July 15, 2025 • 39 mins
Doug gives extended thoughts on Scottie Scheffler's comments. Doug welcomes MLB analyst and former player Doug Glanville onto the show to talk about the All-Star game and all of the major headlines around MLB. Plus, Isaac Lowenkron takes Doug through "The Press".
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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in northeastern Wisconsin is a hot one kids. Uh, I'll
get I'll get temp for you upcoming, but I'm gonna
guess nineties high in humidity. It is hot and it
is steamy. Whoa hot and steamy is great, great outside. Uh,
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if you had if you like it hot, but it's
actually you know when she'd I always thought this about
if you live in the Midwest, you live in the South.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Where it's really really humid.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Even even in the Northeast, grit can get a little
even more muggy and obviously huge rainstorms in New York.
Be safe, be careful. I don't know what's behind all
these torrential rains. I'm not a meteorologist. I'm not a
climate scientist, I don't know, but it's been crazy what's happened,
obviously the tragedy in Texas and in New Mexico as well.
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But the one thing it is great for I yesterday
we had our golf tournament and then we had a
little dinner afterwards and raise some money. And then when
I got home, my neighbor's like, hey, you want to
come out in the boat with us? And the kids
went tubing, And I mean it. The thing about you
live somewhere humid, if you get up early to do
some outside, or if you're around late to do some outside,
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it's awesome.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Middle of the day not awesome. Not awesome.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Okay, we got a bunch to get to with with
tonight's All Star Game, including wait to hear what Mooie
Bett said is the hardest thing to do in sports
than Doug Landville is going to join us. Doug's been obviously,
was a major league player, longtime Major League baseball Anlyst
got a new website up. We'll talk some baseball, some
All Star getting ready for the second half of the
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baseball season. But I want to get back to Scotti
Scheffler's comments if you're just joining us the two time
master winner, three time major champion. Guys, we'll play both
cuts back to back. He was kind of lamenting the
fact that, despite his incredible success in such a short
period time, at twenty nine years old, he finds himself
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not really getting the fulfillment he thought he would get
from wins.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Take a listen, it feels like you work your whole
life to celebrate winning a tournament for like a few minutes.
It only lasts a few minutes that kind of euphoric feeling,
like to win the Byron Nelson Championship at home. I
literally worked my entire life to become good at golf
to have an opportunity to win that tournament, and you
win it, You celebrate, get to hug my family, My
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sister's there at such an amazing moment, and then it's like, okay,
now what are we going to eat for dinner? You know,
life goes on. This is it great to be able
to win tournaments and to accomplish the things I have
in the game of golf. Yet I mean, it brings
tears my eyes just to think about because it's literally
worked my entire life to become good at this sport
and to have that kind of sense of accomplishment, I
think is a pretty cool feeling. You know, to get
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to live out your dreams, it's very special. But at
the end of the day, it's like, I'm not out
here to inspire the next generation of golfers. I don't
I'm not here to inspire somebody else to be the
best player in the world, because what's the point. You know,
this is not a fulfilling life. It's it's fulfilling from
the sense of accomplishment, but it's not fulfilling from a
sense of like the deepest places of your heart. There's
a lot of people that make it to what they
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thought was going to fulfill them in life, and then
you get there and all of a sudden you get
to number one in the world, and then they're like,
what's the point? I really do believe that, because you know,
what is the point? You're like, why do I want
to win this tournament so bad? That's something that I
wrestle with on a daily basis. It's like showing up
with the Masters every year. It's like, why do I
want to win this golf tournament so badly? Why do
I want to win the Open Chamish so badly. I
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don't know, because if I win, it's gonna be awesome
for about two minutes, and then we're gonna get to
the next week and it's gonna be like, hey, you
want two majors this year? How important is it for
you to win the fex Cup playoffs. It's just like
we're back here again, you know, So we really do.
We work so hard for such little moments, and you know,
I'm kind of sick of I love putting in the work,
I love being able to practice, I love getting out
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to live out my dreams. But at the end of
the day, sometimes I just don't understand the point.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
It's an interesting one. Look, I'll share with you this
personal story. Okay, when I I was at ESPN ten years,
nine years in Bristol, and it was really really hard
when I left because and I think ESPN obviously it's interesting.
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Now if you say ESPN, there'll be as many negative
comments as there is positive comments. Some of it's fair,
a lot of it's unfair where you're taking you know,
literally every network has gone through this where because politics
has become so unbelievably divisive that if you take the
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comments of one and you put it to the whole,
especially as as big as ESPN is, as many people
are on at ESPN that I think there's there's an
unfair negative connotation about the place. But my boss here,
scottis Shapiro, was there at the same time.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
I loved it.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
I loved that I worked at the magazine, I wrote
for dot com. I obviously at college basketball, I had
a radio show. And I started the radio show doing
like a late night seven p to one AM, me
and Chuck Wilson, and we all kind of grew from
there and then I end up having kind of four
to seven the afternoon. And the point is that, like
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when I got in, all those people that had come
through as producers and board ops, they kind of grew
and they're now bosses or running radio stations or gone
off and and and become even bigger and brighter and better.
When it was really hard for me to leave, and
I remember I was so excited about doing uh, moving home,
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doing the Final four, doing the NCAA tournament. And then
I got done with the first year and I was
in California, but it wasn't as easy and the travel
was way harder, and we were working with people you
didn't know and they didn't know you, and it's a
completely different way of doing the exact same thing you've
done forever, and you're just so uncomfortable. And I came
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up with an idea for a book, and the idea
for the book is kind of what Scotti Seffler's saying,
and which is the I was trying to think of,
like the top of the mountain has no chairs, right
because there's no ability. You just don't have the ability
to enjoy your successes. Now, for me, part of it
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was I was doing a radio shows, doing a TV show,
and I was doing college basketball. If I had just
done college basketball and just one the final four, I
have no doubt in my mind I would have really
enjoyed that time.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Off with my summer.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
I you know, my personal life kind of started to,
I don't want to say degrade. I still had I
thought a great perner. Because I was working so much
and striving for more and more and more and more more.
There were things that I wasn't able to do and
I didn't do for my family, for my ex spouse,
and you kind of come to realize that, you know,
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one you either have to take ownership of your life
and going, hey, I gotta take time for the people
that I care about and not just for my job.
And then two, you have to have to find a
life partner that embraces that part of you, you know,
because if you're with somebody who doesn't enjoy the climb,
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doesn't enjoy the fight, you know, it's like, hey, you won,
You're good, smile, enjoy it, and you know, just cruise
and have a great life. I think I could do that,
but I don't think.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
That's who I am.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
I Jay s dude, you know who Bruce Gilbert is, right.
Bruce used to be our boss a long time ago
at ESPN Radio. He was once spun time the boss
at Fox Sports Trade. I think he runs Westwood Radio
now yeap and and I never get my first year broadcasting.
Bruce called me in and he was just like first
year of ESPN Roscia and he's my radio boss, and
(08:37):
he was like, hey, I got good news and bad news,
and the good news was we you know, I know
you don't really watch that much hockey. You'd never have
to talk hockey again. Every study we've seen, everyone we've
seen says, you know, you talk about hockey on national radio.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Great.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
He's like, Hey, here's the negative is you gotta do
better baseball. You come out of college basketball and at
the time, baseball is incredibly important and we're ow kid
in the Northeast, Red Sox, Yankees, et cetera. And he said,
he said, we start talking about like who you are
as a person, and I said, I'm a more guy.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
He's like, what do you mean.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
I said, I just there's never been a thing in
my life time in my life where I.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Haven't wanted more.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
You know, binge Watching shows is like made for me
because if I watch a show, I gotta watch ten.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
You know.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
One of the reasons I rarely drink is because I
just again I do, I will do things to excess.
