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00:02248-539-9797 same number to text if you want to get in that way let's go to the phones
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00:07joe is next up here in 97.1 hey joe hey what's up guys hey you remember as a kid
00:13how excited we used
00:15to be to go to the drive-thru at mcdonald's and get a happy meal we'd say come on please
00:20please
00:21please can you stop can you stop can we get a happy meal it's just like now with brad holmes
00:27brad holmes is in the driver's seat and we're the kids in the back and he's going we're about to
00:33pass mcdonald's every time since the trade deadline of 2023 and we say please brad please please can
00:41we get something good can we get a happy meal he goes no we got food at home that's how
00:46i feel
00:46that's how i feel right now i was going to say i right now it might feel like the kid
00:51in the back
00:51of the car and the response from brad is we'll see and then it just never materializes but you're
00:56saying he just flat out says no he just says no every time now who knows what he's going to
01:01do
01:01this year right he restructured but it's like we all we all know what's going to happen right we all
01:09know like at what point do we just stop hoping for a splash you know brad's going to do what
01:15brad's
01:15going to do and and that's it but i mean i feel like i i've given up hope with the
01:21happy meal
01:21yeah i hear you it's a great it's a great analogy it really it really is you know and
01:27at least and the fact that you have them even just driving by mcdonald's not even going in there and
01:33like just ordering a plain hamburger and say you'll have nothing and like it you know something like
01:37that from you know judge smales judge smales here's the other thing though no matter what we think of
01:44brad holmes he's not doing anything his method of why he does stuff has nothing to do with oh he
01:54just wants to show the fans they don't know what they're talking no it has nothing to do with that
01:57this is how he believes that this organization should be run and i think for the most part he's done
02:04a good
02:04job however he needs to take a little bit of what he learned from less need when he worked for
02:12him as
02:13the rams you know head scout of college scouting or whatever he was brad is overall last year's
02:20draft or 24's draft the exception he's not done a great job he's done a great job in drafting except
02:26for one year and we still jury's still out for for last year i think i think tyleek williams
02:31still has a chance to be a good player it's just that he he hasn't done the f the picks
02:38mode that his predecessor his you know his mentor does and i think fans want to see that every once
02:45in a while when it's called for yeah i'd like to see it at least once yeah um and he
02:51has yet to do
02:52that i mean if you're a rams fan it's been interesting a little bit of roller coasters
02:55certainly won the super bowl and that's all you care about but beyond that you've had like one draft
03:00selection one first round pick in the last 10 years because of the f them picks mentality it was
03:05jared verse yeah and it was jared first he did well with it um and there have been times i
03:10thought
03:11okay now's the time to do it now's the time to do it like you set yourself up for a
03:14position the first
03:15part of this job for brad holmes was to kind of overhaul the entire roster which he did a good
03:20job
03:20rebuild this team from the ground up and and change the culture and he and dan campbell have certainly
03:25done that and then it was let's add depth to this roster and they've done that and i thought okay
03:31now
03:31they've got this team kind of set up you had the team that went to the nfc championship game and
03:35lost okay they're kind of set up now what and they didn't do the f them picks move they've maneuvered
03:42a little bit throughout the draft which is where he does his maneuvering where he does his big trading
03:47not necessarily certainly not at the trade deadline we don't see that move that's that's made um the
03:52big splash move uh we've seen some yeah it was the biggest movie made it was it was okay but
03:59it
03:59wasn't it wasn't huge um and keep waiting for that big move to happen this offseason i didn't think
04:06that move was really possible you could have tried to do something with max crosby which would have
04:10been a massive splash move and maybe in years past that would have been a better time to do it
04:15um when you didn't have as many holes to fill but they do have holes to fill and that's the
04:21biggest
04:22problem with this team right now because since they won the nfc championship or went to the nfc
04:26championship game i should say look what's happened to this team with injuries and then they they've
04:31signed and given extensions to players and those players have gotten hurt and it's put them in a
04:36really rough spot right now in this offseason i still think this is a playoff team but they had now
04:43that their margin of error is so thin right now yes i mean they can make the playoffs there's no
04:47doubt
04:48about it but they can also as we saw last year miss the playoffs they are not last year going
04:53into
04:53going into the season last year and the season before it was all right we're making the play
04:58we're a playoff team we're even a super bowl contender i don't feel that they are a super
05:02bowl contender right now too many things have to go right for them in my mind right now and it's
05:08a
05:09long way away from when the season starts off we haven't had a draft yet but right now and i'm
