Braves First Baseman Matt Olson, Barstool Is Independent Again, Hard Knocks Episode 1, Mt Rushmore Of Rookie Mistakes And Roasts With Uncle Chaps

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Okay, let's go. Boy! Boy! Now in the street there is violence And then a lot of work to be done.

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Oh, we're gonna rock down to electric avenue. It's part of my take present about martial sports welcome to part of my take today is wednesday august 9th and football is back hard knocks baby hard knocks a tradition like unlike any other we get super pumped up we watch football is on our screen we enjoy it and then oh yeah uh not a lot goes on we already saw most everything that happened but it was cool to see behind the scenes the nathaniel hackett stuff him with aaron rogers and how they reacted to sean payton comments and all that that part was kind of cool i.
I like that. Yes.
Yes. So football is back.
Let's talk hard knocks in a minute. We should probably address the big news today.
Mincy's back. Yeah.
So if you are living under a rock or if you only listen to the show, first of all, thank you. That means you're a wonderful AWL.
It was announced today that Penn, who owned us, Barstool Sports, has sold Barstool Sports back to us, back to Dave. They are creating a new app in conjunction with ESPN, ESPN Bets.
Penn, wonderful people. Jay Snowden will be a friend for life.
They changed my life. They changed all of our lives.
But the big news is that Barstool is back to being independent. So it's pretty cool.
It's been a crazy 20 years for Barstool. I think the 20th anniversary is coming up in a couple of weeks.
It's been, you know, we've been doing this show for seven, eight years. We are back to independent, back to the pirate ship.
I think it's a deal that works out for everyone very well. We, listen, can't lose parlay.
People saw what happened with that. Turns out regulators maybe don't love Barstool, don't love us.
And I get that. It totally makes sense.
I think Penn had the same thought. Like, hey, we thought this was going to work out maybe a little better with regulators.
It didn't. So we are back to being ourselves, uh, independent and Penn is going to be doing something with ESPN and ESPN bets.
And I think it's going to be wildly successful because Penn has some really incredible people, but yeah, we are back to being independent. The pirate ship goes back out there into the ocean.
Uh, I did see some people being like, Oh, can you guys now like do stuff you didn't do? I don't think we changed anything under Penn. I truly don't.
Like I know people will, yes, there was different ways that we had to talk about gambling. Gambling regulators were stringent, but like in terms of the content of this show, I don't think we changed anything.
Did we PFD? Uh, we were going to do instead of piss dog shit cats at one point. And that's two, Jay Snowden said, Hey, I don't know if we can go that far with you guys maybe dial it back just keep it number one only i have one too i have one wait hold on before before you say yours pf or hank pft i'm sure you got the same thing of people being like piss dogs back they're just completely not realizing that both you and i have pissed our pants on camera in the last six months.
Yeah. Multiple times.
So it's like, I don't really know what I, I, I, I, within the last three weeks. Yeah.
I, I love our, our fans are the best fans in the world. I know everyone says that, but I truly do believe that they ride and die with us through thick and thin.
They're always behind us. We have a dream job because of the people that listen and support us and that never is lost on me never ever ever but i will say too we have not really changed that much we've been pissing our pants right i i would love to come back and say like oh i'm so glad because we get to really let everything fly that we haven't been but we've i don't think we've dialed anything back at all uh yeah just been, it's been how we've talked about gambling, which I understand that was part of the rules.
And it made sense to, to make sure that we talked about gambling the correct way under Penn. And even when we did that and we were very, there was a lot of people who did a really good job of making sure everything was cleared with the gambling stuff.
And still we ran into the issues with the regulators regulators i think that was kind of the eye-opening moment for all parties and so yeah i don't think the content has changed on this show specifically at all and it won't and it will keep going forward but it is fucking awesome that we're the pirate ship hank uh yes there was that uh it was 2020 there was the leaf blower video of the person blowing a leaf blower full of weed around a room. You guys told me to do it.
I got a pound of weed. I acquired a pound of weed to do the video in the studio.
And then you guys were like, well, we're about to sell the pen so you can't do it. So then I had to hold on to this pound of weed pound of weed oh no do you still have the pound no it was gone uh probably like june um it was okay so we can do that video well yeah we're tired but that was one thing that you know pen stopped from happening we yeah we'll bring that back hank along those same lines i've been angling to get a brand of pre-rolls put out there called just mids just call them mids just average weed and i've been going for it and they keep saying no we can't do that because it's uh sanctioning drug use which i totally understand but now maybe that's something we can get into yeah maybe put out our own weed strand maybe the idea that we had the other day uh we can do of me pft and hank doing a three-man scramble after eating mushrooms, and we try to beat Jake, who's dressed as Toad.
Max is Mario, I think we said. Yeah, Max has to chase him around.
Yeah, but no, so overall, it's a great thing. Jake is Toad.
It's going to be hilarious be hilarious but yeah everything has i know that people will will try to think deeper into all this stuff but i really do think that both parties are going to be very successful and i think espn bets is going to crush and i know the people at penn very well and they're all very very smart and this was kind of a thing where it's like hey we know that the regulators are going to keep coming for us and it's going to be we're going to play by different rules and we thought it was going to work and it didn't work exactly how we thought it still worked it was still successful for a lot of the things but uh yeah that we are the pirate ship again so i do jake is toad is coming i do think it's the rare win win win yeah i think like i'm happy like I'm happy. I think Penn's happy.
I think ESPN is happy. I think everybody's happy.
So we're all happy. It's good stuff.
Speaking of piss dogs, I just want to share this story real quick because I'm raising a dog, Blake, right? And Blake is about three and a half months old, potty training, doing really well for the most part. I went in to take a piss.
He likes to follow me into the bathroom to watch me pee. Today, he just followed me into the bathroom as I'm pissing.
And he sees me peeing and he's standing right behind me. And he starts pissing right onto the bath mat onto the bathroom floor.
He's a pissed off bro. Absolutely rocks.
I loved it. Yeah, but not trained.
Not trained. Not yet.
Not yet. We're working on that.
It's a process that it's a process it's a process trust the process right max isn't that what you always say he's just nodding because he knows that if he unmutes his mic we're gonna be like and how'd the process go and then he's gonna be like we're gonna trust it um all right should we talk should we talk some football Should we talk some hard knocks? I'll just start with the fact that I'm not even doing a bit right now. I've never seen Aaron Rodgers happier.
He looks so happy. He looks so relaxed.
I'm so happy for him. It is great.
It's like someone getting away from an evil, evil empire.

He's essentially been, you know, he's gotten his.

What am I looking for?

What's the word?

It's late at night.

The swagger.

Calisthenics.

What are cackles?

Well, I was going to say it's like an orca in captivity where the curved fin.

Now it's out. Now it's out in the ocean, dorsal fin straight up.
Shackles. Yeah.
By the way, side tangent, Lolita being 50 years old, that orca is going to go in the ocean and die right away, right? It might be just too much. It's never making it to the ocean.
It's Brooks from Shawshank. Lolita's going to end up in the ocean and be like what the fuck i had a pretty good life the ocean wouldn't got itself in a big damn hurry yeah fuck he's gonna be like i have to find food now or she so yeah that's the side tangent about jim ursay uh yeah aaron rogers the shackles are off he looks like he can be himself.
He changed his number. He looks happy.
And his quarterback coach, this new up-and-coming guy who I've never seen in the NFL before. What's his name? He has a big beard, jacked arms.
I think his name's Nate Hackett. Nate Hackett.
Yeah, I've never seen him before. That guy looks like a smart guy.
I think he's just the way that you it tells you a lot the way that you can get along with a star quarterback if you have that trust that guy's a rising star a guy to keep an eye on in the nfl he's got to learn some stuff probably about like clock management timeouts end of game stuff stuff you don't get to experience as a quarterback coach or really an offensive coordinator sometimes but once he gets that that under his belt, I think he's going to turn some heads.

He also, by the way, has an ass.

Yeah, he does.

I think he grew his ass out a little bit this offseason.

Yeah, he was very smart to go with the new facial hair. He reminded me of a Duke player, a Plumlee, going to the NBA

and getting some tattoos and a new haircut.

Like, hey, that was the old me.

I'm Nate Hackett now. I look like I drive a chopper to work and he looked jacked and he was out there having fun he looks like such a fun guy i kind of want to get him on pmt yeah we should interview him the gold member stuff i bet he's got some great stories about blake bortles he's coach m yes yes uh what other things my personal big takeaway was that crows are dumb as shit yeah did you did you hear the opening monologue that that robert sala gave so he he sat the players down gave them an animal fact at the start which is that crows are the only animal the only bird that attacks eagles and that eagles to defend themselves from crows let the crow land on their back then they fly straight up and then the crow suffocates to death and falls off and crashes to the earth crows are so fucking dumb this is i think that happened in iron man crow yeah i think it did too i think it did too it's a miracle that that crows ever i mean this is one of the things that we probably can't go off or we couldn't go off on when penda on us but fuck crows like crows have a marketing team i don't know what it is but i've been told my whole life that crows are the smartest bird in the world and it's a miracle that they ever get out of bed in the morning without stabbing themselves in the butthole with their own beak because they're so stupid that they just hold on to the back of the eagle and die of not being able to breathe and they're bad vibes you see a crow it's bad vibes that's not a good vibes bird that's a bad like you see a blue jay you see an oriole you see a cardinal you're like oh i'm gonna stare at that out of my back porch you see a crow and you're like wait death is around the corner they're bad vibe birds they're called a murder of crows for a reason but the message behind that was um if you ain't got no haters you ain't.
So Sala was saying that the crows are the haters, us, the media, and that the Eagles

are actually the Jets, which means that they're going to finish in second this year.

But they're just flying like, I don't know, they're flying all the crows off their back.

Yeah.

It is funny that there will be like a few people who are like, man, finally they can say fuck

crows.

