September 20, 2025 • 10 mins
Originally aired on September 20th, 2025. Doug's hilarious interview with Chris Hodge, for your listening pleasure.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Nine thirty six on Sports Talk seven ninety The Dug
Pike Show. Thanks for listening. That's got a text message
from Glenn Childressover at Memorial He said, Hey, good friend
of mine plays in Friday Rax at Royal Oaks in Dallas.
Scheffler shot sixty yesterday with a bogie. Oh my lord,
(00:20):
that guy's on another planet. Those Ryder Cup people better
get out of his way. Man. All right, let me
get to this click of a button and magically will
appear mister Chris Hodge from taking Sports Investors Daily.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
How you doing, man? I mean, he could shoot his
sixty in a practice round, but we got the Ryder
Cup coming up. Man, make sure he shoots it then
when it matters. That's good. What you're doing a practice route?
Speaker 1 (00:44):
He just wasted.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
We had alan I was in practice. We're talking about practice.
They go by the.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Way, senator basketball player.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Now the Ryder Cup is literally thirty seconds from my house.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Can you sneak in even War two? You know, you
know how I feel about human beings. I can't stand them.
I don't want to be around a million people.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
The good point there are going to be a few
people there huh.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Oh, there's gonna be a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Does this just annoy the heck out of you that
all these people are converging on your little neighborhoods.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
I don't care about that, man. They got to go,
you know, watch the tournament, and it's good for the
town and make a lot of money. What I care
about is the people that block the roads off, that
don't realize that you live right up the block and
they won't let you go. And that's just annoying. Like
you've seen me now for two days, buddy, you know
I live up the block. What are you doing? But
you know that's the only thing that's annoying about it.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Well, all right, so what's annoying to me is that
the Texans are two oh and two. What's going on
with my poor football team?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
You know, I think you guys are okay, I really do.
I said this on the show last week. Look, the
Tampa Bay game was a tough loss. You guys pretty
much had that wrapped up. You get the lay touchdown
by Chubb and then you know you had them at
fourth and tent. Yeah, and you guys called the Great
Blitz and I don't know who the Rusher was that
team that looped around, but he completely whipped on Mayfield.
Mayfield made a play and they go down and win
(02:09):
the game. I mean, when that goes when it'saw said
and done, that goes down as a tough loss. But
now it's make or break. Now you got to go
to Jacksonville, like you can't lo's the Jacksonville this week.
Jacksonville just lost to a team that was playing without
their starting quarterback for three quarters. Lord, okay, so you
have to go beat that football team. But for Houston,
I'm sure you guys have talked about this a lot.
(02:29):
You guys got to figure out a way to run
the ball. Like the offensive line not doing a good job,
and just this poor kid Stroud is running for his life,
doesn't have any holes to run through. So if you
can figure out a way to run the ball with
that defense that you have, you guys are gonna be Okay.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Okay, here's a team we can both agree to. Not
like I'm maybe you won't. You probably don't care. What's
wrong with Are the Cowboys ever gonna win anything? Again?
Speaker 2 (02:53):
No? Man, it's not that I don't like the Cowboys.
I mean it is, but well, you shouldn't like them
back based on where you are. I guess I should
have liked them either from New York. But you know,
you have to start at some point. You know, money
buys people out of a lot of things, and I
think money has bought Jerry Jones out of a lot
(03:13):
of criticism. I really believe that because for any team,
forget that he's the owner, right, throw that out the window.
If you had a general manager of a football team
for thirty years now and they have not gotten to
an NFC championship game, yeah, I don't know how many
gms survived that. Because he has the money and he's
(03:35):
the owner and he writes the checks. Yeah he survives it.
But hey, look they were dead to rights against the
Giants team who is terrible, and the Giants gave up
a sixty yard field goal to lose a game again,
right or that pushed the game into overtime. But you know,
Dallas is not you know, I don't think they're going anywhere.
Will they ever win again? Maybe God smiles on him
one of these days, but I don't think they winning
(03:55):
this year or next year.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Okay, back to the Ryder Cup real quickly, do you
do you guys do anything with golf or is that
just we do?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Okay, yeah, we do, And I actually I hate I
hate what we're using. I do because you know me
for years. I take my emotion out of it, and
I take my rooting interest out of it. I believe
that the Europe team is simply better than the United
States team. Now, the United States team might have the
best player, right, sheffer is the best player. That's it, right,
(04:25):
He's the best player, but the best team. You know,
if Sheffick can line up twelve, but he's got to
play them head to head. No, we bet them, right,
they are all good. But to get Europe right now
at plus one point fifty, I just think there's a
better value there. And look, I would like the Americans
to win. I don't think they're going to, so you know,
(04:46):
money's money, So speaking, Europe is to play there.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
One more real quick and I'll let you go. I
know you're working hard this morning. Speaking of wish it
worked out a different way. The Astro is gonna make
it or not.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
I hope not. I'm rooting against I know that, but
I'm rooting for the worst possible thing to happen because
I'll tell you why this is. This is from a
petty This is from a petty New York Yankee fan.
