August 11, 2025 • 56 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Welcome back to Bryce is being Neucci in the morning.
It's time for the NFL Blitz. On one O three
nine at ninety eight three ESPN Fan.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
It is time for the NFL Blitz. Jordan in for
Bryce Martin Kelly behind the glass on Bryce and bing Ucci.
Just past the eight o'clock hour on a Monday, A
beautiful day outside, sixty six degrees outside. We're at our
downtown Salt Lake City studios on Broadway. You're looking at
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a high of eighty nine today, Martin, A high of
eighty night, A little few clouds, a few clouds in
the sky, but gonna be hot, damn hot the rest
of the week, ninety three Tomorrow, ninety six Wednesday, and
then it sort of kind of cools off, but not
not really. I'm missing I'm gonna be honest with you.
I'm so happy to be back back in the grind
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talking sports, a really hard job. But do I miss
not being at the beach right now? Kind of miss
being at the beach. I'll be honest. Have you taken
have you been able to take some time off yet
this summer?
Speaker 3 (01:09):
I have not. I have been working, working, working. I
am a person that enjoys taking vacations in the fall
winter time. I'd rather work like a dog during the
summers because the car they are called the dog days
of summer might as well get all the money when
people rather hide. So I'm not taking any time off
until October. I'm taking ten days off then, so everyone's
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going to be freaking out about a backup producer if
someone gets sick, so I will not be available. I'm
not flying down and doing those and pulling those out.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
If you're just joining us. I was driving in today
at you know, five point thirty in the morning, and
I I get I look at my phone when I
get here and Bryce his text and be oh, no,
I woke up. I'm sick, basically I can't talk, and
he goes, I'll see if I can call Martin. I'm like,
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there's not a chance in hell, and I'm not Martin's
gonna pick up the phone. There's because I wouldn't be awake.
I'm like, there's no way no one's gonna be awake
right now. I'm gonna be in there doing the show
by myself and Martin. God bless you. My friend picked
up the phone got here in like twenty minutes again.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
You know, I have an alarm set up at six
every day, so it wakes me up at six am.
So I woke up, I got out of bed, and
I checked my phone. In Bright's texted me. I'm like, Bro,
I haven't even been up yet, and I already knew it,
and so I was more than happy to come in
and help out. I always love talking with you and me.
We've always had a lot of fun doing this. So yeah,
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happy to be part of the show man. I was
happy to host it on Friday, and now I'm getting
more time to talk on air. I can't argue about
that one. Bros. You know it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Bro. We know you poison price through this. I'm coming
back on this man.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
I'm from Chicago. I have my secret.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Bro.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
I'm not telling you what I do, Bro, but I
have my secret.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
I don't want to get off on a huge well
I do I can. Who gives a crap? I read
this great book recently about the World's Fair eighteen ninety
three in Chicago. Dude, that was fascinating. A The fair
itself is just incredible on its own. B By the way,
there was a serial killer on the loose during this
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whole thing. You're from Chicago, did you obviously you know
about this?
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Yeah, you know. If you don't, if you haven't traveled
through some of the museums and checked out some of
the segments about the fare from that era. Yeah, listen,
you know what Chicago back in the lateeen eighteen hundreds
was interesting. Man, A cow tipped over a lamp and
burned down two thirds of the city, and there was
a big, giant international fair, and you know, someone was
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on the loose with a knife and a gun and
had some intentions of having some people meet God a
little bit early. So you know what, that's the that's
the type of stuff you run into in the city. Man.
One day you're you know, losing your house because a
cow tipped over a light and burned down the city,
and another day on the run because someone's chasing But
here's the problem.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
The Chicago police department in the eighteen nineties was so
inept that they didn't know there was a serial killer
on those They didn't even know people were disappearing real quick.
Serial killer talk. This dude was insane. He built a house.
This was Jackson Park, you know, Jackson Park, So kind
of that area. Ish he built a house, so you know,
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he's a serial killer, he's a psychopath. He would he
had all these you know, rooms where he would murder
people and like kidnap people. So he did have all
these weird things in the house that like, if if
one dude built the house, he'd be like, Hey, why
do you have this? This is creepy as hell. I'm
going to get the authorities. He would have like certain
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groups of construction workers build one part of the house,
and then he'd fire him bring in another group of
construction workers to build the other part. So none of
no one really knew all the weird stuff that was
in this house of horrors, not shockingly burned down, by
the way, Martin. Apparently Chicago has quite a history. Yeah,
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gret What the Devil in the White City is? The
book I highly recommend is very very interesting. The other
thing I want to ask the slaughterhouses in New York
in the eighteen nineties early nineteen hundreds. Good lord, my friend.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
You know what, they didn't call us the meet capital
of the world for no reason. Man, I grew up
not far from the slaughterhouses. I can tell you exactly
where they used to be. The train tracks run still
back there. No listen, man, it's more of a chocolate
smell in the city. Yeah, there's a chocolate factory downtown
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that produces a good amount of chocolate. If you drive
around downtown and you can smell it from time to time.
I've had to before and it's a it's a fun smell.
It's not a bad one. But the point is, I
know where the slaughterhouses are. Drove passing many times Bridgeport, Canaryville.
If any you guys are fans of the show Shameless,
you would know that area as well. None of the
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stuff on Shameless is legit because it's all stage, but
then you know some of it's whatever, but it's in
that back area. And yeah, you know what, when they
used to have all this stuff run from Texas through Oklahoma,
through Kansas, through Iowa, through through Saint Louis all the
way up to Chicago, you would have it that day.
Man New YORKA would have his stakes by eight nine
o'clock and anybody who wanted to spend twenty bucks on
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a state that night had to cut in Chicago the
night about four or five hours before.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Do you ever watch the show the Bear. Have you
ever seen that?
Speaker 3 (06:36):
I have seen the Bear?
Speaker 2 (06:37):
How how Chicago authentic is that show?
Speaker 3 (06:40):
The Italian beef is as authentic as you can get.
It's the best sandwich there is for the city to offer.
And you know what that that's that style of kitchen
where being that my dad's been in an executive chef
and has run that style, been in the kitchens with
him before being a dishwasher boy and watching that that's
legitimately something that a lot of Chicago kitchens do. Though
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that higher if they want to be the high ranking, Yes,
well I would.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
I I should have prefaced that by saying that you
are you come from a family that has restaurants and
so so that's why part of the reason I asked you,
you know what favorite part of one of my favorite
parts of that show is, and you'll appreciate this is
the Bear is the brother in law who they is
this kind of yuppy dork on the show. Like he's
very like he's lovable, Like he's a good character, he's
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a good guy, but he is not like a part
of this He's kind of an outsider in this family.
And I don't know how else to describe him other
than kind of a yuppie dork. But he's the only
Cubs fan in that show, and everybody else is or
White Sox fans, and they just make fun of this
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dude mercilessly. And that to me, you will know this
as a Sox fan? Does that not ring very?
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Like?
Speaker 2 (07:56):
What's the that's from? We'll get into the NFL here
in just a second, but I want like, that's what
is the attitude from White Sox fans toward Cubs fans?
Is it just that they're kind of like, listen, we.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
When it comes to winning at the very moment, we
cannot compete. Listen, we won our forty third game last night.
We passed how many wins we got the season prior. Okay,
so I'm very proud of my Chicago White Sox to
beat Cleveland and to get past how many wins they
had the season prior. Thank you, Colorado. We understand you're
the sacrifice too.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
How do you view the Cubs there?
Speaker 3 (08:28):
But to tie it all up together, how we view
the Cuff fans is we can't compete with wins. But
right now, the way we can compete is watching the
Milwaukee Brewers find some way to be the best team
in baseball. Take one of our former prospects, and Andrew Vaughn,
and actually turn into a legit fun team and watch
the Cubs breakdown. They lost two out of three to
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the Cardinals. Everybody on the South Side is dancing up
enjoy right now. We are having so much fun. We
know our team sucks, but at the same time we
know the other team's gonna miss the playoffs and enjoying it.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
The Cubs are going to the plug. We'll get into
major League Baseball later. They're not playing that bad. The
Mets made the good Lord the Bets gone.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
The Mets are gone.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
But no.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
But my question is a guy you're from the South
Side of Chicago, born and bred, what is the attitude like,
why do White Sox fans hate Cubs.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Fans because they act like they're one of the top
tier baseball clubs in the country. They act like they're
the Yankees in the and they're up there with the
Boston Red Sox and those guys. They act like, you know,
just because you were on TV throughout the whole entire
country and had Harry Carey, you stole him from the
White Sox. Okay, you know we you know, he had
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all of that and and all your praise about year
in and year right going to the World Series and
all this and all that.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
But that has to be a recent thing because they've
been they're the Cubs. They've been terrible for one hundred
and ten years.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
So I went ninety six years without a title. Nobody
talked about my stuff, Nobody talked about any of us. Okay,
I went that long, Okay without a title too. You
know what, listen, just because you did allow Billy going
into your stadium, it's not my fault you recurse her
that long. You should have just let the billy go
go in and eat some people's stuff and then walk around.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
So it's an it's an attention thing like the National
meet everybody. It's you think Chicago baseball. A lot of
people think the Cubs, and that's and they have their
nice little ball they have you know, it's a jam.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
And and of all, is it like the fans that
go to cub sends most of them there just to
have a party. They're not real baseball fans. Is that
the feeling?
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Well?
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Also, because I mean, let's let's get into it legitimately
about Chicago. I mean, cub fans like to talk about
how being up north you're on you're on the safe
side of the city. You're not gonna get shot, You're
not gonna get thish, You're not gonna get that, I
will argue. Okay, everybody can look this up. Okay, go
look up your stats. Wrigleyville is actually a little more
dangerous than it is to be on the south side
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of Chicago. Okay, I've seen some of the maps. I
see some of the numbers. Okay, it's a little more
dangerous to be up on the north side than it
is on the south side. I've been to the south
side my whole entire life grew up. I mean, I
wasn't afraid one time of walking through that neighborhood. Not
one time was I afraid. Okay, you'll be fine, you'll
be safe. There's no harm or foul gonna come to you,
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all right, Listen, They just they don't like us. That's
fine with me. You know what, the Cup fans want
to talk down on us like we're you know, the
little brother of the city. That's fine with me. Guess what,
they can't really talk much because we all have the
same amount of World Series titles. All right, I'm the
first one to win a World Series in this in
this millennium. So you know what, two thousand and five
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happened before. I don't know what year they wanted.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
I just well, the last time they heard it was
you're right, because they threw the nineteen nineteen I think
it was like nineteen.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
We threw the nineteen nineteen year old series. Everybody knows
about the Chicago black Hawks, Chicago Blackhawks, Chicago Black Sows.
And then we lost the fifty nine World Series to
the Saint Louis Cardinals, lost out in six games, and
then and then we lost. We haven't made it back since.
And of course Cup fans like to say, well, you
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haven't won a game wheld was a playoff game, since
a playoff serious since two thousand and five, we've won
a playoff game. We'd think, you know, we'll beat Houston
for once, but then got kicked. But other than that, yeah, well,
you know what, we'll take it on the chin. I'm
not afraid to say it. But Cup fans, I don't know, man,
I just them Northsiders and Red Wine and Blues. I
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don't I don't get it. I like to wear my
black and white look.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
I couldn't find off the top of my head the
crime statistics by neighborhood in Chicago. Your last World Series
White Sox nineteen seventeen was or not last, I'm sorry
last before two thousand and five, nineteen seventeen. It's amazing
how inept both ball clubs have been, if we're being honest.
In Chicago, it's in a giant market where I've only.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Been to the playoffs eleven times in my entire history.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
First, but you've never been to the playoffs unless you
somehow were in the bullpen and I didn't know about it.
You were not. You have not been in the playoffs
the White Sox. I'll give you a Wii because I
can go. If you want to say, we know you're
you're not getting it. You're not getting an I here.
