Baker Mayfield & Alex Caruso, MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred, Scottie Scheffler Dominates The Open + Mt Rushmore Of Best Bad Movies

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Speaker 1 On today's part in my take, we have two great interviews.

Speaker 15 We have our good friends Alex Caruso and Baker Mayfield together.

Speaker 18 That is something we do chill week now.

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Speaker 26 This year it's Alex Caruso and Baker Mayfield.

Speaker 24 We also have MLB commissioner Rob Manfred.

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Speaker 29 We've almost got them all.

Speaker 30 Two down.

Speaker 31 Goodell, balls in your court, bro.

Speaker 34 Tell, we got to get Bettman, and then he's got no choice to complete it.

Speaker 38 We're going to do the Mount Rushmore of bad movies, which will surely be contentious.

Speaker 40 We also are going to talk about... Good bad movies.

Speaker 16 Good bad movies. Good bad movies.

Speaker 41 These bad movies.

Speaker 42 Bad movies that are good.

Speaker 1 It's already contentious.

Speaker 31 It's the best worst movies.

Speaker 43 It's the Mount Rushmore bad movies.

Speaker 45 What did I say? The best, worst movies?

Speaker 46 Yeah, but Mount Rushmore bad movies implies that they're good because they're on the Mount Rushmore bad movies.

Speaker 37 Okay.

Speaker 23 Bad movies was the text that was sent.

Speaker 49 I'm ready for it either way.

Speaker 42 I'm ready for it. This is going to be the most contentious movie.
It will be.

Speaker 50 I'm ready for it.

Speaker 51 I think we're all on the same page.

Speaker 43 Mount Rushmore implies good.

Speaker 40 Best bad movies.

Speaker 43 Yeah.

Speaker 53 Mount Rushmore implies good. Hank, read the text.

Speaker 50 All right, perfect. We're ready to go.
Yep, ready.

Speaker 55 We're going to talk open championship.

Speaker 1 We got who's back of the week.

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Speaker 63 Today is Monday, July 21st, and Scotty Schaeffler is the fucking man.

Speaker 31 He is the man. Before we get into golf, though, I should say this out loud.
This is our last Monday show without football.

Speaker 64 Oh. Until February.

Speaker 65 We got football next week?

Speaker 31 We got the Hall of Fame game. On Sunday night? No, I'm saying it's the last Monday show that's not in a football week.
When is the Hall of Fame? There is football next Thursday.

Speaker 66 Got it.

Speaker 49 Got it. Got it.

Speaker 31 This is the last full week of no football

Speaker 31 on the show. Until February.
Got it.

Speaker 69 Got it.

Speaker 37 Pretty fucking cool.

Speaker 49 Oh, Hank. Hank.

Speaker 40 Jump in the gun a little bit.

Speaker 70 I thought it was the last Monday.

Speaker 40 Next Monday, you're still not going to talk about football.

Speaker 67 Hank's right on that.

Speaker 43 I thought you meant the last Monday show we don't talk football.

Speaker 37 But jump in the gun.

Speaker 41 But Hank,

Speaker 31 Hank hates it when we say that football's back.

Speaker 26 It's not.

Speaker 40 You hate it. It won't be back next Monday either.
Chucky's fucked up.

Speaker 71 He's right on that.

Speaker 72 But we will next week

Speaker 14 have football, which we will not talk about for more than maybe three minutes because they don't even play the second stringers in the week.

Speaker 31 Yes, third strings, yeah.

Speaker 55 Yeah, third stringer.

Speaker 28 Scotty Scheffler's the man. He is the man.

Speaker 31 He

Speaker 5 absolutely dominated the Open Championship,

Speaker 23 won minus 17. Port Rush did not show up.

Speaker 14 That was also the wind.

Speaker 49 Yeah.

Speaker 74 Those courses, from the little I know about Lynx golf

Speaker 33 in the UK or Northern Ireland or Ireland, you pretty much need the wind.

Speaker 14 Otherwise, it's not as tough of a course.

Speaker 31 Maybe some harder rain, some big fat rain. But there was not that much to see from Port Rush.

Speaker 31 The only cool thing that the course did this week was it unearthed a second ball when Rory hit that one shot. Pretty crazy.

Speaker 52 So I was watching that live.

Speaker 53 Dead ball.

Speaker 58 I thought he had fucked up and picked up his ball.

Speaker 45 I was like, why did he just do that?

Speaker 23 And also, holy shit, Rory just hit a shot that I hit a million times when I golf.

Speaker 76 And then that just shows how good Rory is that he knew right away that wasn't his ball.

Speaker 48 Of course, he flushed it, but that was cool.

Speaker 49 It was awful. That ball had been there forever.

Speaker 31 Yeah, I want to know what the marking on that ball was. I want to know what the procedures.
Like, do they have people before these tournaments that go through all the weeds,

Speaker 31 all the fescue, and they just pull out old balls? That thing was buried. It was buried.
It was, I'd say, maybe four, three, four inches underground. Yeah.

Speaker 31 Like, the earth has evolved since that ball plugged in there.

Speaker 9 But when he he picked it up, I was just like, Holy shit, what is he doing right now?

Speaker 28 Do you have that same feeling, Hank?

Speaker 40 I thought that was his shot for sure. Me too.

Speaker 23 Yeah, I was like, Oh, he just mishit it, and now he's gonna be penalized.

Speaker 5 Nope, second ball.

Speaker 57 It's kind of like when uh, it happens, you know, at Wrigley when a second ball pops out of the IV.

Speaker 25 Yeah, when you hit one into the IV, and there's two balls

Speaker 79 time capsule in there.

Speaker 43 Yeah, it's fun.

Speaker 31 Now, Rory should also feel bad because Rory has unleashed Scotty Scheffler on the world by encouraging him to change his putter like two years ago.

Speaker 31 So, I looked up some of the stats. Scotty Scheffler, before he changed the putter, he was like 170th on the PGA tour in strokes gained putting.

Speaker 81 He's awesome at putting.

Speaker 31 This week, he was number one.

Speaker 50 Yeah.

Speaker 31 He was the best. And since changing to the new putter, he's hovered like top 20.

Speaker 82 Yeah.

Speaker 31 So, Rory, you fucked everything up, buddy.

Speaker 84 He also, I mean, we said this after the Masters when Rory was saying, we were like, hey, this might unleash Scotty.

Speaker 45 And it has unleashed Scotty.

Speaker 23 It's the year of Scotty wins his second major of the year.

Speaker 57 It's also crazy to put in perspective that February 13th, 2022, I bring up that date.

Speaker 2 Why?

Speaker 87 That was Scotty Scheffler's first PGA tour win.

Speaker 14 That's just three and a half years ago.

Speaker 86 That's not like,

Speaker 52 I think it's, we've had this conversation before.

Speaker 65 Scotty Scheffler, how good he is, and also how much older and like dignified he looks to his age.

Speaker 34 Is he like 29 still?

Speaker 61 I think he's 29.

Speaker 31 He turns 30 on the Sunday of the U.S. Open next year.
It's the only major that he hasn't won yet.

Speaker 1 It feels like he's been around forever because he's been so dominant in these three and a half years.

Speaker 85 But yeah,

Speaker 18 his first win on tour was three and a half years ago.

Speaker 89 And

Speaker 23 he's, yeah, he has 17 wins.

Speaker 23 He's been awesome. He's been awesome.

Speaker 31 It was the exact same number of days between his first major win and his fourth major win as it took Tiger Woods between his first major win and his fourth major win.

Speaker 45 So I'm happy you brought that up because I wanted to talk about this because Scotty was so good at the open that we had nothing to talk about.

Speaker 90 So naturally it became Scotty versus Tiger.

Speaker 49 Is he Tiger?

Speaker 57 And then that stat came out that it was the exact same amount of days.

Speaker 45 It was, yeah, 1,000, what was it, 1,719 days, I believe, was in between the third and earth, the first and the fourth.

Speaker 93 Yep.

Speaker 23 It also was the exact same, I think, number of starts

Speaker 48 for him and Rory in terms of their fourth major win. And then Rory had like 30 more starts to get his fifth.

Speaker 57 But the only reason I wanted to bring this up is because it did become Scotty vs.

Speaker 88 Tiger.

Speaker 45 And yes, that is a crazy stat that it took him.

Speaker 60 Yeah, 1,197 days between their first major and their fourth major.

Speaker 34 Tiger Woods then won the next two majors that he played in.

Speaker 31 And Tiger Woods, at that point, got the Tiger Slam.

Speaker 1 Yeah, those were the next two to get the Tiger Slam.

Speaker 88 So that was

Speaker 57 his fifth major was to get the PGA championship, and then his sixth major was to get the Masters.

Speaker 45 And they were literally the next two starts.

Speaker 23 So I'm not saying that Scotty can't be Tiger, but we got to pump the brakes on Scotty as Tiger because I saw also there was a bunch of stats going around where they picked like a three-year window.

Speaker 18 It's basically Scotty's last three and a half years in Tiger

Speaker 57 2002 to 2005, which is just, that's erasing his slam.

Speaker 5 Right.

Speaker 25 And I went and looked.

Speaker 23 And again, this is, I love Scotty Scheffler. I hope he is Tiger because that would be awesome for golf.

Speaker 29 But it also is a good reminder of like, I think people need to remember how awesome Tiger Woods was.

Speaker 15 So, Tiger Woods, so Scotty has 134 PGA starts.

Speaker 61 He's won 17 times.

Speaker 48 He has four majors. Tiger, in his first 134 PGA starts, had 32 wins and eight majors.

Speaker 65 So almost double on both, just showing how crazy is.

Speaker 61 Tiger also, in his first 250 PGA starts, won 71 times and he finished top three 115 times, almost half the time.

Speaker 18 He was top three.

Speaker 27 And he had more major wins 14 than he had missed cuts 13.

Speaker 29 that's his first 250 starts uh also tiger woods we mentioned the slam tiger had uh a 27 start stretch in 99 and 20 in 2000 27 starts how many tournaments did he win hank 27.

Speaker 34 these are pga tour events 27 starts how many did he win the tournament

Speaker 60 16.

Speaker 52 that's insane including four majors think about that for a second he literally would just win 65% of the time that they would have a PGA tour event for that year.

Speaker 31 You can do all these advanced stats. I go off one, and that's the Chipotle quotient.

Speaker 31 And that's what percentages of Chipotle's could Tiger Woods walk into and be able to eat a meal without being recognized? It was probably like 0%. 0%.
Scotty Scheffler is batting 50% in his own city.

Speaker 31 That's true.

Speaker 66 Right now. That's true.

Speaker 5 Another crazy Tiger stat because there's so many of them.

Speaker 71 And again, love Scotty.

Speaker 58 Scotty won, so this is his 10th 10th consecutive tournament win when holding the outright 54-hole lead.

Speaker 21 Basically, if he's winning the first three days, he's going to win the tournament.

Speaker 57 How many times do you think Tiger Woods did it?

Speaker 57 30. Consecutive.

Speaker 34 20. 37.

Speaker 59 Jesus. 37 consecutive times.

Speaker 103 Tiger Woods had the 54-hole lead and won the tournament.

Speaker 16 And then

Speaker 93 another crazy one:

Speaker 61 Tiger Woods won five PGA tour events in a row

Speaker 105 three separate times.

Speaker 31 That's crazy.

Speaker 2 Five in a row, three separate times.

Speaker 41 Yeah, you're right.

Speaker 31 The only thing that you can talk about when it becomes a lopside victory is like, is this man Tiger Woods?

Speaker 79 It's off the fair to Scott.

Speaker 31 Every young NBA player that's coming up, the only thing we can think to say, like, is this guy Michael Jordan's son? Right. Because he was really good.

Speaker 31 Like, when you watch a guy dominated golf, you're like, is this the same as we felt with Tiger Woods? It's not going to be the same. Tiger Woods was just unreal.

Speaker 31 And I think Scotty has to stay ranked number one in the world for the the next 10 years. Yeah.
To equal Tigers' reign, right?

Speaker 23 And obviously Scotty doesn't care about this because it's not, he seems like maybe the most grounded, well-adjusted athlete ever.

Speaker 84 The quote he gave before the tournament, he obviously people took it different ways where he's like, you know, I win a major and I'm happy for a couple minutes.

Speaker 84 He kind of cleaned it up or explained it better today where he's just like, look, it's, this is, I love golf.

Speaker 21 Like, reaching this pinnacle is incredible.

Speaker 17 But if it, if everything in my life was defined by golf, well then maybe it would be tiger woods yeah but like that's that's he's very like it's actually incredible for an athlete to be able to say that like i'm really really good and i love winning and i love competing but i have more in life that gives me fulfillment and fills my heart and that also really has to suck for everyone who scotty's going against the guy because he's basically like yeah he's like yeah the winning the another major is awesome but you know what's even better having a family being a well-rounded human being.

Speaker 31 Yeah, Tiger was never really a well-rounded human being. I don't think that anybody said, like, when he was dominant, that this guy, he really got it all.
Yeah.

Speaker 31 Scotty, though, I didn't take it when he was saying, like, yeah, my family, all that stuff. I didn't take it to mean that he doesn't love golf.

Speaker 31 Neither did I. I think he's a fucking psycho

Speaker 31 who loves golf. Correct.
But he's even more of a psycho who loves his family.

Speaker 34 And also understands that if...

Speaker 23 Golf is the only thing that defines you, there's, yeah, he's on an incredible streak right now, but there will be a streak where he's not on an incredible streak.

Speaker 23 And if golf is the only thing that defines you, then you just become a depressed person and you have no meaning in your life.

Speaker 57 And it's pretty good that he's got the wherewithal to be like, I have meaning.

Speaker 33 I find meaning in a lot of different places.

Speaker 31 All right, so Tiger Woods against Scotty Scheffler, match play,

Speaker 31 18 at Augusta, both in their primes.

Speaker 49 Tiger.

Speaker 31 Tiger minus 180.

Speaker 52 Dude, Tiger used to, and Scotty's getting close to this, but I remember.

Speaker 31 Tiger did it all with Krabs, too. Yeah.

Speaker 31 Pretty impressive.

Speaker 110 Yeah.

Speaker 4 I remember this because Scotty, I think, what was he before this tournament?

Speaker 24 Was he like plus 350?

Speaker 105 Plus 400.

Speaker 54 Plus 400?

Speaker 31 He was plus 450.

Speaker 38 There were many tournaments where Tiger, it was even money.

Speaker 26 And it was just like, it was Tiger versus the field, was the bet you were making.

Speaker 35 And yeah, I think it's also what we do in all sports because we want the thing that we thought we'd never see again to be.

Speaker 112 something we're seeing again where we say oh watching tiger in his prime was an insane almost religious experience.

Speaker 57 We want that to happen again.

Speaker 2 And Scotty might get there because he's starting off in a way that like if he stacks up another, if he duplicates these next three and a half years the same as these last three and a half years,

Speaker 45 he

Speaker 88 still wouldn't be as dominant as Tiger, but it would be pretty damn close.

Speaker 31 You know what the difference is? With Scotty, when he's winning this tournament, we kind of, we want there to be drama at the end.

Speaker 50 Well, that's good.

Speaker 31 We don't know, but I think it was totally different.

Speaker 31 I think with Scotty, it's like you want there to be drama in the final round.

Speaker 31 After it's kind of a boring final round, Scotty just keeps making par putts when you think he might slip up, and he ends up winning the whole thing.

Speaker 31 We're like, it would have been nice if it was closer at the end. With Tiger Woods, when you were watching Tiger, you were tuning in specifically to watch Tiger beat the fuck out of everybody.

Speaker 31 You got more excited the more lopsided that the fight got. Scotty hasn't gotten to that place yet.

Speaker 41 No. I don't know if that he will.

Speaker 9 I don't know if he will either, but he's awesome.

Speaker 23 And it's very cool to see him be as dominant as he's been.

Speaker 40 I think it could turn into like a Jordan LeBron thing, too, where Scotty could just play more and get better stats. Yeah.
But people will always be like, it's just not Tiger.

Speaker 62 We should also say that, I mean, Scotty probably is playing against tougher opponents.

Speaker 41 Yeah, definitely.

Speaker 2 Because the Tiger effect.

Speaker 31 All people inspired by Tiger. Correct.

Speaker 50 Are here.

Speaker 89 And so

Speaker 76 that absolutely should be stated.

Speaker 97 And again,

Speaker 18 this is 0% slight on Scotty because I love him.

Speaker 33 It's just the Tiger, we just need to remember every now and then how incredible Tiger was.

Speaker 80 Yeah.

Speaker 93 And just how insane that stretch.

Speaker 30 I mean, again,

Speaker 88 what did I say?

Speaker 93 Was it 27 starts and he won 16 of them?

Speaker 31 Yeah, it's pretty incredible.

Speaker 54 That's insane.

Speaker 24 27-star stretch where he won 16 tournaments, including four majors.

Speaker 77 That's so stupid.

Speaker 31 I do think all the perspective stuff helps Scotty when it comes to his bounce back stats. Yeah.

Speaker 31 Did you see the stat that they put out where it's like if he hits a bogey 36% of the time the next hole, he's going to make a birdie.

Speaker 68 Yeah. And just wipe that out.

Speaker 49 Yeah, yeah. There was, it was like.

Speaker 31 And the tour average is, I think, 13%, and he does it over a third of the time.

Speaker 35 Because there was that stretch today when I was watching where it was, I think he was up eight early and eight strokes, and then it was,

Speaker 84 I was like, I walked back to the TV and it was like four.

Speaker 66 Yeah. He said, oh, shit, this could be something.

Speaker 34 And then he just corrected it right.

Speaker 31 And then he had like two long par putts, like 10, 15 footers that he made, and it was, it was just over. It was also shout out to Godderup.
Yes. He's like a European genius.

Speaker 31 He's great in Scotland, great in Northern Ireland. Probably might be listening to part of my take right now.

Speaker 17 Confirmed AWL.

Speaker 31 Shout out, Oklahoma.

Speaker 64 Big year for Oklahoma.

Speaker 37 Yeah.

Speaker 14 So Chris Godderup, who we'll definitely have to have on at some point,

Speaker 65 before,

Speaker 46 so what?

Speaker 35 Nine days ago, 10 days ago, his career earnings was $2,700,000.

Speaker 23 And then this past 10 days, he won $2,700,000.

Speaker 49 That rocks.

Speaker 23 So he just doubled his career earnings.

Speaker 31 What are taxes like when you went over in the UK?

Speaker 49 I feel like you just don't have to pay him.

Speaker 31 Yeah, you just leave town. That's just not real.

Speaker 31 It's not real. Just don't go back.

Speaker 104 Yeah, that's just not real.

Speaker 7 Also,

Speaker 14 I would say that Scotty is starting to get a little bit of the tiger, like you can't beat Tiger on Sunday when he's up.

Speaker 62 Obviously, I talked about the 10 consecutive. That was his 10th consecutive.

Speaker 49 The How Tongue Lee, who he played with.

Speaker 55 I like that guy yeah he said

Speaker 16 he said admitted he could be playing for second he said i'm actually quite looking forward to it four shots behind kind of like play for second especially play with the world number one i just try to play my best out there and hopefully make something happen yeah that was before the round yeah he's like yeah i'm just out there just gonna try to and i think he i think he asked scotty for like tips and he was like can we can we like play together when i come to the pga tour and he he looked like he was having a great time out there yeah he did he was like smiling laughing he knew that he wasn't gonna beat scotty no one was gonna beat Scotty.

Speaker 17 Do we think

Speaker 105 the other two things I had was, I feel like the broadcast was trying to will Rory a little bit.

Speaker 108 Oh, yeah. Too.
The fans.

Speaker 7 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 49 Just a little bit.

Speaker 71 Yeah. A little bit.

Speaker 40 Scotty was demolished. This scene on 18 on Saturday.
They were acting like he was Sunday and he was winning. It was one of the greatest scenes I've ever seen in sports.

Speaker 46 It was a little much. Yeah.

Speaker 14 Also, Bryson might have figured out Lynx golf.

Speaker 31 He did. He actually figured it out before the opening round, and then he forgot it during the opening round, but then he figured it out again.

Speaker 49 For the last three rounds.

Speaker 31 yeah. The stinger that he hit like in the practice round that topped out at, I think it was like 30 feet in the air, hit it like 190 miles an hour.

Speaker 31 That was a six shot, but has he figured out Lynx golf

Speaker 76 Thursday would have begged to differ because, yeah, what was his he shot a 78, and then he followed up with a 65, 68, 64. Pretty good.

Speaker 20 Yeah, so he could have been in the mix if he hadn't shot that 78.

Speaker 23 Uh, I have a question for you guys: is Bennett Scheffler the most well-known baby currently?

Speaker 31 Yeah, every Sunday. I would say it's like

Speaker 40 Riley Curry status.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he had his moment when he fell, which was very cute.

Speaker 31 Riley was like Tiger, and now Bennett is like Scotty. Yeah.
But yeah, he's everywhere. The fall was very funny, holding the trophy.
It seems like he's gotten used to holding championship trophies.

Speaker 82 It's literally every Sunday.

Speaker 100 He's really good at it.

Speaker 31 He's better than Colin Morkow at holding championship trophies.

Speaker 2 I mean, that's got to be like...

Speaker 18 20 years from now, you just have a collage of all the trophies he held.

Speaker 49 Yeah.

Speaker 37 Pretty fucking cool as a baby.

Speaker 31 I also like how, right after these rounds are done, right after he wins the championships, his wife just hands him the baby, like, baby, you're on baby duty right now. Yeah.

Speaker 61 I wonder if we should try to get Bennett on.

Speaker 46 I wonder if Bennett is getting bored of it.

Speaker 20 We can ask Scotty next time he comes on.

Speaker 89 Is Bennett, is he bored of all these trophies?

Speaker 31 Well, does Bennett have the perspective? Does he love his family more than he loves championship trophies?

Speaker 9 What if Bennett, what if Bennett was like secretly boss baby and he was coaching Scotty and we just didn't know?

