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August 20, 2025 • 16 mins

Doug riffs on the Yankees and the state of baseball. Doug reacts to Brady Quinn's take on Anthony Richardson. Doug chooses among deserving candidates Jason Stewart deems as most annoying today. Plus, Greg Olsen makes today's installment of "Because We Can".

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

Speaker 2 (00:09):
What up, Doug Gottlieb Show, Fox Sports Radio. iHeartRadio app O, Man,
I hope you're just having the greatest day ever, right,
the greatest day ever. I was watching the Yankees last
night and they hit nine home runs in a game,
and while it was unbelievably impressive, you're like, holy cow,

(00:31):
it does show something that I don't know if it's
actually matter of fact, I know it's not actually a positive.
What is that? What's that? The Yankees are built for
a different generation of the sport? You know, you watch
the Brewers have the best record in baseball, and it's
not just they're doing it with a lot of guys

(00:51):
you don't know who they are. Their whole team is athletic.
Putting the ball in play playing small is not just
in vogue. It's part of how the game has evolved,
evolved or whatever. And yeah, you can hit nine home
runs in a night and no one's going to beat you.
But the reality is that that's not how you win

(01:13):
baseball games in the playoffs. If you're just dependent upon
your power, you know, power pitching beats power hitting seemingly
every winter, you know, every time we get to October,
and obviously the World Series being ending in November, and
I just I watched the Yankees play and they're really good.
But what's missing is the the athleticism of the other teams,

(01:39):
the younger teams, the ones who have more quickly changed
to this current format of base play, Like why is
it so different? Well, you don't have the shift, you
have a pitch clock, you know, I mean those two things,
and the bigger bases makes stealing bases easier. So in order,

(02:00):
if you don't have the shift, that means fielders have
to cover more ground. With the pitch clock, that means
you can't be as precise. And I just look at
the Angels, they see me Yankees, and I think the
reason they although they'll make the playoffs, but they may
they'll disappoint in the regular season is because the league,
because of their rules, has mandated how you should play,

(02:22):
and that does not fit with While the Yankees are built,
let's get to the Fox set.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
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Speaker 2 (02:36):
Let's get to the Foxys and now every day, this
time the Doug Gottlieb Show in the Bonus Podcast played
for your previous portion of a previous show on Fox
Sports Radio or Fox Sports One. Here's Brady Quinny said
this about the decision to bench Anthony Richardson.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
Shane Seichin wouldn't have to go any further than just
talking about his issues being able to complete passes and
move of this sticks. I mean there he's completing like
forty two percent of his pass on third down. So
for as great of a talent as he is and
as much upside as there still is, and he's twenty
three years old, he is younger than like Tyler Schuck

(03:15):
just got drafted in the NFL. You could probably name
off six seven other quarterbacks who maybe have either been
in the league for a year or just got drafted league.
He's younger. Then That's what's wild is he still has
so much potential ability. The problem is they just don't
have time for him to develop, meaning Shane Steike and
Chris Ballard, don't you know, even though it's still keeping

(03:35):
in the family with mister Jim Irsey passing away, it's
still someone else in a different ownership group in control.
And if you think they don't want to put their
stamp on it, you're out of your mind.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
Yeah, I'm I don't think Danny Dimes puts his stamp
on it. I just don't that. Daniel Jones is not
a put a stamp about it. Daniel Jones is Shaneestyke
and going, all right, what's it going to take to
help me win games? That's my personal opinion. Here's Dan

(04:10):
Patrick talking about Major League Baseball's potential expansion and realignment plans.

Speaker 4 (04:14):
The commissioner talking about realignment here because there's certain rivalries
the Giants and the Dodgers always have to play against
one another. But the commissioner is saying, maybe we don't
have an American league in a National League. Maybe we
just look at Territorial where the Mets and the Yankees
are in the same division, and maybe the Phillies and
the Red Sox are in that as well. But that's

(04:37):
a must have now. And they're also talking, you know,
Cubs and the Cardinals, that's a must have. Do you
have Seattle and San Francisco and Oakland and then who
else in there, and then if you're going to add
for this is what's being loosely discussed with baseball Portland, Nashville,

(04:57):
Charlotte and Montreal. That's what baseball's looking at those locations.
But if you have four divisions, eight teams, then you're
trying to figure out what's it going to look like.
They don't accidentally float this out. The Commissioner doesn't go
on the mothership and start talking about the potential to

(05:19):
basically turn baseball into the NBA and NHL, because that's
what they have. They have the geographical rivalries there, and
maybe that's where baseball is headed.