You You did not were you were? You were not
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Ozzie And you call it hitting runs and getting kicked
out again? The all right?
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Him?
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Yeah, yeah, it's true. You did know.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
I met him on the elevator. He was going down
on the on the workers elevator. He just so happened
to be in there, and I'm looking at him going,
oh my god, this is the guy that broke the curse.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
There you go, there you go. All right, we get
let's get into real quick. NFL preseason underway. Uh some
lessons we've learned so far, I don't know. Try not
to get injured. That was one Dickerson the Eagles. Uh
now I'm blaking on his on his the left guard
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Landon Dickerson helped off the field yesterday, carted indoors parent
right leg injury, getting an MRI today. Keep an eye
on that. That'd be a big loss for the Eagles.
Other than that, man like do you uh, I don't
watch preseason football. I refuse to do it. I will
not partake in that. It's it's just ridiculous. There was
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one highlight, though, Martin. One highlight preseason football. Here it
is a seventy yard field goal. He drilled the ball.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Holy smokes, I got a shot. He just kicked a
seventy Are you kidding me? Crazy? I crazy?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
NFL record? That would be an NFL record first half.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Holy smokes.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
A Jaguars kicker caim little seventy year field goal to
end the first half. Okay, first of all, that's that's
as far as preseason football go goes, that's the gold standard.
What else are you gonna get? This brings me to
my argument with the NFL. Is it time to narrow
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the goalposts? No? Why not?
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (15:24):
I think it's getting too damn easy. These guys don't miss,
they never miss.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
No, let it let it be. I love the fact
that he kicked a seventy yard field goal. I this
is this was entertaining. This This wasn't the only highlight.
The Lejonte Western Pond return on third Thursday night. That
was another highlight of the whole entire preseason.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
No, but but I'm what I'm saying is like in
the NFL. In college, it's fantastic, it's entertaining because you're like,
I don't know what this guy's gonna do. He may
shake it into the West bleachers. In the NFL, if
you get past the forty, if like like it's over,
it's it's almost seems like it's just automatic. These kickers
are so so good. Which boy, that's seventy yard. That
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proves your point. By the way, you want to know,
how useless man, I can't remember which team it was,
dang it. How useless and stupid the preseason is they
had there was an extra point. And maybe you'll know
this off the top of your head, but a team
this weekend in a preseason game, their holder and their
placekicker traded places on an extra point and the holder
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knocked it through for the for the extra point. So
it just tells you how how valuable the preseason is.
And if you're locked into the preseason, I suggest you
get a little help.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Hey, you gotta have some fun, man, you gotta have
some fun talking about some Utah players. Puginakua, Britain Covey
had some good moments in the l A. Rams game
versus the Dallas Cowboys this weekend. And if you're a
Orong Tiger from the high school, you know Noah Noah
Suwel had a good tackle in the Chicago Bears game
against the Miami Dolphins. So you know what I I
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watched the preseason. I watched the Bears preseason. I watched
the tie game happen in the preseason.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
The whole game. You watched the whole game.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
I watched the whole game. Oh good lord, I watched
I didn't watch it from the very moment it took off.
I didn't watch it until last night hanging out with
my best friend Jacob at the bar. But we're hanging out,
I'm watching the game as we're talking hanging out. Dude,
I was into it. He knew I was into it
the whole entire time. He's talking to me. He's like,
you're into this game, right, I'm like, yeah, I'm into
this game.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
What are you? It's the what are you into?
Speaker 3 (17:39):
I want to watch the backups. I want to see
what's interesting. I want to see who's on her roster.
I want to see the depth. I want to see
the play style because that's the same offense I'm going
to see Kayla Williams in regardless who's that quarterback. I
want to see how they're playing. I want to see
how the defense is going to look. You know, that's
what they're not.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
They're not going to show you anything.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Why don't they showing I agree, they're not going to
show me absolutely everything, but I want to see some stuff. Plus,
Tua was out there. I wanted to see if you
get hit and get knocked out before the regular season
that didn't, unfortunately happen. You know what, Quing Yours was
out there. He fumbled on his uh snap in the
red zone. Speaking of BYU, we got to watch Zach
Wilson throw the football around a little bit.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Yeah he put five for nine, Wilson ninety six yards.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Yeah he had he had a you know, he had
a couple of drives where he got the team in
two positions to score some points. So, you know what,
it was all fun because there was an actual, legitimately
football game on television.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Listen, it's not legitimate. It's not a football that no,
that it's a it's a fake football game.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
So what you you know what, like I I behind
the preseason games. Preseason games, Yeah, you can sit there
and watch the first quarter and it'd be done with.
But you know what, you can do that with some
NFL games too. You know what, some games are over
by the time the first second quarter come around. Sure,
you know what, Like I'll take a preseason game. Plus,
you know what, I got to see Social Field on
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television and the Bears are playing at home. I can't
argue with that.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
You're freaking eight, You're freaking listen, man, is football Call
the police whatever. You're a freak you and Bryce Bryce
Elise isn't watching pre season, Bryce is watching Bryce is
watching machin on you.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
You can argue with us all you want, but you're
the same guy that's probably watching spring baseball games prior
to the start of the season.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
So when you're watching, you know what the difference is.
Bryce and I were talking about this is there are
I'll give you that. In preseason football, there will be
some guys that will make the roster that you'll be like, Okay,
I want to check out how they do. But with
spring training baseball, I can see a guy. Here's what
I like about baseball compared to football in this regard
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is baseball as a fan, I can watch a guy
taking it back and I can be and I can
I even as a fan, can be like, Okay, I
can kind of make a judgment on how good that
guy is. I may be wrong, but it's more accessible
in the sense like I watch a Niners game because
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I'm a big Niners fan. I haven't missed a Niner
regular season game in I don't know, like fifteen more, no,
not even twenty years. But the preseason they're like, oh,
we have this new safety that that you know, blah
blah blah. I'm not a football coach. I can't watch
the safety on a regular telecast and be like, no,
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I like that first steps, I like what that means,
Like I don't know what the hell's got? What he's
the coaches do? They have to watch film? For God's sake,
I what do I know? Like that's what That's where
spring training baseball and preseason football differs to me, unless
it's like a quarterback, unless like when the Niners had
Trey Lance, absolutely I'd watched. I want to see his drives.
I want to see how he looks. If it's anybody else,
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I don't know how to judge those guys. And now
you played football, so it's different, like you know more,
it's more about it than I do. But like, that's
the difference between spring training baseball to me and and
preseason football. The other part of it is spring training
baseball is it's mostly just like the vibes. It's just like, oh,
we've we've we've lived through this hellish winter and look
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the sun's out. We can watch this game we love exactly.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
That's the same thing with football. We suffered through the
dog days of summer. No nothing in June, nothing in July.
Just watching train training camp, and now we get to
see him up against a bunch of guys trying to
make the roster. And to your point on the camera.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
It's June, and what are you suffering through?
Speaker 3 (21:25):
You know what? That is very hot, it's very sticky.
You know what. There's barely any baseball.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Barely they play every day.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
We gotta sit through the NBA finals. We sit this.
You gotta sit through the Stanley Cup finals, you know,
we gotta sit through the w NBA season. I gotta
watch tennis, I gotta watch golf, I gotta watch a
bunch of other things I wouldn't watch for one day
throughout the rest of the season. And then you know what,
in August, I get to watch football all the way
up until February. Like I can't argue with that, really, Like,
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you know what, that's the one hundred percent the truth.
Once once August kicks in, there's not another thing on
television besides football.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Yeah, yeah, no once like well November once yeah baseball,
well no, but then there's basketball. I mean, don't get
me wrong. And what do you like as far as
like in November and December and January, am I watching
If there's an NFL versus NBA game. I'll go NFL.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
But but I'm watching Christmas games. I'm watching the All
Star But I'm not arguing with.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
You about that. We're talking about preseason football.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
I will watch preseason football because why not. It's something
on television. I'm listen. I rather watch preseason football then
watch the spring football leagues. The spring football leagues to me,
are more fake than the preseason games.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Oh man, we got to get Bryce on the line
because he's gonna re just gonna tear you apart.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Listen. He can be fine with that. I don't watch
for the spring fo.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
I don't either. I don't either.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
I'm not. I can't do it. Like I'd rather watch
the preseason games in spring football.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
I'll give you this, the preseason football. The only one
for me is that you haven't had, Like you said,
you haven't had football in a while. So you're like, oh,
I change of pace, get ready for some football spring football.
I'm football out. It would be like if the NBA
it's like NBA Summer League to me in the in
regard to some way, I'm like, dude, it's July. I'm
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not watching basketball in July. It'd be like if they're
be like if I was watching Venezuelan Winter Ball, you know, baseball,
not in January. It's like, what, no, Like, I just
watched seven months of baseball. I'm I'm okay, well you
don't the Cactus League. Well yeah, it's but that's I'll
watch the Cactus I'm not watching full games of the
Cactus League, but I am watching certain at bats or
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certain guys you know, on the mound, just to see
what they have, just because there's the illusion in baseball
that I somehow can tell how good they are and
I can scout them. In football, you have to be
so beyond delusional. Unless you coached the game or played
the game at a certain level, you do not know
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what you're talking about. And that's like and you don't
even know what you're looking at half the time. You
just don't. With football, That's why it's so there's so
many guys on the field. It's so complex and inaccessible
in that regard where it's like you have to go
back and rewatch it, rewatch it, rewatch it to get
an idea of what is actually to analyze it, to
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get to truthfully get it. The at the base of
what is what is happening? Whereas baseball you as a fan,
at least I don't have to I don't have to
do that. I can tell if a guy has a
good fastball with movement on it pretty quick from watching it. Okay,
I'm just telling you. That's why there's a reason why
when you ask a coach, you ask coach Whittingham, you
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ask you ask Whitter or Satake after a game in
the post game, be like, hey, what happened on this place?
You know that guy broke free, and they'll be like,
I don't know. I gotta watch the film. They don't
even know, Like they literally they're not making that. They're like,
I got I don't know, Like, what do you mean
you're on the sideline? What happened? It's there are twenty
two guys out there. I gotta go rewind the film
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and watch it over and over again. That's just why
with preseason football, I'm like, I can't. I know, I
don't know enough to make a a valuable judgment on
what's going on there unless it's a quarterback. But even then,
there are so many moving parts. I'm like, I feel bad,
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like I'm not gonna bash a guy, because I'm like,
I don't know. Maybe a receiver ran the wrong route.
I don't know, and I'm never gonna know. That's that's
that's the problem. That's part of the problem. That's part
of my rant. Well with preseason football, Okay, okay, all right,
so we've settled it. Preseason football sucks, thanks Marton. That
is your NFL blitz. Regular season football is great. Preseason
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I can't I can't do it. Your Bears tied the Dolphins,
by the way, that game, you're locked into it.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Two ties over the weekend. Two ties. I let's captivate.
I won't listen. My final thing on this is we'll
go to break. But I think the NFL should adopt
at least some type of overtime rules for preseason. Listen,
these guys are trying to find roster spots. Just put
in a college football style. Let them run two point
conversion type players on the goal line. Let's see what
team has the best concepts. I want to see.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Yeah, sure, why not, Let's find another way because it's
true at that point and then get but here's the thing.
At that point in the game, and seriously, though, in
the fourth quarter, and this is a legitimate question. I
don't know the answer. Is there anyone on the field
still battling for a roster spot?
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Yeah, of course absolutely. Listen, you need fifty three guys
plus you know you're twenty two guys on your practice squad. Like,
there's guys still fighting for roster squads all the way through.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Yeah, I mean they're right, you're right, a lot of
practice squad dudes. You're not wrong. All right, we'll take
a break, let's come back on the other side. We'll
talk a little Major League Baseball. The Brewers are red hot,
the Yankees are going down the tubes. It feels like
in good Lord, the Mets. We'll get into all of that.
