After Hours with Amy Lawrence PODCAST: Hour 4

Monday first Utah first.

I do first auto you don't have a Monday coming off another summer weekend. I hope you are able to.

Every last ounce of summer find out of what is one of the last weekend before Labor Day and then post labor day if the kids aren't already in school. Now they're in school and just in general, a lot of vacations and not all of them but we had to get serious around here because September in sports means football and we are now inside of three weeks until the season opener. In fact in three weeks time will be processing week number one at this very time on this very same network. Whatever local affiliate or outlet you use to listen to after hours, so there is always a part of me that it's the rolled football drive the bus it brings more listeners we get more traffic to our social media the conversation. The buzz everything is heightened during football season, but like you I will miss the lazy Sundays where there's not quite as much going hot but the preparation is already begun the preparation of planning Jade.

I spent two hours on Sunday.

Looking at football season figuring out what we need to do to be ready when the season kicks off because I do have a vacation still repaid and goes. I saved it for the last possible second. I know I'm taking a few days off in August.

Here, there, and it's been by design, to spend some time with family. They hadn't done that in quite a while, but then coming up in well the stretch around Labor Day. I'll be out in I mean out as and checked out. Going to visit mom and her pool and that's all I will be focused on for five days around Labor Day in Houston. Though she tells me I'm not kidding about this. The pool is cold now. She says how cold mom 84° oh, okay.

Supercold mom will not get in the pool unless it's almost 90, which to me is not refreshing. I do not think 90°, 90° water is refreshing. Note no thank you" for that's what she loves, and so she told me with the recent rain in her neighborhood. The temperatures have cooled off. Plus she said it doesn't get the afternoon sun anymore and so the water doesn't warm up to 90°. Instead, it's only 84, 84, such a comfortable temperature.sounds and murmurs on.

I cannot wait I been looking forward to it all summer ever since I got the plane ticket so that's happening come next Wednesday I'll be on my way to Houston first time seeing my mom since Christmas.

So I know you're not to begrudge me that it's between now and then.

Between now and vacation and then when I get back will be firmly focused on not just the NFL but college football kickoff as well as what will soon become the stretch run in major league baseball were live from the rocket mortgage Studios when you need an expert to help navigate the home loan process rocket you can find me on Twitter a long radio did you miss me telling you that we have new people all the time because every single show we get brand-new followers on her Facebook and our twitter pages. So yes on Twitter. I did share a couple photos. What I was doing while I was away from you. I had a good opportunity to go white water rafting on the Delaware River on Saturday.

It was different than what I expected but it was awesome. I love anything to do with the water and it was a wonderful summer activity and had a chance to really navigate some rapids codified to be in the back of this boat that I was then and have the kayak paddle and being able to steer us through the rapids was so much fun. I we did have a couple of treacherous moments, but we manage those pre-well if you miss the stories I'd I told them earlier on the show might've been about an hour ago or so, I so check out the photos on Twitter a long radio and then I did share them on Facebook as well. So good to have you with us and would be be getting back to normal.

I suppose for a week or so, maybe 10 days before we throw your schedule into flux yet again. It's time. This is this is how it goes when I was in church on Sunday, teaching my elementary school kiddos.

I dared to ask them a couple times how long until school started, and this one little boys name is Jonathan. He's very precocious so much fun I had him and his twin sister in class for several years now. They both yelled at me hard. What word school.

I was sorry okay so I went over to another table. Hey, how long do you guys don't school and Jonathan yells with Dale behind the wheel. So when I asked them as we are getting ready to do our lesson. How many of them like school out of say 20 kids one can't raise his hand went up into the air. One little boy and then another little boy like after maybe 10 seconds put his hand cut halfway up in the air so that was that two out of say 20 were looking forward to the start of school. All the rest of them were desperately hanging on December and I suppose that doesn't change any of adults who are doing the same thing, but here we are were moving through time and space. Like it or not least we have some really cool story lies in developing on the baseball diamond. I've been on this since spring since both are major league baseball came out of its lockout and delayed the start of the season by a full week. I been telling you that this was a home run chase to watch and no I'm not worth skews me have hiccuped no, not referring to Aaron Judge. I'm referring to Albert pool halls. Ever since he re-signed with the Cardinals. I was thinking ahead. What a magical moment. What a magical ride. This could be for Albert closing in on 700 home runs baseball immortality first half of the season. He only had six home runs and it appeared to be a major long shot so that I started dialing back my expectations and thinking well maybe catch Alex Rodriguez, who right now well right now and forever, is sitting on 696. It's almost as though the All-Star break.