05:13looking
05:13at this team are they a super bowl contender with that defense no two four eight five three nine
05:2197 97 telephone number or the number to text if you want to comment on the lions and free agency
05:26want to talk about the world baseball classic i had i actually had it on in the background last night
05:31i i did manage to flip over last night to see okay what i'm trying to remember my head what
05:37were we
05:37supposed to root for with mexico and italy and well italy had to win italy had to win or italy
05:44had to win
05:46four six runs or something like that was it more than was it more than five yeah um so i
05:52just
05:52remember the part that italy had to win right and then when italy went ahead five nothing it was
05:56pretty much over because if mexico came back to win they didn't have to score over five runs to do
06:00it
06:00correct so i thought when i flipped it over it was like seven seven nothing or maybe seven one
06:07in favor of uh of italy and i figured okay they've got this now and i was thinking to myself
06:13well
06:14what's my real emotion about this it's the world baseball classic when they first started this
06:18years ago i loved that i was all in on it i thought what a great idea for a tournament
06:22to have
06:23the different countries represented this is really pretty cool but the problem was you're doing it
06:29before the season begins and you're not getting real fair representation because you're not seeing
06:34you know a starting pitcher go out there and throw 110 pitches you're just not going to see that
06:39because it's literally in spring training um so that's kind of the downside of it and yet we've
06:45still seen some drama uh you know showy otani that they they bat a couple years ago was really cool
06:50um to see other nations how they fully embrace the the world baseball classic is pretty cool
06:58but here in the states we haven't really done that and i wonder if this is even like this seems
07:05like this year it's even worse than ever in terms of the tank of give a crap for the americans
07:11for
07:12fans because you have guys there like are in similar situations in scoobal they're there for a few days
07:18and they pitch one today and then they're going to go back so and while we're not necessarily the
07:26favorite japan and the dominican we're there with and venezuela we are the favorite okay but i don't think
07:34people if we lose okay people really gonna oh my god let's let's figure out how to do this like
07:40we
07:40did with the dream team you know before the dream team came on we had to oh we have can't
07:43have the
07:43college kids play anymore we're getting embarrassed no this is such a joke italy god love them you know
07:51they're undefeated in this thing right now you know how many italians they have on this baseball
07:56team who are born in italy i don't one the rest of them are either born in the usa born
08:04in venezuela
08:04two and they got like one guy's born in canada they have italian ties well yeah they have an italian
08:12last name maybe no they have italian ties there's some sort of connection in their in their lineage
08:17that links them to italy it's not like they're you know completely devoid of any italian heritage
08:23uh you look at somebody like kyle teal the catcher you have to go a long way to find anything
08:29the aaron nola who pitched yesterday you know you didn't see these guys 23 and me's you didn't see
08:36their ancestry.coms am i right gator from l from lsu aaron nola his great grandparents emigrated from
08:45italy uh stoney would it make you really upset if they after this whole thing was over the wbc they
08:51came back and signed a one-day contract with italy to retire as an italian they got a visa a
08:56one-day
08:56visa kyle teal by the way he's got italian heritage through his mother janine labuti okay his family
09:06roots with the potenza area in southern italy he identifies as roughly 50 italian uh because of his
09:13mother's side that's what i'm saying they all have a tie they may not be directly you know descendant
09:18uh and be first generation or or be you know uh immigrants from italy to the united states like
09:25the pasquatch right pasquatini from kansas city first three home runs first time in his life in
09:30any type of game he ever hit three home runs pretty cool what's his tie oh i like ziti okay
09:36you can
09:37play for italy you like ziti i mean i could google his and uh is vinnie yeah yeah there's there's
09:47nothing
09:47there like lorenz in the same way not even grandparents if you can't go back to your
09:54grandparents you shouldn't i'm sorry your great great great great great grandparents that's too
10:00too too far back in my opinion but then again who cares oh they don't have a good you think
10:07they
10:07have a parade in rome well i'm okay you're you're very hostile about that's fine you can be hostile
10:12about it with with how the teams are made up but i don't think is that is that your reason
10:17for not
10:17caring about the world baseball classic because i've got a different i got a different no it's not
10:21why i don't care it's just my take is different and i want to i'll get to that and i
10:26want to hear
10:26what from the people as well 248-539-9797 why is it that you do or do not care about
10:32the world
10:32baseball classic that's going on they're getting ready to start the uh the bracket play with the
10:38quarterfinals starts tomorrow uh korea and the dominican republic kick things off at 6 30 and
10:44then the nightcap is usa and canada oh my lord if canada wins i think reager will have to go
10:50to a
10:50hospital 97-1
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