A Legend

Good evening, everybody, and welcome to another edition of Fire Up. Let's get Fired Up for tonight. Yes, our title a legend, and no I'm not talking about the two guys that are in this podcast broadcast with me, but our own mind. That's our title and that'll be d B determined later. But let's talk a little bit about who I have here on my show Fire Up tonight. I have next to me would be Ralph William. Good evening, Ralph, how are you, Candy? Thank you as always

grabbed me on of course, thank you for being on. And then underneath both of us is smoking Jeremy Bee. How are you smoking? Jeremy, I'm freaking fantastic, other than the fact that heat almost melting me up here. Yeah, we got to eat too, so hey, welcome to my world. Most days, I know, I lived at Florida. Remember I talked about this. I do, I do, I do? Watch you move back to the cold, Jeremy. I would have stayed down in Florida. I fell in loo. Ah. I see, I'm married, had

a kid and she decided she wanted the kid more than a husband. Ah it happened, especially in yes it does. So we having a good week. I had a good week. Yeah. I stayed in my apartment of the week because of the heat. You know. So you know I'm diabetic. I have to watch what you know. I can't want a severe quote and I can't want the streame heat, So I stay home. I don't, you know, go out. I get it. I get it. The only time I'm going out in Sunday one to Indiana, PA for an

independent wrestling event. My friend Bubba Brewers putting on UH and EC three, the heavyweight champion for en WA, will be there so I can take some pictures and talk to them and all that stuff. You know. Well, the title of our show is a legend. And the reason why we're talking about a legend, I think, Hello rx J is rip Willie Mays. For those of you that don't haven't heard, which I can't believe in the sporting world, if you haven't already heard that Willie May has passed away.

This week, they are actually paying playing the game tonight. It's the San Francisco Giants against the Saint Louis Cardinals, and they're playing it in Birmingham, which is where Willie Mays first entered the baseball scene. In the Negro League and they're honoring them, well, they honored him before the game, and they're they're just having all little tributes, and honestly, it's been really cool.

They talked to Reggie Jackson before before the game, it was before during the game, and he was telling how like they didn't allow them in the locker rooms, how they called them the N word here and there, And it's really been a history lesson. So if any of you haven't seen it or want to watch it, it is on right now. Don't watch it while you're watching our show, but you can watch it afterwards or so.

But some of the histories that we tend to forget, and I don't think we go back and look at history enough, and the game of baseball would not be the same as it is today without all of these legends like Willie May's and all of the you know, past players. So my question to both of you. You can say what you want about Willie Mays and the legend, but I also would like your who has been one of your favorite players that you have watched over the years, whether you were when you were

growing up or player now. It could be from your team now or it doesn't have to be. But who is one of your favorite players that you have watched over the years. You know what, Candy, That's a that's a very good question there, because I have a lot of guys that I've watched over the years that I really liked. But the one person is the Pittsburgh Pirates Willie Stargel and Dave Parker. I'm gonna put both of them in the same category because he both were great players for the Pirates. That's how

we won World Series championships. And you know, Dave Parker had one of the strongest arms in the league. Kuttoria at home played deep in right field or whatever, and uh, you know, so that would be my two favorites. Now, if you want me to go off the Pirates, I would say probably, Uh what's his name? Played for the Oakland A's. Oh, yeah, you know who, Ricky Anderson. Yeah, he was a good player. Uh. You know the Williams guy that played for New

