Inside Access with Jason LaCanfora and Ken Weinman
Reeta Hubbard: I'm concerned with how this organization treats guys like Coby Mayo
This season Instacart has your back to school. As in, they've got your back to school lunch favorites, like snack packs and fresh fruit. And they've got your back to school supplies, like backpacks, binders and pencils. And they've got your back. When your kid casually tells you they have a huge school project due tomorrow. Let's face it, we were all that kid. So first, call your parents to say "I'm sorry." And then download the Instacart app to get delivery in as fast as 30 minutes all school year long. Get a $0 delivery fee for your first three orders while supplies last. Minimum $10 per order additional terms apply. We all belong outside. We're drawn to nature. Whether it's the recorded sounds of the ocean we doze off to, or the succulents that adorn our homes. Nature makes all of our lives, well, better. Despite all this, we often go about our busy lives removed from it. But the outdoors is closer than we realize. With all trails, you can discover trails nearby and explore confidently. With offline maps and on-trail navigation. Download the free app today and make the most of your summer with all trails. Nothing is more important than getting a good night's sleep. And when you don't get the rest you need, your whole day is thrown off. That's why it's so important to choose the right mattress. Sleeping on a purple mattress is truly a unique experience. Because purple mattresses are made with a gel flex grid. The gel flex grid is an innovative material that moves with your body to relieve pressure in areas like knees and hips. And support in others like your back. It feels soft where you want it and supports where you need it. Purple mattresses instantly adapt when you move. You don't sink in and get stuck like with memory foam. And thanks to over 1,400 air chambers in the gel flex grid, you will sleep cooler on a purple mattress. Purple has a wide variety of mattresses from the original purple mattress to the Restore Hybrid Collection. It combines gel flex grid with coils and the Rejuvenate Lux collection, the height of luxury. With over 112,000 to five star reviews to prove it, visit purple.com to find the perfect purple for you and enter code podcast 10 to get 10% off. Orioles and Nat started a two game series tonight at Camden Yards where pickles across the street taking them to 530. Ravens on the practice field for training camp as they just played their first preseason game Friday. It's a perfect time to talk to our friend Rita Hubbard who joins us every Tuesday. And Rita, thank you as always for joining us. So let's start with the Ravens. Did you see anything you liked on Friday night? You know, it's funny. Well, obviously Nate Wiggins, right? I mean, I call him wiki. I'm calling wiki because I'm lazy and I like to just give people nicknames. But you know, the kid is to me as advertised. The thing that I that we're going to be a concern for him. I feel a little concerned about because I think that there's some plays that might be considered pass an offense as the season goes on. Because we know we know Russ love throwing that flag. So he has to be careful about some of those plays. But I love his physicality. I love how smart he is. I love how fast he gets back to the football. I think that, you know, I'm excited to see, you know, how they're going to utilize him. I think I got out of that more so about my concern about the backup quarterback situation. Oh, and Glenn and I talked about that on the show on Sunday because I didn't like the way Josh Johnson looked. I think that for a guy who's been on 17 teams and been in the league for as long as he's been in for him to still have to me very trivial errors that he's having is the concern. And I don't know how you go into the regular season saying that with confidence, that's your backup quarterback. So and I say that because I mean, you saw him play for about a half. So I got I got to see that some of that stuff is like with the offensive line and those guys a lot of those guys were not going to see some of those guys. So I think I need to see more at this coming game coming up this weekend. Maybe the guys that we they foresee to be starting will get some better play time. Because I saw some road garden, but I was more concerned about what Josh Johnson had going on than I was about the offensive line. It's also a better job of that this weekend. But back to your original question, I thought Nate Wiggins looked a lot like his tape at Clemson out there last week. Trent Simpson got a lot of hype this off season, Rita. What did you think of him in preseason week one? Yeah, I mean, you know, I think that Trent Simpson to me is trending up and we had an opportunity to talk to him as well. And he, you know, felt good about what, you know, going into that preseason game. Again, it's kind of hard when you're playing against guys that are not necessarily considered starters. So for me, while I thought Trent Simpson did well, I'm more so going on what we saw from him on the last game of last year against the Steelers who, you know, were playing their starters because they were playing for a playoff spot. So I'm excited about Trent Simpson and seeing, you