Didn't even to get everybody, and welcome to another edition of Fire Up.
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With that said, okay, we're gonna let Jeremy bull Ray take over
the show. Jeremy have in it all right. Our first topic tonight,
Mike Tomlin admitted to reporters he's getting a little fit as far as I head
coaches with his time in the league, and it could be a couple of
things. But I'm going to defer to Ralph right here and get his opinion
on Mike Tomlin. Well, you know what, Jeremy and George and Scott.
You know, Mike Tomlin has been a coach for a long time.
He's been around since two thousand and seven. You know, he has one
of the longest ten years in the NFL as a head coach other than Bill
Belichick probably, So what I'm saying is it's time for Mike Tomlin step away.
Bill Carr stepped away, went into broadcasting. Tomlin will probably do the
same thing. He has friends in high places, Tony Dungee and all that.
So you know, if he goes away, that's fine. The Steelers
will come up with a new coach. You know, they need to get
I think they need a new a new flavor of a coach, and it's
time for a change, I think. I know Mike Tomlin has done well
in the eyes of most people, but in the eyes of some people in
Pittsburgh, he hasn't won enough Super Bowls or championships to justify that. And
of course Bill Kauer lost a lot of AFC championship games as well. But
Tomlin his record speaks for itself. I mean, I can't complain about that,
but right now he doesn't have an assistant coaching staff that I feel is
capable of, you know, leading his team to a championship. And some
of the guys he has are guys that are, you know, second tier
assistant coaches and not top notch like he's had before. And he had a
few of them and he ran them out. You know, he had Mike
Munchak, he had Bruce Arians and he ran them out. And he had
Todd Haley. Thought Haley's a good coach, even though he's a miserable jerk,
but he's a you know, he's a good he he's a good assistant
coach. So I mean, you know, and he ran out a lot
of great coaches and now he's got a bunch of yes men, and we're
gonna see where it goes from here. George, Yeah, I was surprised
when I found out. I didn't think he was that young. He's only
fifty one years old. Still, he's done a terrific job with the Steelers.
But you're right, you brought up a good point, Ralph. You
know, they won the one championship super Bowl and then they faced a think
Green Bay two years later, but they lost to the Backers. And other
than that, it's losing wildcard game, losing in the first round, losing
you know, the divisional round, whatever loss, after a loss, You're
right, they he has not produced. He's produced a winning product, but
not a winning playoff product. And I certainly can understand the Steeler fans being
a little bit concerned. We had a guy in Detroit, Jim Caldwell,
who they were never happy with his performance, even though he was a couple
of games above five hundred two or three games about five hundred, he had
a much shorter leash. Tomlin has gotten a lot longer leash obviously. Oh
okay with Rooneys, of course he has. All this is saying, you're
close to the situation, Rolf. I respect your opinion, and I know
that Mike's a great guy, but you're right, I think it is time
for the Steelers to move on. Yes, it is, and it's getting
to that point right now. We have certain players that keep fooling around on
social media that he doesn't control. He's got a you know, the ab
situation, an Tonio Brown, the Juju Smith Schusters situation, and then you
know, finally they had to get rid of Chase Claypool, you know,
because and admitted they were wrong for drafting him when they did. But it
was nice because we the trade we got with Chicago. We ended up with
Joey Porter junior like a first round pick, and you know, so that
that came out to be okay. I liked the new front office with Omar
Kahn and Andy Wydell from the Philly Eagles. Andy is from this area.