York Yankees, Bernie Williams. He was you know, I liked him, you know, Roger Roger Clements. So there's a bunch of guys, you know, Uh, his first name was Mark and I can't remember his dog gone names for the life of me. Played for the Oakland A's Who McGuire Yeah, Mark McGuire, I liked him. Yeah, So you know you're

in my wheelhouse of players. You know, let's talk about the ones that were on my team that I saw as a rookie as a kid, because I do somewhere in my massive amounts of boxes of trap I've collected over the years, I do have the miniature of the Detroit Tigers rookies that year where it had Lance Parish and Alan Trammel on the same card. Yes, Yes, Steaver, Nolan Ryan, Reggie Jackson. Uh, let's keep going. Pete Rose was an amazing player. He just was a shitty manager for gambling

on his team. But Ozzie Smith lt connect a lot of people. It's just you know, it's a big list. Yeah, they were great pace name but he was a great pitcher that just was unheralded and one of the few and early knuckleballers that kept it going. Uh. I remember watching the game when he got his three thousand strike out against my Tigers. But uh, if I'm gonna go to if I'm gonna go to my team, My team obviously was the Brewers growing up, I'd have to say Robin like he

was just one man. He was what they call the staple for the team. I mean, he represented the team really well back in the days. Candy Outfielder, Ryan Num, Ryan Brown. Yeah, except he was caught with p eds numerous times. Yeah, don't address that, Meg, thank you, r x H, thank you. Yes. And Prince Fielder.

I loved his dad, Cecil Fielder. Right, He's and the Tigers and also went overseas and played for the Tokyo team if I remember, right when he went to the Japanese League after he left the Blue Jays, mm hmm. We signed him off of his stint with the Toyota team, you know, and just was breaking the ball. Oh yeah, you know who coached him and jad Japanese League was Bobby Valentine. Yeah, he coached and won a World Series era or whatever, so you know, yes, he did

clear the parking lot too. So did Kirk Gibson back in eighty four. And I wish I could find it because I used to have the eighty four Tigers yearbook that I bought to go to Tiger's best that year in Frank Mood back when you could meet about five or six players from the team and the coach, and I had Sparky, Dan Petrie, Jack Morris, chat Lemon, Rick Leach, Kirk Gibson, and there was one other guy there and I just can't remember remember Hello Joshua. One was but I had all of

them sign it. And the only game I go to, Kurt Gibson hit this towering flyball out of the park. When they finally found it, it was across the street because there was the one side where there was no parking lot. It was right there by the street and it landed on top of the roof of the Ace Lumberyard warehouse across the street. Yo, So I remember all this. I wrote it down. They said it estimated it traveled seven hundred and fifty eight feet. Wow, that is the same next day

how far it flew. And Joshua, I, hello, glad to see you in the chat room. You're asking where is Scottie. Scott is not feeling the greatest. He is having some throat issues, and so doctor told him, really he should kind of so decided that tonight was probably best to leave it to us three. So he's taking the night off. He's actually watching the he's watching the baseball game when they're playing in Birmingham, Alabama, the historic game. I should say, Yeah, the Pirates play tomorrow night.

They're off tonight, Candy. I think they're probably going to have something to do with Willie Mace, you know, some kind of celebration or dedication or whatever. You know. So smoking, Jeremy b josh was asking you a question. I'll watch hockey when the Red Wings are relevant. Again. That's fair, that's a fair. Yeah, I'll tell you what, Jeremy, I don't. I don't watch it. I don't watch I just followed a little bit, but I don't watch it unless the Penguins are in it.

You know I've done that already, you know, So, Joshua, I'll tell you I have been watching obviously, with the Panthers playing for the Cup. I have been watching this the Cup series, and it's been a game of how should I say streaks or trends, because when Florida's hot, they're hot. But the last couple games, obviously when they lost eight to

one, they were not hot at all that game. And they always say that you win or lose really in hockey by your goalie, and so Brabowski was doing really well and these last two games he hasn't done it quite as well. So, Joshua, you're saying Panthers in six. I know Scott said Panthers in seven. So Game six is tomorrow night. They are allowing two days worth to travel these time games because there's two and forty one miles in between the two. So that's quite the trek. It's called jet leg.

