00:00 – Rundown — Blues at Toronto tonight — Is there anything stopping the NFL?
18:57 – What Cardinal player could force his way into an important role with a good spring training? And, whither Andre Pallante? Memphis rotation?
35:20 – We know Patrick Mahomes is the face of the NFL. In basketball, it’s LeBron. Who is the current face of baseball?
49:45 – TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT
1:05:07 – Fresh Take: What team has the best chance to dethrone the Chiefs and win the Super Bowl next season?
1:17:35 – Blues Booth: Blues TV voice John Kelly on the biggest takeaways from the Blues big weekend
1:34:15 – The Fight
1:50:11 – What sport should get what non-sports star, like Taylor Swift is involved in the NFL? Hockey had Carrie Underwood (Mike Fisher) and Elisha Cuthbert (Dion Phaneuf). Baseball had Mariah Carey with Jeter. Which team needs which female celebrity to increase it’s Q rating?
2:03:58 – Rush Hour Reset
2:21:15 – The Chiefs have a ton of free agents this off-season. Jones, Sneed, Willie Gay, Donovan Smith, Edwards-Helaire, McKinnon, Drew Tranquill, Mike Edwards, Hardman, etc. Is there a way to derail them as long as they have Mahomes?
2:33:25 – Is Valentine’s Day contrived? Is it worth it for the man? And what are Brooke’s main pieces of advice for guys for Valentines Day?
2:47:15 – Rocc ‘n Roll
[Applause] Morning everyone and welcome to the opening drive on 101 ESPN in St Louis where at 7 o00 time check brought to you by Clarks and Jewelers an officially licensed Rolex Jeweler Brook you appeared to be thrilled and entranced by my good that was a really good good
Morning oh I could do a goal for a long time I can do uh Andre Cantor goal I can do it for a long time Danny Mack is here how you doing brother I’m doing great when did you start doing the long good morning thing when we when they started
Doing mornings oh okay yeah I was listening all the time I can’t believe I missed it yeah well it starts at 7 o’ pretty much every day it’s good to have Brooke it’s good to have Danny it’s good to have Matthew uh I am Randy and uh did
I say that the time checks brought to you by Clarkson Jewelers you did you R Tong oh I rolled the tongue yeah officially license Rolex Jeweler here’s what what we got coming up on this program today going to be fun we’re going to talk about the Cardinals you
Know the Cardinal pitchers and catchers are showing up today I don’t know if you’re aware of that but they’re the baseball season football season ended on Sunday baseball season basically starts on Tuesday I wish that John breio was here because you guys remember that one spring training when it was on
Valentine’s Day and he created bertin’s day and he got a bunch of roses and handed them out to the players but also to the fans that were outside the complex yeah he he’s great where did he land white socks I think oh that’s a good question I don’t know he was in San
Francisco was doing things for Gabe like he would be a spot starter he’ come in in all different times out of the bullpen I I do think though he signed with the white socks yeah so he is he is a white sock we we miss brbs anyway
We’re going to talk a lot of Cardinal baseball we’re going to talk some NFL on the heels of Super Bowl 58 we’re going to talk to John Kelly blues at Toronto tonight uh Toronto is always a good place to visit and the blues have had a tremendous amount of success the last
Few years in Toronto free game at five here at 101 ESPN the action comes your way at six Dan were you in Toronto in 2000 when the blues had the five nothing deficit and came back no I was doing intermissions on radio and listening as
I think it was Dan Kelly Jr during the doing the games at that time with Bernie and it was it was remarkable Jeff courton all plowing into the goalie and uh the rest is history yeah do you remember anything UNT ever happening while you were doing intermissions while
You were doing Blues hockey from the studio uh not from the studio but when I was doing television Mark Bur did an entire interview with me in Fletch mode I would ask him a real question and he’s like Dan it’s all ball bearings this day these days in terms of the power play
And I was like I just kept going with it and he just kept doing Fletch do you remember uh back at K he was hilarious funny guy yeah he he he was really good do you remember back at camx when they used to make us wear our pagers 247 yeah
I never answered it and a certain person really got upset with me so D he probably figured out they they told us to keep our our uh our pagers on the Little Pages you know little boxes and they were loud yeah so Dan’s doing an intermission one time and I called the
Pager right in the middle of it multiple times you did it I did I had to take it outside the uh the booth we went to brg I said this is St Louis Blues hockey and the next thing you knew I was out of the booth and Bob Hamilton who was doing
News was like where is he going he was he was not nervous the guy never got nervous but he’s like what is Dan doing where’s going I just had to get rid of the pagro that was such a Richard did you just toss it away Dan you’re like all right that’s enough of
This pag took it back to the U the sports Office and left it there in Brook we used to have prior to cell phones we had the red phone and if the red phone rang at the sports office this is how long ago that Randy and I go back and I
Guess we’re old but the bat phone the red phone was the phone so if they called you on the red phone you had to answer could be Jack Buck might be Mike Shannon and could be somebody with an interview that they literally would do on a Hardline phone and say you know
What did you think of the game tonight and then you’d put the phone up to the person to answer like a microphone it was old school man it was yeah so one night uh the blues had a radio play bypl guy who wasn’t perfect with his descriptions of games or his
Identification of players and this must have been mid 90s was it fer that was between the pipes Grant fur and so yeah late mid to late ’90s Glenn Hall played in 1970 for the blues Blues are playing a game in Pittsburgh terrible oh no and the playby
Play guy says the Blues play by play gu says and the save is made by Glenn Hall and the next thing you knew who called each other the red phone rings and I pick it up because we were supposed to pull highlights from the game and I said I already got it big
Boy that was uh out of left field for sure Glen Hall is making a hell of a comeback something would you guys go back and now and try to use all those different things that you had to use for the broadcast we would have no chance
Would we no using real tape to edit tape I mean we we had eight razor blades I don’t even know if you can buy those razor blades anymore had small razor blades and you had a little little insertion that you could fit the uh razor blade in and then you’d have to
Take tape and literally tape the real toore what would you call that the actual real toore the the the so but I mean the tape tape the recording tape and then you had like editing tape editing tape so yeah you just taped it together and H that you
Got it right and if not you’d have to take off the tape and redo it again I bet you guys could still do it to this day if you got thrown back into it you could do it it’ take a long time Brooke a long no it wouldn’t we’d be
Fine I’m telling you you’d be fine we’d be right back hopping on the sad and going 1985 our executive producer right after the Cardinals win the NL penet our executive producer Rob Silverstein calls me up on that red phone and Rob was a classic New Yorker he’s the executive
Producer of uh Access Hollywood it has been for many years and he calls me up on the red phone and says my man we need a 2-hour special tomorrow night at 600 and it’s like 8 at night we we had just finished the the game he said I need a
Two-hour special for tomorrow night Jack will come in and voice it in the morning so I pulled it all nighter and I never did that for school but I did it for baseball and so I had literally a 2hour special that we were putting on the Reel
At 6:05 to air at like 612 and then the second hour with the news ended at 710 and I was putting the second hour on the machine to to air at 7:09 and you just hoped that you didn’t back up your CH your chair and hit the wrong button cuz
It would it would stop the whole thing you’re like wait a minute this isn’t live I remember uh when we did a Maguire Chase for well we didn’t know it was 70 but Chase for the record and I did a a very sappy uh I always like the sad music you
Know that and so I did a very sappy feature on Dave McKay who threw batting practice and I gave it to Randy he’s like what the hell is this he didn’t die yeah but we ran it it was a tearjerker it sure was a batting practice tear jerker it was
Great uh breaking news last night if you did not here CBS Sports coverage of Super Bowl lvi which featured the Kansas City Chiefs 25 22 overtime victory over the San Francisco for uniters if you aren’t aware of aware of it already this is an official release from the National
Football League uh it delivered the most watched telecast in history in the history of Television of anything had more more viewers than any episode of The Jeffersons it had more viewers than any episode of Law and Order even more viewers than any episode of mash wow
Yeah the final match was huge it was monstrous viewers average across all platforms that included CBS Television Paramount plus Nickelodeon Univision and CBS Sports and NFL digital properties including NFL plus and by the way we mentioned yesterday the Nickelodeon uh presentation was Sensational viewership figures based on neelon Fast National
Data and so the NFL continues after having 93 of the top 100 rated shows last year they continue to dominate television even on Sunday nights it’s not going I like how you added even on Sunday nights we got into the discussion again Dan yesterday about Saturday for
The Super Bowl and can you guess where Randy was on this Sunday nights yes on Sunday night and I lost that battle surprising I know so you were probably Saturday or maybe even Monday I was just saying Saturday yeah because then you know college football does well on
Saturdays but Randy you won that battle I asked Brooke well when does college football play their championship game Mondays yeah there you go but I’m with Brooke I can I wish for something can I hope for something wish yes I understand where you’re coming from and it does
Make sense Randall it’s all about the money the money yeah and what else you going to do on a Sunday you get ready for Super Bowl I would like to give Brooke a chance though I’m with her and say what would happen if we did it just
One time on a Saturday now I have another idea okay uh okay add another game to the schedule where already 60 QBs get hurt and play a 19th game and push it back to President’s Day so not so you’d have Sunday and then you have President’s day off I love this and we
Can even do another thing uh Lincoln’s birthday was Lincoln’s birthday yesterday we kind of figured this out Washington yeah one of them because Washington’s birthday technically is the 22nd because he was born on the 12th but they use a different calendar so it’s actually the 27th oh okay you got on a
Technicality what happened we just learned this yesterday George Washington was like a rescue dog they just make up his birthday hopefully that’s not going to be a question later because that could get tricky yeah could yeah he he had multiple birthdays so anyway uh most watched uh event in history and one
Other quick note by the way the the most streamed event in history led by a record setting audience on Paramount plus and I believe peacock had set that record with their playoff game a couple of weeks before Paramount plus beating it I just wish we had a day off
Afterwards make it a national if you want to keep it on Sunday which it will stay on Sunday give the country a national day off and I bet you might even see higher ratings because some people have to work most people have to work and get up and that game let’s say
On the East Coast ended at around 11-ish because of OT wasn’t it about 11 it’s like locally it was around 10 10:05 maybe or just shy of that and so on the east coast and to me that’s a big problem at baseball they start the the
Playoff off game so late the young kids the young fans they fall asleep yeah they can’t watch right the game should have been over by 8:45 right yes but the overtime took it a little further okay one question for you guys the Giants have signed Jorge Solair okay he’s
Threee deal yeah three years 42 million Cody Bellinger is still out on the market and the Giants were interested in him I’m not seeing another team that would be interested in Cody Bellinger aside from the Cubs I’m wondering if Scott Boris might be o and I always
Wonder this and he never does it’s amazing but you wonder in a situation like this if the Cubs are concerned about bidding against themselves because I don’t see another bitter and I wonder if Boris has maybe overplayed his Cody Bellinger hand here I would love to know
What Scott Boris is asking for CU to me it makes sense for him to go to the Cubs and go back to the Cubs it just makes a lot of sense that’s what I thought that was going to happen and that’s what we were waiting for and I’m surprised that
Is now the 13th in February and we’re still waiting for a landing spot for him I don’t know what the hold up is I would say too if the logical place for him is Chicago enjoying success there last year and they need a left-handed bat in their
Lineup I mean they need a thumper a left-handed bat that’s why I thought they’d go after Otani I thought they would spend a ton a ton of money on Otani and try to get him there but with the success that he’s had and then the precipitous downfall that he had I’m
Sure that some fan or some organizations are trying to say ah we don’t fully buy into what happened last year and by the way some of his numbers if you look at it analytically were not very good and so that’s that’s what jumps off the pages for some organizations right and
College basketball last night by the way the bilans in missou don’t play until this weekend but college basketball last night for all of you that are Kansas grads and Kansas fans Rock CH jhawk or does your cheers but here’s the thing and I love you KU people love you but
Your coach Bill self got ejected last night and your team lost to Texas Tech 70 9 to 50 so it can happen to anybody can even happen to one of the best teams in the nation in KU and Bill self was ejected for the first time in his 21
Seasons as The Jayhawks head coach so not only does he not have to suffer the consequences of the NCAA when he has five level one violations sorry KU people but he did uh but he also has been ejected now for the first time in 20 maybe that’s her make good maybe
That’s the ncw’s make good for not punishing him for his five level ones is kicking him out of a game well that’s what I was going to say is that he really didn’t get punished for those five level ones it got reduced to basically a slap on the hand
Soe I was very surprised that’s the first time that he’s been ejected years at 21 years is that amazing hard to believe it is you know mild mannered sort the reputation of him must go cuz referees go into certain games and they know they’re just going to get worn out
