September 11, 2026 • 40 mins
Stugotz & Company talk about an obvious report on the Yankees lineup, Anthony Volpe’s return to the Yankees, Board Op Ricardo drops some lyrical heat about Arch Manning, Jon Gruden hates international games but they aren’t going anywhere, wrapping up the week updating the poll results, and more!
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Speaker 2 (00:18):
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Speaker 3 (00:21):
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Speaker 4 (00:26):
Sal Akata hanging out with the boys on Stu Gotson
Company here, having a lot of fun on this Friday.
We did a lot of football the first hour. We'll
continue to do football here. But I do want to
get to some baseball stuff here, Stu, if I may.
Speaker 5 (00:37):
Big game.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
We mentioned the 25th anniversary of 9-11. Subway series tonight
in the Bronx. Mets and Yankees. Yankees battling for the
American League East crown. And Anthony Volpe is back with
the team. More on him in just a second. I
saw this the other day and it bothered me. And
you guys are giving me the platform to vent on this.
This is a quote, and I hope you're not friends
with him, but I'm going to say it anyway. John
(00:58):
Marossi on MLB Network. Maybe a nice guy.
Speaker 5 (01:01):
I don't know. You have me being friends with Marossi?
Is that what you do? I mean, you have me
being friends with John Marossi? Well, you know everybody. I
just want to make sure. Okay, even if I.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Were friends with John Marossi, I wouldn't be offended by
what it is you're about to say about him.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Good, because I'm about to torch him for a second.
So Judge took a day off yesterday. He's back in
the lineup tonight. It made me think of what he posted,
or MLB Network posted this the other day. I guess
Marossi was talking about Judge and him returning to the
Yankees lineup. Quote, they are a different team when he
is in the lineup.
Speaker 6 (01:32):
No bleep.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
No bleep.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
He's maybe the greatest player the sport has ever seen.
Speaker 6 (01:38):
John Marossi, MLB Network.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Quote, they are a different team when it's in the lineup.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Oh, you think?
Speaker 5 (01:44):
You think? Oh, my God. Good God.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Sal.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
I think the Patriots were better with Tom Brady.
Speaker 7 (01:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Hey, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Right.
Speaker 6 (01:55):
Do you remember the Bulls without Jordan? I'm just saying.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
I actually do. The two years.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I mean, they went to the Eastern Conference semifinals. They
probably should have won, beaten the Knicks in a game seven.
Pippen was robbed.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
Yeah, and they were a different.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Team when Jordan returned to the lineup.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
They won three streets.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Dude, that was, like, I would never watch that, but
it came across on Instagram with that quote. Like, that's
the newsy quote from what Morosi said. They were a
different team with the judge back in the lineup.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
No bleep, Johnny.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Give me some info. You know, cut Morosi some slack.
That's the job of John Morosi. He has to remind you, okay?
You need to be reminded sometimes that, yes, the Yankees
are better when their best player is in the lineup.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
I mean, good job by Morosi. They look totally different. Morosi.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Does he work for Fox Sports? Because if so, I
changed my opinion.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
I'm sorry. I have no idea, nor do I care.
I mean, if he does, too bad. We apologize. That
was a terrible report by you. Oh, I'm wrong.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Great.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
No, great stuff, John. Great. Really informative. So Volpe is
also back in the lineup after Jazz Chisholm gets hurt
and then Volpe, who's been the punching bag here. So
much so that I don't know how well it's transferred nationally.
I know you guys talk a little bit Yankees, but
Volpe has been, you know, the joke. And now he
comes up and again, the overreactions to he has one
good game last night. It's a grand slam. Now he's
(03:13):
taking curtain calls.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
What's with the overreaction here? Why can't he take a
curtain call?
Speaker 1 (03:19):
That had to feel good for a big-time prospect who
has under-delivered in a big spot to hit a home run.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
He wanted to celebrate it.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
It's the Yankee fans that now, the same Yankee fans
that were booing the you-know-what out of him for months,
couldn't wait to get him sent down. He comes back
up for a game, and now it's like, oh, our
hero has returned.
Speaker 8 (03:40):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Well, that should be the objection.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
The fans who booed him and were part of the
reason that Volpe was sent down in the first place,
you can't boo him on the way down and then
he comes back up in a big spot, hits a
home run, and suddenly he's your favorite baseball player.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
But that's fandom. That's what fandom is all about.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Sal, my least favorite thing about being a Yankee fan
is other Yankee fans.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
Yeah, you hate yourself. I don't hate myself.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
I go to Yankee Stadium.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
I go to Yankee Stadium.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
I sit down, and I'm looking around at everybody, and
I'm like, man, I kind of hate everybody here.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
I thought the same thing looking at you, Taylor.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
It's why he's not as big a Yankee fan as
he used to be. He took a look in the mirror.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Well, Taylor, where are you at with the Volpe stuff?
First of all, I think the right move was to
send him down to get right. This is why you
do that. They took him forever. But are you one
of these fans who's been flip-flopping here, wanted him down,
and now all of a sudden last night stands it
up in your bedroom or whatever watching this game?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
No.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
So I want to go out there and support Anthony
Volpe because I do think it still could be a good,
a nice little redemption story. If the lifelong Yankee fan
turns it around, battles through adversity, gets sent down in
the minor leagues, probably thinks he's never going to make
it back to the major leagues. And then a couple
of months later, he finds a way back into the lineup.
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When the Yankees are fully healthy, if Jazz Chisholm keeps
hitting the way Jazz Chisholm has the past month, Jazz
probably has that second base spot. McMahon at third base. Ideally,
you move Jazz to third. You sacrifice some defense. And
if Volpe, Sal, his swing looks a little different. If
I could just play devil's advocate here for a second.
His swing looks a little different. His swing looks really
(05:23):
good right now.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Taylor, put it on the poll. Does the swing look
different when the ball goes out of the park?
Speaker 2 (05:30):
But I'm watching breakdown videos and they're like, this top
swing is Anthony Volpe from early in the season and
this bottom swing is the bottom. And to be fair,
I don't really know what I'm looking at, but I'm
looking at that video, like one of those circle the
differences magazines that you get at like the dentist's office.
And I'm like, oh yeah, I think I do see
something a little technical in his swing change.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Why don't you pull up that stat machine and see
if the stats could back it up and Volpe's one
game back.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
How would be the measurables there with Volpe? You know
what I thought looked different? His confidence. If you do
see on the swing, once he hit that ball. And
by the way, it was a wall scraper at Yankee State.
Let's not make it like Volpe muscled up and hit
one nine mile. It was a wall scraper, but he
knew it and he dropped the bat. It was good
to see him confident. So from that standpoint, sure.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
But like.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
It's one game, the same guy you just vilified for years.
Now he's taking curtain calls. Everybody thinks Volpe is back
in the great double play tandem. And the Yankees are
going to go win a World Series now.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
It's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
What are you doing with fans today? NFL fans, Volpe fans,
Yankee fans. This is how fans act, man. When the
guy plays well, they cheer him. And when he plays poorly,
they boom and send him down to the minors.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
I mean, that's what we do.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
The extremes. Like, I'm not saying, certainly not saying you
can't root for him. But the extremes to where, Stu, they, like,
Volpe was villain number one here.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
Oh, I know.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Get him out. And then he comes back for one game.
And now it's like, oh, maybe he's going to be great.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
I just, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
I'd like to see it. Now, I was rooting for him.
Good for the kid to have success.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
Well, that's nice of you.
Speaker 9 (07:01):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
I'm a nice guy. You're rooting for a guy in
your favorite baseball team. That's nice of you. He's a
Mets fan. Oh, I'm sorry. He's a Mets fan. My bad.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
That's a big mistake by me right there. But it
was nice of you to root for Volpe.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
A kid who is a little bit down on his luck.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
And of course, when he hits one out of the park,
he's going to look more confident. Once he hits one
out of the park, that's natural, of course.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Dropping the bat the way you saw that bat flip, Taylor.
Not bat flip, but the way.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
He pimped it a little.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Sal, my least favorite quality in Yankee fans is anytime
I'm at the stadium and another fan starts chirping them
because that team is winning and the Yankee fan... responds
back with 27 rings and i'm like oh my god
stop with the 27 rings more than a three-fourths of
these rings were won in the 20s and the 30s
when the tv was black and white have some self-respect
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for yourself bragging about world series rings from roger peckinpah's.
Speaker 8 (07:57):
Day you and the peckinpah again it's the third time
you've mentioned them this week I.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Don't even know who that is. Should I know who
this is? Roger Peckinpah?
Speaker 2 (08:07):
He was like a second baseman.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
It's just a fun name to say.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
In the 1900s.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Taylor has learned the art of just picking out. He
could have picked anyone on that roster to search for
the funny name.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
And that's the funny name right there.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
I've heard that argument my whole life. Oh, 27 rings,
this and that. Now, I do root for the Yankees
because of Boone. I love Aaron Boone. And I do think, actually,
when you look at this Yankee team, I mean, you
could throw the Dodgers into this conversation, obviously, although Otani's hurt. And,
you know, with the Dodgers, they're a different team with
Otani in the lineup. They're a completely different team. When
he's in the rotation, they're a totally different team. So
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you know that.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
That's the case. The problem is they were just fine
when Otani was not on the team. They won a
World Series. But I do look.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
At the Yankees and think that and it's not reaction
to them sweeping the Rockies or even closing the gap
with the Rays. It's only now three games. Could there
be a little bit of what happened with the Knicks
going on, where they have the regular season that's disappointing
for a variety of reasons, then they get to the playoffs. Like,
all the pieces are in place. I never thought the
(09:13):
Knicks would do it, but the pieces were in place.
They did it. The pieces are in place for this
Yankees team. A weak American League, Dodgers banged up, no
real clear team. Like, is Milwaukee really going to be
that big of a favor over the Yankees? I think
you can make an argument they could do similar to
what the Knicks did.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
We shouldn't be surprised.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Any team that makes it to the baseball playoffs, pretty
much any team that makes it to the baseball playoffs,
if that team goes on a run to the World
Series and ends up winning the World Series, we shouldn't
be surprised.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
Baseball is just such a random sport.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
As you know, the Marlins, 97, they got there, won
the World Series.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
2003, got there again. Worst team, won the World Series.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
So for me, any team that makes the Major League
Baseball playoffs has a chance of winning the World Series.