Speaker 2 (05:29):
I think it'd be fantastic if they could do this.
They talk about having the Angels, Dodgers, Padres, and Diamondbacks
in the same division. Obviously it would eliminate American and
National League or change dramatically American and National League. You know,
it's very easy to take shots at baseball. It took
them forever to get a lot of the stuff, and

(05:49):
they still don't have the robo umps. That doesn't go
in effect till next year. But to those of us
to pay attention and really love the game, it's gotten faster,
it's gotten more athletic.

Speaker 5 (06:00):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
Putting guys on base matters again. Heck, even the I
didn't love the idea of putting a guy on second
basis start extra innings. I think that works. It speeds
that up as well. So my point is that this
is a dramatic change that's potential or maybe even likely
for Major League Baseball. And the fact they're taking those chances,
I think tells you that Benfred has been a transformational

(06:22):
leader and it's been for the better, been for the better.
That's what the Fox said.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
Say. Be sure to catch live editions of The Doug
Gottlieb Show weekdays at three pm Eastern noon Pacific on
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Speaker 2 (06:40):
Let's find out who what's annoying Jason Stewart.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
And now it's your annoying.

Speaker 5 (06:52):
A Doug A Doug A Doug Yeah yeah. Miles Garrett
spoke to the media today. It was actually pretty entertained.
The reporter starts by asking which sound do we have? Sound?
Do we have the actual sound or the the abridged one.
It's a it's a pretty comical exchange here. Remember Miles

(07:16):
Garrett was cited for going over one hundred. This is
after I think he flipped his Porsche a couple of
years ago. Anyways, this was an exchange today at practice.
What is it like to be in that card and
seeing that it's phenominant freaking.

Speaker 6 (07:34):
Up toward one, I'd honestly rather talk about football on
his team than anything I'm doing off field, other than
the back to school no event that I did the
other day. But still, I mean, people want to know,
want to know about that.

Speaker 2 (07:50):
People want to know a lot of things.

Speaker 5 (07:52):
So this is what I find most entertaining about this,
and actually kind of sad he's not there to talk
about the being cited for going one hundred. I do
like the fact that the reporter was very creative. He's like,
what's the animal? The old trying to avoid an animal,
And then you flash forward to the last contract negotiation.
He told the city of Cleveland that they can't win

(08:16):
a super Bowl there and he is cutting ties and
thanks for the good times, only to sign the biggest
contract in NFL history for an NFL lineman. So I
will say this, there is almost never accountability with him,
and even I guess if he did say something today,
we probably shouldn't believe it. I think it's pretty despicable,

(08:37):
to be honest, and it's not becoming of a leader.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
Oh, I don't think there's any question. Again. You know,
Miles Garrett is an unbelievable talent and athlete, but he
just I just find it stunning that And I guess
this is what is It's it's talent privilege, right, He's
so talented that nobody calls him out in his bullshit,

(09:05):
and we're calling him out in his bullshit, and I
do I would agree with you too. That was an
incredibly clever and creative way to talk about him driving
his car way too fast. But there's there's never been
any amount of accountability for Miles Garrett. Just isn't, so
it is to be expected.

Speaker 5 (09:24):
I don't know who agent Derek Jackson is. I don't
know the name, So that's probably a good indication that
he probably doesn't have a lot of clients. He might
it might be like a Jerry maguire situation where his
only client in the world is Anthony Richardson. That would
explain this comment from Anthony Richardson's agent saying we have

(09:49):
a lot to discuss. Trust is a big factor. Anthony
came back and made improvements. By all accounts, had a
great camp, and he he doesn't know about his client's
future in Indianapolis, which is really funny because the NFL
is a true meritocracy. If you earn something that in

(10:10):
other words, the coach is not incentivized to play somebody
worse than your client. So it's really funny how you
don't know about the future of your client in a
city where he failed to be the starting quarterback. I
can only imagine, and I hope so that this guy
is like a one stop shop agent, because you're not

(10:30):
hearing this from one of these major agencies.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
Well, I mean, what's he supposed to do. He's on
the payroll of the guy, so he's got it. He's
got to make him into the victim. But I do
agree with you. It's not the strongest look in the world,
you know, not the strongest look in the world.

Speaker 5 (10:47):
But there seems to be a There seems to be
an implication of a conspiracy.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
Oh yeah, of course, couldn't just be that his client's
not healthy. When he is healthy, he's not good enough
at this point, So shames it has to win games
this year, this is the same thing, like Shane Saiking
has to win games, and everybody liked to make it
work with Anthony Richardson. And oh yeah, by the way,
if Anthony richard just sits there, sit tight, like there's

(11:13):
a strong likelihood he'll get that shot this year. But yeah,
I mean, everything's becomes conspiracy. Ines that have Maybe it's
just that, you know, maybe it's just not good enough.

