Taboo Sideline Conduct, Memorable Sports Conspiracies & Nick Swisher Previews the 2024 World Series!

Speaker 1 I can't think of two better people to help me with this situation. My three and a half year old son, he has done everything lefty so far.

Speaker 1 Like he just naturally likes to swing, whether it's golf clubs. So I'm buying him lefty golf clubs, bought him a lefty glove.

Speaker 1 Just the other day, he picks up a ball with the right hand and throws me an absolute dart bullet on a string. The throwing arm, way better, right-handed, hitting lefty.

Speaker 1 And scooter, he scoots on his push-off foot is his left foot.

Speaker 1 What what am i dealing with here i am so confused by what this kid is any advice that's fairly common jerry don't worry can i also just point out the most obvious thing he's three bro

Speaker 1 that's a good point that's a good point

Speaker 1 All right, here we go. Another episode of Throwbacks.
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Speaker 1 Why can't I say that, Matt? On all our socials.

Speaker 2 It's because you're nervous about the Yankees, bro. Let's go.
At Throwbacks.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I can't speak today because the Yankees are in the World Series 15.

Speaker 2 Or you're still flustered about your Knicks opening loss. I don't know.
It's one of those things. Nah, those.
All right.

Speaker 1 We're jumping in.

Speaker 1 Those are the easiest losses to recover from, right?

Speaker 2 Getting blown out by 25.

Speaker 1 It's over by halftime. Like, pack it in wasn't our day.
Let's just move on. We got 81 more games to figure this out.
I'm not worried at all.

Speaker 2 I cannot wait.

Speaker 2 I can't believe I'm saying this. I cannot wait to go on this roller coaster ride with you during the NBA season.
It is a roller coaster, man.

Speaker 2 I love hoops. I love hoops.
I love sports. I love watching.
And I was, I was, I think I tweeted out. I was like, I'm finding myself on a 4.30 in the afternoon in L.A.
By the way, I texted you.

Speaker 2 I was like, my wife is out of town. My mother-in-law took the kids out.
My dogs are somewhere. I'm laying in bed before I had to do something.

Speaker 2 And I'm turning on a NYX Celtic scape.

Speaker 2 I sent you a photo. I'm like, what is my life now? This is going to be my life now for the next five months.

Speaker 1 Now that you become friends with me, that is your life. But I will also say,

Speaker 2 if I'm able to get us to the garden, it's at courtside it'll mean that much more to you now that you did a little research and you've watched a little bit of nick's action dude i'm fine i'm by the way i'm sitting quartzide with you i will fly up to new york for that are you kidding me msg i i i went i told you what i took cole uh to

Speaker 2 nick's it was a random game i was in you i was in new york i think i think it's for the heisman years and years ago oh that little thing oh the little heisman thing and i had yeah it was for that and i and i took cole and we were sitting first row right behind the nicks bench yep um i think it was when they had yeah it was it was awesome it was really cool i was talking to some of the trainers and the guys i think it was like an sc guy there that was one of the trainers at the time it was cool man it was first time ever in msg so i was like i'd love to go back well it's an amazing time of year we got basketball everyone's got one game in obviously we know the world series starting off friday i know you

Speaker 1 I believe in signs, and this show is still relatively new, but you being a Dodger fan and me being a Yankees fan, six or seven episodes into this podcast and they're meeting in the World Series, I feel like it's a good time.

Speaker 1 Respect to you because today, joining us, we have a New York Yankee from the last time they won the World Series in 09. Nick Swisher, same birthday as me.

Speaker 1 Nick Swisher is going to be joining us later to preview a little World Series, talk about his awesome home run derby X that he does, which is like their version of big three or seven on seven football.

Speaker 1 It's a really cool project, too. But if you know Swisher,

Speaker 1 meaning publicly, you know his personality, if you're a baseball fan, one of the best personalities of all time in baseball. So he's going to be a great person.

Speaker 2 I worked with him at Fox because he was covering baseball at Fox for the years, and we just hit it off, and you know him. And

Speaker 2 his love for life, baseball, like he's just hilarious.

Speaker 2 He's a great dude.

Speaker 2 I'm so pumped. And

Speaker 2 it's going to be fun, man. It's going to be fun to listen to him talk about Yankee.
And by the way, first of all, I respect the Yankees.

Speaker 2 Grew up Yankee, Dodger fan, but it's like Yankees are Yankees. Jeter, and I'm excited to hear Swish talk about some of those guys because he was a part of that epic team.

Speaker 2 So this one will have to get a little better, something, you know, and like you said, when we started this show, our worlds

Speaker 2 collided but didn't collide back in the day in the 2000s when I was at SC and you were on Entourage. And now our squads, dude, are playing in their first world.
This is, I'm telling you, man.

Speaker 2 You're my brother from another mother, buddy. Appreciate you.

Speaker 2 So starting game one, I fucking.

Speaker 1 Well, maybe you could help me out because this is now three weeks in a row that my, I got my Twitter fingers going and it's getting reactions. And I swear to everybody.

Speaker 2 That's nobody's fault but your own, by the way.

Speaker 1 But I'm not doing this on purpose. I am just asking questions or just

Speaker 1 putting out a point or a contrary point. So look, Bill Simmons last week, and look, I listened to Simmons.
Basketball for me with Simmons, Simmons, like, I just enjoy listening to him talk basketball.

Speaker 1 But, and look, he's a Red Sock guy, hates the Yankees. I get it.
Sports hate is fun too to watch a team, to watch a World Series, just hating on one team. I get it.

Speaker 2 But he started doing the whole commenting on, oh, well, the Yankees rode.

Speaker 1 They beat the Guardians and they beat the Royals. Ho, hum.

Speaker 1 I just think that's not a real thing. And you played and won a championship.
Did anybody question the USC route and path to get there and try to demean what you accomplished?

Speaker 1 Because I just think that means you're not watching because nothing about the Guardians struck me as easy.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I'm sorry the Astros weren't there.

Speaker 2 They got smacked by the Titans.

Speaker 2 It's just a lit, it's lazy.

Speaker 2 I think you said that it's lazy.

Speaker 2 Football's different. I think when I look back at our title run, like we, you know, we had a couple games where we could have lost against shitty teams and we found a way to win.

Speaker 2 But the year we won 04, we beat Oklahoma, who was number two in the country. So it was one versus two.
So like we proved it.

Speaker 2 Look, I think you could, you could, like, the Celtics run last year. Like, you could, you could pinpoint, oh, what was it?

Speaker 1 Thank you about the Celtics running.

Speaker 2 Was it the Warriors when they went on a run and they didn't have to play somebody? Like, you run into teams if they're missing. Like, it just happens.
It's sports.

Speaker 2 It's the laziest take in the world because it is so hard to reach the pinnacle of your sport no matter what it is, whether it's a Super Bowl.

Speaker 2 Gosh,

Speaker 2 we went to a Super Bowl in 08 for the Cardinals. We were a wildcard team.
We were shit. We were shit.
8-8, right? Yeah, we were 8-8. And no one expected us to win the first round.

Speaker 2 No one expected us to win the NFC championship.

Speaker 2 Stuff happens. We were not the better team, but stuff happens.
So the point is, is like, come on, dude. Come on, dude.
I agree. We agree on this take.
We agree on this. I like it.

Speaker 1 Well, because also, I was at the stadium in Cleveland for game four, and I've been to a lot of games. I've been to a few Yankees, ALDS games like versus the Twins, stuff like that.

Speaker 1 And I've been to a Knicks playoff game. By far, the most stressed out I've ever been sitting in a live sporting event was being the Rode fan in a playoff baseball game.

Speaker 1 The only time ever, Matt, I didn't get up to pee,

Speaker 2 I didn't drink water or be, I didn't eat, I did not consume one.

Speaker 1 I was hoodie up, locked onto every moment during the commercial breaks. I actually took deep breaths.

Speaker 2 So you have a Yankees, you you wear a Yankees hat, or you wear a hat?

Speaker 2 I don't listen.

Speaker 1 I don't like going to the being the Rode fan, rocking all my stuff.

Speaker 1 I don't hate on people who do, but also, I just don't want to get trolled if someone happens to be an Entourage fan, see the Yankee hat, and then start yelling turtle and insulting my whole acting career.

Speaker 1 I just don't need it. Like, I could, I could still enjoy the game without rocking my team color.

Speaker 2 I swear, you give me so much stress listening to you talk about you watching sports. Like, I stress out listening to you talk about you at sporting events.

Speaker 1 Well, this might stress you out even more because,

Speaker 1 you know, we had Barkley on two weeks ago. Everyone loved that interview, by the way.
He's the best. And now he's back to work.
And, you know, he said something in the interview two weeks ago, which

Speaker 1 I agreed with in the time because I didn't fully give it thought. And I've thought about it for the last two weeks.

Speaker 1 Now that we're one game into the NBA season, he basically said, you know, the NBA screwed up. They pissed off Brown and Tatum with however

Speaker 1 everything went down with the Olympics and all that.

Speaker 1 And maybe I'm just intentionally trying to take opposite takes. I'm really not trying to piss people off, but

Speaker 1 I get this opportunity to ask you questions who have been in some of these situations, Matt.

Speaker 1 Do you put real credence to the fact that Brown getting left off the Olympic team and Jason Tatum struggling through the Olympics and getting DNPs have somehow motivated this Celtics team to repeat in a more dominant way than they maybe would have had that not happened?

Speaker 2 It's so interesting because I'm trying to put myself in

Speaker 2 my football locker room. And again, it's different because in basketball, you got 80 games or 82 games.

Speaker 2 It's a longer season. So

Speaker 2 in football, every game matters, right? In basketball,

Speaker 2 like you said, the Knicks losing game, it doesn't matter, right? It doesn't matter. They're going to be a good team.
They're going to be in the playoffs.

Speaker 2 There is something about

Speaker 2 bulletin board material. There is something about having a little extra for a game

Speaker 2 in a football world, right? You're playing a team that might have been talking a ton of shit that week and you're like, all right, hey, you know, we're. You get to hit people.

Speaker 2 Yeah, you get to hit people. You're going to give a little, you're going to give a little more this week.

Speaker 2 But in basketball, to me, I'm just, I'm trying to figure this out because in basketball, it's like,

Speaker 2 what are the, what, like, what, maybe we'll see that in the playoff, but what are we going to see? Are they going to to lift weights harder? Are they going to, are they going to jump higher?

Speaker 2 Are they going to like play harder for 82 games? Like,

Speaker 2 again, I just think, like, I think in their mind, Tatum being benched for the whole Olympics was like an F you for sure. I, I can, I can only imagine how shitty that felt in that stage.

Speaker 2 Okay, yeah, I'm going to,

Speaker 2 I'm going to work on this part of my game. Brown, obviously, left off for other reasons and, and, you know, all that, but like,

Speaker 2 I don't know, man. I just don't know how, like, how do they, like, let me ask you, like, like, how do they get better? Like, a chip on their shoulder for 82 games of a season?

Speaker 1 Here's how I look at it.

Speaker 1 It's just so funny because I looked at teams.

Speaker 2 I mean, they did go off. He did go off.
Yeah, they smacked the Knicks.

Speaker 1 Did Jason Tatum hit seven threes because he was pissed off? He got DMPs at the Olympic game. If anything, he's more rested.

Speaker 2 He didn't play directly. I know.

Speaker 1 So, but hear me out. Most NBA teams who are defending their title aren't necessarily run-it-back teams.

Speaker 1 Why didn't the Nuggets repeat as champions? First of all, it's very hard to repeat no matter who you are.

