Former MLB Manager Bobby Valentine, Suns In 4 And Segments Are Back

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Now in the street there is violence.

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Today is Monday, June 14th. Suns in four.
Suns in four. They did it.
The fellas did it. The guy is a legend.
So if you've been living under a rock and you missed it, we had a fight video from which we don't condone fighting in the stands. But if you're going to fight in the stands, be a legend like this guy.
If you're going to fight in the stands, win. Yeah, win when you're outnumbered and have lower ground, which is everything this guy did, and you're in the opposing team's, you know, or you're the opposing team in the home court of Denver, so he goes there, Suns fan, wearing a Steve Nash jersey, throwback, going up against a pair of Jamal Murray bros, which I don't know, fair or foul, but wearing the same jersey as your bro.
Sus. I think you need to fill out

the team. I think one of you's got to have a joke.

One guy had two watches on. And a bunch

of chains. Although there was that

one fight that happened in Dallas a couple weeks ago

where it was three separate guys

wearing different...

I saw that. You saw that? Yeah.
They were all wearing

77 jerseys. They were all

rocking Lucas. But one was home, one was away, and then one was like a throwback alternate who comes in at the very end.
It's like, what's going on here? Listen, as just a straight up, we're not going to shame whatever anyone wants to wear to a game, but if you... You saw that.
What? Oh, nothing. Nothing.
I don't want to get distracted. Happy birthday, Hank, by the way.
We should have said that right off the top. Happy birthday, Hank.
If you go to a game and you probably show up to your buddy's house to pick him up, and he's got the same exact color Jamal Murray jersey, he's got to go back and sad. One of you has got to change.
Yeah. Well, you've got to go shirts and skins even at that point.
And I've noticed this about the fans in Denver. No disrespect denver or to families but we used to be nuggets podcast we we were i did notice that it's like 25 sons fans they travel very well oh yeah oh yeah right up uh two doesn't bother them what's the highway give us the 35 85 85 right up 85 pop up 85 no problem but yeah right up into the Rockies, yes.
They're representing pretty well up in Denver. They were.
70. Up 70, right? The I-70.
The I-70. It's the battle of I-70.
I love it. Everyone knows that.
And now we've got Chris Paul looking like he's 10 years younger now. I hope that it's going to be Suns against Clippers, because I want to see Chris Paul go up against Ballmer.
Yes, yes. All right, so wait.
Yeah, well, let's talk about. But we got to finish with the Suns and Four guys.
So if you missed it, it's a video that came out on the internet on Saturday morning. It is from game three of Suns versus Nuggets.
Two guys matching Jamal Murray jerseys. Tons of chains, tons of watches.
They have the higher ground against a soul guy who looks like just a chill ass dude if I'm going to be honest in a Steve Nash jersey one of the Jamal Murray guys gives a look to the camera like watch this I'm about to sucker punch him tries to throw the sucker punch then gets basically like a hockey fight the Steve Nash bro grabs him by the chains and just keeps giving him, just making him eat uppercuts. And then the two Jamal Murray guys go and yell to the cops.
And as they're running away, the Suns fan says, Suns in four, Suns in four, which was legendary in the moment. But now that the Suns have actually finished the sweep and it is Suns in four, that guy has to.
I don't know what they do pregame ceremonies. Light the torch.
Ring the bell. Yeah, dunk the gorilla.
I don't know. He's got to be out there.
If you're the Suns organization, because no one got really hurt. It seemed like the Suns guy was the one who was getting sucker punched.
He was defending himself. He had the low ground.
There was a guy that was hitting him. All he did was he just sweatered the dude.
That's very difficult to do with a basketball jersey. You don't have sleeves.
It's not girthy. The sweater's not heavy like it is for an NHL sweater.
He pulled it over his head, made him turtle, caught him with a couple of nice... Grabbed him by the chains, too.
You've got to take your chains off. Caught him with a couple of nice uppercuts, but they were also very chill uppercuts at the same time.
Like I was never, I think that's the difference. That's why like the internet is okay with this fight.
No one's like trying, no one's shamed the guy yet for it because during the fight, there was never an instance where I was like, oh, these two guys in the Jamal jury, in the Jamal Murray jerseys, they're going to get hurt. Like it never looked like.
It was just solid connections to the face, neck area, and then they just ran away. It was the opposite of that Padres-Rockies fan, so Denver fans really are having a tough month.
The guy who knocked out the Rockies fan, and you're like, ooh, that actually was bad. We don't want to see people get knocked out.
You're right. They were more like, hey, I'm winning this fight.
He was pointing him to death. He was scoring points on CompuBox, and he wasn't actually going to knock him out.
Yeah, so basically Denver fans, are they the YouTubers or the TikTokers of the fan-fighting community, Hank? TikTokers. They're the TikTokers.
Oh, they did? Yeah. Oh, no.
That's too bad. 5-1 YouTube.
How will they recover yeah oh no that's too bad five one how will they recover dancing dance if you dance enough off of that maybe get charlie d'amelio in one they're gonna meme their way through it they'll forget everything about those fights all right there's no one that gets roasted on the internet more than patrick mahomes's brother but he doesn't give a shit he just dances it out he did he he literally he literally is the saying, like, dance like no one's watching. Yes.
But millions of people are watching. But dance like no one's watching.
All right. So, yeah, the Suns are that game.
That guy needs a ring. The bottom line is if they win the NBA Finals this year, that guy needs a ring.
AJ Titties needs a ring. Yeah.
Bonk. He needs a ring for sure.
And he needs to do the pregame ceremony. If it's game one or game three, depending on the Jazz or the Clippers, you need to get him incorporated somehow.
Even if it's like ring a bell. I don't know what the fuck the Suns do.
Even though we're a diehard Suns podcast. I mean, we know.
We just don't want to say. But yeah, have him out there.
Give a wave to the people. Maybe have him do a little uppercuts and then everyone goes crazy.
It would be the right thing to do. It would.
Because everyone kind of likes this guy. You respect him.
And to the Nuggets fans out there, I have one thing to say. Imagine thinking that you're tougher than the Suns.
The fucking Suns. The Suns.
The only thing I can find is Langston Galloway and campaign have a pre-game like break dancing ritual oh okay campaign is in the all famous all-time dancer remember that that clip of him dancing maybe you can break dance by the way campaign also in a conference final so who would have thought who would have thought we'd be here uh anyway chris paul insane chris paul Paul, he's playing basically perfect basketball right now. He was 14 for 19 for 37 points.
There was a stretch there. Did he go 7 for 7? He was 6 for 6 in the third quarter.
I don't know if he got up to 7 for 7, but he was. He was just on fire.
He was on fire. And I thought that he sucked last year.
I was told that Chris Paul was cooked last year. No, he was all right.
I mean, remember, he got the thunder. He made the thunder not the worst team ever last year.
He's just a really, really good basketball player, which is not like saying something groundbreaking. It's always been about the injuries and hitting people in the balls.
But he's playing perfect basketball right now. The Suns, as a team, are playing pretty much perfect basketball.
And I know, let's throw this out there, the Djokic ejection was bullshit. It was bullshit.
It may be a technical, but having that be an ejection was so, so stupid. I don't know if that changes the game.
And I know some Nuggets fans will say, yeah, of course it does, but the Suns are just on a different level right now. The Suns are a better team.
They were going to win the series. They were probably going to win this game.
But, like, yes, ejecting the reigning MVP, that's going to have an effect on it. And my thing with this ejection, it's a playoff foul, Big Cat.
Yeah. It's a playoff foul.
It's a playoff foul. He wound up.
He took a swing. I think that referee, he likes seeing himself on camera a lot.
He is the king of staring into America's souls in the living room. And he does little pivots.
He looks back. He looks like he's on a runway out there.
He wanted to get more face time for himself. He's like, let's review this again.
At first, Reggie Miller was like, it's not a foul at all. And then he was like, you know what? Throw him out.
Throw him out of the game. Get him out of here.
Honestly, endless respect for Djokic being an MVP in the NBA and still, I think he cuts his hair with a flowbie. Whatever it is, it's the same number three all over.
He just takes the clippers to his head and he just goes, just get me out of this chair. I'm in, I'm out.
There's no such thing as a fade when you're Jokic. And he also, he definitely won the face-to-face with Devin Booker.
You could read his lips. He was just saying, what are you going to do about it? What are you going to do about it? That's always like, when you say that and the guy's backing up, it's like, all right, well, you won this.
Did you see his brothers at the MVP ceremony? No. He had a great MVP speech that was essentially, it was maybe 15 seconds.
And he was like, it's not about me. It's about all these guys.
Clap it up for them. And then that was it.
I like it. What was his brother? They're huge.
They just looked like huge, tattooed. I love it.
I love it. All right, we'll remember this year, the MVP season.
Also, DeAndre Ayton's been awesome. And he could have been awesome anyway.
You know what I mean? Like, he could have fulfilled his promise as the number one pick in the draft. But it is funny to be like, hey, what happened to DeAndre Ayton? Oh, well, he's now paired with one of the top five point guards of all time.
That probably helps. Chris Paul makes big guys great.
That's what he does. DeAndre Ayton, he misses one, maybe two shots a game.
He might go through this playoffs with the highest field goal percentage

of any player ever because he just gets the ball.

Chris Paul just throws him lobs.

It's everything that we were told Lob City would be

is his connection with DeAndre Ayton.

And his defense has been amazing.

The Suns are just playing at a different level.

So great, great pivot by us.

Do you want to chug with the fellas?

To become a Suns podcast.

I'll split this with you. If you want to chug this with the? To become a son's podcast.
I'll split this with you.

If you want to chug this with the fellas.

I'll chug this with the fellas.

Just chug the water.

Hang on.

Fellas.

Coors seltzer.

Orange cream.

This is delicious, by the way.

Boom, I just hydrated.

I don't know if you've had this.

Not going to lie.

I'm struggling with the papadillas.

Hear that burp?

That was for the fellas.

The papadilla day didn't go so hot. Coming out.
We can talk about that on Who's Back. The Papadilla sits heavy.
It's Papadilla. It's like I ate, I feel like I ate rocks.
Let's just talk about it now. All weekend long, I just sat there watching games and Papadilla's.
You're pronouncing it like a gringo. It's Papadia.
Papadia's? There's actually no L in it. No, it's Papadilla's's papadillas papadilla but ask yourself this pft papa john you think he wants to pronounce it any other way than as no american and i'm actually as possible i'm shocked i'm shocked that papa john didn't put an r at the end of it uh all right so yeah papadillas they do not sit light in the stomach.
I saw the commercial all weekend. I said, I texted the boys, the fellas on Saturday night.
I was like, hey, you guys had Papadillas before? And everyone's like, no, but it looks good. I was like, all right, done.
For Hank's birthday, which we totally knew about. We totally knew it was Hank's birthday.
We knew that Hank loved Papadillas. It's his favorite thing in the world.
So I got 26 Papadillas from Papa John's. They thought I was pranking them.
So I went, before I came in, I ordered it online, and it didn't, for some reason, Papa John's didn't take my credit card, so I had to do the cash option. And when I showed up, they're like, oh, we thought we were getting pranked.
Why would anyone order 26 Papadillas? So I was like, nope, I'm real. I want them.
I want 26 of them. Tried them all.
Let's just say I probably won't be going back to the Papadillas. No, it's a one-time thing, but it was good that we tried.
You know what it was? if i were if i could go back in time and be 21 year old big cat again uh drinking a lot and smoking a lot and all that shit i would be a pop i'd be the number one papadilla account on twitter what the papadilla is is basically just if you took a sandwich and just made grilled cheese the bread but then just didn't put anything in between just stack grilled cheeses on top of each other yeah it's kind of what they're going for and you know what it to be totally honest with you it worked for about the first four bites yeah yeah it really did it's and it's it's more sandwich than pizza just so everyone knows because i know this is this was science for everyone at home and we did get um the the rankings just quickly went bb Philly cheesesteak, buffalo chicken. That's the top three.
And the reviews, Jake said, I've had worse. Hank said, too deep fried.
No, they're not deep fried. I said, the Parmesan crusted ones made me believe in God, which is true.
And then PFT said, no cap. These are major key.
Yeah, it's paper bubba had the best review he said papa did it again so that's our papa dill's review honestly every single fast food company in america should have a guy whose only job it is is to just get really fucking high and sit in a room with all their ingredients yeah and then just like take notes of everything that this guy creates this should be chris long's job yeah it's just sit in a room like give it put them in a taco bell test kitchen and give him ground beef cheese tortillas sour cream cheese shredded lettuce diced tomatoes and fire sauce it just go fuck me up daddy just just go like all right go off king yeah i i also i i'm reminded every now and then when i do something like that where people are like, oh, commercials are so stupid. Commercials work on me all the time.
100% of the time, if I see a commercial, I'm like, ooh, I got to have it. I actually have a problem.
I could have saved this for Fyre Fest. I have been burning through cash just buying anything that pops up on my instagram ads oh really because it's all focused to you so they're like hey here's this new shirt that won't make you look fat see i can't i can't do it with the instagram ads because you know anytime it's just like link in bio that's two extra clicks that i have to do and that's too much work no dude no no i'm not even i need you to serve the link to me on a silver platter yeah no i'm not talking about the link in bio i'm talking about the ones that look like to do, and that's too much work.
No, dude. No, no, no.
I need you to serve the link to me on a silver platter. Yeah, no, I'm not talking about the link you buy.
I'm talking about the ones that look like Instagram posts, but they're ads. I'm just hitting that constantly.
Yeah. Shop here.
Boom. Done.
I'll buy it, and then I'll just forget it. So, yeah.
And it really is. You think I'm joking, but there was a T-shirt I bought that was like, does your chest look too big in look too big in your t-shirt buy this t-shirt was like damn they really got a targeted end here i got hit like a month or two back to back with like just nothing but concurrent ads for things called lift kits which are they're just like socks that have an extra like inch and a half in the heel that you can put on and then walk around it's like before and after and the guy is like two inches taller in the after picture it's incredible there's a guy who tweeted at me last week who said uh i'm so sick of the internet just having fleshlight ads all over the place can you fix this i was like uh buddy that sounds it sounds to me like a man that already has his fill of fleshlights.
Yeah, he doesn't need anyone. He's no longer in the market for fleshlights, and he's mad that he's getting served ads for them.
Talk to me about same height parties, PFT. Same height parties, yeah.
Apparently somebody probably narked on something that I smashed the like button on on Twitter, but there's something called a same height party where you show up and they measure you at the door and depending on how tall you are, they give you these lifts that you walk around in that bring you up to the exact same height as the tallest person at the party so everybody's the same height. I actually, you know what though? Normalized same height parties.
PFT commentator. I'm going to defend PFT here.
They look awesome. I'm going to defend PFT here.
Logistically, that's a nightmare. Yeah, but think about historically, right? Historically, when you've got short guys, you get like Napoleon and Hitler who try to take over the world.
Now we got short guys just being like, hey, everyone's got to look eye to eye at this cocktail party. Dude, if Austria...
We're good. We're going in a good direction here.
If Austria had same height parties, I think that right now, the geopolitical situation in Europe

