Hour 1: 49ers Insider Matt Maiocco, plus Cal Raleigh 60th Home Run Reactions

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1:45NBC Sports Bay Area 49ers reporter Matt Mayocco. NFL Network analyst Daniel Jeremiah. Actor and comedian Dan Soder. And now, it's Rich Eisen.

2:00Rich Eisen:Yes, welcome to this edition of the Rich Eisen Show here on the Disney Plus app, as well as the ESPN app available everywhere. ESPN Radio presented by Progressive Insurance on the air with our program. Thrilled to be here and always appreciative of this Rich Eisen Show ESPN Radio affiliate saying, yeah, we'll take the show. We don't take it for granted. We also appreciate being on Sirius XM Channel 80 and being with you. 844-204-RICH is the number to dial. I love looking down and seeing the phone lines light before I even utter a syllable on this show. And I utter a lot of syllables. I mean, between now and the end of the program, it's going to be a lot.

2:37Rich Eisen:And we always appreciate you sticking with us. Good to see you over there, Christopher Brockman. What's going on? Hey, Rich, what's up, man? DJ Mikey D is in D's nuts wearing a Dodgers hat again, which is an outrage. It's okay. It's all right. You jumped the ship and the Yanks might wind up with the best record in the American League anyway. So good on you. Maybe you can close for the Dodgers. Good to see you over there. TJ Jefferson, your candle is lit, man. You think Mo Green City has an over-under on the number of syllables that you might say in a three-hour show? I definitely do not believe that they do.

3:04Rich Eisen:Brockman, let's look into that. I can't imagine that the Mo Green City, where he doesn't have a plaque or a signpost, to commemorate his vision. I don't think they do such a thing. But your candle is lit over there. Was it chilly on your side of town today? Let me just express to you, speaking of lit, let me just express to you, um what or who is lit uh it's baseball and and home run hitters and um as you know we're a football uh driven uh country and certainly this show football driven with my 22 plus years on nfl network and then um we love talking ball that's uh made out of pigskin but that baseball man there's nothing like when baseball starts to hit win or go home time and you start to hit the possibility of records being reached and then you see balls hit so far so when you're hoping in the stands to see them hit so far and the player comes through and the player is not only coming through but he's coming through to clinch your division and he's coming through to potentially clinch himself a most valuable player award that nobody thought he could clinch and that guy's name is Cal Raleigh I do believe last night if there's any question in any voters minds and I'm saying this is a diehard Yankee fan who absolutely adores Aaron Judge and knows just how valuable that man is last night he had a three-run shot to put the Yankees up and then hit another one 50 and 51 fourth time in a row and a fourth time in his career he's hit 50 home runs Aaron Judge but Cal Raleigh steps to the plate last night and hits home run number 59 he's already well past every mark for catchers in terms of hitting home runs first half of a season also just in general for a full season passes most home runs by a switch hitter passing Mickey Mantle passes Ken Griffey Jr.

5:17Rich Eisen:for the most home runs hit in the history of this franchise where the folks in the Pacific Northwest are nuts for their Seattle Mariners. He steps to the plate last night, hits his 59th home run, and then has an opportunity to hit 60. Now already on the night, on the East Coast, Judge hits 51 home runs, 50 and 51. Kyle Schwarber, the human fire hydrant who just cranks him out, is trying to trace down Ryan Howard's franchise record in Philadelphia. He has a chance as he hits two himself last night. Think about it. Guys, Judge hits two, Schwarber hits two, Raleigh hits one to go 59. And can he hit 60?

6:04Rich Eisen:I am getting goosebumps just telling this story. recounting for you what we were all watching last night if we're fortunate enough to see it Cal Raleigh steps to the plate with an opportunity to hit 60 in front of all the fans who are there excited for the Mariners to clinch their division win the American League West that the Astros have been leading for quite some time and could he possibly hit 60 these are the moments that you go to a ballpark to see could he possibly cap it all off to hit 60 while the entire crowd is chanting MVP? The answer is yes. 40 ,000 chanting MVP. Climb over right field.

6:51Number 60. A catcher has hit 60 home runs. Your MVP moment, Cal Rame.

