After Hours with Amy Lawrence PODCAST: Hour 1

All your reading them. Actually, because it is unbelievable the number of people who are reaching out to 1° or another about my schedule and what I'm hosting. If I'm on vacation changing timeslot by leaving the after hours show will first of all, after hours goes where I go after hours that exist without Amy Lawrence, so I guess you'll figure it out eventually I learned this phrase a couple years ago there was a producer whose mom said it to them a lot or maybe was a guest to his mom fitted to them a lot. You get what you get and you don't get upset. So it is during the summer time and like you I need to have all during the summer time as well. And so now I'm not on vacation this week but I will be on vacation coming up before football starts about that. It'll be a guessing game every night you get what you get and you don't get upset football coming though, so don't worry.

Once football starts. You know, we allow the NFL to run our lives here in after hours because that's the best way to do if you find it, you just waste a lot of energy, that you can't really afford to waste J and I producer Jane. I had a big meeting on Sunday planning football and getting ready for the football season and it took quite a while. It was a pretty long video call that we did.

We went through a bunch of our priorities in our preparation and some of our production needs and wants. And so it was it was a big chunk of the Sunday afternoon and as I was texting mom before I came into work. I said spent a couple hours talking to Jay getting over football season which she responds with it early for that know mom it definitely is not.

Football is sneaking up is creeping actually. Football is always creeping it's creeping on our schedule now 24, seven and 12 months out of the year but for this.

I guess the discussion that were having for this particular point.

The fact is that football begins in 2 1/2 weeks and I got a vacation between now and then and so it's time and actually I wanted to have our meeting last week and it just didn't work out so we are in full football prep mode because the season is nearly here and you know three weeks from tonight will be immersed in the first NFL Sunday of the season seriously. So it is a big week of brainstorming and planning for our 22 football coverage. I ask you for your suggestions, but I really want to see them so that's what's happening this week on after hours before I then start getting ready for my vacation. I think until the last second. I never do this.

I never save my summer bait vacation. My summer break until the last second. I usually take it in July sometime and I'm taking a couple of days here there to spend time with family it back. This month is the first family time I've had since Christmas actually take that back, since my Grammy Helen's birthday in April.

We were some of us were together in Wisconsin to celebrate her 100, but since then it's the first family time I've had.

I have not seen my mom since Christmas.

I hadn't seen my nieces or my sister-in-law until earlier this month I had been over a year since I'd seen them. Some try to make up for lost family time and doing a lot of it this month and then also taking a vacation to visit Houston coming up right before football if I have any kind of travel problems well, I may miss the start of football season is because I am literally staying until I have to come back Tuesday in the NFL season kicks off on Thursday following Labor Day so yeah back loading the time off and back loading some vacation and so no I'm not quite back to the normal routine but pretty soon pretty soon you will have all of my attention ends. Most of my affection. It's after hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS sports radio or live from the rocket mortgage Studios when you need an expert to help navigate the home loan process rocket to Canada you can find me on Twitter a lot radio also on her Facebook page after hours with Amy Lawrence and we've also got our YouTube channel that we've done a lot of work on this summer and actually were including that in our planning for the upcoming football season as well because when things get extremely busy and the schedule becomes really tight. We want to make sure we set aside time for our social media including our YouTube channel so that the named after the show. Also easy to find after hours with Amy Lawrence, a couple of you when I posted about the NFL season, being three weeks away.

Some of you pushed back with no it's baseball season. I didn't respond with job I love it when people tell me I don't think he was man's planing but I love it when people tell me how you know it's this or it's that this is what I do for a living. Trust me for the last 20 years. My entire life has revolved around the sport calendar, but it can actually be two or three or four seasons all at the same time, not the weather but sports especially in October in October is the only month of the year in which all for the major team sports in the US are in operation and so yes we have to make room for football.

Essentially, the NFL and college football. They become this big 40 pound gorilla cigarillos are way more than that right 600 pound gorilla 700 pound gorilla was there some show about a 800 pound gorilla earth that the NFL becomes this, but he met in the center ring of the circus and refuses to move over, as you just at a crowd in our rep honed the NFL so it's coming but it's not here yet know some of you lamenting the end of summer, not me. I enjoy the lazier weekends. I will give you that. But I am so ready for the heat and humidity to be gone so I'll take the cold any time that I might need to move to. Well, not Siberia and Alaska actually has warm weather two as we know, man.

I am ready for summer to be for summer weather to be gone. I'm okay with the temperatures getting cooler actually when my brother and my nieces were visiting late last week we did a concert in New York City on Thursday night.

