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Not my idea of fun. It would be wild if that is in fact where he is. Earlier on the show, Seahawks wide receiver Tyler Lockett, senior writer for the MMQB, Albert Breer. Coming up, Fox Sports Announcer and voice of the Dodgers, Joe Davis. And now, it's Rich Eisen. All right, welcome to our number three, The Rich Eisen Show. We're live on the air on the Roku channel. This Rich Eisen Show terrestrial radio affiliate Sirius XM, Odyssey and more. We always say hello to our podcast listeners. We value you because you get to listen whenever you want, all three hours through the Cumulus Podcast Network. If you missed any of the first two hours of this program, Tyler Lockett of the Seattle Seahawks or Albert Breer of Sports Illustrated are what's more likely a very spirited version of that. In hour number two, we re-air as soon as this show is over on the Roku channel, channel 210 for those scoring at home.
844-204-Rich is the number to dial on the program. We kick off hour number three, however, with a first-time guest on this program. He is the voice of the Los Angeles Dodgers and Major League Baseball on Fox. Also calls football games on Fox. Joining us fresh off of calling another game in Chavez Ravine last night on this program is Joe Davis. Good to see you, Joe. How are you, sir? Doing well, Rich. I feel like we've been working on this for a while.
This is a long time in the making. It's good to see you right here, sir. Great to be here. You got it, man.
Listen, I'll just jump right into it with you. The phrase that I've always heard in my business, our business, is you never want to be the guy after the guy. You'd like to be a guy removed from being the guy after the guy. You're the guy after Vin Scully.
And here in Los Angeles, I mean, that's Mount Kilimanjaro on top of 15 other mountains in order to climb that. When did you first get the offer to come here to Los Angeles to do what you do right now? Yeah, it was a really untraditional way of it.
Like, not you're normal, you apply for the job, you become a finalist and then you get the job. I was shocked they even knew who I was. Found that out in, I don't know, fall of 2014?
Where were you? I was at ESPN at that point. Maybe just go to ESPN. I just moved to Fox. So really, really young in my time at Fox. I'd done like two or three Major League Baseball games.
That's it? Yeah. I'd done hundreds of minor league games, but not nearly enough Major League Baseball for anybody to know who the heck I was.
Okay. Find out that they know who I am. My agent called and he's like, hey, what do you have for baseball tape right now?
Can you put together? And I was like, yeah, I can get you something. What's going on? He said, well, the Dodgers are starting to think about life after Vin and your name came up. I was like, oh, shoot. All right, whatever. Like, yeah, I'm sure a lot of names are coming up. That's so cool that mine did.
Yes. So sent a resume tape, fall of 2014, winter of 2015, so like January, February of 2015. I was out here for some Fox meetings down at Terranea and I figured I would swing up and introduce myself to the people in the Dodger office. And I went in there and again, thinking that like they barely know who I am.
Well, I go and I sit down and I meet with them and they tell me that I'm one of four people that they're considering. So now it's like, wow. Okay. It's still no chance. Right.
I'm sure this is a who's who of broadcasters. And I've done two games at this point. I called my wife and I told her, hey, yeah, this you know, I'm one of four people they're considering. And she said, oh, my gosh, we're moving to Los Angeles. And where were you living in Michigan? We were back home in Michigan where my wife and I are both from. So we were good. Like I was doing exactly what I wanted, doing national games, what I always wanted.
Another few months go by. We don't hear anything. And then my agent happened to be in town in Michigan. We were playing golf and he got a voicemail from the home office in New York. They said, you need to call on Rosen, calls on Rosen, comes back inside. And I said, how did it go? And he said, they want to hire you.
And a few months later, we had figured out a way to keep doing the Fox stuff and add the Dodger job. And I still don't know exactly how it all happened, but it did. So you found out on a golf course? Pretty much. Yeah. Well, yeah. What hole were you on?
You know what? So to give you the exact details, we had finished up 18. We went in, showered. We headed downtown to do a little dinner. So around a golf.
So it's not mid-round because that would have been the end of my round. We're getting off like we're going to LAX, like I'm going to get on a flight right now. Yeah, it was something, man. Wow.
All right. When did you meet Vin? The day after, the day before it was announced that I got the job. So it went several months and I actually turned the job down after several months of negotiating. What? I said, no, because they didn't want to let me continue the national stuff.
That's always what I had wanted to do. And I say no and I'm like, all right, I'm good. I'm out mowing the lawn. Shirt was off, you know, giving the people that they want there in the neighborhood in Michigan.
Mowing the lawn, thinking I'm good. Phone rings. Agent again, he says, they just called back after you said no. And they said, what does he want?
Tell them, like, what does he want? Let's make this happen. Well, we've been for a few months kind of discussing what I want, but okay.
I want the ability to do this and this. Lon Rosen, the Dodgers said, OK, put it in an email. OK, we will. And by the end of the night, we had agreed we were doing it. But anyway, so before before we do that, though, was it Lon? Was he the champion in the office? Lon was the guy who I don't know how, but. Well, he's he's you know, he's been around the Los Angeles sports scene forever.
The Lon, by the way, for anybody who who needs a quick refresher. And if you saw Winning Time, there was a Lon character that was Lon Rosen in Winning Time. And he wound up being Urban Magic Johnson's guy forever.