I'm being petty right now. I don't want to see
you guys in the playoffs. I'm sick of losing to you,
so if someone else can knock you out, because if
(05:19):
the Astros play the Yankees in the playoffs, somehow, some way,
the Astros are going to beat the Yankees. Who know
that aggravation right happens every year. So I'm flat out.
We're on We're on Houston Radio, and I know you
guys are gonna hate me down here. I am rooting
for the Mariners in this series. I'm glad they won
last night. I hope they sweep you, and I hope
they get you the hell out of there, because if
(05:39):
they don't and you guys end up in and somehow
see the Yankees, I don't want to deal with the nonsense.
It's gonna happen again.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
You know that's fair. I've known you for so long.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Is that honest? It is?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
That's about as honest as you could best. Brutally honest,
but it's it's legit and it's passion, and that's what
sports is built on you know, everybody's got.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
To The Yankees are the only team that I root for,
and every year we see you guys, we lose no
one else. Yeah, so someone else go take care of you.
And nothing against the Astros, great run organization. I always
thought that nonsense with the signs was ridiculous because every
(06:21):
team time team and this is this is from a
New Yorker, right, that was all nonsense. No one cared.
Great organization. Well run, and I'll rove against you. I
don't know how to stay.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
I just can't wait to see the Yankees in the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Now it looks like they played Boston first round, and
that's a whole other issue.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Yeah, yeah, they get.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Past all the issues because you got to deal with
those people we gave.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
We gave Boston a good third baseman, you did, you know,
But honestly, when we started the season, I didn't see yeah,
and people started getting hurt. The people who were coming
in were legitimate ballad replacements. But we're so thin now
everybody's getting dinged up and knocked out. I just don't
(07:07):
know if we're gonna get past it.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
I really don't, you know what so so baseball has
become what a lot of other other sports have become,
and that's just get into the playoffs. Yeah right, it
never was that way. Like usually the best team in baseball,
you know, was going to either play in the LCS
or at least make it to the World Series and
then you know, whatever happens happens. Right now, baseball has
gone to you're gonna see teams with in the mid
(07:31):
eighties with wins, low eighties with wins get in and like,
you take a team like the New York Mets, and
I hate the Mets, I cannot stand them, but that
team gets in the playoffs. Okay, the pitching staff is struggling,
but they have a great lineup and Soto was hot
right now. So if that team gets in, who the
heck wants to deal with them? And they're gonna get
in with eighty four wins when that would have never
(07:53):
happened before. So right now baseball is just get in
the Astros. If the Astros get in, the Astro have
as good a shot as anyone in that American league
come out. That's a good Who's the favorite in the
American League? Toronto? Oh lord, no, Detroit can't win a
game right now, the Yankees can't beat the Astros, forget
the Red Sox. Who's the like you know it'll scare you.
(08:16):
I don't think Seattle scares you, guys. I mean, who
scares you?
Speaker 1 (08:18):
You're so right about that eighty game thing, because just
winning half your games would have never gotten you into
the playoffs. But it's because we were sending so many
teams to the playoffs. Now they don't have to. They
can they can sandbag a little through the year and
just limp along and then about the last thirty forty games,
really work it up and squeak in at the last,
(08:44):
you know, the last wildcard spot, and that team probably
got as good as shot as the rest.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Of them, good a shot as any. And personally, I
don't know where people fall with this. I don't personally
like it. I don't like their NFL went to seven games.
I understand why they did it because it keeps more
fan bases activated as the season good because if you're
a fan of Cincinnati and there's not six teams that
made the playoffs, you're out, so you're not watching the
(09:08):
last two or three weeks. So I get it from
a money standpoint, but from a product standpoint, man, I
always want to see the best play the best. I
don't want to see some team with eighty two wins
that just gets hot for three weeks and there you're
a champion. Or they knock someone out that has no
business being knocked out. I don't agree with that, But
like we said earlier with the europe Pick, money is money,
(09:29):
so they're gonna do it for money. I'm just what
it is.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
People will watch a playoff game faster than they'll watch
the one hundred and sixty first game to get the
last walkard spot.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
That is one hundred percent correct.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
All right, Chris, thank you man. Always a pleasure, my friend.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
It's gonna be with you. Guys. Have a great day.
Go go Marinors tonight. That's my that's my parting shot, right,
Go Mariners later.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Holy cow, he's a businessman and he doesn't like the
Astros because he's right. If we see the Yankees, we'll
beat him somehow. If that ever changes, I will never
hear the end of it either. He and I talk
pretty often, and I will never hear the end of it.
