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Because looking at it, I don't know if we're going to have more than one or two this time. But I think that's a great thing. I think that's a great thing. I think that's a great thing about the current pace for this twenty, if you break the Hall of Fame down into 20 year stretches, the current pace that we're on will have the most ever across the 20 year segment.
Because they average 61 to 62 every 20 years. We're on pace for 69, 70, which is kind of oppressive because remember a couple years? I mean, a couple years. It just feels like a couple years.
But a while back, they didn't have any modern day Hall of Amers. Like a no living person inducted into the Hall of Fame. And people were kind of beside themselves on it. Like, how can baseball possibly have no worthy Hall of Fame?
And that kind of was the start. I think it was the start of the start of like the kill the win movement for pitchers and stuff like that. Right. And so, yeah, it's, I mean, it's changed a lot in terms of whose eligible process has been ever evolving.
I just, you know, looking at some of the odds and just looking at some of the names. Do you think we're going to get more than one or two in 20, 27? I don't know. Because they're the guys that, like Andy Pettit, I don't think he's going to get in.
I don't. Because his, it might be, you know, 20, 28s his last year. It's a possibility. But time is becoming a factor here for him.
He's going to have to get above 50% next year to get into the baseball Hall of Fame. Yeah. And I don't know, can you make that kind of jump? I don't know.
Other guys like Arod, you just don't feel like the baseball writers are going to come around like him. Very bonds, logical lemons. And I don't feel like it doesn't feel like that's what's going to happen for those guys. Because the steroid allegations, it just doesn't feel like it.
I just don't. And some of the guys that are kind of recently on the ballot call Hamels, I don't, he's going to have to make a huge jump. Guys like him, Bobby Beret, Jimmy Rollins, I don't think they're destined for Coofus down. I suppose he's going in.
I think to me, that's only luck to be at someone. It's like, yeah, there's an interesting case because just on the numbers, he's maybe not a Hall of Famer, but where he'd be in the ball. He's going to be in the ball. He's going to be in the ball.
He's going to be in the ball. He's going to be in the ball. Just on the numbers. He's maybe not a Hall of Famer, but where he did it?
John Lester. He's got three World Series, two in Boston, one with the Cubs. Like that's 200 years of curses that he helped break. But then the case of John Lester, there's there are the things like that that.
But he's 200 and 117. Yeah. He has a 3.66 ERA. Be the among the highest and coopers down of his elected.
Never won a major regular season award. Didn't reach 2500 strikeouts. But that's going to be an interesting test case, but I don't think any of the other first timers are going to go in. Like Brett Gardner?
No. No. I, Jake Arietta is interesting. He was really good for a short period of time.
Couple of no hitters. Yeah. We had a four-year run 2014 to 2017 where he was dominant. 2015 and L.
Cy Young winner through two no hitters. Help the Cubs win the World Series. Sorry, man. I mean, he had a stretch there.
But it was once again, it's his, his, he's a little bit the Terrell Davis, isn't it? A very, very insane, productive short period of time. And that was it. Wait, Davis is eligible?
Yeah. Derek Holland. I didn't realize he's been out of the game that long. He's not going to go in.
But it'd be fun. Yeah. Um, get him to tances, Andrew Miller, John expert, no. Jonathan Lucroi, no Dexter Fowler.
Love it. But no, not going to happen. Trevor Bauer. Uh, Jay Hap is too close to 500.
133 and 100. Kyle Seager? No. Yeah.
Numbers, I mean, great Seattle Mariner, not, not baseball, Hall of Fame. Both Zimmerman's Ryan with one end, Jordan with two ends are both eligible. I think Bobby Brady has got a shot. You think so?
I think so. Yeah. He's got two years left. He's an eighth year on the ballot and he's got 30%.
Yeah, I'm just looking at me. I'm just ranking him away. Yeah. Um, best chance to go in 20, 20, 27 and beyond.
Yeah, because I don't, I don't know if we're going to get more than Buster Posey. Chase Otley, maybe. I mean, we're like, we're blowing up our list here already. Uh, before pole dancing even happens, but, well, we haven't said that he's more likely than anybody else.
