July 8, 2025 • 38 mins
Doug talks about the upcoming summer league matchup between top overall pick Cooper Flagg and the Lakers second year player Bronny James. Doug weighs in on the recent ridiculousness of new Giants player Rafael Devers. Doug welcomes MLB Analyst Jerry Hairston onto the show to talk about Clayton Kershaw, the Dodgers and other major headlines around MLB. Plus, Isaac Lowenkron takes Doug through a game of "Rank 'Em".
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Sports Radio. Hope you're having a great day.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
I mean, unless your name is Jason Stewart, whose Dodgers
were punked last night in Milwaukee by the Brewers. We
will actually talk more baseball tonight than we have in
a while, although we're doing a better job of it.
Right We had Matt Holiday on. Was that yesterday or
the day before?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
All the days run together. Get ready for this weekend's
MLB draft. Terry Harrison's gonna join us figure out what's
wrong with the boys in Blue tonight. You got Kershaw Mizrowski.
That should be fun. Also, I love this topic. The
topic coming next to is Raphael Devers as a jerk.
This is not new information, just it only adds to it.
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We'll get to that in about fifteen minutes. Urban Meyer
expressed an interesting lack of interest in one potential future job.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
We'll get to that.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Plus, Brett Yormark is into one particular model in the
college football playoff, but that look, it tracks for him,
but I don't think that's the model for the Big
Twelve in the first year. As a perfect example, all right,
we get got a lot to get to. Let me
start with some summer league news. Now, I'm a very
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unique radio show host right on Fox Sports Radio. I
think we have the best. I don't think it's close.
I mean, I don't even know if there's any real
competition in terms of lineup anymore, because so many other
ones have been cut apart Hodgepodge or whatever. But we've
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a great blend of two of the biggest names in
the history of sports radio in Dan Patrick and Colin Cowherd,
combined with a good group of other shows including You
Got You Know, you Got a former Notre Dame quarterback
and first round traffick and former Superstar linebacker and NFL
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star and two Pros and Cup of Joe and myself.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
So yet you have.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Something in terms of former players, not just radio talk
show guys, that gives you a different, different level of
kind of substantive discussion. So I'm the only one who
obviously coaches in college. I'm the only one who's who's
coaching in college while performing with doing the radio show. Also,
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I've worked for more networks than anybody else. I don't
know if that's a badge of courage or on or
what it is. But I'm also the only guy who's
played in NBA Summer League. So Brownie James has played
one Summer League game. He set out the first one,
played the second one in San Francisco, and the Lakers
will soon move to Vegas and play traditional NBA Summer
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League in Vegas, and their first game is going to
be against the Dallas Mavericks, which Cooper Flag is going
to play for the Mavericks. Now Cooper Flag versus Bunnie
James is selling it for historic amounts. Tickets are going
for a court side up to twenty five hundred dollars.
Lower bowl is six hundred and fifty bucks. Now, I
never take the actual dollar terms to be real, especially
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in Vegas, and when you have former players, you have
current players, they're sitting courtside like they're not playing, paying
twenty five hundred dollars for it, So twenty five dollars
one hundred dollars for a court side seat feels like
some tourists from Des Moines who just is incredibly happy
to be there and their choice was Curt day Sole
Cirtasiley shows are amazing, but there's several of them, right,
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Curt day Sol or Bronni versus Cooper Flag. And maybe
it's you know, a couple of couples and the women
are like, we're gonna go to Third Days LA, and
the guys are like, dude, let's go to the summer league.
Pounce some beers, ce some NBA players, Bronni versus Cooper Flag.
They may be paying twenty five hundred dollars a pop.
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I think most people not so much. Regardless of which,
there's a lot of hype against it. The first thing is, okay,
this is the real thing. If you've played in the NBA,
even for a minute, the expectations are for you to
dominate in the Summer League. You've done it, you've gone
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through it, you've played against the highest level of competition,
and by and large, if you go team to team,
guys that are coming back for second year of Summer
League after playing any amount of time in the NBA,
and generally the dom one, they get the most opportunities too.
They know whatever you're running offensive, they know it. In
three they've played against the highest A competition.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
This is kind of easy. And most guys who are
playing in Summer League are not NBA players. That's why
they're in Summer league.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
I know I was in the Summer League with the Lakers,
But what to watch for? What's amazing about it? What's
interesting about it is going to be I would guess
the comfort level of a Cooper Flag and the dominance
level of Bronnie James.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Bronnie should be dominant.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
It doesn't mean that he becomes a rotation player in
the NBA because he's dominant in the Summer league. And
it doesn't mean that Cooper Flag is going to be
Rookie of the Year because the game will be relatively
slow for him. But remember you're playing against older, better
players technically than you played against the college. But they're
not all NBA players. And because of the opportunity, because
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the time played, because of how things are going to
be built, the two levels of player that should dominate
in Summer League are top ten picks because the teams
need them to do well and they need to get
their confidence up getting ready for their first NBA season.
And anyone who's played any full season or three quarter
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season in the NBA, the game should be very, very slow.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
And that's both these players.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
And you can't deny the hype train over Bronnie James,
and you can't deny the hype train over Cooper Flag.
Cooper's is more about substance. Brownie's is more about potential
because his dad's one of the greatest players of all time, right,
one of the greatest players of all time.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
And again, I think the NBA.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
There's lots of parts of the NBA which it's easy
to pick apart go Hey, ratings aren't what they used to.
Perception is not always great. Even former NBA players don't
seem to like the current NBA players. There's this, you know,
Hatfield's and McCoy's over the old guard versus a new guard.
I get all that that happens.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
But the the the.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Fact that Summer League has become so big and now
we continue to be able to hype it two years
ago as Wemby last year was BROWNI this year. It's
this year, it's Cooper Flag, and you will see improvement
of Brownie.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
You know, last year struggled and they shut him down
very early. This year he should be dominant.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
What's interesting is not playing every night, skipping a couple
of nights, but loading up for this one.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
But this is the.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Game should be incredibly slow and very easy. Again, doesn't
mean that you're not getting everybody's best shot like he
did last year.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Because you're Brownie James.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
You're going to get everybody's best shot, just like Cooper
Flag is gonna get everybody's best shot. But having played
in real NBA games, in a real NBA season, despite
a lack of success, right for the most part it
was a mess. He had one game where he made
some shots, they had lost by thirty. All that said,
this is a time which you dominate. You know, I
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played with the Slava Medvedenko, Devin George, great dude, by
the way, Devin George, great guy, and those guys were
bit players NBA championship teams, and they were so thoroughly
and incredibly dominant in the summer league because they had
played in the NBA playoffs. So you play in summer League.
You're playing against college kids and guys that are not
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really NBA players or trying to make an NBA team
or on the back end of an NBA bench, And
that's that's just easy pickens. So that's what I'm looking
for in that game. And I love the fact that
the game is being hyped and we'll pay attention to it.
Doesn't mean that how well Cooper plays or poorly Cooper plays,
how well Brownie plays or poorly Bronnie place means anything.
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But you expect Cooper to get a ton of reps,
you know, usually number one picks. They like to trot
out there, play a couple of games and then three
games in or so shut him down. And with Bronnie James,
this is one and where he should be done.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
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Speaker 1 (09:20):
Stug Gottleib Show Fox Sports Radio. Hey we saw this story.
Red Sox play play man is Will Fleming. He was
on Wei, which is a sports radio station in Boston
and the show is called EI Afternoons. Yes, this is
yesterday took place. He told the story about former Red
Sox star Rafael Devers. Remember Devers was traded. We kind
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of went through the backstory where he only wanted a DH.
Didn't want to play third or wait was third base?
He didn't want to play first base. They needed first
base and badly, and he said, I'm not a first baseman.
