The Herd with Colin Cowherd - Hour 1 - Steph Curry and the Warriors

Episode Date: March 18, 2025

Colin gives his thoughts on the Dodgers after their win over the Cubs  Thoughts on the Warriors bad loss against the Nuggets and what Golden State should be concerned with The Giants have a huge need and quarterback that can be fixed in the upcoming draftSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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You go to bed early so you can watch Dodger baseball. MLB accident three. It started at three. I missed the first 40 minutes. But I was locked in after that, Jay Mack. I see you got a haircut for the start of the baseball season. Start of the baseball season? Are you kidding me?

That's it. By the way, did Otani Homer? You had a couple of hits and a couple of runs. Dodgers are really good. Okay, let's just start with this. The Dodgers beat the Cubs. They're obviously not going to go 162 and 0, but 159 and 3 is on the table. This is a really good team.

The minute the Cubs went to the bullpen, nah, it's not going to work. No mokey bats. No Freddie Freeman, late scratch, no problem. But watching a Dodger game with Otani reminds me of when Tiger started taking over golf. And whenever there was a lull in the action, the director would just say, all right, let's just put it on Tiger. And even walking up the fairway, it was okay to watch him for 90 seconds. Every fairway.

You were watching history. And that's what it feels like with Otani, unfazed, always smiling. Game in Tokyo, a little bit of nerves. Nah, infectious personality. So he's already got a World Series title. He's already got three MVP's in a bag. And unlike the Angels, he's on a stacked team. So you can't pitch around him.

And he's leading off, which will force, yes, people in Los Angeles to show up to Dodger games early. Yamamoto, the starter, got the W for the Dodgers. But he's now in an all-time roster. He can't pitch around him. And it's just there's a magnetism, transformational. and again, they didn't have Mookie or Freddie Freeman, this is going to be a tough team to face. Because

if you go to your bullpen and it's not buttoned up, you're talking about five potential batterers that could be Hall of Famers. And Otani at Bats, and this is what's great for baseball, is that, and we've said this, you know, I grew up in a different time when there were the

faces of baseball. It could be Johnny bench, you know, for a time, you know, it could be Mark Fidrich. It could be a quirky personality. baseball's been dying for a face of the sport. Now, Aaron Judge is a big deal, but baseball's more regional than national. So you may just be like the face of the league Hudson River East if you're Aaron Judge. But I do feel like we talk about NBA is always saying, well, you need a face of the league

and it can't be an international player. The minute Otani parked his car at Dodger Stadium, he was the face of Major League Baseball. Pacific Rim, Los Angeles, and beyond. Never forget last year, Dodgers go to Yankee Stadium, all those blue hats. They lead Major League Baseball in road attendance. And being the face of a sport is something you cannot campaign for. It's a little bit like a nickname. You can't give it to yourself.

It's got to come naturally. And I'm thinking, oh, boy, he's going to be nervous in this series. This is going to be a lot for him. It wasn't. Infectious, unfazed, always smiling. couple hits, couple runs. Dodgers 1-0, got good starting pitching, and here's the skipper after. I don't think I've ever seen Shohei nervous. You know, one thing I did notice is how emotional he got during the Japanese National Anthem.

That was really something that was very telling how emotional he was. I thought it was a good baseball game. I thought offensively we controlled the strike zone, took our walks, got some timely hits, played good defense. Yeah, but it really is, we've talked about this a lot, about does the NBA have a face of the league? And I felt forever when I watched Michael Jordan.

Jordan was good looking. He was the best dress. There were the earrings. There was the smile. He had a gait the way he walked. Michael walked cool. Like, he didn't have to ask for it. Like, Michael walked into the room.

He was the alpha. And it didn't matter of Barclay, Magic, and Bird were in the room. Michael was the alpha. around all these great Dodger players. I mean, it's just, Otani is different. I mean,

language barriers are relevant. Doesn't matter at all. The look, the size, it's so much bigger in person. And even around Major League baseball players, you can see it. It's totally infectious.

Dodgers want to know going to be a lot of doubles for this team. They play again tomorrow, and it will be on FS1, actually. So, So what I'm about to say about LeBron is not necessarily a criticism. It's actually part of sort of his legacy.

