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We're going to talk Ph Phillies Braves game four. The Phillies are into the NLCS.
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Welcome to Pardon My Take. Today is Friday, October 13th, and it hurts me to say this, but Max was right.
Congrats, Max. Max was right.
The bank won tonight. And Max was right more than anything.
Our big, long debate, which I'm sure some people didn't love on Wednesday's show. I thought it was very funny.
It was the epitome of this show, debating stupid things over and over.

Max said that after game two, Cassianos barreled one up, and that was good vibes.

What did Cassianos do the next two games?

He hit four home runs.

Someone has to be dead in the world right now.

Somebody very important passed away for Cassianos to go on this tear that he's been on.

Congrats, Max.

Congrats, Max.

You slayed the Braves. It had to take you spitting in my face to do it.
I'm sorry about the spit. I forgive you.
What happened? It's too much to explain. I got mad.
It's really not that. It's Castellanos hit a home run and you spit on PFT.
Well, I was yelling at him. That was it.
I was yelling at him. You hawked a loogie? No, the spit was a loogie on PFT.
I know, but the home run was because he said that we weren't getting barrels. Yeah, which is a trigger word for Max.
We learned don't say barrel around Max. He's a barrel-chested man.
Yeah. But Max stood up, started screaming.
And with Max, you know how the line between anger and pure joy is very much blurred. It's like the horseshoe theory.
On one side, you're happy. On one side, you're sad.
When Max gets so happy, he actually gets furious. And so he just starts screaming.
And then a loogie about the size of a silver dollar flew out of his mouth. And I was in the splash zone.
He didn't mean to. It wasn't intentional spit.
But he spit on you. But my arm got spat on nonetheless.
Ied it i burned my arm um so i think you are you have been sick for the last six weeks so no i feel good whatever you got i got so max uh congratulations take down the braves bloopy beside himself oh i haven't yeah he tweets something like see in a couple weeks cat weeks cowards way out what does that mean i don't know I don't know, but we gotta read some of the replies to that He's definitely getting ratio to the moon He's getting killed Max, NLCS, D-backs Will you be rooting for our friend Dan Heron? No, not Okay, well that's fucked up That's really fucked up I also was not rooting for Matt Olson He's our good friend, you Heron. We hate everybody that's ever been on the show.
We love Dan. I love Dan Heron.
He was one of our first guests. Dan Heron, great guy.
Dan Heron and I, you guys don't remember this, we also went to battle last year. I remember.
Because he said that Rob Thompson wasn't a good manager. Uh-huh.
And then we started fighting, and then I, when the Phillies kept winning, I kept tweeting at him, what do you think about Rob Thompson now? What do you think about Rob Thompson now? He probably didn't see any of his three matches. No, he replied.
He replied to him. Max versus Dan Heron.
That's what this is about. Okay.
I'm excited. Max, I'm happy for you.
I really am. Again, love the Phillies.
They seem to have good vibes. They're an easy team to root for.
Also, what we learned this series, Braves, kind of soft, kind of complainers. Yeah.
They like to complain. Listen, if you're a Braves fan, you won a World Series a couple years ago, be happy with that.
But now, it seemed pretty soft this postseason between the complaining about a reporter tweeting out an accurate statement from the clubhouse. And you're like, that broke the sanctity of the clubhouse law.
Give me a fucking break. Number one on that.
And then. Yeah.
It was insane. It was a cesspit as BBQ guy.
Yeah. Yeah.
And they just tweeted out what the guy said. They did their job.
And then the Braves fans acted like. Who was the person that said it? Arcia.
Arcia. They acted like Arca had to be protected because english isn't his first language it's like how could you do this when he can't defend himself it's like he said it he actually said so it's like a report whatever the second thing um was it a cunha tonight that held up the ipad for the television cameras being like look that wasn't a strike that they called on me like he held up held up a camera to be or he held up an ipad to the camera to say look i was right the umpires wrong do you think they have a red carpet waiting for them at home i don't know they should make a carpet i do out of bloopy's skin okay max i know you won't agree with any of this i do feel bad for braves fans baseball losses like quick baseball losses are the most painful because you spend an entire summer invested in a team 162 games one of the best offenses of all time and then you go out like that like what they what they end up scoring in their three losses would they score three runs yeah they scored zero runs game one two game three one tonight.
That's tough. That's tough.
Best offense in the history of baseball. Yeah, and just like that, it's over.
And you're like, the whole season is for naught. But the Phillies keep going.
The bank stood up. Statement games from the bank.
We got home field against the D-backs. D-backs don't care, the D-backs are scary.
The D-backs are scary. The D-backs are scary.
They're very scary. Zach Gallin is for real.
I'm not looking at that team lightly at all. And fought.
Yeah. But you get to reset.
You get a weekend off. The weekend off.
I'm not kidding. The weekend.
I'm so looking forward to a weekend of not having my blood pressure at. I don't even know.
People were saying you might have a heart attack. So I could.
I should wear a. What are those things? I'm struggling with words.
We won't make you stream like the first couple of games. Yeah.
I think Thursday night is game three. We'll stream that.
Okay. And then we'll figure out from there.
That sounds great. Give the people a break.
Max, talk me through your emotions when you go back and you watch yourself on stream later after the fact. I try not to.
I try not to watch any of it because it's never a pretty sight. I'm never doing something that I look at.
Although the jump, I may be like that. Yeah, you got air.
You got mad air, dude.

You were sick.

I like the shirt ripoff too.

That's just primal.

That's just...

You thought about doing it tonight.

I was so close to doing it

and I was like...

Dude, a lot of people

were saying you look strong.

I know.

That's what I'm saying.

I can't do it again

because that's all angles.

I got a good angle

and you don't want to...

You don't want to keep testing that. You look like Alex Jones after his diet.
he's just flexing a little harder and a little yeah yeah also before his diet and before his diet i'm fine with that build yeah um all right so the phillies are into the nlcs we're going to talk more baseball with our good friend jared carabas coming up there was a football game tonight and uh the broncos are officially like the saddest team in the world so sad so sad so russell wilson stinks he's he stinks he's wearing a wristband though do you see his wristband he's wearing a wristband it was like size 0.0008 font he had every play on it he's it. He turtles so fast in the pocket.
He threw for 95 yards. It was not even...
I know that it looks, if you look at it in 19-8, no, it was never close. The Chiefs were up 16-0 for what felt like the entirety of the game until the Broncos scored with five minutes left.
But yeah, the Broncos are tied now for their worst start in franchise history. Sean Payton, like, I think they might bench Russell Wilson.
They might. He's played himself out of a Hall of Fame career as well.
They might. And also, Sean Payton called maybe the worst timeout that I've ever seen in a football game tonight.
Did it matter? Well, at the time it did. Yeah.
It was at the end of the second quarter, and there were 22 seconds left.

And the Broncos were about – I think they were about to punt.

And they called a timeout.

Yeah.

And then they gave the Chiefs the ball.

It made zero sense.

And then the Chiefs kicked a field goal.

And the Chiefs kicked like a 60-yard field goal that would have been good from 80.

Yeah.

And then the game was over.

Also, Andy Reid – I think Andy Reid is bored with the NFL.

I think Andy Reid is – he's made himself play the NFL on expert mode with the weird shit that he's obsessed with doing because I think that this Chiefs offense, if they wanted to play just normal football, would have beaten the fuck out of the Broncos. It could have been 30, 40-point win.
But they do all these weird plays, almost like Andy is just like he's playing with his food. He's like, I know I'm going to win, so get really weird with it and maybe in practice maybe the Chiefs are so so bored winning games normally that in practice Andy's like I gotta I gotta do something fun to keep these guys attention on football yeah so I'll just I'll do like double pass back and have my backup wide receiver throw a screen to my running back and then get uh like three tight ends out in space blocking for him.
It's crazy. It's wild.
It's crazy. Patrick Mahomes now, he is still never lost to the Denver Broncos, which is an insane stat.
I think he's 16-0 now. The last time the Broncos beat the Chiefs was Peyton Manning.
That's crazy. It's nuts.
That's such utter domination. 2015.
Part of my take didn't exist. Part of my take didn't exist the last time the Broncos beat the Chiefs.
That is insane to think about. It's insane to think about.
I was 23. It might not exist the next time.
That's going to be so long. That's fucked up, Hank.
Yeah, what the fuck, Hank? You trying to end the show? No, I'm saying Mahomes has got a long career ahead. You're trying to split up the show right now.

All right, my bad.

That was unnecessary, Henry.

These are my favorite things to look at.

No, I just...

Whatever.

What?

I was thinking like 15 years.

You might not be alive.

How about that, Hank?

Yeah, you might not be alive.

None of us might be.

The last time the Broncos beat the Chiefs, they made it...

That's what they call today a present.

The Broncos made their rivalry.

It was... When they last beat the Chiefs, it was 57-55 all-time Chiefs.
And now it is 72-55. That's very sad.
That's very, very sad. They were that close.
Also, Taylor Swift was at the game tonight. She was in the box.
So was Brittany Mahomes. Showed her a lot.
They showed Taylor and Brittany embracing a little bit up in the box. Do you think they're actually, they looked like they were friends.
They did. Is that a show for the cameras? I might have to wait to see if maybe, show me a video.
Actually, no, show me an Instagram post where they each take pictures of themselves with each other, where they post a picture where their friend looks way less cute than they do. And then I'll know their best friends.
Yes. Post the worst picture of them on their friend's birthday, but you look good.
Exactly. That's how you know that it's real.
Yes. Hopefully we don't get canceled for that one.
I would like to see it. I'd like to see the real picture.
I think every woman listening to the show is like, yeah, that's what we do. You're right.
Okay. What else before we get to the week six picks preview? Oh, is our, is our ad going today? Yeah, it's Friday the 13th.
Yeah. Double.
All right, tweet us that. I'm excited.
We took the Pat. We got some hard copies, too.
Oh, they are? Yeah. Beautiful.
We'll get them framed. Will you get them framed? Yeah, I can work on it.
Love it. Thank you, Jake.
Great job. Thank you, guys.
Very cool. Shout out to Dana Holgerson.
Yeah. I had West Virginia snow.
Oh west virginia oh yeah fuck you hey did you not know that you had houston you don't you don't i didn't i didn't know you bet west virginia i didn't have a bet on the game i just you know like the friends of our show yeah well we have a lot of friends in west virginia too so it's tough yeah that was tough my bad that was crazy that was college football at its finest as a clean shot hank it at its finest. I actually didn't know.
It was just a crazy game. No, I know.
It was nuts. And also, you can't be mad about it if you had West Virginia because you should never have even been in a spot to cover.
And then Houston had a Hail Mary with seven seconds left. Squib kicks.
Squib kicks. Squib your kicks.
I'm happy for Dana, though. The first win in the Big 12.
I'm happy for Coach Dana. He is our good friend uh okay let's kick it to ourselves week six picks and preview i actually got a question about that do you think that dana would get more drunk after a heartbreaking loss to west virginia or after a miracle win against west miracle win that was that was a drinking win yeah oh he's he'll be drunk till monday and rightfully so he's gonna have a great time yeah that.
Yeah, that was a great win for them. He earned it.
And the program. Okay, picks and preview, and then Jared Karabas, and we'll see you on the other end with Fyre Fest as well.
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All right, Let's get into the games. Week six will be the first time officially say we are a third of the way through the season.
Oh, shut up. Don't say that.
But it is so fast. It's crazy how fast it goes.
I hate it when you say that. I know you hate it when I say it, but I use it.
I don't say it as a negative. I see it as a embrace every moment smell the roses we love

football football's on we're

day whatever 10 of 50

straight football days just

you know stop and have a moment where you're like

oh yeah this is awesome this

is what I like about life tell you what

a third of the way through I can live

with that yeah if you pull the thing where you

say we're halfway done I

I'm probably gonna burn the studio down

alright so then I'll go two thirds I'll just go we're

one we just we're after this weekend we've hit the first period okay all right yeah regular season we still have a whole month after that of course point regular season but regular and then there's march madness after that we're fine yeah sundays you know they're the best they're the best uh. First game.
London game. Another London game.
Ravens and Titans. I have a couple things about this game.
First is the travel schedule definitely favors the Ravens. I looked into it.
Without a doubt. Ravens flew on Monday.
Titans flew on Thursday night. Thursday night after practice.
After practice. I went back.
I did some research, actually, on the Ravens

and their travel record and how they do.

So the last time they played in London was 2017.

They went there on Thursday night.

That was Harbaugh's strategy.

That was the worst loss that John Harbaugh's ever had

in his career as a head coach.

They lost 40-47 to the Jaguars.

This year, they're going early.

They already went there. They've been there.
Since Monday. They've been acclimated to British life right now.
I don't know why the Titans are flying out late in the week. They did it last time they went there in a loss.
I don't know why teams do that. But it was a...
They failed the two-point conversion with time running out. So when Vrabel was asked about this, he's like, yeah, the only difference is we're going to try to get the two-point conversion this time.
So that's perfect Vrabel answer because his explanation for it was just basically we're going full speed ahead this week. He's just like, fuck it.
That's his strategy is fuck it. Losers complain about time zones.
But in this case, I don't know why a team wouldn't choose to go out there earlier in the week. Unless it's the owner unless it's the owner saying, we don't want to pay for hotels for a week.
Yeah, but still, just go. Just get there.
So the Titans practiced this week with their throwback helmets on. They're spending more time getting ready for their throwback helmets next week than they are about this week.
You've got to be ready for the throwbacks. I'm going to hammer the throwback uniforms against the Falcons next week.
But this week, Mike, come on. Yeah, Ravens first half.
Get your ass on a plane. Mega lock.
Okay, so here's my take. I'm kind of sick of the London game.
And let me just explain it before anyone tells me I'm wrong. I like the early football.
It's fun. I'm sick of the fact that they have made something that was unique and different into just every week.
When it was like twice a year and it was spaced out, it was kind of cool. Like, oh shit, we got a bonus game.
This is the third week in a row. They're just changing the schedule on us.
They're slowly like getting our brains ready for football at 8 30 in the morning i don't know i just i like the i liked how cool and unique it was and now it doesn't feel cool and unique it just feels like a burden it's like interleague play right so what's probably going to happen is in the next like two to three years there might be four games four games a season over there i think next week is there not the germany well the germany London. I think that's a few weeks.
Okay, all right. This is third in a row.
Yeah, so it's the third in a row. Next year, there'll be four in a row.
Year after that, maybe five in a row. And next thing you know, we're going to have a team in London.
We're not even going to notice. We're just going to be ready for it.
I know. So I'm saying right now, I noticed.
Yeah. I noticed.
I noticed what you're doing, NFL. There's nothing I can do to stop it, but count me in the group of people who noticed.
So it used to be that they would screw over like two teams a season in terms of travel schedule. Now they're screwing over, I think, seven or eight teams.
So it's like a third of the league is getting boned on this London European football thing. No, we're going week nine and week 10.
And week 10. Yeah.
So so week nine is that also is that that's germany and then week 10 is germany as well so they're going back to back again so this is going to be five out of seven weeks that again i don't i like more football different time slots i think that if if the nfl was really smart what they would do is adopt more of like a college football schedule. Yeah.
If we played 12 o'clock Eastern was like four games, 3.30 Eastern was like another four games, a couple games at six, and then one game at eight. Yeah.
That would be cool. Yeah.
And it's not – it does feel like more football, but we forget it's the exact same amount of football that we'd have. It's just at different times yes it's just lost the allure it used to be something very cool like whoa this is so unique now it's just oh another sunday yep they're playing a weird game over in london people on the west coast they get boned by this harder than anybody we're gonna stand up for the west coast a little bit well i i don't like when west coast people are like oh it's the best time zone and then.
And then you just say like, oh, so what are you doing for Monday Night Football?

Like, oh, well, I'm sitting on the 405.

Yeah.

Or.

Coming home from work.

Or what do you do for London football?

Yeah.

London morning football.

What do you do for college football?

Yeah.

Starts at 9 a.m.

Yeah.

You can't tailgate for something.

Although I guess.

You could make.

Be nice.

You could make the argument that you could just stay up all night drunk and then roll

right into football.

