the clock. Bridget joining us. Chairman of the Black Night, I'm a boy from the Beaux Ark Miller, Chevrolet York studios, the most trusted name in automobiles. This last weekend we had federal spelltran, Andrew Jones and Jeff Kent all go into the baseball hall of fame and Cooperstown.
Who's next? You think goes into the baseball hall of fame next year or even the year after that because I don't know. Well, we have three guys going to Hall of Fame in twenty twenty seven. I don't know.
I don't know. I I have three locks between twenty eight and twenty nine. Yeah. Yeah.
There's guys down the road. Yeah. I think are going to be there, but for twenty twenty seven, it might just be one guy. Maybe I have him as lock ish right now.
Yeah. I think he's in, but I think we're talking about same guy. Who? From office guy now.
He's going to be in office guy. You know, you look at it. He retired early. He's had fifteen hundred hits and one hundred fifty eight home runs, but man, he was at his position.
Yeah. He's in his left hand ways. A hundred pounds now. That's a ball.
Because, yeah, all the hardware that he picked up during his time. So I've had that coming up at eight forty this morning also North Fork Football Coach Curtis Hents. All right. Let's take a trip around the NFL.
No flickers on the front goes in the league. He's around the NFL of a gym, David Show. All right. We'll start things out with the game today.
And one of the things that is an ongoing story line is John and Cooper situation that Cooper rested twice in Parker, Colorado over accusations of domestic violence against his girlfriend. So we had Cody Rourke, our Broncos on Saturday like sports don't forget Broncos training camp reports Monday and Wednesday a twenty and four twenty here on the team. Yeah. And if you miss the morning ones, go to the JDCO page at the team thirteen forty dot com and just listen to that show while you're at it.
So here at Cody Rourke is with us yesterday. Here's his thoughts on Jonathan Cooper. The Broncos right now they're cooperating with local authorities. They've done through their own and let's say things go to trial, say Cooper's found not guilty.
Well, then he's already served a suspension. If he found guilty, then to the Broncos release him a year from now. So his, he'll be arraigned August 31st, right before the Broncos open the season in Kansas City. And so there's a piece in the post today, John Keeler, one of our favorite scribes.
Question why? I can't hear, he talked with Wellesley Bush. And Wellesley Bush has been a Broncos season ticket holder since 1996. She's also a partner in community outreach manager at Denver's Rose Andam Center.
It's one of the largest domestic violence and sexual assault support hubs in the Mountain Time Zone. And Keeler asked your Broncos fan, your season ticket holder, the Jonathan Cooper situation, is your Broncos fan of his that complicate things? And her response was, I don't see it as all that complicated. You can't do that to another human being.
It's not OK whether it's about money or how good someone is as a player. It's not OK. You don't make an excuse for that. Women's Foundation of Colorado President and CEO Renee for a female statement to Keeler.
And what she said, the Women's Foundation of Colorado believes organizations with the visibility that Denver Broncos must send a clear message that survivors safety and the accountability of the priority, not just the roster. While we won't weigh in on any one player's career, when Chris the Brockers be transparent about how they're approaching this and actively support survivors in our community. We like to use the innocent until proven guilty, right? We like to use that a lot.
We like to say. And we like to feel that that normally applies. But there's enough troubling evidence in this situation. Jonathan Cooper, the marks on her neck that the officer saw when they arrived there, that at this point in time being suspended probably, I think both the ladies that have responded to the immaculate article would probably be great.
Suspension makes a lot of sense. We're OK with him being suspended and let the legal system play itself out. And it's going to certainly make a decision on this. At some point soon, I would like to think.
I can't disagree with what they're saying. I really can't. That he physically allegedly assaulted her. The evidence against him doesn't look good.
Then after he did that, he sold. There wasn't a restraining order, but it was a, hey, it lets you two probably shouldn't be talking to each other. He probably should not give each other some space. And what's happened here?
What does he do? He goes to her apartment. He calls her in Texas, incessantly. After he's told me to probably stay away from her for a while.
