe Musgrove in seven innings with
nine strikeouts getting the win. The Mets offense went two
for twenty nine with fourteen strikeouts.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Gumbo.
Speaker 7 (25:57):
The late game at Seattle in ten innings went to
the Mariners in a six to five comeback, beating San
Francisco after trailing five to one in the eighth. Yesterday
that the Mariners had fired their manager and their hitting coach.
Edgar Martinez is now Seattle's hitting coach for the rest
of the year. The Ems were trailing Houston in the
AL West by five and a half games to start
the night. We'll get to the rest of the scores,
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but Kansas City just jumps off the page what they're
doing this year. Seven to four. The Royals beat Philadelphia tonight.
The Royals are just a game back of the Guardians
in the AL Central. Minnesota is still two back as
Minnesota lost at home. Cleveland lost at home. Milwaukee wanted
Oakland eleven to three. Detroit a five to two winner
at the White Sox Chicago White Sox record now thirty
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one and ninety eight. Atlanta on a tenth inning throwing
air edge Washington three to two. Braves have won eight
of eleven. Baltimore with the comeback over Houston seven to five,
Anthony Santander the go ahead grand slam in the bottom
of the eighth. Orio's still a game and a half
back of the first place Yankees in the AL East.
As Aaron judge, it is forty ninth homer he has
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one hundred and nineteen RBIs we still have a week left.
In August, the Yankee shutout Colorado three to nothing. Rockies
offense went four for thirty one. Cubs in Toronto with
Roumins and Pittsburgh down five to nothing in the fifth,
came back to beat the Red six five.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Back to you. Ball is loose, Thank you, Steve.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
I appreciated my friend the Jason Smith show with Mike
Carmen Live the tire Rack dot Com Studios.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
I gotta stop. Can one of you guys just fall
into football? I'm done, I'm done talking. Need to break
fumball fumball fumble.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
So, surprise, surprise, Dion Sanders makes big headlines today right
Colorado Football has banned a reporter from asking questions to
Dion Sanders in press conferences. Denver Post columnist Sean Keeler
is not allowed to ask questions of Dion or any
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other members of the football program. Is allowed to attend
football related activities. Other reporters from the Denver Post are
allowed to ask questions, but just not Sean Keeler. Why
Colorado put out a statement saying they're very upset because
of the way Keeler has been referencing beyond sanctors in
some of his work. Sometimes it's hard for me to
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see humor in the written word. You know, you for
for me is funny, you know, like all the books.
You would think I'd read a lot of comedy books.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
I read I read thrillers, I read mysteries. I mean,
I read all the time. But it's hard for me
because I just don't get the humor sometimes because I
need to see it or hear it right.
Speaker 6 (28:36):
But it's like reading the tone tenor of texts and tweets,
you get exactly.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (28:41):
One might be joking with you, like completely, it's it's
in jest, but read the wrong way because you just
got cut off in traffic before you got to your
parking spot or whatever else, you might read it a
different way. Same thing with you know, articles like this.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
But I couldn't stop laughing reading the story cause Colorado.
Part of the story was they detail the Colorado put
out some of the things that Keeler wrote that upset
Dion Sanders, calling him Planet Prime, the Dion kool Aid,
deposition Dion, the Bruce Lee of BS.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
I'm reading these day.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
They just can't stop And I've read this story now
like fifteen times and i can't stop leving. I'm just
picturing the meeting, like with the represented from Colorado and
like the Denver Post, that editor, the publisher. So what
are you upset about? The following names that Coach Prime
has been called. They include, but not limited to, Deposition Dion,
the Bruce Lee of BS, Planet Prime.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
I would be able to do.
Speaker 6 (29:44):
They have one of the buffers reading this off. I mean,
come on, like Apollo going through all his nicknames, and
Rocky the King.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Of Sting, the Master of Disaster, the Count of Monty Fisto,
you gotta know nicknames a patient style.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
They're almost done. I mean, this is just an insane story.
Right now. Here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
This guy gets banned, and here's Deon Sanders upset with
the coverage that he's getting at Colorado. I wonder if
this is gonna be it for Dion as a coach,
Like this year is it for him?
Speaker 3 (30:21):
Not just coaching at Colorado, but this.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Is it for him in general because he knows how
he's coming across the way he runs Colorado's football program,
and after last September, boy, it has not been good.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Right the stories we have gotten about how it's run.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Was it guns and bets and money and stuff and
fights and all this, and the team hasn't won, and
Dion finds a way to be upset with coverage. You
can't take any criticism the last You can't. You can't
say anything realistic about the program that doesn't resemble an
over the top fawning comment about how great it is,
or he's just gonna be upset and look at you
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and blow you off and talk about you badly. Right,
I mean, like, I get why people don't want to
say things and challenge him with questions like hey, how's
the offensive line playing? Because that could turn into what
do you ask about the offensive line? When he gets
all mad about it all the way through?
Speaker 6 (31:14):
Here's a picture of your son and Travis Hunter making
fun of the offensive line playing a video game.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Yeah, I mean, look, this is this is how. This
is how the Colorado program looks to everyone. Dion doesn't care.
There's no way he has anybody around him that says, hey, Dion,
not a good idea, right, even Colorado and putting out
the statement said hey, coach Prime, Like really, that's how
you say you put coach Prime in an official statement?
I mean, come on, I mean they even see how
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this is going, right, This is this is not great.
This is not great for college football. But that being said,
you know that if he wins, doesn't matter what he does. Hey,
we're nine to three, we're competing. We're doing X, Y
and Z. No, it's great, but a bad year last year,
if he has one more bad year this year, they
don't win, and by winning, I mean they get to
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a bowl game and have a pretty good record. Is
Colorado gonna go through this again?
Speaker 3 (32:05):
They're not right?
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Then They've aways seen players transfer and leaving and then
playing the program.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Just seems like it's chaos.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
And it's come a long way down from the end
of September last year and everybody wanted to be a
part of it. Now it's can this be sustainable? And
the other part is Dion is failing in the present
with the image and the future because who is gonna
hire him to come in and run their program? Yeah,
somebody desperate will an FCS program or something, they'll hire Dion.