I'm not excessive compulsive, but I'm I just. I always
want the next thing. I get an opportunity, I want
another opportunity, I get a chance, I want another chance,
I get a job or another job.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
I make ten. I want twenty.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
And at the time it was this is who I am,
which is great, but there is there can be a
lack of fulfillment with just enjoying the daily w and
enjoying what you the success you have while still pursuing
that excellence. Anyway, when I hear Scotty Scheffler talk about it,
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I relate to it. I understand it can be super,
super lonely, it can be super unfulfilling, and you do
feel robotic if you're a process orange a guy and
you're constantly going to practice range like what am I
doing this for?
Speaker 2 (10:25):
But I also will.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Tell you that when you take that competitive event out
of somebody's life, they just search for things to compete with.
And that's when it doesn't. It doesn't work outside the
sports world. I actually think like, hey, Scotty, you know
you should do not go to the Masters next year,
watch it at home or be away from it, and
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that's how you'll know if you're jonesing for it. The
hardest thing for most athletes, that first year is terrible.
And I tell coaches this all the time. I told
Irban Meyer this before he went back and took the
Jacksonville Jaguars job. I was like, hey, if you do games,
this is remember he was ESPN, then he went back,
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then he was Fox. Then he went back to the Jaguars, right,
And I was like, if you do games, if you
call games live, you're gonna want to coach. If you're
in the studio, maybe maybe not. But if you're at
the actual stadium, you're at the arena, you're gonna want
to do it. Why because you're a competitor and all
the goosebumps on your arm come up, because you don't
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even care if you're in the losing locker room.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
You just want a chance.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
You just want to scoreboard and a bunch of guys
and a bunch of coaches and try and figure out
how to win. Anyway, I think some of this is
in his wiring, some of it is in generationally that
people are searching for fulfillment at an age in which
that's not really time for fulfillment. And some of it
is in the fact that maybe some of us are
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also screwed up in that we just love the competition.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
On a daily basis. That ends my ted talk. Jase too,
what do.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
You think makes sense to me? That's your experience? Absolutely,
I think that the uh. The one thing that I
heard the second time we played the chef or Sound
is that he is telling us that he has either
been to therapy or wants to go to therapy to
resolve whatever it is that disallows him to enjoy the wins,
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because I don't think every every athlete is wired this way.
I do think that very few athletes are wired to
be sophisticated enough to articulate it as well as he did.
In other words, I don't have faith in a lot
of athletes articulating that if they feel it. But I
think he's telling us he needs to fix whatever is
preventing him from being fulfilled by these wins.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
H I think, listen, there's a lot of ways in
which people go after fulfillment, right guys. Sometimes it's drugs.
Sometimes as women, sometimes it's you. You keep trying for
that next win, thinking Okay, now I'll feel the fulfillment.
And yeah, I mean therapy is a is a good route.
(13:10):
You mentioned relationships and not having that as a kind
of background or a support system. If you will for
everything he does, I think that would be interesting. I
think also, you know, if you don't want to do it,
if it's not bringing you joy, you don't want to compete, fine,
plenty of dudes that do. I low second time through
what do you hear when you listen to listen.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
To I think that's what made this such a fascinating topic.
But just like Jason, I caught something the second time
that I didn't catch the first time. Of course, what
I caught was a lot more impressive and insightful than
what Jason caught. I'm just trying to just trying to
bust your chops there. It was at the very end
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when he basically said, but I still love the I
love the work that goes into it. And to me,
that told me a lot, because, as you mentioned, Doug,
there's so many different types out there. Some people achieve
one thing, they're immediately onto the next thing. I think
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there's other people who are in love with the process
and not necessarily the result. And what I'm talking about
is kind of the boring little details of our respective
professions that might seem boring to an outsider, but it's
the kind of thing that people who really love the
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process like like for this specific role. This might sound
weird to a lot of other people, but when we
get to Wimbledon and the French Open, I enjoy the
process of trying to track down these wacky pronunciations from
these tennis players from all over the world, like Bulgaria
and Hungary, and I have no idea, but you have
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to be able to enj joy those kinds of boring details.
And we've heard athletes throughout our coverage of sports say,
you know, I knew it was time to retire when
I stopped enjoying practice, when I stopped enjoying the preparation
for games. I think people have said, you know, that's
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kind of the litmus test. When part of the joy
of sports has been the process and that's taken away,
then you know it's time to move on. And the
second time around, I heard that for Scotti Scheffler, that's
something that he still enjoys, which I didn't really which
didn't really resonate the first time I heard it.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
By the way, he is married, right, I can check
he's married.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
He's married, he says later on it might even be
in the third cut that his wife is exceptionally supportive
and tries to celebrate the wins and thanks him for
working so hard. And you know, when I bring up
that people are unfulfilled who haven't shared love, I'm not
talking about like somebody to support you. That's a very
(16:03):
like egocentric way of looking at right, I get married,
have somebody to support me. If you're not in a
relationship where the love is equal, then that's unfulfilling, you know.
The so I think she's this part of life. She's
probably a great pro golfer wife is missing.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
I don't There's there's part of it where you're like, look,
a pro golfer's life and most of us are like, dude,
really private jets, great hotels. You're playing golf for a living,
but you aren't home, right and even when you're home,
you're not home. And look, I do know it's different.
(16:48):
You're making millions, maybe hundreds of millions of dollars. But
we can relate to the anybody who's been married, like, babe,
I'm gonna go play golf, like what And again, when
he goes and plays golf, it ain't like he's just,
you know, gonna play quick nine. You know, like there's
a whole process to it. And when you have I
think he has a little son, like you do, you
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want to be home. But the problem with that is
that all that sounds good, but a real competitor, I
just I think the second you don't have it is
the second you go like what am I doing? I
miss it. I want to be out there. It sucks
to not be home. Here's here's one. Rissillo had a
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take and I think it was a long time ago
when he was over at ESPN, and it may have
been an off air take, but I think it was
on air. And his thing was always like, you know,
there's there's always this kind of heroic thing for women
who have a child and they go back to work
and you're like, you have kids. He was like, you
have kids. To me, what's it like to go back
(17:53):
to work? I was like, it sucks. All you want
to do is be home, Like all you want to do, Like,
is those those little moments you get now if you're
at home and you're a stay at home mom and
stay at home dad, You're like, dude, I will trade
with you any time you want, anytime.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
I just want to have adult conversation.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
So again, I fall back on the I am one
of the I don't know if it's one percent, if
it's five percent, if it's ten percent. I don't feel
like I've ever worked a day in my life. And
it's because I truly love everything that I've done. I
haven't loved who I've done. It for or I haven't
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less they loved how I've prepared, how I've performed, or
who I've worked with, or who I've worked for, but
just the overall DA I have what I do like.
Dude's awesome, awesome, And I don't know if Scotty is
that guy. He just might be really really good at
it and has done it for a long time. And
the second somebody goes like, hey, you want to do
(18:56):
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Speaker 2 (20:29):
Are you a home run derby guy?
Speaker 9 (20:32):
I am absolutely, I'm enjoying it.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
I had a good time.
Speaker 9 (20:35):
I was on the call last night, and I think
part of it is the awe that you see not
only just as a fan and how far O'Neil Cruz
hits the ball, but watching other major league players, major
League All stars kind of be reduced to their ten
year old selves just watching something that seemed impossible. So
I enjoy that part of it. And you know, family,
you think about Raleigh with his dad and his brother
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and a lot of those connections. So for that reason
and those many I do appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
I bring it up just because I don't know, like
it's been going on a while. I thought having the
Big Dumber when it was good, considering the first half
of the season he's had. On the other hand, it
is kind of, you know, it is kind of three
point shooting chucking contest at some point, and it does.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
It can drag a little bit, can drag a little bit.
Speaker 9 (21:25):
Yeah, they were trying to make it a little faster
with the two minutes, but still kept going.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
But yeah, I hear you.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
What I was going to tell you was, oh, I
know it's gonna say, okay, so help me out. Cal Raley.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Do you think he can continue at this pace in
the second half playing catcher?
