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We had Aaron Rodgers in street clothes. We had the lights going out in Canton because it's not a Hall of Fame game without some type of technical difficulty there at the stadium. We did not have much love for the starters, for either the Jets or the Browns, but it was the official kickoff of the 2023 NFL campaign.

And we had plenty of Hall of Fame dusting, if you will. Plenty of Hall of Fame sprinkled into the broadcast, which I really look forward to. It's cool to see the conversations with guys like Rondae Barber and of course Joe Thomas. You can imagine it felt like a bit of a home game for the Browns, for the Browns fans, with the game taking place in Canton before one of the most iconic Cleveland athletes of all time gets inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. To that end, coming up a little bit later on the show, Jonathan Peterlin, who finishes up his show on 92.3 The Fan, our Cleveland affiliate at Midnight Eastern, he will join us not so much about this particular game, but about some of the question marks because the Browns do have plenty. Finishing last season at 7 and 10, anticipating a full campaign with Deshaun Watson, no Kareem Hunt, but still Nick Chubb.

How does that change the running game? And then of course, Joe Thomas into the hall. I love that Joe is unabashedly Cleveland for life. He is a Cleveland Brown through and through and is proud of that. And I think that's awesome.

There's a lot of reasons to like Joe Thomas. And so for that reason, we will spend some time in Cleveland with Jonathan Peterlin a little bit later here on After Hours. Happy almost Friday. Sometimes we call it Fri-yay! I almost feel guilty saying anything about Friday because I only had a three-day work week. But in my defense, I only slept two hours before catching a flight on Tuesday morning. So that was a tough turnaround.

And it was, it was, it is always challenging to get back on the overnight schedule. So I'm not complaining, but I'm also still feeling it even though it's just a three-day work week or a three-night work week. I'll be happy to get to Friday morning when it's time to go grocery shopping because I actually went the entire week without going grocery shopping. You know how it is when you go away? You empty your fridge.

And so I really had a whole lot of nada in my fridge. And then I kept thinking, oh, I'll go tomorrow morning. Well, I'll go tomorrow.

Okay, I'll go in the afternoon. And I just didn't. A lot of other phone calls and some items that I needed to check off my to-do list that were a little more timely. So I did not actually make it to the grocery store. And now when I tell you that my fridge is barren, you're just going to have to take my word for it. Imagine opening up the fridge and there's nothing but some almond milk and a few creamers. That's pretty much it. Okay. Condiments.

There's condiments and my dog's insulin. That's it. It's After Hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS Sports Radio. Thanks so much for hanging out with us. Glad to have you on our final show of the work week.

You can find me on Twitter, A Law Radio, and then our Facebook page too. We had asked you probably halfway through our last show whether or not you will miss Tom Brady on the football field this season. And of course, there are always snarky comments that go along with any question about Tom Brady or a high-profile athlete that gets a ton of attention that can be polarizing because people get tired of hearing about them. But because Brady was busy announcing his latest sports business venture about this time last night across the pond, he was across the pond, we did put up a poll on social and it worked out really well.

Will you miss Tom Brady on the football field this season? And so the poll is still live. It goes for another hour. I'm going to retweet it on my account now, A Law Radio, and you can weigh in if you haven't yet because I really think it's interesting. Not only do I want to see how the rest of the poll goes, but actually you may find the results fascinating. So check those out or if Facebook is more your jam you can weigh in on our Facebook page. The interesting mix, interesting voting, interesting lean of the voting, interesting voting dynamics. And we try to extrapolate those results and project them onto sports fans.

Of course, it's still representative of those who are listening and those who happen to patrol the overnights with us or the late nights, the late nights or the overnight, even the early mornings. But I did see a lot of Patriots fans who answered on Facebook and actually still miss him and will miss him. Followed him to Tampa Bay and enjoyed watching him play and will continue to miss him in New England, to be sure. And as you think about the AFC East, the Bills are the class of that division. The Jets now have a very refreshed and rejuvenated, re-energized Aaron Rodgers, who even as I look up at NFL Network, he's doing an extended, extended, extended interview with what was NBC Sports carrying the broadcast.

Of the Hall of Fame game. And then you've got the Miami Dolphins who made the playoffs last year and used three different quarterbacks. So with those three teams making the AFC East top heavy, where does that leave the Patriots? So see there, you can understand why for Pats fans, they're definitely still missing Tom Brady and it won't be the same. Missing Tom Brady and it won't be the same in the first year following his official retirement, like his second official retirement. So take that poll again on Twitter or on our Facebook page and we'll talk a little football as we move forward on the show.

