After Hours with Amy Lawrence PODCAST: Hour 4

A. These are my favorite moments when no one in the world agrees with me and I can do my own moral funny because earlier in my career.

There is always a temptation. I think it's more with women just are our basic personalities that when what we want to be like to write it when people don't agree with us, not even need to speak for other women.

All the speak for me in my own career when people don't agree with me.

This is when I was younger my. The temptation is to waffle or to change your opinion or to try to figure out a way to circle back so that people like you again. I don't know what happened to me. Maybe I just turn into a grumpy old lady but now I like it when the fight and the odds are so completely stacked against me. I prefer that I like it when the crowd and the world are going one way, I absolutely have to go the other something else and not one of those situations, but it's also a skill that I try to encourage young broadcasters to develop be able to argue my side of the debate that you don't actually agree with be able to take the other side because it's better radio it's it's just better to get your audience involved and engaged. When you've got two people who will be feel very passionately about two sides did you happen to be on the same side and yet you want to have a better discussion on the air. Somebody needs to take the side. They don't agree with the number of times in my career that I had taken opposite side where I didn't actually agree with it. It's actually it's it's a fun skill to work on now I'm not saying that that's the case Jade are arguing about whether or not the NFL should punish Aaron Donald for swinging helmet. The practice and I disagree completely. The NFL can't be spending its time policing practices.

That's what coaches are for.

That's what these fights but breakout for because guys are taking liberties that are tackling or making contact with are not supposed to be tackling or making contact. In this case, I agree completely with self policing and I do not agree with Aaron Donald swinging helmet. That's not what I'm saying but it's not up to the NFL to be looking at every video over practice and then some.

Some guy took my media, and went completely off the rails with it on Facebook.

My point is, there's a lot of practice that happens where there are no cameras other than the team cameras right social media.

You know that every practice.

There is a media portion where reporters are allowed. Cameras are allowed and then there's a whole portion where they're not in there kicked out and so would let your to start confiscating every video from every single practice that takes place during the preseason training camp what you're doing is going based on social media what you're doing is going based on that portion of the practice where the media might have been there and I just don't think that's up to the NFL. I think if the teams want to do this, you're taking a risk you are in fact walking a fine line. Did we not see with the patriots in the Panthers that was Matt Jones who was in the middle of a bunch of skirmishes were fights broke out on multiple days that the risk of these teens are taking and if they're willing to take the risk, which many of them are because they find the value enjoy practices leading into a preseason game if they're willing to take the risk.

Well then you better hope your guys mature enough not to get into a fight because you could lose someone for the season. So the idea is, in my opinion that the teams had to be responsible if you put your guys in the situation, then you better self police, and I don't think it's up to the NFL. And this is the tack that the league is taken is not all us your to do this.

Your to please yourselves that the NFL does not step in.

So I do not agree to the same as a game, and that's word Jade I gotta differ, but I do think it's hysterical that right now and I already knew that Jay was far more popular than me. That's just how goes your show that Jay has 99% of the support and Amy is dead wrong. According to anyone whose weight and so far she just how I like it's Jay you're so popular. The point is, it's totally fine I enjoyed being in a minority absolutely and actually makes my heart rate a little bit faster. Makes my adrenaline rush is after hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS sports radio.

Thanks much for hanging out with is Good Friday morning to you. We only have so many of these bodies left in the summer.

Oh my gosh. In fact, it's today and it's next Friday, leading into Labor Day weekend.

That's it. And then the official start of the fall. Now it's not until later in September and so we we don't.

I guess technically have to think about a summer until little bit later next month. However, for all intents and purposes with school starting for the rest of you, my mouth, but it's cold out for two weeks. I have a lot of friends whose kids are already in school in the South that had been in school now for a couple weeks as well.