I also don't think people in L.A. are getting up at 8 in the morning being like, man, got to make sure that I'm up for Rutgers versus Maryland.
Yeah. Probably not.
But they will have to now because it will be UCLA versus Rutgers. You're going to have to watch.
Okay. Nerd nugget for this game.
The Ravens have rushed for at least 100 yards in 21 straight games, marking the NFL's longest active streak. San Francisco is second with 11 games.
Okay. Okay.
Good nerd nugget. There was the clip of Joey Porter telling Odell Beckham, like, go spend more time with your family after the end of that game.
It occurred to me yesterday what he was talking about. He was probably telling him to go ask his dad to cut up more highlights of him being open downfield.
That's what that meant. Odell was open a couple times.
And you get fooled by the screenshots where they have like, okay, this wide receiver is wide open on this play. They're like, why can't you throw it to that guy? It was a great game, the Ravens-Steelers game of do you watch ball, bro? Because if you just look at the box score, you can be like, Lamar sucked.
Yeah. And if you watch the game, you're like, Lamar was not the problem.
They're receivers. I think it's a bounce-back game for the Ravens receivers.
I think they're going to catch everything. Well, they can't drop as many passes as they did last week.
They definitely can. I don't know.
I think they maxed out. They absolutely could.
I think they maxed out on that one. I do like the Ravens, though, and I'm entirely basing this on travel.
Yes. Hank, what were you going to say? I mean, last week was as bad as it gets.
But it could get worse. I don't know.
I really don't think it could. They could try.
They could try. They could definitely try.
Okay, next game, Seahawks at Bengals. We have DK Metcalf saying that David Witherspoon will get the best of Jamar Chase.
And then Jamar Chase retweeted that clip on his Twitter. So he saw it.
It's the Legion of Spoon. Yeah.
I had a dream, and this is I get a dream bet once every, I'd say, I don't know, eight, nine months, and my dream bet's always hit. So this is official PFT dream bet that I'm putting out.
In my sleep last night, before DK Metcalf put this out there, I dreamt that Witherspoon was going to put the absolute clamps on Jamar Chase in the game. I dreamt a post-game press conference with Jamar Chase being frustrated with him asking him if he was always open this game.
I had the entire thing. Did he say no? Yeah, he was like, no.
He said hats off to Devin Witherspoon.

Hats off.

Hats off.

Hats off.

So I'm betting the under on his receiving yards this week.

That's just, I got to follow the system.

I think I'm 2-0 lifetime on dream bets.

There's also potential weather.

Weather isn't real, but there is potential weather this time of year.

We're starting to get a weather time.

I think there might be some wins.

Joe Burrow, though, looks like he's fully healthy,

was in practice this week not wearing anything on his leg his leg does look skinnier but he doesn't he was moving around he didn't have the brace on he didn't have the sleeve on his calf yeah so i think joe burrow he did the impossible he played himself back into health yeah he played football until he was no longer injured from playing football yeah this is This is going to be a big test, though, for the Bengals.

Yeah.

Part of me says, ooh, the Bengals are back.

And then you got to remember they also did play the Cardinals.

Right.

Who are feisty.

But don't win games.

They are the Cardinals.

Jamal Adams is back, apparently.

Blitz boy.

I think he's back.

Blitz boy.

And it's very disrespectful.

But it's funny.

But it's also very true.

That's a memes original, isn't it? Did you come up with Blitz Boy? No. Maybe Jack McGuire did.
Someone on the Barstool Main Account started calling him Blitz Boy a few years ago. He blitzes.
And I just love it. It's like Slantman and Blitz Boy.
Yeah. The two Avengers of the NFC.
Jamal Adams, you should take away some of your paraphernalia on your arms until you start playing well again. Like he has way too much stuff going on.
He, I think he has like six or seven weird arm bands. Yeah.
You gotta, you gotta minimize that until you start playing well, then you can add them back. So the theme of this week is travel in the NFL.
So I looked up more travel information about the Seahawks. They've won 15 of their last 18 early kickoffs when it's 10 a.m.
Pacific time, and the Seahawks are 16-4, including playoffs, in the Eastern time zone since 2018 because Pete has them travel early. Yeah.
Pete gets it. Yeah, he does get it.
I'm doing all these games on travel this week. So travel, the theme of your week.
The theme of my week. Travel.
Travel and dreams. Travel and dreams.
Okay, what's your nerd nugget? Since the start of the 2020 season, Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow has 18 touchdown passes of 40 or more yards, which is the most in the NFL. That was a hiccup from Max.
Sorry. He throws deep.
Yeah, he throws deep. I didn't even hear this nerd nugget because I was just...
Sorry. I'm sorry, Jake.
It's been a big week for Max. No, the hiccups, the hiccups.
I'm a big just one hiccup. Whatever.
One hiccup? No. I don't think anyone's ever done one hiccup.
You'll see. I won't hiccup again the rest of this show.
That's what I bet. That just feels like it's just...
Oh, I like this bet. That feels like it's just food bubbling over.
Let's... I i want did you just eat lunch 50 bucks 50 bucks can i can i tell hank all right i'll tell max all right you better not fucking hiccup i'm not going to i heard i heard a very funny hiccup story about a guy that used to be on our podcast william football um apparently after the water dogs lost the championship game it was a very somber mood in the dogs locker room and uh the coach was giving a post-game speech thanking them for everything they did and just like pouring his heart out there and billy had been enjoying the beer garden for the entire game and uh he had his like head down like he was one of the guys like head in his hands like so upset that they lost and it was quiet.
And then Billy just lets out the biggest hiccup ever because he was hammered.

And everybody in the locker room turned and stared at him.

Oh, no.

Come on, Billy.

Billy's living his best life.

He's just part of a street team.

Yeah.

Now he's going.

I think he's got a Pink Whitney tour.

He's going to Tallahassee this weekend.

Just using him for exactly what he should be used for.

All right, next game.

49ers-Browns.

We don't know if Sean Watson is playing.

If it's DTR, it will be hilarious.

We have record watch.

McCaffrey is 14 straight games, touchdown 15 is the record.

He would be tied with OJ Simpson and John Riggins.

And I also have a little stat for you.

This comes from Jack Hammer.

Great name.

Jack Hammer NFL. He's a beat reporter for the 49ers.
Jack Hammer. Kyle Shanahan has faced Jim Schwartz nine times.
His teams are one and eight against him and have scored over 20 points just once. Wow.
Little something there. That's interesting.
I still am going to take the Niners, but little something there. Yeah, so right now it looks like it's priced in that Deshaun's not playing.
I don't know if that's true. He's medically cleared, and I think it was medically cleared last time.
What's the line right now? He just didn't play. Seven? Last night I looked at it, and I thought to myself.
It was six. Maybe now it's seven.
Okay, now it is. Now he's not going to play.
Yeah. Because it was six as of yesterday afternoon.
I also read that PJ Walker would probably get the start over DTR. That's bullshit.
DTR is so funny. He is fun to watch.
Yeah. This would be the only spot.
The Niners have been incredible. But if you want to pick a spot, it's coming off an absolute ass whooping of the Cowboys on national television, Sunday Night Football, having to go to Cleveland, early kick, Jim Schwartz, Kyle Shanahan.

I'm not going to bet on the Browns,

but if you wanted to, you could easily sell yourself

on this being the place to fade the Niners.

You want to hear a travel fact?

Sure.

I have another travel fact for you.

These are great.

So Kyle Shanahan, 12-5 on the East Coast.

Okay.

So the Niners travel well when they go East

because they leave early. They do.
It's a fact. Yeah, that's a travel fact.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
12-5 straight up or against the spread? 12-5 straight up. This is a nine-point spread.
It's a travel fact that Kyle Shanahan is 12-5. So if you want to take the Niners to win the game.
I'm actually going to take the Browns in this game. Okay.
I'm going to hold my nose and take the Browns. Yeah.
Going against your travel facts. It is a big spread.
Yeah. Some spread.
Jake. The 49ers have a chance to win their 16th consecutive regular season game if they beat the Browns this week, which would mark the longest regular season winning streak in franchise history.
Whoa. Whoa.
Okay. Also, we did see David Njoku's face.
Oh, my God. Football guy of the millennium.
I can't believe he played. Insane.
It's crazy. Did he try to put the fire out with his face? He was lighting a fire pit in his backyard.
And he was like, let me just put it out by blowing on it with my face? I think he was trying to light it. I don't think he was trying to put it out.
Crazy. Crazy.
Yeah, he's a tough motherfucker. Tough motherfucker.
Okay, next game, Vikings at Bears. Bears coming off a win, but they haven't won a home game in over a year.
Calendar year. September was the last time they won a home game.
Justin Jefferson is out. Kevin O'Connell had a little fun with that.
He said, my expectations is we hit the gas with Jordan Addison this weekend. No pun intended, but intended.
do you think if the Bears win this game that Kirk Cousins could get traded? I think it's a possibility. And so he's got the no trade clause, right? So in order to make that work, it would have to be a team that would want him that would then give him a massive extension that he would be happy with.
That to me is the key to getting... Because I don't think you're going to get Kirk to pick up his life and move move his family is going to have to find like a different Kohl's to shop at and then that's going to be a challenge for him and his family but he's not going to go somewhere for like four months and then leave again unless they're really really good I guess it's probably a possibility but what really really good I know want him I know so I'm thinking I'm 49ers should honestly just trade for him just in case.
And have his backup? Seriously, if you're the 49ers, the only thing that can derail your season is another like all of our quarterbacks get hurt. Right.
So the teams that would have cap space, I noticed earlier in the week the Falcons made cap room. They did a big restructuring of a guy that they didn't think they were going to restructure right now and then um arthur smith was like kind of coy about why they did it i could see the falcons trying to do something like that would be interesting because if you're being honest as a falcons fan you're not really happy with with the quarterback situation right now like if you play well right now desmond ridder's peak is playing well enough to win right right so i it's probably not going to happen but if it were to happen i would keep my eye on the falcons if they if the falcons got kirk cousins would they still start tesman ridder at home that would be awesome yeah if they just did a whole minute away also kirk cousins would look very strange in like the all black falcons gear yeah maybe kind of an edge to him though yeah maybe kind of an edge um so the bears right now justin fields he's coming two great games.
He is on pace for 3,800 yards and 37 touchdowns. He would be the first Bears quarterback ever to throw over 30 touchdowns in a season.
Eric Kramer had 29 in 1995. There was also the year that Josh McCown and Jay Cutler in 2013 combined for 32.
So record watch for the Bears. If Justin Fields can this season, if the Bears season isn't good, but Justin Fields can just erase some of the insult stats that are out there, it would be a success.
Like if you get 4,000 yards, if you could get over 30 touchdowns, great. I actually think the Bears were on the receiving end of a compliment stat last week.
Well, Sches that at us when he was like Justin Jefferson is out for the game against the Bears in his uh four seasons as a pro he has more yards than any Bears receiver ever yeah yeah insults that it has an insult no reason to put that in there but there was a compliment stat that you guys got last week DJ Moore his 230 yards receiving the second most in the Chicago Bears history.

That's impressive.

Yeah.

When you see 230 yards Bears, you're like, well, that's probably a season-long record for them.

But in this case, no.

It's like they actually have a big game that they had as their number one.

So it was like, oh, shit.

The Bears aren't always totally garbage at receiver.

Yeah.

He also won Offensive Player of the Week in the NFC,

which I think was the first time since 1999 a Bears player has done that.

Congratulations.

So huge, huge.

Bears are looking up.

If you were Justin Jefferson and you're sitting out this game,

you're probably out for the next three games with a hamstring,

and you lose to the Bears,

you're probably not breaking your neck to come back

and play for this season's Vikings, right? Or your leg. With your contract, yeah.
Or your hamstring. Yeah.
You're probably not going to want to risk that. So this feels like it could be.
It's definitely a line in the sand game for the Vikings. Like you should win this game.
And if you don't pack it all in. This is a blow it up game.
Yeah. The Bears could blow up the Vikings this weekend.
Let's see what the Vikings schedule is coming up. Give them a Viking funeral.

Jake, go ahead.

Give us your nerd nugget.

Shootout incoming.

Entering this week, Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins leads the league with 13 passing touchdowns,

while Bears quarterback Justin Fields is tied for second in the league with 11.

Yeah, so the Bears are 5-0 to the over, and the Vikings are 4-1 to the over,

which would be 5-0 if the refs didn't screw them against the Chiefs last weekend.

The Vikings have the Niners next week.

Monday Night Football.

Yeah.

So it could be a blowed-up spot.

What's the opposite of a look ahead?

A look behind?

Yeah.

Like check your six?

Yeah.

Rear view?

Yeah.

Because if you're the Vikings, you've got that. Even if you're a Vikings player, you probably have that circled

as an ass-kicking next week.

Yeah.

That's not going to be good.

So I get primetime Kirk against the Niners.

This is a get-your-wins-in week. Yeah, they need to win.
And listen, the Bears might be back if they win this game. And I am all the way back in it, Justin Fields.
I liken it to a relationship where, listen, Justin Fields threw some interceptions. I said some things.
We both had emotional times. But at the end of the day, don't go to bed angry.
So I'm no longer going to bed angry. And if people want to say, oh, well, you said week three is not the guy.
Yeah, I did. He's the guy again.
It's fine. We're fine.
Everything is good. He's not the problem.
Okay uh okay commanders of falcons we're on a sam howell sack watch he has uh been sacked 29 times on pace for 99 sacks which would crush the record of 76 david carr in 2002 yeah yeah offensive protection hasn't been that good sam howell also needs to learn how to get the ball out sometimes. And I'm going to pay a compliment to Justin Fields.
In the game against the Commanders, he was really good at throwing the ball away. I think not only did he have some of the best actual passes and the best passing attack with DJ Moore, he also threw some amazing incompletions when he was about to get sacked.
Yeah, decisiveness. It's good that you've got a big guy that's using his size to throw the ball away over the top of the defenders that are coming in.
Yes. The commanders, offensive line stinks.
The defense is the biggest issue, I think. The offense should be okay.
It'd be nice to run the ball once or twice because we just abandoned the running game last week. The Falcons might load up the box.
It's kind of – well, the Falcons' defense is actually better than I – than they're getting credit for.

Yeah.

Yeah.

The Falcons' defense isn't bad.

The Commander's defense stunk last week.

Bad.

And I'm on fire Del Rio.

Fire Jack Del Rio.

Rivera's probably not going to do it because he's done at the end of the season,

so why would he torch a guy that's been his guy for a long-ass time

if he's going to get fired or if he's not going to get renewed

at the end of the season? But they need to do something different on defense because Jack Del Rio is doing the exact same thing where he's got four guys rushing the passer, and then you're also having your cornerbacks try to jump routes or jump routes as they're happening. And what happened to Emmanuel Forbes the last two weeks? He's gotten his ass kicked.
Yeah, they just look undisciplined. Yes.
really what it is like there's there was moments when I mean you were at the game but they were they were highlighting on Amazon Prime like Chase Young just no no ability to keep the edge letting Justin Fields run around him they're running the Bears running game was able to run through them it's it'll be an interesting game because this is if the if the commanders win, is Soupy back on? No, we're not Soupy.

We're not Soupy.

We're back to playing spoiler.

Spoiler.

Spoiler alert.

But if they don't change the way that they're running their defense,

Forbes is going to continue to get cooked this entire year,

and he's going to be one of the worst cornerbacks in the NFL because he takes a lot of chances.

The way you counteract that is by doing – you know what?

I never thought I'd say this.

I miss Dr. Heat on the Commanders.
I miss Greg Williams. Just fuck it.
Go zero blitz all the time. If you're going to have your cornerbacks jumping roots anyways, it's like give them...
Get to the quarterback. Know that you will get to the quarterback if that's how you're going to play.
If the Commanders can win this game, they have the Giants next week. That could be back to four and three going against the Eagles at home.
Yeah. Watch out.

Watch out.

A key revenge game, though.

And you play the Patriots the week after that.

Desmond Ritter never lost at home.

Desmond Ritter 31-0 at home in college and NFL.

Okay, go ahead, Jake.

Sam Howell has completed 10 passes of 30 or more yards through his first six career games since 2020.

That's the most by a player through their first six career games. It's also the most in franchise history.
Can I confess one of my deepest, darkest fears to you guys? Yeah, go ahead. Mine is Max is going to hiccup again.
I love Sam Howell. I think he's been just swallowing him.
Hank is literally just staring at Max's face. I know.
I noticed that. I love Sam Howell, and I've really enjoyed watching him play,

and I think he's good.

