The Kevin Sheehan Show - Flag, Love, & Baseball

Episode Date: March 24, 2026

Kevin and Thom opened the show with more on Jayden Daniels' and his flag football outing on Saturday in Los Angeles. The boys talked Jeremiyah Love to Washington at 7 which included what Adam Schefter told Kevin today on radio. Thom had a Nats and MLB preview. Kevin talked about UConn Coach Dan Hurley's request of Big East fans who will be in Capital One Arena for Friday's night's NCAA Tournament Sweet 16. Also on the show, the Commanders' 2026 over/under win total is out and it's not what Kevin thought it would be.   For all your football betting needs: DCRELOAD at MyBookie for a 50% Deposit Match Our listeners get the Harry’s Plus Trial Set for only $10 at https://www.Harrys.com/[INSERT CODE]  #Harryspod For all your garden needs: fastgrowingtrees.com/sheehan Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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86690 Nation or Window Nation.com. And you need new windows. Tommy's back on the East Coast. He's back home. A little bit tired after a long flight west to east and getting home very early this morning. I have an apology here to open up the show. For those of you who did not get the show on Apple and Spotify until this morning, that was an issue for many of you, not all of you, but many of you had that issue.

And there have been periodic Apple and Spotify distribution issues. They're pretty consistent in getting the show out on time. The show was done last night at about 5.30, 6 o'clock. but just remember that the show is always posted immediately on the website, the kevin shiannishow.com. So you can always, if for whatever reason, if it gets late into the evening and you haven't had the show delivered, go to the kevin sheanshow.com and listen to it there.

I mean, these are, you know, few and far between issues with Apple and Spotify. They are great overall, but we did have an other podcast. had a distribution issue for some last night into early this morning, even though it's now corrected. Yesterday's show, by the way, I think was one of the best of all time. So I'm sorry you didn't get it on time. Tommy, you know, I talked to you a little bit about what I talked about on yesterday's show related to Jaden Daniels and Flagg Football. I got this from Scotty G. And he may be like the only person out there that agrees with me, because overwhelmingly the feedback to me having an issue with Jaden playing in this

playing in this flag football game was negative. But Scotty G writes, Kevin, I'm with you on this, and it didn't even need to be a serious injury. Imagine this headline. Jaden pulls hamstring in celebrity flag football game. You'd get calls for a week.

I'll hang up and listen. Yeah. I mean, can you imagine if it had just been a minor injury, a rolled ankle, and that had been a headline. Yes, it would have been, see, I think for all of the people that puffed their chest out with me yesterday and said, grow a pair, you're too soft, you want to bubble wrap them until September. For me, Tommy, and I said this to you, the first time we heard about this a month and a half ago, I just don't think the optics of him sitting out most of the season

and then by the way being held out, being bubble-wrapped for the final four games of the season, I just didn't think it made a lot of sense for his first on-field action to be in a flagged football game. I would not have felt this way a year ago after his rookie year. It wouldn't have occurred to me to feel that way. The context that drove me to feel the way I felt and the way I guess Scotty and maybe a few others, not the majority, is that, yeah, I mean, dude, you didn't play this year. You got held out of the last four games. We'd rather see the first on-field football action be football action that prepares you for the upcoming season. You know, when this came out, I tried not to be the Grinch here and say, oh, this stinks, because, you know, I recognize that Jaden has been really good in not letting any of the off-field activities he might participate in interfere with his football business.

Right. I think he's been very diligent. And so I wanted to respect that and say, well, you know, I'm not. crazy about it, but I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt here because it's not like he's all over TMZ, you know, every other night or something like that. And, you know, he's probably still the guy who's the first in the building, the hardest worker, and all that stuff. But upon what I read, I didn't watch it, but what I read about this kind of the intensity, of the event.

Yeah. And then putting him at wide receiver. Yes. No, that was not what that was not what I thought it would be. You know? I mean, it sounds like it was more intense than these these pro bowl games that they participate in these days now. Yeah, no, he was out there trying to shake like defenders. They were trying to grab his flag.

and the teams, one of the teams was the U.S. flag football team with a bunch of dudes you know were itching to kind of prove to the NFL guys that, hey, we're pretty good. And by the way, apparently they're very good at the game. Look, I mean, I've gone round and round on this. Everybody's entitled to their own opinion. But Scotty, when he wrote this to me and I read it, I'm like, yeah, can you just imagine if we were sitting here this week? even talking about just a minor injury, how silly it would seem at that point that he played in this game. Do you think that the whole attraction was Brady?

Oh, I bet the whole attraction was money from the Saudis. And I can't blame him if that number was a massive number. To me, it's not even about his decision. It's about the way it makes others feel, you know, the team itself, fans like me. Like, again, like I don't begrudge him for getting whatever he can get. These careers are very short, obviously, but it shouldn't impact your main job. And you should care about the optics of some things. And a year ago, there was never any talk about him being injury prone.

Fast forward a year later, and that's pretty much all the talk about him. Yeah. And so that's why I would have never felt this way a year ago. I would have said, that's cool. I want to watch him. Just had so much fun watching him for 20 games. Dominate as a rookie. And now he's going to be one of the captains and one of this big charity flag football or whatever it was.

But no, it just, it's, it's. you didn't play this year. You played in poor games. The email is so right. Like even if it was just a, let's say he just like kind of turned his ankle a little bit. And hobbled off the fields. Like, God. Or it's just this, you know, a little bit.

Yeah. And then he hurts his ankle in training camp. And we think, well, this is what happened. He damaged his ankle playing flag football. He weakened it. The chances. But not did that happen. That didn't happen.

And you know what? The chances of it happening were very, very, very remote and slim. But that's really not the point. The point is the odds were zero if he didn't play in it. I got this on Twitter after the radio show today from scam. Scam writes, trust me, whatever off-season training he did this morning had the same likelihood of causing injury. Yeah, you're really missing the point.