We should not be surprised if any of those teams,
including Milwaukee, who chokes every single year in the postseason,
we still shouldn't be surprised if this is the year
they make it to the World Series.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
And the reason for confidence when it comes to the Yankees,
it's Cam Schlittler, Garrett Cole, Max Fried being your one, two,
three on the mound. And then it just feels like
with your lineup, the magic number, Sal, is probably like
if you could score five runs in the postseason, this
feels like this Yankee team with this rotation and the
bullpen probably wins like 95% of games if they could
(10:28):
just hit that number.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Well, that's kind of my point is that the offseason,
it was Yankees didn't do enough. They didn't do anything.
They basically ran it back and hoped.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
To get healthy.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
In-season, didn't do enough. Lots of injuries. Not good enough.
Rays better. Red Sox coming. Red Sox were hot. But
still losing stand. Okay, the Yankees added the deadline. Didn't
add enough. They didn't add the bullpen that we would hope.
And yet here we are where because of Schlittler, who
to your point, Taylor, you were on this early on
in the year saying you'd rather have him than Paul Skeens.
(10:58):
Right now it's a blowout. I'm not saying even close.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
He's so proud of that take. I have no idea
how that take stood up for him. I mean, I
really don't. What a lucky take that was. Nobody, nobody
except for CeCe Sabathia agreed with that take at the time.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
To be fair, CeCe Sabathia agreed with me around, like,
all-star break when it was very clear which way it
was trending.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
He was late to the party.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
CeCe didn't really put his toe in the water with me.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Plus, he's a homer anyway. You can't take what CeCe's saying.
He's a great guy, but he's going to obviously favor
the Yankees. But when you look at Schlittler, Cole... Freed
now coming back. I know it wasn't great last night,
but getting healthier here, that's the recipe for success in
the postseason. Tell me who's definitively better. Judge back in
that lineup, Luis Garcia Jr., the one thing that they
(11:44):
did add, the guy's been raking, so he replaces what
Stanton would have done had he come back. I'm not
saying they're going to do it. I think the pieces
are in place, though, for the Yankees.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
So do I.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
I would also say that Major League Baseball has it
exactly the way they want it right.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
Now in terms of peak interest in the postseason.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
All the markets and teams they want to be good,
for the most part, are really, really good. Yankees, Red Sox, Cubs. Dodgers,
major markets, big brands, big teams, big stars. And so
the postseason should be fun. But of course, Sal, why
would anyone be surprised if the Yankees make it to
the World Series?
Speaker 5 (12:19):
If they make it to the playoffs, they can make
it to the World Series.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
OK, well, Taylor had one great take, another take. And
he was texting me this quite often. And I'm sure
he was saying it on all the podcasts and the
radio shows that you guys are doing. This was his
least favorite Yankee team of all time.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
I think he's taken that back since, yes. I've started
to walk it back a little. You can't walk that back.
Come on. The team hasn't even changed.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
When I said it, I was getting ready to gauge
my eyes out watching Trent Grisham strike out all the time.
And now we've replaced some of those at-bats with George
Lombard and Spencer Jones. And we're getting some of the
young guys in here who are at least, even if
they're going to strike out a lot and not play
to high contact rates, at least they're exciting.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Mikey, how do you feel about Sal being some sort
of fan policeman? Like he is the guy who determines
what fans can say, what they can do, when they
can take it back, when they can't take it back.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
I love Sal being in charge of all fans.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
I'd just be happy if he was in charge of
Taylor's fans.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
Keeping track of Taylor's takes. I am all over the place.
Speaker 6 (13:26):
You kind of are all of them. You're a little
volatile either way with your fandom, Taylor. I like Sal
reeling you in.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, Taylor. Stay
exactly the way you are.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
He's ripping my guy booty left and right.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
Oh, this team stinks. I can't watch them.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
And now he's like, yeah, they can win the World Series.
And obviously we know that that's what fans do. But
to your point, Stu, I feel like in New York
at least, Now, maybe I'm just brainwashed by the 90s
and the Yankees having a dynasty, and they would dominate
in the regular season.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
There was no doubt.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
They didn't win the division last year. They're still not
winning the.
Speaker 6 (14:01):
Division right now.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
So that's a big part of, like, well, how are
they going to win the World Series? They have to
go on the road. They have to face the Red Sox.
Then if they win that, have to go on the
road in Tampa, which is a tough spot. The path there,
I think, is what makes me think that maybe they're
not going to be there, even though they're probably odds-on favorites,
maybe why it would be a difficult road.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
To be fair, when I said they were my least
favorite team, their backup catcher was an Uber driver, JC Iskar.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
They have Ali Sanchez.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
He's basically an Uber driver, too.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
He stinks, too, yeah.
Speaker 8 (14:30):
But that should make them your favorite team. They have
a bunch of former Uber drivers on your roster, and
you're still going to make it to the playoffs.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
Little underdog. Listen.
Speaker 6 (14:41):
Having the former grocery store bagman as your quarterback is
fun when it's Kurt Warner. When it's JC Escara, it's not.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
And he's batting 150. Yeah, you don't want the Uber
driver when he's batting 150. Some redemption story. He's batting
below the Mendoza line.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
That's nasty.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
See, I can be the fan police. I mean, now
you're going to players, Taylor.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Come on.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
That's not nice. He's trying to make a living for himself.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Sure, he's a great guy.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
All due respect.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
All due respect.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
He's probably a great guy. But as I always say,
you start ribbing. And then nothing personal. Morosi, whoever, a scar.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
Nothing personal.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
And then tee off on them.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
Wait, so Morrissey works for Fox? He does? Yes, we've
confirmed that? Yeah. I take back everything I said. Joe Moe.
Joe Moe, love you. Give me some Moe. All right,
we'll take a quick timeout.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
I am told here Ricardo has written a song and
voiced a song about Arch Manning.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
We'll play it for you. Coming up next.
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All right, Sal, it's time for you to talk. Yeah,
I'm just trying to figure out the right tempo here
with this song playing. This is not exactly the.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
the one that's going to fire me up giving a
strong opinion. It's a nice song, right?
Speaker 5 (16:36):
It's for Ricardo. It's Odd Rejoin Music. I agree with you.
Speaker 6 (16:39):
Ricardo wrote a song.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
Yeah, he wrote a song. Yes, right. And I'm supposed
to introduce that song. Oh, the song's for you.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Oh. So are we throwing to the song?
Speaker 5 (16:48):
Yes, we'll get to the songs here in just a second.
In fact, let's get to the songs right now.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
I am told that Ricardo, and we'll get to the
update here just a minute here, but I am told
that Ricardo has written a song about Arch Manning.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
We're headed in.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
To a big college football weekend, Texas and Ohio State.
But Sal, before I play that song for you, I
haven't heard it. Taylor hasn't heard it. Mikey A has
not heard this song yet. Let's play some of our
hits here. Let's start, Ricardo, if you have it, let's
start with Taylor's Jalen Brunson song.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Let's go.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
A long intro version.
Speaker 9 (17:34):
I come back from a garden night. My mother asked
that the Knicks must have lost right. Oh, mother dear,
we're now the fortunate ones. New York has Jalen Brunson. Oh,
New York has Jalen Brunson. The ball in his hands,
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and the score is tight. My father yells, best thing
to happen in my life. Oh, daddy, dear, signing him
is number one. New York has Jalen Brunson. Oh, New
York really has.
Speaker 7 (18:18):
He's all we really want.
Speaker 9 (18:22):
Brunson will win the game when it is done because
New York has Jalen Brunson. New York has Jalen Brunson.
Speaker 6 (18:39):
Jalen Brunson.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Jalen Brunson.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
So that is one of five Jalen Brunson songs that
Taylor put together during their championship run. Ricardo, what was
your inspiration for the Arch Manning song here? In fact,
let me guess. This has to do with the Dolphins.
You want Arch Manning as the Dolphins quarterback?
Speaker 5 (19:01):
Is that yes? No?
Speaker 4 (19:02):
Well, there's going to be a lot of teams that
are going to be vying for him, but it looks
like the Dolphins are going to be in the mix,
and I wouldn't mind having Arch Manning over here.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
Okay. So let's play this.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
This is a brand new song, a fresh song from
Bordot Ricardo about Arch Manning.
Speaker 10 (19:26):
Sunday night and morale is low Trying to be happy
but this team blows.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Another losing season Just a sure thing We have to
draft a king.
Speaker 10 (19:46):
Anybody could be.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Our guy Nailed it We're all tired and Stugatz is.
Speaker 9 (19:54):
High.
Speaker 10 (19:55):
Get the number one pick and everything will be fine.
Gets me in the.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Mood to dance.
Speaker 9 (20:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (20:04):
And if we get the chance, we'll draft Archman in.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
Hopefully 0-17.
Speaker 10 (20:19):
Arch Manning or Dante Moore from Eugene.
Speaker 7 (20:26):
Oh yeah we can lose we can fail pick at
the top of the draft ooh lose more games maybe 17.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
And we'll draft Arch Manning Oh, my God. Great song choice.
It's beautiful. Mikey was dancing the entire time. You love
that one, Mikey. You loved it.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
That was awesome. That was awesome. Well done, Ricardo.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Sal, you and I grew up with traditional sports radio.
Speaker 5 (21:03):
I want you to.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Imagine if you were at WFAN on a football Friday
headed into Giants-Jets week number one, if you trotted out
an afternoon drive, an old Jalen Brunson song from your producer,
and a new song from your board op, I want
you to think about how quickly Chris Oliveira would walk
into those.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
Studios and yank you off the air.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Well, Chris Oliveira did do that to me, so I
can relate.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
But.
Speaker 5 (21:30):
I'm sorry. Maybe not that exact way.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
But imagine me as a young producer 20 years ago
telling Mike or Chris, or more specifically Mike, because I.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
Worked with him solo.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
Hey, Mike.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
Yeah, what's up, Scott? I wrote a song.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
You want me to play the song about Arch Manning?
He would kick me off his show solo.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
Yes, at the height of Mike and the Mad Dog.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Get out of here with that garbage, that nonsense, all right?