Actually, radio city music Hall was a lot of fun to going to the city with my famine to take photos even though the city was wall to wall bodies and not all that much fun to navigate but anyway, even as we were doing that couple nights that week so I had company at the house for a few nights.

We were able to open up all the windows and turn off the AC because the tents got into the upper 50s. It was fantastic. I'm ready for that bring on all of the fall weather and that humidity kill it kill the humidity. Let it die. That's what I say I don't find us on Twitter or Facebook and then our phone number 855-212-4227 it's 855-2124 CBS love to catch up with you and it's always good to hear from you except for with all your questions that I just I can't keep up with anymore. So other than that though, you'll figure it out. I have great faith in you to figure it out as we had to this week and we get closer to football, yet still a lot happening on the baseball diamond. Everything from show hey Otani with the stomach illness to the Mets and Yankees on a crash course for another edition of the Subway series though I hate using the word series for two games, but they split up their theories to it city field to at Yankee Stadium so were getting to the back half of that full four game series. Also, the Astros and the Braves in a big clash over the weekend in Atlanta you would know what I heard. This is know this is true. I'm looking to pass along what I heard. This is totally hearsay on my part. When I was driving home from a rafting trip that I took on Saturday and I'll tell you guys a couple of fun stories from that was it was a bold move. I may have never done anything like this before, but it was it was pretty cool anyway I was driving home and it was about 70 miles I was listening to the radio as I was driving and I came across the Mets broadcast with Howie Rose and Wayne Randazzo and they're talking about whether giving scores for all the other games that are going on baseball and they're talking about the NL East and the standings and how he rose that he mentions Robert Ford and Steve Sparks who are the Astros broadcast team who are now in the visiting booth at truest Park, the home of the Braves and he says roaches had what he say cockroaches. So many cockroaches as big as any mention some other animal like a member exactly what the animal was but a big animal to indicate that these cockroaches were mammoth and joy nor myth in the radio booth at the Atlanta Braves the home park gamesmanship because the disgusting are people leaving grows and you know how it is a cockroaches and you can't kill them and be where there are two or three. There are many, many more daring colonies, cockroach colonies away so I don't know why he would make that up. He didn't say he was joking he didn't laugh about it. He said it in a fairly serious manner as though he word kind of grossed and freaked out by it and was offering sympathy for the radio team of the Astros because they were now working in such conditions that 80 I mean I don't love spiders. In fact, they freak me out, but I'd rather deal with a spider any day over a cockroach. I think there's a lot anything to do with having to convince people to talk rosettes like face-to-face not just the biggest fears are not my biggest fear of relatively harmless, it just means your Dick usually can't pay their hard to kill and be it's an infestation. Generally, there's never just one.

There's usually a lot more of them and they can be nasty and disgusting. I'm not saying that I want to have cockroaches, but his okay well still, I'd I think there are other things that I would be more afraid of, but just the idea that they would be in the visitors radio booth at a major-league baseball park. I don't know if that's they say some type of gamesmanship by the Braves yikes would be right away. Just it will give you the heebie-jeebies just to hear that if I was sitting in the radio booth call you Jim and I saw a cockroach like crawl across my feeder come anywhere near me. How could you focus your attention on the game. The rest of that point on.

One time I was sitting courtside at the tennis Hall of Fame in a match was going on. I was the match announcer the match and see and a mouse crawled right across my I was in barefoot, but I had sandals on cold right across my foot, my sandals and I couldn't do anything because I was sitting courtside. I couldn't yell that big ball was impolite and so it will you'll never ever ever in your life be more impressed with my self-control. Then that day when I didn't utter a peep my face so my friend and I might like. I was yelling, but I was yelling silently and I wasn't feeling like that but my face was no way that's impressive thinking on like they would. Well, he can kick me out is that works there, but there was a match going on and I was sitting literally 20 feet from one of the competitors so I couldn't say anything yet freaking creepy, though. Here's the thing. Living in Georgia when I did that when I was younger. We lived in Georgia for a little bit. In fact, the Athens area, but we also lived in Macon Georgia. For those of you who are familiar with the geography. The Georgia geography. I remember we lived in a trailer for a little while.

That was where I got chickenpox where he did not have your condition and where yes we also had cockroaches. So we were where relatively poor when I was growing up. And so we had to deal with them to. I remember them and they are certainly freaky but to have them in a visitors radio booth at a baseball stadium seems awkward at best and disgusting and disturbing at worst. I hope that's I hope is just a nasty rumor, but I can't imagine that Howie Rose would just make that up. I just tend to trust Howie Rose.

