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about well, you know, I'm always excited for
the show, but you're I'm fired outing you were
literally I think if the hallway would have been
longer you would have been sprinting up and down
the hallway When I was sitting there try I was
trying to know you're gonna make a business call
You were like no No, just like oh my god, somebody
died. No somebody didn't die, but Can you believe
that Portland Trail Blazers are splashing into
the NBA offseason news as it was just announced
by Shams that the Memphis Grizzlies are trading
two time NBA All -Star Ja Morant to the Trail
Blazers for Jeremy Grant and Chris Murray. This
is a straight up player deal, no picks involved.
The Grizzlies have now shuttled off three of
their former franchise players including Morant,
Desmond Bain and Jaren Jackson Jr. Just getting
they just got swept by Oklahoma City in the first
round of the 2025 playoffs once considered one
of the league's most talented young teams according
to shams Grizzlies just once one series in four
playoff appearances with that on the roster Morantz
26 and Justin I cannot believe this is Joe Cronin
making this the last move for the Blazers I can't
believe this. It's such an odd move. This is
the type of deal that we're going to see it two
different ways because there's going to be the
initial reaction and then there should be the
fallout of whatever actually happens. Let's start
with an initial reaction. You're either going
to think this is an A or an F. There is no middle
ground. No middle ground for this trade. Can
I throw out some numbers? Absolutely. If you're
in the column of this is the stupidest thing
the Blazers have ever done. John Moran in the
last three years has played a total of 79 games.
Last two seasons have ended with... 82 games
per regular season, by the way. Okay. So he has
not even played a full season in three years.
Part of that was he has been suspended a few
times, the last one being a 25 -game suspension
for conduct detrimental. He's a bit of... He's
a bit of a problem child in the locker room with
organizations, apparently. So three years, 79
games. He's had suspension after suspension.
I already mentioned one of them. He is a career
31 % three -point shooter. His deal is still
worth right around $87 million. So it's like
43 this year, 44 next year. And he's a point
guard. And the Blazers have Dame, Scoot, Drew.
He got one basketball. Who's going to get the
ball if you keep this like it is on the face
value with John Morant coming to the Blazers?
And don't forget Denny Avdia, who is another
guy that needs the ball in his hands. We saw
last year when they missed all their point guards
because they were all injured. He was the guy
that was their point forward, essentially was
their primary facilitator. There was already
questions about hey, how's dame and denny gonna
work out together? And now it's like all right.
Well, how's dame gonna work out with denny, but
also now they have john moran You have the worst
menage trois in basketball right now henderson
What does this say for what they believe in scoot
henderson? That's why you might say joe cronin
was how much how much was this his vision because
I think they like scoot henderson, especially
after the way He played in the post season that
dame can mentor this kid because dame's not gonna
play for another five years. He's not so Why
would you so so I just made the case for? This
is the worst thing the Blazers could have done.
So you said it's either an a or an F So please
help some of the people that think it's an a
okay If you like this trade you like this trade
because they didn't give up anything They gave
up Jeremy Grant and Chris my unloaded a horrible
contract in Jeremy Jerry Grant Yeah, he's considered
one of the worst contracts in the league. He
did have a bit better of a season last year,
but You like it if you believe that John Moran
is gonna figure it out. That's where it starts,
right? That he's gonna basically be that guy
that we thought he could be a potential Super
star level player. It's not like he's got the
playing style where when he does things you're
like, oh man Like this is the one of the most
talented long ago was that two three years ago
at this point? So he stole 26. So he's not he's
theoretically in his prime And it's also the
offseason isn't over. So this is very clearly
a first move out of a series of moves that the
Blazers are going to do. There's no possible
way. I will bet my house that I don't own the
fact that they will not take this exact roster
into the regular season. They will not have all
four of these guards on the team when the season
starts. So you think that there might be a chance
that they actually don't even keep John, they
might reroute him. I'm still waiting to see on
that. But we'll definitely have some news on
that here in the near future. Well, it's going
to come pretty soon. I think I think the Blazers
did this move because they already know what
their next moves gonna be somebody else wants
See, I'll stay in this corner and I might be
totally wrong. It might be that Drew and scoot
are getting packaged together And that I can't
believe even then i'm starting to cut you off
But even then it's still like even if you say
drew and scoot are out Then you still have the
two other ball handling like heavy ball handling
guys Like i'm gonna say the menagee twice Who
are you getting in that trade for scoot and for
drew? You're probably getting another guy. Maybe
it's jalen brown another ball handler So they
can't really do that So this is where I think
there's some paint into the corner type analogy
going on But I still have to believe that this
is the pawn being Offered out in front by grabbing
on and I don't have any idea how much Tom Dundon
had to do with this because this kind of yeah
But this kind of flies in the entire face of
everything that Tom Dundon's public persona is
which is you're not taking on an $87 million
contract for a player that has not given you
an entire full season in the last three years.
That's why, and I understand, Justin, I could
be totally off on this, but I feel that they're
gonna package, and it could be the same team,
it could be two different teams for some picks
or for maybe a middling, a mid -level exception
player. I think... It's either Dame Stan. There's
no way you're trading. You can't. You just can't.
