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Man, it's going to be a hell of a day
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Hopeful music at noon.
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We are four for five on hopeful music at noon
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This time I couldn't take the top side, not to
the job was done.
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Instead, I gave.
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From some of my air and prayed that it would
stall off the effects of oxygen poisoning for a few
minutes at least. I want how Pete managed to keep going,
But he did get every excuse in the world to
quit and save his life, and he stayed on a job.
Lay a lot of man.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Yes, Todd Lights thirteen point five, What are you nuts?
We still got to take that, lordom man. You know
what that's like. These days. You got the Navy everywhere,
you got frogmen, you got the EC twos with the
satellite tracking, you got the bell two nine of salt
choppers up the ass. We're losing one out of every
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nine loads.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
That's no dunk walk anymore.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Let me tell you, forget about money.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
What do you suggest that's reasonable, dear Rule.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
That's reasonable.
Speaker 8 (06:48):
Everybody.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
I'm gonna shout the trip. You're dire, No, you're dore,
direar y yeah, Iron, Matt, your reaction to the trade deadline.
(07:45):
We were all over it, Matt.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
We were on it.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
We were moving shaken. Kate's even wore one of those
green visors like a poker player in the fifties. We
were right on it.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Trade talk, trade talk, mind numbing trade talk. I was,
I mean, this is going to sound well, yeah whatever.
I was walking through the Hall of Fame as the
trade deadline was approaching its conclusion. The Hall of Fame
was kind enough to shut down for a little window
where all the Chargers could take their own little tour
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of the hall. Special tour, look a special tour. And
I was with our dear friend Daniel Jeremiah, who is
of course a lifelong Padre fan, and he and our
other friend who was chatting with us at the Charger
Charity golf tournament. Tony Jefferson born and raised San Diego,
Big Padre fan. The two of them were like little
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schoolgirls giggling over all of the acquisitions the Padres made.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Well, that puts you in a position of superiority, which
is where you enjoyed being. I mean, you knew what
to do.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
I did, and I looked at the pair of them
and I said, hey, guys, this is the Hall of Fame.
This is where greatness resides. I don't need to hear
about some wild card team that's never won a World
Series win in some sort of bf BS mid season trophy.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Yeah, this isn't the Hall of trade talk, right, losers.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Well, I'm staring at a bust of Bart Starr and
Jack Lambert. Okay, guys, let's save it for outside. That
was my trade.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Did you stick your finger in the gap between Lambert's teeth?
Speaker 4 (09:22):
I did not, but I did appreciate. Right after I
said that, one of the younger players, I think it
might have been Mickens, they came over to Tony Jefferson
and said, hey, uh, they got one of your uniforms
from high school. Right over here. It's one of them
old ass leather helmet uniforms. Taking advantage of the old man,
Tony Jefferson, but the the Dodgers did nothing. Well, that's true.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
We're on air. We're on air trying to figure out
who Alex Call is.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
I can't imagine. That was a challenge. We were right
on it. But we know they did what whoy they gave.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
They gave so little away that we couldn't figure out
who these guys were being traded for. You know, so
Alex Call, of course the outman straight up with brock Stewart.
We had that. We had Alex Call, and then Dustin
May went away right at the end, and you had
to figure like, after all the drama, the vast say
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generated rumor which turned out to be one hundred percent true.
The picture with his wife on the mound after a
really good outing turned out to be his last outing
ever as a Dodger at Dodger Stadium for now. Who knows.
You can always come back, like brock Stewart. But when
Dustin May went away, we couldn't figure out who he
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got traded for. And can you imagine being Dustin May
after all the rumors and you're down to the last
hour and you're like, sweet, I made it through, brother, Nope, Nope,
we got right under the wire and traded your ass
two to Boston. You're shipping out to Boston.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
You gonna go hang out with your old friend Walker Buehler,
And they traded you for are two dudes that aren't
in the majors, even though you've pitched more innings this
year than any any other season in your career, had
a solid four innings. Confordo host you there. They could
have left you there, Dustin could have just left you.
