PMS 2.0 1370 - Feel Good Friday With Shams Charania, Ian Rapoport, & AJ Hawk

Hello beautiful people and welcome to our humble abode, the Thunderdome.

On this Feel Good Friday, June 27th, 2025, this program begins right now.

Sports are happening all around us.

The last two nights we saw the next generation of potential NBA superstars.

Congrats to everybody that got drafted and got two-way deals into the NBA.

Now, Ace Bailey and a Utah Jazz is certainly something that's going to be monitored.

We had Ryan Smith, the owner of the Utah Jazz on yesterday, and he said, said, we're going to love the hell out of you, buddy, whenever you get out here.

Just know that.

We're going to support him.

We got selfless veterans here.

We have an entire staff.

We have a state that's ready for you.

That's what Ryan Smith said.

Then last night during the second round of the draft, they were chit-chatting about how there's still maybe a little bit of a disagreement on where he's going to play, what he's going to do.

From what I have heard, it seems like the people that are in the know, we'll talk to Sean Shirania here in about 10, 15 minutes or so to kind of wrap up all the NBA news from this week, which there has been a plethora of.

From what everybody's saying in the NBA world, this guy's kind of stuck.

Like, hey, this is, you're unless the Utah Jazz decide to trade you like you're kind of stuck or you can sit out and come back next year you'll miss out on I think nine million dollars is what the rookie contract was for the fifth overall pick or something 40 million in total so I'll be excited to hear what Sean says and also I'll be excited to see if Ace who's seemingly a dog I mean every all accounts dog on the basketball court I'll be excited to see what his uh thoughts are on Utah if he gets out there and experiences a little bit you know Utah obviously not a big city okay Utah is not like

considered a big market.

But I think if you were to go there, like we were able to do, you would feel that the entire state is on your side.

Like the entire place is here for you.

And small markets, I think, are kind of a thing of the past, anyways, with the day, the way modern technology is and the way things are shared, and what content matters, what clips don't matter.

Oklahoma City and Indiana Pacers obviously go in a seven-game NBA Final Series and the ratings inevitably end up 10% year over year.

All that matters is good basketball.

And if you do well and accomplish everything you want to do for the Utah Jazz, which is what Ryan Smith said, he said he can accomplish everything he's ever dreamed of here.

We can win here.

He can make a lot of money here.

We can do everything.

He can be the king here.

He can do everything he wants to do here.

Hopefully he'll be able to experience that.

And if not, drama will keep Shams' thumbs active.

We'll talk to him in about 13 minutes.

In the second hour, we'll have our weekly wrap-up with Rapsheet and Friends.

Us being the friends, he'd be in Rapsheet, Ian Rappaport, talking about the NFL news, because there is some NFL news that came out this week.

And then tonight, obviously, big deal because the next generation of NHL superstars happen as the NHL draft is this evening.

So sports are happening.

It's certainly offseason.

It is certainly an off-season conversation.

We've been very thankful to the basketball community for allowing us to do basketball shows.

You know, in the past, obviously, we are football doofuses.

Guilty.

Sure.

As charge.

Every day, brother.

Whatever.

It just continues to give, too.

Oh, there's a new

renovation deal in Cincinnati.

Fine, let's talk about that.

I mean, NFL, we appreciate the hell out of, but we've never been able to really do basketball because we didn't really know the basketball world.

Also, we didn't have access to their clips, didn't have access to anything really in the basketball world other than former players that we were maybe friends with.

But did they have the, you know, like the whole thing.

So this year, getting a chance to be like welcomed into the NBA and having an opportunity to cover basketball and chit-chat, I mean, you talk about Q-Rich, you talk about UD, obviously, you talk about Jamal Crawford, you talk about everybody that kind of helped Perk coming on afterwards.

And then, obviously, the Pacers helping us out and Adam Silver wanting us to be part of it.

It's like

basketball was really cool.

Yeah.

Feels like it's over.

Yeah, certainly.

Well,

free agency is starting, so maybe it's not.

Oh, yeah, but all the big names, oh, because most craziest.

Yeah, we still got Giannis out there.

You know, we don't know what's going to happen with that.

There will probably be a couple other guys.

NHL draft tonight.

Let's have a, we got a couple big things.

That's the talk to table at Boston Connor and at Ty Schmidt.

You two

dressed perfectly for the occasion.

Casual Friday, man.

You get it.

Not casual.

It seems like a cool Friday.

There ain't nothing casual about this, brother.

I don't know.

Speak for your half of the toxic table, Santa Conner.

This is cool Friday if you have a leather jacket.

Hey, no hat on either, huh, Bub?

I told you, maybe there's other iterations with this jacket.

It's been calling to me like the green goblin mask since I put it on on Wednesday.

Truly, it's been calling to me since I laid my eyes on it, as you guys can tell.

But yeah, I had to.

I didn't even, to be be honest, I didn't want to, but I had to.

Well, that jacket shows you, obviously, and I thought maybe we would go clean shave with a mustache.

And then let's go to another clothing item that has really captivated you guys over there.

That yard goat tractor.

That's a good hat.

It's the best hat that's ever been created.

But how about the shirt?

Yeah, you know, I wore another shirt in today that was nice, but I looked at myself in the mirror and I was like, it's kind of tight.

I kind of look like a fatso with this, so I'm not going to wear this.

You know, I took it off and I said, well, what's that?

That's a Big League Chew Aaron Judge T.

Give me that thing.

Not very many people have this.

It's a great shirt, and I think the best part about it is the hat really complements the shirt.

Grand Slam grape.

Exactly.

Yeah, great flavor.

Big League Chew still doing it out there?

Certainly.

Big time.

Certainly.

Really?

People still smacking bags?

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Really?

Yeah.

Big League Chew still smacking bags.

Smacking bags and chomping jaws, you know, per usual.

But the only thing I will say about big league chew is it's very easy to go through a bag and i don't know six minutes you know kind of just chew that thing like an ass and every once in a while if you get one that's too dusty yeah

that's not good but if you get a good big league chew bag wow what a time you're in heaven you're the cock of the walk yeah exactly you're not the only one that has a big league chew shirt on i don't know if you looked in the back zito's got paul skeins one on

so it feels like i'm not 100 sure Okay, I'm not 100% sure.

I should keep track more of the packages that get delivered to the Thunderdome.

I do appreciate what we have going on now, where it's like every couple weeks there's an unboxing that happens here.

Purge.

And then there is a decision to be made on whether this goes immediately into the trash can or it gets a chance to hang around for a couple of days, then go immediately to the trash can.

Exactly.

The Big League Chew popped up out of nowhere.

Shout out to Big League Chew sending us shit.

It had to come from them, right?

Yes, it did.

It did.

They have some sort of deal with the MLB Players Association.

So I think they sent Ewan Diggs one with the Paul Skeens.

And then I believe, unfortunately, Connor got one with Raphael Devers, who has since been traded from the Red Sox.

Oh, so that's like a collectible now.

Yeah,

collectible.

I don't know.

I don't think it's worth much.

Thanks a lot, Big League Chew.

It would look good underneath that jacket.

I disagree.

I think, you know, underneath this jacket.

Hair looks good too, Bub.

Thank you very much.

Underneath this jacket, it's really just not what it's even about.

You know, it's really just a what's on the back of that jacket?

A lot of people are asking.

Are we revealing it?

I mean, I don't know.

It's on you, brother.

A lot of people are saying, oh, look, it's the grease,

you know, T-Birds thing, something like that.

I don't know what that is.

I don't know.

You're the one that I want.

Who, whoo, who?

I don't know.

You know,

that's not this jacket.

This is a different jacket, completely different from you're the one that I want, who, whoo, who.

Okay.

So I don't know why that was the assumption, but maybe, maybe we'll reveal it at the end of the show.

Again, I don't know.

I don't like to turn around in it because I love seeing myself.

You're telling me

that's not a Thunderbirds that's on a T-Birds jacket?

No, no.

God, what is this?

What is this?

1988?

No, this isn't a T-Birds jacket.

You're not Zuko, huh?

Look, Danny Zuko.

Granted, everything that Danny Zuko did after the film and as his life progressed, not sure.

But that movie, I mean, 10 out of 10.

I am a Zuko guy, I will say.

I do respect his style.

I think you look amazing.

The hair looks great, too.

I think that is the first time the world has gotten to see you since you've grown out the size.

Yeah,

last week I had no app for a couple of days, but the they're finally you know going behind the ears the wings because you were transitioning from mullet cut which is a fade here to just full long hair to just long hair yeah and even now like at some point I will cut this down to kind of shape it all and then continue to grow it off oh like a cool shape there's a guy named Mickey who does uh is a barber for the WWE but you'll never be able to ah with that leather jacket maybe he's coolest looking guy I've ever seen okay okay he owns quills if we're back at the old place wow he walks in there and everybody says wow that's the coolest looking guy I've ever seen.

He has long hair that is like

the way it is would be great.

It would be a great bucket for it.

The way it sets.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

That's kind of where, because right now, I didn't realize this.

My hair is pretty long.

Yeah, you've been doing this a long time.

You've been at it.

Congratulations.

Yeah, a long time.

So I think once this, the side gets to a level that I like it at, then I can kind of cut all the hair to the side length and then we can kind of reset this market.

Is that jacket going to be able to survive summer?

No doubt about it.

In here, brother?

Yeah, this jacket's gonna be able to survive just fine.

This is gonna be every Friday for the rest of my life.

It's been real hot outside.

Oh, yeah.

It was like 102 or something yesterday, so it felt like we were out there in the zebra.

Humid.

Humid, thick out there.

It's a wonderful time.

NHL drafts tonight.

Come on.

The future.

We're talking big league chewing baseball.

Exactly.

It's been a half season.

One half of the hammer.

Cowboys AP Tony's here.

Super cool hat.

Thank you.

This was a gift from the one, Taylor Luan.

Really?

Yeah.

Sang Great National Anthem the other day.

He did.

I saw him one time.

I said, that's a really cool hat.

And he said, it's yours, brother.

That's the type of guy he is.

Oh, he took that off his head in Columbus, maybe?

Maybe he brought it here.

No, he gave it to me to give it to him.

He gave it to you to give to me.

I think it was in Columbus.

We were walking down the street.

I think,

if I'm not mistaken.

You guys went to Herbie's steakhouse, got a Herbie?

Yeah, I think we did.

Great gift from Taylor Luan.

Yeah, he's a good guy.

I will say traveling with it, pain in the ass.

Yeah.

But I knew, hey, it's a good gift that is

coming to tone digs there you look really cool thank you tonight uh the nhl draft there are no odds for the first overall pick and we think there is a chance it's because uh this guy matthew schafer is such an odds-on favorite to be the number one overall pick but the guy far back corner there old hagan

Dog.

Hagen, sorry, plural.

He's from Long Island.

The Islanders have the number one overall picked.

So there's a lot of people thinking that there's a chance maybe the hometown kid gets drafted.

But Matthew Schaefer, supposed to be the guy who's supposed to go tonight.

NHL drafts, very rarely do we have any clue who any of these guys are.

Very, very rarely.

Normally from, obviously Hagin's being from Long Island is a big deal.

That's America.

I think there's a couple other Americans up there too.

But normally these first overall picks are from either somewhere in Canada or they're from a country over upon way over there in a super cold part of town.

Correct.

And so whenever they get drafted, hockey purists know the names, but most people don't.

Unless it's like a generational talent.

Like when old buddy Bedard was coming out for Chicago a couple of years ago, like this one could be, this guy could be the guy.

That really hasn't happened this year with this draft.

I haven't heard like, hey, potential the guy, but everybody that gets drafted in the NHL is fucking good.

Like everybody,

they all have an opportunity to be like very, very good.

It's a, I think their hit rate's probably a little bit better.

Yeah, the generational guy is next year.

You mentioned with Bedard and, you know, McDavid before that and shit, Crosby, like those guys, the dude that's considered in almost that kind of pantheon, generational generational, yeah, is next year, McKenna.

But that Hagins kid, he played at BC from Long Island.

And you remember that camera that the Atlanta Falcons had that was above, and they were following B.

John Robinson, and it just showed him because they were following like the football and it was on a run.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, Atlanta, yeah.

Bingo, yeah.

They did that with Hagins during a BC game.

And I don't, I don't think it was centered on the puck.

I think it was centered on him.

And he is ridiculous the way he kind of,

especially like in college hockey, because a lot of the times they're getting drafted from the Canadian League or the OHL, whatever the hell it is.

And

it's hard to tell.

Like when with BC, it being college hockey, knowing who they're playing and everybody, and sometimes if it's a top five team in the country or whatever, like Hagens, he holds up, he can have the puck in the offensive zone for as long as the Penguins did against the Blackhawks.

Three shifts.

Three shifts, yeah, and on his own.

Like, he is dangler.

He's got the dangler.

And if I I remember correctly, he's got some size, too.

I think he might be a little bit of a big son of a bitch.

The Matthew Schaefer kid actually played with McKenna on the Canadian national team or whatever,

the youth squad.

But if he gets drafted number one tonight, he will be the first player since Connor McDavid to go number one in the aforementioned OHL draft and number one in the NHL draft.

That's Schaefer highlights right there.

He played for the Erie Otters.

Don't look now.

You know who else played for the Erie Otters?

Who?

McDavid.

Wow.

Huh?

How about it?

Is that right, Nick?

I just got that one right?

That is.

Also, Stanley Cup champion in front of the program, Mike Ropp played for the Erie Otters.

Rupper.

Grew up up there, I think, if I do recall, did high school.

The hockey journey to professional is wild.

It's one where most kids get up and leave their houses in high school and go live elsewhere, either at academies or in people's houses.

They're literally living

like a foreign exchange student.

They're coming in to play hockey, either in these junior leagues or these semi-professional leagues.

Some guys guys go to college, obviously.

The frozen four is obviously electrifying every single year, but hockey will find you.

If you're playing, there is an avenue to get there.

And as a Pittsburgh Penguins fan, I obviously had gotten a chance to learn about some hilarious NHL draft stories when Evgeny Malkin was drafted number one overall out of Russia.

And there was like real conversation immediately about like, we don't know if he's ever going to be able to get here.

And they're like, what do you mean?

Like, well, his contract's pretty tied up in Russia.

And, you know, there's some real worry.

Allegedly, got smuggled out of the country to get to Pittsburgh.

And then his family had to do the same thing to get to Pittsburgh.

His family was obviously beloved, but it was like a storyline that was like, is this guy even going to be able to get here?

Like, I think in the NBA, there's a lot of European guys that have been getting drafted.

For hockey, it's always been like, got to deal with that league, too, got to make it all happen.

And I'm excited to see what the NHL does tonight.

Now, Nick, what are some storylines we need to look into this evening?

If it's not just the draft prospects that maybe none of us know any names of other than the hockey purist people.

Yeah, you mentioned the prospects and all the kids' dreams come true being selected tonight.

One of the things is this is the year the NHL is doing a decentralized draft.

So normally when the NHL is a draft, all the GMs, player or all the GMs, players,

front office people, they're all in the building together.

This year they're doing it kind of like how the NFL does it where they have their draft rooms set up in their facilities.

So it's a little bit different.

Normally they'd all be on the floor mingling and chatting.

And

kind of you can see them doing business with each other because at the draft, a lot of trades happen.

So you see an opportunity for a lot of veteran players to get moved.

Right now,

Noah Dobson is the guy for the New York Islanders that a lot of guys are speculating will be traded.

He's a 25-year-old defenseman.

He's a power play quarterback.

He's offensively talented from the back end, makes a great first pass.

He's going to command somewhere between $10 or $11 million a year on his next contract.

So we're looking for a trade and a big extension for Noah Dobson.

Right now, some of the teams reportedly in the mix.

You've got Montreal Canadiens, the Columbus Blue Jackets, and the St.

Louis Blues all sniffing around.

And people speculate if the Islanders are able to get some more picks back in this Dobson trade, they may move up again into the top 10 and try and get James Higgins, the Long Island kid, a little bit later.

Okay, love to hear that.

Thank you for the breakdown.

I mean, I feel like I just, I know exactly what's going to happen this evening.

The Noah Dobson trade feels like everybody agrees that that's going to happen.

I noticed that you missed one of the talking points out of the potential storylines.

The road to Lord Stanley's Cup coming back to Pittsburgh starts tonight.

I have it on good authority of Kyle Dubis, the new general manager.

Doopus.

That's not his name.

His name is Dubis.

D-U-B-A-S.

Yep.

I hope he smacks you in the mouth next time he sees you.

No.

No, he's not a doofus.

He's a young superstar, a young legend, a man who's been tasked with rebuilding and retooling a legendary franchise.

Wow.

And it starts tonight.

And he's going to get it right.

Don't you worry about what happens out of that.

The road to Lord Stanley Cup coming back to the south side of pittsburgh pennsylvania starts tonight with a draft that's what people are talking i we're just telling you what people are talking yeah it starts tonight and ends when dupis gets fired because when that happens this guy then maybe dubis was very good though i'm a huge dupis guy unfortunately i i know i'm staring down what maybe you guys are too blind to see okay he he he has a great draft oh my god he he gets a bunch of good players you know what happens what the penguins finish below 500.

What?

And then, hey, Dupiss did well.

Let's not just throw out what Dupiss did for us.

Dupiss.

It's not B.

Let's not throw out what Dupiss did for us all year, okay?

Let's not do that.

Can I ask you a question, Pat?

Next year.

Hold on, hold on.

Let me get to the end of the road.

And no, we didn't trade away.

We're the first starts.

Yeah, not yet.

That wasn't it.

You get to that next season, and now we're in 2020.

Now we're in the next draft.

Yeah, yeah, now we're in the next draft.

Again, Dupiss.

Amazing.

It's so good.

Bruins end up with the number one pick.

They get Gavin McKenna.

Dupiss and the boys, you guys probably have 10.

And then that year, not good.

It's just a farewell tour for Sidney Crosby, all of a sudden, Crosby.

Malkin's already gone by this point because this is his last year.

Crosby, then he retires, sails off into the sunset.

It's a very good celebration.

Then

Dupiss, coach, bald coach, weirdo guy.

Muse.

Muse, yeah, Dan Muse.

Dan Muse.

Both of them are gone.

He's not weary.

He's a good guy.

He's a good friend.

Full-blown rebuke.

I guess he's a Boston guy, actually.

So, yeah, he is probably a good guy.

But full-blown rebuild starts then after Crosby.

Then

the road to Pittsburgh's next Stanley Cup starts.

You have no idea.

Cindy Crosby's coming back.

Shut up.

Hey, is that Foster jersey still hanging up there?

It is.

And he's still on the team.

We should get that down because they might trade him this weekend.

That's what happened.

And you know what?

Get rid of Marshi.

Get rid of Pasta.

If they get rid of Postgre.

Bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye.

That's what the Boston Bruins are known.

Bye-bye, Boston Bruins.

They're saying bye-bye to all the Boston Bruins.

Look, first of all, the Martian Trey looking back at it, not a bad trade.

Okay.

Got a Stanley Cup representative from the Boston Bruins.

Brad Martian won a Stanley Cup.

I'm happy for him and shit.

And guess what?

The Bruins got a first-round pick.

So

trade a 37-year-old who, you know, has two, four years left, but not with Boston.

You know, get a first-round pick or let him walk at the end of the season.

What does Don Sweeney do?

I don't know.

Your team, Don Sweeney?

I guess I get, well, looking back, all of a sudden, hold on, Don.

What did you know?

You know, that's what I'm thinking.

The guy always went to Potsdam.

But again, the foundation, just like the Celtics, the Bruins got their foundation.

It's Posta McAvoy and the Swayman Jackson.

Where the Post is gone.

Post is not going anywhere.

Post is.

Hold the Posta, they say.

Posta said that if it was allowed, he would change his nationality to Massachusetts.

Would he play for our Olympic team?

Then he would play for Team USA.

That's right.