Yeah. They never were able to say that before.
Other things. I don't know if you guys saw my tweet.
So if you did, don't answer this. But how old is Randall Cobb? Oh, yeah.
You brought this up last year, I think. He's young.
Yeah. I bring it up every year.
He is 32. He's 32 years old.
He's going to be 33 in a couple weeks. You did see it? I did not.
Oh, okay. 32 years old.
Randall Cobb. Like, when I saw him in this, I was like, holy shit, he's still in the league.
And then I reminded myself, like, oh, wait, he's 32 years old. And he feels like he's been in the league for 10 million years.
Yeah, that would mean he's been in the league for what? This is 12th season coming up? Yeah. it's crazy.
That is crazy. He's one of those late babies.
When you're born in late August, early September, you're kind of on that cutoff sometimes on which grade you're going to be in. All the kids that were born September 1st, September 2nd were the best at sports in high school.
I'm dealing with that right now on the home front because my son was born in June, and I'm like, let's him back for a year. Yeah.
My wife's like, why? I was like, because of sports. Yeah.
That's not a reason. No, it is.
But it is. It's a great reason.
Yes. I don't think you can do June though.
It's way too. It's like if I could, I would hold back a kid who like if my kid was born in March, I'd be like, let's hold him back.
Yeah. You just purposely don't teach him how to read.
So he kindergarten. Looks like we got a repeat.
And then he's the first kid to hit five feet tall when he's like in fifth grade. Just dominating in basketball.
Yeah. Probably gets to play quarterback.
Listen, that could shape a child. He's not going to end up being a great athlete, but if he was just a great athlete for a couple years, that could change everything.
Yeah. If you are a true sports dad, you should only conceive a child on with a new year's baby.
New year's Eve is when football guys fuck. No, it's no September.
I think you can hold back for a full year. So yeah.
So new year, new year's. Oh yeah.
You're right. Yeah.
Conceive on new year's. Yeah.
Yeah. Have them in September.
I've told the story story but i played three years of little league because of a change back rule and it was it was the peak of my athletic achievement yeah i was 13 you as a human i was 13 years old six feet tall throwing no hitters every game it was the best that's awesome that rules yeah like every parent should aspire to that that like hey let honest here. Let's just break it down.
They're not going to be a college athlete, a pro athlete. Why not just let them dominate when they're fucking in sixth grade? Like they'll just let them go crazy in sixth grade and they'll have that forever.
Maybe get a college scholarship out of it. Who knows? Jake, can you actually set a reminder on the calendar? Remind me to have sex on new year's Eve.
Yeah. Yeah.
Also with i took a little preview look week one i have some crazy reminders okay give it to us can you give us a couple yeah just a couple teases just a tease uh don't let big cat believe in carson wentz if he starts we'll talk about that okay well that's that's yeah we about that later, and that's solved itself. If a bad team is good in the first three weeks of the season, just wait.
I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do that.
Nope. These are all very smart thoughts.
The Colts haven't won in nine straight week ones. But Anthony Richardson's lighting it up.
And you're season ticket holders now. And we're season ticket holders.
Fuck. That's a we're going week one.
That's like we're betting on the Coles week one stat. Yeah, we have to.
Water always finds level. They've gotten PFT to take Patrick with the AFC West.
Okay. Who? Patrick Holmes, yeah.
I can't wait for the first can't lose parlay. Oh, it's going to slap.
One thing I'm learning from Jake's notes here, we're smart. We're just dumb.
Right. No, we are emotional men.
Yeah. We are knee-jerk reaction, heart-on-the-sleeve men who in the moment can't really get ourselves out of a wet paper bag, but with hindsight and a little bit of distance, we have some really good thoughts.
Yeah, no, we, we get it. We know ball, but yeah, you're right.
In the moment, like football is an emotion. You get caught up in it.
Like, I can't wait till, uh, like the, like the chiefs are going to go up seven to nothing and I'm going to live bet the Chiefs at minus 300 and they're going to lose the game. The Chiefs will never lose.
They're the best team ever. So yeah, that will happen.
That will absolutely happen. Also, can you set a reminder for me, Jake? Now, I've talked to Max about this.
I am stuck in a situation because I don't want to root for the Eagles like I did last year again because I just don't want to do that again. That took enough out of me.
But I do think the Eagles – what's the Eagles schedule? There's a spot. PFT, we got to do this together.
Maybe with our Twitter payouts, we can do this. We'll shout out Elon.
Those are starting to hit. PFT, or Jake, set a reminder for me and PFT to put a future on the Eagles on December 11th.
They have a stretch where they play the Cowboys, Chiefs, Bills, Niners, and Cowboys. That price is going to go.
That's going to be when we strike. That's going to be when we strike, PFT.
That's going to be when we strike that's me when we strike pft that's gonna be when we strike also jake set a reminder for week one to disregard all the other memos about when i lose week one when they lose week one we'll check the price i just can't and this is something that um it sucks to admit but i can't i think i will probably have to bet the eagles to win the Super Bowl for the rest of my life chasing that 22 to 1 because if they win it this year and I don't have a bet I will be so so upset so yeah I it's I'm just stuck and I won't talk about it like I did last year because I'll just put it in and just forget it but I just know that probably until the Eagles win their next Super Bowl I have a future on them so it could be like like 50 years and I'd be like still 22 to one, going to make it back. I'm a team player.
I put eight grand on the Eagles to win the Super Bowl because I couldn't root against Big Cat to lose $220,000 or whatever. But I don't think I can put a future on the Eagles in good conscience.
Yeah, I lost too much last year too. It just goes against every fire.
It's not like I despise the Eagles. I mostly despise.
I've grown up despising my own team more than anything, but still every man has a line. I can't put a future on wait for December 11th.
Wait for December 11th when they're popping it like 12 to 1. We're like, ooh, watch out.
We'll have to just put Max in a fucking Hannibal Lecter suit the day before the Super Bowl. We'll be wheeling him around in Las Vegas and he'll have a fucking Gip mask on and everything.
She'll be like, you can't drink anything. You can't do anything.
Just wheeling him. I actually think that for Max's own good, he shouldn't be allowed to go to the Super Bowl if the Eagles are in it.
Oh, no. He's going and we're doing the same deal and he's going to sit front row.
I want like $20,000 tickets this time. I want even – and I'm going to root against the Eagles.
Play the hits. Run it back.
Okay. Other things.
Yeah, hard knocks overall, like nothing really happened, but it's just the best feeling in early August to see that music leave Lee Schreiber showing up. There's just nothing better.
Oh, I had one other thing. Sauce Gardner and Aaron Rodgers have a very cool handshake.
Yeah, the smoke. It's like a triangle and then the smoke.
Yeah, it's pretty sick. I actually agree with you on Aaron Rodgers.
I think he does look happy. Watching him when Lee Schreiber.
Well, from the selectively edited 15 minutes of content that was approved by the team, Aaron seems like a great guy and a great football player. Yeah.
He's a great fucking guy. Great football player.
I've always loved Aaron Rodgers this year. That's a fact.
You can't dispute that fact. This season.
Yeah. this season.
Well, no, because he lost the Lions this year, too. 2020, 2023, I've been a big Aaron Rodgers fan overall.
Last thing, Colin Coward released his list of quarterbacks who can't win a Super Bowl, and he said Dwayne Haskins can't. Fact check, I guess technically true.
Yeah. What a, did he ever apologize for that or say anything I don't know I don't know that's uh it's a pretty bad take on his but I don't think he did it on purpose I actually which is maybe more of an indictment on Colin Coward I I don't think that Colin Coward realized that Dwayne Haskins was dead crazy insane.
Insane. Like to just.
Yeah. Imagine if you're Dwayne Haskins family and you see that you're like watching the herd.
Like, yeah, you can't want to. Oh, cool.
Thanks, Colin. Awesome job.
Schefter's watching this. Like, why? Why couldn't you have said that the day it happened to take some of the steam off me? Seriously.
Seriously. Okay.
We got a great rest of the show. We're going to kick it back to ourselves in studio we've got uh hot seat cool throne including jake's rant uh matt olsen mount rushmore of rookie mistakes and chaps with rose so unbelievable show let's kick it back to ourselves okay before we get to hot seat cool throne we're brought to you by our friends at coors Light, the greatest beer ever created.
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Celebrateors Brewing Company Golden Colorado okay hot seat cool throne but we're doing things a little out of order because last night at about what was it like nine o'clock uh we got a text on the PMT group text by the way someone was pointing out so I tweeted Jake's text. Someone pointed out that it's called PMT full group.
Why did that happen? Because of Billy's suspension. Billy's suspension.
That one, it had the avatar was Billy's face with a circle and a line through it over. So we should just go back to that one.
Yeah, because people kept on saying, like, ooh, I wonder what's not the PMT full group. Side chat.
Really, there's only one side chat. It's me, PFT, and Hank.
And that's us talking about memes. So all the other conversation goes in the PMT full group.
I thought it was Billy. Jake was so fired up last night.
I don't think we've ever gotten a text from Jake being like, permission to go in. Yeah, so he said, can I rant on the Orioles broadcasting situation on the show tomorrow permission granted listen am i allowed to talk on the podcast show but i requested a segment jake you're part of it yeah i understand what should we call it when jake's really fired like once a year when jake's fired up when broadcasters get suspended for no reason okay the ides of marsh how about that we should actually give away we should give equity of pardon my take to everyone here and then that way if like we ever have a controversy we like draw straws see who has to take the bullets yeah jake you have 98 of the equity on pardon my take respect to biz jake uh okay so jake are you ready i'm ready okay let's give the context first yes give context.
Okay. So.
Please don't be biased, though. Please don't be biased.
There was no bias in this clip? Not with the context. It sounds like you're already a little bit biased.
No. I did an old debate trick.
I told you last night that I'm going to take the side of John Angelos. I'm not, but I wanted you to prepare for that.
I know you're not, because then you would get roasted by the internet, too. Although, he kind of rules.
But we'll talk about that later. Yeah.
In a terrible, terrible way. Okay.
So Kevin Brown, play-by-play broadcaster, Baltimore Orioles on Masson. The guy who punched the concrete? No.
Oh. Different.
Okay. Yeah, you got confused by the former player.
I did. Kevin Brown, whose son's name is Rich.
Yes. So a week or two ago, he was doing his broadcast open.
Anytime you watch a watch a game you're on the air you're on camera for a few minutes pre-produced segments graphics vo's things like that a pre-produced uh element of this opening between the orioles and the rays showed how the orioles who have been historically bad the last few years they have not won 16 series in a row at Tropicana Field.

But this year, the Orioles, of course, the darlings of the MLB.

Big Cat's got a huge future on them.

The Orioles are the darlings of the MLB.

This season, yeah.

Okay, all right.

I would actually argue that.

Yeah, they're a likable team.

It's Shohei and the Orioles.

Young stars.

They've been the laughingstock.

Exactly.

They're first place in the AL right now, right? I believe so. I would say Trey Turner is the darling of MLB history.
That's true. He just came back from cancer.
It's been since 2017, six years since they won a series at Tropicana Field. But this season, Kevin Brown mentioned, they've won three times in five opportunities.
So they're better this year. Okay.
They're much better this year compared to years past. But he pointed out that they had lost 15 in a row.
But he pointed out that they had not won 16 straight series. And the guy in charge of the Orioles, John Angelo, says, that's too sensitive.
You're out. You're suspended.
Okay. Indefinitely.
Okay. The CEO of the Orioles.
Yes. Yes.
Now, would you clarify this as an insult fact? No. Okay.
I would. Stating facts.
I'm going to play devil's advocate. Okay.
And I have more to say, but that's the basis for those who are around. Go off.
Go off. PFT and I will play devil's advocate after.
Go off. Okay.
So you're suspending the broadcaster for stating those facts. Where did he get those facts? From the truck.
So you're throwing the truck under the bus. Where did the truck get those facts? From the team's PR game notes.
In that case, suspend all of that. Oh! He just tossed them.
If you're watching on YouTube, he just tossed them. If you're going to suspend him, you've got to suspend everyone else involved with making that decision of making these facts come to light.
So, Jake, how do you know that they got it in that order that the that the guys in the truck got it from the team? I mean, they're not making up stats like when you're a producer of a broadcast like you don't you Google these. You get these from like legitimate sources.
Yeah. OK.
So in reality, you get these you get these facts. Jake, it's Jake Shapiro.
The facts don't care about your feelings. The truck doesn't make up these numbers.
They get it from a source. Right.
Someone who's in charge of compiling the numbers. They were so bad.
They probably just got it from looking at the actual stats and saying, hey. Yeah.
But they were so bad it felt made up. Right.
Like, how could they be that bad? Yeah. So I don't understand why he has to take the heat for this because it's just insane.
And every other broadcaster was clowning on the Orioles. Like they had such a good thing going.
They had the entire baseball world on their side. And now people, not me.
I want big cat to win 35 to one. Thank you.
People are going to root against the order Orioles just to see their owner. I don't think so.
Because Jake, if this is your first exposure to how bad of a guy, John Angelos is and Peter Angelos, like what, what bad owners they are, then you need to pay more attention to them in the past because nothing's going to change. Because I'll admit that's me.
I'm not familiar with that. We're still rooting for the team.
The team's fun. People will, though.
The players are fun. The owner.
This is a guy that you'll remember last. I think it was on Martin Luther King Jr.
Day. Yes.
He gave his first public address to reporters in years, I think. And they asked him because he had contacted Goldman Sachs to inquire about selling the team and what that would look like.
They asked him about that. Also because he was getting sued by his brother.
He was getting sued by his brother. But they wanted to know, like, what's the future of the Orioles? Are they going to move the team? Are you going to sell it? Are you coming back to Camden Yards because your lease is expiring? And then he said, listen, I think it's disgusting that you would ask me these questions on MLK Day when I'm here to talk about the great work that Martin Luther King Jr.
has done in the community. And obviously, Martin Luther King Jr.
would not care about a billionaire moving jobs away from a predominantly black inner city community. That's nothing that he would care about.
But Peter Angelos and John Angelos are just world class. They're world class scumbag villains.
They're villains. And what are the DMV owners? Pro sports.
Well, former former current. Yeah, Jake.
I'm not going to play devil's advocate. I'm just whole region.
I'm going to introduce you to reality. The cults are sort of the rave.
No, the cults moved. Yeah, they did.
They did. That was not Jim Irsay that did that.
He was powerlifting, smoking cigs. But I'm going to use reality as a counterargument too, Jake.
In reality, this is the way that it's set up now, where teams own their own broadcast companies. I think in the case of the Orioles, it's 70%.
Yeah. That's owned.
Mastin has the Orioles and the the nats yeah and that's a whole other thing where the orioles owe the nationals like hundreds of millions of dollars and they just won't pay but in reality teams now own their own in-house broadcasting services and if you're going to work for those broadcasting services like journalism is long gone out the window at that point so the all these owners are like little warlords in their own towns and they control the message. They control the propaganda.
And so this is just kind of what's going to happen. But that's the point.
It's not good. I'm not saying it's good.
This is spinning it in a positive way. I've seen local broadcasters get fired for being too negative about their team.
This is the exact opposite of that. He just said facts.
So it's terrible. Kevin Brown should be reinstated.
Hello, Syracuse guy also. Oh, here we go.
Unbiased take the gig. Wait, you're supposed to say you're biased to start.
I mean. You're supposed to say you're biased to start.
That took a long time to get to that. If he went to Northwestern, I'd have the same exact response.
Well, who's to say? If we're a fifth, we'd all be drunk. Yeah.
All right. So, yeah, it's crazy.
Kevin Brown seems like a really good broadcaster. This is also the same team that got rid of – wasn't it? John Miller.
Right. Who's like the voice of Sunday Night Baseball, right? Yeah, who's an incredible baseball voice.
So, it's bad. He should be reinstated.
They said he's going to be back. It's an insane move, but I still keep going back to the point

that if I owned a team, I'd probably do the same thing.

I'd just be like – because they also found out

John Angelos enacted a new policy mandating that their broadcasters

wear only team gear when on air.

He's basically running this like North Korea.

It's crazy.

I have a question.

But I kind of like the idea of being like insult facts are not allowed can i wear part of my take gear outside of the show i'm gonna say no because you're trying to back us into a corner here yeah so that's pretty much what he's saying like that's crazy god forbid he represents his team on the street wait no no no no no you have to only wear team issued gear while you're on the air you can't wear it no no it. No, you can't wear anything else while you're on the air.
Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah.
That's okay. Syracuse, not that great.
Jake, you bring up some interesting points, which is this is bad, and it doesn't seem right. It seems scuzzy.
And from a moral point of view, you're right. But as Big Cat says, if you own a team.
Yeah, he can do what he wants and he can be a scumbag he'll never be able to do what he wants but now he has no one's gonna spin zone for kevin brown he's coming out of this looking great oh yeah he's got everybody across the world being like because it's ridiculous now you know what else happened is because of that that mandate that you said big cat where you wear team-issued gear, they kicked one of their radio broadcasters off the air. Kevin Brown then had to fill in for that guy.
Yeah. They're also not allowed.
They've been reprimanded previously for mentioning past Oriole players who are no longer with the team. Yep.
He basically is like, I want positive vibes only. Don't give me any insult facts.
These are positive vibes. Your team has stunk the last few years, and now they're really good.
I watched the clip. I was shocked they hadn't won a series since 2017 in the trial.
I didn't know that. That just shows they're turning the corner.
Yeah, but I know that now, and that's, I mean, that's terrible. Jake, how would you feel if you do a PLL game, right? Yeah.
Nail the final call. It's a buzzer beater goal.
Water dogs win. Unlikely.
Yeah, that's all right. So let's go back to reality.
I'm 2-0 calling the water dogs. They tie, and then it goes to overtime, then they lose in overtime.
But you nail the call at the end of the game, right? And then the first thing we say is, hey, Jake, was that a shot of a lifetime? You'd probably be pissed off at us, right? We're bringing up insult facts from the past.

Insult facts are hurt feelings.

That's what Kevin Brown did.

He brought up insult facts.

Well, he brought up something that was offered by the truck,

which was put together by the PR team.

Sounds like you're throwing the truck under the truck.

No, I'm just saying, if he's going to be held responsible,

then the owner should suspend every single person associated.

They should all walk out. John Angelo should call the games himself games himself yeah which actually would kind of rule that would be awesome yeah it's like that episode of the simpsons where mr burns runs the entire power plant yeah they go on strike yeah i mean again this is everyone should stand with kevin brown i don't think i think it's one of it's very hard to find a thing online where everyone is in agreement everyone is in agreement that kevin Brown got screwed.
John Angeles is a bad guy. But I just, the idea of insult facts, it makes me laugh.
Like if I walked around, I was like, anyone who calls me fat is fired. That would kind of rule.
See you, Hank. Like everyone has to call me skinny.
I don't know. Start learning Simmons, buddy.
Yeah. Sovin brown deserves to be reinstated hopefully this propels him to get an even better job because that would be the best ending is that another broadcast another team is like wait this guy's awesome we have an old broadcaster who's gonna retire or something let's hire him pay a shitload of money get him out of he's really good too he does college football, and basketball.
I don't think people will stop rooting against the Orioles because – No. I do think people can, at this point in time, most owners are complete assholes, and you still root for your team.
Governors. Yeah.
Governors, yeah. I mean, Stan Kroenke, he's won every title.
Nuggets fans aren't like, damn, I wish we didn't win that because of Stan Kroenke. They're just like, just like yeah look at stan crocky whispering in people's ears on the stage he's a weirdo let's just pretend that that doesn't exist we won the title yeah behind every great fortune is a great crime i think ja rule said that the red sox got rid of don orcillo for no reason and and still people are still mad yeah yeah that's crazy too and he's doing well with the padres he's the best.
I usually don't laugh at Wikipedia edits. I think they're like the lowest form of comedy besides, I don't know, like misspelling words intentionally badly on Twitter.
But there was a very funny one earlier today. If you go to John Angelos's Wikipedia page, it says he's listed as giant baby, John Angelos.
He is. As his official name.
He is a giant baby. Which I think we should just always refer to john angelos as giant baby john angel and he's such a giant baby that he will never face the music no like you said he the last time he the first time he had been in public in a long time was martin luther king day giving away a scholarship the you even miss a part that was so funny that he called out the reporter who asked him the question he's like are you even from here? It was a beat reporter for the Orioles who've been covering them for like years and years.
Yeah, so he doesn't even know his beat reporters. Yep.
So, Jake, good rant. I love the – I need a clip of him kicking them all out.
I mean, do you guys agree with that? Yeah, no. Why does he have to take – why is he the only person getting in trouble for this? Yeah, no, it's crazy.
You make up the numbers. Yeah, sounds like you're trying to get everybody else in trouble yeah but yeah it sounds like if they got in trouble you'd be like all right that's fine that's sounds like you're tattling on the class no i'm not tattling on the class in that case either suspend everyone or suspend everyone should walk out i did like when i when i when i was like i almost respect john angelo's level of like controlling the media one guy replied to me and was like, this isn't a joking matter.
A guy's job is at stake. It's like, well, what other reason do we have to be on Twitter? Yeah, and also that's like every time we talk about a player performing badly in a game, his job is at stake.
Our jobs are at stake. We're tweeting for our job.
Every day. We're podcasting for our job right now.
This is a business where you get one chance. That's why i'm so buttoned up on here one bad word you're done forever so like this guy trying to just end his career like that oh man it really makes me mad awesome it would be if in like 10 years from now jake gets a play-by-play job somewhere and this happens to him and we take the owner's side i will you definitely will i absolutely will jake hypothetically bad seed shouldn't have said.
John Angelos gives you a call today. Hey, the whole team walked out because they're standing in unison with Kevin Brown.
Jake, we need you to step up and be play-by-play for the Baltimore Orioles. What do you say? No.
You turn it down. What? Wow.
So we only get one shot. You just said it.
Yeah. I don't want to be a scab.
I respect that. It's contradicting what I say.
I don't believe that. But any young broadcaster reaches out for advice.
They're like, what's the one thing I say? Never say no to an opportunity. So that's right against that.
But rules are meant to be broken. Oh, okay.
Bad boy. Bad boy.
You're like Steve Jobs over there. First rule, break all the rules.
But like more morally, like this is his job. Yeah.
So Jake, are you going to call the person that takes his job a scab? Well, he's going to be back. Yeah, he's going to be back.
So, would you? If someone took his job, would you call him a scab? Either way, the Orioles are an awesome, awesome story. Yeah, college.
Camden has been packed. It looks sick.
They have, like, a very fun young team. Right.
And I think, actually actually even more so that people are going to root for this team

because they know the history of the Angelos,

that their window is so small because as soon as they start having to pay people,

they'll just start trading them.

They'll trade them away.

So it's like this is the time.

I want the Orioles to –

If they get eliminated, people are going to be like,

good thing that guy's not getting a ring.

Yeah, but that would actually be so funny if they win the World Series

and then they hand the trophy right to John Angelos.

He's like the big hero of the Orioles.

Yeah.

Uh, you know, That guy's not getting a ring. Yeah, but that's...
Actually, that would be so funny if they win the World Series and then they hand the trophy right to John Angeles. He's like the big hero.
Yeah. Okay, good hot seat.
That delivered, Jake. What's your cool throne? My cool throne's Richard Sherman.
Oh, okay. He's joining Skip Bayless undisputed.
And Lil Wayne. I think we predicted that on part of my take, right? So they're going with the Stephen A.
Smith model, which is just like, let's roll out a bunch of cannon fodder for Skip Bayless to just mow down day in, day out, rotating cast of guests. That's what it's going to be.
Now, some people will say that's because nobody actually wants to work with Skip Bayless, so they had to find like five different people trying to get into the biz. I would say that's not the case.
I would say that Lil Wayne and Skip Bayless are great friends, and so that's going to be a great show. Richard Sherman and Skip Bayless have some history too.
Do you remember that? Yeah, I do not. Skip Bayless called him out.
Richard Sherman has history with everyone. He does.
He's got beef. Skip Bayless called Sherman out on first take like 10 years ago, and then Richard Sherman was like, Skip Bayless, you've never played football in your life.
I'm more accomplished than you are. I've done more in my short career than you have.
They've got – there's some true animosity there, which I love. It's perfect for it.
Yeah. It's perfect for it.
All right, good hot seat, cool throne. Hank, back to the regular order.
My hot seat is Shohei Otani. Uh-oh.
Oh, he sucks, right? He – Drake, a week ago, was spotted out seeing a Shohei Otani jersey. Oh, no.
And since then, he's gone two for 12. Oh, no.
So the Drake curse is back. Could have been the cool throne putting Shohei on the hot seat.
Show of a rating. You guys tried to jinx him last week.
He then was player of the game twice in one day. Well, we tried to.
You guys don't have the juice that Drake has. We tried to find a way to be Shohei haters, and we couldn't even come up.
It's similar to when we tried to be Steph Curry haters, and all we could come up with was his mouth guard and his posture and his posture so no Kevin Durant's the posture that's true yeah but yeah there's some guys that are just universally loved and Shohei stays that hopefully Drake doesn't fuck it up too bad I would say Shohei's afraid of playing in a major market mmm that's would say. No, he's in Anaheim.

Yeah.

He's in Orange County.

Learn maps, bro.

What's their team name?

Well, they're just trying to get market share.

We all know where they play.

He lives in the suburbs.

You can live in the suburbs and play in LA.

He plays in the suburbs. Like he does.

Let's look up where's the Angels Stadium.

Look up the team.

It's not in LA.

It used to be called both, right?

Yeah.

Los Angeles, Anaheim Angels. Oh.
Los Angeles, Angels of Anahe Anaheim or something Would you count the Giants and Jets as not New York City markets? Great question Max I would I would too Let's see where this is Well that's their You got me got me got me got me all right I stand down I'm standing down Then my cool throne is bowling. Yeah.
We're bowling today. Plug God.
Yep. Plug God.
I am the plug God. That's what they call me.
They're so far outside of Los Angeles. But I plug.
See, I'm more of like a plug when I don't have anything else for a cool throne. Right.
That's like a break in case of emergency. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Jake's just addicted to plugging. Okay.
God forbid I promote our sponsors. In Hank's defense, he had no idea we were going to tape a show for Wednesday.
Well, you said we were going to do it tonight, and then like two seconds ago, you're like, let's just do on sequel throne. Well, no.
No. No.
That's what we're going to do this whole time. Yeah.
That was the plan the whole time. You improvised one second ago.
Whatever. No.
We always said we were going to tape the beginning of the show after hard knocks. All right.
I'm sorry. My cool throne is shorts.
Yeah. Good one.
Go off. Wait, no.
Tell us about bowling. Bowling.
We're going to be live streaming bowling tournament today in Chicago. 16-person tournament.
Jake's on the call. Stop hitting the table.
I'm competing. What? Stop hitting the table.
Jake is on the call. I'm competing.
Big Cat's competing. A bunch of people in Barcelona competing.
It's going to be a great day. It starts believe three eastern three eastern two central 16 person bracket 16 person elimination single elimination it's a lot of pressure i think big cat sneaky a favorite i don't know i think you're a top three favorite i'm a consistently you're a good bowl i'm a consistently okay bowler if there's anyone who's in this tournament who can bowl in, like, the 170s, I'm fucked.
Three Eastern time. I'm a, like, never bowl below, like, 110, but never bowl above a 170 guy.
Wait, Hank, where is it streaming? Is it on Barstool YouTube? Barstool YouTube. It's with Bolero.
Bolero. I love Bolero.
Love Bolero. Best food and beverage game in the industry.
Yes. Okay, PFT, your hot seat, Cool Throne.
My hot seat is the Bucs the bucks the tampa bay buccaneers yes they just released their depth chart and it is fucking hilarious at the quarterback position they have baker mayfield or kyle trask listed as qb1 love it the the letters or appear on a depth chart for maybe the first time ever so it's like you have two quarter quarterbacks. You don't have one.
It's some college football. It's some.
I would like to see them run some formations where it's both Baker and Kyle on the field at the same time. Yeah.
Has any team ever done a two quarterback system? The Dolphins. Yeah.
Wildcat. Wildcat.
No, that's running backs. Yeah.
Running backs. Yeah.
But they're playing quarterback. Yeah.
Kind of. They just always ran the ball.

Yeah.

But yeah, the Bucs.

No, yeah, they always ran the ball.

I feel like this is bad news for Baker.

Because most people assume that Baker was going to be QB1, right?

The Orr.

Or Kyle Trey.

Yeah.

This is telling me that Baker, they want Baker to be the QB1, but he's stunk in training camp.

So they're like, well, we can't demote him yet. So we'll just make it an or.
Yeah. We should release a depth chart before every PMT.
Okay. Hank or golf.
We don't know. Why not both? Okay.
Your cool throne? My cool throne is sports documentaries. Yeah.
Because Johnny Manziel untold is out. This is not a plug.
We got to watch it. I'm just saying straight up the Untold documentary series on Netflix.
Awesome. All of them are shorter than the quarterback one.
Oh, yeah. I think it's just it's a movie.
So we should we'll review it. Let's say Monday.
Yeah. Give everyone give everyone a few days.
Monday we'll review the Johnny Manziel. Yeah.
Just one episode. Just a movie.
So I don't know if you've watched it watched it, Jake, but they did one about the Trash Pandas, the minor league hockey team. That one kicks ass.
They did one about Manti Teo. The Trash Pandas? Is that not the Trash Pandas? No, the Thrashers.
The Thrashers, that's right. That's a baseball thing.
You're talking about raccoons. Yeah.
The Thrashers. Talking about the animal.
The minor league hockey one. The Danbury Trashers.
The Danburybury trash danbury trashers yeah and one one was really good and one was great manty tayo was good and uh they got me to care about an australian yachting team i was like fuck the new york yacht club i just looked it up australia for life uh one hour 12 minutes okay perfect so monday that's easy everyone can do that monday we'll finish the show instead of a monday reading we'll do the Johnny Manziel documentary. Yep.
I've tried to watch the QB show three times and fall asleep by the end of every episode. You know what I don't like about the QB show? It's just how positive it is.
I'm just like, I want to watch something and have a villain. There's no villain.
It's like Kirk Cousins, nicest human being on the planet. They also should release it like late February when you have that like first hit of withdrawal.
Because right now I'm so much into like next season that I don't really care about last season. So, all right.
My hot seat. I can't believe we didn't talk about it on Sunday night.
But Carson Wentz. Carson Wentz released a picture of him training.
I think it came out Monday. It might have.
He released a picture of him training. He's wearing a, what of him training he's wearing a uh what is it a colts no eagles helmet colts or redskins commanders jersey and colt shorts yeah and he's basically uh he's a human parlay he's a voltron of failure yeah he's walking around being like i'm ready to go i'm gonna be back in it i got in a debate about backup quarterbacks i i still think carson wentz even though he is better than a lot of backup quarterbacks probably doesn't fill the backup quarterback role very well no you want a backup quarterback to be like able to just like seamlessly fill into any situation you want a backup quarterback who will tread water if you if basically your backup quarterback is there to make your starter better and not threaten your starter, like be like, ooh, looking over my shoulder.
And also you want your backup quarterback to be able to fill in for like one game. If it's more than one or two games, your season's fucked regardless.
Yeah, like Colt McCoy. Right.
Maybe the perfect backup quarterback. Chase Daniel.
People were saying, oh, Carson Wentz is better than Chase Daniel. And my point is Chase Daniel is way better than Carson Wentz at the role of backup.
Yeah, I'd say that Kyle Trask is the best or quarterback in the NFL, but probably not a backup quarterback. Actually, it'd be interesting to look up, has there ever been a quarterback drafted in the top 10 that has gone on to become a great backup? Like, great long-term backup quarterback.
Blake Bortles. Blake Bortles a lot wait say it again a quarter a highly drafted like top 10 quarterback maybe top five we'll say that's lost a starting job and then gone on to have a long career as a great backup quarterback because it is a good skill set yeah but you don't really see a lot of high drafted guys ended guys end up being backups.
That's what I'm saying. Yeah, right.
No, I know exactly what you're saying. You're right.
Wasn't Vic a backup for the Eagles at first? He was a good backup. Yeah, but then he ended up being a starter.
I think you mean like. He was like starter and waiting.
Yeah. I don't know.
Carson Palmer? No. No.
I was going to say Kyle Orton was good, but he wasn't a highly dry. He was like fourth rounder.
Yeah, Marcus Mariota backed up. Yeah, Marcus Mariota.
Yeah, that's a good call. Marcus Mariota.
I don't want to say that. Falcons.
No, he's on the Eagles. He's on the Eagles now.
Yeah, he's the Eagles back. Yeah, no, but Jake said backed up car last year.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Correct him.
Yeah, that might be a good call. All right.
Insult fact. I'm sorry.
My cool throne, I have two of them. The first is Phil Mickelson.
I don't know if you guys saw this clip. I'll play it real quick.
But I love Phil Mickelson, even though everything that goes along with Phil Mickelson. But this is him and Bryson DeChambeau playing a practice round and him going up to Bryson beforehand.
What are we playing for? What are we playing for? I haven't thought about that. You haven't thought about it well what were you thinking about okay well cameron and i'll play you guys you and uh honor bond we'll play nine holes for a g perfect uh straight best ball perfect uh and when you're down when you're closed out you can press for half not the full not the full okay so you gotta win the match to win yeah And if you want, what we'll do is we'll go 28.
If you shoot 28 best ball, it's double.

Perfect. Not the full? Not the full.
Okay. So you've got to win the match to win.
Yeah, and if you want, what we'll do is we'll go 28.

If you shoot 28 best ball, it's double.

Perfect.

I love that.

Okay.

That sounds better.

28 or better.

He's played in a lot more.

Phil just absolutely steamrolled him in that negative shape.

He's like, Phil's like, have you given any thought to it?

Oh, I have.

Here's exactly what we're going to do today.

Well, he could probably rattle off like 10 different formats.

But his shock at Brighton would be like, what are you thinking about if you're not thinking about gambling right now like what is going through your head that's like breathing yeah and then yeah just rattles off and then he also said he said he never plays for more than that which is just a lie that's a lie and in true gamblers fashion phil just kept on adding like double or nothing this and like you can you can push for half if you shoot under 28 it's double g like

it's i i love phil for that yeah i love phil he's got he's got a bankroll now yeah phil's free he

can gamble as much as he wants and then my other cool throne is uh names because uh a twitter

account named bobby tweeted this the other day about uh is actual names of kids playing in the

little league world series game on espn right now uh the names are listed fuller carver hudson harper

I don't know. Actual names of kids playing in the Little League World Series game on ESPN right now.
The names are listed. Fuller Carver, Hudson Harper, Knox Nance, Cabot Clark, Colton Clayton, and Kaysen Roden.
That's a lot of alliteration. Names are getting wild.
There's a lot of ENs in there. Knox Nance is a quarterback.
He's a quarterback I will bet know midweek action uh let's run through all the names again and then we'll just assign them fictional job yeah fuller carver uh he is a cokehead lawyer that works for his dad's firm hudson harper he got arrested for murder in south carolina yep nox dance i think is a is a QB I think Cabot Clark Cabot Clark winemaker failed doctor pursued his passion making wine Colton Clayton seems like just a sick someone replied and it was spot on a sick Iowa tight end Colton Claytonton yep that's fair and then Kaysen Roden uh finance uh last off the bench for the water dogs oh yeah definitely yeah a guy that we will eventually want to cut from our team Kaysen Roden but yeah names are names are on the cool throne uh okay should we get to our interview we got a great interview with Matt Olson people and asked him for some more baseball. Well, guess what? We found a guy who dressed up as us for Halloween.
AWL, he came in 7.30 on a Friday night. So shout out to Matt Olson.
He also is just, I think he's hit a home run every game since he's come on. He is future Hall of Famer.
He's on team Evan and Shane in Dingers only. That's great.
He's a great, great dude. dude so awesome interview with him you think we're ever going to get somebody that dresses up as us for halloween and and the guy dresses up as me and the girl dresses up as you no probably not probably not this was a guy guy combo oh it was yeah it was guy guy combo oh okay yeah good good so matt olson was me and then his friend was you love it uh okay let's get to our interview before we do that, you got a quick word from one of our sponsors.
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And now, here's Matt Olson. Okay, we now welcome on a very special guest in person.
It is Atlanta Braves all-star, two-time all-star, Matt Olson. I'll say this too.
Future Hall of Famer Matt Olson. Are we doing that right now? I was looking at the numbers, and if you stay healthy, you're a future Hall of Famer.
Wow, that's throwing a lot on me right out the gate. Big Cat's never jinxed anything in his life.
No, no, no, you're good. I'm really aware of that, so I'll probably have a great career for me yeah so so matt it was it was very funny we were doing i don't know if you listened to our baseball draft uh but we did our dingers only league and our producers shane and evan picked you and uh someone was like you know matt olsen's an awl i was like what how do you know that and then we looked and you had dressed up as us for halloween a few years ago yep so i was you it was like a last minute we got to throw something together for halloween we're you know me and my buddies listened to pmt and i was like shit i'll just get a mustache and some some see-through glasses and throw it together but uh my buddy did remind me that somebody stopped me that night and asked me if I was Jeffrey Dahmer.
Oh, no. So I don't know if that says more about me or you.
Yeah. I did listen to that Dinger's Only draft, so I do have a slight bone to pick with Hank over there.
All right, let's get it out. Go off.
I do believe it was never heard of him when the draft pick happened.

Well, I mean, Hank's a pretty big seam head.

He knows every player.

And then he found out that I listened to the podcast,

and he quickly changed his opinion.

It's funny how that works for us.

We're like, oh, he likes us?

Yeah, we love him.

We've always been Matt Olsen guys. Yeah, that's not not you that's just any baseball player like i don't i'm not i'm not locked in that's on me y'all haven't done a ton of baseball guys right this is gonna be big for yelich yeah yelich is our guy you're now gonna be a recurring guest but yeah we get a lot of tweets being like we're the baseball podcast so here it is here we go yeah i remember the, I remember the Yelich one from the, the bet you guys had with maybe some, not going to make that with you.
Some ass eating on it. Yeah.
Well, here's the thing. If you ever get in the home run derby against Yelich, we are going to absolutely dose you with steroids.
We're going to make sure that that happens. Yes.
I'm going to throw it. If it's me versus him in the finals.
You son of a bitch. Well, you are consistently.
I think's the thing. You would.
You're sicko. I mean, if it came down to it, maybe you threw me a little coin underneath the table.
Yeah. I would never make that bet with you, though, because you actually are consistently a great home run hitter, unlike Yelich, who just mysteriously had one awesome year.
Hmm. Huh.
Interesting. That is crazy.

The numbers. We're just looking at

numbers here. There's a big spike

in a low valley. Yes.
Yes.

But you guys drove into that.

Yeah, we did. We did.

We doubted him to the point where he was like

I almost want you guys to make some dumb

bet for me. Like he's almost

more of a sicko than we are for even offering that

the fact that he wants it to happen. Was it his

idea? No. Well, it's a long

story. There's a there was a porn that came out

I'm sorry. But for me, like he's almost more of a sicko than we are for even offering that the fact that he wants it to happen.
Was it his idea? No. It's a long story.
There's a there was a porn that came out featuring Christian Yelich. It was a guy that looked a lot like Christian Yelich.
He says that it wasn't him. Was he eating ass or getting his ass standing up? Yeah.
Yeah. I think he was eating ass.
She was standing up and it looked he'd get he'd get tagged in it constantly to the point where he had to be like, it's not me guys.

Like, please stop saying it's me.

So, uh, yeah, that was a dumb, that was a dumb move, but we are happy you're here.

Um, I guess, I mean, since we're talking about dingers only, I'll do just a dumb question.

How awesome is it to hit a dinger in major league baseball? Cause what are you?

239, 239.

Uh, total. Yeah.
I don't know. I know.
I know I hit my 200 this year at some point. Maybe 217.
But either way, you're hitting a lot. Yeah, it's a good feeling.
I mean, I would probably say that's the peak in the sport of being able to get one off a guy, especially now that the A's have broken up a little bit, I've had a chance to face some old teammates and I've, uh, I've gotten a couple of them. Chris Bassett, uh, was, was a fun one to get cause we'd talk a lot of shit to each other.
So, um, you know, it's, it's, it's fun when you can leave the yard. It's even more fun when you got a little story behind it, talk some shit to somebody you have a favorite thinger um yeah i think my favorite is probably last year we we played a series against the mets at the end of the year where we had uh we had to basically sweep them to win the division and uh night one we faced de grom and first inning i think it was r Riley hit a homer in front of me,

and I went back-to-back with him. And I feel like it kind of set the tone for the series.

We ended up sweeping him.

When you do that, do you imagine Frank the Tank watching

and just having an actual aneurysm?

If you hit a homerun against the Mets, are you thinking to yourself,

how big is the hole that Frank the Tank just chewed through his shirt?

I'll say that the videos were checked after some games last year so the more we learned frank the tank is is somehow like the most famous person at barstool and every nle's team uses frank the tank as motivation yeah like how much how pissed off can we get frank yeah especially especially with like kind of the way it went for us at the end last year where they had the big lead and then we ended up winning the division yeah there were there were some some dudes in the clubhouse who were pretty tuned in does that does that ever incredible okay this is really dumb to even ask this but i i am serious was there an element of frank before the collapse happened when he he spelled out how theets were going to collapse, right? And everybody else was like, you're full of shit, Frank. The Mets are so far ahead right now.
But he, to the letter of the law, said exactly what the Mets were going to do before they did it and what the Braves were going to do before they did it. Was there any motivation where you guys saw that and you're like, you know what? I think we can do it.
Frank says that we can do it. I don't know if he gave us extra motivation, but I remember seeing a clip of a different dude saying that the division is over or something like that.
It was in July when they had the big lead. I mean, it's not like we needed any huge motivation or anything like that, but it's funny to kind of look back on it.
I mean, the fact, I'm just giggling right now because the idea that you're in a pennant race and you're trying to catch the match, you're in New York, you have a huge game, you beat DeGrom, and then the first thing you do when you go to the locker room is pull up Frank the Tank's Twitter and just laugh. Yeah, because I mean, everybody watches, you know, the Barstool stuff and everything.

And I mean, it's when he gets on his rants, it's a pretty must-see TV. It's incredible.
You mentioned going back-to-back with Riley. Did you know, fun stat I just saw today, that you and Riley have combined for back-to-back home runs in a game in April, May, June, July, and August this season, the only teammates in Major League Baseball history to have back-to-back home runs in a game in five straight months in a single season.
Is that right? Pretty crazy. I didn't know that.
Back-to-back home runs. That's got to be a pretty cool feeling, too.
Like, is it cooler for the second guy or the first guy? I think it's probably cooler for the second guy. Yeah.
Because – but it's probably harder first. You can't get the second without getting the first.
The first guy usually gets pitches a hit because the second guy is also a dinger threat too, right? I will say hitting after a homer is a tough gig sometimes. That's true.
Because fans are still sitting up and they're playing the music still. Nobody's watching in the dugout.
Pitcher's pissed. You're getting his 100-mile-an-hour fastball.
You're getting his dirty shit because he doesn't want to give up another. That's a pretty cool stat.
Yeah. So the Braves are incredible this year.
You guys, it feels like every night you're just a pitcher's nightmare. Do you guys feel that in the lineup where you're like everyone can hit and and is it does it motivate you to like be even better because you know that everyone around you don't want to let them down I don't think no I don't think it works that way I think it's it's almost the opposite where you don't like it's okay to have a shitty night in our lineup you know there's a lot of lineups in the league that you know one or two guys are are it most every night right if they're scoring a lot like you know the the three or four hole hitters is doing the damage and and you know hitting two homers or whatever but it's like I can go up and punch out four times and and Orlando Arcea and Mike Harris are eight and nine hitters can have six RBIs together so I kind of feel like it takes some of the pressure off.
I mean, honestly, we got Ronald Acuna, the stuff that he's doing at the top of the lineup is stupid. I was talking to somebody about it the other day.
It's like he's almost like when you go golf with a scratch golfer. Like you see the big home runs he hits, the the numbers put numbers he's putting up he's hitting what 340 now he went three for five he's probably in like 340 50 stolen bases but it's like at the end of the game you're like what did ronald do today and you check and it's like oh shit he went three for five and had two stolen bases and three rbis it's like when you go golf with a scratch golfer, you're like, he didn't do anything that cool.
He just hit every fairway, hit every green, even made a birdie. Yeah, but he makes it all look easy.
It's so – I mean, it sounds like you guys are good teammates to each other because I guess the question is more like if I were in the Braves lineup and I was like hitting 50 dingers, I'd be giving everyone shit who didn't hit 50 dingers. But like you guys have each other's back no no we're not doing that somebody somebody might have said something to Mike Harris the other day about him being the only one in single digit homers but yeah he hit two that night and see yeah there you go that works too yeah yeah I love that so if you if you do go over for one night and you go over for the next night how soon do you start to think to yourself, I got to change something up? Like you start to think maybe it's the batting stance.
Maybe it's just like, I don't know, have a different pregame meal. When do you start to think like, okay, time for a change? Yeah, I mean actual change, like actually diving in and doing baseball change, probably not that quickly, but I'm eating something different or you know putting my socks on a different way everybody says they're they're not superstitious i think that's everybody yeah you've got so much time where you're just like waiting around exactly your mind works too much yeah everybody takes their the bat weight off on deck a certain way it's like you can tell me you're not superstitious doing stuff a different way.
But, yeah, I'll mix that kind of stuff up. Actual dive into baseball, mix it up.
We're going to give it a little more time than that. Do you know your longest slump? I do not.
Okay. That's good.
Do you? No, I don't. But I was wondering because I've always just – I mean, I'm always amazed by baseball players because the mental toughness it takes to play the game and a 270 hitter is a good hitter right now in today's game where it's like if I didn't get a hit for a week, I would just be like, I'm going to retire.
I'm never going to get a hit again. Yeah, I mean, a week I would probably be there a little bit if you're going over i'm my longest o4 stretch i don't think is is that crazy but um i'm gonna look it up right now yeah look it up um i hope it's like three i'm gonna be i'm gonna sound like an idiot when you're like you're over 75 yeah but um no i you know it's it's part of it as as stupid and cliche as it is.
Like, it's a long-ass season, and all the ups and downs will kind of level out at some point. Yeah, do you get bored? During a baseball season? For sure.
Yeah, is that like August? Like right now are you bored? Well, luckily we're winning, and we got a pretty fun team. So that helps a little bit of it.
But just the monotony of a baseball season is tough. Even with the bigger bases, that doesn't help out? Yeah, the bigger bases and the pitch clock makes it a lot better.
Games are so much quicker. But no, there's a point.
Like I said, luckily we're winning. um you.
I'd feel bad if we were about to lose our 100th game and you get 150 games in, so let's get this shit over with. But we got a good squad and we have a lot of fun with it.
All right, so I'm looking it up. I couldn't find your longest slump, but it says that you can't hit a slider.
Is that true? Is that right? Yeah. Well, I did take a slider right down the middle today earlier so it could be okay yeah so you bet it's trending up taping the the Braves did beat the Cubs 8-0 today uh all right so was that that was off Hendricks that was uh no that was after yeah uh when that or Wineski yeah came in yeah so facing a guy like Hendricks though, we were talking about it right as we walked in.
Is it weird to face a guy like that who his velocity is so different than everyone else you go up against? Is he, like, rare enough that that's why it works? Yeah, yeah. And, I mean, you look at it, he's got, like, a career 3.5 DRA.
so the dude's been doing it but yeah i mean i feel like

we just faced a week straight of guys throwing 95 to 100 and then you get up and hendrix is floating 80 mile an hour change-ups in there just like shit you don't see anymore right and it is it's almost like it's it's so crazy that it's effective yeah i mean you guys did hit him well today who's the who's got the nastiest stuff for you uh i'm o for off garrett cole i haven't i haven't faced him in a while i was when i was in oakland i was facing a good bit in the houston days and i don't i don't know the exact numbers but it's around over 20 with about 15 punches so uh i'm gonna to need to get back out there and try to fix that.

Well, you probably won't see me in the postseason this year.

That's the good news.

Is there a pitcher that you have their number?

I've got to be careful about this.

I don't want to jinx it.

I think I've had pretty good – there's actually a guy, which is weird,

Alex Claudio, who's a submarine. Hank, what team? Bears.
I don't think so. Okay.
He was with the Rangers for a while and Angels, but he's a – he's at the Brewers now. Okay, there you go, Hank.
He's a sidearm lefty.

And I think at one point I was like seven for seven off the guy and just couldn't stop just crushing him, which is weird.

That is weird.

They always bring him in.

I'm like, are y'all fucking checking the numbers?

I'm crushing this, dude.

Right.

You don't see too many submarine pitchers anymore.

I feel like we used to have them more back in the 90s. Like every team had one submarine guy.
Yeah. But is that, is it that much different seeing like where the ball comes out of his hands? Does it like fuck up your entire process of identifying what pitch is coming? Yeah, it does.
And, and for whatever reason now, most of the submarine guys that are left are, are throwing like 95 to now is it's the Schreber dude with Boston and Tyler Rogers guy with San Francisco is just crazy weird slot. It's like, yeah, it's kind of like Hendricks.
It's just stuff you don't see all the time. So it's so backwards that it throws you off.
Yeah. I wanted to talk about your career for a second and the start of it.
So you were going to play at Vanderbilt, and then you decided to go straight to the minors. So what was that decision like? Because a lot of guys do end up playing in college baseball if they have that kind of offer, especially at a school like Vanderbilt.
But what made you decide, like, hey, I'm just going to go straight to the minors here? I don't know, I'd be lying if I said that the signing bonus wasn't a part of the decision. But it wasn't.
How much was it? I can look it up right now. You can just say it or we can look it up.
All right. It was just over a million.
Oh, nice. You got to go.
Fuck Vanderbilt. Yeah.
You get a million dollars when you're 19 years old. Yeah.
That sounds pretty good. That's enough money for life it was it wasn't and never was you

know the reason why i do it but it was more so like uh like uh you got an opportunity to to go do it especially as a hitter going to college is way different than going getting like 500 at bats i actually went to beloit wisconsin yeah first year which sucks yeah sound boy wisconsin beloit is the sound a fart makes in a toilet.

Beloit?

Yeah.

Say it out loud.

It is.

That's not far from Madison, though. Yeah, yeah.
Stockton Ports, Midland Rockhounds, and the Nashville Set. Where's the Midland Rockhounds at?

Midland, Texas.

Okay.

Where are the Stockton Ports?

Stockton, California.

Okay.

Yeah, so that's it.

You were on the bus.

Northern California.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Was that fun?

On the bus?

Yeah.

Was there any element of minor league baseball that was fun for you?

I think in the moment it was because we'd get on the bus,

and at times we'd do a big beer bus, and everybody would play cards, in the moment it was cause we'd, we'd get on the bus and, you know, at times we'd do a big beer bus and everybody would play cards and we thought it was cool to, to drive 12 hours through the night and then play the next day. But looking back, it's like, that was fucking brutal.
Yeah. Seriously.
I don't know how minor leaders do it. So you, so when was the moment, um, was there like a special moment when you got called up did they do like surprise video or anything no they just it was actually it was kind of lame we just finished our triple a season and you know they do the september call up yeah and we lost in our playoffs and the the triple a managers came up is like uh don't pack your shit your shit to go home.
You're going to meet the team. So, I mean, it was a cool moment, but it wasn't like, uh, all these, the videos you're seeing, uh, where guys are set up in the manager's office and people are crying.
Now, were you, did you get called up right when you thought you were about to get called up or was there a stretch where you're like, why I not been called up no no I thought it was it was about right um I actually got I started back in triple a after I got called up um for that September and I think about halfway through that year I was I was a little bit like you know I think I think I'm ready enough it's time to go but we had yonder Alonzo there ahead of me who was uh he was he was going off so um I actually came up and I'm ready. Enough already, yeah.
It's time to go. But we had Yonder Alonzo there ahead of me who was going off.
So I actually came up and I was playing right field, which I don't know if you've seen me play, but I'm slow as shit. I have no business being in the outfield.
I'm sure all the pitchers were pissed. It is the position that they just throw guys where they're just like, all right.
I played a lot of right field growing up. Yeah, I hear you.
growing up yeah yeah yeah well yeah i think the the nine-year-old in right field is is always like the worst guy they're like hey just go stand out there and don't fuck it up yeah right pretty much uh but yeah you know it's it was uh it was a cool story and and um you know you always yeah and you get to the a's and i mean, we have taken the side of A's fans on this podcast. We're a fuck John Fisher podcast.
I know you probably can't talk about it, but fuck John. But fuck him, right? Yeah.
You can't talk about it, but fuck him. Fuck John Fisher.
Yeah. Right.
His face. I love his face.
Yeah. I love you.
You don't have to say anything. We'll say it for you.
The fan bases. I love them.
I want to fuck them in their face. I love them so much, but their owner is a piece of shit.
But playing for that team, was there ever a time when the fan support was like, you felt like maybe this might work out. Maybe the athletics are going to stay in Oakland.
Yeah, I think a lot of us thought that we were going to be kind of like the dudes to flip the script a little bit

because everybody had gotten traded before us. And, you know, I think it was like the Donaldson, Cespedes wave right before us.
All those guys got traded. They hit the reset button.
We came up and it was like me, Chapman, Simeon, who's from the Bay Area. Good team, yeah.
You know, starters like chris bassett shamanaya you know a bunch of dudes we won 97 games back-to-back years you know with the astros in our division and and i think it it became like all right we're like we're gonna do this we're gonna be the ones to stay and uh obviously you know sitting here now it's they just look at it as a little as a as a money maker and yeah i think the decision was probably already made it was just a latter time at that point did uh did billy bean ever call you into his office and say uh like hey i really like how tall your knees are you give a small strike zone that's why that's why i called you did he have like a weird thing for you that he liked? Billy is a weird guy, but he was always good.

He did always crush candy like the movie.

But no, he didn't give me anything too weird.

He did one time.

I was getting a little froggy with trying to steal bases,

and I got thrown out third one time trying to like time up a dude.

And I saw him in the lunch line the next day, and he just like looked at me. He's like, hey.
I looked over and I was like, what the fuck was that? And I was like, what are you talking about? I like had him timed up and he's like, don't do that shit again. Did you feel a little special being like I'm a Billy Bean draft pick? Like knowing his history of draft picks and just how he built that team? Yeah, i mean you buy into a little bit you know you kind of feel like the the misfits i mean you go and play at the coliseum you feel like you know one thing's not like the other here when you go play at other stadiums yeah it almost becomes something that you rally behind a little bit but um no billy was good uh gm was always good to us david forrest um you know coaching staff was always good and we had a good team just and when the fans are good there they're the best yeah like those teams when they get when they get good the the guys playing the saxophone in the outfield and just like they they it i it just so it breaks my heart whenever a team leaves the city yeah it's like nowhere you've ever seen because all the fans, they just don't give a shit, really.
I mean, they don't give a shit about what they're doing. They give a shit about the game.
Right. They're just going crazy.
It's like a college football game, but you're playing Major League Baseball in a way. So it is cool.
So it's kind of sad to see what's going on there. Yeah.
You've got beautiful grass in the outfield there too they do it's like the best looking field they do the kelly greens and the colors are great kind of like the the eagles eagles kelly greens they got a great like the the a font is great and the elephant it's just great yeah it's sad so when you got traded to the braves you're from the atlanta area so you probably were really. Did you know they were going to give you that fat contract right away? Because it was like 24 hours, right? Yeah, it was quick.
I didn't know. I mean – That's awesome.
That's even better. Well, tying back to the A's, I mean, I was pretty open with my agent and they were pretty open with him that I was open to signing something long termterm.
I was like, you know, sure you want to get fair market, but I just wanted to have, you know, some, you know, a long-term deal and, you know, go out and play. And so my agent knew it was something that I was open to.
So when the trade happened, Alex got on it pretty quick. When he gets worked up about something, he gets on it and goes.
As you see, all the guys we have signed now. So it wasn't too hard to convince me to come to the hometown and sign for eight years.
They just won the World Series, so you know it's a good team. Got a bunch of young dudes like Ozzy and Dan's.
We was there at the time and Ronald. It was kind of a no-brainer for me.
That's got to be the best 24 hours. Because you got traded, and then 24 hours later you signed an eight-year deal for $188 million.
Yeah. Pretty pretty nice it was it was pretty sweet it was it was a little it was a little weird walking in the clubhouse because i actually did the like press release before meeting the dudes really so oh so oh so they saw you get paid and then you had to walk in the clubhouse that is awkward which not like it mattered like nobody said anything but it was just like still it was a little awkward yeah that is very awkward to be like i haven't even played with you guys yeah was there any weirdness about like obviously a's uh brave fans love you you're you're a fan favorite now but like at the time they were kind of going through their own emotional drama with the freddie freeman stuff right and so that's what they were thinking about like oh i love freddie and of course they course they should love Freddie.
Like Freddie meant a lot to the city. But when you come in, it's like you're the outside guy, even though you're a hometown guy, right? Was that weird at first, like trying to figure out how you fit in there and figuring out how the fans were going to eventually, like, are they ever going to come on and be on my side? Are they going to be just like asking about Freddie this whole time? Yeah, I think there was, you know, a tad of it.
You know, obviously when a guy is there that long and he's going to be a Hall of Famer, I mean, dude's career 300 hitter with all the accolades that he's gotten and he came up with the Braves. You know, there's going to be that stuff.
Frankly, this whole process, you know, I knew I was going to get traded from Oakland. And I thought it was, I think it was L.A.
didn't have first baseman and Rizzo hadn't re-signed with the Yankees. And so, I mean, we were sitting there during the lockout and I really didn't think Atlanta was really an option.
I thought they were just going to re-sign Freddie and and get along with it um once that process kind of got started dragging out a little bit um I guess it became became uh a little more in our head that it could be possible and then once it happened it was the coolest thing ever but um you know I the the way I look at it is is the dude has done so much Atlanta and, like I said, Hall of Famer. I would be upset as a Braves fan growing up and as a guy who plays for the team who I want good fans if they were just like kicked him out the door.
I'm happy that they love Freddie and he's always been super nice to me so it never affected what I was doing too much that's a good way to look at it to be like the team the fan base cares so much about a guy that's given so much to the team that like hopefully one day they'll think about me that way yeah you know I just think they respect what what he did for the city as they should. I mean, I mean, I grew up watching Freddie when he first came up.
So I respect what he did as a Brave. So it's not like it's any sort of rift there.
And like I said, he's always been super good to me. And I hear great things about him from the guys.
Another bad teammate question. Does anyone ever give you shit for not having a world series ring? No, I, and it kind of, it kind of pisses me off and nobody does like they, they did the ring ceremony last year and they were giving out fake rings to all the fans.
And I put mine on and was like, fuck yeah, this is sick guys. Like like so glad we got it and i was like trying to egg them on to to chirp me about it and nobody did but maybe maybe we just weren't there yet but uh they'll they'll give it to me pretty good now but yeah i i nobody nobody hit me too hard with it yeah are you as amazed as we are when you watch the freeze run? Yes.
That guy is fucking insane. So fast.
He makes people fall down. He's so fast.
We should get one of the auto racing. Oh, my God.
Hank. Hank, you should do it.
Actually, Max. Yeah, we'll have Max do it because he'd probably break his whole face.
His body would explode. You just can't run full speed to start.
Yeah. Every time I've seen him lose, the person that goes is sandbagging a little bit to start and then they turn the jets on because he doesn't go as fast yeah yeah yeah because he waits a little bit but the dudes who just blow their load right right out the gate they're the ones who are busting their ass and yeah falling yeah that's the best is when somebody thinks that he's good they've got him beat and then the freeze just runs past them and they get so surprised that they just trip and fall down yeah yeah that should be the penalty for our uh our dingers only league like maybe next year oh yeah is if you lose you have to race the freeze to race the freeze oh man it would be so embarrassing i would just try to trip him yeah i'll just chime it up and try to trip him while we're on while we're on the braves park, I don't think I've heard the full blooper story.
Well, he's a fat fuck, and he's a bully. He came at you? Oh, yeah.
He's come at me many times. He lives rent-free in Frank's head, which is not fair.
You've never talked to him. He can't talk, right? No, he can talk.
As a mascot, he's as a mascot he's allowed to get the rules well who am i outing him right now does he talk as a mascot or does he talk out when he gets the mascot head off no i've never seen him i've never seen a mascot or with the head off no i've never seen him but he talks he's he's got him now sorry that's that's the rule one of mascots but yeah no it's very funny what is blooper do you know no i'm not sure i because i've been looking at him is he like a dog is he an alien i see an alien dog he i'll say this bigfoot i don't know and and this is gonna bite me in the ass but he does do a hilarious job on social media like he's very very funny like it it was one of

those things like whenever a new mascot comes along and they try to you know start beefs and do this stuff you're like all right this is enough he finds new ways to be funny that i actually appreciate like he's very he's pretty good yeah but he talks this is good what does he sound like has said that.

I'm guessing he's

about

5'10 white guy with brown hair. Okay.
So he listens to part of my tape. Yeah.
Oh, definitely. Exactly.
That's right in y'all's wheelhouse. I invited him to Chicago this weekend, and he didn't show.
He's dodging you? Yeah. Well, he said he has to be invited by the team.
Does he ever go on road games? Well, I mean, I wouldn't ever know, really. Yeah, true.
He's never in full outfit on road games. Okay.
Oh, so he's- But is he there? I don't know. Oh, interesting.
So he might be here right now. He could be here right now.
Are there more than one blooper? I don't think so. I think it's one guy.
I think it's one guy. He might travel with the team, just not blooping in costume.
I don't know what he looks like. What if it was just like there's a blooper on the road for road games and they just contract a new guy in each city? We'll never know.
He's giving us a lot to think about. He's just doing double-dubbing.
You've ever seen him in the same place?

No.

So do you guys see, like, because he runs out.

He tries to make it all about himself.

He's got a little, like, Dabo Sweeney in him where he, like, comes out with the flag.

Are you guys ever like, come on, dude, you didn't do anything?

No, we like it.

He's pretty good.

I think he does a good job.

As far as mascots go, he does a good job.

I've always liked him and the Astros mascot does a good job. Yes, the Astros mascot is very funny.
Runs out of the underwear. Yeah.
Yeah, that guy's funny. I like the Philly Fanatic too.
Yeah, he's good. San Diego Chicken.
Is that guy still around? Chicken? Yeah, there used to be San Diego Chicken. Yeah, no, Bloopy does a good job.
Bloopy's good. It hurts me to say it, but he does a good job.
But now that I know that he talks as the mascot, I think he's ineligible for Mascot Hall of Fame. You think he's going to get fired? Yeah, I mean, you can't talk in the mascot costume.
You can't do that. I'd feel like such a piece of shit if he got fired for that.
If he gets fired for this exact moment, Barstool will hire him. Okay, that's fair.
That is fair. Which we've hired people for way less.
Oh, yeah. Way, way less.
Just making up for stuff that you've done? Yeah. I mean, we've hired people for nothing.
So Frank got hired. Well, Frank was – I mean, Frank is an all-star.
But Frank got hired for just ranting on TV because the New Jersey Transit made him delayed for opening day. That's a true story.
Yep. He was on the news.
He was on the news just screaming into the camera being like, they me miss opening day and dave was like we gotta hire this guy but the news just said like crazy mets fans yeah they're like fans are irate i'll show you the clip frank was there with his jeans and he was yelling like incompetent incompetent and dave was like you're hired you. Well, we found out the best part about Frank is when we looked into who he was, he had been running a website for 15 years, updating it daily called Sports Ecyclopedia.
He basically created Wikipedia before Wikipedia. And no one was noticing, but he was just addicted to the grind.
So he had just been updating his website. So like all kind of sports, he's just keeping everything up to date? Yeah.
He does this day in sports almost every day, and he had been doing that when nobody was reading his website. So it's like, yeah, we got hired this guy.
He's already doing the job for free. Yeah, right? Nearly impossible to get around.
For some, the frustration was overwhelming. Georgia Tragic is the absolute worst.

I'm not going to get to my game now because we are incompetent.

I tell track G, track E, track E, track E, and then I got track E,

and he said, no, this change is not wrong.

Your announcement is wrong.

I got hired.

Yeah, it's the best.

It's the best story ever.

Frank is, I mean, Frank is, I love Frank probably more than most people in the world because he is the best he's truly authentic and you're just giving him hell all the time we're not we're not going straight for him but like i said some guys will check in after after a good win what about mrs met do you ever catch mrs met on the side of your eye i can't i can't say i've i've uh taken any double looks looks at Mrs. Matt, but they're usually busy with the trumpets and calling in it with Diaz or whatever.
Yeah. Are you a Mrs.
Matt fan? I mean, I know the Bonk list. Are you a Mets guy? No, no, I'm a Nationals guy.
Put on the Bonk list. Yeah, but I can appreciate a good Mets guy when I see one.
And Mrs. Met, she's got a lot of power.
She's got a lot of power. You can tell.
She's got a warning track power as well. Give her.
All right. I had a couple last questions.
That wasn't a horny statement. I just appreciate the work she does as well.
You knock it out of the park. Respectfully.
Yeah. A couple last questions.
Since you are an AWL and you listen to part of my take, how dumb do we sound when we talk baseball?

No.

No, you are pretty good.

That was really nice of you because I know that's not – well, because we don't talk baseball.

Yeah.

Well, you just need to expand your web a little bit.

Get some more guys on.

This is why we're like, hey, it's a Friday night.

Let's do it.

Yeah.

Am I like a pioneer for – Yeah. I don't think we've ever recorded this late on a Friday before.
Yeah. So, and you are a recurring guest now.
Shout out to me. Yeah.
Shout out to you. Can you teach us something? Make us smarter about baseball.
Oh, yeah. Shit.
Maybe approach at the plate, let's say. Or just like one thing that you guys say to each other that we can repeat.
Should I give you all a trivia question? You can do trivia. Or just if there's one nugget about baseball that we can just regurgitate and then we can act like we invented it ourselves, that's really what we're looking for here.
Something that fans watching the game get wrong routinely that they don't fully understand. Shit.
You're putting me on the spot runs are rally killers yeah home runs are rally killers that is confirmed is a hit um no no i agree no it walks walks are not as good as a hit oh teach us how how has the shift impacted you as a first baseman um not too much you just got got a little more room to run. I think I got something good.
If anybody ever hits a foul homer during an at-bat, they're fucked the rest of the at-bat. They'll never hit a home run after that, right? I've come to think of that.
There's three options from that point on. It's another homer, which is like a small percentage, or a punch-out punch out or a walk and the punch out is is the highest percentage there so when you hit a home run foul it's in your head right away you're like damn it you know it's it's i don't think it's something you immediately get in your head but like right after you're like yeah i was i was fucked that was that was my one chance yeah i'm fucked yeah so do you know it when you go up to to a plate appearance you're like i'm gonna see maybe one pitch that's gonna be my pitch yeah i mean it depends who it is um kyle hendrix today is not gonna give you a whole lot to hit so if he throws one over the middle and you miss it you you could be in a bad spot but um i i think i think sometimes we give pitchers a little too much credit.
They're going to leave some stuff over the middle. Yeah.
Yeah. I know Barry Bonds was like the one example to kind of go against what you were saying earlier.
I can distinctly remember watching Barry Bonds' plate appearances where he hit like five home runs foul, and then the sixth one he hits like three times as far as the other one straight out into the water. But, yeah.
But that was three that was yeah yeah that is barry bonds too well yeah should he be in the hall of fame yes yeah correct answer you maybe you'll be right next i don't think that's any i don't think it's any question yeah i mean i think there was a lot of a lot of that stuff going on in that in that time period you should start kissing journalists asses now think so yeah because this is a good way we're gonna probably have hall of fame votes do you guys know a lot of journalists uh yeah ourselves yeah we are we're as big j as a cat we know jake marsh yeah we will push we'll push for you do you guys um is it still like little league where like if you strike out but you get a good foul like you get a good foul cut people are like hey good cut up there

no okay it always made me feel good where i was like yeah that was a good cut get a little slap on the ass just missed it yeah good cut no i've actually i've had it uh i've been in in dugouts where guys get pissed about that i would imagine yeah i like if i won't i won't name a name because He was like a veteran who was when I was first coming up.

He was with Oakland.

But if he would like line out, I'm talking like hit a bullet at somebody or gets robbed a homer and you walk in and you slap him on the ass or give him a high five, he's like, don't fucking touch me. He's like, I'm out.
He's like, I don't care. I'm out.
Don't touch me. I'm like – Yeah, we're not doing launch angle.
We're not doing exit velocity. I'm out.
What about good eye? Do you guys still say good eye to each other? Good eyes, good ball talk. I like that, too, because that always made me feel like doing nothing, just being a coward and not swing.
I'm like, good eye, good eye. Or what about this one? When you take a strike and they say, not your pitch.
Yeah. Yeah.
I like that one. You got to see one.
You spin it, like that's not the pitch you were looking for. Yeah, you got to see one come over the plate.
Now you're ready. Or how about if, like, you foul it off, if I fouled over to the third base dugout, a little see it deep chatter.
Yeah. Oh, I like that.
Yeah. I like that.
I like that a lot. Yeah.
Yeah, those are – all right, so we got some baseball talk now. Yeah.
All right, my last question, Roback question, RHOBACK.com. Promo code take use code promo code take Q-Zips, polos, hoodies, joggers, shorts, everything.
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So I'll say it. It's August 4th.
The Braves are going to be in the postseason. You guys are a wagon right now.
When it does flip to postseason baseball, how much does it change in the locker room and like the approach day to day? Are you guys, a wagon right now when it does flip to postseason baseball how much does it change in

the locker room and like the approach day to day are you guys is everyone you know no more bullshitting no more talking shit like having fun is it just like all business no no i i don't think i don't think you could pay the guys in our clubhouse to be all business actually it's uh what you see with like Arcia and Ozzy and Ronald like fucking around on the

field is is about as genuine as it gets so if i went up to ozzy tomorrow i was like why don't you just chill out today he would like laugh in my face and probably tell me to fuck off right right it's which i think is good around that time because i have been on you know a where Titans up a little bit and everybody starts worrying when the playoffs come around. Obviously these dudes won the World Series in 21, so they've been there, done that.
But it's a good environment when you treat it like it's a normal game in May or whatever. And you also know that contractually you're now obligated if the Braves do win the World Series this year, we have to have you on via Zoom within 24 hours, preferably drunk.
Oh, I will be drunk. If it's within 24 hours of us winning the World Series, I will be drunk.
You have to do that now. Okay.
Okay. All right.
Just so you know, we have a longstanding relationship with golfers, Joe Burrow, some of these guys who've won titles and come on right away. It's our favorite interviews because a lot of times those guys go on SportsCenter right before they get drunk and they'll give like their 10 minutes and then they'll disappear for like a week.
Yeah. No, I'll give you the good footage.
Okay. All right.
Good. Good.
I love that. You're going to be a fan favorite already.
Perfect. Just for that.
All right, well, Matt Olsen, thank you. Recurring guest.
Latest Friday guest ever. Yeah, and future Hall of Famer.
And AWR. We're going to push for you.
Well, I appreciate that. We got to work on that, though.
Yeah, just keep hitting dingers. But not too many, because Shane and Evan are, I think, running away with dingers only only what do you think about that format for the fantasy baseball league so it was dingers only and then you also get one guy that gets hit by a pitch which was a mistake probably we probably won't do that next year 10 points for the it counts as 10 points we reduce it to five I think we should do it next year and just have it count as like one or two.
It's fun to have a guy to root for to get hit by pitch.

I do like that, but 10 points

probably will have waited too high.

Did you listen to the whole Dingers Only draft?

Yeah. Wow.

That's incredible.

It was not good.

You messaged me

and you were like, it's good. You got to check

it out. You couldn't stop listening after the first round

because I think you were a first round pick.

Yeah, I kept it going. I was just

sitting around in my hotel room playing some PS5. So I ran through it.
Listen to us butcher names, butcher teams. Everybody was injured that I drafted.
Yeah, there was a lot of injured people. Yeah, yeah.
Jordan Alvarez is back, though. He's on a little tear.
Good pick. Yeah, thank you.
That was a great pick. That was a great pick.
I just didn't happen to know that he got injured literally the night before we did the dingers-only draft. That hurts.
I picked a guy with vertigo. Who's that? Mountcastle on the Orioles.
But he's back hitting dingers, too. Yes, he is hitting dingers now.
But it's hard to pick a guy in your fantasy draft and then be like, he's got vertigo? Yeah, that's tough. Yeah, that's not going to be good for hitting a baseball either.
My hit-by-pitch guy I only drafted because he was an AWL, and then I go and I scroll through his Twitter, and the last tweet that he put out was like, thank you for all the prayers. I'm doing okay.
Hope to make it back on the field again soon because he got drilled in his head. Oh, this is Josh Smith.
And now I feel like an asshole because I'm now rooting for him to get hit by more pitches when he was seriously injured by the last one he got. Yeah, it's a little fucked up.
It was fucked up, but we made our peace. Because you guys are good now? I told him, like, put your hip into it next time.
But the problem is he's going to be getting out of the way a lot quicker. Yeah, exactly.
So if you look at it from a draft standpoint, it's a bad pick. Actually, I do have one more question because we were in the batting cages last week on Grit grit week and we stepped into the 80 mile per hour cage and max was raking by the way max is like a pretty good hitter it turns out uh matt stairs of caa that's what they called him yeah and i stepped in there i saw the ball coming in 80 miles an hour and i was like holy shit when i watch baseball on tv and i see a guy get hit by an 80 mile per hour pitch i'm like, oh, that's easy.
Yeah, lean into that one. Take that one for the team.
That must hurt like shit, doesn't it, even when it's 80 miles per hour? 80 is not bad. You get up 95 and up is where it really starts getting you.
Yeah. Does 80 look like softball for you? Yeah.
I mean, think about it. It's Hendrick's change-up.
Yeahup yeah and just watching him on tv it looks like it never gets there yeah right compared to the other guys it's crazy not you know trying to shit on hendrick no no it's a great pitcher but he's low velocity but i mean based off what we're seeing 80 is is like uh yeah because how fast do they throw when they're throwing you bp Those are still zipping them in, like 60, 65. Yeah, but they're closer.
So it's playing more like 85, 90. That's what it was at that batting cage.
It was way closer. I remember I took BP at a minor league field once.
If you weren't full and it was going 80, then that's probably. Yeah.
It's getting there pretty good. That makes sense.
I took BP at a minor league field once Hank was there,

and I just kept on missing.

I was like, can you guys slow it down?

I was like, they're like, this is kind of what we pitch it at.

I was like, well, I can't hit this.

Well, I've done it before.

Actually, funny story is my first BP of big league spring training,

Bob Melvin was throwing BP to me.

That's a manager with Oakland.

And I swung and missed the first pitch, and I was like, I'm never fucking playing in the big leagues. I'm like, they're going to send me down tomorrow and never call for me back.
Billy Beans up in the suite like Joaquin Phoenix and Gladier just thumbs down. Yeah.
Get him gone. Oh, man.
Well, Matt, thank you so much, man. We had a great time having you on.
You were a recurring guest. You'll be back on.
Appreciate it. Hopefully 24 hours after the World Series.
Yes. There we go.
Yes. We're going to hold you to it.
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Where to next? Cars.com. Okay, Mount Rushmore time.
We're doing the Mount Rushmore of rookie mistakes. What is the standings right now? It is as tight as it's ever been.
Hank and Max on a heater with 21. And then we have a tie, me and Billy, 19.
Big Cat PFT, 19. And so, Jake, a lot of games left.
Billy has been contributing to your part of Mount Rushmore. Yeah, we have a tax, right? Yes.
So the last Mount Rushmore will be the Friday before Labor Day, officially. Did Billy submit FBI? That was me.
Yeah, that's crazy. I thought Billy would do MAGA.
It's just. Yeah.
A lot of grammar people are saying some of these weren't even acronyms. what are those what are those people's problems i don't know i'm just which one isn't an acronym acronym has to also be like a word or something oh like something that you can pronounce that it's like bj wasn't otph but it j wasn't what uh you missed objenjen.
Yeah. That would have done well.

Scuba was one that we missed.

Yeah.

Scuba just rules.

Okay.

Mount Rushmore rookie mistakes.

What is the order?

The order is Big Cat PFT, me and Billy, Hank and Max.

Okay.

We have our 1-1. I'll just go with it.

PFT.

Look, we don't even have to do numbers.

We did little numbers before.

Nope.

Mount Rushmore rookie mistakes. Eating more of an edible because you can't feel it mm-hmm you total rookie mistake your first time having an edible you eat maybe half the brownie and you're like well it's been 30 minutes i don't feel anything yet i'm not high yeah i'll just have the other half and then you find yourself in hell yes for about 10 hours i I thought I died in Vegas one time.
Yeah. We were there doing a podcast.
AWL came and gave me a bunch of edibles, and I was editing the podcast. So I took a little bit.
As I was editing, I was like, oh, I don't feel it. I don't feel it.
Took a bunch more. And then I was in bed in the fetal position, and I felt like my life was fading away.
I couldn't open open my eyes and I was like, I'm fading to black.

This is it.

Rest in peace.

And then I remembered reading all the submissions

of people being like, I ate too many edibles.

Thought I was going to die.

And then I was like, oh, it's no, this is just me right now.

It's a very relatable mistake that I think anyone

who's had any weed or any edible has made this mistake.

It is the ultimate rookie mistake.

I remember I've done it where like eat. I've done it with mushrooms too, where it oh eat a little bit and then oh i don't feel anything oh let me eat the rest of it and then holy fuck i'm on the moon yeah it takes way longer to hit so if you're just smoking then it you know you get high almost immediately but if you eat something your body has to metabolize it i did in college one time and the first time i ever ate brownies i woke up very high the next day at about 11 o'clock i had a oral presentation i had to give my class at one still very high i just got up there and coughed pretended i was sick yeah and then sped through my presentation about five minutes and i was like everybody knows i'm high right now yeah it's terrible yeah it's it's a bad bad scene i oftentimes will eat just a little bit to try

to like ease into it and then i'll get impatient and eat the whole thing and then it's a bad bad move uh okay hank and max max were you telling me about a restaurant the other day where jake and billy everything on the menu has weed in it that sounds like yeah that was that was bad that was bad that's a tear that's the worst idea for a restaurant ever yeah you're just you just get higher and higher and then people just must like not ever leave yeah there's a point when you're doing that where munchies go into reverse and i i like couldn't eat anymore i'm so high that like the thought of eating more and getting more high disgusted yeah and the food tasted really good which was the problem and that's the worst part about edibles, too, is once you hit that point, you can't turn it off.

You just have to ride it.

Shower, nap, nothing.

Nothing fixes it.

Okay, Jake and Billy.

We are going to go with shitting after showering.

Okay.

Okay.

Yeah.

That's a bad rookie mistake.

You just say the S word?

Yeah.

I did.

Wow.

Kick him off.

We wanted on the graphic. Out of here.
Out of here. Okay.
Hank and Max. We're going to go with swallowing dip spit.
Oh, yeah. Good one.
First time I dipped, swallowed it, puked everywhere. I also had braces, so that was just a disaster.
I accidentally drank your dip spit the other day that was billy's fault i had a water bottle spit it somewhere billy just gave him my water bottle and there was like a little sip left oh no it's disgusting yeah that's the cousin to what hank hank is talking about swallowing your own dip spit but the cousin to that is drinking out of any bottle near a dipper and then we will go with parlaying a bunch of heavy favorites. What do you mean? That seems like an insult fact.
Yeah. What do you mean, Hank? We're going to have to go to John Angelos in the booth.
It never works. It's a rookie mistake.
I'm going to parlay a bunch of heavy favorites. Oh, that's right.
Because the Celtics beat the heat in the conference finals this year. Right.
Was that a parlay? Yeah, it actually was a parlay.

He did the Panthers when they were up 3-0.

That was a couple of heavy favorites.

Yeah, you just said parlaying multiple heavy favorites. I said a bunch.

Okay.

That's a bunch.

That's a classic.

Someone just starts gambling.

They're like, oh, there's no way all of these can lose.

And then it happens.

Okay.

You don't agree?

No, I agree.

That seems also like an insult back for Big Cat. Yeah, I have a different gambling one, but yeah.
That plays. I like it.
I'm not protesting the pick. I just said, all I said was, it seemed like an insult.
It's not an insult pick. PFT.
Well, and to you. No, PFT did a couple.
Artists formerly known as the Can't Lose Parlay. Yeah, although that was sometimes, that's underdogs as well.

Right.

Yeah.

Well, Hank, did it hit?

What?

My Parlay.

That was a couple.

I said a bunch.

So you're just taking offense to something that was not directed to you.

No, that's fine.

Our next pick is thinking that you do a bunch of hungry dogs one year, and then the next year you'll be able to hit all of them.

It was profitable a couple years ago.

I think in the past two years it's been overall profitable. Yeah, okay.
Yeah, because of the extra Saturday. You do can't lose parlors all the time.
Okay, Jake and Billy. It's a good pick.
Yeah, I know. It was an insult pick, but it's a good pick.
Yeah, it doesn't matter. Our next pick is going to be forgetting to put on sunscreen.
Oh, okay. Tan.
Yeah. I mean, yeah, I like getting a little tan.
Yeah, but if you're out there too long and it's like all I could have done was just a 30 second spray, that would have changed everything. I still think that there should be a booth where you can just walk through it and they spray it like it's a spray tan booth and they have it on the beach on the boardwalk.
You just walk through it, put your arms at the side and it just hoses you down sunscreen then you're good for the day yeah five bucks a pop yeah it's just it stings i mean i have very sensitive skin but it it can change everything it can everything change everything it is bad to do that on your first day of vacation you get sunburned right off the bat you had a bad one a few weeks ago right i was fine i was fine it's totally fine i was fine after that uh okay we have two we have two yes how snake works all right off the bat. You had a bad one a few weeks ago, right? I was fine.
I was fine. It's totally fine.
I was fine after that. Okay.
We have two. We have two.
Yeah, that's how a snake works. All right.
For our second pick, Darren Revelle knows this one very well. Oh, I like it.
I'm going to go with putting the top down on your convertible in a parade in Dallas, Texas. Bad idea.
Rookie mistake. It sounds great.
I mean, the weather's nice. It's it's beautiful you know your wife's there with you

her ass is out you want to have a great careful careful she was got that she was dog but um it's not a good idea you want to blast your music let everybody hear what you're listening to um no keep keep the top up yes rookie mistake uh rookie mistake saying you'll be able to pull out in time don't worry worry about it, babe. I got this.
I got this. I got it.
I got it. Big time rookie mistake.
I feel like that's the opposite of it. What? I feel like if you pulling out in time is a veteran move.
No, saying you, like being like, I can do this. Yeah, believe in yourself and you don't.
Yeah. You understand the pick? Yeah, no, I don't understand the pick.
Okay. Let's continue there.
All right. Okay.
Makes no sense. It makes perfect sense.
Makes zero sense. Yeah.
Is that why you have three kids? No, I like that. All right.
Our next pick, it's going to be similar to our first one, but different. Pooping without checking for toilet paper.
Good pick. We had it.
Had it on our list. Yeah.
That's the worst feeling. It's pooping and sunscreen for you boys.
So far, yeah. Okay.
But all rookie mistakes. Hank, Max? We're going to go with mixing liquors when you're drinking.
Okay.

Have a couple drinks vodka.

Have a couple drinks tequila.

Have a couple drinks whiskey.

Never ends up good.

Even mixing liquor and beer.

I've always liked the liquor before beer in the clear.

Beer before liquor gets you sicker.

Yep.

But it's something you do when you're younger.

It never works out.

You want to just stick to one thing or just do a little bit of liquor and then drink beer for the rest of the night yep you don't want to switch it up yep good pick uh max i i like i like my gym related one more than travel microwave one oh microwave i don't let oh no why don't you guys play rock paper not stretching before exercise oh all right okay i'd never stretch before exercising. But I also don't let.
Oh, no. Why don't you guys play rock, paper, scissors, shoes? Not stretching before exercise.
Oh. All right.

Okay.

I never stretch before exercising.

But, yeah.

But I also don't exercise.

Then you get hurt.

It's basically like it's a rookie mistake people don't do,

and then they get hurt, and then they have to stretch every time.

We'll talk about mine as honorable mentions.

Okay.

All right.

That's an okay pick.

Yeah, we'll see.

Should we let Max go?

All right.

In the microwave.

What's a microwave-related stat?

I can't wait to hear this one, but we'll finish up the draft. Jake? All right.
Our last pick is going to be leaving too much time on the clock for Patrick Mahomes. Oh, yeah.
Good one. That is a rookie mistake.
Yeah. We saw it in the Bills playoff game.
You better kneel that ball until the final play happens and do not give him the ball back. If you do, it's a rookie mistake.
Almost too much time all the time for Patrick Mahomes. Yeah, anytime.
So that's our final pick. Yep.
All right. Okay, PFT.
Yeah, last one. I think we go the first one.
Okay. Drinking on an empty stomach.
Yep. Forgetting to eat and then having some drinks.
Gets you drunk faster. No.
It does, but also you tap out. You hit that point where you're like, fuck, I really should have put something into my body.
Then you eat then you're full, and then it's a complete reset. No, I think when you eat when you're drunk, you can't keep drinking.
No, yeah, you get full, and then you're like, oh, I'm dead sober. I don't think it's almost ever a complete reset.
I think it actually hurts a lot. Drinking on an empty stomach is a rookie mistake.
Yes. Just being like, let's go party.
I was on the wrong side of that oh no what'd you do

fast out oh did they draw something on you uh no nuts on your face you probably had nuts on your

face i love how like the craziest drinking story is jake just like falling asleep yeah and forgetting

to eat a sandwich did you kill yourself uh not that time i've done it before okay what did we

miss max i want to hear this microwave one putting putting tinfoil in the microwave oh okay yeah

I'm going to go. yourself uh not that time i've done it before okay what did we miss max i want to hear this microwave one putting putting tinfoil in the microwave oh okay yeah sparks like when you're a kid that i feel like every little i've never done that that's yeah i've never done that i did well i did it when i was a little kid and i was like oh i want to heat up this slice of pizza not knowing that you can't it it's a disaster every time i mean that's you don't it's a it's the definition of a it's a younger rookie mistake but I mean, you don't, it's a, it's the definition of a, it's a younger rookie mistake, but I know your mom listens.
That's just bad parenting. Just being factual.
Like I think my kids are the youngest of four. I was the youngest of four.
Come on. Okay.
And you, and you still don't understand the pullout thing. Uh, I mean, I understand it.
So stretching or stretching or tinfoil. I think you went with the right pick yeah putting a spoon in the microwave too that does the same thing as tinfoil

yeah yeah uh okay other ones we had um falling in love on the jersey shore big time rookie mistake

ronnie taught us that and then fell in love and then had like the most toxic relationship ever

uh i had so my gambling one was just teasers like thinking like teasers are you know

Thank you. Max wanted to do flying with a water bottle which i was like you can't do either though yeah i know you can empty it out yeah i had one for you i get my i get mine's taken every time another one uh if you're an elementary school teacher uh signing up and going to space that's a good one.
That's a rookie mistake. I don't get it.
You already forgot the challenger. You literally said you'll never forget.
You said you'd never forget. Yeah, the O-rings.
Putting the top down in your convertible in Dallas. Yeah, that's a big rookie mistake.
I had another daily one is just asking a woman when she's due without definitively knowing if she's pregnant or not. That's I mean, that's that's a big time rookie mistake.
Invading Russia in the wintertime. Yep.
Taking insurance in blackjack. Yep.
Yeah. That's that's a rookie mistake.
Showering without getting a towel. Yeah.
Stuck. Got to run naked sometimes.
You ever done that, Jake?ake of course we've all done it the nude run yeah uh oh we had we had darnell right uh the bears first round pick rookie mistake he trained all offseason for the wide receivers conditioning test that's a rookie mistake yeah i this one will come off weird in the graphic but like talking shit to a veteran but like a veteran on your team oh like that's like an actual rookie mistake yeah people do in camp and they'll talk shit and then it comes back to bite them yeah but it would have looked like talking shit to a veteran war veteran like getting mad at a very good player like uh dylan brooks yeah poking the bear is a rookie mistake yes yeah yes um yeah like you're just giving bulletin port material right rookie mistake forgetting headphones on a flight oh that's a good one i that's like the most you could forget everything but if you forget headphones it's the worst flight ever i lost my headphones on great week i'm back to the wires like an absolute peasant all airlines are pretty much giving free headphones these days. They're giving free what?

Free headphones.

Really?

Just bleep out the word phones.

Hank, if you're serious about your TikTok game,

the wired headphones actually is the way to go.

It's better sound quality, just so you know.

For the speaker.

Talking about your fantasy team while Big Cat's watching a game he gambled on.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

That's a big rookie mistake.

We had that happen a few times.

