Hour 1: Yankees Swept

Summary

Don, Hahn & Rosenberg – Hour 1: Yankees Swept (June 29, 2026)

Episode Overview

This episode, recorded in the aftermath of the Yankees’ four-game sweep at the hands of the Boston Red Sox, sees Don La Greca, Alan Hahn, and Peter Rosenberg launch into classic New York sports therapy. The trio dissect what went wrong for the Yankees, commiserate over the sorry state of New York baseball (with jabs at the Mets), and vent about NBC's controversial programming decision that diverted a Yankees-Red Sox game to streaming in favor of golf. The show also detours into mascot mismanagement, sports TV production blunders, and summer event plans, all delivered with their trademark blend of humor, sarcasm, and big New York energy.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Soccer Kicks Off the Chaos (00:50–04:05)

• World Cup/International Soccer Banter: The group opens live-reacting to a Brazil vs. Japan match, critiquing soccer's awkward timekeeping and cultural quirks. The “plus” time confusion gets the most ribbing.

  • “We're in nine minutes into plus six. What's going on?” – Michael Riedel (01:16)
  • Peter notes how even casual soccer fans get sucked into rules confusion, with Alan quipping about the notorious U.S. loss during stoppage time (02:07).

• Notable Quote:

  • “Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care?” – Alan Hahn & Peter Rosenberg, harmonizing with the band Chicago's classic, mocking soccer's “arbitrary” extra minutes (03:30–03:36).

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2. Yankees-Red Sox: Uniform Drama & The Sweep (04:05–11:00)

• Red Sox Uniform Controversy: Michael objects to Boston’s alternate jerseys during the Yankees series, saying, “The Red Sox basically dressed up like the Oakland A’s...You got to do [it] when you’re playing the Yankees? The oldest rivalry in baseball?” (04:14)

  • The hosts debate the rationale behind green (Green Monster) and yellow (Marathon) jerseys and mock the trend of wild uniforms during big games.

• Yankees’ Battered Lineup:

  • Michael: “You’re missing one third of your offense—Judge out, Stanton out...Grisham, who was hot as anything, also out” (10:25).
  • He urges perspective: “It’s easy for me to tell Yankee fans to calm down. My season’s over. You’re still battling for first place.” (10:03)
  • Alan calls out the June slump as an annual annoyance for Yankees fans: “It’s four years in a row where they’re like barely a .500 team in June...So that’s the stuff that’s annoying.” (16:32)

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3. Mets Meltdown & Mascot Madness (06:12–09:53)

• Mr. Met’s Ill-Timed Dance:

  • Michael describes the viral image of Mr. Met dancing behind Steve Gelbs as he reports the firing of Mets manager Carlos Mendoza.
    • “That’s everything. That’s 60 plus years of puke that everybody—my poor guy Steve Gelbs trying to let the world know about the firing…with Mr. Met dancing behind him.” (06:12)
  • Peter jokes, “How perfect would it be after all that...they fire Mr. Met?” (08:55)
  • Alan adds, “Well, look, Mr. Met has eyes, nose, and a mouth. He has not ears. And so he couldn’t hear what Gelbs was saying.” (09:53)

• Mascot Best Practices:

  • Michael draws a parallel to his Devils coverage: “If Claude Lemieux died...Let’s put the Woo Crew away tonight. We just lost a Devils legend...We just fired our manager—so guys, do what you do...but let’s tone it down a bit.” (09:16–09:36)

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4. TV Production Fails: The Missed Ejection and NBC’s Programming (11:00–25:14)

• Missed Drama on Peacock:

  • Alan and Michael criticize Peacock for cutting to commercial as a Yankees player is ejected:
    • “Did we need to go...You could see that the player is arguing with an umpire...and you go right to break? That was the most exciting moment and you went to break!” – Alan Hahn (11:08)
    • Michael draws a comparison to hockey: “If I’m doing a game...all of a sudden, if a fight breaks out, we don’t go to break.” (11:32)

• NBC’s Golf-over-Baseball Decision (18:39–25:14):

  • NBC stuck with the Travelers Championship golf broadcast, relegating most of Yankees-Red Sox to streaming.
    • Michael: “That’s a bad job. You’re not supplying programming to your audience.” (18:39)
  • He defends NBC slightly, citing national golf ratings: “The Travelers have outrated every nationally televised baseball game last year...They made the decision.” (19:39)
  • Alan, distressed: “If you’re Major League Baseball, you’re like, what are we doing? This isn’t Rays-Astros. This is Yankees-Red Sox.” (19:55)
  • The segment becomes a nuanced debate about audience math versus “brand value” for the Yankees, with all admitting it’s a bad look for MLB.

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5. Callers & Comedy: Cruise Tales and Soccer Shoutouts (29:05–37:18)

• Griffin in Connecticut (29:05):

  • Fills the crew in on his cruise and jokes about only getting emotional for sports (“The only thing that gives this man movement is sports movement.” – Peter, 30:39).
  • Engages in the NBC debate, worried NBC is just holding onto baseball as backup programming.

• Sharkey at the Jersey Shore (34:15):

  • Mixes soccer, wrestling observations, and kudos for Peter’s wrestling broadcast drip.
  • Hilarious confusion over soccer player names: “Messi, Ronaldo, Kane, the kid from the United States, Bulseck and Bobby.” (incorrectly referencing Christian Pulisic and Kylian Mbappé as “Bobby”)
    • “When he said Bobby, he meant Mbappé. But it was still fun.” – Alan (37:14)

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6. Upcoming Events & Clown Suit Controversy (43:08–49:53)

• Beach Bash Planning:

  • The guys plan the ESPN NY beach bash amid a heatwave (“It’s only going to be a shade over 100 degrees. We expect to see you there.” – Peter, 34:38).

• Clown Suit Punishment Debate (42:14–49:53):

  • Peter negotiates the terms of a humiliation bet requiring him to wear a clown suit, debating whether to pay off at Beach Bash (sweaty misery, big in-person crowd) or at the NFL season kickoff (bigger digital audience, longer on-camera embarrassment).
  • “I’m not a smelly man.” – Peter (50:17)
  • Michael embraces maximum chaos and risks: “I would heat stroke out, because that’s entertaining to me. Will Peter pass out? That’s the show, right?” (46:34)
  • Alan votes for digital humiliation: “The more people that see it better. And it’s right before the NFL season, which means...this guy lost.” (48:20)

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7. Lighter Moments, Callbacks, and Iconic Quotes

• On the Yankees June Swoon:

  • Alan: “It’s the Red Sox. It can’t hit...This June thing annoys me now. It’s four years in a row where they’re like barely .500 in June...But those numbers don’t matter. So that’s the stuff that’s annoying. Am I worried? No. But it’s annoying.” (16:32)

• On Met Misery:

  • Michael: “That’s everything. That’s 60 plus years of puke.” (06:12)
  • Alan on Mr. Met: “He doesn’t know, this is sort of for him, it’s acting. He got this job...and he doesn’t know.” (07:25)

• On Network Blunders:

  • Alan: “It’s not about that. It’s still about the brands…and so the fanbase, which is the largest you have here in New York…” (22:29)
  • Michael: “I’d rather show the end of something than the beginning of something.” (25:39)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

| Time | Topic | |--------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 00:50–04:05 | Soccer banter, stoppage time confusion, Brazil-Japan World Cup | | 04:05–11:00 | Yankees-Red Sox sweep, uniform controversy, Yankees injuries | | 06:12–09:53 | Mets mascot gaffe, Mr. Met dancing during Mendoza firing report | | 11:00–13:42 | TV production fail: ejection missed by Peacock, decline in live sports arguments | | 18:39–25:14 | NBC golf vs. Yankees-Red Sox outrage: ratings, national vs. regional priorities | | 29:05–31:09 | Griffin's cruise, discussion about NBC’s commitment to baseball | | 34:15–37:18 | Sharkey call: soccer, wrestling, praise for Rosenberg | | 42:14–49:53 | Beach Bash, clown suit punishment debate, should Peter sweat or be humiliated on NFL kickoff? |

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Notable Quotes

• “It’s easy for me to tell Yankee fans to calm down. My season’s over. You’re still battling for first place.” – Michael Riedel (10:03)
• “Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care?” – Alan Hahn & Peter Rosenberg (03:30–03:36)
• “That’s everything. That’s 60 plus years of puke…” – Michael Riedel on Mets’ dysfunction (06:12)
• “The Yankees don’t have a mascot. If they did, he wouldn’t be dancing behind Meredith [Marakovits].” – Alan Hahn (33:54)
• “If you’re Major League Baseball, you’re like, what are we doing?...This isn’t Rays-Astros. This is Yankees-Red Sox.” – Alan Hahn (19:55)
• “The only thing that gives this man movement is sports movement.” – Peter Rosenberg (30:39)
• “I’m not a smelly man.” – Peter Rosenberg, debating clown suit logistics (50:17)
• “I would heat stroke out because that’s entertaining to me. Will Peter pass out? That’s the show, right?” – Michael Riedel (46:34)

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Tone & Style:
Banter-heavy, sarcastic, unfiltered “New York sports radio therapy.” Plenty of playful insults, hearty laughter, cultural references, and insider jabs at both networks and local teams.