Until this gets sorted out. And I know that this is just me and it's unfair. But also, this is how the human mind works, I think. If it's, I didn't do any of this stuff and the evidence will support me.
I don't need any contact with her. Yeah, that will speak for itself. But that was, it would seem like it was what I read, the situation where some of the texts and the phone calls, he was trying to get her to. We can't.
To drop the whole thing. Yeah. And so if, yeah, if you're innocent, you're not asking somebody to recant their story. You're not calling them texting them, you know, hey, can you just, you know, recant on this?
Right. So I don't get arrested. Don't go to jail for this. Run my career.
Then that's, you know, second, the felony second degree of self-exregulation charge came after a forensic examination by a nurse at the Ant Shoots Medical Center. So it wasn't just law enforcement, notice marks on her neck and went, that doesn't look good. She was medically evaluated. People trained to recognize this.
The nurse concluded that Cooper's girlfriend endured strangulation with hypoxie and traumatic brain injuries with substantial risk of death. Means he didn't just show he choked her out. Yes, he did. That's a little more than a misunderstanding.
Yeah. Once again, the Jonathan Cooper story, his stock in the draft dropped because of the heart condition, he's been a great player on the field for the Broncos. That doesn't matter in this case. This could be Terrell Davis could be John L.
It could be, I don't care who it is. All time, great Broncos, if you did this, you shouldn't be playing. You shouldn't be. And I'm just curious to see how the Walton Pinner group is going to approach this going forward.
How Sean Payton, how they're going to approach this. Is he going to be on the field tomorrow? I'm going to bet she's not on the field tomorrow. I'm willing to bet.
I'm willing to bet that he is not probably going to be participating on the first day of training camp because Greg Pinner, his wife, I mean, his wife, she carries a lot of weight in this organization, doesn't she? Yes, she does. Kerry Pinner Walton carries a lot of cloud. You think she's just going to go, well, female broke up.
That's a little interesting. Be a place. Don't understand. No, she's not going to say that.
And I doubt she said that. I think they probably taken a very measured approach to this. They've looked at it very carefully. I think it's good to not make a rush to judgment.
But in the end, I don't know how at this point in time until he's exonerated, which doesn't look good for that to happen. With this information, I don't have to have him on the field. I just don't. I just don't know how you can do that.
And find a way to justify that. Well, you know, he's had 18 and 1-2 sacks the last two years. Yeah, that's true. They also have plenty of guys that could play.
They don't need Jonathan Cooper. They don't need a guy who did what he did allegedly. Now, something clears his name. Somehow this is wrong, which I'm not sure how the injuries are, what they are.
She didn't choke herself out. Somebody did that to her. That somebody appears to be Jonathan Cooper. Sadly enough, I don't see a way they can have him playing.
I just don't. You can't. You just can't have him out there in practice. You can't have him around the facility this point in time.
With the way this is developed, initially, you're like, OK, maybe we can weather the PR store. The way this has developed, this, for the Broncos, for all intents and purposes, should be another team's problem. You want to take him right out? Yeah.
And we've done so much on field and off field, repair to the image around the league, around the country, really, not that you were like the Raiders or the Trailblazers or any of these teams. Right. But I've been a franchise, but what's pro? So much good, right?
Yeah, exactly. Now you're doing all the right things. I'm at building a new stadium with the FC Championship game. And I'm sorry, Jonathan Cooper's not worth betting the goodwill on.
No, he's not. I'll know if any player is. I know Jonathan Cooper is not. Yeah.
And I don't know if anybody is. I don't think so. No other organizations that have, you know, yours. Oh, yeah.
Oh, trust me. I know. This is a caution. This is a, you know, there's been plenty of guys over the years that have done stuff like this and teams have their back.
Remember the Michael Vick when he went to Philadelphia? Yeah. And the animal rights folks at the protest and Michael Vick, they were OK. They were able to live with that.
Philadelphia is able to live with that. I don't know if the Broncos should live with this. I don't think so. I don't even know why you would try, to be honest.
