The transcription is from a sports radio show, "Melnick in the Afternoon," on TSN 690, hosted by Mitch Melnick with co-hosts John Stil and Lucas Scott. The show begins with traffic updates, noting a towing operation on the Westbound Trans Canada at Morgan, causing lane restrictions on the Mercier Bridge. The hosts then discuss MLB player Shohei Ohtani, with a bet on his hits; Ohtani delivers with a leadoff home run and a double. The conversation shifts to NFL training camps, focusing on intriguing storylines such as Kirk Cousins being named the Raiders' starting quarterback and the debate over whether rookie QBs should start immediately. The hosts advocate for rookies sitting and learning, citing examples like Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers. The Editor Headlines segment features puns on Justin Herbert's engagement, Shane Bieber's poor performance (walking in three runs), MLB players rejecting a salary cap, Travis Tyson's success with the Montreal Alouettes, and NHL games moving to streaming platforms like Prime. The show concludes with a humorous skit about the name "Aaron," referencing a viral video. Overall, the episode blends sports news, analysis, and lighthearted banter, engaging listeners with a mix of information and entertainment.
Get everything you want in sports radio with Mitch Melnick, host of Melnick in the afternoon. Information, entertainment, and insight only 50 years in radio can give you. Along with John Stil and Lucas Scott, Mitch sets the standard in sports radio that cannot be duplicated. Melnick in the afternoon, weekday starting at 2 on TSN 690. Also available as a podcast on the free IHRT radio app. TSN 690 trash. Traffic is pretty light. There's a towing operation though Westbound Trans Canada at Morgan over at the Mercy Abridge one lane each way until Monday morning. And so it is slowing on the up ramps for Mercy A heading toward Montreal to the South Shore. It backs up at Clemau on the Met West a little busy at the Laurentian Auto Route. There's no shortcut for saving time, but saving money is simple. Just combine your car and home insurance with Bel Air Direct and save. I'm Debbie Marcellos from the CJA-D800 traffic sent. Campbell vs. Gallo. Where the Campbell fan show up out of nowhere. Gallo is not the answer. TSN 690. You ready? We're going to go back to the diamond. I'm going to just give you an over under of one and a half for hits for this player. It's my favorite player. He's the guy I like to watch. I'm going to make you stay up late and watch the Dodgers. You give me a show here. Show hey, Otani. Over under one and a half hits tonight. Oh boy. I know he's been hot and cold. Last night, not a great night. I'm going to go over. You're taking the over? Yes. You're just making me cheer for an under. For my boy, Show hey, Otani. You did that on purpose. Sometimes I'm, you know, little conniving in what I do. Speaking of little. Well played. Hey, hey, if I give you a line of two and a half, you might have taken the under. Probably. Three hits for Otani, including a lead off. Home run going yard. And he had a double. He was hit in the ball. He crushed it. Yeah. It's actually coming up on the TV right now. There it is. Bam. Goodbye. And he makes it look so effortless. This is the thing. I'm so happy. 432 feet. 432 feet. So if there was any other doubt when things I was like, oh, no, I think Joey's going to win last bet. So congratulations. You won two in a row. You'll have another one. You'll have one for me later on today. Yep. All right. Joe, what is today's hot topic? A lot of people chime in. And by the way, before we get to our hot topic, a lot of people chime in about the World Cup. Hey guys, I don't know if it's been confirmed yet, but one report I saw this morning is that Infantino is actually either part of the ownership group of the company he's trying to sell it or will be managing Person of that group. Therefore, he's essentially trying to keep himself in power, even though he's going to be voted out so he can keep controlling it and making money off of it. Eric and Tio. Eric? That's right up your alley of what you were saying. This guy just, I don't understand any of it. I just got into soccer. I'm going to enjoy the game itself and I'm not going to, you know, let this guy and whatever shady thing that he's got going on infiltrate my new found. Yeah. Like for the sport of soccer. And I hope you aphalese fufu because without Europe, there is no World Cup. So that everybody would like the euro probably more than the World Cup if you had a World Cup without that part of the world. What is today's hot top? Well, you kind of inspired it yesterday when you asked this question. So obviously I asked a question. Yeah, NFL camps open for all 32 teams. What is the most intriguing storyline of all the NFL