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For Listeners Who Missed It

This episode is a microcosm of what makes “Don, Hahn & Rosenberg” essential New York radio. Baseball heartbreak, TV snafus, and offbeat mascot mishaps are all dissected with a blend of outrage and fatalistic humor. If you’re a Yankee fan nursing wounds, a Mets fan used to pain, or a New Yorker who just loves shouting at the TV, this is an hour of sports talk that’ll make you laugh as much as it makes you nod.

Transcript

[Don LaGreca]

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Don.

[Michael Riedel]

I had never seen holes like that before.

[Alan Hahn]

Han, I'm not comfortable touching it. I'm not. No.

[Don LaGreca]

And Rosenberg.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I'm not breastfeeding. No, but I.

[Alan Hahn]

That's too bad.

[Michael Riedel]

This isn't North Dakota. This is New York.

[Don LaGreca]

This is Don, Han and Rosenberg.

[Michael Riedel]

The best threesome I've ever heard on

[Don LaGreca]

ESPN New York and streaming live on YouTube.

[Michael Riedel]

Three o' clock in the big city. Don Legreca, Alan Hahn, Peter Rosenberg show we like to call Don Hahn and Rosenberg. Brazil's just scored in the arbitrary extra time still going on here. I know we behind, but.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No, no, I'm just saying it's going to be tough for Japan in the next 30 seconds.

[Alan Hahn]

I don't know. If you let him get a rush, you might want to just hold the clock.

[Peter Rosenberg]

But we're.

[Michael Riedel]

We're in the.

[Alan Hahn]

This is how it works in soccer.

[Michael Riedel]

We're in nine minutes into plus six. What's going on? Well, I'll tell you, it was.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It was plus six, and then Brazil scored and they spent two minutes. And they spent two minutes lollygagging.

[Michael Riedel]

And now they're going to add another minute lollygagging. You know, it's funny.

[Alan Hahn]

It's almost like, stop the clock. You score there, don't celebrate. Why would we want to put more time on the clock?

[Peter Rosenberg]

You guys can't. You just can't help yourself. It's just all. By the way. Anyone out there.

[Alan Hahn]

Let's go, let's go.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Anyone out there who loves soccer, I need you to know that even I don't mean, like, I'm no super fan. You're just like me. You enjoy the World cup, but you at least just get it and take. You need to understand it's not just Michael, Michael Allen and Don. Basically, if soccer comes up, are going to spend 50% of the time it

[Alan Hahn]

came up because of Friday, because of that. How that, how that Thursday, Thursday when

[Peter Rosenberg]

the U.S. lost in the ninth in the eighth minute, or when it was

[Alan Hahn]

when it said plus seven and it was 98 on the clock. What are we doing?

[Peter Rosenberg]

And, and, and so that didn't help. I got to admit, that didn't help.

[Alan Hahn]

Kind of drove me crazy in terms of.

[Peter Rosenberg]

In terms of the game. So it didn't help. It didn't help, but this comes up quite a bit. Brazil was down one nothing in this game.

[Alan Hahn]

One nil.

[Peter Rosenberg]

One nil, if you will, into in the second half against Japan and then tied it. And then in extra time, have taken the lead. And I'm waiting here for a final whistle. Look, Brazil just kicked it away. My guess would be we'll get the whistle there. I'm waiting.

[Alan Hahn]

You pan out when you hear the whistle.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Well, we got a pan out. We got a pan out, but not. No one ran on the field yet.

[Michael Riedel]

Okay, so they're going to let him.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Something else going to happen.

[Michael Riedel]

I just thought, listen, I don't want to spend all day on this because I'm with Peter. Let them have their fun, all right? Whatever they want to do. I'm not into it, so what do I care anyway? All right? Honestly, I'm not here to denigrate it.

[Peter Rosenberg]

They're giving Japan one last look. They got a throw in.

[Michael Riedel]

I don't like it, but I don't care enough to really just get nuts about it.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It's over. Brazil wins 2 1.

[Michael Riedel]

But it just seems like an easy fix, that's all. It's about the damn clock.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I don't.

[Michael Riedel]

I understood we didn't have the technology when they would show, like, I think in. In victory, they show the scoreboard. It's an actual clock with nail on it. So I understand that we won't really know what time it is.

[RJ Santillo]

Right.

[Alan Hahn]

Did anybody really care?

[Michael Riedel]

All right, Chicago.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I was about to say I had the exact same thing.

[Griffin]

Nicely done.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Chicago should be the official group of World Cup. Does anybody really know what time it is?

[Alan Hahn]

Does anybody really care?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Does anybody really care?

[Alan Hahn]

Some of us do, some of us don't.

[Michael Riedel]

If it bothers you, it's not for you.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Okay, well, that's the thing.

[Michael Riedel]

If the mole bothers you on Cindy Crawford, she's not your type.

[Alan Hahn]

She's not for you.

[Peter Rosenberg]

That's exactly right.

[Michael Riedel]

If you're like, moly, Moly, Moly, Moly, Moly, instead of just seeing this gorgeous woman.

[Alan Hahn]

Can't get past you.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Can't get past the damn Moly melanoma. Macy's uncle.

[Alan Hahn]

She's like, madly in love with you. You're like, I just can't get past it.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Can't get past right there. So it's a great point by you, Don. If that's the case, it's not for you.

[Michael Riedel]

But I've been Listening all day. And everybody's got their. Their theory on what happened to the Yankees this weekend.

[Ray Santiago]

Okay.

[Alan Hahn]

All right.

[Michael Riedel]

They lose four in a row to the Red. So listen, I don't want to get in trouble here, but you know me. I'm opinionated, and I can't. I can't keep things. I understand it's in honor of the Boston Marathon bombing, but the Red Sox basically dressed up like the Oakland A's. I. I don't. I don't get it. And you got to do it when you're playing the Yankees. The oldest rivalry in baseball.

[Alan Hahn]

Green jerseys were for the. For the Monster. The yellow jersey.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yellow. Oh, the. It's the yellow.

[Michael Riedel]

So that green was for the Monster.

[Alan Hahn]

That's the Monster jersey.

[Michael Riedel]

You know what? Then I have no trouble.

[Alan Hahn]

The yellow ones are for the marathon.

[Peter Rosenberg]

What do we do against.

[Michael Riedel]

Listen, and let's be honest, too, okay? Wear a pin. To have a yellow jersey when you're the Boston Red Sox, it's got to be a different way to honor. But listen, I'm not going to go down that path. But if you're honoring the Green Monster by just wearing green uniforms and you're the Red Sox and you've got this historic uniform, and it's the Yankees, Red Sox. The oldest rivalry in baseball, you know, pick it when. When the Rays come to town, okay? Or the Mets. They stink.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No, just get rid of. You know, just don't do it. You're right. Where. No, don. Don't. You put a little pin. You put a black thing on the sleeve. There's a million things you can do that don't make you look like the Savannah Bananas. It's a complete. It's been ridiculous.

[Michael Riedel]

But now. Honor the Green Monster.

[Peter Rosenberg]

What is the monster?

[Michael Riedel]

What are we doing?