So take him off the table. So now it comes down
to Scoot or Drew. Drew, the Wiley veteran that
they got, you know, a year ago. And he's and
he's kind of worked in. Playoff rotation guy
100 percent. Right. Or do you trade away the
future talent and you package him with this other
player, John Morant? or do you split them off
into differing deals because somebody else wants
them, somebody else wants a John Marant and they
couldn't swing it. in some way because of their
financials or whatever. Right. Yeah. And so there
needs to be a different player that comes with
it. So the Blazers, basically, I think the NBA,
what they do and there's so many stupid rules
with this, not stupid, but just confusing rules
where, you know, you have to match up salaries.
You have to match up certain things to be able
to make it the new CBA. Right. So maybe this
is where that comes into play and that there's
going to be a different bundle for a John Marant
with another team that basically Memphis would
not deal with. It was like, we'll deal with the
Blazers because we want Jeremy Grant. But we're
not going to deal with you. Now, normally that
ends up being like a three team trade. They do
it all at once. But this could be something where
the Blazers are going to hold on to this piece
for a minute because they know they've got something
else on the horizon. I guess my question would
be then, if you want to get Ja because you think
that you're going to be able to flip him because
he has value, then why weren't they made to spend
more to get him? They basically got him for free.
Like, why are you going through the extra step
of getting John Moran? Well, the reason I also
think that this is a plausible theory is because
there were no draft picks involved in this. At
all. It was a straight salary dump, salary swap.
So that again just points to that. Listen, this
is so un -Joe Cronin -like, what we've seen in
the last two years. He does not make deals like
this. He hasn't made deals like this. So how
much is he being influenced by Tom Dundon on
how he's making this deal, and how much is it
He's got something else. He's got another little
card up his sleeve. Has to. Do you want to know
the non -guard blazers? Okay. On the roster right
now? Laying on me, yeah. There's not very many.
Tonovan Klingon, Young Hansen, Denny Avdiya,
Tumani Kamara. Wow. That's it. And Jan Hansen
hasn't even... He hasn't even been on the bench
since the first 15 games. Robert Williams is
a free agent. Oh, he's gone. They're not resigning
Robert Williams. They're not the reason why I
think is because I think a good contender is
gonna give him more money than they're gonna
want to for sure Well, he's probably not gonna
go to the West. I thought he was gonna possibly
go down to Lakers But I just saw that Deandre
Ayton ops in with the Lakers smart decides. He's
not it's smart for Deandre Ayton Yeah, it is
smart for him. So he's another guy that needs
the ball. Otherwise, he's not productive Yeah,
so I think we got to mention Jalen Brown, right?
He's kind of the piece that I'm thinking about
he's kind of the name that we haven't mentioned
yet and the guy that's been the most Most active
in trade talks. He was in talks to be the Yanis.
Exactly that fell through now There's all these
questions from the Boston side of like, okay
now he knows clearly he was to be traded Can
you mend fences somehow? Is it the point the
pass the point of no return? I think it might
be so it sounds like the Blazers have been involved
It sounds like Donovan Klingon is the sticking
point in a potential trade and you can see why
from the Blazers a bit back to upside with Donovan
Klingon as far as I'm concerned if I'm the Celtics,
I of course you want him and you want a guy like
either scoot or with Shaden Maybe you get drew
holiday back because that'll make the money work
and they had him on the team previously obviously
And so he's a guy they're familiar with the thing
about it from the blazer side is like you can't
trade Donovan Klingon Like how can you possibly
do that? They'd run joke running out of town
If he this pull this deal off don't get anything
else for John Marantz not shoot him off and then
get rid of Donovan Klingon and then bring in
a wing It doesn't make any sense that would be
like what they're gonna have like five guys all
at six five Playing on the floor at the same
time. They get murdered Yeah, and Donovan Klingons
a really nice young player who he's learned how
to shoot. He's a good defender in this way This
is why this whole development piece to me. I
can see that and then you've got a player like
Drew and Dame You've got the nice pieces in Denny
and and tomorrow Don't see this it just it is
it's bizarre a world right now if you're a blazer
fan This is why we love the NBA first of all
because stuff like this happens and we're just
like what is going on I think that what this
feels like to me is a little bit of a Pull in
the trigger on a move and sorry no pun intended
with the John Moran thing that It just feels
like they had this young rebuild thing going
and now you're kind of going for it I guess like
I don't even know what this is because he's still
young enough where maybe you can have him be
part of a core for a couple of years But I don't
know. It's just so weird. No, this doesn't make
any sense And nobody wanted John Moran at the
trade deadline last year and he got injured before
the deadline did not play again the rest of the
season and before that time He went down like
19 and a half points a game 23 from the three
-point line. He just played 20 games last season
injured People have called him a headcase. I
don't know him. So I'm not gonna call him Hey,
I'm just saying what other people have said and
that he's a headcase and so I don't I'm also
concerned about the chemistry in that locker
room, which seemed to be pretty positive I agree
and you bring in somebody also kind of screwed
that with getting rid of Tiago splitter, right?