camps? You know, there came out some stories yesterday of players wanting to be moved. They need to, uh, can I follow it up? I like your, I like sure. I find and yes, there's so many NFL fans, but what do NFL fans, you know about them? Everybody has their team, right? Yep. And maybe there's a good way to spread that news around. Oh, I mean yours is the quarterback probably. Well, the fact that he finally came out and said, yeah, this is it. This is it. Don't worry about it. I am retiring after the season. It's been all quiet on the Packers front. And it's it could really be about my comparisons injury and when he, when he returns. Yeah, I mean, it's not likely he's going to start the season. He said he's not going to. Yeah. So, um, I like, I like to know everybody's teams and I like to know a little bit about other teams. So if we ask what's the most intriguing interesting story from your team or you can go across the NFL. But with the NFL, it's something we'll discuss because no hockey heaven at 11 will be more NFL at 11. We'll dive into some of these intriguing stories across the NFL because training camps have opened. Yep. Teams are getting ready. Well, I mean, one of the interesting things is the Raiders came out yesterday and said Kirk Cousins is going to be their starting quarterback. Great. This is and then I'm not even a Kirk Cousins fan. I am not a proponent of these rookies starting right away. The best of the best all had to wait. Yeah. I think it's the same better for it. But I think, you know, the hype around Mendoza, I just want to see this kid play because I didn't see him in college. I don't know enough about him. I just wanted to see him just because he was number one. He signed that big rookie deal the other day for 54 or something million all guaranteed by the way too. So good on him for getting that. And if you're going to sit and learn on the sidelines, I take a paycheck to be second fiddle. I just, I think it happens too often where you get drafted, you get thrown into the mix, you have to have a limited playbook versus, you know, sitting there, understanding, seeing the ropes, like getting like going from college to pro. I know you could talk about different programs have are deep enough. You still like waiting in the wings, especially at the quarterback position, especially on the Raiders. Like I say this all the time. Over the last. Let's go 20 years. If you could talk about the top quarterbacks in the game, like the top quarterbacks, you're going to probably bring up Tom Brady, Aaron Rogers, Patrick Mahomes. We could go into other, you know, we could talk about Lamar Jackson and his and Pete Manning, right? I'm just going to name four only one out of those four started their rook year. Mahomes waited here Brady waited Aaron Rogers waited three. And they all became the best of the best. Well, they were also mentored by some really good people right before them. I don't know if you're going to talk about far being a mentor. If you know the way that relationship was. Yeah, but you still watch one of the best. And if you are Aaron Rogers, you know, no, no, I get it very. But that's my point from endosa. Like if you're a Raiders fan, you can get excited about this. But I would in my mind. Yeah. Cousins, you got this year. I'm just on cousin though. No, I've never sold on. I think that's the reason the Raiders aren't going to win anything. No, let you're about winning next year or the year after. Let him watch. And if cousins, just let them play the year. Let them get beat up. Let them get hit. And what's going to happen? So Raiders are going to be one in five. He's going to, he's going to the offense line or whatever is going to struggle a little bit. And then they're going to throw him a nose and then it's going to be chaos again. And then like, oh, yeah, we'll give him a shot. And you'll do these moments. I think it's in the best interest for these rookie star quarterbacks to sit and wait. I've always believed that. The NFL is incredibly difficult. Yeah. And when you're going on a team like the Raiders, your team, it's going to suck likely. Lately, they're, I mean, they've had this rebuild is taken forever in Oakland. And maybe we'll, or Vegas. Sorry. Yeah. Still had that day. Yeah. It's very odd. Still. Vegas, baby. And even when you talk about the a's to say Sacramento, it's very weird. Don't they just have it the a's? Yeah. For now. And then it's just the a's they didn't get to Vegas and then they become the Vegas is athletics. Yeah. The Vegas a's the Vegas. Well, people are just going to make the a and a's. Yeah. Right for Vegas. And now we have a new logo. So what the hot topic is and you can chime in at 11.69. And we're going to talk about it at 11 o'clock. What are what is the hot topic again? A motion-treating storyline as NFL camps open.