[Peter Rosenberg]

What does he care?

[Alan Hahn]

He's a monster. He doesn't care about anything.

[Peter Rosenberg]

He's a monster.

[Michael Riedel]

I'm here, and it's easy for you to laugh at me because I'm a Met fan and my team's an embarrassment.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I'll say.

[Michael Riedel]

And we'll get in more detail. But what happened on Friday.

[Alan Hahn]

It just.

[Michael Riedel]

If there could be a. Is it gif or gif? Because you always.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Correct. I'm a gif guy.

[Alan Hahn]

I think it's gif.

[Michael Riedel]

I like gif.

[Alan Hahn]

Okay.

[Michael Riedel]

Because jif is peanut butter.

[Alan Hahn]

Well, actually, though is the first word generated in gif.

[Anthony]

We did this on an old show.

[Alan Hahn]

Yeah, we did this on an old show.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It's gif.

[Alan Hahn]

I know, but I'm saying the first

[Peter Rosenberg]

word, though, of the acronym is generated, which makes it gif.

[Alan Hahn]

That means it's a soft G. Give me a.

[Michael Riedel]

Give me a short video. How about that? Representing what the Mets are about. It's my poor guy. Steve Gelbs trying to let the world know about the firing of Mendoza with Mr. Met dancing behind him. That's it. That's everything. That's 60 plus years of puke that everybody.

[Alan Hahn]

Of all the.

[Griffin]

No.

[Michael Riedel]

Unfortunately there is a huge debate.

[Alan Hahn]

All right, let's go of.

[Michael Riedel]

What's the most embarrassing thing? Carlin tweeted it out. There's like a bracket. You can like it have a bracket.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I love this.

[Alan Hahn]

Yeah, but its own bracket challenge. No, but for you of all. Like you've seen some things. I'm not talking about. I'm talking about the. Out of the out of context Met stuff. Not. Not in game hilarity.

[Michael Riedel]

I'm talking about the Baja Men at least happened before the World Series game in the World Series. But you're in the World Series. I mean you're 15 games under.500. You just fired your manager.

[Alan Hahn]

Yeah.

[Michael Riedel]

They're. They're chanting Pete Alonso's name at Citi Field. Steve Gelb's who as good as it gets, has to stand there and explain to the public that might have parachuted in about what's going on with the firing of Mendoza. And dancing behind him is a tone deaf Mr. Met.

[Alan Hahn]

There's some kid wearing the Mr. Met. It's like this. He got the job this summer and he's not even a baseball fan. He's really more. Let's be honest. He was a theater arts major.

[Michael Riedel]

Oh yeah.

[Alan Hahn]

You know, this is sort of for him. It's acting. He got this job. It's a good gig. And he doesn't know.

[Michael Riedel]

Yeah. So I'm here to make people laugh.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Listen, no one said don't do my job. No one's. So I'm gonna dance. But. But my favorite thing was of all the days to just. You know. Cuz it's not every day that he steps behind Steve Gelbs on tv.

[Michael Riedel]

No. You know.

[Peter Rosenberg]

And Gelbs is on TV at least once a day.

[Alan Hahn]

I think every day I think he does it. That there's. I think Mr. Met does pop in on.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Okay. But I'm doing. But it's not constant.

[Alan Hahn]

Right.

[Peter Rosenberg]

And he does it. And not only does this the day that he does it. It's the day he's hitting every different move. It's.

[Michael Riedel]

It was.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Did you see any of the ones that were made? Any other ones? Some of them Like Cronkite.

[Michael Riedel]

Yeah. Oh, the Cronkite one was hilarious.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Bush. Bush being told about the towers. Every. You just. You people just took tragedy after tragedy rough and put Mr. Meth.

[Michael Riedel]

And obviously Mendoza wouldn't be up there with those. But I get what they were trying.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah. You see what the.

[Michael Riedel]

What the plan was because they probably. They might even have said to the mascot, listen, they just fired the manager.

[Sharkey]

Fire?

[Michael Riedel]

Yeah, I'm on fire today.

[Alan Hahn]

Woo.

[Michael Riedel]

Baseball. I don't know. I don't want the mascot fired because he probably. Alan, no, people want him fired. Well, no, people want something. Listen, people should have been fired. Not him in particular, but just the whole tone, the disorganization. You would think that when you don't

[Peter Rosenberg]

know how perfect would it be after all that they fire Mr. Mitt. David Stearns is sitting pretty. Mr. Mitt, who gets paid 20 bucks hour.

[Michael Riedel]

It's a simple meeting. It's a simple meeting. Like because I do the devil games. The Devils have the Woo crew. It's even hard to say the Woo crew.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Alan Hahn]

But they dance.

[Michael Riedel]

They get everybody to go woo.

[Ray Santiago]

Woo.

[Alan Hahn]

Yeah.

[Michael Riedel]

Of course, if God forbid, Claude Lemieux died during the season. All right, like you'd have a meeting before the games. Let's. Let's put the Wu Cou away tonight. We just lost a Devil's legend. Yeah. We just fired our manager. So guys, do what you do. We'll still play piano man in the seventh inning. Strategy.

[Alan Hahn]

How do you do all that?

[Michael Riedel]

But let's tone it down a bit. All right?

[Alan Hahn]

I didn't know they didn't have a meeting. And say, listen, fan base is frustrated.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Turn it up.

[Alan Hahn]

Just fired the manager. Let's get the people excited tonight. Come on, let's.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Let's get the moment people going.

[Michael Riedel]

Let's get them not standing behind Steve Gelbs as he's telling people that didn't hear it earlier that they just fired their manager.

[Alan Hahn]

Well, look, Mr. Matt has eyes, nose and a mouth. He has not ears. And so he couldn't hear what Gelbs he was saying.

[Peter Rosenberg]

By the way. Point. God.

[Michael Riedel]

Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Time to end around. There's no ears on the band.

[Michael Riedel]

So the reason I bring all this up is to tell you that it's easy for me to tell Yankee fans to calm down. My season's over. You guys are still battling for first place. And I'm not telling you to be happy about losing four straight to the last place. Red Sox.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Red Sox.

[Alan Hahn]

Red Sox. Of all that doesn't matter if they're last.

[Michael Riedel]

Whatever they Were on Thursday and Friday.

[Alan Hahn]

It's still the Red Sox, but.

[Michael Riedel]

And you're missing one third, like, literally one third of your offense. You're talking about one of the best hitters in the game. In judge out.

[Alan Hahn]

All right.

[Michael Riedel]

Stanton out. And you know, he would come up big in a big series. He just. He's known for doing that. And. And. And you've. And you. And Grisham, who was. Was hot as anything. One of your best hitters also out. And you've got Bellinger, for some ungodly reason, can't hit on the road.

[Alan Hahn]

That's.

[Michael Riedel]

And then Jazz gets kicked out of the one. We gotta. Chaz has gotta go. I mean, honestly, he's not living up to expectations. He's just. Let's talk about.

[Alan Hahn]

By the way, talk about tone deaf. He's.

[Michael Riedel]

He's a pain.

[Alan Hahn]

Did you also see Peacock couldn't wait to go to commercial. Like, you're on stream.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Really. I understand.

[Alan Hahn]

Did we need to go. You could see that the player is arguing with an umpire to a point where the manager then had to come out and shove him away. And you go right to break. What are we doing? That's the.

[Anthony]

That's.

[Alan Hahn]

That was the most exciting. That game was so bad. That was the most exciting moment. And you went to break. That couldn't hold up. This is not a network tv. You are on streaming right now. And you had. That's just.

[Michael Riedel]

That just bad direction. It's bad producing. It just is. Because when I'm doing a game and we're supposed to go to break and they'll say break, the red light goes on. If I'm doing a Devil game and any hockey game, sure. But all of a sudden, if with the whistle blows, the red light goes on, but a fight breaks out, we don't go to break.

[Alan Hahn]

No, no. And then in your ear they say, stay him.

[Michael Riedel]

And then it's understood that on the ice, the officials taking into account that there's now a fight, you're not going to miss any action on the other side because the argument will be, well, we got to go to break because they're going to throw the first pitch in the next inning. If we break late and we're going to miss the first pitch, all of a sudden that matters. After missing the four, you know, the first four innings of the game on Channel 4 on NBC. But it's the only game national television. They would have held it up.