I also think that I might be getting into a situation

where I'm falling in love with a guy,

and he might be consistently above average at quarterback,

and then I'm going to get so frustrated with him in three or four years,

just like I did with Kirk Cousins,

that he's just not good enough to be a great quarterback, and then I'm going to start to hate Sam Howell after that. I know it's early.
I know the body of work that we've seen is small and it's encouraging, but this is just me being burned so many times that I think Sam Howell is our guy. Remember we did this a while ago? Yeah, yeah.
The difference between he's our guy, he's my guy. Versus he's my guy versus the guy i i'm just afraid that sam howell is going to be my guy yeah and not the guy that's okay that's okay we'll just play play the game i would take my guy though considering you know all things being equal the history of our two teams with quarterbacks i would take my guy they should let taylor heineke play in this game both ways yeah they should all-time quarterback they should uh okay next game panthers at dolphins yuck so the big news out of the panthers this week is david tepper looks like an owner no one wants to work with uh there was a couple quotes so frank reich said there's different philosophies in ownership some owners kind of stay stay away and don't engage a lot.
Other owners do. And his philosophy is he's going to engage.
And listen, it's only been a short experience, but it's been a good experience. It hasn't been fun.
I wouldn't characterize them as fun meetings. And he also said, I talk to Tepper every week, multiple times, usually talk either Monday or Tuesday after a game.
And he's super competitive, wants to bring a winner to the Carolinas. He wants it now, wants it now, and pushes me and pushes us to that end.
He wants to do whatever it takes and turn over every stone, turn it as much as he has to to produce winning football. So I appreciate those conversations.
They're always very challenging. He's a super competitive person.
He's not going to sit idly by. That's a problem.
Yeah, I can't imagine a real alpha type head coach wanting to work for a guy like that. That is our owner.
He basically in those two quotes was like, yeah, this guy is putting his nose where it shouldn't be and micromanaging a football team. And that's not how a successful organization runs.
There is no, like, you can't have that. You can't have the owner forcing the coach to have a meeting multiple times a week.
Well, the Cowboys, and they were pretty good 30 years ago. Yeah, right.
The only time the Cowboys were good was when Jimmy Johnson, a true alpha, was in there, and they butted heads all the time. But, yeah, that's not a good sign for the David Tepper Panthers.
I think he's going to have to probably adjust that because I don't think football lifers, football coaches, love when the owner is like, hey, so why'd you run this play? Yeah, so in most sports when an owner takes over, they are like this because it's their new toy and they're obsessed with it. And then there's always an interview that the owner will give like five years into their tenure it's like what have you learned as your time being an owner they say well it's that i should let the football guys be football guys and that i should take my hand off well it happens every time and yeah most owners are very wildly successful in business and they're like i'm gonna run my football team exactly like i ran my business and just treat everyone like that and then they get in the building and it's like fuck, fuck this guy.
Yeah. He's going to run it like Goldman Sachs.
So did you, my favorite fact about, about, uh, Tepper is that in his office on his desk, he has a big pair of brass testicles that he keeps on his desk. So whenever anyone new walks into his office, he's like, you know why, why keep these here? And they're like, no, why? He's like, cause I got brass balls.
Love brass balls love that so that's yeah he sounds like a miserable person sounds like it sounds like a terrible terrible boss uh i hope uh devon a chain gets better because he is so much fun to watch but i do think that like i don't know this game is weird i i the dolphins should kill the the panthers but at some point the panthers are going to cover a spread and do a big spread like this.

What is it right now, 14 and a half?

It's been climbing.

Do you think that Chase Claypool is too slow to play on the Dolphins?

They talked about maybe making him a tight end.

Yeah, he might disrupt the timing

because two is used to just rockets out there.

I also went on Pittsburgh Radio this morning with our guys,

and they tried to make fun of me for Chase Claypool because obviously the Steelers ended up getting the 32nd pick. Fun fact, Chase Claypool, before he joined the Bears last year, the Bears were 3-5.
When he joined the Bears, they went 0-12 and since he's left the Bears, they're 1-1. So Chase Claypool is the human tank machine.
So he actually is the greatest Bear of all time

because without him, they would not have

gotten the first pick and been able to trade

it for the Panthers. The Panthers, I think

they, I don't know, do you

think they regret that maybe a little? Maybe

a tiny bit. Who won the trade? I think the Bears

might have won that trade with

the Panthers just openly saying

we need a wide receiver. Yeah.

TJ Moore and also not having they're the worst team in the league right now. That to me sounds like a Tepper special where he's trading away one of his best players.
And then like five weeks later he's like, we really could use that exact same guy that we traded away. Yeah, whoops.
Why can't we get that guy back? Go ahead, Nerd Nugget. So it's 13 and a half right now.
13 and a half. The Dolphins have won 14 of their past 16 home games and have never won 15 of 17 at Hard Rock Stadium since it opened in 1987.
So they're playing all-time good football at home right now. Yeah, they are.
They're a good football team. Is it going to be hot? Probably.
Give me a weather update. I need to know what those sidelines are going to be cooking at.
It's low internet. Okay.
High of 89, low of 67, sunny. It's going gonna be hot uh all right colts jaguars gardner minchu revenge game yep gardner minchu's starting because anthony richardson is out for oh he's out for at least a few weeks right yes so it's at least four four weeks at least he's got a uh a separated ac joint not not what you want as a quarterback yeah no definitely not also Jaguars I don't think, or sorry, the Colts don't win in Jacksonville.
I had that stat. They have lost eight in a row in Jacksonville.
That's tough. Yeah.
Eight in a row. Jacksonville played their game of the season so far last week.
They beat the Bills, and so this maybe could be a letdown spot.

But again, it's a scheduled win for Pete Prisco.

It is a scheduled win, and Gardner-Minchy coming back,

that's a wild card.

This feels like it could be a Gardner-Revenge game big time.

If you're trying to bet this game, here's a little fun fact.

Only 11 teams in NFL history have returned home from Europe

without a bye week.

Every one of those teams was tied or trailing in the fourth quarter

the following week.

That's a good travel note. Yeah, so that is a maybe Colts first half.
I like it. Although the Jaguars were in London for two weeks.
Well, that would make it harder to come back, right? Probably. Yeah.
Yeah. So Colts first half.
Yeah, you're right. Okay.
What's your nerd nugget for this game? The Jaguars have defeated Indianapolis eight straight times as the home team, outscoring the Colts 232-104. On Sunday, the Jaguars can sweep the season series against the Colts for the first time since 2017.
So keep in mind, those wins include wins when Urban Meyer was the head coach and Gus Bradley was the coach. So this runs deeper than just one guy up front.
Yeah, no, this is the class. Remember, I think that was the Urban Meyer year when Carson Wentz went down there.
All they needed to do was win and they lost. Yep.
Some colors are just dominant over other colors. In this case, it's like the teal, the gold, the black.
That's going to beat the white and the blue. Yeah.
Alright, next game, Saints at Texans. Dennis Allen, after we talked about how bad he was as a head coach, he's moving up.
He's only the ninth worst head coach now. So he's seventh worst in NFL history last week.
He's ninth worst now. Pretty big.
He's putting together a win, maybe another win. I don't know.
I feel like maybe the Saints, you can't judge anything against the Patriots, but their defense is good. Their defense is definitely good.
The offense looked alive a little bit last week. How many points did they get?

24.

Oh, I don't know.

Because they had a pick six, right? It was probably like 20.

Yeah, it was the first time they scored over 20 in a while.

It was an offensive explosion.

Correct.

For the Saints.

So, yeah, they might be back on the front foot,

and their defense is actually good.

I might bet C.J. Stroud would throw an interception this week.

Yeah, so.

I think he's probably heard us talking like, hey, these guys are right. They're Stroud boys.
Just got to throw one. Yeah, throw one, and this is probably a week where it could happen because the Saints do a lot of confusing shit on defense.
Yeah. Where they – you know what the Saints do? They do like Bob Huggins does the simulated press.
Yeah. Just to get people freaking out.
The Saints do a lot of simulated blitzes to get quarterbacks freaking out. Yeah.
And if you haven't seen it before, I might bet on Stroud as a positive because we're rooting for him to throw an interception. Exactly.
So this is not a hater bet. No, we want him to throw.
Let's go, CJ. Throw a pick.
Throw one pick. Take a chance.
Throw a pick. CJ Stroud, throw an interception challenge.
And then your NFL career officially begins. Your NFL career doesn't start until you throw at least one pick.
Yep. Okay, nerd nugget for this game.
Texans quarterback C.J. Stroud has thrown for 1,461 yards this season.
He's the fourth player in NFL history with at least 1,400 passing yards and no interceptions in his team's first five games. He's going to throw a pick.
Patrick Mahomes in 2019, Drew Brees in 2018, Russell Wilson in 2019. Those are all great quarterbacks except for us.
Yeah. Okay.
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That's fair. Is this a Jacoby Myers revenge game? No, I don't think so.
I think there's hundreds of players that switch teams every year. It's not like there's bad blood.
So, well, yeah, there probably isn't bad blood because Jacoby was probably throwing the game last year. He was probably a secret raider.
This is the buy low point for the Patriots. Like, I might actually bet the Patriots on Sunday because it can't get worse.
I mean, Belichick's going to get up for McDaniels, Brady. There is a lot of internal storylines.
I don't think Jacoby Myers is one, but I think Belichick versus McDaniels, he's going to not that he goes any less hard, but he's going to do everything in his power to beat him. And he probably also knows a little bit more, and maybe it works reverse, McDaniels knowing more about Belichick.
But they know each other well. I think it's not that.
Belichick definitely held some stuff out on McDaniels because he knew he was going to leave and probably go to a team that would be a competitor. So he probably didn't teach McDaniels everything he knew, knowing that one day he would have to defeat him.
But I do think that McDaniels is probably – this is like a big game for him because he wants to take Belichick out. It would be a big feather in his cap.
He's going to be doing some stupid shit on offense. Stupid shit.
He's going to be kicking field goals on first down now. He's going to set new precedent in the NFL with the level of inside of his own brain-ness that he's going to have to tap into.

The next question I have for you, Hank,

there's been a debate, Brady versus Belichick.

People are obviously burying Belichick right now.

I think as a podcast, we should actually change the debate and make it Dante Skarniecki was the GOAT.

He was.

Right, so should we just do that?

Be like, hey, why, like option three?

I like that. Okay, all right, so that's good.
And then the like, hey, option three. I like that.

Okay, all right, so that's good.

And then the last question I have for you is, Bill Belichick,

there is a lot of conversations going on.

You've seen them.

Is there a chance if Andy Reid coaches for another five, ten years

with Patrick Mahomes, he could be the GOAT?

If they win five more Super Bowls, yeah. Okay.
But just from a win standpoint. Four more.
If they get six? He would have to get seven. Why would he have to get seven? Because Belichick has six.
Right, but if he has more wins than Belichick, he's 50 behind, I think, in wins right now? i think if they both had the same amount of wins yeah now the only other question if they both had the same amount of super bowls it would go to head to head but andy reed that's the first tiebreaker so then but the question i only asked if they played in super bowl max i'm trying to this show this show is part i was just looking at schwerber uh to hit a home run was that 210 again no it's more it's it's uh three to one okay all right then we'll do it sorry so belichick first andy reed if they get tied it's head-to-head which i'm no hank i think bill belichick is the greatest coach of all time what i'm saying to you hank is this is part of my take we try to get in front of takes i think that the andy reed is the greatest coach of all time will eventually be a conversation if he stays in kansas city why would he leave he's got patrick mahomes because andy reed without patrick mahomes was a very good coach bill belichick without tom brady his record has not been great how many super bowls i mean and he's him that much longer. Like, if Belichick, you know, which I don't think he's going to, retires this year, Andy Reid's not going to.
But Andy Reid has Patrick Mahomes. Why would he ever walk away from that? Because he's old.
Andy Reid is 65 years old. Bill Belichick's 70.
When does your retirement kick in? Well, if he coaches for another eight years, that's a lot of wins with Patrick Mahomes. Yeah, but his 401k is probably popping.
He's like, damn, I've been saving up. 401k, 65 hit.
Please don't be upset at me for throwing out a take that I know is going to happen. I guarantee you within the next year, this will be a conversation they had.
If he gets to six Super Bowls, it's worth having a conversation. Until then, I won't even entertain it.
Okay. PFT.
Thank you for calling on me, Hank. PFT commenter, Barstow Sports, part of my Take Podcast.
Hank, how many Super Bowls has Bill Belichick gotten to without Tom Brady? As a head coach? As a head coach. Because, I mean, we could play the assistant coach game, too, if you wanted to.
Yeah, okay Andy Reid as an assistant coach Andrew he won a Super Bowl was the Packers coordinator of the greatest defense of team of all time he won a Super Bowl one of the greatest defensive teams of all time but so your answer is zero right so Andy Reid got to a Super Bowl without Patrick Mahomes okay but he still had like the league MVP on his on his team. The reason why I think the Belichick...
Was McNabb the MVP that season? I think so. I don't know.
Did he win MVP that year? I don't think he ever won MVP. I don't think he ever won MVP.
I was thinking of something else. Yeah, yikes.
I think the... And Andy Reid was...
Those Chiefs teams with Alex Smith won a lot of games. Like, he was competitive every single year.
The reason why I think the Belichick slander is a little foolish is people forget that Tom Brady wasn't always Tom Brady. That's the part that people miss.
Tom Brady became this incredible passer, offensive insanity in the last two-thirds of his career. The first dynasty tom brady well well no he was still very good but like bill belichick's defenses were insane like that that part gets missed a little not by me not by you so you think there's a chance andy reed the goat might be a conversation that started if he wins four more superbowls yes then you'll accept it okay I'll have the conversation because his record without Patrick Mahomes has been a lot better but however if he wins as many Super Bowls and he's got more and he's the number one most all-time wins as a head coach it would be real tough to say that he's not the greatest it'd be very tough because Belichick's going for Shula but Andy Reid if you say you say Andy Reid's going to coach another eight years and you have Patrick Mahomes, that's like 12, 13 wins a year.
That's a lot of wins. Andy's lost some weight, too.
He has lost some weight. Andy's looking good.
He's feeling spry. This also is a roundabout way of being like, Andy Reid, stay for as long as possible so Matt Nagy doesn't become the head coach.
Okay, I was just having a discussion, Hank. Yeah, that's fine.
I think Bill Belichick's the best coach of all time. I'm trying to predict where the national media will go.
PFT. Yeah, thank you, Big Cat.
I have a question for you. Yes.
Who do you think Tom Brady is rooting for in this matchup? Probably the team he's rooting for. Wait, I asked Big Cat.
So he's investing in the Raiders. Yeah, I think the team he owns.
Yeah. That's interesting.
It's just interesting to think about. He's going to be in Vegas.
He might put some money down. Hank, where's your head at for this game? Are you going to get up for it? Yeah.
Yeah? Yeah, I think even that little Tom Brady, Josh McDaniels. It got you going.
It's a little rivalry there. If I'm being honest.
I think the Patriots are going to win this game. I actually kind of think so, too.
I think that the rivalry, I think the McDaniels-Belichick thing and the Brady versus Belichick thing, I think that gives Belichick an advantage in this situation. I think it actually weakens the Raiders because of the stupid shit that McDaniels is going to try to do.
He's going to try to outthink Belichick. Yeah, and then Garoppolo is probably going to try to play the best game of his life to show Robert Kraft like, hey, you could have had me.
You could have had me. You could have had this.
You could have had the young buck. And when he tries to do that, he's probably going to make some mistakes.
Okay, hit us with the nerd nugget. Patriots Raiders.
You guys just had a big debate about Andy Reid and Bill Belichick. This one is similar to that.
Bill Belichick has won at least one game in 50 different stadiums, including the postseason. The only two current stadiums where he hasn't recorded a win are Legion Stadium, home of the Raiders, where they're playing this week, and U.S.
Bank Stadium. Andy Reid is second with wins in 43 different stadiums.
Belichick never won in Germany either, but he'll get that chance. Yeah.
We also, the debate, just to clarify, is not a debate right now. It's a, will it be a debate? It's a potential future.
Will it potentially be? We're debating whether the debate will happen. Yeah, embrace debate.
Right, exactly. Hey, do you agree with us that the debate will happen? No.
You don't think so? I don't think he's going to win four more Super Bowls. I think you're wrong on that.
on that you're wrong people debate it but he doesn't have to win four super bowls for everyone in the media to debate that you don't think it's valid in your mind but i'm saying if he wins two more super bowls the debate will happen the debate could happen right now in that in that logic well thankfully we're not having that debate we're having a debate whether the debate will happen don't think that the debate will happen? No. I'd like to debate you on that point.
I think that it will. Well, we just did.
Yeah. And I, yeah.
We both think that it will. I don't.
That's a future debate that we're having currently as a debate. No, I think it will just because there's people in the national media who like to tear down the Patriots.
So it will happen. It will.
So then to move with us we just won that debate about the debate all right sure yeah you're right okay we won the debate thank you that was good that was really good all right next game cardinals rams um i don't really have anything besides the cardinals always lose to the rams so i'm looking at my sheet and i put down notes next to every single game. Yeah.
This one, Cardinals at Rams, absolutely nothing next to it. The only interesting thing I can find out about this game, there is a revenge game factor here, Big Cat.
Did you know that? That's right. Offensive lineman Coleman Shelton.
Shelton is the Rams' starting center, and he has only played NFL games while the Rams – he's only played for the Rams, has been with them for the last five seasons. However, he spent time with the Cardinals in 2018 on their practice squad for part of that season.
Whoa. So this is the official Coleman-Shelton game.
Besides that, who cares? Yeah, who cares? I mean, I do care. I'm going to bet on it, so I will care, but yeah.
I do care because I do think that the Rams are going to win eight games. This is a must win for you.
For me. I've got this on the schedule as a must win.
Otherwise, it's a disaster. Personal must win.
Remind Big Cotton PFT to bet Rams-Cardinals tie. Why? Okay.
All right. I'm in for that.
From the end of my preseason PowerPoint, you guys told me to bet Rams Cardinals tie.

That really fucks with my future then.

Or does a tie count as .5?

Fuck.

Whatever was coming out of your mouth after does a tie count was going to be wrong.

It should count as .5.

It should count.

But it does not.

Why?

It definitely does not.

No, no, 100%.

It doesn't because it's the win total.

It's the wins.

It's not called the loss total. Not the wins and ties.
If it was a loss total that I was betting on. Well, then why do they set half points in those lines? So that eight wins, seven doesn't.
Okay. We have a full-fledged fire going outside of the New York studio right now.
Why did we want to bet on a tie? I have to watch it back. I should have done it before.
This is on me. You should have.
You know what? I'm suspending your nerd nugget for this game. I'm going to unsuspend it.
Okay. I want to hear it.
I did. The minute I suspended it, I was like, but what if it's really important? I'm going to grade your nerd nugget for this game.
Fair. The Cardinals' 716 rushing yards this season are the most through the team's first five games of a season since they rushed for 850 in 1988 d minus because james connor's hurt right hmm yeah it doesn't really matter anymore the card was the mark the mercado trying to think of the best running backs they've had beanie well also doesn't help with the amazing i was hoping for a stat that helped, like these two teams always play ties.

I'm going to listen to it on my AirPods and get back to the guys. The last 14 times they've tied.

I think I know maybe what it is.

Does it have something to do with the NFC West cycle?

Oh, yeah.

Which is dominance?

But McVay does beat the Cardinals.

He does?

Yeah, the Cardinals are 2-11 in their last 13 games against the Rams.

But this isn't Kingsbury.

That isn't.

I don't know. We'll find out.
He's going to listen. All right, let's go to the next game.
I'm going to bet a tie. Eagles-Jets.
It's called hedging. Eagles-Jets are a producer battle.
Memes versus Max. The New York Jets have never beaten the Eagles.
0-12 in the history of their franchises going back to 1973. But they also have never employed the strategy of kissing the other quarterback.
So Robert Salah said when they do the tush push this week, he is expecting his team to give Jalen Hurts 11 kisses on defense. Are the New York Jets horny? Yeah.
My column. 11 kisses on defense.
On the tush push. So I actually, listen, it hasn't been stopped yet.
yet why not try to kiss him i have a follow-up to that to the kisses that that kiss commentary flutcher cox has now said that the eagles are planning on kissing breece hall 11 times it's a kiss ball we're kissing our boys we're kissing our boys in 2023 advantage they should playilly. Oh, man.
They should play kiss ball.

Go to the middle of the field.

Throw the ball up.

Let's see.

Who would your starting two on kiss ball be?

Jason Kelsey and who?

You got to say Fletcher Cox. But like Jalen Carter is who I want to say.

They throw the ball in the air and they kiss as many times.

They kiss as many times as they can until the ball hits the ground and then the Jets go. And whoever wins kiss ball wins the game.
Kiss. Yeah.
We should play kiss ball in the new office. I could see Aaron Rodgers being really good at kiss ball.
Yeah. Yeah.
He seems like a don't kiss me on my lips. He's very, very friendly.
You remember how many times he was hugging people? That's true. He likes to hug.
He was a big hugger. So, Memes and Max, what's the bet?

Loser has to kiss the winner.

Yeah, I like that bet.

Yep, because it's not.

I can't.

I got to focus on it.

No, because if Memes loses and kisses you on the lips, it's not like you kissed him.

You got kissed.

I can't be worried about Eagles-Jets right now is what I'm saying.

Your series will be over by then. Yeah.
But you don't know Yeah. It'll be over in four hours.
Nice try, Hank. Actually, it will be over.
Yeah, no matter what. Loser has to kiss the winner? Sure.
Okay, deal. Perfect.
Fine. On the lips.
You just rolled over for that. We never said lips.
No, I mean, it's a kiss. On the lips.
But then there's no winner, no loser. No, because that's what I said.
If memes has to kiss you, it's not like you're kissing him. You're just getting kissed.
You should have to. I don't give a fuck.
I'll kiss my boy. It's got to be a kiss on the tush.
No, it's got to be like Max. Whoever wins does the post-game video talking about the win, and then the loser has to sneak in with a cheek kiss.
But is that better for the... Yeah, okay.

Yes, yes, yes.

They both lose.

That's good.

Yeah, that's actually...

It's not good either way.

He gets kissed.

We win.

On the lips.

Yeah, we do win.

I want hand behind the head.

Wait a minute.

Where do the lips come in?

The lips are still in.

The lips are out.

No, the lips are in.

You said, I don't care.

I'll fucking kiss my boys on the lips.

That's what you said just two seconds ago.

I said I'll kiss my boys. I love kissing my boys.
You do. I think it should be...
He's been sick. He's been sick forever.
Cheek. Cheek? Winner gets the video.
Loser gets the video. Lick and...
You're going backwards here. I think it should be

an open mouth kiss

on the cheek.

Oh yeah, open mouth.

Open mouth. Hickey.

You gotta give the loser...

No, the winner has to give the loser a hickey.

Peck on cheek.

Open mouth kiss on cheek.

You have to suck his face a little bit.

Yeah, like a...

No tongue. It has to go in open mouth kiss on you have to suck his face a little bit yeah like oh yeah one of those no tongue a little bit nobody has to go in open mouth like this yeah exactly okay okay if you want to do tongue you can do tongue if you want you can do tongue if you want okay deal okay uh love is love what's your nerd nugget jake he's trying to multitask uh the eagles are 12 and 0 all time versus theets, the best record by any NFL franchise in a head-to-head series.
Oh, wow. I swear, Nerd Nugget.
What? That's what I said. You said it? At the beginning.
So the Eagles are 12-0 against the Jets and 6-0 against Houston. Minnesota's 5-0 against Houston.
Sorry for not listening. That's okay.
No, you're multitasking. You have to multitask.
Good nerd. I give that an A+.
A-plus, Nerd Nugget. All right.
Lions at Bucs. The Lions at Bucs.
The Bucs are wearing their Cream Skulls. That's all you got to know.
I want to know what the Bucs career record in the Cream Skulls is. Oh, I have it.
I think it's – oh, okay. Yeah.
Probably the worst ever. 100 wins, 223 losses.
It's really bad. That's as their main jersey, not as the throwback.

They've worn the throwback a few times in their first 21 years existing.

So they were the cream schools from 1976 to 1996, 21 seasons, three playoff appearances.

They got rid of them in 1996.

The next six years, they went to the playoffs five out of the six years and won a Super Bowl.

Yeah.

So I don't know why you do a throwback. The cream schools are the worst jersey in sports not I like how they look yeah but it is just if you're a Bucks fan you can't like these jerseys the only good thing that happened in these cream schools is Mike Allstott yeah I think it's a young as a yeah that's right as a rookie you had Mike Allstott running people over wearing a pirate that was winking at you, which was the most emasculating thing that's ever happened in sports.
But yeah, they're cool uniforms. I like it when people wear them as throwbacks to a Bucs game when they're wearing the regular jerseys.
On Jersey. On Jersey.
It's a great, you're like, oh, you got the creamsicle? Yeah, the creamsicles. It's pretty nice.
Hank, did you know that Steve Young played for the Bucs? Nope. Oh, okay.
Did you also know that Jerome Bettis played for the Rams? I did not know that until we did that. Okay.
Everyone knew that. I've got a Baker Mayfield quote.
He's on our side, big cat. Oh.
We can count Baker Mayfield as an ally. He said when Jared Goff was not mentioned among some of the top NFL quarterbacks by Ryan Fitzpatrick, he said, coming from someone that needed a fresh start as well, Jared's a stud.
Yes. He also went on to say that Jared's great at play action, which, again, we want to take that but expand it.
Jared's great. Great.
I'm going to revise that quote. Jared's a stud.
He's great. He's great.
He's great. Also, Lions Bucks.

First memory that comes to my mind.

Our guy, Tony Scheffler, doing the touchdown end zone celebration where he did the sword

like a pirate.

Yep.

Fucking badass.

A lot is going to be based on whether Gibbs and St. Brown play for me.

I think St. Brown's going to play.

I don't think Gibbs will play.

St. Brown was practicing this week.

I think if one of the two of them play, I'm going to stay betting on the Lions to hammer teams. Yeah, the Lions.
The only thing that makes you nervous, the road Lions, outdoor cats, a little different. But, yeah, I don't know.
The Bucs. Are the Bucs good? I think they are.
I think Baker's good. Yeah, but it's like, who have they played? Vikings.
Bad. Bears.
Bears. Bad.
Mm-hmm. Saints.
Bad. Yeah.
Yeah. Eagles.
Good. Yeah.
Just something to think about. So if one of the two of those guys plays, I'm sticking with my formula.
I'm betting on the Lions. Yes.
Okay, Nerd Nugget. It was about Cream Skulls.
You'd be sold for me. 1976 to 1997.
Winning record just three times. You stole it from Big Cat.
Yeah. No, you beat me to it.
But yeah, it's pretty crazy. They're such cool colors and they stink in them.
Yeah, they were a bad franchise. Also, I found it.
Yeah. I can play it, but basically it was the same day that Cooper Cup got re-injured and that speech from the Cardinals coach got released.
And you both said, let's fade the Rams and the Cardinals. And you're like, just...
Oh, okay. That makes sense.
All right. Got it.
I mean, I have to trespass. We'll have to do a tie.
Last game, Giants-Bills. Here's a fun fact for New York teams.
You ready for this? Mm-hmm. Since 2019, the Jets and the Giants have played in 25 night games.
What's their record? 25 night games. Jets and the Giants, 25 night games.
25 night games. Let's see.
The Jets beat the Bills this year. So that's one win.
Four and 21. I'm going to say two and 23.
That is correct. Two and 23.
That is so bad. This year.
So that's one win. Four and 21.
I'm going to say two and 23. That is correct.
Two and 23. That is so bad.
This year and the Odell catch? 2019. So I don't know.
That was earlier than that. Yeah.
Crazy. That's wild.
Crazy. Joke of a sports town.
Crazy. I mean the only team that plays in New York is the Bills.
Yeah. No, but we've said it a million times, but they have two teams for every sport,

and they're terrible and awful.

That was a stat, I think, on Advisors Jerry gave us that the Giants have not lost

in the state of New York since, like, 1993.

That's pretty impressive.

So they've just beaten the Bills, like, four times.

So they're going to have another chance again.

Yeah.

Wink Martindale had a great quote about Josh Allen.

He said he's got Dan Marino's arm, Derek Henry's legs, and Steph Curry's mindset. So you can think of another quarterback to use as a mindset one, so we went basketball on that.
But it seems like Wink building him up a little bit, just like gassing up the guy, making him think that he's got it made, that there's going to be another easy game for him, and then boom. The worst thing that happened to the Giants was that the Bills lost last week.
Yes. If the Bills had steamrolled the Jaguars and then they come back and then they get the Giants, I think that they crush them.
The Giants feel like their season might be bad. It's very bad.
Seems like things are just falling apart completely. It's very bad.
If they have any fight, Brian Dable will be like, hey, this is my revenge game. I'm not going to my son's birthday party.
My personal revenge game. I'm eliminating my other son's birthday entirely.
We're not celebrating. He's not getting any presents.
I need to show Buffalo that I've got something cooking for him. I don't know.
Maybe make some D's nuts jokes at the line that'll throw off Josh Allen. I don't know what the formula is for the Giants, but it feels like a shit pumping.
It feels bad. The Bills are scoring 0.5 points per play.
So actually the leader in the NFL is the Dolphins. They're 0.586 points per play.
The Giantsants are 31st, .194 points per play. That's so foreign to me to think about rooting for a team where every play is worth half a point.
Yeah, half a point. The Patriots are last in .17 points per play.
But yeah, the Dolphins, the Niners, and the Bills are all averaging a half a point or more per play.

That's insane.

Brutal.

That's insane.

Nerd Nugget.

The Bills lead the NFL with 21 sacks,

the most by Buffalo in the first five games of a season in team history.

Okay.

Wait, is the Giants offensive line good?

They're not.

Not good.

Not good at all.

Not good.

Okay.

Should we do picks? Let's do our picks. What is the standings and who's picking first? Picks in the warm-up flight.
I am 6-3-1. Max is 5-5.
Meems is 3-7. Oof.
By the way, we do have – it is confirmed the Tuesday of Super Bowl week will be the – we're going to probably do a pay-per-view as well so people can watch from home. Oh man, we're getting we're getting close to having to put you boys in a box.
Yeah. Yeah, we're putting you in a box.
I thought there was a chance you're just going to forget about No, no, no, no, no. We've been waiting for the new office.
I have a question. We're going to put you in a box.
Will Jimmy Butler be in their box? Yeah, yeah. Jimmy Butler be in their box.
In their sweet, in sweet box. Put a little picture of him.
Okay. Who goes first? Well, also, main event, Big Cat 5-3-2, PFT 6-4, Hank 5-4-1.
It's very even. Okay.
Very even. So, we've done five weeks.
So, that means me first? Yeah. I took the Lunder first overall last week.
So, who second? I want to. Me.
PFT, Hank, Big Cat, Memes, Max, me. Okay.
I want to take the Lunder so bad just to steal it from Jake. Yeah.
No, I'm going to stick to my travel plans, and I'm going to take the Baltimore Ravens minus four. It's a time zone bet.
Doing time zones. I like it.
I like it. Against the Titans.
Hank? I'm going to go Eagles, Jet. Eagles minus seven against the Jets.
Okay. Phillies riding high.
NLCS bound. Stop.
They're just going to roll over the Jets here. Stop.
Nice. I like that.
All right. I'll go with the Bengals minus two and a half at home against the Seahawks.
Memes? Bears-Vikings over 43.5 for Memes. Good pick.
I would like to take the Browns. The Browns plus 8.5.
Plus 8.5. Gross.
Who are they playing? Niners. Niners.
That's really gross. All right, Jake.
Plus going to take. Are you upset you didn't think about that, Hank? The Lunder trying to go 3-0.
We're 2-0 right now. It's 41 and a half, so it's a lower number.
But I believe in the Lunder going three for three. Ravens-Titans.
Okay. Max.
Oh, no. Jake gets another one.
I will also go with the Texans. Plus one and a half at home against the Saints.

Okay.

I like that big.

I'm going to go with the Bucks-Lions under.

What are we at?

42 and a half.

42 and a half.

Okay.

Memes?

Cowboys minus two.

Cowboys minus two Monday Night Football.

I will go with the Saints-Texans under 41 and a half. Saints just play unders.
Unlike Max, I support the friends of our show. I love Jared.
Love Baker Mayfield. I'm going to go Lions-Bucks over 42 and a half.
Nice. We've got head-to-head.
Shootout in the cream schools. Suck it.
Unlike some people on the show. Hasn't hiccuped yet Well, we braked, and he was out in the bathroom chugging water upside down.
Not true. Not true.
In the slightest. Unlike some people on the show, I support the New England Patriots, so I'm going to take the Patriots plus three.
It's Belichick McDaniels. I'm taking Belichick.
Yep, he's going to be fired up. Plus three.
Sprinkle Moneyline. Wow.
Also, pancakes. I'm now in last place.
Hank continues to dominate with 28. Max, 19.
Big Cat, 17. Memes, 14.
PFT, 12. Mean, 9.
All right. Wow.
Long way to go. Wow.
Okay. Should we do some Fantasy Lad Boys before we get to our interview with Jared Karabas talking baseball? Let's do it.
Oi. Oi.
Oi. Oi.
Oi. Hello, mates.
Right, here's the thing, right? My name is Cormac McLaggen. Yeah.
And our start on this week is Jada Pinkett. Oh.
Oh. She's back on the market.
Her and Will Smith have apparently been separated for seven years, but it's public now. That's fucking wild, isn't it? She's going to be stacking bodies left and right.

Right.

Sign me up, right?

Right, mate?

Sign me up.

My sitting is Logan Paul.

Logan Paul.

This happened to him in our home country, London.

At the press conference,

he got smoked with a microphone in the face.

He might not be fighting on Saturday night.

What a little bitch.

He's a little cunt, isn't he? Too weird. But he's like friends Hey what's up cunt Too worried about the fucking lawsuits Not worried enough about the fight game Thinking about Pokemon Thinking about Pokemon Not getting poked in the face with a microphone My sleeper To Sean Watson Everyone thinks he not going to play.
I think this might be the week he comes back against all odds. You're quite careful there.
Best team in football. Quite a detective, aren't you? Elementary, my dear Watson.
Indeed, indeed, indeed. Deshaunny.
Deshaun. Hello, I'm Queen Elizabeth.
Oh, Queen. You're dead bitch.
You're Queen. That's not very nice.
Dead as fuck. That's not very nice.
You and your pedophile son. I'm speaking from beyond the grave.
Murderer. I'm starting soup.
You can eat soup now because the weather has changed quite a bit. Nice.
It's good meal for proper bad British teeth, too. You can just slurp it right down.
Diana loves soup. She did.
Oh, before you killed her. Yeah, before you ran her off the road, you fucking bitch.
She did. I'm sitting for Titans this week because they're going to be very, very sleepy indeed.
I'm in the big sleep right now, so I know all about it. And my sleeper this week is me, because I'm tired, because I'm dead.
Oh, dear. He's a real weirdo.
Oh, dear. I'll erase him the best we could.
What's up, you fuckers? It's Terrence Titty Snatcher. Hey, what's up, Terrence Titty Snatcher? Terrence Titty Snatcher.
My stardom this week is Aaron Rodgers. He's making a million bucks talking in a microphone.
That's a lot of quid. What's the conversion rate on that? That's a 10 billion pounds.
That's all real. My sit-em is I dealt myself.
I didn't write a sit-em. I heard Ryan Russillo was making $3 million a year as a guest on part of my tape.
I heard that too. Jared Karabas got paid by 15 board apes for his appearance coming up.
My sit-em is myself. I forgot to do a sit-em.
I'll do a sit-em. Sitting's all right.
It's pretty good. It's the opposite of standing.
This is pretty good. My sit-em is Max because he's going to have to sit a lot to watch his Phillies win the World Series.
They've already won the NLCS if you listen to this. Congrats, Max.
No, they haven't. Oh, yeah, they have.
That's like standing up cricket, isn't it? Yeah. My sleep is divorce because Lauren Bober got divorced finally and her and her husband looked like they were making out in the parking lot.
So she's on for market, isn't it? Divorce doesn't look so bad. Hey, Lauren, come over here.
Pretty crazy. A lot of people replying, that's not what my divorce looks like.
Open invite to Lauren Barber and Jada Pinkett to come on the show. She just makes hot videos.
Gets me all hot in my knickers. All right.
That's got to be some proper hot sex, isn't it? Oh, yeah. Divorce sex with your ex-husband? Yeah.
What? What? Bonk. Bonk list.
Oh, bonk list. Yeah, no, that's fine.
Lauren Bobbitt's going to be featured on the bonk list this year. That's not...
That's a bonk list for me. I'll show you guys a video.
I would really like to see her cunt. I'll show you a video and you guys can tell me.
She's got a spooky vagina. The ghost.
The ghost of Queen Elizabeth's vagina. Okay.
Alright. I gotta find this video.
It's hot. Oh, you saw it? They were like making out.
I saw she was in the parking lot And she was like Vaping behind the car Yeah She's a baddie She's a baddie I want I want her She's a bad bad girl She's a baddie Alright Let's get to our interview With Jared Karabas Big time baseball writer Great discussion with him Is he a writer? Is he writing? Tweets He tweets He tweets. Before we do that, we got a quick word from our friends at Body Armor.
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Okay, we now welcome on up and coming baseball writer in the scene. He's trying to make a name for himself.
This is the first MLB playoffs that he's covering. It is Jared Karabas.
We thought we'd give him a shot. It's Jared Karabas.
He works. I don't know where he works, but he used to work with us.
No, he works at DraftKings. Baseball is Dead is his podcast.
Please go subscribe. Jared, good to see you.
Good to see you guys. Excited to have you on.
First question. So just for context, we're taping this on Thursday mid-morning, so three out of four of these series are over.
We have the ALCS set. We have half of the NLCS set.
We have Braves versus Phillies game four tonight, so that's why we won't definitively say which one is winning. But my first question for you was, what do you have to say for yourself after sucking the Braves' dick all year long and then them uh seemingly they're on the ropes they're on the ropes they're on the ropes but i mean you know i'm a notorious flip-flopper yep like i i wanted to pick the phillies in this series but we were going to atlanta for a watch party and i was like i can't pick the phillies and go to atlanta like't do that so I picked the Braves in five but if we weren't going to Atlanta I definitely would have picked the Phillies just because that's another flip you're just flip right here 100% yeah yeah I mean you can't like we all openly admitted that like everyone on the podcast picked the Braves because we were going like if if we were just going to stay put.
I think the the vibes would tell you and Max can attest to this that it just this series had Phillies written all over it. I think, you know, the whole like RC, it's by the way, stupidest storyline.
Explain it for the people who maybe are not following the MLB playoffs. I know what you what you're talking about but yes if you're not following the mlb playoffs the braves are playing the phillies right now the braves have statistically the best lineup maybe of all time like if you were to put it in perspective they they hit they tied the 2019 twins for the most home runs ever who could forget the 2019 twins yeah and the 1927 yankees they're tied in like ops plus so like statistically the one of the best lineups ever uh bryce harper gets doubled off in game two to end the game uh and then orlando arcia who is the brave shortstop was kind of like making fun of Bryce Harper after the game.
And there was like this whole like big thing about this reporter who didn't even have a credential had like tweeted it out or reported what Arcia was saying in the clubhouse. And then the Braves were crying about it saying, you know, this, this ruins like the, the sanctity of the clubhouse.
And, you know, there are things in the clubhouse that aren't supposed to get out. Like he didn't even say anything bad.
What did he say? Max, what did he say? Attaboy Bryce or something? Yeah, he said Attaboy Bryce. That's it.
Yeah. Yeah, Attaboy Harper.
T-shirts in the Barstow store. Okay.
And also, so then the idea is that the Braves, it does feel like the Braves are complaining a lot. And I would argue and maybe the Braves don't don't agree with me that Bryce Harper hit two home runs in game three not because Orlando Arceus said attaboy Bryce it was more because Bryce Harper's really fucking good at hitting home runs I would say that you have a strong case there Dan yeah I would say Bryce Harper pretty good.
I mean, he's he homered in

Atlanta like the dude just I'm so jealous of Philly fans because you got a player that is a

a superstar potential Hall of Famer someday. And he's such a dirt bag like Philly's fans like he

is one of them. And when he signed his deal, he was like 13 years.
I don't want any opt outs. I

want to die here. Bury me in Philly.
he embodies everything that that fan base is all about he wants to win he'll do anything to win and he does shit like that like oh you want to talk shit now i'm gonna hit two bombs i'm gonna stare you down as i'm rounding second base like that he embodies philly i'm so jealous of those people yeah would you say say that your bulletin board material by picking the Braves in five was actually a gift from you to the Phillies? And they're like, attaboy, Jared. Thank you for doing that for us.
They play better, it seems like, when everybody hates them. Yeah, no, if there's one thing that I learned about Phillies fans in my years in the Barstool offices is they love being hated.
They they embrace it. It's not something that rattles them.
They welcome it. They live off of it.
It fuels them. I was actually at all three NLCS games in Philly last year, and I haven't been to every ballpark, obviously, in the playoffs, but that atmosphere, it's I don't know that I can compare anything else to it

other than SEC football.

Oh, okay.

Way to steal a take from Jeff Passan.

Passan said that?

Yeah, on SVP.

That was the whole thing.

Was it Jeff Passan?

Yeah, that was a big argument for me of why CBP is the best.

Yeah, yeah.

But they might run into going up against themselves a little bit.

If they advance to this series and then they get the diamondbacks the diamondbacks are the team that nobody believes in sure they haven't lost this postseason but like nobody thinks that the diamondbacks are going to do anything the Phillies aren't going to be able to play the underdog card against them that's a good point I didn't think about it like that they would be they would be a favorite in that that series. I don't even think the Dodgers didn't even have a lead in that series against the D-backs.
So, I mean, they've been playing really good baseball. I don't know that that would continue against the Phillies if that ends up being the matchup, but it's hard to kind of say anything bad about the D-backs right now.
So last thing with the Phillies Braves, because again, there is still the series isn't over. If the Braves do come back and win this, what happened? Ooh.
Strider lights out game four. I think if the Braves come back and win the series, it'll be because of how they got there.
They just they bludgeoned every team to death. Like their offense hasn't done dick.

Like obviously they had in game two,

that big comeback, the Austin Riley two run home run in the eighth inning.

But they haven't, they haven't flexed their muscle.

Like even in that game,

they needed to come back in like the seventh inning.

Like there hasn't been a game

where they just put their nuts on the table yet.

If they're going to come back, they're going to have to do that. do that like last night like perfect example like the Phillies hit six home runs that's a ties a postseason record it was a franchise record for most home runs in a single postseason game uh they're gonna have to do something like that where they're just kind of establishing their dominance and they haven't done that like when I was there for game one, Strider first pitch Schwarber, your boy hit an absolute nuke off the wall.
The entire ballpark just went silent. It's like the Braves just got rocked in the jaw the first second of the game.
And they didn't really recover. I mean, obviously you had like the comeback in game two, which was phenomenal, but I'm talking about game one.
They were just absolutely stunned. They've got to come out firing.
Okay. All right.
I do want to talk more about the Diamondbacks. I have a question, though, about the Astros who are now in their seventh straight ALCS.
Seventh straight. Have the Astros won enough that it doesn't matter that they cheated anymore? Because it feels like we'll get to a point where, yes, they all know they cheated but now they're on seven straight alcs's they won a world series after they cheated their dominance in their like they're just so such nails when they get to the playoffs has that have we reached that point yet where it's like hey we know what happened in the past but they're just so fucking good you can't take anything away from this team.
Yeah, 100%. Yeah, I mean, so I said that you almost have to respect it, but I get the people that are coming back saying, oh, they cheated, so I don't have to respect them.
I get that too, but I think baseball has created such parity in their sport and the randomness of the postseason, like the D-backs being in the NLCS with what, 84 wins and a negative run differential, that that makes it all the more impressive that the Astros have gotten to seven straight American League Championship Series. But, you know, I think when you go back and look at it, the Astros got caught for 2017.
but I think you can still kind of like squint your eyes and look at 18 and 19 be like okay like those years were kind of sketched too they were only punished for one year so it is seven straight me personally i give them i give them credit for it like it is what it is i i think that they didn't what they've proven to me and and should be to a lot of people is that they never had to cheat in the first place. Correct.
Yeah. Whether or not they would have won in 2017, that remains to be seen.
Maybe the Dodgers have a strong case for, oh, they stole a World Series from us. But as far as getting their seven straight, I don't think that they needed to cheat to do that.
They were talented all along to be able to do that. And Dusty Baker is so likable as a guy.
He's a great shield for that organization, too, where it's like you can root against the Astros. But then when you see Dusty doing his thing, you're like, I like that guy.
I want that guy to win. Right.
It's impossible to not like Dusty Baker. Like when he when he won the World Series, that was a moment that it just it would have felt almost like, you know, like Dan Marino never winning a Super Bowl.
It's like, how do you get Dusty Baker in a dugout for that long being such a legend? And even to have a guy like Barry Bonds and Jeff Kent on his team and to not actually win a World Series with those guys. So even to all the Astros haters out there, I think when Houstonston won their non-cheating world series a lot of folks are probably sitting there being like you know what fuck the astros but i'm happy for dusty baker and dusty baker he invented the high five people forget that he invented the high five it's hard not to celebrate the guy that invented the high five yeah a hundred percent that's a fact um okay so astros in the LCS going up against the Rangers.
I will be fully honest. I don't know anything about the Rangers other than the fact that they feel like their offense is incredible.
And then they have Scherzer at two, but Evaldi, your former guy who just shoves. Like what, what is, why are the Rangers this good? Why are they playing this great baseball right now? Cause they haven't lost as well.
So the thing you need to know about the Texas Rangers, um, is their bullpen is absolute trash. Uh, they haven't had to run into any of those issues yet in the post season because they've just been bludgeoning teams to death with their offense.
Uh, you mentioned Scherzer. He hasn't pitched yet in the postseason.
He's been hurt, but he feels good. And we could see him in the ALCS.
There's a chance for that. He felt good the last time that he threw, but their offense is just, I mean, this is what they've been doing all year.
Like when you look at the matchup between the first seed Orioles, and then you have the Texas Rangers who didn't win their own division, the Rangers had a better run differential than Baltimore. So people are calling that an upset.
I don't think it was, but they made one of the best moves at the deadline. They traded for Jordan Montgomery, who was on the Yankees, and then he was on the Cardinals.
That was the Harrison Bader deal. But Montgomery was great in his first start.
Not so great in his second start, but it didn't matter because that I think like the Rangers score like 11 runs in that game. But their Achilles heel all year has been their bullpen.
Like there was a point where they had blown X amount of like like whatever it was like 20 games or something like that. Like their bullpen cost them the division hands down.
So if the Rangers don't end up in the World Series, it's going to be because the games are tight against Houston. Houston has that playoff experience.
They've been there. They've done that.
They can hang with you in that series. So yeah, that's, that's going to be what costs them if they don't get there.
The thing I've noticed about Schzer too is sometimes he is his own bullpen so he'll start out and he'll get rocked in the first inning in the second inning and he looks like dog shit and if you leave him in he'll like come in for relief for himself settle down and then go lights out innings like three through eight if you let him it's about just like trusting that'll get there eventually have you noticed that Scherzer? Is he like a guy that gets stronger as the game goes on? Yeah. I mean, like Verlander is the same way.
Like those dudes, like that was Verlander's MO when he was younger would be, he would start out throwing like 94, 95, and then he would pitch into the eighth inning and be throwing 98, 99 miles an hour. Scherzer, I think whatever you get out of him right now is a bonus.
I think if you're a Rangers fan and you're looking at this series, you're thinking, all right, if we get Max Scherzer at all, I'll be happy with four innings. You slide him down the rotation.
Maybe he only has to go in a game four situation and then available out of the bullpen in a game seven, something like that. Like he's not going to be the frontline bulldog that you're talking about.
That role has been taken on by Nathan Evaldi. Nathan Evaldi, this dude has balls the size of basketballs.
And we saw what he did with the Red Sox in the postseason 2018, did the same thing in the wildcard game in 21 against the Yankees. He's been there done that in October, he got hurt over the summer.
And when the Rangers were kind of sliding, like they were a first place team, and then the Mariners came out of nowhere, Houston was lingering the whole time. He just said, fuck it, like I'm not I don't need rehab starts.
And he just went from being on the sidelines for a month and change to put me back out there. We have games to win.
And that's why, you know, going into the playoffs, a lot of people were thinking, well, what are we going to get out of Nathan Evaldi? When it turns to the playoffs, he just flips a switch and he's been nails. He's he's a hoss.
He's he is. Yeah, that's that's what about.
The shove system. Just like, yeah, dude, dudes from Texas that just can squat 600 pounds and go out there and shove.
And that's Nathan Evaldi. Yeah.
And just throw it right down, you know, your throat. All right.
The Diamondbacks, they are the hottest team right now. It feels like they just completely emasculated the Dodgers.
I actually, before we talk about the Diamondbacks, what the hell do the Dodgers do? Because it feels like every year, outside of getting the entire playoff system changed, which it feels like they are trying to get, where there is no, you know, you could make the argument that the teams that don't play that first week are at a disadvantage, even though it's a small sample size because we've only had these new playoffs for a few years. But what do the Dodgers do they every year is the same story they have an incredible team they they they win the west and then they get to the playoffs and they're disappointing mookie bets i don't think even had a hit no he didn't i think uh freddie freeman and mookie were like one for 21 and it was an infield single um i think when you look at the dodgers it just kind of just puts it out there that the regular season is a different game than the playoffs.
When you look at the Dodgers, they won what? A hundred games. They won the division.
It's the same thing because now people are making excuses of, well, they didn't have Dustin May. They didn't have Walker Bueller and Tony Gonsolin got hurt.
And Julio Arias had the domestic violence thing. Like he can go fuck himself.
Like he's not going to probably pitch in the big leagues again. Like that's his second strike there.
So like, although like that's that like any other team, you take four fifths of their rotation away and they're fucked. The Dodgers still 100 games in their division.

So I don't know. Like it was next man up for them.
And it was enough for them to have this six. If you take out 2020, the 60 game season that they won the World Series and you go back to 2019 and then you have 2021 and 22.
22 and then this year they're averaging over a hundred wins during the regular season a year and then they get to the playoffs and they get bumped in the division series i think they they made it to the nlcs in one of those years that i just mentioned but it's just a different game in the playoffs but this specific dodger team right now mookie bets freddie freeman maybe one of the best one, two punches atop of a lineup ever. And they went missing.
And then you kind of look down the rest of the lineup. You're like, where's like, if you can contain those two guys, where's the threat? Like Will Smith is not going to carry you to a, to a world series.
So I don't know from like a roster construction perspective. Uh, it's very confusing that they were good enough to win 100 games in regular season and then they show up in a playoff series against a team like the D backs that had a negative run differential that didn't even win 90 games and they just get knocked around to the point where they did not have a lead.
They didn't have a lead in this series.

And the dude Brandon fought that went out there and fucking started that.

He had like a 10 ERA.

Like he's,

he's no disrespect to him.

He's going to be,

he's a good young pitcher.

He's going to get better.

He's very young, but he did not have a good year this year.

And he just went out there and shoved it up the Dodgers ass.

Like,

I don't know what as an organization,

what they're supposed to do to change the culture there because it's not an issue of oh we don't have enough talent like yes you can talk about the injuries and the rotation all that is valid but it didn't stop you from winning 100 fucking games yeah the regular season they need to poach Dan Heron Dan Heron is doing the greatest job coaching job of all time with these diamondbacks yeah Dan Yeah, Dan Heron, he's working miracles over there. Yeah, so when you're talking about roster construction and making a team for the postseason as opposed to the regular season, I don't know that that's an excuse for the Dodgers because you should be able to score runs in the playoffs if you have a team that wins over 100 games.
I don't think that's like a macro versus micro. But if you're talking about that, because I have heard people say it famously, I think A-Rod brought that up on the broadcast a couple years ago when he just talked about macro versus micro for two innings.
But he never really got into what it actually means. So if you're making a team, if you're designing a team in the lab to succeed in the playoffs and not the regular season, what are the changes you're making? What's the actual difference in product that you'd want to put on the field for playoff success versus regular season success? Yeah, I think at this point, if you're the Dodgers, you've gotten embarrassed enough to where their next move is going to be Shohei Otani.
I don't know that he'd choose because now Shohei is in a position where it's like, all right, everyone's got money now. All of you are billionaire owners.
I'm going to pick my team. I think if he doesn't end up with the Dodgers, it's not because they didn't have the highest bid or they weren't aggressive enough.
It's because he chose a different organization. He's choosing his forever home right now.
I think his next contract is going to have no opt-outs in it. Like we talked to Passan on the podcast a few weeks ago, and I thought because of his injury that he was going to have an opt-out after year two, where it's like, yeah, I'll DH for a year.
Then that second year is when I'm going to pitch and reestablish my value, then opt-out, then go somewhere. Passan was like, wherever he goes, like he's going to have no opt-outs.
That's going to be his forever home. So the Dodgers are definitely going to be one of those teams.
They strategically got under the luxury tax that they could blow past it in the case of signing a Shohei. But that's what you have to do.
I mean, it's not always the recipe for success is to just throw half a billion dollars at the problem. Like we looked at what the Mets did this year.
They spent a fuck ton of money and it didn't get them anywhere. They had an embarrassing season.
The Padres had a World Series parade in January and they spent a ton of money. That didn't work out.
But then you look at the Texas Rangers. How crazy is it that the Texas Rangers spent half a billion dollars on their middle infield with Simeon and Corey Seager.
Corey Seager probably had the best season in the American League outside of Shohei. But their big free agent acquisition was Jacob deGrom.
And he's not factoring into any of this. And they're in the ALCS.
So sometimes spending a ton of money helps. And I think that that's kind of where the Dodgers are going to have to go is fans just by scrolling through Twitter and all the replies and reaction to this series they're kind of like rip shit at Mookie it's like Mookie Betts is an MVP perennial candidate and they're pissed at him for not doing anything in the playoffs and then after the game being like ah you know like the D-backs are a good team too they're not nearly as good as you what are you talking about so about? So talking about the D-backs, obviously Zach Gallin is top of the rotation, number one.
But how are they doing this when Tommy Pham, I think, is batting third for them? I did love turning on the game last night. We've been in New York all week with surviving Barstow, so I haven't been paying a ton of attention.
But seeing the Dodgers have to throw out Lance Lynn, that fat face of his, Costas even said it,

he's like, he's very large.

I was like, oh, this is a problem because Lance Lynn, he's just going to give up dingers

at some point.

He even did like a celebration after the third and then gave up four home runs in the fourth.

But how are the diamonds?

Could the Dimebacks win the World Series? So here's the formula for playoff success. Good pitching, good defense, hit homers.
And the D-backs are hitting homers. They hit four off of Lancelin in the same inning.
That's the first time we've ever seen it. So it's not about like with the Dodgers.
We have a little bit of length here in the middle of the order. We've got guys that can hit and they can get on base and they can walk a lot.
That's great. But if you're not hitting homers, you're not winning in the playoffs.
In the series with the D-backs and the Brewers, when we asked Passan, who's your dark horse for the playoffs? He was blowing the Brewers all day because the defense was great. One of the best in baseball and the pitching was great.
It's like, all right, well, what about the offense? Like, do they have guys that can hit homers? No, they didn't win a fucking game. And like, that's, that's basically what you have to do.
It's, it's not about, uh, you know, we're going to grind out at bats here and we're going to wear down the pitcher and his pitch count and all that. It's, can you hit homers in at a rate that you can-homer the other team? The playoffs is all about hitting home runs.
We just saw it last night with the Phillies. We saw it last night with the D-backs.
The teams that are hitting more home runs, those are the teams that are winning. Yeah, I actually go to Magic Johnson for all my baseball analysis, and I thought he hit the nail on the head.
He said the Dodgers didn't hit or pitch well. That's why we lost the series to the Diamondbacks.
Tough to argue with. Facts.
It's really hard to dispute anything that he said there. Yeah, so there was also another take I wanted to hear your feedback on.
Speaking of the Diamondbacks, there was a Wisconsin podcast host, Bart Winkler. He said, the Diamondbacks aren't good.
beating the Brewers in three-game series and then beating the dodgers in a five-game series doesn't prove that wrong but they are now in the nlcs this league is so stupid every baseball fan should be outraged by this bullshit are you you are a baseball fan jared you're a seam head are you outraged by this bullshit i'm not'm not outraged by this bullshit. Honestly, I think it gives hope to other teams out there that it just reinforces all you have to do is get in to have a chance, which is kind of why I want to kind of like mix up the playoff format again.
I want to go back to the one game playoff for the wild card. And then I want to make the division series best of seven.
I think that if you're an owner and you're like, well, that's, you know, like if you want to make the wild card one game again, it's like, well, that's fewer games. We're not going to make as much money.
Then you make the division series best of seven. I think it rewards teams with more depth by having the like, I still think, honestly, the D-back still would have beat the Dodgers, but something specific to the Braves Philly series like this deserves to be seven games.
Like, I feel like it has a chance to go seven, you know, these two teams and we'll never know now. But yeah, the D-backs doing what they've been doing is only going to encourage those.
I don't want to say bottom of the barrel, but maybe the less financially supported teams like, hey, you know, one move here, one move there. Maybe we can't win 100 games like the Orioles just pulled 100 wins out of their ass.
Maybe we can't win 100 games, but maybe we win 86 games. We get in and then we see what happens.
I think it only encourages a more competitive balance where teams actually care, like the Oakland A's just throwing out the worst team in baseball history and the Kansas City Royals doing what they're doing. I think it should give hope to those teams where like, hey, we put in like a little ounce of of effort we could sneak in and maybe fluke a world series or something like that i agree with that i think it keeps interest higher across the board across more fan bases but then on the other hand if if you have it that way then if your team is like really really shitty on purpose like the a's it makes you that much more frustrated where it's like hey you don't even have to spend a lot of money.
You just have to make sure that you spend less money than the last place guy. And we have a chance.
And unless you're just dirt poor and being cheap as hell, every team should have at least some hope at the start of the year. You know what they should do? They should have every team for at least the first round of the playoffs, maybe even the first and second round of the playoffs, they should have every team be in and it should go off run differential.
That would be sick. So like the Orioles in the in the A's play a one game playoff game, but the score starts 129 to minus 330.
How sick would that be? I do think they might get like, do you think that they should get rid of divisions at this point? Like, wouldn't that make more sense? No, I like the idea of it. It might just be because we grew up with divisions.
And so it's familiar to us. But I like the idea of like in-division rivalries.
We're traditionalists. We think they should make they should make interleague play like a two week thing like it used to be yeah yeah i don't know i like the it's basically

the show hey rule right like they they want to be like hey we have this global superstar we want everyone to come out and see him uh and attendance was uh i think it was the best that it's ever been in like 30 years that's because the bases are bigger i think the bases are bigger they're like you know what people want to come out and see these pizza boxes yeah and they're coming out in droves to see them the the uh dumb question how big are you legally allowed to make the mitt when you get to first base and can it to like steal second base like could i make a mitt that's 90 feet long i mean i guess you could i think when when buck show walter before he took the mets job i think he was doing mlb network or something like that that, and he was saying, even if you don't care to protect your fingers, why isn't everyone wearing those? Because it just gives you an extra inch or two to be safe. That could be the difference of being safe route.
Every base runner should be wearing that fucking thing. It'd be funny if it was like you get to first base and it's like fly fishing.
See if you can just get your mitt all the way to second base. That's my hand.
My hand's in there. Or just put those giant number one foam fingers on you and then slide his second with that.
Baseball is the sport where thinking outside the box and cheating and doing random things to succeed, you would think that there would be a nerd somewhere in every organization be like, hey, I don't care if you care about protecting your fingers or not. You should be wearing the oven mitt because it gives you an extra two inches the bases are bigger so now it's uh it's like four and a half inches that you didn't have before four and a half inches is pretty big right max oh yeah baby that's right we've been saying that there should that a smart coach would just not have a catcher on the first and second pitch of an at-bat and so you get an extra fielder out there and then, and then the pitch is coming straight at the umpire.
You don't need to catch that shit. Yeah.
No, I think the new rules have been great. I think...
So, Dan, you'll appreciate this as a wrestling guy. Why aren't fans...
Because I saw in Minnesota the Twins, because I think it was talking about they were actually doing the pitch count, like count like countdown but they were doing it real yeah so fuck with the pitchers yeah wouldn't you do the countdown like the royal rumble but not the actual thing to fuck with them it's like college basketball college basketball all the time the shot clock they'll they'll do a fake shot clock when you're in one of the big you know road environments and they'll always You will always speed up a guard at least once or twice a game. Yes.

Like, you need to start 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 at 8 seconds max. Philly's fans are the perfect fan base to do that.
They're a bunch of scumbags. It's a term of endearment.
They're loud. It's something that they would do.
So if we're going to see it, I think we should see it at the bank. But I am shocked that in this first year of the pitch clock that we haven't seen fan bases fuck with the pitchers it's true it's true uh you're talking about show here earlier where would where the funniest place for otani to end up next year be uh japan he was just like the dallas cowboys yeah he was just like you know what fuck this dude like i want to go home and he just left but as far as like what team hmm that'd be great because we could just be like he could never cut it in MLB yeah afraid of bright lights or would people just start watching Japanese baseball more than MLB yeah yeah I don't know I feel like probably the Mets like whatever team would have the chance of breaking him the most it would probably be the Mets uh I don't I mean the Pirates.
I don't know where he's going to end up. I don't know.
I feel like probably the Mets, like whatever team would have the chance of breaking him the most, it would probably be the Mets. I don't, I mean, the pirates, I don't want to see, I don't know where he's going to end up.
I don't know. I don't like the fact that there are rumors that the Red Sox are all hot and bothered over Shohei because I don't want to be the team that like ruins him.
I don't want to be the team that breaks him. I don't want to have to be the organization that when he's 36 years old being like, Hey man, like I think you should probably pick one or the other.
I don't want to be that team when he got hurt were you like ben verlander did you literally throw up no i didn't literally throw i wasn't cream and scry throwing up like like ben but he uh because he literally threw up he literally threw up is he okay now yeah yeah he fell to his knees in the middle of a walmart over that you know my heart goes out to ben but uh yeah no that's i i don't know where he's going to end up. Would you want him on the Cubs? I'd want him on the Cubs.
Why not? He's fucking awesome. I don't think the Cubs would ever put the money up for him, but I would love for him on the Cubs.
Why not? He solves everything. I think if you're a major league owner right now, you have to look at it not as...
Because I think owners now are afraid to go out and spend 400 million dollars because it's like, well, what if this player like look at Anthony Rendon? He is one of the highest paid players in baseball. He still has a fuck ton of money left on his contract.
And he admittedly is like, I wish I could retire. So like his heart's not in it.
His body is failing and he's owed like 36 million dollars over the next five years or something like that. So I get why owners balk at paying guys like that type of money in their their 30s.
But with Shohei, it's almost like a marketing expense. Yes.
Yeah. I'm not I'm not paying him for what he's going to do baseball wise.
If I pay Shohei Otani to play for my team, I know that he's a

baseball robot. All he thinks about is baseball.
He trains for baseball. His life revolves entirely around baseball.
I'm going to sell tickets. My viewership is going to go up.
I'm going to sell merch. It's an attraction.
So that's why I kind of expect these random ass teams to be in on Shohei knowing that, it doesn't matter if this guy performs to the contract it's just going to be uh like we're if if my team is a circus this is our star track and also you can't you can't do the like one guy had a bad contract because you know how owners think like Bryce Harper is a perfect example of hey think that was worth it yeah it was very much worth it it'll be awesome though if Shohei went to Colorado it was just hitting him and Chris Bryant hitting nukes every day that'd be the best wouldn't it I mean yeah wherever he goes I'll support him I'll watch I just wait if he goes to the Yankees you know you know what Dan Dan is the reason why I went in on the Yankees as hard as I did. He brought the beast out of me.
It was dormant for so long. I hated the Yankees in 2003, 1999, 2004, when Johnny Damon went there in 2006.
But that beast laid dormant for so long. And then in 2018, I was just like, the Yankees are another team to me.
And I meant i was like i i was like you know you beat them you you were better than them no it was more just like my rival is the team that stands in front of me in the way to a world series title and dan was like nope it's the yankees you should hate the yankees and it just you know well i just got a little whiff of of those old days and it hasn't stopped it was it the Yankee fans in the Barstool office getting them riled up. I mean, I had a lot of fun, you know, pinstripe Dan and all that stuff.
But, yeah, that's what it's about. You've got to go against your rival.
What's your World Series prediction? Ooh. This should be easy because you only have five teams left.
I know. Well, my preseason pick was Padres Blue Jays.
Oh, God. So when you say the January World Series parade, you're talking about yourself.
You gave them a parade. Padres Blue Jays.
Is it safe to say that the Nationals won that trade for Soto? Yeah. I mean, the Nationals, they've got what? Like already like three dudes on their big league roster from that trade already? Fleeced.
Soto could end up in Boston. I wouldn't mind seeing that.
That's the scuttlebutt. He would just go yard all day in that short pitch.
I just don't want him to go to New York. By the way, one last note on Shohei before my World Series prediction that I'm buying time on.
I don't like when we talk about the Japanese superstars and they're like, oh, they definitely want to be on the West Coast. Why? Oh, because it's closer to Japan.
Like these guys, it's not like college where you're picking a college and you go home on the weekend. Shohei's not going back to Japan on the weekends.
Why does matter geographically if he's close to Japan or disagree I actually think that there are more Japanese Americans that live on the west coast than any other for sure also you're just like you're trying to fight against uh one of our favorite things on this show is like sport cliches where like guy coming into the NFL draft.

