Diamondbacks Zac Gallen & Merrill Kelly, Joey Chestnut, NBA Free Agency, Hot Seat/Cool Throne Plus Our Annual Dingers Only Fantasy Draft

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Speaker 19 On today's part of my take.

Speaker 20 It is time we have Dingers-only draft. Max still hasn't done his punishment, but we're doing our Dingers-only league for the 2025 MLB season.

Speaker 20 We have Brandon, we have Steven, we have Zach, we have Jerry.

Speaker 24 We're drafting our teams.

Speaker 6 We also have a great interview with Diamondbacks pitchers Meryl Kelly and Zach Gallin in studio.

Speaker 28 We are also going to talk to the greatest athlete of all time, Joey Chestnut, before his big return to Nathan's hot dog eating competition on Coney Island on July 4th.

Speaker 24 And we're going to recap some NBA stuff.

Speaker 5 We're going to talk some NFL trades.

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Speaker 6 Today is Wednesday, July 1st, and boys, I know it's vacation week, but we got to talk some NBA.

Speaker 5 We have a big show, we have a big baseball show.

Speaker 20 Dingers Only is back.

Speaker 8 Two great interviews, but NBA free agency has started, and it's a dud.

Speaker 20 I'm going to say it right now, it's a dud.

Speaker 22 What, you weren't thrilled with like a couple minder pieces moving here and there, and then Miles Turner being the big implication?

Speaker 22 Actually, the biggest news of free agency was that Dame is getting waived and stretched. They're stretching and waiving Dame, so I guess he's technically a free agent right now.

Speaker 22 Ironically, stretching would have prevented this entire thing for Dame to begin with.

Speaker 46 Exactly.

Speaker 47 Exactly.

Speaker 22 But I guess Dame might get to go to whatever team he wanted to go to a couple of years ago. So that's good for him.

Speaker 43 Yeah,

Speaker 49 it's just been not as exciting as it has been in years past because the new CBA, a lot of people are saying that C.J.

Speaker 43 McCollum, our good friend, ruined free agency.

Speaker 48 I would say he probably did a good job in making the league more parody in the league and teams being able to get good quicker and not having super teams.

Speaker 9 But listen, a lot of NBA fans love the off-season drama.

Speaker 24 I have a take, PFD, I'd like to throw at you because we know Adam Silver listens to everything and we can easily bully him.

Speaker 30 And we'll talk about who's the winners and losers and Dame and all that stuff and LeBron James.

Speaker 43 All right, two-part take.

Speaker 3 One, they got to get rid of the apron

Speaker 61 word.

Speaker 50 I'm so sick of it.

Speaker 9 It makes, listen, I read, I basically googled explain the second apron to me as a five-year-old.

Speaker 62 I found a bunch of posts.

Speaker 63 I read an article.

Speaker 6 I watched a video.

Speaker 9 I think I fully understand it, except for the fact that they keep calling it the first apron, the second apron.

Speaker 3 If they just called it jail and prison, I think it would make a lot more sense because that's really what it is.

Speaker 9 The second apron is prison.

Speaker 40 They basically, for people who don't understand what they've done

Speaker 26 with the salary cap, is they used to have all these rules where if you go over the salary cap, your owner has to just pay extra money.

Speaker 24 And these guys are really rich and it doesn't matter.

Speaker 51 Now they've made it, if you go over the second apron, you lose future draft picks, you lose ability to trade cash, you lose ability to like mid-level exception signs.

Speaker 67 So they restrict you.

Speaker 54 They put you in prison.

Speaker 8 If they tell you, if a team is going into prison in free agency, I understand it a lot easier than the second apron.

Speaker 22 I think instead of jail and prison, it should be jail and hell.

Speaker 65 Fine.

Speaker 69 I'm the second apron.

Speaker 22 And it's very confusing that they use the word apron. And it's like teams getting under the second apron.
Like, it's kind of sexual.

Speaker 22 It makes me think that we're getting busy now.

Speaker 71 I don't know if it's sexual.

Speaker 28 I never thought of it as sexual that might be a bonk i thought under somebody's apron yeah i thought of it more as like you're just wearing an apron in the in the kitchen and you're getting splashed with oil i want to get under the apron i want to see what's underneath there that wear two aprons pfd like oh they get they're getting on the second one

Speaker 22 if you get under the first apron that's okay that's like first date shit if you get under the second apron now we're talking like we're moving in but but what you just but what you just explained it's jail and prison makes sense because then you could say your team got out of prison well jail and hell.

Speaker 22 I like jail and hell.

Speaker 44 But you, but prison is more than jail.

Speaker 22 It is, yeah, that's true.

Speaker 9 So it's like first apron, second apron, prison and jail.

Speaker 65 I mean, I also thought like you just do like a fire, you're in the fire storm or you know, a volcano eruption.

Speaker 6 I don't, I don't care, but they just need to get rid of the apron, especially because it's hurting guys like my good friend PFD, who's like getting rock hard every time he sees the word apron.

Speaker 80 First guy ever.

Speaker 47 Dude, I don't know.

Speaker 81 He's like, you and Gona Fieri.

Speaker 22 No, no, no. It's getting getting under the apron is what gets me going.

Speaker 22 I don't care if there's two aprons, but if I'm getting under two aprons, then I'm grinding, man. I'm bumping.

Speaker 6 But either way, do you like my idea?

Speaker 83 Jail and prison.

Speaker 4 Explain it to us better.

Speaker 22 No, I do like the idea. Just jail and prison.
You did it one time. You conflated the two because jail and prison are so close.
Like, they're so similar.

Speaker 22 That's why I'm thinking jail is first one, and then L is the second one. Yeah.

Speaker 28 Wait, what do you mean I conflated the two?

Speaker 22 You switched them up one of the times when you explained it because it's confusing because they're so similar.

Speaker 71 No, prison's always a second apron.

Speaker 78 Or maybe it's the alligator Alcatraz's second apron.

Speaker 22 That's fine.

Speaker 86 That's fine, too.

Speaker 83 So that's the first one.

Speaker 8 Fix that, Adam Silver. Change the name.

Speaker 44 I don't care. Just make it so that it's relatable to us.

Speaker 8 I don't give a fuck about this apron, first apron, second apron.

Speaker 39 You're basically making a bunch of people walk around and sound like nerds when they say it, when they go on like, well, boners.

Speaker 90 Yeah, the war. Yeah, with boners.

Speaker 42 Yeah, they're incels.

Speaker 83 They're nerds who can't get their boners touched.

Speaker 65 The Warriors need to get under the second apron.

Speaker 78 No, the Warriors have to get out of prison, okay?

Speaker 70 That's the problem.

Speaker 40 That's it.

Speaker 91 And you're making America hard.

Speaker 65 Yeah, you're making America hard.

Speaker 2 All right, here's the other one.

Speaker 9 Because it's, I miss the days of just chaos.

Speaker 5 I don't think this should happen every year, but I think it should happen randomly.

Speaker 9 It could happen during the season.

Speaker 8 It's essentially its video game rules, and Adam Silver just says for the next hour, salary caps off.

Speaker 3 I can't say that it's when you go to the menu in your video games and you turn off salary caps.

Speaker 27 You could do any trade ever and you have to get it signed.

Speaker 8 Like you have to get your players signed in that window.

Speaker 64 And so everyone will just go crazy.

Speaker 39 Like, all right, the Nuggets are going to sign Jokic to $1 billion 10 years.

Speaker 2 Salary caps off for the, but it actually has to be signed.

Speaker 3 The legal document has to be signed and you have no idea when it's coming.

Speaker 3 So you basically have an hour to scramble, try to get a hold of your players, try to get a hold of free agents, everything, get the deal done, and then he's like, boom, salary caps back on.

Speaker 1 And then it would be great because, like, four years from now, you're like, oh, shit,

Speaker 6 why is KCP making like $400 million?

Speaker 49 Oh, that's because he was the only guy they could reach during the salary caps off window.

Speaker 22 I like that idea. I also like the idea of designating one guy, maybe per roster every two or three years, who is allowed to just, his individual salary does not count towards a cap.

Speaker 89 Yeah.

Speaker 22 You have one guy that's immune to the cap.

Speaker 97 Yeah.

Speaker 98 I mean, SGA, we should talk about that.

Speaker 28 That's

Speaker 51 a spicy meatball.

Speaker 50 Congrats. Fleeced.

Speaker 51 He fleeced the thunder.

Speaker 22 Four years, $285 million.

Speaker 22 What is that?

Speaker 100 71.25.

Speaker 22 Is that right? 71.25 mil per year?

Speaker 3 Someone did the math because it obviously escalates.

Speaker 62 I think it's in his final year of the contract, he'll be making over $1 million per game.

Speaker 11 So, and

Speaker 3 he's still not the highest paid player.

Speaker 31 Jason Tatum still has that, but

Speaker 28 SGA, pretty nice.

Speaker 22 Hank, I have a question for you.

Speaker 102 Yes, PFT.

Speaker 22 With the Dame stretching and waving, did the thought cross your mind,

Speaker 22 what if we did that with Tatum?

Speaker 33 No.

Speaker 33 Didn't you?

Speaker 46 No.

Speaker 13 Dame's so much older.

Speaker 22 Yeah, but you didn't even think about it. Damn it in the gym.

Speaker 10 Tatum's already grinding.

Speaker 50 What if you stretched him?

Speaker 45 No.

Speaker 10 Dame's walking. Not waved him.

Speaker 50 No, no, not waved him, just stretched them no

Speaker 42 you don't even know you don't even know how to do that we don't need to do that

Speaker 13 we're talking we're talking like a probably eight to ten year difference okay

Speaker 22 somebody did the math they said sga is going to make a hundred six thousand dollars per free throw next season that's awesome

Speaker 22 that's pretty good good for him

Speaker 22 um so i'm looking at the calendar right now it is bobby banilla day does that mean that dame also gets paid on bobby benillia day

Speaker 49 i don't know i think he gets so i think his cap, he gets all the money and then the cap, like the stretching part of it is the next five years, the Bucs have a count against their cap, like $20 million or whatever it is.

Speaker 93 So that's the stretching part.

Speaker 109 And then they waived him.

Speaker 42 I also don't know.

Speaker 27 Can you guys explain to me, Chris Haynes? That guy's weird.

Speaker 110 So

Speaker 78 he's maybe related.

Speaker 1 He's maybe married to someone who's related to Giannis.

Speaker 9 He's also like best friends with Dame.

Speaker 51 So the Bucs, he was the Bucs insider.

Speaker 9 But then there's the story that he said that Giannis was upset that Dame was stretched and waved. And then Shams had a story that Giannis essentially recruited Miles Turner.

Speaker 36 And Miles Turner wouldn't have been able to be recruited if it weren't for Dame getting stretched and waived.

Speaker 8 I don't really understand the situation.

Speaker 9 I think Giannis probably, I probably am going to agree with Shams here and say that Giannis wanted Miles Turner and was okay with the stretching and waving.

Speaker 42 But the whole thing, and he also got caught.

Speaker 51 He did, he tried to act really quick during free agency.

Speaker 8 I think it was maybe James Harden.

Speaker 86 He did,

Speaker 42 no, wait, who was it?

Speaker 28 Oh, yeah, I think it was James Harden.

Speaker 6 He did AI.

Speaker 71 No, no, it was someone who changed to the Clippers.

Speaker 57 He did AI

Speaker 8 for them in a New Jersey, and it spelled the name of the town wrong.

Speaker 53 It was Dallas.

Speaker 113 That's what it was.

Speaker 49 It was Dorian Finney Smith, and he said, or whoever went to Dallas, and it was like.

Speaker 52 D-A-L-L-I-E-S because it was AI.

Speaker 106 So he's a weirdo.

Speaker 22 Yeah, I think that Giannis just kind of had to tell him that I'm sad that Dame is leaving because he doesn't want to be like, I'm so pumped that he's not going to be on the team anymore.

Speaker 58 Yeah.

Speaker 22 You know, like, there's no harm in just him saying, like, I'm bummed out that he's gone. I think he's probably pumped to have Miles turn.

Speaker 22 I think he's probably very excited that the Bucs are going to try to remain competitive somehow. Should we talk about LeBron?

Speaker 51 Yeah, but one last thing about the Bucs, though, that does suck for the Pacers because this is the reality of having Hal Burton get injured where you can't just run back the team that was in game seven of the finals and the Bucs and Pacers hate each other so that was kind of a double whammy for for Pacers fans to have Miles Turner go to the Bucs um but yeah we should talk about LeBron I have a question for you yeah is LeBron scaring free agents away from Los Angeles

Speaker 39 They don't really have any moves because they've paid everyone a ton of they paid Luca LeBron and Bronnie I think like $90 million I heard someone add them all he added Bronnie I was like that's a great move.

Speaker 78 I

Speaker 51 think, and this is, okay, so we're not experts in the NBA.

Speaker 15 So I'm just going to throw this out there.

Speaker 27 I think LeBron thinks he still runs the league and he doesn't run the league anymore.

Speaker 95 I think that's what's happening right now.

Speaker 62 I think he did the whole old LeBron of like, I'm taking the money.

Speaker 39 And listen, no problem with him taking the money.

Speaker 39 He's LeBron James.

Speaker 71 He deserves the money.

Speaker 39 I'm not going to sit here and be like, take less money.

Speaker 61 I mean,

Speaker 21 if you want to maybe win a ring and have flexibility, you should take less money, but that's not, never, never look at another man's pockets.

Speaker 28 I think the statement where he was like, I'm going to be monitoring the situation, he was expecting every team to be like, oh, shit, LeBron, we could trade for LeBron.

Speaker 118 And everyone's like,

Speaker 108 why would we want to trade for a one-year retirement toward $53 million for a guy who is going to basically hijack our entire franchise?

Speaker 9 So I don't think he has the power that he used to have.

Speaker 22 I like to say that people are scared of the Lakers because of LeBron, just because it puts more blame directly on LeBron rather than saying like he's he's out of his depth right now.

Speaker 22 I think the reality is that the Lakers didn't really have a whole lot of options. They might try to go after Eaton.

Speaker 22 He's the other, he's the one like big that's still out there that could potentially sign with them. But he did when he when he signed his

Speaker 22 contract, he said, like, I'm doing this because I know it's a challenge, but I want the Lakers to remain competitive and build for the future as I'm also on the team.

Speaker 22 And when I saw that statement, I thought, like, I don't know what LeBron's trying to get out of this, but he surely must know that it's going to be impossible to build for the future and win now when he's taking that big contract and getting his maximum value.

Speaker 11 Correct? Correct.

Speaker 89 Well, that's true.

Speaker 22 He might just be dumb.

Speaker 51 Well, that could be the case.

Speaker 6 I think he also just setting it up being like, I made it clear I wanted you to build the contender.

Speaker 95 He's Tim Robinson.

Speaker 22 You know, we're all trying to find the guy who did this, who made it so we couldn't sign any players uh because they can't sign any players but he made it clear they wanted them to sign players so when they don't sign players he'd be like wasn't i clear i said i wanted you to sign i wanted you to make a championship team for me i just heard dave mcminimin say on espn that he expects the late the lakers might get involved with another team that signs a big

Speaker 22 thus making their starting center expendable and then move that person to the lakers so any center in the league right now that's currently on a team is on the table per Dave McMiniman.

Speaker 120 Yeah, Wendy had the report.

Speaker 24 He was like, Yeah, everyone was shocked by this.

Speaker 49 They were like, Yeah, we don't want to trade for LeBron.

Speaker 24 There's no takers right now.

Speaker 49 Because obviously, it instantly becomes the Cavs, and everyone talks about the Cavs.

Speaker 73 I feel like the Cavs have kind of moved on from that.

Speaker 11 Why would they?

Speaker 39 They had the one seed.

Speaker 44 I know they got injured and they got bounced in the second round, but why would you want to do that with LeBron again?

Speaker 121 I don't know.

Speaker 60 He doesn't have a million dollars,

Speaker 115 he doesn't have the pull that he wants to do.

Speaker 13 If it was 30, not 50, then it's a lot different. Yeah, right.
That's where he's just selfish.

Speaker 86 Right.

Speaker 24 All right, winners.

Speaker 39 I have the Nuggets as a winner.

Speaker 44 Feels like they finally got bench depth, got a real backup center.

Speaker 42 And that was a good Michael Porter Jr.

Speaker 49 trade where they got someone who's half the money and then able to actually get some depth.

Speaker 39 They got Bruce Brown back, which was nice.

Speaker 65 I also have the Rockets.

Speaker 122 The Rockets might be my pick.

Speaker 71 Like, I know that you don't win championships July 1st.

Speaker 6 The Rockets are going to be really good. I'm a big,

Speaker 31 I think the Rockets are going to be awesome.

Speaker 8 They basically have three centers now, and they added Kevin Durant.

Speaker 11 And I'm a Rockets believer.

Speaker 22 I love what Bruce Brown did, by the way, when he left in free agency.

Speaker 22 After telling the Nuggets, like, I'm not going to go anywhere in free agency during the parade, and then waking up the next day and be like, oh, yeah, I can make, what was it, like $30 million more?

Speaker 105 $40 or something.

Speaker 22 $40 somewhere else. Yeah.
You know what? I'm actually going to go, but I'm going to be thinking about the Nuggets the whole time. I'll come back as soon as these checks stop coming in.

Speaker 22 It's a great move. I really, I appreciate what Bruce Brown did.

Speaker 78 And he's going to be like really good again because he's going to play with Jokic.

Speaker 46 Like

Speaker 8 he basically took a sabbatical where he's like, I'm going to make the maximum amount of money.

Speaker 31 I'm probably not going to enjoy playing basketball the same way.

Speaker 44 And then I'll just come back and it will be awesome.

Speaker 65 Yeah.

Speaker 22 No, it was a good move. Why do you like the Rockets so much, KD?

Speaker 97 KD,

Speaker 25 their depth with like their center depth.

Speaker 3 They have three big, they got Clint Capella back, obviously Stephen Adams, Shingoon.

Speaker 8 Stephen Adams can just

Speaker 8 basically rest everyone all year.

Speaker 6 I think KD is going to be.

Speaker 3 I think KD's got a little fuck you going, Tor coming.

Speaker 46 I don't know.

Speaker 79 I think he's going to fuck you, Tor, coming.

Speaker 22 It does feel like a let-im-know season.

Speaker 119 Yeah.

Speaker 92 I'm just feeling it in my bones.

Speaker 77 I think he's got one more of those in him.

Speaker 27 And I think this might be the year.

Speaker 117 And I think the more I thought about it, I know we talked about his legacy and all that stuff.

Speaker 20 The Rockets is perfect for him, where it was a really good team last year, the two seed, and now he can be the old guy who brought the young kids along.

Speaker 26 I think this might be a KD legacy year.

Speaker 117 I think he might win it all and then be like, now this one counts.

Speaker 22 Is Chris Paul? He's a free agent, right?

Speaker 81 Yeah.

Speaker 22 So he's still out there.

Speaker 105 Played 82 games last year.

Speaker 22 82 games, as healthy as he's ever been. I do think that KD's got a lot left in the tank for sure.
But I really like what the Nuggets did. I think with the Nuggets, Cam Johnson, that's good.

Speaker 22 Michael Porter Jr., he's been a great player, but his back is just fucked up right now. You can't really count on him.
So I like Cam Johnson, whose brother's name is Puff.

Speaker 106 Did you know that?

Speaker 29 No, that's great.

Speaker 72 His name is Puff right now.

Speaker 22 Puff Johnson.

Speaker 82 Well, we don't know.

Speaker 70 True. It's out.

Speaker 74 We do know.

Speaker 22 Four out of five. We do know.

Speaker 22 Do you think there's any chance that on four out of five charges, they're like not guilty? But maybe on that one. Yeah.
Maybe on that one he is.

Speaker 119 Maybe.

Speaker 58 I also, the Hawks have done a great job.

Speaker 64 The Hawks are going to be good.

Speaker 31 They've got, I mean, it goes back to the draft with the pick that they got from the Pelicans.

Speaker 26 I feel like the Hawks are doing some things.

Speaker 71 It's all vibe check for me, too.

Speaker 79 I don't know, like the Celtic.

Speaker 28 Hank, you lost Luke Cornette.

Speaker 78 You've gutted.

Speaker 27 You did get out of prison, but you were in prison.

Speaker 13 Yeah, no, it's a sad, it's a sad state of affairs.

Speaker 115 Yeah, that's it.

Speaker 13 It's just the championship team is gone. Drew's gone.
Horford isn't gone yet, but he's gone. Porzenga's gone.

Speaker 123 You got Luca Garza, though.

Speaker 112 210 beast.

Speaker 13 How is that even news? I don't want to be mean, but like

Speaker 91 he doesn't play.

Speaker 64 But

Speaker 64 I think it's news because

Speaker 13 how is that news? It's like he's not.

Speaker 82 Did you hear all the reports?

Speaker 8 It was like, yeah, they inquired about Luca Garza the last two years.

Speaker 26 And like they were looking at, by the way, I I have breaking moves.

Speaker 105 Oh, no.

Speaker 13 I don't like this.

Speaker 98 Halftime injury update.

Speaker 5 Red Panda fell before getting started left court clutching her left wrist.

Speaker 124 Oh, no.

Speaker 49 Please be okay.

Speaker 22 Oh, my God.

Speaker 42 Not the Red Panda.

Speaker 13 Does she have an offseason, do you think?

Speaker 126 No, fuck no, dude.

Speaker 121 Come on.

Speaker 22 Halftime of what?

Speaker 85 Probably

Speaker 113 the Champions Cup, the Cup Classic, whatever the WNBA does.

Speaker 44 The World Cup of Clubs.

Speaker 57 Yeah, yeah. No, no, no.

Speaker 78 The Champions Cup for the WNBA.

Speaker 56 Oh, okay. Got it.
Yeah.

Speaker 13 They have one of those too.

Speaker 46 Yeah, yeah. Caitlin Carstop playing in it.

Speaker 22 The Commissioner's Cup.

Speaker 28 Commissioner's Cup.

Speaker 68 But I think it's, is it the Commissioner's Cup in the WNBA? Zach, can you look that up for us, please? It is.

Speaker 46 It is.

Speaker 71 It's still the Commissioner's Cup.

Speaker 20 Damn, they copy everything.

Speaker 105 They want to be us so bad.

Speaker 46 Wait, are the course different?

Speaker 47 He's giving us the thumbs up. He's giving us a thumbs up.

Speaker 68 What'd you say?

Speaker 58 Did they make the course different?

Speaker 42 I don't think so.

Speaker 73 It doesn't look different on the...

Speaker 129 No offense.

Speaker 42 Wait, would you say?

Speaker 13 Zach looks like a thumb on the video feed. Yeah, he doesn't have like a can't see his face.

Speaker 24 Yeah, he's not working with the best Wi-Fi.

Speaker 82 Zach, what's going on there, dude?

Speaker 114 My bad guys, if I look like a thumb, that's on me.

Speaker 114 If the the Wi-Fi's coming out, I tried to get as close to the router as I could, but

Speaker 114 I didn't want you guys to get any background noise, so I was trying to stay on a different side of the house.

Speaker 109 What's behind you?

Speaker 114 Like a little office.

Speaker 11 No, but what's on the wall?

Speaker 114 My mom makes these picture frames that are like...

Speaker 22 So it's beechwood.

Speaker 114 and a picture frame and then they're like put together.

Speaker 45 I'd like one of those.

Speaker 11 I can get you one of those if if you'd like to admit yeah i would like one of those for the for the studio a couple i like that

Speaker 114 what's that we got another one over there oh nice little rascal flats action on the wall there okay

Speaker 114 that's a rascal flats melt great i like that you're you're using a laptop right in front of another bigger tv or a bigger computer that's right behind you yeah uh this that's stationary we already had the one lighting issue i want to make sure we are mobile for you guys you need you need you need the frames for for for rivals yeah

Speaker 114 Also, yes, I need all the frames I can get.

Speaker 77 All right, I have a couple other NBA notes I wanted to throw at you guys.

Speaker 111 I'm going to throw a potential trade at you.

Speaker 31 I want to tell you, you guys say yes or no.

Speaker 3 If I offered you, you have the one pick in the draft.

Speaker 105 If I offered you the fourth, fifth, and 10th pick, would you trade?

Speaker 22 For the first overall pick?

Speaker 64 Yeah, fourth, fifth, and tenth.

Speaker 11 It's pretty good.

Speaker 22 Deep draft, next year.

Speaker 39 Deep draft.

Speaker 22 I have no idea if it is or not. I'm just saying that.

Speaker 106 Yes. Yes.

Speaker 97 Okay, great.

Speaker 80 All right.

Speaker 77 So the Bulls should have Anthony Edwards on their team.

Speaker 11 That's perfect. Okay.
All right.

Speaker 44 Because the Bulls have officially completed the trade.

Speaker 109 They have the, from the 2020 draft, they now have the fourth, fifth, fifth, and tenth pick in terms of players from that draft because they have Patrick Williams, they drafted fourth.

Speaker 49 They got Okoro from the Cavs who was drafted fifth, and they have Jalen Smith who was drafted 10th.

Speaker 122 Kind of stacking the 2020 draft, boys.

Speaker 22 That's pretty good, yeah.

Speaker 2 The Bulls are incapable of trading for picks.

Speaker 5 They don't actually know how to do it.

Speaker 83 They traded all their player, good players, Zach Levine, DeMar DeRosan, Alex Caruso, Lonzo Ball.

Speaker 120 The only pick they got back was their own pick.

Speaker 70 That's it.

Speaker 22 And that was just out of spite just to get their own pick back. Yeah.

Speaker 55 They don't know.

Speaker 119 They actually, I don't think that they have their defense.

Speaker 78 They haven't read that they can do that.

Speaker 22 In their defense, it's a lot harder to trade for nobody.

Speaker 15 To be like, hey, we're going to get nobody back.

Speaker 50 But it's a good strategy when it's good pick, when you get picks.

Speaker 22 It is the correct strategy.

Speaker 22 It is the correct strategy to do for sure. But if you're a very, if you're a stupid person, it's hard to conceptualize a player that doesn't exist yet.

Speaker 78 Yeah, but I do appreciate that they

Speaker 105 listen, they're going to be bad again, and they're run by incompetent losers and owned by incompetent stooges.

Speaker 94 But if you can stack multiple picks from one draft class, I always will kind of buy in because I'll be like, dude, we had

Speaker 95 three of the top 10 picks one year.

Speaker 10 Like, that's got to be good.

Speaker 22 They probably played McDonald's All-American games together, went to the same camps, familiar with each other. Yeah.

Speaker 65 It's got to be good. All right.

Speaker 29 I like what the Bucs are doing outside of Miles Turner because they now have 66% of the Garys in the NBA.

Speaker 121 Okay.

Speaker 29 Kind of like that.

Speaker 8 I really do think that if they, if Giannis wants a trade or the Bucs season goes sideways, they have to do everything possible to try to get Gary Payton the second on the team.

Speaker 49 And imagine if the Bucs could basically sell tickets being like, we have 100% of the Garys in the NBA.

Speaker 22 Yeah, so there are, I'm guessing, three Gary's.

Speaker 71 There's three Garys.

Speaker 64 There's three Garys.

Speaker 78 They already had one and they added another, which is significant in Gary news.

Speaker 40 Like

Speaker 6 if you add the second,

Speaker 77 it's basically playing monopoly.

Speaker 42 They have two-thirds of an entire property now.

Speaker 28 They just got to get the last Gary, and they can charge everyone a ton of rent.

Speaker 22 You want to hear something crazy? Yeah. The Lakers have 100% of the LeBrons in the NBA right now.

Speaker 61 That's true.

Speaker 115 That's true.

Speaker 22 Corner of the market.

Speaker 44 They don't have 100% of the Lucas.

Speaker 31 The Celtics have half of that share.

Speaker 22 What if the Lakers could get a really good player in a trade, but they had to give up?

Speaker 22 Like, obviously, you had to trade probably Dalton Connect, and then the other team was like, we need Bronny, or it's a no-go.

Speaker 50 yeah I think they would

Speaker 22 they'd have to do it right would you trade your own son away you'd have to trade him you'd have to trade him and you

Speaker 9 knowing LeBron he'd probably make it like a viral moment where he goes up to him in the middle of a game and does the well he probably didn't get to that part in Godfather 2 yet but he someone would tell him hey you got to go kiss him like he's Fredo and let him send him on his way what the Lakers should do to see if LeBron is actually committed they should tell him, We have to trade your son because we're getting this great player.

Speaker 22 And then, once LeBron agrees to it, then they say that was a test. You get to keep your child.
Very King Solomon, King Solomon, King Solomon, yeah, King Solomon, yeah.

Speaker 22 See if he's willing to sacrifice his own child for the betterment of the team.

Speaker 5 See if he's the true king, yeah.

Speaker 22 And if he, and if he won't do it, then you know he's not the true king to begin with.

Speaker 46 Yeah, then you rebuild.

Speaker 115 Yep, I like that.

Speaker 9 Make it a whole decision, make it like a deal or no deal.

Speaker 44 Put Bronnie in a suitcase.

Speaker 99 Yeah.

Speaker 17 Just strove out.

Speaker 86 All right.

Speaker 115 And then the last thing, Duncan Robinson, our friend, recurring guest, made a ton of money going to the Pistons.

Speaker 27 I like that.

Speaker 6 Also crazy because

Speaker 65 I didn't know, but he is the leader in Heat franchise history for three-pointers made and by like a large margin, which is something that kind of shocked me a little, but also makes sense with how the NBA has gone with the three partners.

Speaker 3 But I, did you guys know that offhand?

Speaker 22 Not offhand. If you had asked me, I probably would have guessed

Speaker 13 James Jones, Mike Miller.

Speaker 22 I'll tell you this.

Speaker 128 You can't guess number two.

Speaker 24 You can't guess number two, which is just as shocking because obviously I've revealed that Duncan Robinson is one.

Speaker 22 Tyler Hero? Yeah.

Speaker 46 Alonzo Morrison. I didn't guess it.
Tyler Hero.

Speaker 11 Number two. Yeah.

Speaker 46 It's crazy.

Speaker 22 Eudonis Haslam, just out of sheer longevity.

Speaker 26 Eudonis has him not

Speaker 109 on the list.

Speaker 39 Yeah, Dwayne Wade all the way down at number nine, but shout out Duncan Robinson.

Speaker 64 He has

Speaker 9 200 more threes than the second most threes in heat history.

Speaker 22 Record's about to be Dames.

Speaker 77 Yeah, it might be Dames.

Speaker 105 Well, no, because Dame, no chance Dame plays enough games.