[Alan Hahn]

Come on.

[Michael Riedel]

If NBC wasn't back from break. So stop it. It's just. It's Just not paying attention. Nobody's paying attention anymore. Then what the hell's going on?

[Alan Hahn]

Do they start that tone deaf? Do they start that clock even though there's an argument with the umpire? Like, is that. But is that in between inning clock

[Michael Riedel]

just start in from what I see. Because it can't start right away because there are times that there's a replay. Right. So they. They obviously could restart the clock if there's replay or not start it until they officially know there's no replay. But you see, Jazz is getting into it.

[Don LaGreca]

He.

[Michael Riedel]

You don't know if he's going to get kicked out or not. You want to see that on television, don't you?

[Alan Hahn]

Yes, of course.

[Michael Riedel]

You do some of the most entertaining things. Because we no longer have arguments anymore.

[Alan Hahn]

Nope.

[Michael Riedel]

Allen and I grew up in Peter, too, to a certain extent. Even though it was a little bit younger.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No.

[Michael Riedel]

You probably live with it even more than us with Earl Weaver. Like, you had to see Earl Weaver. Earl Weaver is going to kick out. Get once a series. He was going to. Or Lupinella was going to kick dirt on home plate. Somebody was going to throw a base. Like, we've lost that because of. Because of challenges and replay. We don't have that anymore. So if so Jazz getting into it, and now the first base coach comes down and then Boone, who's been known to get thrown out of games, coming in to break it up. Fans are going to want to see that you don't break. And there's no way that the umpires of Fenway park are going to make a pitcher throw a first pitch when the national television audience is still in commercial.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It's not going to happen.

[Michael Riedel]

So it's just bad. It's a bad decision. But I am not going to panic if I'm a Yankee fan, because there are reasons why you lost. You hate losing to the Red Sox. Four straight losses. That's kind of tough. Do you see who you're playing this week? The Tigers, who you just took two out of three from in Detroit. And the Twins. They could show up naked and sweep the Twins. So you're going to win five of your next six. You're going to be okay. Allen, are you in panic like every other Yankee fan seems to be?

[Alan Hahn]

No. It's annoying. It's annoying on several levels. The first annoying part of it is it's the Red Sox. Right? Like, that part's annoying. Can't hit. It was really annoying yesterday watching Sonny Gray and that stupid hat, the way he's wearing his hat. The whole look to me was annoying.

[Michael Riedel]

How do you hate me?

[Alan Hahn]

What?

[Michael Riedel]

He's Sonny Gray.

[Alan Hahn]

Yeah, it's annoying because we know what he's about. And now all of a sudden he's, you know.

[Michael Riedel]

Did you see Peter? He's got the hat. Who, who wore. Who always wore his hat. Who was a.

[Alan Hahn]

Off to the side.

[Michael Riedel]

It was a couple of guys.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah, a couple guys have done that move, so.

[Michael Riedel]

But he's got it off to the side.

[Alan Hahn]

It's too big for his head.

[Michael Riedel]

Yeah, it's weird. It's that many ears are sticking out and then he's wearing his. He's wearing his Red Sox jersey like he's Richard Jefferson. He's showing off a chest that doesn't have full navel. He's like a 12 year old. He doesn't have any hair on his chest. Yeah, he's not cut like that. They're. Yo, let me show off my chest.

[Alan Hahn]

No, but he was. And he was feeling, he was feeling himself yesterday. The way he was pitching and the way he's struggling with everything he was saying.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Oh, my God.

[Michael Riedel]

Mess doesn't even begin to describe it.

[Alan Hahn]

This.

[RJ Santillo]

Yo, yo.

[Alan Hahn]

I remember he's the guy that talks some cash money when he signed with the Red Sox.

[Michael Riedel]

Right.

[Alan Hahn]

Let's not forget. So that's why watching it was an. Ask Anthony. I rarely. The only time I text Anthony during the Yankees game is when I'm What? Annoyed.

[Anthony]

Annoyed, yes.

[Alan Hahn]

Then all of a sudden, now I'm going back and forth with Anthony about everything I'm seeing and he doesn't help because he just throws logs on the fire.

[Anthony]

It was fun.

[Alan Hahn]

We had a good time, though.

[Michael Riedel]

Don't go to Anthony if you're trying to talk yourself, you know, back into the window. He's going to talk.

[Peter Rosenberg]

You're right off.

[Anthony]

No, I'll drag you right down with me.

[Alan Hahn]

Well, I know. I wanted to get it. I wanted to get into like that kind of a growling session because first of all, my son is completely done on the Mets. He still got suckered in because of the, the ninth inning yesterday.

[Michael Riedel]

Yesterday.

[Alan Hahn]

He's still sitting there and I'm like, okay, heartbreaks come. He goes, no, no, no, look. No, we got runners on. Yep. Okay, good luck.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Oh, boy.

[Alan Hahn]

And then the Yak bats today. Oh, my God, Mauricio

[Michael Riedel]

money pulling the plug in that.

[Alan Hahn]

So he's. He turned it off. He turned off the TV and he refused to watch anything else. So when the Yankees came on, he had. He wanted nothing to do with it. So I had nobody to Talk to.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Right Sad.

[Alan Hahn]

So I went to Anthony and Anthony made it worse. But it's so, so.

[Michael Riedel]

No, I know it was good he was gonna make.

[Alan Hahn]

I'm not. It's. It's annoying. More than anything. This June thing annoys me now. It's four years in a row where they're like barely 500 team in June. All the numbers matter except for I guess this June swoon that they go through right now. But those numbers don't matter. So that's the stuff that's annoying. Am I worried about it? No, but it's. It's annoying. But when you kind of where I'm

[Michael Riedel]

at, to me annoying scrappy team.

[Alan Hahn]

That's like. Remember when they were 8 and 4? The first 12 games without Judge and

[Michael Riedel]

you're like, hey, I knew that wasn't sustainable even against the lousy Red Sox. You're not gonna play at a 650 clip when three of your best offensive players are on.

[Alan Hahn]

Maybe not 650, but does it need to be one game under 500?

[Michael Riedel]

I'm not saying you shouldn't be annoyed by it, but I don't think you should be panicked. Now, speaking of being annoyed. Not panic, Anthony, I need you to say what you're about to say, but be upbeat, be enthusiastic, be happy. Champs deserves the anti annoyed.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah, give it a good.

[Anthony]

I did just take an interesting call. Don, were you at a concert last night?

[RJ Santillo]

Was I.

[Michael Riedel]

Where was I last night?

[Anthony]

You know, if you were at a concert.

[Michael Riedel]

I was not at a concert.

[Alan Hahn]

Okay, must have been.

[Anthony]

So line three. No, Don was not at the concert that you were at last night. Even though you thought you were sitting right next to him and didn't say, hello, New York. You need to hear this. This summer, all lines lead to Champs Sports Fan Central Station. A soccer pop up shop open right in the heart of the city. 125 West 33rd Street. This is the soccer destination in New York. Jerseys for every national team you ride with. Usa, Mexico, Argentina. Hey guys, hold a Brazil jersey for my good friend Peter. And way more Plenty all.

[Peter Rosenberg]

He doesn't need them, but I'll take a new one.

[Anthony]

Well, he wants one from Champs all under one. If you want to gear up, rep your country and feel the energy of the city. Champs Sports fan Central Station, 125 West 33rd Street. That is where you need to be a Nick, fans, they did not forget about you. Championship gear to celebrate the team's first title in 53 years is there as well.

[Michael Riedel]

All right, excellent. Thank you very much. And the enthusiasm was there.

[Alan Hahn]

Upbeat, very upbeat.

[Michael Riedel]

But sometimes he does want to jump off the ledge. With Allen.

[Anthony]

I just read back our text messages. I enjoy it very much.

[Alan Hahn]

He was. What did he say, too?

[Anthony]

The third baseman can't hit. The team doesn't like the shortstop. The manager probably doesn't like the second baseman, and the first baseman's a catcher.