across the league. And I like to know what your team is and what the most intriguing storyline is for your team. You should have asked Peter before he left because Jerry Jones yesterday went on the record and saying, "Listen, we're going to make a move to make us even more competitive." I love this guy because he says it every year. Yeah. I like talking cowboys with Pete because it instantly puts him in a bad mood. He has been hurt by that man. Scarred. We'll talk a little NFL today on this Wednesday on Campbell versus Gallup, but coming up next, we don't write the stories. We just write the headlines. Sometimes it's good, but mostly it's bad. In TSN 690 is your home for Montreal Sports. Get exclusive interviews, expert analysis, and play my play that puts you in the game. And if there's a sporting event in the city, we've got it covered TSN 690, home of the LOS, the Alliance, Montreal Roses, FC Supra, CF Montreal, and the Montreal Canadians. More teams, more live broadcasts, TSN 690. Montreal Sports live here. What are you doing? They don't know. Campbell versus Gallup, TSN 690. Editor headlines. All right, it's that time of the week. Every Wednesday we have editor headlines. The stories are out there. We do not write the stories, but we do write the headlines. And like I said, not often are they good, but for the most part, they're bad puns and poorly written. But that's with Mitch Gallup, but I got Joey Elias. Get that ready. I'll let you start, Joe, and let you know if I like your headline or not, you could give us the premise and then hit me with the headline and we'll see where we land. All right, we're going to get the worst one out of the way. Okay. All right. Herbert joins real QBs of Hollywood wives. All right. Give me the story now. Well, he got engaged to a singer, Madison beer. Okay. So once again, joining all the other quarterbacks. I saw that headline. I said something Herbert with beer and I was like, I don't understand this. I don't know who she is. Okay. I don't know what she sings. I don't know what kind of music she sings. But I do she's a singer. She is a singer. Would you say Madison beer? Yep. But I know that all the other quarterbacks are married to actors or musicians or models. So, yes, there's a whole, you know, you talk about the wives and girlfriends, the waggs. Well, I'm saying the QBs of these individuals should have their own shows. Like when you want to see Herbert and, you know, Josh Allen and all these guys just sit around and talk about, yeah, what does your wife do? I don't know if I don't think I would want to watch that. I don't think they would want to do it. Although you never know. But here's Madison beer. It's called Make You Mine. The headline should have been like, makes him mine. Yeah, I didn't know until you mentioned that. I didn't know how song that she sang. There you go. I'm trying to teach you. We play music during editor headlines. I have a song for you for my next one. Oh, nice. Okay. As my next headline is about the Blue J's game last night. Shane Bieber did not do very well. And he walked six batters, including walking three in for a four-nothing lead for the nationals, as most of the fans were those friendship hats. Yeah. And my headline reads in the first inning, Bieber walks off the mound. It did get me get me thinking on our baseball team. The caribou is we have a rule on our team because I saw Shane Bieber walk in three runs on our team. The caribou's if you are the pitcher and you walk in a run, you owe six punishment beers. But they every walk is amplified. So it goes six to 12 to 24. Wow. Okay. Right. You really don't like walking people. Yeah. So it would have been 42 beers for Shane Bieber on top of that because of the world of AI. I actually made a song that we play if you walk in a run during the game and our DJ or guy plays this song. Did you just walk in a run with bases loaded? Music hits. That's beer. You have to drink beer. Walking cement beer. No pressure, but the bases are still loaded. And now we started playing in when the other team doesn't. Oh, that's sweet though. I like that. I like the fact that you guys have enough fun. You know, and you're not these individuals that take themselves so seriously. No, we do not, but some teams don't like that we play music. We have walk-ups songs. We have everything with the with the caribou. It's all right. You're next one. Yes. Here it is. Players put the lid on cap. And that's MLB players talking about not accepting a salary cap. Uh-huh. Yeah. This is a conversation we had yesterday with the topic tree, right? Yep. So yeah, it looks like they don't want it. Owners do. Yeah. Patty and Ottawa said it's going to happen. I'm sure. I the owners do, but have the owners ever won any of these. I don't know how long do you need the players not to play a whole calendar year? We're going to lose baseball for a calendar year in 2027. And