Doug Told You Weeks Ago: Aaron Judge Can Save Baseball

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to sports Tell not Tell Aviv, Jerusalem, Israel
side of the Maccabi games. I'll give you more info.
If you want the info on Twitter, you can call us,
or of course the boys will talk about it. Let's
get after. Last night was a home run derby and
viewership was up thirty eight percent. Thirty eight percent, And

(00:22):
I know there's some haters out there that are unable
to actually listen and comprehend what I'm saying. I told
you that the home run derby can in fact be
boring to watch in person. It just drags. They've done
a better job of making so it doesn't drag on.
But I also told you this is going back two
months ago, both on this show and on The Herd.
I know I told you because as Ryan Music, my

(00:45):
esteem producer who helped produce The Herd that day, Will
will affirm I kind of used the same rants on
The Herd than I did on the duck Gotta Leave show,
which which is uh Is that about right? Ryan? That
is true. There was not that much time between us
doing our show the previous day to the morning the

(01:05):
next morning during The Herd, and it was that wasn't
it had nothing to do with time. It had to
do with the fact that it was a really, really
really good series of points and my points there were, okay,
my points. There are my same points now, which is,
Aaron Judge can save regular season baseball, Aaron Judge can
save the home run derby. Aaron Judge can make uh,
can make lots of things interesting to watch, not necessarily

(01:27):
listen to because he doesn't give you much at all
in interviews, but the fact is that he's a Yankee.
That's important, and you can go like, oh, what's the
egg they have? One last time? They won the World
Series and look the eggs twenty seven world titles. They
are synonymous with winning. They are the biggest name in
the sport and they, by the way, play in the
biggest market. They're the biggest name of the biggest market,

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and they have physically the biggest star in baseball who
now um literally is creeping up on becoming the biggest
star in the sport. He and he's just a rookie.
He's not making a ton of money. He wears ninety nine.
He looks like a superhero. He also looks like Aaron
Gordon won the Dunk Contest there's so much to him
that in a sport which can be utterly and completely

(02:10):
unwatchable unless it's your team early on in the regular season,
even the dog days of summer, Aaron Judge hits balls
further steroid free than anybody we've ever seen, or at
least it feels that way. Was that about the Is
that about the ramp music? Is that? Is that about
where I went with it? That sounds like we actually

(02:33):
just replayed the other segment and you actually haven't arrived
at the studio yet from Jerusalem. Ah, that's what we did.
We got we got knocked off line, So they just
reaired a two month old rant that just happened to
apply today. Now what's the point, Doug, I realized I
watched the home run Derby? Well, first is good? What

(02:54):
is it? St F you? Yeah, it really should be
s t F Y. But whatever reason you go STF
to Logan Morris. Remember Logan Morrison, it's like live Gary
Sanchez in the home run Derby. I should be in
the home run Derby? Remember that? Yeah, that's why viewership.
Gary Sanchez took baseball by storm last year at the

(03:17):
end of the season, and now the right fielder Aaron
Judge has taken baseball by storm this year. The Home
Run Derby is about the youth of baseball. It's about
making people watch something which is like, dude, you just
watching guys hit balls far I do not curveballs. There's nothing.
It's not really baseball. Get Yankees in it. People will watch.

(03:38):
Get young dudes in it that you haven't heard of people,
young dudes that put up ridiculous numbers. Last year it
was Sanchez, I think nineteen home runs in forties some
odd games something like that. This year it's Aaron Judge
leading the world in home in balls hit a metric mile.
It is not a metric mile, is actually a kilometer anyway.
Um that's so the first thing is stf why or

(04:00):
you whichever you want to Logan Morrison. It also points
to the NBA's need to get something done in New York,
to get something done with the l A Lakers and
the story of the day from Lee Jenkins and Sports Illustrate,
who does an outstanding job. The story of the day

(04:22):
is very very simple, is um, Paul George is open
to the idea of, hey, we're really good in Oklahoma City,
Like why would I leave, it's not a foregone conclusion
that he will go to Los Angeles. On the other hand,
Russell Westbrook also hasn't signed his contract extension. Unless he does,

(04:42):
it's not a foregone inclusion. Russell Westbrook's gonna stay after
this year. But the NBA they need Los Angeles, they
need New York. Because while while you and me like,
I don't care, I'm going to watch h I'm going
to watch Lebron James and Steph Curry like I don't care.

(05:03):
Where they like doesn't location of the team doesn't matter
to me. But I'm a sports fan. When you get
to major events in sports, you need the mainstream fan,
not the sports fan, to kind of help carry the
build that huge number. And when you cut out the
two biggest cities in the country with vibrant basketball fan

(05:24):
bases as well, well, you're limiting the scope of how
many people can come listen or come watch. Um and
maybe the other part too. It is this tonight see
All Star Game. It's on Fox. I'll watch it. UM.
I like the All Star Game. There's some nostalgia to it,

(05:46):
but can we all admit that the Baseball All Star
Game just frankly like the NBA All Star Game, like
the Pro Bowl, but even more so because it's baseball.
It is it is an our cane idea, right, it
is something from a foregone era. I'll give you the example.

(06:07):
Israel has like the most ridiculous cell phone technology because
many of it was much of it was developed here.
As Doug Otlip show Fox Sports Radio, I'm actually broadcasting
from Jerusalem, Israel. The cell phone and WiFi technology here
is spectacular, even though the topography of for example, Jerusalem
is hilly and mountainous, right, so um. What's interesting to

(06:32):
me though, is that while the cell phones that were
uh that we're developed because of all the wars, right,
all the wars and the fighting like much of I mean,
why we're drones, drones that Amazon is gonna use to
to drop off your food now that Amazon bought whole
foods like all tho. That drone technology, the drones that
you bought for your kids for Christmas or for Hanakah, like,

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that was all developed in places of war. And the
necessity is the root of all invention, isn't it. So um,
with all the developed technology they have here last night
before the show, it means like I don't know if
I told you this rama's YouTube. Across the street from
where I'm broadcasting from is a beautiful mall. Now, I'm

(07:17):
not sure if you're aware of this. In our country,
but people don't go to the mall anymore. It's not
the nineteen eighties, not the nineties, okay. And one of
the things that came into play in the nine nineties
in malls was the food court. Right remember the food court.
You go down, you get a little Chick fil A
and you get hot dog and a stick like you
get like Sabarrow pizza. Right now, nobody goes to them all.

(07:38):
A matter of fact, malls are many of them are
are almost vacant and they're being repurposed for other things.
And the reason is Amazon, Amazon, you know, on Amazon
Prime and Zappo's to deliver shoes like the next day,
and if you don't like them, you put them back
in They're gone. Like it's just shopping is done online
or shopping is done in niche stores. Why do you
need to go to a mall and fight the traffic whatever.

(08:00):
People don't go to the mall. But here in Israel,
like they still go to malls. They also still smoke cigarettes.
These are all things from the eighties and nineties that
we don't do nearly as much in volume. On the
other hand, we still have the Major League Baseball All
Star Game, which was created with a great spirit, great
intent because back in the day they used to have

(08:22):
the American League in the National League. I don't know
if you know this, but the American League and National League. Originally, okay,
until expansion, they only played in the World Series. There
wasn't even any They were playing for the pennant, but
there wasn't even any playoffs. It wasn't a championship series.
Then they developed the Championship Series. Then it was the
Divisional Series. Then you had the wild Card, and now

(08:44):
you have the wild Card play in game and etcetera, etcetera, eceutera.
But we also now have the crossover of every series
having every every week we have a different inter league series.
Oh yeah, and you can watch any team play anytime, anywhere,
even from your phone. So this idea that well, I
never get to watch Aaron Judge play, that's not true.

(09:05):
Everybody gets the Yes Network. You can watch Aaron Judge
play whatever you want, not even counting the nationally televised
game on Fox, and you want to watch Aaron Judge highlights,
you can put it in your phone, which every time
he has in that bat, you can see the highlight.
So I don't need to watch the Wall Star games
so I can see Aaron Judge hit against whomever. I mean,

(09:27):
the All Star Game isn't even a game. It's not
like we all know, like starting Max Scherzer is gonna
throw what two innings? Matt Scherzer and Christie are gonna
throw two innings. The starting infielders are gonna play two, three,
maybe four innings. Then they're gonna shake hands, then they're
gonna get all their swag. Then they're gonna go home,
and they all love it and they'll love the honor

(09:47):
of doing it. But the fact is, you get sixteen
days off in Major League Baseball for a hundred and
sixty two games, and if you're kind of close and
you've got plenty of money, Like, it's not like these
guys don't know each other to play against. Jennie play interleague.
You can see so many play whatever you want. It
is the The Major League Baseball All Star Game to
us is what malls are to Israelis. We still do it,

(10:12):
We still love it, We still kind of go watch it,
but we're like, Okay, they tried to make it mean
something because it's home field advantage, even though it really
is kind of a ridiculous way to describe home To
decide a home field advantage, it's not really a game
because pictures are throwing, you know, starting picture throwing two
innings or one inning, and you're rotating all these guys

(10:32):
around and all these players that back in the sixties, seventies,
even eighties you would never see play in your ballpark,
and you couldn't see him play on TV. Now you
can watch many time you want, and you can watch
him in a legit game. So where is the Where
is the allure anyway? So there is so much to

(10:55):
get to mm hmmmm um. John Ross, he's gonna join
us up coming next we gotta ask him about one
the Aeron Judge factor. Does he think it's just the numbers?
And remember this, Aaron Judge, I mean, I think it
won seventy five last year as a rookie call up
as opposed to Gary Sanchez who hit like a million

(11:17):
last year. We gotta talk about the Yankees so they
have some issues. They have some problems. They've gone from
first place to a team that struggling. They got some injuries,
they gotta add some pictures. Can they add the arms
that they need. We'll discuss all things major League Baseball
getting you ready for the All Star Game up coming next.

(11:37):
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(13:28):
and getting ready for the All Star Game. That's give
me fun, It's gonna be fun. Um. You know, one
of the go two guys you should follow on Twitter
who has just unbelievable stuff is John Morossi. Of course
worked for MLB Network, also works of the NHL Network
and for Fox Sports. He's kind of have to join
us here as we're hours away from the l Star
Game in Miami. Um, I saw your I happen to

(13:49):
see a tweet like one of your last tweets was
about Justin Verlander's fastball hit nineties seven with explosive action. Um,
I wonder you're you did a hashtag tra deadline and
it made me think, we've heard all these scenarios about Detroit.
They have so many big name players with big contracts.
I look at the Yankees and they needed arm. Isn't

(14:10):
that the match made in Evan Well, Doug, it's one
of them. And the Yankees have a good farm system now.
They've spent some time now rebuilding it so they have
the ability, I believe, to access any number of the
top arms available now. Verrylander, when he's at his best.
We saw him finish runner up last year in the
Young Vote, so he's still a very good picture. Is

(14:31):
he what he was when he won the m v P. No,
but he's still awfully good now. He also is do
a lot of money, which I'm sure teams, including the
Yankees even will be wary of that, but there are
certainly ways to offset the money that Tigers can include
some money in the deal to facilitate things. But I
certainly think Doug he makes a lot of sense for
the Yankees. I'm quite sure he has a full no

(14:52):
trade clause that he would waive that no trade clause
to go to the Yankees or other marquee teams like
the Dodgers and the Cubs. The Yankees, Doug, I expect
they're gonna play on the big names, whether it's Verlander,
jose Kin, tana Um, Chris Arger looks like he's probably
gonna stay in Tampa Bay. But I think a number
of other names out there among the starting pitchers. Sunny
Gray is one of them. Garrett Cole, who actually they

(15:14):
drafted out of high school, you know, up going to
u c l a. So did not sign with the
Yankees at that point in time. Garrett Cole possibly on
the Yankees radar as well. How would you describe to
the layman what the Dodgers have been doing over the
past month and a half, Doug, It really is remarkable.
They have been the best team in baseball over that time.