Not a ton to react to, but maybe just a comment here or there from the two coaches. Also, like I said, really love the Hall of Fame interview. So hopefully we'll have some of those. Well, we'll have the Hall of Fame speeches coming up on Sunday night, but maybe some of the more candid moments too, just because it's really cool when these guys are relaxed before they get up there and it's more formal on the stage. One of our former colleagues here at CBS Sports Radio, who did a show for a long time, Tiki Barber, he will be introducing his brother, his twin brother, Ronde Barber, when Ronde goes into the Hall of Fame this weekend.

So that's really neat. I love those brother connections or sibling connections in sports. It's a cool theme that I always like to celebrate and knowing Tiki personally, it'll be fun to see him take part in that.

So yeah, some of the more candid moments, just the chance to see these guys post-career being honored for what they meant to their individual franchises, in some cases more than one, and also what they meant to the sport as a whole. A little bit more football with the QB news coming up as well. And man, if you're not following what's happening in college football, we're definitely going to have to touch on that. So the big news breaking just a few hours ago is that it does appear as though we'll have another departure from the Pac-12. According to multiple sources, and Dennis Dodd for CBS being one of them, Arizona is pretty far down the road in its discussions, in its negotiations if you will, to join the Big 12. So leaving the Pac-12 to join the Big 12. Colorado already did join the Big 12, and according to Dennis, Arizona will soon follow. Dennis also says you can expect that Arizona State would be the next domino to drop, meaning the Sun Devils would follow the Wildcats to the Big 12. And where does that leave the Pac-12? We know Washington and Oregon are talking about joining the Big 10, which is no longer the 10. It could end up double that, it could be the Big 20. But if Washington and Oregon leave for the Big 10, Arizona and Arizona State follow Colorado to the Big 12, what does that mean about the Pac-12?

Already struggling to find any type of a broadcast deal, and that's with these members remaining. I'd love to hear your reaction to it, especially if you're listening in the Pacific time zone right now where, yeah, you think about Washington, Oregon, Oregon State, Stanford, Washington State, and then of course the two Arizona schools who currently are a part of this conference but may not be for long. What does this mean for the Pac-12 as a whole?

You can find me on Twitter, ALaw Radio, or on our Facebook page. So we'll talk a little more football to that end. It's complicated in college football, really in college sports overall.

You know that, and I do not update my Facebook relationship status, I never have, but there's a, I guess there's a label that you can pick, describes your relationship status as it's complicated. That's how it is in college sports, and it's a number of factors. It's the NIL rules which essentially allow schools to set up pay-for-play systems. Now they aren't called that, and pay-for-play is still technically illegal, but if you can promise an athlete before he ever steps on campus that he will have an NIL deal worth, spitballing here, $100,000, then that feels a hell of a lot like pay-for-play to that player and his family. If you can promise it to him before he ever steps on campus, then it's not really about what he's done in that particular uniform, it's about luring him to that school with the promise of NIL money.

Ultimately there's no distinction between the two. Plus the transfer portal, and I have no issue with athletes being allowed to transfer from one school to another, or even to another if that's what they want to do, without penalty. I never ever liked the idea of taking a year of eligibility away from a college athlete simply because he or she is not allowed to transfer from one school to another, or even to another, of taking a year of eligibility away from a college athlete simply because he or she decided that it was a better fit elsewhere. Or even if it's something as petty as I'm not getting as much playing time as I want, even if it has nothing to do with academics, why should the schools or the conferences, ultimately the NCAA, be able to tell an athlete you can or cannot go somewhere without losing eligibility?

I always felt like that was wrong anyway. So you have the transfer portal, which obviously juggles the entire college football and college basketball landscape every offseason, and now you have more, almost another wave of conference realignment. There's a lot of uncertainty. It seems to be a non-stop revolving door with schools, rosters, coaches, conferences.

It's hard to find any consistency. It's hard to find any type of a stability in the sport. And so with that instability and with the uncertainty among not just schools and their own programs, their own teams, but also the conferences themselves, you can sort of understand.

