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This is the dan lebertar show with this to got spot cast.

Look at him. One of the best. One of my favorites and one of the best to ever do. He's got that pen

in his hand. He's probably doing a card for next season. He's probably preparing for game one

of next season. What do you? It's not a golf card. Is it? What's that pen for? Al Michael.

I'm writing checks. We had the refrigerator guy with you yesterday in the landscape for last week.

Yeah. So. Okay. I'm just trying to make sure I'm not overdrawing. Just writing checks. So you're not

doing it the way. So do you object the way I do? I just got into a fight with a valet because they

wouldn't take my cash. You like doing it cash and checks. No, no, no, no, Van Mouge's take my

hard earned American cash. I am old school. Now, if you want to take a Bitcoin,

they try to explain to me what this Bitcoin thing is with the virtual currency is. Sorry folks.

Don't understand one I owe to that. Oh, it's money, but on the computer.

Yeah. Mm-hmm. It's money, but you know what? You have to mind it. I'm still living in the

green stamp world. So, you know, you guys have no idea what that is. I do. I do. No, I know what

you mean, but I too am old. Mother's collect. Yeah, if you collected like 48 million green stamps,

you got like a, you know, like a pillow or something like that. It was crazy. Put it on the pole.

Please, that levittar show because Tony just went, what? Put it on the pole. Do you know what it

means to collect 4,600 or 46,000 green stamps and get a pillow? How Michael's as obviously the most

miraculous and memorable sports call of all time, but he's been doing football for a long time

and it resonated with me out when you said being in Chicago, look, I've been here 30 times,

but I've never felt this place feel like this. The moment this season that you got Thursday night

football has reinvented itself. It used to be terrible games no longer. What are the signature

moments for you this year where you felt the strongest and it reminded you about all the things

you love about sports? Well, certainly that night in Chicago, which was a tremendous game and you

know, it looked like the packers were going to run away. I think was 21 to three at the half,

21 six going into the fourth quarter. And that was the night when sound has feel and having been

to soldier field. I think that was my 31st Bears game since starting back in the mid 80s and you

could feel it shaking, feel the building shaking. So that would be, you know, one thing obviously that

we wrapped up Thursday night football with on a Saturday night, but also I think, you know, the game

of the year and it seems to be a movable feast now was the Ram Seattle game back in, I think,

week 16 in Seattle, the one where the Rams looked like they had it one. Shaheed runs back the

putt makes it a one score game. They wind up winning it after the Rams had scored an overtime,

a touchdown, back come the Seahawks get the two point conversion. And I think people at that

point thought that was the game of the year. We've had a couple of more games of the year since then

as well. Are the Seahawks better than the Rams? I think they are. I think the different

between those two teams right now might be special teams. And that's been the bug of

it for the Rams all season long had to fire their special teams coordinator finally found the

right kicker who came in. He did well, but the the punt return situation in Seattle. That was

really basically when you think about it. I mean, a lot of plays come together to cost you a game,

but I think none was bigger than moughing that pun having Seattle recover and and score a touchdown

on the next place. So, you know, I think both teams are so evenly matched. They play three

tremendous games this season, but I think see I give Seattle a slight advantage. Have you heard

or seen anything about the Bill Bella check not making the Hall of Fame on the first ballot that

you have personally found stimulating, interesting, and what are your opinions there? Well, I think

what's interesting, Dan is that and I go back to the baseball Hall of Fame in maybe the 70s.

And I'll never forget when Willie Mays was eligible and Willie was in his fifth year of retirement

and he got in obviously on the first ballot, but I think there were a couple of voters who did not

vote for Willie. One of them was an esteemed sports editor in Atlanta who wrote a column about

he did not vote for Willie Mays because Willie Mays every time he came to town wouldn't do a sit

doing interview with him. He was off-putting. He was kind of a prick. So he did not vote for him,

which tells me a lot of what I need to know about how this process works. There was another voter

when I was working with Dan Deerdorf on Monday night football and Dan eventually got into the

Hall of Fame, but a man on the on the panel who had been a college player and it played the offensive

line position either guard or tackle and was mad at Dan because he thought that Dan on television

had become too much an entertainer and not enough of an exes and those guys so he didn't vote for him.

So you know how political this thing is if you get mad at somebody and somebody did you wrong,

maybe your little pound of flesh is not voting for him on the first ballot, but obviously Bella

Chick will get in. What pisses you off the most about the way sports media coverage has changed?