Speaker 5 (21:57):
You want to make a pick?
Speaker 4 (21:58):
You can make a pick. I don't need these stupid songs.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
Can I sing the picks?
Speaker 2 (22:03):
I would have called in to Francesa and say, hey, Mike,
I want to talk Giants receivers. And then he said, okay, Taylor,
what do you got? I go, oh, where are you,
Wandel Robinson?
Speaker 5 (22:14):
Oh, I feel a new song in the works.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
And then Mike would give you the hand wave and
be like, oh, these clowns are not getting on the
air anyway, right? And then it'd be posted on social
media all over the place.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
When he says that, does he think the calls didn't
get on the air?
Speaker 4 (22:29):
Well, they didn't get on the radio air, but the
Yes feed at the time would air them. So that's
how it would happen. We would dump them on the
radio side, but then Yes would air it, and then
somebody would steal the clip from Yes and pop it
on social media.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
Mike would be so upset, right? Like, how'd that get
on the air?
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Oh, he wouldn't know in real time. He'd say, that's
not getting on the air anyway. So you waste your time.
You're on hold for two hours. You're wasting your time, okay?
Nobody's going to hear it anyway. As we're all watching
the video on social media.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
You're right.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
It's not going to get on the radio. It's on TV.
Let's go out to Sherman Oaks. Chris has a sports update.
Speaker 11 (23:05):
I love hearing Mike Francesa voices. You guys doing those
is great. It really just takes me back. All those
great clips. I'm back after this. Let's get you caught up.
We're heading into the season, and DeAndre Swift was entering
the final year of his contract with the Chicago Bears,
but no more. A new deal between Swift and the
Bears has been inked. Three years, $ 33. 75 million contract for
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the lead back in Chicago. Falcons quarterback Tua Tonga-Vailoa is
out for Sunday's season opener against the Pittsburgh Steelers. Cooper
Rush is set to make the start for Atlanta. Tonga-Vailoa
apparently on the injury report with an oblique injury. Cardinals
head coach Mike LaFleur says first-round running back Jeremiah Love
trending towards playing Sunday. Giants have listed wide receiver Malik
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Nabors as questionable against the Cowboys. and Detroit Lions have
released defensive end Levi Onzerike. Patriots are placing wide receiver A.J.
Brown on injured reserve due to a high ankle sprain.
Speaker 5 (24:01):
At the U.S.
Speaker 11 (24:02):
Open, Alexander Zverev took the first set against Karin Kachanov,
currently in the second set with a spot in the U.S.
Finals on the line here. The other side of that
bracket with two Americans, Francis Tiafoe and Ben Shelton, set
for 7 p.m.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
Eastern.
Speaker 11 (24:19):
Earlier, Katerina Sinyakova and Taylor Townsend took the women's double
final in three sets. And since we were speaking of
hard-to-pronounce names, I did have to go back through our archives,
and I did find what I was talking about when
we were talking about, you know, over-practicing for an American Madoff.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
So take a listen.
Speaker 11 (24:36):
This is our old friend and Sherman Oaks, Ryan Bershinger.
and a moment that will live in infamy.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
Khabib Nurmagomedov says Conor McGregor.
Speaker 11 (24:46):
Again, like hitting the triple axel and then just like
stubbing the toe.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
One more time for you. Khabib Nurmagomedov says Conor McGregor.
He was so pleased with himself for getting the first
one right.
Speaker 11 (24:59):
I was in the studio with him. He practiced it
for like 45 minutes. He really didn't want to screw
it up.
Speaker 5 (25:05):
Love you, Bersh.
Speaker 11 (25:07):
And finally, guys, Cubs and Pirates is your one baseball
game in action. And it's a slobber knocker. Chicago with
an 11 to 2 lead on Pittsburgh during and is
right now in the seventh inning stretch.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
Back to you guys. Mikey had an issue with the
word slobber knocker, I feel like.
Speaker 6 (25:23):
No, I just said I love the word slobber knocker.
Speaker 11 (25:26):
Oh, you did?
Speaker 9 (25:26):
Really?
Speaker 5 (25:26):
It's a beautiful word. All right, so no issue. Okay,
my bad.
Speaker 6 (25:31):
Needs to be used more.
Speaker 9 (25:32):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
What is it, Sal, that John Gruden said? Because I
am telling you, I've been walking around. These guys know
I walk around the studios. I rarely sit down for
two seconds.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
I can't.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Okay, I'm very antsy. And I don't hear their entire conversations.
I just kind of hear like off in the distance.
And they're talking about talking as John Gruden about something
that John Gruden said. And I have no idea what
the two of them are doing. So, Taylor, what is
happening here?
Speaker 2 (25:57):
So earlier we were railing on the international games and.
John Gruden has put his hand up as an advocate
with us, and John Gruden said, international games is the
worst thing in the history of football, man. If you
want to grow the game, grow it in the United States.
Knock if you agree with me.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
Close second, Gruden.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Tell you what, man.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Tell you what, man.
Speaker 6 (26:22):
Give me the frozen dundra.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
That's what I want to play football in.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
These Australian games are a disgrace. Knock if you agree
with me.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
That's not bad.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
Jim Bob Cooter. Put it on the poll, Taylor.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Is John Gruden the ally that you want?
Speaker 5 (26:38):
I'm not certain. So he agrees with your.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
He agrees with your international football take yeah that it's
garbage it's a garbage product you're putting teams you're making
teams jump through unnecessary hoops all for what to try
to grow the game in australia that's that's exactly what
the nfl needs growing the game in australia.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
Aren't we though numb to it now like it happens
so often i like i got tired of yelling about
it it was stupid five years ago 10 years ago
i gotta wake up at 9 a.m to see my
team play in london it's just like Whatever. All right, Brazil, Spain, London, Melbourne.
Speaker 5 (27:15):
I mean, whatever, dude.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
I just want to watch football. I don't care where
it's being played.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
You nailed Melbourne. That was nice.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Sal, that is the exact problem that we as NFL
fans have become so numb to it where somebody like
Mikey A is the problem because he comes up to
Roger Goodell with his hands cupped like Tiny Tim saying, Sir,
more football, please. More football, sir, please.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
Mm-hmm.
Speaker 5 (27:38):
What is wrong with that? Who cares? He loves football.
He doesn't care where it's played. Why do you guys
care so much?
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Because it's a terrible product.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
It is.
Speaker 6 (27:46):
But if it's going to give me another primetime game
or a game at 930 in the morning, I will
take it. I will happily consume it.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
I will buy whatever streaming service you need me to
buy just so I can watch it.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Yes, it is a terrible game. They are terrible games.
You figured last night would be a good game.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
Niners and Rams.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
It was a bad game. It was a dreadful game.
You want to chalk it up. to international. You want
to talk it up to long travel. You want to
chalk it up to Todd in accounting telling Sean McVay
and Les Snead, giving them the wrong advice on how
long you should be in Australia before your body adjusts
to the time there. That's fine, but that's how you
grow the game. Those fans didn't care. They didn't care
that it was a lousy game. We're spoiled sports fans, man.
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I said this during the World Cup. These countries, they
love sports in a way that we don't.
Speaker 5 (28:33):
We're entitled.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Like we invented sports, like we invented sports fandom. Those
fans in Melbourne, they enjoyed that terrible game.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
And so what? That's how you grow the NFL.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
But why do we care about that?
Speaker 5 (28:47):
Why should we care?
Speaker 4 (28:49):
Like if that game were.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Played in L.A.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
Last night, it would have been a better atmosphere for
the U.S. fans here. We probably would have enjoyed it
better and also not had the nonsense of the travel
and all this stuff. So I'm not like I'll watch
it whenever it's on. I admit I'm just going to
do that for the NFL. They could charge whatever for
the Sunday ticket. I'm going to pay it.
Speaker 5 (29:06):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
I love consuming the product in any way possible. But
it's also not for us. They know they have us.
So they kind of spit in our face in the process.
Speaker 5 (29:15):
I understand.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
But do you guys know how many lousy games are
played right here in the United States of America? I mean,
we saw one the night before in Seattle.
Speaker 5 (29:26):
I mean, Jesus, if.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
The situation was reversed out and whatever Australia's main sport is,
let's say it's Aussie rules, football or rugby.
Speaker 5 (29:34):
It's rugby.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
And we said, hey, the rugby final, we're going to
play it in LA because we want to grow rugby there.
They would laugh you out of the room and say,
you're not taking this from us, but we're so conditioned
to say you could, you could put football anywhere. We're
going to watch it.
Speaker 5 (29:49):
No, they wouldn't do it because no one would attend
the game.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
They put NFL games in Australia because they know they're
going to sell out regardless of how crappy the game is.
Speaker 5 (29:58):
Who is going to a rugby game in California? Nobody.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Got to grow the game.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
Also, it has to be working because they wouldn't just
keep doing it. If it weren't working, it wouldn't be, well,
let's try Australia this time or let's try these different–
like London was one thing. Now expanding that, so it
has to be working. But I would be curious too. Like,
you know how many people from the U.S. go travel
to follow their team? And that's not why they're doing it, right?
They're not doing it to get fans from the United
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States to go travel. They're doing it to make a
dent in the market. So I don't know those exact numbers.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Yeah, but you play that game last night in Melbourne
and you have, you know, 80,000 fans buying Stafford shirt
jerseys that.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
Normally wouldn't buy those jerseys. I mean, that's growing the game.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
If you ran the business, you would try to grow
the game in as many places as possible. You might
not like it if you're from the United States. You
might not care about the games. It might be a
watered-down product. But if you ran that league, if you
were Roger Goodell and the owners... you would try to
grow it in as many places as possible.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
And that's what they're doing. But does it need to
be grown any further? Because when you're saying that, it
makes sense, right? But then I think, okay, well, why
wouldn't baseball do that? And the reason why is because
it's not going to be the same market for the NFL,
which then would tell me that the NFL is already
big enough where they don't have to do this stuff.
Speaker 5 (31:16):
Well, you're right.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
A major league baseball game, you send a series over
to Melbourne, Australia, I don't know how many people come
out and watch, you know, Rays and Indians, right?