By a coach it’s just it’s well known throughout NCAA throughout the confence friends we’re going to get worn out tonight and I wonder if his reputation it’s got to be has been he’ll give us an earful but you know what for the most part hey it’s
A reasonable ear for full and I can handle whatever he says and whatever comes at me that’s shocking that he hasn’t been ejected it’s amazing is it yeah I’m I’m just shocked do you remember uh and I know we got to get to a break but 30 seconds doing games and
Barry Hinson stomping his foot all the time all the time and you could hear it throughout the arena yes and he should have gotten into the NCAA tournament I think it was in ‘ 06 and that was kind of the downfall for Missouri State and his time Barry Henson there absolutely
He was a very good coach we’re off and running here on 101 ESPN coming up with pitchers and catchers reporting today in the first workout tomorrow what Cardinal player could force his way into an important role with a good spring training that’s coming your way on 101 ESPN
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Good spring and making the Cardinals opening day roster and he is still on the roster now Kyle mclen did that he kind of surprised people when he made the club in 2011 and there are some good arms in Cardinal camp this year can we start with this guys can we agree that
There will not be a position player that surprises us to make the team like Albert phol did in 20 one can we agree with that oh no yeah I think that that’s very fair to say they their starting nine is pretty well set and their bench and yeah they’re they that group of
Players that 13 is pretty well set so what picture do you see on the roster that intrigues you that makes you think okay that’s somebody that could make the club coming out of spring training so if my calculations are correct there is going to be just one spot left in the
Bullpen for the Cardinals right I would think that that’s correct Brook yes I think that O’Brien is very intriguing for the Cardinals now remember he’s the guy that they got in the trade with Tyler O’neal He has a really great fastball slider combination but if I’m being realistic and honest guys and just
Thinking putting on my Cardinals thinking hat it feels like Andre Palante is going to get another chance and that he will be a factor in the bullpen don’t you guys feel that way I do I I think they’ll give him every chance to make the club uh he could be a left-handed
Compliment to Jojo Romero I have hell’s gagos Romero kitridge Middleton as my guys that are solid so that would leave three relievers or five relievers for my guys and six if it’s the one that you just mentioned for three spots John King left-handed compliment to Romero Nick Robertson gives you durability Ryan
Fernandez is my guy so he’s rule five and I don’t know if that would be a surprise but rule five if he makes the club he sticks with you all year or you can give him back to to the club that originally had him and the other guy
That would stand out for me is Gordon Gro very good stuff and has a chance to maybe make this club that’s my guy because he’s got strikeout stuff the Cardinals liked him last year they kind of thought that he would be battling for a rotation spot this year but he didn’t
Have a good year in the minor but he has electric stuff and he’s a guy if you go back to ad and we always use the Adam Wayne Right example because it’s a really good one of spending a year in the bullpen and preparing to be a
Starter for next year and we know that after this year both Lance Lynn and Kyle Gibson have options so the Cardinals can not have them on their roster next year if they choose not to I could see grao being put in a position to be in the
Bullpen this year and prepare himself to be in the rotation for next year I think that’s the one guy because of his stuff because of his vlo because of what they think of him has a good chance to make his way out of spring training and I
Think that I was surprised I was expecting to see him or Michael McGreevy but correct me if I’m wrong GHA was dealing with some injuries last season and that seemed to have hampered him yeah he battled that I I go back to options as well meaning options for the
Minor leagues Liberator still has an option King still has an option so when you have options sometimes you may have the best camp and not necessarily make the team because you have to have depth in your rotation which means you go to the minor leagues and here’s another
Quick note about Palante because the Cardinals have envisioned him in the past as a starter was starter in the minors but tcoa Robi has pitched in 43 games in minor league baseball 42 starts he’s going to be starting at Memphis Liberator is probably going to be starting at Memphis mcgrey will start
Probably be starting at Memphis CD ROM what’s his real name Drew ROM Drew ROM there you go uh and then maybe Tink hence because it appears they want to give hence an opportunity to start I don’t know if he’s at Springfield or Memphis but it seems like that Memphis
Rotation is going to be overloaded with people that they think have a chance to be good major league pitchers the other thing to you better head your bets if you learned anything from last year rotation outside of like the 2004 Cardinals which we’ve talked about and guys taking the ball every fifth day
With the exception of Dan Heron coming in and a double header you’ve got to really have probably a seven-man rotation guys need to make spot starts and especially with the age of the rotation it’s not the worst thing to give a guy maybe a downtime off a
Rotation turn it’s not ideal but it’s something that is in the back of my mind so really you’re looking at a seven or eight man rotation with three of those being in the minor leagues and I understand the concern with Palante cuz what did we see last season with Palante
Nine of the 24 games he allowed runs in were multi-run Affairs and I feel like we can all remember you can Envision those moments when that happened where he came to the game and it felt like things just really got out of hand but I think with Palante what do the Cardinals
Like especially in their Bullpen with guys like him they like that he can fill multiple roles and he has showcase that he can be able to do that and he’s been making changes to his Arsenal I know I don’t know if you guys have seen some of
The videos come out this off seon where he’s looking to produce more strikeouts of course he’s still going to be a ground ball pitcher but I see him possibly working his way back into the bullpen because of his flexibility out of Jojo Romero you have lefties that are
There but he is a guy that can get lefties out when he’s right and so that’s something else to consider that could be your other pseudo Lefty that you have in the pen right and that’s a good way to look at it because those reverse splits are are huge and
The Cardinals definitely look at those by the way it seems you mentioned the name Riley O’Brien Brook and he’s he doesn’t have a a great major league history yet but it’s barely a history it’s not a sample size worth talking about but last year 55 Innings 86
Strikeouts in the miners now will that translate to the majors I don’t know but that’s what the Cardinals have spent their offseason looking for is that strikeout stuff coming out of the bullpen and O’Brien at least at the minor league level appears to have figured that that part of it out that’s
Why I think that he will be an intriguing option and somebody that I am definitely watching during spring training and look I know that we’re talking about pitchers right now but we got a text in from the 3014 DC he seems to be the Forgotten man now what about
The other guys who are kind of needing a big spring training to really push them forward like Dylan Carlson and even an Alec burlson I don’t think there’s a competition there unfortunately I think I think the Outfield is Newar and man Walker and I think those guys are B
Basically battling for at bats behind those starting three and the infield we know is set because Donovan’s going to play and then you’re going to have arnado win and and Goldie they aren’t going anywhere so I think what’s happening with the bench guys is they’re battling for at Bats win what I think
Will be a pretty regular lineup when those guys get days off I think it’s important that Mason wi has a good spring training doesn’t have to be great but a good spring training I don’t worry about his defense but offensively and they’re going to give him every chance
When the regular season starts to get on track even if he doesn’t have a good spring training but just for confidence wise they it’s important that he has a good spring training yeah I I do too and he has the ability it’s just a matter of building that confidence and if he does
He can be great with Alec burlson though do you guys see him with them bringing in Matt Carpenter is that his competition or how does Alec burlson fit into this situation because I do think he’s still an intriguing option and John D had a great article coming out
Recently where he talked about Alec burlson and the harsh conversation they had with him going into this offseason about what they want and they said they want him to be better in the Outfield I think they like him enough that he’s got the teammate I think it’s fourman bench
With Herrera Carpenter burles and uh Dylan Carlson I I think that’s it you got your starting nine with uh obviously Gorman being the designated hitter I think it’s those four and when I look at burles I’ve talked to some people down with the Cardinals there are some that believe he can really
Be a an outstanding offensive player so if you can get him some at bats get him some starts you get Goldie off his feet put burlson at first you can also get in some spot starts in the Outfield somebody needs a day off someone’s struggling depending on the matchup on
The mound guy can hit he’s hitting the minor leagues and there’s some in the organization that think he could be not Elite but a very good Major League hitter one other note going back to the bullpen U Dwayne stats was inducted last night in the into the St Louis Sports
Hall of Fame he’s from Southern Illinois spent time doing the Cubs before he was one of the original broadcasters for the Rays and his broadcast Andrew KD’s entire career and I I asked Dwayne stats about him he said you’re going to love him and he brings exactly what I talked
About all off season that veteran presence that’ll help young players along he loves doing it he’s 34 he’s got his stuff back uh Dwayne said that he looked really good coming back last year so I think the Cardinals have something in kitridge in terms of both what he
Brings physically and what he brings mentally and emotionally to the ball Club he was exactly the missing piece that we were talking about going in because remember you had said they need another veteran a guy who has more of that major league experience and somebody who’s been battle tested in
That Bullpen and he just fits that missing piece that they needed in there Middleton as well yeah yes but this guy will be this team’s Russ Springer yeah I I think he can be more than that I think he can be Pi Russ was pretty good at
Times um but maybe even as the season goes on more defined roles it’s going to be interesting like in the first let’s just say uh Dodger series of how roles are defined you know where’s Middleton where is a kitridge because those are two eighth ining guys does gyos get a
Shot at the eighth inning again even though he was struggling at times last year these are all options that you have and I know Randy you’re fired up about Giovanni gagos in that eighth inning you said no yeah if you can’t see on YouTube he was mouthing no as Dan was saying that No bullpens are hard to predict they are hard to predict no doubt about it spring training starting today down in Jupiter Florida coming up we know Patrick Mahomes is the face of the NFL and in basketball it’s LeBron James but who is the face of baseball as spring training
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A heartbreaker that is your sports center update driven by Johnny LOL find your road and chop 247 at lol.com and lolf autoplex.com are you kidding Me okay it’s Brooke it’s Dan it’s Randy it’s the face of baseball starting the 2024 campaign all right guys uh who who’s your face of baseball right now Brooke who you got oh for me this is easy and obvious it’s going to be sh Otani sh Otani interesting sh I know are
You shocked that it’s sh Otani it might be crazy I know because he just signed I mean a $700 million deal that now he’s the face of baseball but he was already becoming the face of baseball not just here in the United States but internationally the reach that he has
Brought in especially from Asian market is huge and the way that he has just completely changed the game to see a special player like him a two-way player like him is incredible to see and I thought this was interesting NBC news they had this on the Otani effect more
People bought tickets to Angels games home and away when sh Otani sh Otani was pitching in 2023 that bump represented more than 3,000 tickets per game on average a 10% increase that’s impressive Daniel who you got uh I think o Sho Otani and he could be a huge selling
Point for overseas markets like Brook said here here’s the one thing though in the Anaheim Angels LA Angels he didn’t have to speak to the media except like once a week and I think one of the things that would be beneficial for him and for the league is that if we knew
More about him personally like I I know what he does on the field I know he’s a great baseball player he’s a freak he can pitch he could probably win to sa young he’s one MVPs hits a bunch of home runs but do you really know anything
About him no we don’t and I don’t think he wants us to know he didn’t even want us to know his dog’s name his dog’s name decoy now I know a lot about him yeah yeah okay now I don’t disagree with your your thought process the foundation of
What you’re talking about but let’s put together a scenario okay schnooks de pair you walk in and there’s a section there right you walk in and there’s a produce section okay and you’ve got oranges and apples and standing next to the oranges looking at oranges is sh an
Standing next to the apples picking up apples is Bryce Harper who gets surrounded more quickly for autographs and is recognize more quickly Otani or Harper I think personally it would be Otani I think it be Harper by a mile I love Harper I think he’s great and he’s
In a media Market that you do know more about him and uh I think both would be recognized to be B stage he’s been in the World Series I I I know that but I think when you talk about Otani signing for s 00 million and more fans because
Of that contract are Googling who is this guy that you find out more about sh Otani but I think right now Harper is a more recognizable face of baseball than sh otanis I think Aaron judge is more recognizable right now than sh otan is you think it changes by playing for the
Dodgers yeah I think by mid-season it could all change but I’m talking about as we enter to the 2024 season I I think Harper and judge are the two and I think Otani is lagging behind not that he’s not a face and won’t be the face of