7:10Rich Eisen:i mean man aaron goldsmith i mean it's but not not as much as many or much goosebumps as you're about to get because this popped on my threads feed a fan sitting there in seattle last night recording the moment because you never like you know how many fans you start you take out the phone yeah and it's just like okay you're recording a strikeout or a ground out you're recording you know a three and two count right but the fan is recording cal raleigh stepping into the batter's box and they're chanting mvp for him and he goes yard so we decided to just take the as they say in the business nat sound natural sound just listen to the fans with no call on it and just think about it because my favorite sports moments are when you are hoping for it you're hoping for it you're expecting it maybe but deep down you know it can't be that good for you it can't uh this superstar player coming out of nowhere i mean it's not like cal raleigh never hit home runs but 60 60 home runs like most valuable player cal raleigh of the seattle mariners i'm wondering where he was prior to the season in terms was he even on the board he had to be part of the field right let me look if you can find out like pre-season mvp candidates i don't even know if he had odds

8:48Rich Eisen:and this guy steps to the plate can he really hit 60 in front of us and the answer is yes and I just wanted to capture the moment. Just listen to the delirium.

9:02FGT! FGT! FGT!

9:19FGT! FGT!

9:28that guy in the back oh my god

9:31Rich Eisen:i'm just glad there was no cursing t-mobile park just lit by this guy and then you know the big dumper as he's known yeah um channels major league in front of the entire crowd when he is being interviewed afterwards and what he is saying is being pumped into T-Mobile Park. Just listen to this exchange. I think last night what I kept hearing from everybody on this team was we got more work to do, and it seems like this team was just even more focused tonight. Yeah, I mean, you know, I think most people heard what I said last night, you know, might as well win the whole thing. Oh, that's amazing, Major League.

10:20and everyone in T-Mobile acts like Pedro Serrano like yeah maybe they will maybe they will they

10:27Rich Eisen:got the pitching they got this guy they believe and there's no conversations like well I mean do you play him the last four games because you clinched the division yeah you play him yeah yeah you do he needs three home runs he needs three home runs to break Aaron Judge's single season mark for an American League player I don't know you're just just read it that's why you shouldn't read that there's even questions about you know do you play schwarber to try and get ryan howard's team record the answer is yes like whoever can get to 60 i mean let's let's go right like let's go this is this is why you play baseball this is why you go to games this is why and they could the mariners can catch the yankees or the blue jays atop the american league for best record everybody's got to go to the pacific northwest uh if you have a right your thoughts are playing in the world series because this is crazy man listen i know guardians fans might be out there saying how come you didn't spend maybe 10 minutes to start your program about us an incredible story uh it's like a a slow motion car crash for the detroit tigers who could potentially fall completely forget about out of the division lead out of the playoffs the astros are the only or one game behind them the tigers have gone from leading the central to being in the third place wild card position and fascinatingly enough uh the tigers might have played themselves into going back to Cleveland where they've just had a night their nightmare just is they got to wake up from this nightmare and the guardians are like stay asleep because the calls are coming from within the house just I mean guardians can win the world series they're playing the best baseball of anybody in the last few weeks the Yankees have been playing you know uh teams that are at the bottom of the American League right now and feasting on that while the Red Sox go up to Toronto and the Blue Jays are falling apart.

12:12Rich Eisen:Vlad got ejected last night. Two of the players, including Vlad, got ejected last night. Alejandro Kirk ends the game on a base hit to right. And he's thrown out a 9-3 put out. So the Blue Jays are getting walked off, if you will, by a 9-3 put out. And they've got to be sitting there saying, what the hell's happening to us? They had this American League East wrapped. They crushed the Yankees in head-to-head this year, which is why they're still atop the East and having the same exact record as New York because the Yankees couldn't beat the Blue Jays this year. But if the Yankees beat the White Sox tonight and the Red Sox sweep the Blue Jays, the Yankees would be in first place in the entire league and the Mariners are just a game behind them.

13:02Rich Eisen:And their last series are home against the Dodgers who just got out of dodge in Arizona last night, despite having another lead blown in the bullpen. And all the Dodgers are doing is like, how many starters could come out of the pen for them? Because they're not touched. I don't think they could touch Ohtani now. It's all Ohtani. Ohtani had five no-hit innings and six shutout innings with eight strikeouts. I mean, he's just as lit as he possibly can be out of the starters role. That's why they chose Sasaki. They gave him in inning last night. He looked great throwing 100. He touched 100. didn't kershaw pitch an inning last night kershaw out of the pen last night so it's just like let's use them all can oral come out of the out of the booth i mean that because i don't think i think you want to speak of los angeles privileges being revoked like pulp fiction i believe tanner scott is uh soon to have his privileges i don't think dodger fans would see him anymore so i don't know what baseball is just out of its skull it's the last week of the regular season which has been its massive issue over the last few years is it doesn't have the feeling of an end of a of an nfl season where playoff lives are on the line every game matters this time around it kind of does and i know it just went higher register it is a higher register thursday um just incredible yeah mvp odds rich can't find any preseason on cal rally julio rodriguez yeah it was about 20 to 1 preseason and then in June Cal Rally was 35 to 1 which roughly odds is about a 3 % chance to win MVP don't you think it's like 100 % chance now?