Speaker 62 whispering yeah what if he's the mastermind behind all of this yeah I don't know is Bennett I'm not ruling it out is Bennett that has nothing to do with the fact that I watched boss baby four times this weekend with my kids is Bennett further ahead right now than Charlie Woods was I uh the same age I how old is Charlie Woods

Speaker 83 was he 18 17 Charlie Woods is 16 he was born in 2009 yeah no Bennett's way ahead because Tiger 2009 is when Tiger started to I think that was Navy SEAL's tiger when did he come back uh

Speaker 31 also the craziest thing about Tiger Woods that people forget is he was by far the best golfer in the world. And he just decided, I'm going to change my entire swing.

Speaker 5 And be a Navy SEAL.

Speaker 54 And be a Navy SEAL.

Speaker 31 And then he was great with his new swing.

Speaker 80 Yeah.

Speaker 8 Oh, shit.

Speaker 57 Charlie Woods has only seen one major victory from his dad.

Speaker 31 So Bennett's

Speaker 5 him. Bennett's got two, right?

Speaker 17 Or does he have three?

Speaker 57 I think he has two. I think he's like one years old.

Speaker 78 So he doubled it up today.

Speaker 31 That's right, yeah. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 23 Yeah.

Speaker 116 Yes, because 2009 was, I think, when it all started to, I think that was the Thanksgiving.

Speaker 26 Yeah.

Speaker 80 All kind of went bad.

Speaker 117 It would be funny if history just repeated itself and Scotty was just tigered that way, too.

Speaker 31 He was just really, really good at hiding it.

Speaker 31 I don't, because when the Tiger stuff happened, I don't think anybody, it was a massive story, but I don't think anyone was like, oh my gosh, this doesn't seem like Tiger Woods that I know.

Speaker 31 Oh, I can see Tiger being a psycho and going down that road.

Speaker 23 Oh, I disagree. I remember being shocked.

Speaker 108 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 59 Because he was like the perfect advertiser, like, you know, the, the,

Speaker 16 on every single commercial, had the family, had the supermodel wife.

Speaker 41 That was shocking.

Speaker 30 That was shocking.

Speaker 5 It was definitely.

Speaker 29 I think we've, I think, because we learned everything after, we, we kind of misremember.

Speaker 49 But I remember being like, what the fuck?

Speaker 31 But I think Scotty would be more.

Speaker 44 I remember thinking that it was like, oh, he just got an offender bender.

Speaker 23 Like, no big deal. That's how they

Speaker 41 got him.

Speaker 54 Yeah.

Speaker 88 And then when you slowly figure it it out, you're like, oh, shit.

Speaker 49 It's way worse than that.

Speaker 102 Also, we should, we did a bad job.

Speaker 14 I'll take my hand up here.

Speaker 85 Phil Mickelson should have won Take of the Year because his tweet from March, here's a hot take.

Speaker 14 Does Scotty win in 2025 before the Ryder Cup?

Speaker 92 I don't think so.

Speaker 59 Also, that's Phil saying that Phil just is saying Ryder Cup because he can't say Europe's going to win.

Speaker 37 Yeah.

Speaker 23 So he really wanted to say, does Scotty win at all in 2025?

Speaker 14 No. Yeah.

Speaker 102 But he had to have a little pride.

Speaker 50 He was like, hopefully, Keegan will give me a call and I'll play well enough that I'll somehow make a team.

Speaker 31 I'm so excited for the Ryder Coat. It's going to be awesome.
So excited.

Speaker 31 You're not Hank?

Speaker 40 I'm excited. I'm excited.

Speaker 40 I'm excited. It's going to be a war.
Okay.

Speaker 120 He might be in trouble.

Speaker 40 But it's going to be back against the wall.

Speaker 31 So if it was Captain Hank, if you were the consigliary to Keegan Bradley, what do you tell them?

Speaker 40 I trust Keegan.

Speaker 40 That's what I'm excited about.

Speaker 54 No, but what do you tell him?

Speaker 31 Trust yourself.

Speaker 40 Trust yourself. Use the crowd.

Speaker 31 Get hot. But in terms of the selections.

Speaker 40 Oh, I don't know about that.

Speaker 31 Max Homo.

Speaker 100 Yeah.

Speaker 31 Yes, absolutely. For sure.
Why did you think about that? I didn't. You thought about that for a half second.

Speaker 40 I was thinking as Keegan, but I trust Keegan. Keegan's going to do the right thing.

Speaker 7 Got her up?

Speaker 42 This website says we have a 54.8% chance of winning.

Speaker 80 Got her up?

Speaker 29 Well, we do have to always remember that it's being played when you played in the home country almost always wins, and there's going to be 20,000 Stew finders

Speaker 14 and Frank Flemings going nuts.

Speaker 31 What were those brothers at the Yankees game? The Copo Bianco? Yeah.

Speaker 31 You got to get the Copo Bianco brothers out there.

Speaker 66 With golf gloves? Yeah, with golf gloves. Trying to grab balls.

Speaker 23 Here's a crazy stat.

Speaker 48 If you bet Scottie Scheffler to win every single week starting this year, $100, how much would you be up?

Speaker 40 $10,000.

Speaker 8 No, $185.

Speaker 116 Wow.

Speaker 45 Because he lost a bunch and he's always my favorite.

Speaker 122 Well,

Speaker 31 nothing will make you feel like a bigger genius than betting on Scotty Scheffler to win a major champion. I know.
And then hitting it. Like, I feel like the biggest,

Speaker 31 like, I've figured out Las Vegas. Yeah,

Speaker 43 it's mine.

Speaker 31 I saw Scotty Scheffler plus 450 on Wednesday, and I was like, yeah, that seems pretty good. Yeah, why not?

Speaker 123 Why not?

Speaker 31 Take a taste. Turns out I really know gambling.

Speaker 50 Yeah, you do.

Speaker 49 It's a great bet. It's that simple.

Speaker 43 Okay, where do we want to go next?

Speaker 14 Because I have two stories that I don't fully understand that maybe we can figure out as a team.

Speaker 31 I think one of them might be my who's back of the week.

Speaker 5 Is that WNBA? No.

Speaker 53 Oh, the NFLP guy?

Speaker 110 Okay, yeah.

Speaker 48 That one don't fully understand.

Speaker 16 So we'll go do that.

Speaker 5 WNBA don't fully understand.

Speaker 68 And they had their all-star game.

Speaker 124 Yep. They wore shirts that

Speaker 57 said, pay us what you owe us.

Speaker 5 And then it's just a war online of they're losing...

Speaker 48 $40 million a year, but also they're not.

Speaker 46 And I never understand any of the math behind it because this is like classic owner shit where they'll, you know, if you talk to an MLB owner, they'll be like, yeah, I'm losing money every single fucking day.

Speaker 37 I don't know.

Speaker 33 I think they probably should get paid more, but I also don't know anything about how any of the financials work.

Speaker 31 The economics behind it. Correct.
I do know that they're expanding as a league. Yeah.
I know that the CBA was ratified like a year ago. Okay.

Speaker 31 But that didn't take into account the Caitlin Clark factor. So the league's going to be growing.
TV rights are going to be growing.

Speaker 1 Merchandise.

Speaker 31 Merchandise is going to be.

Speaker 86 It feels like they're making a lot more money.

Speaker 31 You know what they should do? There should be like a week, one week a year, and this can go across all sports, where all the jersey sales, 100% of that money goes to the player whose jersey it is.

Speaker 31 Yeah. Be like, okay, if you move the needle, we're going to give you a week.
See what your fans do.

Speaker 49 I like that.

Speaker 31 And then the fans can wear their, I sponsored this player.

Speaker 36 I also just go off gut.

Speaker 97 Like,

Speaker 34 does this number make sense?

Speaker 85 Do you guys have off the top of your head what the each team's salary cap is in the WNBA?

Speaker 1 If you have a guess. Like, per year? Per year.

Speaker 23 Six figures.

Speaker 31 No, it's not six figures. I'm going to go with 5 million.

Speaker 50 1.5 million.

Speaker 40 That's close to six figures.

Speaker 125 That's $500,000 off.

Speaker 31 It's six figures away from being six figures. Yeah.

Speaker 86 I feel like that should be like 3 million.

Speaker 31 That sounds like a good deal.

Speaker 43 I'm just going off gut.

Speaker 53 Like,

Speaker 73 I happen to agree with the shirt because I went gut check, $1.5 million feels too low.

Speaker 31 It does feel like we've been talking about them more

Speaker 31 in the past 18 months. Caitlin Clark effect.
Caitlin Clark effect, to the point where

Speaker 31 if you were to ask me what the average salary was, I would not obviously guess that it was as low as it is. Yeah.
So maybe they'll figure that out.

Speaker 31 I know that teams are, you're paying, what, 250 mil for an expansion franchise now? Yep.

Speaker 31 So

Speaker 31 they're not paying $250 million for something that's going to lose the money. You'd think.

Speaker 31 Generally, that's what rich people do: they buy stuff that's expensive because they're going to make even more money off of it.

Speaker 41 Yeah. It was also.

Speaker 31 NFL teams or sports teams, NFL, NBA, Major League Baseball, they'll never tell you exactly what the cost of their operations are. Yeah.
You're never going to get that. They will lie.

Speaker 31 They'll cry poor, and they'll use that to try to suppress salaries. So I don't know.
Yeah, sure, give them a raise. $3 million sounds good.

Speaker 59 It just has gone boiled down to a quote-tweet war.

Speaker 66 Yeah. Who can quote-tweet

Speaker 14 the picture of them saying, pay us what you owe us with more facts that I might believe in the moment, and then I'll be like, well, let me look into this a little bit more.

Speaker 88 It feels like the league's on the up and up, and they could probably adjust it.

Speaker 31 I did see Kelsey Plum take a little shot at Caitlin Clark.

Speaker 49 Yeah, that was...

Speaker 64 That was Mean Girl shit. It seemed that Team Caitlin Clark.

Speaker 64 What do you mean?

Speaker 31 Oh, Mean Girl with the pods.

Speaker 49 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 31 She said Team Caitlin Clark, they did not seem to pay much attention during the meeting when they were talking about the shirts that they were wearing.

Speaker 9 No, she said they didn't attend.

Speaker 40 Oh, she said not to be a tattletale, but

Speaker 31 they weren't very present, which I think meant they were distracted during the meeting that they were at.

Speaker 78 No, so the story, I read into it more.

Speaker 109 I think they invited Team Clark 10 minutes before, and they didn't come because they got invited 10 minutes before.

Speaker 68 But they also wore the shirts.

Speaker 64 So who cares?

Speaker 31 Yeah, they ended up wearing the shirt. Why are you telling them about it? Play the clips.

Speaker 52 It was a very tattletale.

Speaker 40 They didn't want to be a tattletale.

Speaker 34 It was mean girl.

Speaker 23 And then who's that?

Speaker 35 Ionescu?

Speaker 40 Ionescu? Sabrina.

Speaker 48 She, she, she came correct.

Speaker 24 She was like, why would you fucking say that?

Speaker 37 Yeah, like, you idiot.

Speaker 28 Kelsey Plum.

Speaker 80 That was a very powerful moment.

Speaker 127 We didn't, at least as players, we didn't know that that was going to happen.

Speaker 127 So I think it was kind of like a genuine surprise. But the t-shirt,

Speaker 127 just United Front, was determined this morning that we had a meeting for. And,

Speaker 127 you know,

Speaker 127 not to tattletale, but zero members of Team Clark were very present for that.

Speaker 19 They weren't.

Speaker 129 They didn't go.

Speaker 127 But no, we were just.

Speaker 127 We had a very.

Speaker 31 That really needed to be mentioned.

Speaker 127 I'm trying to make a situation light, okay?

Speaker 69 No.

Speaker 31 Good job taking the era.

Speaker 5 Big time.

Speaker 52 That's also such a knowing now that it was they invited him 10 minutes before.

Speaker 57 That's a setup.

Speaker 126 You set him up.

Speaker 42 I kind of respect them being, just outwardly being like, I fucking hate Caitlin Clark.

Speaker 8 That's like, there's no pettiness about it.

Speaker 50 No, but she's not.

Speaker 52 She should say that.

Speaker 42 That's the only way that you would say something is because you.

Speaker 52 But then she tried to be like, oh, I'm trying to make a light situation. Like, just own it.
And it's very funny because you're saying,

Speaker 59 pay us what you owe us.

Speaker 52 And then also taking a shot at Caitlin Clark.

Speaker 87 We wouldn't even be having this discussion if it wasn't for Caitlin Clark.

Speaker 31 So it was Team Clark. So it was like

Speaker 31 there were two different all-star teams. Correct.
And Caitlin Clark had one team. She's saying zero members of Team Caitlin Clark.

Speaker 37 Not there.

Speaker 31 Not like Caitlin Clark and her managerial team are like her marketing representatives.

Speaker 22 Correct. And they were also invited 10 minutes before.

Speaker 99 Yeah.

Speaker 109 So they didn't come to a meeting that they got the pity invite.

Speaker 31 This is a lot of drama about a t-shirt.

Speaker 14 It's just so funny because it's like a unified moment, and then you

Speaker 130 got to be the mean girl.

Speaker 42 I definitely took that as Caitlin Clark's management team.

Speaker 49 No, I did not.

Speaker 52 Team Clark is the other officer.

Speaker 68 Yep, that makes that one sense.

Speaker 42 That makes a lot more sense and a lot less petty.

Speaker 78 Like the Shack O'G's.

Speaker 42 It would be like none of the.

Speaker 50 Because they were obviously on the other side.

Speaker 69 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 55 Shack OG's, Shack O'G's.

Speaker 37 Shout out to Shack O'G's.

Speaker 37 Okay.

Speaker 16 What else happened?

Speaker 65 Well, we could talk a little baseball.

Speaker 68 Yeah.

Speaker 49 Baseball.

Speaker 28 Baseball.

Speaker 92 We're getting close to the trade deadline.

Speaker 26 Hank, the Cubs beat the Red Sox two out of three.

Speaker 49 Yep.

Speaker 40 I went to the two games they lost.

Speaker 80 Oh, pure bad luck.

Speaker 40 Bad luck.

Speaker 34 Brewers caught the Cubs in the Central.

Speaker 72 I have a bad. I have a...

Speaker 83 Max, you can tell me if this is stupid.

Speaker 21 You're a baseball guy.

Speaker 72 I have a bad feeling.

Speaker 14 I have a bad premonition.

Speaker 32 The Cubs are very good.

Speaker 92 They are the best record in the NL tied with the Brewers.

Speaker 26 Also, the Dodgers kind of low-key stink, maybe?

Speaker 100 Nah, like...

Speaker 71 They are right now.

Speaker 42 Yeah, but they don't stink.

Speaker 31 They weren't going to lose a game this year.

Speaker 16 They're losing games right now.

Speaker 57 Would you feel good about a team knowing you need pitching at the trade deadline and then the GM saying we have a good enough team team to be an electric team that's playing deep in October.

Speaker 21 To do that, we have to stay healthy.

Speaker 85 We have to do the little things.

Speaker 62 We know we have the talent. We don't have to get lucky.

Speaker 21 We just have to play really, really well.

Speaker 30 Would that make you a little concerned?

Speaker 42 Yeah.

Speaker 42 Our GM is saying the exact same thing, and we just signed a 40-year-old reliever who was basically retired.

Speaker 55 Yeah.

Speaker 42 Setting the table.

Speaker 74 Setting the table for being like, we're probably not,

Speaker 22 we're going to do one thing, but we're not going to do the thing that you think we're going to do.

Speaker 31 Isn't this guy like a three-time Philly?

Speaker 106 Yes. Like he's been on and off.

Speaker 42 He's the third time that he'll be on the Phillies.

Speaker 37 Who is it?

Speaker 42 David Robertson. He's 40.

Speaker 30 He's 40. He's a free agent.

Speaker 42 He was a free agent.

Speaker 31 He did like a showcase in Rhode Island, and the Phillies signed him. But I think he was pretty good last year.

Speaker 42 He's 40, and he hasn't pitched all year.

Speaker 37 I'm 40. He's 40s yet.

Speaker 8 But like the diamonds.

Speaker 134 It's so funny that you said that.

Speaker 40 I'm 40 of the swords.

Speaker 31 I was really fucking good when I did the pitching challenge that you're going to do eventually.

Speaker 42 Did I say that? Did I say that on here? Did I say that privately?

Speaker 16 No, you haven't got anything.

Speaker 40 No one knows what you're talking about.

Speaker 42 No one knows what you're talking about. about.
You're never doing that.

Speaker 42 I've reached out to a couple of teams.

Speaker 42 Dates aren't working out.

Speaker 100 Dates aren't working out.

Speaker 128 I'm still working on it.

Speaker 70 Okay.

Speaker 42 But yeah, no, that's funny you have that quote because I'm pretty sure RGM has the exact same quote about our lineup. It's like, this is a lineup that can win in October.

Speaker 123 Yeah, and you know what they're doing.

Speaker 52 They're just setting you up.

Speaker 45 So they're just like, hey,

Speaker 105 I know everyone's talking about this.

Speaker 21 We're not going to do as much as you think.

Speaker 31 But isn't it kind of true, though? Yeah. It could be true that if your team's good, why try to mess anything up?

Speaker 18 Because we have four starters right now.

Speaker 31 Yeah, that's pretty good reason. Yeah.

Speaker 26 And you need five. Yeah.

Speaker 22 I mean, we'll get one back, but still, you probably need another one.

Speaker 80 Yeah.

Speaker 40 Bullpen games.

Speaker 49 Just throw all the bullpen.

Speaker 133 Everything you got.

Speaker 112 Did you have fun?

Speaker 80 Yeah.

Speaker 40 Wrigley Bleachers Friday afternoon.

Speaker 9 The best. Did you take your top off?

Speaker 40 Did not take the top off. Why?

Speaker 41 I I don't know. I should have.
You should have.

Speaker 31 Did you have a beer bat?

Speaker 40 Did have a beer bat.

Speaker 40 Fearsnake?

Speaker 71 Did not win the 50s-50 the other night.

Speaker 52 Max, did you ever check the 50-50 of the one that you tried to parade in your face?

Speaker 42 I knew you wouldn't. Didn't look at it.
I had no idea. I just

Speaker 67 tried to.

Speaker 14 Max went to a Cubs game was like three weeks ago and tweeted and was like, I'm probably going to win this.

Speaker 25 And then I texted him and I was like, hey, check the ticket.

Speaker 38 I'm pretty sure that's like a three-week 50-50.

Speaker 41 That's bullshit. And he was so mad.

Speaker 53 It is bullshit.

Speaker 16 I've been banging the drum about this.

Speaker 77 It's bullshit what they've done.

Speaker 42 I would love to know the amount of winners that don't

Speaker 42 accept the prize. That has to be why they do it.

Speaker 93 I think they have your information, so they might reach out to you.

Speaker 42 How do they have my information?

Speaker 37 That's your credit card.

Speaker 42 Is that true?

Speaker 42 Is that how that works?

Speaker 68 I think so.

Speaker 40 Then you get an email to it. Just load it into your account.

Speaker 42 I have no idea.

Speaker 42 I literally have no idea.

Speaker 130 I remember I took

Speaker 130 it.

Speaker 42 waiting for the setting. I was like waiting for the seventh inning.
I was like, when are they going to announce this? When are they going to announce this? And then I got the tech.

Speaker 42 So you were like, you're not getting that till Sunday.

Speaker 130 And I was like, I don't give a fuck by Sunday.

Speaker 14 You should show up just randomly and be like, I'm here for my 50-50.

Speaker 31 I lost my ticket.

Speaker 5 You think I could check?

Speaker 55 Yeah, you can see past winnings. All right, I'll get back to you.

Speaker 29 All right.

Speaker 5 Well, actually, you know, Max, we have one other thing.

Speaker 37 The Eagles Super Bowl rings.

Speaker 88 Should we talk about them? Sick.

Speaker 37 I wanted.

Speaker 35 I really, really, really wanted to come in here and make a case for the wings flapping out to be fucking

Speaker 5 lame and stupid and like what happened to the good old days with the Super Bowl ring.

Speaker 114 But every time they pop out, I'm like, damn, that's cool.

Speaker 49 It's pretty sick.

Speaker 41 You can't do anything about it.

Speaker 31 It looks a little bit like a mustache.

Speaker 55 It's just...

Speaker 31 But it's cool.

Speaker 54 Mustaches are also cool.

Speaker 31 Listen, I would say...

Speaker 43 See that growth, though, Max?

Speaker 52 I literally wanted to come in here and try to fight you over this.

Speaker 5 And I was like, but then I kept on watching it.

Speaker 34 And I was like, I can't say anything because I think that's really cool that they did that.

Speaker 31 I think making fun of a team for having a lame Super Bowl ring is, that's even too big of a loser move for me to do.

Speaker 37 Yeah, but I wanted to.

Speaker 31 It's so stupid. You're wanted.
Super Bowl Ring sucks.

Speaker 5 I wanted to.

Speaker 130 I have a take.

Speaker 42 I have a negative take about it. Okay.
I feel like this should be an in-season thing.

Speaker 41 In a game?

Speaker 42 Isn't there like a pre-game thing that you get?

Speaker 59 That's the banner night.

Speaker 113 Oh.

Speaker 42 I feel like you should get them that day.

Speaker 64 Well, then, you have to get the best.

Speaker 31 But then they have the guys that are on different teams.

Speaker 64 Yeah.

Speaker 40 Like, NBA does that. But

Speaker 42 I think that's what I was thinking.

Speaker 73 Actually, MLB, I believe, does it as well.

Speaker 55 Yeah, I think they do.

Speaker 42 I think there's something about like it's just another game to get to get excited.

Speaker 42 Banner night. I know.
Banner night. Banner night.

Speaker 49 Cowboys.

Speaker 22 Are we under? How many days away are we?

Speaker 7 Can we get a countdown?

Speaker 78 Can we get a

Speaker 133 run?

Speaker 78 We should get a

Speaker 31 seven weeks.

Speaker 112 Zach, we need a clock in this studio, and we'll name it the Ryan Rossillo clock and we're going to count down till kickoff of week one.

Speaker 111 Okay, we can do that.

Speaker 49 And then as soon as week one kicks off, I want a new countdown for week one of 2026.

Speaker 99 Yes, sir.

Speaker 31 I'm so excited.

Speaker 55 So excited.

