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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm your guest host Grant Smith filling in for Benjamin Albright.
Is he and Ryan are out in Indy covering the
NFL Combine. We'll talk about that and meet up with
Ben about seven o'clock tonight. Busy show tonight, we got
Jerry Shimmel, one of your voices of the Rockies, coming
up at six point thirty. As I mentioned Benjamin Albright
at seven live from Indianapolis and bre mased us.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Because she chimed in on Movies that make you Cry
on Friday night when we were having some fun in here.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
But she's going to join us at eight o'clock to
talk about movies that make you cry, but also get
her thoughts on the Broncos as she hosts the Believe
in the Broncos podcast as long as well as the
Let's Talk Broncos podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
But first things first, Nick, did you hear the news
about Neil Young?
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Well, so let's take them behind the scenes here real quick,
because Kathy Walker in our news update was saying, playing
that old Man song from Neil Young, and you thought
we went through your head right when that started playing.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
The first thing I thought, did I miss something today?
Did he die?
Speaker 4 (01:02):
The worst, he said, no.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
It was like because usually when there's news that someone
is doing something, it's right away like sense and Sens
is doing this. But then it was the music.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Someone is the introduction.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
You're like, oh my god, he's gone.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yeah, especially with the Old Man song, and you're like,
I first I got that.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
I was like and I looked at you. I was like,
wait a minute, d.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Neil Joe, And you're like, no, you didn't die.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
No, he's coming to Fiddler's Greed for a concert. To
be fair, he is.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Seventy nine years old and looks about half dead in
these photos. Sorry for any Neil Young fans out there,
are you a.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Fan of Neil Young's music? No, no, you have an
eclectic taste.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
I do.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Haven't got into Neil Young. I'm a Simon Garf uncle.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Yes, Neil Young is better than them.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Really.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Yeah. Check out the song Harvest Moon by Neil Young.
That's one of my Harvest Moon Yeah. Okay, okay, Well
you know it's Monday. How you feeling today? Did you
have a good start to your day before coming in here?
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (02:00):
I did, man, Actually I woke up this morning.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I love that. That is your response.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
You shook Ryan Edwards when you said that, okayo sports
last week and you're feeling in But I have that
same mindset, man, be grateful for the little things.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
You're not guaranteed that every day.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
You know what, I also granted that.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
I guess I've started on this unforeseen journey because I've
set these kind of i'd say goals for myselves but also.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Dudes and do nots R.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
And over my years and everything that I've gone through,
I've had an opportunity to know so many different people,
both in sports, entertainment, politics.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
You named it right, and I look back on and like, Wow,
I've really lived a really well life.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
And I think about it saying if I could go
back and tell my younger self, hey man, it's going
to be okay, ye right, I wish I could do that.
But one of the rules, I ridiculous rules that I
made for myself is that I would never ask anyone
that I have become friends with for things, okay, right,
(03:07):
And when I say things, I don't mean money anything
that can either better my life or someone else's. It's
just like I always felt bad about doing it, Like
am I breaking of friendship code that I have And
then someone told me like, well, if that.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Person is your friend, they won't mind you asking one.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Hundred person agree with whoever told you that?
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Yes? Yes, and so your true friend, Yes.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
True friends, they're not going to mind you ask them
for help. That's what true friends are for.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
And once again I'm not asking for someone Hey man,
I need some money.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
No, no, no, it's all.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
We had that conversation with you and Ben last week.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
So for me, it's like asking for an opportunity that
I can help someone.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Else expand their life.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
And I was like, you know what that person who
told me that maybe I should ask them? Uh, they're
right because one of my moms thinking that she used
to say a closed mouth, don't get fit, and I
would apply that, and I have applied them to do
so many other things relative to me and things that
I do. But now I'm turn over a new leaf
and I'm like, you know what, what is it that
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I have to lose?
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Yeah, That's always been my motto is the worst someone
can say.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Is no yes.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
And if they're your true friend and they say no
to something when you're really in need, then you know
they're not that true friend.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
That you thought they were. And your mom, man, she
drops so many little nuggets of wisdom.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Or your dad was trying to make you pay interest
on loans to take your SATs. Your mom was dropping
some little nuggets of life in there.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Yeah, my mom is she is full of these types
of isms. And my dad is more like, in your face,
here's what life's gonna do to you. They terrify you
the week in hard truth. Yes, yes, and you know
my mom's always trying to cat do you put their
arms around you to tell you everything is gonna be okay.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Well, my father's like, no, all I'm off for him.
He needs to know, don't show my boy any love.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
He shout out to all the moms out there and
all the hard headed dads. My dad was the same way, man.
I think he told me I love me. He loved
me for the first time. I think when his dad died,
really and it just sank in that his dad and
him had never had that conversation. And when his dad died,
my grandpa, he took me into his office at as
his accounting firm and said, choking up all the way through, man,
(05:28):
And it was so touching and he's like, Grant, I
probably haven't told you this since you were two or
three years old, but I just want you to know.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
I want you to know that I love you.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
And I was like, that's the most meaningful thing you
could have ever said, because he always showed his love
like he always took care of us, gave us more
than we probably deserved as two young me and my
brother Helliams, you know, causing all kinds of trouble and
he always did what he could to help us out.
But when he said that, man, there's there's a lot
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of power in the words that you speak, and especially
from someone like your dad, Well that's.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Very true because yo, I don't know, did we talk
about this on your on your on your podcast. Probably not,
But the first time my father ever said that he
loved me, and it actually came out because as parents,
you think, well, you're going out doing your fatherly things.
You're going to make sure that there's holes in your back, food,
you know, in your stomach or whatever the.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Lights are on. That's a dad type of thing.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
And for me, I was like, an, I want my
dad to actually say it right right, And my dad
didn't finally say it until he and my stepmother came
to a.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Game that I was playing.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Oh I did talk continue to share, which which is great.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
And well, here's a message that I want anyone who's
out there listening to know. I know we're not talking football,
but the one thing I love about, but Grant, you know,
we could talk about real life stuff that everyone's going
through and the ideas that our lives can be difficult
as parents because we're trying to make a way for
our kids. But never take a moment, for granted, to
tell your kids that you love them. And because you know,
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my father didn't do it until late into my adulthood,
I tell my kids all the time, and my kids
and now to a point they're like, dude.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
I mean just stop. Okay, I got it. Yes, you
know that type of thing.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
But I tell them I'm never going to stop showing
my love and affection infinity for you because God bless
me to have healthy kids and I want you guys
to know how much I love you.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
Guys.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Yeah, and we're going to get to sports in a minute,
but text us on the kaa common Spirit health tech sign.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
What are you grateful for today? I'm certainly grateful for.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
My parents' love after that conversation with you just now,
and your kids are going to be grateful for that
one day. They're going to continue that tradition of showing
their kids. Too much love in the future, and too
much love to your kids is never.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
A bad thing.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
It's never a bad thing, you know what.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
It brings up something very interesting, because like we just
came past Valentine's You and I, you know, people know
how you and I feel about that. But it's like
like Thanksgiving. It's like, oh, that's.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
The day we sit around the table and we got
to give things.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
I'm like, wait a minute, why can we not give
things for the things that we.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Have every single day?
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Exactly?
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Why can we not do that?
Speaker 6 (08:17):
You know what?