(15:34):
Uh and the way in which they are winning games
that come back they had against Fernando Rodney and the Diamondbacks,
and the last week was breathtaking. Really, they of course
took advantage of of wildness on Rodney's part, But I
think it's it seems as though, Doug, every every night
that I'm watching MLB Network, I'm hearing one more great
call from Joe Davis on a great moment there for

(15:56):
the Dodgers in Joe's first year calling the Dodger games
full time, because it's been it's been remarkable that they
have really pulled out clutch hits late in games, and
sometimes it's been Bellinger, sometimes it's been Seeger and Turner.
They've also had really good contributions with the likes of
Kik Hernandez as well. And all of this is happening
with the stalwarts of the previous era, if you will,

(16:17):
Adrian Gonzalez, Andre Eats here both on the DL really
for almost the entire first happened in some of their cases.
So um, they really have done a magnificent job offensively. Then,
of course, pitching, we know all about Kershaw. Alex Wood
has emerged so much here in recent weeks I still think, Doug,
they have to find a way to get one more
starting pitcher because we have seen it happen now four

(16:39):
consecutive postseasons. Kershaw starts on short rest in the first
round and by the end of the playoffs he's tired
and the Dodgers lose. They have to find a way
to make sure that they have three other starters they
trust in addition to Kershaw, and given the health history,
the injury histories of the likes of Alex Wood and
Richill and Brandon McCarthy, I think they probably have to

(17:00):
find a way to get one more starting pitcher as
a big time insurance there for the Dodgers in the playoffs.
John Rosie Johnnys on the Doug Outlives show here on
Fox Sports Radio. Um okay, so, uh, you're mentioning the
need for another starting pitcher, don't the Houston Astros who
By the way, if you're not paying attention, the Astros
are sixteen and a half games up on second place

(17:21):
in the Al West and this finally living up to
all of the talent they have, uh in that lineup.
I mean, they have just a ridiculous amount of young
athletic town and they have some They have some playoff
experience as well, of course a couple of years ago
with the choke job against Kansas City Royals. Um, but
don't they need starting Like aren't we talking about all
these teams and they need starting pitching as well? Yes,

(17:41):
they do and really dug in many respects. Uh. We're
talking about the same names with them as we are
with the Yankees because their farm system is elite. Uh.
And now they know this is their time to win.
They've had the best record in the American League since
almost the first day of the season, and of course
they were just surpassed at the very end for the

(18:02):
best record of the majors by the Dodgers. So they
are right there, I believe with l A. But where
they're short is, as you point out, starting pitching. Dallas
Kaiko has been in the d L now for more
than a month with a lingering neck issues have been
causing some problems there in his shoulder area. That's a
real concern because he is their ace and if he
cannot go or if he's limited, I don't like their

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chances of getting to the World Series if that's the case.
So I do believe that to have some reinforcements. They
have looked at Sonny Gray in Oakland many, many, many
times this season with their scouts, Doug and so I
think that he is high on their list. Of course
they know from within the same division he has fishing
in the American League has has some success there. So
we will see, but they certainly have I believe the
Farces are gonna get it very very good young talent

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out there. Tucker is one name to know out there.
Fisher is another one. A couple of outfielders, so like,
stay tuned there in that possibility of Houston getting Gray
or a keen Ton if those guys do not end
up going to the Yankees or the Dodgers. Speaking of
the Yankees, Aaron Judge wins the home run Derby. To
anyone who's seen his BP action, it's not not a
terribly big surprise, but on a base on a big stage,

(19:07):
he did. He did come through at such a young age. Um,
you've been you've been doing this a while. Um. Look,
I know sometimes guys struggle with with late season collops,
but he was not good and obviously he's changed um
that stride, He's changed his timing, mechanism and how how
much he lifts his leg. Can you recall a guy

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struggling so mightily and then completely turning around in his
first full rookie season, No, I can't Dog gonna hit.
It's a great question because what he has done is
really remarkable historically, and of course he's already passed Joe
DiMaggio for the Yankee rookie home run record by the
All Star break, which is remarkable just to say those
words that he's passing Joe DiMaggio in a half season's work.

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Clearly he is, I think, in some respect, Doug the
avatar for this this new year, in this new era
in the game where we have so many home runs.
Of course we're on pace were written large across the majors,
a record number of home runs hit, and he has
though mastered I think trying to avoid that other part
of history it's happening right now, which is the all
time highest strikeouts. He has certainly strike out, he certainly

(20:14):
will strike out, but he's not on that same level
as even a Bellinger or other guys, other young guys
in the game right now. So he has done a
phenomenal job of controlling the strike zone, and I think
also absorbing the lessons of those around him. I think
we're seeing someone like a Matt Holidays that a phenomenal
impact on him. And Judge just has great aptitude periods,
a very very smart player. Um And I think you

(20:36):
saw Doug just in his interview after the after the
derby last night with Buster Olney. He does have that
Derek Jeter type bearing about him. He really I think
he just comes across so well, so genuine. So I
think baseball is in a very very good spot, and
I'm glad with the way that the derby unfolded and
the way the game is hopefully gonna go tonight. Um
Without of course, it coupled with home field advantage of

(20:57):
the World Series. This is now just about the players.
It's just about the players. It's just about the quality
of the game that we have right now, and for me,
baseball can now I think, leverage this and just celebrate
more fully just how much young talent there is in
the game, whether it's Judge or Bellinger. Um And I
think he really kind of had that celebration. Even more,
some worry about exactly who's gonna have home field advantage

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A few months from now in the World Series. We've
talked a lot about the pictures being on the move
because everybody who's ready for the postseason needs arms. There's
also got to be some hitters. Um, who's the biggest
name that you most expect to be moved at the
trade deadline? Well, the big name, and I'll go to
a former m v P here who has been playing

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phenomenally well over the last six weeks or so, and
that's Andrew McCutcheon in Pittsburgh. He has been playing back
in the center field. Is ops is now back above
nine hundred, which is remarkable considering where he was when
the season began. His story is remarkable because of course
he started the season in the corner after the rather
controversial move of Starling Martet the center field, and Martz

(22:01):
has spent it for p d s. So then McCutcheon
moves back to the center field. He was still struggling
offensively that all of a sudden hurdle moves him down
the line up, He gets going and now he really
looks like an outstanding trade candidate. Again the Dodgers, I
think he's a fit for them. Uh As they looked
to maybe shot up the outfield and get a little
bit a little bit better against left handed pitching. So

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McCutcheon I think is a fit there. Really he fits
a lot of clubs because now he can actually play
the corners as well, so in addition to just playing
center field. So McCutcheon the way he has played of
late Doug. For me, McCutcheon is as a very very
strong chance to be traded here at the deadline. And
I also watched closely the possibility of even like a
Brandon Belt from the Giants because of the way they

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have played and struggled so much. Belt was not somebody
that I thought was gonna get moved a month ago,
but I do believe the way the market conditions are,
he maybe maybe on the movement. In addition to Yonder
Alonso in the Bay Area there at first base, who's
had such a phenomenal first half and is there at
the All Star Game in his hometown of Miami. Yeah,
yet the team has just been awful. UH in in Sanford,

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San Francisco, don't know, you know, but Bovada actually took
them off the line that there's no line on the
San Francisco Giants. UH to win the to win the
World Series. Like, it's not not even not even consider that. Uh,
not being familiar much with with Vegas, Doug, I would
concur that there was quite literally no chance of them
winning the World Series, even though in the spring training
I had them as one of the national Lakes. So

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I suppose that tells you, my friend, what I actually know.
I'm like, listen, I mean, it's like, it's you know,
I usually it's even years usually that they win, right,
So it's an odd year. I mean maybe, but maybe
you thought bouncing back. I mean, like, it's not your
thoughts weren't crazy, but it is kind of. It's more
it's more surprising how putrid they've been than than anything else. Um,

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last thing, man, Like, look, we focus on the Marlins
because the All Star Game is in their park tonight.
At some point, this thing is gonna get sold. Now,
Michael jordan Is is joining Derek Jeter's group to potentially
the Marlins. Um so will Derek you to take an
active role as an owner? Like? What what are your
what are you hearing in terms of his level of
activity in this group? Well, there are a couple of

(24:08):
things you're number one, Um, really, there is a lot
of there's a lot of murkiness about where exactly this stands.
There have been reports of different groups winning the bidding
at different times, and the Commissioner, Rob Medford and speaking
yesterday at the All Star Game, indicated that there is
no agreement right now in place, and in fact it
sounds as though there are still three groups that are
actively involved on some level. So there's really a lot

(24:31):
of confusion, I believe, as to exactly what the sale
price is going to be, who's going to own the club,
And this, by the way, is tremendously clouding the Marlins
operation out of the trade deadline. The trade deadline is
coming up on July thirty one. It does not appear
that that the Shill sortain is going to be completed
by then, and we may not even know the owner
by then, So in that case that it's really a

(24:53):
missed opportunity dug for the Marlins to maybe make some
headway in terms of a rebuild, because they don't want
to make these trades until they know who the ultimate
new boss is gonna be. So it's very confusing there.
Derek Jeter, though I do think he wants to have
a lot of say so in terms of the baseball decisions.
I think that's a big part of who he is
and what he wants to do. To meet Doug and
I know Derek just a little bit from having covered

(25:15):
him over the years. I don't think that he wants
to get involved in this to not have a profile
and to say so. I think if Derek wants to
get involved, it's because he wants to have a voice.
He wants to be very involved, I'm sure on both
the baseball and the business out of things, especially baseball,
And I think baseball written large will be better off
if at some point in time, if it's now, we're

(25:36):
in the future, if Derek Jeter is owning a major
League baseball franchise. But John again, and I bow to
your knowledge more than mine. But in the conversations I've
had with Jeter of others have had with Cheeter, like
he didn't watch baseball when he was at home, you know,
when he was like, he's not necessarily a base He
played baseball, but he's not a baseball guy. So I mean,

(25:59):
are we talking figurehead uh position where he shows up
at games like he not necessarily decision making. He might
know what a baseball player looks like. But he's not
really engrossed in the game. Never got the sense that
he loves all. He's not like a you know, like
a you know, a field rat. You know, you don't
even want to hang out and know about minor league
ers and developing players like that. Not really him. It's

(26:20):
something he's not wasn't a great player, but that's not
in his makeup. Doesn't that lead some people to be
hesitant in terms of how much he's actually gonna be
involved in the business, in the in the baseball decision making.
It's a fair question. And I do think Doug that
in the day to day that there's there is a
very different um. I think as we think about across
sports how each sport operates, there's a very different job

(26:44):
of being the day to day GM or even the
president of baseball operations for a team, and then the
the CEO and the sort of the thirty foot guy.
And I think Derek from all the games he has watched,
he understands winning clearly um and and so to me,
as someone that's up in the owner's box watching the games,
he's going to have an opinion on things and I'm
sure he's gonna want that opinion to be executed. Will

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he want to deal with the minutia of of trading
a player, signing a player, negotiating with an agent over
over a minor league contract for the Probably not, But
I do think Doug he would want to have a
degree of big picture organizational direction on on the club
and do what. Do I think he's gonna be as

(27:28):
involved with the Marlins or some other team as John
Elway is with the Broncos. I would say unlikely, or
Larry Bird has been in his career. Probably not, But
but I do think he would want to have that
that high foot view of things and then be able
to dictate the vision of the franchise as he sees it.
John enjoy the All Star Game as the rest of

(27:50):
us will. Can't wait to catch up with these We
crank towards the uh the trade deadline, and then towards
the fall where this is gonna be great and we
got all these big markets, talented teams and we'll find
out We even talk about the Cubs, which appears to
be a little bit of dumpster fire all the way,
very talented dumpster fire. John, thanks so much, for joining
us on the Doug Gottlieb Show Dog and enjoin the
All Star Game. Thanks so much. All right, that's John Rossie,

(28:12):
of course worked for the MLB Network and of course
for us here at Fox Sports. Floyd Mayweather and connorcgregor
had a press I'll have a press conference later today. Why,
I just I can't do it. I can't buy into
the validity of any statements made at these press conferences.
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Doug Otlip Show, Fox Sports Radio. So Floyd and Connor
Mayweather and McGregor, they're gonna have a press conference later today.