He grew up in Pittsburgh and he's happy to be back. Steelers paid him
a lot of money to bring him here. He was an assistant GEM and
recruiting coordinator and whatnot with Philly. And you know, I talked to some
people and friends of mine and Philly close to the situation and they said,
we got a gem and Andy Whidell. All right, Scott, what do
you what do you think about the situation? Well, he always hates to
see a guy like Mike Thomlin go. He's his ninest abilities. He's really
never had a losing season and he makes a lot out of nothing, so
he hates to see him go. But it's inevitable. A change could be
an order. Yeah, yeah, exactly, Scot. I agree with you
on that too. I think we all agree that changes in order. Jeremy,
I'm sorry, I don't mean to interrupt you if you were trying to
talk. Yeah, we gotta kind of keep it rolling because we got top
to get through. Yeah, but uh, my opinion is Mike Tomlin has
been one of the best coaches in the regular season for you guys, a
lot like Caldwell, Garry Moeller and now the way Dan Campbell is turning around
Detroit, You're you're seeing that type of thing with Mike tom and his entire
time there. And that's where it eludes me on why some of the fans
want them gone, because it's not always greener on the other side, That's
all I got to say, because you could end up with like a Matt
Patrasha era. Okay, and h let's get into Oh and there is smoking
dad coming in saying hello gentlemen. Yep, that's my dad there and probably
where I learned out to smoke. But anyways, well, Sat, Jared's
just seeing just everybody know that Jeremy's and jack of all trades. Okay.
All I'm doing tonight is posting the comments and you get to read them.
How is that so? No problem? Uh? Second topic, I wanted
to ask you Raff personally, what news do you hear coming out of camp?
What's good, what's bad? Has there been injury concerns any of that
at this moment. No injuries today. They have what they call the gassers.
Uh. You know, they make them run all over the place for
you know, a day or whatever, and you know it's like an obstacle
course. Now, I know today Kenny Pickett started off his first play with
a long past down field to George Pickens. So I do know that Patrick
Peterson came up with a couple of plays. We're going into camp here with
a lot of battles. We have battles on the offensive line. We have
battles at the cornerback position. In the defense. We have battles all over
and across every position. This year, the front office has brought in some
great free agents and I think they the Steelers had a wonderful draft this year.
And you know, they brought in some guys that can compete, and
they wanted to get meaner, they wanted to get faster, and they wanted
to get better at both lines of scrimmage. And they did that with both
the draft and the free agency. Now, let's see if it can be
coached to win. So there we are. So what do you think about
what you just heard there, George, Well, you know, I the
one thing that stands out, Jeremy, I think in Ralph and Scott competition
that's not all bad, is it. You've got a competition for the positions
that you've described, and any training camp, if it's worth its weight in
gold, it's always fun to watch and observe the competition going on for starting
positions, for backup positions, for kickers, whatever it is. Sometimes even
for quarterback, but not very often a backup quarterbacks a lot. But but
yeah, Ralph, I mean, I think when your observation was good,
because competition is good, and the Steelers have done some work on the off
season. Detroit did a lot of work on the off season improving their defense.
And now you've got a situation where hey, let's just we we on
the outside say, let's have fun. But I know it's all work for
those guys, and it's a terrific opportunity for some kid, especially some of
the unknowns, the unheralds, to work their way into the starting rotation or
at least in a backup position. So that's what I'm hearing. That sounds
good. I mean if you're if you're a Steelers fan. Right, well,
I got one more thing to add here. I think personally in the
NFL, we have the best three quarterbacks in the league right now. We
have Kenny Pickett, we have Mitch Trubisky, and now we resigned to Mason
Rudolph. We have three good, experienced quarterbacks, so if anybody goes down,
somebody can play. And then we got this Tanner Morgan that we brought
in as an undrafted free agent from Minnesota Golden Gophers, and he's supposed to
be a reasonably decent quarterback. Then get drafted. But you know what,
you know, we brought him in. He's going to be on a practice
squad. I think that it's going to work perfect for the quarterback situation.
All right, Scott, what do you think about what you all you heard?
Well, the only thing I'll say is roll hit it on the head.
When you have three good quarterbacks like that, they're in a much better
position than most teams. We're looking to have two. And everybody at this
time of the year is always looking to find that veteran signal color. If
you can get. So I'm with you all the way, Ralph, thank
you and smoking Dad just put in a mentor and he says, yea opinion.
I think Pickett is going to be a good one. The only thing
that concerns me is the only problem he had a little bit in college was
the same thing that Goff had with his smaller hands. And that's why he
wears two gloves. He's the new Teddy two gloves. You know. It's
because of that small hand. He needs the extra grip on the football.
