Pregame Show -Endless Coach Talk, The Danger Zone

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Mark Madden Show.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
In case you ain't figured that out yet, you can
follow me on Twitter at Mark Madden. Next, how about
for that National Championship game Monday night between Indiana and Miami,
they slipped a porn star on TV and somehow slipped
it right past me. I was watching at that time.

(00:22):
I saw her. I didn't recognize her. You know, it's
sad to admit I'm not only aged out of strip clubs,
I've aged out of porn.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
Let's bring on Tommy Radio.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
Tom I am going to force you to talk about
porn later, but right now. Are you surprised that Mike
McDaniel took that offensive coordinator's job with the Chargers.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
I am a little surprised because I thought he had
some serious buzz to be a head coach and that's
definitely a step down as far as pay and status.
But maybe you're right. Maybe he just has a really
good sense of self awareness of where he wants to
be and needs to be, quite frankly, to succeed.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
And I bet to get him to take the OC
job while head coaching jobs are still open. That he's
not getting head coaching money, but certainly top drawer offensive
coordinator money and maybe close to head coaching money.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
That's how they did it with McDaniels in New England.
That's how he did it with him with at the
end of Belichick, and I'm pretty sure that's the deal
right now.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
Maybe just the name McDaniel, Mike McDaniel, Jos mccagod at
the offense. If Wahoo McDaniel the wrestler were still alive,
he'd probably get a bump in pay.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
Chargers fan should be ecstatic though. It's a huge hire.
He's the best offensive coordinator of football right now.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
All right, I think he might be the best offensive
mine in football. Him and Stefanski, by the way, to
see Baker Mayfield went after Stefanski.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
Yes, it was great. I can't wait to see them play.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
See I don't get that though, because Mayfield accused Stefanski
of basically running him out of Cleveland without you know,
texting him or talking to him. But it was always
my understanding that ownership made that decision, that ownership wanted
Deshaun Watson and not Stefanski.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
But Baker don't see it that way.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
And Baker saying can't wait to see it two times
a year coach THEMB and now in the same division.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
I think both can be true, right, Like, don't you
think Stefanski could have in those ownership meetings been saying
I would rather go with Baker at least another year
instead of this direction. Also he didn't.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
I don't think that has them would have listened to him.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
No, he wouldn't have, and he didn't. And then I'm
also saying he's a gold in Buffalo. He don't listen
to nobody. He threw one of his receivers under the
bus against press conference they were talking about who was
a key coleman.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
He's still on the roster.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
He's still on a roster, and he's saying, well, no,
the coach won the draft him nobody else.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
Really did the coaching staff.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Meddling owner there in Buffalo big time? Well, same as Cleveland.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
Yeah, absolutely, the hasms are a big time problem, the
biggest problem facing that organization right now. Maybe that's why
McDaniel bolted too, because he was getting a lot of
steam in that direction to be clear that Cleveland really
was zeroing in on him, and he withdrew his name
before he went into an in person.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
I don't want to deal with the meddling owner on
top of Shador and potentially meddling father because Dion stayed
relatively uninvolved. But some surprise, they've not interviewed him to
be the coach, but boy, they might have to. Things
have certainly faded in Colorado with Deon Haven.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
They Honestly, I wonder what would happen if it was
like one year prior, right when Dion won those ten
games with Colorado and was flirting with maybe going to
the college football playoff and it looked like he got
the turner round Shad or senior year. I bet you
he would have at least had an interview if that
was the year we're coming off of.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
You know, it's easy for us to say that a
great coordinator should know he's a coordinator and stay a coordinator.
But it's ego and it's money and duh. I mean,
this is all captain obvious stuff. But I'm still surprised
McDaniel did it. Then again, I think he this is
guessing from Afar Tom. I bet in terms of real
life smarts, IQ like, like I know, IQ being a

(03:41):
super genius with the tested IQ of one sixty six,
I think he has more real life smarts than most
football coaches.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
You know, I think you gotta at least try, right
if you're a really great offensive coordinator, defensive cordnat if
you truly want to be a head coach, just see
what that path leads to. You gotta at least try
it once, but then have the self awareness to go
back to OC if you know it's not gonna work out.
How much of a failure was he as a head
coach though, I mean he got to the playoffs a
couple of times with the Dolphins, and TUA turned to
crap this year.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
Tom he got canned because he's a weirdo. And I
think the owner might have got tired of turning one
get up and hearing Rex Ryan call him a weirdo.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
No doubt, Stephen Ross and I'm.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
The foot fetish guy with billboard sized teeth calling somebody
a weirdo.

Speaker 3 (04:23):
Stephen Ross another medaling owner in Miami, So yeah, no question.
I think that had to do with it. But he
honestly showed this year that team didn't quit on him.
I bet what happened is because remember it happened late
in the cycle, kind of that he got fired.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
I bet he went into the office and was like,
I gotta move on from two. I'm not doing tu
and Ross shot him down there.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
I never got the feed thing. How about you?

Speaker 3 (04:41):
What the foot fetish thing? Yeah, I'm not a foot guy.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
What about shoes?

Speaker 2 (04:44):
What about like high heels or red red strap on pumps.

Speaker 3 (04:47):
I do like the sound that high heels make, you
know what I mean, on like a floor when you
hear it coming, like the click click.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
Don't too much like baseball?