They're not driving there, they're flying and jet Well, you know something, I wanted to bring this up here a little bit, Candy if I may. Uh, you know, it's been a rough week or rough couple of weeks for sports. He had Jerry West, you had Bill Walton, you had uh and now Willie Mays, so I mean, you know, you had guys. Just it's just been a tough week. And you know what they say, they always die in threes, so you know, here we are. This is the third person and that's just it's it's sad,

it really is, you know it is. And then Donald Sutherland. Yes, you know, so we've had some big name people lately. Yes, unfortunately, yes, unfortunately they and they do say that they normally come in threes. And I personally have known of three or ben affected by three lately, so it has not been good news. Although one of my good friends, her son, announced that he is having another baby. So with death comes the birth. So you got to look for the good things in life.

Absolutely, absolutely well. I was just bringing that up as a point that sports was tough. This was the last couple of weeks. A lot of legends, a lot of ludgends. Absolutely. Yeah. So I asked you guys, baseball wise, who has been one of your favorite players to watch? Now let's go to football, who's been one of your favorite players to watch in the football arena? Oh no, I limited to two players. You can meet two players, Okay, frank O Harris and Dan Marina.

Okay, Joe Montana and Billy Sims. I gotta stick with my guys. I thought should say Barry Sanders because he played fille Troy Reilly Simms was my first love in my OG twenty, not knowing that Lem Barney wore the twenty first. Awesome, awesome, awesome. How about yours, Canty? You know, I was trying to think about that, but you know, to be honest with you, my first that I really liked to watch was John Elway. Yeah, it's probably surprising, but I'm probably my second was

probably Brett rt Far. I mean, he was just a gunslinger. He took you know, he'd throw it wherever he wanted to. He didn't care if it was going to get I mean, obviously he cared if it was going to get intercepted, but he was just that free for all kind of

letting it just fly and letting it happen. So yeah, I think I'm not gonna We're not gonna do it tonight, but I think on one of our next shows, I would like to do like a bucket list of you know, our favorite like position players, and I'd like to do a bucket list of favorite stadiums. Oh yeah, Drew Drew Brees was amazing, Yes, and Peyton Manning was good as well, you know, I mean obviously

yeah, the Peyton Manning Tom Brady duos duos a couple of times. And but but to maybe even list like at one point our favorite from each position, Like if you were going to do an All Star team, and it doesn't have to be from one decade, who would be at each position? So that might be something we think about at least the big position right now. That's funny. So that's for next week. Then I have homework to do. I was going through and I was like, okay, carrecter back

got it. Running back got it because they got to remember there's a fullback in there, because that actually a position that I think needs to come back if running backs want to be relevant in the league. Again m hmm yeah, especially if you're our team, Steelers. We're doing the running game by a running game with Arthur Smith pick Elexander Horvan the pullback. Yeah. See you guys did, didn't you? Yeah? Yeah, we have him. Oh God, I envy you. I'm telling you. Wait, he's six

three two pounds from the four or five forty. Do you know what those exact stats are coming out of Purdue Hall of Famer Mike Alstock. Oh absolutely, he was one of the best. And he came out of you with that exact same fight, that exact same weight, that exact same forty time, and all the skills that he matched. He was within point one or point oh one of every single measurable statistic that Mike AlScott had in the combine

back then. How amazing is that? I mean, so if somebody is willing to take the time and develop a full back because he does have hands, he can run the ball. He played half back too, so he's actually he's always got all round her. Right, Well, we have our tied a couple of our tight ends. Jeremy that they that are h backs they called him. Now you know, like Connor, Hey, we'll go in the backfilm block and some other guys. So you know, we'll see

where it goes this year. Now Connor and Cam are still Craig's kids, right, yes, iron Like I watched Pit went to the games. The pit when he when he was running back, Oh my gosh, that guy could ha him the ball town the field. He knocked three four guys over. I mean it was crazy. He was a bowling He was the original bowling ball with legs. Absolutely, so we do have to give kudos to the balls. Boston Celtics who won the NBA Finals this week. Yes,