Speaker 5 (31:26):
Or Rays and what's their name? Guardians.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Guardians.
Speaker 5 (31:28):
That's a fine, yeah. Yeah, I'm sorry. How much? A dollar?
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Yeah, gotta be PC.
Speaker 5 (31:33):
In fact, I'm certain nobody's probably coming out to watch
those games.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
But that's the power of the NFL, where their bad
games are better than most of Major League Baseball's good
games and good matchups.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
They'll get a bigger number.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
If you sent the Browns to Australia, that stadium would
have been just as packed and just as excited.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
But if they have that power, which I agree, we're
not going to disagree there, then why do they need
to do this? Because their reach is already– those people
are buying jerseys wherever it may be, Melbourne or Europe.
They're buying jerseys. They're consuming the product already. So I
don't know. I'm certainly not in the business aspect of it.
(32:12):
It has to be working, but they're already the biggest
thing ever. How much more can it possibly grow?
Speaker 5 (32:17):
Let me teach you a lesson, all right? This is
a life lesson here.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
When you don't know, it's about money, okay?
Speaker 5 (32:26):
Your answer is money, okay?
Speaker 2 (32:29):
The way the NFL has the capability to flex games
into primetime slots, like in the Sunday night football slot,
I think we should save the international weeks for like
week 15, week 16, and week 17, and then just
decide from there, okay, which teams are the most irrelevant?
Which games are the most irrelevant? Browns Jaguars, we're going
to send you guys to Australia.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Mikey, how far away are we from going to a
radio row in Europe?
Speaker 5 (32:57):
Don't tease. I'm telling you, they're going to play a
Super Bowl overseas. It's Goodell's dream. Can't do it.
Speaker 6 (33:04):
Finger gun Vipolis overseas?
Speaker 5 (33:06):
I own Radio Row, Sal. He's a different guy on
Radio Row, Sal.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
He is.
Speaker 4 (33:10):
He's shy.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Yeah, he is shy in everyday life. But when he
gets to Radio Row, I mean, he.
Speaker 5 (33:16):
Is the life of the party. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
My favorite moment from Radio Row is Joe Flacco walked
by us and I cat called him. I said, Joe,
nobody looks better than you out here. And he was
taken aback.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
Wasn't it Carissa Thompson who complimented you, saying nobody looks
better than you out here?
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Yeah, Carissa Thompson asked if I had a stylist. She said,
do you dress yourself?
Speaker 5 (33:36):
I see. I remember that.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
You were a different guy.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
It was a great jacket.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Should I have an issue with him talking to all
these athletes and never asking any of them to come
on the show? Right.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
What happened at Tahoe? We talked about Rodgers, but did
you get Rodgers on?
Speaker 5 (33:48):
Why not? What's going on? No, he just says, Aaron,
my guy. That's what he says when he walks by.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
So Rodgers wasn't there at Tahoe this year.
Speaker 5 (33:55):
Oh, okay.
Speaker 4 (33:55):
Clemens, go Yankees. I heard you talking about that yesterday.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
If Vince Carter walks by, it's go Heels. He never
has Vince Carter come on the show.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Clemens has totally ruined his image to me. Not the steroids,
just the way he treated me in Tahoe.
Speaker 4 (34:08):
All right, we got one more segment left.
Speaker 5 (34:10):
Is that it?
Speaker 4 (34:10):
This is too much fun.
Speaker 5 (34:12):
Yes. Wait, I just want to be clear on what
he said here. You are okay with the steroids, not
okay with.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
How he treated you in a restaurant for breakfast in Tahoe.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
That's where I draw the line.
Speaker 5 (34:25):
But steroids, fine, because it helped your team.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Sal, yes, we wrap up every single week by updating
the polls here. At Stugatz790 on X, we're going to
do that.
Speaker 5 (34:33):
Coming up next.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
Be sure to catch live editions of Stugatz and Company
live weekdays at 3 p.m. Eastern, 12 p.m. Pacific.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Our thanks to Sal Licata for sitting in with us
for the entire show.
Speaker 5 (34:46):
We appreciate it, man. You've been great.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (34:49):
We expected nothing less, buddy. Nothing less.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
We wrap up the week every week by updating the
polls here at Stugatz790 at X. Sal, I think you'll
enjoy this. Taylor, let's get to the polls here. What
do you have for us? Again, that's still got 790
on X.
Speaker 9 (35:05):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
Maybe the most topical show in America is Dabo Sweeney,
the Shearson Lehman of college football.
Speaker 5 (35:12):
That was a point made by Mark Hockman.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Early in this week, and Taylor had no idea what
he was talking about when he said Shearson Lehman.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
I don't either.
Speaker 5 (35:23):
What is that?
Speaker 2 (35:24):
It was like a lending company that just didn't adjust
to the times, and he was comparing Dabo Sweeney and
college football.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Everyone else was advancing on to the tech age. They
were still writing things on, you know, pen and paper,
and they got left behind.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
That's it. 82.8% of the audience said yes, Dabo Sweeney
is the Shearson Lehman of college football.
Speaker 6 (35:44):
I figured 82% of the audience would say who's Shearson.
Speaker 5 (35:46):
Lehman, but okay.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Is Lane Kiffin at his best when everything is a mess?
Speaker 3 (35:53):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (35:54):
It's always a mess. It's the way he likes it.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
That's why he's so good.
Speaker 5 (35:59):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
95.3% of the audience said yes. Yes, he makes the mess,
and then he's great inside the mess. This is a
big one here. If Boston College didn't play college football
this season, would anybody notice.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Sal, how many games would Boston College not have to
play before you notice they're no longer playing college football?
Speaker 4 (36:21):
Yeah, I wouldn't notice. Although I did look up the
slate this weekend, they're playing Rutgers.
Speaker 5 (36:26):
Another team, yes. If they didn't play a game, you
wouldn't notice.
Speaker 4 (36:29):
93.9% of the audience said no.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
I would not notice.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Taylor, that game should be for the right to continue
to play more games.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Wow, like an eliminator.
Speaker 5 (36:43):
Then people will watch.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
Enough with DJ Lagway?
Speaker 5 (36:48):
Yep. That's terrible. Yes.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
92.5% of the audience said yes. Enough with Baylor's quarterback,
DJ Lagway.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
So Sal is from the Northeast. We have talked about
this today. College football is not that big of a
deal up there because they have 90 sports teams to
root for professionally. and there's no major college. So he's
looking at us like, who's DJ Lagway? He was the
top recruit a few years ago out of high school,
went to Florida, was a bus there, transferred to Baylor,
and now he's a bus there.
Speaker 4 (37:15):
I'm embarrassed to say I legitimately thought he was talking about, like,
a music DJ. And I was like, oh, I don't
know who this guy is.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
Some DJ Lagway.
Speaker 5 (37:25):
Let's create that character. DJ Lagway on the ones and twos.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
It's what he might actually have to do once he's
graduated college in nine years.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
Big one with the NFL starting. Did you say goodbye
to your family when the NFL kicked off?
Speaker 5 (37:49):
Mikey A does every year.
Speaker 6 (37:51):
Big one for me.
Speaker 5 (37:52):
Like he's going on a trip, Sal. See you later.
Bags are packed. You have to.
Speaker 4 (37:56):
I tried to forewarn. Hey, this is the last Sunday
without football. I'll see you later after this weekend.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
His wife tells him safe travels, even though she knows
that he's a Jet fan.
Speaker 5 (38:04):
It's never going to be safe.
Speaker 6 (38:05):
Just go to my chair.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
71.2% of the audience said, yep, we said goodbye to
our families.
Speaker 5 (38:13):
Only 70%? Yeah. Listen, the other 30%, they have a
good marriage. They don't have to say goodbye. They're watching
the games with their wife, with their families. They don't care.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
Big one for me here. Are people getting there too
early for bobblehead night giveaways?
Speaker 5 (38:28):
Yep. Scalpers.
Speaker 11 (38:31):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
I hate these scalpers.
Speaker 5 (38:32):
What was the time? How many giveaways? Tell Sal the
story real quick.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
George Costanza bobblehead night, 18,000. You're the Yankees.
Speaker 5 (38:39):
Yeah. Give out some more bobbleheads.
Speaker 4 (38:41):
They don't give out enough. 18,000. There's 30,000 people, 50,000
people going to these games. They give out 12,000 bobbleheads.
People go nuts for those things.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (38:50):
We'll get there early.
Speaker 3 (38:51):
85.6%.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
85.6% of the audience said, yes, people are getting there
way too early.
Speaker 4 (38:55):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
Glenn Powell, overrated?
Speaker 5 (39:03):
Wow, this is a big one for Taylor. Was it
yesterday you said this?
Speaker 2 (39:07):
Yeah, his new show, Chad Powers. I said I won't
watch it because he stinks as an actor.
Speaker 5 (39:12):
He was in Top Gun Maverick. Yes, I had him
as Goose's son yesterday.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
That was after Sal got disconnected and everything went to hell.
Speaker 5 (39:21):
I've never heard of.
Speaker 4 (39:22):
This guy until today.
Speaker 5 (39:24):
Yeah, that's shocking.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
Well he's you're not missing much as hip with.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
Him as an actor yeah what were the results here
55.8 of the audience.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
Said yes, overrated.
Speaker 5 (39:35):
Wow, nice win.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
Massive one for me.
Speaker 7 (39:38):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
Would you be surprised if Jason Garrett was an alien
wearing a human suit?
Speaker 1 (39:44):
So Taylor feels like Jason Garrett goes back to the
hotel when he's done with his NBC responsibilities and unzips
his skin.
Speaker 5 (39:52):
I can see that. From the top of his neck. Exactly.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
Exactly like Men in Black. 86.1% of the audience said no,
they would not be surprised. A couple more here from
the Thursday night football game yesterday. Does Sean McVay think
he's better than you?
Speaker 5 (40:10):
Yep, he does. No doubt.
Speaker 2 (40:11):
So smug, Sean McVay.
Speaker 3 (40:13):
So sneak.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
Very close. 96.5% of the audience said yes.
Speaker 5 (40:19):
All right. We have time for one more, Taylor. One more,
I think. One more.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
Should Aaron Donald demand a trade to the 49ers?
