Jake Arrieta, Mt Rushmore Of Training Camp Cliches Plus 2 Show Announcements For The Future

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On today's Pardon My Take, we have our good friend Jake Arrieta to get us hyped for baseball trade deadline, which is coming up on Tuesday. The hot stove.
The hot stove. No, the hot stove's December.
What's the trade deadline? It's just always hot stove. It's always the hot stove.
It's the hot stove. Buyers or sellers? Baseball writers love talking about that.
Well, you know, back in the day, like Abner Doubleday just used to stand by a stove and talk about trades. What it was was the old water cooler.
That's what the hot stove was. People would gather around the stove for warmth.
Yeah. So we got that.
We have Mount Rushmore of training camp cliches

because we are balls deep in training camp right now.

We have two show announcements, two big show announcements,

so make sure that you tune in.

AWLs want to hear both of them.

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Welcome to Part of My Take, presented by Coors Light, the greatest beer ever created. Today is Monday, August 1st, and I wanted to quote one of the world's greatest philosophers when I say, man, I love football.
The boys got going yesterday, and it's all love. First day of pads, just pushing each other to be great.
That is all. And that is from our good friend josh allen after a little skirmish in buffalo we are that that tweet like hyped me up so much because i was like yes training camp football fights august yeah well it's hot listen breaking news football is fucking back because the hall of fame game is on thursday yes like this is our first week i have a pe I have a pep in my step.
I'm bright-eyed. I'm bushy-tailed.
We just talked about our Hard Knocks plans. Oh, my God.
We're going to be on Grit Week next week, and we're going to have to figure out where to watch Hard Knocks. This is it.
This is it. So I'm going to be so disappointed at about 10 p.m.
Thursday night once I remember, oh, yeah, the Hall of Fame game stinks. Yeah.
But I'm so excited this week. I'm already talking myself into the storylines.
I'm building up like, this is a rivalry game. The Jaguars, the Raiders, Josh McDaniels.
A lot of history between those two franchises. Josh McDaniels and Doug Peterson, Super Bowl rematch.
They've got that bad blood. Damn.
I actually, we've talked about this, how when you get to this time of the year, you start daydreaming about things. I can't remember what I was listening to, but I was like, I think I might sell myself on the Jaguars this year, like take their win total over just by Urban Meyer not being there.
I think it was because I read a quote. Someone was like, yeah, it's a lot different.
Josh Allen actually said it. The other Josh Allen was like, yeah, it's a lot more professional.
It's a lot different. I think the Jaguars are going to get a bounce just by not having that fucking asshole around finger of the year and what else did he win uh he won was it beef of the year beef of the year urban meyer versus accountability accountability yeah two-time uh takey award winner is out and uh yeah i think i'm gonna buy the jaguars i'm calling my shot right now doug peterson is gonna look sick in the jaguars visor yes that is a visor town.
I think if you could pick one place for a visor coach to go,

he's going to fit right in in Jacksonville.

Josh McDaniels is going to look a little bit weird, I think,

in the Raiders' colors.

We'll get used to it after a while,

but Doug Peterson like a duck in water down in northern Florida.

Yes, hell yes.

And we're going to do the Mount Rushmore of training camp cliches,

storyline cliches in a minute here, which is going to be great

because it gets you even more pumped up for football. Oh, breaking moves.
Is this one of the big show announcements? This is one of the big shows. Bill Russell died.
This is the big show announcement. God damn it, Hank.
This is what I was alluding to on Friday. No, rest in peace, Bill Russell.
By the way, we should just say, rest first line. Rest in peace, Bill Russell.
Legend. He's one of those rare cases where it's like when people say as good as he was as a player, 11 championships, he was a better human.
And you're like, yeah, actually, that's like understated. He might be the most Mount Rushmore-able professional basketball player of all time, like on various Mount Rushmores.
Yeah. As far as like what he did, obviously for the Celtics,

he's maybe the most clutch postseason player of all time.

He was 10-0 in elimination games in the playoffs.

Crazy.

Pretty good.

I'll read that this is just the first sentence.

Obviously, it went into a long list of his accomplishments.

We have the real breaking news in a minute.

But yeah, it was with a very heavy heart.

We would like to pass along to all of Bill's friends,

fans, and followers.

And then it said,

Bill Russell, the most prolific winner in American sports history. How incredible is that? And that's a fact.
It's not really debatable either. Are we in the trust tree to say something real quick? A couple things.
One is, shout out to us as a podcast because we did have the takeies last week and we were thinking about who we should give the Tommy Lasorda still alive person of the year in memoriam of John Madden. And Bill Russell's name came up and we're like, you know what? No, because no, that would be bad if he died.
And he did. And he's a legendary human.
And we'd rather have the queen die. Yes.
I think we all would have gone. Yeah, we put the whammy on the queen.

Why couldn't it have been the queen? It should have been her. He was also the first black coach in NBA history.
It wasn't Ime Udoka. No, no.
That's Jay Williams probably was like, fuck, I'm going to trend again. And he also had 40 rebounds in an NBA finals game, which is insane.
The other trust tree thing I want to just point out that I was, I didn't tweet because I I'm a respectful human but the timing of Dana beers becoming Dana vodka waters and Bill Russell passing away it was almost minutes after so I know that Bill Russell was a huge Dana beers fan and you have to think that that had something to do with it I'm sure he was very disappointed it broke his heart yes yes the whole world was upset about Dana Beers becoming, what a fucking pussy that guy is. Unbelievable.
Unbelievable. Unbelievable.
He should have to change all of his names. Just be like, oh yeah, Dana Vodka Sodas now? Get out of here, dude.
That's going to make a difference. Yeah.
I was reading a list of Bill Russell's accomplishments earlier today, and they were all just unreal, including winning the Presidential Medal of Freedom and all that stuff. And then they also tacked on the list.
He also hosted an episode of Saturday Night Live in 1979. And you might think that that's kind of out of place considering the rest of the things on this list.
SNL was fucking funny in 1979. That is a big deal.
But, I mean, yeah, he's a legendary human, legendary basketball player, but legendary human first. Like I said, it's the rare case when everyone does the lip service of, as good of a player he's a better person bill russell that is probably like a hundred times x like what he did for the world for for black people for everyone like it's incredible so retire his number yeah all across the league he was oh i like go hank he's got he's got the mvp trophy right so yeah i number, yes.
Good call, Hank. But what I was saying before that, what I was alluding to on Friday.
We just hijacked our own announcement. But listen, that's perspective.
That's what Bill Russell was like. Bill Russell didn't sign autographs.
You know why? Because he thought athletes shouldn't be looked up to as heroes. He thought the real heroes are the people out there like the teachers, the firefighters, and the podcasters.
And one last thing about Bill Russell. You can tell like what a person means to everyone when like, you know, people die all the time.
But the fact that like everyone who has ever meant anything to basketball or civil rights had something to say almost instantly tells you what type of person it was. Like, you know, Jordan, Barkley,

all these people just come, like, instantly.

It's like, oh, yeah, he meant that much to that many people.

Yeah, I don't think he's an actually guy either.

I don't think anybody has had to take, like,

actually, Bill Russell.

Oh, TJ Reddick, probably.

Yeah, he'll go on there and be like,

well, he played against Bob Cousy.

He played with Bob Cousy. Yeah, he played with Bob.

How good could he be? Okay. RIP Bill Russell.
Moment of silence. Okay.
All right. Live the great life.
88's a great life. Yeah.
Best to ever do it. But yeah, anyway, what I was alluding to on Friday, the big announcement, something we've been working on a long time behind the scenes very excited about it's big you know opportunity for us big opportunity for the AWLs uh we're come we're we're what are we we're seven years old we're food we're part of my cheesesteak our life huh and you yeah what is what is that what is that do you guys oh yeah I'll explain it to you let me explain it toesesteak- That doesn't even make sense.
... is a delivery and pickup-only restaurant brand bringing you craveable cheesesteaks and loaded fries.
When we say that we tested everything, we tested everything, we perfected it, we made it exactly what we think our fans want. You get cheesesteaks, you can get buffalo chicken cheesesteaks, you can get fries, loaded fries, brownie bites.
Chipotle cheesesteaks. And it's everywhere.
200 locations. 200 plus.
And a lot more coming. It goes kitchen.
So I just looked at the list. Honolulu.
Shout out. Yes, Honolulu.
You can get part of my cheesesteak. It's everywhere.
Literally everywhere across the country. If you have a phone, you have access to a part of my cheeseste cheese.
Yes, that's what we're getting. And we did actually taste test it and gave notes on that.
We were like, you know what? This could be tastier. Yes.
And they said, OK, we'll make it tastier. Yes.
And so go to part of my cheesesteak dot com to learn more. And you can order on DoorDash, Uber Eats, Postmates or Grubhub.
And here's the big thing. This does actually just go to us.
Congratulations. We sold out, guys.
Hey, big cat. Congrats.
Yes, this is the Wayne's World moment where we're doing the ads. But if you like us and you want to support us, get part of my cheesecakes.
We do think they are very, very good. It's good food, and it's perfect for football season.
Simple menu. But again, it's like when you eat it, when you take a bite of it, just know it's cha-ching for us.
The cheese steaks are legitimately delicious. They're awesome.
We've been eating them nonstop for the past couple months. We've had a ton of people that tag us on Twitter being like, yo, somebody's ripping you guys off.
We haven't been able to talk about it yet, but I have had several friends. Who was the weirdest person? That told me that I was getting ripped off? Yeah.
My aunt's ex-boyfriend. Okay.
Buddha Ben. Yikes.
I had Rosillo hit me up. What? And I was like, dude, you ordered some late night cheesesteaks? That's not healthy.
Or maybe there was like a targeted ad just because he's so obsessed with us. And then they were feeding him part of my chees ads maybe he just throws out the bread which you can do and just eat the the steak it's healthy you want just gains so a fun fact about these cheesesteaks is billy hand kills every cow that goes into part of my cheesesteaks he strangles them to death with his bare hands so you're getting certified billy treated meat it's beautiful it's like kosher but, but a little different.
Yeah, it's brochure. But nothing like it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. But yeah, we're very excited for it.
We really do think these are great. It's great food, affordable.
It's not, we're not going to jack up the price on everyone. Maybe we should though.
It's football food. We should do like, we should at some point sell like the gold cheese steaks where they put like a little flake of gold in it.
We sell it for $7,000 because then we can have all the influencers try it. Then what we should do is we should jack up the prices after a month.
And then everyone's like, well, look at what's happening to these cheesesteaks. They must be delicious.
They're in such high demand. I have to pay $40 for one.
It's crazy. No, but cheesesteaks are one of my favorite foods in the entire world.
If you listen to us,

you know that we all love cheesesteaks, especially

Jake. He absolutely can't get enough

of the stuff, but they're very, very good.

We hope you guys like them, and if

you don't like them, who should they blame?

Just don't say anything. Who should they blame? No, just don't.
You know what?

It's the old-fashioned.

If you got nothing nice to say, don't say anything.

All right? So just

keep it to yourself. But yeah, it has 6-inch, 12-inch classic cheesesteak, chipotle cheesesteak, buffalo chicken cheesesteak, loaded fries, dessert brownie bites.
It's simple. So we did this on purpose.
They initially came to us, and it was like this long menu, and we're like, no, we know what our fans want. They want let's run the power sweep and just run it until they can stop it it's we're gonna do four things and we're gonna fucking crush it and go to part of my cheesesteak again.com or you can order on door dash uber eats postmates grub hub everywhere 200 plus locations we had a lot more coming yeah and they're so good, and we're pot, and none of us are using the bathroom right now.

Nope.

So there you go.

Perfect tested.

Anything else, Hank?

You'll hear about it some more.

We made some funny videos.

Yeah, there's going to be a lot of YouTube advertisements, videos.

If you're watching the YouTube right now, we'll play one of the commercials.

We'll play one of the commercials.

I will retweet people who order it and say nice things about us.

I will always retweet those compliments.

Billy, you will retweet them.

Billy, I want you on retweet duty.

I will.