Baseball but I I think other players are especially if if you see 68 Aaron judge out and about walking the streets of St Louis you can say hey there’s Aaron judge you see Otani 65 tall guy I was going to say he’s tall as well he’s a
Tall guy but I just I think those other guys are more recognizable as a face of the sport for if you’re walking down the street we we talked about football and momes is walking down and then right behind him Justin Herbert is walking down I think Mahomes is much more
Recognizable as a face of his sport I think that sh Otani is more recognizable just because of his International reach as well now say that you plop Aaron judge over in Japan or Korea somewhere else like that are they going to recognize Aaron judge immediately or
Know who he is or if you put Sho Otani back in Japan I mean he is just absolutely swarmed I remember remember we talked to Lars Nar about especially Japanese media you guys have seen it you guys have seen it’s next level we think that we do a lot here but media wise
There it is an absolute circus Lars Newar had mentioned that when he was in Japan for the world baseball classic that he thought oh I can just go out in my hotel and get a snack and then when he went out of his hotel he was swarmed
By people who recognize him and already knew who he was so imagine the magnitude that is for Shi Otani so you have that International reach for Shi and by the way he is working on his English I don’t know if you guys saw that when he accepted the AL MVP award he actually
Accepted it in English so he is working on that but I do understand too from obviously kind of a cultural difference that he’s a little little bit more reserved and quiet because of that big media reach that he has from a father of a 12u high high level baseball player
You’re wrong Randy these kids all know Otani and see him as the guy in baseball well that’s good for Bryce Harper that he can walk around and be unfettered I don’t think that that that’s the point that’s being made here Randy that um he’s not going to be
Unfettered but I would say because of what Brooke brought up the internet you want the face of baseball we’re talking now global right globally he is the face of baseball right I don’t think there’s any doubt but this is an American sport sure if you send him overseas
Everybody’s going to know that Cho he Otani in Japan is going to be highly recognizable and on a global scale there’s no doubt about it that that he’s the guy but in America where Major League Baseball is based and exists I think right now and with all due respect
To the high level 12 U baseball players I think that most people would recognize uh Harper than Otani are you beefing with 12 you baseball players now yeah totally I I don’t agree I think I think Otani would be the guy I agree because we got a text earlier that that said
Pretty much he’s either Otani or judge I have a quick question was was Maguire the fa a face or the face of baseball 8 okay then how the heck does a New York Yankee who sets a home run record how is it not like number one with a bullet
Like how was Aaron judge not the easy baseball fumble it it it had been done before I mean we went through the Maguire Sosa thing and I think some people were worn out by it and the chase in 98 was different than the chase of Judge more people were watching on the
East Coast or the Yankees because they’re Yankee fans and I I think people were worn out with Maguire and Sosa and what Otani was doing at the same time had never been done before he was pitching and hitting so there was actually competition for what Aaron judge was trying to accomplish now the
Judge thing is huge absolutely huge but we went through through Maguire and yeah he was a face of baseball in ’98 but so was Sosa I mean the chase of those two guys were they were going back and forth down the stretch in the Home Run Race
They both were the face of of baseball the thing was with Mark he he was just bunion esque he he was a Mythic figure because of his size he was huge now Randy another Counterpoint here who is the face of the NHL Conor McDavid yeah but how many
People would recognize him I guess in Canada I’m saying if it’s because he’s more reserved it’s McDavid the most outspoken biggest personality I know that he’s actually gotten a little bit better in his interviews but he’s not the most boastful personality who’s the face of MLS currently Messi Messi he’s
Not he’s not even showing up to certain big events but he’s on commercials he’s he’s he’s recognized is he speaking he’s on Super Bowl she does have to speak how many how sh Otani doesn’t have to speak as much no I don’t I never said that I
Know it doesn’t have to speak at all how many commercials has Serena Williams done where she’s never said a word yeah you don’t have to speak to be in commercials I think it helps not to be in a commercial but to understand who the player is if you’re asking about the
Face of the franchise or the face of baseball I I want to know more about Joy Otani like how did you become a two-way player what’s your background like what’s it like being home what do you think of being in the United States what’s the competition like between this
And being at home I want to know those things but I don’t disagree with that but for baseball to Market itself all he needs to have is his face mhm the other thing about hockey you have masks for some guys and the face you know the face
Guard and you don’t see them it’s like football too you don’t see them I think the face of hockey right now is Wayne Gretzky still who who’s showing up on Super Bowl commercials yeah yeah the greatest player ever yeah and a recognizable face you recognize him immediately I also love him on broadcast
He’s such a great speaker and I just love the way that he breaks things down but I agree with you I think what Wayne Gretzky is still is but then cdy Crosby we just got that text in and OV as well you can recognize them they’re the best
Players red Hall is really the face of a lot of things too he was on uh Saturday Night Live he was scoring goals he was on the coverage Sports Illustrated people were paying attention to him getting to 86 Letterman yeah I mean didn’t he do a top 10 for Letterman yeah
Yeah he was the face of hockey I think at that time and Incredibly recognizable and hockey has changed a lot but I don’t see Sydney Crosby being in that same echelon as Gretzky or Hall were in the 9s Gretzky’s on Ice performance I think usurps anybody obviously but also they
Won championships Sydney Crosby is so guarded in a lot of ways that that’s the other thing if you’re not guarded and you kind of let people in which is tough to do in this day and age of social media I think you get more of a look and
Maybe become more recognizable and by the way if we’re going to do a top 10 of sports I’ll bet you at least eight of them are NBA players probably right because you can recognize them immediately when you’re talking about the helmets all that stuff for Sydney
Crosby he’s so guarded but I love that we have Joey at least to tell us some of the stories because then you get to learn some more of those little quirks he has and personality and stories it’s great that’s Brooke that’s Dan I’m Randy coming up it’s take it or leave it get
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Have apparently called it quits Larsa taking all of her pictures of Marcus off of her insta Marcus doing the same thing deleting all of his pictures of Larsa off of his insta take it or leave it they did it on purpose on Sunday to avoid breaking America’s Hearts oh so it
Would get buried get move I’m gonna have to take that how sad are you Randy I’m crushed I’m I I can’t believe you’ve been talking about this for three years well this is like the Epic romance I mean Swifty and Kelsey think they have something I I watched this unfold I
Watched it flower it was real love it was a couple of soulmates meeting up and I just can’t believe that it’s over I I am so sad for you Randy because I also believed that this was true love and here we are real this is social media too I mean
That’s when uh you start deleting social media that’s yeah that’s the final straw it is so I’m I’m saddened but take it or leave it at least Larsa and Marcus spared the feelings of America by doing it during the Super Bowl oh I’m going to take that they they really did look out
For us now how happy is Michael Jordan let’s all be honest here how happy because remember they were even going on podcast talking about him being a part of the wedding how excited is he that he doesn’t have to deal with this anymore if you were following the social media
Of both Larsa and and uh Marcus during the Super Bowl every single one of Marcus’s posts was him hanging out with MJ being like with the family MJ squared with the pops loveing life so you know I think Michael’s pretty happy about it probably I would say so but not Randy
Hash sad # you should never let your parents control your relationship people this is sad this is you hate to see it when this kind of thing happens be your own man I know we were finally going to have Pippen and Jordan back together again it was beautiful
Absolutely beautiful well to I guess a happier story maybe some people still have some feelings about this but yesterday Tiger Woods finally launched his collaboration his partnership with Taylor Made take it or leave it you love the name of it Sunday red love it love it yeah I I think it’s fantastic it
Looks really good everybody should go look up the logo if you haven’t already I love that he just completely leaned into what he’s best known for Sunday red that is Iconic when we were talking about people who are the faces of their sport obviously Tiger Woods is the face
Of golf and I always imagine him in his Sunday red pretty you know Taylor Swift may be the face of football right now yeah might be although she didn’t get over 60 seconds shown in the Super Bowl 54 seconds M all right take it or leave
It Tony Romo takes too much heat I’ll take that I am going to take it I think you know do you want a cookie cutter broadcaster or do you want somebody to kind of go outside the box at this day and age and let it rip I I think he’s
Great people are just looking for reasons especially with broadcasters on a national level people are looking for reasons to rip broadcasters and Romo sure he’s not what he was when he was predicting all those plays in that Patriots Chiefs game a few years ago but he’s entertaining and he knows what he’s
Talking about and gives you decent enough information I’m I’m fine with him I thought he made some great points during the Super Bowl now do I want him talking over Jim n’s Final Call probably not do I want him talking once they got the Super Bowl just saying anything no I
Just want to see the shots of winner loser fans going crazy Swifty Swifty whatever um because you can always go back to the play and and break it down but I I just think he takes too much heat I think he’s excellent I think so too I I honestly do enjoy especially
Early on that was fantastic that was great listening to him I think now it’s because people believe that he talks too much to your point Dan of talking at certain points where maybe he shouldn’t but I honestly enjoy the way that he breaks it down I think that some people
Say that he says two things that are things that are too simple and different things like that but I think about how many people are coming into the NFL now when we’re talking about Taylor Swift and the effect that she has I like that he breaks it down for a way that
Everybody can understand at any level and he goes out on a limb and I like that he said watch this player or this is single coverage don’t call the timeout here I thought that kind of stuff was great and as a viewer I started to watch I paid attention it
Doesn’t necessarily mean it’s going to happen but he drew me in on certain plays when he’s saying this is single coverage or don’t take the time out here uh make sure that you look at the right side they’re going to have this look for
This player to go over the middle I I I pay attention doesn’t necessarily mean it’s going to happen but he does get my attention absolutely all right Matthew what do you got on the text line an NFC team will not win the Super Bowl for the
Next five years take it or leave it I’m going to leave that I’m going to leave that as well although there’s a bunch of AFC teams that I can make a case for winning the Super Bowl starting with number 15 and then going to Justin Herbert and then going to CJ Stout and
The list goes on and on but I think an NFC team does win got to like those Green Bay Packers I was going to say the Packers Caleb Williams Bear Down Chicago Bears we fight for the right two that’s what’s going to happen right sure I believe
That Randy right now you have more Collective you have more Collective like positivity than the entire state of Illinois when it comes to Caleb Williams as a Bears quarterback good Lord take it or leave it Zack Thompson is in the fiveman rotation by the end of the
Season leave it or take it take it I’m sorry take it by the end of the season it’s not in the end the rotation by the end of June I’m furious well if come on now let’s be what if Steven mats goes out and starts dealing okay but then he
Gets hurt he has been hurt the last two years okay you can bet on that happening I I’m going to have to take it I think I can see Zack Thompson being in that role take it or leave it a cardinal starter does get hurt during the season Randy I
Don’t want to do this I got Heat yesterday for my worst case scenario and it was just the worst case scenario and it was true they are older the kind of vintage you know you got to think that way maybe at some point skipping a start or
Two don’t be negative Randy I’m not being negative is the first day in which you can go down to Spring raining spring training and watch grown men play catch this is great okay this is a big deal say say the magic words Randy I’m not being negative I’m being realistic I’m
Not being negative I’m being realistic a yes Bunch you guys WR my veins on that one Randy thank you Bunch you guys in their mid-30s without steroids take it or take it or leave it Fat Tuesday food is one of the more underrated holiday meals okay what are
What is Fat Tuesday food I know you got the the baby cake right what else you got on Fat Tuesday all I know sweets that is a good question Ash Wednesday is tomorrow isn’t it Ash Wednesday on Valentine’s Day interesting MH uh so uh I need to know what Fat Tuesday food is
Before I can take or leave uh jumbalaya uh gumbo creamy and dewy pasta okay take it total 100% boil gum K get on the mic yeah he’s just yeah great I can’t do both swing the mic over it’s still not close enough for me to
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Sensational so uh if you want I I’ll bet you we can get some I’ll text over there and make sure that we get some gumbo uh worked up for tomorrow and by the way they had an amazing Super Bowl Sunday they sold over 10,000 of their trash
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Mike Trout and his career will be considered a quote unquote what could have been I no I’m going to leave it because his career is a Hall of Fame career how many MVPs already three yeah three I I guess his career will be comparable to Ken Griffey jors what could have been