We got to take a quick break, Holy cow, We're
almost at the end of the road. Here,
Nine thirty six on Sports Talk seven ninety The Dug
Pike Show. Thanks for listening. That's got a text message
from Glenn Childressover at Memorial He said, Hey, good friend
of mine plays in Friday Rax at Royal Oaks in Dallas.
Scheffler shot sixty yesterday with a bogie. Oh my lord,
(00:20):
that guy's on another planet. Those Ryder Cup people better
get out of his way. Man. All right, let me
get to this click of a button and magically will
appear mister Chris Hodge from taking Sports Investors Daily.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
How you doing, man? I mean, he could shoot his
sixty in a practice round, but we got the Ryder
Cup coming up. Man, make sure he shoots it then
when it matters. That's good. What you're doing a practice route?
Speaker 1 (00:44):
He just wasted.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
We had alan I was in practice. We're talking about practice.
They go by the.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Way, senator basketball player.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Now the Ryder Cup is literally thirty seconds from my house.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Can you sneak in even War two? You know, you
know how I feel about human beings. I can't stand them.
I don't want to be around a million people.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
The good point there are going to be a few
people there huh.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Oh, there's gonna be a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Does this just annoy the heck out of you that
all these people are converging on your little neighborhoods.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
I don't care about that, man. They got to go,
you know, watch the tournament, and it's good for the
town and make a lot of money. What I care
about is the people that block the roads off, that
don't realize that you live right up the block and
they won't let you go. And that's just annoying. Like
you've seen me now for two days, buddy, you know
I live up the block. What are you doing? But
you know that's the only thing that's annoying about it.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Well, all right, so what's annoying to me is that
the Texans are two oh and two. What's going on
with my poor football team?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
You know, I think you guys are okay, I really do.
I said this on the show last week. Look, the
Tampa Bay game was a tough loss. You guys pretty
much had that wrapped up. You get the lay touchdown
by Chubb and then you know you had them at
fourth and tent. Yeah, and you guys called the Great
Blitz and I don't know who the Rusher was that
team that looped around, but he completely whipped on Mayfield.
Mayfield made a play and they go down and win
(02:09):
the game. I mean, when that goes when it'saw said
and done, that goes down as a tough loss. But
now it's make or break. Now you got to go
to Jacksonville, like you can't lo's the Jacksonville this week.
Jacksonville just lost to a team that was playing without
their starting quarterback for three quarters. Lord, okay, so you
have to go beat that football team. But for Houston,
I'm sure you guys have talked about this a lot.
(02:29):
You guys got to figure out a way to run
the ball. Like the offensive line not doing a good job,
and just this poor kid Stroud is running for his life,
doesn't have any holes to run through. So if you
can figure out a way to run the ball with
that defense that you have, you guys are gonna be Okay.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Okay, here's a team we can both agree to. Not
like I'm maybe you won't. You probably don't care. What's
wrong with Are the Cowboys ever gonna win anything? Again?
Speaker 2 (02:53):
No? Man, it's not that I don't like the Cowboys.
I mean it is, but well, you shouldn't like them
back based on where you are. I guess I should
have liked them either from New York. But you know,
you have to start at some point. You know, money
buys people out of a lot of things, and I
think money has bought Jerry Jones out of a lot
(03:13):
of criticism. I really believe that because for any team,
forget that he's the owner, right, throw that out the window.
If you had a general manager of a football team
for thirty years now and they have not gotten to
an NFC championship game, yeah, I don't know how many
gms survived that. Because he has the money and he's
(03:35):
the owner and he writes the checks. Yeah he survives it.
But hey, look they were dead to rights against the
Giants team who is terrible, and the Giants gave up
a sixty yard field goal to lose a game again,
right or that pushed the game into overtime. But you know,
Dallas is not you know, I don't think they're going anywhere.
Will they ever win again? Maybe God smiles on him
one of these days, but I don't think they winning
(03:55):
this year or next year.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Okay, back to the Ryder Cup real quickly, do you
do you guys do anything with golf or is that
just we do?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Okay, yeah, we do, And I actually I hate I
hate what we're using. I do because you know me
for years. I take my emotion out of it, and
I take my rooting interest out of it. I believe
that the Europe team is simply better than the United
States team. Now, the United States team might have the
best player, right, sheffer is the best player. That's it, right,
(04:25):
He's the best player, but the best team. You know,
if Sheffick can line up twelve, but he's got to
play them head to head. No, we bet them, right,
they are all good. But to get Europe right now
at plus one point fifty, I just think there's a
better value there. And look, I would like the Americans
to win. I don't think they're going to, so you know,
(04:46):
money's money, So speaking, Europe is to play there.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
One more real quick and I'll let you go. I
know you're working hard this morning. Speaking of wish it
worked out a different way. The Astro is gonna make
it or not.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
I hope not. I'm rooting against I know that, but
I'm rooting for the worst possible thing to happen because
I'll tell you why this is. This is from a
petty This is from a petty New York Yankee fan.