[Michael Riedel]

Now, the other thing, before we get to the calls at 1-800-919-3776, is what happened with NBC. People went to turn on the game. They were seeing the Travelers Championship and not the first four. Not first four pitches. First four innings of the Yankees, Red Sox. Bad job. I'm not even going to front. All right, That's a bad job. You're not supplying programming to your audience. However, they're in a rain delay. They finished it up today. You know me with golf. I don't care. But I'm. I'm going to defend NBC to the point that Anthony did the work. The Travelers have outrated every national, every nationally televised baseball game. Last year, they made the decision that I can't. I can't annoy the majority of people because golf fans could be like, how do you have me sit here and watch this entire tournament? We're about to crown a champion. You think you're going to. And now you pull the plug for a regular season baseball game. That would annoy me more if I were a golf fan than one of 162. As a baseball fan, it's like, dude, I understand you're annoyed by it, but stop it. All right?

[Alan Hahn]

Was it a major.

[Michael Riedel]

Wasn't a major.

[Alan Hahn]

Okay, what are we doing? If you're Major League Baseball, you're like, what are we doing? This is. This is. I'm sorry, this is not. This is not Ray's Astros. This is Yankees, Red Sox.

[Michael Riedel]

I understand this is going to be

[Alan Hahn]

one of the biggest audiences we'll have.

[Michael Riedel]

Right. But.

[RJ Santillo]

And.

[Alan Hahn]

And most of ours couldn't find the game. And how many people are like, forget it on that watch?

[Michael Riedel]

Well, listen, I'm not telling you they handle it well. The announcers on the Travelers could have told you, go to Peacock. Or they could have found some alternative that wasn't an app. But if NBC gets better ratings with the Traveler Travelers Championship than they do with the baseball, then that's the right move. And I hear Michael today. Well, they would never do that.

[Peter Rosenberg]

The football.

[Michael Riedel]

Yeah. Because football crushes everything.

[Alan Hahn]

All right, but if you're baseball, this is. That's not a good look.

[Michael Riedel]

Well, it's not A good look. But you know what? Football would have said? No, you're, you're, you're, you're putting our game on. And then the NBC would cower and go to it. Baseball doesn't have that kind of sway. This happens to baseball, this happens to hockey. You know, I don't know if it would happen with basketball. That's interesting. New partner. Just like baseball. What would the. If there was an NBA regular season

[Alan Hahn]

game, if it was not a major. There's no, there's no way. But you are telling people, hey, like, going to break. There's still what. How many more holes were left in this championship? Move over to Peacock to catch the rest of it as the NBA will take over from here. Like, it's, they'll be that. Because you'll have time as a, as a golf viewer to make that switch, if you didn't already.

[Michael Riedel]

But when you, when you say that the Yankee fans that are annoyed about what happened on NBC last night, they're Yankee fans who think that the world begins and ends with their team because the big. Meanwhile, don't you think NBC made that decision because they wanted to take off the less amount of people? Because they knew, probably. And also, and I do this with radio, too, the general thing should be if it starts on a station, it ends on a station. Like if we start, if we start a Ranger game on 1058 80.

[Alan Hahn]

Okay.

[Michael Riedel]

And then there's a Nick game later on, but the Ranger game goes long, and they pulled the plug on the Ranger game to put on the Nick game. I believe that's wrong. If you think that can happen, don't put the Ranger game on 880. Put it on 1050. If you're gonna start it, you should finish it, because that's fair to the audience. So I think NBC did the right thing there, and they probably know the numbers and realize we'll tick off less people if we keep the Travelers on NBC. Okay, sorry.

[Alan Hahn]

I'm not saying.

[Michael Riedel]

And if you're a baseball, listen, I know we do. It's Yankees, Red Sox, Yankee, Red Sox stake. So listen to the four innings on the radio. I mean, come on, give me a break already, people.

[Alan Hahn]

It's not about that. It's still about the brands. Right. And I'm telling you, okay, that's what it's about. And so the fan base, which is the largest fan base that you have here in New York. Right?

[Michael Riedel]

Right.

[Alan Hahn]

It's your biggest market. So how's the New York market doing with the golf versus the Yankees?

[Michael Riedel]

No, I understand the New York market's

[Alan Hahn]

going to go, so of course they're going to.

[Michael Riedel]

But NBC's worried about the overall audience. How fair would it be now? It didn't matter because you're not wrong.

[Peter Rosenberg]

They didn't finish it.

[Alan Hahn]

You're not wrong. I'm saying the outrage is also not wrong. You can be. It's okay to be pissed off about it because you're saying, first of all, the Yankees should be saying, where the freaking Yankees? What are you doing? We're putting us on a streaming instead of in front of golf, like all of our fans. And we have millions of them want to see us play and we're playing the Red Sox. So that's one understand NBC just came, came in and took Sunday Night Baseball.

[Michael Riedel]

Right?

[Alan Hahn]

Right. So this is their new thing. And Major League Baseball has got to look at a partner like this is what we're doing. So two of our biggest markets, two of our biggest fan bases, and we had to start the game on your streaming service and then tell everybody. Now you can go back.

[Michael Riedel]

NBC's got a history of it. I remember watching it was Penguin Senators playoff game that went to overtime on a Saturday. And guess what was at 6 o'? Clock? The Kentucky Derby.

[Alan Hahn]

Oh, yeah.

[Michael Riedel]

And you know what they did? They took the hockey game, said go watch it on NBC Sportsnet because we're going to the Kentucky Derby because we know the audience in this country is, is going to be way bigger. I'm sure the people of Pittsburgh were apoplectic about it, but they made that decision. And that's wrong. You're talking about overtime, playoff game, but they did it.

[Alan Hahn]

Travelers and the Belmont, the Kentucky Derby, you can't make.

[Griffin]

That's.

[Alan Hahn]

That's not even close.

[Michael Riedel]

We're also talking about moving a playoff game that's in overtime or missing the first four innings of a regular season game. Right. Come on, what are we talking about, guys?

[Peter Rosenberg]

If the numbers are the numbers, if they do better with the numbers for

[Alan Hahn]

the golf guarantee you there were more people watching Yankee Red Sox than that game that you're talking about. Penguin Senators, guaranteed.

[Michael Riedel]

No, I understand that.

[Alan Hahn]

So that's the difference. That's why I'm saying it's okay for them to be.

[Michael Riedel]

But they're telling you more people are watching the Travelers than will watch Yankees Red Sox nationally.

[Alan Hahn]

Yes, yes.

[Michael Riedel]

And they can't worry about New York and Boston.

[Alan Hahn]

Right. They didn't care. And all I'm saying is that's not a good look if you're a Major

[Michael Riedel]

League Baseball no, it's not.

[Alan Hahn]

And the Yankees can't be happy about it as well.

[Michael Riedel]

I understand that.

[Alan Hahn]

So this is a new part.

[Michael Riedel]

I'm not telling you not to be annoyed, but people are like, how can you give? And this is somebody who hates golf. But I'm sure they made what they thought it was a better decision, I

[Alan Hahn]

think, if it was a major. If one of the majors. Nope, no problem. One of the majors, no problem. This isn't a major. And so that's, I think, adds to the equation. That's all I'm saying. I'm not saying it's wrong. You give me just look like I'm fighting this fight. I'm not fighting this fight.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Now you're fighting it.

[Alan Hahn]

I'm making a point for those who are outraged by it.

[Michael Riedel]

But the people, they're like me. I'm actually criticizing myself. The people, they're like, oh, I'm missing the first four innings of Yankees, Red Sox for some stupid golf. Well, there's a lot of people who don't think the golf's that stupid. I'm one of them that thinks it's stupid. But I'm sure NBC looked at it and go, do I take off 5 million people or 3? All right, I'm gonna take off the 3.

[Alan Hahn]

Right?

[Michael Riedel]

And I'd rather show the end of something than the beginning of something. Although where they got caught is the end of something ended up being today and not yesterday because of the rain.

[Sharkey]

So good.

[RJ Santillo]

So good.

[Ray Santiago]

So good.

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[Peter Rosenberg]

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[Alan Hahn]

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[Michael Riedel]

There's a mound of cats going out a piece of bacon.