He didn't want to play third base, or it was
third base.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
You want to play? I think he just wanted DH, right, No.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
No, he was told that he's going to DH right
because Bregnant is a better third baseman, and he said,
I don't do anything but play third base. So then
he accepted the DH. Because he's under contract with the
Red Sox, they asked him to go play first base
because they got a bunch of prospects from the outfield
to bring up, and he's like, nope, I'm your DH.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Then he gets traded to the Giants and he's asked
to play first base, and he's like, hey, anything to win.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Right, correct?
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Okay, So anyway, they're his old team, right, the Red Sox.
They're played by play broadcaster Will Fleming suggests that Devers
is it all in on playing first base. Even stood
up a Giants legend to arrive at the facility to
work out with him.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
This is the quote.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
They don't know yet what is gonna happen with the player,
He explained. I was there the second day after the trade.
This is in San Francisco. Will Clark was there to
work on ground balls and uh work with him at
first base, and Raffie didn't show up. That's the type
of person the Red Sox are dealing with have been
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dealing with for a long time. First of all, Will
the Thrill was a stud, right, and he was the
are we okay man?
Speaker 2 (11:30):
We don't have Uh.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
He's the Ernie Els of baseball. Ernie El's quite possibly
the smoothest, easiest swing. Like I get up to address
a golf ball and I try to not come out
of my shoes, but you know, my biggest thing, I
try and swing hard. Ernie L's it looks like he's
just he's almost miming a swing and he hits it
a mile. Will Clark's same thing, like one of the
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prettiest wings ever.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
And you know, in our.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Lifetime, if you asked San Francisco Giant first Basement, I
would say for most people the first name they'd come
up with is Will Clark and Raphael Devers. You know,
you first get to a place and usually even when
you're a third, the first week or two you put
on the front like you're a better dude. Day two,
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he knows shows for a meeting with Will Clark.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
There you go. We'll talk to.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Baseball at Jerry Hairston in a moment. Yeah, I mean, like, look,
it's interesting, Jay stew you know what the two key
elements for every player we recruited were this year with
my new team. Key elements Like like one of my
assistants stood up and we were on the bus. We
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were talking about, coach, what do we need? Like what
type of guys could you give us? Like the most
important thing a guy does or brings to the table
in terms of recruiting, would they be There's two.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Things willingness to do anything to win.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Yeah, we said toughness and character.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Toughness and character.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
And I think that comes out in the both toughness,
competitive toughness, competitiveness and character.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Right, And Raphael de Ever is a guy who got paid.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Seems to have neither of those. Because if you have
toughness and competitiveness. You're not just willing to say you'll
do anything to win, You're actually willing to do anything
it is to win. And if you have character, you'd
never show up at a legend like Will Clark, even
if you'd never met him before or don't know who
he is. It's not that hard. You can Google or
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use chat chept. You can Siri works for Will Clark. Right,
you don't need chat gpt for Will Clark.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
No, I think it's pretty accessible, all the wealth of information,
and he's become an even bigger legend on in podcasting
now too.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
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Speaker 5 (14:18):
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All right, Nope, they're all gonna they're all gonna be
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Speaker 2 (14:42):
Some of those. Okay, very cool, toughness in character, it's
all that matters.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
You got both, well, why thank you?
Speaker 2 (14:49):
You're a character hanging out particularly tough. You have both.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
It's the Doug Gottlieb Show here on Fox Sports Radio.
He played sixteen years in the bigs. He was remember
the own Yankees World Series championship team. Of course, he's
currently on Sports in LA covering the LA Dodgers as
one of their lead analysts.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
He's Jerry Harrison Jr.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
He joins us on the Doug Gottlieb Show on Fox
Sports Radio. I am headed down tonight to see Misowski
take a matchup against Kershaw. Kersh three thousand strikeouts. Can
you play this thing a long time? You've been analyzed
this thing a long time. When Clayton Kershaw twenty years
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from now no longer pitches in Major League Baseball, what
would you tell people made him special?
Speaker 7 (15:39):
It's just competitive fire. A guy that took the ball,
you know, the majority of his career, if not all,
every fifth day and gave his team a chance to win.
I played with a lot of guys. I played with
guys like Derek Jeter Amara and Rivera, Kyle Ripkin, Tangerfree
junior great players. Kershaw is as competitive, not more than
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all those guys I played with. So, you know, the
three thousand mark, that's something we may not see for
quite some time. I know, Sale is the closest. If
he stays healthy, maybe another five six years he may
reach it, but it might be a tough, tough goal
that having another guy do that that three thousand strikeouts.
So I in my opinion, he's the best picture of
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his generation. Matt Kurzer, no disrespect to Verlander. I think
Clayton Kershaw is the best picture of his generation.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Okay, so help me out here, Uh why did he
have such an up and down? Why has he had
such ups and downs in the playoffs? If he's that level.
Speaker 7 (16:42):
Of picture, well, I think if you look at you know,
if you look at you know, other great pictures, you know,
like a Verlander, he has him up and downs as well.
I think when he was younger, we may have left
him in too long. He'd be really what could go
through five six strong? Anything? That seventh thitting he may
have given up that, you know, two or three run
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Homer to kind of inflate his ra you know. Listen,
he has not shot away from it. There's been a
couple of times we just didn't pitch well. I know,
the series in twenty twenty. I believe it was twenty
three or four when he faced the d Backs. His
shoulder was gone. He shouldn't have been pitching, but he's stubborn.
He ended up having shoulder surgery after, you know, in
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that offseason, so I don't want to really make excuses
for him. He'd have to make excuses, you know. He
hasn't really pitched that poorly though, if you really look
at it from a total career, his postseason numbers aren't
that bad, you know. But once again, he's a two
time champion, hopefully a three time champion after this season.
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And what I like about Clayton Kershaw is that he
has changed the game a little bit, you know, the
way he gets out kind of like Kobe Bryant Michael
Jordan did back of the day. When they stopped being
the high flying act dunking on everybody, they had to
do their post game, you know, and they became their
best post players of the guards. And that's what Clayton
Kershaw has done. He doesn't have that ninety seven on
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our fastball. The way he can do is you throw
that slider. He had it a split and still has
a curveball, and he's able to get out to navigate
through lineups.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Chare Hereston, junior Dodgers' lead analyst, joins us here on
the Doug Gottlib Show on Fox Sports Radio. All right,
what about the Dodgers pitching staff not fully healthy and
they get swept by Houston, they get smoked last night
by the Brewers. What in your mind is the state
of the Dodgers right now?
Speaker 7 (18:33):
They're just not playing well. I mean, you know they
have some injuries, but every team has injuries, so you
really can't make that as an excuse. Bottom line is,
you know, we're not hitting to the our capabilities right now.
It happens. It's a long season. It's a grind, and
when you're not hitting and you're not playing that great
a defense and the pitching is giving up, that's a
bad recipe. And on the flip side, they're playing pretty
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good teams. The Astros have been rolling. Milwaukee has the
best record in the National League since June, so they're
playing great baseball. So bottom line, they got to play better,
and they know that they're not making any excuses. And
if you're not playing your a game, you're the defending champs.
Teams are going to be hunting for you. So hopefully
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from the Dodger's side, they play a lot better tonight.
They got a stud that they're facing. That kid runs
that fastball for anywhere from a hundred one hundred two
miles an hour, so they better be able to catch
up that fastball.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
The studs miss Rawski. Now, he had not been touched
up until last game, and any probably could have gotten
out if he gives up a grand slam, that a
back to back home run on a solo shot. You
remember what it was like to be young in this game,
obviously not as a pitcher. I think isn't tonight like
a great sign of who he is in terms of
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his internal makeup, in his ability to bounce back from
giving up five runs for the first time in his career.