Well I think there's just a lot of stuff out there. I've always been a sickler for really trying

to get everything right. Have I of course not? I mean I've made tons of mistakes for the years.

You can't do as many games as I've done and not make a ton of mistakes, but I think right now,

Dan, a lot of it is just how can I make noise? How can I yell? How can I scream? How can I get into

an argument with people? You know, you see enough of these shows where to me, to sum it up,

I guess basically I would say it's more heat than light and sometimes it's all heat and no light

and I think that's the one thing that's some disturbing through the end. Of course,

you're with the internet now and social media or anti social media. It's like everybody hates

everybody. Netflix has the new documentary, Miracle, The Boys of 80, obviously about the

1980 US Olympic hockey team. Do you do you ever get tired of talking about the 1980 Olympic hockey

team and that whole experience? I mean it's it's the greatest call in the history of sports recall.

Well, you would think that I would be, but last week I was actually in Lake Plassen,

Anne Heiser Bush put together an event that had 2,000 people in the arena, did a hologram of

the game, a holographic, whatever you call that thing, but anyway, they played the game and people

on the screen and during the game, the crowd in the arena that night when the US would score with

cheer and when the Soviets would score, they would boo and then we had Mike Rosione and Mark Johnson

and Jim Kray came in. So the reason I think I don't get tired of it 46 years later is that when

people want to talk to me about it, they're always happy. They're glowing. They think back to

what it was. Obviously, most of the people now in the country don't even remember it live,

but now they've seen it through the documentary on HBO. The Miracle movie, obviously, they've heard

the stories, they've read about it, and the Netflix documentary, I've seen it, it is great,

and it's great because they brought all of the guys back and brought them into late classes.

They were able to gather the whole group and now you see them who they are at this particular

point in time and what it means to them. So it's a story that resonates as a story that, as I say,

is going to be 5 decades old and in 4 years, but it brings so much happiness and joy to people.

That's why I think I never get tired of it. I'm glad to hear you say that because even now,

getting to ask you stuff about it, I really love talking about it. It makes me happy to talk

about that. Did you know right after the game that you nailed the call that someone tell you,

oh my god, amazing finish to the game? What are the parts of that call that people don't know?

What are the untold parts of that story and that call that you think are worth knowing that only

you know? Yeah, your question. To me, I didn't go in with a thought about what would happen. First

of all, Dan, I thought that the U.S. had absolutely no chance to win the game. Zero, zero.

So I'm not thinking about a win and then they came from behind three different times,

outshot 39-16. So it basically dominated the first 50 minutes of that game and put enough

pressure on the last 10 minutes. So at the end of that game, when the crowd is going crazy,

I'm just trying to concentrate on doing the play by play because that game could have ended with

the Soviets scoring. So if I come up with a line and the Soviets scored a tie of the game,

I mean how stupid would that have sounded? So as the puck comes out the center ice and I told

the story a few times, obviously through the years, the word that came into my head was miraculous

and it gave me a chance to think of something and it got morphed into a question and an answer.

Then I know the extent of what it meant to some people when I said it absolutely not

because there was so much franticness in the truck. What are we going to do? We've got to get

Brooks for a post-game interview. The crowd's going crazy. And in those years, it's so

funny. In 1980, it's not like it is right now. It's analog television and all of the rest.

And in the truck, Rune Arlidge who ran ABC Sports was worried that since it was on tape delay,

they'd play the tape and something that they'd be a technical problem. So Sweden was playing Finland

right after the US Soviet game. It was a double header. So the crowd goes out. The new crowd

comes in that had the tickets for the second game and Arlidge made Ken Dryden and me stay there

and do the Sweden Finland game into a tape machine. Just in case, just in case there was a technical

problem when the US was playing the Soviets and that was being aired on tape delay. So I really

didn't have a chance to even go out of the street and see what was going on and watching the

people carry on. No. And it wasn't until I got back to the hotel after the Sweden Finland game,

the people said, hey, that was kind of the perfect ending. And I had to think about exactly what I

said because it was, I mean, to me, it was a miracle. The US had no chance to win the game,

but they did. Hey, it's Mike Ryan. And I want to talk to you about the random midweek

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belly. Stugats. He said titties and he's like shocked me a little bit. I wasn't quite prepared

for titties. This is the Don Lebatard show with his Stugats.

Do you have a second favorite call?