Yeah. He's the closest this last year, Chase Otley was the club. He's just just a shade under 60%. But he needs, needs quite a bit of convincing done on his behalf.
Right. So I'll have that coming up later on eight 40 pole dancing are raking them one through five who do we think has the best chance next to go into the baseball Hall of Fame. So we'll have that coming up later on this morning at eight 40 also, as I mentioned, we'll talk to Curtis Hens, North Fork Football Coach. And we had the story yesterday about Ben Steele and personal friend, friend of the show times about being arrested for DWI back in June and then being like Elpham is a tied in coaching position with the Washington commanders right before the starting training camp.
Getting a little more information about what happened. He got pulled over at one 15 in the morning near the commander's headquarters. And when he was pulled over, his BAC was almost two times the legal limit and charged with driving while intoxicated refusal to submit to a breath test, obstruction resisting a deputy sheriff and traffic violation on June 7th. So he's supposed to go to court August 7th.
Initially, this happened during a belief like OTAs. And so he was arrested, they put him on leave. And so apparently what happened was that, you know, one 15 in the morning, a Loudon County officer observed a driver belief to be Steele, where weaving inside the lane, using a right turn signal, but drifting left and then driving below the speed limit. When the officer is able to stop Steele, the guy on the steel have glassy red eyes, slurred speech and a strong smell of alcohol.
And he was asked to get out of his car. According to this report, Ben refused. The officer had to physically remove him. And the officer also said Steele pulled back against the officer and refused a breath test.
And they always said $5,000 on security released on June 7th after signing a recognizance promising to appear in court. It was originally scheduled for June 30th and pushed back to July 16th. And now what I'm seeing was August 13th is when he's supposed to go to court. So I don't know what happened.
I don't know what was going there doing. The guy's the teak is it happened near commanders, their offices was it they're hanging out, having some pops, and they were just going to get out of the car. And they were just going to get out of the car. And they were just going to get out of the car.
And they were just going out and hanging out, having some pops after it was, they got late, it makes the horrible decision to try to drive home. I don't know. That's what it they're not saying. What was going on?
We know that he was pulled over near where the Washington commanders headquarters are. Not far from there. So making the assumption that's probably where he was without knowing for certain. Just hate hearing it.
Hit a first wife and his kids. Hit it for him. Hit it for his family. Hate to be talking about it.
But just because we know him and we have compassion and sympathy for him, we hope everything mean that we still have to. We have to pass on doing our job, right? Which is talking about the news, talking about the news. And this is newsworthy.
I know there are people like, well, why do you have to bring this up and embarrass him? Because it's a story that regardless of people or friends of ours or not, this is something that's national news. We're not doing the embarrassing. Yeah, we're relaying the information.
Ben was the one that made the bad decision. And I would say that to Ben if he was sitting right here. Absolutely. Say, Ben, you made a bad decision.
And he knows he made a terrible decision. Because now he's kind of a really hard time getting a job in the league. And I hope that I hope it turns out okay for him. But this is it's hard to talk about it is for myself.
I know for you, you know, Ben. And I've my association with him goes all the way back. We played football, palisade for Joe Romano and used to do games, used to do Mesa games with me. And he's going on our show a bunch of times over the years.
We actually played one of those visits earlier this month when you were on vacation. Yeah, yeah, a little, little did we know. And then the Eric B enemy situation glad. Yeah, thank God his wife's gonna be okay.
The rest of his son. And we'll talk more about that once happening. But thank goodness she's gonna be okay. Mia, the enemy multiple gunshot wounds gonna be all right.
So yeah, roughly to start out the morning. You know, the gym, maybe show us some of these stories. So anyway, if you got some thoughts about pole dancing today, who goes into the baseball hall of fame in 2027. Give us your thoughts on that.
You can go to the Cowboys team line 970242 1340 text to foam call we love to hear from you today. All right, it's 713 and it's time for what's happening. All right, for palisade, maverick's hadn't been steel was fired by the Washington commanders Monday for violating team policy steel was fired from his tied in coaching position two days before the start of training camp after he's arrested June 7th in Loudon County, Virginia for driving well intoxicated. He was arrested at 115 in the morning near the commander's headquarters.