[Alan Hahn]

So we went to, to Moe's and we brought back chips and everything else. Love Moe's. And some chips fell by the pool. We were all sitting around the pool how fast the ants come.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Don't see them.

[Alan Hahn]

I didn't know I had an ant issue by the, you know, in the, in the stone work I was like, oh, just fell. We turn around and it's like all of a sudden answer like carrying ships back to.

[Michael Riedel]

Sometimes you don't notice that you drop something.

[Alan Hahn]

Apparently we have an issue.

[Michael Riedel]

It's an issue. So check out Viking. Let's check you out. 1-800-919-3776 we had a search warrant out for this guy who. But he's back Griffin in Connecticut. Where the hell you been?

[Griffin]

Well, you guys were all in on the Knicks and stuff and I not big with the Knicks because I'm not a Nick fan. And then I went on a Cruise that last couple weeks ago, A week ago, back outside.

[Alan Hahn]

Tell us.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Griftster's back, baby.

[Griffin]

So that's why I wasn't here.

[Michael Riedel]

So from where to where did this cruise go?

[Alan Hahn]

Hear his voice.

[Michael Riedel]

Oh, yeah. He's immatured.

[Alan Hahn]

Oh yeah.

[Griffin]

We left from Miami and we went to Honduras and Belize.

[Sharkey]

Oh, wow.

[Michael Riedel]

You met somebody, didn't you?

[Alan Hahn]

Yeah. You hear in his voice.

[Michael Riedel]

I can hear in your voice.

[Griffin]

No, I didn't meet anyone.

[Michael Riedel]

All right, maybe you met somebody before the cruise.

[Peter Rosenberg]

You're giving an energy.

[Sharkey]

Okay.

[Ray Santiago]

Yeah.

[Michael Riedel]

You didn't say no, I'm. Listen, we don't need to get in your personal. I just want to make sure that you're happy.

[Griffin]

Sometimes I'll have my shirt off because I get too hot. I am happy. I am happy. This is you actually look at if you want to actually know. I. You could not have have a better thing. With the US Soccer happening on Wednesday, what else do people have to watch then? Yankees are on during the day. The Mets are on during the day. There's nothing else that is on. There's no WNBA playoffs at all. So I'm all into the soccer on wet and nothing is going to impact that at all. And that's what I'm happy about.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah, we were, we were thinking maybe Griftster had some movement for another reason.

[Michael Riedel]

Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

The only thing that gives this man

[Michael Riedel]

movement is sports movement. We thought maybe there was other kind of.

[Alan Hahn]

But he came back a man. I was very proud of him.

[Peter Rosenberg]

What did you.

[Sharkey]

Did you.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Hey, Griftster, do you enjoy the Sophie Cunningham meme this weekend? At least?

[Griffin]

I have no clue what happened.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Oh really? You didn't see the Sophie Cunningham thing moving around?

[Michael Riedel]

Yeah, she's pointing at everybody. It's biggest thing on social media.

[Griffin]

Yeah. Oh yeah, I did all right.

[RJ Santillo]

Yeah. All right.

[Griffin]

I don't get it.

[Michael Riedel]

So what you want to talk.

[Griffin]

No, no, no, no, no.

[Michael Riedel]

This nonsense was not on your radar

[Griffin]

in case we were going to go to the water.

[Peter Rosenberg]

So what's going. It's an old drop, Griffin. So what's going on?

[Alan Hahn]

Don't.

[Peter Rosenberg]

What's going on?

[Griffin]

What's on my mind is. I understand, Dom, what you are saying, but my under. My thing is NBC ended up deciding that they wanted to buy the rights for Sunday Night Baseball for Major League Baseball. Now you're telling me that are they really much stood into that Are they more invested into a non golf major or not other stuff that they're not really invested into baseball that they're only going to air It. When there's nothing else to Eric, the. Right. If there is something else to Eric, they'll just air it on an app then.

[Michael Riedel]

Well, not really.

[Ray Santiago]

It was just.

[Michael Riedel]

But Griffin, I love ripping into networks and all that, especially if it's a rival network to ours, but they could do two things at once. They just got screwed over by the fact that they had a rain delay. You know, I think the example that I give was way more egregious that they schedule a playoff hockey game that can go into several overtimes and still think they can air the Kentucky Derby on the same day. That was egregious. This was a tournament that was supposed to be over well before 7 o' clock and it wasn't. And they made the decision to go with the golf because obviously they wanted it apparently was something CBS had. CBS had a conflict. It became available and they gobbled it up.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Gobble, gobble.

[Michael Riedel]

And they thought they could do both. And the rain delay kind of screwed it over and they made the numbers decision. And I know that frustrates baseball fans, especially here in New York, where I'm sure the Yankees would way outrate the Travers or the Travelers. But the rest of the country, guess what? Baseball is a regional sport. As much as the Yankees and Red Sox are kind of a national team. The Red Sox are way out of it. It's June baseball. And as much to my chagrin, people dig golf. NBC, to their bottom line, did the right thing. And by doing so, they screwed over Yankee fans. And I think they're okay with that. Yeah. It's not that they disrespect baseball. It's not that they got confused and forgot they had Sunday night baseball. Just one of those things that happened.

[Alan Hahn]

It just sucked. Then the ending sucked. But it's annoying. That's all. It's. Again, it's part of the annoyance of what happens when the Yankees play in June.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I just want to congratulate everybody whose worst thing that happened this weekend was this, though.

[Michael Riedel]

Yeah, that doesn't. Pretty good life.

[Peter Rosenberg]

That means you had a great week.

[Michael Riedel]

That's a pretty good life.

[Alan Hahn]

Except I'll accept that it could be worse. It's a great. It's a great point. You.

[Michael Riedel]

You could be a Matt fan.

[Alan Hahn]

Yeah. The Yankees don't have a mascot. And if they did, he wouldn't be dancing behind Meredith. If Meredith was delivering something.

[Michael Riedel]

You know what? Steve said the right thing.

[Alan Hahn]

Yes.

[Michael Riedel]

Meredith might have.

[Alan Hahn]

Sock cold cock. Just turn around.

[Michael Riedel]

Talk about memes. I'm sure that would have been a great meme.

[Alan Hahn]

Just a right hook.

[Michael Riedel]

Let's go to how about Sharkey on the Jersey Shore? You're on ESPN New York. What's up, Sharky?

[Alan Hahn]

What's up?

[Sharkey]

Hey, good afternoon, boys.

[Michael Riedel]

You're in the Jersey Shore. You come to the beach bash on Thursday.

[Sharkey]

I'm. I'm up in the air because I might be leaving the Jersey Shore by then, but I'm going to try to do it.

[Michael Riedel]

All right.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Doesn't sound.

[Sharkey]

I really. I really wanted.

[Alan Hahn]

We're gonna be there Thursday.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Thursday.

[Michael Riedel]

Oh, I know, I know.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It's only gonna be a shade over 100 degrees. We expect to see when we get there.

[Alan Hahn]

It's gonna get hotter.

[Michael Riedel]

There'll be water available, though. Don't worry about it.

[Sharkey]

Anyway, great.

[Griffin]

Two weeks.

[Sharkey]

I know most of your audience doesn't care about this. Between Wimbledon and the World Cup, 32, 16 and quarters in the next two weeks. I only follow soccer every four years, so the big stars are stepping up. Right now, I probably only know five guys. Messi, Ronaldo, Kane, the kid from the United States, Bulseck and Bobby. But the soccer has been great, Peter, for you. I'm also not a wrestling fan, but I have a cousin who's in the business. You know him. And so I tune in whenever I can. And I saw you on whatever was going on Saturday with the steel cage match in the Saudi Arabia, wherever you guys watch. And I turn on the TV and there's Peter right in the middle of two guys who I don't even know who they are.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Whoa.

[Sharkey]

And the young, handsome Peter Rosenberg is right there breaking down wrestling like I've never heard anybody break down wrestling before. And looking amazing while he was doing it with the sunglasses, the tie and everything else. Kudos to you, Mr. Rosenberg.

[Alan Hahn]

You looked good.

[Sharkey]

You took the show away.

[Alan Hahn]

Sunglasses, the whole thing. What a look. Y yeah.