If he got hurt training for his job as an NFL football player, that's completely different than if he had gotten injured in a flag football game. And you're probably right. Maybe the odds are higher that he could get injured training this morning. But that's hardly the point, although I actually would dispute that. In watching the highlights of him jukeing around and trying to, you know, trying to, elude and evade would be flag grabbers. I mean, one ankle turn, one, you know, Achilles, and it would have been, honestly, Tommy,

if he had been seriously injured, and again, didn't think it would happen, chances were super remote, but if it had happened, it would have been an all-time DC sports story. An all-time, imagine the anger. It would have buried. It would have buried. this ownership. But it wasn't their call.

Doesn't matter. It would have stuck to them like glue. Oh, no doubt. It would have stuck to him and his people. It really would have. I mean, but it didn't happen, and it wasn't probably going to happen, but if it had happened, it'd be up there on the all-time D.C. sports bungles in stories and you know the concern going into it would have uh and those that that pushed back and

said that's silly talk um that would have not looked so silly but trust me i wasn't rooting for it i was rooting for him to be healthy my god the success of this podcast in the radio show and tommy's column really uh you know isn't it's not dependent on but it certainly is assisted by a good football team led by a superstar quarterback. Anyway, yeah. I'm kind of surprised at just the overwhelming

negative reaction to thinking that way, especially given the season he just had. You know, it really was... To get into the psychology of Washington football fans, I think they

didn't want to even entertain the possibility that something could have gone wrong. You know, I just think that it was just too much to even entertain it, you know? So, I mean, the fact that, you know, they didn't need to worry about it. You know, they didn't want to worry about it

because they've been tortured their whole lives. They don't need imaginary torture. Imaginary torture. Is there is that worse than actual torture itself? I don't think so. I don't think so, no. I didn't even know that was a thing. That's the title of today's show, imaginary torture.

That's a good title of the show today. The other thing on yesterday's show, some of which perhaps you haven't listened to out there, is the Jeremiah Love conversation. The running back from Notre Dame. By the way, in this morning's Field Yates, ESPN, two-round mock, he has Washington taking Jeremiah Love running back from Notre Dame. Yesterday, Adam Schaefter on the Pat McAfee show discussed the possibility of Washington

having a chance to draft Jeremiah Love, and he thought it made sense. and he sort of insisted that Tennessee likely wasn't going to take Jeremiah Love. And that's where he's been mocked Tommy a lot over the last month. Adam came on the radio show with me today. You can listen to that at the Team 980.com. But it is an interesting thing for Adam Schefter. And we've talked about this previously. But I do want to get your thoughts on it.

And that is that guys like Adam Schaefter and Ian Rappaport and the guys that are considered to be at the top of their trade as NFL reporters. And when they tweet something or they write something, you pretty much can lock it up as fact. And yet, when they make appearances on shows, like, you know, the Pat McAfee show yesterday or even Adam coming on radio shows, and like he did with us for seven years, you know, once a week, where he was more times than not, expressing opinion, not, you know, breaking news or even talking about, you know, the news that he broke. People will assume from a guy like Schaefter, oh, you know, Jeremiah loved to Washington at number seven. Shefter's reporting it, even though that was not a report yesterday.

But the issue, and I talked to him about it, was when somebody like you says something like that, there is a belief that it is, even if you know it's not a report, there is a belief that it comes from some level of, you know, knowing the players and having some inside information. And he did say that he did not and has not talk to anybody in Washington about this, that it was more a connecting of the dots, but he also said, but with some information. And I think that information deals with what he knows about the teams that may pass on Jeremiah I love before Washington is on the clock. But, yeah, go ahead.

I know you wanted to say something about sort of his situation and what he's built up. This is the way I always described as, you know, when I would do this sometimes, and I'd make note that it's not a report, but it's informed speculation. In other words, it's not Billy from Bethesda on line three. Okay. So there's a certain level of information you have available to make this kind of speculation. And it gives it more credibility, but you're not reporting it as something that will actually happen. This is something that has evolved in the sports reporting business that really kicked off with the growth of sports talk radio in the 90s.

right, where beat writers were called upon as guests on sports talk radio to give their opinion on something. And that had never happened before. I mean, if you were the beat writer, you did not express, you did not put any, there was no social media. You certainly didn't put in the story that unless you knew it was, unless you had good information that this was going to happen, he certainly didn't put in a story, well, I think they're going to do this.

You know, it just didn't happen. Right. When Beat Riders started to BS, you know, it became more of the norm. I remember being very uncomfortable with it, because I started as a Beat writer in 92 with the Redskins and then covered the Orioles from 93 through 95. and, you know, this was still, you know, sports talk radio was still, I mean, was still kind of early. I mean, 92, you know, W-T-E-M started in Washington. So, but this is how it's evolved.

Now it's common, and not just in sports, but in news, where news reporters are asked for their opinion. This did not happen 30 years ago in the media. There were opinion makers and there were reporters and they were separate. Now it's all one big jumble and nobody can tell the difference. I'm not criticizing it. I'm just saying how it's really changed. So like when Shester, who doesn't cover a team, but he's the NFLB reporter. He'd NFL insider, whatever they call it these days.

You know, but, I mean, there was a time where he would never have got, you know, had put in print that, you know, something that he thought that, you know, a team was going to take this guy based on his opinion and what was going to happen. So that's interesting. You know, and I mean, I like, if I'm a commander's fan, just on a totally separate. a connected angle. I like a pick. All right. Well, hold off on that because we'll come back to that.

I mean, yes, I thought you were going to say it changed with social media, but I was going to say it had to have changed with sports talk radio because that's when reporters first started to stretch their legs outside of being reporters because they would be asked to be guests on shows. You know, it's interesting because reporters who, are still very much in sort of the old school reporter mode, don't make good guests on shows like this one or on the radio show or on any of the TV shows. You know, Schaefter at times, and we had them on forever and I think, you know, I remember some of those weeks, it was like,

yeah, he's okay. But when he really opened up and became expressive and opinionated on things, it was a much better conversation. Like you clearly acclimated to the new environment back in the 90s pretty quickly. I mean, but then again, you were on your way, and maybe even at that time, you were a columnist, which is a columnist in 1996. Yeah, so. I got paid to give opinion. Exactly, which, you know, a columnist is the same as what we're doing here, just in written form, whereas a reporter isn't supposed to be. opinionated. I mean, you know, I know people like you still get upset when there are people

on press row cheering and doing things like that. I mean, I know it doesn't happen as much, but it happens occasionally. But yeah, I, I get what you're saying. And I think, you know, like he actually said to me, and I'll play a chunk of it for you guys on the podcast today. I'll play it for you. It's like a three-minute, you know, segment of him talking about sort of this dilemma, if you will, for him. And as it related specifically to the Jeremiah Love, you know, expression yesterday on the McAfee show, I'll play it for you at the very end of today's show. So it will be available about a three-minute chunk of Schefter on the radio show.