Speaker 7 (19:56):
Yeah, And that's what listen. If I'm with the Brewers,
That's where I'm looking at. Can he bounce back? How
do you react to failure? With our question? He's got
the stuff I love. I love his energy he's exciting,
he's fun to watch, But as a hitter on the Dodgers,
I'm wanting to see if he's going to make adjustments.
Is he's still throwing that pitch middle of the plate
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like he did get touched uff for those five runs,
So you're hoping that he's has those type of mistakes
in the middle of the plate and you've got to
capitalize on those those mistakes. But I have a feeling,
you know, the Dodgers will try to attack him, be
aggressive early in the count because he does have wipeout stuff.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Jerry Henston Juniors our guests of the Doug Gottlieb Show
on Fox Sport Traity. You mentioned how well the Astros
are playing, how well the Brewers are playing. If you
were to ask people who have been paying attention to
the day to day, they would say the Dodgers are
the overwhelming favorite to come out of the National League.
As we evolve in this thing, right you look, Cubs
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fifty four wins, Phillies fifty three wins, Mets fifty two
wins and a lot of money sunk in there. And
of course the Giants are not nipping at the heels,
but they're fifteen forty two. If I want to ask
you a gun to your head, you know, Padres think
they're right there, even though record wise they're not gun
to your head. Jerry, who's the biggest challenger in the
playoffs to the Dodgers's.
Speaker 7 (21:23):
That's a tough question, man. I always said health is
the biggest challenge for the Dodgers. I said that early on,
and it's kind of rare ugly head with our injuries.
That said, having looked at the National League now, the Astros,
obviously they could be to the Dodgers if they get
to the World Series because they're in the America League.
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This is baseball, man, this is not basketball. You can
kind of get a super team. You have two to
three studs and now you're set, and the offense and
defense is simultaneously because you're going back and forth. Baseball,
you can really make your team because you have so
many levels. You got the big league level, you got TRIPLEAAA,
you got the two A ball teams and rookie ball.
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You can really develop your team and have a great foundation.
Look what the Brewers have done. You know they're not
a high payroll team, but what they've done has had
a great foundation, great minor league system, great coaching, and
Pat Murphy is as good to get as a manager.
So that team can kind of scare you a little
bit because they played well together. They got some arms
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in that starting rotation as well, and as well as
a bullpen. So the Brewers definitely scare me. The Cubs
beat up on the Dodgers earlier this year. They do
everything well. So when it comes to baseball, when you
do everything well pitching, defense, timely, hitting, you can beat anybody.
This is not the NBA, you know, This is not
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like you know the NFL. You have Tom Brady, and
if you have a good defense of Tom Brady, you're
gonna win. Okay, baseball man, you have twenty five twenties.
He sometimes takes forty guys with your minor league system
to get through a season and obviously try to play
well in baseball. So I say the Cubs the Brewers
to answer your questions, don't count off the Phillies. Philly
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scare me as well with that stud they got there,
Zack Wheeler and their offense. And I think the Mets
and the end will be there and the Padres will
always be there too, So there's a variety of teams
in the nationally. That's why I love the game of baseball. Man,
there's so much parody. It is so hard to win
in this league.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Oh no, it's incredibly difficult. Last thing Dodgers were able
to get away with last year not having a designated closer,
and Jason Stewart, as you know well as my producer,
he's an average Dodger. I have a Dodger fan. He
hates it, hates it. Kurt Schilling was on this week.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
He hates it.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
He's like, I won't happen again. It was more of
a luctionhout. Where are you on the closer by committee idea?
Speaker 7 (23:56):
I've never liked closer by committee. The Dodgers did that
last out of necessity. They didn't want to do it,
but they were kind of forced to do it because really,
you had injuries. We're trying to keep guys healthy, trying
to keep Blake, trying healthy, trying to get Evan Phillips healthy,
and once again we're kind of in that same predicament.
Canner Scott is our closer. Now. He had a great
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month of June. He just had a hiccup. His laugh outing.
We expect him when the Chips are down to be
that closer. He's just got too good of a stuff,
too good of stuff. So right now we're trying to
get guys healthy. Hopefully Blake Training comes back. Bruce Deark
Gradoo has mist the entire season. Hopefully he comes back
and a couple other guys come back, and then we
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can kind of have that one guy be the closer.
I agree. I've been on teams. The best teams I've
been on the Yankees we had Mario and Arvera. He
was our dead today closer. When I was in the Dodgers,
it was Ketley Jansen, he was our closer. I just
think that the teams, they're better in the postseason when
you have that desert closure. And the Dogs wanted to
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have that dosnety closer last year. It just with all
the jandreies, we just couldn't couldn't have it. Hopefully Tanner
Scott steps up in that second half and is our closure.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
You can watch him on Spectrum Sports that anytime the
Dodgers are on. He's Jerry Harrison junior. Of course, so
won a World Series and sixteen years in the Big
just incredible amount of useful and information as the season
goes on. Jerry, thanks so much for join us. We
really appreciate you being our guest on Fox Sports Radio anytime.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
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Speaker 3 (25:58):
This is game time. Sigh on the Doug Gottlieb Show.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Ilo, what's the game today?
Speaker 6 (26:13):
Three to two one one.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
I had a whole bit setting that up, but that's okay,
all right, the game is Indeed, rank him and Doug.
I want you to start off by rank in the
top three July sporting events that you are most interested in,
and just so we cover the grand spectrum of July
sporting events. Those also include Nathan's Fourth of July Hot
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Dog Eating Contest, the World Judo Championships in Budapest, as
well as the All Ireland Hurling semi Finals. So those
among the many, many choices you've got for your most
interesting July sporting events.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Okay, what were the ones you suggested?
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Well?
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Of those back, I know, I know there's there's more
than a tingon Starks.
Speaker 6 (27:00):
Just tell me a walk with me sarcasm.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
Well you got you know, you got Wimbledon in the
Summer League, the Major League Baseball All Star Game. But
I discovered that there's even more than that. There's the
Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest on the fourth of July.
There's also the World Judo Championships in Budapest, which I
didn't know was a judo hotbed. But then my personal favorite,
the All Ireland Hurling Semi Finals. I thought that was
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some sort of vomiting competition, but it's actually a really cool,
like outdoor game that is like a combination of American
football and hockey and rugby on grass.
Speaker 6 (27:35):
But you take it in any direction you'd.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Like some I'm talking just July here, right. Yeah, I'm
so down on All Star games.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
I just am. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
I don't blame just.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Down on All Star games for baseball, it's yeah, they're
not playing real game.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
You're playing real game.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
In a league play you see all these play plus
now you know if you have the MB package, you
can watch all these games. I just I mean, guess
Summer League is three?
Speaker 2 (28:20):
What's the big.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Gulf event in July? Is the PG in in uh
in July? This is where we this is where we
need Dan, right because they.
Speaker 6 (28:30):
Dan literally just walked in. Dan literally just walked in.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
I can.
Speaker 6 (28:34):
I can check the schedule for the.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Open Championship is in July, I believe.
Speaker 5 (28:38):
Yeah, the Open Championship July seventeenth through the twentieth.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Yeah, well damn, We'll put the Open Championship at two. Yeah,
but it's leaving us for we need something for one, right,
the biggest thing.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Let's go Nathan's hot Dog all right?
Speaker 6 (28:57):
Oka, sure you know what, I'm gonna call it Autumn.
Speaker 5 (29:00):
Well, based on that answer, I find this is really
interesting and I'm curious what you're going to say about this.
I want you to give me your top three favorite
Major League Baseball Game All Star moments. And I have
a theory that all the top three will not have
occurred in the last twenty years, which kind of plays
into your perspective the value of the MLB All Star
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Game as far as entertainment and memory, is really not
that great as compared to how.