(28:54):
And look, I understand that it's cat nip for the
media masses, right, It's all I can't get it out
of it. What's kind of Conda McGregor And what's he's
gonna say? How great name is Connor McGregor, right, especially
Gonna McGregor. It's like it's a great name, but I mean,
like how can we on it? Like have you. Ever,

(29:15):
here's what I'm I'm interested. And there's been some of
it with Floyd Mayweather. I can't remember guys who did
Floyd fight like three uh Garcio what was his name?
He fought like three fights ago, and his dad was like,
you're gonna root for a white beater? You're gonna he was?
He was, dude, he was. I grew up in a

(29:36):
my my first elementary school in southern California was bilingual
and his dad was bilingual, uh Latino, obviously, and he
sounded like a lot of the dads of the kids
that I went to Jordan Elementary and Orange, California with like,
what are you gonna You're gonna You're gonna root for
a white beater? Right? Um? So that was an over
the top press conference for Floyd Mayweather and boxing, and

(29:58):
we've seen some, but UFC is a completely different level
of I don't know, Springer show, w meets w W
E and press conference. Now, look, the UFC guys are badasses. Okay,
So anybody who who um, anybody who says what lyar

(30:18):
got lives, he's talking trash about you. No, No, that
that ain't true. I've said this before and I mean it,
the three different things that will three things that will
survive a nuclear holocaust. Okay, twinkies, cockroaches, Wrestlers, they just will.
Wrestlers are badasses. And you may not like cauliflowerer. I

(30:38):
don't want my son wrestles. I don't want cauliflower by Sunday,
get cauliflower. But those dudes are tough embras and you
mentioned and a lot of these guys have a rest
Most of them have a wrestling background and then a
Brazilian jiu jitsu background, Like they're they're bad, dude. They
are not dudes you want to run into and talk
Smack two in a dark alley, because especially wrestlers, they
get you on the ground. Once they get you the ground,

(31:00):
like that's their office, you're done. You're like, I'm sorry,
but the UFC press conferences, especially involving Connor McGregor, are
just so over the top, like I'm I'm just done,
I'm just done, and I'm sorry. But when both guys
are going to get super rich, when both are in

(31:21):
on the gag that Connor McGregor is not a boxer,
and yet he's gonna he's not He's not just fighting,
and the thing that can fighting is a boxer. He's
fighting a guy who is has a masters as a
doctorate in the sweet science. He's arguably the best pound
for pound fighter in the world. Now, I it's a

(31:42):
completely different discipline, completely different discipline. So I just and
when both guys are making not six, not seven, but
likely you know, Floyd's making eight figures in this, they're
just maybe nine figures this there's just the level of

(32:07):
I my, I don't give a you know what in
terms of you don't really dislike a guy. I mean,
if Connor McGregor gets flattened in the first round, he's
still gonna get He was on he was unwelfare four
years ago, do you guys knowing he's on well for
four years ago, and now he's going to be worth

(32:27):
a hundred million dollars after this fight. Like, there's just
no way you can tell me that you hate each
other when you had to kind of get together and
finally get the fight done and both are going to
be rich beyond all possible levels of wealth. And oh yeah,
by the way, Connor's fighting a discipline that's not even his. Like,
you don't hate each other, it's so over the top

(32:48):
that said, every media company is gonna cover it. Everybody
will be talking about why because a Conor McGregor press
conference and a Floyd Mayweather press conference is catnip to
the masses. Can't get enough. It's not a It's not
any different than w W E. You know. I don't
get it. I don't watch it. I don't. I do
know people that are really bright that do watch it.

(33:14):
But man, that's that's I can't get into it. I
can't do it. What are the chances Kmaren Anthony ends
up with the Houston Rockets. I'll tell you next. Hold long,
wait for it, wait for it. Crank it up just
a little bit. Wait, wait, wait, wait wait, Doug got

(33:37):
lip Show, Fox Sports Radio. Get to my sack in
a second, not just yet, get ready, crank crack it up.
Here we go. Sometimes you need that, right, You need

(33:59):
a little rage, little rage in the summer rain bad
not road rage, rage against the machine. Doug Alli, Joe,
Fox Sports Radio, I'm broadcasting live from Jerusalem, Israel'll tell
you about a lopsided game that we played in earlier today.
You guys won't believe the final score. Um, we'll get
to that in a second. First, let's get inside myself.
Let's reach into godly sack, Dan, fire, my man, what

(34:30):
you got. Let's see what we got a little a
little bit of this, a little bit of that. Today.
It's uh, oh, we've got What are the chances? What
are the chances today? All right, let's do it. Let's uh, doug,
We're gonna bounce here, there and everywhere. Okay, So let's
start in the n b A. If Carmelo Anthony wants
to play for Houston, he's gonna need some help because
the Rockets don't have anything of value for the Knicks

(34:52):
or that the Knicks would want. So what are the
chances A third team gets involved and allows the Knicks
to trade Carmelo Anthony to Houston. I'm gonna go with thirty.
I still think as much as Chris Paul's pushing forward
and James Harden's pushing forward, Remember he makes a lot

(35:13):
of money, okay, and there's still the salary cap to
worry about. And they trade away a lot of their
assets to the Clippers, and so the dollars had to
And I understand there's trade exceptions and other things you
can I just don't know how it makes sense unless
unless the Knicks buy him out, and I don't see
them buying him out any time since. How about this one, Doug,

(35:34):
What are the chances the Knicks actually made a good
move by sounding restricted free agent Ron Baker to a
two year deal. Well, good for Ron Baker, right? Who
would have thought that they'd get Ron Baker and Tim
Hardaway Jr. For just under eighty million dollars? Well, of
course that's because they overpaid for Tim Hardaway, right, But
I mean like Ron Baker to not be drafted, make

(35:55):
the league, play last year on a rookie minimum, and
now get a two year guaranteed deal with just just
south of ten million dollars. Pretty awesome for a guy
from Scott City, Kansas who uh didn't have a uh
didn't really have a big time scholarship offer when he
took up he had to pay for He was a
walk on babe, walk on I had, I mean had
had to pay for his own way his first year

(36:16):
in school and then of course led them to the
Final help lead them to the Final four and an
injury plague freshman year stayed all four years and uh
he and Fred VanVleet both in the NBA, so pretty
spectacular story. He was one of those guys that you
thought was at which is State forever because of that
final four run that was his freshman year. You know,
there's certain guys you just think that are in college
just forever and ever. He seemed to be one of

(36:37):
those guys because now we're not used to college stars
staying that long, and because he emerged as a freshman
and stayed his four years, seemed like he was a
shocker for a long long time. Pro pro pro football
talk dot com says there are no suitors for r
G three as training camp starts in a few weeks. So, Doug,
what are the chances that Robert Griffin the third is

(36:58):
on an NFL team at the start the NFL season.
I'm gonna say, like I will tell you that, I
that instead of just signing with somebody to make the team,
you're better off sitting and waiting until somebody goes down.
Guys will go down in camp. Um So I look,

(37:19):
I I think it's only chance he's on the on
on a roster first day of of the season, but
I think that the chances are higher if he doesn't
sign with somebody before camp because there'll be an injury.
Moving on to some news about the Olympic Games. Is
the I o C unanimous unanimously approved the move that

(37:40):
will allow the Executive Board to award the summer Games
at their meeting in September. It's likely that l A
gets games, Doug. What are the chances the games if
in Los Angeles are a huge success? Oh? Chance? Chance?

(38:02):
I went to the eighty four Games. I don't know
if you I mean Dan Obviously he didn't grow up
in Los Angeles. Um, they handle the traffic, They change
people's office hours, which always made me always, really, why
don't they do this the whole time? By then, of course,
you'll have the new stadium in Inglewood. You probably have
a new Clippers Arena, like, you have infrastructure, you have hotels.
Traffic is a problem, but you'll have state funds in

(38:26):
order to kind of help believe it. Maybe you have
a high speed rail by then. I think it will
be a spectacular success. Plus, it's so much better for
TV when it's on in the States instead of watching
things on tape to light. John Ramos is gonna have
his work hours beat noon to one during the summer games.
That sounds good. Finally, a woman in Houston has been
arrested on charges of letting her eleven year old daughter

(38:47):
driver car with her ten year old son in the vehicle.
I know it sounds awful, but police say the car
was clocked going forty nine miles per hour in a
thirty five zone. What are the chances, Doug, that you
drive past twenty miles per round car when you were
eleven years old, let alone forty nine. Well I used to, well,
eleven years old. I think it was too big to
sit on my dad's lap. But you did you learn

(39:09):
to drive that way where you sat your dad's lap
and you're like seven or eight, and you know, you
drive down the street and he'd be on his lap
and he'd, you know, he'd have like a little you know,
it's like two fingers on the wheel to protect you,
you know, and then he'd have the break in the
gas pedal. Yeah that didn't you know, No, unfortunately I didn't.
But left I was one of the late bloomers when
it came to cars. I don't know if i'd who

(39:31):
taught you how to drive? Um my mom, who taught
you how to drive? Stick? That's still learning left. I
don't know how to drive sticks. I do. I just
ride the clutch like you wouldn't believe that's it's just
the problem. So uh and that's what's in my sack.
That was Scott lead sack. Yeah, my brother taught me

(39:55):
how to drive stick. And actually the way he taught
me was he parked on like an uphill, like put
the parking brake on, left in a neutral at a
stop sign and then's like think, went over to the
pastor's side, switched and like figured out drive home because
I was in the parking lot and I kept grinding
the gears and he's like, this is how you learn.
And there's nobody behind us. It was like middle of

(40:16):
the day. And figured it out and drove home. Remember
when Paul George was definitely going to the Lakers? Might
not be so definite. We'll tell you why next in
the doug Otlip Show. What up? It's the doug Otlip Show.
Fox Sports Radio this week, broadcasting live from Jerusalem, Israel.

(40:39):
Had a bit of a beat down today. Boys, Now
we were not beaten down. Um, so the way this
thing works is right, Like these are the best Jewish
athletes from across the world and you play in like
the Jewish Olympics, and as you can imagine, like there's
there are certain countries to which there is a paucity
of Jewish athletes. I mean, that's what happens when you

(41:00):
wipe out six million people during World War two, like right,
there's especially in Europe. So there's a small but fairly
healthy Jewish community in Belgium. And so apparently these guys
they came to every four years they have this you
know again it's like the Olympics. It's called Maccabi Games. Um,
they have the games and they have the junior Games
as well. So eight years ago, these guys were fifteen,

(41:23):
they all came together, they got a team together, they practiced,
they practice the best they play and they were very good.
And so they made it a they made it like
their mission to when they were uh, eight years later,
you know, when some were twenty three somewhere twenty four,
they would come and play in the big games. And

(41:43):
they have and they weren't. They haven't won a game.
They were probably better than Mexico, but shot yesterday and
so my my my team was was better. Um, so
I guess the question is. And and look, no one
has given me any sort of grief who watched the
game about running up the score because we didn't. I mean,

(42:05):
I played the five guys who had played the least
of my twelve um between ten and fifteen minutes in
the first half. And there's twenty minute halfs, it's ten
minute quarters, but it's twenty minute combined halves. And I
played them probably thirteen minutes or so altogether, maybe a
little bit more in the second half. So I played

(42:28):
the players that the back end of my bench. We
did not We pressured some, but didn't press like we
never turned them over and tried it. We just uh music,
Here's kind of how I handled it, right. I didn't
want to have any bad habits. I wanted them to
get a really good workout, and I wanted to feel like, hey,
we're just gonna play good, clean basketball, not have any turnovers,

(42:49):
try and find the open man, take good shots, run
our offense. Kind of just almost like scrimmaging against your
your walk ons, if you will. And um, we were
up eighty five at one. We were up eighty five
with about two and a half to go. Um. Thankfully
we only won by seventy eight points as they banged
in a couple of threes late. And so the final

(43:10):
score I'm not making without pressing and without pushing the ball.
We pushed the ball host the game, but in the
last five minutes we walked it up. Every every possession,
just ran a play and remember the second shot clock,
so you can like, you can only play so slow.
And honestly, our starters, we had one starter or we
have a great shooter, hit five threes in the first

(43:31):
five minutes of the game. Outside that, nobody else really
could make a shot. Our starters actually didn't shoot the
ball very well. And uh so we won one ten
to thirty two. Have you ever been a part of
anything like that? Ryan Ramos, You guys ever been a
part of a blowout like that? I've been on the
other end of a blowout like that, an embarrassing blowout.
But we lost. My freshman year in volleyball, we lost

(43:55):
twenty five to six one game. That was pretty bad.
That's pretty bad. There was that you can't really run
it up. You can't really run it up in volleyball,
can't you. Uh yeah, well, I mean it kind of
depends it just you know, depends on how aggressive you
are late in that game, right, Like, so you could
be going back there giving it a jump, serve, giving
it you're all and or you could just sort of

(44:17):
be like standing there and giving him a nice easy lollipop.
We just were bad and the other team was really good.
But in terms of your situation, if you're putting in
the reserves, um, then there's no real that's not I
have no problem if you be the team by ninety
with your backups in, Like, what else are you supposed

(44:38):
to do? Doug? Does a you twelve blowout count? What
a minute? You twelve? Oh? Yeah with soccer? Right? Didn't
you guys get blown out in soccer? Soccer? How was it?
I was nine zero nine nil? Um, I've seen a
soccer game like that where it wasn't. My my son
didn't try out. He should have tried out for travel soccer.