and they overtook the Lakers by winning their eighteenth championship. The Lakers, but you know the Lakers, Lakers can't leave that alone. They got to be in the spotlight that you know. They couldn't let the Celtics have their their moments are a week or anything. They got to come up with news of themselves to bring you know, the focus back to them. Speaking of that, they are hiring Reddick ESPN color comedy commentator JJ Reddick on a four year

contract that will pay him around eight million dollars per season. He is now the coach in the league to be hired without any prior experience as an assistant or head coach in the NBA, college or international since twenty ten? Is it is it funny that three of them have been on teams that Lebron James played. I'm sorry, what was that charity? Three of those guys with no head coaching experience, coaching experience, Yes, three of them have been

hired by the teams that Lebron has been on, has been on. Yeah, he was. He always in Cleveland. They hired you know, somebody you know. So, yeah, it does. It happens all the time with him. You know, he wants he wants to be the man and he wants to be the coach. You know, you can't do both of them. Yeah, didn't have head coaching experience in Miami either, did he? No, not at all? So or for lebum I mean Lebron. I like the stuff. I like that one, and I like the Matt

Patricia when you say, what's that? But Scott wants on his show for us to be respectful and follow by. Now, ye, when we get to my show, I'll give you that nickname again. Okay, I'll see you next week with that one. Yep, Matt Patricia and Bob Quinn. How much better is this team without them? Yeah? Absolutely absolutely? But look at even even the Pistons decided to fire their coach, and was that fair? No? Number One. Tom Gores wanted Monty Williams as a coach

so much he threw enough money that he finally said okay. He turned him down three times and he got to that money and said, okay, yeah, we'll bring you in now. If the guy didn't want to coach, and you have an awful roster that's created by your GM, I don't care how good of a coach you are, you're not gonna coach that team to a playoff berth, especially the first year, right. You gotta get in mind. So by getting a new GM, and I think it's more of

the new GM than anything else, because Tom Goers wanted Monty. I think you said, hey, we got to reset the whole thing. We're gonna keep two core players, we're gonna gut the roster. We're gonna start over and get it right to get it there in two years. But at the same time, to blame the coach when that roster was that devoid of defensive talent. And yes, I say devoid of defensive tail those guys could They averaged one hundred and three points a game and couldn't win, but twelve.

Yeah, that's because when you don't have a good defense to offset that, and then your offense has to pick up the slack like that. That's not right. I mean, yeah, what's crazy about it. The first year when we drafted Isaiah Stewart, he was actually a good rim defender. The news jack uh he means me ah, but uh, he was actually a good rim defender. He was doing good rebounding, he was blocking shots at the rim. The first year, remember they I think they almost made the

playoffs. Yes, that first year with Killian Hayes and the awful roster, but they had a couple of like Jeremy Grant. We traded for him and got him to play in that With that rookie system and we gutted the roster of Blake Griffin's big contract, right yeah, oh yeah, you have to. You have to with this salary cap now. And you know, and in some of these leagues like the NBA, you can't just go out there and get what you you know what I mean and just spend all kinds of

money. Got to balance your salary cap. We've seen that in football. I think the core they need to keep their three players it's Ivy, Duran and Cage and then get an actual shooting guard instead of demoting from a point guard that didn't work out in the draft, getting an actual number five and a true center. Other than that, I don't I don't think we need Beef Stew anymore. I don't think we need to do that. And as far as Caide's concerned, he improved greatly last year under Monty's coaching, and

nobody realizes that because the team was so bad. Oh absolutely, turnovers by one point two per game, and he played sixty games. He missed twenty two due to injury and load management and whatever. But in sixty games at one point two less turnovers per game, people, that's sixty one and a half turnovers he didn't have from the year before. Absolutely, so he actually

did improve. I don't have the statistic, and I don't know the answer, but I wonder how many former coaches NBA teams are are paying right now to not coach their team, because I know the Bucks had like three role you know. Now the Pistons owe him sixty five million. Whoa, we're paying him sixty five million. Just shit out your contract for seventy eight million, and he made it through then they fire and then they fire. Oh