To me, LeBron's very calculated with everything, his social media posts. So LeBron, remember they faced Boston, and they played a good game for the first half. Then in the second half, they kind of struggled. And LeBron had like a growing tweak. And LeBron's like, see you guys. I'm going to add back to L.A. I'll see you guys in three weeks. very calculated. So last night I watched the Warriors

against the Nuggets, and the Nuggets didn't have Yomuch. And the Nuggets didn't have Jamal Murray, and the Nuggets completely controlled the game. I mean, they led the whole game. At one point by 15, and there was no Yokic and no Jemal Murray. And my take

watching is, Steph Curry looks really tired. And this is where the Lakers have an advantage over the Warriors. So if LeBron's out, Luca and Austin Reeves are both play initiators, they can both drop 30 points. You would not be shocked. Austin's on a heater right now. If Steph takes a night off, I mean, the oxygen offensively for the Warriors leaves the room. I love Draymond.

I love Jimmy Butler. They're not offensive dynamic machines. That's not what they are. What Jimmy Butler adds is all these intangibles and toughness and physicality and early. urgency and Draymond is a catalyst and he's a rebounder and a defender. But if Steph's not on the floor and he was last night, you take him off the floor. I said this before the Jimmy Butler moved. The Warriors were boring without Steph on the floor.

They've got good players, but Caminga by himself, Jimmy by himself. I mean, you watch Jimmy Butler in Miami. Just didn't matter. So LeBron is a 40-year-old and he understands the value of a nap. So he gets a groin tweak, walks off the floor, and he heads to L.A. He gets treatment every day. You know what I mean? He gets rest.

He watches a sudden play high school basketball. He gets a mental reset, a physical reboot. That has always been the value of LeBron. The way LeBron looks at basketball is how can the player I'm going to play with Chris Bosch, could be J.R. Smith, Kyrie Irving, it could be A.D., Luca, Austin Reeves. how do they make the game a little easier for me so as I age, I have these brief six-minute moments where I can take over the game. And that's calculated. And that's okay, because he still remains one of the top six or seven players in the league on any night. He's the second or third best player.

Some nights he's the best. Certainly some halves and quarters he is. But the Warriors are different. When Steph sit and if you start looking at the warrior's schedule now, they're going on a six-game road trip. And they are, this is a tired team. And Steve Kerr talked about it after the loss to Denver. He's been carrying us for a month. He's been amazing. He's tired. So we got to get him. We got to get him some rest. I just, you can see it. He doesn't have his energy right now. But he's exhausted right now. So we've got to absolutely consider giving him a night and getting him rejuvenated for the sake of him and the remainder of our games.

But we'll see. It's not that LeBron isn't valuable, but this roster now between the size of a Rui and a Jackson Hays and the offensive initiation of Austin Reeves, yes, he can do it. And Luca, LeBron can sit out. Now the team's not as good, obviously, They don't communicate as well when LeBron is out.

They're not as smart when LeBron's out. He's one of the smartest, greatest communicators, along with Magic Johnson I've ever seen play basketball. But they can score points without LeBron. They can get into the 120s. Golden State, look at that six-game schedule, Rodey coming up. I don't know where their offense is. It's not, and by the way, I like Cominga, but you can't, it's inconsistent. Love Butler, but he's not a huge score or a great shooter.

It's not easy for him. offense is work for Jimmy Butler. So they got a challenge on their hands because Steph looked tired, no Yokic, no Jamal Murray. And they just had no fight and no energy as I'm sitting there watching and thinking, okay, they'll go in a spurt. They got no spurt in them. They didn't have it.

So J-Mack, Adam Wainwright, stops by Kyle Van Nuoyen studio, Nick Wright. Tomorrow, I hope you get up early tomorrow. With the kids have breakfast, watch a little MLB action. Listen, I got to get up early Thursday and Friday for the. tournament, so it's going to be tough for me to pull a 3 a.m. wake up to watch baseball. Well, I did 3.40. The first couple of innings... Was it fourth inning at that point? Because now they're speeding up baseball. No, baseball flies by. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, but the first 30 minutes a bit blurry. I didn't

watch the first inning and a half. It was a little, you know, was I asking a lot. Was that after, like, three pints last night, celebrating St. Patrick's Day? No, that's not how I roll. Oh, really? Not with ensuing MLB action. I'm not out there just partying. Dropping big vocabulary words here early. Hey, by the way, so you're worried. Yeah. Interesting. They beat up on a bunch of tomato cans and you were gassing them up like they're going to the finals and now they face a yokets list nuggets and lose? You should have been watching Austin Reeves cook last night. Oh my gosh. How good was Austin Reeves? He was good. He was good. Be sure to catch live editions of the herd weekdays in noon Eastern 9 a.m. Pacific on Fox Sports Radio, FS1 and the IHeart Radio app. Hey, it's us to Jonas Brothers. And guess what? We have some big news.