Oh, well, did you know that he actually had the coach of the Broncos

was at a camp that he went to when he was 15 years old?

There's a connection there.

You got to just go connections wherever you can.

Yeah, I get it.

I get it, but selfishly, I just want Shohei on the East Coast

because it's a pain in the balls to have to stay up late to watch Shohei. I agree with that.
Yeah. You should become a flat earther.
What does that have to do with time zone? Might just be easier to get there. I actually think it would make it farther away.
It would? Yeah. Because it's up north.
So it's like you cut a diagonal. Well, you could just figure out maybe become like, yeah, like a triangle earther.
Just figure out a way to make it so like, Europe. You know what it is? It's like we expect Shohei Otani to go to the Giants or probably Seattle because it's like, well, Ichiro played in Seattle.
That's basically Japan. But, yeah, you can't fight against that.
Just lean into just being dumb sports fans. Yeah, you're right.
You're right. World Series prediction.ies phillies over the rangers which it sucks because i just got this fucking texas flag button up what's the thing called what like oh the bolo tie the yes yes yes yes yes i got one of those and i got like a texas button up and then uh kevin millar bought me this cowboy hat so that looks like a stripper cowboy hat that's not a real cowboy that's like leather and shiny yeah well it's yeah it's leather yeah it's like magic mike well we bought it we bought it at a leather shop so i've got like the boots i've got the whole thing going so it's gonna suck if i have to pick against them in the world series but it just feels like the phillies won't be denied.
They feel more inevitable this year than they did last year. This is bullshit that we're doing this before Game 4.
Agreed. Agreed.
Also, Jared, because you got a bunch of Texas shit, you know that the Rangers are playing against the Houston Astros. I do know that.
Also a Texas team. So, Jared, last question.
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20% off. So the Red Sox don't have a GM right now, correct? Kind of, sort of.
Okay. There's folks acting behind the scenes.
Okay. Is it a 0% chance that Jared Caravis is the next GM of the Red Sox? Listen, we've had conversations, none of which I can speak about publicly, but...
Well, you just did. Well, I mean, well, I know commented.
I know commented there, but yeah, I'm going to play out my 30s as a podcaster. And then once I get to my 40s, like that's when we bring in the big guns, like Petey,d alex core goes upstairs then we just start bringing in all the big guns so but is there like i'm being dead honest like there's got to be at least like a half a percent of your brain being like what if what if they just call me up and they're like look you know the red socks better than anyone we want you as the gm i mean did you know i like 10 a little 10 years ago, I almost worked in the Orioles front office.
Really? So you could, like, so you have, basically, you've worked in the front office. Yeah, you could say that I'm basically like an executive.
Like, I could be a candidate at this point. I don't know that I would want to do that, though.
Oh, shut up. No, I...
You fucking liar. Because then you couldn't do a podcast criticizing yourself.

No, but he doesn't criticize the Red Sox.

Yeah.

He doesn't criticize anyone.

Yes, I...

Oh, my God.

Yes, I do.

I mean, when they're in last place, you think I'm happy?

I'm miserable.

I am absolutely miserable.

If you were the GM of the Red Sox, would you still do the obnoxious all caps tweets after a win?

See, that's what...

I don't even want to do those anymore. That'd have to be in your contract being like please let me keep doing these but i don't even want to do those anymore so i started doing those in 2014 after the red sox lost 10 straight games and they finally won a game that's when i did the first one and i've just been doing it for every win ever since like i don't think people understand i annoy myself like

i read some of the shit that i tweet like i that's why i stopped doing the yankees lose tweet there's like that oh those are funny though but i'm annoyed by like if if i'm a red sox fan how am i supposed to talk shit when back-to-back last place seasons yeah but no you got to hang on to that like hold on to whatever bit of hate that you have because when the yankees lose that, that's now your biggest victories. True.
And when I was in Atlanta, I thought for sure that like Braves fans that came out to the watch party were going to be like, yeah, you know, like we discovered you when you started talking about the Braves lineup. Fucking no.
So many people were like, oh, I discovered you because the Yankees lose tweets. Like in 2019, like I discovered you from like hating the Yankees so much.
And I was like, OK, all right. So I guess I have to go back to that.
How do you come up with the nicknames for the Red Sox when you do the all caps tweets? Is it just like overnight you wake up and you're like, yeah, Rafi Big Sticks or whatever? Yeah, it's usually a lot of like dick references in the nicknames. They just, they come to me.
You know how Paul McCartney wrote yesterday in a dream?

Yeah.

That's how I come up with the nicknames a lot of times.

So while you're masturbating, wasn't there one guy who was sleeping bags or something?

Duffel bags?

Mitchie Two Bags?

And Scoops?

Who was Scoops?

Raffy Big Scoops.

Raffy Big Scoops.

That's what it was.

Yeah, because he eats ice cream.

Well, no, no, no.

Not once. That was how they rewarded him.
If he did something good,, because he eats ice cream. He eats ice cream once.
Yeah. Well, no, no, no, no.
Not once.

That was how they rewarded him.

If he did something good, then he would get ice cream.

So you got to think ahead.

What is Otani going to be when he's a Red Sox?

So we also didn't do nicknames for star players.

We gave nicknames to players that were lesser known.

Grinders, yeah.

Yeah, they needed that extra fan support, so we gave them nicknames.

So what's the

worst nickname you ever gave the one that you wish you had back when you wish you had back uh uh i don't know they're all kind of bad at the end of the day uh i think uh jared salt Lamachia we gave him the perm. That was pretty bad.

That was pretty bad.

The ice horse is still the best one.

That's a good one.

That's a great one.

Yeah, ice horse is a great one.

Yeah. Like sometimes like you give a nickname to someone and you're like, yeah, like that's

that's going to that's going to pop.

And then other ones, you're just like, oh, man, we are trying to get something over.

That's just like it's not going to work.

Yeah.

A couple other personal questions, Jared. How many hours a week do you spend exclusively training biceps? Oh, so probably like two to three, because I mean, I've just been I'm on like a seven day routine now.
No, I don't do steroids. I know Billy's not in there right now, but I want to deny the steroid accusations.
Once again, I said i'm willing to take a steroid test if you want to randomly drug test me i will randomly drug test well i don't no one says you do steroids everyone says you did steroids yeah you did do steroids i did steroids in 2011 right i never did steroids during my bar still 10 years no one's saying you do them right now but everyone is billy you did do steroids billy said i did steroids during my barstool tenure. No one's saying you do them right now, but everyone is.
No, no, no, Billy. You did do steroids.
Billy said I did steroids during multiple phases of my barstool tenure. Okay, so that means that you are a steroid user.
You are a gearhead. You have done steroids.
I was a steroid user. No, it's like fucking a goat.
If you fuck a goat, you're a goat fucker. Yeah, you've done it.
That's fair. You're a stero a steroid yeah i was a steroid user you're on the mitchell you're a covering steroid user yeah yeah yeah i was on the mitchell report yeah exactly i've turned in i've turned a new leaf uh other question uh a little birdie told me and i think that if true this is a move that kind of rocks and i respect on your part i've heard that in your house your living room is just your bedroom is that true yes and no like it's so the uh i bought this house had a big like a giant master bedroom and i was like i don't need all that room to sleep in so i turned the master bedroom into the media room.
And then this is the podcast studio is the walk-in closet.

So I turned the master bedroom into the media room. And then I'm, this is the podcast studio is the walk-in closet.
So I just made my bedroom, like it's one of like the smaller rooms in the house. It was like, I just, I'm going to sleep in there.
Who cares? I don't need a lot of room in there. And then the big ass master bedroom is like the media room.
It has like the big TV wall. I'm going to put a bar in there.
And then the walk-in closet's the podcast studio. So you made your master bedroom, which is so big, you turned that into the living room.
Yes. You also don't, you don't really need a, do you need a bar in your house? Do you have people that come over? That's a, no, but like we could sponsor and make content out of the bar.
Okay. When I make a friend, I is where we're going to hang out.
I can't wait until you get a serious girlfriend, and she's like, what is this house? Yeah. What is going on here? That's what I was thinking when I heard that story.
I was like, Jared, the second a woman walks into that house, she's like, we're fixing all this. He basically made a tree house, no girls allowed.
Yeah. Which, again, that's awesome.
Yeah. Yeah.
Rules. Yeah, just a full meathead gym in the basement, and then a podcast to you.
I'm doing, like, a secret movie theater. Like, a lot.
So there was, like, a secret movie theater. You're the only one who's in on the secret.
But I'm going to keep the secret. You're not going to know where it is.
Got it. But it's going to be, you know how, like, the gas tanks, like, if you, like, push like push on the gas tank door and like it pops open like that.
Yeah. I'm going to have like a big ass like picture frame that you just like pop open like that and you open it and then it's going to be like this like little like movie.
Yeah. You're doing sleepovers with yourself every night.
It's awesome. Every night.
Listen, I mean, I do. It is a dude's rock house.
It's a dude's rock. I do have people over when whenever there's a WWE pay-per-view, I have a little dork parties.
My friends come over. It's kind of like a melting pot of people from all different sectors of my life.
And I just made them become friends with each other because you need a wrestling group. Well, you've made them become friends with each other because you're not a reliable friend.
I am a reliable friend. I have every single wrestling pay-per-view.
They come over. Both of you are more than are more than welcome to come i love it you basically are uh you know like a five-year-old dreamed what what their favorite like their best house would look like when they grew up and it's like you know we'll have uh the tvs everywhere we'll have all my friends over for wrestling it's beautiful it's a lot of baseball every day how how long like how late into your day do you get before you think about baseball for the first time i mean immediately i wake up in the morning and the first thing i do is check my phone and i'll look at my my same thing that you guys do check my twitter and then check instagram and whatever you check the news look at baseball reddit and see what the stories are i mean it's immediate yeah so like you open your eyes and you're just like baseball Base baseball baseball okay i love that jared you probably last long in bed you're just always thinking about baseball that's that's the trick yeah you know jared gravis has never come but the difference is he's just always thinking about baseball he loves baseball so much that i think baseball makes him come yeah that's true yeah that's true that's true He has to think about football.
Have you ever thinking about baseball. He loves baseball so much that I think baseball makes him come.
Yeah, that's true. Yeah, that's true.
That's true. He has to think about football.
Yeah. Have you ever thought about baseball while ejaculating, Jared? Yeah.
Yeah, of course. I mean, yeah, there's always a misfire there where you're thinking about baseball to last a little bit longer, and sometimes it doesn't always work.
Oh, man. The ice force.
That's just a body of work right there. Oh, yeah.
All right. Well, Jared, as always, you're a great friend.
Great talking to you. Everyone go subscribe.
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Okay, let's wrap up. We got fire fest the week.
Henry. My fire fest of the week.
I don't really know. It's not like a fire fest in the sense that it's something bad that happened to me.

It's just more embarrassing, I guess, to admit.

I don't really know the right words for it. But I, like two weeks ago, watched one video on TikTok about the Harry Potter movies and the things that should have been in the movies that were in the book.

And I, as a, you know, I was a fan of the books when I was super young. Didn't really love the movies.
Then I just started getting fed more Harry Potter TikToks. Oh, yes.
The algorithm got you. Dude, the algorithm sucks.
I've just been watching all the Harry Potter movies. Like one TikTok video two weeks ago has led to, like, a large part of my, you know, free time just being spent consuming Harry Potter.
You ever wonder if, like, the big corporations get involved in the TikTok algorithm? I've been thinking everything. And they've made you now go back and watch all the movies? Yes, yes.
Trust me. It's all been going through my head where it's like, it was truly one video.
I liked it, which then just fed more videos. And then I was like, I'm going to go watch the movies.
And then I was like I'm gonna go watch the movies And then I was like they got me Dude the algorithm is so bad now If you click on one video You just get it fed to you constantly I get a shitload of Like mom influencers Like cause there'll be like a funny video That like I'll send my wife back to me About like parenting is this And now that's just my entire Instagram feed. It was nice when it was just sports clips and boobs, and now it's just something different.
It's mom's. My Instagram is just stretches for your hips.
I saved one. That could get hot, though.
I don't do any of them. It's like I couldn't move my back, and now I do this stretch every day, and my lower back pain is gone.
I don't do any of them. And it's like, I couldn't move my back.
And now I do this stretch every day and my lower back pain is gone. And I don't do any of them.
But every time I go, it was much better when it was whales. You click on one tweet and it's just like, that's all you get for the rest of the day.
You got to start just actively searching for whales and liking those TikToks. And then you'll be back.
You also have to just start, I've just started muting things like muting subjects as a whole. They just like get away from me.
Yeah, I've watched three Harry Potter movies this week. You know, I've been three.
Yeah. So I've never once three, four or five or like half a five.
I've never seen Harry Potter movies. I've never read any of the books.
Same. Can you can you give me, in 30 seconds or less, the entire Harry Potter series? Parents, kids get murdered.
What? No. The parents' kids get murdered? Or no.
Reverse. It's like Batman.
Couldn't even go one sentence. We're at 15 seconds.
Wait, what? How many movies have you watched this weekend? How dark is this shit? Parents' kids get murdered? A fucked up wizard sets up a kid for a lifetime of torture, and then he basically has to kill himself. What? To save the realm.
Is this true? Kind of. Okay.
You described Batman. That plot is Batman.
Well, he doesn't kill himself. He does.
He has to sacrifice himself. Yeah, but then he...
At one point. Dumbledore, the guy that you think is like the grandpa that's always there to help him...
He just passed away in real life. ...is actually...
Last week. Bad.
...a sicko, yeah. He's not bad.
And Harry Potter kills himself? He kills himself, but then he comes back. There's a prophecy.
So he didn't kill himself? Oh, that's lazy writing. The wizard...
Is that not Batman? Yeah, no, it's... Well, the parents murdered...
Yeah, apparently. And then he flies away on a helicopter and the bomb goes off, but then he's in Italy.
Yeah. I mean, I botched that horribly.
Yeah. Yeah, I don't know.
As I'm watching, I'm like, dude, Dumbledore is a piece of shit. You know what? Okay.
He's not, though. He knew that Harry had to sacrifice himself.
He set him up. I'm so confused.
He didn't set him up. He just, that was like the way it had to be and you read them i didn't read them come on you think i was right you think i was this is something that pfc i just missed like i remember being in college when like kids were like lining up to like like in the fucking scarves and shit yeah i read the books and then i was like these movies suck wrong which house are you hey We also make fun of this guy all the time And no one has said anything The books are better than the movies guy No I know If it's Hank I appreciate it Michael Lewis books Always better than the movie Big Short Moneyball Blindside Bringing Down the House Yes That wasn't Michael Lewis I haven't read any of these books I haven't read any books in general You're Ravenclaw Hank You guys called me something that really hurt my feelings That I didn't even know what it was Slytherin No it was a fat guy Oh yeah Itherin.
No, it was a fat guy. Oh, yeah.
No, I get Hagrid. You are Hagrid.
I am Hagrid. Yeah, that's all the YouTube.
What's his cousin's name? Go watch the PMTV, by the way. I called you Hagrid ran a 5K.
Hagrid ran a 5K in the YouTube video. I attempted to run a 5K.
Yeah. What are the comments on that right now? Like, you're crazy if you think anything that may...
Alright right, I'll pull them up. I just saw them.
The top one's pretty funny. PFT, Fyre Fest.
No, Max, it's not how this works. You didn't raise your hand.
Max, you kind of ran the 5K. We don't need to do this right now.
No spoilers. Oh, you kind of ran the 5K.
Yeah. It's not a spoiler.
It's a fact. You kind of ran a 5K.
It's just a fact. He kind of ran a 5K.
Are you talking about this one? That's honestly super impressive. That's a small cart and big cat sat in the back the whole time.
Gotta think he started cramping, but he powered through it. That's grit.
That's pretty good. Yeah, everyone, no spoilers.
Go watch it on PMTV. Max runs a 5K.
Kind of. I wonder what the other people running thought about Big Cat and Crew just cruising on a cart chirping a fat guy the whole run.
It was a little weird. Yeah, it was a little weird.
Yeah, remember when you said that you couldn't run it because you had to catch a flight and then you stayed the entire time? I was like, I got to go to Tuscaloosa. I can't run this, and I just stayed the entire time.
We can't get on a flight sweaty. Max, I was proud of you.
That was a real company man thing. Yep, thank you.
You stepped up, and you tried. I tried.
No spoilers. For five seconds.
You think there's a chance you get addicted to running oh did I say that to you? yeah I think so

I have worked out more often since then

you did look strong

you looked very strong

you're a strong guy

Hagrid runs a 5k

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okay PFT what's your fire fest?

plug God

tonight

Knoxville Tennessee

8.30pm

Pup Punk

playing live

free show at the hill

free show at the hill

come on out

I feel like every college should have a place called

the see 8 30 p.m. pup punk playing live free show at the hill free show at the hill come on out feel like every college should have a place called the hill they should yeah it's just like meet me at the hill the hill and like and high lawn i feel like there's high lawns in every college town um go to the hill tonight go to the hill i'm gonna be at the hill i'm on the hill tonight come see me come see pup punk it's gonna be me roan uh robbie nick caroline we got filling guy on drums hill tonight.
Come see me. Come see Pup Punk.
It's going to be me, Roan, Robbie, Nick,

Caroline. We got filling guy on drums for Frankie.
So please

be nice and please nobody

tell Frankie. Is Frankie still on his

honeymoon? Yeah, he's fucking. How long

is the honeymoon? He's fucking.