Speaker 4 (21:47):
I mean, it's hard to do.
Speaker 9 (21:49):
And the reason being you're losing probably twenty pounds. I
know Mike Piazza used to talk about how much weight
he would lose. I know, I lost twenty five pounds
in my first minor league season. It's it's tough to
just keep that energy. And by the way, he has
all these other jobs besides hitting. It's he's managing a staff,
he's in meetings, he's there's so much extra and at
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a position that's so violent and you know, foul ball
off the mask, everything's really beating up on your body.
So that's that would be hard. It's not that you know,
he has the if he was playing first base or
d h I say, yeah, sure, he could keep it up.
I think it's just so much harder as a catcher.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Yeah, still kind of remarkable.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
And now he's a catcher, but doing it in Seattle,
where not a hitter's ballpark by any means. The Dodgers,
if you were running the Dodgers, obviously they're pitching staff,
you feel like is going to get healthier, but hit
a tough stretch there at the end of the first
half of the season. Any changes you would.
Speaker 9 (22:49):
Make, Oh, I mean the problem, like many teams are facing,
is just can't stay healthy. And the Dodgers have been
really an extreme end of that spectrum with some of
the real key pictures. I remember the first meeting we
had earlier in the season when we opened with Tiger's Dodgers,
a question came up. David Cohen was like, hey, Dave, like,
(23:10):
how many starters do you have? Like who's He's like,
I know, your top five, who's your six through ten?
You know, And the fact is they had answers six
through ten that were full of all stars and very
capable of pictures that just weren't healthy. So you know,
to me, how do you deal with that? Well, you
do what they did last year. You you kind of
hope that they have enough help to get to the
(23:31):
right position, and then you go and get another arm
or someone to sort of pick it up. I mean,
like Bets and Freeman and guys that have been really
incredible are struggling, and you know, Bets moving from right
field and playing short and that's just sort of like
what you just talked about with Kyle Rally. It's exhausting
to play shortstop exhausting, and you know, he's a great athlete.
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He's definitely getting older. That's not easy to keep up.
And he, you know, is he the best option there?
You know, not only because of defense, but because his
offensive productivity. If you can connect those dots, maybe maybe
a problem and maybe sort of hurting him. So they
have to figure that out. But I think they would
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have a very different setup if the playoffs started tomorrow.
I think they have very different defensive alignments. Things would
be different because now you're just trying to win one
game out of time.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Doug Gottlieb show here on Fox Sports Trader. That's the
voice of Doug Lanville. Okay, if if we're not, if
we who do you think is the biggest challenger to
the Dodgers. I've asked everybody this just because you know,
there's a good group of National League teams, Cubs, Phillies, Brewers.
(24:45):
You know, you could kind of you go probably six
six deep or so if you had to, you had
to bet your new site Welcome to Glanville on it.
Who would be the biggest competitor of the Dodgers in
the playoffs Phillies.
Speaker 9 (24:57):
I say the Phillies, And because going into the season,
the thing that kept circling around is that they have
a really deep pitching staff, and it's just like any
other team if they stay healthy. You're talking about you know,
six starters and guys. And this is Dave Dombroski right there,
the front off or head of baseball operation. Dave Dombroski
is very aggressive at the trade deadline, very aggressive and
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getting star power, very aggressive and getting pitchers that have
swing and miss and velocity and always goes out and
gets an extra starter just in case. So with that mentality,
and you know, you're hitting Schwerber, Harper, whoever, all these
really good bats, Trade Turner having a good year at
you know, this is the year where if those guys
are at their best and they get the arms, then
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the Dodgers have to contend with the team that has
you know, three starters easily in the postseason, plus two
guys that can come in the bullpen and change roles.
That is really something that a lot of teams don't have,
so they can prevent runs and they can score runs.
So that's I'd say that's a big challenge for the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Yes, Doug Gottlie's show on Fox Sports Radio, speaking of
the National League, where are you and Mezrawski being in
the All Star Game.
Speaker 9 (26:09):
Yeah, well what I the way I think of it
is this way. Yeah, five games not much of a
body of work, obviously, So that's that's not you know.
I mean, I know Paul schemes and there's others that
didn't necessarily have like a full season. I don't put
a lot on the kid. It's not his fault.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
You know.
Speaker 9 (26:26):
These guys an electric arm And there's no doubt baseball
is trying hard to appeal to younger audiences and having
young talent that's on display makes a big difference because
they can see themselves like, oh yeah, this guy's exciting.
It's like Pete crow Armstrong. Kids fall he like the
Pied Piper. Kids follow him everywhere, and that's good for
the next generation of the game. So, but it does
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not make you an All Star, you know, that's whether
you know, that's the question. And when you have Trey
Turner or guys we just mentioned Christopher Sanchez that have
had really good full halves or close to it, you know,
that's hard when you know there's so many other team
and players that were bonifide full time All Stars. That's
the question for me. I look back at my own
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career ninety eight ninety nine had really good first halves.
There was sort of like a Jacob Wilson, a lot
of hits, not a lot of powers, full some bases
played defense, and I, you know, and I realized that
if the wind blew another direction, maybe I could have
gotten in those two years. And so that's how close
a lot of players are just by just you know,
playing every single game of the first half. So with Miserosky,
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it's very hard because he just says five games. I mean,
that's just not a lot. He could have two bad
starts in a row and have a six CRA. I mean,
that's how fragile those numbers are. But we're in an
era where it's much more when you think about player advancement,
who gets called up, who gets drafted, who gets advanced,
it's a lot to do with metrics. It's not as
much like, oh, you hit three seventeen in the minors.
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You look the part, you have, the data you have
and it sort of plays at the big league level.
And so it's not as much about like, oh, you
hit this certain number, and I think mis Roski is
the guy that has the arm. You're not worried about
his era or what it could be. You're looking at
a guy throwing one hundred and two miles an hour
and blowing major league hidders away.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Yeah, yep, I hear it.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Stug Gottlieb Show on Fox Sports Radio. Okay, let's go,
let's go over to the American League. In your mind,
biggest question the team, biggest question heading into the second
half of the season in the American League is.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
What as a whole league or by by team, by like.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
One team, sorry.
Speaker 9 (28:33):
That well, okay, Detroit Tigers is this is a team
that is just running people over and they're doing.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
It in a way they would never have.
Speaker 9 (28:42):
Said was going to be the way, right they because
we saw them opening day A J. Hinchster manager was like,
you know, we're kind of run for prevention. We have
a young team. We're going to outpitch you and my
thirteen guys are going to beat your nine. Like that's
that's how he kind of laid it out.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
Well, they've ended up being a.
Speaker 9 (29:00):
Better offensively, and you know Riley Green just you know
Baias just you know, back from the dead and you
have just incredible performances offensively that you have the question
of can they sustain it? They're going to ask that
question from an offensive standpoint, So do they go get
a big bat? So that's a big question for me,
because they get a big back like a O Suarez
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or something like that. Now you're looking at a team
they're like, oh wait a minute, that's that puts them
in sort of Yankee land, right, And and the Yankees
still I think have tremendous you know, their their offense
also could use Suarez as every other team, but they
they have those question marks if they stay healthy and
they have to pitch. But they have a lot of
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experienced bats that are productive. So I see them as
much more stable on that side of the equation. But
the Tigers just they out maneuver you. They're they're just
really good. So I see those two teams, as you know,
in the in the category of punching at each other.
And then do not forget the Houston Asters because they
flat out pitch Hunter Brown not getting a lot of
(30:03):
enough love because it's Eric Scooble who's great watch out
because they shut you down. It's hard to score off
of their bullpen.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Yeah, I mean circling back to the Tigers and struggle
they get swept by the Mariners right for the break
and uh and they get they get some they got
they got tough road swing to start the second half
of the season. Doug, tell me about the site real quick,
Welcome to Glendell.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
Yeah, well, it's a it's a writing side. You know.