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This idea that Shadur Sanders is going to plummet in the draft makes no sense to me. The Giants are desperate for a quarterback. Right now they're crossing their fingers hoping Aaron Rogers says yes. And Shadur Sanders is the consensus number two quarterback in this draft. It's not like Daniel Jones when the Giants picked him six. Most people didn't think he was a first round quarterback. Chador is the second most talented quarterback in this draft, and people get paralyzed by Shadoor Sanders being overrated.

I think you're under-visioned if you don't see what New York's going to try to do. Give you an example, when Steve Ballmer bought the Clippers for $2 billion, people screamed it was overpaid, overpaying, can't believe it, overpaid. It's now worth five. He bought it cash, and he said, I'm never going to sell it. So what's it matter? He had $40 billion in the bank. He wanted it.

He wanted the asset. it. If he'd have gone down to $1.4 billion, somebody else would have it. He wanted it. In life, go get what you want. The Giants need a quarterback. They have a good left tackle, a great weapon, an offensive coach. They need a running back in a tight end. It's a great draft for both. It's a great draft for both, especially running back. So this idea of sitting around and waiting for Aaron Rogers to give you an answer, or just go get it, go buy it. And it reminds me that Steve Bulbord thing. People just could not believe what he was. paid my take is are you better off fighting over $250 million and not getting it?

If you want an NBA team, about once every couple of decades, a good piece of real estate becomes available in the NBA. LA's good real estate. Now they've got an arena, Steve's project and purchase. You didn't see the vision. He saw the vision. If Shadour Sanders and you're an offensive coach for the New York Giants and you're thinking, We can get a running back in this graph, a tied-in, a left tackle of neighbors. It's a real offense.

And if he hits, which I think he could, you're not going to care where he's drafted. And if he doesn't, it's New York. No city has whiffed on quarterbacks more in the last decade than New York. He'll just become another one on the conveyor belt of misses. But this idea that, oh, is it overrated? I don't know. Over who is, I mean, Andrew Luck got criticized. Who's not overdrafted in the NFL.

quarterback. I mean, Joe Burrell consensus. I mean, now it looks like Trevor Lawrence was overdrafted. Everybody, I mean, Jalen Hertz was underdrafted. But by and large, I mean, when Lamar came out, people thought that was overdrafted. Could he be a wide receiver? You can't worry

about that. What's your need? Who's the best person at that position on the board? Go get him. J. Mack with the news. No, no, no. Turn on the news. This is the Heard Line News. All right, Colin, we're starting with the Lakers who destroyed the San Antonio Spurs.

Now, the Spurs did not have Wemby. They did not have Deeran Fox. The Lakers won by 14. Luca nearly had a triple double. Didn't shoot a great. Five for 20 from the field, but who cares? They won. Lakers also covered the first quarter again.

I think that's 19 and 3 in the last 22, something absurd. Our staff is just coming up with some great NBA stats. So this season, three players are averaging 25, 8, and 8. one of them is Nicola Yolkich. One of them is LeBron James. Do you want to guess who the other one is? Ah, we put it on the screen. Luca.

Luca since joining the Lakers. You know, for years you thought I was anti-Austin Reeves, and I said, no, he's not slotted correctly. I said if he's your third or fourth best player, then you can get to a conference final. Austin Reeves is now really showing his value, which is, because I worried when they got Luca and LeBron, it's like, well, Austin's a play initiator. Where's the ball go? But LeBron, as he is prone to do, very calculated, growing tweak.

Daddy's going home. Here comes a tough schedule. Well, now you're really seeing Austin Reeves value because I still contend Lucas kind of playing himself into shape. Yeah. Lucas jump shot is off. He didn't quite have the legs. This is where Austin Reeves is really showing his value as a guy when LeBron's off that

can get 30 points, create offense. He's also like Luca and LeBron, great. on the lobs. So Austin Reeves has really shown his value. Interesting. Coming around on old AR-15. I will add that. So I'm on many text chains. I'm on many text chains. A couple basketball guys. And one guy asked last night, Austin Reeves or Jamal Murray. And I was like, listen, I think it's Murray, but I'm just telling you, Colin, Austin Reeves has been amazing this season.