know, what it is that he's going to be able to do. That's another guy that I'm looking forward to watching this weekend to see how he's going to play. And again, I think that this weekend I'm also going to focus more so on the offensive line to see, you know, what formations they're going to have. It's kind of weird, you know, how they had set up, you know, we've been Cleveland at centers like, I don't know what's going on over there. But Trent Simpson is the guy that I just think that we have a lot of promise for and I'm looking forward to see more of what they're going to do this weekend as we get to the second game of the preseason. Talking to Rita Robertson side access here on the fan. Rita, the first time we got to see the Ravens in a game with the new kickoff. Are you fired up about the new kickoff? No, that's the one thing about the XFL that I didn't really love to begin with and I mean, you know, and that's fine. But I think that there's so much confusion still going on about the rules and what you can and can't do that. It's going to take a while to kind of, you know, the can'ts of it. But, you know, maybe it's just like, I don't like it because it's new. It's not new to me because again, I've watched XFL games and stuff and I watched UFL last year, but I just don't know how that fits into the NFL. Some stuff just used I leave alone. I think that the NFL want to do everything but get technology in for first downs and touchdowns, which irritates me. But I'm not really loving it. And again, it's not something that I really love when I watched it in the other leagues, but maybe I just need to give it a chance and let it, you know, kind of play itself out. And hopefully once the players get more acclimated with the new rules, the season goes on, I'll change my mind. I doubt it, but maybe I'll change my mind. Tem check. What kind of summer are we having this year? A family road trip summer, a beach bum summer, or awake me when the sun sets summer with Instacart, choose your own adventure and skip the shopping side quests where available, you can get ice cream delivered to your hotel, sunscreen to the pool or cold brew to your bed. Well, door in as fast as 30 minutes, wherever you find yourself this summer, you can get the goods download Instacart for free delivery on your first three orders offer valid for a limited time, minimum $10 per order, excludes restaurants, additional terms and fees apply. We all belong outside. We're drawn to nature, whether it's the recorded sounds of the ocean we doze off to or the succulents that adorn our homes. Nature makes all of our lives. Well, better. Despite all this, we often go about our busy lives removed from it. But the outdoors is closer than we realize. With all trails, you can discover trails nearby and explore confidently with offline maps and on trail navigation. Download the free app today and make the most of your summer with all trails. Nothing is more important than getting a good night's sleep. And when you don't get the rest you need, your whole day is thrown off. That's why it's so important to choose the right mattress. Sleeping on a purple mattress is truly a unique experience because purple mattresses are made with a gel flex grid. The gel flex grid is an innovative material that moves with your body to relieve pressure in areas like knees and hips and support in others like your back. It feels soft where you want it and supports where you need it. Purple mattresses instantly adapt when you move. You don't sink in and get stuck like with memory foam. And thanks to over 1400 air chambers in the gel flex grid, you will sleep cooler on a purple mattress. Purple has a wide variety of mattresses from the original purple mattress to the restore hybrid collection that combines gel flex grid with coils and the rejuvenate lux collection, the height of luxury with over 112,000 five star reviews to prove it. Visit purple.com to find the perfect purple for you and enter code podcast 10 to get 10% off. We're speaking to Rita Hubbard since I'd access on the fan Rita earlier in the show. We were talking owes and the fact that look 70 wins. They were the first team, the 70 wins. We know that this is a flawed team, but so are the other 29 teams in baseball where Jacob Calvin Meyer, he had the stat right now. There isn't a team that is going to exceed 95 wins this year. That would be the first time since 1959. Despite all of the flaws and warts of this Orioles team, if they get some guys back healthy in September, could you see them still going on a run in October some way? Yeah, and I, you know, I've been saying this for a while. Um, last week when I started to write something for the border will be and I looked at the standings as of last week. There were 12 teams of 60 or more wins. I don't, I don't know the updated stats on that. I'm just telling you as of last week that that was what the stats were. And I was saying that I don't recall this type of parody in major league baseball. In my viewing memory, it's always been somebody that kind of stands out. You know, you know, the Houston, Houston Astros has been a team that I think that, you know, lots of us as we're used to at this point, Derrick caliber team. And then you got your, your bigger team, like the New York Yankees, like the, um, Los