Speaker 5 (40:29):
That was mine.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
83.1% of the audience said yes.
Speaker 5 (40:33):
Those are the polls.
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Speaker 2 (00:18):
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Speaker 3 (00:21):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Sal Akata hanging out with the boys on Stu Gotson
Company here, having a lot of fun on this Friday.
We did a lot of football the first hour. We'll
continue to do football here. But I do want to
get to some baseball stuff here, Stu, if I may.
Speaker 5 (00:37):
Big game.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
We mentioned the 25th anniversary of 9-11. Subway series tonight
in the Bronx. Mets and Yankees. Yankees battling for the
American League East crown. And Anthony Volpe is back with
the team. More on him in just a second. I
saw this the other day and it bothered me. And
you guys are giving me the platform to vent on this.
This is a quote, and I hope you're not friends
with him, but I'm going to say it anyway. John
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Marossi on MLB Network. Maybe a nice guy.
Speaker 5 (01:01):
I don't know. You have me being friends with Marossi?
Is that what you do? I mean, you have me
being friends with John Marossi? Well, you know everybody. I
just want to make sure. Okay, even if I.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Were friends with John Marossi, I wouldn't be offended by
what it is you're about to say about him.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Good, because I'm about to torch him for a second.
So Judge took a day off yesterday. He's back in
the lineup tonight. It made me think of what he posted,
or MLB Network posted this the other day. I guess
Marossi was talking about Judge and him returning to the
Yankees lineup. Quote, they are a different team when he
is in the lineup.
Speaker 6 (01:32):
No bleep.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
No bleep.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
He's maybe the greatest player the sport has ever seen.
Speaker 6 (01:38):
John Marossi, MLB Network.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Quote, they are a different team when it's in the lineup.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Oh, you think?
Speaker 5 (01:44):
You think? Oh, my God. Good God.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Sal.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
I think the Patriots were better with Tom Brady.
Speaker 7 (01:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Hey, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Right.
Speaker 6 (01:55):
Do you remember the Bulls without Jordan? I'm just saying.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
I actually do. The two years.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I mean, they went to the Eastern Conference semifinals. They
probably should have won, beaten the Knicks in a game seven.
Pippen was robbed.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
Yeah, and they were a different.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Team when Jordan returned to the lineup.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
They won three streets.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Dude, that was, like, I would never watch that, but
it came across on Instagram with that quote. Like, that's
the newsy quote from what Morosi said. They were a
different team with the judge back in the lineup.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
No bleep, Johnny.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Give me some info. You know, cut Morosi some slack.
That's the job of John Morosi. He has to remind you, okay?
You need to be reminded sometimes that, yes, the Yankees
are better when their best player is in the lineup.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
I mean, good job by Morosi. They look totally different. Morosi.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Does he work for Fox Sports? Because if so, I
changed my opinion.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
I'm sorry. I have no idea, nor do I care.
I mean, if he does, too bad. We apologize. That
was a terrible report by you. Oh, I'm wrong.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Great.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
No, great stuff, John. Great. Really informative. So Volpe is
also back in the lineup after Jazz Chisholm gets hurt
and then Volpe, who's been the punching bag here. So
much so that I don't know how well it's transferred nationally.
I know you guys talk a little bit Yankees, but
Volpe has been, you know, the joke. And now he
comes up and again, the overreactions to he has one
good game last night. It's a grand slam. Now he's
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taking curtain calls.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
What's with the overreaction here? Why can't he take a
curtain call?
Speaker 1 (03:19):
That had to feel good for a big-time prospect who
has under-delivered in a big spot to hit a home run.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
He wanted to celebrate it.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
It's the Yankee fans that now, the same Yankee fans
that were booing the you-know-what out of him for months,
couldn't wait to get him sent down. He comes back
up for a game, and now it's like, oh, our
hero has returned.
Speaker 8 (03:40):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Well, that should be the objection.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
The fans who booed him and were part of the
reason that Volpe was sent down in the first place,
you can't boo him on the way down and then
he comes back up in a big spot, hits a
home run, and suddenly he's your favorite baseball player.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
But that's fandom. That's what fandom is all about.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Sal, my least favorite thing about being a Yankee fan
is other Yankee fans.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
Yeah, you hate yourself. I don't hate myself.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
I go to Yankee Stadium.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
I go to Yankee Stadium.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
I sit down, and I'm looking around at everybody, and
I'm like, man, I kind of hate everybody here.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
I thought the same thing looking at you, Taylor.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
It's why he's not as big a Yankee fan as
he used to be. He took a look in the mirror.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Well, Taylor, where are you at with the Volpe stuff?
First of all, I think the right move was to
send him down to get right. This is why you
do that. They took him forever. But are you one
of these fans who's been flip-flopping here, wanted him down,
and now all of a sudden last night stands it
up in your bedroom or whatever watching this game?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
No.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
So I want to go out there and support Anthony
Volpe because I do think it still could be a good,
a nice little redemption story. If the lifelong Yankee fan
turns it around, battles through adversity, gets sent down in
the minor leagues, probably thinks he's never going to make
it back to the major leagues. And then a couple
of months later, he finds a way back into the lineup.
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When the Yankees are fully healthy, if Jazz Chisholm keeps
hitting the way Jazz Chisholm has the past month, Jazz
probably has that second base spot. McMahon at third base. Ideally,
you move Jazz to third. You sacrifice some defense. And
if Volpe, Sal, his swing looks a little different. If
I could just play devil's advocate here for a second.
His swing looks a little different. His swing looks really
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good right now.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Taylor, put it on the poll. Does the swing look
different when the ball goes out of the park?
Speaker 2 (05:30):
But I'm watching breakdown videos and they're like, this top
swing is Anthony Volpe from early in the season and
this bottom swing is the bottom. And to be fair,
I don't really know what I'm looking at, but I'm
looking at that video, like one of those circle the
differences magazines that you get at like the dentist's office.
And I'm like, oh yeah, I think I do see
something a little technical in his swing change.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Why don't you pull up that stat machine and see
if the stats could back it up and Volpe's one
game back.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
How would be the measurables there with Volpe? You know
what I thought looked different? His confidence. If you do
see on the swing, once he hit that ball. And
by the way, it was a wall scraper at Yankee State.
Let's not make it like Volpe muscled up and hit
one nine mile. It was a wall scraper, but he
knew it and he dropped the bat. It was good
to see him confident. So from that standpoint, sure.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
But like.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
It's one game, the same guy you just vilified for years.
Now he's taking curtain calls. Everybody thinks Volpe is back
in the great double play tandem. And the Yankees are
going to go win a World Series now.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
It's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
What are you doing with fans today? NFL fans, Volpe fans,
Yankee fans. This is how fans act, man. When the
guy plays well, they cheer him. And when he plays poorly,
they boom and send him down to the minors.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
I mean, that's what we do.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
The extremes. Like, I'm not saying, certainly not saying you
can't root for him. But the extremes to where, Stu, they, like,
Volpe was villain number one here.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
Oh, I know.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Get him out. And then he comes back for one game.
And now it's like, oh, maybe he's going to be great.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
I just, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
I'd like to see it. Now, I was rooting for him.
Good for the kid to have success.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
Well, that's nice of you.
Speaker 9 (07:01):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
I'm a nice guy. You're rooting for a guy in
your favorite baseball team. That's nice of you. He's a
Mets fan. Oh, I'm sorry. He's a Mets fan. My bad.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
That's a big mistake by me right there. But it
was nice of you to root for Volpe.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
A kid who is a little bit down on his luck.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
And of course, when he hits one out of the park,
he's going to look more confident. Once he hits one
out of the park, that's natural, of course.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Dropping the bat the way you saw that bat flip, Taylor.
Not bat flip, but the way.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
He pimped it a little.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Sal, my least favorite quality in Yankee fans is anytime
I'm at the stadium and another fan starts chirping them
because that team is winning and the Yankee fan... responds
back with 27 rings and i'm like oh my god
stop with the 27 rings more than a three-fourths of
these rings were won in the 20s and the 30s
when the tv was black and white have some self-respect
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for yourself bragging about world series rings from roger peckinpah's.
Speaker 8 (07:57):
Day you and the peckinpah again it's the third time
you've mentioned them this week I.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Don't even know who that is. Should I know who
this is? Roger Peckinpah?
Speaker 2 (08:07):
He was like a second baseman.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
It's just a fun name to say.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
In the 1900s.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Taylor has learned the art of just picking out. He
could have picked anyone on that roster to search for
the funny name.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
And that's the funny name right there.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
I've heard that argument my whole life. Oh, 27 rings,
this and that. Now, I do root for the Yankees
because of Boone. I love Aaron Boone. And I do think, actually,
when you look at this Yankee team, I mean, you
could throw the Dodgers into this conversation, obviously, although Otani's hurt. And,
you know, with the Dodgers, they're a different team with
Otani in the lineup. They're a completely different team. When
he's in the rotation, they're a totally different team. So
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you know that.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
That's the case. The problem is they were just fine
when Otani was not on the team. They won a
World Series. But I do look.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
At the Yankees and think that and it's not reaction
to them sweeping the Rockies or even closing the gap
with the Rays. It's only now three games. Could there
be a little bit of what happened with the Knicks
going on, where they have the regular season that's disappointing
for a variety of reasons, then they get to the playoffs. Like,
all the pieces are in place. I never thought the
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Knicks would do it, but the pieces were in place.
They did it. The pieces are in place for this
Yankees team. A weak American League, Dodgers banged up, no
real clear team. Like, is Milwaukee really going to be
that big of a favor over the Yankees? I think
you can make an argument they could do similar to
what the Knicks did.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
We shouldn't be surprised.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Any team that makes it to the baseball playoffs, pretty
much any team that makes it to the baseball playoffs,
if that team goes on a run to the World
Series and ends up winning the World Series, we shouldn't
be surprised.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
Baseball is just such a random sport.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
As you know, the Marlins, 97, they got there, won
the World Series.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
2003, got there again. Worst team, won the World Series.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
So for me, any team that makes the Major League
Baseball playoffs has a chance of winning the World Series.
We should not be surprised if any of those teams,
including Milwaukee, who chokes every single year in the postseason,
we still shouldn't be surprised if this is the year
they make it to the World Series.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
And the reason for confidence when it comes to the Yankees,
it's Cam Schlittler, Garrett Cole, Max Fried being your one, two,
three on the mound. And then it just feels like
with your lineup, the magic number, Sal, is probably like
if you could score five runs in the postseason, this
feels like this Yankee team with this rotation and the
bullpen probably wins like 95% of games if they could
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just hit that number.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Well, that's kind of my point is that the offseason,
it was Yankees didn't do enough. They didn't do anything.
They basically ran it back and hoped.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
To get healthy.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
In-season, didn't do enough. Lots of injuries. Not good enough.
Rays better. Red Sox coming. Red Sox were hot. But
still losing stand. Okay, the Yankees added the deadline. Didn't
add enough. They didn't add the bullpen that we would hope.
And yet here we are where because of Schlittler, who
to your point, Taylor, you were on this early on
in the year saying you'd rather have him than Paul Skeens.
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Right now it's a blowout. I'm not saying even close.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
He's so proud of that take. I have no idea
how that take stood up for him. I mean, I
really don't. What a lucky take that was. Nobody, nobody
except for CeCe Sabathia agreed with that take at the time.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
To be fair, CeCe Sabathia agreed with me around, like,
all-star break when it was very clear which way it
was trending.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
He was late to the party.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
CeCe didn't really put his toe in the water with me.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Plus, he's a homer anyway. You can't take what CeCe's saying.
He's a great guy, but he's going to obviously favor
the Yankees. But when you look at Schlittler, Cole... Freed
now coming back. I know it wasn't great last night,
but getting healthier here, that's the recipe for success in
the postseason. Tell me who's definitively better. Judge back in
that lineup, Luis Garcia Jr., the one thing that they
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did add, the guy's been raking, so he replaces what
Stanton would have done had he come back. I'm not
saying they're going to do it. I think the pieces
are in place, though, for the Yankees.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
So do I.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
I would also say that Major League Baseball has it
exactly the way they want it right.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
Now in terms of peak interest in the postseason.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
All the markets and teams they want to be good,
for the most part, are really, really good. Yankees, Red Sox, Cubs. Dodgers,
major markets, big brands, big teams, big stars. And so
the postseason should be fun. But of course, Sal, why
would anyone be surprised if the Yankees make it to
the World Series?
Speaker 5 (12:19):
If they make it to the playoffs, they can make
it to the World Series.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
OK, well, Taylor had one great take, another take. And
he was texting me this quite often. And I'm sure
he was saying it on all the podcasts and the
radio shows that you guys are doing. This was his
least favorite Yankee team of all time.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
I think he's taken that back since, yes. I've started
to walk it back a little. You can't walk that back.
Come on. The team hasn't even changed.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
When I said it, I was getting ready to gauge
my eyes out watching Trent Grisham strike out all the time.
And now we've replaced some of those at-bats with George
Lombard and Spencer Jones. And we're getting some of the
young guys in here who are at least, even if
they're going to strike out a lot and not play
to high contact rates, at least they're exciting.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Mikey, how do you feel about Sal being some sort
of fan policeman? Like he is the guy who determines
what fans can say, what they can do, when they
can take it back, when they can't take it back.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
I love Sal being in charge of all fans.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
I'd just be happy if he was in charge of
Taylor's fans.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
Keeping track of Taylor's takes. I am all over the place.
Speaker 6 (13:26):
You kind of are all of them. You're a little
volatile either way with your fandom, Taylor. I like Sal
reeling you in.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, Taylor. Stay
exactly the way you are.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
He's ripping my guy booty left and right.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
Oh, this team stinks. I can't watch them.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
And now he's like, yeah, they can win the World Series.
And obviously we know that that's what fans do. But
to your point, Stu, I feel like in New York
at least, Now, maybe I'm just brainwashed by the 90s
and the Yankees having a dynasty, and they would dominate
in the regular season.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
There was no doubt.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
They didn't win the division last year. They're still not
winning the.
Speaker 6 (14:01):
Division right now.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
So that's a big part of, like, well, how are
they going to win the World Series? They have to
go on the road. They have to face the Red Sox.
Then if they win that, have to go on the
road in Tampa, which is a tough spot. The path there,
I think, is what makes me think that maybe they're
not going to be there, even though they're probably odds-on favorites,
maybe why it would be a difficult road.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
To be fair, when I said they were my least
favorite team, their backup catcher was an Uber driver, JC Iskar.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
They have Ali Sanchez.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
He's basically an Uber driver, too.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
He stinks, too, yeah.
Speaker 8 (14:30):
But that should make them your favorite team. They have
a bunch of former Uber drivers on your roster, and
you're still going to make it to the playoffs.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
Little underdog. Listen.
Speaker 6 (14:41):
Having the former grocery store bagman as your quarterback is
fun when it's Kurt Warner. When it's JC Escara, it's not.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
And he's batting 150. Yeah, you don't want the Uber
driver when he's batting 150. Some redemption story. He's batting
below the Mendoza line.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
That's nasty.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
See, I can be the fan police. I mean, now
you're going to players, Taylor.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Come on.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
That's not nice. He's trying to make a living for himself.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Sure, he's a great guy.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
All due respect.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
All due respect.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
He's probably a great guy. But as I always say,
you start ribbing. And then nothing personal. Morosi, whoever, a scar.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
Nothing personal.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
And then tee off on them.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
Wait, so Morrissey works for Fox? He does? Yes, we've
confirmed that? Yeah. I take back everything I said. Joe Moe.
Joe Moe, love you. Give me some Moe. All right,
we'll take a quick timeout.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
I am told here Ricardo has written a song and
voiced a song about Arch Manning.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
We'll play it for you. Coming up next.
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All right, Sal, it's time for you to talk. Yeah,
I'm just trying to figure out the right tempo here
with this song playing. This is not exactly the.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
the one that's going to fire me up giving a
strong opinion. It's a nice song, right?
Speaker 5 (16:36):
It's for Ricardo. It's Odd Rejoin Music. I agree with you.
Speaker 6 (16:39):
Ricardo wrote a song.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
Yeah, he wrote a song. Yes, right. And I'm supposed
to introduce that song. Oh, the song's for you.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Oh. So are we throwing to the song?
Speaker 5 (16:48):
Yes, we'll get to the songs here in just a second.
In fact, let's get to the songs right now.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
I am told that Ricardo, and we'll get to the
update here just a minute here, but I am told
that Ricardo has written a song about Arch Manning.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
We're headed in.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
To a big college football weekend, Texas and Ohio State.
But Sal, before I play that song for you, I
haven't heard it. Taylor hasn't heard it. Mikey A has
not heard this song yet. Let's play some of our
hits here. Let's start, Ricardo, if you have it, let's
start with Taylor's Jalen Brunson song.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Let's go.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
A long intro version.
Speaker 9 (17:34):
I come back from a garden night. My mother asked
that the Knicks must have lost right. Oh, mother dear,
we're now the fortunate ones. New York has Jalen Brunson. Oh,
New York has Jalen Brunson. The ball in his hands,
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and the score is tight. My father yells, best thing
to happen in my life. Oh, daddy, dear, signing him
is number one. New York has Jalen Brunson. Oh, New
York really has.
Speaker 7 (18:18):
He's all we really want.
Speaker 9 (18:22):
Brunson will win the game when it is done because
New York has Jalen Brunson. New York has Jalen Brunson.
Speaker 6 (18:39):
Jalen Brunson.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Jalen Brunson.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
So that is one of five Jalen Brunson songs that
Taylor put together during their championship run. Ricardo, what was
your inspiration for the Arch Manning song here? In fact,
let me guess. This has to do with the Dolphins.
You want Arch Manning as the Dolphins quarterback?
Speaker 5 (19:01):
Is that yes? No?
Speaker 4 (19:02):
Well, there's going to be a lot of teams that
are going to be vying for him, but it looks
like the Dolphins are going to be in the mix,
and I wouldn't mind having Arch Manning over here.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
Okay. So let's play this.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
This is a brand new song, a fresh song from
Bordot Ricardo about Arch Manning.
Speaker 10 (19:26):
Sunday night and morale is low Trying to be happy
but this team blows.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Another losing season Just a sure thing We have to
draft a king.
Speaker 10 (19:46):
Anybody could be.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Our guy Nailed it We're all tired and Stugatz is.
Speaker 9 (19:54):
High.
Speaker 10 (19:55):
Get the number one pick and everything will be fine.
Gets me in the.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Mood to dance.
Speaker 9 (20:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (20:04):
And if we get the chance, we'll draft Archman in.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
Hopefully 0-17.
Speaker 10 (20:19):
Arch Manning or Dante Moore from Eugene.
Speaker 7 (20:26):
Oh yeah we can lose we can fail pick at
the top of the draft ooh lose more games maybe 17.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
And we'll draft Arch Manning Oh, my God. Great song choice.
It's beautiful. Mikey was dancing the entire time. You love
that one, Mikey. You loved it.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
That was awesome. That was awesome. Well done, Ricardo.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Sal, you and I grew up with traditional sports radio.
Speaker 5 (21:03):
I want you to.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Imagine if you were at WFAN on a football Friday
headed into Giants-Jets week number one, if you trotted out
an afternoon drive, an old Jalen Brunson song from your producer,
and a new song from your board op, I want
you to think about how quickly Chris Oliveira would walk
into those.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
Studios and yank you off the air.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Well, Chris Oliveira did do that to me, so I
can relate.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
But.
Speaker 5 (21:30):
I'm sorry. Maybe not that exact way.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
But imagine me as a young producer 20 years ago
telling Mike or Chris, or more specifically Mike, because I.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
Worked with him solo.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
Hey, Mike.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
Yeah, what's up, Scott? I wrote a song.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
You want me to play the song about Arch Manning?
He would kick me off his show solo.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
Yes, at the height of Mike and the Mad Dog.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Get out of here with that garbage, that nonsense, all right?
Speaker 5 (21:57):
You want to make a pick?
Speaker 4 (21:58):
You can make a pick. I don't need these stupid songs.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
Can I sing the picks?
Speaker 2 (22:03):
I would have called in to Francesa and say, hey, Mike,
I want to talk Giants receivers. And then he said, okay, Taylor,
what do you got? I go, oh, where are you,
Wandel Robinson?
Speaker 5 (22:14):
Oh, I feel a new song in the works.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
And then Mike would give you the hand wave and
be like, oh, these clowns are not getting on the
air anyway, right? And then it'd be posted on social
media all over the place.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
When he says that, does he think the calls didn't
get on the air?
Speaker 4 (22:29):
Well, they didn't get on the radio air, but the
Yes feed at the time would air them. So that's
how it would happen. We would dump them on the
radio side, but then Yes would air it, and then
somebody would steal the clip from Yes and pop it
on social media.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
Mike would be so upset, right? Like, how'd that get
on the air?
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Oh, he wouldn't know in real time. He'd say, that's
not getting on the air anyway. So you waste your time.
You're on hold for two hours. You're wasting your time, okay?
Nobody's going to hear it anyway. As we're all watching
the video on social media.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
You're right.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
It's not going to get on the radio. It's on TV.
Let's go out to Sherman Oaks. Chris has a sports update.
Speaker 11 (23:05):
I love hearing Mike Francesa voices. You guys doing those
is great. It really just takes me back. All those
great clips. I'm back after this. Let's get you caught up.
We're heading into the season, and DeAndre Swift was entering
the final year of his contract with the Chicago Bears,
but no more. A new deal between Swift and the
Bears has been inked. Three years, $ 33. 75 million contract for
(23:28):
the lead back in Chicago. Falcons quarterback Tua Tonga-Vailoa is
out for Sunday's season opener against the Pittsburgh Steelers. Cooper
Rush is set to make the start for Atlanta. Tonga-Vailoa
apparently on the injury report with an oblique injury. Cardinals
head coach Mike LaFleur says first-round running back Jeremiah Love
trending towards playing Sunday. Giants have listed wide receiver Malik
(23:49):
Nabors as questionable against the Cowboys. and Detroit Lions have
released defensive end Levi Onzerike. Patriots are placing wide receiver A.J.
Brown on injured reserve due to a high ankle sprain.
Speaker 5 (24:01):
At the U.S.
Speaker 11 (24:02):
Open, Alexander Zverev took the first set against Karin Kachanov,
currently in the second set with a spot in the U.S.
Finals on the line here. The other side of that
bracket with two Americans, Francis Tiafoe and Ben Shelton, set
for 7 p.m.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
Eastern.
Speaker 11 (24:19):
Earlier, Katerina Sinyakova and Taylor Townsend took the women's double
final in three sets. And since we were speaking of
hard-to-pronounce names, I did have to go back through our archives,
and I did find what I was talking about when
we were talking about, you know, over-practicing for an American Madoff.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
So take a listen.
Speaker 11 (24:36):
This is our old friend and Sherman Oaks, Ryan Bershinger.
and a moment that will live in infamy.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
Khabib Nurmagomedov says Conor McGregor.
Speaker 11 (24:46):
Again, like hitting the triple axel and then just like
stubbing the toe.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
One more time for you. Khabib Nurmagomedov says Conor McGregor.
He was so pleased with himself for getting the first
one right.
Speaker 11 (24:59):
I was in the studio with him. He practiced it
for like 45 minutes. He really didn't want to screw
it up.
Speaker 5 (25:05):
Love you, Bersh.
Speaker 11 (25:07):
And finally, guys, Cubs and Pirates is your one baseball
game in action. And it's a slobber knocker. Chicago with
an 11 to 2 lead on Pittsburgh during and is
right now in the seventh inning stretch.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
Back to you guys. Mikey had an issue with the
word slobber knocker, I feel like.
Speaker 6 (25:23):
No, I just said I love the word slobber knocker.
Speaker 11 (25:26):
Oh, you did?
Speaker 9 (25:26):
Really?
Speaker 5 (25:26):
It's a beautiful word. All right, so no issue. Okay,
my bad.
Speaker 6 (25:31):
Needs to be used more.
Speaker 9 (25:32):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
What is it, Sal, that John Gruden said? Because I
am telling you, I've been walking around. These guys know
I walk around the studios. I rarely sit down for
two seconds.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
I can't.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Okay, I'm very antsy. And I don't hear their entire conversations.
I just kind of hear like off in the distance.
And they're talking about talking as John Gruden about something
that John Gruden said. And I have no idea what
the two of them are doing. So, Taylor, what is
happening here?
Speaker 2 (25:57):
So earlier we were railing on the international games and.
John Gruden has put his hand up as an advocate
with us, and John Gruden said, international games is the
worst thing in the history of football, man. If you
want to grow the game, grow it in the United States.
Knock if you agree with me.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
Close second, Gruden.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Tell you what, man.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Tell you what, man.
Speaker 6 (26:22):
Give me the frozen dundra.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
That's what I want to play football in.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
These Australian games are a disgrace. Knock if you agree
with me.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
That's not bad.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
Jim Bob Cooter. Put it on the poll, Taylor.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Is John Gruden the ally that you want?
Speaker 5 (26:38):
I'm not certain. So he agrees with your.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
He agrees with your international football take yeah that it's
garbage it's a garbage product you're putting teams you're making
teams jump through unnecessary hoops all for what to try
to grow the game in australia that's that's exactly what
the nfl needs growing the game in australia.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
Aren't we though numb to it now like it happens
so often i like i got tired of yelling about
it it was stupid five years ago 10 years ago
i gotta wake up at 9 a.m to see my
team play in london it's just like Whatever. All right, Brazil, Spain, London, Melbourne.
Speaker 5 (27:15):
I mean, whatever, dude.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
I just want to watch football. I don't care where
it's being played.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
You nailed Melbourne. That was nice.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Sal, that is the exact problem that we as NFL
fans have become so numb to it where somebody like
Mikey A is the problem because he comes up to
Roger Goodell with his hands cupped like Tiny Tim saying, Sir,
more football, please. More football, sir, please.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
Mm-hmm.
Speaker 5 (27:38):
What is wrong with that? Who cares? He loves football.
He doesn't care where it's played. Why do you guys
care so much?
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Because it's a terrible product.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
It is.
Speaker 6 (27:46):
But if it's going to give me another primetime game
or a game at 930 in the morning, I will
take it. I will happily consume it.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
I will buy whatever streaming service you need me to
buy just so I can watch it.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Yes, it is a terrible game. They are terrible games.
You figured last night would be a good game.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
Niners and Rams.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
It was a bad game. It was a dreadful game.
You want to chalk it up. to international. You want
to talk it up to long travel. You want to
chalk it up to Todd in accounting telling Sean McVay
and Les Snead, giving them the wrong advice on how
long you should be in Australia before your body adjusts
to the time there. That's fine, but that's how you
grow the game. Those fans didn't care. They didn't care
that it was a lousy game. We're spoiled sports fans, man.
(28:28):
I said this during the World Cup. These countries, they
love sports in a way that we don't.
Speaker 5 (28:33):
We're entitled.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Like we invented sports, like we invented sports fandom. Those
fans in Melbourne, they enjoyed that terrible game.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
And so what? That's how you grow the NFL.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
But why do we care about that?
Speaker 5 (28:47):
Why should we care?
Speaker 4 (28:49):
Like if that game were.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Played in L.A.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
Last night, it would have been a better atmosphere for
the U.S. fans here. We probably would have enjoyed it
better and also not had the nonsense of the travel
and all this stuff. So I'm not like I'll watch
it whenever it's on. I admit I'm just going to
do that for the NFL. They could charge whatever for
the Sunday ticket. I'm going to pay it.
Speaker 5 (29:06):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
I love consuming the product in any way possible. But
it's also not for us. They know they have us.
So they kind of spit in our face in the process.
Speaker 5 (29:15):
I understand.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
But do you guys know how many lousy games are
played right here in the United States of America? I mean,
we saw one the night before in Seattle.
Speaker 5 (29:26):
I mean, Jesus, if.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
The situation was reversed out and whatever Australia's main sport is,
let's say it's Aussie rules, football or rugby.
Speaker 5 (29:34):
It's rugby.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
And we said, hey, the rugby final, we're going to
play it in LA because we want to grow rugby there.
They would laugh you out of the room and say,
you're not taking this from us, but we're so conditioned
to say you could, you could put football anywhere. We're
going to watch it.
Speaker 5 (29:49):
No, they wouldn't do it because no one would attend
the game.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
They put NFL games in Australia because they know they're
going to sell out regardless of how crappy the game is.
Speaker 5 (29:58):
Who is going to a rugby game in California? Nobody.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Got to grow the game.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
Also, it has to be working because they wouldn't just
keep doing it. If it weren't working, it wouldn't be, well,
let's try Australia this time or let's try these different–
like London was one thing. Now expanding that, so it
has to be working. But I would be curious too. Like,
you know how many people from the U.S. go travel
to follow their team? And that's not why they're doing it, right?
They're not doing it to get fans from the United
(30:26):
States to go travel. They're doing it to make a
dent in the market. So I don't know those exact numbers.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Yeah, but you play that game last night in Melbourne
and you have, you know, 80,000 fans buying Stafford shirt
jerseys that.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
Normally wouldn't buy those jerseys. I mean, that's growing the game.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
If you ran the business, you would try to grow
the game in as many places as possible. You might
not like it if you're from the United States. You
might not care about the games. It might be a
watered-down product. But if you ran that league, if you
were Roger Goodell and the owners... you would try to
grow it in as many places as possible.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
And that's what they're doing. But does it need to
be grown any further? Because when you're saying that, it
makes sense, right? But then I think, okay, well, why
wouldn't baseball do that? And the reason why is because
it's not going to be the same market for the NFL,
which then would tell me that the NFL is already
big enough where they don't have to do this stuff.
Speaker 5 (31:16):
Well, you're right.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
A major league baseball game, you send a series over
to Melbourne, Australia, I don't know how many people come
out and watch, you know, Rays and Indians, right?
Speaker 5 (31:26):
Or Rays and what's their name? Guardians.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Guardians.
Speaker 5 (31:28):
That's a fine, yeah. Yeah, I'm sorry. How much? A dollar?
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Yeah, gotta be PC.