would be much simpler than it currently is.

Yes.

So short guys no longer trying to take over the world

and just being like,

hey, meet me eye to eye

when I'm trying to have this cocktail weenie.

I'm cool with that.

Also, Napoleon gets a bad rap

because I think he was just normal height for his time.

But they're like, he's short and retro.

I thought he was pretty short.

No, that's James Madison. James Madison was like 5'2".
Oof. Where'd you go to school? Oof.
Couldn't dunk a basketball. Central Virginia.
All right, let's talk some basketball. Let's talk some more basketball.
The Nets are broken. Ever since, pretty much, the moment we finished taping with Kirk Goldsberry on Thursday and said the Nets are a super team and can't be stopped.
I think we said they weren't going to lose a game. Yeah, everything has gone very badly since.
They obviously lost on Thursday, which we recapped. Today, Kyrie Irving goes out.
They lose game four. I did see some people tweeting and people talking about Giannis.
Was that a dirty play? I don't think it was. I thought it was.
I thought it was weird they didn't review it. Because I do think if you're going to call landing, what do they call it? Landing area or whatever? Yeah, like invading a guy's landing area.
He did do that. But it was also in the key.
It was not Zaza. Yeah, it wasn't.
People were comparing it to Zaza. Yeah, I don't know if you could still do that.
People were comparing it to Zaza, doing that to Kawhi. That was totally different.
Yeah, on that one, he walked underneath his feet on a three-pointer. And this one, when you're around the basket, I think it's harder to time that shit out.
It is, but he did go kind of underneath him. Again, I'm just shocked they didn't review it.
I don't think that there was any dirtiness, any malicious intent. At that point, we're getting into hockey Twitter, break it down frame by frame.
In the speed of the moment, you don't know.

If there's anybody in the league where you don't know where that guy's going to land on the layup,

it's Kyrie Irving because that's where he's making all his last-second moves and adjustments.

So I don't think he could do that if he tried.

I don't think that he was trying, but I did admire. I don't agree with the take, but I did admire the take from Big Baby, Glenn Davis.

Oh, yes.

Glenn Davis said, that's the same ankle he used to step on Lucky.

And it wasn't.

It wasn't.

Of course he fucked that up.

Of course he did.

But still.

You can't let facts get in the way of a good take.

No, never.

And that was a good take.

Never.

Does he know his left and right?

Well, it doesn't matter.

That's what I'm saying.

It doesn't matter.

He's made millions of dollars.

It's a principle.

Yeah.

And I think that there was like a weird backlash against Big Baby for saying that because they were like, yo, he's injured. This is fucked up, Big Baby.
Yeah, he is injured, but it's a sprained ankle. And he stepped unlucky.
He'll never be 100% again. Yeah, I was going to say the bad news for the Nets is his x-rays came back negative, which means it was sprained, which is way worse than a broke break.
It's worse. He won't be 100% again.
And he was wearing, you know, he was wearing it after the game. What? Walking boot.
Oh, no. Hey, Kyrie.
Hey, Kyrie. Hey, Kyrie.
I was thinking maybe you slipped me on. We can discuss whether or not we should add some healing crystals into my tongue.
Hey, Kyrie, if you hopped on a boat and went to the end of the horizon, you'd just fall right off. Kyrie, you best to move.
I'd notice you're living next to a 3G tower. Oh, man.
It is a little, like, obviously the Nets at full strength are probably the best team in the NBA and better than the Bucs. But at some point, you do have to admit that, like, Kyrie Irving, James Harden, those guys do get injured.
So to say, oh, they got derailed by injury, well, they are also injury prone, right? So, like, it's not totally crazy. It's not like someone who, you know, it's not like LeBron, you know, AD getting hurt, AD gets hurt.
If LeBron gets hurt, it's like, holy shit, LeBron got hurt? Like, LeBron never gets hurt. So, as much as it sucks, I kind of like that the Nets have to win at the Harden.
They got to overcome something? Like, I think James Harden will probably be back, and this is just a total guess, for maybe game six. So KD on Tuesday night has to and I want to say it, PFD, should we use the L word, is this a legacy game for Kevin Durant on Tuesday night? I was going to say it's a must win.
If you want to jump to legacy, well, if we're going to do a legacy game,

we have to have someone that he's passing the torch to

if he doesn't win this legacy game.

There needs to be a new torch.

Would it be Giannis?

Oh.

Is this a torch game?

Or is Kawhi is, dude,

Kawhi just every now and then

will just pop up on the legacy watch.

Yeah.

It's like, remember Kawhi?

He's perfect in fourth quarters that they've won.

Let's talk about that series real quick how come bad players never get hurt uh wait no the bad players do get hurt do they you just you never hear about like kelly olenic needing surgery i'm trying to think bad players getting hurt i mean clinic clinic yeah the legend uh oh they did say that that James Harden was going to try to come back,

but Steve Nash said that he needs to string together loads before he can come back.

Kelly Olenek, right shoulder surgery, 2016.

I don't recall him missing any time for that.

All right, so the Clippers.

The Clippers.

Kelly Olenek didn't miss any games in 2016.

It was May 17, 2016, where the Celtics – yeah, he missed two playoff games against the hawks oh in february two games damn i'm just reading a story i don't know um the clippers so one playoff playoff p way to go it is great like as much as we are very mean to to paul george online and everyone is when he well, he gets extra credit. Like everyone's like, playoff P, this is incredible.
I also feel like Kawhi is like, and we talked to Kirk Goldsberry about this on Thursday, but he really does like practice load management within a playoff series where it's like, I don't need to try really hard until we like go down two games or yeah i think kirk was saying like you don't put kawaii on somebody until you need to stop him because you know it's going to happen right but you don't want to get him tired over the course of a few games so yeah like during the course of a game he'll even like he he does conserve his energy especially like on offense i've noticed that kawaii yeah he doesn't move around as much as he could. I'll put it that way.
He will chill in the corner. LeBron does that too, though.
Yeah, well, he doesn't play defense. Where he doesn't play defense and sometimes doesn't play offense.
But yeah, you're right, Kawhi. But that's a lot of energy going after the refs.
Correct. Correct.
A lot of talking to the referee. And Kawhi doesn't use any energy at all talking to anyone.
Right. Even his teammates.
Exactly. Or smiling.
Isn't it like if you laugh, you burn 10 calories? No, it takes like, I want to say 20 muscles to frown and 10 muscles to smile. But he just doesn't.
But it takes zero muscles to do neither one. To do nothing.
Yeah. Also, shout out LeBron for swearing on Twitter.
That was shocking.

Fuck.

Right ahead of Space Jam 2.

Mm-hmm.

That was very shocking.

A loud-ass hell swear word.

Yeah.

That series that will be interesting.

And then the Sixers might just be the best team in the East who are just kind of waiting.

Or the best team in the NBA who are just waiting.

Because they have sort of destroyed the Hawks the last two games. Sixers defense is good.
Sixers defense is very good. Hank, that's very big of you.
Ben Simmons should have been the defensive player of the year. So who do they put Ben Simmons on if they go up against the Nets? Bruce Brown? Whoever they want.
Yeah, Bruce Brown's floaters. Don't let them get floaters in the middle.
Bruce Brown? He just keeps going with the floaters, and I love it. Big Cat, there are a lot of Bruce Brown haters out there.
We are not amongst them. I'm looking at the box score right now.
He was plus three today. Yeah.
Dude, his floaters work sometimes. He's like J.R.
Smith level every time he shoots. You're like, what are you doing? Well, I think the fact that it's a floater everyater every time it's like what's going on here um like most guys take like one or two floaters a game bruce brown just every shot's a floater uh yeah but i think the sixers we'll see and i do every time the sixers win a game and they play that song it's fucking sick you have to give them that hank right yeah okay their defense is good all right so there we go uh anything else from the weekend for basketball i think that's about it i think we covered most sons in four that guy's a legend ronnie jr lost a championship oh and drake was there yeah making it all about himself wait drake showed up at a tournament with a bunch of 17 year olds yepolds? Yep.
Wow. Careful.
No, it's just interesting. That's all.
I'm just intrigued by it. I thought he had some sort of restraining order.
Some 16. Keep him away from schools.
Yeah. Alright, the hockey, we had the Islanders beat the Lightning.
So there's a start. Oh, also the Avalanche were the greatest team to never win a Stanley Cup.
Yep. I like that.

Blamed out.

You know what?

I'm entering the point in this hockey playoffs where now I'm mad at people

because we were told that the Avalanche were just going to shit pump everybody.

Yes.

We were told they were a wagon, and they're not a wagon at all.

Turns out the Golden Knights might be a wagon.

Turns out the Islanders, America's team, they're the South's team now. There's a chance.
Because they're the New York Saints. Yeah.
I love Ryan Whitney, Stichuitz Finest, and Biz. There's a chance that there might be some bias where I'm not sure what it's like.
They've talked down on the Islanders so much because Whitney goes at it with their fans. Oh.
But it's like I'm starting to wonder if maybe the Islanders are just good. Yeah.
They said the Bruins are going to ship pump the Islanders does and then they're like no matter what happens the Lightning are going to ship up the Islanders and then the Islanders won game one like pretty handled. I agree with you.
It does feel every time the Islanders win a game like wow, they must have just done it with like grit and grind like they how did they pull this off again? They might just be really good. I think they're the highest scoring team in the playoffs.
Yeah, and they're doing it without their captain, who I thought I saw Anders Lee. I think he skated the other day.
Yeah, is it fair for me to kind of like partially claim this Islanders run as a Caps fan? Because they got Barry Trotz and Varley? It's Cap. Is that Cap? Am I capping right now? Yeah, you can't Cap that.
But you know that there's any time that happens, you've got to be like, there's a special part in your brain that's in the interest of self-preservation trying to make me feel okay about it. I think you should be more mad at the caps for letting Barry trots.
That situation. Yeah, that's tough.
I think he has to go, like, he has to leave and have to be gone for a really long while for it to be like, okay, now I'm rooting for Barry Trotz. I mean, you're rooting for a campaign.
Yeah. I mean, well, that has become, I don't know.
I still don't know how he's getting these minutes. I don't know.
Yeah. He's a wonder.
Yeah. I'm not even rooting for him.
I'm just shocked that he's doing what he's doing. And he's actually, like, contributing.
Yes. Yeah, out of nowhere.
But with Barry Trotz, it's like, he won a Stanley Cup. Yeah, no, I'd be mad.
He personally won me a Stanley Cup, so I'm like, cap for life, that guy. Yeah, no, no, you're right on that.
I would be more, I think just the way he left, it's like, how the hell did he leave the year after they won the Stanley Cup? Yes, contract just ran. Right, that would piss me off.
That would be more, I think you root for Barry Trotz and you're mad at your own franchise. Yes.
That's where I'm at. That situation.
But still, that's the Cap Stanley Cup. Yes, you can root for Barry Trotz.
Yeah. All right.
So, the PLL. Our Water Dogs are the hottest team in sports.
I don't want to say they listen to us, but they definitely listen to us because we dog walked them the last week because they were that bad week one. And they actually took our advice to just shoot more.
So I am going to say good job, Water Dogs. I'm proud of the fellas.
They put up. I watched both games.
You know how I know that they actually took some criticism from the owner's suite. Game one, they had a power play, and I know everyone's like, oh, it's man up.
It's man up. Dude, the fucking NBC Sports Broadcast calls it a power play.
So I'm calling it a power play. Well, I'm actually, I'm indicting NBC Sports Broadcast for that.
You know who would not make a mistake like that? Jake Marsh. Jake Marsh.
If he was announced. No, no, but they're trying to, they're doing the thing.
This is what happens every time rugby is on television in America. Every single play, it's like, this is like a free throw in basketball.
Right. But they should call it a power play if it's a power play, but it's a man up.
Whatever. I don't care.
I'm calling it a power play. They call it a power play.
Shut up. People are saying it's man up.
I'm a big... I'm a fucking lacrosse team owner.
Do they call it the sin bin when a guy goes to the penalty box? I don't know what they call it. That'd be cool.
Jake, you can use that one. I nap for most of the games.
I'll use it if I get a game. They shot right away on the power play of game one.
Game two, they started the game, won the faceoff, fucking two point bomb, four seconds into the game. That's how you play, boys.
So there's been a shitload of scoring. I'm starting to wonder if the balls are doctored in lacrosse this year.
Because is this the first year that they're using the Dayglo yellow ball? I think it's the two-point thing. The two-point line.
That has something to do with it. We take a lot of long ones, though, which I don't like.
We have to fix that. I don't like that.
We've got to take a look at it. We've got to run it through our software algorithm and see exactly what we need to tweak.
But we're on the right track.