in the end, will the owners have a salary cap? Right now it doesn't look like they're going to get any closer. And it does look like a work stoppage is going to happen, which is unfortunate because for two reasons, baseball really is just picking up. There's some great storylines, you know, with miz and schemes coming up. And just some really good storylines over the last couple years. And then to go and have a work stoppage again, it just does not. I don't know. I, you know, I was much like many Montreal fans, right? When the expose left, I still had an interest in baseball. But I felt like an orphan. And I didn't know where to go. And finally, after all these years, I'm finally getting back into it. I'm watching games. I'm watching for individual players, whatever. I don't know if I'm going to get back on that bandwagon as fast as I did the last time after the work stoppage. My next headline, I'll go to the Montreal Alloants. Well, I think it's just a selfless attitude competitive spirit, you know, believing in your teammates and what we do here works. And it's because you're consistent with it. You come in the building every day, happy to be here, respecting everybody in the building, working for someone, not yourself, caring about everybody, playing for Montreal, coming back in the 425. I mean, you're just not playing for yourself. And when you're not doing those things, you're just so focused on doing your job and doing it for someone else. I think it's better. And that's an answer to what about Travis Tyson, the little things that he does, but he's also doing it out on the field. He had a career high two weeks ago, 123 yards, 156 yards last week. So heading into Ottawa, headline reads, Ottawa could be having trouble in parrot-tice. But short week, you may, you always want to turn to your run game if you can. I'm thinking again, not looking at trying to get ahead of it, but you look at that Ottawa defense and you look at what Tyson's been doing lately. He's on paper, you know, look at solid, look at comfortable. Looks like it could be a very big week for Mr. Tyson. Your last one. NHL going prime time. And that's because we found out yesterday, yes, more games in the NHL will be on prime television. Yeah. It's nothing that I know a lot of people get upset about it. I heard John still go on this whole diet tribe and, you know, how greedy this. You saw it with the NFL. You see it with the NBA. How did you not think it was going to start happening this and you're going to get more, right? You're going to get your next Flick Games. You're going to get your prime. You're going to get your Apple TVs. It's just welcome to the world of sports and companies and you're going to have to have three, four, five subscriptions.
and everybody said, "I gotta get rid of cable and this, and now I have to, this is the world, welcome." - Yeah, it's just a lot. I mean, I have Netflix and I feel like, I don't use that enough. You know what I mean? Like, I don't watch a lot of Netflix. - There's some that I've unsubscribe to, and then there's some that I keep, 'cause there's certain shows that I like, but yeah. - Yeah, I mean, if you think about how much, again, it is nowadays to be a fan. You know, between all the streaming platforms, you need to get all the games. And then again, the merch and more merch and third jerseys and, you know, I don't know if you're like me, but I'm a, I like coffee, so I have a coffee mug. I got my Steelers mug. - I have my Packer slippers. Okay, I have many, I think I have like 15 Packer hats. That's me in the expose. I think I have 12 Expo hats. I try to find them different ones. - I don't know if I have an ex-host hat. - Like, the one you showed me that your girlfriend bought, I don't have that one. That is sweet looking. - Yeah, you were jealous of that one. - Yeah, I'm like, oh, I may have to look that one up 'cause I hadn't seen that one. - It's nice. - It is a nice one. - You know where I got it too. - I do, yeah. - You told me to go there. My last one is right up your alley. - What is it? Why is this? - I thought last year might be it. And then Mike got hired and I talked to the wife and she said, you can do one more year. So I said, well, see if it works out. And then it kind of all came together. - When you just talked to a CK earlier and he said, well, you know, saying it to the last year might just be something that I didn't know because he didn't want to back up another year. Do you know how many times I've been to Bader? - No, zero to eight. Zero. - Zero. - Zero. That was my favorite part of the whole day. - Zero. A A Ron is A A Dunn. Now, A A Ron, where are you? Where is A A Ron right now? No A A Ron, huh? Well, you better be sick, dead or mute A A Ron. - Aaron. - Oh, man. - Why didn't you answer me the first time I said that? - Huh? - I'm just asking, I said it like four times. So why didn't you say it the first