Where are we at in society today? Come after me. I'm a man,
I'm forty. Go ahead, make my day every single week. I
put my freaking heart and soul into this. I don't go out there and
laugh. It's not funny. Nothing's funny to me. I don't wanna go
out there and get embarrassed on Monday night football. For everybody, I think
this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. So I ain't nothing changed from
yesterday. Still the same person I was yesterday, and I got the same
thing for you that I had yesterday. You know why I'm here. You
play to win the game. You don't play to just play it. That's
a great thing about sports. You play to win. I don't care if
you don't have any wins. You go play to win. When you start
telling me it doesn't matter to retire, get out for the matter. Never
has it mattered as much as last night's game at rick Wood Field In Major
League Baseball, maybe they're starting to get it a little bit. Major League
Baseball has done a really good job of creating these types of memorable events and
helping people understand the legacy of the game. In this case, the Negro
leagues. It was pretty special. Fox of course does a really good job
with it. And you had all these patriarchs, if you will, representing
the Negro League's Cardinals beat the Giant six' five. Not that that's the
most important part of the story, but this is the event that Willie Mays
they were hoping would be before he recognized he would not be able to make
it, and eventually obviously he passed a couple of days ago. But Major
League Baseball has done a really nice job. Remember they've done the game in
Iowa for the Field of Dreams. That's been really cool. This taking their
game internationally has been important, whether it be in London or whether it be
in Japan or Korea or Mexico. And they've been doing that for a while
now. But all those things are really important for Major League Baseball. Other
sports have done it. I think it's brilliant. I think it's well done.
The only thing I would ask is, you know, especially like the
Field of Dreams, you wish you would have more true fans out there rather
than representatives of Major League Baseball. But in the end, a job well
done, pretty cool event. I don't know if you had a chance to
watch it. Hopefully you did, but it was special. Tigers post the
White Sox in the first of a three game weekend series starting tonight. Detroit
has dropped four in a row ten of thirteen. They sit twelve games back
in the division. Chicago is arguably the worst team in baseball. They've lost
seven of ten. They have a league worst seven road wins and just twenty
wins overall, fewest in baseball. Jack Flaherty throws against Eric Fetti in the
series opener to then it'll be kent to Maida in the middle game, and
then Rhee Olsen in the series wrap up. I don't want to be too
dramatic here, but you lose this series to the worst team in baseball,
a team that has, I hate to phrase, nothing to play for,
but I mean they're just going through the motions, and they've been going through
the motions for a while. It is a really, really tough spot for
Pedro, Griffall and Chicago. I do like the White Sox manager. He's
a good man. I've had a chance to talk with him at length about
a lot of different things in the past, and I do I've always enjoyed
those conversations. I don't know what kind of manager he is, to be
honest with you, Usually you want to talk to people who are close enough
to them and see them on a regular basis, are at their games,
you get an idea from them friends of mine who broadcast their games on radio
and TV. Then you can kind of look for tendencies. But as far
as a person, he's a really good person. I can't figure out.
Well, I can, but I choose to tread very carefully why that team
is so flipping bad. And I'm not going to sit here and talk Chicago
White Sox baseball with you. It's just it's surprising considering some of the talent
quote unquote that they have on their team, like Andrew Benin. Tendee has
been horrible, like the worst of his career, but beyond one of the
worst players the game has seen in a long time in everything he's trying to
do. And when he was in Kansas City, when he was in Boston,
I thought he was really good, Like I would have taken that dude.
That dude helped his team win a national championship at South Carolina. He's
an amazing player at the collegiate level. He was really, really good in
Boston, Kansas City, he gave him a shot in the arm. He
goes to Chicago, false apart. It's awful. Eloyjmenez not good, Yoonn
Mancata not good. Luisa Robert, a guy who's has as much talent probably
as any player in the American League. Just horrible, horrible. So I
don't want to be too dramatic, like I said, but you lose that
series, your season is over. You lose this series at home against that
team, especially when you have this pitching two of your three starters, I
would consider who are having very good seasons to that team, and I can't
imagine how you come back from it. I can't imagine how you return.
So that's the thing I'm looking for this weekend. I know it's kind of
a weak way for you to look at things and what you're looking forward to
this weekend, but I pick out little things when it comes to a series.
Sometimes it's how well a certain player may be playing on your team.
Sometimes it might be how bad a certain player is playing on your team,
to see if they can correct themselves. And quite honestly, sometimes I really
look forward to watching another player on the opposite team. Seriously, I mean,
I like going in and watching Bobby Wit Junior play for Kansas City.
If Kansas City were in town right now and Detroit was playing them, the
highlight for me would be Bobby Witch Junior. Because there's really not many people
on the Tigers now. You want the Tigers to do well, don't get
it twisted. It's just that it's not the highlight of your game right there.
Jared Durhan of Boston is a fun player to watch. Rod fail Devers
unbelievable player for Boston right New York's in town. Are you looking more forward
to watching a certain Tigers player or are you looking forward to watching Aaron Judge
if he's healthy. So that's what I'm looking for this weekend. Game six
of the Stanley Cup Finals faces off tonight at Edmonton. Oilers have won the
last two games by scoring thirteen goals overall. They are trying to become the
second team of twenty eight to ever win it all after trailing three games to
none. Who's the other other team. It's the Toronto Maple Leafs in nineteen
forty two, who were down three games to none to none other than the
Detroit Red Wings. And they came back and won. Florida will try and
avoid that tonight. If you believe in momentum, which I mean I use
the word quite a bit in sports and writing and all these I can't say
that I always believe in it. If you do, I mean, Florida
had the momentum, right, They're up three games to none. There's momentum.