You know, I've got a couple where I think you know I did the St. Louis Tennessee Super Bowl

after the 99 season that ended with Kevin Dyson not being able to get in and I think I said

something like, could Kenny get in though he cannot and the Rams have won the Super Bowl?

So you kind of want to nail it at the end and you know that's not a memorable line necessarily.

It's just kind of it spoke to the moment and I think I also did in the speaking of the Super Bowl

that we have coming up. I did 11 years ago the Seattle England game where Malcolm Butler made the

interception and that's one of those games where you know you just want to make sure you nail it

otherwise you know you live in posterity with you know what the hell did he just do but I was able

to you know identify Malcolm Butler and I think the word that came out was unreal.

So you just want to you know you want to capture the moment and not screw it up basically.

Let's play for Alvin Scully's greatest regret when it comes to publicly speaking during game.

Back about my third year yeah about 1952 the Dodgers were playing Cincinnati and Cincinnati had

an outfielder named Lloyd Merriman I'll never forget it and Lloyd hit a ball foul and my mind

told me to say hot shot hit foul and it never came out that way and everybody in the booth

fell down as I was absolutely mortified and the reason I remember Lloyd Merriman I started

filling he said former Marine Hill court pilots are combating Korea you know I did on and on that

that really it had to be considering how young I was yeah that that was about him.

You got one of those out? You know nothing like that but I mean Vinny of course had some fantastic

cause none better than you know the year of the improbably impossible has happened when when

Gibson hit the home run of the World Series in 88 but the one time and the only time I think I got caught

not knowing I was on we were in a short commercial it was a game in Jacksonville and Leslie Vister was

our sideline reporter and we came out of commercial faster than I thought I got the the wrong

count from the truck and and Leslie Leslie and I used to kiddie show there'd be a she's the crazy

you know Boston college alone and I said something like oh Leslie we just sat with that Boston

college shit already and it made it on the air but you know in those years there was a big deal now

who cares you know you watch any number of shows and that's nothing. We have unfortunately not

enough time I'd like to talk to him for hours do you have a co-cell story for us? A number of them

and I think the the most famous one which I've told a number of times is in Kansas City when Howard

had had a lot of drinks we went to the Shaboy Grill and we're coming back into those years there

were no budgets you just did what you had to do and so a transportation was by limousine and we had

a woman by the name of Peggy and every time there was a Monday night football game or a Monday night

baseball game or a college football like in Lawrence Kansas she would drive the ABC crew and to make

a long story short I mean we we're driving back and Howard had an aquarium is worth a vodka at

the Shaboy Grill at night and at a stoplight he she's a couple of kids having a fight on the street

corner and they're surrounded by six or seven other kids who were egging them on and Howard gets

out of the car and he's got the two pay in the cigar and he's wearing his yellow jacket because

Howard always traveled with only the yellow jacket the canary yellow and he comes out of the car

and he and I'm trying to grab him and there's no cell phones you can't call you know for help at

that particular point and I'm thinking oh god they're gonna jump him and he goes it's quite a

parent to this trained observer the young southboard does not have a jab requisite for the

continuation of this race furthermore his opponent is a man of inferior and diminishing skills

this confrontation is halted post-haste so now you have all these mouths that are a gate they're

going what and then they fortunately they recognize them instead of jumping when somebody goes

Howard coastal Howard coastal he patched them on the head somehow a writing utensil gets produced

he signs a couple of autographs on their shirts and one guy had a hat and he gets him patched

them on the head and he gets back into the car it was so surreal it was crazy we get back in the

limousine and Howard's got this cigar going on the whole thing and and Peggy gets out of there it's

fast as she can I can't say anything it's like social stunning she couldn't say anything she gets

about two block stops and it doesn't stop like looks into the rear-view mirror and says mr

coastal I've been driving for 30 years I thought I'd seen everything I have never seen anything like

that and Howard leans back Howard leans back and says to her pegaroo just remember one thing I know

who I am and and away we went it was crazy great story and he was wearing the yellow Monday night

football jack yeah he would wear he wear that he'd be able Howard would he'd love to be in the lobby

he'd be in it regaling people and all that and he and Jim McKay you know they never really got

along particularly well I think Howard was always jealous of the fact that Jim got to

do Jim got to sit in the anchor sheet in Munich and announce you know when the hostages were

being held and eventually killed at the Munich Olympics so I'll never forget Howard is sitting

with doing the Kentucky Derby one year and Howard's in the lobby and Jim is checking in and

he's got five of six people around him and he looks over at McCay and he goes Jimmy Jimmy look at

this there's no place I can go to be alone and McCay did not break stride thinking his suitcase

up to the room toward the elevator he says Howard did you ever think about your room so

okay those those are crazy days he'll be returning to Amazon Prime videos Thursday night football

for another season of NFL coverage in 2026 always good seeing you out thank you for making the time

and anytime I really enjoyed that long session we had no way this spring maybe we do that again