You wouldn't have had to take the flight to Tampa
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and now have to go back to Boston. And I
shouldn't say they did nothing, because at this time last year,
if you recall, I will speak for myself, I was
rather adamant that really you're you're trading for a guy
who has not played in a single contest, not a
single inning, not a single at bat.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Oh, you're talking about Tommy Tanks had a Loyola La
joya country day.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Right, I'm like, that's and and this guy Copetch Copach,
who's who's a reliever with a five E r A.
That's that's what we're doing here at the deadline.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
I remember those stories of chagrin. Yes, so I normally
don't really involve myself other than being like, hey, what happened?
Speaker 4 (12:02):
There's Alex Call.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
But look at this. The three two three on the
text also says accurate statement by Matt. Dodgers did nothing.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
The Gates.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
I wouldn't call it nothing, Matt. Obviously you don't know
the specifics of the trade they got Alex Call.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Yeah. Wait wait, I mean these are the subtleties. Yes, yes,
these are the subtle, very specific needs that the Dodgers had.
Like when you're real, real rich, you know you're not
worried about be rich, right. You know, when you're big
time like Peter Gabriel, you know you're worried about the nuances.
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You know your extra shower head having enough pressure.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
Most people don't know this, but Alex Call was acquired
because he is a three fourteen hitter against left handed pitching,
nice with two home runs, three doubles, and an OPS
over eight hundred against left handed pitching this year. That's
what the Dodgers needed was a right handed bat that
could play a corner outfield spot and can hit lefties.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
And he checked all the boxes.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
So this is this is a shall we say, like
a Justin Turner, a Max Munsey like someone that that
has had some major league experience. Nobody knows who they are.
Andrew Friedman, who Joe Madden told us is the best
scout in all of baseball and ultimately that's his greatest gift.
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Recognizes there's something with this thirty year old he heard
that nobody knows, but we're gonna make it happen. Bingo, Okay, and.
Speaker 6 (13:40):
Did you know, Matt, I mean this is stuff that
the average person just the other one. This is the
other side you can't comprehend. Only people who know baseball
right like Andrew Freeman, and his front off is known.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
He is Rock Stewart.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
This is like a submarine pitch from young young kid.
Speaker 6 (13:55):
This isn't brock Stewart of nine years ago when you
guys were far around with him in the Dodger clubhouse
and then dugout there before a game. This is brox
Stewart two point zero. In twenty twenty five, thirty six games,
he has dominated right handed batters, holding them to a
one oh four batting average.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Because some guys are right handed and then others are left.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
Handed, but righty's brox Stewart this year one oh four
batting average against him with a three twenty seven OPS.
That's like almost nothing. Now, left handed hitters, they're hitting
them around pretty good OPS over nine to forty. But
well that's right handed hitters.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
He is really good. Okay, Now correct me if I'm wrong, Kates,
because clearly you are in the no. I am but
a fool.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Well you weren't ready for nuances like that.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
I wasn't you know? I can. I can do the
one inch deep a mile wide. Now we go a
little bit deeper, and I'm in real trouble here, like
I find myself right now. So correct me if I'm wrong.
I read as Major League Baseball all in fact, continued
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to purport the rule not purport continue to enforce the
rule that all relievers must state game for at least
three batters.
Speaker 6 (15:14):
Yes, unless you're coming in to face a right handed
batter with two outs and the seventh inning, and you
get that one batter out because you have a one
zero four batting average against in an OPS against that's
less than four hundred, like brock Stewart, then all.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
You need for is one batter. Well, we're just going
to intentionally walk all the lefties to get to So
what you're telling me, is the acquisition of brock Stewart
was for the situational baseball that involves two outs in
an INNINGEP, high leverage situation, right hand batter YEP. Now
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when they call brock Stewart into the game, is the
opposing manager allowed to make a subsequent substitution that would
then put a let I don't think into the batters.
Now you're thinking too much. I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
I don't think that was I think you get blocked
from that, you get one block.
Speaker 6 (16:10):
I know, I know Petros didn't remember this yesterday because
he admitted he did not remember. But back on May
thirtieth of this year, you guys were at Dodger Stadium
just kind of chopping it up with Andrew Freeman, president
of Baseball Operations, and David Vassay has reminded you guys
multiple times of this quote from it. If I only
I mean, listen to what he said back on May thirtieth.