Colleges are back in session 2 of my younger knee started college earlier this week. Her final semester actually scan a graduate in December at Virginia Tech and so there's a lot of people who've already bid farewell the summer in the weather though still feels a lot like summer to me because I work in this business and have for so long. The of the official end of the summer for me comes when football starts, and here we are. We are now inside of two weeks to go until the NFL season kicks off in a college football's in week zero if that makes sense to you, meaning they're kicking off this weekend, so there's a lot that's going on in sports between baseball and football and I daresay that in the NFL. It's time for them to be done. This is the last round of preseason games coming up these next few days, and it's a good thing that joint practices are done because eventually someone will get hurt and that's not what you want.

That's what I mean about walking the fine line and putting these guys out there on the field together and kind taking the risk that okay there may be a melee. There may be a fight. There may be a strongly worded conversation you just better hope you emerge unscathed, or all of a sudden all the value you got out of a joint practice it's not there anymore he just went down the drain. Just for the sake of argument, could you imagine if Aaron Donald hit somebody with the helmet or if Aaron Donald himself got hurt because somebody punched him, I mean either way kicking cleaning like there's all kinds of ways. These guys can get to get carried away get hurt many good step wrong in Terran ACL. I get that but it's good that were about to be done with this because we been hearing about it way too often over the last couple weeks.

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You can find me on Twitter if you two would like to pylon and tell me how Jay is so much smarter and has set opinion that you all desperately agree with and I don't know what I'm talking about that's on Twitter a low radio or on our Facebook page after hours with Amy Lawrence makes me laugh that you're the popular will show up when you're out people like Jay when I'm like oh did she get fired known redevelopment zone care is so you mean people forget who was behind the lies about not because we're talking about it. Well that a good thing that I don't forget you and that I know who's back there. You do you need me to pump up your your brand arm when it hits you with this ball right in the head is going so well, it's two pains, though, so they were Jamie's entire show. Probably just indent the first piece of glass and no indents class. I don't even know where that came from.

I'm not throwing a ball in Jay's head for heaven sakes.

If I was I wouldn't announce it on national radio as I would write and then pretend like there is no video. Kinda like anybody else who might've swung a helmet this preseason. It wasn't going to know you give up the stalemate you are that Jay doesn't actually get passionate enough usually to argue with me and sometimes I just don't let them argue with him on to something.

We play arguing outside of the show, just not here on the air don't know. That's always good. Read every report of the show where the 20 sort of reels all he did was pitch you oh my gosh. After a while it's annoying. It seriously can only do it for so long.

Jay and I are fine also. He has to be fine because technically I out rank and what people are doing okay. The part that bothers me is road and said so if Donald games. I want to concussion or broke his jaw. That's okay.

We believe did I say it was okay Trevor, that's what I love about social media. What ever you want to believe man.

Yes, I think it's perfectly okay if Aaron Donald swings the helmet and someone in the jaw. He's a broken jaw. Yes, that's exactly what I said. Jack asked me not to dignify that with an answer. That's not the point at all.

So if you guys want to go back and hear what actually had to say. Well then you can check it out on our podcast after hours Amy Lawrence.com so NFL. Yes, this weekend if you miss what I said about the Buffalo Bills punter. As I said that the details the allegations from this young woman are disturbing. It's a civil lawsuit. No criminal charges have been filed. I know that that's been a trigger for a lot of people around the DeShawn Watson situation right. The fact that there were no criminal charges filed, so it must not have happened.

I mean, that's bunk. The problem was sexual assault and rape to in many cases is that the authorities district attorneys detectives feel like they can't make a case that's airtight now, according to the civil lawsuit. The young woman who is making the allegations against Matt Araiza and two of his former college teammates.

She did go to the hospital. She did report her allegations or accusations at this point, authorities have declined to to file any charges though, it sounds like it's still a possibility. I don't know what the bills to hear what I I think back to what the Texans did not DeShawn Watson. This is going back to last season. DeShawn Watson had already requested a trade or he requested his trade-in in these allegations. The first allegations from the women on the massage therapists came out pretty quickly and remember the exact timing, but it was kind of bang bang. He did not want to play for the Texans in 21 they did not want him on the field by mutual agreement they paid him, but he was an active pretty much every game may then every single game he never was going to play. I just remember having that trying to have the discussion with one of our Houston Texans insiders John McLean, whose I guess technically retired but actually is still very active covering sport so not sure if I will have him on the show this season or not, but he kept trying to tell me there's no way DeShawn Watson sees the field, regardless of whether or not Davis Mills gets her Tyra Taylor gets art which is actually what happened. He's not going to play for the team.

