Set 2: Big Boards (w/ Mel Kiper)
Stugotz and Company
iHeartPodcasts
4.9 • 13.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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ESPN's Mel Kiper put out his first Big Board of the 2025 season, so of course we had to talk to him about baseball. Mel tells us his non-negotiable when grading a player and what he thinks is going on with the QB's in college football.
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| 0:00.0 | Stugats, you know how you can tell Mel is in work mode? |
| 0:26.0 | He's Bobbin. |
| 0:26.6 | He's not the living room. |
| 0:27.8 | It's not the living room with the beach setting behind him, with the ocean. |
| 0:31.8 | No, it's all books and football behind him now. |
| 0:35.4 | He's in a study, right? |
| 0:36.6 | Is that the study now? |
| 0:37.6 | I was the ESPN helmet in 94 when he said, who the hell was Mel Kuiper and all that? That's the helmet from 94 draft with the whole deal for Trev Albert's thing. And then Freddie Goodellie was producing that. He said, just take the damn helmet. This is a memorable draft. Take the Dan helmet. So that's the exact helmet from the 1994 draft, that helmet phone. It's good to see you're still not hanging on to that now. |
| 0:58.0 | All right. That's just a memorable draft. Take the Dan helmet. So that's the exact helmet from the 1994 draft, that helmet phone. |
| 1:10.6 | It's good to see. You're still not hanging on to that now. I mean, I never leaving. I never leaving. I had never leaving. That's a Kay's Valley picture back there. They just had the BMW championship of Kay's this was in summer. That's a football signed by Chris. When Lauren was born in March, |
| 1:11.4 | in April, he said, |
| 1:12.5 | Lauren, a true number one pick, |
| 1:13.6 | signed that football there. |
| 1:44.2 | I got Pete Rose all over the place signed baseball as a Pete Rose. I've got all kind of stuff going on in there. Who's your favorite baseball player of all time, though? Brooks Robinson and Jim Palmer. Really? Brooks Robinson and Jim Palmer were my two all-time favorites. Yeah, so I were always, and we're seven and 22. Because I was, as I was Bert Jones was seven, but I was one of my favorite quarterbacks. I grew up with him in the 70s. So Bert Jones, football was seven, and Palmer 22, and then Brooks, I wore five. Brooks was my, and I got to know Brooks, you know, what a great guy. |
| 2:01.5 | So he was actually above. We, our tickets were right below where the suites were. So Brooks would be in Bishotti suite right above us. Right. So I'd always be standing and rocking and I'd look up and Brooks would be there talking to me. Imagine just look at him up to see Brooks Robinson. It was like, oh my God. So yeah, and that Gary Williams were always being that sweet, Ralph Friedan, all the Maryland guys, you know, and then I looked up and there's Brooks. So, geez, and I always would see Brooks down at difference, you know, the shops down in Towson. So, yeah, he was great. Yeah. Taylor's a Yankee fan. Are you delighted when the Yankees get knocked out of the playoffs? |
| 2:18.0 | Do you love it, Mel? |
| 2:18.6 | You know what? |
| 2:19.3 | Taylor, I don't hate the Yankees. In fact, my father grew up was a big Yankee fan, and he'd actually take a bike ride up to watch the Yankees when the kid and got in a lot of trouble when he was like 15, thinking a little motor scooter up to New York to watch the Yankees. Yeah, the Yankees were part and parcel to what baseball is. |
| 2:35.0 | You know, the history of baseball is, so the Yankees. You know, Yankees were part and parcel to what baseball is. |
| 2:35.0 | You know, the history of baseball is so the Yankees are responsible for a lot of that. So no, so it's a great rivalry. No, I respect that. I like Steinb was a bit. I love with Steinbrenner. I love those kind of owners that are personalities that actually give a day. I don't care if they're right to run. Jerry Jones, he cares enough to say, hey, I think our defensive front's pretty good. |
| 2:52.2 | What do you want to laugh at him or not? |
| 2:53.7 | He at least has an |
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