He has been reports of police pull steel over after he changed course after signal refused to take a blood breath test. He was arrested for DWI, one of the obstruction resisting arrest without force and was released on his own recognizance. He said to appear in Loudon district court August 13th, the incident occurred, brings spring practice and steel was placed on Lee by the team after playing the NFL for five years still co-hens coached with Atlanta Tampa Bay, Minnesota and the Denver Broncos. The life of former University of Colorado football star Eric Bieni was shot by the couple's son has passed on at their home in Ashburn, Virginia, 57 year old Mia Bieni was shot multiple times and taken to a nearby hospital in stable condition.
Eric Bieni as the Kansas City Chiefs offensive coordinator was in St. Joseph's, Missouri. The startup chief's training camp, the couple still had a home in Virginia after Bieni worked for the Washington commanders, 27 year old Elijah Zion Bieni was taken to the custody and charged with malicious wounding use of a firearm in the commission of a felony and discharge of a firearm inside a dwelling. He's being held without bond.
As veterans report today for training camp at Broncos Park, the Denver Post reports that guard Ben Powers has taken a pay cut. The Post has powers will take a cut in his base salary of 12.5 million dollars for the season and Denver add to his 2026 signing bonus of 5.4 million. The power signed a four year 52 million dollar contract in 2023 as the team's second largest cap hit at 18.2 million dollars. He suffered a bicep stare was out of the lineup until week 16.
The Post also reports a power sustained a list for Hank injury in his foot in his attorney against Jacksonville. He continued to play with the injury and was the same type of injury that sideline Broncos running back J. K. Dobbins from the majority of the season and catch Broncos training camp reports Mondays and Wednesdays with Cody work in a 20 and 40 right here on the team's sports network and speaking of Cody work as veterans report today.
What's the big questions heading into training camp about the offense and her first time play caller Davis Webb will be the back of running back to J. K. Dobbins. What will Davis Webb's play calling look like in the field and how the season in the last year question will be the backup to boneics Cody work has some thoughts.
There are a lot of people are looking at how the AFC championship be amended and maybe if there's a little bit more of an athletic profile to backup quarterback does Denver still get to a Super Bowl hindsight. It's always 20 20. There is going to be competition for that QB to job and I think Sam's got a great opportunity. Now we're talking about quarterback battles.
Luckily it's not from the starting job. Now thank goodness for that. Yeah the battle between the juris and Sam Elinger will begin and earnest tomorrow. What's that like the quarterback battle is the backup.
I don't know what that's like. That's be nice. What about the Jerry Judy thing with holding up the four fingers and always telling me it's gonna be to Sean Watson. I think it was just calling for the intentional walk.
I think so too. He's locked in on the guardians. He's very focused on that right now. It's where they're losing streaks at is what he's saying.
The athletic is reporting that Denver nuggets have offered Wing Peyton Watson a five year 70 million dollar deal. Milwaukee Atlanta the LA Clippers have been linked to a possible sign and trade for the restricted free agent Watson had a breakout season and averaging 15 points per game while starting to call a yokechas recovering from knee injury. The nuggets are already in the league's second salary apron and open move a contractor to along with Sunday Watson so they can get back under the apron moving on to local sports grandchildren Tigers boys golf team is looking to get back to the state tournament but this time with a new head coach to him to FOIA also serves the city of Grand Junction's director of golf has taken over the Tigers golf team after the retirement of Tom LaFabrae. Yes I expectations and they do have back to back runners up an individual state champion and hunter Simmons to FOIA says he's honored to get the chance to coach this young group of men without golf and without that my first foray into junior golf as a six seven year old I wouldn't be here.
I get a kick out of coaching and teaching to the privileged to coach and train these young men for not only their golf careers but whatever they do and that's what's happening. What's happening? All right we'll take a break we'll come back 7 17 and we'll talk about the Rockies at the Padres tonight. Quick little two-game set at Peko for the Rockies and Padres.