14:39Rich Eisen:He's flipped it now he's minus 200 to win as much again you never know where I'm coming from I watch more Aaron Judge at bats than anyone in this room. He's incredible and you know very few people have had given me the joy with my 14 year old son as as he does when he homers and and how we just exult in it together and the mvp is cal raleigh he's unbelievable he might you know he's he might the way that he's doing it his 59th one i do believe landed in lumen field which is where the seahawks play right next door but you know i wish the nl race was a little bit closer on the odds otani's minus 50 000 which which means bet 50 000 to win 100 schwarber i think deserves to be this this should be much much closer without otani the dodgers are still probably winning the nl west yeah without schwarber the phillies have no chance at anything they're not leading the division they're not world series favorites they are i mean they're not as close as they are without kyle schwarber he should be closer this nl race should be closer in my opinion so and soto's been unbelievable this year it's interesting that he's 80 to 1.

15:56the otani odds are um it's exactly where the dodgers pay him they defer 50 000 to pay him 100 pretty much pretty much well that's baseball man yeah which when

16:08Rich Eisen:you said why you watch when you said about watching other games that was last night you know you're watching the mets we're losing but you're also keeping an eye on what the pirates are doing with the reds and then they beat them we're watching the dodgers game so it's held on i can't remember the last time i'm like all right we're losing but like okay you know your scoreboard watching all these other games right now it was great it was the witching hour it really was yeah it truly was two home runs by judge two home runs by schwerber and then raleigh has the last say and okay i got two to get to 60 and clinch the division so cool oh man cannot make it up love it I agree with you though Chris once Soto's season for some reason is just getting swept aside under the rug and it's historical look at Soto's numbers and he's unbelievable he's been great which makes it even more amazing that the Yankees could wind up with the top record in the American League in a Mets town you're trying to take away from it you're trying to take away from the greatness of the Soto season and I do hope that the Mets make the playoffs because it is a Mets town in New York is Soto proclaimed.

17:13Rich Eisen:It's amazing you're still hung up on that. But the fact of the matter is once Soto has been, you crapped on him for the whole first half of the season. I didn't do a thing other than talk about his statistics. That's all. And him saying it's a Mets town. It's a Mets town. And if it's a Mets town, I do hope your team can get more breaks by the Pirates and the Dodgers beating their opponents to keep you guys from falling out when you lose. I can't wait until you guys choking the playoffs. I'm just hoping. Because you know it's going to happen. I mean, if it happens, it's a Mets town. So hopefully you can carry the banner.

17:44Rich Eisen:I think you're the last person on earth who's still hanging on that. And again, you don't live in New York. Honestly, Aaron Judge should save some of these home runs for the playoffs. Okay, fine. Say all you will. Because I understand what he's done in the postseason. But again, that the Yankees lose somebody in Soto's significance and have a shot after everything at the end of the day still having the best record in the American League. They currently are tied for such right now in a Mets town. to compete just in the shadows of, you know, the Mets. How they do it, man. We need a 30 for 30 on how they made it through this season.

18:19Rich Eisen:You know, what if I told you? Unbelievable. I'm rooting for the Red Sox and you're rooting for the Dodgers. Cats and dogs are hanging together. Living together. Living. Can't pandemonium. Isn't that amazing? That's hysteria. What are the Mets, according to the Cubs, where the White Sox is New York? Where's Zool? Yes. And hopefully at the end of the day, for us Yankee fans in terms of the Mets to just paraphrase another phrase from that movie. Yes, that man has no playoffs. Can't wait for that. That's a giant Twinkie. Let's take a break here. Oh my God. Speaking of trying to bust a ghost, I don't know what's going on in San Francisco with the Niners and all their injuries.

19:01Rich Eisen:It's caused us to call up Dr. Matt Miyoko, paging Dr. Miyoko. What is happening with the 49ers? Daniel Jeremiah is still in common. Dan Soder in studio, hour three.

