Alex Rodriguez, In Luka We Trust And Who's Back Of The Week

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Speaker 1 On today's part of my take, we have Alex Rodriguez, A-Rod 1-1.

Speaker 1 We have A-Rod in studio. First time we've had someone in studio in a really long time.
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Today is Monday, August 24th, and we are officially a Luka Doncic Stan podcast. Hell yeah.
He's so

Speaker 1 funny.

Speaker 3 So fun to watch. It's a pretty good day to be a bitch-ass white boy.
Like, you and I are definitely card-carrying members. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 Bitch-ass white boy crew. 43, 17, and 13.

Speaker 1 His second trip, half of the times that Luka Doncic has played in the playoffs, he's averaged a triple, he's had a triple double, and he hit the game-winning shot, and all on basically one ankle, and all without Christophe Sporzingis.

Speaker 1 And he electrified everyone. And guess what? He's 21 years old.

Speaker 1 I remember when I was 21 years old, I was beer bonging whiskey, yeah, like a fucking idiot, and like jumping through tables and playing beer pong and being like, oh my god, I had the greatest comeback ever.

Speaker 1 I hit three cups when there was one left on my side. Luka Doncic is averaging a triple-double in the playoffs at 21.

Speaker 3 Yeah, when I was 21, if I could just not get lost on my way to work, that was a big accomplishment. Luca's murking people.

Speaker 3 Big week for people playing on one foot. Our own Jake Marsh with a big victory as well.

Speaker 3 That's a key to victory in a real athletic competition is having one sprained ankle.

Speaker 1 I also, Luca. is awesome.

Speaker 1 I didn't think, I mean, he could single-handedly beat the Clippers now, especially we're going to talk about playoff PP in a second but he he has like electric he is the story of the weekend

Speaker 1 the Mavs like go as Luca goes and I just I'm just going to say it to the Hawks

Speaker 1 who traded him on draft night to the Kings that took Marvin Bagley bad drafts happen don't worry about it they do if you miss on a generational superstar that is going to be incredible in the NBA for like the next 20 years shit happens man right he was playing overseas in official leagues that are like the big 12 of

Speaker 1 Europe, and he was dominating there. So who would have known? It is like the Texas X.

Speaker 3 You thought he was like a system player. He might have known.
He was just as likely to be the next Darko as he was going to be the first Luca. But yeah, he's fucking awesome.

Speaker 3 And again, that Clippers perimeter defense sucks shit.

Speaker 1 And the Hawks could have had him.

Speaker 1 And so could have the Kings. Yeah.
And the Suns.

Speaker 3 It's one of those things where whenever Luca does something good, you can tell just by looking on Twitter, not because people are talking about Luca, but you see Marvin Bagley starts a trend. Yep.

Speaker 3 And that's a big thing. It's been there.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it happens.

Speaker 3 It sucks. The one, if we're going to nitpick Luca, I have a nitpick for you.
Yeah. His Twitter handle, it's Luca7 Doncic.
It always looks like it's a local TV channel when I see it.

Speaker 3 It looks like eyewitness news, eyeChichness News.

Speaker 3 Luca Seven Doncic

Speaker 1 is what his Twitter handle is. Just because of the seven.

Speaker 3 Yeah, Luca Seven Doncic. There's like seven on your side.

Speaker 1 He's actually, Mello is going to lose the stay mellow with the seven in it. Although he's double zero now, so he already has lost it.

Speaker 3 Have people compared him to the other famous Luca? Is he now the most famous Luca of all time?

Speaker 1 Luca Magnata you're referring to. Yeah.

Speaker 1 So Luca, don't kill any cats.

Speaker 3 Luca's out here murdering cats.

Speaker 1 Yeah, right.

Speaker 3 He is. But like in the cool way to put it, like if you're a fly-ass white boy.

Speaker 1 So playoff P.

Speaker 1 Playoff PP. Holy shit.
That guy stinks. I don't understand how you can be

Speaker 1 considered.

Speaker 1 I don't think anyone calls him a superstar.

Speaker 1 There was a time when the, you know, he took the Pacers to the Easter Conference Final, but one of the, you know, you would say that playoff P is at the top of the list for second bananas.

Speaker 1 And then the playoffs come around and it's like, dude, have you played basketball before? And I don't know.

Speaker 1 I mean, Kawhi, poor Kawhi, because he's like, you know, this is going to be the two of us and you just fucking suck.

Speaker 6 He finished third in MVP voting last year.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's true. So he is there.
I mean, Lou Williams was awesome, but man, playoff PP.

Speaker 1 And I know that it's also, we've talked about this before, but big game James, James Shield, like when you get a nickname like that, Charles Barkley had a great line.

Speaker 1 He's like, no one calls me Championship Chuck.

Speaker 1 And he's like, that's what it's like

Speaker 1 calling him Playoff P. Did he give himself that nickname?

Speaker 3 I don't know. How sweet was that?

Speaker 1 Knowing him playoff P? Yes.

Speaker 3 On the back of his jersey, he should have had playoff P.

Speaker 1 People don't forget the time that you got teabagged by your dog and posted on Instagram.

Speaker 3 That's true. Those nuts were just sitting there.
Huge ass. nuts.

Speaker 3 The nuts were straddling. That's what I think about.

Speaker 1 Every time I see him, I'm like, sucks in the playoffs, likes to have his dog's balls rest on his arm.

Speaker 3 It's also a tough look when you're catching direct shots from Seth Curry, the lesser of the Curries, who just drills a shot and calls him a bitch ass right to his face.

Speaker 1 There's also a weird thing, dynamic that, like, is not talked about that he plays for Doc Rivers. I'm pretty sure Playoff P was dating Doc Rivers' daughter and then cheated on her with a stripper.

Speaker 6 Got a stripper pregnant.

Speaker 1 That's got to be awkward in the huddle. Like, that's got to be like,

Speaker 1 they're professional about it, and,

Speaker 1 you know, they pretend like, hey, this didn't happen. But when playoff P shows up and he really sucks, Doc has to be looking at him being like, you motherfucker.
I actually think twice.

Speaker 3 Doc Rivers probably thinks he dodged a bullet that his daughter didn't get pregnant for playoff P.

Speaker 1 Or the other thing.

Speaker 6 Interesting with that is that Seth Curry is now married to Doc Rivers' daughter.

Speaker 6 So there's an element of, I feel like, where Doc Rivers, like, he can't say it, but like when Seth Curry's laying it up, he's kind of like, yeah,

Speaker 1 you you know what? That's my boy.

Speaker 3 He's playoff S-I-M-P.

Speaker 1 Okay. That's my new nickname for him.
But he, wait, he's not a simp.

Speaker 3 He's a simp. No,

Speaker 1 he cheated on a girl with a straight strip of pregnancy.

Speaker 1 That's the opposite of Seth. I think

Speaker 3 if Seth Curry is able to roast you with any sort of conviction, you are a simp.

Speaker 3 He also said, now, to be fair, after the game, George cleared some things up. He said, to be honest, in hindsight, if I shoot the ball better, this series will be a lot different.
Yes.

Speaker 1 The ball goes in.

Speaker 6 He did name himself playoff P.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I know he did. He's lame like that.
Yes, of course he did. That's exactly who he is.

Speaker 6 Paul George on guarding Dunovan Mitchell. Y'all ain't met PlayF P yet, huh? It's a fun guy to watch.
It's an out-of-body person.

Speaker 1 I mean, it really goes back to just don't trust a guy with two first names because that's, I mean, playoff P, Paul George, just pathetic. And you're ruining it.
You know what, though?

Speaker 1 Here's the nice spin zone is that if Luca somehow goes on a run here and gets like the Western Conference final, that would be awesome. Because watching him play basketball is so much fun.

Speaker 1 And I think we said this on Friday, but you know, he's good when the announcers start talking about how his hips and his last step and that Euro step that he does, it's just, it's unguardable.

Speaker 3 Yeah, the step back, he gets so much clearance away from it. He's what, six, seven? Yes.
And he's like a Magic Johnson almost. Like, he does have that type of vision.

Speaker 3 Like, he can play any one of four positions at all times. He's a problem.
And I can't believe he's this young. Yes, 21.
He plays like he's inexperienced. He's like 26, 21.
Go ahead. You're 21, guys.

Speaker 1 He's a month younger than me. Yeah, and look at you.

Speaker 1 I wish we had Luca on this podcast instead of you.

Speaker 3 I also feel like 21.

Speaker 1 Straight up. I'm not, like, is that mean to say? Straight up.

Speaker 1 I wish Luca was our intern, not you.

Speaker 6 Would help with our European lessons. It would help with everything.

Speaker 1 Money, everything.

Speaker 7 I think my English might be a little better.

Speaker 1 I don't know. I don't know.
I don't even know. You heard him talk about this.

Speaker 1 What do you think you do better than Luka Doncic?

Speaker 7 I think I was thinking my naturalized English might might be better.

Speaker 1 But, like, what if you could pick one thing that you're like, I could beat him in? You think it's

Speaker 1 overhead Carls?

Speaker 1 I don't know about football. I don't know.
I didn't grow up with football. I bet you.
I see. Yeah, he grew up with handball, which is a harder sport than he could.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but he didn't grow up with an American. Yeah, but he's such a beast, I think, that he could do he could beat you in that.

Speaker 3 I think he's 6'7, 260 pounds. He could probably throw over 50 yards.
Call of Duty?

Speaker 7 I don't know if he plays Call of Duty.

Speaker 1 Yeah, so you got him in that. We got to get you one-on-one versus Luca in Call of Duty, Battle of the 21-year-old interns.

Speaker 1 All right, so the other games we had, the Blazers. Hiccup.

Speaker 3 They had a hiccup game. Blazers in five, officially done.
Blazers in six now. Okay.

Speaker 1 We had the Mello versus LeBron for a minute there, which was awesome. Throwback.
They were going one-on-one against each other.

Speaker 1 And then Anthony Davis remembered that he's the best player on the court and he should just dominate all the time.

Speaker 3 The Blazers are a fun team, and I'm not going to regret rooting for them.

Speaker 3 And I'm going to continue to root for them against the Lakers, and I'll continue to tell myself that they have a chance at winning. They don't have a chance at winning, but it's still a fun team.

Speaker 1 Well, yeah, they've always been fun. I just, I was always just against the Blazers' derangement syndrome being like anyone who realistically said they could beat the Lakers.

Speaker 3 Well, Charles Barkley said that. Yeah.
But again, I don't know if Charles Barkley actually meant it or not. I think he's just rooting for fun.
That's the kind of guy Charles is.

