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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 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 128: Most loved? Most hated? Most FEARED? Our GUEST!

He took no prisoners.
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain and Bob Page!
- NBC-TV and New York Post star Peter Vecsey sets down his famous Poison Pen to join the boys on – what else?! – the NBA.
- We gotta do it, folks – first thing EVERY show now. The latest horrors from COVID-19 AND the panic destroying our economy.
- A “sport” still going on: video game basketball! Two young producers take three geezers by the hand and explain what THAT is!
- Among MORE sports cancellations? Wimbledon! The British Open may be next.
- And what if horse racing’s Triple Crown is called off? Four famous Tigers/ex-Tigers are dreading that! We’ll tell you why.
- MORE trouble for Michigan State! THIS time it involves Tom Izzo himself and it COULD be serious.
- Still working? Have any money coming in? How would you like to make five grand a DAY – and not HAVE to work for it?
- That’s what’s happening for many MLB stars while the league ponders six-man starting rotations IF baseball returns soon.
- What’s the ONE topic ALWAYS off the table among big-time athletes? Bob explains how a guy just violated it!
- Those stories, YOUR weekly mailbag 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 120: A CANDID Tim McCormick Opens Up!

My real passion is broadcasting
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain and Bob Page!
- Fed up with his LATEST sideline temper tantrum, MSU grad Bob rips Izzo a new one! Eli and Denny rip Bob right back.
- Does every big college basketball team cheat? Eli and Denny actually believe that. Bob calls “B— s—!”
- U-M’s OWN sex abuse scandal is growing larger — but c’mon, man! Can you actually compare it to MSU’s?
- One of MLB’s top pitchers MIGHT be done at 30. Denny can relate — and says Chris Sale has nobody but himself to blame.
- Are big league baseballs still messed up? Will Jacoby Jones EVER gain the stardom many predicted for him?
- The Pistons coulda had Caris LeVert! Eli takes us through MANY bad decisions from the Pathetic Pistons’ recent past.
- Legal sports gambling IS coming to Michigan — but as early as NEXT WEEK? One reporter claims it’s true.
- Knicks Nut Spike Lee is feuding with Madison Square Garden boss, James Dolan. Bob knows something about THIS!
- Those stories, 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 66: Baseball Life Well-Lived! Former Slugger Darrell Evans Joins Us.

It was too much at times.
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain and Bob Page.
- It’s Howdy Doody time, boys and girls, and we’ve got him live in studio with us (well, at least his namesake)!
- Andrew Luck stuns the sports world and the feces hits the fan! The negative reactions surprise the boys.
- What on earth is Jim Harbaugh talking about in his new book?!
- The Yankees vs the Dodgers in a possible World Series preview? Who cares?! It’s always ALL about ESPN!
- The greatest all-around MLB player who’s ever lived? Bob says A-Rod, Eli and Denny go with Barry — yet NEITHER’S going to the HOF!
- And U-M may be losing to MSU in sports, but NOT in the classroom. The Colorado School of Mines?! Yeshiva?! Yeesh!
- Those stories plus much more right here!
Episode 63: What DOESN’T Ex-QB Scott Mitchell Have a Great Take On?!

He’s Smarter Than Most NFL Coaches.
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain and Bob Page.
- Former NFL quarterback Scott Mitchell has so many interesting things to say on the show that we can’t even highlight just one or two!
- A common-sense solution to Brady and AB clashing with the NFL over their helmets? The league SHOULD have looked to the NHL.
- Giants and former FL’s wideout Golden Tate to sue over being suspended 4 games? For taking a fertility drug?
- Who says the “arrogant asses” are just SOME Michigan grads? Once AGAIN, THE Ohio State University bests the Wolverines!
- Stealing signs — in the Little League World Series?! Denny’s REALLY on his soapbox about THIS one!
- You say you’re sick and tired of the Toothless Tigers? We are too, so we’ll TRY not to talk TOO much about them.
- From our always-full mailbag: Mickey Lolich a GUEST on our show? Denny & Eli do some ‘splainin’.
- And Bob asks, ” It’s WHAT night — in WHERE?!” Denny, uh, explains that too.
- Those stories, how you can “rate” our show and much more right here!
EPISODE 55: Uh, Excuse Me, Sir, HOW Much for Your Autograph?!

There’s a sucker born every minute
Welcome to No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain and Bob Page!
- Busy boys! Today Eli works from Motown, Bob from NYC and Denny from Cooperstown!
- Another ex-pitching star is there with him for this weekend’s Hall of Fame inductions and Denny is REALLY unhappy with him.
- This year’s inductees? It’s more of the same: who actually belongs in the HOF and who doesn’t?
- And how come a particular pitcher from Denny’s beloved Cubs isn’t in? He only went 53-16 one season!
- At the risk of putting you to sleep, the latest from the boys on the Disastrous Detroit Tigers.
- The stuffy “Open Chahmmmpionship” is underway. WE call it (gasp!) The BRITISH Open.
- Those stories, the plight of sports’ play-by-play guys and much more right here!