Get's to the line. He gets to the line. He can take anybody off the dribble his handle is filthy. I mean, he's a great shooter. Colin, when LeBron is healthy, Lucas fully with the Lakers. He's still getting to know his teammates, their tendencies. And Austin Reeves is your three? How many teams in the league have three different guys that can initiate contact, get to the line, and start the offense? Like Dallas now, when you got rid of Luca, they got one. Now, Dallas has...

How many of the O'KC have? One. Uh-huh. Lakers have three. You know, it is a clear advantage. They thought Westbrook was going to be this a few years ago, and it didn't work out that way. Austin Reeves. I'm just telling you this Laker team, conference finals is the minimal.

I think they can win the championship. It's going to be tough to take down Boston. Conference finals are busts for the Lakers. They look that good right now. All right, let's move on. This is interesting. College football programs across the country are canceling their spring games. Some of them are using this whole like, hey, why would I put my players on tape?

They're just going to get poached in the portal. Well, Dion Sanders has a new idea. Take a listen what he thinks spring football should look like. Actually, I like to play against another team in the spring. That's what I'm trying to do. right now. And I would like to sound like the pros. I would like to

practice against someone for a few days, then you have the spring game. And I think the public will be satisfied with that tremendously. I think it's a tremendous idea. Yeah, I've told those personnel who should understand that's a tremendous idea. He's totally right on this.

For years, college football fans were very proud, and they told you they didn't watch the NFL. Yeah, you do. college football fans do. A lot of NFL fans don't watch college. The numbers tell you that. So college becoming more pro is a really good thing. General managers, not this. There's a lot of hokey stuff in college football that hopefully they're getting out of. Bad schedules, lobsided, like in-state rivalries that nobody cares about. This is another step toward making.

We're paying the players now. It looks like the NFL at the top programs, make it more NFL. I think it only powers college football and pro football. I'm going to get nerdy with you. But when I moved across the country to come here to Fox, we did the pros and cons list. I would like to hear your pros and cons list for this spring idea that Dion has where you're traveling. And the Syracuse coach, Fran Brown, basically came out and said, hey, Syracuse, we will travel to play Colorado. Right. We'll do it.

So you're pulling the student athletes out of school for a week, practicing for a few days, and then playing a spring game. Give me your pros and cons to this because I think we're missing some cons here. Okay, so the pros are Deon's point is, do you really get better just playing yourself in practice? That's why pros do this. Also, why put too much on tape for people to see my players and poach them? The cons is, why couldn't Colorado play Colorado State? You get in a bus and miss a day of class. Like, it just doesn't mean that.

Baseball players in college. don't even go to class. They all major in psychology. They're on the road the entire year. When you look at the convergence of the pack 12 students in volleyball now playing Big Ten schools, they're missing more school than ever. So what in the spring? You miss two days? All these college kids, football, you miss the least school because you fly out on Friday. And in college you can do your schedule. My son does it. He doesn't have classes on Friday. So the idea that, oh, they're missing so much class. Most college students, a lot of them especially like go home, see their parents or hey, go to their home.

They don't schedule Friday classes. So I don't worry about, I worry about baseball players in college, never even going to class, doing everything over Zoom. So a couple of cons, one of the big things that happens in the NFL with these scrimmages is fights. That's what we get. We get a lot of them in August. You see the players are amped up.

They're going after one another. And I got to be honest, college football. Dion's trying to build a brand here. Yeah. Brand awareness for Colorado football ends as soon as the season ends. So it's really only like four months. He's trying to give us spring interest in Colorado football, which I get. But what about the potential for an injury?

There's targeting in college football all the time. Or your quarterback stinks up the joint. And now the fans are irate online for months. Our quarterback stinks. We need a new quarterback. Like I just think the downside here is probably too much for a lot of these programs. Would you agree or not? No, no.

Oh, my God. College guys getting into a fight with coaches watching his chaperones. So. Okay. I mean, I don't, college guys are at Senior Froggy getting into fights on Saturday across campus as all. That's a spring break.

All right. Final story is the Chicago Bears have had a busy, free agency. You love their offensive line pickups. They got a new weapon for Caleb Williams. His name, Olamide Zeketus. He used to be for the Falcons. He's played other teams. Here's what he says about Caleb Williams.