By the way, one team is getting healthy and could
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be very scary down the stretch. It is Jordan Bianucci,
Martin Kelly behind the glass. It's Bryson Bianucci. In the
morning on one O, three nine and ninety eight three.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
This is Price and Bianucci m a morning one of
these two yearns for the old days where a little
scuffle went unpunished.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Now test is checked over the schools table, or.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Test the others A more distinguished gentleman that's just trying
to become more in touch with his Italian roots of
Hotan On one, O, three, nine and ninety three ESPN
A band.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
It is Bryson Bianucci on a Monday morning here in
our downtown Salt Lake City studios. Brice is under the weather.
Jordan Bianucci here, Martin Kelly behind the glass. A little uh,
a little traffic update for you. It's looking pretty good
in northbound I fifteen. Looks pretty clear, Martin, coming up
from Salt Lake County or excuse me, Utah County into
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salt Lake County. Usually we have our chopper up and
running today, the choppers in the shop. So I'm just looking.
I'm just looking here at the board and looking pretty good. Also,
sixty nine degrees, very nice outside. I have eighty nine
today in Salt Lake City, ninety three degrees and then
ninety six degrees Tuesday. That's Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively. It's
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gonna be a hot ONEID It's gonna be a hot one.
Let's get into we're talking about the dog days this summer.
Let's get into some Major League baseball in this segment. Look,
I want to start here with the best team in baseball.
If I had asked you back in April in August.
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What is it August ninth?
Speaker 3 (28:54):
Today? What was eleventh?
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Eleventh? I'm a little off August eleventh. If I asked
you in April on August eleventh, who will be the
best team in baseball as far as record wise, who
would you have given me?
Speaker 3 (29:06):
I would have given you the Dodgers. That would have
been the number one team. I would have thought the
Dodgers at this point would have had eighty wins.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Yeah, I don't think that's unreasonable. Here, who is the
best team in baseball?
Speaker 3 (29:20):
I am going well by record wise, I think the
best team in baseball is obviously the Brewers.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
No, that's that's it's always gonna Yeah. The Brewers are
seventy three and forty four right now. They're nine and
one in their last ten game. They've won nine in
a row. The Brewers are rolling going into the break.
This I mean the month of less less than a
month ago, going into the All Star break, the Cubs
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had been in first place the entire first half and
the Brewers were surging. But we were like, yeah, that's
the Cubs division to lose. At this point, the Brewers
are six game up on the Cubs six games. They've
totally taken control of that of that division. And why
this is important to me is a, yeah, you get
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home field advantage potentially over anybody in the National League,
but also the Brewers. They're not even that healthy right now.
You look at the Brewer's rotation and you look at Miserowski,
their young just stud. He's hurt. I think he will
come back. Quinn Priester, he is not hurt, but he
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did get roughed up yesterday by the Mets. A game
the Brewer scored seven runs and it still won seven
to six. So Priests, another one of their studs, did
not pitch well yesterday, but they still win the game. Elsewhere,
you got Freddy Peralta on that staff, Brandon Woodruff, who's
been fantastic, and jose Kintana. That's a good that's a
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rotation I feel pretty good about. Assuming you get Misierowski
back for the playoffs. Now, the other question that we'll
have to look at is what is his workload looking right,
looking like in October? Because he's young. I don't that's
I don't know what they're gonna do with mis Rawski
in the playoffs. The reason I bring that up is
there's one other team, and you mentioned it that's getting
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healthy at the right time, and that's the Dodgers. The
Dodgers rotation. Now, who's been on the i L all
year For the Dodgers, it has seemed like Blake Snell
huge huge signing, Uh Kershaw. I don't know what Kershaw
has left, but he's been on the IL. Yamamoto has
not pitched great at times, and Sheen has not been
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perfect at time, and then Glass now has been on
the IL. Well, all those dudes are back. That's your rotating.
Here's your rotation for the Dodgers, Yamamoto, Kershaw, O Tani, Glass, now,
Shean and Snail. That's one, two, three, four, But that's
six dudes. See, you can take out she and you
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can take not I wouldn't take out Shean, you can
take out Kershaw. If Otani can't go more than four innings,
you don't pitch Otani. But this is and if Blake
Snail's not consistent, you can use him in different ways.
But I think he's gonna be fine. This is why,
even though the Dodgers have underachieved to this point, they
are they are poised to obviously make a run in
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the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
I agree with that there they are poised to running
in the playoffs. You bring up their starting rotation is
and that could be very scary once September comes up
and everybody gets up and running and ready for the playoffs.
The only question I have about the Dodgers is at
times with their bats, the middle of the lineup, sometimes
they don't hit a lot of power for home runs.
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They're a really good hitting team all around the field.
Obviously Freddie o'tani and Mookie Batch are going to be
the home run but the rest of their lineup is
a really solid hitting lineup. Questions I have only about
the Dodgers Jordan's. It wouldn't have been the team I
would have mentioned that they're on the rise. It would
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have been the Houston Astros. We'll get to them in
a second. But their bullpen sometimes in that back end
of the bullpen, like yesterday against Toronto, they have the
lead against Toronto, they have the momentum, and they in
the seventh and the eighth inning just turn into an utter,
bloody mess against the Blue Jays. And that's a game
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legitimately the Blue Jays stole because of the Dodgers' bullpen
in the back end. They have a closer, there's no
lie about that, but they're setup. Guys in seven and
eight have been giving up some games this season. It
has really come back to bite the Dodgers in the
butt at times this season.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
You're right, I agree, I agree with you. The question is,
and here's the here's the problem if you're anybody but
the Dodgers. The Dodgers weren't super healthy arm wise in
the postseason last year, and they somehow, you know, tape
together a bullpen game in the World Series and a
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rotation that got it done. Here's the issue is you're
I'm with you with the Dodger But if there's one
place to worry them, it's it's the bullpen. If I'm
the Dodgers. But here's you don't in the postseason. You
don't have to have a five or six man rotation.
You could go Yamamoto Glass now, assuming he comes back strong,
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and then she and or Snell, and then you can
even throw Otani in there if you want to, because
you have the days off. So if you can get
six innings seven innings out of those guys, which you
should be able to That's where it gets scary, because
then you only need, you know, one a bridge, one
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guy to the ninth, two guys to get to the ninth.
If if you're the Dodgers, and if you're the Dodgers,
you hope you you know, you're scoring a lot of
runs because that's that's your I mean, one of your strength.
It's insane.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
The only the only thing about the Dodgers that I
hope Dave Roberts has pulled this move beforehand is that
he manages Kershaw in a legit way. We've seen the
blowout I mean the blow wins from Kershaw obviously against
the Cardinals, obviously against the Nationals, but those were in
his you know, his in his late twenties, early twenties,
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in his thirties. Hopefully this time they manage Kershaw well
because he's a phenomenal pitcher, but he's not a bullpen pitcher.
We've seen him try to come out of the bullpen.
It just hasn't worked. I agree with you, Sheen and
Snell could hold the back end of a playoff rotation.
But if you have to throw in Kershaw in Game
five or in Game four, in Game six for four innings,
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before you get to your bullpen. I think that's a
legitimate better plan than throwing Kershaw out there for two
innings and the sixth or the seventh innings of any
playoff game in the back end of a series.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Yeah, and that's my I don't know how much you're
gonna I wonder how much you're gonna throw Kershaw in
the playoffs because okay, so here I'm looking at his
game logs the last little bit. So against Toronto he
got the win when six inning, one run was fantastic.
He at Tampa Bay and these are two really good offenses,
Toronto and Tampa Bay. In at Tampa Bay six innings,
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no runs, five hits. Prior to that, he has not
been phenomenal at Boston four and two thirds, four earned runs,
Milwaukee four and a third, one run, three unearned at
Milwaukee six innings, two runs.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
He is.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
This is not the old Kershaw. We all know that. No, absolutely,
So I don't know now. Listen, to be fair, his
last two starts have been fantastic. He's been phenomenal. So
maybe he's found maybe something mechanically. Maybe he's found it
because he's done it against two really good offenses. Like
I said, so maybe he'll be fine. I'm not counting
on Kershaw. The thing if you're the Dodgers is you
don't have to count on Kershaw. There are so many
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other guys that you can go with their down the stretch.
But the interesting thing about we're talking about the Brewers
kind of starting at trying to at least run away
from the Cubs in the Central the Dodgers, that division
is nowhere near being over. Dodgers are currently two games
up on San Diego. That's unbelievable. On August eleventh, the
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Dodgers are two games up on the Potteries. By the way,
I don't have that head to head in front of me,
but the Dodgers have dominated that head to head series
this season, so we're getting this is the look. We're
getting into the fun part of the season where teams
are either gonna start separating themselves or you're gonna start
getting real serious pennant races in Major League Baseball. Potteris
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have I believe three with the Giants Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
of this week, and then the Dodgers are taking on
the Angels in Anaheim. So it's the Angels and the
Giants or it's I don't have any faith in either
of those teams, but it's going to be really interesting
to see that in a West battle down down the stretch. Now,
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what are the implications if the Dodgers win the West,
if they don't win the West, Because either way, both
of those teams are probably you know, unless one of
them absolutely just utterly collapses down the stretch. They're both
getting into the postseason. So the Dodgers right now or
the Podrays. So I'm looking at the So right now,
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if they season ended today, the Dodgers would have to
play in that first round game. In that first round series,
they would host the Mets for three. The Podrays would
visit the Cups for three. So right now, what I'm
getting at is how important it is? How important is
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it to win that division?
Speaker 3 (38:59):
I think it's looking at You're right about that, looking
at the wildcard standings. I mean, listen, in the divisional round,
we could get Dodgers versus Padras. It's somehow, some way,
we don't know what the match are gonna do. Towards
the end of the season. Obviously we've seen them in
a struggle. You're right about that. The Padres are on
a really fun stretch. You know, two games back. I
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think it's important for the Dodgers to win this division,
to hold the fact that they don't want to be
the road team on a wildcard situation or in divisional round.
I'd rather be the home team. I get it, it's
a five game series, you're only getting three games, but
you know, the first two games of that series, you're
at home. I'd rather be at home for the first
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two games than be on the road for two games.
Playing at Petco Park is a whole lot different in
playing in Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
No, and I agree with you, And I think it's
even bigger because that Dodgers series, that first series, because
right now, the Philly and the Brewers would have first
round bys, so they'd be immediately into the division round
with that five game series. Right now, right now, the Dodgers,
the Cubs, the Potterys, and the Mets, those would be
your wildcard teams. And that's a three game series, that's
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best of three, and it's played, like you said, in
one ballpark. So right now, like I said, the Mets
would be visiting the Dodgers for three games in LA
and the Podreys would be visiting the Cubs for three
games at Wrigley. So I'm with you as far as
that to me is it's not a huge deal. I mean,
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it's not. I shouldn't say that. It's not a like
make or break deal, but yeah, I think it matters
who wins the division in the West and who is
who has those home field advantage spots in the wildcard. Now, look,
this can all change very quickly because the Mets are
just a game and a half up on the Reds
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in the wildcard card in the National League, and the
Dodgers are right there, I believe, a half game back
of Philadelpia. This is even bigger. Dodgers are a half
game back of Philadelphia for that second seed in the
National League, which would then give the Dodgers a buy
in the first round and add nauseum on the show.
We always debate whether that's an actual advantage or not.
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But I keep going back to ask any manager in baseball,
would you rather have the buyer? Would you rather play
a three game series? And the bike Now will take
the buy and maybe risk getting a little rusty. We'll
take the buye. So that's your National League side. Of
things in the American League, the Yankees the whole this
entire season. The discussion we've had is can the you know,
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the Yankees. Who in the East is really going to
challenge the Yankees And it's not going to be the
Red Sox now they don't, you know, it's not going
to be the Rays this year. I don't think so.
The Blue Jays are going to They're underachieve, achieving the
first month of the season, and then it's the Blue Jays.
So I think we have just like this bias, like
we just don't really pay attention to the Blue Jays
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and then actually they get red hot and they're fantastic.