Speaker 1 Charles also,

Speaker 1 I think he mortal locked or whatever it may be. Guaranteed, oh, wow, the Raptors put up 150 on the nets.

Speaker 1 The Pacers.

Speaker 1 The Pacers on Saturday. He guaranteed that.
That didn't work out. The Heat are looking good.
The Bucs are looking good.

Speaker 1 I got a take about Giannis that I'm squatting on, but

Speaker 1 he's got to go to the finals this year. That's all I'm going to say.
Because when he dunks on the Magic up 20 and pounds his chest, and I'm cool with sportsmanship shouldn't exist in pro sports, but

Speaker 1 if he gets stopped in the Eastern Conference final again,

Speaker 1 you can't do that where you just, in the first round, you're a beast, and then in the second and third round, you get shut down. Yeah, he's going to do that.
So he's got to do that.

Speaker 1 I'm just putting that on my watch, right? My watch list. Like, he is

Speaker 1 a great. If you're looking to buy stock in a does this person have a clutch gene argument, Giannis would be at the top of my list right now.

Speaker 3 So, I think you obviously have to have some success if you're a superstar like that. It's like Lamar Jackson.
You see a narrative emerging around him as he loses in the playoffs.

Speaker 1 In basketball, this is the fun part about sports.

Speaker 3 It is, it is the best part.

Speaker 6 So, if Giannis, excuse me, Gannis, Gannis, if Giannis, Gannis, Gannos, It's a G, not a Y.

Speaker 3 If G, G Gannis, Gigantis, if he is not able to get to the finals, then yeah, he's going to have that narrative around him.

Speaker 1 Just ready for it.

Speaker 3 We're going to do some cross-sports shit. We're going to be like, is he the Dan Marino of the NBA?

Speaker 1 Just be ready, Giannis.

Speaker 1 I'm not trying to put pressure on you because I know you put pressure on yourself and you're a fantastic player and a lot of fun to watch, but just be ready because I'm watching.

Speaker 1 And if you get stopped in the Easter Conference final, I'm going to remember dunking on the Magic up 20 and

Speaker 1 pounding your chest and being like, I'm the man against a hapless Magic team.

Speaker 3 I also think that Giannis is a little bit of a disadvantage from not growing up with the American media because he, right now, he reads all the stuff that people say about him. He knows like

Speaker 3 an emerging narrative is. And he's like borderline getting into fights in a lot of these games because I think he's out to prove that he's got a chip on his shoulder.

Speaker 3 I think it might be, you might see like a Draymond Green type situation later on in these playoffs where he might actually get into a fight in a big game, then he'll have to miss the next game, and it would impact his team.

Speaker 3 And then now we've got Hothead Giannis emerging as a narrative, and then in two years, he's going to go play for the Lakers.

Speaker 1 Yeah, probably.

Speaker 1 Speaking of Lakers, going back to them,

Speaker 1 pre-who's back of the week is J.R. Smith looking high all the time.
I just fucking love his face. I love his face.
Whenever he makes a mistake,

Speaker 1 I think he fouled Gary Trent Jr.,

Speaker 1 just a stupid foul, shooting a three, and then they zoomed in on his face, and he looked like he was from outer space. He's awesome.

Speaker 3 What do you mean, like he's starting to look high?

Speaker 1 No, no, no.

Speaker 1 He hasn't been playing, though. Like, you know, he just signed and all that stuff.
So he's back. Like, we're getting him in prime time, looking at his face, being like, holy shit.

Speaker 1 He's not high right now, as far as I know, but damn, does he look high?

Speaker 3 I need to get one of these fun behind-the-scenes stories. You know, we've had the, like, C.J.
McCollum had $6,000 worth of wine that was broken off.

Speaker 1 John reads just the first page of every book.

Speaker 3 Reading the first page of the book.

Speaker 1 Which I'm actually not going to do.

Speaker 3 Jimmy Butler selling $20 Starbucks cups.

Speaker 1 I think I well,

Speaker 3 I'd love to read an oral history five years from now of how the weed delivery services worked in the bubble, how they were able to get marijuana distributed.

Speaker 3 If there was one guy, they gave, like, every team gets one person that's allowed to come there that has like a grow op in their hotel room.

Speaker 3 Because you know that there's some droe being cooked up down Orlando right now.

Speaker 1 I want to go back real quick to LeBron reading the first page of the book because that went viral. I think it went viral late Thursday, but over the weekend as well.

Speaker 1 That is the most relatable that LeBron has ever been because anyone who is not a real book guy but an aspiring book guy, which I put myself in that camp where I, you know, probably about a dozen times a year, I'm like, man, I should read more.

Speaker 1 My brain feels better when I read more. I understand where LeBron's coming from, where you see, first of all, you judge every book by its cover.

Speaker 1 Whoever said don't judge a book by its cover is a fucking moron. See a book, looks like a cool cover, buy the book, read a few pages, never read it again.
That's the recipe.

Speaker 1 So, LeBron, I'm going to give people giving you shit for that. I think that's the most relatable he has ever been in his entire life.

Speaker 3 That's why you got to be reading Kindles like Kawhi Leonard because nobody can tell what page you're on. You know what LeBron should do?

Speaker 3 He should just like put post-it notes on random pages in his book so it looks like he's been leafing through them.

Speaker 1 He did do, he, after that went viral on Thursday and Friday, on Saturday, I think there was a picture of Bookmark halfway through the book.

Speaker 3 Okay, there you go. He's slid in there.

Speaker 1 He was actually just bought. You know how they used to do that? They'd slide the bookmark in the middle of the book.
Yep. We went to Barnes and Noble.
That's what it was. But

Speaker 3 dog ears some of the cases.

Speaker 1 Fuck that, LeBron.

Speaker 3 Just bend a few of them over. What? He's read the haters.
The Godfather, the autobiography of Malcolm X. What else has he read recently?

Speaker 1 I don't know, but I just.

Speaker 6 One of the screenshots was from The Hunger Games.

Speaker 1 Perfect.

Speaker 1 Don't listen to haters, LeBron. You are relatable when you just read the first pages of books because that's...
Listen,

Speaker 1 like 90% of reading the book is just doing it in public and letting people know that you're reading the book. Whether you read it or not doesn't really matter.
You open the book, you bought the book.

Speaker 1 That's the hard part.

Speaker 3 Yeah, the coolest thing is like if you ride the subway and you just have a book open in front of you, you just know that everyone's looking at you and they're like, this dude is smart.

Speaker 3 This dude has his acting. Your book's upside down, but you don't know that at the time.

Speaker 1 Hank, your Celtics have ended the Sixers season, ended Brett Brown's probably career as a coach for the Sixers, ended maybe this era. I'd say that Elton Brand is a GM.

Speaker 3 Celtics till the process

Speaker 3 is done. It's over.

Speaker 1 The process is, yeah, it's a tough way to go out. I don't know what they do, but

Speaker 1 it's so funny how it always works out where I think you got to trade for Markel Fultz.

Speaker 6 Well, the crazy thing is the process, like people say the process failed, but the process was working.

Speaker 1 No, it worked. You got the picks.
You just have to hit the picks still.

Speaker 6 And then they got rid of the guy who set up the process. And then the moves they've made the last two years have just been absolutely.

Speaker 3 Yeah, it's like if somebody designs a kick-ass spreadsheet or database for your company, and then you fire that guy after you've already got the work you put in, now you don't have anybody to maintain it behind the scenes.

Speaker 3 Right. And you've just got like a series of monkeys at typewriters trying to figure it out.

Speaker 1 It doesn't work the same. And you also drafted

Speaker 1 two great players that could not be worse for each other. Anjoel and Biad and Ben Simmons.
So I think that's where they have to do.

Speaker 6 And they didn't draft Jason Tatum when they cut him.

Speaker 1 And they didn't draft Jason Tatum. But the

Speaker 1 sports radio call-in, like, you need to trade one of the two and just build around the other, I think is actually now true. Like, someone in Philly has been saying, has been calling.

Speaker 1 Angelo and Philly has been calling in for the last three years screaming about this. Angelo and Philly is correct.
I do not think that you can win with both those guys.

Speaker 1 You've got to try to figure it out.

Speaker 1 Maybe trade Ben Simmons to the Bulls for Zach Levine and the number four pick. There you go.
I would definitely say no.

Speaker 3 I would keep him B, but that's just for the argument of like everybody in the NBA is going small these days. Build around a big man.
Zig while everybody else zags.

Speaker 1 I don't know. I'd probably keep Ben Simmons and just hope eventually he can shoot a three.

Speaker 3 Um, but yeah, that's a fun, fun thing for the Sixers to have to figure out.

Speaker 1 I just, it sucks. Like, Sixers fans, like, uh, our good friend Roan, he's a die-hard Sixers fan, and he's just sat.
Like, I was like, so what do you think? He's just like, I don't know, man.

Speaker 1 Like, it's just, everything sucks. Yeah.
It's just the air of the Sixers were that team.

Speaker 1 There's nothing worse than having that team that feels like they're climbing the mountain and feels like they're setting something up for like a solid three to five year championship window and then wake up one day and be like wait maybe that none of that's real well i think the process got a little bit ahead of itself when they they thought that they were a little closer than they were so they started bringing in like rental players being like this is the missing piece and also tobias harris and also well and there was some other things in miami but they put like 200 million dollars to horford and harris yeah yeah those are solid contracts solid contracts but like sometimes it's dangerous to think that you're closer than you are al horford is such a a great example of like when a guy is, I don't even know how old Alfred Horford is.

Speaker 1 He's probably like 33, 34. When he opts out, you got to know something's up.

Speaker 1 Like he opted out of that contract with the South where he was guaranteed a lot of money, and you're like, uh-oh, someone's going to give him too much money, and it's going to be very stupid.

Speaker 1 Because a guy like that should not be opting out ever.

Speaker 3 I do like being reminded on a yearly basis that Al Horford can still jump occasionally. Yeah.
Like when he has the Al Horford career playoffs.

Speaker 1 He's not the same guy anymore. So, and then the Rockets Thunder series has been great as well.
I mean, it's been great basketball. Great basketball.
Great series.

Speaker 1 The Nets, sorry for your Nets.

Speaker 1 Hank, that was a pretty quick and easy sweep there.

Speaker 3 The Nets are terrible. Terrible offensively.
Awful team. I put way too much money on them on Friday, and I was just watching, just screaming at the TV the entire time.

Speaker 3 They have a bunch of guys that are trying to prove that they're supposed to be there next year. Yeah, they're rental support.

