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watching this, I'm sure USC is gnashing their
teeth right now saying, how come we couldn't
have thought of this first? Interesting guests.
Kelly Gray, Mike Parker, Coach Mark Waszkowski,
Melissa Lombardi, Max Torres, El Toro, joining
us. Sharp opinions. I think if you're a supporter
of the NBA, that you should at least have some
level of interest in the WNBA because the things
that interest you as a NBA fan should still interest
you as a WNBA fan. That's just my opinion. And
some smiles. Can you guess what position I played
in football? Left out? No, I did not. Yeah, exactly.
I did think about that for a second. But yes,
actually, I did not play. I was not big enough.
Goose tried to kill me today on the golf course.
Advanced warning was given. It just apparently
was not heard. I will dispute that in a court
of law. It's Danny Havel. If you're driving and
you're trying to do this in your head, pull off
the side of the road. I don't need any accidents.
Justin Grossweiner. I love to hear a coach go,
we're going to focus on that bad four game stretch
the rest of the season. season. We will never
do that again. That may be a good point. I don't
know. Maybe you can do that. Maybe that's not
a strategy. Danny and Justin starts now on Fox
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program, it is the Godfather. He returneth. Matt
Doppie from Eugene Emeralds Baseball. They just
clinched the first half crown in the Northwest
League, minor league baseball, long season single
A, and they've got a home stand that starts with
Spokane tonight all the way through Sunday. So
we'll have the Godfather on and talk about Eugene
Emeralds Baseball. Obviously we'll talk World
Cup. It has started. There have been three players
sent off between Mexico and South Africa. The
Republic of South Africa down to nine players.
Mexico just had a red card. So they're down to
10 and they are in extra time. Bonus football
on the pitch. 2 -0 in favor of Mexico. It'll
be South Korea and Chechia. That'll be at seven
o 'clock Eastern tonight. El Tri will have the
backing of their home fans at Estacado Azteca
in Mexico City. Mexico is a 250 money line favorite
and they're up 2 -0. So we will go through all
that and we can't avoid it Again, I'm proud of
you Dom Hawk sitting behind the microphones and
pushing the buttons at the control board. I'm
Doc Baby J What up boy? Well, that's what I love
about sports You see something every day that
you haven't seen or that you don't expect last
night. Sorry Dom Hawk 29 point Blow we of that
game We we would have welcomed you with open
arms down at the sidebar because that would have
been the best part of the game Which when we
were down there celebrating Goose's 55th birthday
who I almost got thrown out Yeah, we got talked
to multiple times about our our loud voices during
trivia Because we were getting some good we we
should be competing to be honest. We had a good
table We were rocking it but then I I leaned
over one time and I was mouthing the answer to
goose and he shot me a look Like I hadn't seen
in a long time and he came over after he says
you guys can't help us didn't you hear i said
no i'm not listening to the announcements i'm
not playing the game what do i care but we're
having a good time down at the sidebar this place
was rocking the trivia guy was very strict he
no i mean he He has a tight ship, that guy. I
mean, he's got to be an administrator somewhere,
or he's not, and that's his power and control,
is doing trivia night down at Sidebar. I think
the key for us on our table is we had a bunch
of different age groups, right? We had people
that had different backgrounds, so there was
sort of a knowledge in a bunch of different areas.
So I think that was really... If I ever did this,
actually... That's the kind of team you want.
I think that's what you need. You don't want
people same age. You don't want an echo chamber.
I had no idea. I had no clue. Then I knew immediately.
So, I'm just saying. God bless you buddy. Yeah,
I mean it's gotta be tough. It's gotta be tough.
This must be what Falcons fans felt like down
Up 28 to 3 and then lose. This has to be what
it felt like. Yeah in the Super Bowl. Well, I
mean, here's the thing though that would have
been much I'll just say that would have been
Devastating if it was game seven that that happened
Yeah, cuz you would have been one you would have
been three sheets to the wind before you got
to the end of the game First of all, you're up
29 in the final game of the NBA That's like what
happened in 2013 so well what I love about you
hawk is you have that Optimism as a fan because
even after this loss you were talking about hey
You got to win one at home find a way to win
in game six you get to get to game seven And
i'm sure even during this game up 29. You were
feeling really really good. I'm the type of fan
Why wouldn't you i'm the type of fan that anytime
my team gets up a big amount I start to worry
actually in a way because it's like uh -oh if
this turned right now and we ended up losing
How much worse is this gonna feel and so i'm
glad that you have that optimism. You were definitely
you're You're texting right after the game. You're
saying hey like I have to be going to I have
to be optimistic But we've seen three one before
we have three one before and they do have the
home court in those three games So that is the
advantage the problem is they've been in and
been leading in I believe all four of these games
with under two minutes and maybe even a minute
left and they are Downed three one and it's just
after a 29 point loss to be honest with you.
This could be the type of loss You have Wemby,
which I think maybe just as the outlier for everything,
but it could derail an entire franchise or a
group of players after a loss like that. I mean,
that is a devastating loss. I'm sorry to just
throw it to you like that, Dom. I'll tell you
what. We got somebody calling out on the Oregon
Man Climax Hotline at 343 -5673. So let's go.