Okay, I'm cool with that.

Okay.

Sidney Crosby did petition to be a American in the next Super Duper World Games.

Yep.

What's happening?

The NHL did something cool.

They got the Eight Nations Super Cup.

Yeah, they want to do a World Cup of hockey again in 2028, I believe.

Love that.

Four Nations on Juice.

Yeah, Pittsburgh's trying to host it, I think, if I'm not mistaken.

Pittsburgh's like, hey, come on in.

Todd,

let's go ahead and do this World Cup of hockey here in hockey.

Don.

Let's get away from hockey.

Do you guys have a team still?

Yes, we have a team.

Okay, and Doofus, you guys have picks 11, 12?

His name is Doofus.

Guess who has pick 13?

You guys better not mess that one up because Stevie Eiserman is going to find the next Stevie Eisermans we love hockey uh that is how we talk about hockey we talk shit about our friends hockey teams and uh we enjoy the hell out of hockey also big announcement the commissioner of the nhl uh gary bettman will be joining us next tuesday

next tuesday nhl commissioner gary bettman will be joining us obviously we'll talk about the draft and uh another successful run, another hell of a season for the NHL, and growing popularity, I believe.

And now, the wagon of Florida is something that I can't wait to hear his thoughts of.

Yeah, growing popularity for him, too, it feels like.

This year, I don't think the booze were very loud at all.

And granted, it was at Florida, and Florida won it, so maybe they're all juiced up.

But it feels like Gary Bettman almost has a babyface turn here.

Yeah, commissioners get quickly to a point where they need to be flanked by make-a-wish firefighters, military teachers,

first responders, local heroes.

Like that is, commissioners get to that point because they have to make a decision against your team.

Like they're the ones that are the face of a decision against your team that is probably not going to be good.

Like very rarely do people celebrate the commissioner whenever they get billion dollars in TV deals.

And like the franchise, like very rarely is that like a, you know what, good job.

Commissioner's job is to go out there and be the one that has to deliver the bad news while also navigate it.

And I'm not saying they all do perfectly.

Obviously, commissioners do not do perfectly.

But if one person pisses you off, you can see how sports fans turn against that person forever.

For Bettman, it does feel like there was a negative, obviously.

He was a part of the lockout.

Yeah, a couple work stoppages.

Pat, Connor's right, you're right.

Gary Bettman's never been hotter in the streets.

Yeah, I think you could argue that he was like the most hated guy in sports even.

Like people who weren't big time hockey fans were like, this guy's a moron, like during the lockout.

And he had to sit in the pocket and just take it.

and then they change the rules of the game like actually change the game of hockey to try to make it a little bit faster a little bit more exciting then all of a sudden ratings start going up on the other side of the lockout their business starts rolling they get a new deal it's like he i feel like he probably feels pretty vindicated with everything that happened but that is the job of a commissioner you know and you can tell when a commissioner is not good we've all seen it yes and then you can tell whenever a sport's getting hot there's probably a reason it's probably leadership at the top congrats to gary the nhl has been awesome and nba has been great to us too yeah we are very very lucky for all of it.

Joining us now is a senior NBA insider at ESPN, a man who's had a very active week.

We have no idea what his screen time is.

We assume it is alarming.

Ladies and gentlemen, Sham Shirania.

Yes, Sharon.

How you doing, Shami?

I'm doing great.

Two days of the my first ESPN NBA draft out of the way.

I'm still in Brooklyn.

I head to Bristol, Connecticut tonight.

We will be stationed in Bristol until the foreseeable future, working on free agency.

So it's up to something season.

You're living in Bristol?

I'm not living in Bristol.

I'm just going to Bristol

for free agency.

Oh,

you're bunkered down in Bristol for free agency.

We're in the cave.

We're in the cave.

We're in the headquarters.

We're in the house.

And we're bringing the noise here.

Being in the cave, not a bad thing from what we had a cave conversation earlier, actually.

My father purchased some land from some Amish people, and turns out, obviously, no electricity, no running water.

and also there's a cave-owned property if you want to go splonking.

And I believe we will go splunking.

Focus on the work.

Just work.

Yeah.

That's it.

Put your splonking light on and get in there.

Let's talk about, before we get in the free agency, let's talk about the last two nights of news.

Obviously, the Ace Bailey conversation still carried into the second round of the draft last night.

Everybody's kind of giving their opinions on this.

We talked to Ryan Smith yesterday.

Ryan talked about how much he thinks Ace would be loved in Utah, how supported he would be in Utah, and how much they are excited for him, basically.

And how they got selfless veterans was the way he, I think that was a very key word that he sent out there.

Like, hey, we got a team full of vets who are very selfless, ready for you to do whatever you need to do here as a member of the Utah Jazz.

What is the current like

position here between Ace Bailey and the Utah Jazz?

And when will we get an actual answer on what the truth is?

Because I heard Monday press conference, then I heard like yesterday press conference.

What is like the truth here?

Ace Bailey is well regarded by everyone as just an unbelievable person, unbelievable kid.

And

people all around the league know him as a person ready to play basketball.

The Jazz are ready to welcome him in whenever he's there.

I mean, theoretically, they don't start summer league practice until Monday.

There's not going to be a press conference until Sunday or Monday.

And he didn't work out with Utah, which is common.

Walter Clayton Jr., who they drafted later in the first round, didn't work out there either.

And so there's just obviously conjecture there.

There's clearly been some communication lapses between both sides as far as from Ace Bailey.

And, you know, his situation is an interesting one.

I remember I was on the show a couple weeks ago.

He's got a representative, Omar Cooper, who's actually former NBA player Sharif Cooper's father, but he's not a certified NBA agent.

So, you know, theoretically, there's not really a way for NBA teams to necessarily, you know, if they're going to communicate with the certified agent, there's not really, there are certified agents there in place, but Omar Cooper has taken a lot of the responsibility there.

So, what has the advice been there?

What has the process been like?

Clearly, they had their eyes set on somewhere other than Utah, right?

And whether that was Washington at number six, and it didn't happen.

But this isn't the first time a player wanted to go somewhere else and then didn't land at the team that he wanted to go to.

That's the draft.

When you declare for the NBA draft or any draft in any league, you understand

it's possible.

Unless you're the number one pick, you could get drafted somewhere you don't want to go to.

And so that's just the nature of the NBA draft.

That's the nature of the league.

Like, the bottom line is it's Friday now.

The Jazz don't start summer league practice until Monday.

And so Ace Bailey could show up to Utah tonight.

He could show up Saturday.

He could show up Sunday.

And I guess at that point, it is a non-issue.

But as far as the conjecture, I mean, the Jazz are not going to be trading Ace Bailey.

If he's playing in the NBA, he's playing for the Utah Jazz.

That's just a matter of fact.

That's just a matter of the circumstance right now.

So, I mean, unless Ace Bailey is sitting out the NBA season and forfeiting close to $10 million in his first year's salary, like

that would be unprecedented.

So, but that's not something that has ever been done.

So, I think the facts and the logic are that he will play for the Utah Jazz next season.

And I hear all the, you know, hey, Eli did this and like, hey, John Elway did this and like, this has happened before.

It's like those guys were being considered like Hall of Famers as they were getting drafted.

For it to happen to the number five overall pick, potentially third overall pick with Cooper Flagg in this draft class, I think that's made a lot of people go like, hey,

this kid needs relax.

But I think to your point, listening to Ace Bailey talk, he's like, I play basketball.

I got a team of people that'll handle the thing.

So it does feel like there is a separation of like Ace and like what is

what his people think is the best positioning for him, which is what happened with Eli, what happened with John Elway.

His people were trying to do it.

Once again, they were like Hall of Famers in the making.

Maybe they feel the same way about Ace.

He could be a great player, but a lot of people are like, yo, you're number five overall pick.

Let's relax here, especially in the NBA draft.

But in my eyes, listening to him talk and watching his highlights, it's like this guy might be a, this dude might be a dude.

And it sounds like he is literally only, he just has handed over all the reins to other people who are smarter than him, I assume, have better knowledge of the situation.

We can get what is best for you.

If he just gets to Utah, I think it'll all, you know?

Yeah.

I think once you land there and you meet Big J

and you meet Ryan and you see the entire operation and obviously Danny Ainge, Living Legend, his son, Austin, then you see the facility, you see all the Coach Hardy.

Yeah, Hardy's obviously a dog.

Like you meet all this and then you feel, I think, like they'll probably meet him at his fucking plane lane.

I assume Utah people will be there for his plane land.

It's like, that's, I think, what is happening.

So hopefully this is a non-issue, Seams.

That's what I'm hoping.

I'm hoping it's a non-speaker.

I mean, listen, at the end of the day,

it's never happened before if a player is really going to sit out an NBA season.

Like, just logically thinking, I mean, the jazz, no NBA team is giving in on this.

You know, no NBA team is just like, you know what?

Yeah, we'll trade you to where you want to go after you've been drafted.

The risks are there.

Like, you could want to go lower in the draft to get to your spot.

But at the end of the day, like, a team is viable to draft you.

Now, unless there was a draft night trade and there's something that was able to get worked out, but that didn't happen.

And the Jazz are ready.

They're not trading Ace Bailey.

They're not trading the pick.

They're not doing anything with him.

He will be in Utah, whether he's going to show up there today, whether he's going to show up there Monday.

And then if he doesn't show up Monday, we'll have something even more to talk about.

But as of right now,

I would expect logic to start to set in here.

I would like Ace Bailey to know and his team, we think it's going to work out just fine out there.

I appreciate you trying to make a move, though.

Yeah, you know, like if you're trying to get your guy somewhere, you're trying to get somewhere, I think that has happened a lot.

Like, I heard there were stories about, hey, we'll send him to Australia.

You know, now, granted, that was second-round stories, rumors, but it's like people do that.

I think people try to get people to places, and then when it doesn't work, when you don't, when the swing doesn't work, it's like, all right, now we got to live in a new reality here, and let's go ahead and make the most of it.

That's the part of the league.

There's been players high in the draft that want to go somewhere and they want teams at two, three, four to pass them up.

Doesn't happen.

They end up there.

And there's always that moment of one or two days of emotional feelings of like, oh, it didn't work out.

But at the end of the day, logic always sets in.

And in this situation, four years, $40 million is the rookie's salary.

And the Jazz drafted Ace Bailey for Ace Bailey.

That's where he will be.

Imagine him and Clayton Jr.

do the thing up there.

They just, you know, turn the jazz into a great team.

That place is already sold out for like 10 years straight.

Every single game sold out.

Every home game, packed to the gills.

That is what it is out there.

If they were to have two young studs lead them to greatness, I mean, we've seen it already, Oklahoma City.

Obviously, Tyrese gets traded here and leads it over here.

It's like anything's possible.

Good luck to all parties over there.

Good luck also on future endeavors.

Toronto Raptors, fire.

President, executive senior super duper.

decision maker up there.

He's been there since 2013, I think is what I read.

He's won a title.

He's won executive of the year in that time.

He's made the playoffs eight of the years that he's been there.

It feels like he's had success, but we've seen these types of moves out of the NBA out of nowhere.

What is this kind of, how do we get here, you think, Shams?

Yeah, let's take a step back.

The Toronto Raptors are under Maple Leaf Sports Entertainment.

That's the, you know, the big brand, that conglomerate, the Maple Leafs,

the Raptors, other sports franchises and entities.

Yeah, like, and they've been evaluating all of their president for the last year or so.

They had new leadership come in at

MLSC

and they actually fired their their NHL team's president just one month ago, Brendan Shanahan.

And so around the NBA, there was all, you know, there was whispers that Masai Yujuri, whether it was going to be this offseason, whether it was going to be during the season, whether it was going to be after the season, he had one year and about $15 million left on his contract.

So the presumption was, okay, maybe you get the whole season.

But I woke up this morning and I got a text that Masai Yujiri was being fired today.

And so he is out as the vice chairman.

I mean, not only the president of the team, he's the vice chairman.

He's had a high role there.

He's essentially been as close to

the governor slash owner of this team as can be.

He showed up to the board of governor meetings year after year after year.

So Masai Yujiri's out and he had a long run, 13 years there, 2019 NBA championship.

They went to the playoffs eight times.

The last three years, though, they kind of had floundered a little bit.

They didn't make the playoffs.

And so now they're going to go with a full search for a president.

And he was under contract for $15 million.

So the Raptors could have played the year out, but they got out ahead of it.

And they've let him go.

And so now they're going to have a full search.

And we'll see where this leads them.

I do appreciate Maasai for sending Pascal Siakam to Indiana.

That was very kind of him.

He made our lives much better here.

Is it stuff like that that maybe is a reason why, or is it just an idea they want to reset because they did it with the Maple Leafs, obviously, who have never,

you know, 2019, the Raptors win.

That's great.

That's huge for the entire entity up there, not the whole country, everything like that.

The Maple Leafs, every year, I couldn't even imagine what ownership feels.

Oh, no.

Oh, man.

Just

bang.

Disappointment.

Nightmare.

At the end of every year.

So is it just a reset?

They want to try to redo their things for both teams.

Is that what everybody's expecting?

Or was there like a beef?

Was somebody disagree with somebody?

Masai Yujuri had a great run there, but near the end of it, it was very clear.

The new leadership that was coming into MLSC and Masai Yujiri, they just did not seem like they were going to be destined for a long run, whether it's interpersonal stuff, whether it was the fact that anytime new leadership comes in, Pat, you guys know this, like there's always going to be some level of change, people wanting to bring new staffers in.

And so once it happens

with the Maple Leafs, with the Toronto Maple Leafs, now it's happening with the Toronto Raptors.

And so part of it is resetting, but the other part of it is also, I mean, you have Pascal Siakam.

He's out.

He goes to Indiana.

The run he has there, OG Ananobi, he gets traded to the Knicks.

He's at a level of success there.

And the Raptors, just the last two, three years, like, what's the direction of the team, right?

And I think that's what, if you're MLSC, you already have your antennas up and even more so the last couple of years as they're going through their ownership restructuring, new transfer of ownership.

And so usually when the old owner started to depart, usually it follows suit in some period of time, unless there's a strong, strong relationship that is able to be built there.

Yeah, because whenever you buy something or take over something, you have a vision of how it's supposed to go.

So normally, you know, we see in the NFL, a new GM comes in, it's like, yep, I got an idea on how this is going to go.

And it's not you.

I've been great here.

We don't care.

We are moving on.

So it's happening in the business world and I think Wendy said earlier.

It's a sunner though.

It is a stunner because he did have one year left on his deal and the fact that they do it the day after the NBA draft, I saw a clip online.

Masai Yujuri was welcoming their first pick, first round pick,

you know, welcoming him to Toronto and then two days later,

he has been fired.

He wasn't happy.

I don't think people in the league expected this timing.

I wonder if it was a bad dap.

Might have been bad.

When the draft then meets with ownership.

The draftee gets, how's it been today?

Everything been great?

Putine was good.

I had to double-double from Timmy, King Timmy's.

Came in here.

The entire staff was cool.

Who's the, is that the president?

He just, he missed.

It was good.

It was just a bad dap.

And ownership was like, you know what?

Gone.

Fired him.

Could be the case.

We don't know.

No.

You probably don't.

Our daps are clean.

You know, that's why I keep the daps clean, guys.

Yeah,

you need a good, need a good connection there.

You know, it tells a whole story.

That's setting a tone for everything, basically.

How's this going to go?

Not great.

Okay.

See you.

You're out.

New president in.

Good luck to all parties.

Okay, let's talk about

turning over of ownership.

Some of these things have come out of nowhere.

Go ahead, Con Man.

Yeah, Charles.

It feels like the Lakers sale did come out of nowhere.

And then obviously the Timberwolves

have been the other team that has sold in recent memory.

The Celtics, of course, that was kind of out of nowhere, the complete sale.

Are there other teams that are up for sale right now that people might not know?

Are we going to see more NBA teams getting sold because these numbers are getting astronomical when it comes to ownership of sports teams?

So I don't see any NBA team selling for less than

3.25, 3.5, like somewhere in that $3 to $3.5 billion ever again.

Like, I think

that's the bare minimum to buy an NBA team.

And yeah, I mean, the numbers like the Lakers and other sales,

it'll impact and it'll make the numbers continue to skyrocket.

Like the Lakers selling for $10 billion.

That's the most ever in the world for a professional sports franchise, not just in the United States.

So you talk about football teams abroad.

You talk about whatever league abroad,

it's not close.

Yeah, of course, abroads.

Yep.

All of them.

So

it is beneficial, I'm sure, to the other owners.

And we'll see.

We'll see if there's going to be surprise ones.

The one team that is up for sale right now that I can definitely say, and I've reported it, is the Portland Trailblazers.

And so

they have been put up for sale, and they're going to start their sale process as this year unwinds.

And

what's that, seven, six, seven?

I mean, in that market,

I was thinking five and a half plus, but six, seven sounds about right.

The Lakers just went for 10.

Yeah, you know, the Trailblazers just got Yang Hanson, so probably 15 and 15.

They're estimated,

currently valued at 3.7.

That was.

So for a sale to take, that was before the Lakers sold for 10 billion.

So maybe five.

I mean, let's just hedge five.

But here's the one cool thing, though, about this sale that's different than all these other sales.

Hold on, hold on, hold on.

Final answer real quick.

Five and a half million over under, or five and a half billion over under.

I'm saying over.

I'm going under.

I'm so bad at it.

I'm going under.

Under?

Celtics were six.

Oh, way under.

Austin Celtics.

Lakers were just 10.

Yeah, but even that deal seems like kind of that number seems like, hey, biggest possible number because they sold what?

45% of it, and they're saying 45% is 10 billion.

Like, I feel like they sold it, and then the TPA.

They say they 5.1 billion or whatever for the majority share there, 51%, I think, they got.

That's the actual title.

You're saying what it was valued at during the sale.

Yeah, and that guy, he already owns like 20%.

So he only bought like 30, 7%.

percent.

And then

the bust.

Yeah, but the sale was at a $10 billion valuation, which is what the current valuation of the team is.

Those valuations change.

If another team in the league goes for $10 billion, I think comps, what are comps?

I think that ups.

I think that

high tides raise all boats personally.

Now, granted, the $6 billion Boston one is fascinating because that's another pillar franchise there.

People in Portland forget that the Trailblazers play there.

Jobs.

Yeah, can somebody pick it up and move it?

Yeah, can they buy it and move it?

That's what I was going to ask.

Sorry, Foxy.

Okay.

Well, that's always the conversation.

And so I'm not going to ask you to.

No offense, Portland.

No offense.

I'm sure.

Timbers, we're big fans.

Seattle needs a team again.

They just do.

And this goes together with what I was going to say is

the reason why this ownership sale is different than any others is that Paul Allen, as the late Paul Allen, this will be essentially his estate is fund.

And they're going to, all the money they have, they're actually essentially donating the money.

So whatever the sale is for, they're actually donating it through his estate.

And so that part of it makes me think that there's going to be some level of understanding.

Like whoever's buying the team, like you're keeping that, this team somewhere Paul Allen wants it to be, or Paul Allen would have wanted it to be.

And you like Seattle, right?

If we're talking about Seattle, don't want to dive too much into all of it, but they said the internet is saying that they're the 24th

highest value team in the NBA.

Currently, it's sitting at $3.5 billion.

I'll be excited to see what it is.

Professional sports franchise.

NBA franchise.

A lot of people have a lot of money these days.

Yeah, everything.

Everything is like that.

Okay, speaking of skyrocketing, the market for the players, what's the market look like for an absolute superstar from the land of Greece?

Go ahead, Ty.

Yeah, Shams, when free agency opens up here, what do you expect the timeline to be with Giannis?

And then beyond him, who are some of like the marquee, most sought-after people that should be, you know, kind of maybe moving around pretty early in free agency here?

So draft week is over with now.

Now we're heading into free agency time.

And so the Bucs have several free agents.