Speaker 6 So you're trying them next year. Yes.
They got some good guys.

Speaker 3 You're right. I think

Speaker 3 Fridays, I saw a lot of heart. So maybe that's a team that might be on the up and up next year once they get maybe one or two impact players.

Speaker 1 I was thinking about, I think it was because

Speaker 1 we live in New York City and we see the Yes Network commercials, but I saw a commercial when DeAndre Jordan was in it.

Speaker 1 Was DeAndre Jordan hurt or anything? I think he just said, there's no chance I'm going to get my ass kicked in the ball.

Speaker 3 He opted out of the bubble.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Shout out him. That's a smart move.

Speaker 3 Not for me. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Uh-uh. Oh, KD and Kyrie are not coming.
I'm out.

Speaker 3 I mean, think about the upside for him. Best case scenario, they win like one playoff series.
Yes. Best case scenario.

Speaker 1 Yes. All right, so playoff hockey.

Speaker 1 Hockey Hank's watching the Bruins right now. The Stars and Av started.
That's going to be an awesome series. Anything else? I mean, the, oh, Mike Millbury got booted out of the bubble.

Speaker 3 Yeah. Saying that women are just a little bit more.
It was nice to not have women around to be a distraction. That's hockey tough.
Yeah. You don't hear any NBA on it.

Speaker 1 Was that Hot Mike or was it Was it like a Bomb Brennan or he just said

Speaker 1 it?

Speaker 3 It was just pure take, just Millbury take

Speaker 1 He might not have been in the bubble. He might have been in Stanford.

Speaker 3 I think he was in the studio when he was in the middle. No, he was because he took that picture of

Speaker 6 the space needle.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, the space needle. He called it the space needle.
Whatever the hell it is. Yeah.

Speaker 3 So

Speaker 3 his explanation was that there are no women in the bubble, so it's not. No distractions.
The guys can't be distracted with trying to get. Guys can be dudes.
Yeah, can't get that Punani.

Speaker 1 Right. So we got the announcers stepping in front of each other.
I bet you Thom Brennaman was like, oh, nice. Everyone's going to talk about Mike Milbert.

Speaker 3 This is going to take the distraction. It just didn't happen.

Speaker 1 Oh, Mike Milbert. Because Mike Milbert is one of those guys where I don't think anyone really likes him.

Speaker 3 Maybe Tom was talking about the NHL bubble when he was trying to figure out what the capital of North America was. He was like, no chicks.
Yeah. It must be.
Heaven on earth.

Speaker 1 Goal. Oh, you got another goal.
Hockey Hank.

Speaker 3 One thing I've noticed is

Speaker 3 this overhead, this overhead.

Speaker 1 camera angle in hockey you never score a goal last no when that's on it's like when they do that in the final four when they when they do the overhead showing the court, and it's the worst.

Speaker 1 It makes me want to throw up every time they do that.

Speaker 3 There's never been a goal scored with that overhead angle.

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Speaker 1 Hank, who's back?

Speaker 6 My who's back of the week is Batman.

Speaker 1 Okay. Mm-hmm.

Speaker 6 New Batman trailer came out every day.

Speaker 1 Wait, Christopher Nolan?

Speaker 6 Not Christopher Nolan. Robert Pattinson.

Speaker 1 Speaking of Twilight.

Speaker 6 The dude from Wilson that ruined the office. No.
No, he's in Twilight. He's in California.
He was one of the, like, you know, the heartthrobs from Twilight.

Speaker 1 He was in the middle. No, who's making it? Christopher Nolan?

Speaker 1 I just want more Christopher Nolan. I don't think he is because I know that he's only

Speaker 6 definitely not. But those are the best.

Speaker 1 Christopher Nolan should just make Batman's every year, and the world would be a better place.

Speaker 3 Is the Joker on this one?

Speaker 6 Matt Reeves is the guy directing it.

Speaker 1 Hmm. The Riddler.

Speaker 3 The Riddler's in it. The Riddler.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 3 Remember Jim Carrey as the Riddler? Yeah. He was awesome.

Speaker 6 Everyone was freaking out about it, though. I kind of have Batman fatigue.
I feel it's

Speaker 1 a little too soon. It's been a long time.

Speaker 6 But the, I don't know. It's one of those things where it's like they make great movies.
Like the Christopher Nolan ones were so good, and then they're just going to do a less good.

Speaker 6 I mean, they did the Ben Affleck was Batman like two years ago.

Speaker 1 That's right. But we forgot about that.
That movie's come out.

Speaker 6 Batman vs. Superman.

Speaker 1 Oh, Jessica Wash Seek. Yeah.

Speaker 3 The trailer for this one looks pretty good, though. Like, I'm pumped to see it.

Speaker 6 I watched it. I was like, it's okay.
And then everyone was like universally. This looks so, so, so, so, so, so good.
So we'll see. Batman's back.

Speaker 1 Just do old ideas again, yeah.

Speaker 3 Robert Pattinson, didn't he, was he a vampire in Twilight?

Speaker 1 Uh-huh.

Speaker 6 Slash werewolf, I think.

Speaker 1 Vampire werewolf

Speaker 1 fucking double copy. That would be sick if they made

Speaker 3 this Batman like a vampire bat.

Speaker 1 That would be very cool. Or if they made this bat giving everyone coronavirus.

Speaker 1 That would be cool, too, if they threw that in there.

Speaker 1 Batman. Is that it? For who's back? Yep.

Speaker 1 Yes. Okay.

Speaker 1 You're such a fucker.

Speaker 3 My who's back.

Speaker 1 Every time you have multiple ones,

Speaker 1 and then the time you have one, you always are like, well, I usually preface it by saying I have a few.

Speaker 6 Yeah.

Speaker 3 But we're done with this one. Who's back?

Speaker 1 Who's back? Not who's back.

Speaker 1 Hank is 100% right.

Speaker 3 Okay. I have two.
Is that okay? Yeah. My whole back of the week.
First is North Korea. North Korea's back, baby, because Kim Kim Jong-un is in a coma, allegedly.

Speaker 3 There's like some spy from South Korea that said that, according to his analysis, Kim Jong-un is in a coma.

Speaker 1 It's like Batman.

Speaker 6 I've seen this before. Yeah, he comes back.
I know how this ends.

Speaker 3 Kim Jong-un comes back from the dead so often. He's like Betty White or Harrison Ford or who else dies a lot.
Almost dies. Marlin's man.

Speaker 1 Yes. Leroy.

Speaker 3 Many times. He just keeps coming back.
So I'll believe it when I see it. But apparently he has

Speaker 3 a little sister who's like 33 years old. Yes.
Who's going to be taking over. Now, I want to say there have been a lot of reports out there that just refer to her as Kim Jong-un's sister.

Speaker 3 She has a name. She's a badass woman.
Who's her name? Okay, are you afraid of her? Her name is

Speaker 3 Kim Yo-jong.

Speaker 3 She's going to be taking over. Mike Milbury is shitting his pants.
He thinks that North Korea is going in the crapper right now.

Speaker 1 I support her as a strong woman, even though she's probably going to be a dictator.

Speaker 1 She's going to be bad. After all, she will fire.
Now we're in a pickle.

Speaker 3 She'll fire a tank at you if you don't already kiss her ass.

Speaker 1 So we are

Speaker 1 North Korea. I think.
But yeah, I'm in a pickle mentally.

Speaker 3 I'll have to think this one through. Harrison, what's his name? Not Harrison Ford.

Speaker 3 Dennis Rodman needs to go overseas post-haste and try to figure this out.

Speaker 1 He's probably there.

Speaker 3 Yeah. He's giving organs to him.

Speaker 3 My other who's back of the week is Earl Thomas. Earl Thomas is back as a free agent.

Speaker 3 Earl Thomas of the Cowboys rumors are specifically back because he got cut after getting into some fights with his teammates for the Ravens.

Speaker 3 And so I guess they were really pissed off at him because they're willing to pay like $10 million against the CAP this year and fifty-five.

Speaker 1 He's a leadership committee.

Speaker 3 On the Ravens.

Speaker 1 A leadership committee decided they didn't want him.

Speaker 3 Yeah, so he's gone. He got the axe.
I was asking Hank earlier if he thought that maybe, maybe

Speaker 3 this is a Belichick move. Maybe Belichick picks him up.
They lost Patrick Chung for the year. They get Earl Thomas as like an impact veteran that everybody else has given up on.

Speaker 1 He also said that in his Instagram comment, he posted the video. He said, this has been one of my best camps ever.

Speaker 1 And immediately I was like, oh, damn, Earl Thomas, like, the Bears should get him because he said it.

Speaker 3 He's in the best shape of his life.

Speaker 1 Yeah. That's all it took for me to be like, man, he still got it.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 Just because he said it. What do you think, Hank? Patriots?

Speaker 6 I don't feel it.

Speaker 3 Getting for cheap? I would love it.

Speaker 1 I think he's going to the California.

Speaker 6 But

Speaker 6 I feel like it's something that's going to happen.

Speaker 1 Remember that time after a game in Dallas when he went up to Jerry Jones? He's like, come get me. Come get me.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 And then that's also where he banged his brother. Yeah.
Was in Texas somewhere. I think in Austin.
Austin, yeah. So, yeah, maybe he'll he'll be going home.

Speaker 3 Actually, that would be perfect if he went up to New England. Tom Brady won, what, two Super Bowls after he kissed his son?

Speaker 3 Imagine the dynasty they'd go on if they got a safety that fucked his brother.

Speaker 3 Just something to think about, Hank.

Speaker 1 I think it was just one.

Speaker 3 Just one? Okay, well, maybe you'll get two.

Speaker 1 Out of that. Out of that, yeah.
Step it up a little bit. All right, Mike, who's back is

Speaker 1 Madden Codes back on my bullshit. This is the week.

Speaker 1 Get ready. My mentions are about to be lit.
Thursday.

Speaker 1 I got word. Thursday is going to be the day.
I don't know what I'm going to do. But I'm worried.
I'm going to send a lot of fake codes for sure.

Speaker 3 You know what you got to do? Are you getting that lottery machine?

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's on the way from China.

Speaker 3 So put some.

Speaker 1 No, it is. It literally is.

Speaker 3 Put some Madden codes on PayPal. Spend $1,500 on it.
Have like, have, you know, one out of every five be an actual code. Yes.

Speaker 1 Ooh, that's good. Okay, so we'll do, and we'll do a stream or something, and we'll give away codes.
We'll probably give away some codes on Friday as part of my take. Yeah.
Just get ready.