We don't take a lot of calls in the middle of
this thing, but let's go ahead and do this right
now. So let's head on over to the Oregon Man
Climax Hotline and let's welcome in Vegas. What's
up, everyone? Here's my thing is that you guys
aren't here at the same time, but we hear so
much about your interactions together So I figured
we needed a few minutes of you guys just talking
it out and giving us your thoughts on this NBA
finals You want to know how blaze walks in my
house yesterday? With three minutes left in the
game and i'm like where have you been and mind
you in the okc series blaze did the same thing
in every game except we watched two games together
out of the other Four yeah the other four or
five games blaze would walk in either not show
up if we won or walk in with three minutes left
in the game when okc beat us And to be fair though
too the two games that we did watch fully together
the thunder did lose both of those games and
they're not They did I'm just saying blaze always
has great timing but but and I also he didn't
believe me at first but I also let him know that
I was at sidebar for Pretty much till the end
of the fourth quarter third quarter third quarter
or till the end of the third quarter But I was
also I hadn't eaten So I actually did decide
to go to Mod Pizza real quick. But that's beside
the point. What I want to talk about, I'm not
here to bash on the Spurs, actually. He did a
lot of that last night, by the way. I want to
focus on the good things about the Spurs. The
Spurs have Devin Vasel and Dylan Harper. Those
are the good things I want to focus on. I'm not
going to talk about your star player, supposedly
the best player in the world, shooting 9 for
25 from the field. I'm not going to talk about
that. But what I will talk about is Devin Vassell
shooting six for nine, five for eight from three.
I mean, he was hot. But that's also what's expected
of him. He's that good. And same with Dylan Harper.
He is so young. And it pisses me off. It does
piss me off how good he is because you guys have
him. I mean, yeah, that's great drafting. I mean,
the Thunder have been a team that's drafted good.
I mean, I don't know. Where the Spurs collapsed,
I think, is all coaching. It's just like there's
no timeouts. They're cutting it to 15 or just
we're still it. I thought we had no timeouts
at one point I was we must not have any there
just won't call them Well, what about Fox too
because Fox just was just like heavily involved
in this game. He was playing awful I think he
was definitely one of the reasons and he just
continues the reason he took the leg He JR Smith
does I think I people forgot the score. There's
no way, you know, we're up one and you take the
layup I'm with you. I'm with you that that was
an excusable place and And the other thing was
I mean Castle on that on that out of bounds call.
He actually got open And on first look, I thought
dylan harper under through the ball, but I saw
another angle cat Actually got his hand on the
ball which altered The ball getting to castle
for the open layup because he would have had
an open layup. Yeah. Yeah, that's a good call
Also, i'm just gonna say it i'm gonna say dearon
fox was fouled on the og Oh, Ananobe's hand was
a foot from the ball. Okay, but if Wimby makes
two free throws, then that last basket doesn't
mean a thing. And if Fox doesn't shoot the layup
and just dribbles out the clock. There's a lot
of things. Or if we just hold a 29 -point lead.
See, that's where you get into a trick where
you kind of focus on one play. Or if you don't
hold a 29 -point lead, you know. Combination
of plays. And I think Wimby went one of 11 in
the second half. Listen you right now the best
player in the world apparently right or die.
Can you hear the sarcasm? It's oozing through
the television not happy the best player in the
world sent his The world has his feet in the
sand in Cancun right now so coming soon to a
podcast You guys definitely need a podcast that's
all I'll say about that so a Thanks for calling
in nice hanging out with you last night. Thanks.
Yeah Yeah, and thanks for banging on on Hawk
here because you got to give this guy a lot of
credit though He keeps showing up to work after
a couple of really bad losses and he keeps coming
in so Yeah, you got to fall on the sword. Yeah,
we'll break them eventually Thanks bud. Yeah,
thank you. There he goes blaze Vegas I was not
The best part of it though Justin put it together.
Yeah, I figured we had to get you guys together
on the show Is this the way the debate is like
when you guys are sitting in the living room?
Yeah, I think we just got a great glimpse like
a window relationship That was awesome could
have gone another ten minutes, but we got other
stuff. We got to take care of as well, but yeah,
so Blaze is definitely hate -watching Although
he does pull in that whole, well, you know, I've
got ties to New York. It's like, no, you don't.
You're talking about the Knicks the entire year.
So don't even give me that. I didn't come out
of your mouth. That seems like a very Knicks
thing, though, where it's the button people that
haven't been Knicks fans all year. Bandwagon
Knicks fans. Seems like they're Knicks fans.
I'm amazed the chatter that's been coming. Now
everybody is on the Knicks. I'm going to wind
this thing back about a month ago. There was
nobody there was no expert until they started
rolling and putting series together that anybody
said that Knicks had a chance against the Spurs.
Yeah, I want to give Goose and Vegas actually
a lot of credit. They came in before the series.
We did a show together and they were very adamant
about how the Spurs shouldn't be favor in this
game or the series. I should say and that they
were going to say. Nixon six like that was what
they were saying over and over again. So before
the series it was it was after the conference
finals Okay, everybody was really high on the
Spurs of course It'd be the Thunder and of course
Vegas is gonna predict against the Knicks or
against the Spurs pretty much whatever But I
got to give at least goose a lot of credit because
he came in there on that Monday and said hey
guys I think actually the Knicks are the team
that we should be looking at in this series and
here we are before the game three loss Do you
realize the Knicks had only lost two games by
a total of two points? in the previous series
combined in the playoff run? Yeah, no, they've
been insane. That's crazy. They've won 13 straight.