Speaker 2 Well, that's the thing. Yeah, it's almost like a lot of people.

Speaker 1 But also, they, you know, Jamal Murray had a rough playoffs. They didn't have Bruce Brown.
They didn't have KCP. Their team was not different.
Why didn't the Warriors repeat?

Speaker 1 Well, they were ending a dynasty run. Their players got old and they still have to reboot.
Why didn't Giannis and the Bucs win? Injuries. Injuries.

Speaker 1 barring injuries, this is the exact same Celtics team. I know KP is coming back, but they're great without them.

Speaker 1 I think the Olympic stuff will lead to saltier celebrations. I think you could take a bigger victory lap if and when you win another championship or go win 65 games.

Speaker 1 But there was nothing, even watching that Knicks game, so many people, Celtic fans on Twitter, like, you know, this is awesome. I'm so happy it played out.

Speaker 1 So Drew Holiday and and Derrick White would be not nearly as motivated to win because of what happened. Jalen Brown wouldn't have put on a few extra pounds of muscle and worked on his game.

Speaker 1 And Tatum wouldn't have fixed his jumper, which was not necessarily broken.

Speaker 2 He was just off for a little bit.

Speaker 1 I just, I don't know. I don't, it doesn't work for me.
I think the Celtics are juggernauts. And it was clear that the Knicks are nowhere near them just yet.

Speaker 1 I don't think anyone in the NBA is near them.

Speaker 2 There is a much different mentality

Speaker 2 winning a championship and having everybody coming after you, as opposed to that. There's a different mentality.

Speaker 2 So for them, as you just said, I mean just as you said, like, like, it's hard to repeat. So like, it's like, does it give them extra motivation? These guys are grown men.
They're professionals.

Speaker 2 In the peak of their careers. Yeah.
It's like, again, like, as you said, maybe it's a little bigger flex in the playoff.

Speaker 2 Maybe, maybe it's, maybe it's when they win another title in the post-game celebration, they're going to stick their middle finger up to everybody like that. But, like,

Speaker 2 bro, I mean, he's still lifting. He's still benching the same weight.

Speaker 1 I just don't think it affects. It doesn't.
The overall point is they will have some fun celebrations flipping everybody off. I do not think it for one second affects any outcome of any game this year.

Speaker 1 But that might just be a dumb opinion. And I'm not an athlete.
And what do I know?

Speaker 1 So that's it. That's all we got for basketball.
Long road ahead. Matt, you're in for the ride with me.
I appreciate it.

Speaker 1 Let's talk a little football before we bring

Speaker 1 swisher in i mean i can't even keep track anymore necessarily of what i am enjoying and not enjoying about football uh the the thing that stuck out to me over the weekend you know the sean watson stuff which

Speaker 1 you know use it's so crazy now in slow motion with these cameras you could literally see some of the things well first of all

Speaker 2 shame on the browns fans man that's bullshit

Speaker 2 yeah and i know a lot of people i don't yeah sorry sorry to cut i i don't care as an athlete i don't care what you do on the field off the field, baggage, whatever happens. But to

Speaker 2 essentially root for someone who gets hurt is bullshit. It's

Speaker 2 never bullshit.

Speaker 1 That's it.

Speaker 1 And I know a lot of people went back and forth. Well, it's because he wasn't playing well.

Speaker 2 Well, they never took to it. It doesn't matter.

Speaker 1 It happened. It's over.
I don't know what happens from there for Deshaun Watson. But I was just thinking now, all right, all the drama aside, now you're the Browns.
I love Stefansky.

Speaker 1 I think Stefanski is a really great coach. What he did last year with the team was remarkable.

Speaker 1 I start to look, though, you're one and six.

Speaker 1 You got Nick Chubb back.

Speaker 2 J-Boo getting the start, too. Yeah.
Hello, Jameis.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 they have to draft a quarterback, Matt. It's the only way.

Speaker 2 What's that going to make? Like 35 starting quarterbacks since what, like the 90s?

Speaker 1 It's true, but you tried the trade option. That didn't work.
You finally got your first round round picks back and all that stuff.

Speaker 1 You are now positioned to potentially be a bottom three. You can't tank in football.
It just doesn't work, right? You can't put a bad offensive lineman in because someone might get killed.

Speaker 1 So I don't fully believe.

Speaker 2 And you can't tank, but you can be very, very, very vanilla.

Speaker 1 Right. You could be vanilla, but you can't put in someone who you know is going to just get beat because players could really get bad.

Speaker 2 Well, and also players are playing for a job. I mean, you can't go out there and play bad.
Yeah, like, no.

Speaker 1 But I can't see an incentive for the Browns to really, as an organization, and I'm sorry to the fans because you're one and six. You're tied up with the Patriots and the Panthers.

Speaker 1 The Patriots, if they happen to get the number one or two pick, are not taking a quarterback. The Panthers, if they happen to get one or two, I don't maybe they take a quarterback.
All right.

Speaker 1 Barring any trade-ups, though, you could be potentially in position to get whatever quarterback you want in this draft. I think they have to take that option.

Speaker 2 Well, and also, this draft is it's last last year's draft was great, right? Caleb, Jaden Daniels, Drake May, uh, Bo Nicks, Nicks, J.J. McCarthy.
I mean,

Speaker 2 it was record-breaking. Six guys in the first round, Penix.

Speaker 2 This year, it's a little different. And again,

Speaker 2 we'll be talking about this during draft season because guys will fly up the boards, guys will kind of fly under the radar, but you got, you know, Shador Sanders, you got Cam Ward, you got, you don't have

Speaker 2 necessarily an alpha quarterback. You're like, sure, fire, that's it.
Really good players.

Speaker 2 Carson Beck, Quinn Ewers, you have a lot of guys there, but

Speaker 2 to take a quarterback one or two overall this year with the percentages of quarterbacks never really making it from the first round, it's interesting.

Speaker 2 Again, these are just things that, as we know, can set back an organization. So I'm with you.
Browns, I don't, look, they should have never got rid of Baker Mayfield. Wow, that's the other thing.

Speaker 1 That's the extra, that's the extra kicking the balls is that Baker Mayfield is playing his ass off in Tampa. And that's

Speaker 1 that's the, that's the, the only other option besides drafting a quarterback is, hey, why don't you go try to revitalize someone's career? And that's exactly what happened with Baker.

Speaker 1 I'm going to say something you're probably going to hate. Browns fans are probably going to say, maybe they're going to turn this podcast off.

Speaker 2 I hope not.

Speaker 1 Do you even remotely consider trading Miles Garrett right now?

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 1 In the spirit of, hey, this is a full rebuild. We have the coach.
And if Stefan wants to stay,

Speaker 1 I think the coach is great. He's the most valuable asset on the team.
He's going to keep you in games probably. That's how damn good.

Speaker 2 By the way, he's also going to want to get out there in a year or two anyway.

Speaker 1 You could get a haul for football standards.

Speaker 2 It's kind of what we're potentially seeing with Max Crosby. And I know, like,

Speaker 2 if you're going to tank or you're going to, you know, rebuild. Call it a rebuild.
Rebuild. You're going to get a first round.
I mean, whatever you're going to get from Miles Garrett.

Speaker 2 And then, and then you start to stack your picks and you start to build. If you do believe in Stefanski and what they can do there.
The problem is, again, we talked about this, man. Cleveland is,

Speaker 2 I mean, Cleveland just does, it's not a winning culture. It's not a winning culture.
You can point to a million different things.

Speaker 2 It's just, I mean, when was the last time the Cleveland Browns were relevant?

Speaker 2 The last time.

Speaker 1 Well, last year they had some flow.

Speaker 2 They went to the playoffs with Baker a couple years back.

Speaker 1 And then the Flacco Renaissance last year, six different quarterbacks. Stefanski won 11 games, but they got wrecked by the Texans in the first round.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 1 So it's been bad ever since. Well, I have a heart for them because as a Knick fan, I know what it's like to not have your first-round pick for a few years.

Speaker 1 I know what it's like to have a player that maybe, okay, that was a bad choice. Anyway, that was just what's on my mind.
The Garrett thing, I was just thinking, how do you make the team better?

Speaker 1 That's your most valuable thing, and he's going to probably keep you in some games, maybe defensively. But to me, that's not the best, not the thing that I really wanted to talk about with football.

Speaker 2 Wait, real quick. By the way, one and six just sucks in the NFL, dude.
I've been there. You're out.

Speaker 2 Yeah. No, it just, every day going to work is tough when you're

Speaker 1 just got to go run. You got to go throw your body into people,

Speaker 1 knowing that there's no reward at the end of the day.

Speaker 2 It's like, what am I doing? Yeah, you're basically you're playing for a job and you're playing to have a job the following year. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Well, the other football thing that I just thought was brought up some questions that for me to ask you.

Speaker 1 We all saw the Rodgers, diddy, did he not eat a booger, right and then he goes on mcathee great job breaking it down so good

Speaker 1 rogers taking full ownership like i could see where you might think that but it led me to think okay

Speaker 1 basketball players know they're on camera at all times they cover their mouth to a point where they won't even talk to each other without their hand over their mouth because they don't want lip readers to read what they're saying football you have a little more place to hide there's way more players there's way more going on but there's also way more cameras probably.

Speaker 2 Well, you don't know where the cameras are.

Speaker 1 You don't know where they are. So, Rogers got caught there for a moment.
Maybe he forgot that he's always on camera, probably for the whole game.

Speaker 1 What is going on that sideline that you either the cameras capture and you hope they don't use, or you didn't even know the cameras captured? What is happening, Matt Leiner?

Speaker 1 You've been there, you've done it. Have you gotten caught before?

Speaker 2 Well, no, but well, one, I want to pose this question, and we're going to put: have you ever eaten a booger?

Speaker 1 Not of memory. Can I say that when I was three years old, I didn't eat a booger? No, I can't see that.

Speaker 2 I can't see that. I used to eat my boogers a lot when I was a kid.
Okay, but we'll. And you remember this.
You remember this? Yeah, for sure. For sure.
Oh, dude. It's gross, bro.
I know it's gross.

Speaker 2 But I mean, it's like, it's like asking someone, do you pee in the shower? And they say, no, I don't ever pee in the shower. I'm like, I feel like that's different.

Speaker 1 I feel like peeing in the shower and eating a booger is

Speaker 1 two very different things.

Speaker 2 Peeing in a pool. I'm like,

Speaker 2 my kids are like, my wife is is like, no, I'm like, what are you talking about?

Speaker 1 Take a piss in the pool, dude.

Speaker 2 It's all good.

Speaker 1 This just happened for us this weekend. There was a late pool fall day that happened.
My five-year-old gets out of the pool to pee.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Well, I never told him that.
He just doesn't. He just gets out.
Dude, my three-year-old will get out of the pool to take a shit right next, right on the little field turf.

Speaker 2 Cause I'm like, we'll sit in the jacuzzi. And he's like, Daddy, I got to go potty.
I'm like, one or two. Because if it's one, I say, just go.
Two,

Speaker 2 I got to go poop. All right, dude, just go right there.
I'll pick it up. Like, it's a piece of dog shit.
Okay, anyway, to answer your question.

Speaker 2 So

Speaker 2 it's so funny. Okay, so it's different.
It is different.

Speaker 2 The biggest thing on a sideline for football is if whether you have to go to the bathroom or not, right? People always ask me, like, how do you not go to the bathroom for two hours?

Speaker 2 Again, you're drinking Gatorade or water or all sorts of stuff or whatever. And so

Speaker 2 two stories. One time at USC, I shit you not, dude.
I pissed my pants on the sideline.