And I believe that's how he got involved with the Dodgers organization right now. But yeah. Yeah. So he was the guy that was like, he's out here without Lon. OK. He was the guy who was like, saw your tape, believed it.
Firm deep down in his in his core, like this is the guy to replace Vin. Gave me a shot or not or follow Vin, I should say. No. OK, so. Yeah, he helped.
He kind of laid the the blueprint for how we were going to do this. To answer your Vin question, the day before it was announced that I was hired, I got a voicemail. I sent a call to voicemail, didn't recognize the number. And I'm like, you know, whatever. I hit play. Hi, Joe. Vin Scully. And I said, oh, my God, I just sent Vin Scully to voicemail.
What a great start in this gig. But we connected the next day and we didn't have a we didn't have a deep relationship. You know, he was doing just home games.
I was doing just road games that first year. And he was so in the spotlight that once he finished, he he went and he chilled and was kind of away. But the time I did spend with him, my treasured and the advice that I did get from him, I think about all the time. OK, I have some follow up questions. Please. I'm talking a lot of it. By the way, that's the point of being the A in a Q&A.
You're going to be you're going to be talking a lot, Joe. So. All right. First of all, you send Vin Scully to voicemail. Good job. Did do you still have the voicemail?
Not only do I still have the voicemail, my wife put it in a teddy bear, like squeeze the teddy bear and it plays the voicemail. Get out of here. Yeah. Slightly creepy.
Oh, it's a little teddy bear with Vin's voice. But you still have it on your phone. I do.
My phone's in the back. Can we get would you mind if I would love to? Yeah. Would you would we go?
Can you go get it? If you don't mind. OK.
I can't wait to hear that. Number one. Number two. I'm glad that you did send it to voicemail because we would. I know you're right about that. OK, that's number two.
Number three. Do you still send people to voicemail if you don't recognize their number or did this teach you a lesson here? I guess it should have taught me a lesson, but sometimes I let I let it go. Now you're in Los Angeles. You're officially a Los Angeles Joe.
You're not in Michigan anymore if you're doing that. All right. Number four is what what advice did he what advice can you impart that he did come here? There were a couple of things.
The first one is to be yourself. Yeah. You know, that sounds simple and it sounds easy. But, you know, we get into these jobs and we want to be like the people that proceeded, especially in that situation. I think that if if I wasn't thinking about it, I would just try to be Vin, right? The guy that had done this for 67 years.
The greatest of all time. Why wouldn't you try to be like that? Right. But he said, while that's OK, like you, you can learn from the people that you enjoy listening to. And you can take some things from them.
Don't lose yourself and allow yourself to be yourself. So I remind myself of that all the time still. And then we got into a little more of the nitty gritty play by play stuff. I asked him how he handled the biggest spots because, yes, he's a greatest storyteller ever in the job. But he also nailed the big moments time after time. Sure.
And that's how you that's what sets the greatest ever to do it apart. What do you say? He said that he compared it to he said, if your house is burning, something like not exactly. Sure. If your house is burning down and you're trying to get everybody out safe, you can't be freaking out. Right.
Your heart rate can't be spiking. If you're going to save the cat from the top floor, you've got to be cool. And he said, think of the big moments kind of the same way as that.
You've got to be the coolest guy in the burning house. And so an amazing part about doing Dodger games is they've been so good since I've been here. There have been a lot of chances to practice that, because how do you get good at the big moments without the big moments happening in front of you? I've been so lucky to be in the chair. The lucky dude that's having these big moments happen to put those things that Vin taught me in terms of nailing the big moments to practice, because it's one thing to have him tell you, but it's another thing to actually go try it. Yes.
And they've given me so many chances to do that. Wow. All right. Here's your phone.
Would you mind? Yeah. And I'm opening it up. I'm sure I have it.
It's going to be a terrible television. No, it's OK. Don't worry. Pressure's on, Joe Davis. As Vin said, just you meet the big moment. Just keep your heart rate. Two outs in the ninth.
No hitter. I mean, I don't know what would be better, that we're going to hear this voicemail or he's like, oh, I erased it. What would be better for the content? You know what I'm going to have to do? I'll text my wife while we're on the air, have it recorded on the bear. Maybe we should put the bear in an Uber and get him here from Pasadena. Vin the bear?
Vin the bear? You know what I have? Just so you know, I'm not lying. OK. Do you have good eyes? I mean, I got to go with my glasses. So I'm scrolling down, but like, it's just.
Wow. Bill Raftery? Just over and over and over. You save every voicemail from Bill Raftery. I don't blame you.
Wouldn't you? Oh, I don't know if those are suitable for broadcast. I don't know if I have an audio.
This is terrible. OK. But I promise it is alive. All right. All right.
Well, we got to we got to get that voicemail. Wait, hold on. OK. Unknown.
November 10th, 2015. Can I play it quietly? Sure.
That sounds fine. Mute my mic. This is dangerous.
This is dangerous. It's muted. OK, here we go. There we go. This is it. OK.
Turn the microphone back on. Great. Let's go. All right. Here we go. Here we go. Joe Davis is about to play the voicemail he got from Vince Scott.
Welcome into the Dodgers right here. Oh, OK. I've never shared this. I appreciate. By the way, in advance, I appreciate you doing this. Yeah. OK, here we go. In Los Angeles, I tried to get here earlier in the day.
So I start off the year old for two. But I was calling just to welcome you to the family to wish you great success. And I know you will love the ball club and the way they treat people. I look forward to seeing you somewhere along the line, although I doubt if it'll be on the road anyway. Good luck. I'll see you. I'm sure soon. And I'll be thrilled to wish you all the best wishes possible. I know what it was like to be twenty seven, twenty eight and starting out with a big club. And I know it'll be a great marriage.
So congratulations and look forward to seeing you. That's awesome, dude. Wow. Pretty cool.
Something to have forever. Yeah, honestly. Yeah. I mean, I'm getting the chills.
Thinking about what a generous thing to do. Yes. And by the way, oh, for two, you sent him the voicemail twice. Yeah. Oops. So, yeah, we're live.
What was the last time it was over to an. That was. Yeah. So that's amazing, man. Thank you for sharing that number one. Yeah.
Thanks for you should have that. You should share that, you know, but I understand you don't want to share that with just anybody. It's not like you're you're you're pounding your chest here, but no, that's so cool to have that. It is cool. And it's that's the first I've listened to in a while. And it's kind of it's it is it feels good to share because it's almost like bringing them back a little bit for people.
You know, something that people have never heard that they hopefully get to hear and enjoy today. Yeah. And I just remember how he would and he's probably the last guy to have this ability to have a commercial break, not sold by the broadcast. So he could turn his back to the field.
He could face the camera. Tell a story. Yeah.
Get into the fifth inning. Yeah. Just tell a story. It's story time with Vin.
Yeah, I always loved it. There's my favorite part of a broadcast. But just to tell you and then we'll take a break and then we'll come back and talk about the hearing now a little bit. You know, you do it. You meet the moment, you know, saying, you know, Homer moment to have had a home run of your life for that fourth and 18 with Justin Jefferson for some cash.
Thanks. I mean, you saved the cat from the roof. That's, you know, the phrase right there. Honestly, you're meeting the moment, Joe. And I appreciate you being here and sharing that. Let's take a break. We'll come back. We'll talk about the hearing now. We also do you have a what's more likely for Joe Davis?
What's more likely? Baseball edition special for Joe Davis. Love it. OK, very good.
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Just go to LinkedIn dot com slash direct and get started. Back here on the Rich Eisen show radio audience will rejoin us in just two minutes time. Thrilled to have still here with us is Joe Davis invited to this program to tell great stories, talk about sports and for some of these guys get a free show. Oh, Tony Bobblehead doll. Sell out really fast. I mean, you got to get in line like two hours early.
Did that did one of them really go for like three thousand bucks or something like that? Probably wasn't right. I wasn't there that night.
You were not there. I don't even have any. So you can't like call up the I mean, normally I could.
Yeah, this stuff's another level of like. Yeah, you don't even it doesn't even cut that much ice to get that. I'm sure I could probably get one. Probably do that. Yeah, but I didn't.
I figured I'd save my bullets. Yamamoto Bobblehead night tonight. No. Oh, is that right? It's going to be big, too. At the current rate, there's going to be T. Oscar.
That's right. Bobblehead night. Boy, he wore out the Yankees, man. Man. I was glad to see him go.
I bet. Holy smokes. I wanted him in Boston so bad. Can you imagine him with.
I mean, perfect bat needed the power. Perfect spot for him here. All right. So we'll we'll talk about the Dodgers and a little bit of football.
And then we've got to watch more likely. Our radio audience is returning and there's one on eBay for seven hundred bucks right now. Is that right? Johnny, do you need seven hundred bucks? Because I mean, you know, the Dodgers maybe not listening right now. Just sneak right in.
We whisper here. She's take that. Oh, my gosh. Yeah. And I think there was like when you weren't there that night, but traffic was insane. I heard like noon, like lunchtime. Our guys who, you know, our stats guy and stage manager and everything getting there for seven o'clock game, their normal time.
Two thirty three o'clock sat in traffic trying to get into the stadium. Unbelievable. Yeah.
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Call click Grainger dot com or just stop by. Joe Davis is here on the program. So, you know, that Dodger Yankee series you called the Saturday for Fox. Yeah. And I assume Friday for for the Dodgers.
Correct. What was the atmosphere like? It was awesome.
Was that right? It was really good. It's as good of a regular season atmosphere as you're going to have. I think the only thing for me that has been close, some of the Dodgers Padres games a couple of years ago down in San Diego is they're really starting to emerge. But, you know, something about New York and Yankee Stadium and I never went to old Yankee Stadium, so I can't compare it to that. I know that that was its own beast. Something big feeling about Yankee Stadium.
And when you put those two teams in both in first place with the characters on each side, it was awesome. Yeah. You were mentioning in our Roku channel only segment, it's Yamamoto bobblehead night at Dodger Stadium this evening. He was dynamite on Friday night. Yeah.
I've got him in fantasy. My son Cooper's diehard. OK. And he was I mean, he's he's could you imagine having the MLB app when you were 13 years old, what you would have done with it? Honestly. So he's he knows that Yamamoto is throwing three miles an hour harder than he has all season long as it's happening. That's awesome. There's a fact. Yeah. He was the best he's been yet.
Yeah. And was he just amped up because it was the Yankee Stadium and and it was the moment. And this is the guy we're going to see from here on out, do you think? I am fascinated to see his next star, which was supposed to be tonight. He was scheduled to start his bobblehead night. Dave Roberts yesterday at the press conference is like, yeah, we're going to give him an extra couple of days.
I'm like, well, you can't. This is bobblehead night. He has to pitch tonight.
What are we doing? But he's going to pitch Saturday. I can't wait to see if it was just he was infused by this vibe in the stadium. Right. That's what picked it up.
Or he says he feels like he unlocks something mechanically where he's really streamlined things now. And you could continue to see that. But that that was like best pitcher in the world level stuff.
Ninety seven, ninety eight with the splitter right at the knees. I mean, that was awesome. What's it like to watch Otani play his craft front and center? That's pretty cool.
Day in and day out. Pretty cool difference. It's a different vibe. There's no question about it. Yeah.
Right. Don't you don't see a ton of him leading up to the game. He's very much in his own program.
It's all in the cage. He doesn't take batting practice on the field, which is not that unique anymore. I'd say 60 percent of the guys stick batting practice on the field. Not even in Yankee Stadium.
He didn't come out and give a show. No. OK. No.
All right. But that was like pregame. There was like World Series on the field. I'm sure. Right. With all the coverage.
Right. But yeah, he's back in the cage getting his work in. Very regimented, from what I understand.
Just talking to hitting coaches and the, you know, the strength and performance staff. But then the same stuff that you see and everybody sees that watches him. Just the way the ball sounds coming off of the bat. It's so different.
And even I mean, I'd sometimes I'm like people got to be rolling their eyes at me, but I hope not. As I marvel at like fly outs and stuff, but even as ordinary swings, it's so different. He had a fly ball to center field last night, just a routine F8, but it disappeared. It was so high.
It sounded like a shotgun went off and then it disappeared. He's at off balance ground balls at one hundred and ten miles an hour. So he's got the spectacular stuff that he does that results in the home runs and results in the extra base hits.
But even the outs make me smile. Right. What some of the routine grounders he almost beats out or he does that element, too. He's just right.
The speed is incredible, too. What did you say in my ear, Chris? The home run against Skeens. You just talk about the sound off his back that hit in particular. That was great, too, especially since Skeens got him in the first at bat on three pitches. And then he comes back and he's just like, not not not again for me, for me once. Right.
One on top of the zone and just see you. Yeah, it's awesome. It is hidden behind bets, too. That's just not fair. I mean, and I love Mookie Betts. I mean, that's a Red Sox fan over there. So this is a sore subject. But he is. I know, right. He is just simply you could make the argument.
The Dodgers have the two greatest athletes in all of North American sports leading off their lineup right now. Wow. You could truly make that argument.
Obviously, we're we're including NBA and the NFL. But you could make that case, man. You know that that Mookie can do everything. Yeah. And and then he's the one who was leading off with Ohtani. And then that's the neat part about the Yankee series and the unfortunate thing I wanted to see, because Soto and Judge right now are the most dynamic as well. You could make there been more productive, obviously, than Betts and and Ohtani right now at this point. Yeah, they're they're they're back to back as lethal as you could see in baseball right now. Well, did the Yankee not having Soto? I think we all knew that they're different because of Juan Soto. But what a reminder that was.
The Dodgers series is just even before the game starts, you take Soto out of the lineup. It's like this is a whole lot different. It's it's one player, but it doesn't feel one player different. It feels a world apart from what they are when they have him in there. Right.
I mean, it's a difference. But I was saying this to my son again. My youngest son again on the Sunday night when we're watching Trent Grisham get in bat and fifth. Yeah. And I'm like, down one, Tyler Glass now on the mound, two on. I turn on like this is where Verdugo would have been if Soto was playing. Right. And that's the difference between that lineup and this one. And then Grisham, of course, hits a home run.
Dad knows. Yeah, that's right. It's amazing. But it is a domino effect. And it's the Yankees were so far from being good at the end of last year. I remember talking with John Smoltz off of the air like that.
How do you fix this? Right. There was one player to fix so many things. They went and got him. And it's feels like hyperbole to say he's transformed them.
But I only get his hyperbole. I think he truly has transformed the Yankees. Smoltz has got he's like Rain Man. You know, he knows exactly how many baseball toothpicks just got dropped on the floor.
Number of times he calls a shot. It's it's amazing. Yeah. You know.
Yeah, it really is. Do you got a good example of that? Like one moment? Obviously, you call a ton of games with him. Yeah. Where he said something and then it happened.
And it's now your job calling it. Corey Segar's tying home run in game one of the World Series last year. Down a run in the ninth inning against Paul Siewald. And I believe it was first pitch. John said you better not try to throw this guy high fastball. And that's what he did. And Segar turned it around, hit it into the upper deck, tied the game and changed that series.
That's a high profile example of something to your point that he does pretty much every inning. And it's a spinning curve for somebody like yourself, right? Like to set up. Yeah.