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down lebertard can I tell you something I know maybe like a month ago and I decided to watch

pitch clock and I told Jeremy stugats this is a good show you're doing this is the down lebertar show

with a stugats do we get promoted to a bigger studio is a graphic and everything we are back

welcome to the pitch clock here's the pitch a two-part baseball segment combining a nostalgic

baseball trivia game and an interview with an expert this is the pitch clock

it's two thousand and twenty six happy new year and I can say that because it's the first day

of pitch clock baseball back here new year hey Chris hi ever but hey we still do that forget

about that bit I kind of did I'm glad we I'm glad we brought it into the year for the

thousand twenty six podcast listeners I had to point to myself there to cue Jeremy to toss

it to me for that well we brought that back we also brought Ethan back yeah why'd you do that

some things you want to bring back some some things you don't then then you bring me back I get

hate over there and we have to dish it to you over here so Ethan what's our trivia game for this

very first episode of the pitch clock in twenty twenty six we're gonna draft a team of seven infielders

and what we're gonna do is we're gonna add up their home run totals between two thousand five

and two thousand nine we're going right into the wheelhouse boys well and whoever has the most

home runs is the winner and this is positionally like can we take all first basement or all

no I would like for you to select at least one of each and then you have your pick for three

so four starters let's say and then three bench players basically we're doing four and we're only

picking infielders is a good one okay and this is like the seven combined totals not your starters

totals correct the seven combined total yep good so let's let's knock out let's let's plan on

in our first four rounds knocking out our starting infield and then all you you can use your strategy

I'll use mine well no we should have a rule for that uh where you have to get one of each position

yeah I think that one of each first and then we're not talking about and we're not talking about

catcher including infield right first second no so Chris you get the first pick amongst all of these

Alex Rodriguez okay that is obviously a great pick yeah thank you a rod hit two hundred two

home runs between 2005 and 2009 all right well I'll go ahead and knock out uh first basement

Albert Pujos Pujos second in this time span with two oh six oh let me get that in game let me get

Jim Thome Jim tome would be the answer there not Jim Thome ah he's doing a thing Jim tome had

one forty one there's one forty one I'm trying to think going around the league in my brain

I'm going shortstop Miguel Tejada Miguel Tejada all right going I don't think I just don't know

this is a rod well a rods your your third basement oh is in that window yeah he's your third

five to oh nine yeah that's why that's why I went shortstop hmm because I assumed you I had a rod

written down as much just so that I can oh man just so that I can go on strategy because this is a big

this is a huge difference I think we should be able to like guys have played multiple positions you

can pick where they well you should have been able to you should oh hold on a second you should

I had to say that out loud and declare what I mean no because my whole strategy was to go my whole

strategy was to go to for a position that you hadn't done attempting to try to get number one I was

holding off on third base for a reason sorry you just get to make the rules yeah by this time

he's a rod didn't play shortstop after oh five thank you played six innings of shortstop thank you

thank you so a rod he's a third base he played he played oh shit he didn't know he's a third

base wild this is a house ruling that we do the thing I mean he wanted every good oh five just

draft seven guys in the infield like what are we doing here well you'll be able to yeah but then

you would just draft seven for space yeah this is gross it's our first guest of 2026 he was also

our most frequent guest of 2025 the Emmy winner Adnan Burke joins us here as our first guest

of the year on the pitch clock Adnan welcome to the show Jeremy it's great to see again buddy thank

you I was so glad I was a featured guest a year ago and um I'm glad you get the Emmy award winner

part in there because that's the key you know Joe DeVosha would not go anywhere unless he was

introduced as the world's greatest living ball player even though Willie Mays was still alive was

a better ball player than Joe D so thank you for fluff of my ego let's talk some baseball buddy

