CJ McCollum, Sports Are Back, And Opting Out Is The New Rage

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McCollum from the NBA bubble. We interviewed him actually during Grit Week, Grit Week stream.
So we interviewed him on Thursday. It was like hour two of the stream, I believe.
Yeah, Wednesday. Yeah, we ducked out for just a couple minutes.
Awesome interview with him. He's one of our favorite recurring guests.
Been too long, but we get a good look into what the bubble life is like, how he feels about Slim Mellow, being a walking bucket, and much, much more. We have sports officially all the way back.
It felt great. We're going to talk about that.
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Today is Monday, August 3rd. And sports are all the way back.
They're all the way back. It was so fucking good this weekend.
I got the three TVs set up again. I fired them all up to have something on all three.
NBA, MLB, hockey, horse racing. Fuck yes, guys.
It was tough. It was actually a little bit tough on Thursday, Friday night, because I'm making the transition to a new cable system in my apartment right now.
So I don't have my back button ready to go. I don't have the channels all set up in the back of my mind.
So it was preseason for sports viewers too. But it was awesome, especially Friday night, especially Saturday night.
All of it. Especially Sunday during the day when golf got in the mix.
It was sports all the way being back, and it felt really, really good. It's crazy to think of a time when we didn't have sports, but we are seemingly in the clear, and I say seemingly just because we don't know what's going to happen with baseball.
I feel like every single team has had positives, actually except for the Cubs. Shout out to the Cubs.
They should probably win it. If the Cubs are the only team that don't get a Corona positive, do they win the title?

Yeah, but Chris Bryant's self-apported, so it's kind of

He had a tummy ache. Chris Bryant

has diarrhea. Yeah, he had a tummy ache.

He's smart. It's actually very, very smart

on his part to just call it diarrhea. Nobody will

ever ask you to follow the ball.

He just didn't want to play and was like, I think I might have Corona.

Yeah, he gave himself a pinstripe.

In all seriousness,

Rob Manford being like, I'm going to threaten you guys. If you don't start following the rules, we're going to cancel the league.
I don't – is Rob Manford – does he realize he's the commissioner? He's the one who can help. Like he could maybe put in place a rule that if you get caught doing something that puts everyone else in jeopardy, you can be suspended for the rest of the year.
Like the Cubs don't have a positive, and I think it is because Anthony Rizzo and John Lester are cancer survivors, so they're taking extra, extra precaution, but they're showing that you're able to do it by being extra, extra, extra precautious and not being fucking idiots, and I just don't understand why Rob Manford, like, his statement on Friday where he threatened everyone, like, hey, if you don't start following the rules, we'reing this shit it's like dude you are the commissioner yo he said that the players need to do a better job he's like you're the commissioner players need to do a better job you know what Rob Manfred I don't recall you ever saying to cancel jersey exchanges after games that's a good step you could take maybe uh ban or only do uh divisional play like college football that that seems to work for them so far. Well, we're kind of doing that.
Yeah. It's geographical.
Geographical. Yes.
Staying geographical with it. Maybe get involved in some of the text threads that they've got going on where you're giving the players the power where they decide whether or not they want to play that day.
These are all just like things that a commissioner should be taking care of. And in American sports, you really only have to be slightly better than the hockey commissioner.
No, he's not doing it. As long as you can stay slightly less problematic than the commissioner of the NHL, then your job is safe.
Rob Manford has put himself in the crossroads big time. He just has to – Rob Manford has to go to bed every single night.
He probably – right in his nightstand, he pulls out his Roger Goodell voodoo doll and starts poking it with pins, being like, please fuck this up, Goodell. Please fuck this up.
Because if you fuck this up, no one will give a shit. No one will care that I have been an absolute debacle with handling Major League Baseball coming back.
Well, you know how when you're playing golf and somebody hits their shot and- As we often do. You get to I've seen it on television.
I think Hank brought it up when we were playing Mario Party or something like that. But you get to see the lie.
Should we play some Mario Party after this, by the way? I'm down. Maybe 35 turns? Okay, keep going.
I'll spot you four stars. Sorry, we should just go live.
But you know what I'm saying? You get to see somebody's lie. You get to see what the putt's going to look like when you hit it that is exactly what's happening right now for Roger Goodell with baseball because the NFL model right now is essentially baseball's model you start out with a training camp you start out with something that's more controlled where you can kind of monitor the comings and goings of the players and the coaches and then once the season starts you're kind of just left up to the best devices of your coach and your captains.
And there's no real rules. There's no bubble.
Right now, the NFL is getting a prime example of what happens when you don't have a system in place. And so Goodell, if he's smart, he should be looking at this putt that is drifting wide to the right.
And he should take his line accordingly and be like, hey, maybe we should have some sort of regulation. The one thing that I think the NFL still has going for it is that pretty much everyone- It kicks ass.
No, I was going to say that pretty much every single player is just going to lie when they have coronavirus. I think there will be a whole team that's sick and we just won't know about it.
Yeah, if Shiano was still in the league- It's in the culture of the NFL to be like, no, we're good. I don't have coronavirus.
Let me play. It's going to be the Raiders because John Gruden already said that he wants to smash the COVID virus into the ground right so and I honestly believe that John Gruden could defeat the coronavirus um it so it's mental either way MLB it'll be for now for now MLB is back but it was great basketball I'm going to give all the credit in the world of basketball because the games like with no fans they've made it as good as possible yes they really have the atmosphere is cool the fans the the the um the digital fans are a little weird but i still it's still nice to visually see that like something is going on in the background that's not just completely empty gym and i just I just, the whole thing, they've done a great job.
It really feels like good games and fun. And I'm thinking about the playoffs and it's going to be exciting and it's going to be super interesting.
And guess what? They're in a bubble. So we aren't worried about it like baseball where we're like, hey, let's enjoy baseball for a couple days because it might be taken away from us at any moment.
The piped-in crowd noise is pretty cool. I really want to be in charge of controlling the boos.
I love when the boos kick in. There's some guy who's like, okay, yeah, we need to boo this call.
And you know that the refs are pissed off. You know that Joey Crawford would eject a digital fan if he was still in the league, and that would be amazing to watch.
My only qualm with a digital fan is, for some reason, they don't make every seat filled with the fans. Like, one out of every five seats just doesn't have a digital fan.
You know that you don't have to have that seat empty right there. They don't need to social distance.
They're not actually in the stands. My only issue with the way the NBA is going is they really need to figure out a way to limit the amount of oxygen that goes in when the Nug a home game i think that would be cool yeah to give one to have one thing be like hey that's that's similar to playing on the road in denver or at least put jack nicholson front in the front and center at the lakers games that'd be pretty cool or the lakers got have drake be at every single game wearing a different jersey that'd be sick too but it really has like when you're watching these nba games it doesn't for as weird as this year has been and as weird as sports have been it really is as as like close to the real thing as you can get i thought that epl soccer did a pretty good job too yeah with the chance and everything like that yeah um i'm talking about american yeah americans real sports and i was talking soccer they should you know what they should do let's just like dive in all the way when it comes to digital enhancements and let's give some more hair to Alex Caruso.
Or just shave it bald, Alex. Either way.
Dude, Alex Caruso, did you guys see the funny meme of J.R. Smith looking very quizzically at the back of Caruso's jersey? I thought his last name was Caruso.
Because that part does get a little confusing when everyone's, obviously they have different messages on the back of their jerseys. And then I'm pretty sure Kawhi, which is so Kawhi, he's like, no, I'm just.
He's just Leonard. Yeah, I'm Leonard.
He's Leonard. The Clippers are weird because the Clippers have like five or six players that have the messages at the top.
And then if you kept your real name, it's at the bottom. You get the tramp stamp with your last name on it and the small i just love the kawaii and he there was even a clip of kawaii getting fucked with uh by one of the morris twins and he's just still not having any of it it's pretty fucked up that the robot fans aren't all cheering for kawaii yes traitors yes uh and hockey was great too yeah hockey was great hockey ended racism as well that big side just said, end racism.
Oh, I thought they just... No, no, it just said, end racism to start.
And I was like, damn, that's a good idea. Like, on the ice? Like, why didn't we think of that? Oh, like, on the ice.
No, it was just a big banner to start every game. It just said, end racism.
I was like, got a point. It'd be pretty sick.
We should probably cut that shit out. It'd be pretty sick if hockey just, like goon, like a Cam Neely-looking dude, to skate out onto the ice before every game wearing a jersey that just said racism on the back and then just get the shit kicked out of him by one of the enforcers.
Yeah. That'd be fucking sweet.
Yeah, it'd be like the Vegas Knights pregame hole when they have the EDM concert. But yeah, hockey was great.
It was great. That was another one where they've done a really good job.
Obviously, nothing's going to feel like playoff hockey without the crowds, but it's as close as it can get. Can I jump back real quick to Alex Caruso? Because I love Alex Caruso because he has now reached the point.
I wrote this down when I was watching the game. He started out being underrated, but then he was so underrated that he became overrated.
But now it's swung back, and now he's like overratedly underrated, so now he's underrated again. And so every time he makes a good defensive play, the announcers have to remind us, like, Alex Caruso, really good athlete.
Very good defensively. And so soon, probably I'd say like in the next two weeks, it'll swing back the other way where he'll be overrated again.
But I love watching that pendulum swing on a scrappy, gritty, coach's son type player like Alex. Yes.
And the only complaint I had about the NBA really was that I don't know who missed the message, but the Pelicans not realizing the whole reason they were invited was to get Zion in the playoffs and then playing him 29 minutes over two games,

which I get the second game was a blowout of all blowouts,

but still, we wanted to watch Zion.

He's a little heavy, but we still wanted to watch him,

and you've played him 29 minutes in two games.

When he runs, he's leaning forward like a tired 8-year-old.

Have you noticed that about him? He stops his feet, and he just, he's like leaning forward like a tired 8-year-old. Have you noticed that about him? He like stomps his feet and he just like kind of starts tilting forward.
But it's burst restriction, bro. It's not rush, it's burst restriction.
We really should just skip forward. The NBA should just put their hand up and be like, you know what? These next six games of the regular season, we're going to cancel them because the Pelicans are not going to play ball.
Can you tell me what the difference between burst restriction

and load management is?