Angeles Dodgers, those type of teams that, you know, they're obviously larger markets and so they, they're always in a, in a picture. But this year just feels a little bit different and all, all the things that we complain about, which are all valid points, by the way, when you talk about the starting pitching in the health, when you talk about the bullpen, when you talk about the income system batch, those are all obviously, um, you know, issues that could potentially hurt the Orioles when it comes to a World Series title. But when you start looking at everybody else, all the other teams that are quote unquote good, well, they got it too. And so I think that it allows the playing to be a little bit more even and allows teams to be flawed, but still be in major contention, you know, for a World Series title. So I'm not surprised that it's not going to be a hundred win team because it's, to me, I've noticed this trend of like, you know, even the teams that we may, we maybe thought we're going to be good a year later, a little bit ahead of schedules, maybe like the Kansas City or whatever. But the fact that there's so many teams that are right now competitive and playing at a level where, you know, they're fighting, there's so many spots that people are fighting for currently. Hey, I think that gives the Orioles a great chance of being representatives of the AL for the World Series. Rita, let's finish with this. Kobe Mayo yet is yet to have a major league hit. He's not in line up tonight, which I think makes sense because Trevor Roger ground ball pitcher. And I think Mayo started the last time and committed an air in that game. So yeah, should have been too. Are you concerned at all about Kobe Mayo? I mean, I'm concerned about how this organization treats guys like Kobe Mayo. Yes. We've seen this before, right? You bring up a guy a per se. You send him down. You bring up a guy like Mayo. You send him back. I don't know what they're doing over there. And I guess that's my issue. I don't know how you expect anybody to find some type of continuity. And if you don't give him playing time. So if you're not going to give him playing time, then what was the point of bringing him up here to begin with? If you knew that he wasn't going to be a good therapist in it, or if you didn't know that and you know that now, what is he still doing up here? I don't understand what that I don't want to say what they do with a lot of guys they bring up and down. And I feel like this is just a pattern. It's what they operate. And so I'm frustrated for him. If I'm Kobe Mayo, I'm frustrated, but I'm frustrated for him because how are we supposed to expect this kid to come around and find some continuity and some consistency if you're not going to put him in the lineup? Or if their base is not where he's going to be, what is the backup plan here? And if you don't know, then send them back down. Let them get playing time. So when you do want to send them back up and you're in, he's ready, then you can send them back up. But I just don't know what the Orioles ever do with any of these guys that they have. And to me, that's more of the frustrating part than Kobe Mayo within itself. You and Glenn tonight? Me and Glenn tonight. So yeah, we're going to have a little bit of fun. All time low. They're coming into town. So we're all nice. Yeah, so we're going to have them call in and we're going to talk to Obi Mahali as well, because he is the Falcons. I think color guy there or he does radio in Atlanta. One of those things, but former Raven for bats will have him on. So I'm looking forward to that this evening. Rita, Harvard, always great. Thanks for your time. We will chat next week. All right, guys. I'll be soon. Today's episode is sponsored by Nerd Wallet Smart Money Podcast. Get your head in the financial game with smart investing and budgeting tips straight from the nerds. And experts will set future you up for success with dependable, fact-based insights. No financial misinformation allowed. Learn how to save on your summer vacation. Find your next credit card or loan for a big purchase and invest in your next index fund. Make smarter decisions in 2024. Follow Nerd Wallet Smart Money Podcast on your favorite podcast app. Trying to figure out what to eat for dinner yet again? With North Sides and Bullion as you're not so secret ingredient, you can skip the drive-through and do dinner at home. Nor taste combos provide a menu of delicious, affordable, and well-balanced meals that you can prepare in 30 minutes or less. Visit nor.com to get quick and easy recipe ideas for your home-cooked weeknight dinners. It's not fast food, but it's so good. Hey, Fantasy Football fans. This is Zach from Upper Hand Fantasy. You don't want an embarrassing tattoo just because you lost a bet in your Fantasy Football League, right? If you do, I suggest I'm remade holding a football, but let's avoid that altogether. Fros and I are here to get you ready for your Fantasy Football Drafts with insights and advice from sleepers to busts. We've got you covered to give you the upper hand on your friends. Start your Fantasy Football prep now. Join us and stay ahead of the competition. Follow and listen to Upper Hand Fantasy on the free Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts.