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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Good Calls with Dean Blandina, a production of
I Heart Radio Welcome to Mother Episode Calls and Blandina.
The crew is all here social distancing again. We had
that one. We had that one in person episode and
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it was me. It is the greatest two hours of
our lives. Highlight. It was the highlight of my post February.
It was really just in Travis's garage, hanging out, talking
about all the cool stuff I have in there, just
going Scott, you weren't there, you missed out, But we're
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back to We're back to zoom. Scott, what's the latest?
Give us what's the latest on covid gets. Let's start
California and then and then let's go countrywide. What what
what's the latest? I mean, I've kind of just given
up at this period, and uh, well know, you know
this will seg nicely into everything we have to talk about.
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But it was interesting. People were doing maps where it's like,
where are cases still kind of going up and they're
not doing so well? And where are they playing college football?
And it's basically one for one, all right, But why
why does California I mean weird? I feel like the
state has been very active. Why are cases still going up?
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It's I mean, I think it's just like the population size.
But what are you guys hearing? So what are you watching?
What I'm hearing like kids? And then I just heard
like a roar or something. Are you watching wild wild
country over there? There's like some animals sounds. I don't
hear anything. Do you hear still? You don't hear that? No,
(01:58):
You're you're own might be like connected to a speaker
or something, because it sounds like this is our audio guy,
We're hearing what you were looking at on your phone
right now, you know, huh. And we're gonna have to
mark this n So I thought it was I thought
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it was me for exathing, Like, am I going crazy?
What's going on? They've got a notification that they might
they might um suspend right Well that I got that
today too. That's that's not related to COVID. That's uh
Uber and Lift because he's based on the employee. Yes,
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California has legislation that's gonna possibly make contract workers like
that have to be covered more like like as an
actual employee. So Lift and Uber are threatening to leave
California if that goes through I mean right now, but
they they can't leave. Well. Also, it's like the timing
isn't really like there's not a lot of leverage for
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them threatening to leave where it's like, all right, no
one's using them. Anyone was using them now, but we're
all gonna like hopefully in in you know, whatever time,
we're gonna need him again. And because I don't want
to start calling Calves no, yeah, yeah, all right, so NFL.
Um so really not you know, not a ton going on.
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Camp started in terms of right, they've padded practices this week, UM,
knock on wood. The news, you know, testing this protocol
seemed to be going well, and uh so not a
ton going on there. There wasn't some officiating news, um
the league, you know. It was um reported that the
league has done away with the full time officiating program.
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Look this thing. When I was at the NFL, you know,
and I I was head of officiating two thirteen, and
we we had full time officials, like a program in place.
We started to go through an application process, we started
to interview, we were in the process of hiring full
time game officials. Um, it's gone back and forth. The
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league wanted to um, incorporate that in their new cb
A with the with the officials, and they actually hired
um ten full time officials this offseason. They had an
application process, they had an interview process, and there were
ten officials that were gonna be full time and then
basically they just pulled the plug. They cited costs, UM
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and so UH, there will be no full time officials
in the NFL this year. There we'll see, you know,
they're gonna cite costs as this COVID related UM. I
would imagine anytime the league cut costs, it's gonna be
related to UH to COVID UM and UH. And so
that's the deal with that. They did have five officials
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opt out for the season. They had to hire additional officials.
What's gonna be interesting is you're gonna have no preseason.
You're gonna have an official coming directly from college that
has never worked in the NFL game is going to
be out there Week one, working in the NFL game,
NFL rules, and not having that preseason. So it's going
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to be a steep, steep learning curve for these officials
and all of the officials without a preseason. UM. But
everybody's in the same boat. Players, coaches, no one has
the preseason, so five did opt out. It was funny
of one of the five that opted out that the
league UM let go UH several officials in the offseason
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based on performance and the you know, the the the union,
the NFL are A represents the game officials. Day filed
the grievance on two of those officials. UM the union
won that grievance, and so two of those officials were
reinstated for the season. And one of those officials that
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was reinstated it out. So this guy went from being
fired to guarantee a job in because of COVID. That
is using, that is making the best of a bad situation.
That's I feel like that's something Joe would Joe would
would pull off. Joe would be like slick like that.
But that's the deal. Some people maximize their opportunities, maximize.
