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July 7, 2025 • 18 mins

Doug riffs on the Astros sweeping the Dodgers and some of the All-Star selections for MLB. Doug chooses among deserving candidates Jason Stewart deems as most annoying today. Plus, Angel Reese makes today's edition of "Because We Can".

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, this is the Doug Gottlieb Show here in
the Bonus with Doug Gottley.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
What a Doug Gottlieb Show in the Bonus Fox Sports Radio,
iHeartRadio app. Welcome in. I think we're gonna do the
pod a little different. Boys, and here's here's ten girls
ladies who are listening as well. We got fans across
genders and people identify as different genders. I don't honestly care.

(00:32):
I hope you had a great fourth July weekend. I
got some stuff to rant about fort July weekend that'll
be a part of your annoying. But I want to
start with one. I'm just gonna go through a bunch
of stories I've been working through to try and figure out, Uh, Jace,
do what you care about? But I want to begin
with the Astros sweep of the Dodgers. Now, there's there's

(00:52):
two things that I want you to know. Jase do okay?
One you know you you did? Heckel Jose al Tuba
at the game? Was that yesterday or Saturday? I'm trying
to think which my days get confused.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
It was yesterday and it sounded like this is that
what twenty seven stamps for the number of pitches you
saw coming to the twenty seventeen postseason. Huh is that
what twenty seven stamps for?

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Answer me, how do you think that lands?

Speaker 3 (01:33):
They asked him afterwards, You said it rattled him a
little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
It's funny because I thought he homered.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
He not that about. He got out that about and
then homered. He was over being rattled for the for
the about. In the ninth.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
He and what Diaz and Christian Walker all homeward and
they end up getting a sweep, which, by the way,
is the first home first home game sweep of the Dodgers,
first road team to come swep him since two thousand
and eight. So you clearly made a difference, maybe not
for the positive. So what I want to do is

(02:11):
I want to go through some of these stories and
just kind of spit spit so so people know how
we feel about Here's I don't care that you you, uh,
what would be called what were you doing? You're razzing
a razzing talking trash. You were little heckling. That's where
you're heckling. You're heckling Jose al Tuve. But I do

(02:33):
think the classic thought of most fans and you that's
what my buddies text me, Like, your boy JS two,
he is a real fan. I was like, yes, he's
a real fan of the Dodgers, like the real, authentic
kind where he's not happy unless they win every last game.
Even Andrew Frieman haveter winning the World Series, Like that's

(02:56):
not good enough. Got to win multiple World Series And
you're oh, because that's who you are, and that's You're
okay with who you are, and your logic behind it
is pretty sound, like, hey, oh, that's great, but if
you're gonna spend all this money, like I need to
see production and to me, they write the sports athlete coach,
guy who's been around a long times understands just how
hard it is at the hardest highest level when you

(03:18):
have an injury or when something goes wrong. The margin
for ERA is just so slight, obviously greater for them
than for others that I do think they get in
the playoffs all these consecutive years. While it's not good enough,
it's still really impressive when you consider how how they
haven't really had a bad year. But I just I

(03:39):
don't know. I saw that on Twitter. I think I
was watching and people come my U. Buddy Mice texted
to it, and I didn't bring it up to chastise you.
I just brought it up to point out that this
is something that you're a real fan of. And if
I'm totally honest, there's not a team outside of my

(04:00):
own to a slight extent, the La Chargers and Oklaoma
State football, but even Ocloma State football. Like I'm really
the most reasonable alum fan supporter there is because I
realized just how hard the new era is and on
how you're going to miss on some things and have

(04:23):
some years where it goes awry. But I'm just not
really a fan, and I'm kind of jealous of you.
I'm I don't envy you. I don't necessarily understand that
level of fandom, but I am jealous of you that
there is something you care that much about that you
would put yourself out there and heckle and record it.

(04:45):
And oh yeah, by the way, it was way too thirdy,
way too eardy. You got to come with a better
plan for heckling him.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
Yeah, his number is twenty seven and that's how many
times how many pitches in the postseason in twenty seventeen
that he saw coming.

Speaker 2 (04:59):
Yeah, it's too many. There's too many. Unless that's the
exact number, it's just too many words. It doesn't work
in heckling, right.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
Use she's like a guy who is English as second language,
so he's probably he probably wasn't even able to make
out all the words.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
To be honest, I mean I wasn't able to make
out the words. And English, I think is my first language,
So yeah, I don't. I don't really don't really know.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Doug Gottlieb
Show weekdays at three pm Eastern noon Pacific on Fox
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Speaker 2 (05:31):
This is the Doug Gottlieb Show. In the Bonus podcast,
I saw this number, and I had I'll tell you
what my thought is and then get yours. H six
players there's major League Baseball has all of these all
stars who nobody's ever heard of before?

Speaker 3 (05:44):
Right?

Speaker 2 (05:45):
How many new players are there that are all stars?
Have you seen the money? The number?