And then obviously the Orioles have been just a disaster.
The Yankees right now, they're not They're not just in
danger of losing the division. It might even it's over
and they ain't coming back in the Al East. The
Yankees right now are just a half game up on
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Cleveland for the final wild card spout. The Yankees are
are in serious danger of not making the playoffs. That's
where the Yankees are right now. They're three and seven
in their last ten games. The second half of this
season has just been a nightmare for the Yankees.
Speaker 3 (42:45):
I it has been a disaster and I'm gonna say this,
and I think it should be talked about more, and
I think it will be. But I don't think anything's
gonna be done about it, which I think is the
problem with the Yankees. You and I talked about this
on The D and Dirty with Scott Mitchell. When I
had you on it, You're you're like, I asked you, like, Hey,
who are we been on down the road for the
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Al East. You're like, I'm been on the Yankees. Well,
they'll find a way to do what they do in
the back half of the season. But I think if
they missed the playoffs entirely or go on the road
for a wild card and lose, okay, I think it's
time to look at Aaron Boone and find his replacement.
I think it's legitimately time to think about a replacement
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for Aaron Boone. He is Joe Girardi without a title.
Joe kept his job around for a lot longer because
he had the title, because he kept the Yankees legitimately
competitive for a good amount of time. You know what,
Aaron Boone has done some really good things. He should
have probably gotten into more World Series than he did
because he only got to one. He got robbed because
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of the of the Houston Astros, And we could talk
about that for days in seventeen and eighteen, will you
know him getting butt kicked by the Boston Red Sox.
But I think it's time for Aaron Boone's replacement to
be talked about because I just I don't think the
locker room buys into his ideas, his his conversations anymore.
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He's getting more ejected. You're in and you're out. He
got ejected yesterday again for the fifth time this season.
I just think it falls on deaf ears. I don't
think it's just bats or their rotation or their lineup.
I just think they're in inadequate baseball team. I think
every mistake they've made on the field, and every mistake
they made in the World Series falls on Aaron Boone.
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Like I just I don't think they played the fundamentals anymore.
Speaker 2 (44:33):
But I also not be right there because I totally
agree with you. Here's my problem with with the with
the Yankees is you have a lot of bats in
that lineup and you have Look, you lost Errett Cole,
but you have a lot of you have some good arms.
And then you made a trade. You brought in Bednar
from the Pirates to bolster the bullpen, and you brought
in Camillo Dovall from the Giants to bolster the bullpen.
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And since then the Yankees bullpen has not been, by
any means, a shut down bullpen. The Yankees. I'm with you.
You made a great point. It's not it's not that
they're not hitting. It's not that they that's what they
do is they hit for power. Just overall, it's not
that they're starting pitching has been, you know, an abomination.
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That's not No, it's not true. The Yankees make more
stupid mistakes on the base paths in the field, like
like fundamental baseball. Then it is so as an HIGG
event you have to be pulling your hair out, because
there I would love I wish we had a stat
where you could see how many I'm sure it's out
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there somewhere, how many of these mistakes have cost the
baseball games because right now we're in the era of
analytics where it's it's, oh, you know, defense is actually
we've we've overrated defense, We've overvalued it. Yeah, you want
to have a good defense in baseball. Well, it's not
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that important compared to you know, if you're hitting a
lot of home runs. And that's true to a certain degree.
You know, base running not not that important. We've overvalued
that in the past. Yeah, maybe maybe a little. It's
seems like it matters a little bit though when you
watch a Yankee game, because they're running themselves out of
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beginnings like just stupid mistakes. It's it's guys, forgetting how
many damn outs there are. It's like base running matters,
playing defense matters. Being mentally in the game matters. It
costs you games. And by the way, when you're making
stupid mistakes, it is so demoralizing.
Speaker 3 (46:47):
It costs on the World Series.
Speaker 2 (46:48):
Yeah, absolutely, judge dropping a fly ball. I mean it's
and and.
Speaker 3 (46:54):
It's Rizzo standing at and Cole looking at each other
going why aren't you at first base? Absolutely, it's the
fact that from May until now you know this better
than I do because you listen to all the baseball stuff.
How many times has the Yankee fans been on radio
and television calling for Volpi's head at shortstop? How many
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times have they been talking about in an adequate third
basement and second shortstop about mistakes. But this is why.
Also when they traded for Ryan McCann, they were complaining
about you got a guy with no bat and all
the stat nerds were telling them like, listen, you got
someone who can actually catch the baseball and throw it
to first base. Oh okay, we'll get behind it. And
now they're ripping Ryan McCann after he won them a
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game about a week ago. Like the Yankee fans are
just you can't please them so.
Speaker 2 (47:43):
And no, I'm absolutely to get back to your point though,
is I Look, if the Yankees do not make the playoffs,
I think you're right Aaron Boone is gone even And
if they do make the playoffs and they don't, boy,
I hesitate to say this off to think about this.
I may go back on this in a couple of days.
But if they don't win the Pennant, he may still
lose his job after the kind of year they've had.
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But I don't know that this is the wear in baseball.
How much of a team's success or failure do you
ascribe to the skipper, Because is it Aaron Boone who's
not emphasizing base running or fundamentals or is that to
that to me is an organizational thing that to me
that you don't learn that at the big league level.
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You can't, you don't have time.
Speaker 3 (48:32):
I mean, it starts with it starts with the stein Renners.
It starts with whoever's left with the stein b Renners and
their GM at this point is cash Man. I I
think it starts with them. But you can't fire to
stein Renners because it's still on the team.
Speaker 2 (48:45):
But I'm saying it's I'm saying it starts in the
far You're right, but they're they're the head of it.
But I'm saying it starts in the farm system. Does
it not?
Speaker 1 (48:52):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (48:52):
Absolutely? Like I agree with you. Yes, all of these
fundamentals should have been learned at Triple A before they
got to the big leagues. But let's remind ourselves. They
did rush Volpi up from Triple A to the big leagues.
They did rush Domingo up from Triple A to the
big leagues. They really haven't given these guys a whole
lot of time to knock down their fundamentals before they
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brought them up to the to the team, so they
kind of rushed them because they had to fill up
roster spots they had to fill in the ideas that
they had the prospects ready to go, and right now
we're seeing it with Domingo and Vopie that you know,
as much as they have a lot of talent, they're struggling.
They're struggling offensively, they're struggling defensively, and there's a lot
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of holes on this team, regardless of how much power
they have in the lineup. I mean, yeah, you might
have a thirty five plus year old Goldschmid. He might
give you a couple of home runs, but you can't
rely on that in the playoffs. And Judge is the
only thing they have on offense. Yes, they have Stanton
coming back, but only have you only have Judge, And
you know, you've seen the mistakes day in and day
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out with jazz and base running, and it's just I
just think it's time for Boone to go. I think
Boone is is just his message is falling on death ears.
I don't think he's focusing on fundamentals. I think he's
focusing on the fact that he has a whole lot
of talent and they're gonna bail him out. I just
think it's time to look at Boone and say you
are a problem. You your your management is a problem.
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And yes, you can blame cash Man in the in
the stein Brenners up top, but I just think they're
making illegitimate decisions with their prospects because we're seeing the
back end of their prospects not deliver and that's costing
them a lot of games. It isn't just their bats.
King was a prospect pitcher that came up. He struggled
at times. We've seen. You know, they have another kid
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who's the left hander that's other tall, Aaron Judge like player.
I forget his name, it'll come back to me, but
I mean he's shown some good signs. We'll see what
happens with him. But I just Aaron Boone's gotta go.
I think it's time to let Aaron Boone go. Yeah,
he delivered in the two thousand and three ALCS, but
he hasn't delivered anything since then.
Speaker 2 (51:06):
It's interesting because you're right, the Yankees lead the majors
in homers. They've been one hundred and eighty three home
runs this year. In the last month when they've gone
down the tank, they have moved down to seventh in
the League with thirty three home runs compared that. By
the way, here's a little trivia question, martin which team
is hit the most home runs in the last thirty days?
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Not in the American League and the National League, big
in the big leagues, the team say the Brewers, my
friend dor Chicago White Sox have hit forty two home
runs in the last month. That's the best in the
big leagues. Hey, that's something. So you look at that,
you go the Yankees, they're hitting home runs. They're fine
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in the last thirty days. Here are your home run
leaders for the Yankees. Gean Carlos Stanton has hit seven.
Volpi has hit seven, Grisham has hit five, Bellinger Ford
Chisholm to Goldschmidt to Judge too. And it's and Judge
has been hurt for but last two weeks. So it's it.
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That's part of it. Nothing is going right. Let's be
honest for the Yankees right now. And and I agree
with your point. Look, but the mistakes they're making. You
mentioned triple eight that stuff you should be learning in
high school. I mean, like before, it's just crazy the
mistakes they're making. So things not going well in New
York I'm gonna pull up, who are the Yankees? Yankees
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have the twins in the Bronx to start this week,
and then you look at who they're battling with in
the AL. The Rays are visiting Sacramento. Uh, Boston is
visiting the Strows. So you need I don't even know
you need Houston to win that if you're you're the Yankees.
This is isn't It's so fair. It's such a long season.
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You go through just so many different stages of play.
As far as like you have to be so even
killed in baseball, Yeah, you just you just do because man,
the highs and lows are high and they're low, and
it just is a marathon. So that is your Major
League Baseball update. Man, we could talk about this for
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a while. Some good series, by the way, yeah, started
this week.
Speaker 3 (53:22):
I'm surprised just saying this, I'm surprised I haven't brought
out the Tigers. Yeah, they were the best team in
the first half. They've have a slow, sluggish start to
this season. Plus if you didn't watch it, I watched it.
The first woman mob Umpire, I forgot her the last name,
but Jen I think it was the start with called
the Braves game over the weekend. I think her first
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game was Sunday after spending about thirty years in the
pre in college in college baseball at being an umpire.
So congratulates to her being the first woman umpire and
mob history. And it's gonna be interesting because you know,
I'll come on the show maybe one day, one of
those days in September. I got to replace Bryce again,
and we'll talk about it. But September to me, is
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going to be the doer die months for the American
League more than the National League, because I think the
National League divisions are kind of a rap already at
this point besides the AL East, but the AL wild
Card is going to be a legitimate dogfight throughout the
entire month of September to see who gets that spot.
Speaker 2 (54:26):
No, absolutely, yeah, first ever. I'm glad you brought that up.
I forgot about that yesterday. First ever woman umpire behind
home plate in yesterday's game. I'm trying to find her
last name is like paw. If you go to MLB,
we have access as the media to the MLB press box.
(54:47):
I have every umpire giving me the pronunciation of their
name on video. That's that's some good content right there.
My friend, so the.
Speaker 3 (55:00):
Powell, I'm yell.
Speaker 2 (55:02):
So, yeah, that's pretty cool, that's pretty amazing. She was okay,
she was okay in her MLB debut. People were killing
her because she missed a few calls. To the amount
of pressure on her, it would be, I can't imagine it.
Like it's just in this day of social media, you
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just know you're gonna first of all, you're the umpire,
You're gonna get criticized like crazy anyway. But man, hey,
you know, kudos to her. Absolutely, that was That's that's
something that's a lot of pressure behind the plate. So yeah, hey,
the good good call. I forgot to add that Phillies
reads real quick. That should be. That's a series I'm
(55:45):
paying attention to this week. Let's see if the Reds
have a legitimate shot. Right now, they're a game and
a half back of that final wildcard spot and they're
gonna get tested. They have the Phillies, uh starting tonight,
I believe in Philadelphia. All right, Well, take a break,
come back on the other side. We're gonna hear from
our friend j T. Wistrasil and get into it on
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Utah Fall Camp. It is Bryson Bianucci Jordan in for Bryce,
Martin Kelly Behind the Glass on one oh three, nine
and ninety eight three
Welcome back to Bryce is being Neucci in the morning.