Crazy good. So listen, I wouldn't put the money
against the Knicks. I hate to say that, but down
3 -1, they're going to have to have... I mean,
what lead is going to be safe now? You just blew
a 29. I will say. That's going to creep back,
man. You go up again by 20, and then it gets
cut down to 10. You don't think there's going
to be some knee shaking? Spurs I will say I was
when we were watching is right before blaze came
one of my when we were up 29 I was still kind
of like that what Justin said earlier in the
show like you should kind of that that doubt
starts to creep in of like oh like if This goes
wrong and my friend was like this kid sitting
next to me was like you're up 30 Like why would
you even I was like we I don't feel safe unless
we're up 40, you know? Okay, you know what that
is as well. That's an old Oregon fan Is exactly
that way because it's like what what is going
to? Screw us up. Well, Michael Dyer is not down
Dennis Dixon gets hurt Marcus. Mayority gets
hurt before the national championship game You
know what is going to go wrong if you're a duck
fan. It's all trauma, you know We grew up Cubs
fans, of course one of the most all of the traumatic
fan bases to be a you know a part of I think
the thing in this series that really is fascinating
to me is the way that The experience of the Knicks
has just come through and it's just obviously
a talented team But it just feels like the Spurs
like they're just so close, but I know some reason
they just can't put it together like They just
you can see the team just tense up like yesterday
It's like when they cut it to like even 20. I
was like, oh god guys. They are a young team
everybody I think not everybody but I think a
lot of people who bring up the point that they
are young team are Valid in that viewpoint. It's
like How can you simulate for a 20, a 21 year
old, a 22 year old who are the core of this team?
That's why you need veteran leadership on any
squad that's playing at a level like this. And
one thing that's fascinating to me to think about
too, especially with what we expect happens,
like we're expecting the Knicks to win this series
at this point. Well now. Now looking back. How
good is Atlanta? I mean Atlanta took a couple
games off of this Knicks team Yeah, and then
you kind of go through it and you go. Okay. Well
if you're the 76 years if you're the Cavaliers
How do you evaluate yourself now? Knowing that
the team you lost to is this good because I don't
think like you said Danny coming into this championship
series Nobody thought they were this good No,
and they've proven it thus far on the court no
matter what the circumstances have been Mike
Brown on the bench being a veteran coach I think
he planted some seeds with the officials. I don't
think he got all the calls he wanted to even
in game four But it didn't matter because they
got the one call not made On a tip in you know,
you could you could you have called a father?
Nobody's blowing their whistle on that moment,
but they made the play at the end. Yeah The only
credit I will give blaze. Okay, the only credit
I can is at the beginning of the series. He did
tell me He was a guy I think OGN and OB will
be the difference maker for the Knicks. And he
was saying that all of yesterday, by the way,
to disperse. Yeah, he's probably win finals MVP.
All right. So game. So we're going to talk a
lot more about this tomorrow because we're going
to have our favorite New York Knicks fan and
the mayor of Rip City, Travis Demers on the program
live at 220. So we'll get a little post offseason
for the Blazers and we'll talk a lot about this
series. I'm sure he's got a lot of opinions.
about it, especially being a New Yorker. So by
the way, weather is sparkling outside. It's going
to get hot, hot, hot, hot this weekend. So make
sure you stay hydrated. If you don't like the
sun, stay out of it. But go soak it up. Get some
vitamin D this weekend. Track and field championships
for the NCAA over at Hayward Field. Men's events,
we've already got some points scored. And by
the way, a big shout out and congratulations
to shot putter for Oregon, Ben Smith. He's just
a freshman and he wins the shot put After winning
the Big Ten Conference and the NCAA first round
titles And I think it was like back in the I
don't say it's a 90s. Was that the last time
that an Oregon? shot putter one I Don't have
it right in front of me. I know 1982. Yeah Dean
Krauser, so And he only trails Dean Krauser in
terms of the length. That's a record. The last
man to do so until Smith. Did it Wednesday, so
the Ducks in the team standings on the men's
side trail Nebraska by 102818. This is just getting
going. It's going to end on the 13th, which is
Sunday and. Sunday, yeah, no Saturday and it'll
end on Saturday. Women's no score yet, so they
haven't officially put any of those in the books,
but they're going to start. This afternoon a
little bit later with the women's hammer the
four by 100 prelims the pole vault so some of
the Field events will go straight to finals.
They've already made all their qualifications
and then the running events will be Preliminaries
to find figure out who's gonna race in the finals
coming up this weekend So if you got a chance,
there's still plenty of tickets going out and
see some great Action at Hayward Field. Did you
guys see this thing as well? We talked a lot
about bread and swords be yesterday with the
minister George reister Now the attorney general
for texas has stuck his nose in this I did see
this and I looked up immediately where he went
to school Well, he's this guy He went to virginia
and then went to baylor so no, but this is not
a not a texas tech No, it's the first thing I
looked up. What does that say? It doesn't matter
What it is is and this guy's a piece of work
ken paxton. So go go look at me yeah so you know
the name. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxson sent
a letter to Big 12 Commissioner Brent Yormark
and the board of directors Douglas Gerrard saying
that they would be exposed to quote substantial
liability meaning the Big 12 if they take any
action against Texas Tech. So I'm not sure what
does that mean exactly okay well what they say
basically is that the state of Texas will step
in and sue the Big 12 for penalizing one of their
members well within their rights within the bylaws
that Texas Tech signed on for, because now this
has become posturing. Now this has become big
money in Texas being thrown behind Brendan Soarsby.