More shots.

Shots. I am convinced.
Not our goalie. Our goalie's cool.
I like that guy. I think they were getting after it at the airport with the boys after a great weekend.
Well-deserved. But every other goalie stinks.
Goalies just stink in lacrosse. And I'm not saying that as a mean thing.
I think it's an impossible job for them to have to save a baseball coming at them 105 miles an hour and like a bunch of bodies in front of them all the gear i don't know how any goalie ever saves anything so my point is just shoot more i'm always amazed that there aren't more like just hard shin bruises in lacrosse from shots like a lacrosse ball hitting your your leg, that seems like the most painful thing ever. Dude, our captain, I think he's our captain, Drew Snyder, he got hit in the ribs on Friday night, and it was like almost five seconds after he pulled up his shirt, and it was completely black and blue.
It was crazy. I love the long-haired guy with the mustache on our team.
Who's that guy? He scores too many goals. Mikey Schlosser.
Mikey Schlosser. Mikey Schlosser.
Every time I see him, it's very tricky because with the font that we use for our numbers, it looks like he's number 69 from the side. And then he rotates and it's 59.
Guys, look at us. We're just talking lax.
Yeah. Like, just regularly talking lax.
That kid's got flow, man. It's just good to win.
You know what? I'm happy that they listened to us because we sucked week one. And if we go back to that, I will say that we suck again and we're an embarrassment to this show.
I'm just going to say this. If we go on a two-game losing streak at any point, we're going to move the team.
We're moving it. I know that we don't have a town.
It's like a traveling circus of lacrosse that we do. But we're going to move the fucking fucking team out of loserville don't believe me try me try because i would love it yeah we would we'll fucking do anything i'll pay for my own fucking stadium we won't we we won't uh we'll stop paying the players yeah we will stop paying the players that's it if we have to power the person make them play better we'll fucking do it we will do it i don't a union.
We'll stop playing with the players, and then we'll double what we pay them currently if they win four games in a row. And then I'll match it.
Who's the head of the union? Fucking Paul Rabel's brother? It's probably Paul. Paul's the commissioner and the head of the union.
He negotiates against himself. I'm pretty sure we can stop paying the players if we want to.
All right. Any other sports stuff? We're going to do talking tennis and talking soccer in segments, so we're not going to miss those.
College baseball, we're in it. We're watching it.
It's on. It's on.
That was our college baseball segment. I actually do love it.
Was they wearing like deceptively University of Tennessee type uniforms? Speaking of the University of Tennessee, did you see that they, bad, bad University of Tennessee, they priced out all the real fans. I did see that.
It was like $300 for a ticket. Forgot to mention this with the Lightning.
The Lightning are kicking out fans of the lower section that aren't Lightning fans. They've been doing it for a while.
Oh, they did that in 2015 against the Hawks. It's insane.
They tried to ban. It's like picking up more steam.
It's crazy. We have to talk about it.
A bunch of Islanders fans got kicked out today just for being in the lower section. In 2015, they tried to ban.
I think it was if you bought tickets from a non-Florida area code, they they wouldn't sell them to you they've been doing this bullshit for years they did it in 2018 too when the caps were playing against them third leg gray there are people like coming down trying to get us kicked out yeah remember when nate got slapped yeah that was funny bad sports town bad sports town actually it's crazy like tampa bay they they had no excuse to be this type of bad sports town until the last, like, two years. Now they're the epicenter of everything.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah, they're in everything. You remember that letter that the Lightning wrote to their fans a couple years ago? The best letter ever.
Pull it up and read it to us, Jake. I want to hear that from you.
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Jake, the lightning. We don't have any words and we know you don't want to hear them.
We understand your anger, your frustration, your sadness, everything you're feeling. We get it.
This isn't the ending we imagined and certainly not the one we wanted. Thank you for being there the entire way.
They did win the cup after. Yeah.
Apologies work, I guess. That's just an all timer.
Cut themselves. An all timer.
That's just a social media team that's not living in reality.

I think the social media team was just, that was their version of note zapping,

like something problematic that they had done in their past.

When you see somebody get their old tweets brought up,

that's the social media team equivalent of doing that.

And little do they know, all they had to do was type out final, period.

Yeah.

And that would have been more than enough.

More than enough.

All right.

Who's back of the week, Hank?

Who's back of the week is Lamar Odom.

Yeah.

There's a lot of big fights this weekend, high profile guys, UFC, TikTokers, YouTubers.

But on Friday night, Lamar Odom versus Aaron Carter. Aaron Carter.
Aaron Carter. I was going to say Aaron Paul, but that's not his name.
Aaron Carter. I don't know what this fight was.
I didn't see any promotion about it other than Buddha Ben tweeting about it and then the video that came out after. But it was just Lamar Odom just dummying fucking Aaron Carter.
Obviously a huge height difference. It didn't look like Aaron Carter was trained at all, and he just beat the shit out of him.
Aaron Carter also fought like he was mad. Lamar Odom fought like he was just annoyed that this little guy was buzzing around him like a mosquito.
I like the idea that, you know, how in the Fyre Fest, when they did their promotion, they're like, we're just going to pay all the Instagram influencers a ton of money to promote this. This fight company was like, we'll just pay Buddha Ben, and that will be enough.
It worked. I mean, I was interested.
The video was pretty hilarious of Aaron Carter just sprinting at him and Lamar Odom just being like, get away from me, weirdo. Your brother's band sucks.
But yeah, then I also watched the YouTube versus TikTok fights on a YouTube stream where some kids said the title of it was Fortnite with the Boys. And it was like one of those streams

where the kid would come on and interrupt.

How'd you find it?

I think I just typed it in Twitter

and then I clicked the link and it was like

Fortnite with the Boys. When I was on it, it was like 800 people

and by the end of it, there was like 80,000.

I thought I was going to get it.

Holy shit.

It'd be hilarious if Dana White was running one of those.

To just totally undercut the competition.

He's FaceTiming the screen.

By the way, Nate Diaz, he's the best.

He loves getting his ass kicked.

He loves just, and he loves also, like, losing,

but having everyone respect him the most.

Yeah.

And be like, dude, he was about to knock him out.

And he really could have if he just didn't.

He was doing that weird thing where he was, like, standing sideways the was like standing sideways oh he was presenting his asshole to like that's literally what he was doing he was like puts on the show he was looking over his shoulder like come on come on over here big boy you won't and then every time he would get tagged in the face he would like take a second and smile and be like that was good i like that we're gonna get him on the show we actually at one point had him he missed the flight, I think. Or no, something happened where he.
You're going to fishbowl the studio. Yeah, no.
The question that was asked of me before I was trying to get him on, and I was talking to some guys, and they were like, are you guys cool if Nate smokes? And we're like, yeah, definitely. Let's all smoke.
So hopefully we have Nate on at some point, and we all smoke. That awesome i'm gonna put jake put that in my put that on my to-do list just a future reminder yeah i'm gonna get back into contact with the guy above or below the dick sucking oh yeah when do we want how many below yeah below dick sucking uh but aaron rogers retiring That's today.
He's going to get traded this week. Okay.
Yes. So what date do you want this reminder? I think every Sunday night.
Thursday for the Nate Diaz. Oh, for the Nate one.
To reach out to his people and try to get that. Thursday.
But that's a guaranteed have to be in person. Cannot do a Nate Diaz interview over Zoom.
Hank, weren't you supposed to do that thing with the leaf blower where you just smoke out the entire studio? We'll do that in front of Nate Diaz. We'll do that in front of Nate Diaz.
That would be incredible. I'm in.
I bought the pound. And then we got acquired by Penn and I was told maybe we shouldn't.
But with Nate Diaz. that was a new era.
Nate Diaz for Grit Week in for an illegal state. Yeah.
All right. All right.
I had to just take care of the pound myself. I'm going to do everything I can for the AWL's Nate Diaz for Grit Week.
I think we could probably pay him to just bottom a flight somewhere. That's not illegal, though, to buy a pound of marijuana and then smoke it with the boys.
With Nate Diaz, is it? In a legalized state, it's not. I think it still is illegal to own over a pound.
An ounce. We'll do a couple ounces.
Yeah, yeah. We'll figure it out.
We each do an ounce. Listen, details later, but everyone put it in their own calendar.
We should get really high and invent a new Taco Bell item. That would be great.
Done. Make that happen.
Papadillas. I have a feeling if I get high, now that all I'm thinking about is Papadillas.
You're just going to recreate the Papadilla? What if we just folded it? Yeah. Which are deep fried.
Yeah. That actually is why I think the Papadilla.
Was deep fried. No, was why I was drawn to it.

I thought it was a new Taco Bell item.

And Taco Bell only releases the best items.

Facts.

Cheesy gordita crunch.

Best fast food item maybe ever.

Yeah.

Best food ever.

All right.

PFT.

My who's back of the week is Jeremy Toobin.

Jeremy Toobin.

Jeffrey Toobin. Sorry.
Jeffrey Toobin came back with a vengeance on CNN last week. So they brought him back on.
He's a guy that you might remember. He got caught jacking off on a Zoom meeting with the New Yorker staff.
And so he got fired from the New Yorker, and he was a legal analyst on CNN. They brought him back on, and the female anchor that brought him to the desk introduced him.
And then she's like, maybe we should take just a second to get everybody recapped on why you haven't shown your face around here. And he was like, yeah, I guess if you want to do that, go ahead.
And then she spent about a minute and a half talking about how he got caught jacking off on a Skype call at his other job and wasn't welcome back or he got fired from that job. And it was, I love seeing somebody just get publicly shamed for jacking off.
And with Jeffrey Toobin, I need like a disclaimer on my screen at all times when he's presenting any sort of legal advice. Or he should wear like a scarlet letter, but it's like the eggplant emoji on his chest.
Or at the very least, give me like a yellow box, like they show on a score bug for flags. When Jeremy Toobin shows up, give me a yellow box that pops up.
It's like this guy jacks off. It should be the jackass.
It should be like, warning, this man has jacked off in front of a camera before. Warning, this guy masturbates.
Yes. Yeah, so I'm looking forward to seeing more of him on the TV.
He's just, if you were him, he's probably what, like 60, what do you think, 65 or 61 years old? Respect, respect, first of all, to Jeffrey Toobin for continuing to have a healthy sex life with his hand when you're 61. I've just always assumed that when you hit 50, you shouldn't jack off anymore.
It's unbecoming of your age. of a gentleman to do that, you can't be jacking off anymore.
I wish that he had just, because the CNN thing I watched as well, it was so awkward.

And he's like, I hope I can regain your trust.

And of course, jerking off in front of your colleagues, whether he says that he doesn't know he was on camera, whatever.

Very bad.