He has all the talent. that you need to be a top-tier quarterback in the league. So a lot of it is just going to be the mental aspect of it and kind of just slowing the game down. They're going to be fine. I don't think they're going to be great in September with a new coach and a new offensive line. They won't be as good as like Detroit and Green Bay in September.

The question for them is, can an offensive line get humming by mid to late October? The Bears will be a good football team next year. don't be shocked if September is a little bumpy with three new offensive starters all in the same unit. So 68 sacks taken by Caleb last year, and just remember, they're not all on the offensive line. A lot of that is him patting the football, dropping back, and panicking. I don't know how you stamp that out of him. Hey, man, you've got to release the football.

You got to just unload it quickly. Well, they have a super clever offensive coach who is replacing a non-clever, defensive coach. So it's going to be a totally different playbook and a totally different culture. The scheme is just so different guys are going to be. Remember Detroit, you watch Detroit Lions Games. Dudes are open, tight ends, running backs, receivers all the time. You don't see that in Chicago. You didn't see it as much last year. Well, Jim Harbaugh was talking this, I think it was this weekend, but I saw the quote. And he said there's only one unit in football that helps everybody and everybody else depends on. And yet that unit doesn't need help of anybody else. They don't

from anybody else and it's offensive line. The offensive line makes the quarterback, the run game, the wide receivers have more time to break off their routes. The defense, it helps them because a good offensive line, Detroit, Philly keeps the defense off the field and keeps you rested. But nobody else really necessarily helps the offensive line. So the Bears figured it out finally is if the O line's good, we're good. The defense is on the field less. Caleb can throw 22 times, not 34 times. The receivers have another half second in the route tree. So it's a just it's not hard to figure out. It is hard in the NFL to have a top five or six O O line and not make the playoffs. It's hard because it gives your defense rest. Everybody

looks a little better off your running backs or B running backs. They kind of look A minus B plus when the O line's good. So the bears at least figured out what unit to attack. J. Mackle the news. Well, that's the news. And thanks for stopping by. The Hurdline News. So I probably made a big mistake yesterday. I picked Arizona to get, you know, into the final four. Yeah, probably should have picked Duke. Duke and Cooper Flag are consensus title favorites. They have three NBA players.

They'll probably win it, you know, but you've got to have some fun in life. So I would say this, though, the NBA should be crossing their fingers that Duke and Cooper flag win the title. He's a huge name, and Duke is the biggest brand in college basketball.

He could be Zion Williamson without all the red flags. I think it's very possible. The NBA, and I don't know if they know this, needs college football. So the NFL's always understood the value of the free marketing throughout the Saturdays in the fall that college football provides. These kids come into the NFL, they're microwave them. They are ready to be brands and sell jerseys. It could be overrated players, Tim Tebow, you know, or it can be underrated players. People know who they are. So nobody cares about the G League. Honestly, parents and players and coaches trying to get to the NBA.

Stop talking about the G League. It's about college basketball, which, by the way, on average, has much better coaching than the G League. So college football's free advertising. It feels like the NBA for the last decade has been fighting college basketball. So, I mean, when's the last domestic player

who came into the league from college with great promise and delivered? Anthony Davis, but he was sort of reluctant You know, he went to a smaller market. I think Cooper Flag has a chance to end up in Chicago and give us sort of a Magic Johnson Larry Birdfield. Like, wow, this guy you fall in love with in March. Oh, he's coming to the NBA to a big market, a Celtics, a Chicago, a Los Angeles.

So the WNBA got this past year. They got their Cooper flag, Caitlin Clark, and the league, the WNBA wasn't prepared for it. I mean, they're still, I'm not sure if they're prepared for Caitlin Clark. they butchered it. Didn't put her on the Olympic team, gave her the hardest schedule in the league. But Caitlin Clark delivered, the league wasn't,

they just couldn't handle it. Hopefully the NBA is crossing its fingers because this is what the league needs. I mean, look at the impact, Jimmy Butler and Luca had going to big brands. The Bulls have led the NBA in attendance, and it could be like 15 to the last 18 years, and half of those, they've been awful, unwatchable.