time I said A A Ron? - Because it's pronounced Aaron. - Son of a bitch! - You done messed up A A Ron? Now take your ass on down to Oshag Hennessy's office. Right now, and tell him exactly what you did. Oshag Hennessy! Principal Oshana? Get out of my dark damn classroom before I break my foot off in your ass. It's the board knit and turlish. - Timothy. - Present. - Thank you. (rock music) - Uh, that's editor had line sending yours at 11.6.9. - What do you want? You want to continue with your NFL talk? We'll do that at 11 o'clock. Our hot topic today is. - But is the most intriguing storyline as NFL camps open? It could be, league wide. It could be just the team you root for. ♪ This droplet paradigm ♪ ♪ It's the perfect no wrong scene ♪ - Get in the game on your smart speaker. - Just ask for TSN 690. TSN 690 traffic. water, accumulation on the roadways, and so outside lanes might be a little tricky traffic is light, though, and just slows on the 20 west at Aungringel to Viltsinck here, the 138 to the Mercier Bridge, backing up through the south from Klemau one lane each way on the Mercier till Monday morning, it slows on the uprams in front of the south shore. Flexstays, Flexstays biggest splash sale of the years coming August 6th and 7th, flexible, financing at thousands of retailers across Canada, like Lyon's and the brick, OAC Terms apply. I'm Debbie Marcellos from the CJA-D800 Traffic Center. If you're listening to the home of sports in Montreal, DSN 690, CKGM, and IHR radio station. IHR radio is thrown it back to the days of huge hits and unforgettable, a non-stop stream of the biggest invest. And more, all your decade defining favorites all in one place.
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The show "Melnick in the Afternoon" on TSN 690 features host Mitch Melnick, along with John Stil and Lucas Scott, offering sports radio with 50 years of experience.
Traffic updates highlight a towing operation on the Westbound Trans Canada at Morgan, causing delays on the Mercier Bridge until Monday morning.
A segment discusses MLB player Shohei Ohtani, with a bet on his performance (over 1.5 hits), and he hits a leadoff home run and a double.
The hot topic is the most intriguing storyline as NFL camps open, with discussions on rookie quarterbacks like Caleb Williams and veterans like Kirk Cousins starting for the Raiders.
Editor Headlines segment includes puns on Justin Herbert's engagement, Shane Bieber's poor pitching, MLB salary cap debates, Travis Tyson's performance with the Montreal Alouettes, and NHL games moving to prime-time streaming platforms.
The show ends with a comedic skit referencing "Aaron" from a viral video.
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The transcription is from a sports radio show, "Melnick in the Afternoon," on TSN 690, hosted by Mitch Melnick with co-hosts John Stil and Lucas Scott. The show begins with traffic updates, noting a towing operation on the Westbound Trans Canada at Morgan, causing lane restrictions on the Mercier Bridge. The hosts then discuss MLB player Shohei Ohtani, with a bet on his hits; Ohtani delivers with a leadoff home run and a double.
The conversation shifts to NFL training camps, focusing on intriguing storylines such as Kirk Cousins being named the Raiders' starting quarterback and the debate over whether rookie QBs should start immediately. The hosts advocate for rookies sitting and learning, citing examples like Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers. The Editor Headlines segment features puns on Justin Herbert's engagement, Shane Bieber's poor performance (walking in three runs), MLB players rejecting a salary cap, Travis Tyson's success with the Montreal Alouettes, and NHL games moving to streaming platforms like Prime.
The show concludes with a humorous skit about the name "Aaron," referencing a viral video. Overall, the episode blends sports news, analysis, and lighthearted banter, engaging listeners with a mix of information and entertainment.
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It's a sports radio show hosted by Mitch Melnick on TSN 690, featuring information, entertainment, and insight from his 50 years in radio, airing weekdays at 2 PM.
You can listen on TSN 690 or download it as a podcast on the free iHeartRadio app.
The hot topic was the most intriguing storyline as NFL training camps open, covering league-wide or team-specific stories.
They believe rookies benefit from waiting, as top QBs like Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers, and Patrick Mahomes all sat before starting and became elite.
It's a weekly segment where hosts share and critique humorous or poorly written headlines based on real sports stories.
Players oppose a salary cap, and owners want one, leading to fears of a work stoppage in 2027 that could hurt baseball's recent momentum.
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