[Sharkey]

Robert Redford Backy.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Thanks, Sharky. You're too kind. You're as kind of shark. Your name shouldn't be Shark. It should be Bunny Rat.

[Michael Riedel]

Well, you know, you're a sweetheart if you wanted to see the opposite of that, Sharky. And thank you for the phone call. You should have checked out the pictures that Peter sent to us during the show on Friday we watch on YouTube.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah, those were special.

[Alan Hahn]

He said you were giving Paul Newman.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Shark. I love. Sharkey's a great guy. Clearly, if you were to go through that call and try to pull out I can just speak of a part about me and try to pull out what was a fact and what was either inaccurate or completely made up the amount that was actually dead on accurate.

[Alan Hahn]

Do you remember his favorite soccer players? Five of them named him Go.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I think.

[Alan Hahn]

I think Messi.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Plow Sack. I think he.

[Alan Hahn]

I thought I heard him say Pusick.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No, I thought he went Plow Sack. I think Hew Lisik was Plowsack.

[Alan Hahn]

Plowsack is.

[Peter Rosenberg]

And then he got to me.

[Michael Riedel]

More of a move than a name.

[Alan Hahn]

Then he went, Bobby, you were in

[Peter Rosenberg]

Saudi Arabia or wherever you were. He said something uncomfortable about me being in the middle of two men. And then he said. And then he said I was wearing sunglasses. Obviously not true. In the middle of an indoors broadcast.

[Michael Riedel]

Something about something. It wasn't Mbappe, but it was something about it.

[Alan Hahn]

It was Bobby.

[Michael Riedel]

Bobby.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Oh, wait, is that who he.

[Alan Hahn]

When he said Bobby, he meant Mbappe. But it was still fun.

[Peter Rosenberg]

He said Bobby.

[Alan Hahn]

He said Bobby.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Bobby and Plosak. We made. You know what this is?

[Alan Hahn]

Or maybe he meant Bobby Blah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Hold on, Anthony. I know this is rare, but I believe later in the show.

[Anthony]

Sure.

[Peter Rosenberg]

We should replay this entire call.

[Anthony]

Wow. Okay.

[Peter Rosenberg]

And I know.

[Michael Riedel]

Here's what I want you to do,

[Peter Rosenberg]

Anthony, because you know the most. I want you to have the ding sound ready and I want you to ding every single thing. That's either not true or possibly not true.

[Anthony]

I can do that.

[Alan Hahn]

It might be something we'll have a free in it.

[Michael Riedel]

And also, it was great. Sharkey was great. I don't mean to.

[Alan Hahn]

Sharky's cool though.

[Peter Rosenberg]

We love Sharky. Sharkster.

[Michael Riedel]

It's been forever since I've watched the Simpsons. But who is the drunk at Moe's?

[Anthony]

Barney.

[Michael Riedel]

Barney.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah, Barney.

[Michael Riedel]

But he sounded like sober Barney.

[Peter Rosenberg]

And his facts were kind of like sober Barney as well.

[Michael Riedel]

Or not like sober, but he was more drunk Barney with the facts, but more sober in the way he sounded. Please call back.

[Alan Hahn]

That was.

[Michael Riedel]

Come to the beach bash. We'll play Sharky.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Come on, man.

[Michael Riedel]

That was great stuff.

[Don LaGreca]

Stop.

[Michael Riedel]

You brought it.

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[Don LaGreca]

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[Peter Rosenberg]

I didn't listen to anything you just said.

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[Alan Hahn]

So the 430 game is fittingly Germany and Paraguay.

[Michael Riedel]

That makes sense, right? It's very fitting, I'm sure. Our place. They've got the game today, right? Not. Well, not just stout. Our other place, Plat Deutsch is probably.

[Alan Hahn]

Oh, forget it. Yes. No air conditioning. And everybody's going to love it.

[Michael Riedel]

Well, that was our pre beach bash was going out to.

[Alan Hahn]

That got us. We got us conditioned.

[Michael Riedel]

That was going to be. Because it's going to be a hot one. But listen, we've been. We've been assured that there'll be water available for you, so you stay hydrated.

[Alan Hahn]

How about a hose?

[Michael Riedel]

You might not mind it.

[Peter Rosenberg]

We're working on a mist. We're working on a mist situation.

[Michael Riedel]

A misting station.

[Peter Rosenberg]

We'd like a mist because it's. They're saying it's going to be like there's some sort of. It's like an unusual thing. It's not just a high temperature.

[Michael Riedel]

The hot air is going to be

[Peter Rosenberg]

humidity and the hot air is going to be like trapped in under this system.

[Michael Riedel]

But we'll scare people off. No, no, it's going to be great.

[Anthony]

What do you mean?

[Alan Hahn]

It's going to be awesome.

[Peter Rosenberg]

But I'm not going to do is. I'm not going to lie to our people. We're gonna get hot together. We're gonna get weird. It's gonna get weird. It's gonna get wet. It's gonna get weird. It's gonna be a special day. You're also off work the next day. It's the. It's the start of a beautiful.

[Michael Riedel]

In the next few days because it's a Thursday off Friday. And then you got Saturday. Sunday.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Let's be real. A lot of people are taking like Wednesday on now. I'm gonna say something to you guys right now. And it could get. It could get. It could get met with mixed reaction.

[Alan Hahn]

Okay?

[Peter Rosenberg]

I'm not gonna be wearing the clown suit on Thursday. Well, it's too hot.

[Michael Riedel]

That's why you agree with me now.

[Anthony]

And this isn't an.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Hold on, hold on. I'd like. I'd like the chance to finish.

[Anthony]

Okay.

[Peter Rosenberg]

As someone. As someone who, unlike Michael, has actually paid out gross bets.

[Anthony]

Very true.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Thank you.

[Michael Riedel]

Well, no. What did you eat? Crickets?

[Griffin]

Yeah.

[Michael Riedel]

That's not. Nothing.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Here's what I'm thinking. Hear me out, folks. To give a little more judge to what we're doing the bets, right, which is about the football. We pay off the bet. The Thursday. What is it? Wednesday this year? Whatever day we decide is the start of the NFL, which my guess is that would be the Thursday or the Friday because we're going to do the picks and we make that the actual date of the thing.

[Alan Hahn]

Okay.

[Peter Rosenberg]

We build to it. We have a drop that's appropriate to play for the name of that show. You can guess what. Drop it. Clown.

[Alan Hahn]

Show.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Clown. And we build towards the clown show and we pay it off as we lead right into the picks for 20, 26. I think it actually, in some ways makes more sense.

[Alan Hahn]

I don't. I don't hate it if you don't like that.

[Anthony]

I have another option.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Well, hold on. I want to hear Don's reaction to mine before he gets another option.

[Alan Hahn]

I don't hate it. You Don?

[Michael Riedel]

Yeah. I despise it. Because again, we just don't. We're so weak and feeble. I don't even know why we do punishment. I've been saying that we're the show of timeout. We just. Time out. I want to bring the belt back and. No, just stand in the corner like Blair Witch and don't worry about it. We don't want to harm anybody. This is supposed to be about Punta. This is the perfect time. 100 freaking 4 degrees. The makeup is smeared all over his face. He's pitted out.

[Anthony]

Makeup was never gonna happen.

[Michael Riedel]

Crotched out, everything.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Makeup and conversation.

[Anthony]

I don't think. Peter, I don't think you were ever gonna wear makeup. I have an idea.

[Michael Riedel]

I understand.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Because we're the show of woke the show.

[Anthony]

Interesting. Now, Peter, I don't know if you've heard about this. Dave is almost apoplectic about it. If I'm not mistaken, we're attempting a couchcast this year.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah. Have you heard about it?

[Anthony]

That's possibly centered around Giants commanders.

[Peter Rosenberg]

That is right. It's on the table.

[Anthony]

That to me, seems like an opportunity.

[Peter Rosenberg]

But that's so far out.

[Anthony]

To wear a clown suit.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No, that is possible. But that's. That's all the way.

[Anthony]

It is far out. We're already into the next season.

[Don LaGreca]

I get it.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It's the middle of next season.

[Anthony]

What's another couple months?

