Baker Mayfield & Alex Caruso, MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred, Scottie Scheffler Dominates The Open + Mt Rushmore Of Best Bad Movies

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Speaker 16 On today's part of my take, we have two great interviews.

Speaker 17 We have our good friends Alex Caruso and Baker Mayfield together.

Speaker 21 That is something we do chill week now. It's chill week tradition.

Speaker 3 We get a NBA player and a NFL quarterback.

Speaker 24 Last year, we did Josh Allen and

Speaker 24 our good friend Blake Griffin, who is officially five-time Blake of the Year.

Speaker 27 This year it's Alex Caruso and Baker Mayfield.

Speaker 4 We also have MLB commissioner Rob Manfred.

Speaker 30 So that's our second commissioner, PFT.

Speaker 31 We've almost got them all.

Speaker 32 Two down.

Speaker 33 Goodell, balls in your court, bro.

Speaker 34 Tell, we got to get Bettman, and then he's got no choice

Speaker 36 to complete it.

Speaker 39 We're going to do the Mount Rushmore of bad movies, which will surely be contentious.

Speaker 11 We also are going to... Good bad movies.

Speaker 41 Good bad movies. Good, bad movies.

Speaker 42 Bad bad movies.

Speaker 43 Bad movies that are good.

Speaker 44 It's already contentious.

Speaker 33 It's the best worst movies.

Speaker 45 It's the Mount Rushmore bad movies.

Speaker 1 What did I say? The best worst movies.

Speaker 24 Yeah, but Mount Rushmore bad movies implies that they're good because they're on the Mount Rushmore bad movies.

Speaker 33 Bad movies that are bad.

Speaker 47 Bad movies that are good.

Speaker 47 Okay.

Speaker 24 Bad movies was the text that was sent.

Speaker 48 I'm ready for it either way.

Speaker 8 I'm ready for it. This is going to be the most contentious movie.

Speaker 42 It will be. I'm ready for it.

Speaker 49 I think we're all on the same page.

Speaker 50 Mount Rushmore implies good.

Speaker 11 Best bad movies.

Speaker 32 Yeah.

Speaker 17 Mount Rushmore implies good.

Speaker 51 Hank, read the text.

Speaker 40 Best bad movies. Best bad movies.

Speaker 42 All right, perfect. We're ready to go.
Yep, ready.

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Speaker 24 millionaire contest to get a bonus ticket and get a shot at being crowned one of two millionaires only on DraftKings. Today is Monday, July 21st, and Scotty Schaeffler is the fucking man.

Speaker 33 He is the man. Before we get into golf, though, I should say this out loud.
This is our last Monday show without football.

Speaker 56 Oh.

Speaker 33 Until February.

Speaker 57 We got football next week?

Speaker 33 We got the Hall of Fame game. On Sunday night? No, I'm saying it's the last Monday show that's not in a football week.

Speaker 58 When is the Hall of Fame? There is football next Thursday night.

Speaker 59 Got it.

Speaker 60 Got it. Got it.

Speaker 33 This is the last full week of no football

Speaker 33 on the show until February. Got it, got it.

Speaker 62 Pretty fucking cool.

Speaker 56 Oh, Hank. Hank.

Speaker 11 Jump in the gun a little bit.

Speaker 63 I thought it was the last

Speaker 11 Monday. You're still not going to be talking about football.

Speaker 16 Hank's right on that.

Speaker 2 I thought you meant the last Monday show.

Speaker 62 We don't talk football.

Speaker 64 Jump in the gun. But Hank.
That was a little jump.

Speaker 33 Hank hates it when we said that football is back.

Speaker 11 It's not. You hate it.
It won't be back next Monday either. Chuck is fucked up.

Speaker 47 He's right on that.

Speaker 65 But we will next week.

Speaker 63 Yeah.

Speaker 66 Have football, which we will not talk about for more than maybe three minutes because they don't even play the second stringers in the future.

Speaker 33 Yes, third strings, yeah.

Speaker 40 Yeah, third string.

Speaker 24 Scotty Scheffler's the man. He is the man.

Speaker 33 He

Speaker 24 absolutely dominated the Open Championship,

Speaker 66 won minus 17.

Speaker 24 Port Rush did not show up.

Speaker 67 That was also the wind.

Speaker 56 Yeah.

Speaker 16 Those courses, from the little I know about Lynx golf

Speaker 69 in the UK or Northern Ireland or Ireland, you pretty much need the wind.

Speaker 39 Otherwise, it's not as tough of a course.

Speaker 33 Maybe some harder rain, some big fat rain. But there was not that much to see from Port Rush.

Speaker 33 The only cool thing that the course did this week was it unearthed a second ball when Rory hit that one shot. Pretty crazy.

Speaker 17 So I was watching that live.

Speaker 46 Dead ball.

Speaker 24 I thought he had fucked up and picked up his ball.

Speaker 60 I was like, why did he just do that?

Speaker 24 And also, holy shit, Rory just hit a shot that I hit a million times when I golf.

Speaker 72 And then that just shows how good Rory is that he knew right away that wasn't his ball.

Speaker 27 Of course, he flushed it, but that was cool.

Speaker 64 It was awesome. That ball had been there forever.

Speaker 33 Yeah, I want to know what the marking on that ball was. I want to know what the procedures.

Speaker 33 Like, do they have people before these tournaments that go through all the weeds, all the fescue, and they just pull out old balls?

Speaker 33 That thing was buried. It was buried.
It was, I'd say, maybe four, three, four inches underground. Yeah.
Like, the earth has evolved since that ball plugged in there.

Speaker 75 But when he picked it up, I was just like, holy shit, what is he doing right now?

Speaker 66 Do you have that same feeling, Hank?

Speaker 11 I thought that was his shot for sure. Me too.

Speaker 77 I was like, oh, he just mishit it, and now he's going to be penalized.

Speaker 4 Nope.

Speaker 29 Second ball.

Speaker 36 It's kind of like when it happens at Wrigley when a second ball pops out of the IV.

Speaker 79 Yeah.

Speaker 23 When you hit one into the IV and there's two balls.

Speaker 33 A little time capsule in there. Yeah, it's fun.
Now, Rory should also feel bad because Rory has unleashed Scotty Scheffler on the world by encouraging him to change his putter like two years ago.

Speaker 33 So I looked up some of the stats. Scotty Scheffler, before he changed the putter, he was like 170th on the PGA tour in strokes gained putting.
He's awesome at putting. This week, he was number one.

Speaker 33 Yeah. He was the best.
And since changing to the new putter, he's hovered like top 20.

Speaker 69 Yeah.

Speaker 33 So, Rory, you fucked everything up, buddy.

Speaker 24 He also, I mean, we said this after the Masters when Rory was saying, we're like, hey, this might unleash Scotty.

Speaker 81 And it has unleashed Scotty.

Speaker 82 It's the year of Scotty wins his second major of the year.

Speaker 40 It's also crazy to put in perspective that February 13th, 2022, I bring up that date.

Speaker 2 Why? That was Scotty Schoffler's first PGA Tour win. That's just three and a half years ago.

Speaker 16 That's not like, I think it's, we've had this conversation before.

Speaker 31 Scotty Scheffler, how good he is, and also how much older and like dignified he looks to his age.

Speaker 21 Is he like 29 still? I think he's 29.

Speaker 33 He turns 30 on the Sunday of the U.S. Open next year.
Right. It's the only major that he hasn't won yet.

Speaker 16 It feels like he's been around forever because he's been so dominant in these three and a half years.

Speaker 84 But yeah,

Speaker 21 his first win on tour was three and a half years ago.

Speaker 86 And

Speaker 2 he's, yeah, he has 17 wins.

Speaker 24 He's been awesome. He's been awesome.

Speaker 33 It was the exact same number of days between his first major win and his fourth major win as it took Tiger Woods between his first major win and his fourth major win.

Speaker 48 So I'm happy you brought that up because I wanted to talk about this.

Speaker 1 Because Scotty was so good at the open that we had nothing to talk about.

Speaker 21 So naturally, it became Scotty versus Tiger.

Speaker 44 Is he Tiger?

Speaker 90 And then that stat came out that it was the exact same amount of days.

Speaker 18 It was, yeah, 1,000, what was it, 1,719 days, I believe, was in between the third and earth, the first and the fourth. Yep.

Speaker 7 It also was the exact same, I think, number of starts

Speaker 7 for him and Rory in terms of their fourth major win.

Speaker 94 And then Rory had like 30 more starts to get his fifth.

Speaker 96 The only reason I wanted to bring this up is because it did become Scotty versus Tiger.

Speaker 1 And yes, that is a crazy stat that it took him.

Speaker 7 Yeah, 1,197 days between their first major and their fourth major.

Speaker 24 Tiger Woods then won the next two majors that he played in.

Speaker 33 And Tiger Woods, at that point, got the Tiger Slam.

Speaker 44 Yeah, those were the next two to get the Tiger Slam. So that was

Speaker 52 his fifth major was to get the PGA championship, and then his sixth major was to get the Masters.

Speaker 24 And they were literally the next two starts.

Speaker 99 So I'm not saying that Scotty can't be Tiger, but we got to pump the brakes on Scotty as Tiger.

Speaker 68 Because I saw also there was a bunch of stats going around where they picked like a three-year window.

Speaker 52 It's basically basically Scotty's last three and a half years in Tiger 2020 or 2002 to 2005, which is just that's erasing his slam.

Speaker 2 And I went and looked, and again, this is, I love Scotty Scheffler. I hope he is Tiger because that would be awesome for golf.

Speaker 32 But it also is a good reminder of like, I think people need to remember how awesome Tiger Woods was.

Speaker 2 So Tiger Woods, so Scotty has 134 PGA starts.

Speaker 24 He's won 17 times.

Speaker 7 He has four majors.

Speaker 52 Tiger, in his first 134 PGA starts, had 32 wins and eight majors.

Speaker 79 So almost double on both, just showing how crazy he is.

Speaker 82 Tiger also, in his first 250 PGA starts, won 71 times and he finished top three 115 times, almost half the time.

Speaker 96 He was top three.

Speaker 18 And he had more major wins 14 than he had missed cuts 13.

Speaker 52 That's his first 250 starts.

Speaker 100 Also, Tiger Woods, we mentioned the slam.

Speaker 55 Tiger had

Speaker 82 a 27-star stretch in 99

Speaker 52 in 2000.

Speaker 103 27 starts.

Speaker 24 How many tournaments did he win, Hank? 27.

Speaker 58 These are PGA tour events.

Speaker 82 27 starts.

Speaker 42 How many did he win the 11?

Speaker 82 16.

Speaker 47 That's insane.

Speaker 52 Including four majors.

Speaker 45 Think about that for a second.

Speaker 4 He literally would just win 65% of the time that they would have a PGA tour event for that year.

Speaker 33 You can do all these advanced stats. I go off one, and that's the Chipotle quotient.

Speaker 33 And that's what percentages of Chipotle's could Tiger Woods walk into and be able to eat a meal without being recognized? It was probably like 0%. 0%.
Scotty Scheffler is batting 50% in his own city.

Speaker 59 That's true. Right now.
That's true.

Speaker 1 Another crazy Tiger stat because there's so many of them.

Speaker 105 And again, love Scotty.

Speaker 89 Scotty won, so this is his 10th consecutive tournament win when holding the outright 54-hole lead.

Speaker 7 Basically, if he's winning the first three days, he's going to win the tournament.

Speaker 1 How many times do you think Tiger Woods did it?

Speaker 24 30. Consecutive.

Speaker 82 20. 37.
Jesus.

Speaker 37 37 consecutive times Tiger Woods had the 54-hole lead and won the tournament.

Speaker 70 And then

Speaker 28 another crazy one,

Speaker 24 Tiger Woods won five PGA tour events in a row three separate times.

Speaker 33 That's crazy.

Speaker 95 Five in a row, three separate times.

Speaker 59 Yeah, you're right.

Speaker 33 The only thing that you can talk about when it becomes a lopside victory is like, is this man Tiger Woods? It's not fair to Scotty.

Speaker 33 Every young NBA player that's coming up, the only thing we can think to say, like, is this guy Michael Jordan's son? Right.

Speaker 1 Because he was really good.

Speaker 33 Like, when you watch a guy dominated golf, you're like, is this the same as we felt with Tiger Woods? It's not going to be the same. Tiger Woods was just unreal.

Speaker 33 And I think Scotty has to stay ranked number one in the world for the next 10 years. Yeah.
To equal Tiger's reign, right?

Speaker 2 And obviously, Scotty doesn't care about this because

Speaker 39 he seems like maybe the most grounded, well-adjusted athlete ever.

Speaker 5 The quote he gave before the tournament, he obviously people took it different ways where he's like, you know, I win a major and I'm happy for a couple minutes.

Speaker 39 He kind of cleaned it up or explained it better today, where he's just like, look, it's this is, I love golf.

Speaker 106 Like, reaching this pinnacle is incredible.

Speaker 24 But if it, if everything in my life was defined by golf, well, then maybe he would be Tiger Woods.

Speaker 15 But like, that's

Speaker 2 he's very, like, it's actually incredible for an athlete to be able to say that.

Speaker 23 Like, I'm really, really good, and I love winning, and I love competing, but I have more in life that gives me fulfillment and fills my heart.

Speaker 2 And that also really has to suck for everyone who Scotty's going against.

Speaker 16 Because he's basically like, yeah, he's like, yeah, winning another major is awesome, but you know what's even better?

Speaker 31 having a family.

Speaker 33 Being a well-rounded human being.

Speaker 33 Yeah, Tiger was never really a well-rounded human being. I don't think that anybody said, like, when he was dominant, that this guy, he really got it all.
Yeah.

Speaker 33 Scotty, though, I didn't take it when he he was saying like yeah my family all that stuff I didn't take it to mean that he he doesn't love golf I think

Speaker 23 I think he's a fucking psycho correct who loves golf correct but he's even more of a psycho who loves his family and also understands that if golf is the only thing that defines you there's yeah he's on an incredible streak right now but there'll be a streak where he's not on an incredible streak and if golf is the only thing that defines you then you just become a depressed person and you have no meaning in your life and it's pretty good that he's got the wherewithal to be like i have meaning I find meaning in a lot of different places.

Speaker 33 All right, so Tiger Woods against Scotty Scheffler, match play,

Speaker 33 18 at Augusta, both in their primes.

Speaker 59 Tiger.

Speaker 33 Tiger minus

Speaker 33 180.

Speaker 97 Dude, Tiger used to.

Speaker 19 And Scotty's getting close to this, but I remember.

Speaker 33 Tiger did it all with Krabs, too.

Speaker 33 Pretty impressive. Yeah.

Speaker 95 I remember this because Scotty, I think, what was he before this tournament?

Speaker 81 Was he like plus 350?

Speaker 47 Plus 400. Plus 400?

Speaker 33 He was plus 450.

Speaker 24 There were many tournaments where Tiger it was even money.

Speaker 96 And it was just like, it was Tiger versus the Field was the bet you were making.

Speaker 16 And yeah, I think it's also what we do in all sports because we want the thing that we thought we'd never see again to be something we're seeing again.

Speaker 2 Where we say, oh, watching Tiger in his prime was an insane, almost religious experience. We want that to happen again.

Speaker 36 And Scotty might get there because he's starting off in a way that, like, if he stacks up another, if he duplicates these next three and a half years the same as these last three and a half years,

Speaker 2 he

Speaker 44 still wouldn't be as dominant as Tiger, but it would be pretty damn close.

Speaker 33 You know what the difference is? With Scotty, when he's winning these tournaments, we kind of, we want there to be drama at the end.

Speaker 63 Well, that's good.

Speaker 33 We don't know, but I think it was totally different.

Speaker 33 I think with Scotty, it's like you want there to be drama in the final round. After it's kind of a boring final round, Scotty just keeps making par putts when you think he might slip up, and

Speaker 33 he ends up winning the whole thing. We're like, it would would have been nice if it was closer at the end.

Speaker 33 With Tiger Woods, when you were watching Tiger, you were tuning in specifically to watch Tiger beat the fuck out of everybody.

Speaker 33 You got more excited the more lopsided that the fight got. Scotty hasn't gotten to that place yet.

Speaker 108 No. I don't think that he will.

Speaker 60 I don't know if he will either, but he's awesome.

Speaker 24 And it's very cool to see him be as dominant as he's been.

Speaker 11 I think it could turn into like a Jordan LeBron thing too, where Scotty could just play more and get better stats. Yeah.
But people will always be like, it's just not Tiger.

Speaker 24 We should also say that, I mean, Scotty probably is playing against tougher opponents.

Speaker 40 Yeah, definitely.

Speaker 44 Because the Tiger effect.

Speaker 33 All people inspired by Tiger. Correct.

Speaker 105 Are here.

Speaker 2 And so

Speaker 71 that absolutely should be stated.

Speaker 39 And again,

Speaker 39 this is 0% slight on Scotty because I love him.

Speaker 74 It's just the Tiger.

Speaker 70 We just need to remember every now and then how incredible Tiger was.

Speaker 114 Yeah.

Speaker 2 And just how insane that stretch.

Speaker 23 I mean, again,

Speaker 1 what did I say?

Speaker 2 Was it 27 starts and he won 16 of them?

Speaker 33 Yeah, it's pretty incredible.

Speaker 115 That's insane.

Speaker 66 27 start stretch where he won 16 tournaments, including four majors.

Speaker 115 That's so stupid.

Speaker 33 I do think all the perspective stuff helps Scotty when it comes to his bounce back stats. Yeah.

Speaker 33 Did you see the set that they put out where it's like, if he hits a bogey, 36% of the time, the next hole, he's going to make a birdie.

Speaker 108 Yeah. And just wipe it out.

Speaker 64 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 62 It was like.

Speaker 33 And the tour average is, I think, 13%.

Speaker 64 and he does it over a third of the time because there was that stretch today when I was watching where it was I think he was up eight early and eight strokes and then it was I I was like I walked back to the TV and it was like four.

Speaker 62 Yeah.

Speaker 87 He said, oh shit, this could be something and then he just corrected it right.

Speaker 33 And then he had like two long par putts like 10, 15 footers that he made and it was it was just over.

Speaker 33 Also shout out to Godderup. Yes.
He's like a European genius. He's great in Scotland, great in Northern Ireland.
Probably might be listening to part of my take right now.

Speaker 19 Confirmed AWL.

Speaker 56 Shout out Oklahoma. Big year for Oklahoma.

Speaker 47 Yeah.

Speaker 118 So Chris Godder up, who we'll definitely have to have on at some point,

Speaker 31 before,

Speaker 24 so what, nine days ago, 10 days ago, his career earnings was $2,700,000. And then this past 10 days, he won $2,700,000.

Speaker 59 That rocks.

Speaker 39 So he just doubled his career earnings.

Speaker 33 What are taxes like

Speaker 33 when you went over in the UK?

Speaker 68 I feel like you just don't have to pay him.

Speaker 122 Yeah, you just leave town that's just not like just don't real just don't go back yeah that's just not real also uh i would say that scotty is starting to get a little bit of the the tiger like you can't beat tiger on sunday when he's up obviously i talked about the 10 consecutive that was his 10th consecutive the uh how tongue lee who he played with uh i like that guy yeah he said

Speaker 43 He said, admitted he could be playing for a second.

Speaker 67 He said, I'm actually quite looking forward to it.

Speaker 24 Four shots behind, kind of like play for second, especially play with the world number one. I just try to play my best out there and hopefully make something happen.

Speaker 121 Yeah.

Speaker 48 That was before the round. Yeah.

Speaker 28 He's like, yeah, I'm just out there just going to try to.

Speaker 2 And I think he asked Scotty for like tips.

Speaker 88 And he was like, can we play together when I come to the PGA tour?

Speaker 33 And he looked like he was having a great time out there. Yeah, he did.
He was like smiling and laughing. He knew that he wasn't going to beat Scotty.
No one was going to beat Scotty.

Speaker 37 Do we think

Speaker 84 the other two things I had was, I feel like the broadcast was trying to will Rory a little bit.

Speaker 63 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 42 The fans just a little bit. Yeah.
A little bit.

Speaker 97 Scotty was demolished.

Speaker 11 This scene on 18 on Saturday, they were acting like he was Sunday and he was winning. It was one of the greatest scenes I've ever seen in sports.

Speaker 123 It was a little much.

Speaker 31 Yeah.

Speaker 24 Also, Bryson might have figured out Lynx golf.

Speaker 33 He did. He actually figured it out before the opening round, and then he forgot it during the opening round, but then he figured it out again.

Speaker 59 For the last three rounds.

Speaker 33 Yeah, the stinger that he hit, like in the practice round, that topped out at, I think it was like 30 feet in the air, hit it like 190 miles an hour. That was a sick shot.

Speaker 33 But has he figured out Lynx golf

Speaker 26 Thursday would have begged to differ.

Speaker 103 Because, yeah, what was his, he shot a 78 and then he followed up with a 65, 68, 64. Pretty good.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 So he could have been in the mix if he hadn't shot that 78.

Speaker 43 I have a question for you guys.

Speaker 67 Is Bennett Scheffler the most well-known baby currently?

Speaker 107 Yeah, he's every Sunday.

Speaker 33 I would say it's like Riley Curry status.

Speaker 97 Yeah, he had his moment when he fell, which was very cute.

Speaker 33 Riley was like Tiger, and now Bennett is like Scotty. Yeah.
But yeah, he's everywhere. The fall was very funny, holding the trophy.
It seems like he's gotten used to holding championship trophies.

Speaker 47 It's literally every Sunday.

Speaker 98 He's really good at it.

Speaker 33 He's better than Colin Morkell at holding championship trophies.

Speaker 74 I mean, that's got to be like

Speaker 39 20 years from now, you just have a collage of all the trophies he held.

Speaker 68 Yeah.

Speaker 48 Pretty fucking cool as a baby.

Speaker 33 I also like how right after these rounds are done, right after he wins the championships, his wife just hands him the baby, like, baby, you're on baby duty right now. Yeah.

Speaker 24 I wonder if we should try to get Bennett on.

Speaker 42 I wonder if Bennett is getting bored of it.

Speaker 24 We can ask Scotty next time he comes on.

Speaker 67 Is he bored of all these trophies?

Speaker 33 Well, does Bennett have the perspective? Does he love his family more than he loves championship trophies?

Speaker 30 What if Bennett was like secretly boss baby and he was coaching Scotty and we just didn't know?

Speaker 33 Whispering?

Speaker 108 Yeah.