We'll dive into that next also latest on Rockies traders as well. It's a Jim Davis show on the team sports network. I like all their takes their legit solid takes most of the time. Western Colorado well date the show on the team sports network.
Welcome back 7 21 Jim Alon to Buckeye Boy from the Beaux Art Knuller Chevrolet Duke studios almost trust name in automobiles coming up at 840 this morning. We'll do uphol dancing our top five best odds to get into the baseball hall of fame in 2027 and after that. So we'll have it coming up by 740 this morning also at North football coach Curtis Hens will join us as well. All right so the Rockies after day after dropping two out of three to Milwaukee and after getting missed on Sunday by Jacob Mr.
Rosky to the tune of five innings of work and 12 strikeouts against the Rockies. They go to San Diego and the Padres right now they're 53 and 53. The Rockies have what matched last year's win total and so for the Padres as we've talked about they're coming off the series sweep of Miami and they're very much in the hunt for the wildcard right now. And so this is an important stretch coming up for the San Diego Padres.
They're supposed to get their new ownership group approved here very soon by Major League Baseball and you like to look at the wildcard right now. You have San Diego currently a game and a half back on the last wildcard Pittsburgh has the last wildcard at the moment. Actually they're tied with Diamondbacks for that last wildcard. National's were game back Cardinals were game and half back Padres were game and half back Marlins are two back right now of that last wildcard in the National League.
So it's a it's just two games but it's a pretty important two games for San Diego at this point in time. Yeah yeah it's a huge two games for the Padres because they could kind of tail spin if they don't win both of these games. I mean they could split and be fine I think but they lose both these games they could tail spin completely out of the wildcard discussion and then the oh we're gonna have new owners and we're gonna spend money and we're gonna build this team and wow look how great the start the Padres got off to that matters. I mean about the Padres though that they've never been shy about spending money right.
Oh they are they that checkbook never closes. Yeah that's something you can if you're a Padres fan you can never say well they don't spend money on it. They don't spend money on talent. Yeah that's not small R.
K. Mm-hmm. Now for the Rockies they're six and one against the Padres this season. Um Rocky's got swept by the Padres and that four games set the last time they played it up Petco in early April and those were some some wild games back in early April between the Rockies.
Yeah they were the Rockies and the Padres. Where I said that the four games set in San Diego and they lose one walk off and another in X-ray innings. Yes they did. Five remember correctly.
Lost seven to three five to two nine to five and then seven to two which right lost lost in walkoff fashion during that series and so it'll be Michael King the right against Michael Arinzen tonight for the Rockies King 3.24 ERA and 103 strikeouts 49 walks. So pretty good strike at the walk ratio though as I've been pitching all that great as of late. So Michael Arinzen we talked about him at Nauseum. He is really good.
It can be really good on the road. So that bodes well. He did pitch one sort of setting up relief against the Padres in early April. That was only outing the bullpen this year for Michael Arinzen who has the 6.53 ERA.
It has come down some hasn't it over a last couple of years over a hundred innings of work. And then tomorrow we think it's going to be Airman Marquez for the Padres against Gabriel Hughes. Another chance to get a good look at what should be a future rotation guy. The cornerstone in 2027.
So that's what it looks like as far as the Rockies and the Padres mentioned the Padres right now their record at 53 and 53 on the season. So the Rockies currently 42 and 65. So I'll have tonight's game from Petco Park per game at seven o'clock on the team sports network first pitch at 7.40. So as far as the trade rumors go for the Rockies that the Rockies are already since Seth Halverson to the Dodgers.
That's a one move they have made. But as far as Bob Nightengill you have the players we talked about of Kyle Freeland Antonio since it's all Michael Arinzen, Tomi Yuki-Sagano, Mickey Maniac, Jake McCarthin, Willie Castro. But nothing's really you know come up in terms of the last couple of days about any any real noise about those guys. I just keep you know a hundred Goodman has gone from seem like there's a possibility at one point early on to know we know how now.