Speaker 3 (05:50):
Was it like nineteen or something?

Speaker 2 (05:51):
I thought it was twenty, like twenty new All Stars twenty?
And I I know that there's part of all of
us that says, hey, that's a good thing. That's a
healthy thing. All this youth in the game, and we're
getting more and more great players. But I'll offer up

(06:12):
two different thoughts. One, it's not a good thing because
people tune in to see names that they know, people
they respect, and baseball has changed so dramatically nobody knows
who any of these guys are. Point two, and this
is a really really important point, Okay. Point two is

(06:34):
that baseball can remake its All Star Game. However, it
wants All Star games for the NBA, for the NFL,
and to a certain extent, Baseball. They've been redone ten
times over these last ten years. So what if baseball
actually got down to a real All Star game. What

(06:56):
if you actually found the nine or eight best position
players right with a couple of backups. I mean, I'd
even allow you to go, you know, too deep on
every position and then you got to stack the bullpen

(07:20):
with arms and like that's it. Like, just actually play
a baseball game. Make it up of a baseball team's roster.
How many players are on each squad in the l
Star Game.

Speaker 3 (07:31):
Well, each team has to be represented, so at least
fifteen a right.

Speaker 2 (07:38):
Thirty two players on each team, sixty four overall, that's
too many. That's too many. Each team does not have
to be represented. Each team does not have an All Star.
Let's stop that, right, that's my honest feeling. Each team

(07:59):
does not have an All Star, does not need that
at all. Okay, you don't have to have every guy
every team represented. That's a that's dumb. Dumb talk doesn't
work at all. So if you just go, hey, even
you're just gonna have two guys their position, including catcher

(08:20):
right with us split the night. And then how many
pitchers you think we need? You know, I don't think
you need one for every inning. You know, is six
good enough? You know six with a closer that's seven,
So you have eighteen plus seven is twenty five. Like
even that is a really deep roster. I don't think

(08:41):
you need that many, right, You could probably get away
with having four or fives roting those rotating those dudes around.
I just think we need to cap it and actually
make it the forty best players in baseball and you'd
have one would be more interesting too, it would be
a real game and give the guys who play in
the game give more time off afterwards. But for me,

(09:06):
I saw the twenty new players in Major League Baseball's
a game. Great, there's sixty four players, so twenty seems
like a huge number. And then you realize, okay, well
that means there's forty four dudes that have been All
Stars previously, and you start to think, Okay, how do
we trim down these numbers? And I know what you're thinking.
You're thinking to yourself, Doug. You operated into the premise,
and I think Jay stew you pointed this out. No

(09:28):
one's ever gonna have less of anything anymore. Not gonna
be less guys and roster, not gonna be less games,
not gonna be less playoff games, not gonna be less innings,
never gonna be less. But I do think with All
Star games you can make a chap.

Speaker 1 (09:41):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Doug Gottlieb
Show weekdays at three pm Eastern noon Pacific on Fox
Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 2 (09:51):
Let's find out who are what is annoying? Jason Stewart
and Doug Gottlieb, And now it's your annoying.

Speaker 3 (10:05):
Hey, Doug. Christine Brennan's got a book out. Christine Brennan.
She has been in the business a long time. I
think she was USA today, I want to say before that,
maybe the Bay Area. Anyways, she's been covering the w
NBA for an awful long time. She wrote a book

(10:26):
and has been doing a media tour. And if you
just kind of glance at the excerpts of this book,
the two takeaways are these earth shattering conclusions. The w
n B A the league was not ready for the
phenomenon that was Kaitlyn Clark. And two, the decision to

(10:48):
leave Kaitlin Clark off the Olympic team was just an
outrageous decision. In other words, Christine Brennan has put into
a book a year later what all of us were
saying on the radio a year ago. And it really
reminds me of something because we were saying it because

(11:09):
you know, we were talking about the WNBA and we
didn't know how to talk about it. We were racist
and misogynists, and we were haters. But when Christine Brennan
puts it in a book, it's one of them and
now it's going to hit different. Right. Does that remind
you of anything? Oh? Yeah, it does. When Jake Tapper
and Alex Thompson, when they write a book on Biden's

(11:30):
cognitive decline and the Pollit Bureau around him protecting him
for all four years. That became news to the mainstream
media when independent and conservative media was calling it the
entire time. But now that it's one of them that
is writing about it at this point, it hits differently.