Speaker 1 don't ask for the code just wait i'll say the word and you'll get some codes we're gonna give up i'll give a bunch to all business pete he'll fucking give them away it's gonna be what's gonna be raining codes i love it everywhere um i just so i'm gonna get madden this year and i got you bro it's been a while i got you it's been a while since i played we played on that live stream yeah i hope that it's good i hope that i'm my brain's able to make that leap honestly i heard it honestly i don't care if it's good or bad just bring back mini games i just care about the codes bring back the fucking training camp camp mini-games.

Speaker 1 I probably won't even play.

Speaker 1 Madden to me is just giving away codes.

Speaker 3 You remember Madden. You remember, though, when they used to have like the

Speaker 3 running back drills and then the tackling drills and the pancake drills and the passing through the fucking airborne ring drills? Yes. Bring those back, please.
Those were awesome.

Speaker 1 Or don't. I don't care.
Just give me the codes. You just, yeah,

Speaker 1 that just likes the power. No, I don't.
I do not care about the game. I just want to give away codes.

Speaker 1 And I want to, you know, give to the people.

Speaker 1 Billy. My Who's Back of the Week.
Billy, not a Chad, wearing a backwards hat and a Budweiser tank top.

Speaker 7 My Who's Back of the Week is cocaine.

Speaker 1 Whoa,

Speaker 1 Billy. Go on.

Speaker 7 Oscar De La Joya is coming out of retirement. What's his name? Oscar De La Joya.

Speaker 1 Yep.

Speaker 7 And his friend Dana White was asked at a press conference about his thoughts on Oscar De La Joya coming out of retirement, and he said cocaine isn't cheap.

Speaker 1 Ooh, makes sense.

Speaker 3 Dana White is a hell of a name, like a slang term for Coke. I'm going to start calling it that.
Yes. You got any Dana White on you? Yes.

Speaker 6 Peterson Coke literally translates to.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
So are you, you probably don't even remember Oscar De La Hoya?

Speaker 7 I think he fought Minnie Pacquiao once.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but you, like, he fought Floyd Mayweather in, like, 2006 or 7.

Speaker 3 He's got to be like, what, 52, 53?

Speaker 1 He was older. He was Ben.
He was old Ben.

Speaker 3 Maybe this is just him saying, like, John Bones-Jones, you need to come back too because cocaine isn't cheap.

Speaker 1 They really need to just have a senior tour for porn stars and boxers. They always age poorly.
That's it.

Speaker 1 You can't. If you're a porn star or a boxer and you get past that age of 40, it's tough to fake it.

Speaker 3 I think they do have a senior tour for porn stars. You just age into the MILF category.
Right.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 we need the full-on, like more sensual loving and boxing.

Speaker 1 Maybe it's bigger gloves. Yeah, yeah.
Maybe it's like pillow gloves.

Speaker 3 Yeah, so no one's really getting killed out there.

Speaker 1 I gotta watch it, but I don't want anyone to, it's tough when someone boxes. It's like Chuck Liddell when

Speaker 1 he went back in there. It was like, as he was walking in, you're like, oh my God, he looks terrible.
And then he got the shit kicked out of him.

Speaker 3 It's a hard sell. You almost feel guilty watching him at some point.
Right. It's like, this is like my grandfather just getting his ass.

Speaker 1 Right. Same with Pork.

Speaker 3 You know what they should do? They should just allow old heavyweights to fight young lightweights. That would be cool.
Connor McGregor would sign up immediately to fight a six-year-old.

Speaker 1 Yes, that would actually be a lot of fun. Just go out of weight class.

Speaker 1 All right.

Speaker 1 Let's do our interview. Is that it, Billy? Yep.
Anything else? Jake, do you have a who's back?

Speaker 1 Ooh, Jake does. The Yankees.

Speaker 3 No, the Yankees were off this weekend.

Speaker 8 Onomanopoeia.

Speaker 1 Ooh.

Speaker 3 Mike Breen, a double bang today.

Speaker 1 The rare double bang. I saw that.
Yes. By the way,

Speaker 1 we should at least.

Speaker 1 Everyone's going to be like, how could you not bring up Jose Bray? What he did this weekend was insane. What he did.

Speaker 1 He hit six home runs against the Cubs, and he hit four home runs and four straight-hit bats, spanning two days.

Speaker 3 That's crazy.

Speaker 1 Do we know if Mike Breen? You got to feel like God when that happens.

Speaker 3 Has Mike Breen ever done a double bang before? I think maybe when Steph against the Thunder four years ago, remember they were down like 30 and he hit like a half-court regular season game?

Speaker 1 He either went

Speaker 1 crazy with a bang or did double bang.

Speaker 3 I'll have to look again. Yeah, you really got to pick your places if you want to alter your catchphrase.
It has to be something very, very simple.

Speaker 1 I would actually appreciate it if you could do maybe like an analytical breakdown of the bangs. Like seconds,

Speaker 1 how loud, decibels. I'll work on that.

Speaker 1 it would be interesting to see it visualized it's like the verbal meme of the the chick that's getting railed on her back and it's Mike Breen says oh fuck you're gonna make me double bang yeah do that but also the charts yeah yeah okay you got it all right let's get to our interview with A-Rod before we do that What's up guys, it's Big Cat here making my Irish entrance with proper number 12 Irish whiskey.

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Okay, here he is, Alex Rodriguez.

Speaker 1 Okay, we now welcome on recurring guest, my boss,

Speaker 1 in preparation for the Corp season three, which drops on Tuesday and Thursday this week.

Speaker 1 It is Alex Rodriguez 1-1A-Rod.

Speaker 1 Actually, probably our first interview that we've had someone actually come in in a long time. So it's good to actually see a person in person.

Speaker 5 It's great to be here. I love your show and I love to

Speaker 5 be in Barstill headquarters.

Speaker 3 I think you're breaking in that couch right now. I don't think we've had a guest in that couch.

Speaker 1 A-Rod, I'm going to tell you right now, for your safety, don't make any sudden movements because Billy broke that couch.

Speaker 1 So the last thing I want is for you to make a sudden movement, have it fall, have your coffee fall in your lap, and then Billy's going to be like...

Speaker 3 Lawsuit City. Yeah, right.

Speaker 1 So,

Speaker 1 A-Rod, before we do everything else, let's talk real quick about the Corp season three.

Speaker 3 First question, how difficult is Dan to work with as a co-host?

Speaker 5 From one through 10 or 12.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 5 very difficult.

Speaker 5 You know, season three presented some great opportunities and some challenges. The biggest challenge was he came to our home in the Hamptons.

Speaker 1 Wasn't allowed inside. You let no, not inside.
That's the COVID. That's right.
The outside academy. No, no, no, no.

Speaker 5 COVID, not COVID.

Speaker 1 We did not go inside. No, we interviewed.

Speaker 1 So we're going to release it Tuesday and Thursday. It's going to be the whole season.
We have, should we just say the guests? We might as well. Yeah, let it rip.
Kevin Durant, who will be on PMT.

Speaker 1 So that,

Speaker 1 at the end of the Kevin Durant interview, I was like, we got to do PMT. He's like, oh, I know because we've talked some shit.
And so that will be happening shortly.

Speaker 1 We have Jay Snowden, who is Penn National Gaming CEO. Steve Madden, ever heard of him?

Speaker 1 If you've watched Wolf of Wall Street, you definitely have. Jimmy Fallon, Ice Cube, all of our friend Joe Buck, and then finally Jennifer Lopez.
So a star-studded corp.

Speaker 5 Did you think this was our best?

Speaker 1 Yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 5 Yeah, I think it's our best.

Speaker 1 And J-Lo was, she smelled great.

Speaker 3 How tough was she to ball? She smelled so great. I feel like she'd be tough to nail.

Speaker 5 Well, we had Jeff Lee, we had Nick, we had Ashley. We had our entire corp office trying to wrangle her down, but it took us three seasons.

Speaker 9 Yes, it did.

Speaker 1 So it took a while.

Speaker 5 She loved it. Dan was so tough.

Speaker 5 Jennifer said, never again. Yes.

Speaker 3 For that reason.

Speaker 5 You guys got to get Jennifer on PMT. She's always.

Speaker 1 You know what? Yeah. Yeah, sure.
Absolutely. Yes.
You know what?

Speaker 1 Let me check with Hank. Hank, do you think we can make room for J-Lo?

Speaker 3 Yes. Hank says maybe.

Speaker 1 So, yeah, we'll have our

Speaker 3 shots to your people.

Speaker 1 So check it out Tuesday and Thursday. It's all going to drop then.
You can binge, listen to it. So, A-Rod,

Speaker 1 it's actually perfect that you're here today because we're taping this on Tuesday, and the Fernando Tatis stuff just happened where the baseball world, the unwritten rules of baseball are like front and center on Twitter.

Speaker 1 Where do you land one on unwritten rules? Are you an unwritten rules guy?

Speaker 5 Not really. Let me set it up, right? Because I think our listeners at home may have not watched the game.
So Tatis hits a grand slam late in the game. The count is 3-0.

Speaker 5 He swings, hits a grand slam, and the Texas Rangers and Woodward are basically saying that's Bush. He shouldn't swing 3-0.
So number one.

Speaker 3 Up eight.

Speaker 1 Up eight. Yeah, up eight.
Right.

Speaker 5 So two things here to unpack. Number one, you should never get upset at the player.
It is the manager's responsibility to determine green light, red light. So Dan, if you're hitting and

Speaker 5 you're up eight and I'm the manager, I have to tell you green light or don't swing. So that's the number one.
They're going at the wrong kid. Tatiz did nothing wrong.

Speaker 5 He is basically our LeBron James in the making,

Speaker 5 following in the footsteps of a Mike Trout. He is colorful.
He is fun. He fucking dances merengue.

Speaker 5 He's a good-looking kid. He's colorful.
We need more Tatis. Let's promote him.
And baseball, let's just loosen up a little bit. Let's have a little bit more fun.

Speaker 3 Right. So, in terms of unwritten rules, you're very clearly against this one, which I don't even think that this is an unwritten rule because it's like so nebulous.

Speaker 3 It's like, okay, perfect storm of things. You're down by eight, 3-0 pitch, et cetera, et cetera.

Speaker 1 There's a lot of factors that go in. You're swinging at 3-0.

Speaker 3 Yeah, but what about

Speaker 3 like, what are some unwritten rules that you do actually believe in?

Speaker 5 Well, first of all, I don't believe that if you're a pitcher throwing 98 miles an hour, you should throw someone's head

Speaker 5 to even some type of, you know, argument or something that you disagree with.