He was on with me for about 11 or 12 minutes. And it's, if you want to listen to the whole thing at the team 980.com. But, you know, he actually said, I don't like doing these shows because of what happens afterwards, especially in the era of social media where people are going to take something that I said, which was an opinion where I was just connecting the dots, and they'll make it go viral as Adam Schaefter is reporting. And I did say to him, well, it's kind of a good thing that you've built that. You've earned that because you've been, you know, you've been for many, many years now a very reliable reporter. Like most, I guess most people can't.

Some people can decipher between the differences of him tweeting out. Most people can't. Most people can't. You're right. Most people can't. I used to take kids in classes I taught in the newspaper. I would bring a newspaper in and point out the different sections. And a lot of them couldn't tell you the difference between the op-ed page and the front page.

Wow. So people don't recognize the differences. Yeah. I mean, the differences should be pretty easy with a guy like Schaefter. It's like when he tweets out, the Ravens traded two first round picks for Max Crosby per a source.

That's a report. When he says, you know, I don't think Tennessee is going to take Jeremiah Love and I don't think the Giants are either. So it makes sense that Washington at 7 with a need for a running back might take him. That's an opinion. Now, is it an opinion based on some information he has?

That one probably more so, yes. and it's the information that Tennessee, more likely than not, isn't going to take him. So it pushes him down the board a bit. All right. This from Stephen, who writes, You're insane on Jeremiah Love, best running back prospect since Saquan Barkley. A caller this morning, my guy G basically said he's the best running back prospect he thinks since Reggie Bush. I don't think so, but I shared my thoughts on yesterday's show.

I'll come back to him in a moment, but you brought up the love pick. You would like the pick, so why? Well, again, I mean, Adam Peters took care of the defensive business, really, you know, in the forefront in free agency. You know, you can always use another great edge rusher. okay, they don't have a, we don't know if they have a great edge rusher actually or not. But, you know, so I have no problem with them going for an offensive pick with that seven pick, whether it's a wide receiver or running back.

Either one would be fine. And I think, look, I don't follow college football as much as you, but from what I've read, Love would be the best running back prospect. out there for them, and I think he would have a big impact on the offense. What I don't understand about you, though, and I think I heard you say this and saw some stuff on social media, you always qualify it as long as he's the best player on the board. Yeah. But that's who you want them to pick. Yeah, I want them to take the best player on the board.

No, you don't want them to take love? No. My guess is he won't be, he shouldn't be, based on my opinion. I mean, I'm not talking about their board. If he's the best player on their board, yeah. But for me, I think there would be a player on the board that would be better. But it also has to do just with the idea that taking a running back that high, you know, it's not typically the thing to do. You can find running backs. Did you know, by the way, and I looked this up, somebody tweeted it to me, and it's true, that of the last 20 Super Bowl winners, only one has had a top five rusher in the league, and that was Philly with Sequin Barclay. It's pretty amazing. Now, I think the position has come back into prominence a little bit here recently,

and I think that there are, you know, game-changing, you know, floor-raising, however you want to describe it, just special elite players at that, position right now. But when you look at them, Bejohn Robinson hasn't even played in a playoff game. Jamir Gibbs hasn't gone to a Super Bowl. Christian McCaffrey has gone to a Super Bowl, but he hasn't won a Super Bowl. Derek Henry's never played in a Super Bowl. When you look at the truly elite guys, I mean, Seattle just had Kenneth Walker the third win a Super Bowl MVP and be

the legitimate reason and deserving winner of the MVP. and the reason they won the game, and they essentially said, yeah, no thanks. We're okay, not paying you. You know, what other teams are willing to pay you. I personally don't see Jeremiah Love as an elite talent. I see him as a very good running back who could be excellent at the NFL level. But if I'm going to take a running back in the top 10, I got to know I'm getting Christian McCaffrey or Bijon Robinson.

And I don't see Jeremiah Love. When I watched him at Notre Dame, you know, all the last couple of months, the different cut-ups of people going wild over them, I don't see him that way. I see him as I've said it a million times. My comp would be a faster version of Josh Jacobs. By the way, that is a tremendous running back. But I don't see the, you know, vision, the wiggle that you get from Bejohn and you get from McCaffrey. the tackle breaking. Of course I could be wrong.

I'm just a fan when it comes to this. But I put Bejohn Robinson at number seven, and I'd be all over it. Put Christian McCaffrey at number seven, I'd be all over it. Jeremiah Love, I'm not all over it. Offensive player, if you tell me it's an offensive player, I would hope that it's Carnell Tate, the wide receiver from Ohio State before Jeremiah Love. I think Tate's going to be tremendous.

but I want them to take the best player on their board, but also know Tommy that this draft, every draft expert believes this is a very light draft in elite first round top 10 level players. Some have said there are only five or six of them, you know, in this draft. Now, Jeremiah Love is consistently thought to be one of them, one of the elite talents in the draft. but yeah, that's how I feel about him.

I would have no, I would want them if I was a commander's fan to pick the offensive player who can help Jane Daniels the most with that seventh round pick, with that seventh pick in the draft. I would want them to pick the player, offense or defense, that helps the team the most. and by the way, a defensive player can be the player in this draft that helps Jaden Daniels the most as well. And I'm hoping that one of those, I think elite level pass rushers, David Bailey being the number one for me, I would love it if he were available at seven. But again, this is the draft.