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Here he was talking to you guys about a right
handed reliever. Listen, if you.
Speaker 9 (16:35):
Look ahead to July, I think the most likely area
that we'd be looking is that kind of right on
right reliever. What you know Phillips filled it as well
as anybody in baseball. Uh, Diaz has historically been really
really good against right delivering. Got a little out of
whack that we're going to work with him on and
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feel like he has a chance to really slide into
all for us and be able to handle some really
good right handed hitters.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Ah, Lexis Diaz who did the job in Cincinnati.
Speaker 6 (17:05):
But yeah, look at Brock Stewart checks a couple of
those boxes right handed, really good against right handed hitters.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
I just wanted to make sure because I'm reading here
and it says in Baseballs from the rule book, a
manager can substitute a different pinch hitter after a pitching change.
If a manager calls for a pinch hitter and the
opposing manager then changes pitchers, the first pinch hitter is
removed from the game and a manager can send it
another pinch hitter. The second pinch hitter is the one
who actually will face the new pitcher.
Speaker 6 (17:32):
Yeah, I'm gonna need you to double source that, Matt,
and actually.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
What it's on the internet, so there's like six different
sources right below it. Brock Stewart is really good. I
feel like Brock Stewart's got a very specific skill set.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
He does like Liam Neesan does in all of his movies.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
I'm a fan of certain skills. Yes, that might be
able to be managed around if, in fact I didn't
know that against lefties it was in nine on through
ops average this year. Yeah, and I was going through
the Brox Stewart annals year sixteen five seven nine ERA
seventeen three four one way to go, Brock only seventeen
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games by the way, eighteen six eleven ERA nineteen. Okay,
you're working with two different teams Dodgers eighteen era. Let's
ship you out across the border. Toronto managed to have
that and then some and post just an eight point
three to one ERA and then last year, you know,
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a five to one seven. So well, I want to
bring this up, Matt bec I'm a simple man. Those
are simple numbers.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Well yeah, Matt, but you know, think of all the
guys coming off the IL.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
Well that too, But I want to bring a guy.
I just want to bring this up because I want
to bring it to your attention on Brox Stewart. Brock
Stewart was out of baseball in twenty and twenty one,
had Tommy John surgery. But while he was out of baseball,
he rediscovered himself. And he told David Vasse this on
the Pregame show last week. Here take a listen in
case you missed it.
Speaker 10 (18:59):
Honestly, really, I uh, this was COVID summer and I
had like a barbecue over at our house with some
friends all outside. We were sticking to the guidelines six
feet apart.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
It's okay, we got through that.
Speaker 11 (19:11):
We did.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
We did.
Speaker 10 (19:13):
But yeah, a friend of a friend came. Her boyfriend
was named Ben Brewster, and Ben Brewster is the co owner,
co founder of Tred Athletics. So we got to talking.
I didn't know that going in when he came over,
but we got to talking, and sure enough, he opened
this place in Charlotte called Tread Athletics, and they're mostly
online on Instagram, Twitter, et cetera. But uh, yeah, it's
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a baseball development specifically for pictures, you know, getting getting
some vlo, getting stronger, faster, and yeah, I got to
working with them, and sure enough it definitely paid off.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
Boom rediscovered.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Well, so you were still better about that?
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Now, Matt? You know what I do?
Speaker 4 (19:50):
I do because in twenty twenty three, in twenty seven innings,
has Era dipped the point six to five. There you go,
it's pretty right there. Unfortunately, in twenty twenty four ballooned
again to five one seven. Still right, we.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Stop looking up your stats. Statman, did you know more
than Andrew Friedman?
Speaker 4 (20:10):
I don't, and that's why I'm making a fool of
myself again, like I did last year when I went
through the same exercise with Michael Kopek, who I believe
I called Michael Kopec back then because I was so
well versed on his career, and as we went through it,
I was saying, wait, you got a guy with a
four seven four e R kidding me. He's got five
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four three back in twenty twenty three batting average against
his sniffing three.
