00:00and we bring in super friend to the show pride in northeast ohio the true king of psalm from his
00:05days at university school john boy media and of course american gladiators chris rose what's up
00:12hi chris hello gentlemen how are you good what's up uh let's talk about a potpourri of cleveland
00:21sports first of all i'd like your thoughts on game five tonight my friend pistons calves what do you
00:27think well uh i mean we've been right in there both times in detroit and haven't been able to
00:35finish i'd like to see us dribble the ball off our shoe less uh take more shots um but you
00:44know i
00:44expected to come down to the final couple minutes and so you know this is what we want there's there's
00:50not that many teams left and um what are there six teams left yeah that would be correct
00:58so we're one of them let's let's go have some fun tonight wasn't game four just strange
01:04donovan no no factor at all in the first half and then second half oh my gosh that was a
01:11strange game
01:12all because of the officiating guys as i uh was you know pointed out by one coach um you know
01:22look
01:23with all due respect and i loved what jb did for us like i thought he was the perfect guy
01:28at the at
01:29the right time and um you know he was he got a bunch of young guys to believe and that
01:38was great
01:39this is the old phil jackson thing right if i play this right through the media we're so good
01:47and so well respected in this league whether i'm leading the bulls and michael jordan and scotty pippen
01:52or i'm leading the lakers and it's kobe bryant and shaquille o'neal the refs are going to listen to
01:57me
01:58if that turns the tide in this series because of that complaining and bitching then something's wrong
02:05i'm sorry the pistons are a good team they're probably just as good as we are um
02:13but he's not phil jackson and cade cunningham's not michael jordan or kobe bryant he's a really
02:19good player he was probably the second best player in the east behind jalen brown this year
02:24great player but my god if that's what we're resorting to now like stop stop that gets tiring
02:33do you think the calves can win a road game in his tonight that night yeah i mean i think
02:38we can
02:39absolutely i mean we're gonna have to hit some open threes you know um
02:47i mean we're gonna have to we're gonna have to shoot really well from the perimeter i think
02:51is is what it comes down to and uh you know i noticed harden's usage in the last two games
02:58was down
02:59significantly and that doesn't mean he's a bad player it just means that we don't have to make
03:04him the guy and i'll give you one other key evan mobley and jared allen have to catch the basketball
03:14whether they're rebounding defensively or we get guys that are passing it i've never seen two guys
03:20who can be really good players that i trust less like i feel like they i think i've said this
03:27before
03:27that they should be in the browns receiver room last year that's how or they are catching the ball
03:34do you like the way that harden has fit in in the playoffs chris i thought he had a really
03:39nice game
03:40in game four that first half without he and mobley look out yeah he did i forget which game it
03:47was
03:47three or four and it still was iso ball and hit a three and yet look we got fortunate i
03:53like it when
03:53we move the ball around yep that's my style i like it when you beat guys off the dribble
03:59leads to a pass it leads to a pass it leads to a pass and i know you can't do
04:03that every time down
04:04the floor but in this sport it seems like guys are so good at beating another guy off the dribble
04:10that you can get that it feels like you can get it when you want and i'd like to see
04:16more of that
04:17instead of less all right chris let's switch gears over to the guardians for a minute uh taking on
04:22the angels today interesting top of the lineup uh martinez will sub in today for stephen kwan so
04:30he'll be hitting first but we have a flip-flop in the two three positions there where ramirez
04:34hitting second and delauder now hitting third uh give us your best knowledge on that and what you
04:40think well i think the knowledge is that they can't they're trying to get jose going any way
04:49they can and i know he doesn't like to hit second he is more comfortable hitting third he's basically
04:54said that right right um but you're doing what this team is not going to go very far if jose
04:59ramirez
05:00isn't jose ramirez so you got to do whatever you can to try and get him going so that you
05:09know
05:10it's fine i mean it's been shown for years like it's ridiculous that you don't hit your best
05:15player second you should be hitting your best player second he's still our best player he's
05:20not off to the best start out of all of our players he's still our best player so that's what
05:25i would
05:25say who's in a tougher spot steven kwan or the guardians with steven kwan
05:36well i mean it sucks what's going on with him it's it's terrible i feel for him in the worst
05:41way
05:42guy plays his ass off he's a really good baseball player but it stinks it's like you know and i
05:50i don't
05:50have a problem with moving him down on the lineup teams do that all the time i mean some guys
05:55some
05:55teams will give guys who have been who've had better careers than steven kwan multiple days off
06:03not talking about like they don't play tomorrow so they're trying to give him two days off before we
06:07see him friday the next stop but i've seen guys sat for a whole series before and really really
06:16excellent ballplayers happened with andrew mccutcheon a bunch of years ago um
06:22you know once again they got to figure out a way it's you know they didn't do anything in the
06:27off season it's why i was a little ticked off about the trade um you know they're gonna have to
06:34you know bazana's been great and de lauder's been phenomenal i just don't know if they could do
06:41what we want them to do without making some sort of move offensively
06:48has anel martinez impressed you as much as he's impressed me and what do you think ends up
06:53happening with him here chris he looks like a guy who should play every day
06:59i mean yeah i guess he has to on this team i don't think that he is on a great
