Episode 104: MLB Trade Deadline Recap, NFL Holdouts, Raja Bell Twitter Q&A
Kanell & Bell
CBS Sports
4.8 • 734 Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2018
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Raja Bell hosts Episode 104 of Off the Bench and welcomes in Jonah Keri to discuss the MLB Trade Deadline's deals and non-deals and the impact on playoff races in both leagues. Raja then reacts to Khalil Mack and Earl Thomas' holdouts, the NBA's partnership with MGM and LeBron not closing the door on another Cavs return. Next, we find out whether he likes, loves or hates a variety of topics including Mike Tomlin's message to Le'Veon Bell and the Rockets running it back next season. Raja answers Benchwarmers in our Twitter Q&A, Hana tells us what's Socially Relevant, and finally, Topics! Hosted by: Raja Bell Co-hosted by: @HanaOstapchuk Guest: @jonahkeri Produced by: @E_DeBerardinis
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Off the Venge with Danny Cannell. |
| 0:02.8 | Danny Cinell. |
| 0:04.5 | And Raja Bell. |
| 0:08.8 | Bill has a big ring of 22 to Roger. |
| 0:13.0 | It's all the future of football right before you're on. |
| 0:16.1 | Just yell it out, man. |
| 0:16.9 | He can't go on me. |
| 0:18.4 | Welcome to another episode of Off the Bench with Cannell and Bell, minus Cannell. |
| 0:22.8 | It's just me. |
| 0:23.4 | I'll be rolling solo for the next three days. |
| 0:25.9 | Football's back tomorrow with the Hall of Fame game. |
| 0:27.9 | Pretty big tournament in golf with the WGC Bridgestone event and its last go around at Firestone. |
| 0:32.6 | We'll have you covered on all of that. |
| 0:34.0 | We'll recap the Major League Baseball trade deadline in a second. But first, |
| 0:38.5 | there are no pricks and props today, Debo, but we have to just recap yesterday real quick. |
| 0:43.5 | Myself and our guest host, Jamie Eisenberg, both picked the Nationals minus one and a half, |
| 0:48.1 | I think it was. Debo faded us, like he likes to do. He picked the Mets, and the Nationals |
| 0:53.6 | handed the M's their worst loss |
| 0:55.4 | in franchise history it was 25 to 4 bro was the final score i don't even really know what to say about |
| 1:01.7 | that uh but i think we have somebody on today who may and our first guest is jonah carey |
| 1:06.8 | uh let's welcome in jonah he's the cbs sports senior major league baseball writer's also a host of the Jonah Carey podcast. New episodes are out every Wednesday. You can follow him on Twitter at Jonah Carey. Welcome, Jonah. Thanks for coming on, man. |
| 1:22.0 | Yeah, Eric should just quit forever. That's the end. Sorry. He needs to go into accounting now. No more sports. Sorry. No more sport for him. I'm with you. So let's just jump right into it. |
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