It's time for the NFL Blitz. On one O three
nine at ninety eight three ESPN Fan.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
It is time for the NFL Blitz. Jordan in for
Bryce Martin Kelly behind the glass on Bryce and bing Ucci.
Just past the eight o'clock hour on a Monday, A
beautiful day outside, sixty six degrees outside. We're at our
downtown Salt Lake City studios on Broadway. You're looking at
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a high of eighty nine today, Martin, A high of
eighty night, A little few clouds, a few clouds in
the sky, but gonna be hot, damn hot the rest
of the week, ninety three Tomorrow, ninety six Wednesday, and
then it sort of kind of cools off, but not
not really. I'm missing I'm gonna be honest with you.
I'm so happy to be back back in the grind
(00:57):
talking sports, a really hard job. But do I miss
not being at the beach right now? Kind of miss
being at the beach. I'll be honest. Have you taken
have you been able to take some time off yet
this summer?
Speaker 3 (01:09):
I have not. I have been working, working, working. I
am a person that enjoys taking vacations in the fall
winter time. I'd rather work like a dog during the
summers because the car they are called the dog days
of summer might as well get all the money when
people rather hide. So I'm not taking any time off
until October. I'm taking ten days off then, so everyone's
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going to be freaking out about a backup producer if
someone gets sick, so I will not be available. I'm
not flying down and doing those and pulling those out.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
If you're just joining us. I was driving in today
at you know, five point thirty in the morning, and
I I get I look at my phone when I
get here and Bryce his text and be oh, no,
I woke up. I'm sick, basically I can't talk, and
he goes, I'll see if I can call Martin. I'm like,
(02:01):
there's not a chance in hell, and I'm not Martin's
gonna pick up the phone. There's because I wouldn't be awake.
I'm like, there's no way no one's gonna be awake
right now. I'm gonna be in there doing the show
by myself and Martin. God bless you. My friend picked
up the phone got here in like twenty minutes again.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
You know, I have an alarm set up at six
every day, so it wakes me up at six am.
So I woke up, I got out of bed, and
I checked my phone. In Bright's texted me. I'm like, Bro,
I haven't even been up yet, and I already knew it,
and so I was more than happy to come in
and help out. I always love talking with you and me.
We've always had a lot of fun doing this. So yeah,
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happy to be part of the show man. I was
happy to host it on Friday, and now I'm getting
more time to talk on air. I can't argue about
that one. Bros. You know it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Bro. We know you poison price through this. I'm coming
back on this man.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
I'm from Chicago. I have my secret.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Bro.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
I'm not telling you what I do, Bro, but I
have my secret.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
I don't want to get off on a huge well
I do I can. Who gives a crap? I read
this great book recently about the World's Fair eighteen ninety
three in Chicago. Dude, that was fascinating. A The fair
itself is just incredible on its own. B By the way,
there was a serial killer on the loose during this
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whole thing. You're from Chicago, did you obviously you know
about this?
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Yeah, you know. If you don't, if you haven't traveled
through some of the museums and checked out some of
the segments about the fare from that era. Yeah, listen,
you know what Chicago back in the lateeen eighteen hundreds
was interesting. Man, A cow tipped over a lamp and
burned down two thirds of the city, and there was
a big, giant international fair, and you know, someone was
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on the loose with a knife and a gun and
had some intentions of having some people meet God a
little bit early. So you know what, that's the that's
the type of stuff you run into in the city. Man.
One day you're you know, losing your house because a
cow tipped over a light and burned down the city,
and another day on the run because someone's chasing But
here's the problem.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
The Chicago police department in the eighteen nineties was so
inept that they didn't know there was a serial killer
on those They didn't even know people were disappearing real quick.
Serial killer talk. This dude was insane. He built a house.
This was Jackson Park, you know, Jackson Park, So kind
of that area. Ish he built a house, so you know,
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he's a serial killer, he's a psychopath. He would he
had all these you know, rooms where he would murder
people and like kidnap people. So he did have all
these weird things in the house that like, if if
one dude built the house, he'd be like, Hey, why
do you have this? This is creepy as hell. I'm
going to get the authorities. He would have like certain
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groups of construction workers build one part of the house,
and then he'd fire him bring in another group of
construction workers to build the other part. So none of
no one really knew all the weird stuff that was
in this house of horrors, not shockingly burned down, by
the way, Martin. Apparently Chicago has quite a history. Yeah,
(05:07):
gret What the Devil in the White City is? The
book I highly recommend is very very interesting. The other
thing I want to ask the slaughterhouses in New York
in the eighteen nineties early nineteen hundreds. Good lord, my friend.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
You know what, they didn't call us the meet capital
of the world for no reason. Man, I grew up
not far from the slaughterhouses. I can tell you exactly
where they used to be. The train tracks run still
back there. No listen, man, it's more of a chocolate
smell in the city. Yeah, there's a chocolate factory downtown
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that produces a good amount of chocolate. If you drive
around downtown and you can smell it from time to time.
I've had to before and it's a it's a fun smell.
It's not a bad one. But the point is, I
know where the slaughterhouses are. Drove passing many times Bridgeport, Canaryville.
If any you guys are fans of the show Shameless,
you would know that area as well. None of the
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stuff on Shameless is legit because it's all stage, but
then you know some of it's whatever, but it's in
that back area. And yeah, you know what, when they
used to have all this stuff run from Texas through Oklahoma,
through Kansas, through Iowa, through through Saint Louis all the
way up to Chicago, you would have it that day.
Man New YORKA would have his stakes by eight nine
o'clock and anybody who wanted to spend twenty bucks on
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a state that night had to cut in Chicago the
night about four or five hours before.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Do you ever watch the show the Bear. Have you
ever seen that?
Speaker 3 (06:36):
I have seen the Bear?
Speaker 2 (06:37):
How how Chicago authentic is that show?
Speaker 3 (06:40):
The Italian beef is as authentic as you can get.
It's the best sandwich there is for the city to offer.
And you know what that that's that style of kitchen
where being that my dad's been in an executive chef
and has run that style, been in the kitchens with
him before being a dishwasher boy and watching that that's
legitimately something that a lot of Chicago kitchens do. Though
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that higher if they want to be the high ranking, Yes,
well I would.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
I I should have prefaced that by saying that you
are you come from a family that has restaurants and
so so that's why part of the reason I asked you,
you know what favorite part of one of my favorite
parts of that show is, and you'll appreciate this is
the Bear is the brother in law who they is
this kind of yuppy dork on the show. Like he's
very like he's lovable, Like he's a good character, he's
(07:28):
a good guy, but he is not like a part
of this He's kind of an outsider in this family.
And I don't know how else to describe him other
than kind of a yuppie dork. But he's the only
Cubs fan in that show, and everybody else is or
White Sox fans, and they just make fun of this
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dude mercilessly. And that to me, you will know this
as a Sox fan? Does that not ring very?
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Like?
Speaker 2 (07:56):
What's the that's from? We'll get into the NFL here
in just a second, but I want like, that's what
is the attitude from White Sox fans toward Cubs fans?
Is it just that they're kind of like, listen, we.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
When it comes to winning at the very moment, we
cannot compete. Listen, we won our forty third game last night.
We passed how many wins we got the season prior. Okay,
so I'm very proud of my Chicago White Sox to
beat Cleveland and to get past how many wins they
had the season prior. Thank you, Colorado. We understand you're
the sacrifice too.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
How do you view the Cubs there?
Speaker 3 (08:28):
But to tie it all up together, how we view
the Cuff fans is we can't compete with wins. But
right now, the way we can compete is watching the
Milwaukee Brewers find some way to be the best team
in baseball. Take one of our former prospects, and Andrew Vaughn,
and actually turn into a legit fun team and watch
the Cubs breakdown. They lost two out of three to
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the Cardinals. Everybody on the South Side is dancing up
enjoy right now. We are having so much fun. We
know our team sucks, but at the same time we
know the other team's gonna miss the playoffs and enjoying it.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
The Cubs are going to the plug. We'll get into
major League Baseball later. They're not playing that bad. The
Mets made the good Lord the Bets gone.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
The Mets are gone.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
But no.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
But my question is a guy you're from the South
Side of Chicago, born and bred, what is the attitude like,
why do White Sox fans hate Cubs.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Fans because they act like they're one of the top
tier baseball clubs in the country. They act like they're
the Yankees in the and they're up there with the
Boston Red Sox and those guys. They act like, you know,
just because you were on TV throughout the whole entire
country and had Harry Carey, you stole him from the
White Sox. Okay, you know we you know, he had
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all of that and and all your praise about year
in and year right going to the World Series and
all this and all that.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
But that has to be a recent thing because they've
been they're the Cubs. They've been terrible for one hundred
and ten years.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
So I went ninety six years without a title. Nobody
talked about my stuff, Nobody talked about any of us. Okay,
I went that long, Okay without a title too. You
know what, listen, just because you did allow Billy going
into your stadium, it's not my fault you recurse her
that long. You should have just let the billy go
go in and eat some people's stuff and then walk around.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
So it's an it's an attention thing like the National
meet everybody. It's you think Chicago baseball. A lot of
people think the Cubs, and that's and they have their
nice little ball they have you know, it's a jam.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
And and of all, is it like the fans that
go to cub sends most of them there just to
have a party. They're not real baseball fans. Is that
the feeling?
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Well?
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Also, because I mean, let's let's get into it legitimately
about Chicago. I mean, cub fans like to talk about
how being up north you're on you're on the safe
side of the city. You're not gonna get shot, You're
not gonna get thish, You're not gonna get that, I
will argue. Okay, everybody can look this up. Okay, go
look up your stats. Wrigleyville is actually a little more
dangerous than it is to be on the south side
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of Chicago. Okay, I've seen some of the maps. I
see some of the numbers. Okay, it's a little more
dangerous to be up on the north side than it
is on the south side. I've been to the south
side my whole entire life grew up. I mean, I
wasn't afraid one time of walking through that neighborhood. Not
one time was I afraid. Okay, you'll be fine, you'll
be safe. There's no harm or foul gonna come to you,
(11:17):
all right, Listen, They just they don't like us. That's
fine with me. You know what, the Cup fans want
to talk down on us like we're you know, the
little brother of the city. That's fine with me. Guess what,
they can't really talk much because we all have the
same amount of World Series titles. All right, I'm the
first one to win a World Series in this in
this millennium. So you know what, two thousand and five
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happened before. I don't know what year they wanted.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
I just well, the last time they heard it was
you're right, because they threw the nineteen nineteen I think
it was like nineteen.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
We threw the nineteen nineteen year old series. Everybody knows
about the Chicago black Hawks, Chicago Blackhawks, Chicago Black Sows.
And then we lost the fifty nine World Series to
the Saint Louis Cardinals, lost out in six games, and
then and then we lost. We haven't made it back since.
And of course Cup fans like to say, well, you
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haven't won a game wheld was a playoff game, since
a playoff serious since two thousand and five, we've won
a playoff game. We'd think, you know, we'll beat Houston
for once, but then got kicked. But other than that, yeah, well,
you know what, we'll take it on the chin. I'm
not afraid to say it. But Cup fans, I don't know, man,
I just them Northsiders and Red Wine and Blues. I
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don't I don't get it. I like to wear my
black and white look.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
I couldn't find off the top of my head the
crime statistics by neighborhood in Chicago. Your last World Series
White Sox nineteen seventeen was or not last, I'm sorry
last before two thousand and five, nineteen seventeen. It's amazing
how inept both ball clubs have been, if we're being honest.
In Chicago, it's in a giant market where I've only.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Been to the playoffs eleven times in my entire history.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
First, but you've never been to the playoffs unless you
somehow were in the bullpen and I didn't know about it.
You were not. You have not been in the playoffs
the White Sox. I'll give you a Wii because I
can go. If you want to say, we know you're
you're not getting it. You're not getting an I here.
You You did not were you were? You were not
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Ozzie And you call it hitting runs and getting kicked
out again? The all right?
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Him?