Now I don't love it. I'm not telling you that I do, but why the Big 10 and the SEC and now the Big 12, who went through this kind of on the downside of the cycle, losing a bunch of its members in recent years, most notably Texas and Oklahoma in the last few months or the last year or so, that news breaking. But it's not just those two schools. There have been others. Remember, Texas A&M departed and broke up one of the best rivalries in college football with UT.

And so it's just, it's been kind of a new cycle, if you will. The SEC, the Big 10, and now the Big 12, again, they want to insulate themselves from this instability as much as possible. So the more schools in new and varied and untapped revenue markets, new cities, new fan bases, the more you can hoard as a conference, the less susceptible you are to the less susceptible you are to what's happening with the Pac-12, which is the conference on the verge of collapse. Now the Big 12, again, kind of went through it, dropped down, of course, below their 12 teams that are now trying to build their way back up.

But it was touch and go there for a while with the Big 12 as well. So here comes another wave, and it may look like greed and it may feel bloated for the Big 10 or the SEC. But considering how other conferences have been rated, so to speak, with teams and schools poached, the bigger you are in this case, the more protected you are from having kind of the legs pulled out from underneath you.

That old joke or prank that people play, I don't even know if people do it anymore, but a broken leg on a chair so that when someone sits down on it, the leg falls out, or someone goes to sit in a chair and you yank the chair away from them from behind. I can imagine there's a healthy dose of fear among conference commissioners, which is why, again, you're seeing teams get invited, you're seeing schools be poached, you're seeing conferences hoarding teams, because then if they lose a few, well, they're back where they started. It's crazy, but it's a little scary, I'm sure, for not just the athletes who don't know what their school is doing from year to year, but also for the conference commissioners. Big money. It's all about the bottom line in college sports, big-time college sports, of course.

So find us on Twitter or Facebook, take our Tom Brady poll. Coming up, we're going to pivot a little bit because Shohei Ohtani had some good news and he had some bad news and he had some bad news on Thursday. Also in the AL West, Max Scherzer makes his debut with the Rangers and Justin Verlander reintroduced, do you think anybody forgot who he was, with the Houston Astros. The busy day for the AL West. Jack Flaherty makes his debut for the Baltimore Orioles to much success.

And as I say, we are off and running NFL preseason 2023. I could say it's back, but it's definitely not better than ever. The lights go out, then the showers don't work. Apparently there's some electrical issue in Canton that had to do with both the light failure as well as the showers failing to fire up. So apparently there were a bunch of players who had to take freezing cold showers, actually maybe freezing, I think I saw the the report on Twitter that they were freezing cold ice baths, they weren't even taking showers.

So that sounds absolutely horrific. We are inching ever closer to the weekend, another some summertime weekend, the first one in August, believe it or not. So we're glad to have you with us.

Happy almost Friday. It's After Hours with Amy Lawrence, CBS Sports Radio. You are listening to the After Hours podcast.

This is After Hours with Amy Lawrence. There's good news and there's bad news about Shohei Ohtani. 40th home run of the season.

He is of course still tops in the majors in that power hitting category. And he did toss four scoreless innings against the Mariners but stopped at 59 pitches, was replaced by Jose Soriano for the start of the fifth inning because of cramping in his right middle finger. Boy he's had all kinds of issues with his fingers, right? The cracked fingernail, then what was it after that? It was the cracked fingernail and then it was the blister and now it's the... Then I think it was the cracked fingernail again recently. Then it's the cramps and I understand cramps can be challenging. I see other athletes go through this depending upon the heat and humidity levels, how much water they've consumed, dehydration can have a lot to do with it. But in this case, the cramping was once again revolving around a finger.

So he has had more trouble with his, as Phoebe Buffay would call them, his phalanges. So Shohei Ohtani post game, we'll get to the the actual game result, but post game about his concern level and and why he took himself out. Yeah, it's not just my finger. I've been kind of getting cramps all over the place, so I'm not that and I felt like maybe I could have gone another inning or two, but I'm trying to feel out how my hand feels, but it was a 0-0 game. Couldn't give up any runs and I felt like it was better for the team for me to stop pitching there. He told me that his, well his finger was cramping and he couldn't pitch anymore. So I had to take him out.

Right middle finger the same with any of those. Right middle finger was cramping and he couldn't get it to straighten out and just told me he couldn't pitch anymore. I've always trusted him and his body and what he is and when he tells me that and he tells me he can't go anymore, I mean he can't go anymore. How much of a concern is that going forward for him? I mean it's finger, so I'm not overly concerned. Obviously he was fine to hit and we'll test him out in the next couple days, but he doesn't usually throw right after his starts for a couple days, so we'll see how it goes. But like I said, I mean it's the finger and it kept cramping.