I'm being petty right now. I don't want to see
you guys in the playoffs. I'm sick of losing to you,
so if someone else can knock you out, because if
(05:19):
the Astros play the Yankees in the playoffs, somehow, some way,
the Astros are going to beat the Yankees. Who know
that aggravation right happens every year. So I'm flat out.
We're on We're on Houston Radio, and I know you
guys are gonna hate me down here. I am rooting
for the Mariners in this series. I'm glad they won
last night. I hope they sweep you, and I hope
they get you the hell out of there, because if
(05:39):
they don't and you guys end up in and somehow
see the Yankees, I don't want to deal with the nonsense.
It's gonna happen again.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
You know that's fair. I've known you for so long.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Is that honest? It is?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
That's about as honest as you could best. Brutally honest,
but it's it's legit and it's passion, and that's what
sports is built on you know, everybody's got.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
To The Yankees are the only team that I root for,
and every year we see you guys, we lose no
one else. Yeah, so someone else go take care of you.
And nothing against the Astros, great run organization. I always
thought that nonsense with the signs was ridiculous because every
(06:21):
team time team and this is this is from a
New Yorker, right, that was all nonsense. No one cared.
Great organization. Well run, and I'll rove against you. I
don't know how to stay.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
I just can't wait to see the Yankees in the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Now it looks like they played Boston first round, and
that's a whole other issue.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Yeah, yeah, they get.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Past all the issues because you got to deal with
those people we gave.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
We gave Boston a good third baseman, you did, you know,
But honestly, when we started the season, I didn't see yeah,
and people started getting hurt. The people who were coming
in were legitimate ballad replacements. But we're so thin now
everybody's getting dinged up and knocked out. I just don't
(07:07):
know if we're gonna get past it.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
I really don't, you know what so so baseball has
become what a lot of other other sports have become,
and that's just get into the playoffs. Yeah right, it
never was that way. Like usually the best team in baseball,
you know, was going to either play in the LCS
or at least make it to the World Series and
then you know, whatever happens happens. Right now, baseball has
gone to you're gonna see teams with in the mid
(07:31):
eighties with wins, low eighties with wins get in and like,
you take a team like the New York Mets, and
I hate the Mets, I cannot stand them, but that
team gets in the playoffs. Okay, the pitching staff is struggling,
but they have a great lineup and Soto was hot
right now. So if that team gets in, who the
heck wants to deal with them? And they're gonna get
in with eighty four wins when that would have never
(07:53):
happened before. So right now baseball is just get in
the Astros. If the Astros get in, the Astro have
as good a shot as anyone in that American league
come out. That's a good Who's the favorite in the
American League? Toronto? Oh lord, no, Detroit can't win a
game right now, the Yankees can't beat the Astros, forget
the Red Sox. Who's the like you know it'll scare you.
(08:16):
I don't think Seattle scares you, guys. I mean, who
scares you?
Speaker 1 (08:18):
You're so right about that eighty game thing, because just
winning half your games would have never gotten you into
the playoffs. But it's because we were sending so many
teams to the playoffs. Now they don't have to. They
can they can sandbag a little through the year and
just limp along and then about the last thirty forty games,
really work it up and squeak in at the last,
(08:44):
you know, the last wildcard spot, and that team probably
got as good as shot as the rest.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Of them, good a shot as any. And personally, I
don't know where people fall with this. I don't personally
like it. I don't like their NFL went to seven games.
I understand why they did it because it keeps more
fan bases activated as the season good because if you're
a fan of Cincinnati and there's not six teams that
made the playoffs, you're out, so you're not watching the
(09:08):
last two or three weeks. So I get it from
a money standpoint, but from a product standpoint, man, I
always want to see the best play the best. I
don't want to see some team with eighty two wins
that just gets hot for three weeks and there you're
a champion. Or they knock someone out that has no
business being knocked out. I don't agree with that, But
like we said earlier with the europe Pick, money is money,
(09:29):
so they're gonna do it for money. I'm just what
it is.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
People will watch a playoff game faster than they'll watch
the one hundred and sixty first game to get the
last walkard spot.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
That is one hundred percent correct.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
All right, Chris, thank you man. Always a pleasure, my friend.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
It's gonna be with you. Guys. Have a great day.
Go go Marinors tonight. That's my that's my parting shot, right,
Go Mariners later.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Holy cow, he's a businessman and he doesn't like the
Astros because he's right. If we see the Yankees, we'll
beat him somehow. If that ever changes, I will never
hear the end of it either. He and I talk
pretty often, and I will never hear the end of it.
We got to take a quick break, Holy cow, We're
almost at the end of the road. Here,
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