I want you on retweet duty. I will.
I want your feed to just be retweets of these. I'll smash them.
Okay. All right.
What else? That's it for right now. That's it.
Pardon my cheesesteak. Find out more.
Find out your location. Order them.
And thank you. Yes.
Thank you to all of our fans. We love you.
I mean, you just got... you can't be like, oh, shit, they sold out.
You just literally got your seventh takey for AWL. Yeah, I mean.
Now's not the time. You don't think that we planned that? Let's be honest.
Did you guys really expect us to not sell out ever? But we just gave you the treat. Now you got to pay it back.
Okay. Second announcement is going to come after Jake Arrieta.
So tune in for for that that's a show announcement uh before we do the mount rushmore i wanted to do a quick uh just i i have some training camp storylines i have a mind-blowing fact that's been on my mind oh hold on let me pull it up though sorry i i didn't know if one of you guys here let me do it i think i know what it is because i i had a will written down too let me do the ad read and then you can do it, okay? All right. Movement Watches, American watchmaker that sells watches as well as sunglasses, other accessories.
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You want to do your woe? Yeah. P-O-T, you want to try and go at the same time? Yeah.
Let's say it together. Ready? Is it a person? Involves a person? One person? It involves a fictional person.
Okay. Then no, it's different.
Okay. Are we two woes? Yeah.
We get a woe off. Max Holm's name is John.
Yeah. Oh, yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
More of a pervert. It's John Maxwell Homa.
Yeah. Maxwell's a total pervert.
Jack Homa. Yeah.
Yeah. Jack Homa.
Jacoma. Yeah.
Jacoma. That's crazy.
Yeah. No, he was looking extra pervy this weekend.
I saw a couple screen grabs. People were like, was he playing in some fake tournament? Did he win? He was dialed in yesterday.
No, FNAL won. Of course he to back.
Oh, he went back to back? Yeah, if you can't beat Finau, come on, Max. He had two bogeys in two weekends.
In two weekends total? In the past two weekends. No, Finau.
He's dialed in. Oh, he's dialed in.
Okay, he's playing the best golf of his career. So remind us to bet on Finau in the next majors, is what you're saying.
Yeah. He's hot my whoa is on today that's right today that would be july 31st as we're taping it uh-huh this is the day that george jetson was born on in the tv show the jetsons whoa whoa that is and if you watch the jetsons we're like journeying through outer space future conquering other solar we have the exact same problems problems.
We're dealing with the exact same shit that the Jetsons were dealing with when it came out in like 1970 or whatever. That is a whoa.
Nothing's changed but whoa, George Jetson. That is a big time whoa.
Welcome to Earth. Fuck.
Should we hear another whoa? Yeah, sure. Let's just go woes.
It's a Jetsons and Flintstones fan theory. Your brain is full of woes.
It is. I just search for Woes.
You walk around just going, I'm pretty sure they did some crossover episodes too. Yeah, there's a theory that the Flintstones live in a post-apocalyptic prehistoric land on Earth while the Jetsons live in the sky.
Bill has been spending way too much time on Reddit. Whoa.
Yeah. I actually like that a lot.
Yeah, that's a good one, that's nuts, right? Yeah, that is a nuts one. Not to be horny, but Jane Jetson should get it.
Put on the list. Okay.
She was a fox. All right, so I wanted to run down.
You kidding me? Before we do our Mount Rushmore, I wanted to just rapid fire go through some actual training camp storylines that are going on right now and get just let's just quick. Hot takes.
First up, Kyler Murray. It got taken out of his contract.
He doesn't need to study huge win for him. I think that's even worse now.
So much. I think it's worse because it's like, okay, this was such a colossal fuck up and it's so embarrassing that we're going to coddle you by taking that out.
So now Kyler, Kyler's freed. Yes.
Kyler can, he can do whatever he wants right now. Yes, yes.
He's completely freed. Debo Samuel got an extension.
DK got an extension. DK got paid.
It feels like everyone's getting their extensions, which is, you know. Well, the Debo extension per rap sheet, he had an all-time tweet when he announced it.
He said, Sources, the 49ers and star weapon, Debo Samuel, not wide receiver weapon, Debo Samuel, are in agreement on a massive contract extension, keeping him in San Francisco for the foreseeable future. The drama is over.
The bridge is rebuilt. The bridge is rebuilt, guys.
Was he a hold in? Yeah, he was holding in. There's no drama.
That's my favorite part about these new hold outs that are actually hold ins where the guy shows up. He just doesn't practice.
Yeah, he's just not happy. He's there.
He's just not going to practice until you give him a new contract. I miss the days of a true holdout.
I do too. I'm not showing up.
Brett Favre not showing up until the last day of training camp. I miss the old, like, TO holdouts.
Yeah. The ones that were, like, really intense.
Yeah. But they had, like, the media staked out outside their house.
Ed Werder on the road reporting from some guy's driveway. Yes.
That's the kind of hold I want to see. These kids these days are too cut.
They're soft. They don't know how to execute a proper holdout.
You're absolutely right. Who was the other guy? Who was the guy who was like on Brett Favre watch? It was, I mean, Ed Werder.
No, I know it was, but it was the other guy. Ed Werder was the best because they'd send him out to like the sticks of Mississippi and he'd just be standing at the end of a dirt road for seven days at a time, and he'd just be standing out there getting bit by mosquitoes, and his face would start to turn red, and he would sweat in the sun, and by the end of it, his entire body was just sunburned.
But it was the lawyer guy, too. Who was it? What was the lawyer guy on ESPN? Cossack, maybe? No.
I don't know. I just remember old Eddie W.
being in charge of that. No, there was another guy who was on, like, he was, like, best friends with Bus Cook, and he was always there, too.
This is going to fucking drive me insane. Jake, you're going to have to try to find it.
Ryan Smith? No, no, no, no. He's the legal analyst.
No. I'm talking, like, we're talking 15 years ago.
Way back in the day. Come on.
John Barr? No. Fuck.
Might have just been... I think there was another guy.
Did you just invent a lawyer? Is this like... No, there was another guy.
Fear and loathing in Las Vegas? No, there was another guy. They definitely had a legal analyst.
Yeah. And his name is...
There's so many people yelling at their... His name is escaping me now, and it's going to fucking drive me.
Roger Kosick was a legal analyst, but that's not... Maybe it is.
It might have been Roger. I thought that was him.
Yeah, yeah. It might have been him.
That name sounds familiar. Yeah, this guy.
Yeah. He was always on the air when something was happening.
I think he was there too, yeah. Alright, so here's some quick other stories.
Tua threw a perfect spiral. 65 yards in the air.
Air yards. Huge to Tyreek.
So that... Basically, the Dolphins are fixed.
That was all they needed was to tweet one of those. And then right after practice, all the guys on the team were like, man, this offense is going to be fun.
Yeah. And I agree.
I agree. I think it's going to be fun either way.
Yeah. Baker is struggling.
Okay. But that's okay.
That's fine. Sam Darnold is currently winning the battle, even though I think it's Baker's job.
The Steelers, I don't know what's going on because Mitch has the job, but then there was a report that Mason Rudolph might be winning the job. They're just trying to light a fire under Mitch on that one.
Yeah, and then Kenny's there too. So I don't know what's going on, but I just know that Mike Tomlin will somehow find a way to get the Steelers to 10 wins.
It's going to be Mitch. Yeah.
I think it's going to be Mitch this year. Kenny Pickett waiting in the wings.
Jerry Jones had a great Jerry Jones. Comeback player of the year, Mitch Trubisky.
Ooh, I like that. No, Jameis.
Yeah. It's Jameis.
Jameis. For sure, Jameis.
Joe Burrow might be. Could he be qualifying for it? He had appendectomy.
Yeah, appendectomy. I don't think so.
Yeah, no, he should qualify. He should, but I don't think he will.
He went back-to-back. Didn't he win it last year? Yeah.
Yeah, so he went back-to-back. I'm rooting for that.
I'm going to bet that. I mean, dude, he got his appendix out.
Probably not even offered. Yeah, his appendix got out.
I don't know that that works. All right, so what we got to do is we got to offer it, and then we got to make a huge deal about the appendix.
Do a whole report about how he almost died. Dude, people die.
Yeah. No, people do die.
No, it's actually like yes so last year he tore his acl that's that's a tough injury to come back from but actually having your your body explode on you that's way worse yeah people do die go ahead well fact you can't go to antarctica if you have your appendix whoa whoa i don't think you can go up in like a space station either right yeah that's just without that can't be No, no, no, because they don't have your appendix. Whoa.
Whoa. I don't think you can go up in like a space station either, right?

Yeah.

That's just that. Without-

That can't be true.

No, no, no, because they don't have enough medical technology down there,

so if it starts to rupture, you're going to die.

Yeah.

Without surgery or antibiotics, more than 50% of people with appendicitis die.

Holy shit.

50% kill rate.

It was a big killer back in the day.

Joe Burrow just stared death in the eyes and said,

Holy fuck.

You better bring your A game, motherfucker.

50%.

Thank you. Holy shit.
50% kill rate. It was a big killer back in the day.
Joe Burrow just stared death in the eyes and said,

you better bring your A game, motherfucker.

50%. Again, that's without any doctors or anything.

But 50%, that's crazy.

Do we all still have our appendixes intact here?

As far as I know.

I've got mine.

Yeah.

We probably shouldn't go on Grit Week with our appendixes.

Should we get them out? Yeah. Well, yeah, we do have that big height coming up.
Yeah. Yeah.
It's true. Everest equivalent.
All right. Jerry Jones decided to – I love when Jerry Jones inserts himself in any way.
But he basically was – that's you, Bonk. He basically came out and was like, yeah, Zeke has to be our feature back.

So he's basically playing coach, which, again, that's what Jerry Jones is there to do.

Yeah, I love it when Jerry Jones says that.

Mike McCarthy just watches Jerry Jones' latest press conference.

He's like, well, I have to redo my entire game plan right now because the real coach stepped in.

Right.

Jerry Jones is basically like he bought a very expensive boat,

but he lives in a place that's nowhere near water. He's like, I got to find a way to use this.
He's working remotely. He spent so much money on Zeke, and he's like, we have to use him to get my money's worth, even if it's not the best option.
Yeah, you do. What do you think Jerry Jones would do if Ezekiel Elliott was on the bench? Pollard would probably be starting over him, right? If Pollard gets a lion's share of the touches, he scores 15 touchdowns.
Jerry Jones is still going to be freaking out. Yes.
Because he's like, you need to make my money spend here, buddy. Yes.
Exactly. Did you see the Gardner Minshew story? Yeah.
Gardner Minshew lived in a bus outside of a gym this offseason. He connected the bus to the gym's electricity to power his fridge, AC, and cooking station.
He used the gym's bathroom all summer and showered out in the open wearing compression shorts i don't know why they included the last line of that into the headline because he definitely did it yeah like he definitely showered outside nude because you can also shower in the gym's bathroom yes they have a shower there too yeah but he had to you know he had to he did a grit summer um and then speaking of grit, the last one I had was just a reminder

that the Lions are hard knocks, so Dan Campbell's going to be awesome.

I also saw that Lions players are now signing kneecaps, which is great.

That's awesome.

Dan Campbell, he was doing up-downs and push-ups with the guys.

Lions should get comeback franchise of the year.

If they win six games, we need to grade that on a scale. In fact, let's start having the conversation right now.
Dan Campbell, Coach of the Year. Yes, Coach of the Year, Dan Campbell.
If they win five games, give it to him. Doug Peterson might as well.
Actually, Urban Meyer should win it. If the Jaguars win eight games, Urban Meyer should win Coach of the Year by getting fired.
He made the Jaguars good. Yeah, if he doesn't finger a 21-year-old's butthole this year, you can say, like, that's a step in the right direction.
Yes, good job, Urban Meyer. Okay, so that was a little, you know, like, appetizer to our Mount Rushmore.
We're going to do the Mount Rushmore of training camp cliches, cliche storylines. Who won the last one? I didn't check.
I didn't either. Not us.
We were on vacation. It wasn't Jake? I was on vacation No it was us Oh it was You guys won? No it was us as a team We lost Oh okay I was saying reiterating That his internet went out But still a team Yeah yeah yeah True Yeah So who won? Glad to have you back Billy Yeah I believe you guys won I'll double check Oh okay You know what I actually did see it You're right we did win I forgot for a second Oh okay i could double check for you momentary lapse of of mindfulness there so i guess do you want to go first big cat yeah uh yeah so we yeah we'll go first as a team i i did miss you guys being on vacation for a week sometimes they like think about the show um and just like conversations that would happen and that didn't happen so it's good to to be back.
What? No, I understand what you're saying. Yeah.
I was specifically, I started, I watched The Bear over the last week. Good show.
Very good show. I'm not like, so here was the fake conversation I had in my head.
I like The Bear as a show. I'm not a huge food guy.
And then I was waiting for Hank's face to be like, face to be like huh yeah right exactly meaning like i'm not a big like chef guy but like he i was actually like literally sitting in my house thinking about saying i'm not a big food guy and hank being like yeah yeah you hank and i did some we did some you were getting mad at me on your vacation i was like you motherfucker hank and i talked about the show the show a little bit when he came down on Wednesday night. And we just kind of like, he was telling me how when he opens up his computer sometimes, old episodes of part of my takes start playing.
No, my car, Bluetooth, like it connects to my iTunes and like old, the mix downs will play. So it's like the before we like three, two, one clap.
And I'll just get a random conversation that we had from like april 2020 or something and it's usually us just yelling at hank or something like hank's trying to ruin the show already before we get started yeah like we like to get pre-mad before we do these episodes yes like get the competitive juices flowing a little lather up yeah we lather ourselves up like hank just gave us a look yeah that's a that's a big topic that we like to have that's funny that it just randomly plays plays. Shout out the OG, Robert Little.
Last Sports Online. Some of the conversations are wild.
Alright, 3, 2, 1. Just get right into it.
Alright, so we're going to go first. Sure, whatever you want.
Let's have Hank and Bubba go second. Okay.
And then Jake and Billy will go third. Both Jake and Billy.
Yeah. Jake and Billy will go third.
All right. I think our one-one is very easy, and that is, it's the first one I sent.
Yeah, the one that we- Yeah. It's players in the best shape of his life.
So there's always one player who's like, this guy has finally done it. He's in the best shape of his life.
It could also be like a combo of best shape of your life or added 15 pounds of muscle. It could go either way.
Lost 15 pounds of fat, added 15 pounds of muscle. Just the player who everyone is talking about, he's in the best shape of his life.
Watch out. Yeah, he changed his diet this offseason.
So he's going like shrimp. He's going uh chicken and fish vegetarian yes so he cut out red meat he finally he finally got a nutritionist yep that could even it could be as simple as that he's been taking his body seriously yeah this off season yeah or yeah stopped eating mcdonald's yep that's like like yeah they usually will be coupled with a story of like this player used to drink like six liters of soda a They stopped.
Best shape of their life. Yep, cut out soda entirely.
It's a good pick. Thank you.
Thanks, Hank. We kind of alluded to this earlier when we were talking about the Steelers, but a coach saying there's a QB competition when one guy is clearly way better.
Yep, yep. I like that.
It doesn't matter. Yeah, every position is up for competition.
It doesn't matter what the last name you got on the back of your jersey is it could be trubisky it could be rudolph yeah doesn't matter it's all up for competition yes yeah like sam darnold is is beating baker right now but baker's going to be the starter without a doubt but it's up for competition but it's up for competition you're right you're right okay jilly uh we're gonna go with uh holdouts being a distraction yeah the d word yeah the d word i don't think anybody actually gets distracted during training camp that's probably the one time of the season where it's impossible to be distracted if you're a player because you're literally just trying to keep your job yeah that's a good one too because it's always uh you always get a couple quotes from some of the veterans being like, we care about the guys who are here right now. Yeah, no.
You care about your all-star. Yeah, right, exactly.
They're like, all we can control is who we got in this locker room right now. Meanwhile, they're texting every night being like, Debo, will you please come back? Yeah, but then what the media will do on that one is they'll just see the quote of this guy says I care about the players who are here, and they'll be like, this guy doesn't miss that guy.
Yeah. And they're always wildly wrong about it.
And you'll have the once every 10 years or five years where someone does the fucked up thing where they actually criticize a guy. And it's like the rule number one is don't fuck with someone else's money.
But you always get that randomly, and it's always great to see. It's like, see it's like you fucked up okay second second one we're going with is uh some sort of weird mode of transportation like someone pulls up in a crazy truck golf cart you know packers on bikes they do that every year yeah I know I like that there's always one player that pulls up in one of those weird three-wheel spiders.
You know, the ones that you only buy them to wreck them eventually. T-Rexes.
Oh, didn't AB pull up in the back of a Brinks truck? And a hot air balloon. Yeah, and then someone who pulled up.
Who on Indy did. Was it TY pulled up in an Indy car, I think? Something like that.
Yeah. There's always a player that still drives their old car,

and then the media writes five stories about that.

Like, wow, can you believe this guy still drives his 2002 Honda?

Or the GM trades up and passes two Hall of Fame guys.

Well, I was talking about Alfred Morris.

I think Alfred Morris is still driving his 97 Honda Accord.

Okay, next pick.

Good pick.

We're going to go with a fat lime and catch a pun at the end of practice. Oh, yeah, that's good.
That's good. Good for morale.
Good for morale. Let's everyone out early.
I like that. And if he drops it, they usually give him another chance, and they're like, okay, the coach doesn't want to be out here either.
Yes, yes. That's a good pick, Hank.
Okay. Bubba.
Good pick, Bubba. PFT, where do you want to go with this? I got a lot.
I like the first one that I sent to you.

And you also had it on your list.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Okay.

That's combined with what happens beforehand.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Exactly.

So if there's a fight, then right afterwards, it's, man, these guys just can't wait to start

hitting somebody else.

They're sick of hitting each other.

Yes.

They want some new blood out there.

Yeah.

The fight boils over and everyone's like, oh, should we be worried about this? No, no, no. You don't understand.
This is camp. These guys, they're ready.
They just want to hit anything else. Yeah, they're sick of each other.
Yeah. I love the fight because the fights usually always involve a 300-pound lineman and a 150 wide receiver.
You know what I mean? It's always just a crazy mismatch you're like what are you doing there's usually like a cornerback that will instigate it yeah and you know cornerbacks they like to talk a lot and so they keep talking to an offensive lineman from like iowa who then grabs him by the face mask and then slams him through the crust of the earth yes yes um okay for our next one i like all right uh yeah i i know what i we both sent it and we sent it back to each other as well so um i the qb that's ready to take the next step that's finally learned the offense so it's usually second year and it's like this guy feels comfortable with the terminology he knows thebook. Everyone's kind of fitting together.

The system makes sense to him.

It's usually the second or third year where offensive coordinator

and QB are together.

That's always a great storyline.

Yeah, it's good to have some familiarity in the offseason,

not have to learn everything on the fly.

I also think that in this case, this year is not so much a second-year

quarterback I'm looking at for this one.

I feel like Derek Carr is that guy this year.

It's like this is the year that Derek Carr takes that next step. Josh McDaniels will unleash Derek Carr.
Yes, absolutely. Yes.
Okay. MVP, 2,500.
Oh. Wow.
Jersey Jerry. Is that an official pick? Yeah, Jersey Jerry gave it to me.
I put it in. It's the first future I have.
MVP of the whole league? Yeah. The whole – you know it's not AFC, NFC.
Listen, I trust Jersey Jerry, and this was the pick he gave me, and I put it in, and now I'm just speaking it out loud. Okay.
And we'll be rooting for it. You know, his name is Derek Carr.
It seems a little crazy. Yeah, yeah.
Well, yeah, I get it. Okay.
And I was just saying, like, this is Derek Carr that we're talking about. Right.
Derek Carr. Right.
We're talking about the same Derek Carr. With one of the best wide receivers.
Actually.

And one of the best offensive coordinators.

And they had a lot of promise last year.

I'm actually going to get my MVP pick.

I'm going to.

Plus I'm hunting.

This is another thing I was thinking about.

Just daydreaming about football.

I think I'm going to pick Russell Wilson.

Because it's like.

You know that the narrative's there.

That's insane.

Why?

No.

That's way less insane than fucking Derek Carr.

Yeah.

Actually, I like the Broncos to win the AFC, too.

If the Broncos are incredible, Russell Wilson will get all the credit.

Yeah.

All of it.

Everything.

True.

Yeah, you're right.

I don't think they're going to be.

Also, Peyton Manning, his first year in Denver, what happened?

He went fucking nuts.

Exactly.

True.

All right.

Because he had, what's his name?

His OC.

Fucking former Adam Gase.

Genius.

Boy wonder.

We're going to go, speaking of Russell Wilson, he was a two-sport athlete.

It's just great to talk about football with the guys.

It is.

Football's back.

We're going to go with a two-sport athlete that made the training camp roster, but everyone

knows he's going to get cut.

Okay.

Or, you know, like Tim Tebow.

Yeah.

Like a high profile. Maybe like sometimes it's like a sprinter or something.
Yeah. But it's like it's a news for a week and you're like, oh, shit, like this would be crazy.
And then he gets cut. Yeah.
Three days later. Yeah.
Always fun. Fun one where you're like, yeah, he's usually like the first guy get cut.
Yeah. Yeah.
But he ran like a nine four. Yeah.
He has one day. He has one day.
They need to bring back Tebow this year. Can we just put our cards on the table and say we miss Tebow? I miss Tebow.
You guys all miss Tebow definitely, right? I just would like to see him try to block more. Yeah, that's what I mean.
Those preseason highlights were laugh out loud funny when he was just getting run over by everybody. Yes, that part definitely.
Bring back Tebow. We're going to go with...
You have two picks now. Two picks.
Our first one is going to be... Your internet's cutting out on you.
A player showing up fat. Ooh, yeah.
That's one. Eddie Lacy.
And it's like, is he fat? Leonard Fournette. Leonard Fournette was the newest one.
Yeah. But guys showing up too fat.
Bad angle season. Yeah, first couple days of camp is always bad angles.
You get a picture of someone, you're like, is he fat? I haven't seen a lot of follow-up on what happened to Leonard Frenette because I would assume that if he really was fat, we'd still be talking about it, right? Or was there just like a bad report that was out there? Well, no, he got the lucky bounce of there was reports that he was fat and it was like a week before camp started. And that's just you can just lose 10 pounds of water weight in a second.
So then he shows up fine. It's the guys who show up for the first day and it's like, ooh, that's not great.
Yeah. The conditioning tests are so funny because they're the easiest things ever.
I remember I used to do it. I used to do the Bears conditioning test and I passed it every year.
They're just basically saying, are you a fat fuck? Did you actually get in the gym once in the offseason? Yeah. I drank an entire bottle of Mad Dog and then went out and did the conditioning test, the Albert Hainsworth one that he failed.
It's very easy to do. Very easy.
Very easy. Okay, you guys have another one? Yeah, it's going to be a rookie saying something out of context or going viral for just being a rookie, like Jamar Chase last year.
He was talking about catching the balls, and I was like he's gonna be a boss and yeah unreal yep i like that rookie saying something that people go crazy about yes all right good pick uh we're gonna go positivity yeah thanks about to blow this one sweet dick uh no this is my favorite favorite Common storyline. One of the best ones every year.
It's a star quarterback banging his mom's best friend. Yeah, that's a good one.
That's a good one. Classic.
That is a very good one. Very enjoyable storyline.
I wish there was more follow-up from that, too. Yeah, the media's dropped the ball on that one.
I know. No one has asked him one question about that.
Or the other players. And we have insiders that go to the camp.

Yeah, nobody has spoken up.

And they haven't been able to get anything.

It's disgusting.

No wonder our country's in the shape it's in right now.

Billy, anything?

I plead the fifth.

Okay.

All right.

All right, let's go with our last one.

What do we got?

Yeah, the last one, the late round or undrafted guy who's turning heads. He's turning heads, and they compare him to a Hall of Famer.
Like, this guy's turning heads, not to compare him to Lawrence Taylor, but you can see, like, some physical similarities. Yes.
And then the guy ends up getting cut. Yes, yes, where it's just like, okay.
And you can also throw him into – he's very similar. That's usually a hard knocks guy too.
Yeah. Well, it's a combo guy because it's also the guy who's most likely to return a punt or a kickoff in the fourth quarter of a preseason game.
And everyone's like, whoa, weapon. And then he's cut.
Yeah. You know, there's always a guy on defense that recovers like a crazy amount of fumbles during the preseason.
And as we know about fumble luck, there's a lot of luck that goes into it. But they're like, this guy, I don't know something about it.
He's just got a nose for the football. No, the ball just happened to fall near his feet three times.
When all the scrubs were playing. Yeah, and they're like, wait, how come this guy got cut? He recovered three fumbles.
I do love the fourth quarter highlights where you're like, oh, shit. Yeah.
Well, they are playing all backups, so context matters. Yeah.
I was going to say, I think Victor is like the only person to ever actually work out from being like nasty in the preseason yeah like when he went off in that game and he had like three touchdowns everyone's like holy fuck this guy's insane until Kyle Slaughter this year yeah that's probably going to happen alright things we missed honorable mentions we also had a homecoming guy. Basically, if he played within 300 miles, high school or college, of where the team is playing, there's always a storyline like this guy.
It's a homecoming for him. Yep.
Local kid makes good. Yeah.
There's always a comically, wildly inaccurate kicker. This year it was on the Jags.
I think he hit a coach in the head with a missed field goal that just does like cartoonish stuff like oh he's uh he's hit three uprights and then he got his foot stuck in a bucket and fell down and a bottle of water fell on his head when the coach says uh everyone has to earn their spot in this team that's just bs because like i feel like entering training camp 45 of the 53 spots are locked correct correct um the guy who's fully healthy for the first time in his career or since his rookie year, Saquon this year, where it's like, I finally had a full offseason where I wasn't injured. Watch out.
And usually that guy just gets injured again. I love the players that show up still injured this season from a lingering injury that they had last year.
So they got held out in October, November, maybe played one game in December with a hamstring issue. And then coach is like, we're going to work him in slowly here in August and make sure he's healthy.
We don't want that hamstring to keep being an issue. And then guess what? The hamstring is still an issue.
Yeah, still an issue. I like the guy who unlocks the system.
Like the player who they write about and they're like, this guy was made for this offensive system. And it's just some like, it's usually some slot receiver.
It's like, this is the perfect fit. They finally have this piece.
If we're talking system talk, just the player saying like, this offense is going to be fun. Yeah.
Watch out. Yeah.
Yeah. New offensive system.
Holy shit. Watch out.
I thought there's always a guy every year in hard knocks that you just overhype way too much and then overdraft in fantasy. Yep.
For sure. Yep.
It's usually like a wide receiver who just makes a couple good plays. Yeah, for a while it was like a wide receiver.
Yeah, no, you're right. You can actually go through the list of guys on each hard knocks.
And you're like, oh, that's why I drafted him. Whoops.
I like the chemistry that starts to develop. If you have a new wide receiver in town, it's like, oh, they've been throwing together all offseason.
They've developed a great chemistry. Different energy in the building.
Different energy. Energy has changed.
Yeah. Usually someone either got added or someone was taken out, and it's like, oh, yeah, different energy.
I like we got a great group of guys. It's always about like just an awesome group of guys in the locker room.
Yep. And we think if we all work together and pull in the same direction, we can go on to do some pretty great things this year.
Yes. Backup quarterbacks just doing weird stuff.
Yeah. Minshew, showering in compression shorts.
Yeah. Backup quarterbacks having a moment for sure.
And then the basics are always fun. Like the defense is ahead of the offense.
Offense is ahead of the defense. Just so you know like I think I saw one quote this year was like we got to start.
Oh it was actually Christopher McCaffrey talking about Baker Mayfield. He's like we got to start winning more sessions.
Yeah that's interesting. We got to start winning these.
I like this quarterback finally has weapons. I like that one.
Yep. I've been saying that a lot to myself about this offseason.
Yeah. But yeah, just finally, you know what? He's got a weapon.
He finally has a true number one. He's going to be unlocked.
Yeah. Yeah.
Unlocking anything. I love unlocking guys.
Unlocking in preseason is what it's all about. Anything else? Hank, you got that's i'm trying to think if there's any the patriots never really have anything coming like big out of training camp yeah it's just like they're still good yeah the bears usually just have some guy that everyone got excited about got drafted and then he just is injured all the time like ryan pace actually left a burning bag of shit shit on everyone's doorstep with Tevin Jenkins, who was supposed to be like, holy shit, he got him in the second round, he's just been injured the whole time.
Yeah, I feel like the lineman punt thing is like the only, like that will always come out in the Patriots. Is there ever a story that comes out of the Patriots camp where it's like Belichick was really pissed off at people today? Like bad practice.
No, just enjoy like the the the reporters at live with we talked about the last show but they live tweet the scrimmages and like the five on fives and stuff that like mean nothing and aren't even they're like fifth pass of the day got deflected intercepted oh shit oh you know what I really love when they're they're doing those live tweets and all the reporters at once say like so and so usually like the second wide receiver on the team just made one of the most spectacular catches you'll ever see in your life and then you watch it and it's just like okay that's kind of cool but then everyone always talks about that one catch that they made George Pickens is that guy this year I've seen so much stuff about George Pickens and I think he is going to be very good but people are talking like he's the greatest wide receiver of all time he might be four. After four training camp practices.
He might be. Last one I had was just the team goes bowling.
That's always fun. Or plays mini golf.
Yeah. That's always a fun little moment.
I feel like teams, though, don't go to, like, camp anymore. You know what I mean? They don't stay away.
They don't do sleepaway camp. Mostly.
Maybe it's a COVID thing. But, like, aren't most teams just in their facility now? The Panthers are doing it.
They're somewhere else. I guess the Cowboys are in Oxnard.
I don't think the Bears are. I got a who's back.
Rookie Haircuts. Yeah.
Are they allowed to do that anymore? I don't know. Also, don't they do talent shows a lot too? Yeah, the Rookie Talent Show.
They always do an impression on the coach. Are we mixing up hard knocks moments with training camp? Hard knocks is a documentary about training camp.
I know, but it's usually what comes out of a coach. Are we mixing up Hard Knocks moments with training camp? Well, Hard Knocks is a documentary about training camp.
I know, but like it's usually what comes out of the media. No, but this comes out as well.
Okay. Yeah.
We're also kind of the media. Yeah, we are the media.
Fuck the media. The media's always making their own cheesesteaks and pushing shit on us.
Do you ever think about just maybe killing yourself, Billy? Because you are the liberal media. What the fuck? You are who you hate? You walk up one day and look in the mirror.
I'm the biggest lib. Yeah.
Three-time winner. Billy always tells himself, learn to code.
All right. This has got me very, very excited for football.
I'm super excited for football. Oh, my God.
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Sling.com slash Barstool start watching free live tv today sling.com slash barstool start watching free live tv today okay who's back of the week Hank uh my who's back of the week is people talking about celebrities using private jets oh yeah we talked about this on this show uh must have been last week with kylie jenner and i don't know if it was in response to that maybe it was like a krist kardashian thing like trying to get all the bad pr off kylie but a list a top 10 list got released of the celebrities that use the most carbon emissions and like take private jets and private flights the most it's a good list leo on on there? No, here. I got the list.
Leo's not on there. Leo keeps fucking telling us about the planet.
It's Travis Scott, who's Kylie's husband. What were you going to say, Billy? No, I thought Hank was about to say, the Brazilian president retweeted Leonardo DiCaprio and was going after him for his private jet use.
Oh, because he wants to keep tearing down the rainforest. Yeah.
Okay. Oprah.
Okay. The big O.
She's allowed. She gets a pass.
Mark Wahlberg. Uh-huh.
He has to stay ready. He has to stay ready.
He has to be on planes. Okay.
All right. Maybe I'll say for Mark Wahlberg, stop taking private plane all the time time or maybe sleep in one day a week and

then you can take the private kim k okay okay blake shelton okay not blake of the year material our blake of the year takes fucking the Saudi prince's private plane that thing gets a lot of people around steven spielberg okay whoa okay a rod it deserves on it we've been on a air a rod beautiful plane it is an unbelievably incredible plane i'm not gonna if i had that plane i would probably cruise it around as well if i had that plane i would fucking take it to the bodega like i would go down the street i'd be like yeah let me hop on this real quick uh jay-z and beyonce floyd mayweather that's not fair to combine them into one no i actually did that myself they actually were both on the list next to each other okay oh wow uh wait who has more i think probably beyonce yeah i think beyonce was three and jay-z was four uh floyd mayweather and then number one surprise people because she's been outspoken Oh, was Taylor Swift. Oh no! She's taken, it's only been since January and her private jet and then her PR team said that she lends the plane out and it's not her on all these planes but 110 trips since January and like the average trip is like 80 minutes.
Haters gonna hate hate, hate, hate, hate. That's a fact.
But yeah, the Swifties are, you know, I'm never, they're a psychopath. And they're, you know, clapping back.
Like our former co-worker? Yeah, I mean, there's just all of them. Yeah, you know, Swifties go hard.
Mike Ravaport does go hard for Taylor Swift. And they're on their high horse.
They always like to, you know, prop her up. You know, say she's the queen.
He's always tweeting snake emoji out. Did you say prop her up or prop her up? Prop her up.
Prop her up?

Like the lads.

Like the Conor McGregor whisker?

No, like prop.

Whiskey?

Prop.

Prop her up?

Her up.

Is it a plane pun you're using?

Prop?

Is that a plane thing?

Oh, a prop plane.

Oh, they don't use props.

No, I know they don't.

They fly with Jets twin engine usually.

I know.

Yeah.

Listen, this is one of those things that, well, maybe they should probably use less planes,

especially if they're going to—

Hypocrites, fuck hypocrites, right?

Like, if people are—that's what I was saying.

If Leo's on that list, I'm going to be mad.

I was shocked that Al Gore wasn't on that list because usually he is included on those.

But the anti-Swifties, you know, they're having a few good days.

The Swift boaters?

But what I'll say again is we've been enough to to fly private every now and then it is pretty fucking awesome like if you're if you if you have the means to do it like these people do i would probably it's probably the one like the coolest rich thing you can i remember the first time that you flew on dave's plane somewhere and i was like i would never like i I'm a coach guy. I'm highly coach.
I'm a coach's son. And then you just happened to be on the next trip.
And then I got on the next one. I was like, yeah, you know what? All my previous concerns completely after what it fucked the environment.
So you just show up and you don't have to go to an airport and then you just land and then there's a car to pick you up. Oh, okay.
Yeah. So just don't end up on the top 10 list.
No, just don't be a hypocrite. Like, what I'm saying right now, I would be hypocritical to be like, how could these fucking people do it knowing that, like, for college football's show, we, like, fly on private or rough and rowdy? I'm saying flying private is fucking sweet, so I'm not going to judge anyone.
Okay, I think that every plane, every private plane, if you're on this list, you should have to carry bombs on it. Not like in a suitcase.
I mean, the plane should be armed. So there's a chance of a giant mishap happening while you're on the plane.
Okay. Just add a little bit of danger to it.
Okay. Okay.
It also is funny. It would be funny if it was...
I'm trying to think what school would be... Who's had a bunch of coaches coaching carousel? Youngst like Youngstown, if Florida was on there, the Florida Gators on there for one

of the top, you know, users.

I that's really what it is.

That's we have to defend private planes because without private planes, college football crumbles

and the coaching searches.

Nothing happens.

Coaching searches, recruiting, all this shit.

Yep.

Yeah.

Okay.

Good.

Who's back?

Yeah.

And then Jack Young top or Jack Homa. Sorry.
Jack Homa. Top 25 finish.
Jack Homa did. So he's back.
Maxwell is such a perfect. I think Max only comes out in the majors.
I think that's when it's Max. Who needs to make the cut.
It's Jack when it's at the Fortnite challenge. He should go back and forth.
Okay, your who's back, PFT. Okay, my who's back.
I okay you're who's back pft okay my who's back um i've actually addressed i think most of my who's backs already so i had to grom to grom's making his his first start for the mets on tuesday yeah that's coming up he's yeah he's it's coming up later haven't we haven't addressed it yet he's back uh teaser yeah no teaser for later to grom is back and then i also had uh who's back the motherfucking nfl is back so and uh Tony Fanale for later. DeGrom is back.
And then I also had, who's back?

The motherfucking NFL is back.

So back.

And Tony Fanale is back.

Tony Fanale is back to back.

To back.

Is what he is right now.

He's going to win again.

He's back to back to back.

You guys would have been taking a lot more private jets if you had won the lottery.

But that, unfortunately.

That's true.

Yeah.

So losing.

For me, losing is back.

So I don't know what else I can do, but I paid $500 in lottery that's saying when i actually more it was a it was a bad investment what can i say i thought it was going to win i'd already started to spend the money um turns out steven che absconded with the winning ticket and now he's just he's mia so if you if you get eyes on steven che he has the winning lottery my problem um with with the same with 50-50 is that I went and bought 500 tickets,

and I was like, well, but the next one's probably going to win.

Yeah.

So then I ended up buying like $700 tickets.

I also, shout out our good friend Biz.

I think Biz actually thought we were going to win.

He called me like two hours before and was like, we got to strike a deal.

And I was like, okay.

I mean, that guy's hustler. Yeah, he was like, if I win, I'll give you 50 or $25 million.
And I was like, let's make it 50, dude. Why? Like, what are we doing here? And then he was like, what about PFT and Hank? I was like, well, if I win, I'm going to take care of them.
He's like, all right, if I win, I'll take care of them too. I was like, all right, cool.
So you guys were in business. But then he was like, so how many tickets are you going to buy? And I was like, I've already bought like $700 worth of tickets.
He's like, oh, I was going to buy like two. You motherfucker.
It doesn't work like that. $500 worth of tickets.
It was so many tickets to get. I was walking around feeling scared.
I felt like I should have a briefcase that was handcuffed to my arm. I was afraid to be walking around with what was essentially, I thought, $1.
yes it was tough and then i thought after i lost the drawing um on which i spent 500 in lottery tickets maybe the worst investment of all time um i was like wait isn't it isn't now statistically the best time to play the lottery right after i missed the giant drawing maybe now i should go back and buy 500 with lottery tickets because my strategy was off yeah and i convinced myself of that. So I think I'm going to be buying $500 worth of lottery tickets because now is when you're most likely to win the lottery.
I'd agree. It's like after a big plane crash, that's the safest time to fly.
That's a fact. Lightning doesn't strike twice.
I actually think it's the most dangerous time to fly. Right after? Well, if there's a pilot that downs his own plane, that's the most dangerous day to fly is the day after because it's in the news.
And so other pilots see that. And maybe one of them would be like, yeah, fuck, you know, I'm thinking about it down.
I guess this is something that we're doing now. I had the residual rush of, it was Illinois that got the winning ticket.
And like, I saw where it was sold. I think it was an Oasis in, and I can't remember.
Maybe it was outside park Ridge park ridge i can't remember exactly which town had it but i texted like everyone i knew around that area so and one of them didn't get back one of my friends didn't get back to me for a while and i was like he fucking won he's gonna keep me out of it turns out no because they didn't play the lottery i think i think my big mistake was i bought my ticket at 7-eleven you have to buy it at like a independent bodega or convenience store yes one like the dirtiest gas station in town. It's gotta be a store.
I went corporate. Yeah, it's never at a 7-Eleven.
Yeah. Alright, my who's back is pizza.
This went viral. It was gonna be a Monday reading, but we got a big show announcement and also what? What? What are you laughing about? No, you're just making me laugh.
Sorry. Okay, sorry.
how do I like you laugh like like haha funny yes like a clown uh but I'll just read it real quick um this went viral over the weekend uh it's quick reading it says my boyfriend won't stop calling me Tony pizza I uh female 21 and my boyfriend male 21 currently live together and have been together about four months To explain why we were living together after the four-month mark, we started out as roommates but then started dating. I have to say my boyfriend has never been good at pet names.
Some early ones were Little Stubster, Sour Meat, and one of my nicknames for him in comparison is Little Bird. Anyway, about two weeks ago, he starts calling me Tony Pizza.
This doesn't even make sense, and he uses it more often than my actual name he's obsessed it honestly bothers me that he can't even bother to find a somewhat nice nickname for me i have had a couple conversations with him about it but he says he just can't think of anything better what do i do is this going to become a major bigger problem or should i even address it i hate being tony pizza. All-time backfire for this chick, because everyone was like, your boyfriend rocks.
Tony Pizza's a hilarious nigga. Is it Tony with an I, or Tony with a Y? Tony with a Y, and also, like, bury the lead much, he called you sour meat, and you were fine with it, and Tony Pizza was too much? It's also better than, what was the other one? Little Stubster.
Yeah, Little Stubster. That's never good.
I mean, sour meat. There's got to be some meat that's sour there.
That didn't come out of nowhere. Maybe see your objen.
Yeah, Tony Pizza's a great nickname. Yeah, Tony Pizza's not bad.
You're named after maybe the most delicious food. Tony's just a cool name.
I would just imagine. Shout out Elio.
His restaurant is Tony Pizza. Just imagine to yourself that your name is Tony with an I, and then it becomes a cool name if you're a chick.
There's also like a 5% chance this guy's in AWL, and he's just in fantasy fuck boys season. Tony Pizza.
Hey, what's up, guys? It's Tony Pizza. Yeah.
I got my girlfriend. She's got a stinky ass pussy.
I call her sour meat. Tony Pizza to me just reminds me, it's's a name that you would say out of affection unlike sour meat right which is one that you're saying to bust balls yes do you really like pizza yeah is that your thing oh well guess what get in line because everyone else does too yeah you're just honored with the nickname of it tony pizza yeah but it was such a hilarious backfire because it was a universal like very rare that the internet can decide 100 on one thing and everyone was like tony pizza is a hilarious yeah i like i like tony pizza yeah tony pizza we need a tony pizza uh okay billy you're who's back uh my first who's back is piss juggs how you got i got i got two maybe three okay piss juggs you'll feel dude.
I'll feel it out. Piss jugs, apparently, from an inside source I have, something that was posted to the NFL Reddit, the Carolina Panthers apparently have been having a piss jug problem in their facilities.
They're all just having tons of piss jugs everywhere. How's that a problem? It's not.
I like just, I love piss jugs. It'd be a problem if they didn't empty them.

That's the only way it could be a problem. Wait, wait, are you saying, I want to back up a little bit because the way you started

the story was, I've got inside information into this situation.

I found it posted on the NFL Reddit.

Is that, so your inside information is your Reddit password?

Exactly.

Okay, got it.

So here's, I have another follow-up question because I'm really just, I'm kind of interested in the mind of Billy. I'm just trying to get into your mind, figure out what makes you tick.
What's the deciding factor whether you go two or three here? What's our relationship with Jake Paul like nowadays? I mean, you could not exist in real. Yeah, whatever.
Wait, Logan is the one we really like. Yes.
Jake is, yeah, whatever. Yeah, well, one of his fights got canceled.
The guy pulled out. But that, I mean, whose side are you taking, Billy? I was doing some toilet research earlier.
Watch out, Hank's got some toilet research. There's two sides of the story, certainly.
And he's not just some guy. He's a former heavyweight champion, Hasim Rockman.
So he's a legitimate boxer. No, that's his son.
Oh, it's his son? Yeah. That's definitely not him.
Yeah, Hasim Rockman Jr. I didn't do enough toilet research.
Why don't you leave it up to the experts here? To be honest, I did driving research, which is worse than toilet research. So you can understand how I saw Rockman, and then my brain just put two and two together as I was on the highway.
I was like, oh, it's the guy that was a fucking heavyweight champion of the world. Well, mine is TikTok research.
So you've got toilet and TikTok research. Let's see who's got better research.
No, so basically there was a dispute about the weight. It had to do with the New York State Commission.
They said that Rockman was too heavy right now to fight in a week at the 200-pound weight limit to weigh in at 200 pounds. But what's the point of a weigh-in then? Right.
So that's where it gets weird. It has to do with the rehydration clause, which is something that – So Rockman's much bigger than Jake Paul.
He was going to just lose like 20 pounds of water weight. Well, he also basically – he said that – sorry to interrupt, Billy.
He said that he signed the contract to fight at 200. He's like 225 right now, and there's a big – he loses a lot of money.
There's a big like – he loses 25% per pound that he's overweight, and he basically was like, even if I'm overweight, I'll just fight for whatever the minimum. I'll fight for 5K.
I don't care. And then he's saying that Jake Paul was scared of him fighting at a heavier weight and backed out.
Well, the thing is Jake Paul wouldn't beat him at 250. Yeah, I'm on Jake Paul's side.
10 pounds in boxing is a lot. You're walking around.
And he signed the contract to fight at 200. Yeah, and it sounds like it's 25 pounds.
He has three weeks. He lost.
He went from 230 to 215 in a week. But he could get down to 200.
He could get way in at 200 and then come back, but then it would be the rehydration price. So Jake Paul would be fighting a guy with the dehyd 25 pounds heavier I would be way more dehydrated and probably win because he wasn't hydrated enough to fight It sounds like there are too many weigh-ins in this fight.
There should be one way Yeah, the way is it's the way in it's the way in either that or you have like you a post way in weigh-in And you're allowed to gain like up to 10 pounds back after the second weigh-in, which is the official weigh-in. There's also a lot of Twitter reply guys, who knows the truth of this or not, that are saying the fight wasn't selling well at all.
And so Jake was kind of like, whatever. He found it out and took it.
Because it is like worrying this much about weight this far ahead of the fight it's kind of kind of crazy also dylan danis is spreading false he's like spreading unconfirmed rumors that there was offers of a dive to rock rockman and he didn't take it and then it was like oh it's a real fight as you know so who knows yeah it'd be real shame if somebody were to spread rumors like that yeah about things that they didn't know yeah but um who knows i mean the thing is it's funny because like jake paul how much was he gonna get paid for the dive and how long would it what would he said like my shoulder or what i don't know but uh the thing is what's funny about all these problems is that like jake paul's running into like all the problems like the boxing promoters did like the 1930s and that's what you get for like competing outside of sanctioned like WBA, WC. It's like history repeating itself.
Like this type of stuff like happened in like the 20s when it was lawless land. Would there be anything worse though than if you were a fighter on that card? Like one of the undercards and you train for that long and then it's like, oh yeah,'re not gonna fight next week that'd be such a letdown counterpoint it is the summer and you got a six pack that's true so that's kind of cool i would just be pissed off at all the work that i did that i didn't have to do yeah i would go back and i'd look at the calendar and be like i could have gotten drunk on saint patrick's day i couldn't eat a shitload of cheesecake on valentine's day i would get really mad i would just walk around without a shirt on for the entire well amanda serrano is the big loser in all of this oh because she was on the card yeah yeah that does suck oh another who's back is uh liver shots you see that dude in the ufc match get knocked out via kick to his liver i'd be pissing fucking love liver shots there i i've heard that they're the most painful thing that can happen to you yeah Is to get contacted directly in your liver because it's got all these nerve endings in there.
And then to get knocked down via kick to your liver. And then instantly after when you're in the most pain that a person can be in, you're also just getting punched in the face repeatedly.
Yes. I would rather die.
Yeah. I would honestly just, if you're thinking about doing that to me, just shoot me in my head.
The worst one I ever saw was Brock lesnar against alistair overeem yeah he got liver shotted and just got pounded that's that's my kink is watching liver shot compilations watch that one when you get the chance because brock lesnar a monster i've seen that one yeah going down yeah no it's it's it's like some like it looks like magic because you're like wait he just got hit and like decide that shouldn't hurt they just die. And they usually get, there's like a half second where they don't realize they're in pain yet.
And they take that next step and then they stop. It's like Kill Bill.
Yeah, it's crazy. All right.
Oh, you have one more? Yeah. The Guardian protective gear.
What do you guys think about that? Go on. They had that new helmet.
No, wait, wait. Pretend that we don't know.
I know. I'm just going to say I hate it.
What do you think, Big Cat? I think it's the pussification of America. Okay.
Big storyline. Yeah, I mean, so basically in training camp.
Oh, that. Okay.
You should have said the bumblebee hat. I was, yeah.
The Velcro-looking thing they put on top of the helmet. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, pussification of America. Yeah, yeah.
There it is. I nailed it.
Salah has a great take. His take is that because it's that extra protection players are gonna actually start using their heads more with it yeah and then as soon as they take it off for a real game but they're not using it for boxing they're not using it for full pads they were using it when they were just doing the first few days with no pads right no they're they use it in full pad oh they do to prevent the sub concussive blows that happen a multitude of times in training camp.
I think it just looks funny. Yeah.
I think they should get rid of helmets altogether. No helmets.
Stop using your heads. And also, you can only pass the ball backwards.
And then touchdowns, you actually have to touch the ball down there with five and then the extra points with two. I got to start doing the big head pictures with those.
I'm going to do one right now. It's going to be fucking sick.
All right, keep going. going a lot of guys hate him uh all right jake you're up uh my who's back is uh text reminders big cut this one's for you okay uh todd mcshay came on the show in late april you called him a good friend and he's like how am i good friend he texts me once a year so you told me to remind you to text him a few times today today's the day that came up for the first time.
What should I say to him?

Hello, friend.

I'm going to say, what's up, Todd?

Hope you're well.

And then maybe like a thumbs up emoji.

What's it like?

Not make it creepy.

Hope you're well.

Been following your stuff recently.

Great as always.

Keep crushing it, bro.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Let's.

All right.

Okay.

I say.

Ask him about the helmets.

Hey, Todd. Hey, Todd.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Let's. All right.
Okay. I see.
Ask him about the helmets. Hey, Todd.

Hey, Todd.

Just checking in as friends do.

Hope you're well.

Keep killing it.

Talk to you in April?

Keep killing it.

No, no, no.

Be like.

Parentheses, but not actually murder.

Ha ha.

And then be like, we got to catch up soon. Yeah, yeah.
Got to catch up soon. Talk soon.
Okay, bye. All right, I sent it.
He's going to think that's really creepy. Yeah, that's going to, that probably won't go over well.
We should just call him and ask him to suck our dicks. Okay, that's aggressive.
Billy, I didn't know you got down like that. My man.
How do you think I knew about this? What do you mean? Never mind. That was a good joke.
There's some people who won't get that reference. No, I know.
I know. People who aren't seven times.
Yeah, people were like four times. But you know what? That was our past us.
It's good that we're past us. We've evolved.
Yes. As men.
As humans. Now we just go fucking hand jobs so we can get more people to come.
Just kid stuff. Yeah.
Yeah. Our mouths got tired.
We have two hands. Only one mouth.
Uh-oh. You put me on the bonk.
Four times today. Four entries.
Okay. Let's get to Jake Arrieta.
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We wanted to have you on, Jake, because we got trade deadline coming up.

Let's start big picture. You've been on teams that are sellers teams that are buyers what is the vibe like in a clubhouse like a day or two before trade deadline where everyone's like uh-oh what's gonna happen here well so this this past year um when i when i was with the cubs and we started getting rid of guys, you know, Chris Bryant was gone.
Javi was gone. We got rid of Rizzo.
And leading up to that moment, we were still kind of in it, at least a little bit. And then once the first guy gets traded, you're like, well, shit.
Like, okay, now it seems like we're sellers. We might not have the ability to,

to gain ground in the division and everyone knows it.

And it's a shitty feeling.

So it takes a few days for you to kind of get over that man.

And when like,

when the,

when the guys started leaving like when Rizzo was traded,

I mean,

that was an emotional moment,

as you guys could imagine being a part of that big run with,

with all of us,

it was hard to see him go, but you just,, but you kind of understand why it has to happen. It's for the best interest in the organization, but that doesn't mean it's easy for players to deal with.
So it's tough. You'd rather be on the buying side.
When you're in that wild card situation, kind of like the Mariners are, when you bring in a guy, Luis Castillo went to the Mariners.

Like that's a huge move. So, I mean, the energy, the vibe of the clubhouse only increases.
and I mean when you bring in a guy like that man

like your chances of

maintaining the wild card

or

overcoming another team and getting into that

wild card or, or, uh, overcoming another team and getting into that wild card only, only goes up. So it's, it sucks to be on the side where you're selling, uh, but you understand it, but you know, when you buy and you get a big piece like that, I mean, man, the vibe couldn't be better in the clubhouse.
Yeah. So you've also been, you were traded from the Orioles to the Cubs in July.
Shout out Scott Feldman. Yeah, in July of – was it 2013? Yep.
So was that right around the All-Star break, or were you actually in the middle of games? Because I'm always wondering, when you get traded to a new city as a player, you have to also take into account your actual life, and you're moving to a new city, but you're also working, and you're traveling and doing all this stuff with the team that takes up so much of your time. Like what's that process like for a player getting to a new city, having to find a house or having to find a condo or something like that, that they're moving into? Well, so there's so many people behind the scene.
Like you got Vijay, who's the best travel secretary in all of baseball. Shout out to Vijay with the Cubs.
I mean, he reaches out right away and kind of helps you facilitate that process. And, you know, I have a CPA who I've worked with since I was drafted, who I was connected to through Scott Boris and Boris Corporation.
So they take care of, you know, changing utilities and finding you a new place and helping you pack and ship all your stuff to the next city. Some guys don't have that luxury.
Some guys are kind of on their own and they have to have their mom or dad or sister, brother or whatever help them with that. So it can be tough.
But for me, I was in a situation where I was just ready to get out of Baltimore. I couldn't wait.
I knew a trade was looming. I didn't know where I was going to go.
But when I got the phone call that I was traded to Chicago, I'm like, let's, let's go. Like, this is like, it could, it couldn't be a better situation for me.
Um, and what happened after that, you know, for the next three or four years after I was traded, I mean, it's just, it's kind of a storybook ending. Um, but yeah, it's, it's a difficult process, but you just, you have to have a support system and most people do that can help them find a place to live or i mean some guys stay in a hotel from the moment they were traded until the end of the season and you know sometimes that's the best way to go that to me sounds like that'd be fun just like have somebody else make it oh yeah that'd be sick yeah actually room service every night in my dumb brain the hardest part would be joining a new team and then having to learn like all these different new handshakes with every new teammate yeah you have to like invent your own new handshakes from scratch yes yes well and also it's like when you when you walk into a new clubhouse and scott feldman was traded and i know him and samarja were tight and guys are like you know we're bringing we're bringing pedro strope and guy named Jake Arrieta and like why why are we doing this and I totally understand that at the time and those guys are right for thinking that because they lost one of their boys uh even though they were in a situation where they weren't gonna go anywhere in the postseason that season so for me when you go in it's like hey let's try and build these relationships as fast as we can get to know guys and just just be an open book like you know and i think that's the only way you can approach it because if if you're standoffish and you're quiet in the clubhouse guys tend to not like that so i'm i'm shaking hands i'm i'm asking people personal questions about their their girlfriend their wife, their kids, whatever it might be.

It's just to kind of acclimate myself into that vibe as quick as possible. All right, so let's talk this trade deadline.
Let's start with the big one, Juan Soto. Do you think he gets traded, and if he does, where? I've heard the Cardinals.
I've heard the Padres. I've heard maybe that the price is too high.
where do you like if you had to if you gun to your head what what are you saying once soto happens on tuesday well as you guys know anywhere that one soda would land makes that team instantly you know extremely better so i i heard jake peavy give a take on on the network about him potentially uh ending up in san die I could also see St. Louis.
I think St. Louis, it could be kind of a Trojan horse for somebody like Soto.
St. Louis is an organization who always finds a way to find these guys.
Obviously, Soto isn't just finding a guy, but they always bring guys up and they're always good. Whether it's development or just high character guys, whatever it is, they always find guys that perform.
But I would love to see Soto in San Diego for the simple reason that the Dodgers have just dominated the NL West forever. And if the Padres are serious about taking that next step, what better way to make that statement than to bring in a guy like Juan Soto? Yeah.
So you've worked with Boris before. What are the communications like behind the scenes when they're talking contract, it's all going back and forth.
How much information is he giving you about the, uh, the status of the contract versus like, what are you hearing through the grapevine? Are there leaks that come out from other people? people like how what's that process like from your end yeah well typically like the leaks that come out are just are bullshit and the rumors uh there's really sometimes there might be some merit to it but i'd say nine out of ten times the information that is that is factual that is actually hard hard information hard, is going from the team to the agent to the player. And in my situation, that's always been the case.
I mean, I've gotten calls from Scott at two o'clock in the morning, four o'clock in the morning with, hey, we just got off the phone with the GM from Baltimore, the GM from San Diego, and this is what the deal is, or this is what they would like to do moving forward. So, and I know A-Rod said what he said about, you know, the players, the boss, not the agent.
And that's true. But would you ever walk into court and represent yourself in a huge, huge case without an attorney? That's just not, that's not what not what's going to happen so if we were able to negotiate these contracts on our own we would do that but we we can't do that and that's why we have advisors and agents like all the players do in the entire league was he trying like i know scott from my understanding and what he's done with a lot of players he likes his players to get to free agency because that's good yes not just for them because you know they can get they can command a higher price on the open market but also all the other guys that he represents that increases their salary as well what's that back and forth like where you're like you know okay i need to balance his advice to me with me saying you know i i would like to make a lot of money, but also the situation is important too.
And if I'm in a good situation, I want to stay there. Well, I think what people fail to remember is that Scott has 10, 20, 30, 40, or a hundred clients that aren't these, these marquee free agents that, that sign, you know, these, these smaller contracts every single year, But people really love to focus on the, you know, like the blue chip free agents that he has.
And they wonder why somebody would turn down a deal like Juan Soto. Juan Soto is worth 60, 70 million to a team per season.
Same thing with Bryce Harper. That contract is going to pay for itself.
It's probably already paid for itself.

The amount of jerseys and tickets that guys like that selling and their ability to get guys in the stadium and in the seats, the revenue that they generate, it supersedes the contract by far. But that can be a difficult situation.
If you have an AAV, a contract, say, say four years for, you know, 120 million on the table and you're saying, and your agent's telling you, you can get, you know, you know, 25 million a year. That's a difficult situation because if you say no to that contract, it could go away.
So what you got to do is you have to process the information. You have to console your family, obviously your advisors, and then ultimately it's your decision.
And some guys have made poor decisions based on the information that they've gotten from their agent. There's no way around it, and that's always going to be the case.
Players aren't always going to maintain the upper hand. Sometimes the team gets the best of gets the best of you and sometimes the player wins yeah yeah there's definitely times when you see that where a guy gets like he signs a deal and it's like oh that wasn't the best deal he's gonna he could get way more uh i want to talk about your former team the orioles so this is a little bit there there's a rooting interest for me because i i do have a ticket for the oils to win the AL at 400 to one I was reading that they might be sellers and like Trey Mancini might get treated like I saw that too yeah like so so here's what I don't understand and it's not apples to apples but like the 2015 Cubs at the trade at the all-star break or halfway through were, a few games over 500.
They weren't the best team in Major League Baseball. They were a lot of young guys coming up, like things were progressing quickly.
It feels like the Orioles are in that boat where it's like things are happening faster. Why not? You don't have to buy big things, but why not buy a couple things to show that like, hey, let's try to give a push to get to the playoffs instead of being sellers and pushing it off again.
Because don't you think that has a detriment to like what the Orioles are building? If they start selling off pieces when they're two, three games away from the wild card this year. Well, so where is Trey Mancini at in his, um, in his contract? Is it, will he be a free agent after this year next year i think it might be after this year but yeah okay i still yeah i think it's after this year i'll double check it right now well so so if you're gonna buy you have to think about this which i'm sure you have what are you are you potentially giving up pieces that could be a part of your future that that next year you might have a shortstop that's ready uh to hit the ground running make the team out of spring training or a right fielder or a guy off the bench who could play multiple positions as a utility guy so man it's just so hard to to have these these meetings that's why i said i i i would not want to trade places with guys in the front office and sometimes we we talk shit about them and we we give them a hard time but it's a pretty difficult job because if you make the wrong decision and you give up a high prospect that's that's going to be ready to help your ball club in the next season or two to get a uh a rental player and then you don't make the wild card it's like hey why the hell did you make that decision you see what i'm saying yeah no definitely i i just looked it up he does have one more year with the orioles but he's got one more year so so in 20 then you could you could okay so that's you got one more year of them so you could command a higher price for him yeah but then you're also losing him and his ability to for what he could potentially do for you next season and team leader but like all right so back to the 2015 cubs you know they didn't make.
They got Dan Heron, who's a good friend of ours. But, like, it was the sign of, like, hey, we're not – we're going to add, even if it's a smaller piece, let's add something and keep pushing.
I feel like the Orioles – maybe I don't know the situation well enough, but I feel like they're playing great baseball. They're playing good.
They're right there. I'd rather try to get my young guys into the playoffs to give them that seasoning then potentially you know shed some parts and keep pushing it down to the next you know next year well what do you think about so so there what is it three games out of the wild card currently I think there are three two or three something like that so when with with the juggernaut at the top of

the division and you have tampa right other than that toronto toronto's been up and down they have

been playing great boston has been looks like shit then they play great um maybe you just roll with

the guys you got yeah and see see see where you're at because at least that way that kind of gives the

the the players in that clubhouse confidence like hey they hey, they didn't bring anybody in. They think that we can potentially, you know, get into a wild card spot with the group we have.
And just that, like, if that takes the confidence from like a seven to an eight or whatever, if it just takes that, you know, that vibe up just one notch, maybe they get into the wild card. You never want to see guys get injured, but things happen all the time.
If Boston continues to play poorly, if Toronto doesn't play that well, if, say, Tampa slides several games, they're right in it. So I actually don't hate the idea of just rolling with the guys they currently have.
Yeah, you don't even have to buy. There are three games out right now.
They do have two teams in front of them, but it's going to be, you know, like one of these teams is going to get hot. Like if you look at the AL wild card right now, Toronto, Seattle, Tampa Bay are in, Cleveland, Chicago White Sox, and then Baltimore the next three.
One of those six teams is going to get crazy hot and like, you know, run away with the that's just going to happen absolutely absolutely and somebody's going to one or two maybe three teams are going to lose 10 in a row right lose you know eight of ten and baltimore could go you know eight and two so i mean there's still so many games to play and that's why that's why i love to see so many teams still in contention for the wild card and Carl and I talked about this last week on one of our shows you never want to see teams talk about the wild card in the first half because if they're talking about the wild card in the first half it's like oh well you're already you're already given up on the division right but now after the all-star break teams start to see kind of where they fit it in and not that you don't still have an opportunity to win that division but you see teams just a game or two ahead of you. And it's like, hey, we're fighting for that spot, and we still have a legitimate chance to get into that thing.
Yeah, I think we're looking at it from the aspect of, like, what's the best baseball move to make? And a lot of these teams, I think, are looking at it from a financial aspect. Probably the Orioles, actually, now that I think about it.
They probably just don't want to pay anybody.y mancini's their highest paid player at seven and a half actually i think their highest paid player is actually uh chris davis who doesn't play for the team anymore yeah peter angeles is probably like i'm sick of writing these big paychecks let's make a move yeah and then you know let the let the chips yeah i mean but like when you have guys and this is what bothers me about sports you guys are sports guys know you all love football, basketball, baseball, hockey. Does it bother you when you hear billionaires complaining about spending money for their team? Because if you don't like it, if you don't like it, I guarantee you there's 100 other billionaires that will line up to buy your team.
The way I look at it, if you're a billionaire and you own a sports team and you don't care about winning like go buy it go buy a natural gas company go make money or just continue like like uh peter angelos go continue to do asbestos lawsuits yes follow your passion 200 250 million pursuit and and give the team to somebody else yeah that's that's what about that's but it just bothers me And people always like hate on the players. Oh, they're greedy.
No, the owners are cheap. Yeah.
Owners are cheap. So we always take the mindset on this show.
We've said it a hundred times. Like if you're a billionaire and you don't buy a sports team, there's something wrong with you.
Like red flag. That's the goal.
The goal ultimately is to make enough money to buy a sports team. Now that is the rest of your life.

That's your toy.

That is the best toy that you can possibly have.

And winning a championship or trying to win a championship,

to me, if you're an owner and you're putting that together,

you're playing real-life fantasy sports and you care about your team,

that's really ultimately the level that everybody should aspire to get to.

No question.

And the owners that don't care about that, it's like go get into insurance. Buy an insurance company.
I don't care. Just don't fuck around with an entire city's morale.
Right. Gary V needs to buy a sports team.
He's a competitive dude. Have you guys had him on the show? Yeah.
No, we haven't had him on the show, but I think everyone would... Some of his advice probably would backfire in a sports team where he's like, think about your whole family getting murdered and then go about your day.
That shit, I feel like if he said that to some guys in a clubhouse, they'd be like, what the fuck did you say? Yeah, well, that changes things a little bit. Maybe they just get really good, though.
Maybe the advice would work. So did he say that? Yeah, he took a person at a seminar.
It was a very funny clip. I just would love for him to go into an NFL locker room and be like, everyone here, imagine your whole family getting murdered, and then what are you going to do about it? And they just all beat the fuck out of him.
Be like, fuck you, dude. Yeah, he'd get torn from limb to limb.
Okay, maybe he doesn't need it. Or just don't address don't address the team if that's what you know yeah i think gary v should get a team just like hopefully not my team just somebody else's team yeah yeah right right but you you guys know what i'm saying and like i peter angelos and it's not just um this is not an attack on him it's it's all the teams that complain that they're in a market that doesn't do well enough to warrant spending

a certain type of money on players.

But if I own a team and I'm a billionaire

from all these other business ventures,

I'm okay with taking maybe a little bit of a loss

to sign these players to have a shot to win a championship.

Because look, they're all wealthy.

They're all wealthy.

Now, don't you want a ring?

Don't you want to hold that trophy or whatever sport you're in? Don't you want that? Because I know I would. Yeah.
I said it on a podcast a couple weeks ago. It was like Elon Musk going to Mars.
Like, you know what's cooler than Mars? The Lombardi trophy. Like, win that.
That's way cooler than going to Mars. But that's what ends up happening with all these guys.
I mean, rich people don't like to give away their money. And that's how they get rich and that's how they stay rich is they're usually pretty cheap.
I agree with you, though. It does drive us insane.
All right, so give us another team or player that you think is going to make an impact. There's a lot of teams that the Yankees are in talks, the Cardinals we mentioned, the Padres.
feels like the Astros maybe we talk about them for a sec they have like seven starting pitchers like are they gonna they're gonna do the reverse where they're they're a clear World Series contender and they might trade someone because they just have too many guys well that's that's a that's a serious luxury to to have where you have too much pitching because I don't know if there's another team that can say that. But if there's one guy that I would like to see go somewhere else and have an opportunity to win a ring and you have a chance, if you trade for this guy, you need to sign him because he's going to be really

good for the next five six maybe seven years is wilson contraris i mean he hasn't been traded yet and i know that people like they don't want to see him go but if you've seen chris bryant javi schwarber and rizzo go you can see anybody play in another uniform you see what i'm saying so um in i mean look wilson wilson's wilson's a crazy person but he's also um as as dedicated to um helping the team win as anybody i've ever seen and he instantly makes you better it's i i don't think he makes quite as big of an impact as juan soto because who can but it's pretty damn close so all right so here's my only question about Wilson I love Wilson I hope that I wish the Cubs would would keep him but it doesn't seem that way yeah how hard is it though to trade for a catcher at the deadline knowing that a catcher and a pitcher's relationship is a huge part of the game and you can't build that overnight and wilson you know he's not known for you know being the best with pitchers he's his bat is is is a plus bat as a catcher but like yeah how much does that weigh in a good point look i i've i've told i've told people this for years i've talked about it on our show i didn't i think it's it's it's ridiculous when guys have to have a certain catcher behind the plate. I think it's stupid.
As long as you've got a catcher's mitt behind the plate and you've gone over the hitters with me in the pregame meeting and we're on the same page, I don't give a shit. I was a little bit slower to the plate.
If we don't throw the guy at second base, maybe that's on me i'm not going to blame my catcher most of the guys in the big leagues now are adequate enough to get the job done so uh some of these starting pitchers uh need to kind of take a step back and and maybe take some of the blame when things don't go go that well If they're giving up multiple stolen bases, an inning or whatever, like look inward and not outward. So I think the pitcher-catcher relationship obviously is very important, but you shouldn't need to be catered to and have a certain guy behind the plate for you to have success.
Wow, I like that answer. I didn't expect that.
As sports sports fans on the other side of it we're always taught you know like there are guys who need specific catchers and there are there is that relationship that like some guys feel comfortable with others but I like what you're saying like that you know they're all pros out there if you're if you're a catcher in the big leagues you can you're good enough to to catch anyone that's a fact that's the fact and um yeah you say you said it well if you're in the big leagues you can you're good enough to to catch anyone that's a fact that's the fact and yeah you say you said it well if you're in the big leagues your your job description is the same as the next guy yeah look i mean the guy that backs up wilson contraris isn't as good the guy that backs up jt romito isn't as good but it's still a major league catcher and he's he's busting his ass um he might not have the best pop time he might not be as good defensively but he's not going to affect my ability to locate certain pitches i like now is there any truth to like certain catchers are really good at calling games for certain pitchers yeah yeah that's true but then that that's the the catcher that might not be as good needs to just spend a little bit more time with with those pitchers that he doesn't catch as often and you know watch video talk scouting reports and and build that relationship and become a little bit closer i mean shit guys we're we're at the field from one o'clock to to five or six o'clock before the game starts there's plenty of time to sit down and have a 30 minute conversation you know three or four days a week yeah you know so um i i just don't think there's any excuse for it yeah i like that what about another big name uh trade deadline acquisition that's about to happen that's the new york mets getting jacob de grom so let's talk a little jake on jake de grom he did some rehab you guys know i love i yeah i love him i love him uh it's like yeah that was a great question it's like getting a guy at the deadline yeah um you know scherzer's back and he just did what he did to the yankees what he went seven or eight scoreless um fuck man you just you can't overstate enough how important he is to the game of baseball and the new york mats um and if they if they can find a way just to score a few runs of the game they're they're gonna win that division yes there's no there's no doubt in my mind because max is a freak we know degrom's a freak when he's healthy they just need to hope that he can stay on the mound all the way through October. So what's that like for him? Because he's made some rehab starts.
He pitched very well. I think they're going to put him out on the mound on Tuesday this week.
And there's going to be a lot of adrenaline in the system. I think he was already hitting 100 miles per hour in the minors and rehab starts.
So he's got the velocity, all that stuff. The adrenaline that he's going to feel when he comes out there does he have to like limit himself is that a real thing where you can get too excited about that first game back because like he needs he's dominant enough when he's pitching you know 90 of his of his maximum velocity how how would he go about like regulating that and being like okay i'm excited to get back out here but i have to do it smart well i'm sure that he's probably had conversations with the front office and the coaching staff about a pitch count and trying to trying to monitor that monitor his his energy level his adrenaline but look this is this is de grom's you know eighth or ninth season so it's not like he's uh um he's he fresh out of the, out of the draft and coming off an injury and going to go out there and try and throw the ball as hard as he physically can.
And DeGrom is a, he's a biomechanical freak. Like he's a guy who's basically just built in a lab and, and, uh, just built to pitch.
If you, if you look at his body and the way he moves, he's like, he's like Zach Wheeler. They're, they're extremely mobile.
They're, they're muscular, they're long and lanky and they, you know, hopefully he can sustain, uh, that adrenaline and, uh, not, not be, um, not be harmed by it. I don't think he will.
I think he has a low heart rate. He knows how to control that.
And I think he's going to be fine. But I'm sure that conversation has been had amongst him, the coaching staff, and the front office.
I always like calling a player a freak. I like that.
Whenever I hear, like, this guy's a freak, I'm like, wow, that's dangerous. So who are your top three freaks in Major League Baseball right now? Oh, this is good because this segues to a question I had.
New segment, Freak Me Out. Yeah, yeah.
I have one freak that I'll give you after. So you do three and I'll give you a fourth.
All right. So I got to go with DeGrom.
And look, I've blown the guy for years. I just think he's the best.
And I've said this. I think he's the best starting pitcher to ever put the uniform on if he stays healthy.
Some people might think that's crazy. Some people love it.
Just watching him live and on TV. He came out of a game.
We were playing them. I was with Philly.
He struck out 9 out of 10, and he had a little shoulder tweak in the fourth or fifth inning. But it's the best shit I've ever seen ever from any pitcher.
So he's one. And then, man, it's like flip a coin.
I don't want to pick two from the same team, but you got Stanton and Judge. I don't know.
So let's just pick – let's make them 2A and 2B. And then I think Trey Turner.
I'm going to say Trey Turner just because he popped in my head just with his ability to hit for power, his defense, and his base rank. Okay.
All right, so I got the fourth freak for you, and I want your take on him because we're the number one podcast for this guy. I'll set it up with someone told me that I trust who has good baseball knowledge said that there's a 0.5% chance he could end up being the best baseball player of all time, which is a crazy thing to say, but it's also a half a percent, right? Is it Julio? No.
O'Neal Cruz. He's a freak.
It's a crazy thing to say, but it also makes you think about it and you're like, oh, fuck, I got to pay attention. Yeah, that's a crazy thing to say but it also makes you like you like think about it you're like oh fuck i gotta i gotta pay attention that's that's a nice call and didn't he i remember seeing him in the minor leagues and didn't he struggle for a couple years which which is totally fine to do it's normal um but i remember seeing him like in triple a a year or two ago and he wasn't having great years and then all of a sudden like sometimes shit just clicks and i didn't realize this kid was six foot seven yes he's a freak is it true is it true that he runs like tyreek hill is that dude he's so fast and then i the the the thing that like made me be like what the fuck they were playing the cubs and he threw uh from shortstop to first base and they tracked it and it was like i think, I think it was like 97.
Yeah, and then he also has power, and it's like, who is this guy? He's got big power. He's got big power.
I saw him hit a ball out to right center field in PNC that almost went out of the stadium. You see guys hit balls in the water, like dead pool down the line, but you don't see a ball go out of the stadium in right center field so that's that's special um i told i was telling a lot of people this he's the best player the pirates have had since andrew mccutcheon and yeah you know and not every team can be uh top of the division especially you know in in the nl central you got to deal with the Brewers and you got to deal with the Cardinals.

So he is a freak and maybe he's going to end up, I hate to say it,

but like a guy like Joey Votto who ends up just kind of rotting away

in Cincinnati, has a Hall of Fame career,

but never gets to play in the postseason.

Yeah, that would be a very big bummer.

How would you rate Frank Schwindel in terms of his freakness on the mound just as a pitcher? Well, I don't really like seeing position players out there on the mound anymore because they all just kind of lob it in there. Yeah.
Like they're all kind of scared that they're going to hit somebody or they can't throw strikes. And they talk a lot of shit when, you know, they're not on the mound like oh you know i i gotta i gotta i gotta slider i can i can you know change speeds i got a little cutter like bullshit we see the guys get out there and they're lobbing in at 42 miles an hour yeah so i don't like it i don't yeah i don't like his ability on the mound i like his i like his unorthodox swing because man the guy can really hit a heater but i don't't want to see him pitch.
All right, can we get your midseason? By the way, everyone should listen to Starting Nine with Carl and Jake, two episodes a week. Great.
It's a great, great baseball podcast. Do we have your World Series pick? Because I'm sure you gave one before the season, but we're going to give you a second chance.
Do it right now, and we'll just say this is your pick, and you can be right, and we'll give you all the credit in the world. Well, so this is my pick.
I like a Subway series. Yes.
I like the New York Mets against the New York Yankees. I think with DeGrom and Scherzer back at 100%, I think the Mets find a way to separate themselves even further and win that division.
And I don't see anybody slowing down the Yankees. I just really don't.
I want to see Judge hit 85 homers this year. Yes.
And I want to see Rizzo and Matt Carpenter get a ring, along with the rest of those guys. I like that team.
I also like the Mets. You know, Colin, our producer, is a diehard Mets fan.
I know he's probably going to be pissed at me when he hears me say, I want to see the Yankees get a ring. But just seeing a subway series, I think it's good for the game of baseball.
Obviously, it's good for, you know, the Northeast and New York in particular. So that's my pick.
It's good for me. I bet it 14 to 1 two months ago.
Oh, you're good on that. Yeah, that's famous last words.
Do you want to see the Yankees get a ring because just like it would be good for baseball for the Yankees to win another World Series? Are you just saying that because you've got friends on the team? You're like, I want them to win. Yeah, you know, with what happened to Carpenter, like he decided to play another season.
He was with Texas. He opted out.
He goes to the Yankees and it ends up hitting, you know, six or seven homers in like two weeks. Uh, you, you got to pull for Rizzo.
Uh, my son Cooper got to meet judge at the all-star game and now it's his new favorite player. Uh, just, you know, I, I like those guys.
Um, I like Garrett Cole, you know, Zach Britton, he's not pitching right now, but he's one of my boys. So, um, I like that clubhouse, but I also like the Mets.
So if both those teams get there, let the best team win, and I'll be happy. It'd be great for Barstool content because we've got a lot of Yankees and Mets fans running around here.
It'd be crazy, man. It would be crazy.
All right, I have one last question. Thank you for joining us, Jake, on short notice.
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Use com use code take for 20 off your first purchase qzips hoodies polos everything roback.com 20 off your first purchase with code take all right this is the dumbest question you'll probably ever get but i i we like dumb rules in on this show i don't know if you saw but i threw out the first pitch at uh the Sag Harbor Whalers game on Friday. No big deal.
They won a championship today, so some are saying it's because I gave a speech to the team. I've been a diehard Sag Harbor Whalers fan since Friday, and they won a championship three days later.
Here's a dumb rule, and you can tell me this is the dumbest rule ever. The first pitch should count.
It should count as a ball and strike. That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
How great would that be, though? It's like, so the home team always gets to pick the first pitcher and, like, someone will, like, airmail. It's like, so the first batter gets up there and it's a 1-0 count.
The first pitch should count. Now, where did you come up with that? I just thought of it when I did.
i threw it so fast jake it was like 92 miles an hour but it was a strike no way out of the zone got catcher made me look good he gave a little hop up i was like you know what that should be a ball for the sag harbor whalers like i fucked up the first pitch should count well i mean it would add a little bit more pressure to the situation the guy throwing it like the guys in the dugout hey motherfucker like you this needs to be over the plate right but so you have to i would assume that you you're saying that you have to throw it from the rubber none of that front of the mountain bullshit have to throw from the rubber it's it's one of those things where it wouldn't actually probably change any outcomes of the game because it's one pitch. It's inconsequential, but it would add a fun wrinkle of like, who is it? Sidney Sweeney threw out the first pitch, Hank, you were saying the other day.
Like, that should count. Like, 50 Cent throwing it a million feet to the left.
That should count. That should be ball one.
Yeah. Was it a quarterback that like hit the camera dude in the nuts? Oh, yeah.
Who was that? It was a football player just right in the day. Fauci.
Wearing him up. It should count.
It would be electric. Think about how great George Bush's first pitch would have been if it counted as well.
Strike one. Yeah.
That's strike one on the batter. Yeah.
Exactly. And then you got Nolan Ryan throwing at 92 at 60 miles an hour.
And I think Ichiro did the same thing. Didn't he come out and Ichiro blazed it.
Full uniform. Full uniform, yeah.
Yeah, I mean, he just wants to keep playing baseball forever. But tell me, I mean, like, it's dumb when you think about it, but then you start talking about it.
Like, how fun would it be? First pitch would have a lot more meaning. First pitch would count.
It would be fun to bet on, too. Yeah.
So I'm with you. I'm with you.
They would just have former players do it. They would just be like, our pitcher that retired last year is still in bad.
Yeah, we'll make rules that you can't have anyone who played baseball at a professional level. But hey, but think about this, though.
Even if it's a former player, that doesn't guarantee a strike. That's true.
True. That's true.
I've had a shit ton of first-pitch balls in my career. Yeah.
Here's another dumb rule. Have you ever considered just not having a catcher for the first two strikes that you have? So it's just the umpire and you, you get another player out in the field because you get nine players still.
So you put another guy like in between shortstop and second base. And then you just say you're just throwing it directly at the umpire directly at the umpire.
Cause you don't need to catch her for that pitch. If there's nobody on base.
I don't think the umpires would, would go for that, man. I mean, I think they they're gonna need their salary to go up a tick probably not it would be it's a funny thing to imagine though just like imagine joe west just getting hit in his neck on a first pitch fastball great right right he's got like that turkey gobbler he's got a natural uh chin protector yeah nice man nice nice man but he's got a lot of neck skin.
I like that. Nice man.
Fat fuck. Nice man.
A lot of... I have another dumb question about this year because it seems about like two weeks from now, there will be a story that comes out about the balls.
Like the balls have changed over the course of the year. Where are we at on the balls and how they've performed this year? It's a giant conspiracy, man.
It's a huge conspiracy. But what pitchers don't like is when balls are just taken out of the wrapper and put in the ball bag.
And I know there's this in the rule book. It says balls are supposed to be rubbed up by a team employee like a certain amount of time before the game.
and each ball takes 45 seconds and this amount of mud like who knows if it's if they're actually following those rules you got a clubby that's sitting back there with a dip in and probably hung over and just like here you go a little bit of mud and then he might skip a few and then like it's it's inconsistent and you saw when to the para he's you know reliever for the the angels, at the time. And he's just like, he gets a ball from the umpire.
He's pitching against Seattle. Nope.
Throws it out. Gets another one.
Nope. Throws it out.
He's like, these fucking balls aren't rubbed up. So that's what pitchers don't like.
And my only thing is, like, if they're changing the balls with the way that they fly and more drag less drag, just let the players know because we don't really care. Just be transparent about it.
That's all we ask. Yeah, that makes sense.
All right, well, Jake, thank you. You've got to come up to New York.
If there's a Subway series, you've got to be here for every game. Oh, no doubt about it.
We've got to get you in the office in the mix, but we appreciate you coming on. Everyone go listen to Starting Nine carl uh appreciate it we'll see you soon all right boys good seeing you thanks for having me on jake was brought to you by our great friends over at helix sleep why would you ever buy a mattress made for someone else with helix you're getting a mattress that you know will be the perfect way for you to fall asleep and it's perfect perfect for you.
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That's helixsleep.com slash take. Okay, we're going to wrap up the show.
We got a show announcement, kind of a bittersweet one. Actually, bitter.
But we do – well, no, it is. It's sad.
But we do know that people are very invested in us as a podcast and we're a family. So we wanted to talk about it so that people can hear it from us instead of being like, what happened? So, Hank, do you want to take it away? Yeah, but this is more kind of my world behind the scenes stuff.
Liam obviously was the first intern we hired him and Billy was like the content intern and Liam was the behind the scenes intern to help me and he's been with us the whole time and been riding by my side through the fires, through the ups and downs, highs and lows. Yeah and I don't even really, that's where it's like it's obviously complicated because there's a lot of stuff that goes on behind the scenes and it's not really that big a deal.
It's not a huge, that's was laughing earlier when you're like huge announcements it's not really like a huge announcement it's more just kind of uh we're just switching things around basically like Liam's gonna be switching in the video department to more like what his skill set is more what he's suited to uh obviously when I switched roles he kind of took over what my role was in terms of show stuff and more of like the i guess organization and kind of like administrative stuff with the podcast um and less of like the editing and all that stuff and and we're basically just bringing in someone else to kind of do that and liam's gonna still be doing still be doing the pick i'm still be doing advisors, still be working with us on various shows,

but just kind of staying in that more editing graphics type role,

and we're bringing on someone else to do the administrative stuff.

I'm going to miss Bubba.

Bubba's a great guy.

Wait, no, we're talking about Liam.

Huh?

No, we're talking about Liam.

What do you mean?

Bubba's staying.

Bubba's staying?

No, I just know that some people are going to be like, wait, who's Liam and who's Bubba? Yeah, you just confused the shit out of me They're the same person, everyone knows I'm going to miss Bubba, I'm going to miss him He's a guy that has an infectious laugh So no matter what happens, if somebody says Something remotely funny, Liam laughs And then everybody else laughs And you have to have a guy like that in the room. It just helps everybody out.

Good guy.

Love you, Bubba.

We'll still be working with you on some other stuff, I'm sure.

No one can fill those shoes.

I say we get another guy who's colorblind. Well, so here's the thing.

Part of the thing that Hank didn't mention here is that when Billy was suspended,

he did come back and he did his own interviews during his suspension. he learned premiere so billy's now going to be the producer and billy's going to fill the role of what bubba's been doing because you did say you were incredible premiere right i never said that no you said that you learned i learned i learned so you're making a switch so you're the producer you were proficient at premiere yeah proficient at premiere.
Yeah. Come on, guys.
So you're going to do all the editing. No, no.
You should do it for... Okay.
We'll give you a two-week trial period. We have to edit every show for two weeks.
It's a great opportunity. And then if you don't like it, you don't have to keep doing it.
But if you do like it, then I feel like this is a nice way for you to be more active and hands hands-on with the show is this real i'll do it no i'll do it for we actually when we when we when hank pft and i were talking a couple weeks ago we're like we should just do a hidden camera and tell billy that because he's so good at premiere he has to produce the whole show now and watch you freak out wait do you actually cut the recording in premiere or did you, all right. Okay, Billy, we're joking.
You're not actually doing it. All right, so what I got to say, and Bubba's going to get to talk here and talk to the AWLs, I love Liam.
He has been a guy who's been with us for pretty much the entire time. What I'll say on Liam's behalf, this job is not easy, and the burnout is real.
And when people see us here till 2 in the morning on a Sunday, Liam's here till fucking 6 in the morning on a Sunday. And I think there's an element of like it's just a lot of really long hours and a lot of demanding moments um and he's always come through and I think this is going to be good for everyone again he's not going anywhere he's going to produce pick them well you know which I'm on he's going to produce advisors like he's not going anywhere he's going to be still around um but I I do think that like there's a part of this where it's almost natural where it's like the burnout is crazy and I want him to have his life back too.
So we will have someone new coming on Wednesday. We'll introduce him.
We'll fill everyone in on it. But Bubba, whatever you want to say, I mean, we love you.
There are no hard feelings here. We've had long talks about it.
And I think we're all on the same page. But you are a big part of the show and have been a big part of the show so we wanted to make sure you get the proper send-off yeah no I appreciate it I do just want to say as well like following up on that like there's no hard feelings like whatsoever about it um like Hank had wanted to do things differently essentially and basically besides like my fucking like parents putting a roof over my head like nobody has done more for me than like everybody in this room in my life essentially um if i had regrets like things would be different but it's like i'm very proud of all the work that i've done like for part of my take and everything over the past five years and like you guys are all like family to me and i'm still gonna around.
And so just like basically in a better spot to like use my skill set to succeed. And Big Cat, like you had said as well too, like I couldn't have worked until 4 a.m.
The rest of my life. So at some point I was not going to be able to do that do that correct and so this is basically a a good time to transition into something different and you're going to still be around us and we're going to see you every day and like i said like there's not it's not a goodbye it's just you know a switch and i i'm pumped for you to not have to sit in a cave with us every sunday for 17 hours because i like we get to make jokes and you would have to sit there and listen and then edit it I always was like holy fuck how are you guys doing this I think too like part of it and like I guess more just going to like the uh little more like explanation or like it's like it was obviously like forever it was like kind of me being on top of everything and then like Liam was helping me out and then, but I'm still here kind of.
And there was just like, I guess not it was, it was just a weird, it was a different dynamic. And this is just more of like a clear role change where it's like very, like the rules are defined.
It's a new person that's coming in, like knows exactly like what, what kind of, it's just more like split and it like makes everything a little bit like, again, like more defined and Liam is still going to be doing what he's doing just in a different department. I think you're going to be very happy in a couple weeks and be like, oh shit this kicks ass.
Those hours are not sustainable for anybody so thank you for doing it as long as you did. You did a great job and we love you.
You were a huge part of this podcast growing to where it is today. Huge part this we're here because like you said you know giving us a compliment like it goes the other way we're as a podcast to where we are because you took risks in your life to you know you you got you dropped out of college he was like hey i'm not gonna go back to college i was like hey we can't pay you and he's like i'm still gonna drop out of college i was like okay but like we can't pay you No.
As a full, I'm still going to drop out of college. I was like, okay, but we can't pay you as a full-time employee for six months, I think.
I remember when Liam told me that, and I was like, that's a ballsy thing. But yeah, this is what the sacrifice is.
I was like, I would never go back to college, so I'm not going to tell you to. If you want to drop out like that, I would love to have you around because I need your help.
But we can't pay you. It also speaks to a lot of people want to work at Barstool or be part of this show.
Liam is the perfect testament of what the sacrifices he had to make in his life, in dropping out of college, working really late every night, all these things. He made a ton of sacrifices to get where he is.
And now, in a weird way, he's getting rewarded and some parts of his life are going to change for the better. You're going to be able to see cars more easily on your commute home.
Well, that was my last question. It's a rollback question.
It's a rollback question. Rollback.com.
R-H-O-B-A-C-K.com. Yeah, well, I wanted to send him out with a rollback question.
Go ahead. You didn't actually get hit by a car right i did i i was just i was also gonna say that would be great if you're like yeah i paid that whole thing up guys i got crossed over real bad at the park just a friday night prank no the uh definitely you guys like having faith in me and everything led me to be able to like take those

types of chances and so just for anybody who wants to think about how much barcel van talk sucked uh when i dropped out of college to work on that and then it got canceled a week later yeah that's right for me a little bit but yeah that that yeah that was like that was like a galvanizing moment for us like all getting to experience that suck together we'll always have like being in the worst down of places

and then growing out of that all together

as one. we are going to miss you on this show a lot yeah just getting shots of jmo after and being like this sucks yeah yeah i got so high and i got lost in that call of duty commercial i used to tell like we used to i mean back i mean again like one day the whole barcel van talk store would come out but there was months and months of, before it got announced, where, like, we would talk, and you guys were, like, feeling good about it, and then you guys would leave.
I'm like, there's no fucking way it's gonna happen. Like, it's all gonna fall apart, like, blah, blah, blah, blah.
And, like, I was just always like, dude, like, it's just, we're gonna get fucked. Like, it's just not gonna, it's not never gonna come out.
And then it, like, came out, and it was, like, public. It's like, we're doing the show.
And then it got canceled. And I was like, fuck.
And Liam took the risk. And then that got canceled in his face.
Last, last thing. Did you and Jake ever squash your beef? Because I know he said that he hated you.
And he was like, good. That's why Liam wanted to leave.
Yeah. Yeah.
No. That was the real behind the scenes thing.
Not when Hank was. Does this happen? I'm glad we're on good terms now.
Okay. So you're like the Lannisters.
You just got rid of another one? Yeah. Shove them out.
Now Billy's on the block. He's still best in the office.
Look out, Billy. No, but yeah.
Pickham will be great because he's going to – Liam's going to be dedicated to that and advisors and everything else. So, again, he's not going anywhere.
We know where he sits. He's going to be around us all the time.
But thank you from the bottom of my heart, the bottom of all of our hearts for everything you've done for this show and uh shout out your dad he's the fucking man he's the epitome every time mom and your mom but every sister no but every time bubba tells a story about his dad it's like a total dudes rock moment so yeah no he loves this right i think i'll still listen yeah no well you'll have to you'll have to whenever does something that the dude rocks, you got to come and tell us on the show.

And until then, continue to tag Bubba

and all the dingers that you see, the massive.

Yes, yes, yes.

Absolutely.

Okay, and also, you know, send him colors to try to decide.

Pantone check.

Yeah.

Again, I think you will be like,

there will be times when you'll, you know,

we're going to have to have you check in,

and I do want to hear stories when your dad does dudes rocks things. Yeah, no, I'm you will be like, there will be times when you'll, you know, we're going to have to have you check in.

And I do want to hear stories when your dad does dudes rocks things.

Yeah.

No, I'm always around.

Yeah.

All right.

Numbers.

This would be cool if you got it.

No pressure.

Five.

Watch Hank steal the moment.

Corporate Hank just strikes again.

26.

What would your backup number be Bubba if you had one

I don't know 9 It's gotta be 6 Bill Russell No 6 I'll guess 9 is the backup I'll guess 11 for you Mountain Championship's the end Do it for Bill 11 Oh my god Was it there? 68 Oh my god It's a tough break Bubba you want to do the honors? Love you guys Emus once beat the Australian Army in a war You see that emu on the dog yeah do you see uh what's his name uh man was that emu no emmanuel the manual is he an emu that guy was fucking did you see the emu that's a wide receiver talking about football being back i'll send you a video it's awesome by the way oh yeah when he made that quick cut down the sideline on that dog. By the way, a quick correction.

Okay.

Don't actually go Premiere.

There's now day.

I figured out how to edit and export something on Premiere.

It's pretty hard.

Yeah.

But I figured it out.

I'm not saying I'm anywhere close to anywhere with these guys who do.

Also, I was going to unfollow PMT to then see how long it took memes to figure out.

I was like, it would probably be like

under over 24 hours.

So there's day trips to Antarctica

that you don't have to get your spleen removed.

I knew it.

Well, that spleen appendix.

Yeah, appendix.

Okay, so quick correction.

But if you stay there over the winter,

you have to get it done.

Right.

Nice correction.

Who's taking a fucking day trip to Antarctica?

It turns out there's a day trip from, like, Patagonia.

Brazil.

Oh, yeah, that's the one I was afraid I was going to have to go on one day.

Yeah, it's not even, like, real Antarctica.

Okay.

Bubba, again.

Love you guys.

Okay. I'm talking away I don't know what to say I'm saying it anyway Today is my day to find you Shining away I'll be coming for your love.

I'll be coming for your love.

Okay.

Take on me.

Take me.

Take on me. Take me home Take me home Let me go Let me go Come to the world So needless to say I've said it But I'm here Stumbling away weight I'm learning my life is okay Say after me At least the better to be safe than sorry Say after me At least the better to be safe than sorry Take on me Take on me Take on me

Take on me

I will come

You will be on

Things I can say

Is it like

Just play my words and read away You're all the things I've got to remember You shine away I'm coming for you anyway You shine away I'm coming for you anyway Take on me Take on me Take on me Take on me Take on me Take on me. Take me on me.
I'll be your. Take me on me.
Take me on me

Take on me

Take on me

Take on me Outro Music