But I agree with her that there needs to be transparency. There needs to be what are the plans? What are we going to do here? At some point, they don't have to announce it today.
But you know, if he's a practice, if he's a training camp, he's there, even if he's not working out, if he's just there, stand on the sidelines. There's going to be a lot of questions about why is he around? Why is he around this team right now? And you're going to get that, well, we don't want to isolate him.
And guys do really stupid stuff when you shut them out from the organization. And that's Jonathan Cooper created this mess. So Jonathan Cooper's going to have to live with that. Yeah.
So we'll see what happens tomorrow when training camp officially gets underway. Is he out there? And what kind of problems do that create from a PR standpoint from Broncos going forward? So the post also has with Parker Gabriel, the five Broncos breakout candidates for this year.
Give me a couple. You don't have to name all five. Give me a couple. Guys, I think they're going to break out this year.
Let's see. Am I guessing the list or am I going for myself? Go for yourself. Just so we can see if they make the list or not for you.
I'm going to say, J.D. Baron defensively. OK, that's on there. And R.J.
Harvey offensively. He did not make the list. So it's a guy that could very well be the new Jonathan Cooper. Q Robinson.
Yeah. Another guy that could be the next Jonathan Cooper. Joan Ellis. We're talking on field production, by the way.
Yeah, just a little clearer. Yeah, yeah. Talking about what the executive thank you, what they're doing on the field. I got to not off the field shenanigans.
OK, Pat Bryant. Hmm. OK. I'm drinking.
So Q Robinson, Pat Bryant, Jonah Ellis, Jadi Baron, Malcolm Roach, lot of defensive guys. Yeah, there's spots there. There's definitely room to play on the defensive side. And on that defensive line with John Franklin Myers gone.
That's a chance for Malcolm Roach to really a big blossom on that defensive front. They like Tyler O' Yedam Alotharukki, Savey on Jones. I mean, they've got some veteran guy and he's in the seventh year now, Malcolm Roach. But they've got no expects into the exact Allen.
But Roach can maybe be. If he's an half-sac Allen. John Franklin Myers lied a few potentially going forward. We talked about it with the Rockies last hour.
For years, the Rockies were, hey, anybody can play here as long as you just take advantage of your opportunities. And no one did until this year, really. Last year with the Broncos, that's not really the case. There's opportunities to take advantage of.
And most of the guys defensively did. Yeah. That's why they were so good. Like, we were talking about they were deep at all three levels.
They have lost players at least the first two levels for various different reasons, free agency and the law. And we don't right now position their defenses being worse than last year. I don't anyway. No.
They're still going to be an elite defense. But they're still going to be opportunities to take advantage of for guys like Roach and Jonah Ellis, specifically Jada. Absolutely. So, you know, like, and again, it kind of ties just slightly into the conversation about the goodwill that the team has garnered.
Like, they've done a tremendous job of building this team through guys you have to Google. Not everybody can do that. Sometimes they need stars to play their roles. And give and give the law from a paid and paid and credit for that.
They've done a great job. After George Payton got off to, well, if we honest to Rocky start, that they've been able to identify guys in the draft, lower-round picks that have definitely been pluses for them. And they brought him for it. Like Zach Allen.
Okay, let's look at Zach Allen. No, he thought Zach Allen would be Zach Allen. No. He was in Arizona.
He was around J.J. Watts. His name can be. If we said those exact things.
Yeah. And he's not going to be OK. He's just going to be OK. He'll be just a guy.
No, he's not. He's the man. Yeah. He's an all pro-caliber defensive tackle now.
He's one of the best in the lead. Just ask JFM's kids and their college of choices now. Yeah. Because where was two years ago?
Because that guy is the reason why he got the big deal to go to Tennessee. Yeah. You know, so they've done a great job. I'd like to acknowledge that too.
Yes. And for George Payton, like, the first or second line of his obituary for two years was going to be, wow, did he screw up the Russell Wilson deal. Now it's going to be on there. It's going to be well down the list, I think.
It was like by the time his tenure is done. It was like that was a good idea, but they should have excited the extension. They should have been swinging Russell Wilson and it didn't work out. Yeah.
