July 19, 2022 • 30 mins
Jason and Mike react to Juan Soto being sweat talked by Starling Marte at the Home Run Derby, not many teams are willing to give up alot for a big player like Soto, and the Home Run Derby could have been rigged?!
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bell telling you fellas. So, how much do you think
Juan Sotos price just went up winning the home run derby?
I know he just shared a million dollars? Like, like,
is Scott Boris saying, don't talk to anybody. I have
to completely recalibrate my pitch to any team because you
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just won the home run derby. Now I could put
that on the resume, because you know, I count stuff
Like here's what the parking concessions would be when Juan
Zoto plays. Here's what you would make food wise, because
Juan Sotos playing in a game compared to when he's
not in a game, he pay is for himself. If
you give him fifty million dollars a year. Uh do
you forget about it? That price just went up. Forget
if I told you he's got that pie in the
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sky ten year, five hundred million dollar contract. You know
he's trying to bank on for one Soto, you know
he is. Now it's going up. Now you want home
run Derby, You want to argue with a guy coming
off on home run Derby went like this, go ahead.
His price just went up. Well, I mean you start
to get into all the ancillary deals that come with
being a a champion, a right World Series title, and
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now you look at the home run title where you
dethrone Pete Alonso, a lumberjack, a man of legendary status,
and you're trying to get over right basically with we
get into these All Star Games, and that's one of
the things for Rodriguez on the other side, for the
American League, Right, Julio Rodriguez earned more tonight in his bonus,
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then he's gonna make this year. How do you like
that structure? Major League Baseball? Congratulations finished second on home
run Derby. Here's a check for fifty dollars more than
you're playing for this year. Yes, good for you, but
for for Juan Soto, for Rodriguez, are all these guys
I mean it's a showcase and for a lot of people,
they don't they don't see it. Alright, how many Yankees
Red Sox games do we get still in prime time?
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Whenever possible? Right, every one of their seventeen Uh, they
just keep adding you don't even know that. But they
actually add series on. They canceled a couple of Yankee
Oriole series at the end of the year and made
them Yankees Red Sox. You haven't seen. Now it's a
bigger deal because the Orioles are better. The Orioles won
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in a row and now they're only eight teen games
out of first place. I got to see one of
their victories in Chicago. You got to see, but it
was a big deal. Walking down in Chicago Avenue was
heading back to to my brother's place to clean up
before we went out, and I was walking behind a
bunch of Orioles fans. One guy wearing a Mullins jersey.
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The other guy went on mouse cast, they're making it
to get to wearing a Cal Ripken Jr. Yeah, it was. Actually,
it might have been not as many Eddie Murray jerseys
as I hope. But what about Terry Crowley, a couple
of Terry Crowley didn't see any Rick Burlson, Robinson Brooks right, No, no,
Frank Robinson, what about what about I lost Iticata? I
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lost got John Lowenstein, Albumbre Robhiel Palmero. That's right, and
back to Steve Stone all the way back. Now. Seriously,
look other than the fact that Sterling Marte doing his
best to get Juan Soto to the Mets with all
the no it's good he was. He was the official
hype man of one sothing. No, he might as well
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have been wearing a clock around his damn neck like
flavor flake. I wouldn't be surprised if in the post
game home run derby press conference Sterling Marte jumps in
front one. Can you uh tell us how you feel
about hitting those alonees? Well'll tell you how one feels.
What's a great player, and he's a guy that's gonna
get every penny that's deserving. And if the Nationals don't
want to pay him, somebody else does. Next question, um
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wand do you think that maybe this improves your value?
Let me tell you about value. What Soto's a most
valuable player in the National League, maybe in all of baseball,
Steve Cohen, are you listening. Let's go out and get
this again. He's got to take on the persona of
a w W E manager. But let's be honest here,
because this is I'm being realistic when when I tell
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you the market for Juan Soto is not gonna be
what you think because of the money and the price
you're gonna have to pay to get him. When I
compared him to it, it's gonna be like Bryce Harper,
I said last hour, because Bryce Harper was someone who, look,
I'm coming up and I'm gonna be do a lot
of money. Okay. How many teams were really in it
on Bryce Harper? Only a couple maybe just one maybe
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just the Phillies. In the end, here's the offer. Hey,
I can get you your thirty million dollars a year.
You Bryce Harper was exciting to go to Philadelphia. They
were the one team that offered the money. Okay, I
guess I'm going to Philadelphia, So now he's there. Okay.
But because of the money, there was only one, maybe
two teams really inchest, there's a couple of teams that
were in it, right. The White Sox were in it
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for a while, but then it became at least service sure.
And then there's always you know, the Scott Boris and
there's a Mr. Mystery to a complete mystery team we'll
take in the box. In the box, I'm talking to
the Rains there, the mystery team, because they want to
pen spend five million dollars on a player. Right, So
there's only a couple of teams for Bryce Harper. This
is Juan Soto who is younger, a better player already
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and more accomplished, right, so already the price for him
is going to go up. And you know, by saying
no to fifteen years and four and forty million, Scott
Boris wants a deal that is going to start with
a five, right, and it's gonna and it's not gonna
be it's not gonna be fifty. He wants five hundred
million dollars to be that. He wants to get that
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that mark for him. It was to fifty with Alex Rodriguez.
He patted himself on the back that set the market.
Now it's gonna be five hundred million plus for Juan Soto,
and it's gonna be the number of you you know,
he wants ten years and five hundred million, right, But
how many teams are really gonna be serious about this?
It's exciting now because Won Soto said they we never
thought was gonna be traded. Juan Soto was terrific. Look
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at this. These guys don't get traded. The naturals just
said they didn't. And everybody's excited because Juan Soto could
wind up being on their team. Of thinking, what would
it be like for us? Can we trade our prospects
and we trade the top four guys in the organization?
All these things going on and it's fun and it's
a ton of fun right now. But to be realistic,
how many teams are going to trade away their present
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and future for a player who they then have to
give five dred million dollars to. That's too much of
a price to pay. It's way too much. Look at
the Tigers, right, The Tigers made them at Guel Cabrera trade, right,
and they got to they got to a World Series.
