Billy Martin
Episode 208: POLARIZING Sports Figures? WE got ‘EM!!

Welcome to the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Bob Page and Denny McLain!
- “How to be Miserable on $39 Million a Year.” If that’s not the title of JAMES HARDEN’s book someday, it SHOULD be!
- The NBA’s chief malcontent engineers his own trade. Now he gets to play with K.D. AND the NBA’s chief knucklehead.
- So many games canceled, so many Draconian new rules leave one NBA player asking, “Why even bother?”
- COVID comes to Michigan sports as the Pistons miss out on another loss and MSU misses out on a likely butt-kicking!
- “Butt-kicking?” Is there a term that goes beyond that? If so, you’d use it to describe the U of M’s ROUT of Wisconsin.
- College football: The boys offer some thoughts on Monday night’s national title game in our first show since then.
- Get ready to clean up because Denny’s gonna make his NFL playoff predictions. YOU’LL bet the other way, of course!
- URBAN MEYER leaving his cushy broadcast gig and moving to the NFL? Bob has only one question: WHY?!
- The Wings finally have a formal team leader, yet ESPN says the more things change, the more they …
- A BIG change for former Red Wings coach MIKE BABCOCK, but can this career shift possibly end well for him?
- And on a show that NEVER pulls any punches, why should WE change now on GIBBY or on FRANK BECKMANN?
- Those stories, Bob with perhaps the strangest story in Detroit Tigers history, YOUR mailbag and more right here!
Episode 205: Bear Bryant’s Last Captain: Steve Mott

Welcome to No Filter Sports Podcast with Bob Page, Denny McLain — and that’s IT!
- A new era for the show begins after Eli’s self-imposed “retirement.” WE hope he comes back to us.
- Meantime, ex-Lions center STEVE MOTT, one of the great players in Alabama history, joins us on THE Big Game and more.
- FREE BEER? This is what Lions fans are left with after ANOTHER disastrous year?! The FL’s are even messing THIS up!
- Is Matthew Stafford coming back? Who’s the new GM? The LATEST head coach? So MANY questions.
- And who speaks for YOU? A famous voice from Texas, through remarks intended for a different team.
- They’re partying in Columbus and the Bama game hasn’t even been played. WHY? Jim Harbaugh’s staying at Michigan!
- No Eli? Producer Brandon McFee may be just as opinionated! He and Bob tangle over a big issue in college football.
- After destroying the fleabag Duke’s Mayo Bowl, somewhere Mr. Z is smiling. The game came to a fitting — and hysterical — climax!
- How good is U-M basketball! How good is U-M freshman Hunter Dickinson?! Bob says enjoy him while you can.
- Dave DeBusschere must be rolling over after a WUSSY move by his once-proud alma mater.
- Dumped by a phony girlfriend — then rejected by the Pistons too! But guess who’s getting the last laugh?
- Those stories, Denny remembers MLB’s seven HOFers we lost in 2020, YOUR mailbag and much more — right here!
Episode 198: Two-Sport Star — to Superstar COACH!

But we know him best as a running back for Bo.
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Bob Page, Denny McLain & Fred Heumann sitting in for Eli Zaret!
- One of the great athletes in Michigan high school history is now one of its great MENTORS: our guest, THOMAS WILCHER.
- OUTRAGEOUS! How DARE Herbie claim Harbaugh doesn’t want to play Ohio State! But, uh, DOES he? Really?
- A Wednesday afternoon NFL game? The boys agree: an abomination in damn near every sense.
- And now COVID-19 begins another reign of sports terror: the NBA says 48 players just got it!
- So you think nothing excites curmudgeonly Bob? Just ask him about Michigan State basketball this year.
- Denny’s excited about his beloved Bears’ “Polish kid” versus the Lions, then gets the word: Trubisky is NOT Polish.
- Dennis Dale McLain — JEWISH?! Oy, who knew?! He’s FULL of surprises today:
- Teddy Ballgame once said WHAT to him? Denny in a fistfight with a teammate in the Tigers’ locker room?
- A 27-year-old former World Series hero is on the open market “CHEAP.” Should the Tigers grab him?
- Fred knows whom HE wants to see the Tigers sign. Bob AND Denny: “Fuhgettaboutit!”
- Those stories, YOUR mailbag segment and much more — right here!
Episode 194: Scared of Butkus? Not a Young GREG LANDRY!