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Yeah, yeah, it's true. You did know.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
I met him on the elevator. He was going down
on the on the workers elevator. He just so happened
to be in there, and I'm looking at him going,
oh my god, this is the guy that broke the curse.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
There you go, there you go. All right, we get
let's get into real quick. NFL preseason underway. Uh some
lessons we've learned so far, I don't know. Try not
to get injured. That was one Dickerson the Eagles. Uh
now I'm blaking on his on his the left guard
(14:03):
Landon Dickerson helped off the field yesterday, carted indoors parent
right leg injury, getting an MRI today. Keep an eye
on that. That'd be a big loss for the Eagles.
Other than that, man like do you uh, I don't
watch preseason football. I refuse to do it. I will
not partake in that. It's it's just ridiculous. There was
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one highlight, though, Martin. One highlight preseason football. Here it
is a seventy yard field goal. He drilled the ball.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Holy smokes, I got a shot. He just kicked a
seventy Are you kidding me? Crazy? I crazy?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
NFL record? That would be an NFL record first half.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Holy smokes.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
A Jaguars kicker caim little seventy year field goal to
end the first half. Okay, first of all, that's that's
as far as preseason football go goes, that's the gold standard.
What else are you gonna get? This brings me to
my argument with the NFL. Is it time to narrow
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the goalposts? No? Why not?
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (15:24):
I think it's getting too damn easy. These guys don't miss,
they never miss.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
No, let it let it be. I love the fact
that he kicked a seventy yard field goal. I this
is this was entertaining. This This wasn't the only highlight.
The Lejonte Western Pond return on third Thursday night. That
was another highlight of the whole entire preseason.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
No, but but I'm what I'm saying is like in
the NFL. In college, it's fantastic, it's entertaining because you're like,
I don't know what this guy's gonna do. He may
shake it into the West bleachers. In the NFL, if
you get past the forty, if like like it's over,
it's it's almost seems like it's just automatic. These kickers
are so so good. Which boy, that's seventy yard. That
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proves your point. By the way, you want to know,
how useless man, I can't remember which team it was,
dang it. How useless and stupid the preseason is they
had there was an extra point. And maybe you'll know
this off the top of your head, but a team
this weekend in a preseason game, their holder and their
placekicker traded places on an extra point and the holder
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knocked it through for the for the extra point. So
it just tells you how how valuable the preseason is.
And if you're locked into the preseason, I suggest you
get a little help.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Hey, you gotta have some fun, man, you gotta have
some fun talking about some Utah players. Puginakua, Britain Covey
had some good moments in the l A. Rams game
versus the Dallas Cowboys this weekend. And if you're a
Orong Tiger from the high school, you know Noah Noah
Suwel had a good tackle in the Chicago Bears game
against the Miami Dolphins. So you know what I I
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watched the preseason. I watched the Bears preseason. I watched
the tie game happen in the preseason.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
The whole game. You watched the whole game.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
I watched the whole game. Oh good lord, I watched
I didn't watch it from the very moment it took off.
I didn't watch it until last night hanging out with
my best friend Jacob at the bar. But we're hanging out,
I'm watching the game as we're talking hanging out. Dude,
I was into it. He knew I was into it
the whole entire time. He's talking to me. He's like,
you're into this game, right, I'm like, yeah, I'm into
this game.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
What are you? It's the what are you into?
Speaker 3 (17:39):
I want to watch the backups. I want to see
what's interesting. I want to see who's on her roster.
I want to see the depth. I want to see
the play style because that's the same offense I'm going
to see Kayla Williams in regardless who's that quarterback. I
want to see how they're playing. I want to see
how the defense is going to look. You know, that's
what they're not.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
They're not going to show you anything.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Why don't they showing I agree, they're not going to
show me absolutely everything, but I want to see some stuff. Plus,
Tua was out there. I wanted to see if you
get hit and get knocked out before the regular season
that didn't, unfortunately happen. You know what, Quing Yours was
out there. He fumbled on his uh snap in the
red zone. Speaking of BYU, we got to watch Zach
Wilson throw the football around a little bit.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Yeah he put five for nine, Wilson ninety six yards.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Yeah he had he had a you know, he had
a couple of drives where he got the team in
two positions to score some points. So, you know what,
it was all fun because there was an actual, legitimately
football game on television.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Listen, it's not legitimate. It's not a football that no,
that it's a it's a fake football game.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
So what you you know what, like I I behind
the preseason games. Preseason games, Yeah, you can sit there
and watch the first quarter and it'd be done with.
But you know what, you can do that with some
NFL games too. You know what, some games are over
by the time the first second quarter come around. Sure,
you know what, Like I'll take a preseason game. Plus,
you know what, I got to see Social Field on
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television and the Bears are playing at home. I can't
argue with that.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
You're freaking eight, You're freaking listen, man, is football Call
the police whatever. You're a freak you and Bryce Bryce
Elise isn't watching pre season, Bryce is watching Bryce is
watching machin on you.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
You can argue with us all you want, but you're
the same guy that's probably watching spring baseball games prior
to the start of the season.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
So when you're watching, you know what the difference is.
Bryce and I were talking about this is there are
I'll give you that. In preseason football, there will be
some guys that will make the roster that you'll be like, Okay,
I want to check out how they do. But with
spring training baseball, I can see a guy. Here's what
I like about baseball compared to football in this regard
(19:37):
is baseball as a fan, I can watch a guy
taking it back and I can be and I can
I even as a fan, can be like, Okay, I
can kind of make a judgment on how good that
guy is. I may be wrong, but it's more accessible
in the sense like I watch a Niners game because
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I'm a big Niners fan. I haven't missed a Niner
regular season game in I don't know, like fifteen more, no,
not even twenty years. But the preseason they're like, oh,
we have this new safety that that you know, blah
blah blah. I'm not a football coach. I can't watch
the safety on a regular telecast and be like, no,
(20:20):
I like that first steps, I like what that means,
Like I don't know what the hell's got? What he's
the coaches do? They have to watch film? For God's sake,
I what do I know? Like that's what That's where
spring training baseball and preseason football differs to me, unless
it's like a quarterback, unless like when the Niners had
Trey Lance, absolutely I'd watched. I want to see his drives.
I want to see how he looks. If it's anybody else,
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I don't know how to judge those guys. And now
you played football, so it's different, like you know more,
it's more about it than I do. But like, that's
the difference between spring training baseball to me and and
preseason football. The other part of it is spring training
baseball is it's mostly just like the vibes. It's just like, oh,
we've we've we've lived through this hellish winter and look
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the sun's out. We can watch this game we love exactly.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
That's the same thing with football. We suffered through the
dog days of summer. No nothing in June, nothing in July.
Just watching train training camp, and now we get to
see him up against a bunch of guys trying to
make the roster. And to your point on the camera.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
It's June, and what are you suffering through?
Speaker 3 (21:25):
You know what? That is very hot, it's very sticky.
You know what. There's barely any baseball.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Barely they play every day.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
We gotta sit through the NBA finals. We sit this.
You gotta sit through the Stanley Cup finals, you know,
we gotta sit through the w NBA season. I gotta
watch tennis, I gotta watch golf, I gotta watch a
bunch of other things I wouldn't watch for one day
throughout the rest of the season. And then you know what,
in August, I get to watch football all the way
up until February. Like I can't argue with that, really, Like,
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you know what, that's the one hundred percent the truth.
Once once August kicks in, there's not another thing on
television besides football.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Yeah, yeah, no once like well November once yeah baseball,
well no, but then there's basketball. I mean, don't get
me wrong. And what do you like as far as
like in November and December and January, am I watching
If there's an NFL versus NBA game. I'll go NFL.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
But but I'm watching Christmas games. I'm watching the All
Star But I'm not arguing with.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
You about that. We're talking about preseason football.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
I will watch preseason football because why not. It's something
on television. I'm listen. I rather watch preseason football then
watch the spring football leagues. The spring football leagues to me,
are more fake than the preseason games.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Oh man, we got to get Bryce on the line
because he's gonna re just gonna tear you apart.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Listen. He can be fine with that. I don't watch
for the spring fo.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
I don't either. I don't either.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
I'm not. I can't do it. Like I'd rather watch
the preseason games in spring football.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
I'll give you this, the preseason football. The only one
for me is that you haven't had, Like you said,
you haven't had football in a while. So you're like, oh,
I change of pace, get ready for some football spring football.
I'm football out. It would be like if the NBA
it's like NBA Summer League to me in the in
regard to some way, I'm like, dude, it's July. I'm
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not watching basketball in July. It'd be like if they're
be like if I was watching Venezuelan Winter Ball, you know, baseball,
not in January. It's like, what, no, Like, I just
watched seven months of baseball. I'm I'm okay, well you
don't the Cactus League. Well yeah, it's but that's I'll
watch the Cactus I'm not watching full games of the
Cactus League, but I am watching certain at bats or
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certain guys you know, on the mound, just to see
what they have, just because there's the illusion in baseball
that I somehow can tell how good they are and
I can scout them. In football, you have to be
so beyond delusional. Unless you coached the game or played
the game at a certain level, you do not know
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what you're talking about. And that's like and you don't
even know what you're looking at half the time. You
just don't. With football, That's why it's so there's so
many guys on the field. It's so complex and inaccessible
in that regard where it's like you have to go
back and rewatch it, rewatch it, rewatch it to get
an idea of what is actually to analyze it, to
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get to truthfully get it. The at the base of
what is what is happening? Whereas baseball you as a fan,
at least I don't have to I don't have to
do that. I can tell if a guy has a
good fastball with movement on it pretty quick from watching it. Okay,
I'm just telling you. That's why there's a reason why
when you ask a coach, you ask coach Whittingham, you
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ask you ask Whitter or Satake after a game in
the post game, be like, hey, what happened on this place?
You know that guy broke free, and they'll be like,
I don't know. I gotta watch the film. They don't
even know, Like they literally they're not making that. They're like,
I got I don't know, Like, what do you mean
you're on the sideline? What happened? It's there are twenty
two guys out there. I gotta go rewind the film
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and watch it over and over again. That's just why
with preseason football, I'm like, I can't. I know, I
don't know enough to make a a valuable judgment on
what's going on there unless it's a quarterback. But even then,
there are so many moving parts. I'm like, I feel bad,
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like I'm not gonna bash a guy, because I'm like,
I don't know. Maybe a receiver ran the wrong route.
I don't know, and I'm never gonna know. That's that's
that's the problem. That's part of the problem. That's part
of my rant. Well with preseason football, Okay, okay, all right,
so we've settled it. Preseason football sucks, thanks Marton. That
is your NFL blitz. Regular season football is great. Preseason
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I can't I can't do it. Your Bears tied the Dolphins,
by the way, that game, you're locked into it.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Two ties over the weekend. Two ties. I let's captivate.
I won't listen. My final thing on this is we'll
go to break. But I think the NFL should adopt
at least some type of overtime rules for preseason. Listen,
these guys are trying to find roster spots. Just put
in a college football style. Let them run two point
conversion type players on the goal line. Let's see what
team has the best concepts. I want to see.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Yeah, sure, why not, Let's find another way because it's
true at that point and then get but here's the thing.
At that point in the game, and seriously, though, in
the fourth quarter, and this is a legitimate question. I
don't know the answer. Is there anyone on the field
still battling for a roster spot?
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Yeah, of course absolutely. Listen, you need fifty three guys
plus you know you're twenty two guys on your practice squad. Like,
there's guys still fighting for roster squads all the way through.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Yeah, I mean they're right, you're right, a lot of
practice squad dudes. You're not wrong. All right, we'll take
a break, let's come back on the other side. We'll
talk a little Major League Baseball. The Brewers are red hot,
the Yankees are going down the tubes. It feels like
in good Lord, the Mets. We'll get into all of that.