The Cabrera is really good. And now what are the
last five or seven years been like for the Tigers?
Oh man, it's been awful. Right. That was the last
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deal that we saw a big trade for a player
like that who came up. But he's still a better
hitter than the guy they thought was replacing Spencer who
got sent down because he can't field and he can't hit. No,
it worked out for the time. It worked out for
the time because the guys they gave up didn't turn
into anybody. But you talk about they gave up players
at the time, and then they had to give him
that money, and the money has not worked out. Right
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there there in the middle of paying him so much
money for diminished returns. It's the worst contract in all
of sports. Teams know this, they know this, and and
they're gonna sit back and say, the Nationals want three
of our best prospects. They want to everyday players, and
we have to give him that money. Yeah, we're not
going to do it. We're not going to do it
because any team that is that close is not going
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to make that kind of trade. Any team that has
that kind of youth is gonna want to see it
play for them first. Because these teams are they one
player away or two players where they are players away.
Who's gonna make that trade for Juan Soto. Who's gonna say, yes,
this is our team. Let's say the Padres. Right, let's
just say the Padres for a second, because they have
all kinds of young talent and they want to compete, right,
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They're gonna want to see this year play out and
see how it goes their second year of we're a
great team. Right, We're waiting for Tatist to come back
to see how it all plays out. So this one
Soto deal is not gonna play out for a while.
This will be a storyline that is hot right now,
and it's never gonna get any hotter than it is
right now because he's in the midst of hey, we're
listening to trade offers. Any just won the home run derby.
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But in the end, no one's gonna suddenly make this
kind of move now because it's too big of a
deal to say, I'm ready to do this. Let's do
this over the All Star break, because you are talking
about the ramifications of changing your franchise for ten years,
so anything that is of this consequence, teams are gonna
take a long time to look at. So when you
throw in the combination of we're gonna sit back and
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see how things play out, we want to sit back
and see if this is a move for us. Plus
I'm kind of turned off by what we have to
give up and what we're gonna have to do anyway,
how many teams are really going to be in it
for Lon Soto? I mean, how many teams are really
gonna say, yes, he's our guy. The closer he gets
to free agency and the less you have to give up,
that's when things are gonna heat up. But you still
got two and a half more years to get there.
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So it's a great and exciting storyline for now. But
I don't expect anything to happen on this for a
long time because of those things. Yeah, legitimately, I mean,
how many teams can take on this and build that
salary out anyway? Right that when we look at it
is the New York teams. Obviously, the Dodgers are always mentioned.
Philadelphia is spending money, Atlanta spends money. I know that
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Freeman and Olsen. That was the big story of the
last couple of weeks. You talk about the Padres money,
they've already invested. White Sox signed a couple of their
young would be stars prematurely. Now keeping them on the
field and performing at any reasonable level has been difficult
for for the training staff there, and then you start
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going down into the what ifs, right, whether Boston or St. Louis,
Texas or even the Cubs suddenly decided to spend money again, right,
because the Cubs for a long time spent money but
spent it poorly. Go back to the days where somebody's
fourth starter who wasn't named once and upon a time
like oh yeah, that guy was a cup killer, bringing
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in and and then he and they were always in
the top five to seven, uh in terms of team salaries.
It's not the case anymore, but you've got a couple
of those squads that maybe get in the mix, but otherwise, yeah,
and and the other is going back to the organizational
stability and structure, which a very few teams have that
as well, where the prospects are coming through and it's
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showing that they produce. You joke, all the time guys
come out of the Dodgers organization, they get called up,
they hit three fifty, obviously an exaggeration, but just the
idea that they're obviously training players well upon bringing them
into their farm system, and they don't like to give
up top prospects, but there might always be that one
guy that that takes it over. That sends it through.
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And if you're buying, at least in theory right from
a organizational standpoint, a couple of years of dominance as
a team, and maybe a shot to add a World
Series titl Er two for the back end, which is
not the greatest, then that's that's fine. In this case,
you looking at a deal that gets him to his
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late thirties. Julie's about forty years old, and you know
it's a nice run, and he can wave and walk
off with his little hat and off he goes. But
but I understand the team's reticence to go above but
expecting him, especially with Boris as his agent. And I
love all these guys with contract time. Now I'm gonna
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let my guy talk about that. I'm gonna let my
guy hand. I got a team for that, and for
for sodom answers the right thing to say, I don't,
you don't, can't get deep into it. But I brought
up the exam amples before of players that left right.
We talked about Scherzer to talk about Harper Rendon going
to the Angels for thirty five million dollars a year,
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triple underscore that one, because I mean, if you're Soto
and Boris, you're pointing down Anaheim, go on, how am
I taking six million dollars a year less than that guy? Right?
And you can even look at my trouts deal, which
is at about thirty six and a half or whatever
that annual rate is, and he was what five years
older when he signed it than what Soto is right now,
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So all of those things work in Soto and Boris's favor.
Just a question of how many nice lunches and dinners
you're gonna be able to get out of wooing suitors.
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and just why this trade request is actually out there
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terms they do apply. So there's a big run right now,
Mike Harmon on social media, everybody thinks the home run
derby was rigged because one of Kyle Schwarber's home runs
didn't count. I just saw that. I'm going back to
watch the tape and he hit twenty instead of nineteen,
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and that, of course it was fixed for Albert hupel
Hof to get to the next round. Poole is playing
and what's likely his final All Star game. I don't
think they're going back in time to let h Kyle
Schwarber fill again. I don't believe. So already cashed now
there's no going back, but human error comes in. I mean,
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this is why you need robot umpires. You obviously need
a robot counter, you know, and watching this and seeing
what people are talking about here, because this has now
become a thing. Uh, he's down by four with about
thirty seconds left to go, and Schwarber hits a bunchman
and they just don't cut away to all of them
and it looks like the ball start flying. They cut
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away to one and then they cut back away from it,
and it's hard to tell if that was a home
run or not, you know, because they when they cut
away because if it doesn't look like it's going to
land for a home run, they cut back because you
want to see the hit by, you know, you want
to see the next swing that could be a home run.