The home run Derby the support of his teammates as well as the rest of majorly baseball.

The baseball fraternity gave him a new perspective gave him some fresh energy for the second half as he is on a hair right now Bumgarner with the pitch Albert showing a high fly ball left center failed to track all walls, numbers 91 will be as red-hot 32 pitch. Albert is hard left center to move this one soon be as was so no pressure. He said he doesn't care about the numbers and he reiterates the USA today that he is retiring at the end of the season regardless of how many homeruns he's got. When he's done, but he nearly had 1/3 homerun in this game on Sunday skews me on Saturday even as he passes Stan Musial for second and total bases in Cardinals history. He's now four shy of tying a ride five of passing him for fourth all time and only eight from 700 career homeruns, so Madison Bumgarner the latest footnote to Albert pool's history. He gives up both of those homeruns in the second and fourth innings and you can tell these guys are having fun not only supporting the 42-year-old grandpa but also waiting. Waiting is fun winning is contagious that excitement that energy, especially when you're in a pennant race. The Cardinals put a little distance between themselves and the brewers they 17 in a row. They are the hottest team in major league baseball right now it's after hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS sports radio staying in the National League the Mets the Phillies the Braves to get compelling down the stretch.

And even though it wasn't Baxter's or Jacob Grob, who by the way are lined up to pitch against the Yankees on Monday and Tuesday. That makes the subway clash a little bit more titillating scintillating subway series to have those two starters going for the Mets, especially as poorly as the Yankees and Plato will get to them coming up. But in their own division.

The Phillies and the Braves are giving the Mets all they can handle two balls to strikes the cow drummer boy delivers this one online character space is as is so fired up the this was quite a series. Three of four. Go to the Mets, but real competitive back. They beat Baxter's or online was the first game of the series 2nd game. So it was it was a big weekend and the Phillies may have cooled off a little bit but there's certain to come back with more of a challenge even as we had the final six weeks of the regular season.

I'm really proud of the entire club just where functions were uniformly come through the back and forth, and the scope report and all your will really bounce back on tough loss and so I'm expecting something warm with scout modern Jefferson's roofers were doing. Hopefully playoff, but disposal, but I think for the most part.

In the last two servers we played them for top ballclub and workable is that touching the money to talk about playoffs costs the Rob Thompson is confident in his Phillies, but you know what Buck Showalter is confident in his Mets 10 runs on 16 hits and really it was the bullpen for the Phillies that gave up the ghost, allowing three runs in the seventh and the ninth-inning said here with Howie Rose on Mets radio. Before that, Scott, Frankie, and he's not kidding when cigarette hit that home run in the eighth.

He danced around first base like it was a walkoff he lost his helmet.

J and I were actually doing our football planning meeting and we both had the Mets came on and I said to him when it isn't behaving more than I did it because it looks like he thinks of the game is over the Mets come back and they score in the top of the night with the Marcaine a home run. He sealed her fate after that celebration was touching the money that was touching the money got it that was touching the money playoffs. Buck Showalter is is what I mean.

He's got a lovely seeing from this offense. It was the offense.

That'll let really, it was never great in 2021 but it fizzled so badly in the heat of summer it dried out, but it disappeared and that the Braves and the Phillies were able to catch the Mets last summer. Last August this year 10 runs on 16 hits on Sunday. There is a good one really good lady about some really make Utah from the opposing picture is taking God's beautifully done extremely proximate to the monument team so the Mets continued to lead the National League East, even though the Braves they keep coming or game. Leave now, but the brace of 18 of their last 10 if not for the Cardinals. They are the hottest team in major league baseball so it's Mets on the road in the Bronx taking on the New York Yankees.

The Yankees there in first place still, but after nearly getting swept by the Blue Jays over the weekend there lead in the division is down to eight games over both the Jays and the race now. I still say they're going to win this division but man they cannot seem to get on the same page when their pitching is locked in if they're hitting the disappears and more often than not, that's been the issue. I know Giancarlo Stanton is getting ready to rejoin the roster. He's in rehab starts now, but it's almost impossible for Aaron judges the quality pitches if no one else around him is heading. This led to an Aaron Boone emotional what we call tirade a strongly worded response to a question on Saturday you quit answering these questions about this date in this purple election and play better. We end up in the great thing is right in front of us is right here and we can fix it there and we can we can run away with this thing and we got the dudes in there to do it but do you if we don't score tough to win and will answer the same questions and might perplex what's yeah you better producer J believe the Aaron Boone stage that or that the pounding of the podium that you hear is the phone right in front of us just all warbled was planned.