(44:58):
He didn't. He we made him too between travel baseball
and travel soccer. So he went to his buddies last
travel soccer game of the year and they were getting
housed by another team. And uh, but the other team
let them score twice because otherwise the game would have
been called. Like I think it's like a seven goal.
It was like a seven goal like mercy rule. So

(45:19):
it's like six nothing. And then the other team like,
actually let them score, and all the kids are like,
let him score, let him score, And I actually thought
that was worse, Like that's even more humiliating. We want
to keep here, We'll let you have a goal. That's
that's exactly what happened, exactly what I look. I got
onto my I told my guys like, if you're not
playing hard, you're coming out. If you take bad shots

(45:42):
in yourself, which you're coming out, um, and look, if
you don't want to play, tell me. They all wanted
to play and they're they're great, and so I was.
It was. It was. It was like a perfect workout.
Everybody's everybody's healthy. I gave my best player or my
second best player the night off, like he didn't even dress.
He helped coach, like all of that was good. And
it was still at a seventy eight point when yeah,

(46:02):
like they were tossing aliops off the backboard and like
shooting half court shots right like, it wasn't like you
guys were doing hard for the half court shot. I'm kidding, No,
we did not do that. Yeah, I mean, if you're
just out there playing, especially with your backups, and then
there's not much else you can do. All right, as
long as you guys approved and uns have approved, then

(46:22):
that's really much. Meanwhile, Ramos is just remembering, you know,
his U twelve soccer team getting housed and run up on,
and uh, well wait till you four teen girls are
ready for this season, We're gonna be ready to go,
no question. So I saw this article from Lee Jenkins,
and it's it's interesting that Kevin Rant apparently told Paul

(46:44):
George that place Oklahoma City will blow you away. George said, quote,
he told me they can offer you what other teams
can't in terms of the people and the preparation the
facility down to the chefs and meals. By the way,
I don't know if you know this, but like Kevin
Rant gave away. He he bought to what would be
amount to Brownstones, and he combined him and I think

(47:04):
he spent like three million dollars on the renovation and
the building buildings combined, which is like within walking distance
of the arena, and then he sold it for like
a million dollars. Anyway, if only Paul George was coming earlier,
he could have rented it out to him. So kind
of interesting that that K d Um said such. I mean,

(47:24):
it's not interesting to me. I don't think anything like.
Kevin Durant didn't have any bad feelings about Oklahoma City.
He just thought it was a better place for him
and he wanted to explore living in a different place,
playing in a different team, and by the way, winning
a championship, and he made the right decision. So I
don't know any Oklahoma City fan that's upset at Kevin Durant.
I mean, I think if you read these quotes from
Paul George, uh, then then you you do realize that

(47:50):
Kevin Durant is pretty sincere guy. He really didn't have
any problem with Oklahoma City, and he saw value in it.
He just saw more value elsewhere. George went on to say,
there's no right way to handle it. I get the frustration.
I get why people are upset, but at the same time,
I want the average fan to understand that we only
get a small window to play this game, and more
than anything, you want to be able to play for
a championship. I wanted to bring that to Indiana I

(48:10):
really did. I love Indian would always be a special place.
I'm sorry for not holding on, but I wasn't sure
that we'd ever get a team together. It could be
for a championship, and that's where it where it came from. Um.
So he goes on to say that it's it's no
locked up cinch. All I was asking was a little
help in India. Now I'm getting a lot of help

(48:32):
in Oklahoma. I think uh I fit with how he
plays in vice first of being a knockdown shooter. I
think I can spread the floor for him and run
the flour for him. But I also think I can
help get him easier opportunities. Um. He went on to
say that, um um it. Look, it's not a locked
up cinch that he's going to Oklahoma. I grew up

(48:53):
a Lakers and a Clippers fan. I adolyzed Kobe. There
will always be a tie, there a connection there. People
saying I want to come home. Who doesn't want to
play for their hometown team. That's a dream come true.
You're growing up, growing up in the outskirts of l
A to be the man in your city. That's definitely overstated.
I'm searching for it. If we get a killer season

(49:14):
in Oklahoma, when we make the conference finals or upset
the Warriors do something crazy, I'd be dumb if I
want to leave that. So he's not saying that he's
staying in Oklahoma. He's saying like, well, let's let this
thing play out and see how it goes. But he's
also not saying he's not going to Lakers. Lakers roll
the dice, but so too to Oklahoma City. My guest

(49:36):
is he still ends up wearing purple and gold next year.
Sam Donald is gonna be wearing red and gold in
Los Angeles for at least this season. Is there any
weight on his shoulders in terms of the decision to
go pro at the end of the season. Before the
season begins, I'll ask the Heisman Trophy hopeful USC's Sam

(49:58):
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(50:20):
the team. Our first two games were actually really close.
I know, the final score was, uh nineteen point wins,
and both of them today not so much you want
buy seventy eight points. We welcome in Sam Donald, who
most of you know as the Heisman Trophy hopeful Heisman
Trophy favorite per Vegas. He's also starting quarterback at USC
the one the Rose Bowl spectacular come from behind fashion
against Penn State, one of the one of the just

(50:41):
the litany of great Rose Bowl games. But in the
most recent one he was he was phenomenal. Sam was
also a really good basketball player at San Clemente High School. UM,
biggest blowout football basketball you've ever been a part of. Um, Well, thanks,
thanks Doug for having me back on. I really appreciate it. UM,
biggest blowout. Uh either way you got blown out or

(51:04):
you blew somebody else out. Uh, I don't know. I
think I mean those summer those summer basketball games can
be UM kind of shoddy with the talent that we play.
So UM, I'm sure there was a team in there
that we blew out by, you know, like forty points. Uh.
So those are always those are always fun. And I

(51:24):
got to sit out that second half. But you know,
those those games are always kind of shoddy on the
talent that we would play. Um, but there's nobody like
a high school football like like okay, cyclemany who was
in your who was in your league? There's always one
team in in somebody's league in high school that had
no shot. Yeah, I mean we had a couple of those,
um in high school. I mean my senior year we

(51:45):
were pretty good. Uh So yeah, they're definitely a couple
of those teams. I don't I don't necessarily want to
name him, uh, but you have to play him. It's
not like you have to play him against Sam Yeah,
I know, but yeah, it's uh, we had a couple
of those scenes in our league my senior year. Um,
those games are definitely, you know, not as fun as

(52:05):
the nail biers, but um no it was. I mean,
you know, you're always going to have one of those
in your league unless you're in the you know, Trinity
League on the West Coast, which has you know, top,
top of the notch talent. So Sam Donald joining us
USC starting quarterback Heisman Trophy favorite, Um, we caught up.
But I was at the other plant at a at

(52:25):
a different network. It's great to catch up beyond this
one twice. Once when you first started and first kind
of took over and took the college football world by storm. Uh,
then right after the Rose Bowl. Um, So like here
we are seven months since the Rose Bowl, and I
think people on that coast and college football people knew
you before the Rose Bowl. But it's it's different in

(52:47):
a game of that level of importance. H. That's that's
that well regarded nationally Penn State obviously with the East
Coast and Midwest backgrounds with the Big Ten and of
course it's on the East coast. With with that in mind,
how has your life changed since that game? Yeah? Um,
you know it's changing a lot of ways. Um. And
you know, obviously it's it's changed a lot for the better.

(53:09):
And you know, I'm really, you know, thankful for that,
and you know it's been a blessing the whole way through.
But um, yeah, I mean a lot of you know,
the PAC twelve doesn't necessarily get the credit I think
that we deserve. But um, at the same time, you know,
it's it's an awesome conference and UM, it's got great
talent obviously, UM, and it's it definitely gets you ready

(53:33):
for those bowl games and you know, hopefully down the line,
you know, a playoff game if if we happen to
get there. So um, but I'm in like media obligations
places you go like look, I mean you kind of
stick out like a short thumb anyway, not a short
thum about me, Like you stick out right big red hair,
red hair, you gotta you know, big, but like you're not.
You're not a little fella, you know, like six four

(53:55):
with with a pro body and red hair, like you
can't hide, but I would. I would guess it's different now,
or is it? I mean you tell me yeah, Um,
you know sometimes I can hide a little bit. I
mean if I just put a hat on in sunglasses
and I'm outside, you know, it's it's pretty easy. But
whenever the red hair is out, you know, some people
recognize me. But it's also easier too. I think whenever

(54:19):
you know a football players, you know, popular amongst like
the crowd or something, Uh, it's definitely easier to hide
sometimes just because we have our helmets on. Um, Whereas
like you know, a basketball player always has his face showing,
so um, you know it's it's it can be easy
at times, but sometimes you know, if someone, um like
I was at a Dodger game a couple of days ago,

(54:42):
and one person came and took a picture with me,
and then everyone else realized that, Um, you know I
was Yeah, it was me, So um, it's you know,
it's definitely interesting. But um, yeah, sometimes I stick out,
but other times I can kind of blend in. There's
there's this sense that you and Josh Rosen of course

(55:03):
starting quarterback over U c l A. And he had
a tough year last year with a bunch of injuries.
There's a sense foregone conclusion, you guys are going pro.
You're gonna be number one and number two in the draft.
How do you handle that when you hear that from people,
assuming they know what your future holds. How do you
handle that? Yeah? Um, I think the simplest answer that

(55:23):
I can come up with when people say that is
just you know, and it's kind of cliche. But you
can only control you can control. Uh. So you know,
if I have a bad year this year, you know,
knock on wood, or if I have a great year, Um,
we're just gonna see what happens from there. You know,
I need to be able to talk to my family,
talk to you know, all of my coaches, and um,

(55:45):
so it's it's definitely gonna be a process. But right now,
I mean, um, we're just focused on fall camp and
we just got a bunch of new freshmen, so right
now we're just focused on getting them integrated with our team.
What is the biggest thing you personally have worked on,
because like, look when I when you came in, it
electrified the offense. You were different. Obviously the schedule was
really difficult. For if you were the starting quarterback to

(56:07):
start the year, it might not have mattered. I mean,
you might not have got smacked by Alabama by that
same score, you might not have struggled as much early on.
But like, look, it was a hard beginning to a
schedule with a new head coach and new regime and
new quarterback. For anybody that said, uh, you kind of
took it by storm. But now you kind of have
two people have tape on you. They got they're gonna
be able to pick apart your weaknesses as defensive coordinators.

(56:29):
What have you gone back to self assess with that
coaching staff and said, you know, I need to do
this better. Yeah, Um, No, I think I think first
and foremost is just UM in the off season, I mean,
continuing to work on my strength and my speed and
getting better and those categories and just keeping up, uh
you know, with the athleticism that I have. But I

(56:50):
think also um, going back and looking at those games
with my coaches, probably um, just I think the one
thing that sticks out is just UM staying with my
read and UM staying in the pocket. But also, you know,
there's a fine line between wanting to stay in the
pocket and just kind of go by instinct and run
around out there. And you know, I think personally that's

(57:13):
a strong suit of my game, is to just kind
of make stuff happen. But at the same time, you
need to be able to or I need to be
able to um, you know, kind of keep with my
read and stay on uh you know, go one to
three with my read rather than one to scramble and
find a guy. So yeah, it's it's it's it's it's different, right,
I mean, like and I mean we saw that. I

(57:35):
mean you picked the quarterback. I mean probably the uh
you know, probably Deshaun Watson's probably the easiest example of that,
right where early on his career, he was I don't
even use one too as much as maybe even one
read and then tuck and run. And last year now
he had a lot more interceptions, but he stayed until
they got to the college while playoff, he stayed in
the pocket more and refined himself. Whether it's for college

(57:58):
or maybe for the NFL, that's got to be part
of thinking, right, like, I have to be a true
pocket pass in order to make it not just at
this level but the next. Right. Um, no, definitely, but yeah,
I also I mean in college football, there's also a
fine line, like I said, uh, because you want, you know,
you want, um your quarterback if he's able to do it,
to be able to go around and or run around

(58:18):
and make plays. So, uh, there's definitely a fine line there.
But I'm definitely working on staying in the pocket more
and um, you know, trusting my line and being able
to feel the rush around me rather than just kind
of guess. Last year, you guys lost three of your
first four games. People left you for dead. There was
questions about whether coach Helton would would would be back

(58:39):
when that Those were real, legitimate discussions that people were having. However,
insane it sounds to us on the outside those were
apparently being had on on some level at SC You
turn it around, you go off and and rip off
nine consecutive wins. You win a Rose Bowl, you beat
U c. L A, You beat Notre Dame, you beat
Washington who won the Pack twelve in the Pack twelve championship.

