Tom Seaver
Episode 172: Shep: LIVIN’ THE DREAM!
It’s a blast…every single day.
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain, and Bob Page!
- So how do you get to be an MLB play-by-play announcer? Guest MATT SHEPARD had a VERY unusual path to the Tigers!
- The sports world mourns the death of one of the greatest pitchers ever. The boys reminisce on Tom Terrific.
- The Tigers’ win streak ended at six. With five games against the Twins now on tap, is this the season’s telling point?
- Looks like Eli’s suddenly started to watch the NBA playoffs. He did NOT like what he saw from one game in particular.
- Bob on the NHL Playoffs: Is the great Zdeno Chara finally finished at 43 — or just finished in Boston?
- Get ready, gamblers! Denny has his pick on Saturday’s Kentucky Derby for you — NOT!
- Legal sports gambling rages on. Denny updates us on what the Cubs are doing — and WHAT’S that about MJ?!
- Big Ten(14!) football after all? President Trump will want to take credit IF that occurs — but would he deserve to?
- MSU’s Kirk Cousins raked over the coals by the media for his ideas about COVID-19! Denny and Eli to the rescue.
- How much would YOU pay for a presence at FL’s games? “ZERO?” Producer Brandon McAfee sez $100 but he does have limits.
- Eli with “This Day in Sports History,” Bob’s got YOUR mailbag segment and much more right here!
Episode 163: MISTER MICHIGAN: Brandy himself!
A very timely guest!
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain, and Bob Page!
- What did Bo know and when did he know it? Just one of MANY topics for us with U-M football voice JIM BRANDSTATTER!
- So why would Bo allegedly allow sexual abuse by his own team doctor to go on? Eli’s sources have an explosive theory!
- How could Michigan lose a five-star tackle from right under their noses? The kid’s own father wants to know that too.
- Seven-inning games?! Eli’s so upset with MLB’s silliness he cries, “START THE DAMN GAME IN THE THIRD INNING THEN!”
- And now MLB is one-sixth through its season. Not weird enough? As of Monday the Tigers would be in the playoffs!
- Long-time sportscaster Jamie Samuelsen has died at just 48, joining a host of Detroit media members already gone too soon.
- Denny’s got figures on the NFL players who’ve opted out of the season. Bob asks again, “didn’t anybody PLAN for this?”
- The NBA is back! NHL too! Both leagues started off with showy Black Lives Matter displays. Has BLM gone too far now?
- Bob with a bold prediction for Michigan State basketball, which just went through a VERY eventful week.
- Those stories, “This Day in Sports,” YOUR mailbag segment and much more coming up right here!
Episode 151: “SUDDEN Sam McDowell?” SCARY Sam!
Something of a terror on the mound.
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain, and Bob Page!
- SAM McDOWELL: I worried about killing a batter my entire career. Sam has an amazing life story and he joins the boys!
- We have a winner from the Belmont Stakes — DENNY! Others say ANYBODY coulda picked Tiz the Law.
- Eli (GULP!) went OUT to a restaurant Saturday night and almost NO ONE was wearing a mask! He’s still with us — so far.
- Many athletes have tested positive for COVID-19, not that they’ll have symptoms. Should sports just go away at this point?
- Controversy over the Confederate flag NOT going away for a while — but a NOOSE hung in the garage of a black NASCAR driver?!
- Muhammad Ali Jr. says his late father - and Eli’s hero - would not have supported BLM. Eli pooh-poohs him.
- The Pistons hired - WHO? - Troy Weaver as GM. Bob only wonders why there’s an extra executive ABOVE him.
- The DH is FINALLY coming to the National League! When you hear Mr. McDowell talk about HIS HITTING, you’ll know why.
- Two statues of well-known former team owners REMOVED. NYC even removes a statue of Teddy Roosevelt!
- When the Tigers DO play again, don’t be surprised if THEY remove the statue of TY COBB from Comerica Park.
- Those stories, YOUR mailbag segment and much more right here!
Episode 122: “Panic at the DISCO?” Panic EVERYWHERE!!!
It’s not panic. It’s called precaution.
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain and Bob Page!
- The most famous AND controversial ump in MLB, COWBOY JOE WEST, joins us today with LOTSA great stories!
- Stand by, ladies and gents, cuz ELI ZARET has a special announcement to make! Whether you’ll believe him is …
- Help! Help! We’re ALL gonna DIE of Coronavirus! At least Eli and Denny seem to think so. BOB calls “bulls—!”