No.

There are just different ways to taunt us

to not make premature ejaculation jokes.

Also, our poor JJ got done dirty by the ESPN.

Oh, God.

They went sad face on everyone, but his was especially sad.

So is this going to be, what, the first time in 12 years

that JJ doesn't make the playoffs?

Yes.

Yes.

It's going to be sad. End of an era.
Yeah. And he's going to be on the pot on wednesday too so we'll have to bring that up to him over and over like dude that sucks it'll be weird yeah is it gonna be weird not losing the first round this year is it gonna be weird not playing in august yeah it must be crazy jj reddick golf clubs meme the old uh the old of that skin one can i can i bum you, for a second? No.
Can I do one thing to bum us out? No, I'm feeling so good. I know, but I want to just bum us out.
I felt so bad on Thursday doing the Friday show, and now I feel so good on Sunday fully recovered. By the way, you're – BFD, you're so drunk and tired.
Yeah, maybe because I drank 24 beers in 24 hours. Your idea of when we were about to tape at, like tape at like noon and you're like what if we just went and took naps and we just did the rest of the show at like 9 p.m and it was all time future you moment where you're like i just push this off i don't think you truly understood like where my brain was at that point because yeah it sucks you said love you guys halfway through the show it's not well i do love them i I love them double time that episode but it sucks so bad.
I'm sure it sucked having to eat all those hot dogs but like I was not myself at that point because there was so much fucking alcohol in and out of my system. But it was such a funny idea to be like let's do this in nine hours.
So I go home. I go home.
I fall asleep on my floor on the floor of apartment, and I'm laying on Leroy's chest.

And I woke up because Leroy kind of tried to stand up. And I go, what is it, Billy? And Leroy just looked at me, and I was like, I mean, buddy.
I definitely didn't call you Billy. And then every time I closed my eyes, I would just see Mario Party, and I would hear the sounds from Mario Party.
It was just like, it fucked me up for about 12 hours. So, by the way, the final tally for the Grit Week 24-hour stream, I'll wait to bum us out.
I'll wait to bum us out. We'll do it as a segment.
Let's bum us out for a second as a segment. We'll ride high for a little bit longer.
Final tally, we got just shy of $30,000 that we are donating. So shout out to all the AWLs to Warren Sharp, uh, and to Matt Walsh, who also donated a bunch of money and the cash app.
So $30,000 that we are going to be donating to the kids, the hospital network. That's fucking awesome for something that we didn't really like set up a lot beforehand that we're going to do the donation.
But thank you, everyone who donated.

That's fucking cool.

And we also have the Grit Fridge, which we are giving away to three people.

We said we're going to give away one Grit Fridge.

We're giving away three.

So we'll tweet this out as well.

But where's the text message I sent?

Fuck.

We have two different text messages. Oh, Hank just, okay.

Salvatore Terramina. That's a good fantasy boys name you want a grip fridge Derek Gillingham you want a grip

fridge and Sydney Quito you want a grip fridge so shout out those people thank you everyone who

used the hashtag those people will be getting grip fridges uh so I'm gonna bum us out after

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Okay, who's back of the week? Should I go first? Do you want to go first? No, Hank, why don't you go first? Hank, you always go first. Why are you being passive-aggressive? Usually I get queued up.
I don't want to speak out of turn. Why are you being coy, Roy? Who's back of the week is Ants.
Last week we talked when Bryson was trying to get the rules official

to give him a drop

because there was some ants nearby.

This weekend,

our boy Blake Kepka,

aka Brooks,

he trolled him.

He hit it into a similar area

where...

No, that was the same day.

That was on Thursday.

Bryson flipped out

because there were two...

No, it was the next day.

It was the next day.

Thursday, there were two ants around.

And then the next day...

The next day.

The next day,

Blake did that. Right.
That's what I said. I thought he said last was the next day.
Thursday, there were two ants around. And then the next day, Blake did that.

That's what I said.

I thought you said last week.

Well, on Thursday's show, we talked about it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Which was last week.

Right.

On Friday's episode.

We talked about Bryson on Thursday.

Follow-up.

Brooks hit it into the same place.

Okay, BFD.

And he trolled Bryson.

I honestly don't remember talking about Bryson on Thursday.

He went up to the rules official.

He was like, can I get a drop?

There's ants over here.

in the to the same place. The KPFT.
And he trolled Bryson. I honestly don't remember talking about Bryson on Thursday.

He went up to the rules official and he was like,

can I get a drop?

There's ants over here.

And the rules official

started to come over.

He's like, I'm just kidding.

So he was trolling him around.

It was great.

And then there was this tweet,

which apparently is from 2019,

but it's still scary nonetheless.

It was going viral.

It said,

one million cannibal ants

trapped in Soviet

nuclear weapons bunker

have escaped. Fuck.
So are they, is this like a Spider-Man situation? No, it's more like a Rad Island situation. What about an Ant-Man situation? Paul Rudd.
Or is this like a, like Ukraine, is this like a nuclear meltdown situation? No, it's just like, instead of regular ants, they're nuclear ants that could kill you. And they're cannibals.
You should tweet that. You should tweet that tweet at Bryson every morning.
Just to scare him. Oh, the ants escaping? Dude, Blake is the best.
Like, Bryson's such a bitch. And then Blake's like, hey, dude, we play golf.
Chill the fuck out and play golf. So when Bryson did that, when I saw the video and shit of him freaking out about the two fire ants, I thought it was fake.
I could not believe that it was real. I couldn't believe that a grown man would be like, there's one ant here and then wait, I've got two ants near my ball.
And then he calls a rules official over to alert them to the fact that there are two ants next to his ball. He's just, I don't want to say that I respect what a bitch he is, because I don't.
But I like having a bitch. I like having a bitch around that you can be like, hey, that's a bitch.
If he had a little bit of, I'm in on the joke, sensibility to it, it would be totally different, but he doesn't. No.
He does not, and so we need Brooks, the common man, the people's golfer, to keep him in check, and that was great. Great by Brooks.
Bryson, you're still a bitch. And then Bryson said that he hopes that he can live to be 130 or 140.
God. Maybe in dog years.
The guy from Parks and Rec. I hope I don't live that long.
And I'd have to be on the same earth as Bryson. Yeah, Bryson's really challenging.
He's playing chicken with all of us. Yeah, right.
Oh, you wanted to live to your 90s? Well, guess what? That's another 55 more years of Bryson DeChambeau. It's Bryson being like, hey, I'm going to live till I'm 140 and challenging all those peers to not kill themselves.
He would be such an asshole, too, if he got to 140. He'd be telling everyone about it.
Oh, yeah. Just the whole town.
Hey, I'm 140. I'm Bryson DeChambeau.
Still wearing those stupid fucking hats. Dude, hey, Bryson, just a heads up.
You know what's not good for your health? Steroids. I was going to say,

it's bad when you're roid-raging against

ants. Yeah.
And life

expectancy. Check yourself.
Yeah, both those

things. Yeah, he's roid-raging

against his own biological

clock. Against his own body.
Against science

in the census. Yeah, you'd be a bitch,

Bryce, if you're going to die when you're 100.

Alright, PFT, who's your who's

back? My who's back of the week is Mike Glennon. Yes Glennon is back, baby, because, bless you, Hank, because Gardner Minshew has opted out of the 2020 NFL season.
And I had to look up who the Jaguars' backup quarterback is. Turns out it's Mike Glennon.
So we've got him back. The neck is back.
How amazing would that be if Mike Glennon went out there and tore shit up and then Nick Foles was a quarterback for the Bears and stunk? Oh, it would be so great. So many photoshops.
Hey, this is what it could look like if Mike Glennon was a Bears quarterback. I've been down the Glennon whole thing.
He is not a good quarterback. Holy shit, he's not a good quarterback.
You know what he's really good for, though? Every year we have to have at least one quarterback that's the perfect person for half of twitter to quote tweet and be like colin kaepernick isn't on an nfl team but this person yes mike lennon is the perfect person to focus all your attention on there by the way we were to liam and i were talking before the show um i hope that through everything that happens in this world in this past year the one thing that we keep going with is whenever we just quit something, we say opt out. Because it's great.
Like, I'm going to start opting out. Dinner.
Yeah. That's a bad example, actually.
No, when I start losing in a video game, I'm opting out. Is it a rage quitting? I'm not quitting.
I'm opting out. I'm simply opting out.
Are you going to tell me I can't opt out? This workout? Opting out. I like that.
Yeah. It's a way nicer way of saying, no, I'm just not going to do that shit.
I'm just a gritter, dude. I'm just opting out.
And I'm not belittling anyone who is opting out because there's actual health issues. I'm saying we need to recapture opting out for our pathetic reasons that we're actually pussies in our real life.
They're not, but we are. So we're going to take opt out and use it for our lame reasons.
We're going to co-opt it, co-opt out. Right.
Or could we just opt-out of doing a podcast? We could opt-out on anything, dude. Yeah.
Imagine you just send in your opt-out letter. I'm opting out of sex.
I'm out of here. I'm opting out.
Dontrell Willis is pitching to me. Someone who's listening right now who might be thinking, considering quitting their job sometime in the future, please do it by opting out.
That would be great. I actually would be curious to see if somebody could quit their job, but say that they're opting out, and then still collect a salary.
Try it. Try it and let us know how it goes.
It's worth giving it a shot. Yes, opting out.
I didn't realize Gardner opted out. That sucks.
Yeah, he opted out today. I don't know.
I'm very unclear about the rules. CJ Mosley opted out.
The Jets are going to be... That's a problem for the Jets.
So that's just not wanting to play for the Jets. You're just opting out of playing for either the Jets or Mets.
It should always be a free pass. I don't think he opted out.
I think he just caught Corona. No, no.
Mosley? Minchu? Yeah. Or Mosley? I'm pretty sure Mosley opted out.
I think they both opted out. Minshew.
Minshew did not opt out. Oh, wow.
Really? Jaguars place five players on the reserve slash COVID-19 list. That's just like – he's just corona.
Oh, he has corona. You should opt out of this episode.
I was on the same page as PFT. But wait, when I saw that – I want to opt out.
Yeah, when you saw that, it seemed like he was opting out, right? Yes, but it's still being negotiated and finalized, but the players opt out deadline at this point is looking like Wednesday. So he just has Corona right now.
So they put him on the list of players that aren't going to be training because of Corona. Would you like to opt out of this episode? No, no.
Apparently there's five players, and apparently three of them, they're all roommates. Minshew, Walker, and Wingard.
I was going to say, Gardner Minshew doesn't seem like a guy who's going to opt out. He doesn't have a family.
I get it. For people who have families, there's real reasons guys are opting out, and I totally understand it.
But I'd be shocked if Minshew did. Okay, because he falls in the same category as Matt Stafford.
So both those players, it players it's a list the covid19 list is for players who either tested positive or who have been quarantined after having been in close contact with an infected person or persons we're all learning together here so he has not opted out so he has neither one of those players have opted out as far as i can tell but they are on the covid19 list which means that they're they're seebs. They're just chilling for a while until all the tests come back negative.
Got it. Got it.
So we could have no Glennon. Well, Glennon is going to be there.
But we could have no Glennon that we have to watch. I think the probability is high that we have a Mike Glennon sighting this year.
Do you think Gardner Minshew is going to opt out? No. I hope not.
He's fun. He will keep the Jaguars fun.
Yep. If the Jaguars want to tank, go with Glennon.
That's all I'm saying. They could go with Gardner, too, and just have fun and lose.
It's a more aesthetically pleasing way to tank with Gardner Minshew versus Mike Glennon. I don't think there's a quarterback room in the NFL that has two different starting quarterbacks that are so different as Gardner Minshew and Mike Lennon.
They don't even speak the same language. Yeah, they're like a Nickelodeon cartoon.
Yeah. Yeah.
Okay, my who's back of the week is Darren Revell. Darren Revell's back.
He's fucking clapping back, boys. I'd like to opt out of this part of the segment.