It was premeditated. I say no way. We don't get to see a lot of emotion from Aaron Boone but obviously frustrated and if the Yankees continue down this slippery slope and then lose early in the postseason guest who loses his job.

There's no way he survives that if they end up collapsing and don't make any noise in the postseason after the near historic first half. So I believe Boone is invested. Brian Cashman got booed on Sunday at Yankee Stadium as they were retiring Paul O'Neill's number eight's master. If I remember rightly that Steinbrenner Al Steinbrenner got booed to the Yankees ownership and funnel is getting booed. Yankees fans are relatively ruthless. So I think that was real. It was a real outburst from Aaron Boone did the Yankees responds well on Sunday. They did one other you run laboratories all the good one feels better, especially after this is number one Aaron Judd says. A win is a win and he's right, but it's the 10th win in 30 games for the Yankees. They do avoid the sweep at the hands of the Blue Jays, but no nearly hitting Aaron judge early and then getting up and buzzing the tower, laid in caracole gets all upset me. There's plenty of motion around the Yankees can the channel at and find that rhythm and groove again. You don't want to go into the playoffs or even into September, limping to the finish line regardless of whether or not you win the division. So the Yankees hosed the Mets in a just brief two-game stint, truly the continuation of the first half of the series that was played at Citi Field last month and is Domingo her mind for the Yankees against Baxter's or on Monday. Frankie Matas, who is not had a good couple of games with the Yankees since he was treated and Jacob pogrom going on Tuesday.

Huge.

The Mets already have the better record among those two teams between those two teams which would've been laughable in the first half of the season.

Can the Yankees use in the city intercity opponent to get back on the right track right you can find me on twitter a lot radio also on our Facebook page from the weekend. Plenty of preseason chatter couple of injuries but also guys were raising some eyebrows and turns and heads because were inside of three weeks until the actual season kicks off its after hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS sports radio you are listening to the after-hours podcast for this is the block waiting blocking like he was a great teams use after hours with Lawrence, welcome to the Montaigne turbine try to make his first NFL roster is a guy who made a lot of noise in the USFL. He was the MVP would like to be a Dallas cowboy for the 2022 season and boy did he impress speed skills as he said he returns not just to kick off but a punt for touchdowns.

First, a player in nine seasons in the Dallas organization to have a kickoff and a punt return go over TDs in the same game ready off them.

The Dallas wide receiver's official position set twitter on fire on Saturday and I I'm so excited for him. These are the kind of stories that you love about sports the underdogs, the guys who beat all the odds and who are able to use an opportunity as small as it may be entered into a dream come true. Get one of those elements about sports that I absolutely adore he signed with the Cowboys in late July after winning the USFL MVP and he becomes the first since Detroit's Jeremy Ross in 2013 and were talking preseason regular-season playoffs that both the punt and a kickoff return for scores and Mike McCarthy is talked about turbine and how impressed he's been with him since he got into camp. One of the elements that you generally see with athletes who maybe haven't had the same natural ability or just haven't had the same opportunities they will fight and it will scratch and they will claw and they will do anything that you ask of them, and anything that is needed tobacco go above and beyond because her not to take this opportunity for granted turbine comes out of TCU. He did get in trouble with the law in 2018. He was kicked out of school or kicked off the team because he was accused of assaulting his girlfriend. There was another assault case in New Mexico until he pled guilty and that Texas case and had a chance to clear the conviction from his record he went through abuse intervention counseling and programs and had to work his way from the bottom because of his own mistakes in his own choices. So we played in something called the faith in controlled football league indoor that he played in the spring league than the European legal football for three years who's never heard of any of those very few of us before he signs with the USFL and the New Jersey Gen. led the league in receiving yards and had the only punt return for a touchdown, but to get a tryout of sorts with the Cowboys, maybe to make the roster would represent some major redemption for him doesn't excuse the choices he's made in the past he's paid for those but again he won't take it for granted and will mean more to him that it will to someone who's always had the opportunities and handed to them or her on twitter a lot radio also on our Facebook page after hours with Amy Lawrence YouTube channel as well. If you miss my conversation with Tyler Drake from the desert you know that Glendale State Farm Stadium is where the next Super Bowl will be held.

I wouldn't say I'm already making plans, but I'm kinda making plans were deftly get to be there. You gotta start early with the football planning stuff because it goes by in a major blur.