By the way, one team is getting healthy and could
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be very scary down the stretch. It is Jordan Bianucci,
Martin Kelly behind the glass. It's Bryson Bianucci. In the
morning on one O, three nine and ninety eight three.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
This is Price and Bianucci m a morning one of
these two yearns for the old days where a little
scuffle went unpunished.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Now test is checked over the schools table, or.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Test the others A more distinguished gentleman that's just trying
to become more in touch with his Italian roots of
Hotan On one, O, three, nine and ninety three ESPN
A band.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
It is Bryson Bianucci on a Monday morning here in
our downtown Salt Lake City studios. Brice is under the weather.
Jordan Bianucci here, Martin Kelly behind the glass. A little uh,
a little traffic update for you. It's looking pretty good
in northbound I fifteen. Looks pretty clear, Martin, coming up
from Salt Lake County or excuse me, Utah County into
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salt Lake County. Usually we have our chopper up and
running today, the choppers in the shop. So I'm just looking.
I'm just looking here at the board and looking pretty good. Also,
sixty nine degrees, very nice outside. I have eighty nine
today in Salt Lake City, ninety three degrees and then
ninety six degrees Tuesday. That's Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively. It's
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gonna be a hot ONEID It's gonna be a hot one.
Let's get into we're talking about the dog days this summer.
Let's get into some Major League baseball in this segment. Look,
I want to start here with the best team in baseball.
If I had asked you back in April in August.
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What is it August ninth?
Speaker 3 (28:54):
Today? What was eleventh?
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Eleventh? I'm a little off August eleventh. If I asked
you in April on August eleventh, who will be the
best team in baseball as far as record wise, who
would you have given me?
Speaker 3 (29:06):
I would have given you the Dodgers. That would have
been the number one team. I would have thought the
Dodgers at this point would have had eighty wins.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Yeah, I don't think that's unreasonable. Here, who is the
best team in baseball?
Speaker 3 (29:20):
I am going well by record wise, I think the
best team in baseball is obviously the Brewers.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
No, that's that's it's always gonna Yeah. The Brewers are
seventy three and forty four right now. They're nine and
one in their last ten game. They've won nine in
a row. The Brewers are rolling going into the break.
This I mean the month of less less than a
month ago, going into the All Star break, the Cubs
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had been in first place the entire first half and
the Brewers were surging. But we were like, yeah, that's
the Cubs division to lose. At this point, the Brewers
are six game up on the Cubs six games. They've
totally taken control of that of that division. And why
this is important to me is a, yeah, you get
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home field advantage potentially over anybody in the National League,
but also the Brewers. They're not even that healthy right now.
You look at the Brewer's rotation and you look at Miserowski,
their young just stud. He's hurt. I think he will
come back. Quinn Priester, he is not hurt, but he
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did get roughed up yesterday by the Mets. A game
the Brewer scored seven runs and it still won seven
to six. So Priests, another one of their studs, did
not pitch well yesterday, but they still win the game. Elsewhere,
you got Freddy Peralta on that staff, Brandon Woodruff, who's
been fantastic, and jose Kintana. That's a good that's a
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rotation I feel pretty good about. Assuming you get Misierowski
back for the playoffs. Now, the other question that we'll
have to look at is what is his workload looking right,
looking like in October? Because he's young. I don't that's
I don't know what they're gonna do with mis Rawski
in the playoffs. The reason I bring that up is
there's one other team, and you mentioned it that's getting
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healthy at the right time, and that's the Dodgers. The
Dodgers rotation. Now, who's been on the i L all
year For the Dodgers, it has seemed like Blake Snell
huge huge signing, Uh Kershaw. I don't know what Kershaw
has left, but he's been on the IL. Yamamoto has
not pitched great at times, and Sheen has not been
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perfect at time, and then Glass now has been on
the IL. Well, all those dudes are back. That's your rotating.
Here's your rotation for the Dodgers, Yamamoto, Kershaw, O Tani, Glass, now,
Shean and Snail. That's one, two, three, four, But that's
six dudes. See, you can take out she and you
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can take not I wouldn't take out Shean, you can
take out Kershaw. If Otani can't go more than four innings,
you don't pitch Otani. But this is and if Blake
Snail's not consistent, you can use him in different ways.
But I think he's gonna be fine. This is why,
even though the Dodgers have underachieved to this point, they
are they are poised to obviously make a run in
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the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
I agree with that there they are poised to running
in the playoffs. You bring up their starting rotation is
and that could be very scary once September comes up
and everybody gets up and running and ready for the playoffs.
The only question I have about the Dodgers is at
times with their bats, the middle of the lineup, sometimes
they don't hit a lot of power for home runs.
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They're a really good hitting team all around the field.
Obviously Freddie o'tani and Mookie Batch are going to be
the home run but the rest of their lineup is
a really solid hitting lineup. Questions I have only about
the Dodgers Jordan's. It wouldn't have been the team I
would have mentioned that they're on the rise. It would
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have been the Houston Astros. We'll get to them in
a second. But their bullpen sometimes in that back end
of the bullpen, like yesterday against Toronto, they have the
lead against Toronto, they have the momentum, and they in
the seventh and the eighth inning just turn into an utter,
bloody mess against the Blue Jays. And that's a game
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legitimately the Blue Jays stole because of the Dodgers' bullpen
in the back end. They have a closer, there's no
lie about that, but they're setup. Guys in seven and
eight have been giving up some games this season. It
has really come back to bite the Dodgers in the
butt at times this season.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
You're right, I agree, I agree with you. The question is,
and here's the here's the problem if you're anybody but
the Dodgers. The Dodgers weren't super healthy arm wise in
the postseason last year, and they somehow, you know, tape
together a bullpen game in the World Series and a
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rotation that got it done. Here's the issue is you're
I'm with you with the Dodger But if there's one
place to worry them, it's it's the bullpen. If I'm
the Dodgers. But here's you don't in the postseason. You
don't have to have a five or six man rotation.
You could go Yamamoto Glass now, assuming he comes back strong,
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and then she and or Snell, and then you can
even throw Otani in there if you want to, because
you have the days off. So if you can get
six innings seven innings out of those guys, which you
should be able to That's where it gets scary, because
then you only need, you know, one a bridge, one
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guy to the ninth, two guys to get to the ninth.
If if you're the Dodgers, and if you're the Dodgers,
you hope you you know, you're scoring a lot of
runs because that's that's your I mean, one of your strength.
It's insane.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
The only the only thing about the Dodgers that I
hope Dave Roberts has pulled this move beforehand is that
he manages Kershaw in a legit way. We've seen the
blowout I mean the blow wins from Kershaw obviously against
the Cardinals, obviously against the Nationals, but those were in
his you know, his in his late twenties, early twenties,
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in his thirties. Hopefully this time they manage Kershaw well
because he's a phenomenal pitcher, but he's not a bullpen pitcher.
We've seen him try to come out of the bullpen.
It just hasn't worked. I agree with you, Sheen and
Snell could hold the back end of a playoff rotation.
But if you have to throw in Kershaw in Game
five or in Game four, in Game six for four innings,
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before you get to your bullpen. I think that's a
legitimate better plan than throwing Kershaw out there for two
innings and the sixth or the seventh innings of any
playoff game in the back end of a series.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Yeah, and that's my I don't know how much you're
gonna I wonder how much you're gonna throw Kershaw in
the playoffs because okay, so here I'm looking at his
game logs the last little bit. So against Toronto he
got the win when six inning, one run was fantastic.
He at Tampa Bay and these are two really good offenses,
Toronto and Tampa Bay. In at Tampa Bay six innings,
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no runs, five hits. Prior to that, he has not
been phenomenal at Boston four and two thirds, four earned runs,
Milwaukee four and a third, one run, three unearned at
Milwaukee six innings, two runs.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
He is.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
This is not the old Kershaw. We all know that. No, absolutely,
So I don't know now. Listen, to be fair, his
last two starts have been fantastic. He's been phenomenal. So
maybe he's found maybe something mechanically. Maybe he's found it
because he's done it against two really good offenses. Like
I said, so maybe he'll be fine. I'm not counting
on Kershaw. The thing if you're the Dodgers is you
don't have to count on Kershaw. There are so many
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other guys that you can go with their down the stretch.
But the interesting thing about we're talking about the Brewers
kind of starting at trying to at least run away
from the Cubs in the Central the Dodgers, that division
is nowhere near being over. Dodgers are currently two games
up on San Diego. That's unbelievable. On August eleventh, the
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Dodgers are two games up on the Potteries. By the way,
I don't have that head to head in front of me,
but the Dodgers have dominated that head to head series
this season, so we're getting this is the look. We're
getting into the fun part of the season where teams
are either gonna start separating themselves or you're gonna start
getting real serious pennant races in Major League Baseball. Potteris
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have I believe three with the Giants Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
of this week, and then the Dodgers are taking on
the Angels in Anaheim. So it's the Angels and the
Giants or it's I don't have any faith in either
of those teams, but it's going to be really interesting
to see that in a West battle down down the stretch. Now,
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what are the implications if the Dodgers win the West,
if they don't win the West, Because either way, both
of those teams are probably you know, unless one of
them absolutely just utterly collapses down the stretch. They're both
getting into the postseason. So the Dodgers right now or
the Podrays. So I'm looking at the So right now,
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if they season ended today, the Dodgers would have to
play in that first round game. In that first round series,
they would host the Mets for three. The Podrays would
visit the Cups for three. So right now, what I'm
getting at is how important it is? How important is
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it to win that division?
Speaker 3 (38:59):
I think it's looking at You're right about that, looking
at the wildcard standings. I mean, listen, in the divisional round,
we could get Dodgers versus Padras. It's somehow, some way,
we don't know what the match are gonna do. Towards
the end of the season. Obviously we've seen them in
a struggle. You're right about that. The Padres are on
a really fun stretch. You know, two games back. I
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think it's important for the Dodgers to win this division,
to hold the fact that they don't want to be
the road team on a wildcard situation or in divisional round.
I'd rather be the home team. I get it, it's
a five game series, you're only getting three games, but
you know, the first two games of that series, you're
at home. I'd rather be at home for the first
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two games than be on the road for two games.
Playing at Petco Park is a whole lot different in
playing in Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
No, and I agree with you, And I think it's
even bigger because that Dodgers series, that first series, because
right now, the Philly and the Brewers would have first
round bys, so they'd be immediately into the division round
with that five game series. Right now, right now, the Dodgers,
the Cubs, the Potterys, and the Mets, those would be
your wildcard teams. And that's a three game series, that's
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best of three, and it's played, like you said, in
one ballpark. So right now, like I said, the Mets
would be visiting the Dodgers for three games in LA
and the Podreys would be visiting the Cubs for three
games at Wrigley. So I'm with you as far as
that to me is it's not a huge deal. I mean,
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it's not. I shouldn't say that. It's not a like
make or break deal, but yeah, I think it matters
who wins the division in the West and who is
who has those home field advantage spots in the wildcard. Now, look,
this can all change very quickly because the Mets are
just a game and a half up on the Reds
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in the wildcard card in the National League, and the
Dodgers are right there, I believe, a half game back
of Philadelpia. This is even bigger. Dodgers are a half
game back of Philadelphia for that second seed in the
National League, which would then give the Dodgers a buy
in the first round and add nauseum on the show.
We always debate whether that's an actual advantage or not.
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But I keep going back to ask any manager in baseball,
would you rather have the buyer? Would you rather play
a three game series? And the bike Now will take
the buy and maybe risk getting a little rusty. We'll
take the buye. So that's your National League side. Of
things in the American League, the Yankees the whole this
entire season. The discussion we've had is can the you know,
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the Yankees. Who in the East is really going to
challenge the Yankees And it's not going to be the
Red Sox now they don't, you know, it's not going
to be the Rays this year. I don't think so.
The Blue Jays are going to They're underachieve, achieving the
first month of the season, and then it's the Blue Jays.
So I think we have just like this bias, like
we just don't really pay attention to the Blue Jays
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and then actually they get red hot and they're fantastic.
And then obviously the Orioles have been just a disaster.