Dude, he's clapping back.

Darren Revelle's clapping back

so much that he does this thing where

when he claps back on someone, he'll then

post it on his Instagram, too, to show the world

how much he clapped back. You ready for this

clap back? Someone said,

Darren, I don't know you in real life, but judging

you from your Twitter persona, you literally would be

the last person invited to any of the fun shit

I'm going to later today. And he

clapped back with, as a 42-year-old

Thank you. I don't know you in real life, but judging you from your Twitter persona, you literally would be the last person invited to any of the fun shit I'm going to later today.
And he clapped back with, as a 42-year-old man with a wife and three children, an awesome BBQ and a great backyard, I doubt I would come even if you invited me. Roasted.
Dude, he's got a wife, three kids. I also like that he used awesome BBQ and great backyard, but he just plainly said his wife and three children.
He wasn't like, I have a great wife and three amazing children. No, the super relatives are meant for the BBQ and the great backyard.
What kind of barbecue do you think Darren actually has. Dude, who flexes an awesome BBQ? I highly doubt that Darren Rivella's barbecue is awesome.
I think he's probably got a mid-range at best. I've seen his backyard because he posts it on Instagram every two minutes.
What kind of barbecue does he have? He has a huge backyard. Yeah, I know.
Who says I have an awesome BBQ? Nobody that has an awesome BBQ has one. A dork.
You do? You say you have an awesome BBQ? I have a second hand Weber that Yeah exactly When you described it You know what you said? You said what you had You said I have a second hand Weber If you have an awesome BBQ You don't say I have an awesome BBQ You say I took half of an oil drum And I cleaned it out buddies yeah we welded in a couple racks fires you explain exactly what your barbecue is if it's awesome an awesome bbq you know what that tells me tells me he's got a fucking propane tank that he has to wheel in and out like a bitch every week and probably two burners on that motherfucker yeah i got an awesome chicken coop in my backyard an awesome bbq you want to come over to my awesome bb BBQ? Everyone's BBQ is awesome. That's what it is.
You're just grilling meats. It's pretty fucking cool.
I love that that was a clap back. If you have a little green egg, you say, I have a little green egg.
You don't say, hey, I've got a pretty cool meat smoking device out back. So, yeah, a 42-year-old man with a wife and three children and an awesome BBQ.
I can't believe he's 42. Yeah.
It always is shocking. It really is.
He's got the brain of 140-year-old Bryson DeChambeau. Dude, it's like Wilford Brimley, RIP.
That guy has been old his whole life. Yes.
I mean, he was born old. Yeah.
I mean, the diabetes guy. When you're known as being the spokesperson for a debilitating disease, and when you're alive that long, it's always shocking.
And your name's Wilford? Yeah. They don't make Wilfords anymore.
I'd say first, all first team. Oh, we got the opt-out list.
Opt-out list. Anybody new here? Oh, Lorenzo Cain did opt-out recently.
Okay. And UNS Cespedes, which we will get to.
I like when they just use the MLB logo instead of the team logo. Tyson Rossi wasn't on our team.
This person is opting out of being an athlete this year. This person is opting out, but no one wanted him on their team anyway.
Uh-huh. Yeah.
That's a great use of the opt-out. Yeah, right.
All right, Billy, finish us off. Who's back of the week? Who's back of the week? I'm going to do a real quick one.
Murder Hornets. There's another link posted that they're back and whatever,

but I don't want to give them airtime.

You know what you're doing, Billy?

You're falling for the New York Post quote tweet Olympics game.

They've been on a fucking tear recently, and they're getting you too.

They're just trying to make a story where they're on the hunt for this murder hornet nest, and they need to find it

before there's a second nest, and they spread, and it's too late.

I was like, get Bruce Willis on that as like an exterminator yeah or something but my real who's back of the week is seasons yeah dude it's august yeah that's not the change of a season sunday of summer sunday of summer well yeah september's still summer no i mean august for me is always like, oh, it's Sunday. Oh, because back to school.

You're still in the mode where you go to the department store with your mom and you see backpacks on sale and you start sweating.

Dude, the back to school commercial is the worst.

I'm having a little bit of anxiety.

Like, oh shit, what the fuck?

So now I walk into the real world.

That doesn't happen anymore.

Yeah, your summers are meaningless.

It's actually, August is great now because football is around the corner. Should I just drop out of school? Yes.
You should have done that three years ago. I'm opting out of college.
I'm opting out of college. First try to get a bunch of your teammates to make demands just in case they give you some shit.
You saw what's going on with Pac-12. The players are banding're like, hey, which to their credit, like it doesn't really seem like colleges have thought out the whole, we have students on campus and athletes on campus together and they're both taking different precautions.
So to their credit, it's like, yeah, we're not being looked after and we're here to make money for you. So why don't you do something about it? You should still like just try to get one last thing.
For D3 For D3 football players? Yeah. Credits of Pac-12, they obviously read Art of the Deal because they anchored the fuck out of that in incarceration.
They were asking for some crazy shit. They just passed go, and they're like, yeah, we want to be paid too.
Yeah, go for it. Why not? What's the worst they're going to say? The very worst thing that could happen is you're at the same place that you're at now.
So why not ask for everything? Yeah, ask for money and you might wind up with some good COVID tests. That's kind of what they're hoping for.
We'll give you a mask, but all you have to do is ask for everybody. They know Larry Scott's not going to do it, so they got to fucking shoot for the moon.
All right, yeah, so you should opt out. List of demands.
I can see Larry Scott. List of demands.
His name is Larry Scott, right? The Pac-12 commissioner? Yeah, he's the worst commissioner in all sports. I could see Larry Scott implementing a Shroot Bucks type system where he just makes, like, Scott's dollars.
And he just hands out, like, $20 per practice that you attend to all the players, which will be redeemable in, like, 30 years for a piece of his estate. He's why the Pac-12, you can't watch, like, half the games.
He's why, like, they have – it's very funny if you actually look into it. Like the SEC commissioner's office is like the second floor of a walk-up in like Birmingham, Alabama.
And Larry Scott, the Pac-12 commissioner's office is like a high tech startup in San Francisco, like in the most expensive place to get real estate. And he just like, that's the kind of shit he does and just takes money from the school.
How bad does he want to admit Hawaii just so he can put his office out in Hollywood? Yeah, seriously. Yeah.
He's a fucking idiot. So shout out to Pac-12 for at least, those players for at least anchoring the negotiation to maybe get some proper testing and whatnot.
I'm not really smart enough to understand all the implications of everything that they're asking for because I've seen a lot of people arguing back and forth about how much money would be for certain things, what it would mean for different sports. I'm just happy if the players are able to start making money like anybody else would be if they go to school.
Like if you go to college, if you're not a student athlete, you can get a job, right? You can make money. Players should be able to get a job and they should also be able to profit off their name and likeness.
My rule is pretty, pretty easy there's an issue that comes up with whether or not they should pay the players, just read Doug Gottlieb's Twitter and then do the opposite. Yep.
And then if he tweets too much, just opt out of the whole conversation. That's what I do.
If I was a football coach, I would want my players to be able to profit off their likeness because then they'd all start becoming Twitch streamers and they'd just be playing video games to make money and they would suck at football no no but then instead of like friday night like you know they're not getting in trouble they're legitimately just being nerds they're just drinking mountain dew taking adderall staying up till 4 a.m yeah now if they're playing that lifting yeah that's fine yeah no but if they're gamers that. No, but if they're gamers and they're off time, they game anyway.

So they're just not going out and getting in trouble.

Yeah, so are NCAA athletes allowed to be Twitch streamers?

They're not allowed to get money.

No, they're not allowed to get money.

Not even from Twitch?

Nope.

That's fucked up.

Yeah.

What about from TikTok?

That's from China.

China.

Actually, did you see the Clemson TikTok?

Oh, my God. The Clemson players doing it? They do that.
The Taylor Swift TikTok is really cringey. I did not watch it.
It's pretty cringey. I'm going to opt out of that.
Okay. All right.
So you're opting out of school? Not officially. I may opt out of on campus.
Okay. So I might be doing homework all the time.
Can we take your classes for you? Sure. That'd be actually amazing.
We should take one class together.

Okay.

All right.

I'm sure that's not... Like, you probably would get in trouble, but we'll do it.

What class are you taking that I could just, like, take one of your tests for you without

doing any study?

I actually take pretty hard classes.

What class?

Name your hardest class.

That's pretty smart.

I think I'm taking, like, a...

Dinosaurs.

I'm taking a paleontology class that's pretty hard. Yeah, dinosaurs.
You could have just said dinosaurs, dude. It's paleontology.
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Okay, here he is, CJ McCollum. Okay, we now welcome on one of our favorite recurring guests.
It's the second time on. The first time was electric.
Everyone loved him. It is CJ McCollum from the Portland Trailblazers.
CJ, thank you for joining us. We appreciate it.
Let's talk about your wine real quick because we're going to talk a lot of bubble talk, and I feel like wine is a must inside the bubble. So you've become, oh, what is it? You're not sommelier.
How do you say it? Sommelier. Sommelier.
What are you now? What are you? I'm a proud owner of my own label. We'll call them Heritage 91 in partnership with Adelsign.
I'm not a Somme. Okay.
I could tell you a little bit about certain wines. I can tell you what to pair with certain wines I know the very basics I know the process of making wine but I won't pretend to be able to complete blind tastings like we see on Netflix That's pretty smart on your part though because the NBA in general has gotten really into wine I feel like over the last three or four years I don't know if that got it all started, that kind of like got everybody hooked on wine.
He was like, hey, taste this one. First one's free.
Next one's going to cost you. But it's nice on your part to cash in on that.
And now you can distribute to, you know, your teammates, guys, and other teams and make a ton of money. So very smart business idea.
I appreciate it, man. Yeah, it's been cool to be in the bubble.
I had about 70 bottles shipped that actually doesn't go on sale until September. I'm going to call them harris91.com.
But just kind of filling everybody out, you know, allowing them to taste the wine, get some feedback, get some reviews. They've been very positive considering how young the wine is with it being an 18.
But I've enjoyed it. And I'm looking forward to continue to learn more about wine and share and get through this, this bubble situation with some, some good grapes.
Okay. So let's talk about the bubble from a scale of one to 10.
How bad is it? And do you, have you had that moment where you're like, I can't complain because Rondo kind of ruined it for everyone. When he said the Motel 6 thing and everyone was like, wait, that's a nice hotel.

So how is it for real?

I don't know if he's being sarcastic or not, but my room is great.

I'm not going to take a picture of it or show you a video of it,

but I'm happy with my accommodations.

They've taken great care of me personally.

Me and Dan were joking the other day. We were like, can stay here for as long as as long as i needed to you know honestly the thing you just miss most is being able to move around miss your family your loved ones um that's that's the hard part the food you get used to it there's there's some different options that they have daily you're able to order some food from from a few places, catering services, restaurants, et cetera, that they've signed off on.
It's just the moving around aspect. You can't drive.
There's shuttles that run to the other two hotels, but you can't go anywhere else. That's the tough part.
On a scale of one to ten, I'd say eight. Okay.
Because we're safe. Everyone's getting negatives.
We're testing daily. They've done a great job of kind of controlling our situation.
You can get wine in. You can get shipments in, which is very, very crucial, especially during these off days where you can lay by the pool and drink some bubbly.
And I guess you get extra brownie points because we get to play. Although there's no fans, we get to go hooping and know that everybody is negative.
What about the pay-per-view situation in the room? Who pays for that? Who's covering all that stuff at the end of the day? Is that coming out of your pocket or is that the NBA? Well, they dropped us off Fire Sticks. We got the Disney Plus.
I don't know how to set up the Disney Plus yet, but I hear we like a three month free membership so I'm going to try to milk that for a lot I would imagine too though it must be nice being able to maybe hang out with guys not only your own teammates but guys you haven't seen in a while with you guys all being in the same place and is there like some element that's kind of a summer camp feel to it? Cause maybe I'm just projecting here, but hanging out with everyone and being like, we're all stuck here. Let's make a good time out of it would be kind of fun.
Oh yeah. We've had some great nights telling a lot of stories, drinking a lot of wine over dinner or rotating who pays for it.
It's definitely like an AAU tournament. It's like a, it's like an all boys school.
Obviously it's, it's cool like an AAU tournament it's like a it's like an all-boys school where obviously it's it's cool but you do miss being able to leave um you do miss being able to do a lot of things that you weren't accustomed to doing but we're all making the best of it the fact that we can go to other hotels now is cool because you got friends on other teams I think there's like six or seven teams in the Yacht Club but there's two other hotels where you you can go eat at their restaurant. You can go kick it with your friends.
There's boats. There's different events you can do.
They got barbers, mani-pedis. I can get my hair braided.
There's beauticians here. They have like almost everything you could think of.
They crossed their T's. They dotted their I's and made it.
I mean, no offense to the other sports, but you see what's happening with the sports and how they haven't really been able to control it the same way we've been able to control it. It's mainly because they don't let us do anything.
They don't let us go anywhere and they don't let anyone in. Right.
So is Adam Silver telling you directly that you need to beat the Grizzlies and lose to the Pelicans, or is that something that's just coming from your coach being like, hey, we need Zion in the playoffs?

That's happening.

I can't. I haven't

talked to Adam specifically about

Zion or the Grizzlies.

If you beat,

hypothetically, if you were beating the Grizzlies,

would you expect to see one red

dot on your chest walking home?

Or would there be one on the chest and then one

right between your eyes? The Blazers would all be

asymptomatic. Whoops, you've got to cancel

I'm going to get a false positive when it's time. No, I think obviously Zion is the future of the league.
It's clear. He's an extremely talented player.
He's got a lot of different skill sets to offer. I'm sure the league would like to see, you know, certain matchups, but that ain't got nothing to do with us, man.
We go out there and we do what we're supposed to do, and we like to ruin the party. We like to ruin parties for everyone, and we feel like we have a great chance, a situation where we get to play eight games and have a chance to make the playoffs.
I guess you couldn't ask for more. It's just more so about how we execute, how we play.
And we look forward to trying to get into this playoff. Are you happy that getting stuffed by the rim, that happened in the preseason? So less people were watching? Or is it worse now because I'm bringing it up and people are like, wait, what happened? The video got totally stuffed by the – totally stuffed by the...
The video is accessible online if you'd like to watch it. That's why I never try to dunk because that could happen.
I think it was funny because the comments are hilarious. They're like, oh, he got a quarantine 15 or he drank too much wine or this or that.
And it's like, no, I just missed the dunk. People miss dunks all the time.
They've seen us play in like four months, so you forgot.

But I think I can handle those types of things because I think it's funny.

I would laugh at the guy that that happens to,

so I can laugh with people when it's me.

But I look forward to dunking again and actually being able to execute it better.

Someone said that I should have some Sprite in my room

or something like that because of the way I hit the rim and it was reminiscent of that. But it's all fun and games, man.
If you can't laugh at yourself, I think you just take your life too seriously. What's your mentality after you miss that dunk? Do you want to go up there and try it again? Do you want to throw it down? Or would you rather be like, okay, you know what? I need to settle back into my game, step back, hit a three, then I'll be good.
Well, I'm just keeping a buck with you. So I was stiff, man.
Like this is when I make up the excuses now. Coach told us before the game, he's like, yo, you're playing 20 minutes tonight.
10 minutes in the first quarter, 10 minutes in the third quarter. And I'm adding up.
I'm like, coach, I don't want to sit the entire second quarter, sit for halftime, and then have to go back in after playing an hour ago. So no, no, you'll be fine.
So we play the first quarter second quarter go through halftime the third quarter starts we're all looking at each other like i'm like damn i'm stiff you're stiff yeah everybody everybody is tight moving slow and nerf is back after 15 months so nerf gets the rebound or i get the rebound and he's yelling to me he's like don't go back door go back door like why he's coming up the court so I'm like bad I hit nerd go back door I catch the rebound, and he's yelling to me. He's like, throw it, throw it.
Go back door, go back door, like while he's coming up the court. So I'm like, bad.
I hit nerd. Go back door.
I catch the ball, and I just blacked out. I took it in stride, and I went back.
And normally I go two hands for safety. I try to cock it back a little bit.
Yeah. And as I'm jumping, I'm running out of talent.
You know what I'm saying? My talent. I feel it.
So I try to go as fast as possible. So I try to throw it down like quick.
And I'm thinking, all right, I can overpower the rim. Yeah.
So I don't overpower the rim. I hit the rim straight on.
Bow. And then at that moment, I'm falling.
I'm thinking, all right, you missed the dunk. Don't get hurt.
So as I'm falling, I'm trying to turn and make sure I don't get hurt because that's just insulting. Oh, yeah.
You would not have gone over that one. If you get hurt, like getting stuffed by the rim, you might want to just retire.
That might be like, it's okay. We've had a nice run.
It's time to walk away. Yeah, but I must say I executed the missed dunk flawlessly.
Yes, you did. You just ran out of talent.
I like that. There's times when that happens.
So in terms of, like, play in your team, do you guys feel like you are back where you were, like, you know, ended the season in March? Or is it still a little rust around the league just trying to get everyone back up to speed? I think most guys are close. I can speak for our team.
I feel like a lot of people took care of themselves. Once they knew there was a chance we could come back, they started working out.
There was plenty of time to kind of change your diet, go back to getting in the gym, getting in shape, hydrating properly. And then being able to go through training camp and your markets.
We went through weeks of individual workouts where most teams come here. You get to practice against each other.
We've been here since July 7th or 8 8th so we're looking at three weeks to four weeks of practice before you go into your first actual game so i think for us we feel good we we took good care of our bodies and our shape most teams took it seriously some teams really needed this training camp to kind of get to get the rust out but all in all i think they've done a pretty good job of preparing us and we get treatment daily around the clock. I was getting dry needily at 10 p.m.
last night to kind of recover and get ready for Friday. So the good thing about being in the bubble is there's no travel, there's no getting on planes, and having to go through those things, you just take a 10-minute bunch ride and then 10 minutes back.
I've got two off-the-record questions for you. So these are off-the-record.
They're still going to be in the podcast, but they're off-the-record. First off-the-record question, who are some of those teams hypothetically that have been a little more rusty? Maybe they've been tighter and in the training room a lot.
That sort of thing. Off-the-record.
Off-the-record. Off-the-record.
I mean, you know who has a chance to make the playoffs and who doesn't quite frankly like looking at how many games out you are you got to be three and a half games out to have a chance for the play we're three and a half games out as it stands right now so we just have to continue to either keep pace or outpace Memphis New Orleans Sacramento we have the head to head with Sacramento we have the we don't have the tiebreaker with New Orleans, so we have to have a better record, essentially. Okay.
So for us, we're on the hotel at six or seven teams, so it's us, Spurs, Memphis, Sacramento, Wizards, Suns, and I think that's it. Okay.
You're the bubble hotel. I got you.
I understand what you're saying. I'm picking up what you're putting down right now.
We're all the teams that are currently as it stands not in the playoffs. Yes.
So Wizards are looking great right now is what I'm hearing from you. John Ball is looking healthier than he's been in years.
John's not here. Shout out to my guy, John, Brad.
I don't know if Brad's here or not, and John's not here. He's training.
Yeah. So my second off-the-record question is just what's the shooting been like in the bubble? Has there been an adjustment period? Do you expect for teams to be shooting at a lower percentage during these playoffs? Well, it's weird, man.
There's no fans. The backdrop is different.

There's no travel.

Everybody's more fresh because you have four months off.

So I think guys will shoot the same or better

because some people that can't shoot actually worked on their games,

and then some people just still can't shoot

because it's just not in their nature.

Yep.

That's me.

Okay.

Good Lord, they're giving them that talent.

But I think looking at what I've seen so far, it looks like most people worked on their nature. Yep.
That's me. Okay.
Yeah. Lord, that talent.
But I think looking at what I've seen so far, it looks like most people worked on their games. It looks like most people will be pretty fresh to start.
And I would expect guys to be really locked in, especially understanding you only got eight games. It's one thing to have to play a whole season.
It's nothing to know that like, yo, we only got eight games and then we either make the playoffs or we don't, let's just leave it all out there, go as hard as we can, not leave anything in the tank. Do you think there'll be more or less trash talking? More.
Do you think more? Even though we'll be able to pick it up a little bit, the mics will pick it up better. Do you think there'll be more? They're going to pick up some foul stuff.
Based on what I've been hearing so far, and the things that I say that normally can't be heard with fans, they're going to have to try to blurt out with crowd noise. They're going to try to delay it.
But you're going to hear a lot of elite content. Is the more trash talk because guys have to amp themselves up more and there's the lack of – would imagine it's a little weird you don't get

that just adrenaline boost of coming out to a packed house you have to kind of find it somewhere else so are they is that why it's more they're talking themselves into it a little bit yeah it's both it's like you psych yourself out you gotta trick yourself into like there's people here watch it i'm hype i'm hype and then the other part is it's like aau it's like playing with your your friends.

Right.

You talk more trash

against people you know,

like your friends.

And it's – so you kind of like yell curse words and obscenities just randomly to kind of bump yourself up. And then you like talk trash back and forth.
And it's like they score and it's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, hitting threes. And then the other team scores.
And then like you got somebody scoring on a smaller player and they're walking down the court like he's a baby get the baby out the road like random random things people are yelling out like benihana it's time to cook like it's just random random stuff and then other things i can't say so what you're telling me is that a team that might have the strongest bench mob actually has a huge advantage because they've got a massive cheering section for them. They've got like a little home court advantage.
So are the teams that you've seen, which bench mob is the best? I mean, we've got a really good bench mob. I've seen, I've watched a couple games on TV.
The Lakers, they celebrate like every basket. They got dances.
I've seen other teams like do choreography on free throws. They were like somebody sits, somebody stands, and then they move around.
It's like a rollercoaster ride. Like everybody's doing different stuff, I guess, to kind of stay engaged, stay locked in, and you just need that momentum boost.
Toronto Raptors, we played them. We were talking like crazy the whole game.
The ref had to stop the game and say, look, man, if anybody else says anything, we're going to have to start throwing people out type of situation. So it was just fun.
We know each other, but it's just fun to talk trash when it's an empty gym, there's nobody there. And you're competing.
Like you're trying to to win and it becomes a little personal on the court it's personal then when you leave it's just business as usual yeah hockey is on and no matter the city no matter the team no matter the game Whether it's face-off or penalty shots. Regular season or playoffs.
Win or lose. No matter what happens.
No matter where it happens. New Amsterdam Vodka is there.
Who keeps calling the snitch line? Have you called it? I don't have the number. I've never been a snitch.
Oh, that's convenient. You don't have the number? That sounds like you're denying too much.
No, they gave the number to everybody. I live my life, man.
Hey, long as nobody's bringing any positives in here, I don't really care. Do y'all thing.
Live y'all lives, man. Leave me alone.
I stay on my little corner suite. I'm ducked off out the way.
I got my wine. I got my water.
I got some organs finest. So I'm just enjoying my situation.
Snitch line though. Someone's calling it.
Someone's calling the snitch line. Oh, people are definitely calling the snitch line.
A hundred percent. I've heard about it.
People complain about people not wearing masks and it's, it's interesting, man. I'm not, I'm not one to judge people.
Everybody's going to live their best life. as long as you're not coughing around me or potentially like it's, it's interesting, man.
I'm not, I'm not one to judge people. Everybody's going to live their best life.
As long as you're not coughing around me or potentially like exposing me to the virus, I don't care what you do. Just stay away from me.
Let me stay in my little space and live my life. Yeah.
So maybe keep like an extra six feet between you and Michael Porter Jr. I feel like that might be a good idea for right now.
Have you had the central line called on you? Not that I know of. I mean, I don't know what you would tell on me for doing.
Like, I'm just out here living my best life in the bubble. I feel like some teams have designated snitches where they say, okay, we need you to call up the two best players on every team that we play against.
Or what about calling the snitch line? Be like, CJ tried to dunk, and he's not about that life. CJ ran out of talent i'm a scorer man i get buckets man you do yeah yeah i listen i think that um i i've had a long stay woke there's a gym in new york where uh mellow who we got to talk about slim mellow he practices with a bunch of pros i think you maybe have been there too i'm convinced that the basket is bigger because everyone just like no one misses at that gym but i've seen your training videos do you edit them do you make sure that it's always just buckets because it's it is incredible how good you look in your training videos but that's everyone i guess i mean i look good in games too but true true yes you do but but what's behind the training video? When you put out a training video, are you like, let's keep that one out? Let's keep that brick out? No, I clip all my stuff.
So you'll see makes misses too, depending on what they catch. But we're such elite shooters that even the worst player on the team is great in the empty gym.
It's crazy. Yeah.
Unbelievable. How like locked in, how the mechanics, everything falls into line.
If you, if you catch the right person shooting for two, three, four minutes, they might not miss. So if you just record a one minute video on Instagram, it's one minute of just makes it may be 20 makes in a row.
Like I can make 25, 50, 60 shots in a row. And if you clip it for one minute, it's going to look like I didn't miss because I didn't miss for one minute.
Right. I think that's the misconception fans get is that you watch center shoot, like Dwight Howard can shoot threes, JaVale McGee.
If they enter gym by themselves, eight out of 10. Yeah.
And you just see eight Mason in a row and be like, well, why doesn't he do it again? It's like, well, that's not his role. That's not his job, but he is capable.
There's so many players that are capable of doing things, especially in a gym by themselves. It's just more about opportunity.
And I think that, you know, that gym, the gym that we play in the summertime, guys make shots because, for one, we don't play much defense at all. And for two, everybody's fresh.
It's the summertime. You live in your best life, and there's no worries.
Like, everybody's just out there hooping. There's no plays being called.
no there's no interviews after the game or none of that stuff you just go out there and hoop like a child and then you go home yeah the i can't remember who said it once but it put it all into perspective they're like the the difference between the nba and everything else is if you took the 10th best player on an nba roster they would be the best shooter on every single college team across the

board. Without a doubt, big men, small men, whatever it is, just pick the 10th best shooter

on an NBA team and they are the number one option for every single college team.

Yeah, depending on what team, because obviously there are some players that are elite. If you

want to put J.J. Reddick in college, he's going to be the best shooter but for for the most part nba players like the the last guy on the bench is like an animal right yeah yeah just not playing right so just another animal so how do how do the elite of the elite get ready that separates them from like the guys that might be the fifth or sixth best shooter on the team? Like, mentally, do you meditate? What do you do to get in the mindset to go out there and not worry about all that shit and just execute the mechanics? Everything, man.
Like, I read, man. Holy shit.
Whoa. Damn.
Who are you trying to impress? Look, think about it. I'm in a bubble by myself there's nobody here

I'm just trying to improve my knowledge

and overall understanding of life but

I think it's that 2% to 10%

right it's the mental edge

it's the ability to lock in it's the ability to focus

we all good we all have

talent we all have the same

resources we got elite trainers

we all can hire chefs we all can do those

things it's just about the discipline and then the ability to be able to overcome obstacles, right? So some people are great when everything's going well, when they're successful, when they're making shots, everything's great. Everything in your life is going well.
Some people can't handle the opposite. Failure, missed shots, media talking about you, your relationship might not be going well, family stuff might be going on, all that affects your performance.
Some people have the ability to compartmentalize everything. Like, may Kobe rest in peace, he could compartmentalize everything.
Like, when things are going well, when things aren't going well, they have an ability to lock in like that. Like LeBron, Tom Brady, some of the elites, Pat Mahomes, you can put him in the conversation now, like the switch that goes off to where down 25, down 28, doesn't matter because they still think they're the greatest.
They still think they're unstoppable, still think they're the best. Some people waver.
Some people get unsure of themselves, and that's why there's 2% of the elite and then there's the 98%, the 99% that are really good, have the talent, have don't have the mindset they don't have the drive or they don't have the discipline yeah that makes sense so like on a game if you have a game and you warm up and you feel good do you tell everyone on your team like this it's this is me tonight like make sure I get the ball and and has that ever backfired have you you ever thought that you had it? And then it's like, Whoa, whoops. Don't have it.
Thought I did. I've had both, both situations happen.
I've made every shot and warmups. Like I've shot and like going through my spots, my, my routine and not missed for like 10 minutes.
And I'm like, Ooh, it's going to be a good night. And I've missed every shot.
I've gone through warmups and missed every shot. Like I have to make 10 free throws in a row.
i finish two swishes i go through like a series of swishes makes off the dribble catch and shoot i've gone through it and i have a 20 minute slot it's taking me 35 or 40 minutes like i've been shooting in someone else's slot to try to finish right thinking it's gonna be a terrible game 40 so like it's once you get in the game and you get into rhythm like it's hit or miss like things shift and change but your your mindset my mindset never changes like i can miss every shot i could be over 12 13 is going in miss 13 oh 14 has got to go in miss 14 oh that means i gotta make 14 in a row like it's only a matter of time before i say law of law of averages so for me that's how it's always been but for some people people, they're superstitious. They got to do this.
They got to do that. Me, it's like I've tried everything just to throw off that mindset of I have to do this.
I can take a nap or I can not take a nap. I can FaceTime my girl.
I can not FaceTime my girl, but I'm still going to be locked in and able to play. In those pregame shootarounds or just in practice in general, what is Dame's range like when he's going through his routines? Does he sit and do, like, 50-foot shots and just practice those? Or what's that like? He can comfortably shoot from half court.
He's strong. He's got, like, the wrist flexion is crazy.
He's got a good dip. He works on it.
He knows how to get the proper arc on the ball. And it's almost like a set shot, but it's not for him because he's just like it's really effortless he doesn't really jump yeah but he he works on that stuff and that and that's the thing people at home watch and they're like well why they do this or why do they do that it's like we've all practiced everything that we do i don't go out there and just experiment i work on stuff and then i translate that to the game it's like the pre-draft the rough draft to the final paper so for him he works on 30 footers he works on 40 footers he works on step backs left step backs right just like the shot he hit against the thunder they literally had video of him doing that same shot in okc the night before game one yeah the night before game two the night before game three like his trainer phil beckner shot at the field he actually just had him somebody take a picture and he's like i had a feeling that he was going to need to shoot a shot from this far.
Did Dame have to shoot it from 40 feet? No. He didn't have to.
I'm really glad that he did, though. It was awesome.
I'm glad. That picture, I got to get that picture sign of this one waving away so I can laugh about it in 10 years and 15 years.
Yeah, you're right. I mean, the striking thing about that shot is when he shoots it, it looks like a normal person shooting a three-point shot.
He's not carrying a bunch of momentum forward. His limbs aren't flying out.
It's the mechanics. You guys do mechanics in the craziest spots, and it's just nothing breaks.
It's like the Ray Allen. Ray Allen taking a shot, and he could be coming off off a ball screen going momentum all the way to the left and he gets his perfect like body square and everything he's like how do you do that I don't know you guys are crazy it's reps it's repetition it's confidence it's understanding and then your body gets used to it like have you ever it's probably like a bad comparison but have you ever driven home and like like did I did I, did I stop at a red light? Like, yeah.
Yeah. Just zone out.
Yeah. Like, damn, that's her left.
Like, how did I get here? So, you know what I mean? That's how it is when you're hooping, like you do it every day. Like your body just kind of takes control and you just kind of let, like, let your body react to certain things.
And then I'll watch the film and I'll be like, damn, I did that. That's gotta be a cool experience.
That's like me looking at my debit card statement on like a Sunday morning no no but me and you are the same no but that actually happens sometimes we'll do a podcast I'll be like what did we talk about yeah that was a great show and it's like I don't even remember that's true people will like tweet us something that we said and and I'm like wow I must have blacked out and just ran my mouth off about something I don't know about do this this all the time. These are the blackouts without the alcohol.
Yes, yes, yes. Slim Mello.
How slim is he? That's my guy. My guy Slim Mello.
He loves the nicknames too, by the way. So make sure you guys reinforce this.
Okay. He's definitely slim.
He's taking great care of himself, especially over the break. We got a little bit of time in on the track.
We did some running. We walked our dogs.
We were like living the all-American dream, honestly, of the quarantine life out there in the middle of nowhere, walking dogs and conditioning, juicing, and drinking wine. But he's taking great care of himself.
He's slim. He's in good shape.
He's ready to play. And, I mean, you guys have seen the video He wore them short shorts, got his whole leg out, and is proud of the progress he's made at Shep.
They've done a great job. And I told him he should have been in Oregon a long time ago.
I ain't going to go into the details, but he's doing really well, and we're looking forward to making this playoff push, man. I think that we're in a position to hopefully do some real damage.

Yeah, and Mello's one of those guys

that, you know, his career's lasted so long.

Obviously, people, you know, make jokes online,

but he is one of those guys,

when you watch him warm up

or work in the gym in the summer,

he literally does not miss.

He is, it's so insane.

You remind yourself like, oh yeah,

Carmelo Anthony's one of like the best pure scores like ever it's insane yeah it's 25 000 plus points for a reason you know what i mean like that's consistency it's like it's like a 10 000 hour rule you know what i mean you become an expert or something he's got millions of hours yes yeah it's like walking it's like literally walking a dog or or uh changing a diaper as you become a parent it just becomes easier and easier And you just get used to it It's a habit of nature He's a walking bucket I like that, the walking bucket That's a sick nickname Are you and Kevin Durant good now? It was like two years ago that you came on and I, we, I like this whole podcast started beef that went viral between the two of you. That was strategic game planning, man.
We, we, uh, we took advantage of the system. Um, we recorded the podcast.
I left them some wine and in return, he helped boost my ratings and I'm thankful for it. Honestly, that's, that's, that's my homie to this day, to this day.
that's my homie. And, um, I got to check on him and see how he's doing.
I know he for it, honestly. That's my homie to this day.
To this day.

That's my homie.

And I got to check on him and see how he's doing.

I know he's getting close to returning and looking forward to getting back out there on the court. It also gave us the most, I guess it was like 2018, but whatever.

It might have been 2019 line ever.

I just did your fucking podcast, which that's like pretty much the biggest sign like the biggest sign of disrespect. It's like I want your wedding, Denise.
Yes, yes. Yeah.
The funnier part is that I'm in China while all this is happening, so I'm getting the news slow. I'm like 6 a.m.
my time, like lifting and like starting my day and then I'm on Twitter and I'm trending. I'm like, what is this? And then I'm like, let me hit him on the side.
Like, what, what, what is this before I, before I curse him out on Twitter? Like what's going on here? Oh man. Were you hurt by the snake emoji? I thought it was hilarious, man.
It was, it was really funny. It was well, it was well done on both our parts, honestly.
Yeah. You guys played us.
Yeah. I bought it.
The people were reaching out to like our staff, like CJ and Katie. All right.
I'm like, yo, we're good. I just talked to him yesterday.
We're good. And they all cut my tweet out of it.
They cut my tweet out. Everyone would just tweet just your reply to me and then his reply to you.
It's like, wait, hold on. But that's just how the internet works.
Yeah, I mean, you played us like a fiddle, to be honest with you. Although, like, I don't believe you, but I do believe that Kevin Durant would do something like that.
He would be engaged in a scheme like that to try to, like, just boost his friend's podcast rates. In this case, I think he actually did unironically tweet the snake emoji at you.
Yes. No, he did that on purpose for sure.
Like, a snake emoji was like the icing on the cake. That would have been like me putting the cupcake in there.
Yeah. the clown good the clown emoji is always a good one too that just that gets under your skin you also you also had a beef with um you called skip bayless uh what did you call him scrap something what did you call him you burned him good scrap scrap bayless that's good that's good burn why did you do yeah why'd Bayless? He didn't get me to come on the show, man.
They just wanted to get me to boost their ratings. I told them no, but you're welcome to come on my podcast.
Yeah, I like that. Power shifted.
Yeah, you tweeted 1.4 points per game. That's the worst part about Skip Bayless, the fact that anyone found out that he averaged 1.4 points per game.
Because when he just bashes people nonstop, you can just throw it right back in his face. Like, how do I argue with you? Like, you average one point a game and you play junior varsity.
You know how hard it is to average 1.4 points a game? Skip probably wishes he'd never played basketball. That would be way better.
Impossible to do. That means you don't make one layup a game.
Yeah, I would rather average zero points a game than 1.4 points. No, you'd rather not play.
Yes. Skip Bayless definitely, in his heart of hearts, was like, I wish I did not play junior varsity basketball because it would be better to not have played than to average 1.4 points per game.
He would have been better off doing the box scores. Yes.
That's true. Yes, just being a journalist through and through.
He should have been wiping the sweat off the floor to the town oh i respect i respect your commitment to the podcast publicity game too you understand that controversy gets eyeballs did you be honest with me when you found out that the nba was being suspended for the year that was not live on your podcast right you said i'm going to pretend like I'm recording my podcast so I can give a live reaction to it.

And then people would be like, oh, shit, CJ found out live on his podcast. By the way, his podcast is Pull Up with CJ McCollum, him and Jordan Schultz.
Sorry, I want to throw that in plug for you. But yeah.
No, please plug. But here's the thing.
That's genius. What you're talking about is genius.
but word to mother on everything I love,

I was literally doing a podcast with mellow in my uh office we're sitting here doing a podcast we got a game the next day and i get a text from the mbpa early they text me an hour before the release they're like yo the season's about to get canceled yeah yeah players have tested positive and i'm like recording i'm like what so i'm like yo no some players have tested positive season's about to get canceled he like fuck out of here and i'm like yeah bro like he's season's about to get canceled so 20 minutes later i'm watching like i got my tv here to the right me and mellow are sitting like this ashley comes from my agency sitting right here recording that's like taking pictures so I can post on social and I'm watching the right. Me and Mello are sitting like this.
Ashley comes from my agency.