Speaker 8 (20:35):
What are we doing?
Speaker 4 (20:37):
The guy ends up being the the flamethrower that the
Dodgers needed. So I'm making a fool of myself. I
am a humpy in order to say, hey, Friedman clearly
knows what he's doing. He had a guy that never
took an at bat last year at the trade deadline
that became the NLCS MVP, and a reliever that had
an Era RA sniff in five in Chicago on the
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worst team in the league that he puts straight into
high leverage situations in the postseason and it paid off beautifully.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
They don't need anything. They did all their work in
the offseason and look how it's paid off. The outfield's
not a circus. Conforto's on the way back. Paz isn't
a mess out there at all, and it's gonna be
a hell of a second half.
Speaker 6 (21:26):
My post is coming back tomorrow, by the way. Yeah,
all right, and Glass now looks okay, look at all this.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Everything's fine. We'll be right back. We're gonna do a
top story of the day. Mattis back from Canton, Ohio.
You just heard about the Hall of Fame and all
the cool guys.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
We have, oh so many cool guys.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
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Got to hear a story about Matt Shamings and padre types.
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You know it's closed off NFL Hall of Fame. Don't
forget to podcast the show on the iHeartRadio app or
stream it live on the iHeartRadio app. It's always there
and it sounds better. And right now it is time
for the top story of the story of it Well.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
To take a page from the always insightful and inspiring
Jim Harbaugh. Last night was the Pro Football Hall of
Fame game at Tom Benson Memorial Stadium in Canton, Ohio.
The unofficial because it doesn't count official kickoff to the
NFL campaign, this being the twenty twenty five installation. They
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regularly pit two teams against one another, one that usually
is rather local or at least kind of close to Canton.
One of the Ohio teams maybe a little western Pennsylvania.
You can get a little Chicago, Detroit down there. Come
on up from Nashville if you like something along those lines,
with a team that has perhaps an alumnus that will
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be inducted into the Hall of during the ceremonies on Saturday.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Strategy Matt in the scheduling of the Hall of Fame
game high level.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
If you're going to play football in July, then you're
going to have to figure out how to get some
asses moving around the country in order to pack that stadium.
And as someone who will plead ignorance to the Hall
of Fame game, because I do believe the majority of
eyeballs on it are of the following categories. One fans
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of the two teams playing that have not seen football
in eight months. Two family members of the ninety person
individual roster that might be playing. And friends, of course,
and associates and acquaintances and friends of friends of friends,
those sort of thing. Game pregame co hosts Tim King
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again right, and of course three gamblers. The game can
still be better on All lines are up, all visual
props are available on why all available? And yet, as
Jim Harbaughs said while making his pitch in the pregame
portion of the production to his team, Gentlemen, there will
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be more people watching this game than the NBA Finals.
The eyes of the nation, the sporting nation, will be
upon you go out there and perform for those individuals,
and that is the opportunity. Many players that may never
see action in an NFL regular season game were given
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second thing I was not aware of, and I don't
even know what the first thing was. I guess it
was just I.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Guess that more people watch the Hall of Fame game
than the NBA Finals.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
Yeah, I would assume that this is not a game
that gets that many eyeballs. But when it's on NBC
and it's on in primetime, and it's a Thursday night,
and primetime TV has shifted.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Like quite simply, it's the first football game on right,
you know, I mean that's not the UFL. But I
don't know if people are in you know, people turn
it on because it's a curiosity. But the TV broadcast,
you know, they'd barely do the game. They it's mostly interviews.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Interviews and Hall of Fame celebration. I will say this though,
you know, Thursday night, when I was a wee wi
lad was you know, Thursdays was always the Golden Night.
It was the Jeffersons and all in the family. It
was Cheers, it was Musty TV on it was me, yeah,
it was it was Seinfeld. It was Mussy Now.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
I know.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
You know, if I think if you have younger kids,
they really don't watch any TV because all of our
kids are grown and we're allowed to operate the remote control.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Although last night my son did say that he needed
the television because there was some YouTube event, some streamer.