07:04team or even a
07:06really really good offense i don't think he's an everyday baseball player but i think that he's
07:12you know it's like schneeman too like schneeman has saved our bacon this year but i don't think
07:18he's an everyday ball player on a lot of teams that's not being mean i just it's just kind of
07:26where we are i'm looking at our lineup today you know and i see seriously i see three everyday
07:34baseball players i'm watching it right now i see well ramirez obviously and he's the dh today so
07:44i guess four if you're really doing it that way uh bazana the louder ramirez and rochio rochio is
07:55i think a lot of our guys can learn something from what brian rochio learned last year by being sent
08:00down
08:01be who you are don't swing for the damn fences every time put good bats together when he gets
08:08hits on oh two pitches that's gross that's great and we just don't have enough guys that are doing
08:13it at this point uh chris la cleveland question for you there where does lebron james end up next year
08:22a great question i i think they're going to move uh i think they're going to move off of him
08:27here
08:29but i just i don't see him moving back to cleveland guys i just don't i mean is
08:35is she in high school now his daughter she's close i don't know if she's there or not
08:40and and plus his his you know his second son is at arizona right yeah yeah he's at arizona i
08:48mean
08:48he's got to get on the court first but yeah he's out in that part of the country you know
08:53right
08:54right right and you know i mean who knows what that that aspect of his life
09:00brings so it's not as simple as yeah i'll go play for a team that's in the final six and
09:05hopefully
09:05the final four and hopefully the final two and maybe last one standing i don't think it's as
09:10simple as that for everybody yeah for us it is for us it's like yeah why wouldn't he he's 41
09:16and
09:17he's got three kids and a wife and a lifestyle out here so it's not necessarily that simple but
09:24so if i were to guess i mean like could he play for the clippers my god that would be
09:30amazing right
09:31if he went to the if he went across the hall essentially the street now used to be hall but
09:36now you know down down a ways but that would be insane if he ended up there about golden state
09:44yeah i just don't see them being that close right like i think the clippers are closer plus they
09:49don't they have the fifth pick now in the draft i believe they do top of everything yeah the way
09:54it's settled yeah i mean i just think the lakers would i think they're going to move off of him
10:00and i think they're going to try and build around luca which is probably what they should do
10:06and that's that all right last question for me uh we a lot of us thought the browns were going
10:12to get
10:12the saints in paris this year as it turns out we found out the steelers will get the saints in
10:19paris today i just your thoughts on that and and the browns on national tv i can totally understand
10:24why they wouldn't do it but uh they've got a year to kind of earn the respect of the league
10:28i think to
10:29get in some of these prime time games yeah win some games yeah it's pretty simple i mean if you
10:34if you have a choice between the steelers who are a national brand although we don't like to say it
10:42they are they travel exceptionally well for the browns who hopefully are back in the conversation
10:49sooner rather than later you know i get it like i understand it and so um and by the way
10:58it's
10:59perfectly fine with me it means i don't have to wake up to watch a 6 30 start out here
11:05good point
11:06i guess when i when i made a comment like that i got from andy oh it's all about you
11:11oh well that's chris is different oh but i mean it's because i said well we won't be working till
11:15seven o'clock if they're playing in paris yeah i mean it's what i mean chris i can't imagine the
11:24schedule you work on those international games yeah those are those it depends if you host the
11:29pregame show you're and i'm not complaining about it it's just no i know you know wonky schedule you
11:35you you get up at like 1 30 um that day and it's it's fine i mean you work good
11:41your shift goes until
11:42the end of the international game then you're done then you get to watch football all day
11:45after you sleep i don't ever complain about a schedule but um challenging i personally
11:57prefer us not to play international games but i i don't know i just i don't think the players love
12:04the travel um i know the coaches hate it and it's good for the league like i totally understand why
12:12they do it but i think for our season let's let's stay here and we'll go from there yes sir
12:20all right
12:21chris before we let you go what's going on with dugout discussions i know you had a nice little
12:24podcast there with austin hedges what's going on over there yeah i mean you know we just talked to
12:30different guys around the league uh colson montgomery who i think is going to be a stud for the white
12:35socks he's basically the next cory seager and he's already here and he's he's awesome i had him on
12:40today i'm going to go record with tony vitello who is the rookie manager for the san francisco giants
12:47right out of college has been yeah fascinating and he speaks unlike any other manager or coach
12:55professionally in any of the four major sports in my opinion i think he is as entertaining as it
13:00gets and uh nice play by rokyo to end the inning that away um interview and play by play which
13:07you're not allowed to do but that's all right don't make sense yes you are why aren't you allowed
13:10to do it uh live you can't do it live you didn't it was delayed you can't all right that's
13:15delayed
13:16it was enough all right i'm just making sure all right chris we gotta roll man i'm doing radio for
13:20god i'm getting a nice play i'm trying to keep me out of trouble my guardian all right you go
13:26watch
13:26my guardian go watch your game we'll talk to you later chris rose john boyd media you know him as
13:30the preseason play-by-play guy on the bronx tv network too goodbye chris bye guys see you
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