Speaker 24 What if he's the mastermind behind all of this?

Speaker 64 Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 29 I'm not ruling it out.

Speaker 16 Is Bennett further ahead?

Speaker 27 That has nothing to do with the fact that I watched Boss Baby four times this weekend with my kids.

Speaker 33 Is Bennett further ahead right now than Charlie Woods was?

Speaker 33 The same age.

Speaker 81 How old is Charlie Woods?

Speaker 33 Was he 18, 17?

Speaker 24 Charlie Woods is 16. He was born in 2009.

Speaker 28 Yeah, no, Bennett's way ahead.

Speaker 2 Because Tiger, 2009 is when Tiger started to, I think that was Navy SEAL's Tiger.

Speaker 33 When did he come back?

Speaker 33 Also, the craziest thing about Tiger Woods that people forget is he was by far the best golfer in the world. And he just decided, I'm going to change my entire swing.

Speaker 4 And be a Navy SEAL.

Speaker 56 And be a Navy SEAL.

Speaker 33 And then he was great with his new swing.

Speaker 63 Yeah.

Speaker 79 Oh, shit.

Speaker 88 Charlie Woods has only seen one major victory from his dad.

Speaker 33 So Bennett's

Speaker 40 him.

Speaker 100 Bennett's got two, right?

Speaker 60 Or does he have three?

Speaker 88 I think he has two. I think he's like one years old.

Speaker 1 So he doubled it up today.

Speaker 59 That's right. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Yes.

Speaker 31 Because 2009 was, I think, when it all started to, I think that was the Thanksgiving.

Speaker 68 Yeah.

Speaker 114 All kind of went bad.

Speaker 1 It would be funny if history just repeated itself and Scotty was just tigered that way, too.

Speaker 33 He was just really, really good at hiding it.

Speaker 33 I don't, because when the Tiger stuff happened, I don't think anybody, it was a massive story, but I don't think anyone was like, oh my gosh, this doesn't seem like Tiger Woods that I know.

Speaker 33 Oh, I can see Tiger being a psycho and going down that road.

Speaker 16 Oh, I disagree.

Speaker 83 I remember being shocked.

Speaker 108 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 95 Because he was like the perfect advertiser, like, you know, the, the,

Speaker 100 on every single commercial, had the family, had the the supermodel wife.

Speaker 64 That was shocking.

Speaker 48 That was shocking.

Speaker 100 It was definitely.

Speaker 25 I think we've, I think, because we learned everything after, we kind of misremember.

Speaker 32 But I remember being like, what the fuck?

Speaker 33 But I think Scotty would be more.

Speaker 2 I remember thinking that it was like, oh, he just got an offender bender.

Speaker 43 Like, no big deal. That's how they

Speaker 17 got him.

Speaker 62 Yeah.

Speaker 65 And then when you slowly figure it out, you're like, oh, shit.

Speaker 121 It's way worse than that.

Speaker 5 Also, we should, we did a bad job.

Speaker 67 I'll take my hand up here.

Speaker 26 Phil Mickelson should have won take of the year because his tweet from March, here's a hot take.

Speaker 4 Does Scotty win in 2025 before the Ryder Cup?

Speaker 31 I don't think so.

Speaker 95 Also, that's Phil saying that Phil just is saying Ryder Cup because he can't say Europe's going to win.

Speaker 59 Yeah.

Speaker 2 So he really wanted to say, does Scotty win at all in 2025?

Speaker 4 No. Yeah.

Speaker 113 But he also had to have a little pride.

Speaker 42 He was like, hopefully Keegan will give me a call and I'll play well enough that I'll somehow make a team.

Speaker 33 I'm so excited for the Ryder Cup. It's going to be be awesome.

Speaker 59 So excited.

Speaker 59 You're not Hank?

Speaker 11 I'm excited. I'm excited.

Speaker 11 I'm excited. It's going to be a war.
Okay. You might be in trouble.
But it's going to be back against the wall.

Speaker 33 So if it was Captain Hank, if you were the conciglieri to Keegan Bradley, what do you tell them?

Speaker 11 I trust Keegan. That's what I'm excited about.

Speaker 129 No, but what do you tell them?

Speaker 33 Trust yourself.

Speaker 11 Trust yourself. Use the crowd.

Speaker 33 Get hot. But in terms of the selections.

Speaker 11 Oh, I don't know about that.

Speaker 33 Max Homo.

Speaker 108 Yeah.

Speaker 33 Yes, absolutely.

Speaker 11 For sure.

Speaker 33 Why did you think about that? I didn't. You thought about that for a half second.

Speaker 11 I was thinking as Keegan, but I trust Keegan. Keegan's going to do the right thing.

Speaker 63 Got her up?

Speaker 8 This website says we have a 54.8% chance of winning.

Speaker 80 Got her up?

Speaker 49 Well, we do have to always remember that it's being played when you played in the home country almost always wins, and there's going to be

Speaker 110 20,000 Stu Finers

Speaker 89 in Frank Flemings going nuts.

Speaker 33 What were those brothers at the Yankees game? The Copo Bianco? Yeah.

Speaker 33 You got to get the Copo Bianco brothers out there. With golf gloves?

Speaker 107 Yeah, with golf gloves. Trying to grab balls.

Speaker 39 Here's a crazy stat.

Speaker 52 If you bet Scottie Scheffler to win every single week starting this year, $100, how much would you be up?

Speaker 11 $10,000.

Speaker 108 No, $185.

Speaker 91 Wow.

Speaker 30 Because he lost a bunch and he's always my favorite.

Speaker 14 Well,

Speaker 33 nothing will make you feel like a bigger genius than betting on Scotty Scheffler to win a major champion. I know.
And then hitting it. Like, I feel like the biggest.

Speaker 33 big, like, I figured out Las Vegas.

Speaker 107 Yeah,

Speaker 56 it's mine.

Speaker 33 I saw Scotty Scheffler plus 450 on Wednesday, and I was like, yeah, that seems pretty good. Yeah, why not?

Speaker 59 Why not?

Speaker 33 Take a taste. Turns out I really know gambling.

Speaker 55 Yeah, you do.

Speaker 59 It's a great bet. It's that simple.

Speaker 16 Okay, where do we want to go next?

Speaker 95 Because I have two stories that I don't fully understand that maybe we can figure out as a team.

Speaker 33 I think one of them might be my who's back of the week. Is that WNBA? No.

Speaker 50 Oh, the NFL P. Yeah.

Speaker 108 Okay, yeah.

Speaker 28 That one don't fully understand.

Speaker 100 So we'll do that. WNBA don't fully understand.

Speaker 69 And they had their all-star game.

Speaker 52 Yep. They wore shirts that

Speaker 88 said, pay us what you owe us.

Speaker 28 And then it's just a war online of they're losing $40 million a year, but also they're not.

Speaker 31 And I never understand any of the math behind because this is like classic ownership where they'll, you know, if you talk to an MLB owner, they'll be like, yeah, I'm losing money every single fucking year.

Speaker 63 I don't know.

Speaker 35 I think they probably should get paid more, but I also don't know anything about how any of the financials work.

Speaker 33 The economics behind it. Correct.
I do know that they're expanding as a league. Yeah.
I know that the CBA was ratified like a year ago. Okay.

Speaker 33 But that didn't take into account the Caitlin Clark factor. So the league's going to be growing.
TV rights are going to be growing.

Speaker 78 Merchandise.

Speaker 33 Merchandise is going to be.

Speaker 55 It feels like they're making a lot more money.

Speaker 33 You know what they should do? There should be like a week, one week a year, and this can go across all sports, where all the jersey sales, 100% of that money goes to the player whose jersey it is.

Speaker 73 Yeah.

Speaker 33 Be like, okay, if you move the needle, we're going to give you a week, see what your fans do.

Speaker 32 I like that.

Speaker 33 And then the fans can wear their, I sponsored this player.

Speaker 17 I also just go off gut.

Speaker 86 Like,

Speaker 24 does this number make sense?

Speaker 41 Do you guys have off the top of your head what

Speaker 82 each team's salary cap is in the WNBA?

Speaker 5 Do you have a guess? Like per year? Per year.

Speaker 27 Six figures.

Speaker 33 No, it's not six figures.

Speaker 33 i'm gonna go with five million 1.5 million that's not that less that's close to six figures that's 500 000 off it's six figures away from being six figures yeah i feel like that should be like three million i don't know that sounds like a good deal yeah

Speaker 16 i'm just going off gut like they i i i happen to agree with the shirt because i went gut check 1.5 million feels too low it does feel like we've been talking about them more

Speaker 33 in the past 18 months.

Speaker 56 Caitlin Clark effect.

Speaker 33 Caitlin Clark effect to the point where

Speaker 33 if you were to ask me what the average salary was, I would not obviously guess that it was as low as it is. Yeah.
So maybe they'll figure that out.

Speaker 33 I know that teams are, you're paying, what, 250 mil for an expansion franchise now?

Speaker 132 Yep.

Speaker 33 So

Speaker 33 they're not paying $250 million for something that's going to lose the money. You'd think.

Speaker 33 Generally, that's what rich people do is they buy stuff that's expensive because they're going to make even more money off of it.

Speaker 63 Yeah.

Speaker 59 It was also.

Speaker 33 sports teams, NFL, NBA, Major League Baseball, they'll never tell you exactly what the cost of their operations are. Yeah.
You're never going to get that. They will lie.

Speaker 33 They'll cry poor, and they'll use that to try to suppress salaries.

Speaker 59 So I don't know.

Speaker 33 Yeah, sure, give them a raise. $3 million sounds good.

Speaker 82 It just has gone boiled down to a quote-tweet war.

Speaker 37 Yeah. Who can quote-tweet

Speaker 27 the picture of them saying, pay us what you owe us with more facts that I might believe in the moment, and then I'll be like, well, let me look into this a little bit more.

Speaker 37 It feels like the league's on the up and up, and they could probably adjust it.

Speaker 33 I did see Kelsey Plum take a little shot at Caitlin Clark.

Speaker 42 Yeah, that was.

Speaker 108 That was Mean Girl shit. It seemed that Team Caitlin Clark.

Speaker 56 What do you mean?

Speaker 33 Oh, Mean Girl with the pods.

Speaker 123 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 33 She said Team Caitlin Clark, they did not seem to pay much attention during the meeting when they were talking about the shirts that they were wearing.

Speaker 60 No, she said they didn't attend.

Speaker 11 Oh, she said not to be a tattletale, but

Speaker 33 they weren't very present, which I think meant they were distracted during the meeting that they were at.

Speaker 95 No, so the story, I read into it more.

Speaker 19 I think they invited Team Clark 10 minutes before, and they didn't come because they got invited 10 minutes before.

Speaker 105 But they also wore the shirts, so who cares?

Speaker 33 Yeah, they end up wearing the shirt. Why are you telling them about it?

Speaker 6 Play the clips.

Speaker 97 It was a very tattletale.

Speaker 11 They didn't want to be a tattletale.

Speaker 51 It was mean girl.

Speaker 24 And then, who's that? Ionescu?

Speaker 76 Ionescu? Sabrina.

Speaker 83 She came correct.

Speaker 4 She was like, why would you fucking say that?

Speaker 108 Like, you idiot.

Speaker 68 Kelsey Plum.

Speaker 133 That was a very powerful moment.

Speaker 133 We didn't, at least as players, we didn't know that that was going to happen.

Speaker 133 So I think it was kind of like a genuine surprise. But the t-shirt,

Speaker 133 just United Front, was determined this morning that we had a meeting for. And,

Speaker 133 you know,

Speaker 133 not to tattletale, but zero members of Team Clark were very present for that.

Speaker 134 Yeah, they weren't. They didn't go.

Speaker 133 But no, we were just,

Speaker 133 we had a very.

Speaker 33 That really needed to be mentioned.

Speaker 133 I'm trying to make a situation light, okay?

Speaker 47 No.

Speaker 33 Good job taking the era.

Speaker 107 Big time.

Speaker 24 That's also such a knowing now that it was, they invited him 10 minutes before, that's a setup.

Speaker 50 You set him up.

Speaker 8 I kind of respect them being, just outwardly being like, I fucking hate Caitlin Clark.

Speaker 109 That's like, there's no pettiness about it.

Speaker 38 No, but she's not.

Speaker 74 She should say that.

Speaker 8 That's the only way that you would say something is because you don't know.

Speaker 97 But then she tried to be like, oh, I'm trying to make a light situation. Like, just own it.
And it's very funny because you're saying,

Speaker 15 pay us what you owe us, and then also taking a shot at Caitlin Clark.

Speaker 117 We wouldn't even be having this discussion if it wasn't for Caitlin Clark.

Speaker 33 So it was Team Clark. So it was like her.
There were two different all-star teams. Correct.
And Caitlin Clark had one team. She's saying zero members of Team Caitlin Clark, not there.

Speaker 33 Not like Caitlin Clark and her managerial team are like her marketing representatives.

Speaker 100 Correct.

Speaker 87 And they were also invited 10 minutes before.

Speaker 31 Yeah.

Speaker 19 So they didn't come to a meeting that they got the pity invite.

Speaker 33 This is a a lot of drama about a t-shirt.

Speaker 2 It's just so funny because it's like a unified moment, and then you've got to be got to be the mean girl.

Speaker 8 I definitely took that as Kaylin Clark's like management team.

Speaker 63 No, I did not.

Speaker 97 Team Clark is the other all.

Speaker 42 Yep, yep, that makes sense.

Speaker 8 That makes a lot more sense and a lot less petty.

Speaker 74 Like the Shack O G's.

Speaker 8 It would be like none of it.

Speaker 42 Because they were obviously on the other side.

Speaker 137 Shack O G's, Shack O'G's.

Speaker 139 Shout out to Shack O'G's.

Speaker 108 Okay.

Speaker 59 What else happened?

Speaker 31 Well, we can talk a little baseball.

Speaker 125 Yeah. Baseball.

Speaker 81 Baseball.

Speaker 100 We're getting close to the trade deadline.

Speaker 91 Hank, the Cubs beat the Red Sox two out of three.

Speaker 42 Yep.

Speaker 11 I went to the two games they lost.

Speaker 108 Oh, pure bad luck. Bad luck.

Speaker 28 Brewers caught the Cubs in the Central.

Speaker 41 I have a bad... I have a...

Speaker 24 Max, you can tell me if this is stupid.

Speaker 39 You're a baseball guy.

Speaker 41 I have a bad feeling.

Speaker 96 I have a bad premonition.

Speaker 27 The Cubs are very good.

Speaker 118 They are the best record in the NL tied with the Brewers.

Speaker 31 Also, the Dodgers kind of low-key stink, maybe?

Speaker 64 Nah, like...

Speaker 63 They are right now.

Speaker 43 Yeah, but they don't stink.

Speaker 33 They weren't going to lose a game this year.

Speaker 60 They're losing games right now.

Speaker 24 Would you feel good about a team knowing you need pitching at the trade deadline and then the GM saying we have a good enough team to be an electric team that's playing deep in October?

Speaker 100 To do that, we have to stay healthy.

Speaker 29 We have to do the little things.

Speaker 68 We know we have the talent.

Speaker 96 We don't have to get lucky.

Speaker 72 We just have to play really, really well.

Speaker 96 Would that make you a little concerned?

Speaker 8 Uh, yeah, setting our gym is saying the exact same thing, and we just signed a 40-year-old reliever who was basically retired.

Speaker 50 Yeah, setting the table five million dollars, setting the table for being like, We're probably not, we're gonna, we're gonna do one thing, but we're not gonna do the thing that you think we're gonna do.

Speaker 33 Isn't this guy like a three-time Philly? Yes, like he's been on and off.

Speaker 8 He's the third time that he'll be on the Phillies.

Speaker 47 Who is it?

Speaker 8 David Robertson. He's 40.

Speaker 63 He's 40. He's a free agent.

Speaker 8 He was a free agent.

Speaker 33 He did like a showcase in Rhode Island, and the Phillies signed him. But I I think he was pretty good last year.

Speaker 8 He's 40, and he hasn't pitched all year.

Speaker 143 I'm 40. I'm 40 as yet.

Speaker 109 But like, the diamonds aren't.

Speaker 144 It's so funny that you said that.

Speaker 11 I'm 40 of the swords.

Speaker 33 I was really fucking good when I did the pitching challenge that you're going to do eventually.

Speaker 8 Did I say that? Did I say that on here? Did I say that privately?

Speaker 32 No, you haven't got to do it.

Speaker 11 No one knows what you're talking about.

Speaker 93 No one knows what you're talking about.

Speaker 8 You're never doing that.

Speaker 8 I've reached out to a couple of teams.

Speaker 93 Dates aren't working out.

Speaker 145 Dates aren't working out.

Speaker 111 I'm still working on it. Okay.

Speaker 8 But yeah, no, that's funny you have that quote because I'm pretty sure RGM has the exact same quote about our lineup. It's like, this is a lineup that can win in October.

Speaker 63 Yeah, and you know what they're doing.

Speaker 97 They're just setting you up.

Speaker 2 So they're just like, hey,

Speaker 31 I know everyone's talking about this.

Speaker 72 We're not going to do as much as you think.

Speaker 33 But isn't it kind of true, though? Yeah. It could be true that if your team's good, why try to mess anything up?

Speaker 52 Because we have four starters right now.

Speaker 73 Yeah, that's a pretty good reason.

Speaker 33 Yeah.

Speaker 68 You need five. Yeah.

Speaker 31 I mean, we'll get one back, but still, you probably need another one.

Speaker 12 Yeah.

Speaker 20 I don't know.

Speaker 11 Bullpen games.

Speaker 9 Bullpen games.

Speaker 68 Bullpin games.

Speaker 31 Just throw all the bullpen.

Speaker 60 Everything you got.

Speaker 110 Did you have fun? Yeah.

Speaker 11 Wrigley Bleachers Friday afternoon.

Speaker 60 The best. Did you take a top off?

Speaker 63 Did not take the top off. Why?

Speaker 63 I don't know. I should have.
You should have.

Speaker 33 Did you have a beer bat?

Speaker 11 Did have a beer bat.

Speaker 11 Fear Snake.

Speaker 63 Did not win the 50s-50 the other night.

Speaker 95 Max, did you ever check the 50-50 of the one that you tried to parade in your face?

Speaker 32 I knew you wouldn't.

Speaker 8 Didn't look at it. I had no idea.

Speaker 82 Max went to a Cubs game was like three weeks ago and tweeted and was like, I'm probably going to win this.

Speaker 25 And then I texted him and I was like, hey, check the ticket.

Speaker 5 I'm pretty sure that's like a three-week 50-50.

Speaker 17 That's bullshit. He was so mad.

Speaker 130 It is bullshit.

Speaker 29 I've been banging the drum about this.

Speaker 108 It's bullshit what they've done.

Speaker 8 I would love to know the amount of winners that don't

Speaker 8 accept the prize. That has to be why they do it.

Speaker 52 I think they have your information, so they might reach out to you.

Speaker 8 How do they have my information? I think it's your credit card.

Speaker 8 Is that true?

Speaker 93 Is that how that works?

Speaker 31 I think so.

Speaker 63 Then you get an email to it.

Speaker 11 Just load it into your account.

Speaker 8 I have no idea. I literally have no idea.

Speaker 142 I remember I took

Speaker 8 waiting for the setting. I was like waiting for the seventh inning.
I was like, when are they going to announce this? When are they going to announce this? And then I got the tech.

Speaker 8 So you were like, you're not getting that till Sunday.

Speaker 108 And I was like, I don't give a fuck by Sunday.

Speaker 28 You should show up just randomly and be like, I'm here for my 50-50.

Speaker 43 Actually, I lost my ticket.

Speaker 59 You think I could check?

Speaker 71 Yeah, you can see past winnings.

Speaker 93 All right, I'll get back to you.

Speaker 32 All right.

Speaker 90 Well, actually, no, Max, we have one other thing.

Speaker 108 The Eagles' Super Bowl rings.

Speaker 102 Should we talk about them? Sick.

Speaker 38 I wanted,

Speaker 83 I really, really wanted to come in here and make a case for the wings flapping out to be fucking like lame and stupid and like what happened to the good old days with the Super Bowl ring.

Speaker 94 But every time they pop out, I'm like, damn, that's cool.

Speaker 33 It's pretty silly.

Speaker 59 You can't do anything about it.

Speaker 33 It looks a little bit like a mustache. It's just.
But it's cool.

Speaker 145 Mustaches are also cool.

Speaker 33 Listen, I would say. Is it that growth, though, Max?

Speaker 95 I literally wanted to come in here and try to fight you over this.

Speaker 70 And I was like, but then I kept on watching it.

Speaker 82 And I was like, I can't say anything because I think that's really cool that they did that.

Speaker 33 I think making fun of a team for having a lame Super Bowl ring is that's even too big of a loser move for me to do.

Speaker 63 Yeah, but I wanted to.

Speaker 33 It's so stupid. You're wanted.
The Super Bowl ring sucks.

Speaker 90 I wanted to.

Speaker 8 I have a take. I have a negative take about it.
Okay. I feel like this should be an in-season thing.

Speaker 55 In a game?

Speaker 8 Isn't there like a pre-game thing that you get?

Speaker 46 That's the banner night.

Speaker 63 Oh.

Speaker 8 I feel like you should get them that day.

Speaker 55 Well, then.

Speaker 33 But then they have the guys that are on different teams.

Speaker 42 Yeah.

Speaker 11 NBA does that.

Speaker 139 Yeah, I think NBA does that.

Speaker 8 I think that's what I was thinking.

Speaker 113 Actually, MOB, I believe, does it as well.

Speaker 91 I think they do, do too.

Speaker 8 I think there's something about like

Speaker 8 another game to get excited.

Speaker 8 Banner night. I know, Banner Night.
Banner Night will be.

Speaker 91 Cowboys, are we under?

Speaker 51 How many days away are we?

Speaker 63 Can we get a countdown? Paul's back.

Speaker 74 Can we get a

Speaker 113 run?

Speaker 97 We should get a

Speaker 33 seven weeks.

Speaker 18 Zach, we need a clock in this studio, and we'll name it the Ryan Rosillo clock, and we're going to count down till kickoff of week one.

Speaker 124 Okay, we can do that.

Speaker 68 And then as soon as week one kicks off, I want a new countdown for week one of 2026.

Speaker 8 Yes, sir.

Speaker 33 I'm so excited.

Speaker 62 So excited.

Speaker 124 Football's back. Same.

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Speaker 44 I've heard or injured.