Speaker 2 I almost got a spit take from me. I can't even, I'm not even making this up.
I think it was 03,

Speaker 2 and I'm sitting there. I don't remember what game it was, but it was a home game.
And I'm sitting there, and

Speaker 2 we had our yellow, gold, you know, our yellow pants. And

Speaker 2 I'm sitting there, and I wore like tube socks. You know, I didn't look great when I drive.
I just wore like normal white tube socks you'd wear. And I'm sitting there and I'm like, dude, I had a pee.

Speaker 2 And like, we didn't, like, I couldn't run up the tunnel. It was a long walk.
And I'm, I'm telling my boys, I'm like, dude, I'm taking a piss right now.

Speaker 2 And they're like, what the fuck is wrong with you, dude? And all of a sudden, and the, and the football pants are tied around the knees, right? Yeah. This was old.

Speaker 2 Yeah, this was like right around the knee.

Speaker 1 Jockstra, cup on? No cup?

Speaker 2 No, I wore

Speaker 2 tights, like tights. Okay.
You don't wear a cup in football, dude. I don't know.

Speaker 1 Well, you're asking the guy.

Speaker 2 You wear a jock. A lot of guys wore just a jock, or you can wear like little tight, like spandex, right?

Speaker 2 And all of a sudden, you just get like just dribbles going down my calf into my white sock my sock was yellow okay so that was one and i was like and i'll tell that i'll never forget i was like that was pretty cool so i saw i'm in this has happened a lot but i remember being in houston and this is to your point about the camera so like

Speaker 2 what what happens is is basically you have like the

Speaker 2 the in the middle of the 50 yard line because one side is offense one side is defense typically where you go to your benches and in the middle you have your table of Gatorade water trash can there's just like that little middle center right where you go and get all your stuff that's where usually you go and take a pee and so what happens is you get to a trainer and you go hey dude i gotta take a piss could you cover me real quick so they stand over you and they they you know they put towels like this around you to the side okay really for the for those listening i'm holding like a book to the side yeah they'll put towels around

Speaker 2 you were a kid like a changing at the pool when you were a kid yeah they'll like drape they'll like drape you because of cameras they're all over side to side and you're on a knee and the best part about wait a second i'm lost right now liner you're talking about you dropping your drawers and peeing no no no i'm on my knees peeing behind the behind the gator aid water table that is about three feet high right so you're sitting it's almost like you're you're you're you're going on your knees peeing behind a tree okay but the only thing that the people can see are your eyes like this Can you imagine?

Speaker 2 So you imagine the table is like at eyesight.

Speaker 1 So everyone knows you're pissing, though. You're just just covered.

Speaker 2 Oh, your teammates are like, again, you're in the, like half the, people don't even care because I would say 10 times a game, people are just, dude, I got to take a piss real quick.

Speaker 2 And they just sit down, go, and then they run out for like kickoff or something.

Speaker 2 But I always think it's funny because I'm sitting there and like, and usually eyes are on a quarterback, whether you're the starter, the backup, whatever.

Speaker 2 And I'm sitting there peeing. My eyes are like creeping out like I'm sneaking.
And I'm just looking like this. Like 80,000 people, I'm just taking a piss into the grass.

Speaker 2 I'm wondering, is there a camera on me? I'm wondering if someone's going to point to me while I'm peeing. It's like the greatest 60 seconds ever, dude.
It's hilarious.

Speaker 2 So that shit happens all the time.

Speaker 1 That's fascinating. No one, and I've never heard anyone talk.
Yeah. I've never heard anyone talk about it.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I mean, like baseball, you got a clubhouse, you go. Basketball, it's a lot.

Speaker 1 You know, you're out for a few minutes too with basketball.

Speaker 2 You get pulled out.

Speaker 1 You know you're out. Football, you could be thrown in at any, like, what happens if you went up to go take a piss and you got an interception and now you're just like, oh, the backup's in.

Speaker 2 we don't know if liner's joke maybe something happened to liner you've had to do that sometimes if there's like

Speaker 2 uh equipment malfunction if you got to go number two well yeah i mean

Speaker 2 well now now they have the blue tent so now i'm assuming like when you have the blue tent a potty too yeah double as a corner potty well when we get a football dude on we'll ask because

Speaker 2 but it's mind how many times guys pee on the sideline um eating obviously we've seen a lot of people eating on the sideline dude how about baker just popping a zin last week strong dirt like second quarters like because he knows he's on camera he knows that's gonna be cm me i mean he was trying to be i i will i will say this we uh this goes without saying we never

Speaker 2 he's not doing that knowing he's on camera that is that is that is just that is like him needing dude i need a zen and but he could have faked the piss and got covered up and then popped the zin with the towels around him yeah i mean dude we're gonna get baker on throwbacks because baker's

Speaker 1 fucking hilarious dude that dude just i feel like i played halo online online with Baker for one second. And then really quick.
So with the acting version of that. Yeah, what is it?

Speaker 1 Well, here's what sucks about it with acting. If you have to go during a take, you can go.
And sometimes it's like a golf cart ride away or something.

Speaker 1 You can't be discreet because you'll go tell an AD, hey, I really got to go. They'll ask you to hold it.
Can you wait? And most of the time you say yes, but when you can't, that's fine.

Speaker 1 But then everyone on the walkie, you know, every crew member has a walkie and earfox. So all you hear, and they call it, you know, going 10-1, 10-100.

Speaker 1 That's code for this guy's got to use the bathroom. But you hear every walkie going, everyone, we're going to need five.
Jerry's going 10-1. Jerry's going.

Speaker 1 And all in my mind, I think everyone's hearing Jerry's going to take a shit. We'll be right back.
Jerry's going to take a shit. We have to wait here.

Speaker 1 So you have 80 people, different than 60,000 people.

Speaker 2 Dude, sometimes, sometimes on our show, because we get, you know, we get mic'd up. And our mics sometimes are hot.
Like, sometimes, back in the, this was more back in the studio.

Speaker 2 If you had to go to the bathroom, I'm in the bathroom peeing and you can still hear people talking in your ear. Like, I'm pretty sure they can hear me taking a piss.
Oh, no. Yeah.

Speaker 2 It's like one of those. So acting is a little different.
I will imagine kind of similarly like

Speaker 2 having a kiss on screen and like having bad breath, like just funny shit that happens. Like, has that happened to you? That that would be my worst nightmare.

Speaker 1 Well, making out with a a hot girl and like you're like yeah all that stuff is is terrible in general i don't know what anyone's opinion is on when you watch a love scene or kissing scene from my experience again that's not in my skill set i don't really get asked to do that often which is good I did have one one actress say to me one time, we had to have like a quick kissing scene and literally say, I'm so sorry I had like a lot of onions at lunch.

Speaker 1 I apologize. I'm like, well, you knew we were doing this after lunch.

Speaker 2 She's just saying, she's saying that so that she doesn't get embarrassed. So she already

Speaker 1 set the record. Maybe, but like either way, if you knew we were shooting this scene after lunch, why would I pop in?

Speaker 2 Like 47 minutes before I go on. Altoids are flowing.
Wow. All right.

Speaker 1 That's football, everybody.

Speaker 1 That's our thoughts on football. No, I guess last quick thing.

Speaker 2 A lot of bathroom breaks on the sideline, guys.

Speaker 1 Last quick thing, Chiefs got themselves a wide receiver.

Speaker 2 I mean, the rich get richer.

Speaker 1 They kind of had to do it, but to me, that just solidifies a team that really didn't even need to solidify anything.

Speaker 2 A team that understands.

Speaker 2 Well, and also, too, like, and I love D-Hop, man, big D-Hop fan, great dude.

Speaker 2 It's just a team, a culture that knows how to win, obviously, understands what they need, and goes out and gets it.

Speaker 2 And it's also on the reverse side of that, you have players that want to go be a part of greatness, and especially D-Hop, who's like, you know, like the second half of his career. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Like, it's, and, but by the way, can still play like a number one receiver. He's just been hidden away in Tennessee the last two years, you know? So big get for the Chiefs.

Speaker 2 Mahomes, he'll fit right in.

Speaker 1 I thought they were going to lose that Niners game.

Speaker 1 I thought if any game, like the Niners have to have it, if the Chiefs could, not, they'll never take a week off, but they don't necessarily have to, they have a stranglehold on the division.

Speaker 2 But have you seen Mahomes? Like, this is the thing about them. This is why he's great.
His numbers are awful. Like, no, I think he would tell you that.
But it doesn't matter.

Speaker 1 Like, he's got like third in MVP odds.

Speaker 2 I don't even know, like eight, eight interceptions, like eight touchdowns,

Speaker 2 but they're undefeated. And then when that dude, when the playoffs come, I mean, this is just what they do.

Speaker 2 And that, that's, that's to me, from a four, being in around teams and a perspective, like, that's what makes them great, man, because they don't give a shit about all that other stuff.

Speaker 1 His worst statistical season, and I think he's still third best odds or second best odds for Patty Mahomes beast. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Good luck, Hopkins. All right, but we are going to do what has become my favorite segment.
Shout out to Wendy's because

Speaker 1 the doorbell rang the other day and, you know, I'm still, I'm old enough now and the doorbell rings, I'm still like, who could that be? It was one o'clock in the afternoon.

Speaker 1 I opened it and it was a Wendy's delivery. I had some saucy nugs delivered.

Speaker 2 I'll say, tell me you got some saucy nugs.

Speaker 1 Saucy nugs with a nice little soft drink. And also, I was starving and I was, I happened to be saying, what the hell am I going to eat for lunch? And it just showed up at my door.

Speaker 1 So, shout out, Wendy's, for that. And now, we're going to do our favorite segment.

Speaker 1 I kind of, and I'm, I love mine this week, but we're going to do our Wendy's, we can't get enough sauce, our saucy moment of the week. I got one that I'm, I'm a big, you have yours?

Speaker 2 Okay, I'll go first because I want to go first. You want to go first, Lee? I'll go first and quick because I want you, I want you to have the floor.

Speaker 1 What was your can't get enough?

Speaker 2 So, my can't get enough was LeBron and Bronnie James this week. Oh, okay.
And listen, I think that no matter which way you view this whole thing, right? Bronnie being on Lakers, whatever,

Speaker 2 that moment

Speaker 2 and before with the Griffies being there, who was my favorite baseball player growing up, he got to play with Ken Griffey Sr.

Speaker 2 and

Speaker 2 the mic'd up of LeBron saying, are you ready? Like gives me kind of goosebumps. And like, just imagine.

Speaker 2 And we talk about our kids all the time and the sports and what it's like to watch them grow up and play sports. but like to have your son play with you on the Los Angeles Lakers in an NBA game.

Speaker 2 What a cool moment, man, for sports, but also as a dad for LeBron. So that's my moment of the week.

Speaker 1 Saucy. That's pretty saucy.

Speaker 2 What a great moment. I did.

Speaker 2 I shed a little tear. I got a little emotional.
It was an awesome moment. So

Speaker 2 really cool for the James family. All right.

Speaker 2 Okay.

Speaker 1 Well, I don't know how you follow LeBron James and Bronnie James as your Wendy's, you know, saucy player of the week, but do you know who Jake Bates is?

Speaker 2 Have you heard this name before? You don't know Jake Bates. It's okay.

Speaker 1 You don't have to know Jake Bates.

Speaker 2 He's the kicker.

Speaker 1 He is the rookie kicker on the Detroit Lions. Gave his post-game interview saying, I thought my football career was done.
I don't know if he said I was selling bricks or breaks. One of the two?

Speaker 1 Bricks.

Speaker 2 I don't know. It was.
I watched it.