You know, you you allow your your analyst to set something up and then you get to serve it up to the rest of the country. It is cool. And, you know, as you the only the only way that you get to that place of feeling that that chemistry is through time. And you've been doing games together now. This is our eighth year, I think, doing some games.
Joe Buck wasn't doing a ton of regular season. So I would work with John and then do the division series. And knowing where John is in his sweet spot, predicting those things and being able to play off of that.
And that's a lot of fun to be able to to feel like I'm the guy that can help set those things up. Joe Davis here on the Rich Eisen Show. And we just talk about you calling baseball games and World Series with John Smoltz on Fox. Your football booth this year on Fox now has Greg Olsen. And I love that guy, Matt.
Me too. I love him. So how how many times have you worked with Greg before? Two years ago. So his first year.
I was at two years ago. Yeah. Oh, when he when he came in when he was a player. No.
So his first full year, whatever year that was. OK. The year before I got the World Series, when Burkhardt would leave to go host the World Series, host the postseason, I would go fill in for Burkhardt. OK. And so I did four games with Greg and hit it off.
You know, the foundation of chemistry is on the air, is chemistry off the air. And we're both young dads and had a lot we could relate on. And we like food.
We like restaurants. We so we right away had a good relationship and I think had some good broadcasts there. And I'm fired up for it.
I think we're going to think we're going to be great. Yeah. Greg was part of NFL Network's combine coverage when he was a player. Wow. And is so we would throw him the network would throw him on the field during the tight end drills.
Yeah. And he would be standing out there with a with a handheld. So or or or we would love him.
I forget. But he's just standing out there. And his ability to talk, analyze, be humorous, mix in his own personal history, his own personal experience, and explain what you're seeing on the screen in a very basic way that's not so, you know, mixed up with the X's and O's that might have people have their eyes glazed over. He's second to none, man. He is that I mean, he's the Emmy Award winner this year.
Yeah. And and he we could all see it like that. That's a big time broadcaster on the field.
And then just a good human, great person, great everything. And and we had him on just a couple of weeks ago talking about joining your crew, for lack of a better phrase. And how difficult it is because it's infused with, hey, you know, I I'm I'm not calling the biggest, if you will, games with or the opportunity to call the Super Bowl or that's or the championship game.
Anymore. And but you are part of a crew that lives and dies with each other, goes on the road and has dinners, meals, share stories, you know, basically lives with one another for 17, 18 weeks. And to basically say, I want to be on another crew might be very difficult for the crew you're joining to welcome you with open arms.
And he basically said, I'm not making any bones. I want to do the biggest games, but I love these folks. Yeah. And mention how you used to call games with the crew. Yeah. You know. Yeah. And so, you know, you kind of have a leadership role if I'm not putting too much on you in live TV and radio here to kind of make this all work. I mean, I think there's something to that, but I think it's also helpful that he is familiar with this crew. Same producer, director, the wonderful Pam Oliver that he broke in with. Right. So this is his first crew. And then to have that little bit of background with me to not have to obviously wants to call the biggest games on the biggest crew, but to go to another crew and not have it be totally new. I think there's a comfort level there already where that I don't I don't feel like that much responsibility to it because I know he's going to be comfortable.
And the other thing is, I know from talking to him, like he's channeling this the right way where he's channeling it, saying like, heck yeah, let's go be great. Doesn't matter what what number game it is, how you rank it. No, we're still going to get good games and we're going to go try to be the best screw in football and crush it no matter what. I know it's a silly question to ask somebody who's got Yamamoto bobblehead doll tonight and also, you know, whatever your next game is. Yankees Red Sox this weekend. Is that what you got?
Let's go Fenway Park. Yeah, that's going to be great. That's Saturday, Saturday night, seven thirty.
Yeah, seven fifteen, seven fifteen, seven fifteen. Fantastic. But do you know your first your week one assignment? We don't. We were talking with the bosses a little bit about that at Yankee Stadium last weekend.
They were there and it's a it's a good slate. There's several games where you could make a case. Well, we know Cowboys at Browns is the one that Brady is going to be doing with Kevin Burkhart.
Let's start with some other ones. What would you pick? Oh, I could see it.
It jumps out at me right now. Obviously, having the ability to call the Bears first game Tennessee at the Bears to call Caleb. Caleb Williams first game would be would be enticing. Panthers, Saints or one Vikings, Giants is another commander's market there.
Yep. Commanders, Buccaneers is another one right there called Jane Daniels first game. And then, you know, the Bucks having their first home game after that terrific finish. But I would choose Steelers at Falcons is the day is long. I would go right there, man.
The Steelers and the Falcons. If you can call that early window on Fox, I'd be all over that. Can you make a call for us? I just did.
I think the calls are literally coming from this microphone right now. All right. Oh, yes. The Steelers with Russell Wilson's first game there.
A lot of good. And then the Steelers have a huge upside right now. And then the Falcons with Kirk Cousins. Mm hmm. And can I, as the season goes on, can we continue to do this as we as we get the. Hell yeah. Yeah.
Pick pick the game for us. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, absolutely. You want to do a week two? Yeah, what do we got? Let's go.