We're all going to be wrong two thirds of the time. The teams are going to be wrong two thirds of the time. But David Bailey, to me, looks like a plug. and play pro-bowler, you know, fear-inducing, havoc-reaking, edge pass rusher for years to come. Now, most, you know, mocks don't have him, you know, falling anywhere near seven. I think Sunny Stiles, the more and more I watch,

and I think about Sunny Stiles, if he's there at seven, I think he helps the team overall more than even the running back. Jeremiah Love. I think Carnell Tate would help more. at wide receiver. But let me also be clear, I do think Jeremiah Love would help. I mean, I think he would help a lot.

I've said a faster version of Josh Jacobs. That's really, really good. That is an unbelievable running back in the NFL. I just don't think at seven I would take him because I don't think he's McCaffrey or Robinson. But it's a very interesting draft, Tommy, because there really is a developed consensus that this is not a great draft overall. And from an elite prospect level, it is lacking significantly after 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 players.

One of those players real quickly, Mansour Delane, the corner from LSU held his pro day yesterday and ran 4-3. That's a guy that would help this team a lot. I mean, I think he did himself a lot of good yesterday in his pro workout. His tape is great too. And Washington desperately needs a number one corner. I mean, imagine if they drafted Trey Amos last year and they draft Mansour Delane this year and you end up with your two bookend corners for years to come with Sanry still being able to be your, you know, slot guy and they're all young.

on defense, to go with everything else they added, you know, in free agency. The thing that's going to help Jaden more than anything is a defense that gets off the field based on last year's team. I got nothing else for you on this, Kevin. But I will have more as we get closer to the draft. You know, I can't wait for your big board. Yeah? I love every year when...

It's kind of not that big. It's just a little bored. I love every year when... By the way. What? Think of a thing about this. When we talk about the draft, next year that draft is going to be in Washington, D.C.

I know. That's going to be a wild, wild time. It is going to be a wild, wild time, no doubt. I'll bet you'll hit a million people. Oh, I think it's, you know, they've talked about it being a minimum of 750,000. I mean, that will be a very good, and many, ways, we've talked about this before in many ways, it'll be a better event than like having a Super Bowl. I mean, the Super Bowl gives you worldwide attention, but the draft is going to

bring in more people over a three-day period, and probably more than three days, because people will get here a day early and probably stay a day late. Yeah, it's going to be great. And people aren't frozen at the events like they are in the Super Bowl, which is such a costly thing, So I'm looking forward to that. That'll be really cool. It is free, right? Yeah, I believe so. I think it is.

Yeah. Never attended a draft. Have you? Never. Although, I will tell you, there were a couple of, you know, back when I was in college, we were so into the draft. My friends and I, it was like a Tuesday morning on ESPN. That's when the draft was held.

and it would start at 8 a.m. And let's just say that we didn't make it to class those days. And we talked so many times about let's just go up and go to one of these things. You know, it was at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square every year forever. All right. You want to get to baseball. I want to talk about the NCAA tournament a little bit more than I did yesterday. We got a lot of show left.

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How about Giants Yankees tomorrow night? On Netflix, Tommy. Netflix is televising this season opener. And then the Nats open up on Thursday, afternoon at Wrigley with Cade Cavali pitching in this season opener. So, you have some thoughts on the upcoming season,

and I think you've even made some predictions for the upcoming season. So go ahead. Well, you know, it is a shame that unless you have Netflix, you won't be able to see the opening day game. I have Netflix. I know you do. I know you do, but there's some people that don't. Yes, that's true.

And, I mean, it's baseball is not alone. All the sports, it's a money grab for the streaming networks, the cash that they're willing to pay out for these live events. So that's kind of a shame. And what's interesting is Netflix hired Barry Bonds to be part of the broad. Really? Yes. Has he done that before?

No. No, he hasn't done that before. No, baseball has no problem hiring their reprobates. I mean, look at A-Rod. A-Rod's the worst steroid offender in the history of the game, and he's part of the regular Fox. He's good. Yeah.

Oh, I don't know how good he is. I think he's pretty good. I actually like that guy. He offers any particular insight to what you're watching. And they had Pete Rose for years. You know, so, I mean, it's kind of funny, you know. I mean, these guys were, you know, were blackballed by the game, either when they played or when they were gone.

And, you know, TV hired him to be. So I'll be interesting to see how Barry does, because he's very opinionated. And I'm sure most of the conversations will center around him, no matter what it's involved in. It's interesting that you say that. I don't really have an opinion about Barry Bonds outside of baseball and performance enhancers. Like he's been, I don't know, he's just never been one that's been in the public eye.

No. No, he hasn't. So that's the most interesting thing about the broadcast is how will Barry be on it and whether this is the beginning of something for him or not. But yeah, and then the next day, the nationals open up at Wrigley, like you said, Kate Kavalli, the opening day starter.

I mean, I'm pretty excited about Kate Kavalli this year. He's coming, you know, he's fully healthy after his Tommy John surgery, He looked very impressive in spring training, and he has the potential to be a stud. He has that kind of stuff if he can stay healthy. So I'm very excited about him. That's maybe the only thing. No, I shouldn't say that. I'm very excited about the machines the Nationals have bought this winter with the new general manager, Paul Tobani.

They got lots of new machines, Kevin. I don't know if you've read that. I have, but I'm not, there's not a whole lot of interest. I sense sarcasm in your voice, so I do want to hear what these machines do. But I'm familiar with it, but I'm not, you know, I'm not up to speed on actually what these machines do. Well, I'm not sure what uniform number, the trajectory machine is going to wear the trajectory. pitching machine is going to wear. But if you read the off-season stories,

this is the biggest acquisition the team has done. You know, this pitching machine that basically it allows hitters to face simulations of specific MLB pitchers, you know, MLB pitcher arsenals. It helps improve timing and pitch recognition. you would have thought that they discovered the gin mill. Okay, the cotton gin. Well, are they the only team that has it, or are they the last team to have gotten it? They were the last team that got.

So why? Because the learners are cheap. How much do this? Of course, Microsol wanted to buy three of them. How much do these machines cost? Oh, they cost about a quarter of a million dollars. But you know what? That's cheaper than players.

That's cheaper than a player. And you can put a uniform on one of these guys and put them out there. Yes. But, you know, I mean, it's just, it's laughable. The preseason write-ups in the athletic and ESPN, you know, all geared towards, you know, the nationals have a whole new way of doing business. You know, it's very high-tech oriented, you know, very, very, very, very, very, towards the new age of baseball. And, you know, we'll see how that works for them.