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Speaker 88 I've heard or injured Justin Herbert because he's wearing red contact lenses.

Speaker 101 Pretty crazy looking. His eyes are red.

Speaker 49 Wasn't that

Speaker 123 a drug guy.

Speaker 34 Didn't they have those like in like 08, I want to say Nike did the max line or whatever it was?

Speaker 31 It's been a big thing. I've seen it pop off and pop off.
Like it's for

Speaker 31 some sort of like sports initiative back in the 2000s, but then it became a thing that goth kids were wearing in like the 20 teens.

Speaker 1 I just have a memory of just

Speaker 16 Kyle Vandenbosch.

Speaker 96 That's the red eyes that pop in my head right now.

Speaker 31 So these, these were instead of the visor, right? He said he didn't like to wear the visor anymore because he has to wipe it off. Right.
So now he's just wearing prescription red contacts.

Speaker 58 That's supposed to make the light look better.

Speaker 31 Hurt or injured, though. It sounds, it sounds bad.

Speaker 91 It sounds soft.

Speaker 31 If you're wearing red contact lenses to try to be more intimidating. Yeah.
Like he could just wear normal contacts.

Speaker 40 It'd be great for memes. Yeah.

Speaker 33 Shane, hurt or injured, Justin Herbert, your quarterback, wearing red contact lenses.

Speaker 80 Hmm.

Speaker 128 Hurt?

Speaker 138 I feel like that's less bad than injured.

Speaker 89 Are you worried at all about this?

Speaker 139 Not at all.

Speaker 7 Okay.

Speaker 138 Jared Verse was like the first guy to do it, and he had a pretty good year last year.

Speaker 31 Don't you think maybe

Speaker 31 it would be nice if Najee Harris had taken eye protection a little bit more seriously?

Speaker 140 I do, yeah.

Speaker 57 What is the latest with Najee Harris?

Speaker 31 He's on the pup list, I think.

Speaker 13 No, he's not a non-free ball injury.

Speaker 108 And

Speaker 128 the Chargers didn't see his injury before he reported to camp, which was like two weeks after the injury happened.

Speaker 31 So he just called them and said, like, mine is not that bad.

Speaker 138 Yeah, and then the doctors would like send information.

Speaker 31 What do you think? What do you think?

Speaker 42 Wait, when was

Speaker 87 training camps start?

Speaker 138 Last Monday.

Speaker 128 But they had a report of football's back.

Speaker 31 So back.

Speaker 50 So back.

Speaker 55 So back.

Speaker 31 What do you think Harbaugh's reaction to the red contact lenses was?

Speaker 51 He might have.

Speaker 66 He probably wants some.

Speaker 43 He probably puts them on.

Speaker 27 Just to be like, I need to be in the same wavelength.

Speaker 50 Can I get a pair? Yeah.

Speaker 40 I would love to hear him get explained what it does.

Speaker 14 I would love to hear him get explained what happened to Najee Harris.

Speaker 111 Yeah.

Speaker 109 It's like, what do you mean?

Speaker 100 The firework?

Speaker 42 You put your eye on a firework?

Speaker 68 Firework problem?

Speaker 31 You addicted to fireworks?

Speaker 9 Why did he put it in his eye?

Speaker 16 What do you mean he doesn't have an eye?

Speaker 46 Why were you at a firework party?

Speaker 5 And what about that guy in Fresno?

Speaker 31 What was his deal? Wait, there's another Najee Harris? Which warning you did we sign?

Speaker 113 Oh,

Speaker 23 he's got to be very disappointed in Najee Harris.

Speaker 37 He does.

Speaker 31 Shane, any more comments about Justin Herbert's eyes?

Speaker 31 Is this the year that the contact lenses unlock something for him and he takes a bigger step?

Speaker 111 I hope so.

Speaker 140 Okay. I do.

Speaker 45 What's the successful year? Playoff win?

Speaker 141 We need a playoff win.

Speaker 140 We need one bad. But last year we had the easiest schedule in the league, and this year it's pretty difficult.

Speaker 7 Shit.

Speaker 123 Shit.

Speaker 31 But year two.

Speaker 138 Jalen Rieger is like a wide receiver three right now.

Speaker 31 He's good. He was drafted super high.

Speaker 138 He was super high.

Speaker 42 Some are saying before Justin Jefferson.

Speaker 45 Did you guys didn't you guys get a tight end, though?

Speaker 140 Tyler Conklin.

Speaker 100 Yeah, he'll be pretty good.

Speaker 31 Okay, you still got Puna Ford?

Speaker 121 No,

Speaker 140 I wish Puna would be awesome right now.

Speaker 30 All right, thank you, Shane.

Speaker 92 That was our Chargers minute, as well as our McDonald's snack wrap. Hurt or injured, brought back an old segment.

Speaker 32 Uh, okay, should we do Who's Back of the Week?

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Speaker 41 Hey, Hank, who's back of the week?

Speaker 40 Well, who's back of the week is Max Holloway.

Speaker 102 Oh, yeah, our UFC UFC minute.

Speaker 40 Yeah, much anticipated UFC fight. Max Holloway, Dustin Poirier, three-peat, third-time fighting.
Max Holloway, who I was pulling for, I predicted in our preview last week.

Speaker 28 Dustin Poirier was

Speaker 28 that was his last fight.

Speaker 18 You were going against him?

Speaker 31 I like Max Holloway.

Speaker 31 He became good friends with Max Holloway at Pear Olympics.

Speaker 37 Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 40 No, me and Max Howell.

Speaker 57 When Dustin Poirier was in the bathroom.

Speaker 40 Became good friends in Verdansk.

Speaker 68 Wait, what?

Speaker 5 You played Call of Duty with him?

Speaker 80 Yeah. When?

Speaker 49 Back in the day. A couple times.

Speaker 100 Wow. Hooligans, dude.
Oh, okay. The hooligans.

Speaker 17 Sold over four shirts.

Speaker 40 I was second highest jersey seller. How many?

Speaker 100 Four.

Speaker 40 I think one was seven.

Speaker 142 Who's one?

Speaker 31 I forget.

Speaker 113 Milfunner.

Speaker 40 But no, it was a good fight. He thought he was going to knock him out in the first round, and then he just kind of dominated from there.

Speaker 9 But Dustin Poirier, is he the.

Speaker 21 You're our UFC expert.

Speaker 26 You can answer this.

Speaker 65 Is he the most beloved, uh, one of the most beloved UFC fighters of all time?

Speaker 14 Because I feel like it was out like tons of praise.

Speaker 74 And he, I don't know if, did he ever win a title?

Speaker 21 People are going to be pissed about this.

Speaker 40 Quite possibly.

Speaker 52 I know that he was one of those guys that fought literally.

Speaker 74 He literally did have he never, he was never scared of a fight.

Speaker 25 He fought everyone.

Speaker 97 Like, yeah, he was a lightweight champion.

Speaker 31 He did win the BMF belt, too, right? I believe so.

Speaker 102 But

Speaker 53 he fought everyone.

Speaker 90 Let's see.

Speaker 28 Doesn't break. People are going to be very upset.

Speaker 45 He's being in the lightweight division.

Speaker 93 Former interim UFC lightweight champion.

Speaker 89 There we go.

Speaker 57 Also challenged three times for the UFC lightweight championship and twice for the BMF title.

Speaker 31 Okay. What's his legacy, Hank?

Speaker 40 Fought everyone. Fought everyone.
Badass.

Speaker 40 Never backed down. Never scared of a fight.
I also, with fighters in retirement

Speaker 40 like i never believe it wow no he's i mean because they because because then they you know they they get arrested they get healthy and they're like i could i could do one more fight i can make you know a nice payday doing another fight yeah they take eight months off and they're like i feel amazing yeah because i haven't gotten hit in the face in a while

Speaker 23 he uh he fought for the ufc lightweight championship a lot

Speaker 78 and lost a few of them, but he's he did fight everyone.

Speaker 65 I think he fought Connor like three times

Speaker 25 and Max Holloway three times.

Speaker 97 I think even Khabib lost to Khabib.

Speaker 16 He would never turn down a fight.

Speaker 31 Who's the best undercard, Hank?

Speaker 40 I'm over main card guy. Yeah.

Speaker 31 Okay. Same.
Yeah.

Speaker 20 You stay just the main card.

Speaker 60 Yeah.

Speaker 40 Like true UFC fans, but I understand.

Speaker 80 Yeah.

Speaker 23 Shout out to Dustin Poirier.

Speaker 100 I watched the whole card as well.

Speaker 37 Oh, Max.

Speaker 100 What the fuck?

Speaker 37 What a UFC guy.

Speaker 108 What the fuck?

Speaker 88 We need a UFC guy.

Speaker 40 I got one segment.

Speaker 42 I watched the fight. I was just saying.

Speaker 71 I was just saying.

Speaker 68 I watched it. What did you think?

Speaker 42 All my bets lost.

Speaker 42 That's basically the first thing.

Speaker 37 That's a great recap.

Speaker 7 That's a good idea.

Speaker 40 That's a terrible recap.

Speaker 31 That was great. I liked it.

Speaker 42 I texted Jack Mac CFB. Give me your plays.
And three out of four lost.

Speaker 131 And that's basically what I got.

Speaker 49 Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Speaker 53 It's Kelsey Plum over here.

Speaker 73 Why are you taking a shot at Jack Mac?

Speaker 42 I was just telling you. I was just telling you.

Speaker 123 Tell me that was unnecessary.

Speaker 37 What did you say?

Speaker 40 Why did you text me?

Speaker 31 He's Kelsey Plum. Did you text me?

Speaker 100 I should have texted Kika.

Speaker 37 I should have texted him.

Speaker 70 Is Kelsey Plump?

Speaker 42 Did you play something?

Speaker 31 It's K-E-L-C-E.

Speaker 122 Yeah.

Speaker 10 Kelsey Plum.

Speaker 130 I also feel like

Speaker 42 I don't watch a lot of UFC fight. I feel like they should attack more.

Speaker 133 You're the shoot-the-puck guy of UFC.

Speaker 49 I was just watching all the fights, watching my bets,

Speaker 42 and my guys were losing, so I needed them to get a K-O for the fight.

Speaker 37 And I just kept being like, all right, now attack, attack.

Speaker 42 And then they just keep playing defense and never attack. I'm like, it's the only way you can win this fight is if you attack.

Speaker 41 Go attack. You should be a corner guy.

Speaker 37 Yeah.

Speaker 50 Punch small. You gotta punch him.

Speaker 31 You gotta punch him. Yes,

Speaker 37 I don't get it.

Speaker 42 That's my UFC take.

Speaker 66 Zach, are you a sneaky UFC guy?

Speaker 118 I'm not a sneaky UFC guy.

Speaker 41 I watched it because I just don't have the knowledge.

Speaker 1 Wait, but did you watch the whole card?

Speaker 141 I did not. I just see the clips on Twitter.
Oh, okay.

Speaker 88 So not a UFC guy, no.

Speaker 14 Because there is a big, I feel like Venn diagram of like gamers. Yeah.

Speaker 118 yeah ufc memes are you ufc guy memes is an everything guy uh sometimes i mean it's like uh once every three weeks what did you think about this fight uh

Speaker 31 it was okay yeah pretty good recap yeah it was it was just okay did your best hit

Speaker 80 no i'm taking a break

Speaker 7 oh oh oh okay

Speaker 130 also there should be more chaos yeah yeah definitely no too much defense there's too much defense yeah i want i want more they should be standing up and just throwing things.

Speaker 108 Throwing. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 40 It would be a much better sport.

Speaker 3 Like boxing?

Speaker 50 You got bigger gloves.

Speaker 100 Oh, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 100 I'm dumb.

Speaker 31 There should be corners, actual corners, not this octagon circle shit.

Speaker 42 For a second, I was like, yeah, Hank's on to something.

Speaker 95 You might have found something.

Speaker 100 I was like, that could be it.

Speaker 49 I actually like when a guy gets choked out.

Speaker 100 Something about it.

Speaker 130 No, I want more things on the ground.

Speaker 8 Primal.

Speaker 130 There wasn't a lot of groundwork going on this week.

Speaker 31 My favorite is when somebody refuses to tap out and then gets choked out. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 49 They get their arm broken. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 31 They're like, I'm just not going to tap. Jesus didn't tap.
Neither will I.

Speaker 40 I love UFC more than anyone, but it's very violent.

Speaker 122 Put it on a quote card.

Speaker 52 That's our UFC guy.

Speaker 130 You can't be our UFC guy and say that.

Speaker 122 It's very violent.

Speaker 142 Hank wants less punching.

Speaker 8 Me and Hank couldn't be on opposite sides of the spectrum of this shit.

Speaker 52 I think you might have to be our UFC guy, Max.

Speaker 42 No, no, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 44 I like Hank doing it because, I mean, last week his preview was, or his recap was just the commercial.

Speaker 42 That was also probably the one time I will ever.

Speaker 42 Like, I was just with the boys, and then.

Speaker 52 That is a great thing.

Speaker 58 And when I say with the boys, I'm saying by myself.

Speaker 14 But like three or four times a year, I'll just, like, Saturday night, just be like, yeah, I'm going to fucking buy this.

Speaker 100 It'd be awesome.

Speaker 42 Well, it's also, this is the time of year.

Speaker 40 You're drunk with your boys watching UFC. Yeah, because you just do, yeah, you just lock it.

Speaker 42 It's the time of the year where the

Speaker 40 kids die hard. Yeah.

Speaker 34 Throwing knives at each other.

Speaker 42 Yeah,

Speaker 100 my mom's not going to like that video.

Speaker 123 Did she see it?

Speaker 69 She will now. Yeah, she's going to hear this.

Speaker 31 Was that or was that real? One video?

Speaker 39 Mama Delente, your son was throwing a large butcher's knife to his friends.

Speaker 99 I've actually played that game before.

Speaker 41 It's so fun.

Speaker 42 It's so fun. I don't care anymore.

Speaker 130 And everyone, the people were mad.

Speaker 39 The only thing I was worried about is if your button pushing finger got hurt, you'd be be in a problem.

Speaker 31 The best would be if it just landed on his foot.

Speaker 107 Yeah. Hurt his foot.

Speaker 37 No, I can't do dingers only. Yeah.

Speaker 5 No, but that is a fun game.

Speaker 42 Great game.

Speaker 130 Great game.

Speaker 42 Because the worst that's really going to happen is you.

Speaker 95 Wow.

Speaker 95 There's definitely some really bad things.

Speaker 31 What's the worst thing that could happen playing catch the knife?

Speaker 100 You should do it with a gun.

Speaker 42 No, that's what I'm saying. It could be like people, like, guns are way worse.

Speaker 76 Yeah, true.

Speaker 31 For that game, maybe not.

Speaker 37 No, wrong. Bad thing.

Speaker 50 We should play some bad thing.

Speaker 144 If it was unloaded.

Speaker 100 We should play a couple rounds.

Speaker 40 We should put one bullet in it. One bullet?

Speaker 64 Yeah. A single bullet.

Speaker 120 We should play a couple rounds.

Speaker 42 That's the other thing. I don't think you can post it anywhere.

Speaker 37 What?

Speaker 26 That game. A knife toss? Yeah, for people who don't know.

Speaker 63 I think, like, Twitter.

Speaker 23 He literally was just throwing a knife. It's Chef Donnie.
Chef Donnie is an adrenaline.

Speaker 42 Chef Donnie is the one who originated the game.

Speaker 109 I think he pretty much landed.

Speaker 92 I actually have to ask him where.

Speaker 30 Is it a cooking thing?

Speaker 46 Because I did play it in college, so I don't know if it's a and he went to Wisconsin too, but I think it's probably a cooking thing.

Speaker 30 I think that's like a chef thing.

Speaker 42 Tom Lay said he had also played it in college. I had never played it before Chef Donny recommended that I play it.

Speaker 23 But for people who don't know, Chef Donny, he I'm pretty sure he like jumped out of an airplane, landed in his apartment, then started playing the Knife.

Speaker 42 Yeah, we've talked about him recently because he's the one who bought a parachute off of Facebook Marketplace. Yeah,

Speaker 35 is that the one he used?

Speaker 37 Yes.

Speaker 37 That's the

Speaker 50 video of him parachuting yesterday.

Speaker 42 That's the parachute that he uses.

Speaker 10 He bought off of still alive.

Speaker 108 Still alive.

Speaker 40 Biggest junk science guy, maybe, in this world.

Speaker 40 He has like astronaut underwear.

Speaker 71 I love it.

Speaker 93 Oh, Stephen Che just sent us a dingers-only update.

Speaker 29 We got

Speaker 17 Brandon in first with 34.

Speaker 1 Jersey Jerry with 31.

Speaker 18 I'm at 28 with Hank, tied for third.

Speaker 78 Zach, 24.

Speaker 87 People were saying your team wasn't good.

Speaker 86 PFT, 19.

Speaker 109 Max with 18.

Speaker 61 Stephen Che with 13.

Speaker 31 Who cares?

Speaker 40 I mean, doesn't mean anything. No, that's true.
That's right.

Speaker 54 Well, Stephen Che will do the punishment quickly.

Speaker 31 Expeditiously.

Speaker 50 PFT.

Speaker 31 My who's back of the week is labor strife

Speaker 31 in professional sports. So not only the WNBA, but I don't really understand everything that happened in the last two weeks with the NFL and the NFLPA, but Lloyd Howell was the head of the NFLPA.

Speaker 31 Then he resigned last week.

Speaker 31 And then all these stories are coming out about finding how he was expensing trips to like strip clubs on the NFLPA's dime. And then

Speaker 31 that's fine. And like, you, what better place to conduct business than a strip club?

Speaker 5 That's the guys can't have any fun anymore.

Speaker 46 Exactly.

Speaker 31 And there was also a report that the NFLPA executive committee took a vote when they were electing Lloyd Howe. And I think he only got one vote from the executive committee.

Speaker 31 But then they go to all the player reps and get their real votes that count.

Speaker 31 And they didn't tell them that, hey, nobody on the executive committee likes this guy and apparently the well the criticism of him i think is that he was too close to the ownership group because he did some part-time work for one of the uh i forget what firm it was he's a consultant a consulting firm that was then given rights to purchase nfl teams so then he could potentially be not only the head of the nflpa but also an owner yes of an nfl team and he didn't tell anybody he also uh who's the guy before him uh tomorrow smith to more Smith.

Speaker 112 He wore the hats.

Speaker 55 Yeah, the hat.

Speaker 14 So, first of all, shout out our friends Pablo Torre and Mike Florio because I'm pretty sure

Speaker 23 them as a tag team forced this.

Speaker 5 So I'm giving them all credit.

Speaker 16 But essentially, it was one of Mike Florio's favorite topics.

Speaker 72 It was the Lamar Jackson collusion.

Speaker 109 And they found that the teams did basically after Deshaun Watson, all the teams were like, hey, let's not do that anymore.

Speaker 24 Let's not do the five-year guaranteed contracts. Yeah.

Speaker 33 And the NFLPA, what's this guy named?

Speaker 22 Lloyd Howell?

Speaker 7 Lloyd Howell. Yeah.

Speaker 46 Terrible name, by the way.

Speaker 28 He shouldn't have been elected just on that.

Speaker 52 He, so the NFLPA found out that they colluded and

Speaker 57 had the basically collusion, and Lloyd Howell buried it and didn't rub it in their face and use it as a bargaining chip.

Speaker 57 And I think that's where he started to get into this trouble because anyone who's doing their job in his job would be like, hey, you guys colluded against my players.

Speaker 46 I'm ahead of the players. Yeah.

Speaker 72 Instead, he was basically being like, I'll scratch your back, you scratch mine.

Speaker 25 I'm going to pretend this didn't happen.

Speaker 57 When we go to the negotiating table, you guys got to do me a solid.

Speaker 31 Yeah, he made that settlement confidential. Correct.
So nobody was allowed to read it until Pablo Torre and Florio got their hands on it. Then everything blew up from there.

Speaker 43 The Pablo Torre and Mike Florio as a duo for the

Speaker 65 NFL.

Speaker 89 I mean, Roger Goodell's got to be a little worried.

Speaker 39 They're like

Speaker 46 the truffle dogs, but for legal documents.

Speaker 31 I was going to say Woodward and Bernstein, but that's a better conclusion.

Speaker 74 They're just two dogs going into the woods, and they come back with thousands of pages of legal documents that no one in the world wants to read other than Pablo Torrey and Mike Florio, and then they distill it into a podcast that dumb people like us can understand.

Speaker 92 If you get away from it.

Speaker 40 I bet you Torrey doesn't even. I think Florio might be the only person when it comes to legal documents.

Speaker 52 There's definitely.

Speaker 40 Tori's probably like, hey, Mike, let's do this together. Here's a thousand pages of legal documents.
Let me know.

Speaker 23 There's definitely been at least one time where Florio has texted Pablo Tori and been like, holy shit, I found a bombshell.

Speaker 80 And Pablo Tori's like, okay, cool, cool, cool. Yeah.

Speaker 31 Emphasizes this.

Speaker 8 Florio.

Speaker 88 We got to do a podcast about their relationship.

Speaker 31 If you get a phone call from Florio or Pablo Tori, just hang on. Oh, man.

Speaker 108 Instantly.

Speaker 43 Throw your phone in the lake.

Speaker 68 It's already too late if they called you.

Speaker 8 So scary.

Speaker 9 Yeah, we need to.

Speaker 30 Maybe someone can make an AI of them as truffle dogs.

Speaker 31 just finding shh just tons of legal documents it's uh it's an interesting story i guess the parts that i can understand are interesting and then and then uh jc tredder he was like the next up to be the head of the nflpa yeah he just resigned today yeah so he said he made like a statement about it like affecting his family or something my guess is that jc treader might have been caught up in some of the same same stuff that how was doing that's another pelt on the wall for tori and florio yeah so i don't know who wants to be head of the NFL PA?

Speaker 23 I did call Florio on the way in tonight because I was like, hey, can you explain this to me?

Speaker 20 Like, I'm like four.

Speaker 125 Yeah.

Speaker 23 And he did start talking like he was talking to a four girl.

Speaker 52 It hurt my feelings a little bit, but it also started to make sense.

Speaker 83 He was like, all right, so a guy's got a job.