Speaker 6 (29:28):
It used to be.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Sure my top bo Jackson's home run to Straightaway Center
in Anaheim Stadium.
Speaker 6 (29:37):
Bingo.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
That's three. When Ted Williams when the All Star Game was.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
At Boston last ninety nine.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Ted Williams and like Tony Gwynn and Ted Williams together
shaking hands and laughing to a late great left handed
any conversation the best pure hitters in the history of
the game, those two that.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Would that would be one gosh All Star moments.
Speaker 6 (30:14):
There's the Randy Johnson John Kruck thing, but that was
more thing.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Yeah, when he brought the table leg up to plate.
I do remember that, uh at Caward Pin Junior his
last All Star Game, when he ran all the way
around there you go the field, slapping fives with the
fans down both baselines.
Speaker 6 (30:33):
And yeah, that was in Seattle.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
I'm a big I'm a big Calarupken Junior fan.
Speaker 6 (30:37):
Yeah, I was Seattle two thousand and one.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
I think everyone accused Chanho Park of throwing up a
pot ball a meatball for him, but there you go.
I honestly think if you open it up to most
of our listeners and contemporary sports fans, their top all
Star game memories will all not have occurred in at
least the last ten years, and maybe the last twenty years.
Onto our next item. You're gonna get into this Joe
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Burrow batmobile deal later, But inspired by that, rank the
top three cars you would buy if money was no object. Now,
I would put my nineteen ninety nine at Toyota Corolla
with a broken driver's side window. That that really did
wonders for my social life. But how about you ranked
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the top three cars you would buy if money was
no object?
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Money was no object? That's a good one. Great question.
Number three. One of those Shelby four f one fifties.
If you have seen those, they're like one hundred and
fifty grand. They are gigantic, They look amazing a nagaae,
They're pretty stellar.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
That would be.
Speaker 6 (31:46):
Oh wow, I'm just looking those Are those are nice?
Speaker 4 (31:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Yeah, they're they they're they're sick. They're sick.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
I was on my way last year to purchasing or
actually leasing, like a dream car of mine, only at
the time they had a stop sale, so I turned
around and bought a different vehicle. That dream car is
a seventh brand new seventh series Beamer with all the
bells and whistles. It's the ultimate drive machine. I just
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I've always had had a thing for.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
It, all right.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
And uh.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Uh number one? What would I buy the number one?
If I could get anything ever? Sixty six Corvette?
Speaker 6 (32:35):
Ooh, good answer?
Speaker 1 (32:37):
All original stock, you know, like low miles, something somebody
had in their their garage and only drove once in
a while in the summer. But that would have to
come with somebody who knows how to fix the car,
because that's the problem with me.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
By the class of cars, I got no idea.
Speaker 5 (32:50):
Yeah, by the way, you can get a twenty twenty
five Ford F one fifty Shelby right down the block
farm US at Fox Sports Radio for one fifteen.
Speaker 6 (32:59):
By the way, that price good ice.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
They're usually one hundred and fifty.
Speaker 6 (33:03):
So yeah, so we send one of our introns down
the street to pick it up for you.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Pick one up for me, will you?
Speaker 6 (33:07):
Okay, we'll do.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Well.
Speaker 5 (33:09):
We'll send it to be a FedEx all right. Another
thing that's been in the news kind of lately with
the NBA rights going back to NBC is the return
of John Tesh's Round Ball Rock NBA theme song from
the nineties. So I want you to rank the top
three most memorable sports TV.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Oh yeah, I did this.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
You did sports because if you did a memorable theme song,
now we'd have fun.
Speaker 6 (33:32):
Why don't we do both?
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Okay, sports theme songs? Well, round bow Rock? Fox Sports
use that, Fox Sports one use that.
Speaker 6 (33:39):
On college basketball?
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Yeah yeah, And people were like, what is that is that?
Round bow Rock?
Speaker 1 (33:47):
I mean I would say Sports Centers theme is the
that's the number one. Round Bowl Rock is probably three,
and then CBS or Fox's NFL is two and two.
B Okay, Now, overall theme songs, ok caase do.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
Is? MASH one is? What about Cheers? Cheers is like
my favorite show of all time?
Speaker 4 (34:18):
I mean I thought mash was always considered like the
most oppressing one. If I had to choose one all
time to listen to right now and maybe Ryan Smith
could turn it around, we'll bump back in. What next hour?
Is the Sopranos theme.
Speaker 6 (34:30):
Song, Oh woke up this morning?
Speaker 4 (34:34):
That's got a great driving beat.
Speaker 6 (34:35):
Oh man, that's great. That's a really good one, really
good for what.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
My frasersid Baby, I hear the music colin salad.
Speaker 6 (34:43):
And scrambled eggs.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
I don't know what that means. Does anybody know what
that means?
Speaker 6 (34:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (34:49):
Well scrambled eggs refers to the scrambled psyche of his
callers on his Yeah, don't really know what the toss
salad refers to. But the scrambled eggs are you know,
for kind of confused people who call in you know,
a radio show.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Okay, uh what else? And then you know? I mean,
you want to go where everybody knows your name a.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Doom Doom Doom and they're always glad she came Doom Doom.
You want to be whipped? Okay, got it. There's also
a different world. Was a very.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Average show in a great time slot, but it was
a really good, good theme.
Speaker 5 (35:29):
So it's a different world from where you come from. Sure,
very good, very.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Good Lavernon Shirley. What about Levernon Shirley?
Speaker 5 (35:38):
See, I think you're just kind of overdoing it on
the Wisconsin connection.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Frankly, you didn't watch the Vernon Shirley when you're a kid.
Speaker 6 (35:44):
How old do you think I am?
Speaker 3 (35:46):
Ninety?
Speaker 6 (35:46):
I mean I watched the reruns.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
I just wasn't I watched it when I was a kid.
I'm in my forties, so I don't know. I mean, Jase,
did you watch the Vernon Shirley?
Speaker 4 (35:54):
I did?
Speaker 7 (35:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (35:55):
Okay, Happy Days.
Speaker 4 (35:57):
Good shows.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Hey, Monday, Tuesday, Days Day, Friday? All right, do you
have any more for game time?
Speaker 2 (36:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (36:04):
I have one more.
Speaker 5 (36:05):
Actually, I want you to rank the top three?
Speaker 2 (36:09):
No, all right? What is top three?
Speaker 5 (36:12):
Top three most powerful commissioners in sports? And notice how
I didn't necessarily say pro sports because there's a lot
of powerful conference commissioners out there.
Speaker 6 (36:19):
So what do you think.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
I would say? Who's the commission of the SEC?
Speaker 6 (36:25):
Now, Well, if you don't know his name, he must
not be that powerful.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Greg Sankie because Mike's live was the was a former
super powerful commissioner.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
I'll put.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
Most powerful commissioners. I would say Dana White at three.
Speaker 5 (36:53):
Interesting, that's a good one.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
At two, and Roger Goodell one very good.
Speaker 5 (37:06):
I don't want to be on any of their bad sides.
And that concludes this edition of the Press Game.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
This is Game Time on the Doug Gottlieb.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
Show Doug Gottlieb Show here on Fox Sports Radio. Okay,
coming up next, uh, it's wait, wait, wait, today is Tuesday, right, Okay.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
I just want to make sure.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
So there's a new job out there in college sports,
the general manager.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
Now what they do.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
It depends upon school, depends upon a lot of different factors.
But you could make the argument that irb meers the
you know, the greatest coach of this generation. Saban usually is,
but urban you could. I could make the argument. Matter
of fact, I will up next wait to hear why
he doesn't want to be a GM next to the
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Sports Radio. Hope you're having a great day.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
I mean, unless your name is Jason Stewart, whose Dodgers
were punked last night in Milwaukee by the Brewers. We
will actually talk more baseball tonight than we have in
a while, although we're doing a better job of it.