They don't have a lot of talent on their roster, but they got a lot of machines and they got a lot of great teachers. So what I read. Okay. Nowhere, nowhere in any of these stories, have I read this, the learner family. Nowhere. Nothing has changed about this organization.

from before. Okay, then that's where the fourth winningest team in baseball for the entire decade of the 2010. Yeah.

Okay. That was in spite of the owners. Now they've been one of the worst teams in baseball in the 2020.

And that's because of the owners. That hasn't changed. Not one, but yet, but yet, I read a big article by ESPN about, you know, Paul Tobani and Blake

Batera and the new way of doing things and, you know, really teaching players. And I get this. You know, this is the new age of baseball. And, you know, it's a tool that works. These are tools that work a lot of times. But experience, and this isn't just the net, experience has become the scarlet letter in baseball.

The last thing they want to hear is I've got experience doing this. They don't want you damaged by baseball knowledge. They want you filled with baseball information. And again, this may all, you know, they're not the only team. You know, most teams are starting to do business this way. And, you know, I understand in a way, it's like, you know, revenge, the nerds. And I get it because a lot of these, a lot of people who dealt in analytics were dismissed years ago by the old guard in baseball. They weren't listened to. People didn't

necessarily embrace what they had to offer. Well, now those guys are in charge. And they're doing the same thing to the guys that used to dismiss them. So it's an interesting dynamic that's taking place in the game. And that's you're going to lose 100 games this year. Okay. And that means James Wood will be, you know, one year closer to free agency with nothing to show

for it. And then next year, we could have a work stoppage, which I'm sure the learners are rooting for it. Yeah. Yeah. You know? Right. You don't have to pay anybody. They lose less money when they're not playing baseball. And then once I think that later, situation is resolved, I'd be stunned if the team is not put up for sale again.

Right, because an impediment to the sale is the, you know, work stoppage possibility right now. It'd be better to acquire it. Unless you got it on a real deal right now. And I don't think the learners tend to just kind of knock the price down very easily. You know. No, one last thing about the learners. I think people are tired. I think people are tired of hearing about how the learners are a problem. So they've kind of like just covered their ears about it. You know, because you can't do anything about ownership.

You know, you can fire the manager. You can fire the general manager. But you can, and it's frustrating. So I think fans are just covered. And I think the media has, too. I think they got tired of basically the storyline that the line, that the learners are cheap and are just ignoring it now.

You know, but nothing has changed. These people have done business the same way all of their lives. They are not all of a sudden going to change for Paul Tabani. That's not going to happen. Is it worse with the old man not here or better? Yes.

He had his failings, believe me. The Steven Strzburt contract, the debacle of the deal, he signed that behind Rizzo's back with Scott Bors. And that was one of a couple of contracts that he did like that. On the other hand, he was more reachable than the rest of the family in terms of the baseball people getting heard. and just was more passionate about winning, more connected to winning.

It wasn't a lightweight like some of the family members are. Right. So yeah, it's worse without the old man, although the old man had his failings as well. Look, it's interesting. I heard something about the learners from somebody. Again, the real estate business is how they make their money, the real estate business.

And I heard this through somebody very plugged in to real estate business in D.C. Everybody had a sad story during COVID. You know, all the real estate, you know, tenants, realty orders, everybody had a sad story. So, you know, a lot of real estate companies, a lot of landlords worked with their tenants to basically get through the tough times. Yeah. You know? Made arrangements with them, made deals with them.

You know, to write it out. Learners, boom, pay me. Boom, pay me. I don't care if people are falling down in the street dead. Pay me. Yeah. And now they're paying the price for it. I've heard some of those stories, too.

Yeah. So that they're going to change? No, they're not going to change. But again, I'm interested in Kate Cavali watching him because I think he could be the real deal. I'm hoping that James Wood continues to develop into a star player that I think he's going to be. And there's not much else on the Major League club. I'm really interested in. They sent down, they sent Jill and Cruz down to AAA, you know, to AAA, which was a stutter.

This is a story. I mean, the number two pick in the draft, Schienes went one. And I remember, and I asked Mark Zuckerman about this recently, if the Nats had had the first pick. He does believe that they would have taken Skeens, but they loved Cruz. It's way too early to know for sure whether or not. Yeah, right?

It is. And there was a consensus that those guys were one and two. And the nationals weren't the only. anyone, you know, who thought that. Right. You know, that those two guys were the top players in the draft. But, you know, I'm sure Paul Tobani is saying, well, I didn't draft him. He's not my number one pick.

You know, I think if that was his number one pick, he'd still be on the major league roster. Yeah. Well, look, the Nats have the second lowest over under win total in Major League Baseball. The Rockies are 56 and a half at my bookie. The Nats are at 63 and a half. Big difference between the Rockies and the Nats, but also a big difference between the Nats and everybody else. You know, on that trajectory arc machine, the pitching machine,

there are currently 25 teams that have it. The Nats were the most recent. So that still means five teams don't have it. But if it really is something that works, and you're right, 250K a piece. So the Nats got two of them. They spent $500,000 on these two machines. Like, that just seems like peanuts to try to, if it's something that can help your team win. Man, we just have not had very good sports ownership in this town for a long, long time.

And it's kind of remarkable that the Nats had been. that stretch from 2012 to 2019. I mean, that was an eight-year stretch in which I think they won more games than any team in the National League other than the Dodgers. You said fourth overall, but second, I think, in the National League. I think you're right, yeah. I mean, they were really every year. We had October.

We pretty much were in the running for October. Yeah. Man, that World Series was a long time ago. and that pandemic for this ownership group in particular really hit it the wrong. This, not only this ownership, but this team too in this city. It was the worst. And the fan base. Yeah.

Really. Couldn't have come at a worst time. But I always say there's a lot of sad COVID stories, you know, out there. So did you have predictions? You said something before we started to record about predictions for the season. Yes. I came prepared, unlike my usual. Yeah, I mean, surprised. So go ahead. I know. I know. I guess I'm trying to impress you.