Speaker 1 (08:17):
That just made me think of something. So I'm filling
in on KBCO. Usually I do the evenings on the
ninety seven point three kbc O, our sister station, but
I'm filling in for Robin Hart this week from ten
am to three pm because I'm filling in here with you.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
For Benjamin Albright.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
But I had some time in between getting done with
that and then taking over and producing KOA Sports, and
I went for a walk at this park right down
the road from the station here, and I just got
behind this old couple that were just having the best
day together, holding their hands, going for a walk, you know,
in the middle of the day, probably both retired, who
(08:53):
knows how long they've been married. And I just thought
to myself, like, man, I hope that's me and my
wife one day, because you know, you just get reminded.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
You know, like relationships, you.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Can get bogged down and you can get stuck in
these routines. But when you see something like that, at
least for me, I was like, this is touching my heart,
Like this is how I need to I need to
constantly tell my wife how much she means to me.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Just by seeing these two old these two old people.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
In front of me, just like enjoying their day together
and having a nice walk and holding hands and acting
like their teenagers, just falling in love.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
And it was just such a beautiful moment.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
I think sometimes in life we get bowed down by
the race of trying to pay bills and just be
human beings and survive that we forget some of the
basic principles of validating the people in our surroundings, and
somewhat so grant that not to go off on a tangent,
but that we don't validate other people in our surroundings.
(09:46):
It's like, oh, well this guy producers supposed to do this,
and this one's supposed to do this. It's like, no,
all those individuals have jobs, but to validate them. And
I think for me, that's the biggest problem a lot
of companies, a lot of coach is a lot of
people in power make is that they forget what that is.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Like everyone starts at the bottom and have that ride
up to the top and then you get to the top.
He's like, well, I.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Made it, But somehow some people it's not everyone. So
I don't want to generalize. They forget what they went
through to make it, or they they remember how difficult
it was, so everyone else around them life's got.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
To be just as difficult. Just like your dad.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Yes, that's like my father.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
And even now, I say, dude, just because you went.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Through those tough times as a.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Kid, there's no reason that I had to no, And
I think it's I think it's okay to learn how
to lose.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
I think that's an important value in life because it
makes you appreciate the good times.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
That much more. But we don't. Life's hard enough, man.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
I mean, the older you get, the more you realize
that life's going to crap on you whether you want
it to or not. You don't need to make it
harder for your kids, at least in my opinion.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
No, you're You're right, you don't. And I was talking
to my son the other day and I.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Say, look, here's the crazy thing about life that when
my son was first born, Ronnie Bradford was my special
teams coach told me, hey, man, hang on to those
memories are going to go fast. And I was like, yeah, whatever, man,
I blewing off and about right before the season started,
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because now he's coaching special teams for the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
I called him and I say, man, you were right,
You're right.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
And now with my kids, I was telling my son
this past weekend, I'm only going to have but so
much time with you until you go off and start
doing your own thing. And once kids go off to
college and start living their lives, that's where their lives
separate from their parents. They're still together, but they're separating.
And I say, look what I wanted to do. And
(11:47):
I tell my kids this at the beginning of twenty
twenty three. I want to be your dad, but I
don't want to be your dad. And what I mean
by that is because I don't want to be that
discipline ortating figure where I got to tell you to
do this and no, man, because I know at the
end of the day, once they go off, I'm gonna
remember those moments that I can't get back where I
(12:09):
should have been.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Hey, man, let's do this.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Let's do that, because we want to still discipline in
our kids. But at the same time, we have to
understand we have a short amount of time with them,
short amount of time with them, so.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Let's enjoy that time.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Let's focus on being father and son and all doing
all those things my daughter and my other son and
be have that type of relationship, because that's.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
What I want them to remember. I don't want them
to remember, like man, Dad was just drop.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
The hammer, like you got to do this, you got
to do that, Like No, you might remember some of
those days, but I want you to remember more of
the days when Dad was a little softer, right, and
Dad talk to you about what was going on in
your life. I know I always said that movies, movies
I've never seen a movie that made me cry.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Almost gave you something just then.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
That's because you're talking about your kids, Mary, I called myself, well,
speaking of dads before we get nit crying here on
a Monday on Broncos Country tonight. The Nuggets had been
the Lakers daddy for a while, went in thirteen out
of fourteen against them.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Until Saturday night.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
The Lakers snapped the Nuggets nine game winning streak and
Lebron and Luca just dominated the Nuggets.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
What do you think of that?
Speaker 1 (13:21):
About that game losing one twenty three to one hundred
at home at Ball Arena to the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Well, the first first thing I thought, My first immediate.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Thought was wow, that seemed like that was game seven. Yeah, well,
I could get the NBA Finals and they were trading.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Three point shots three points that third quarter.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Yeah, w was nuts.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
That's the kind of basketball that gets me excited for
postseason NBA action.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Yes, absolutely.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
And then when you think about Lebron being the older
guy and then Luca coming in being that face that's
going to take over man. Christian Brown was trying to
do his best, but he couldn't do anything about this.
So much you can do but think about the steps back.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
But it was a great game.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
But the Nuggets have two problems. The first one is, well,
there's three of them, so I'll say in the first quarter.
Usually they are very good offensively, but they're not great defensively, right,
And coach Lohan said it himself, like when you look
at the Nuggets, well, their best defense is their offense, right,
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they have to find a way to kind of switch that.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Once again, that third quarter was sensational.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
It was only until the fourth quarter where they somehow
fell apart. You look at you know, being on score,
I mean the score was twenty.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Seven to thirteen.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
You want a little more production from the Nuggets in
that particular moment, but it seems as though they ran
out of gas at that particular point. But you got
to tip your hat, you know, to the Lakers and
what they were able to do because.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
They came out, you know, blazing.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
I mean, they had the defense preheat to Fords.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Winnie, they were a mile high.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Yeah, did you hear JJ Reddick's postgame speech to his team, Man, No,
I didn't. Okay, this is courtesy of Bleacher Report. I
thought you would appreciate this.
Speaker 7 (15:12):
This morning, we talked about going to war, be willing
to die on the court.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
All right.
Speaker 7 (15:15):
I was so way up today. I should have been
able to take a nap. I couldn't sleep last night.
I was up till five am. I couldn't even nap today.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Free game.
Speaker 7 (15:21):
I'm laying on the floor door my breathing extract. I'm
envisioning what our team is going to play like. And
you guys went even higher. You went even higher, and frankly,
our conviction and our belief in the game plan.
Speaker 8 (15:34):
The bench was great. Everybody contributed, Luca, It's good to
have you back about defense. Everybody that was on Yokich
was awesome.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Night.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
That was great.
Speaker 7 (15:49):
Last thing talk all the season, all season long, about
our belief and our conviction.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Okay, I hope that was fun.
Speaker 7 (15:57):
If we play that hard for the rest of the
regular season, we're going to be just fine. That should
build your belief, build my belief and what we can accomplish.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
All right, it was awesome. Let's go.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
I'm starting I'm starting to get a little worried about
the Lakers of the postseason. Man, after seeing them dominate
the Nuggets in that fourth quarter, like you mentioned, and
then hearing that from JJ Reddick post game. I thought
maybe they were a year away, have to add a
big guy in the draft this offseason. But uh man,
I wouldn't sleep on the Lakers maybe making another run
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in the postseason.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Well, well, I'm glad you used the operative words sleep
because JJ said that you try to take a nap.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
I'm like, wait a minute, You're forty years old. You
taking a nap, middight, I mean you got to get that,
super dude. It had to be a bit by six o'clock.
I was like, you're forty years old, what do you
do and taking a nap?
Speaker 3 (16:54):
But that's the way that you want your team to
come out and definitely fight, and and that's something that
we hadn't really seen from I'll say the Laker, excuse me,
stepping up the defensive intensity, And you're right, their defensive
intensity is this particular way moving forward, and Luca and
Lebron started developed the chemistry, like like we saw Luca
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getting his hands, you know, in the pass and laying
outlet to Lebron, live to Lebron.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
And the thing for me, it.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Was with disappointing, especially that fourth quarter for the Nuggets.