Speaker 5 (31:33):
In fact, I'm certain nobody's probably coming out to watch
those games.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
But that's the power of the NFL, where their bad
games are better than most of Major League Baseball's good
games and good matchups.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
They'll get a bigger number.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
If you sent the Browns to Australia, that stadium would
have been just as packed and just as excited.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
But if they have that power, which I agree, we're
not going to disagree there, then why do they need
to do this? Because their reach is already– those people
are buying jerseys wherever it may be, Melbourne or Europe.
They're buying jerseys. They're consuming the product already. So I
don't know. I'm certainly not in the business aspect of it.
(32:12):
It has to be working, but they're already the biggest
thing ever. How much more can it possibly grow?
Speaker 5 (32:17):
Let me teach you a lesson, all right? This is
a life lesson here.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
When you don't know, it's about money, okay?
Speaker 5 (32:26):
Your answer is money, okay?
Speaker 2 (32:29):
The way the NFL has the capability to flex games
into primetime slots, like in the Sunday night football slot,
I think we should save the international weeks for like
week 15, week 16, and week 17, and then just
decide from there, okay, which teams are the most irrelevant?
Which games are the most irrelevant? Browns Jaguars, we're going
to send you guys to Australia.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Mikey, how far away are we from going to a
radio row in Europe?
Speaker 5 (32:57):
Don't tease. I'm telling you, they're going to play a
Super Bowl overseas. It's Goodell's dream. Can't do it.
Speaker 6 (33:04):
Finger gun Vipolis overseas?
Speaker 5 (33:06):
I own Radio Row, Sal. He's a different guy on
Radio Row, Sal.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
He is.
Speaker 4 (33:10):
He's shy.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Yeah, he is shy in everyday life. But when he
gets to Radio Row, I mean, he.
Speaker 5 (33:16):
Is the life of the party. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
My favorite moment from Radio Row is Joe Flacco walked
by us and I cat called him. I said, Joe,
nobody looks better than you out here. And he was
taken aback.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
Wasn't it Carissa Thompson who complimented you, saying nobody looks
better than you out here?
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Yeah, Carissa Thompson asked if I had a stylist. She said,
do you dress yourself?
Speaker 5 (33:36):
I see. I remember that.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
You were a different guy.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
It was a great jacket.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Should I have an issue with him talking to all
these athletes and never asking any of them to come
on the show? Right.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
What happened at Tahoe? We talked about Rodgers, but did
you get Rodgers on?
Speaker 5 (33:48):
Why not? What's going on? No, he just says, Aaron,
my guy. That's what he says when he walks by.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
So Rodgers wasn't there at Tahoe this year.
Speaker 5 (33:55):
Oh, okay.
Speaker 4 (33:55):
Clemens, go Yankees. I heard you talking about that yesterday.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
If Vince Carter walks by, it's go Heels. He never
has Vince Carter come on the show.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Clemens has totally ruined his image to me. Not the steroids,
just the way he treated me in Tahoe.
Speaker 4 (34:08):
All right, we got one more segment left.
Speaker 5 (34:10):
Is that it?
Speaker 4 (34:10):
This is too much fun.
Speaker 5 (34:12):
Yes. Wait, I just want to be clear on what
he said here. You are okay with the steroids, not
okay with.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
How he treated you in a restaurant for breakfast in Tahoe.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
That's where I draw the line.
Speaker 5 (34:25):
But steroids, fine, because it helped your team.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Sal, yes, we wrap up every single week by updating
the polls here. At Stugatz790 on X, we're going to
do that.
Speaker 5 (34:33):
Coming up next.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
Be sure to catch live editions of Stugatz and Company
live weekdays at 3 p.m. Eastern, 12 p.m. Pacific.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Our thanks to Sal Licata for sitting in with us
for the entire show.
Speaker 5 (34:46):
We appreciate it, man. You've been great.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (34:49):
We expected nothing less, buddy. Nothing less.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
We wrap up the week every week by updating the
polls here at Stugatz790 at X. Sal, I think you'll
enjoy this. Taylor, let's get to the polls here. What
do you have for us? Again, that's still got 790
on X.
Speaker 9 (35:05):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
Maybe the most topical show in America is Dabo Sweeney,
the Shearson Lehman of college football.
Speaker 5 (35:12):
That was a point made by Mark Hockman.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Early in this week, and Taylor had no idea what
he was talking about when he said Shearson Lehman.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
I don't either.
Speaker 5 (35:23):
What is that?
Speaker 2 (35:24):
It was like a lending company that just didn't adjust
to the times, and he was comparing Dabo Sweeney and
college football.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Everyone else was advancing on to the tech age. They
were still writing things on, you know, pen and paper,
and they got left behind.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
That's it. 82.8% of the audience said yes, Dabo Sweeney
is the Shearson Lehman of college football.
Speaker 6 (35:44):
I figured 82% of the audience would say who's Shearson.
Speaker 5 (35:46):
Lehman, but okay.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Is Lane Kiffin at his best when everything is a mess?
Speaker 3 (35:53):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (35:54):
It's always a mess. It's the way he likes it.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
That's why he's so good.
Speaker 5 (35:59):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
95.3% of the audience said yes. Yes, he makes the mess,
and then he's great inside the mess. This is a
big one here. If Boston College didn't play college football
this season, would anybody notice.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Sal, how many games would Boston College not have to
play before you notice they're no longer playing college football?
Speaker 4 (36:21):
Yeah, I wouldn't notice. Although I did look up the
slate this weekend, they're playing Rutgers.
Speaker 5 (36:26):
Another team, yes. If they didn't play a game, you
wouldn't notice.
Speaker 4 (36:29):
93.9% of the audience said no.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
I would not notice.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Taylor, that game should be for the right to continue
to play more games.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Wow, like an eliminator.
Speaker 5 (36:43):
Then people will watch.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
Enough with DJ Lagway?
Speaker 5 (36:48):
Yep. That's terrible. Yes.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
92.5% of the audience said yes. Enough with Baylor's quarterback,
DJ Lagway.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
So Sal is from the Northeast. We have talked about
this today. College football is not that big of a
deal up there because they have 90 sports teams to
root for professionally. and there's no major college. So he's
looking at us like, who's DJ Lagway? He was the
top recruit a few years ago out of high school,
went to Florida, was a bus there, transferred to Baylor,
and now he's a bus there.
Speaker 4 (37:15):
I'm embarrassed to say I legitimately thought he was talking about, like,
a music DJ. And I was like, oh, I don't
know who this guy is.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
Some DJ Lagway.
Speaker 5 (37:25):
Let's create that character. DJ Lagway on the ones and twos.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
It's what he might actually have to do once he's
graduated college in nine years.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
Big one with the NFL starting. Did you say goodbye
to your family when the NFL kicked off?
Speaker 5 (37:49):
Mikey A does every year.
Speaker 6 (37:51):
Big one for me.
Speaker 5 (37:52):
Like he's going on a trip, Sal. See you later.
Bags are packed. You have to.
Speaker 4 (37:56):
I tried to forewarn. Hey, this is the last Sunday
without football. I'll see you later after this weekend.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
His wife tells him safe travels, even though she knows
that he's a Jet fan.
Speaker 5 (38:04):
It's never going to be safe.
Speaker 6 (38:05):
Just go to my chair.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
71.2% of the audience said, yep, we said goodbye to
our families.
Speaker 5 (38:13):
Only 70%? Yeah. Listen, the other 30%, they have a
good marriage. They don't have to say goodbye. They're watching
the games with their wife, with their families. They don't care.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
Big one for me here. Are people getting there too
early for bobblehead night giveaways?
Speaker 5 (38:28):
Yep. Scalpers.
Speaker 11 (38:31):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
I hate these scalpers.
Speaker 5 (38:32):
What was the time? How many giveaways? Tell Sal the
story real quick.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
George Costanza bobblehead night, 18,000. You're the Yankees.
Speaker 5 (38:39):
Yeah. Give out some more bobbleheads.
Speaker 4 (38:41):
They don't give out enough. 18,000. There's 30,000 people, 50,000
people going to these games. They give out 12,000 bobbleheads.
People go nuts for those things.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (38:50):
We'll get there early.
Speaker 3 (38:51):
85.6%.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
85.6% of the audience said, yes, people are getting there
way too early.
Speaker 4 (38:55):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
Glenn Powell, overrated?
Speaker 5 (39:03):
Wow, this is a big one for Taylor. Was it
yesterday you said this?
Speaker 2 (39:07):
Yeah, his new show, Chad Powers. I said I won't
watch it because he stinks as an actor.
Speaker 5 (39:12):
He was in Top Gun Maverick. Yes, I had him
as Goose's son yesterday.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
That was after Sal got disconnected and everything went to hell.
Speaker 5 (39:21):
I've never heard of.
Speaker 4 (39:22):
This guy until today.
Speaker 5 (39:24):
Yeah, that's shocking.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
Well he's you're not missing much as hip with.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
Him as an actor yeah what were the results here
55.8 of the audience.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
Said yes, overrated.
Speaker 5 (39:35):
Wow, nice win.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
Massive one for me.
Speaker 7 (39:38):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
Would you be surprised if Jason Garrett was an alien
wearing a human suit?
Speaker 1 (39:44):
So Taylor feels like Jason Garrett goes back to the
hotel when he's done with his NBC responsibilities and unzips
his skin.
Speaker 5 (39:52):
I can see that. From the top of his neck. Exactly.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
Exactly like Men in Black. 86.1% of the audience said no,
they would not be surprised. A couple more here from
the Thursday night football game yesterday. Does Sean McVay think
he's better than you?
Speaker 5 (40:10):
Yep, he does. No doubt.
Speaker 2 (40:11):
So smug, Sean McVay.
Speaker 3 (40:13):
So sneak.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
Very close. 96.5% of the audience said yes.
Speaker 5 (40:19):
All right. We have time for one more, Taylor. One more,
I think. One more.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
Should Aaron Donald demand a trade to the 49ers?
Speaker 5 (40:29):
That was mine.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
83.1% of the audience said yes.
Speaker 5 (40:33):
Those are the polls.
Speaker 8 (40:34):
All right, Sal.
Speaker 5 (40:35):
We appreciate it. Everyone, have a good weekend. Enjoy the football.
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