They have Brooke Lopez, Bobby Portis, Kevin Porter Jr., Gary Trent Jr.

So which of those players are they able to retain?

What does the team look like after all of those decisions are made?

What does Giannis and De Decumpo think about how the roster has shaped up?

He's observing very closely from my understanding.

And so this is going to be a process not only at, you know, it's not going to be a drafting.

It's not going to be a free agency thing um and as the team comes together as you view the rest of the chess pieces around the league what does the landscape look like after free agency those are all things if you're Johnny into the Kumpo you're going to be looking at as you evaluate what your best fit is in Milwaukee where could that best fit be and so he's going to be monitoring very closely and you know Sunday is going to be an important day for the NBA

going into free agency that's a day where a lot of players have player options So LeBron James has a player option.

James Harden has a player option.

Bobby Portis with the Bucs has a player option that day.

Julius Randall has a player option.

Os Reed has a player option.

So Sunday is a big day for player option.

Again, these are massive, massive player options, right?

I mean, think about LeBron James.

It's in the 50s.

Most craziest.

Most craziest.

Most craziest.

It's about to happen.

Get in that cave.

Most

craziest cave.

You never know with free agency.

You never know.

So, you know, I would just just say, just, you know, be prepared.

Be prepared for free agency.

That's it.

For the unexpected.

Expect?

The unexpected.

No, no, I'm not going to go that far.

I'm just going to say.

Oh, you're already killing it, kind of.

Just be prepared.

Sunday's a very big day for player options.

Free agency gets going on Monday night.

And so

deals will start.

popping off most likely.

I mean, in the lead up to it.

And then there's a bunch of players with extensions, too.

So like Oklahoma City is a team.

They have Shake Yos Alexander, Chet Holmgren, Jalen Williams, those three players.

Where do their extensions go?

That's going to have a big impact on their team building after winning a championship.

So there's a lot of questions that will be answered in the next few weeks.

And as far as Jan and DeCumpo's future, how the Bucs build out the team, that will have a direct correlation.

Which of their feasias can they bring back?

That'll have a direct correlation on it.

All right.

We appreciate the hell out of you, Shams.

You've been batting a thousand thus far with the NBA for us.

And we've enjoyed the covering the entire postseason.

Thank you for keeping us on the right path, brother.

Appreciate you.

Next week, are we?

Are we are we live next week?

What do is basketball happening next week?

I don't think so.

I mean, unless Yannis gets, you know, goes somewhere else.

That's really kind of the I don't know.

Most craziest ever, he said.

Yeah, yeah, kind of a cross shit.

You know what we're gonna do?

Yeah, has to.

It has to be.

Universe ball.

Universe ball.

If this goes in, if this goes in, thank you, Shams.

If this goes in, we'll see you next week.

We'll see you next week.

Uh-oh, uh-oh.

Oh, man.

You better make this.

Oh, no, Shams.

Hold on.

Oh, no.

So close.

See you three times next week.

Oh, no.

Four times.

Oh.

All right.

Not meant to be, Shams.

See you, Shams.

Have a good week, buddy.

Everybody, thank you, Shams.

Can't do the international balls.

No, no, no.

Because it's the NBA.

Exactly.

But Yannis is.

Giannis is Greek.

Yeah.

And Yang Hansen.

Yep.

Airways.

Boom.

Shams will be here.

He should have stuck around.

No, no, it looks like we can't have him.

He was Greek.

Yeah.

How did we not FIBA?

Well, he's, you know, he basically has American citizenship at this point.

I think so.

Isn't it Jerry Antitakumpo now?

He's thinking about changing it to the.

Did you hear about Lou Messi?

Oh, no.

Oh, what?

Oh, he's MOS things again?

No, Lou Messi's taking on Lionel Messi's old team.

Oh, it's true.

PSG Sunday in Atlanta at noon.

Concafo will be boots on the ground.

They will be little boots, but they will be boots.

Gumpy's heading down to Atlanta.

Gumpy is super duper cups really doing it.

The round of 16 is going to be electric.

Some of these matchups, you see Real Madrid there.

They're playing Juventus.

That's a huge game.

PSG into Miami.

You talked about Bayern Munich possibly playing PSG in the second round.

And then if Dortmund wins and Real Madrid wins, the Bellingham brothers will face off in the next round as well.

Joe, it's June.

The Bellingham battle has been one that they've been talking about for a while now, haven't they?

Yes, indeed.

Cannot wait for that.

Need that.

That would feed families.

This is a $100 million Super Duper Cup for FIFA World Club Cup, right?

Yep, there has been 144 goals scored in 49 matches.

That's three per game.

That's what we're talking about.

I'm telling you, it's been a good tournament.

Some of the teams were shit, but now that we're in the knocko round, these are going to be very good games.

And then we also have the Gold Cup where the United States of America can still win this thing.

And maybe if Canada can get by Guatemala, we have a meeting in the semifinal.

What should we be looking forward to?

We should definitely beat Costa Rica.

It's usually a tough match with Costa Rica, but they are favorite.

U.S.

will win.

It will be close.

Their second favorite.

Like I said, Mexico's plus plus 150.

USA's plus 200.

Canada's plus 500 to win it.

Saudi Arabia is in the quarterfinals.

Have you know?

How?

What do you mean?

How?

They won a game.

I get that, but.

Honduras is that squad down there.

Are you guys paying them all?

All these countries are in the Western Hemisphere.

That's Concafa, brother.

What do you think this is?

Saudi's part of CONCAIFA?

I still don't know how that works.

You guys just put these teams in because they have a tournament, yeah.

Is it Saudi, like, pay?

Hey, we want to be in the Gold Cups.

I think they did want to be entered into it.

Because CONCAFA, actually known as CONCACAF, is like our area.

It's like our region.

Yeah.

Okay.

It's like Caribbean.

Qatar got in whenever they hosted a World Cup.

They came in to joined us because they didn't have one, I don't believe.

So I assume Saudi Arabia, same thing, didn't have a.

So we thought, hey, you can come over to CONCAFA.

You come over.

Sure, yeah, absolutely.

You guys could come over.

Why not?

It was a special invite.

Hey, give us the poopy teams.

That's what we need.

Saudi's a perennial World Cup squad.

That's yeah.

Every time they've had a team, they've been in the World Cup.

Yeah.

So

you tell me.

I don't know.

I would like to see a little bit more Trinidad and Tobago, to be honest.

Go on.

TNT is a problem.

They are.

You're always saying, right.

USA is the real deal, though.

That's all happening this weekend.

We will watch that.

What has happened this last week?

Well, I think it's time to debut a brand new segment.

Hell yeah.

Okay.

We feel like on Fridays, especially in the summer, you know, where there's a lot of different sports happening.

Yep.

A lot of different games happening that we can't keep track of it all.

We should at least allot a time period to celebrate the good shit of the week.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to That's Good Shit.

10 plays, 10 moments from the sports world over the last week.

We will celebrate by putting the That's Good Shit stamp right on it.

Let's get started at 10 with Tone Diggs.

Let's go to NBA Finals game seven in OKC.

We got Lou Dort back door with the eh, eh, eh, a little English with a kiss.

and hey that's good shit that is good shit from Lou Dort how about what else happened this week in a sports world con man yeah it's the summer it's time to get buffed John Harbaugh's moving weight 62 years old 405 pounds you might not like the Baltimore Ravens but John Harbaugh is getting after it with Derrick Henry I assume somewhere back there and hey That's good shit.

That is good shit.

You got to keep moving.

You know, if you don't move, you stop, you die.

Harbaugh is still getting under the bar.

people are gonna talk about the padding on the bar he's 62 years old come on it's 400 pounds he was repping those out we only showed three of those speaking of repping out how about friday now saturday night at lsu yeah i mean you want to talk about good cade anderson okay he's going to be the number one pick in the mlb draft in game one of the college world series championship series against coastal carolina what does he do he throws nine shutout innings 10 K's, three hits, complete game shutout, unbelievable.

And hey, he also also threw 130 pitches.

That's good shit.

That is good shit.

I watched him for the first time in this particular game.

I think I caught him like seventh inning or something.

And the buzz was palpable whenever you get there because LSU had taken over a lot of that stadium.

Obviously, Coastal Carolina was represented because of the hell of the run that they were on.

But whenever LSU was, whenever he was coming out, there was a buzz.

And I'm like, who the hell is this guy?

You started learning about him.

He's the number one overall pick.

This guy's a real deal.

And then you watch him pitch.

He was only getting stronger as the pitches were going on.

Locked in.

Congrats, LSU, winning World Series.

Hey, and the Coast of Carolina, going on a hell of a run.

Can't believe they kicked their coach out.

That's not.

That's not good shit.

At all.

Let's talk about some car racing, shall we?

This one happened to just be on the open road in Missouri.

The heat causes the road to explode.

Toyota takes the bump.

Driver keeps it rolling, stays on the track.

You could shit your pants if this happened to you in the roadway.

If you're on an ATV, okay, if you're on an ATV and you get air and you don't see the ground anymore, it is a freaky situation.

I couldn't even imagine being in a Toyota Cameron, driving down the road, looking at maybe a Honda.

Maybe I do a trade here, a car left.

Ha!

We're in the air.

Bang!

I assume they pooped.

But if they did, that's good shit.

But they stay focused on that entire thing.

I'm pretty proud of them.

Con man.

Super duper World Cup, Man City, Juventus.

Everybody loves this tournament.

Corner kick.

Man City gets it.

4-1-5 goals already.

Yeah, a lot of goals got to love it.

Oh, Halan ready for the net.

No goal.

Let's clear it.

Just kidding.

Bardad.

That's Savinho for Man City, baby.

This is why we watch footy, as they call it, overseas.

Great say by the goalie, but Savinho says, oh,

sorry about it.

I'm going Bardanski on your face, bitch.

Go back to Italy.

That's a good goal, and that's good shit.

That's 5-1.

It ended up 5-2.

There was a touchdown and an extra point worth of goals.

I believe.

And Juventus, Man City, and they had that bard down ski.

Uh-oh, let's go to the backyard, shall we?

Indie 11, a man named Malik Foster in extra time

of the first half.

Left-footed laser.

Malik LaFreak with an absolute snipe.

That's good shit.

Bad shit.

The Indy 11 would not score another goal.

The Tampa Bay Rowdies would go on to win that game 3-1.

But let's not take away from Malik's moment right before half there.

What an absolute laser.

You know, it's funny, Pat.

Everyone wants to say that Dak Prescott, you know, he just can't win games.

He can't do anything like that.

He can't win in the playoffs.

He can't win when it matters.

Well, I find that funny.

Let's take it to the golf course.

Dak, Tad, and Will Greer against Good Good Golf.

Match on the line.

Boom.

Dak Prescott sinks a 65-foot walk-off putt to beat the boys from Good Good.

Hey, listen, he might not win in the playoffs every single year.

Oh, he's a team sport.

It's team sports.

But on the golf course, you put Dak in those situations, and all you're getting is good shit.

That was a great putt.

That's good shit.

Yeah, it is.

And also, shout out to Good Good Golf.

Great name.

Yep.

And also, I like the fact that they're promoting gimmies in their title.

Darius J.

Butler maybe needs to watch some of that.

Maybe.

Good, good.

Golf.

Garrett Clark, Bubby, and the boys over there.

Bruce Brown, who's in the back, one of their biggest super fans.

Loves.

I just found this out like literally three days ago I just learned of the good good golf boys I apologize for this within the last three days and then this DAC video pops up two days later and then Bruce like ah ha ha that's what I've been talking about Bruce you love the good good golf boys yeah they're they're good golfers uh they are home to the greatest golf

golfers

home to the greatest golf hole in YouTube golf history they like all three stick it on a green a par four and then one of the other guys Matt Schrafe I think is his name uh makes a whole one on a par four four.

Great video.

Yeah, they're good.

Hey, that's good shit.

Yeah, it is.

That's good shit.

Shout out to Good Good Golf and all the golf influencers.

I watch your guys's clips long time.

Yeah.

Even you guys that are ass out there, which you know you are.

Sure.

Some of you are an embarrassment to golf.

And for that, we appreciate you.

That's good shit that you go out there and do that for all of us to really enjoy.

Speaking of good shit, you know what's good shit?

What's that?

Whenever two greats are dating together, it feels like you hit a supernova of sorts of talent and motivation and inspiration and also collaboration.

I don't know if you saw down in Nashville, tight end university.

Oh, yeah.

The biggest star on earth shows up and plays in front of a thousand football fans, Taylor Swift, alongside Kane Brown.

And obviously, there's a lot of boys there, okay, a lot of bros there for tight end university.

Everybody was out there.

Saw Ernest, saw Luke Combs.

Kane Brown was obviously there.

I think Chase Rice was there.

You're talking about literally everybody.

When Taylor walks out there, she tells the band, hey, we're going to shake it off.

We're going to shake it off.

We're going to shake it off.

All the band members go, okay, I think we understand what that is.

She starts playing it.

All the dudes that brought their ladies to tight end friends, just think of heroes.

Yeah, forever.

Absolute heroes.

Taylor doing a football activity in the offseason.

Hey, we appreciate you.

She's a football girl.

She's at Tight End University.

I think she was even learning getting out of because Travis with that flowing hair.

Fucking...

Bang, bang.

Getting out of there.

Don't look now.

Taylor might be on the girls Olympic flag football.

Could be.

Talking about this shit.

Very tall.

Yeah, red zone target.

And she's very comfortable in stadiums.

She's not going to be very, you know, there's a chance.

Could you imagine?

Back to Pylon?

That would be good shit.

Yeah, and she would, all the people that are trying to tackle her, she would.

Shake it off.

Shake it off.

And our favorite thing from the week that makes everybody say that's good shit.

Captain America in New England, from New England,

It's at the six feet.

Had a birdie to tie in his mind at that time.

Now he knows Birdie to win.

Drains the six-foot putt.

Keegan Bradley's our travelers chompion.

He would then join our program a couple days later, and we would tell him how cool he was.

Not only because he had these immaculate shots on a Sunday and he said he felt like the golf ball was a beach ball.

He felt invincible down the stretch.

He's our captain of our America team going in the Ryder Cup.

It's good that he's feeling good.

He's golfing great.

Hey, we appreciate you, Keegan Bradley.

Everything you did last weekend and will continue to do,

that's good shit.

That's good shit.

Tommy Fleaway, that's tough shit.

That is not fun.

You know, because who would have thought that Keegan would end up with an ear-to-ear 146?

Nine-iron.

Ear-to-ear.

I've hit that shot a hundred thousand times.

Just the way my body's built with the way I hit balls, 146 yards has always been a distance that I just that my dad told me my dad PGA professional when I was 10 years old I came out of the womb with a golf club hitting a ball 146 yards 18th hole travelers championship need one 146 yards the golf gods were talking to Keegan Bradley and that

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Sports are happening.

The NHL draft is this evening.

Obviously, there's some super duper soccer cups happening.

This weekend, baseball is happening.

The NBA has some big decisions that have to be made by Sunday, and the NFL is always cooking.

Are they cooking in each other's kitchens a little bit too much?

Oh!

In each other's underwear?

Huh?

I don't think so.

Are they sharing recipes?

Huh?

Is that what they're doing?

There's some chatter on the internet about that.

We were certainly looking at that over the weekend because it doesn't feel

as if it's as loud as you would think, especially with what was being talked about.

But there are some

committed journalists, I will say.

Champions of the cause.

That's what I think they are.

I think they are committed champions,

sports journalists.

And we've been watching.

We understand.

We all are seeing it.

I respect the commitment, legitimately.

Like, hey, we respect it.

We appreciate it.

It was interesting, though, to hear that story just kind of come up out of nowhere.

Obviously, it happened back whenever Lamar was kind of a free agent and we heard about it.

But the NFL, with the NFL, like they they all meet in a meeting there's a one per club meeting i think like there isn't a thought that they probably do kind of have like

how franchises of restaurants have like hey here's the correct here's the whole thing and then you do have to wonder like is that a form of kind of working against the employee like that conversation has been happening on the internet like collusion has been thrown out there a couple times whoa that's a heavy word it is that's a very very heavy word but also it's like

forget what happens with this particular story that's kind of been bundling and you have to think to yourself like i guess it kind of always they have been though i think that is why everybody's like

ah who cares I don't know if everybody's like, ah, who cares?

But it is like, it makes me view it a little differently because whenever they are at the owners meeting, they literally have owners meetings and they have like one per club meetings we know about.

And there's like a lot of decisions that made.

And whenever you're CBA, you're negotiating against all of them.

And it's like, they all have, you always say like, well, they have 30 billionaires that have the money to hire all the lawyers.

So they are going to be in a much better spot than the NFL PA will be in.

So it's always like just kind of understood that you're working against the entire, it's an interesting, interesting storyline that it developed.

But once again, that's the NFL.

The NFL will always have something cooking for us.

So it's going to be an incredible summer, especially if you two are going to look as cool as you guys look today.

The toxic table at Boston Connor in his leather jacket that he has no idea where it's from.

And a yard goats, ball cap, big lead shoe t-shirt.

Ty Schmidt, how you boys doing?

Doing great.

I mean, I feel like a million bucks wearing this.

I can only imagine how much cashola cashola you feel like wearing that thing but

it's got a be in front of me yeah i feel like i can slip a couple punches you know i'm getting i was talking to buy for kate bill earlier and he was telling me about all the all the ufc uh coming this weekend as well which i'm very excited about and i might might throw hands with you know with some of those champions of the cause you were talking about you talk about i i forgot about the massive ufc huge huge vacant title fight tomorrow night 317 they've done a great job 317 obviously, maybe should have head that.

Indianapolis would have been cool, but you're talking about a vacant title on the line between a couple dogs coming up in weight, taking on the OG.

Charles, obviously hanging.

Ilya coming on up.

That thing's mine now because Islam moves up in weight class.

So now we have a vacant title.

Let's go ahead and fight for it.

That's what we got tomorrow night.

Big night in UFC is Bill near a microphone.

Bill, for this, for tomorrow night, what should we be looking at here?

Are these going to be explosive fights?

Are we getting knockouts tomorrow?

Am I watching guys wrestle tomorrow?

What should I be expecting whenever I turn this on inevitably like I do with every single UFC event on a Saturday night?

So especially in this main event, it should be a good striking fest.

Both these guys like to cut the octagon in half and really go at the guy that they're facing.

And Ilya, like, he has a good chance of being the face of the UFC.

He's 16-0.

He's jumping weight divisions, going straight for the champions.

Like, Olivera did, he's two and two in his last fights.

It's been a couple decisions, especially against Michael Chandler.

Was his last fight?

Last time you saw him?

Legend.

Just walk in there and say, punch me in the face.

But he got

Michael Chandler.

He got choked out by Islam right before Islam made the jump up.

So he's kind of aging out, but

he's got the most finishes in UFC history.

He's got the most submissions in UFC history.

So it could be a great fight.

Ilya Ooz?

I don't believe so.

I think he's...

Tropoya does not have...

I saw the tattoo.

The tattoo at the top there maybe looked a little...

Georgian, maybe?

Okay.

Yeah.

That sounds right.

How do you pronounce it that way?

Is that Tropoya?

He is Georgian.

Tropoya.

What is he, Georgian?

Yeah.

He's Go Dog.

Ilya from Tropoya.

Sweet.

No.

He's not from the state of Georgia.

He's from the country of Georgia.

He is Go Dog.

He is Go Dog.

Anything else we should look at for the undercard bill?

Any other fights that we should maybe

at least maybe sprinkle a little thought on?

This will end in a knockout.

So the Komain,

this might be the most dominant run we've ever seen at least since like 2020 uh is the current champion he is nine and oh against the guys in the top uh top 10 ranked fighters behind him uh and he uh this guy's like the fourth uh contender kind of just throwing him in there so you're probably gonna go like a first or second round finish oh he's the champion pentoja yes yes yes pentoja okay pentoja is the champion right there he looks good he looks like he is a little brawn breaker to him

down there at the bottom we like him you're saying this one's going to end early.