There was a part where I think Luca was on
the right short corner. I think might have been closer
to the Nuggets bench and you had Michael Porter Jr.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Covering him at the top of the key and then
he came.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Down and then it was an opportunity for Jamal to
double them too, and it's like, well he split both
of them almost like you know, Jamal was just standing there.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
And he scored.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Yeah, I'm like, where's the effort here?
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Yes, especially with the game that intense all the way
throughout and exactly in front of the in front of
the mile high crowd on a Saturday night against the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
I mean, you should be up for that game.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
And it's interesting because Joker had some interesting comments on
this and shout out to Zack Segers, our producer tonight
for showing me this sound. But maybe we've been fooled.
But maybe we were just riding high on the Nuggets
with their nine game winning streak. And here's what Joker
had to say postgame after that beat down by the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Well slid until you said, we're gone wasted no time.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
The sounds of Spring training baseball is back. That sound
courtesy of CBS Sports and Beer beer beer, gotta love it.
Ready for a baseball game down at Corsefield, but the
Rockies in Arizona right now for spring training. We're going
to talk to one of the guys on every call
for your Colorado Rockies, Jerry Shimmel, Jerry, how are you
to night?
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Thanks for the time, Hey, Brandon Cool.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
Really good to talk with you tonight.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Yeah, well, thanks for joining us and on an off
night for you guys. You guys will be back on
our airwaves tomorrow and Wednesday at one o'clock. I just
want to get your overall thoughts on spring training so far?
Speaker 2 (19:13):
How has it been down there? The weather has sounded amazing.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
I got to work the game Friday while we were
dealing with about eight inches of snow here in Denver,
and you were bragging about it on the air that
it was eighty degrees in sunny.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
How's Arizona treating you guys so far?
Speaker 5 (19:26):
I wasn't trying to rub it in too much. A
little bit grand but not too much on Friday. But now,
so far, so good. The team is three and one
with a tie today, So you know, you look for
positive films and there are a lot of those so far.
I think right now there's a five around a team
Grant that says, and this team has improved. It's a
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team that has a bunch of guys that are poised
for bounce back years, a bunch of guys coming off
the injury list, including a couple of key pitchers. Starting
pitchers sent to tell a Marquez that should be trying
to come back and be their old tells again. So
very positive. I think everybody's pretty optimistic about what this
team looks like right now.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
You know, Jerry, that's funny you talk about optimism because
I know there's a lot of fans, Rockets fans here
in Denver, Oh. They're looking for a different outcome this season,
some somewhat of a break.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
What have you seen thus far?
Speaker 3 (20:21):
And I know, once again it is early, I mean,
but what have you seen so far that I can
kind of give the fans a little optimism about the
upcoming season.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
It always starts with starting pitching, and I think the
rotation that you're pencil in right now might be as
good as this team has had in probably four or
five years, probably since the playoff years in the late
in twenty nineteen. You've got sent to tell and Mark's
two solid pitchers coming back. Mark Case can be an
all Star dominant pitcher at times. Those two coming back
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and then the three other guys in the rotation are
set and they had solid seasons last year. Kyle Freely
was up and down, but he looked great in his
first start yesterday. So I think it starts with starting pitching.
And the starting pitching looks good, and so you pencil
those five starters in. That's your rotation, and then there's
four other armies of the miners that are poised to
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make a market some point the season, including Chase doll
Lander bitch Today and Sullivan and some others that you
think at some point maybe this year is going to
make an impact. So I think when you think about optimism,
you first think about pitching, and the pitching looks much better.
The bullpen can't do any worse. In a lot of
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the year, that ninth inning r like nine plus, which
is one of the lowest, the lowest, the worst eras
in the ninth inning in Major League Baseball history. I
go back in a fifty three year or something like
that to find an er in the ninth betting that
high that's going to be better. So the bullpen is solidified,
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starters solidified. Michael Tolly has got a couple of home
runs already, look for him to be more consistent in
center field. You've got a gold glover out there, and
in Brenton Doyle, you've got a guy that talked to
a great start tours, going to do his thing at shortstops.
So he threw all those things together starting with they
started pitching, and you've got that optimation.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Jerry Shimar our guest, one of the voices of the
Colorado Rockies here on KOA, And you mentioned Brenton Doyle
being a gold glover in the field, but he struggled
at the plate a little bit last year. And when
I heard this call on Friday, it gave me some
optimism for him at the plate this season.
Speaker 9 (22:32):
Now, first bitch swinging, Brenton Doyle drives at the deep center.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
This has got a chance.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
It's out of there, touch of.
Speaker 9 (22:40):
Old time, the Grand Tour for Brenton Doyle. Rocky started
the inning down three to nothing. Right now lead at
four to three. We'll tell you listenning some young players
getting very aggressive at the plates.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
They're in the first pitch looking for a fastball, it's
real to right center field, showing that great power. The
opposite way, that ball is well over four hundred feet.
Great swing by Brenton Doyle.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
So I guess my question on Brentan Doyle is has
he changed anything in the way he approaches the plate
in this offseason or is it just kind of him
finding his groove a couple of years into the major leagues.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
You know, Grant, from his rookie year two years ago
to last year, he made vast improvements offensively. He looked
like a different player. He's got his hands in a
different position. He starts to swing a little bit earlier
now that he did his rookie year, and the result
was a great season last year at two sixty and
twenty home runs I believe, and eighty two RBIs in
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the thirty so one bases. So I think he's a
kind of guy that is always looking to get better
and never satisfied. So from his rookie season to his
sophomore year, vast improvement, and I think he's going to
be even better this year. We make a leap up
to one hundred RBIs probably not He's going to hit
lead off and not do that, but I do think
he could be a two to seventy five hitter and
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to get his twenty five long runs and driving eighty
and steal thirty to forty bases and be one of
the premier defensive players, which he's already in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
You know, my biggest question for you is, you know,
has to do with a fellow Georgia Tech yellowjacket and
Charlie Blackman, who obviously called her a career at the
end of last season.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
I mean, what's it going to be like for you
calling games?
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Knowing as though you know, you're so used to seeing
Charlie Blackman in the Rockies uniform.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
Now he's no longer there. How does that change for you?
And calling games?
Speaker 5 (24:41):
Two broadcaster John already thinking about Charlie and it's so
strange and I can have him in the lineup, And
for me personally, it's even more so because Charlie and
I started at the same time. He got called up
in twenty ten. That's when I started with the Rockies,
and you know, we sort of mirrored our careers. Mike
broadcasting career is Major League Baseball career. His playing career
(25:02):
way better than my broadcasting career. I love that, but
now Charlie, Charlie and I became pretty close and we
led a Bible sody for the players in the road
and not had him around, let along the lineup. It's
really strange, it is. I think it's that same way
for Jack and for Jesse and Uncare for all the fans,
the same way we're used to the last thirteen years,
(25:24):
fourteen years seeing Charlie Blackman in the lineup, whether it's
in a leadoff spot or hitting thirty times, playing in
the outfield, playing as a DH. Really strange out to
have Charlie rown. He's he's a special assistant now the
general manager, and he's going to report to this point training.
I heard next week. We haven't seen him yet, but
we'll see him. We won't see him on the field
(25:46):
of uniform, but I think we'll see him in the uniform,
which would be great for everybody.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Yeah, I think all of us Rockies fans.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
You know, even if you knew the team was not
doing so well later in the year, you always knew
you were going to get a plus effort out of
Charlie Blackman when he went down the course and watch
the game but.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
One of the guys that could be taking his spot
in right field.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Zach Veen, also a left handed batter that swing looks
awfully similar to Charlie Blackman's.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
I saw his big home run over the weekend. What
can you tell me about Zach?