Speaker 3 (04:54):
Okay, nice? I like that too, though, those ASMR sounding things.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
Do you have a baseball spikes fetish on a concrete
for us? I'm talking about later.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
That's later.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
Andy Widell interviewed for the GM's job in Atlanta, and
Cabali said it feels more like a next year thing. Well, no, Mark,
they need a GM now in Atlanta, so I would
think they're serious when they talk to him, And I
feel like wide it would be a really big loss
if if he did go to Atlanta. It feels like
he's and boy, this is odd to say, like he's

(05:25):
the token football guy in the Steelers organization, because aren't
you know, ain't a football guy. Not really, He's a
Rooney and Omar's a bean kind and not a football guy.
I think losing Widel would be bad, and I think
really he should be the GM. And by all accounts
he's in charge of almost all the personnel.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
But well not well Tomlin made that, you know.

Speaker 3 (05:46):
What I mean, Like he did the reports together and
all that.

Speaker 2 (05:49):
He was the top of the personnel period except when
Tomlin would ultimately usurp.

Speaker 3 (05:53):
He plants all the work that his department does on
Tomlin's desk and then Tomlin, like like the President of
the United States, Black Trump, stamp of approval on it,
you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, no question about that.
But with the any Widal thing, Mark doesn't he doesn't
strike you a little bit odd that, like everybody agrees,
it's consensus. He's super bright, he's up and coming, like
he's gonna be a great GM one day. So we're

(06:14):
not gonna make him the GM. Here we all say
that we all agree with how great Andy Widel is
going to be. And I'm with him. I think he
is great.

Speaker 2 (06:21):
Why is it just like, oh, but that's gonna be
somewhere else because the Steelers already half their guy. I
think just about everything about the Steelers organization right now
is a little off kilter. Uh North Hill's boys basketball
sixty two, Butler forty eight.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
Last night. I'm two and zero on the year. Well
done Indians.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
Nathan Schanbacher twenty two points and he was here, there
and frickin' everywhere. Some big news for tomorrow, We're gonna
have Lou no Friday. Lou Graham, original lead singer for Foreigner.
He's in time for like some truck thing. We'll plug
that better than I just did. But he's going to
join us Friday at two thirty. For me, it will

(07:02):
feel like the first time. And we got Zeiss on
today the course you on today, Tyler Kennedy on today
one O five ninety X.

Speaker 1 (07:17):
Tom Penguin was at Calgary tonight.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
Hear all the action on the X and Stuart Skinner,
who played in the win Monday at Seattle. He skipped
the skate and looks like he's going to start a
second consecutive game tonight when they visit Calgary. I'd be
all for that, but it's kind of weird that it
takes Skinner out of playing at Edmonton, you know where
he got the Oilers to the last two Stanley Cup finals.

Speaker 1 (07:40):
Are you avoiding that?

Speaker 2 (07:42):
Are you?

Speaker 1 (07:42):
Are you?

Speaker 2 (07:43):
Are you giving up a chance for him to go
in there with you know, that emotional lift to play
against them. I'm not sure what this says other than
that maybe they figure they got a better chance to
be Calgary than Edmonton, which they do, and they're going
with the better goalie by way of maybe trying to
kind of make Skinner the number one or maybe play

(08:03):
just a few more games than Shilloffs.

Speaker 3 (08:05):
You take the fact that Skinner used to play for
Edmonton out of the equation, like say they were going
up against a team like Edmonton with a McDavid in
a dry title, but Skinner didn't have that connection. I
still think strategically it makes sense to play him Skinner
tonight against Calgary, try to get that win.

Speaker 1 (08:19):
And get get like the better bet points.

Speaker 3 (08:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
Absolutely, and maybe Shilloffs, you know, pulls one out of
his recked him tomorrow night.

Speaker 3 (08:27):
Shooting away from the moment though for Skinner, Like, what
do you think that reception would be like for him?

Speaker 2 (08:31):
Even if they booed, it would sound like they're stewing.
So yeah, I wonder if Skinner had input or if
he talked about it. But but but in terms of
just getting points, which is all I'm worried about, right,
I think this is the good move. Uh, getting back
to the Steeler coaching thing, Tom is we are morally
obligated to do if not contractually. Does it feel like

(08:54):
it's gonna be McCarthy? To me, it does because he
might bring Rogers back. The Steelers want to run it
back regardless, because Art's so desperate to win a playoff game,
and it's an organization that will not move forward.

Speaker 1 (09:10):
So a sixty two year old coach makes sense.

Speaker 3 (09:12):
Yeah, I agree with all of that. And here's two
more reasons i'll throw on top of that.

Speaker 1 (09:15):
One.

Speaker 3 (09:16):
You know McCarthy's gonna interview well today, right like it's
just a given because he's been there, done that. He's
walked in those rooms, he's gotten those interviews.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
He talked to Pittsburgh guy Pittsburgh, He got Jerry Jones's
ear to give him the Dallas Cowboys job, and he
did a decent job there actually, So you know he's
gonna interview well. As far as that part of the
equation is concerned, that really worries me because we know
how important it is right for Art Rooney for the
interview process. Even said that in his press conference, like

(09:43):
the interview is such a big deal. And then the
other thing that makes me worried about this mark is
that Art Rooney's gonna get impatient and they're not going
to go into the weekend. They're gonna, you know, worry
about some other teams starting to snatch.