Well, that's Again, that was, I think that was
a bad, we've talked about that, we just thought
that was a bad mood. Now listen, Micah Norah
might be, Micah Norah might be the guy. And they
just hired Mike Williams as an assistant today,
I think, is what I heard. Yeah, that's true.
So they're bringing in some familiar faces formally
in the Blazers organization and such. So that's
a good thing. So I think Micah Norah is gonna
stabilize that coaching thing. And you know,
Herdy's a great... innovative coach who's hungry
to succeed because this is his first head coaching
position. So those are all check boxes in the
positive for me. But yeah, Tiago Splitter, the
players loved him. The players loved that guy.
And he got shipped off. Good luck, Chicago, because
you're getting a great coach. All right. But
this whole thing with the player stuff is just
it's a it's a head scratcher to me. And I've
already talked to a couple of people and they
are Scratching their heads. Well, it's more than
scratching their heads. There is one person that
told me that this was probably the most idiotic
move the Blazers have made in their history.
That's saying something. That's saying a lot.
This is a French ball. This is the franchise
that drafted Sam Bowie. Well, you never could
have known what was going to happen there. By
the way, Paraguay just went up on Germany 1 -0.
We'll talk about World Cup in the last segment.
I don't want to squeeze this in. Is that enough
on John Moran for right now? We did 15 minutes.
Is that enough? I think that's enough. We'll
get some updates here, I'm sure, as the show
goes on. If we have any. So the other news on
the West Coast is what's leaking out right now
That there is serious talks about a sign and
trade deal for lebron to leave la and go where
Golden state so weird. This is why we love the
nba I'm telling you and they're they're they're
talking about anthony davis also So it sounds
like what they did is they declined Dreyman's
option which potentially allows for the money
to be available to get cap exception. They have
jimmy butler on a big contract jimmy he's gonna
be gone if they get lebron there well they'd
have to he'd be the one that they'd probably
flip to washington to get anthony davis and then
maybe he'd be a buyout i don't know why washington
would do that to be honest with you they got
anthony davis they didn't trade too much to get
him but they committed a bit of capital to get
him you need to have somebody play defense in
washington because trey young's not going to
right and they have this kind of young corps
now of guys where they get debansa number one
pick they have trey young you have anthony davis
you got alexander sarr you've got some good guards,
Trey Johnson, like they've got something there
in Washington, so it seems to me maybe you'd
keep a guy like the Anthony Davis, but listen,
this is the NBA, players dictate a lot to where
they go, and of course there's these erroneous
moves like we saw with Luca where just players
get blindsided, but these players certainly have
a factor of where they're going. Do you think
that, and this is all supposition, that LeBron
could... Kind of maneuver this as well to say
if I'm going here Bronte's kind of time you're
going to the Bronte Why wouldn't he because he's
a good young player because let's Steph Curry's
not gonna play another ten years He's a nice
like eighth man ninth man on a playoff team maybe
but I think the reason maybe you wouldn't do
that if you were You're a father. I'm not a father
so I can't speak on this but if you were somebody
if you were working with your kid at a job Yeah,
and say you were the CEO of the company. Yeah,
you're the man right and He's working his way
up. He's maybe not quite as as talented naturally
as you were and then you get another job somewhere
else, right? Isn't that an opportunity for your
child to? Go out and kind of do their own thing
at that point and let them grow versus sort of
going like alright I got you your first job now
I'm gonna bring you along and give you a promotion
at this new job Yeah, because because if you
know that he's not that good And he's not gonna
and he's gonna get thrown to the wolves if I
leave, you know the comfort of the nest now Do
I think lebron will not do that? He'll let him
stay in la probably not He's following daddy
wherever daddy goes for at least one more contract,
but don't you think it'd be the best thing for
him? I think it would be if let him grow listen
You've got you always are gonna try and do the
things that you think are in the best interest
of your child You should that's what one of the
responsibilities of being a parent is by the
way, this is the day and Justin radio program.
Thanks for tuning in. Isaac Streeter is going
to come up in just a few moments. We'll talk
a lot about collegiate baseball. The portal closes
tomorrow and there's one other big move that
just happened today that involved a former Oregon
player. We'll let you know about that. We'll
talk about all those things. I'm sure there'll
be some Cubs Brewers discussion in there as well
with Isaac Streeter from the Portland Tribune.
And then the last segment, we'll talk a lot of
World Cup because I think there's some things
going on there that we need to discuss in terms
of fandom and in terms of what the TV wants.