Speaker 5 (26:15):
Zack is a really talented guy. He's a different chat,
He's got an interesting personality. He's very confident in himself,
which in baseball is fine. You're gonna get humbled in
baseball a lot of the time, but that's okay. But
he's a very confident young man. He's very articulate, very outgoing.
He's got different hair color every single day, so you're
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gonna look at it tomorrow and have a different hairstyle
and color that he did today, which is his fine.
But he you know, he goes in his own direction.
But he is a grand answer question. Extremely talented player,
he really is. He's got all the skills. He's got
an incredibly quick bat, he's a left handed heater, he's
got great speed, he's got power, he's got ability to
(27:01):
hit the ball the other way. He's got all the
makings of a great player. And it looks like he's
finally healthy He's had a couple of different injuries in
his career, and now he looks like it's healthy and
he's thriving. And we did the whole money yesterday. It
was amazing that thing went, you know, four hundred and
fifty seed and that flip. We didn't really care for
a whole lot, but that really is so very talented
(27:24):
player who could make a mark. I don't know if
you will make the team out of spring training, but
I think at some point this year, probably early in
the season, we'll see back as that being on a
major league roster.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Well, we know that no matter what the sport is,
you know, the idea that they're trying to advance the
game and make it more I guess visually pleasing for fans,
and we see it happening in the NFL.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
But in Major League Baseball? What do you think about this.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Whole abs, you know, strike and challenging the whole thing,
because usually we're so used to umpires trying to get
calls correct, but we know that there is a possibility
of human error. Do you like this new MLBS testing
that they're doing in spring training? About it?
Speaker 5 (28:08):
I wasn't a big fan of it. I thought, I
just can interrupt play. We don't need that in baseball.
We want to keep the game flowing as best we can.
But the three games we've done already and I've seen
an action, I kind of like it. I think it's
kind of cool. And the reason for that is when
a challenge is made and only the pitcher of cancer
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or batter can make the challenge, that not come to
the dugout. It doesn't come from anybody in the coup
house looking at video replay. It comes from one of
those three guys that have to do it immediately, and
it's so quick, within four or five seconds, you're going
to get your answer and at least stop deal. They
put the whole thing up on the big screen so
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you can see exactly where the ball was in or
out of the strike zone. So the fact that there's
only two challenges a game doesn't interrupt the game a
whole lot. This came down and we've seen a couple
of times where there's been blatant two times in the
game we did yesterday, two times where it was a
blatant miss call, one was a strike and should have
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been a ball, and vice versa. And I like the
fact that they got it right. It didn't affect the
outcome of the game. But I like the fact that
you can do it a couple times a games and
make the correction.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Yeah, I think I'm going to become a fan of
it too.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
I was like you, I was a little bit of
a hater of it at first, just like the pitch
clock a couple of years ago. But I think anytime
you can get the call right is a good thing
for baseball.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
And one thing we always know is right.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
As you and Jack on a call with Jesse running
things behind the scenes, Jerry, thanks so much for the
time tonight, and enjoy the rest of spring training.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
We'll see you down in Denver at Course Field here
before long.
Speaker 5 (29:45):
Okay, so it's good. Thanks for having you guys.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
That's Jerry shim Well, one of the voices of your
Colorado Rockies.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
We will react to that coming up here in just
a couple of minutes.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Beautiful sounds of roberta fla Rip She passes away, the
Grammy Award winner, passing away at eighty eight years old,
best known for that song right there. You tried to
kill off Neil Young earlier, but sadly we do lose ROBERTA.
Flack today, Welcome back to it broadcast Country to Night.
Grant Smith here filling in for Benjamin all Right, We're
gonna catch up with ben here in about ten minutes
(30:19):
or so from Indianapolis as he's covering the combine with
Ryan Edwards.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
I'm in here with.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Nick ferguson a couple of texts on the KOA Common
Spirit health text line. You can join the show at
five six six nine zero. We asked earlier what you
were grateful or thankful for today. This one from Prophet
I am thankful for looking at the daisies from the
right side of the dirt. I agree with you there
on that would profit another one. Nick, you and Grant
are onto something. I own a company. I have seventy
(30:47):
two employees. Every morning I say hi to every one
of them that's there before I start my day. I've
had some with me twenty plus years. Another one from
the three oh three.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
My dad was the og hard but I'll say a
little I'd edit there. World War two.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
VET seldom said I love you. The best thing I
hold in my heart is our final words where I
love you. I never leave a loved one without saying
I love you.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
That's beautiful. Three oh three and one more.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Talking about our conversation with Jerry Shimo. If you miss that,
it'll be up on the KWA Colorado page later tonight.
From the three six to oh I saw the ABS
system live at the minor league game, at the All
Star Game, and it's super super fast and it's cool.
They show it to the whole stadium, kind of what
Jerry said, where they have it up on the screens
at the at the park there in Scottsdale.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
What are your thoughts on the ABS system?
Speaker 4 (31:42):
Really, this is gonna sound like get off my lawn, but.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Going back and watching what baseball was before, I mean,
I love the whole idea of seeing you know, like
Tom and the sorta get after umpires because Big Blue
calls you. It's like with system that could take somewhat
of the fanfare out of baseball by doing that, right
because even though I mean, some people may hate it,
(32:08):
but for me, that was a part of the game
right right, whether it was a striker, whether it was
it was a ball, whatever it was, but I love
that aspect of it.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Now, I do believe in the fact of trying to make.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
The game faster, be able to get through calls as
quickly as you can. And it makes me wonder because
listen to Jerry describe the system itself and like you
get two challenges. It's like, well, I know this. This
is the early starts for baseball, right, and the NFL
has been doing it for years. But my first thought was,
how is it that the NFL can't get it correct
(32:44):
and it takes them so damn long to get through
a certain calls.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Yeah, and once it seems so obvious on the holidays,
like to the viewer, like it just seems like, hey,
you got this wrong, just correct it. And they are
starting to do that thing where they just chime in
from New York right away and they just get in
the referee year and fix it immediately. But then there's
other times I don't do it and you're like what
am I missing here? Like this was obviously a blown
call or this is obviously smart the ball is marked
(33:09):
at the wrong spot and they didn't say anything. So
I don't understand when and why they chime in at
certain points and then not at others.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
Well, because you think about guys when they they've gotten
injured over the years. Usually with someone with big hid,
they're they're they're showing it repetitively. Oh look at this,
look at this angle, and they show you from like
three different angles.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
But it kind of frustrates you.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
But when it's when you're the home team and there
is an issue the people in the box, they're going
to show that. So with hands when you're on a row,
you don't get that type of play. But I think
the NFL should adopt this, show the fans exactly what's
going on. But I know over the past couple of years,
especially with Kansas City being a huge part of the conversation,
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they don't want to show a lot of those plays
that could be potentially penalties.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
You and your tenfoil hat with the Kansas City Chiefs.
Speaker 4 (33:57):
I'm not saying it's not tenfoil hat, not ten four ahead.
I'm telling the proofs in the pudding.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
The proof's in the pudding. Every four quarter, less than
four minutes remain in the game. You playing in Kansas
City or in Kansas City Chiefs, something goes wrong, most
likely it's going in the favor.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Yeah, I mean to make you it up.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Yeah, I'm kind of more with you than your usual
co host Benjamin Albright.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
We're gonna check in with him here in just a.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Couple of minutes live from Indianapolis as he's covering the
NFL Combine. You're listening to Broncos country tonight. I'm Grant
Smith's filling in for Ben alongside Nick Ferguson. We'll be
right back with Benjamin Albright live from Indianapolis in just
a couple of minutes on KOA eight fifty am ninety
four to one FM.