And let's just take the other piece of it out
of it that we've talked about yesterday. I hope
the young man is remorseful, gets help. You know,
if he is addicted to gambling, that can destroy
his life and others. But at the same time, the
punishment does not fit the crime in this case,
meaning it's way too lenient to just have two
games against Abilene Christian and Oregon State,
and then you play the balance of the Big 12 season
when it really matters. That to me is the biggest
crime. He needs to sit out. He needs to have
his eligibility taken away, and that is the punishment,
and that needs to send that message to anybody
else. Who wants to gamble and you were talking
about this yesterday, and I think it's true the
fact that NFL evaluators How are they gonna see
this whether he's gonna not take accountability?
And you could say the same thing about the court
of public opinion Which isn't gonna be in his
favor knowing that he's gonna get me essentially
getting away with this and I don't think people
are gonna like that I don't think that's gonna
be ultimately good for him as an athlete because
quite honestly I think that some athletes they
play the villain role and they do it for a little
bit the victim Or the villain they they kind
of like being the bad guy But I think that ultimately
people want to be loved and it's gonna be really
hard to be like this beloved athlete If you have
this controversy hanging over your head Well
the quote -unquote adults in the room down in
the state of Texas are not showing Brennan Sorsby
how to act like one The ones that are taking
the side of hey, let's just slap them on the
wrist and let them play they are definitely trying
to put their own personal interests ahead of
It's a rule. It's like breaking a law You know,
and yeah, there are varying degrees of it, but
again, let's just go back to the things that
are not in dispute that Brendan Sorsby has admitted
to. Tens of thousands of dollars, thousands of
bets. Not just one or two, I'm joking around,
I'm playing with a couple of guys, I'm entering
a pool. Rick Neuheisel lost his job at Washington
because he was in an NCAA bracket. Literally,
that's why he lost it. And I mean, on field stuff
didn't help him, but that was the final straw.
He lost his job over it. There's been plenty
of examples. You could go I mean tons of them.
So it's just it's ridiculous I also think the
most alarming thing is that he bet on Indiana
when he was there on it like he was on Yeah,
actively at the game. Yeah, yeah, but people
say well he didn't play so but he was in there
on all the game planning He knew exactly what
the team was gonna be doing. He knew is he knew
his team He knew was playing for him. He saw
the other team on film. There's a huge advantage
in that respect. So yeah All these things that
come out, they just keep amplifying the point
that, and again, put aside that whether the kid
deserves a second chance, he absolutely does,
but not on the football field in college this
year. Let him go to the NFL. Undrafted. Undrafted.
Is that how that would work? Anyone could just
sign him? I think so now. If he comes this high,
yeah, I think there's some way that he can go
sign on as a free agent. because he's he'd be
eligible. So when we come back, let's talk about
happier things. A first half championship for
the Eugene Emeralds in the Northwest League.
We've got the Godfather in the studio next on
the Danny and Justin radio program. You know
what's really odd about this is. We just talked
about and hand to God this happened. We just
talked about having the Godfather on Matt Dobby
from the Eugene Emeralds last night. Well, I
always it was yesterday I guess or before that
you and I really solidified it and now all of
a sudden in some of my like Facebook feeds and
Instagram feeds all I'm seeing is clips from
all the Godfather movies So I don't know if my
phone's listening to me or not because we never
refer to Matt Dompy as anything else between
Justin I except the Godfather but here he is
even when I text him I text him Godfather Godfather
have you ever seen the movies? Yeah, I've seen
the movie. Okay. I'm just a red -blooded American.
Of course. He's seen the movie You know, I hadn't
seen them until a coded When I was like 25, so
you missed out. I mean the last one wasn't the
best the first two I really like I love them
I love the second one because they had the backstory
like Vito Corleone You know as he grew up and
Robert De Niro was awesome in that they all were
they're all great movies Matt Dumpy joins us
here on the Danny and Justin radio program Thanks
for tuning in and congratulations, man. This
has got to feel pretty good first half championship
You know, you're gonna be in the postseason 40
wins 19 losses You got the little Asterix the
little star by your your team's name there in
the standing. So I mean, how's that feel for
the organization? It's fun I mean, it's fun to
be able to know in early June is pretty crazy
to already have clinched and honestly We didn't
think we'd be celebrating at home when we clinched
on Tuesday the first game of this homestand We
thought for sure when they went on this two -week
trip had an 11 game lead It was just a little
four game skid up in Everett that kind of a scuffle
a little bit there kind of gummed things up We
were hoping that they would have to clean up
the champagne shower up there in every memorial
We got that task and actually I I cut my finger
up pretty good on some broken champagne bottle
But that's all right actually luckily the trainer
was right there and he stitched me up good the
war wound from the celebration So let's talk
through this as and we were kind of kicking it
around The other day because we did mention that
Eugene won the first half title So two halves,
okay, and you still have what? You still have
what, three games left? I think it's seven games.
I think it's sometime, I think it's next Thursday's
the last game of the first half. Okay, of the
first half. Then everybody will reset, go back
to 0 -0, and then second half. So how does that
work if, let's hope it happens, that Eugene wins
the second half? How do you determine who you
play in the championship series? It'll be the...
It'll be whoever comes in second in the second
half. Okay, so these have gone back and forth
a little bit Sometimes it's the next best overall,
but what's funny? There was a rule change going
into 2018 in 2017 when we were short season.