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But is Deon gonna take a step down and go Now,
I'm going down from power five into No, He's not
gonna do it so his the way he is. He
is acting now with picking fights all the time, fighting
with the media, fighter there like he's a smart guy.
And I wonder if he knows, Hey, if I lose,
this is it for me. I'm not going to be
a football coach anymore. So I'm gonna continue to do
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it my way and if we win, great, and if not,
this is it for me. And I'm done, and I
don't know how much Colorado's gonna win, even with Shador Sanders,
who could be the number one overall pick in the draft.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
But if he.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Doesn't win, this is it like this is because nobody
else is gonna hire him to be a head coach
because you see that the program is just cloaked in
chaos the entire time. No one's gonna say, yeah, I
want to sign up for that, especially if there's no
wins involved. So he's gotta know that he just doesn't care.
So I'm gonna do this and then whatever happens at
the end, I'm done. If we win, I'll keep coaching.
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If we lose, I know I'm not coaching anymore. So
when I look at it from that perspective, he looks
like a youth coach. That is just I'm gonna coach
my kid until i can't coach my kid anymore, and
then I'm gonna stop coaching. And I'm only really in
coaching because I'm coaching my kid and that's the only
reason I'm here for.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
And then I'm done and I'm gonna walk away.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
I'm not gonna coach anymore, and then somebody else is
gonna take over because my kid is gonna get to
be too old or be at a different level and
be someplace I can't coach him anymore. Like that's kind
of how Dion looks at me. I look at Dion
right now, and when I see it from that perspective,
I go, Yeah, he's thinking this, this is.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Gonna be it.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Win, that's it, and that's going to be the end
of Deon's coaching career. And we'll have a thirty for
thirty on two years in Boulder, the Deon Sanders era
in Colorado. Well, I mean, we theorized for a while
that maybe it was just to run his kids, Travis
Hunter do their thing and that they've seen seem to
be you know, treated differently, et cetera.
Speaker 6 (34:20):
And so many reports coming out of the program, as
you referenced before. You have this one from earlier in
the week from Sports Illustrated, a former assistant coach saying
he'd traveled to the Middle East during the past holiday
season to try to secure some funding from the Saudi
Arabia Public Investment Fund for their NIL program. So you
got that added too. It's like that's interesting. Get get it.
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Give me a couple of minutes of that in the
documentary that you have planned, Jason Smith. The old you know,
with great power comes great responsibility, the Spider Man kind
of philosophy. And if you had the power to shut
guys down, I guess it's in your prerogative to use it.
The optics be damned because I saw the other clip
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and I think I sent this to you earlier where
he's talking to the incoming freshman class at Colorado and
talking about, Hey, make mama and Daddy proud.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
Do you what?
Speaker 6 (35:09):
You came here to keep your head down, avoid the distractions,
get in there and work, work, work, and then talked
about coming to the first game and act in the fool.
But it was a very teachable, you know, measured, you know,
kind of a preacher kind of moment of Hey, get
behind me, you know, and do great things and be
good people. And then you had that contrasted with hey,
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in the press release, you have to call me coach
Prime And here's all the nicknames that I'm mad about,
Like it's like two different people running this thing.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
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Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harbon so again,
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one highlight of the night tonight. Well, yes, we did
have the final play of the forty nine Ers and
the Raiders. That was crazy with tons of laterals.
Speaker 3 (36:44):
It was pretty good.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
Yeah, However, one man owns the night tie game. Bottom
of the ninth inning, two outs, bases loaded, show.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
Hey o Tani at the plate.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
He's got forty stolen bases, has thirty nine home runs.
Gotta add one of the home run category because of this.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
Curs bitch for ble center field series.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
Going back, he's at the truck. He's at the wall.
Speaker 5 (37:11):
Forty forty walk off grand slam, No way, what a
moment history.
Speaker 4 (37:26):
The sixth member of the forty forty club makes the
most dramatic entry into the club you could imagine for
a walkoff grand slam.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
So there was Dodgers Radio Network on the call that
again they played I Love La like they think of.
Speaker 3 (37:43):
The ball went over the fence, hit it, hit that music.
Speaker 6 (37:47):
That's I got wwe entrance, and he's gonna round the
bases again, hit his music.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Look, I told you earlier this hour, he's gonna be
the first fifty to fifty player in baseball history. Right,
that's gonna mean forty. We've seen it now six times
ever now luckily we've seen it all in the last
twenty five thirty years. But we're gonna see the first
fifty to fifty player because he still has five weeks left.
Speaker 6 (38:12):
Got their three games left on the schedule. This was
game one, twenty nine, and he's played in one hundred
and twenty six of them.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
And think about this for a second, right, you want
to know how impressive this is to get to forty forty.
At this point, the other five players who are in
the forty forty club. Barry Bonds did it in game
number one fifty eight, A Rod did it in game
number one fifty three, Acuna did it game one fifty two,
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Jose Conseco in game number one fifty one, and Alfonso
Soriano in game number one forty seven won twenty six
for Otani, and he's at forty forty. This in the
words of Steve de Seger from the Great Baseball statistician
Sarah Langs.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
Boh Media, they're actually done.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
One hundred and twenty six games, one hundred and twenty.
I mean, you know, I remember when, you know, growing up,
when when scoring fifty goals in fifty games in hockey
was a big thing, right growing up, Mike Bossy was
my guy, like he was because he was such a
great score He was my favorite player growing up. Boy
could he score? And the whole big thing I remember was, hey,
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could he get to fifty and fifty because not many
people scored fifty goals in fifty games? And Mike Bossy
got there and it was really cool, right, it was real.
I'm like, wow, he did it in like game number
forty nine. He did a dance and everything and it
was so cool. I was like, Wow, Bossy did a
fifty and fifty.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
That's cool.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
A year later, Hey, guy named Gretzky showed up and
he scored fifty goals in his first thirty nine games.
Speaker 3 (39:42):
Well, you know what, he's the guy was a little
bit different. Yeah, this lego, Toddy, it's crazy.