my gosh, Wow, that's that's that's bad management. I mean, come on, I mean, you know, oh my gosh, they can do it. That's that's that's crazy. To cut a coach and pay them all that money. That's like the Bobby Benia thing. You know, they gotta pay him every year or whatever, you know, and here he don't play and he's what he's still I think he's got a few more years left on

that deal. I mean, yeah, a couple of years left. But to do you give him a six year contract and then only and then to shut it down only after one year, that that's kind of that's kind of sad. I mean, hey, he gets to six sit back now, and he's collecting sixty five million, you know, to not coach, and I believe I think his wife was ill. Oh okay, so he'll have time now. I know he does want to eventually get back into coaching, but he's gonna off sixty five million. I would take some time off too.

I wouldn't do it. I'd sit back and say thank you, you know, take some trips, golf whatever, you know, retireings, do you know. That's what I would do, so exactly, although I can't golf because I'm in a wheelchair. So I remember that one. That was while I was kind of still watching hockey for a minute. And here's here's the crazy thing. It's bad as the Pistons were, they still won more

games in the month of month of March than the Red Wings. That the Red Wings would have won four games, they'd have been in the playoffs. Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely, mm hmmm. Yeah. The Red Wings haven't been. They haven't been uh vible in a long time. They're Jeremy, I know, ever since the Sadarycap. Yeah yeah, I remember when they were so prominent in some of the games between them and the Penguins and some of their you know games like that that was you know, you knew

which team would winning by how many guys got injured during the game. Right then if there was more people injured, the other team won. I'd have to check that. Are there the Islanders still paying Rick the Pete with the patrio? I'm a big the playoffs like twenty six and yes they did, and they got what ten championships all together? Something? They four of their last six championships. If anybody says any word on baths and badly, that's

the competition. There's no camp for another two weeks, so there won't be any words on it. But at that point, four of those six years we had the highest salary in the league because there was no salary cap, including the last one we won. I think it was what does that sixteen that could be, but I know it was the last one we won.

They had the highest salary in the league that year. So when I hear some people say, oh, we never bought a championship, I was like, well, when there's no salary cap, they did what the forty nine ers do multiple present. Yes, absolutely, but you see what I'm saying there, they were bladhips Mike Gillich was like, hey, I got a championship team. I'm gonna keep it rolling. Gim me Chris jelly O, give me Brandon Shanahan, give me Paul Coffee, give me Dinos. That's

a rally. Give me all these guys. Mm hm. Yeah. Two thousand and eight was the last one they won. They were in the two thousand and nine in the finals, but they did They lost to Pittsburgh there. Yeah, the eight nine season, Yes, that was Sidney Crosby's first and malkins first Stanley Cup that they won because they lost another one. They lost one. So yeah, it is the way they had to do it because that's what it was allowed. But as soon as it wasn't allowed.

As much as I hate to say it, Ken Hall and Collin couldn't build a great team with a budget. No, it's tough. It's tough to do. I mean, you know, especially you know, like you said, with a salary cap, Penguins right now got egg on their face. They got so many players, and you know that they gave guaranteed contracts to too many players, and now they can't do anything. They're stuck. I

want to say it right now, I hope we don't resign Screwble. I hope we do trade him by the deadline, because that's the only way we're going to improve this roster. We need way too much. There is no core. It's Riley Green and Tarik Scruble, and right now he has the highest value they'll have because there's two controlling years of rookie deal left. So you deal him and let somebody else pay him, and you get a boatload of prospects and draft picks back. That's what you do in compensation. That's

how you build a team. That's how a lot of these teams got built the right way. I like some of the signings we've done, but we haven't signed any stars because really we're not one piece away with the Tigers. When you're talking about Tigers, I would agree with that. I'm sorry, Candy, I had to take my picture off here. As you know, I have issues with my neck in the last couple of days. It's been a problem. I'm getting in m R tomorrow, so no problem, no