The Yankees right now, they're not They're not just in
danger of losing the division. It might even it's over
and they ain't coming back in the Al East. The
Yankees right now are just a half game up on
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Cleveland for the final wild card spout. The Yankees are
are in serious danger of not making the playoffs. That's
where the Yankees are right now. They're three and seven
in their last ten games. The second half of this
season has just been a nightmare for the Yankees.
Speaker 3 (42:45):
I it has been a disaster and I'm gonna say this,
and I think it should be talked about more, and
I think it will be. But I don't think anything's
gonna be done about it, which I think is the
problem with the Yankees. You and I talked about this
on The D and Dirty with Scott Mitchell. When I
had you on it, You're you're like, I asked you, like, Hey,
who are we been on down the road for the
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Al East. You're like, I'm been on the Yankees. Well,
they'll find a way to do what they do in
the back half of the season. But I think if
they missed the playoffs entirely or go on the road
for a wild card and lose, okay, I think it's
time to look at Aaron Boone and find his replacement.
I think it's legitimately time to think about a replacement
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for Aaron Boone. He is Joe Girardi without a title.
Joe kept his job around for a lot longer because
he had the title, because he kept the Yankees legitimately
competitive for a good amount of time. You know what,
Aaron Boone has done some really good things. He should
have probably gotten into more World Series than he did
because he only got to one. He got robbed because
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of the of the Houston Astros, And we could talk
about that for days in seventeen and eighteen, will you
know him getting butt kicked by the Boston Red Sox.
But I think it's time for Aaron Boone's replacement to
be talked about because I just I don't think the
locker room buys into his ideas, his his conversations anymore.
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He's getting more ejected. You're in and you're out. He
got ejected yesterday again for the fifth time this season.
I just think it falls on deaf ears. I don't
think it's just bats or their rotation or their lineup.
I just think they're in inadequate baseball team. I think
every mistake they've made on the field, and every mistake
they made in the World Series falls on Aaron Boone.
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Like I just I don't think they played the fundamentals anymore.
Speaker 2 (44:33):
But I also not be right there because I totally
agree with you. Here's my problem with with the with
the Yankees is you have a lot of bats in
that lineup and you have Look, you lost Errett Cole,
but you have a lot of you have some good arms.
And then you made a trade. You brought in Bednar
from the Pirates to bolster the bullpen, and you brought
in Camillo Dovall from the Giants to bolster the bullpen.
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And since then the Yankees bullpen has not been, by
any means, a shut down bullpen. The Yankees. I'm with you.
You made a great point. It's not it's not that
they're not hitting. It's not that they that's what they
do is they hit for power. Just overall, it's not
that they're starting pitching has been, you know, an abomination.
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That's not No, it's not true. The Yankees make more
stupid mistakes on the base paths in the field, like
like fundamental baseball. Then it is so as an HIGG
event you have to be pulling your hair out, because
there I would love I wish we had a stat
where you could see how many I'm sure it's out
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there somewhere, how many of these mistakes have cost the
baseball games because right now we're in the era of
analytics where it's it's, oh, you know, defense is actually
we've we've overrated defense, We've overvalued it. Yeah, you want
to have a good defense in baseball. Well, it's not
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that important compared to you know, if you're hitting a
lot of home runs. And that's true to a certain degree.
You know, base running not not that important. We've overvalued
that in the past. Yeah, maybe maybe a little. It's
seems like it matters a little bit though when you
watch a Yankee game, because they're running themselves out of
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beginnings like just stupid mistakes. It's it's guys, forgetting how
many damn outs there are. It's like base running matters,
playing defense matters. Being mentally in the game matters. It
costs you games. And by the way, when you're making
stupid mistakes, it is so demoralizing.
Speaker 3 (46:47):
It costs on the World Series.
Speaker 2 (46:48):
Yeah, absolutely, judge dropping a fly ball. I mean it's
and and.
Speaker 3 (46:54):
It's Rizzo standing at and Cole looking at each other
going why aren't you at first base? Absolutely, it's the
fact that from May until now you know this better
than I do because you listen to all the baseball stuff.
How many times has the Yankee fans been on radio
and television calling for Volpi's head at shortstop? How many
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times have they been talking about in an adequate third
basement and second shortstop about mistakes. But this is why.
Also when they traded for Ryan McCann, they were complaining
about you got a guy with no bat and all
the stat nerds were telling them like, listen, you got
someone who can actually catch the baseball and throw it
to first base. Oh okay, we'll get behind it. And
now they're ripping Ryan McCann after he won them a
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game about a week ago. Like the Yankee fans are
just you can't please them so.
Speaker 2 (47:43):
And no, I'm absolutely to get back to your point though,
is I Look, if the Yankees do not make the playoffs,
I think you're right Aaron Boone is gone even And
if they do make the playoffs and they don't, boy,
I hesitate to say this off to think about this.
I may go back on this in a couple of days.
But if they don't win the Pennant, he may still
lose his job after the kind of year they've had.
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But I don't know that this is the wear in baseball.
How much of a team's success or failure do you
ascribe to the skipper, Because is it Aaron Boone who's
not emphasizing base running or fundamentals or is that to
that to me is an organizational thing that to me
that you don't learn that at the big league level.
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You can't, you don't have time.
Speaker 3 (48:32):
I mean, it starts with it starts with the stein Renners.
It starts with whoever's left with the stein b Renners and
their GM at this point is cash Man. I I
think it starts with them. But you can't fire to
stein Renners because it's still on the team.
Speaker 2 (48:45):
But I'm saying it's I'm saying it starts in the
far You're right, but they're they're the head of it.
But I'm saying it starts in the farm system. Does
it not?
Speaker 1 (48:52):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (48:52):
Absolutely? Like I agree with you. Yes, all of these
fundamentals should have been learned at Triple A before they
got to the big leagues. But let's remind ourselves. They
did rush Volpi up from Triple A to the big leagues.
They did rush Domingo up from Triple A to the
big leagues. They really haven't given these guys a whole
lot of time to knock down their fundamentals before they
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brought them up to the to the team, so they
kind of rushed them because they had to fill up
roster spots they had to fill in the ideas that
they had the prospects ready to go, and right now
we're seeing it with Domingo and Vopie that you know,
as much as they have a lot of talent, they're struggling.
They're struggling offensively, they're struggling defensively, and there's a lot
(49:37):
of holes on this team, regardless of how much power
they have in the lineup. I mean, yeah, you might
have a thirty five plus year old Goldschmid. He might
give you a couple of home runs, but you can't
rely on that in the playoffs. And Judge is the
only thing they have on offense. Yes, they have Stanton
coming back, but only have you only have Judge, And
you know, you've seen the mistakes day in and day
(49:59):
out with jazz and base running, and it's just I
just think it's time for Boone to go. I think
Boone is is just his message is falling on death ears.
I don't think he's focusing on fundamentals. I think he's
focusing on the fact that he has a whole lot
of talent and they're gonna bail him out. I just
think it's time to look at Boone and say you
are a problem. You your your management is a problem.
(50:23):
And yes, you can blame cash Man in the in
the stein Brenners up top, but I just think they're
making illegitimate decisions with their prospects because we're seeing the
back end of their prospects not deliver and that's costing
them a lot of games. It isn't just their bats.
King was a prospect pitcher that came up. He struggled
at times. We've seen. You know, they have another kid
(50:46):
who's the left hander that's other tall, Aaron Judge like player.
I forget his name, it'll come back to me, but
I mean he's shown some good signs. We'll see what
happens with him. But I just Aaron Boone's gotta go.
I think it's time to let Aaron Boone go. Yeah,
he delivered in the two thousand and three ALCS, but
he hasn't delivered anything since then.
Speaker 2 (51:06):
It's interesting because you're right, the Yankees lead the majors
in homers. They've been one hundred and eighty three home
runs this year. In the last month when they've gone
down the tank, they have moved down to seventh in
the League with thirty three home runs compared that. By
the way, here's a little trivia question, martin which team
is hit the most home runs in the last thirty days?
(51:27):
Not in the American League and the National League, big
in the big leagues, the team say the Brewers, my
friend dor Chicago White Sox have hit forty two home
runs in the last month. That's the best in the
big leagues. Hey, that's something. So you look at that,
you go the Yankees, they're hitting home runs. They're fine
(51:49):
in the last thirty days. Here are your home run
leaders for the Yankees. Gean Carlos Stanton has hit seven.
Volpi has hit seven, Grisham has hit five, Bellinger Ford
Chisholm to Goldschmidt to Judge too. And it's and Judge
has been hurt for but last two weeks. So it's it.
(52:10):
That's part of it. Nothing is going right. Let's be
honest for the Yankees right now. And and I agree
with your point. Look, but the mistakes they're making. You
mentioned triple eight that stuff you should be learning in
high school. I mean, like before, it's just crazy the
mistakes they're making. So things not going well in New
York I'm gonna pull up, who are the Yankees? Yankees
(52:32):
have the twins in the Bronx to start this week,
and then you look at who they're battling with in
the AL. The Rays are visiting Sacramento. Uh, Boston is
visiting the Strows. So you need I don't even know
you need Houston to win that if you're you're the Yankees.
This is isn't It's so fair. It's such a long season.
(52:56):
You go through just so many different stages of play.
As far as like you have to be so even
killed in baseball, Yeah, you just you just do because man,
the highs and lows are high and they're low, and
it just is a marathon. So that is your Major
League Baseball update. Man, we could talk about this for
(53:20):
a while. Some good series, by the way, yeah, started
this week.
Speaker 3 (53:22):
I'm surprised just saying this, I'm surprised I haven't brought
out the Tigers. Yeah, they were the best team in
the first half. They've have a slow, sluggish start to
this season. Plus if you didn't watch it, I watched it.
The first woman mob Umpire, I forgot her the last name,
but Jen I think it was the start with called
the Braves game over the weekend. I think her first
(53:46):
game was Sunday after spending about thirty years in the
pre in college in college baseball at being an umpire.
So congratulates to her being the first woman umpire and
mob history. And it's gonna be interesting because you know,
I'll come on the show maybe one day, one of
those days in September. I got to replace Bryce again,
and we'll talk about it. But September to me, is
(54:08):
going to be the doer die months for the American
League more than the National League, because I think the
National League divisions are kind of a rap already at
this point besides the AL East, but the AL wild
Card is going to be a legitimate dogfight throughout the
entire month of September to see who gets that spot.
Speaker 2 (54:26):
No, absolutely, yeah, first ever. I'm glad you brought that up.
I forgot about that yesterday. First ever woman umpire behind
home plate in yesterday's game. I'm trying to find her
last name is like paw. If you go to MLB,
we have access as the media to the MLB press box.
(54:47):
I have every umpire giving me the pronunciation of their
name on video. That's that's some good content right there.
My friend, so the.
Speaker 3 (55:00):
Powell, I'm yell.
Speaker 2 (55:02):
So, yeah, that's pretty cool, that's pretty amazing. She was okay,
she was okay in her MLB debut. People were killing
her because she missed a few calls. To the amount
of pressure on her, it would be, I can't imagine it.
Like it's just in this day of social media, you
(55:25):
just know you're gonna first of all, you're the umpire,
You're gonna get criticized like crazy anyway. But man, hey,
you know, kudos to her. Absolutely, that was That's that's
something that's a lot of pressure behind the plate. So yeah, hey,
the good good call. I forgot to add that Phillies
reads real quick. That should be. That's a series I'm
(55:45):
paying attention to this week. Let's see if the Reds
have a legitimate shot. Right now, they're a game and
a half back of that final wildcard spot and they're
gonna get tested. They have the Phillies, uh starting tonight,
I believe in Philadelphia. All right, Well, take a break,
come back on the other side. We're gonna hear from
our friend j T. Wistrasil and get into it on
(56:06):
Utah Fall Camp. It is Bryson Bianucci Jordan in for Bryce,
Martin Kelly Behind the Glass on one oh three, nine
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