They don't want to play. He doesn't want to play. So now thinking about the bill situation. I don't know if they might take action right of the bills have indicated that right now they have no further comment there to let the legal system play out.

These are disturbing allegations and I know there at this point allegations. That's what they are. I don't know how the NFL handles us moving forward. Generally, we think about the Alvin Kammerer situation in New Orleans where there is video of him and a few of his friends guys that he was with after a night at the club attacking a guy neared Ella beating up a guy near an elevator and you know there's allegations that the guy said some really inflammatory things and made some really inappropriate and offensive comments that that's why he got beat up but the allegations are that he was unconscious and they were still beating about and Alvin Kammerer is in these videos. The NFL's waiting for that to play out legally and so generally that's the, the approach the league takes and that teams try to fall back on is working await working await until we see what happens in the court system or we see what happens with the authorities and whether or not they move forward. Sometimes though public pressure becomes a factor and I wonder if the goal of family who now owns the bills. If any of the bills teammates themselves may speak up if you read the allegations.

If you read the accusations from this young woman who is not even been identified minute I put it off as long as I could.

I do like to mention on the air but it may be sick to my stomach and I know they're just allegations. At this point there's no proof of anything. At the same time you think about the Trevor Bauer situation in Los Angeles and how when the Dodgers themselves. The team the team.

I don't mean Dodgers management or the ownership I mean the team heard about the allegations against Trevor in his case it was choking a young woman that he was having sex with, even if it was consensual, choking her and rendering unconscious and cut beating her up. The team was so disturbed by it that they made it very clear they did not want him around ever again and he's never been back with the Dodgers since has, but it's been what are we going to our second season. Now he is middle of last season, right where he was sent away from the team and is never the back that he still getting paid, they do not want them around so I don't know if there's a situation here where the ownership of the bills, which is a family. Maybe it's bills teammates.

I'm not sure when sometimes it is the nature of the allegations that can't be overlooked or that won't be overlooked. He just got name the starting punter for the bills and here we are getting close to the start of the season so we'll see whether or not the bills change that approach. If they do anything at some point the NFL will try to launch an investigation, but would need more information right in its we've heard this one seen this pattern before we heard the song and dance before and at this point it feels like it's in a bit of a holding pattern while the authorities are still considering. Still, it is disturbing to even read the allegations similar is well to be careful not to use the word similar so the people don't think I'm saying the DeShawn Watson is accused of rape because that's not true, but when you read some of the allegations against DeShawn there also disturbing just can take a long time to play out.

I don't know if the bills take any action they can't.

He's on their rosters of the bills want to they can either suspend him nor make him act inactive or decide that they don't want him on their team anymore so we'll see if anything changes as we get closer to the season I were in a dive into baseball because there's still a baseball season going on were getting close to the stretch run September stretch stretch in September.

It was a lighter night but there is still some pretty big storylines and then ouch. If you're the Okemos city thunder. I know it's a basketball season, but boy costly injury for a team that was hoping to rebuild and do so around a pretty unique superstar will well not so little but yes definitely the funders. I mean really I try to derail me is out you doing in there you're mad because I won the argument to try now everyone's on your side. No one's on my side, which is tremendous. I love it that way. It's after hours with Amy Lawrence Good Friday morning to you here on CBS sports radio you are listening to the after-hours podcast swung online.

Try facing your scores to run single for Giancarlo Stan well left-center field.

Tony kept turning and looking this morning is one of the wall is going to great job. These children will grow is not a time. It's an RBI double live ground ball right side second baseman Brian feels nobody at first, the parents sitting for Anthony Russo today. Nothing you welcome to the party store is a line drive basic to left field. Knoll nine batters on basic great couple really good swings and obviously a few RBIs really good walk. You know that to knock up early and out, especially after he got behind the counter job just being real discipline use after hours with Lawrence every single guy in the lineup got hit for the Yankees.

