Straight Fire - FOX Sports MLB analyst Ben Verlander on Ohtani's Future, the Scuffling Yankees, the Disappointing Mets & More!
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iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.1 • 10.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Jason is joined by FOX Sports MLB analyst Ben Verlander, and the guys discuss Shohei Ohtani's uncertain future with the Los Angeles Angels, whether or not the New York Yankees should take a swing at the two-way star ahead of the MLB Trade Deadline, why the New York Mets and San Diego Padres have been such disappointments, how the new pitch clock is effecting older pitchers (like his brother, Justin Verlander) and much more!
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| 0:00.0 | The volume. |
| 0:09.3 | This is straight fire with Jason McIntyre |
| 0:14.9 | What is up straight fire fam? It's me Jason McIntyre straight fire for Tuesday |
| 0:21.7 | July 18th got a great guest on today's podcast |
| 0:25.9 | I know we got some baseball fans who are like Jay you never talk baseball my buddy Ben Verlander Fox Sports |
| 0:32.5 | He's basically Otani's best friend. Can I get away with saying that? |
| 0:35.7 | He's coming on the pod to talk about Otani trade rumors Yankees tied for last but still in the baseball |
| 0:41.9 | Postseason mix met disaster speed of the game really fun stuff with Ben Verlander |
| 0:48.9 | The Otani stuff is interesting. I think it you know, we've got two weeks left of trade rumors |
| 0:53.8 | I think it's really good for baseball that his name's out there |
| 0:56.8 | But if you think of stuff that's not good for sports |
| 0:59.5 | Let's go with Sequon Barkley and Josh Jacobs |
| 1:03.0 | Neither of them gets a deal done on Monday afternoon |
| 1:07.4 | Both will have to play on a franchise tag if they decide to play this is bad bad news for the Giants it is |
| 1:15.4 | Awful news for the Raiders both teams rely on the running back |
| 1:18.7 | These are two of the top five or six best running backs in the league the last time we had a running back thinking he could just sit out |
| 1:25.8 | And be fine was loving on Bell and we know that turned out very very poorly now |
| 1:31.0 | Sequon and Jacobs are both younger than Bell was but the running back show flight folks is extremely short. We're talking like |
| 1:38.9 | Z Kelly it's 28 and he's unsigned cream hunt 28 unsigned like you've got |
| 1:43.8 | Maximizing earning years from like 22 to like 26 27 and after that it falls off a cliff |
| 1:51.2 | We talked a little yesterday about Austin Eccler being unhappy. I saw Derek Henry got into a verbal battle with a |
| 1:59.5 | Draft guy for me as PN |
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