I'm your guest host Grant Smith filling in for Benjamin Albright.
Is he and Ryan are out in Indy covering the
NFL Combine. We'll talk about that and meet up with
Ben about seven o'clock tonight. Busy show tonight, we got
Jerry Shimmel, one of your voices of the Rockies, coming
up at six point thirty. As I mentioned Benjamin Albright
at seven live from Indianapolis and bre mased us.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Because she chimed in on Movies that make you Cry
on Friday night when we were having some fun in here.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
But she's going to join us at eight o'clock to
talk about movies that make you cry, but also get
her thoughts on the Broncos as she hosts the Believe
in the Broncos podcast as long as well as the
Let's Talk Broncos podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
But first things first, Nick, did you hear the news
about Neil Young?
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Well, so let's take them behind the scenes here real quick,
because Kathy Walker in our news update was saying, playing
that old Man song from Neil Young, and you thought
we went through your head right when that started playing.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
The first thing I thought, did I miss something today?
Did he die?
Speaker 4 (01:02):
The worst, he said, no.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
It was like because usually when there's news that someone
is doing something, it's right away like sense and Sens
is doing this. But then it was the music.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Someone is the introduction.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
You're like, oh my god, he's gone.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yeah, especially with the Old Man song, and you're like,
I first I got that.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
I was like and I looked at you. I was like,
wait a minute, d.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Neil Joe, And you're like, no, you didn't die.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
No, he's coming to Fiddler's Greed for a concert. To
be fair, he is.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Seventy nine years old and looks about half dead in
these photos. Sorry for any Neil Young fans out there,
are you a.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Fan of Neil Young's music? No, no, you have an
eclectic taste.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
I do.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Haven't got into Neil Young. I'm a Simon Garf uncle.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Yes, Neil Young is better than them.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Really.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Yeah. Check out the song Harvest Moon by Neil Young.
That's one of my Harvest Moon Yeah. Okay, okay, Well
you know it's Monday. How you feeling today? Did you
have a good start to your day before coming in here?
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (02:00):
I did, man, Actually I woke up this morning.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I love that. That is your response.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
You shook Ryan Edwards when you said that, okayo sports
last week and you're feeling in But I have that
same mindset, man, be grateful for the little things.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
You're not guaranteed that every day.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
You know what, I also granted that.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
I guess I've started on this unforeseen journey because I've
set these kind of i'd say goals for myselves but also.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Dudes and do nots R.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
And over my years and everything that I've gone through,
I've had an opportunity to know so many different people,
both in sports, entertainment, politics.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
You named it right, and I look back on and like, Wow,
I've really lived a really well life.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
And I think about it saying if I could go
back and tell my younger self, hey man, it's going
to be okay, ye right, I wish I could do that.
But one of the rules, I ridiculous rules that I
made for myself is that I would never ask anyone
that I have become friends with for things, okay, right,
(03:07):
And when I say things, I don't mean money anything
that can either better my life or someone else's. It's
just like I always felt bad about doing it, Like
am I breaking of friendship code that I have And
then someone told me like, well, if that.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Person is your friend, they won't mind you asking one.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Hundred person agree with whoever told you that?
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Yes? Yes, and so your true friend, Yes.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
True friends, they're not going to mind you ask them
for help. That's what true friends are for.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
And once again I'm not asking for someone Hey man,
I need some money.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
No, no, no, it's all.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
We had that conversation with you and Ben last week.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
So for me, it's like asking for an opportunity that
I can help someone.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Else expand their life.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
And I was like, you know what that person who
told me that maybe I should ask them? Uh, they're
right because one of my moms thinking that she used
to say a closed mouth, don't get fit, and I
would apply that, and I have applied them to do
so many other things relative to me and things that
I do. But now I'm turn over a new leaf
and I'm like, you know what, what is it that
(04:11):
I have to lose?
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Yeah, That's always been my motto is the worst someone
can say.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Is no yes.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
And if they're your true friend and they say no
to something when you're really in need, then you know
they're not that true friend.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
That you thought they were. And your mom, man, she
drops so many little nuggets of wisdom.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Or your dad was trying to make you pay interest
on loans to take your SATs. Your mom was dropping
some little nuggets of life in there.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Yeah, my mom is she is full of these types
of isms. And my dad is more like, in your face,
here's what life's gonna do to you. They terrify you
the week in hard truth. Yes, yes, and you know
my mom's always trying to cat do you put their
arms around you to tell you everything is gonna be okay.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Well, my father's like, no, all I'm off for him.
He needs to know, don't show my boy any love.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
He shout out to all the moms out there and
all the hard headed dads. My dad was the same way, man.
I think he told me I love me. He loved
me for the first time. I think when his dad died,
really and it just sank in that his dad and
him had never had that conversation. And when his dad died,
my grandpa, he took me into his office at as
his accounting firm and said, choking up all the way through, man,
(05:28):
And it was so touching and he's like, Grant, I
probably haven't told you this since you were two or
three years old, but I just want you to know.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
I want you to know that I love you.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
And I was like, that's the most meaningful thing you
could have ever said, because he always showed his love
like he always took care of us, gave us more
than we probably deserved as two young me and my
brother Helliams, you know, causing all kinds of trouble and
he always did what he could to help us out.
But when he said that, man, there's there's a lot
(05:57):
of power in the words that you speak, and especially
from someone like your dad, Well that's.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Very true because yo, I don't know, did we talk
about this on your on your on your podcast. Probably not,
But the first time my father ever said that he
loved me, and it actually came out because as parents,
you think, well, you're going out doing your fatherly things.
You're going to make sure that there's holes in your back, food,
you know, in your stomach or whatever the.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Lights are on. That's a dad type of thing.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
And for me, I was like, an, I want my
dad to actually say it right right, And my dad
didn't finally say it until he and my stepmother came
to a.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Game that I was playing.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Oh I did talk continue to share, which which is great.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
And well, here's a message that I want anyone who's
out there listening to know. I know we're not talking football,
but the one thing I love about, but Grant, you know,
we could talk about real life stuff that everyone's going
through and the ideas that our lives can be difficult
as parents because we're trying to make a way for
our kids. But never take a moment, for granted, to
tell your kids that you love them. And because you know,
(07:07):
my father didn't do it until late into my adulthood,
I tell my kids all the time, and my kids
and now to a point they're like, dude.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
I mean just stop. Okay, I got it. Yes, you
know that type of thing.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
But I tell them I'm never going to stop showing
my love and affection infinity for you because God bless
me to have healthy kids and I want you guys
to know how much I love you.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
Guys.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Yeah, and we're going to get to sports in a minute,
but text us on the kaa common Spirit health tech sign.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
What are you grateful for today? I'm certainly grateful for.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
My parents' love after that conversation with you just now,
and your kids are going to be grateful for that
one day. They're going to continue that tradition of showing
their kids. Too much love in the future, and too
much love to your kids is never.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
A bad thing.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
It's never a bad thing, you know what.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
It brings up something very interesting, because like we just
came past Valentine's You and I, you know, people know
how you and I feel about that. But it's like
like Thanksgiving. It's like, oh, that's.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
The day we sit around the table and we got
to give things.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
I'm like, wait a minute, why can we not give
things for the things that we.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Have every single day?
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Exactly?
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Why can we not do that?
Speaker 6 (08:17):
You know what?