Speaker 24 He'd have to make like

Speaker 20 maybe if he made 600 threes for two years.

Speaker 22 What if he's just so happy to finally be in Miami? It's like, what if Dame was right that he just needed Florida to unlock his best potential? He goes down there, just buries threes all day.

Speaker 98 That'd be good. That could have happened.

Speaker 28 Hey, Max, did the Sixers do anything?

Speaker 10 No, they lost Yabu and then signed Tyrese Maxie's friend.

Speaker 107 Oh, okay.

Speaker 11 Well, that's cool.

Speaker 37 Where'd Yabu go? I forgot to

Speaker 97 the Knicks.

Speaker 99 Huh?

Speaker 61 Oh.

Speaker 93 Oh, you mean John Staley's Knicks?

Speaker 139 Yep.

Speaker 81 Memes?

Speaker 114 She's a good coach.

Speaker 97 She is a good coach.

Speaker 140 Good coach. She is a good coach.

Speaker 119 Philly.

Speaker 10 Trendon Watford was the guy who we signed, by the way. I forgot his name.

Speaker 87 Do you like what the Knicks did, memes, outside of maybe hiring Don Staley?

Speaker 114 Yeah, the Knicks are broke, so they got Jordan Clarkson and Yabu on vet minimums.

Speaker 11 Okay.

Speaker 106 Yabu's a nice player, though.

Speaker 114 Yeah, Yabu's good. Jordan Clarkson, there was a clip of Mike Breen roasting him during the game, but I'm sure it'll be fine.

Speaker 82 So

Speaker 22 you're going to get Mike Brown as your coach, right?

Speaker 114 Yeah, Mike Brown's going to be the guy.

Speaker 52 Is he officially?

Speaker 114 He's the only guy coming back for a second interview.

Speaker 61 Oh, okay.

Speaker 115 Yeah.

Speaker 109 I guess Rick Brunson, too, is still in the running, right?

Speaker 13 Yeah, and Dawn.

Speaker 47 And Dawn.

Speaker 141 And Don.

Speaker 111 All right, should we talk a little NFL?

Speaker 8 We had a trade. The Steelers got, they traded Minka Fitzpatrick to the Dolphins for Jalen Ramsey.

Speaker 32 They also got John Hu Smith, which I think was a separate trade, correct?

Speaker 22 Yeah, I think it was.

Speaker 98 The reporting on all of this was a little weird because I don't know how you guys experienced this trade.

Speaker 15 I experienced it through our good friend Jersey Jerry, who will be on Dingers Only with us.

Speaker 54 He texted me Super Bowl on

Speaker 24 and was like, I can't believe this trade.

Speaker 8 And then the reporting came out that, so I think Jerry thought they just got Jalen Ramsey.

Speaker 22 Yeah, because the way it came out, it was just, well, it wasn't even that, big cat.

Speaker 22 The way I found out about it was through adam shafter i have notifications on because i need to know what's going on um so i saw his post about a trade it said jalen ramsey has been traded from the miami dolphins to and then it was the dot dot dot it cut off right there i think that sheter knows exactly how many characters to use to make people actually click through and and look at his tweet instead of just looking at the notification.

Speaker 22 I think that he's that good.

Speaker 22 So I saw that. I clicked on that.
And then they didn't say what they gave up for it. They didn't say anything about the details of the trade.

Speaker 22 It just looked like the Steelers were getting Patrick or Jalen Ramsey. And then it did come out.
Yeah, it was actually John Roose Smith. I believe it was in the same trade.
Okay. It was.

Speaker 22 It makes sense. It was.
Steelers got Ramsey, John Roose,

Speaker 142 and

Speaker 22 they swapped a 2027 seventh rounder for a 2027 fifth rounder. So they ended up with a fifth round pick in uh

Speaker 22 in pittsburgh and miami ended up with a seventh round pick got it because

Speaker 9 uh if you believe some of the things coming out of the steelers at the end of last year there were there was belief that possibly mink fitzpatrick was the guy who remember there was that there was a weird press conference it was either i think it was cam hayward i think tj watts said something as well where they're like it's hard when 10 guys are doing one thing and one guy's doing another another.

Speaker 3 And that some people thought might have been Mika Fitzpatrick.

Speaker 49 So maybe that, maybe that's an addition right there, just getting him back to the Dolphins.

Speaker 74 I don't know.

Speaker 22 I thought it was TJ saying that he's the one guy doing the right thing and 10 other guys are all collectively doing the wrong thing.

Speaker 22 But yeah, Mika is a fine safety, but he does freelance from time to time. Ramsey is still a really, really good cornerback.
They have Ramsey and Joey Porter Jr.

Speaker 22 So I think it's all in all, it's good for the the Steelers. It feels like this is the Steelers' all-in season, right?

Speaker 64 Jonu Smith is also like that, he was a really good, he's been a really good tight end

Speaker 105 the last couple of years.

Speaker 73 So that part for their offense, I feel like is significant.

Speaker 22 Is he Pittsburgh, though?

Speaker 123 I don't know if you just have to worry about that.

Speaker 22 I don't know if he's a Pittsburgh tight end.

Speaker 24 You got to always worry about that.

Speaker 22 They got Pat Fryermuth, Pittsburgh tight end. He's a guy that you could easily mistake for Heath Miller.

Speaker 22 And then you got big-ass Washington.

Speaker 22 I'm mostly concerned that Darnell Washington isn't going to be playing as much because whenever he steps on the field, you just look at him and be like, holy shit, who the fuck is that guy?

Speaker 22 How is he not the best player in the NFL?

Speaker 98 Yeah, I mean, you like

Speaker 42 Darnell Washington and DK Metcalf lining up on the same side will be like what Bain did to Heinz Field.

Speaker 46 Like,

Speaker 49 it would just completely tilt.

Speaker 24 But yeah, I don't know if Darnell Washington can catch the ball.

Speaker 31 That's the only problem.

Speaker 26 But I do like when he gets on the field.

Speaker 73 I like the John Hu Smith.

Speaker 50 He was good last year.

Speaker 90 He was good.

Speaker 9 He started to come on.

Speaker 1 Was it the end of two years ago?

Speaker 7 And then last year, he was very good, I feel like.

Speaker 49 He was really good.

Speaker 8 And then two years ago, I think he started to pop a little as well.

Speaker 22 He had a big season. And then the Dolphins replaced him by getting Darren Waller from the New York Giants.
Darren Waller was retired.

Speaker 22 And so I think they swapped like a sixth and a seventh round pick with the Giants to get a retired guy that was still on their payroll to come down to Miami and play.

Speaker 112 Yeah, just don't make him fullback.

Speaker 31 That's the only thing because that clip came out that he basically retired when the Giants made him be fullback in Buffalo for like three consecutive plays. He's like, what the fuck am I doing here?

Speaker 49 The big story, though, is PFT, we're officially in football month.

Speaker 42 There is a football game being played this month.

Speaker 57 I know it's preseason, but that's really, it just starts to get the, I was, I was walking, I went on a hike with, with my kids today, and I'll, I'll, I'm not ashamed to admit that I started daydreaming about like the first NFL Sunday, and I was like, this is going to be awesome.

Speaker 65 I'm so excited.

Speaker 22 We're pretty much here.

Speaker 22 We're pretty much here. Like July is, it's great at the start.
We got, you know, the 4th of July. That whole week feels like just a vacation for America.
And then, you know, it's hot outside.

Speaker 22 Still going to be, we're going to be tan from how tan we are right now. We're still going to have that same pantone on our skin once football season kicks off.
Once we get actual live football played.

Speaker 22 Yeah, it's the Hall of Fame game, but we're going to see all the guys. They're going to be wearing the jerseys.
We're going to see the coaches. It's going to be great.
And we're pretty much there.

Speaker 22 So congratulations.

Speaker 86 It's going to be great.

Speaker 8 Should we do Hot T Cool Throne?

Speaker 9 And then we can get to all of our interviews and dingers only.

Speaker 7 Yep.

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Speaker 70 Okay,

Speaker 101 hot seat cool tone.

Speaker 146 Hank.

Speaker 13 My hot seat is Malik Beasley.

Speaker 46 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 13 He is under investigation for

Speaker 13 basically

Speaker 124 what would you call it

Speaker 13 gambling on games gambling on games it's not insider trading but like

Speaker 13 what was the what was the hard part of that it's not insider trading it's it's called gambling on games gambling on games

Speaker 13 gambling on games player props uh

Speaker 13 the videos that came out after the investigation came out were were very bad to say the least i don't know if it's one of those things where if you you could do this for any player i feel like it's it's not, obviously, but the videos that came out were absurdly obvious that he was probably gambling on games.

Speaker 22 There was one where he took the ball the full length of the court with like three and a half, four seconds left to cover the spread, and he was the only one out there trying.

Speaker 22 And you could see like the relief in his face when he got to the other end. There was the other one where,

Speaker 22 so he had also tweeted at Anthony Edwards to hit, what was it, like six threes tonight in a game.

Speaker 22 There was that one, and then there was another one where he was playing defense where his controller just unplugged. Yep.
And yeah, blew by. I think it was Halliburton blew by him.

Speaker 22 And he didn't move a single one of his feet. Both feet remained firmly planted in the ground.

Speaker 22 I don't think you could do that with every player in the NBA.

Speaker 27 And not only that, but I'm sure you guys saw there was like, you know,

Speaker 27 the gambling circles, like, people know, and shit gets out there.

Speaker 26 And there were tweets from like January where it's like if you're investigating Terry Rozier like investigate Malik Beasley he's the one and a lot of that stuff where he is still innocent but there's a lot of stuff

Speaker 13 proven innocent yes

Speaker 13 we should say that so it's like it's this might not be you know it might not be guilty and the same thing happened with Terry Rozier the allegations came out there was videos and it was like he was clearly gambling so this could all not be true but

Speaker 22 would you rather let him have his day in court yeah same would you rather be accused of betting on your own personal unders when you didn't actually bet on your own personal unders

Speaker 22 and then being validated? And they're like, it turns out you just suck.

Speaker 22 Or would you rather get investigated and you did bet on them and you made a ton of money betting on them and they found out that you were gambling?

Speaker 74 Yeah.

Speaker 13 I mean, this is something you can make that much. When you look at free agency,

Speaker 13 the greatest, like the greatest lottery ticket you can have.

Speaker 60 Obviously, you have to be an NBA player, but it's like they get paid so much money there's no way you can make enough money gambling that it is worth doing that it is kind of a compliment to be like you're good enough that you can control the outcome of these things you know yeah if you told me your own overs yeah if you told me like hey we're gonna play five-on-five basketball at the barstool chicago uh like office and we're gonna we're gonna put lines out there and i had and like

Speaker 42 I wouldn't be good enough to be able to affect the game, you know?

Speaker 46 Yeah,

Speaker 22 the total point spread.

Speaker 70 I agree.

Speaker 15 I could not make a shot. I could bet.
Yeah, you could bet your unders and just not make a shot.

Speaker 109 But other than that, like, you can't, it's basically a compliment.

Speaker 7 Malik Beasley, you're an impactful player if you were proven guilty.

Speaker 22 On the other hand, I feel bad for NBA players.

Speaker 22 Sure, they make all this money in free agency, get any woman they want, but at the end of the day, they don't get to sit on their couch and hit a four-leg parlay on an NBA game like I do.

Speaker 46 Facts.

Speaker 22 And they'll never have that joy. That makes me sad.
Facts.

Speaker 49 Yeah, he's not going to get signed now.

Speaker 20 That kind of sucks that he was a free agent.

Speaker 13 Yeah, crazy story.

Speaker 51 How pissed do you think hockey players are right now?

Speaker 22 You got to move your free agent

Speaker 46 if you're hockey.

Speaker 22 You can't go head-to-head.

Speaker 27 What was Luke Cornett's deal?

Speaker 78 Did he's a fine player, but what was his deal?

Speaker 22 I don't know. I think he got 40.

Speaker 111 He got 40 million guaranteed.

Speaker 148 Yeah, four for 40, I think.

Speaker 7 So he's getting getting paid Connor McDavid in the money.

Speaker 45 Yeah.

Speaker 13 Yeah, I mean, Sam Bennett's Sam Bennett's contract, it was like, this guy was the most important player on the team. He was eight years, $8 million.

Speaker 65 Oh, man.

Speaker 42 Yeah, by the way, the Panthers are just going to be good again.

Speaker 150 They got everyone.

Speaker 26 Biz might be right about the state income tax.

Speaker 13 I also love, I'm assuming NBA players are the same way, but like, and this is more like we were just with the Chicklitz guys last week, but, and, like, I love hearing them talk just strictly money when they talk about other players.

Speaker 13 Like, oh, how much that guy get? Like, how much he make? Like, they just talk strictly in how much they made in their career.

Speaker 13 Also, like, when it's all public, it's very funny.

Speaker 108 Whitney told us a hilarious story about how when he was like two years out from retiring and he talked to his financial advisor, and his financial advisor was like, All right, so like when you retire, like, you'll get a job.

Speaker 108 And he was like, What do you mean?

Speaker 47 He's like, I wasn't planning on that,

Speaker 40 which is very funny.

Speaker 22 Uh, the Knights got better too.

Speaker 110 Yeah, they did, but the panthers brought everyone back didn't they yeah

Speaker 44 it's crazy team dinners man talk about team dinners i'm gonna talk about the zach talk about the panthers for 20 seconds while i turn on the light in this room because i realize that it's just pitch black in here

Speaker 114 yeah the sun's going down so so i did say the panthers did bring all the boys back

Speaker 114 they're they're they repeated that the whole whole game come back do you guys think they're going to be this dominant again it's going to be that much fun to watch or what do we think you like that good question great question

Speaker 13 Zach, they all go to team dinner every night.

Speaker 13 You can't get in the way of that. I think, unless this aid into criteria for their wins, they're just like, we all went to team dinners together.

Speaker 22 Unless this aid into their Dairy Queen budget, I think that we're looking at another championship for the Florida Panthers. Hey, congratulations.
It's July 1st.

Speaker 22 Congratulations to the Florida Panthers on winning the 2026 Lord Stanley's Cup.

Speaker 71 Hank, I think team dinners can be attributed.

Speaker 140 We dinner together a bunch.

Speaker 45 I know.

Speaker 13 I didn't realize it until all the post-game interviews. I was like, yeah, this team, team dinners.

Speaker 20 It's going to force some team that absolutely hates each other to try to do this, and it's going to be so awkward.

Speaker 64 Because

Speaker 2 team dinners work in theory if you like everyone.

Speaker 25 But

Speaker 39 if you have a team that doesn't like each other, it's going to tear them apart.

Speaker 46 All right. Your cool throne?

Speaker 13 My cool throne is WNBA pettiness.

Speaker 153 Yeah.

Speaker 13 Caitlin Clark was voted number one

Speaker 13 all-star team by the fans, number nine by our fellow players.

Speaker 133 I have some takes.

Speaker 35 50, do you have a take?

Speaker 22 On the Caitlin Clark situation?

Speaker 101 Yeah, I have a take.

Speaker 22 I think that it is

Speaker 22 good for the league.

Speaker 97 Okay.

Speaker 22 Because we're talking about the league right now.

Speaker 63 Okay, I agree.

Speaker 42 I'm going to piggyback on your take.

Speaker 29 Tag me in.

Speaker 98 First, this is about this year.

Speaker 65 Caitlin Clark has missed almost half the games. So,

Speaker 57 I mean,

Speaker 5 I know that she's incredible, and I think she's one of the best players. And she's also like the WNBA just expanded.

Speaker 72 They're bringing back Detroit, Cleveland, and then what's the other one?

Speaker 95 Nashville.

Speaker 71 Nashville got a franchise.

Speaker 71 The Caitlin Clark defenders are such losers now.

Speaker 153 Like,

Speaker 153 what do we care?

Speaker 44 She's the most popular player.

Speaker 70 What should her, like, rivals do?

Speaker 120 Should they just be like, oh, we love love you, Caitlin.

Speaker 71 Thank you so much.

Speaker 3 We want to kiss your feet

Speaker 109 and hope you just, of course, they don't like her.

Speaker 65 She's better than them.

Speaker 110 And she's more popular.

Speaker 74 Like, of course, they're petty about it.

Speaker 68 I think that's good for sports.

Speaker 13 They're trying to hurt her, though.

Speaker 72 The hurting part, I agree.

Speaker 67 That's too far.

Speaker 90 But like, this is like to be like, this is bullshit.

Speaker 42 I can't believe they don't like her.

Speaker 55 I can believe they don't like her.

Speaker 1 She gets all the attention. They're jealous.

Speaker 68 Who cares? That's good for sports.

Speaker 42 Caitlin Clark will have a longer career, better career, make more money.

Speaker 112 She's going to win in the long run.

Speaker 120 It doesn't have to be like a World War III every single time there's a slight on Caitlin Clark.

Speaker 90 It just, it loses all of the

Speaker 39 like oomph for me when you're just, when the Caitlin Clark defenders are crying about her constantly.

Speaker 22 When have we ever cared about the breakdown of all-star vote percentages in the WNBA? Right.

Speaker 22 Has that ever happened? We do care now. Right.
So, yeah, is she worthy of a higher percentage? Probably, yeah, but she also has been hurt.

Speaker 22 And it's also good that the league hates her this much because it pisses everyone off and it gets more people talking about the WNBA.

Speaker 22 And then she's going to go out there with a chip on her shoulder, and she's going to be great, shove it in their faces, and prove to them that she's better.

Speaker 22 And that's going to be great for the league, too.

Speaker 42 Not only that, but what is like one of the

Speaker 5 number one complaints we see online about sports, specifically the NBA, specifically basketball, is, well, all these guys don't hate each other like they used to.

Speaker 90 They used to hate each other.

Speaker 51 They used to like the Pistons and Bulls hate each other. The Pistons and Celtics hate each other.

Speaker 42 MJ hated Isaiah, all this stuff.

Speaker 36 Like hate was what fueled the league.

Speaker 3 And now you have that back in the WNBA and you're going to complain about it?

Speaker 36 Like, who cares?

Speaker 90 Her peers don't like her because she is more popular than them.

Speaker 11 That's just a fact.

Speaker 71 And she can just be better and win championships and shove it in their face.

Speaker 32 Like, I just don't, I would not be offended if I was a, if I was a Caitlin Clark fan, I would not be going to my pitchforks because she was voted ninth in a season when she's played half the games.

Speaker 22 Okay, counterpoint, though, isn't it also a sign of the growing league that we have this many Caitlin Clark fans that get this pissed off because of received slights, right?

Speaker 22 This is like the Caitlin Clark defenders that have to show up and stick up for their person. I think it's all good.

Speaker 22 I think what we're going to see, though, is we're going to see like Caitlin Clark is going to go in a a little tear. She's going to be great.
The Fever are eventually going to win a championship.

Speaker 22 She's going to get some players from teams that maybe used to hate her.

Speaker 13 Can start. Can Clay Clark win the big one, though?

Speaker 22 That's a good question.

Speaker 1 So when she gets

Speaker 77 clotheslined going through the lane, that's when I'm like, yeah, Caitlin Clark defenders.

Speaker 5 That's when you need to rally the troops and go after her.

Speaker 70 On a fucking vote?

Speaker 111 Like, Tyrese Halliburton was voted most overrated, and then he went to the finals.

Speaker 7 Who cares?

Speaker 82 You know?

Speaker 22 I need to see the athletic poll of the WNBA for most overrated player in the league.

Speaker 22 What do you think the result would be?

Speaker 22 I don't know, but I just there are 90%, 95% Caitlin Clark.

Speaker 42 There are definitely pitchfork moments for Caitlin Clark that are like, yeah, you have to defend her.

Speaker 54 A vote that essentially, it basically should have just been a poll to every WNBA player, do you like Caitlin Clark?

Speaker 102 Yes or no?

Speaker 42 And they would have voted no because they don't because she gets all the attention and she's good for the league and she outshines everyone, even if she's only playing half the games.

Speaker 22 The injury aspect is actually a valid point. That's a good point

Speaker 22 if you're going to go just by a sports breakdown of it.

Speaker 22 But yeah,

Speaker 22 the difference between the fan vote and the player vote was crazy. It was crazy to see.
But again,

Speaker 22 let's not burn out all of our

Speaker 22 emotion

Speaker 22 on defending Caitlin Clark right now.

Speaker 22 There's going to be playoffs. Listen, you've got to rest up for the playoffs.

Speaker 74 Okay.

Speaker 28 She also, if she was not in the all-star game, I'd be like, pitchforks do it.

Speaker 1 She's the captain of the all-star team.

Speaker 119 This was totally irrelevant.

Speaker 78 It was a completely irrelevant vote that just doesn't matter.

Speaker 22 Right. I don't even get mad at the hard fouls because I also like Sophie Cunningham coming to her defense and like knocking people out.
That's also good for the league.

Speaker 115 Yeah, agree.

Speaker 98 Well, that is. Yeah.

Speaker 133 Did you see Sophie Cunningham take a shot at Detroit?

Speaker 153 That was a little weird.

Speaker 22 What'd you say?

Speaker 5 She was just like, players don't want, like, why didn't you make up Miami?

Speaker 108 Players don't want to play in Detroit.

Speaker 113 It was like, okay, I don't know.

Speaker 11 Detroit, like, Detroit's kind of, Detroit's kind of back in terms of sports.

Speaker 22 And now we're going to be hostile mode. That's going to be on a quote card right before they play against Detroit a playoff series at some point.

Speaker 97 Yeah.

Speaker 10 Also, the other team was Philly, and those teams aren't coming until 2030.

Speaker 134 Okay.

Speaker 44 So, yeah. Oh, Philly's the other team, not Nashville.

Speaker 97 Yeah, she said Nashville.

Speaker 60 She's like, why didn't you pull in Nashville?

Speaker 93 Why didn't you?

Speaker 15 She's basically like, why don't you put them in party cities?

Speaker 74 I don't know.

Speaker 28 Detroit love their sports.

Speaker 22 Do you, how, how successful do you think a WNBA franchise would be in Miami? Probably not that successful.

Speaker 22 They can barely get out of bed to watch their Stanley Cup champion Panthers.

Speaker 72 Yeah.

Speaker 73 I'm pretty sure Detroit won like three WNBA championships, right?

Speaker 71 Can you fact-check that?

Speaker 46 Like three or four?

Speaker 65 Weren't they a dynasty?

Speaker 46 Wasn't Bill Lambert the coach?

Speaker 71 Am I making all of this up?

Speaker 75 I think Bill Lambert was.

Speaker 13 Lisa Leslie.

Speaker 46 Yeah.

Speaker 86 No.

Speaker 13 But Bill Lambert, I remember the NBA when they would do the all-star game and it would be like the WNBA player

Speaker 13 with the NBA team.

Speaker 46 So there's history there.

Speaker 50 There's big history there. Detroit's back.
Scoobel.

Speaker 105 Did you guys watch Scoobel on Sunday night?

Speaker 22 Yeah, it was the lights out.

Speaker 113 What a fucking hoss.

Speaker 13 Detroit's shocked.

Speaker 13 What a

Speaker 13 three-time WNBA champions.

Speaker 118 There you go. I know my WNBA history.

Speaker 22 203, 206, 208.

Speaker 108 No one's ever said it like that.

Speaker 22 206, 203?

Speaker 89 Why did you say that like that?

Speaker 87 All right, PFT, what's your hot seat cool throwing?

Speaker 22 My hot seat is Shador Sanders.

Speaker 73 Yes.

Speaker 146 So

Speaker 22 the quarterback room in Cleveland right now is Joe Flacco. Can you pick it? Dylan Gabriel Shador.

Speaker 22 And everyone's kind of looking for Joe Flacco to take on some sort of mentorship position, some sort of leadership role for the young guys.

Speaker 22 I think Joe Flacco is more concerned about just winning a starting job and keeping his career going.

Speaker 22 But lucky for Shadur Sanders, he found a mentor in Cleveland that's taking him, quote, under his wing. Do you know who that person is?

Speaker 108 I do.

Speaker 22 It is Deshaun Watson. Deshaun Watson has stepped up.
to show the young guy the ropes. That's a bad phrase.
I should not have used that phrase.

Speaker 22 He's taken him under his wing to kind of, you know, introduce him to the NFL and what it's like to be a pro, show him the meaning of being a true professional. So shout out to Shador.

Speaker 22 Got a good mentor there.

Speaker 44 Good luck.

Speaker 65 Good luck.

Speaker 22 I don't know if this is like a contractual obligation where they're like, hey, Deshaun, I know you're not really playing right now, but if you could kind of hang out with the young guys.

Speaker 22 and lead by example.

Speaker 8 You think this is maybe a situation like who saved who?

Speaker 57 Like an old person getting a pet?

Speaker 22 Yeah, it could be.

Speaker 40 Who saved who here?

Speaker 22 It could be. Like that type of responsibility might be good for Deshaun.

Speaker 105 Yeah.

Speaker 22 If Shador is literally under his wing all the time, then he's not going to be getting jacked off in massage parlors because the beds aren't wide enough. So that's good.

Speaker 60 Well,

Speaker 13 Shador.

Speaker 22 But the bed's not wide enough for two at Deshaun. Shador.

Speaker 29 Could go skiing.

Speaker 22 He could. Yeah.
Shador could be.

Speaker 22 Shador could be the lucky Pierre in between Deshaun Watson and Joe Flacco just going to town.

Speaker 51 Joe, I'll tell you this.

Speaker 31 I've shaken Joe Flacco's hand.

Speaker 65 I would not want a handjob from him. No.

Speaker 105 This guy's got fucking monster hands.

Speaker 22 No,

Speaker 22 he's meant to beat off in cold weather.

Speaker 22 That's why the Steelers and the Ravens wanted him out of college.

Speaker 72 If Joe Flacco gives you a hand job, you'd just be like, whoops, I broke it.

Speaker 113 Yeah.

Speaker 22 This guy's got hands that could jack off a Clevelander.

Speaker 49 We got to tell Joe that we had this conversation when we uh see him, maybe in Tahoe.

Speaker 22 I mean, shake his hand, shake his hand. Tell me, tell me if if that could make you come.
The answer is

Speaker 6 I'll rush more of people you would least like to get your hand job from.

Speaker 71 He's Andre the Giant, Greg Abbott,

Speaker 42 uh, no, not Greg Abbott, Jason Pierre, Paul.

Speaker 85 Who's Greg Abbott?

Speaker 41 The pitcher.

Speaker 3 No, that's the politician, isn't it?

Speaker 55 Oh, Jim Abbott, Jim Abbott, yeah,

Speaker 156 Also, Greg Abbott.

Speaker 47 Greg Abbott as well.

Speaker 22 Well, he's probably got some strong arms.

Speaker 36 Yeah. The guy, that Indian dude with

Speaker 119 the

Speaker 71 100-year fingernails.

Speaker 35 Yep.

Speaker 46 Yeah, the ones that curl around.

Speaker 133 That would suck.

Speaker 105 That would really suck.

Speaker 41 All right, your cool throw.

Speaker 22 My cool throw is the U.S. men's national team, the lads.
Boys, we're in the semifinals now of the CONCACAF Gold Cup. Hank is locked in.
I know you watched that PK shootout against Costa Rica.

Speaker 22 The good news is we got a goalie now. His name is Freeze.
He's the ice wall.

Speaker 13 That plays.

Speaker 22 Yeah, the goalie's name is Freeze, and he was awesome in PKs. He was a beast.

Speaker 22 What I didn't realize, though, is once we got rid of Greg, because we were a Greg Out podcast. We got Greg fired.

Speaker 22 There's another Burr halter. His son is on the team, but his son is on the team because I think he just made the team, not through nepotism.

Speaker 46 Oh, shit.

Speaker 22 But he also missed a penalty kick. He Baggio had a penalty kick top left and skied it.
So I don't know. Maybe we might be all burr halters out now.

Speaker 72 Was Greg there?

Speaker 22 Greg was in the stands, like upper deck. They had him sitting in the 400 row, and he was watching his son take the penalty kick, and they got the whole reaction.

Speaker 22 Tough, tough moment for a dad and a family to watch at the same time. But

Speaker 42 listen, I think Greg Berhalter,

Speaker 22 way better human being than a soccer coach.

Speaker 46 Yeah.

Speaker 60 Totally agree.

Speaker 22 So he was in the stance for that. So that means that we beat Costa Rica.
We're playing Guatemala in the semifinals tonight. Tonight, Hank.

Speaker 104 Locked in the house. Who are the other two teams?

Speaker 22 Who are the other two teams? Mexico and some team that's going to lose to Mexico. So we're going to, what's going to happen, is this your first COCACAF Gold Cup, Hank?

Speaker 22 What's going to happen is

Speaker 13 not willingly.

Speaker 71 You're not consenting to this?

Speaker 46 No, no, no.

Speaker 60 Yeah.

Speaker 22 Let me break it down for you, Hank. Here's how the CONCACAF Gold Cup works.

Speaker 11 All right.

Speaker 22 The U.S. is going to play against Mexico in the finals.
We're going to beat Mexico in the finals, and we're all going to be like, U.S. soccer's back.
We're good.

Speaker 22 And then we're going to blow it again in the next tournament that we play.

Speaker 45 We're automatically in the World Cup.

Speaker 13 Who cares?

Speaker 158 Agreed.

Speaker 22 It's the pageantry and the spectacle of the Gold Cup, Hank.

Speaker 131 Got it.

Speaker 1 And Saudi Arabia is in this?

Speaker 22 So, yeah, they're

Speaker 22 a famed CONCACAF member.

Speaker 22 I think Qatar was in it last time, too.

Speaker 98 Yeah, we just let anyone in it.

Speaker 92 If the bag's big enough, yeah.

Speaker 114 Yeah.

Speaker 94 All right. My hot seat.

Speaker 19 I also had Shadur Sanders.

Speaker 39 I'll pivot.

Speaker 39 It's my, so we're not doing a fire fist this week.

Speaker 118 Reminder, we don't have a show Friday on 4th of July.

Speaker 95 This is an extra long show, so if you have to work Friday, save dingers only for for yourself.

Speaker 105 We have two great interviews coming up.

Speaker 49 Zach Gallon and Meryl Kelly in studio and then Joey Chestnut.

Speaker 93 So extra long show.

Speaker 9 And then we'll be back three times a week, obviously on Monday.

Speaker 94 But my Fire Fest, or sorry, my hot seat is me.

Speaker 39 I went to dinner with my wife last night and

Speaker 77 there was a couple fans.

Speaker 39 There was like a table of young kids that were like asked me for a picture.

Speaker 95 And I was like, oh, that's cool.

Speaker 5 And then there was this table with this guy with this big beard

Speaker 65 and older. And he was like, what's up?