Speaker 9 (30:26):
I came into the ESPAN and other places by writing,
and uh, it's hard today to kind of have a
consistent sort of column because there's so much noise, there's
so much going on, and I wanted to get back
to the roots of writing consistently. And the thing is,
I wanted to share with an audience that I'm a
fan too, and we're all fans in this together. I
still love the game, and so I wanted to create
(30:47):
a place where I'm writing stories about the game that
aren't just like breaking news or hot topics, but just
about like the deeper dives into you know, experiences. So
whether it's you know, Pete Rose and getting you know,
a pathway through getting into the Hall of Fame, whether
today I'm going to write a piece about the color
Wars that were the seventies and eighties and all Star
games that were vibrant and colors and you know, I
(31:09):
talk about the bulletin board that was over my bed
to have an autograph picture of Bob Boon, and I
just go back to, you know, stories that are just
personal with the humanity of the game at the center.
And most important, it's interactive. So I want to hear
from fans. I want to hear from people because I'm
a fan. I'm just like fanning out with everybody. And
it's done well, you know, and you can subscribe. It's
(31:29):
a newsletter format, so you go on, you enter your
email and there's a free subscription and if you love it,
you can do the paid and get some additional content.
But you know, I just welcome you into the world
of land though that's the name of my town. Name
kind of thing, and it's about baseball. It's about fandom,
but it's also where baseball impacts way beyond things outside
the lines.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Doug, you're the best man. I can't wait to check
out the site. I know you enjoy the game. Let's
do this again as the second half the season gets
ready to get started. Thanks for our guest and Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
All right, Doug, thank you, Thanks for listening to.
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Speaker 1 (32:26):
We're talking about the you know, the Scottie Scheffler thing
all day, and I do think it's important. While I
can relate, I don't necessarily understand the like you won
the Masters, who doesn't want to go win another one?
Speaker 4 (32:42):
Right?
Speaker 1 (32:42):
This goes in direct contrast. This is what I'm talking
about in terms of Generation X, Generation Z is what's
the famous line from Tom Brady, Jay Stu, Ryan Ilo,
what's his favorite super Bowl?
Speaker 2 (32:59):
You guys know his same is line, I cheated the
next one.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
The next one, Oh, the next one? What's your favorite
super Bowl? The next one? That's how the people that
I have grown up around associated with gravitate towards That's
kind of what Kobe Bryant has talked about. You know,
he you know guys that are driven like that, it
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can be lonely, it can feel really weird around people
that are not. And I do think that this younger
generation maybe they have a better wherewithal better understanding of things,
and they don't take things as seriously. It doesn't mean
as much to them, or maybe they're missing out on
what what how people like Tom Brady.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
See it.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
So that that's what crosses my mind when you hear
Scheffler talk about it. Right, but what's the what's the
hardest thing to do in sports?
Speaker 4 (33:57):
Well?
Speaker 1 (33:57):
I think the artist can do is win. But uh,
this is from Up and Smoke podcast. Mookie Betts was
on it and this was his response.
Speaker 4 (34:05):
Is hitting the baseball and hardest thing sports?
Speaker 2 (34:08):
I think it's.
Speaker 10 (34:09):
Yeah, I think it's by farther.
Speaker 4 (34:11):
I think that and being a cornerback in football.
Speaker 10 (34:13):
Oh, I'm sure corner like that's a different athlete.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
Yeah, that's right. That's the two hardest positions in sports
to me. I mean, two hardest things to do would
be a cornerback and hit a baseball.
Speaker 10 (34:23):
Yeah, I feel like you have a better chance. Now,
I'm not debating anything. You have a better chance looking
up in the quarterback making a bad throw or something
and stopping the receiver. There is no chance you're getting
lucky to hit a baseball. Baseball is like I do
it every day, and now I'll be hitting that thing.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
It's a great point that he makes, right.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
It's like here here, Mookie Bets is, Mookie Bets is
an elite, elite baseball player, right, However, you want to
rank him in the game of Major League baseball, like
he's in any conversation of the top ten players in
Major League baseball. So, by his own admission, like, Mookie Betts,
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great player. But when he strides to the plate at
the Ravine on this weekend when they take on the Brewers,
and here's Mookie Betts, who we all think is outstanding,
and he hits the ball. This year he gets a
hit twenty four percent of the time, one of the
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best to do it twenty four percent of the time.
He gets on base thirty one percent of the time.
And like, again, I'm sure, Jay Stu, isn't it about
time for you to motivate Mookie Bets. I think it's
that time. I mean, did it last year. You did
it last year in the playoffs. You called him out
and suddenly you know, the Dodgers turn around, beat the Padres,
go on win the World Series. You haven't said anything
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this year, and hear Mookie Betts hitting two forty five
eleven home runs having a bit of disappointing year.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
I see the correlation. I don't know if you see it, Ryan,
you see it.
Speaker 4 (35:55):
I low.
Speaker 5 (35:56):
I spent a lot on my bandwidth this season fixing Max,
so I'll probably work on that's the second half.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
I appreciate that, but it reminds me of you talk
about the wins. Jase used to work with Jim Rome.
I talked about filling in for Jim Rome when when
Lebron left Cleveland to go to Miami. I was I
was hosting Roma's burning and I had Tommy Lsword on,
and there were two big takeaways from that time of
the Sword of Deal.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
He answered the phone live on air and took the call, Hey,
I'm on Jim Rome.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
With some guy Doug Gottlieb whatever, I'm gonna have to
call it like, you didn't have to answer the phone.
But again, Tommy and Tommy used to always say hitting
baseball's hardest thing to do in sports. He's like, are
you telling me people say golf, or you tell me
an inanimate object is harder to hit than a ninety
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five mile an hour two seemer with late movement. They're
all hard, But I do that hitting a baseball is
probably the hardness. Like you have no chance, zero.
Speaker 4 (37:06):
Zero.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
Like in basketball you couldn't guard anybody. You have no
chance of guarding Lebron or Steph Curry like zero chance.
But if you caught the ball wide open, could you
throw it in the hoop?
Speaker 9 (37:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (37:18):
You could? In baseball, I do think could you feel
the ball that's hit right at you? Sure?
Speaker 1 (37:25):
Could you have depending one if you you've you know,
grew growing up. But hitting a baseball, you have no chance.
Speaker 4 (37:32):
None.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Let's get to the press, the press, what's the oh,
I'll go quickly there. I sorry to pinch you on time.
Speaker 6 (37:49):
Not a problem will summarize because everything comes from the NFL.
And uh, when I say everything, I mean a lot
of money. New York Jets cornerback Sauce guard Or agreed
doing four year, one hundred and twenty million dollar extension
with eighty five million guaranteed, highest paid corner in the league.
Kansas City chiefs guard Tray Smith has agreed to a
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four year, ninety four million dollar extension with seventy million guaranteed,
making them the highest paid guard in NFL history. But
I think the most interesting thing Doug commander star receiver
Terry McLaurin today expressing publicly his disappointment at a lack
of progress with the Commanders on an extension for him.
He says, the two sides have not discussed a possible
extension in over a month, and that's surprising to me
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considering the new commander's identity.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
Throwing the football.
Speaker 6 (38:38):
No, not being evil people.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Oh, I mean, look, I think you can not be
an evil person. I mean, he's he's at the end.
This is the end of his contract, right last year
of his three year, sixteen million dollars deal. You know,
the part of it is NFL players think they're say
they're free agents, but they're really not anything else.
Speaker 6 (39:00):
That's the press.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
That's Ray get out of there and pressed. That was
the press.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
Scary Terry has no contract. Well that's also you know,
they're willing to leverage him all right back tomorrow on
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but your Doug Gottlieb Show, Fox Sports Radio. Hope you're
having a spectacularly good day. I can tell you that
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in northeastern Wisconsin is a hot one kids. Uh, I'll
get I'll get temp for you upcoming, but I'm gonna
guess nineties high in humidity. It is hot and it
is steamy. Whoa hot and steamy is great, great outside. Uh,
(00:48):
if you had if you like it hot, but it's
actually you know when she'd I always thought this about
if you live in the Midwest, you live in the South.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Where it's really really humid.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Even even in the Northeast, grit can get a little
even more muggy and obviously huge rainstorms in New York.