Don't vacation shame. I didn't.

I honeymoon shame. Yeah, the guy's name is Dom

and he was actually the first drummer in

Pup Punk history. He's

second place Dom of the year.

Second place in Dom of the year. He was

Thank you. honeymoon shame yeah the guy's name is dom and he was actually the first drummer in pub punk history he's second place dom of the year second place in dom of the year he's uh he was the first drummer that we had on back to school he played on that track and then we went to smitty then we went to frankie been very happy with frankie but please don't tell frankie how good this new drummer is it really breaks him up when you hear that um so don't do it don't do it no matter what don't do it but we're gonna be at the hill it's gonna be awesome we've got like i think an hour and 15 and uh yeah it's gonna be sick so if you're in knoxville come out say hi vols for life we want to see you and we'll be there i think we go on stage at like 8 30 or 9 so free show come out so your fire fest is playing pop punk no my i said i i derailed the fire fest oh got it to say in lieu of my fire fest oh plug god got it that makes sense i plug god that was plug god but they are some of the like most fun nights that we have so come out see it's a punk is a legitimately awesome band it's always a good time and maybe i'll play free bird oh you won't nice i said maybe you can't i did i played free oh no really yeah i played Freebird at the Macrodosing Live show.
I said I'd do it one time. You did it once.
I put my mind to it. Accomplished.
Check out my bio. Played Freebird once.
In your face. Okay, my Fyre Fest.
I don't know. We've been stuck in the New York office all week.
I miss my kids a lot. That's about it.
Yeah. It's been a long week.
This was a long week. I don't know why we signed up for this long of a week it's very long i have to go to lsu on saturday so yeah i won't be home till saturday night so we started the the contest on sunday no spoilers yeah but on monday i was like what day is it yeah because i thought it was thursday yeah these are this was a because usually we do like our long we you know we do grit week we do super bowl week but yeah, this was a random, very long week and I do miss was Thursday.
Yeah. These are, this was a, because usually we do like our long, you know, we do grit week.
We do Super Bowl week. But yeah, this was a random, very long week and I do miss my children.
So yeah, that would be my fire fest. Which one do you miss the most? My daughter.
Yeah. 100%.
Which, Swifties, you want to give me some credit for that? Yeah, come on. I always say my daughter's my favorite kid.
Do you think that Swifties are going to watch this Thursday night football game and be like, Thursday night night football is a real problem the quality of play is subpar we need to get rid of thursday night football they're probably going to be mad at al michaels because he's like we're not going to spend a lot of time on taylor swift yeah so and they'll probably be like sean payton what the fuck are you doing with that timeout yeah that's these are all real things in this i thought this russell wilson guy i thought sierra's husband was supposed to be good yeah nope he's bad we almost had a gama he was 19 8 1927 is when it first happened new york yankees versus buffalo bison wow who could forget 96 years ago to the day to the wow october 12th holy shit holy shit what happened fucking thing sucks what happened i'm trying to bring Jake's mic up and it's going down. Maybe you should turn it the other way.
I was turning it the right way. This thing's fucking broken.
All right, I think it's good. Leave it all in.
I love it. Leave that all in.
Leave that all in. You just didn't turn it the right way.
I turned it the right way. This thing sucks.
Max is getting cocky off of Phillies win. I'm not.
So cocky that he's yelling at machines for being stupid. It's broken.
He's turning it the wrong way. Shitty ass studio.
If this was your level at the NLDS, what's next? I just need a break. Imagine the Phillies winning eight more games.
Where else is there to go? I actually can't. Good question, Jake.
He took off his shirt. He's yelling at people.
He's spitting on people. He's spitting on people.
He went up to Lugia on his boss.

I also want it very clear.

This is very different.

My future on the Phillies is very different than the Eagles' future.

If I find an opportunity to hedge out that I can then start rooting against Max, I will.

So, Max, you're at like a 12 today.

Hank, you'll like that. And it's the NLDS.

If there's a place I can do it, I will.

How much higher can you get?

I don't know.

I don't know. I don't know.

I don't know.

I just got to live my life.

Max said during the game, he's like,

my brain just shuts off during the game.

He's like, when is it on?

He's like a five-year-old watching sports.

Max, I want you to say the thing that you said about, like,

which part of watching baseball you like and which part you don't like. I'll stand that by forever.
Controversial take alert. So if you're in the company of minors, if there's anybody that's sensitive to extreme discussions, and frankly, real talk that some people aren't ready to have, please turn off your radio right now.
All right, Max, go ahead. First off, people are so confused right now.
We're filming FireFest after the Phillies game. Yes.
Okay, after I've said that. Yeah.
I think people picked up on the context clues. We just talked a lot about the Phillies winning.
But before this, we were like, I kept being- We congratulated you multiple times. I know, but I kept saying no.
I kept being mad at you for doing that. But now, whatever.
People can figure it out. All right, so controversial.
So what I said was, I like when my team is on offense, and I don't like when my team is on defense. That wasn't a hiccup, by the way.
Okay, so go on. It definitely was.
No, it wasn't. Look at the cat's face.
He tells us it was.

No, it wasn't.

He ate a lot of pasta.

That wasn't a hiccup.

That was clearing my throat.

I could see you look at each other.

I could see you two fuckers.

We'll go back to the tapes.

Max, why is that?

Max, were you on my side of the debate that I bodied everyone in in the gambling cave about the top of the ninth?

Yes.

No, I was on your side that whole time for sure.

We had the debate.

Hank, I want to see how you will answer if you're a real seam head.

And, Jake, you can chime in too.

Top of the ninth, 3-1, first batter.

Would you rather give up a walk or a solo shot?

I'd rather give up a solo shot.

3-1.

There's some momentum. Guy on base.
Solo shot. Get the crowd fired up.
No, it's the road team. Top.
Shut the crowd up. No.
Both are bad for the Phillies. All right, it's a walk.
You'd rather give up a walk? What are you answering? What would you rather give up? A walk or a solo shot up 3-1 in the top of the ninth? First bout. I misheard all that.
I thought we were down 3-1. You'd rather give up a solo shot? Yeah.
Okay. Good.
Who? People were disagreeing. Crazy.
I don't even remember who he was. Because you had your closer, and your closer isn't there to get three outs.
If he gives up a home run, it's like you still have to get three outs. You get the run on first.
All of a sudden, the tying run is on base. Yeah.'s just all the nerves yeah the nerves i i texted our friend dan harry he said no question you'd rather give up a solo and all it takes is one pass ball and you bleed off man on second yeah yeah he said you gotta you gotta you gotta make them put the barrel on the bat sorry for the trigger word knock her out of the park no disrespect max is like high right now i don't know what i'm just i don't i just don't know about the next three weeks if they go they go that far oh god we have three weeks of this well it's also it would okay can i say something can i say something in the trust tree can i say something in the trust tree that no one can get mad at me for can i say something yes i want everyone to agree yes yes it's like yes sure yeah yes yes yes it would be a little bit funny if you had like a minor minor heart attack no yeah it would you said you can't judge me right not a one that like i'm just saying like in the middle of like a game like ah we had to like like one that we can wait a couple hours to take you to the hospital and they're like oh you're fine Like drink this laxative you're just constipated I'd probably sue you guys Yeah Just sue yourself No that's worse than Taylor Yeah no I'd probably sue you So Max what would you do Saturday November 4th World Series game 7 You're going to have a heart attack at this pace.
You are on pace for a minor heart attack. No, I think seven-game series, you have a little bit more breathing room.
Yeah, that's true. The short series, it's like...
Well, and also, tonight was a must-win because you couldn't go back to Atlanta. Yeah, but like...
After mocking the chop. The short series, it's like every one is so important because Because you lose one and you're just back that much.
Although, when you go to a seven-game series and you start the two games at home, you have to win at least one of them. But mostly both.
But you have to win at least one. So you could be back into a must-win like that.
I'll be fine. If you lose game one, game two is a must win.
I'll be fine. I'll be so chill.
I'll be so chill. I'll be so chill.
In a weird way, I almost like it when my team is. You just said that you do.
I said it would be kind of funny. When my team doesn't have home field advantage.
A really minor one. Is your mom going to be mad at me? Because you could split.
My mom's going to be mad at me. You've got me.
My mom called me while we were recording and just said, call me, period. I think she's upset with the way I talk to Clemmer, and I'm worried about the phone call.
I'm going to have to have. Well, Clemmer was triggering you by saying the word peril.
Should we get her on the show? No, we should not. Then she would be really mad.
All right, well, tell her I was just joking. And again, I very much qualified it as a minor, like very minor heart attack.
Yeah. Very minor.
And also, I'm sorry that your son said that stuff about titty fucking. Yeah.
Will you titty fuck if the Phillies won the World Series? Celebratory? No comment. Okay.
I'm done talking about pity fucking.

Jake, your fire fest.

Yeah. My confidence putting the golf ball is at an all-time low right now.

Oh, no.

It's really bad.

What's happening?

I'm good for one missed putt within two feet every round.

PFC was a witness last week.

Within two feet?

It's bad.

How far was that putt that you missed the other day?

It was probably two feet.

Maybe 18 inches.

I think it was 18 inches.

You missed an 18-incher. It's all in my head.
It's really bad. I mean, it's winter.
Who cares? Yeah, it's true. It's winter.
That's when no one's watching. What's the quote? Like, you get better when no one's watching? That's true.
But also, Jake, here's a piece of advice for you. Something like that.
That's not a quote. Just start cheating.
That might be a quote. Just don't putt the ball when it's a foot away.
Pick it up. Don't putt the ball when it's two feet away.
Pick it up. No, I take gimmies.
Cheating is when you give yourself the putt when no one's watching. Well, that's dumb.
Now I don't feel bad for you. No, no.
I don't take gimmies when I'm filming. Yeah, now I feel bad for you.
Ball needs to go in the hole. No, I feel bad.
I don't feel bad for you. You pick up the ball.
It's a gimmie. But not when I'm filming.
It's mental. Yeah.
You're towing in the videos, it's depressing. Yeah.
Yeah.

Hank said you had to have a talk with you about how depressing the videos were.

All right.

Here's another golf video.

Because I'm scared the hole in one was peak.

But that's alleged.

Real.

It's a pretty good peak.

I'm going back there tomorrow.

To try to hit a hole in one for the first time?

For the second time.

Hmm.

Okay.

I wish you luck.

Make sure you video it.

I will. Okay.
We'll see. Yeah.
All right. Anything else? Good show, everyone.
Max, get some sleep. Nah, I got an early flight.
Fuck. Same.
Fuck. How early? 8.45.
Oh, man. And I guess we'll get it.
No, no stress. Stress is...
I'm good for the body. Good for the weekend.
Are you supposed to travel when you have stress? When you're like when your blood pressure is that high? Your blood pressure is probably really high. I don't think you should check out.
After the Super Bowl, I had an issue on that flight. I actually thought I was having a hard time.
Oh, there's nothing worse than like a super, super hungover flight. No, I didn't drink at all Super Bowl week.
Okay. Numbers.
Three. 18.
69. Memes, have you ever gotten it? No.
Evan, have you ever gotten it? No. 51.
By the way, new studio two weeks away. 10 days.
10 days, although we are not going to open the new studio hank is going to be gone in two weeks for a weekend uh we will not open it without hank where are you going my best friend's getting married on sunday oh we will not nice we will we will wait for hank oh nice vacation yeah all right my best friend's wedding but i told hank we're not we're not opening the new studio without him no we wouldn't do that we if there's we'll if we're in the new office in two weeks which hopefully we are knock on wood uh we will we'll just find one of the other studios uh so we we will make sure we're all together for the opening of the brand new studio but two weeks oh also a video went out on it was an x video went. It went on X.com today.
All right. Thanks.

Love you guys.

From the top of the Gillette Stadium lighthouse, the Patriots put out a panoramic view.

Oh.

I didn't see any water, Hank.

I didn't.

Oh, no.

I'm just being honest.

I wanted.

I was looking very hard.

You don't understand fucking videos.

You don't understand X videos.

I do understand X videos.

How many X videos do you watch a week?

No, this is insane. This is just insane.
We're never getting out of here. No, but PFT's an idiot.
That's all you need to know. Fact or fiction? We're having it.
Never mind. We're having it.
It's very simple. If you see a video and you say that's 100 yards away versus if you're standing in person, it's much clearer 100 yards away.
Are this we literally said numbers we said numbers are we actually didn't answer the question you can't see it because it's a video okay so what do you need you if you were standing on the top of the lighthouse yeah you would see the federally funded neponsa river but because it's a video you can't see it like the river or the reservoir so when you take. Because it's a video, you can't see it? Wait, the river or the reservoir? So when you take a video of something, you can't see it? It's not the same.
It's like when you take a picture of the moon. Have you ever been seeing the moon and been like, oh my god, the moon looks fucking sick tonight.
And then you take a picture, it looks like shit? Yeah, and pictures, I've seen so many pictures that are way clearer of the moon. Is that how far the federally funded Nipansi River is?

No.

As far away as the moon?

I'm not.

We're not getting into this.

You guys are not.

Is it the reservoir?

You got to do it.

Is it the reservoir of the river?

There's two.

I'm hearing a buzzing now.

All right.

Let's do numbers.

Yeah, let's do numbers.

All right.

91.

69.

51.

91 for Evan.

Saved by the buzz.

Hank?

Three.

Jake?

18.

Max?

Eight. Cassiano's legend.
21. 21.
We'll have a new... Is the new lottery ball machine going to be there, too? Yeah.
It's ready to go? Yeah. It's actually fucking sick, and it's got colored numbers, colored balls, like different...
So people can start doing... All the geeks out there are going to love it.
Yeah, it's going's gonna be big time why'd you look at Jake when you said that

I didn't

I'm pretty sure

well no it's cool

it'll be like oh

like three purples in a row

yeah

yeah

more little trends and shit

yeah

for the geeks

it will be

okay

see everyone on Monday

love you guys. Take me off I'll be gone After I'm cheating I'm not saying it I'm not saying it But I can't stand it away Better than what is up Say it to me It's no better to be safe than sorry It's the better to be safe than solid Come on Take me I'll be gone Give it to your tears Stop saying that you're not alone Just stay my way away you Thank you.
Take on me

Take on me

Take on me Thank you.