Speaker 147 Love your podcast.

Speaker 113 Like, oh, that's sick.

Speaker 109 And I mentioned my wife. I was like, look at me.

Speaker 42 Like,

Speaker 39 we're doing the young kids. We're doing the old guys.

Speaker 73 And she's like, that guy is the exact same age as you.

Speaker 119 And I had like the moment where I was like, fuck, he totally is

Speaker 27 because he had a beard.

Speaker 111 I was just like, and I had one of those moments where it's like, oh, yeah, I forgot I'm 40.

Speaker 120 Like, he was, he looked exactly the same age.

Speaker 119 That's crazy.

Speaker 70 Like, I got the old guys.

Speaker 3 I got the young guys.

Speaker 69 So he's We're old.

Speaker 46 Yeah, we're old.

Speaker 157 We're old.

Speaker 65 We're old.

Speaker 3 Yeah, like I'll see, like, another guy came and he had like two little kids, and he was like a big fan.

Speaker 26 I was like, oh, man, like, look at this. I'm getting

Speaker 130 the older generation.

Speaker 73 Like, wait, those kids are the exact same age as my kids.

Speaker 11 Fuck. What the hell?

Speaker 46 Yeah, go ahead.

Speaker 22 Anybody older than Hank is old.

Speaker 81 Yeah.

Speaker 22 That's the way to look at it.

Speaker 44 Yeah. And then my cool throne is

Speaker 71 dudes, dude's name Ryan, because this happened a few days ago.

Speaker 77 I think it happened last week, but

Speaker 123 ESPN had an article about it.

Speaker 6 Did you guys see the

Speaker 44 Ryan's day out in Colorado?

Speaker 24 It was pretty fucking awesome. So the Rockies have three Ryans on the roster.

Speaker 26 I think they actually have a fourth who's on IL.

Speaker 130 And there's a group of Ryans who just like do meetups around the country, and they tried to break the record for most Ryans at a baseball game.

Speaker 26 There was like 500 Ryans out in the bleachers, and then Ryan McMahon on the Rockies hit a home run for him.

Speaker 42 And it was just like such a dude's rock moment where they just have, they have, they just basically go around.

Speaker 24 They did a St.

Speaker 27 Ryan's Day in Boston.

Speaker 45 They did

Speaker 44 another random Ryan's outing.

Speaker 24 They just get all the Ryans, and they all just meet up.

Speaker 22 I like that. That is very cool.
Do you think that you said the Rockies have four Ryans?

Speaker 54 They have three currently on the roster.

Speaker 22 One is on the

Speaker 22 IL. Do you think if

Speaker 22 two of the other Ryans go on the IL, they'll send Tom Hanks there to pull the last one out and save him yeah they have to

Speaker 42 no they'll send ryan day

Speaker 56 they'll send ryan day out there but yeah it was i mean i don't know it's pretty cool like yeah world's kind of a cynical place these people are just hanging out and they actually have

Speaker 86 when you go you have to show your id to confirm that you're a ryan by the way our guy rasillo not invited it has to be r-y-a-n

Speaker 60 uh

Speaker 86 and uh they also have like

Speaker 26 a notary public guy there who can legally change your name to Ryan if you want to join.

Speaker 22 Oh, if you wanted, if you want to just be part of the festivities.

Speaker 22 I like that, but also

Speaker 22 there should be somebody that

Speaker 22 there should be somebody that monitors the Ryans to make sure that they all go by Ryan.

Speaker 112 Yeah.

Speaker 22 Because Ryan is probably a pretty commonly skipped first name for people that just go by their middle name.

Speaker 70 That's true.

Speaker 42 They had a so they had a St.

Speaker 9 Ryan's Day in Boston.

Speaker 77 They had a Ryan Rodeo in Austin.

Speaker 9 They had an all-Ryans game show in San Diego.

Speaker 2 They just party with just Ryans.

Speaker 22 It's fucking awesome.

Speaker 11 I like that.

Speaker 60 Yeah.

Speaker 98 All right, Zach, finish us off before we get to our interviews.

Speaker 114 I do have a cool throne for you guys this week.

Speaker 88 My cool throne is. Hot seat?

Speaker 114 Oh, we can go hot seat first. Yep, we can do that.
So my hot seat this week is recently, gentlemen, we all played Dungeons and Dragons. It did come out in the last couple of days.

Speaker 114 I did see that in the moment while we were playing together,

Speaker 114 I did did not realize just how indecisive I may have been in some of the decisions going back and watching the game film.

Speaker 114 And I would like to say, Hank, I do want to apologize for contributing to messing up your birthday.

Speaker 135 It's okay.

Speaker 13 It's not your fault. I did not

Speaker 114 just how bad some of that went. And I just want you to know, Hank, I'm sorry.
And I hope it was a great birthday after that, man.

Speaker 13 It was a great birthday, and I don't want you to worry about it for a second.

Speaker 159 It was funny.

Speaker 114 And I do have a hot seat as well.

Speaker 116 Erno, how do you think about that?

Speaker 13 I did think think Big Cow was paying you to do that at one point, but that's.

Speaker 11 Evan was so mad at me.

Speaker 144 There was

Speaker 114 no hand-to-hand transactions on that. That was just a misstep.

Speaker 22 Zach, in terms of watching the YouTube and seeing how the costume shopping went for Dungeons and Dragons,

Speaker 22 any decisions you would have made a little bit differently there? Are you happy with the way things turned out?

Speaker 114 Most of them. You guys didn't have full costumes.
That's 100% on me. I dropped the ball.

Speaker 42 It's okay.

Speaker 44 Listen, we play Dungeons and Dragons.

Speaker 31 By the way, thank you for everyone who listens listens to that episode.

Speaker 15 Shout out Tim Woods.

Speaker 6 We play it twice a year

Speaker 49 around our vacations.

Speaker 7 And so you'll have another chance.

Speaker 71 Sometime in February, you'll have another chance.

Speaker 114 On the costumes?

Speaker 11 Yes, on the costumes.

Speaker 114 I would love a redemption costume if that's okay with you.

Speaker 46 Can we keep the time limit?

Speaker 45 No, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 13 No, the time limit starts tomorrow.

Speaker 124 Yeah.

Speaker 114 Same costume shop, right? Is that cool?

Speaker 10 Yes, I think we stick to...

Speaker 79 He gets an hour.

Speaker 114 He's got to get it done in an hour. He's got to get it done in an hour.

Speaker 27 I think we also should, next Dungeons and Dragons, we should get one of those sand timers for Zach.

Speaker 79 Yes, yes, that's great.

Speaker 80 We walk in,

Speaker 160 we get an hour sand timer, and once it starts, that's it.

Speaker 92 But also in the game, too, when we make him make a decision, he's

Speaker 47 flip it and just be like, all right, Zach, here we go.

Speaker 114 I'm going to become hyper-aware of time, I promise, gentlemen.

Speaker 3 No, I don't want you to change. I don't want you to change.

Speaker 121 Okay.

Speaker 114 That too.

Speaker 139 I can work on that.

Speaker 129 PFT, you, you, you bounced out for a second.

Speaker 15 Um,

Speaker 31 Zach decided that he was going to work on being more decisive, then I told him, Don't change, and he's going to also work on that.

Speaker 22 Okay, which one are you going to work on first?

Speaker 114 The decisiveness. I'm going to, I'm going to lock that in for you guys.
That was

Speaker 97 decisive.

Speaker 73 I don't want you to change. You're right.

Speaker 114 No, I got that wrong. I got that wrong.
Uh, the timing stuff. Uh,

Speaker 102 yes.

Speaker 89 Yes.

Speaker 114 That was a brain fart.

Speaker 91 Yeah.

Speaker 162 No, that was good. That was good.

Speaker 67 Which one are you going to work on first? Yes. Okay.

Speaker 44 Your cool throne.

Speaker 114 I do have a cool throne for you guys. My cool throne this week goes out to the gentleman at Optic Texas.
They defeated the Vancouver Surge or CDO.

Speaker 114 They are Call of Duty World Champions in Call of Duty Black Ops 6.

Speaker 114 Shout out to those guys.

Speaker 11 Back to Mercules.

Speaker 114 First ever in history, back-to-back champions. I'm not even an Optic guy, but you can't deny greatness.
That's so awesome. Mercules coming up.
They did some roster cuts earlier in the season.

Speaker 114 You Another one doing too good. Kenny got dropped.
They picked up Mercules. Did some shifting around.
He went MVP. Shout out to the young guy.

Speaker 114 Everybody just frying. It was fantastic.
Huck, Shotzi, Dashy, all the boys. Congratulations.

Speaker 22 Mercules. Back to back.

Speaker 114 Never been done.

Speaker 22 Is Mercules next?

Speaker 22 He's the new goat.

Speaker 114 He's good. I wouldn't say New Go.
He's got a lot,

Speaker 114 long way to go, but he was a great contributor to the team.

Speaker 13 Jack, didn't he get dropped from the Stallions?

Speaker 114 It is a little bit of a redemption. Yes.
Wait. Ray Bona was there, Hank.

Speaker 10 Fantastic.

Speaker 22 Taking him off the street

Speaker 114 where he's getting dropped and picked up, but now he's with the boys. Now he's with the hitters.
Hex picked him up. Daddy Hex said, Look, come over to the green wall.

Speaker 114 We're going to show you how to do it right.

Speaker 163 And they might not even say anything you just said.

Speaker 24 Wait, Mercules, that, like, to merc someone is to kill him.

Speaker 62 So that's an incredible nickname, right?

Speaker 114 Oh, it's an awesome matchup. Hercules, Merc, Mercules, fantastic.
It's 10.

Speaker 60 Okay. Yeah.

Speaker 5 That's that's a great nickname. Wait, Zach, did you watch it live?

Speaker 114 I didn't. I wasn't able to catch all of it, but I've watched all the clips since then, yes.

Speaker 121 Okay.

Speaker 22 Zach, I got a question for you.

Speaker 22 In this Call of Duty tournament, are all the players like in most of the game?

Speaker 13 This is a Super Bowl PFT.

Speaker 46 I know what it is.

Speaker 11 Let's just call it a tournament.

Speaker 13 Let's just call it a regular tournament.

Speaker 22 Okay. All right.
World Championship, are all the players in really good shape?

Speaker 114 Mentally or physically?

Speaker 22 Physically. Like, are there any big boys that are playing?

Speaker 114 I mean, yeah, there's some big boys at the desk.

Speaker 22 Hank is like, yeah, for sure. Because in my day, that's how you identify a gamer usually had a little heft to him.
And from what I've been seeing with the advent of,

Speaker 22 you know, speed and ADHD medication, it feels like all the guys are like real thin. And I would like to see some of the bigger boys coming back.

Speaker 114 I think the heftiness isn't going anywhere anytime soon, but maybe some of these guys maybe dial back on the Riddle in a little bit, you know, maybe get some more carbs in them.

Speaker 13 They're all short.

Speaker 22 They're all little guys. That's pretty cool.

Speaker 114 They're all like posture is not the best, but those fast twitch muscles, immaculate.

Speaker 22 Is there a tall, fat guy that we could call Kendrick Merkens?

Speaker 123 That'd be good.

Speaker 114 Not on Optic, but I can find you the tallest fat guy they got in the CDL right now.

Speaker 164 Okay.

Speaker 71 Oh, PFT. I had a short king stat for you.

Speaker 137 Fuck.

Speaker 22 That's weird because I'm not that short, actually.

Speaker 31 No, you're not, but I had a stat for you, and I saw it, and I was like, oh, I'm going to save this.

Speaker 20 Fuck.

Speaker 147 I don't think I have it, but I...

Speaker 45 Oh, no, I have it.

Speaker 70 Here it is.

Speaker 44 Jose El Tuve, 242 career home runs.

Speaker 95 Every other player listed 5-6 or shorter since integration, 241 home runs.

Speaker 22 So he's lapped the crew.

Speaker 71 He's literally the pound-for-pound greatest.

Speaker 22 He stands head and shoulders above the crew.

Speaker 11 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 112 Everyone else combined, 241.

Speaker 5 He had 242.

Speaker 22 Good for him.

Speaker 42 Pretty sick.

Speaker 40 Okay. Let's get to our interviews.

Speaker 165 Meryl Kelly, Zach Gallin, Joey Chestnut, and then our Dingers-only draft, which I'll just say it, not our, never our our best work, but still

Speaker 22 it was actually way better than last year's.

Speaker 67 Yeah, we called some of the players too.

Speaker 22 Yeah, we got some of the players on the phone.

Speaker 22 And also last year, we had a lot, we drafted a lot more players that had already been taken, and we drafted a lot more players that were already injured, like on the disabled list. Right.

Speaker 22 So I'd say like in terms of getting it right for the most part, I'd say we hit like 80%.

Speaker 42 Yeah.

Speaker 8 And also Zach realizing his decisiveness might be an issue.

Speaker 37 We did tape this last week before he realized that.

Speaker 105 So

Speaker 77 might still be an issue in this draft.

Speaker 42 And as of right now, we're all live.

Speaker 29 So all the teams are live.

Speaker 31 I've been watching my guys being pissed off every time they hit a home run, being like, save it, save it.

Speaker 65 Yep.

Speaker 27 But it's officially live and we'll update it every single week.

Speaker 44 Okay, let's get to the interviews.

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Speaker 24 Okay, we now welcome on two very special guests from the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Speaker 21 It's Zach Gallin, Meryl Kelly.

Speaker 4 Best friends.

Speaker 67 Let's start there.

Speaker 30 I was reading that you guys are best friends. Are you both saying that the other one's your best friend?

Speaker 167 Yeah, sure.

Speaker 138 I would say so. Of course.

Speaker 4 Meryl said that a lot faster than you, Zach.

Speaker 138 Well, I didn't want to talk over them.

Speaker 168 Okay, yeah, yeah. That's best friend.

Speaker 138 That's a best friend trait.

Speaker 138 You don't want to talk over.

Speaker 84 Are we talking best friends on the team or best friends in life?

Speaker 68 Let's talk best friends in life.

Speaker 107 Oh.

Speaker 84 I mean, I feel like we both have circles outside of baseball who can't trump, but on the team for sure.

Speaker 75 Best friends on the team? Yeah.

Speaker 46 Yeah.

Speaker 84 We've been together longest. We've both been here since 2019.

Speaker 168 Okay. It's been a long time.

Speaker 119 Okay.

Speaker 22 So if we played the newlywed game right now, you guys would be really good at it?

Speaker 171 That's a good question. That's a good question.

Speaker 172 Good question.

Speaker 138 If it was the baseball, like a baseball version of that, I think we'd be all right. All right.

Speaker 119 So what? Or golf? War golf.

Speaker 42 What's

Speaker 102 Meryl's favorite pitch, Zach?

Speaker 138 Change it.

Speaker 33 Okay.

Speaker 116 What's Zach's favorite pitch? Kerbal.

Speaker 171 Okay.

Speaker 102 Is that right?

Speaker 130 Sounds like you guys are good so far.

Speaker 22 What's Zach's favorite movie?

Speaker 13 Ooh, Zach's favorite movie.

Speaker 84 Yeah, that one would probably stump me.

Speaker 168 I don't even know if I know the answer to my favorite movie.

Speaker 22 That's perfect. You guys are in sync.

Speaker 169 There you go.

Speaker 6 Meryl, who's the guy that absolutely owns Zach?

Speaker 84 In the league? Yeah.

Speaker 138 I don't know. If you get this, it would be impressive, actually.

Speaker 31 Oh, so someone we're not thinking of.

Speaker 37 I'll give you a hint.

Speaker 138 They're not active.

Speaker 84 That's the thing. They're not.
Are they retired?

Speaker 21 Some guy on the Savannah Bananas?

Speaker 138 I might hang him up if that was the case. I don't know if they're retired, but they're just not in the majors anymore.

Speaker 97 Got it.

Speaker 138 We used to play them a lot.

Speaker 84 In division?

Speaker 172 Yeah.

Speaker 84 Charlie Blackman?

Speaker 33 No.

Speaker 102 Who is it?

Speaker 138 Rymel Tapia.

Speaker 129 And what was the reason I should have known that?

Speaker 138 Rymel Tapia,

Speaker 138 I think last time I faced him was 2023, maybe

Speaker 37 in Milwaukee.

Speaker 138 And I swear to you, I think it was like he's hitting 600 off me.

Speaker 138 12 for like 20, like whatever that math comes out to be. 10 for 19.
And I'm like, oh, at least I never gave up a home run to him, gave up a home run to him that day.

Speaker 75 But what is that

Speaker 46 killed us, bro?

Speaker 54 Is it in your head or is it something he just figured out?

Speaker 138 I think it's just something that he does. Like he just.

Speaker 30 10 for 18 with a home run and two RBIs and 19 plate appearances. Yeah.

Speaker 128 That's Gallant.

Speaker 165 That's pretty damn good.

Speaker 64 And if you do,

Speaker 30 the AI overview says Rymel Tapia has had considerable success against Zach Callan in their own.

Speaker 60 Considerable.

Speaker 138 Considerable is an understatement, I think, if you ask me.

Speaker 46 I'm like, here comes this fucking. All right, so who who owns Merrill?

Speaker 84 I would imagine if you looked up his numbers against the Diamondbacks in general, they'd probably play.

Speaker 46 They'd play really good. Who owns Meryl?

Speaker 138 We were just talking about this.

Speaker 171 Fuck.

Speaker 138 We were just talking about this.

Speaker 116 Someone who's still in the big league.

Speaker 138 I know. We just played him, too, right?

Speaker 175 You can guess the team.

Speaker 84 The team should be pretty obvious.

Speaker 138 You just said it. You're like, I don't understand.

Speaker 138 I'm drawing a blind.

Speaker 84 No, you're thinking of the guy that

Speaker 84 I think

Speaker 173 shouldn't beat me that does all the time.

Speaker 69 Oh, who's that?

Speaker 84 But the guy who owns me is different than that guy.

Speaker 46 Wait,

Speaker 46 who should it?

Speaker 140 Is it?

Speaker 97 Who's the first one? I can make that. That's better.

Speaker 84 Now, you can put this guy on blast.

Speaker 176 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 46 Who is he? Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 84 Jacob Stallings. Okay.

Speaker 138 That's right. Stallings.
I don't know who. I can't think of it.

Speaker 37 He's been in the league for a while.

Speaker 1 And so when he gets you, you're like, this is the best.

Speaker 107 Yeah, I'm like, gosh damn it.

Speaker 84 This guy got me again.

Speaker 84 Every single time I watch him, i'm like there's no way this guy's getting hit off me and every single time he does he'll drop one in for a two rbi blooper over the second baseman's head knock me out of the game sometimes but yeah all right so who's who's the answer to who owned you i don't know i can't think of who it is la

Speaker 84 freddy mookie close freddie probably does too but muncie monce

Speaker 84 muncie i wouldn't guess we went on a family vacation with my um wife's family and her uncle's pretty funny.

Speaker 84 He puts together like these gift bags for everybody, but in there there's like a dark joke for everyone, right?

Speaker 84 Like, and he literally hand-typed a letter from Max Muncie to me and the Dodgers thanking me for my services against the Dodgers.

Speaker 84 But I think Muncie's probably hitting, I would guess, 500 off me, something like that. Okay.

Speaker 22 And Meryl, what Barcelon sports employee has the most unhealthy obsession with Zach?

Speaker 84 That's a good question.

Speaker 153 Do you know, Zach?

Speaker 153 Yeah,

Speaker 177 I'm not the one to ask about that.

Speaker 138 There's a few teammates that would get this, right? I don't know that he would know this. Yeah.

Speaker 153 Okay, so

Speaker 138 there's a handful of guys that would right off the bat would be like, I know exactly who you're talking about.

Speaker 22 And who's that guy?

Speaker 113 That'd be Rico.

Speaker 30 Yeah, so this is a real topic we have to talk about because, Zach, I obviously was busting your balls when we were walking in being like, oh, I'd love to see in a Cubs uniform.

Speaker 30 I won't push any rumors, but you are in a contract year, so it's got to be like, it's got to be in your head a little bit.

Speaker 5 Do you think if Scott Boris walks in and is like, hey, Zach, we're ready to get a new contract, but this guy, Rico, he's bringing us down and teams are going to see this relationship and they're going to be like, you know what, the price went down.

Speaker 28 I mean, you have to cut him loose because he does.

Speaker 30 It is bad for you how much he rides for you.

Speaker 90 And he turtles when you have a bad game.

Speaker 46 Does he, really? Yes.

Speaker 36 That was the big.

Speaker 47 Well,

Speaker 178 I respect that at least.

Speaker 50 He's just so ride or die.

Speaker 138 He's so ride or die.

Speaker 37 I don't think that's true. You know,

Speaker 120 he would literally murder you for Nate Oates.

Speaker 67 So you don't mean anything in the grand scheme of it.

Speaker 138 In the grand scheme of it, yeah, this is a good point. And I never thought that I would be over NATO.
So I'm fine with that.

Speaker 46 Okay.

Speaker 22 So I don't think he actually rides as hard for you as you think that he does. I think that this season he's kind of gotten off.

Speaker 138 Oh, he's definitely gotten off.

Speaker 18 Yeah.

Speaker 138 Because I'm probably losing him money this year.

Speaker 11 So we're being frank about it.

Speaker 22 Well, first start of the year, March 27th, happy gallon day to all who celebrate. That's what he posted.

Speaker 138 Then your next start happy gallon day to all who celebrate your next start happy gallon day to all who celebrate he hasn't done that since april 7th oh no well i haven't pitched good since april 7th so that's probably why he's probably like i'm losing money every time this guy's out here no more happy gallon day but to be fair he was he was at least riding

Speaker 30 for whatever it was yeah it was a long time and we love rico yeah we got a bustball but it was i think it was the nlcs where i think game one where you got touched up a little yeah and feel and then he he went silent and then he when you guys won game three he went after Max and it was like dude where were you game one he he does that he goes silent on Twitter when things go don't go his way and then game seven yeah good too yeah are you guys I mean that did Max even that come up game seven I mean that was an all-time meltdown he looked ridiculous you guys I've heard you talk about Meryl

Speaker 30 because you grew up a little bit in the area but like the Max was just convinced that the bank was gonna win that series. He was like, they can't go and win two at the bank.

Speaker 116 There's no way.

Speaker 84 Because we're pitching against the crowd.

Speaker 165 Yeah.

Speaker 115 Yeah.

Speaker 42 That is how he thinks.

Speaker 138 I think it actually would have been easier to pitch against the crowd, if we're being honest.

Speaker 84 Some guys that are yelling at us, we bring him down into the box and see how it goes.

Speaker 97 I don't know, dude.

Speaker 22 He was the Matt Stairs of the CAA baseball hochtra.

Speaker 62 So he could probably take one off you guys.

Speaker 84 Maybe we should make that happen.

Speaker 46 We should make that happen.

Speaker 84 Bring you Eric Sim out and we'll make a whole thing out of it.

Speaker 22 He does have to pitch against the college lineup at some point. Yeah.
Because he lost our fantasy baseball league last year. Do you have any advice for him? Pitcher to pitcher?

Speaker 22 How should he approach that lineup?

Speaker 138 What lineup are you facing?

Speaker 113 Who are you facing?

Speaker 22 We don't know yet because Max keeps putting the punishment off.

Speaker 10 It was supposed to be Tennessee, and then we had a couple

Speaker 46 of

Speaker 10 rainouts, and then I broke my foot on a, whatever.

Speaker 180 We don't have to get into how I broke my foot.

Speaker 36 He broke his foot being drunk.

Speaker 153 Just walking home.

Speaker 84 That sounds a little intentional.

Speaker 178 That sounds like you're trying to get out of here.

Speaker 168 No, I mean, maybe.

Speaker 84 Do you have any pitching background?

Speaker 168 No. No.

Speaker 10 We got a radar gun out. I think I was topping out at like 62 at the moment.

Speaker 138 That might actually be good for you.

Speaker 46 That's below the speed.

Speaker 10 That's what Schooble said.

Speaker 138 If you threw like 85, I'd be like, they would love

Speaker 138 it. 85.

Speaker 6 PFT did it against UIC baseball.

Speaker 30 Only give up, what, two earned runs?

Speaker 22 Yeah, earned runs, Asterix. I balked a lot.

Speaker 58 Yeah.

Speaker 153 I had like four balls.

Speaker 33 How many innings?

Speaker 22 Two innings. Two innings, okay.

Speaker 166 Struck a guy out.

Speaker 22 Big cat threw out the strike at it first.

Speaker 8 I dropped the third strike, but still threw him out at first.

Speaker 93 So it's like we both got a strike out.

Speaker 22 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 128 Which is the stupidest rule in baseball of all time.

Speaker 46 I love it.

Speaker 75 I love it. It's so stupid.

Speaker 128 Really? You think that's the.

Speaker 138 You swing in a pitch. That's that bad.
That that is, yes, that bad. And then just because the ball bounced away, you get to go to first base.

Speaker 98 Yeah.

Speaker 98 You got to catch it.

Speaker 51 I got participation trophy is what I

Speaker 168 think about it.

Speaker 84 Like I literally made you swing in a pitch that didn't even make it to the plate.

Speaker 84 It was that bad, and you get to run to first base.

Speaker 21 It still counts as a K, though, for you.

Speaker 73 Yeah.

Speaker 165 If we get them, yeah. Yeah.
So you could get, think about it this way.

Speaker 30 You could get unlimited K's in a game.

Speaker 125 That is a good one.

Speaker 64 Think about it the positive way.

Speaker 37 I've made that joke about it.

Speaker 138 I've got a picture before. I'm like, you just wanted me to get another strikeout, right? That's why I missed that one.

Speaker 84 Four punches in it.

Speaker 51 When you guys, like, so, Zach, was it, when would, when did you have your 13th strikeout game against the Yankees?

Speaker 15 Was it last year?

Speaker 113 No, this year.

Speaker 101 It was this year.

Speaker 138 Yeah. In April.

Speaker 50 Did you?

Speaker 84 That was probably right after that guy stopped, right before that guy stopped tweeting.

Speaker 37 Yeah, Rico.

Speaker 117 When you, when, like, do you know when you have it like that on a given day?

Speaker 30 Or how fast during the game are you like, oh shit, it's it's different today?

Speaker 138 Um, yes and no. I mean, there's been games where I've um I go back, there was a game against the Dodgers where

Speaker 138 in the bullpen, I felt like shit. I'm like, well, let's just see what's going to happen today.
And then wound up punching out like 12 or 13 that day.

Speaker 138 So, like, you don't really know until the game's going on. And in that Yankees game, I didn't know that I had 13ks, like stuff was just moving how I wanted it to.

Speaker 138 They were swinging to pitches that I wanted them to, so it kind of worked out. But I'd say, like, probably by the third inning, you're like, okay, like, everything's kind of working how I want it to.

Speaker 138 Like, you've been through the lineup like one time. You're like, all right, I got a pretty good idea of what's going on.

Speaker 30 Do you think the rec specs help you? Because you do look like a nerd and like guys don't take you as seriously.

Speaker 138 It's like an opposite intimidation.

Speaker 172 Yeah, right.

Speaker 51 No way can this nerd strike me out.

Speaker 138 Yeah, that's probably how I was thinking.

Speaker 116 I think you said the long hair.

Speaker 84 Yeah, the long hair yeah it's uh

Speaker 138 yeah the the astigmatism that's

Speaker 138 that's what i'm chogging it up to yeah maybe it's a reverse kind of intimidation thing yeah have you guys noticed the stitches on the ball being any different this year

Speaker 138 i just talked about this the other day the the drag you see that yeah drag set for well you guys have to say you don't notice it i haven't

Speaker 138 noticed it yeah i honestly haven't noticed it to be honest i give up some i've given them some far home runs this year so i must be using different balls They must just have the ones specifically for when I'm pitching and the other low-drag ones.

Speaker 84 I mean, I will say the last couple years, I mean, I'll get balls back that are exit Vila like 73 miles an hour, and the whole half of it is just dented.

Speaker 84 Like, the whole half is just lopsided when you get it back.

Speaker 84 And balls that aren't even, like, scorched, it'll be like a little jam-shot pop-up, and I'll get it back, and the whole half will just be like cut off.

Speaker 22 The other thing I'm interested in with like how they prepare the balls is the mud that gets put on them. So, do you have like a specific way that you guys like to have your balls handled?

Speaker 84 We actually give our bullpen catchers a lot of shit for this because they're the ones in charge of rubbing our balls up.

Speaker 37 Yeah.

Speaker 138 Some days they don't rub their balls that good.

Speaker 84 Yeah, and some days they're a little dry. Yeah.
So you tell them to get a little bit more moisture on the balls. Yeah.

Speaker 37 That's a little bit better.

Speaker 103 I like that, yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 84 If you pull one out and it's a little chalky, it's like, come on.

Speaker 165 Come on, man. Yeah.

Speaker 84 Take some more time rubbing those balls, please.

Speaker 129 What that mouth did?

Speaker 67 Wait, so Meryl,

Speaker 30 I think you're the only pitcher to pitch in the the World Series and the Korean World Series.

Speaker 128 Is that correct?

Speaker 84 I think I saw that somewhere. That's crazy.

Speaker 46 That's wild. Yeah, that was fun.

Speaker 48 What was it like pitching in Korea?

Speaker 84 Awesome.

Speaker 83 Like, is it just the same game?

Speaker 27 Like, is it the talent level?

Speaker 84 Pretty much. Yeah, the talent level was getting there.
When I was there, it was still to be desired a little bit.

Speaker 84 Like, there were guys that could play in the big leagues all the way to guys that probably wouldn't even sniff the field on my junior college team. Really? And anywhere in between that.

Speaker 84 The game pretty much is the same, right? Once you get in between the white lines, it's the same.

Speaker 84 There's a smoke break after the fifth inning.

Speaker 84 They do a fifth inning break rather than a seventh inning break.

Speaker 84 Because obviously, Koreans just pound cigarettes.

Speaker 84 So the fifth inning break is funny.

Speaker 84 All the starters will come off and they'll go pound their cigarette, and all the bench guys and the relievers will go out in the field and stretch and run around and warm up and stuff.

Speaker 84 And then we'll come back out and resume the game. That's cool.

Speaker 22 Yeah, and you were on the Wyverns, right? Yeah. Do you know what is a Wyvern?

Speaker 84 It's like a mythical dragon.

Speaker 128 Yeah, it's the best way to describe it, I think.

Speaker 22 We play Dungeon and Dragons a couple times a year.

Speaker 97 A couple times a year?

Speaker 140 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 46 Whenever you're feeling frisky, we do it on the show, yeah.

Speaker 55 Okay.