He's sitting right here recording.

I was taking pictures so I could post on social.

I'm watching the game, and I watch the Oklahoma City Thunder and somebody else leave the floor.

You know, you warm up.

The buzzer goes off.

They leave the floor.

I'm like, wow, this is real time.

This is really happening.

I go to the cellar.

I crack open two bottles, and I'm like, look, we ain't playing tomorrow.

We might as well have ourselves a night.

That's literally what happened.

I This is real time. This is really happening.
So I go to the cellar, crack open two bottles, and I'm like, look, we ain't playing tomorrow. We might as well have ourselves at night.
And that's literally what happened. I couldn't have scripted it better.
And the funny part is that the podcast wasn't going to come out until the next day anyway. So we recorded it.
I sent it to my producer. They chopped it up, and they put it out in the morning.
So last time you were on, you gave us the Hezzy Hay. Do you have any variations off the Hezzy Hay or new moves that you've been working on that you're going to unveil? Give me a situation because around campus, I've been Euro-ing people.
In the hallways? Ginobili! I've been hitting people with James Aren. You know what I'm saying?

It just depends on my mood.

You've got to give me a situation, a scenario,

and then I give the streets something because I know the streets need something.

Okay.

ISO, you're down one with 15 seconds left.

ISO, you're on the right side.

Everyone's cleared out to the left.

You're going up against James Harden.

What do you do?

Oh, yeah.

Move.

Everybody get out the way.

I got one. You know, when you say you got one, that means, yeah, he can't check me.
Hey, now. I'm tween.
Tween. Tween.
Tween. Big cross.
Big cross. Big cross.
Tween. Right at him.
Step back. Step back to freedom.
Glasses face off. Step back to freedom.
Glasses face off. Okay, here's one other scenario.

Pause.

You just get off

the elevator.

You're walking down the hallway of your hotel

and it's one guy

walking the other way. It's LeBron.
That's it.

What do you do? You give him a little?

He's walking the opposite way.

No, he's walking towards you. He's just a long hotel room.
He's walking towards the elevator. You just walked off.
No one else is around. Well, that's the homie, so I just say what's up to him.
But if I wanted to joke with him, I might Euro-step him or something like that or do his patented move where he, like, look at you, look down at you. Dribble it really high.
I worked my hands off like. But no, that's the homie.
I played, I grew up, so I grew up in Canton. I played for his A&M team.
So I've known him since I was like 12 or 13. So I just say what's up.
Ask him what's good. Well, that's a perfect segue for my last question.
What's, what's up with your Browns, man? That was the most hyped up team in the history of pro sports and we're baker guys so we're rooting for them but damn that sucked last year yeah it did it did and you know what sucks you know it sucks when you spend money and you and you you go to road games on off days and you watch your browns lose to the cardinals. Oh, yeah, yeah.
On an off day. Yeah.
On an off day. You know what I mean? Like, that hurt my heart.
Or you fly to Oakland and you watch your Browns blow a game against the Raiders. Or you watch missed field goals and then the refs call a late hit on Miles Garrett.
Oh. Lose to the Rams.
Yeah. On prime time.
Yeah. But that hurt.
We had some close losses, but I think that's what builds character, honestly. Like, we have to learn how to win.
We have to learn how to play together. All this talent, we have all these pieces, but we didn't know how to use them.
We didn't know how to utilize them properly. So I think now I've gone through a full season.
OBJ is healthy. Baker's locked in.
He understands what's at stake here. You got all these weapons around you.
He knows how how to use them now he's doing what he's supposed to do miles got paid you know he got some of that anger out the way on uh rudolph and uh looking forward to coming back and having a pro boy here we got juice we got an all pro all world linebacker linebacker all pro all world running back we have the pieces we brought in receivers brought in tight end so now it's just about can we all stay negative for one because there's no season with a bunch of positives can we execute and can we go nine and seven to get in as the wild card because i feel like we can get into the playoffs with our talent. Anything is possible.
Anything is possible.

So I like that you're doing 9-7.

It's good.

Before the season last year, what were you thinking?

12-4?

10-6.

10-6?

I was saying 9-7, but I didn't factor in a lot of different things.

Like I didn't factor in losing Miles Garrett.

I don't think anyone did in that respect.

That really, that threw a little wrench into things. But I didn't factor in some of those close losses that we always seem to have as Browns.
Yeah, didn't factor in that you had, like, basically a fan coaching the team. That hurts as well.
That always is tough. We love Freddie Kitchens.
We'd have him on the podcast in two seconds. But I think Freddie would admit himself.
Sometimes – I think Freddie just ran out of talent. Yeah, right.
Sometimes you get a job and you're just – maybe it's a little – maybe you weren't ready for that job. Yeah.
Maybe someone promoted you a little too fast. It's the Peter principle, right? You will get promoted to a point of incompetence.
At the end of the day, coaches coach and players play. So we got a coach who's supposed to coach and now our players got to play.
They got to show up, man. There's no excuses.
There's no injury stuff. There's none of that.
we've got to show and players play. So we got a coach who's supposed to coach, and now our players got to play.

They got to show up, man.

There's no excuses.

There's no injury stuff.

There's none of that.

We got to show up and play and perform.

Our quarterback's got a quarterback.

Running back's got to run.

Receivers got to catch the ball.

There's no excuses.

Yeah, I like where your head's at.

It's saying, like, we learned how not to lose last year.

We lost in every single heartbreaking way possible,

and we've learned from that. So now maybe we'll win nine games.
Maybe we'll make a wild card. I think that's a much healthier perspective as a Browns fan.
Definitely healthy. I've had some unhealthy Sundays watching my Browns, and, you know, historically the bye week and draft night have been our favorite parts of the year, but now we have more hope.
Yes. Yes.
Well, CJ, thanks, man. This has been fun.
We love having you on.

You were a big-time, big-time fan favorite.

Shout out your wine.

Shout out your podcast.

Pull up with CJ McCollum.

McCollumheritage91.com.

Ooh, there we go.

That sounds great.

And best of luck.

And, yeah, hopefully you guys make the playoffs.

Hopefully you have that chance to blast off in someone's face.

Pause. I look forward to it.
I think it's going to be great. I think it's going to be a great time, man, for all the kids out there listening.
Yeah. And continue to read.
All right, reading is crucial. Yeah, and drink a lot of wine.
Yeah, drink all the wine you can. I read a book this quarantine, so we're kind of the same.
There was a tweet that went viral that said, the hardest part about reading a book is not telling anyone that you read it. So that's always the hardest part for me.
When I read a book, I let the whole world know that I've read a book. Yeah, I finished two books so far during the quarantine, so I'll keep a running tally and be sure to let the whole world know.
Yes. Yeah, I just tweet out reading again every time I start reading, just let everyone know I'm on the clock.
Hashtag. Did you read today? Yeah.
I mean, you can tweet out a picture of a bunch of books, like a big stack of books and everybody just be like, Oh wow. He must be really smart.
He's learned. No, I just bought books.
You don't have to read them. You just buy them.
Yeah. They look good.
Yeah. All right.
Well CJ, thanks so much, man. We always appreciate it.
Good to see you, man. All right.
Y'all have a good one, man. Hey, what's going on there, pal? We saw you at the hockey game on.
Do I know you guys? I'm Ryan Whitney. I got a drink named after me.
Not a big deal. Pink Whitney? That's what I thought.
See you, fellas. I invented the thing, you pigeon.
Pink Whitney for legendary moments. Okay, let's get some segments.
First up, we have Trouble in Paradise for the Green Bay Packers because Matt LaFleur said today about Aaron Rodgers, Aaron is our quarterback, and I see him here for a really long time. It's always good when you have to say who your quarterback is.
It's like the vote of confidence in a head coach, right? Rex is our quarterback. Rex is our quarterback, yeah.
It's also, interestingly said, he sees him here for a really long time, which either is a lie or he just forgot that they drafted Jordan Love with the first-round pick. I mean, I think – so if Aaron Rodgers plays really well this year, which he probably will, he might opt out.
I could see Aaron Rodgers opting out, actually. He seems like a guy that could take a year off, maybe go hang out in California with one of his new girlfriends at a house that he bought her because he's a simp.
But I think that if he does play this year and he plays well, it's going to be the Brett Favre thing. They're going to give him two more years.
They'll probably make him do press conferences with Jordan Love just to remind like remind him that he's there breathing over his shoulder yes and then after a couple seasons he'll go somewhere else it would be uh a real shame if aaron went back to the tequila real shame real shame or the scotch i just love the idea of just saying aaron is our quarterback like no duh but maybe it isn't no duh anymore i'll put it this way a Aaron Rodgers right now, if NFL teams were available on Zillow or any of those house shop real estate apps, he would be looking at Las Vegas right now. He would be swiping around, checking out maybe Jacksonville.
No state income tax there. Probably be checking out Tennessee at some point.
No state income tax there either. Looking down at the Dallas Cowboys.
He would be looking. He would rather, I think, play for Mike McCarthy right now than Matt LaFleur.
Yes. Because say what you want about Mike McCarthy, but he never acquired a good quarterback to play behind him.
And he could go. Aaron Rodgers is always good in Jerry World, so maybe he goes down to Dallas.
That's right. They use that as leverage against Dak.
Skip Bayless would absolutely shit himself.

Yeah.

Oh, that would be... What would he do?

I don't know.

It's got to be a package deal with him and Mason Crossbar.

He'd have to get Aaron Rodgers' Cowboys jersey

on the ready for his dick-high microwave.

You know what, though?