Speaker 5 If you want to hit someone, you should hit them, you know, under the belt or at the ribs, no higher than that, because you can end somebody's life.

Speaker 1 That's the truth of it.

Speaker 5 I think things like that, if you're up nine, you shouldn't be stealing bases.

Speaker 5 But, guys, in basketball, if you're up 20, if you want to shoot a three, go for it.

Speaker 1 What about Belichick?

Speaker 5 Belichick and Brady, if they're up 25, they'll go deep and they don't care.

Speaker 1 You know what you don't do? Load the bases or get into a 3-0 count. That's right.
Like, I've always,

Speaker 1 you could say maybe it's not great sportsmanship, but

Speaker 1 it's not little league. It's hardball.

Speaker 1 It's hardball, not softball. There's no sportsmanship in professional sports.

Speaker 5 I love Tatiz.

Speaker 5 You guys got to watch him. Tatiz

Speaker 5 is a stud.

Speaker 3 What's the alternative? Like, just strike out?

Speaker 1 Just go up there and strike out on the bottom.

Speaker 3 Yeah, swing less hard.

Speaker 1 Guess what? The more home runs he hits, the more money he's going to make. Like this, this all, like, you've got to go up there and try your best.

Speaker 5 And let me give you one twist. If you're up eight and they don't score and Texas Rangers come out and hits a grand slam, now it's a four-run lead.
Now you have to burn up your bullpen.

Speaker 5 Look, you, I've been taught from Lupinella from day one, you play to to the last out is collected and play hard.

Speaker 3 Yeah, no prisoners. And then his own manager is basically throwing him under the bus, saying, You shouldn't be doing something like this.
Like,

Speaker 3 I've heard from like a few people in baseball that are saying, like, yeah, you know what? You don't swing on this type of pitch.

Speaker 3 Like, how would you handle that as a player if your manager didn't seem to have your back?

Speaker 5 Well, first of all, I'm not sure the exact details, but if the manager

Speaker 5 didn't put on the take sign, then he's giving them free liberty to swing.

Speaker 5 So, again, a young kid, you have to be patient. You're not going to be perfect.
You know, people make mistakes, and I don't consider this one of them.

Speaker 5 I do think that you have to coach, mentor, but let them fly. Let the eagle fly.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I saw actually Eric Cosmer kind of talk to him after, like, hey, listen, this isn't what we do because I think he was more, Eric Cosmer was talking to him about more like

Speaker 1 pimping the home run a little bit more because then guys can get thrown at. But from a player's perspective, how often would you sit down one-on-one with the manager over the course of a season?

Speaker 5 Well, I sat down with managers all the time, and there's different conversations, right?

Speaker 5 The conversation when you're a first-year player or two-year, second-year player, that conversation is very much like you're talking to a professor or your teacher.

Speaker 5 When you're a veteran player and you've been in the league 15, 20 years, you're usually talking in collaboration, almost like he's your partner to help out the young players.

Speaker 5 But Eric Hosmer could not be a better leader. He's a world champion.
He's a 305 guy from Miami. And And he is the perfect guy to lead that young bunch.

Speaker 5 But again, I think letting this young man fly and don't start putting guardrails on him. That's the worst thing we can do.
What we need to do is promote him, tell his story, and guys, put him on here.

Speaker 5 Yeah. Put some orangi.
He'll get up and dance with boots. Check out his Instagram.
This is, I'm so excited because we finally get a glimpse of what baseball could be. And I love it.

Speaker 3 Another unwritten rule question. What about stepping on a pitcher's mound?

Speaker 1 Oh, Dallas Braden.

Speaker 3 What about if it's a certain podcaster that might work as a co-worker of ours and you encroach on his territory?

Speaker 5 First of all, I love Braden because he was a great competitor. You know, his stuff was.

Speaker 1 That's what you say when someone sucks. I like

Speaker 1 that. Dallas Braden really tried hard.

Speaker 1 He got the most out of his talent, big cat.

Speaker 1 He did. He did.

Speaker 5 Was he Randy Johnson? No, but

Speaker 1 absolutely not.

Speaker 5 But he was a great competitor.

Speaker 5 And look, in the heat of of the moment, you do a lot of stupid shit. And that was probably pretty silly.
But he was throwing a fucking no-hitter. And I wanted to do everything in his mind.

Speaker 5 Wait, was that the...

Speaker 1 Oh, that was a different game than the perfect game. But yeah, yeah, he was dealing that day.

Speaker 5 He was dealing that game. That was around the time he threw the perfect rig, the no-hitter.
And he was dealing.

Speaker 1 And we probably got one or two hits. Right.

Speaker 5 So I actually wanted to. You know how Dennis Rodman used to do like...

Speaker 5 you know, provocative things? Yeah. That was something provocative to get him riled up and get him out of his game.
It didn't work. He still shoved it up our butt.

Speaker 1 So do you,

Speaker 1 let's put it to bed forever. Do you think you look back on that like, yeah, I probably shouldn't have done that? I shouldn't have walked on his mount.

Speaker 5 Yeah, I mean, there's so many things, Dan, that I would take back. But at the end of the day, the reason why you don't take them back is because they're learning lessons.

Speaker 5 But that was just gaming shit.

Speaker 5 I knew exactly what I was doing.

Speaker 5 I thought it would work.

Speaker 1 It didn't work because he kept pitching. And it did work in that I love Dallas.
He's very, very very funny, very, very talented, and he's also passionate. So

Speaker 1 knowing Dallas, how I know him, like you can get a rise out of him and he will be passionate, which is actually a great thing because you need more of that in sports.

Speaker 5 Absolutely. By the way,

Speaker 5 you should have the ability to express yourself. That's how I wanted to express myself at the time.

Speaker 5 It was an unwritten rule. But at the time, I said, fuck it.
We want to win this game. And if I can get this guy thinking about me and not the other eight hitters, then that's a win.
I'll take that.

Speaker 1 So speaking of Dallas, he did throw a no-hitter. It was a perfect game, but we say no-hitter.
So, he had that one game where it was like he reached the pinnacle.

Speaker 1 Were you ever on a team that got no-hitter or had a perfect game thrown against you?

Speaker 5 I believe we got no hit.

Speaker 1 What does that feel like?

Speaker 5 Like, shit, terrible.

Speaker 1 Like, are you?

Speaker 5 Oh, I got it. I got it.
Dwight Gooden. No hitter, I believe, in 96 at the stadium.
I'm going to look it up.

Speaker 1 But so you,

Speaker 1 like, when you're standing in the

Speaker 1 locker room or in the clubhouse, in the dugout, are you guys like, hey, anyone going to get a hit today? Like, do you feel the depression?

Speaker 5 You feel like a little bitch. You feel like, especially after the game, you're depressed.
I wish I had more presidente then, because that's what you feel like.

Speaker 1 What inning do you start noticing that?

Speaker 5 You start getting kind of a funny feeling around the fifth.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 3 And do you say anything to the opposing pitcher? Because I know that you're not supposed to talk about it, but you can be like, hey, you got a no-hitter.

Speaker 5 Yeah. I said, this fucking guy has a no-hitter.
Are you fucking kidding me? Let's go.

Speaker 5 And you say it loud enough where only your teammates can. You can't do that today with no fans.
I mean,

Speaker 1 they can hear you on the field. I'm going to give you credit, though.
I'm looking at the box score right now. I think you walked twice.

Speaker 5 I walked twice and my face.

Speaker 1 So you're only old for two.

Speaker 5 Dan, you're not going to believe this. The first at bat, and you can go back and watch it, which I'm sure you won't.

Speaker 5 I hit a ball that I thought was a triple, and Bernie Williams went back and just made an unbelievable play. And I said, no big deal.
We're going to hit good and hard today.

Speaker 5 And sure enough, no hitter.

Speaker 1 That's incredible.

Speaker 3 I love Doc. Does it feel any worse getting no hit or having like one guy on your team?

Speaker 3 Maybe one guy went three for four with like, you know, like two home runs or something like that, and everybody else got shut down. Does that feel any worse?

Speaker 5 No, I mean, you always want, you want to be in the scoreboard. You, you want to get a hit personally, but you want at least somebody in your team to get a hit.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I'm watching it right now. So I, you,

Speaker 1 um, it's, that's, that's hilarious, though, that you thought, like, oh, this is going to be my day, and then everything goes against you. I, God, that would suck so bad.

Speaker 1 And then the next day, after a no-hitter, what's the conversation in a clubhouse? Like, when you all show up the next day, you're like, hey, like, do you mention it?

Speaker 1 Or you're like, hey, let's just fucking get out there and try to get a hit here.

Speaker 5 This fucking happened in New York. So the next day, every paper, no hit, no hit, no hit.

Speaker 1 I would say. They carried him off.

Speaker 5 Here's the crazy thing. I mean, I grew up a huge

Speaker 5 Dwight Gooden, Daryl Strawberry, Keith and Anders. I grew up a Mets fan.
So the fact that Doc had been through so much, his father passed away that week.

Speaker 5 So he throws a no-hitter, he points up at the sky, and honestly, it was just an awesome story. So from that point of view,

Speaker 5 I was like, okay, if this is the condition of a no-hitter, I'll take it.

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 3 Speaking of those 86 Mets, another guy on that team, Lenny Dykstra. Love Lenny.
So Lenny, you're a fan?

Speaker 3 You're a big Lenny fan too. Love snails.
Yeah, that's right. So I guess what he would do before each game, so it would make the baseball seem like a lot bigger to his to his naked eye.

Speaker 3 He would just stare at a ping-pong ball in the locker room

Speaker 3 for about an hour and a half. And he figured, like, if I stare at this small white thing, then eventually when I get on the field, it's going to look like a beach ball or something like that.

Speaker 3 Did you do, did you have any tricks or anything that you did to get your eyes like locked in? Great question.

Speaker 5 I feel like you must have talked to a make or someone to give you prepare you.

Speaker 3 No, I just listened to a Lenny Dykster podcast like yesterday. You know, A-Rod's got some stories.

Speaker 5 You know what I would do? I'll get a broomstick, and I would go to the parking lot of the hotel we were staying at and I would hit beans.

Speaker 5 I would hit a hundred beans, like they're little red beans. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I would hit those dried beans or out of a can?

Speaker 5 Dry beans, dry.

Speaker 5 And with the broomstick, I would clip them, clip them, and obviously you hear the clip.

Speaker 5 And sometimes when I had a horseshoe game, I would go back to the hotel and I would tell my nephew, who was at the time like 10 years old, throw me some beans.