Speaker 22 And our dungeon master, Tim Woods, is obsessed with Wyvern. So he thinks that the Wyvern is actually the purest form of the dragon.
Something to do with the wings and the legs.

Speaker 138 You think he's an SK fan or what?

Speaker 172 Maybe.

Speaker 84 Maybe we need to get him an SK jersey.

Speaker 166 Get him some.

Speaker 84 I don't know if they make him anymore. They sold.
It's a different team now.

Speaker 22 So when you're playing in Korea and you're going up against a guy that you said probably wouldn't even play junior college ball, do you have to lock yourself in more when you're facing that guy?

Speaker 22 Because you're like,

Speaker 22 I can't let up a hit to this guy that sucks.

Speaker 84 Honestly, I just try to throw it right down the middle and want them to hit it because they're pesky over there. They'll just foul shit off until they die.

Speaker 84 So I would rather just, here's a first-pitch fastball. If you hit it the best you can, it might make it to the outfielder.
And otherwise, it's going to just loop into somebody's glove.

Speaker 84 So I'm just going to give you a first-pitch heater and hopefully move on and then focus back on the guys that face the next play.

Speaker 173 Yeah, basically.

Speaker 21 Do you guys miss batting? Were you still?

Speaker 21 Batting was the best.

Speaker 46 No, batting was the worst.

Speaker 153 Oh, so worse.

Speaker 46 So worse. The worst.

Speaker 63 No, but home runs

Speaker 67 by a pitcher was so cool.

Speaker 70 So cool.

Speaker 138 Yeah. It was the only time that the pitcher hitting was good was they'd come up with like bases loaded one out and like a big spot.
And you're like, oh, thank God.

Speaker 138 I can either get a strike out here or a double play. Unless you're facing like the couple of guys that could hit.
But for the most part, like my dad used to get, he would be like, swing swing the bat.

Speaker 138 I'm like, dad, they don't pay me any more or less if I'm getting hit.

Speaker 60 I remember you and Bum.

Speaker 76 All you can do is get hurt.

Speaker 84 I remember you and Bum got into it that one day at BP.

Speaker 172 Yeah.

Speaker 84 Because that's his argument. Like, they don't pay me to hit.
And you know, Mad Bum was a good hitter. He liked to hit Homer.
So he, like, really took pride in it.

Speaker 84 So the fact that he said that like really offended me.

Speaker 72 He got mad at you?

Speaker 37 Yeah, he got mad. Because this is what I'm saying.
He's like, no, they literally do pay you to hit.

Speaker 138 This is when they were like negotiating between the DH or no DH, whatever they were doing. And I just was like,

Speaker 171 all you can do out there is get hurt.

Speaker 138 Like, I just saw the total downside of it. And I was a decent hitter.
I could bunt. So I was fine.
It was just more of like, this seems like an occupational hazard.

Speaker 84 And you did. You ended up breaking your arm.

Speaker 172 Yeah.

Speaker 138 And then I had a hairline fracture in my elbow.

Speaker 32 Wait, from bunting?

Speaker 138 Yeah. From taking BP in the cage.

Speaker 138 Like, one of the first weeks in spring training, I was just like, oh, this doesn't feel right. They couldn't figure out what it was.
And I finally got an MRI.

Speaker 138 And they were like, you have a tiny hairline fracture in your elbow.

Speaker 128 Yeah.

Speaker 22 So you're never going to take BP again?

Speaker 138 I haven't.

Speaker 138 I took it that year because we were hitting, but like, I had to be like, I had to bunt the first two months of that season because they didn't want me to swing.

Speaker 138 It was like a, yeah, it was a whole thing.

Speaker 119 Wait, was hitting sucked?

Speaker 62 Was Bumgardner, like, was he actually pissed?

Speaker 21 Because that's a guy you don't want to have pissed at you.

Speaker 37 I'm not sure. I think he was like upset.

Speaker 46 I think he was like 60-40.

Speaker 138 I think he was trying to give me the young guy, like rookie, like kind of hazing type of deal, but also was like, I want to keep hitting.

Speaker 97 Yeah, he was upset.

Speaker 165 He loved it.

Speaker 30 What is the rookie hazing in Major League Baseball?

Speaker 51 I I feel like it's just like wear a weird costume.

Speaker 84 Yeah, nowadays.

Speaker 84 Yeah, nowadays it's nothing really. Yeah.

Speaker 181 Damn.

Speaker 84 How society's gone, it's like... It's gone.
Yeah, you can't really do that much anymore.

Speaker 138 Like the last probably thing is like

Speaker 138 bring beers on the bus, would you say?

Speaker 173 Yeah.

Speaker 93 Oh, man, that's real.

Speaker 168 Every once in a while.

Speaker 178 Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 84 Every once in a while, somebody might get up there and sing.

Speaker 84 We might, you know, have somebody get up there and tell their life story and sing, but even there's a couple guys that don't really like that either.

Speaker 84 So it doesn't really much, there's not really much of that that goes on anymore, at least in our organization. That's the only organization I've been with, so I can't speak for other teams.

Speaker 84 I don't know what they do, but as far as we go, there's not really much.

Speaker 57 You should just have Rico come on the road with you and be like, the hazing is you have to stay in a room with him.

Speaker 11 He sleep talks.

Speaker 24 He like screams in his sleep.

Speaker 165 Night terrors.

Speaker 169 Yeah, he has night terror.

Speaker 138 I've seen some of that from Survivor.

Speaker 47 Yeah, that would be awesome.

Speaker 60 You're with Rico.

Speaker 170 What are the night terrors?

Speaker 128 He screams.

Speaker 22 So he sleeps with the lights on. He screams in the middle of the night and he plays show tunes on his speakerphone.

Speaker 128 Yeah, that's not real.

Speaker 165 There's no way.

Speaker 84 That's how he sleeps every night. He falls asleep to show tunes.

Speaker 22 He shows the show tunes. Yeah, the rent soundtrack.
I had to share a room with him for a couple of nights, and I couldn't believe any of the sounds.

Speaker 11 The random soundtrack is so random.

Speaker 22 Yeah, no, I didn't have a sleep mask on or anything. It was just like, this can't be real.

Speaker 75 Just raw dog.

Speaker 84 Like people, raw dog flights, you were just raw dogging sleep.

Speaker 22 I was raw dogging Rico.

Speaker 89 Yeah, I had to raw dog Rico.

Speaker 22 And trying to fall asleep in that environment is

Speaker 22 challenging. It's like, you can't believe that this is a real human being.

Speaker 22 No wonder he's fucking crazy, and I love him, but he's nuts because he stays up all night screaming and listening to show tunes.

Speaker 37 Does Rico know the rent

Speaker 138 soundtrack like by heart?

Speaker 22 Probably. I don't know.
It's probably absorbed into his brain.

Speaker 46 Yeah, right?

Speaker 178 Like, what is it?

Speaker 138 Osmosis? Yeah.

Speaker 26 He probably, like, yeah, if he went to see Rent and like the, you know, the lead got sick, he could, like, jump on and just be like, I got this.

Speaker 56 I got it. I'm good.

Speaker 168 I got it.

Speaker 168 I'll handle it.

Speaker 22 In Korea, did you ever get to see the bunting derby?

Speaker 37 I was a part of it. You were part of it.

Speaker 22 That's to me.

Speaker 84 there's some YouTube out there somewhere. I don't know.

Speaker 22 MLB needs to incorporate the bunt derby into the all-star game. You think so?

Speaker 75 You think that'll draw a crowd?

Speaker 22 I love watching it. Yeah, so what was that like? What did they have you do doing that?

Speaker 84 It was cool because I flew my brother over. My brother came over for the all-star game, so he's the one that actually threw to me.

Speaker 84 But yeah, they just have these three targets set up, one to the left side, one down the first base side, and then one right in the middle. And you just, yeah, just like it sounds.

Speaker 84 You just bunt and you try to get it in the target as much as you can.

Speaker 18 How'd you do?

Speaker 165 I did all right.

Speaker 84 I didn't win. My brother was a little amped up, was firing him in there a little bit, a little too hard.
He was a little excited. And then

Speaker 84 we do it, and then we watch the next guys come up, and they're literally just lobbing these balls in there. And these guys are just

Speaker 165 placing them in there. I'm like,

Speaker 84 we didn't talk strategy before that.

Speaker 22 They got to bring that to Major League Baseball.

Speaker 106 It used to be in A Derby.

Speaker 138 Oh, yeah. In the AAA All-Star game, they would do it.
In 18, I was in it. Really? And I was like, this is.

Speaker 37 Yeah, it was.

Speaker 138 To your point, like, the BP was coming in too fast. I'm like, you can't stop this.

Speaker 173 No, it doesn't. Yeah.

Speaker 22 I mean, I just think it would be the most electric thing to gamble on.

Speaker 46 Yeah, I could see that. I can definitely see that.

Speaker 84 Because then you're trying to look up stats of like, all right, is this guy actually a good bunter in like the games? Yeah. You take that into the bunting derby.
Yeah.

Speaker 22 Every time you make contact, like I'm watching to see where the ball is going to land, you have a good like five, six-second rush of adrenaline watching on TV, being like, oh, that's going to fuck.

Speaker 46 It'd be great. Yeah.

Speaker 51 How much of your guys' success as pitchers do you owe to Dan Heron?

Speaker 31 And is it all?

Speaker 37 Why are you laughing at that? No,

Speaker 138 I was surprised it took this long to get it.

Speaker 153 Yeah, I mean,

Speaker 43 we give him all the credit.

Speaker 40 You tell me if that's wrong, but he is a genius.

Speaker 138 Yeah, I talk to Dan a lot.

Speaker 115 What does he do, actually?

Speaker 30 Because I actually don't, like in real honesty, I don't think he does anything.

Speaker 84 He puts together, he writes up all of our scouting reports. Okay.
So all the starting pitcher scouting reports, Dan is the the one behind it.

Speaker 73 About the other lineup. Yes.

Speaker 130 And he's really good at that.

Speaker 172 Yeah.

Speaker 105 That's pretty sick.

Speaker 105 He's an awesome dude.

Speaker 113 He's the best. Awesome.

Speaker 138 He puts good reports together.

Speaker 152 Sometimes too good.

Speaker 138 What does that mean? Like, there's so much information on there that, like, yeah.

Speaker 138 I'm like, Dan, how did you find this number? Yeah. Like, and then I got to go look at it and be like, damn, he found, I don't know how he found that number.

Speaker 30 Does he come out every now and then and like actually talk to you guys about pitching?

Speaker 24 Because I I know he still lives in California.

Speaker 113 Yeah, he was just in... Yeah, he was just with us.

Speaker 33 Colorado. Colorado.

Speaker 51 Does he give you tips?

Speaker 30 Because Dan's career is fascinating because he basically was such a stud and then obviously got hurt with his back, but then continued to

Speaker 75 be in the MLB for a really long time.

Speaker 113 Yeah, where he basically pitched two different ways.

Speaker 30 So he kind of knows everything about pitching, it would seem like.

Speaker 138 Yeah, the cool thing about Dan is that he always is like,

Speaker 138 he never wants to make it about him. He's like, I'm not going to talk about what I did.
But if you got questions, he's got, he'll try and answer them. Yeah.

Speaker 138 Which I think is cool because people who play a long time could be like, you know, me, me, me. I did this.
I did that.

Speaker 173 And it's like, he's like, do your thing if you need questions.

Speaker 138 Like, I'll answer questions if you want me to. Yeah.

Speaker 72 That's why we give him a lot of credit. All the credit.

Speaker 46 Because we know it makes him uncomfortable.

Speaker 75 He's not that type of guy.

Speaker 46 But he's not that type of guy at all. So we like to really give him a lot of credit.

Speaker 178 A lot of credit.

Speaker 115 So much credit.

Speaker 3 You guys should give him a lot of credit just to make him uncomfortable.

Speaker 46 We do. We do give him a lot of credit.

Speaker 48 Like, you wouldn't be here without Jennifer.

Speaker 113 Yeah, text him.

Speaker 138 you so much credit.

Speaker 75 I haven't said it in a while. I love you, man.

Speaker 154 Just want to say thank you for all you've done for me.

Speaker 72 He'll get uncomfortable.

Speaker 46 Yeah, he'll definitely get uncomfortable.

Speaker 22 Ask him how his pug's doing, too. I'll say he's got a cool pug.

Speaker 172 Merrow.

Speaker 22 R.I.P. Bernie, right?

Speaker 97 Yeah.

Speaker 138 And the PMT boys give you so much credit.

Speaker 73 So it's great. He's going to hate listening to this because he just gets so.

Speaker 46 He doesn't want to. He doesn't want any of it.

Speaker 169 He doesn't want any of it.

Speaker 84 He stays in the shadows.

Speaker 70 Merrill I can.

Speaker 138 He'll expect. Because I told him we were coming.
he's like, I know something's going to come out of this.

Speaker 52 Well, I asked him, I was like, hey, if you've got any good questions for Meryl or Zach, let me know.

Speaker 30 They're coming in.

Speaker 21 And he just hearted the message.

Speaker 178 I was like, thanks, Dan.

Speaker 46 Thanks for nothing. He was looking out to me.

Speaker 168 I would have gotten it.

Speaker 71 If I was a starting pitcher, you wouldn't give me a full report, but he didn't give me shit.

Speaker 75 No, good for him.

Speaker 116 See, I respect that.

Speaker 138 Because I've gone on other podcasts where

Speaker 138 they've been like, we know you eat this for breakfast.

Speaker 169 And I'm like, who is your source?

Speaker 169 Who are you talking to?

Speaker 172 Yeah. You call your dad.
It's a dad.

Speaker 138 The source was actually kind of like out of the blue. I was like, wow.

Speaker 173 There was actually. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 119 Wait, Mary, what does he eat for breakfast?

Speaker 22 Yeah.

Speaker 84 I saw him at Kith the other day in

Speaker 84 Toronto eating French toast.

Speaker 76 Oh, that's kind of heavy.

Speaker 116 Yeah, I got a French toast. Yeah.

Speaker 98 What do you eat for breakfast?

Speaker 138 No,

Speaker 138 like

Speaker 138 most of the time it's like either French toast. I like chicken and waffles or eggs Benedict.

Speaker 35 I like chicken and most of the time a French toast is kind of crazy.

Speaker 116 So that is worth the question. Being like, what do you have?

Speaker 46 No, No, I wouldn't say French toast.

Speaker 138 No, I wouldn't every time. Most of the time is Eggs Benedict.
That's what I go with. That's my go-to.

Speaker 35 Just feel like I start every day with French toast.

Speaker 46 Yeah, that is a crazy move.

Speaker 153 Admittedly, I'm not even eating kids.

Speaker 169 If you want to pitch in the big leagues, eat French.

Speaker 140 Yeah, just eat like a bad thing.

Speaker 37 Ex-Benedict, though, is the theme, though.

Speaker 84 It's my favorite, too.

Speaker 22 Do you eat differently on days that you start?

Speaker 138 Not really. Like, I try to keep it the same,

Speaker 138 which is not the same every day.

Speaker 138 Just eat breakfast, you know, go about my day. Like,

Speaker 22 just try to keep your body off balance a little bit.

Speaker 138 Yeah, keep it on its toes. Like, make sure we're.

Speaker 22 Do you lose track of what day of the week it is? Yes.

Speaker 171 Yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 84 All the time.

Speaker 22 I would imagine that would be something that would be that would be different about baseball players. Yeah.

Speaker 84 I mean, we're in our third city in a week and a half, third time zone in a week and a half.

Speaker 119 Yeah. Every week.
You don't know.

Speaker 84 Yeah. You don't know what days.
You know what day you're pitching, and then after that, it's like, I don't know.

Speaker 138 You kind of know by like what time the game is. You're like, all right, it's a day game.
It's probably Sunday or Wednesday or Thursday.

Speaker 181 Anything else flip a coin, and you know, it ends in what we know.

Speaker 138 It ends in Y, like, yeah,

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Speaker 23 Okay, let's get back to Zach Gallen and Meryl Kelly.

Speaker 30 What's your favorite day of like the five-day, you know, like starting and then the like, what's the day?

Speaker 30 Because I would, I always, this is very sad and pathetic that like I'm not motivated, but I always daydream of being a pitcher the day after I had a start because I feel like that would rock.

Speaker 24 Just being like walking around the dugout being like, all right, boys, I took care of business yesterday, up to you.

Speaker 113 That's if you took care of business.

Speaker 46 Yeah, if you took care of business. Yeah.

Speaker 23 Well, in my, in my dream, I'm always taking care of business.

Speaker 46 Always. Yeah.

Speaker 33 Yeah.

Speaker 138 They call those dig me days. Okay.
Spa days. Your spa days.

Speaker 138 Oh, like, look at me, like, dig me day. I was like, I got to pro ball.
I'm like,

Speaker 138 dig, what is that? And they're that they explain it to me.

Speaker 5 But does it, it's got to feel good, right?

Speaker 30 Even if you're not trying to look for it, like being like, I had a gem or I pitched great deep into the game, and then the next day you just kind of could chill.

Speaker 84 Yeah, there's definitely something to be said knowing that you just pitched really well and walking into the stadium the next day, knowing that there's absolutely zero way that you're going to contribute to that game.

Speaker 84 Right. Other than cheering on the boys and, you know, doing whatever in the dugout, like, there's no way that I'm going to enter the field of play today.

Speaker 22 Yeah, yeah, that's got to be great. Just say like a little mini vacation that you're on.
Yeah. Do you guys get butterflies when you have to pitch?

Speaker 176 Yeah.

Speaker 84 I would say so. Not as much as when I was younger, but

Speaker 84 they're still there.

Speaker 138 Yeah, it's more like an anxious, like, let's go, let's play. Like, the game, sometimes I'm like, I wish this game would start.

Speaker 44 So, you must love pitch clock.

Speaker 4 Do you like pitch clock or no?

Speaker 84 Oh, no, yes, and as a as a fan watching the game, yes, when pitching in the game, there's times that I would love for the game to slow down a little bit, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 138 Like, sometimes you're out there and you're just like, this it's five seconds already.

Speaker 172 Yeah, like, what are we doing?

Speaker 84 Like, you just turned around and it's three seconds you have to throw the ball.

Speaker 138 But to your point, you're watching the game and it's over in two hours and 30 minutes. You're fantastic.

Speaker 169 This is pretty pretty nutrient.

Speaker 168 Pretty nuts.

Speaker 84 I thought I was going to hate it, but I don't mind it.

Speaker 22 How do we feel about the robot umps?

Speaker 84 A tough question for, I feel like, for us to answer because we haven't experienced them yet. The guys in AAA have done the whole ABS system and they've seen what it does.

Speaker 84 I like the idea of the challenge system a lot better. I think it kind of brings everything together.
It's like, because in my opinion, the pitches that are missed throughout the game, right?

Speaker 84 Like, if you miss a pitch in the first inning, like is that really going to make a difference in the ninth?

Speaker 84 But I go back to the World Series, that strike three that Moreno got called out on that was this far off the plate.

Speaker 84 You know, if he taps his head right there, it's ball four, he's going to first, and the game changes in a big way. So I think the ABS, I think, is a little bit much.

Speaker 84 I don't know how you make that consistent over 30 stadiums. Yeah.
But I like the idea of the challenge system. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 98 What about pitching on short rest?

Speaker 30 You guys both done it?

Speaker 20 Is it brutal?

Speaker 41 I don't think I've ever done it.

Speaker 84 I don't know if I've ever done it.

Speaker 172 Yeah,

Speaker 84 I don't think I don't think I've ever done it.

Speaker 30 Because that's one of those things where, from a fan's perspective, I'm like, yeah, why not just go pitch on short rest?

Speaker 46 Like, just fucking suck it up, dude. Yeah,

Speaker 46 just black.

Speaker 46 I would do it. I'd pitch on a short rest.

Speaker 84 Take a couple antine flams and just throw it out there.

Speaker 47 But when does your arm start to feel good again?

Speaker 51 Is it really, does it take the full four days off?

Speaker 165 Probably depends on the guy.

Speaker 84 Yeah.

Speaker 138 In theory, you probably could, like, most guys could probably pitch on short rest, like one day, but over a period of the season, like the compounding factor would be like a problem, I think.

Speaker 138 But yeah, you could do it. Like, I mean, you see guys do it in the playoffs all the time.
Yeah. You get the adrenaline boost.
Like,

Speaker 138 it works out. But probably not the safest way to go about.

Speaker 22 Yeah. How sore are you after a game? Let's say you go eight innings.
How sore are you when you wake up the next day?

Speaker 138 Pretty sore for the most part.

Speaker 138 Like if we're in Colorado, you're like extra sore just from like the elevation, and the lack of oxygen, all that stuff. So, like, you get super sore.

Speaker 138 I would say I get sore on day two for me.

Speaker 138 That's when I'm like, like, day one, I'm like, all right, like my body's sore. Like, I feel like I pitched eight innings, but like, my arm is sore on day two, like trying to play catch and move.

Speaker 138 And, you know, you get that delayed onset or whatever.

Speaker 84 Yeah, or something called Doms, too. Yeah, delayed onset muscle soreness.
Yeah, I wouldn't know about that.

Speaker 107 Yeah.

Speaker 24 Where's your least favorite place to pitch?

Speaker 30 Not Colorado, not taking out Colorado because that's an easy answer, obviously in division for you guys.

Speaker 30 But what's it maybe it's like time of day, too, shadows or whatever, but what's the place you're like, man, this sucks?

Speaker 138 Regularly when the wind's blown out? Yeah, that's, yeah.

Speaker 23 That one is not fair.

Speaker 30 Yeah, we were just talking before the game that you guys played against the Cubs this year where I think it was 16 runs in an inning and a half. Where it's just, you guys aren't even.

Speaker 8 Are you like, what do you, what's even your strategy in that?

Speaker 84 Try to keep it on the ground. Yeah.
Throw some sanders. Throw a sinker for the first time and sinkers and change up some cutters and try to get them to hit it on the ground.

Speaker 138 Yeah. Yeah, it's not good for me because for me, I induce pop-ups, flyballs, like whatever.
So I'm like,

Speaker 138 this is tough. Everything's going.

Speaker 75 Yeah.

Speaker 24 Is there another one, though, that you're like, oh, this is a tough place to pitch?

Speaker 46 Or it's like so bad. Because of the.
Yeah.

Speaker 138 Well, I got another. I'm going to do a two-part.

Speaker 84 Is it because

Speaker 84 of the team that you face in that stadium, or is it the stadium itself? Like, this place just sucks pitching.

Speaker 67 Give me both.

Speaker 84 For me, I love pitching in the LA stadium, but I get absolutely shellacked there, so I don't like pitching there because the Dodgers just light me up.

Speaker 23 Yeah, the lineup's not fun to pitch against.

Speaker 84 Yeah, but the atmosphere is probably my favorite place to play in the league. They're either there or Petco.

Speaker 165 Yeah.

Speaker 84 Cincinnati's tough. Yep.
That's what I was going to say. Cincinnati's pretty brutal.
Ball flies out there. Ball flies in the mound.

Speaker 84 I know they're supposed to have... Regulations on how high the mound is, but whatever they're doing, they're cheating for sure.

Speaker 65 What do you mean?

Speaker 138 It's way lower. That mound is so flat oh

Speaker 84 you have to look into that look into that's crazy like our mound at home feels like a mountain compared to cincinnati and you can notice right away when you stand on you you can notice it from

Speaker 138 you're like that's a flat that mound is flat why would they do that

Speaker 138 my guess is like maybe like their pitchers are like this sucks i have to pitch it all the time well if you think about like they could then try to acquire the pitches pitchers that like pitch best on that type of mound like sinker ballers or whatever it is that works on that mound, yeah, they'd be like, All right, we're gonna stick with these guys because it benefits them.

Speaker 22 But this really works out for advantage, yeah.

Speaker 46 That's crazy.

Speaker 71 What's the highest mount?

Speaker 174 Uh,

Speaker 138 I don't know, I feel like ours is pretty big, ours is pretty big. I feel like is San Francisco kind of high, San Francisco.

Speaker 182 I didn't even think

Speaker 138 Miami's high. I think Miami's a high mound, yeah, yeah, because it is supposed to be all the same, right?

Speaker 138 Yeah, yeah, you would think, but I don't know that there's a I don't know that there's a rule on the angle of the slope, like it just has to be whatever it is,

Speaker 113 10 inches high.

Speaker 138 But I don't know that it says, okay, well, then where you land has to be four inches high.

Speaker 138 I don't know if there's a rule with that.

Speaker 173 You were right.

Speaker 168 10 inches on the other side.

Speaker 97 Did you throw that off the top of your head?

Speaker 84 You can throw that out.

Speaker 5 Yeah, but they can make it 10 inches and then just have it be like 10 inches across.

Speaker 113 Yeah, right.

Speaker 138 Have you guys been operating with this thing the whole time? Hell yeah.

Speaker 46 No idea.

Speaker 55 Yeah.

Speaker 22 We got Max back there. I noticed you didn't say the bank.

Speaker 168 What about the bank?

Speaker 22 Not a a tough place to play.

Speaker 84 It's definitely, I mean, it's that, those games in the playoffs were the most hostile sporting event that I've ever been a part of, hands down, for sure.

Speaker 84 But I don't know. It also makes it fun for us.

Speaker 31 Feed off it.

Speaker 84 Like COVID, one of the reasons why playing in COVID sucks so much is because it was silent. It's like you could pump in the crowd noise and you see cardboard cutouts in the stands and it's just quiet.

Speaker 84 For us, baseball is fun with fans.

Speaker 84 That's one of the reasons why we play.

Speaker 138 When it's that loud, it's like white noise.

Speaker 138 You don't really hear it at that point.

Speaker 138 I played in New Orleans where there was like 30 people at each game and you'd hear that one idiot in the corner being like, boss, boss.

Speaker 178 And you're like, that's way worse than just 45,000 people just screaming the whole time.

Speaker 84 Because whether they're screaming for you or against you, at least it's like. It brings energy.

Speaker 165 It's fun.

Speaker 28 What was it like, Meryl, being called the worst pitcher in the league by your own coach?

Speaker 3 He actually said that?

Speaker 84 Yeah, he said, I'm not going to lie to you. I said, he said, since the all-star break, you are the worst statistical starting pitcher in

Speaker 182 the big leagues.

Speaker 64 You should have reversed it.

Speaker 3 You've been like, well, you're the worst coach for putting me out there in five days.

Speaker 11 Like, you moron.

Speaker 84 Yeah, and then my ass would have for sure been in the bullpen.

Speaker 37 I was trying to avoid the bullpen at all costs.

Speaker 84 I literally went to Asia to avoid the bullpen.

Speaker 37 I wasn't going to try to do it here.

Speaker 35 Wait, you didn't like the bullpen that much?

Speaker 84 I mean, that's... Yes and no.

Speaker 84 My role in Tampa was like what's called a swing man. Like I was a long relief.
And And then if somebody got hurt, I would start. And then when that guy came back, it didn't matter how good I did.

Speaker 84 I could be the best starter for six straight starts in the rotation. But if that guy came back,

Speaker 84 I was the guy that went back to the Wolfpack.

Speaker 37 That'd be frustrating.

Speaker 138 And I just, I hated it.

Speaker 84 Yeah, it wasn't fun. That nine-game stretch was probably the lowest point of my career.

Speaker 84 I couldn't get past. If I made it to the fifth inning, it was a miracle.

Speaker 98 So how did you get out of that?

Speaker 84 Honestly, my back was just against the wall. I didn't really have a choice.

Speaker 84 It was like I tried some different mechanical stuff, and I just started doing like a Felix Hernandez turn and just started letting the ball absolutely fly.

Speaker 181 And

Speaker 84 it worked. Stuff started ticking up.
The VLO ticked up. Stuff started moving again.
And then once I got a couple games after that under my belt, then the confidence started coming back.

Speaker 84 And after that, it kind of just took off.

Speaker 22 Pullpin pitchers, that's got to be just a complete mind fuck. Not being able to prepare like the same way every single time, not knowing if you're going to get into the game.

Speaker 22 how do you manage that i understand it sucks and that's why you you know you're like fuck it i'll go pitch in korea i hate it but like what's that what's that like day to day

Speaker 97 um

Speaker 84 i mean one of the reasons i like starting is what you said like i know what day i i am pitching i know what days i have to do but that's how my brain works some guys some guys don't like that some guys can't handle knowing when they're pitching some guys they work way better in the bullpen because it's just

Speaker 84 they turn their brain off and then once the phone rings and their name calls then they turn it back on.

Speaker 84 Yeah, it's a different mentality just because you're never

Speaker 84 unless for me i was a long guy if i threw three innings or four innings in a game i knew the next couple days i was down but for normal bullpen guys like they're pretty much on call every single day yeah so the thought of not being able to turn your brain off is different than like i said that day one it's like i know a hundred percent i'm not getting in the game for those guys they never have that feeling and that's i didn't i didn't enjoy that uh who's the best hitter on your team you got some all-stars coming up yeah you got to get some guys in the all-star game.

Speaker 148 Yeah, I think,

Speaker 138 I mean, for sure, my guess would be Cattell.

Speaker 84 I think Cattell's leading

Speaker 84 second base of voting right now.

Speaker 138 Corbin's probably up there, too.

Speaker 114 Gino.

Speaker 138 Gino, and then Perdomo, and even Naylor. Sneaky like Naylor's having a good year.
They're having a really good year. Beat something OPS.

Speaker 113 300.

Speaker 168 Yeah, so, I mean,

Speaker 138 our offense is so good.

Speaker 172 It's like,

Speaker 138 it's honestly incredible. Yeah.

Speaker 84 That's been our strength. If you guys, in my opinion, our best overall hitter is probably, it's my mind, got to be Cattell.

Speaker 75 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 24 He's an absolute.

Speaker 84 Switch hater, hits for power, hits for average.

Speaker 4 Does he talk to his bat?

Speaker 87 Was that that clip?

Speaker 75 Yeah.

Speaker 45 Yeah, it was.

Speaker 70 He does talk to his bat, right?

Speaker 9 What does he say to his bat?

Speaker 22 I couldn't tell you.

Speaker 138 It's in Spanish.

Speaker 46 Is he like, well, tell me this.

Speaker 70 Is he angry at his bat or is he like happy with it?

Speaker 84 I think in that clip, he was probably angry with his bat. Yeah.
I think he was telling him to pick a dog and his bat. I can't remember when it was.
There was a clip.

Speaker 84 I got a clip of him sitting there talking to him.

Speaker 93 He was like having a full conversation with his bat.

Speaker 178 Did the bat talk Marty?

Speaker 113 I don't know.

