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Episode 164: The Amazing Baseball Odyssey of Jim Essian

Crisscrossing America for 17 years!
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain, and Bob Page!
- Just say “no” — to BO?! To ARA? To DUFFY?! How one of Detroit’s greatest all-around athletes, JIM ESSIAN, did it!
- The PGA Championship is underway! With NO fans — AND with Eli asking a good question about two top stars.
- While MLB is a mess, the NHL and NBA “bubbles” seem to be working. But hockey and basketball in AUGUST?
- And Bob sez, “C’mon, how much does ‘Black Lives Matter’ REALLY mean in the NHL?”
- Imagine! College football players to coaches: “Here’s a list of demands or we’re not playin’!” THIS is happening NOW.
- Why this CRAZY Big Ten schedule!? M v OSU in OCTOBER? Producers Brandon McAfee and Marc Fellhauer think THEY know.
- Kelly Stafford is furious at the NFL for Matt’s false-positive COVID test. Have OTHER testing mistakes been made?
- Is our P.C. society SO nuts that a coach can’t even QUOTE someone dropping an “N-Bomb?” Black players USE it!
- We MUST support local journalism in our free country. But Bob wonders how much we’re willing to PAY to do so.
- Those stories, “This Day in Sports,” a tribute to Denny in YOUR Mailbag — and much more right here!
Episode 141: Jimmy Carson: NHL Star to Business Star!

“I get to help a lot of families.”
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain, and Bob Page!
- “Sorry, we just traded you — for Wayne Gretzky!” JIMMY CARSON, the only OTHER teen to score 50 in one season, is our guest!
- So Denny, tell us about, ya know, that OTHER time you were almost arrested — and you had your LIFE threatened?
- It was a VERY busy weekend for Eli. His beloved golf is back — well, kinda — AND he broke a Michigan law!
- But Eli’s on edge. So are a LOT of people in Michigan self-quarantining. Now the FAMILY DOG seems to be on edge too!
- What’s MLB gonna do now? We’re all waiting, while a big college baseball program falls victim to COVID-19.
- If MLB does play this year, we know who its highest-paid player will be. Trout? Max? JV? NO! Wait’ll you hear.
- And whither college football? Bob has the SECOND-worst scenario next to NO game: U-M v MSU a controlled scrimmage!
- The once-beautiful Phyllis George has passed away. Eli and Denny lament but BOB points a finger!
- Denny STONED for the first time ever? He STILL thinks the Packers will trade Aaron Rodgers to his treasured Bears.
- And what kind of show would this be if we didn’t run down the NFL’s weekend rap sheet for you?
- Those stories, YOUR mailbag featuring a certain ex-organ player warbling plus much more right here!
Episode 75: Tigers Great Lance Parrish Has a Whole LOT on His Mind!

45 years, on and off, he has been with the Tigers.
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain and Bob Page.
- Ex-Tigers star Lance Parrish speaks out on his STILL-bitter exit from Detroit, the ’84 Tigers, his relationship with Jack and SO much more!
- This, on the heels of our Wayne Fontes interview which is already “smashing box office records” thanks to YOU!
- The FL’s’ game is — WHAT? One of the three biggest games of the week in the NFL?!
- President Carter had his black-sheep brother Billy. Looks like Shea Patterson’s got one too as Michigan faces off with lowly Rutgers.
- Is Indiana trying to play mind games with Michigan State’s vaunted defense for homecoming in East Lansing?
- The Toothless Tigers so richly deserve the #1 overall pick in next year’s draft! Now will they blow it? And should they pick for need or best available?
- Tom Izzo: “Haters gonna hate.” And Bob hates the fact that some numbskulls are picking on Tom’s son! Eli and Denny? They’re undecided.
- Those stories, the “bullying of Bryce,” our weekly mailbag and much more coming up right here.