So the fact that it goes so asked you get
cut back and forth. And this is where a lot
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of people say, oh, they missed a home run by
Kyle Schwarber and he should have tied Albert Pools. In
which case, if you have a tie in the home
run derby, don't you play a baseball game to break
the tie. This is not how it goes. Because if
we're gonna get actual game breaks out, if we're gonna
break the game tomorrow with a home run derby, if
it's tied after nine innings, don't you break it with
a game? And I think that's funny. Automatically bat's leadoff
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or does he is? He? Is? He automatic picture for
both teams? Uh so after strike out Bryan Cranston. Uh So, Yeah,
it's a lots of people are going crazy about this,
and that's the that's the one thing that comes down
to me. And look, obviously we're doing the show the
same time we're we're breaking this down. Is that seeing
this now a few times in uh, you know, as
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it's been put online, it's hard to see with that
with the cutaway? Did that? Did that land? Was that
a home run? Was it not a home run? That?
And your ties are gonna keep getting you back to
what the next swing is. So you're watching the split screens,
so you almost have to cover up the batting portion
of it with a piece of paper or something, so
you're just watching. No, there's eighteen, there's a tape. It's now.
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Rigged is trending. Rigged is trending for this now, It's
like the number one trending topic in my feed right now.
Rigged is trending that it's a great home run. Derby
was rigged to get Albert Pool. It's an extra round.
Come on, look it it took a late surge for
Soto to overtake him. Let me later on, Let let me,
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let me, let me, let me just say this, Let
me just say this for a second. Okay, if you
were now, could could I believe that they may be
missed one? Yeah? I believe they could have missed one.
It's really tough to rig a home run Derby when
it's nationally televised and you can see everything. Might they
clearly have missed a home run? Yeah? Again, I gotta
see it a couple more times. But yeah, I can
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see where maybe if you miss a home run here
it should have been twenty. We feel bad, you know
we we didn't count that one. I could see where
something like that, because this is people in the control room.
That's a home run. Count it, count it, count it.
It really is a trash promotion if you can't keep
the count. But I come on now, but I can
see where you make a mistake, because in the end,
it's one person who was flicking that button, going there's
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a home run, there's a home run, there's a home
one person doing today and they had a year to
get this right. Remember last year with Mancini. Oh that's true,
that's right, that's right. And Holsen, what why did you
not count that? Right? All I kept hearing was Berman
and my ear was going back back, back, back back,
and he wasn't even on the air. He's just saying
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back back, back, back back. But to think that, okay,
this is rigged to get Albert Poolholes, I mean, this
is come on, This is not rigged to get one Soto.
This is not rigged to get Pete Alonzo. This is
really Albert Pool Albert pol. People are dying to see
Albert Poolholes Legend one final, a run of greatness. Really,
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I mean you saw everybody ran onto the field. I
mean its shades of Ted Williams when they did he
all Century team back this listen, this is let me
slap you on the back. You got Calvert you I
mean the dye on his beard. I want to know
what color that is, because that is majet, because that
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is not a legitimate color. No, no, no, no, no,
of anybody's hair. I refused to believe that you get
your hair was never that color. Oh yes, it was.
It's just the light. You're seen a different light right now.
But you're not fitting. You're not fixing anything that's going
out on national television. Okay, let's just stop for a second.
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It was rigged. It was rigged. Okay, I've had enough
of hearing things were rigged. This is not You're not
gonna rig it. Could you make a mistake, Yeah, I
could see it, But this is not h This was
fixed on that. We were could we were? We were
specifically blowing off a Kyle Schwarber home run just to
get Albert Hoople off into the next round. No, that's
not that's not how you do it. Like I said,
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could they have missed one? Yeah, I can see where
you missed one. But in the end, this is what
you're doing this. Yeah. But what was funny was even
before this counting error and rigged started to become a
trending issue, as it was happening, people were screaming just
in the finish of the round of all right, really Schwarber,
who was a ridiculous favorite over Pools Alice called him
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off in the round. I just had to go for
the joke. Is that you know there there was already
question of all right, why why are the pitches low?
Does he like him low? Doesn't he want him a
little up? So he just has an easier flow with
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his swing, And so people say, hey, you know what
it's you got paired ump against Albert. You got take
one for the team that was already in the place
as it went down. And now you have the video
clip making its way around the world. Sabotage and the
Beast Boys Sabo Sabage Tour. Oh you know, I had
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this relationship with Poolholes for like fifteen years where he
loved the way I threw to him. But you know,
somebody got to me right before and said, hey, I
got a shoebox fill the twenties four. If you just
start throwing him a low to him, I can throw
it to him a low. Once I can do that,
I'll look at me all that out the window just
for a shoebox full of twenties. People have done worse
for a lot less Spider Man Sabotage, Spider Man the
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Trades sabotage. How is ty should not hit sabotage a sabotage?
But the music is so good I can give you
Mickey Mouse again what do you mean again? That's not
how did you? What I want to know is how
did you ace the interview to get the job here?
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It was easy? How did the best part is? I
walked and looked at Curious, was like, I don't know
a thing about sports. I'm the perfect guy for the job.
He's like, let's do it. Like I can see you walking, Hey,
tell us what you know about radio. I know I will,
but I'll tell you to know about nutrition, and I'll
tell you this is what this is. This is I
could get you on a fift hundred calorie a day, died.
You'll feel full all the way through. And then you
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were starting. He actually was surprised somebody walked in, so
he's like, you got the job. Wait to interview you
for it? Harris died Curist. Yeah, clearly it didn't work well.
Curis gave you the job. Seriously, that's high of his life.
I don't know about that. Really, he gave you the job.
He didn't if he Scott, I thought you Scott, I
walked right by him. I don't even say I thought
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that's you, said you interviewed with I walked in on
Annie and she's like, do you like sports. I was like, no,
so I walked away. Well, wouldn't be the first guy
to be hired behind that console who had no idea
what was going on in the sporting universe. I can't
believe that, Like, wow, we got an ant easy referenceation,
just because I really wonder how Tysher got the gig,
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because I's not upset about it, Like no, it's it's
like he actually does well knowing how you do the
opposite of of what you should be doing here, Like
did you show up like wearing like a T shirt
and flip flops for the interview? Goes tank top? Okay,
he did not dress like me. He could have showed
up naked and he got the job. Hey, sons out
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guns out for this interview? Right am? I? Right am? I?