Speaker 19 Justin Herbert, because he's wearing red contact lenses.

Speaker 115 Pretty crazy looking. His eyes are red?

Speaker 63 Wasn't that

Speaker 62 a drug guy?

Speaker 24 Didn't they have those like in like 08, I want to say Nike did the max line or whatever it was?

Speaker 33 It's been a big thing. I've seen it pop off and pop off.
Like, it's for

Speaker 33 some sort of sports initiative back in the 2000s, but then it became a thing that goth kids were wearing in like the 20 teens.

Speaker 78 I just, I have a memory of just

Speaker 64 Kyle Vandenbosch.

Speaker 32 That's the red eyes that pop in my head right now.

Speaker 33 So

Speaker 33 these were instead of the visor, right? He said he didn't like to wear the visor anymore because he has to wipe it off. Right.
So now he's just wearing prescription red contacts.

Speaker 76 That's supposed to make the light look better.

Speaker 42 I don't know.

Speaker 33 Hurt or injured, though.

Speaker 33 It sounds bad. It sounds soft.
If you're wearing red contact lenses to try to be more intimidating. Yeah.
Like he could just wear normal contact lenses.

Speaker 11 It'd be great for memes. Yeah.

Speaker 60 Shane, hurt or injured, Justin Herbert, your quarterback wearing red contact lenses.

Speaker 12 Hmm.

Speaker 111 Hurt?

Speaker 135 I feel like that's less.

Speaker 40 Bad than injured.

Speaker 36 Are you worried at all about this?

Speaker 53 Not at all.

Speaker 63 Okay.

Speaker 135 Jared Vurst was like the first guy to do it, and he had a pretty good year last year.

Speaker 33 Don't you think maybe

Speaker 33 it would be nice if Najee Harris had taken eye protection a little bit more seriously?

Speaker 125 I do, yeah.

Speaker 97 What is the latest with Najee Harris?

Speaker 33 He's on the pup list, I think.

Speaker 146 No, he's on non-football injury.

Speaker 93 And

Speaker 135 the Chargers didn't see his injury before he reported to camp, which was like two weeks after the injury happened.

Speaker 33 So he just called them and said, like, my is not that bad.

Speaker 148 Yeah, and then the doctors would like send information.

Speaker 33 What do you think? What What do you think?

Speaker 117 When did training camps start?

Speaker 148 Last Monday.

Speaker 111 But they had a report of... Football's back.

Speaker 59 So back.

Speaker 42 So back.

Speaker 33 So back.

Speaker 33 What do you think Harbaugh's reaction to the red contact lenses was?

Speaker 115 He might have.

Speaker 108 He probably wants some.

Speaker 87 He probably puts them on just to be like, I need to be in the same wavelength.

Speaker 64 Can I get a pair? Yeah.

Speaker 11 I would love to hear him get explained what it does.

Speaker 102 I would love to hear him get explained what happened to Najee Harris.

Speaker 9 Yeah.

Speaker 35 It's like, what do you mean?

Speaker 80 The firework?

Speaker 64 You put your eye on a firework?

Speaker 59 Firework problem?

Speaker 33 You addicted to fireworks?

Speaker 60 Why did he put it in his eye?

Speaker 77 What do you mean he doesn't have an eye?

Speaker 3 Why were you at a firework party?

Speaker 46 And what about that guy in Fresno?

Speaker 33 What was his deal? Wait, there's another Najee Harris? Which warning you did we sign?

Speaker 20 Oh,

Speaker 1 he's got to be very disappointed in Najee Harris.

Speaker 33 He does. Shane, any more comments about Justin Herbert's eyes?

Speaker 33 Is this the year that the contact lenses unlock something for him and he takes a bigger step?

Speaker 135 I hope so.

Speaker 126 Okay. I do.

Speaker 30 What's the successful year? Playoff win?

Speaker 33 We need a playoff win.

Speaker 131 We need one bad.

Speaker 135 But last year we had the easiest schedule in the league, and this year it's pretty difficult.

Speaker 138 Oh, shit.

Speaker 63 Shit.

Speaker 33 But year two.

Speaker 135 Jalen Rieger is like a wide receiver three right now.

Speaker 33 He's good. He was drafted super high.

Speaker 108 He was super high.

Speaker 135 Some are saying.

Speaker 8 Or Justin Jefferson.

Speaker 68 Didn't you guys get a tight end, though?

Speaker 148 Tyler Conklin. Yeah.

Speaker 145 He'll be pretty good. Okay.

Speaker 33 You still got Puna Ford?

Speaker 146 I wish.

Speaker 135 Puna would be awesome right now.

Speaker 148 All right.

Speaker 115 Thank you, Shane.

Speaker 95 That was our Chargers minute. Thank you.

Speaker 91 As well as our McDonald's snack wrap.

Speaker 103 Hurt or injured.

Speaker 91 Brought back an old segment.

Speaker 52 Okay, should we do Who's Back of the Week?

Speaker 122 Yeah.

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Speaker 130 Hey, Hank, who's back of the week?

Speaker 11 Who's back of the week? It's Max Holloway.

Speaker 78 Oh, yeah, our UFC minute.

Speaker 11 Yeah, much, much anticipated UFC fight. Max Holloway, Dustin Poirier, three-peat, third-time fighting.
Max Holloway, who I was pulling for, I predicted in my preview last week.

Speaker 62 Dustin Poirier was

Speaker 62 that was his last fight.

Speaker 70 You were going against him?

Speaker 11 I like Max Holloway.

Speaker 33 He became good friends with Max Holloway at Beer Olympics.

Speaker 137 Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 11 No, me and Max Halloween.

Speaker 1 When Dustin Poirier was in the bathroom.

Speaker 11 We became good friends in Verdansk.

Speaker 64 Wait, what?

Speaker 60 You played Call of Duty with him?

Speaker 12 Yeah. When?

Speaker 63 Back in the day. A couple times.
Wow. Hooligans, dude.
Oh, okay. The hooligans.

Speaker 31 Sold over four shirts.

Speaker 11 I was second highest jersey seller. How many?

Speaker 63 Four.

Speaker 11 I think one was seven.

Speaker 69 Who's one?

Speaker 27 I forget.

Speaker 141 Milfunner.

Speaker 11 But that was a good fight. I thought he was going to knock him out in the first round, and then he just kind of dominated from there.

Speaker 39 But Dustin Poirier, is he the

Speaker 5 you're our UFC expert?

Speaker 128 You can answer this.

Speaker 5 Is he the most beloved,

Speaker 22 one of the most beloved UFC fighters of all time?

Speaker 94 Because I feel like it was out like tons of praise.

Speaker 78 And he, I don't know if, did he ever win a title?

Speaker 100 People are going to be pissed about this.

Speaker 11 Quite possibly.

Speaker 1 I know that he was one of those guys that fought literally.

Speaker 42 He literally did have a

Speaker 95 scared of a fight.

Speaker 70 He fought everyone.

Speaker 22 Yeah, he was a lightweight champion.

Speaker 33 He did win the BMF belt, too, right?

Speaker 59 I believe so.

Speaker 65 But he fought everyone.

Speaker 21 Let's see.

Speaker 68 Dustin Bray, people are going to be very upset.

Speaker 88 He's been in the lightweight division, former interim UFC lightweight champion.

Speaker 34 There we go.

Speaker 21 Also challenged three times for the UFC lightweight championship and twice for the BMF title.

Speaker 33 Okay, what's his legacy, Hank?

Speaker 11 Fought everyone. Fought everyone, badass,

Speaker 11 never backed down, never scared of a fight. I also, with fighters in retirement,

Speaker 11 like, I never believe it.

Speaker 51 No, he's, I mean,

Speaker 11 because then they, you know, they get arrested, they get healthy, and they're like, I could do one more fight. I can make, you know, a nice payday doing another fight.

Speaker 33 Yeah, they take eight months off, and they're like, I feel amazing because I haven't gotten hit in the face in a while.

Speaker 5 He fought for the UFC Lightweight Championship a lot

Speaker 1 and lost a few of them, but he did fight everyone.

Speaker 64 I think he fought Connor like three times

Speaker 25 and Max Holloway three times.

Speaker 3 I think even Khabib lost to Khabib.

Speaker 78 He would never turn down a fight.

Speaker 33 Who's the best undercard, Hank?

Speaker 11 I'm over main card guy. Yeah.

Speaker 60 Okay. Same.
Yeah.

Speaker 103 You stay just the main card.

Speaker 69 Yeah.

Speaker 11 Like true UFC fans.

Speaker 63 I understand.

Speaker 12 Yeah.

Speaker 105 Shout out to Dustin Poor.

Speaker 63 I watched the whole card as well.

Speaker 47 Oh, Max.

Speaker 14 What the fuck?

Speaker 63 UFC guy. What the fuck?

Speaker 74 You need a UFC guy.

Speaker 11 I get one segment.

Speaker 8 I watched the fight. I was just saying.

Speaker 59 I was just saying. I watched it.
What'd you think?

Speaker 8 All my bets lost.

Speaker 137 That's basically

Speaker 42 a recap, Max.

Speaker 11 That's a terrible recap. That was great.
I liked it.

Speaker 8 I texted Jack Max CFB, give me your plays, and three out of four lost, and that's basically what I got.

Speaker 42 Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Speaker 32 It's Kelsey Plum over here.

Speaker 46 Why are you taking a shot at Jack Mac?

Speaker 8 I was just telling you. I was just telling you.

Speaker 63 I mean, that was unnecessary. Kelsey would say.

Speaker 11 Why did you text him?

Speaker 33 He's Kelsey Plum.

Speaker 14 I should have texted Keegan.

Speaker 139 I should have texted Phil.

Speaker 47 Is Kelsey Plum?

Speaker 8 Did your plays?

Speaker 33 It's K-E-L-C-E.

Speaker 14 Yeah.

Speaker 109 Kelsey Plum.

Speaker 61 I also feel like

Speaker 8 I don't watch a lot of UFC fight. I feel like they should attack more.

Speaker 130 You're the shoot the puck guy of the UFC.

Speaker 8 I was just watching all the fights, watching my bets, and my guys were losing, so I needed them to get a KO for the fight. And I just kept being like, all right, now attack, attack.

Speaker 8 And then they just keep playing defense and never attack. I'm like, it's the only way you can win this fight is if you attack.

Speaker 93 Go attack. You should be a corner guy.

Speaker 63 Yeah.

Speaker 143 Punch more.

Speaker 33 Punch him. You got to punch him.
Yes,

Speaker 93 I don't get it.

Speaker 8 That's my UFC take.

Speaker 30 Zach, are you a sneaky UFC guy?

Speaker 132 I'm not a sneaky UFC guy.

Speaker 62 I watched that, I just don't have the knowledge.

Speaker 99 Wait, but did you watch the whole card?

Speaker 33 I did not. I just see the clips on Twitter.
Oh, okay.

Speaker 68 All right, so not a UFC guy, no.

Speaker 97 Not at all.

Speaker 72 Because there is a big, I feel like, Venn diagram of like gamers, yeah.

Speaker 18 UFC.

Speaker 33 Memes, are you a UFC guy?

Speaker 66 Memes is an everything guy.

Speaker 152 Sometimes. It's like

Speaker 33 once every three weeks. What did you think about this fight?

Speaker 47 It was okay. Yeah.

Speaker 33 Pretty good recap.

Speaker 120 Yeah, it was just okay.

Speaker 147 Did your best hit?

Speaker 12 No, I'm taking a break.

Speaker 63 Oh, oh, okay.

Speaker 8 Also, there should be more KOs.

Speaker 64 Yeah, definitely.

Speaker 151 No.

Speaker 142 Too much defense.

Speaker 8 There's too much defense.

Speaker 63 I want more.

Speaker 11 They should be standing up and just throwing things.

Speaker 63 Throwing.

Speaker 47 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 11 Be a much better sport.

Speaker 57 Like boxing?

Speaker 12 Yeah, bigger gloves.

Speaker 104 No.

Speaker 14 Yeah.

Speaker 63 I'm dumb.

Speaker 33 There should be corners, actual corners, not this octagon circle shit.

Speaker 8 For a second, I was like, yeah, the heck's all the same.

Speaker 47 You might have found something.

Speaker 59 I was like, that could be it.

Speaker 120 I actually like when a guy gets choked out.

Speaker 63 Something about it.

Speaker 142 No, I want more things on the ground.

Speaker 32 Primal.

Speaker 142 There wasn't a lot of ground, like there wasn't a lot of groundwork going on this week.

Speaker 33 My favorite is when somebody refuses to tap out and then gets choked out. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 63 Yeah, like

Speaker 59 they get their arm broken.

Speaker 42 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 33 They're like, I'm just not going to tap. Jesus didn't tap.
Neither will I.

Speaker 11 I love UFC more than anyone, but it's very violent.

Speaker 14 Put it on a quote card.

Speaker 97 That's our UFC guy.

Speaker 116 You can't be our UFC guy and say that.

Speaker 146 It's very violent.

Speaker 63 Hank wants less punching.

Speaker 142 Me and Hank could have been on opposite sides of the spectrum of this shit.

Speaker 97 I think you might have to be our UFC guy, Max.

Speaker 142 No, no, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 39 I like Hank doing it because, I mean, last week his preview was, or his recap was just the commercial.

Speaker 8 That was also probably the one time I will ever,

Speaker 8 like, I was just with the boys, and then

Speaker 74 that is a great thing.

Speaker 24 And when I say with the boys, I'm saying by myself.

Speaker 96 But like three or four times a year, I'll just like Saturday night, just be like, yeah, I'm going to fucking buy this.

Speaker 116 It'd be awesome.

Speaker 8 Well, it's also, this is the time of year.

Speaker 11 You're drunk with your boys watching UFC. Yeah.
Because you just do. Yeah, you just walk in.

Speaker 8 It's the time of the year where the kids are going to die hard.

Speaker 11 Yeah.

Speaker 24 Throwing knives at each other. Yeah,

Speaker 8 my mom's not going to like that video. Did she see it?

Speaker 93 She will now. Yeah, she's going to hear this.

Speaker 33 Was that or was that real? What video?

Speaker 29 Mama Mama Delente, your son was throwing a large butcher's knife to his friends.

Speaker 112 I've actually played that game before.

Speaker 42 It's so fun.

Speaker 8 It's so fun. I don't care anymore.

Speaker 142 Yeah, and everyone, people were mad.

Speaker 37 The only thing I was worried about is if your button-pushing finger got hurt, you'd be in a problem.

Speaker 33 The best would be if it just landed on his foot.

Speaker 47 Yeah. Hurt his foot.

Speaker 38 No, I can't do gingers only.

Speaker 63 Yeah.

Speaker 16 No, but that is a fun game.

Speaker 8 Great game. Really?

Speaker 142 Great game.

Speaker 8 Because the worst that's really going to happen is you. Wow.

Speaker 108 Actually,

Speaker 108 there's definitely some really bad things.

Speaker 33 What's the worst thing that could happen playing catch the knife?

Speaker 63 You should do it with a gun.

Speaker 8 No, that's what I'm saying. It could be people, like, guns are way worse.

Speaker 71 Yeah, true.

Speaker 33 For that game, maybe not.

Speaker 55 No, wrong. Bad thing.

Speaker 42 We should play some bad thing. If it was unloaded,

Speaker 139 we should play a couple rounds.

Speaker 11 One bullet in it.

Speaker 111 One bullet?

Speaker 56 Yeah. A single bullet.

Speaker 98 We should play a couple rounds.

Speaker 8 That's the other thing. I don't think you can post it anywhere.

Speaker 8 I think.

Speaker 63 What?

Speaker 59 That game. Knife toss? Yeah, for people who don't know.

Speaker 48 I think Twitter.

Speaker 28 He literally was just throwing a knife tossing. It's Chef Donnie.

Speaker 102 Chef Donnie.

Speaker 27 He's an adrenaline.

Speaker 8 Chef Donnie is the one who originated the game.

Speaker 34 I think he pretty much landed.

Speaker 91 I actually have to ask him where...

Speaker 150 Is it a cooking thing?

Speaker 48 Because I did play it in college, so I don't know if it's a...

Speaker 100 And he went to Wisconsin too, but I think it's probably a cooking thing.

Speaker 66 I think that's like a chef thing.

Speaker 8 Tom Lay said he had also played it in college. I had never played it before Chef Donnie recommended that I play it.

Speaker 89 But for people who don't know Chef Donnie,

Speaker 31 I'm pretty sure he jumped out of an an airplane, landed in his apartment, then started playing the Knights.

Speaker 8 Yeah, we've talked about him recently because he's the one who bought a parachute off of Facebook Marketplace. Yeah, too.

Speaker 76 Is that the one he used?

Speaker 55 Yes.

Speaker 55 That's the

Speaker 136 video of him parachuting yesterday.

Speaker 8 That's the parachute that he uses.

Speaker 139 He bought off of

Speaker 11 the biggest junk science guy, maybe in this world.

Speaker 11 He has like astronaut underwear.

Speaker 151 I love it.

Speaker 82 Oh, Stephen Che just sent us a dinger's only update.

Speaker 43 We got

Speaker 37 Brandon in first with 34.

Speaker 24 Jersey Jerry with 31. I'm at 28 with Hank, tied for third.

Speaker 77 Zach, 24.

Speaker 117 People were saying your team wasn't good.

Speaker 34 PFT, 19.

Speaker 82 Max with 18.

Speaker 24 Stephen Che with 13.

Speaker 33 Who cares?

Speaker 11 I mean, doesn't mean anything. No, it's true.
That's right.

Speaker 56 Well, Stephen Che will do the punishment quickly.

Speaker 33 Expeditiously.

Speaker 84 PFT.

Speaker 33 My who's back of the week is labor strife

Speaker 33 in professional sports. So not only the WNBA, but I don't really understand everything that happened in the last two weeks with the NFL and the NFLPA, but Lloyd Howell was the head of the NFLPA.

Speaker 33 Then he resigned last week.

Speaker 33 And then all these stories are coming out about finding how he was expensing trips to like strip clubs on the NFLPA's dime. And then

Speaker 33 that's fine.

Speaker 33 What better place to conduct business than the strip club?

Speaker 28 That's the guys can't have any fun anymore.

Speaker 66 Exactly.

Speaker 33 And there was also a report that the NFLPA executive committee took a vote when they were electing Lloyd Howe. And I think he only got one vote from the executive committee.

Speaker 33 But then they go to all the player reps and get their real votes that count. And they didn't tell them that, hey, nobody on the executive committee likes this guy.

Speaker 33 And apparently, well, the criticism of him, I think, is that he was too close to the ownership group because he did some part-time work for one of the, I forget what firm it was. He's a consultant.

Speaker 33 A consulting firm that was then given rights to purchase NFL teams. So then he could potentially be not only the head of the NFL PA, but also an owner of an NFL team.
And he didn't tell anybody.

Speaker 48 He also,

Speaker 37 who was the guy before him?

Speaker 33 DeMorris Smith. DeMorris Smith.

Speaker 70 He wore the hats.

Speaker 93 Yeah, the hat.

Speaker 28 So, first of all, shout out our friends Pablo Torre and Mike Florio because I'm pretty sure

Speaker 71 them as a tag team forced this.

Speaker 36 So I'm giving them all credit.

Speaker 36 But essentially, it was one of Mike Florio's favorite topics.

Speaker 28 It was the Lamar Jackson collusion.

Speaker 87 And they found that the teams did basically after Deshaun Watson, all the teams were like, hey, let's not do that anymore.

Speaker 24 Let's not do the five-year guaranteed contracts.

Speaker 24 And the NFLPA, what's this guy named?

Speaker 29 Lloyd Howell?

Speaker 124 Lloyd Howell.

Speaker 63 Yeah.

Speaker 80 Terrible name, by the way.

Speaker 52 He shouldn't have been elected just on that.

Speaker 70 So the NFLPA found out that they colluded and

Speaker 2 had the basically collusion, and Lloyd Howell buried it and didn't rub it in their face and use it as a bargaining chip.

Speaker 5 And I think that's where he started to get into this trouble because anyone who's doing their job in his job would be like, hey, you guys colluded against my players.

Speaker 31 I'm ahead of the players.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 27 Instead, he was basically being like, I'll scratch your back, you scratch mine.

Speaker 25 I'm going to pretend this didn't happen.

Speaker 2 When we go to the negotiating table, you guys got to do me a solid.

Speaker 33 Yeah, he made that settlement confidential. Correct.
So nobody was allowed to read it until Pablo Torre and Florio got their hands on it. Then everything blew up from there.

Speaker 88 The Pablo Torre and Mike Florio as a duo for the NFL.

Speaker 34 I mean, Roger Goodell's got to be a little worried.

Speaker 29 They're like

Speaker 79 the truffle dogs, but for legal documents.

Speaker 33 I was going to say Woodward and Bernstein, but that's a better conclusion.

Speaker 19 Yeah, they're just two dogs going into the woods, and they come back with thousands of pages of legal documents that no one in the world wants to read other than Pablo Torre and Mike Florio, and then they distill it into a podcast that dumb people like us can understand.

Speaker 11 If you get a phone call, I bet you Torrey doesn't even. I think Florio might be the only person when it comes to legal documents.

Speaker 11 There's definitely Tori's probably like, hey, Mike, let's do this together. Here's a thousand pages of legal documents.
Let me know.

Speaker 27 There's definitely been at least one time where Florio has texted Pablo Torre and been like, holy shit, I found a bombshell.

Speaker 31 And Pablo Torre is like, okay, cool, cool, cool.

Speaker 63 Yeah.

Speaker 33 Emphasizes this.

Speaker 112 Florio.

Speaker 36 We got to do a podcast about their relationship.

Speaker 33 If you get a phone call from Florio or Pablo Tori, just hang up. Oh, man.

Speaker 63 Instantly.

Speaker 61 Throw your phone in the lake. It's already too late if they called you.

Speaker 108 So scary.

Speaker 60 Yeah, we need to.

Speaker 76 Maybe someone can make a AI of them as truffle dogs.

Speaker 31 Just finding just tons of legal documents.

Speaker 33 It's an interesting story, I guess. The parts that I can understand are interesting.

Speaker 33 And then JC Tredder, he was like the next up to be the head of the NFLPA. Yeah.
He just resigned today. Yeah.
So he said he made like a statement about it affecting his family or something.

Speaker 33 My guess is that J.C. Treddor might have been caught up in some of the same stuff that Hal was doing.

Speaker 28 That's another pelt on the wall for Tori and Florio.