Speaker 1 (09:52):
So might name McCarthy before they even talked to Shoe.
No worried about it. I'm not worried because I think
McCarthy would.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
Be he'd wait around for the Steelers a good higher. Well, no,
he's got no other irons in the firearms. I know
he talked to Tennessee, but they're going with solid right.

Speaker 3 (10:08):
He went with Sala Yeah, and you don't hear him
talking to like Baltimore or anybody else. So it feels
like you may be safe with McCarthy still waiting on
your shelf to get I got to get the Shoe line.

Speaker 2 (10:17):
I want to complete the interview process with any candidate
I considered to be serious, but to agree with what
you said, it wouldn't shock me if they did rush in,
And again, I would not be outraged that they hired
McCarthy he's a good coach, but it's symptomatic of what
the franchise is. Tom, we should make a different pick
every day, you and me. Today, I'm gonna say McCarthy's

(10:40):
the next Steeler coach.

Speaker 3 (10:41):
Are you going to pick today? I'll go with Anthony Weaver,
even though I said I wasn't a big fan of
him before. I'll change there and say Weaver today.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
It wouldn't surprise me for reasons we've talked about. I
want to get a little baseball gab in here. I
love the Kyle Tucker contract.

Speaker 1 (10:56):
What was it? Uh?

Speaker 2 (10:58):
Four years one hundred and sixty million, forty million year,
sixty million a year, sixty for Kyle Tucker. Yeah, yeah,
four years. What I say, I don't know. My math's
terrible there. It's it's four years, sixty million.

Speaker 3 (11:10):
Sixty million a year. When it broke down to for
Kyle Tucker.

Speaker 2 (11:13):
Well, yeah, you're right, and so tawny seventy year Tucker
Tucker a year. That's why everybody was so outraged. Forget
the total value, it's four years, two.

Speaker 1 (11:19):
Hundred and forty million.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
In the fallout from that, it might unite the owners
to go for cap might, uh, But an owner like Nutting.

Speaker 1 (11:28):
That's the ironic part.

Speaker 2 (11:29):
I keep coming back to the small market guys, the
cheap skates, like Nutting. They don't want a cap because
with the cap comes a floor.

Speaker 3 (11:36):
But then the richer owners, like the top one percent
other than the Dodgers probably do might want or might
want to start person for a calf right.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
No, the rich owners want a cap except the Dodgers.
The Dodgers because Kyle Tucker contract is has united the
top half of baseball ownership against the Dodgers.

Speaker 3 (11:53):
I think you're probably right about that. Like the Mets,
the Yankees of the world, the Astros, the Phillies, like
those teams are like, Okay, this is just to even
way too ridiculous for us.

Speaker 2 (12:01):
They feel hard done by, which is hilarious. I know,
so that you're right. They're kind of uniting right now.

Speaker 3 (12:05):
And the Dodgers, honestly, do you think they could kind
of see this coming anyway and they were just like,
screw it, chips in the middle of the table. Let's
run up a three peet this year. Go get Kyle
Tucker because we know it's gonna change after.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
He's say baseball predictable and boring, uh, them winning, And
I know that the most expensive team doesn't always win,
but they're always around at the end, and it's certainly
the way I would bet.

Speaker 1 (12:28):
Now.

Speaker 2 (12:28):
The Pirates got Oherne and they got Law, but they've
not done anything since, which leads me to believe they
feel like the NL Central has already wrapped up with
the roster they have. Last year, Pirate payroll was about
eighty five mil. The projected payroll right now for this
year is ninety two mil. And that's not going to
fix anything.

Speaker 1 (12:45):
No, it's not.

Speaker 3 (12:46):
There's still one bat short. And by one bat short,
I don't mean one bat short of winning the Central
nailed on and competing for.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
The one short of being five hundred d wild card
ish sticking in.

Speaker 3 (12:56):
Yeah, well, it's like eighty six eighty seven wins pretty
much gets you that last wildcard. Now, they would be
right there for sure if they could get Assuarez, if
they could just bring one more bad in. He's perfect
for them. He fits right where they need third base.
He just doesn't want to come here. I think that's
probably a problem here. I have to imagine they've offered
him right. There's some at least conversation happening now. How
do you pronounce his first name again? You Henny?

Speaker 1 (13:17):
Oh yeah, don't. I don't like it that name.

Speaker 3 (13:20):
I don't want to hear you you want to go
with it would be the third baseman, then it would
be that bum. I can't even remember his name right now.
He's the shortstop, that Treol. Long time he had Jared Triolo.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
You're right, bringing who Anio or whatever however you pronounce
it up. I think baseball could miss the season in
twenty twenty seven. I think the CBA negotiations fallwing next
year will be crazy and intense. How will America react
the fans? It'll be like class war, rich fans against
poor fans. But maybe not because I feel like pirate

(13:52):
fans are so used to bad baseball, and they embrace
bad baseball. They just want baseball, even if it's bad.
It's their commune. It's the thing that they do.

Speaker 3 (14:01):
That that is going to be tricky because even though
a lot of fan bases will benefit from a salary
cap being instituted, in having to lock out a season
in twenty twenty seven, like that's that's your summer, right
For a lot of these fans and a lot of
these franchises, and and for the ones that are more
serious than the Pirates, even more so. But you're right,
like even in Pittsburgh, like that's your plans in June
and July, Like that's what you do on a Saturday night,

(14:23):
And that's that's gone for an entire summer.

