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Chapter 1: What does today's abbreviated show cover?
Bob, we have an abbreviated show today. How about that? Only an hour and a half, and I don't remember. If we're going to do a six-pack today, my friend, I don't remember a six-pack with more big stories in it than this one. This is absolutely incranculant. It's incorpulent. You look like a living ad for L.L. Bean today, Bob.
You have a checkered flannel shirt on, a vest that looks like you're going fly fishing.
This is a golf shirt. This is unbelievable. It's made by Peter Millar. Who's he? Peter Millar is one of the great golf... Is he related to Peter Scudra? Do you remember him, Bob? I do remember Scudra. You'd love this material for golf. You could wear it golfing, actually. I think I will. And then these vests are great from Heinz Healy, so... They got a lot of good stuff.
Anyway, I think we have to put on our investigative hats here today on two fronts. Number one, this whole situation with Max Crosby. And number two, later, if we get a chance, bam, add a bio. We will do all of that and more.
None of that makes sense to me. And we have maybe the biggest story of all coming out of the World Baseball Classic. Well, probably not. It's probably Max Crosby and now Trey Hendrickson.
Well, DeRosa, the manager, has some explaining to do.
There's nothing to explain. He's just an idiot. Okay, let's start with Max Crosby, however. No relation to Sidney. Thank goodness.
Limits, you doing well today? I am doing okay after what I watched last night baseball-wise, but we'll get to that.
We'll get to that. First, okay, here we go. Max Crosby got traded to the Ravens, and they've backed out of the deal. They put out a tweet yesterday. We backed out of the deal.
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Chapter 2: What is the latest on Max Crosby's trade situation?
They said he didn't pass his physical, and now they're signing Trey Hendrickson, according to everybody in the world.
Correct, Bob? Correct. For four years, $112 million. But it's funny, less than 24 hours after all this happens, he signs because he had no shortage of suitors. Yeah. And... This also becomes fishy to me because if you're the Dallas Cowboys or the Chicago Bears who are willing to make offers to get Max Crosby, they may have brought him in and just let him pass the physical.
And the reason I say that is because he just had surgery. Everyone knows you can't rehab from surgery to a meniscus in three weeks or four weeks.
What an unbelievable move by the Ravens. It truly is here. He comes in for his physical. He didn't pass it, according to them. And yeah, now you see Hendrickson's price drop. And so they get to keep their picks. Apparently they put the Raiders in a horrible bind and now they get Trey Hendrickson. What a move by the Ravens here, Bob, right?
Yeah, if it goes unchecked by the commissioner and the NFL in general, I still think there's something very fishy about it. But what it does to the Raiders, and this is why they have to check it as well, the Raiders committed $280 million over the last couple of days into contracts because they had a lot of money to spend, right? So now they have to bring Crosby back.
They've already spent probably the money that he's going to make. And it affects their cap. It also affects any value they may have moving forward of gaining in a trade for Max Crosby. Yeah. Because I don't think any other team is going to offer... Well, who cares about the Raiders? I don't. It's not the point. They're in the league, and you have to look at the way they did business.
The Ravens I'm talking about.
Are we sure that the Ravens did something wrong here? Now, Diana Rossini says it's been made clear by multiple people around the NFL at all levels that Baltimore... Had all the information and understood where Max Crosby's knee was in terms of his recovery timeline. Okay. Where his knee was, he had a torn meniscus. I think I mentioned that. Right. He was on injury reserve.
Just because they knew where he was in his recovery timeline doesn't mean he passes a physical.
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Chapter 3: How did the Ravens' decision impact their cap space?
And then mysteriously, 12 hours later, they have a deal in place for Hendrickson.
Well, not mysteriously. He failed their physical, and Trey Hendrickson's on the market, so they signed him. Well, there were about five teams who wanted Hendrickson. Good for the Ravens that they got him.
If the Steelers had done this, we'd be praising them. All I'm asking for is an investigation because I think it deserves one. I think there's been so much. You see both sides of it out there.
I do agree with you there. There should be an investigation, and nothing will come of it.
Okay.
Maybe. How about if something does come of it? What would they do? I don't know. I'm just saying. Yeah, it would be interesting to see what they discovered. They would have to tell the Ravens doctors, you're wrong. That's the only thing that could come of it.
Maybe that's true. And they would have to interview Crosby, too. I'd be interested to. How about him? He wiped his social media clean of anything Raider-related. He put a picture of himself in a Ravens uniform. He showed up in Baltimore in the harbor over the weekend, and he was singing with Shabuzy, all to celebrate going to the Ravens.