It's just weird to think about the fact that what with their 5654 what Super Bowl we unremarkable it is here in studio or going to Super Bowl LVII.

That's what's next writing of remember me neither's are easier to remember than the year seven okay alright so we never had a home team host a Super Bowl in its own stadium for the first 54 years in the last two years in a row we've had bucks when on their own field and the rams went on their own field so as much as I do love Corky conversation in only to be about 33 seconds before I was annoyed with the conversation on Fox of whether or not the Cardinals would become the third team to host the Super Bowl in their own stadium and when it how many times you were to hear that the season especially if what with caliber's contract of the Cardinals come out of the gate hot, like they did last year. No I'm I was done with that after 30 seconds of Sean Payton you just you just had a rather do they come out 13, ever, ever again a five and oh yeah, you know, like they did last year, and you'll hear you're still only halfway through the rest of the year. I'm aware that's when you'll hear it because that's when you hear the train at 214 target hypo train. It just doesn't doesn't run that I was all depends on how the Cardinals, the gates which they historically were Kingsbury, hot and then slow down souls that you miss my conversation with Tyler. It's on our podcast after hours Amy Lawrence.com he was there at the game for Cardinals and ravens to for some reason value. What is a 22 games I just of your thunder Marco 22 game win streak but preseason gate. I don't understand why that's important to them.

When you go that many of the road becomes a source of pride that any game that you go out there.

You went that I can nursing about John Harbaugh. That's an organization. We did everything yeah miniatures the idea that we step on the field we will look you always say that no one really mean it when you start getting into you know we haven't lost the game and whatever nine years, it starts to become a sense of pride is I'm actually doing a radio hit on our Baltimore affiliate in a couple hours actually two hours from now with Rob Long was flying solo on this Monday mornings. You can catch me there appear the Baltimore area 1057 the fan and Rob is graciously invited me. I asked him why he doesn't ever invite me when it's the entire crew.

The other two guys. He said I don't trust them. Don't know that means but that's strictly to kill me. Maybe that I shared that so Baltimore in two hours on 1057 the fan otherwise podcast for the rest of you troopers you are listening to the after-hours podcast from right to left use after-hours BB Lawrence not only was a hole-in-one at the BMW championship by one lucky students get to go to college for free that we got the PGA Tour twitter and producer J had his well he had his side.

Twitter search engine going and came across this story of a hole-in-one for anyone at the at the at this particular events on the BMW and because of that. It's a four year $125,000 scholarship for an aspiring college student. The Evans scholars foundation and so with college tuition and housing scholarships to young caddies who have shown strong academics and have financial needs and so BMW is to fork over $125,000 to send one student to college which is pretty sweet on the PGA Tour. I admit you know me I love alliteration. They labeled it an ace alert that after hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS sports radio is Patrick can't lay who won this BMW championship going back to Sunday and so now are getting close to the end of the FedEx cup playoffs right after that the live tour lands in Boston for its next US event. So this kind of its US the wing the reports out there and it's not just one report its multiple reports indicate that there is a group of seven golfers who will be making the jump to the live tour for this next event in Boston and I looked for the names I did. I look to try to find a list of all seven. The only name that out there right now at least I could find. I didn't start paying for websites and all that jazz, but the only one that I could find is Kim Smith and this is been out there for a couple of weeks now think the telegraph may have been the first to share the news or break the news or to throw the speculation out there that the open champion winner, Cameron Smith, who is Australian is planning to make the jump to the live tour and part of the reason is that Greg Norman is his golfing idol as Greg Norman's Australian and is in charge of the live tour and so again the reports I've seen. Now and I've read multiple articles, most of them coming out of the UK that the live tour will announce seven more PGA golfers who will play in that Boston event and of course once they tee off in Boston.

They will be suspended indefinitely by the PGA Tour itself. It's after hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS sports radio was funny because the article that I read clearly had a slant to it. The headline was about seven more rebels who will make their jump to the PGA Tour. I allied times call them defections, but regardless went golf is not going away and this comes right on the heels of Tiger Woods flying into Wilmington, Delaware.

The where the beads in the BMW championship was being held trying to rally the PGA membership for unity and loyalty Rory McElroy calling him and I quote a hero you have. Oh okay well if that's the case, and now we find out we at least hear the rumor that seven more golfers will jump when the FedEx cup playoffs are over. It shows how much he cares about the tour, I think it shows how much he cares about the players that are coming through and are going to be the next generation. I mean, he's that hero that we've all looked up to raise his voice carries farther than anyone else's in the game of golf, you as rollers navigating us to the place where we all think we should bring Tiger take like a leadership position or was he just one the guys talk when you guys all met him and I think it's pretty apparent that whenever we all get on the room.