He needed to see something live, okay, and that kind
of shocked me right to start that crossover, right, you know,
it's like, you know, I need to be in front
of the TV. And I watched that T and oer
this YouTube is going to be making appearance on Gutfeld Dad,
and I got to turn it on. So what I
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what primetime has become as someone who operates a television
that can tune into local channels as in prime time
is either a straight news You're just getting news all
the way through. Hey it's k t l A and
we got the seven o'clock news, the eight o'clock news,
the Nere's a car chase, right, or.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
Absolutely completely and totally inane and asinine game shows. Hey,
you're gonna stand here and answer questions, and if you
get it right, you're gonna keep standing here. And if
you get it wrong, this big ass inflatable recess style
ball is gonna come barreling down this incline and boop
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you into a pool of water.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
And I don't like, uh, you know what is this?
Speaker 8 (27:52):
Rob Lowe?
Speaker 3 (27:53):
And oh yeah, whatever happened to game show hosts? I
want a cheesy guy and a hair helmet.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
For that, that's right and skin And I don't even
understand that freaking game. You're standing on some floor and
it lights up and I'm an expert boo in baby food. Yeah,
do you want to take on the woman whose expertise
is baby food and you got to answer baby food questions?
Or do you want to take on this gentleman over
here who works for Midas and knows everything there is
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to know about breaks? Which one like it? Does it?
So it's no wonder that the NFL has a monopoly
on primetime programming, because the networks have abandoned primetime programming
for all intents and purposes apologies for the aside. The
second thing that I was not aware of, and perhaps
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it's because I have taken a pass on many of
the pregame productions prior to a Hall of Fame game kickoff?
Is what's behind Tom Benson Stadium? And I you mean
the one in Canton, Ohio, The one in Canton, Ohio.
Tom Benson and the family paid for the upgrades, for
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the remodel, for the retrofitting, to make this an NFL
at least a preseason NFL caliber stadium with a beautiful
concourse where they have live music and games and restaurants,
and inside with a legitimate press box that can house
five different radio broadcasts, and a legitimate television booth and
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a coaches you know, high seven stories above the ground
coaches booths for them to look down upon the field
of play and get their schematics right. But as I
was talking to Dan Fouts again going to be that
guy and drop that name, and Shannon talked to him
on the sideline, he pointed out, He's like, you know,
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the biggest thing for him when he comes back every
year is how different the stadium is. He's like, remember
when when we were playing in the Hall of Fame
game in the nineteen seventies. This was just McKinley High School.
You know, the NFL Hall of Fame is planted on
the on the campus of McKinley High School in Canton, Ohio,
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and we would hang out at the Hall of Fame.
We would do our tour and then we would go
into a high school locker room and we would then
walk onto a high school football field and play an
NFL preseason game at a high school.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Yeah, I had at in Ohio. I had an old
friend who covered the Miami Dolphins, you know, back in
the eighties, and Dan Marino's locker in camp was literally
a nail on a wall, like it's it's amazing, you know,
it's crazy, it's amazing.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
And you know I was. I was amazed a long
time ago at the quality of the Chargers training camp
down in San Diego. You know, I mean, it didn't
look very different from a college or less than a
college training camp. Of course, now they have a very
different vibe. But the NFL never necessarily has had to
spend money on the players like they kind of do now.
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And the player's convenience, we kind of hear about it
with the stadium to night in Tampa Bay. You know,
we hear a lot about it in Oakland. The players
are pissed about the clubhouse. You know, Sacramento Stadium.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
This is not fit for a professional athlete.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Yeah, but back in those days, dude, you know, the
NFL was a very different vibe. You know, we got
guys smoking weed right in front of Johnny Unanitis in
the locker room.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
We walked in, We walked into the stadium where we
parked the buses, and as the players walked through to
make their way to the dressing room, not in bellishing,
not exaggerating, we walked into the entrance of McKinley High School,
walked through the main concourse with all the lockers and
their combination locks stacked right next to each other, up
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a narrow hallway, and then cut through what I believe
to be a social studies class. And I still have
it right because I'm someone that's observant, okay, and I
want to recognize what's around me. You're lack a detective,
and I now know that bark. We practice bark at
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McKinley High Okay, the Bulldogs behavior, attitude, responsibility, kindness, bark.