Yeah I know Ken Rosenthal and others at the Athletic kind of report that the club does get calls on by Kyle Freeland and Michael Arinzen surprisingly. And of course, don't you think I know that one's not very surprising. They're all lame duck contracts. So they're going to be free agents at the end of the season.
The guys that we've talked about quite a bit since the tele-maccarthi-omodiac they're getting calls. He's also says that some controllable relievers are on the radars of other teams but didn't give any names out. I wonder I know they're all controllable to in a certain state because they're all young guys but I wonder who that would be on the release side outside of sends a tele like this was maybe before the Seth Halverson deal to because it's July 22nd to the pipeline here. So last Wednesday, you know, I just I don't know who that would be.
Honestly, the controllable free agents or controllable relievers rather because that's two things that aren't the same controllable free agents like Jimmy Hurdon. Would that be an oxymoron? Yes, it would be a controllable free agents. Not like me.
Just regular moron. Victor Von Nick maybe. I don't know what his control situation is. Maybe it's one Mahia because I don't know like some of the guys sure they control them but they're also over 30 some of these guys.
So that's not where my question is. It's only going to be like two or three guys you'd think. Yeah, so I don't know who that would be. Yeah, I'm not sure either who who they're referring to.
I just yeah and like I said with here's the thing there's years past when Bill Shrimon was there we wouldn't even this would just be a no we don't even have this segment because we just go they're not doing anything because they never doing anything they never traded anybody now with Paul de Pedest and Josh Burns you go yeah they already traded Seth Halverson there's good likely they're gonna make another move at some point and so it feels like yes that this is you know it's it's more likely that some guys are gonna get moved but yeah guys that are controllable in the bullpen so Brendan Bernardino maybe that's where there is gonna be in his second year of four for arbitration. He's not an unrestricted free agent till 2030 but he's 34 already. Victor Von Nick's got two arbitration years left. Jimmy Hergibic it's got one and then there's a bunch of other dude like Jaden Hill is pre-Arb.
Zach Agnes is still pre-arbitration so it might be him Tanner Gordon but he'll be 30 by the time he hits arbitration. Jordan Romano will be an unrestricted free agent so like there's not a lot of guys that are both at the major league level who have multiple years of control left. Some of the guys that have been up for a cup of coffee but it chaste no landers still pre-arbit he's not going anywhere. Tanner Gordon Gabriel he was like we mentioned.
Yeah Gabriel he was definitely not going anywhere. Gordon it's a possibility but I think possible but I think they like his flexibility. We've seen him as a starter. He was a bullpen guy.
He was once upon a time a top prospect in the Braves organization till the Rockies traded for him and so I think they feel they like his versatility and he's still young enough so I think that yeah I think Tanner Gordon can't say no but I think unlikely probably the case of Tanner Gordon. Yeah Mickey Moniac still has a year of arbitration life. That's interesting. That's really interesting.
I'm just reading a piece. Took a house. He's got two. Yeah I was reading a piece about McCarthy.
Oh it feels like if you're gonna deal somebody it's between Moniac and McCarthy it's probably Moniac because of McCarthy's speed ability to steal bases the speed defensively he's improved as a hitter. Yeah I get it. His value's never been higher than it is right now. Yeah but also you mentioned two years of control.
He's 28. It's not like he's 48 or 38. Might be a guy that you you prefer. He well Moniac brings power and that's great.
McCarthy brings a lot of other things to the table that Moniac doesn't. That's true. That extra year of control though is tantalizing to another team. That is when it comes to parting with minor league guys.
So that's where I think McCarthy's getting a lot of the attention is because he does have that extra year. Like Moniac has one year of arbitration. Yeah McCarthy's got two left before he gets unrestricted with you. I if I was on from last year on the keep Mickey Moniac bandwagon.
I'm not off of it. So here the Jake McCarthy sticking around bandwagon has pulled ahead a little. I agree. I think he brings more things to the table than Moniac does.
But like I said the extra year of you know on his contract that's tantalizing. Yeah I am very intrigued though of a 2027 outfield that has McCarthy and Sterling Thompson in the corners and Colcarrigan's centerfield. Yeah I'm extremely intrigued about that. Yeah really good.