Speaker 1 It was bricks. I thought maybe at one one point he said Bricks.
Either way, dude is 10 for 10 on the year.

Speaker 1 I mean, he's 20 for 21 on extra points. He didn't miss one extra point.
We'll forgive you. And then kicking a game winner, that game was awesome.

Speaker 2 Vikings, Lions.

Speaker 1 First game of the year, I actually said this feels like a playoff game. We may very well see these two teams in the playoffs.
And you're on the Lions right now.

Speaker 1 You are going to be put in that situation a lot, Jake Bates. I'm rooting for you.
Okay.

Speaker 1 You are my Wendy's. Can't get enough of this player, this saucy moment of the week.
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Speaker 2 Go get yourself some saucy. Great redemption story.
That's a great throwbacks idea, too.

Speaker 1 What, best redemption stories?

Speaker 2 Yeah, like going from like Kurt Warner bagging groceries to winning the Super Bowl.

Speaker 1 Well, you're on the clock this week to pick your throwback three.

Speaker 2 Oh, I got to say it now, or do you want to hold it? No, no, no, we'll wait. We'll wait.
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Shout out to the James and Bates, man. Sassy?

Speaker 1 Yes. All right.
We're going to bring on Nick Swisher and then we'll get to our throwback three.

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Speaker 2 We're just

Speaker 2 rocking right now, Jerry. Are we just going?

Speaker 1 We are recording. We already previewed Nick earlier.
Not that we need to preview him much, but

Speaker 1 thank you for doing this, Nick. Number one, though, I was telling Matt, right? I just got to see you in the Bahamas a few weeks back at the turn two foundation.

Speaker 2 Hold on, hold on, boys. Hold on, real quick.

Speaker 1 Oh, is Matt going to get this Heisman trophy? Oh, no. Oh, he's putting a Dodgers.

Speaker 2 Oh, he's putting a Dodgers,

Speaker 1 really cool Dodgers warm-up jacket on his chair. We don't recognize that, Nick.
But

Speaker 1 I was telling people, like, the coolest part of that trip for me was it was me, you, Kevin Connolly, and Cece. And we just got to talk Yankees.

Speaker 1 And we were like talking Soto and all this before the playoff run.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 1 I mean, that guy is just etching himself into one of the greatest, like one-year seasons for the Yankees, right?

Speaker 3 Yeah, I mean, if you think about it, I mean, when, you know, when everything happened this offseason, this past offseason, when Juan came over to the Bronx and you lost somebody like a Michael King, who is just absolutely over there in San Diego doing his thing.

Speaker 3 And just the names that you gave up to get Juan Soto and the price tag of $30 million.

Speaker 3 You never know what's going to happen in those rental seasons. But the fact that this cat is 25 years old and he has the presence.
I mean, come on, fellas, we've been around athletes our whole lives.

Speaker 3 We've seen athletes at the top of their game. And the fact that this kid is, he's a kid.
He's 25 years old and commands the respect of everybody.

Speaker 3 It's been absolutely amazing to watch him go about his work.

Speaker 3 He has done nothing but take the New York Yankees from a championship caliber organization, even to a more championship caliber organization.

Speaker 3 The things he's done for the players, not only in the big leagues, but even in the minor leagues. Now, all of a sudden, you have somebody a little different to look up to instead of Aaron Judge.

Speaker 3 So, nobody's going to have Aaron Judge sort of power. So, the next thing you know, you get Juan comes in, and all of a sudden, he's got a little different work ethic.

Speaker 3 The way that he works in the batting cage is a little different than what Aaron does. So, now all of a sudden, you're bringing a contact player plus power over to really, really kind of

Speaker 3 propel those young players into the players they could be. So for him, Judge Big G is doing his thing right now, man.
It's just been a lot of fun to watch. And I'm really, really excited.

Speaker 3 Fellas, we've been waiting for this sort of matchup for

Speaker 3 East Coast, West Coast, MVP,

Speaker 3 MVP. Let's do this, baby.
Let's square them up. Two heavyweight fighters, baby.
Go at it. I can't wait, man.

Speaker 2 I can't wait.

Speaker 2 Actually, I mean,

Speaker 2 I got my Dodgers hat on. I'm a lifelong Dodger fan.
You guys know this. And

Speaker 2 it's two versus one, but it's okay, Swiss.

Speaker 2 You're like my favorite dude in the world. I love you.
But so, I mean, look, Soto, Gian Carlo, Judge, and then Otani, Betts.

Speaker 2 I think Freddie Freeman is probably going to be, I mean, it's, it's stars and stars and stars for the game of baseball. And this is what everybody wanted.

Speaker 2 It just just like, like, it doesn't get any better than this, what we're about to witness on the biggest stage.

Speaker 3 Yeah, it really doesn't. And I think, you know, you, you hear a lot of things from two types of fans.
You hear about the fans saying, oh, these are the evil empires.

Speaker 3 These are the most expensive teams. They should be playing in the World Series.
And maybe you're right. I mean, the ROI on $300 million teams have to be up there.

Speaker 2 There's no doubt.

Speaker 3 But if you think about it, we haven't had a matchup like this in, I can't remember the last time. Two number one seeds, both from the American League and the National League.

Speaker 3 I mean, I'd like to look back at this series about 10 years from now and to see how many players have the opportunity to end up in the Hall of Fame from these two teams.

Speaker 3 If you think about it, absolutely fantastic. So, I think, just in general, man, I can't wait.
Maddie, I'm going to be out there in LA on Friday.

Speaker 3 Come to the stadium, check it all out, feel the vibes there. I was able to be there in the Bronx for the ALCS, and the atmosphere was absolutely electric, man.

Speaker 2 You know,

Speaker 2 Chavez is going to be cranking Friday night. There's actually a small chance that Jerry and I will be at game five in New York, assuming there's a game five.

Speaker 2 I can't imagine a team is getting swept in this, but

Speaker 2 in the Bronx game five, I've never been to New York Stadium, but

Speaker 2 Chavez this weekend with all the LA sports. But you know, the fans can be rolling in a little late, the 405 traffic down there, but it's going to be

Speaker 2 pumping. It's going to be pumping, dude.

Speaker 3 Let's go. It's going to be absolutely electric.
I mean,

Speaker 3 the team flies out today.

Speaker 3 So everybody's going to go out and get a great workout in tomorrow. And then obviously Friday night, baby, 8.08 Eastern Standard Time, 505 West Coast, baby.

Speaker 2 I feel like we should suit you up and you just get one more a bat for the Swisher.

Speaker 1 Oh, Swisher could for sure right now get us a single or draw a walk if we needed him to.

Speaker 2 I guarantee it.

Speaker 3 I don't change, right?

Speaker 1 Like, you know what they say with basketball? Like, maybe you can't dribble as much, but if you could shoot, you could always shoot. What's the baseball equivalent?

Speaker 1 I feel like just pitch selection or just knowing how to hit a gapper.

Speaker 3 That don't change.

Speaker 3 Yeah, but fellas, you got to remember, man, when I played a decade ago, baby, most fastballs were like 92, 94 you know what i mean now times have changed a little bit i mean it just seems like the athlete nowadays and you know i mean i'm sure you guys see it in your respected sports for sure i mean you know maddie just with what's happening to football and jerry bro just with everything bro from basketball to the whole nine you've seen it all these athletes nowadays bro are freaks these dudes are just absolutely just avatars running around

Speaker 3 amazing to see because i mean i spend my whole day in the locker room like this hey what's up boys how you guys doing

Speaker 3 Yo, man. Yo, what's up, G? Aaron, how you doing, man? You know, like, I'm not looking anybody in the eye anymore, bro.

Speaker 2 Dude, well, those dudes are monsters. I mean, Judge and John Carlo are months.

Speaker 2 I've always actually wondered this because we always talk about a football, like the toughest position in sports. And Jerry Harrison, did you play with Jerry? Yes, I did.

Speaker 3 He was part of that 09 World Series thing.

Speaker 2 That's right. So Jerry is my boy.
We talk about this a lot.

Speaker 2 The hardest thing to do, and I always say I play baseball. I was like, I think I could probably hit

Speaker 2 i think i could put in play a 90 mile an hour fastball if i knew it was coming i think i could i think i could time it and put it in play but now to hit a hundred a hundred and one consistently with a dirty slider and all this is it is it the hardest as an athlete is it the hardest thing in sports is to hit a major league pitcher in an a bat Yeah, you know, it's hard to say.

Speaker 3 It's got to be. It's just the same thing because, you know, in a lot of other sports, you have the opportunity to do those things.
I mean, everyone talks about how hard golf is.

Speaker 3 I mean, Jerry, we know how hard golf is, right? It's true. But we have the same opportunity as pros to do the same thing, right?

Speaker 2 True.

Speaker 3 In baseball, there's not the equivalent to understand like how really quick it really is.

Speaker 3 You know, I mean, you can talk about the 0.4 seconds from the time it leaves his hand till it hits the catcher's mitt that you have 0.12

Speaker 3 seconds to decide what you're going to get. And then if you're going to swing or not.
So it's just, I mean, I think statistically, I think scientifically, it feels like it has to be.

Speaker 3 Listen, bro, I've never been in the pocket on a zero glitz, bro, trying to read a defense either. So I don't understand how hard that is.
But I think just in general, obviously I'm a little biased.

Speaker 3 You've seen so many different athletes come out and try this. I mean, Michael Jordan is one, probably one of the greatest athletes we've ever seen.
And

Speaker 3 it took him a little bit of time to pick it up. Now, I'm not saying Mike couldn't play in the big leagues if he wouldn't have started off at an earlier age.

Speaker 3 Listen, man, I think sports nowadays are so, I mean, I look at the basketball scene, I see Wimby out there. I'm like, how the hell am I going to get a shot over this guy?

Speaker 3 How the hell am I going to be able to do that? So, I think baseball is definitely up there. I think returning to serve and tennis would probably be up there as well.

Speaker 3 Anything quick twitch like that for sure, no doubt.

Speaker 1 All right,

Speaker 1 let's just get into this right now. And, Matt, you jump into it.
I don't want to make this just like Yankees only. I know it's 2v1, but

Speaker 1 the Yankees will win the World Series if dot, dot, dot happens. Like, what needs to happen for this team to actually beat this amazing Dodgers team?

Speaker 3 Starting pitchers give us length. Starting pitching gives length, right? If you look at both starting pitchers, I think you'll probably hear a lot of guys talk about it.

Speaker 3 You know, Poppy, A-Rod, you know, G, they'll all be talking about this.

Speaker 3 The starting pitchers, you know, you look at the Los Angeles Dodgers and they're rolling two and a half starting pitchers out there.

Speaker 2 If you think about it, it's crazy.

Speaker 3 You got Flaherty going, you got Yamamoto, and then you got Walker Bueller, who's just coming off of TJ, the second one.

Speaker 3 So, you know, if you look at the Yankees, you know, with where they are starting pitcher-wise, they've got four quality starters that you're able to roll out, as well as Nasty Nestor and Marcus Strowman that can come out of the bullpen and give you a couple innings.

Speaker 3 So I think that's one of the things I noticed, at least in the ALCS, was the, you know, the bullpens got taxed a little bit. Yeah.

Speaker 3 And when you're throwing, you're covering three, four, five innings a game. I mean, that has a tendency to tax on you, especially after 162-game season, as well as spring training.

Speaker 3 So, you know, it just kind of seems like right now the bullpens are rested up.

Speaker 3 But if you go game one and you only get two innings out of your starters and they got a cover seven, you know, obviously, bro, with days, there's only two off days throughout this whole series, after game two and then after game five.

Speaker 3 So there's not a whole lot of time to rest up. So I think for me, that would be my biggest thing.
I don't think it's going to be.

Speaker 3 I think it's going to be really hard to stop both of these offenses. I think the offenses are absolutely fantastic.

Speaker 3 I can't remember the last playoff series that I've seen where there's been eight, 10 runs put up on a regular. And that's exactly what the Dodgers are doing.

Speaker 3 So, I mean, with everything that happened in the, in the Yankees series against the Guardians, the Guardians gave the Yankees everything they could want, bro, and pulled out some great games.

Speaker 3 And I think we were all blessed and lucky enough to watch those games. And just there for a span of 72 hours, bro, baseball was like the greatest thing going that we had.
So it's just really

Speaker 2 I was there.

Speaker 1 I was there after the big the game after the big Noel home run. So that stadium was hyper.

Speaker 1 I will say there was a difference with, at least in the section I was in, obviously they were anytime they pitched to Stanton, the fans were like screaming, why?

Speaker 1 But when Soto came up, you could hear a pin drop because everyone was terrified.

Speaker 1 More than that, I say the batter that scared the Guardians fans the most, even as great as Stanton was, was, in fact, Soto for sure.

Speaker 1 And, you know, we talked about the ROI on like, you know, the Yankees' payroll and a lot of the talk of the payroll.

Speaker 1 Like, I know a lot of Guardians fans today in Cleveland are talking about OR payroll and all that. But look, it's like a business model.
They made the ALCS with the third lowest payroll.

Speaker 1 So it's hard to argue it doesn't work.

Speaker 1 I mean, that is not something, but I was like, that's not something any player doing a playoff series say, hey, you know, if we just had, if we just spent a little more money and we had our own guy, like, you guys aren't thinking about that.

Speaker 2 So why should the fans be yelling about that?

Speaker 3 Yeah, no.

Speaker 3 I mean, listen, you know, I mean, if you look at the three out of the four teams that were playing in the the championship series three out of the four were the highest paid teams in baseball right mets the dodgers and the yankees so it's not always like that you know uh you know like we were talking earlier the the two evil empires the most expensive teams i can't remember the last time the two most expensive teams were playing and suiting up that's my point right

Speaker 3 it just doesn't happen that often you know but going back to that cleveland series that you were talking about that at bat for juan soto joe and i my wife you know you guys know we were both watching the game just like so intently bro and juan's up, bro.

Speaker 3 And he's taking them pitches, bro. And he's giving you the sodo shuffle and he's nodding his head, you know, and he's like, oh, yeah, I'm on it.
I'm on it. And Joe and I are watching the at-bat.

Speaker 3 And I'm looking at her and she's looking at me. And she's like, Nick, he's on it.
He's on it. He's on him.
And I'm like, well, how do you know that?

Speaker 3 She's like, baby, I've been watching you play like forever. Like, I can tell when you're studies people.

Speaker 1 She's an actor. She studies people.

Speaker 3 I can tell you when somebody's on and when somebody's off, bro. And the best part about that at bat was every pitch that he was fouling off was a putaway pitch.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 It wasn't like just a, you know, like a measly wrinkle, get me over, oh, oh,

Speaker 3 bro. These were nasty, dirty sinkers, cane jumps, fly pieces, like moving like this.
And bro, bro, when he clipped on that fastball, because you know that's what he was waiting for.

Speaker 3 And the one thing that I really, really appreciate about Juan Soto is if you're watching him when he gets into at bats where he doesn't necessarily feel comfortable, you see him choke up on his bat a little bit more.

Speaker 3 And there's something to be said about that for young players out there everywhere. That if one Soto can choke up on a bat, you can choke up on a bat too.

Speaker 2 You know what I mean? Hell yeah.

Speaker 3 I just think it's one of those things, bro. And he got that heater.

Speaker 3 And let's be honest, it wasn't a bad fastball. It was a fastball up and away at 95 with good ride and the whole nine.

Speaker 3 And for some reason, and some, I don't even know how it happened, he got on top of that fastball and was somehow has somehow able to draw it out there to right center, bro, and to leave the ballpark.

Speaker 3 And the best part about that was, is just like every baseball player's ever wanted to do, stop right in front of this dugout, flex in front of the whole team, dude. You know what I mean?

Speaker 3 And then go about your way around the bases. So he's just been an absolute, just a joy to have over in the Bonks for this year.

Speaker 3 Obviously, I pray to God that he's going to be a New York Yankee for the rest of his career. Who knows?

Speaker 2 But at the end of the day, man, being able to watch him work in person has been a joy to watch for sure so some of the greatest like sports flexes that i love as an athlete like like touchdown celebrations are kind of whatever when tiger woods in his prime would do the fist bump and just

Speaker 2 dude just get the whole like it gives me chills now and honestly being a baseball player growing up the bat flip and just staring down your dugout the flex while 80 000 people and running around the bases it's literally i got goosebumps right now it's literally has to be the greatest feeling on the planet dude the planet well yeah there's no doubt and nowadays bro with the way that athletes can pimp home runs bro i was just pimping i was gonna catch one in the ear my next in bat

Speaker 3 dude you but you pimped a home run you pimped the home run yeah for sure i mean my the guy behind me didn't like it

Speaker 3 but i mean bro come on could you imagine just being a situation like that where just emotions are so high and everything is just running through you like you've never had before so i mean listen, I think that, you know, as impressive as that bat that Wonsoto has that home run that Judge hit off Klase,

Speaker 3 99 cutter down and away.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 3 I mean, it's just amazing just what these athletes are able to do today.

Speaker 3 So for me, I'm obviously in such awe and obviously just being able to be there and enjoy it up close and personal has been awesome as well.

Speaker 2 So

Speaker 1 I'm sure you never thought that you'd be sitting here 15 years, whatever later, and the Yankees still haven't won a championship since your last one in 09. But I'm going to go back to 09 for a second.

Speaker 1 What are some of your, besides winning the World Series, the actual games, what sticks out in your mind throughout that series? Because that was a great series. There's a lot of interesting records.

Speaker 1 Like Utley tied the most home runs in the World Series. Matsui tied the single RBI game.
Ryan Howard tied the most strikeouts in the World Series. I love Ryan Howard.

Speaker 1 And a couple other, and then Mariano got like the. So what do you recall besides just winning the damn World Series from 09?

Speaker 3 Yeah, I think just in general, I think leadership is the first thing that comes to mind.

Speaker 3 You got to remember, I was able to play with some stud players early in my career with guys like Eric Chavez and Jason Kendall and Mark Kotse.

Speaker 3 And then I got to go to Chicago and I got to play with Jim Tomey and Paul Canerico and Jermaine Dye.

Speaker 3 And then I get to come to New York and you reach the ultimate pinnacle of players with Derek Jeter and Mariana Rivera and Andy Pettit and A-Rod and Jorge Posada and Robbie Cano.

Speaker 3 I mean, the list goes on and on. It was just kind of one of those years where it just felt like everything was supposed to happen that way.

Speaker 3 And, you know, I've been on teams before when we've been in good situations and we feel like we're going to be successful, but we just didn't have that confidence in who we were to put ourselves over the top.

Speaker 3 And I remember in 2006, I played in the ALCS with the Oakland A's and Frank Thomas was our big leader that year. And we just didn't have enough firepower to get past the Tigers that year.

Speaker 3 But I just remember being in the ALCS matching up against the Anaheim Angels, who we didn't necessarily always play well against them.

Speaker 2 Oh, no.

Speaker 3 You look across the locker room and you see Derek and you see Rod and you see Posada and you see Mo and Pettit just walking around like it's another game.

Speaker 3 And just like, hey, fellas, let's just do our job. We got this.
Don't worry about it. We're right where we need to be.

Speaker 3 Because you knew that somebody out of that group was going to step up and be the hero.

Speaker 3 And that was kind of one of those things for myself, just looking around that room being like, there's no way we can't win. Like we, it's, it's not that we're going to win.

Speaker 3 It's, there's no way we're not going to win. You know, it just kind of seemed like that was one of those amazing things.

Speaker 3 And I do think there was a lot of Yankee ghosts that came over from the old stadium into the new stadium.

Speaker 1 First year of the new one, yeah.

Speaker 3 Obviously, bro. And you know, the first year that the old Yankee stadium was built, the Yankees won the World Series that year, too.
So there's something to be said about that.

Speaker 3 I tell Hal all the time, I'm like, Hal, just, we just need to build a couple billion dollar stadiums every couple of years. I will be good to go, you know?

Speaker 2 Swish, how you're, I mean, gosh, you met, you mentioned those names and I'm getting flashbacks. And I was never an Angels fan, obviously, but

Speaker 2 your personality is infectious, to say the least. And

Speaker 2 I've gotten to know A-Rod and Jeter. Those guys are very different, quiet kind of lead by example.

Speaker 2 How, like, how does you, how do you fit into a team like that?

Speaker 2 Because you were a hell of a player, but you're like, like we i've been in locker rooms we've been in locker rooms there's different types of personalities and sometimes it's hard to mesh all of that how how were you able to fit in with those types of guys given the personality and the contagious personality that you have

Speaker 3 two things uh number one respect uh as as off the wall as i am i am a very respectful human being i i just am it's it's the way i was raised uh if my grandma came back down here and saw me doing any other way i don't think she would have it uh and number two all i wanted to do was win.

Speaker 3 And that's all those guys wanted to do as well. And when you get a group of individuals, we, hey, bro, come on, man.

Speaker 3 You've been on championship caliber winning teams. Like when you get a group of individuals together that have all the same thought processes moving forward as a unit, bro, it's so impressive.

Speaker 3 And that starts from the top down. The locker room was was owned by Derek Jeter.
He was the guy and we took his lead. And so for myself,

Speaker 3 as much as I could be all over the place, all he had to do was give me a look. And I knew exactly what that meant.

Speaker 3 And so it's just kind of one of those things where, you know, I've always kind of had this personality and I've always had to try and tone it down for people.

Speaker 3 But for Derek and the New York Yankees, he didn't want me to tone it down. He wanted me to be me.

Speaker 3 And that was one of the more powerful things that I think anyone has ever given me was the ability to be myself.

Speaker 3 And that's why I think I thrive as well as I did in New York, because I had people in my corner like the captain to help me get through those times.

Speaker 3 And even though I was a little rambunctious, he knew when to tone me down and then when to let me go. And so I could not be more thankful for those guys because listen, you know how it is?

Speaker 2 He could have told me, hey, tone it down.

Speaker 3 We don't do that here. That's not what we want.
But he knew that that was going to take away from what I was able to do on the field.

Speaker 3 And that's why he was as great of a leader as he was, because he knew how to leader and mentor everybody for who they were. So I was just so blessed to be able to roll up in there.

Speaker 3 And now I've got five or six big brothers, bro, that I never had who have taught me so much about not only being an athlete, but about being a man and a great human being.

Speaker 3 And I could not be more blessed to have those human, those guys in my life.

Speaker 2 Yeah, anyone telling you to tone it down can kick rocks, dude.

Speaker 1 I want to shout out to you guys, though, because I remember we had this whole storyline on Entourage where we shot, we ended up shooting at Yankee Stadium, A-Rod and Teixeira, right?

Speaker 1 But that storyline was thought of a year before. And when we reached out, I might even still have an email from Teixeira.

Speaker 1 A-Rod and Teixeira themselves sent back word, we ain't cameoing on entourage until we win a ring.

Speaker 1 So shout outs to the new guys because they didn't do that.

Speaker 1 It did not happen till after 09. It still took some time after that, but we got the shoot at Yankee Stadium.