Speaker 6 (39:50):
A stat category and just you pause a second. It's like,
you're gonna tell me Gretzky again, aren't you right? I mean,
for hockey, that was always the thing. You gotta tell
me Gretzky. Now it's going to be all about Judge
and Otani, and if you want to pull back to
a dozen years or so, you might get some Mike
Trout mentions, but we don't get those anymore.
Speaker 3 (40:10):
So now it's a two van race.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
I mean, just think about that. This is how early
he's done it. He's on pace for fifty ten stolen bases.
He'll steal ten bases. That will happen. He's going to
be the first fifty to fifty player great ever seen
in one hundred and forty Major League.
Speaker 6 (40:28):
As part of their Friday Night Drone Show, celebrated what
would have been Kobe Bryant's forty six birthday with a
really cool image of him which I'm tweeting out at
Swollen Dome right now.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
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How about a fresco twitter at Swollen Dome. Have a wonderful,
fantastic weekend up next my Buddy bern and Bernie Fratto.
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Well, we'll get to Dion Sanders coming up in a second,
because oh boy, the more time goes on, the more
I think this might be his last year coaching football. However,
we have to get into the drama that we just
saw moments ago, because listen, if we we talked about
a season we're getting out of Aaron Judge that we
haven't seen from someone winning an MVP in over twenty
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years or almost twenty years. What showy Otani has done tonight,
but more importantly, what he's probably going to do. Check
this out game was tied tonight, bottom of the ninth,
raising the Dodgers. Otani, who hasn't really been hitting great recently,
decided to change that narrative.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
With this swing first bitch for what's ser field series?
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Going back, He's at the track, He's at the wall.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
Forty thirty block of Grand Slam Way.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
What a moment history.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
The sixth member of the forty forty club makes the
most dramatic end the club you could imagine with a
walkoff Grand Slam.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Dodgers Radio Network on the Callboy, they hit I love
La really fat. I don't even think Otani was around
the bases, Nolai, but.
Speaker 6 (02:13):
He might have been there live to play it. That's
how fast that came up. Brandy hit my music. Hey listen,
the Mets do this thing with Timmy Trumpet.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Can you show up, Brandon? Yeah, sure, I'm not doing anything.
I've done anything in thirty years. A two out bases
loaded walk off Grand Slam for Shoo Tani. He is
now the sixth ever member of the forty forty club.
In MLB history, forty home runs, forty stolen bases. Hell, Like,
this is something. Look, you're talking about things we haven't
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seen all that often. This is something we watched Ronald
LeCun You do last year forty one home run, seventy
three RBIs. It was really some kind of year. And
I remember because people counted down to this from like April.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Oh, oh, Cocunya is seven and nine, he's ten and twelve.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
I'm like, okay enough, and now he's twenty and twenty four,
he's twenty four.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
We're in thirty seven. Okay enough.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Before that, Alfonso Soriano in two thousand and six, a Rod,
Barry Bonds, Jose Canseco. That is your list of forty
forty players, and it's the forty to forty club is historical,
lizz ro manic.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
How can you not be romantic about baseball? Right?
Speaker 1 (03:16):
It's everything that we think about. We think about players
that combine power and speed and legends of the game,
and again, it's only been done six times in baseball history.
I got news for you. Choyotani has another five weeks
to play, and he hasn't been hitting well, so you know,
likely he's heating up. But you want to look at
what he's projected as I'll tell you this right now,
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he's gonna be the first fifty to fifty player in
Major League Baseball history. He's got five weeks to ten
home runs and steal ten bases. We really think he's
not gonna do it. He's projected right now for home
runs to finish at fifty. That's gonna be the big one.
He'll be able to steal ten bases, right, that's gonna
be something with Tani's gonna be able to do. But
the home runs, but he hits him in bunches fifty fit.
(04:01):
Just think about that forty forty that's the thing in
the past. Now, like that would take the forty forty
club and go, yeah, that's nice. Like the forty forty
would be the new thirty thirty club. Right, Hey, guys
are thirty thirty. That's great, what a great thing. No,
then's a fifty to fifty club. Ohtani will have changed
what becomes acceptable in Major League Baseball. Now you're looking
at an American League and National League MVP. Aaron Judge
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hasn't had a season offensively that we haven't seen in
twenty years and would show Tani be the first guy
in the history of the game to be a fifty
to fifty guy. Like, that's absolutely insane, and we're getting
that right now.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
You know what.
Speaker 6 (04:34):
The biggest thing he can do, though, is what it's
recognized that Mookie Bett should be the leadoff hitter, and
maybe he'd get back to hitting more than just the
home runs.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Look what I did there?
Speaker 6 (04:46):
What about marcell Azuna, Like he's in the middle of
all of this with his thirty seven home runs, ninety
four RB high.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Yeah that's great. Yeah, yeah, that's great. That's nice. Yeah,
that's nice. Yeah, that's great. Great, great seasons, great today.
Speaker 6 (04:58):
He's a guy that potentially, I mean, he's in the
running car triple crown.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Yeah, that's great, that's great. Is he really in the
running though? I don't know, but he is.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
He's only a couple of home runs behind Otani's.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Rise.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yeah, well, I would say this though, I would say
this and rbi wise, he and Otani are basically equal.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Right, So if if battle for the final five weeks, if.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
He wins the Triple Crown, but Otani is fifty to fifty,
Otani gets the MVP.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
I just thought I had to raise my hand. No,
I know, I'm with you.
Speaker 6 (05:30):
Particularly you know, he's hitting it in a lineup that's
been fraught with the injury. Not that the Dodgers have not,
but you know, no, Ronald Acunya Junior, you know, the
last member of this for sure. You keep talking about
getting into that, you know, with a secret handshake and all,
but he's still you know, wrapping away.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
So I don't know if you just think it's kind
of curious.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
No, I hey, and and and when are you ever
going to get to say, hey, got a triple crown,
finish a distance second in m VP.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
That would be something.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
But I mean that that's the reality of of how
interesting this becomes. With therew that Ozuna has had, is
that more or less we bring him in and bring
him up because well, we love to talk baseball a bunch,
and well you hate the Braves, but it's the idea
that it's been so much about the greatness of Otani.
