OverDrive - July 22, 2026 - Hour 2 - Steve Phillips
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How do hosts introduce Hour 2 and what are the show's segments?
Hour 2 Overdrive continues. Powered by FanDuel. Bringing you more ways to play your game your way. Brian Hayes, Jonas Siegel, Keegan Matheson in here. Steve Phillips coming up in a few moments. A little arbitration later in the hour. Best Bets coming up. I'm done betting bloody props. Not happening anymore.
I hope you haven't been.
Well, last night I... I sold myself on the idea of this guy finally not only hitting a home run, but hitting a moonshot. Because you can actually bet on that, like 420-plus feet home run. So, yeah, I convinced myself that when he gets one, he's really going to turn on a ball. You know? Like, if he gets a home run, I don't think it's just going to, like, bloop over the wall. I think he's going to smack one. So I went down that road last night, and it actually paid a lot. The only problem is it didn't happen.
That's usually the main problem. It made sense. With a losing bet. Can I ask you guys a question?
Which slump do you think is the most painful to watch in any sport? Is it a goalie who can't stop the puck? Is it a pitcher who just can't find the strike zone? Is it a hitter who's just deep in it? Is it a quarterback who's like, man, he's going to throw a pick every time? I think, like, what is the worst?
What else is the worst?
A batter might be a golfer, maybe.
A golfer with the yips is very difficult. Like, if someone has, like, a short putting issue, it's very uncomfortable.
I remember, like, Chuck Knobloch when he couldn't throw to first base. It's like, ah.
Like, that's a legit mental block, though. That's not, like, performance. That's, like, he can't trigger his brain to throw the ball the way he knows he can. A hitter's up there.
That's the one spot where the other guy makes the first move, and you can look real, real bad. Think of Vladdy flailing at those low and away sliders. That looks worse than a teeter dropping one.
And like you said before, you can't try harder. I think there's something to a pitcher, a starting pitcher in particular, that's really in a bad place. where it becomes like a watch party of... Yeah, remember Rick Ankeo?
He kept throwing it. He got the yips.
Well, that was the yips, but I'm talking performance. I thought you were going to say Ricky Romero. Ricky was in that spot. When Ricky was having real command control, he had every issue. It was very tough to watch because I remember being on the air and being like, all right, Ricky's on a mountain. He hasn't gotten out of the second inning the last five starts. Right. What was he going to do tonight?
Alec Manoa a couple years ago.
Manoa was exactly like that, where you get to a point where you know it's going to be ugly, and they haven't pitched in five days, and this is their moment to finally turn it around in the first inning. You're like, man, the guy threw 32 pitches, gave up three runs.
What sports slumps and ‘yips’ examples do the hosts debate?
This is big, big trouble. Because a quarterback who's throwing picks, that is so explosively bad. If you throw a pick, you can't win. Where technically you can go to the bullpen, you can't do that in football. You're not going to the backup quarterback because the guy's going to throw a pick during the game. If he's down bad, he's down bad, but he's going to keep playing. Because if he's that bad and he's still starting, the guy behind him stinks even worse.
Yeah, I'm thinking of like Zach Wilson, the Jets.
Yes, that was troubling.
There's good and bad ways to throw interceptions. There's the Brett Favre way, which I would argue is real cool. The best. Gunslinger way. Then there's like the petrified playoff Deshaun Watson last year way where you are cowering and praying to God those defenders get away from you so you just flail it. Yeah. There's different ways to go about the business.
Very different ways. That's a good question, though. The worst, like, the most difficult process to watch a guy try to get himself out of.
I think it's this. I think baseball's harder. Because it's just so, you're just isolated up there. You're, like, on a stage, and everybody is watching you fail.
Yeah, you're not running plays.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
How do hosts introduce Hour 2 and what are the show's segments?
0:00–2:50
2
What sports slumps and ‘yips’ examples do the hosts debate?
2:50–25:24
3
Why are the Blue Jays considering trading George Springer and what would his value be?
25:24–32:03
4
Which teams could realistically trade for George Springer and how does salary factor in?
32:03–35:17
5
How much trade market interest is there for Kevin Gausman, Bieber and other Jays starters?
35:17–45:16
6
Should John Schneider publicly blow up or stay measured to motivate the Blue Jays?
45:16–47:27
Speakers
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