Speaker 33 Yeah, so I don't know. Who wants to be head of the NFLPA?

Speaker 39 I did call Florio on the way in tonight because I was like, hey, can you explain this to me?

Speaker 100 Like I'm like four?

Speaker 52 And he did start talking like he was talking to a foreigner.

Speaker 6 It hurt my feelings a little bit, but also started to make sense.

Speaker 46 He was like, all right, so a guy's got a job.

Speaker 33 And he was getting paid dollars for his job that he'd then spend to buy candy.

Speaker 19 And then we kept on getting, we kept on finding, when I was talking to Mike on the phone, we kept on getting to the same point.

Speaker 39 And he's like, and then he went to the strip club and charged it to the NFL PA.

Speaker 32 I'm like, but why is that bad?

Speaker 63 Yeah.

Speaker 63 So

Speaker 59 that seems good.

Speaker 33 My takeaway from that is: fuck you to the strip club for not making the billing ambiguous. Yeah.

Speaker 33 Like the payments on a strip club, if you go to the ATM, if you use a credit, it should always say things like payment corp. Correct.
It should be the most ambivalent thing ever. Correct.

Speaker 64 Correct. But yeah.

Speaker 16 It's also kind of crazy.

Speaker 17 It just shows

Speaker 28 you can have all the money in the world and still just want to be like, I'm going to expense this strip club.

Speaker 22 Because I'm pretty sure this guy, Lloyd Howell, gets paid like three and a half million dollars a year.

Speaker 59 I did read.

Speaker 1 You can fucking go to the strip club.

Speaker 31 You can afford it, dude.

Speaker 33 I did read one report that made it seem like he got taken to the strip club on his own spent like eight hours at the strip club and then left at like 6 a.m on his own yeah so might not have been with the boys might not oh might have just been a solo venture that's that's a bridge do you think he came yeah yeah he had to have eight hours eight hours but then but he's probably doing but that's a long time because do you think He's a freak if he came halfway through and stayed, and he's also a freak if it took him eight hours to come

Speaker 33 so where did Lloyd these are the questions we have I think he's just doing boots on the ground like putting himself into Sean Watson's shoes as he's doing the investigation that'd be great if Pablo Torrey and Florio got Lloyd Howell on

Speaker 91 Pablo finds out and like you know stuck it to him about all this like you didn't stick up for the players and then they tagged us in and we're like we got some pervert questions for you sir yeah We just got a couple questions.

Speaker 33 So you were on the main floor, then you went to the champagne room. Then you, did you go to the VIP room or did you stay in the champagne room? Yeah.

Speaker 33 Then was there another room that they took you in, the super secret VIP?

Speaker 78 Was there any at any point did any of the strippers say, I never do this stuff?

Speaker 79 And is that why you came? Yeah.

Speaker 33 How much glitter was on your penis when you got home? How long was the shower when you got home?

Speaker 58 Oh, Lloyd Howell, you're welcome to come on the show.

Speaker 32 We will not ask you at all about hiding the collusion of Lamar Jackson. We will only keep it to the strip club, and we want to find out how much of a pervert you are.

Speaker 102 Not judging.

Speaker 16 Judgment-free pervert talk.

Speaker 58 Because I think a little bit of pervert is.

Speaker 42 Oh, absolutely.

Speaker 85 But eight hours is a long time in a strip club.

Speaker 33 Yeah, that's what got Florio's hackles up.

Speaker 42 That's a long time.

Speaker 33 Italian like that can smell a pervert. That's not.

Speaker 89 I mean, was it

Speaker 89 in Atlanta?

Speaker 33 There was one in Atlanta, Magic City, and there was one in Florida.

Speaker 59 So I'm not familiar with Tootsie's cabaret.

Speaker 64 Okay.

Speaker 6 So I'm not familiar with Magic City.

Speaker 58 If it is an 11-type club.

Speaker 11 It is. Magic City is popping.

Speaker 17 Oh, then eight hours is okay.

Speaker 33 And they've got great food. That's the Lou Williams.

Speaker 42 Yeah, yeah, that's right.

Speaker 80 That's right.

Speaker 63 Okay.

Speaker 27 Good who's back.

Speaker 32 My who's back is Cold Play.

Speaker 9 Oh, why?

Speaker 31 They're doing a

Speaker 33 tour. That's awesome.
Yeah. I bet the tour is really good.
Really good.

Speaker 59 I bet it's getting a lot of pub on social media.

Speaker 63 A lot of pub.

Speaker 112 A lot of people talking about Cold Play.

Speaker 33 Yeah, that's so cool. Good for them.

Speaker 11 Not a predatory tour. La Vita Vita.

Speaker 64 Vita Levita.

Speaker 14 Le Vita La Vita.

Speaker 63 Uh-huh.

Speaker 11 I was going to say La Vida. Viva Levita.

Speaker 108 Viva La Vida?

Speaker 63 Yeah.

Speaker 64 I kind of like Cold Play.

Speaker 63 Cold Play fucking rocks. I know.

Speaker 31 People were kind of shitting on Cold Play.

Speaker 151 This guy,

Speaker 87 the Kiss Cam,

Speaker 59 quite something.

Speaker 59 Quite something.

Speaker 31 And now I think it's been reported to a point where we can actually talk about it and not get in trouble.

Speaker 33 I think he resigned. He released a statement.

Speaker 100 Yeah, he released a statement.

Speaker 18 Well, there were some fake statements, too, being released.

Speaker 80 Was the one when he was blaming Cold Play?

Speaker 16 That was fake. That was fake.
Yeah.

Speaker 89 When he came out as a Cold Play fan?

Speaker 11 No, he said, like...

Speaker 58 Oh, they got a private moment?

Speaker 11 Yeah, like it was unfair of Cold Play to put that up.

Speaker 33 I think that was.

Speaker 11 Even though when you sign, I'm pretty sure when you buy a ticket to any sporting event, like the terms and conditions are

Speaker 59 fake.

Speaker 55 Also, just,

Speaker 39 I mean, I guess this is a learning experience that if you're on the Kiss Cam in a situation that you don't want to go viral, maybe don't drop to the ground and try to crawl out of the room.

Speaker 33 Yeah, maybe try to play it off. But his thought was that people at the show would recognize him because he's a CEO.
And then I thought, like, was I supposed to know who this guy was?

Speaker 144 What's the name of the company?

Speaker 38 Astronomer.

Speaker 82 Yeah, Yeah, that sounds like a fake company.

Speaker 33 Yeah.

Speaker 11 So, um, also, every, I wanted the Cubs to do it this weekend. Every sporting stadium should be just do a Coldplay cam for the next few weeks.

Speaker 47 Yeah, who's running it up?

Speaker 42 Yeah, they were running it up.

Speaker 28 Uh, yeah, I, I mean, I also stay woke.

Speaker 31 I feel like Coldplay might have set this whole thing up because we're talking about cold play.

Speaker 31 Online, cold play is getting talked about more than they've ever been talked about so much.

Speaker 11 Wouldn't you agree? Well, I mean, it was a stadium tour. Cold play, cold play.

Speaker 63 Coldplay rocks.

Speaker 8 I also would argue argue it's good for Astronomer.

Speaker 56 The company?

Speaker 33 Well, it was also their head of HR.

Speaker 63 Have you ever heard of Astronomer, though?

Speaker 42 Before this?

Speaker 42 Now everyone knows. Now we know.

Speaker 8 I still don't know what they do.

Speaker 16 Yeah, what do they do?

Speaker 8 Also, the Phillies did it.

Speaker 33 Yeah.

Speaker 33 The Fnatic.

Speaker 43 Yeah, dude, the Ms.

Speaker 2 Fanatic's got a dumper.

Speaker 32 Look at that thing. I'm more of a

Speaker 32 Mrs.

Speaker 33 Met guy myself.

Speaker 100 Also,

Speaker 22 I shouldn't have done Cold Play first.

Speaker 128 I should have done my second Who's Back first because if we're talking about misappropriation of funds,

Speaker 31 boys, we might have our own, we might actually have to have Pablo Torre and Mike Florio

Speaker 59 investigate something for us because I was alerted to something.

Speaker 24 I think you guys were tagged in this as well.

Speaker 128 At least you were PFT.

Speaker 41 Our good friend and fantasy manager, Jerry O'Connell, went on Andy Cohen's show this past week with his lovely wife, Rebecca Romaine, all due respect, and there was a bombshell dropped.

Speaker 95 After 18 years of marriage, a longtime couple made a surprise admission about how they manage their finances we keep our money completely separate romaine 52 i didn't have to put in her age confessed during an interview with andy cohen on serious xm she's only 52 yeah

Speaker 76 wow so jerry

Speaker 121 he could be paying for the whole leak

Speaker 146 oh

Speaker 2 driveway he's made he's he's he's throwing us a song and dance about how he only only could pay for a third of the league.

Speaker 33 Yeah, and he's saying a lot of things about how he has to explain things to his

Speaker 144 misappropriation of funds.

Speaker 56 No, it's more, I'm disappointed.

Speaker 33 Like, he's taking us for a ride. Yeah.

Speaker 37 How many times do you think he's going to the strip club with the two-thirds of the payments we're paying?

Speaker 33 This is bad, Jerry.

Speaker 28 This means we might need someone as oversight.

Speaker 33 This is bad. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 75 Florio being the oversight would be good.

Speaker 43 Florio would not let Jerry do anything.

Speaker 33 Drop a contract, have him locked in,

Speaker 33 non-compete clauses.

Speaker 128 I guess we'll find out how much he wants to manage our team when he decides how much he wants to pay for our team.

Speaker 33 Price just went up.

Speaker 52 Price just went up.

Speaker 33 Talk your way into that. I hope you got the headline you wanted, Jerry.

Speaker 84 I do.

Speaker 69 I actually kind of hope Jerry walked out of that interview and looked at his wife and was like, why'd you fucking say that?

Speaker 66 The boys at Part of My Take are going to know that I could pay for more than just a third of the fantasy team.

Speaker 33 It was a great excuse that he had. I bought it.

Speaker 33 I could also see a world where Jerry told her to say that on the interview.

Speaker 63 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 33 Just to drum him up a little bit, get his name buzzed on page six.

Speaker 52 I also could see a world where

Speaker 66 Rebecca Romaine, all due respect, maybe has access to Jerry's finances, but he doesn't have access to hers.

Speaker 9 Yes.

Speaker 122 I think that could very well be the truth of the matter.

Speaker 33 I want to know what the event was that made her say, Jerry, we need to have separate finances.

Speaker 109 Probably fantasy football.

Speaker 59 Probably fantasy football.

Speaker 61 Yeah, actually, I'm going to come all the way around.

Speaker 52 Jerry, you're vindicated because you just love the game so much.

Speaker 57 That's why he had to separate the finances.

Speaker 63 Okay, Zach, who's back of the week?

Speaker 132 My who's back of the week this week is the Pittsburgh Pirates because on Saturday, the Pittsburgh Pirates had a

Speaker 132 celebrated Mac Miller in the stadium. So they had some nice chalk drawings out front.
They did a message wall where fans could write some positive messages. They also did...

Speaker 132 collaborative bobblehead with the family, in design with the family, and sold some merchandise to help go towards the Mac Miller Fund, which does help lower privilege children in the area.

Speaker 132 I thought it was an all-time move. Pittsburgh guy, the pirates celebrated him.
Look at a great day.

Speaker 63 Yeah, very cool.

Speaker 89 There was like a line down

Speaker 100 across the bridge, I think.

Speaker 33 Yeah, it was like the whole city showed up.

Speaker 132 It's fantastic. Very cool.

Speaker 21 And the pirates' ownership still needs to be taken to task for being bad owners.

Speaker 18 But this is a cool move.

Speaker 47 Wow, it was packed.

Speaker 3 Good who's back?

Speaker 18 Should we do our Mount Roshpar?

Speaker 33 Before we we get to our business, Max is ready to fight already. Max is pretty mad about this.
Okay.

Speaker 139 All right.

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Speaker 4 Okay, Mount Rushmore time.

Speaker 16 We're doing best bad movies.

Speaker 37 And there's been some pre-fights.

Speaker 33 Well, Max is just Max. He's pre-mad.

Speaker 47 He's ready. I don't say that.

Speaker 109 I was going up in my office and I heard you yelling Max.

Speaker 145 That's not true.

Speaker 108 That is true.

Speaker 42 I didn't even talk to Max.

Speaker 72 Are you yelling in the cream?

Speaker 8 Well, that's just my normal volume it felt

Speaker 142 there was nobody else in the pfd and hank weren't even in the kitchen it was me and memes just talking about well there were there were

Speaker 47 you italian yeah

Speaker 32 um

Speaker 8 well there were some pics that me that i told me even memes i was like no that's that's a good movie we can't are we doing any guidelines

Speaker 33 are we just going are we gonna go say a movie and then we're gonna debate what is that bad movie i think that it what is a bad movie is going to be up for debate but it it can probably stay on there if you think it's a bad movie i think the tone's going to be set with uh the first first yeah but bad movies

Speaker 50 i love a lot of bad movies

Speaker 8 are we going off like critic score on rotten tomato that's what i'm saying that's one point that's one kind of point i will be pulling up the rotten tomato of every single movie i love that i'm having integrity with this because like there's It's movies that I know are bad, but I enjoy watching.

Speaker 125 We're going integrity?

Speaker 98 I'm down to go integrity.

Speaker 8 Yeah, I'm down to go integrity too. Okay.
Because we had some picks that

Speaker 8 for some reason are, and they have to be bad on both. They have to be bad on the top.

Speaker 63 Oh, I don't know about that.

Speaker 146 Yes.

Speaker 74 Well, that's the best bad movie.

Speaker 95 It's a bad movie judged by critics.

Speaker 33 Listen, I think the ultimate judge is going to be the fans that vote on the Mount Rushmore.

Speaker 8 But, like, there are awesome movies that have, like, especially comedy movies that are loved by everyone.

Speaker 42 But they're still bad.

Speaker 11 Like, there's no one.

Speaker 42 That's not a bad movie.

Speaker 8 Like, a bad critic. They have to be bad on both.

Speaker 33 But, Max, then people will see that and be like, that's not a bad movie. I'm not going to vote for that list.

Speaker 140 I don't know.

Speaker 33 Sounds like you don't trust AWLs.

Speaker 21 That's a decent point.

Speaker 76 I mean, there's some. Yeah.

Speaker 8 But people are going to see their favorite movies and pick their favorite movies.

Speaker 33 No, because then they're putting their favorite movie in a bad category.

Speaker 1 That's a good point. But I don't see it as a bad movie where I'm saying this is a.

Speaker 2 Because it's the best bad movie.

Speaker 29 It's a movie I like.

Speaker 11 It's a bad movie that you're going to watch, even though you know it's bad.

Speaker 97 If I was with someone who is

Speaker 24 like a professor, they'd be like, this is a terrible movie.

Speaker 19 But with me and the boys, like, this is a fucking awesome.

Speaker 8 I'm going to give an example that we talked about that we just couldn't put on the list because it's not true. But Pineapple Express is technically a bad movie.

Speaker 145 No, that is not.

Speaker 42 You know what I mean?

Speaker 33 I think that's good action. It's a good comedy.

Speaker 43 That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 8 Like, that is terrible.

Speaker 11 But that's where it's on our system.

Speaker 33 There are some bad comedies that are so bad that they're kind of good. Correct.
That's a different category from Pineapple Express. Okay.
Which might not be going to win an Oscar for best picture.

Speaker 33 Picture, but it's a good comedy.

Speaker 56 I agree.

Speaker 8 But that is what I'm talking about.

Speaker 8 The reviews for Pineapple Express are not.

Speaker 32 That's not where I thought you were going.

Speaker 33 But you have to admit, if you put Pineapple Express on this Mount Rushmore, people would see that and be like, that's a good point.

Speaker 63 I didn't think about it like that. I didn't think about it like that.

Speaker 9 Okay.

Speaker 33 All right, good. We're all pre-mad.

Speaker 59 No, actually, I think we might have to do it.

Speaker 100 And there will be some ones that we'll have to debate.

Speaker 53 All right.

Speaker 33 So who's up first?

Speaker 62 You guys are.

Speaker 8 Also, Memes considers himself a connoisseur of bad movies.

Speaker 8 I'm passing him the ball. I'm not even.

Speaker 119 Wow.

Speaker 119 We're going all movies.

Speaker 135 He said he only watches bad movies.

Speaker 14 You are Kelsey Plump.

Speaker 51 What? Passing the blame.

Speaker 33 Memes sent a terrifying image of Kelsey Plump.

Speaker 137 Face mash with Kelsey Plump.

Speaker 33 Hank, you got the ball.

Speaker 48 Oh, shit.

Speaker 125 This is Hank's list? This is Hank's list.

Speaker 126 It's our list. We generated the list together.

Speaker 11 But we did. Yeah, we talked about it.
I mean, it is a a tone setter. Probably not a draft you really want, the 1-1.

Speaker 11 But our first pick is going to be Conair.

Speaker 64 I feel like that's a good movie. Great, awesome movie.

Speaker 11 It's a really, but you think about the plot of the movie, it's bad.

Speaker 12 Give me back that bonet. Yeah.

Speaker 95 That's a 68%

Speaker 63 Cameron Pope.

Speaker 97 Tomato Meter.

Speaker 55 This is. That's a good movie.

Speaker 38 That's a good movie.

Speaker 63 But it's bad.

Speaker 46 But

Speaker 97 that's way higher than anything I had.

Speaker 8 Yes, way higher than what I had.

Speaker 113 I had everything way lower.

Speaker 157 There's so many better Nick Cage movies, too.

Speaker 56 Yeah. I'm from out.
I have some.

Speaker 11 Well, yeah, there's better Nick Cage movies, but...

Speaker 19 No, there's no bad, like, that's a good Nick Cage movie.

Speaker 33 This movie rocks.

Speaker 63 This is a good movie.

Speaker 103 There shouldn't be a popcorn on any of these.

Speaker 14 This is a good movie.

Speaker 63 What are we talking about?

Speaker 142 All of ours are in the 20s, by the way.

Speaker 16 We looked up our critic score, and we're.

Speaker 46 Nothing touches 50. No.

Speaker 69 Most of them are in the 30s.

Speaker 143 Yeah.

Speaker 8 20s and 30s is where we're living as well.

Speaker 63 But it's okay if you guys want to go that route, you can go.

Speaker 38 Yeah, yeah. All right.

Speaker 50 We'll go with our first pick.

Speaker 66 We're just talking about him, Kangaroo Jack.

Speaker 55 I told you, memes.

Speaker 63 I'm happy that

Speaker 8 memes and I were battling over this, and he was like, it'll be there in the fourth. It'll be there in the fourth.

Speaker 11 No.

Speaker 8 I'm happy that you guys were before us, and we never. I would have been devastated if we lost.

Speaker 33 We thought about going to all Jerry O'Connell movies.

Speaker 42 I mean, Kangaroo Jack is a bad movie, but it's fucking good.

Speaker 64 I like it.

Speaker 56 9%.

Speaker 113 It's such a hilarious movie, like, premise.

Speaker 95 We need to, when we have Jerry on at the end of the summer to do our fantasy, we got a DVD commentary.

Speaker 6 Yeah, not only DVD commentary, but be like, what, when you got pitched this,

Speaker 80 like, what went through your head right away?

Speaker 33 Well, the movie isn't even about a talking kangaroo. That's like one minute out of the movie that they decided to make the entire trailer.

Speaker 33 And then people went to go see it and they're like, what the fuck? This kangaroo's not talking the whole movie?

Speaker 64 He looks hot.

Speaker 43 He does look hot in that.

Speaker 8 We should do a movie review of Kangaroo Jack.

Speaker 63 Yeah, which are oh, at Barcelona Camp.

Speaker 146 Yes.

Speaker 20 Oh.

Speaker 8 Oh, if we got one of those inflatable TVs.

Speaker 14 Oh, yes.

Speaker 42 We should do it. Yes.

Speaker 8 That would be great. That would be great.

Speaker 63 Okay.

Speaker 59 Me. You guys have two picks.

Speaker 125 All right.

Speaker 157 First pick.

Speaker 157 I think Hank's going to take this.

Speaker 114 Yep.

Speaker 24 You don't mess with the Zohan.

Speaker 119 Ooh.

Speaker 33 It's on the list.

Speaker 11 Phenomenal movie.

Speaker 11 One of my favorite movies.

Speaker 20 It's

Speaker 11 so bad.

Speaker 59 It is so bad.

Speaker 11 It is the dumbest, most ridiculous movie that's maybe ever been made. But it's great.

Speaker 24 And then we'll go Scary Movie 2.

Speaker 141 Jerry O'Connell.

Speaker 11 That's a good movie.

Speaker 1 What do we do here, Zach?

Speaker 33 Do you like 4?

Speaker 151 I like 4. Scary

Speaker 8 2 is a 13% compared to 60% of Conair, by the way.

Speaker 63 50%.

Speaker 44 What do you mean? Conair's a good movie.

Speaker 93 It is. What do you mean? Yeah.

Speaker 142 It's a good movie.

Speaker 112 What is your comedy?

Speaker 74 This is Zach.

Speaker 28 This is Zach's pick because Zach loved this, and I completely 100% back him up because I think it's a great pick, but he's like, I love this movie.

Speaker 11 60% is also D-minus.

Speaker 62 Conair's actually good.

Speaker 66 Like, I actually, if you told me Conair won an Oscar, I'd be like, yeah, that makes sense.

Speaker 64 It's a fucking awesome movie. Craig Cast.

Speaker 51 All right, rip it, Zach.

Speaker 97 You love this movie. I love this movie.

Speaker 41 I love that you love this movie.

Speaker 132 We would like to take Paul Blart Malkov.

Speaker 32 Yes.

Speaker 139 I like that.

Speaker 146 I like that.

Speaker 8 I like that. I like that pick.

Speaker 29 Zach, when we were in our

Speaker 22 pre-show meeting, he was just like, What about Paul Blart?

Speaker 136 And I was like, Fuck yes, dude. That's a bad movie.
But it's funny. It's so good.

Speaker 8 I say peanut Blart and Jelly all the time.

Speaker 109 It's so good.

Speaker 16 All right, what do you got next, Shawshank?

Speaker 11 We are going to go with The Rocks San Andreas.

Speaker 63 Good pick, Hank.

Speaker 11 Terrible, terrible movie. Blockbuster.
A lot going on. Nothing good.

Speaker 11 And then we'll go Adam Standler.