Right am I? Right? Have you seen the competition? Feel
this fee, feel this, and feel this bicep right here?
Just just feel that. Right, Let's let's get let's let's
let's get a tape measure and you measure around. They
say that's a twenty seven brother, Jason, serious question. Don't
you think maybe I just do it because it does
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upset you. I don't know. I think sometimes you just
do things just to do it. That's true. Second, lying
on his business card, says professional edit, says Alex Tysher.
I just want to watch the world burn. That's that's
what it would say. Well, happy fourteenth anniversary and the
lease of the darkness. You want to watch the world burn?
That's what I say. Whenever someone fills in, just do
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the opposite of Jason asked, what are you? Just Just
do it and watch it. He'll get upset, the show
won't sound as good. People will be mad, but oh
you'll entertain yourself. That that's tisher for you. Can you
offer other advice? Maybe? Maybe I'm just gonna leave it
at that. Can you can you have some other I'm
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U s Worns national team now leads Canada one nothing.
Alex Morgan on a penalty US Hey, US seventy eight minute,
looked like Roosevelt really get in there and very fortuitous
call to give the United States the penalty, though they
now lead Canada to game of inches. But we'll get
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back into all the controversies surrounding the home run derby
and everything else in future. Met Juan Soto coming up
in a few minutes. But today, basically the Internet was
shut down by Leonard Fournett. Maybe you woke up today
and you're saying, why is any Lacy trending? Well, this
is because Leonard Fournett was the topic of conversation. Pictures
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were put out. Rick Stroud of The Tampa eight Times,
reporting on his Sports Day Tampa podcast, that the Bucks
were displeased with Leonard Fournett at practice earlier because of
his weight. And he estimates that Leonard Fournett weighed about
two hundred and sixty pounds. And there's pictures of Leonard
four Nett and clearly he is overweight. I mean he's
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a running back, not a defensive end. Uh. And these
videos and pictures were really eye opening, and I don't
know why they came out now, certainly you would think that, well,
if Leonard Fournette was really overweight, we would know this
before now. But here's where we are now. Four Net
is very upset about this, very upset because to twenty
is his playing weight. Very upset about firing off at
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just an estimate of to sixty. That's that's a that's
a big gap there where it was. I mean, and
if you're really trying to make a point of him,
fascist that's what you're doing now at mandatory minicamp two
d sixty pounds now for NEETs upset because like I said,
it is playing weight. So upset. He responded to this
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by saying, this is a lie. He was a two
forty five, okay, not to sixty, so he was only
twenty five pounds over his playing weight, not forty. Well,
I mean you come to some determination of what's a
healthy waight to carry. Wait a minute, I was five.
I was way overweight, but I wasn't that over Yeah,
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this is ridiculous. I was only two four dude, that's
you just got paid and now you're twenty five pounds
over you're playing wait ah, yeah, that's kind of a thing.
There was a great bit in old wrestling where they
can do the whole ring announcement for a guy. So
it was Playboy Buddy Rose weighing in at two hundred
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seventy one pounds. Wait, wait, wait, wait, I only wait
two hundred seventeen pounds. That's kind of where Leonard Fordette
is going with all of this, and look, plenty of
time to to shed some weight, get into training camp.
Obviously did everything he could. You clear any the smirching
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of his name. Here's a picture of me working out.
Look I work out, man, Here's videos I know it,
I work out. I might as well put that as
the shound track behind his workout video. Who Sexy? For
a different song that come out tie shirts rubbing off
on you frost, But songs with sexy and not the
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right song, not the song. Look, let's be honest here
for a second. I mean I'm a sexy mother, sexy mother,
sexy mother. Uh, I'm I'm a little concerned about Tampa
I know that the general consensus of hey, Brady's coming back,
Tampa Bay is gonna be great. Tampa Bay didn't really
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get better in the offseason. Brady came back, Leonard Fournette
is heavy, Rob Gronkowski is not playing. Uh, you don't
get better just by coming back and keeping the band together,
you know. I look at right now for Tampa Bay,
Darre's I like Dallas more this year. I like Philadelphia more.
I like the Vikings more. I like the Rams and
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the Cardinals and the forty Niners. I like all these
teams right now more than Tampa Bay. Tampa Bay is good,
but they're not getting better. They're getting older. And now
you put all your legs and Leonard Fournette's basket and
clearly he ate all of them. So you put like
that like that, like cool hand. Luke, He's like maybe
he's come on, look, come on, look, we gotta bet here.
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Come on, Luke, I'm not really buying Tampa Bay this year.
I'm thinking more pretender than contender, and they'll they'll play
well in their division because their division stinks. Right, you're
talking about Baker mayfielder Sam Donald's gonna start for Carolina
the Saints, you're basically starting over. Uh, it's not going
to be a great division. So could I see them
winning their division? Yeah? But all those other teams that
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I just listed, the Cowboys, the Eagles, the Vikings, the Rams,
the Cardinals and Miners, they're all bout. I'll take all
of them right now over Tampa Bay. I like their
defense obviously. Offensively, I mean the running back position is
a big question, right. They drafted White in the third
round out of Arizona State, and then you've got Giovanni,
Bernard Keyshaw, Vaughan and guys that have been around. But
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if a lot of it is on for net As
for the wide receiving corps they brought, they did add
Russell Gauge. That's a nice pickup, right, especially the question
of how healthy to start things. Godwin will be you
know what, Mike Evans Brad is still there. I think
Gronk eventually walks through that door, right, Even his girlfriend
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this weekend. It's like, I don't think he's fully retired yet.
We'll see, obviously, you know we that that's a wait
and see approach that really only deals with the first
part of the season. But I understand your point. I
disagree with a few of those things. Man, Really, I'm
gonna bet on the Cowboys. Come on, man, I'll tell
you this is the Cowboys year. With that, this is
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the Cowboys every year. I like that. I I do say.
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bell telling you fellas. So, how much do you think
Juan Sotos price just went up winning the home run derby?
I know he just shared a million dollars? Like, like,
is Scott Boris saying, don't talk to anybody. I have
to completely recalibrate my pitch to any team because you
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just won the home run derby. Now I could put
that on the resume, because you know, I count stuff
Like here's what the parking concessions would be when Juan
Zoto plays. Here's what you would make food wise, because
Juan Sotos playing in a game compared to when he's
not in a game, he pay is for himself. If
you give him fifty million dollars a year. Uh do
you forget about it? That price just went up. Forget
if I told you he's got that pie in the
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sky ten year, five hundred million dollar contract. You know
he's trying to bank on for one Soto, you know
he is. Now it's going up. Now you want home
run Derby, You want to argue with a guy coming
off on home run Derby went like this, go ahead.
His price just went up. Well, I mean you start
to get into all the ancillary deals that come with
being a a champion, a right World Series title, and
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now you look at the home run title where you
dethrone Pete Alonso, a lumberjack, a man of legendary status,
and you're trying to get over right basically with we
get into these All Star Games, and that's one of
the things for Rodriguez on the other side, for the
American League, Right, Julio Rodriguez earned more tonight in his bonus,
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then he's gonna make this year. How do you like
that structure? Major League Baseball? Congratulations finished second on home
run Derby. Here's a check for fifty dollars more than
you're playing for this year. Yes, good for you, but
for for Juan Soto, for Rodriguez, are all these guys
I mean it's a showcase and for a lot of people,
they don't they don't see it. Alright, how many Yankees
Red Sox games do we get still in prime time?
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Whenever possible? Right, every one of their seventeen Uh, they
just keep adding you don't even know that. But they
actually add series on. They canceled a couple of Yankee
Oriole series at the end of the year and made
them Yankees Red Sox. You haven't seen. Now it's a
bigger deal because the Orioles are better. The Orioles won
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in a row and now they're only eight teen games
out of first place. I got to see one of
their victories in Chicago. You got to see, but it
was a big deal. Walking down in Chicago Avenue was
heading back to to my brother's place to clean up
before we went out, and I was walking behind a
bunch of Orioles fans. One guy wearing a Mullins jersey.
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The other guy went on mouse cast, they're making it
to get to wearing a Cal Ripken Jr. Yeah, it was. Actually,
it might have been not as many Eddie Murray jerseys
as I hope. But what about Terry Crowley, a couple
of Terry Crowley didn't see any Rick Burlson, Robinson Brooks right, No, no,
Frank Robinson, what about what about I lost Iticata? I
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lost got John Lowenstein, Albumbre Robhiel Palmero. That's right, and
back to Steve Stone all the way back. Now. Seriously,
look other than the fact that Sterling Marte doing his
best to get Juan Soto to the Mets with all
the no it's good he was. He was the official
hype man of one sothing. No, he might as well
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have been wearing a clock around his damn neck like
flavor flake. I wouldn't be surprised if in the post
game home run derby press conference Sterling Marte jumps in
front one. Can you uh tell us how you feel
about hitting those alonees? Well'll tell you how one feels.
What's a great player, and he's a guy that's gonna
get every penny that's deserving. And if the Nationals don't
want to pay him, somebody else does. Next question, um
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wand do you think that maybe this improves your value?
Let me tell you about value. What Soto's a most
valuable player in the National League, maybe in all of baseball,
Steve Cohen, are you listening. Let's go out and get
this again. He's got to take on the persona of
a w W E manager. But let's be honest here,
because this is I'm being realistic when when I tell
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you the market for Juan Soto is not gonna be
what you think because of the money and the price
you're gonna have to pay to get him. When I
compared him to it, it's gonna be like Bryce Harper,
I said last hour, because Bryce Harper was someone who, look,
I'm coming up and I'm gonna be do a lot
of money. Okay. How many teams were really in it
on Bryce Harper? Only a couple maybe just one maybe
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just the Phillies. In the end, here's the offer. Hey,
I can get you your thirty million dollars a year.
You Bryce Harper was exciting to go to Philadelphia. They
were the one team that offered the money. Okay, I
guess I'm going to Philadelphia, So now he's there. Okay.
But because of the money, there was only one, maybe
two teams really inchest, there's a couple of teams that
were in it, right. The White Sox were in it
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for a while, but then it became at least service sure.
And then there's always you know, the Scott Boris and
there's a Mr. Mystery to a complete mystery team we'll
take in the box. In the box, I'm talking to
the Rains there, the mystery team, because they want to
pen spend five million dollars on a player. Right, So
there's only a couple of teams for Bryce Harper. This
is Juan Soto who is younger, a better player already
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and more accomplished, right, so already the price for him
is going to go up. And you know, by saying
no to fifteen years and four and forty million, Scott
Boris wants a deal that is going to start with
a five, right, and it's gonna and it's not gonna
be it's not gonna be fifty. He wants five hundred
million dollars to be that. He wants to get that
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that mark for him. It was to fifty with Alex Rodriguez.
He patted himself on the back that set the market.
Now it's gonna be five hundred million plus for Juan Soto,
and it's gonna be the number of you you know,
he wants ten years and five hundred million, right, But
how many teams are really gonna be serious about this?
It's exciting now because Won Soto said they we never
thought was gonna be traded. Juan Soto was terrific. Look
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at this. These guys don't get traded. The naturals just
said they didn't. And everybody's excited because Juan Soto could
wind up being on their team. Of thinking, what would
it be like for us? Can we trade our prospects
and we trade the top four guys in the organization?
All these things going on and it's fun and it's
a ton of fun right now. But to be realistic,
how many teams are going to trade away their present
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and future for a player who they then have to
give five dred million dollars to. That's too much of
a price to pay. It's way too much. Look at
the Tigers, right, The Tigers made them at Guel Cabrera trade, right,
and they got to they got to a World Series.
The Cabrera is really good. And now what are the
last five or seven years been like for the Tigers?
Oh man, it's been awful. Right. That was the last
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deal that we saw a big trade for a player
like that who came up. But he's still a better
hitter than the guy they thought was replacing Spencer who
got sent down because he can't field and he can't hit. No,
it worked out for the time. It worked out for
the time because the guys they gave up didn't turn
into anybody. But you talk about they gave up players
at the time, and then they had to give him
that money, and the money has not worked out. Right
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there there in the middle of paying him so much
money for diminished returns. It's the worst contract in all
of sports. Teams know this, they know this, and and
they're gonna sit back and say, the Nationals want three
of our best prospects. They want to everyday players, and
we have to give him that money. Yeah, we're not
going to do it. We're not going to do it
because any team that is that close is not going
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to make that kind of trade. Any team that has
that kind of youth is gonna want to see it
play for them first. Because these teams are they one
player away or two players where they are players away.
Who's gonna make that trade for Juan Soto. Who's gonna say, yes,
this is our team. Let's say the Padres. Right, let's
just say the Padres for a second, because they have
all kinds of young talent and they want to compete, right,
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They're gonna want to see this year play out and
see how it goes their second year of we're a
great team. Right, We're waiting for Tatist to come back
to see how it all plays out. So this one
Soto deal is not gonna play out for a while.
This will be a storyline that is hot right now,
and it's never gonna get any hotter than it is
right now because he's in the midst of hey, we're
listening to trade offers. Any just won the home run derby.
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But in the end, no one's gonna suddenly make this
kind of move now because it's too big of a
deal to say, I'm ready to do this. Let's do
this over the All Star break, because you are talking
about the ramifications of changing your franchise for ten years,
so anything that is of this consequence, teams are gonna
take a long time to look at. So when you
throw in the combination of we're gonna sit back and
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see how things play out, we want to sit back
and see if this is a move for us. Plus
I'm kind of turned off by what we have to
give up and what we're gonna have to do anyway,
how many teams are really going to be in it
for Lon Soto? I mean, how many teams are really
gonna say, yes, he's our guy. The closer he gets
to free agency and the less you have to give up,
that's when things are gonna heat up. But you still
got two and a half more years to get there.
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So it's a great and exciting storyline for now. But
I don't expect anything to happen on this for a
long time because of those things. Yeah, legitimately, I mean,
how many teams can take on this and build that
salary out anyway? Right that when we look at it
is the New York teams. Obviously, the Dodgers are always mentioned.
Philadelphia is spending money, Atlanta spends money. I know that
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Freeman and Olsen. That was the big story of the
last couple of weeks. You talk about the Padres money,
they've already invested. White Sox signed a couple of their
young would be stars prematurely. Now keeping them on the
field and performing at any reasonable level has been difficult
for for the training staff there, and then you start
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going down into the what ifs, right, whether Boston or St. Louis,
Texas or even the Cubs suddenly decided to spend money again, right,
because the Cubs for a long time spent money but
spent it poorly. Go back to the days where somebody's
fourth starter who wasn't named once and upon a time
like oh yeah, that guy was a cup killer, bringing
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in and and then he and they were always in
the top five to seven, uh in terms of team salaries.
It's not the case anymore, but you've got a couple
of those squads that maybe get in the mix, but otherwise, yeah,
and and the other is going back to the organizational
stability and structure, which a very few teams have that
as well, where the prospects are coming through and it's
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showing that they produce. You joke, all the time guys
come out of the Dodgers organization, they get called up,
they hit three fifty, obviously an exaggeration, but just the
idea that they're obviously training players well upon bringing them
into their farm system, and they don't like to give
up top prospects, but there might always be that one
guy that that takes it over. That sends it through.
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And if you're buying, at least in theory right from
a organizational standpoint, a couple of years of dominance as
a team, and maybe a shot to add a World
Series titl Er two for the back end, which is
not the greatest, then that's that's fine. In this case,
you looking at a deal that gets him to his
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late thirties. Julie's about forty years old, and you know
it's a nice run, and he can wave and walk
off with his little hat and off he goes. But
but I understand the team's reticence to go above but
expecting him, especially with Boris as his agent. And I
love all these guys with contract time. Now I'm gonna
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let my guy talk about that. I'm gonna let my
guy hand. I got a team for that, and for
for sodom answers the right thing to say, I don't,
you don't, can't get deep into it. But I brought
up the exam amples before of players that left right.
We talked about Scherzer to talk about Harper Rendon going
to the Angels for thirty five million dollars a year,
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triple underscore that one, because I mean, if you're Soto
and Boris, you're pointing down Anaheim, go on, how am
I taking six million dollars a year less than that guy? Right?
And you can even look at my trouts deal, which
is at about thirty six and a half or whatever
that annual rate is, and he was what five years
older when he signed it than what Soto is right now,
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So all of those things work in Soto and Boris's favor.
Just a question of how many nice lunches and dinners
you're gonna be able to get out of wooing suitors.
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terms they do apply. So there's a big run right now,
Mike Harmon on social media, everybody thinks the home run
derby was rigged because one of Kyle Schwarber's home runs
didn't count. I just saw that. I'm going back to
watch the tape and he hit twenty instead of nineteen,
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and that, of course it was fixed for Albert hupel
Hof to get to the next round. Poole is playing
and what's likely his final All Star game. I don't
think they're going back in time to let h Kyle
Schwarber fill again. I don't believe. So already cashed now
there's no going back, but human error comes in. I mean,
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this is why you need robot umpires. You obviously need
a robot counter, you know, and watching this and seeing
what people are talking about here, because this has now
become a thing. Uh, he's down by four with about
thirty seconds left to go, and Schwarber hits a bunchman
and they just don't cut away to all of them
and it looks like the ball start flying. They cut
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away to one and then they cut back away from it,
and it's hard to tell if that was a home
run or not, you know, because they when they cut
away because if it doesn't look like it's going to
land for a home run, they cut back because you
want to see the hit by, you know, you want
to see the next swing that could be a home run.
So the fact that it goes so asked you get
cut back and forth. And this is where a lot
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of people say, oh, they missed a home run by
Kyle Schwarber and he should have tied Albert Pools. In
which case, if you have a tie in the home
run derby, don't you play a baseball game to break
the tie. This is not how it goes. Because if
we're gonna get actual game breaks out, if we're gonna
break the game tomorrow with a home run derby, if
it's tied after nine innings, don't you break it with
a game? And I think that's funny. Automatically bat's leadoff
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or does he is? He? Is? He automatic picture for
both teams? Uh so after strike out Bryan Cranston. Uh So, Yeah,
it's a lots of people are going crazy about this,
and that's the that's the one thing that comes down
to me. And look, obviously we're doing the show the
same time we're we're breaking this down. Is that seeing
this now a few times in uh, you know, as
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it's been put online, it's hard to see with that
with the cutaway? Did that? Did that land? Was that
a home run? Was it not a home run? That?
And your ties are gonna keep getting you back to
what the next swing is. So you're watching the split screens,
so you almost have to cover up the batting portion
of it with a piece of paper or something, so
you're just watching. No, there's eighteen, there's a tape. It's now.
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Rigged is trending. Rigged is trending for this now, It's
like the number one trending topic in my feed right now.
Rigged is trending that it's a great home run. Derby
was rigged to get Albert Pool. It's an extra round.
Come on, look it it took a late surge for
Soto to overtake him. Let me later on, Let let me,
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let me, let me, let me just say this, Let
me just say this for a second. Okay, if you
were now, could could I believe that they may be
missed one? Yeah? I believe they could have missed one.
It's really tough to rig a home run Derby when
it's nationally televised and you can see everything. Might they
clearly have missed a home run? Yeah? Again, I gotta
see it a couple more times. But yeah, I can
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see where maybe if you miss a home run here
it should have been twenty. We feel bad, you know
we we didn't count that one. I could see where
something like that, because this is people in the control room.
That's a home run. Count it, count it, count it.
It really is a trash promotion if you can't keep
the count. But I come on now, but I can
see where you make a mistake, because in the end,
it's one person who was flicking that button, going there's
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a home run, there's a home run, there's a home
one person doing today and they had a year to
get this right. Remember last year with Mancini. Oh that's true,
that's right, that's right. And Holsen, what why did you
not count that? Right? All I kept hearing was Berman
and my ear was going back back, back, back back,
and he wasn't even on the air. He's just saying
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back back, back, back back. But to think that, okay,
this is rigged to get Albert Poolholes, I mean, this
is come on, This is not rigged to get one Soto.
This is not rigged to get Pete Alonzo. This is
really Albert Pool Albert pol. People are dying to see
Albert Poolholes Legend one final, a run of greatness. Really,
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I mean you saw everybody ran onto the field. I
mean its shades of Ted Williams when they did he
all Century team back this listen, this is let me
slap you on the back. You got Calvert you I
mean the dye on his beard. I want to know
what color that is, because that is majet, because that
(18:25):
is not a legitimate color. No, no, no, no, no,
of anybody's hair. I refused to believe that you get
your hair was never that color. Oh yes, it was.
It's just the light. You're seen a different light right now.
But you're not fitting. You're not fixing anything that's going
out on national television. Okay, let's just stop for a second.
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It was rigged. It was rigged. Okay, I've had enough
of hearing things were rigged. This is not You're not
gonna rig it. Could you make a mistake, Yeah, I
could see it, But this is not h This was
fixed on that. We were could we were? We were
specifically blowing off a Kyle Schwarber home run just to
get Albert Hoople off into the next round. No, that's
not that's not how you do it. Like I said,
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could they have missed one? Yeah, I can see where
you missed one. But in the end, this is what
you're doing this. Yeah. But what was funny was even
before this counting error and rigged started to become a
trending issue, as it was happening, people were screaming just
in the finish of the round of all right, really Schwarber,
who was a ridiculous favorite over Pools Alice called him
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off in the round. I just had to go for
the joke. Is that you know there there was already
question of all right, why why are the pitches low?
Does he like him low? Doesn't he want him a
little up? So he just has an easier flow with
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his swing, And so people say, hey, you know what
it's you got paired ump against Albert. You got take
one for the team that was already in the place
as it went down. And now you have the video
clip making its way around the world. Sabotage and the
Beast Boys Sabo Sabage Tour. Oh you know, I had
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this relationship with Poolholes for like fifteen years where he
loved the way I threw to him. But you know,
somebody got to me right before and said, hey, I
got a shoebox fill the twenties four. If you just
start throwing him a low to him, I can throw
it to him a low. Once I can do that,
I'll look at me all that out the window just
for a shoebox full of twenties. People have done worse
for a lot less Spider Man Sabotage, Spider Man the
(20:43):
Trades sabotage. How is ty should not hit sabotage a sabotage?
But the music is so good I can give you
Mickey Mouse again what do you mean again? That's not
how did you? What I want to know is how
did you ace the interview to get the job here?
(21:03):
It was easy? How did the best part is? I
walked and looked at Curious, was like, I don't know
a thing about sports. I'm the perfect guy for the job.
He's like, let's do it. Like I can see you walking, Hey,
tell us what you know about radio. I know I will,
but I'll tell you to know about nutrition, and I'll
tell you this is what this is. This is I
could get you on a fift hundred calorie a day, died.
You'll feel full all the way through. And then you
(21:25):
were starting. He actually was surprised somebody walked in, so
he's like, you got the job. Wait to interview you
for it? Harris died Curist. Yeah, clearly it didn't work well.
Curis gave you the job. Seriously, that's high of his life.
I don't know about that. Really, he gave you the job.
He didn't if he Scott, I thought you Scott, I
walked right by him. I don't even say I thought
(21:46):
that's you, said you interviewed with I walked in on
Annie and she's like, do you like sports. I was like, no,
so I walked away. Well, wouldn't be the first guy
to be hired behind that console who had no idea
what was going on in the sporting universe. I can't
believe that, Like, wow, we got an ant easy referenceation,
just because I really wonder how Tysher got the gig,
(22:06):
because I's not upset about it, Like no, it's it's
like he actually does well knowing how you do the
opposite of of what you should be doing here, Like
did you show up like wearing like a T shirt
and flip flops for the interview? Goes tank top? Okay,
he did not dress like me. He could have showed
up naked and he got the job. Hey, sons out
(22:27):
guns out for this interview? Right am? I? Right am? I?
Right am I? Right? Have you seen the competition? Feel
this fee, feel this, and feel this bicep right here?