Why stop there? The Joe Davis win loss game. But it's just like calling?
No. I mean, that also, you know, I with all due respect to that late window game with the Buccaneers and the commanders. I mean, Cowboys at Browns. You probably want to if you want to call it and stay off of that.
Yeah. But, you know, obviously, but Fox has a serious need to have a another good game. But Steelers Falcons book it. Sounds good.
Do it. I'm in. OK. Lions, Bucks, week two. Hey, Lions, Bucks.
That's is a good one. Choose another week where it's like you can make a case for three or four games being really good. Saints at Cowboys on Fox Packers Colts. Oh, yes, sir.
You know, Anthony Richardson in Lambeau Field against Jordan Love is a lot of fun. Let's go. And by the way, let's keep going. I love this.
Well, my bailiwick is not the X's and O's and the all 22, but storylines. So Jonathan Taylor being back in Wisconsin. Yeah.
Is this stuff? Certainly since, you know, there was rumor that the Packers were in on him when he was potentially available. That's not a bad one right there. Seahawks Patriots. Chris, you want to cape for that?
Since you're the Patriot fan, we're going to get blasted. All right. That's not that's not caping for it. That's bad. That is Fox's promo department is not taking notes.
Sorry about that. Giants commanders. That's a good one. Yeah. Lions, Bucks feels really good. Rams at Cardinals.
Good old Giants commanders. That's geographically sound for the kid over there. You know, I can't say where I am the day before and the day after. I love it. I love it. All right. While you're here and before we let you go, let's drag you into our mosh pit. You came up with some what's more likely baseball for for Joe Davis. We got five. OK, we're going to turn you into sports talk radio punditry here. If you're if you're ready for that lane already.
Do we have we're using the drop to we're going to do the whole thing. All right. What's more likely? What's more likely?
Never say never, but never. What do you think of that production value? It's really good.
Thank you so much. All right. What do we got over there, Chris? Hey, Joe. How you doing? Oh, hey, Chris. Good. I'm good.
How are you meeting finally? Who starts every one of these with that? It's like, what are we supposed to do with that? You know, like Tony Kornheiser hated. He hates when you come on a radio show and you ask, how are you doing? Like, how are you?
Like the first question. What if you're not doing well? What if we caught Joe in a bad day? Exactly. And you want him to turn this into some sort of Dr. Melfi session where he pulls his heart out. How's it going? I mean, this chair is open.
You know, this would work. It feel like it. Yeah. Pinehurst, huh? Have you played Pinehurst? No.
They were playing Pine Barrens. Way to start it off. All right. Who's more likely to finish with the best record in Major League Baseball this season, the Phillies or the field? I'm going to take the field.
Me too. Yeah. JT Rio Muto knee surgery.
I know they're saying a month out and it'll be back. So a minor thing relatively. That's a catcher with a knee surgery. I don't know if there's such thing as a minor catcher.
Yeah, it's not your knee either. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Right.
Right. So, yeah, I'll take the field on that. I know they have a million other good players, but I'm going to take the field. I'm going to take the field on it. By the way, the number of times Yankees win and I turn to Cooper. That's my 13 year old. He's got the app open. That's on like the Orioles went to it.
Yep. So the Orioles keep winning. They're right behind the Yankees. And then obviously there's the Dodgers that you're seeing tonight.
I will ask this best team that you've seen with your own two eyes. That's not the team you call every night is Yankees. Is it is the Yankees. And I had the Phillies the week before that for Fox. The Yankees with Soto.
Back to that point. Right. Totally different team without him. The crazy thing is that they have the top pitching staff in baseball so far. And Cole hasn't pitched. Exactly. Oh, my goodness. Nobody's talking about Cleveland.
That's true, too. Stephen Vogt. Stephen Vogt and I were together in Montgomery, Alabama. Double A Montgomery.
Is that right? The business manager. And you were calling. Oh, he was the catcher.
He's the catcher. And you were the mike. I was.
Yeah, it was my first gig. Three years at the Montgomery Biscuits. I tell people that's when I knew I had made it, when I was calling games for a team whose mascot was a biscuit with eyes and a slab of butter for a tongue. I've arrived, folks.
I don't think you'd be getting the welcome for Vince Scully on that. No, I didn't. I didn't. I made it by Joe Young star, who's the biggest must-see TV. Elie Delacruz or Paul Skeans.
That's a good question. I'll go. You want to go first? First, I'll go Skeans, because because he's got the ball in his hand.
I have both these guys in my fantasy. You know, and Delacruz has got a, he's got a, he's only once every, what, 20 minutes, if the lineup turns over that fast, 30 minutes. Yeah.
Right. Although, you know, he does throw darts from the field that are, have like the exit velocity of a judge home run. Skeans is once every five days. But he's also, he's once every five days, but he's also out there for, I mean, Michael has had a no-hitter and he didn't have the lead because Skeans was striking everyone out the other night.
Skeans splitter is 96. I'll argue the other way though. Elie Delacruz, I mean, there's so many different things he can do to make you say, wow. Apparently they were, they were in Arizona a couple of weeks ago and somebody challenged him to like, how far do you think you can throw that ball there? Just because he knew that he would love the challenge and he picked it up and they were standing along the right field line, gave it a little crow hop and threw it over the left field wall, over the bleachers, which are pretty deep in Arizona and up onto the concourse.