(59:00):
It goes to college while playoff like you beat them all.
But but there's a hunger there when people leave you
for dead. Now you're the Now you're the hunt dead
instead of the hunter. How not just you personally, but
for your team, how do you recreate that? How do
you how do you stay hungry? How do you keep
your crew hungry instead of fat? And uh and you know,

(59:20):
um and and almost a little bit of arrogance considering
how much you turned it around. Yeah, there's definitely that
we want to stay on track. But UM, I think
coach Holton has done a great job of UM, you know,
in team meetings, UM. From the Rose Bowl on until now,
I think he's done a great job of UM explaining
how this is a different team. You know, we've lost guys,

(59:40):
and you know it's a huge step because we finished
this season at ranked number three, and it's a huge
step to go from number three to number one. UM.
And you know he's made that very clear, and we've
we've worked extremely hard. Um, we were you know, just
as harder, maybe even harder than last off season. And
you know it's been a great offseason with our strength coach,

(01:00:02):
our strength coaches and UM, you know, we're just looking
to continue the hard work and also just keep our
minds focused on the now rather than you know, the past. Hey,
you went to the do you go to the Manning
Manning Cannon? Yeah? What's that like? Um, it's awesome. You know,
it's it's you know, it's the experience of a lifetime. Um.

(01:00:26):
You know, you get to talk to Elin, Peyton and
Cooper's He's probably one of the funniest guys I've ever
met my life. Um. Uh that's Peyton's older brother. Um.
And Archie is just you know, he has the ability
to when you know, when he talks, the whole the
whole room you know goes silent. So UM No, it's
just it's awesome to be around them. But UM, I

(01:00:48):
think the biggest thing I got out of that camp was, um,
kind of just the way they carry themselves. You know,
they don't act like they're too big for anyone. Um,
and you know I think, um, I think everyone and
learn from that. And you know the example that they set,
you know for all of football? Who keeps you in check?
Who's who's the person who most calls bs on you?

(01:01:10):
If if you start to go Hollywood? You said, Hey,
sometimes I throw on sunglasses. Who's you guys like, dude,
come on, don't don't don't, don't don't go heisman on? Um? Yeah,
probably my friends, my my roommates. Uh. They definitely keep
me in check. Uh and give me a hard time
whenever they sense any any bit of you know that

(01:01:31):
uh kind of I guess arrogance in me, But no,
I'm not. I'm not usually that guy. They don't really
have to worry about me. But you know if I
if I happen to show any sign of it, they're
there for sure there too, you know, keep me in check.
Has the marketing department asked you about any slogans for
you for the Heisman? Like, I don't know if you
know this Vegas has used the favorite to win the Heisman.

(01:01:51):
Have they asked you like do you like that? Do
you like this, or you not like that? Or how
how does that work? Um? I mean they'll they'll usually
ask me if you know, I like something here if
I don't, but uh, I usually kind of just tell
them to do whatever they want. And uh, you know
if they think if they think it's awesome, then you know,
just go ahead. And I'm I'm kind of just rolling

(01:02:13):
with the flow right now. Um, but you know, it's
been an awesome ride. But you know, we're really just
focused on having a great year. But when it comes
to like slogans and all that, you know, I'll let
them kind of take care of that. You mentioned it, right,
Only ten starts on your belt and think of the
ride that you've been on. Look, man, can't wait to
see at Fall Camp. I'll pop in. I love to

(01:02:34):
catch up in the meantime. Enjoy your summer, and thanks
for joining us on Fox Sports Radio. All right, sounds good. Thanks.
All right, that's Sam Donald joining us on the Doug
Gottlip Show. He couldn't remember any any serious blow out
or he didn't want to. I understand, not wanting to
call out like a school you might play like, oh
remember that team like we blew out Utah State when
you play Utah State this year. But it's like, dude,

(01:02:56):
like listen, if you beat Lahabra seventy two to three,
you're not gonna play the La Habra High School anymore,
Sam Donald, and nobody in the labre is gonna be
like that. Sam Donald. He ran it up on us
when he was in high school. This true story, guys.
I don't know if you know. So, uh, Sam grew up.
He went to San Clement. That's uh, that's a very

(01:03:17):
that's the most southern I guess city town, whatever city
in Orange County. Like after that Santao Free which is
the old nuclear facility. That's uh that that that's been
shut down, and then it's like military land into Camp
Pendleton and uh, and then you get to like Oceanside,
which is the very northern part of San Diego. So

(01:03:38):
I grew up in the city of Orange, went to
high school and Tustin, which is probably twenty five minutes
up to five freeway depending on traffic. I mean, you
could make it in fifteen in the middle of the night,
and you could probably make it in an hour otherwise,
but at the midpoint anyway, Um, so uh, you know, look,
when you have a Division one athlete or a good

(01:03:58):
one on your high school team, you're usually going to
be better than other teams. I didn't play a single Oh,
I played two fourth quarters in our league games. My
senior year. I only played in two fourth quarters. So
that's we didn't run up to score. Were scored a
lot of points and we un up the score. Anyway, Ryan,

(01:04:20):
it was really hard to uh to compare the volleyball scores. Like,
I know to six is a whooping in volleyball, but
it's just one of those things that that people in
you know, like you're sitting in your cargoing like like
what's the big deal, Like, unless it's baseball, doesn't seem
that bad. That is. In fact, an asked, whoop volleyball? Oh,
that's that's really bad because I played. So there's a

(01:04:42):
difference between side out and rally scoring. So side out
is the old form of scoring when you would play
to fifteen and you could only get a point if
you were the serving team. Now, yes, that means anytime
you actually win a point, you get a point, you
get a rally. So rally scoring you lost five to six.

(01:05:07):
So out of the entire game, there was only six
times we actually scored a point on them, not just like,
oh yeah, we got the serve back and then we
were able to get a point on defense. No, they
kept serving us the ball and we just couldn't score. Yeah, yeah,
that's not good. Yeah. Usually the cut off is like,
even if you're out manned by another team, you gotta

(01:05:31):
get to double digits. So barely getting halfway to the
double digit mark. That's about as bad as it gets.
Isn't it an amazing though? You you play a sport
that completely changed how they scored it, like there that
it's one of those things that I don't think it
gets the credit it deserves or maybe the criticism it deserves,
like volleyball completely changed, like hockey has changed over time.

(01:05:55):
Rules in the regular season, first of four on four
it used to be. Now it's three on three. Like
that's big, and it changed the you go back. I
don't know, it's probably fifteen years ago. They started rewarding
you for tying in regulation. Then you get an additional
point for winning in overtime. Right, So they changed the
value of winds wins and against winds and overtime, but

(01:06:17):
they didn't change the change they score it wasn't like
if you score a goal like you got two points.
Like football has changed the distance in a p A T.
But they didn't and change the value of a P
a T. Volleyball completely changed how you score, how you able,
like how you're able to earn a point, yes, I

(01:06:39):
mean completely, and then change like what we're going to.
I just it's amazing, really really amazing stuff. Um all right.
I always enjoyed catching up with Sam Donald. We gotta
go out Ryan one day to to fall camp, maybe
talk some hoops with him as well. It's a good

(01:07:00):
hooper in high school. Bryce Harper has an idea about
changing the All Star Game format, not changing the way
they score it. That's only volleyball. We'll get to that
after we find trending. Doug Gotlip show Fox Sports Radio.
So look, we we'd all agree that the All Star Game,
all Star games, they're like malls, right like for now

(01:07:21):
they still exist, And I still like going to Nordstrom's.
I just do. I understand that you can buy stuff
at Amazon, but I've always liked Nordstrom's. I know sometimes
you're paying a little bit more, but you can take
things back whenever you want, you know, that that rule, right, guys,
you can take things back like whenever you want, Like
when did you get these A G jeans? Like, well
seven years ago? But I bought them here like okay, sure,

(01:07:45):
Like that's Nordstrom's deal. So I think malls will still
exist for and and look they're changing malls now. Uh,
some of them are gonna have big box stores. But
even big box stores are struggling big box like you know,
like best buying things like that. Um, but a lot
of them are going to where they have you know,
the movie theaters where they serve dinner, all kinds of

(01:08:05):
different restaurants, and more niche stores, you know, more specialty
stores than the big box department stores, because all the
big box department stores are the ones competing against Amazon
and Zappos, etcetera, etcetera. So I don't think they're gonna
go away, although there will be some, there will be

(01:08:27):
some which are gonna become you know, vacant, especially the
low end areas that just you know, once people get
high speed internet, and like why would I spend the
time to get in my car and drive down to
the mall when I can press, I can click and
Zappo is going to deliver the shoes to my house,
and I don't like them. I put them back in
the box and they're gone the next day. But all

(01:08:48):
Star all Star games are They're going to be around
as long as people watch them. It's I've said this
time and again for the last ten years, and people like,
why why doesn't why doesn't football just do away with
the Pro Bowl? Because people watch? And if people watch,
they make money. They can make money on a fake
football game in a week when there was no football game.
Why wouldn't you keep doing it? They make lots of money,

(01:09:10):
there's your answer. TV whoever broughtcast the ESPN broadcasting they broadcasted.
They make a lot of money. The NFL makes a
lot of money off selling the rights to a game
which people do in fact watch. They watch so um.
Bryce Harper says, I'm sure he kind of feels like

(01:09:30):
I do, which is like All Star Game? Do we
need an n L? Do we need a L How
can we spice it up? Here's the star for the
Washington Nationals with his thoughts, I think you know the
best record of baseball chaff one fello ash no matter
what sorry mean. I think that's that's that could. I
would be great if we saw two guys that leading
vote getters. You get the list of players that got
voted in by the FEN, then you do a draft

(01:09:51):
system men draft ball side. So I mean I could
be facing max Us here today. You know, nobody sees that,
So it would be a lot of fun to be
able to do something like that. I think that'd be awesome.
I do. I actually completely agree with Bryce Harper. Now,
I would do fewer players, Like, you don't need as
many relief pitchers. A matter of fact, you don't need

(01:10:12):
You're gonna have like one whoever the best middle reliever is,
and the best closer or two like that's kind of
all you need. The rest should be starting pitchers. And
you're like, you don't need that many pictures, especially if
it's an exhibition game, like we're only going nine innings,
so the most we're going is ten innings or something
like that. If you make it like that, and you

(01:10:34):
make it like a sand lot game, and oh yeah,
by the way, like I I totally understand that it's
an honor for everybody. Why don't you really make it
an honor? You need two catchers? Fine, you need what
how many infielders do you really need? You know, you
got four, you need six. You don't have to go

(01:10:54):
two or three deep, and you go like five outfielders.
That's enough. Like there's your team. You don't need doubling
up at every position, like make it like I mean, honestly,
you could do five infielders and you'd be fine, making
a supreme honor to make the All Star Game if
you do let's say you do six infielders right at six,

(01:11:16):
you do four outfielders, maybe five, that's eleven. You gotta
have two catchers. That's thirteen, and you do I don't know,
six or seven pitchers. You know you do twenty guys aside,
Like isn't that enough? That's actually more than enough. You

(01:11:37):
could probably do it with fifteen and they just be
just fine. Like if you get the thirty or and
the thirty best ball players and then you have the
fans like the last two, you gotta give a fun game,
Like why do we have to make it so formal?
A L versus n L, especially if we would all
agree it was a really dumb idea. It was a

(01:12:00):
was not really thought out, and you know the game,
this this game matters that was Bud Selig's baby. That's
not rob man fritz baby. We all know it's a
bad and don't get me wrong, best record, Paul does
not necessarily mean you are the best team in baseball.
I had the best season because the schedules aren't alike.

(01:12:20):
But at least you had some impact or you made
some portion of the decision as to whether or not
your team would UH would get home field advantage. Otherwise
you're just leaving it up to a manager that doesn't
really care and the players they you know, they start

(01:12:42):
to care a little bit at the end. But like
you're deciding who gets home field advantage. And it didn't
matter last year with Cleveland as it became like a
de facto home game. But but like, look Chicago playing
in Cleveland. Why because a middle reliever against a guy
who was the one selection for UH for his team,
for his team in the All Star Game, that's gonna

(01:13:02):
decide who gets home for advantage and in the World Series. Like,
that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard, But I like
Bryce Harper's idea. We've seen this with the NBA, sort
of seeing this for the NHL. Major League Baseball should
make it like a Sandlot game. People won't watch more
or watch less either. Watched the All Star Gaming you

(01:13:22):
dont period? Wait, do you know what Skip Bayless had
to say about Aaron Judge and how he compares to
Lebron James. We'll get to that as we play what
did the Fox Say Next? Every day in the gut
Leave Show, we try and pick a portion of one

(01:13:43):
of the outstanding shows that you'll hear. On Fox Sports Radio.
You wake up with Clay Travis, then you get The
Undisputed with Joey Taylor, Shannon Sharp and Skip Bayless. You
get Dan Patrick, you get Colin Cowherd or Rich Eyes,
and you get me. Then you get on satellite radio
Serious XM channel eight three, you get Speak for Yourself.