That's the job better when they to do something you can kill him to try one that you can eventually just didn't know it. It's about bombing not like bombs that you would drop on never modify where you live nuclear attacks not yet but you can't smoke up my decisions that those smoke bombs.

You can actually get rid of them is not impossible to get rid of that was a major league ballpark that dropped from airplanes, but the blowing of all right so anyway I don't know how I got off on that digit, but I was I was flummoxed when I heard Allie Rose say that I didn't drive off the road or anything, but wow wasn't expecting that. So Allie Rose drop that little gem on the Mets broadcast over the weekend, but mostly I was talking about Astros and Braves, and the fact that those two teams, the World Series champs and the team that right now has the best record in the American League were locked in a battle in Atlanta. So we'll get to that series plus the Mets and the Phillies in the NL East and the Yankees boy.

I'm not sure that the one way, and on Sunday does a whole Lotta good but it was highly entertaining to see Aaron Boone lose his cool although producer Jay is sure that it was staged.

What way do you also believe that the will Smith Oscar slap was staged.

Not sure but sure is that you're waiting until what is a tell-all book.

Five years down the road you that as much. Okay little fish is always fishy in Hollywood second weekend of the NFL preseason and will update you on some of the quarterback battles as well as the injuries that happen this weekend.

Tom Brady is expected back this week.

Todd Bowles says earlier in the week rather than later in the week and as you may or may not know some of you certainly do know this. I was a knock here late last week to react to DeShawn Watson settlement with the NFL that will suspend him 11 games and also force him to pay a $5 million fine will hear from DeShawn Watson as well as from Andrew Berry courses.

One major piece of why the Browns have given DeShawn a fully guaranteed $230 million contract and I would be interested in your reaction even though it may be old news to some of you now so you can find us on Twitter and Facebook. I promise photos on Facebook tonight.

I did put a few up on Twitter over the weekend. All my goodness, I think I need to retire from sports radio and become a photographer because I am mesmerized by photos, especially of weather and inanimate objects. So on Saturday I was coming back from my rafting trip and I stop to this lookout point in the mountains that surround the Delaware River and I got some amazing scenes of a sunset with these gorgeous clouds so if you haven't seen it all retweeted now a law radio so that you can see it because it's it's pretty amazing. And then also when I was in New York City with my family late last week. I happen to be walking down a street in Midtown and I it's one of those buildings in front of me towers in front of me. It's got those blue windows that provide incredible reflection.

I am staring into this reflection, realizing I'm seeing the Empire State building in almost a near perfect reflection of me thinks I was able to snap the varsity building with the clouds above it, but it's reflected in a building in front of me when it's actually behind me.

It's so cool so you want to check out those photos he'll retweet them twice now are we to retreat them both on Twitter, a law radio and I promise that I will put them up on Facebook as well.

With the help of producer Jay and one more thing.

It's actually a bit of a milestone that were marking here on after hours this week so there's a lot to do head to the desert coming up in 45 minutes because Kyler Murray was once again wearing a headset and JJ Watt has more time to reflect on how to get snakes out of his bathroom were just starting off the workweek it as actually a more typical work week. If you know what I mean. It's after hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS sports radio you are listening to the after-hours podcast want to purchase credit slide by Goldie at third and I can know are not "through this time of the seven Cardinals take a leave is there was this after-hours baby Lawrence right now. Life is good. If you are a Cardinals fan was Cardinals have padded their lead atop the NL Central and to a man they keep talking about how much fun they're having. While yeah winning is definitely fun. Anyone will tell you that in professional sports winning tends to cover a lot of personality conflicts tends to cover a lot of guys who may be disgruntled about contracts or their contract situation. If you're waiting tends to be a hell of a lot easier to be around your teammates and then to be going to the grind day in and day out. The Cardinals are in a good space right now and I am all about St. Louis making the postseason so that we can see Albert approvals on the October stage. Again know he was there with the Dodgers last year, but this is St. Louis.

This is home. This is where he won two rings. Of course, build the bulk of his Hall of Fame career and it's also where he is inching ever closer to baseball immortality. Bumgarner with the pitch number showing a high fly ball center failed to track all walls second and will as the red-hot 32 pitch. Albert is hard left-center. So who will this one line soon be his. This was so those are so Albert approvals says he's retiring. No matter what.

He doesn't care how many home runs he finishes with. He said he never thought he would get to this point is an interview that he did with USA today before he went out and crank 691 and 692 you guys. He ate away from 700 would be only the fourth player in baseball history to hit 700 home runs, he is now breathing down the neck of Albert Albert of Alex Rodriguez, so to speak. Rodriguez finished his career with 696 for more to tie a rod five to pass them and don't tell me there would be a ton of people who would love to see approvals pass a rod. I hope including A-Rod himself and he only needs eight more to reach baseball immortality. The calls on Cardinals radio is after hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS sports radio.