Yeah, he's the longest-running champion that they have right now.

These guys actually fought each other way back.

I don't know what year of the ultimate fighter it was, but I think it was before the contender series.

So they have a history.

They're going to want to go after each other.

Car France is a slippery.

Yeah, but he's ranked four.

I don't know if he's ready for the challenge.

We'll see.

You get dropped in a deep end with Payne Dojo.

There's a chance you might just have to catch some hands.

You want the title shot?

You got the title shot.

Tomorrow, UFC 317.

Two title shots heading line.

We appreciate you, Bill.

Tony is now a man who used to to host an MMA show on Sirius XM.

He's a college football national champion, a Super Bowl champion, a Ryder Cup winner.

AJ Hawk, hey, AJ.

Hey, did we leave anything out there?

Did we leave anything out for the UFC 317 card that maybe you wanted to bring a little bit more light to?

Because we know you are a skilled mixed martial artist.

We know that you can take on two different people coming from two different directions.

And then also, if there's two people coming from front, we've seen you.

We call this the AJ Hawk.

They're doing it at the West Virginia Football Locker.

The double punch yeah because this is just the original version of this thing come on people said that the the next iteration was two punches boom

boom

boom it's pretty good a little workout and also great defense and that's what that guy's saying yeah aj's beating the fuck out of two guys on both sides oh we

uh what are your thoughts on 317 tomorrow two titles that's a big deal that is a big deal yeah two titles you're right i mean bill bill said that great i mean i see i don't follow the ufc as as closely as i used to.

I definitely was way more into it in the past.

But, yeah, I mean, obviously, we're going to see some awesome fights.

We know that.

When Bill was trying to break down the undercards, that's when I got lost a little bit.

I know there's some great fights set up on this card, but I'm not very versed on all the guys fighting, you know, other than the main event.

Well, Pantoz is the champion.

He's right there in the lower left.

And then you see Ilya Tapuria up there on the top left.

He's from Georgia.

Charles...

The country.

The country of Georgia, yeah.

He does train in Warner Robbins, Georgia, though.

What?

Because he feels more more comfortable.

Really?

That's what I thought.

He's grown up.

I think I read that somewhere, but don't quote me on that.

Okay, we're watching.

Hey, we're not the authority.

Yeah, exactly.

UFC authority.

John Jones retired this week.

That is a bummer.

Need new stars.

New stars.

Need new stars.

Is he going to do celebrity boxing?

Is he going to start doing celebrity boxing?

Could, I assume.

Him and Jake Paul would feed families, obviously.

Like, that would do.

Oh, jeez.

Him and Logan, probably a better matchup because Logan, a little bit longer, I think, and taller.

But Jake, full-time boxer.

I don't know how that works with weight and everything like that.

Yeah, I was going to say, since he moved up to heavyweight, I wonder.

He's like 220.

I think Jake said he's 170 or something like that.

I don't know if that would be.

He might kill somebody if he does celebrity boxing.

I don't know.

His reach.

Yeah.

His reach would just, like, he could literally just palm head

and just go ahead and let me just.

Yep.

Here we go, little boy.

Let me go ahead and

do that.

So he dug to everybody.

A couple of these, you know.

People are always eating accidental elbows, too, in those.

You know, you get tight.

You accidentally eat one from John Jones.

That's not great.

There will always be, and I think John Jones knows this, and it's potentially a reason why everything has kind of happened.

If John Jones is fighting, people will watch.

Yes.

You know, that if my, I don't know if every generation will watch John Jones, but there are multiple generations of people that if they hear John Jones is fighting, they're going to, okay, I will go watch that because we experienced the John Jones experience, you know?

And that's how it'll be forever, no matter what he was to do.

So, I wish him luck.

I hope he finds real happiness, too.

I hope he does everything.

And thank you for your

commitment to

our entertainment.

Yeah, thank you for your commitment because you take a lot of beatings training to be a fighter, obviously.

Yeah, I'd say, you know, that's like every day you're getting like punched.

Yeah, just sparring, leading up to fights, sparring dudes that are monsters too, just to get you ready.

Like, you'd be crazy.

Now, to be clear, you're getting paid a lot of money at that level whenever you're John Jones.

So, I'm not just saying he just did it for entertainment, but also, see also.

A lot of great nights nights watching John Jones beat the shit out of somebody.

I mean, I'm just

methodically beating the shit out of people.

It was so athletic, just so athletic in there.

Like, oh, this guy could have played any sport.

He wanted to.

He just decided to be.

So calm.

I'm always impressed how calm he was.

Like, we were talking about TST and soccer players, dudes that can hold on to the ball and not freak out when they have defenders coming at them.

Stuff like that.

You watch John, like he never seemed like he was out of control or panicked.

He's just like, all right, this is going exactly how I plan, it seems like.

family of champions congratulations to them let's talk about some news that happened over there in Ohio we kind of alluded to it a couple different times congratulations to the city of Cincinnati and the Bengals getting a 470 million dollar renovation of paycorps stadium approved congratulations Hamilton County and the Bengals have agreed to principal terms for a new lease that keeps the team in Cincinnati playing home games at paycorp stadium through june 2036 with a 10 additional year option.

This is a significant day for the Bengals in Hamilton County as we secure the team's future in Cincinnati.

It remains an excellent venue, yada, yada, yada.

Okay, good work.

Go ahead, Tone.

So I looked into it: $470 million in renovations.

Bengals will supply $120 million of that.

The other $350 million is going to come from Hamilton County.

That'll be in taxes, but

there is no tax increase, though.

Like, everyone's taxes are going to stay the same.

They're just me allotting, re-shuffling some tax money to go to a renovation for pay corps as opposed to going somewhere else.

You know, know, like, I'm not going to say it.

What?

Roads?

Might as well.

No.

Potholes.

I mean, I don't know where tax money goes.

In Ohio?

I have no idea where tax money goes.

Out here, we drive on the moon every day.

Yes.

Okay.

And I thought, in my head, I'm like, potholes is something taxes do that exist forever.

So I don't know exactly where they all head to, but if they're just reshuffling some stuff, I'm sure that won't be met with any resistance.

No, no, no.

I'm sure there won't be any people that won't be

okay with that.

Whatever the case, great venue, great environment renovation will obviously do it some uh good i think every stadium getting renovated is good when does that start do you know anything about this aj i don't know much about i know they're i've just heard them fighting for the last couple years but 470 million i'm guessing it doesn't go nearly as far as we think it does what do you a new jumbotron and a couple new seats like what can you do with 470 mil i don't know um Miss Blackburn is a tough negotiator.

Yeah, true.

With Trey Hendrickson.

Now, Jamar and T feels like she was able to get a deal done.

They were able to get a deal done.

Trey Hendrickson feels like she's, you're going to take this.

You're going to like it.

She could do that with the Jumbotron as well.

The good news is it did say any overages in costs, anything over that $470 million, the Bengals will pay.

Okay, so let's make sure that's going to be $469 million.

Yeah, staying under.

That is going to end up being $469 million.

We don't need to be...

That's bad business.

Why do we want to do that?

And Bengals fans fill that thing up.

I mean, Bengals fans are going to, they'd fill up

a dump.

Yeah.

You know, if it was a dump, bangles fans would go that environment is a college atmosphere over there yeah like i feel like to to your point right there with the fans they might add like suites you wonder if they add those field level suites or even uh kind of like what the pacers did with gambridge where they put in like a whole nother floor on the lower bowl of more stuff

traffic yeah everything is about traffic bathrooms yeah in and out like toilet yeah old buddy uh balmer ballmer saying toilets in his press conference obviously a lot of people mocked him for it.

We celebrated it because whenever you go to an event, waiting in line to go to the bathroom is the worst part.

Not only are you incredibly uncomfortable, you're also missing a lot of the action.

And if anytime you hear a loud noise, it's like, wow, Andrew in pain.

So that is a massive ordeal for a public outing, especially whenever people's home experiences have gotten so good.

I mean, we got quad box with YouTube TV.

Obviously, we have air conditioning.

We don't have to deal with people out there.

Like, people are cool with not going outside these days.

So, like, whenever you're a venue, you're competing with a lot of shit these days, you know?

Got to have high-speed internet for people.

Got to have

obviously convenience in and out.

You got to be able to like, that's all like a part of the live experience that everybody is going to have to kind of make a little bit better to keep people coming, I think.

Now, granted, Bengals fans are probably telling me we'd go to anything.

And we saw that with the draft night where you guys went to the stadium and did a little run on the hundreds or whatever.

Correct.

Bought TVs.

That's sold out.

Yeah, we know the Bengals fans are supportive, but we're saying to fill these stadiums, the NFL, I think, going forward understands, and I think everybody understands, like, hey, we got to make this like a good experience for people.

It's a lot of money, and staying home,

we love it because we're getting TV deals, but staying home is really good right now, especially to watch sports.

And also, like, when we've been fortunate enough, like when you go to a couple of these stadiums that are new or like are brand new, it's like,

Every NFL stadium needs to be like this because like you go to like the Raiders stadium.

And granted, we weren't there for a football game.

It was WrestleMania, but like that place is gorgeous.

It's unbelievable.

And then you go to some of these other stadiums who need a facelift and it's like these guys aren't even playing in the same league here.

Well, just like everything, there's evolution, you know?

The architects, the design of stadiums, like, hey, we can build this one for sound.

We got this for this.

We found out if we do this, like what Ryan Smith is doing right now with the seats moving and then coming back so they can kind of handle the hockey rink as they have to move out for the Utah Mammoth.

And And then just overnight, if we got a jazz game, let's just go ahead and move that in here.

We're good.

That's going to cost us so much money to make that happen.

But like, that is what it is now.

Like, you got to create this shit.

You got to make it worthwhile for people to go.

Like Atlanta, Mercedes-Benzdale.

That place has every seat has like a good angle of the field.

And then, of course, the owner keeps all the prices for everything.

Yeah, the food is good.

The food is good.

Who is it?

What's the company?

Not Sodexo.

We said the name of it like a thousand times times when we were there.

Good food.

Yeah.

Air marks?

No.

Airmarks.

I don't remember.

But you talk about Atlanta, though.

Then you can go over to the Hawks.

What the Hawks did.

The Hawks cleared out an entire section, just made it like a standing room only.

Yep.

Free food, free drink, kind of middle around.

So you don't feel obligated to sit in a tight spot.

It's like people are getting creative now.

These stadiums are getting good.

Excited to see what Cincinnati, Hamilton County, and the Bengals come up with over there for Paycor Stadium.

Congrats to the Bengals.

Getting a lot of deals done.

Anything with Trey joining joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, the host of the weekly wrap-up with the Rap Sheet and Friends, us being the Friends, he being Rap Sheet Senior, NFL Insider for NFL Network and NFL.com, and the host of the Insiders.

Ladies and gentlemen, Ian Rappaport.

What's up?

What's going on?

How's the Rapsheet house?

I know empty nesting all of a sudden for the summer.

We're okay.

It's tough.

Today was the day, I would say, 45 minutes ago, said goodbye uh for the last time for seven weeks we will be there for visiting day that'll be nice but

uh it's been tough really challenging okay so i for my head i thought it was five weeks and i thought it was absurd yeah then you just dropped in there two extra weeks on that seven weeks straight his boys max and jude uh i saw max this morning he was jacked i bet i could not wait to get out of that house for seven weeks jude i feel the same way whenever we learned of you doing this with your your kids, basically just shooing them out into the woods for seven weeks in the middle of the summer, I think we were all pretty shocked.

Do you encounter more people on your side or on our side of the whole thing that it's a pretty wild situation?

Because I think I grew up in Pittsburgh.

I don't think that is like a

regional thing.

Yeah, it's a northeast.

Yeah, okay.

It really is like a northeast thing.

I mean,

you're right.

Like, I would say for us, like, half of our friends are like, that sounds great because they know how much the kids love it.

Like, it is is there i mean you heard max today pat like legit it is max's like heaven like he counts down the days from when he can be there uh jude loves it too but for max that's like his like special place and so people are like that sounds amazing for kids like how do we do that and then other people are like yeah i would never send them away for for one day um yeah it is it is i have to say though i'm a little sad i know it's gonna be great for them i'm a little sad today there were some tears at the bus that was a challenge oh they take a bus you don't even drop them off you kick him into a Greyhound.

Say, get the fuck.

Is that?

Yeah, I mean, it's nicer than a Greyhound.

There's like, you know, nothing against Greyhound.

Of course.

But there's TV screens.

They had some like Fritos and a sandwich.

What?

Fritos?

You know, all the good stuff they bring.

So they can

be just happy when they leave.

How long does they call you?

Okay, go ahead, AJ.

Sorry, do they get like one call over the seven weeks?

How's it work?

Can they contact you?

We get a call after 10 days.

And then basically, like every other week,

we get a call.

So we also get a call on if it's his birthday.

So

we get to talk to Max on his birthday.

That's very nice in that camp, allowing you to speak to him.

Do you have a code set on those that they can give you a code if things aren't going great?

And they're like, hey, you know, the clock strikes 12 at midnight, Dad.

They'll tell you, hey, come get me.

There's bad things.

Yeah, like code word, code red, code red.

You know, that whole thing.

Theoretically,

they could write us in a letter.

They all write letters.

Max does.

Counselors are reading those letters before letting those out of there.

No, no, no, no, no.

I think we're wondering about lunch has been canceled

due to lack of hustle.

That's what I think we're all kind of thinking.

Exactly.

This amazing camp is not like that.

The camp was pretty cool, too.

Yeah, I watched that camp.

Hilarious.

That camp was very hilarious.

Seven weeks.

We're out in the, I talked to Max, his son, his boy, this morning.

I did.

And I'll tell you what, he was jacked.

I i believe we actually have uh a video that has been sent over but audio

hi i'm dude rapperport i'm max rapperport we're heading to fiji bye pat bye see you in seven weeks

all right see you boys all right boys go get them out there boys they say fiji that's what i think that's what they just call it they call it uh alligator alcatraz or they call it fiji that's where love island actually is

because they call it they're going out in the middle of nowhere never gonna be either of those guys are ready for that

Yeah, amen, amen.

Okay, let's talk a little football, shall we?

Congrats to the Rapford family.

I know there's a big deal for all of you.

And we've experienced this alongside RapNow for four years, I think Max said he has done this.

So we were there like the first year you did this.

And wow, we thought you were a horrendous father.

I mean, you could feel right now.

Now it's like, feels like the boys love it.

And the life experience and living away from home, having to get over the homesick, meet new friends, have to take care of yourself, learning new skills.

I don't think I'd be able to ever do it because obviously kids play sports, I think, and that's kind of goes through summer every once in a while.

I don't know how that kind of gets handled in this situation, but like, yeah, I did it.

I mean, they play a ton of sports at camp, but like, there's a couple travel, like mostly for travel baseboard for a cross that they can't do because they're away.

And, like, that kind of sucks, but they get a lot of sports.

Yeah, but they're still here up there.

How old are they?

What's that?

How old are the boys?

How old are the boys?

They're 10, and Max, Jude's 10, Max is almost 12.

It's amazing as a 10-year-old going to have to experience life.

I assume it's quite a head start.

Yeah.

Definitely.

Like, I would go on soccer tournaments.

Like, I went to Europe a couple of times as a teenager.

And, like, that was,

I felt like a,

I felt like a very cultured individual

coming back, you know, seeing how, seeing how like other people, and then I had teammates, obviously, they were from like New York City and like even more Italian somehow out of Jersey and all these other places.

You know, it's like getting a chance to meet all these people, that's a good thing, I think, for life experiences.

Seven weeks away from your parents, though, is an insane moment.

Yeah, yeah.

The private school that I ended up transferring to, I miss this because it happens freshman year, but like with incoming classes, since it's New England.

In New England, yeah.

Incoming classes, the first four weeks,

I guess the first two weeks, because they go for a full month, the freshman class goes up to this place Bivwack, and it's like a campground.

It's a campground like that.

And they spend the first

month in this camp getting to know like your high school class.

Do you think like it's a great idea, by the way, to bring everybody together?

It is.

It's like training camp, whenever training camp somewhere else, which we will dive into here in a little bit with you, Rap, after we wrap up this conversation.

Do you think New England has just been doing it since the beginning of time?

It's just kind of one of those things.

I do, yeah, actually, especially with New Hampshire and Maine and Vermont, like that, that is, it's very, very common to use.

Get these kids out of our house.

There's lakes up there, too.

So, like, there's so many different spots you can put campgrounds around.

It gets rowdy up there, though.

I've heard some stories about some kids up at camp.

Yeah, I assume Max and Jude are really, I think they probably enjoy a little bit of the freedom.

Now, if I had that freedom at that age, I would probably try to be working some hustle.

I don't know what the hustle would be at the camp, but I assume there is some sort of figured out.

Yeah, there would be something.

And I hope Max and Jude are doing the same exact thing.

Okay, let's talk a little bit about the NFL, talking about hustle.

$120 million

will be paid by the Cincinnati Bengals.

The other $350 million will be paid by Hamilton County for renovations to PACOR Stadium.

Do we have any other information on this?

Like, is this supposed to happen this offseason by next football season?

When is the renovation going to take place?

Because anytime we see a stadium have to get worked on, normally people aren't allowed to be in the stadium while it's getting worked on.

In stadium construction, we assume long time.

So how do these renovations kind of work?

And did we know this was going to happen?

Was there ever a chance Cincinnati Bengals were going to leave Cincinnati?

You know, I didn't personally think there was a chance they were going to leave.

And I sort of lean on, you know, there's a couple of these other ones that are still like ongoing where it's like, there's some doubt.

Like Cleveland's doing one, Chicago's doing one, where it's sort of like, are they going to leave the city?

Are they not?

And, you know, you can see like if you, Kansas City is another one.

If you're some other place, literally any other place,

you're dying for stadium, right?

Because of how many people come in, because of what it sort of means for your area, because you can build up all around with bars and restaurants and entertainment i mean you can do you can do a ton of things so it's like there is competition from some of these other places and what they do is they offer money right i mean they offer public money to say like we are going to lure you away and and that was obviously um that was going on here um i am happy just for me someone who i i like stadiums to be in cities I like Cincinnati and where it is.

And I know for the fans, like it's a

great spot.

I was happy this got done.

As far as the details, I'm not sure, but I don't believe it's going to affect anything football-wise.

Like the only thing that really does affect football is when they are like materially changing the stadium.

I think this is going to be okay because I haven't heard that they're going to play in another place, but I would agree this is very, very good news for Cincinnati.

And then, you know, it's already been a place that people will want to play because they have Joe Burrow and they're going to be very good.

And I think this helps.

how about trey hendrickson what do we got going on there

you know still nothing um i would say as you get closer to training camp um

you know we'll see if we'll see if this ends up getting done i remain optimistic that they're going to find the number get it done lock him in long term just because that's what that's what everybody wants um you know i was at uh I was at tight end you a couple days ago in Nashville talking to some of the other no big deal there's a bang no big deal I didn't I didn't hang out with Taylor but I did hang out with some of the other people, which, you know, missed that night, which is whatever.

It's not like you want to see an event.

That's not really a rap sheet to miss.

That's not a miss.

You would not miss that.

That seems like the only event you would go to.

Correct.

Down bad.

Because how many people were not just, we didn't, obviously, I don't think anybody knew Taylor was going to perform.

They just had that conversation.

But everybody else that was there, the amount of rap sheet.

Oh, yeah.

Hey, you want some tequila?

Talk a little bit.

Booze was flowing.

There's a lot of that.

It would have been.

I tried to get back and forth in one day so I wouldn't miss the kids because they're leaving.

Good dad.

The night before,

I will tell you this.

Good dad.

The night before, there was like a little party in a bar with all, you know, all the tight ends.

Wendy Taylor was there.