And they completely changed. Yeah. And they lived in salary cap for a while because of it. And then it all turned out great.
Because we got to be a championship game. Hopefully a Super Bowl and the rest is history. But I mean, you look at the new draft, Nick Benito. What a get.
I mean, what a steal, man. I went in the first watch Nick Benito, you're going kind of skinny. I will skinny guy for an edge rusher. But he is blossomed and will have very best in the league.
Going out and getting a Zach Allen, making the moves that they've made. And then whatever they've done with the Joseph to. And yeah, exactly the complete and total resurrection, the change in how people view Vance Joseph now. It's not in date.
It's like he's not the same human being. Yeah. Completely different. Yeah.
Couple of things to get to. We talked about this last hour and just touch on it very briefly about Ben Steele, former Palisade Mavericks Friday and Fire By The Washington Commanders Monday for violating team policy. Sadly, Ben was arrested back in June for driving well intoxicated. And so he violated team policy with that.
He'll go to Loudon District Court, August 13th in Virginia. So once again, I we don't want to be accused of, oh, you guys didn't talk about this because he's your friend and you guys know him. We are talking about this because it's a story that is relevant to our area. Yeah.
Sadly, in this case, involving somebody that we know quite well, and it's heartbreaking to hear this for him and his family. And I hope things turn out well for him. I really, really do because he's a really good guy. He's a good human being.
Steel's are good people. And just man, I hate hearing this. Also, Todd Colorado, interestingly enough, same area. I mean, that was a little eerie.
Yeah, a little bit. That there's been a deal story coming from kind of the Ashburn, Virginia area, Loudon County. In this case, the wife of former University of Colorado Football Star, current Kansas City Chiefs, offensive coordinator Eric Bieni, was shot by the couple of sons this past Sunday at their home in Ashburn, Virginia. Fortunately, Mia Bieni, she was shot multiple times, taken to nearby hospital.
She's in stable condition. That's really good. Wonderful, wonderful news from that standpoint. Eric Bieni was in St.
Joseph's Missouri for the start of the Chiefs training camp. So he was not there. They're 27-year-old son Elijah Zion Bieni was taken to the custody in charge of malicious wounding, used of a firearm in the commission of a felony, and discharged of a firearm inside a dwelling. And he's being held with Albon.
But thank goodness that Mia Bieni is going to be up there, hopefully, recover. One of the things too, as the veterans report today for training camp at Brockham's Park, Denver Post reports that guard been in power has taken a pay cut. The Post's powers will take a cut in his base salary of $12 and a half million for the season. Denver's going to add to his 2026 signing bonus of $5.4 million.
And we signed the $4 year $52 million contract in 2023. And as the team's second highest cap at 18.2 million, he suffered the biceps tear. Alex Palszewski stepped in and was great in subbing for him at the guard spot. And powers was out until week 16.
Post reports of powers to save the list of rank injury in his foot in that game against Jacksonville. He kept playing on it. Same injury, same type of injury that sideline brought us running back J.K. Dobbins for the majority of the season.
Let's see how it's different. So Dobbins has to cut and plant. Yeah, powers does not have to do that to the same degree. You've got to play.
You've got to play. You've got a lot of cutting, but he's definitely uses his base quite a bit. But it is different. But you don't have to have the push and the acceleration.
You have to run the quick movement like you do as a running back. Still hurts like a mother father, though. Oh, yeah. Give him a ton of credit for playing through it.
I mean, that's impressive. And so anyway, he is taking a pay cut because there's some talk that maybe a cap, a camp casually because of the salary situation. All right, 824. We've got Curtis Hins coming up in just a moment, talking a little north fork football.
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It's the Jim Davis show on the team. The North War football with head coach Curtis Hitts on the Jim Davis show. And Curtis Hitts brought to you by the Rick Nelson agency American Family Insurance, a new roof means a new rate for a home auto life or business quote called 970-241-0078. Curtis Hitts joins us.