problem. Yeah, it's been bad. And I said, that's where Torklesen needs to go. The torkles problem is mental and mechanics. Mm hmmm. He started struggling early in the season and he went from a level swing to an uppercut swing, which is never good in baseball because the ball travels too fast. These days, these guys are throwing ninety three to one hundred miles an hour on a regular basis. So if you're swinging up, you're swinging

down the nut. You're not doing a level swing. You're taking away from your velocity of your bat, and you're trying to force the trajectory for a home run instead of letting it be a natural, flowing swing, which is actually faster and makes better contact. Correct. Correct, Well, guys, is there any topics you want to bring to the table tonight before we do our My town acting actor legend Donald Sutherland passed away today. That man has

a laundry list of accolades and movies he's been in. What a fantastic actor and I'm sorry to see him go. Uh you know, so that's two legends. And that's when you said a legend, I didn't know which way you were going. Yeah, and it's a sports talk, but we talked a little bit more than just sports sports. Absolutely, yes, yes, we talk because this is not the show for it. It's politics. So if you got your politics, keep them at home now. I say that

for my show on Wednesday, Ralph's opinion. That's why I said to politics, I've seen that. It's actually pretty good. Ralph. Oh, I appreciate that. Thank you. I didn't know he actually died here in Miami, Florida. I didn't know. Yeah, yeah, yep. It's sad. It's sad. I mean, he he had a long illness saying.

But he has done so many different I mean he did masch, he did include, he did ordinary people, the Hunger Games, and he did a lot of different I don't know, but if the attendance at Comerica Park keeps dwindoling, we may see prices like at the Carolina Panthers games last year. Oh my right, I heard that their seats are down to fifty two bucks apiece. Oh wow, got to take out alone there. Our seats are some of them are pretty expensive, but fifty two dollars. Wow, that's

a cheap seat. That's a cheapeat because the grand stand at Comerica Park, and you know, I'm not talking nosebleeds. I'm talking about good seats or eighty two bucks at marloves games right now. But the cheap seed to the last time I went to a Tiger's game. Let's see what year was that. That was just the year before COVID, so twenty nineteen. Uh, it was forty eight dollars for the grand stand. Wow. But that gave you a discount on the hot dogs and pop. It was one of their

meal deal things, so it wasn't that bad. I'll tell you. I'll tell you a little story. They had dollar dog Night and one time our church went and, uh, you know, my pastor had like ten of them or something like that. But then what had happened was, uh,

they stopped doing that. Now they have dollar dog Night and you're only allowed to have two, so you know, and there's only one stand now that hasn't because what happens is is when you have a promotion like that, you spend more time in the uh waiting for your hot dogs then you and then you know, you have to watch the game on the TV's out there.

So you know, who wants to do that, you know? I mean I don't, but I know folks that have so and just what that's a meal deal ticket there for the Marlins too, thank you r x JA for the complement on PNC Park. It is beautiful I've seen in the video game. That's going to be one of our shows. Ways. We're going to talk about what parks have we been to that we really like and which ones are on our bucket list to see, and not just ballparks, but you

know, football stadiums and the like. I've been to quite a few, a lot more than people realize because I've been to some places during off seasons or when the teams were away. When it's you don't have to pay to get in. You just got to ask the security guard to call down and get clearance. You know, it isn't like it is nowadays. I mean you're talking thirteen years ago. You know it was a different time back then. Yep, yep, I would agree. Well, guys, I think

it's it's time to do my town. So Jeremy, let's start with you. What's happening in your town? Well, all the buzz has already been brought up in the chest. Jack Bates, the UFL kicker that kicked a sixty four yard er to win his first game, went twenty of twenty seven total, missing all of his seven of his missus minus one were outside. He missed one extra point inside. He was one hundred percent at Ford Field at home indoors on his field goals with a long of sixty four. I'm