And I heard a story about some like semi, you know, like teenager comes up to her, doesn't say anything, takes a selfie with her.

and then tries to walk away and she grabbed him around the shoulders in a big bear hug and like took her own selfie selfie with him.

That's awesome.

And I was like, I mean, that's the kind of, she was just hanging out with everyone.

And I'm like, definitely wouldn't have wanted to have been there for nights.

Yeah, she would have thought you were a little child.

Come here, old guy.

We're in your pants.

She was all.

She was a safe boy.

She's definitely taller than me.

I mean, if she took the selfie,

she'd have to do it on a knee.

There's a chance.

I mean, she's very athletic.

We thought about her potentially becoming a part of the women's Olympics flag football team because, I mean, she's at tight end you.

She's with Travis Kelsey, one of the greatest receivers, just receivers of all time.

She's tall, athletic.

See her move, dance.

She has great memory, obviously.

Hey, need you to run a little.

That's a great thought, though.

Stick knot.

She's a football girl at this point.

She is.

I mean, she's going to tight end university, playing in Nashville in front of a thousand people.

Yeah.

That's some G shit.

Oh, yeah.

And then I think

that is good shit.

That is that good shit.

That is that good shit.

That is awesome.

Okay, last thing about Cincinnati here before we move to new stuff.

The coolest looking guy in the room, whatever room he is in, Connor has a question for you.

Yeah, welcome to the jungle rap.

I wasn't going to say anything, but God, that's amazing.

Go ahead.

Yeah, yeah.

I appreciate that very much.

And please call me sir.

But with the Bengals, the other situation is Shamar Stewart.

That kind of came out of nowhere.

Now it's become this whole entire thing.

Is there any sort of progress when it comes to his contract?

And is it still just being held up over that one small thing that the Bengals have never put in any contracts before and wanted to start doing this with Shamar?

Yes, it is what this is what it's coming down to.

And I saw some comments from the agent Zach Hiller.

He was saying, well, if they want to take this, basically if they want this new language, they should offer us something.

This is kind of one of the problems with these rookie deals.

There's not a lot to offer.

There's not a lot to negotiate, right?

I mean, this is the same problem that Rokan Smith ran into, and that was over a different issue.

That was over offset language.

But the teams don't have a ton to give because the money's set.

It's all guaranteed anyway.

Signing bonuses that you can, you know, say like, all right, we'll pay you in September or December.

Like, it doesn't matter.

You're getting it all anyway.

So there's just not a lot to negotiate from.

You know, this should get worked out.

There is literally no reason that this shouldn't get worked out.

And, you know, from the Bangladesh standpoint, a lot of the teams around him use similar language.

I don't believe that this would actually affect any guarantees.

Oh, so this is normal?

Wait, this is normal?

It's, well, it's not normal for the Bengals, but it's normal for teams, for plenty of other teams.

More than half the teams use a similar language, but the Bengals haven't.

So that's why you could sort of see both sides like, okay, well, why me?

And the Bengals were why not now?

My understanding was that it wasn't a lot of people.

My understanding was that it was brought out of nowhere.

That's kind of how I was

kind of talking.

I also don't think it, you know, again, easy for me to say it's not my contract, but I don't believe this will affect very much at all.

It's all guaranteed.

So, I mean, this should get worked out a couple of days before camp.

We've seen so many early contracts this year.

So, hold on.

Did the Bengals tell them, hey, we've never done this before, we're going to do this?

Or did they get access to the previous year's first-round Cincinnati Bengals contract?

Yeah, so the union, you know, which advises agent, NFOPA, which advises agents and sort of not helps them, but like tells them what they need to know,

you know, has obviously had conversation with the agent to be like, all right, well, this wasn't, this didn't exist last year for the Bengals, but now they're trying to put this in.

They're trying to sort of, what was the word given to me like specify, clarify.

Oh, yeah.

You know, so I don't know.

I mean, to me, it's, it should get done.

More than half the teams do it, though.

And if they did it last year, then is the union telling the agent, hey, they're doing this when most some other teams teams don't that's an interesting little dilemma there because i was on chamor's side completely when i heard i'm like just putting a new clause in you don't even allow to have it if over half the teams are doing it the bengals not doing it for the previous time makes sense first of all yeah what teams though like are all the teams that i'd feel like yeah is it good teams or cheap teams yeah is it cheap

i was told a lot of the teams around them in the draft so i i uh

so cold look at the

i mean i i don't know specifically i don't want to say anything wrong um but i was told more than half the teams used it.

Okay, okay, that's a good piece of information.

We need to have that be our thoughts going forward, and hopefully they're able to get the job done.

And, Shamar, I think you're going to be great over there in Cincinnati.

Brand new stadium.

That's right.

Players are pretty excited about him.

Like, he should be, he is, he should be good.

Great talking.

We loved everything about it.

Go ahead, AJ.

Yeah, Ian, I saw the NFL suspended Justin Tucker the first 10 weeks.

I guess that doesn't mean the first 10 games technically.

What are the chances?

I assume that he's already appealing or he already has appealed this, but but is another team gonna sign him up before that I think he accepted okay so he has not appealed now it's it's interesting and I was reading some comments from the lawyer of the of the accusing women today so basically he has accepted the NFL's ruling the NFL's investigation the contents of it saying he wants to move on but then also says that he's innocent and is you know basically didn't do what they allege which I know has sort of frustrated the lawyer of these accusers because because basically, like in their mind, like he did not take, did not take accountability for this.

But the NFL did their investigation, which this lawyer commended and basically stood by.

And yeah, he's out the first 10 weeks.

The reason why it's not 10 games is because he's a free agent.

And so, you know, my guess is he'll remain a free agent for most of the first half of the season.

And then it's going to get really interesting because, you know, all this stuff with Justin Tucker, it's all real.

You know, the NFL has determined that he did it, suspended 10 weeks.

But then like you come early November, like he's one of the best kickers in history.

He'll be available for someone if they want to deal with signing someone who went through all this and did all this, which some teams won't, but some teams will.

And he actually becomes a really interesting free agent as you get into November and December.

Like, is someone going to sign him?

And then like, if a team does sign him, is he once again determining like huge, huge games?

Once again, I would like to just reiterate the fact that like massage therapy is such a massive piece of professional athletics, like such a massive piece of it.

It has just become the norm for most professional athletes at some point to flush your muscles and flush your body.

So the fact that that is kind of being, you know, I don't want to say

treated as if it's not like a re like, you know, like some people view it and be, they're talking, it's terrible that this has happened.

I don't think it's good that it's happened multiple times now with professional athletes.

And I think like if you think about the entire state of where we are with medicine and recovery and everything like that, it's like,

that can't be happening.

Like that shit's disgust.

Like let's come on.

The NFL's investigation.

What is that?

Is that a third party that does the investigation and reports back to the NFL?

Is it the actual NFL?

How does that, how do those things work?

10 minutes is a lot of, that's a big suspension.

That's a big suspension.

It's a lot.

I mean,

that is an indication of what they found and how serious.

So, for instance, just so we could put this into,

you know, a better, just like about how big of a suspension this is, Miles Garrett, $40 million contract.

Let's say he's making $40 million a year, even though signing bonuses are in there.

Let's just say his salary is $40 million.

Yeah, yeah.

That's over half the season.

Okay, that's like a 20 million plus fine.

That's like a, you know, that's a huge, this is a gigantic.

10 weeks is a long time.

That is a long time.

So the investigation had to have said something.

Who does the investigation?

Yeah, who does the investigation?

So the NFL has investigators.

The NFL has people that they, I don't want to say contract, but basically assign this case.

And, you know, a lot of times, now this was

civil.

And, you know, the lawyers said they may end up, well, sort of left the door open for a potential lawsuit.

But as you know, with like Deshaun Watson, which is the only other similar case we've had for this, like that was a series of civil cases that were going on.

And, you know, if there is a

legal matter, like if, you know, like, what's a good idea?

Like, okay, Rashi Rice, right?

His situation, the trouble he got into from a couple offseasons ago,

that's still in the legal system.

So the NFL will basically address that when the legal process is over.

Got it.

This wasn't like that.

So the NFL, they do their own investigation.

They do their own interviews.

They come up with their own set of facts.

And a lot of times it coincides with what the authorities come up with, but not always.

And, you you know, 10 games is a lot.

I believe

Deshaun got 11.

Is that right?

I'm trying to remember.

I believe that's right.

I think that's right.

I mean, that is an indication of how very, very serious they took this.

Okay.

Well,

moving forward, can't have it.

Chase at this moment forward, never going to happen again.

Can't happen again.

Let's chit-chat about some other free agents, shall we?

Go ahead, Conman.

Yeah, Rapsheet.

There's still a bunch of free agents out there.

Stefan Gilmore, Keenan Allen, Amari Cooper.

There are others as well.

Are teams reaching out now?

Our conversations already started with these guys.

I know with some of the elder statesmen, they are going to join

August, maybe even late July.

When do you expect some of these signings and what teams are reaching out the most, trying to add to what they have?

Yeah, so I would say you mentioned a couple of them.

Gabe Davis, I would put in there.

Remember, he's taking a couple visits to the Saints and the Steelers.

He's free, but yeah, Keenan Out, Amari Cooper, I haven't heard a ton on.

You know, and there's a couple others like, you know, Stephon Gilmore, who

I believe still wants to play.

Zadarius Smith is another one.

You know, it's a combination of Rasul Douglas is another one.

It's a combination of, you know, they don't want to go through the spring and like, why would they sign until they have to?

Or like, they just like a little more money.

And, you know, you really, for if you're a free agent, the leverage comes right before training camp when like you want a hole filled before camp or like two weeks in when you see your rookies and you're like, I thought this guy was going to contribute, but he's not.

I now need a veteran corner or a veteran receiver or whatever.

And there's, you know, a couple teams that are still, they're still looking.

Like if the Dolphins trade Jalen Ramsey, which I expect they might sign a corner, Steelers are still looking for a playmaker, whether it's receiver or tight end.

You know, there's a couple other teams.

Ravens member signed, Jair Alexander.

They were kind of one of those teams just looking for one little more piece.

But that probably in like three weeks starts to heat up a little bit.

Where's Ramsey looking at, right?

Or who's reaching out for Ramsey right now?

When would that happen?

Is that the Steelers?

Is that what was being said?

Is it?

You know,

I don't see that happening.

I don't see Jalen Ramsey getting traded to the Steelers.

Now, like,

I've been been fearing for my life from the long.

There's no chance that there'll be actual layers.

Not to all of you.

I wouldn't be surprised.

I wouldn't be surprised if there was interest from the Steelers because they really have.

I mean, Omar Khan has been

very open-minded about everyone available, it seems, which I kind of love that.

Let's talk about the Steelers.

Can we?

Can we elaborate on that?

Yeah, because it's something Jalen Ramsey, you're not 100% sure.

Omar Carr, Conan, any other teams?

I don't think, so let me just, I don't think Ramsey for the Steelers, the Rams are the ones that make the most sense to me.

It's just a really difficult deal to do given the money.

So we'll see if they can figure it out.

Can't spell Ramsey without Rams.

Rams.

Holy shit.

Yeah, that's what they were saying before whenever they literally nailed it.

Need Miami to pick up some of the tab, I think, is probably what L.A.

Rams are going to say.

I assume that's what McVay is going to say over there in the boys.

I assume they're going to say,

right?

That's probably what's holding it up?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Got it.

Okay.

Let's go to the Steelers.

A.P.

Tone in a really cool hat from Taylor LaWanne has a question for you.

Thank you, Pat.

Yeah, Ian, I've seen over the last week from the...

It is a cool hat, isn't it, Ian?

It wouldn't be my style, just being totally honest.

Whoa!

Why not?

He's LaWee.

Whoa.

What's this guy's friend?

He's kind of...

I mean,

there's no shade.

It's just like, I have a different style of cowboy hat.

No shade.

There's a lot of shade all the way around.

Cowboy hat.

That's the purpose.

Bowler.

So, what is it, a safari hat?

It's a rock star hat, brother.

That's what a rock star is wearing.

The governor.

Clearly, you've never been in a safari.

Or watch Zach Brown do anything.

Yeah.

I mean, or seeing Dr.

Albany.

The only country guy I like is your guy, Parker.

That's my only guy.

Album Out Last Night at Midnight.

Okay, download that now.

Self-type.

That's what he fucked.

Yes, he can.

Can he not?

Yeah, that was actually,

he was publicly attacked.

Not being able to sing.

That's right.

That was like the perfect thing for somebody to say about him because he's like, actually.

Oh, really?

That is my shit.

I actually came to that.

Anyways, back to Pittsburgh.

So you're not distracting from the story.

Yeah, and he hates country, so that's why he didn't stay for Taylor's act.

I've been seeing over the last

I've been seeing from the last week, I don't know where they're getting it, but the local Pittsburgh aggregators are now reporting that they are hearing that TJ is going to get more than 40 million, more than Miles Garrett.

I believe I asked you or someone recently, and that was not the case.

Do you think that's changed?

And where are we sitting with TJ?

I have not heard that.

If he gets more than Miles, I would say that is awesome for TJ.

These are the guys you pay.

He's great.

He's a good guy.

He is a face of that franchise.

And these are the kinds of guys who...

should get paid all of the money and should retire as a member of the Steelers or whatever.

Like, I hope he gets it.

These are tough deals to do.

And I would say, you know, similar to Trey Hendrickson, because as you get a little older on these third contracts, you're still awesome, but you are getting older.

And so like teams have to square that and kind of figure it out.

You know, there's, there's different ways to structure it where teams can protect themselves and players can still get the money.

I still believe it's going to work out,

but I hadn't.

I hadn't heard that number and I hadn't heard that anything is imminent.

And the Steelers, you know, they do take things right up to the start of the season before they just cut it off.

So I think we got a ways to go on this one.

Good news, though, because the way the Steelers are currently sitting, only paying a quarterback about $10 million.

And then the goal, hopefully, from what it sounds like, is Aaron passes the torch to Will Howard.

Will Howard will be on a rookie deal, a fifth-round rookie deal, which is much less for the next four years, foreseeable future.

So if you are to pay somebody now and including last year, would be a good time to do it if you're the Pittsburgh Steelers.

That's a quarterback contract, though.

Yes, it is.

He would be getting the quarterback contract

for the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Yes, like about $42 million is a

quarterback on Taft for sure.

Yeah, but like, no, there is no imminent big quarterback contract coming.

Whether, you know, whether it is Will Howard next year, or they have to, or they watch Will this year and they decide he's not the guy, or whatever, and they have to draft another rookie next year.

Like, there's not a huge quarterback contract on the books anywhere in the near future.

And if it feels like if we listen to what

Watt has been saying, JJ,

he's talking about his own deals.

And he's saying, if you get these done earlier, you know, everybody's happy too.

You're able to get a lower price.

Everybody's happy.

If you just continue, like I think he was talking about the Trey Hendrickson situation where you're like, hey,

we'll take care of you next offseason.

At some point, the player is going to be like, all right, you got to, yeah.

Even if they're the most committed player to the team, it's like, hey, everybody else around me is getting paid market value except for me.

I'm trying to be the good guy.

You said you'd do it.

And then inevitably, you've delayed this to a point where now the market is what it is.

Like this is just kind of how it goes.

And I'm not saying there's any heat between TJ and the Pittsburgh Steelers or the Pittsburgh Steelers and TJ Watt or Jensers and TJ Watt or anything like that.

But it is like TJ seemingly has got to a point where he's like, I feel like I've been good by you guys.

And I think that's very fair for TJ to do.

Same with Trey Hendrickson.

Rap sheet.

I agree.

And this is why, like, no one should be, I know fans kind of don't love this, this, but, like, these guys are awesome, and they should get rewarded.

Like,

that's not a way to do any pushbacks in the NFL.

Not everybody's awesome.

A majority of people are awesome, though.

But not these guys.

These guys are awesome.

Yeah, yeah, you're right.

Sorry.

Sorry.

You were talking.

I thought you were.

No, no, no.

You're right.

I mean, not everyone deserves all the money.

But

no one should be.

No one should be upset at these guys wanting money.

It has not affected.

I know it's been like a story of the offseason.

It hasn't affected the team in any negative way because they haven't played.

And both these guys have played awesome.

So like they should get the money and I think they will.

We've put TJ on the Pittsburgh Steelers schedule graphic.

Because we all just kind of assume they're going to do that.

Have not put Trey Hendrickson on Cincinnati Bay.

No kill.

Yeah, we assume you assume it's going to get done though.

You said you're optimistic.

So I believe what you're saying, especially in this empty nest syndrome that you are currently battling with your boys leaving today for seven weeks.

Let's stay in the defensive end quarterback hunting world.

Go ahead, Foxy.

Ian, what about Aiden Hutchinson?

Is he going to get extended this offseason or are the Lions going to wait and see how that leg is holding up?

I'll answer the second part first.

I do not get the sense that the Lions are nervous about Aiden's recovery or rehab or his leg.

Like, it seems like it's going great.

I am.

It seems like they have a lot of confidence in it, and

I think they should.

He looks good.

Traditionally, what the Lions have done is take care of their awesome players early and with huge salaries.

Like, they did it with Sewell.

They did it with

St.

Brown, Tom Neil,

Kirby Joseph.

Try all right.

Here you go.

You don't know shit.

We'll do your job.

Hey, we'll do your job, Ian.

Yeah, we'll do your job.

We've seen you.

The summer.

Hey, we've seen you.

The summer.

Well, I understand.

And the kids, the boys just left.

Yeah.

We saw you look left there.

Is there a noteboard right there of all the notes to your left?

No, my noteboard's over.

Oh, yeah.

over there.

Well, I have like all my

outstanding issues that like need to be solved that I have to remind myself to check on throughout the summer.

Haven't heard Hutch's name much in any of these conversations that we've had.

He's on the board.

No, yeah, I'm saying he's on your board.

We haven't really even broached the subject of Hutchinson.

We assume he's going to be healthy.

And then I think at one point we assumed he was going to get paid, right?

Wasn't that just kind of the narrative?

Yes, exactly.

Exactly.

So that's going to happen.

Because he's got two years left, right?

He's got

two years left.

They extended Sewell when he had two years as well.

Okay, so that is why people are saying precedent has been set that this would be when they would reward somebody, especially if they showed up in the way that they did.

He was potentially going to be a defensive MVP last year.

Exactly.

He was outrageous.

He finished, didn't he finish like top 10 in pressure still?

There was some absurd style with like eight sacks with

or whatever it was.

Yeah.

Yeah, that had to suck so bad for him.

Hey, he had figured out the NFL.

Yeah.

I think he led the league in like percentage of defensive snaps at one point, too.

Yeah, he was defensive MVP, like on track.

Like, hey, this was hometown guy doing it for the hometown team.

Exactly.

Living up to the hype of everything that they've said.

And he was on the track.

And it's like, holy shit, this is the next one.

And then all of a sudden, it just gets taken from you.

Yeah, he was the first one to go.

And then basically the whole defense got injured after that.

Oh, yeah.

I remember there was this

because you guys played the Colts and you had like two of your starters still playing from the injury book.

Exactly.

Branch, everybody.

All right, rap.

McNeil, McNeil, Barnes, yeah, the whole team.

Carlton Davis.

Yeah, they went through.

They still number one seed.

Yeah.

15-2.

And then in the first playoff game, what was it like the first series where Amir Robertson, who is already replacing Carlton Davis, had his arm bent and shattered against the commanders?

Are we not talking enough about how the Detroit Lions are the team poised to make a Super Bowl run next year?

Kelvin Shepard, now, new D.C.,

friend of the program.

Absolute dog.

Dan Campbell, I've only seen a couple photos, but I assume he's breaking chains.

I mean, Frank Rag now retired.

That is huge.

Huge.

Yeah.

Big Johnny Morton, new OC.

Well, entire new coaching staff.

I mean, like,

the whole coaching staff except for...