That's what I walked through to get through a metal
detector with four metal detectors set up inside this classroom
as we made our way into Tom Benson Hall of
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Fame Stadium.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
You know McKinley High is, it's got a Hall of
Fame of its own. I mean, the Snow Brothers went there.
Eric Snow and Percy Snow, the linebacker from the United
State who almost won the Heisman playing linebacker, the OJS
who I'm sure you saw yeah at the Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame. Fantastic, a lot of guys who
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played pro football. Wayne Fonts, the Great Lions head coached
the Pooh Bear. Right, Yeah, that's a pretty uh pretty It.
Speaker 4 (33:07):
Was really cool. Yeah, like it was really really cool.
And there's a reason, and you know what I think
that makes sense be because you've got Look, you've got
only so many people that are gonna come to the
Hall of that are going to travel to Canton, Ohio
and stay at the Ramato or the Motel six or
whatever they have there for really three days of festivities.
You've got yesterday's Hall of Fame game. Today you have
a big celebration and a bunch of Hall of Fame
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dinners and all the players are having their individual parties.
Then of course tomorrow is the actual induction and all
the speeches. So there's a lot of locals that come
to the game and local families. And Jim Harbaugh told
us on the pregame show that he remembers being five
or six when his old man Jack and you know,
the whole family, he and John and Joni went to
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the Hall of Fame game and that it was a
big deal and they would go every year because they
were Ohioan's back then, and that like, hey, the NFL
is here, this is the place to be for this event.
And until you're in the middle of it, it's, uh,
you don't realize that, oh yeah, this is just a
tiny little neighborhood like Green Bay where Lambeau is right
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in the middle of a Catholic church right behind the
stadium in a neighborhood of single story houses that might
be nine hundred to twelve hundred square feet encircling the place.
Kind of cool.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
I mean, with this big, big corporate as the NFL
has become and you know, just cashing checks left and right,
you know, the NFL, it is pretty it is that
they still keep that tradition of being a small town
deal for this. Yes, that's a preseason game. Oh uh no,
that's not her what I thought it was Kristen Bell,
(34:42):
Dak Prescott's wife, or no, Dak Shepherd's wife, Dak Deka exactly,
Kirsten Bell of the Las Vegas Aces.
Speaker 12 (34:49):
My bad.
Speaker 4 (34:50):
Not familiar with her. Kristen Bell, she does those commercials
with Dak Shepherd. I think, yeah, yeah, But I do
think as I U and again, yes, put out and
the powder blue pants look fantastic. New part of the
uniform looked fantastic. Favorite uniform might be now the white
top and the powder blue pants. But I do think
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having a head coach like Jim Harbaugh who regularly shares
that he just loves football and he wanted to play
football until he couldn't play football anymore, and then he
wanted to coach football until he can't breathe anymore, and
he hopes to be coaching football until he takes his
last breath, I do think that having that sort of mindset,
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that sort of reverence for history, respect for the sport,
was able to shine through yesterday. All of these players
knew that it was a big deal to him that
they were able to go on this tour that they
were going to have guides that were going to walk
them through. The guide that was with our group shared
with us that a bust was stolen one time. One
(35:58):
time somebody made off with a busust and it was
the OJ Simpson bust. And it was during COVID when
she said that security was short, said because it wasn't open,
and she said someone managed to get in steal the
bust of OJ and they ended up finding it two
(36:20):
days later on the side of Highway seventy seven. And
that that exact same bust is the one that is
now right back there in Canton. Just things like that,
and all the players seem to be very receptive and respectful,
and I think you saw that in the way they
went out and played that even though these are you know,
second third guys that are going to be fighting like
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freaking dogs for just a spot on the practice squad,
that the execution, the effort, the fact that you had
guys like Naekwon Jones and Deshaun Hand, guys that have
been in this league for eight and five years, and
Tony Jefferson in his eleventh season out there Will Disley,
You're starting tight end asked to go out there and
help out Trey Lance on this first series, settle them
down a little bit with a backup offensive line, went
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out there and played football at a very high level
compared to how sloppy the Lions. And that's usually what
the Hall of Fame game looks like. It's usually a
disaster of a game. It's zero zero in the middle
of the third quarter.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
The Chargers performance with the passion for tradition of Jim Harbaugh,
of Jim Harbaugh.