Good morning, Curtis. How's your summer been? It's been great. You know, you're blank and it's going to be August.
And we get another great opportunity to start on August 3rd and kick off the 2026 season. Yeah, it's moving very, very quickly. Coming up very, very fast. Last year, 6 and 4.
He went to 3 and 1 in the 1A Western Slope League. You had that Plath lost Decentari 35 to 21. And now you've got to replace some really good players on your football team from that group from last year. Kind of take us through some of the camps you've been to.
I'm sure the Western Camp has been one of those traditionally go-to. What's that look like during the off season for you, Curtis? Yeah, for sure. Through the month of June, we do a couple on the field drills.
And of course, morning waits with the kids. And in the small school, we encourage kids. In June, go to the basketball camps, go to the wrestling camps. And then we take that bed weekend July, during July 4.
And then we come back and we do mini-camp. Went to Western State Camp Coach Baines and his staff. They always do a fantastic job running. What I feel is the best camp in the state.
And we were able to go over there, compete. And then come back to our youth camp, our golf tournament. Then we got a week off and get ready to kick the season off on August 3. But it's been a good summer, kids have worked hard.
And we're excited to get going here in less than a week. North Fork Miners from all coach Curtis Enz, whether it's kind of, if you can, take us through the Western Camp, some of the teams you played, and what you saw from your guys in that camp. A great chance to get some off season working. Yeah, for sure.
Ironically, Cedar Edge, Western Slope opponent was there, Coach Noahall, and had his kids rolling. Oh, wait, that Coach Benson was over there. And then what was nice is, is we got to scrim it against Yuma and also Burlington. And then, of course, some other two-way schools, as well, Gunna Sands and Cole Ridge.
We're over there, along with some of the other two-way schools. But it was a good camp for us. We were missing a couple of pieces just through the course of the summer. Some kids have some other commitments.
And excited to get everybody back and get everybody going August 3. But we had a lot of kids step up, up front. Hold their scriber, Walker Auduburne, and Paton Miller really stepped up for us. Raiden Laminger will be a key component as well.
And then, kind of taking over the helm there. We, of course, are returning Alex Ciri-Battonio. He'll be a key contributor. Tate Carver, Bronson Hall.
David Abduw will get back from an ACL last year. And then another kid that we're excited about is Gunner Lee. He anchored our state championship 4x1, 4x2, 4x4 teams. And he due to an injury, he didn't play last year.
And getting that kid back is going to be a real positive addition to those other kids that we had mentioned. And you mentioned Batao, who, last year, in the Joel Hollenbeak, the legend team in rushing, 10 touch down, 6 or 95 yards. But Batao's 641, 6 touch down. So a valuable piece in that backfield.
We'll talk about the quarterback spot in a moment. But certainly Batao's return for a senior season. Guy did give somebody this step into Joel Hollenbeak's shoes. 100% now, which is a good and hardworking kid.
He also ran on those state title relay teams for us. And unfortunately, he got a little elbow injury at camp. And that's always the tough part. If you do sustain an injury, going to camp in July is just allowing that recovery time.
But we'll have a little bit more info on him, whether it's a three to four week recovery or if it's a four to six week recovery for him. But he's had a really good camp. And we'll really lean on him as we go through a force the summer. But me, Jim, it all starts up front.
And I'm excited to have three, really four really quality seniors coming back and playing up front in Colter's scriber, Walker Auduburn, Braden Laminer, and then Paton Miller. Last year, he started at just outside linebacker. And this year, he'll start at the tight end for me as well. And the art style of offense, that tight end spot, is a really crucial blocking component.
And then also, on the opposite side, their junior making Smith had a really good camp. And then looking to solidify that other offensive line spot with a couple guys. We've got a couple seniors back out in the junior able letter that we're excited to work with and figure out how we're going to get all those kids to jail and come together as a team and as a unit. So what's on that brain floor?
It's for a moment. You graduated from a years of quarterback last year, quarter and six yards to the air, five touchdowns, four picks. Also, you're third leading rusher with 638 yards, 10 touchdowns. Me average almost seven yards per carry.