Emmy winner Adnan I want to talk to you about the four big moves that were made over the last

week different significance for each of them but all pretty impactful you got Mackenzie Gore traded

to the Rangers you got Freddie Peralta traded to the Metz then of course Harrison Bader signing

with the Giants and then of course you had Cody Belinger returning to the New York Yankees which

of those four moves over the last week do you find the most impactful well it's interesting each

guy by the way Harrison Bader my friend Scott Bergowski christened the master which you're like what

like that's his nickname Harrison the master you fill in the room I think Mackenzie Gore is

going to be at great number three you know for years everyone said this guy's ace level stuff which

he is but he hasn't been an ace yet I think on the Rangers as a number three is phenomenal because

you've got Jacob DeGrom and Nathan Evolga I think he could be like literally one of the best number

threes in all of baseball so that's good news Belinger was absolutely vital for the New York Yankees

but the answer is Freddie Peralta this guy led the National League and wins with 17 the 2.70 ERA

of season ago tons of strikeouts great durability and David Stern's loves him and you see what

David Stern's is doing just kind of rebuilding this brewer's team with guys that he knows whether

there's Devon Williams facing him away from the New York Yankees or in this case getting Peralta

like I think he's an absolute stud I think he's you know top 10 top 15 pitcher in baseball I got

side-unbought to season ago from Milwaukee I mean to give him up that's one thing we just get

used this right they trade guys away but for the Mets that really fortifies their rotation yeah

now you've got a true blue ace top there Senga went for me a side-uncontainer to go to triple A

so you completely fell off you have no idea you're getting there mania is very inconsistent but I

loved no McLean uh tong obviously a second season so he's got to prove but you got Peralta that

really helps up that Mets rotation so we just talked about the Mets we added the Yankees to that

and I want to talk to you about some of these big market teams here and maybe I'll have you stack

these up for me in terms of their offseason because the Mets added Peralta they also added

Marcus Simeon they added Luis Robert Jr. Boba-Shet they lost Jeff McNeil Brandon Nemo Pitalonzo

the Yankees of course bring back Belinger they trade for Ryan Weathers as a starter somewhat

quiet offseason for the Yankees all things considered another Marlins pitcher traded it was Edward

Cabrera to the Cubs they also signed Alex Bregman and then of course there's the Dodgers who

bring in Edwin Diaz they bring in Kyle Tucker can you stack up these four big market off seasons

for me and Chicago LA in both New York teams yeah I think LA obviously wins the Fragency again

which is of course you mean you sign Kyle Tucker you get Edwin Diaz you get one of the best

closures in baseball and a Terrificator to bolster that lineup LA wins okay no doubt about that

and towards the other teams I think the Mets are the very least intriguing I don't know

necessarily better but they've reshaped the roster they had a bad clubhouse that's kind of been

out there for a while the locker room wasn't great so okay we had issues with the guards to

Brandon Nemo he's gone McNeil gone Pitalonzo I think it's a good guy I think they just they don't

really value him as much as the Orioles did so they give him a five year deal he's gone and then Diaz

think they would have liked to cap but he just wanted to go the Dodgers so as you said you get

pralton there who's outstanding Simion's a great defender Boba Shet's gonna hit no matter what

Boba Shet would have been the batting champion in the American League if it wasn't for Aaron Judge

he's gonna get you 180 185 hits he always delivers his defense a little suspect I don't know how it's

gonna play at third base I did talk to Mike Lowell of course former Major League third base when

he said you know he'll need that two two and a half weeks in spring trade just to figure out

the angles but he thinks that Boba will actually do a decent job acclimating and obviously it makes

sense because Lendor is a short stop and Simion's there at second base so I would you rank it Dodgers

one Mets second Cubs third I'm with young Cabrera being a good pick up I do think Braggwin's

obviously a terrificator and then the Yankees haven't done a ton but I do think Belliger was the

most important piece of business they did that and whether it's those hard they get up like four

prospects to get him so he's at least a guy that can slot in because Rudon's not available till

May 1st and Garrick Hall is not gonna be back till June 1st they're gonna need some meetings there

I can tell you the Marlins are very excited about both of those trades and I am very excited about

the Mike Lowell reference Miguel Tejada had 95 home runs from 2005 to 2009 I don't love it but out

of a short stop I think I'm gonna have to take that's a pretty good number for shorts I'll take it

I'm just the Chris you need a second baseman in a short stop before you can get to the wild card

round chase ugly oh that's a fun one chase ugly had 146 home runs in this time span God that's brutal