We're talking like 400 some feet, just like cold, whatever. Can I change my answer? Sure. Skeans, cause that's not even during the game. He's must see during a warm up. Alright, I'm changing my answer.
That's so absurd. What else, Chris? Who's more likely to have been the biggest disappointment this year, Joe? Mets or Astros? I still think the Astros are going to make a run because I don't think that division's very good. So I'll go with the Mets.
I mean, this isn't the, isn't this the answer most years? Okay. I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm with you.
Not to go full, you know, Buster only hacked Twitter account. I hate Mets. You know, but I'll, I'll, I'll go with you right there. I'll go with you. Why are you going negative with Joe Davis here?
He's such a sunny disposition. Why are you making go half glass? What are you doing? I would think that's a surprise that the Astros have been so bad. Okay. What else, Chris?
All right. Uh, 2023 World Series team to turn it around. Hey, go see that glass half full. Rangers or D-backs? You're seeing the Rangers. Yeah. This week. Yeah.
That, that's an easy answer for me. That's Rangers. They've been so injured. Um, you know, not having Josh Young is a big deal. Evan Carter haven't had. Segar's been out a little bit.
The Doli Scarsia is five for his last 100. He's not going to do that all year. And then they've got a whole rotation on the injured list. Also in a division where it's going to be easy to turn it around right there. Five games below 500, but in second place in the American league West. I'll go, I'll go with them. There you go. I'm with Joe Davis on that one. What's up with Corbin Carroll?
Dude, I don't know. I, we get these MLB network note packs every day that have a page of bullets on every matchup. And they're awesome. Couldn't live without these, the research staff at MLB network. Big time.
Shout out for those guys. Do great work. But I swear every single day, it's the same bullet on Corbin. Carroll is four for his last 53 with not, it's like every day I look and see the same thing and I'm waiting for it to change.
And it just hasn't. It's a baseball shoulder. I think when you're, when you're out is when you're in it and it's so tough to get out of it. And it's, it's like the cruelest sports sometimes.
What do you got? One more likely to be Juan Soto's home field in 2025, Yankee stadium or the field. Such a good question. Should I let the Yankee guy answer first? I mean, no, you know what my answer is going to be.
But you can go first. He wants the Steinbrenners to adopt you. It has to be Yankee stadium.
It has to be. And I think like, no matter what outcome you have this year, it has to be Yankee stadium. Smoltz has argued that if they win it with him, it's less of a pressing thing that they get him.
Like there's more grace if they win one, but I think you can argue it the other way. He becomes a Yankee legend if they win one and you have to keep him and you know, he's going to hit in the post season. The worst case scenario for the Yankees, if they're worried about how much they got to spend is he kills it in the post season and they don't win at all. Cause now it's like, okay, he's our only chance to win at all. We got to find a way to get him and we haven't.
Well, I'll give you the solve on that one first, but secondly, what the hell's the matter with Smoltz? Come on. He knows better that New York city. I mean, he's been around this whole, this thing. Get out of here.
I mean, what do you, where, where if, if they win it, Yankee fans will be like, well, now he can go across town to the Mets and take Steve Cohen's money. Yeah. Hell no, that is not, that's number one.
And then number two, um, is, is the solve for Soto being expensive. I've said it, uh, the Steinbrenner should adopt him, literally ask him if it's okay to become one Steinbrenner, make him part of the family trust and, uh, you know, they can amortize that way. Just make him part of the family. Yeah.
Make him a kid, an actual child of the Steinbrenner family. If he's up for it, that's a contract that's, that's, that's an, you know, it's a difficult contract. It's a no trade clause in there, you know? Right. Juan, hear us out on this, right?
We want you to be our kid. That's correct. That's how it starts. That's the pitch.
That's what I'm saying. I love that idea. That's the only solve.
I'm going to lead with that Saturday Yankees Red Sox. Do it. Yeah. Tell Boris, cause you know, he's going to be standing there, you know, he'll be standing there. Do I go as sources say?
Sources tell me. No, I put my name on it. Oh, uh, out of the Rich Eisen show report this week, the Steinbrenners are considering making L'Anse Soto their, no, there's not considering that we'd be making stuff up, but just like, this is the only through line. Drop that on Smoltz in the middle of the live broadcast.
I could probably fit that down. What do we got? Is it gotta be a seven run lead? Fourth minute for that to happen?
How bad is that to be? Four run lead. Thank you. Or deficit.
All right. So the tying run can come to the plate and you're still bringing it up. Probably nobody on base at that point. Joe Davis, everybody here on the Rich Eisen show.
That's what's more likely. Thanks for coming here, sir. This has been a blast. Anytime, Rich. Anytime. I really appreciate it.
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Just search BLEAV on YouTube or wherever you listen. What was it like shooting that scene though with Ray Kinsella and his father? What I did was I went back to when I first read it. And so I become the audience when I read it. And when I read it, I went, I couldn't believe that it had orchestrated itself to that thing. And I had that feeling on the couch.