Career for me is Alex Reyes yes if he doesn’t get hurt and deal with the shoulder issues I sit there and say man what if if he was still healthy I remember his debut and it was electric oh man fantastic yeah and and flatty right he’s he’s going to being a wh if
And harano Peña or even Martinez sometimes I know that we got to see him but if he reached his full potential I was think of gr seis Moore siy yeah as somebody who just me could not stay healthy and was like rid I mean five to
A player out of the gate in his career he would have been incredible if he just doesn’t have those injuries good call you got one more uh take it or Le take it or leave it if Atlanta gets a third whack at the NHL then St Louis should
Get a third whack at the NFL oh take it absolutely yeah of course I’m going to take it let me guess neither one of those happen is Atlanta like the number seven market number eight Market though and still big so we aren’t exactly growing here in the Greater St Louis
Area but we deserve another chance at the NFL cuz we’re good fans we’re the best fans in the NFL Atlanta’s number seven St Louis this year guess what baby 24 drop down to 24 I’ll be curious about uh the ratings here in St Louis for the
Super Bowl bet they were great huge got to be top 15 probably in the country oh yeah for the AFC game between Kansas City and buffalo we were third behind Kansas City and buffalo wow so yeah we’ll be we’ll be top 10 in the ratings
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Stories it’s the opening dries fresh Take so is it a Dynasty now yeah it’s a start of one we’re not done I know we’re going to celebrate tonight celebrate the pre Wednesday Kansas City but we’re not done we got a young team we’ll keep this thing going as Patrick Mahomes talking about the dynasty that is the Kansas City
Chiefs they’ve won three of the last four Super Bowls and of course they have won backto back that being the case the 49ers opened as the favorites to win Super Bowl 59 next year and it’s hard to win three in a row it’s never happened before so the question is who has if
Kansas City is not going to win the Super bowl next year the best chance to defeat said Chiefs who is who has the best chance whether it’s from the AFC or the NFC to Dethrone Kansas City well I have different tiers to this so I’m going to start with the 49ers because I
Think that they are obviously the favorites for the NFC once again if you look at their offseason they’re 3.7 million over the salary cap heading into this offseason so it’s really not that bad compared to a lot of different contenders and I feel like there’s still
Probably a year away of having to make a big or hard decision with one of their big star players now this could be the last shot for this Core group so this is another reason why I think it’s going to be the 49ers again but guys I have some
Other options as well I think the Texans are a very interesting and challenging team where they could have a little bit of a budding rivalry going on with Patrick Mahomes CJ strad with what he was able to do able to do D Ryan and I really like the Texans and CJ strad now
Another one is going to be the Packers I think that that’s another exciting team of course you have the Chargers as well all the changes they have coming in with Jim Harbaugh but I think that those are the more interesting teams going into next season I don’t know if this is the
Right way to look at it but the the teams that have the most cap space going in commanders Titans Patriots Bengals and Colts couple of those teams I see if they go out free agency and they’re aggressive having a chance by the way 49ers as you mentioned are the Super
Bowl favorites then KC Baltimore Buffalo Detroit I could see any of those teams doing that as well I agree with Brooke the two teams I had if I was going to pick one team to upset or however you want to look at it throw their name in
The uh the ring here of the teams that could upset uh the favorites Texans because of CJ stad DeMarco Ryan or demo Ryan excuse me Will Anderson the one thing that they have though is a tougher schedule they’re going to have a tougher schedule the second time through with CJ
Stroud Green Bay started three and six and then they go dismantle Dallas and they got Jordan love who just started looking like a different player at the end of the season so I look at those two teams I think Green Bay is prohibitive in the NFC I I just we know how
Difficult it is to come back from a Super Bowl that you lose and that Super Bowl hangover is inevitable and I have to think that’ll happen to uh unfortunately the 49ers the other team in the NFC that actually did make a rise unfortunately this year was the
Rams they’re they were really good at the end of the season and they’ll be a threat but I think the two teams that have the best chance to Dethrone the Chiefs next year are both from the AFC North the Ravens were the best team all year until they got beaten at home by
Kansas City they were they were the best team and they’re they’re going to have the best team again next year they need to sign one player matab BK but they’ve got everybody coming off back offensively they’re very young they’re going to be very good and then the team
That I think has the best chance to Dethrone Kansas City you mentioned them they’re fourth in cap space and they’re already great it’s the Bengals getting joe burrow back that they’ve got every item that you need on offense they’ve got a very good offensive line they’ve got two good receivers they’ve got
Enough cap space to keep everybody around they’ve got they got the running back they’ve got the pass rush they’ve got the corners they they have everything you need to win and I think that if there is a team out there it’s a Bengals team with a healthy Joe burrow a
Healthy Joe burrow because it’s somebody who actually can beat Patrick Mahomes and that’s the thing is who is going to beat Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs especially after this season remember there were so many talks and we discussed this a little bit yesterday Randy but this was a Chiefs team that a
Lot of people didn’t think this was the worst version of the Chiefs in the pastor Mahomes in Andy Reid era and I don’t think that it was the worst diversion now looking back obviously if anything we’ll look at this as being the chapter and this dynasty that is being
Built as the spags year because of the chief’s defense and what they were able to do of course Patrick Mahomes all his heroics towards the end there but this was the spags year in that chapter I know that the old phrase the old adage is true that the cemeteries are full of
Indispensable people that being said I think that Chris Jones is an indispensable player for the Chiefs I think if they lose all of a sudden that defense goes from great to above average but not great but to counter that they’ve had one starter back from their
First Super Bowl on defense they find a way and that was him um the other thing that was looking at with momes he did not have a thousand yard rusher a thousand yard receiver this season and still makes it to the Super Bowl that and you can’t say now he can’t win on
The road I mean look at the places he went on the road so it’s hard to bet against number 15 he’s that good and he makes players better we saw rice Ascend throughout the course of the Season it looked for all the world in the middle
Of the Season like Travis Kelce was used up but he wound up being great in the playoffs and they get a guy like gray who steps up to become a really good player mvs is still serviceable for them they’ll be able to go out and find another receiver for whatever reason now
Sky Moore didn’t work out but they do a really good job of finding receivers in the in the second and third rounds too well yeah just look at Rashid rice and how that works out for him now going back to the Bengals because I do think that Joe burrow is a very interesting
Prospect but we got a text from the 314 Bengals losing T Higgins and their OC I don’t know referring to what you’re talking about Bill Callahan of course going to the Titans as their new head coach and there’s rumors that t Higgins could possibly even be moved to
Tennessee but Cincinnati does have the cap space they’ve drafted very well I get that Callahan was the offensive coordinator and taking nothing away from his greatness but Zack Taylor is their offensive coordinator Zack Taylor implements the philosophy and the scheme for that offense and they promoted from
Within with somebody else that knows the scheme now is that person going to be as good a play caller well Taylor calls it plays too so I I don’t I don’t know that the Callahan loss is going to be as substantial as it would be for a lot of teams losing their offensive
Coordinators Bri sorry I said I said Bill his father but yes Brian um this may be the best time to be a Kansas City Sports Fan because of what’s going on and they’re going to unveil the potential of a new stadium for the Royals today so then you have the parade
Tomorrow and they have spent a bunch of money and free agency in baseball I mean this is like the glory times of the Kansas City Sports era it’s it’s it’s got to be an amazing feeling these last three days Super Bowl championship new stadium on the horizon and a parade
Tomorrow and knock St Louis out of the MLS Playoffs oh that’s the other one don’t bring that up Randy we’re just talking about things that make Kansas cians happy well they should be happy they they should be yeah now they need to come over here for some good barbecue
There you go are you down on Kansas City Barbecue I like St Louis barbecue way better I haven’t had Kansas City Barbecue what what is the big difference spicy it’s is it more of a rub uh it’s just know spicy sauce it’s it’s not it’s really good it’s really good but I I
Just think ours is better I mean come on it’s really good it is they’ve got some really good barbecue over there I’m not saying that there’s is bad I’m just saying this they can come over here for the best I just wanted to clear it up okay all right set the record straight
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Kelly the TV voice of the Blues joins us now here on 101 ESPN good morning sir how are you doing I’m doing well Randy how are you everything’s great and for those that didn’t pay close attention over the weekend because the blues have been out for such a long time really
Impressive weekend for the blues yeah that’s uh I think an understatement Randy they wi 3-1 in Buffalo on Saturday and then a very impressive 7-2 Victory on Super Bowl Sunday so how about that they score a touchdown on Super Bowl Sunday um and Tory Krug had five assists which was a
Club record for most assists in one game by a blues defenseman so um you know I think the exciting thing is Randy is that the blues have now won seven of eight games and I’m starting to see this team get more confidence and a bit of a
Swagger and that’s a great thing to see so they have a really tough schedule here at Toronto tonight and then they come home to take on McDavid and the Oilers on Thursday and then a huge game Saturday against the Predators but you win seven of eight games that gives a
Lot of confidence I think the blues have the most confidence they’ve had this season going back to what you were just talking there with that impressive win with the Blues against the Canadians 7 to2 you talked about Tory Krug with his career high five points and then you
Have Jake neighbors he had a great game as well Robert Thomas Jordan Kyu but I want to go to Alexi Toreno because is it fair to say that he set the tone of the game with that goal just 25 seconds in yeah that’s a good point Brock it was a
Highlight re goal his eighth goal of the year and he scored seven or eight goals this year on the road so he’s been a very impressive player and you know that line with sunquist and Nathan Walker has been really good it’s an identity line for the blues um all three guys like to
Play physically um they have pretty good speed so it’s it’s been really fun to watch so but tchenko is still a young player and you know he’s still a bit inconsistent when it comes to scoring goals but you see him make a play like that um going wide with his speed and
You know his size he’s tough to defend um this is a guy that certainly down the road could score to me 15 20 goals um so I think I still think he’s still scratching the surface of what he could do down the road he’s he’s a really um
Dynamic player when he when he gets that puck wide because of the rules in the game it’s tough to stop him JK the power play six best in the NHL since Drew manister and Brad Richards took that over what are you seeing with that power play You Know Dan it’s really amazing I
Was looking at the numbers today when Bari was let go by the blues the power play was 88.4% um and it cost them a lot of games so um I I think that obviously he he’s done a lot of things and not just banister but you know the entire
Coaching staff and you know their consultant Brad Richards um but you know I I think they’ve been more direct and you know not you know passing the pack around the perimeter for the you know the full two minutes looking for that perfect shot and perhaps too many seam
Passes they’re more direct and the other thing I see is they have a lot more of a netfront presence and that’s important so you know the Thomas goal the other night or the other day in Montreal a great example you know it’s a rather harmless shot from Distance by Robert
Thomas and there’s a screen in front and it just finds its way behind Jake Allen so I think those are the things that I have seen more direct approach and a lot better netfront presence um since he took over in December uh JK at some point the blues will get both Justin
Faulk and Scott perunovich back but it’s an interesting thing in hockey and in in any sport when you’re rolling you really don’t want to mess with the chemistry and we’ve seen it before the blues have had teams with a lot of injuries where guys came back what’s happening now
Though is it appears they’re really developing some quality depth on on the blue line aren’t they well you know I think that a player like kessle has come in and he has been really solid and to me he’s got to be in your top six regardless of you know health and
Injuries and things like that he he’s played that well so when they do get those players back it’s a good problem to have you know I always say internal competition is the best competition you can have so um you know scandel has done a good job rosen’s come up and played a
Couple of games and you know Rosen was really good last year with the blues he he was a plus minus leader on defense for the Blues last year in limited time he was plus 18 in 49 games so he’s a guy that can come in he’s he’s a bit of a
Veteran now so it’s a good thing so hopefully those guys can can get back soon um but but right now you’re right you don’t really want to miss mess with a winning lineup uh guys but obviously when when especially when faul comes back there’s no question he comes right back in the
Lineup JK I want to ask you about uh the trade deadline just a little bit here as you mentioned they’re 71 and0 in their last eight five straight road wins and I’m not asking you to speak on behalf of the organization I I’m just curious of