Speaker 5 (11:24):
Speaking of conspiracy to keep a quarterback off the field. Allegedly,
Colin Kaepernick and Spike Lee did a documentary that was
supposed to air on ESPN. Mysteriously over the last week,
that documentary has concluded its production and will not air
on ESPN. It really reminds me of the playmaker's decision

(11:48):
back in the day where ESPN put a NIX on
a show that showed unflattering things about the NFL, with
the NFL buying the NFL network, or the NFL get
in business with the with the ESPN. This this makes
a lot of sense. Why would you put like maybe
the biggest thorn in your side? Why would you put

(12:09):
an entire documentary about his life story on your biggest
rights holder. But everyone involved in this project denies that
that was the case that it had to do with
the NFL ESPN thing. They're citing creative differences, and I
call bullshit on that.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
I knew you would. I you know, I've read some
things where it wasn't any good. I saw the previous
there's a previous concap Nick documentary, which is I thought awful.
So yeah, I mean, like, listen, if Spike Lee can't
make it good, it might just not be a good story,
or the story might be better. And I also think,

(12:52):
if we're honest, like the pendulum has swung right where
we were in twenty twenty two, probably when this thing
got greenlit in two thousand twenty one, to now is
a dramatic sea change. But I and I also think
the Kaepernick story, it's been told a million times over.
No one is switching their perspective on Colin Kaepernick. In

(13:13):
twenty twenty five. I mean, oh my gosh, Now you
know what I'm going to change how I thought about
Colin Kaepernick because I saw a new docu, Spike Lee documentary, Like, no,
it's you know, Spike Lee makes it. It's Kaepernick. The
anti NFL people and the people who think that there's
there is a conspiracy to keep him out of the NFL.

(13:34):
It will only make make them feel that way to
a second, you know, two times more, and everybody else
just won't watch. So I understand how it looks. I
think we'd be lying if we didn't say the pendulum
has kind of swung. And we also it's like the
con Kaepernick story, we're kind of in this middle ground now.

(13:56):
It happened a while ago, but it's not a story
that people don't know, and it's not a story that
hasn't already been told. Well.

Speaker 5 (14:03):
But the good thing is for those that were hopeful
of this, the agent or the team Kaepernick took this
took advantage of this publicity to say that Colin Kaepernick
is still training every day for his chance to play
in the NFL, which, as we've stated on this podcast,
I've stated, at least I don't think that he has

(14:24):
any interest in returning that him his role as a
victim in this whole thing is much more profitable. But anyways,
so we have the Kaepernick doc story, we got the
Anthony Richardson agent story, and Miles Garrett being asked what
it's like to approach one hundred miles an hour.

Speaker 2 (14:45):
I think Miles Garrett is the most annoying, right just
because at no point in anything he said, through all
of those different anti whatever statements, has there been contrition.
And this one was an easy one. The reporter was
trying to be clever and uh, he wouldn't bite in

(15:10):
an effort to be defensive, and he kind of sounds
like a jerk. So I'm gonna say, Miles Garrett is
a nice.

Speaker 1 (15:21):
Why are we doing this?

Speaker 6 (15:23):
I do.

Speaker 1 (15:26):
Because we can.

Speaker 5 (15:29):
Greg Olsen is a color analyst for Fox Sports, NFL
and Fox Sports, and he said a bad word on
a podcast recently.

Speaker 7 (15:38):
There's countless times a year where I hang up off
of some coaches conference meeting and I'm like, I get
why Sean mcvayh wins a lot, I get why Kevin
O'Connell wins a lot.

Speaker 1 (15:46):
And there's a million guys.

Speaker 7 (15:48):
And then you also get off some other calls and
you're like, they have no clue that they're just making
shit up, like they're just they're just and it's it's
amazing at the NFL level, but that's real.

Speaker 2 (16:00):
That's true. I think, Look, Greg Olsen, I don't love
Greg Olsen complaining about being bumped off the top spot.
I mean, the reality is he got elevated to the
top spot partially because he's very good, but a lot
of it was because of timing and when Troy had
been left. Otherwise he wouldn't have been there. But please

(16:21):
don't let that take away from I think he's excellent,
and I think that within podcasts he's in tune with
what's really going on in the NFL, and that's something
I value. Why can we play for you? Because we can't.
That's it for the end of the Modus podcast. You
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