And on the other side, what Judge has done. Bobby
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Witt Junior. Unless you're a Baseball card officionado or love
the al Central, you have been paying attention.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
To what Bobby wit Junior has been.
Speaker 6 (06:27):
Doing likewise Marcelo Zuna storyline. Now it's been far more
interesting to watch former White Sox now good again, Chris
Sale and potential Cy Young run.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Now, I will say this that this is what breaks
the argument for me for Sho Heo Tani versus if
you win, if you win the Triple crowd, Yes, the
the show Hao Tani Bobblehead Knights will be more than
Marcelo Zuna.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
Well, you know that the next one that comes up
has decoy on there include true Russian gold.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
You're rated.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
You're not real gold like the Olympics, you know where
it's two percent of you will medal or whatever.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
But yeah, you're absolutely right.
Speaker 7 (07:06):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Miguel Cabrera won the Triple Crown in twenty twelve. Okay
won the Triple Crown in twenty twelve. We saw that
Triple Crown was also won by Yustremsky, Frank Robinson, Mickey Mannle,
Ted Williams did it twice, lou Garrey, Jimmy Fox, Rogers,
hornsby Chuck Klein, Ducky Medwick. Not that we remember these,
but in the one hundred and forty seasons of Major
(07:29):
League Baseball, we've seen the Triple Crown about twelve times.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
We've never seen fifty to fifty. We have a ducky
Medwick in we've I know, right, come on, so that
really U pushed. I had him in fantasy that year.
I was very excited, like he really gave me a
lot of points.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
But I mean, you're talking about what we've seen that
twelve times and we saw it a decade ago. Not
to diminish it, but if you're talking about how do
you differentiate a triple crown versus fifty to fifty, I mean,
it's not like you're you've made up a stat like
O shoheo Tani is the first guy with thirty five
home and thirty steals and one hundred RBI.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
With a war over ten and of one.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
I mean that's that Those are stats that're just made
up to make something. The first guy to do that
since Babe Ruth. That's not even a stat. It's just
something you said, right, It's not even a stat like
fifty to fifty is a thing.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
Many to have these chats with a body mass index over.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
With a body mass in you know, we had to
show here Tany's BMI was very low a lot lower
than Babe Ruth.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
So I know what if it was higher, he gets
extra points.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
So if the body mass is higher, Oh, it was.
Speaker 6 (08:40):
It was something that Maher, the women's rugby player, can
bring it.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
I was like, I get it, I get it. I
have a high BMI. I'm an athlete. Shut up. But
but like you know, forty forty is a thing. It's
it's a it's.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Ingrained in baseball. It's ingrained in baseball history, just like
the triple crowd. I'm not saying that crown isn't, but
we've seen that twelve times. We have never seen fifty
to fifty, which is something that I mean, I don't
know how I'll never see it again.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
I don't think you'll.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
I mean, as good as Otani is, we're gonna go
fifty five. There's a reason why no one's done it
in one hundred some odd years, and it took Otani
till he's thirty years old.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
If he winds up doing it, but like that's kind
of why I can Yeah, I can easily.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Say, yeah, I'll give Otani the MVP if he goes
fifty to fifty over some winning triple crown.
Speaker 6 (09:25):
Yeah, dred percent but now I have to question his
entire career ready flame coming, and I know he's been
pitching for part of it. Yeah, his career hide and
stolen bases before this was twenty six. So what you're
saying is, as a member of the Angels, maybe could
you have tried on the base paths to generate some
more runs?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
What can we do that a little bit?
Speaker 6 (09:47):
And you hear my flamethrower revving u as I say that, Okay,
maybe maybe he didn't give Arney Morino every every bit.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
That you could have. I was just too tired from
pitching that I couldn't.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
No, I was too damn tired of carrying your team
because Rendon and Trout were ever on the field.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
How about how about this?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
I'll give you this right now, and and and here's
the thing, Otani with the Angels, how much easier was
it to pitch around him than it is to pitch
around him.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
With the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Right, It's a lot easier to not give him good
stuff to hit, Like the guy walked a hundred times,
you know, and made most of his be right around
one hundred times with the Angels.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
That's kind of a thing, you know.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
I mean in other years, he you know, he missed
a lot of games, right, a couple of years, one
hundred and four games, one hundred and six games, one
hundred and thirty games. So yeah, I mean yeah, when
you're in a lineup that's got Freddie Freeman hitting it,
you know, behind you and Will Smith, you can't really
pitch around you, you know, So you get more strikes,
you get on base more, and you wind up getting
a chance to steal more bases. I mean, I think
(10:59):
I think it's kind of I don't know, I think
it's kind of that simple that you're getting more chances
to run and you're probably dininish because the team, so
you're probably but you're probably getting the green light to
run more because you're not playing the field at all, right,
You're not playing first base, you're just d hing. He
wants to steal, and he feels more confident doing it, Okay.
(11:20):
I mean, like, who's gonna like like, like, what are
you gonna say, Oh, hey, steroids, he's.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Stealing bases the effort before. Come on, man, come on,
hot take nonsense. No, it is really it is, I.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Mean real because I mean, yeah, but but he's one
of those guys that also to take away from the
Angels part, because I really you know, saying about the
Angels like that slow hanging fruit.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
There's certain players that are so good at what.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
They do there are times when they decide, you know
what I want to do this year, I want to
do this, Like Ken Griffy Junior was big for that,
Like I think about not maybe not midway point of
his career, but at some point in the in I
don't know if like I said, I don't know if
it was about halfway through or maybe a little bit
before that where he decided, you know what, I want
(12:17):
to hit fifty home runs a year. Now I can
do that, right because like the first few years of
his career his high was forty five and then he
got to be like twenty seven, twenty eight years old.
All of a sudden, Hey, guess what, you know, he
wasn't on performance because a guy couldn't stay healthy, right
if he was on to be able to stay But
it's like all of a sudden, I think he decided,
I want to hit more home runs and then he
was fifty six fifty six, forty eight for it being
(12:39):
health I mean, like I think I remember him talking
about that, saying, I think I can hit more home runs,
and suddenly Bank I'm hitting more home runs, like like
Otania could be like you know, I could steal more basis.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Go ahead, show, go ahead and steal basis. You know
how to slide?