And what the what the game itself wants and as
we get in this knockout round a couple of teams
are already kind of teetering right now Brazil
went through but we'll talk about that in the
last segment so to wind up the whole LeBron thing
I'm just finding the whole exit from LA curious
because with Luca coming and LeBron knowing that
he's not the LeBron of five years ago is kind
of like, you know, I think with this guy can
get another ring. I think LeBron is sensing and
realizing that the way the Lakers are built right
now, they're not going to get another ring. And
so he's going to a place where it's like, I think
if I insert myself into this with an offense
that Golden State can generate. I think we can
win we can at least be in strong contention I
think it's an interesting conversation whether
or not He cares about getting another ring to
be honest with you if he goes back to la I think
you're 100 % right He cares more about hey, we're
gonna be a dark horse. Maybe something will happen,
but I want to live in la I'm gonna be with my
kid and yeah, he clearly likes living there,
but if he wants to get a ring Mean there are
worse places to go worse places to be it It would
also be one of the oldest teams we've ever seen
that's a contender I mean that is you're talking
about what 38 39 year old Steph Curry 35 36 year
old Draymond green Anthony Davis is 33 34 years
old LeBron is what 42 43. I mean that's an old
I would love for that to happen. I think that'd
be great. I would love to see Steph Curry and
LeBron play together even though it'd be so weird
though because like all the LeBron fans like
they they've hated the Golden State Warriors
for years and years and years because they think
he ruined their legacy and Ceph Curry and the
Warriors did. And so it'd be so odd to have him
go to that team at the end of his career to chase
the last title. Agreed. Well, that was a fast
segment. Man, we still got more in the hopper.
The last week of the Danny and Justin radio programs
and the first guest of our last week here on
Fox Sports Eugene Fox Sports Newport is the one,
the only Isaac Streeter. Coming up next here
from the Portland Tribune. We'll talk a lot of
baseball with Isaac next Does the World Football
Association Soccer here in the US need all of
the stars to at least get passed through the
first round of the knockout round We'll discuss
that in the last segment like the Rinaldos the
Messies the Mbappes the Highlands Moving on is
that good? They need them all or Can you be a
sneaky, good, upset, darling story and still
get the eyeballs on you? We'll discuss in the
last segment. But first, let's head on over to
our Oregon Man Clinics Outline at 343 -5673 and
welcome in our first guest on the last week of
the Danny and Justin radio program. He's a dear
friend of mine. He does know ball. He is the
personality hire for the Portland Tribune. Can
I get a Stingers Up? Stingers Up! Stingers up.
Stingers up. Isaac Streeter joining us. You can
follow him on the socials. Isaac underscore Streeter.
Welcome in. How are you, sir? I'm well. How are
you, gents? We are fine. Paraguay leads Germany
at the half 1 -0. If that is something you're
following right now. And Brazil had a tough time
against Japan. I'm enjoying a late breakfast,
early lunch, and I get a frantic text. I don't
know how frantic it was. I think it was frantic.
From Baby J, where he says, Japan's up on Brazil.
I was excited. Yeah, for a second. I was stimulated.
That's so gonna be a drop. Isaac, what's occupying
your time? The portal for college baseball ends
tomorrow. I want to talk about Oregon in a second,
but I was a little surprised Trent Carraway went
on the move again. Now in his third school in
three years, as he lands, what, in Miami? Is
that the U now? Yep at the you announced that
commitment yesterday third school in three years.
That's a an interesting ride for that young man
So wait, where do you I don't know Do you have
any thoughts on where this is it just money that's
motivating him? Is he trying to find the right
fit? Is he just kind of feeling like, you know,
I'm a traveling man and I make a lot of stops
You know, it's a good question that I always
never want to critique a person in his position,
because if I could hit a baseball like he can,
I would probably be hunting some cash myself,
if I'm being completely frank. But last year,
it seemed like it was a decision between... Was
he going to enter the draft? Because he was coming
off that ridiculous where he morphed into Barry
Bonds for the NCAA postseason. Truly one of the
most incredible postseason performances I've
seen was his 2025 Corvallis Regional. Hits the
portal. He's draft eligible. So he's playing
his leverage. Ends up at LSU. Had a really, really
bad year. And now he's sitting pretty well on
the Cape this summer from what I've seen back
at Miami. He's still draft eligible. So, you
know, I think it'll be a matter of, you know,
it's just kind of, he went and hunted money and
was weighing his professional options after a
really hot year at Oregon State, had a bad year
at LSU where his draft stock tanked, if anything.
And now he's looking for another year to play.
And, you know, Miami's got a third base opening
with Daniel Covey moving on. So I think it's
more just what he had perceived to be a potential
really, really big breakout. you know, potentially
very successful campaign. LSU just didn't go
his way and now he's looking for another home.
Yeah, interested that he landed at Miami. Not
really sure what the connection is there, but
he was a talented baseball player and was always
a funny kid to interview. I'll never forget the
last time we ever saw him was after Oregon State
punched its ticket to that Super Regional. Last
time I got to chat with him, I should say. he
was the most sunburned I had ever seen a person
after playing like two days or something. And
we asked him, Trent, did you put on any sunscreen
today? And he looks down at his red forearms
and says, oh, well, I am Norwegian and walks
away. And that was kind of the Trent Carraway
experience in a nutshell. very very funny kid
and man he could really swing a bat and by the
way wish the best for anyone and especially a
kid like that because you know he he paid his
dues wherever he went and i i don't begrudge
anybody especially in this day and age of going
out and doing what they think is in their best
interest or their family's best interest so i
know we're all in the same boat on that it's
Isaac Streeter joining us from the Portland Tribune
Oregon and Oregon State beat writer and a proud
Sac State alum he's here on the Danny Justin
radio program for the last time on this program.