Speaker 11 There's two Adam Standler movies I think memes would agree that fall in this category of

Speaker 11 they're bad.

Speaker 8 He's going to take the other one that we should have taken in the first place.

Speaker 11 That's my boy.

Speaker 42 I thought we were saying we were going to take him the first.

Speaker 33 Good pick, Hank. Yeah, that's good.

Speaker 100 Where do we go from here zach

Speaker 33 there's there's a couple pivots there's a couple pivots

Speaker 132 anything anything sticking out to you right now i mean we so we we went where do we go

Speaker 67 kind of heavy comedy we have i have my the problem is i have a i have a list of bad movies that probably no one has seen because it's like all action like i'm heavy in the jean-claude van dam world heavy

Speaker 76 Should we do one of those?

Speaker 132 If you don't think it's too niche, we can rip it.

Speaker 47 I mean, I.

Speaker 108 All right, I'll do it.

Speaker 121 Bloodsport.

Speaker 16 Bloodsport's a bad movie.

Speaker 46 The acting is so fucking funny, but it's such a good movie.

Speaker 33 I really enjoyed it.

Speaker 76 Yeah, we didn't watch them with COVID.

Speaker 100 It is.

Speaker 51 And also, the best part about Bloodsport is

Speaker 122 the guy completely fabricated the entire story.

Speaker 93 Yeah.

Speaker 60 He just made it all up.

Speaker 71 But like, some of the action shots are so funny, the slow-mo.

Speaker 2 Sean Claude, let's just say not the best actor.

Speaker 40 Really good at action.

Speaker 41 Kicking.

Speaker 33 Really good at kicking.

Speaker 71 But he's not exactly the best actor.

Speaker 100 But yeah, Blood Sport.

Speaker 108 All right.

Speaker 16 I feel good about that, Zach.

Speaker 29 I mean, it's one of my favorite movies.

Speaker 40 And I know that

Speaker 120 if you put it in front of a critic, they'd just be like, what am I watching right now?

Speaker 132 Got to say true to ourselves. Okay.

Speaker 40 You guys are up.

Speaker 157 Number three, this is probably one of my favorite movies of all time.

Speaker 98 What do you think?

Speaker 8 Yeah, you got to pick your movie.

Speaker 157 I'm going not another Movie.

Speaker 59 I love that movie. It's so funny.

Speaker 8 That movie sucks.

Speaker 8 Memes quotes this movie all the time.

Speaker 8 Like, thinking I know all of the quotes of Not Another Teen movie. Like, he, it's his, it's, like, legitimately his favorite movie.

Speaker 11 He's a spoof movie guy, which basically are like cinematic memes in a way.

Speaker 63 Like, all that.

Speaker 85 Just watching it for memes.

Speaker 63 Okay.

Speaker 157 And then the last one for bad, good movie do you want to go this one or that one

Speaker 9 this one uh

Speaker 98 fourth and final we'll we'll go with norbit oh my god

Speaker 8 never saw norbit oh it's so bad it's so bad it's so so bad i had a friend in college that used to like watch it like once a month and and i i would literally yell at him every single time he was on but i would watch every i would watch norbit uh zach

Speaker 1 what are we thinking talk talk to to me, buddy.

Speaker 83 Three or five?

Speaker 33 I was leaning towards those.

Speaker 58 Which one did you like more?

Speaker 63 Norbit's nine.

Speaker 33 Five could play, but also five could be a terrible pick. It goes one way or the other.

Speaker 80 Oh, man.

Speaker 32 What do you think? I don't know.

Speaker 29 I don't know what to do.

Speaker 59 We're stuck.

Speaker 97 You got to go with your gut.

Speaker 45 I want you to go with your gut, Zach.

Speaker 1 Okay, so bad that it's good?

Speaker 15 No, No, it's best bad movies.

Speaker 33 Best Bad Movie?

Speaker 132 We're going to go with the B movie.

Speaker 93 There we go. Okay.

Speaker 63 Okay.

Speaker 78 Is it too good of a movie?

Speaker 63 No, it's a bad movie. No, it's a bad movie.

Speaker 98 It's a bad movie.

Speaker 32 It's about a B who falls in love with a woman.

Speaker 100 It also was like Jerry Seinfeld's big thing that was like Jerry Seinfeld's back.

Speaker 8 I honestly just assume any animated movie that I've ever heard of has like a 98% movie.

Speaker 60 No,

Speaker 8 I've never seen B movie.

Speaker 59 No, it's bad.

Speaker 47 You like that? I've seen it. It's bad.

Speaker 58 49% and 53% audience score is bad.

Speaker 36 Especially for every animated movie.

Speaker 136 And Jerry Seinfeld. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 93 No, that's bad. I like it.
That's bad.

Speaker 33 But it's so bad, it's good.

Speaker 108 Yeah, right.

Speaker 28 I'd watch it again. I'm actually going to watch it with my kids.

Speaker 91 I'll do that.

Speaker 11 All right. We got the last pick.
We're going to go romantic comedy. I still don't understand how this only has 10% Raw and Tomatoes Couples Retreat.

Speaker 8 Okay. That's a good one.
That's a good one. This will be interesting.

Speaker 109 I don't know how people are going to vote.

Speaker 41 Kyr is definitely the best of those movies in terms of

Speaker 11 Norvit's pretty good.

Speaker 97 No, no, I'm saying the best of those.

Speaker 109 I know, I know.

Speaker 63 I know.

Speaker 5 Like, real.

Speaker 112 Well, that's why having the first trip

Speaker 11 was kind of hard. We didn't know exactly where to go.
Well, so here's...

Speaker 11 I was thinking what me and PFT were talking about were like movies that...

Speaker 11 Are always on TV that aren't great, but you're still like, oh, this is, I'll watch this. Right.

Speaker 95 So there was a couple that

Speaker 52 I had that i thought would be too contentious but like when you looked up at the critic score they were really bad uh tommy boy is really bad we talked about

Speaker 11 class i know it is but it's like yeah it's bad but all adam sandler movies are bad but some of them are good some of them are just bad yeah i did the zohan and that's my boy are the perfect bad good adam i told me that we couldn't do water boy because it's too yeah because it's not good

Speaker 25 um we had uh

Speaker 116 yeah like water boy was on on our list Tommy Dirk also has 90% Joe Dirk popcorn meter, which, like, the answer you could have done is Black Sheep.

Speaker 46 Black Sheep, look up Black Sheep. Yeah.

Speaker 58 That was just Tommy Boy 2, and it wasn't as good.

Speaker 77 Another one, because we were like, we got into a rabbit hole.

Speaker 2 We're like, all right, let's just list some movies that might not be critically acclaimed.

Speaker 91 Mighty Ducks got like a 27%.

Speaker 11 I said Mighty Ducks.

Speaker 23 But that's just too good of a movie.

Speaker 33 We also had Kangaroo Jack. We had Commando on our list.
Okay. Schwarzenegger.

Speaker 59 Yep. Probably, that's the pinnacle of

Speaker 33 bad Arnold movies.

Speaker 59 Yeah. But it's awesome.

Speaker 43 Yeah. Yeah.
I'll just rip my

Speaker 91 Jean-Claude Van Denn Steven Seagal action movies.

Speaker 59 I had Bloodsport, Hard Target, Cobra with Sly Stallone,

Speaker 96 Hard to Kill, Out for Justice, Best of the Best 1 and 2, Best of the Best 2 is incredible.

Speaker 32 But they're all Lionheart.

Speaker 42 What about double team? Time Cop.

Speaker 33 Double Team. It's Van Dam and Dennis Rodney.
Yeah. That's a good one.
Yeah.

Speaker 82 Face Off.

Speaker 33 Face Face Off, we talked about that.

Speaker 91 But that's also kind of a good movie.

Speaker 33 Anaconda?

Speaker 52 Under Siege, I looked up, and it actually has

Speaker 47 a really good rating.

Speaker 125 Does it? Unrotted Tomatoes.

Speaker 33 Under Siege 2, probably. Under Siege 2.

Speaker 59 I would guess that's probably 20%.

Speaker 33 Yeah.

Speaker 36 Under Siege, what was Under Siege?

Speaker 76 Yeah, 83%.

Speaker 55 That's Radometer.

Speaker 64 I know. I was shocked.

Speaker 108 With Joe Dirt. Yep.
I now pronounce you Chuck and Larry.

Speaker 8 Joe Dirt is a mess.

Speaker 48 Yeah, Joe Dirt's a really

Speaker 11 solid movie. No, Chuck and Larry.

Speaker 55 Dirty Work.

Speaker 17 You guys ever seen Dirty Work?

Speaker 33 So fucking funny.

Speaker 16 So funny.

Speaker 11 What about Euro Trip?

Speaker 116 Euro Trip.

Speaker 116 What about Super Troopers?

Speaker 59 God, Super Troopers.

Speaker 63 It was a great movie, though.

Speaker 11 Beer Fest. Great movie.
Beer Fest and Euro Trip.

Speaker 11 I didn't want to go two good movies back to the movie.

Speaker 8 We did that with Semi-Pro. We said Semi-Pro.
We had it on our list. And out of integrity, we were like, that's too good of a movie.

Speaker 42 No, all right.

Speaker 11 Blades of Glory probably would have been a good movie. No, Blades of Glory is great.

Speaker 64 You didn't fumble, Zach. Stop.

Speaker 9 Great movie.

Speaker 24 Zach just texted me on the side saying I fumbled.

Speaker 67 No, you're good.

Speaker 58 I shouldn't have gone with B-movie.

Speaker 33 We don't know how sidebar, but yeah, I did.

Speaker 60 We were thinking about going Sharknado.

Speaker 142 Yeah, Blades of Glory is great reviews.

Speaker 76 Sharknado, but like Sharknado was like, we thought almost made to be so bad that it was almost like too meta.

Speaker 12 Yeah.

Speaker 77 So you did fine.

Speaker 2 That B-movie was a movie that Jerry Seinfeld did legitimate press for and like went on Larry King and was a big deal.

Speaker 78 Sharknado was meant to just be bad on because we could do a whole other thing like made-for-TV movies.

Speaker 58 The Drew Peterson,

Speaker 26 you know why they call me Big Daddy?

Speaker 31 Rob Lowe, one of my favorite movies, but it was made for TV.

Speaker 11 Two for the Money.

Speaker 66 Two for the Money.

Speaker 98 I don't know if I've seen Two for the Money.

Speaker 33 The Stu Fonner story.

Speaker 108 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 25 With Matthew McConaughey, I have.

Speaker 33 The Accountant?

Speaker 25 The Accountant?

Speaker 32 Oh, The Accountant's a good movie.

Speaker 79 Yeah, that is a good movie.

Speaker 8 There's a part of me that thinks, like, if a movie gets a sequel,

Speaker 8 then it doesn't deserve to be on the list.

Speaker 97 No B Movie 2.

Speaker 80 Piranha?

Speaker 11 I don't believe so. No.

Speaker 69 Another Jerry O'Connell movie?

Speaker 157 Bench Warmers?

Speaker 114 Yep.

Speaker 11 Good movie.

Speaker 42 Good movie. Dude, Digger Low.

Speaker 120 Yep.

Speaker 11 I said Undercover Brother. I looked it up.
It has phenomenal reviews.

Speaker 83 Night of the Roxbury?

Speaker 41 Bad. No, that's a classic.

Speaker 137 It was kind of fun to see.

Speaker 100 Yeah, I mean, it was.

Speaker 136 Comedies are tough, yeah.

Speaker 11 I was saying to PFT as we were doing this, if we really wanted to get people fired up, we should do

Speaker 11 worst good movies.

Speaker 20 Ooh.

Speaker 59 Movies that are

Speaker 33 known as being great that we fucking

Speaker 43 do that. Yeah.

Speaker 43 Yeah.

Speaker 33 They'll get very angry.

Speaker 97 The Nick Cages I would have gone were Gone in 60 Seconds and Dash Rider.

Speaker 108 Yeah.

Speaker 11 Gone in 60 Seconds is like a great movie. Yeah.

Speaker 33 We thought about Fast and Furious, but we didn't know which one of the entire anthology would have been the best bad movie of those.

Speaker 33 Maybe Tokyo Adrift.

Speaker 60 But National Treasure is a good movie. Yeah, no, it is.

Speaker 8 That again, though, like, fashion, because

Speaker 8 there are so many of something, then they can't be that bad.

Speaker 120 The Fast Six, that's the one you're looking for.

Speaker 55 It's also hard because there's good movies.

Speaker 37 Like, I was actually, I threw on, for honorable mentions, like, Rocky Four, which is an unbelievable movie.

Speaker 86 But, like,

Speaker 2 obviously, when you watch that movie, part of you is saying, like, Sly Salone is not the best actor.

Speaker 93 I thought you were talking about Rocky Five.

Speaker 112 Rocky Five is bad.

Speaker 11 Rocky V is bad. Correct.

Speaker 74 Rocky 4 is a good bad.

Speaker 8 I honestly think the right answer for this would be Rocky Balboa.

Speaker 42 The movie Rocky Balboa.

Speaker 131 It's a bad movie.

Speaker 4 No, Rocky V probably is the answer.

Speaker 16 Again, I love Rocky IV.

Speaker 1 It's one of my favorite movies, but it's like Sly Sloan's not a great actor.

Speaker 8 Rocky 4 is an awesome.

Speaker 45 I know, but when you watch it sober,

Speaker 2 disagree. Sly Sloan has some funny parts where you're like, what is he doing?

Speaker 33 I think what this draft has showed us is that we just, we love bad movies.

Speaker 108 Yeah.

Speaker 27 Yeah, I love all these movies. Cars 2.

Speaker 2 Cars 2. Cars 2 suck.

Speaker 30 Which snakes would have been a banana.

Speaker 33 Paul Newman died.

Speaker 64 Paul Newman died, and they had to change.

Speaker 66 Snakes on a plane would have been a great movie.

Speaker 82 They changed everything. Snakes on a plane.

Speaker 23 Anaconda.

Speaker 33 Yeah, we said Anaconda.

Speaker 138 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 91 Snakes on a plane would have been a great game. Snakes on and mom.

Speaker 76 Do you know what's a shocker?

Speaker 28 Because I was like, we made our list, and then I was like, let me just look up what the biggest difference is on

Speaker 16 Boondock Saints got killed.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 108 I didn't know that.

Speaker 11 A lot of those comedies are like Euro Trip.

Speaker 119 Yeah.

Speaker 62 Boondock Saints is 26% on the critic score, but 91%.

Speaker 42 Yeah.

Speaker 78 I mean, it's a good movie.

Speaker 58 Yeah, Euro Trip.

Speaker 72 Euro Trip is a good one.

Speaker 8 That's kind of what I'm thinking of.

Speaker 139 What's the.

Speaker 8 If it has

Speaker 8 the popcorn next to the popcorn,

Speaker 59 then it's a good movie.

Speaker 91 I also don't understand Rotten Tomatoes.

Speaker 39 What's the. Is it Road Trip?

Speaker 68 Yeah. That's a good one, too.

Speaker 11 Like a good, bad movie. Without a paddle.

Speaker 59 They went to Austin.

Speaker 33 Austin, Massachusetts.

Speaker 64 Yeah.

Speaker 33 Freddy Got Fingered? Freddy Got Fingered.

Speaker 80 Tom Green's is bad.

Speaker 137 Freddy Got Fingered sucks.

Speaker 63 That movie is fucking horrible.

Speaker 8 I like, because I like that guy in Road Trip. I like tried to watch that one night, and I was like, this is legitimately the worst movie I've ever seen.

Speaker 89 Max

Speaker 60 Cornaki?

Speaker 8 This is impossible to judge. I have no idea.
It really is. I have no.

Speaker 106 Who would you vote for?

Speaker 8 pft kind of fucked fucked me up with the

Speaker 8 you fucked him up before before this speaking no before this when you were like will people be like why is that in the bad movie category that's a good movie

Speaker 34 i'm not voting that's where i feel like con air might yeah screw you it might no

Speaker 8 i have no idea i have no idea me and memes literally like we picked because that's why i pivoted uh zohan because i'd love that's my boy

Speaker 42 that's my boy's but that that's my boy's sad

Speaker 11 I was so excited for that movie, and I still like to re-watch it, but it was awesome.

Speaker 144 I re-watched that movie all the time.

Speaker 11 I was disappointed when I first moved.

Speaker 11 I had that movie when it was coming out. I was like, it's going to be the greatest movie of all time.

Speaker 33 It is. I just thought of a big miss that we had

Speaker 33 for being football guys.

Speaker 42 Oh, draft day.

Speaker 63 Draft After.

Speaker 140 Shit.

Speaker 33 80 for Brady.

Speaker 63 Draft 80 for Brady. 80 for Brady.

Speaker 8 80 for Brady would have been a good one for you, Hank.

Speaker 109 Or what was the Kurt Warner one?

Speaker 32 Oh,

Speaker 33 fuck the Kurt Warner.

Speaker 8 Oh, that movie was good. I like that movie.
American Underdog Story.

Speaker 63 I watched that on a plane.

Speaker 8 I was like, you know what? I'm inspired.

Speaker 63 Let's see what draft it was on Rotten Tomatoes.

Speaker 33 Any guesses?

Speaker 128 I'm just looking at American Underdog first.

Speaker 142 American Under.

Speaker 93 Look at those ratings.

Speaker 63 Whoa. 75.

Speaker 65 75 and 98.

Speaker 33 Damn. A draft ticket is 60%.

Speaker 33 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 63 It's too good.

Speaker 142 Yeah, yeah, it's too good.

Speaker 8 All right, good, good. We stay true.

Speaker 21 We stay true. We stay true.
Yeah.

Speaker 63 I don't really know what I was saying there.

Speaker 79 Okay, good Mount Rushmore, boys.

Speaker 22 Also, anyone who has ideas for Mount Rushmore's tweet at memes.

Speaker 2 Yeah, tweet at memes. Pardon my memes.

Speaker 33 Best one gets Madden code.

Speaker 47 Yeah.

Speaker 108 Yeah.

Speaker 18 Best one gets

Speaker 5 best one gets a free DVD of Kangaroo Jack.

Speaker 47 I'll send it to a family. Signed by Jerry.

Speaker 63 Signed by Jerry.

Speaker 63 I hope he has like a whole closet full of people.

Speaker 33 He probably bought them all.

Speaker 69 That would be awesome.

Speaker 5 Okay, let's get to our interviews.

Speaker 52 We got Baker Mayfield and Alice Crusoe together.

Speaker 25 Very, very fun. And then we have MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred.

Speaker 153 Man, I'll tell you what.

Speaker 158 When you're hungry out there, you start acting like a rookie quarterback in his first game, making bad decisions, messing up the basics, being all out of sorts. That's where Snickers comes in, man.

Speaker 158 That thing is packed. Roasted peanuts, nugget, caramel, milk chocolate.
It's like the MVP of candy bars.

Speaker 158 And when you bite into it, boom, it sorts you out, gets your head back in the game of life, satisfying your hunger. Remember this: Snickers handles your hunger so you can handle everything else.

Speaker 158 Snickers satisfies, man.

Speaker 148 That's a winning play.

Speaker 38 Give it up for Chicago.

Speaker 33 Sebastian Maniscalco's new stand-up special, It Ain't Right, is now streaming on Hulu.

Speaker 119 30 years ago, Jeff Bezos, complete nerd.

Speaker 75 Bezos now ripped to shreds on his super yacht, and the boxes keep coming.

Speaker 33 Watch Sebastian Maniscalco. It ain't right.
Now streaming on Hulu and Hulu on Disney Plus for bundle subscribers.

Speaker 98 Terms apply.

Speaker 33 And now here's Alex Caruso and Baker Mayfield.

Speaker 24 Okay, we now welcome on two very special guests.

Speaker 4 It's a combo, a little cross-sport combo.

Speaker 110 We did this last year, Chill Week.

Speaker 159 This year, it is Alex Caruso, Baker Mayfield, two friends of ours.

Speaker 110 Thank you for joining us, boys. I have the first question is easy one.
Baker, would you say Alex has one ring, two rings, or one and a half rings?

Speaker 8 Or zero.

Speaker 112 Or zero. No, you have one.

Speaker 63 You officially have one.

Speaker 69 What is the lowest? That's the baseline.

Speaker 147 One's the lowest. Yeah.

Speaker 73 He's got two. Hell yeah.

Speaker 160 Bubble? Two is two.

Speaker 156 Hell yeah. Count the bubble?

Speaker 63 I count the bubble. Yeah.

Speaker 127 I don't know.

Speaker 161 I think it's one and a half. Now I get to LeBron question.
Let's see the other way.

Speaker 156 Yeah, all right.

Speaker 15 All right.

Speaker 24 So Alex, you win the championship.

Speaker 134 You made it. These are the two mandatory questions I receive.

Speaker 24 Two mandatory questions. You win the championship.

Speaker 110 You make the comment after that you now have officially have a real ring.

Speaker 62 What was going through your head in that moment?

Speaker 110 Was it us?

Speaker 161 You were part of the conglomerate of people I was talking to.

Speaker 156 Don't give them that.

Speaker 161 Yeah, it was a little bit of y'all.

Speaker 63 Yeah.

Speaker 39 And were you surprised that people took that seriously?

Speaker 106 Yeah, dude,

Speaker 161 they got so pissed. I was like, all right, guys.

Speaker 147 Let me have a little fun. It was bullshit.

Speaker 33 We were addressing the internet.

Speaker 123 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 161 I tweeted too. I was like, I had already had three Mickelobes.
Like, we were a couple of champagne shots.

Speaker 161 Like, we were, we were, were we were riding we were getting to the top of the roller coaster like i was saying whatever i thought was was good at the moment yeah congratulations yeah congratulations for real

Speaker 33 title yeah uh was it harder than you thought it would be in the finals

Speaker 161 yeah i would say yes um

Speaker 161 but also i knew it i knew what it was gonna be like indiana we knew how fast they're gonna play and like they were sneaky aggressive defensively through the playoffs and nobody was really talking about it but like they were they were really physical like they played exactly how we played like fast on offense physical on defense trying to get a bunch of people in double digits yeah uh i'm happy you guys are together because and we're interviewing guys together because baker i was thinking about this and a question i was going to ask you you thrive off of people doubting you but i feel like no one doubts you anymore like you you got the new contract you had a pro bowl year you were awesome this year you're tough as shit just running over people making awesome plays no one is like baker mayfield isn't a really good quarterback everyone knows you're a really good quarterback So are you.

Speaker 160 Are you? Oh, okay.