Speaker 7 (12:52):
Right?
Speaker 1 (12:52):
We don't want you. Okay, great, if you want to
slide that fide, we'll teach you.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
It's easy.
Speaker 6 (12:55):
We'll put you to the Bears training camp putting out
with Caleb Williams.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
We'll put out the slip and slides. Everybody will slide.
It's fine. I'll tell you to you know, a quick story.
That's how I would do it.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
With with the girls, we would always do sliding practice
that you know, to get them ready for the season
and show them different ways to slide. And I would
always I say, listen, there's a couple of ways you
can slide, a couple.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Of ways you can do it. Uh.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
You know you can slide head first. I'd show some
of them how to slide head first because you could
do it safely, uh, and do it that way. And
then there's also times where I would say, okay, but
let me show you how to slide the right way,
and we would always take not so much. We would
take a slip and slide. We would take like these
like potato sacks and and and and uh sort of
just uh uh uh put them down and they would
(13:43):
run and slide on the potato sack and and and
go as far as they can. And that was how
they would learn how to slide. They would slide on
the grass on a potato sack, and it was and
it was fantastic. They all learned and it was, Hey,
I feel like I know how to slide. Coach, great, great,
you know there's no potato sacks during the game, so
I understand.
Speaker 8 (13:59):
No.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
I would put soft dirt out and everything else. We
got soft dirt for a year around the bass potato sacks.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Let's go. It's all good. I know. I would it
would h that was a fun way to do it.
I would just say that.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
Just as you're you know, laying that out and talking
about the practices, we watch it. Hey, this guy learned
to do this how I abused my body as a
kid because nobody ever taught us proper techniques to all
of that. So you just threw your body into it.
Here proper tackling technique. Nope, just go stop that guy.
(14:31):
Catcher's gonna block the plate, slide around him, hook slide.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
What the hell's that run over? Show?
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Hey, os On, I mean fifty to fifty. He's gonna
be the fifty first fifty to fifty guy in baseball history,
in the history of the game.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
It's amazing, amazing.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
Like you'all say, right, you see baseball every year, we
see stuff we haven't before.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Now, Jason Stark, I'll.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Remember that the rest of my life, every every time
baseball has been played for one hundred and forty years,
and you still every couple of weeks ago, I've I've
never seen that before. I've never seen that before. Uh,
speaking of things you've never seen before. Coming up next,
we're gonna play you the final play of tonight's forty
nine Ers Raiders game. Not gonna tell you how it ended,
(15:16):
not gonna tell you what happened, but I will say this,
I'm pretty sure there were twenty laterals on the final play.
And I'm not overestimating for effect or for a wow factor.
I think there were twenty laterals on the final play.
You'll hear that. More big stuff from football. We'll get
to Dean Sanders as well. Coming up next Jason and
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We'll get to Dion Sanders coming up in a couple
of minutes. However, uh, I can tell you the final
play of the Niners and the Raiders is just perfection,
(17:15):
absolutely outstanding. The game is twenty four to twenty four.
You know, no overtime. Okay, Niners have the ball, so
you know what hail Mary is coming. But obviously hail
Mary is coming. The ball near midfield. Why not throw
it up. Let's see what we get. Well, this is
what happened because the hail Mary was caught at the
(17:39):
ten yard line. But that was just the beginning of
the fun. Take a listen, Dear Francisco.
Speaker 8 (17:48):
Final play of the preseason horna trying to get it
to the end zone.
Speaker 10 (17:53):
All back there.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
HiT's kind of unt.
Speaker 8 (17:58):
Taylor, he tried to.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
It's so loose, Ronnie.
Speaker 8 (18:03):
Bell, that's the football. Oh, it's fun the rusky time
at a legend stadium. Well, you don't expect to see
this at the end of a preseason years Cardy Schrader
still loose Snyders offensive lineman has tackled at the three, so.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
He wouldn't have mattered anyway to flog his down.
Speaker 11 (18:31):
Sebastian Goodiers, this was an absolutely insane play that resulted
in I think nine nine if I counted right, I
could be wrong because I think there were nine laterals,
and even the guys at the end had stopped talking
when it would got to be the most exciting.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
You had alignment running for the end zone and he
got tackled at the three yard line. He was one
on one if he wasn't get tackled. He gets in
the end zone and you just hear, guys, yeah there
it is, and oh tackle it the three?
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Wait? What? Like? The play is incredibly exciting.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Now, yes, it would have got called back because there
was a forward lateral at one point the quarterback got
in the middle of it.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
He ran all the way down you of that wings
the ball out.
Speaker 6 (19:17):
He's the guy that actually commits the penalty with the
forward pass. But no, that's that's about as fun as
it gets because absolute chaos. The ball keeps squirting free,
and you get the offensive linemen who are salivating because
they actually get to touch the football. Oh yeah, the
guy who I was a big kid. We've talked about this, right,
(19:37):
I wasn't much shorter than I am now, still the
fire plug. But they had weight limits in grade school
and I was always over, which meant if you somehow
had caught the ball recovered a fumble, you basically were down,
like you had to give yourself up and that was
the end of the play. So you'd always try to
cut weight. So now you're, you know, just under that
(19:58):
weight limit and you're running over people. I don't know
how much better that was for anything, because now you
got a guy who's I don't know, like me five
pounds under play tight end on occasion and then running
amuck on these little guys that are playing cornerback in
a league where there's not a lot of passing, but
same kind of thing. You touch the ball when you
(20:18):
had the opportunity and you just start rumbling. It's like
it's gonna take three or four people or they're gonna
have to chop my legs out to get me down.
And you saw a little of that in this final play,
where the linemen may be a little more active than
they'd be on a play normally. Now it's downfield, I'm
done here. I might actually get the ball back.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
You want to know how how crazy to play this
was is? I'm looking at the play by play description
in the box score on the on ESPN dot com. Right,
you know that you play by play and it's so
crazy they stop and at the point where the quarterback
when Mordecai commits the penalty, like they don't even they
don't even describe the rest.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Of the play.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Right, It's more to Kai passed deep to Tailor for
forty eight yards. Fumbles touch at Vegas ten recovered by
goudieras at the fourteen. Gudiera is to the fourteen for
no game. Fumbles recovered by Bell at Vegas fifteen. Bell
to Las Vegas twenty two for minus seven yards, lateral
to Schrader at Las Vegas twenty three for minus one yard.