Speaker 1 (14:25):
You know what I you know what I will do instead?
Something else? And I don't go. I didn't go to
a game last year, did I at all?

Speaker 2 (14:32):
For the first time in forever, I wrote a cutch
column for The trib the Dollar General Club legend.

Speaker 1 (14:39):
Would you bring him back?

Speaker 3 (14:41):
McCutcheon, I'd offer him like a year, like one million dollars.
That would be my offer to him, just to come
back and basically be a mascot DH every once a.

Speaker 1 (14:49):
Yeain, I what did the may make this? For five million?
I'd go one year? Two and a half.

Speaker 3 (14:54):
Okay, two and a half million. Sure, I'll meet you there.

Speaker 2 (14:56):
Yeah, because like you know, you can't deny his ops
was third on the team.

Speaker 1 (15:01):
Is obp was third on the team. Sure, his home
runs were third on the team.

Speaker 2 (15:05):
But it's a team with no power and uh he
land the team and walks. You see, I did I
just think it is so low rent for him to
go on Twitter and beg for a job, which is
essentially what he's doing. He said, I can play outfield.
I don't know what anybody else thinks, but I can
do it no matter what you say.

Speaker 3 (15:21):
Yeah, he can't play outfield anymore. They already have like
four and a half outfielders already on the roster too.
They've got bench pieces already that can play in the outfield.
So he's he's screwed there. Put two and a half
million for one year to be a dh every once
in a while, and I wouldn't have to feel the
pressure to always DHG. If someone else's bat's hot and
I want to get him in the lineup, i'd be okay.
If the five kids McCutcheon, Yeah, do you think he
needs the money?

Speaker 1 (15:41):
If they all what comedy?

Speaker 2 (15:43):
You said, Well, all these kids want air Jordan's so yeah,
I guess cuts gotta keep working up Next, I'm gonna
make Tom talk about porn.

Speaker 1 (15:50):
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Speaker 3 (15:51):
Listen to the X everywhere you go.

Speaker 1 (15:55):
Everywhere, Tell your sport device Alexa play one oh five
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Speaker 2 (16:09):
An update from Calgary. Carlson skated, but he's not going
to play tonight. La Tang might play. He's been out
a little bit, but he might be good to go.
That'd be great, especially with Carlson out and Latang playing
really well in the games Carlson missed and it is

(16:31):
indeed for sure going to be Stewart Skinner and goal
still making a second straight start. Some Olympic Hockey news
seth Jones, who never should have been on the team
in the first place, is hurt and will not represent
the US at Miland. And instead of correcting the original
wrong and naming Layne Hudson from the Canadians, they named

(16:54):
this Lacombe guy. Who's just a big dummy. But that's
what the US has chosen, Sully and Garan. They picked
a team of big dummies. Uh Wayne Hudson. He's got speed,
he's got skill, he moves to puck. Who the heck
wants that in international competition when you can have big dummies?

Speaker 1 (17:12):
Boy? All the updates? So oh, another one? This just in.

Speaker 2 (17:17):
Yankees signed Cody Bellinger to a five year deal. I
bet the Pirates just missed on him. So this is
almost like a real sports talk show with all this
actual sports news. But I'm gonna get it back off
track right now, because I did not know that some
porn girl got on TV during the National Championship game
on Monday night, Big Miami fan, they lost a Bella

(17:40):
Danger and she's hot, hot ass? Frig how'd that slip
past me? And some people were mad that ESPN put
her on TV. They didn't know she was a porn girl.
I didn't even realize I saw her on TV. I said, Okay,
she's hot. I didn't know it was a Bella Danger.
I didn't know it was a porn girl. And if
I didn't know it was a poorn girl on site,

(18:03):
mister and missus Middle America sure did not. And if
the husband did, he pretended he didn't. Like I said,
a Bella Dangers a Miami fan and they went down,
so to speak.

Speaker 1 (18:13):
And she's won a bunch.

Speaker 2 (18:16):
Of awards for best ass and having been inspired by
this breaking news her being on national TV on ESPN,
I did some research and not only does she have
a good ass, but she really knows how to use it.
She's won several industry awards for best DP and that
does not refer to double plays my friends, she's not

(18:38):
playing baseball. So that's our semi regular segment of thinly
veiled dirty talk.

Speaker 1 (18:46):
Oh wait, wait, wait, wait wait, there's more.

Speaker 2 (18:50):
I don't know what this means, but she also won
Best Sex Scene with small Hands.

Speaker 1 (18:57):
I'm not kidding, Picket, move it on over.

Speaker 2 (19:03):
Mickey Mantle always said he liked a woman with small
hands because it made you know what looked bigger. And
I'll go to embarrass Tommy Radio by talking porn. Tom
are you familiar with a bellat danger? If she were
a football player, should be a wide receiver or more
likely a tight end.

Speaker 3 (19:21):
So, honest to god, I was not familiar with a
bella danger like personally her her actual work before what happened.

Speaker 2 (19:28):
Onlined didn't yet but let me tell you, Oh, you're
not fooling me.

Speaker 3 (19:32):
Here's the thing though. This propped up in the Texas
A and M game in the first round for Miami.
She was shown on TV then, But that's the first round.

Speaker 2 (19:40):
I get it, you're working it. You could have a
pregnant pause after. Sorry, I'm learning.

Speaker 3 (19:45):
I'm like.

Speaker 2 (19:46):
It popped up in the Texas A and M exactly
so when you said ESPN didn't know what they were
showing on TV.

Speaker 1 (19:53):
Oh you think they knew?

Speaker 2 (19:54):
That producer knew who he was putting on TV, and
he wanted to make it a very uncomfortable living room across.
He is hot, very hot, like most porn girls these days. Well, Persuda,
who's a big porn guy on DV this morning when
I appeared, he said, there's no porn stars anymore. There's
just girls who do porn because it's so easily available

(20:14):
and for free that nobody makes a big living from it.
I'm not even sure they do in the strip club
circuit anymore, Like like Jenna Jamison and and Breonna Banks
used to back when. But but she's really hot now.
You and your wife started dating when you were nine?
I think has that limited your exposure to pornography? Do
you feel like you can't watch? No?

Speaker 3 (20:34):
Of course not. That hasn't limited my exposure. I'm still
a man, for God's sakes. Any any man she watched
with you? No, that has never happened. Why any man
she watched porn by herself? I don't know the answer
to that. How can you not know you've been together
since you never told me? She says, No, So I
don't know.

Speaker 2 (20:48):
Now.

Speaker 3 (20:48):
Any man who says that he doesn't dabble in there,
can't watch is clearly lying.

Speaker 1 (20:52):
To you, right.

Speaker 2 (20:53):
Any man who says he just dabbles as clearly clearly
lying to you. I don't admit it could become an addiction.
Remember Ben said he was addicted to porn, Ben.

Speaker 3 (20:59):
Rob, did you say that?

Speaker 1 (21:01):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (21:01):
Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 2 (21:02):
And Jesus saved him. Yep, that's right exactly. Jesus ain't
saved me. And if Jesus had saved Ben, it wasn't
when he lived three doors down. I can tell you that.

Speaker 3 (21:08):
Have you ever seen that movie about porn addiction with
Joseph Gordon Levitt? It's called Don John.

Speaker 1 (21:14):
No, but I feel I should.

Speaker 3 (21:15):
You should watch it. Scarlett Johansson's in it too.

Speaker 2 (21:17):
It's awesome light that he his his one appearance on
that seventies show.

Speaker 1 (21:20):
He was the gay class.

Speaker 3 (21:21):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (21:22):
He was in love with Eric, right, he had the
crush on Air He hit on Eric. Yeah, he had
a crush on him. Correct.

Speaker 3 (21:27):
Pursuer's right about that though, And honestly, Mark, I grew
up in an era that i'mn't even.

Speaker 1 (21:31):
Sure who the last real porn star was it might
have been Jenna Jamison because she had she had a
long rain.

Speaker 3 (21:38):
The era that I grew up into is like the
porn boom, you know what I mean, as far as
the when the smartphone came out, when the iPod touch,
I mean that just completely changed the game.

Speaker 2 (21:46):
Like Alexis Ford, you know who took flying lessons after
she married a rich guy. And when her I told
this story, her flight instructor had a heart attack and
it was like her third flight, and she landed the
plane on a freeway in California's third flight. Yes, And
then when she got out, the guy was alive. He
talked her through it, but he couldn't he couldn't fly
the plane. He's like, you gotta do this, like yeah, yeah, yeah.

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And like when I saw her on like CNN they
interviewed her, I'm going, oh my god.

Speaker 1 (22:11):
And and and she was wearing what.

Speaker 2 (22:13):
They call her on CNN and Access No Danielle. I
forget her last name, but but Danielle. And I texted
her after I said, hey, wait to go, she said,
what choice did I have? But she was wearing a
T shirt with no bra cut off, you know, slightly
below below. I mean there was under boob on CNN
and she was wearing jean shorts cut off to her labia,

(22:36):
in other words, her typical uniform. Okay, So the point
is she was very popular within context, but she wasn't
a star.

Speaker 1 (22:44):
She came along in the air. She banged DJ who
kid a lot too.

Speaker 2 (22:48):
That got her some exposure on Howard Stern, But but
she wasn't a star. Like like, you weren't moving units,
no pun intended then you were. You were just you know,
making video and it gets on on internet.

Speaker 3 (23:00):
You know that that's Sully, that pilot.

Speaker 2 (23:02):
It's not true either. She was on DVD. I may
have anyway, go ahead.

Speaker 3 (23:05):
The pilot that landed in the Hudson Sully, you know,
great pilot, Like he gets all the fame for that.
Why doesn't she get any pub Why isn't there a
movie with Tom Hanks made after her?

Speaker 1 (23:13):
I don't think Tom Hanks could play her, but he.

Speaker 3 (23:16):
Could be in the movie Mark, He could be the
pilot having the heart attack time.

Speaker 2 (23:19):
If you if you, yeah, like like he was Colonel
Tom Parker and the Elvis perfect yes, yeah, but but yeah,
I don't think that movie's gonna be made. Now, what's
your favorite type of porn, Tom, I like hardcore German
bondage porn with like water cannons.

Speaker 3 (23:31):
Hardcore German bondage porn is very tough to be Yes,
you know so you've seen it?

Speaker 2 (23:36):
Yes, of course, I see you have not you're trying
to come off as pervy as me.