Good outfield. Yeah. Because sorry Nolan Jones which we hardly ever talk about anymore don't we because is he still on the injured line? Did he retire?
I got look and see what happened. How what happened to Nolan Jones? He's with the White Sox. That's right.
They parted. I think they DFA'd him. Yeah. What do they DFM because he was on the injured list and then it was like we never talked about him anymore.
Yeah I know. Let's see transactions. Nolan Jones was treated by the Rockies to the Guardians for Tyler Freeman March of last year. Okay.
Well I'm thinking I'm sorry. Britain Doyle. Oh I'm sorry I'm not thinking I'm not getting my net. Britain Doyle.
Yeah he's still on the injured list. That's one because we've written Doyle sorry. Gold blobs centerfielder. Yes.
Sorry I got my guys mixed up there. That's a Britain Britain Doyle. Yeah he is still on the injured list. He was going to be the future.
That's right. Nolan Jones gone. I said got my outfielders mixed up there with those two guys. I completely forgot Tyler Freeman came over for Nolan Jones.
Yeah. What a steal. No kidding. But Britain Doyle where he was going to be the future and centerfield for this team.
Mm hmm. On a gold club. And now I I don't know if he has much of a future with the Rockies going forward. Great defense player.
Offences then insanely disappointing in the case of Britain Doyle. Well it's like finally remember which finally got on the right guy. Right. We can actually break it down a little bit more.
All right 735. Don't forget Rockies and Padres on the team tonight per game starts at seven o'clock with Jack Corgan and Zach Goodman from Petco Park. Remember last year's like Oh Tovar Doyle Jordan Beck. Jordan.
Jordan Beck. Those three guys are hitting 197 combined this year. And it shows how fast things can change right. You can go from being the future of the franchise.
Yeah. To being other guys step up other guys start playing well they're a little bit younger. They look like they've got better upside. Yeah.
Jordan Beck's perfectly healthy. He's just sucks. Just terrible. Just so he's just never play.
Yeah I just not getting blank because he's not very good right now. And but I said it shows how quickly guys can seize an opportunity and others don't don't deliver the way the way they have in the in the previous season. And I think it shows just the ability. The current front office has to kind of tab the right guy because how many times over the last five years has it been.
Hey that job's available for anybody if you just take advantage. If you just grab the bull by the horns, you know if you want to whatever cliche you want to use. But nobody could. It's why guys would keep getting chance after chance after chance after chance because there's no one else earning the shot.
This year. Oh you mean Jordan Beck's gonna scuffle out of the gate at 183. All right. Let's see what cool care can do.
I'm gonna come up and hit 287. Yeah. You know so you have they tab the right guy to take advantage of the situation so far. Now the team's not winning.
They're losing more games than they win. Sometimes they get kind of just dusted like they did against Jacob Mizarowski. But playoff teams have gotten dusted by the Miz this year. Yeah.
Absolutely. Yeah. It's not as bad as it used to be. They're competitive.
They're not embarrassing. You know, off from a week to week basis and they're fun. They're young. Yeah.
But they're fun to watch. Yeah. I just just yeah. There's there's a lot to be I think a lot to be excited about in regard to what what if you're watching the Rockies listen to the Rockies these days.
If you're within five after seven, it's a fun watch the last night now because give them more games and not. They grind and compete and they don't they don't give up. Yeah. Yeah.
As he is the classic word to describe the Rockies right now. All right. 737 and it is time for sound check. Ladies and gentlemen, can I please have your attention?
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And this story helps because it's one of those things that we occasionally run into that every person that does play by play runs into. But yes, I was chased into my Boston hotel by Red Sox fans coming out of a bar called the Beantown Pub. They were sure I was in the bag for the Yankees. I was yelled at outside Riggly Field as a cardinal lover.
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Back at ya. All right, 739. And then he had 29 teams with the I knew it when he's like, yes, my Cardinals. My Cardinals.
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So, they got to get the money from somewhere. Exactly. All right, uh, looks like the nuggets have made an offer to Peyton Watson. We'll talk about that coming up next on the Jim Davis Show on the team sports network.