It's in his hand, so nothing in his arm. That's a good sign, but you know like I said, he came to me and said his finger keeps cramping and I can't get it to go and I can't pitch anymore. In addition to this mess with the finger and the other cramps, Otani as he stayed in the game had home run number 40, also had one intentional walk, stole second base and then came around to score the tying run in the sixth inning. So he impacts the game regardless of whether or not he's on the mound. We know that he wreaks havoc for opposing pitchers and defenses, so has home run number 40 and also reaches base safely four times, right? So whether he's pitching or not pitching, sometimes when he's pitching he's actually better at the plate. The game's still hanging in the balance though for the Angels. And the 0-2 pitch, swing and a high fly ball deep to right field. Renfro going back to the wanting track, looking up and grandma get out the right bread and mustard.

It is grand salami time. Cade Marlowe with his first career grand slam straight away right field into the big bleachers, his second big league home run. Holy smokes, what a shot by Cade Marlowe and it's now the Mariners five and the Angels three. His first ever grand slam and Cade Marlowe gives the Mariners the lead in the ninth. You hear that on Mariners radio before that we had Terry Smith on Angels radio and so this turns into a loss and even though the injuries are not serious for Shohei Ohitani or not believed to be serious for Shohei, it's still sucky for the Angels that they couldn't protect that lead and didn't have their ace for longer and now once again the roller coaster ride taking a downturn for the Angels because they've lost three in a row and they've faded back to seven and a half behind the Rangers in the AL West.

