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Episode 184: A Boyhood Baseball Card Come to LIFE!

October 16, 2020 01:38:13

He led the league in triples his rookie year!

It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain and Bob Page!

A trash-talking softball player — in his 80’S?! THAT is ex-Tiger JAKE WOOD who still thanks baseball every day for his life
YOU’VE got nothing to do — right? So you’re obviously watching EIGHT HOURS of baseball every day — right?!
All those impressive young pitchers in the MLB Playoffs? Fred’s upset! He says the Tigers’ kids are NOT in the same league.
Meanwhile, still another new name’s in the hat to become Detroit’s latest manager. But how attractive really is the job?
Bob finally gets some company on the show: Fred joins him in walking sports’ COVID-19 tightrope!
Nick Saban is the latest big-name to fall victim — but HE’S ready to coach Bama versus Georgia Saturday night.
Ex-MSU All-American Le’Veon Bell already banished by the Jets. Fred knows him well. What IS this guy’s problem?
The Big (14) hasn’t even started its delayed football season, yet here come Tom Izzo, Juwan Howard and basketball!
It’s The Clash of the Titans Sunday in Jacksonville and Denny has some surprising news about the FL’s.
Yet it won’t be nearly as surprising as when he tells you the identity of his TRUE baseball idol.
Those stories, YOUR mailbag segment and much more right here!

Episode 183: What a Magical Time it Was!

October 12, 2020 01:30:36

You never wanted to miss a game!

It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain and Bob Page!

The Bird chirping for the Tigers and BRUCE KIMM behind the plate. Mark Fidrych’s personal catcher joins us!
Kaline, Brock, Seaver, Gibson — and now two MORE baseball immortals are gone: Whitey Ford and Joe Morgan.
LeBron says a championship is a championship — is still a championship. The boys say, “Not so fast!”
Bob cites abysmal TV ratings for the NBA Finals and wonders if the league will ever be the same.
Are you ready for some football — on TUESDAY nights too? Get used to it as COVID-19 postpones more games.
Ya say if the Lions lose to a miserable Jaguars team Sunday you wanna fire Matt Patricia? Who’s taking his place?
Stevie Y with another flurry of signings and the future looks bright! So Wings fans CLAIM, but will the honeymoon last?
And Eli’s apoplectic over the LATEST cavalry charge by the mindless P.C. Posse.
“I traded a WHITE CAPTAIN for you!” highlights “This Day in Sports,” plus YOUR mailbag and much more — right here.
Eli has ‘”This Day in Sports,” Bob has YOUR mailbag and much more right here!

Episode 181: The “Doctor” is IN!

October 5, 2020 01:36:33

A career in football took precedent over medicine.

Welcome to the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain and Bob Page!

Another top Lions talent — College Football HOF member! — WASTED in Detroit: FREDDIE SCOTT is our guest!
Experts claimed Denny had some fake items in his big weekend sale. BFD — if ya listen to DENNY, that is.
Another NFL Sunday usually means it’s time for another “Bob Page’s Lions Lament” — and you got it!
Eli’s been talking to sources and now thinks he knows HOW the incompetent Ford family destroyed the Lions.
What better guy to discuss Bob Gibson AND adventures with the late Cards’ superstar pitcher than Denny McLain?
Jimmy Butler of the Miami Heat: what a GAME Sunday night! Yet his life story is even better.
Bill Laimbeer’s a WHAT?! Bob has a choice term for the ex-Pistons star but respects him as a coach. Eli does NOT.
Oh, those HORRIBLY biased play-by-play and color commentators on national TV! The boys cry “Bull—-!”
Eli has ‘”This Day in Sports,” Bob has YOUR mailbag and much more right here!

Episode 176: D Mac: Amazing Story, GREAT Interview!

September 17, 2020 01:43:02

I bleed red and white.

It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Denny McLain, Bob Page and Fred Heumann!