But he should have been like, hey guys, listen. I'm a guy.
I jerk off. You know what? You should trust me more because I'm just a regular guy who jerks off.
And guess what? This is my pledge to you. I will not do it in front of any more cameras.
They should do a segment called Jacking It with Jeffrey every week where he talks about like some Instagram thought. Lean into it.
Yeah, lean into it. You have to own it at this point.
Yeah, dude, guess what? You're going to get bonked once or twice. That's the day and age that we live in.
But yeah, just become the jack-off guy. Yeah.
We should put this in the notes, Jake. Let's try to book him, and let's try to jerk off in front of him.
Yeah. Have him judge us.
Definitely get a Zoom call going with Tubin. Why would you like me to? Whenever.
Yeah. You surprise us.
All right. You surprise us.
Above or below the self-sucking. We should actually try to self-suck on the Zoom call with Jeffrey Toobin.
Yeah. So we'll interview him, and then we'll just, right in the middle of it, we'll say that we thought the cameras were off, and we'll just start trying to give ourselves head.
I would like to do an exit interview with Jeffrey Toobin, showing Peter Norsese dick. Do you want to do it like during football season? Eh, maybe before.
Yeah, it feels like after. Before or after.
Alright. Second we go August? Yeah.
Alright. Alpha week.
Wait, when's National Masturbation Day? I know it exists. Right after Puparino Day.
National Masturbation Day is May 7th.

May 7th.

We just missed it.

Damn it.

All right.

So next year, May 7th.

Put it in.

All right.

To all those who celebrate.

May 1st, though, so we can plan it out. Yeah, yeah.

So we get a little bit of, yeah, yeah.

My who's back is the Cubs are back.

I had no statistics behind this.

The hottest team in baseball.

And also Wrigley is packed. And also Anthony Rizzo was under fire on Friday because he didn't get vaccinated.
But then he had one of those 16 pitch at bats where he hit a home run, which is the coolest thing you can do in a baseball game. So pretty much all is forgiven.
And nobody's going to bring up the vaccination stuff after an abat like that. No, exactly.
Watching it live, it is one of the coolest things to do when you're watching a baseball game and a guy keeps fouling off every single pitch and you get to like 12, 13, 14 pitches and you just know he's going to do something sweet because you can just feel it and the crowd rises and everyone everyone gets into it. And then, boom, home run.
So, yeah, everything else he said earlier that day, who cares? But also you should get vaccinated. I got offered a trade in my fantasy baseball league, C-Med Express.
Anthony Rizzo was on it. I declined it.
Because he didn't get vaccinated? I don't want him infecting my team. You want to keep 85% threshold.
I don't want to have him getting my other players sick. Yeah, 85% threshold.
I want to keep it like that so my guys can enjoy life, stay loose a little bit. It was a sick home run, though.
It was. It was very sick.
It was a very sick home run. There's nothing better than any at-bat that goes above 10 pitches that ends in a hit.
Forget about a home run that ends in a hit. It feels like you've just watched the greatest movie of all time.
And you can also say, you can sound like you are a true baseball analyst. And you're like, that was a professional at bat.
Yeah. That was a professional at bat.
All the kids at home. It's just great seeing the crowds back.
Like, I know that we've done this before. The fans.
What do we say? By, like, Thanksgiving, you have to stop saying great to have fans back. Yeah, you've got to have at least one home game in every major sport at all the iconic destinations.
Okay, yeah. So that was this weekend.
It was Cubs-Cardinals. It was a beautiful Friday afternoon game, beautiful weather, and everyone's having a great time in the bleachers.
The best. Oh, it just occurred to me with the Suns guy that we were talking about earlier.
Yeah. Do you think that the Suns are a team of destiny? We talked about the gorilla.
I think so. For Harambe? Yeah, I think so.
Until Chris Paul gets hurt because that's going to happen soon. But we're a Suns podcast.
Seriously, just another pat on the back for us. To switch from a regular season Nuggets podcast, we put a fucking MVP in our trophy case, and then we switch to the team that gets swept by.
Everything we touch turns to gold on this show. All-time move.
Waterdogs are on fire. Yeah.
Waterdogs can't stop winning. Literally cannot stop winning.
Jake, who's back? Simone Biles. She won the U.S.
Gymnastics Championship, seventh all-around national title. this is a good reminder that coming up the Olympics US is just good at very niche sports yes there was a clip of Simone Biles super slow motion and it blew my fucking mind like the shit she does in the air is insane she's doing the Biles yeah she's doing the Biles but Yeah, she's doing the Biles.
Those are the moves that she does. But watching it in super slow-mo.
Because there's like five different moves that she does in the air. Yeah.
I would forget what I was doing next. She's doing like two flips, a twist, another flip, another twist.
I'd break every single ball. You know what I would do is if I went on one of those fucking bouncy mats the minute i tried to lift off my ankles

would just shatter your body now that's your soul but you know what i also would do is that end like

this and i would get at least one point for that that's true if you do this you get it's like the

sat's right well yeah you put your name down you get two order points if you end like this it's not

just that you have to salute the judges right the judges demand respect you have to look at the

judges present yourself to them yeah so yeah if you've got like compound fractures together and

I'm going to go have to salute the judges. Right.
The judges demand respect. You have to look at the judges, present yourself to them.
Yeah. So, yeah, if you've got, like, compound fractures in both legs, you're looking like Lieutenant Dan.
Won't be hard. You hit the floor, and you just, like, look at them and go like that.
I mean, that's better than some Olympians have done. Won't be hard to have my ankles be touching because the bones will be just sticking out, both touching that way.
You've got the scooter. And then I you right off wow that was majestic um all right let's get to our interview with bobby valentine we got some segments coming up after before we get to our interview pft you had a quick word from our sponsor yes i'm very excited about this so we've talked a little bit about the show dave on this podcast i actually watched the entire season one so good it's coming.
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It's going to incredible watch it check it out you will not be disappointed that's a pft guarantee and now here is the inventor of the rap bobby valentine okay we now welcome on a very special guest it is bobby valentine valentine why did you screw that up valentine valentine valent. Has anyone ever called you Valentin, like a teacher back in school? Oh, sure.
I get it in my own head when I pronounce names. Bobby Valentin, very excited to have you on.
There's a lot we got to talk about, but you are running for mayor of Stanford. That's how I saw you pop up the other day, your ad, which was fantastic.
And let's just start at the most important topic because I pointed out that I would like to be part of your campaign team. And the first order of business would be we wouldn't do a single ad without mentioning that you invented the wrap.
So we need to talk about you inventing the wrap. You are one of the greatest inventors of all time.
It's up there with Michelangelo. I don't know who else.
Thomas Edison. Who else invented stuff? I mean, there are a lot of inventors, but you go down the list and you see the guy that invented the wrap.
The wrap. You actually changed the sandwich game.
Yes. People eat wraps all the time, so let's do it.
Let's talk about... Hank also would be also would be on that list yeah yeah all right let's talk about the wrap and then we could talk about everything else we want to talk about you running for mayor and all that but the wrap you invented the wrap first off i think it's a little misnomer that i invented it because i think it creates stuff in the kitchen so i'm not sure even though they always say i invented it uh i I don think that's the case.
But, you know, it's a simple story. In 1981, I'm cooking.
You know, I open up a restaurant. I've been in the business for a year.
The cook doesn't show up. I go back in the line.
I'm flipping hamburgers the whole nine yards. And the president of the bank that loaned me the money just opened the restaurant, came in, and he wanted a club sandwich, which he always wanted, even though we didn't have a club sandwich on the menu.
Now, a club sandwich that he wanted was always on toast. Well, this particular day, the toaster was out of order.
And this particular day, we just received a big batch of 10-inch tortilla shells from Phoenix, Arizona, because in New England, they didn't have nachos in 81, okay? That was a West Coast thing. And so we were cutting the tortilla shells and deep frying them to get the nacho chip and put them in our nachos.
Well, when he came in and asked for the club sandwich in the middle of lunch, I had about 20 hamburgers that I'm trying to test their temperatures. I said, we'll get them something.
And I took a 10-inch tortilla. I put all the ingredients of a club sandwich, the mayo, the whole nine yards.
I rolled it up. I put cheese on the top of it.
I put it underneath the salamander. I melted the cheese to hold the layer together.
I took it out. I cut it into three pieces.
I sent it out to him and told the waitress, Debbie Greeny at the time, tell him this is a club sandwich, Mexican style. and he loved it.
It became a favorite in the restaurant.

We put it on the menu

and about four months later,

my manager was on one of these little cooking stations and he was in the kitchen showing what we do in our restaurant. And they said, do you have anything special? He says, oh, yeah.
You know, we invented this new sandwich type called a wrap. Well, there were a lot of naysayers when this came out, and then more naysayers when I went up to manage in Boston.
So a couple of the really cool reporters up there decided that they'd get their friends at the Wall Street Journal to do a national search to find out who had a wrap sandwich on the menu before 1981.

And guess what?

They... to do a national search to find out who had a wrap sandwich on the menu before 1981.
And guess what? They couldn't find anyone. And they said, I invented the wrap.
You invented the wrap. What a story.
I seriously, like, I know, you know, major league manager, incredible career, successful restaurant, running for mayor. You do know, though, that like you inventing the rap is the number one accomplishment and it should be.
And it's like Bobby Valentine. He invented the rap.
I think it's right at the top of the platform. Yeah, that and wearing a mustache into the dugout.
Right. These are the things I'm known for.
You know, I had an illustrious career. I really did a lot of stuff.
Yeah, I invented a rap. Hey, you know, that restaurant, by the way, it wasn't after a successful career.
That was after playing 10 years in the big leagues, and I had $6,000 in the bank. And I was at a charity dinner where a guy said, hey, what are you doing? I said, I'm waiting for the phone to ring.
I had played with the Seattle Mariners in 79. And he said, what if the phone doesn't ring? I said, whoa, I'm in trouble.
He says, well, you probably saved a lot of money in your career, didn't you? And I said, yeah, a little over $6,000. Now, the most I ever made was $28,000 as a player.
That's for a year. And I said, well, I don't really have an option.
He said, you ever think

about doing a restaurant?

And I said, no. He showed me this

place. He said, I'll be your partner.

We can get some inexpensive financing.

And this is 1979, guys.

I didn't know about financing, you know what I mean?

And

if you wanted to borrow money from a bank

then it was 17.5%.

Whoa, loan shark.

In this one particular area it it was urban renewal zone. And so the federal government was loaning money to people who wanted to invest in the urban renewal zone.
So we got cheaper money. We got $33,000.
My dad and I took down the walls and the ceilings and the floors and built the tables and the bars and and even some of the chairs and we opened up with a sports ticker a satellite dish which were unknown to people i really actually think the first sports ticker in america was in stanford connecticut where you invented sports bars too yeah invented the entire concept of like a Buffalo Wild Wings. That credit should go to Bobby Valentine as well.
Oh, at least full credit. Yes.
And I like the fact that you said you made sure that we used the correct nomenclature, which was you created the wrap. To me, that tells me that you are the true inventor of it because if you were just trying to take all the credit for it, you'd be like, that's me i invented it but it's more of an art form in the kitchen i'm curious how like if you go out to a restaurant and a wrap is on the menu how quick are you to point out to your server like you know i invented that or i created that excuse me i could tell you i never did it over all of the years i probably bought a lot of wraps,

but I never brought it up,

only because, you know, this was 1981.

It was 2012 when the Wall Street Journal did the thing.

So I wasn't going to say it because people would say, oh, BS at that time.

Now they'll say, oh, I'll Google that.

That can't be true, right?

So I didn't want anybody calling BS on something like that. Right.
So you brought it up, wearing the fake mustache, coming back into the dugout after you got ejected from a game. One of the all-time visuals in the history of the sport of baseball.
You come back in incognito, in disguise, trying to blend in. Did you have the mustache ready to go because you knew that you would be ejected at some point? And you were like, I'm going to pull this stunt out.
Or was it just like a crime of opportunity where you walked back and you saw the mustache in the clubhouse? And you're like, you know what? This feels like a good thing to do. I wish I could take credit for that one.
I can't. You know, it was Oral Hershiser and Robin Ventura who were in the clubhouse after I got ejected.
And after I got through kicking a few of the stools, they saidools they said hey you got to go back out there because we had a situation where I had some new coaches in the dugout who didn't really know our team it was extra innings maybe there's going to be an important managerial maneuver and they wanted me out there I said I can't go out there guys I can't do it and I said yeah here put on put on these glasses, take off your uniform and go out there, just a t-shirt. And I did the glasses and the hat and the t-shirt.
I went into the training room and I looked in the mirror to see what it would look like. And then I looked down and I saw the stems that you put underneath your eye, you know, to, to keep the reflection of the sun.
And so I took one of them and I put it over here. And I took another and I put it over here.
I looked at them and Oral said, oh, they'll never know. With that, I went down there, it cost me $10,000.
Well, I didn't really. They fined me $10,000 in a three-day suspension.
and I i got it reduced to a five thousand dollar fine and a two-day suspension for some ridiculous reason so what was the fallout was it like did anyone i would assume the guys in the clubhouse liked it what about the owners like were they like what are you doing why would you do Well, I did it because it was a tough time in the season.