Speaker 3 (23:39):
But the water cannons is an interesting touch.

Speaker 1 (23:42):
Yeah, that might be just phraseology.

Speaker 2 (23:44):
Now do you feel like a bella danger should have
had a graphic on the ESPN broadcast, like like like
seven time, maybe an award winner or.

Speaker 3 (23:54):
Whatever, like when they show Ben Stiller court site at
the next game or something like that.

Speaker 1 (23:57):
Best DP.

Speaker 3 (23:59):
Absolutely there needed to be an identifier there to really
drive home. They had comfortability, I gotta tell you, Tom,
I mean I'm kind of thinking it's too much pressure
to have sex with the poorn girl.

Speaker 2 (24:09):
It's like it's like taking batting practice with Ted Williams.
I mean, you could be really you know, rocking the lumber,
but you can't possibly be good enough. And I'm speaking
from from uh a very dark place in my mind
and size, I mean, the comparison, but because of that
ever good enough? Yeah, But don't you think that makes

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the pressure a little bit off, Like don't you think, like, oh,
I can never be number one, so I should just
go have a good time.

Speaker 1 (24:35):
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Speaker 2 (24:50):
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running down the wing.

Speaker 1 (25:15):
Tom, what do we got for the trifect? I hope
it's three goals by Sala.

Speaker 3 (25:18):
No, unfortunately it's not. But I do have a Penguins
triffect today. You don't know that that's true, but Penguins triffector,
I think is still right up your alley. I'm gonna
go with three kind of depth players, you know, non
stars that have really stepped up big so far this
year and helped them be in a playoff position. Number
three on the defense, I'm gonna go with Ryan Shay.
I think he's really been just a very malleable ball
of clay Mark really, whatever they ask for him, whoever

(25:40):
he needs to play with, she's been really good this season.
Number two, I'm gonna go with Brawsers. Justin Brazo. He's
got fourteen goals. It's already a career high for him.
That's third most on the team, tied with Anthony Mantha.
They need goal scorers bad, so Brawsers is helping out
somewhat there. But number one, it's gotta be Blake Lazatte.
The fourth line's been so good, and he is I
think the engine in that fourth line. Not to take

(26:02):
away from a Chary, I think has been good too,
but I just think Lizade is what really makes them go.

Speaker 2 (26:06):
You had rank Brazo higher because the goals. Yeah, yeah,
Mantha ain't scored in I think ten games. That a Shay.
You're right, he's like a Swiss army knife. He played
good with Latang for a while, but Tanger doesn't like
playing with strictly defensive defenseman.

Speaker 1 (26:21):
He likes guys who can move the buck.

Speaker 2 (26:23):
That's why Tanger and Kulak have kind of sparked a
partnership there, and Lazotte I think he's played really well.
I don't like the concept of a hero line as
your fourth line because I always harken back the identity line,
those bunch of jerkofs that that were together with the
Islanders a bunch of years like Clutterbuck, Matt Martin and

(26:45):
h and uh I forget.

Speaker 3 (26:48):
The other guy.

Speaker 2 (26:49):
Oh Sayzekis, Casey Sayzekas, who's the only guy still there?
People talk about what a great line that was, but
it never got him anywhere. When you have to rely
on the fourth line in depth, well they beat the
Penguins that one play series when when Jari fed it up.
But yeah, if you have to rely that much on
the fourth line, I'm not sure where it gets you.
But that said Lazatte and that line have been a revelation.

(27:11):
But yeah, Shay, you know, whether it's on La Tang's flank,
whether it's playing the right side like he is right now.
Can He had a great praying with Saint Ivany for
a few weeks. So yeah, I think I think actually
he might might be long number one on that list
just because of his versatility.

Speaker 1 (27:29):
And that's the trifect.

Speaker 2 (27:30):
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Speaker 1 (27:35):
That's Danny's en Route eighty eight and Bethel Park.

Speaker 2 (27:39):
Tom, did you see they announced the class of the
Baseball Hall of Fame, the Baseball Writers guys that they elected.
It's Carlos Beltron and Andrew Jones. Now, these are two
real good baseball players, yes, but they're also very non
descript with no truly memorable moments, at least none to
come to for me immediately. They're just two guys who

(28:03):
stacked up numbers. They're two very clinical picks. And I
gotta tell you, if those two can make it so Cancutch,
it's the same ballpark.

Speaker 3 (28:10):
Yeah, I completely agree. You know, Andrew Jones obviously had
a fifty one home run year. He was almost an MVP.
Never wasn't envy at almost a ton of gold gloves.
But like, he's not a Hall of Famer in my mind,
and I don't know if Carlos Beltron is either. I
saw the voting breakdown mark and as I'm looking down
the ballot, you get to like around seven or eight,
it's Alex Rodriguez and then Manny Ramirez, and I'm like,

(28:31):
those two are way better in my mind.

Speaker 1 (28:34):
Well, yeah, two guy got the steroid thing.

Speaker 3 (28:36):
They got the steroid thing tied up with them. But
I still think.

Speaker 2 (28:40):
They ruined the Hall of Fame with the steroid thing.
They ruined the friggin' Hall of Fame. And if a
rod gets in, then why not Barry. It's too like
with the baseball Riders. But they just they just deffed up.
And furthermore, if these two guys can get it, and
it's suldn't have taken Dave Parker toll he died to
get in and Dale Murphy speaking up raves outfielders, Dyal

(29:01):
Murphy was better than Andrew Jones. Deal Murphy won two
MVPs and if you want to stay local, Al Oliver
Scoop was a better baseball player than either of them.