Just just feel that. Right, Let's let's get let's let's
let's get a tape measure and you measure around. They
say that's a twenty seven brother, Jason, serious question. Don't
you think maybe I just do it because it does
(22:48):
upset you. I don't know. I think sometimes you just
do things just to do it. That's true. Second, lying
on his business card, says professional edit, says Alex Tysher.
I just want to watch the world burn. That's that's
what it would say. Well, happy fourteenth anniversary and the
lease of the darkness. You want to watch the world burn?
That's what I say. Whenever someone fills in, just do
(23:09):
the opposite of Jason asked, what are you? Just Just
do it and watch it. He'll get upset, the show
won't sound as good. People will be mad, but oh
you'll entertain yourself. That that's tisher for you. Can you
offer other advice? Maybe? Maybe I'm just gonna leave it
at that. Can you can you have some other I'm
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U s Worns national team now leads Canada one nothing.
Alex Morgan on a penalty US Hey, US seventy eight minute,
looked like Roosevelt really get in there and very fortuitous
call to give the United States the penalty, though they
now lead Canada to game of inches. But we'll get
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back into all the controversies surrounding the home run derby
and everything else in future. Met Juan Soto coming up
in a few minutes. But today, basically the Internet was
shut down by Leonard Fournett. Maybe you woke up today
and you're saying, why is any Lacy trending? Well, this
is because Leonard Fournett was the topic of conversation. Pictures
(24:57):
were put out. Rick Stroud of The Tampa eight Times,
reporting on his Sports Day Tampa podcast, that the Bucks
were displeased with Leonard Fournett at practice earlier because of
his weight. And he estimates that Leonard Fournett weighed about
two hundred and sixty pounds. And there's pictures of Leonard
four Nett and clearly he is overweight. I mean he's
(25:18):
a running back, not a defensive end. Uh. And these
videos and pictures were really eye opening, and I don't
know why they came out now, certainly you would think that, well,
if Leonard Fournette was really overweight, we would know this
before now. But here's where we are now. Four Net
is very upset about this, very upset because to twenty
is his playing weight. Very upset about firing off at
(25:38):
just an estimate of to sixty. That's that's a that's
a big gap there where it was. I mean, and
if you're really trying to make a point of him,
fascist that's what you're doing now at mandatory minicamp two
d sixty pounds now for NEETs upset because like I said,
it is playing weight. So upset. He responded to this
(25:58):
by saying, this is a lie. He was a two
forty five, okay, not to sixty, so he was only
twenty five pounds over his playing weight, not forty. Well,
I mean you come to some determination of what's a
healthy waight to carry. Wait a minute, I was five.
I was way overweight, but I wasn't that over Yeah,
(26:19):
this is ridiculous. I was only two four dude, that's
you just got paid and now you're twenty five pounds
over you're playing wait ah, yeah, that's kind of a thing.
There was a great bit in old wrestling where they
can do the whole ring announcement for a guy. So
it was Playboy Buddy Rose weighing in at two hundred
(26:41):
seventy one pounds. Wait, wait, wait, wait, I only wait
two hundred seventeen pounds. That's kind of where Leonard Fordette
is going with all of this, and look, plenty of
time to to shed some weight, get into training camp.
Obviously did everything he could. You clear any the smirching
(27:02):
of his name. Here's a picture of me working out.
Look I work out, man, Here's videos I know it,
I work out. I might as well put that as
the shound track behind his workout video. Who Sexy? For
a different song that come out tie shirts rubbing off
on you frost, But songs with sexy and not the
(27:27):
right song, not the song. Look, let's be honest here
for a second. I mean I'm a sexy mother, sexy mother,
sexy mother. Uh, I'm I'm a little concerned about Tampa
I know that the general consensus of hey, Brady's coming back,
Tampa Bay is gonna be great. Tampa Bay didn't really
(27:48):
get better in the offseason. Brady came back, Leonard Fournette
is heavy, Rob Gronkowski is not playing. Uh, you don't
get better just by coming back and keeping the band together,
you know. I look at right now for Tampa Bay,
Darre's I like Dallas more this year. I like Philadelphia more.
I like the Vikings more. I like the Rams and
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the Cardinals and the forty Niners. I like all these
teams right now more than Tampa Bay. Tampa Bay is good,
but they're not getting better. They're getting older. And now
you put all your legs and Leonard Fournette's basket and
clearly he ate all of them. So you put like
that like that, like cool hand. Luke, He's like maybe
he's come on, look, come on, look, we gotta bet here.
(28:31):
Come on, Luke, I'm not really buying Tampa Bay this year.
I'm thinking more pretender than contender, and they'll they'll play
well in their division because their division stinks. Right, you're
talking about Baker mayfielder Sam Donald's gonna start for Carolina
the Saints, you're basically starting over. Uh, it's not going
to be a great division. So could I see them
winning their division? Yeah? But all those other teams that
(28:54):
I just listed, the Cowboys, the Eagles, the Vikings, the Rams,
the Cardinals and Miners, they're all bout. I'll take all
of them right now over Tampa Bay. I like their
defense obviously. Offensively, I mean the running back position is
a big question, right. They drafted White in the third
round out of Arizona State, and then you've got Giovanni,
Bernard Keyshaw, Vaughan and guys that have been around. But
(29:16):
if a lot of it is on for net As
for the wide receiving corps they brought, they did add
Russell Gauge. That's a nice pickup, right, especially the question
of how healthy to start things. Godwin will be you
know what, Mike Evans Brad is still there. I think
Gronk eventually walks through that door, right, Even his girlfriend
(29:37):
this weekend. It's like, I don't think he's fully retired yet.
We'll see, obviously, you know we that that's a wait
and see approach that really only deals with the first
part of the season. But I understand your point. I
disagree with a few of those things. Man, Really, I'm
gonna bet on the Cowboys. Come on, man, I'll tell
you this is the Cowboys year. With that, this is
(29:59):
the Cowboys every year. I like that. I I do say.
The first gone gallops hurt. Cooper drives the boat. Cooper
drives the boat. Twitter and now about a Fresca. Mike
gets swallen home coming up next, we get back into
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