Real quick. And I don't know if the word cautionary
tale should be used in this, but I'm going to
throw it out there because this first thing that
comes to my head is like a Trent Carraway case,
kind of a cautionary tale to other players that
maybe staying home might be a good thing because
I think on the Oregon State roster, Trent Carraway
would have had just as many bombs and probably
helped Oregon State, especially at PK Park near
the end of the season where they needed that.
It seemed like the last piece Oregon State needed
consistently was offense. Am I wrong? No, I don't
think you're wrong, but I also I I would hesitate
to call it a cautionary tale because when you
look around the landscape of College baseball
and even college football so many of these kids
that end up transferring end up It you know for
a lot of them it can end up helping I mean I
think of Aiden Robbins right away when you know
He he transferred from Seton Hall and is probably
gonna end up a first -round pick after the way
He played in Texas this past year And I think
had Carraway stayed at Oregon State, it presents
kind of an interesting question of how that infield
ends up structured, because he only played third
base. And Paul Vasquez was so incredible with
the glove this year. Trent, for as good of a
bat he was, definitely struggled defensively.
So then I think it kind of turns into like, well,
are you putting Trent in the outfield? How does
all of that work? How do the pieces kind of come
together there? And it just kind of seemed like
the two sides were kind of ready to part ways.
You know, he he goes on the move there and and
Oregon State figures it out Obviously, you know
any any bat would have helped that team. I'm
just curious how it would have ended up You know
getting him in the lineup new beavers pitching
coach Andrew Moore added a couple of pitchers
to his staff I was on Thursday and Friday of
last week Washington transfer Carson Boesel and
then D2 Montana State Billings right -hander
Sam Cox And do you think what do you know about
those guys first of all? And then do you think
that's a little bit of a vision of what we're
gonna see from more in terms of what? He wants
as a pitching coach Yeah, and speaking of that
they also added another last night. They got
Cade Queen who was also from Montana State Billings
out of the D2 ranks Yeah, so they've got the
2025 and 2026 GNAC freshman of the year coming
into the program now off that roster Both of
them kind of with crooked at ERAs But I mean
it's Montana and they play their season so much
earlier whether it was never gonna be a Big help
to them as goes with you know elevation and such
My childhood best friend, Griffin Williams, big
shout out, actually played at St. Martin's, which
is in the same conference. And, you know, he
kind of attested to look more at the underlying
stuff here rather than the actual production
just because D3 or D2 baseball is weird. I think
it is kind of the blueprint. I think they're
making it very clear what they're looking for.
They're looking for guys who have experienced
pitching. They don't really care what level it's
at. They're looking for guys like, you know,
all three of those arms are high below stuff
or, you know, look good on the track and, um,
stuff. I believe it was Queen's been up to like
95. Um, the Cox and kid, I think was up to like
97 from what his recruiting stuff said. So, you
know, they're looking for projectable bodies
who have experience, you know, pitching and,
and, uh, you know, more is coming from a great
pitching development. club in the Cleveland Guardians,
and certainly can apply all those things, the
resources they have at Oregon State. So interesting
group, interesting mix of guys. Curious to see
how they all kind of slot in. I'm using the phrase
projectable bodies now. I've got to drop that
in somewhere. That's awesome. It's Isaac Streeter
joining us from the Portland Tribune. So I know
it's still early because the portal has not closed,
even though there have been some movement in
signings. We'll talk about Oregon and those that
had left and there have been a couple of signings.
But for Mitch Kahneman, Oregon State right now,
we talked about the pitching, but elsewhere is
is the Oregon State roster getting bulked up
or is it too early to tell? Because obviously
nobody's done until that portal closes and then
it's going to be the rest of the free for. all
sure I'm and you know I'm thinking back to last
time I came on I think I was ultimately pretty
critical of how they were attacking the portal
kind of in those early stages that said I mean
might have been some of my own oversight there
but you know We forgot to totally forgot to mention
Diego Cruz, who was the Mac freshman of the year
and is going to play second base for this team.
But kind of, you know, he's the headline offensive
transfer, but kind of around this, I think they're
in a very different spot from where they were
last year, where last year you were looking at
this team coming into the year that didn't bring
in a ton of transfers and was going to play a
lot of young guys or program veterans. And now
heading into this next year. it's also kind of
the same batch of young guys. So I think they're
kind of making the decision. We're going to stick
to our guns. We're going to ride with the guys
we've got. And if we got to rebuild the offense,
we got to rebuild the offense. But, you know,
you're looking at Josh Proctor, who was kind
of a revelation at times last year, Ethan Porter,
who's got really great basketball skills and
seems like they're going to want to stick in
the outfield long term. Adam Hayes is a physical
tool shed that I think if he really puts it together
in year three, we can be talking about a very
special player for them in the outfield. You
know Josh Natai another Aussie that they brought
over last year didn't play a ton, but have some
pretty legit power You know I think they're just
kind of Sticking to their recruiting cycle and
recruiting process guys And and those are kind
of the ones they're gonna play this year be it
for better or worse But I think that's you know
kind of the approach they're taking So from what
I'm getting is you feel like there is a little
bit more of a building this year last year You
know some guys that were going to be promoted
from within this year You can kind of add a little
bit to what you had kind of flipping on the other
side the Ducks had a Big transfer announced where
he was going to go today novel Milwaukee jr.