(01:14:05):
We're not our final hour is covered up. I Speak
for Yourself? Which on Fox Sports One, Jason Wentlock Um
and Colin and whomever else they have on as a guest,
you get Steve Gorman, of course. On Fox Sports Radio,
JT the Brick, Ben Moller, Jason Smith. It's it's a
murderers row of a lineup. So we try and pick

(01:14:25):
out one or two segments of somebody else's radio show.
Or TV show on radio that we really really like,
and we put them all together kind of like this,
say Skip Bayliss on the Undisputed Head, this to say
about Aaron Judge and how he compares him to Lebron James.
Aaron Judge is already way beyond Lebron James because Aaron

(01:14:48):
Judge is a rookie participated in the home Run derby
and Lebron James after fourteen NBA season still hasn't participated
in his first slam dun contest. And he's are you, Lebron?
What happened? Where were you when we needed you? And
this is my theory, and I think it's the true theory.
Lebron dreaded being on that solo stage against a potentially

(01:15:12):
hot opponent who had come up with some shocking new
slam dunk move and captivated the crowd. Um. Look, I
agree actually with a lot of what Skip is saying here,
and then I think he just takes it kind of
that step way too far at the end where he's
like he's worried about the hot dunker doing the Dunkey's

(01:15:32):
never seen. It was a mistake in Lebron james career.
The first five years in the NBA to not being
the Dunk Contest and you could say, well, yeah, but
that's not his thing. Then why did he wear Michael
Jordan's number? Like Michael Jordan was a great score was
a great player. But his first commercial and you know,

(01:15:52):
dunking and the sound of an airplane in the background,
it was like Nike Flight. And he first burst onto
the scene really in the Dunk Contest and then in
his second year in the NBA Playoffs against the Boston
Celtics when he had forty nine and sixty three and
back to back games. But he was he was the great.
He was the greatest big competition dunker we've seen. Like

(01:16:15):
remember back then, they weren't allowed like now, they weren't
allowed to miss dunks, to give this one dunk of competition,
and he won all those competitions he was in. So
I think it was a mistake. Do I think that
Lebron didn't do it because of a hot dunker. No.
I think he did it because or didn't do it
because he probably felt like there was more for him
to lose than it was for him to gain. But

(01:16:37):
that sounds like a decision made by other people. Or
if you're a competitor, you're like, look, I'm gonna go
win the dunk contest. Anyway, it shouldn't matter. I actually
do think and as much as look for Aren Judge,
you can fail in the home run derby and nobody cares.
Steph Curry failed a couple of times in the the

(01:16:58):
NBA three point shooting contest and nobody cares. The dunk contest.
There is more pressure, there is more focused than the
home run derby in the three point shooting contest. But
I also think that the pressure burst pipe. So if
you don't have it in you, you know you don't
have it in you, you don't go do it. I'm
I'm still stunned he didn't. But now we've gotten past
the point of no return. He shouldn't be in a

(01:17:19):
dunk contest, right. Tom Verducci was on the Herd earlier
to day, joined us yesterday with Spectacular He said this
about how valuable Bryce Harper is to his or potentially
another team. I think he's the most valuable property in
baseball because he's going to be a free agent after
next year. You can't touch Kershaw, you can't touch Trout
right now, this guy as an everyday player with flair,

(01:17:41):
who hits home runs, who is good looking, guy who
gets the whole thing about responsibility beyond yourself to the game.
To me, there's nobody more valuable in baseball. That contract.
The meter is gonna drop at four million dollars next
year and probably get closer to five. I don't see it. Um.
I know Verducci, I know verc She knows the market

(01:18:01):
and he may be right, But you tell me where
that market is coming from. Tell me, like, why would
the Yankees spend all that money on Bryce Harper? He's
not that valuable to them. I don't believe that. The Dodgers,
why would they spend all of that money on one player?
Tell me the guy who's the everyday player who's been

(01:18:22):
worth it. It's been worth it. These teams are selling
four million tickets and tickets anyway, And while it may
help their cable ratings, Like what really helps your cable
ratings is winning a World Series and you don't win
the World's Like, what are they He's been a great
player throughout his career. What are the national has actually done?
I'm not demeaning that Bryce Harper is a valued blast

(01:18:44):
that he is. I'm not telling you he's not going
to get paid a lot more money than maybe you
think he is. But and and he's more in his
prime than Pool Hols was when he got his tenure
deal with the Angels. But but the point is pretty simple.
Why would anybody put so much, so many resources, so
much money into one guy instead of spreading it around

(01:19:06):
when baseball has become about depth of youth, depth of
guys under a club control, and depth of pictures, not hitters?
Is what helps you get to and win in the postseason? Uh,
we're told it's the Midsummer's Classic, right, told it the
Midsummer's Classic? Um, come up next? I want to tell

(01:19:31):
you what an NBA team could learn from Aaron Judge
and the New York Yankees. Plus, do you actually it
feels like there's no recent World Series memories? Am I
the only one who doesn't have any recent World Series memories?
What was like? What was the last time? He's like,
Oh that happened? I like Mike Trout won the MVP
a couple of times. I don't know. We'll discuss it

(01:19:54):
next in the Dug Outlip Show. What happen Stuck got
leave show Fox Sports Radio coming to you this week
from Jerusalem, Israel. It is just another bomb track. Rob
Parker is going to join us to the couple minutes.

(01:20:15):
Rob Parker, Fox Sports One, also Fox Sports Radio, longtime
friend of the program. We'll say what see what crazy
stuff he has to say. I believe he went to
the home run derby last night. People are freaking out
about about Aaron Judge and they should be. They should be.
Although it's one thing to say he's another Yankee, but

(01:20:36):
he appears to be another Yankee in terms of the
lack of desire to say anything like he's he's bright,
he's interesting, he's got a great backstory, but it's like
he's he went total Derek Jeter like music. Did you
ever have you ever booked Derek Jeeter on a radio show?
Not one? If I'm here, Cindy Katz, who also books

(01:21:02):
this show, she's she's been in the space. I'm sure
she has. She will tell you. Um, um, we I
have an expression like a Derek Jeter. Derek Jeter is
the perfect example. Um, you know, like all right to
be in the Spurrier zone, like you know what the
Mike Tyson zone is right? Music Mike Tyson zone is

(01:21:23):
because there's so many stories about Mike Tyson are in
fact true. There's no story about Mike Tyson that you
wouldn't believe to be true. That's the Tyson zone, right.
I believe Bill Simmons coined that one. The one I
coined was the Spurrier zone. That's when a coach is
so accomplished and usually so old that they know they
can say anything they want the most part and get

(01:21:47):
away with it because like at the end of the day,
even if they say something really stupid that's offensive, they
just go they just play the olden senile card. Well,
I know, I'm just olden, see now? Well? Um. The
Derek Jeter a the Derek Jeter effect or going Derek

(01:22:08):
Jeter on an interview. Every booker for any show when
Derek Jeter was playing would love to have Derek Jeter.
Here's the problem with having Derek Jeter on radio or
on TV when you book him. And I was never
a producer, but I've had Derek Geter on and I've
had the pleasure of hanging out a little bit last
year at the Pump Brothers Cancer Research dinner with Derek.

(01:22:30):
Years Actually a year and a half ago. He's delightful guy,
an interesting guy. But when the lights go on you
start asking him questions about his opinion. Oh, he wants
no part of it. Derek Jeter is the great. I
guess one of those. Um you have a show rundown.
The show rundown is what you talked about who you

(01:22:53):
had on the show, and you passed it around. You're like, hey,
check out, we had Sam Donald today. Sam Donald's great.
Whoever that's you or that send you ever booked some
job samal donald usc If you want to hear my
interview with Sam Donald. We talked about how life has
changed since beating Penn State in the Rose Bowl, how
he stays humble, who calls BS on him? Uh? You
can download the Doug got Leap Show podcast go to

(01:23:14):
wherever you download podcast. iTunes is probably the easiest. Don't
forget to rate us, but Sam Donald will usually he
didn't say a ton today, but sometimes he'll say some stuff,
interesting stuff. Aaron Judge has been trained to go Derek
Jeter Like Derek Jeter, it looks great, And a run
rundown is what you passed around the run now like
we had Sam Donald, We had Derek Jeter, you had
Derek Geter. What do you say, absolutely nothing, which is

(01:23:40):
what Aaron Judge seem as to be saying. Seems to
be saying. On the other hand, he was so good
last night, and he's been so good in the first
half the season, and he's like, you know, uh, Alex
Rodriguez talked about him in glowing terms, like a Lebron

(01:24:01):
James effect. Alex Rodriguez a big dude, right, he's six four. Um.
You look at Matt Holiday six four six five pounds
and Aaron Judge makes Matt Holiday look like the old version.
He looks like the new version. He towers over him.

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But if you look at the numbers last night from
uh from the home run derby, is it because the
yenner Judge? Yes, But it's also because Aaron Judge and
Sanchez are Yankees, and there are a lot of Yankee
fans out there, and there's a lot of fake Yankee
fans out there, right, Like why are people Yankee fans?
Is because they like the Yankees. They know the history
a little bit. A lot of it's because the Yankees

(01:24:46):
won five World Series in their lifetime, and people want
to be they want to be fans of a winning team,
like there unless you're born in Milwaukee. I was born
in Milwaukee. Uh, Buyer was born in Wisconsin, not in Milwaukee,
like you weren't born at Columbia Hospital where. Yeah, I
was born in Columbia Hospital. I was born in the

(01:25:09):
north central part of the state. Unless you're from unless
you're from was like not a lot of there's nobody
claims Brewers. They don't have, they haven't had, and they
had Ryan Ryan Braun, but then nobody's like again, nobody's
claiming to be a Ryan Braun fan anymore, even when
he's been playing clean. He's been playing well since playing clean,

(01:25:30):
like Paul Molliner. That's back in the day, Robin Young.
But we're talking thirty years ago. Unless you're from Milwaukee
or from Wisconsin, like that's your state's team. Nobody claims
those teams. But it's not because there's anything wrong with
those teams, just because when they're not in big markets.
And two, most importantly, they haven't won. The Yankees might

(01:25:51):
not have won recently, but they were a dominant team,
winning five World Series and uh, you know, they were
in the playoffs like fourteen straight years something crazy like that,
and it to me it signals why as good as
the NBA has been, as well watched as the NBA is,
think about the numbers for the NBA, and then think

(01:26:12):
about the fact that the NBA is doing such a
great job in the finals with Lebron and staff, and
they're doing it without New York. They're doing without Chicago,
and they're doing without l A. Let's welcome in Rob
Parker from Fox Sports, Fox Sports Radio, Fox Sports One
sometimes fills in on this show as well, and of
course he joins us. And and it's about a fifty

(01:26:32):
split between really really, really smart, insightful stuff and Rob
Parker going to crazy town. That's why we love him.
Ud go Home Run Derby last night? Did you go
to Home Run Derby last night? I sure did. Man
enjoyed every minute of it. It used to be a lot.
It used to be longer and and boring. Um, he
didn't it used to be it felt It feels like

(01:26:54):
it moves that you were in the stadium, didn't move
along quicker. Yes, And I think the new format and
the time limited what they do now is much better
and it left you wanting more rather than is this
thing not over yet. That didn't it didn't feel like that.
I don't know how it came across on television, but
the energy in the building was great the whole night.