Say what you want, say what you want. But that does lead to
more fumbles, which he did struggle with at times in college. Yes he
did, yes, yeah, I pardon me. Yeah. So well,
other than that, I think Kenny Pickett is a smart QB. I think
he's a good pocket pad that knows how to move the pocket. Rather than
he doesn't read the run, he reads and then runs if he has to.
And I think that's a great thing because I think that is where the
athletic athletic quarterback needs to go to. Well, he has a lot of
guts, Jeremy. I mean, I mean I watched him when he first
played in the Jets game. I mean we would have lost that game by
a ton, and he came in and scored points and he was gutsy,
ran ran the ball when he had to, like you said, and everything
else. That's what I like about him. He's a gutsy kid. He's
not afraid to make the play he needs to make, and he'll do it
himself if he asked to. And you know, any team would want a
quarterback like that is kind of the same level of athleticism as Kenny Picktt.
His versus Mitch ter Bisky and Mason Rudolf. Mason Rudolf is tough. Uh,
Mitch ter Bisky's tough, as you know, because he played for Chicago
forever and you have to be tough to play for that team with their old
line. But uh, let's go on to the next one. Well,
we'll go ahead, Jeremy, We'll go ahead. What was the good news?
I was gonna say. The good news is mister Bisky had an opportunity
to have a year under Brian de Bow up in Buffalo, so you know,
he was as a backup quarterback and then he backed up Josh Allen up
there, so you know, he got he got to have that experience as
well, so that's that's the goodness. Mind to bow is a great offensive
mind great okay, and let's roll on to the next topic, which is
the Pittsburgh Pirates started off so hot and it seems like they fell back to
earth almost as fast as they started off. What happened, Well, I'll
tell you what happened. The manager Derek Sheldon. Some of his decisions have
been horrible. Horrible lineups, horrible taking pictures out in the third inning.
Uh, you know after they score one run, getting you know, pulling,
pulling the switch too quick on pictures. Horrible bullpen. Uh. It's
just been a mega problem. Jeremy injuries. Uh, you know Charlie Keith
Brian Hayes almost said Charlie Hayes, that's his son. But Kei Brian Hayes
hurt. H He's now doing his rehab stint. Uh. Jim and Troy
was hurt has been hurt since April. He just came back. You know.
We've had some guys down, uh, you know, or Neil Cruise.
You are starting shortstops, so injuries is included in that. Vince Velasquez
a great starting pitcher we had, he was he was doing real well,
a good veteran presence, and then all of a sudden he got hurt and
he had to bring rookies up from the miners. You know, I don't
have problem with rookies. I don't have a problem with draft picks. I
have a problem with their experience. And you know, if they don't,
it's it's a whole different Uh. You know, It's like cooking macaroni and
cheese and making a gourmet dinner. You know what I mean. You know
your macaroni and cheese and the minor leagues, but then you come to the
majors, you're supposed to be a gourmet dinner. And if that's and that's
not the case. And these kids got to learn. But it's sad that
the pirates waved the white flag after the All Star Game, and and they're
telling everyone they did, and I know they did because you can see they
did. And uh, you know, now they're bringing up all these guys,
and I don't have a problem with that. These young guys need to
learn. But I think that the Carlos Santana trade today, I think it
was awful. I've been making jokes all day that they got this eighteen year
old shorts stop and two one and fifteen pitchers in a janitor because they're good
at making them kind of trade. I mean, yeah, I like it.
Okay, George, what do you think about what happened with the virus
there? Boy, I'll tell you what. That's a good one. That's
a good lie, Ralph. That that sounds like our friend, the former
GM Alavila would make that kind of trade. All all getting aside a lot
of those blunders, as you know, when Detroit gave away so much of
its rich talent. But I understand what you're saying. The young players.
There's too many of them that are being rushed up to the major leagues too
quickly nowadays. We've seen it in Detroit with a fellow named Spencer Charcoal send
the first baseman, um, you know, and a lot of injuries.