Has the side he's going to Georgia. We're not
surprised He's going to the SEC you could have
picked a team and I would have said alright that
makes sense It's a guy that batted 321 last season
in 14 home runs when he was recovering from Tommy
John So he decided to pull a Shohei Otani say
alright. I'll just I'll just be a home run hitter,
but Does it seem like the Ducks are gonna need
a flurry of moves here in the next few days?
Like are they gonna be able to build based on
what they did last season obviously they've lost
a lot they still have a good amount of talent
on the team, but Are they gonna be able to build
on it? I guess I think Oregon already has. I
think when you look at their portal moves thus
far, their pitching staff is so young that they're
going to be able to build around that. You're
probably looking to replace a starter or two.
I think Colin Clark ends up signing. He is committed
to TCU, but not with the teams. You're losing
that guy from the rotation. Cal Scolari is probably
signing in this draft if I had to guess. Obviously,
I don't really have any insight, intel on that,
just kind of guessing here. his, you know, ability
to spin a baseball and the below that guy's gotten
into is, you know, pretty impressive. So he's
draft eligible. I would assume he's gone. But
then kind of after that, you're looking at, well,
what is Tanner Bradley next year? Is he a closer
or are you stretching him out to be a starter?
Personally, I love the belief that, you know,
we're kind of looking at the guy that they want
to stretch out and could be a starter for them
next year. They were very high on Jonah Barkoff,
and I liked some of the stuff we saw from him
last year. Luke Morgan's a guy on that staff,
so it'll be interesting to see how they do that,
but I think their offense is still in a good
spot. I mean, no one wants to lose Angel Lyer
and Nellie Vo to the portal, but you know, I
think they've got options and guys coming in.
I mean, Jax Jimenez is a spark plug for this
team. We talked about Briggs Rowe last time I
was on. I think he'll play second base. They
added, I believe his name's Jake Evans. He was
a third baseman at Long Beach State. So they've
got guys coming in. They're gonna be able to
figure out how to fill all this out. And Jack
Brooks could be back. We'll see how that goes,
but could have him in center field again. Isaiah
Hearn is an incoming freshman, having a pretty
strong summer right now in the WCL. So they've
got options kind of around the diamond to construct
an offense. Well, and it looks like the replacement,
because we haven't heard his name, and thank
goodness I'm sure Mark Wasikowski's probably
had a few sleepless nights waiting and hoping
the phone is not ringing, is that Braden Jackson
is probably going to be behind the plate now
with Berkeley, maybe is signing with Mississippi
State. Now, yeah, again, that's a that's a subtraction,
but in addition, when you are able to hold on
to someone like Jackson, I want to go back to
the the bump, though, and I think something that's
getting washed over a little bit as a kid who
missed the entire last season, a la like not
Tanner Bradley, but. I mean, more like a Toby
twist or whatever is Ian Omelot's coming back.
He said he's rolling it back. He didn't see the
field this year. I know he got engaged over the
last spring, but he says he's rolling it back.
Where do you see him fitting into the whole rotation?
I don't know the exact timeline on which Ian
got his Tommy John, but I do know that he was
a Tommy John guy this off season. So based on
his recovery time, I mean, we... It's it's so
interesting with those kids and I would put it
at more a shot that we probably don't see him
this year if he's still building up back from
that Yeah, just cuz I don't know when the surgery
was I mean if he if he got that surgery in February
It's a very different conversation, but if he
got it, you know two weeks ago You're probably
not seeing him this year just with how those
recovery timelines are. So I'm always hesitant
try and project when, you know, elbow guys could
be coming back, especially with the Dax Whitney
conversation looming over my head. Notice we
didn't ask about him, though, by the way, right?
Yeah, no, you're all good. You're all good. I
don't think Dax Whitney has ever thrown another
pitch in college baseball, for what it's worth.
I agree. Almont's an interesting case. I mean,
you know, you could see him back, but they've
got guys that they trust in. And I think Matt
Flores got quite the vision. Yeah, excellent.
All right, so we're going to wind it up by you
are a man of honor and humility, texting out
after yes, after the latest Cubs Brewer series,
which was right down to the wire, the last game
goes to extra innings. And the Cubs have to hold
on after scoring three runs in the top half of
the 10th, give up two in the bottom, but they
win the series now still five and a half back
of your brewers. So I just want to ask you, though,
if you're If you're Jed Hoyer, I mean, are you,
because you're, this is like a guerrilla tactics
here, because I know you root for the Brewers
and you could care less about the Cubs. But if
you're Jed Hoyer, I mean, with all the injuries
you had in your pitching rotation and your bullpen,
are you going out and trying to get another arm?
Because they already did that. They went and
got... Former Duck. Former Duck is... Peterson.