Yeah, like you care about that. Yeah. Okay, I picked the American League East. I picked the Blue Jays to repeat as A.O. East champions. I picked the Royals who have a tremendous young talent and maybe one of the best players in baseball and Bobby Wood Jr. to win the Central and the Mariners to repeat as American League West winners. Okay. My wildcard teams would be the Red Sox, the Yankees, and the Tigers in the American League.

Okay. Got it. Okay. And the National League, the East, I mean, if it's not the Phillies, that would be a major disappointment in Philadelphia. because they're stacked again with a great pitching staff in addition to a strong lineup. The Cubs, they added Alex Breckman, Breggman. So I like the Cubs in the Central Division, and let's face it, the Dodgers are the West. Okay.

So the Dodgers in the West and the Wild Cards being the Brewers, the Padres, and the Reds in the Wildcars. in the wild card. All right. In the American League, the American League, I have the team come out of the American League. I think it could be

basically a repeat of the World Series. Toronto Dodgers? I think it could be. Okay. Maybe the Mariners instead, but Mariners came awfully close to beating the Blue Jays

in the AL championship series. and they have great pitching as well. But I think it really could be very unusual, and I think we could have a repeat of that matchup. I mean, look, the Blue Jays lost, you know, Bo Bichette, a key bat in their lineup, but they have a lot of good young players on their roster.

And I don't think the Yankees are going to be Slipp in the World Series or the Mets, for that matter. Look, that was one hell of a playoffs and one hell of a world series in October. It was. I mean, we were treated to some really, really good stuff. So let's hope that happens again this year. Can I give you one last thing? Please.

Please. Okay. You know, in the minor leagues have the past few years, they've kind of like served as a laboratory for rule changes that they want to bring to the major leagues. So there's a lot of rules. There's a lot of new additions in the minor leagues that they could wind up in major league baseball. You know, actually, games got longer last year in major league baseball by two minutes.

Really? From two minutes and 30, two hours and 36 minutes is nothing. I mean, the rules changes from a few years ago. I mean, it's just a much more digestible game now in the regular season. For me, anyway. But they want to stay on top of it. They really want to stay on top of it. So what they're doing at different levels of the minor leagues,

they're saying like a pitcher has basically one disengagement per batter. A disengagement means you can step off the mound or you can do a pickoff play. You can throw to first. Okay. Right. Or second or third. Yeah. Right.

You get one. per battering. Right. So you can't keep throwing over. You can't keep walking off the mound and rubbing the ball and all this. So that,

they're going to try that at the minor leagues as well. They're going to have a mound visit pitch clock. Like the pitch clock, a mound visit clock, to limit the time that managers or pitching coaches can be out there for a, visit, and they're moving second base. What?

Apparently, second base, according to the athletic, has been in the wrong place for years. What does that mean? It's not a perfect diamond. It's not 90 feet by 90 feet. By 90 feet. It was off just a little bit. Hmm. Off in which direction?

Towards third or towards first? or towards center field or towards home plate? I think towards center field. They're moving at nine inches closer, and they're hoping this... Increases steals? Yes. Is that what it's being done for?

Yes, they is. But it is, technically, as I understand it, this is where second base should be, where they're moving it to. Okay. But it will increase steals. And again, at different levels of the minor league, they're doing these. They're not doing this in a major league yet.

But if things work out, you'll see these things in major league baseball at some point. All righty. 100 plus losses, though, for the Nats, right? Yes. All right, let's get to some other things. We'll do that after these words from a few of our sponsors. Did you know that fast-growing trees is America's largest and most trusted online nursery with thousands of trees and plants and over 2 million happy customers.

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fact that it is a cigar bar. Okay? And they have a menu of excellence of cigars just like they do food and drink. And I just wanted to remind people some of the cigars that they have for sale there. They have the best that

Rocky Patel has to offer. You know, Romeo eat Julietta. They have Tadiana. They have Cohibus. They have Ashton's. They have Monte Cristo's.

They have Padrons. These are the top-level cigars that you can buy anywhere. They have Opus X. They have a cigar called the God of Fire Churchill. Churchill is a style of cigar. They have the God of Fire Pyramide. They have the God of Fire Robusto. Okay, you can't go wrong with a cigar named God of Fire.

Okay? That's when you smoke, one light, one of those up, you become the god of fire. And that's what you'll be at Shelley's backroom at 13301. What's the Greek god of fire? The Greek god of fire? Is there one? There is no. No, there is no Greek god of fire.

Okay. I'm just sitting here deep diving on Rocky Patel, because I had never heard of Rocky Patel. I don't know anything about cigars. But Rocky Patel in the early 1990s began to become the premium cigar maker in America. He was a lawyer, an entertainment lawyer in Los Angeles. He got introduced to cigars and became instantly fascinated by them. He joined the Grand Havana Club in Los Angeles as one of its founding members. And while dabbling in various investment ventures, Rocky was approached.

with a business plan to manufacture cigars. It was still the early days of the cigar boom. I remember the cigar boom of the 1990s. I remember actually smoking a lot of cigars in the 90s. Didn't even like smoking them, but everybody else was doing it. And anyway, Rocky was... Everyone wanted to be Al Capone. Yeah, and Rocky was still apprehensive.

However, the investment was made in the inaugural Indian tobacco cigars rolled in, rolled in Honduras began to flourish on the American market. But he became, you know, quite the guy.

Yeah, that 90s cigar craze with, you know, people, with guys in particular, God, I remember every party,

every place you went to, everybody's got cigars, everybody's smoking them. I never, I still to this day, don't smoke cigars, don't smoke cigars, don't love cigars. I mean, I don't hate them. I mean, but yeah, that was a craze, huh? And it's, and when did you

get into cigars? Oh, I've, I've been smoking them since the 70s. I remember. That's how I burnt down my fraternity. Well, I know that. So when everybody, like, when all the guys in their 20s in the 1990s got into cigars, what did you think? Again, I thought everybody was, it was, it was, it It was a persona. People were trying to adapt the persona. I called it the Al Capone look. Yeah. You know, everybody wanted to be Al Capone.