Speaker 2 (11:53):
I think that's completely fair. I know that's annoying. You
can I give you something that's annoying me. Today is
July the seventh. I get that the fourth July fell
on the fourth, okay, but if you fire off fireworks
late into the night after July sixth, after Sunday of

(12:15):
fourth July weekend, you're just a fucking asshole that loves
the blow shit up. And look, I love fireworks, I do.
But my dog I have, one of my dogs is
freaked out over fireworks. Understandable, you can plan for it.
Fourth July. He actually kind of ran off for a

(12:36):
little bit. We got him back. He was super scared,
and we got back. The plan was and we executed.
That plan was for the whole weekend. Exercise him during
the day. He's an older dog, he's ten years old, hey,
and then at night I was gonna put him into
the room my house, which is really quiet, give him
his dog bed, you know, give his boys other dogs,
and leave him in there just because he freaks out

(12:56):
because of it. Right, and then somebody's at my house
didn't know, open the door, he gets out. Whatever. But
again it's I you have the right to fire off
fireworks within the general span of time that is fourth July,
and since the fourth July fell on a Friday, Saturday,
I'll allow even Sunday. I live on a lake. I
get it people are still firing off. But once you

(13:17):
get past Sunday, we're fucking done. We're moving on. We're done,
We're moving.

Speaker 3 (13:22):
On, right, Yeah, I mean you're talking to somebody who
finds fireworks, firecrackers annoying. Period. I think they're for unsophisticated people.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
I agree, they're fronts sophisticated people. And as you and
I discussed, I actually think that's the beauty to them.
With that's the beauty to them in regards to why
I love them, because it allows me to be kind
of my neanderthal self. It's a lot like why you know,
I'm alone and sometimes like I just I need to

(13:55):
go home and just make a steak and not eat anything.
Else like just some guard gantu and piece of meat again,
same thing. It's it's not a high level thinking. It's
probably not smart, but I need to be just a dude.
Put my hand down my pants, watch something that does
not require a lot of brain function. Maybe fire off
a little firework. Great point is that your point is

(14:16):
that unsophisticated people throughout life annoy the shit out of you.
I do as well. I just allow myself for a
weekend of no sophistication.

Speaker 3 (14:24):
Yeah, you're asking the unsophisticated to abide by the rules
of society. I mean I put these idiots that are
still doing firecrackers and ruining everybody else's dogs and cats.
I put them in the same box of people that
take the mufflers off of their car and just drive
around the neighborhood. They just want to be assholes, Like

(14:44):
who exactly are they impressing their little ring of loser
friends and then just annoying the fuck out of everybody else?
Noise pollution correct?

Speaker 2 (14:56):
Correct? Okay, those people annoying me thoroughly? Well, what else?
Let us annoying you?

Speaker 3 (15:01):
Snub content snub. So the Monday after the All Star
team is announced, radio producers for decades have loved it
because they could just bookmark a segment of who got
snub who got screwed? Call in right now, who's the
biggest snub? Call in, We'll take your calls. And then
after a day of snub content. And by the way,

(15:23):
snub is a horrible word. It's like smegma or it's
a way moist hits the ears of women, like snub
is just a shitty word. I hate it. But Snub Radio,
We're gonna spend all day talking about the snubs and
then by the by next Monday, with all the injuries,
all those snubs will be on the All Star team

(15:44):
and it was all for nothing.

Speaker 2 (15:45):
Yes, that's a lot like people who were snubbed, guys
that were snubbed from not just All Stars, guys that
were snubbed from from the Pro Bowl, either of the
Pro Bowl snubs, like everybody gets in the Pro Bol
Provo snubs.

Speaker 3 (16:02):
Like yeah no so uh lazy Snub Radio, Uh Firecracker.
After the seventh of July, Guy, and I think I
made a pretty brilliant, brilliant analogy about Christine Brennan writing
a book that hits differently because it's one of them
when we've been saying it for the past year.

Speaker 2 (16:21):
Uh, I'm gonna go with Wow, this is hard. Uh
snub anti snub snub radio. It's just so fucking I
can't take anyone who's that lazy at this point in time.
So people who come up with snub radio, you're annoy.

Speaker 1 (16:43):
Why are we doing this?

Speaker 2 (16:45):
I do.

Speaker 3 (16:48):
Because we can. Hey, our guy Ryan Berschinger tells me
that this is not bad WNBA sound, which is quantifiable
to excellent sound, because it usually sucks. Angel Reese went
off on officials. You can't you need to know how
to officiate a Chicago sky That's what she says.

Speaker 4 (17:09):
It's tough when you talk to officials, And I asked them, hey,
we only shot two free throw We've only been to
the free throw line twice up into the fourth quarter,
and she tells me it's not her job. It's frustrating
because I know how hard we're battling inside, and I
think that we came down and fought as hard as
we could with what we had. That has to be fixed.
And I don't give a damn if I get fine,

(17:29):
because that's shit cheap, and I am tired of the
shit because I've been nice and I've been humble with it,
but I am tired of the shit.

Speaker 2 (17:39):
Yeah, well she's tired of this shit. What does it
take to get people? And this is not just an
angel resenting, What does it take people to like I?
I caution myself. Am I a jerk for a grammar
being grammar police? Am I? I guess it's a question.
I a jerk for being grand police? I don't know,

(18:01):
but clearly it did sound like she was gonna cry.
She really frustrated the officials. Why I couldn't play for you?
Because we can't. That's it for the end the Modust Podcast.
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