So yes, he says, no matter what he's retiring that he's glad he announced it before the season is not changing his mind. He's having a blast. But this is it for him.

He hit number 690 on was it Thursday Thursday. They had 690 or Friday Thursday maybe and hit 691 is 692 on Saturday which gave them six dingers in the past 10 days. He now has six weeks to hit home runs. Oliver marble, as well as others around that the Cardinals organization are saying he's gonna do it.

No doubt he's gonna hit 700 and I cannot wait. Here's what else I love the rest of the sports world is just starting to wake up to it we talking about this since before the season began, I was doing CBSSports minutes about Albert Gould hitting 700 with the Cardinals before the season ever started look. It looked to be a real long shot early in the season you know you only 1/2 dozen home runs in the first half of the year and now here he is just eight away with two games in the last I think 10 days in which he's maybe even fewer days and that which he's had two home runs he barely missed another one on Sunday. I'm all about it.

My feel-good story of the summer you want more people to tune in. Through the stretch run in September on into October well put Albert approvals front and center. Did you see how baseball responded to him how the fans responded to him at the All-Star break. I love baseball at the home run Derby W thank you I love you too. We gotta get down and dirty in the NL East so there's no cockroaches and also the Yankees have won 10 of their last 30 games of the last 30 according to Aaron Boone, the AL East is still up for the taking meeting. He doesn't think they've secured it now despite how horribly abysmally. They played since the All-Star break they still own an eight-game lead in the division, but it used to be a lot heftier than that.

So the raise.

The Jays even the Orioles are doing work, try to catch up with them. I don't know if the rest of the division has enough time, but I do know the Yankees don't look so formidable anymore, and in fact Brian Cashman got booted on Sunday at Yankee Stadium. This is the team that set this torrid base in the first half, to the point where people were talking about history and maybe the best record in Yankees history. But not just that challenging for the best record the most wins in a season.

All time was so much for that. Now the Yankees may not even have the best record in the American League and may not be a favorite going into October, oh what a difference a couple months makes, so will update you. Plus, were in a dive into the NFL preseason with some QB news. We will couple of fun announcements just teases really as we hurtle our way toward football season. No college football kicks off even earlier than the NFL. Glad to have you with us. Thank you for all your questions. I know that means that you miss me or that your nosy one of the other, but I suppose there's an element of care to being nosy after hours with Amy Lawrence. You are listening to the after-hours podcast could answer these questions about this date in this perplexing and play better. In the in the great thing is what is right here and we can fix it there.

We can we can run away with this thing.

We got there to do if we don't score the wind and will answer the same questions of my perplexed grace after-hours Lori and there's even a little desk pounding for the manager of the New York Yankees. I think that was organic produce are day things that was staged, or that it was forced at the very least that he did it on purpose to try to make it very clear that he is frustrated, but that it looked completely unnatural and did not appear as though it was an actual reaction from Aaron Boone to how putrid the Yankees have its way.

Since the All-Star break no way that the point is it that awkward because it's so out of character for Aaron Boone and let's be honest, he's generally awkward. A lot of the times in front of the media anyway regardless of whether or not it was staged. It still became a big headline on Saturday night and then on into Sunday as the scuffling Yankees were trying to avoid a sweep at the hands of who the Toronto Blue Jays inside their division. You may believe that the AL East is up for grabs, may agree with Aaron Boone when it comes to that, or you may think of the Yankees still have too large of a lead. Regardless, the Yankees do not want to go into September and then on into October, playing as poorly as they had their giving up most of their real estate that they establish during the first half and while one when does not turn around this major slide that the Yankees are on a win is a win is a win is a win one other note laboratories all the no vaccine or that they drew Ben and candy and then John Sterling on Yanks radios are two runs in the seventh to push the Yankees past the Jays and on the yes network been intending admitting yeah were trying to turn this thing around, but it's not easy were scuffling that was huge. The Yankees avoid the sweep and Aaron Boone was, not pounding the table after Sundays when it definitely was one of those moments you know. No sleeker will going through. That was a big blow to an important game. A lot of really good things happen today on both sides of the ball to allow us to wind up quality game and hopefully it is something that gets his movement, but it also owns one good one feels better, especially after the close velocity drop in the sewers number one discarding of it is just the 10th win in 30 games for the New York Yankees you're going the wrong way. It's after hours with Amy Lawrence on CBSSports radio Giancarlo Stanton is now doing a rehab stint so he may be back in the Yankees lineup, but the frustrations for the Yankees are obvious to the point where you got Garrett Cole punching the dugout roof a couple of times and not with you before Aaron Boone was pounding the podium during a postgame press conference.