Yeah. David Peterson from from the Mets So are
you gonna keep doing that to try and keep up
with the Brewers? Because it doesn't seem like
the Cubs are gonna sell now looks like they're
gonna buy Yeah, I mean, I think anytime you're
in a spot where you feasibly can buy you probably
probably should I'm not super familiar with what
the Cubs farm looks like right now or what they
would have to offer or should you be market?
Yeah, nor should yeah What they would have to
offer on the market, but I I'm sure I mean there's
always a starter out there You can always go
get one. I probably would I'm again I'm not super
familiar with you know kind of the Cubs injury
light at the moment But if you can buy a starter
go buy a starter man doesn't get much uh cut
and dry than that. Okay so what are the Brewers
gonna do if you're the GM? What do you need?
What are the Brewers going to do? Am I the GM?
Yeah if you're the GM. Isaac Streeter gets to
decide. Isaac Streeter gets to decide the fate
of the Brewers for the last half of the season.
Oh man. What are you doing? I've got so many
thoughts on this. Well just give me your top
two, okay? Give me your top two. Go get a roll
to Schottman from the Red Sox. Okay. The Brewers
need a legitimate closer. you know, I like admiral
rebate as much to the next guy that he's I think
he's more the setup man right now. If you can
go get a roll this and go left, you know how
the lefty closer out of the bullpen. I think
that really strengthens them. And then I think
you're looking at like, uh, I hesitate to say
that you should go get a third baseman just because
I like David Hamilton so much But you know, he's
just not a super talented bat I guess but um,
you know, maybe maybe a center fielder if you
move off south real it go get a corner outfielder
Something along those lines, but I think mostly
if you can just bolster the bullpen go get yourself
a closer That team gets real nasty really quick.
Well, that's how the fans have seen adding a
role to Chapman can be a direct Line to a World
Series. So maybe the world series championship.
Exactly. We can replicate that I just want to
turn our attention to the American League real
quick. There's only four teams in the American
League above 500 crazy to me Isaac is this the
Most disparity you've ever seen between two leagues.
It was the American League for forever All the
American League is better the American League
is better and now it's completely flipped and
it feels like everybody's in the National League
So is this the most disparity you've ever seen?
It's gotta be I mean I can't think of another
season where it's been this bad And I don't really
know why but man the American League just stinks
It's bad. I know that the AL Central is just
like a wasteland. I mean shout out the White
Sox They're having quite the year, but man all
those teams just stink it makes my heart hurt
because I'm a I'm a pseudo Mariners fan and man
They've just been terrible. Can they get it together?
Yeah, the Mariners think so I think so, but the
the Mariners are like Sisyphus of Major League
Baseball Where every single they're they're stoned
to roll up the hill every year is we should acquire?
And and you know, they always just think we're
a DH away and then they're stuck with like a
first baseman who cartoons and it just never
works out for them so I don't know what we got
to do to fix the Mariners but Anything to get
my boy Brian Wu the China and the World Series.
Woo! Love it. All right. Our last go around with
you on the Danny and Justin radio program. Isaac,
you were one of our earlier guests to join on.
We've gotten to know each other over the last
couple of years. Really appreciate your insight.
You're always bringing a great sense of humor
and you put up with our nonsense. So thanks.
We're going to see you. It's not goodbye. It's
just, you know, down the road. We'll see you
in some different form. But we appreciate everything
that you brought to our listeners. So thank you
very much with your time. I appreciate you guys.
School's out for the summer. We'll see you guys
during football season, and appreciate you always
having me on. All right, there he goes. Thanks,
Isaac. The great Isaac Streeter. Follow him on
the socials, Isaac underscore Streeter. World
Cup action. Paraguay almost scored again against
Germany. It's one nil still Paraguay in the knockout
round. Round of 32, 50 minutes gone. in that
matchup so we'll talk about that and the biggest
thing i want to talk about is do all the stars
need to go through for the world cup to be successful
and to keep eyeballs on it or can you root for
an underdog we'll talk about that next here on
the danning and justin radio program all right
last segment of the old radio program the fastest
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results from Big Bets The long you just avoid
we just move on. No, we do this every week. Hey,
if I've got a You don't have good weeks I'm pretty
sure it was actually a goose one time. We got
to it. It was a week. You were gone. We got to
run like Thursday It wasn't my fault I know so
I'm good distracting. Yes, you are We're getting
to it. Anyway, I have it right here in front
of me. You went one in four. Did I yes, so listen
Okay, you were not the Morty went one in four
as well Okay, that's it Morty. Shout out to Morty
for defending your honor by not letting you be
in last Nobody else nobody else got over 500
except goose goose went three and two and he
was one who picked it's just so infuriating it
worked and It did work. So now this is a tight
race going into the last week. I went to three
now No, no, you're not losing. We're tied. Oh
But all of us are under 500 in Coquel Big Bats.