But you always wanted to know where he was…
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Bob Page, Fred Heumann AND Lary Sorensen!
- Okay, so maybe they weren’t “glory days,” but the Detroit Lions of our guest, GREG LANDRY, were at least FUN!
- NOW, Eli says the COVID crisis has taken the “fun” element OUT of sports. Bob, Fred and Lary disagree.
- Still, what a world we’re in! MSU’s football game a COVID cancelation. MSU basketball expecting cancellations.
- Sports TV ratings are way down and surveys indicate most of you will not go to live events til there’s a COVID vaccine.
- All those kids! What WERE the Pistons thinking about in the NBA draft, which was at least high on MUSICAL talent.
- With another embarrassing loss for U-M a possibility Saturday, would the Jets try to hire Jim Harbaugh anyway?
- Easy come, easy go. One airhead MLB player loses a guaranteed $24 million for taking steroids!
- “This Day in Sports” finds one of our fans bravely staying at his battle station during “Malice at the Palace!”
- Those stories, Lary ripped by Howard Cosell on national TV, YOUR Mailbag and much more — right here!
Episode 188: Todd Stottlemyre Might Just Change YOUR Life!

Become the observer of the way you’re thinking.
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain and Bob Page!
- What stories TODD STOTTLEMYRE has about his famous dad, baseball, personal tragedy and life lessons he’s learned!
- Was Kevin Cash’s BONEHEAD move the most outrageous thing YOU’VE seen in baseball? Sounds like it was for the boys.
- And what about the Dodgers’ COVID-positive Justin Turner? Was HE guilty of a different kind of “bonehead” move?
- MLB owners crying poverty over the billions they lost this year but Eli & Denny say not to worry, there WILL be a 2021 season.
- It’s Michigan-Michigan State week! Uh, BFD with the Spartans seemingly on the march to the gallows.
- Our producer FURIOUS with BOB for “insulting” all those Walmart Wol — er — M fans who didn’t actually GO to Michigan.
- The Colts are coming! Excitement building! A playoff berth possible for the Lions? Uh, you KNOW what usually happens next.
- Yes, his Lions have been a JOKE, but that doesn’t mean Bill Ford wasn’t a good man. Eli and Bob tell “A Tale of Two Owners.”
- MORE controversy for the NBA? To start play on Christmas or not? LeBron and Adam Silver may have a BIG difference.
- Those stories, Eli has his “This Day in Sports History,” Bob has YOUR Mailbag and much more right here!
Episode 182: Baseball Wacko? Listen to THIS Show!

How many games in a row can you possibly watch?!
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Bob Page, Denny McLain — and Lary Sorensen sitting in for Eli!
- Two ex-MLB pitchers on one show? You won’t wanna miss Denny and Lary tell great stories, talk about the playoffs and more!
- Oh, and BTW, boys, after watching that GARGANTUAN Giancarlo Stanton homer, what was the longest home run YOU ever gave up?
- As the Tigers wait to find a new manager, Bob wonders if they’ve waited too long already to land the best candidates.
- The Lions will definitely NOT lose Sunday. They’re OFF, so get outta the house as the first step to kicking YOUR FL’s addiction!
- The Titans get back ANOTHER positive test for COVID-19, but Lary says the NFL STILL did the right thing in playing the season.
- Bill O’Brien FIRED after leading (now 0-4) Houston to FOUR division titles in six years. Why not the same boldness from the LIONS?
- With the NBA Finals possibly ending Friday, the boys look at the anatomy of WINNERS — versus LOSERS like the Pistons.
- Steve Yzerman and the Wings selected a teenage Swede at the top of the NHL Draft Tuesday night. In Stevie Y we TRUST — so far.
- Pro sports is a TOUGH biz indeed. Earlier in the day, Yzerman also had to make a big decision on a popular ex-MSU star.
- Those stories, Bob has YOUR mailbag segment and much more coming up right here.
Episode 181: The “Doctor” is IN!