Be safe, be careful. I don't know what's behind all
these torrential rains. I'm not a meteorologist. I'm not a
climate scientist, I don't know, but it's been crazy what's happened,
obviously the tragedy in Texas and in New Mexico as well.
(01:18):
But the one thing it is great for I yesterday
we had our golf tournament and then we had a
little dinner afterwards and raise some money. And then when
I got home, my neighbor's like, hey, you want to
come out in the boat with us? And the kids
went tubing, And I mean it. The thing about you
live somewhere humid, if you get up early to do
some outside, or if you're around late to do some outside,
(01:40):
it's awesome.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Middle of the day not awesome. Not awesome.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Okay, we got a bunch to get to with with
tonight's All Star Game, including wait to hear what Mooie
Bett said is the hardest thing to do in sports
than Doug Landville is going to join us. Doug's been obviously,
was a major league player, longtime Major League baseball Anlyst
got a new website up. We'll talk some baseball, some
All Star getting ready for the second half of the
(02:08):
baseball season. But I want to get back to Scotti
Scheffler's comments if you're just joining us the two time
master winner, three time major champion. Guys, we'll play both
cuts back to back. He was kind of lamenting the
fact that, despite his incredible success in such a short
period time, at twenty nine years old, he finds himself
(02:31):
not really getting the fulfillment he thought he would get
from wins.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Take a listen, it feels like you work your whole
life to celebrate winning a tournament for like a few minutes.
It only lasts a few minutes that kind of euphoric feeling,
like to win the Byron Nelson Championship at home. I
literally worked my entire life to become good at golf
to have an opportunity to win that tournament, and you
win it, You celebrate, get to hug my family, My
(02:57):
sister's there at such an amazing moment, and then it's like, okay,
now what are we going to eat for dinner? You know,
life goes on. This is it great to be able
to win tournaments and to accomplish the things I have
in the game of golf. Yet I mean, it brings
tears my eyes just to think about because it's literally
worked my entire life to become good at this sport
and to have that kind of sense of accomplishment, I
think is a pretty cool feeling. You know, to get
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to live out your dreams, it's very special. But at
the end of the day, it's like, I'm not out
here to inspire the next generation of golfers. I don't
I'm not here to inspire somebody else to be the
best player in the world, because what's the point. You know,
this is not a fulfilling life. It's it's fulfilling from
the sense of accomplishment, but it's not fulfilling from a
sense of like the deepest places of your heart. There's
a lot of people that make it to what they
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thought was going to fulfill them in life, and then
you get there and all of a sudden you get
to number one in the world, and then they're like,
what's the point? I really do believe that, because you know,
what is the point? You're like, why do I want
to win this tournament so bad? That's something that I
wrestle with on a daily basis. It's like showing up
with the Masters every year. It's like, why do I
want to win this golf tournament so badly? Why do
I want to win the Open Chamish so badly. I
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don't know, because if I win, it's gonna be awesome
for about two minutes, and then we're gonna get to
the next week and it's gonna be like, hey, you
want two majors this year? How important is it for
you to win the fex Cup playoffs. It's just like
we're back here again, you know, So we really do.
We work so hard for such little moments, and you know,
I'm kind of sick of I love putting in the work,
I love being able to practice, I love getting out
(04:21):
to live out my dreams. But at the end of
the day, sometimes I just don't understand the point.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
It's an interesting one. Look, I'll share with you this
personal story. Okay, when I I was at ESPN ten years,
nine years in Bristol, and it was really really hard
when I left because and I think ESPN obviously it's interesting.
(04:47):
Now if you say ESPN, there'll be as many negative
comments as there is positive comments. Some of it's fair,
a lot of it's unfair where you're taking you know,
literally every network has gone through this where because politics
has become so unbelievably divisive that if you take the
(05:12):
comments of one and you put it to the whole,
especially as as big as ESPN is, as many people
are on at ESPN that I think there's there's an
unfair negative connotation about the place. But my boss here,
scottis Shapiro, was there at the same time.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
I loved it.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
I loved that I worked at the magazine, I wrote
for dot com. I obviously at college basketball, I had
a radio show. And I started the radio show doing
like a late night seven p to one AM, me
and Chuck Wilson, and we all kind of grew from
there and then I end up having kind of four
to seven the afternoon. And the point is that, like
(05:53):
when I got in, all those people that had come
through as producers and board ops, they kind of grew
and they're now bosses or running radio stations or gone
off and and and become even bigger and brighter and better.
When it was really hard for me to leave, and
I remember I was so excited about doing uh, moving home,
(06:18):
doing the Final four, doing the NCAA tournament. And then
I got done with the first year and I was
in California, but it wasn't as easy and the travel
was way harder, and we were working with people you
didn't know and they didn't know you, and it's a
completely different way of doing the exact same thing you've
done forever, and you're just so uncomfortable. And I came
(06:43):
up with an idea for a book, and the idea
for the book is kind of what Scotti Seffler's saying,
and which is the I was trying to think of,
like the top of the mountain has no chairs, right
because there's no ability. You just don't have the ability
to enjoy your successes. Now, for me, part of it
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was I was doing a radio shows, doing a TV show,
and I was doing college basketball. If I had just
done college basketball and just one the final four, I
have no doubt in my mind I would have really
enjoyed that time.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Off with my summer.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
I you know, my personal life kind of started to,
I don't want to say degrade. I still had I
thought a great perner. Because I was working so much
and striving for more and more and more and more more.
There were things that I wasn't able to do and
I didn't do for my family, for my ex spouse,
and you kind of come to realize that, you know,
(07:39):
one you either have to take ownership of your life
and going, hey, I gotta take time for the people
that I care about and not just for my job.
And then two, you have to have to find a
life partner that embraces that part of you, you know,
because if you're with somebody who doesn't enjoy the climb,
(08:01):
doesn't enjoy the fight, you know, it's like, hey, you won,
You're good, smile, enjoy it, and you know, just cruise
and have a great life. I think I could do that,
but I don't think.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
That's who I am.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
I Jay s dude, you know who Bruce Gilbert is, right.
Bruce used to be our boss a long time ago
at ESPN Radio. He was once spun time the boss
at Fox Sports Trade. I think he runs Westwood Radio
now yeap and and I never get my first year broadcasting.
Bruce called me in and he was just like first
year of ESPN Roscia and he's my radio boss, and
(08:37):
he was like, hey, I got good news and bad news,
and the good news was we you know, I know
you don't really watch that much hockey. You'd never have
to talk hockey again. Every study we've seen, everyone we've
seen says, you know, you talk about hockey on national radio.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Great.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
He's like, Hey, here's the negative is you gotta do
better baseball. You come out of college basketball and at
the time, baseball is incredibly important and we're ow kid
in the Northeast, Red Sox, Yankees, et cetera. And he said,
he said, we start talking about like who you are
as a person, and I said, I'm a more guy.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
He's like, what do you mean.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
I said, I just there's never been a thing in
my life time in my life where I.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Haven't wanted more.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
You know, binge Watching shows is like made for me
because if I watch a show, I gotta watch ten.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
You know.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
One of the reasons I rarely drink is because I
just again I do, I will do things to excess.
I'm not excessive compulsive, but I'm I just. I always
want the next thing. I get an opportunity, I want
another opportunity, I get a chance, I want another chance,
I get a job or another job.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
I make ten. I want twenty.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
And at the time it was this is who I am,
which is great, but there is there can be a
lack of fulfillment with just enjoying the daily w and
enjoying what you the success you have while still pursuing
that excellence. Anyway, when I hear Scotty Scheffler talk about it,
(10:07):
I relate to it. I understand it can be super,
super lonely, it can be super unfulfilling, and you do
feel robotic if you're a process orange a guy and
you're constantly going to practice range like what am I
doing this for?
Speaker 2 (10:25):
But I also will.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Tell you that when you take that competitive event out
of somebody's life, they just search for things to compete with.
And that's when it doesn't. It doesn't work outside the
sports world. I actually think like, hey, Scotty, you know
you should do not go to the Masters next year,
watch it at home or be away from it, and
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that's how you'll know if you're jonesing for it. The
hardest thing for most athletes, that first year is terrible.
And I tell coaches this all the time. I told
Irban Meyer this before he went back and took the
Jacksonville Jaguars job. I was like, hey, if you do games,
this is remember he was ESPN, then he went back,
(11:07):
then he was Fox. Then he went back to the Jaguars, right,
And I was like, if you do games, if you
call games live, you're gonna want to coach. If you're
in the studio, maybe maybe not. But if you're at
the actual stadium, you're at the arena, you're gonna want
to do it. Why because you're a competitor and all
the goosebumps on your arm come up, because you don't
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even care if you're in the losing locker room.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
You just want a chance.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
You just want to scoreboard and a bunch of guys
and a bunch of coaches and try and figure out
how to win. Anyway, I think some of this is
in his wiring, some of it is in generationally that
people are searching for fulfillment at an age in which
that's not really time for fulfillment. And some of it
is in the fact that maybe some of us are
(11:50):
also screwed up in that we just love the competition.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
On a daily basis. That ends my ted talk. Jase too,
what do.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
You think makes sense to me? That's your experience? Absolutely,
I think that the uh. The one thing that I
heard the second time we played the chef or Sound
is that he is telling us that he has either
been to therapy or wants to go to therapy to
resolve whatever it is that disallows him to enjoy the wins,
(12:23):
because I don't think every every athlete is wired this way.
I do think that very few athletes are wired to
be sophisticated enough to articulate it as well as he did.
In other words, I don't have faith in a lot
of athletes articulating that if they feel it. But I
think he's telling us he needs to fix whatever is
preventing him from being fulfilled by these wins.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
H I think, listen, there's a lot of ways in
which people go after fulfillment, right guys. Sometimes it's drugs.
Sometimes as women, sometimes it's you. You keep trying for
that next win, thinking Okay, now I'll feel the fulfillment.
And yeah, I mean therapy is a is a good route.
(13:10):
You mentioned relationships and not having that as a kind
of background or a support system. If you will for
everything he does, I think that would be interesting. I
think also, you know, if you don't want to do it,
if it's not bringing you joy, you don't want to compete, fine,
plenty of dudes that do. I low second time through
what do you hear when you listen to listen.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
To I think that's what made this such a fascinating topic.
But just like Jason, I caught something the second time
that I didn't catch the first time. Of course, what
I caught was a lot more impressive and insightful than
what Jason caught. I'm just trying to just trying to
bust your chops there. It was at the very end
(13:54):
when he basically said, but I still love the I
love the work that goes into it. And to me,
that told me a lot, because, as you mentioned, Doug,
there's so many different types out there. Some people achieve
one thing, they're immediately onto the next thing. I think
(14:15):
there's other people who are in love with the process
and not necessarily the result. And what I'm talking about
is kind of the boring little details of our respective
professions that might seem boring to an outsider, but it's
the kind of thing that people who really love the
(14:35):
process like like for this specific role. This might sound
weird to a lot of other people, but when we
get to Wimbledon and the French Open, I enjoy the
process of trying to track down these wacky pronunciations from
these tennis players from all over the world, like Bulgaria
and Hungary, and I have no idea, but you have
(14:57):
to be able to enj joy those kinds of boring details.
And we've heard athletes throughout our coverage of sports say,
you know, I knew it was time to retire when
I stopped enjoying practice, when I stopped enjoying the preparation
for games. I think people have said, you know, that's
(15:18):
kind of the litmus test. When part of the joy
of sports has been the process and that's taken away,
then you know it's time to move on. And the
second time around, I heard that for Scotti Scheffler, that's
something that he still enjoys, which I didn't really which
didn't really resonate the first time I heard it.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
By the way, he is married, right, I can check
he's married.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
He's married, he says later on it might even be
in the third cut that his wife is exceptionally supportive
and tries to celebrate the wins and thanks him for
working so hard. And you know, when I bring up
that people are unfulfilled who haven't shared love, I'm not
talking about like somebody to support you. That's a very
(16:03):
like egocentric way of looking at right, I get married,
have somebody to support me. If you're not in a
relationship where the love is equal, then that's unfulfilling, you know.
The so I think she's this part of life. She's
probably a great pro golfer wife is missing.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
I don't There's there's part of it where you're like, look,
a pro golfer's life and most of us are like, dude,
really private jets, great hotels. You're playing golf for a living,
but you aren't home, right and even when you're home,
you're not home. And look, I do know it's different.
(16:48):
You're making millions, maybe hundreds of millions of dollars. But
we can relate to the anybody who's been married, like, babe,
I'm gonna go play golf, like what And again, when
he goes and plays golf, it ain't like he's just,
you know, gonna play quick nine. You know, like there's
a whole process to it. And when you have I
think he has a little son, like you do, you
(17:10):
want to be home. But the problem with that is
that all that sounds good, but a real competitor, I
just I think the second you don't have it is
the second you go like what am I doing? I
miss it. I want to be out there. It sucks
to not be home. Here's here's one. Rissillo had a
(17:31):
take and I think it was a long time ago
when he was over at ESPN, and it may have
been an off air take, but I think it was
on air. And his thing was always like, you know,
there's there's always this kind of heroic thing for women
who have a child and they go back to work
and you're like, you have kids. He was like, you
have kids. To me, what's it like to go back
(17:53):
to work? I was like, it sucks. All you want
to do is be home, Like all you want to do, Like,
is those those little moments you get now if you're
at home and you're a stay at home mom and
stay at home dad, You're like, dude, I will trade
with you any time you want, anytime.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
I just want to have adult conversation.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
So again, I fall back on the I am one
of the I don't know if it's one percent, if
it's five percent, if it's ten percent. I don't feel
like I've ever worked a day in my life. And
it's because I truly love everything that I've done. I
haven't loved who I've done. It for or I haven't
(18:35):
less they loved how I've prepared, how I've performed, or
who I've worked with, or who I've worked for, but
just the overall DA I have what I do like.
Dude's awesome, awesome, And I don't know if Scotty is
that guy. He just might be really really good at
it and has done it for a long time. And
the second somebody goes like, hey, you want to do
(18:56):
something else to be like, yeah, but I do think
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Speaker 2 (20:29):
Are you a home run derby guy?
Speaker 9 (20:32):
I am absolutely, I'm enjoying it.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
I had a good time.
Speaker 9 (20:35):
I was on the call last night, and I think
part of it is the awe that you see not
only just as a fan and how far O'Neil Cruz
hits the ball, but watching other major league players, major
League All stars kind of be reduced to their ten
year old selves just watching something that seemed impossible. So
I enjoy that part of it. And you know, family,
you think about Raleigh with his dad and his brother
(20:58):
and a lot of those connections. So for that reason
and those many I do appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
I bring it up just because I don't know, like
it's been going on a while. I thought having the
Big Dumber when it was good, considering the first half
of the season he's had. On the other hand, it
is kind of, you know, it is kind of three
point shooting chucking contest at some point, and it does.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
It can drag a little bit, can drag a little bit.
Speaker 9 (21:25):
Yeah, they were trying to make it a little faster
with the two minutes, but still kept going.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
But yeah, I hear you.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
What I was going to tell you was, oh, I
know it's gonna say, okay, so help me out. Cal Raley.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Do you think he can continue at this pace in
the second half playing catcher?
Speaker 4 (21:47):
I mean, it's hard to do.
Speaker 9 (21:49):
And the reason being you're losing probably twenty pounds. I
know Mike Piazza used to talk about how much weight
he would lose. I know, I lost twenty five pounds
in my first minor league season. It's it's tough to
just keep that energy. And by the way, he has
all these other jobs besides hitting. It's he's managing a staff,
he's in meetings, he's there's so much extra and at
(22:09):
a position that's so violent and you know, foul ball
off the mask, everything's really beating up on your body.
So that's that would be hard. It's not that you know,
he has the if he was playing first base or
d h I say, yeah, sure, he could keep it up.
I think it's just so much harder as a catcher.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Yeah, still kind of remarkable.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
And now he's a catcher, but doing it in Seattle,
where not a hitter's ballpark by any means. The Dodgers,
if you were running the Dodgers, obviously they're pitching staff,
you feel like is going to get healthier, but hit
a tough stretch there at the end of the first
half of the season. Any changes you would.
Speaker 9 (22:49):
Make, Oh, I mean the problem, like many teams are facing,
is just can't stay healthy. And the Dodgers have been
really an extreme end of that spectrum with some of
the real key pictures. I remember the first meeting we
had earlier in the season when we opened with Tiger's Dodgers,
a question came up. David Cohen was like, hey, Dave, like,
(23:10):
how many starters do you have? Like who's He's like,
I know, your top five, who's your six through ten?
You know, And the fact is they had answers six
through ten that were full of all stars and very
capable of pictures that just weren't healthy. So you know,
to me, how do you deal with that? Well, you
do what they did last year. You you kind of
hope that they have enough help to get to the
(23:31):
right position, and then you go and get another arm
or someone to sort of pick it up. I mean,
like Bets and Freeman and guys that have been really
incredible are struggling, and you know, Bets moving from right
field and playing short and that's just sort of like
what you just talked about with Kyle Rally. It's exhausting
to play shortstop exhausting, and you know, he's a great athlete.
(23:53):
He's definitely getting older. That's not easy to keep up.
And he, you know, is he the best option there?
You know, not only because of defense, but because his
offensive productivity. If you can connect those dots, maybe maybe
a problem and maybe sort of hurting him. So they
have to figure that out. But I think they would
(24:13):
have a very different setup if the playoffs started tomorrow.
I think they have very different defensive alignments. Things would
be different because now you're just trying to win one
game out of time.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Doug Gottlieb show here on Fox Sports Trader. That's the
voice of Doug Lanville. Okay, if if we're not, if
we who do you think is the biggest challenger to
the Dodgers. I've asked everybody this just because you know,
there's a good group of National League teams, Cubs, Phillies, Brewers.
(24:45):
You know, you could kind of you go probably six
six deep or so if you had to, you had
to bet your new site Welcome to Glanville on it.
Who would be the biggest competitor of the Dodgers in
the playoffs Phillies.
Speaker 9 (24:57):
I say the Phillies, And because going into the season,
the thing that kept circling around is that they have
a really deep pitching staff, and it's just like any
other team if they stay healthy. You're talking about you know,
six starters and guys. And this is Dave Dombroski right there,
the front off or head of baseball operation. Dave Dombroski
is very aggressive at the trade deadline, very aggressive and
(25:20):
getting star power, very aggressive and getting pitchers that have
swing and miss and velocity and always goes out and
gets an extra starter just in case. So with that mentality,
and you know, you're hitting Schwerber, Harper, whoever, all these
really good bats, Trade Turner having a good year at
you know, this is the year where if those guys
are at their best and they get the arms, then
(25:41):
the Dodgers have to contend with the team that has
you know, three starters easily in the postseason, plus two
guys that can come in the bullpen and change roles.
That is really something that a lot of teams don't have,
so they can prevent runs and they can score runs.
So that's I'd say that's a big challenge for the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Yes, Doug Gottlie's show on Fox Sports Radio, speaking of
the National League, where are you and Mezrawski being in
the All Star Game.
Speaker 9 (26:09):
Yeah, well what I the way I think of it
is this way. Yeah, five games not much of a
body of work, obviously, So that's that's not you know.
I mean, I know Paul schemes and there's others that
didn't necessarily have like a full season. I don't put
a lot on the kid. It's not his fault.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
You know.
Speaker 9 (26:26):
These guys an electric arm And there's no doubt baseball
is trying hard to appeal to younger audiences and having
young talent that's on display makes a big difference because
they can see themselves like, oh yeah, this guy's exciting.
It's like Pete crow Armstrong. Kids fall he like the
Pied Piper. Kids follow him everywhere, and that's good for
the next generation of the game. So, but it does
(26:47):
not make you an All Star, you know, that's whether
you know, that's the question. And when you have Trey
Turner or guys we just mentioned Christopher Sanchez that have
had really good full halves or close to it, you know,
that's hard when you know there's so many other team
and players that were bonifide full time All Stars. That's
the question for me. I look back at my own
(27:07):
career ninety eight ninety nine had really good first halves.
There was sort of like a Jacob Wilson, a lot
of hits, not a lot of powers, full some bases
played defense, and I, you know, and I realized that
if the wind blew another direction, maybe I could have
gotten in those two years. And so that's how close
a lot of players are just by just you know,
playing every single game of the first half. So with Miserosky,
(27:29):
it's very hard because he just says five games. I mean,
that's just not a lot. He could have two bad
starts in a row and have a six CRA. I mean,
that's how fragile those numbers are. But we're in an
era where it's much more when you think about player advancement,
who gets called up, who gets drafted, who gets advanced,
it's a lot to do with metrics. It's not as
much like, oh, you hit three seventeen in the minors.
(27:50):
You look the part, you have, the data you have
and it sort of plays at the big league level.
And so it's not as much about like, oh, you
hit this certain number, and I think mis Roski is
the guy that has the arm. You're not worried about
his era or what it could be. You're looking at
a guy throwing one hundred and two miles an hour
and blowing major league hidders away.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Yeah, yep, I hear it.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Stug Gottlieb Show on Fox Sports Radio. Okay, let's go,
let's go over to the American League. In your mind,
biggest question the team, biggest question heading into the second
half of the season in the American League is.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
What as a whole league or by by team, by like.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
One team, sorry.
Speaker 9 (28:33):
That well, okay, Detroit Tigers is this is a team
that is just running people over and they're doing.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
It in a way they would never have.
Speaker 9 (28:42):
Said was going to be the way, right they because
we saw them opening day A J. Hinchster manager was like,
you know, we're kind of run for prevention. We have
a young team. We're going to outpitch you and my
thirteen guys are going to beat your nine. Like that's
that's how he kind of laid it out.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
Well, they've ended up being a.
Speaker 9 (29:00):
Better offensively, and you know Riley Green just you know
Baias just you know, back from the dead and you
have just incredible performances offensively that you have the question
of can they sustain it? They're going to ask that
question from an offensive standpoint, So do they go get
a big bat? So that's a big question for me,
because they get a big back like a O Suarez
(29:21):
or something like that. Now you're looking at a team
they're like, oh wait a minute, that's that puts them
in sort of Yankee land, right, And and the Yankees
still I think have tremendous you know, their their offense
also could use Suarez as every other team, but they
they have those question marks if they stay healthy and
they have to pitch. But they have a lot of
(29:41):
experienced bats that are productive. So I see them as
much more stable on that side of the equation. But
the Tigers just they out maneuver you. They're they're just
really good. So I see those two teams, as you know,
in the in the category of punching at each other.
And then do not forget the Houston Asters because they
flat out pitch Hunter Brown not getting a lot of
(30:03):
enough love because it's Eric Scooble who's great watch out
because they shut you down. It's hard to score off
of their bullpen.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Yeah, I mean circling back to the Tigers and struggle
they get swept by the Mariners right for the break
and uh and they get they get some they got
they got tough road swing to start the second half
of the season. Doug, tell me about the site real quick,
Welcome to Glendell.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
Yeah, well, it's a it's a writing side. You know.