- Sports betting is now legal and open for business in Michigan! Only problem is, there may not be any sports to bet on.
- First tennis, then college basketball tournaments, then the NBA and MORE! OMG, what will we DO without SPORTS?!
- Um, spend more time with our loved ones and friends? (Gasp!) read BOOKS? Get off the couch and go work out?
- The TPC is still on — as of THIS writing. Can slumping Brooks Koepka win? HE sez he’s gotten some VERY special help.
- Tom Brady is launching a production company. Make Eli LAUGH! HE knows what a daunting thing that is to do.
- Ex-MSU football assistant Curtis Blackwell is back with ANOTHER lawsuit, now alleging Mark Dantonio is a RACIST! Yeah, right.
- Gronk to become WHAT? A pro wrestler for the WWE? Our resident expert, producer Brandon McAfee, is all over it!
- Those stories, YOUR mailbag segment and much more right here.
Episode 99: Ray Scott: I Could NEVER Coach in Today’s NBA!
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 95: DIRECT from Hamtramck AND MLB — It’s “WIMPY!”
You never lose a nickname!
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain, and Bob Page.
- FUNNY guy, GREAT personality! Tom Paciorek shoulda been a media star after his MLB career! Wait. He WAS! And he’s our GUEST!
- A special thanks from Denny to YOU and to so many others for the condolences pouring in over Sharon’s passing.
- Sweet Lou failed again with HOF Vets Committee voters. An injustice? Did his personality cost him?
- Ted Simmons and Marvin Miller DID get in but Bob attacks Miller for MLB’s money INSANITY. Eli and Denny attack Bob BACK!
- And those two big bullies ALSO air it out with poor Bob on Ken Harrelson, who MAY be about to go in!
- The boys are NOT getting along! Eli gets BIG pushback from Bob: won’t he PLEASE stop talking so much about the FL’s?!
- And Mr. Z recaps, uh, some kind of heavyweight title fight this weekend. Quick now! Name ANY current champ you can!
- It’s U-M (gulp!) vs Alabama in ONE bowl game and MSU (gulp!) vs Wake Forest and its hi-powered offense in another.
- Eli takes us on a (comical) tour of some of the VERY BIG bowl games on the slate for lucky US.
- PLUS, a WOMAN head coach in the NBA(?!), M and MSU basketball, YOUR comments in the mailbag and more right here!
Episode 81: ’84 Tigers Hero to — Stand-Up? DON’T Miss this Interview with Ruppert Jones!
“I don’t want to get out of my lane.”
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain and Bob Page.
- A hero of the ’84 World Series champs, Ruppert joins us to discuss that magical year, why he didn’t come back, his personal struggles and more.
- Oh, so you say the FL’s were “robbed” by the officials at Green Bay? Eli’s pissed too, Denny disagrees and, as usual, “The Bob Page Lions’ Lament” sez …
- It’s the NEW “biggest game of Jim Harbaugh’s coaching career” Saturday night at Penn State. Is it really make-or-break time for him?
- We only know one thing about the MLB Playoffs: the Nats are going to the World Series. And who called that one? He’s NOT too modest to say!
- “Fired up?” Denny ‘s APOPLECTIC! He’s almost frothing at the mouth about juiced (or DE-juiced) baseballs — as Eli sadistically presses his buttons.
- Basketball’s Jim Calhoun has done something so reprehensible Bob’s shocked that he’s not in jail already!
- Are you getting your money’s worth at an NBA game? A new study implies NOT and Eli confirms — while Denny just DOESN’T get it.
LeBron’s controversy is the latest story to remind us that politics and sports, like it or not, are inextricably bound. - Those stories, Eli walked out of the arena and missed WHAT? Reggie Jackson ALMOST redeems himself with Denny plus much more!
- And don’t forget: Mike Lucci, named to the All-Time Lions team, will join us on Monday’s show.
Episode 43: “What Hall-of-Famer Did You Say Was a Total A-HOLE?!”
He walked by me as if I didn’t exist.
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain and Bob Page.
- The LAST player you’d think wouldn’t show up for a game in the NBA Finals? Draymond Green?!
- And it gets worse as the former Spartan star has stuck his big foot in his big mouth — again!
- Attendance down, pathetic team. What have Ilitch and Avila done to the Tigers?!
- Players against the media: Sir Charles versus KD is just the latest feud on the list.
- “A fool and his money are soon parted,” said Aesop. Sports’ latest “fool” is an MSU great.
- Boozing it up in the SEC, Eli — on “Jeopardy?” And much more right here!