Speaker 31 And he was getting paid dollars for his job to then spend to buy candy.

Speaker 17 And then we kept on getting, we kept on finding, when I was talking to Mike on the phone, we kept on getting to the same point.

Speaker 23 And he's like, and then he went to the strip club and charged it to the NFL PM.

Speaker 96 Like, but why is that bad?

Speaker 50 Yeah.

Speaker 50 So

Speaker 54 that seems good.

Speaker 31 My takeaway from that is: fuck you to the strip club for not making the billing ambiguous. Yeah.

Speaker 31 Like the payments on a strip club, if you go to the ATM, if you use a credit, it should always say things like payment corp. Correct.
It should be the most ambivalent thing ever. Correct.

Speaker 71 Correct. But yeah.

Speaker 78 It's also kind of crazy.

Speaker 15 It just shows

Speaker 30 you can have all the money in the world and still just want to be like, I'm an expensive strip club.

Speaker 5 Because I'm pretty sure this guy, Lloyd Howell, gets paid like $3.5 million a year.

Speaker 89 You can fucking go to the strip club.

Speaker 49 You can afford it, dude.

Speaker 31 I did read one report that made it seem like he got taken to the strip club on his own, spent like eight hours at the strip club, and then left at like 6 a.m. on his own.
Yeah.

Speaker 31 So might not have been with the boys. Might not.

Speaker 31 Might have just been a solo venture.

Speaker 31 That's a British name.

Speaker 73 do you think he came yeah yeah he had to have eight hours eight hours but then but he's probably doing but that's a long time because do you think he's a freak if he came halfway through and stayed and he's also a freak if it took him eight hours to come

Speaker 31 so where did Lloyd these are the questions we have I think he's just doing boots on the ground like putting himself into Sean Watson's shoes as he's doing the investigation that'd be great if Pablo Torrey and Florio got Lloyd Howell on

Speaker 20 Pablo finds out and like, you know, stuck it to him about all this, like, you didn't stick up for the players.

Speaker 25 And then they tagged us in and we're like, we got some pervert questions for you, sir.

Speaker 105 Yeah.

Speaker 32 We just got a couple questions.

Speaker 31 So you were on the main floor, then you went to the champagne room. Mm-hmm.
Then you, did you go to the VIP room or did you stay in the champagne room? Yeah.

Speaker 31 Then was there another room that they took you in, the super secret VIP?

Speaker 18 Was there any at any point did any of the strippers say, I never do this stuff?

Speaker 50 Yeah, is that why you came? Yeah.

Speaker 31 How much glitter was on your penis when you got home? How long was the shower when you got home?

Speaker 17 Oh, Lloyd Howell, you're welcome to come on the show.

Speaker 88 We will not ask you at all about hiding the collusion of Lamar Jackson.

Speaker 17 We will only keep it to the strip club, and we want to find out how much of a pervert you are.

Speaker 23 Not judging.

Speaker 66 Judgment-free pervert talk.

Speaker 31 Because I think a little bit of pervert is. Oh, absolutely.

Speaker 44 But eight hours is a long time at a strip club.

Speaker 31 Yeah, that's what got Florio's hackles up.

Speaker 50 That's a long time.

Speaker 31 Italian like that can smell a pervert. That's not...

Speaker 34 I mean,

Speaker 133 was it in Atlanta?

Speaker 31 There was one in Atlanta, Magic City, and there was one in Florida.

Speaker 111 So I'm not familiar with Tootsie's Cabaret.

Speaker 91 So I'm not familiar with Magic City.

Speaker 58 If it is an 11-type club.

Speaker 40 It is. Magic City is popping.

Speaker 53 Oh, then eight hours is okay.

Speaker 31 And they've got great food. That's the Lou Williams.

Speaker 37 Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 49 That's right.

Speaker 80 Okay.

Speaker 49 Good Who's Back?

Speaker 21 My Who's Back is Cold Play.

Speaker 80 Oh, why?

Speaker 65 They're doing a tour.

Speaker 31 That's awesome. Yeah.
I bet their tour is really good. Really good.
I bet it's getting a lot of pub on social media.

Speaker 80 A lot of pub.

Speaker 8 A lot of people talking about Cold Play.

Speaker 79 Yeah, that's so cool.

Speaker 49 Good for you.

Speaker 40 Had a predatory tour. La Vita Vita.

Speaker 49 Vita La Vida.

Speaker 37 Vita La Vita.

Speaker 122 Uh-huh.

Speaker 40 I was going to say La Vida. Viva La Vida.

Speaker 133 Viva La Vida?

Speaker 71 Yeah.

Speaker 71 I kind of like Cold Play.

Speaker 7 Cold Play fucking rocks.

Speaker 80 I know.

Speaker 46 People were kind of shitting up Cold Play.

Speaker 53 This guy,

Speaker 34 the Kiss Cam,

Speaker 126 quite something.

Speaker 39 Quite something.

Speaker 105 And now I think it's been reported to a point where we can actually talk about it and not get in trouble.

Speaker 31 I think he resigned. He released a statement.

Speaker 34 Yeah, he released a statement.

Speaker 90 Well, there were some fake statements, too, being released.

Speaker 40 Was the one when he was blaming Cold Play?

Speaker 88 I think that was fake. That was fake.
Yeah.

Speaker 133 When he came out as a Cold Play fan?

Speaker 40 No, he said like.

Speaker 17 Oh, they got a private moment.

Speaker 40 Yeah, like it was unfair of Coldplay to put that up. I think that was.
Even though when you sign, I'm pretty sure when you buy a ticket to any sporting event, like the terms and conditions are

Speaker 31 fake.

Speaker 55 Also, just.

Speaker 93 I mean, I guess this is a learning experience that if you're on the Kiss Cam in a situation that you don't want to go viral, maybe don't drop to the ground and try to crawl out of the room.

Speaker 31 Yeah, maybe try to play it off. But his thought was that people at the show would recognize him because he's a CEO.
And then I thought, like, was I supposed to know who this guy was?

Speaker 108 What's the name of the company?

Speaker 66 Astronomer. Yeah, that sounds like a fake company.
Yeah.

Speaker 40 So, um, also, every I wanted the Cubs to do it this weekend. Every sporting stadium should be just do a cold play cam for the next few weeks.

Speaker 111 Yeah, who's they were running it up?

Speaker 49 Yeah, they were running it up.

Speaker 5 Uh, yeah, I mean, I also stay woke.

Speaker 29 I feel like Cold Play might have set this whole thing up because we're talking about Cold Play.

Speaker 67 Online, Cold Play is getting talked about more than they've ever been talked about.

Speaker 31 So much.

Speaker 40 Wouldn't you agree? Well, I mean, it was a stadium tour. Coldplay, Cold Play.

Speaker 100 Cold Play rocks.

Speaker 42 I also would argue it's good for Astronomer.

Speaker 49 The company?

Speaker 31 Well, it was also their head of HR.

Speaker 100 Have you ever heard of Astronomer, though?

Speaker 91 Before this?

Speaker 91 Now everyone knows.

Speaker 42 I still don't know what they do.

Speaker 5 Yeah, what do they do?

Speaker 42 Also, the Phillies did it.

Speaker 31 Yeah. Philly Fanatic.
the Fanatic.

Speaker 14 Yeah, dude, the Ms.

Speaker 23 Fanatic's got a dumper.

Speaker 50 Look at that thing. I'm more of a Mrs.

Speaker 31 Met guy myself.

Speaker 5 Also,

Speaker 17 I shouldn't have done Coldplay first.

Speaker 60 I should have done my second Who's Back first because if we're talking about misappropriation of funds, boys, we might have our own.

Speaker 21 We might actually have to have Pablo Torrey and Mike Florio

Speaker 30 investigate something for us because I was alerted to something.

Speaker 14 I think you guys were tagged in this as well.

Speaker 60 At least you were PFT.

Speaker 20 Our good friend and fantasy manager, Jerry O'Connell, went on Andy Cohen's show this past week with his lovely wife, Rebecca Romaine.

Speaker 60 All due respect.

Speaker 14 And there was a bombshell dropped.

Speaker 109 After 18 years of marriage, a long-time couple made a surprise admission about how they manage their finances.

Speaker 30 We keep our money completely separate.

Speaker 62 Romaine, 52.

Speaker 30 They didn't have to put in her age.

Speaker 62 Confessed during an interview with Andy Cohen on Sirius XM.

Speaker 31 She's only 52? Yeah.

Speaker 132 Wow.

Speaker 15 So Jerry,

Speaker 95 he could be paying for the whole league.

Speaker 113 Oh.

Speaker 100 Driveway.

Speaker 44 He's throwing us a song and dance about how he only could pay for a third of the league.

Speaker 31 Yeah, and he's saying a lot of things about how he has to explain things to his

Speaker 13 misappropriation of funds.

Speaker 49 No, it's more...

Speaker 31 I'm disappointed. Like, he's taking us for a ride.
Yeah.

Speaker 23 How many times do you think he's going to the strip club with the two-thirds of the payments we're paying?

Speaker 31 This is bad, Jerry.

Speaker 109 This means we might need someone as oversight.

Speaker 31 This is bad. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 9 Florio being the oversight would be good.

Speaker 23 Florio would not let Jerry do anything.

Speaker 31 Drop a contract, have him locked in.

Speaker 31 Non-compete clauses.

Speaker 20 I guess we'll find out how much he wants to manage our team when he decides how much he wants to pay for our team.

Speaker 31 Price just went up.

Speaker 18 Price just went up.

Speaker 31 Talk your way into that. I hope you got the headline you wanted, Jerry.

Speaker 21 I do.

Speaker 32 I actually kind of hope, like, Jerry walked out of that interview and looked at his wife.

Speaker 108 He was like, why'd you fucking say that?

Speaker 62 The boys are part of my take are going to know that I could pay for more than just a third of the fantasy team.

Speaker 31 It was a great excuse that he had. I bought it.

Speaker 82 Yeah.

Speaker 31 I could also see a world where Jerry told her to say that on the interview.

Speaker 31 Just to, you know, drum him up a little bit, get his name buzzed on page six.

Speaker 14 I also could see a world where

Speaker 62 Rebecca Romaine, all due respect, maybe has access to Jerry's finances, but he doesn't have access to hers.

Speaker 108 Yes.

Speaker 50 I think that could very well be the truth of the matter.

Speaker 31 I want to know what the event was that made her say, Jerry, we need to have separate finances.

Speaker 71 Probably fantasy football.

Speaker 31 Probably fantasy football.

Speaker 43 Yeah, actually, I'm going to come all the way around.

Speaker 57 Jerry, you're vindicated because you just love the game so much.

Speaker 23 That's why he had to separate the finances.

Speaker 50 Okay, Zach, who's back of the week?

Speaker 118 My Who's Back of the Week this week is the Pittsburgh Pirates because on Saturday, the Pittsburgh Pirates had a

Speaker 118 they celebrated Mac Miller in the stadium. So they had some nice chalk drawings out front.
They did a message wall where fans could write some positive messages. They also did

Speaker 118 a collaborative bobblehead with the family, in design with the family, and sold some merchandise to help go towards the Mac Miller Fund, which does help lower privileged children in the area.

Speaker 118 I thought it was an all-time move. Pittsburgh guy, the pirates celebrated him.

Speaker 49 Look at a great day.

Speaker 71 Yeah, very cool.

Speaker 22 There was like a line down

Speaker 3 across the bridge, I think.

Speaker 118 Yeah, it was like the whole city showed up. It was fantastic.
Very cool.

Speaker 80 And the Pirates' ownership still needs to be taken to task for being bad owners.

Speaker 30 But this is a cool move.

Speaker 108 Wow, it was packed.

Speaker 49 Good who's back.

Speaker 25 Should we do our Mount Rushmore?

Speaker 31 Before we get to the next one, Max is ready to fight already. Max is pretty mad about this.
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Speaker 10 He's ready to go. I don't say that.
I was sitting up in my office and I heard you yelling.

Speaker 100 That's not true.

Speaker 49 That is true.

Speaker 100 I didn't even talk to you. Are you yelling in the kitchen?

Speaker 42 Well, that's just my normal volume.

Speaker 50 It felt.

Speaker 42 There was nobody else in the.

Speaker 130 PFD and Hank weren't even in the kitchen.

Speaker 37 It was me and memes just talking about.

Speaker 42 Well, there were some.

Speaker 40 I'm always talking with your hands.

Speaker 42 I'm always talking with my hands.

Speaker 82 Are you Italian?

Speaker 7 Yeah.

Speaker 42 Well, there were some pics that I told me, even even memes, I was like, no, that's a good movie. We can't.

Speaker 52 Are we doing any guidelines?

Speaker 52 Are we just going, are we going to go, say, a movie, and then we're going to debate what is going on?

Speaker 74 That's a bad movie.

Speaker 31 I think that what is a bad movie is going to be up for debate, but it can probably stay on there if you think it's a bad movie. I think the tone's going to be set with the first picture.

Speaker 7 Yeah, but

Speaker 100 we have the first pick.

Speaker 50 I love a lot of bad movies.

Speaker 43 Are we going off like critic score on Rotten Tomato?

Speaker 58 That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 64 That's one point.

Speaker 42 I will be pulling up the Rotten Tomato of every single movie.

Speaker 47 I love that.

Speaker 40 I'm having integrity with this because

Speaker 40 it's movies that I know are bad, but I enjoy watching.

Speaker 146 We're going integrity.

Speaker 123 I'm down to go integrity.

Speaker 42 Yeah, I'm down to go integrity too. Okay.
Because we had some picks that

Speaker 42 for some reason are. And they have to be bad on both.
They have to be bad on the tomatoes.

Speaker 7 Oh, I don't know about that. Yes.

Speaker 86 Well, that's the best bad movie.

Speaker 78 It's a bad movie judged by critics.

Speaker 31 Listen, I think the ultimate judge is going to be the fans that vote on the Mount Rushmore.

Speaker 42 But there are awesome awesome movies that have like especially comedy movies yeah that are loved by everyone

Speaker 42 but there's still bad like there's there's no that doesn't that's not a bad movie like a bad critic and they have to be bad on both but max and people will see that and be like that's not a bad movie i'm not going to vote for that list

Speaker 7 ah

Speaker 31 i don't know sounds like you don't trust the awful that's a decent point i mean there's some yeah but people are going to see like their favorite movies and pick their favorite movies no because then they're putting their favorite movie in a bad category

Speaker 52 But I don't see it as a bad movie where I'm like saying, like, this is a, because it's the best bad movie.

Speaker 22 It's a movie I like.

Speaker 40 It's a bad movie that you're going to watch, even though you know it's bad.

Speaker 52 If I was with someone who is

Speaker 3 like a professor, they'd be like, this is a terrible movie.

Speaker 34 But with me and the boys, like, this is a fucking awesome movie.

Speaker 42 I'm going to give an example that we talked about

Speaker 42 that we just couldn't put on the list because it's not true. But Tineapple Express is technically a bad movie.
No, that is not.

Speaker 37 It's good.

Speaker 31 I think that's good action. It's a good comedy.

Speaker 5 That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 42 Like, that is technically.

Speaker 40 But that's where it's on our system.

Speaker 31 There are some bad comedies that are so bad that they're kind of good. Correct.
That's a different category from Pineapple Express. Okay.
Which might not be going to win an Oscar for Best Picture,

Speaker 31 but it's a good comedy.

Speaker 42 I agree.

Speaker 42 But that is what I'm talking about. The reviews for Pineapple Express are not.

Speaker 96 That's not where I thought you were going.

Speaker 31 But you have to admit, if you put Pineapple Express on this Mount Rushmore, people would see that and be like, that's a good picture.

Speaker 37 That's a terrible picture.

Speaker 49 I didn't think about it like that.

Speaker 70 Okay.

Speaker 31 All right, good. We're all pre-mad.

Speaker 42 No, actually, I think we might.

Speaker 1 And there will be some ones that we'll have to debate.

Speaker 31 So who's up first?

Speaker 68 You guys are.

Speaker 42 Also, Memes considers himself a connoisseur of bad movies.

Speaker 7 I'm passing him the ball.

Speaker 42 I'm not even.

Speaker 37 Wow.

Speaker 42 We're going all memes.

Speaker 42 He said he only watches bad movies.

Speaker 71 You are Kelsey Plump.

Speaker 122 What?

Speaker 106 Passing the blame.

Speaker 31 Memes sent a terrifying image of Kelsey Plump.

Speaker 142 Face match. With with Kelsey.

Speaker 31 Hank, you got the ball.

Speaker 8 Oh, shit.

Speaker 41 This is Hank's list? It's Hank's list.

Speaker 111 It's our list.

Speaker 31 We generated the list together, but we did.

Speaker 40 Yeah, we talked about it. I mean, it is a tone setter.
Probably not a draft you really want, the 1-1.

Speaker 40 But our first pick is going to be Conair.

Speaker 110 I feel like that's a good movie. Great, awesome movie.

Speaker 40 It's a really, but you think about the plot of the movie. It's bad.

Speaker 100 Give me back that bonet. Yeah.

Speaker 59 That's a 68%

Speaker 103 58%

Speaker 80 Cameron Pope.

Speaker 52 Tomato Meter.

Speaker 82 This is.

Speaker 82 That's a good movie.

Speaker 100 But it's bad.

Speaker 102 But

Speaker 52 that's way higher than anything I had.

Speaker 42 Yes, way higher than what I had.

Speaker 133 I had everything way lower.

Speaker 146 There's so many better Nick Cage movies, too.

Speaker 144 Yeah. I'm from out.

Speaker 64 I have some.

Speaker 40 Well, yeah, there's better Nick Cage movies, but.

Speaker 17 No, there's bad, like, that's a good Nick Cage movie.

Speaker 16 These, these, this movie rocks.

Speaker 37 This is a good movie.

Speaker 130 There shouldn't be a popcorn on any of these.

Speaker 37 This is a good movie. What are we talking about?

Speaker 8 All of ours are in the 20s, by the way.

Speaker 66 We looked up our critic score, and we're.

Speaker 83 Nothing touches 50.

Speaker 35 No.

Speaker 30 Most of the people are in the 30s.

Speaker 37 Yeah.

Speaker 42 20s and 30s is where we're living as well.

Speaker 49 But it's okay.

Speaker 50 If you guys want to go that route, you can go back.

Speaker 37 Yeah, yeah. All right.

Speaker 43 We'll go with our first pick.

Speaker 24 We're just talking about him, Kangaroo Jack.

Speaker 63 I told you, memes.

Speaker 104 I'm happy that

Speaker 42 memes and I were battling over this, and he was like, it'll be there in the fourth. It'll be there there in the fourth.

Speaker 111 No.

Speaker 42 I'm happy that you guys were before us, and we never. I would have been devastated if we lost.

Speaker 31 We thought about going to all Jerry O'Connell movies.

Speaker 100 I mean, Kangaroo Jack is a bad movie, but it's fucking good.

Speaker 50 I like it.

Speaker 64 9%.

Speaker 74 It's such a hilarious movie-like premise.

Speaker 23 When we have Jerry on at the end of the summer to do our fantasy, we got a DVD commentary.

Speaker 4 Yeah, not only DVD commentary, but be like, what, when you got pitched this,

Speaker 95 like, what went through your head head right away?

Speaker 31 Well, the movie isn't even about a talking kangaroo. That's like one minute out of the movie that they decided to make the entire trailer, and then people went to go see it.

Speaker 31 They're like, what the fuck? This kangaroo's not talking the whole movie?

Speaker 67 He looks hot.

Speaker 42 He does look hot in that. We should do a movie review of Kangaroo Jack.

Speaker 37 Yeah, which you're oh, at Barcelona Camp.

Speaker 7 Yes. Oh.

Speaker 42 Oh, if we got one of those inflatable TV.

Speaker 70 Oh, yes.

Speaker 41 We should do it. Yes.

Speaker 42 That would be great. That would be great.

Speaker 37 Okay.

Speaker 141 Me. You guys have two picks.

Speaker 118 First pick.

Speaker 146 I think Hank's going to take this.

Speaker 40 Yep.

Speaker 20 You don't mess with the Zohan.

Speaker 132 Ooh.

Speaker 31 It's on the list.

Speaker 40 Phenomenal movie.

Speaker 40 One of my favorite movies.

Speaker 7 It's

Speaker 40 so bad.

Speaker 111 It is so bad.

Speaker 40 It is the dumbest, most ridiculous movie that's maybe ever been made. But it's great.

Speaker 14 And then we'll go Scary Movie Two.

Speaker 113 Jerry O'Connell.

Speaker 40 That's a good movie.

Speaker 45 What do we do here, Zach?

Speaker 144 Do you like four?

Speaker 53 I like four.

Speaker 53 Scary movie.

Speaker 42 Two is a 13% compared to 60% of Conair, by the way.

Speaker 100 50%.

Speaker 42 What do you mean? Conair is a good movie.

Speaker 37 It is. What do you mean? Yeah.
It's a good movie.

Speaker 110 Your comedy.

Speaker 15 This is Zach.

Speaker 23 This is Zach's pick because Zach loved this, and I completely 100% back him up because I think it's a great pick, but he's like, I love this movie.

Speaker 40 60% is also D-minus.

Speaker 16 But

Speaker 111 Conair is like actually good.

Speaker 112 Like, I actually, if you told me Conair won an Oscar, I'd be like, yeah, that makes sense.

Speaker 99 It's a fucking awesome movie. Great cast.

Speaker 73 All right, rip it, Zach.

Speaker 52 You love this movie. I love this movie.

Speaker 32 I love that you love this movie.

Speaker 49 We would like to take Paul Blart Malkoff. Yes.

Speaker 42 I like that. I like that pick.

Speaker 89 Zach, when we were in our pre-show meeting, he was just like, What about Paul Blart?

Speaker 80 And I was like, Fuck yes, dude.

Speaker 41 That's a bad movie.

Speaker 99 I say, but it's fucking good.

Speaker 37 It's so good.

Speaker 42 I say peanut Blart and Jelly all the time.

Speaker 41 It's so good.

Speaker 89 All right, what do you got next?

Speaker 31 Shawshank?

Speaker 40 We are going to go with The Rocks San Andreas.

Speaker 50 Good pick, Hank.