Speaker 119 It's always a couple.

Speaker 47 Yeah, how do we,

Speaker 136 how do you stay motivated?

Speaker 24 Do you go and search and be like, I got to find who's hating so I can get a little chip on my shoulder?

Speaker 53 No, I don't.

Speaker 147 I don't look for it anymore. Okay.

Speaker 147 I had enough 49ers fans yesterday talking shit to me.

Speaker 161 So we are out west, huh? Yeah,

Speaker 147 we're in Niner country at this point, so I'm good.

Speaker 76 But do you feel,

Speaker 110 maybe it's that they just keep switching offensive coordinators for you?

Speaker 147 They keep getting head coaching jobs, man.

Speaker 126 Yeah.

Speaker 147 I don't know if I smell or they just keep leaving me.

Speaker 162 That's a compliment to you.

Speaker 161 You're helping the promotion. Yeah.

Speaker 58 Was there a small part of you, though?

Speaker 110 And we interviewed Liam Cohen at the

Speaker 110 Combine. Great dude.

Speaker 63 Was there a small part of you, though, that when you did the Duval, you're like, all right, now I crushed him.

Speaker 126 Yeah, get him. Crushed him.
Crushed him.

Speaker 63 What are you doing?

Speaker 123 Stop trying to be the cool guy.

Speaker 33 Just do your job. Be a head coach.

Speaker 47 Be a figure. You have a culture, bro.

Speaker 53 I don't know if they want that culture.

Speaker 15 Yeah, that was a good idea.

Speaker 24 That probably felt good in in the moment where you're like, yeah, you left me, but now you have to deal with like the head coach spotlight.

Speaker 147 Yeah, I mean,

Speaker 147 he's a great coordinator. I'm interested to see how it goes.
Yeah. We still talk all the time, but

Speaker 147 he's a great coach.

Speaker 126 So we'll see how it goes as the head coach.

Speaker 161 Dealing with me as a head coach is just

Speaker 161 regardless of sport seems like the job isn't worth it.

Speaker 147 Yeah. They have to talk to the media every single day.

Speaker 53 No, thank you. Yeah.

Speaker 33 Every word that you say, there's a magnifying glass on it. People find something wrong, no matter what you put out there.

Speaker 33 It takes a a guy that probably does not give a fuck to be a head coach and be successful at it without reading into it. The last season, though, very impressive season.

Speaker 33 Unfortunate final game for you guys. Sorry about Jaden Daniels and the Commanders.
It was awesome for me.

Speaker 56 Did you when

Speaker 56 there we go?

Speaker 33 There's some doubt. Yeah.
There's some doubt for you.

Speaker 138 Fuel my fire. Yeah.

Speaker 156 Absolutely.

Speaker 33 When the commanders got the ball back at the end of the game, we were like, fuck, they're not giving us this back.

Speaker 147 Yeah. I mean, at that point, you could kind of feel the momentum out of it.

Speaker 147 We just offensively didn't play good enough. And it was one of those days.

Speaker 147 We were averaging, I think,

Speaker 147 damn near 30 points a game, and we didn't even come close to that. Just too many mistakes.

Speaker 147 But we got a lot of the boys back, all 11 starters, and then some on offense. And so I made some additions.
I'm excited, though. Yeah.

Speaker 33 Do you look at last season?

Speaker 33 I know it sucks the way that it ended, but do you look at it like that was a successful year?

Speaker 147 I mean, no. I mean, the goal is always Super Bowl or nothing.

Speaker 147 It was, I mean, you check off the boxes on your way to try and get to to the Super Bowl division, playoffs, but then after that, if you don't do anything in the playoffs, it really doesn't matter.

Speaker 67 Yeah. All right.

Speaker 110 So combo question.

Speaker 110 You guys both kind of play the game the same way.

Speaker 156 Scrappy, undersized.

Speaker 24 What, white guys?

Speaker 123 White guys.

Speaker 38 Are there hard-working like

Speaker 156 Baker cameras in the lunch failure?

Speaker 63 Blue collar.

Speaker 140 Jim Collins.

Speaker 73 Jimmy.

Speaker 33 Guys that you want to date your daughter.

Speaker 110 Are there ever times, though, like Baker, when you run someone over, when you're like, I'm going to just run someone over?

Speaker 110 Or Alex, when you, I think there was the moment in the NBA Finals when you were literally trying to swim on the floor to get a loose ball.

Speaker 110 Do you ever have a moment where you're like, maybe that was a little too tryhard?

Speaker 73 Like, maybe I should just dial it back a little.

Speaker 161 I think y'all asked me this before the finals. You remember we had a conversation? You're like, do you know you're tryhard? Yeah, I know I do for sure.

Speaker 146 Yeah.

Speaker 63 I mean, yeah, look at me.

Speaker 53 I'm not built to be in the NFL. Yeah, we can't be cool.

Speaker 147 You're supposed to try hard.

Speaker 63 Yeah, we can't be cool, dude.

Speaker 138 If you're cool, it's not going to work.

Speaker 161 Cool for me is a losing.

Speaker 6 Yeah. So keep trying extra hard.

Speaker 89 Does anyone ever say anything after like being like, hey, that was a little much?

Speaker 4 They chill out.

Speaker 146 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 123 Maybe on chill week, but yeah, you know what's funny about that?

Speaker 161 They did that when I was a young player in the league.

Speaker 161 Like whenever I was like on two-way and like just getting into the league because I have like eight minutes to prove myself and it's like some 10-year vet who's like, you know, it's the third quarter.

Speaker 161 They're up 20 and they're like, all right, guy, what are we doing? I'm like, hey. I don't have any money right now.
I'm not in the league. Like, this is what I'm going to do.
Yeah.

Speaker 161 When TJ McConnell was out there and you're watching him play ultimate tryhard TJ you're like dude did that make you think about yourself like wow is this what I look like yeah yeah no I I me and TJ I think I told you all the origin we were on the same summer league team in Philly so we had like a nice

Speaker 161 kind of similar path coming in and we text each other every year when like you do something like you go into a game not supposed to play well and then you just kill all off of effort and you'd text them like dude that was that was sick can you imagine how fundamentally sound that summer league team was yeah

Speaker 73 honestly not yet

Speaker 33 Great handshake line after the game. Yeah, eye contact.

Speaker 95 But TJ McConnell, like in the finals, they're...

Speaker 161 Imagine a summer league team slapping the floor at all.

Speaker 73 I see the cringe.

Speaker 15 But the way he plays, it does fuck guys up because he gives like, I know you can't give 110% technically, but he does.

Speaker 24 If he's just jumping every inbound pass 90 feet from the basket, it messes you up.

Speaker 161 Yeah, you got to make up for the, like we said, the white guy's lack of athleticism.

Speaker 110 But like you guys do that, and Baker, you do that too, where it's like like most quarterbacks will slide.

Speaker 47 And it's like, no, I'm going to fucking run this guy.

Speaker 24 I'm going to run through his face.

Speaker 24 Do you have to run through someone's face to kind of wake up in a game?

Speaker 159 Do you have to get hit first? Sometimes, yeah.

Speaker 59 Yeah.

Speaker 122 It's got to feel good.

Speaker 111 It feels real nice. And I mean, real nice Clark.

Speaker 53 Yeah.

Speaker 147 Yeah, till the next day.

Speaker 53 He'll deal with that on a Monday, though. Yeah.

Speaker 33 I think I told you this last time we interviewed you, but the first, I think it was your first game, maybe second in Tampa Bay, maybe against the Vikings.

Speaker 33 You ran through some guy's face, and then your entire sideline jumped up. And from that moment, I was like, I think these guys are in love with Baker Mayfield.

Speaker 126 And I was bricked up.

Speaker 111 Yeah.

Speaker 33 Do you ever get just a little rush of blood? Like, you hit somebody, you're like, whoa.

Speaker 138 A little rush of blood blow the belt of mine.

Speaker 147 I never hurt anybody.

Speaker 156 Yeah.

Speaker 33 So in the finals this year, game one, you go out. Could you tell that the logo wasn't on the court?

Speaker 161 No, I didn't even remember that that was a thing. I'm not going to lie.
Bothered us.

Speaker 156 Because

Speaker 161 being on the court, you don't like the TV when you look at it. It's different than being out there.

Speaker 161 They do need to bring that back, though. They do.
It's so good.

Speaker 161 The big one in the middle of the court.

Speaker 24 Yeah, and congratulations, by the way. I think game seven, like a good amount of people watch.
So you guys,

Speaker 110 because I know you guys care a lot about the ratings.

Speaker 161 Yeah, that's how we get paid. So it's important.

Speaker 24 Baker, you got to be like, when you see ratings worse, do you even, do you just, you got to laugh at it?

Speaker 110 Because they always do the like top 100 watched sporting events, and it's like 99 are football, and then one is like the Olympics. And it's just like, football's king.

Speaker 73 It is. Around the world.

Speaker 126 I mean, they just keep expanding.

Speaker 161 I know. Took Christmas.

Speaker 33 I mean, it's a oh, they took Christmas. No, no, no.

Speaker 74 Christmas is Roger Goodell's now.

Speaker 47 Yeah.

Speaker 93 I don't know if you knew that.

Speaker 126 Christmas is. We're the Grinch.

Speaker 123 Yeah.

Speaker 161 We'll just wait till I'll start break. Yeah.

Speaker 139 Christmas is theirs though.

Speaker 33 How sweet was the championship parade?

Speaker 161 Oh, bro, it was so, it was so sick. It was so sick.

Speaker 161 I drank way too much naturally.

Speaker 161 I think I was asleep by 3

Speaker 150 p.m. Yeah.

Speaker 136 That's awesome.

Speaker 139 Oh, that's fantastic.

Speaker 161 She's in the back. She was taking care of me.
It was

Speaker 138 short-lived. Yeah.

Speaker 161 I slept from like 3 to 11, woke up for like 30 minutes and slept from like 11 to 8.

Speaker 100 Yeah, actually, one of my questions was, how are you live right now? Because you went, won an NBA title,

Speaker 163 bachelor party this past weekend, and now top.

Speaker 161 Got in the Sunday sauna Monday night. Yeah.

Speaker 147 And then flew here Tuesday evening.

Speaker 47 How are you alive?

Speaker 138 A lot of water.

Speaker 163 A lot of water.

Speaker 15 Shout out body armor. Yeah.

Speaker 138 Shout out body armor.

Speaker 11 A lot of water.

Speaker 156 A lot of water. The parade had to be nuts, though.

Speaker 147 Yeah,

Speaker 161 the parade's sick, dude. The parade was so sick.

Speaker 33 Yeah. What time do you wake up on the morning of the parade day? When do you crack the first drink?

Speaker 161 I think I took my first shot of tequila at

Speaker 140 8.

Speaker 161 We had to be at the facility at 8.15 to get on buses. I told him to one of my buddies who stayed back.
He's like, oh, that's what we're on. I said, that's what we're on.
Yeah.

Speaker 33 That's got to be cool seeing fans out there just as drunk as you are.

Speaker 161 I don't even know if they were, to be honest. I remember everything that happened, but like the details of what the people were feeling.

Speaker 161 It was all player one,

Speaker 161 main character.

Speaker 47 That was all I had. Yeah.

Speaker 33 Baker, I've seen a lot of Baker Mayfield jerseys out here in Tahoe on the course waiting to see you play. A lot of like throwback ones too, a lot of Oklahoma Baker Mayfield jerseys.

Speaker 33 When you see somebody that's wearing like an old jersey, like a college Mayfield jersey, are you like, hell yeah, that's a real fan. Like, I appreciate the effort.

Speaker 147 Sometimes, yes. You can tell based on the interaction.
Sometimes it's somebody trying to be cool. Grab a retro jersey.
Yeah.

Speaker 147 It's the tryhards, you know?

Speaker 143 Yeah, but I can relate to them.

Speaker 147 Yeah. At the same time, you see yourself with them.

Speaker 33 I think as a fan, when you're figuring out which jersey to put on, you're like, well, I might seem to, I'm going to wear like an obscure one from way back in the day. So we see

Speaker 63 them a real fan.

Speaker 139 Yeah.

Speaker 73 Try to catch the eye.

Speaker 53 I do love it, though.

Speaker 123 It's fun.

Speaker 110 If I told you guys you have one thing that is like very much in common, what would you think I was about to say?

Speaker 163 What's that?

Speaker 156 White. No.

Speaker 103 anything you have very much in common we both played Texas high school football okay that's that's true I was gonna say Mike Evans yeah oh I was I was gonna say that earlier when he was talking about the team yeah mike so let's just talk about how awesome Mike Evans is unbelievable he's I mean do you did you feel a little bad about getting the thousand yards with the saints and that whole situation I hate the saints absolutely not no

Speaker 111 but if I mean, we had already, we were making the playoffs.

Speaker 147 Situation where you take a knee, go to the playoffs, but we decided to throw it on first and 10 just to get Mike the thousand yards.

Speaker 53 And like that reaction in the stadium.

Speaker 138 Yeah.

Speaker 123 Real try hard.

Speaker 136 But he is the best.

Speaker 110 We always like, we'll have moments in the NFL season where we're like, hey, we're just going to randomly on a Monday just be like, hey, everyone needs to just respect Mike Evans more because he's so good and he's been so good for so long.

Speaker 147 And he's not flashy. So like he goes under the radar a lot.

Speaker 53 But I think now

Speaker 147 the tide's starting to turn for him. Like people are realizing his Hall of Fame resume.

Speaker 156 Yeah.

Speaker 161 First time I met Mike Mike Evans, I played against him in AAU at Texas AM in the rec center, and he was dunking on everybody.

Speaker 161 That was the origin of Mike Evans, and then we both ended up at AM, and I was like, oh, okay, it makes sense now.

Speaker 147 He still wears the old Nike elite socks, like his old basketball sweats, long gym shorts, like down. I mean, it's Mike Evans.

Speaker 161 That's what that is.

Speaker 138 Yeah. Also hard.

Speaker 33 Players respect him. The opposing teams respect him so much, the Saints were like, yeah, you can go ahead and have this record on this catch.
That was very cool of them.

Speaker 147 Yeah, I'm sure that was their mindset.

Speaker 131 Nice people.

Speaker 110 Since we have you guys here, with the NBA NFL debate, always happens. Do you guys think you could play each other's sport?

Speaker 147 I suck at basketball, so no.

Speaker 53 Okay.

Speaker 161 There's a select few from each that I think could cross over.

Speaker 4 Give me a couple names.

Speaker 147 Like for mine, that could go.

Speaker 32 Yeah, and then you give me a couple NFL guys.

Speaker 127 Braun could have.

Speaker 161 Anthony Edwards could.

Speaker 161 I'm trying to think of like Straymond.

Speaker 106 Lou Dort could. Lou Dort.

Speaker 163 Yeah. Yeah, fat ass.

Speaker 161 Straymond could probably play O-line.

Speaker 161 You just have to put on weight. Yeah.

Speaker 161 Great screen setter. Yeah.
You know, smart.

Speaker 160 Athletes.

Speaker 161 I think one of the Thompson, the Thompson.

Speaker 63 Oh, they're freaks.

Speaker 138 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 53 That kind of athlete, you find a spot on the team. Yeah.
Yeah. Find a spot on the team.
Yeah.

Speaker 122 What about you, Baker?

Speaker 110 Have you played with guys who you've seen hoop and you're like, holy shit.

Speaker 147 I mean, Mike's one of them. Yeah.

Speaker 127 There's a couple of receivers.

Speaker 147 Saquon, there's a couple of receivers that are supposed to be really good. I can imagine, like, I don't know if A.J.
Brown has a shot or not.

Speaker 156 Yeah.

Speaker 163 But that's a big man.

Speaker 147 Yeah.

Speaker 147 I know of some like O-linemen that were really athletic and like they struggle to keep the weight on.

Speaker 147 Like between the D-lineman, Miles Garrett, Jokic.

Speaker 162 Yeah.

Speaker 53 Yeah. Miles Garrett, I mean, I've seen him.

Speaker 147 I've played basketball with him.

Speaker 162 Yeah.

Speaker 156 Yeah.

Speaker 136 But this is actually minutes. You can get minutes.

Speaker 110 This is the perfect answer because this has always been the answer where they have the debate and it's like, there's probably like five guys from each side.

Speaker 147 I don't know if they would have, I don't know if they would have enough finesse to be able to play basketball.

Speaker 73 Yeah, that's the thing.

Speaker 161 for football players to come to basketball, you have to play both ways. And like for the guys that are like, I could play and then those are the guys that are like dunking shooting threes.

Speaker 161 It's like, well, you got to guard and you got to be able to remember like what the hell is going on and doing this. It's like, it gets a little tricky.

Speaker 161 And then you talk about the basketball guys going to football. It's like, you're going to get hit in your mouth a lot.

Speaker 160 Yeah. Like

Speaker 161 you see, you think that's, you think that's like, oh, yeah, I could handle that until it happens. And you're like,

Speaker 161 I don't know if I like that so much.

Speaker 143 Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 33 There's an element of toughness that

Speaker 33 I think some guys could pick up, like DK Metcalf. I think he could probably also make the switch to NBA.

Speaker 161 So I'm saying, like, there's certain athletes that could just find minutes in the NBA because like

Speaker 161 there's guys in the league that can't shoot or like can't do stuff, but they can rebound the hell out of the ball and they're like dunk and put it.

Speaker 161 Like you can play 12 minutes in NBA if you're a good enough athlete.

Speaker 73 Right.

Speaker 33 Who's a better golfer between you two?

Speaker 156 That's a good question. How good are you?

Speaker 33 Alex?

Speaker 53 yeah i'm like an 11 handicap i'm a little better than 11.

Speaker 123 yeah this guy's probably what how much six five yeah yeah

Speaker 161 no no no that's probably it one summer i got down to like a two seven but that was just a crazy month we're not there right now i haven't played golf this summer i'm still i'm still pissed that the bulls traded you uh and also got no picks because you don't get picks for anything but uh

Speaker 100 we have a golf similar in our office and alex there a couple times we're

Speaker 24 we were literally working and he would just be hitting shots oh that's awesome it's like yeah it's right there Yeah.

Speaker 88 And we could have taken all the credit when you one day win this tournament.

Speaker 161 It could have, we could have, we could have started like a little sponsorship or something or like a YouTube vlog like building up to it.

Speaker 4 Give us a cut.

Speaker 161 Maybe post-career. Yeah.

Speaker 63 Oh, you want a cut?

Speaker 47 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 55 Just give us a little

Speaker 126 bit of 10%.

Speaker 47 Yeah.

Speaker 69 It doesn't have to be 10%.

Speaker 4 Baker, maybe you give us a cut for your new contract when you sign another one.

Speaker 110 You think so?

Speaker 123 You think just a little cut?

Speaker 161 They helped you get there.

Speaker 47 Well, allegedly, they have.

Speaker 63 So, I mean, I got to believe them.

Speaker 69 I don't know if they've ever lied to me.

Speaker 33 Yeah, maybe whoever runs the main account at Barcelon Sports should get a cut because of the doubting.

Speaker 73 Yeah.

Speaker 33 So I don't know if you guys ever see headlines, but when the main account puts it out, a lot of times me and Big Cat get shit for that. Yeah.
Because it's like they fuck you guys.

Speaker 69 Yeah.

Speaker 33 We'll take it. That's our job to be a shield.

Speaker 100 Yeah, get a text and be like, what is this? I'm like, dude, I don't know.

Speaker 150 They're just trying to get numbers.

Speaker 134 What do you want me to do? Impeachment. Yeah.

Speaker 156 I didn't say it.

Speaker 47 I retweeted it.

Speaker 146 Whatever.

Speaker 64 I liked it.

Speaker 33 I laughed at it. I dared the guy to tweet it.

Speaker 161 You put the line

Speaker 161 in your header. It's like, all retweets are not.
Yeah, endorsements.

Speaker 143 Yeah, mine are. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 138 Mine are 100% endorsement.

Speaker 159 Baker, it's just whenever if he loses a game, they just play you dancing from the Oklahoma video.

Speaker 32 That makes sense. That's, yeah.

Speaker 53 That sounds right. Yeah.

Speaker 100 By the way, is there anything as you went to a school that went from Big Trule to SEC?

Speaker 110 Baker, you just went Big Trot to SEC.

Speaker 24 Do you want to give him any tips?

Speaker 110 Because it's not going great for Oklahoma football right now.

Speaker 156 It's not great for the fellas.

Speaker 161 Yeah, I don't know how to, because we went in, we had Johnny right away. So like that was like,

Speaker 161 you know, that was kind of a nice crutch to fall on.

Speaker 147 We haven't been very, not to that level since.

Speaker 161 So

Speaker 161 better cruise, better get some, some, some good guys into the team.

Speaker 147 The difference, like, from what I can see, is O-line D-line.

Speaker 160 The D-line, SEC is just a bunch of naps, like Manchilds.

Speaker 147 Yeah. And then O-line, Oklahoma hadn't had a

Speaker 147 as good of an O-line as we used to have.

Speaker 11 Yeah.

Speaker 44 You do have a dude this year, though.

Speaker 110 John Matier.

Speaker 147 He's awesome. He's one of the boys.

Speaker 110 I tried to get him him to go to Wisconsin. Like, I had phone conversations, and it was just,

Speaker 110 so I was going up against you.

Speaker 123 So I out-recruited you?

Speaker 24 Did you bring in J.J. Watt?

Speaker 40 I brought in J.J.

Speaker 47 Watt.

Speaker 63 I didn't do that. Okay.
But I'm pretty helped. Didn't he walk on? Well, JJ? Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 73 Oh, okay. So you've been playing NCAA football, I realize.

Speaker 110 It's tough to be, it was tough to be like, oh, what's happened at Oklahoma in like the past 15 years? They have all these Heismans and also his OC went from Washington State.

Speaker 32 So I'm rooting for him no matter what. I told him that after.

Speaker 93 I was like, dude, I'm not going to be like a loser here and be like, oh, fuck you, you didn't pick my school.

Speaker 29 I want him to, he's awesome.

Speaker 57 He's sick.

Speaker 147 He's got some shit in his neck, too.

Speaker 63 Yeah, he's kind of like a little, I like him, a little mini baker.

Speaker 156 I like him. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 33 I also appreciate the fact that you said that you hate the Saints earlier. I like it when athletes admit that they hate other teams, like Rivalry.

Speaker 33 Do you have like a list of teams that you absolutely hate?

Speaker 156 Texas.