Speaker 1 (08:17):
That just made me think of something. So I'm filling
in on KBCO. Usually I do the evenings on the
ninety seven point three kbc O, our sister station, but
I'm filling in for Robin Hart this week from ten
am to three pm because I'm filling in here with you.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
For Benjamin Albright.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
But I had some time in between getting done with
that and then taking over and producing KOA Sports, and
I went for a walk at this park right down
the road from the station here, and I just got
behind this old couple that were just having the best
day together, holding their hands, going for a walk, you know,
in the middle of the day, probably both retired, who
(08:53):
knows how long they've been married. And I just thought
to myself, like, man, I hope that's me and my
wife one day, because you know, you just get reminded.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
You know, like relationships, you.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Can get bogged down and you can get stuck in
these routines. But when you see something like that, at
least for me, I was like, this is touching my heart,
Like this is how I need to I need to
constantly tell my wife how much she means to me.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Just by seeing these two old these two old people.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
In front of me, just like enjoying their day together
and having a nice walk and holding hands and acting
like their teenagers, just falling in love.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
And it was just such a beautiful moment.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
I think sometimes in life we get bowed down by
the race of trying to pay bills and just be
human beings and survive that we forget some of the
basic principles of validating the people in our surroundings, and
somewhat so grant that not to go off on a tangent,
but that we don't validate other people in our surroundings.
(09:46):
It's like, oh, well this guy producers supposed to do this,
and this one's supposed to do this. It's like, no,
all those individuals have jobs, but to validate them. And
I think for me, that's the biggest problem a lot
of companies, a lot of coach is a lot of
people in power make is that they forget what that is.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Like everyone starts at the bottom and have that ride
up to the top and then you get to the top.
He's like, well, I.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Made it, But somehow some people it's not everyone. So
I don't want to generalize. They forget what they went
through to make it, or they they remember how difficult
it was, so everyone else around them life's got.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
To be just as difficult. Just like your dad.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Yes, that's like my father.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
And even now, I say, dude, just because you went.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Through those tough times as a.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Kid, there's no reason that I had to no, And
I think it's I think it's okay to learn how
to lose.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
I think that's an important value in life because it
makes you appreciate the good times.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
That much more. But we don't. Life's hard enough, man.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
I mean, the older you get, the more you realize
that life's going to crap on you whether you want
it to or not. You don't need to make it
harder for your kids, at least in my opinion.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
No, you're You're right, you don't. And I was talking
to my son the other day and I.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Say, look, here's the crazy thing about life that when
my son was first born, Ronnie Bradford was my special
teams coach told me, hey, man, hang on to those
memories are going to go fast. And I was like, yeah, whatever, man,
I blewing off and about right before the season started,
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because now he's coaching special teams for the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
I called him and I say, man, you were right,
You're right.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
And now with my kids, I was telling my son
this past weekend, I'm only going to have but so
much time with you until you go off and start
doing your own thing. And once kids go off to
college and start living their lives, that's where their lives
separate from their parents. They're still together, but they're separating.
And I say, look what I wanted to do. And
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I tell my kids this at the beginning of twenty
twenty three. I want to be your dad, but I
don't want to be your dad. And what I mean
by that is because I don't want to be that
discipline ortating figure where I got to tell you to
do this and no, man, because I know at the
end of the day, once they go off, I'm gonna
remember those moments that I can't get back where I
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should have been.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Hey, man, let's do this.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Let's do that, because we want to still discipline in
our kids. But at the same time, we have to
understand we have a short amount of time with them,
short amount of time with them, so.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Let's enjoy that time.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Let's focus on being father and son and all doing
all those things my daughter and my other son and
be have that type of relationship, because that's.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
What I want them to remember. I don't want them
to remember, like man, Dad was just drop.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
The hammer, like you got to do this, you got
to do that, Like No, you might remember some of
those days, but I want you to remember more of
the days when Dad was a little softer, right, and
Dad talk to you about what was going on in
your life. I know I always said that movies, movies
I've never seen a movie that made me cry.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Almost gave you something just then.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
That's because you're talking about your kids, Mary, I called myself, well,
speaking of dads before we get nit crying here on
a Monday on Broncos Country tonight. The Nuggets had been
the Lakers daddy for a while, went in thirteen out
of fourteen against them.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Until Saturday night.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
The Lakers snapped the Nuggets nine game winning streak and
Lebron and Luca just dominated the Nuggets.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
What do you think of that?
Speaker 1 (13:21):
About that game losing one twenty three to one hundred
at home at Ball Arena to the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Well, the first first thing I thought, My first immediate.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Thought was wow, that seemed like that was game seven. Yeah, well,
I could get the NBA Finals and they were trading.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Three point shots three points that third quarter.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Yeah, w was nuts.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
That's the kind of basketball that gets me excited for
postseason NBA action.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Yes, absolutely.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
And then when you think about Lebron being the older
guy and then Luca coming in being that face that's
going to take over man. Christian Brown was trying to
do his best, but he couldn't do anything about this.
So much you can do but think about the steps back.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
But it was a great game.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
But the Nuggets have two problems. The first one is, well,
there's three of them, so I'll say in the first quarter.
Usually they are very good offensively, but they're not great defensively, right,
And coach Lohan said it himself, like when you look
at the Nuggets, well, their best defense is their offense, right,
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they have to find a way to kind of switch that.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Once again, that third quarter was sensational.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
It was only until the fourth quarter where they somehow
fell apart. You look at you know, being on score,
I mean the score was twenty.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Seven to thirteen.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
You want a little more production from the Nuggets in
that particular moment, but it seems as though they ran
out of gas at that particular point. But you got
to tip your hat, you know, to the Lakers and
what they were able to do because.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
They came out, you know, blazing.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
I mean, they had the defense preheat to Fords.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Winnie, they were a mile high.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Yeah, did you hear JJ Reddick's postgame speech to his team, Man, No,
I didn't. Okay, this is courtesy of Bleacher Report. I
thought you would appreciate this.
Speaker 7 (15:12):
This morning, we talked about going to war, be willing
to die on the court.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
All right.
Speaker 7 (15:15):
I was so way up today. I should have been
able to take a nap. I couldn't sleep last night.
I was up till five am. I couldn't even nap today.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Free game.
Speaker 7 (15:21):
I'm laying on the floor door my breathing extract. I'm
envisioning what our team is going to play like. And
you guys went even higher. You went even higher, and frankly,
our conviction and our belief in the game plan.
Speaker 8 (15:34):
The bench was great. Everybody contributed, Luca, It's good to
have you back about defense. Everybody that was on Yokich
was awesome.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Night.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
That was great.
Speaker 7 (15:49):
Last thing talk all the season, all season long, about
our belief and our conviction.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Okay, I hope that was fun.
Speaker 7 (15:57):
If we play that hard for the rest of the
regular season, we're going to be just fine. That should
build your belief, build my belief and what we can accomplish.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
All right, it was awesome. Let's go.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
I'm starting I'm starting to get a little worried about
the Lakers of the postseason. Man, after seeing them dominate
the Nuggets in that fourth quarter, like you mentioned, and
then hearing that from JJ Reddick post game. I thought
maybe they were a year away, have to add a
big guy in the draft this offseason. But uh man,
I wouldn't sleep on the Lakers maybe making another run
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in the postseason.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Well, well, I'm glad you used the operative words sleep
because JJ said that you try to take a nap.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
I'm like, wait a minute, You're forty years old. You
taking a nap, middight, I mean you got to get that,
super dude. It had to be a bit by six o'clock.
I was like, you're forty years old, what do you
do and taking a nap?
Speaker 3 (16:54):
But that's the way that you want your team to
come out and definitely fight, and and that's something that
we hadn't really seen from I'll say the Laker, excuse me,
stepping up the defensive intensity, And you're right, their defensive
intensity is this particular way moving forward, and Luca and
Lebron started developed the chemistry, like like we saw Luca
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getting his hands, you know, in the pass and laying
outlet to Lebron, live to Lebron.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
And the thing for me, it.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Was with disappointing, especially that fourth quarter for the Nuggets.