Speaker 67 I just, but I saw it and I was just like, oh, shit.

Speaker 21 Seems like the bat did something here. Yeah.

Speaker 84 Yeah. Yeah.
Marty's, Marty's funny. Marty's got all kinds of stuff going on.

Speaker 37 Yeah.

Speaker 22 I read that you guys had a was it officially a players-only meeting?

Speaker 84 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 22 What happens in a players-only meeting?

Speaker 138 Well, for starters, it's players-only.

Speaker 168 Well, pretend we're playing.

Speaker 107 Yeah, I'm a player.

Speaker 107 We're in here.

Speaker 75 It's just us.

Speaker 22 Yeah, we struck out out uic yeah yeah you struck out uicc ui oh they said

Speaker 60 yeah

Speaker 138 i'm i don't talk in the media i'm not a very vocal leader i'm just like oh you snitch yeah i'm a snitch i just dry snitch i run right

Speaker 116 he's got his recording out on the back he's got his phone

Speaker 84 um it's more of just like it's try to it's basically try to nip whatever's going on in the butt like right if anybody's got something to say say it now if if you got

Speaker 84 something against you know if if you don't like what a teammate's doing if you don't like what the manager's doing if you don't like how whatever you don't like or whatever you think is going on at that time it's just a

Speaker 84 it's a just a come to jesus meeting and try to figure it out most of the time it

Speaker 84 doesn't always work yeah it's like um

Speaker 84 It's kind of a thing that we just feel like I feel like

Speaker 37 it gets to the point where you feel like you have to do something.

Speaker 84 Somebody needs to say something because it's just gotten to the point where it's just that bad.

Speaker 84 But yeah, it's just kind of like, air it out. If you've got something to say, say it.

Speaker 84 Pick your shit up and let's go.

Speaker 129 All right. Very important question.

Speaker 30 If Dan Heron was in town,

Speaker 84 he would not be running that meeting.

Speaker 98 Would you invite him to the Players-Only meeting?

Speaker 84 No.

Speaker 130 What if he was like, please, guys?

Speaker 116 He would not want to be a part of that.

Speaker 24 If he was just like, please, guys, I want to feel like a player again for one second.

Speaker 172 Probably not.

Speaker 33 Okay, okay. Yeah.

Speaker 22 I can imagine, like, maybe 10% of the time, a player's only meeting works really well. And the other 90%, it just turns into just an argument.

Speaker 33 Yeah.

Speaker 138 Honestly, not.

Speaker 138 Because the player's only meeting happens, and it's like, all right,

Speaker 138 a veteran calls the meeting, and then it's like, that veteran who calls it talks. And then there's probably like two or three other veterans that talk.
And then

Speaker 138 always the question is, if any young guys want to say anything, get up and say something. And then no one seems to know that.

Speaker 11 No one seems to know.

Speaker 84 Unless it's Perdomo, yeah.

Speaker 138 Like, so it's one of those things of just like, all right, let's talk about this, I guess.

Speaker 181 I don't know, but it's not a yeah, it's a weird thing, it is a weird thing, Zach.

Speaker 37 Is it true when you were uh five years old, you refused to play t-ball so that you could play little league?

Speaker 138 Yeah, I didn't want to play t-ball.

Speaker 138 So, you just like, I'm not doing this, then uh, well, I just thought I was like, okay, well, because okay, so my brother's a few years older than me, so I kind of knew like the lay of the land of how it worked, and I was like, every game ends in a tie, everyone gets like a dollar at the snap.

Speaker 178 I'm like, that sounds terrible to me.

Speaker 138 And my dad coached the seven, eight, nine-year-old team. So I was like, why would I go play t-ball when I could go play real baseball?

Speaker 84 That's so funny. That was you at five.

Speaker 46 That's like, it fits perfectly.

Speaker 138 I'm like, I want to know part of this. That's so funny.

Speaker 44 I'm not a baby.

Speaker 132 Oh, funny.

Speaker 168 Exactly.

Speaker 84 Even though I was like, I was like this tall and like the grass was taller than me in Wayfield.

Speaker 173 It was, yeah.

Speaker 24 Did your brother play baseball, like continue playing baseball?

Speaker 138 Yeah, my brother played all the way up until college, college,

Speaker 138 through college, and then just was he was a good player, he was just undersized. So like just he was if Dustin Bajora would have came a few years earlier, maybe he would have had

Speaker 138 a little different career.

Speaker 84 That's good.

Speaker 138 Yeah, the undersized guy wasn't getting any love then. Yeah.

Speaker 22 So where you're five years old and you start playing with seven-year-olds?

Speaker 138 Yeah, seven, eight, nine. How were you?

Speaker 22 Like you were facing off against nine-year-olds as a five-year-old.

Speaker 138 Yeah, I didn't get a hit the first, like, when I was five. Like, I didn't get a hit.
Like, I was just up there.

Speaker 11 The entire year.

Speaker 169 The entire year.

Speaker 155 Like, and the funny part is all the nine-year-olds are saying there's no way I'm getting a fucking hit.

Speaker 113 Yeah, they were like,

Speaker 138 Look at this guy. Like, there's no chance.

Speaker 22 I would have drilled you. If you're like a five-year-old and I'm nine, so like, who is this fucking guy? Exactly, yeah.

Speaker 46 I'm just gonna drill this kid. Yeah,

Speaker 138 I had to wear like a, I think they, I forget if it was like five and six or whatever.

Speaker 138 You had to wear like a vest, like, if you got hit with a ball, like, because, like, you could stop your heart or whatever. Yeah, wear that with like the face mask, like, batting helmet.

Speaker 138 It was a, it was tough, but I never got a hit.

Speaker 138 So, I'd come back to the dugout and and be like upset like cry like because i want to be good so i get to six and i struck out at six and like the first at bat i came back and my dad was like no more fucking crying like we're not doing that anymore and i was like all right and then i got a hit and i was like all right all is well this is good so yeah but yeah he was like we're not doing that anymore

Speaker 22 danair needs to include that in your write-ups like hey no more fucking crying

Speaker 138 that too he didn't actually curse but he was like we're not doing that anymore like that was five-year-old stuff. This is six-year-old.

Speaker 46 This is big, this is big league stuff.

Speaker 113 See,

Speaker 84 I could have seen him cussing at you. I could have seen him.

Speaker 113 Yeah,

Speaker 113 but it was good.

Speaker 138 And yeah, they made my dad draft me like in the town draft. My dad was like, let me just give him a uniform, put him, I'm going to put him in right field.

Speaker 138 Like, he's going to play like once every other game. Yeah.
And the commissioner was our next door neighbor.

Speaker 171 He was like, uh-uh.

Speaker 138 He's like, you got to draft him.

Speaker 12 My dad's like, I got to draft a five-year-old.

Speaker 138 And my dad gives my brother credit. He's like, listen, he's he's like, take him with, you got to take him in like the third round or whatever.
He's like, take him in the third round.

Speaker 138 He's like, because next year, you're going to have to come in the first round. He's like, so if you take him in the third this year, you'll get your first round pick next year too.
Yeah.

Speaker 138 So my brother GM'd it and it worked out.

Speaker 11 That's incredible.

Speaker 56 I love that.

Speaker 56 I think that's fair.

Speaker 37 GM in Little League games.

Speaker 75 I think that's fair to make your crowd draft you.

Speaker 119 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 37 If you want him to play at five, if you don't want to play t-ball, you got to do what you got to do.

Speaker 22 This five-year-old is not going to be somebody else's problem. You have to take him.

Speaker 165 You have to take him.

Speaker 180 Yeah. It's your problem.

Speaker 138 Imagine if I get drafted by if I got drafted by somebody else. Somebody else's dad was like, no, no, no, I won't.

Speaker 165 I want the five-year-old.

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Speaker 19 i pitch this to every pitcher but uh

Speaker 166 ephus

Speaker 117 come on just once

Speaker 138 honestly what's

Speaker 138 so i think about just like the when position players go out there and pitch yeah and they they get everybody out yeah sometimes when i'm like getting hit kika hernandez the best pitcher in the league maybe i should just throw an ephis up there

Speaker 90 it would screw him up you know they would be like what the hell was that maybe i'll mix a palm ball in there from time to time.

Speaker 138 Yeah, you actually have one that's like a real pitch. I would be throwing like a just

Speaker 173 rookie of the year.

Speaker 138 Oh, yeah, rookie of the year.

Speaker 64 Yeah, just floated in.

Speaker 4 Do you guys get pissed when someone pimps a home run?

Speaker 84 No. Not so much anymore.
Yeah. You just got to pimp a strikeout back.

Speaker 138 If it's directed at you, like there's some sort of stares at you. Yeah, something like that.
But like, if you want to do a cart reel like around third base, like whatever, like, cool.

Speaker 138 Like, it's, it's just the game. Yeah.
It is what it is.

Speaker 84 Yeah, it kind of goes back to the rookie stuff. Like, that stuff is acceptable now.
It's not like, oh, you watched it for a half a second too long. Now, I'm going to drill the next guy in the head.

Speaker 84 Like, that just doesn't happen anymore.

Speaker 22 Yeah. You sound upset about that, though.

Speaker 84 I'd be upset about that.

Speaker 84 Yeah, I mean, I don't love it, but I mean, what are you going to do?

Speaker 12 You know, don't give up the home run. Don't give up the home run.

Speaker 71 Have you guys been kicked out of games before?

Speaker 84 I've gotten tossed twice.

Speaker 51 What'd you do?

Speaker 84 Yelled it, and both of them are the same way. It was a check swing.
Happened this year. Check swing, no call, walk.

Speaker 173 I forgot you got tossed this year.

Speaker 84 Check swing, and it was like a

Speaker 84 blatant swing. And it was Lad Diaz.

Speaker 4 Check swings, by the way. We agree.

Speaker 28 The umps are just guessing.

Speaker 165 Yeah, and

Speaker 165 they're not paying attention.

Speaker 11 They're not paying attention.

Speaker 46 That's a total guess.

Speaker 84 Because this swing was like almost, if he hit it, it would have been a double. Yeah.
So

Speaker 84 no call, Last Diaz at first base, and no call. Next pitch, walk him.
And I think I got taken out of the game after that. And I just turned around and told him it was.

Speaker 84 And the two times I've gotten thrown out in my career actually are funny. It's because I've been leaving the game.
So it's like, all right, cool, buddy.

Speaker 84 Like, I'm literally fucking walking to the clubhouse right now, and you're going to toss me. It's like, what does that do?

Speaker 52 You should just make that your thing.

Speaker 138 That's the good thing about being a pitcher. Yeah.

Speaker 138 You're out and you're like, oh, I'm just going to get tossed.

Speaker 68 You should make that your thing.

Speaker 37 Every time you get pulled from a camera, you just yell at the umpire for no reason.

Speaker 47 Start chirping at them.

Speaker 138 Did you get fined for the last one?

Speaker 178 I don't know.

Speaker 84 Honestly, I have no idea. I think it comes out of the check.
I think it's only, I think it's like 500 bucks, something like that.

Speaker 138 Yeah, there's been times on check spangles I've seen the the umpire, like they're just like looking in the stands and it's like, no, they're not always checking.

Speaker 75 The game's over here.

Speaker 84 Some of the calls they miss, it's like, dude, I don't know how you didn't see that. It was right in front of you.
You have one job in that moment.

Speaker 84 You're supposed to be looking right at it and you missed it.

Speaker 30 By the way, I didn't mention this, but Meryl, do you know that you're the only Meryl in MLB history?

Speaker 93 Which is kind of crazy. I didn't.

Speaker 108 I feel like 100 years ago, there had to be Meryl's just walking everywhere.

Speaker 73 Yeah, right. You know?

Speaker 21 And you're actually, Zach, you're the only second Zach spelled Z A C.

Speaker 138 There was one before me. Yeah, there was.

Speaker 118 Hold on. I'll find it.
That's crazy.

Speaker 138 Yeah.

Speaker 22 We got a Zach of our own that's Z A C here.

Speaker 113 Really? Yeah.

Speaker 138 See, I thought ZAC was just like very uncommon.

Speaker 181 That is.

Speaker 138 But there's more people now that I've with ZAC.

Speaker 22 Do people think that your name is Zach Allen a lot?

Speaker 138 What's funny about that is that there was the guy that plays for the Broncos now.

Speaker 169 Zach Allen.

Speaker 138 My dad's watching a game back when he's at the Cardinals, and he's like, Zach Allen with the sack. And my dad was like, huh? Like, is he playing football now?

Speaker 138 Like, not realizing that there was another play. Like, so a little bit of a confusion there.

Speaker 50 Zach Curtis, who debuted for the Diamondbacks in 2016.

Speaker 169 Yeah,

Speaker 24 he hasn't been in the league.

Speaker 23 His last appearance is in 2018.

Speaker 138 When I was in AA, there was a bench clearing brawl that I think he was involved in at one point in time.

Speaker 168 Zach on Zach crime?

Speaker 138 I was not. I was on, yeah, but I think there was something that happened where the bench is cleared for some reason.
I do remember that name. Yeah, you got called up from like high A.
I remember Zach.

Speaker 22 Yeah. Do you guys have a move ready to go if somebody charges at you no

Speaker 84 you got to throw the glove i think yeah that's disorienting a little bit yeah it's really or just try to get the ball back as fast as possible and act like i'm gonna throw it to them we gave

Speaker 30 we gave cal raley the tip that like what catchers should start doing is just like just throw your leg out there and triple because if you get tripped and you fall on your face you're not you're not

Speaker 64 you're so embarrassed yeah it's over you just kick their foot it's over yeah you just tell your catchers to do that yeah just stick your foot out yeah right you ever seen it you guys ever seen the video of the guy

Speaker 84 judo kicking the catcher in the chest before he ran up?

Speaker 115 Yes, yes.

Speaker 119 That was pretty gnarly. That's it.

Speaker 133 Have you guys been charged before?

Speaker 173 No.

Speaker 33 No. Yeah.
I mean,

Speaker 97 you would have fucked him up.

Speaker 84 Most of the time I try to hit somebody, I miss, honestly.

Speaker 178 That's like the worst thing.

Speaker 178 It's way harder than it looks.

Speaker 84 It's way harder than that.

Speaker 166 It's way harder than it looks.

Speaker 172 Yeah.

Speaker 138 Like, intentionally trying to hit somebody.

Speaker 138 It's just a terrible part of the game. Yeah.

Speaker 67 The only thing you can't do is just run.

Speaker 73 If you run, then it's bad.

Speaker 138 You have to just, what the infillers tell you is like, just give us enough time to get there. Right.

Speaker 113 So you kind of like hold them off.

Speaker 138 So you got to throw the glove to like stun him a little bit. And then just, you know, if you want to get a punch in, throw the Rosenbag out of them.

Speaker 22 Yeah, Rosenbag, pick up some dirt, throw it in their eyes.

Speaker 46 Gladiator's going to be a little bit more.

Speaker 172 Just trying not to get hurt, I think. Yeah, basically.

Speaker 113 Don't get hurt. I think the movie is.

Speaker 47 Like, what's his name?

Speaker 84 Granky.

Speaker 178 Yeah, broken collarbones.

Speaker 138 Collar, bro. That's right.

Speaker 22 You do like a little sidestep to the left, and then you swing after he runs a little bit past you. And then by that time, the shortstop should be there.
Yeah.

Speaker 46 So it's around the first baseball.

Speaker 168 I can only lay in and just like

Speaker 84 I can see Jay Naylor getting over there and tackling somebody for us.

Speaker 171 For sure.

Speaker 119 All right.

Speaker 94 Well, thanks so much, boys.

Speaker 4 We appreciate it.

Speaker 30 It was awesome having you guys here, and best of luck rest of the season.

Speaker 37 Appreciate you, guys.

Speaker 168 Yeah, it's fun. Cool.

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Speaker 3 Okay, we now welcome on a very special guest, recurring guest, the greatest athlete of all time, which we have said for many years on this show.

Speaker 31 It is Joey Chestnut ahead of his return to the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest on 4th of July, Coney Island.

Speaker 6 Joey is back.

Speaker 5 So let's start with that, Joey.

Speaker 2 How good does it feel to be back?

Speaker 5 And are we feeling like this is, hey, this is going to be a special one? You got to prove, hey, whatever happened last year, there's an asterisk there. The king is back.

Speaker 139 Oh, yeah. It feels really good.

Speaker 139 Last year, things didn't go as I wanted, but we worked it out. And yeah, I'm hungry.

Speaker 139 This is what I love doing. It's 4th of July hot hot dogs, competition.

Speaker 22 Yeah, how did it feel last year not being a part of Nathan's? Did you feel like an absence? Did it feel unusual for you?

Speaker 132 It was weird

Speaker 139 watching the guys eat.

Speaker 13 And

Speaker 139 I told people I didn't watch, but I watched. And then I went off to do my own little event.
But yeah, so it was weird watching them and like, oh man, I could, it's...

Speaker 139 It's just,

Speaker 139 that's life sometimes. Sometimes

Speaker 139 you're on the wrong side.

Speaker 22 When you were watching it last year, did that make you hungrier?

Speaker 139 Yeah, well, it made it easy. So last year

Speaker 139 I was at a military base, Fort Bliss in Texas, eating against some soldiers where they were awesome. And it was the group of five versus me.
I ended up almost

Speaker 139 beating what Pat did

Speaker 139 in five minutes.

Speaker 149 Wow.

Speaker 149 It made,

Speaker 139 it was, yeah, it was,

Speaker 139 it motivates you to see people

Speaker 139 when you're not there.

Speaker 22 I have a question that you probably get a lot, but I'm genuinely curious how you break this down. How much further can you push yourself?

Speaker 22 How much further is within the realm of human possibility to go when it comes to eating hot dogs? Because every year I see you eat, and I'm like, well, he'll never beat that. That's insane.

Speaker 22 How do you approach that?

Speaker 139 Yeah, the last record, 76 in 10 minutes, is a tough record to beat. It's going to be a hard one.

Speaker 139 Totally perfect conditions.

Speaker 139 Not too hot, not too windy.

Speaker 139 If it's windy, the hot dogs get cold.

Speaker 139 But if we have enough warmth like 78 degrees 75 uh and then it's it it's if it's if it's kind of dry outside the the buns get get the buns get stale so you need to have like fast buns and warm dogs and uh not too hot because dude i'm getting older i'm a little bit fat uh so it so i'm sweating i once i start sweating uh it really hard uh i'm in trouble i i like that the wind comes into play like an under in in football where it's like, oh, they're not going to be able to pass the ball today.

Speaker 57 The wind is going to is going to really dry out the buns and we're going to have problems and they're going to get cold.

Speaker 44 Yeah.

Speaker 139 The wind, it affects everybody has special their water temperature that they like for drinking water, for dunking.

Speaker 139 This year, I'm thinking,

Speaker 139 I did that event with Netflix last year when that was a no-dunking event. And I learned that like towards the end of the contest, it's actually a little bit easier to not dunk.

Speaker 157 There's less movement involved.

Speaker 139 So I'm trying to plan it out. So I'll make the switch.

Speaker 135 Sometimes I slow down bad when I'm dunking.

Speaker 1 Yeah, so you're tinkering. I like that.

Speaker 5 So what, like, you know how marathon runners, they'll, you know, a couple weeks before, they'll try to run 20 miles.

Speaker 64 What is the lead up?

Speaker 74 Like, what, is there a lead up where a week before or two weeks before, you're pushing yourself as hard as you can to see where you're at?

Speaker 42 Or have you done that yet?

Speaker 139 Oh, yeah. Every fifth or sixth day, I'm doing practices.
And so

Speaker 139 I'm in the cycle, I call it. Before every practice, there's a cleanse.
After every practice, there's a recovery period where it's super high fiber food, trying to get back to normal.

Speaker 139 And then there's one day of normal eating, then there's the cleanse again, then another practice. Last two practices,

Speaker 139 this is

Speaker 139 go time. It's close to breaking records.

Speaker 139 I don't need to break the rest of the records necessarily in the last two practices, but

Speaker 139 it would help. But

Speaker 139 there's been years where I smashed the record in my last practice and then didn't get the record in the finals. But

Speaker 139 we'll see.

Speaker 22 I'm feeling good. So, can you describe your ideal setup?

Speaker 22 Like, if you were to plan the weather for a day or two leading up to the event and the event itself, what are the perfect conditions for slamming hot dogs?

Speaker 139 Oh, perfect conditions.

Speaker 139 75 degrees, a little bit of cloud cover,

Speaker 139 not completely, but with sunny.

Speaker 139 And then

Speaker 139 not windy

Speaker 139 and not too humid.

Speaker 96 A little humidity is good.

Speaker 139 But

Speaker 139 if it's too dry, the buns get stale real fast. And then,

Speaker 139 yeah.

Speaker 22 Maybe rains the night before, like a golf course, like soften the air up a little bit?

Speaker 139 A little bit. Yeah.
Yeah. Soften the air up.

Speaker 22 So you were talking about your training regimen.

Speaker 22 What's the most that you've ever eaten in training, like outside of competition? Oh, I was at so what?

Speaker 139 Oh, yeah, for the 4th of July contest, I want to say it was, geez, I think I hit up to 82 in practice one time. And that was just perfect.

Speaker 139 Eating in, well, that's eating indoors, fresh, perfect hot dogs. And that's just not realistic.

Speaker 142 When

Speaker 139 4th of July, everything's cooked. ahead of time everything's sitting for a little bit uh and you got those out outdoor conditions so so it's I've, I've learned to

Speaker 139 actually, I've been eating outside in Indiana, so it's uh, it's hot right now, yeah.

Speaker 74 And I,

Speaker 139 I'm, uh, last practice, I was sweating so bad, the numbers went down a lot, but uh, I'm hoping I can, yeah, it's

Speaker 74 I'll be all right.

Speaker 5 All right, so we have this debate in football.

Speaker 31 Kurt Warner always says that football should be played in a dome in perfect conditions.

Speaker 5 Do you think that hot dogs eating should be an outdoor sport, or do you think it should, it should go to dome, and we should, we should be playing this in a dome?

Speaker 139 I think it's

Speaker 139 well, when there's history involved in Coney Island,

Speaker 139 it's got to keep it outside. But I think for a lot of other events, like I did the Netflix event, that was indoors.
They wanted a record, so they made fresh hot dogs and

Speaker 139 really fresh hot dogs indoors.

Speaker 139 We smashed,

Speaker 139 I did 83 that day, and they were a little bit smaller than on the 4th of July. So they're a different record.
But

Speaker 139 indoors, you're seeing some massive numbers.

Speaker 1 So, when you get there on

Speaker 24 the 4th of July,

Speaker 64 are you even thinking about anyone else?

Speaker 105 Are you just going against yourself? Because

Speaker 24 it's crazy how much further you are than everyone else in terms of the hot dog eating.

Speaker 51 And like, the winner last year had 58.

Speaker 28 I don't think, I mean, you, you, I don't think you've had a 4th of July where you've been under 60, right?

Speaker 40 So, are you, or maybe like 10 years ago, 12 years ago, but are you, are you even thinking about the competition?

Speaker 8 Or you're just like, it's me versus myself?

Speaker 139 Yeah,

Speaker 139 I think that's the best.

Speaker 139 Anybody in this kind of

Speaker 139 competition, you need to just really, you're going against yourself. If you worry about other people,

Speaker 139 you're not focusing on your training, your numbers that you've hit, the things. If I'm worried about what anybody else is doing, it's taking away from what I'm doing.
So it's,

Speaker 139 I'm really just trying to go back to good practices. And yeah,

Speaker 139 if I'm doing okay, I should blow everybody else away.

Speaker 22 Are you in your prime right now for eating?

Speaker 153 Oh, fuck.

Speaker 139 I mean, there's different primes. There's like my physical prime, shit, that was probably,

Speaker 139 that was like 35.

Speaker 139 I was a beast. I could get away with doing less practice.

Speaker 139 I could recover quickly. My body was just an animal, but, but, and I know my body so much better now.

Speaker 139 It's, it's ridiculous. Like, I, I, I can,

Speaker 139 I make a choice.

Speaker 139 All right, if I'm breaking my diet, I know when I'm gaining weight, I know what it takes to lose weight.

Speaker 139 And I also know how to train muscles in my throat to make them stronger so I can just keep swallowing the meat. Yeah.

Speaker 22 It's like sports science at this point. Yeah.

Speaker 22 I hate to ask the question, but is retirement on the horizon anywhere for you right now?

Speaker 139 I don't know. Retirement will be death.
I'm doing this thing until the wheels fall off, baby.

Speaker 35 Actually, yeah, no, if you retire from eating, you do die. Yeah.

Speaker 139 Either I'm Or somebody knocks me off. And if they knock me off once, they'll have to do it again because I'm going to come back.
But,

Speaker 139 you know, it's,

Speaker 139 I, to be the man, you got to beat the man. And I'm not going to walk away.

Speaker 55 Yeah.

Speaker 31 Well, this is, I don't think I've ever asked you this, but is there one record or competition that you did that you can think of and be like, I would never do that again because it was so disgusting.

Speaker 49 Oh, fuck.

Speaker 139 There was,

Speaker 139 I did crab cakes in Delaware.

Speaker 142 and and

Speaker 139 there's a casino. They did us dirty.
They had them all sitting out there and they were

Speaker 139 as soon as we got on stage, it was,

Speaker 139 you could smell fish. And like people got sick during the contest.

Speaker 139 I got sick right after the contest. I almost, it was the closest I've ever been to getting disqualified.

Speaker 168 And

Speaker 139 it turned me off to the food for like two years.

Speaker 139 And so it's weird because like it was the grossest contest, but now that now that I'm eating crab cakes again, I was like, all right, I really want to, I want to make a crab cake record.

Speaker 139 So I want it now. Yeah.

Speaker 117 How many did you eat that day?

Speaker 139 Oh, I did 39 and Sonia Thomas. This was my first year in eating and competitive eating 20 years ago.

Speaker 139 Yeah, so I did 39. I think she did 42 or 41.

Speaker 107 Oh, wow.

Speaker 139 There's nothing worse than

Speaker 139 eating, knowing you're going to get sick and not winning.

Speaker 139 It's just painful.

Speaker 46 What about

Speaker 105 you ate 141 hard-boiled eggs in eight minutes one time that had to be gross no it was actually really good i like hard-boiled egg

Speaker 139 perfect weather dude so it was it was weird so like it was this this weather like it was perfect for this food so they were like we were in kentucky and it had this downpour was like raining on us and all the hard-boiled eggs were like slippery and like

Speaker 157 they were sliding down it was like

Speaker 22 and and it was like oh yeah and then i smelled like sulfur for two days oh god is is there a record that you've attempted or a competition that you've done where the aftermath of it is especially bad?

Speaker 22 Like, I'm talking about, you know, the toilet situation afterwards. Is there one that was so gross that you're like, I'm not doing that again?

Speaker 139 There's a couple that

Speaker 139 I know going in, they're going to be rough. Like, anything with Bratwurst.
Bratwurst is, man, they add extra fat in there, and it's running through you.

Speaker 139 You're not in control.

Speaker 96 There's accidents bound to happen.

Speaker 22 It slides right out what about a food that you've you've never competed with that you would like to try oh yeah i i want to go to alaska eat king crab

Speaker 60 yeah

Speaker 139 they have the big big ass legs and they they cut them in half with a saw with like a a circular saw so i'd be rad to

Speaker 22 get it like a thousand dollar rack of a thousand dollar bill at a restaurant they should put you on the deadliest catch like as a punishment you have to go on on one of the guys ships and then you eat the crab as they bring it in so you deduct from their total points on the season oh yeah that would rock

Speaker 24 um so if you win on fourth of july that would be your 17th title which is incredible will it be the most gratifying one uh because of the one-year ban last year or is there one that you look back at and you're like no this one was the one that i always think about like that was special oh man they're all they're all special in the weird ways like it doesn't have to be records or just different parts of my life like the year i the year i had the protester.

Speaker 46 I was there.

Speaker 153 I was competing. Yeah.
Oh,

Speaker 132 that was your year.

Speaker 132 Yeah, I got covered in protesters.

Speaker 135 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 96 The first one was rad.

Speaker 153 That was a long ass time ago.

Speaker 139 Yeah.

Speaker 2 It was like 10 years. It was almost 10 years ago.
Yeah.

Speaker 138 They got you with paint.

Speaker 3 Yeah, they got me with paint. And

Speaker 51 I was next to the guy who

Speaker 2 I can't remember who he was. He's kind of a hippie guy.

Speaker 39 He only ate one dog.

Speaker 90 He was like, he said he was going.

Speaker 54 Yeah, he said he was going back in time to the first Coney Island hot dog eating competition.

Speaker 57 He was going to eat one single dog.

Speaker 139 Yeah, yeah, he's definitely a hippie.

Speaker 46 Yeah.

Speaker 52 Yeah. That was wild.

Speaker 24 Yeah, that one was crazy. But yeah,

Speaker 139 there's some special ones. Like,

Speaker 139 there's, oh, they're the first time I beat Kobayashi or even the next time the overtime year. So it's weird.
Like,

Speaker 139 this is my 20th year going. So

Speaker 139 there's a lot of weird memories, a lot of history.

Speaker 31 It's awesome.

Speaker 5 I mean, 20 years, 17, hopefully getting 17 this year is going to be, it's going to be special.

Speaker 31 I'm excited.

Speaker 98 It didn't feel like the 4th of July without you in it.

Speaker 52 I'll say that.

Speaker 5 I think we said it on the show, but it did not feel like

Speaker 118 I kind of canceled 4th of July in my mind last year.

Speaker 139 The 4th of July is always going to go on. And I was eating hot dogs somewhere, but it is good to be back on Coney Island.
And thank you so much.

Speaker 139 You guys are awesome.

Speaker 42 Yeah, so a couple of last questions.

Speaker 19 People don't know this, but like, how quickly after you finish the contest are you drinking beer?

Speaker 72 Because you go out that night a little bit late, yeah.

Speaker 139 Usually, my goal is to try and make it out

Speaker 139 right after fireworks.

Speaker 139 Sometimes I get out of the hotel room and I'm, oh, yeah, fireworks are still on. It's a good recovery.

Speaker 107 Uh, it depends on the year.

Speaker 139 Some years, if it's super hot, then uh, then I'm

Speaker 139 not gonna do anything, but it takes a long recover. But uh, yeah, right around 10 p.m., I'm on a liquid diet and things are things are uh,

Speaker 139 I'm trying to get there.

Speaker 54 How many beers do you drink after eating 70 hot dogs?

Speaker 139 I don't think we can say this.

Speaker 46 No, you can say it. I mean, how are you having?

Speaker 79 That's not going to make it.

Speaker 139 I ended up time traveling.

Speaker 157 There was one time when I woke up and I was like,

Speaker 139 I think I'm in the green room for today's show.

Speaker 132 Incredible.

Speaker 22 There are a few haters out there of the entire sport of competitive eating. I don't like to give them the time of day.
I don't like to give them any

Speaker 22 mental energy of mine. But do you have a case that you can make to any of the haters out there that might have in the past not watched the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest?

Speaker 22 Do you have a case that you can make to be like, hey, this is actually a competitive environment. It's athletics.
This is sports. And we're pushing our body to the fullest limit?

Speaker 96 It's, yeah,

Speaker 139 it's really easy to be negative.

Speaker 139 I can't think of offhand of anybody I've had a conversation with, but it's been a while. But yeah, there's people who are always going to be negative.

Speaker 139 They're going to say, I remember there's people who used to say golf wasn't a real sport and there's people who just knocked and knocked and knocked wmba for years and years and now it's uh people eventually they they uh eat their words and uh

Speaker 117 well while i'm still eating yeah um all right my last question uh is the roback question rhobac.com promo code take 20 off your first purchase q-zips polos hoodies joggers shorts roback.com promo code take uh so we were we were texting I was going to try to get you up here for the first day that we opened our ice cream machine.

Speaker 8 So we have a full soft serve ice cream machine in the office.

Speaker 5 We're still going to do it.

Speaker 8 Man versus machine, how many ice creams do you think you can eat?

Speaker 5 Do you think you could put the machine out of business

Speaker 57 with the amount of ice cream you can eat?

Speaker 139 I want to try.

Speaker 139 It depends. Like some ice cream machines, it comes out super frozen and hard.
Some of it's a little bit more clear.

Speaker 60 Not ours. Not ours.

Speaker 3 We're soupy.

Speaker 67 We're soupy.

Speaker 65 Oh, a little bit soup. Oh, soup and cream.

Speaker 125 I like it.

Speaker 157 Yeah,

Speaker 139 I would, I'm thinking

Speaker 139 close to two gallons worth.

Speaker 139 So I did an ice cream contest, and after the contest, I was like shivering.

Speaker 139 It was like everything was cold. So I think close to two gallons would be in about eight minutes.
It'd be close to the, yeah.

Speaker 56 Okay.

Speaker 53 Maybe that's what we'll do.

Speaker 5 We'll fill the machine up with two gallons and be like, have at it.

Speaker 22 I mean, it would be awesome if you broke the machine. Like, this is John Henry.
This is the story of John Henry against the

Speaker 22 steam-powered driller. You can do this.

Speaker 96 I wonder if it's does it slow down?

Speaker 139 Yeah, if I hit the

Speaker 22 machine starts shaking? Yeah. That's when you know you've got it.

Speaker 177 Yeah, you've got a beat.

Speaker 65 Oh, man.

Speaker 42 Well, Joey, we're so pumped to have you back.

Speaker 94 Want to say a number you're going for?

Speaker 25 I mean, are you going for the record? Are we going to get a record?

Speaker 139 I'm trying to hit that record. 77 would be perfect.

Speaker 139 The last

Speaker 139 anything above 70 is really, really, really tough.

Speaker 139 But yeah,

Speaker 139 if it's good conditions,

Speaker 139 I'll be feeling good.

Speaker 22 Is there like a minute mark where we should look for you to be at a specific number to make 77 possible?

Speaker 139 Oh, man, should I say it? Yeah, if I'm at 50 hot dogs

Speaker 139 in five minutes,

Speaker 139 that's almost a lock.

Speaker 139 That means I have five minutes left. All I have to do is average just over five hot dogs a minute, five and a half hot dogs a minute, and then I'm there.

Speaker 22 Is 100 possible? Will we live to see 100 hot dogs?

Speaker 139 Probably not by me. But yeah,

Speaker 139 I mean, competition.

Speaker 139 I'm a little bummed out. There's nobody pushing me.

Speaker 139 That's the best way for me to get 77. Like last year when I did the contest against Kobayashi, I

Speaker 139 like, all right, I didn't know what he's capable of.

Speaker 84 So I was willing to really just go all out,

Speaker 139 no holding back, and not worried about like on the 4th of July, I'm a little bit worried. Like, if I, if I have a bad burp, it might look like a barf.

Speaker 139 So, so, especially towards the end, so I have to be really careful to make sure I don't have those burps.

Speaker 60 Yep.

Speaker 96 So, so it's

Speaker 139 seven, yeah, 100, 100 be up there. I like the most I've ever, like, even eating after the 10 minutes, the most I've ever gone up to is 90.

Speaker 115 Okay, we've got to push ourselves.

Speaker 22 You, you eat after the 10 minutes?

Speaker 146 Like, you're not full yet? No,

Speaker 139 So I do the 10-minute practice, and then I take a breather, and then I start eating. I try to convince myself, all right, let's eat

Speaker 139 like you did in the beginning. And then so you have to practice eating fast while you're full.
So then you convince yourself that you can do it again.

Speaker 97 You're a beast.

Speaker 22 You're a monster. Yeah.

Speaker 154 You're an absolute.

Speaker 22 I'm so glad that you're back on the 4th of July at Nathan's.

Speaker 129 We're all going to be rooting for you.

Speaker 154 Yeah.

Speaker 22 Let's set some records. Yes.

Speaker 64 Greatest athlete of all time.

Speaker 51 Greatest athlete of all time.

Speaker 3 We'll be saying on 4th of July.

Speaker 97 Thank you. All right.

Speaker 71 Thanks so much, Joey. Thanks, Joey.

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Speaker 22 And now, here's Dingers Only.

Speaker 110 Okay, it's time.

Speaker 117 Dingers Only League, third year in a row.

Speaker 5 For anyone who's not familiar with this, we do this, so this is the third year. Dingers Only, it's our fantasy baseball draft that we do halfway through the season.

Speaker 19 And the only stat is home runs.

Speaker 43 That's it.

Speaker 71 Every team has to draft

Speaker 19 nine positions, every position on the field.

Speaker 5 Obviously, DH instead of pitcher.

Speaker 22 And home runs is it.

Speaker 19 Whoever has most home runs wins.

Speaker 5 Whoever has the least home runs loses and has to get six outs against a college baseball team like PFT did, like Max did.

Speaker 33 Oh, wow.

Speaker 11 Attempted to do.

Speaker 184 Attempted to do. Did you get to it?

Speaker 10 Attempted to do twice, and then there was an unfortunate accident that prohibited that up until baseball season.

Speaker 22 Whose fault was the accident?

Speaker 10 Mine. Hand up accountability.

Speaker 62 Why don't you explain to people what happened?

Speaker 10 Actually, no, I was overserved.

Speaker 132 Oh, so bartender saw the issue.

Speaker 10 I don't have to shout out the exact.

Speaker 22 That's also on you because you should just be able to drink more.

Speaker 10 I was overserved.

Speaker 22 There's no such thing as me being overserved.

Speaker 170 You also could have not drank anything because you were in training for the baseball.

Speaker 173 Yeah, well, whatever, Brandon.

Speaker 107 Oh.

Speaker 107 Fuck.

Speaker 91 By the way, I don't know why I said it like that.

Speaker 92 Brandon was in it last year.

Speaker 5 He's in it again.

Speaker 9 Jerry was in it last year.

Speaker 19 He's in it again. Zach is a new entry, and Stephen Che is a new entry, who was a commissioner last year.
Are we worried at all about Stephen Che being the commissioner and also participating?

Speaker 22 Yeah, I am. I'd just like to say I am.

Speaker 1 You know what? I'm going to match.

Speaker 22 Yeah, because really I'm not. But if he wins somehow, then I'm going to be very, very concerned.

Speaker 3 Would anyone like to double the concern?

Speaker 153 I'll sign off on that.

Speaker 13 All right, so we got match. I'll match.
I'll match Jerry's double.

Speaker 10 Okay, so I trust Steven. I'll say it.

Speaker 22 If Steven wins, I'm going to be going like this.

Speaker 153 Remember who trusted you, by the way.

Speaker 92 So, Max, are you going to do this ever?

Speaker 65 Yeah, we're going to do it.

Speaker 122 Because it kind of ruins dingers only.

Speaker 91 No, we're going to.

Speaker 22 Like, imagine that you're in a fantasy football league, and the person who finishes in last, they don't do their punishment for your friend's fantasy football league until after the draft for next season.

Speaker 22 What do you think should happen to that person?

Speaker 10 I'm willing to take last pick, although that'll make things more confusing.

Speaker 73 No, and also it's a snake draft.

Speaker 41 Yeah.

Speaker 162 So you kind of just gave yourself an

Speaker 13 Are you gonna do it?

Speaker 11 Yes, the how are you gonna do it?

Speaker 22 What steps have you taken recently where advance ourselves into doing this?

Speaker 88 Uh, where are you gonna put it?

Speaker 11 What do you mean, what? Wait, what?

Speaker 22 Where do you want it?

Speaker 170 Probably out on YouTube.

Speaker 10 We'll probably film it, record it, and put it on it.

Speaker 152 Is that what they call it?

Speaker 131 Butthole.

Speaker 41 When do we start talking about butts?

Speaker 146 When is this happening?

Speaker 10 It's happening

Speaker 10 maybe after Grit Week.

Speaker 121 Okay.

Speaker 47 So

Speaker 22 maybe two months from now.

Speaker 22 That's what you're telling the AWLs.

Speaker 92 Well, yeah, the AWLs are upset.

Speaker 17 I think they have every right to be.

Speaker 125 And they have every right to be upset.

Speaker 62 Rightfully so.

Speaker 10 And they have every right to be. But we had two dates set.
Two dates got rained out. And then I broke my foot, and then the college baseball season started.

Speaker 10 And teams aren't going to do that in the middle of the season. Okay.
So it's not like I just didn't try for a year. There was ample amount of trying.

Speaker 162 There was a lot of trying.

Speaker 22 I think you should have have to do four innings.

Speaker 61 Three.

Speaker 22 I think you should double it. Three.
You've waited the whole year.

Speaker 10 This is a negotiation test.

Speaker 22 Shake his three.

Speaker 22 No deal. Shook his hand for three.

Speaker 137 Four.

Speaker 146 Two.

Speaker 164 No, he's going backwards. You're losing.

Speaker 104 Two.

Speaker 61 Get three.

Speaker 22 Two college baseball and then two

Speaker 22 softball. Women's softball.

Speaker 24 Two innings. But that will make it so hard to plan.

Speaker 18 Two innings each.

Speaker 11 Two.

Speaker 45 One and one.

Speaker 134 Okay.

Speaker 92 How about three, plus,

Speaker 64 you have to wear one?

Speaker 65 What? You got to get beamed.

Speaker 10 With what?

Speaker 31 A baseball by a pitcher.

Speaker 11 All of us.

Speaker 11 What?

Speaker 91 All of us get to throw one at you.

Speaker 44 No.

Speaker 91 No deal. Why?

Speaker 153 We can't throw that at you.

Speaker 149 All?

Speaker 134 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 91 No deal.

Speaker 39 Not at the same time.

Speaker 139 One.

Speaker 60 Four.

Speaker 61 One.

Speaker 10 The winner of.

Speaker 10 No, that's a.

Speaker 22 The winner of this.

Speaker 10 I know, because then that would just be buying myself more time.

Speaker 153 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 154 I think three.

Speaker 22 I have to think about getting hit by a pitch for the next year.

Speaker 73 Three innings, two. One.

Speaker 11 Two people. One.

Speaker 48 Three innings, one.

Speaker 137 None of us can throw hard.

Speaker 80 I try.

Speaker 10 It's not. If I went through this entire year and was like,

Speaker 10 and just didn't do a single thing about it, I would be more.

Speaker 13 Well, this year, 2025.

Speaker 10 Yes, the teams were playing.

Speaker 11 But you tried this year. Yeah.

Speaker 63 You tried three innings.

Speaker 54 One guy, one of us gets to be in you, but it has like, they get multiple pitches till they hit you.

Speaker 10 Five pitches.

Speaker 64 You can't duck it, though. It should be ducked.

Speaker 3 You got to stand in the box.

Speaker 73 You can't, like, jump around and shit.

Speaker 82 No, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 46 Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's fine.
Okay, all right. Deal.

Speaker 11 All right. Everyone good with that? Good deal.
All right.

Speaker 44 So three innings. You're going to pitch three innings.

Speaker 42 Okay.

Speaker 74 All right, good. All right.

Speaker 80 All right.

Speaker 10 Good negotiation.

Speaker 35 Should we get to the draft? Anyone got a question about the rules?

Speaker 20 Zach, you got a question about the rules?

Speaker 35 Stephen, you got a question about the rules?

Speaker 143 We discussed outfield.

Speaker 103 As long as they've played that position, left field, center field, right field, at least 10 games, we're good, and they can be in that position.

Speaker 22 You do get a drop, right? You get one drop if your player is accused of

Speaker 22 pedophilia.

Speaker 62 That's the what's his name rule?

Speaker 99 Wander Franco. Wanda Franco.
Wandro.

Speaker 118 I had Wanda Franco. I had to drop him.

Speaker 22 Had to take a stand for what's right. You also get an injury, right?

Speaker 92 You get one injury drop.

Speaker 22 One injury/slash pedophilia, but you have to specify if you're dropping the person for injury or for pedophilia. Okay.

Speaker 3 But it's only one injury. So if you drop someone and then another guy gets injured, you can't.

Speaker 83 And if another guy gets pedophilia.

Speaker 22 It's also one pedophilia.

Speaker 119 Those are separate.

Speaker 22 Yeah, you have to keep the second pedophile.

Speaker 182 Okay. All right.

Speaker 121 Exactly.

Speaker 186 So if you draft two pedophiles, you're out of luck.

Speaker 3 You just hope that they don't get caught.

Speaker 120 But you do hope they get caught eventually.

Speaker 129 I hope they get caught.

Speaker 36 After the season.

Speaker 39 You don't want them to just not ever get caught.

Speaker 15 You just don't want them to get caught while they're on your team.

Speaker 137 Where is Wander Franco these days?

Speaker 82 I think he... Jail?

Speaker 153 I think think he went home. Did he do a DUI recently?

Speaker 80 I think he did something else. I think he added something onto his charge.

Speaker 153 He just went home. Tampa.

Speaker 118 No, that wasn't what I was talking about. That's not where it was.

Speaker 63 He's in court.

Speaker 22 I mean, the smartest thing he could do is to get another charge. And then everyone's like, Wanda Franco isn't that the guy that got

Speaker 93 Wanda Franco.

Speaker 117 He's from the Dominican Republic.

Speaker 62 I think he went. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 87 Prosecutors seek five-year prison term for Franco.

Speaker 22 At least he blew above.

Speaker 92 Oh, that was 42 minutes ago.

Speaker 11 Man, basically.

Speaker 90 He's in court court literally right now.

Speaker 11 Okay.

Speaker 13 Hey, he's currently on Major League Baseball's restricted list after initially being placed on administrative leave. Okay.
So he's restricted.

Speaker 62 But for the record, I dropped him before MLB acted.

Speaker 22 That's true. You were the first person to speak out.

Speaker 75 Credit to me.

Speaker 22 Did you hear about Juan DeFranco? At least he blew above 0.18 this time.

Speaker 123 That's the jokes that would happen if you got a DUI.

Speaker 132 All right.

Speaker 90 We ready to go?

Speaker 1 Let's do it, boys.

Speaker 35 Let's get some juice in here for the Dingers-only League.

Speaker 35 Jerry, you have the first pick in the Dingers-only League draft, and we're going around

Speaker 92 the horn here.

Speaker 19 Snake draft, so Stephen will have the eighth and the ninth pick, and then coming back around.

Speaker 29 Yes, sir.

Speaker 100 Okay. All right.

Speaker 160 My first pick,

Speaker 22 tough one, but looking at the at-bats right now, blows everybody else out the water without at-bats.

Speaker 148 I'm going Shohei Otani. Okay.

Speaker 80 Why did you say that was a tough one? I like that. Well, because

Speaker 150 Judge, you know, judge is there, too.

Speaker 167 Best player in baseball.

Speaker 22 Someone in the

Speaker 11 nice.

Speaker 150 I wanted to pick my guy Judge.

Speaker 22 I'm going to cross off

Speaker 31 for a few minutes, and then I'm going to stop.

Speaker 22 You blew that first pick.

Speaker 146 Just absolutely blew it up.

Speaker 22 You blew that first pick. How? People are going to be studying this draft for years to come, and they're going to look at your first.
That's like Darko Milichik going in.

Speaker 22 He's got

Speaker 22 26 home runs.

Speaker 153 Good. Good for you.

Speaker 132 Is that the Otani draft? Yeah.

Speaker 22 What position does he play? DH.

Speaker 144 Okay. Yeah.

Speaker 46 Interesting.

Speaker 15 Positional value. Zach, you're right.
I think that's pretty good positional value, to be honest with you.

Speaker 184 Okay.

Speaker 114 I would like to take Aaron Judge as my first pick in this draft.

Speaker 76 Okay.

Speaker 184 Is that a bad pick?

Speaker 155 No, it's a great pick. That's an awesome pick.

Speaker 11 Great pick.

Speaker 64 Great fucking pick.

Speaker 103 So I have him as a right fielder. Yeah.

Speaker 146 Yeah. Okay.
Because he plays right field.

Speaker 123 That would be where he plays. Points.

Speaker 153 Okay.

Speaker 119 So

Speaker 170 I am going to.

Speaker 170 Once again, I was rewarded with nothing. I won Dingers-only in a route last year.

Speaker 33 What?

Speaker 10 That's how all of our winning means nothing.

Speaker 65 Max, shut the fuck up.

Speaker 146 I am simply talking.

Speaker 141 Okay, go ahead.

Speaker 170 A member of my team, I got in the eighth round last year. I'm getting him in the first round this year.

Speaker 89 Don't.

Speaker 97 I am doing it.

Speaker 61 Why wouldn't I do it?

Speaker 158 I have to do it.

Speaker 132 I have to do it. I'll trade with you.

Speaker 186 He's so far above everybody else's position.

Speaker 63 I wanted to call him.

Speaker 153 You can't call him.

Speaker 17 I had him last year.

Speaker 92 I had him the year before. I know, but I had him last year.

Speaker 62 I'll make a trade for you. How are you going to trade?

Speaker 156 When we come back around, I'll let you pick in front of me.

Speaker 10 I don't think that we can take his whole second round pick.

Speaker 10 Make him skip his second-round pick.

Speaker 167 Trades are allowed in drafts.

Speaker 80 Well, trades are allowed in. So I get your first-round pick and your second-round pick?

Speaker 35 No, no, you get to jump in front of me. I'll let you jump in front of me the two times, two times in a row that it comes back around.

Speaker 64 So you move up twice.

Speaker 177 Yeah, but I won't be able to get anybody this good.

Speaker 80 I can't. Why?

Speaker 11 Why do you get to just play a guy?

Speaker 39 Three times I'll let you jump.

Speaker 22 I'll just give you my second-round pick.

Speaker 22 Not even a pick swap, just give it to you for this guy.

Speaker 125 For this guy, what are you guys doing?

Speaker 153 How come you're gonna? That's a pretty good deal.

Speaker 10 That's a pretty good deal from PFT.

Speaker 41 I'll give you my second-round pick.

Speaker 154 My second-round pick. All right, fine.

Speaker 146 Just take him, just take him, take it. Cow Raleigh catches him.

Speaker 11 Fuck.

Speaker 62 It's stupid.

Speaker 80 I couldn't not take him.

Speaker 22 No, he's 1-1. Yeah.

Speaker 177 No, I am a little worried he's hit too many home runs so far.

Speaker 61 Yeah.

Speaker 13 It's going to be tough to keep the pace up. Correct.

Speaker 1 What are you doing? Ask him to be on your team.

Speaker 1 All right.

Speaker 41 he's probably at the ballpark or something already.

Speaker 22 It's probably pooping. He's big.

Speaker 65 Might be pooping.

Speaker 29 If he doesn't pick up for Brandon, then he's back on.

Speaker 132 This is your phone.

Speaker 132 He's back on the waiver wire.

Speaker 11 He's your phone.

Speaker 46 He's picking your pick.

Speaker 92 He's back on the waiver wire. He's not answering.
He's back on the waiver wire.

Speaker 80 No, because that's your phone.

Speaker 80 Fuck.

Speaker 11 Kyle Raleigh. Catcher.
All right. He's got 31-home runs.

Speaker 120 I know.

Speaker 1 That was the 1-1 pick.

Speaker 47 The second best catcher had up. Second best catcher at 17.

Speaker 179 Yeah, he's a catcher.

Speaker 137 There's Logan. Logan O'Hope is good, too.

Speaker 22 All right, I'm last year.

Speaker 122 I'll take my my guy Kyle Schwerber then.

Speaker 99 Oh,

Speaker 59 DH, right?

Speaker 63 Left field. Yeah.

Speaker 11 What'd you off for?

Speaker 148 Wait, because I was going to pick him.

Speaker 35 Schwerber's played more than 10 games.

Speaker 153 He definitely wasn't coming back to you. No, I'm not going to be able to do that.

Speaker 117 How many games has Kyle Schwerber played left field?

Speaker 153 Max?

Speaker 95 He's played left field a bunch.

Speaker 41 That's why I did a little squirrel.

Speaker 10 I think you would prefer him at DH.

Speaker 137 You think so? I don't know, Max.

Speaker 185 I think for sure.

Speaker 10 There's so many left fielders.

Speaker 63 There's so many DH?

Speaker 80 They're about the same.

Speaker 11 Okay.

Speaker 28 PFT, you're up.

Speaker 19 Okay, so I guess he's my DH.

Speaker 22 I got to take my guy. I got to take James Wood, Mr.
National, left field, hitter of the highest pop flies you've ever seen.

Speaker 22 James Wood, 22 years old. Love that.
Future face of this league.

Speaker 132 Good pick. That's beautiful.

Speaker 164 Jay Woody.

Speaker 10 I will be taking.

Speaker 19 This is where it gets really boring for the listeners.

Speaker 103 I know.

Speaker 10 You know what?

Speaker 6 You know what? Yeah, what?

Speaker 10 I will be taking PCA.

Speaker 11 Yep. It's a good pick.

Speaker 123 It's a good pick. It's a great pick.

Speaker 22 Inside the park runs count, too.

Speaker 137 It's a great pick.

Speaker 146 Who's that guy, Max?

Speaker 74 MVP.

Speaker 61 And Peter Armstrong.

Speaker 92 Steven was going to take him. I was.

Speaker 11 I was

Speaker 123 a good pick.

Speaker 10 Center field of good positional value. Yep.
Yep.

Speaker 13 All right. I'm going to go

Speaker 13 positional value. I'm up in the air.
I guess I will go

Speaker 13 with Eugeno Suarez of the Arizona Diamondbacks. Third base.
He's got 25 pairs.

Speaker 132 Not even close to how you say his name.

Speaker 11 How do you pronounce it, Brandon?

Speaker 155 Eugenio?

Speaker 165 Eugenio.

Speaker 119 Okay.

Speaker 13 That was way off. A.
Eugenio.

Speaker 13 Suarez.

Speaker 59 That's my pick.

Speaker 13 25 dongs.

Speaker 13 19 to second place. So that's good positional value.

Speaker 187 It's a lot of dongs. Nice.

Speaker 46 Did you say he's third base?

Speaker 13 He's third base.

Speaker 8 Okay, Steven, you have two.

Speaker 13 You Heniel.

Speaker 103 I am going with

Speaker 103 New York Met, Pete Alonso. Okay.

Speaker 41 Polar Bear.

Speaker 167 First.

Speaker 180 You get home run derby home runs.

Speaker 68 No, I think it did.

Speaker 87 I think we said it counts as one home run.

Speaker 82 If you win?

Speaker 39 Yeah, you counts as one home run if you win.

Speaker 11 Oh, sick. Okay.

Speaker 132 I think we did make that rule.

Speaker 155 Very dumb rule.

Speaker 103 And then I am also going positional value. I'm going Logano Hoppy.

Speaker 148 Great pick, Steven. That's great.

Speaker 132 Great pick. Great pick.

Speaker 15 You guys are picking well right now.

Speaker 126 Yeah.

Speaker 37 A lot of good picks.

Speaker 37 All right.

Speaker 13 My next pick, we won last year. We were doing this Tele Blue thing at the Cubs game.
We were there during BP,

Speaker 13 and I watched this guy legitimately hit 15 straight home runs during BP. And I was like, big cat, who the fuck is that guy? His name, Sayak Suzuki.

Speaker 60 Sayak.

Speaker 11 Say yak.

Speaker 179 Pat Sayjak?

Speaker 22 Say yeah.

Speaker 13 Say yeah. Not in town.
Wiz Khalifa.

Speaker 13 Left field. Say yeah, Suzuki.

Speaker 103 So you can do left field or DH.

Speaker 13 You choose left field? I choose left field. Okay.

Speaker 132 Good pick.

Speaker 162 I'm just going to say I'm going to say good pick for every cub.

Speaker 10 Yeah.

Speaker 146 You've said good pick for every player, just about.

Speaker 98 I think your pick was bad.

Speaker 170 You wanted my pick tremendously.

Speaker 41 Very badly.

Speaker 153 We'll still talk. Zach, how do you think this is going?

Speaker 22 We could make a post.

Speaker 11 I think I'm ready for my pick.

Speaker 123 That's going all right. All right.

Speaker 10 A couple of missteps, but I am going to make my second pick with shortstop from the Cincinnati Reds, Allie De La Cruz.

Speaker 11 Good pick.

Speaker 18 Jump over the fucker.

Speaker 67 That's a great. That's a great pick.
That's a fun pick.

Speaker 13 You got to get two fun guys.

Speaker 13 Knox's team is fun right now.

Speaker 22 I wanted him so bad.

Speaker 22 That's fine. I'm going to go with

Speaker 22 Mr. National World Series champion Juan Soto.

Speaker 107 Good pick.

Speaker 22 Right field.

Speaker 164 Right field pick.

Speaker 164 Fuck, fuck, fuck.

Speaker 65 I will go with.

Speaker 6 I need him.

Speaker 74 I'll do Kyle Tucker.

Speaker 148 Right field.

Speaker 133 Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
You say good pick.

Speaker 11 That's a damn good pick.

Speaker 76 Hopefully, they resigned him.

Speaker 170 I will take a right fielder as well. He's way down the board as far as home run lists, but this is a future list.
Ronald Acuna Jr.

Speaker 153 Ooh, that's a good value.

Speaker 59 Good pick, Brandon.

Speaker 3 Good value, Brandon.

Speaker 187 Yep, all his home runs are ahead of him.

Speaker 184 Zach.

Speaker 114 Zach. I would like to go with Salvador Perez.

Speaker 11 Ah. What position is he?

Speaker 137 Catcher. Run on catcher.

Speaker 10 He has not caught this year.

Speaker 11 Oh, boy. Wow, Max.
Oh, boy.

Speaker 153 He hit you with that one.

Speaker 10 I'm pretty sure that most of it.

Speaker 10 Check that, but I'm pretty sure they switch him to DH this year.

Speaker 126 Wow.

Speaker 15 He got you on that one. Shane?

Speaker 123 He did.

Speaker 141 All right.

Speaker 91 You're back up.

Speaker 114 So he's DH?

Speaker 146 Are you picked?

Speaker 10 Did you get any stats on that, Shane?

Speaker 150 According to Shane, he said he's caught 40 times.

Speaker 146 Oh.

Speaker 11 Oh. Okay.

Speaker 46 Okay, I might be wrong.

Speaker 11 Yeah, he is one of the most a little bit of a shot.

Speaker 10 I know. I remember there was a story.

Speaker 1 That should be a fourth inning

Speaker 18 for that mistake.

Speaker 22 There was a story that he hadn't caught at all this year.

Speaker 121 If he wasn't going to catch it all for a year, didn't we talk about it on PMT that

Speaker 114 he switched it? All right,

Speaker 22 Salvador Perez?

Speaker 19 No. Okay, I'm sorry.

Speaker 22 I'm sorry. He was on the Seam Head Express.

Speaker 123 He's a great player. Okay.

Speaker 5 Jerry.

Speaker 150 Yes, I will go with

Speaker 160 first baseman

Speaker 100 Spencer Torkelson.

Speaker 144 Yep, the Tigers.

Speaker 101 The Tigers.

Speaker 3 Good yak gauntlet time.

Speaker 77 No, bad Yak gauntlet time.

Speaker 48 Okay, and you have another pick.

Speaker 41 Oh, okay, perfect.

Speaker 150 I will go with

Speaker 160 DH and I have first base.

Speaker 100 Next up, I will take

Speaker 148 shortstop Francisco Levo.

Speaker 123 Good pick. It's a good pick.

Speaker 22 Really good pick.

Speaker 148 Thank you, guys. Thank you.

Speaker 59 Really fucking good pick, dude.

Speaker 154 How do we feel about taking

Speaker 154 Mets?

Speaker 35 It's the worst podcast we do ever year.

Speaker 22 How do we feel about taking Mets knowing that Frank the Tank is going to scream about how much they suck for the entire season?

Speaker 88 Won't do it.

Speaker 121 Will not.

Speaker 18 I might just take it.

Speaker 158 Will not do it.

Speaker 184 Okay.

Speaker 133 Who's up? Zach.

Speaker 114 I would like Brandon Lowe, second base.

Speaker 123 Lau.

Speaker 114 Brandon Lau, correction.

Speaker 184 Okay.

Speaker 76 First, second baseman off the board.

Speaker 11 Good pick.

Speaker 22 How do you feel about that pick, Zach?

Speaker 114 It was a good pick. Feel decent about it.

Speaker 10 I'm sorry about the Salvador Press thing.

Speaker 152 Oh, good man.

Speaker 114 I appreciate all the information.

Speaker 11 It's huge.

Speaker 22 All the information.

Speaker 7 Someone took Junior Caminaro.

Speaker 74 No.

Speaker 148 Shit.

Speaker 170 Yes, Brandon. I'm working on two guys.

Speaker 170 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 17 Press Marvel.

Speaker 104 That's so hot.

Speaker 22 You going to skiing?

Speaker 170 I've got to keep my Mr. Mistake boys together.
He was also on the team last year. He's going to get hot again.

Speaker 101 D.H.

Speaker 80 Brent Rooker.

Speaker 11 Ooh,

Speaker 146 nice.

Speaker 80 A little early for him, but I want him.

Speaker 170 And

Speaker 132 that feels like a reach.

Speaker 170 He hit 38 home runs last year, Hank.

Speaker 13 We're in 2025, man.