There was some weird Just the way everything
fell the last game of the season Tri -City actually
had to lose to make the playoffs We won't even
go into the weird scenario Yeah, they had to
have the other team had to win so that they could
be the second half second whatever it was I don't
even remember but they changed the rule and Nobody
thought of the unintended consequence Which the
next year played out where the emeralds actually
had the worst record in the league for the whole
season over the 76 games But somehow we snuck
in because of the way that they had changed the
rules So it was only the second half that mattered
second place second half team if the the champion
from the first half also wins the second. Correct.
So we snuck in. We hadn't won more than three
games in a row the whole year. So, of course,
we won five in a row and won the championship.
That's fantastic. Only in minor league baseball
can stuff like this happen on the ring. We put
it was the WTF championship, but it's good for
worse to first. I think there are a couple of
ways you could describe that. It's the godfather,
Matt Dobby, general manager who gets to sit back
in the broadcasters. Now I think the last few
years weren't you just doing like the home games
and Jake was doing the away games now Jacob Archer's
been doing a great job doing all of it, but he
gets a night off I think what parents are in
town or something his his mom is having her retirement
slash birthday party up in Oregon City, so yeah,
he's on assignment so I get back in the back
in the booth and You know, it'll be opening day
for me in terms of I got the emeralds down pretty
good I get to pay attention decent amount to
the emeralds and obviously our Lineup is so stacked.
It's there's a lot of good numbers to talk about
Just kind of started diving in about 30 minutes
ago to the Spokane roster and see who we're actually
playing tonight So don't call Spokane. Yeah,
I got that part right right right so when you're
cracking the mic again You know, what's the what's
the thing that stands out to you about this team?
I mean you're you're kind of you know, it's a
fun branded baseball. They score a lot of runs
They're leading the Northwest League as well
in ERA, but ERAs are actually pretty high in
the league as well. So just a fun brand of baseball,
I think. Yeah. Well, I'm excited about just last
week, Johnny Level, who I believe in some publications
is listed as the Giants top prospect, even the
head of Bryce Eldridge, who just hit a walk off
grand slam yesterday for the Giants in the big
league level. But Level is a young, I think he's
19 years old, shortstop. So we have Gavin Keelan,
who was the first round pick last year. He's
been with us since opening day when he had a
walk off homer. He's actually been kind of bumped
over to second base for this 19 year old Johnny
level who's one of the top prospects in the giant
system So we've already had an amazing offense
and now we just added some more firepower with
a switch hitting shortstop That has already been
lighting it up already. Do you enjoy? Slug Fests
or more of a pitching dual guy As a purist you
might say I mean as a big giants fan from the
10 12 14 era I mean that was torture as the giants
broadcasters would call it at the time But I
I kind of like a pitchers duel I mean I we've
talked about it before but the universal dh kind
of kills me I wish that um, just the strategy
of the pitcher hitting like I never minded an
easy out at the bottom of the order I never really
understood what a you know why that hurt anybody's
feelings and it was always kind of fun when a
pitcher would Smack a double down the line that
could change the game But also the strategy in
the fifth sixth seventh inning when you got to
decide Hey, if there's a runner scoring position,
are you gonna pinch it to go for it? Yeah, we're
gonna try to score this run and pull this guy
who's maybe pitching Okay, and but we're getting
close to the end of his rope so all that strategy
that kind of went out the window with the with
the DH being in both leagues now and all the
way up and down the minors is I don't love it.
But I think from a broadcaster standpoint, you
know dingers are always fun action Yeah, so do
you think and just supposing? theory is that
the league era is up a lot of pictures eras are
up because of the familiarity that you know you're
seeing the same guys because you're playing so
many games against a common opponent that that
you know it you can only fool somebody for so
much I mean unless you have just rocket stuff
and if you have rocket stuff you're not gonna
be here in this league for very long you're gonna
get called up is that a good Hypothesis, I think
so. We're pretty uniquely. We're the only we're
the smallest league I guess you would say with
only six teams So these guys play each other
at least 24 times a year, which is pretty crazy
I think it's that and like you said if there's
a real dominant pitcher I think at this level
they say, you know, everybody's got a good fastball
This is where they can really first start to
really command the strike zone But that there's
a big leap when you get to double a Okay, where
now they're commanding multiple pitches and they
can you know throw their breaking ball stuff
with command and that's where they really kind
of Separate the the prospects from the guys who
are really gonna meet from the chaff as all right.
It's Matt Doppie the godfather joining us Eugene
Emeralds tonight back at home and Matt Doppie
is gonna be on the microphone. So the godfather,
although it's a competing radio station Go ahead
and give them a listen and give them, you know,
and and we will evaluate as well I'll be driving
around. I will give you a listen as well. So
just be knowing There's going to be some critical
listening going on. The pressure's on. The pressure's
on. That's not a big deal. So when does it start
happening now? We're approaching the All -Star
break. Teams will start making moves. And when
I say moves, obviously, trade deadline is going
to be coming up. There's going to be teams that
are going to be selling. There are going to be
teams that are going to be buying. So I mean,
that trickle -down effect has to affect all of
the minor league clubs. So talk about when you
start to see, all of a sudden, we're going to
see a little move here, a little move there.