When Mike McCarthy was the coach of the Packers, he would specifically bring in bad quarterbacks just to make Aaron Rodgers feel like he was welcome. Slight in, yeah.
Or no, no, he'd bring him in to make Aaron Rodgers feel okay. Oh, yeah, yeah.
To be like, okay, you know that Deshaun Kaiser isn't going to take your spot. Yes.
Now, Matt LaFleur doesn't have all that background with Aaron Rodgers, and he doesn't know how to treat so now he's just like he's really fuck with him so Aaron Rodgers I actually agree with you that like I could see this season totally blowing things up between the two of them yes what just fell out of we were just watching something just fell out of a Red Sox pitcher's hat is that legal uh he just has he has a card underneath his hat I think it's the That's kind of funny, actually. Can you do that? He was looking at it earlier.
I think it has something to do with the thing with the catcher. I would like to see pitchers start to wear arm sleeves like quarterbacks.
That would be kind of cool. That would be nice.
With all the stats and where to pitch a guy. Yeah, like a play sheet.
Yeah. Let's have it happen.
It looked like one of those things that just taunts you that says do not eat this packet that you always want to eat it's like i didn't want to eat it until you fucking told me not to now it looks delicious sorry i got distracted by live sports pretty nice not sorry uh you want to do the segment bum me out yeah bum me out featuring big cat thursday night would be the hall of fame game. Oh, come on, man.
Would have been the first, like, oh, my God, there's football on our TV. No, no.
There's helmets. No, it wouldn't because the season got pushed back.
But it would have. So it would be next Thursday.
No, it would have been Thursday. Don't tell me that.
It would have been Thursday. Under regular circumstances, it would have been Thursday night.
Okay, let's do it. haven't unbummed me out.
Okay. Six weeks from tonight is the first NFL Sunday.
Let's go. Great.
Good job. Let's go, Jake.
Who would have been on Thursday night at the Hall of Fame? I think it was the Steelers and I don't know who else. Cowboys, maybe? It depends on who's going.
Yeah, Steelers and Cowboys. Steelers, Cowboys.
Okay, I've got Steelers. Who is going to the Hall of Fame this year? Paul Amalu? Minus six and a half.
And over-under is 43 and a half. That's the best when it's the first, and it would have been the start of Hard Knocks.
Yeah. Fuck.
Hard Knocks. Yeah.
Are you taking the over? Yeah, I would take the over. And then watch as the third string, fourth string guys who aren't even going to make the roster suck.
And I'm like, damn, but at least I get to see football on my screen. You see the NBC graphic.
It just feels good. It does.
It feels good for about a quarter. It feels good for less than a quarter.
It feels good for four minutes tops. I mean, we get to see Andy Dalton a little bit this year.
That would be kind of cool. We get to see Mike McCarthy in those colors.

That's really what I would be looking forward to.

I brought myself up.

Seeing how that accents his fat face.

That's a dinger.

Damn.

Is that Aaron Judge?

How many home runs does he have?

Five games in a row.

Five games in a row.

He has five home runs?

Five games in a row?

Piss test.

Wow.

He's on pace for 55 home runs? That's not that many. That's crazy.
It wouldn't even in a row. Piss test.
Wow. He's on pace for 55 home runs.

That's not that many.

That's crazy.

That wouldn't even be a record.

Actually, no.

How many games did they play?

They played seven.

So he's actually on pace for 58 home runs because they missed the first two games

of the year home run.

Five games in a row.

He's going to hit a home run every game for the rest of the season.

You'd have to assume.

Now, if he hits 61 home runs this year, is that the new record?

Yes.

out of the season. You'd have to assume.
Now, if he hits 61 home runs this year, is that the new record?

Is that the new record?

Yes, I'd have to say so.

I would say probably.

All right, let's finish up.

I'm going to un-bum you out, too, real quick.

This Thursday, the fifth major, the PGA Championship.

True.

Yes.

True.

Sixth major.

Sixth major.

Travelers is the fifth. John Deere is the fourth.
That is true. We have a major.
We have a major. All right, so let's finish up with PR 101.
Ioannis Cespedes was dead, but then he wasn't. The way the Mets handled that is very classic Mets.
Well, it's also just so Mets to any other franchise, and they're like, we can't find this guy. Everyone's like, oh my God, I hope he's okay.

The Mets announced we can't find this guy and everyone's like, well, he's dead.

You know what?

I just assumed that he defected from the Mets.

And he did.

And he did.

He did.

He opted out. He is the first Cuban to ever defect from the New York Mets.

Which was very smart of him because I think it was a contract year and he was batting

like 121.

Yes.

And I think they also took some money away from him for his whole ranch tripping and

hurting himself on his ranch incident.

That's it. smart of him because i think it's a contract year and he was batting like 121 yes and i think they also took some money away from him for his whole ranch tripping and hurting himself on his ranch incident that well a boar was chasing him yeah to be fair and then the boar saw that he tripped and fell and the boar lost interest and he's addicted to playing golf what a weird uh career that's what do you call him juan cespedes? Jose Cespedes.

I mean, Cespedes is a case study in a guy that had like three outfield put-outs in the first, I think, week of the season back in 2013, 2014. And he's always going to be that guy in my head where I'm like, pay this guy $30 million a year.
He's worth it because there's nothing more underrated in sports, I don't think, than like a sick 300-foot bomb from deep right field straight to third base. Well, and he also had the – he was playing for the A's, so no one watched him except for all of his highlights.
Yeah. It's like, holy shit, this guy's electric.
That's true. But he was electric for the Mets even when they went to the World Series.
He was pretty damn good. But it was a a weird totally Mets story to have a guy be like, wait, is he dead? The way that the Mets handled it, I think that their GM, I forget the guy's name, he's a shithead, he put the news out there knowing...
Brody is his name, so you know he sucks. Yeah, he was the last person cut from the Water Dogs this year, went on to be the GM of the Mets.
He's going to take your spot on Outer Banks, Hank. He said that Cespedes was going missing.
He's gone missing, so everybody be on the lookout for him. He knew that Cespedes packed up his shit and left because he was opting out, but he used to be Cespedes' agent.
And so he's pissed that Yohannes or Jose, as many of you might know him, ended up signing with Roc Nation. And so now he's got an axe to grind with him.
So now he's like feeding all this shit into the media. Your first thought, if somebody just ditches the Mets, if you're an ugly person and you're on a date with a hot chick and they just go to the bathroom at a restaurant and leave, you don't immediately suspect that they're dead.

Right.

You know, like I got ditched again.

Yes.

You know?

If they're wearing a Mets polo, you're probably like, they got hit by a truck.

Yeah.

We owe them a shitload of money. He's getting Tommy John surgery right now.

All right. That is our show.
anything that we missed Billy on your sheet

oh let's check it out

oh dude

space

we went through space we came back

you also had

sick of space

you got pretty serious on this sheet today

I did it in depth

they caught the guy who killed blue check marks

and you spelled blue

like the blue cheese. No, I didn't.
Yeah, you did. I like that.
Yeah, I like that. It made me hungry for some wings.
So that's, you know how to do that. 17 year old was a kid who hacked.
That's crazy, man. These fucking kids these days.
Not sound old, but these kids these days. Let's see.
Sean McDermott says, back up or mask up. That's the official slogan of the Bills this year.
And then finally, diabetes. Billy didn't even put down Wilford Brimley's name.
He just said diabetes guy passed away was considered the world's first meme. Is that true? No.
Everyone knew the diabetes guy. Yeah, but that was the world's first meme? Yeah.
No, it's definitely like... Star Wars kid or something? Bad Luck Brian? I was going to say the comeback Steve.
No, but before the internet, everyone knew, oh, diabetes didn't exist before then. Yeah, they did.
The hieroglyphics in the pyramids. It's like, oh, this girl's that dog face.
So then you were wrong. I don't know.
I mean, it's a good shot. you didn't think we were going to get to the last page yeah let's be honest i i did a full breakdown on all the pac-12 players demand right you were hoping that yeah never read you wrote the paper being like there's no way the teacher's going to read the six page of this yeah we're good i do like this picture of brooks kapka just put in a fucking dog camera yeah and i'd like to throw a flag on earlier in today's episode because I'm pretty sure we didn't talk about Bryson on Friday's show because I went home from the show, and then I saw the news break and the video come out of Bryson when I was laying in bed.
I was joggy as well. I don't want to call you out, PFT, but I think that streamed in a number on your brain.
It did, but what? Well, Hank's comments were still correct the way he was describing it because he was saying last week, which was last week, and that the next day Brooks did the thing after. That was correct.
What I was trying to say was that we did not discuss the Bryson thing on the show on Thursday. If we did, I was we did i was blacked out and i accept no i'm opting out of responsibility for that yeah i mean that we could have we could not have we could have we could have what do you think jake do you have it i'm doing my research he's doing his research folks he's doing his research well the bryson ants thing happened on the 30th

Which was Thursday

Correct

Did Brooks mimic him on Thursday or Friday?

Friday

But we might not have talked about it on Thursday

What time did the Bryson thing happen on Thursday?

5 o'clock

It was afternoon, the sun setting

Exactly, so we were out of here

There you go

Okay, we were both right

I'm opting out

Yeah, alright, we'll see everyone Wednesday

BTW, RIP, Wilford Brimley.

I didn't want that to sound disrespectful.

Love you guys.

What's BTW mean?

BTW, by the way.

You don't know BTW?

You're signing off.

I just never really hear people say it

instead of saying, by the way.

Old man.

What was I going to talk about?

I was thinking about whether to go back to school or not,

and I really don't know what to do.

And it's a very pressing decision because do I go back on campus

and let them track me?

Or do I just do online school and just keep doing this stuff?

But, you know, it's a lot weighing on my mind.

My foot's feeling better.

I had it in a boot on Friday.

Then I took the boot off because I realized it was stupid.

And I'd rather just be in pain.

Joe Rogan in Post Malone talked about aliens.

Yeah, but they talked about aliens.

It's sick.

Alyssa Milano is more a direct competition.

Oh.

Anyway, love you guys.

Hope you have a good one.

Oh, I want to do an Elmo impression.

Elmo.

Elmo.

Elmo.

Okay, I want to do all the impressions I can do.

SpongeBob. Take me home.
I'll be gone. I'll be gone.
I'll needlessly say. I'm hard to next.

But I'll be stable in a way.

Slowly learning that life is okay.

Say after me.

It's no better to be safe than sorry.

I'm weak. Take me.
Take me. Take me.
Take me. I'm weak.
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