going to repeat that loud and clear. Because the Lions played fourteen games indoors this season, the nine at home and five on the road. They only have three outdoor games. That's the package in San Francisco. Oh yes, that's that's interesting. I should win a lot of games. Then. You know, James Turner got waived. You know why because you hear you heard about his good days, but you didn't hear about his bad days because they

were that bad. Wow, he was good at really kicking off and he had three days where he didn't miss a fieldgal The other seven days of camp they had no excuse me, six days a camp because we got we forfeited one by having a contact day in Odas. Yes, oh yeah, kicker, I was surprised you didn't take one of the ones in the draft while you had that many picks late. You know, I don't know what he was doing, but they have three kicks now they just let one go now

they picked him. James Turner up I think it's really just to do the competition thing. I really think they really want to put a little pressure on Carlson. And see, Carlson, his leg hasn't been the same since he left LA right, And isn't that where he was at one time? Yeah? And that's an indoor stadium, people, Yeah, so far so. And then he went to Vegas, which was indoors, and then he went to the Packers indoors. Great indoors, great outdoors, not so much.

It's definitely different outdoors than it is indoors. Yeah, you got to know how to adjust for the wind. And guys that play on home fields that are indoors struggle with kicking in the wind all the time. Jason Hansen, as good as he was, a majority of his misses came on away games. Mm hmm. Same with Matt Brader, Same with all those great kickers. If you look, the only one that's been a great kicker whether he's indoors, out or out, Justin Tucker. You know why he plays in

an outdoor stadium. The best in Janikowski rightly was an outdoor stadium. Yes, was good for us for how many years? Oh god, I think he got what three kind before he finally left. I'll tell you, I'll tell you the one great kicker in the league was Gary Anderson until he missed that one field Gold Minnesota and Morton Right, Morton Anderson was a good kicker as well. Yes, is that one for you Atlanta? And the other one played outdoors for Pittsford, right, right. It's good to pay attention

to those stats. Is look at somebody's outdoor miss percentage versus their indoor when they are an indoor kicker, because oh yeah, stor kicker that kicks good still kicks good indoors. Oh I remember that game it cost him that? Yes it did, don't you, Candy? I remember that game too, Yes I do. But Ralph, what's happening, well, my talent, what's going on is we have a big time heat wave here. You know, we just had some storms. People don't have electric and that's sad because

it's so hot. But you know, we're getting air Steelers and Russell Wilson justin fields that Saga's going on camp. Heyward still doesn't have a contract, so we'll are new contracts, so we'll see where that's going to go. Training camp comes up at the end of July and the Pirates aren't doing too bad. There are two games away from five hundred and trying to stay in that wildcard race. And the river Hounds, well they keep losing games,

but they're not losing by much. So that's pretty much what's going on in oh and our women's football team, the Pittsburgh Passion or six and oh, they in their season six and oh and are going to playoffs, possibly winning a chanceampionship. So that's what's going on. That's what's going on in my town. Excuse me for a minute. That's just going on my town. R x JA. They took that rumor and ran with it, because remember just before they started doing the trailers for e A Sports, that rumor came

out that Justin Fields of the returning kicks. No, I don't think so, he's going to be a quarterback. Once in a while, you're going to see a package of Russell Wilson and Justin Fields on the same on the same field. Oh, I know, aplying to oh, I know, I know. Everyone thinks he's going to be a kick returner, punt returner, cleaning toilets. You know, they think it's gonna be doing all that stuff, so you know, I know I've heard all sorts of crazy rumors

about him. Oh, by the way, today they had a big dedication today at P and C Park. I forgot to tell everybody they put windows in the bathrooms, you know why, so you could pee and see. Oh my goodness. Okay, So for my town, I'm gonna I'm gonna talk a little bit about the Panthers. Obviously, they're going for the Stanley

Cup. They were the last year and they missed it. So if you remember how you felt at the end of last year, I would hope you would take that energy and get it done now here in six It's gonna be hard because, let's face it, they are on the road game and Edmonton is They're gonna be tough, and the crowd is gonna be tough, but they need to do it. And then I kind of have instead of I know, I normally do more on the Wisconsin side to the gms out there.