It actually kind of started last week. the Giants
have had some injuries to relief pitchers all
the way up through the major leagues and so we
really at part of that four games kid that we
had never it was really because we were They
sent five guys to double a to kind of fill in
upwards and they only sent us one guy We got
we lost like four pitchers and gained a shortstop
So they were really they were really able it
didn't that's why That's why they're really leaning
on the starters to go a little longer But now
I think we just got two new relievers either
yesterday or I think they're officially added
to the roster today So we're kind of starting
to see that and then uh jonah cox who was a fan
favorite the last couple years here in eugene
just got called up straight from double a to
the big leagues and he's been with the the big
club for the last couple of weeks and um so i've
kind of been nervous that they're going to take
some of our outfield um to kind of fill up towards
double a but it hasn't happened yet but yeah
all those things you'll get that call it's like
that morning hey put a kid on a plane get him
get him going right exactly yeah is there anything
that changes since you guys know that you're
going to you know be in that final series like
operationally like you got a whole second half
to plan for it like does anything change for
you guys well we're trying to sell out three
more games uh september 11 12 and 13th it's cool
the the uh the ducks have been able to work with
us they actually start their their fall camp
that weekend yeah but they're they're working
with us normally we would have to play games
one and two But obviously the team and the Giants
would prefer to have home field advantage. And
the cool thing is now we have the opportunity
to actually win a championship at home in front
of our fans for the first time since 2018. That
long? Really? Well, when we won in 22 and 23,
it was both on the road. So yeah, it's going
to be cool to have an opportunity that Friday
night. Hopefully we get a sweep and then get
to clean up the stadium and move on to the off
season. but you know if we get games four and
five it'll be pretty exciting to be at pk park
that weekend the next four at home for the m's
as they host the spokane indians is still the
indians right yep okay i just i want to make
sure about the guardians they have a close relationship
with the tribe up there and they do a lot of
cool stuff yeah and it's a great great organization
the first uh the last four of six in a row against
spokane and that's kind of the way it lies out
um throughout the season as i take a look at
the schedule it's either five or six games in
a row you're playing sometimes it's going to
be away and then you bring it back home but the
same team that you face. So we talked about the
familiarity. So let's discuss as well about maybe
the job that Jacob Heyward has done. I mean,
fantastic in this first half. I mean, the offense
has been electric, changing people up because
that's going to happen. There have been call
ups. So talk about the job in your estimation
that Jacob's done with this team. He's been excellent.
I mean, we I think it was the second game, home
game in the season this year, we Had the opportunity
to present him with his arizona complex league
manager of the year, um award, uh, they won the
championship down there last year and um, I told
him right after I shook his hand I was like,
all right, let's make it back to back and I think
he's pretty well on his way But one thing just
talking with jacob archer who's obviously travels
with the team gets to see things more in depth
like um, jacob hayward's he's a real quiet guy
in general, but he he definitely commands respect
um and archer was kind of relaying to me that
you know he doesn't he doesn't stand for you
know jogging to first base and and low fin no
foolishness he will he will lay down the law
whether it's a top prospect or the guy on the
end of the bench so i think that's really impressive
and he really um even just when he was addressing
the team right before they popped their champagne
the other day i mean he just These guys really
really play for him and and he commands everybody's
respect Well, what really stood out to me when
I got to talk to him at your as media day was
that first of all i'm 31 He's a little bit younger
than me, but he does not have that sort of like
there's some people you meet and you're like
Oh like you're you're he's got that maturity.
He's a guy that just seems like he's wise beyond
his ears Yeah, definitely. I mean he's been around
the game for a long time. Obviously You know,
it was his brother, Jason, who I love, and we
love Jason. So he, you know, got to grow up and,
you know, was coming up with his brother in the
big league. So I'm sure that helps having some
some baseball savvy. But, you know, he played
four or five years in the Giants system and has
been coaching for four or five years. I think
it's his fifth year. Um as a manager in their
system and his first year kind of out of the
arizona complex league So he's kind of uh, you
know riding the buses and well he did that in
the minors obviously in his day But as a as a
manager and a coach he's he's riding the buses
and doing this full season gig now And obviously
he's tearing it up. I think we're about 40 and
19 now. Yep 40 and 19 is your record I want to
switch it up a little bit talk about tonight
and this is something that's near and dear to
my heart backyard baseball night So how did this
come about because backyard baseball? That's
the first I probably didn't get me into baseball,
but that's the first baseball video game that
I ever played So there's a special place in my
heart for backyard baseball. Yeah, I kind of
came up with You know Major League Baseball kind
of puts out these different properties that are
like wanting to get their name out and wanting
to kind of stay relevant and It just kind of
worked out perfect. This is like there are big
Babe Ruth The local Babe Ruth leagues are all
doing their closing ceremony tonight Okay, you
know will be more fun than kind of celebrating
the old video game with with these You know young
kids 8 to 12 14 So it's gonna be a fun night.