Yeah, well, Kelvin was on the linebacker, so he was there.

He was a little familiar.

What happened to the Eagles, though?

What?

The Eagles went to the Super Bowl, lost their entire staff, and then it took them a couple years to get back.

And what did they do?

And then they won the Super Bowl.

By how much?

By what was it?

30 points?

So much, bro.

So many points.

25 or something?

I saw Saquon Barkley talking about it.

He's been doing some media.

Doing some golf stuff.

You still golfing?

Even more now.

Jesus.

Every day.

Max and Jude, where are they?

I don't know.

Where are the clubs?

Is that what I'm doing?

I'm starting to play.

I'm starting to play pretty well now, too.

Hell yeah.

Have you heard about me?

I'm getting back into the game.

Are you?

Yeah, we're going to do a golf thing.

We're investing money.

You can certainly be a part of it.

You'd have to fly out here to Indy, though.

Is that okay?

When?

Right now?

I'm going to Mexico tomorrow.

Max and Jude, go to the woods.

We're going to the beach.

You can't talk to me for 10 days anyways.

Yeah, you might as well.

Unrelated.

You guys are going to be heartbroken not being able to talk to your kids.

Might as well look at a beach and have a good time down in Mexico, of course.

All right, so in a few weeks, we can put it on the docket that you'll come out to Indianapolis.

All right.

I'm doing golf.

It'll be fun.

We're doing a golf thing.

A philanthropic golf thing.

It's going to be cool.

We've invested in this already pretty mightily.

So we're kind of forcing ourselves to do this.

Gonna need a golf course to cooperate.

I think we got one.

I think so.

Yeah.

Seems positive.

And if we do, we're gonna be golfing.

And I'm gonna need you.

I'm gonna need your ramp.

We're gonna be a team.

I got you.

We're not gonna be playing against each other.

And I need you to be positive.

And I need you to be good.

Yeah.

And boozed up.

I can definitely be positive.

And boozed up.

And you can smoke some vitamins if you want to.

Whatever you need to get that swing properly lubricated.

You're going to be playing some really good golfers, I think.

Like you and me will be taking on me and some, like,

you know.

Yeah.

As long as I'm getting strokes, we'll be okay.

No, that's not how it works.

Yeah, you're not.

And your name will be up there for how bad it'll be your name, not mine.

It'll be your name on the leaderboard, not mine.

So look forward to that we're figuring it out as we speak but we will look forward to your visit to indianapolis you're the man ladies and gentlemen in rapapa yeah

i'm a good vacate rap yeah for what seven week vacation you're about to take yeah i mean i get it i get it the kids love it yada yada yada

Sending your kids away for almost two months in the middle of the summer is fucking insane.

It also don't you do a lot of parenting during summer because they're not at school.

Now, you're not going to know anything.

They're not going to recognize these kids.

They're going to to change so much over these next seven weeks.

Max is going to come back smoking sigs.

He's going to have a lot of people.

Ours are young.

Ours are young.

Let's not speak to let's wait seven years and think.

Sounds like what is this camp that we speak of?

And is there a 10-week option?

I think we

have talked to him before about the amount of lengths.

I think there is like a four-week option, a five-week option, and a seven-week option.

Jumbo package.

I'll take the bundle of days.

Yeah.

All of the days you possibly can.

You guys, sports through the summer still or no?

I don't know.

Yeah, I mean, yeah, there's sports every day.

So, yeah, we couldn't go anywhere.

I was thinking back to my childhood.

It was like, I don't think I could have just disappeared for seven years.

I was in Baltimore last weekend.

Yeah, we're Cincinnati.

Yeah, there's things every weekend.

Is it this?

Is this La Crosse summer?

A lot of lacrosse, yeah.

A lot of lacrosse.

Yeah, lacrosse, AAU basketball.

Baseball, too, right?

Baseball summer?

Yeah.

In this, like, what's that league called that goes through the summer?

District.

Oh, we played Legion.

We were just talking about Legion.

Legion, yeah.

and then like in it'll just it's just like aau and a lot like in the midwest i provided something to do every once in a while on a summer night i appreciate you boys doing that legion boys got a legion game all right let's go for it spend eight hours watching these guys play some games like 80 games yeah it was it was something to do which i appreciated but saw the haircut on max i don't think we got to worry about sports there

what you don't know i know i don't but uh i know i know that haircut stinks yeah but i think that generation probably has that I think Jude has the haircut as well.

I think everybody has that haircut.

Yeah, I bet it's in.

Yeah, I bet it.

It sucks.

What?

Tell them to grow your hair.

Is that what you're going to say?

I've been telling everybody that'll listen to grow their hair out.

How do you feel about this leather jacket, AJ Hawk?

I mean,

you have me intrigued on what is on the back of that thing.

You really do.

I don't know what it is.

You may never know.

I think a lot of people do know.

I think you.

I don't think anybody knows.

Fuck you, Fox.

Turn the camera.

Don't try to do this.

Are you sweaty?

Are you super sweaty in that thing?

Yeah, because I'm so freaking hot.

You should feel how

soft the leather is.

It's 100% genuine leather.

It's so nice.

You need to wear pants with it.

Leather pants with it, Con would really top it off.

I guess the middle finger did breach the ESPN linear program.

They weren't able to find the blur.

They weren't able to find the blur.

Good for you.

Such an outlaw is that.

That's slippery going through.

That's the jacket, man.

I think they could find the finger.

but you look a little slippery.

Is that what they're saying?

A little slimy.

Are you?

Wait, hold on, hold on.

What do you say?

I just think you look a little slippery, like leather.

You know, like those Moto GP guys, they wear all the leather and women in the

women in the bike.

See you.

And then they're just like a turtle in its shell.

Pop right up.

That's what that jacket is.

That's what I'm talking about.

Slippery.

Yeah, okay.

I thought you were saying, like,

you know, greasy?

Yeah.

You're talking about like what the warmer.

I'm playing hot or cold.

Warmer.

Well, I'm talking about the lacrosse guy saying greasy boys.

Greasy moves.

Kachak saying a greasy kicking a skate.

You know, I just want to talk about kind of a dirt bag.

Is that what you're talking about?

Yeah, in some so you like that you look like a like a dirt bag is what you're saying.

I think I look like the man, so I don't know what they're saying.

Well, that's what you were just saying.

We were just having a conversation about it there.

You were saying I said I could, you know, just looking up at the leather and the pit and the buttons and everything.

I think there is a certain culture that I would be more accepted in.

And maybe some people would assume that those people are dirtbags.

I wouldn't.

No, it may not.

But some people would.

I think that is potentially a jacket that I would have worn at some point in my life because of how cool you look.

Thank you.

I bet you look wicked cool too.

We should all get them.

No, no, I'm past that chapter.

No, you can go right back.

That's the thing about a book, man.

You can read it again.

Yeah, but what you turn to page.

That's on bad stuff.

On good stuff, you should go back and and reread those pages yeah relive those moments yeah yeah you're living that moment right now why would i want to do it i'm on your page right now you were riding the bike yesterday that was awesome you were just talking about how great back on the bike back on the bike age i don't know if you've seen old school bike old school bicycle uh yeah this one's like a mountain bikey uh

but it's not an e-bike no no yeah i'd tell you biking sweet man it is i can't do the peloton thing i just i've tried multiple times i just can't get into staring at that tv yeah biking outdoors though i saw your pose like biking outdoors and seeing things like this yeah Yeah, it's great.

It's like you're a little kid again.

I had a dino as a kid with pegs in the back doing tricks.

Amen, brother.

Yeah, we're all riding around back in the day.

I think Diamondback was one of the bikes.

Harry

Mongoose.

Huffy.

Huffy.

Woke up the next morning.

Somebody stole my bike.

You know, that was happening back in the day.

You leaved out in New York.

When everybody had, yeah, exactly.

But yesterday, last night, I was going up a hill, Indiana Hill, obviously, nothing compared to Pittsburgh Hill.

Stood up, started fucking moving that bike back and forth.

Oh my God, I was like, this is it.

This is what I've been waiting for.

Hot ass air just blowing through the, I was like, this is it.

This is what we need.

Need to keep doing that.

Need to be fit.

Need to have a great weekend.

Thank you all so much for allowing us to do this for a living.

Have the greatest weekend of your life.

We'll see you on Monday.

Goodbye.

Okay, that was almost as good as Travis Pestrano yesterday with 30 concussions, nailing the heart out.

Yeah.

Yeah, by the way.

30 on 30.

That was documented.

150.

At a zero.

I cut him off because I was so impressed just with the number 30 before he said, I think, because he said documented on camera, out for a few seconds, 30.

Yeah, they counted.

And then I just crashed a car 30 seconds ago.

Yeah.

Before I came on here, I was upside down in a vehicle, he said.

I had to flip that back over in the mud and then come over here and do this interview.

Could have got a concussion.

I mean,

we have no idea if he's fresh, if he was still in a concussion, Travis Pestrona football.

That was unbelievable.

Toy's the GOAT.

He is the GOAT.

X-Games start tonight.

Yeah,

till Sunday.

27, 2020.

If Sal Masakala's on on the call, which you said he is, right, Toe?

Yes,

we'll be working.

He's like one of the smoothies.

He's like, he's very smooth, just like a very smooth host, able to move here and there.

I'm happy he's back.

That would be awesome.

Yeah, I think so.

I'll watch the X Games.

No doubt.

Hopefully, younger kids know Sal.

You think the younger generation knows up?

No, but they're going to learn today.

Yeah, that's what I think.

I think it doesn't matter because Sal's talent.

Like, I think you don't have to.

I don't think you have to know Sal.

I think you can learn of Sal, to Ty Schmidt's point.

I think, like, it'll be like, like, holy fuck, this guy should host everything.

He is the X Games.

Yeah, I think so.

Like the competitors, obviously, but like the first thing I think of when I think of the X Games is Sal Masikala.

He's host.

Yeah.

You are at Sal's X Games.

Exactly.

Winter.

What did Andy?

Pastrana called him something.

Pastrana called him by like his full first name.

Salema.

Like we're short.

Okay.

Yeah, I think that's his.

I follow him on Instagram.

I think it is Salema Masakala.

Okay.

That's even cooler.

Yeah, definitely.

Yeah.

Sal Masikala's cool.

Yeah.

Salema Masaquala, also very cool.

Could have been good for the X Games back in the day.

But

we put over Sal, I forget, maybe two years ago, maybe a year ago.

And then he followed me on Instagram.

And I'm full-blown adult at this point.

And I was like, holy shit.

I'm looking at a clip.

I remember that.

Yes.

Remember, I called everybody.

I told everyone's like, yo, holy shit.

I do.

Sal Maskela just fucking followed me.

Like, stop the show.

Breaking news.

Dude, there's a clip.

I'm looking at right here from December 2nd.

It said, ladies and gentlemen, Sal Maskela is texting me.

Okay, yeah.

So, yeah, Sal, we are fans, brother.

Yeah, Maskel.

I've arrived.

I've arrived.

Needs you, Monday.

Sal texts you.

Yeah.

Need Sal Monday.

Sal Maskela.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean,

he might be taking on all the tricks.

You know, I never know if he's able to do them all.

I think, I just assume he is.

Yeah, I'm sure he is.

Yeah.

I assume he can just...

Sean White was teaching him flying tomatoes, teaching him the half pipe.

Sean used to do everything.

Oh, yeah.

People forget those days early x games days sean did everything we're skating we're doing all the different shit that's basically standing on one piece of whatever and he's winning everything and then the announcement came through was that a red bull commercial monster commercial where he's on that helicopter and he was like i got a secret half pipe red bull i think red bull he just became a half piper after that and he like fully committed to a secret and just had a helicopter just taking him back to the fucking up the mountains i mean there was a bunch of stuff on that where you know if he was dating someone or anybody who had to go go and work on it They had to sign MDAs so that anything they saw Sean White working on they weren't allowed to talk about it It was crazy.

Hey, he won for America.

Yeah, bigo.

So I appreciate the hell out of here

all the time.

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Hey, what's going on in the skies down there in the south, Tone?

AJ, have you heard this?

I know you've been wrapped up in a lot of stuff up there in Ohio.

Heard you guys.

No, what happened?

I don't know if it was Bama or Georgia.

Was it

Georgia one day, and then it was Bama the day before that?

Both Bama and Georgia, roll tide, go dolls.

I just hope it's not a precursor event.

Uh, there's been meteorites the last two days that have landed in those two states.

I just hope landed or just hit the sky.

You saw it, I didn't, I didn't see it hit the ground.

Well, no, no, it disappeared behind the trees, but it definitely landed somewhere, it wasn't floating around.

Yeah, I don't love what's happening there, especially because I saw a post last night.

Bennu's coming, yep, oh, yeah, Bennu,

Bennu,

Bennu,

Bennu, Bennu, Bennu, Bennu, Bennu, Bennu, Bennu, Bennu, Bennu, Bennu, Bennu, Bennu, Ben.

Bennu's coming, dude.

September 24th, 2182.

That's what I said.

I'm sick of it.

I don't like the Bennu's just out there fucking lurking saying, I'm coming, bitch.

I don't like that.

I don't like that at all.

And

I would like to propose a plan for them in 2182.

I might not be alive.

Might be, though.

You might never know.

You're right.

What are you laughing at, AJ?

Would you not laugh?

I might not be alive either, but I do plan on being alive.

Okay, perfect.

So we're all on the same page.

On site, okay, 2182, we need to remember this.

Maybe when we do one of those things where you put it in a bottle and you bury it and then tell somebody a time thing.

Time capital.

Time capital.

We have the idea because we don't know how it's going to be in 2182.

As soon as that thing gets in, because if we know it's coming in that year already, we should know where it's going to be coming in at, right?

Yeah.

Everybody needs to pull their guns out and shoot that thing as soon as it as soon as it gets caught agreed and then that thing turns into dust yep that is just that's how it has everybody needs to be on the same page everybody on earth with a gun okay i know it might be difficult but everybody needs to be on the same page everybody needs to know where to aim and we only need half the people to hit it okay boom turn that thing to dust three we win space what do you think

humans win what's that We need RPGs.

We need new weapons as well.

We need to develop these as we go.

I mean, a bunker buster going that way would be good.

That would be

the best option if we could send a 30,000-pounder straight at it, outer atmosphere, because we want that thing to dissipate into the future.

Let's do it right now.

Send a bunker buster at it now, wherever it is.

Yeah, can we not just put a little because there's no graphic, take a while, so we just need to put a little fan on the back of one of those, right?

Right, yep, with a tracker,

yeah,

like a whaler, just have that thing go around,

find better.

Oh, better.

How can they pinpoint the day, September 24th?

Don't ask questions.

That's That's how good they are.

Science, man.

Read an astronomy book.

Yeah, I'm a Taurus, dude.

You have no fucking idea.

Mass times acceleration.

Ever heard of it?

Nope.

Oh, really?

It equals velocity, bitch.

Yeah.

That's good to know.

Hey, what does E equal, brother?

MC squared.

We all know exactly what that means, too.

Okay.

Yeah, we do.

I do.

I do.

It means his ball's going in, bitch.

This is for.

Yeah.

Yeah, it does mean that.

I bet you don't even know what the gravity is.

Yeah, do you know what gravity is?

Number?

I don't, but I do always wonder, too, like, are there any ships that's 9.8 meters per second squared, bitch?

Yeah.

How does a cruise ship?

I know the displacement and all that stuff, but still.

What'd you say?

How does a cruise ship float?

How does a plane fly?

On water and in air.

As Schlegel said, why are boobs good?

Like, that's something Schlegel would always say when he asked these kind of

horseback questions.

I saw you guys are getting into the bottom of a lot of stuff over there.

Oh, my gosh.

That linebacker group that's really glitzy at him yeah oh boy that's great why was he in there h why was he in there hey real quick

question i had hey that is a lot i mean that's a disturbing thing uh i don't know how that has not become

i think it will as we continue to go forward hard not to think about um

bobby carpenter had a video the general sorry a video of okay his ball and maybe 40 other kids doing a sprint on a field.

Did you see this?

Yeah.

I thought to myself, that looks like it's 2001 there.

That looks like it is.

Is that that neighborhood that used to, that field where everybody used to go?

Oh, no.

That was a camp, actually.

It was a camp actually that Luke Fickle, Rabes, and another guy, Ryan Miller, they started their foundation like 25 years ago.

It was a camp for that.

Okay, a lot of people at this camp looked like it was in a neighborhood.

A lot of kids playing.

When I was watching this, I was like, this is awesome.

Like, this is what it used to be.

And also, the general's boy has the hair there.

He will pull away in this particular race.

Yeah, that's a carpenter.

That's a win.

Oh, yeah.

Then he erases somebody who's like four years older than him in the next race, and he almost gets him.

Like, we're talking, it was a good race.

I was capturing it.

I was watching the boy.

I was like, is this?

I assume this guy's.

That's his youngest.

Yeah, his youngest Caleb.

He's a stud.

He's going to be a guy, it feels like.

Oh, yeah.

Shirtless.

Oh,

I think he might have got him.

No, no, it's near.

Near.

Near.

Yeah,

it's like R3 at the end, as opposed to, I think you saw R7 or R6.

Close.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Oh, okay.

Yeah, yeah, down there.

Greater.

Kid looked older.

It might have been the same age, whatever the case.

Flying.

Yeah.

Yeah.

They got the guys.

I love them hanging out.

Like, I like that.

I like that.

In the neighborhood that I moved into, found another neighborhood.

Did you see that?

What I found?

I found another.

That was close to your house somehow.

Another neighborhood, yeah.

Up and out, just go ride, go see it.

It was really cool.

I was kind of touring.

Like 15 miles away or something like that.

Yeah, it was pretty cool.

It was a good ride.

I was getting after it.

You could feel it in the hammies a little bit.

You started feeling the hammies a little bit.

But I was riding around the neighborhood, first time really getting out and in the neighborhood.

Man, people out in the front yards.

Oh, yeah.

We had cookouts happening.

Yep.

We had basketball happening in the street.

Like, it was like three on three on the street.

I was like,

I love it.

Saw four bikes lined up outside of somebody's house.

I was like, that is

somewhere.

I mean, wait till Mitt moves in up there because he's moving in near you right now.

No, he's not.

He's not moving into my neighborhood.

No, he's moving into

nobody in here.

Mitt's moving back home.

He's going home.

Every once in a while.

Kids gotta go home.

You know, there's another place you can move to.

Yeah, but it's not home.

It's huh, dude.

It fucking sucks.

Oh.

You know, I got cold from over here.

You made one today.

You just made a little chat before that.

International ball chat.

Yeah, but I'm saying

it's been a little bit.

What's chat saying, Zito?

Could you hear me right there?

Which part?

All right, we move on.

We had time there.

Zita wasn't able to read anything.

I wanted to talk to the chat, didn't I?

You did.

You tried.

We talked about it in the think tank.

We're like, you know what?

Today's the day.

Check in.

We check in with the chat.

We check in with the chat.

I think that's a good idea.

I think we turned it off today, did we?

No, it was the complete opposite.

Today we said the embrace checking in with the chat.

What's up, chat?

You did again.

Do you want to?

What's up, chat?

What's up, chat?

Tone didn't want to do this.

That was fake.

What you just saw from that guy was fake.

AJ didn't know anything about any of this, but I think he's always excited to chat with the chat.

Yeah, you know?

What's the chat?

All right, we're done.

We tried.

We tried.

All right.

Hey, everybody, have the greatest weekend of your life.

What's the golf tournament this weekend?

This is the Rocket Classic.

Up there in Detroit.

I think it's going to be difficult.

I think it's going to be difficult.

Five under is supposed to be the cut line.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It was this morning.

Yep.

Yeah, that is.

You got to play some really good golf.

Where's Keeges?

The leaders are 14 right now.

Keeges is at 4 under yesterday.

He didn't start today yet.

Is that a par three course up there?

What are we playing?