The MJ year is obviously great. The D. Rose years were a lot of fun. They've been bad. It doesn't matter. They sell out their games. So if a Chicago could get a Cooper flag from Duke, then you'd have Boston, New York, San Francisco, L.A., and when everybody gets healthy in Dallas, Dallas plus Chicago having really good higher-end NBA teams. So you guys can all root for Drake and Grand Canyon.

You see San Diego. I am rooting for Duke and Cooper Flag. They have three potential lottery picks for Duke, but Flags the kid. He's got a little Jason Tatum. He's kind of good at everything. Is he great at any one thing? He's going to be a very good score. Runs the floor, can score down low, long, physical, can shoot.

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We invented a podcast? Well, we didn't invent it. We just contributed to a podcast. Pretty, yeah, pretty wide range of podcasts. We're starting a trend. But this one's extra special. So how do we actually come up with a name, Hey Jonas, guys? I honestly don't remember.

I think it was on a call about what we should call. it and oh we were thinking I'm originally calling it one of the early names of our band before Jonas brothers was this is how you guys remember it going down yes I have a very different memory of this we were talking about a thing a bit for the podcast we could call in and say hey Jonas and then I wrote down on my little notepad hey Jonas and offered it up as a potential title oh but thanks for remembering that guys listen to hey Jonas on the iHeart radio app Apple podcasts or wherever you you get your podcast.

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Listen to the Renee Stubbs tennis podcast on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Capital One, founding partner of IHeart Women's Sports. Tokyo Dome, the greatest show in baseball is back as Shohei Otani and the reigning champion Dodgers. Take on the Cubs, the MLB World Door. Live from Tokyo continues tomorrow morning at 6 a.m. Eastern on FS. one. I mean, you're sitting around on the East Coast, getting your kids ready for school. What is better than watching baseball? I'm a West Coast guy. I got about 3.45 in the morning. It was great. I turned it on television, made a coffee. I thought, you know, even the cat was next to me and

enjoying it. So, and I thought it was great. I know it's expensive in Major League Baseball won't do it. What's interesting about the Dodgers, because Kershaw's still recovering, and Dustin May will eventually be available to be their fifth starter. They have so much pitching. Otani has not pitched in over 500 days, so I guess he's going to pitch, but they've got Blake Snell, Yamamoto, they've got the 21-year-old phenom-sizaki. They have so much pitching depth. Today they didn't have Morgan, they didn't have Freddie Freeman, and they didn't have

Mookie Betts today, and it didn't matter. So Atani apparently is going to pitch in May. they are absolutely stacked. There is just not a Major League Baseball team. If you're a baseball fan forever, there have been teams that have been great, but even if you go back to the great Yankee teams, they had a lot of role players like Scott Brocious.

They weren't all Jeter and Posada and Bernie Williams. Those were the young phenoms and Mariano Rivera, but there were a lot of role players for the Yankees. Dodgers don't have a ton of role players. They've got aces. I mean, Glass now was Tampa's. best pitcher got hurt last year, so they had to use bullpen sessions against the Mets, the Padres, and the Yankees in the World Series, and still won.

So, and by the way, baseball's always been better when there's a villain. I mean, the Yankees were the evil empire for years. They didn't win in every year, but they would dominate the offseason, which the Dodgers have done. But since the Dodgers got these new owners, the Royals have won a World Series, the Rangers have won a World Series. So they're not, they've only got two, and one of them was in the COVID shortened. year. So, but what they're doing, and by the way, the Yankees make over a hundred million more

dollars a year in annual revenue. So the Yankees have the money the Dodgers do. In fact, more in an annual basis, but the Dodgers are all in. They're doing these kind of delayed payment contracts, which are legal. When Houston was the villain of baseball, they were the villain because they cheated, which was not considered very redeemable. The Yankees were just sort of like New York, obnoxious, a dominating, always winning late games in Yankee Stadium. The Dodgers are much more similar to the Yankees. They dominate offseason, and they're simply more committed. I mean, George Steinbrenner, you know, he bought that franchise,

I think it was from like CBS or something for $10 million, and then poured money into the Yankees. That's what the Dodgers are doing. They're not worrying about making major profits year to year. They're worrying about dominating and creating a brand, and they're doing it. So also, is Adam ready to go? All right, he's ready. 18 years in the bigs.