Your thoughts on do you think in your time in the n that maybe this changes a little bit the mindset of what you do going into the trade deadline you know Dan I think that you know big picture where the blues are in their ele ele uh elev they um the way
They are right now I’m I’m searching for that word Evolution EV Evolution there we go it’s you know I’m still still early here in Toronto um I I don’t think that they certainly are going to be even if they’re in a playoff spot you know a
Team that’s going to really you know be big buyers at the deadline you know that they they still want to accumulate young players and draft choices and things like that um so unless the the bottom fell out of this team and they were you know six eight or more points out of a
Playoff spot then I think they would be sellers um but right now they’re in a playoff spot by a couple of points so you know my guess is they’ll be sort of in neutral and we’ll see what happens injury-wise and where they are healthwise at the deadline but uh
Certainly if they’re in a playoff spot I can’t see them selling off Parts even though they do have a couple of Ufa so I think right now the best guess would be they would probably do very little if nothing in at the deadline finally JK you’re in Toronto and it is the Mecca
And the media coverage is unbelievable and the fans are unbelievable what’s different about being at a game in Toronto than most places well I think you know Randy when you go to Toronto and we were just in Montreal there’s just um a great atmosphere around the town and it’s it’s
A hockey town and obviously the the Leafs are so popular here it’s such it’s the biggest city in Canada by a lot um they’re starving for a Stanley Cup Championship they haven’t won a cup since 1967 so you know they’re a good team they’ve made the playoffs seven straight
Years but again haven’t won in a long time so I think that the biggest thing is the atmosphere around town and at the games is really good and it’s you know obviously a very knowledgeable crowd but you know they have a lot of controversy right now Morgan Riley their number one
Defenseman at the end of the last game in Ottawa he cross checked Ridley Greg after he scored into an empty net when he slapped the puck into the net and he has an in-person hearing today in New York and I expect him to get probably at least a five game suspension so that’s
Good for the blues because he won’t play tonight and of course they play the Leafs next Monday day probably miss that game as well what did you think of that whole situation I know that it’s been a lightning rod of some people on one side the other people on the other side about
The empty net taking a slap shot then the big hit what do you think JK I I guess maybe different eras of hockey and how we evaluate this yeah Dan you know probably 30 40 years ago um rly Greg probably would have been stretchered off the ice yes and that’s I’m not saying
That’s the the right response are the the right thing um to me in this situation um punishment did not fit the crime I mean I don’t agree with Greg slapping the puck into the net like that I think it’s rubbing uh the opponent’s face into a loss and they’re obviously
Frustrated um it’s the Battle of Ontario it’s a it’s a you know a big rivalry game but the response by Riley is over the top I mean to me he should just come over and you know grab Greg or you know engage him in a fight but to cross check
Him in the in the jaw is is over the top and the biggest thing is the Leafs are not guaranteed a playoff spot they’re I think they’re only four points ahead of the Islanders so they’re in a battle to get in and now they might lose their top
Defenseman as I said for whatever four five six seven eight games it’s a big loss for them so I think that he he really even though you’re mad about the loss and what Greg did it certainly to me was over the top John Kelly thank you
So much for the time we appreciate it have a great time in Toronto today and we be tuned in tonight for the blues and the Maple Leafs all right guys thank you very much thank you that is John Kelly TV voice of the blues on B sports with
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Heating air conditioning dealer fight in the Red Corner Average Joe Lesnar and in the blue corner the Undisputed king of morning drive please welcome Randy [Applause] Carer welcome back to the opening drive Brook Grimsley here alongside Danny McGrady care Matthew Rocko and it is now time for the fight and our fighter today is Eric Eric how are you doing I am doing good how you how you guys doing oh we’re doing great is this
Your first time facing Randy in the fight it is nerves yeah a little bit little different once you’re on the phone it is any advice Dan that you like to give oh just get after them don’t have nerves just get after him I know you can do
It I’m gonna try Danny M all right go for it all right you ready for question number one Eric I am 75% of the AFC East franchises have gone to three straight Super Bowls in their history which is the only team that hasn’t is it the Patriots the Jets or the
Dolphins GNA go with the Jets is that your final answer Eric that’s the final answer in super in the Super Bowl era only two players have led the NFL in receiving TDS more than three times Jerry Rice and who else is it Rob granowski Randy Moss or Terell
Owens I gotta go with t Owens okay question three please who is the active career leader in playoff passing touchdowns is it Russell Wilson Patrick Mahomes or Aaron Rogers uh that was for the playoffs who is the yes okay uh and the hom go with my home over the
Last 25 championships which league has the most parody with 16 different teams winning is it Major League Baseball the NFL or the NHL going to go with uh baseball okay Eric four up four down let’s see how you did when we get Randy in here how do how do you
Feel uh not so good yeah that’s how a lot of people feel when they’re taking on Randy but fear not you never know what’s going on in Randall’s World especially on a Tuesday taco Tuesday are you ready Randy I’m as ready as I’m going to be Daniel all right here we go with
Question one say hi to Eric by the way Eric yes good morning sir how you doing good morning Randy I’m doing good how you doing I’m doing great thanks for listening thanks for playing we appreciate it all right Randy question number one 75% of the AFC East franchises have gone to three straight
Super Bowls in their history which is the only team that has it uh well the Dolphins have the bills have uh the Patriots have so I would guess the Jets who have only played in one Super Bowl would be the team that has not Final Answer Randy Final Answer Dan in the
Super Bowl era only two players have led the league in receiving TDS more than than three times Jerry Rice and who else Jerry Rice and um I think this comes down to uh Moss or two and I every time it’s so dumb every time uh I think I’m going to
Uh you know Moss had that rookie year and then he had the year in in New England but he really didn’t do anything with the Raiders or after New England I’m going to go with two final answer yes question three who is the active career leader in playoff passing touchdowns
H well Mahomes has a lot uh but I don’t think that uh maybe he let’s see you got momes right now uh it’s not burrow uh let’s see NFC guess it could be A-Rod uh no Big Bend to have anymore trying to think who’s you know
What I’ll just do the lifeline I’m sure I’ve named a couple of them but we’ll just we’ll figure this out Russell Wilson Patrick Mahomes or Aaron Rogers okay good I’m going to go with the guy who’s been around for 18 years and played in the playoffs most of
Them I’m going to go with Aaron Rogers over the last 25 championships which league has had the most parody with 16 different teams winning so you these are the four major pro sports leagues right yes all right over the last 25 years so the Yankees were 96 that’s when their little Dynasty
Started and they have let’s see so 99 so but I’m I’m still going to be cause of the Yankees uh okay but they haven’t won as many championships okay okay so in the NFL Patriots I think knock the knock the NFL out in the NBA I think that uh couple of
Franchises notably the Lakers and the Spurs will knock the NBA out so that gives us the NHL and MLB and we have not had a do well we had Tampa they won three and in baseball you really have not had a dominant franchise if you go
To 25 years that’ll go 99 Yankees uh 2000 Yankees and then that’s it in 09 so they’ve won three h have you had another dominant baseball franchise doers have won once Giants have won three so I’m going to go with Hockey being the sport that has had can you repeat the question
The fewest number let me repeat it for you over the last 25 championships which league has had the most parody with 16 different teams winning I’m going to go with hockey having 16 different teams winning even though you’ve got both the lightning and I guess the Penguins too
Uh but that one’s a hard one to think of right off the top of your head so I will just go with hockey we have a tie in today’s fight which means we got to go to the tie breaker in today’s fight and that means let’s go through the questions and or
The rules I should say really quickly here I’m going to read the question for the tiebreaker we’re going to give Randy a chance to write down his answer and then we will get your answer audibly Eric and whoever is closest to the pen is going to be the winner of today’s
Fight do you understand those rules Eric I do and Randy do you understand the rules I understand the rules sir do you have paper I do all right we’re ready to go then all right here we go Pete Rose is the alltime hits leader with over 4,200 hits but is also the
Alltime games play leader with how many Pete Rose is the alltime hits leader with over 4,200 hits but he is also the alltime games played leader with how many Randy carer writing down his answer right now I am actually doing math brother okay uh Randy ker doing math
That will lead him to writing down his answer uh hold on um hold on here let’s see um Lenwood education Randall it’s working hard here I need a c calculator um okay uh let’s see I I’m going to go with hear the marker scratching across
The paper yep here we go kids broad okay uh I got to write that down sorry okay I got your guest now Randy carer all right Eric that’s not a good guess what is your guest sir that’s a tough one but uh 3100 H how about that you guess 3100
Even Randy carer how many did you guess I guess 31 26 all right so the question then is is it under 3100 is it over 3126 or do I have to do a little math cuz it’s somewhere between there let’s ring that Bell the winner and still champion of
The fight Randy carer the fight is driven by carshield plans to fit any budget visit carshield.com [Applause] today just win baby I’m sorry Eric unfortunately it was over 3126 Pete Rose played 3562 games to get to those over 4,200 hits So Randy carer was a little bit
Closer to you today and he wins the tiebreaker and therefore he wins the fight good job though thank you thank you guys appreciate it thank you have a great day Matthew than you I thought and I could be wrong about this I thought Randall won in regulation no he got two
Right I thought he had three no he answered uh he answered NHL here we go we’ll go through them 75% of the AFC East franchises have gone to three straight Super Bowls in their history obviously the Jets is the only one who have not in the Super Bowl era only two
Players have led the NFL and receiving TDS more than three times Randy Moss led the league five times that’s uh Randy Randy answer too on that one the active leader in career playoff passing TDs is in fact Aaron Rogers with 45 to Patrick Mahomes 41 Randy carer got that one
Right for a second one correct and then for the fourth one over the last 25 championships which league has the most parody with 16 different teams winning Randy carer answered NHL it was the MLB that has had 16 teams win the NHL has had 14 teams win NFL with 13 NBA with 11
So Randy got three right Randy got two right no three you got I got two okay oh you got oh you got the NHL one yeah I said NHL yeah okay I’m trying to back you up man thank you man I appreciate try help I confused as well okay so
There’s the fight for you here on 101 ESPN coming up what sport should get a non-sports star like Taylor Swift involved like she is in the NFL what sport needs that most that’s next on 101 ESPN Welcome back to the opening drive Brooke Dan and Randy here Dana what happened to Randy so Chick-fil-A has shown up and Randy has disappeared Chick-fil-A kind enough to bring in some food for the morning drive and I’m sure there’s so much food for the folks after us like
Josh Enis and uh PK and ferrario then the fast lane so Chick-fil-A has brought in all this food and amazingly Randy disappears H it’s it’s very interesting how that played out he literally went over there and said you guys can take it from here oh yeah I mean it it was like
No big deal I’m out of here and um so he’s gone and Randy will enter at some point in the segment potentially and the question that we POs to the text line and ourselves what sport should get what non-sports star like Taylor Swift is involved in the NFL hockey had krye
Underwood Mike fiser uh Dion fenu had Alicia cuthber baseball had Mariah Carey with Jeter so which team needs which female celebrity to increase its Q rating Q rating and also just for people who to understand what Q rating means how would you best explain it I would
Say that it is the knowledge of a person to to break it down the popularity and knowledge of a person by the general public this is a tough one because you also we have Mike fiser listed he no longer plays he’s retired but having Carrie Underwood involved with the NHL
That was a pretty big deal it was for a while there she’s great on the Monday night uh or the Sunday Night Football intro K under right yeah she’s fantastic so that’s one that moves the needle a little bit she is involved so globally Taylor Swift is
Number one would can we agree that Beyonce is number two ooh I think that’s a one and onea Poss I think they’re both number one that that’s hard and Beyonce by the way just came out with a country album so she is robing Taylor Swift for that whole well Taylor Swift started in
Country and now she moved over to pop so we’re having a big old Switcheroo now did uh Beyonce ever perform she Super Bowl I don’t remember okay I’m assuming she did so she’s already involved with the NFL first of all I don’t think the it’s funny because the NBA their players
Are so well known that they don’t need a superstar they’ve got Curry they’ve got LeBron they’ve got all of their Superstars a lot of the Warriors guys globally Luca is a superstar I don’t think the NBA really needs that not the the NFL did but I don’t think that the
NBA needs that bump from having a non-sports star watching and being in the stands at their sport because then you know they are the big stars as you’re mentioning there I think Jason Tatum is dating a famous singer I believe I do believe but still at the same time Jason Tatum’s very
Recognizable so he’s big at his own right but I do believe that he is daating oh yeah yeah that’s what I was thinking so I think what baseball needs though they need somebody to bring a young audience to them like Taylor Swift has brought to the NFL that not again