A career in football took precedent over medicine.
Welcome to the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain and Bob Page!
- Another top Lions talent — College Football HOF member! — WASTED in Detroit: FREDDIE SCOTT is our guest!
- Experts claimed Denny had some fake items in his big weekend sale. BFD — if ya listen to DENNY, that is.
- Another NFL Sunday usually means it’s time for another “Bob Page’s Lions Lament” — and you got it!
- Eli’s been talking to sources and now thinks he knows HOW the incompetent Ford family destroyed the Lions.
- What better guy to discuss Bob Gibson AND adventures with the late Cards’ superstar pitcher than Denny McLain?
- Jimmy Butler of the Miami Heat: what a GAME Sunday night! Yet his life story is even better.
- Bill Laimbeer’s a WHAT?! Bob has a choice term for the ex-Pistons star but respects him as a coach. Eli does NOT.
- Oh, those HORRIBLY biased play-by-play and color commentators on national TV! The boys cry “Bull—-!”
- Eli has ‘”This Day in Sports,” Bob has YOUR mailbag and much more right here!
Episode 180: What’s WRONG with U-M Football? BUTCH Has an Idea!

They need to go with a more athletic quarterback.
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Bob Page — and Lary Sorensen sitting in for Denny!
- Ya better be TOUGH to play for Bo AND Parcells! BUTCH WOOLFOLK was — and DID! The ex-Michigan star running back is our guest.
- The MLB Playoffs had more games Wednesday than the entire post-season of many past years! And WHAT time did that Yankees game end?
- Modern technology is changing baseball even further. Lary tells us about pitchLogic and Bob has more on the umpires versus the computers.
- Is the pandemic slowly starting to wane? MLB announces that there WILL be fans at some upcoming games.
- “I can not BELIEVE that jerk dropped the ball!!!” Yep, it sure is easy watching games from the couch. Lary calls us all OUT on that.
- Was Denny RIGHT on our last show? Could The NBA Finals indeed be a four-game sweep for the Lakers over Miami.
- Eli has some strong words for the possible upcoming McGregor/Pacquiao fight.
- And so the stage is set for still another Detroit Lions collapse — just when some fans (who don’t know any better!) are getting excited.
- Mr. Z also has “This Day in Sports,” Bob has YOUR mailbag segment and we’ve got much MORE right here!
Episode 174: Doug English: a True LION on the Field

One of the league’s true warriors.
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain, and Bob Page!
- He didn’t win a Super Bowl. No Detroit Lion ever has (or will?), but guest DOUG ENGLISH remains one of the most popular players in team history.
- It’s opening week in the NFL. Coaches upset over no fans at their home games, the threat of BLM and National Anthem protests. What a kerfuffle already!
- Oh, and Bob wonders what the league will do if/WHEN a player tests positive for COVID-19. Would they panic and cancel a game on a Sunday morning?!
- Few teams have the long tradition of the Detroit Tigers. So when they set a new low for futility at Milwaukee THAT was really saying something!
- Now what to do with struggling Matthew Boyd? Denny: TRADE HIM. But why wouldn’t the Tigers call Denny — or Lolich or Tanana — to at least pick their brains?
- Eli says the quality of the NBA Playoffs has been stellar, but Bob is among the pissed-off millions who haven’t watched a single game yet.
- As if the NBA needed MORE controversy, the Stephen A. Smiths of the world cry (surprise!) “WHITE PRIVILEGE” over Steve Nash’s hiring.
- The NHL Playoffs have been excellent too — for those few outside Dallas and Las Vegas who find the Stars vs the Knights in summertime compelling.
- Eli has “This Day in Sports History,” Bob’s got YOUR mailbag segment — and much more right here!