There's an elephant in their Rory McElroy in all of Tiger Woods flying to Delaware showing up to speed to the golfers. Apparently there were a lot of ideas generated. Maybe at some point we could talk about those, but there are a bunch of ideas generated about how the PGA could essentially make it store more relevant more attractive in the face of the live competition and everybody came out of that meeting just raving about Tigers appearance about his approach about the alpha in the room and yet even as the FedEx cup playoffs wrap up with the tour championship.

You could have another seven golfers make the jump.

Is it purely financial. Maybe, but it's got to the point where it's impossible to ignore.

And Kim Smith, the most recent major winner is also number two in the world. So maybe you didn't think Brooks Got Bryson to Shambaugh or Dustin Johnson or Phil Mickelson or Henrik Stenson were major losses at some point. One of these golfers whether it's Kim Smith number two who was so much fun to watch the open championship at some point.

One of these.

Another one of these may rack the golf world, to the point where it kind of fires up this war of words again or at the very least the live tour reminds the PGA that can't just dismiss us as if we matter, none I think is much as the talk from Commissioner Jay Monahan may be hey this is the altruistic path moving forward or of a nonprofit.

We engage in all these charitable organizations are we engage with all these charitable organizations we give back to the community were not just about the money there's been speculation, and certainly the PGA has thrown out a few new ideas for the upcoming seasons of the 23 season there. You have to accept it as real competition and beyond that. Okay so beyond just the talk and the PR the live tour can't even could to be even to rent of couldn't of purchased dividend tried over the course of the spring.

If the advertising dollars at some point the live tour will get a broadcast partner, maybe initially, that was ridiculous and the live was only a stream it's events live, but there will be a broadcast partner that will step up and take the plunge. If more and more of these golfers leave and so maybe doesn't happen this year. Maybe happens next year, but whether it's Amazon prime.

Whether it's another one of these outlets.

For instance, Apple TV is now streaming baseball games Apple plus I what they called Apple. I don't know what it's called Apple plus is now streaming baseball games and there are actual baseball games that you can only access the video. You can only access the video online. Even if you are in the actual market where the team plays they block you out.

You can only watch the games on Apple plus I have satellite radio.

For that reason, I can listen to any baseball game.

Any football game out of the home market and I do a lot of times there are games that I can't see when their live have to go back and watch them.

That's the value of radio golf on the radio that's completely different. I have listened to it all. Confess, but it's relatively slow, but if there are advertisers who partner with the live tour and a broadcast outlet that will partner with the live tour. Maybe right now it still little bit toxic little bit too controversial, but the more golfers make the jump. Advertisers recognize hey, it's an opportunity for us to make money is the almighty dollar in sports always. It's after hours with Amy Lawrence. Thanks for finding us on Twitter after hours. CBS or my twitter a lot radio is always good to know that I was missed, but I gotta tell you, I gave up trying to answer all your questions about my schedule and what I'm hosting. And if I'm changing timeslots.

I suppose it'll settle down as we get toward football and you'll figure it out eventually. Or maybe won't you be like the five-year-old that I had a conversation with on Saturday who said to me what the radio so I asked producer J how you like what you got all caught just caught in the trap pursue the question.

I really do tried to explain what a radio is like the technical side of a radio to a five-year-old what did you say to me it's that place first is that pulling the place where you can hear voice and what did you say to me after that. You said, it's that thing you understand what the so it was a little bit of a wake-up call. I don't know if she genuinely had never heard the term radio or heard the word radio or that radio to a five-year-old is obsolete because most people listen on their phones or or watch TV, but I will say that radio is immediate and exportable and is a constant companion and the format is so different than TV.

So, yes, a lot of people have podcasts 8,492,000 people with original podcasts, which is why when Jay and I start to add a special after hours after party to our YouTube channel. As a way to give you content that you will not hereinafter hours we are not going to label a podcast. He wanted to what I talked them down off that wall now instantly podcast all podcasts instantly get some people to get their eyes rolled back in their head or somebody podcasts.

No, it can be YouTube.

That's it.

The after hours after party on YouTube will give you more details. We will reconvene on Monday. I have a great day after hours with Amy Lawrence CBSSports radio