Speaker 40 Terrible, terrible movie. Blockbuster, lot going on.
Nothing good.

Speaker 40 And then we'll go Adam Sandler.

Speaker 40 There's two Adam Sandler movies I think memes would agree that fall in this category of

Speaker 40 they're bad.

Speaker 42 He's going to take the other one that we should have taken in the first one.

Speaker 40 That's my boy.

Speaker 49 I thought we were saying we were going to take it in the first.

Speaker 31 Good pick, Hank.

Speaker 108 Yeah, that's good.

Speaker 14 Where do we go from here?

Speaker 148 There's a couple pivots.

Speaker 9 There's a couple pivots.

Speaker 118 Anything sticking out to you right now?

Speaker 52 I mean, so we went.

Speaker 78 Where did we go?

Speaker 22 Kind of heavy comedy.

Speaker 133 I mean, I have my.

Speaker 31 The problem is, I have a, I have a list of bad movies that probably no one has seen because it's like all action.

Speaker 23 Like I'm heavy in the Jean-Claude Van Damme world.

Speaker 80 Heavy.

Speaker 78 Should we do one of those?

Speaker 118 If you don't think it's too niche, we can rip it.

Speaker 108 I mean, I

Speaker 71 alright, I'll do it.

Speaker 65 Bloodsport.

Speaker 72 Bloodsport's a bad movie.

Speaker 5 It's the acting is so fucking funny, but it's such a good movie.

Speaker 49 I really enjoyed it.

Speaker 71 Yeah, we did a watch of COVID.

Speaker 97 It is,

Speaker 35 and also, the best part about Blood Sport is it's a the guy completely fabricated the entire story.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he just made it all up.

Speaker 23 But like, some of the action shots are so funny, the slow-mo. Sean Claude, let's just say, not the best actor,

Speaker 97 really good at action,

Speaker 23 really good at kicking, but he's not exactly the best actor.

Speaker 26 But yeah, Bloodsport.

Speaker 14 I feel good about that, Zach. I mean, it's one of my favorite movies.

Speaker 49 And I know that, like, if you had, if you put it in front of a critic, they'd just be like, what am I watching right now?

Speaker 118 Got to to say true to ourselves. Okay.

Speaker 97 You guys are up.

Speaker 146 Number three, this is probably one of my favorite movies of all time.

Speaker 42 What do you think?

Speaker 42 Yeah, you got to pick your movie.

Speaker 146 I'm going Not Another Teen Movie.

Speaker 7 Ooh.

Speaker 55 I love that movie. It's so funny.

Speaker 42 That movie sucks.

Speaker 42 Memes quotes this movie all the time.

Speaker 42 Like thinking I know all of the quotes of Not Another Teen movie. Like he, it's his, it's like legitimately his favorite movie.

Speaker 40 He's a spoof movie guy, which which basically are like cinematic memes in a way.

Speaker 100 Like all that.

Speaker 87 Just watching it for memes.

Speaker 123 Okay.

Speaker 146 And then the last one for bad, good movie, do you want to go this one or that one?

Speaker 108 This one.

Speaker 108 Fourth and final,

Speaker 1 we'll go with Norbit.

Speaker 100 Ooh, God.

Speaker 40 Ooh.

Speaker 5 Never saw Norbit.

Speaker 42 Oh, it's so bad. It's so bad.
It's so, so bad. I had a friend in college that used to watch it once a month,

Speaker 42 and I would literally yell at him every single time it was on.

Speaker 108 But

Speaker 40 I would watch Norbit.

Speaker 50 Zach,

Speaker 45 what are we thinking?

Speaker 149 Talk to me, buddy.

Speaker 31 Three or five?

Speaker 141 I was leaning towards those.

Speaker 39 Which one did you like more?

Speaker 37 Norbit's nine.

Speaker 148 Five could play, but also five could be a terrible pick. It goes one way or the other.

Speaker 80 Oh, man.

Speaker 49 What do you think? I don't know.

Speaker 67 I don't know what to do.

Speaker 126 We're stuck.

Speaker 52 You got to go with your gut.

Speaker 5 I want you to go with your gut, Zach.

Speaker 148 Okay, so bad that it's good?

Speaker 23 No, it's best bad movies.

Speaker 31 Best bad movie?

Speaker 118 We're going to go with the B movie.

Speaker 7 There we go. Okay.

Speaker 50 Okay.

Speaker 78 Is it too good of a movie?

Speaker 37 No, it's a bad movie. No, it's a bad movie.
It's a bad movie.

Speaker 125 It's about a bee who falls in love with a woman.

Speaker 33 It also was like Jerry Seinfeld's big thing that was like Jerry Seinfeld's back.

Speaker 42 I honestly just assume any animated movie that I've ever heard of has like a 98% movie.

Speaker 130 No, B-movie.

Speaker 42 I've never seen B-movie.

Speaker 126 No, it's bad.

Speaker 123 You'll like that. I've seen it.
It's bad.

Speaker 83 49% and 53% audience score is bad.

Speaker 38 Especially for every animated movie.

Speaker 15 And Jerry Seinfeld.

Speaker 123 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 82 No, that's bad.

Speaker 37 I like it. That's bad.

Speaker 31 But it's so bad. It's good.

Speaker 50 Yeah, right.

Speaker 67 I'd watch it again.

Speaker 23 I'm actually going to watch it with my kids.

Speaker 55 I'll do that.

Speaker 40 All right. We got the last pick.
We're going to go romantic comedy. I still don't understand how this only has 10% Raw and Tomatoes.
Couples Retreat.

Speaker 132 Okay.

Speaker 42 That's a good one. That's a good one.
This will be interesting.

Speaker 43 I don't know how people are going to vote.

Speaker 52 Kyr is definitely the best of those movies.

Speaker 14 It is.

Speaker 54 In terms of.

Speaker 40 I don't know. So Norbit's pretty good.

Speaker 8 No, no, I'm saying the best.

Speaker 123 I know, I know.

Speaker 82 I know.

Speaker 97 Like, real.

Speaker 40 Well, that's why having the first pick

Speaker 40 was kind of hard. We didn't know exactly where to go.
Well, Well, so here's let's.

Speaker 40 I was thinking of what me and PFT were talking about were like movies that are always on TV that aren't great, but you're still like, oh, this is, I'll watch this. Right.

Speaker 73 So there was a couple that

Speaker 5 I had that like I thought would be too contentious, but like when you looked up at the critic score, they were really bad.

Speaker 65 Tommy Boy is really bad.

Speaker 57 We talked about it.

Speaker 50 But I was like, Tommy Boy is so well classic.

Speaker 108 I know it is, but it's like.

Speaker 100 Yeah. It's bad.

Speaker 40 But all Adam Sandler movies are bad, but some of them are good. Some of them are just bad.
Yeah, I do. The Zohan and That's My Boy are the perfect bad, good Adam Sanders.

Speaker 42 I told memes that we couldn't do Water Boy because it's too

Speaker 100 good.

Speaker 25 We had,

Speaker 39 yeah, like Water Boy was on our list.

Speaker 10 Tommy Boy also has 90% JoJo popcorn meter, which, like, the answer you could have done is Black Sheep.

Speaker 73 Black Sheep. Look up Black Sheep.

Speaker 18 That was just Tommy Boy 2, and it wasn't as good.

Speaker 133 Another one, because we were like, we got into a rabbit hole.

Speaker 93 We were like, all right, let's just list some movies that might not be critically acclaimed.

Speaker 92 Mighty Ducks got like a 27%.

Speaker 16 I said Mighty Ducks, but like, that's just too good of a movie.

Speaker 31 We had, uh, we also had Kangaroo Jack, we had Commando on our list, okay, Schwarzenegger. Yep, uh, probably that's the pinnacle of, of, like, bad Arnold movies, yeah, but it's awesome.

Speaker 65 Yeah, yeah, I'll just rip my, um, I'll rip my uh Jean-Claude Van Den, damn Steven Seagal action movies.

Speaker 29 I had Bloodsport, Hard Target, uh, Cobra with Sly Stallone, uh, Hard to Kill, Out for Justice, Best of the Best 1 and 2, Best of the Best 2 is incredible. But they're all Lionheart.

Speaker 49 What about double team? Time Cop.

Speaker 31 Double team. It's Van Dam and Dennis Rodman.
Yeah. That's a good one.
Yeah.

Speaker 59 Face Off.

Speaker 31 Face Off. We talked about that.

Speaker 92 But that's also kind of a good movie.

Speaker 31 Anaconda?

Speaker 5 Under Siege, I looked up, and it actually has a really good rating.

Speaker 49 Does it? Unrotted Tomatoes.

Speaker 31 Under Siege 2, probably. Under Siege 2.
I would guess that's probably 20.

Speaker 93 Yeah. Under Siege, what was Under Siege?

Speaker 66 Yeah, 83%.

Speaker 99 That's unreal.

Speaker 71 I know. I was shocked.

Speaker 41 With Joe Dirt.

Speaker 102 Yep. I now pronounce you Chuck and Lee.

Speaker 77 Joe Larry.

Speaker 42 Joe Dirt is a mess.

Speaker 88 Yeah, Joe Dirt's a really

Speaker 40 solid movie. Yeah.

Speaker 100 No, Chuck and Larry.

Speaker 71 Dirty Work.

Speaker 23 You guys ever seen that Dirty Work?

Speaker 49 So fucking funny.

Speaker 5 So funny.

Speaker 40 What about Euro Trip?

Speaker 72 Euro Trip.

Speaker 72 What about Super Troopers?

Speaker 13 God, Super Troopers.

Speaker 107 That was a great movie, though.

Speaker 40 Beer Fest.

Speaker 40 Beer Fest and Euro Trip.

Speaker 40 I didn't want to go too good movies back to back. We did that with Semi-Pro.

Speaker 42 We said said Semi-Pro. We had it on our list.
And out of integrity, we were like, that's too good of a movie.

Speaker 8 No.

Speaker 40 Blades of Glory probably would have been good. No, Blades of Glory is great.

Speaker 63 You didn't fumble, Zach.

Speaker 92 Stop.

Speaker 14 Zach just texted me on the side saying I fumbled.

Speaker 46 No, you're good.

Speaker 5 I should have gone with B-movie.

Speaker 118 We don't know how sidebar, but yeah, I did.

Speaker 5 We were thinking about going Shark Nado.

Speaker 100 Yeah, Blades of Glory is great reviews.

Speaker 52 Shark Nado, but Shark Nado was

Speaker 84 almost made to be so bad.

Speaker 39 Yeah, it was almost like too meta.

Speaker 80 Yeah.

Speaker 78 So you did fine.

Speaker 78 That B-movie was a movie that Jerry Seinfeld did legitimate press for and like went on Larry King and was a big deal shark Nado was meant to just be bad on because we could do a whole other thing like made for TV movies the uh

Speaker 49 the the Drew Peterson uh you know why they call me Big Daddy Rob Lowe one of my favorite movies but it was made for TV two for the money

Speaker 112 Two for the Money.

Speaker 30 I don't know if I've seen Two for the Money.

Speaker 31 The Stu Finner story?

Speaker 50 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 92 With Matthew McConaughey, I have.

Speaker 31 The Accountant?

Speaker 112 The Accountant?

Speaker 49 Oh, The Accountant's a good movie. Yeah, that is a good movie.

Speaker 42 There's a part of me that thinks, like, if a movie gets a sequel,

Speaker 42 then it doesn't deserve to be on the list.

Speaker 52 No B Movie 2.

Speaker 80 Piranha?

Speaker 31 I don't believe so. No.

Speaker 146 Another Jerry O'Connell movie?

Speaker 118 Bench Warmers?

Speaker 99 Yep.

Speaker 40 Good movie.

Speaker 108 Good movie. Dude, Azure Lowe.

Speaker 49 Yep.

Speaker 40 I said Undercover Brother. I looked it up.
It has phenomenal reviews.

Speaker 62 Night of the Roxbury?

Speaker 42 Bad. No, that's a classic.

Speaker 31 It was kind of fun to see.

Speaker 5 Yeah, I mean, it was.

Speaker 55 Comedies are tough, yeah.

Speaker 40 I was saying to PFT as we were doing this, if we really wanted to get people fired up, we should do

Speaker 40 worst good movies.

Speaker 132 Ooh.

Speaker 31 Movies that are

Speaker 31 known as being great, that we fucking

Speaker 88 have a great one. Yeah, we should do that.
Yeah.

Speaker 50 Yeah.

Speaker 31 They'll get very angry.

Speaker 113 The Nick Cages I would have gone were Gone in 60 Seconds and Dance Rider.

Speaker 80 Yeah.

Speaker 40 Gone in 60 Seconds is like a great movie. Yeah.

Speaker 31 We thought about Fast and Furious, but we didn't know which one of the entire anthology would have been the best, bad movie of those.

Speaker 31 Maybe Tokyo Drift.

Speaker 41 But National Treasure is a good movie.

Speaker 8 Yeah, no, it is.

Speaker 42 That again, though, like Fast and because

Speaker 42 there's so many of something, then they can't be that bad.

Speaker 81 The Fast Six, that's the one you're looking for.

Speaker 63 It's also hard because there's good movies.

Speaker 67 Like, I was actually, I threw on, for honorable mentions, like, Rocky Four, which is an unbelievable movie.

Speaker 97 But, like,

Speaker 52 obviously, when you watch that movie, part of you is saying, like, Sly Sloan is not the best actor.

Speaker 37 I thought you were talking about Rocky 5.

Speaker 107 Rocky 5.

Speaker 110 Rocky 5 is bad.

Speaker 40 Rocky 5 is bad. Correct.

Speaker 44 Rocky 4 is a good bad.

Speaker 42 I honestly think the right answer for this would be Rocky Balboa.

Speaker 49 The movie Rocky Balboa.

Speaker 71 It's a bad movie.

Speaker 61 No, Rocky V probably is the answer.

Speaker 16 Again, I love Rocky 4.

Speaker 45 It's one of my favorite movies, but it's like Sly Sloan's not a great actor.

Speaker 42 Rocky 4 is an awesome.

Speaker 87 I know, but when you watch it sober,

Speaker 86 disagree.

Speaker 5 Sly Sloan has some funny parts where you're like, what is he doing?

Speaker 31 I think what this draft has showed us is that we just, we love bad movies.

Speaker 19 Yeah.

Speaker 124 Yeah, I love all these movies. Cars 2.

Speaker 87 Cars 2 sucks.

Speaker 23 Would snakes have a great day.

Speaker 31 Paul Newman died.

Speaker 49 Paul Newman died, and they had to change.

Speaker 146 Snakes on Plane would have been a great movie.

Speaker 28 They changed everything. Snakes on a plane.

Speaker 112 Anaconda.

Speaker 31 Yeah, we said Anaconda.

Speaker 111 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 30 Snakes on a Plane would have been a great. Snakes on and mom.

Speaker 15 Do you know what's a shocker?

Speaker 14 Because I was like, we made our list, and then I was like, let me just look up what the biggest difference is on

Speaker 78 Boondock Saints got killed.

Speaker 71 Yeah.

Speaker 49 I didn't know that.

Speaker 40 A lot of those comedies are like Euro Trip.

Speaker 70 Yeah.

Speaker 68 Boondock Saints is 26% on the critic score, but 91%.

Speaker 49 Yeah.

Speaker 16 I mean, it's a good movie.

Speaker 32 Yeah, Euro trip.

Speaker 84 Euro trip is a good one.

Speaker 42 That's kind of what I'm thinking of.

Speaker 50 What's the.

Speaker 42 If it has

Speaker 42 the popcorn next to the popcorn, then it then it's a good movie i also don't understand rotten tomatoes what's the is it road trip

Speaker 131 yeah that's a good one too like a good bad movie without a paddle they went to austin austin massachusetts yeah freddy got fingered freddy got fingered tom green's that bad freddy got fingered sucks that movie is fucking horrible i like because i like that guy in road trip i i like tried to watch that one night and i was like this is legitimately the worst movie I've ever seen.

Speaker 30 Max Cornaki?

Speaker 42 This is impossible to judge. I have no idea.
It really is. I have no.

Speaker 40 Who would you vote for?

Speaker 42 PFT kind of fucked me up with the.

Speaker 37 You fucked him up before this.

Speaker 42 No, before this, when you were like, will people be like, why is that in the bad movie category? That's a good movie.

Speaker 130 I'm not voting for that.

Speaker 51 That's where I feel like Conair might screw you.

Speaker 7 It might.

Speaker 42 I have no idea. I have no idea.
Me and Memes literally, like, we picked.

Speaker 81 Because that's why I pivoted to Zohan because I love That's My Boy.

Speaker 7 That's my boy. That's my boy's bad.
But that's my boy's sad.

Speaker 40 That's so bad.

Speaker 40 I was so excited for that movie, and I still like to re-watch it, but it was awesome.

Speaker 13 I rewatched that movie all the time.

Speaker 40 I was disappointed when I first moved.

Speaker 40 I had that movie when it was coming out. I was like, it's going to be the greatest movie of all time.

Speaker 31 It is. I just thought of a big miss that we had

Speaker 31 for being football guys.

Speaker 49 Oh, draft head.

Speaker 49 Draft A,

Speaker 108 shit.

Speaker 140 80 for Brady.

Speaker 7 Draft for Brady. 80 for Brady.

Speaker 42 80 for Brady would have been a good one for you, Hank.

Speaker 71 Or what was the Kurt Warner one?

Speaker 50 Oh,

Speaker 31 fuck the Kurt Warner.

Speaker 42 Oh, that movie was good. I like that movie.
American Underdog story.

Speaker 100 I watched that on a plane.

Speaker 64 I was like, you know what?

Speaker 42 I'm inspired.

Speaker 7 That's who I was on Rotten Tomatoes.

Speaker 4 Any guesses? I'm looking at American Underdog first.

Speaker 8 American Under.

Speaker 9 Look at those ratings.

Speaker 50 Whoa, 75.

Speaker 119 75 and 98.

Speaker 31 Damn. A draft ticket is 60%.

Speaker 31 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 41 It's too good. Yeah, yeah, it's too good.

Speaker 42 All right, good, good. We stay true.

Speaker 115 We stay true. We stay true.
Yeah.

Speaker 100 I don't really know what I was saying there.

Speaker 65 Okay, good Mount Rushmore, boys.

Speaker 23 Also, anyone who has ideas for Mount Rushmore's tweet at memes.

Speaker 33 Yeah, tweeted memes.

Speaker 67 Pardon my memes.

Speaker 31 Best one gets Madden code.

Speaker 50 Yeah.

Speaker 100 Yeah.

Speaker 30 Best one gets

Speaker 30 memes.

Speaker 1 Best one gets a free DVD of Kangaroo Jack.

Speaker 7 Send it to a signal. Signed by Jerry.

Speaker 100 Signed by Jerry.

Speaker 37 I hope he has like a whole closet full.

Speaker 23 He probably bought them all.

Speaker 49 That would be awesome.

Speaker 1 Okay, let's get to our interviews.

Speaker 83 We got Baker Mayfield and Alex Crusoe together.

Speaker 74 Very, very fun.

Speaker 24 And then we have MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred.

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Speaker 31 Man, I'll tell you what.

Speaker 150 When you're hungry out there, you start acting like a rookie quarterback in his first game, making bad decisions, messing up the basics, being all out of sorts. That's where Snickers comes in, man.

Speaker 150 That thing is packed. Roasted peanuts, nugget, caramel, milk chocolate.
It's like the MVP of candy bars.

Speaker 150 And when you bite into it, boom, it sorts you out, gets your head back in the game of life, satisfying your hunger. Remember this: Snickers handles your hunger so you can handle everything else.

Speaker 150 Snickers satisfies, man.

Speaker 141 That's a winning play.

Speaker 31 And now here's Alex, Alex Caruso, and Baker Mayfield.

Speaker 93 Okay, we now welcome on two very special guests.

Speaker 4 It's a combo, a little cross-sport combo.

Speaker 114 We did this last year, Chill Week.

Speaker 38 This year, it is Alex Caruso, Baker Mayfield, two friends of ours.

Speaker 114 Thank you for joining us, boys.

Speaker 114 The first question is an easy one.

Speaker 151 Baker, would you say alex has one ring two rings or one and a half rings or zero or zero no you have one you officially officially one is the one is the lowest the baseline one's the lowest yeah he's got two hell yeah bubble two is two hell yeah count the bubble i count the bubble yeah i don't know i think it's one and a half now get to the lebron question let's see

Speaker 93 yeah all right all right so alex you win the championship you made it these are the two mandatory questions i received two mandatory questions you win the championship you make the comment after that you now have officially have a real ring.

Speaker 104 What was going through your head in that moment?

Speaker 114 Was it us?

Speaker 153 You were part of the conglomerate of people I was talking to.

Speaker 19 Don't give them that.

Speaker 153 Yeah, it was a little bit of y'all.

Speaker 7 Yeah.

Speaker 38 And were you surprised that people took that seriously?

Speaker 114 Yeah, dude.

Speaker 153 They got so pissed. I was like, all right, guys.

Speaker 153 Let me have a little fun. It was bullshit.

Speaker 31 We were addressing the internet.

Speaker 37 Yeah.

Speaker 153 I tweeted too. I was like, I had already had three Mickelobes.
We were a couple champagne shots.

Speaker 153 We were riding. We were getting to the top of the roller coaster.
Like, I was saying saying whatever I thought was, was good at the moment. Yeah.

Speaker 31 Congratulations. Yeah, congratulations for real.

Speaker 31 Yeah. Was it harder than you thought it would be in the finals?

Speaker 153 Yeah, I would say yes.

Speaker 153 But also, I knew it was going to be like Indiana, we knew how fast they're going to play.

Speaker 153 And like they were sneaky, aggressive defensively through the playoffs, and nobody was really talking about it. But

Speaker 54 they were really physical.

Speaker 153 They played exactly how we played. Fast on offense, physical on defense, trying to get a bunch of people in double digits.
Yeah.

Speaker 77 I'm happy you guys are together because we're interviewing you guys together because baker i was thinking about this and a question i was going to ask you you thrive off of people doubting you but i feel like no one doubts you anymore like you you got the new contract you had a pro bowl year you were awesome this year you're tough as shit just running over people making awesome plays No one is like Baker Mayfield isn't a really good quarterback.