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22:24You know, 49ers, if they aren't the most injured team in football, being so close to it and the fan base certainly believes they are, and it's hard to argue. You know, I know there are injuries throughout the league. Football is a violent sport, and that injuries are part of it. It just seems like the 49ers, year in, year out, by and large, have more than their fair share of injuries. And why that is, I don't know. I don't know that anybody really knows. It's not like they're all the same types of injuries. You know, some of them are freaks. Some of them are just, you know, soft tissue injuries.

23:02You know, you got broken bones. You have torn ACLs. It's just, you know, non-contact ACLs, contact ACLs. You're right. I mean, it kind of seems like they're cursed, but here they are, three games in with a 3-0 record.

23:18Rich Eisen:Yeah, I know. Oh, if you took an MRI of the standings, it would come back clean. It would. You know what I mean? Yeah. But then they'd probably go for a second opinion and it would do something else. The second opinion of the longtime listeners, first time callers, right? So let's jump into the, I guess, the positives and those who might be returning. Is Brock Purdy one of them for this weekend against Jacksonville? Do you think, Matt? I think so. Yeah, he practiced more on Wednesday than he did the previous week. It's been trending in a positive direction. No setbacks after that, I guess, mild turf toe.

24:00Certainly not a Joe Burrow level of turf toe that he sustained in week one. So he is able to get out there for some limited work last week. I don't think there was really much of a chance that he would play against Arizona. but things seem to be looking more positive this week. He practiced on Wednesday, and then today when they get out there in about four hours or so, probably have a little bit better idea how he's feeling after that. But if I were a betting man, I would think I would go with Brock Purdy getting his first start since week one this coming Sunday against Jacksonville.

24:36Rich Eisen:And then what about Kittle? Where is he on the return? I know he's on the IR, which meant four games was definitely going to be it. Is it more than that? What are you hearing about him? Yeah, so he would miss the Thursday night game a week from today against the Rams. That is off the table. And then I think once that happens, once he gets through that, then it becomes a week-to-week thing. So the following game would be 10 days later against Tampa Bay. So I think that that's on the table, but that's going to be up in the air a little bit. And then, you know, Brandon Ayuk, he's still on IR. He's eligible to come off of IR after this game Sunday, but he certainly won't come back on an early week and probably looking a little bit more down the line.

25:28I'm sure they'll want to see him on the practice field for a week or two before they make that decision of when to bring him off of IR. So, you know, theoretically speaking, you know, once they get to the around the midseason mark, other than Nick Bosa, you know, the hope for the 49ers is that they get guys back in that offense. We'll have to start carrying more of the load without one of their top defensive players out there.

25:55Rich Eisen:Yeah, before we get to Bosa and how to replace him. So you're basically saying this crucial stretch of a short week visit to the Rams and then at Tampa, which, you know, potentially, you know, who knows, could be a battle of unbeatens. There's a lot of miles to go before we get to that one as a possibility. That those two back-to-back games might be kittiless and definitely IUC-less for the Niners is what you're saying. Yes, that's yeah. I well, yeah, Kittle. And I would say I'd be very surprised if Kittle or Iuke or Kittle can't. But I don't think Iuke won't be out there for that Thursday game against the Rams.

26:38You know, when you look at that schedule right there and see those back to back games, Rams and Tampa Bay, those are difficult games, obviously, even if the 49ers were full, even if they were the 49ers, you would expect them to be, you know, in the offseason. You know, this is their full team. So I think that that puts so much more pressure and emphasis on this game against Jacksonville because, you know, 49ers are playing that last place schedule. And so there's not a whole lot of daunting games on that schedule. But other than playing at the Rams, who I'm sure now are the favorites to win the NFC West, and then at Tampa Bay, those are two of the more difficult games on the schedule on paper.

27:25So it really puts an added emphasis on taking care of business in the games that they need to win. And this game coming up week four against Jacksonville Levi's Stadium is a game that they can't let get away from them.

27:39Rich Eisen:Matt Maioco here on the Rich Eisen Show covering the San Francisco 49ers NBC Sports Bay Area. What is the plan to replace the massive defensive player of the year shoes of Nick Bosa? Bullpen by committee. I don't think they have any other choice they have nine defensive linemen suited up on game days nobody's going to do what Nick Bosa does but it's going to take a lot of different guys stepping up Michael Williams, a rookie, 11 pick overall boy, he's played really well but he's not like that pass rusher that Nick Bosa is he's a really good run defender as a base defensive end And then he slides inside and rushes the passer, but he's not going to pile up the big sack numbers of Bosa.