Right. You know? I mean, I didn't, I didn't, you know, join the party. It's fine with me again. You know, and it frustrates people because I'm not a connoisseur of cigars. When people want to talk cigars about me, I just say, look, I just light them up and smoke. Okay. But the people who do know cigars work at Shelly's backroom, and they can help you.

you pick out the best cigar for what you're looking for. You can find out more at shelley's backroom.com. I personally don't have an issue with people that are into cigars or into beers or into wines, you know, because it's a hobby, you know, it's an interest. And if you're really interested and you, you know, really get involved in the stuff, that's great. but there are some wine people and beer people that can be pretty insufferable with their knowledge levels. I just like drinking.

I'm glad I'm not insufferable. No, you're not when it comes to cigars. That's why people love hanging out with you at Shelley's. Saddle up next to Tommy. Seize. Seize people think I'm very insufferable. I know, but I don't. here's a story that's sort of tailor-made for me

because there was a time where I used to suggest things like this and there were callers and I think maybe even you would say I don't get that at all University of Connecticut coach Danny Hurley and his Yukon Huskies are going to be playing Friday night at Capitol One Arena in the second of two Sweet 16 games They play Michigan State in the first game,

fellow Big East member, St. Johns, plays Duke. And Danny Hurley is pleading for his fan base to rally together with the St. John's fan base to root for each other in that arena. So when St. John's plays Duke, Yukon fans in the arena will be rooting for. St. John's and vice versa in the nightcap. Now, these are two fan bases that are rival fan bases.

Hurley said it will be a live building. It's probably a little bit early because the first game starts at 7 o'clock. But obviously, I think we've got to support each other. It's pretty brutal on Twitter, I think, the social, you know, the socials, he says, between our fan bases. But I think we have to try to come together Friday night. against our opponent so we can have a bloodbath on Sunday, meaning in the elite eight against each other.

This is something I witnessed was a part of. In the ACC, Tommy, back in the good old days, when you were in an arena in the NCAA tournament and there were fellow ACC schools there with you, you rooted for the other ACC schools and they rooted for your school. And there were a couple of instances. I can remember specifically being in an arena with NC State fans. NC State was playing, God, I want to say Michigan State actually.

And we were playing, I think it was Wisconsin. And the NC State fans and Maryland fans came together and we were rooting like hell for each other's teams. and that happened, you know, the only thing I don't know, because I was never in an NCAA tournament venue with Duke and North Carolina fans. I don't know if Duke in North Carolina shared the same feelings about each other, but I think they did.

There was a real camaraderie. There was a real family kind of a feel where, you know, families fight, but once people from outside the families start to fight family, members, the family comes together to protect one another. That's the way it always was in the ACC. And I remember talking about this on the air and how I would root for other ACC teams in the NCAA tournament.

And people thought, no way, why would you ever root for Duke? It was harder to root for Duke. I'm not going to kid you on that. But still, I wanted the most ACC teams possible to advance in the tournament. It was better for the league. which meant better for my school. I've not felt that way about the Big Ten at all, at any point. But I think it's interesting that Hurley kind of recognizes,

hey, man, this is a Big East thing. We got two of us, and they're only one of each of the other. Could be an advantage. What do you think? A booty opponent, Duke, and who else? Michigan State. Okay. you know, I think emotionally, I think if you're looking for a real rivalry, like he called a bloodbass,

I think even if you're not from that, you know, a big East fan, I think as a basketball fan, you would love to see Connecticut versus St. Johns, wouldn't you? Let me just see my pool versus yours. You have in the East Regional Final You've got Duke over Michigan State I have Hold on I know I have St. John's in the elite eight

I have them beating Duke And then I have St. Johns over Michigan State I have St. John's in the Final Four Would I like to see a Big East final At Capital One? I don't know It'd be pretty good Yeah, I mean, I used to hate the Big East as a Maryland guy and as an ACC guy.

There was a real rivalry in the 80s and 90s in 2000s between the ACC and the Big East because they were always considered to be the top two basketball leagues. The Big Ten was right there with them. But the Big Ten was much more of a football league first, whereas the ACC and Big East were basketball leagues first. And, yeah. But your rooting interest would be with Michigan State, right? With the Big Ten. Yeah, but like I said, I don't feel as strongly about the Big Ten as I used to feel about the ACC.

But, you know, there are six Big Ten teams in the Sweet 16. The Big Ten has dominated this tournament so far. I mean, they've got two teams facing off in a Sweet Sixteen matchup. Iowa plays Nebraska, you know, head-to-head. In that region, the South region, it's Iowa, Nebraska, Illinois, and Houston. So three Big Ten teams in that region's Sweet 16 matchups alone. You could easily see an all Big Ten final four. I mean, I don't think you will, but you could get Michigan State, you could get Purdue, you could get Michigan, and you could get Illinois in the final four.

That would be wild. I don't think we've ever seen. seen three out of four, certainly the Big East did it in 85 when Georgetown played Villanova in the final. The other team was St. John's in that final four. But I get where Hurley's coming from, and I think it would be beneficial as much as those fan bases may hate each other to, you know, for that one evening, it makes a difference. If you're playing in what feels like a home court environment, it makes a difference. Big difference. I think it would. I think you're right. And, you know, Hurley's complained about his own fan base a lot.

Says they've gotten too fat and happy. They've gotten to the point where they just expect it. The, you know, the games at home aren't the raucous environments they used to be after they won two titles in a row. I get that, too, man. He's a whiner. Yeah, he's such a good coach, though, Tommy. And that matchup.

The coach is... I'm so tired of his act. The coach, there's several coaches, I'm tired of. Mick Cronin would lead the list, I think, for me. But how about the coaches? I mean, you've got, you've got Petino, you've got Izzo, and you've got Hurley in that region. I mean, you got some older coaches, man. Some real old coaches.

Rick Barnes is still in the tournament. You know, you've got Calipari still in the tournament. That game may be the game I'm looking forward to the most. I am not going to the games on Friday night. I might go Sunday. It's a great environment, these regionals. The matchups are incredible. I mean, no mid-majors, Tommy, at all.

I mean, you've got an 11 seed, but it's Texas. You've got a 9 seed, but it's Iowa. These matchups are great. And if you guys have never been to one of these things, the environment's incredible for them. I went in 2019. It was so good and totally worth it. All right. I've got one other thing that I want to talk about.