I just want you to know, you guys will like this because you can Google it if you want.

But like three days before, when there was a change of my coaches, I had to do a press conference at Yankee Stadium.

Okay?

My coaches were gone.

I had to sit and take questions and answers.

And one of the questions was, why didn't you leave with your coaches and show them loyalty? And I said, well, because they told me to stay here, turn this around so they could get a cut of the money at the end of the season when we make the playoffs. And one of the reporters said, yeah, well, what's your record going to be in the next 55 games? And I got up and I was walking out and then I stopped and I looked at him and I said, we'll go 40 and 15.
And he said, what if you don't? As I was walking, I mean, a really fun New York press corps, huh? I had no sleep, you know, the whole night with my coaches. And I looked over and I if we don't i'll quit and just because google's out there um we went 40 and 15 there you go wow and the job unbelievable so everyone was all weirded out in the dugout when i got thrown out and so i went out for a little levity and the guy who was the most stoic guy on our team was John Oleroo you couldn't get him to laugh or smile uh if you had a magician and a clown come in at the same time and he was walking up to you on deck circle and he kind of looked over his shoulder and he saw me down at the end of the dugout and he stopped and he was laughing and then everyone turned their head down the dugout to see what he was laughing at and with that the third base camera that was over third base of the second deck zoomed down into the dugout where i was standing at the end busted yeah that's that's unfortunate it's almost like if everybody had just played it cool at the time, you probably would have gotten away with it.

Just play it cool, guys.

Yeah.

And when you're talking to Major League Baseball after the fact,

I would have just told them it was funny.

Come on, you have to admit that it's funny.

Is that why they knocked the suspension down or the fine down from $10,000 to $5,000?

Because they were like, you know what?

At the end of the day, a laugh's a laugh.

Leonard Coleman, who was the president of the National League at the time,

at the time you had a president of the National League and president of the American League being the commissioner. I appealed it to him.
He was a really good guy. Matter of fact, he was a friend of mine.
And they still play golf together. And I went in and said, Mr.
President, you got to give me a break on this one. It's a tough situation.
Everyone laughed. We won the game.
There was no harm done. I never put on a play.
I didn't have any involvement with what went on. It was only for two innings.
And he said, yeah, Bobby, I laughed when I saw it too, but I have to be the president. 5,000, two-day suspension.
I like it. Wow.
So you've been around the game for a long time, and it seems like the credo of baseball is almost,

it's not cheating if you can get away with it, or it's not cheating if they don't call it. You take every advantage that you can to win a game, and recently we've seen Major League Baseball start to crack down, or they say they're going to crack down, on some of the sticky stuff that pitchers have been using.
Has that been something that's just been part of the game for the last 40, 50 years, and now it's just coming to the forefront? Or is this like a recent development? Oh, it's recent, and it's much more refined, right? The sticky stuff isn't by chance. It's by trial and error to find out what works the best.
And, you know, in the day, if you will, if you go back even 25 years ago, pitchers would have these gross calluses on the end of their fingers. Sometimes the calluses would break off and become a blister, and the pitcher wouldn't pitch for a couple weeks until the skin grew back.
You know, they put on new skin and all these things to try to get the skin to grow back. But they had the big palaces so that when their fingers were on the seam of the ball and the ball would leave their fingers, it would create more spin.
Well, the smart guys got together and they said, well, I'm tired of getting blisters and having my wife say that I have an ugly finger or two or three or whatever it is. I'm going to do it a different way.
And so they get this super sticky stuff. One of the things I remember guys fooling around with was the mice paper, you know, you put in your attic.
And when a little mouse goes on, they, oh, i'm here forever type of stuff you know it's there forever they started fooling around with that because you really had to have our arm speed and you really had to have it going to get the ball off but when it came off it created more spin and that's where we are today and you know, just as far as that's concerned, why do we always have to hang our dirty laundry out in public? Why can't Major League Baseball, when they have these situations, like the other sports? I don't ever hear of a scandal in the other sports. I'm not going to mention any sports, but, you know, if you could be 6'5", 340 pounds

and run a 4'4 and do it all naturally, God bless you.

But you don't get tested.

They're not talking about a problem that they have

or for anything else that people might use to enhance their performance.

It's only baseball.

It's all we're cheating again.

And what a lousy image that has created.

Yeah, no, I agree.

I think what it with baseball is a lot of times baseball will ignore a problem until it becomes so public, and then they'll try to find one or two guys to stick it on. You know, the steroid error was very prevalent.
Everyone was doing it. And then, you know, you get a couple guys that you put in front of, uh, you know, the grand jury or whatever it was a congressional hearing.
And you say, well, this is the face of the problem. Just like this one right now.
Like, Hey, Garrett Cole and Trevor Bauer, the face of the problem. No, probably everyone's done it.
And you guys have just ignored it for long enough that it became public. And now you got to do something spot on you are so exactly right.
And why, I don't know. Maybe, you know, some say it's lack of leadership, but I don't get it.
I am tired of defending our sport. It's a pretty good sport.
And not everyone cheats, but everyone tries to do things that will give them an advantage. Was it cheating? I'm not sure.

You know, I used to flash signals in second base.

Heck, when I coached third base, if the catcher was, you know,

showing me the sign once in a while, I had a signal with the hitter,

especially the left-hand hitters, who would look down and see what I was doing.

I'd give them either location or pitch.

Was I cheating?

I don't know if I was cheating. I think, you know, shame on them for letting me get the sign.
And that stuff with the signs of the Astros, I just have to say this one real quick, because I'm not the smartest guy in the room. But if the Astros got this technology from NASA that was going to steal these signs and relay them to the dugout on internet,

why... The Astros got this technology from NASA that was going to steal these signs and relay them to the dugout on Internet, Wi-Fi with fiber optics.
And in a megasecond, they were going to get the sign and they were going to relay it to the hitter. Believe me, guys, they wouldn't be butt banging on a garbage drum to give the hitter a signal.
If you want me to believe that, then you probably have some order from property in Arizona. You want me to purchase.
Wow. So let's unpack that a little bit because you can hear the garbage can being hit at certain times.
Are you, are you saying that they didn't cheat? Are you saying that it's the line of thinking that it was players like Altuve

that had the vibrating bandages that they were sending it in on? It was very high tech. It had to be very high tech.
Guys, if the catcher said something to the umpire during an at-bat, I would hear it in the opposing dugout. Whoout who huh if the hitter went up there and made some noise that sometimes people laugh at when it slips huh i would hear it in the dugout how could i not hear someone banging the drum when the curveball was coming come on they were they were banging it to the sky.
They probably banged it when passballs, banged it with curveballs, banged it with sliders. And, you know, the opposition said, well, we can't decipher the code, so it must not be anything with the banging of the drum.
Interesting. I like the notion that NASA was there helping out.
That kicks it up an extra notch. Yeah.
Well, you know, and I only say that because I've heard that they were leaned on when the new administration came in to deal with a lot of the metrics, you know, the swing and the pitch, the mechanic, because they weren't doing much down there in Houston, and they got some of these real smart guys to come in and evaluate the

mechanics and biomechanics of the players.

They had a nice edge there.

Nothing wrong with that.

But I'm guessing one of the biomechanical guys came up and brought one of

the IT guys up and said,

Hey,

why don't we just relay the signals too?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Just call it a hunch.

Yeah.

I would like to see maybe, maybe SpaceX got involved with the Dodgers

after they lost to the Astros,

and then Elon Musk is now helping the Dodgers out.

Maybe, or, you know, one of the astronauts in that SpaceX

played baseball at Army,

and he might be part up there right now,

might be relaying some of the signs. Let's go.
We've got on info scores i like where your head's at um all right so not to bring up bad things bobby but we have to address the the the red sox season uh the chicken and beer things i know that people who listen to this show or red sox fans would be like you got to bring it up so. So biggest regret from that year.
And what, if you could go back and do it all again, what would you change? I would have stayed at ESPN. That's a good one.
Yeah. That's a good answer.
Yeah. They were ready to give me a multi-year contract and I was loving the job and you know, yeah, I, I, it, you know, everyone has the woulda, shoulda, you know, and regrets.

I have a few.

I took that job like in December. You know, I usually before a season, I usually started preparing for the next season.
The day the previous season ended. Right.
Right. I didn't even have a coaching staff.
I didn't know the players. I had to fly around the country on New Year's Eve to meet guys who the front office thought I might have offended with something I said when I was doing ESPN telecast to make sure that they were going to be cool with me coming in as their manager, you know, before the season started.
And then when I got there, they said, and make sure you tell everyone you can't have beer in a clubhouse i said whoa they said what am i going to drink after the game right i mean are you kidding me i and no one wants a a cold beer better than me on a hot summer day and they said no the manager has to do it i said it's not my responsibility it's not my liability mean, if someone drinks too much in the clubhouse after the game,

goes out and runs someone over, you know, I'm not the one responsible. The person with the liquor license is responsible.
I know that from being a bar owner for 40 years. So, you know, I didn't want to do that, but I came in as this super cop, which I'm not.
You know, I mean, I'm anything but the guy who goes all the way over to enforce silly rules. So anyway, yeah, it started off bad.
And it was kind of okay for a little while. But then on that Patriots Day, you know, I ride a bike every morning.
And so I got up real early at five in the morning and I'm riding down, riding over to Cambridge and down the river and across and came back about 630 in the morning for this 10 a.m. game, I think it is, or 11.
And one of my players was waiting for him when I came back.

And he was all upset about something I said the night before in a TV interview.

Now, you've got to get this.

I'm sweaty.

I'm in my bike stop.

It's early in the morning.

And I'm going, I didn't have an interview last night.

What are you talking about?

I wasn't on TV last night.

Yeah, you were.

You were on an interview last night. And you said that I wasn't playing up to my capabilities.

And I said, oh, no, I don't think so. And then he left and was real upset saying that I was lying.
Then I found out that the first taped show, which was taped Sunday before the game on Sunday, was aired on Sunday night. This is Monday morning.
And I don't know when it was aired. I didn't know the process up in Boston.
I was there for a few weeks. You know, I just moved into an apartment.
So anyway, he goes out into the clubhouse, saying, the guy's's lying to me you guys hear what he said and all that stuff then I had to take it back and said yeah I was on TV last night it was tape so I would have taken that one back yeah so so the season goes on up there and like obviously a big part of being a manager I think is to keep the clubhouse loose you You have so many games. It can grow a little bit tiresome.

It can be monotonous over the course of the season.

You want to let the guys have some fun.

You want to treat them like men and let them do what they want to do at certain times in order to make sure the team stays cohesive.

Do you regret, was there like a little bit, was it a little bit too laissez-faire that

season where at the end the storyline did become like they were drinking too much beer and they were eating too much chicken no remember i wasn't there for the chicken beer i wasn't there that year i came in the next year after the general manager at midnight flew the coop and went to chicago and the manager retired um and i got a call while i was over in japan partying with all my players at one of our anniversary seasons. And I was at dinner.
I got a phone call and I got the job offered to me. So, no, I didn't even know about the chicken and beer.
I knew about it from a story on ESPN that they talked about. I thought it was crazy.
It was at the end of the season. but no, I didn't know anything about it.
And, you know, when you talk about being loose, that's one of the places that you actually get a little looser. You have a beer with the guys.
You go over and you say, hey, what are you doing? You're all right. You know, relax.
Tomorrow's another day. Something like that.
One day I tried to tell this Will Middlebrooks, who I loved as a player, by the way, who took over for Euclid when Euclid left, which is a real big burden on him to replace a star like Euc in that area. He made three errors in a game.
And I went over to him, sat by his locker after the game. I said, hey, dude, no big deal.
I played for the Dodgers. I made three errors in a game.
When I was coming off of the field, it was seat cushion night, and everybody was standing up in the second deck, and they were flying the seat cushions down trying to hit me as I was coming off of the field. We don't even have seat cushion right here, man.
You're cool. Don't worry about it.
That became a story that I was hitting him from making three errors in a game. Huh.
You know. Yeah.
You know what I mean. Yeah, it could happen.
Yeah, yeah. And if it could happen that year, it happened.
Right, right, where it's just kind of a, yeah, everything that could go bad goes bad. So talking about managers, you did play at one point for a Hall of Fame manager, may he rest in peace, Tommy Lasorda, who has been on, he was on this show before he passed away, legend of the game.
What was he like in his heyday when he was, you know, firing brimstone and, you know and full of it? Well, when I played for him, he was really full of it. I left Stanford, Connecticut as an 18-year-old, went out to Ogden, Utah.
He was my rookie league manager. From there, he became my AAA manager for two years, and we went to Venezuela and the Dominican Republic during the winter the winter time and we played there he was just learning to be a manager he was just learning how to get a free meal at every restaurant he went into he was just learning how close you could get to an umpire without touching him while chewing a tobacco and not spitting on him i mean mean, he was protecting everything that made him a character, a caricature, and one of the great guys in uniform ever.
My only regret is I never played for him in the major leagues, but I watched him from afar. I played against him when I was with the Padres and the Mets.
And when I got to manage the All-Star game in 2001, I went to the commissioner and asked special permission if I could have an additional coach. He had already retired.
If I could have Tommy in the dugout with me so that we could say that we were in uniform one time in the major leagues. And he allowed it.
But I don't know if you know know that looper film that's when he talked me into going out and coaching third base and vladimir guerrero swung at a low and away slider let go of the back and it went spinning with overweight old man tommy lasorda seeing it zoom in on his forehead do you remember remember that? Yes, yes. He did a back roll.
Yep. He was standing ovation of 50,000 people.
He got up and cleaned himself up. And I swear, before he went out there, he said, Tommy, you haven't been out there in a long time.
It's happening quickly. These balls are coming down there.
If you die when you're out there, I'll never, ever be able to live with myself. That was in the first inning.
Second, let me go out there, Bobby. Tommy, believe me, it's not your place.
I've got to go out there. I've got to get us some runs.
I've got to go out there. So by the fourth inning, I said, all right, take it.
We need some runs. First hitter, he almost died.
He was amazing. What a story.
So he's notorious as being a fiery guy like in the time that we met him I think he recounted probably a dozen different stories of times that he either got into a fight with somebody or wanted to fight somebody did he ever try to fight you because I almost feel like that's a badge of honor that's when Tommy loves you is when he cares enough about you to try to take a swing he never tried to take a swing, but one day I didn't listen to him. I was playing shortstop in the bottom of the ninth, and he was going right in front of the dugout, Bobby, move over.
Bobby, move over. And I moved over about that far, you know, and the guy took a swing.
Bobby, move over. And I moved over about that far.
Then the guy hit the ball, and he hit a slow hopper to my right. I fielded it, man on third, two outs, tie score, threw it to first.
We pulled him safe. We lost the game.
The clubhouse was in right field. He met me in the middle of the diamond as the game ended and walked that far from my ear as I was walking to the clubhouse in right field.
And he said everything about me that anybody who really didn't like me would say about me. And he screamed it at the top of his lungs.
So no, we never went to battle. But, you know, he screamed at me a lot.
That's for sure. So, I think you might be our first.
We've been doing this for a very long time. I think you might be our first Major League manager, which is crazy.
I think that's true. We just haven't been able to get Major League managers on the show.
So, I have to ask this question. When it comes to getting kicked out of a game, what is the thought process of kicking dirt on the ump's shoes stealing a base did you ever steal a base like any of that stuff you know turning your hat backwards talk us through that because that is in my mind and you know watching baseball there's a lot of funny quirks of the game but when a manager gets tossed there's something really special where it's like all right here comes a show we really want to see him earn it so how what was your approach when you knew i'm going out there i'm not coming back i'm getting tossed what what are you going to do to toss me well uh the real argument comes after they toss you uh sometimes they toss you just because of nuance you know one time i asked the umpire if i could get thrown out for what I was thinking.
And when he said no, he threw me out of the game. You know, so and then you start because I told him what I was thinking.
Yeah, which was I think you said I think that you're a piece like your calls are terrible or something. I probably question his ability to work as a professional.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, probably. But're you're spot on it's all theatrics there there are times most every time i got picked out of the game as i was walking by and in in this as you say the nuances of the game one of my players would say where you go skip you know under breath.
Or I'd wink at him as I was

going by. It was a

good act. And you didn't want to waste

their time if it wasn't a good act.

So you had to have your stuff together.

I had a lot of practice.

Yeah, I had

about 24 times that

I walked off the field into the clubhouse

and I got caught once coming back

and I'm like, oh, we already talked about that.

But did you ever

do the kick the dirt? I got caught once coming back. And I'm, oh, we already talked about it.

But did you ever, did you ever, did you ever do the kick the dirt? I kicked the dirt. I kicked the dirt or threw the bases.
I remember one time Chuck Knobloch was given second base on a play when Todd's, we were playing this interleague series, you know, you know how tough that was back in 78, seven, I mean, 98 and 97,

when it was first interleague play and the Yankees got to play the Mets,

it was like the end of the world.

Yes.

Everything mattered with what was going on in those games.

And I think it was like in the first inning,

Todd Zeal was standing over at first base and Knobloch hit a ball and he kind of ran around Zeal and he was out at second base by 20 feet.

And the umpire called obstruction on Todd Zeal and gave Knobloch a double.

And I happened to know the rule book pretty good, and I started reciting the rule to him and saying that obstruction occurs, you point to it, the play continues, that it's your determination whether the obstruction, what caused the guy to be out at the next pace. If it wasn't the obstruction that caused him to be out, then he's out.
If it was, then he's safe. But the play continues.
He was out by 20 feet. There's no way just running around Todd caused him to be out by that much.
And so I ran in the steps. It was the first inning, right? So you could see the strides in the dirt, the way Moutlot came around, right? And so I started running in those strides and yelling as I was running.
It was kind of theatrical. Footprints in the sand, like the old poem.
I love it. I love all that stuff.
I do always appreciate when a manager covers home with dirt, being like, here, you clean this up. And then the up never cleans it up.
They always make the catcher clean it up. But it's always the best.
Yeah. That one, the minor league manager a couple years ago that did the army crawl, grabbed the rosin bag, pretended it was a grenade and threw it.
I like that one, by the way. That was a good move.
You did get kicked out once you said you got kicked out because your breath stunk. Oh, probably.
At least that's what they said. You got too close and your breath stinks, you're gone.
That's always been one of my favorite, one of the big mysteries really of baseball because they don't let any of the mic'd up segments come out. They let one slip a couple years ago when it was a manager yelling at the umpire.
I've always wondered when you're screaming right in his face, do you just black out and let it fly? Do you remember what you say? Do you have a rehearsed speech that you're giving to him? Are you guys just like screaming every word that you can think of into each other's mouths? Okay. Well, that's interesting because Lasorda was the master and I saw him do it in the minor leagues when you could stay out there for 15 minutes if you want to.
And he was spectacular. And he had a way of putting adjectives and adverbs every other word with you.
It was the pronoun that the adjective was the right. You can cuss on the show can cuss on the show.
You motherfuckers probably what he was saying. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.
I know. So, uh, I learned from him and I had a kind of a straight intro that always got me going, you know, like how the fuck could you call that? And then that, that, that, that, that, that, or what the fuck were you thinking by calling that yep yeah just like a prompt for your brain to get started and then you recognize very cool i also read this is kind of interesting you were being considered to be the ambassador to japan from the united states a few years true? No, I don't think so.
You know,

that was reported. And just so we know, this was the time when Chris Christie was handling the transition team at the White House.
And a friend of mine, Anthony Scaramucci, was dealing to be the press secretary.

And during that week, I had received the Rising Sun Award from the Emperor of Japan for building bridges between our two countries. Not only when I was the baseball manager, but afterwards.
And when the tsunami hit, I raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to help refurbish fields that were destroyed. I brought teams over to play and all that stuff.
And so Anthony was invited to the ceremony, but he was in D.C. And while he was in D.C., he said something about the award and said, wouldn't he be a great ambassador? He builds bridges.
The next thing I know, I got a call from some reporter who says, I hear you're being mentioned as an ambassador. I said, maybe I'm to mention, but I have nothing to do with that.

That's a pay grade a little above mine.

Yeah.

All right.

So here's another one.

You saw UFO once.

Haven't we all?

I believe UFOs. Oh, I wish I had.

They definitely exist, yes.

So you saw one during a press conference, though.

Yeah, and we stopped at Chase Stadium, and everyone looked.

Everyone pointed.

I said to the press, did you see that? And two or three of the guys said they did. And then I was pretty sure I took a wonderful 17-day excursion down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon in a dory boat, you know, a five-person boat with one oarsman and all that camped out at night and had a wonderful time.

Well, the stars are plentiful, and you can see all the satellites that are circling the Earth very clearly.

There was one thing that I saw there.

It wasn't a star.

It wasn't the moon.

And it wasn't a satellite.

So I think there's stuff up there.

Yeah, because I was going to say, the one at Shea Stadium, I don't want to tell you what you did or didn't see, but that is next to LaGuardia Airport. So it could have been a plane.
It could have been a plane, but it was at dusk. It wasn't nighttime, you know, and it wasn't really high in the sky.
But who knows? It might have been one of those days where they were asking me why I made the pitching change, and I might have wanted to distract them. Yeah, that's a great distraction.
But I believe the Colorado River one. That's for sure.
All right, so let's talk real quick. You're running for mayor.
I watched your ad. I loved it.
I do want to work on your campaign. You're running unaffiliated, correct? I am.
So it's all about the people of Stanford. What are we going to do? I saw you walk across that bridge.
I'm a literal learner, so I like that you were walking across a bridge talking about fixing that bridge. And I was like, I see it.
I see his vision because you're on the bridge that you need to fix. So what made you get into this? A lot of people don't want to be in the public eye like this and be in politics.
What made you think like, hey, this is a good idea.

Let's do it.

It's my hometown, number one.

It's been really good to me.

You know, I was always treated like, you know, the special son of this town.

And now that I'm at a place where I've had 50 years of experience in five different countries,

leading people, changing things, fixing things, making things better when I left. I said, why wouldn't I want to lead one of the finest little cities in America in the right direction going into the next year and out of COVID? I saw a lot of similarities from 9-11 and how we dealt with fear and uncertainty and how we thought we'd never get back on track again, you know, and I think I had a lot to do with some of the healing process, and I think there's a lot of people who need to be healed.
There are businesses that need to be healed. There are children who lost a year's education or part of it, and they need to be healed.
You know, we have a growing city, but it's growing apart in all of the different sectors of our city. And as that bridge kind of symbolized, I think I could build the bridges that unite the city.
Who knows if that's going to work? And doing it unaffiliated, that means I have no party support, no party money, no party, you know, IT or data or any of that other stuff. But I have a really great team that I'm building.
And I want to see, because I am a team builder, if I could build a team that can win an election and then build a team that runs a great city. I like that.
And then build a team of all the citizens of Stanford together, working together, keeping them loose too over the course of the year. I think you've got the right temperament for it.
Some of the best leaders I've ever had have been maybe my second, third grade teachers. I remember they'd reward us with pizza parties if we all read, you know, we did all our reading or whatever.
What if you did maybe you promised everyone if you pick up X amount of trash in our city parks over the course of one weekend, we're doing a pizza party from Colony Grill. Everybody gets to eat.
I love it. And I think Chris Jury would love it too, because instead of paying all those dollars, he's the owner, you know, of Colony Pizza,

or one of the owners, that we'd give him some of the money back. And, you know, there's a lot of private and public partnerships that have to be established for a city of one hundred and thirty five thousand to grow the way I see it needed needing to grow.
and one of those things when you talk about pizza parties the people who work in the city they make a salary

um I see it needed needing to grow. And one of those things when you talk about pizza parties, the people who work in the city, right, they make a salary, whether they're in uniform or out of uniform, but they're public servants.
A lot of people have decided that this is what they want to do with their time, their energy and their life. And I don't think they're rewarded enough.
I don't think that they're thanked thanked enough i don't think that there's enough parties that celebrate their hard work and i'm hoping that

i i could have those little gatherings and go to the offices that people sit in for eight hours a

day with dim lights and and old computers and tell them i appreciate them so follow-up question on

colony colony grill hot oil are you stinger guy what what's your order there i'm a stinger i like

Thank you. computers and tell them I appreciate them.
So follow up question on Colony Grill, hot oil, are you a stinger guy? What's your order there? I'm a stinger. I like hot oil.
Yes. And I remember a colony.
Daniel Malloy was a mayor of this city and then a governor of our state. And I'm pretty sure I campaigned with him at Colony Grill 40 years ago or whatever it was.
It's a great place. Yes, it's some of my favorite pizza ever.
A little hypothetical here. If you had to pick one of the two small businesses that you personally had to close down, would it be Colony Grill or the Dan Patrick Show? No.
Luckily, Dan Patrick's up in Milford out of my privet. There we go.
I was gonna say I was I was trying to figure out a way to to work in uh you know a little WWE because that is in Stanford I think did they move their headquarters yet I don't know if they did across the street maybe they're going to the UBS building where we had a vacancy there and they're a great partner a great uh uh company to be in our city um you know linda mcmahon was a trustee at sacred heart university and um you know her daughter stephanie and and husband the whole family have been credits to our community and and their their business is also yes and so i was thinking like i know they were billed out of greenwich street uh greenwich uh Connecticut, but the Mean Street Posse, maybe we bring them back. Joey Abs, Pete Gass.
Oh, yes. How come you know so much? Absolutely.
I used to love Attitude Era Wrestling. Wow.
Yeah, we bring those guys. Well, someone highly up in your company lives in New Canaan.
I think you guys should film right out of the village or one of our cool spaces. Yeah.
New media centers right here in Stanford, Connecticut. So I like that.
I think that would really harden my taste. Yeah.
Oh, I like that. It's a good idea.
Like how Joe Rogan and everybody's moving to Austin. You make Stanford the Austin of Connecticut.
Yeah. Get a bunch of podcasters to move in.
We'll do it. Yeah.
Why not? Just drop the bag off, Bobby. original thought? I'll just say that I heard it.
I give full credit. It's cool.
I'm down to appear in an ad if you buy us Colony Grill. We will come up and we will sit there and we'll be like we endorse this message because we got pizza yeah well maybe that chris is now president of the rangers maybe you need someone to pass the baton to yeah yeah listen we will be your unofficial we're just ideas guys yeah don't ask us to follow guys keep them coming inventor of the rap on every ad all right so i had one last question okay last question it is brought to you by roback it's the roback question use code PFT on Rob ad.
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This one's kind of random, but you have a collection of every World Series program. Is that correct? Since 1912? Almost.
Yeah. I have 1905.
I missed 1909. But I have 1912, which interestingly enough, was one of the first ones I collected.
And that was the first Boston Red Sox World Series. And 100 years later, in 2012, I was managing the Red Sox.
So I had that program too. That's cool.
Even though we weren't in the. So, uh, like you have all these, I mean, that's a really cool thing to have.
What, which one's your favorite, what's your specific favorite, uh, world series program? Well, I, I have a 19, uh, 27 Yankee, uh, world series program with a Babe Ruth autograph on it. And, uh, I think it, it gets the most oohs and aahs when I'm welcoming people around the house.

Absolutely.

It's one of my favorites.

Absolutely.

I have a 69 Met one that has everyone's signature on it.

That's pretty cool.

Wow.

Yeah.

That's awesome.

I had one last question.

I still remember watching commercials for The Zen of Bobby V,

the movie that was made about you. It was in some major film festivals.
Do you remember when that came out? Did you get like a little bump in notoriety? Do you still enjoy watching that movie? Or is it one of those things where you watch a movie about yourself and it's like a little cringy because, you know, no one likes the sound of their own voice. You can be a little bit more judgmental of yourself on camera.
I was judgmental. But can I give you a quick back story? We have a minute? Yeah.
Yeah. So three college seniors from NYU, they were juniors when they approached me, said, we want to come to Japan.
You're doing great things over there. We want to follow you with a camera and do a documentary.
And I said, yeah, yeah, get your education and then come and see me again. Well, at the end of the year, they came and see me again at my restaurant in Stanford during the off season.
And they said, hey, we did this documentary last year. We moved in an old age home down in Florida.
We were there for three months with all these people. And we did a wonderful documentary.
Take a look. If you like it, maybe we could do it.
Well, they get $800,000 from ESPN to travel around with me and the team for the entire season in Japan and make this film, which is or was the first documentary that ESPN ever filmed, the Zen of Bobby V. And then they said, whoa, people like this stuff and started doing more.
Just to fast forward, one of the three, as he graduated, we started a little film company. He says, hey, I could do this.
I could do this. And so that was in 2007.
And it debuted 2008. It debuted at the Tribeca

Film Festival. And the three

guys graduated from NYU

the next day. It showed

on May 13th. It's my

birthday. They graduated

on May 14th. Kind of cool.

But what's more cool

is the same guy

just was with Bill

Murray for months

in Europe and filmed a documentary

about him with

Thank you. The same guy just was with Bill Murray for months in Europe and filmed a documentary about him with four philharmonic string concert performers where he recited poetry, sang songs and made a documentary.
It just got awarded a selection into the CAMS Film Festival in France,

and they're going to go there and hope to win an award. And then he gets on a plane and goes to Bangkok,

where he is a co-producer of a film with Peter Farley called The Greatest Beer Run Ever. So he's done really well.
And it all started with the Zenobody thing. Love it.
Love it. Well, Bobby, this has been awesome.
So much fun. We really appreciate it.
We have to get together, have some colony pizza. Also, you've got to make us a wrap.
Please. Yeah, inventor of the wrap.
You've got to have that on every time you run an ad. At the end, it'd just be like, oh, yeah, and I invented the rap.
Just to remind people. So let's just do that.
I'm going to work the rap into something. Okay, perfect.
Yeah, it could even just be you sitting at a diner, and it's like the ad starts, and it's like, oh, didn't see you there, just enjoying my rap. Or if you get to like the literal uh kind of metaphor thing that you're doing with the bridge you know sandwiches are great a triple decker sandwich is good but the bread it divides the layers bobby and a wrap brings them all together all in the same festival yeah yeah that's what we got to do we got to wrap up stanford wait yes yeah we.
Yes. Yeah.
We got you. We got you.
We got a lot of ideas. We'll get together.
We'll have a brainstorming session. Well, I understand why you guys are so popular.
You do a great job. I appreciate it, guys.
All right. Thanks so much.
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Okay, let's do some segments. By the way, breaking moves.
It has been brought to my attention that we need to say something for our friends in Rado, Colorado. Rado is what the cool people say.
I didn't put this together, but someone just mentioned this to me. Colorado just did the unimaginable.
They just lost eight straight playoff games in the course of two weeks. Wow.
And the fight. And the fight.
The Avalanche were up 2-0, and then they lost four straight, and in the midst of those four straight losses, the Nuggets got swept. That's actually, yikes.
That's a Rado curse. Like, to not have a win, to have two teams deep in the playoffs and not have a fucking win in two weeks.
You know what this is, Big Cat? It's the bargain with the devil that you have to make in order to get aaron rogers traded to your city yes good point really good point i'm gonna match up these schedules real quick let's see when when they exactly happen because that is ah man we i love i love menver um yeah i love me i'm a fort Fort Collins guy. I like that guy that goes on the detective shows and talks about how he caught people 40 years ago.
No, I love Menver. I think it's a great city.
I've had some fun times. I went to a Rockies game.
Unbelievable stadium. Unbelievable stadium.
Jake, can you find it for me while I do this? Tell me exactly when the Avalanche started their four losses and when the Nuggets started their four losses. I also think it's a curse on the Nuggets for just wearing shitty uniforms.
Yeah. Tonight's the one they wore against the Blazers.
That uniform. And if you're the Nuggets, you have so many cool imagery and colors that you can use.
And you go with that. Gunpowder Red, I think is what it's called.
They had a sunset on their jerseys while they were playing against the Suns. They did the same thing where they wore basically the Trailblazers colors against the Trailblazers.
Suns were 7th, 9th, 11th, and today. Avalanche, 4th, 6th, 8th, 10th.
So on the 4th, from the 4th till today, they lost eight straight playoff games. It's 10 days.
That's really, really tough. Okay, so pour one out for our friends in Rado.
We appreciate you as AWLs. We are going to celebrate when Aaron Rodgers goes to the Broncos.
The mountains are blue. We will celebrate for days when Aaron Rodgers.
We will call it Rado Week when Aaron Rodgers gets traded to the Broncos. All right, a couple segments.
Let's do some talking soccer. So the Euros started.
One of the craziest, scariest stories on Saturday when, let me get the facts correct. What is his full name? Christian.
Christian Eriksson, right? Playing for Denmark. Denmark against Finland.
Collapsed. He actually went into cardiac arrest.
They were able to, I think a Finnish player, the story goes, started CPR. So what I heard was he was struggling to run at the last couple steps, and then they were throwing the ball in.
He collapses into the ball as he can throw at him, goes face down. They immediately call over the medics.
I don't know if he started giving him CPR, but they got the medics out there real quick. The trainers were there in a matter of five seconds.
The medics were not long after that. He was dead on the field.
He was dead. His heart stopped.
Nikki Sixx. Yes, and they put the defibrillator on him, and they shocked him and then gave him CPR to keep his heart going.
So, yeah, they brought him back from the dead. It was a brutal scene.
Crazy. The Danish players? Yes.
Danish? Yes. Surrounded him in order so that people couldn't take pictures or film him on the ground in case he was dead.
And so they were trying to protect him in their way that they could doing that. They take him to the hospital.
They call the game off, which was probably the right thing to do. And then football guy Christian Erickson gets on a Zoom call with them, starts jacking off.
No, he tells them, I want you guys to play the game. Then they went out there and played.
Unfortunately, they lost. But it was one of those things where you were watching the game, and you could tell that nobody on the field was thinking about the game whatsoever.
They basically just watched their captain die in front of them. Crazy.
It was insane. So thankfully he's okay.
But it did bring out, we talked about this a little bit before we started taping, it brought out some of our least favorite people on Twitter. Yes.
Everyone was mad. Everyone was upset watching the game because they just saw somebody maybe die.
Right. And they chose to take that anger out on the broadcast of the game because the broadcast was coming in from UEFA.
And UEFA's cameramen, like, dude, just be a normal camera guy and find a hot chick in the stands like every other horny camera guy in the world. Actually, the appropriate thing would be just cut to the blimp feed or whatever that is but they were showing like the players they were zooming in on christian erickson's wife in the stands who just thought she saw her husband die and it was brutal it was immediately or admittedly brutal to watch but everyone was like mad at espn for making them watch this and it's like you i get that you're mad and i get that like you're upset about what you're watching right now but you do have like there's a button in your hand on your remote right that actually controls your own television that you can turn on and what it comes down to is people are on social media to get uh retweets and likes and of course we're i mean always all of us sitting in this room are guilty of this the but but in a situation like this

they like just tweeting i hope this guy is okay won't get you the most retweets so what does

having an adjacent conversation to it where you're just mad at it no like you're mad at someone who

didn't have anything to do with it espn but you're just yelling about you know how they did this wrong

when everything happens really fast it's fucking crazy it was a scary situation i wasn't watching

Thank you. But you're just yelling about, you know, how they did this wrong when everything happens really fast.

It's fucking crazy. It was a scary situation.

I wasn't watching the game.

I saw that he was, you know, awake on a stretcher going off.