Speaker 41 Yeah, you guys both hate Texas.

Speaker 47 I should have said that.

Speaker 161 That was a great one. Yeah.

Speaker 162 There we go.

Speaker 139 Yeah.

Speaker 9 Texas.

Speaker 47 Horns down.

Speaker 59 Losers.

Speaker 104 Bunch of losers.

Speaker 63 That felt real. Yeah, you really.

Speaker 162 That's from childhood.

Speaker 161 That's not adult hate.

Speaker 53 Texas fans and Cowboys fans are very similar.

Speaker 147 Yeah.

Speaker 161 A lot of them are the same fans.

Speaker 147 They're the same people.

Speaker 121 Yeah.

Speaker 146 They really are.

Speaker 161 Hey, what about Coach Doug? Are we going to get another? Yeah, oh, yeah, we'll be back.

Speaker 98 Yeah, I can't.

Speaker 156 We'll be back.

Speaker 73 Yeah.

Speaker 110 Playing some college ball for sure.

Speaker 161 We're going to start an online dynasty league.

Speaker 156 I got time.

Speaker 134 I should. Oh, maybe we should link up.

Speaker 113 We should do that.

Speaker 110 You'd probably kick my ass, but I'm bad at the, I mean,

Speaker 63 40 now. I suck at people.

Speaker 162 You play Heisman, right?

Speaker 161 Yeah, I play Heismanism.

Speaker 73 It's hard.

Speaker 162 It's not easy.

Speaker 33 But you've also got a staff.

Speaker 110 And I also spam plays. Yeah, you do.

Speaker 161 You do.

Speaker 6 Baker, do you ever spam plays in real life?

Speaker 131 I don't know what you mean.

Speaker 100 Like, you just find one play that works and you just keep going over and over and over, and then the AI doesn't pick up on it.

Speaker 162 And then everyone in the chat says you're a loser.

Speaker 139 Cheap play.

Speaker 47 Cheap play. Fuck you, big pet, you piece of shit.

Speaker 51 Does that ever happen to you?

Speaker 47 In like a two-minute drill, yeah.

Speaker 147 I didn't realize that's, yeah. I didn't realize I was going up against AI, but yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 161 We spam in the NBA. Oh, yeah.
If it works, I'll yell at the bench, run it again out loud.

Speaker 156 Yeah.

Speaker 110 Like, what's your, what's the, a play that you've spammed, and you're like, it's just, they can't stop it.

Speaker 161 Like, we run one play where it's just like a flat ball stream. You put the worst defender in it, and Shay has the ball.

Speaker 161 And it's like, if we're like, if our off, if we haven't got a good shot in a while, it's like, all right, let's give the MVP the ball.

Speaker 138 Yeah.

Speaker 161 Get this like slip screen out of the way. And you put the bad defender.
And if they fuck it up, I'm just like, hey, let's run it again. Yeah.

Speaker 161 And eventually they'll change it. Now we can get back to our real offense.
Yeah.

Speaker 94 That's kind of sucked to be hunted in the NBA.

Speaker 73 Like some of those guys, they just get kicked on.

Speaker 161 I was that guy when we first started, and then I transitioned into the guy that got taken out of the action. Right.

Speaker 161 And so now it's like, you better, you better have some nuts if you're going to be called into it. Like, you better just stand up and put your chest.

Speaker 161 You got to, what do we say, run some run through someone's face? Yeah. Equivalent of that in the NBA, if they call you into the ball screen, you better foul the shit out of them.

Speaker 161 You better do something good. Because if not, you're going to get put right back into it.

Speaker 33 Your defense stays up because you're like, I'm not going back to being the guy that got hungry. For sure.

Speaker 123 We're not going back there. That's a bad thing.

Speaker 161 Nobody likes being embarrassed in front of 18,000 people.

Speaker 59 You can't be the weakest language.

Speaker 73 No, no.

Speaker 161 And everybody in the arena knows, well, majority of them know, oh, that guy's not good.

Speaker 161 That's why they're putting him into the, like, put him into the, let LeBron, let Shay, let whoever it is go with that guy.

Speaker 164 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 73 Nobody likes that feeling. Baker, how awesome is Bucky Irving?

Speaker 147 He's the man.

Speaker 33 His name is also very fun to say. It is.

Speaker 73 Like Deal. Great name.
Come on.

Speaker 129 Come on, Bucky.

Speaker 56 Chicago guy, too.

Speaker 47 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 156 He's fucking a beast.

Speaker 147 He is. I mean, he's full of energy all the time.

Speaker 53 He's all ball, though.

Speaker 147 Doesn't do anything else.

Speaker 123 He's just, he's 22.

Speaker 147 Yeah.

Speaker 33 He's wild. When did you know he was a dog? Like, this is a guy that we can lean on.

Speaker 147 I mean, talking to him, you could tell his mindset he was.

Speaker 147 But then, like, in practice, when we're not going full to the ground until a game, like you couldn't tell how many people are going to really make miss.

Speaker 147 Like, some people would get in front of him, but like in a game, they're not touching him. So, I mean, it was hard to tell until our first game.

Speaker 161 Yeah, I wonder what that feels like as a running back to where it's just like me and you distance away. It's like, oh, you're not going to touch me.
Yeah.

Speaker 63 Good luck.

Speaker 162 Yeah, that's probably a basic feeling.

Speaker 161 That's probably a sick feeling.

Speaker 88 I mean, it's got to be similar in the NBA where you're like, get one-on-one.

Speaker 134 I don't know that feeling. Yeah, you don't know that feeling.
I don't know that feeling.

Speaker 161 But some guys know that. Some guys really like, oh, I'm about to cross this thing.

Speaker 137 Yeah.

Speaker 33 Have you ever called like ISO? Like, everybody back up. I got this guy.

Speaker 73 Yeah.

Speaker 161 One, very, very limited. Yeah.

Speaker 73 Very few times.

Speaker 33 Did it work out?

Speaker 161 Once or twice. Usually it happens like when the best players don't play.
And so it's like, I know I'm going to get a bunch of shots this game.

Speaker 161 So all of a sudden, your confidence and your imagination gets a little.

Speaker 147 And then you tell them to run it again.

Speaker 161 Yeah, yeah. And then ISO, like, hey, it's me.

Speaker 150 That's the best part.

Speaker 161 If I'm the guy on, if I'm playing point guard that game, like we played against the Suns late in the year, I had a great game. I had like 20-something points, bunch of assists.

Speaker 147 And

Speaker 161 we had a couple of plays where I was like, i i vividly remember i was like come screen for me i'm about to go do something and then i scored i was like that's the best feeling ever yeah what's it like to like be on a heat jack you know like i i can't shoot a basketball so i can't i don't know yeah no that's a that's a fun feeling where you just like every time you let it go you feel like it's gonna go in you gotta have that feeling though when you when you yeah when you're when you're ripping it and you know it's like you know exactly where the ball is gonna go on time that's that's probably the same yeah it's more like for me it's more like visually like seeing the field extremely quick and clear.

Speaker 53 Um, anticipate that, yeah, and then at that point,

Speaker 53 the arm takes over, but like it's more the mental aspect of it for me.

Speaker 110 Are there weeks where the prep, like when you get on the field on Sunday, you're like, oh shit, I'm like really ready to go because I know exactly what they're doing and I have all the answers.

Speaker 110 Yeah, that's got to feel incredible.

Speaker 53 That one, that one feels incredible.

Speaker 147 Yeah.

Speaker 147 There's been a few times, like every time we played Cincinnati when I was in Cleveland, I felt like, all right, I'm about to have 300 yards at least.

Speaker 73 Yeah, it's a great feeling.

Speaker 156 Bengals a lot. It was good.
Yeah.

Speaker 63 It was good. Yeah.

Speaker 28 All right.

Speaker 110 I know you guys got to run in a second.

Speaker 126 Paul's here.

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Speaker 110 And I'm giving my last question to Zach, who's a massive.

Speaker 161 I was wondering if we were going to get an appearance.

Speaker 110 He's a massive Bucks fan. Not a big intercourse guy.

Speaker 47 Yeah.

Speaker 138 Saw that. He's

Speaker 162 didn't see that, but saw the cliff. Saw that

Speaker 147 where he said he wasn't.

Speaker 110 We speedrun ran his interaction with you, Baker, earlier, and he ended up inviting himself on your boat.

Speaker 127 Okay.

Speaker 27 He also...

Speaker 27 That's sick.

Speaker 139 That's great. Didn't go great.
Yeah.

Speaker 134 You want to go do karate in the garage? Yeah.

Speaker 63 Karate in the garage? Yeah.

Speaker 114 You karate guy?

Speaker 134 I could be. You got room for activities in there?

Speaker 160 So much room.

Speaker 47 We can run that. Okay.
All right.

Speaker 52 So, Zach, the floor is yours.

Speaker 53 Oh, Baker, how are we doing today, my man? Fantastic.

Speaker 166 Great to see you guys. I want to say I appreciate everything you do for the city of Tampa.
It's so awesome seeing you out there on the field.

Speaker 126 Just a quick, quick questions.

Speaker 166 Are there any outside of football, any passion products or hobbies you would look forward to spending more time on later in life?

Speaker 9 Ooh,

Speaker 53 deep question. Honestly, it's a golf game.
The golf game?

Speaker 147 Yeah, I would love to see how low I can get my handicap, but right now, not exactly the time for it.

Speaker 69 Fair enough. I love that answer.

Speaker 21 Golf great sports, super frustrating.

Speaker 166 And then if you're cool, one more.

Speaker 147 Is there like a

Speaker 166 comfort meal after game or pre-game that you dive into that's like you're 1-1 of like, you know, this is just going to hit just right?

Speaker 114 Ooh.

Speaker 147 Post-game?

Speaker 161 Have you just said no? No, no more questions.

Speaker 63 Out.

Speaker 156 Good time for one more? No.

Speaker 53 Pre-game, no.

Speaker 147 It always depends on the time of the game. After the game, a lot of carbs.

Speaker 93 Carbon. A lot of carbs, yeah.

Speaker 167 Love that. Because it's just like, you don't.

Speaker 53 I'll have breakfast. Say we're playing at one o'clock.

Speaker 123 I'll have breakfast.

Speaker 147 Pretty standard. And then I won't eat until 6 p.m.

Speaker 147 So it's mac and cheese?

Speaker 156 Yeah.

Speaker 147 Mac and cheese, chicken tenders, wings, whatever it is.

Speaker 106 Yeah. Zach,

Speaker 67 or do you have a follow-up question?

Speaker 147 I mean, you were talking in fast forward right now. Oh, my bad.

Speaker 166 I can still.

Speaker 53 Oh, you're good. No, no, no.
I can hear it.

Speaker 47 Is there a so concentrated?

Speaker 166 So Heisman Trophy, we keep that in. Man cave,

Speaker 166 mantle, at the house, different spot.

Speaker 126 Bachelor pad. Where are we keeping that?

Speaker 108 Bachelor pad.

Speaker 146 He's there for the kid.

Speaker 139 Second apartment. Oh, big.

Speaker 139 Mancave.

Speaker 47 Yeah, man cave.

Speaker 123 Mancave?

Speaker 59 Yeah. Sweet.

Speaker 6 You got a secret apartment that people don't know about?

Speaker 63 Where's your bachelor pad?

Speaker 63 When are we going to kick it?

Speaker 93 Hate him.

Speaker 74 So So Zach is a recent hire at Barstool.

Speaker 110 He's electric.

Speaker 63 So why aren't you a Tampa fan?

Speaker 166 So I'm from Lakeland, Florida, which is like Central Florida. And the Bucs have just my whole life, which has been a Bucs fan.

Speaker 53 Yeah.

Speaker 44 So

Speaker 122 he moved to Chicago.

Speaker 96 This is actually the first time he's been west of the Mississippi.

Speaker 29 So Zach is experiencing the new moment.

Speaker 40 Yeah.

Speaker 110 But when he moved to Chicago, his apartment was right across from McDonald's, and he gained 18 pounds in the first three weeks.

Speaker 100 Tell him what you ate for dinner every night.

Speaker 5 This is what you should do after the game, both of you guys.

Speaker 126 I was with you, Biggie.

Speaker 166 I'm carb loading, just like you. Comfort, carbs.
It wasn't too bad.

Speaker 164 I love protein, too. Right.

Speaker 126 Double cheesebury, you get two patties, a lot of protein. I appreciate that, Alex.
Just two double cheeseburgers, no pickle, a little onion, two iron fries, and like 10 to 20 nuggets.

Speaker 166 Nothing crazy.

Speaker 139 Nothing crazy. It just continued to be.

Speaker 139 He always has the nuggets.

Speaker 139 He's not done.

Speaker 166 That's McDonald's or just carb load.

Speaker 47 We're on the same both two carb loading guys.

Speaker 73 And dessert?

Speaker 166 You and ice cream? Yeah.

Speaker 126 You have a top flavor?

Speaker 134 Like cookies and cream, bro.

Speaker 138 Great pool.

Speaker 126 S.G. Bluebell.
I know's cream.

Speaker 63 Bluebell.

Speaker 126 I like Ben and Jerry's.

Speaker 166 Makes sense. Maybe rip a pint or two of that.

Speaker 156 Maybe just through the bread.

Speaker 161 Did you get an apple pie?

Speaker 141 I'm not.

Speaker 141 No.

Speaker 166 No apple pie to McDonald's.

Speaker 161 Do they take open walk-ons for the Nathan's hot dog eating competition?

Speaker 156 Yeah, I did first.

Speaker 33 Well, no, we actually did that earlier this week. Yeah.
Not a great hot dog eating. He's not exactly.

Speaker 6 He likes to enjoy his meal.

Speaker 147 That's a sport thing.

Speaker 166 I'm more of like a pleasure guy.

Speaker 123 Got you.

Speaker 156 No time for me.

Speaker 138 No, no, no. Yeah, I got you.

Speaker 161 Well, okay, one question. What's your favorite west of Mississippi? So what's your favorite aspect of Lake Tahoe being here for a couple of days?

Speaker 53 The mountains look unreal.

Speaker 126 Like, it doesn't feel like we're, it's like a foreign world that we're in.

Speaker 127 Like, we're just dropping.

Speaker 161 It's not like elevation like this or any kind of.

Speaker 53 Not at all.

Speaker 166 And like, there hasn't been a cloud in the sky whatsoever. We're just on a different map.

Speaker 166 This isn't the earth.

Speaker 126 This is something I've never seen.

Speaker 161 This place is not like most out here. It's a little paradise.

Speaker 73 It's cooped up.

Speaker 123 It's wild.

Speaker 126 What about yourself?

Speaker 123 Do you have anything in Tahoe that you enjoy?

Speaker 138 Golf. Free golf.

Speaker 156 Golf as well? Yeah, free golf.

Speaker 63 I like that. Free golf.
Golf's nice.

Speaker 24 All right. Good job, Zach.
Great job, Zach.

Speaker 33 Great job.

Speaker 15 All right, Baker, Alex, thank you, boys.

Speaker 110 We appreciate you coming on. This is a lot of fun, and good luck this week.
Appreciate it.

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Speaker 1 And now for something completely different.

Speaker 34 Okay, we now welcome on a very, very, very special guest.

Speaker 58 It is Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred.

Speaker 58 Thank you so much, Mr. Commissioner.

Speaker 109 What would you prefer to be called?

Speaker 37 Mr.

Speaker 169 Commissioner, Rob, Bob, Baba?

Speaker 170 Rob would be just fine.

Speaker 170 fine okay well appreciate you coming on we have uh we're trying to collect all the commissioners anytime a commissioner is offered to us we're like we have to do it because obviously we're big sports guys and it's very important let's start with though a congratulations for an incredible all-star game uh i would say mlb is the last sport that has an all-star game that matters and the swing off was great are you uh using the swing off maybe in the future in maybe some regular season stuff and how would you assess the whole all-star game uh well let me start with the all-star game the the entire four days was fantastic for us it really was um you know we had a great home run derby really exciting uh great attendance at play ball park um which you know gives people that don't get into the stadium an opportunity to participate in the weekend.

Speaker 170 And, you know, the game, although they got out 6-0, turned out to be a great game. And I loved the swing off.
I thought it was really exciting. It was crazy in the ballpark.
Really, really exciting.

Speaker 170 Having said that, you know, I don't think people need to worry about home run derbies at the end of regular season games at least not for right now i mean it's it's not something we're talking about um you know we went to it the the all-star game is um you know different obviously than a regular season game um it gives us the ability to let the managers

Speaker 170 use all the players during the nine innings. You know, you hate to have guys come all the way to the all-star game and then not play.

Speaker 170 And, you know, frankly, for the fans, it's a really exciting way to end the game.

Speaker 33 Yeah, it was. And the swing off was incredible.

Speaker 33 But when I was watching the swing off, I couldn't help but think, what if the home run derby was built like the swing-off, where we go back to the format where you get a set amount of swings as opposed to the timing?

Speaker 33 Have you given any thought to changing the format of the home run derby?

Speaker 170 Yeah,

Speaker 170 we will regroup with the SPN and talk about the format of the home run derby. It's one of those things that,

Speaker 170 you know, because it's an exhibition,

Speaker 170 you can, it's easier to change the rules. You know, there's a variety of considerations there.
You know, it's so fast now. We wanted to make it faster, but it's so fast now.

Speaker 170 There's some complaints that people can't even see the home run,

Speaker 170 you know, because the next one's coming so quickly. You know, look,

Speaker 170 I don't think people appreciate how exhausting it is for the players to take that many swings that fast. So it's something we will talk about.

Speaker 33 I did think that the home run derby was a lot of fun to watch.

Speaker 33 I think maybe the biggest biggest reason, there were rumors going into the home run derby that maybe older guys like Christian Yellich were going to play. And America does not want to see that.

Speaker 33 So that was a great decision by getting the young guys. We don't need Christian Yellich in the home run derby.

Speaker 29 I think we should just make it a rule, like 30, under 30 years old, home run derby only, because we want to really, it's young stars, you know, it's a showcase.

Speaker 170 You know, I can't tell you the exact number now.

Speaker 170 I had it in my head and I've kind of lost it. But, you know, a lot of the guys, young guys that were in that, they're so motivated.

Speaker 170 You know, it's a million dollar prize i mean significant you know when you're making a many millions in a year it's not quite so important but i do think you get from the young guys they get excited to do it it's an opportunity for them to get real exposure um you know the the prize is is worth it you know significant to them so um i take your point about the young guys and look in general our game is so young right now you know i i mean the guys are coming into the big leagues they're making a

Speaker 170 an impact really a lot faster than it used to happen.

Speaker 64 Yeah.

Speaker 169 I don't know if you could fix this.

Speaker 67 I've heard you talk about it where you guys had a strategy with your media where you had a place where everyone went to go watch MLB and then you realized, hey, we got to go where the people are and we're going to let the clips be out there more.

Speaker 58 Is there any way we can work on games getting blacked out in certain areas?

Speaker 2 Because I know there's a lot of fans that struggle with that.

Speaker 57 And it's like, I just want to watch the game.

Speaker 43 I feel like I pay, you know, to be able to watch every game.

Speaker 24 I want to be able to watch the Cubs when I'm not in Chicago, but I also want to be able to watch it on my phone when I'm in Chicago.

Speaker 150 So,

Speaker 95 is there a fix for that?

Speaker 170 Yeah, look, I mean, remember, there's fans talk about blackouts number one are at the top of my list in terms of things we need to deal with.

Speaker 170 And there's really, conceptually, three kinds of blackouts, right?

Speaker 170 You know, there's an club has an exclusive territory.

Speaker 170 They have an exclusive deal with usually a regional sports network. And for some reason, in an outlying territory, that regional sports network isn't on every cable provider.
Okay.

Speaker 170 That one's a tough one for us, right? I mean, because there's a contract in place, there's exclusivity, hard to deal with.

Speaker 170 The second kind

Speaker 170 that

Speaker 170 people talk about is that just that a lot of RSNs don't have full distribution, even in the core market anymore. And again, that's something we can work on.

Speaker 170 We're working hard on it to make sure we've taken over five clubs and for those clubs, tried to make sure that as many cable providers as possible have distribution. And then, of course,

Speaker 170 the last one

Speaker 170 is national exclusivity.

Speaker 170 And we have a lot of national partners right now, right? We obviously the big one, Fox and TNT,

Speaker 170 TBS, but in addition, Apple and that has some exclusivity.

Speaker 170 And we are going to make an effort when we redo our national deals to be a little more streamlined, fewer places that have games so that fans can find them more easily.

Speaker 2 I appreciate that because it really is as simple as like, everyone just wants to be able to watch

Speaker 28 without jumping through a ton of hoops.

Speaker 58 You know, the game is the most important part.

Speaker 170 Britch and listen. And look, the ideal, and, you know, I got to be completely clear about this.
We don't get there until 2028 because that's when our national deals are up.

Speaker 170 But ideally, where you would like to be is if you have a digital home for baseball, you can go there and buy what you want to buy in market, out of market, however many games you want to buy.

Speaker 170 And if it's not there, it's on one or two. maybe national outlets that most people have, right? You know, that that's where you'd like to get, ideally.

Speaker 33 I think, yeah, that would be a great place to end up at.

Speaker 33 Right now, we're after the All-Star game. We saw the use of the robot umps.

Speaker 33 I know that you grade out the umpires. Major League Baseball gives grades to the umpires depending on their performance.

Speaker 33 How would you grade the robot that called balls and strikes during the all-star game? Yeah, you know,

Speaker 170 I'm big on AVS. You know, I mean, I call it the automated strike zone system because, you know, we're still going to have a human umpire behind the plate doing his thing.

Speaker 170 But look, the technology is awesome. Calling, our umpires do a great job, but look, calling balls and strikes is tough for any human being.
And I do think that the challenge system

Speaker 170 is, you know, kind of consistent with the idea of instant replay. Give us a chance to use technology to get it right in high-leverage situations.

Speaker 33 I do think that in 15, 20 years, we're going to be looking back.

Speaker 33 and saying, I can't believe that we had human beings with their eyeballs trying to determine like a span of inches on guys throwing 100 miles per hour.

Speaker 170 Yeah, it is a hard job. I mean, it is a really hard job.

Speaker 58 Will you at least give us, if you go all the way to robots, will you have the ability for the robots to eject managers and pitchers?

Speaker 24 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 170 I mean, look, one of our principal considerations really, you know, I know you're being funny, but the thing

Speaker 170 is, we really do want to

Speaker 170 maintain the role of the home plate umpire as the guy that manages the game.