Speaker 4 (37:21):
And I do think that that was most definitely because
I had prepped ten pages of this guy did this
and he went to school here, and oh, this is
a cool sot. I told you the Miles Purchase story
about Purchase, morem and Bay. That's the sort of stuff
I thought we were going to get to, and instead
you got a team that went out there with, as
Vick would say, their hair on fire and getting after it.
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And I think the tone was set with his respect
and reverence and just sort of the very cool atmosphere
that the Hall of Fame game presents. That you're out
in the high school, that's where that's still where the
McKinley High kids play football. That's where their home games
are in that stadium, and that he took that as
a special opportunity and a and a gift, a football
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gift to his people. And I'm very thankful to have
been been part of it, because what the hell did
I know about that? And it was a real cool
experience that I would recommend for everyone to get out
there and check it out.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
The Hall of Fame game is coming gone. Will the
Chargers bring that inspiration to SOFI? We have tickets to
give away for the next preseason game or two at
our next event Friday and beautiful Huntington Beach a week
from today at HQs Gastropov for the third stop of
the Petros and Money Summer Tour. We'll be right back
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with some lessons learning great sportsnock this week Petros some
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Speaker 4 (39:17):
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Speaker 3 (39:29):
All right, Matt, it is time for the lessons learning.
Great work the Twitter mountdown picture.
Speaker 9 (39:35):
I guess who delivered a really sick burns with no
concerns the sences.
Speaker 3 (39:43):
All right, it is time for the lessons learned and
great sports talk. We've had many great sports talk lessons
this week despite the short shows. Uh lesson what Alexi
les No. We will start with Nightgame. Roy Scheider film
Nowark Corner nineteen eighty nine, Detective Houston Astros based story
(40:09):
in Houston and Galveston. You gotta love it. Here's Roy
Scheider versus Paul Gleeson from the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
He's got Big D.
Speaker 3 (40:18):
What's going on? Big D? G? You jogging with me?
Speaker 4 (40:24):
Don't shoot me?
Speaker 2 (40:25):
Huh Hey, I'm innocent.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
I didn't do nothing wrong. Don't shoot me. I damn it.
Kyle I Warren, your boy, let him run this big
jump mouse.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
You suppose those are your lovely foot prints all around
the body?
Speaker 10 (40:38):
I reckon, that's all you've uncovered so far with your
big times right?
Speaker 11 (40:43):
Did you get a big fancy YadA you bu sad?
Speaker 8 (40:46):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (40:46):
Shut up?
Speaker 2 (40:47):
Both? What the hell's the matter with you two?
Speaker 4 (40:51):
Lessen to Alexion dose. Let's say on a dow Way.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
This this heated up things during the week. A call
on Dodger Talk on Sunday with Tim Kates hosting What
After David Vassy and Kate's did not correct it.
Speaker 13 (41:07):
I'm doing fantastic, and I'll tell you why. I'm first
off better hearing you, then the cry baby Davids. But
with all that moving next, did we get the end
of it too?
Speaker 4 (41:21):
When he thanks him for calling? Yeah, thanks for calling.
Speaker 3 (41:24):
That's all.
Speaker 2 (41:27):
They don't need to go to six six man rotation.
Speaker 12 (41:30):
I guy gets hurt, you pull one of these starters
that are bullping back out in the mind on the
start of again, and that's that'll help solve the bullpen
situations because some of the guys that are coming in.
Speaker 2 (41:43):
I cut it off.
Speaker 4 (41:43):
Sorry, appreciate the call. I believe it was the exact quote.
Appreciate the call. Yeah, thank you, sir, great insight lesson
three Lexi trees. Any today, Daniel Jeremiah was on this week.