“The game’s too fast. I don’t think I could’ve played now.” One of the most popular players in Wings’ history, guest DARREN McCARTY, has a LOT to say with us!
Guest HOST Fred Heumann has covered The Big Ten(14) for many years so HE has a lot to say about conference football suddenly — huh? — being back ON now?
Michigan QB Dylan McCaffrey is just the latest college player to opt out of the season. But the boys agree: this AIN’T about COVID-19.
With a near-certain loss at Green Bay Sunday, Bob takes a peek at the FLs’ schedule and MAY yet get Denny to flip-flop on a coaching change.
Yep, Mr. Heumann should fit right in with THIS show. Wait’ll you hear him utterly DESTROY Matt Patricia!
So, are we watching football games on TV — or oh-so-hot young women hosting a fashion show?! Shame on gals like Maria Taylor? No. Shame on The Empty Suits.
Eek! Oh, NO! It’s (gulp) those big bullies, the Cleveland Indians, licking their chops over the Tigers series this weekend — but all is NOT lost for the future.
Ever researched why those famous figures are on the front of “Sgt Peppers?” How about also researching why DIFFERENT famous figures are now “seated” at Comerica?
Bob gets us up to speed on the NBA and NHL playoffs. Denny responds to him, “Who cares?! NOBODY’S gonna watch!”
The U.S. Open is underway — right after the U.S. Open just ENDED Sunday! This time it’s GOLF. Denny, ahem, claims to have nearly tamed fabled Winged Foot.
With Eli off, we’ll save his “This Day in Sports” for Monday’s show, but Bob’s got YOUR mailbag and WE’VE got much more — right here.

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Episode 131: SELL! No, BUY! Whither YOUR Dough?

April 13, 2020 1:07:39

I don’t think we’ll ever have an opportunity like this again.

It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain and Bob Page!

Stand by for our big Masters recap! NOT. It WOULD have concluded Sunday but the sports world remains on hold.
Are the NBA and NHL playoffs about to be played soon anyway? Is the start to the MLB season?
Sports-starved Eli and Denny say THEY’LL watch! Bob says he WON’T; not in empty arenas and stadiums.
So what are SOME watching NOW? TV shows for Eli and Denny. H-O-R-S-E with famous basketball players on national TV?!
Seems like Tom Brady and his agents are looking to trademark half of Tampa! Distasteful? Greedy?
Drew Brees has just been recruited again — but not by Purdue. Are TV sports execs crazy? WAIT. Don’t answer that.
RIP Doug Sanders, Glenn Beckert, Colby Cave, Tarvaris Jackson, Tom Webster, Pat Stapleton and Stirling Moss.
MONEY talk — YOUR money! Sponsor Luke Nowacki offers some suggestions on what you might want to do now.
Meanwhile, many of you have graciously offered to donate to our show in the past. We have an announcement to make.
In YOUR mailbag this week: ANGER at “leftist” Eli, other media people POACHING us(?!), an Al Kaline controversy
And it’s all coming up for you right here!

Ron LeFlore with an X symbol over his face

Episode 121: Waiting for Godot? Waiting for Ronnie!

March 9, 2020 1:15:12

He’s SO unreliable!

It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain and Bob Page!

He PROMISED he was going to come on with us, but Ron LeFlore wouldn’t pick up his phone — even for three old pals!
That doesn’t stop the boys from telling some good Ronnie tales anyway, such as the time Jim Campbell …
Each week the sex scandal at Michigan seems to grow. But what can be done now with the principals all dead?
Now the Wolverines and Spartans ready for the annual bogus, made-only-for-TV/publicity Big 13+Rutgers tournament.
The NFL votes on its new contract Thursday. Eli wages a passionate argument on behalf of its young players.
Tony Romo last week, Al Michaels and Peyton Manning getting MILLIONS this week?! CRAZY — or NOT?
•Bob gives us a Tigers spring training update from just around the corner in West Palm Beach.
(Gulp!) Will the Coronavirus shut down all of sports?! How about some FACTS to quell the mindless panic going on.
A REAL shocker here, gang: Denny McLain wants to talk about the Wings and HOCKEY?! Bob does too. As usual, Eli does NOT.
But wait! He doesn’t want to talk about his beloved Pistons either. Or Tom Izzo either. What’s up with THIS?!
Uh, he’s in Florida this week and had a tee time to get to! Those stories, YOUR mailbag and more right here.

Episode 99: Ray Scott: I Could NEVER Coach in Today’s NBA!

