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Episode 162: Former Pistons Star Makes REAL Good!

I don’t want anybody to know what I’m doing!
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain, and Bob Page!
- “How to Succeed in Business WITH Really Trying?” What a life ex-Pistons star JOHN MENGELT has had! “Crash” joins the boys.
- Eli comes up with an interesting stat: as of Thursday we were already 1/10th through the MLB season!
- Fantastic start for the Tigers’ Jacoby Jones. Will he someday become a big star? Eli: Maybe Denny: NO! Bob: YES!
- Miguel Cabrera is slow. Uh, HOW slow IS he? Pathetically slow – and perhaps washed up too!
- Joe Kelly of the Dodgers was slapped with an eight-game suspension after headhunting the Astros. Fair?
- Oh. You haven’t been watching MLB games? Had enough of COVID issues, eh? Don’t worry. It’s all FAKE — says one NBA player.
- Racism, real or not, is cutting a swath through the U.S. Will one of the Big Ten’s best-known coaches be a victim?
- MANY alleged victims file a lawsuit charging that Bo Schembechler WAS guilty in the U-M sex abuse scandal.
- Those stories, Eli has “This Day in Sports History,” Bob has YOUR mailbag segment and much more right here!
Episode 161: Best Guest We’ve EVER Had? YOU decide.

Some guests, you don’t know what to expect!
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain, and Bob Page!
- “No Filter?” Wait til you hear STAN EDWARDS on his career at U-M, on BO, son Braylon, the M sex scandal and MORE!!!
- MLB’s Miami Marlins call off their opener with too many guys testing poz for COVID-19! Is this just the beginning?
- Good weekend for the Tigers in Cincy. But it WAS just ONE weekend, despite the overreaction of announcers and reporters!
- What did YOU think of the MLB games? Obviously BIZARRE — but did you enjoy watching them — IF you watched?
- FIRST thing ya learn at umpire school? LAST guy to really know the rules of baseball is a PLAYER! Bob and Denny go at it.
- JV is OUT for a period of time. In such a short season has this already doomed the Astros now with no Gerrit Cole either?
- On vaca, Eli was NOT happy about our last show OR our guest. He challenges Denny and Bob on damn near everything!
- Another embarrassment for Jim Harbaugh and Michigan football. How could they let THIS recruit get away?!
- “The Washington Football Team?” “The Seattle KRAKEN?” What, indeed, is in a name?
- This Day in Sports History, YOUR Mailbag, plus lots more right here!
Episode 151: “SUDDEN Sam McDowell?” SCARY Sam!

Something of a terror on the mound.
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain, and Bob Page!
- SAM McDOWELL: I worried about killing a batter my entire career. Sam has an amazing life story and he joins the boys!
- We have a winner from the Belmont Stakes — DENNY! Others say ANYBODY coulda picked Tiz the Law.
- Eli (GULP!) went OUT to a restaurant Saturday night and almost NO ONE was wearing a mask! He’s still with us — so far.
- Many athletes have tested positive for COVID-19, not that they’ll have symptoms. Should sports just go away at this point?
- Controversy over the Confederate flag NOT going away for a while — but a NOOSE hung in the garage of a black NASCAR driver?!
- Muhammad Ali Jr. says his late father – and Eli’s hero – would not have supported BLM. Eli pooh-poohs him.
- The Pistons hired – WHO? – Troy Weaver as GM. Bob only wonders why there’s an extra executive ABOVE him.
- The DH is FINALLY coming to the National League! When you hear Mr. McDowell talk about HIS HITTING, you’ll know why.
- Two statues of well-known former team owners REMOVED. NYC even removes a statue of Teddy Roosevelt!
- When the Tigers DO play again, don’t be surprised if THEY remove the statue of TY COBB from Comerica Park.
- Those stories, YOUR mailbag segment and much more right here!
Episode 114: Jason “Rooftop” Thompson: My Life in Baseball

The old guys call me Rooftop, the younger kids have no idea who I am!
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain and Bob Page!
- JASON THOMPSON joins the boys who ask why Sparky got rid of him, what it was like to be part of “Birdmania” and much more!
- Mel Tucker is the new MSU football coach. You say Michigan media people were SOFT on this story? WE will NOT be!
- Ah, those “student-athletes.” Two football players banished from Ohio State over rape allegations!
- Is MLB going to update its playoff format to 14 teams — and pick your OWN opponent?! Denny has an alternative.
- The Astros’ sign-stealing is still making folks angry — and Denny’s even angrier about Pete Rose asking back in.
- Are the FL’s really going to trade Matthew Stafford? How much could they get for him at this point?
- Eli says the Pistons are worth a BILLION dollars more than Tom Gores paid for them! Bob explains why he REALLY wanted the team.
- “Screaming” Tom Izzo MAY have righted his sinking ship with a big win at Illinois.
- But don’t blame Northwestern for losing to Michigan’s basketball team. The Mildcats do things the right way.
- Those stories, Denny McLain, golf hustler as part of YOUR mailbag segment plus 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 87: A Stroll Down Memory Lane with Alan Trammell!

Father time is undefeated.
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain, and Bob Page.
- New HOF member Alan Trammell does a GREAT job with the boys! His life in baseball, the ’84 Tigers, Magnum P.I.: It’s all here, folks.
- The latest HOF candidates and state of the HOF? A wild melee suddenly breaks out with Eli and Denny dumping on Bob — who dumps right back!
- Computer umpiring in MLB was also part of that. Denny sticks to his guns — just as he surely would have about horseless carriages in 1906.
- Is there ANYTHING interesting about the FL’s vs da Bears? YES! For whom will Denny root Sunday? “We” or his own hometown team?
- Michigan’s off Saturday but the focus does NOT turn to Michigan State. Even Spartan fans may bail on MSU-Illinois. Alabama v LSU is at the same time!
- Bob strolls over to Madison Square Garden two nights in a row and isn’t happy with what he sees: MSU goes down and the Wings ARE down — horribly.
- U-M basketball? ANOTHER near nightmare in Ann Arbor against those big meanies from Appalachian State! Juwan’s got a lot to learn.
- You’ll hear about Denny’s fascinating old side gig on our mailbag segment AND about an UNUSUAL biz plan he and Jim Northrup once concocted!
- Eli answers Bob’s bemused question: “What the HELL does a chicken sandwich have to do with SPORTS?!”
Those stories and much more right here!
Episode 47: “ET TU, BRUTE?” Er, C.C? More Hall of Fame Silliness from MLB.

Is he a lock for the Hall Of Fame?
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain and Bob Page.
- The NBA Draft is upon us and Bob claims Zion is the biggest “sure thing” since Shaq! What can the Pistons expect at #15?
- Meanwhile, the NHL Draft is Friday. Rest assured that Stevie Y WILL get a terrific player — or three.
- Turns out Big Papi was shot due to “mistaken identity.” Denny calls “BS” and sez he’s stickin’ to HIS story!
- Zimmermann gives up three runs in four innings in his first start since April. DR. McLain’s solution remains — BOWL!
- Still another Baseball HOF controversy is now brewing. If JACK MORRIS is in, then why not others too?
- Megan Rapinoe refuses to participate in the national anthem at the World Cup. Eli and Denny respond.
- And black kids soon playing baseball in droves again? If so, Michigan coach Erik Bakich may have something to do with that!
- Those stories and much more right here!