(01:27:15):
And then we got to watch Aaron Judge, who doug
He was a talk of the All Star Game and
and the derby and the first half and all the
pressure was on him. He sits there for an hour
and a half and then he looks up at the
school board. He's got to be the twenty two I

(01:27:35):
mean twenty two home runs. And for him to come
back and do what he did and when the derby
was just an amazing fee to what has been an
amazing first half for this young guy years old. And
I said this this morning on I Disputed, Aaron Judge

(01:27:57):
is the face of Major League Baseball, Not Mike Trout,
not Brice Harper. I'm talking about why here right now,
it's Aaron Judge. And I know that sounds like a
lot for a rookie. And this guy's in the hunt
to win a triple crown, when the Rookie of the
Year and when the American League MVP. This is where
he is at this point. And the other part is

(01:28:20):
he's what baseball has been looking for along with all
the others. He's a good guy and and and all that,
and he's and he can hit. As you know, Doug,
it's about home runs. Remember the old adage, chicks loved
the long ball. Baseball glands love the love the long ball.
And this guy has a chance to be bigger and

(01:28:42):
better than Derek Jeter and Derrek Jed. I always say,
had the most perfect career, won five champions of Yankees,
played twenty years, did everything right, you know what I mean,
and had an almost perfect career. But this kid here,
with the home run ability, can put him on a
different level. All right, well, let me let me, let me,

(01:29:03):
let me stop stopping your tracks there for a second. Okay,
I love you and I love your passion for it,
and I agree the kid could be a superstar. And
he checks, there's a there's a couple of boxes there,
which you didn't You don't have to, you don't have
to mention. But the fact that he's uh, the fact
that he's black, I think only he's a Yankee. He's black,
He's a Yankee. He's gigantic, he's good looking, he's a

(01:29:26):
good guy. He wears ninety nine. He don't even make
a lot of money, nor can he make a lot
of money for uh three more years. Really, to be
completely honest, like there's all of the any of these
things that you could not like about a guy. You
can't not like this guy. But dude, he's never gonna
be Derrek Teeter. Okay, Derek Jeter hit a home run
for his three thousand hit. Then in his last game

(01:29:48):
as a Yankee twenty years in, he went five for five.
In addition to all the other the gift bags for
all the babes and all the starlets that he dated,
like I love you, he may be a better ball
there than Derek Cheter. Derejeter might be the most overrated
ball player of our our any generation, but he ain't
never gonna be Derek Cheater because of all the little

(01:30:08):
things he did in the moments that he did them,
There's no doubt about it. And he has so many
signature plays that you can remember, you know, in Oakland,
the flip to home play. I could go on and
on and on, and I was there for for that
three thousand hit, the home run and all that. But
I'm gonna tell you just the difference. And this is
where I get my my t from the Yankees. First

(01:30:30):
of all, uh Joe Girardio, manager in May, says, he
reminds me of Derk Jeter, and he's mostly talking about
this demeanor in the way he handles himself. Right, not
not exactly that he did everything like you to put
jet that stuff. And then the Yankees, who never do
anything for anybody, when they put up that section for
the fans, the judges chamber, that told me a lot

(01:30:52):
about what they think about this kid and whether or
not he can handle it and and to be able
to step out and and that a in that city,
doug where you know people are ready to tear you
down as soon as your things aren't going your way.
And when the Yankees, of all teams, did that, I
took notice and I said, this is not just some

(01:31:14):
guys having a mucky first half or whatever. I watched
this guy last night. And you know when you take
BP and you're just hitting home runs out, it's normally
to your poll field. Dog, did you see him spraying
the field everywhere? Hitting home runs to center field to
right field to left field. It was an unbelievable display.

(01:31:34):
It looked like Wade Bogs who used to rip singles everywhere,
except that they were home runs. That's how it's funny.
It's funny you bring that up, Rob, It's funny to
bring that up. So, I don't know if you know
this Matt Holiday, who's a d H play and left
place right a place, first place for for the Yankees.
He is a dear friend of mine, and he actually
told me that. He's said, because I've actually gone and

(01:31:55):
watched Matt's B B routine. You know, when they first
get up there, they're just they work on taking outside
pitches the right field, spraying the right field, and he's like, dude,
he's not just hitting him over the wall. When he's
spraying the right field, he's hitting them ten fifteen rows deep.
And then when he's really just like like his kids,
who have been around the St. Louis Cardinals, uh up

(01:32:18):
until this year for like like almost a decade, right
and around some of the great hitters and great teams,
like they come to batting practice and stop everything they're
doing just to watch this guy at a baseball No.
I know, And that's what I'm saying. It's this is
not this is not and I know it's it's a
lot for a guy who just played, you know, the
first half of his first full season. And I get it,

(01:32:38):
and there's a long way to go, and he's gonna
have to win some championships and some home month and
all that. But I just when I watched the guy,
it's just a feeling when you see somebody. And usually
I always say this, great players are usually great from
the very beginning. It's not like I remember Dwight Gooden
from day one and how dominant he was. It didn't

(01:32:59):
take him. You know, some pictures they said, I take
you three or four years before you find yourself. It
didn't take right good and three or four years. He
was good from day one. Stuff on that mound, And
that's what I see with with Aaron Judge is that
he is there. He's he's something special. And for all
the players who wanted to watch him yesterday, that told

(01:33:20):
me a lot because they know how hard it is
in that game, especially especially to hit home runs. It's
not people think it's so hard. You know, you gotta
have the right swing and be able to lift the ball.
It's it's a very difficult thing. And I just think
it's great for baseball. The commissioner has to be happy.

(01:33:40):
The Yankees gotta be thrilled to death to have this
star making no money, you know, for the next few
years as they as they reboot and put this team together,
and they're gonna be in a great position. So I
enjoyed it so much last night. And uh, the guys
are started the thing. So last year the Cubs carried

(01:34:01):
the numbers and and kind of saved major League Baseball.
I said a couple of months ago, Aaron Judge can
make regular season baseball watchable. Rob Manfred's dream has to
be one thing, right, It has to be the Cubs,
maybe the Nationals mittet or I guess Odgers against against

(01:34:23):
the Yankees in the World Series. There's more Cubs fans
that the Dodgers have Clayton Kershaw, but the Cubs would
would bring a better number. The Cubs against the Yankees
in the World Series is the that that amounts to
the Lebron against Kobe that we never got. Remember we
never got Lebron Kobe in the NBA counal Alonda knock

(01:34:44):
them off and it came close. But I hear you
and the other thing too from Major League Baseball. You
know this like some other leagues. And I heard you're
talking about the NBA getting by without New York and
Philadelphia and some of these major cities. But the baseball
is always better when the Yankees are good. It doesn't
and they have to win every year. But you want
the Yankees to be good, not bad. And I think

(01:35:06):
that's why the commissioner and and the league has to
be through um All Star Game in Miami like you
is it? Is it a big thing? Like it's it's hot.
I know they like baseball there, but the baseball have
been so bad. I'm not saying you're a man about town,
but you have been a man about town. What do
you think of the actual site of tonight's All Star Game.

(01:35:28):
I like it, And you know, the roof is closed,
so it's not human. It's very comfortable. Actually, you needed
a jacket in there because the air is blowing so good.
And then you step out and you realize this thunderstorm
is going on and it's muggy as all hecked, and
it would have been very uncomfortable. So it'll be closed
again and it'll be nice and comfortable. And people were

(01:35:48):
into it. I give this fans down here credit and
the other thing too. I think, I know Miami gets
a bad rap, but how many other organizations have won
two World Series in the last twenty years? Not two
men me and I know they've dismantled the team into
nineties after, but uh, you know they won a couple
of World Series down here, and this town is just

(01:36:11):
a bad town to me in all sports, not just baseball.
You know, the Dolphins don't sell out. I mean, if
people don't want to believe it, they don't sell out
down here. And remember, remember we remember the Miami fans
leaving early in Game six before Ray Allen hit that shot.
Rob enjoyed tonight's All Star game. Will catch up with

(01:36:31):
you and get you to come up and argue with
me in the Sherman Oaks studio when I get back
from Israel in the meantime. Thanks so much for joining
us on Fox Sports Radio always Dog, Thank you, buddy.
All Right, that's Rob Parker, Fox Sports opinionist joining us
on the Doug Gottlip Show. High school football lives to

(01:36:52):
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more confident car buying experience. Read this piece earlier today
and I thought it's really interesting. Actually, it's from It's
Not at CBS Sports dot Com, Doug Gotli Show, Fox
Sports Radio. Much has been made about the dangers of
playing football, to the point that some parents have bemoaned
letting their children even play Pop Warner. However, a study

(01:37:36):
from j M A neurology, players up to the high
school level are not at risk get long term cognitive
or mental damage. The question that studies seeks to answer
is does playing high school football have a statistically and
clinically significantly adverse association with cognitive impairment and depression at
sixty five years of age. In order to answer that question,

(01:37:58):
the piece goes on this he was conducted among about
four thousand men who averaged sixty or four point four
years of age. It utilized the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study among
men who graduated high school in nineteen fifty seven. According
to the study, there was no statistic or clinical significant
harmful association between playing football and high school and increased
impairment or depression later in life. On average. In essence,

(01:38:23):
men based upon this study, the j M, a neurology
who played high school football, did not experience cognitive issues
later in life. Okay, this The piece goes on to say, like, look,
this was high school football played sixty years ago, and
so it's very very different. What it points to is
something that I believe I have said before on radio,

(01:38:44):
but if you haven't listened here, it is high school
football is in danger. Football is dangerous. We know this football,
especially um at a high level, but football probably at
any level, especially with helmets and shoulder paths, but especially
the helmets, Football increases your risk of brain damage. It

(01:39:11):
just does. Like there's you can we can argue about
what percentage of increase there is, but if you play
football at a high level, you're increasing your risk of
brain damage. That doesn't mean you're absolutely getting brain damage,
but you're substantially increasing your risk. And while this study

(01:39:32):
does not offer up any proof that high school football,
high school football can increase your risk of brain damage,
all it takes is a couple of to study. Here
a study there, a um, somebody to have depression. Have
ct trace it back to only playing high school football? Sue,

(01:39:58):
have others joined the suit, make it a class action lawsuit,
and states are scared that. Look, states are running in
a deficit in most places anyway. They don't have they
don't have the pockets and their insurance doesn't have the
pockets to cover too much litigation. And at some point,
if it gets too messy, and if it gets too deep,

(01:40:19):
they'll just say, like, all right, the hell with it.
We're not doing high school football because we can't get
it insured. That day's not here and the study doesn't
prove it. But the day is coming. The day is coming. Uh,
my guess would be this is just a guess it's
in the next twenty years. Because if you look, we

(01:40:42):
didn't have any of these studies talking about pro football
five years ago, ten years ago, none of them or
none that at least that became public. Now you have
so many different stories go public. You have college football studies.
College football at least can for text itself because um,

(01:41:03):
they have greater resources and endowments to pay things to
go away. Uh. They also you're having players sign up
for you know, with basically contract the universities to play football.
It becomes something that they do in order to or
in a scholarship, as opposed to a high school football
player who's just trying to perform an athletic event to

(01:41:25):
be cool with his high school. That's that's still my guess.
I still think high school football is very very much
in danger, very much in danger, and that doesn't mean
imminent danger very much in um yeah, I look, I

(01:41:45):
don't want to get ahead of myself with Aaron Judge.
I think he's awesome. I don't think he's going anywhere,
But let's not like get ahead of ourselves in terms
of being a superstar. He is. He does have a
magnetic appeal to him. Uh, whether it's because he's a Yankee.
He's huge, he's good, he has home runs, he's good looking,

(01:42:08):
he's smart, he's he's black. There's like a there's a
bunch of different boxes, which like he's basically the dream
baseball player for Rob Manfred. But the Yankees gotta make
the playoffs. That's kind of important. You gotta get Matt
mount Holiday back healthy. Why did Chris Paul leave the Clippers?
He talked about it, and he'll find out why after

(01:42:30):
we find out what's trending. Doug gotlip show, Fox Sports Radio.
Mm hmmm, and amazing dinner night. I just want to

(01:42:51):
share that with you, Ryan, and and some of years
are like, wait, what do you mean he had dinner?
It's afternoon here, or it's midday here or whatever. I'm
broadcasting from Jerusalem, Israel. It is creeping closer and closer
to one am, twelve thirty one am here. Um is
really standard time. I don't know if that's actually the time,
but I'm gonna call it is really standard time. I
have no idea what the time, so it is, um.

(01:43:14):
I mean I had one of those like they brought
like on the house. They brought watermelon with um, what's
the cheese, watermelon and feta in like a bowl, watermelon
fedta and pesto pesta sauce all in a bowl. Is
like an advertiser Andy. And then we had some sort

(01:43:37):
of roasted eggplant, which was amazing. And then I had
a portobello mushroom stuff with some cheese on top of
a sweet potato puree. Like I felt like a foodie
all of a sudden. I don't know anything about this stuff.
Like I was like, can I get a burger? You know,
can I can just induce them? Checken I have. I'm

(01:43:57):
admitted I've kind of reached my homeless limit. No more homeless.
Do you want some holmos? Like? I love homeless. I've
had homeless and watermelon for the past fifteen days. Can
we find something else anyway? Spectacular dinner music? You have? Foodie? Yeah?
I love food. Yeah yeah, no, but no, you know
what you know what food he is? Yeah, well, someone

(01:44:19):
who likes to venture off into the finer dining type
experiences because they had to be finer dining as much
as it could be. Uh something kind of unique, Yeah,
like like you know, like something you see on the
food network, you know where it's kind of seems a
little bit obscure. I guess I don't know. Yeah, yeah,
I'm all for trying out new types of foods. Yeah, no,

(01:44:41):
it's it's pretty spectacular. Um. Dan Buyer is a foodie,
you know what he is? He's great for the press,
the press, not very much a foodie, dug um. I
love food, but just not a foodie. So listen, not
everybody likes the saint like some dudes are into playing pool,

(01:45:03):
some dudes are into the piano, somebody, you know whatever.
So we're good with it. Are you good with Chris
Paul leaving the Clippers, Well some people are gonna have
to be because he's gone Clippers and speaking with The Undefeated,
the new Rockets guard explained why he left the Clippers
in Los Angeles. This is a quote from the Peace
Doug where he said, quote, I feel like the last

(01:45:25):
six years we've had a great run. I felt like
it was not only a good time, a good change
for me, but for the team. To everyone says we
get killed, we can't get there, we just can't get
over the hurdle. I felt like it was time for
a change. Austin Rivers also came out and said that
he talked he spoke with Chris Paul and that Chris
Paul said it was bs having anything that he had

(01:45:48):
that he left because of Austin Rivers. Look, you know,
I don't know how much I believe it. I do
think it's interesting, like, oh, we couldn't get over the hump,
so I'm gonna leave. It's he did, It's not you,
it's me. That's what he keeps doing. It's not you,
it's me. It's not you, it's me. It's not l A,
it's not Dr Rivers, it's not Austin Rivers, it's me. Um.

(01:46:10):
And he could come back at the end of next year,
I guess, or could come back to l A and
play for the Lakers next year. That's an actual possibility
because remember it was a sign in trade. He retained
his bird rights. How about tonight that said I I
don't that said, I don't terrible, I don't believe him.
Might I think he felt like the organization wasn't running

(01:46:30):
away in which they knew how to compete for a championship.
And you look at the change in Houston from last
year to this year and now from this year to
next year. It's one that has continued to evolve. I
still don't think it wins him a championship, and I
think it's a little bit of an odd fit. But
I do get the fact that he believes they have
a smarter way of using their resources to get a

(01:46:51):
better allotment of talent. Doug, when you were talking about tonight,
you weren't that far off. Israel summertime or Israel daylight
time is the time zone that you could be. Yeah,
you were right on the money rating. I like that,
you guys. You guys are quick with the knowledge. Ratings
for last night's home run Derby the highest since two
thousand nine on ESPN and the second highest for the
event since nine. Kansas City actually rated the highest in

(01:47:14):
watching the events in cities across the country, with New
York City in second place. So the Derby was a
must watch, at least for some baseball fans out there.
Derby was a must watch. Um, it's like it. Look,
it's an easy watch too. It's you know, it's a
flip on. You see home runs. You don't have to
search for things. When was the last? Give me your

(01:47:34):
last World Series? About me to see me? All Star
Game memory? Dan Buyer, my last All Star Game memory? Yeah, Like,
what's what's the last one? Like? I remember? I remember
when they all gathered around Ted Williams. Remember. I know
Mike Trout won the m v P like two times,
like in his first three years or something. But I

(01:47:54):
can't remember any specific moments. I remember Barry Bonds getting
robbed of a home run, yes, and then he tried
to pick up that guy in I remember leaving in
the the the at the end of the fourth inning
last year in San Diego traffic, which is what I did.
So I saw the first four innings, saw David Ortiz
take a walk off of the late Jose Fernandez, and

(01:48:16):
then UM have an ovation. I stayed through the end
of four and left while I was still daylight in
San Diego. So when I was when it was in UM,
when I was that Anaheim Stadium r true story. I
was working at ESPN at the time. I went to
the home run derby. I was so worn down by
it that they got me tickets to the All Star Game.
I came to a buddy and I took my kids
to the beach and there was it was a beautiful
day and there's nobody on the beach, and the flyover came,

(01:48:39):
you know, right after the stadium. Then he goes down
and we we kind of got a flyer river at
the beach. It was fine. I didn't I didn't miss
anything at all. I can't tell you anything about that
All Star Game that I didn't see on highlights, it
will be interesting, but I don't watch All Star games.
I'm like, this is not Oh, you work for Fox.
You gotta watch All Star games, like I don't watch
NBA All Star games. I don't watch Pro Bowls, that's
for sure, And I don't watch Major League Baseball Star

(01:48:59):
Game because it's not real sport. It's not real sports.
You're different than John soccer team because all they did
was watched the opponents score goals on them last year. Yeah,
how about that? Uh, you can't do it. Speaking of
All Star Games in southern California, I mentioned San Diego,
you mentioned in Anaheim. Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said that

(01:49:20):
they'd likely award the All Star Games for through two
season all at once. It's believed the Dodgers are interested
in hosting one of the games in Los Angeles. The
Dodgers haven't hosted the game since, which is the longest
route for a city in the entire major leagues. So yeah,
really when they hosted it, that's weird. Yeah, they redo

(01:49:42):
the stadium. How long ago they read this redo? They
kind of reconfigured some of the stay a couple of years. Yeah,
it's it's a great what a great place to watch
a baseball game. You can also work in other events
with it. Um, I think it makes sense. I don't.
I don't love the idea of moving around all the time.
Maybe that's because we all live in Los Angeles. You're like,
it's come to us. But I also think that you know,

(01:50:05):
they continue to try and build the sport. You're better
off building the sport in those major cities. You just
got to make sure those major cities like New York
and l A care about baseball. What's gonna be interesting
is that the Cubs and Wrigley Field also could be
in the running for one of those All Star Games.
We touched on this a little bit earlier and got
lead sacked, but the IOC unanimously approved the move that

(01:50:25):
will allow the Executive Board to award the eight Summer
Games at their meeting coming up this fall. Paris expected
John's got the music ready to go. Paris expected to
be named the host of the four games, with l
A likely getting the games in Still some negotiations between
the cities and the IOC. That's expecting to happen over
the next couple of weeks. The checks haven't cleared, The

(01:50:47):
cash haven't been handed at the table. Yes, money have
not finished up. Their bokers have not finished up their job.
Come on, that's the old IOC, Like the IOC is
so much better, so much better. I mean, there's nothing
dirtier than nothing dirty than how I mean, we're the

(01:51:07):
World Cup blushes at some of the things that you
have to do to get the Olympics. I'd be fired
up by it. I mean, I don't know how Paris,
Like this might sound cruel, but they had all those
terror attacks just last year, Like are we is that
really gonna happen to where they're going to get the Olympics.

(01:51:28):
I don't know. Um, it's headed that way, yeah, I mean,
look it's not until so that's the press get out
there and pressed that the press ten to thirty two
running up the score disrespectful or how the game is
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we've taken some of your tweets. You can tweet at
me at Gottlieb Show. Biggest blowout You've ever been a
part of um. I can't remember. I remember blowing teams
out before in basketball, nothing like today where I was
coaching a team. We're playing in Israel against Belgium, and

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we could have won by a hundred points without pressing.
I remember, like part of playing FIBA basketball, it's the
twenty four second shot clock. So unless you're gonna intentionally
miss shots, like you gotta take a shot every twenty
four seconds. You've got it. You can't just play super
slow and hold the ball. And no, I just like
why established bad habits? Like we just played kids, just

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played the ball. We tried to run our offense and
run different sets and work on some things, and it
was it was fine, And I mean it seems worse
than it really really was. But the final score was
one ten to thirty two. Where are some of the
tweets that we got in Ryan music. Let's see, so
we had at Lucky's Padre tweeting. He said, even Sabin

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thinks you ran up the score. Um. And then this
is Trey Minton, he said, my church team and I
won a game one forty six this past fall, and uh,
that's a little disrespectful. I think I don't know what
the church if the Church league is about participation or not.
But I don't know if you should be running the

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score up on your fellow church goers. Um, let's see.
John Finn said one ten thirty two is not something
to be proud of on any level. Uh. And then
also Jeff Stoker tweeted in he said, we played a
team when I was a freshman and we beat them
one oh one to eight. We felt terrible, but we
were excited to surpass the one hundred mark. Okay, so

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here's and this is my honest feelings. So I had
emptied the bench. We're working through, our backups, were getting everybody,
We're running plays for all the guys that don't haven't
gotten a ton of looks, and we continue to score.
And it's like, I think it was eighty four, maybe
eighty five, and there was plenty of time left to
where it could have been a hundred. And I was

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telling we were walking the ball up and running a play,
and walking the ball up and running a play, and
it was one of those like I don't want to
beat somebody by a hundred, but I did want to
beat somebody by a hundred, right, Like I didn't want
to be the guy that wins by a hundred, but
I wanted to win by I just want to go like, yeah,
we want by a hundred, because it would have been

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It would have been on Sports Center tomorrow, right, it
would have been on Fox Sports Run tomorrow. It would
have been everywhere tomorrow. What was the final score? No, seriously,
we beat them by one hundred points. One hundred points, right,
and we can have done that Will Chamberlain thing with
the one, but I just didn't. Now, look tomorrow we
play Mexico and we could beat them by a hundred.

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This is actually go ahead, I was gonna say. Kevin Gardner.
Brown also tweeted in I coached girls basketball and sadly enough,
our team won three to eight. Hashtag regret. I don't
have any regret because so I'll tell you what I
what I did. And if you guys think this is
running it up or doing something wrong, I told our guys, look,

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we know we're better than them. Okay, we know this
is not gonna be a great game. I don't want
you to steal the ball in the back court, but
I want you to because we always ball goes through
the basket and I my guards pick up because we
want to establish that as a habit because when you
play against a real team, and we do. On Friday,
we have the semifinals and to Sunday it's the finals.
And the first two teams we played were really good,

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could have beaten us and will probably play the French
team in the finals. If we get there. We gotta
play Israel to get there anyway, four seconds you want
to press in the backcourts, so when they get to
the front court, they only have, you know, nineteen or
eighteen seventeen seconds to run their offense. It's it's it's
far far better, um, a far far better way to live,

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so you don't have to play as much defense. Yeah,
I mean said, I think it's fine. Okay. So I
told my guys like, look, you either play hard, okay,
hard and clean and play the way we we're gonna play,
or I'm taking you out and nobody's gonna get selfish.
We're not gonna go one on one to take shots,
ball moves you don't have it, get it on its
way and attack like you're gonna. We're attacking and if

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help comes, you kick off and it doesn't. And look,
if you have shots, you have lamps like take them like,
don't play bad basketball because you know, don't feel bad
about making a layup. Um, you know it doesn't. We're
not gonna taunt, we're not gonna talk trash. We're just
gonna play. And they all did it. They all played
really hard, and I got my starters out and they
all felt good. You know. I waited till I ran

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to play for each one of them, to get each
one of them a shot, hopefully making a shot, and
then take them out feeling good about themselves. And then
we did the same thing for the backups. But it
was it was eight five, and it could have been
a hundred, a hundred and five, and nobody would have
hated an eye at it. So and we go ahead.
Here's my question. Is there an age cut off? Like, so,
how old for those who don't know, how old are

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the players that you're coaching right now and coaching against
my My youngest guy's nineteen, My oldest is twenty six.
Most of them they're all nineteen, except so they're young adults. Like,
is there an age cut off for when there shouldn't
really be like a running up the score, because that's
what's sort of what I believe like if you're in
high school and playing at like the varsity level or

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whatever you consider to be the highest level, I don't
really know if there's a running up the score issue
because you're a young adult who is out playing a
competitive sport. Now there there's a certain level of I
just think, like, look, you don't the general rules. You
don't press once you're up thirty, right, you don't press
once you're up thirty. The difference is also like the

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shot clock makes it hard to not try and score.
It just does. There isn't anything in basketball where you
can take a knee where you can run it into
the you can run into the line of scrimmage. We
threw it to We have a young big guy who's
at Joe Schneider's a sophomore at Amherst College. He didn't
play that much this year, and I think he's got
some talent. Like we threw it. We ran an all
you playing for him, which was a disaster in terms

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of the past. We tried to throw it to h
in the post and he scored in there, and when
he double team he passed out. He turned it over
a couple of times. We tried to like we gerally
tried to get everybody involved and didn't play to our
strengths necessarily. So is there an age cut off? It's
a great question. Um yeah, I mean you don't, but
you don't ever want to be the guy who runs
up to score. But I'm telling you we won by

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seventy eight points, and I promise you, Ryan, we didn't
run up the score. As crazy as it sounds. All right,
All Star Game is tonight. I can't say I'm crazy
fired up about it, but it's kind of the only
thing on right. And then you do have some too
incredible pictures, uh Sale going for the American League second
straight year. Kind of wish you'd sprayed around. But he's

(01:59:09):
really good. Max Scherzer, who he's a Hall of Famer.
You're gonna watch Hall of Fame picture right it say
Young Award in American and National League and the winner
gets nothing. Congratulations, Enjoy the All Star Game. This the
Doug out Leave Show from Israel Box Sports Radio.

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