A lot of production from brain floor is last year. What does that look like in the quarterback spot? It begins up front with the hogs, the big guys in the front. But brain was quite the playmaker for you.
He was just a good kid, too. Had a really successful senior campaign across three sports there for us. And I always talk a little bit about mentoring and molding some of those guys. And the next kid to step up for us is going to be Pete Carver, another three sport kid for us.
Pete battled some injuries for us. Last year, he was our starting safety at the beginning of the year. And then he started out wide receiver. And through the course of the year, unfortunately, he battled through and tried staying healthy for us.
And playing as many snaps as he could for us. And really Britain his teeth. But through that experience of playing a lot of R.C. rep last year, it prepared him to take over the helm there at quarterback.
And it's one of those things that it's fun to see kids develop. And I mean, Kate's just a hardworking kid. He's got the right mindset. He's a student of the game.
Always got the positive attitude. And he's a competitor as well. And just even like this morning working with him in the weight room, just watching him grab some of the younger kids and work with them in the weight room. He's kind of just one of those natural leaders.
And I mean, the kid, I mean, going from 6 foot 3, you know, takes a little bit shorter in stature than Brayton. But he also brings a little bit different skill set than Brayton did. And we're going to try putting him in positions to utilize that skill set. And he did.
He had a really good camp. And through those reps, we always count kind of between offense and defense when you're over there at the Western State Camp. You get between 400 and 500 snaps. And those are all real valuable reps.
And looking to build off of that and excited for Pete to see what he does here in his junior campaign. North Fork Football Coach Curtis ends with us today on the team sports network flip it over to the defense last four of your top six tacklers led by Joe Holland, beak's 80 tackles last year. But the good news is you got a couple of guys back. One of them that you mentioned, Payson Miller, was your third-looking tackler last year.
And you also return to Guy for his junior season and take Vister that was one of your top tacklers last year as well. So you get to at least some guys back from last year that were a big part of their success on the defensive side. For sure, you know, and you already mentioned Alex, you know, Alex is a big key on defense as well. The other kid is David Abdul, he does unfortunately, he towards ACL against human week two last year.
And that kid is just, he's worked his tail off to rehab and get back. And he's going to be a key contributor for us on both offense and the defensive side of the ball. Ronson Hall really stepped up at linebacker for us, Peyton Miller, Tate Carver, and then those guys up front had good camps. But we're also excited about a couple of our younger guys, Bentley Farmer and just I, Hunter, they both stepped up and played defensive back for us at camp and did a really good job solidifying a couple of those spots.
And, you know, Coach G's done a good job of adapting the defensive, our skill set of our kids. And, you know, of course, as we go through the course of fall camp and get ready to scrimmage Delta on August 15 and start prepping for that aspen game, you know, we're going to try putting kids in position to be successful. And hopefully, you know, we have some more kids step up for us like we've had in the past. But like I said, Pathen, Tate, Alex, David, and then of course those guys up front had good camps.
And, you know, we know that we're going to look a little bit different than we have in the past few years. But excited for those kids and excited for the opportunity for them to step up and, you know, get it going here and getting ready for that week one game. From that opener, August 28th against Aspen coming up for the North Fork Minders, Curtis, and so on, and I just want to wrap it up, Curtis, with just a look at the league this year. The one A, the one A league A that you're playing in, you know, obviously the familiar opponents, the rivals, Cedar Edge, Olatheon there as well, and, and Meek or others.
But you mentioned you had to see Cedar Edge in Olathe at the Western camp, give me your takeaway, which is often those two. All both coaches, you know, they have their kids going in. And I think Olathe is going to be much improved from last year's Cedar Edge. I feel kind of in the same spot that they're returning a handful of key contributors, but you know, they graduated from tough kids, but I mean coach Milhong and his staff do a good job of, you know, replenishing and rebuilding and, you know, not necessarily rebuilding, just reloading.