That's what you want your eggs right in front of locating the dugout and your manager. I guess no one really cares whether or not the manager break the hand or hurts his his finger but the fact that the Yankees GM was Buddha while the team was retiring Paul O'Neill's number on Sunday they still top division by eight games but Yankees fans that the natives are getting restless over the way the team is playing, and so is Boone. Clearly it's been the offense. Just when people would appoint all fingers of the pitching the pitching pitching actually started to come around and were getting quality starts, the Yankees were and so now it's been the offense is completely disappeared and that's what doomed the Yankees in their last couple of postseason appearances the last couple of Octobers and so 10 wins in their last 30 games and now they have the first placemats with a better record invading the Bronx on both Monday and Tuesday and the mats. While they may not have won seven in a row like the Cardinals there's still the team to beat in the NL East to balls to strike stick out. Everybody delivers this one on my lap it's pretty character and she looks up at a certain way. The first phase is as is fired up as you just had too many close moments like this years Wrangler in the book there is a good one you think Buck Showalter seeing his team with 10 runs on 16 hits and a rally against the Phillies here. Scott Prensky first calling that homerun by Segarra producer Jade I happened to be on the phone doing our football planning meeting. Our sash is a call it. While this was happening, and cigarette was dancing around the bases like he just had to walk off. He runs to first base. His Albert goes flying. He's jumping and leaping and celebrating.

It was the eighth-inning and they were done fired up. See my point and then how he rose with the Mets rally in the ninth inning as they score 3 runs again in the ninth and they answer and get the win so Mark can out with this big about what he says that had too many of those this season. Buck Showalter remains calm. For the most part and the mats still had that lead atop the National League East sued for them to not so much because we know that the brains are capable of putting together a run and have multiple times, but also because the Phillies had been hot to even in the month of August. They strung together a bunch of wins.

So for now the Mets lead over the Braves is more, the Braves lost to the Astros on Sunday, but Atlanta with eight wins in their last 10 and no doubt the Phillies will be back because again they've shown some great life since they made the managerial change, even though they did lose three of four to the Mets in this weekend series. It's after hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS sports radio. Another note from major league baseball show a Otani was dealing with a stomach illness and didn't last very long. Against the Tigers in Detroit. Though the Tigers made that something to do with that green bedding first pitch live all right sooner feel this will all will will Tigers to go flyball Whitefield heading for the corner in this wall is one half of the baseball screen. He's going to score 2nd and third time is to face of all zero the fourth three runs on five hits and four walks. That's with the Tigers generating and show a Otani Jim Price with the calls on Tigers radio. We only last four innings. He leaves with a stomach ailment and maybe that was the major reason why he was so vulnerable yet Ajay Hinch saw his Tigers make quick work of the reigning AL MVP didn't really do believe especially just a really good pictures is called the unknown of a farmer to build multiple thoughts against stomach virus is what they're calling it for Otani what they say gets hit early by the Tigers and also I just not super accurate. So Kurt Suzuki pinch-hit for him in the fifth something you don't often see with show way and that he got replaced on the mound in the bottom of the inning and said that he didn't feel well all day just didn't want to miss a game.

For that reason, any refused to blame the stomach virus afterwords but didn't last past the fourth we had one more cool moment for major league baseball on Sunday night and that was in Williamsport Williamsport.

Why does that sound weird Little League World Series. Yet Williamsport PA, while the sudden that came out of my mouth and did not sound right but it was it was an opportunity for baseball to connect to with the stars in the future if you will, and so was the Red Sox and it was the Orioles and a neat neat atmosphere and need to feel the little kiddos. And really, if you've ever listen to a crowd that was mostly kids couple couple of ways. I've had first-hand knowledge of that the mentioned being an MC at the tennis Hall of Fame in Newport Rhode Island actually was doing that for more than a decade on kids today.

Not only is the decibel level so much higher, but it's sure will noise when it's little kids who were screaming and yelling and getting excited that it wasn't quite that way in Williamsport, but in his Little League classic. The baseball was playing. It was an opportunity for the Red Sox and Orioles to connect connect with these kids. And in many cases they were interacting with them to put on a show for them there and you could definitely hear the cheering in this tiny stadium in Williamsport. It was off.

It was just a different tone.

A different quality, different happiness, if you will be happy is Kyler Murray happy to find out, After hours CBS sports radio