Speaker 22 He said it felt like a reach.

Speaker 46 He said, I'm a ballker.

Speaker 5 I'm going to take

Speaker 19 center fielder Brian Buxton. Okay.

Speaker 71 Byron Buxton.

Speaker 22 Sorry.

Speaker 22 Buxty. I'm going to go with a...

Speaker 22 A friend of PMT, Atlanta Brave, first baseman. Good pick.
Matt Olson.

Speaker 22 I feel great about that pick. That's a great one.
I feel really great about that pick.

Speaker 131 Good pick, PFT.

Speaker 22 Good guy. First team all good guy, too.
Shout out to everyone who's listening right now.

Speaker 131 You're trudging through.

Speaker 22 Voted least likely to be pedophiled amongst his peers in the athletic.

Speaker 1 We are putting Joey Chestnut and Zach Gallen and Meryl Kelly in this show, so it's not.

Speaker 136 You know what I'm saying?

Speaker 5 This wasn't a total loss of a show even though don't listening to us just say names over and over.

Speaker 22 I don't think I saved Matt Olson's number. Big Cat, can you call him real quick? Yeah.

Speaker 22 I just want to tell him because when I got a chance to talk to him in Milwaukee, I said, I'm looking at you for dingers only.

Speaker 133 I'm going to say

Speaker 114 I got your coach on the line.

Speaker 134 Okay.

Speaker 22 Like they do in the drafts. Yeah.

Speaker 155 Okay, hold on one sec. We're 0 for one on these.

Speaker 22 Is he playing right now?

Speaker 160 It is pretty close to game time. It is.

Speaker 93 Also, I don't think I've ever called him.

Speaker 22 He's got three hours.

Speaker 22 Hex playing the Mets. Yeah,

Speaker 22 I don't think he's going to have his phone down.

Speaker 1 Matt, big cat from the Dingers-only League, I'm going to put you on right now with

Speaker 1 the manager that drafted you.

Speaker 22 Hey, Matt Olson, this is PFT Cometer. I just took you in the Dingers-only draft.
I want to say we're excited to have you as part of the program. Let's give him hell this year, buddy.

Speaker 167 Hey, it means a lot.

Speaker 167 Happy to be a part of this program.

Speaker 22 And part of being a part of the program is you get unlimited ice cream at the office whenever you want to stop in. I'll send you a card.

Speaker 167 I did notice that it worked for somebody recently.

Speaker 159 Yep.

Speaker 106 Yeah. Kyle Raleigh.

Speaker 22 There you go, Kyle Raleigh. So anytime you want, 24-7, you're in Chicago, let us know, and you get the ice cream machine.

Speaker 167 Can we move it to the clubhouse for a series?

Speaker 60 No, absolutely not.

Speaker 22 I'm here with Hot Cream Team that we can't do that.

Speaker 22 But you do get access to it on site here at Parcel Sports.

Speaker 127 Okay, sounds like a deal.

Speaker 22 All right. Glad to have you part of the program.
Give him hell. All right.

Speaker 18 Thanks, Coach. Thanks, Matt.
God bless. All right.

Speaker 72 That was nice. See you, Matt.
Thanks.

Speaker 170 That was a nice moment.

Speaker 22 Dingers only.

Speaker 62 By the way, Stephen has a lot of phone numbers of baseball players, so he will have to call anyone who drafts with these guys.

Speaker 131 That's fair.

Speaker 11 Okay.

Speaker 159 Great pick. Max?

Speaker 46 That's your name?

Speaker 10 I'm going to go with

Speaker 10 second baseman Cattell Marte.

Speaker 59 Good one.

Speaker 10 Is that how you pronounce his name, Brandon? Good one.

Speaker 150 It's a really good pick.

Speaker 124 Yeah, sure.

Speaker 88 Really good pick.

Speaker 13 All right, I'm going to go with the guy.

Speaker 13 He missed a lot at the beginning of the year, but he's back now. I think he's going to

Speaker 13 go on a tear to end the year. We're going right fielder, Mike Trout.

Speaker 124 Oh, okay.

Speaker 132 I was just looking up his stuff.

Speaker 11 All right.

Speaker 50 Stephen, would you like to call?

Speaker 47 I knew that was coming. That's why I said that.

Speaker 121 Yeah, I mean I can call him. Yeah, give him a call.

Speaker 164 Oh,

Speaker 167 so

Speaker 158 I get awkward.

Speaker 11 I like the winners. I like the way you're going to get awkward.

Speaker 129 You don't have to call him.

Speaker 88 Okay, no.

Speaker 103 I thought I had an outstanding text to him. I do not.
So yeah.

Speaker 22 An outstanding text.

Speaker 22 What do you think he's doing right now? You think he's reading like Eagles?

Speaker 144 Who is he playing?

Speaker 121 He's been playing. He's playing.

Speaker 159 Yeah, he came back recently.

Speaker 80 He's got 12 homers.

Speaker 22 I'm sure that'll continue.

Speaker 33 All right, here we go.

Speaker 19 You got to tell him he's live or he's on air.

Speaker 31 Yep.

Speaker 35 Is he gonna pick up, you think? I don't know.

Speaker 167 We've talked on the phone a couple times.

Speaker 11 Hank, there's a lot of pressure on you.

Speaker 22 I'd love to be a fly on the wall.

Speaker 127 I mean, we've

Speaker 132 got the fence.

Speaker 131 I knew Mike Trout was going to get picked, and I knew Stephen would have to call.

Speaker 125 Please don't answer. Please don't answer.

Speaker 33 Probably not. Hmm.

Speaker 33 Your call has been.

Speaker 92 All right, no.

Speaker 19 Take a picture of Hank and send him a a text saying Hank just drafts you and dingers only

Speaker 47 Let us know if he gets back to you

Speaker 151 Okay

Speaker 164 All right I'm disoriented now

Speaker 143 Let's go with

Speaker 181 Corbyn Carroll is injured, so I'm not gonna go with him.

Speaker 116 I'm gonna go with right fielder L.A.

Speaker 103 Dodger Teoscar Hernandez.

Speaker 158 The Oscar.

Speaker 131 That's not really how you say his name, Steven.

Speaker 76 Te Oscar Hernandez? That's not it.

Speaker 146 How is it?

Speaker 11 It's the Oscar Hernandez.

Speaker 133 The Oscar Hernandez.

Speaker 170 And this whole draft was leading up to me picking the Oscar Hernandez.

Speaker 113 Yeah.

Speaker 24 You're a real fucking asshole. All right, you have another one.
I share his

Speaker 151 birthday with my son.

Speaker 167 Oh, great. Wow.

Speaker 22 I'm sure he's so excited about that.

Speaker 87 Who do you share a birthday with, Stephen?

Speaker 103 Elmo. Yep.

Speaker 116 Perpetually three and a half years old.

Speaker 103 I'm going shortstop.

Speaker 22 In Spanish for the Mo.

Speaker 167 Shortstop, Dansb.

Speaker 103 Swanson.

Speaker 103 Okay.

Speaker 18 Okay, good pick.

Speaker 18 Good flow. Good pick.

Speaker 184 Thanks.

Speaker 13 All right, this might be a reach, probably, but I'm going to go first baseman, local kid, South Shore, Cohasset, Mass.

Speaker 13 He is a New York Yankee that goes by the name of Ben Rice.

Speaker 11 Okay. Okay.

Speaker 131 Sure, you have the name right?

Speaker 22 We say local kid. You meant

Speaker 22 to you specifically. Yes, yes.

Speaker 127 Yeah.

Speaker 151 What position is he?

Speaker 164 First base.

Speaker 71 Southie?

Speaker 153 Coho.

Speaker 13 Donnie's Donnie's. Southie.

Speaker 22 They call that Southeast. Coho.
In Boston.

Speaker 132 He's a skipper.

Speaker 59 He's wicked strong.

Speaker 164 Clipper, skipper?

Speaker 13 I forget what their mascot was in high school.

Speaker 151 Okay, you're up.

Speaker 15 I am going to go with

Speaker 10 outfielder,

Speaker 10 specifically right fielder. Fernando Tatis Jr.

Speaker 11 Okay.

Speaker 184 Oh, good pick. Bam fine pick.

Speaker 22 A lot of aura.

Speaker 11 Yep.

Speaker 159 I'm going for aura on this one. So much aura.

Speaker 151 Yeah, that's a good pick.

Speaker 104 All right. You're up.

Speaker 22 Really glad this guy fell to me. Colorado Rocky.
First Rocky.

Speaker 22 Positional value, Hunter Goodman.

Speaker 146 Catcher playing at altitude.

Speaker 99 All right.

Speaker 19 I'm going to play a little defense on myself here.

Speaker 113 Let's see.

Speaker 22 Are any of these guys hurt?

Speaker 142 I don't think so.

Speaker 76 Quite possibly.

Speaker 22 Yeah, I'd say it's a high probability.

Speaker 155 Definitely.

Speaker 62 Definitely some hurt, guys.

Speaker 23 You're trying to get my pick before I get my pick.

Speaker 37 You have the pick before me. What value would it be to me?

Speaker 118 What if I lose my time on the clock?

Speaker 146 You're running the clock.

Speaker 76 Your call has been called.

Speaker 29 All right, I'm taking

Speaker 62 front of the program, Christian Yelich.

Speaker 60 Yeah,

Speaker 124 that made sense.

Speaker 131 Is he right field? Left field.

Speaker 74 Left field.

Speaker 151 Okay.

Speaker 170 So I'm going to take a risky pick here. This guy is hurt.
I think he's coming back within a week,

Speaker 75 two weeks, three weeks. I don't know.

Speaker 170 Whenever he's coming back, yeah, I'm doing it, Max.

Speaker 169 God damn it.

Speaker 10 I thought no one was.

Speaker 146 Of course, I'm doing it.

Speaker 101 I was looking at you like you should do it.

Speaker 80 You had plenty of time to do it.

Speaker 185 I know, I know, I understand.

Speaker 101 I think I'm getting great value if he gets back healthy.

Speaker 186 Bryce Harper, a first baseman.

Speaker 3 Oh, that's great value, Brandon.

Speaker 57 Great value. You really love Philly, huh?

Speaker 186 Great value. That's my first Philly.

Speaker 127 Yeah. I do.

Speaker 22 It's important, Philly.

Speaker 11 Great value. Unlike Max.
How are we feeling? feel?

Speaker 114 Feeling okay if it's possible still on the board. I would like to go with

Speaker 114 Junior Camanero from the Tampa Bay, third base.

Speaker 187 Oh, they just cut him.

Speaker 22 That's terrible.

Speaker 153 We're confirmed.

Speaker 116 Okay, well, I'm not going to go with him. He's fine.

Speaker 158 He's fucking fine.

Speaker 116 Okay, I'm going with him.

Speaker 1 Jack, how would you feel pitching against the

Speaker 15 team, a college team?

Speaker 114 Headgear or no headgear?

Speaker 15 You could have a net in front of you if you wanted.

Speaker 114 just don't. I don't know if I can keep it strike so I might hit him with the ball.
I wouldn't want to do that. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 114 I don't throw too fast, but I wouldn't want to hit anybody.

Speaker 131 Okay, but you could do it. You're worried about them.

Speaker 114 I'm not too nice on the mound. Yeah, I don't want anybody with a ball.

Speaker 5 Alright, Jerry, you're up.

Speaker 148 Okay, I'm going to go with.

Speaker 150 He's on my squad last year, I believe.

Speaker 150 Yes, he was.

Speaker 150 Third base, Jose Ramirez.

Speaker 150 Okay.

Speaker 187 It's a damn fine pick. Good pick.

Speaker 150 Thank you so much. And I believe I have another pick, correct?

Speaker 41 Mm-hmm.

Speaker 33 Ooh.

Speaker 137 I will go center field.

Speaker 137 O'Neill Cruz.

Speaker 22 Damn good pick.

Speaker 11 Good one.

Speaker 22 Thanks, guys. Fun player.
Great.

Speaker 73 That's an aura pick, too.

Speaker 22 Yeah, it is. It's a great pick.

Speaker 13 I had him on my board.

Speaker 118 I had him on my board as well.

Speaker 123 I think he was on my board.

Speaker 118 Everyone had him on the board.

Speaker 118 Okay.

Speaker 19 We're about to get to the portion where we start picking guys who have already been picked.

Speaker 123 Yep, yeah. And super hurt guys.
Uh-huh.

Speaker 141 Super hurt guys.

Speaker 11 Just like really hurt guys.

Speaker 187 Some guys that might not be alive.

Speaker 121 Okay.

Speaker 144 You're up.

Speaker 114 Is it possible to go Byron Buxton, center field?

Speaker 153 Oh, he's not a perfect timing.

Speaker 1 I picked him two rounds ago.

Speaker 114 Oh, that's terrible. My bad.
Sorry.

Speaker 11 Okay.

Speaker 141 Terrible.

Speaker 116 I'll go Trent Grisham.

Speaker 144 Okay. Okay.

Speaker 131 Hasn't been picked.

Speaker 121 What's position?

Speaker 114 What position is that? Trent Grisham. He's a center fielder.
Okay.

Speaker 164 Back-to-back center fielders.

Speaker 22 It's about that time.

Speaker 22 You better believe. Yep.

Speaker 20 It is about that time, Brandon.

Speaker 167 Let me call this guy.

Speaker 141 Oh.

Speaker 141 Yep. Alright.

Speaker 22 Got him? Whose number does Brandon have?

Speaker 184 Mississippi State guy.

Speaker 38 Alright. Uh-uh.
Uh-huh.

Speaker 33 Let me just.

Speaker 33 Okay.

Speaker 33 Just call him right now.

Speaker 146 Sorry, guys.

Speaker 146 Yeah, you got this?

Speaker 119 I had to look it up.

Speaker 119 Who's he calling?

Speaker 11 Who do we think he's calling?

Speaker 107 I'm calling my guy.

Speaker 148 Who do we think he's calling?

Speaker 24 Oh, is this us?

Speaker 108 not Stowers?

Speaker 108 Shit.

Speaker 108 Oh, no.

Speaker 159 Is it Oriole?

Speaker 10 Mississippi State?

Speaker 101 Checking Bobby Witt Jr. Oh.
Shortstop.

Speaker 170 Doesn't have that many home runs yet, but he's going to get hot.

Speaker 155 He will get hot. BW.

Speaker 11 Bobby Witt Jr. takes BW.

Speaker 124 He will get hot.

Speaker 64 All right, I'll go. Wait, let me make sure he's not.

Speaker 117 Shortstop.

Speaker 35 I'll go third baseman, Manny Machado.

Speaker 60 Okay.

Speaker 173 Aura. Fun to watch.

Speaker 155 Big time Aura.

Speaker 62 All the pod racers.

Speaker 62 Big time aura.

Speaker 124 Potheads.

Speaker 11 All right.

Speaker 11 PFT.

Speaker 22 Alright, I'm going to go center fielder for the Milwaukee Brewers, Jackson Churio.

Speaker 144 Oh, nice pick.

Speaker 22 Fun name to say, too. Chip Chip.

Speaker 76 Nice Churio. Nice pick.
Nice pick.

Speaker 10 I have a guy that I'm struggling with position.

Speaker 184 Okay.

Speaker 10 Raphael Devers is the pick that I would like to make.

Speaker 11 He struck all of this positions.

Speaker 76 He's listed as a DH.

Speaker 10 How many games has he?

Speaker 103 Oh, he's clarified before.

Speaker 11 Shangy said all of them.

Speaker 103 He's been a DH.

Speaker 22 All of them he's been a DH?

Speaker 132 That was the thing, right? All of them.

Speaker 159 Okay, fine.

Speaker 10 I'll keep him at DH. That's fine.

Speaker 76 Wait, he's listed as third base in baseball?

Speaker 22 In his own words, he said, I am a third baseman, right, Hank?

Speaker 13 Yeah, but he hasn't played third.

Speaker 91 But he said

Speaker 11 for the rules of the

Speaker 124 I just said I'm fine with keeping him at third base.

Speaker 11 Are you fine with keeping it at third base?

Speaker 185 A DH? Yeah.

Speaker 22 It should be up to him.

Speaker 22 Would you think he'd want a DH or do you think he'd rather get a battle?

Speaker 110 Yeah, you might have a clubhouse cancer on your hand.

Speaker 149 That's fine.

Speaker 22 That's tough.

Speaker 13 All right.

Speaker 13 Similar to Mike Trout,

Speaker 13 this guy missed a big chunk of this season.

Speaker 13 I think he made his return on. He's had six at-bats this year.
But he hits bombs. He's going to hit a lot of bombs.
No, he's had 19 at-bats, zero home runs.

Speaker 124 Okay.

Speaker 13 Gian Carlos Stanton. All right.

Speaker 41 Oh. DH.

Speaker 22 Battling back from double elbow tonight is.

Speaker 121 I didn't even know he played baseball still. Yeah.

Speaker 167 What position is he?

Speaker 13 DH.

Speaker 22 We'll probably stay healthy.

Speaker 103 Does he go by Mike now?

Speaker 59 No. No.

Speaker 60 It's been eight years.

Speaker 152 The opposite.

Speaker 103 That's him, though, yeah.

Speaker 107 All right.

Speaker 170 You looked him up and it still says Mike Stanton?

Speaker 103 No, my memory reference bank.

Speaker 62 Your memory reference bank. Your brain?

Speaker 33 Yeah.

Speaker 76 Alright, it's on me.

Speaker 11 Is anybody? Yeah, no, it's memory reference bank.

Speaker 103 Let's go center field.

Speaker 121 Have I taken that? Nope. Let's go.

Speaker 167 Andy Pages.

Speaker 158 Tajes.

Speaker 173 That's a reach.

Speaker 95 Big time reach.

Speaker 66 Really bad pick.

Speaker 45 Is he hurt? No.

Speaker 155 I'm just making fun of it.

Speaker 167 Just a reach.

Speaker 164 Back to back.

Speaker 76 Alright, let's go.

Speaker 164 Center field's off the board.

Speaker 151 Right field's also off the board.

Speaker 22 I love my squad right now.

Speaker 150 I do too.

Speaker 143 Let's go. Uh

Speaker 182 third base.

Speaker 113 Uh Isaac Parides.

Speaker 89 Isak.

Speaker 113 Isak?

Speaker 103 Hopefully he doesn't suck.

Speaker 68 Cub for life.

Speaker 62 He was on the Cubs last year. Oh, hell yeah.

Speaker 13 All right. I'm going to keep.
I'm going for just sex appeal. I'm just going for a lineup that pops off the lineup card.

Speaker 13 I'm going to go Mookie Batts shortstop.

Speaker 13 He's had some injuries. I was just looking at him.

Speaker 29 He's

Speaker 92 nine home runs this year.

Speaker 13 He lost a lot of a toe injury,

Speaker 13 but he's back. He's playing.

Speaker 3 I was looking at it.

Speaker 19 I was looking it up because I was about to maybe take him, but then I looked at it and I was like, oh, maybe it's because he didn't hit home runs when he lost all his weight.

Speaker 43 He only hit one home run this last month. He's had a toe.

Speaker 13 He's battling, but he's, again, like, these are all big-time players that are going to have to contribute going down the stretch and

Speaker 22 live up to their names. Yeah.

Speaker 10 I'm also going to go with the best.

Speaker 13 I mean, Mookie, Mike Stanton, Mike Trout.

Speaker 13 That's a power.

Speaker 124 Yeah, set this one up.

Speaker 123 You just interrupted Max.

Speaker 22 It's okay.

Speaker 10 I'm also going to go for a Vibes guy.

Speaker 10 Again, I'm struggling with his position, but I'm available at both his positions right now. I will be going with Vladdie Jr.

Speaker 141 Okay.

Speaker 141 Team is here?

Speaker 76 I think he is on the Blue Jays.

Speaker 10 I believe he's a first baseman now.

Speaker 10 Not a third baseman anymore.

Speaker 5 How many home runs does he have?

Speaker 10 Not as many as

Speaker 185 you would think.

Speaker 153 He has 10.

Speaker 10 But, you know, you got to go for talent at this.

Speaker 22 That's a fact. Yeah, you got to go for upside.

Speaker 19 You're drafting for upside right now.

Speaker 155 100%.

Speaker 22 I'm going to go with a saber metric pick. I got deep into the math on this.

Speaker 22 Ideally, you want your players to get as many opportunities to hit home runs as possible. Yes?

Speaker 22 Why not take a guy that hits leadoff, shortstop CJ Abrams? He's going to get like four more at bats than some of your guys' clowns.

Speaker 13 That's good saber metrics.

Speaker 22 Why would you say clowns? Because you guys got a bunch of clowns on your team.

Speaker 41 That's kind of mean. He's right.

Speaker 22 It's true.

Speaker 22 I will go with shortstop

Speaker 35 Jeremy Pena

Speaker 19 from the Houston Astros.

Speaker 19 Pena

Speaker 22 Spanish for pineapple.

Speaker 103 Seven of eight teams right now have a short stop.

Speaker 167 It's a big swinger.

Speaker 22 Oh, that was a mistake, then.

Speaker 133 I'm going to side knew that where you could wait on, but just no idea.

Speaker 170 I'm going to go.

Speaker 162 Whoever does have a short stop, don't.

Speaker 11 I have a pick'em. That's me.

Speaker 164 Yeah.

Speaker 11 No, I got Bobby. Never Bob.

Speaker 80 Left fielder. Okay.

Speaker 101 Has anybody picked Taylor Ward?

Speaker 24 No.

Speaker 170 Then I'm picking Taylor Ward.

Speaker 123 Who does he play for?

Speaker 177 The Angels.

Speaker 22 No, that's a bad pick.

Speaker 22 Taylor Ward? That is generic player number 45.

Speaker 179 Shit, can I change my pick?

Speaker 187 This is just called Dingers only, right? We're just hitting Dingers.

Speaker 187 I'm not worried about sex appeal.

Speaker 132 I'm not worried about Taylor Ward.

Speaker 22 I'm drafting player first name, last name.

Speaker 170 If you met a girl named Taylor Ward, she's hot as fuck.

Speaker 111 Yeah, if she's a chick.

Speaker 74 Yeah.

Speaker 170 How do you know mine isn't a chick? That's a good point.

Speaker 35 Can I switch my pick if the person picks up?

Speaker 132 Yes.

Speaker 61 No.

Speaker 10 If the person picks up, he's going to get his next pick.

Speaker 133 No, what are you talking about?

Speaker 62 If he's shortstop, everyone else has a shortstop.

Speaker 125 Who are you throwing back?

Speaker 133 I would have rather had Gunner Henderson just because I could root for him instead of Jeremy Pena.

Speaker 121 Oh.

Speaker 15 Can I just do that?

Speaker 11 You have to call him. I'm actually fine.

Speaker 41 Yes, pick up. I'm actually fine with that.

Speaker 29 I mean, everyone has a shortstop.

Speaker 61 I know.

Speaker 10 But I just wanted to see him pick up.

Speaker 73 All right, fine, fine, fine.

Speaker 19 If he picks up, otherwise I'm keeping

Speaker 58 Jeremy Pena.

Speaker 170 And whoever doesn't have a short stop, just pick Gunner Henderson whenever you want.

Speaker 103 Gunner hasn't responded to me since I asked him to go on a spot.

Speaker 127 You're not damn.

Speaker 141 What, since you what?

Speaker 76 You guys made me ask him that.

Speaker 76 Fuck, he's not going to pick up.

Speaker 71 Damn it.

Speaker 19 Alright, I guess I got Jeremy Pena.

Speaker 22 He's a fine player. Yeah, I know.

Speaker 23 I just wanted to root for Gunner Henderson. I was stupid.

Speaker 22 I don't know why I did that.

Speaker 20 He's only hit eight home runs, so I didn't see him on the board.

Speaker 41 Hey, this is Gunner Henderson.

Speaker 11 Fuck.

Speaker 121 Oh, that's a strong message.

Speaker 35 All right, Jeremy Pena.

Speaker 1 Be a hero.

Speaker 22 Hey, it's me, Gunner Henderson.

Speaker 22 But you already knew that.

Speaker 117 He's going to be so mad when he finds out he didn't get drafted.

Speaker 11 Oh, one person

Speaker 11 still.

Speaker 41 Yeah, he might still.

Speaker 35 Who still needs a shortstop?

Speaker 170 Does anybody know?

Speaker 33 Okay.

Speaker 82 Don't draft him right now, but

Speaker 92 you know what?

Speaker 133 If you draft Gunner, I'll trade you, Jeremy Pena.

Speaker 114 Can I think about it? Yeah.

Speaker 131 Awesome.

Speaker 151 All right. All right.

Speaker 133 What'd you decide?

Speaker 131 I'll go next, right?

Speaker 133 Yeah, but what'd you decide about the trade?

Speaker 11 Oh, right now? Yeah.

Speaker 143 Oh, uh.

Speaker 114 You feel good about Pena this year?

Speaker 131 I mean, he's got 11 brothers.

Speaker 80 He obviously doesn't feel good about him.

Speaker 55 No, it's literally, I do feel good about him.

Speaker 62 I just would rather have Gunner Henderson, but it's fine.

Speaker 114 You don't have to. Is it cool if I keep...

Speaker 114 Can we think about mid-season, mid-season, maybe a swap? Can we table it till now and I go Gunner? The deal is now officially off the table.

Speaker 184 Okay, that's fine. Okay.

Speaker 114 All right, we won't trade then.

Speaker 131 Go ahead. Make your pick.

Speaker 114 I got you. Sorry about that.
I'm going to go with.

Speaker 114 Has Ezekiel Tover been taken? Nope. I would like to take Ezekiel Tover.

Speaker 121 Okay.

Speaker 167 What position is that, young man?

Speaker 114 Shortstop.

Speaker 167 Wait.

Speaker 11 You soon you're not taking cards.

Speaker 149 And you also take his shirts off when you didn't need to.

Speaker 46 Everyone else already know.

Speaker 11 We just had this conversation.

Speaker 17 It's three home runs.

Speaker 11 Three home runs. Why are you taking him?

Speaker 114 I was just trying to keep track of who was taken and who wasn't taken. I know he was on the non-taken board.
And Ezekiel sounds like a strong name. I was really going off first name.

Speaker 10 I thought you were like friends with him.

Speaker 114 No, I don't have too many guys. I don't know too many guys in MLB, but I feel like

Speaker 114 he might be a stick later in the season.

Speaker 88 Terrible pick.

Speaker 131 That's fair. Yeah.

Speaker 127 Okay.

Speaker 36 Jerry, you're up.

Speaker 100 All right. I need a second baseman.

Speaker 74 I will go. Ooh, okay.

Speaker 148 I will go with

Speaker 153 Jackson Holiday. You bitch, motherfucker.

Speaker 146 Yeah, I'll go with him.

Speaker 22 I like him. It's a good pick.
Good pick.

Speaker 152 Good pick. Great pick.
Great pick.

Speaker 100 And then

Speaker 148 this is going to be a reach, because I don't think this guy has zero home runs this year.

Speaker 160 Okay. He plays left field.

Speaker 46 Oh, a right.

Speaker 92 Left fielder with zero home runs is hard to do.

Speaker 137 Jordan Alvarez.

Speaker 11 Oh, that's pretty.

Speaker 76 Is he hurt?

Speaker 97 Yeah.

Speaker 160 He is hurt.

Speaker 150 He is returning sometime in the next two months.

Speaker 148 Month and a half. Yeah.

Speaker 11 Okay. That's good.

Speaker 63 He hits home runs. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 19 Astros, Jordan Alvarez, no progress.

Speaker 80 I'm pretty sure they count the cracker.

Speaker 22 I think I drafted him last year right when he went on the sort of like a 60-day DL. Yeah.

Speaker 22 He's a great player when he plays.

Speaker 150 He's returning, though, they said.

Speaker 22 Yeah, that's what they said last year. What was the last update?

Speaker 101 No problem.

Speaker 22 No progress.

Speaker 150 We'll see. I read a different report.

Speaker 41 We'll see. Yeah, we'll see.

Speaker 82 I mean, listen, if he. We don't know.

Speaker 22 Nobody knows. Yeah.

Speaker 150 I know he was supposed to. I think he was a setback.

Speaker 62 Yeah, we'll see. Yeah, but we're good.

Speaker 22 Well, no progress means no bad progress either. True.

Speaker 119 All right.

Speaker 162 Back up, Zach.

Speaker 114 All right, would it be possible to

Speaker 114 take Brent Rooker, or has Brent Rooker been drafted?

Speaker 187 He's been on my team for about 45 minutes. That's fair.

Speaker 114 I missed that one on the lineup. It won't happen against our Brandon.

Speaker 144 Ezekiel. One day again.

Speaker 92 He's just picking guys that no one would have drafted.

Speaker 114 Ian Hap of the Cubs. He's available.

Speaker 62 Great pick. Very much so.

Speaker 88 That's a great pick.

Speaker 11 It's red hot right now.

Speaker 62 Two home runs on Friday.

Speaker 19 Which, if you're listening to this right now, was like two weeks ago.

Speaker 22 Yeah.

Speaker 170 Center fielder of the Seattle Mariners,

Speaker 37 Julio Rodriguez.

Speaker 82 Ooh, good one.

Speaker 170 Has 10 home runs, but is averaging 29 over the last three years.

Speaker 22 J-Rod.

Speaker 141 Good one.

Speaker 11 Good one.

Speaker 19 All right, I'll take Michael Bush, first baseman.

Speaker 146 Okay.

Speaker 22 I'm going to go with Matt Chapman, third baseman, Giants.

Speaker 152 Good pick, PFT. Good picking.
Good pick, PFT.

Speaker 10 Has anyone taken Riley Green, left fielder for the Tigers yet?

Speaker 22 That's a hot-sounding name.

Speaker 140 Yeah, Riley Green sounds like a trend.

Speaker 42 That chick has got Oli fans.

Speaker 41 I was sure she was

Speaker 144 really shiny. I'm going to click on the Olympic

Speaker 22 hammers.

Speaker 131 Pifty, who did just take?

Speaker 22 I took Matt Chapman. Okay, thanks.

Speaker 13 I feel like this person's been taken from the Colorado Rockies catcher, Hunter Goodman.

Speaker 132 Yep, he has.

Speaker 11 Yeah, wild.

Speaker 126 I got him a long time ago.

Speaker 13 It felt like that was true. Yeah.

Speaker 35 Good intuition.

Speaker 47 How does he play into this team?

Speaker 35 Really good intuition.

Speaker 22 Your aura team, Hank.

Speaker 22 He didn't.

Speaker 13 He just was high up on the board, which is why he had been taken already.

Speaker 124 All right.

Speaker 13 Oh, man. This is tough now.
All right. I'm going to go just because I loved his walk-up song

Speaker 13 in 2016.

Speaker 62 Javi Baez. Nice.
I'm in love.

Speaker 13 He's back. He's back.

Speaker 11 He's back.

Speaker 131 What's his position?

Speaker 13 He's a center fielder for the Tigers.

Speaker 76 Good pick.

Speaker 167 Oh, he got traded for PCA, right?

Speaker 103 Yeah.

Speaker 167 Correct.

Speaker 33 I am going with.

Speaker 117 It's great being around Steven because his baseball knowledge literally started this year.

Speaker 103 I am going with...

Speaker 164 What's his favorite?

Speaker 103 Left field, New York Mets, Brandon Nimmo.

Speaker 11 Okay.

Speaker 131 Frank's going to be mad about that one.

Speaker 131 And then

Speaker 103 I will go with a designated hitter.

Speaker 59 I believe that's his position. Let me double-check.

Speaker 22 We should give Frank a team and

Speaker 22 have it be all mets.

Speaker 22 He just gets all the mets.

Speaker 13 This is going to be analytics picks.

Speaker 13 Good pick. Analytics pick.

Speaker 13 Short porch in Right Field. Jazz Chisholm, second base.

Speaker 146 That's just a real solid pick.

Speaker 184 That was a real solid pick.

Speaker 10 I will be taking catcher,

Speaker 10 not to be confused with actor Will Smith.

Speaker 170 Which one are you taking?

Speaker 10 The catcher, not the actor.

Speaker 141 Okay.

Speaker 22 The actor also hits.

Speaker 11 So I'm only taking that, right?

Speaker 22 I got to pick a DH here. Actually, my favorite part of this Dingers-only draft is when they do the team that we didn't draft.
Yeah. That we should have drafted.

Speaker 35 Shane, are you working on that?

Speaker 5 Or memes?

Speaker 22 It's memes?

Speaker 10 Shane just tried to talk. I don't don't know if you have a mic anywhere near.

Speaker 46 I don't know how.

Speaker 170 I can.

Speaker 131 Okay, do it right now.

Speaker 22 Okay, so I'm up, and

Speaker 22 I am going to be taking.

Speaker 22 Has anybody took Wilmer Flores yet?

Speaker 170 I have not heard his name. No, no.

Speaker 22 The designated hitter Wilmer Flores.

Speaker 187 You sure he's still in the league?

Speaker 22 He's hit 11 home runs this year.

Speaker 22 Yeah. And the 11 is red, which I think means.

Speaker 74 Good. Good.

Speaker 22 Also, fun fact about him, Wilmer Flores Bio.

Speaker 22 He is the brother of Wilmer Flores. I'll be goddamn.

Speaker 11 Wow.

Speaker 22 So there are two Wilmer Floreses. That's sick.

Speaker 170 Which one did you take?

Speaker 22 I took Wilmer Flores. Cool.

Speaker 19 Has anyone taken Mr.

Speaker 35 October Tommy Edmund?

Speaker 82 I have not. Dodger? Okay, yeah.

Speaker 162 He's good. I'm going to take him.
Great pick.

Speaker 19 Mr. October.

Speaker 131 I have an issue.

Speaker 5 By the way, this, by the way, just so we're all clear, the official first day of this league is July 2nd, Wednesday, July 2nd.

Speaker 62 So these home runs don't count.

Speaker 184 No home runs count for the next eight days.

Speaker 170 Last year, y'all did the same thing, and then you started a text message saying, should we just start now?

Speaker 155 No. Are we going to do that again? No.

Speaker 11 Just depends on how many home runs you're going to do. Is that?

Speaker 124 Yes. Yeah.

Speaker 186 I think last year it was like, should we just start today?

Speaker 101 Should we just start today?

Speaker 170 No, whatever.

Speaker 89 Okay.

Speaker 11 It doesn't really matter. I have a guy who I

Speaker 35 would like to vote yes if you'd like to start today.

Speaker 146 What's today? Today.

Speaker 80 Today, today or today when it comes out?

Speaker 155 Today, tomorrow. Today.
Today, today.

Speaker 117 This day. This 23rd.

Speaker 101 No, it should start July 2nd. Okay.

Speaker 146 Whenever Bryce Harper gets picked.

Speaker 11 What position is your guy?

Speaker 131 Second baseman. Okay.
Tell me about that.

Speaker 50 Who'd you say? Mr. October.

Speaker 50 Yes.

Speaker 74 I have a problem.

Speaker 170 I have a guy that has almost assuredly been picked, but I haven't heard him be picked, and I haven't scratched him off. So I'm going to ask, and he's definitely been picked.

Speaker 170 So just tell me he's been picked.

Speaker 46 Okay.

Speaker 101 Who's got Jose El Tuve?

Speaker 76 He's not been picked. He's not been picked.

Speaker 146 I'd like to pick Jose El Tuve, second baseman for the good pick.

Speaker 11 Houston.

Speaker 155 Houston is not as good as Tommy Edmond.

Speaker 170 He has way more home runs.

Speaker 31 Than Tommy Edmond?

Speaker 165 Yeah.

Speaker 170 Are you sure about that? I know, because Tommy Edmond's not even on my second-base list.

Speaker 29 How many home runs does Jose El Tuve have?

Speaker 76 Twelve.

Speaker 162 Tommy Edmond has 10.

Speaker 103 Not way more.

Speaker 5 A few more.

Speaker 151 Yeah.

Speaker 114 Has anyone drafted a Ben Rice from the New York team?

Speaker 11 How do I keep doing doing this?

Speaker 114 I got my list swapped.

Speaker 152 It was my fault.

Speaker 114 Yandy Diaz. Taken.
Also been taking.

Speaker 1 Jose Altuve still been playing all second base.

Speaker 92 He's been playing left field.

Speaker 170 It said second base on the thing that I Google.

Speaker 136 Yeah, but he's been playing left field.

Speaker 170 I think he's enough second base that he should be a second baseman still. Correct, Shane.

Speaker 103 I'm looking.

Speaker 170 All right, can you all look?

Speaker 11 Okay.

Speaker 11 All right.

Speaker 33 Okay.

Speaker 170 We're good? Yeah.

Speaker 31 That's why I was more upset at myself because I didn't see him on my second baseman list.

Speaker 114 Vinny Pascantino

Speaker 164 Who's that first base

Speaker 121 Royals that is correct?

Speaker 131 Yep

Speaker 151 Pick him.

Speaker 131 That's who we're picking. All right

Speaker 5 Jerry perfect.

Speaker 150 I will do I need a catcher.

Speaker 62 This is the last round or not not this big

Speaker 148 I need a catcher

Speaker 41 Yeah, fuck it.

Speaker 148 Let's go with um

Speaker 148 Let's go with Wells God damn it Austin Wells god damn it wasn't gonna make it to you hank austin wells let's go with him fucking damn it

Speaker 148 catcher okay now i need a oh oh

Speaker 137 my right field there

Speaker 144 okay i will go

Speaker 150 man i don't know much about this guy

Speaker 150 but a name sounds like he hits home runs and i remember uh a couple postseasons ago he was heading home runs

Speaker 148 nick castell castellanos yeah he's had a good year.

Speaker 10 His power numbers have been a little bit down.

Speaker 88 All right. I'll go with him.

Speaker 146 My right filter.

Speaker 121 Perfect.

Speaker 131 Zach, you need a DH.

Speaker 114 Is Saya Suzuki available?

Speaker 59 No. No, not there.

Speaker 13 You're just looking at my draft.

Speaker 11 I think he was a second-round pick.

Speaker 158 Was he a second-round pick?

Speaker 127 Third or fourth, yeah.

Speaker 121 Second pick, tenth overall.

Speaker 152 Solid pick. Tenth overall.

Speaker 11 Great value.

Speaker 22 I mean, that would have been an awesome pick if you had gotten it.

Speaker 101 I'll go to Jonathan Arada.

Speaker 164 Okay.

Speaker 141 Okay.

Speaker 131 Designate hitter 10 Bay Dev Rays.

Speaker 22 Okay. Just the Rays now.

Speaker 152 10 Bay Rays. Yep.

Speaker 167 Brandon needs a third baseman.

Speaker 22 Eight years ago. Eight? Maybe more.

Speaker 170 Another injury guy coming back.

Speaker 76 Jordan Westberg, Baltimore Orioles, third base.

Speaker 11 We're here in school.

Speaker 170 Mississippi motherfucking state.

Speaker 170 All right.

Speaker 179 I'm going to take

Speaker 46 an

Speaker 28 injured player, but he's got a lot of pop.

Speaker 29 He's got 10 home runs in how many at-bats?

Speaker 23 200 at bats.

Speaker 71 Shea Langliers. Okay.

Speaker 19 He should be back. I just Googled it.
He should be back in the next week or two.

Speaker 22 Yeah. So Jackson Holiday, we've ruled him as a shortstop.

Speaker 10 No, someone already picked him. I picked him.

Speaker 131 Oh, he picked a second baseman, right? Yeah.

Speaker 76 You need a second baseman.

Speaker 22 I need a second baseman, yep. So I will be going with

Speaker 22 at second base

Speaker 22 Ozzy Albius.

Speaker 11 That's a good pick. Atlanta Braves.
Good pick. That's a good pick.
That's a good pick. Thanks.

Speaker 15 Mostly because it's a name I recognize.

Speaker 10 I guess this is the injured round here where someone takes someone who is going to be off of injury soon.

Speaker 10 I will be taking third baseman, Alex Bregman.

Speaker 151 Good pick. Great pick.
Great pick.

Speaker 15 Would you like to call him, Chase?

Speaker 187 Damn, I should have done that.

Speaker 127 Bregman? Yeah.

Speaker 127 No, please don't answer.

Speaker 33 He'd be likely to pick up. We'll see.

Speaker 22 Every article about Ozzy Albis is about how bad the current slump that he has.

Speaker 155 He has been awful.

Speaker 170 But he's going to be better.

Speaker 186 He should be be better. He only has six home runs.

Speaker 132 No outstanding test. He's going to hit 25.

Speaker 22 I think getting drafted on this team is the spark that he needs.

Speaker 170 I think he's betting 100 for June.

Speaker 13 All right. I'm going to go

Speaker 13 recurring guest, friend of the program, catcher for the Seattle Mariners.

Speaker 127 Cal Raleigh.

Speaker 184 Great pick. Great pick.

Speaker 80 Thank you.

Speaker 41 Oh, Bregman's calling back.

Speaker 72 Oh, there we go. Nice.

Speaker 35 Hand it to Max.

Speaker 103 Tell him we're doing the dingers. Alex, what's up, buddy?

Speaker 103 Yeah, we are doing.

Speaker 103 You are on Pardon My Take right now. I'm going to pass you to Max.
You've just been drafted in the Dingers Only League.

Speaker 10 What is that?

Speaker 10 Hey, Alex,

Speaker 10 pleasure to speak with you right now. I just want you to know that you have been drafted by Team Max to the Dingers-only League and Part of My Take.
Do you accept?

Speaker 127 I don't even know what that is.

Speaker 159 All right. All right.
That's cool.

Speaker 134 I don't know what it is.

Speaker 10 It is a fantasy baseball league between the members of Part of My Take, plus a few more, and it's just a fantasy baseball league, homers only.

Speaker 10 How's your health? You feeling good?

Speaker 184 Feeling good, bro.

Speaker 10 You'll be back soon. I love that.
Love that. Thanks for joining my team.

Speaker 11 Have a good one. I don't know if he did join your team.

Speaker 170 I don't think he accepted it.

Speaker 17 You were too nervous, Max.

Speaker 11 I was nervous. You couldn't wait to get off the phone.

Speaker 11 I was nervous. I was nervous.

Speaker 17 Sham, dude.

Speaker 35 Maybe send him a follow-up text, Chey, and be like, sorry for Max.

Speaker 43 He's a a loser.

Speaker 80 I thought that was pretty.

Speaker 10 I thought that went pretty smoothly.

Speaker 104 You blew that.

Speaker 10 I saw that went pretty smoothly.

Speaker 11 Zach, what do you think you were so funny?

Speaker 114 I thought it was on our first interaction with somebody. I feel like it went pretty decent.

Speaker 10 I was pretty.

Speaker 80 Yeah.

Speaker 47 I don't know why.

Speaker 10 Check, clean that up.

Speaker 11 There's something about a phone call that's matter.

Speaker 92 Max, look at it. Clean that up.
I don't want Bregman to hate us.

Speaker 46 What? Yeah.

Speaker 103 Your thumb is completely blocked in your face.

Speaker 141 Okay.

Speaker 129 All right, Steven.

Speaker 13 Bregman's been drafted.

Speaker 153 Wait, who did you take?

Speaker 41 Wait, who'd you take it?

Speaker 76 What are you doing?

Speaker 76 Fuck.

Speaker 13 We thought we were going to move on.

Speaker 13 Has anyone taken August

Speaker 13 Austin Ramirez

Speaker 13 of the Miami Marlins? No. All right, I'll take him.

Speaker 22 Good pick. Great pick, Hank.

Speaker 15 I had him on my board.

Speaker 22 He's actually better than Cal Rowley.

Speaker 48 Steven,

Speaker 43 last pick. Mr.
Irrelevant. Mr.

Speaker 103 Irrelevant. I'm just checking to make sure this guy is healthy.

Speaker 103 He's got an absolutely dynamite name.

Speaker 76 Oh, yep.

Speaker 62 He's hitting like 150. This could be anybody.

Speaker 103 He might be.

Speaker 103 Second baseman.

Speaker 37 Arizona Diamondbacks.

Speaker 47 Tim Tawa.

Speaker 155 Dynamite.

Speaker 170 That's a dynamite name, too.

Speaker 11 Tim Tawa? Yeah.

Speaker 11 Okay.

Speaker 41 I feel like we left a lot of people. Wait, who's World Carroll?

Speaker 153 Yeah.

Speaker 13 Augustine Ramirez.

Speaker 132 I don't want to say third base.

Speaker 41 We left a couple guys.

Speaker 124 Well, Corbin Carroll.

Speaker 126 Corbin Carroll's out there.

Speaker 153 But he's hurt.

Speaker 117 How hurt, though? I don't know. You think he's getting an MRI, but he has 20 home runs.

Speaker 22 I think I drafted all guys from the National League. How is that possible?

Speaker 144 Yeah.

Speaker 22 Entirely National League?

Speaker 22 Everybody on my team is in the National League.

Speaker 117 Corbin Carroll is a big miss.

Speaker 13 Big miss. Big mess.
They think somebody

Speaker 11 can stash him.

Speaker 105 Well, you can't stash him. We don't have any.

Speaker 101 Oh, you're saying he's stash him and just eat his non-home runs at all.

Speaker 186 So it's a race to see whose right fielder gets hurt first.

Speaker 121 Yeah.

Speaker 22 Memes, who'd we miss?

Speaker 114 Anybody take Freddie Freeman?

Speaker 144 Nope, nope.

Speaker 141 Yeah, first base.

Speaker 170 Soderstrom is a really good hitter, too.

Speaker 184 Okay.

Speaker 184 Who else?

Speaker 138 Want me to go down the list right now? Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 138 Sean Murphy, catcher. Okay.

Speaker 167 Raves.

Speaker 138 Tommy Edmond. Nope.

Speaker 62 Nope. Got him.

Speaker 6 Yes.

Speaker 22 That feels good. Sean Murphy might not be the best hitting catcher on that team.

Speaker 77 That feels really good, knowing that I got a pick that the baseball guys knew.

Speaker 84 Daniel Schneeman, the Guardians, for second base.

Speaker 138 Zach Netto for shortstop.

Speaker 166 Austin Riley, third base.

Speaker 153 Okay. It's not a bad year.

Speaker 138 Tyler Soderstrom, centerfield, Joe Adell.

Speaker 84 And then right field, Corbin Carroll.

Speaker 68 Okay, I think we did pretty good.

Speaker 151 Yeah.

Speaker 117 I think that was a good draft, boys.

Speaker 13 I love my team. My team pops off.

Speaker 144 I love my team.

Speaker 10 Yeah, Hanks, you said something early of like...

Speaker 13 If you posted this lineup card, you said that.

Speaker 116 Yeah, that you wanted like a star power, and that's what I kind of went for.

Speaker 35 Read your team real quick.

Speaker 13 Eugenio

Speaker 13 Ehu Denio Suarez. Uh-huh.

Speaker 11 Nailed it.

Speaker 22 Sia Suzuki, Mike Trout, Ben Rice,

Speaker 13 Drew and Carlos Stanton, Mookie Betts, Javi Baez, Jazz Chisholm. Yeah.
Augustin Ramirez.

Speaker 91 Everyone say their name.

Speaker 136 So you want to say it all of our name?

Speaker 11 I think. I'm Brandon.
No, I know.

Speaker 22 I actually think if you put my line up

Speaker 22 next to Hank, I think mine pops with Aura just as well. I forgot.

Speaker 11 I think mine pops better.

Speaker 159 No, I think it pops more as well.

Speaker 184 Are you doing a pop-up?

Speaker 18 Yeah, yeah, let's pop off. Let's pop off.
All right, pop off with him.

Speaker 22 Hank, you listen to this. Tell me guy for guy.

Speaker 22 James Wood, Juan Soto, Matt Olston, Matt Olson, Hunter Goodman, Jackson Churio, C.J. Abrams, Matt Chapman, Wilmer Flores, Ozzie Alves.

Speaker 13 Yeah, no, there's no.

Speaker 46 The end up there.

Speaker 60 The end of their arrival.

Speaker 186 I'm popping so harder than than Zero Pops.

Speaker 10 No, I'm popping harder. I'm popping harder.

Speaker 11 Caesar want to pop, I'm winning. Yeah, let's.
You pop.

Speaker 10 You pop first and then I pop. Cal Riley.

Speaker 18 Last guy to pop has to eat the three.

Speaker 10 Cal Riley pops.

Speaker 80 Ronald Lacuna. Yeah.
Pops. Bryce Harper.
Yeah. Pops.

Speaker 101 Julio Rodriguez. Bobby Witt Jr.
Jose El Tuve. Pops.

Speaker 131 Yep.

Speaker 170 Now I go Brent Rooker, Taylor Ward, Jordan Westbrook. I didn't pop.

Speaker 132 Taylor Ward, Bryce. So can I pop?

Speaker 159 I mean, Mike State.

Speaker 134 I'm popping better than that.

Speaker 10 Will Smith. Nah.

Speaker 124 Nah.

Speaker 10 Vladdy Jr. A little pops.
Marte.

Speaker 10 Bregman. Pops.

Speaker 159 Ellie. Bregman then pops.

Speaker 11 Pops.

Speaker 124 Bregman Pops. Breggman Pops.

Speaker 143 Pops. Bregman Pops.

Speaker 10 Ellie De La Cruz, Riley Green, PCA, Tatis, Devers. All right, that's a good pop.

Speaker 13 Pretty good. That's a good pop.

Speaker 11 You want to hear my pop?

Speaker 74 There's a lot of pop in there.

Speaker 2 All right, to start, I'll just throw this Shay Langlier's, whatever.

Speaker 118 Michael Bush is good.

Speaker 19 Tommy Edmund.

Speaker 43 Gunner Henderson.

Speaker 63 Pop.

Speaker 76 Oh, wait, did you make that trade?

Speaker 11 Oh, wait. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 141 Fuck.

Speaker 3 Jeremy Pena, Manny Machado, Christian Yellich, Pops, Kyle Tucker.

Speaker 110 Pops.

Speaker 37 Kyle Schwarber. Pops.

Speaker 86 Byron Buxton.

Speaker 132 All right. Decent pop.

Speaker 3 I mean, I have two.

Speaker 144 I have the Kyles.

Speaker 132 Guys, I think this is.

Speaker 149 I have the Kyles.

Speaker 11 Kyle Schwarber and Kyle Tucker.

Speaker 22 This is going to be the most competitive year of Dingers Only ever.

Speaker 11 You want to pop, Jerry? I'll pop a little bit. Pop it off.

Speaker 160 First base, Spencer Torkelson.

Speaker 60 Okay.

Speaker 60 Wow.

Speaker 15 D.H., Otani. Okay.

Speaker 11 Shortstop.

Speaker 137 Shortstop, Lindor.

Speaker 160 Center field, O'Neill Cruz.

Speaker 150 Third base, Jose Ramirez.

Speaker 150 Second base, Jackson Holliday.

Speaker 134 I could pop.

Speaker 11 Left tail.

Speaker 39 Jordan Alvarez. Pop.

Speaker 132 Well, he's definitely.

Speaker 10 I don't think he's going to play for the rest of the year.

Speaker 22 The pop was actually.

Speaker 22 The name is Pop, though.

Speaker 10 So the name is.

Speaker 11 The name is Pop. Name is Pop.
The name is Pop.

Speaker 144 Catcher on Pop is Labram.

Speaker 22 Okay.

Speaker 150 And right fielder, Castellanos.

Speaker 133 That's Pop. Yeah, Pop.
What do you got, Steve?

Speaker 143 Hello, Pop.

Speaker 103 Catcher, Logan O'Hopy.

Speaker 76 Sick name.

Speaker 22 Your definition for a sick name

Speaker 185 is Logan O'Hopy?

Speaker 159 It's just names. It's really weird.

Speaker 22 Oh, it's a cool name.

Speaker 103 Pete Alonso, first base.

Speaker 76 Second base. Matt yeah i hate it tim tawa that's a cool name

Speaker 103 how could that be the coolest tim towa uh shortstop dansby swanson swag oh god

Speaker 179 third base ice

Speaker 76 isach paredes isoch paredes no pop uh the left field brandon nimmo this is the least amount of pop can we agree that this team well we haven't heard that yet

Speaker 47 center field andy pajes okay no pop stages uh right field

Speaker 103 the oscar hernandez

Speaker 10 Incredible amount of non-defense.

Speaker 68 You know whose sex appeal is.

Speaker 170 You don't know 90% of your team.

Speaker 88 No, I nine.

Speaker 74 No, yeah, absolutely. Do.

Speaker 103 Petalonzo, Logano Hoppi, and the Oscar.

Speaker 47 And Dansby, I know all those guys.

Speaker 22 If you were to make a Brandon Nimmel, I've heard of a team logo for your squad, it would just be beige.

Speaker 46 It would be beigeing Perez.

Speaker 72 Toby Anderson.

Speaker 62 Zach, and this with a pop.

Speaker 114 Aaron Judge. Pop.

Speaker 127 Pop.

Speaker 152 Salvador Perez. Pop.
Pop.

Speaker 116 Brandon Lowe. Pop.

Speaker 121 Wow.

Speaker 114 Junior Caminero.

Speaker 95 Trent Graciam. Okay.

Speaker 114 Ezekiel Tover. Pop.

Speaker 141 Ian Hap.

Speaker 144 Pop. Pop.

Speaker 114 Vinny

Speaker 114 Pascantino.

Speaker 22 Pascantino. I think if you had said it right, with the Italian hands, it pops.

Speaker 114 Vinny Pascatino. Pascantino.

Speaker 144 Yeah, yeah. Gotcha.

Speaker 114 And Jonathan Arada.

Speaker 146 Why didn't you take Gunner Henderson?

Speaker 151 It was a mix-up.

Speaker 141 Double miscommunication.

Speaker 22 Memes, and Shane, do you have any grades?

Speaker 22 Which team pops the hardest?

Speaker 114 Give Max an A.

Speaker 41 Let's go.

Speaker 163 Give Brandon an A.

Speaker 84 Yeah, Brandon's really good.

Speaker 10 Why don't you say I was really good?

Speaker 152 Max, yours is really good, too. All right, thanks.

Speaker 114 I like Big Cat and PFTs.

Speaker 82 Yeah, you do.

Speaker 182 Wow, Hank, you're not going to pop. No.

Speaker 119 Hank's was good.

Speaker 22 No, it wasn't. You don't mean that.

Speaker 22 Who's bad?

Speaker 10 That's a better question.

Speaker 114 Unfortunately, my man Zach

Speaker 11 had a tough time.

Speaker 116 A lot of ball left.

Speaker 11 A lot of ball left. A lot of ball left.

Speaker 182 We also last year picked pitcher tiebreaker. Yeah, we're not doing that.

Speaker 97 We're not doing that.

Speaker 95 Oh, it was just tiebreaker.

Speaker 41 It was just strikeout.

Speaker 65 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 We could do that, I guess. Okay.

Speaker 37 Tiebreaker. Let's go.

Speaker 167 Same one through eight. Okay.

Speaker 22 And it's strikeouts.

Speaker 15 It's just strikeouts. Most strikeouts.

Speaker 8 Purely tiebreaker for last place.

Speaker 24 Correct.

Speaker 182 And last year we just spoke up.

Speaker 41 Paul Skeets.

Speaker 101 Give me Garrett Crochet.

Speaker 61 That's pretty pick.

Speaker 131 What are we doing? We just spoke up. Cy Young? Just take it.

Speaker 80 Oh, give me Scoobel.

Speaker 151 What? Wait.

Speaker 11 All right, fine. Go in order.
I'll take that order.

Speaker 82 I don't know his name. Who?

Speaker 11 It's the Asian College.

Speaker 10 Wait, no, it should be going back. Shohi Otani.

Speaker 11 Hotani? No, no. Not the last pick.

Speaker 131 No, it's the. I did.
Yeah.

Speaker 11 We wrote it.

Speaker 121 Okay. All right.

Speaker 127 Paul Skins.

Speaker 10 Wait, what is this? What are we talking about?

Speaker 158 Strikeouts are actually going to be a bad thing.

Speaker 11 It's not going to happen.

Speaker 131 It's not going to happen.

Speaker 127 Paul Skins for me.

Speaker 184 Good pick.

Speaker 41 Hank?

Speaker 13 Yeah. Sorry, I'm looking for any pitcher that's hit a home run this year.
No, no, it's not.

Speaker 17 Pitchers don't need more hand.

Speaker 131 It's only in the event of pitchers.

Speaker 60 How long would he have searched for that?

Speaker 132 They're all DH's, Hank.

Speaker 80 Oh, man.

Speaker 10 Otani would be a great pick.

Speaker 13 All right, I'll give me Scoobel.

Speaker 18 Good pick. Nice, good pick.

Speaker 76 It's a great pick. Crochet.

Speaker 10 Brandon was the one. Actually, no, give me Zach Wheeler.
Zach Wheeler.

Speaker 22 McKinsey Gore.

Speaker 68 Why can't I get this for

Speaker 50 strikeouts?

Speaker 72 Where are the strikeouts?

Speaker 19 Oh, let me see. Let me see.

Speaker 133 Let me see. Let me see.

Speaker 133 Crochet.

Speaker 22 Chris Sale.

Speaker 33 Hurt.

Speaker 11 Thank you. What?

Speaker 187 Didn't he hurt? He got hurt the other night?

Speaker 11 Logan Webb.

Speaker 41 Hunter Brown. I don't know who that is.

Speaker 133 I think we fucked up too because so many names got thrown around, so Crochet's still not picked.

Speaker 146 Crochet's picked. Max pushed.

Speaker 131 No, I didn't. No, he was not.

Speaker 11 We both switched up.

Speaker 1 There's so many names thrown around.

Speaker 63 Take crochet,

Speaker 133 Zach. I'll take crochet.

Speaker 114 There you go.

Speaker 22 We got Chris Seal, fractured rib cage.

Speaker 65 Yeah. That stinks.

Speaker 170 He got it doing a diving play with two outs and a ninth of a shutout.

Speaker 10 I just wanted a fill.

Speaker 10 And that's not going to matter.

Speaker 153 Unless it does matter.

Speaker 121 Good.

Speaker 15 You got a pick there, Jerry.

Speaker 150 I can't find him. The Asian guy on the Dodgers.

Speaker 11 Yamamoto. Yamamoto.

Speaker 100 That's the name, right?

Speaker 164 Yoshneobel. Yep, yep.
Take it.

Speaker 186 There's definitely like five Asian guys

Speaker 60 for the people.

Speaker 179 I'm pretty sure he's talking about Yamamoto. He's a pitcher.

Speaker 10 They have another guy that just got hurt, right? Sasaki.

Speaker 152 Yeah. I'm not thinking of that guy.

Speaker 42 He's talking about Yamamoto, right?

Speaker 63 The guy that most strikeouts.

Speaker 13 Yoshinobel. Yep, him.

Speaker 37 It's like the.

Speaker 171 Whatever.

Speaker 10 That's like the one team

Speaker 10 that you can't shoot.

Speaker 50 You can't say Asian guy.

Speaker 132 Are they just filled with Asian players? Yeah. I don't know.

Speaker 11 I don't watch baseball.

Speaker 131 Yeah.

Speaker 1 All right. Good job, boys.
All right. That was a great draft.

Speaker 11 I think this is

Speaker 22 Guy for Guy, the best draft yet.

Speaker 129 Yeah. Except for Irving School.

Speaker 124 It's going to be a slugfest in the league this year.

Speaker 13 It's going to be

Speaker 153 scenes.

Speaker 19 Who do we think does the pitching challenge first? The loser of this year or Max?

Speaker 35 That's the loser of this year.

Speaker 22 I think Zach's going to do it before Max does. Yeah.

Speaker 10 You are saying Zach's going to lose?

Speaker 114 I was making a joke.

Speaker 22 Ezekiel.

Speaker 150 He's going to lose.

Speaker 88 We haven't even gotten to the second yet.

Speaker 121 All right.

Speaker 6 Okay, that was our show.

Speaker 117 Reminder, no show Friday numbers.

Speaker 117 No show Friday for the 4th of July.

Speaker 101 99.

Speaker 75 We'll be back on Sunday night.

Speaker 117 Our show on Monday, and then it's chill week.

Speaker 13 You got one there, memes.

Speaker 63 Did you get any in there, memes?

Speaker 13 Yeah, one for one for four. Yeah.
Wait.

Speaker 82 No, I got it.

Speaker 13 No, I know before. Yeah.
Out of the four we just did. Oh, okay.

Speaker 45 Yeah.

Speaker 80 I'm going to go with 59.

Speaker 61 Oh, oh.

Speaker 144 That's not going to hit. Okay.

Speaker 22 That's a terrible, terrible number, memes.

Speaker 13 I'll take 11.

Speaker 35 What did you guess last, memes?

Speaker 63 Last year? 29.

Speaker 114 21.

Speaker 15 All right, I'll do 21.

Speaker 22 Fuck is wrong with you, 59.

Speaker 137 27.

Speaker 106 Come on, 27.

Speaker 94 71.

Speaker 123 70 the meeting to fucking take someone.

Speaker 22 Love you guys.