Just being like, I need a touchdown from this guy. It's like, well, I need this team to win.
Otherwise, I'm done. Any other ones we missed? That was a good Mount Rushmore.
Yeah. Not knocking on your parents' bedroom door.
Oh. It's bad.
Yeah. Forgetting to knock.
Forgetting to knock is a very, very bad one. Shit.
That one. Yeah.
There was somebody that got walked in on twice recently it was uh it was some celebrity their daughter walked in on them twice on their birthday both times oh no yeah oh it's kelly ripa oh kelly ripa's daughter walked in on like her eighth birthday and then her 16th birthday oh jeez mom getting it in that's scarring yeah i don't think you can come back from that. You can't.
Yeah. Okay.
Good Mount Rushmore, everyone? Yeah. No? Are you okay, Hank? Yeah.
Okay. Let's do roasts with Uncle Chaps.
Okay. Let's finish up with some roasts.
And we have our good friend, Uncle Chaps, back. I'm so happy.
It's been a long time, boys. It's been a long time, so long that we forgot to put you in the honorable mentions of the Mount Rushmore.
Yeah, that was hurtful. I thought there was going to be smaller font, and I was down there.
I looked and looked and looked. Nope.
No. I told you, Chaps.
You're not a guest. You're a part of the show.
Oh, well, that makes it better. Yeah.
That's what we say to everyone that we forgot. Yeah, that's what I'm going to go back.
I'm going to find that tweet that I sent and just say that to everybody. Yeah.
Exactly. Actually, I'm part of the family.
What's up in the world of chaps? You've moved? Yeah. I moved up here.
Super excited to be here. It's been great so far.
You're seeing people now. You're like in the office.
I'm shockingly not as depressed as being in my basement by myself. I wake up every day and i feel like you have a purpose to that yeah who here in chicago which of the chicago guys have you have you hit it off with oddly enough probably white socks dave well he's i mean white socks dave's an ultimate glue guy yeah so we i think we're gonna get into some terrariums gonna go find some stuff and make terrariums together oh billy's so mad he's not here terrariums what is that yeah so i fell into big terrarium tiktok and this dude makes like self-contained ecosystems where he'll make it in a little jar and then seal it closed and he's like you don't have to open it for 60 years oh so it's not like a terrarium for a lizard no it's like a self-contained like ecosystem so you just make tiny earth yeah so you and white socks i god of it.
Yeah, you and White Sox Dave's big idea is to make a 60-year video. Yeah.
Okay, got it. Can we bring like that? It's long form.
All right. Brought to you by Miracle-Gro.
I did, yeah. I've seen those videos.
There's one guy in France who did it. Yeah, he's got a real sexy voice yeah he dropped like one drop of water into his like big this big glass thing like 10 years in and then it lived for another 30 years yeah the huge that's the huge one right yeah the huge glass one and the guy looks like a crazy yeah yeah i love that guy okay so you're riding around on a yellow bicycle yeah how's that going fantastic again woke up happy today knowing i was gonna go there and it makes me feel better than drivers because they're sitting at their red lights miserable and i'm cruising fast at 35 that's illegal what do you mean i hate that you're you're the guy that does though we have the same rules except oh no we don't have the same rules there is What are the rules of the road for bicyclists then, chaps? What's that? What are the rules of the road for bicyclists? There is none.
Like, I do whatever I want to. Like, what are they going to, is the cop going to be like, oh, you're on your yellow bike.
Like, I'm going to give you, you don't get a ticket on a yellow bike. That's true.
The cop lights up, pull over. It is disarming.
And then I can be one of those dirt bikes and get out of here. You can't go where I can go.
Yeah, that's true. Where you go, there are no roads.
But I have been almost hit a couple times. Yeah, I was going to say, it seems very unsafe.
Yeah, I mean, it is. Are you wearing a helmet? Oh, yeah.
I got a helmet. And every day, I reward myself when I arrive safely.
I have these little stickers that I put on my yellow helmet. And they are called Safety is Paramount Pancakes's kind of like the ohio buckeyes i like that okay so when just for not dying every time you don't die on a bike yeah congratulations to me this sounds so tragic because it's going to be like we scraped chaps's body off the pavement but he did have 140 stickers on his helmet yeah but i need a punishment if i die you guys have to take them, taking them all off.
Yeah. Okay.
Unceremoniously fair. It'll be like he broke the streak.
Yes, the streak is over. No more stickers for chaps.
Okay. So should we do some roasts? Yeah, let's do it.
Have you been reading a lot recently? Yeah. No, I haven't been reading aloud.
Usually Kate does it on our show. Yeah.
So I haven't been a lot last question um do you have do you want to say anything about your co-host cons uh basically being like a dementor on twitter for the last month and a half while he's on paternity leave i'm just glad that everybody else is seeing why i hate connor it's nice to welcome everybody into that family too i texted him like maybe week in i was like dude i know what you're going through you're going through paternity leave but you don't have to have a take on everything no he does yeah he really does which i i it was one of those things where at first i was like what the fuck is going on and then it got so bad it got good and it's like someone's like lasagna he like, lasagna is the worst food ever. And he's legit triggered.

Not like Twitter triggered.

Because he starts texting me offline.

He's like, what do you mean, man?

Don't you see where I'm coming from?

He's like, no, I don't.

He went after college football fans.

He went after Notre Dame.

He went after Italians.

Yeah.

And he was like, oh, I don't know why people do this three weeks to football.

Can't we just enjoy the summer?

Next thing you know, the next week, two weeks till West Point football. He's mad about countdowns.
Yeah, he was mad about countdowns. That's when I got back in on it.
That's when it was so bad it was good when he's like, why are we counting down? Which is what we all do. We all count down.
We start the day after the Super Bowl. When does bowl well yeah it's usually like maybe a month

or two after it's whenever the the days get to a point where it's not depressing to look how far in advance the football season is that's when i'm back all in at countdown yeah i love when i love the catchers report oh yeah and it's the random tweet being like seven weeks at this time you'll be sitting on your couch watching sunday night football i'm like fuck yes and then the jags have like day 76 and it'll be like Luke Fortner's picture.

Yeah.

Some random number 76 you haven't heard of in a while. How are we feeling about all the post-mortems that keep coming out about Urban Meyer? Do you love him as much as we do as a Jags guy? I hope.
I want to give him my yellow bike so he can get in a wreck. Take away his butt, guys.
That would be fantastic. Do you think this is a big year for trevor lawrence this feels like he needs to because last year we saw it but it was also not all the way consistent this year it's got to kind of be consistent i think he's gonna i i i'm gonna put a lot of money on him winning the mvp wow yeah wow how much because the odds have got to be insane right and he's so good and now now having Calvin Ridley I don't know if you've seen the clips from their camp Calvin Ridley's a freak He is The Jags might have across the board the best skill positions Listen, I don't know if you could say There's a team, like the Chiefs are pretty good Their skill position players stink The Eagles are pretty good But not the skill Yeah, A.J.
Brown, Devontae Smith. Yeah, that's pretty good.
Dallas Goddard, who's their running back? Okay, let's do AFC. Andre Swift.
AFC. Bills are pretty good.
The Bengals. But I don't think it's deep.
Jamar Chase, Tyler Boyd. I'd still go Jax.
Because they're running back. Chargers, pretty good.
Yeah, but we beat the Chargers. Wait, what about the Dolphins? Dolphins have like an insane.
We're in the top five. You know what? You might not even have the best skill positions in Florida.
You know what? That's me. They don't count.
I want to let you believe. Top eight for MVP.
I want to let you believe. What's that? Let Chaps believe.
Yeah. I mean, from years past that go in this high, because even in 2017 after Blake, sorry, when Blake left, essentially, I didn't think that they were going to be good again.
And now, Trevor, baby. Yeah.
What the difference a year makes. And you guys are monitoring the piss, too.
Oh, yeah. You see those urinals? That's huge.
The Jacksonville urinals are amazing. I want to get one at my house.
I wonder how much they are. They're, I think, $2,400.
I'm not going to get one for my house. You pee directly into it.
It tells you how hydrated you are. But how does it charge? Is it like hydrocharged? Or you got to take that bad boy out and plug it into a USB? Maybe it's like a turbine, like a dam.
So the piss going through the turbine actually powers it. I bet that was DARPA, like the military invention people that came up with that.
Yeah. It's great.

By the way, I'm sorry that we jumped down your throat there.

We have a thing on this show where if someone comes and outtakes us,

we get a little upset.

It's territorial.

Yeah.

And you did try to outtake us. I did.

Yeah.

Because that take is wrong.

Yeah.

I came in and tried to impress everybody.

Yeah.

You said it very confidently.

Yeah.

So we had to go against it.

I might sprinkle.

I might sprinkle.

Just for chaps.

Just for chaps saying that? Yeah. He kind of talked me into it.
Yeah. sprinkle.
I might sprinkle. Just for chaps.
Just for chaps saying that?

Yeah.

He kind of talked me into it.

Yeah.

Okay. Chaps, let's do some roasts.
Okay. Are we doing it regular? Any voices you want? Let's start regular, then maybe we get into a voice.
If I read really poorly, I'm going to switch to a voice like FDR. Okay.
You do an FDR? Oh, it's a great FDR. Well, then you should start with FDR.
Okay. The bastard offspring of the Blues Brothers meets the bastard offspring of Wayne and Garth three times weekly.
To rank the random things in groups of four, talk about living in Chicago, berate junior employees, and insult this supervisor for his poor Gar golf performance and inability to achieve and maintain an erection. Oh, five stars.
That feels like it started as a roast of us and just landed with Hank. Right.
To show you how it goes. Yeah.
Not a bad FDR. Not a bad FDR.
Keep it going or go back. One more.
Switch back and forth. One more.
One more. Okay.
Big Cat looks like a guy that's always accidentally sitting on something nasty that's on his chair. Check under Big Cat's desk.
There is definitely boogers. PFT's mustache is a mix of Hitler and my great aunt aunt still not convinced that pft isn't just a bunch of hamsters sitting on each other's shoulders pretending to be a person jake looks like he wears socks to bed not a burn more of an observation sometimes yeah hanks up a lip looks like it left to go find his chin.
Ooh. Yeah, that one was mean.
Yeah. Boogers under the desk is one of the meanest things you could say to someone.
No, it's not. That's normal.
No. If you have a desk and there's not at least a couple boogers.
Oh, I don't do that. No.
No. We had a serial.
We had a guy that used to. Someone used to put their boogers on the wall above the urinal in the old Barstool Sports office.

Yeah.

And it was just...

It looked disgusting.

Didn't Fidelberg say he did that?

Was that fights?

Or maybe he was the one on the investigation.

Yeah, I think he was...

That's a nasty rumor to start about fights.

But I'll go with it.

Yeah, me too.

Fuck.

Yeah, it looked like the aggro crag on that wall.

It was gross.

Yeah.

I read so much better in an accent. Yeah, you do.
Give us Big Time Tommy. Okay.
The sides of the Great Pyramid are 756 feet long, forming a square that could fit nearly 10 football fields. It's nearly the biggest square in the world.
Second to Jake Marsh. Chumley from Pawn Stars recently lost an incredible 60 pounds over the first year.
In an interview, he said his only complaint is that people now mistake him for someone named Max from Pardon My Tale.

Big Cat looks like Warren Sharp if he ate

a donut for every time he promoted

his football preview book.

That's pretty good.

I recently found out that his name's actually not

Warren Sharp. And it's Sharp

because he's a gambler.

For the record, I'm a fucking moron.

I'm not realizing that. No, it's fine.

I was like, wow, this gambling guy, his last name is Sharp.

What an incredible stroke of luck.

Yeah.

Tiger Golf.

PFT looks like Chris Stapleson's younger sister.

Okay.

Chaps looks like the love child of Max Crosby and Kramer.

Ooh.

Okay.

I don't know if I got that. I've seen some Max Crosby.
Yeah, but what. Okay.
I don't know if I got that.

I've seen some Max Crosby. Yeah, but what about Kramer? The racist part? Inward guy.
You can tell Hank's breath smells like shit, because that's the old school way. Hey, that was a good one.
I like that. All right, I'm going to go back to FDR.
All right, okay. Mac's face looks like a turtle shell with a face drawn on it by an overly confident ambidextrous child.
PFT looks like Hulk Hogan after being a quarter cremated. That was a good one.
That was good. Big Cat looks like he makes a fresh pot of sugar for his stellar blue right before he butters his hair every morning.
Buttering my hair. Jake looks like he thanks a person right before being roasted by them.
And Hank looks like he sends his family's updates about his workouts. Yes, facts, factsacts.
I think this is the last one. Okay.
2.30, two days in. You boys look like a diagram of evolution of man.
Jake in the front course, but ultimately a convincing argument that maybe a species can evolve too far for its own good.

Obviously, Max is a knuckle dragging in the back.

That motherfucker is an evolution immune.

Seen a Max figurine of him at the Natural Science Museum.

PFT is a hunter-gatherer, but too slow to hunt and not tall enough to gather any of the good stuff. That was good.
It feels good to get a roast. It feels like therapeutic.
I'm surprised there wasn't better ones about me. I don't look like Kramer.
There's lots of stuff to roast. I think just people watching the YouTube.
Remember when you were depressed for 11 years? Remember when you shaved your beard? Yeah, that was rough. You got creamed by Boris? I think I'm completely cured of banana-induced pinkeye though.
Oh, that's great. Well, that's a huge step.
Yeah, I actually believe in antibiotics now, it turns out. Really? They work.
Science. Is there a banana here? I'm not doing it.
I don't want to reinfect it. Talk a strong game, Chaps.
Oh, I'll do it. I need to raise some money for of VFW that I'm not doing it.
I mean. I don't want to reinfect.
No, no, no. Talk a strong game, chaps.
No, no, no. Oh, I'll do it.
I need to raise some money for a VFW that I'm helping. Okay.
And I'm willing to sell ad space on my yellow helmet. Okay.
To anybody that wants to do it. I like it.
It's a good cause. Yeah.
So if you go to barstoolsports.com slash wins for warriors, you could do that. Love it.
Love it. Chaps, I have one last question for you.
The boys recently went out and played some paintball, competitive paintball against each other. As a combat veteran, I'm just curious to know what you think our combat styles would be like in paintball.
Ooh. I could see.
Billy was part of this as well. Yes, Billy was definitely a part of this.
I feel like Billy's just the kind of guy that just runs around. Like, we call that praying and spraying in the biz.
I think that's kind of what he would do. I could see you just sitting on the sidelines making observations about how everything reminds you of World War II.
Different ones. Hank, I think because he's the supervisor now, he's just doing a little supervising, bringing in different people, trying to get the right teams together to make the camaraderie as good as it can be.
I think you are probably in the rear with the gear, Dan, just eating donuts and shit, waiting to get discharged. I think we have logistics guy and Jake that he's bringing the bombs, bullets, and Band-Aids.
And I think Max was too fat to serve. Oh.
The roads continue. All right, chaps, do you want to guess a number? Yeah, I'd love to.
Okay. Right now? Yeah, go for it.
76. I'll go 69.
91. Max? 20.
Here we go. Six.
Six. Great number.
All right. Thank you, chaps.
As always, everyone go subscribe to ZBT. Appreciate you always coming on.
All right. I love you guys.
Love you, chaps. Oh, yeah.
And we'll see everyone on Friday. Love you guys.
Our brain is the only organ that knows it exists and named itself. Whoa.
Think about that.

Whoa.

Also, new fun facts.

Facts.

Well, I found a fact page, so I'm going to just start doing facts instead of Billy.

Think about that, though.

Whoa.

A brain is the only organ that knows it exists and named itself.

Whoa.

Yeah.

I fucked me up for a while last night.

Yeah.

I feel like I'm on acid.

Yeah. Why did the brain'm on acid.
Yeah.

Why did the brain decide to sleep?

Yeah. Thank you.
Take me away. I don't know what I'm about to say.
I'll say it anyway.

Today is another day to find you.

Shining away.

I'll be coming for your love again.

Shining away.

I'll be coming for your love again.

Take on me.

Take on me. Take me.
Take on me Take me Take on me I'll be gone Let it be on Take on me Somebody likes to say I'm all sending And... All right.
And you're ready to be safe because I'll be taken on me Take on me Take me on Take on me I'll be gone Something is real Sure The mystery of the world Take on me

Take on me

Take me