Like the NFL needed it but somebody who can help cultivate a younger audience and it doesn’t need to necessarily be a female it could be a male but somebody whose presence will cause young people specifically to want to tune in to watch games so I was thinking outside the box
Here and I thought Drake I thought Drake was somebody I think that’s a great call that would be that would by the way Drake is in town performed last night maybe he’s yeah my daughter needs a ticket for tonight so uh Drake if you’re listening send one over yeah we would
Appreciate it Drake he’s a huge sports fan and he’s a blue jays fan right I think he he’s he’s from Canada yeah huge NBA fan and yeah whoever’s winning basketball fan yes he he he’s definitely a big bandwagon is fan but Drake Still we want tickets if you’re listening I’ll
Take that back yeah how many tickets do we need are you going Randy I can go would you go if if Drake sends tickets over I’m in do you know any of his Tunes I know that I would know them but I can’t sing along with them okay all
Right that was kind of with me with Usher I knew all of them but I just I couldn’t name him when he did that I love I thought he was amazing on his roller skates yeah he’s great so is Usher somebody that we need to get him and obviously again he’s associated with
The National Football League the NFL has really done a great job because of the Super Bowl Halftime they’ve done a great job of integrating super Superstars into their sport already well and I do get a little bit jealous too when I see and it’s the Super Bowl so you’re going to
Have a lot of celebrities but even when it’s not the Super Bowl when you see certain games certain teams where they have celebrities that attend regularly to their games of course in New York and LA with the Dodgers you know when you look around you see that I wish we could
Get something like that in St Louis now it’s always a big deal when you get Wayne Gretzky in the building when you get Brett Hull in the building then that’s very exciting but it would be nice every once a while to get another St Louis celebrity to come in I know
They have um the actress Pam from The Office Jen she yes she comes in every once in a while 314 says and this a good one I had thought about it MLB had Kate Upton with Justin verland there’s a good one right oh yeah and I don’t know that
They utilized her properly I don’t know if they she went to a lot of games but that’s what we’re talking about have her shown on TV for 54 seconds during a game is it going to make you you think it moves the needle though no I mean Taylor
Swift moves the needle and everybody is watching football it seems like uh Nelly and John Goodman at Cardinals games that was from the 314 yeah the other a couple of years ago when Albert did the high five with Nelly that was really cool great yeah Nelly is a good one John Ham
He is everywhere he was he was definitely around a lot during that blue staning cup run and that was really exciting to see I’m trying to think somebody else well in baseball in general you have Vanessa hudgin who’s married to Cole Tucker but he’s not exactly you need the level of that
Player kind of to match is how about benfer goes to Red Sox games how about Ben affle and Jennifer Lopez they sit in the front row right next to the uh Red Sox Dugout that’s one that moves in Needle a little bit oh will frell is a big LA Kings fan
That is exciting when you see him around he is at a lot of like Tom Hanks goes to a lot of Dodger games and they always show the celebrities that are there there’s celebrities that are always at Dodger games always yeah they all the time and the Dodgers are the team that need
Somebody to date that Hollywood Starlet or Superstar right if you have Otani on the team already and then you have somebody else in the stands you like like Mahomes is on the Chiefs and Kelsey is is dating Taylor Swift that’s what you need in baseball that’s what I’m
Talking about here H what about Miley cus that’s the one that got brought up I don’t know she’s obviously a big right now but again does she move the needle enough like would she move the needle as much as uh the the singer uh Selena Gomez if Selena Gomez is dating a
Baseball player probably not that’s a big deal yeah if Selena Gomez was dating a baseball player that would be a pretty big deal because I think she’s in that we’re talking about A-list category right what about when we’re when we’re looking at that younger audience Olivia Rodrigo somebody text that she is big
With get her into a suite at Dodger games dating a Dodger player there you got something anytime that you say younger generation I just realized that as that left my mouth it makes me sound like a old lady I was just going to say Randy and I are the worst two people to
Ask for this segment right uh one other by note by the way you brought up Tom Hanks and I did not realize this Daniel remember theodus Brown yeah UCLA he was roommates with Tom Hanks I did not know that no theodus Brown the Cardinals had a couple of running backs Otis Anderson
And Theus Brown and there was an Otis and theodus radio show on KMOX back the day and then theodus wound up with the Chiefs and when the Chiefs when the Cardinals left in 19 people complain now about the Chiefs wanting to be part of this Market when the Cardinals left
After the 1987 season after that season the chief sent Theus Brown to St Louis to try to sell tickets and he was successful sold a bunch of tickets because that’s when Marty Schottenheimer took over and they started winning a lot but yeah theot I didn’t realize this theodus and Tom Hanks were College
Roommates at UCLA oh so now you know from V radio the YouTube chat I forgot about this Kemp dated Rihanna oh yeah right that was a big deal was and baseball that’s something that baseball needed to take advantage of I didn’t think I I didn’t let it pass before the
Game the other day did you see that Goodell was talking to Taylor Swift I don’t know bud seel leue talking to Rana was going to be as effective what do you think the conversation was about with Goodell and Swift thank you for what you’ve done you’ve generated
Almost $400 million for us I think so and cultivated a new group of fans that we would have never had a chance to the eyeballs of before I bet leagues would love it if you had Superstars had followed a particular player yep I don’t know if it moves the needle and other
Sports though CU baseball’s Regional hockey’s Regional lot more games National stage with football right makes a huge difference that the Chiefs this year 17 games the Chiefs played seven of them were prime time or that one morning game and seven more were in the 325
National TV spot so you saw a lot of Taylor Swift for 20 seconds a game but you saw a lot of her because 14 times the chiefs were on national TV yep it makes a difference that’s Dan that’s Brooke I’m Randy coming up we’ve got our Rush Hour reset on 101 ESPN
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The sandwiches and it’s all Delicious from Chick-fil-A and they were great partners of us along with Adam way W’s Big League impact foundation so thanks to Chick-fil-A and good luck to them as they get things rolling on Olive and creeve core on Thursday oh Chick-fil-A is so good Randy I already have eaten
Half of my chicken biscuit and I had three chicken minis I’m going to work out later so it’ll all be okay but it is so so good and Chick-fil-A was my first job and there’s not many restaurants that I worked at that I would actually
Go back and eat at because if you know if you worked in the restaurant industry you see a lot of things where you’re like I won’t go back at that restaurant and eat there but Chick-fil-A is one of the restaurants I worked at that I would
100% always go back to I don’t know one kid I’ve ever heard of say I don’t want Chick-fil-A not tonight Sundays they all want it on Sundays as a matter of fact I don’t think I’ve ever heard of a u adult say I don’t want Chick-fil-A Chick-fil-A is
The best yeah I’m I’m wearing the colors right now I’ve got a Chick-fil-A Nike golf cap on I held up the uh I’m holding up right now the little uh cow the eat more chicken cow so got your Chick-fil-A hat yeah you out uh what do you think
The traffic is going to be like on Olive it’ll be substantial okay it’s right down the street here from the station yeah it’s it’s awesome the most the most watched TV program ever ever in ever was Super Bowl 58 CBS on all of their platforms drawing an average of
123.4mi absolute Behemoth and Brook wants it on a Saturday I would like to see it happen on a Saturday just once just one time see what kind of rating you get and then Sunday you can enjoy it or the other thing is push it back and
President’s Day is the next day and you get that day off and the logic behind it with both of us is that you have that next day off because on Sundays you’re off I do understand from a TV and business standpoint that you have had that where on Sundays most people are at
Home on the weekends they’re typically out and about and doing things but on Sunday you’re at home getting ready for Monday so I do understand that aspect for it but I feel like with a Super Bowl wherever you put it people are going to watch it and they’ll work their lives
Around it there’s no doubt that fans are going hardcore and many casual fans are going to watch but you do have a more captive audience on Sunday night than you do on Saturday night because people are inclined to do things on Saturday night and if this was a problem that was
Fixable by the NFL and they could have made more money on Saturdays they’ve done 58 of these now I’m guessing that they have pretty good data to tell them that this is working pretty well I would guess 202 million people watching at one time is pretty good evidence to them
That Sunday’s working what do you think about putting it on more platforms so you have over the air television but then you put it on all your streaming sites you put it everywhere and try to figure out the rating that You’ get on that because some people just uh they
They stream everything you know and I know you can get your main stages on uh stations on streaming but put it everywhere had to do it and it’s it was available the other night on cbssports.com the obviously Paramount plus you could watch it pretty much anywhere they had the for the kids they
Had the Nickelodeon feed they had the Univision feed so it pretty much was available every CBS platform that was available and it was 121 123 right 123 million average yeah that was across all those platforms now the Super Bowl party I was at we watched on Paramount plus
And it worked really well but there was a couple of times that because of streaming it did cut in and out a little bit or lagged a little bit that did not happen on Spectrum I wonder if uh you went to the ratings of different countries where they’re going so they’re
Playing in different places what has it truly made an impact where those places see a football game and then all of a sudden the ratings go up in uh in London let’s say Danny I think that’s a really interesting question I have to believe in London they way up but last week they
Announced that they’re going to play games in Brazil and in Madrid Spain so was the interest of those countries peaked it just a little bit so that they could get viewers there and again they’ll sell advertising in those countries and they’ll clean up so London I would anticipate because they’ve been
There a bunch that they’ve gotten their sports fans that got involved in football and they may tune in let’s just say they went to one game and didn’t pay attention to anything else in the regular season but then they will pay attention to the Super Bowl I do think
That’s a fair assessment of probably what’s happening I agree yes p.com has their way too early college football top 25 rankings they have Georgia number one which surprises me I figured Ohio state would be number one Ohio State right now is number two Oregon is third Texas is
Four Notre Dame five ol Miss six and your Missouri Tigers are number seven in the way too early preseason top 25 Poll at ESPN missu 7 Penn State 8 Alabama 9 Utah 10 not surprised whatsoever especially with what they they were able to do last season and it’s only going to
Get better from here you’re returning Luther Burton You’re returning Brady cook of course you lose Cody shider and some other guys on the defensive side of the ball but still the way that Eli dritz has been able to utilize recruiting NL and the transfer portal I’m not surprised that that’s where
They’re at right now I have friends of mine that are Missouri fans and graduates of the school and they say they can’t they wish it was tomorrow they wish the season was tomorrow they’re so excited about what missou is bringing back and minus Cody shraer but
Then they pick up one of the top running backs in the in the country I got to wonder how Eli is able to to navigate right right now recruiting and nil and the transfer portal how his stock has risen dramatically because of the season they just had and let’s say they have a
Really good year next year and by all the counts that they will what Missouri is going to have to do to try to keep him it’ll be it’ll be more difficult although he is among the top 10 highest Pig coaches in America now I think now he’s actually with kayn dor going to
Alabama I think he’s among the top nine and I was asking I was with Howard Richards and Mike Kelly last night and asked how Eli likes doing the CEO thing because Chip Kelly obviously he didn’t want to do the CEO thing he wanted a coach and they said that Eli is really
Enjoying being the the CEO and overseeing everybody and his core job is recruiting which he loves so I think it’ll be hard for other schools to rep replicate what he has at Missouri and one of the big things he has fortunately for him is Curtis Gregory in the Missouri State
Legislature ready and willing and waiting to write new legislation to help him I think that that’s a huge part of it and then by the way you have that $62 million commitment investment from that Anonymous donor Randy you’re so generous for you to do that 62 want to see them
Win yes and I know that that doesn’t directly go to him but another reason why helps is because then you have the upgrades to the facilities which is another thing that could keep Eli drinkwitz around because he is really at the Forefront of building something huge
There at missou no doubt I mean how many coaches nowadays say I really enjoy recruiting this is a lot of fun re-recruiting my guys to make sure they go don’t go somewhere um oh I’m recruiting somewhere else like Ohio State getting their players or whatever school you want to throw out there I
Just don’t hear guys saying this is a lot of fun ever since the transfer portal opened up when you whenever you run into Eli drinkwitz he’s got his head down at that phone he’s always talking to to somebody and Luther Burton you know when he got him that was such a
Game Cher for what they did trying to make sure and keep local talent in St Louis and they’re going to get a guy that’s going to be one of the top picks in the NFL draft next year maybe the number one pick overall you think he
Could go that high I Pro Football Focus had him as in their mock for 2025 as the number one overall pick wow wow so one other quick note about this top 25 10 SEC teams in the top 25 Georgia and they’re number one Texas is number four