Right We had Matt Holiday on. Was that yesterday or
the day before?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
All the days run together. Get ready for this weekend's
MLB draft. Terry Harrison's gonna join us figure out what's
wrong with the boys in Blue tonight. You got Kershaw Mizrowski.
That should be fun. Also, I love this topic. The
topic coming next to is Raphael Devers as a jerk.
This is not new information, just it only adds to it.
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We'll get to that in about fifteen minutes. Urban Meyer
expressed an interesting lack of interest in one potential future job.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
We'll get to that.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Plus, Brett Yormark is into one particular model in the
college football playoff, but that look, it tracks for him,
but I don't think that's the model for the Big
Twelve in the first year. As a perfect example, all right,
we get got a lot to get to. Let me
start with some summer league news. Now, I'm a very
(01:39):
unique radio show host right on Fox Sports Radio. I
think we have the best. I don't think it's close.
I mean, I don't even know if there's any real
competition in terms of lineup anymore, because so many other
ones have been cut apart Hodgepodge or whatever. But we've
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a great blend of two of the biggest names in
the history of sports radio in Dan Patrick and Colin Cowherd,
combined with a good group of other shows including You
Got You Know, you Got a former Notre Dame quarterback
and first round traffick and former Superstar linebacker and NFL
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star and two Pros and Cup of Joe and myself.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
So yet you have.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Something in terms of former players, not just radio talk
show guys, that gives you a different, different level of
kind of substantive discussion. So I'm the only one who
obviously coaches in college. I'm the only one who's who's
coaching in college while performing with doing the radio show. Also,
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I've worked for more networks than anybody else. I don't
know if that's a badge of courage or on or
what it is. But I'm also the only guy who's
played in NBA Summer League. So Brownie James has played
one Summer League game. He set out the first one,
played the second one in San Francisco, and the Lakers
will soon move to Vegas and play traditional NBA Summer
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League in Vegas, and their first game is going to
be against the Dallas Mavericks, which Cooper Flag is going
to play for the Mavericks. Now Cooper Flag versus Bunnie
James is selling it for historic amounts. Tickets are going
for a court side up to twenty five hundred dollars.
Lower bowl is six hundred and fifty bucks. Now, I
never take the actual dollar terms to be real, especially
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in Vegas, and when you have former players, you have
current players, they're sitting courtside like they're not playing, paying
twenty five hundred dollars for it, So twenty five dollars
one hundred dollars for a court side seat feels like
some tourists from Des Moines who just is incredibly happy
to be there and their choice was Curt day Sole
Cirtasiley shows are amazing, but there's several of them, right,
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Curt day Sol or Bronni versus Cooper Flag. And maybe
it's you know, a couple of couples and the women
are like, we're gonna go to Third Days LA, and
the guys are like, dude, let's go to the summer league.
Pounce some beers, ce some NBA players, Bronni versus Cooper Flag.
They may be paying twenty five hundred dollars a pop.
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I think most people not so much. Regardless of which,
there's a lot of hype against it. The first thing is, okay,
this is the real thing. If you've played in the NBA,
even for a minute, the expectations are for you to
dominate in the Summer League. You've done it, you've gone
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through it, you've played against the highest level of competition,
and by and large, if you go team to team,
guys that are coming back for second year of Summer
League after playing any amount of time in the NBA,
and generally the dom one, they get the most opportunities too.
They know whatever you're running offensive, they know it. In
three they've played against the highest A competition.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
This is kind of easy. And most guys who are
playing in Summer League are not NBA players. That's why
they're in Summer league.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
I know I was in the Summer League with the Lakers,
But what to watch for? What's amazing about it? What's
interesting about it is going to be I would guess
the comfort level of a Cooper Flag and the dominance
level of Bronnie James.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Bronnie should be dominant.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
It doesn't mean that he becomes a rotation player in
the NBA because he's dominant in the Summer league. And
it doesn't mean that Cooper Flag is going to be
Rookie of the Year because the game will be relatively
slow for him. But remember you're playing against older, better
players technically than you played against the college. But they're
not all NBA players. And because of the opportunity, because
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the time played, because of how things are going to
be built, the two levels of player that should dominate
in Summer League are top ten picks because the teams
need them to do well and they need to get
their confidence up getting ready for their first NBA season.
And anyone who's played any full season or three quarter
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season in the NBA, the game should be very, very slow.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
And that's both these players.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
And you can't deny the hype train over Bronnie James,
and you can't deny the hype train over Cooper Flag.
Cooper's is more about substance. Brownie's is more about potential
because his dad's one of the greatest players of all time, right,
one of the greatest players of all time.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
And again, I think the NBA.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
There's lots of parts of the NBA which it's easy
to pick apart go Hey, ratings aren't what they used to.
Perception is not always great. Even former NBA players don't
seem to like the current NBA players. There's this, you know,
Hatfield's and McCoy's over the old guard versus a new guard.
I get all that that happens.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
But the the the.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Fact that Summer League has become so big and now
we continue to be able to hype it two years
ago as Wemby last year was BROWNI this year. It's
this year, it's Cooper Flag, and you will see improvement
of Brownie.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
You know, last year struggled and they shut him down
very early. This year he should be dominant.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
What's interesting is not playing every night, skipping a couple
of nights, but loading up for this one.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
But this is the.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Game should be incredibly slow and very easy. Again, doesn't
mean that you're not getting everybody's best shot like he
did last year.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Because you're Brownie James.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
You're going to get everybody's best shot, just like Cooper
Flag is gonna get everybody's best shot. But having played
in real NBA games, in a real NBA season, despite
a lack of success, right for the most part it
was a mess. He had one game where he made
some shots, they had lost by thirty. All that said,
this is a time which you dominate. You know, I
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played with the Slava Medvedenko, Devin George, great dude, by
the way, Devin George, great guy, and those guys were
bit players NBA championship teams, and they were so thoroughly
and incredibly dominant in the summer league because they had
played in the NBA playoffs. So you play in summer League.
You're playing against college kids and guys that are not
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really NBA players or trying to make an NBA team
or on the back end of an NBA bench, And
that's that's just easy pickens. So that's what I'm looking
for in that game. And I love the fact that
the game is being hyped and we'll pay attention to it.
Doesn't mean that how well Cooper plays or poorly Cooper plays,
how well Brownie plays or poorly Bronnie place means anything.
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But you expect Cooper to get a ton of reps,
you know, usually number one picks. They like to trot
out there, play a couple of games and then three
games in or so shut him down. And with Bronnie James,
this is one and where he should be done.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
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Speaker 1 (09:20):
Stug Gottleib Show Fox Sports Radio. Hey we saw this story.
Red Sox play play man is Will Fleming. He was
on Wei, which is a sports radio station in Boston
and the show is called EI Afternoons. Yes, this is
yesterday took place. He told the story about former Red
Sox star Rafael Devers. Remember Devers was traded. We kind
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of went through the backstory where he only wanted a DH.
Didn't want to play third or wait was third base?
He didn't want to play first base. They needed first
base and badly, and he said, I'm not a first baseman.
He didn't want to play third base, or it was
third base.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
You want to play? I think he just wanted DH, right, No.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
No, he was told that he's going to DH right
because Bregnant is a better third baseman, and he said,
I don't do anything but play third base. So then
he accepted the DH. Because he's under contract with the
Red Sox, they asked him to go play first base
because they got a bunch of prospects from the outfield
to bring up, and he's like, nope, I'm your DH.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Then he gets traded to the Giants and he's asked
to play first base, and he's like, hey, anything to win.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Right, correct?
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Okay, So anyway, they're his old team, right, the Red Sox.