Fumbles recovered by Mordecai at Las Vegas twenty four Mordechai
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to Las Vegas thirty two for minus eight yards. Then
it just says penalty. Like they don't even tell you
the rest of the play. There were like four more
laterals after that. It's like, Eh, we're done.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
You know what.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
I can't type anymore. I'm finished. I want to go home.
It's eleven o'clock. I'm finished, and it doesn't matter because
that's where the penalty was, so I don't even need
the rest of the play anymore.
Speaker 6 (21:40):
See, they could have done a tribute to former analysts
John Grudenen, just going this guy gets the ball out. No, no, no, no,
it's that guy picks it up, and like there's no
longer surnames or any identifiers this guy and that guy.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
It would have been great if like Keith Jackson would
still be cut, because now we could do stuff like
this at the end of every game. Fumba fumbo, what
other fumble fumble fumble.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
A lot of old Keith Jackson.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Fumball fumble, another fumble fumble, all that's going the wrong way,
fumba fumble.
Speaker 6 (22:18):
I now have to build this out of old Keith
Jackson calls, we had the doc Emrick.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
We need to Keith Jackson, guys, can we end this
game pretty fast? I can't say fumble anymore. Another fumbo
fumbo fumble. It's nine fumbles Fumbo.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
That was some kind of play. So the game ends
twenty four to twenty four. Final play of the preseason
for the forty nine ers. Uh, we'll get to the
big story about Dion Sanders coming up in ninety seconds.
But first, specially delivery Steve Desager, who has never fumbled,
not once in all the years I've known him. It's
gonna tell us what's trending right now in the wide
world of sports.
Speaker 7 (22:54):
Now, just verbally, I enjoyed hearing the Keith Jackson though
fumbo fumble.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
It's not a bad impression. Yeah, well, it's the others.
I an.
Speaker 7 (23:03):
I would like it if you worked in a little
Herschel Walker and Buck Baloo or.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Something like that. Hershelw football got the football football.
Speaker 7 (23:12):
By the way, there are four college football openers tomorrow,
including the game in Dublin, Georgia Tech against Florida State.
Most teams open next weekend. The first game on Fox
TV is Thursday. North Carolina at Minnesota. Then the first
big noon game is Penn State at West Virginia on Saturday,
the thirty first three NFL exhibitions. Tonight, Las Vegas kicked
(23:33):
a late field goal to get the twenty four all
tie against San Francisco that you mentioned. Four quarterbacks played
for the Niners, including starter Brock Purty, who had ninety
six yards passing in one interception. That Tampa Bay Rashad
White with an early touchdown run twenty four to fourteen.
Bucks over Miami fifty one yard field goal from Chase McLoughlin,
and Jacksonville went three to zero in the preseason, dominating
(23:56):
in Atlanta thirty one to nothing Tonight, Trevor Lawrence two
touchdown to tight end Evan Ingram. The Jags had an
advantage of thirty first downs to eight. The Brown signed
kicker Lucas Haversik. Cardinals wide receiver Za Jones was suspended
five games after an arrest for domestic battery last year.
The Bears acquired linebacker Darryl Taylor from Seattle. Bears defensive
(24:18):
back Douglas Coleman got out of the hospital and returned
to Chicago today after being injured on a tackle last
night in KC. This is the final week of the
preseason in the NFL. Most teams play on Saturday. Quarterback
Aaron Rodgers and Jets starters will not play tomorrow against
the Giants. Three games on Sunday, Denver will not play
quarterback Bo Nicks against the Cardinals. Jared Stidham will start
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and Zach Wilson gets most of the work on that
one Sunday, Adam Scott leads by three strokes at the
PGA playoff event in Colorado after a second round sixty
three Hideki Matsuyama withdrew with a bad back. Four WNBA
games tonight, the late game at Minnesota went to the
home team over Vegas. Washington beat La and a back
of six and twenty two teams. Phoenix won at Atlanta
(25:03):
Britney Griner twenty two points eighty two eighty the final
and at Connecticut's Connecticut's Son eighty two eighty over Chicago
with two late free throws, but rookie Angel Reese did
have twenty rebounds in defeat. And then there's the late
game at Dodger Stadium tonight. Shoe Heotani earlier this evening
had picked up his fortieth stolen base of the season
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and then later his fortieth homer of this season. It
was a game winning Grand Slam. Bottom of the ninth.
The Dodgers beat Tampa Bay seven to three. LA's won
five straight. It is still first place in the NL West,
still four games over Arizona, which won its fourth in
a row. Twelve two at Boston, Dodgers still four and
a half up on the Padres, who shut out the
(25:44):
Mets seven to nothing. Joe Musgrove in seven innings with
nine strikeouts getting the win. The Mets offense went two
for twenty nine with fourteen strikeouts.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Gumbo.
Speaker 7 (25:57):
The late game at Seattle in ten innings went to
the Mariners in a six to five comeback, beating San
Francisco after trailing five to one in the eighth. Yesterday
that the Mariners had fired their manager and their hitting coach.
Edgar Martinez is now Seattle's hitting coach for the rest
of the year. The Ems were trailing Houston in the
AL West by five and a half games to start
the night. We'll get to the rest of the scores,
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but Kansas City just jumps off the page what they're
doing this year. Seven to four. The Royals beat Philadelphia tonight.
The Royals are just a game back of the Guardians
in the AL Central. Minnesota is still two back as
Minnesota lost at home. Cleveland lost at home. Milwaukee wanted
Oakland eleven to three. Detroit a five to two winner
at the White Sox Chicago White Sox record now thirty
(26:41):
one and ninety eight. Atlanta on a tenth inning throwing
air edge Washington three to two. Braves have won eight
of eleven. Baltimore with the comeback over Houston seven to five,
Anthony Santander the go ahead grand slam in the bottom
of the eighth. Orio's still a game and a half
back of the first place Yankees in the AL East.