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So, the nuggets match the offer for Spencer Jones. We'll talk more about that in just a moment. So, he's not going anywhere. But the big question has been Peyton Watson, because well, the nuggets missed out on LeBron going to Philadelphia, even though there was all the Bridge Paul putting on the whiteboard with Max Kellerman on their podcast and Denver was among the contenders to get LeBron James's relationship with Josh Cronkey, Nicole Yolkich and LeBron, their bros, and it didn't work out.
So, the nuggets have had a pretty quiet off season for the most part. There's been reports that they've received calls on Kim Johnson. Nothing's happened there. But a lot of the attention's been on.
Peyton Watson, who, when Nicole Yolkich was out with an injury, really kept the steam afloat. Average 15 points per game had some big, big performances during that stretch can defend, gives them athleticism, something that they really, really need on this roster right now. So, according to the athletic today, the nuggets have offered Watson, who was restricted for $8 million over five seasons. And the league sources who spoke to the athletic on the condition of anonymity because the deal is not final.
So, Milwaukee Bucks and Atlanta Hawks and LA Clippers are also interested in acquiring Watson. They wanted to do a Simon trade. So, let's start there. Is this a possible Simon trade?
I think that's likely, yeah. The nuggets have expressed a desire. They want to keep Watson. They really do.
It's exactly what you would say if you're trying to up the straight up. Because why would you, you're playing poker here? Yeah, we're wanting to do a Simon trade and moving on. Oh, no, we really want to keep him.
And really, they should want to keep him. Yeah, they should. They legitimately should want to keep him. And so, they value Watson.
The nuggets payrolls in the second apron because they decide to match, okay, sees offer for Spencer Jones. So, the athletic says that the nuggets are trying to move a contractor to to get back into the second apron, clear enough money to retain Watson, that going to league sources. So, they're saying Denver's intent is to keep him not to do a Simon trade. But it has that feeling a little bit, doesn't it?
It does. It just, it just feels like that the way this offseason has gone, that I will say, untenable, but the relationship is not great. It doesn't feel between the team and paid Watson. Yeah, it feels that way.
So, they might, and some of the slow walking, this might be, in part, fielding these calls as to, okay, you will, you'll give us X for Peyton Watson if we sign and trade him what works for you on the financials. And suppose I know it's one a lot for him. That's, that's kind of scared some people away because they've said we, we've got to get a lot of return for him. And so, at least at the moment, it sounds like Denver's made him an offer.
They really, they really can't afford to lose him though. I don't think unless, unless they're, I know what the Simon trades gonna look like and what kind of hall they're gonna get, but they need his athleticism. They need his emerging scoring ability. They need those things really, really badly.
Now we go back to Spencer Jones, who signed the, the deal the other day, two years, $12 million, and increased their luxury tax penalty by 32 million. That's why they're into the second apron. Was that the right move to do? The match OK sees offer for Spencer Jones.
Remember, he turned down $2 million a year and worked out for him. Yeah, worked out because he tripled his money or he tripled the offer at least. Yeah. So I mean, it's, it was smart on his, I mean, smart on him and his agents part to not take the nuggets initial offer because he's making six million a year now supposed to do million.
I just, I want to say yes, because I don't have any ill will towards the kid, but I don't feel like $6 million. I don't feel like he's forgot what's my name is what, it's a way player contributed that much to the team. They like me. It's only 25.
You know, they like his three point shooting, but then why not spend the money to keep tomorrow, wait, junior that if you want three points shooting and I get it Jones is only 25. He's a good defender, younger than Tim Hardaway, junior, but man, Tim Hardaway, junior was so good for the nuggets and felt like that was that was a really that was one of the better moves the Wallace and Tensor made. The two headed GM duo and then he went what he went to Miami, didn't he? Who's that?
I think so. Yeah, he went to Miami. Yeah, try to Lulu Braun there and it did. And so I think that I guess look at the look at Spencer Jones as 25.