Speaker 1 It was only because of that 09 championship, which that's why it's one of my favorite Yankee championships because that led to us getting A-Rod and Teixeira on the show.

Speaker 2 By the way,

Speaker 3 how great was Tex in that episode? He He was fantastic, bro.

Speaker 2 He was great.

Speaker 1 He was absolutely great. So I always have a soft spot for that

Speaker 1 09 team, Matt. Sorry, Matt, are we killing you right now, Leiner?

Speaker 3 Are we absolutely like,

Speaker 2 get some Dodgers?

Speaker 2 By the way, by the way, and the crappy thing is, we won a World Series during the COVID year, and everyone wants to say, oh, it didn't happen. And it was like, I couldn't even go to a game.

Speaker 2 It happened. By the way, I have been

Speaker 2 a lot like you guys because I have been completely disappointed in my Dodgers effort. We win the NL West.

Speaker 2 We have the best record, and we can't get, by the way, Swish, that Padres series scared the shit out of me.

Speaker 2 Because I think we all could agree, like, the Padres could easily win the World Series with that talent and that team. I'll tell you what, man, I was like game five.

Speaker 2 I was like, we're going to, and I, you know, I'm like, uh, I'm like Jerry. You know, I'm learning, I'm learning a lot about Jerry as a, as a Knicks fan.
They're losing this week.

Speaker 2 They get their ass kicked by the Celtics and the group chat is going off.

Speaker 2 And it's like, we suck and they shoot this and all this and i'm like dude it's one game but that's how i am with the dodgers in the playoffs so i'm i'm going into listen i'm going into this series i respect the yankees uh you know stanton's an la kid we got we got guys out there that are from the west coast i i i love the yankees but you know what time it is baby

Speaker 2 By the way, I should know this. Who are we throwing game one? Are we throwing Flaherty?

Speaker 2 Because Flaherty got rocked his last time.

Speaker 3 I think, yeah, Jay Flair and Garrett Cole, game him one.

Speaker 2 Yeah, Garrett Cole.

Speaker 2 UCLA guy.

Speaker 3 Yes, sir. Oh, by the way, man, you got Jack Flaherty, Harvard Westlake kid, if I'm not mistaken.

Speaker 2 I think he's from out there, too.

Speaker 2 Can we talk about something real quick? Jerry and I were talking about this before. We've all thrown a first pitch.
We've been lucky to throw a first pitch.

Speaker 1 I don't know how I got to throw one. That's just not.

Speaker 2 Listen, okay. I know you weren't a pitcher, but you're an athlete.
I thought your first pitch, like just this week or last week, great moment, by the way. Super cool for you.
I'm sure.

Speaker 2 I want to hear just what that moment was like. But you threw like a change up, dude.
I thought you were going to throw a heater, bro. That's your opportunity.

Speaker 1 You put on a thick jacket.

Speaker 1 Listen,

Speaker 2 you didn't 50 cent it by any means, but you just threw a little casual, like, come on. Nick's Christian.

Speaker 1 You ain't gonna 50 cent it.

Speaker 2 It's dumps.

Speaker 3 All I'm thinking about is Derek Jeters sitting on my shoulder, bro.

Speaker 2 Hey, Cliff, don't bounce it. Just don't bounce.
Don't bounce it.

Speaker 3 Whatever you do.

Speaker 2 Yeah, that's the one thing. Yeah.

Speaker 3 You know, and just for me, man, I mean, come on. I mean, just look, how blessed am I, bro? I'm just, I'm a nobody from a little small town in West Virginia, bro, that like worked my way up.

Speaker 3 Now all of a sudden I'm throwing out a first pitch in the ALCS for the New York Yankees.

Speaker 2 I mean,

Speaker 3 let's talk about just like. My whole world is just, has been made.

Speaker 3 And just being able to, the fact that I'm part of this organization and the fact that I'm so blessed to be one of the fortunate ones that has the greatest logo in the world tattooed across my chest and being able to be part of that, man.

Speaker 3 I mean, listen, I think you guys knew that's how I was as a player.

Speaker 3 I mean, my relationship with the fans is on another level so the fact that i'm so blessed to be able to have that relationship with them and to continue to keep growing that relationship moving forward listen boys i'm not quite sure what i've got in store in my future here but i think it's got to be something with the new york yankees moving forward boys so i i made a prediction i won't say it on the show for you you and i know what it is we'll keep that off the air by the way

Speaker 1 keep that off the air but here's why i love nick too because everything he just said and i don't know if you're going to remember this nick Do you remember the first time we ever met?

Speaker 1 If you don't, it's cool. I get it.
I remember it because it was way more special for me.

Speaker 2 Jerry was wearing your jersey. Jerry was wearing your jersey.

Speaker 1 That's not. No, I was not wearing your jersey.
But anyway, here's how we first met. And I'm bringing this up because you said this exact thing to me.

Speaker 1 This is in 09 because you just had gotten to the Yankees. So you just started dating your now wife.

Speaker 1 I was dating one of her good friends, who's also an actress.

Speaker 1 We went to a game. Yes.
We went to a Yankees game. And then afterward, Joanna invited, like, hey, come down to where I'm going to go see Nick where they get out.
Come down.

Speaker 1 So we go down there and, you know, you guys come out and I meet you for the first time and meet some other Yankees. And then we all ended up going back to your place.

Speaker 1 So I got to hop in Swisher's car with the players part.

Speaker 1 And I got to take that drive out of Yankee Stadium, but from a much different point of view, right?

Speaker 1 And I'm in my mind going, oh my God, this dude gets to do this 81 times. This is the coolest shit ever.
And on the way, we got back to his place. He said that.

Speaker 1 he looked at me and we just talking he's like jerry look at he's like i'm just some like guy from where like i cannot believe i'm playing for the yankees i'm dating her like look at us and then we found out we have the same damn birthday too no doubt 25th no doubt yep

Speaker 3 bro i mean you you were able to be uh with us on that sort of journey which was amazing so i mean bro it just goes to show you like if you treat people well and you give people everything you've got each and every day and they you know they sort of expect that I mean bro we have like we have like our personal own like policeman that's crazy

Speaker 3 with like you know like we were driving on the wrong side of the street

Speaker 2 police escorts are the best thing in sports for sure

Speaker 1 that's the only way out of Yankee Stadium that I've seen that is the coolest way um listen but we we can't before we let you go though something else we talked about in the Bahamas, which I have then gotten to watch is everything you're doing with home run derby X and all that.

Speaker 1 So like we set the table a little bit earlier with the audience in the intro, right? First, I want to know, how did the Home Run Derby come to you? Like, where did you come in?

Speaker 1 Because I know, I know you're heavily in, you're in now.

Speaker 2 This is your thing.

Speaker 3 Yeah, this is a thing, you know, and I feel like we've just been so blessed to be able to kind of provide a different kind of game for our baseball fans.

Speaker 3 I mean, listen, it's almost like the, you know, the seven on seven version of football, right?

Speaker 2 Exactly.

Speaker 3 T10, T20 in cricket, right? Or the big three in basketball.

Speaker 3 And the one thing that I think we've done a great job of is we've taken that to the next level. Not only is it a different sort of viewing for our fans, but now it's co-ed.

Speaker 3 And that makes it the absolute best, bro. We've got some of the most badass softball, baseball, female players that you could actually, you could ever even want to see.

Speaker 3 And so I think for myself, just the fact that we're able to do that, listen, I mean, I'm a girl dad, fellas. So my daughters, they don't want to see me hit, bro.
They want to see Jocelyn Aloe hit.

Speaker 3 And they want to see Eric.

Speaker 2 She rakes.

Speaker 2 She rakes.

Speaker 3 They just want Alex Hugo and they just want to see Ashton Lansdale and we've got all these amazing females that I have to I have I have been blessed to develop a relationship with and now I'm just like wow being able to see it from both sides my daughter started playing softball this year not because of me but because of her idols she has now and how amazing these girls have treated her people like Jesse Warren and just they've just been so amazing to my daughter.

Speaker 3 Now all these female players are starting to get their own line of shoes and gloves. And now all of a sudden they're starting to come our way.

Speaker 3 And it's just one of those things where I'm so blessed to be able to part of that. Homerun Derby X is a three-on-three co-ed home run derby, offense and defense.
It's absolutely amazing.

Speaker 3 We've been so blessed. We had four events last year sold out everywhere we've been.
Next year, I give you guys a little bit of insight this year.

Speaker 1 Yeah, come on, give us a little break a little bit.

Speaker 3 Seven events next year, y'all. Seven events in 2025.
We're really, really excited. Major League Baseball has been just the best partner you would ever want to be,

Speaker 3 you would ever want to have when it comes to these sort of things. So for us, I feel like we're doing an amazing job.
Our leaders with Kellem Salter and Charlie Hill have absolutely been rock stars.

Speaker 3 And they brought in myself and Johnny Gomes. So it's

Speaker 3 a little bit of WWE and a little bit of Poland Derby, which is absolutely amazing. And, you know, listen, we're going to continue to keep pushing this thing forward.

Speaker 3 We're going to do our best to try to get it out. get the brand out as much as we can, but I'm definitely going to be pumping it a little more.
I appreciate y'all bringing it up.

Speaker 1 Dude, I think it's amazing. I really do.
I want to take Matt. We should really, number one, we should take our kids to one of the seven events.

Speaker 1 And then, I don't know, maybe do we throw a bat in Leonard's hand? It doesn't have to count.

Speaker 2 Maybe like an exhibition.

Speaker 1 He thinks he can crank them still.

Speaker 2 Two, two things, really quick. First of all, just

Speaker 2 we're seeing women's flag football grow. And I think what you're now doing for softball, just creating that exposure is awesome.
And the fact that your girls are far, that's awesome, man.

Speaker 2 So, so congrats to you. But I am reading this real quick.
So the teams are comprised of a legend, a softball player a player from that region's local development system

Speaker 2 and then an influential content creator which is a wild card matt linert folks

Speaker 2 i mean you're looking at two content creators right here i agree i see it do we have an event coming to the la i'm not no no no i'm not playing no way no way let me ask you this question swish are the fences how how far are the fences So we shrink the field, right?

Speaker 3 Because you got to remember, dude, not everybody's going to be able to hit a baseball 400 plus feet, right?

Speaker 3 So what we do is we strategically place our field towards where most of the outfield stands are. Right.
So we use that as our home run kind of, we call it our home run alley, our home run porch.

Speaker 3 And then from there, there's a field goal in the middle of all of that. And if you hit it through those field goals, you get double points.

Speaker 3 So what's great about that is that not only do you, are you hitting, which is amazing, but then you get to play defense as well. And that's what's great because

Speaker 2 Rob some home runs.

Speaker 1 I saw you get the feet down and Rob a home run.

Speaker 3 It's pro, baby. Say college.

Speaker 2 2-4, you know? Hey, what, what is, what is, uh, you mentioned your girls real quick. I know we're running out of time.
What is, what is Nick Swisher like as a girl dad whose girls play sports?

Speaker 2 You're already laughing. What I want to know.

Speaker 3 He's getting better. He's getting better.

Speaker 1 It's a process.

Speaker 3 It's a process.

Speaker 3 So you've got to remember, fellas, like, you know, up until now, my oldest daughter, Emmy, she's 11, and my youngest, Sailor, she's eight.

Speaker 3 We've been doing a lot of individual sports up until this year. So I haven't been exposed to the

Speaker 3 sports as I have this year, right? Which has been, at the end of the day, amazing. But I'm not going to lie, we had our evaluations, right? Our player evaluation.
No tryouts anymore. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 Evaluations.