It's the Detroit Country Club.

I know it's old, which means it's very easy.

I mean, we cannot be having a 30-under winner here.

It's Friday.

I know.

That's where we're looking at.

Somebody 30.

It might be 38.

Somebody went 11 under today.

So, you know.

Very gettable.

Gotham.

One dude all playing for a punt.

Yeah, what is this?

Is this a part?

Is this a TGL event?

I don't know anything about it.

I'll be honest.

There was a 20-year-old that hit it.

350-yard iron yesterday.

I did see that.

Yeah, what a monster.

What a beast.

Speaking of beasts, you guys see Big Thump?

Big announcement out of Big Dumper.

He will be participating in the home run derby.

Yeah.

The MLB home run leader, Cal Rawley, also known as Big Dumper or Big Thumper, depending upon who you want to make happy and who you want to piss off.

Allegedly mom, not the biggest fan of Big Dumper.

Until we find out what Cal would like to be called, we don't, we'll say both.

With that being said, Kyle Rawley will be joining program on Monday.

Hell yeah.

What?

Yeah, we got big thump on the show.

Hell yeah, thump.

Big thump catcher, obviously, leading the MLB in homers.

He's a beast.

He bombs balls.

Good that he's in the home run derby because normally we don't get the big thumpers, right?

Yeah, I mean, I don't know.

People have kind of started that where they say that guys who go into the home run derby, it fucks up their swing and then they start the second half of the season with a huge slump.

But I don't know if that's necessarily true.

I mean, he is hotter than anyone else in the majors right now, so it makes sense.

Like, they need to do this.

The home run derby used to be incredible every single year because got, like, in the steroid era, guys like Maguire and Sosa, like, they did it all the time.

And now it's kind of like these guys don't necessarily want to do it anymore.

I don't know how much there's to gain from doing it, like, the real big stars.

Like, we had Shohei, he did it, you know, fairly recently.

But so far, him and Ronald Lacuna Jr., like, those are two very good participants.

Yeah, I was going to say, Ronald Acuna Jr.

is the other one who's already accepted the offer.

How about Vladdy?

Doesn't he bomb ball?

Vladdy's playing like absolute dog shite this year.

Well, he got plonked yesterday, too.

He made a ton of money.

His fucking

trouble.

He got polar bear?

Yeah, I mean, he got plonked in the hand, you said?

That's what he does.

Yeah, there is a bit of a dust up between the guards and the Jays.

Vladdy got his hand plunked.

Yeah.

So he might have a broken hand.

Yeah, he's out right now.

I haven't heard anything this morning.

Okay, we'll keep an eye on that.

He's a big swinger.

You're saying he's playing like shit right now.

Okay, and then let's go to the polar bear.

Polar bear is there.

He lives for the home run derby.

So if the invitation is extended, I would assume that he will accept.

Bryce Harper is going to do it again?

I haven't heard a lot of it.

Where is Bryce?

Where is it located?

Atlanta.

Don't we think, don't we think they should have burned some sage positive vibes into the weekend?

They should have people pitching.

I liked this story.

Bryce Harper and his dad winning the home run derby was awesome.

That was a really cool moment.

I remember how I remember five, six, seven years ago.

In Washington, yeah.

Yeah, 10 years ago, however long that was ago.

That was a cool moment.

But the amount of anxiety I felt for his dad throwing deep, like the last, the final thing, and it's like, that's the only downfall of the home run derby to me is my anxiety for the fucking pitchers because it's like, hey, congratulations, you were just dropped into the middle of the biggest event of the year.

What do you do normally?

Oh, I'm a junior high baseball coach.

I was actually his first ever baseball coach.

it's like well fucking good luck and let's make sure we fucking bum some in there now we need good pitches because that's a massive part of it all like the pitching is it's the only part of it

because these guys at you know getting feet getting fed 50 mile an hour fastballs like they can all hit homers on those episodes couldn't they have like a um

yes like a sentimental five balls or something and then have like that's not a bit that's not a bad idea because you'd have to have them be like two homers if like your dad throws it and then boom you have two homers take their time out that they get switch out out, because I've always said that.

I was like, I don't know why these guys don't use the guy who's throwing them BP all year.

And have that.

Have them out there.

Have them like man.

Some of them do, right?

Don't use their coaches.

Yes.

And that's quite a bit.

Use a metal bat.

If you do a certain amount, you get a metal bat for like 10 swings.

The kids will die in the outfield.

They can't because that is.

Put offensive in front of them.

Put them bubbles on.

Also, people would hate this, but the pitching machines in the MLB are so good now.

They should just roll one of those.

Oh, yeah, we've seen those.

So then we know everybody's getting the same shit.

I still think you can get like the sentimental pitches, like five to ten pitches, whatever it is.

But it's at the end, it's almost like you are setting somebody up who is not a famous person to be in a worst case scenario situation.

I assume it's happened.

I'm happy I'm not remembering it.

Got to get tired.

Imagine a high school coach got to get tired.

You might throw over 100 pitches for sure.

And they have to be gas.

And they got to be in the right location.

Like, hey, want it high inside.

That's what it turns into in those final rounds.

And then we're watching the pitches and we're like, come on, we can all see where the fuck he needs this at.

And then boom, like it is like a cool moment.

well once they changed it to timed rounds instead of guys getting outs because like you used to be able to take pitches and it didn't it didn't kill you now if you got a pitcher who can't find where you want it like you chew up 20 seconds and you don't you don't swing okay so let's do sentimental five pitches

have that at the end bonus balls

yeah like the golden balls of the time and those are worth two whoever it is can't be somebody that is a professional pitcher you know and that's in the first round i think and then as you move forward, it's just, I think it's just machine.

It's just machine in that thing.

Also,

go ahead.

I was just going to say, if it is true, like with the laces and all that kind of stuff, like they need to go back to the juice balls for the home run to beat definitely.

Cork them.

Yeah.

I'd be shocked if they don't.

I mean, I don't know if we'll do metal bats, but we should be fucking corked in that thing.

Yeah, for sure.

Yes, definitely.

I never understood that.

Like, I like to see the ball fly personally as a punter and as a kicker.

So in practice, I wanted the balls beat the fuck up.

Like, I want these balls beat up.

How come?

Well, I would like to see this fucker go 75 yards.

Like, that's that's what I would like to see.

And then, like, Matt Stover was on our team.

He was the kicker for the Ravens.

He was a vastly different operating style of kicker than me, but he was obviously a legend, very, very good.

You're talking about one of the greatest of all time, but he was just like so polar opposite of how I operated.

He wanted like the worst ball.

I want the worst conditions in practice.

I want the worst ball so that whenever I get in the game, I know it'll be easier than what it was in practice.

And I'm like, you're mentally tougher than I am, brother, because if I see a couple not turn over on Friday, I'm fucking going into Sunday going,

am I still going to be able to hit this thing?

So

I would assume whenever, I think it was Sammy

in BP, he got

caught with cork and they were like, he just does that for BP.

Everybody's like, bullshit, bullshit, that has to be happening.

And I think I would personally in BP would be like, I want to see these fucking, I want the most beat up balls, most juice balls possible, and I want to put these things out of the fucking yard before this game starts a lot of guys used to do that his thing though was that one of the corked bats that he was using for bp got into his rotation for the actual game broke shattered the bat in one of his at bats and they found that it was corked so it was like oh this son of a bitch is cheating oh that big pr spin was no he was his bp bat yes bp back up you seen sammy lately

I did.

He looks good.

We talked about it.

I agree.

I can't.

There's something that looks different about him.

I just can't.

He is older than me.

He's not as big as he was or whatever.

No, he's black.

He lost.

He's black again.

He was white there for like 10 years.

I think everybody was kind of confused.

It might have been an edited photo, though.

All of them.

Could have been.

Yeah, all of them.

All of them might have been.

We don't know.

We don't know 100% sure.

I did see him though.

He looked happy.

Yeah, he did.

Big smile.

I think it was a wave.

I think that was the first time he'd been back to Wrigley since he played for the Cubs.

I think I even saw.

Yep.

Yep.

He didn't go out as much.

He wasn't seeing the sun, so he wasn't getting tan.

Okay.

All right.

We will go ahead and go into a great weekend off of that.

And that's Chicago native Zito there.

Thank you, Zetho.

Navy Z.

Welcome back, Sabby.

It was good to see him back.

It was Sabby.

You know, a lot of pros have a little bit of a tiffs with the teams that they played with for a long time, you know, because it has to end at some point and the team still exists.

Sometimes players, you know, feel a little bit mistreated at the end.

Everything I fucking done for you.

A lot of that.

So anytime those

the hurdles get over and it's like back it's like man what a good thing you guys can look back on being great for baseball in that particular case there's been many other occasions where people reunite with the team that they were at like it's good news

i love sports what an awesome era for baseball that was so many steroids right that's just in my mind that's all i think of and

maguire dig into the plate with his like veins coming through his legs his pants like in his quads like he was so big vascularity creatine yeah fat, just

and his powerful stance, if I remember.

Maguire had like a fucking knees bent a little bit.

He looked so big, so big in there.

Yeah, those were fun times.

And in my head, I don't know if it's fair or not.

I just say

it was the juice, they're all juiced.

Yeah, they're all just.

But it was just creatine, right?

That's all it was.

Andro.

No, I thought it was creatine.

I still, I always remember Maguire doing an interview after a game once, and he just has a massive bottle of pills sitting in his locker just right behind him.

Holding it, fish oils, you know, because your joints.

Yeah, no one, no one even scoffed at it, right?

AJ, it's fish oils, those are those are pills.

You know, vitamins,

sage, a lot of things could be in there.

I read Jose Canseco wrote two books, I believe.

I know I read the first, I don't know if I read the second, but he, yeah, he talked about that whole era.

Yeah, they said, Jose Canseco, is he sneaching because he's phoenix.

Yeah, I remember

that was a great bar.

Jose Canseco boxed at one point, right?

Yeah, he did.

Yeah, you think he can still bop one?

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, Forever.

They should have Barry, Ken, Mark.

I saw Rafi Palmero putting balls out the other day on the internet.

So here's another idea.

Home run derby contestants get to pick one legend

to have two pitches in the home run derby.

Each one counts for three home runs if the legend was to hit a home run.

That would be amazing.

That's a great idea.

That's what I'm talking about.

So it has to be like from their team.

So like Aaron Judge used like Babe Ruth.

I don't know if Babe Ruth would be alive.

Fucking Jason Giambi.

So like, for instance, who's the Pirates guy?

Good hitter, Cruz?

Well, he's out now.

Actually, their best.

Their best hitter is Kutch.

Okay, so Kutch, let's say Kutch does the home run derby.

He has Jason Kendall come in.

Single.

Obviously.

Sure.

Maybe they set up like targets.

So if Jason Kendall just wants to squirt one the other way for a single, like he's not, he's, you know, because that was kind of his game.

He wasn't really a big bopper.

Yeah, yeah.

But nah, if he won, yeah, you're right, Koch would probably bring in Brian Giles or Barry.

Barry was a pirate, yeah, of course.

I think what about that other guy's

time, Jason Bay, isn't he a former pirate?

What's that?

Uh,

Rocker, or is it John Rocker?

John Rocker, no Ranger, but actually, he uh, he played for the Braves for a long time, so rumor has it he's gonna be very involved in all the activities.

There, there he is, yeah, I thought they're trying to reintegrate him back into the league.

That's what I thought, too.

Yep, the internet's wild.

What a time to be alive!

It's better than 2182, Yeah, you're right.

With fucking Bennu on.

Amen.

That's all they're going to talk about.

I would like to tell the people in 2180 and 2175 and shit, Y2K, I remember.

This was it.

This was it.

This was it.

It's over.

All these computers we're worried about, tonight's tonight.

They can't handle three zeros.

These computers are so smart, so powerful.

They will glitch and fucking kill everything with three zeros in the year.

We don't know what it's going to do.

We're going to party like it's 1999 because the world's ending in 2000.

2181, fucking letter riders, nothing you can do if Bennu's coming through.

Just fucking live.

Speaking of partying like 99, did you hear it?

Will Smith?

Yeah, another banger.

Oh, yeah.

Well, this one got teased, I think, a week ago, and then they released the entirety of it.

Who's he in

the booth with?

Jesus Christ, bro.

Is that not Dr.

Dre?

I don't think it's the doc.

I don't think it was Jazzy Jeff, even though he talks about starting in Jeff's basement.

Cool story.

I appreciate that.

I like that Will's just full speed.

Full speed.

Going.

Whatever he does.

Social media, I'm going to become the social media guy, actually.

I'm going to commit fully to it.

What do you do?

He skydive off a fucking helicopter.

He had a big YouTube deal going for a while.

Is he still doing that?

Instagram.

He does it.

He was like an influencer on Instagram, like committed fully to it.

I appreciate him.

I do appreciate Will Smith.

Fresh Prince of Bel Air, big part of my childhood.

Yeah.

Independence.

Tons of movies.

We know a lot.

Independence Day is so good.

Hitch.

I'm Legend.

Hitch is an unbelievable movie.

Right here.

I'm sticking right here.

Bad Boys.

What's in there?

Oh, that's good.

Both Bad Boys.

There's been four at this point.

The last one was actually good.

The last one was good.

The Legend of Bagger Vance.

That was a great movie.

Great movie.

Men in Black.

Men in Black.

iRobot.

iRobot.

iRobot actually bumped Pacers Cavaliers in the playoff game.

Rightfully so.

Off of TNT to True TV.

Inside the NBA pre-game for playoffs, we got the number one seed in the East, Cavaliers, taking on the Indiana Pacers, TNT.

We're watching it, and all of a sudden, it goes right into movie clip.

Fucking Will Smith iRobots on.

What?

Did I change the channel?

No, it's not on TNT.

iRobot's on TNT instead.

And you got to go to True TV, which has quite a

depth of options.

Have Have you seen True TV much?

Very diverse programming.

There it is.

Very diverse.

They have a diverse portfolio of stuff.

They do.

Saw a guy yesterday, had eyeshadow around both eyes, really heavy.

He was shirtless, pudgy.

He had like jumper cables, one attached to each nipple.

Nipples a little bit elongated, so it seems like he's been doing this one a long time.

And then he put a hot dog in between the two, and his nipples with the jumper cables cooked the hot dog.

That's right.

That was on the that was that was 9.15.

What was the show called?

9:15 a.m.

lower left corner is what it's called because on our TVs, lower left corner is true TV.

It's called comedians talk about videos.

We saw Shinagami's first fight, I think, pop up on there.

Yes.

A couple other brawls that have taken place.

There was a lady crushing a guy's head with

her body.

Yep.

A lady taking a piss outside a bar.

Yep.

Yeah.

Certainly was.

And then they'll have Pacers, Cavaliers.

Like, that's Corn Cob TV's goal right now.

Yeah, it is.

Exactly.

They're actually, funny enough, they're showing King Richard, Will Smith's most famous movie, you could argue.

Great movie.

Yeah.

He addressed the slapping of

Chris Rock.

You're going to disrespect my name on stage.

You can expect to see him on stage.

Me on stage.

I'm going to hit you on the face on stage, bitch.

I don't know if you said that.

Kind of.

That was the Excendo clip I saw.

His guy swore.

He did.

Oh, fuck.

Will Smith doesn't have to curse to sell records.

Well, I do.

So fuck him.

Fuck you too, I believe is what Eminem said.

Bar.

That guy swore.

So does that count?

Because Will Smith is still doing all this without swearing it.

Correct.

Which is, that's a whole nother element.

He's still doing what?

Is it true that him and Music!

Him and Emma releasing a track together.

Stop it.

He's the bar gotzi of rap, bro.

He is.

Everyone feels bad for him.

Bars Gotzi.

Yeah.

That feels affected.

He's bars got it.

And he bars got me.

What?

His bars

got me.

Okay, yeah, you're trying.

Yeah, okay.

I thought you were saying got meat too there at the end of

me.

His bars got

me.

Stick me.

You're hooked.

What's your problem, Nick?

You still anti-Will Smith?

I thought we maybe turned the page on this entire thing.

It's not even a thing.

People aren't talking about it.

Here you guys are parading around on stage, making a mockery of it.

The poor guy.

The poor guy's been through so much shit in the past couple of years, and you just keep dragging his name through the mockery.

I'm not dragging his name through the mockery.

He's back.

Acting like he's doing some great drinks like he used to.

Girls, girls, girls, girls.

I like pretty girls.

Girls, girls, girls, girls, girls.

Sorry he's got the song of the summer.

And I like the fact that he's Jason Moraz.

I like that he's back.

You do kind of look like Jason Moraz with that hat.

Great wool.

That's a great wool right there.

Good music.

Shout out to Jason Moraz.

Super talented and he looks very cool.

He looks very, very cool.

But Will Smith's all the way back.

I like that he's just seemingly all the way back correctly.

He's not all the way back.

Yes, he is.

He shut down London.

Is he starting any movies this summer?

You could if you want to.

But he shut down London.

You're right.

Everyone was so bored at that little concert.

They were trying to listen to the fucking story that he was telling.

Lyrics.

I don't know the words yet.

It's a brand new song.

You saw some people.

Yeah, like, damn.

And then other people were like the noise here mate yeah a little bit too loud here can't hear the words you know that's what they that's why it was the way it was i'm happy for you will smith love you will yeah happy for you will thank you for everything that's got 16 upcoming projects yeah yeah i'm saying he's doing okay and he looks happy hancock too yeah that drunk one yeah i love that i am legend too i believe he needs to stop talking about all the movies he's turned down he needs to do that like right now yeah movie people are saying we were happy you didn't take those movies.

No, it's just like it's some goes to show like oh like this guy doesn't know what the fuck he's doing.

He's turned down like four of like the greatest roles of all time because he like didn't like the script or something and he does iRobot instead when he could have been, you know, and Django Unchained, etc., etc.

It's like, Will, you don't got to tell everybody that you made a massive mistake by no, he's letting people know that every once in a while you're going to miss.

Will Smith's saying every once in a while you're going to miss.

I don't think that's what he's saying.

I think that's what he's saying.

But maybe, you know, maybe that is what he's thinking.

Will Smith looks young, by the way.

He does.

He still can move.

He's got that handheld camera.

Yep.

Liking pretty girls can take a lot of years off your life.

Yes, it can.

Yes, it can.

All right, let's get the fuck out of here.

Let's have a weekend, shall we?

Hell yeah.

I think Will's going to drop two more songs by the time we're back on air on Monday.

Hopefully.

Yep.

Yeah, in a perfect world.

If we're lucky.

Maybe three.

Have you ever been on the show?

Will Smith?

Yeah.

I don't think so.

No.

That feels like somebody we would be very grateful.

We should speak it into existence.

Yeah.

Indeed, you will.

We'd love to have you on, Will.

Love chit-chat.

Appreciate you.

If you don't have time, because you've got 16 projects and obviously you're an Instagram influencer and you're also a rapper again.

Not that you ever stop being a rapper, but you get it.

You're fully committed, it seems like, into getting back into the music world.

I mean,

he has bangers.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yes.

Which ones?

All of them.

Wild, wild, west.

He's a musician first, probably.

You can make the argument.

Wild, wild west.

Wild Wild West.

Jim West.

Desperate.

The movie or the song?

No, I don't want none of this.

Six gun running in this.

Exactly.

Any day until that's in distress.

Be out of that dress when she meets Jim West.

Yeah.

Who running this?

Yeah.

Yes.

Yeah, dude.

What about in West Philadelphia?

Born and raised.

I mean, that's no doubter.

Banger.

Yeah, that was great in 1994.

That was awesome.

Still a banger.

Guy everybody knows every word.

Someone hated the 90s.

Welcome to Miami.

Oh,

banger.

Fucking getting jiggy with it.

Na na na na na na na.

Na na na na na na.

Yeah.

What are you talking about back there?

That is banger, banger, banger, banger, banger.