They're played by play broadcaster Will Fleming suggests that Devers
is it all in on playing first base. Even stood
up a Giants legend to arrive at the facility to
work out with him.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
This is the quote.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
They don't know yet what is gonna happen with the player,
He explained. I was there the second day after the trade.
This is in San Francisco. Will Clark was there to
work on ground balls and uh work with him at
first base, and Raffie didn't show up. That's the type
of person the Red Sox are dealing with have been
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dealing with for a long time. First of all, Will
the Thrill was a stud, right, and he was the
are we okay man?
Speaker 2 (11:30):
We don't have Uh.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
He's the Ernie Els of baseball. Ernie El's quite possibly
the smoothest, easiest swing. Like I get up to address
a golf ball and I try to not come out
of my shoes, but you know, my biggest thing, I
try and swing hard. Ernie L's it looks like he's
just he's almost miming a swing and he hits it
a mile. Will Clark's same thing, like one of the
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prettiest wings ever.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
And you know, in our.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Lifetime, if you asked San Francisco Giant first Basement, I
would say for most people the first name they'd come
up with is Will Clark and Raphael Devers. You know,
you first get to a place and usually even when
you're a third, the first week or two you put
on the front like you're a better dude. Day two,
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he knows shows for a meeting with Will Clark.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
There you go. We'll talk to.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Baseball at Jerry Hairston in a moment. Yeah, I mean, like, look,
it's interesting, Jay stew you know what the two key
elements for every player we recruited were this year with
my new team. Key elements Like like one of my
assistants stood up and we were on the bus. We
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were talking about, coach, what do we need? Like what
type of guys could you give us? Like the most
important thing a guy does or brings to the table
in terms of recruiting, would they be There's two.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Things willingness to do anything to win.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Yeah, we said toughness and character.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Toughness and character.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
And I think that comes out in the both toughness,
competitive toughness, competitiveness and character.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Right, And Raphael de Ever is a guy who got paid.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Seems to have neither of those. Because if you have
toughness and competitiveness. You're not just willing to say you'll
do anything to win, You're actually willing to do anything
it is to win. And if you have character, you'd
never show up at a legend like Will Clark, even
if you'd never met him before or don't know who
he is. It's not that hard. You can Google or
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use chat chept. You can Siri works for Will Clark. Right,
you don't need chat gpt for Will Clark.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
No, I think it's pretty accessible, all the wealth of information,
and he's become an even bigger legend on in podcasting
now too.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
It's the Doug Gottlieb Show here on Fox Sports Trader.
Let's let's get you a quick update with Isaac Lowcronilo.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
See, if I was in your shoes, one of the
two things that I would need would be for them
to listen to The Doug Gottlieb Show every day. So
you don't demand that of your players, do you?
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (14:33):
All right, Nope, they're all gonna they're all gonna be
on the All Ball podcast of this year. They've they've
asked had a couple of last years. So we'll start funneling,
the start start recording.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Some of those. Okay, very cool, toughness in character, it's
all that matters.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
You got both, well, why thank you?
Speaker 2 (14:49):
You're a character hanging out particularly tough. You have both.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
It's the Doug Gottlieb Show here on Fox Sports Radio.
He played sixteen years in the bigs. He was remember
the own Yankees World Series championship team. Of course, he's
currently on Sports in LA covering the LA Dodgers as
one of their lead analysts.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
He's Jerry Harrison Jr.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
He joins us on the Doug Gottlieb Show on Fox
Sports Radio. I am headed down tonight to see Misowski
take a matchup against Kershaw. Kersh three thousand strikeouts. Can
you play this thing a long time? You've been analyzed
this thing a long time. When Clayton Kershaw twenty years
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from now no longer pitches in Major League Baseball, what
would you tell people made him special?
Speaker 7 (15:39):
It's just competitive fire. A guy that took the ball,
you know, the majority of his career, if not all,
every fifth day and gave his team a chance to win.
I played with a lot of guys. I played with
guys like Derek Jeter Amara and Rivera, Kyle Ripkin, Tangerfree
junior great players. Kershaw is as competitive, not more than
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all those guys I played with. So, you know, the
three thousand mark, that's something we may not see for
quite some time. I know, Sale is the closest. If
he stays healthy, maybe another five six years he may
reach it, but it might be a tough, tough goal
that having another guy do that that three thousand strikeouts.
So I in my opinion, he's the best picture of
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his generation. Matt Kurzer, no disrespect to Verlander. I think
Clayton Kershaw is the best picture of his generation.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Okay, so help me out here, Uh why did he
have such an up and down? Why has he had
such ups and downs in the playoffs? If he's that level.
Speaker 7 (16:42):
Of picture, well, I think if you look at you know,
if you look at you know, other great pictures, you know,
like a Verlander, he has him up and downs as well.
I think when he was younger, we may have left
him in too long. He'd be really what could go
through five six strong? Anything? That seventh thitting he may
have given up that, you know, two or three run
(17:03):
Homer to kind of inflate his ra you know. Listen,
he has not shot away from it. There's been a
couple of times we just didn't pitch well. I know,
the series in twenty twenty. I believe it was twenty
three or four when he faced the d Backs. His
shoulder was gone. He shouldn't have been pitching, but he's stubborn.
He ended up having shoulder surgery after, you know, in
(17:23):
that offseason, so I don't want to really make excuses
for him. He'd have to make excuses, you know. He
hasn't really pitched that poorly though, if you really look
at it from a total career, his postseason numbers aren't
that bad, you know. But once again, he's a two
time champion, hopefully a three time champion after this season.
(17:45):
And what I like about Clayton Kershaw is that he
has changed the game a little bit, you know, the
way he gets out kind of like Kobe Bryant Michael
Jordan did back of the day. When they stopped being
the high flying act dunking on everybody, they had to
do their post game, you know, and they became their
best post players of the guards. And that's what Clayton
Kershaw has done. He doesn't have that ninety seven on
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our fastball. The way he can do is you throw
that slider. He had it a split and still has
a curveball, and he's able to get out to navigate
through lineups.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Chare Hereston, junior Dodgers' lead analyst, joins us here on
the Doug Gottlib Show on Fox Sports Radio. All right,
what about the Dodgers pitching staff not fully healthy and
they get swept by Houston, they get smoked last night
by the Brewers. What in your mind is the state
of the Dodgers right now?
Speaker 7 (18:33):
They're just not playing well. I mean, you know they
have some injuries, but every team has injuries, so you
really can't make that as an excuse. Bottom line is,
you know, we're not hitting to the our capabilities right now.
It happens. It's a long season. It's a grind, and
when you're not hitting and you're not playing that great
a defense and the pitching is giving up, that's a
bad recipe. And on the flip side, they're playing pretty
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good teams. The Astros have been rolling. Milwaukee has the
best record in the National League since June, so they're
playing great baseball. So bottom line, they got to play better,
and they know that they're not making any excuses. And
if you're not playing your a game, you're the defending champs.
Teams are going to be hunting for you. So hopefully
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from the Dodger's side, they play a lot better tonight.
They got a stud that they're facing. That kid runs
that fastball for anywhere from a hundred one hundred two
miles an hour, so they better be able to catch
up that fastball.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
The studs miss Rawski. Now, he had not been touched
up until last game, and any probably could have gotten
out if he gives up a grand slam, that a
back to back home run on a solo shot. You
remember what it was like to be young in this game,
obviously not as a pitcher. I think isn't tonight like
a great sign of who he is in terms of
(19:49):
his internal makeup, in his ability to bounce back from
giving up five runs for the first time in his career.
Speaker 7 (19:56):
Yeah, And that's what listen. If I'm with the Brewers,
That's where I'm looking at. Can he bounce back? How
do you react to failure? With our question? He's got
the stuff I love. I love his energy he's exciting,
he's fun to watch, But as a hitter on the Dodgers,
I'm wanting to see if he's going to make adjustments.