Speaking of those Rangers, Mad Max makes his debut. We'll get to that following the update but Justin Verlander introduced like hey ever seen this guy before? He's back in the Lone Star State. We barely missed him because he was only gone for a few months and yet he did waive his no trade clause to return to the place where he won another Cy Young and a couple of rings. Houston was you know the number one choice for me the just knowing these guys so well and you know having a chance to win you know the familiarity and you know had such a great time here so yeah you know that was yeah number one choice. I suppose if you have to bail from one team you would prefer to go back to a place where you know a lot of the guys where you're familiar with the the stadium the routine maybe even the city that's helpful but obviously this is not what he expected when he signed with the Mets a few months ago. I don't think anybody saw this coming um you know you commit to a team and you you commit to to trying to win a championship there and that's your vision right you're all in and then a few months later you know you're back with the team you're with the last season. I feel like I was just really starting to get settled in the city and my apartment and my family was really getting used to things here you know you start building a life off the field you know you build you try to build a life in the city that you're in and you start getting comfortable and you make friends and um so that part is really difficult it's a lot on the family. I think a lot of fans forget that part of it now maybe with his family because his wife is a supermodel it's a little more top of mind I did feel I see a few people who asked me whether or not Kate would go with him but for the most part I think we forget about that when we talk about athletes getting traded or having to move mid-season I mean think about if you were in that same position and maybe you're in the middle of a school year now it doesn't happen to apply in the dead of baseball season but your family gets transferred or you have a job you get transferred and have to pick up and move and I'm sure it's happened to some of you who are listening it's jarring and even though these are the the best athletes in the world when your family is in transition or when you feel like your family is not settled then sometimes it can affect you too and it's just it's just difficult to start all over so yeah if you're going to get traded away from a team after a few months you might as well go back to a place where you have some familiarity. All right on Twitter A Law Radio our Facebook page too happy almost Friday top of the hour we'll connect with Jonathan Peterlin from our Cleveland affiliate it's a big weekend for Browns fans because Joe Thomas will be inducted into the Hall of Fame but also they're on the field with all of no starters lots of starters standing there in street clothes or I like a good winter hat as as much as anyone but why would Deshaun Watson be wearing a winter hat in August I grew I grew up partly in Northeast Ohio my grandparents lived there for years that was where we spent our summers well it was not cold there in in August so why is it a fashion statement I'm gonna assume yes but if you're asking me about fashion I think we're looking in the wrong direction I am not a fan of fashion if it makes me boiling hot nah yeah I'm not the only one thing so like I don't really know exactly what everybody's trying to do obviously I guess that's a look that he's going for I I don't know he's practicing for the cold now I will say this he's not the first person I've seen with the winter hat in the middle of the summer so it's something that people do why I'm assuming the look is more important than the comfort okay I'm not I'm the other way I'm much more of a comfort than the look me too I'm absolutely about practicality and functionality functionality functionality functional functionality especially when you're talking about heat uh I don't I don't do heat to begin with never mind let's try to make things warmer no no no he's got a short sleeve shirt on and shorts it looks like so he knows it's hot I don't understand why he decides to grab the beanie like a it looked to be a a wool or knit beanie now a real one how many times have we also seen guys though in shorts wearing a sweatshirt with the hoodie and the hoodie on so like it's it's long sleeves but a beanie is like specifically for the cold like a hoodie is versatile the bean when you put the beanie on like that means it's cold well not for Deshaun Watson apparently I I don't know maybe the rest of his body's fine but his head's a little chilly I don't know huh I don't know do you remember when the talk about Deshaun Watson not choosing Cleveland was because he didn't like the cold and that was the reason that he wanted he wouldn't go to Cleveland um but I guess you know 235 million dollars guaranteed makes you a hell of a lot warmer so it didn't ultimately matter you can burn some of that you can't you can't if you need to yeah all right so we'll hear from Mad Max Scherzer he was very talk he was chatty Kathy on Thursday evening and uh I think I just got an eye roll from Marco Belletti for sure yes yes because I mean he has been the guy hasn't stopped talking about all this stuff and again I'm not even a Met fan you were the reason they faded down the stretch where they didn't win the division you were awful in the playoffs you were terrible in every big spot and as soon as you walk away you you have not shut up once and the whole time when you were terrible for pitching for the original team that you were on you always uh one little thing I gotta fix one little we'll fix it then my favorite is when he talks about an injury or a body part and it's like on and on and on and on it's the descriptions are in depth the hard part for this is I actually like Scherzer I like that like that bulldog mentality but you can't be a bulldog and then have excuse after excuse after excuse stop it it's almost like you got zip it in your old age you became like a crotchety old man stop sorry stop there are some crotchety old men in sports just do your job stop talking so much do your job when you're the ace and the the side you had one job well we again when you're pitching to a 160 ra and you're carrying the team and you want to keep talking I don't like it but I understand it you're the culprit you're the reason everything fell apart you're the start of this slide going back to the wild card game last october before that they had a chance to win the division against the Braves he came up small that's right that's right and back-to-back starts those are the last two starts of the season right and then you go into the playoffs I mean as how many homers did he give up against the Padres what what are you complaining about what all right pivoting really quick before we get to your update you have to answer this question next hour next hour think on it it's our poll will you miss Tom Brady on the football field this season don't say don't say we're good thing it's not tv right now you are listening to the after-hours podcast bases loaded two men out Scherzer's 0 2 pitch swinging a ground ball left side that gets by young and out in the left the base hit Ben Intendy is home Vaughn being waved in here comes the throw from Jankowski it's late for Gavin sheets an opposite field two run single and