I'm gonna I'm gonna all right I'll remind me there's another name I'm thinking of later okay

and I'll bring it back and we'll see I'm gonna go Robbie can know he came up at some point in this

window they went to the world series in 09 I just don't know he might have not come up until

06 Robbie can know his career started in 2005 it did okay so let me do some math here his first

four years it's not gonna be ugly levels obviously 87 for me you know that's not good I'll just

go handly for short handly oh I'm a fool for me I'm a I'm a fool I'm a fool he had 103 home runs

yeah that's really good from 05 to 09 I just must have just looked past his name okay third base

because I have yeah I have Pujos Tahada and Kunno yeah third base I'm gonna go

I'm gonna go Adrian Beltray oh love that name my team Beltray had 103 home runs in this time span

I'm not even close to Chris Cody's at 592 and Jeremy is not close to that

491 so 101 home runs down so you got plenty of ground to make up but there's plenty of time so now you

go three at any position I'm gonna go with Carlos Delgado great pick Delgado is on here he was 23rd

in this time span with 137 home runs all right I quick one off off the dome Adam Dunn Adam Dunn

fourth in this we can go outfielders wait first baseman oh this is crazy I bet he played more

we're going on that's fine that's fine we're going to the rule yeah we're going on if you played more

all even dude majority it's fine if you played more of his games in the outfield Adam Dunn

played way too much outfield okay that's fine that's fine I had him as a first base he played

thousands of innings in the outfield he definitely this is yeah he definitely played a lot more

first base than a rod played shortstop but that's fine is gross Jeremy's right on that that was the

name that was there he probably played a third of his games for so many home runs so many home runs

he had one doing infielders though and if you want to play the word so everyone associates him with

that's fine that's fine that's fine I'm not I'm not arguing with you can I reiterate gross

Emmy winner adnan let's continue here but we haven't spoken since mid-december so we've talked

about some of these big market teams we've talked about the moves made in the last week but can you

give me three other transactions that we can look at over the last month and a half or so that

have caught your eye that the viewers should know about why it's interesting all these moves you know

we always wait for all the big moves to happen at winter meetings then most of it doesn't happen

with the exception of Peter Lodge and the Edwin Diaz but look at the timeline of all these

Jeremy January 10th was Braggman January 15th was Tucker January 16th was but shit but one of

the things was that of the Raider was Ranger Suarez which is January 14th he signs a five year

hundred and thirty million dollar deal with the Red Sox and this is a guy who was a premier lefty

a season ago was so vital to that Philadelphia Phillies team I think Boston right now they've

got a pretty impressive pitching staff you've got Garrett crochet got Ranger Suarez you've got

Peyton Toli Connelly early Brian Bayo they got Sunny Gray now something's a lot of depth seven

right there's a lot of depth I don't know if I say all these guys hate like I'm not sure

about Sunny Gray at this stage is great but you've got like eight starting pictures there so Boston

to me at least they've got depth I still feel that they're one bad away they could use an ESOC

parades to help out their offense but Boston the very least excellent pitching and I do think right

before that January 13th no it are not oh gets dealt and yeah this is a guy who's an eight time

all star you know he might go in the hall famed strictly based on defense one of the great

defensive third baseman of all time and obviously you can hit I know his production is as

dwindled drastically the last couple of seasons but I'm curious if it changes scenery will help him

going from St. Louis to Arizona it's an intriguing move for me at least with being going to Arizona

yeah you mentioned Cabrera as well January 7th as that that Cabrera trade to me was interesting

the marlins we know always are flush with these arms they're really good at retooling on the fly

those are the three to me Suarez Aranado and Cabrera those are all big deals for team

that are trying to find a way to compete and take that next step this upcoming season and

I look forward to watching it with all of them and again no the marlins are pretty excited about

what they got in return oh and Casey from the Chicago Cubs let's talk about it here right we head

into February and there are always interesting free agents that are still available especially in

the last five to ten years here at and so when we go into February of 2026 who's the free agent

that's catching your eye and maybe when and when when and where do you think that guy might sign

yeah I mean we're a couple weeks away from Valentine's Day and the second we did an MLB tonight

was most eligible starter so it's not a proper valdez who you thought was going to get a huge deal

but I think there's real concerns about his characters September 2nd throwing in his catcher

sazer Salazar like you know that kind of a move just can't happens I think clearly everyone was

like uh not sure I want to get this guy big time money therefore it's an overpay for

a deal in seats in the blue jays who's probably a great number three or a good number two and they