Speaker 46 Everyone knows you're a really good quarterback.

Speaker 111 So

Speaker 111 are you, oh, okay.

Speaker 82 It's always a cuff.

Speaker 37 Yeah. How do we

Speaker 101 how do you stay motivated?

Speaker 114 Do you go and search and be like, I got to find who's hating so I can get a little chip on my shoulder?

Speaker 139 No, I don't. I don't look for it anymore.
Okay.

Speaker 139 I had enough 49ers fans yesterday talking shit to me.

Speaker 153 So we are out west, huh?

Speaker 151 Yeah, we're up for you.

Speaker 139 We're in Niner country at this point, so I'm good.

Speaker 114 But do you feel, maybe it's, maybe it's that they just keep switching offensive coordinators for you?

Speaker 140 They keep getting head coaching jobs, man. Yeah.

Speaker 139 I don't know if, I don't know if I smell or they just keep leaving me.

Speaker 151 That's a compliment to you.

Speaker 153 You're helping the promotion. Yeah.

Speaker 67 Was there a small part of you, though?

Speaker 25 And we interviewed Liam Cohen at the Combine.

Speaker 114 Great dude. Was there a small part of you, though, that when he did the Duval, you're like, all right, now.

Speaker 37 I crushed him.

Speaker 111 Yeah, get him. Crushed him.
Crushed him.

Speaker 7 What are you doing?

Speaker 111 Stop trying to be the cool guy.

Speaker 140 Just do your job. Be a head coach.

Speaker 37 Be a figure.

Speaker 111 That's a culture, bro.

Speaker 37 I don't know if they want that culture.

Speaker 15 Yeah, that was a good thing.

Speaker 5 That probably felt good in the moment where you're like, yeah, you left me, but now you have to deal with like the head coach spotlight.

Speaker 136 Yeah.

Speaker 139 I mean,

Speaker 139 he's a great coordinator. I'm interested to see how it goes.
Yeah. We still talk all the time, but

Speaker 139 he's a great coach. So we'll see how it goes as the head coach.

Speaker 153 Dealing with me as a head coach is just,

Speaker 153 regardless of sport, seems like the job isn't worth it.

Speaker 139 Yeah. I have to talk to the media every single day.
No, thank you. Yeah.

Speaker 31 Every word that you say, there's a magnifying glass on it. People find something wrong no matter what you put out there.

Speaker 31 It takes a guy that probably does not give a fuck to be a head coach and be successful at it without reading into it. The last season, though, very impressive season.

Speaker 31 Unfortunate final game for you guys. Sorry about Jaden Daniels and the Commanders.
It was awesome for me.

Speaker 69 Did you?

Speaker 31 There's some doubt. Yeah.
There's some doubt for you.

Speaker 129 Fuel my fire. Yeah.

Speaker 19 Absolutely.

Speaker 31 When the commanders got the ball back at the end of the game, we were like, fuck, they're not giving us this back.

Speaker 129 Yeah. I mean, at that point, you could kind of feel the momentum out of it.

Speaker 139 We just offensively didn't play good enough. And it was one of those days.
Like, we were averaging, I think,

Speaker 139 damn near 30 points a game, and we didn't even come close to that.

Speaker 141 Just too many mistakes.

Speaker 139 But we got a lot of the boys back, all 11 starters, and then some on offense. And so it made some additions.
I'm excited, though. Yeah.

Speaker 31 Do you look at last season? Is that, I know it sucks the way that it ended, but do you look at it like that was a successful year?

Speaker 139 I mean, no. I mean, the goal is always Super Bowl or nothing.

Speaker 139 It was, I mean, you check off the boxes on your way to try and get to the Super Bowl, division, playoffs, but then after that, if you don't do anything in the playoffs, it really doesn't matter. Yeah.

Speaker 114 All right. So combo question.

Speaker 114 You guys both kind of play the game the same way.

Speaker 69 Scrappy, undersized.

Speaker 18 What, white guys?

Speaker 151 White guys.

Speaker 37 Are there any

Speaker 7 collar? Jim Roberts.

Speaker 144 Jim remember, you guys said you want to date your daughter.

Speaker 122 Yeah.

Speaker 93 Are there ever times, though, like Baker, when you run someone, when you're like, I'm going to just run someone over?

Speaker 114 Or Alex, when you, I think there was the moment in the NBA Finals when you were literally trying to swim on the floor to get a loose ball.

Speaker 114 Do you ever have a moment where you're like, maybe that was a little too try-hard?

Speaker 104 Like, maybe I should just dial it back a little.

Speaker 153 I think y'all asked me this before the finals. You remember we had a conversation? You're like, do you know you're try-hard? I was like, yeah, I know I do for sure.

Speaker 108 Yeah.

Speaker 139 I mean, yeah, look at me. I'm not built to be in the NFL.
Yeah, we can't be cool.

Speaker 151 I'm supposed to try hard.

Speaker 37 Yeah, we can't be cool, dude.

Speaker 153 If you're cool, it's not going to work.

Speaker 153 Cool for me is a losing.

Speaker 91 Yeah. So keep trying extra hard.

Speaker 30 Does anyone ever say anything after, like, being like, hey, that was a little much?

Speaker 137 They chill out.

Speaker 54 Maybe on chill week, but yeah, you know what's funny about that?

Speaker 153 They did that when I was a young player in the league.

Speaker 153 Like whenever I was like on two-way and like just getting into the league because like I have like eight minutes to prove myself and it's like some 10-year vet who's like, you know, it's the third quarter.

Speaker 153 They're up 20 and they're like, all right, guy, what are we doing? I'm like, hey, I don't have any money right now. I'm not in the league.
Like, this is, this is what I'm going to do. Yeah.

Speaker 31 When TJ McConnell was out there and you, you're watching him play.

Speaker 153 Ultimate tryhard, TJ.

Speaker 153 You're like dude did that make you think about yourself like wow is this what i look like yeah yeah no i i me and tj i think i told y'all the origin we were on the same summer league team in philly so we had like a nice kind of similar path coming in and we text each other every year when like you do something like you go into a game not supposed to play well and then you just kill all off of effort and you text them be like dude that was that was sick can you imagine how fundamentally sound that summer league team was yeah

Speaker 31 honestly not yet great great handshake line after the game yeah eye contact

Speaker 34 But TJ McConnell, like in the finals, they're...

Speaker 153 Imagine a summer league team slapping the floor.

Speaker 27 But the way he plays, it does fuck guys up because he gives, like, I know you can't give 110% technically, but he does.

Speaker 57 Like, he would just, like, if he's just jumping every inbound pass 90 feet from the basket, it messes you up.

Speaker 153 Yeah, you got to make up for the, like we said, the white guy's lack of athleticism.

Speaker 22 But like, you guys do that.

Speaker 38 And Baker, you do that too, where it's like most quarterbacks will slide.

Speaker 142 And it's like, no, I'm going to fucking run this guy.

Speaker 114 I'm going to run through his face.

Speaker 93 Do you have to run through someone's face to like kind of wake up in a game?

Speaker 38 Do you have to get hit first? Sometimes, yeah.

Speaker 139 Yeah.

Speaker 61 It's got to feel good.

Speaker 139 It feels real nice. And I mean real nice Clark.

Speaker 134 Real nice. Yeah.

Speaker 141 Yeah, till the next day.

Speaker 139 You'll deal with that on a Monday, though. Yeah.

Speaker 31 I think I told you this last time we interviewed you, but the first, I think it was your first game, maybe second in Tampa Bay, maybe against the Vikings. Yeah.

Speaker 31 You ran through some guy's face and then your entire sideline like jumped up. And from that moment, I was like, I think these guys are in love with Baker Mayfield.
And I was bricked up.

Speaker 70 Yeah.

Speaker 31 Do you ever get just like a little rush of blood?

Speaker 69 Like, you hit somebody, you're like, whoa, a little, little rush of blood below the belt.

Speaker 139 Mine never hurt anybody.

Speaker 19 It was a little uptuck.

Speaker 19 Yeah.

Speaker 31 So in the finals this year, game one, you go out. Could you tell that the logo wasn't on the court?

Speaker 153 No, I didn't even remember that that was a thing. I'm not going to lie.

Speaker 129 Bothered us.

Speaker 111 Because

Speaker 153 being on the court, you don't like the TV when you look at it. It's different than being out there.

Speaker 153 They do need to bring that back, though. They do, it's it's so good.
The big, the big one in the middle of the court, yeah.

Speaker 93 And congratulations, by the way.

Speaker 114 I think game seven, like a good amount of people watch. So, you guys, hell yeah, because I know you guys care a lot about the ratings.

Speaker 153 Yeah, that's how we get paid.

Speaker 111 So, yeah, that's important.

Speaker 38 Baker, you got to be like, when you see ratings worse, do you even, do you just, you got to laugh at it?

Speaker 114 Because they always do the like top 100-watched sporting events, and it's like 99 are football, and then one is like the Olympics.

Speaker 31 And it's just like football's king.

Speaker 111 It is. Around the world.

Speaker 140 I mean, they just keep expanding.

Speaker 153 I know. Took Christmas.

Speaker 31 I mean, it's oh, they took Christmas. No, no, no.

Speaker 101 Christmas is Roger Goodell's now.

Speaker 37 Yeah, I don't know if you knew that.

Speaker 139 Christmas is. We're the Grinch.

Speaker 111 Yeah.

Speaker 153 We'll just wait till all-star break. Yeah.

Speaker 134 Christmas is theirs now.

Speaker 31 How sweet was the championship parade?

Speaker 153 Oh, bro,

Speaker 153 it was so sick. It was so sick.

Speaker 153 I drank way too much naturally.

Speaker 153 I think I was asleep by 3.

Speaker 37 PM? Yeah.

Speaker 134 That's awesome. Oh, that's fantastic.

Speaker 153 She was taking, she was, she's in the back. She was taking care of me.
It was

Speaker 153 short-lived. Yeah.
I slept from like 3 to 11, woke up for like 30 minutes and slept from like 11 to 8.

Speaker 67 Yeah, actually, one of my questions was, how are you alive right now?

Speaker 114 Because you went, won an NBA title, bachelor party this past weekend, and now top.

Speaker 153 Got in the Sunday sauna Monday night. Yeah.

Speaker 139 And then flew here Tuesday evening.

Speaker 123 How are you alive?

Speaker 152 A lot of water.

Speaker 93 Shout out body armor. Yeah.

Speaker 7 Shout out body armor.

Speaker 152 A lot of of water. The parade had to be nuts, though.

Speaker 153 The parade's sick, dude. The parade was so sick.

Speaker 31 Yeah. What time do you wake up on the morning of the parade day? When do you crack the first drink?

Speaker 153 I think I took my first shot of tequila at

Speaker 147 8.

Speaker 153 We had to be at the facility at 8.15 to get on buses. I took one of one of my buddies who stayed back.

Speaker 139 He's like, oh, that's what we're on. I said, that's what we're on.

Speaker 153 Yeah.

Speaker 31 That's got to be cool seeing fans out there just as drunk as you are.

Speaker 153 I don't even know if they were, to be honest.

Speaker 31 I remember everything that happened, but like the details of what the people were feeling it was all play it was all player one main character that was all i had yeah baker i've seen a lot of baker mayfield jerseys out here in tahoe on the course waiting to see you play a lot of like throwback ones too a lot of oklahoma baker mayfield jerseys when you see somebody that's wearing like an old jersey like a college mayfield jersey are you like hell yeah that's a real fan like i appreciate the effort sometimes yes You can tell based on the interaction.

Speaker 139 Sometimes it's somebody trying to be cool, grab a retro jersey. Yeah.

Speaker 139 it's the try-hards, you know? Yeah,

Speaker 139 but I can relate to them at the same time.

Speaker 55 You see yourself with them.

Speaker 31 I think as a fan, when you're figuring out which jersey to put on, you're like, well, I might seem to, I'm going to wear like an obscure one from way back in the day. So we see

Speaker 37 them a real fan.

Speaker 10 Yeah.

Speaker 69 Try to catch the eye.

Speaker 139 I do love it, though. It's fun.

Speaker 114 If I told you guys you have one thing that is like very much in common, what would you think I was about to say?

Speaker 46 What's that?

Speaker 152 White. No.

Speaker 74 Anything you have very much in common?

Speaker 153 We both played Texas high school football. Okay.

Speaker 111 That's true.

Speaker 5 I was going to say Mike Evans.

Speaker 114 Yeah.

Speaker 153 Oh, I was going to say that earlier when we was talking about the team on Mike. Mike.

Speaker 28 So let's just talk about how awesome Mike Evans is.

Speaker 139 Unbelievable.

Speaker 114 I mean, did you feel a little bad about getting the thousand yards with the Saints in that whole situation?

Speaker 139 I hate the Saints. Absolutely not.

Speaker 19 No.

Speaker 47 But if, I mean, we had already, we were making the playoffs.

Speaker 139 Situation where you take a knee, go to the playoffs, but we decided to throw it on first and 10. Yeah.
just to get Mike the thousand yards. And like that reaction in the stadium,

Speaker 7 we'll try hard.

Speaker 41 But he is the best.

Speaker 114 We always like, we'll have moments in the NFL season where we're like, hey, we're just going to randomly on a Monday, just be like, hey, everyone needs to just respect Mike Evans more because he's so good and he's been so good for so long.

Speaker 139 And he's not flashy, so like he goes under the radar a lot. But I think now

Speaker 139 the tide's starting to turn for him. People are realizing his Hall of Fame resume.

Speaker 111 Yeah.

Speaker 153 First time I met Mike Evans, I played against him in AAU at Texas AM in the rec center, and he was dunking on everybody.

Speaker 153 That was the origin of Mike Evans, and then we both ended up at AM, and I was like, oh, okay, it makes sense now.

Speaker 139 He still wears like the old Nike elite socks, like his old basketball sweatshirts, long gym shorts, like down. I mean, it's Mike.

Speaker 151 Alvison Paul, that's what that is. Yeah.
Also hard.

Speaker 31 Players respect him. The opposing teams respect him so much, the Saints were like, yeah, you can go ahead and have this record on this catch.
That was very cool of them.

Speaker 139 Yeah, I'm sure that was their mindset.

Speaker 139 Nice people.

Speaker 38 Since we have you guys here, with the NBA NFL debate, always happens.

Speaker 62 Do you guys think you could play each other's sport?

Speaker 139 I suck at basketball, so no. Okay.

Speaker 153 There's a select few from each that I think could cross over.

Speaker 114 Give me a couple names.

Speaker 153 Like for mine, that could go.

Speaker 125 Yeah, and then you give me a couple NFL guys.

Speaker 129 Braun could have.

Speaker 153 Anthony Edwards could.

Speaker 153 I'm trying to think of like.

Speaker 31 Straymond.

Speaker 111 Lou Dort could. Lou Dort.
Yeah, fat ass.

Speaker 153 Straymond could probably play O-line.

Speaker 153 You just have to put on weight. Yeah.

Speaker 153 Great screen setter. Yeah.
You You know, smart.

Speaker 69 Athletes.

Speaker 153 I think one of the Thompson, the Thompson.

Speaker 37 Oh, they're freaks.

Speaker 153 That kind of athlete, you find a spot on the team. Yeah.
Yeah. You'd find a spot on the team.
Yeah.

Speaker 62 What about you, Baker?

Speaker 114 Have you played with guys who you've seen hoop and you're like, holy shit.

Speaker 139 I mean, Mike's one of them. Yeah.

Speaker 129 There's a couple of receivers.

Speaker 129 Saquon.

Speaker 139 There's a couple of receivers that are supposed to be really good. I can imagine, like, if I don't know if AJ Brown has a shot or not.

Speaker 19 Yeah.

Speaker 139 But that's a big man. Yeah.

Speaker 139 I know there's some like O-linemen that were really athletic and like they struggle to keep the weight on

Speaker 139 between the D-lime and Miles Garrett. Jokic.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Miles Garrett.
I mean, I've seen him. I've played basketball with him.

Speaker 151 Yeah.

Speaker 139 Yeah.

Speaker 101 But this is actually minutes.

Speaker 69 You can get minutes.

Speaker 114 This is a perfect answer because this has always been the answer where they have the debate and it's like, there's probably like five guys from each side.

Speaker 139 I don't know if they would have, I don't know if they would have enough finesse.

Speaker 151 to be able to play basketball.

Speaker 153 Yeah, that's the thing with like to

Speaker 153 for a football player to come to basketball, you have to play both ways. And like for the guys that are like, I could play in them.
There's the guys that are like dunking shooting threes.

Speaker 153 It's like, well,

Speaker 153 you got to guard and you got to be able to remember like what the hell is going on and doing this. It's like, it gets a little tricky.
And then you talk about the basketball guys going to football.

Speaker 153 It's like, you're going to get hit in your mouth a lot.

Speaker 152 Yeah. Like

Speaker 153 you see you think that's you think that's like, oh yeah, I could handle that until it happens. And you're like,

Speaker 153 I don't know if I like that so much.

Speaker 107 Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 31 There's an element of toughness that

Speaker 31 I think some guys could pick, like DK Metcalf. I think he could probably also make the switch to NBA.
That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 153 There's certain athletes that could just find minutes in the NBA because

Speaker 153 there's guys in a league that can't shoot or can't do stuff, but they can rebound the hell out of the ball and they're like dunk and put it.

Speaker 153 You can play 12 minutes in NBA if you're a good enough athlete.

Speaker 31 Who's a better golfer between you two?

Speaker 152 That's a good question. How good are your golf?

Speaker 7 Probably.

Speaker 31 Alex? Yeah.

Speaker 139 I'm like an 11 handicap. I'm a little better than 11.
Yeah.

Speaker 19 This guy's probably what?

Speaker 139 How much? Six? Five.

Speaker 69 I'm probably.

Speaker 153 No, no, no. That's probably it.
One summer I got down to like a 2-7, but that was just a crazy month. We're not there right now.
I haven't played golf this summer.

Speaker 5 I'm still pissed that the Bulls traded you and also got no picks because they don't get picks for anything.

Speaker 114 But

Speaker 114 we have a golf simulator in our office, and Alex did it a couple times.

Speaker 24 We were literally working and he would just be hitting shots. Oh, that's all.

Speaker 111 It's like, it's right there. Yeah.

Speaker 25 And we could have taken all the credit when you one day win this tournament.

Speaker 153 It could have. We could have started like a little sponsorship or something.
Yeah. Or like a YouTube vlog, like building up to it.
Give us a cut. Maybe post-career.
Yeah.

Speaker 82 Oh, you want to cut?

Speaker 101 Just give us a little

Speaker 101 bit. 10%.

Speaker 82 Yeah.

Speaker 30 It doesn't have to be 10.

Speaker 114 Baker, maybe you give us a cut for your new contract when you sign another one. You think so?

Speaker 139 You think you got a little cut?

Speaker 82 Well, allegedly they have.

Speaker 100 So

Speaker 19 I got to believe them.

Speaker 7 I don't know if they've ever lied to me.

Speaker 31 Yeah, maybe whoever runs the main account at Barcelona Sports should get a cut because of the doubting. Yeah.

Speaker 31 So I don't know if you guys ever see headlines, but when the main account puts it out, a lot of times me and Big Cat get shit for that. Yeah.
Because it's like they fuck you guys.

Speaker 111 Yeah.

Speaker 31 We'll take it.

Speaker 55 That's our job to be a shield. Yeah, get a text and be like, what is this?

Speaker 93 I'm like, dude, I don't know.

Speaker 125 They're just trying to get numbers.

Speaker 104 What do you want me to do? Impeachment.

Speaker 69 Yeah.

Speaker 69 I didn't say it.

Speaker 111 I retweeted it.

Speaker 122 Whatever.

Speaker 55 I liked it. I laughed at it.

Speaker 31 I dared the guy to tweet it out.

Speaker 122 You put the line

Speaker 153 in your header. It's like all retweets are not.
Yeah, endorsements or something.

Speaker 134 Yeah, mine mine are.

Speaker 144 Yeah.

Speaker 82 Mine are 100%.

Speaker 27 Baker, it's just whenever if he loses a game, they just play you dancing from the Oklahoma video.

Speaker 64 That makes sense.

Speaker 139 That sounds right. Yeah.

Speaker 22 By the way, is there anything as you went to a school that went from Big 12 to SEC?

Speaker 114 Baker, you just went Big 12 to SEC.

Speaker 61 Do you want to give him any tips?

Speaker 93 Because it's not going great for Oklahoma football right now.

Speaker 154 It's not great for the fellas.

Speaker 153 Yeah, I don't know how to, because we went in, we had Johnny right away. So that was like,

Speaker 153 you know, that was kind of a nice crutch to fall on. We haven't haven't been very not to that level since so

Speaker 139 better cruise better get some uh some some good guys into the team the difference like from what i can see is o-line d-line the d-line sec is just bunch of naps like man childs yeah and then o-line oklahoma hadn't had a they're all fast as good of an o-line as we used to have yeah you do have a dude this year though john matir he's awesome he's one of the boys i tried to get him to go to wisconsin like i had phone conversations and it was just

Speaker 114 so I was going up against you.

Speaker 7 So I outrecrited you?

Speaker 139 Did you bring in J.J.

Speaker 101 Watt? I brought in JJ Watt.

Speaker 47 I didn't do that. Okay.

Speaker 108 Didn't he walk on?

Speaker 7 Well, JJ? Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 151 Oh, okay. So you've been playing NCA football in real life.

Speaker 16 It's tough to be, it was tough to be like, oh, what's happened at Oklahoma in like the past 15 years?

Speaker 114 They have all these Heismans and also his OC went from Washington State.

Speaker 29 So I'm rooting for him no matter what. I told him that after.

Speaker 82 I was like, dude, I'm not going to be like a loser here and be like, oh, fuck you. You didn't pick my school.

Speaker 79 I want him to. He's awesome.
He's sick.

Speaker 139 He's got some shit in his neck, too. Yeah.

Speaker 111 He's kind of like a little, I like him.

Speaker 7 He's a little mini baker.

Speaker 19 I like him. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 31 I also appreciate the fact that you said that you hate the Saints earlier. I like it when athletes admit that they hate other teams like Rivalry.

Speaker 31 Do you have like a list of teams that you absolutely hate?

Speaker 152 Texas. Yeah.

Speaker 46 You guys both hate Texas.

Speaker 54 I should have said that.

Speaker 153 That was a great one. Yeah.

Speaker 10 Yeah.

Speaker 142 Texas, horns down.

Speaker 144 Losers.

Speaker 19 A bunch of losers.

Speaker 108 That felt real.

Speaker 107 Yeah, you really did.

Speaker 69 That's from childhood.

Speaker 153 That's not adult hate.

Speaker 139 Texas fans and Cowboys fans are very similar.

Speaker 141 Yeah.

Speaker 153 A lot of them are the same fans.

Speaker 141 Illusional. They're the same people.

Speaker 111 Yeah.

Speaker 7 They really are.

Speaker 153 Hey, what about Coach Doug? We're going to get another. Yeah, we'll be back.

Speaker 37 Yeah, I can't.

Speaker 152 We'll be back.

Speaker 111 Yeah.

Speaker 114 Playing some college ball for sure.

Speaker 153 We're going to start an online dynasty league.

Speaker 69 I got time.

Speaker 129 I should.

Speaker 66 Oh, maybe we should link up. We should do that.

Speaker 25 You probably kick my ass, but I'm bad bad at the, I mean,

Speaker 10 40 now. I suck at people.

Speaker 149 You play Heisman, right?

Speaker 139 Yeah, I play Heismanism. It's hard.
It's not easy.

Speaker 31 But you also got a staff.

Speaker 129 And I also spam plays. Yeah, you do.
You do.

Speaker 93 Baker, do you ever spam plays in real life?

Speaker 139 I don't know what you mean.

Speaker 43 Like, you just find one play that works and you just keep

Speaker 126 over and over, and then the AI doesn't pick up on it.

Speaker 151 And then everyone in the chat says you're a loser.

Speaker 111 Cheap play.

Speaker 108 Cheap play.

Speaker 37 Fuck you, big pet, you piece of shit.

Speaker 54 Does that ever happen to you?

Speaker 139 In like a two-minute drill, yeah.

Speaker 139 I didn't realize that's, that's, yeah. I didn't realize I was going up against AI, but yeah.

Speaker 111 Yeah.

Speaker 153 We spam in the NBA. Oh, yeah.
If it works, I'll yell at the bench, run it again out loud.

Speaker 125 Yeah.

Speaker 46 What's your dip?

Speaker 114 Like, what's your, what's the play that you've spammed, and you're like, it just, they can't stop it.

Speaker 153 Like, we run one play where it's just like a flat ball stream where you put the worst defender in it and Shay has the ball.

Speaker 153 And it's like, if we're like, if our off, if we haven't got a good shot in a while, it's like, all right, let's give the MVP the ball.

Speaker 152 Yeah.

Speaker 153 Get this like slip screen out of the way. And you put the bad defender in.
And if they, if they fuck it up, I'm just like, hey, let's run it again. Yeah.

Speaker 153 And eventually they'll change it. Now we can get back to our real offense.
Yeah.

Speaker 114 That's kind of sucked to be hunted in the NBA.

Speaker 69 Like some of those guys, they just get picked on.

Speaker 153 I was that guy when we first started and then I transitioned into the guy that got taken out of the action. Right.

Speaker 153 And so now it's like, you better, you better have some nuts if you're going to be called into it. Like you better just stand up and put your chest.

Speaker 153 You got to, what do we say, run some run through someone's face. Yeah.
Equivalent of that in the NBA.

Speaker 153 If they call you into the ball screen, you better foul the shit out of them you better do something good because if not you're gonna get put right back into

Speaker 153 your defense stays up because you're like i'm not going back to being the guy that got harmed for sure we're not going back there that's about nobody likes being embarrassed in front of 18 000 people no can't be the weakest lang no no and everybody in the arena knows well majority of them know oh that guy's not good that's why they're putting him into the like put him into let let lebron let shea let whoever it is go with that guy yeah yeah nobody likes that feeling speaker how awesome is bucky irving he's the man His name is also very fun to say.

Speaker 129 It is.

Speaker 129 Great name.

Speaker 104 Come on, football name. Come on, Bucky.

Speaker 144 He's a Chicago guy, too.

Speaker 37 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 154 He's fucking a beast.

Speaker 139 He is. I mean, he's full of energy all the time.
He's all ball, though. Mm-hmm.
Doesn't do anything else. He's just, and he's 22.
Yeah.

Speaker 31 It's wild. When'd you know he was a dog? Like, this is a guy that we can lean on.

Speaker 139 I mean, talking to him, you could tell his mindset he was.

Speaker 139 But then, like, in practice, when we're not going full to the ground until a game, like, you couldn't tell how many people are going to really make miss.

Speaker 139 Like, some people would get in front of them, but like, in a game, they're not touching him. So, I mean, it was hard to tell until our first game.
Yeah.

Speaker 153 I wonder what that feels like as a running back to where it's just like me and you distance away. It's like, oh, you're not going to touch me.

Speaker 152 Yeah. Good luck.

Speaker 151 Yeah, that's probably a basic feeling.

Speaker 153 That's probably the sick feeling.

Speaker 57 I mean, it's got to be similar in the NBA where you're like, get one-on-one.

Speaker 129 I don't know that feeling. Yeah, you don't know that feeling.
I don't know that feeling. But some guys will.

Speaker 153 Some guys really like, oh, I'm about to cross this team.

Speaker 55 Yeah.

Speaker 31 Have you ever called like ISO? Like, everybody back up. I got this guy.
Yeah.

Speaker 153 One, very, very limited. Yeah.

Speaker 111 Very few times.

Speaker 31 Did it work out?

Speaker 153 Once or twice. Usually it happens like when the best players don't play.
And so it's like, I know I'm going to get a bunch of shots this game.

Speaker 153 So all of a sudden, your confidence and your imagination gets a little.

Speaker 129 And then you tell them to run it again.

Speaker 153 Yeah, yeah. And then I so, like, hey, it's me.

Speaker 151 That's the best part.

Speaker 153 If I'm the guy, if I'm playing point guard that game, like we played against the Suns late in the year, I had a great game. I had like 20-something points, a bunch of assists.

Speaker 141 And

Speaker 153 we had a couple plays where I was like, I vividly remember, I was like, come screen for me. I'm about to go do something.
And then I scored. I was like, that's the best feeling ever.
Yeah.

Speaker 139 What's it like to be on a heat check?

Speaker 139 I can't shoot a basketball, so I don't know.

Speaker 153 Yeah, no,

Speaker 153 that's a fun feeling where you just like, every time you let it go, you feel like it's going to go in.

Speaker 22 You got to have that feeling, though.

Speaker 69 Yeah, when you're ripping it,

Speaker 153 you know exactly where the ball is going to go on time.

Speaker 139 That's probably the same thing.

Speaker 69 Yeah.

Speaker 139 It's more like, for me, it's more like visually, like seeing the field extremely quick and clear,

Speaker 98 Anticipate.

Speaker 139 Yeah. And then at that point,

Speaker 139 the arm takes over, but like it's more the mental aspect of it.

Speaker 114 Are there weeks where the prep, like when you get on the field on Sunday, you're like, oh shit, I'm like really ready to go because I know exactly what they're doing and I have all the answers.

Speaker 154 Yeah.

Speaker 114 That's got to feel incredible.

Speaker 139 That one, that one feels incredible. Yeah.
There's been a few times, like every time we played Cincinnati when I was in Cleveland, I felt like, all right, I'm about to have 300 yards at least. Yeah.

Speaker 154 It's a great feeling. Bengals a lot.
It was good.

Speaker 7 It was good. Yeah.

Speaker 114 I I know you guys got to run in a second.

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Speaker 101 Time to make some noise.

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Speaker 114 And I'm giving my last question to Zach, who's a massive...

Speaker 153 I was wondering if you were going to get an appearance.

Speaker 114 He's a massive Bucs fan. Not a big intercourse guy.

Speaker 31 yeah uh

Speaker 129 he's

Speaker 134 didn't see that but saw the clip saw the clip where he said he wasn't

Speaker 152 uh

Speaker 73 he we've we we speed run

Speaker 114 ran uh his interaction with you baker earlier and he ended up inviting himself on your boat okay he also that's sick that's didn't go great yeah

Speaker 80 you want to go do karate in the garage yeah karate in the garage yeah you karate guy i could be you got room for activities in there

Speaker 139 so much room we can run that.

Speaker 37 Okay.

Speaker 54 All right, so Zach, the floor is yours.

Speaker 111 Oh, Big, how are we doing today, my man? Fantastic.

Speaker 143 Great to see you guys. Want to say I appreciate everything you do for the city of Tampa.
It's so awesome seeing you out there on the field.

Speaker 143 Just a quick quick question. Are there any outside of football, any passion products or hobbies you would look forward to spending more time on later in life?

Speaker 7 Ooh.

Speaker 139 Deep question. Honestly, it's the golf game.
The golf game? Yeah, I would love to see how low I can get my handicap, but right now, not exactly the time for it. Fair enough.
I love that answer.

Speaker 141 Golf great sports, super frustrating.

Speaker 143 And then if you're cool, one more. Is there like a

Speaker 143 comfort meal after game or pre-game that you dive into? That's like your 1-1 of like, you know, this is just going to hit just right?

Speaker 113 Ooh.

Speaker 139 Post-game?

Speaker 153 You just said no. No more questions.

Speaker 122 Out.

Speaker 134 Time for one more. No.

Speaker 139 Pre-game, no. It always depends on the time of the game.
After the game, a lot of carbs. Carbon?

Speaker 10 A lot of carbs, yeah.

Speaker 139 Love that. Because it's just like, you don't.

Speaker 139 I'll have breakfast. Say we're playing at one o'clock.

Speaker 100 I'll have breakfast.

Speaker 141 Pretty standard.

Speaker 139 And then then I won't eat until 6 p.m.

Speaker 139 So it's mac and cheese.

Speaker 152 Yeah.

Speaker 139 Mac and cheese, chicken tenders, wings, whatever it is. Yeah.

Speaker 154 Zach,

Speaker 18 Hip Or, do you have a follow-up question?

Speaker 139 I mean, you were talking in fast forward right now. Oh, my bad.

Speaker 143 I can still.

Speaker 100 You're good. No, no, no.

Speaker 37 I can hear it.

Speaker 111 Is there a so concentrated?

Speaker 143 So, Heisman Trova, we keep that in. Man cave, mantle, at the house, different spot.
Bacher Pad, where are we keeping that?

Speaker 130 Bacher Pad?

Speaker 7 He's very

Speaker 122 good. Second apartment.

Speaker 37 Oh, I bacon.

Speaker 7 Man cave. Yeah, man cave.

Speaker 108 Man cave?

Speaker 31 Yeah. Sweet.
You got a secret apartment that people don't know about?

Speaker 122 Where's your bachelor pad?

Speaker 111 When are we going to kick it?

Speaker 93 So Zach is a recent hire at Barstool.

Speaker 114 He's electric.

Speaker 37 So why are you a Tampa fan?

Speaker 143 So I'm from Lakeland, Florida, which is like Central Florida. And the Bucks have just, my whole life, been a Bucs fan.

Speaker 152 Yeah.

Speaker 15 So he

Speaker 35 got to, he moved to Chicago.

Speaker 114 This is actually the first time he's been west of the Mississippi.

Speaker 30 So we're, we're, Zach is experiencing the new model.

Speaker 85 Yeah.

Speaker 114 But he, when he moved to Chicago, his apartment was right across from McDonald's, and he gained 18 pounds in the first three weeks.

Speaker 93 Uh, tell him what you ate for dinner every night.

Speaker 16 This is this is what you should do after the game, both of you guys.

Speaker 143 I was, I was with you, bigger, I'm carb loading, just like you, comfort, carbs. It wasn't too bad.
Just uh, a lot of protein, too.

Speaker 143 All right, double cheeseburger, you get two patties, a lot of protein.

Speaker 111 I appreciate that, Alex.

Speaker 143 Uh, just uh, two double cheeseburgers, no pickle, a little onion, uh, two large fries, and like 10 to 20 nuggets. Nothing crazy.

Speaker 134 Nothing crazy.

Speaker 37 He just continued to go.

Speaker 7 Yeah, he throws

Speaker 7 it. He always does the nuggets.

Speaker 139 That's his McDonald's order.

Speaker 143 Just carbohydrate.

Speaker 69 We're on the same both two carbload and guys.

Speaker 152 And dessert?

Speaker 143 You and ice cream? Yeah.

Speaker 143 You have a top flavor?

Speaker 139 Like cookies and cream, bro.

Speaker 143 Great pool, SG. Bluebell, yes.
Got nose cream.

Speaker 69 Bluebell.

Speaker 111 I like Ben and Jerry's.

Speaker 143 Makes sense. Maybe rip a pint or two of that.

Speaker 69 Maybe just through the two pints.

Speaker 153 Did you get an apple pie i'm not uh no not apple pie to be dominant do they take do they take open like walk-ons for the nathan's hot dog eating competition

Speaker 31 well no we actually did that earlier this week yeah not not a great hot dog he's not exactly he likes to enjoy his meal that's a sport thing i'm more of like a pleasure guy got you

Speaker 153 no time for anyone no no no yeah i got you well okay one one question what's your favorite west of the mississippi so what's your favorite aspect of lake tahoe being here for a couple days uh the mountains look unreal like it doesn't feel like we're it's like a foreign world that we're in.

Speaker 37 Like, we're just dropping.

Speaker 153 It's not like elevation like this or any kind of.

Speaker 143 And like, there hasn't been a cloud in the sky whatsoever. We're just on a different map.
This isn't, this isn't the earth.

Speaker 141 This is something I've never seen.

Speaker 153 This place is not like most out here. It's a little paradise.

Speaker 151 It's cooped up.

Speaker 139 It's wild. What about yourself?

Speaker 100 Do you have anything in Tahoe that you enjoy?

Speaker 69 Golf. Free golf.

Speaker 111 Golf as well? Yeah, free golf. I like that.

Speaker 7 Free golf.

Speaker 69 Golf's nice. All right.

Speaker 31 Good job, Zach. Great job, Zach.

Speaker 108 Good job.

Speaker 93 All right, Baker, Alex, thank you, boys.

Speaker 114 We appreciate you coming on. This is a lot of fun.
And good luck this week. Good job.

Speaker 69 Appreciate it, guys. Yeah,

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Speaker 117 And now for something completely different.

Speaker 52 Okay, we now welcome on a very, very, very special guest.

Speaker 72 It is Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred.

Speaker 58 Thank you so much, Mr. Commissioner.

Speaker 103 What would you prefer to be called?

Speaker 36 Mr.

Speaker 53 Commissioner, Rob, Bob, Baba?

Speaker 157 Rob would be just fine. Okay.

Speaker 126 Well, I appreciate you coming on.

Speaker 36 We're trying to collect all the commissioners.

Speaker 38 Anytime a commissioner is offered to us, we're like, we have to do it because obviously we're big sports guys and it's very important.

Speaker 78 Let's start with, though, congratulations for an incredible all-star game.

Speaker 5 I would say MLB is the last sport that has an all-star game that matters, and the swing off was great.

Speaker 83 Are you using the swing-off maybe in the future in maybe some regular season stuff?

Speaker 23 And how would you assess the whole all-star game?

Speaker 157 Well, let me start with the all-star game. The entire four days was fantastic for us.
It really was. You know, we had a great home run derby, really exciting.

Speaker 157 Great attendance at Playball Park, which, you know, gives people that don't get into the stadium an opportunity to participate in the weekend.

Speaker 157 And, you know, the game, although they got out 6-0, turned out to be a great game. And I loved the swing off.
I thought it was really exciting. It It was crazy in the ballpark.

Speaker 157 Really, really exciting. Having said that, you know, I don't think people need to worry about home run derbies at the end of regular season games, at least not for right now.

Speaker 157 I mean, it's not something we're talking about.

Speaker 157 You know, we went to it. The All-Star game is, you know, different, obviously, than a regular season game.

Speaker 157 It gives us the ability to let the managers.

Speaker 157 use all the players during the nine innings. You know, you hate to have guys come all the way to the all-star game and then not play.

Speaker 157 And, you know, frankly, for the fans, it's a really exciting way to end the game.

Speaker 31 Yeah, it was. And the swing-off was incredible.

Speaker 31 But when I was watching the swing-off, I couldn't help but think: what if the home run derby was built like the swing-off, where we go back to the format where you get a set amount of swings as opposed to the timing?

Speaker 31 Have you given any thought to changing the format of the home run derby?

Speaker 157 Yeah,

Speaker 157 we will regroup with the SPN and talk about the format of the home run derby. It's one of those things that,

Speaker 157 you know, because it's an exhibition,

Speaker 157 you can, it's easier to change the rules. You know, there's a variety of considerations there.
You know, it's so fast now. We wanted to make it faster, but it's so fast now.

Speaker 157 There's some complaints that people can't even see the home run,

Speaker 157 you know, because the next one's coming so quickly. You know, look,

Speaker 157 I don't think people appreciate how exhausting it is for the players to take that many swings that fast. So it's something we will talk about.

Speaker 31 I did think that the home run derby was a lot of fun to watch.

Speaker 31 I think maybe the biggest reason, there were rumors going into the home run derby that maybe older guys like Christian Yelich were going to play. And America does not want to see that.

Speaker 31 So that was a great decision by getting the young guys. And we don't need Christian Yelich in the home run derby.

Speaker 17 I think we should just make it a rule, like 30, under 30 years old, home run derby only because we want to really.

Speaker 87 It's young stars. You know, it's a showcase.

Speaker 157 You know, I can't tell you the exact number now.

Speaker 157 I had it in my head and I've kind of lost it. But, you know, a lot of the guys, young guys that were in that, they're so motivated.
You know, it's a million-dollar prize.

Speaker 157 I mean, significant, you know, when you're making many millions in a year, it's not quite so important. But I do think you get from the young guys, they get excited to do it.

Speaker 157 It's an opportunity for them to get real exposure.

Speaker 157 You know, the prize is worth it, you know, significant to them. So I take your point about the young guys.
And look, in general, our game is so young right now.

Speaker 72 You know, I mean, the guys are coming into the big leagues they're making a uh an impact really a lot faster than it used to happen yeah uh i don't know if you could fix this i've heard you talk about it where you guys had a strategy with your media where you had a place where everyone went to go watch mlb and then you realized hey we got to go where the people are and we're going to let the clips be out there more um is there any way we can work on uh games getting blacked out in certain areas because i know there's a lot of fans that struggle with that and it's like i just want to watch the game i feel like I pay, you know, to be able to watch every game.

Speaker 67 I want to be able to watch the Cubs when I'm not in Chicago, but I also want to be able to watch it on my phone when I'm in Chicago.

Speaker 101 So

Speaker 2 is there a fix for that?

Speaker 157 Yeah, look, I mean, remember, there's. Fans talk about blackouts number one are at the top of my list in terms of things we need to deal with.

Speaker 157 And there's really, conceptually, three kinds of blackouts, right?

Speaker 157 You know, there's an club has an exclusive territory.

Speaker 157 They have an exclusive deal with usually a regional sports network. And for some reason, in an outlying territory, that regional sports network isn't on every cable provider.

Speaker 157 That one's a tough one for us, right? I mean, because there's a contract in place, there's exclusivity hard to deal with.

Speaker 157 The second kind

Speaker 157 that

Speaker 157 people talk about is that just that a lot of RSNs don't have full distribution, even in the core market anymore. And again, that's something we can work on.

Speaker 157 We're working hard on it to make sure we've taken over five clubs and for those clubs, tried to make sure that as many cable providers as possible have distribution. And then, of course,

Speaker 157 the last one

Speaker 157 is

Speaker 157 national exclusivity.

Speaker 157 And

Speaker 157 we have a lot of national partners right now, right? We obviously the big one, Fox and TNT,

Speaker 157 TBS, but in addition, Apple

Speaker 157 that has some exclusivity. And we are going to make an effort when we redo our national deals to be a little more streamlined, fewer places that have games so that fans can find them more easily.

Speaker 5 I appreciate that because it really is as simple as like, everyone just wants to be able to watch with the, without jumping through a ton of hoops.

Speaker 39 You know, the game is the most important part.

Speaker 157 Britch and listen.

Speaker 157 and look the ideal and i you know i got to be completely clear about this we don't get there till 2028 because that's when our national deals are up but ideally where you would like to be is if you have a digital home for baseball you can go there and buy what you want to buy in market out of market however many games you want to buy and if it's not there it's on one or two maybe national outlets that most people have right you know that that's that's where you'd like to get, ideally.

Speaker 31 I think, yeah, that would be a great place to end up at.

Speaker 31 Right now, we're after the all-star game. We saw the use of the robot umps.

Speaker 31 I know that you grade out the umpires. Major League Baseball gives grades to the umpires depending on their performance.

Speaker 31 How would you grade the robot that called balls and strikes during the all-star game?

Speaker 157 Yeah, you know,

Speaker 157 I'm big on AVS. You know, I mean, I call it the automated strike zone system because, you know, we're still going to have a human umpire behind the plate doing his thing.

Speaker 157 but look the technology is awesome calling our umpires do a great job but look calling balls and strikes is tough for any human being and i do think that the challenge system um

Speaker 31 is you know kind of consistent with the idea of instant replay play give us a chance to use technology to get it right in high leverage situations I do think that in 15, 20 years, we're going to be looking back and saying, I can't believe that we had human beings with their eyeballs trying to determine like a span of inches on guys throwing 100 miles per hour.

Speaker 157 Yeah, it is a hard job. I mean, it is a really hard job.

Speaker 72 Will you at least give us, if you go all the way to robots, will you have the ability for the robots to eject managers and pitchers?

Speaker 157 Oh, yeah. I mean, look, one of our principal considerations, really, you know, I know you're being funny, but the fact

Speaker 157 is we really do want to

Speaker 157 maintain the role of the home plate umpire as the guy that manages the game.

Speaker 157 You know, you saw it. He's got an earpiece in his ear.
It doesn't look very different than the regular game. And we think that's important.