Is six mou 7 Alabama 9 and then uh you move down to LSU number 12 you’ve got Oklahoma number 14 you’ve got Tennessee 16 you’ve got uh uh can uh Kentucky 23rd and Texas A&M 25th 10 of the top 25 from the SEC pretty tough conference yeah it’ll be
Really tough just means more Miss’s conference schedule lines up for them this year it does Alabama will be the probably the toughest as you look at it but man they’ve got a chance to run the table and do some things here they it’s set up for of them perfectly now I’m
Looking forward to that Alabama game because of all the changes but what’s another game that you guys are looking forward to on the schedule because for me it’s Oklahoma because it seems like there’s a little bit of a rivalry going on I’d go with the opener and I know
They’re not playing you know the pro who is the opener this year BC is that the BC game yeah I think it is BC I I know that there are better to your point Brooke there are better matchups no doubt about it Oklahoma Alabama when you get into conference schedule the SEC I
Just can’t wait to see him back on the field that’ll be the most anticipated game for me just to see him back see what they got yeah it’ll be fun I’m going to count the Big 10 teams four uh not nearly as many it it’s ridiculous that the SEC has
Has 10 and uh the Big 10 only has uh four so sec’s still going to be dominant at least before the season starts there’s your Rush Hour reset I was sorry to interrupt I was going to say somewhere CD is so mad about that oh
It just means more man what does it say about jip Kelly UCLA head coach living in LA and says I’m good yeah I’m done yep I mean it’s it’s a rat race man well and Ohio State went all in when they lost to Missouri they they bought that
Safety from Alabama they went and got a quarterback they they were by many accounts the number one team in the transfer portal spent a lot of money there rebuilt their coaching staff Bill O’Brien’s there he leaves a former NFL head coach and they get Chip Kelly from
UCLA they’re all in a lot of pressure on Ryan day but there should be no way they can lose got to beat Michigan right got to beat Michigan and Michigan loses not only harau but they lose their quarterback in MTH they lose break Blake corm they lose a couple of offensive
Linemen it’s going to be tough but shiron Moore did a great year last had a great year last year they were at ranked number 12 by the way Michigan’s ranked number 12 in the preseason poll Randy wants to go to break so quickly because his sandwich is sitting there and he
Wants to devour it the Chiefs the Kansas City Chiefs they have a ton of free agents this offseason a lot of free agents in Kansas City getting ready to leave is there a way for another team in the National Football League to derail the aforementioned Super Bowl 58
Champion Kansas City Chiefs they’ve won three out of four Super Bowls is there a way for another team to derail the Kansas City Chiefs as long as they have their quarterback a guy they traded up to number 10 to get a few years ago played six years of stter seven in the
League remember they gave him a year to develop under Alex Smith but as long as the Kansas City Chiefs who play at G Stadium just outside of Kansas City is there a way for some to beat the Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid who’s by the way
Now the best coach in the history of the NFL LED Kansas City Chiefs I don’t think you want your chicken biscuit so I I’ll take it off your hands you see what you did you see what you did I see I I see what he’s doing I just stay out of The Fray
Guys it’s that romantic time of year again literally tomorrow did you know this literally tomorrow is Valentine’s Day look I know it’s really stressful searching around trying to find the perfect gift and we’re actually about to have a segment talking about this about if Valentine’s Day is overrated or not
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Telling you about so go stop by Decor showroom today and tell them that I sent you Decor always unique always affordable One of the reasons that the National Football League has so much parity on a regular semi-regular basis is they have the salary cap to prevent teams from keeping all of their good players and they have the draft to allow the Lesser teams theoretically to get good players that are inexpensive but it’s not
Working lately because the Chiefs have Patrick Mahomes now they’re probably going to lose some really good players because of the salary cap this off season Chris Jones is a UFA he’s their best defensive player lerus Sneed might be their second best defensive player and he is a free
Agent Willie gay their left tackle Donovan Smith Clyde Edwards hair is going to be allowed to walk Jerick McKinnon Drew tranquil Mike Edwards mikole Hardman that being said with the way they draft and every year they start with a bunch of guys you’ve never heard of being good players for them because
They have number 15 is there a way to derail this train I don’t know how you can at this point I thought that this was the year that if you were going to knock off the Chiefs that this could have been the year we H we have those
Continuing narratives of what will this offense look like without Tyreek Hill what will this offense look like without this or that Patrick Mahomes continues to find a way to rise above it and so does Andy Reed this just felt like the year that you could have knocked them
Out but at the same time I don’t know how you can slow them down after after seeing everything that they were able to do this season and once again it goes back to Patrick Mahomes but it goes back to spax and what he’s been able to do
With this defense one player one Jones from the first Super Bowl appearance that they had with this group and then no thousand yard rusher no thousand yard receiver and they find a way and I I look at momes when he first got into the league more of a gunslinger and not to
Say that he’s not now he’s a smarter player he’s a smarter player so why would you bet against Patrick Mahomes and what he could do with any cast of characters that he gets the only thing that will derail this team with Patrick Mahomes is when Kelsey retires but he’s
Coming back next year but Kelsey they they showed last year when they didn’t have Tyreek Hill anymore but still won the Super Bowl that they can win games and now we see Rashid rice rising to a level where he may be able to match what Tyreek Hill did and they’ve got other
Young receivers they probably won’t bring cadarius Tony back but they still think that Sky Moore has some ability I don’t know if he’ll be that guy but they’ll draft somebody in the second round and they essentially aside from those two key guys Jones and Sneed bring
Back the same group I think they have to sign Chris Jones that could derail them because let’s be honest about it the defense is what won for them this year it’s why they were in the playoffs in the first place because the offense to an extent struggled this year but they
Draft so well I I’m with you guys I don’t think that they’re going to be knocked off anytime soon I’m a big fan of lerus sne as well I think that him and Trent McDuffy are just one of the best onew combinations of all of the CBS
In the league currently I would like to find a way to keep leria Sneed but I also agree with you and Chris Jones Chris Jones to me has got to come back I think you you posed the questions with the ton of free agents is there a way to
Derail them as long as they have momes the other part about momes is restructuring his deal to keep players there um you know you talk about a salary cap League he’s got a massive contract it looks favorable for the Chiefs now but still he’s going to have
To restructure that so that they keep can keep some of the players around him but you know I think you look at some of the things that would have gone against momes can’t Wi on the road in the playoffs and they go out and knock off these teams and went through three teams
Starting at home with Miami no Tyreek Hill that was I think a shot against him or you could have made it shot like he had Tyreek so can you win with lesser players and the answer is yes so why would you think that this guy couldn’t come back out and repeat right now
Here’s the one thing maybe not next year but over the next couple of years and maybe next year the one thing that could really derail Kansas City is the way Jim Harbaugh has his teams play football because they are going to pound you into submission and they’re going to win the
Line of scrimmage and that’s what was happening the other night until the fourth quarter San Francisco was winning the line of scrimmage that’s the way Jim Harbaugh builds his teams and if you can build Smashmouth and keep the ball out of Mahomes hands and get after momes with your defensive line like Harbaugh
Did when he was with the 49ers that’s how you can derail the Chiefs that might be the one team that ultimately does at least have a chance to derail Kansas City is the Chargers and it’s because of Jim Harbaugh and what he’s able to do but also Justin Herbert he’s
A quarterback that I feel like deserves a lot more credit than he’s gotten because his defense is have just really failed him over the years but he is a really good quarterback so I’m interested to see what Jim Harbaugh is able to do and what kind of players
He’ll bring in now with the Chiefs they enter this offseason with 24.1 million in cap space so they will have some critical decisions to make that is something that could possibly hamper them but to your point that you were talking about the way that they were
Able to find Rashi rice this is going to be a draft that is very Talent heavy in wide receivers the other part about the Chargers they have the Fifth and the 30 37th overall pick now they have 35 million that they need to cut to be
Compliant with the cap they can do that but having those high draft choices and Justin Herbert dealing with man it’ll be his fourth coordinator I believe in five years to get some kind of stability for the next couple of years which he will have under Jim Harbaugh you would only
Think that that helps him just having consistency with a coach in running that offense and they can ease in I mean JJ McCarthy played a game this year against pen state where he didn’t throw the ball in the second half I believe McCarthy threw the ball in the Big 10 against a
Really good defense I think he only threw the ball seven times the whole game yeah and that’s the way I would think Herbert will get started he won’t be thrilled not throwing the ball an awful lot but they are going to I I guarantee you that the Chiefs are going
To or the Chargers are going to pound you by the way uh they they have their left tackle already and U it’s rashan Slater right is there Slater is their left tackle Lindley at Center he needs to be healthy for them uh they they’ve got some really nice players up front
Harbaugh will add to that and then they took the million-dollar year strength coach from Michigan who will beef their guys up even more I found this Justin Herbert stat the other day that I thought was uh very interesting and alarming and making me feel really bad for him Justin Herbert’s offenses have
Averaged 24.4 points per game which are the second most points per game averaged by a quarterback with a losing record since 1950 does it say who number one is it does who it not that’s a pretty good stat that’s a really good stat so anyway there there are teams out there and
There are ways to derail the Chiefs but wouldn’t bet against them not the way things are going and they’re still hungry and that line that Patrick Mahomes uttered it would be legendary to win three in a row he’s finding a way like the greats like the Jordans like
The Tigers he’s finding carrots to allow him to stay motivated I posed the question to you guys uh last week if you had one game to win this is prior to this year’s Super Bowl would you want Montana would you want Brady some of these other great QBs I’m going Patrick
Mahomes I am too I am I can have a compromised offensive line I can have a lesser receiving core I can have virtually no running game and I can still win the game because I got him on my side he got number 15 and he’s just 28 years old so just think about
Everything that we’re going to see with him in the future amazing coming up next year on 101 ESPN Valentine’s Day is tomorrow uh number one is it contrived and number two do you need some advice Brook has Valentine’s Day advice for you guys next I think you need to add in
Uncle Randy on this too Uncle ry’s tomorrow morning but I I’ll I’ll add one thing okay I will next time 101 ESPN this is Rocky with your sports center update driven by Johnny LOL Chevrolet and Johnny LOL autox your St Louis Blues back in Action tonight 6m puck drop
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And LOL autoplex.com are you kidding me okay tomorrow is February 14th it’s Valentine looking forward to that Valentine Happy Valentine’s happy valentine yeah uh so to all who celebrate yeah it’s well it’s it’s just a a great time to celebrate number one I think there’s a lot of bitterness around
Valentine’s I’m it’s really Valentine ‘s day but uh I’m not one that uh bitter I’m not bitter no there I’m not one but there are a lot of people out there Dan you had a text just a moment ago about Valentine’s Day that sounded like kind of bitter 636 says Valentine’s Day for
Us divorced single guys it’s like getting a pay raise you know that’s that that to me indicates a level of bitterness yeah I would say so so I I’m not bitter you just have to make it worthwhile that’s all that’s what it is are are you trying
To fire something up over there yeah we’ll we’ll get something here for you so let me while you do that give the top five Valentine’s gifts for your loved one two dozen romantic red [Laughter] roses you can continue Dan you say oh no I’ll just let it go that’s what I you have a framed custom wedding song with the lyrics on the print Valentine’s Day gifts with the heart necklace oh a bracelet with a your significance other significant others name on
It a uh I love you to the moon pendant oh there you go and back Valentine’s Day heart necklace which we mentioned and uh lavender spa gift basket there you go that’s the play right there laender spa gift basket that’s like very specific laender spa gift basket Brooke
You have the uh the female perspective of this group because we think we do it right but we like Jim MOA would say you think you know but you don’t know and you will never know well you can allow us to know so from a female perspective what is your expectation on Valentine’s
I can only truly speak for myself I can’t speak for all the women but speak for the gender go ahead I think just to speak for the entire gender I think the biggest thing is just knowing what your partner likes and I do believe that you
Can do a little bit of a Valentine’s Day gift where it’s something for both of you guys like a dinner for both of you guys you maybe you stay in and you cook I flowers are nice I think flowers are very nice maybe look up if you’re very
Lost you could look up the love languages that people like so there’s the Love Languages words of affirmation Happy Valentine’s Day I’m smart enough and dog physical touch acts of service receiving gifts and there’s a way here if you give a gift that you also knocked out the act