Speaker 9 (30:26):
I came into the ESPAN and other places by writing,
and uh, it's hard today to kind of have a
consistent sort of column because there's so much noise, there's
so much going on, and I wanted to get back
to the roots of writing consistently. And the thing is,
I wanted to share with an audience that I'm a
fan too, and we're all fans in this together. I
still love the game, and so I wanted to create
(30:47):
a place where I'm writing stories about the game that
aren't just like breaking news or hot topics, but just
about like the deeper dives into you know, experiences. So
whether it's you know, Pete Rose and getting you know,
a pathway through getting into the Hall of Fame, whether
today I'm going to write a piece about the color
Wars that were the seventies and eighties and all Star
games that were vibrant and colors and you know, I
(31:09):
talk about the bulletin board that was over my bed
to have an autograph picture of Bob Boon, and I
just go back to, you know, stories that are just
personal with the humanity of the game at the center.
And most important, it's interactive. So I want to hear
from fans. I want to hear from people because I'm
a fan. I'm just like fanning out with everybody. And
it's done well, you know, and you can subscribe. It's
(31:29):
a newsletter format, so you go on, you enter your
email and there's a free subscription and if you love it,
you can do the paid and get some additional content.
But you know, I just welcome you into the world
of land though that's the name of my town. Name
kind of thing, and it's about baseball. It's about fandom,
but it's also where baseball impacts way beyond things outside
the lines.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Doug, you're the best man. I can't wait to check
out the site. I know you enjoy the game. Let's
do this again as the second half the season gets
ready to get started. Thanks for our guest and Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
All right, Doug, thank you, Thanks for listening to.
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Speaker 6 (32:16):
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Speaker 2 (32:20):
It's Doug Gottlieb Show, Fox Sports Radio. I've had. It's funny.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
We're talking about the you know, the Scottie Scheffler thing
all day, and I do think it's important. While I
can relate, I don't necessarily understand the like you won
the Masters, who doesn't want to go win another one?
Speaker 4 (32:42):
Right?
Speaker 1 (32:42):
This goes in direct contrast. This is what I'm talking
about in terms of Generation X, Generation Z is what's
the famous line from Tom Brady, Jay Stu, Ryan Ilo,
what's his favorite super Bowl?
Speaker 2 (32:59):
You guys know his same is line, I cheated the
next one.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
The next one, Oh, the next one? What's your favorite
super Bowl? The next one? That's how the people that
I have grown up around associated with gravitate towards That's
kind of what Kobe Bryant has talked about. You know,
he you know guys that are driven like that, it
(33:25):
can be lonely, it can feel really weird around people
that are not. And I do think that this younger
generation maybe they have a better wherewithal better understanding of things,
and they don't take things as seriously. It doesn't mean
as much to them, or maybe they're missing out on
what what how people like Tom Brady.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
See it.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
So that that's what crosses my mind when you hear
Scheffler talk about it. Right, but what's the what's the
hardest thing to do in sports?
Speaker 4 (33:57):
Well?
Speaker 1 (33:57):
I think the artist can do is win. But uh,
this is from Up and Smoke podcast. Mookie Betts was
on it and this was his response.
Speaker 4 (34:05):
Is hitting the baseball and hardest thing sports?
Speaker 2 (34:08):
I think it's.
Speaker 10 (34:09):
Yeah, I think it's by farther.
Speaker 4 (34:11):
I think that and being a cornerback in football.
Speaker 10 (34:13):
Oh, I'm sure corner like that's a different athlete.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
Yeah, that's right. That's the two hardest positions in sports
to me. I mean, two hardest things to do would
be a cornerback and hit a baseball.
Speaker 10 (34:23):
Yeah, I feel like you have a better chance. Now,
I'm not debating anything. You have a better chance looking
up in the quarterback making a bad throw or something
and stopping the receiver. There is no chance you're getting
lucky to hit a baseball. Baseball is like I do
it every day, and now I'll be hitting that thing.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
It's a great point that he makes, right.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
It's like here here, Mookie Bets is, Mookie Bets is
an elite, elite baseball player, right, However, you want to
rank him in the game of Major League baseball, like
he's in any conversation of the top ten players in
Major League baseball. So, by his own admission, like, Mookie Betts,
(35:04):
great player. But when he strides to the plate at
the Ravine on this weekend when they take on the Brewers,
and here's Mookie Betts, who we all think is outstanding,
and he hits the ball. This year he gets a
hit twenty four percent of the time, one of the
(35:26):
best to do it twenty four percent of the time.
He gets on base thirty one percent of the time.
And like, again, I'm sure, Jay Stu, isn't it about
time for you to motivate Mookie Bets. I think it's
that time. I mean, did it last year. You did
it last year in the playoffs. You called him out
and suddenly you know, the Dodgers turn around, beat the Padres,
go on win the World Series. You haven't said anything
(35:47):
this year, and hear Mookie Betts hitting two forty five
eleven home runs having a bit of disappointing year.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
I see the correlation. I don't know if you see it, Ryan,
you see it.
Speaker 4 (35:55):
I low.
Speaker 5 (35:56):
I spent a lot on my bandwidth this season fixing Max,
so I'll probably work on that's the second half.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
I appreciate that, but it reminds me of you talk
about the wins. Jase used to work with Jim Rome.
I talked about filling in for Jim Rome when when
Lebron left Cleveland to go to Miami. I was I
was hosting Roma's burning and I had Tommy Lsword on,
and there were two big takeaways from that time of
the Sword of Deal.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
He answered the phone live on air and took the call, Hey,
I'm on Jim Rome.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
With some guy Doug Gottlieb whatever, I'm gonna have to
call it like, you didn't have to answer the phone.
But again, Tommy and Tommy used to always say hitting
baseball's hardest thing to do in sports. He's like, are
you telling me people say golf, or you tell me
an inanimate object is harder to hit than a ninety
(36:52):
five mile an hour two seemer with late movement. They're
all hard, But I do that hitting a baseball is
probably the hardness. Like you have no chance, zero.
Speaker 4 (37:06):
Zero.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
Like in basketball you couldn't guard anybody. You have no
chance of guarding Lebron or Steph Curry like zero chance.
But if you caught the ball wide open, could you
throw it in the hoop?
Speaker 9 (37:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (37:18):
You could? In baseball, I do think could you feel
the ball that's hit right at you? Sure?
Speaker 1 (37:25):
Could you have depending one if you you've you know,
grew growing up. But hitting a baseball, you have no chance.
Speaker 4 (37:32):
None.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Let's get to the press, the press, what's the oh,
I'll go quickly there. I sorry to pinch you on time.
Speaker 6 (37:49):
Not a problem will summarize because everything comes from the NFL.
And uh, when I say everything, I mean a lot
of money. New York Jets cornerback Sauce guard Or agreed
doing four year, one hundred and twenty million dollar extension
with eighty five million guaranteed, highest paid corner in the league.
Kansas City chiefs guard Tray Smith has agreed to a
(38:09):
four year, ninety four million dollar extension with seventy million guaranteed,
making them the highest paid guard in NFL history. But
I think the most interesting thing Doug commander star receiver
Terry McLaurin today expressing publicly his disappointment at a lack
of progress with the Commanders on an extension for him.
He says, the two sides have not discussed a possible
extension in over a month, and that's surprising to me
(38:32):
considering the new commander's identity.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
Throwing the football.
Speaker 6 (38:38):
No, not being evil people.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Oh, I mean, look, I think you can not be
an evil person. I mean, he's he's at the end.
This is the end of his contract, right last year
of his three year, sixteen million dollars deal. You know,
the part of it is NFL players think they're say
they're free agents, but they're really not anything else.
Speaker 6 (39:00):
That's the press.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
That's Ray get out of there and pressed. That was
the press.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
Scary Terry has no contract. Well that's also you know,
they're willing to leverage him all right back tomorrow on
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