I know that there's a CBA coming up. You guys are in discussions, the owners and the union, talking about what the

Speaker 31 next iteration of baseball from the financial aspect is going to look like.

Speaker 31 A lot of people have talked about the salary cap floor in exchange for the salary cap.

Speaker 31 Is that something that you feel is going to happen in the next CBA?

Speaker 157 Look, you know, I

Speaker 157 spent most of my career in collective bargaining. And one thing I've learned is making predictions in advance

Speaker 157 is usually

Speaker 157 not accurate in terms of how it turns out and really not helpful to the process. I will tell you this.

Speaker 157 We have a ton of fans.

Speaker 157 that feel in a lot of markets who feel like, you know, their team that they're passionate about doesn't have a fair opportunity to compete and at the end of the day we sell competition and we need to be listening to those fans yeah so another another thing that bothers us from our point of view and and and when we do the show we try to stick up for fans is there anything that you can do when you have ownership And I'm not going to name specific ones, but they're not specifically trying to put out a winner year in and year out.

Speaker 58 Like it's clear clear that they're not trying to compete for championships.

Speaker 57 I think it's such a disservice to a city and a fan base when that is happening.

Speaker 5 And I don't know what the fix is.

Speaker 83 And it might be just an impossible question, but it feels like there's got to be something there, or maybe get them out and get someone in there who wants to spend the money to try to put out a winner.

Speaker 157 let me say it this way:

Speaker 157 I think it

Speaker 157 is usually a mistake to focus on the owner when it appears that

Speaker 157 the owner isn't trying, okay, it is usually a product of the system in which you're working.

Speaker 157 And I do believe that it's incumbent on us and the union for the sake of our fans to create a system where the incentives to always appear like you're doing the most possible for your fans to compete is a really important goal for both of us, everybody involved in the game.

Speaker 31 Yeah, I think that you do have conflicting interests sometimes because you've got the reality is that in baseball, you don't have to spend money to make money if you own a team, right?

Speaker 31 Over the course of the years, the value of your team, it's going to go up if history has taught us anything.

Speaker 31 It's a very sound investment that you're making. You don't necessarily have to put the payroll out there to have a winning product to be successful as a businessman from the ownership perspective.

Speaker 31 So, Big Cat and I have actually tossed around a couple ideas of what could happen. Maybe you have three years in a row.
Maybe let's go.

Speaker 66 Five years. Five years in a row.

Speaker 31 You finish in last place in the division. The owners then have to sit in the cheap seats with the fans for the entire season and get to deal with them face to face.

Speaker 65 Well,

Speaker 157 let me say this. Let me go backwards.

Speaker 157 It's important to really, particularly when you get into a bargaining year, you know, that people understand what's really going on in the sport. Okay.
With respect to franchise values, and

Speaker 157 this is a fact

Speaker 157 and it's a surprising fact. The slowest growth in franchise values of the four major professional sports over the last decade has been baseball okay

Speaker 157 and that is in large part due to the perception of a lot of fans that you're talking about where they feel their team doesn't have a fair opportunity to compete i think that um when you see a situation where um the fans feel you know gee he's not spending he's not spending usually this is the thinking that goes on um you know i'm making money

Speaker 157 on my operations year in and year out. Pick a number.
I'm making 20 million bucks, right? So the owner goes to his analytics guy and says, you know, look, I can put another $20 million into payroll.

Speaker 157 And the analytics guy tells him, look, the expectation is with $20 million more in payroll, you're going to win two more games because you're, and that's it, because you're still going to be $150 million less than the big boys.

Speaker 157 That's the conundrum that those owners find themselves in. They don't have the capacity to spend, to get close enough, to make themselves more competitive.

Speaker 157 And we need to fix that for the benefit of the fans in those markets.

Speaker 44 But some of those owners just don't even try.

Speaker 5 They'll be like, oh, you could tell me I could get 10 more wins and I won't even, you know, I'm just going to go and put my product out there and make my money.

Speaker 5 That's where I get frustrated when it feels like those owners aren't really actually putting the full effort out there.

Speaker 157 I can't tell you

Speaker 157 that it doesn't look like that

Speaker 157 sometimes. I can tell you it is the very rare circumstance where an owner doesn't want to win.
I mean, the fact of the matter is people don't buy these

Speaker 157 for business, you know, just because of the business or to make money. They buy it because they want to compete.
They want to deliver their community a winner.

Speaker 157 And, you know, we need to get them within a structure where they have a better opportunity to do that in all of our markets.

Speaker 31 Maybe a test when you're thinking of becoming an owner, a ball knowers test.

Speaker 31 How many home runs does Barry Bonds have? Yeah. You know, give them a standardized test.
If they don't know the sport, they don't get the team. Just have them throw.

Speaker 3 Just have them pay.

Speaker 50 Like, just say, hey, here, throw me this ball. Yeah.

Speaker 45 I just want to see what it looks like.

Speaker 31 Watch the form.

Speaker 157 Look, I don't want to defend my guys endlessly. I will tell you this.
The level of baseball knowledge knowledge among our ownership group is unbelievably high.

Speaker 53 Yeah, but can they throw? Can they throw?

Speaker 145 Yeah, well, that's a different issue.

Speaker 7 Well, there we go.

Speaker 71 Maybe that's what we got to do.

Speaker 10 Look, I can't throw.

Speaker 147 So, you know, what do you want me to tell you?

Speaker 91 We got some dumb, we love dumb ideas.

Speaker 52 So we're just going to throw a couple at you.

Speaker 74 You could just say no, but, you know, some of them might be interesting to you.

Speaker 52 Have you ever thought about the ceremonial first pitch counting?

Speaker 157 No.

Speaker 110 What do you think about that?

Speaker 157 Well, usually when I think about ceremonial first pitches,

Speaker 157 I have to say, I think I'm like a lot of prudent first pitch throwers. Y'all just don't want to embarrass yourself.
Right. Right.

Speaker 52 But think about it like 50 Cent or the president or Beyonce. They are pitching to a live batter and the first pitch counts.

Speaker 37 What do you think?

Speaker 157 I have to tell you, the only one on that list of three that you listed, President Trump has assured me on more than one occasion, he can throw a hell of a first pitch.

Speaker 157 The other two, you're on your own.

Speaker 122 Okay, okay.

Speaker 31 I mean, George Bush had maybe the most iconic first pitch of all time. That should have counted as a strike.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 157 President Bush was actually a player in college and is a pretty darn good athlete. Yeah.

Speaker 31 So we're curious when we actually do have one more dumb idea for you. I have a couple more.

Speaker 37 Okay.

Speaker 31 The bases.

Speaker 31 Have you thought about making them even bigger?

Speaker 157 Well,

Speaker 157 that's interesting.

Speaker 157 I have to tell you,

Speaker 157 that the bigger base idea of all of those rule changes, like I got the clock. I understood why we were doing that from the very beginning.
The shift thing, I got that too.

Speaker 157 You know, get people where they're supposed to be and, you know, you're going to get a little more offense. I really like the bigger base thing.
I'm like, what? My guys came to me with that.

Speaker 157 I'm like, what the hell are you guys thinking about?

Speaker 157 But, you know, in some ways, it's been the most exciting change in terms of making the running game such a significant part of the sport again.

Speaker 31 Yeah, I was right there with you. And then somebody just explained to me, PFT, they're bigger.
And then I was like, oh, okay, I get it.

Speaker 37 Yeah, that's a great idea. Yeah, they are.

Speaker 157 Yeah, and you know, you think about it, they're not, I mean, the difference in size is not so much, but man, it has really made a difference in terms of the way the game's played.

Speaker 43 Okay, another dumb idea.

Speaker 5 This might be where you start looking at the guys behind the camera and you're like, why did you set me up with this interview?

Speaker 101 Just hear me out, though.

Speaker 52 No bad ideas. Can we be in the trust tree? No bad ideas.

Speaker 43 100%.

Speaker 157 Okay. You've got, I will not be overly critical.
How about background?

Speaker 47 Okay, perfect.

Speaker 77 Steroid Month.

Speaker 11 Oh.

Speaker 7 Just one month where we.

Speaker 145 Hey, yeah.

Speaker 52 Listen, you said it, though.

Speaker 77 You said we're the trusty.

Speaker 19 I understand.

Speaker 157 You know, look, let me say this. I understand

Speaker 157 that people like to see home runs. And, you know, because of my professional experience, I understand that steroids work.
I'm a hard no.

Speaker 139 How about that? Yeah.

Speaker 80 Okay, that's fair. That's fair.

Speaker 108 Fair enough.

Speaker 12 All right, that's fair.

Speaker 31 What if steroid month was October?

Speaker 37 Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 31 I mean, now we're talking about ratings.

Speaker 12 All right, what

Speaker 73 back to back to real questions.

Speaker 53 What's going on with the balls?

Speaker 52 I don't understand. So

Speaker 52 I don't buy into all the theories of like they're super juice this year, but it does feel like there is a difference year to year.

Speaker 59 Is that something you guys are actively trying to figure out?

Speaker 157 Yeah, so let's be clear about this year.

Speaker 157 The only complaint that's been made about the ball this year is that it has more drag, which actually makes it harder to hit home runs, which kind of doesn't make a whole hell of a lot of sense when you look at who's leading in the American league, particularly those two, right?

Speaker 157 I mean, a lot of home runs being hit. So, but here's the problem: our ball is handmade.

Speaker 157 You know, I've been, you go to Costa Rica, they're made in a factory. They are literally hand-sewn, right? It's leather, all natural materials, hand-sewn.

Speaker 157 Year to year,

Speaker 157 there will be variation with a handmade product. They're just, it's like human, you know, the human condition, right? Can't be perfect.
And, you know, we test them extensively.

Speaker 157 We have a range within which they fall every single year.

Speaker 157 And we've actually gone through a process where we've tightened those ranges and taken more control actually by investing in Rawlings and making sure there's no changes in the process to minimize the differences year to year.

Speaker 157 Will that issue ever go away? When you work in the game as long as I have, you know there are certain issues that are never going away.

Speaker 157 You are always going to hear about the baseball, no matter what we do.

Speaker 50 Yeah, no, that's true. That's absolutely true.

Speaker 45 That the baseballs will always be a story.

Speaker 31 I'm curious: whenever we talk to a commissioner, you are the second commissioner on part of my take.

Speaker 31 I always want to know what does a commissioner do on a day-to-day basis? Like,

Speaker 157 how much of your time is spent putting out fires versus meeting with rights holders versus talking to ownership like a normal day at the office for a commission so i i think of about my job kind of two silos right on the silo that i think of as the governance side that's regular communication with ownership uh franchise transfers disciplinary matters, collective bargaining.

Speaker 157 That's it literally breaks down. That's about half the time.

Speaker 157 And then the other half of the time is what you would expect from somebody that runs, you know, central business is a six billion dollar business.

Speaker 157 It's, you know, media rights, licensing problems, just the everyday running of a business that generates that kind of revenue.

Speaker 31 Do you have time to watch all the games? Do you, do you watch

Speaker 12 every day?

Speaker 157 I watch a lot of baseball.

Speaker 157 You know,

Speaker 157 I grew up a Yankee fan. I watch a lot of Yankee games still.

Speaker 157 I try to balance that off by equal time with the Mets because I live in New York, but most nights I'm flipping between Yankee or Met and the extra innings package to follow what's going on in the rest of the league.

Speaker 71 We have a co-worker who's not going to like the fact that you said that you watch more Yankees than Mets.

Speaker 14 Yeah.

Speaker 5 He has dubbed you Rob Manfraud.

Speaker 58 Do you have any comments on that?

Speaker 157 Yeah, you know, that's a clever play on words.

Speaker 8 Frank the Tank, listen, you should do a walk with Frank the Tank.

Speaker 23 We can get that set up.

Speaker 72 It would be an electric, electric interview.

Speaker 157 are you familiar with frank the tank yeah you know look yes i i am i am um you know i actually i and i honestly i'm i'm getting old i sat behind

Speaker 157 um

Speaker 157 right behind home plate at city field right in back of two of your colleagues okay who were big Mets fans, and I can't remember who it was.

Speaker 78 It might have been Frank and Stu, which is like,

Speaker 78 if you can sit behind them, then you're good.

Speaker 69 Like, you've passed the test.

Speaker 157 Can I tell you something? So here's the thing.

Speaker 157 I'm a beer drinker you know i try to do it not necessarily sitting in a ballpark for obvious reasons i'm telling you these two guys put together a collection of empty cups that was really i mean it was impressive

Speaker 31 yeah frank frank maybe if it was like yeah frank is on that good

Speaker 157 you know we did we chatted back and forth and you know the the whole thing and i can tell you who i was with i just can't remember the two guys names but it would they were impressive.

Speaker 31 The biggest complaint that Frank has had is that he says that you don't love baseball. Do you love baseball?

Speaker 157 Can I tell you something? When you spend, you know, I started working on baseball first as an outside lawyer for 10 years and then working here.

Speaker 157 Since 1988, I have done one thing in my professional career, and that's worked in baseball. And, you know, some days are good.
Some days are great.

Speaker 157 Other days are really, really hard. And if you don't love this game, you don't want to do this.

Speaker 31 are you still romantic about baseball absolutely

Speaker 157 absolutely i'll tell you you know um there were a couple of things um at the all-star game that you know kind of you do get almost emotional about you know i was down on the field before the game and i was watching joe tore who's worked with me for years and years back in uniform as a coach went over and chatted with joe and he said a couple of things about what he was thinking that i have to tell you just really stirring i mean it it just makes you feel great about the game and how important the game is.

Speaker 31 And the Hank Aaron moment, that was another one. That was great.

Speaker 12 Unbelievable.

Speaker 157 Absolutely, absolutely unbelievable. You know, and for me,

Speaker 157 you know, I've known, I knew Hank and his wife, Billy, for a long time. He and Commissioner Seely were very close.
And, you know, so I'd see him frequently at special events.

Speaker 157 To me, the most emotional part of that was watching Billy during that. She's a great woman, and it was a great tribute and just really emotional to see how she reacted to it.

Speaker 126 Yeah.

Speaker 5 I got a real question about, you know, the Frank, we're joking with the man fraud thing, but although he does call you that all the time, but how do you

Speaker 78 kind of compartmentalize and deal with that where you're getting booed or people are blaming you for everything?

Speaker 52 Because I think it is one of those things with the commissioners of all four sports leagues where there's, yeah, some things you can disagree with, but at the end of the day, their job isn't really to be liked and they get killed a lot.

Speaker 67 And that's kind of part of what you sign up for.

Speaker 77 Can you like, does it, does it affect you?

Speaker 157 Look, anybody, truthfully, anybody who tells you it doesn't bother them, they're probably not telling you the truth. Nobody likes to get booed.
I'll tell you a funny story. So my

Speaker 157 seven-year-old grandson went to the draft. He sat right in the front row.
And there was two funny things about that.

Speaker 157 You know, when you come out and you see this little kid that you love dearly, you know, he's clapping his hands off. The booze don't matter you quite as much.

Speaker 157 But, you know, he came in the next morning and I was sitting having a cup of coffee and he said to me, you know, Papa, there was no booze last night.

Speaker 157 I said, George, you got to be boo deaf if you didn't hear them.

Speaker 39 That's a good grandson.

Speaker 108 He loves

Speaker 13 grandson.

Speaker 157 But look, you know, it's part of the job. You know, you understand that, you know, people want to express themselves and you try not to pay too much attention to it.

Speaker 157 You have to be thick-skinned and accept it for what it is.

Speaker 31 Is that something that you guys are going to be talking about in the next CBA in regards to the draft?

Speaker 31 The idea that it's not always the best player or the player that most teams have at the top of their draft board that will get drafted in the top positions, you know, because of how you get slotted in with how much money you're expected to sign for.

Speaker 31 It feels a little bit disjointed from every other draft that we've seen where it's, you know, you take the best player with the top pick.

Speaker 157 Yeah, I think

Speaker 157 that there are aspects of our draft that have gotten away from a really, really simple but important concept. The team that was the worst last year

Speaker 157 should get the best player in the draft. And there should be nothing that interferes with that correlation, right?

Speaker 157 So, you know, if hard slots are what it takes to make that happen, that's what we ought to do.

Speaker 157 The lottery thing, I'm not sure that it really affects behavior of teams in any meaningful way.

Speaker 157 And, you know, sometimes you get into these situations where the team that was the worst is picking further down in the draft than they ought to be.

Speaker 157 I'm a believer, you know, every 30 picks, a team should have a pick

Speaker 157 unless they've traded it somehow, and that the worst team should get the first pick. Yeah.

Speaker 52 This has been great. Thank you so much, Rob.

Speaker 5 I got one last question.

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Speaker 23 So, so awesome having you on.

Speaker 5 You know, you're always welcome to come back.

Speaker 83 My last question is,

Speaker 1 do you think the 50-50 raffles at each stadium are rigged and how the hell can I win it?

Speaker 157 I don't think they're rigged and I got nothing for you on that one.

Speaker 139 Oh, come on.

Speaker 119 All right, what about this?

Speaker 119 Can we get some gold cards?

Speaker 157 Listen, here's the thing. Oh, gold cards, you got to earn.

Speaker 157 Gold cards you got to earn. Yep.

Speaker 157 Listen, guys, it was fun to be with you. I'm glad I had a chance to do it.
We'll do it again, I'm sure.

Speaker 23 All right. Thanks so much.

Speaker 5 Sounds good.

Speaker 107 Appreciate it.

Speaker 147 Take care. All right.
See ya.

Speaker 103 Okay.

Speaker 15 Good show, boys.

Speaker 30 We got anything else? Good welcome.

Speaker 49 Football's back. I'm just so happy.
Football's back.

Speaker 96 Hank, football's back. Say it back.

Speaker 40 Football's back. Say it back.
Football.

Speaker 108 It is. I just want to say it.

Speaker 40 Just say it. It's not.

Speaker 100 You don't even like football. It is.

Speaker 31 It's disgusting.

Speaker 2 It is sad that we're like,

Speaker 57 this is the best it gets for you.

Speaker 23 Like, this is the best hank we got.

Speaker 108 What is true?

Speaker 52 That means

Speaker 31 you're happy with your personal life right now. Yeah,

Speaker 33 you have golf, and it's summer.

Speaker 78 And then as soon as when we get our happiest,

Speaker 37 you are like,

Speaker 37 that's good, though.

Speaker 40 It can't all be, it's like cycles. You can't all be on the same cycle.

Speaker 28 It'd be nice to have everyone be excited about football.

Speaker 40 I was super excited about football for like six years.

Speaker 63 Who's your college team going to be this year?

Speaker 40 I don't know. UNC.

Speaker 100 Yeah, UNC.

Speaker 40 Yeah, oh, UNC.

Speaker 7 You should do a tour of all of the

Speaker 5 dude.

Speaker 57 I need an update of every UNC game from you.

Speaker 21 Done.

Speaker 5 Not that you have to watch them.

Speaker 23 Done. Sorry, Washington, you're out.

Speaker 99 Yeah.

Speaker 46 It was fun while it lasted.

Speaker 31 Oh, isn't ACC Media Week this week? Might be. Does Jordan get her own booth?

Speaker 82 She has to. Yeah.

Speaker 76 Has she reached out about the takes?

Speaker 125 Anyone?

Speaker 49 So a lot of people were reaching out.

Speaker 86 Appreciate everyone who won an award.

Speaker 59 Did RG3 ever say anything about it?

Speaker 31 I did not see anything from RG3. Mel Kuyper was fired up.

Speaker 49 What?

Speaker 68 He posted on his story.

Speaker 81 He said, thanks for the award.

Speaker 23 No shit. Yeah.

Speaker 20 He has an Instagram?

Speaker 108 Mm-hmm.

Speaker 7 Wow, good for Mel.

Speaker 31 Jerry says football's back. Jerry just downloaded all his fantasy apps right now.
Breaking news, football's back.

Speaker 108 Oh, football's so back then. Football's so back.

Speaker 37 Okay.

Speaker 132 Oh,

Speaker 54 hear that click.

Speaker 96 Let's talk about something else for a second.

Speaker 101 Pug, how was your weekend?

Speaker 18 Pug, how was your weekend?

Speaker 99 Did you tap in?

Speaker 141 I tapped in once.

Speaker 116 Where did you tap in? What was the number you gave it?

Speaker 40 Three.

Speaker 37 Fuck, 99.

Speaker 45 Damn it. What are you doing, dude?

Speaker 99 He's the big ass looking in.

Speaker 117 He's stuck in numbers.

Speaker 11 I said, what's the number?

Speaker 140 91, Pug.

Speaker 54 That's fucked up memes.

Speaker 108 He had headphones on, too.

Speaker 5 Yeah, he did have the headphones on.

Speaker 141 I was getting ready to answer the question.

Speaker 130 That's what he does.

Speaker 146 He gets you off guard, and then you don't know what that is.

Speaker 123 That

Speaker 146 They take your number, and then I take yours.

Speaker 31 60. It's a chain reaction.

Speaker 40 91 put.

Speaker 42 I told him I was playing offense for him.

Speaker 40 Need more? I'll go 21.

Speaker 104 What's your other number, memes?

Speaker 131 I got a bunch of them. Six.

Speaker 40 77.

Speaker 57 Six. All right, I'll do six.

Speaker 118 26.

Speaker 133 What do you got, Shane?

Speaker 80 What happened?

Speaker 99 18.

Speaker 37 Shane? Oh, DMC took your number.

Speaker 31 I said 60. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 126 Wait, no one took 21.

Speaker 52 Oh, did Max take 21? Yeah.

Speaker 132 Oh.

Speaker 132 What the fuck, Max?

Speaker 123 John B, dude.

Speaker 45 It's a chain reaction.

Speaker 45 LT, Jeff.

Speaker 52 We just can't let memes ever win with three.

Speaker 44 That's the thing.

Speaker 1 It's like, if three ever comes up, which it never will, it has to be someone else.

Speaker 58 Memes, if you win with 99, I think we all agree it's bullshit.

Speaker 58 Oh!

Speaker 91 looks like 89 to me. Oh my god, that's back-to-back times.

Speaker 89 Should have picked 89.

Speaker 126 Should have picked 89, bro.

Speaker 31 Love you guys.

Speaker 115 Sorry, memes.

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