Speaker 2 Wild.

Speaker 3 And there were 82 girls.

Speaker 3 and my daughter was like 75 out of like 82 girls so she had to stand in line and just like you know it took forever to get through the evaluations and bro meanwhile dog i got my hood over i got my hat on my shades on i'm just like

Speaker 3 i'm full like bowed up on the right side

Speaker 3 keeping at all these coaches you know i want to see what's going down

Speaker 3 And the best part of this, dude, is my best friend, Kate, she calls me and she's like, hey, how was it? And I was like, hey, you know, it was, I'm a little stressed out.

Speaker 3 She's like, Nick, I need to give you a little piece of advice. And I was like, what's that? And she was like, this will be a great experience for Emmy playing softball if you don't fuck it up.

Speaker 3 She could not be more right. I have, listen, I showed up for the first game unprepared, fellas.
I mean,

Speaker 3 you got to buy the chairs. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 You have to have a chair.

Speaker 3 Like, you got to buy all that stuff. Bro, I knew nothing about that stuff, but I can promise you this.
I'm six games in now, gentlemen. Wait, you gotta see my setup, baby.

Speaker 2 You want to play a little football game with me?

Speaker 3 I got y'all, boys. I got you.

Speaker 2 Since we're dad is probably like, oh, God, I'm sick.

Speaker 3 That's exactly what she's doing. She's like, Nick, do I have to sit by you during this game?

Speaker 1 Since we're dadding out right now, I do need.

Speaker 1 I can't think of two better people to help me with this situation. So, my three and a half-year-old son, who loves t-ball, he's in t-ball, right? He has everything lefty so far.

Speaker 1 Like he just naturally likes to swing, whether it's golf clubs. So I'm buying him lefty golf clubs, bought him a lefty glove.

Speaker 1 Doesn't, but just the other day, he picks up a ball with the right hand and throws me an absolute dart bullet on a string. So I'm like, hey, wait a minute.
So I start making

Speaker 1 the throwing arm way better right-handed, hitting lefty. And scooter, he scoots on his, his push-off foot is his left foot.
So Matt, you're a a lefty. Nick, you're a switch hitter.
Throw lefty.

Speaker 1 I think you were golfing righty in the Bahamas, though, right?

Speaker 1 What am I dealing with here? I don't, my, my older son was clearly right-handed. I am so confused by what this kid is.
Any advice? What am I doing?

Speaker 2 Hey,

Speaker 2 we're the same because I throw left, I golf right, and I bat right, but I kick like I kick a ball left. I'm opposite.
That's fairly common, Jerry. Don't worry.

Speaker 1 Is it? I've come from a family of right-handing, boring people with sports. There's all righties.

Speaker 3 nothing new can i also just point out the most obvious thing he's three bro

Speaker 3 that's a good point that's a good point he's three by the way the fact that you're with his feet right now bro as long as he's enjoying what he's doing and you get to spend time with him because listen i know how much you love sports and i know how much you love your kids and the fact that you're able to spend time with them is such a blessing for all of us maddie been obviously i see your kid on the gram and what he's been able to do and kind kind of maybe following in your footsteps a little bit.

Speaker 3 That has to be such a blessing for you to be able to do that.

Speaker 2 It is the best. It's the best feeling and it's the best advice for all of us is just trying not to overstep and enjoy the ride because it really like my oldest son turns 18 this week.

Speaker 2 It's mind-boggling and he's going to play college football ideally. And now my little ones are four and a half and three and we've got another one on the way.
It's like 18,

Speaker 2 where did time go?

Speaker 2 So my advice always is like try not like be a dad coach do everything but enjoy the moment and enjoy the process and just the journey because it can be gone like that um and and jerry it's okay dude righty lefty listen yeah bro it don't matter bro i mean i just don't want to start buying all the wrong stuff

Speaker 1 i gotta i gotta it's golf clubs glove batting i got all sorts of stuff i'm buying the wrong stuff i don't know what i have i'm so confused that's a good problem man we might be you know yeah hey listen man just hey enjoy the process bro you might be we know that we know that guy we know the little guys are gonna be a stick in golf dude hey you're talking to a guy whose kid just got his first compliment in soccer so but i i'm listening listen my goal i'm with you nit my goal is to never embarrass my kids so regardless of what i feel inside

Speaker 1 i have a handle on my emotions so like i i'm never gonna embarrass my kids on the field but uh i can tell you what I think about planning a little boys trip and go to the home run X, Matt.

Speaker 2 We gotta work with him. I'm in, man.

Speaker 2 That's an awesome swish.

Speaker 3 I know a guy that can get y'all tickets man I feel like you got the hookup right I'll get y'all some VIP tickets oh also too Jerry hey it's in the mail dog your little boy hey he's got a Yankee hat coming this way because I saw something on the Graham the other day they're trolling

Speaker 3 they're trolling sure he gets the right hat on you know I mean I think we got we got these new ones that just came out you know I'm saying we got these one right here oh don't tell me that's in the mail swish

Speaker 3 which just showed up today so I got a few of those just uh make sure make sure that address is in my text messages. We'll make sure that happens.
Wow.

Speaker 2 Hey, listen,

Speaker 2 I'll take a judge-signed jersey. That's what I'll take for my collection.

Speaker 3 By the way, man, hey, wouldn't we all, Maddie?

Speaker 2 Hey, I want to say, well, two things. OH.

Speaker 3 IO, baby. I.O.
You've been watching the boys, man. Hey, that Oregon game was a tough one.

Speaker 2 It was a tough one.

Speaker 2 We're in Ohio this weekend, and we're going to be there quite a bit over the next six weeks.

Speaker 2 I expect to see you out there. They're going to make a run.
And then I want to say this. Love you, boys.
Good luck to your Yankees this series. Okay.
Good luck to your Yankees.

Speaker 2 May the best team win.

Speaker 3 I mean, honestly, you know who I'm rooting for. I think you know who Jerry's rooting for.
But the fact that our game is finally getting the matchup that we want, right? It's just one of those things.

Speaker 3 Bro, we've been waiting on this for a minute. East Coast, West Coast, bro.
Hey, Yank.

Speaker 2 Yeah, for real, man.

Speaker 3 It just seems like there's so many things that are going on. And obviously, you know, hey, Dodger Stadium is going to be on fire and the Bronx is going to be on fire.

Speaker 3 enjoy it man because you're going to be in la so enjoy all of it i'm going to be there in light and then when you guys get your tickets all locked out

Speaker 2 uh i'll be there game five for sure i think joe's gonna fly up too she wants to come to one of the games uh so we'll all be there man so make sure y'all let me know when you get up there well i'm about to fire off this group chat after this yeah yeah no we're hitting up because we got we got a little we gotta have we gotta have a wager on this as well although you might not you know swish you're a part of the yankees organization you might not be able to wager but we'll do something friendly we'll do something all right all right i'm in for that i'm in for for that.

Speaker 1 Nick, can't thank you enough. Love to the family.
Enjoy the World Series. Home run Derby X.
We'll see you there. You're the best, man.
Take care.

Speaker 2 Love you, bro. Thanks for coming.

Speaker 3 Hey, love you guys, man. You guys are fucking killing it, man.

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Speaker 2 I mean, how great is Nick Swisher? What a stud, man. Having him on the show, talking Yankees, Dodgers.
And I can only imagine, dude, what he's like. on the sideline with his

Speaker 2 daughters. That's amazing stuff.

Speaker 2 All right, before we get into our throwback three, it is time to crown them, guys, brought to you by DraftKings. And this week, I am crowning Navy.

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Army as well is undefeated. They are playing Notre Dame.
They're getting 13 points.

Speaker 2 I think this game is going to be low scoring. I'd even almost take the under in this game, but I imagine Navy is going to keep this game within 13 points.

Speaker 2 I'm not exactly sure they're going to win, but shout out to Navy. They're They're having a hell of a season.
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Speaker 2 Navy plus 13, here we go.

Speaker 2 Jerry, it's time.

Speaker 1 Time.

Speaker 2 Throwback three.

Speaker 1 last week's throwback three i think was my favorite and i think the audience let us know i got a lot of responses on on our social and on the throwback show social it was great a lot of people loved your nba jam uh frankie fingers z8 said no mvp baseball is insane not wrong we could only pick three though there was a lot of ken griffey jr baseball jeff o'neal pointed that out and then uh we even had some love with nhl 94 there's like apparently people still play competitive NHL 94.

Speaker 1 I think we got invited to the playoff matchups for people playing NHL 94 on Sega Genesis.

Speaker 2 Sega Genesis.

Speaker 1 That was mine. It's your turn this week.
Matt, what is throwback favor this week?

Speaker 2 This is my favorite because we can do a thousand different things. But

Speaker 2 in the spirit of sport.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 you feel like a conspiracy theory guy to me.

Speaker 1 I totally am.

Speaker 2 You totally totally are. So

Speaker 2 I was looking back and I was trying to think of the top sports conspiracy theories out there. You can go all the way back to the 60s or you can go back to very recent.

Speaker 2 So I want to do our top throwback three conspiracy sports theories. All time, whatever you think.
Whew.

Speaker 2 I know. Again, I just want to point out

Speaker 1 conspiracy. Alleged.
Everything. That's alleged.

Speaker 2 Yeah. I mean, look.

Speaker 1 Allegedly happened.

Speaker 1 Not even close to that.

Speaker 2 We neither confirm or deny. It may or may not have happened.
We don't know. We may know people that know.
We may not. I don't know.
Okay.

Speaker 2 But why don't you start with number three?

Speaker 1 So I'm starting with number three. And, you know, no one knows if this is true, but certainly we know the boxing world has been a little murky over the years.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 A lot of rigged fights.

Speaker 1 Sonny Liston rigged fight, took a dive against Muhammad Ali. There was mob debt or whatever.

Speaker 1 It's a very interesting theory because you certainly could believe it. There's been movies written about stuff like that, but the punch really go really.

Speaker 1 I mean, I know a lot of you probably looked at it.

Speaker 2 I didn't even really,

Speaker 1 really look at it. He fell awkwardly.
I don't know, man.

Speaker 1 And Muhammad Ali would have probably beat him anyway, but maybe he just didn't want to be in there for 10 rounds, 12 rounds actually getting hit.

Speaker 1 Not saying it's true, but that is my number three, Sonny.

Speaker 2 You know those guys. Phantom punch.

Speaker 2 You know those guys back in the day were up to some shenanigans outside the boxing match.

Speaker 2 I just said, I don't know.

Speaker 1 Let's go watch Raging Bull.

Speaker 2 Let's go watch Raging Bull.

Speaker 2 All right.

Speaker 2 So this one was tough for me. Number three, you're going to hate me for this.
I'm going the bloody sock,

Speaker 2 Kurt Schilling, 2004, game six. Okay.

Speaker 2 I have a little, I have a little quote here.

Speaker 2 Baltimore Orioles play-by-play announcer Gary Thorne suggests that the red material on kurt schilling's sock during game two of the 2004 world series was in fact paint not blood

Speaker 2 the media runs wild with the story and everybody thinks it's catch up and all this stuff but in fact he was dealing with an ankle injury remember that back in the day i'll do remember it i lived through that game that game was brutal

Speaker 1 I do enjoy this one because it brings on a lot of interesting debate. Number one, you have an ankle injury.

Speaker 1 Why the fuck is your ankle bleeding?