Something stops it. Now Do you believe Edmonton has the momentum? So
they're playing better? It's pretty obvious they've done something to solve Sergei Bobrovski,
and they did so probably at the end of what game three, and now
it is clicked for them. So I'm excited for that. The Stanley Cup
Finals has to do with one of our two pool questions. So does another
story that's big in sports. We'll get to that when we come back on
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if they weren't Reggie Jackson? When they I think what they thought they were
going to get is these are these beautifully spunned yarns of storytelling from Reggie Jackson
about Rick wood Field, And instead what they got was a deep down,
true truth of raw emotion on what happened to him and the experiences that he
had to have. Where he was staying in Joe Rudy's house, sleeping on
his couch three to four nights a week, and people threatened to burn the
building down if he didn't get out. Where his team would go to,
and this was with the Oakland A's early on, where his teams would go
to various places to eat, and they were turned away because of Reggie Jackson's
skin color. And how McNamara the manager, and Roley Fingers and Joe Rudy
and Dave Duncan and others said, well them, we're not even here either.
How Charlie Finley, the owner of the A's, brought him his team
to his country club and they would not allow him to eat. They pointed
him out specifically, and Charlie Finley said them, We're going to go down
and have burgers instead, And eventually they did allow them to eat, But
who would want to eat there anyway if that's either either policy or be their
beliefs, or see both. And Reggie Jackson kept saying, I wouldn't wish
it on anybody. And had it not been for certain teammates who believed in
him didn't bin into that racist mindset, he would never have been the player
he was because he would have been thrown out. He would have been he
would have gotten in so many fights that something else, his path would have
gone much differently. That was as good a storytelling as any you've heard all
season long. I've had the good fortune of meeting Bridgie Jackson on a couple
of different occasions in New York, once in Houston, another had the chance
to chat with him on the field of play. Would never have been able
to get that out of him by any stretch, nor would my teammates at
the time in the broadcast booth. But he is Oftentimes people talk about his
ego. Okay, we all have egos, by the way, I think
we all do. Some are just bigger than others. But for them to
kind of open that door. And Alex Rodriguez is the one who asked the
question, and I still think surprised at the answer as everybody was. They
just let him talk. It was phenomenal and it was emotional afterwards. If
you get a chance, I'm sure it's on YouTube somewhere. If you get
the chance, try to find that and it'll open your eyes a little bit.
No matter how you feel, it'll open your eyes. It's impressive and
like I said, very emotional. Okay, maybe an emotional hire in Los
Angeles, JJ Reddick to no one's surprised. James Edwards told us this.
Yesterday we had James Edwards from the Atlantic on or from the Athletic excuse me,
and he said, look, the reason the Pistons on his list of
possible candidates, The reason for no JJ Reddick is because he's going to be
the Lakers head coach. And what happens later in the day yesterday he signs
a four your contract to replace Darvin ham. Reddick, a fifteen year vet,
does a podcast with Lebron James, so that shouldn't be a problem.
The question is how long could he last? Young guy? But how long
could he last? Because the Lakers haven't had a coach stayed more than three
years since Phil Jackson in twenty eleven, which leads us to these poll questions.
We have two of them, but they're very simple and they're really easy.
Is the Lakers head coaching job a desirable one? Seventeen World championships.
Some of the greatest players to ever play the game of basketball have played in
LA, whether be Kareem abdul Jabbar or Magic Johnson, Elgin Baylor, Jerry
West, James Worthy. You can go on and on and on. There's
a ton of them, all right, But with Lebron James there and I
think this has come out to be more accepted than before, and that is
that he's a handful. He wants to do everything. I mean, he's
had nine coaches in his career. That's a lot, it is. That's
a lot for a guy who is considered one of the greatest of all time.
Remember in Miami. I mean, let me ask you this. Do
you think Eric Spolstra is a good head coach? I think is a dynamite
head coach. Would you love him as your head coach? Absolutely? I'm
not sure there's many coaches in the NBA who you'd rather have than Eric Spolstra.
He gets a ton out of his teams. They seem to be always
in that mix, there's something about him, and because right hand man is
Chris Quinn, my hope is that the Pistons get a chance to talk to
him and see if it's a good fit. But he wanted Eric Spolster fired
early on. Think about that. How short sighted is that Lebron James in
his infinite wisdom, and most people would say, hey, listen, can't
do anything wrong, right, He's got the league in the basketball world by
you know what, he wanted him gone. That's heavy. So it's a
as one website I forget which one yesterday said, it's a daunting task because
he has butted heads with just about every single coach he has ever had.
In fact, only two Spolster and lou weren't let go while Lebron James was
there. Five coaches were fired. Luke Walton mutually parted ways before taking the
King's job, and as I mentioned, James wanted Spolster fired. In twenty
ten he started nine to eight, all kinds of problems Lebron James had eyre
toward his coach. They stuck it out and look at what Spolstro was able
to do. They went on to win an NBA championship so that's one of
the pole questions. Is a Lakers head coaching job a desirable one? And
we're going to replay our interview with James Edwards from yesterday. We're going to
play that here at six thirty five. The other pole question has to do
with Game six or the Stanley Cup Finals in general. Should Connor David win
the con smythe which is given to the best player in the postseason Stanley Cup
Finals. Even if Edmonton loses the series. They could lose tonight, but
Conor McDavid has forty two points. That's the fourth most in a playoff season
of any player in history. Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux, two others.
That's the question, and we'll tell you about others who have won it despite
playing on a losing team. There's not many. We'll give you that in
the seven o'clock hour when we come back. James Edwards of the Athletic joined
us yesterday to talk about the firing of Monty Williams and where the Pistons go
next. Will replay that when we return on Exus and Bros. Right after
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