Speaker 3 (29:10):
Yeah, they've completely ruined this to the point where you know,
at one point I used to make it appointment television
to a degree to see, Okay, who are they gonna
announce who's in this class? I didn't even know what
happened yesterday. I was just you know, hanging out scroll
on Twitter and I found out who's made the Hall
of Fame, Like there is just no juice for it.
It has been completely shot.

Speaker 2 (29:26):
And the guys you just mentioned too, like Al Oliver,
great player, but I don't think he maybe should be
in the Hall of Fame, Like they've just stretched it
out too far now where it's just so many people
can get in. Cutch is gonna get in now. I
think Al Oliver's twice the player Cutch. I mean Al
Oliver had three zero two career. If he came out
in this era, he probably would have gotten like he
would wake up and hit a double. He was a great,

(29:48):
great baseball player. And then again that I was talking
about that today with Randy Baum, and that is the
bias of my era. You know, Al Oliver when I
was a kid, what a great player he was for
that seventy one power team. That was my first truly
great sports memory.

Speaker 1 (30:04):
Tom.

Speaker 2 (30:04):
I'm going to talk about this in depth a little later,
But how about the Savannah Bananas released some stats. I'm
not talking about batting average and ops. They played one
hundred and thirteen games, They sold two point two million tickets,
They sold one point nine million individual items of merchandise,
and they added added twelve point six million more followers

(30:26):
on social media. Is all that good or bad? I
really don't know. I mean, it's good for them. I
mean they're killing it as far as they're a.

Speaker 1 (30:36):
New way to market baseball.

Speaker 2 (30:39):
But I just don't like that people so readily embraced
sports being made into a joke, and they're not that funny.
Like when you see highlights of them on ESPN or whatever,
they're very funny. But then I didn't go to panc Park,
and I would have. I had a ticket. I would
liked to have seen it. But when you watch a
whole game, like they did a whole game for the

(31:00):
bananas at Fenway Park, it wasn't that funny. There's a
lot of dead spots, a lot of routines that fall flat. Yeah,
but when you put the highlights on TV, it looks hilarious.

Speaker 3 (31:09):
That's why I can't imagine that it's gonna have, you know,
longevity as a league making that money, right, Like, don't
you think it's a bit of a novelty act that's
gonna wear off?

Speaker 2 (31:17):
I don't know that the Globe trotters are still around,
that's true.

Speaker 3 (31:19):
They're not making that kind of money anymore. But you're right,
they're still there an institution as far as America is concerned.

Speaker 2 (31:24):
It's over one hundred years of the globe trotters still
draw real good crops. Now, let me ask you this.
The only thing I can see what the Bananas is
after like literally ten fifteen more years. Maybe they have
to start playing smaller venues. But then again, there's so
many venues. They you know what they'll do, they'll do
how about this for a comparison, Tom.

Speaker 1 (31:42):
They'll do what Kiss did?

Speaker 2 (31:44):
Whatever Kiss felt like, you know, the crowds weren't quite
what they were, the enthusiasm like in the big cities
they would tour and go to like Youngstown, Alpasso. They'd
go to the smaller towns. Right, the Bananas could do
that too.

Speaker 3 (31:58):
Yeah, that's a brilliant idea, honestly. And let me ask
you this.

Speaker 2 (32:03):
So they're adding teams to this thing, like you don't
always go and you you always see the Bananas play,
Like now there are more teams in this I guess
league Banana ball league that no, no, I don't think
it's a league, but they're putting more league. They're putting
more teams on the road. But I always thought that,
like they were sending their their like you know, Washington
General's teams, the teams that get beat by the Bananas,

(32:24):
even though it's not worked, but you know, the Bananas
usually win. They were sending some of those teams, Like
there's a team called, I think the Tulsa Tailgators or something. Yeah, Texas,
there's another team. There's six total teams. Well they would
send they send these teams on the road. But I
always thought that was because eventually they'll have a second
Bananas team so they can have two games a night,
you know, in different cities.

Speaker 3 (32:43):
I don't I think they're trying to get a league going.
I honestly do. I think they're seeing the six right now.

Speaker 2 (32:47):
If they get to eight or ten, then all of
a sudden you could have a season and a playoffs
of Banna.

Speaker 1 (32:51):
But but can you have a league of a joke sport? Yeah,
competitively that lends itself to comedy.

Speaker 2 (32:56):
I mean, I don't take the result of the Savannah
Banana and seriously, just like well the Globe's always won
because it wasn't work. I mean, at the end that
play legit basketball and then the Globe's would always win.

Speaker 3 (33:08):
It kind of fits for America, right though, in the
way that we're kind of heading down the citdiocracy path
that maybe our number one sport is going to be
a joke.

Speaker 2 (33:14):
If you're trying to say that America sucks, Tom, I
totally totally agree. Now, speaking of jokes, you know what
I can't believe is it's got traction is a nice
way to put it. Everybody's making a big deal about
Danny Smith, the Steelers special teams coach, taking the special
team's job at Tampa, throwing around words like legend, why

(33:35):
is him leaving? Why is what he did here? Why
is that a big deal? Because he ran around like
a nut and chewed a lot of gum. I mean,
were his special teams any good? I don't remember, which
means they weren't except Boswell, who didn't exactly need coach,
did he?