He is now joining us live. Adam Wainwright, Fox Sports Baseball analyst. Listen, it's early, but I got up at 3.45 in the morning to watch this. And I was thinking about you this morning driving in. So they have so much depth with pitching. They don't even need Kershaw or Dustin Maynow. Otony hasn't pitched in over 570 innings. You're a guy that liked to work into the sixth.

like to work into the seventh. A lot of all-time greats like you did that. When you have so much pitching depths, do you go to a six-man rotation or does that get into your head? Could you have too much depth of pitching if you're the Dodgers? First of all, you can never have too much depth. Second, I should say, first of all, thanks for having me on. Good to see you, Colin. second ball you can never have too much steps not ever ever ever I mean we we had this conversation about the Phillies last year did they have too much depth what did they possibly need and then you know they had a lot of injuries coming down the stretch you never have enough of it and you never have enough starting pitchers as soon as you think you got enough starting pitching

someone gets hurt and then all of a sudden you're at that five number you're like man if one more person gets banged up which by the way is almost certain to happen unfortunately unfortunately, then you're in trouble. So, no, you can never have enough. Now, those guys look good. I watched the game back this morning while I was doing a little bit of gardening. That's retired life for you. But, you know, what a cool opening day in Japan.

Two Japanese starters started off. And one of my favorite guys, I'm not the guy everyone's talking about right now, but I'm just fascinated by because he just doesn't. They don't barrel him up. Nobody can barrel this guy up. He hardly gives up any hits. But no, you can't have enough pitching. The Dodgers last year, look, the Dodgers in the postseason, the big question was,

did they have enough pitch? And luckily, their bullpen was outstanding. So, no, you can't have enough. You know, it's interesting. I remember years and years ago people talked about Japanese baseball was like AAA baseball. But every time the Dodgers bring a guy over, he's great immediately. And is that the quality is improved, or is it just the Dodgers? are getting these transformational players,

but it does feel like they come into the sport, they dominate, they're great in the clubhouse, they're quality guys, they're total professionals. I don't know, it just feels like maybe it's the Dodgers scouting and research and development. What's your thought on that? Well, they clearly have a great scouting research development department. Those guys are always, I mean, and think about where they draft, too.

They never drafted at the top of the draft. They never get the top 10 picks. They're always in the bottom five picks of the draft, and yet they find the gyms every single time. So somebody up there is doing a great job. But I would say this about the Japanese brand of baseball, which is very good. They have incredible arms. You know, the big question for me is always, can these guys hit in the big leagues?

It's never can they pitch. We saw that at the WBC when we played against them in the final game and watched them all WBC. They just dropped in. I think they pitched nine different pitchers against Team USA. and all of them are throwing 95 plus with a nasty split almost, except for a couple of them, and they throw those invisible balls like Imanaga.

So their arms, incredible, very, very good, mechanically sound pitchers. They work really hard. They have incredible arms. The question for me is never can they pitch. It's always can they hit, but their pitchers are amazing. You know, the Yankees are interesting, so they lose Soto. John Carlos Stanton, both elbows. are trouble. Now you've got Garrett Cole's out. So that's, I mean, that's a lot to digest.

Do you think, I mean, I thought when they play the Dodgers, the two games where it felt like they were the Dodgers even, the equal was when Garrett Cole pitched. And you're like, okay, we got a series here. Is it like when you, but you would look at all these, the dynamic players they're losing. It feels like a different Yankee team. It just doesn't feel the same. Can it be the same. Well, I mean, I would liken the Yankees this year to the Braves last year when they lost Strider and they lost Acuna. You know, it's not easy to lose two MVP-calibalibalibal players and still continue on. The Braves still had a pretty good run about it. When you lose Garrett Cole, that is a big hit to a starting rotation that was kind of maybe a little thin in starting pitching

as it was. But he's one of the best pitchers in all of baseball. You know, proven it year in and year out. One of the biggest arms. A couple years ago, I was thinking, oh, man, I hope he's not bad hurt. But if he is, he could go ahead and have that surgery. And this is not something I recommend to young players. But in the prime of your career, it's tough to go through, like, you know, especially

as hard as he throws the ball. It's really tough to go through 160, game season, 32, 33, 34, start season and the postseason with a 60% ligament in your elbow can be really, really, really tough. You know, you're just kind of on borrowed time. I'm glad he's getting

it fixed. I'm glad he got it fixed. I'm glad he's going to be back healthy next year. We're going to miss him this year in Major League Baseball. The Yankees will certainly miss him. And I can speak to Stanton too, man, because you know what? About an hour and a half ago, I got a shot for what they call

tennis elbow and this elbow, my left elbow from playing the guitar too much. And anybody, and let me tell you something, I'm a volunteer assistant coach on four teams right now, and hitting fungos with that elbow like that, it sucks, man. So, DeAncarlo, I feel you, buddy. I know you got it in both,

but you're a big, strong fella. He's going to be fine. He's going to, hey, look, but those things don't, man, look, I got a shot in this three months ago, too. Like, it comes back. You can't get it to go away. Yeah. So I guess I'm going to have to learn how to play the harmonica or something.