But then of course, you know, the team that everybody's kind of got in for is Meek or in coach Coriel. I mean, they're returning a lot coming back. And our league will look a little bit different with Moffat County coming back down into, coming down into the league and, you know, we're, we're fingers crossed and hoping that everybody plays through the course of the league. You know, we've got Roan Fork back in the league as well as Grand Valley and, you know, we always talk about it kind of the new classification structure, the new league structures they did somewhat break up that Eastern playing league.
And of course, you know, those, those teams are always super tough and, you know, but I think Western Slope, we've got some of the tougher teams as well. And, you know, if you're fortunate enough to fall into the top 16 of the seating index, I think you're going to be back, whoever is that is coming out of the Western Slope. It's going to be battle tested and ready for, for a round one playoff game. But, you know, we're excited, excited for, for the season and excited to get going officially on August 3 even though, you know, we've been putting in a little bit of work this summer and just ready to get rolling, Jim.
All right. Well, Curtis, look forward to our weekly chats throughout the course of the season. Of course, once again, North Fork kicks it off against Aspen coming up on August 28th. Curtis, I appreciate the time as always.
Thank you so much. You too, see you. Take care. Curtis, hence go to the North Fork Miners football team.
And, uh, Brandon Millhall and we like to include the outline areas as well that maybe not typically part of our play-by-play coverage and always enjoy talking with Brandon Millhall and about to his Cedar Ridge-Bruins football team. So we'll get that scheduled coming up tomorrow. Lindsey Schop, new for the one of the girls basketball coach, is going to join us to talk about what she's seen from her players in camp this summer and over to Mesa camp and also in Open Gems as well. That's coming up on tomorrow's program plus Cody Rourke on the first full day of Broncos training camp with our training camp for tomorrow at 8.20.
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She's another winner on the team sports network. Kellen, first in the door, identifying Kirby Puckett's Hall of Fame speech. Oh, yeah. Great speech.
Sadly, a few years earlier than we all expected. Yeah. Because of the, uh, I can show you. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah, the numbers he could have, you know, conceded to put up. He would have had the eye problem. Would have been him, you know, was amazing.
Of course, it's great that the most valuable player of the the junior college World Series, once the Kirby Puckett, most valuable player award. Yeah. So I think it's the father of the only person who's been on the show who's dad's in the Hall of Fame. Yeah.
I think that's correct. And Kirby Junist, sir. And Kirby Junist, exactly. Alright, 8.43, Jim, along with the Buckeye boy.
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Yeah. So doesn't necessarily mean I minor kind of starting out with down the road to who I think has the best shot. 2027. I went to the 2028.
Top five with the who I think is the most lock. That's how I have it, dude. Who's more likely to go in first? Right?
Yeah, I'm with you. Okay. So getting music, you... I'm looking for it.
I had it in the system at one point, but I'm working on it. You actually put the major league thing in one. It was in the system once, but I was. It was.
So now it's not. Well, great. Which is awesome. Well, I've had a lot of my stuff to lead it here for the last little bit.
I'll see if I can make some. Okay. Well, let's just roll it here. Sure.
Okay. Number five for me. I've got King Felix. Really?
Oh, and it got added. I had the page book, Mark II, which is helpful. What's up? Down the road here.
He's not going to go ahead and see it. I'm starting with the guys that are down the road, but are going to be next maybe 2029, maybe 2030 with the high with my number one guy being the most likely to go in first. Okay? Does that make sense?
Yes. Okay. So I got Felix Hernandez, Seattle Mariners pitcher. He's had the largest year over year gain since modern building again in 1967.
So he's gaining traction. And now it's going to be a test though of because he's very much an analytics kind of candidate, right? Yes. And what will traditional voters will they view him in the same lens as they they view pictures in the past?
But I've got Felix Hernandez probably 2030. It's going to be down the road, but he's my number five guy right now. I'm most likely to go into. Good for Sam.
My number five guy isn't eligible until 2029, but oh my guys are eligible guys. I'm not eligible now. Oh, that's all I get it. Oh, okay.
I'm going in. When you say I figured going into the future, I figured going into the future to be eligible. Okay. You can do yours.