Is he's still throwing that pitch middle of the plate
(20:17):
like he did get touched uff for those five runs,
So you're hoping that he's has those type of mistakes
in the middle of the plate and you've got to
capitalize on those those mistakes. But I have a feeling,
you know, the Dodgers will try to attack him, be
aggressive early in the count because he does have wipeout stuff.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Jerry Henston Juniors our guests of the Doug Gottlieb Show
on Fox Sport Traity. You mentioned how well the Astros
are playing, how well the Brewers are playing. If you
were to ask people who have been paying attention to
the day to day, they would say the Dodgers are
the overwhelming favorite to come out of the National League.
As we evolve in this thing, right you look, Cubs
(21:01):
fifty four wins, Phillies fifty three wins, Mets fifty two
wins and a lot of money sunk in there. And
of course the Giants are not nipping at the heels,
but they're fifteen forty two. If I want to ask
you a gun to your head, you know, Padres think
they're right there, even though record wise they're not gun
to your head. Jerry, who's the biggest challenger in the
playoffs to the Dodgers's.
Speaker 7 (21:23):
That's a tough question, man. I always said health is
the biggest challenge for the Dodgers. I said that early on,
and it's kind of rare ugly head with our injuries.
That said, having looked at the National League now, the Astros,
obviously they could be to the Dodgers if they get
to the World Series because they're in the America League.
(21:45):
This is baseball, man, this is not basketball. You can
kind of get a super team. You have two to
three studs and now you're set, and the offense and
defense is simultaneously because you're going back and forth. Baseball,
you can really make your team because you have so
many levels. You got the big league level, you got TRIPLEAAA,
you got the two A ball teams and rookie ball.
(22:06):
You can really develop your team and have a great foundation.
Look what the Brewers have done. You know they're not
a high payroll team, but what they've done has had
a great foundation, great minor league system, great coaching, and
Pat Murphy is as good to get as a manager.
So that team can kind of scare you a little
bit because they played well together. They got some arms
(22:29):
in that starting rotation as well, and as well as
a bullpen. So the Brewers definitely scare me. The Cubs
beat up on the Dodgers earlier this year. They do
everything well. So when it comes to baseball, when you
do everything well pitching, defense, timely, hitting, you can beat anybody.
This is not the NBA, you know, This is not
(22:50):
like you know the NFL. You have Tom Brady, and
if you have a good defense of Tom Brady, you're
gonna win. Okay, baseball man, you have twenty five twenties.
He sometimes takes forty guys with your minor league system
to get through a season and obviously try to play
well in baseball. So I say the Cubs the Brewers
to answer your questions, don't count off the Phillies. Philly
(23:13):
scare me as well with that stud they got there,
Zack Wheeler and their offense. And I think the Mets
and the end will be there and the Padres will
always be there too, So there's a variety of teams
in the nationally. That's why I love the game of baseball. Man,
there's so much parody. It is so hard to win
in this league.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Oh no, it's incredibly difficult. Last thing Dodgers were able
to get away with last year not having a designated closer,
and Jason Stewart, as you know well as my producer,
he's an average Dodger. I have a Dodger fan. He
hates it, hates it. Kurt Schilling was on this week.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
He hates it.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
He's like, I won't happen again. It was more of
a luctionhout. Where are you on the closer by committee idea?
Speaker 7 (23:56):
I've never liked closer by committee. The Dodgers did that
last out of necessity. They didn't want to do it,
but they were kind of forced to do it because really,
you had injuries. We're trying to keep guys healthy, trying
to keep Blake, trying healthy, trying to get Evan Phillips healthy,
and once again we're kind of in that same predicament.
Canner Scott is our closer. Now. He had a great
(24:19):
month of June. He just had a hiccup. His laugh outing.
We expect him when the Chips are down to be
that closer. He's just got too good of a stuff,
too good of stuff. So right now we're trying to
get guys healthy. Hopefully Blake Training comes back. Bruce Deark
Gradoo has mist the entire season. Hopefully he comes back
and a couple other guys come back, and then we
(24:40):
can kind of have that one guy be the closer.
I agree. I've been on teams. The best teams I've
been on the Yankees we had Mario and Arvera. He
was our dead today closer. When I was in the Dodgers,
it was Ketley Jansen, he was our closer. I just
think that the teams, they're better in the postseason when
you have that desert closure. And the Dogs wanted to
(25:02):
have that dosnety closer last year. It just with all
the jandreies, we just couldn't couldn't have it. Hopefully Tanner
Scott steps up in that second half and is our closure.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
You can watch him on Spectrum Sports that anytime the
Dodgers are on. He's Jerry Harrison junior. Of course, so
won a World Series and sixteen years in the Big
just incredible amount of useful and information as the season
goes on. Jerry, thanks so much for join us. We
really appreciate you being our guest on Fox Sports Radio anytime.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Doug, be sure to catch the live edition of the
Doug Gottlieb Show weekdays at three pm Eastern noon Pacific.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
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Speaker 3 (25:58):
This is game time. Sigh on the Doug Gottlieb Show.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Ilo, what's the game today?
Speaker 6 (26:13):
Three to two one one.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
I had a whole bit setting that up, but that's okay,
all right, the game is Indeed, rank him and Doug.
I want you to start off by rank in the
top three July sporting events that you are most interested in,
and just so we cover the grand spectrum of July
sporting events. Those also include Nathan's Fourth of July Hot
(26:37):
Dog Eating Contest, the World Judo Championships in Budapest, as
well as the All Ireland Hurling semi Finals. So those
among the many, many choices you've got for your most
interesting July sporting events.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Okay, what were the ones you suggested?
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Well?
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Of those back, I know, I know there's there's more
than a tingon Starks.
Speaker 6 (27:00):
Just tell me a walk with me sarcasm.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
Well you got you know, you got Wimbledon in the
Summer League, the Major League Baseball All Star Game. But
I discovered that there's even more than that. There's the
Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest on the fourth of July.
There's also the World Judo Championships in Budapest, which I
didn't know was a judo hotbed. But then my personal favorite,
the All Ireland Hurling Semi Finals. I thought that was
(27:26):
some sort of vomiting competition, but it's actually a really cool,
like outdoor game that is like a combination of American
football and hockey and rugby on grass.
Speaker 6 (27:35):
But you take it in any direction you'd.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Like some I'm talking just July here, right. Yeah, I'm
so down on All Star games.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
I just am. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
I don't blame just.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Down on All Star games for baseball, it's yeah, they're
not playing real game.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
You're playing real game.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
In a league play you see all these play plus
now you know if you have the MB package, you
can watch all these games. I just I mean, guess
Summer League is three?
Speaker 2 (28:20):
What's the big.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Gulf event in July? Is the PG in in uh
in July? This is where we this is where we
need Dan, right because they.
Speaker 6 (28:30):
Dan literally just walked in. Dan literally just walked in.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
I can.
Speaker 6 (28:34):
I can check the schedule for the.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Open Championship is in July, I believe.
Speaker 5 (28:38):
Yeah, the Open Championship July seventeenth through the twentieth.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Yeah, well damn, We'll put the Open Championship at two. Yeah,
but it's leaving us for we need something for one, right,
the biggest thing.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Let's go Nathan's hot Dog all right?
Speaker 6 (28:57):
Oka, sure you know what, I'm gonna call it Autumn.
Speaker 5 (29:00):
Well, based on that answer, I find this is really
interesting and I'm curious what you're going to say about this.
I want you to give me your top three favorite
Major League Baseball Game All Star moments. And I have
a theory that all the top three will not have
occurred in the last twenty years, which kind of plays
into your perspective the value of the MLB All Star
(29:24):
Game as far as entertainment and memory, is really not
that great as compared to how.