It was a hit parade if you will, on Yankees radio Brendan Burke and Susan Waldman 20 hits I mean is against Oakland. But how you play the teams that you're dealt in your schedule. 13 runs on 20 hits more than enough support for Jamison Tyrone who is now 12 and four and Giancarlo Satan. Welcome back to the lineup with three RBI and it comes at the right time for the Yankees.

This is their fourth consecutive win. They have not lost since Aaron Boone went on the table because I do it will have the same effect unless I lower my microphone doesn't mind our consular desk here is to solid it it doesn't move the microphone on vibrate that much. So anyway since Aaron Boone had his outburst. He's normally the mild-mannered Clark Kent of major league managers since he turned into the Incredible Hulk or that she hoped front of exactly. That has changed. The steep will that a couple games against the Mets in which they got Aaron judge home runs and now a series at Oakland so the Yankees are maintaining that lead in the American League East a man if you're watching what's happening in three of the other four teams, not the Boston Red Sox but three of the other four teams are also locked in, or make and what may be their last big push to try to catch the Yanks due to swinging flyball the left, don't fix a couple steps back and watch as this one is one of strength. What you grumble right to second base parade is commencing the ruse goes on on the home soon will we write good work. If you can get the raise sweep the Angels they win their sixth straight, anti-freezing company on Ray's radio yeah manager Kevin Cash's watched his team have a near-perfect start stint at home play well here. No doubt about it.

I think that will we know this is going to go down to the wire is a lot of good teams right in the thick of things.

But if we can, just focus on the game of the series at hand will be better for ever really impressed with the way the guys one about the business over the last two days after hours with Amy Lawrence here on CBS sports radio so this is Outlook. The Yankees are up 7 1/2 games on the raise who have won six in a row eight of their last 10.

This may be their last best charge. There's still a month to go but this is the raise at their finest and their gaining confidence their gaining some ground not as much as they need to have to go to the one really took to be able to catch the Yankees the Blue Jays have also won seven of their last 10 and in the second consecutive nights they go extra innings to beat the Red Sox at Fenway but that is as dramatic as how the Orioles got their victory on Thursday, which sours going back to Carol against one of the games that closers out to slider the centerfield is there between first and second base. He's got his second water bill for the season and the Orioles take this series against the White Sox wedding in Florida.

Due to home super cool doing high leverage moment of really good picture to give his life and just when the game could have asked for a better moment. We were so deal sensibly for so long in the game knows we finally got a little bit of life that are time we spoke to Elton to strike so for the bus closers in the game to force Kyle's Towers sevens career major-league baseball game and he comes up with a home ride that ties it for the Orioles against the White Sox at Camden yards in the ninth and the oaths were able to walk it off as you here with Jeff Arnold on Orioles radio and they keep referring to one of the best closers and again Leslie and Hendrix.

And so he gave up the homerun brand hide. Of course, proud of his young start I guess you can call him that since that homerun was Colette, which I and so the Chicago White Sox are still stuck in a cycle where they go one step forward two steps back right now. Three well for actually for the five teams in the AL East are playing some of their best baseball of the year. Not quite that way for the Yankees.

But at least they put together for wins in a row. The raise of 16 in a row the Blue Jays of 13 in a row and the Orioles. They are still right there in the wildcard mix. There are still about 500 and they are still one of the best stories of the 2022. Major-league baseball season so I got that whole division, except the Red Sox right now. This involves not will see if the Red Sox have any juice left. But that whole division is fine they think about the central the White Sox and the twins are going the wrong way right now. The guardians were able to win last night but still have a four game lead over both the twins and the White Sox asked Rose if they made the twit.

So you could wonder if the twins would make the playoffs and think it would get a wildcard. They win the AL Central. The way that they failed to come up with really anything at all to challenge the Astros is that how it could be the postseason. Peter Schwartz is here in studio know these can change oppose these is a different animal, but sometimes you see the Astros match up again. Some of these other teams that are contenders abusing their quotations and you think that's not very competitive Yankees remember those. What was it six games they played against each other five days. They played against each other earlier in the season and at the time, Yankees nationals did match up very well, as did match up well with the Astros. It's tough to say. Now you look ahead to the playoffs and obviously it comes down to starting pitching to me when you you have you have just verbally under pitching the way he's pitching this year and you have agreement treatment seeming to that lineup was sent to me for my money, I'd be shocked if the Astros were in the World Series this year.

I don't want them to be off to sleep, but it's hard to go up to a team like that. That's battle tested in the boils and have the color pitching tough to be really quick on Mancini.

They will get your update when I did this an interview on Baltimore are Baltimore affiliate 1057 the fan a Baltimore radio on Monday morning I mentioned Trey Mancini and II hate that the Orioles traded him away right to the Astros and Rob Long, who was I was talking to on the air said all well it's a it's a good story, but he really didn't mean that much to the Orioles. He's done since he's got Houston holy cow in games six home runs and 16 RBI in 18 games of the Astros. I mean he may not of been doing a whole lot in Orioles with the Orioles, but he certainly make a difference with the Houston Astros is a little bit like what Joey Gallo still with the Dodgers right since he was traded away by the Yankees where he was so despised exactly since.

I mean like the right that piggies fans couldn't wait to get rid of him and now he goes in the Dodgers lineup is coming up with all kinds of clutch hits change of scenery and the harms it was fresh start and Gallo in New York thought you wanted to stink. Some guys use little to stink beating from Yankees and region including myself available sock book… What happened to sometimes you need to change that you sometime divorce is good. Sometimes what you need is to be surrounded by a bunch of other power hitters in it Dodgers lineup where there are no holes.

That's what you encouraged by the fact that there's In-N-Out Burger in Los Angeles is what it is or the beach. Everywhere you look okay. So, we got a Triple Crown winner in the National League.

That's fine and that we got our boom over the week as well. Actually we decided what a boom week is 0J decided this is Jay's department board OK think I will I you can find me on twitter a lot already of you two would like to tell me how wrong I am also on our Facebook page, where you are telling me how wrong I it's a happy Friday peeps you are listening to the after-hours podcast so as we come to mysteries of verse way down the a list highlights Sawyer's is something you would always be possible, especially his father were working good is what Albert Hall said oh you. He's been putting Goodwood a lot of pictures these days though he remained that homerun number 693 here at their on Cardinals radio did not home or the last couple of days against the Cubs.

But we've seen the fireworks that we know he's got plenty of time left in this regular season hit 700 people keep asking me. Is he going to retire or would he stick around if he doesn't quite get 700 and he said the numbers don't matter to them. He's not playing another season. This is it. We need to see it. This is what I need in my September.

It's after hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS sports radio. His teammates I know that it he's maybe not getting as much attention right now because our approvals is the draw as he marches toward baseball immortality. But Paul Goldschmidt is crushing any and all pictures that come anywhere near him three or four last night with five RBI get this. He's got 105 RBI to lead the National League's batting average is 339 which is also tops in his league and he's now 33 home runs.

He said he's to back up the pace set by Kyle Shorey so he is a definite Triple Crown candidate.

Kind of funny to because he had a day off Wednesday and he said that, I think that's what gave them extra juice. I feel like you been doing this all season, so we also saw Dakota Hudson Goa season-high seven innings. I mean he's just like what he sees from Paul Goldschmidt is a ball players where does a person to want to write you ready to watch those walls on Sonoma venture is St. Louis Cardinals up six right now in the Brewers in the NL Central as we head into the weekend playing the Cardinals are playing the Braves.

That's right huge weekend series between two World Series contenders, including the defending champion after hours here on CBS sports radio. If you missed it on Thursday evening there a couple of preseason games in the NFL and one of them feature the kids any chiefs and they were home and in their wrapping up their preseason schedule and when they started again. Originally against the Packers.

We were not going to see Patrick Holmes fact, I daresay he might've been in street clothes.

Had it not been for the chance that that they wanted to take to honor Len Dawson their Hall of Famer who passed away earlier this week at the age of 87. A Super Bowl champ and AFL champion is a Hall of Famer. I just meant so much to the Chiefs organization so they Patrick Holmes led the team out onto the field and they did. One of the classic huddles that Dawson used to keep in the 60s and 70s.

And then there was a penalty that was called actually on number 16 which was Len Dawson's number is used to get up with Damien Hughes who is a former Chiefs wide receiver now TV and radio broadcaster to ask him what Dawson meant to the franchise will no longer talk to learn the kind of what organization you know.

Look around you go when you look at different teams, whether know the monster midway through different God will know came Hall of Famer is a big man, for that kind of goal. Lambeau, Chicago, New York and knuckle to draw with one count of you had a chance to get to know mama on know very unassuming quiet reserve very humble person for how great he was and all the great thing to do with the LM unit bill including the Super Bowl at all.

That's the and one Conoco himself and what you had to really realize long but wanted all the pro football of the and as a broadcaster and the whole thing is people are in their own and you look at the ring of honor. In general the story and then the amazing work that is good on the broadcast would always point he comes up with next to you in the locker room just with you that when the rookies come and count to go to dinner with the rookies and set talk about old stories and the new look to know his resume and what he was able to accomplish is 87 years old letter a complete, logical, full life, we heard the stories going to broadcaster the know he would go and practice all day long and then turn to golfers equipment and interview his teammates then also the local station do the 6 o'clock news go back home with his family, then going to become o'clock news and then do more studying for the whole job and then do it all over everything will good in them know what he was able to carry include in front of the NFL. We know how that launched the NFL in broadcasting all the teams across the world. This is amazing that they go but as a person likely to do so no women he passed away an incredible man indicates the icon it was in that order. Such a treat to get to know Jesus with us from the Chiefs broadcast a radio and TV is a seat that Len Dawson held in 20 is a 2017. It was not long ago that he was doing the color commentary for the Chiefs broadcast so I can imagine it's kinda neat now to be in that same situation yourself and recognize there's some pretty incredible shoes, but I've been filling and I can only imagine to what it meant to guys like Patrick Holmes, others who follow along and play that same position to have this Hall of Famer who was still around the team and part of the team not even sold many years after he play, but it mattered to him to be involved to and there were were my little baby to work, would put almost 2 and a quicker and much sooner than you'd recognize that there is no trip to Berkeley.

Cookeville goes through the hello all broadcaster goat learn the boom over the video is named after and what he meant to the organization what he meant God like Patrick the home 2017 was one Patrick Kaman could leak and all Patrick talked at length about the conversation we had with Glenn Lenny know was getting up there in age and he recognized how special Patrick was in his first year we didn't start one started goat the Denver Broncos in week 17 and learning. At that point told Qualcomm everybody around him not to be special and lo and behold we've seen what Patrick Mahon can do what an amazing, amazing, thought to to an experience in watching him interact with God is in trouble skillfully like Patrick Mahon control skills were not supposed to go on the field longer to play in the game was really no reason for them to go out on the field and yet they made their way onto the field and they said they wanted to be a part of that got so much respect for Len Dawson, if they wanted to honor him in that huddle all before ill for the first plated on the offer to me of what all about former employer should strive to be on and off the field on how he carried himself the professionalism that he displayed an interview look through his resume, like, why wouldn't you want to have a chance to be in the same bill and feel the same boon from where the same headphones and try to accomplish the same goals part of great championship teams will forever be missed. There is more to my conversation with Dean Hughes is a former Chiefs wide receiver. I'd also part of the Kansas City TV and radio contingent that covers the Chiefs. In fact, to hear his story about being in Miami at the Super Bowl when the Chiefs want to couple years ago and what was happening in their section as they were realizing the Chiefs were to win their first Super Bowl in 50 years. Absolutely phenomenal.

You want to catch up on podcast after hours Amy Lawrence.com, catch a great weekend and will catch you on Sunday night. It's after hours here on CBS sports radio