December 23, 2019 01:29:05

It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain, and Bob Page.

The NBA a “BUSH LEAGUE?!” It sure WAS and a man who lived the era, ex-Piston Ray Scott, joins us to talk about it all.
Yep, the FL’s lost again, but now FL’s ADDICTS are EXCITED about a high draft pick! Bob sez they’ll just blow it anyway.
What is the best football broadcast team YOU’VE ever heard? We’ll tell you about OUR pick.
Would Urban Meyer really coach the Cowboys? Simple question/answer? NO, as Eli and Denny gang up on Bob AGAIN!
Denny and Bob even duke it out on baseball’s new computer umpiring. Mr. McLain seems to be singing a new tune.
The Tigers have a couple new free-agent signees but the question persists: does Al Avila have a CLUE what he’s doing?
Super-agent Scott Boras is now guaranteed a cool $50 million for this past MONTH! His CLIENTS signed for a BILLION!
Trouble for Minor League Baseball? There’ll be trouble for ALL if MLB puts more than 40 MiLB teams out of business!
If you’re a basketball fan you likely watch the NBA — but millions AREN’T. Would an in-season tourney aid TV ratings?
Those stories, the Dead Wings with their “Coach for Life,” YOUR weekly mailbag and much more right here.

Episode 67: Who’s the Handsome Young Man and What Kind of Car is THAT?!

August 29, 2019 01:09:02

It’s a Ford Thunderbird, and I still had my fastball then!

It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain and Bob Page.

Are the Tigers planning to name one of their biggest ex-stars manager? SHOULD Gardy go?
Could be worse. After Derek’s Jeter’s destruction of the Marlins, the Tigers still draw much better than THEY do!
Football is back and Denny alleges that Michigan and Michigan State are playing “all-girls teams” to start the year!
Bob says you can’t talk about MSU any more without including its latest embarrassing news.
Et tu, DUKE?! Zion Williamson will begin his NBA career with lawsuit after lawsuit.
Wesley Walker is one of the latest ex-NFL stars who’s in big trouble over what the game did to his body.
Eli and Denny equate this whole sordid injury situation to the #MeToo movement.
And our mailbag segment includes a great pic of a young Denny and his “mystery car.”
Those stories and much more coming up right here!

Ron LeFlore on cover of The Sporting News

Episode 64: The Legend of Ron LeFlore? You Ain’t Heard THESE Stories!

August 19, 2019 01:12:07

He learned baseball just to get out of prison.

It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain and Bob Page.

Afraid of injury, superstars are now sitting out the entire pre-season — yet the shameless NFL is charging fans full price anyway?
The Raiders have issued Bonehead Brown an ultimatum: “all-in or all-out!”
There was only one Joe Namath, but Bob has his OWN “guarantees” about Michigan football this year.
Tiger and Phil looking more and more like they’re done. Next stop Senior’s Tour? Would Tiger play on it?
So how’s Nick Castellanos doing in Chicago? You don’t want to know.
And, speaking of the Cubs, Eli & Denny nearly come to BLOWS over an outrageous incident in a recent game!
“Two hot dogs and two — WHAT?!” Before a former Tigers star ventured out on the field?!
“Haters gonna hate,” as they say. Boy, do a couple of you hate Bob!
And Mike Tyson puts Eli to shame — or so he CLAIMS. Eli calls “bull-bleep!”
Those stories and much more right here!

Episode 62: “Student-Athlete!” And He’s Being Punished for It?!

August 12, 2019 01:07:42

How can you punish scholarship???

It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain and Bob Page.

(GULP!) $30,000,000 a year — and it’s (GULP!) not enough dough?!
Eli seems fascinated by the new season of HBO’s “Hard Knocks.” Bob is decidedly not.
After just one pre-season game the NFL’s list of seriously injured players is already high.
Plus, helmet controversy, replay on pass interference — and will YOU be able to legally gamble on football soon?
Even small local newspapers are ganging up on the Toothless Tigers now!
And how’s this for a switch? A great prep football player ruled ineligible because he STUDIES too much?!
Those stories, the boys with some more of those old baseball stories for you and much more right here!