I know these kids are getting injured a lot. A lot of the things
that you hit on, Ralph, are exactly what's happening in Detroit. The
only thing I would say differently is AJ hints if anything, he leaves those
starters in too long. Example today manning seven runs. Really, I mean
we knew the second game of the double header they lost both. By the
way, to our listeners, the Tigers took a dive today. They lost,
well, they lost all three games to the Angels at home. All
I'm saying is that, yeah, a lot of the things that you mentioned
are the same kind of things that are happening here in Detroit. They haven't
waived the white flag yet, but off the AAR I was telling you guys,
I think it is going to happen now after they lost three in a
row. We'll see how they do down in Miami. Scott and Candy.
I know we're going to cover that series and that should be fun time.
Cabrera is going to be honored as he deserves and that should be. But
but I think after that, well, after that, obviously, the trading
deadline is too you know, midnight on Monday night. So I you know,
I know what you're going through, Ralph, But you're absolutely right.
I mean, your team has struggled for years and years, and there was
that glimmer of hope at the beginning of the season for the Pirate. For
the Pirates, I was happy for him. I've always liked your franchise.
It's always been a good, good, good franchise. And yeah, But
anyways, to answer your question, Jeremy, yeah, I like the point
that Ralph brought up. Well, one other thing I want to bring up.
I'm very disappointed in the front office Ben Charrington. I thought, I
mean, I know what he did in Boston, he brought them up from
nothing into the World Series, and and and I thought he was going to
do and he laid the law down on Bob Nutting. Look, I'm not
taking this job if you're going to be a ballbuster. And that's and then
he told Nutting, I'm not taking this job, and Nutting said, I'll
stay behind the only time you need to come and see me is for money.
And Bob Nutting has paid out to keep Brian Hayes, Brian Reynolds.
He signed some guys so to big contracts, so I can't say he hasn't
done anything Nutting. It's Ben Charrington. I don't know where he got this
trade out today. This is another Neil Huntington trade. And Neil Huntington was
good at making these bone headed trades, you know, trading guys and get
nothing for it. But I don't know anything about this eighteen year old shortstop
we got and what they're gonna put him in there and play him because O'Neill
cruise is still hurt. I don't know. I mean, I just don't
know what they're gonna do. But I added the one in fifteen Pictures,
I added that was a joke. So Scott, well, how do you
feel about how Ralph described the Pittsburgh situation. Well, the bottom line is
it's a very n The trade that they made Carlo Santana is a very unpopular
trade. It goes back to fire sale territory, Pittsburgh one on one.
I mean, that's a It's like, the only thing I want to know
about Ralph is what about Andrew McCutchen. Has he been talked about me and
moved or not? Yes, there's rumors going around that he's gonna be moved,
but the rumors are not true. A Cutcheon has to make that decision.
He doesn't want to go. His family's here. He likes Pittsburgh.
He's not even worried about winning a World Series. He just wants to stay
here, finish his career here. He's been he's been content with that.
People have been saying all this stuff about all he wants to be trade Texas
wants him. I heard he's not even that they're not even thinking about trading
on as we don't go. Ye, she's on the right end of the
trade deadline, not the wrong hand. Yeah, let's not forget. Eric
Dalton is a good friend of mine. We met at Family fun Fest face
to face last year and he said that there's no Family fun Fest because he
doesn't get to see my dad, which is one of his favorite He calls
him Dad too. Right that that being said, I feel your pain.
But this rebuild was partially before ala Vila got here because of what Dave Dombrowski
did to get everybody on the roster to try and shoot for a world series
before mister LX died. He emptied our prospectal, just wiped it out.
Yeah, trading away for everybody, and then we had all those bloated contracts
and Alavila got stuck trying to make something out of nothing with no money to
spend under the luxury tax because Chris Ellix wants mister Illis said, we're not
spending that much money. There was that situation. You're absolutely right, So
it's partially Elavila's fault, but I blame it more on Dave Dombrowski emptying out
our prospect pool. Well, Dave Dombrowski, Jeremy, he's been a dut
everywhere he's gone. He except for the Marlins, I mean, you know,
and I mean team he put together for Jim Leland. I could I
could have managed that team, Scott in the whole panel here we gaul could
have managed that team. Well, he wanted Boston too, Ralph. Yeah,
now you can make a case that there wasn't his team either because he
was already there. But you got to give him credit for winning at the
Red Sox, right, yeah, oh yeah, But a lot of places
he's been, George, he's been a dutt. I mean, he really
hasn't done. And the Pirates were gonna hire him when they when they needed
a GM they were yes, yes, yeah, I heard that too.
So rolling on My opinion is we feel your pain. Yeah, I'm glad
I'm not the only one or the Jokelin as I call him, the chokelin
Ais. No, the chokland A's have been the chokland A's for a long
time. But there for a minute. There for a minute. From the
late eighties through the nineties, they were one of the top franchises when they
had the Basch Brothers, when they had all of that going on, it
was such agree don't let me interject here, Eric Dalton. Good for you,
Jeremy. I love your expanding horizon to a baseball I know you're a
sports fan. Also, let me add to that, Eric that Jeremy Ballreich
will be on next week's edition of one hundred eighty six Baseball Talk. I
believe we're gonna be doing that one on Tuesday night at nine o'clock. To
anyone we're moving next week will be inside the Piskin. I believe that will
be to next Thursday night of her Ralph's show. So okay, well,
I'm glad you brought that out. Very thanks for putting it up there.
Thank you. That being said, it's Paul Skens the savior for Pittsburgh.
What do you think, Ralph? Yeah, I think Paul Skeins is the
savior if they don't keep him in the minors for ten years, okay,
I mean if they bring him up maybe if he's developed enough next year or
in the year after that. I have no problem with Paul Skeins, but
I have a problem when you draft a guy like that, and you keep
them in the minors for six or seven or eight or ten years and then
you bring him up and then he's wasted. Okay, they need to bring
him up as fast as possible. They need to get him moving and get
him up here. He is the savior. I think he's another Randy Johnson.
He's a tall guy. He can pitch hard, and I like him,
and it was a good pick. We picked a bunch of pictures and
with arms in this draft. And you know, I believe that Paul Skens
is for real. Yea, But but it depends on what the pirates do
with them. I mean, if they keep him down there for too long
and then bring him up, you know it's not gonna work. They're gonna
have to bring him up. I say they bring him up after three seasons
to see if he's got any injury concerns. This, Eric, I appreciate
the kind of words. Please, Eric, subscribe to the Selfwork Tribute and
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Eric can go from there well you can laugh. Jeremy's gonna heck my job.
No, I'm just laughing because it's great to know. You know,
Jeremy is a good guy on here. All I got to say is,
I've been on the Soul Florida Tribute Channel this summer more than I've been on
my channel. Well, you know what, I don't want to sound like
I'm cocky with what little boys I have. I recruit losers anyway, So
I'll leave it at that. I know that. Hey, I'll take that,
you get it. But what do you think about one picture is not
going to save your franchise, Ralph? Number one and number two, No,
they're not going to keep him in the minors all those years that you
said, come on now, Ralph. You know that. But I mean,
I'm don't exaggerate. They're not going to keep them there that long.
And I'll give you another thing, Ralph. Do you ever hear of Casey
Miyes, You hear Matt Manning? Yeah, okay, you know what we've
gone through here in Detroit. Yeah, I'm just telling you these pictures are
not always diamonds in the rough. Sometimes they have rubber arms or whatever causes
them pain. All I'm saying is and I know you guys got a great
guy there, and the fact that he played in college I think is a
plus because you know a lot of teams go for the high school kids,
and you're right, those take longer to get developed. But no, you
got a good guy. I mean, this kid. They give him over
nine million ralph. Yeah, they get nine million dollars. Yeah, Yeah,
that's a lot of money. And I know what you're saying, though,
I just hope that I hope that. Again, I've said it before,
you don't want to rush these kids, but I do agree that you
don't want to take too long either. Pictures. You can never have enough
pitching, and that was one of the things that Tigers obviously, when you
talk about picking up the pieces from Dombrowski, that they learned the hardware even
though they took all these pictures, so many of them. I've already had
Tommy John surgery. It's it's a shame, but I wish him the best
of luck, and I wish your franchise too. Yeah. It's a mix
of everything. It's pitching and fielding and everything else. It's it's not all
just pitching, you know, So if if we can get him some help,
I think it'll be okay, Yo, what what what's the age old
edage hitting his timing and pitching his upsetting timing? Yeah, there you go.
Yeah, I know because I played that sport. There you go.
I played literal leagues as far as I went. Oh, I want Jeremy's
face on a pillowcase. Jeez. So Eric says that I think you made
a mistake. Michael Flumer is your perfect example, George. Eric Dalton said,
and I apologize. You're right, Eric, I forgot about Michael former
and anyway, but they put him into a situation now, which was nice,
good for him because they moved Former, as you know, into the
relief for all. But then of course the Tigers let him walk, let
him go, right, Yeah, we just let a couple of guys go.
Um we let h Crowe go, Will Crow. He was a good
starting pitcher, Derek Sheldon when he took over and put him in the bullpen,
and he stunk, but he was a good starting pitcher. Yeah.
The one that was Craig Kemball, your closer. That guy was amazing and
he's still doing good now, this many years after being in Pittsburgh. They
should have resigned him because you got a guy anytime you got a three game
lead and can come in in the eighth inning and close the game out,
you keep those guys. I have a question for you guys for Detroit.
Is Chris Archer still with you? Guys? I heard he was with Detroit
for a little while. Is that true? Not for like a blink of
an eye? And he didn't think he made it past spring training or a
month after because he just yeah, I haven't heard, no, yeah,
okay, Yeah, he didn't do well here, And that was a trade
Huntington wanted to make to please the fans, because the fans were looking for
a nice trade to get somebody in here. And we got rid of uh
Tyler Glass now, who actually is a nice a really good picture with Tampa
Bay. And then we got rid of um that Austin Meadows, who became
an All Star in an idfield, so you know, and then we decided
to keep the couple guys that didn't work out. Yeah, well you heard
what happened in Meadows, didn't you. Yeah? Yeah, with the Tigers,
Yeah, two years and I row he's been on the um, you
know, Yeah, yeah, you know, the mental illness. Yeah,
and then we just got rid of a guy, Travis Swaggerty. He was
one of our number one picks. We just got rid of him. But
his wife has cancer. He was gonna get out of baseball anyway. His
wife's got cancer. Chack cool, former part with Washington, just got out
of baseball. His wife's sick. So you know, got some guys who
have been doing that. So all right, Canis Devlin says, a great
show, Thank you very much, Candy much Candy, and we you know,
we were going to do it as a topic, but Ralph already gave
his opinion on that trade. Yeah, so you kind of beat us to
the punchline. Yeah. Sometimes his Fitford stuffy. Listen, we're bringing him
in easy. It doesn't get this easy, Ralph. Every week you only
get a partying shot under your pitchfork stuff. But tonight because yours truly his
horse okay, doesn't have much of a voice, although Jeremy doing a dynamite
job he's doing at the Topics, and Jeremy wanted to bring you in easy
with your pis. So you've got five parting shots in one show. Although
we'll still let you have one more next thank you. That being said,
I want to say thank you to Ralph for coming in and being a part
of the fire up show because going forward, it isn't going to be easy.
We're gonna have much hardball topics instead of these softball ones for you.
These I just I just looked at the headlines that were out there and I
put Pittsburgh sports headlines and I came up with three topics. That's all I
did. It may not be the greatest, but you know what, they're
current and it's stuff to talk about. That is you're right, absolutely right,
all right. And I just wanted to add one thing on that Santana
thing. You know my question, No, Ralph, he has bounced around
the last several years. When you look, he's you know, been in
very different teams Cleveland, Kansas City and in Pittsburgh and now Milwaukee. I
mean, he doesn't have any bad clubhouse stuff going on, does he.
I don't he does. He's he's a leader. From what I understand.
He hustles, he's a good defensive first baseman. I've seen him make some
plays that I haven't seen any of our first basemen making a long time.