Speaker 1 He goes, what, Uncle Alex? I'm tired.

Speaker 5 I go, let's go. Bean time.

Speaker 1 That's great.

Speaker 1 I mean, I don't think I can hit a bean.

Speaker 3 No, definitely not.

Speaker 1 I'd go like

Speaker 1 10 for 100, maybe, and be like, that would be good.

Speaker 3 But it'd be so satisfying if you just really made a solid connection with the beans.

Speaker 5 First of all, who was your favorite player growing up?

Speaker 3 So I liked the Braves growing up. Oh, yeah.
They were on TV all the time.

Speaker 3 So, well, Ryan Sandberg on the Cubs, and then I would say like Chipper Jones, Mark Limpke, Sid Bream, Greg Maddox, all those old Braves.

Speaker 1 Griffey Jr.

Speaker 1 So it just came, your bat just came up. You fucking rocked that ball.
like the fact that you didn't get a hit there.

Speaker 5 I thought it was a trip off the bat.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it was an unbelievable catch.

Speaker 5 Who was your favorite player?

Speaker 1 Griffey, Rhino. You know, I actually, the Mariners, your Mariners team.
A-Rod. A-Rod.
Yeah. Randy Johnson being like so tall.
Jay Buener.

Speaker 3 Beast.

Speaker 5 Jay Buner.

Speaker 5 Norm Charlton.

Speaker 3 Yeah. I mean, we play this game sometimes where it's just like sit around and name players from certain teams.

Speaker 3 And those mid-90s Mariners teams are when you can just like have an hour-long conversation just naming guys from that.

Speaker 1 I like Terry Pendleton because he had a fat ass. I did, yeah.

Speaker 5 Terry, yeah, Terry's good.

Speaker 5 You know what's crazy is we can talk about lineups from the 70s, 80s, 90s. And it's hard for us today to talk about a full lineup.
There's so much change in the game, right?

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Speaker 3 And now, more A-Rod.

Speaker 1 So speaking of that,

Speaker 1 would you, when you were changed in the lineup, would you ever have a manager that changed you, like threw you around day to day? Did that kind of screw with you?

Speaker 5 You know, in that era we weren't doing that like what you'll hit second for a week then you'll hit eighth or you hit seventh or you hit sixth as a young player but once you get established i i remember that in 2009 i had surgery i came back to the yankees first year with the new stadium and girardi basically said hey big boy i hope you're ready and healthy we're really struggling i came back i hit my first pitch home run in baltimore cece threw a complete game and then we we played like 750 baseball from that point and obviously won the world series but the point of the story is, he said, you're going to hit fourth every game, and every game that year, and every postseason game, I hit fourth.

Speaker 5 And that type of stability really helped me. And I think it's something that we need to get back to.

Speaker 1 When they changed the new Yankee Stadium, did you look at it and you're like, this is a joke? Like, I'm going to hit so many home runs. Yes.

Speaker 1 I mean, sometimes it'll be a pop-fly. You're like, wait, how did that go out?

Speaker 5 It was crazy. The old stadium

Speaker 5 had a better fan environment because it was like the old, you know, right, right.

Speaker 1 It had history.

Speaker 3 Yeah, of course.

Speaker 5 This stadium, it was like we were moving into like the Peninsula Hotel, like the, you know, something really, really fancy. But it was just a joke to hit home runs.

Speaker 1 And I'm sure that it will eventually get to the place of the fan. You just have to build history.
Yeah. You know, like it takes time.

Speaker 1 So we got to address at least the elephant in the room.

Speaker 1 What are our jobs going to be if you become the Mets owner? We have some ideas. PFT, why don't you start?

Speaker 3 I mean, mean, I don't want to ask for much. I'm not here looking for a handout.
All I want is to be the guy that drives the bullpen cart when the heaviest reliever goes into the game.

Speaker 3 I just want to drive out there, maybe put some spinners on the golf cart, maybe put a bitch and stereo system in there, and definitely one of those shag carpeting steering wheel covers and drive back to the bullpen.

Speaker 3 That's all I want. I love it.

Speaker 1 You don't even have to pay that?

Speaker 5 That's a great idea. That's free.
Bringing the golf cart back with some like cool vibe. I think that's a good idea.
Okay, so

Speaker 1 he's in for that. I just want to be like a clubhouse guy.

Speaker 1 Like, I want to, my job will be to just lean up against the batting cage with, you know, like an oversized, you know, jacket on, Mets jacket on, maybe some, you know, seeds, and just shoot the shit.

Speaker 5 Will you be a dip guy?

Speaker 1 Would you be? Yeah, dip. I'll bust balls.
Like, do you want to? I'll towel, go in the bathroom, I'll towel whip people if you want me to.

Speaker 1 Like, just a guy that everyone's like, hey, you know, he's just hanging out. That's a guy.

Speaker 5 Yeah, just stay.

Speaker 3 That just wants to annoy your players.

Speaker 1 No, I want to hang out.

Speaker 3 I want to, and then maybe sit on the bench.

Speaker 1 And then every now and then, the manager can look at me and be like,

Speaker 1 What do you think we should do here? I'd be like, I don't know. We could do this.
We could do that. What do you think?

Speaker 5 I have a better question for you guys. Yeah.
If you guys were commissioner for one day, what are the two changes you would do to make it more fun and more young? Good question.

Speaker 3 Six more DHs.

Speaker 1 Six more.

Speaker 3 That's like Rob Manford's suggesting for everything. He's like, slap another DH on it.
That'll fix the problem.

Speaker 1 I hate to say this because I do love the history of the game and this would probably screw with it, but I kind of like these seven-inning games. I like the doubleheaders.

Speaker 1 I like the seven-inning games.

Speaker 5 People have been liking them.

Speaker 1 I just, there's something about it. There's a little more urgency to it.

Speaker 1 I just, if you could maybe compact the season a little bit, because I always thought when baseball season starts and the first month is teams playing in front of like no one and it's 45 degrees, like, what are we doing?

Speaker 1 Baseball is a summer sport.

Speaker 5 People are liking the seven-inning games.

Speaker 1 So maybe you just figure out a way to, like, I understand if people don't want to get rid of 162,

Speaker 1 but maybe the solution is a couple seven-inning double-header games.

Speaker 5 About shorter seasons.

Speaker 1 Yeah, so like shorter in the calendar. I don't know if 162, I feel like people don't want to give that up, but expand the rosters a little and then throw in, maybe make it a month.

Speaker 1 Maybe like July is just double header month. Just bang out a bunch of months.

Speaker 3 That'd be really nice.

Speaker 3 So I always get really interested in baseball right at the start of the season, and then you know, I lose track and I kind of forget about it for the next two and a half, three months until like mid-July kicks in or after the all-star break.

Speaker 3 So, somehow, some way to like condense those, maybe give a longer all-star break because it's not even really a break, right?

Speaker 1 That's a good point.

Speaker 3 That's something that the players complain about all the time. It's like, yeah, we get a weekend off, but that's not really enough time to do it.

Speaker 5 How about making an all-star like the whole week? Yeah, right, and do a little bit of an international flare.

Speaker 5 And obviously, you end on Sunday with the big game, but you know, Homeland Derby and festivals and music and just make it like host you guys to come at the house.

Speaker 5 Like we have to make the star player stars and make them interesting. Like that's why this Tatis story to me is fascinating.
Let's talk more about Tatis.

Speaker 5 The fact that we're talking about baseball is a good thing because of this controversy that happened just last week.

Speaker 3 Well, I think like 99% of people that are seeing this are like, that was an awesome home run. It's ridiculous to expect them not to swing on it.

Speaker 3 So in a weird roundabout way, like all the old baseball people talking about how this is not a part of the game is actually actually drawing more eyes to it and people are like, yeah, I like this.

Speaker 3 So it's probably going to be good over the long term.

Speaker 3 Also band shifts.

Speaker 1 I love that. I hate shifts.

Speaker 3 I love that. I was literally about to say that.

Speaker 3 Have it be like in other sports where it's like this player has to exist between this boundary. And then that way it's more offense.
You don't get all these groundouts that should be seeing icing.

Speaker 5 Well, I think the NBA came up with illegal defense, man-to-man. Or else NBA playing a zone would suck.

Speaker 1 Well, they have it now, but yeah, they changed it. But yes, for a while, and they obviously changed the defense where, you know, hand-checking and all that stuff.
So, yeah,

Speaker 1 you have to grow as a sport as evolution happens. When it gets more physical, the NBA got more physical.
Defense kind of bogged everything down.

Speaker 1 They freed up the game, similar to the shift, where there's nothing worse than a guy hitting an absolute piss missile single right to the third baseman who's now standing in between the second baseman and the first baseman.

Speaker 5 Right, or the second baseman playing right field. So let's recap.

Speaker 5 So here, here, the commissioner you're deciding shorter game seven double header month yeah and i'd also i i'd approve a rod's bid to buy the mets yep that's the darn thing i would say double headers yep all right i like that and then shorter season uh eliminate the shifts both off your feet have to have at least one foot in the dirt so second baseman can be playing in right field yep and then I would say more access.

Speaker 5 We want to see the batting cages every day.

Speaker 5 We want to have it on their phone, and we want to see what Judge is doing at 4.30.

Speaker 5 We don't have a vehicle right now to see Judge or Mike Trout or Tatis. I want to see what Tatis looks like today in batting practice, but in the tunnel, so behind the scenes.
Yes. I like that.

Speaker 3 I'd also mandate one nerd in the dugout at all times. So like one of these money ball guys, he sits in the dugout.

Speaker 3 He has to wear a suit and a tie, a laptop, and he has to make at least one lineup change per game. And then he has to deal with the guys around him face to face when he makes that lineup change.

Speaker 3 Just more confrontation in general.

Speaker 5 I like it.

Speaker 3 Also, allow fighting, like in hockey.

Speaker 5 I like the suit in the the corner. Put him in a cube in the corner with a computer.
Yeah. Two computers.
Yes.

Speaker 1 Yes. Have you talked to Jeter at all since he got involved with the Marlins? He's been, obviously, criticized a bunch.
Have you talked to him? What's your relationship like him?

Speaker 5 Relationship is fine. You know, we've talked, we said hello a few times in passing, but

Speaker 5 I don't think he gets enough credit for...

Speaker 5 I think the Stanton trade was a good trade for him because it relieved a lot of financial.

Speaker 5 Yankees picked that up. And I think for for Derek, give him five years before passing judgment because he walked into a very difficult situation.
Here's a five-time world champion Hall of Famer.