But the Yankees, you know what? The Yankees are still going to be the Yankees. They're going to miss their number one pitcher. Eric Cole is a top five pitcher in the major leagues when he's healthy. There's no question about it. He just hadn't been healthy for a couple years. They're going to miss Stanton's power in the middle of the order. I'm looking forward to seeing who steps up, though, in the middle of that order because they also lost soda.

That's not a big loss. Yeah, there's no question about that. But I will say, Aaron, Judge, like Otani. can go on a heater and he can carry that lineup. There's no question about that. Adam Wainwright. Oh, and I took a lot of heat from Yankee fans, which was, and I don't say this lightly, and I don't say this very often, the Yankee fans were correct.

I was asked to name the top five players in baseball, and I didn't put Judge in there because they asked me to be kind of argumentative is a word. Yeah. But, you know, Aaron is so great. He's so great. He's so talented. and he can carry a lineup by himself. Adam Wainwright.

Great seeing you. We called him late this morning. I appreciate it. Get back out to the garden, man. I appreciate it, guys. Hey, I'm looking forward to Sandy Alcantara coming back. That's what I'm looking forward to. Sandy and Acuna.

Those are my two guys that want to watch that are coming off injury. There's going to be difference makers. Thanks, Adam. All right, thanks, guys. All right. Mets also have Juan Soto. That's a huge story, but the Yankees have major injuries going into the season. Dodgers picked up their first win on the season.

season they play again tomorrow on FS1. Nick Wright, top of next hour. By the way, Nick's not going to like it. So I do a herd hierarchy. Just, okay, all the coaching's done, all the free agency's done. What are the top 10 right now? Teams, rosters in the NFL, I think Kansas City's got a problem. And I think one of the problems is in division with the Chargers and Noggy Harris.

As Joe Walt comes back now for his second year as an offensive tackle, the second year with that culture building in Los Angeles. If you ever look at Jim Harbaugh, that's that second year when they really start to pop and the third year they get better and better and better. So what he did first year to second year, I think you're going to see an elevation of three or four more wins potentially. By the way, I saw this headline. Well, I'm going to save this for next hour. No, I'm not. Here's a headline, J-Mack. Look at this headline. Can you imagine this headline with the Rams? The Steelers are stuck in quarterback limbo. If Aaron Rogers rejects them, what's next?

It's mid-March. I mean, it's crazy to me. It's almost like Mike Tomlin views quarterback as just another player. He's like a defensive end who, you know, take snaps. Can you up? I mean, that's, that is the difference in this league between offensive coaches and defensive coaches. I said this about Ron Rivera two years ago when he was like, yeah, I don't know, Sam Howell's good enough. Time out.

Good enough to what? He's not good enough to keep your job. What are you doing? The idea that the Steelers are like, hey, we could get Aaron Rogers. And if we don't, what do you do? Yeah. I mean, you can draft, you know, you can go and look at the draft and get a Jackson Dart. It's interesting you say that because I saw the mock draft you posted on the screen earlier,

and they had Jackson Dart going in the top 10. Yeah. What on earth is that? Well, I mean, if that's how people view Jackson Dart, the Steelers should just grab it whenever they're drafted. Well, Jalen Milrose also mid to late first draft. a lot of people think he may have dropped a second I don't take no roll over Dart but that's just me

yeah so would I I watched Jackson Dart play six seven times I never thought he was a first round quarterback I mean he's Lane Kiffin's system that's what I thought yeah good special no hey guys it's us the Jonas brothers I'm Joe I'm Kevin and I'm Nick and guess what we created

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Those people are starving for banter. Listen to humor me with Robert Smigel and Friends on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Winning on Clay is an art. The rallies are relentless. And at the French Open, only the toughest survive. I'd know. I competed there for decades.

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