the single and the Sox have a crooked number here in the first lead at three nothing this is after hours with Amy Lawrence I'm sure there were plenty of Mets fans snarky snickering laughing out loud loling at the start Max Scherzer had in his Rangers debut the call there on Rangers radio so yeah what exactly happened in that first inning where he gave up three runs to the Chicago White Sox I was just in the dugout saying don't panic like don't panic you're okay like they're not they're not blasting you know they're not hitting home runs you know it's not the execution of pitches you know they're just finding holes right now and so just continue to execute pitches you know get back in the zone you know find a way to get some quick outs you know and let's just pitch and compete and so you know it's great when that happens you're able to you know get some zeros going up and then obviously our offense say you know was able to get going and hit some good home runs and so that's that's what's fun is when the whole team you know has kind of a hand in it everybody kind of did their job today and we won as a team it's after hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS Sports Radio I told you he was a chatty Kathy following the game and that's probably in large part because he was able to turn it around after the opening inning that was on a no-2 pitch and this one hit on the ground left side Young to his left has it he throws the first one near the bag at second and that ends the inning so one two three frame for Matt Scherzer and he gets it done efficiently into the full line goes Scherzer and here comes the 0-2 pitch a swing and a miss got him with a curve ball there down on the way and so Remillard out on strikes five strikeouts here for Scherzer in his Rangers debut three two again swing and a miss he struck him out fastball just above the zone Scherzer now seven strikeouts in five innings in his Rangers debut and after four and a half the Rangers still lead four three life's easy when you can go seven eight innings and they're hitting the balls at people and you're striking people out kind of life's easy as a pitcher when when things break your way but you find out about yourself when things don't break your way when you know they get some you know bleeding hits they get some you know you know for me I got kind of singled to death there through the first two lanes I had 55 pitches through two you know it's then what do you do then that's when you find out who you are about a pitcher and sometimes these are almost my favorite starts is when you're getting beat around there in the early part of the game but you settle in you can't catch rhythm and you're able to pitch deep into a ball game and so that's what I'm most happy about I finished strong he did he gave up all three runs in the first inning he allowed seven hits couple of walks did strike out nine and while he had to throw 105 pitches to get through the six innings remember he said he had already thrown 55 through two so pitching for the first time as a Texas Ranger Mad Max has got more to say first time being in the stadium you know and so you know it's great you know to be able to you know break in here and get a feel for what the mound is the slope of the mound and just get get with these guys and and go out there and compete you know we're in a pennant race now so this is what's fun is this type of year you need to win almost every single ball game that's the mentality it takes to be able to be great and you know that we you know we took care of business in the series he couldn't had worse luck there early you know every ball they hit found holes I think he gave up seven hits and six of them found holes there but it just shows you how tough he is what a great competitor he is locked a lot of pitches that first inning but you know regroup reset went out there and gave us six solid innings got to win it was fun to watch him compete so Bruce Bochy happy to have Mad Max in his starting rotation and it turns into the 10th win of the season for Max Scherzer it's after hours on CBS Sports Radio while we're continuing this theme of debuts we haven't seen Justin Verlander yet with the Astros this time around he will theoretically reportedly make his debut is it his debut his his reintegration his reintroduction his encore that's the word his Astros encore this weekend in New York against the Yankees but Jack Flaherty making his first start for the first place Orioles Flaherty sets head high here it comes and he struck him out two down big strike out there came back with the slider and Springer retired for number two one and oh to Matt Chapman skied in the air shallow left Austin Hayes right there plenty of time to camp under it shades down he makes the catch and another one two three inning for Jack Flaherty what a debut he's retired 12 in a row the two two swing and a miss he struck him out and he got him with the knuckle curve I spent his best pitch all year Brett hitters hitting just 176 against the curve 18 whiffs so far for the Blue Jays against Jack Flaherty great breaking ball two breaking balls and a cutter a lot of swing and misses throwing up to 96 there in that sixth inning also so he kept his velocity sold out crowd here tough environment and and just love the way he pitched yeah you can imagine Brandon Hyde is thrilled as he and the Orioles are locked into a race with the Rays and then the Blue Jays not that far behind the entire east above 500 though right now Jack Flaherty's new team is two up and he had to cram in as much sleep as possible to get ready for his first start did more prepping like today and last night and you know I kind of cut myself off to make sure I like slept and just had to go in and trust these guys and what they what they had prepared and you know our meeting was great you know they did a really good job and then uh you know kind of a complete game today I'm gonna use that the next time that I'm up too many hours in a row and I'm exhausted and need a nap you know what I'm just gonna have to cut myself up no more of this I'm gonna have to to cut myself up Ryan Mountcastle he's the first baseman for the Orioles he goes four for four to support Flaherty that was amazing I mean he he shoved he looked really good and had all his stuff working and really needed him there and then he came in and did his job and it was a lot of fun to watch yeah so the Orioles get a boost with Flaherty and I'm happy for him because he is a quality pitcher the Cardinals just a really tough season and so his numbers don't reflect Max Scherzer gets a win in his debut with the Rangers and then thinking about Verlander this weekend maybe there'll be a rejuvenation for him as well um again an encore he is the reigning signing award winner and part of that world series championship the legitimate one from last season I make those those jokes and Jay's face every time it gets them every single time all right coming up at the top of the hour just after the top of the hour we're gonna spend some time with another night owl excited about this Jonathan Peterlin does the evening show on our 92-3 affiliate in Cleveland on the shores of Lake Erie so watching these Browns and the Jets do battle in the Hall of Fame game but it is the start of the 23 preseason there are a lot of questions about the Browns we will see if he can answer some of them for us it's After Hours with Amy Lawrence CBS Sports Radio