He listens to Dodger talking, heard that call. So he
was asked by me about his relationship with Matt and
(42:06):
the Dodgers versus Padre's rivalry. Heating up like on a
scale of one to ten, you know, ten being like
those two Detroit Tigers announcers choking each other over a chain,
and one, you know, being like just all in good fun,
like like I an eagle and going back and forth
(42:27):
with the czar, Like what are we talking about?
Speaker 11 (42:32):
Well, I know Money's playbook. He takes my playbook that
I used to get Kate's, which used to get him
every single time. Now Kates has kind of come hip
to my game a little bit. Money incorporates a very
similar playbook that I employ against me, which you know,
and to be honest with he is probably more successful
than mine is with Kate's presently, I know.
Speaker 3 (42:52):
Very ugly between all these men. As the season goes
on and the off season.
Speaker 4 (42:57):
She sads, man, we just can't help ourselves. We get
a motion and seem headed that you'll find this one interesting.
Matt Lesson for Lexion Quatro. That's at Brock.
Speaker 3 (43:10):
Stewart used to be a Dodger nine years ago and
Matt and I interviewed him on the field at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 4 (43:18):
Let's know, what a great guy, Stewart. What's crack and Brock?
How are you?
Speaker 10 (43:21):
I'm great? How are you guys doing? I don't know
what you're talking about my dad being famous or whatever.
Speaker 4 (43:25):
Well, we all thought that your father. We heard that,
like your baseball because your dad was. It was like
something with your dad, right, okay by Rod Stewart, Right,
that's what we heard that. You know, you know his dad,
And we're like, well, obviously, I guess we do.
Speaker 2 (43:40):
Yeah, well he's been a scout.
Speaker 10 (43:42):
I don't know if you know his name, but he's
been in the business for a while, and yeah, he
taught me everything I know. So I guess you could
say celebrity of my voice.
Speaker 3 (43:50):
Your father is not not Rodtart, not British born singer Rods.
Speaker 4 (43:55):
No, that's my uncle. That's humiliating. How do they let
us out on that field? That guy was awesome? How
in God's name do they let us out in the.
Speaker 3 (44:04):
Field is born singer rochet Or, No, that's my uncle.
Speaker 4 (44:09):
Otis loves us. What are you talking about? The hell
is wrong with us? How is this show lasting?
Speaker 3 (44:15):
Come on, that guy loves us, madd He can't wait
to get back on the show, even though you criticize
his record against lefties.
Speaker 4 (44:21):
I gotta walk that back, singer Rochesett sort, No, that's
my uncle. I don't know how you're gonna walk that back, Matt.
You gotta walk that back in a hurry. Uh oh
less than five Alexion Sinkle's say on a chink wiz.
Speaker 3 (44:38):
Well, we didn't uh, we didn't get into this, Matt.
But a tough blow for the Papadakas family that James
Outman aka Tarzan has been sent to Minnesota, although we
do have a post trade deadline Minnesota twin end of
the season preview for you.
Speaker 5 (44:55):
Right here, here comes Tarzan, the Lord of the Jungle,
and his great friends Cheetah the Monkey, Old Bear, the Lion,
Little Peppy, the orphan boy captain Shorts to Deep for diamonds,
and a lady doctor who wants to save a village
(45:16):
of sick people. They travel together down the Great River
to a country they never saw before.
Speaker 4 (45:24):
Tarzan and the Great River, So Tars luck Tarzan.
Speaker 3 (45:33):
The Lady Doctor's pitching every sixth day.
Speaker 4 (45:36):
She can get left handers out with the best of them.
And those are your lessons learning great sports town.
Speaker 6 (45:43):
Peppe the Orphan Board though, that guy cannot hit right
handed hit or our pictures.
Speaker 4 (45:47):
He is terrible platoon player all day.
Speaker 3 (45:49):
Oh, Brock Stewart's gonna have his way with Peppy the
Orphan Boy. I'll tell you that, you know, pitch it
to him. Sure, yeah, we'll be right back with the
final hour. H no, no, we have a word number
song Final hour fun fact. In the hour after that,
we're going all the way until.
Speaker 4 (46:07):
We got third ninety minutes.
Speaker 3 (46:08):
Baby, come on,