The Sports Reporters - Episode 411 - NFL Pre-Season Shake Down. Yankees Red Hot. Cabrera Joins 500 Homerun Club

The Sports Reporters

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4.6 • 806 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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As we inch closer to the start of the NFL regular season, the guys discuss the lack of starting QB's playing in this year's pre-season. Is it risky or smart to not play starters in the pre-season? Plus, other pre-season NFL themes. The New York Yankees have won 10 in a row as first place in the NL East is in sight. Identifying the San Diego Padres issues. And is Miguel Cabrera the best right handed hitter to ever play the game of baseball? He hits his 500th Homerun and the guys discuss his great career.

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0:00.0	Award-winning journalists, New York Times bestsellers. No topic out of bounds. No opinions left unsaid. An institution for sports talk and information. This is the sports reporters. Here's Mike Lupica, Mitch Album, and Bob Ryan. I'm Mitch Album of the Detroit Free Press. I am Bob Ryan of the Boston Globe and ESPN. I'm Michael
0:22.4	at MLB.com, New York Daily News. Welcome to what was supposed to be the Monday edition, but we
0:27.0	had to, we were worried about the storm. So anyway, we moved it back to Tuesday. Here we are.
0:31.0	We'll be back on Thursday. And guys, an amazing thing happened in an NFL preseason game.
0:36.9	I don't know if you caught this, but a quarterback actually fighting for his job had to play
0:42.3	the way Trey Lance and Jimmy G. played for the 49ers the other night.
0:46.7	And it goes against the prevailing wisdom of the National Football League
0:52.5	as preseason football continues to be one of the great
0:56.6	shakedowns in the history of sports because of the ticket prices because look at all the guys
1:03.3	who haven't played a snap so far this season. Well, you know what? For the football fans, I have limited sympathy.
1:12.8	It's caveat emptor, folks.
1:14.4	Although, you know, if you don't know this by now, then, you know, you haven't been paying any attention.
1:22.1	But, Bobby, if you have season tickets, they make you buy these, right?
1:25.6	I know, I know.
1:26.6	Right?
1:27.0	You have to buy them that's been
1:28.6	the case since when we were you know knee-hide at grasshopper it's it's always been a case this is uh
1:34.4	the difference is now is is it in the old old days you at least you knew they were they were
1:39.8	exhibition games but they but these guys were going to play but now yeah, yeah, it's, it's criminal. It's bad.
1:45.6	It's very bad. Well, I find it interesting to see the comparison between what quarterbacks play
1:51.5	and what don't. Let's face it, preseason is judged from the quarterback down. If the quarterback is actually
1:57.3	in the game, then you can bet that other guys are going to be in the game. If the quarterback's out of the game, then how important is it for the running back to be in there?
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