And it is the NFL over unders for win totals next year are out. And I want to talk about Washington's number. We will do that next after these words from a few of our sponsors. If you want to bet the NCAA tournament suite 16 games and beyond, my recommendation is to do it at my bookie where they're offering a 50% cash bonus when you use my promo code, DC reload. 50% of what you deposit will be added to your account. It's your money to wager with. So if you deposit $100, another 50 gets added to your account. Your account balance reads $150.

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mistaken, but I think we may have talked about this a few weeks ago. And I guessed incorrectly, I guessed that the number for Washington would be eight and a half. It was nine and a half last year. I just thought there would be recognition from the books that last year was really beyond their control and that they still have, you know, Jaden Daniels coming back to play quarterback. But their number is seven and a half. That is, you know, it's not the lowest win total over under in the league. The lowest is... That's a very familiar win total.

It reeks of Washington football teams in the past. I remember it was typically seven and a half. Yes. No, no, no, it was less than seven and a half. It was seven and a half. Like right now, the two lowest, Arizona and Miami both have wind totals of four and a half for next year. The wind totals, by the way, for those of you that aren't following along,

that's the projected wind totals. You bet over or you bet under. Miami and Arizona are at four and a half. The Jets and Raiders are at five and a half. Cleveland and Tennessee are at six and a half. And then you get a group of five at seven and a half, which includes Atlanta, New Orleans, the Giants, the Panthers, and Washington. Now, I will tell you that Washington's price on playing the over is the most expensive price.

So they're leaning towards, you know, Washington being the strongest of those seven and a half teams. They are seven and a half minus 125 on the over plus 105 on the under. So you get some benefit by playing the under. You're penalized a little bit by playing the over. So that just gives you an indication that they think over is the play that, you know, for Washington and where they'll see most of the action, which is why they're charging more for it. But, you know, the teams at eight and a half are Dallas, Tampa, Pittsburgh, Minnesota,

and Indy. Indy wasn't a playoff team last year. Minnesota wasn't a playoff team last year. Tampa wasn't a playoff team last year. Dallas wasn't a playoff team last year. I thought Washington was going to be in that group at eight and a half. But you know what? Seven and a half sounds like a good number to me to play the first.

over, but they got to be healthy, that's for sure, because last year they were not. Their odds, by the way, to win the Super Bowl are 65 to 1. There are only, let me just figure this out, there are only 369, 9 teams with longer odds. They're 65 to 1 to win the Super Bowl, 30 to 1 to win the conference, and plus 450,000. to win the division. Dallas has better odds. Philadelphia has better odds.

They still have better odds at my bookie to win the division than the Giants do. I think the Giants are going to be improved, but I've thought that the last couple of years. All right. Anything else from you? I got nothing else for you today, boss. Looking forward to that draft board.

When do you think it'll be done? I'll have to check with my staff. Well, you do that. You check with your staff, and we'll schedule a time for you to give us the entire draft board. All right, that is it for the day. I'm going to leave you with this Adam Schaefter cut from my radio show earlier today. See you, Tommy.

Okay, boss. Yeah, it's one of the reasons that I really don't love doing extra radio shows. Because everybody just takes what you say, and they turn it into what they want to turn it into to get clicks and aggregate things. and so I'm sure I'm going to say something in the next 10 minutes. It's going to wind up, you know, as some sort of mini report or whatever it may be. It comes to the territory.

It's part of the job. I don't particularly care for that element of it. I'd love to have a deal with radio stations or anybody. I'm not going to this show. Please don't post about it. Because that's where I think a lot of issues arise. Like yesterday on a Fat Mackey show, I'm like, yeah, we're talking. I go, yeah, time since he's going to be a one.

Now, I'm not reporting that. That's just my sense and. lay of the lay of the land today a month out of the draft. All of a sudden, headlines everywhere. Shepter, Ty Simpson will be a one. Well, I mean, I guess I did say that, but I guess I'm not allowed to say that because when I say it, it turns into a report, right? Like, there's no context.

Now, again, that's my belief. I've spoken to people. It doesn't mean he will be a one, but that's what I believe today. And there's still a lot that can change between now and the draft. As we saw last year, Wichador Sanders. If I had to say today, yes, I guess maybe I should use that word. I think, I think Tyson will be a one, but we're talking and I get a little bit excited. I'm like, yeah, he's going to be a one.

And that's what happens. So in regards to the Redskins or the commanders, excuse me, we're talking about- You don't have to excuse yourself with that. On the, on, we're saying about Jeremiah Love. And yesterday, you were saying, I'm like, well, actually, she asked me. I go, oh, I know why this is Jeremiah Love. And again, this is, let me spell it out connecting the dots. Okay.

Jeremiah, love in my mind is going to be a top 10 pick. I don't believe a month out. Don't believe, don't think, not reporting, don't believe or think, that he'll go four. I'm skeptical he'll go five. I don't think it'll go six. I think Washington, nobody, and let me very clear, I've never spoken to Washington. to Washington about Jeremiah Love. Never once.

Okay? But I've spoken to a lot of people about Jeremiah Love and the kind of player he is. I also know that Washington has been in the running back market. Ah, well, they've been in the running back market. We've got a great player. There's a real chance you may get past four or five and six.

If that real great player gets past four, wouldn't it make sense to take him at seven? Thus, we land on where we landed on the Pat Mackey show, and I said what I said, which turns into whatever. turned into, I don't even know it's out there. I mean, I shouldn't have to explain the background on every situation because sometimes they're more informed opinions than others. Now, they're never

just thrown out there, never, okay? But sometimes I've spoken to the actual team, sometimes I haven't. Sometimes I've spoken to somebody in the know about it. Sometimes I haven't. Sometimes I've spoken to various people that know a lot about the draft. Sometimes I haven't. So every situation is different. In this particular case, I'm connecting dots. And by the way, my job overdoing this for the last 36 years has been to connect dots in many cases. And sometimes you're successful in connecting dots, and sometimes you're not. In draft season, you never know how it's going to go. But I think that you could find a scenario where if Jeremiah Love slid to seven, he would not get past the commanders. That's all.