Yeah, it should be a pretty packed house tonight
and for a Thursday Thursday always But we really
once we get to the summer we get to like really
just Go all out with all of our promos like tomorrow
night. We're kind of celebrating the World Cup
Yeah, cool one with the M's USA theme soccer
jersey. That's gonna be cool and then Saturday
I'm really excited for the Sandlot night. We've
got a lot of we got a baseball card show Before
the game down by the team store with I think
we have 12 different vendors that are gonna be
selling their baseball cards the cool thing though
is I don't know if you saw where McDonald theater
a few weeks ago had a They did a showing of the
Sandlot and they actually had squints smalls
and yeah. Yeah were there and How did I miss
that? I didn't hear about that It was and we
brought slow go to kind of come out and like
promote our Sandlot night coming up on Saturday
and This guy came up to me. I thought he was
their manager to be perfectly honest Okay, and
he gave me a bunch of business cards and he I'm
from Medford I'd love to come up for the game
and I'm like, okay, and then when I googled him
Real quick before confirming with him His name
he's an actor named Daniel was a cop and he was
actually the He was the technical director He
was the the baseball guy on the ground of the
sandlot that like basically evaluated the actors
and said I are you're gonna do this stop Yeah,
you're in right field, but he also at the last
minute he was telling me this story the day before
they kind of rewrote the scene where Squints
is in the treehouse telling the story about the
beast and how it all came to be This guy is the
the police chief squint's grandfather the forever
So he's gonna be wow. He's gonna be part of the
baseball show He'll be there signing autographs
and selling some posters from the sandlot So
it's pretty cool that he's gonna make the drive
up and be a part of our sail on night and on
our dog night about a month ago This one guy
brought an absolute perfect carbon copy of the
beast. So I begged him to come back and he's
going to be there as the beast and somehow the
beast is going to throw out the first pitch.
And the Springfield robotics club from the high
school is working on a rector set to throw out
the first pitch where they'll put the ball like
when they were trying to get the ball over the
wall. That's cool. Now my dream and it's not
going to work. is if the beast would then come
and intercept the ball as it's coming, coming
to home plate. I don't think we can, I don't
think we can get that all dialed in, but that'd
be pretty cool. You gotta have a camera around
at the very least. Absolutely. He is the Godfather's
Matt Doppie, the general manager of the Eugene
Emeralds. He'll be on the call tonight as the
Ms open up a four game home stand against Spokane.
They are. 4 and 6 in their last 10 games, but
they won the first half championship in the Northwest
League. They have a 40 and 19 overall record.
So Matt, I this always dials back into the community
and you just talked about how much fun it is
at PK Park when you come see an EMS game. But
I do know that you want to, you know, thank the
vendors, the people that help support him. You
could not pull off all of these different promotions
on a nightly basis without some really great
support from the local community and the business
community, especially. Yeah, you know, I mean
our bread and butter is selling our sweets and
our picnics and our season tickets So all the
local companies that come out and do their annual
outings and it's kind of you know It's Eugene
tradition that you know, nobody wants to see
go away So we're we're excited to kick off the
summer schools out tomorrow. Yep And then it's
kind of full bore Bunch of fun promos for the
rest of the summer right into that playoff series
in in early September How's the log working out
by the way? Yeah, he's pretty lucky. I think
I think we were 21 and 8 now at home, so it's
looking pretty good. Wow. That's fantastic. All
right. So again, no nerves for tonight? No. I'm
not going to try and put those in your head.
I want to have bad thoughts as you sit up there.
But it's got to be a little bit surreal or a
little bit odd because, you know, You haven't
done a game so far this year. So now you're you're
right back into the mix. Yeah, I mean, it's opening
day is always the worst because you're trying
to, you know, remember all the things that you
do. What are you know, what are all the little
tricks of the trade? Like, what's my pregame
show kind of like format? But it's actually funny.
They've actually made some changes where now
the broadcaster has access to like the Trackman
data. Instantly cool to where like Jacob Archer.
He'll have his iPad pulled up and he can tell
you that fellow Right, you know as soon as the
guy catches the ball. He's 108 and yeah what
the pitch was Exactly. Oh that was two inches
off the plate And then in addition to that now
like it's so funny like we spend meticulous hours
getting all these bios for all the players Yeah
now literally it's all compiled and a daily report
gets printed up and it's all just big bang boom
right there in front of you I'm like where was
this back in my day you were working for a living
back in the day now that's great well have a
great call tonight man we always love having
you in here i appreciate it and we had a great
time with jacob last time he was here i'd i never
had met him so so a credit to the organization
i encourage everyone to get out to pk park you
got four chances from now through sunday to see
your eugene emeralds and then they're off for
the next week on the road and then back against
everett for five games six games actually got
a double -header squeezed in there on a on a
thursday on the twenty fifth so a lot of opportunities
and the big one uh... we don't have to either
for this year but our fireworks extravaganza
is going to be on that friday june twenty six
out there is a baseball dot com and make sure
you go to emerald baseball dot com there's some
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but if you go to emerald's baseball dot com you'll
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art dot godfather thanks Always a pleasure. There
he goes the godfather Matt Dumpy All right. Well,
we got one more segment. I have no idea. I'm
sure Justin will help fill it in When we I hope
so. Well, I mean you're gonna have to because
I'll just sit here I'll follow your lead. How
about that for once good the Danny and Justin
radio program rolls on here for a weekend Eve
Fox Sports Eugene Fox Sports Newport Danny Justin
radio program rolling on here for a Weekend E
Portland fire three game losing skid fresh off
a 17 point road loss to Los Angeles and Coming
into town next I'm getting any easier the Vegas
aces led by As I Wilson and then the Dallas wings
Paige Becker's leads the wings so aces are eight
and three Dallas is seven and four And this free
-flowing offense that Portland has displayed
or the first 13 games has been kind of up and
down and so The first matchup with Vegas will
be tonight 7 p .m. Moda Center. You can hear
it right here on Fox Sports Eugene Fox Sports
Newport And we're gonna have AJ Karen on can
age canal. Sorry. I say Karen That's my mom's
name. All right on on Monday Yeah excited about
that and you never know tonight against a Joe
Wilson and then they says they beat the Liberty
a couple times this year Although they did not
have Sabrina and I don't think any of those games
So, you know, there's that but this has been
a an interesting team. They don't have the size
I don't think to really compete with Asia Wilson
So we'll see how that goes But I do think it's
a fun team and I'm excited to talk to AJ on Monday
because we haven't gotten a chance to D Dive
into this team quite yet and it's about time.
