We are about to break the surly ponds of gravity and punch the face of God.

Left Jab Productions present Edge of Sports Radio, where sports and politics collage.

And now your host, Dave Zaire.

The Schmada Kid. Boom! Edge of Sports Radio, where sports and politics collide. I'm Dave Ziron. Joined, as always, by a man who's had quite a week being a Bostonian, no Olympics, no Tom Brady, Dan Baker, D.B. I want to congratulate you on one of those. Try to guess which one.

I'm going to go, Brady. It's my gut feeling. My gut feelings. I'm congratulating you on losing time, Brady. No, congratulations on not hosting the Olympics. Your city will be happier and less expensive for it. As always, joined by the coach. Kevin McNutt, how are you doing, coach? Hey, welcome back. This is one of the two weeks you work a year, right?

No, that is true.

It's been quite a summer because i haven't had to see you and me and mark barry

how are you sir i am great it's major league baseball trade deadline wow i know no one can you didn't know

what is that what's what is he talking about it's the one that's going on right mark is our first

time listeners our resident baseball fan and the rest of us have kind of soured on the sports. So he'll talk about baseball. We'll take little catnaps. But I love to play baseball. I love to play baseball. I was a captain of my high school baseball team. Not like that stick ball back in his day. Not stick ball back in my name. I mean, I was captain because I was the only. Yeah, I know. Person, I was going to say person. Only person on the team? Only person. Actually, though, but we did only have nine players. And one day a player was injured and we had to go to a nearby high school and get a former person who went to the high school. Hey, we got a heck of a show this week. We're going to be talking, obviously,

Tom Brady, Tom Brady, Tom Brady, but we all started talking, and coach, you're going to love this. We're talking to Bijan Bain, who just wrote a book called Elgin Baylor, a basketball life about the history of Elgin Baylor, Washington, D.C. Love that story. He's done a deep dive into the life of Elgin Baylor, which is exciting to me.

Elgin Baylor, unquestionably,

best basketball player ever produced by the... DC. That's right. Love that sort. He's done a deep dive into the life of Elgin Baylor, which is exciting to me.

Elgin Baylor, unquestionably, best basketball player ever produced by the DC area.

Oh. That's like it's the discussion is who's second, right? Okay. Okay. You can start there. We'll start there. And before we go to break, though, I just want to say hi to some folks who are in the studio with us.

Lauren Allen, you could yell hello if you like. go to break though i just want to say hi to some folks who are in the studio with us uh Lauren

Allen you could yell hello if you like Aaron Allen whoa got some pipes uh Nick Walmeyer

hello oh oh my goodness Mary Francis Walmart hello that was was great Mary Frances, big sister

I could tell it like the one in charge

I have one of those in my house

And of course

Moms so important

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