So the hosts win this week. So Coquel Casino
New Zork is going to donate $100 to South Coast
Special Olympics on your behalf. Thank you very
much. Goose is just one game behind us. So it
should be it's coming down to the last one of
this session and the last Danny and Justin radio
program We'll do it. So just to end a programming
note for everyone We're gonna do it in the three
o 'clock hour this week because we're gonna go
one to four with our show We are jam -packed
with a cavalcade of stars for the pre classic
in the one o 'clock in two o 'clock hours I mean
we'll literally go awesome right our last our
last guest For the pre classics gonna be Cole
Hawker Yeah, you've heard of all these guests
you you you will know everyone and I think we've
got like eight eight of them Yeah over the first
two hours of the program. So we're gonna be going
like a rapid fire So I went two and three goose
went three and two laura went two and three vegas
went two and three steve Steve went two and three
So and it was pretty split. It was actually uh
more people picking the cubs and the brewers.
That was wrong You were the only one to get Egypt
and Iran right, by the way. The tie? That was
your lone win of Big Ben. It wasn't even a real
win. It was a tie. I love the synergy of that
is that your only win was when nobody won. That's
awesome. So there you go. All right, so let's
stay on the World Cup. Right now, Germany has
tied it up with Paraguay. 57th minute. It's 1
-1 in the round. Now we're in the knockout rounds.
Now this is, you know, single elimination. You
lose, you're done. your bags, go home, and Japan
took Brazil. How late was it? Because I missed
the end of it. I was going on my walk. How late
was the goal? The game -winning goal? 95th minute.
I was going to say it had to be, because I left
when it was like the 92nd minute, and I was thinking,
well, I'm not going to. You'll catch extra time.
I was going to catch it when I got back, but
that wasn't the case. So Brazil has a scare.
Germany was behind for pretty much the first
55 minutes. They just scored in the 54th minute.
So they were behind pretty much, well, only about
12 minutes of real time, but it was nodded at
0 -0 for the longest period of time. But these
teams now, Germany's been one of those that historically
has been pretty good in the World Cup, but recently
not incredible. Well, last World Cup, they missed
out in the group stages. So this would be...
And what you need to note as well is the fact
that this is the first time there is a round
of 32 This would typically be because one of
the knocks is that there's more teams, right?
Which is interesting, right? And that's you would
expect for that to mean Hey these more 32 round
of 32 matches are not going to be as competitive
So far all three of them have been very very
good and us plays Wednesday against Bosnia -Herzegovina
That will be a five o 'clock rollout on the the
first touch On the pitch i'm getting all that
right. Yeah, so My my query to you is we just
got a couple of minutes left here Is that with
like brazil getting threatened by little japan?
And paraguay is now, you know pushing germany
and then you know argentina will come up in in
a a bit netherlands will come up in a bit My
my my theory is is that the world soccer stage
and especially television They want all of the
stars to make it through At least this round
and definitely into as many of them depending
on matchups Through the next round get into the
final eight because if you start losing your
stars Like if qatar and they're not going to
you know, someone like qatar goes to or bosnia
-herzegovina They go through it's like that's
yeah good for the game. They don't want it, right?
I think the u .s. Wouldn't be considered in that
tier quite yet, but they are the host country.
There's a lot of favor They are favored. I do
think there is gonna be one. I mean the one tonight
is I think Not too far away from those kind of
matchups you're talking about Morocco and Netherlands
Marco made the semi -final last time like that
Morocco is really good Netherlands has won at
least a couple of World Cups as well I know we're
running out of time here. No, you're fine I think
that you make a good point that we do as fans
want to see these good teams Make it through
that being said I love Brazil I'm watching brazil
though. They're down one nil in the 60th minute.
I can't help but root for japan Yeah, I was gonna
say there was a part of it. There's like the
underdog exactly It's like how cool would this
be? So I think we want to mix I think you want
to see the storylines and bape lino messy We
need these guys to progress, but there's also
that country that We never expect that makes
it through, that goes on a little bit of a run,
and we can all get behind them, and that's always
really fun, too. So I think you gotta have a
little bit of a mix. You know why I think that
is? Because of all of the talk on a world stage
about how the U .S. acts superior and things
like that. We're a nation of mutts. So I think
there is an intrinsic pull to the underdog. It's
like we don't want the favorite to win all the
time. I mean, unless I'm a fan of that team,
everybody else, and then it's like hate watching
or such, but there is a real pull with fandom,
especially here in the U .S., for the team that
is the mighty one that punches up. I mean, think
about all those stories in the NCAA. We love
the 5 -12 matchups. We love the eight seed winning
the entire thing. That's a great storyline. To
me, much more interesting storylines. The Messy's
are one of the best players that has ever graced
this game, but it's like really do you need another?
Do you need another World Cup title? Let somebody
it's like you're almost like this. You're almost
like the Patriots right now. We'll see another
Great upset. We'll see another team maker run.
We will never see a Leo no messy doing what he's
doing We have never seen this before we will
never see this and maybe we will again, but it
won't be for a long time Every game I watch,
I think this might be the last time I ever get
to watch this guy play. And every single time,
he comes through. We've never seen this, and
I don't know when we ever will. Oh, a joke! I
got a fire from the bank today. A woman asked
me to check her balance, so I pushed her. Dad
jokes! What do you call sweets that can keep
a beat? This is some sort of root or something
like that sweets that can keep a beat. I don't
know candy wrappers handy wrappers Okay All right.
All right. Yeah. Yeah, I don't mind you catch
up quickly though Well sometimes all right tomorrow
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