There was a part where I think Luca was on
the right short corner. I think might have been closer
to the Nuggets bench and you had Michael Porter Jr.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Covering him at the top of the key and then
he came.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Down and then it was an opportunity for Jamal to
double them too, and it's like, well he split both
of them almost like you know, Jamal was just standing there.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
And he scored.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Yeah, I'm like, where's the effort here?
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Yes, especially with the game that intense all the way
throughout and exactly in front of the in front of
the mile high crowd on a Saturday night against the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
I mean, you should be up for that game.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
And it's interesting because Joker had some interesting comments on
this and shout out to Zack Segers, our producer tonight
for showing me this sound. But maybe we've been fooled.
But maybe we were just riding high on the Nuggets
with their nine game winning streak. And here's what Joker
had to say postgame after that beat down by the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Well slid until you said, we're gone wasted no time.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
The sounds of Spring training baseball is back. That sound
courtesy of CBS Sports and Beer beer beer, gotta love it.
Ready for a baseball game down at Corsefield, but the
Rockies in Arizona right now for spring training. We're going
to talk to one of the guys on every call
for your Colorado Rockies, Jerry Shimmel, Jerry, how are you
to night?
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Thanks for the time, Hey, Brandon Cool.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
Really good to talk with you tonight.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Yeah, well, thanks for joining us and on an off
night for you guys. You guys will be back on
our airwaves tomorrow and Wednesday at one o'clock. I just
want to get your overall thoughts on spring training so far?
Speaker 2 (19:13):
How has it been down there? The weather has sounded amazing.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
I got to work the game Friday while we were
dealing with about eight inches of snow here in Denver,
and you were bragging about it on the air that
it was eighty degrees in sunny.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
How's Arizona treating you guys so far?
Speaker 5 (19:26):
I wasn't trying to rub it in too much. A
little bit grand but not too much on Friday. But now,
so far, so good. The team is three and one
with a tie today, So you know, you look for
positive films and there are a lot of those so far.
I think right now there's a five around a team
Grant that says, and this team has improved. It's a
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team that has a bunch of guys that are poised
for bounce back years, a bunch of guys coming off
the injury list, including a couple of key pitchers. Starting
pitchers sent to tell a Marquez that should be trying
to come back and be their old tells again. So
very positive. I think everybody's pretty optimistic about what this
team looks like right now.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
You know, Jerry, that's funny you talk about optimism because
I know there's a lot of fans, Rockets fans here
in Denver, Oh. They're looking for a different outcome this season,
some somewhat of a break.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
What have you seen thus far?
Speaker 3 (20:21):
And I know, once again it is early, I mean,
but what have you seen so far that I can
kind of give the fans a little optimism about the
upcoming season.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
It always starts with starting pitching, and I think the
rotation that you're pencil in right now might be as
good as this team has had in probably four or
five years, probably since the playoff years in the late
in twenty nineteen. You've got sent to tell and Mark's
two solid pitchers coming back. Mark Case can be an
all Star dominant pitcher at times. Those two coming back
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and then the three other guys in the rotation are
set and they had solid seasons last year. Kyle Freely
was up and down, but he looked great in his
first start yesterday. So I think it starts with starting pitching.
And the starting pitching looks good, and so you pencil
those five starters in. That's your rotation, and then there's
four other armies of the miners that are poised to
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make a market some point the season, including Chase doll
Lander bitch Today and Sullivan and some others that you
think at some point maybe this year is going to
make an impact. So I think when you think about optimism,
you first think about pitching, and the pitching looks much better.
The bullpen can't do any worse. In a lot of
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the year, that ninth inning r like nine plus, which
is one of the lowest, the lowest, the worst eras
in the ninth inning in Major League Baseball history. I
go back in a fifty three year or something like
that to find an er in the ninth betting that
high that's going to be better. So the bullpen is solidified,
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starters solidified. Michael Tolly has got a couple of home
runs already, look for him to be more consistent in
center field. You've got a gold glover out there, and
in Brenton Doyle, you've got a guy that talked to
a great start tours, going to do his thing at shortstops.
So he threw all those things together starting with they
started pitching, and you've got that optimation.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Jerry Shimar our guest, one of the voices of the
Colorado Rockies here on KOA, And you mentioned Brenton Doyle
being a gold glover in the field, but he struggled
at the plate a little bit last year. And when
I heard this call on Friday, it gave me some
optimism for him at the plate this season.
Speaker 9 (22:32):
Now, first bitch swinging, Brenton Doyle drives at the deep center.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
This has got a chance.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
It's out of there, touch of.
Speaker 9 (22:40):
Old time, the Grand Tour for Brenton Doyle. Rocky started
the inning down three to nothing. Right now lead at
four to three. We'll tell you listenning some young players
getting very aggressive at the plates.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
They're in the first pitch looking for a fastball, it's
real to right center field, showing that great power. The
opposite way, that ball is well over four hundred feet.
Great swing by Brenton Doyle.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
So I guess my question on Brentan Doyle is has
he changed anything in the way he approaches the plate
in this offseason or is it just kind of him
finding his groove a couple of years into the major leagues.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
You know, Grant, from his rookie year two years ago
to last year, he made vast improvements offensively. He looked
like a different player. He's got his hands in a
different position. He starts to swing a little bit earlier
now that he did his rookie year, and the result
was a great season last year at two sixty and
twenty home runs I believe, and eighty two RBIs in
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the thirty so one bases. So I think he's a
kind of guy that is always looking to get better
and never satisfied. So from his rookie season to his
sophomore year, vast improvement, and I think he's going to
be even better this year. We make a leap up
to one hundred RBIs probably not He's going to hit
lead off and not do that, but I do think
he could be a two to seventy five hitter and
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to get his twenty five long runs and driving eighty
and steal thirty to forty bases and be one of
the premier defensive players, which he's already in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
You know, my biggest question for you is, you know,
has to do with a fellow Georgia Tech yellowjacket and
Charlie Blackman, who obviously called her a career at the
end of last season.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
I mean, what's it going to be like for you
calling games?
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Knowing as though you know, you're so used to seeing
Charlie Blackman in the Rockies uniform.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
Now he's no longer there. How does that change for you?
And calling games?
Speaker 5 (24:41):
Two broadcaster John already thinking about Charlie and it's so
strange and I can have him in the lineup, And
for me personally, it's even more so because Charlie and
I started at the same time. He got called up
in twenty ten. That's when I started with the Rockies,
and you know, we sort of mirrored our careers. Mike
broadcasting career is Major League Baseball career. His playing career
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way better than my broadcasting career. I love that, but
now Charlie, Charlie and I became pretty close and we
led a Bible sody for the players in the road
and not had him around, let along the lineup. It's
really strange, it is. I think it's that same way
for Jack and for Jesse and Uncare for all the fans,
the same way we're used to the last thirteen years,
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fourteen years seeing Charlie Blackman in the lineup, whether it's
in a leadoff spot or hitting thirty times, playing in
the outfield, playing as a DH. Really strange out to
have Charlie rown. He's he's a special assistant now the
general manager, and he's going to report to this point training.
I heard next week. We haven't seen him yet, but
we'll see him. We won't see him on the field
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of uniform, but I think we'll see him in the uniform,
which would be great for everybody.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Yeah, I think all of us Rockies fans.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
You know, even if you knew the team was not
doing so well later in the year, you always knew
you were going to get a plus effort out of
Charlie Blackman when he went down the course and watch
the game but.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
One of the guys that could be taking his spot
in right field.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Zach Veen, also a left handed batter that swing looks
awfully similar to Charlie Blackman's.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
I saw his big home run over the weekend. What
can you tell me about Zach?