I'm here. Mine are all currently eligible. Nobody right now that's not eligible for a moment. Well, well, well, well, there's a bunch of other things I'd have.
Yeah. I my five guys, not one of them are eligible for 2026. Okay. Well, we'll take two different approaches.
Your guys are all. Yeah. I probably didn't explain the assignment. Who's next to us when I'm talking about it.
But yours are okay. Let's do it the way we're doing it. Yeah. It's two different perspectives on it's interesting.
My number five guy is lock-ish and that's Madison Wagner. Three-time World Series champion. Never won a regular season award. That's crazy.
That's crazy. He never won a regular season. But he's a two-time silver slugger, I guess. If you would know that.
But he has a World Series MVP and an NLC. S MVP. He's got like I said, three rings and probably the most dude performance in a World Series when he came in in game seven and pitched what five and a third against the Royals. Two blocks that one up with some pung fu panda at the end.
That was great. Mad bums win number five guy. My number four guys, Bobby Brayou. the game.
Very underrated out fielder got got a double digit bump in support last year. Wasn't enough to put him in there, but you've got you've got names that are out there to watch right now like well, Cole handles. Yeah, we're filling kind of trending in that direction. Solid offensive guy year in and year out.
I have him as my number four of eligible players right now for the baseball hall of fame. I'm going to go and play the game. I'm going to play the game. I'm going to compose.
He also won three World Series. It was the guy to meet mad when he finished off that fantastic World Series performance. Rookie of the year in 2010 MVP in 2012. Now the accumulated numbers are not where you would think, but he hit 302 as a catcher and he's got three World Series rings.
But suppose he's going in in 12 months. He's my number four. He's on this list. I'm just not doing.
I'm not going to say what he's going to do. He's not doing. I'm not doing that. Well, Andy Pettit.
Andy Pettit Yankees Astros Yankees again, the Yankees three time all star five time World Series champion Al C. S N. V. P.
Al wins later in 96. They were tired his number, the monument park. And Andy Pettit after his numbers took a dip in 2024, in terms of voting came back up and he was right there at 50% overall. Well, the voters because he still has the specter of the steroid scandal around him.
But it seems like it's affected him only guy to be like, yeah, I did it and I shouldn't have. Yeah. You spin fairly forthcoming about it. So I got Andy Pettit as my number three guy.
Oh, that's interesting. It's interesting. Choice. I'm my number three guy, 10 time All-Star, nine time Gold Glove, fourth all time in games played as a catcher.
Yadi Molina in 2028 is an absolute lock. He is going into the hall of fame. That's going to be quite class two in 2028. Oh, yeah.
My number one guy is also going in 2028. Yadi Molina is number three. Okay, you say Pettit interesting choice. In what way do you mean interesting choice?
Bad choice or they're interesting. Yeah, it's a good discussion. Okay. All right.
So my number two guy, Chase up, like six time All-Star World Series champion, four time silver slugger winner, John fillies wall of fame. Chase it might be Chase out late and the other guy that I'm going to talk about was my number one guy might be going in in 2027 might might be in 2027. He's been above 50% of the voting in the last two years. You're gonna take obviously big jump, but Chase out late if it's not 2027, maybe 2028 or the former Philly.
My number two guy and this is surprisingly number two, but I think the number one guy is even more lock is back to back MVP went one World Series is a rookie and then never won a World Series again after that. But back to back MVP and which all he did was go triple crown one year then lead all three slash categories the next year. That's all that's all he did. Miguel Cabrera is my number two guy.
He's not eligible for three more years, but he's getting in and some of those other guys for sure. Yeah. They need they need some year after year help. I'm my number one guy.
We both agree. It's gonna be Buster Posey's gonna go in. Yeah. Seven time star three time World Series champion and LNVP and L rookie of the year.
Five time Silver Slugger winner on the Hank Aaron award come back later the award batting champion in 2012. It's gonna be Buster Posey and it might just be Buster Posey. Maybe Chase out late. Just maybe.
All right. Our three coming up.