Yeah, like I said,

he used to have these things.

They were I like pretty girls.

It's gonna last.

Okay,

so I don't know what Rag did here.

He didn't

make his newest

because he did with I like pretty girls, girls, girls, girls, girls, girls.

You guys haven't referenced a single thing outside of that that he's done in the past 10 years.

I said he skydived out the fucking hell of a moment.

No movie, no song.

We talked about the final.

No movie, no song.

He's doing stunts on social media.

No, him and Martin Lauren.

We just mentioned Bad Boys.

It was good.

I did.

It was good.

It was good, yeah.

I'm telling you.

since it's been since high school, this guy's been at Will Sports.

Oh, he's always had it for out for Will.

Yeah, you know what they say about those Pittsburgh Italians.

What do they say?

Because Ton just rapped all Wild, Wild West.

He's a Pittsburgh Italian as well.

That's what I'm saying.

What do they say, Zuko?

I'm not.

Hey, I'm not Zuko.

Are you going to show your jacket off?

Come on, come Friday.

Come on.

I don't think so.

Huh?

I don't think so.

All right, maybe next week.

Yeah, maybe next week.

It'll be back.

It does sound like

it does look like, and from reading it, I think you should maybe find out what that jacket's from as well.

Yeah.

This jacket is from a fallen king of the past, you know.

This thing's probably been in the Great Pyramids.

I think you can take this thing all the way back to B.C.

Really, Boston Connor?

No, before Christ.

Okay.

And it just somehow made its way here on a shipping container.

You know, did you see that?

I'm not getting into it.

I saw something that made it appear as if, boy, there had been sophisticated civilization a long time ago.

Yeah, there's stuff out there.

A lot of stuff.

Yeah, like new stuff coming out.

It's like, oh, how do they explain that one away?

I wonder.

And then I immediately go, did Grok make that?

And we will tell you that Grok did not make this, but we got Tone as a safari hunter, as a safari tour guide.

And Tone, this is how you should potentially live your life.

You look awesome.

I don't know if we saved it.

Yeah, there's been a few things.

Yes.

Is that tone and tie mixed into one?

I don't know.

It is interesting.

Coyote Peterson.

Look at the tat, though.

The redness of the fire on the left arm there.

It's accurate.

Vibrant.

And it's got your...

You're in like a safari vehicle with your mic.

Yeah.

A little bit of Pierce Bronsnan in there.

A little bit.

Yeah, Mobland.

You do look like a big poet.

Goldeneye.

Leading man in a major motion picture.

You also look like Bradley Cooper in Starsborn.

Sure.

What's his name?

Jackson Maine.

Jackson Maine.

Rest in peace.

Yeah.

He's not resting in peace with the way he lived.

Missing Jackson.

He's resting in pieces.

Yeah.

I like that I have a microphone on my Jungle Safari vehicle so I can speak to the animals if need be.

Oh, I did a Safari down in Disney World.

They got a microphone.

Oh, yeah.

Me and Sam.

If you look to your left.

Yeah, bingo.

Deep in the back, underneath the trees there, you might see an elk that has never been seen before.

We got a family of them.

They like to lay low, but they are spunky.

Me and Samantha were the only ones on the cart.

Oh, so you had to give them a pop.

Every time.

I also said, hey, next time, I think you should deliver this one

before this one.

Like, you kind of gave away what was coming.

I think you should let us kind of experience that a little bit.

I do appreciate that.

This is my third week here.

Like, inner voice on the microphone.

I'm like, how long have you worked on it?

Like, it was clearly

a routine.

While driving through a fucking, with these wheels,

it was an impressive, I was very impressed.

Headset

right here.

Got the full kit on.

Like a duck boat.

Have to have stats and facts and jokes about each

individual animal.

She did.

She delivered.

Thought she gave away something.

Should not have given away.

Hey, we don't.

That's your ASL.

You need to save that one.

Yeah, you need to save that.

You need to let us.

Experience.

Look at that.

You know, that is, that's what we came for.

You know, that is.

She was awesome.

I forget her name.

I should have known her name.

Disney World made it feel like I was out there in that.

Oh, yeah.

Have you done Disney World?

Yes.

Not for a long time.

As an adult?

Not as an adult, no.

Done Disneyland as an adult.

Mackenzie's kind of moving out of the Disney world right now.

I'm a little worried.

We used to watch Mickey Mouse Clubhouse in the morning.

Oh, yeah.

She's not really interested in it.

I think that's like a...

She'll be back when she's like seven, eight.

The Clubhouse we're going back to, or just like Disney in general, I think.

Like Toy Story, first time yesterday morning, the best.

Big pops.

She was really pumped up about that.

But I was worried because I was like, we had a great vacation to Disney World now.

She's not even interested in the Disney world.

Yeah.

Like, that was going to be a

back pocket.

Who's a hero?

They got something for every age.

Disney?

Yeah, because you'll get into the toy story.

You'll get into the movie age now.

That Beam movie

250 times.

Probably in the

Jerry Seinfeld?

Yeah.

That's how mine was.

That's a good story.

It's good.

Good morning.

Despicable me.

And despicable me.

The Pollen Jocks are really fucking.

They're living like kings out there.

Yeah.

They get the experience outside the hive.

They're the Pollen Jocks.

They're the ones grabbing the Pauline.

And they're coming back.

Makes sense.

Jerry kind of puts himself in an interesting situation to join the Pollen Jocks, even though he's not supposed to be a Pollen Jock.

He goes out there.

He's got a battle the rain.

He gets kind of lost on a tennis ball i mean it's a fucking it's a classic it is a you know jerry seinfeld is a expert on the details you know like the very relatable small things it's a good movie hey i would like to thank jerry and the dreamworks people for uh me and mackenzie's life for like the last uh three four weeks or whatever dreamworks does have you done dispigable me yet oh yeah we're through group uh grew i believe yeah yeah and pharrell has the the whole soundtrack to every movie banger

that thing starts with the car going up the mountain the happy the happy was from the first one or second one yeah the car up the mountains despicable me four yeah the last one yeah banger that's a good way i think if you were to get into the

kid entertainment world because there's a lot of lazy made things that have a lot of views i'm watching this with mackenzie and i'm watching i'm like this is so lazy like this is I understand what you're trying to do here, but we're fucking mailing it in here.

I mean, this is...

And then I look at the views and I'm 2 billion views.

They got to figure it out.

Maybe, maybe I, maybe that is not the accurate.

Show him

Prince Omakamura.

Remember his character?

Oh, Captain A.

Yeah.

Is that what it was?

Yeah.

Like, is that taken off?

I think so.

It has not popped up in my algo.

Can we look up Captain A?

In what year is he.

I do appreciate how much he committed to that.

He did.

He is in.

I loved it.

We figured it out.

Because we knew Prince, we got a chance to know Prince Omakamura pre-becoming a child superhero.

And

he was fucking hilarious, if I do recall.

Like very, very funny.

Worst call for an LNA.

And he knew it.

But he talks shit, I believe, if I recall.

I mean,

he was awesome.

So then whenever he shows up at Super Bowl Radio Road in a costume, I don't know if he was mocking something or if he was acting.

He's fully committed to that, I think.

That's good business.

I thought at first it was like a marketing deal, you know, that he was dressed up in a marketing thing.

We saw him go back and forth a few times, and then he comes up and tells the story of this whole character he's created.

Like, he has a whole universe for kids.

By the way, how about us all Kayfabe real quick, as soon as he started talking?

As soon as we realized that it was no longer him.

This guy's not backing around.

It's not a gimmick of some sort.

This is a real deal.

It's like, all right, we're all in.

We're all in.

There he is at Super Bowl Radio Row.

What's it?

Mr.

A.

Not Captain A, Mr.

A.

I will check in on Mr.

A with Mackenzie, see if she's a fan.

I'll tell you what, she will let me know, though.

She will let me know.

We're playing something.

She'll just go, nope.

And I'm like,

we don't want this on.

No, no.

Next.

No, no.

And then I exit, you know, and then she'll point at the screen, this.

And then I'll click on it.

And then we start playing it.

And she goes, you hear her sigh,

no.

Like, she who had such, she had high hopes for what we were going to watch.

And like last night, I think we went through maybe 45 options.

on YouTube and there was like six different

no

like it was like watching her become a human is like really cool.

Like it is cool.

And when you realize, we're talking about this off-air, when you realize that she's listening and knows a lot more than what she is saying, it's like a cool thing.

Like, I asked her, like, where Binky was, our pacifier.

I asked Sam where the Binky was, and like, she like held it up like in my face, basically.

And I was like, oh, you know that I'm asking the question, what it is.

Like, she knows a lot of things.

And it's like, yes.

She says back, and it's like, oh,

well, that's an interesting little situation.

Now, what all do you know, you know, like, uh, how you know, like, you have what, four kids for real, actually.

Yeah,

that's an insane thing that they just are listening, they know everything, they're listening, they pay attention.

That's why it's like, especially as they get older, like, they don't care what they don't care what you have to say, like, they're modeling their behavior on how you're interacting in the world.

Like, that's all you can do.

I showed her my tattoo this morning, yeah, and she immediately lifted up her shirt.

I was like, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Fans, this ain't.

And she was like, big smile, you know, and then put it down.

I'm showing you your tattoo on my body.

And she like, you know, start, now she's starting to work a little bit too, which I respect.

Let me like look away for a second.

And I'm like, yo, we're not doing that.

Like, that is not a, that is not a thing.

She started to get a little sly.

I like, I like all, I love,

I didn't want kids.

I don't know how I would have experienced life without her.

Legit.

Like, legitimately.

I have no idea.

Right?

It is, isn't it?

It's weird after you have them.

Yeah, I didn't think about kids like until we had them.

And then it's like, yeah, I don't, what was life before them?

That's how it is.

Yeah, because like everything is, as soon as I get home, we're with her.

She goes to bed, figuring out what the morning looks like.

You know, it's like, it's just a whole different.

You can see how people get kind of captivated and taken away.

How do the people have like 10 kids?

I don't know.

They're doing it.

Yeah.

That John and Kate plus eight?

Well, they take care of each other after a while.

The kids?

That's That's what they say.

Yeah, like the middle kid starts doing the lunch.

Well, like them, like, they didn't plan on having eight kids, right?

It's like they just, like, you get pregnant once, and it's like.

I think they did some boosting.

Okay, so they kind of gamed it a little bit.

I think they were hoping for like a triplets, maybe, or like twins or something like that.

And instead, eight-game.

I don't remember.

I know that didn't end good.

I don't think.

No, it did.

Yeah, I remember that.

They got shows you can listen to that give you advice and stuff

on parenting?

Yeah.

Yeah, I know there's a lot of books and stuff, too.

Books.

I don't read books a lot, though.

Yeah, that's why.

Connor sounds like he has a specific show in mind.

No, I don't.

I don't have any kids.

I'm not really privy to any of this stuff.

I'm just saying, like, that's how some people get through it.

When you get to the point of life of like kid time, I'm pumped to see you be aware.

Yeah, we'll see.

It's a cool thing.

You'd be great.

Con man will be great, dad.

I'm going to be abusive.

I know that.

What?

Just physical.

Okay.

That is not.

That is not.

Yeah, right.

Not verbal.

As soon as you see this child, it's like, it's unbelievable.

It is really impossible.

Catwolf, I'm, you know, if I'm about to make the great journey on Halo 3 and I got some little fucker.

Yeah, now's not the time.

Thanks.

All right.

Let's have a great weekend.

Everybody enjoy it.

Let's watch some golf.

Let's watch some X games.

Let's watch Night of Champions happening for WWE.

Let's watch some baseball.

Let's do some

hockey tonight.

NHL draft.

Team USA is on Sunday for soccer.

Rocket Classic.

Boom.

I think we started

with a whole phone.

I did forget the name of it, though.

Yeah.

Because it's a par three course.

I didn't know Detroit was doing that.

It's been throwing me off every time you ask me because it used to be the Rocket Mortgage Classic, but they changed the name a couple years ago.

It's just the Rocket Classic.

It used to be an Akron, too, didn't it?

No, it's always been.

No.

Remember, we had Ricky on from.

He would say.

Rocket was in inaccurate.

Yeah, I was about to say he would only say that if he knew that, right?

And that's something it's new to Detroit.

It's only been a couple years, so AJ's might be right.

Yeah, so you guys just automatically shooting down AJ.

Something that happens in Ohio, I think, was a miscalculation.

Well, I knew we had Ricky on from Detroit two years ago.

Yeah, but I'm just saying, I think that was a miscalculation.

They were putting fiber.

I just kind of wanted to be a dickhead to him.

Yeah, I understand.

Hey, sometimes you got to do that.

Yeah, exactly.

Especially on a feel-great Friday.

Right.

Yeah.

All right.

If this ball goes in, Keegan Bradley's making a cut.

Boom.

Nice.

Yeah.

Let's go.

All right.

Winning the tournament.

Everybody have an incredible weekend.

We appreciate you all for allowing us to do this.

We'll continue to talk sports next week.

We have an interesting schedule coming up because Wimbledon and everything that's happening.

And also football is about to, hey.

69.

It's right there.

So we got an interesting schedule coming up, but hey, we'll be here saying dumb stuff for you.

And then when we're not, just know that we are still saying dumb stuff.

We apologize.

You can't hear it.

And then whenever we're here, guess what's back?

Dumb stuff.

And then whenever football season starts, just wait.

So much dumb stuff.

So much.

Don't you think, AJ, this year may be the most amount of dumb stuff?

I plan on it, yes.

Me too.

Shout out to the NFL posting a video of me today.

That's very nice of you.

Yeah.

A good one.

Big thanks to the admin.

I don't know who that is.

Must be somebody new over there.

Shout out.

Legit.

Yeah.

Thank thank you so much hey thank you nfl admin for the love thank you

look at this yeah it's always nice to be reminded that i did this at one point in my life oh

boom

oh boom helmet the helmet a lot of people say training holiday absolute beast so fast they'll try to find you now yeah

oh they definitely would try to yeah for sure head down too that would be an awesome find too to get you know absolutely honor pat mcafey gets uh fined for helmet helmet to helmet that's a good one that's you had to put that one up on the on the mantle

i can't believe they did that so who edited that them

yeah probably thank you nfl very kind of you nfl social media people that's very cool very very nice of them you know we talk a lot of on a lot of social media people so i think a lot of these social media people hear that

And then those bums get out of jobs because they are exactly what we say, shit.

And then somebody else gets in there and then we move forward.

Did they match it up with the show starting, too?

They did, I think.

Man, Man, that's very kind of them.

That's like really cool.

Thank you, NFL.

That's very, very cool of the NFL to do that.

It's how many days away?

Six and nine.

Three months.

Gumpy has an update on the Rocket Mortgage Classic.

Maybe AJ, not accurate.

It's actually never been held in Akron, Ohio.

There was a tournament in Akron.

Vindication!

Ty Schmidt only being a dickhead.

I knew it was wrong, still.

Tone Diggs basking in glory of the Rocket Mortgage Classic.

What's it called?

Pipestone or whatever?

There's one in Akron for a while.

I think it switched to Detroit.

How about I had blind faith in you?

Just because it was something of Ohio.

I fucking learned my lesson on this Friday.

I'm way in, like, you know, Ohio, like Columbus and down is kind of my region of Ohio that I'm familiar with.

No, you were the president of Ohio.

It moved to, it used to be the Bridgestone Invitational move to Memphis.

There we go.

Yeah, I was right.

Bridgestone moved out of Ohio to Memphis.

How about everything that's being said?

I wonder what happened.

Wow.

That's good for what happens.

Yeah.

Memphis and Akron are two very cities.

Yeah.

We've been to Memphis.

Beautiful.

Numerous times.

Akron's on.

Have I been?

I don't think we've been to Akron, have we?

I've been to Akron.

I've been there.

What's wrong with you?

Very close to the Akron to Canton area.

You've been around there.

It's terrible.

I think Canton area, we're going to be there.

I think we're going to be in that world over there.

Okay.

Yeah.

I think there's conversations happening right now

about us potentially doing program from Hall of Fame.

Oh,

that would be.

That would be very cool.

Wouldn't it?

I mean, that seems like an opportunity that we should definitely think about having one.

Yeah, for sure.

If they are welcoming us into that and saying, hey, do you want to do a show at the Hall of Fame?

It's like, we should definitely

consider having one out there.

Maybe go to the game, then do the show.

Yeah, maybe have one.

Have one, go to the game.

Have one, do the show.

Have one, SummerSlam, I believe, is the next day.

Wow.

I believe.

Is that in MetLife?

Yeah.

The Shadows of New York City.

Everything's in MetLife.

Yeah.

What you...

You sound bummed out about you talking about the super duper duper couple.

I don't know if both Sammy's and the final need to be at MetLife.

You know, maybe one could be in Miami or Atlanta or, you know, I don't think you'd eat both Samis and the final at MetLife.

What's the most famous song about Miami?

Hmm.

We know.

We know.

Morgan Wallin's got one right now.

Banger.

It is a banger.

Is it Will Smith?

It's gotta be.

Probably.

Yes.

Welcome to Miami.

You know, I noticed you haven't liked a single Instagram post of Will Smith's in a long time.

He doesn't show up in my algorithm as much.

I don't like it.

I want to let you know that.

I see a lot of

lot of clips on the Explore page of like Will Smith fan clubs.

Oh, okay.

And I'm liking all of them.

Yeah, people that are ripping Will Smith's clips and putting them up on their own account, trying to steal numbers from our fresh prints.

I'll go back and like every fucking one of them.

How about that?

How many have I missed out?

How many have I missed out?

That is something.

I will get lazy with the heart button.

That's on me.

I'll see it, but I won't like it.

That's on me.

I'll run into somebody.

Well, if you saw it.

Exactly.

Your algorithm would.

But if you're mathematic.

Yep.

Well, it's fan clubs.

You know, it's fan clubs.

So it's always fan.

And I like the fan clubs.

So maybe it just keeps those going in there.

But you run into people.

And I think there is a little bit of tension wherever somebody like.

Hey, you didn't like my last Instagram.

You're like, any of my shit, huh?

Okay.

I'll go fuck myself, I guess.

It's like, no, no, no.

I like, I do it.

I did.

I did it.

Unfollowing people at this stage, very weird.

It's a whole scene nowadays.

Not just by the person, but also by people like a little unfold at somebody.

Do you hate that person?

I want them out of my fucking algorithm for sure.

Right.

I still like the person.

I don't haven't seen them in years.

You can like someone and not like their content.

Yeah.

And you can also accidentally like something and be fucked.

True.

That has certainly happened.

Both sides.

Scrolling.

Accidentally like somebody something.

Oh no.

Message.

Yeah.

Message.

Thank you so much.

Message.

I didn't mean to.

I fucked up.

Block.

Blocked up my shit.

Get out of here.

I feel like a bad guy.

Yeah.

Let's go and we're going to have the best weekend of all time.

Yuck, bank.

Oh, fuck.

I thought you had it.

I was so jacked up.

Oh, Jesus.

Fuck.

All right.

Chaos.

Destruction.

That's what it's all about.

That's right.

This weekend, great times.

Welcome to this summer

where players play and we have a great day every day.

In the background, work this week, boys.

Graphic design, boys, way to go out there.

Mitt, congrats.

Mitt owns a house.

It's going home.

Kids going home.

So who cuts this grass?

All right.

Be a friend, tell a friend something nice.

It might change their life.

Wearing this thing together.

Enjoy your weekend, please.

Summer.

No matter how long you live, you only have a certain amount of summers.

You know, everybody talks about years, but how about how many summers do we have?

It's hot as fuck.

The weather's nice.

Just go enjoy your life.

Find something to make you happy.

And if you hate something, nice summer cleaning.

Get it the fuck out of your life.

Be a friend, tell a friend something nice by change your life.

We understand together.

Team on meet, team on three.

Thank you, AJ.

One, two, three, team.

Goodbye.

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