give him two or ten million dollars but the block I would have thought framer would have gotten

that kind of money but instead it hasn't materialized yet so I still think the Orioles make the

most sense for them the Orioles are like one really good starter way from being I think a legit

team in the in the AL East again they got Taylor Ward could pick up there from the angels they got

peel on so it's slugging first base when you get a frame of all those and also you're all right

you know you're pairing them with the gunner and Henderson's hopefully out of the rush from bounces

back Messiahic catching uh then ball towards the player again so framers the guy for me uh I know

those questions like I said about his character it's why hasn't been signed yet but there's no

questions about his talent I mean he was in the 97th percentile and ground ball percentage of

season ago he said a 3.30 ERA over the last four seasons um he did have a bad second half 605 ERA

but generally like this guy's hovering around three and a half every season and he's durable he's

gonna give you 170 innings so he's an excellent pitcher there's no doubt about it I'm a little

surprised it's February 1st is still out there another guy is Zach Galen who had a great second

half 332 ERA love Zach Galen fellow Eagles fan he's a great guy he's pitching the world series

so I think he had a bad first half some as a half was a talking but like he's a good pitcher he's

out there and the other one is uh Lucas Delino Lucas Delino exactly yeah who also had a great

second half he had a two and a half year in half and when he wasn't available for playoffs you

saw that sting there for the Red Sox so I think those are three guys three pictures right there

in terms of Framber Valdes and G. Lino and Zach Galen and I will throw the hitter as well Jeremy

are you any of the swars is still out there man this guy crazy plus home runs I mean he was so big

for the Mariners um they resigned Josh Nell and I think it would make sense to restart him there

but I can't believe it's almost February 1st and A. U. Hennio and a guy who hits home runs like

him still out there on the market all four of these guys could potentially influence who

ultimately end up being real contenders come October and yet we're headed toward February

and all four of them are sitting out there it should make for an interesting month next month and

Emmy winner Adnan will probably have you back on this program before spring training get started

so Emmy winner Adnan thank you for joining us today with your Emmy behind you I appreciate

buddy we'll never get tired of hearing that and yeah I can't wait for the baseball to be good a

couple weeks away by the way much warmer weather there for you Miami we're looking at 12 degrees

here in New Jersey so it's it's chilly okay I had to wear a cardigan today Adnan all right

a chilly 49 degrees we'll see you soon now I need to think for a second

um

I'm gonna go

Paul Canerco that's good Paul Canerco's 13th he has 156 home runs okay all right

I've been away my first guest was 137s and gained about

1919 all right two more guesses yeah two more each I feel like I guess this guy's name every time

we play any game and I'm always wrong I feel like I have my timing wrong on where when this guy

played Richie sexton you I love that I use that he's your guy he had a nice like he definitely

was around during this window he had some all stars like he had some 29 30 home run seasons

he hit a hundred six home runs and this that's good

Jason Giambi Giambi hit 128

so I'm still up I still need I still need to get like 1660 you just need to get someone in the

hundreds here just a nice solid

you got this

did you think it's all good and that's why I I thought I did but now I'm I'm questioning

myself if the if the window is the right window but I think it is chipper Jones

ooh that's a great one love chipper no that's good that's the end of chipper's career though

I don't know that is the back end of his career I have to imagine

116 for chipper Ryan Howard finally somebody said Ryan Howard has you need to get it's not

gonna be enough but somebody finally said like 170 remember one home run totaler in this time frame

he had 220 home runs I beat you yeah he beat me thanks that's he just beat me oh my god

you beat him holy 90s 96 more walk on wow 94 more home runs thank you Ryan Howard and

your endorsement of subway wow that felt good that was exhilarating can I tell you the face

that I made wasn't for Ryan Howard who was it for it was for Rafael Palmero and then I thought it

might be too late and I got to tell you Chris you naming someone that probably would be too late

just triggered it just triggered it in my head I went in my brain I went from because who did you

just say for like I once that you got chipper and I went oh David right and then I went who else

was around at that time even after you said chase out Lee I didn't think about Ryan Howard I don't

know why I said chase out Lee and I ran Howard Ryan Howard vinyl total I love you that is wild I

said chase out Lee and didn't think of Ryan Howard so Jeremy wins by 44 home runs what a collapse

just shows never give up boys never give up that felt really good really really

none of these games are ever over see you guys in February close your eyes exhale

feel your body relax let go of whatever you're carrying today well I'm letting go of the worry

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