And so I knew if I played that straight, if I didn't wink at anybody, that these players did come. You know, that's my corn. You know, they kept coming after me. I wasn't going to be able to do that movie. I was going to do Revenge.
And I got into a, finally, Revenge kept getting pushed, kept getting pushed. And finally, I had to put my foot down and say, look, if you don't get this movie together, I'm going to go to do this movie in the corn. I asked the director, why did you hold out for me so long?
Why? And he said, well, and this is one of the greatest actors we've ever seen. He goes, they wanted me to do Robin Williams. And I said, Robin Williams is perfect. He said, yeah, but when I think of Robin, I think he does hear voices in the corn. And I don't want that. People don't believe you hear voices. That was a, that's a director that makes a save.
That's a Mariano Rivera, you know, it's a save. He saved his movie because of his belief in an idea, you know, not the quality of actor because Robin Williams will never, of course, this is, this is a guy so special, but I, but I was curious. I said, he's actually a bigger star than me, you know, you know, whatever. And he goes, I need somebody that you don't think hears voices. And that would be you.
I've never heard Robin Williams was considered for that role. That's unbelievable. And then you did it and obviously we're, we're talking about it today. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It had gold dust on it when I read it because I did that little intake of breath. Do you want to have a catch?
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That's why you heard from the homes today. You heard from a ton of people today and, and then it's summer break and then training camps. So let's get the last word from Jim Harbaugh.
What has he seen and his charges with the chargers through his first few weeks of having them out on the field as the H C of the LAC? And I say, okay, we're stopping early or, you know, we're cutting 30 minutes out of, of, of this practice or this weight session. Then I just watch them do more. They do more than, um, than they, what they would have had I, you know, schedule it out. Um, you know, player led, uh, Hey, 30 minutes short. And then you watch, you watch it, it becomes like a beaver dam, you know, of activity, you know, the receivers and the quarterbacks are throwing and it's just, it's be okay.
They get as much or more or better work, uh, that way, beaver dam of activity. God bless this man and his return to the national football league in Los Angeles, California, beaver dam of activity straight. It is has to be someone's fantasy name right down there. That's me.
It's ours. Anthony and Tulsa, Oklahoma. You're here on the rich eyes and show what's up. What's up, Anthony. How are you, sir? I'm doing great, rich. What's going on?
What's on your mind? Well, I was trying to do the, uh, the picks for, uh, my man, Jim Harbaugh. Okay. You want to do a win loss for the Los Angeles chargers? Let's do it. Let's do it. Here we go. Los Angeles charges, Anthony and Tulsa, just to let you know, last guy named Anthony, who played this was Anthony in Pennsylvania for the jets.
And he's his video, his reel on Instagram is almost 700,000 strong. So let's bring it. Here we go. Home for the Raiders.
What happens? Uh, that's a win at the Carolina Panthers. That's another win at the Pittsburgh Steelers. That's a loss home for the chiefs. Two and two out of the buy at the Broncos.
Two and three at the Arizona Cardinals on a Monday night football. That's a win three and three home for the saints. That's a win four and three at the Browns at the loss.
All right. We're 504 and four home for the Titans at the land home for the Bengals at the land home for the Ravens and the horrible at the law six and five at the Falcons at the land seven and five at the chiefs will split it will win eight and five home for the bucket ears. That's a win nine and five home for the Broncos. That's a win 10 and five at the Patriots. That's another win 11 and five at the Raiders. That's a loss. I thought you'd finish up strong, but 11 and six is pretty strong. Anthony and Tulsa.
Thank you for the call. That's Anthony and Tulsa. If you notice, Anthony did not say the Chiefs game with it with his chest. He wasn't. No, he did sigh. I heard the sigh.
I heard that too. Like I can't believe I chose for us to lose at home to the Chiefs and win in Arrowhead. What are the odds of that happening type sigh? I know that's the beauty of the win loss game is people don't think it out.
They just get caught in the middle of it and they start making decisions that they know are kind of ridiculous to try and balance things out. The win loss game, you've got to have a plan coming in, guys, otherwise you wind up like Anthony and Pennsylvania saying the Jets are going 14 and three or like was that Kyle and Michigan yesterday had the line starting with an 11 game win streak and then says they're going to lose against the Bears on Thanksgiving is their first loss of the season. What are the odds of that? Be like Ron in L.A., right, T.J.? Eagles.
17-0. Ron. Have a plan.
Have a plan. Was Susie in the chat for the win? That was when Susie was here, Ron said 17-0 Eagles. I just want Susie one day to find love for me like she does having the win loss game played when she's in this chair with fans of this program. She loves collars. She loves collars. She loves interacting. Yeah, I know. And she loves the win loss game.
I hope she loves me as much. Mike Orlando had the Giants four and 13 getting the number one pick. Mike Cowboys. That's one end of the spectrum on the win loss game.
My Cowboys pick seems very reasonable, but you're always you're always reasonable with the. All right. Jim Jackson is going to be in this chair on Monday and take you to Friday and take you to the weekend and greatly appreciate you giving him your undivided attention. Want to thank Joe Davis. That was amazing. Playing the Vince Scully voicemail message. And I want to also thank everybody here, Albert Breer and Tyler Lockett right here on The Rich Eisen Show, 844-204-RICH.
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