[Michael Riedel]

You might already be on your way to another punishment by. By that.

[Peter Rosenberg]

But I think if we were to actually start. I think the idea of doing the punishment as we're starting the new picks, I don't. I don't think that's that crazy an idea. Now, Don's also going back against himself, too, because I believe it was Don himself who a couple of weeks ago said if it's going to be obscenely hot, he shouldn't do the clown that day. I swear. I think you said he did say that.

[Anthony]

Not for the whole show, definitely.

[Peter Rosenberg]

He definitely said I should do it for ENN because it's going to be Too much.

[Alan Hahn]

But now let's put it on at the end.

[Anthony]

I've been on Don's side of this for a while, though. There's one person here that really has paid off a bet fully.

[Peter Rosenberg]

But we know Don. Don wants punishment. He likes it.

[Anthony]

I'm not going to put you in here. You always pay off your bets. Whether they're good or not good is up to the interpretation of. Don Allen's got a tattoo with the New York Mets on his bicep.

[Michael Riedel]

All right, here's my idea.

[Peter Rosenberg]

He did it.

[Alan Hahn]

All right.

[Michael Riedel]

Do it for, you know, at the.

[Peter Rosenberg]

At the beach bash.

[Michael Riedel]

Yeah.

[Alan Hahn]

Like, you have to come out. Grand entrance.

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[Michael Riedel]

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[Alan Hahn]

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[Michael Riedel]

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[Alan Hahn]

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[Alan Hahn]

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[Michael Riedel]

This is. Just hear me out. This is my problem. Just guarantee me this, all right, do it. The first day, the symmetry, the excitement of opening day Wednesday, Australia. Our punishment moving forward is going to be the two guys that didn't finish in last sleep together. That'll be the punishment. Because then that's fun, right? Who is going to get Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah Out. Because that's what we're down to now, is that it's again the show of timeout. Timeout, clown. For the record, I would heat stroke out because that's what. That's entertaining to me. Will Peter pass out?

[Peter Rosenberg]

That's the show, right?

[Michael Riedel]

That's what makes it fun. Remember, I want Peter. I wanted David Cohn to throw baseballs at my back because that's punishment. I wanted a dunk tank full of mayonnaise. That's punishment.

[Peter Rosenberg]

That was.

[Michael Riedel]

He's wearing a tattoo. That's punishment. Eating crickets. Punishment. Dressing up in full Ranger uniform at a Ranger game with helmet, stick, pads, everything. That's a punishment.

[Anthony]

Okay.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I mean, it worked out for me.

[Michael Riedel]

But then we go to Whoppers that are delicious to now dyeing your hair.

[Peter Rosenberg]

That makes you look better.

[Michael Riedel]

Yeah, but there was another Michael Bennett. He dyed his hair. He hasn't stopped since.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It was the beginning of dyeing his hair, so.

[Michael Riedel]

Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah.

[Alan Hahn]

No.

[Michael Riedel]

And you got to sit in the corner.

[Alan Hahn]

No.

[Michael Riedel]

For like a segment. We don't make it all day because that'll be a problem.

[Alan Hahn]

I don't get a say, Alan.

[Michael Riedel]

I'll give him my say.

[Alan Hahn]

I know you did.

[Michael Riedel]

Go ahead. I'm sorry.

[Griffin]

Oh.

[Alan Hahn]

I said I didn't hate his idea.

[RJ Santillo]

Right?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Didn't say he liked it.

[Alan Hahn]

I said I didn't hate it. The. The original, I believe bet included the beach bash. That was it.

[Michael Riedel]

Well, that's where I paid off my.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah. It was unclear when the bet was made, but that's where we've gone.

[Alan Hahn]

I thought that's what. What the idea was is that at the biggest event with the most people present physically.

[Griffin]

Right?

[Alan Hahn]

Yes. But I have a hunch that perhaps if we waited till the eve of the NFL season, we might have a bigger audience, viewer wise, and that might be a bigger hit. Now you'll be more comfortable because you'd probably be in this situation in here, and it's not hot and you're not miserable, but you still have to look the way you look. Or we could even single on you versus on that big stage. It's a lot harder, don't you think, Don?

[Peter Rosenberg]

There is. I thought about that too. There's some.

[Alan Hahn]

To keep the single on him. To me, the more of him looking like the clown better.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Okay.

[Alan Hahn]

And the more people that see it better. And it's right before the NFL season, which means it's fresh. Everyone's mind that we're about to make bets and this guy lost life.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Well, I will say this.

[Alan Hahn]

Versus in the midst of. Let me just finish.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No, go ahead. I'm sorry.

[Alan Hahn]

In the midst of the insanity that is the beach bash, where anything goes and anything can happen.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It's also holiday weekend. Not everyone's watching us.

[Alan Hahn]

He gets lost in the whole mayhem. It's almost like, Don, you always like to wear something flashy, right? Last year you wore something beautiful outfit he had on.

[Peter Rosenberg]

He performs.

[Alan Hahn]

So now you have an outfit on that already standing out. Now this is guy in a clown suit. And it just suddenly becomes.

[Don LaGreca]

Oh, right.

[Peter Rosenberg]

And then Don gets on stage and does his concert and I'm wearing. Which at the same time, by the way, Ennis. And I'm. It's a little distracting.

[Alan Hahn]

I feel like it's not as much. It's almost novelty compared to right before the season starts. You and I look normal, act normal. And then this guy has to sit in a clown suit where we have a single shot of him and we

[Peter Rosenberg]

count down, you know, 10 days until.

[Alan Hahn]

Yes.

[Michael Riedel]

Clown show. Clown show.

[Alan Hahn]

And I'm looking at it. The more embarrassment, the better. And while he might be miserable and sweaty and gross, it would be probably more embarrassing for it to be four hours of him sitting in the clown. The whole show.

[Peter Rosenberg]

The whole show.

[Alan Hahn]

With a single camera on him. With. We're talking about a much larger audience.

[Michael Riedel]

No, it makes sense.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I mean, because I will say this. I mean, that's what I feel. The fall. The fall is the beginning. The football season is, as we always think of it, the beginning of the radio season as well. Right?

[Alan Hahn]

Well, sure, it's full.

[Peter Rosenberg]

We're in summertime, but.

[Alan Hahn]

But again. And the last thing I'll say is this is that you really, really don't want to not only see Peter, a sweaty mess, we have to be up on the stage. I don't want to smell it.

[Peter Rosenberg]

That's.

[Michael Riedel]

I don't think.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I'm not a smelly man.

[Alan Hahn]

I don't want to smell.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I'm not a man with cinch.

[Alan Hahn]

Clown suit on. Anything goes.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Mustafa El Sheikh says, one, two, three, let's be wimps.

[Michael Riedel]

Well, listen, it's what. It's what everybody wants. So I will cave and do what you guys think is best. Do you hear the sound, Alpine?

[Alan Hahn]

You know the reason I feel it's almost more embarrassing.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Well, he doesn't believe you. He wants. He thinks we're a failure. He's made up his mind.

[Michael Riedel]

But I just think, you know, I think you get an audience when people think they might see heat stroke. How many people have actually seen it?

[Peter Rosenberg]

What does it look like?

[Michael Riedel]

How will he react? Yeah, what is the syndrome for Peter?

[Alan Hahn]

What's his clown suit made of?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Wool?

[Alan Hahn]

Like what?

[Peter Rosenberg]

You know what? And here's the question it would be

[Michael Riedel]

if I was wearing it.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Well, listen, the question I have for you guys right now is can you bet on whether or not I come with the clown suit? I'll tell you what. It's the big no clown suit.

[Alan Hahn]

I said. No, that's not what you said.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I didn't say clan suit, did I? Because.

[Anthony]

No, no. Something else.

[Alan Hahn]

That's what you said leading up to.

[Anthony]

I don't think you can bet on that.

[Alan Hahn]

I hope you don't do that.

[Michael Riedel]

Yeah, we're just hoping for sweat in the suit.

[Peter Rosenberg]

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[Don LaGreca]

Thanks for listening to the Don Hahn and Rosenberg podcast.

[Peter Rosenberg]

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[Don LaGreca]

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