And I've said this a million times before, but the read the room people are the worst people in the world because I still can't for the life of me understand how being affected by something and then spending that time immediately after replying to other people to read the room is like you showing your lack of room reading abilities. Yeah, well, you're giving the proper credence to the moment by just replying to people saying, read the room.
Yeah. You're clearly thinking about Christian Erickson by sitting on Twitter and replying to people, read the room.
Just maybe a moment of silence. Maybe just don't tweet anything for a while.
You don't have to tweet when you watch a guy die on television. Again, I wasn't watching.
I saw that he was caught up. I saw it was scary.
I saw that he was on a stretcher awake. I saw that they said he was okay.
I retweeted that one, and I moved on with my day because I wasn't watching. Like, I wasn't going to jump in and be like, oh, my God, just saw this thing.
Let me get my takeoff on it. Right.
You don't have to tweet a video and be like, block or charge. Yeah, right.
But thank God. Let me say this, though.
I hope that Christian Erikson is okay. It seems like he is, but he lives a long life to the point where in 50 years, him collapsing can be put accidentally in a watch these soccer guys flop compilation.
That would be the greatest thing to get to it. We can get to a point where we can laugh at it.
No, not even laugh at it, but just someone accidentally be like accidentally be like oh watch this flop not realizing because he lives such a fruitful life that it became such a side note to everything else yeah if it ends up in one of those like uh soccer versus hockey compilations right because it's not a story right that would be the best like way for this to end is that you know he lives a great life and nothing serious ends up coming out of this. Yeah, it's tough.
I'm glad he's okay. I guess that's a relative term because he's probably not going to play soccer again.
No. It's probably like a genetic heart issue that he has.
Who knows? Who knows what it was? We're not doctors. They got to do the tests and all that.
What did Dr. Chow say? Probably two to three weeks? Walk it off? I've seen a lot of these yeah do you think anybody tag pro football doc in that probably i need it oh my god either way euros are here which is awesome next time next time darren revell puts out the jfk video i'm gonna tag dr chow yeah when timetable? Yeah.
Do you think he'll be ready for the playoffs? The Euros are awesome. I'm very, very excited.
It's such a great tournament. It really is.
And it's another who's back of the week, North Macedonia. Yeah.
North Macedonia played in their first major international tournament, I think. Got a goal.
They just changed their name to North Macedonia. I went down a little Wikipedia wormhole on that when I was like, what's North Macedonia? What were they before? Turns out Greece has just basically been taking the name Macedonia hostage and not letting them call themselves Macedonia for years and years and years.
And they finally reached a bargaining agreement where Greece was like, okay, you can call yourselves Macedonia, but it has to be North Macedonia. Wow.
And they got a goal, which was huge. There were people crying in the stands because of how much this meant for their country to see the little engine that could.
Wait, Ireland didn't make this shit, but North Macedonia did? Mm-hmm. What the fuck? God damn it.
All I'm saying about the Euros, it's coming home. Yeah.
It's coming home. They saw those guys.
Something just very special about pasty white English fans ripping off their shirts and being like, ooh, dude, get that sun shirt back on fast. Yeah, they're the best.
You're about to burn. I also just like saying it's coming home.
Yeah. It's a fun thing to say.
You remember in the world cup a couple years ago when they had a flyover of jets in england that just spelled out in the air it's coming home home it's coming home football's coming home and then they're gonna lose in like tragic fashion oh yeah can argentina get into this no they're playing in the other they would have beaten England in a tragic fashion. I feel like this is going to be penalty kicks in the semifinals.
England's going to lose. Against Belgium.
Give me Belgium. That could happen.
Yeah. Belgium beats England.
I can see that. Penalty kicks.
Wait. Or maybe Denmark.
Team of destiny. Yeah.
Yeah. Although they probably won't get out of their group Not without Christian Eriksson Yeah that's probably going to be tough I had a joke and I didn't say it No it's because you read the room I read the fuck out of the room People out there listening to that pregnant pause You can figure out what I almost said Read the fucking room all i'm saying it's a tough it's a tough group denmark's in do you think that there were now this is really gonna get dark for a second jake just got it yeah uh do you think that there were people on twitter who were mad that he like was okay because they couldn't spend the rest of their day shaming other people i swear swear to God, I think that that happens.
Maybe, yeah. Like, he was okay so quickly that we moved on with our day, and all the people who spent a half hour grandstanding were like, well, what the fuck do I do with my Saturday now? Let's get a little bit darker with it, Big Cat.
Those are the exact same people that log off for the rest of the weekend when there's a mass shooter that doesn't fit their political ideology of what a mass shooter is. Yes.
And then they're like, I'm just going to ignore this. Yes.
Yes. I'm just going to keep moving.
All right. Let's talk some tennis.
The goat Djokovic. Who's going to, who can I pick on here? Is it you, Jake? Can I pick on you? For what? For thinking that Djokovic isn't the GOAT? He has 19 majors.
I want someone I can pick on. Roger and Rafa.
I feel like during that whole coronavirus thing, you kind of fell off. No, no, no, no.
He had an unvaccinated party. Oh, shit.
It was a tournament. It was a tournament.
It was a super spreader event. I remember you saying that.
Dude, I also fell off when he was down to Rafa on Friday. I was like, it was a tournament.
It's fine. It was a tournament.
Yeah, it was just a super spreader event. I remember you saying that.
Dude, I mean, I also fell off when he was down to Rafa on Friday. I was like, Clay's a fake thing to play on.
I mean, was it the same day, Rizzo and Djokovic? No, I actually tweeted that. People got very mad.
I said, Rizzo and Djokovic, have a day. My guys are awesome.
Yeah. Big God, how could you? Honestly, perfect.
Yeah's he is uh the mental toughness to win on the clay be down 2-0 yeah two sets to love to stephano seats who's the next up and comer right how do you say his name sissipas sissipas sissipas yeah sissipas i i love it when jokovic gets just like angry at the sky all around him and there's an object around him he will yell at it and he just uses that to draw off their energy and he acquires the energy of whoever he's mad at and it was honestly like a great comeback I love watching clay court tennis yeah it's great and I love having Djokovic be my goat even though I watch maybe an hour and a half of tennis a year. I'm a Federer guy still.
Federer still has a crown. Yeah, he and Rafa.
Did you guys see the semifinal on Friday between Rafa and Djokovic? Yeah, I did. It was sick.
I'm a Djokovic guy. They had a curfew.
When I say, yeah, I did, I watched the last 10 minutes. It was 11 p.m.
local time, and because they said to the exceptionalness of the match, the curfew's been lifted. Yeah.
That was always the best growing up when there was a really good game on, and my dad would be like, honey, let's just let the boys stay up and watch the end of this game. He's got to watch the sports.
He'll be tired for work tomorrow, but this is a great game. Yeah.
The tennis, yeah. I really have no affinity towards Djokovic.
I have affinity towards the debate. And the greatness, but the debate.
I mean, that's what makes me interested in tennis is that I like to debate it. And also, I saw that he gave his racket to a kid.
And I noted that has there ever been a classier competitor than Djokovic? No. A lot of people said, actually, he's a real dickhead.

All I saw was him making a kid's life.

Well, Big Cat, with the exception of once or twice, he has never tried to kill a line judge.

Right.

So who else can you say that about in the game?

Serena Williams has done it, too.

It's truly a mark of the greats.

But when he hands the racket to the kid in the stands, a conspiracy theorist would say,

maybe there's something on that racket that he is trying to keep away from the crying eyes of the press or of the officials. And what better way than, because nobody's going to go into the stands and take away the greatest present of that kid's life.
Yeah, he was freaking out. Love it.
Classy, classy, classy competitor. He would have been just as classy in defeat if he had lost, but he wouldn't because he's the GOAT.
And I would have matched. But I do think that we can still...
Right now, the debate is still... Federer is the GOAT.
Federer and Rappadova... Yeah, but Djokovic is going to pass him.
He could die tomorrow. Kyle Shanahan.
Nothing's promised. Erickson almost died on Saturday.
Nothing's promised. God.
But once he equalizes with federer and and doll i think at that point it's like yeah jokovic is a goat and i know head to head he's he's dominated both of them yeah and there's obviously the argument that he came in at the end of their careers i don't care guess what no one's gonna remember that 10 years when we just go numbers on everyone's ass wins wimbledon we'll have a three-way tie at 20 heading into the U.S. Open here in New York end of the summer.
And I still won't care about it. I'll go.
I reported on it two summers ago. Let us know how it goes.
I'll go back. All right.
I would like to. We're going to put you on assignment.
Jake. Perfect.
Great. Would you like to be a ball boy? Yes.
I'm too old. What? I think.
Maybe. I don't think so.
I think they do the tryout six months in advance. No, Djokovic almost killed like...
You could do it. Also, Djokovic almost killed like an old lady when he hit that ball at her.
Yeah, so they're going to need replacements in case Djokovic just goes ham. Yeah.
All right. You should be a ball boy.
All right. We'll see.
Let's try to get you in there. What if Djokovic killed Jake, like hit a ball at him and just knocked him out? I played king of the court in a suit that summer.
We would make everyone log off for at least 25 minutes. A while.
If you died, if you died, well. No, there'd be some good memes.
We would just repurpose that shirt and just write was. Yeah.
That's enough. I'm trying to think.
Would we take? No, we wouldn't take a show off. If you died, I would take a lunch off.
Okay. Yeah.
Hank would just... We'd make some shirts.
Hank would schedule a million ping pong matches. Duh.
Hey, guys. Soul Stream's back.
Ping pong tournament. Oh, I actually had Jake scheduled for later on this week.
We love you. We don't want you to die, okay? No, don't die.
Please don't die. But if you do die, Hank will be the benefactor of all your everything.
It's his birthday. Yeah, it's his birthday, which is the next segment.
Happy birthday, Hank. Happy birthday, Hank.
Thanks, guys. Really proud of you.
Appreciate it. I'm proud of you not taking a vacation on your birthday.
I know. That's big.
I feel like that's a major corner that we've turned. 28? Yeah, I've never taken a vacation on my birthday.
I don't even really take vacations. I just take time off when we have time off.
Wait, you're 28? 28. How old were you when you took...
No, it's not. How old were you when you taped the Todd McShay video? 19? Yeah.
Damn. Old as fuck.
Time flies. Dude, when you turn 30, I'm going to cry.
What's the biggest thing that you've learned in your 20s, Hank? Sheesh. I don't know.
Okay, that was very eloquent. I'm trying to think.
I put you on the spot. It's not really fair.
You learned how to pronounce several words. You learned how to ice a dog boner.
Yep. Save a little money for each paycheck.
There it is for Bitcoin, right? Yeah, or whatever. Yeah, for whatever.
Just set up in your direct deposit. A little bit of money goes away.
You don't even think about it. That's actually great advice.
Then when you need it, you actually have a little bit of cash. That is great advice.
You have a 401k? Yep. Fuck yeah.
Start early. Get that compound interest.
You max that? I don't think so, no. You got to max, bro.
Shout out, Max. Actually, no.
I don't think we match. No, we don't.
Yeah, so then don't max. I would have.
If you max, if you match, if they match, you max. That's what you got to do with your 401k.
All right. That was a great segment.
Thanks. Happy birthday, Hank.
I appreciate everything you guys got for me today. We got you milkshakes.
Oh, Papadillas? 26 of them? True. Oh, he should have got 28 for his birthday.
Oh, fuck. And then you actually could have played it off instead of being like, I just ordered 26 because I'm a fat ass.
You know what? I'm not even going to respond to that because it's his birthday. It's just mean.
I'm going to let him just say that to me. You got 26 fucking years.
I'm going to let him say that. What do you want me to say? I did feel a little awkward when they had to have two guys help bring them all to my car.
That felt a little like, all right, maybe I went too far here. Yeah, when you said, like, how many should I get? 20? I thought you were joking.
And then you showed up at 26. I have a...
Listen, I'm a great guy to have around when it comes to like going out to dinner or like planning for a party because I'm, my biggest fear in life is not having enough for everyone. So I'm the guy who like will show up with, I'll fill the, I'll fill the bathtub with beer.
Be like, well, just in case it becomes a rager. And then the next morning we have like 200 beers in the bathtub.
But we never had to worry. No one's ever complained about having too many Papadias.
Right. Ever.
Ever. Well, Hank did.
But that's fine. No.
He's the first. Quick Sabre metrics before we wrap up.
Yeah. So Julio Jones, he's wearing number two in Tennessee.
I'm still not comfortable on a personal level with wide receivers wearing single digits, it's going to fuck my brain up this call.

It's absolutely going to ravage my brain.

Between that and having a 17-game

season where I have to memorize

this team's going to go 9-8.

That is though March Madness.

We got that fixed.

What I'm doing is I'm just doing regular numbers

and then adding a tie on to the end of it.

That way my brain saves itself.

Julio Jones is wearing number 2 and he said that A.J. Brown offered him the number 11 that he wore in Atlanta.
He declined. Julio Jones said one and one is two, and two times 11, which is Brown, is 22, which is Derrick Henry.
He said that lets people know that they have to deal with all three. Whoa.
Whoa. Mind blown.
Holy shit. matt ryan i think he just wanted i think he thought two would look cool and then he put it on and you know that there was like a moment of truth when he saw himself in the mirror he was ready to like feel good about his new look where he looked at and he was like this looks stupid this sucks this sucks number number two is say, like, maybe six is the only number that's worse

for a wide receiver to wear.

Two is a long – well, no, it's not even a long snapper, but it's like –

Yeah.

It's a bad kicker.

It's a bad – and it's a slow quarterback.

Yeah.

Although, what was – no, Cam Newton was always one.

Devontae Smith of six.

Devontae Smith of six?

In Alabama.

That's dumb, Devontae.

Although, no, it'll be good for him because he's going to look fatter. And he weighs, what, 165 pounds? On a good day.
He's six with the Eagles, too. He's six with the Eagles? All right, I'm going to pick six for him.
I'm going with eight. 85.
67, 92, 47. Out of play.
Someone got mad about 13, 13 not counting it has to go all the way up I tweeted out the video 33 Larry B first timer how many do we have that have not been picked I updated my pyramid chart like 3 weeks ago and there were still like 30 so it's probably like 27 28 can i get a statistical breakdown please add it to my list of that yeah just everything i want to know everything where on the list picked for that one who's yeah how many uh i don't think he keeps track of our picks put that up i'll get you keep track no no no how many uh how many total like lottery things have we it. So we can get the 100th and everything.
We've probably done the 100th. So we've got, what, you said 28 left? 28 scorigamis left? I'll put that at the top of my list, please.
Clear the rest of my list. You'll have it.
Put that at the top. I think self-suck has to go first.
No, put that. This is the most important.
Me staring at a sheet of numbers for 25 seconds tomorrow has to happen. You'll have it by tomorrow.
Oh, wow. You're the best.
All right. See you guys on Wednesday.
Great guests coming up. Great, great, great guests coming up.
Love you guys. Oh, Jake, you have a fact? Yeah.
Animal? Animal. Alligators have been a long-running problem for NASA, including climbing over their fences and

entering buildings overnight.

What?

That's very cool, Jake.

Love you guys. Talking away I don't know what I'm to say I say Anyway Today's a hard day To find you shining away I'll be coming for you Lover I'll be coming for you Lover Come on Me Take me Oh Love of Things I'm not a man.
It's okay to be safe and sorry Take on me

Take me out

I'll be gone

In a day of tears Oh, things that you say Is it like a Just to blame a lonely look You are the things I've got to remember. When you shine away, I'll be caring for you anyway.
I'll be caring for you anyway. Take on me.
Take me home. I'll be gone in a day I'll be gone

In a jam I'll be gone in a day