Speaker 6 (29:28):
It used to be.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Sure my top bo Jackson's home run to Straightaway Center
in Anaheim Stadium.
Speaker 6 (29:37):
Bingo.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
That's three. When Ted Williams when the All Star Game was.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
At Boston last ninety nine.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Ted Williams and like Tony Gwynn and Ted Williams together
shaking hands and laughing to a late great left handed
any conversation the best pure hitters in the history of
the game, those two that.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Would that would be one gosh All Star moments.
Speaker 6 (30:14):
There's the Randy Johnson John Kruck thing, but that was
more thing.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Yeah, when he brought the table leg up to plate.
I do remember that, uh at Caward Pin Junior his
last All Star Game, when he ran all the way
around there you go the field, slapping fives with the
fans down both baselines.
Speaker 6 (30:33):
And yeah, that was in Seattle.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
I'm a big I'm a big Calarupken Junior fan.
Speaker 6 (30:37):
Yeah, I was Seattle two thousand and one.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
I think everyone accused Chanho Park of throwing up a
pot ball a meatball for him, but there you go.
I honestly think if you open it up to most
of our listeners and contemporary sports fans, their top all
Star game memories will all not have occurred in at
least the last ten years, and maybe the last twenty years.
Onto our next item. You're gonna get into this Joe
(31:02):
Burrow batmobile deal later, But inspired by that, rank the
top three cars you would buy if money was no object. Now,
I would put my nineteen ninety nine at Toyota Corolla
with a broken driver's side window. That that really did
wonders for my social life. But how about you ranked
(31:23):
the top three cars you would buy if money was
no object?
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Money was no object? That's a good one. Great question.
Number three. One of those Shelby four f one fifties.
If you have seen those, they're like one hundred and
fifty grand. They are gigantic, They look amazing a nagaae,
They're pretty stellar.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
That would be.
Speaker 6 (31:46):
Oh wow, I'm just looking those Are those are nice?
Speaker 4 (31:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Yeah, they're they they're they're sick. They're sick.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
I was on my way last year to purchasing or
actually leasing, like a dream car of mine, only at
the time they had a stop sale, so I turned
around and bought a different vehicle. That dream car is
a seventh brand new seventh series Beamer with all the
bells and whistles. It's the ultimate drive machine. I just
(32:17):
I've always had had a thing for.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
It, all right.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
And uh.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Uh number one? What would I buy the number one?
If I could get anything ever? Sixty six Corvette?
Speaker 6 (32:35):
Ooh, good answer?
Speaker 1 (32:37):
All original stock, you know, like low miles, something somebody
had in their their garage and only drove once in
a while in the summer. But that would have to
come with somebody who knows how to fix the car,
because that's the problem with me.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
By the class of cars, I got no idea.
Speaker 5 (32:50):
Yeah, by the way, you can get a twenty twenty
five Ford F one fifty Shelby right down the block
farm US at Fox Sports Radio for one fifteen.
Speaker 6 (32:59):
By the way, that price good ice.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
They're usually one hundred and fifty.
Speaker 6 (33:03):
So yeah, so we send one of our introns down
the street to pick it up for you.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Pick one up for me, will you?
Speaker 6 (33:07):
Okay, we'll do.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Well.
Speaker 5 (33:09):
We'll send it to be a FedEx all right. Another
thing that's been in the news kind of lately with
the NBA rights going back to NBC is the return
of John Tesh's Round Ball Rock NBA theme song from
the nineties. So I want you to rank the top
three most memorable sports TV.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Oh yeah, I did this.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
You did sports because if you did a memorable theme song,
now we'd have fun.
Speaker 6 (33:32):
Why don't we do both?
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Okay, sports theme songs? Well, round bow Rock? Fox Sports
use that, Fox Sports one use that.
Speaker 6 (33:39):
On college basketball?
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Yeah yeah, And people were like, what is that is that?
Round bow Rock?
Speaker 1 (33:47):
I mean I would say Sports Centers theme is the
that's the number one. Round Bowl Rock is probably three,
and then CBS or Fox's NFL is two and two.
B Okay, Now, overall theme songs, ok caase do.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
Is? MASH one is? What about Cheers? Cheers is like
my favorite show of all time?
Speaker 4 (34:18):
I mean I thought mash was always considered like the
most oppressing one. If I had to choose one all
time to listen to right now and maybe Ryan Smith
could turn it around, we'll bump back in. What next hour?
Is the Sopranos theme.
Speaker 6 (34:30):
Song, Oh woke up this morning?
Speaker 4 (34:34):
That's got a great driving beat.
Speaker 6 (34:35):
Oh man, that's great. That's a really good one, really
good for what.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
My frasersid Baby, I hear the music colin salad.
Speaker 6 (34:43):
And scrambled eggs.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
I don't know what that means. Does anybody know what
that means?
Speaker 6 (34:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (34:49):
Well scrambled eggs refers to the scrambled psyche of his
callers on his Yeah, don't really know what the toss
salad refers to. But the scrambled eggs are you know,
for kind of confused people who call in you know,
a radio show.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Okay, uh what else? And then you know? I mean,
you want to go where everybody knows your name a.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Doom Doom Doom and they're always glad she came Doom Doom.
You want to be whipped? Okay, got it. There's also
a different world. Was a very.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Average show in a great time slot, but it was
a really good, good theme.
Speaker 5 (35:29):
So it's a different world from where you come from. Sure,
very good, very.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Good Lavernon Shirley. What about Levernon Shirley?
Speaker 5 (35:38):
See, I think you're just kind of overdoing it on
the Wisconsin connection.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Frankly, you didn't watch the Vernon Shirley when you're a kid.
Speaker 6 (35:44):
How old do you think I am?
Speaker 3 (35:46):
Ninety?
Speaker 6 (35:46):
I mean I watched the reruns.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
I just wasn't I watched it when I was a kid.
I'm in my forties, so I don't know. I mean, Jase,
did you watch the Vernon Shirley?
Speaker 4 (35:54):
I did?
Speaker 7 (35:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (35:55):
Okay, Happy Days.
Speaker 4 (35:57):
Good shows.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Hey, Monday, Tuesday, Days Day, Friday? All right, do you
have any more for game time?
Speaker 2 (36:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (36:04):
I have one more.
Speaker 5 (36:05):
Actually, I want you to rank the top three?
Speaker 2 (36:09):
No, all right? What is top three?
Speaker 5 (36:12):
Top three most powerful commissioners in sports? And notice how
I didn't necessarily say pro sports because there's a lot
of powerful conference commissioners out there.
Speaker 6 (36:19):
So what do you think.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
I would say? Who's the commission of the SEC?
Speaker 6 (36:25):
Now, Well, if you don't know his name, he must
not be that powerful.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Greg Sankie because Mike's live was the was a former
super powerful commissioner.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
I'll put.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
Most powerful commissioners. I would say Dana White at three.
Speaker 5 (36:53):
Interesting, that's a good one.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
At two, and Roger Goodell one very good.
Speaker 5 (37:06):
I don't want to be on any of their bad sides.
And that concludes this edition of the Press Game.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
This is Game Time on the Doug Gottlieb.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
Show Doug Gottlieb Show here on Fox Sports Radio. Okay,
coming up next, uh, it's wait, wait, wait, today is Tuesday, right, Okay.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
I just want to make sure.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
So there's a new job out there in college sports,
the general manager.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
Now what they do.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
It depends upon school, depends upon a lot of different factors.
But you could make the argument that irb meers the
you know, the greatest coach of this generation. Saban usually is,
but urban you could. I could make the argument. Matter
of fact, I will up next wait to hear why
he doesn't want to be a GM next to the
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