Tim Hardaway obviously wrong side of 30 as good as Tim Hardaway is Jones gives them a better defensive player gives them a player that's kind of like they want to emerging as an offensive player in 9th 13 in the opening round against the Timberwolves from three point range. So there, well, I still would have rather they kept him hard away, junior. Just to be honest about that. I get I get it that they like the youth and the athleticism of Spencer Jones, which they once again, I don't want to be hypocritical here and say, well, they need to get more athletic, but then keep the older guy, but they need offense off the bench.
Tim Hardaway, junior gave them that offense off the bench, despite what his age on his driver's license says. I don't feel like it was a I don't feel like it was a necessity. I guess I understand some of the rationale why behind it doesn't mean I agree with it though. So yeah, and I just I don't there's only so many guys on this team from last year that are both responsible for the early exit and guys you can move on from.
Unfortunately, like Spencer Jones, Peyton Watson, those are some of those guys also responsible are, you know, all the players are responsible for with the exception of maybe Nicole Youngage. Maybe he bears the least responsibility because of how much you can carry this team on his own, but you can't or are not going to get rid of Aaron Gordon, Christian Brown, you know, Jamal Murray, you're really not as much as we float today. Maybe Jamal Murray's trip. It's not gonna happen.
It's not gonna happen. But guys like this are things that you can swap out relatively harmlessly. And I just don't know if Spencer Jones is the guy that you got to keep. So let's go to the other story that's out there about the Nuggets.
And that's six time All-Star, Marta Rosen, who was weighed by the Kings on July 6th. According to ESPN, the Miami Heat, the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Denver Nuggets, all teams that were interested in LeBron are all teams interested in tomorrow. Rosen who he's 36 coming up will be 37 next month. Guy could still score though.
18 points per game for Sisper game, almost three rebounds, 50% from the field, fairly durable, 77 to 82 games. He's he answers the belt. That's one of the things about tomorrow to Rosen, not a guy that misses time due to injury. He has suited up really 70% of the games.
He's played in these for the past five seasons. So that's great. That's a great number to get. The question becomes though he's going to be 37.
That trend doesn't normally continue with that age. But then again, his his genetics, his training, obviously things have worked there for tomorrow. And his game doesn't really wear out where is not a lot of minutes where it's around the body, but it's not physically like a he's not a huge time drive to the hoop, create contact. He's not one of those guys.
So I would love that it to either one of my teams that are in the hunt for tomorrow. I love that winner guys. I got a couple of rings. I can defend.
Yeah, I can defend. He's going to like he's going to grind. Hopefully he has other guys ring the bell to, you know, that maybe wouldn't go one night. But to Martin Rosen's there and look that dude's 38 years old.
Look at him still going. I guess I could play sort of thing. And so he's de Rosen's indicated that he'll sign for the Veterans and minimum to play for a contender. Will he view Denver as that place to be?
That they're still in the contender conversation. I think I think Denver still is because you've got to call a yokech and you got your mom, Marie. Yeah, I think those two you still have hope of coming out of the West. Well, it's it's a it's a gauntlet.
It's a murderous row. It's it's going to be extremely difficult for the nuggets to get to the finals once again. But I think tomorrow's not but you know, I don't what my situation is. Do they?
You know, the honest there? What's the what's the what's the veteran's minimum? He might feel like that's a great place to go. When another title.
Cleveland another great place to go. You want to hang with Donovan Mitchell and have a shot one in a title both places. All three places are places where he could go and and I think right now Miami and Cleveland because of the conference Denver place and the talent to a certain degree. Denver's the last of those three.
Yeah, I agree. It's my unfortunate. Yeah, it's Miami, Cleveland and Denver in that order right now. So the choices are Jim Hardaway Jr, Donovan Mitchell and Nicole Yolkich.
Who do I want to play? You'll get just going to share the rock. You're going to get off to score the basketball with that guy around Donovan Mitchell night in and night out could either be damn or damn dude. Oh, come on man.
And then we got the honest and the group in Miami now. Oh, you honest. That's right. Oh, I forget about you.
Yeah. So nevermind. He's probably going to go to Miami. All right.
Hour two coming up next on the Jim Davis show.