Speaker 170 You know, you saw it. He's got an earpiece in his ear.
It doesn't look very different than the regular game. And we think that's important.

Speaker 33 Yeah. Yeah.
I know that there's a there's a CBA coming up. You guys are in discussions, the owners and the union, talking about what the

Speaker 33 next iteration of baseball from the financial aspect is going to look like.

Speaker 33 A lot of people have talked about the salary cap floor in exchange for the salary cap.

Speaker 33 Is that something that you feel is going to happen in the next CBA?

Speaker 170 Look, you know, I spent most of my career in collective bargaining. And one thing I've learned is making predictions in advance

Speaker 170 is

Speaker 170 usually

Speaker 170 not accurate in terms of how it turns out and really not helpful to the process. I will tell you this.

Speaker 170 We have a ton of fans that feel in a lot of markets who feel like, you know, their team that they're passionate about doesn't have a fair opportunity to compete.

Speaker 170 And at the end of the day, we sell competition and we need to be listening to those fans.

Speaker 112 Yeah.

Speaker 58 So another, another thing that bothers us from our point of view, and when we do the show, we try to stick up for fans.

Speaker 65 Is there anything that you can do when you have ownership?

Speaker 85 And I'm not going to name specific ones, but they're not specifically trying to put out a winner year in and year out.

Speaker 58 Like it's clear that they're not trying to compete for championships.

Speaker 5 I think it's such a disservice to a a city and a fan base when that is happening.

Speaker 46 And I don't know what the fix is.

Speaker 58 And it might be just an impossible question, but it feels like there's got to be something there, or maybe get them out and get someone in there who wants to spend the money to try to put out a winner.

Speaker 170 Yeah, you know,

Speaker 170 let me say it this way.

Speaker 170 I think it

Speaker 170 is usually a mistake to focus on the owner when it appears that

Speaker 170 the owner isn't trying.

Speaker 170 Okay. It is usually a product of the system in which you're working.

Speaker 170 And I do believe that it's incumbent on us and the union, for the sake of our fans, to create a system where the incentives to always appear like you're doing the most possible for your fans to compete is a really important goal for both of us, everybody involved in the game.

Speaker 33 Yeah, I think that you do have conflicting interests sometimes because you've got the reality is that in baseball, you don't have to spend money to make money if you own a team, right?

Speaker 33 Over the course of the years, the value of your team, it's going to go up if history has taught us anything. You're going to, it's a very sound investment that you're making.

Speaker 33 You don't necessarily have to put the payroll out there to have a winning product to be successful as a businessman from the ownership perspective.

Speaker 33 So, Big Kat and I have actually tossed around a couple ideas of what could happen. Maybe you have three years in a row, maybe let's go.
Five years. Five years in a row.

Speaker 33 You finish in last place in the division. The owners then have to sit in the cheap seats with the fans for the entire season season and get to deal with them face to face.

Speaker 170 Well,

Speaker 170 let me say this. Let me go backwards.

Speaker 170 It's important to really, particularly when you get into a bargaining year, you know, that people understand what's really going on in the sport. Okay.

Speaker 170 With respect to franchise values, and this is a fact and it's a surprising fact. The slowest growth in franchise values of the four major professional sports over the last decade has been baseball.

Speaker 170 Okay. And that is in large part due to the perception of a lot of fans that you're talking about, where they feel their team doesn't have a fair opportunity to compete.

Speaker 170 I think that when you see a situation where

Speaker 170 the fans feel, you know, gee, he's not spending, he's not spending, usually this is the thinking that goes on. um you know i'm making money um on my operations year in and year out pick a number.

Speaker 170 I'm making 20 million bucks, right? So the owner goes to his analytics guy and says, you know, look, I can put another $20 million into payroll.

Speaker 170 And the analytics guy tells him, look, the expectation is with $20 million more in payroll, you're going to win two more games because you're, and that's it, because you're still going to be $150 million less than the big boys.

Speaker 170 That's the conundrum that those owners find themselves in. They don't have the capacity to spend, to get close enough, to make themselves more competitive.

Speaker 170 And we need to fix that for the benefit of the fans in those markets.

Speaker 2 But some of those owners just don't even try.

Speaker 24 They'll be like, oh, you could tell me I could get 10 more wins and I won't even, you know, I'm just going to go and put my product out there and make my money.

Speaker 58 That's where I get frustrated when it feels like those owners aren't really actually putting the full effort out there.

Speaker 170 Yeah, you know,

Speaker 170 I can't tell you

Speaker 170 that it doesn't look like that

Speaker 170 sometimes. I can tell you it is the very rare circumstance where an owner doesn't want to win.
I mean, the fact of the matter is people don't buy these

Speaker 170 for business, you know, just because of the business or to make money. They buy it because they want to compete.
They want to deliver their community a winner.

Speaker 170 And, you know, we need to get them within a structure where they have a better opportunity to do that in all of our markets.

Speaker 33 Maybe, maybe a test when you're thinking of becoming an owner, a ball knowers test.

Speaker 73 How many home runs does Barry Bonds have?

Speaker 33 Yeah. You know, give them a standardized test.
If they don't know the sport, they don't get the team.

Speaker 41 Just have them throw.

Speaker 60 Just have them pay, like, just say, hey, here, throw me this ball.

Speaker 50 Yeah.

Speaker 36 I just want to see what it looks like.

Speaker 33 Watch the form.

Speaker 170 Look, I don't want to defend my guys endlessly. I will tell you this.
The level of baseball knowledge among our ownership group is unbelievably high.

Speaker 108 Yeah, but can they throw? Can they throw?

Speaker 136 Yeah, well, that's a different issue.

Speaker 139 Well, there we go.

Speaker 125 Maybe that's what we got to do.

Speaker 136 Look, I can't throw.

Speaker 53 So, you know, what do you want me to tell you?

Speaker 6 We got some dumb ideas, we love dumb ideas, so we're just going to throw a couple at you.

Speaker 90 You could just say no, but you know, some of them might be interesting to you.

Speaker 95 Have you ever thought about the ceremonial first pitch counting?

Speaker 170 No.

Speaker 112 What do you think about that?

Speaker 170 Well, usually when I think about ceremonial first pitches,

Speaker 170 i i have to say i think i'm like a lot of prudent first pitch throwers you just don't want to embarrass yourself right right but think about it like 50 cent or the president or beyonce they are pitching to a live batter and the first pitch counts what do you think i have to tell you the only one on that list of three that you listed president trump has assured me on more than one occasion he can throw a hell of a first pitch the other two you're on your own okay okay i mean george bush had maybe the most iconic first pitch of all time that should have counted as a strike yeah yeah yeah

Speaker 33 president bush is was actually a player in college and is a pretty darn good athlete yeah so we're curious when we actually i do have one more dumb idea for you i have a couple more okay uh the bases have you thought about making them even bigger well

Speaker 170 that's interesting i i have to tell you

Speaker 170 that the bigger base idea of all of those rule changes like i got the clock i understood why we were doing that from the very beginning. The shift thing, I got that too.

Speaker 170 You know, get people where they're supposed to be and, you know, you're going to get a little more offense. I really, like the bigger base thing, I'm like, what? My guys came to me with that.

Speaker 170 I'm like, what the hell are you guys thinking about?

Speaker 170 You know, but you know, in some ways, it's been the most exciting change in terms of making the running game such a significant part of the sport again.

Speaker 33 Yeah, I was right there with you and then somebody just explained to me, PFT, they're bigger.

Speaker 42 And then I was like, oh, okay, I get it. Yeah.

Speaker 143 that's a great idea, yeah, they are.

Speaker 170 Yeah, and you know, you think about it, they're not, I mean, the difference in size is not so much, but man, it has really made a difference in terms of the way the games play.

Speaker 16 Okay, another dumb idea.

Speaker 110 This might be where you start looking at the guys behind the camera, and you're like, Why did you set me up with this interview?

Speaker 59 Just hear me out, though.

Speaker 17 No bad ideas.

Speaker 97 Can we be in the trust tree? No bad ideas, 100%.

Speaker 170 Okay, you got, I will not be overly critical. How about bad guys?

Speaker 144 Okay, perfect.

Speaker 151 Uh, steroid month.

Speaker 140 Oh,

Speaker 104 just one more thing.

Speaker 136 You actually are pushing the kids.

Speaker 11 Hey, yeah.

Speaker 97 Listen, you said it, though.

Speaker 45 You said they were the trust tree.

Speaker 146 I understand.

Speaker 170 You know, look, let me say this. I understand

Speaker 170 that people like to see home runs. And, you know, because of my professional experience, I understand that steroids work.
I'm a hard no. How about that?

Speaker 11 Yeah. Okay, that's fair.

Speaker 63 That's fair.

Speaker 140 Fair enough. All right.
That's fair.

Speaker 33 What if steroid month was October?

Speaker 59 Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 33 I I mean, now we're talking about ratings.

Speaker 140 All right, what's

Speaker 140 going on?

Speaker 16 Back to real questions.

Speaker 169 What's going on with the balls?

Speaker 97 I don't understand. So

Speaker 97 I don't buy into all the theories of like they're super juice this year, but it does feel like there is a difference year to year.

Speaker 82 Is that something you guys are actively trying to figure out?

Speaker 170 Yeah, so let's be clear about this year.

Speaker 170 The only complaint that's been made about the ball this year is that it has more drag, which actually makes it harder to hit home runs, which kind of doesn't make a whole hell of a lot of sense when you look at who's leading in the American league, particularly those two, right?

Speaker 170 I mean, a lot of home runs being hit. But here's the problem.
Our ball is handmade.

Speaker 170 You know, I've been, you go to Costa Rica, they're made in a factory. They are literally hand-sewn, right? It's leather, all natural materials, hand-sewn.

Speaker 170 Year to year,

Speaker 170 There will be variation with a handmade product. They're just, it's like human, you know, the human condition, right? Can't be perfect.
And, you know, we test them extensively.

Speaker 170 We have a range within which they fall every single year.

Speaker 170 And we've actually gone through a process where we've tightened those ranges and taken more control actually by investing in Rawlings and making sure there's no changes in the process to minimize the differences year to year.

Speaker 170 Will that issue ever go away?

Speaker 170 When you work in a game as long as I have, you know there are certain issues that are never going away you are always going to hear about the baseballs no matter what we do yeah no that's true that's absolutely true that the baseballs will always be a story i i'm curious uh whenever we talk to a commissioner you are the second commissioner on part of my take

Speaker 33 i always want to know what what does a commissioner do on a day-to-day basis like what's how how much of your time is spent putting out fires versus uh meeting with rights holders versus talking to ownership like what a normal day at the office for a commissioner so i i I think about my job kind of two silos, right?

Speaker 170 On the silo that I think of as the governance side, that's regular communication with ownership,

Speaker 170 franchise transfers, disciplinary matters, collective bargaining. That's it, literally, it breaks down.
That's about half the time.

Speaker 170 And then the other half of the time is what you would expect from somebody that runs, you know, central business is a $6 billion business.

Speaker 170 It's, you know, media rights, licensing problems, just the everyday running of a business that generates that kind of revenue.

Speaker 33 Do you have time to watch all the games? Do you watch baseball?

Speaker 170 I watch a lot of baseball.

Speaker 170 You know,

Speaker 170 I grew up. a Yankee fan.
I watch a lot of Yankee games still.

Speaker 170 I try to balance that off by equal time with the Mets because I live in New York, but most nights I'm flipping between Yankee or Met and the extra innings package to follow what's going on in the rest of the league.

Speaker 109 We have a co-worker who's not going to like the fact that you said that you watch more Yankees than Mets.

Speaker 36 Yeah, he has dubbed you Rob Man Fraud.

Speaker 28 Do you have any comments on that?

Speaker 170 Yeah, you know, that's a clever play-on word.

Speaker 109 Frank the Tank, listen, you should do a walk with Frank the Tank.

Speaker 16 We can get that set up.

Speaker 58 It would be an electric, electric interview.

Speaker 33 Are you familiar with Frank the Tank?

Speaker 170 Yeah, you know, look, yes, I am. I I am.

Speaker 170 You know, I actually,

Speaker 170 honestly, I'm getting old. I sat behind,

Speaker 170 right behind home plate at City Field, right in back of two of your colleagues

Speaker 170 who were big Mets fans, and I can't remember who it was.

Speaker 97 It might have been Frank and Stu, which is like,

Speaker 34 if you can sit behind them, then you're good.

Speaker 86 Like, you've passed the test.

Speaker 170 Can I tell you something? So here's the thing. I'm a beer drinker.
You know, I try to do it not necessarily sitting in a ballpark for obvious reasons.

Speaker 170 I'm telling you, these two guys put together a collection of empty cups that was really, I mean, it was impressive.

Speaker 140 It wasn't Frank Stew.

Speaker 33 Yeah, Frank, Frank, maybe if it was like, yeah, Frank is on that good.

Speaker 170 You know, we did. We chatted back and forth and, you know, the whole thing.
And I can tell you who I was with. I just can't remember the two guys' names, but they were impressive.

Speaker 33 The biggest complaint that Frank has had is that he says says that you don't love baseball. Do you love baseball?

Speaker 170 Can I tell you something? When you spend, you know, I started working on baseball first as an outside lawyer for 10 years and then working here.

Speaker 170 Since 1988, I have done one thing in my professional career, and that's worked in baseball. And, you know, some days are good.
Some days are great.

Speaker 170 Other days are really, really hard. And if you don't love this game, you don't want to do this.

Speaker 33 Are you still romantic about baseball?

Speaker 170 Absolutely.

Speaker 170 Absolutely. I'll tell you, you know,

Speaker 170 there were a couple of things

Speaker 170 at the all-star game that, you know, kind of

Speaker 170 you do get almost emotional about.

Speaker 170 You know, I was down on the field before the game and I was watching Joe Torrey, who's worked with me for years and years, back in uniform as a coach, went over and chatted with Joe, and he said a couple of things about what he was thinking that I have to tell you, just really stirring.

Speaker 170 I mean, it just makes you feel great about the game and how important the game is.

Speaker 33 And the Hank Aaron moment, that was another one.

Speaker 146 That was great. Unbelievable.

Speaker 170 Absolutely, absolutely unbelievable. You know, and for me,

Speaker 170 you know, I've known, I knew Hank and his wife, Billy, for a long time. He and Commissioner Sealing were very close.
And, you know, so I'd see him frequently at special events.

Speaker 170 To me, the most emotional part of that was watching Billy during that. She's a great woman, and it was a great tribute and just really emotional to see how she reacted to it.

Speaker 40 Yeah.

Speaker 58 I got a real question about, you know, the Frank, we're joking with the man fraud thing, although he does call you that all the time.

Speaker 65 But how do you

Speaker 34 kind of compartmentalize and deal with that where you're getting booed or people are blaming you for everything?

Speaker 99 Because I think it is one of those things with the commissioners of all four sports leagues where there's, yeah, some things you can disagree with, but at the end of the day, their job isn't really to be liked and they get killed a lot.

Speaker 28 And that's kind of part of what you sign up for.

Speaker 115 Can you like, does it affect you?

Speaker 170 Look, anybody, truthfully, anybody who who tells you it doesn't bother them they're they're probably not telling you the truth nobody likes to get booed i'll tell you a funny story so my um seven-year-old grandson went to the draft he sat right in the front row and there was two funny things about that you know when you come out and you see this little kid that you love dearly you know he's clapping his hands off the the booze don't matter you quite as much

Speaker 170 But, you know, he came in the next morning and I was sitting having a cup of coffee and he said to me, you know, Papa, there was no booze last night.

Speaker 170 I said, George, you got to be boo-deaf if you didn't hear that.

Speaker 140 You know, I mean, that's a good grandson.

Speaker 170 You know, it's part of the job. You know, you understand that, you know, people want to express themselves and you try not to pay too much attention to it.

Speaker 170 You have to be thick-skinned and accept it for what it is.

Speaker 33 Is that something that you guys are going to be talking about in the next CBA in regards to the draft?

Speaker 33 The idea that it's not always the best player or the player that most most teams have at the top of their draft board that will get drafted in the top positions, you know, because of how you get slotted in with how much money you're expected to sign for.

Speaker 33 It feels a little bit disjointed from every other draft that we've seen where it's, you know, you take the best player with the top pick.

Speaker 170 Yeah, I think

Speaker 170 that there are aspects of our draft that have gotten away from a really, really simple but important concept. The team that was the worst last year

Speaker 170 should get the best player in the draft. And there should be nothing that interferes with that correlation, right?

Speaker 170 So, you know, if hard slots are what it takes to make that happen, that's what we ought to do.

Speaker 170 The lottery thing, I'm not sure that it really affects behavior of teams in any meaningful way.

Speaker 170 And, you know, sometimes you get into these situations where the team that was the worst is picking further down in the draft than they ought to be.

Speaker 170 I'm a believer, you know, every 30 picks, a team should have a pick

Speaker 170 unless they've traded it somehow, and that the worst team should get the first pick.

Speaker 11 Yeah.

Speaker 112 All right.

Speaker 97 This has been great. Thank you so much, Rob.

Speaker 2 I got one last question.

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Speaker 17 So, so awesome having you on.

Speaker 71 You know, you're always always welcome to come back uh my last question is uh do you think the 50 50 raffles at each stadium are rigged and how the hell can i win it

Speaker 170 i don't think they're rigged and i got nothing for you on that one oh come on all right what about this can we get can we get some gold cards listen here's the thing oh gold cards you got to earn

Speaker 170 gold cards you got to earn yep all right listen guys it was fun to be with you um i'm glad i had a chance to do it we'll do it again i'm sure all right all right thanks so much sounds great Appreciate it.

Speaker 140 Take care.

Speaker 146 All right. See ya.

Speaker 112 Okay.

Speaker 17 Good show, boys.

Speaker 6 We got anything else? Good week.

Speaker 33 Football's back. I'm just so happy.
Football's back.

Speaker 63 Hank, football's back.

Speaker 82 Say it back.

Speaker 109 Football's back. Say it back.

Speaker 141 Football. It is.

Speaker 62 I just want to say it.

Speaker 100 Just say it. It's not.

Speaker 108 You don't even like it. It is.

Speaker 33 It's disgusting.

Speaker 74 It is sad that we're like...

Speaker 1 This is the best it gets for you.

Speaker 76 Like, this is the best Hank we got.

Speaker 109 What is true?

Speaker 159 Does that mean?

Speaker 33 you're happy with your personal life right now? Yeah,

Speaker 78 you have golf, and it's summer, and then as soon as when we get our happiest,

Speaker 93 you're like,

Speaker 63 that's good, though.

Speaker 11 It can't all be, it's like cycles. It can't all be on the same cycle.

Speaker 68 It'd be nice to have everyone be excited about football.

Speaker 11 I was super excited about football for like six years.

Speaker 40 Who's your college team going to be this year?

Speaker 11 I don't know. UNC.

Speaker 63 Yeah, UNC.

Speaker 11 Yeah, oh, UNC.

Speaker 146 You should be more involved.

Speaker 24 Dude, I I need an update of every UNC game from you.

Speaker 11 Done.

Speaker 36 Not that you have to watch them.

Speaker 71 Done. Sorry, Washington.
You're out.

Speaker 102 Yeah.

Speaker 100 It was fun while it lasted.

Speaker 33 Oh, is ACC Media Week this week? Might be. Does Jordan get her own booth? She has to.

Speaker 63 Yeah.

Speaker 46 Has she reached out about the Takies?

Speaker 55 Anyone?

Speaker 42 So a lot of people were reaching out.

Speaker 90 Appreciate everyone who won an award.

Speaker 5 Did RG3 ever say anything about it?

Speaker 33 I did not see anything from RG3. Mel Kuyper was fired up.

Speaker 64 What?

Speaker 62 He posted on a story. He said, thanks for the award.

Speaker 44 No shit. Yeah.

Speaker 76 He has an Instagram?

Speaker 115 Mm-hmm.

Speaker 63 Wow, good for Mel.

Speaker 33 Jerry says football's back. Jerry just downloaded all his fantasy apps right now.
Breaking news, football's back.

Speaker 9 Oh, football's so back then.

Speaker 80 Football's so back.

Speaker 63 Okay.

Speaker 20 Oh,

Speaker 62 hear that click.

Speaker 4 Let's talk about something else for a second.

Speaker 130 Pug, how was your weekend?

Speaker 41 Pug, how was your weekend?

Speaker 108 Did you tap in?

Speaker 148 I tapped in once.

Speaker 143 Where did you tap in?

Speaker 68 What was the number you gave it?

Speaker 9 Three.

Speaker 63 Fuck, 99.

Speaker 63 Damn it.

Speaker 1 What are you doing, dude?

Speaker 137 He's the big cat sucking in.

Speaker 1 He's stuck in numbers.

Speaker 140 I said, what was the number?

Speaker 148 91, pub.

Speaker 42 That's fucked up, memes.

Speaker 125 He had headphones on, too.

Speaker 41 Yeah, he did have the headphones on.

Speaker 148 I was getting ready to answer the question.

Speaker 152 This is what he does.

Speaker 24 He gets you off guard, and then you don't know what that is.

Speaker 98 That's messed up.

Speaker 157 They take your number, and then I take yours.

Speaker 33 60. It's a chain reaction.

Speaker 11 91, pub.

Speaker 8 I told him I was playing offense for him.

Speaker 11 Need more? I'll go 21.

Speaker 62 What's your other number, memes?

Speaker 145 I got a bunch of them. Six.

Speaker 11 77.

Speaker 1 Six. All right, I'll do six.

Speaker 132 26.

Speaker 60 What do you got, Shane?

Speaker 80 What happened? 18.

Speaker 98 Shane? Oh,

Speaker 33 I said 60. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 6 No one took 20. Oh, did Max take 21?

Speaker 139 Yeah. Oh.

Speaker 139 What the fuck, Max?

Speaker 142 Joel MB, dude.

Speaker 103 It's chain reaction.

Speaker 114 This is mold.

Speaker 60 LT, Jeff.

Speaker 78 We just can't let memes ever win with three.

Speaker 90 That's the thing.

Speaker 95 It's like, if three ever comes up, which it never will, it has to be someone else.

Speaker 89 Memes, if you win with 99, I think we all agree it's bullshit.

Speaker 90 Looks like 89 to me.

Speaker 33 Oh my god, that's back-to-back times.

Speaker 11 Should have picked 89.

Speaker 102 Should have picked 89, bro.

Speaker 33 Love you guys.

Speaker 33 Sorry, memes.