Speaker 5 Derek Jeter's going to be just fine. I would not bet against Mr.
Jeter. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Okay. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Also, coming out of Miami, I wanted to bring this up: the Super Bowl halftime show.

Speaker 1 J-Lo, great job.

Speaker 3 I don't know if you happened to see Mike Wilbon's tweet about it or

Speaker 3 you've had issues with Mike after this. No, what are you saying? All right, so Mike Wilbon said,

Speaker 3 best halftime show ever, dot, dot, dot, by far, dot, dot, dot. And I'm a Prince fanatic, dot, dot, dot, but this is unequaled.

Speaker 1 Lordy, dot, dot, dot. Delordy.
He's coming in on Jalen.

Speaker 3 Did Delordy send up any red flags where you're like, hey, Mike, I appreciate you, but step off.

Speaker 5 Michael, let's set up a Zoom. We have to have a face-to-face.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 5 No, I love Mike. Mike's a friend, and

Speaker 5 I'm a big fan of his work.

Speaker 5 But I think a lot of people were saying that the Super Bowl, she worked so so hard i mean let me tell you behind the scenes now i mean she was working and jeff and nick they can attest two sometimes three four o'clock in the morning for literally months and months and months and then you do all of this six months of work for six minutes uh she killed it yeah yeah it was an awesome awesome great halftime strip it was also like the last time that the world was was normal That's true.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 3 I look back on that weekend and I'm like, man, you remember concerts? Yeah.

Speaker 1 That's a lot. That was kind of fun.

Speaker 3 You remember being allowed to hang out with your friends?

Speaker 1 Yeah, that was kind of fun.

Speaker 1 So, A-Rod, we have the Corp coming out Tuesday, Thursday. We actually talked to J-Lo about the Super Bowl halftime and everything that went into that.
Are you,

Speaker 1 you obviously are a big Dolphins fan. Are you buying in on Tua? Are we in on Tua?

Speaker 5 I don't know enough about football, but here's what I'm buying. is I cannot wait to see Tom Brady and Tampa.
That's going to be very interesting.

Speaker 5 And Gronk, who did season two at the Corp, who we love around here at Barstow,

Speaker 5 is interesting.

Speaker 1 It looked like he's doing a lot of good recruiting.

Speaker 1 How old were you when you retired? 40? Yeah.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 are you just watching Tom Brady and being like, what the hell?

Speaker 5 Going on 41. Yeah, I am.
He's amazing.

Speaker 1 Did you notice, like, even the back half of your 30s, like a difference in the preparation, the recovery, all that stuff? Was it year, was it that noticeable that it was year to year? Yeah.

Speaker 5 I mean, in your 20s, you can do whatever the hell you want. I mean,

Speaker 5 nothing hurts. You just get up and you just go out and hit home runs.
In your 30s, you start having to really, really work at it. What helped me was I had really, really good work ethic in my 20s.

Speaker 5 And I think that's a big key because there's a residual in your 30s.

Speaker 5 And anyone who plays into their 40s usually is

Speaker 5 a good worker, right? A good worker. You got to take care of your body.
And nobody's more meticulous than Tom Brady. I'll tell you a story.

Speaker 5 When about eight, nine years ago, I was playing golf with Tom Brady in Miami, and I asked him, How long do you want to play? And I thought his answer would be like 35.

Speaker 5 I mean, you know, NFL guys are getting crushed. He said, I want to play till I'm 45 or 50.
And I just kind of laughed, and you know, he shot another birdie or something.

Speaker 5 And sure enough, I mean, he wants to play another five years.

Speaker 1 Man, that's crazy.

Speaker 3 Did you see that when he was doing the match against Peyton Manning? That one Eagle that he had, like the one hop into the cup?

Speaker 3 That right there made me think, yeah, Tom Brady can do whatever he wants.

Speaker 5 Whatever he wants. He's 50 years old.
Whatever he wants.

Speaker 3 So, yeah, I think for most of us, like, we spend

Speaker 3 the first five years of our 30s forgetting that we're not in our 20s anymore. And then the second half of our 30s, like, trying to catch up and undo all the bad stuff that we did the last five years.

Speaker 3 When you were getting up to your 40s, like, did you have to make any adjustments to your diet at that point?

Speaker 5 Oh, yeah. I mean, look,

Speaker 5 when you're in your 40s, you start cringing about some of the shit you did when you were in your 20s, too.

Speaker 5 You know, is diet, is rest, is

Speaker 5 sleep? Sleep is very underrated.

Speaker 5 If I didn't sleep eight hours when I played, especially as I got older, I was a bum the next day.

Speaker 3 Is that possible, though, to get a solid eight hours of sleep all the time as you're going on these road trips, as you're playing, you know, like back-to-back games, some doubleheaders sometimes?

Speaker 3 Like, or is that really difficult?

Speaker 5 It is difficult, but you know what? Since you don't have to be at the stadium until about three,

Speaker 5 sometimes you can just sleep into like noon or 11. But my routine was I like to get up around 9:30, go to the gym, work out, have a little breakfast, and then go back to sleep for about an hour.

Speaker 1 Nice catnap. I have one last question.
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Speaker 1 My last question is, Billy, what do you want to say to A-Rod? Billy is a huge Yankee fan. He's very nervous.

Speaker 3 A-Rod Corp has a very diverse portfolio of investments, ranging from UFC licensed gyms, car dealerships, as well as real estate.

Speaker 7 What factors do you look for when you're investing in assets?

Speaker 3 And what is the common denominator between all of them?

Speaker 1 What the what? That was a real question. Great question.
What the hell?

Speaker 5 I feel like I'm on CNBC.

Speaker 1 This is a series of questions. Great question, Billy.
Squad box. I like it.

Speaker 5 I like it.

Speaker 5 First of all, we like three things. We like things that we understand really well.

Speaker 5 We like things that we can bring more than just capital.

Speaker 5 And things that we're really, really passionate about, like Presidente would be a great one.

Speaker 5 And then we like great people to manage these businesses. So like in baseball, we like playmakers.
In business, we like playmakers.

Speaker 1 Now,

Speaker 1 I have a follow-up question. Oh, follow-up.
I love it.

Speaker 3 How do the Mets fall into those categories?

Speaker 1 Good question, Billy.

Speaker 5 Well, I mean, look, anything, I can't talk about that, but here's what I can tell you is that it goes into passion. We understand it.

Speaker 5 And,

Speaker 5 you know, I was a childhood fan.

Speaker 1 Billy, ask him to go on your podcast.

Speaker 5 You have a podcast?

Speaker 1 No, I don't have a podcast. You have one.
I'm handing out

Speaker 1 a podcast right now.

Speaker 3 No, it's

Speaker 1 Billy's a weightlifter.

Speaker 1 He might dabble in some other things.

Speaker 1 Cross freaks. Yeah.
I mean,

Speaker 1 he's in a wide range of gyms.

Speaker 3 He would love to work out.

Speaker 1 Yes, I would love to work out. He just wants to work out.

Speaker 3 He's talking about getting swole. He literally just wants to work out with you.

Speaker 5 So maybe internship next summer.

Speaker 1 I would love to internship. Oh, we are internal.
What the hell? Alex, Jeff. Actually, you know what? You take

Speaker 1 a week, you're going to text me and be like, what the fuck? Why did you take him back this time?

Speaker 3 I made a great first impression.

Speaker 1 All right. Any other? Oh, Jake, do you have anything you want to say? Jake's a huge Yankee fan as well.

Speaker 5 Jake, where are you from? What's going on, Alex?

Speaker 1 I'm a fellow South Florida guy from Weston.

Speaker 5 Yeah, Weston.

Speaker 5 What high school?

Speaker 3 Cypress Bay.

Speaker 1 What college?

Speaker 3 Syracuse. Finance.

Speaker 1 Hill ever here. What's broadcast? Broadcast.

Speaker 5 Favorite announcer of all time?

Speaker 8 Mike Tarico.

Speaker 5 And how do you feel about Michael K?

Speaker 8 I grew up a Yankee fan, like Big Cat mentioned, so I've grown to love him.

Speaker 8 I could see how some people have an issue with him having a talk show and offering maybe too many opinions as a play-by-play guy on the call, but I like him.

Speaker 5 And Jack Buck? I mean, Joe Buck.

Speaker 3 Love Joe Buck as well.

Speaker 5 What's your question?

Speaker 8 So on that note, as an analyst, what are you looking for as a play-by-play guy to make your job easiest?

Speaker 5 Ah, great question. I think we're looking for just, first of all, chemistry

Speaker 5 in someone who is selfless that wants to put you in a position to win. It's like anything else.
In sports, what made Magic Johnson so great? I mean, he would just pass the ball and you would dunk it.

Speaker 5 He'd put you in a position to win.

Speaker 5 I think that's what Joe Buck or Matt Vasgurgian does so well, Kevin Burkhart.

Speaker 5 And my favorite broadcaster coming up was Tim McCarver. And part of it is he worked with Jack Buck and Joe Buck for so many years.
And it's that chemistry back and forth.

Speaker 5 And sometimes you can't explain it, but you can feel it.

Speaker 1 Thank you. We're not a Tim McCarver company anymore, though.
Now that we have Deion,

Speaker 1 they have a long time. Oh, that's right.
Yeah, I forgot about

Speaker 1 it.

Speaker 5 Yeah, the cooler. Yes, the cooler.

Speaker 3 We're in primetime. Yes, yes.

Speaker 5 I love primetime.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I just want to say, last time we interviewed you, I did a bad job as an interviewer. And as a podcaster, I feel like I need to make it up.

Speaker 3 I mistakenly asked you about the painting of you as a Minotaur, and you said

Speaker 3 didn't exist. Hand up, that was a bad question by me because the painting was a centaur.
So you were able to deny the existence of the Minotaur painting.

Speaker 3 How many Alex Rodriguez Sintaur paintings did you have?

Speaker 5 Zero. And I was actually, I thought that was the best part of the interview because you gave me an opportunity to clear that.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 5 So

Speaker 5 no to your first question in the last episode. And second one.
And when I come back, if you guys have me back, I want you to ask it one more time. Okay.
Okay. So we can just keep clearing.

Speaker 1 Oh,

Speaker 1 let's clear this now.

Speaker 1 How do you feel looking back about the kissing yourself picture?

Speaker 5 I thought it was a very cringing moment.

Speaker 5 I wish I can say that somebody paid me like,

Speaker 5 you know, a thousand bucks to do that, but they just convinced me and I said, yeah, I think that's a good idea. My God, what an asshole.