As Aaron judge, it is forty ninth homer he has
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one hundred and nineteen RBIs we still have a week left.
In August, the Yankee shutout Colorado three to nothing. Rockies
offense went four for thirty one. Cubs in Toronto with
Roumins and Pittsburgh down five to nothing in the fifth,
came back to beat the Red six five.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Back to you. Ball is loose, Thank you, Steve.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
I appreciated my friend the Jason Smith show with Mike
Carmen Live the tire Rack dot Com Studios.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
I gotta stop. Can one of you guys just fall
into football? I'm done, I'm done talking. Need to break
fumball fumball fumble.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
So, surprise, surprise, Dion Sanders makes big headlines today right
Colorado Football has banned a reporter from asking questions to
Dion Sanders in press conferences. Denver Post columnist Sean Keeler
is not allowed to ask questions of Dion or any
(27:58):
other members of the football program. Is allowed to attend
football related activities. Other reporters from the Denver Post are
allowed to ask questions, but just not Sean Keeler. Why
Colorado put out a statement saying they're very upset because
of the way Keeler has been referencing beyond sanctors in
some of his work. Sometimes it's hard for me to
(28:20):
see humor in the written word. You know, you for
for me is funny, you know, like all the books.
You would think I'd read a lot of comedy books.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
I read I read thrillers, I read mysteries. I mean,
I read all the time. But it's hard for me
because I just don't get the humor sometimes because I
need to see it or hear it right.
Speaker 6 (28:36):
But it's like reading the tone tenor of texts and tweets,
you get exactly.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (28:41):
One might be joking with you, like completely, it's it's
in jest, but read the wrong way because you just
got cut off in traffic before you got to your
parking spot or whatever else, you might read it a
different way. Same thing with you know, articles like this.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
But I couldn't stop laughing reading the story cause Colorado.
Part of the story was they detail the Colorado put
out some of the things that Keeler wrote that upset
Dion Sanders, calling him Planet Prime, the Dion kool Aid,
deposition Dion, the Bruce Lee of BS.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
I'm reading these day.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
They just can't stop And I've read this story now
like fifteen times and i can't stop leving. I'm just
picturing the meeting, like with the represented from Colorado and
like the Denver Post, that editor, the publisher. So what
are you upset about? The following names that Coach Prime
has been called. They include, but not limited to, Deposition Dion,
the Bruce Lee of BS, Planet Prime.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
I would be able to do.
Speaker 6 (29:44):
They have one of the buffers reading this off. I mean,
come on, like Apollo going through all his nicknames, and
Rocky the King.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Of Sting, the Master of Disaster, the Count of Monty Fisto,
you gotta know nicknames a patient style.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
They're almost done. I mean, this is just an insane story.
Right now. Here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
This guy gets banned, and here's Deon Sanders upset with
the coverage that he's getting at Colorado. I wonder if
this is gonna be it for Dion as a coach,
Like this year is it for him?
Speaker 3 (30:21):
Not just coaching at Colorado, but this.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Is it for him in general because he knows how
he's coming across the way he runs Colorado's football program,
and after last September, boy, it has not been good.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Right the stories we have gotten about how it's run.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Was it guns and bets and money and stuff and
fights and all this, and the team hasn't won, and
Dion finds a way to be upset with coverage. You
can't take any criticism the last You can't. You can't
say anything realistic about the program that doesn't resemble an
over the top fawning comment about how great it is,
or he's just gonna be upset and look at you
(31:01):
and blow you off and talk about you badly. Right,
I mean, like, I get why people don't want to
say things and challenge him with questions like hey, how's
the offensive line playing? Because that could turn into what
do you ask about the offensive line? When he gets
all mad about it all the way through?
Speaker 6 (31:14):
Here's a picture of your son and Travis Hunter making
fun of the offensive line playing a video game.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Yeah, I mean, look, this is this is how. This
is how the Colorado program looks to everyone. Dion doesn't care.
There's no way he has anybody around him that says, hey, Dion,
not a good idea, right, even Colorado and putting out
the statement said hey, coach Prime, Like really, that's how
you say you put coach Prime in an official statement?
I mean, come on, I mean they even see how
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this is going, right, This is this is not great.
This is not great for college football. But that being said,
you know that if he wins, doesn't matter what he does. Hey,
we're nine to three, we're competing. We're doing X, Y
and Z. No, it's great, but a bad year last year,
if he has one more bad year this year, they
don't win, and by winning, I mean they get to
(32:01):
a bowl game and have a pretty good record. Is
Colorado gonna go through this again?
Speaker 3 (32:05):
They're not right?
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Then They've aways seen players transfer and leaving and then
playing the program.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Just seems like it's chaos.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
And it's come a long way down from the end
of September last year and everybody wanted to be a
part of it. Now it's can this be sustainable? And
the other part is Dion is failing in the present
with the image and the future because who is gonna
hire him to come in and run their program? Yeah,
somebody desperate will an FCS program or something, they'll hire Dion.
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But is Deon gonna take a step down and go Now,
I'm going down from power five into No, He's not
gonna do it so his the way he is. He
is acting now with picking fights all the time, fighting
with the media, fighter there like he's a smart guy.
And I wonder if he knows, Hey, if I lose,
this is it for me. I'm not going to be
a football coach anymore. So I'm gonna continue to do
(32:55):
it my way and if we win, great, and if not,
this is it for me. And I'm done, and I
don't know how much Colorado's gonna win, even with Shador Sanders,
who could be the number one overall pick in the draft.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
But if he.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Doesn't win, this is it like this is because nobody
else is gonna hire him to be a head coach
because you see that the program is just cloaked in
chaos the entire time. No one's gonna say, yeah, I
want to sign up for that, especially if there's no
wins involved. So he's gotta know that he just doesn't care.
So I'm gonna do this and then whatever happens at
the end, I'm done. If we win, I'll keep coaching.