You have a very pink Miami is a messy. Yeah,
it's messy. Absolutely. Of course in honor it
In honor of the first day of the World Cup. Yeah,
I could wore my timber stuff in but it wouldn't
made much sense I don't think are there any timbers.
Yeah, there's yeah We talked about sermon your
favorite guy Oregon State University Pitching
coach baseball team rich Dorman leaving the program
gonna take the same position Down in Florida
going from one end of the country to the other
He built a pitching staff over the years 14 major
league picks coming out of the bullpen and off
the hill including a couple of top Two round
picks so rich storm and leaving Mitch Canham
squad They've had some defections as there will
be some in almost every program whether they're
starters or Reserves or young kids or graduates
We'll see, we'll keep seeing and hearing about
those over the next couple of weeks. We talked
about Oregon signing a kid from Vanderbilt, infielder,
by the way it was Cal, Cal Poly, I think it was.
Yeah. Yeah. So Mark Wasikowski is out on the
streets right now with his coaching staff and
trying to gather up what the 20, 26, 27 ducks
or 20, 27 ducks will look like next season. So.
I don't think this is insignificant the loss
of rich dormant I mean he's been a guy that you
talk about relationships right and it makes me
wonder about Dax Whitney and His future and what
that's gonna look like with now a new pitching
coach like is he gonna be comfortable Coming
back and having a new guy be there So I just
think it's something that you got to keep an
eye on because these pitching coaches can make
a really really big difference And we know how
good Oregon State's pitching was this year So
do you guys have any handicaps on who do you
think is gonna win them? I mean we just started
the World Cup So it's a long way to go if you
were to ask me one team who I think is gonna
win. It'd probably be Spain I Mean that seems
to be the consensus favorite pick which tells
me the way they play Okay, I just so fun to watch
and the talents there This is the first time
by the way in a long time that there hasn't been
any Real Madrid players on Team Spain, which
is very interesting So Jose Moreno was just me.
Yes. I'm sure we had the manager again for Real
Madrid So you got to be impressed that I knew
that I didn't look at the ESPN I actually didn't
I heard it But so one my exposure to Jose was
in the Tottenham series that was on Netflix for
a couple of years. Okay. When he was the coach
of the Spurs. So that was my first exposure to
him there and wow I mean A guy is very confident
in himself. Very confident. He has a very strong
personality. This is, I think, his second go
around. And people are expecting it to burst
into flames at some point. So I think the other
part of it was Real Madrid. It was the improbable,
inconceivable rise of, and I'm blanking on the
name. Of the city. Oh, I can't believe I'm no
it was uh, liverpool when they were down three
nil in the champions cup back in 2005 and ended
up winning the european the champions cup over
real madrid and Oh, no, I was gonna say did you
all see that german mathematician? His name is
are we still staying on soccer? Yeah, it's world
cup world cup related. His name is joe joe kachin.
I don't know how the germans say clement And
he's predicted the last three World Cups like
this mathematician and he has a cool math base.
And who's he like? He picked the Netherlands
to win the World Cup. Really? Yeah, he says he
has the Netherlands defeating Portugal in the
World Cup final. Yeah. Portugal's name's been
thrown around there. Portugal's always good.
The Netherlands, huh? France should be good.
Yeah. And he's predicted correctly the last three
World Cup champs? Yeah, he had Germany, France,
and Argentina. What do you think about that,
Baby J? Listen, there's a method to the madness
a lot of the time, but... You never know sometimes
these things are just coincidental. So I would
if you told me hey netherlands of the field i'm
taking the field for sure Okay, well, it's fair.
I guess. All right. Well, we'll be watching as
it goes through Um, we'll be talking a lot of
the world cup or I know we're gonna have andrew's
uh, adam susman back Not andrew i'm glad I didn't
do that on the air with him adam susman Our our
timbers guy and I know we can talk. Um, we can
talk about that with uh, our buddy. Um Tyson
yeah, tyson Tyson Alger. He loves soccer. He
loves the beautiful game. Oh, a joke! I got fired
from the bank today. A woman asked me to check
her balance, so I pushed her. Dad jokes! What
did... Now, foul this out. What did Cinderella
the dolphin... It's a dolphin named Cinderella.
Okay. What did Cinderella the dolphin wear to
the ocean ball? Um... Man. Not a glass flipper
glass something a glass flipper Got close don't
doubt yourself young man. All right on the program
tomorrow We'll have the mayor of Rip City Travis
summer is a lot to talk about. He's a huge Knicks
fans I'm sure we'll be talking about the NBA
Finals game number 5, which will be coming up
on Saturday. Saturday, 530. All right. Everybody
must win for the Spurs. Everybody say a silent
prayer or you can say it out loud for Hawk, for
Dom, for healing by Saturday and a victory on
Saturday night for Hawk, for Baby J. I'm Doc.
God bless. Be well. Put a smile on your face.
Someone else's. They deserve it. So do you. Peace.