Speaker 1 That happens sometimes. Someone tells you it's a good idea.
Yeah,

Speaker 3 I think a lot of younger athletes need to realize that when you're doing these photo shoots, you can actually say no if you want.

Speaker 1 Exactly.

Speaker 3 You don't have to go along with it.

Speaker 5 I was just so so excited they were taking a picture of me. I said, yeah, I'll do that.

Speaker 1 Why not? Yeah, I'll kiss myself. All right, well, A-Rod, thank you so much.
Everyone, tune in. Like I said, Corp season three is coming out Tuesday and Thursday of this week.
Seven great guests.

Speaker 1 And always a pleasure to have you on.

Speaker 5 Awesome, guys. Thank you.

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Speaker 1 Okay, let's wrap up the show. We got a shoe roast for the new

Speaker 1 cargo hat. Cargo short hats? Yeah, yeah.
So baseball. Is this real?

Speaker 3 Yeah, baseball, specifically the A's, I think, are the ones that are debuting this. They're unveiling cargo short hats with pockets on the side.

Speaker 3 I kind of like them. I like them too.
I'll be honest with you.

Speaker 1 If you were a drug guy,

Speaker 3 you're not.

Speaker 1 That's where you'd put your drug hat.

Speaker 3 That is perfect. And I think that Major League Baseball, if they want to grow the game, they want to appeal to the youth out there.

Speaker 3 I know for a while, MLB was dropping hats all the time that were subtly gang-influenced, where they would have the gang colors that they put out for certain teams, trying to market any way that they can.

Speaker 3 This is a great way to market to stoners. I well,

Speaker 1 specifically

Speaker 3 Dallas Braden.

Speaker 3 This Oakland A's hat with cargo pockets on the side is specifically for Dallas Braden.

Speaker 1 Dude, this is a dad hat, too.

Speaker 3 It looks like John Ulrood's dad.

Speaker 1 You have like four kids go to the game, you know, keep all the shit up there on the hat. You never have to worry about it.

Speaker 3 You know, it looks sick. If you're a dad out there wondering, like, how come there hasn't been a hat that I can clip my external cell phone holster into, Boom.
Look no further. Really?

Speaker 3 The Oakland Days hat.

Speaker 1 Let that 5G really fucking roast your brain. Yeah.
Boom.

Speaker 1 Put your hat in your hat. Put your phone right in that hat.

Speaker 3 Kidding aside, I would rock the hell out of this hat.

Speaker 1 We know you would. Yes.

Speaker 3 Not for the drug reasons. No.
No. Not for the drug reasons.

Speaker 1 It's good hats. It's good-looking hats.
It's a great hat.

Speaker 1 The other thing we had was all of the, I think it's a not to brag we called it, but whatever's going on in the NFL right now with these false positives,

Speaker 1 you suspect.

Speaker 3 Very suspect. Suspect.
I have a stay woke on it.

Speaker 1 Quote Ben Affleck and Goodwill Hunting, you suspect.

Speaker 3 I have an important stay woke. Me and Billy were chopping it up about this earlier today, but I think,

Speaker 3 well, this most recent lab that had all the false positives, it's a brand new lab that the NFL is using. You know where it's located? Where? New Jersey.
You know what else was in New Jersey?

Speaker 3 The Supreme Court. Chris Christie.
Oh. Yeah, and Chris Christie, both.

Speaker 3 And I think, just stay woke on this, if there's a lab that can kind of put out these false positives on game days, get some line movement going on the action,

Speaker 3 there's a lot of money to be made out there.

Speaker 1 I'll put it that way.

Speaker 1 Well, it simply makes sense that they would, the false positives are perfect because now going forward, if you get tested positive and it is game day, you can be like, well, let's just play.

Speaker 1 Like we said, the NFL is going to do a good job of making sure everyone plays no matter if they have coronavirus or not.

Speaker 3 I'll put put it this way. If Patrick Mahomes tests positive on a Sunday morning and he's got Sunday night football, and then you know what?

Speaker 3 It's a false positive at that point where Goodell will be like, it's a false positive. He's going to play.
And then two days later, be like, well, the false positive reading is false.

Speaker 1 Good job, NFL. You've muddied the waters enough that we can now safely go into the NFL season, just assuming every test that is positive is not actually positive until it's negative.

Speaker 3 The Bears had. In which case, it's negative.
The Bears had, what, 10 players? Yep. Their tight end room was depleted.

Speaker 3 Every team was affected this time. It was like the Bears, the Browns.

Speaker 1 It's so perfect, though, because now we can just say, well, it might not be...

Speaker 1 Everyone's dog brain can kick into overdrive whenever your favorite team has a player that tests positive. You can say, well, it's probably a false positive.
And guess what?

Speaker 1 If the player's important enough, it will be a false positive. They'll figure it out a way.
Wink, wink.

Speaker 3 Yes, it will absolutely be a false positive.

Speaker 1 The NFL always got a figure.

Speaker 1 The next time we say the NFL doesn't have to figure it out, just remember they have it figured out.

Speaker 3 I had a theory.

Speaker 1 Not through actual health measurements and take care of their players, but through just making sure the game

Speaker 3 they have it figured out in terms of generating revenue for sure.

Speaker 3 I was thinking that if there are college teams that aren't going to be playing football this fall, why not just allow those senior quarterbacks to be the emergency quarterback for whatever team is in that district?

Speaker 3 So if it's the Browns or the Bengals, they could sign Justin Fields to be like their emergency guy.

Speaker 3 So in case like Baker, if he's playing a primetime game and he goes out, he tests maybe a false positive, maybe a false negative, bring Justin Fields in.

Speaker 3 Or he, Justin Fields could do double duty in Atlanta as well.

Speaker 1 There's actually no

Speaker 1 fuck Sir Yacht, but he, I don't know why I'm still believing him, but he said that all college football is in trouble.

Speaker 3 And I actually think that's true now. So, why are you believing him now when it's a bad thing?

Speaker 1 Because I can't quit him.

Speaker 3 Yeah, he's got a great name. I can't quit him.
Sir Yacht, he's obviously very successful. Sir Yacht, fuck you, dude.
Is there a way

Speaker 3 Billy? You probably know this. Is there a way that you can train dogs to sniff coronavirus?

Speaker 1 Yes. They just

Speaker 1 don't know that.

Speaker 1 Oh, you don't know that.

Speaker 9 Check page two of my list. Okay.

Speaker 3 Page two of Billy's list.

Speaker 3 Wait, the back of page one?

Speaker 1 You have absolutely nothing about dogs. Chinese man Big Belly Saves Him from Falling Down Well, that is at least three weeks old.

Speaker 1 I remember being tagged in that fucking story. It was like

Speaker 3 this is the Homer Simpson thing.

Speaker 1 There's nothing about dogs. I don't see any dogs.

Speaker 1 Researchers train dogs to sniff out COVID-19 infections in just a few days. But isn't that

Speaker 1 the same as a test?

Speaker 9 Well, they can sniff it. They say the meta.

Speaker 5 But wait.

Speaker 7 You can see the metabolic process of your body changes when you're in the future.

Speaker 1 Wait, okay, hold on. This is very important.
This title, I'm assuming you copy and pasted it. It's confusing.
Researchers train dogs to sniff out COVID-19 infections in just a few days.

Speaker 1 Now, did they train the dogs in just a few days, or can they sniff out the infection in just a few days?

Speaker 9 In just a few days.

Speaker 3 So the dog

Speaker 3 has to have his nose buried in your groin

Speaker 1 for a full weekend and then he's like disgusting it says it it's in just a few days where do you have this i don't i don't have this on my sheet billy it's on the back he's on the second back of the second page billy's saving trees now so we get everything in two pages okay got it up here but you see you see how it's a little confusing there like i didn't copy that if the if the dogs sniff it out in just a few days what's why wouldn't you just get the rapid test right but if they trained them how to sniff it in just a few like it only took them three days to to train the dogs, I guess we'll go with the fucking COVID dogs.

Speaker 3 Yeah, every team has dogs. I was saying that they should do an airbutt about this.
Diagnostic labs, diagnostic laboratories.

Speaker 7 Well, it's like in World War Z when they're like going into Israel and then they have the dogs to sniff at their zombies.

Speaker 1 They start barking and going crazy. You're quoting a movie for medicine for how we should do our medicine.
I kind of like this, though. Exactly.
I never saw it. Go on.

Speaker 7 Well, they have the dogs sniff if they're zombies or not.

Speaker 1 And the dogs figured it out?

Speaker 7 Yeah, and they go nuts.

Speaker 1 But I think

Speaker 7 in a few days. I think they mean like after a few days after getting COVID.

Speaker 1 No, but that. I could smell it.
But that makes no sense because why wouldn't you just get the test? I think it's in a few, just a few days. That's how long it took them to teach them.

Speaker 3 Yeah, it's really smart dogs. Right.

Speaker 3 Like, they have good dog trainers. That would be sick, though, if every starting quarterback got assigned a COVID-sniffing dog that he had to take around everywhere.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 And just stayed away from it. Yeah.
Boom. That would be perfect.

Speaker 1 Okay. That is our show.

Speaker 1 Great show, everyone.

Speaker 3 Anything else else on the list that we should address here?

Speaker 3 Oh, there's an asteroid that's going to hit Earth on election day. Who cares? Pretty cool.

Speaker 1 Who cares? Everything, we got the two hurt.

Speaker 1 Did you see that map?

Speaker 1 Did you see that map? Someone had a great tweet. It was when you go to the bathroom for like 20 minutes while you're playing Sim City because it was a map of the U.S.

Speaker 1 and half of it's on fire, and then there's two hurricanes coming at the same time to the Gulf of Mexico. Yep.

Speaker 1 Guess what, guys? Everything is going to shit. The world is fucking crumbling But we have sports back so just say fuck it and listen to part of my tape We've got Luca.

Speaker 3 Yeah, at least we've got Luca we trust love you guys Billy take us out with a closing thought, please so that you worked very hard on closing thoughts.

Speaker 7 There's two extremely important

Speaker 7 Chemicals in your brain serotonin and dopamine and you should try to make them as high as you can because I'm pretty sure the serotonin chills you out and the dopamine makes you want to do fun shit.

Speaker 9 So what you got to do is you got to exercise.

Speaker 7 So, make sure you exercise because it keeps those chemicals high in your brain, and that means you can do cool stuff.

Speaker 1 And that's really fun.

Speaker 1 Love you guys.

Speaker 1 of me.