Speaker 3 (33:50):
No, he didn't. I will say, you remember last year
they were on just that insane heater when they were
just like blocking all the punts and blocking field goals,
and it was just it was almost an anomaly because
it was just too much that it was happening. You
couldn't even use it as like an example of great coaching.
It was just getting hot and getting lucky. It's because
of the cartoon character nature of Danny Smith and the
chewing of gum that he gets that legendary status. Otherwise

(34:12):
just a he's just a special teams coach. And isn't
it a little weird that he has like a Southern
drawl accent. He's from like Upper Saint Clair.

Speaker 2 (34:20):
No, it's not because you know clowns adapt I don't
what would you ever work in the stye? He did?

Speaker 3 (34:26):
He worked in the South for a while.

Speaker 1 (34:27):
Oh yeah, no, I there's some guy. I forget who
it is.

Speaker 2 (34:29):
There's an American football coach, like in a college who
coached in NFL Europe for a while or is it
in the system with the NFL. I saw it on ESPN.
He worked in Europe and he he has this English
accent even though he's not from England.

Speaker 3 (34:45):
Yeah, he's Danny Smith was in the South basically from
the late seventies all the way up into the mid nineties.

Speaker 2 (34:50):
So yeah, I could see why he slipped into that.
You say some things that are a little English, right,
pick up right?

Speaker 1 (34:56):
I say, Okay, that's the.

Speaker 2 (34:57):
Easy to do deliver puddly in abbreviation for las, and
I've just heard it so much I started saying that
that's really the only thing I think.

Speaker 3 (35:04):
Don't you think too? Like Pierre Sometimes he's been around
Canadian so much covering hockey that he kind of slips
into a Canadian thing a little bit.

Speaker 2 (35:11):
I like the way Pierre make sure he pronounces Lemieux properly,
and that is the proper way, right, all right?

Speaker 1 (35:18):
What else do we got?

Speaker 2 (35:19):
Oh one more thing, Tom before we we we uh
start the Liverpool game.

Speaker 1 (35:23):
And I don't pay attention to the show at all.
Did I say that out loud? Darn it?

Speaker 3 (35:28):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (35:29):
Oh my god, a Bella dangers at the game. No,
she's not, I hope. You know what the they oh
this is, this is tremendous. This is I gotta give
credit where it's due.

Speaker 1 (35:39):
You know what. I think It's called a tifo.

Speaker 2 (35:41):
They they have these large signs or banners they hold
up in the end zone and a football match like
have to pass it along right Well no, no, no, no,
hold up, I'm saying it now. Yeah yeah, yeah, well
they just they just put one up for Liverpool Marseille.
It is that Marseille, and it showed the beat reading
a newspaper says, Marseille beats Liverpool.

Speaker 1 (36:04):
That's pretty funny.

Speaker 3 (36:05):
It's a real picture of the Beatles.

Speaker 2 (36:07):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (36:07):
Yeah, I didn't know what little photoshop headline on there.

Speaker 1 (36:10):
Yeah, now we just got to kill them.

Speaker 2 (36:12):
Uh But anyway, did you read where Tom was supposedly
told Hayward he's glad he didn't break Chuck Noles record
for regular season wins.

Speaker 1 (36:21):
Do you believe that? I don't believe he said that.

Speaker 3 (36:23):
I just don't an you mean that he's just like
stuck there as a tie, like he thinks that that's
cool to walk around.

Speaker 2 (36:27):
Actually for Tom, when it has more residents if he's
tied with Nol, because then it's always mentioned with Nol.

Speaker 3 (36:33):
That's a great point. Mike Tom Win and Chuck Nole
always mentioned in the same breath. We always just have
to point to the playoff wins though, and that's where
the Emperor's got him completely beat super Bowl rings. I
mean it's it's not even close.

Speaker 2 (36:43):
Yeah, well, four hundred winning percentage in the playoffs. I mean, like,
like I keep saying, comparing Mike Tom Win a Chuck Noles,
like comparing diet coke to dom pering on.

Speaker 1 (36:54):
It's just just absurd.

Speaker 2 (36:57):
For some reason, I wish I had a I wish
I could booze during the game and during this show today.
I think that would make for a better show. It
feels like a game you want to drink during. It
is a big game. Well, we're four and two. It's
if we win today because we play a lesser team
at home for the final league stage match. If we
win today, we'll probably get a buy in the first round,
and I think for us to have a chance to
make a run, we need to get a buy in

(37:19):
the first round. Even a draw today would be good.
You know, Tom, what's your favorite drink, favorite alcoholic beverage,
favorite alcoholic and not including beer. Beer.

Speaker 3 (37:27):
Beer is definitely my favorite, like a good ip. But
if we're going liquor drinks, I love an orange crush
in the summertime.

Speaker 1 (37:32):
Well that's a good call.

Speaker 2 (37:33):
I do blueberry whiskey from that Greensburg Distilling and lemonade.
It's the best cocktail ever. It's sweet, but it's not
too sweet. I don't know how, and I use sugar
free lemonade. But like the two flavors knocked the sweetness
out of each other. Tom, I like it so much,
I would gladly lick it off of Bella Danger one
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