Of service and the receiving gift thing or giving gift the receiving gift is always great what do you think Uncle Randy would do in this particular spot because I know it’s ask Uncle Randy tomorrow tomorrow’s ask Uncle Randy but but that’s Valentine’s Day this is Valentine’s Day Eve here’s the thing you
Don’t have to reinvent the wheel now you have made a mistake if you think you’re getting a restaurant reservation for tomorrow too late too late because every restaurant is going to be jam-packed so that’s too late but are you done no go to schnooks whatever her favorite meal
Might be buy the ingredients and prepare it for her or do carry out from her favorite restaurant and bring that home but when I say you don’t have to reinvent the wheel walk into schnooks you’re going to see a million flowers and a million boxes of chocolates and
Just play it straight you can do that and if there is a piece of jewelry that she likes pick it up and uh you you will make her happy how expensive does said jewelry need to be it depends on your wherewithal to purchase the jewelry yeah
You can uh you can go to decor and get something out of budget they’re they’re very very amable to working with you on a budget so if you had on over there today they would help you out our friends at friends at Diamonds Direct over here are great uh in terms of
Providing you what you need and they’ll answer your question so if you want to do the jewelry thing it’s great if you want to do a lottery ticket a scratch off that’s great too if you did not get your gift Brooke would you be pissed uh no not necessarily because I’m not
Expecting a gift I think that flowers are I think flowers are nice flowers are nice maybe a dinner or something but you’re right sometimes I don’t like the hassle of dealing with a restaurant even so on Valentine’s Day because it’s just a mess there’s a lot of different stuff
Going on but I think just at least showing you know that you care in any sort of way it doesn’t have be big but just that’s why I like acts of service is one of my favorite love love languages of okay I’m recognizing You In This Moment which you should be doing
Every day Charles pointed that out on the YouTube chat it doesn’t have to just be one day but on this day because everybody’s celebrating it you should just do something that recognizes them and shows that I care I see you I hear you and here’s a nice little gift like
Flowers or Chocolat yeah it is more important to give than to receive there’s no doubt about it but don’t look at this gentleman ask Uncle Randy tippier as transactional don’t you say okay that’s worth the 15 seconds Rick patino but um try to give more than you would
Receive I’m looking forward to what Josh Anis has to say about Valentine’s Day he’s coming up in about uh 20 minutes yeah and he’s have an interesting take yeah I’m sure that he’ll have some great information for us on on Valen I enjoy listening to him he comes in
He’s firing hot takes all the time but uh what he’s going to do for Valentine’s Day if he has that significant other will be interesting yeah and we get off the air at 950 that’s our Valentine’s Day gift to ourselves Matthew just said no we can’t
Do that uh 5650 55 one other question here we have a couple of minutes and we would like your text is Valentine’s Day as it’s presently constituted a big gift holiday and Hallmark Maybe started it as this big gift holiday is it is it contrived and should
People dislike it because of what it is I don’t dislike it I think holidays that make people happy anything that makes people happy is a good thing so if somebody’s benefiting financially off of it Hallmark flower companies whatever I’m fine with that is anybody bothered
By the idea of of Valentine’s Day when I was a kid you just brought it was Valentine’s cards and that was it now it’s a different animal all together anybody bothered by what it is now no no I’m not no do something nice for somebody else yeah the 217 says my
Wife’s best gift is cleaning up for her so apparently she is the one that cleans up yeah yeah Act of service as you said Randall good and and the women that are listening there are acts of service that you can provide as well so just uh make
It a Happy Valentine’s Day what are you going to do I have no idea Dan yeah me neither yeah we put a lot of thought is going to be part of it card yeah yep now you go to schnooks and they have as you always and we
Always talk about schnooks on the show you can go to the florist Department there it’s beautiful I was at depar the other day and that’s I’m going there today as a matter of fact very nice they they have it going over it shnooks so you’ll you’ll be a part of the guys who
Are just scrambling last minute grabbing stuff I did see some of that this weekend over at Target and that that card Brooke you’ll be happy to know that this was already my plan I’m not scrambling this was just the plan the way it was set up yeah good thing all
Right so there you have it happy valentine oh here we can do this there you go you’ll hear that tomorrow here on 101 ESPN coming up we got a little addition of rock and roll as we head down the stretch towards a balloon party with Josh inis yes Matthew
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To win tickets to Luke Bryan at 101 espn.com or on your 101 ESPN mobile app but right now right this minute we have your opportun to win tickets to Luke Bryan well Randy I thought of another grabbed giveaway topic and Danny Dan mcglaughlin is so nice and he’s decided that he is going
To play and so here’s what we’re going to do here there have been 65 instances of a player having a 30 home run 30 stolen base season those 65 instances have been performed by 40 different players so the question is in 30 seconds how many different players5 different
Guys have done this 40 different guys across the 65 total instances of it happening so the question is is how many of those 40 players can Danny Mack list in 30 seconds how many players with a 3030 season on their resume can Danny Mack list in 30 seconds and whoever gets
Closest to the number that Danny lists we’ll be getting those tickets so text in 3014 399 9646 3014 399 Yoo with the number that you think Dan will hit for the number of players that have had 30 homers and 30 steals in one season all right 30 seconds is that nerve-wracking
It’s 30 30 30 I’m it’s nerous I’ve ever been all right Danny M like being on the fight am I allowed to help yes of course you’re allowed to help I’m always okay with you guys just throwing little gips here and there d ma never helps you on
The fight but you can help him in this game I tried to help him today I thought he won you did hand me you’re right you can help him as much you want considering what happened ear all right to be fair I thought it was three as
Well so you’re not alone in that see thank you guys see it’s everything’s threes and 30s I didn’t know that you were counting to is two two yeah that’s why I number two me every time all right 303 seasons in 30 seconds 3 2 1 go Willie Mays Hank Aaron Barry and Bobby
Bonds Eric Davis did it I believe strawberry did it uh Sammy Sosa Larry Walker I remember Alfonso Sorano killing the Cardinals he did it Carlos beltron did it uh cono cono is another one that was an easy one Goldie uh um Goldie Ryan Braun did it Ronald aunia Jr mookie bets
Uh recently uh Bobby Wht I’m counting that one I’m counting that one this was well done you almost got all half of the 40 different players you got 16 different players who have had 303 Seasons I think more we did Randy gave me a couple you you got can say go but
You didn’t answer a single one incorrectly so 16 is the winning guest for Dan mcglaughlin in 3030 seasons in ml history nicely done Dan thank very much you did it so smoothly did Ron Gand ever do 3030 G another one remember that he did it with
Uh the Reds and I like to throw this out just because it’s fun Carlos Beltran or the Braves rather MH there you go yeah that’s impress Carl Beltran the only one to do it in both leagues yep in his career that is of course um some news
And rock and roll that just kind of hit a little bit earlier both Derek Gould and uh Jeff Jones have tweeted out the new White Practice jerseys for the Cardinals down in spring training apparently the reviews are in from the players and uh it’s bad ladies and gentlemen miles michelas says it doesn’t
Fit right the pants are no longer customized and the fabric is very different consistency another player said quote unquote they look cheap Derk gold also said that the red shade appears to be a little different some of the stitchings on the back is is a little off again both Jeff Jones and
Derck G have tweeted about it I kind of agree with uh the things I’m seeing it looks it it’s missing something I and and and I’m not happy with it it it does look so I’m looking at it right now on X you mentioned Derrik G I’m
Looking at his tweet about it it it definitely looks different now this is Fanatics correct yes is that why Fanatics is always I think it’s got to be that’s the reason why some controversy around that said that they had to be limited to how many jerseys
They could have well that that yeah we talked about that a few weeks ago that was the MLB rule that you can’t have more than five or something like that more than four so they added another one so they got to get rid of the all reds
So I guess these are just the spring training versions of the whites which is preposterous why don’t just use the use the regular season ones I mean why do people get so interesting I mean it must be a slow day at Camp when you’re worried about the jerseys but if the
Players are worried about the way they feel and fit you know you want these are these are multi Play Good Randy that’s that’s what it’s all about right I think they’re going to play fine whether or not they were in cut off sleeves well they they better not do cut off sleeves
I would I would throw a fit if they did cut off sleeves I wouldn’t I would I want the old cut off offs with the undershirt underneath piping along the front piping along the side in black shoes okay yeah I feel like you should switch it up every once in a while but
There’s nothing wrong with that you don’t want your players thinking or saying that your jerseys seem cheap you don’t want your players to have to pay for Wi-Fi on a plane uh you know you just want to take care of your your people also this is the entire this is
This is the entire B story of a of a very good Seinfeld episode Danny you don’t want to you can’t have players out there in in in jerseys they don’t like fine with it it’s an entire it’s an entire episode they’re in wool and then
He puts them in what is you put them in all cotton and then it goes terribly wrong on the field yeah bring back the wall important does something look different or off to you guys it does it looks like it’s uh the name’s a little lower uh the Stitch the numbers are
Closer right yeah the stitching is a little different um I’m over it though rally it’s a to bought it at Rally House it’s it’s for one month of the of the it’s the first week of the Season yeah maybe they can fix it they’ve got the best equipment guys in the business down
There yes they do they will take care of this problem also uh I I thought this was great did you guys see any of the any of the videos from the Waste Management Open over the weekend yes they’re well Randy some people at the PGA apparently didn’t think so cuz
They’re now talking about making a lot of changes um because of what happened obviously they had to suspend alcohol sales cuz things were getting too out of hand which then caused a as it usually does and even bigger problem because then people get mad that there’s no more
Alcohol sales um I guess at this point it has reached a point where despite the Fanfare this is a bad thing for golf it’s gotten just too too rough they had a snow guy doing a snow angel in one of the bunkers yeah probably can’t do that
Getting too close to the live tour huh getting close to home I saw a something the other day that said like pickle ball out was had better viewership than Liv and you had going down the stretch you had Dustin Johnson you had like some of
The big names D Shambo is in there and their ratings are just horrible right now really you said you’ve watched it before I haven’t watched it yet is that because I I don’t I honestly do not know where you can watch it at WB Channel 11
CW okay or the C that’s all you need to know whatever Channel 11 I know what you’re talking about yeah I haven’t watched it yet here’s the thing it’s kind of hard to follow with the team stuff but the problem is that’s where all the stars are I think Liv has hurt
Both it’s hurt nobody’s watching Liv but the leaderboard at waste management was really bad agree nobody there was nobody that you are attached to and really for the last month or so there hasn’t been any maybe for the whole season so far there really hasn’t been anybody that
You’re attached to where you look at a leaderboard and say oh I want to watch this person play I watch channel 11 just because I I do want to see D Shambo I miss seeing DJ I love watching Phil Mickelson even though he helped tear
This whole thing up I want to see the big guys play yeah I I know I’m in the minority cuz most people don’t know where to find it like Brooke that’s what I was saying I I really it’s like I forget that that it’s happening sometimes I would want it to see those
Guys but this is why I was kind of hoping for more of a unification where you would eventually have some sort of merger between all these because I want to see all those guys back on tour I right now if they would play it straight like the PGA Tour play four rounds and
Not have the music and not have the teams with the golfers they have I think that they would probably outdraw the the tour and promotee it that way it’s weird watching guys in shorts yeah that I mean I know that that sounds stupid but it’s weird seeing that and the music is
Blaring yeah it is loud and John ROM was upset in his what first event he’s going to have to get over it he’s signed for $500 million so deal with the music but yeah some that is uh the non-traditional stuff people don’t like yep and one final thing the flash Now official from
Sagus New jersey retired St Louis Cardinals All-Star pitcher Adam way has joined the MLB Network as an on- air analyst way will make his debut on opening day March 28th the network at Tuesday day and he will work the Cardinals game against San Francisco at rickwood field in Birmingham Alabama on
June 20th oh good deal good well good to see Adam there I know that MLB Network was working hard on that so I’m glad they got him great job today by our producer audio video engineer the one the only Matthew Rocko thank you sir pleasure uh Brook did you have fun today
Yes and I had Chick-fil-A this is a great day it’s a good day already your face we want to see your face who said that you want to see my face Danny M trying thanks for trying to give me the fight I appre no problem buddy your best
Interest or my best interest I appr app that you got it that’s Danny Mack I’m Randy thank you very much for tuning in texting in and being a part of the show Josh inis has the balloon party in for T-Mac coming up and then you’ve got bkm
Ferrario and the fast lane for all of us until tomorrow morning at 7 have a great Valentine’s Eve everyone and Now for Something Completely Different