Speaker 5 (26:15):
Zack is a really talented guy. He's a different chat,
He's got an interesting personality. He's very confident in himself,
which in baseball is fine. You're gonna get humbled in
baseball a lot of the time, but that's okay. But
he's a very confident young man. He's very articulate, very outgoing.
He's got different hair color every single day, so you're
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gonna look at it tomorrow and have a different hairstyle
and color that he did today, which is his fine.
But he you know, he goes in his own direction.
But he is a grand answer question. Extremely talented player,
he really is. He's got all the skills. He's got
an incredibly quick bat, he's a left handed heater, he's
got great speed, he's got power, he's got ability to
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hit the ball the other way. He's got all the
makings of a great player. And it looks like he's
finally healthy He's had a couple of different injuries in
his career, and now he looks like it's healthy and
he's thriving. And we did the whole money yesterday. It
was amazing that thing went, you know, four hundred and
fifty seed and that flip. We didn't really care for
a whole lot, but that really is so very talented
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player who could make a mark. I don't know if
you will make the team out of spring training, but
I think at some point this year, probably early in
the season, we'll see back as that being on a
major league roster.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Well, we know that no matter what the sport is,
you know, the idea that they're trying to advance the
game and make it more I guess visually pleasing for fans,
and we see it happening in the NFL.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
But in Major League Baseball? What do you think about this.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Whole abs, you know, strike and challenging the whole thing,
because usually we're so used to umpires trying to get
calls correct, but we know that there is a possibility
of human error. Do you like this new MLBS testing
that they're doing in spring training? About it?
Speaker 5 (28:08):
I wasn't a big fan of it. I thought, I
just can interrupt play. We don't need that in baseball.
We want to keep the game flowing as best we can.
But the three games we've done already and I've seen
an action, I kind of like it. I think it's
kind of cool. And the reason for that is when
a challenge is made and only the pitcher of cancer
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or batter can make the challenge, that not come to
the dugout. It doesn't come from anybody in the coup
house looking at video replay. It comes from one of
those three guys that have to do it immediately, and
it's so quick, within four or five seconds, you're going
to get your answer and at least stop deal. They
put the whole thing up on the big screen so
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you can see exactly where the ball was in or
out of the strike zone. So the fact that there's
only two challenges a game doesn't interrupt the game a
whole lot. This came down and we've seen a couple
of times where there's been blatant two times in the
game we did yesterday, two times where it was a
blatant miss call, one was a strike and should have
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been a ball, and vice versa. And I like the
fact that they got it right. It didn't affect the
outcome of the game. But I like the fact that
you can do it a couple times a games and
make the correction.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Yeah, I think I'm going to become a fan of
it too.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
I was like you, I was a little bit of
a hater of it at first, just like the pitch
clock a couple of years ago. But I think anytime
you can get the call right is a good thing
for baseball.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
And one thing we always know is right.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
As you and Jack on a call with Jesse running
things behind the scenes, Jerry, thanks so much for the
time tonight, and enjoy the rest of spring training.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
We'll see you down in Denver at Course Field here
before long.
Speaker 5 (29:45):
Okay, so it's good. Thanks for having you guys.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
That's Jerry shim Well, one of the voices of your
Colorado Rockies.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
We will react to that coming up here in just
a couple of minutes.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Beautiful sounds of roberta fla Rip She passes away, the
Grammy Award winner, passing away at eighty eight years old,
best known for that song right there. You tried to
kill off Neil Young earlier, but sadly we do lose ROBERTA.
Flack today, Welcome back to it broadcast Country to Night.
Grant Smith here filling in for Benjamin all Right, We're
gonna catch up with ben here in about ten minutes
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or so from Indianapolis as he's covering the combine with
Ryan Edwards.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
I'm in here with.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Nick ferguson a couple of texts on the KOA Common
Spirit health text line. You can join the show at
five six six nine zero. We asked earlier what you
were grateful or thankful for today. This one from Prophet
I am thankful for looking at the daisies from the
right side of the dirt. I agree with you there
on that would profit another one. Nick, you and Grant
are onto something. I own a company. I have seventy
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two employees. Every morning I say hi to every one
of them that's there before I start my day. I've
had some with me twenty plus years. Another one from
the three oh three.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
My dad was the og hard but I'll say a
little I'd edit there. World War two.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
VET seldom said I love you. The best thing I
hold in my heart is our final words where I
love you. I never leave a loved one without saying
I love you.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
That's beautiful. Three oh three and one more.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Talking about our conversation with Jerry Shimo. If you miss that,
it'll be up on the KWA Colorado page later tonight.
From the three six to oh I saw the ABS
system live at the minor league game, at the All
Star Game, and it's super super fast and it's cool.
They show it to the whole stadium, kind of what
Jerry said, where they have it up on the screens
at the at the park there in Scottsdale.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
What are your thoughts on the ABS system?
Speaker 4 (31:42):
Really, this is gonna sound like get off my lawn, but.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Going back and watching what baseball was before, I mean,
I love the whole idea of seeing you know, like
Tom and the sorta get after umpires because Big Blue
calls you. It's like with system that could take somewhat
of the fanfare out of baseball by doing that, right
because even though I mean, some people may hate it,
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but for me, that was a part of the game
right right, whether it was a striker, whether it was
it was a ball, whatever it was, but I love
that aspect of it.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Now, I do believe in the fact of trying to make.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
The game faster, be able to get through calls as
quickly as you can. And it makes me wonder because
listen to Jerry describe the system itself and like you
get two challenges. It's like, well, I know this. This
is the early starts for baseball, right, and the NFL
has been doing it for years. But my first thought was,
how is it that the NFL can't get it correct
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and it takes them so damn long to get through
a certain calls.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Yeah, and once it seems so obvious on the holidays,
like to the viewer, like it just seems like, hey,
you got this wrong, just correct it. And they are
starting to do that thing where they just chime in
from New York right away and they just get in
the referee year and fix it immediately. But then there's
other times I don't do it and you're like what
am I missing here? Like this was obviously a blown
call or this is obviously smart the ball is marked
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at the wrong spot and they didn't say anything. So
I don't understand when and why they chime in at
certain points and then not at others.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
Well, because you think about guys when they they've gotten
injured over the years. Usually with someone with big hid,
they're they're they're showing it repetitively. Oh look at this,
look at this angle, and they show you from like
three different angles.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
But it kind of frustrates you.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
But when it's when you're the home team and there
is an issue the people in the box, they're going
to show that. So with hands when you're on a row,
you don't get that type of play. But I think
the NFL should adopt this, show the fans exactly what's
going on. But I know over the past couple of years,
especially with Kansas City being a huge part of the conversation,
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they don't want to show a lot of those plays
that could be potentially penalties.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
You and your tenfoil hat with the Kansas City Chiefs.
Speaker 4 (33:57):
I'm not saying it's not tenfoil hat, not ten four ahead.
I'm telling the proofs in the pudding.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
The proof's in the pudding. Every four quarter, less than
four minutes remain in the game. You playing in Kansas
City or in Kansas City Chiefs, something goes wrong, most
likely it's going in the favor.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Yeah, I mean to make you it up.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Yeah, I'm kind of more with you than your usual
co host Benjamin Albright.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
We're gonna check in with him here in just a.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Couple of minutes live from Indianapolis as he's covering the
NFL Combine. You're listening to Broncos country tonight. I'm Grant
Smith's filling in for Ben alongside Nick Ferguson. We'll be
right back with Benjamin Albright live from Indianapolis in just
a couple of minutes on KOA eight fifty am ninety
four to one FM.
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