So I mean you know. I mean, he his bat was a little
I mean he was only bat in two thirty six, so, I mean,
but still he had eleven homers. I mean, you know, and
the problem with the parts two they strike out too much. They lead the
league in strikeouts a striking out at bat and they lead the league and leave
him in on base. They've done that for years. Sounds like the only
thing I got to say about that trade is when did Carlos Santana quit playing
guitar? He decided to quit playing guitar and prick up a bat. There
you go, because with the guitar he bats a thousand thousand. With the
baseball bat six Yeah, but you're right, and Candy's right. You may
have just I think you guys me had just handed Milwaukee the division title because
obviously he's gonna go there, and I mean, yeah, who different way
of playing. Yeah, he's gonna yeah, he's gonna do well there.
Yeah, and they're playing very well. Kaite kitty, Yeah, yeah,
they have that. I need to give to you a view my drink,
George, because you look thirsty. I still have some large There you go,
he still got his water. Yeah, absolutely, there you go.
Thank you very much. I want to thank everybody for being so active in
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for you. This guy did an unbelievable job being the lead man today.
So as if you needed more responsibilities, be careful what you ask for a
ball rake, Oh, I feel very comfortable, not that I ever did,
but tonight it was a great act with you. So all right,
Jeremy, you know you got the wheels turning. But I better get some
sleep because of what you did tonight. Good stuff. All right, well
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writing getting better. We've been about a year. I'll tell you what,
Jeremy, you have really improved as an editorial list. I know I read
your stuff firsthand, and you've come a long way. I'm sure you won't
take that for granted, because I knew you'll always try to improve anyways,
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and also on my website www dot Dowmedia dot org. Oh well, no,
forget to learn them about your Saturday show too. Oh that's right.
And Thursday night I do a show on blog Talk Radio at seven thirty called
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Smoking Jim Frazier. And then on Saturday we do a external bum podcast also
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Cooglis or someone from Draft four one two all right, last one, not
least the other author. Do you have time to breathe at all, Ralph?
I try? Oh my god, yeah, author, author, Yeah.
I also write for the South Florida Tribune. There's a link at the
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It's a nice little book. They're capturing the history of sports broadcasting in Detroit.
Scott Morgan, author is in the book too. He's doing a couple
of great interviews with two great, great, great guys, Jimmy Connors and
Muhammad Ali. But you also see some other surprise photos in there that you're
gonna love, and I'm not going to tell you who they are, but
there's some great pictures in there of some celebrities and sports broadcasters. You can
reach me at Gike corn at yahoo dot com. You can find me on
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Sports Exchange and fire up shows and wherever Scott needs me. And also don't
forget you can reach me at Twitter at Sandage Sports ninety nine. Great being
on the show with you guys again tonight. Thanks for having me, George.
Been a while, but it's well, you guys just think about it.
May have been a while, Ralph, but now you guys get to
see each other once a week. Yes, we do here on this program
with you. We're happy to have you, Ralph. I'm glad to be
part of man Seni Media with Mark Mancini and of course you as well.
And it's great reunion and I'm so glad that we're there, and I just
have you guys are quality people and it's very good. I know. Obviously
my voice came back to life a little bit later because Jeremy did the front
of this show. But it doesn't hurt for me to be on the sideline
a little bit watching some good people talk sports. And that's what we have.
And now another foursome we can call ourselves to fearsome foursome as well.
So I mean half of George I, Corn, Jeremy Ballrech, Ralph Williams.
My name is Scott Morgan Roth the Motor City mild slash madmouth saying at
least for tonight only, okay, saying thank you very much for joining us.
Looking forward to see mcguel Cabrera here hag on the Miami Marlins, the
team over the weekend for whom he helped win a championship for Jeremy, Are
you're getting a sing that you wanted to say something? Yeah? I would
love to end this show the same way I end mine. Try every day
to be a better person than you were the day before, because that's the
only way to leave the world a better place. Well, that's all right,
I have no problem a message. That's a good message, and I'm
glad we're gonna leave on that note. So once again, everybody, thank
you very much for joining us on Fire Up. We will catch you next
week. Good Night, everybody.