Yeah. And then it all changed. And then he failed their physical. One team's failure could be another team's pass, Bob.
You may be right. Here's what I think. All I'm saying is they need to look into it. It seems too convenient.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of the World Baseball Classic results?
What a story that was, though, when I saw that headline that they backed out The Raiders are screwed. I feel horrible for Tom Brady, Bob. Let me tell you that.
Well, they should have explored him. How does he get to have all these roles when you're basically running a team over there?
Yeah, don't feel sorry for Tom Brady. There seem to be some questions about how Tom Brady wound up in Tampa. Did the league explore that?
If not, they should have. I think everything like that major deal should be. I mean, it should be a protocol.
I feel sorry for nobody. The Ravens may have skirted the rules. They may have done people dirty here. But if you ain't cheating, you ain't trying. Is that how it goes, Bob? Yeah, that's true. You ain't cheating, you ain't trying. But I do agree with you. And if I were a Steeler fan, I would be mad right now. I would be. And I would want an investigation into this.
But unfortunately, I don't think anything's coming from it. I don't know about that.
There seem to be some very miffed GMs. There are a lot of people on some of these, the Paloseros, the rabbit boards, all these people are talking about. Some people are very upset with what goes on and called it, quote, fishy. It is fishy. It is. It just happened so fast.
it's just such a nebulous thing bob he failed our physical why and we we didn't know the extent of the damage in that knee we're not confident he's going to be ready by the timeline you're going to tell us we're wrong if i'm the ravens i simply say that you're going to tell us i just want to know they had to know that he was coming off surgery so they made that goes without saying yeah
We'll see. I don't know what else to say other than I just think it's fishy. And when it's fishy, the league should ā and they've done it for multiple other things when it comes to spending money, when it comes to circumventing the cap. They investigate all sorts and penalize teams by lost draft picks. Why wouldn't you investigate this? This is a high-profile player, two number ones.
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Chapter 5: What coaching mistakes did Mark DeRosa make during the tournament?
A ton of respect for Italy. It's weird. We want to win. We want to win this game, even though our tickets punch to the quarterfinals because Mexico plays Italy actually tomorrow. So this the way the way the schedule lines up, this is an important game for us.
for us nolan mclean will start he's on the bump and he's good to go he's an absolute beast and i expect him to throw the heck out of our ticket is punched to the quarterfinals those words if they don't make it if they don't get the help they now need those words shall live in infamy bob in coaching infamy and that means you won't see paul skeens anymore he's planning to go one more time if it gets to that knockout phase but if it doesn't then he won't be there and none of them will be there
And it will be one of the biggest disastrous collapses, or whatever you want to call it, in international baseball history. Because this was a team destined to win, or at least get to the finals against whomever. But they still have a more talented roster than anyone else in this competition.
Didn't Skeens, wasn't he inviting Air Force people to the next game? There might not be a next game now. Not now.
For Pirates fans. If you had no interest in watching Mexico-Italy tonight, now you do.
For Pirates fans, are you just as happy, I wonder, that Skeens won't pitch again and comes back to spring training? I think I would be, Bob.
I mean, that saves them a potential injury. Who knows what could happen there. But it will be interesting to watch tonight and see what happens. And I wonder how motivated Mexico will be. They have a pretty good team.
Oh, they'll be motivated to the point where if they're up, if the magic number is five runs, the Athletic reported it was six. Listen to this. Listen to the second tiebreaker rule. Obviously, head-to-head wouldn't apply. If Italy wins the game, then the U.S. advances. Doesn't matter what the score is.
If Mexico wins, Mexico, U.S., and Italy have 3-1 records, so head-to-head obviously doesn't apply. This is an actual quote of the WBC rules, the tie-breaking rules. Are you ready for this, Bob? Let's go. This is the second tie-breaker, and I quote, it's the quote,
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Chapter 6: How does the physical assessment affect player trades?
But 43 attempts. If you watch the end of that game, you can tell that they were just following him to get him over that line, over the Kobe Bryant 81. At least that's my takeaway.
So the Wizards, I haven't seen her. I'll tell you, last night we had to go to the emergency room for a little while. My wife was having a back issue. I hope she's doing okay. And by the way, again, I know I've said this. You don't want to go to the emergency room. Well, you don't want to do that, but I know I've said this before when I've had health problems. Our health care workers are amazing.
They are.
We were over at Presby. Silent heroes. We were at Presby, and the hallway was littered with people who needed help. It was overflow.
Overflow.
On a Tuesday night, and those people are incredible, all of them out there. And they work crazy shifts, and they can't be wrong. So I was scrambling today to catch up on all this. I didn't see what happened at the end of this game. Are you telling me that the Wizards were intentionally fouling him to help him get the record?
Well, that's how it felt like to me. And the other thing I want to say about that is that there's no reason for him to still be in the game at that point. Other than trying to get the record. And so everyone knew that he was getting close to it. And I think, you know, again, you're going to have to investigate if you want to go that far.
Is that how it went, though?
They were helping him? That's what it seemed like to me. He was at the line an awful lot. Every time he turned around, he was being fouled. I wonder how many wizard players had to fall out to give him all the foul shots he got.
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Chapter 7: What are the consequences of the Ravens' actions on the league?
Maybe. But listen, if this is legit with the Ravens, they would have been derelict of duty and harming their own franchise to keep him, correct? Yes, if it's what you are saying it is. I'm not saying it. I'm saying that the Raven, that we now have additional information that independent doctors outside of Baltimore.
They didn't say that he was done or never going to play, did they? No, they said that he's going through a rehab of a meniscus. So whatever the structural damage is in there.
I don't know what they said.
I don't know either.
But I also didn't know that other doctors outside of Baltimore looked at him.
there um we'll see meanwhile limits is becoming a very controversial figure bob also the nfl is now playing a game on thanksgiving eve as early as this season according to schefter that would be wednesday november 25th limit says the scheduling is way out of hand do you agree with that yes i do they're going to try to have a game on every single day of the week
And I think what you do is you water down your own product by doing so. They're still kings. Everything they do makes money and is widely viewed as successful, and it is. They've created this draft to be something as big as it's going to be here in Pittsburgh. Kudos to them, their PR staff, their marketing staff. Everybody about football has made this a year-round thing.
But I don't know if I want to watch games on every single night of the week. I just don't.
I'm okay with it. I'll be tuned in Wednesday night before Thanksgiving.
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Chapter 8: What insights do the hosts provide about the upcoming NFL schedule?
I'm putting my money on Evgeny Malkin, Mantha. When the game is going on, there's no slow dragging it coming from one side to the other. They're full bore getting to the net. I almost like if they had a chaser, right? They line up and they go and somebody's chasing them. Is that illegal? I wonder if they could do that. I'm not a big believer and I don't like the slowdown of it.
I think he'd even ā I see a side guy crawls into the net and tries to make a move, and they want to make the goalie move first. I get all that. But that, to me, I don't like that part of the game. I love when you come down, like, full flight and let it go, whatever it is. I mean, you took Ziegler, gets over to Blum, feed going. I'm just not a fan of it slowing it down.
I'd rather see these guys go full flight like they're in a game. They're not thinking about it. You're just going to do and you're going to react to what you see. That's my only thing about it. They're the best players in the world. They're the ones that are the goal scorers. But for me, I would put my money on all those guys especially Sid, Malkin, the likes, Letang.
If they're in full flight in a game, I'm going on them. And right now in shootouts, it's so ā just come in from different angles so slow. I'm not a fan of that.
And if they do get into the playoffs here, guys, I think the Penguins are a very good five-on-five team. Their goal differential speaks to that. So that's going to be the big thing, though. These points are going to either help them or hurt them. And right now it's hurting them when you consider the Islanders are 10-0 Jay in overtime this year. So when they get there, they normally end the game.
And that's where I thought the game was lost last night, to be honest. The Penguins had a four on three for the second time in three games in overtime. And you got to score there. If you don't score there, now you're going to a shootout. They had a chance in the Philly game and last night to do that, and they couldn't do it.
Yeah, that was ā I agree with that, Bob. It shouldn't have even got to that. When you get a four-on-three in OT, and you heard Borky talking about it on TV, just love to set up a one-timer off the flanks, whatever it is. And even Chinnikov coming downhill on the strong side, like if he's on his left side, just having him coming downhill.
But I think they just didn't get any good looks in it, and I totally agree with that. That was ā you had an opportunity to close it out right there, and the Penguins have been ā They have been really, really good in their OT. I mean, the three-on-three, I feel they've dominated most of those games before they got to a shootout and had chances to win.
Last night, they didn't do ā I didn't see the same. With that opportunity, they gave it away right there, and I agree with you, Bob.
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