Speaker 2 Did you

Speaker 2 because he had he had he had sutures in his ankle that's so

Speaker 2 his so they they from surgery or he needed stitches from something from i think whatever from some tendon deal i was trying to say okay but matt if you have sutures great use of the word sutures by the sutures you could have just said stitches but you went sutures i love it that's good wouldn't you also

Speaker 1 properly wrap the you have professionals of every medical level wouldn't you wrap it properly so the blood doesn't soak through well dude this is the whole conspiracy.

Speaker 2 Maybe it wasn't blood. Maybe it was just a big

Speaker 2 theatrical.

Speaker 1 Why? Is it because it's a win-win? Like, if you win the game, you're a hero. You pitched and won for the Red Settlement.

Speaker 2 By the way, he pitched his ass off that game. He won the game.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but if you lose, you could say, I don't want to blame injuries. But then basically, the bloody sock is your.

Speaker 2 Dude, talk about eating on the. I mean, you had a hot dog with ketchup on the sideline, spilling the sock.

Speaker 1 I don't know. That's a wonky.

Speaker 2 I just remember that. Yeah, I remember that story, obviously the fabrication of what it was, but I remember like the bloody sock.

Speaker 2 It was like the, it was like, it was like a guy playing with like a broken arm in football or something. He was like, oh my God.
Like, dude, it's a bloody sock, bro. I mean,

Speaker 2 you shoot that thing up and you go. All right.

Speaker 1 You ready for my number two? Yeah.

Speaker 1 I'm going with the

Speaker 1 Ravens Niners blackout. Now,

Speaker 1 I remember well where I was when that happened. I remember who I was watching it with.
I do remember the momentum of the game switching.

Speaker 1 I never fully bought into the conspiracy of it in the time until,

Speaker 1 just to make it more fun, several interviews with Ray Lewis and Terrell Suggs after the game. Like Terrell Suggs said, yeah, Goodell's up to his shit again.

Speaker 2 How does a billion-dollar stadium lose outage?

Speaker 1 But that could be, you know, freak things could happen.

Speaker 1 But I guess coming off the Beyonce concert, but what, and also, how do you know pulling the power out, though, is going to galvanize the 49ers to play better? Because the Ravens had the game.

Speaker 1 But either way, it led to a much more competitive game. I just think you have Beyonce in that.
You have the players actually commenting. And anytime, you know, we got Goodell in there, too.

Speaker 1 It's a great one. That's my number two.
That's a really fun

Speaker 1 almost modern one.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 No, I remember that one. All right.
Number two, I'm going back

Speaker 2 to 2002 Western Conference Finals. Oh, I know where you go.
Lakers, Kings. By the way, real quick, that was like my childhood.
So I was 19, like the Kobe Shaq era, the battles with the Kings, man.

Speaker 2 They were with Chris Weber and they had, who else? They had Doug Christie. They had Doug Christie, Mike Bibby.
Oh, they

Speaker 2 were

Speaker 2 battles. Spurs back in the day.
Pesia, right? Was it Pesia? Pesia Stoyakovich.

Speaker 2 Lakers trailed the Kings 3-2 in the series going into the fourth quarter of game six. The Lakers, guess how many free throws the Lakers shot? I don't have

Speaker 1 this up. I remember.

Speaker 2 I had to look this up.

Speaker 1 I remember

Speaker 1 from when it happened. It was 27, wasn't it?

Speaker 2 27.

Speaker 2 27. I didn't even look that up.

Speaker 2 And the whole conspiracy, you want the Lakers in the finals and obviously that kind of stuff, right?

Speaker 2 Years later, then we talk about Tim Donaghy, you know, who resigned and later admitted to gambling on NBA games and that whole thing, which is an incredible documentary, too.

Speaker 2 He suggested that the conspiracy was real, noting that he heard a game had been fixed that matched the description of the playoff game.

Speaker 1 Just murky territory back then.

Speaker 2 And I hate saying that for my Lakers, but I mean.

Speaker 2 Listen, it's happened. I don't know.
27 free throws in the fourth quarter, down 3-2 in the series against the. Yeah, that's pretty crazy.

Speaker 1 One day I would love to, you know, you always get asked, and we even ask some people like, you know, who would you love to play golf with or have a drink with?

Speaker 1 I would love to, well, or just get one of these commissioners post-career where they're old enough, where they don't really care.

Speaker 1 And maybe they like to drink still. You have a couple of pops.
And he's like, yeah, let me tell you about 2002.

Speaker 2 Let me

Speaker 2 tell you. Goodell.
Let me tell you about Spygate real quick.

Speaker 1 You want to know what was on the tapes that I destroyed? Which is another great one.

Speaker 1 I didn't go with that one because we don't actually, no one ever had a concrete theory as to what else was on those tapes that was so damning, but that would be an honorable mention for me. All right.

Speaker 1 I guess it's time for my number one. Now, look,

Speaker 1 prefacing this to our audience, there is a universal number one. I'm going to trust that you're going to do it because you're my co-host and I feel I'm going to test our chemistry right now.

Speaker 2 I'm not going to say the universal number one, but I'm going to go for people listening. I don't know what you're, yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 1 I just have to believe you're going to do this.

Speaker 2 No, I know, but we don't, we don't go over this before. I have no idea what you're going to see.

Speaker 1 I'm winging it and I have to go with my Knicks because this is a favorite one. And we're sticking with basketball, David Sturd, that the frozen envelope.

Speaker 1 First of all, scientifically, can that happen? Can you make an envelope cold enough so someone puts their hand in and it's just to the touch like, oh, that's the one. I've studied the tape.

Speaker 1 I don't really see any fishing around. I feel like there's easier ways to rig that if you want to.
But anyway, yeah, they basically rigged the lottery.

Speaker 1 So the Knicks get the number one pick, knowing they had Patrick Ewing waiting.

Speaker 1 What a time because you would think they would have rigged the lottery. No disrespect to our Spurs, but there's other franchises that definitely have a bigger market that could have used Wemby.

Speaker 1 So I put that. I put that theory to the test.
Why didn't they do it with Wemby? Maybe it's too hard now. That's a favorite one.

Speaker 2 The NBA lottery to me still is weird, like the balls and all that kind of stuff, even yeah, I don't even get it anymore.

Speaker 1 I don't follow it, just show me who gets it. I'm gonna trust that you did it.

Speaker 1 But something fun to explore one day is like, yeah, dude, obviously, they want ratings in big markets, but to rig a lottery for Patrick Ewing, I don't know.

Speaker 1 That's a rough one to believe, but it's a fun one. I love people who hang on to it.
Now, let's see if I know my boy.

Speaker 2 All right,

Speaker 2 uh, allegedly, allegedly,

Speaker 1 I like where you're going.

Speaker 2 I'm trying to pull. Okay.
Cal Ripken Jr.

Speaker 1 The best one ever.

Speaker 2 2,632 consecutive games over the span of 16 seasons, which will never be broken. Okay.
He broke Lou Gehrig's record September 6, 1995.

Speaker 2 There's some shenanigans that may or may not have happened prior to that. The conspiracy theory may or may not have happened on August 14, 1997.
okay remember

Speaker 2 his active streak was in jeopardy and there happened to be a power outage

Speaker 2 right at the home field

Speaker 2 so he wasn't going to play the game

Speaker 2 right he wasn't

Speaker 2 he wasn't going to play the game but why

Speaker 2 well

Speaker 2 I mean, we can read into it, but, you know, let's say the rumor, Matt.

Speaker 1 I feel like

Speaker 2 there is

Speaker 2 the rumor is Kevin Pierce.

Speaker 2 The rumor is Kevin Costner was shooting a movie, baseball, which he's he was a baseball player. He played in a lot of some of the most iconic baseball movies.

Speaker 2 He may or may not have relations with Kyle Ripken's wife. And Kyle Ripken was pissed.
He was heated. He wasn't going to show up for the game.
I'm fucking over it. I'm not playing.

Speaker 2 I got other things on my mind. And all of a sudden,

Speaker 2 the lights are out. The power goes out.
We can conveniently. Conveniently.
I'm just saying that rumor's been around a long time.

Speaker 1 So, yeah, I don't mean to be so like hyper-excited to talk about this because if it caused any pain to the Ripken family or the Costners, apologies.

Speaker 1 So, we're not trying to laugh at your pain because it's not funny. But just as a conspiracy theory, and by the way, they've both talked about it publicly and denied it.

Speaker 1 Kevin Costner called into a radio station, I think, in like 02 and was basically saying, Why? There's other ways to cancel a game. It's bullshit, blah, blah, blah.

Speaker 1 I just, the holes I want to poke in it as a theory.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 He catches his wife.

Speaker 1 It's probably not true. I'd say it's probably 88% not true, although some have said otherwise.
But now, the thing that I never fully understood was, are you not playing Mr.

Speaker 1 Ripken because you're emotionally distraught? Some have said it was

Speaker 1 a fight broke out and he hurt his hand. But if he hurt his hand, how do you know he's only out one game? So he hurt his hand.

Speaker 1 He knew, all right, we got to cancel this game, but I'll be back the next night when we play. So I don't know if it was that, but if you were emotionally distraught,

Speaker 1 listen, I get it.

Speaker 1 If it were me, Matt, and I came home and I found my lovely wife in that act while I have what will arguably be an unbreakable streak going,

Speaker 1 even though I'm emotionally distraught, I'm still playing in that.

Speaker 2 You're going to be like, listen.

Speaker 1 You're not taking the marriage and the streak from me.

Speaker 2 I have to have one. I'm going to deal with you later.
I'm about to go break this record real quick.

Speaker 1 I have to have one of those. And if I have to leave the game in the third inning, because they have the stomach flu.
There's a million other easier ways that it could have been done.

Speaker 1 But still, there's a podcast called The Rumor. I'm not forgetting the host's name.
Shout outs. Like, there's like a six-episode podcast that just breaks down this conspiracy theory.
So,

Speaker 2 dude, I'm, yeah, that's a wild one.

Speaker 1 It's a wild one. We'll never have the answer.
I know some people have said, oh, yeah, it happened. I know other people are saying, that's a ridiculous thing to think happened.

Speaker 1 That would be my number one, too.

Speaker 1 Again, I'm just saying

Speaker 2 most of these stadiums, arenas, I mean, they do pay their electric bill. I don't know.

Speaker 1 So we have two conspiracy theories that involve the power going out.

Speaker 2 Dude, those are good.

Speaker 2 Well,

Speaker 2 there's some other good ones. Yeah, let us know what else we're doing.
We glossed over a few.

Speaker 1 Let us know yours at throwback show on social media.

Speaker 1 We're going to wrap up now uh that was a good show because now i have to go stress out for uh 24 hours until the world series starts i'm still on a high from swish shout out to to swish for joining us uh yes yeah dude it's on dodgers yankees should we make a bet I mean, I got a lot of bets with you already.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Two we want to do.

Speaker 1 Let's, you know what?

Speaker 2 Let's take that to social. We'll post it.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 We'll take that to social. So look for us on social.
We got to have a little bet going.

Speaker 2 And yeah, I just, I already have a few ideas i don't i don't want you embarrassing yourself i want something out of this listen i wore i watched maybe a juju a juju sign jersey maybe you wore sc connections jerry i wore a leprechaun outfit on big noon kickoff last year because sc uh

Speaker 2 for the whole

Speaker 2 for the whole oh it was funny that must have sucked for the whole a block for eight straight minutes dude full character full costume because i lost a bet i i will do whatever i have no shame if like i don't care let's take it to social social media.

Speaker 1 Good luck to your Dodgers, even though I don't really mean it. Thank you, everybody, for listening.
Thank you to everyone behind the scenes. Show's growing.

Speaker 1 Shout outs again, Swisher, and we'll see you next week.

Speaker 2 Peace.