(33:28):
If we lose, I know I'm not coaching anymore. So
when I look at it from that perspective, he looks
like a youth coach. That is just I'm gonna coach
my kid until i can't coach my kid anymore, and
then I'm gonna stop coaching. And I'm only really in
coaching because I'm coaching my kid and that's the only
reason I'm here for.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
And then I'm done and I'm gonna walk away.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
I'm not gonna coach anymore, and then somebody else is
gonna take over because my kid is gonna get to
be too old or be at a different level and
be someplace I can't coach him anymore. Like that's kind
of how Dion looks at me. I look at Dion
right now, and when I see it from that perspective,
I go, Yeah, he's thinking this, this is.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Gonna be it.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Win, that's it, and that's going to be the end
of Deon's coaching career. And we'll have a thirty for
thirty on two years in Boulder, the Deon Sanders era
in Colorado. Well, I mean, we theorized for a while
that maybe it was just to run his kids, Travis
Hunter do their thing and that they've seen seem to
be you know, treated differently, et cetera.
Speaker 6 (34:20):
And so many reports coming out of the program, as
you referenced before. You have this one from earlier in
the week from Sports Illustrated, a former assistant coach saying
he'd traveled to the Middle East during the past holiday
season to try to secure some funding from the Saudi
Arabia Public Investment Fund for their NIL program. So you
got that added too. It's like that's interesting. Get get it.
(34:40):
Give me a couple of minutes of that in the
documentary that you have planned, Jason Smith. The old you know,
with great power comes great responsibility, the Spider Man kind
of philosophy. And if you had the power to shut
guys down, I guess it's in your prerogative to use it.
The optics be damned because I saw the other clip
(35:01):
and I think I sent this to you earlier where
he's talking to the incoming freshman class at Colorado and
talking about, Hey, make mama and Daddy proud.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
Do you what?
Speaker 6 (35:09):
You came here to keep your head down, avoid the distractions,
get in there and work, work, work, and then talked
about coming to the first game and act in the fool.
But it was a very teachable, you know, measured, you know,
kind of a preacher kind of moment of Hey, get
behind me, you know, and do great things and be
good people. And then you had that contrasted with hey,
(35:31):
in the press release, you have to call me coach
Prime And here's all the nicknames that I'm mad about,
Like it's like two different people running this thing.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
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Speaker 1 (36:26):
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one highlight of the night tonight. Well, yes, we did
have the final play of the forty nine Ers and
the Raiders. That was crazy with tons of laterals.
Speaker 3 (36:44):
It was pretty good.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
Yeah, However, one man owns the night tie game. Bottom
of the ninth inning, two outs, bases loaded, show.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
Hey o Tani at the plate.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
He's got forty stolen bases, has thirty nine home runs.
Gotta add one of the home run category because of this.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
Curs bitch for ble center field series.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
Going back, he's at the truck. He's at the wall.
Speaker 5 (37:11):
Forty forty walk off grand slam, No way, what a
moment history.
Speaker 4 (37:26):
The sixth member of the forty forty club makes the
most dramatic entry into the club you could imagine for
a walkoff grand slam.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
So there was Dodgers Radio Network on the call that
again they played I Love La like they think of.
Speaker 3 (37:43):
The ball went over the fence, hit it, hit that music.
Speaker 6 (37:47):
That's I got wwe entrance, and he's gonna round the
bases again, hit his music.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Look, I told you earlier this hour, he's gonna be
the first fifty to fifty player in baseball history. Right,
that's gonna mean forty. We've seen it now six times
ever now luckily we've seen it all in the last
twenty five thirty years. But we're gonna see the first
fifty to fifty player because he still has five weeks left.
Speaker 6 (38:12):
Got their three games left on the schedule. This was
game one, twenty nine, and he's played in one hundred
and twenty six of them.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
And think about this for a second, right, you want
to know how impressive this is to get to forty forty.
At this point, the other five players who are in
the forty forty club. Barry Bonds did it in game
number one fifty eight, A Rod did it in game
number one fifty three, Acuna did it game one fifty two,
(38:39):
Jose Conseco in game number one fifty one, and Alfonso
Soriano in game number one forty seven won twenty six
for Otani, and he's at forty forty. This in the
words of Steve de Seger from the Great Baseball statistician
Sarah Langs.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
Boh Media, they're actually done.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
One hundred and twenty six games, one hundred and twenty.
I mean, you know, I remember when, you know, growing up,
when when scoring fifty goals in fifty games in hockey
was a big thing, right growing up, Mike Bossy was
my guy, like he was because he was such a
great score He was my favorite player growing up. Boy
could he score? And the whole big thing I remember was, hey,
(39:18):
could he get to fifty and fifty because not many
people scored fifty goals in fifty games? And Mike Bossy
got there and it was really cool, right, it was real.
I'm like, wow, he did it in like game number
forty nine. He did a dance and everything and it
was so cool. I was like, Wow, Bossy did a
fifty and fifty.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
That's cool.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
A year later, Hey, guy named Gretzky showed up and
he scored fifty goals in his first thirty nine games.
Speaker 3 (39:42):
Well, you know what, he's the guy was a little
bit different. Yeah, this lego, Toddy, it's crazy.
Speaker 6 (39:50):
A stat category and just you pause a second. It's like,
you're gonna tell me Gretzky again, aren't you right? I mean,
for hockey, that was always the thing. You gotta tell
me Gretzky. Now it's going to be all about Judge
and Otani, and if you want to pull back to
a dozen years or so, you might get some Mike
Trout mentions, but we don't get those anymore.
Speaker 3 (40:10):
So now it's a two van race.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
I mean, just think about that. This is how early
he's done it. He's on pace for fifty ten stolen bases.
He'll steal ten bases. That will happen. He's going to
be the first fifty to fifty player great ever seen
in one hundred and forty Major League.
Speaker 6 (40:28):
As part of their Friday Night Drone Show, celebrated what
would have been Kobe Bryant's forty six birthday with a
really cool image of him which I'm tweeting out at
Swollen Dome right now.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
Oh there you go for Mike Im Jason twitter at.
How about a fresco twitter at Swollen Dome. Have a wonderful,
fantastic weekend up next my Buddy bern and Bernie Fratto.
Speaker 3 (40:50):
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