Some of you have made what you think are very good business decisions based out of money and contracts, and I get that you have a tough job, but some of you had made big time mistakes because you have let people go that really held the team together. And I'm talking about the Josh hater for the Brewers, letting him get him, getting him traded, letting Drew Holliday from the Milwaukee Bucks go, because I really think he was a gel

that heeled that team together and he held the defense together. So now we're sitting here looking at the Green Bay Packers and the GM has to make a decision what kind of contract he's going to give Jordan Love, who does not have the years behind him that some of these other quarterbacks are getting paid a lot of money. But do you want him to walk? It'll be interesting to see where the number lies. And there's been talk I've heard they're going

to and cap quarterbacks. And here's the thing I'm going to tell you, Steorge, as much as I know you want to be the highest paid and high paid up there, you also want a team around you that is getting paid as well, and not take all of the money for yourself, because then you can't afford the other players the talent that you want around you to surround you to get you to the ultimate goal of the trophy. So just remember, because we can all say one thing about Tom Brady, he was

a good quarterback, and there's no denying that. But he also took cuts and renegotiated his contract to bring other players to have that. Not equality, I wouldn't say, but to be able to afford some players around him. That's all I'm going to say is be careful. And yes, loved has played terrible. He wouldn't give him a lot of money for playing good for half the season. And I get that, but he's looking at I mean you look at you. Look at Trevor Lawrence. Look what he got.

He just got paid fifty five million dollars a year. He hasn't had that many good years, No, not at all. So that prior to the show, if you actually think about it, his one good year was the same good year that Daniel Jones had. Yes, yeah, and you know what since one win in the playoffs, and the difference is the Jaguars won because of Riley Patterson, not because Trevor Lawrence through the game winning touchdown. There's a big difference in that than having you lead you to a victory.

I've said this many times Candy and Jeremy about how you know they've overpaid a bunch of quarterbacks who've never even been to a super Bowl. Look at Kirk Cousins. He's getting one hundred and eight million dollars. Okay, here's a guy that's never been to a Super Bowl. Daniel Jones, you mentioned Jeremy and then also don't forget Gino Smith and Seattle. I mean you know he got he got big money and what he had one great season. Oh boy, you know right now if you look at it, that Gino Smith deal

is amazing. At thirty three million dollars. Yeah, I know, yes, Oh no, we'll see what he We'll see what he does second year without Dave Knelis. So I've said this in Lions Dats, I've said this on my show, and I'll say it right now. I believe every quarterback making one dollar more than Patrick Mahomes is overbait. I like that, Yeah, exactly, you're right. Well, hey, Russell Wilson's getting thirty eight million or something from Denver and then we only got to pay him one million.

I love it. I love Megan. She's great. Uh she is a Seahawks fan from Australia. That's why it's there's a good conversation. How many of these guys win a Super Bowl after their massive extensions, not a lot, none at all, you know exactly well, you know everybody whose says Goff will get us there. But if he was getting us there, guess what, there wouldn't be this really low salary for two years and then

that big balloon payment in year three. And I'm trying to stemy that Golf is trying to break that mold of something that has happened that no other QB in their rookie career, a rookie contract has ever done. And that's their first trip to the super Bowl and lose none of them have ever made. Yeah, not once. And I'm hoping go breaks that stigma with Detroit, and he's in the best situation to do so. Oh but I'm still not saying he will change it. Well, let me say this, Jeremy Dan

Campbell still has his assistance. I mean, Aeron Glenn didn't go nowhere and Ben Johnson's state he was a coaching candidate, so it's great that he has his coordinators coming back in that funt look for two of them, so I would agree with that. Well, with that, guys, it's time to kind of end the show. So let's tell everybody how they can get a hold of you, mister Ralph, why don't you start, okay, Ralph

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