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I can't be upset with the guy. No, I don't
blame him. I don't blame him at all. But look,
here's the deal. Everybody, full time game officials, it's not
there's there's a misconception there game officials the benefit there. Yeah,
you know, NFL officials work right. Baseball umpires work. They
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worked the games that they're scheduled. NBA referees worked the
games their scheduled, NHL referees worked the games that their scheduled.
It just happens to be more games every week. There's
more games in those other sports. NFL officials worked the
games that their scheduled once a week and during the week,
and that's the way football has always been. So during
the week, what are they gonna do sit around though
they're gonna have other jobs, right and you know, yeah
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they can watch film. Yeah, you know, you're not gonna
have game officials, NFL officials working practice every week. Hey,
this year they can't even work practice. You're not gonna
You're not gonna have additional people of practice under these protocols,
but you can't. We're gonna be working practice and then
working games. UM, that creates that familiarity can create issues.
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They are as full time as they're gonna get and uh,
and I don't know. Labeling them full time, UM, to
me is more of just a pr thing. And and
you're still gonna have officials that, um make mistakes, and
you're still gonna have officiating issues, whether they're they're deemed
full time or not, but they do put in, um
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a lot of time into their craft. They spend full
time hours on officiating all all during the week and
uh and you know, and then on the weekends they're
they're gone and they're at the state, they're at the
city and putting in the work. So it's I don't
know what full time officiating gets us personally, but that's
just how I am. Joe's a part time audio guy,
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and he's one of the best in the business, the best, right,
the best. Um college football, So college football, Scott, you
were saying, right, so the a c C is planning
on playing U n C. Who's in the a c C. Right,
they were gonna have kids on campus, and then there
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was a rash of positive tests. Now we're gonna be online.
But UNC has said we are going to participate. What
what else is going on? M Notary Dame right seeing
bo Yes, yeah, so U n C. Uh, they weren't.
They're being a little coy about actually the total number
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of cases. But U n c s school paper had
a headline that said, uh, you know, this is a cluster,
but we can swear on this, right, it just has
the market explicit unfortunately that like the headline was like
it's a cluster fuck so market explicit. Yeah in the
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student paper like even then, so uh yeah, and now
Notre Dame, Um, you know they actually I think the
president of Notre Dame run in editorial, had an editorial
run in the New York Times like a few weeks
ago saying, hey, we're gonna have kids on class on campus.
But then you know, Notre Dame's moving to I believe
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a uh distance learning for two weeks now because of
undergrad outbreak. So um, you know these are schools that
have football plans too, So um yeah, Notre Dame is
gonna play in the a SEC. Obviously North Carolina is
in the a SEC. Um, this is you know, we're
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coming to crunch time where uh you know, the SEC,
the Big Twelve in the SEC, and the a c
C are gonna have to make some decisions pretty time,
pretty soon. Um. The y SEC is scheduled to start September,
so they pushed back. Um I think the Big Twelve
released part of their schedule. Um don't Travis, you can
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find out when they're scheduled to start. Um bcly I
think is pushed back but hey, the sun Belt is
scheduled September five, baby, yeah, the Belt football? Yeah. Oh.
And one other thing is uh, I believe it was
the Alabama a d tweeted tweeted out the other day.
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It's like a photo of people I believe it was
in Tuscaloosa, of people just kind of waiting in line,
and it's like, hey, these people don't want or the
exact thing is who wants college sports this fall? Question mark?
Obviously not these people, because it was just a big
pack of people. And I will say I think that's
really the big concern. I think because student athletes also
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we're tweeting. I believe it was Auburn student athletes that
were like, hey, we're back on campus and no one's
wearing masks. And for a lot of these guys, I
do think they'll follow the rules. We joke about, Hey,
they're gonna go out and party, but they want to play.
I believe the majority will follow the rules. But what
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can they do if they have to go to a
class where someone has been just partying all weekend and
has it and is spreading it in the classroom, you know,
so it's kind of out of their hands. A lot,
because even though they'll mostly stay together, they'll mostly be
eating together. You can't walk around a college campus a
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campus not everybody's gonna buy by the rules. And I
agree with you, Scott. I think I think these student
athletes they want to play. There's so much you look
at what what's happening with the Big Ten and and
Justin Fields from a house state, and they're putting together.
He put together a petition over which, injuring fifty signatures,
parents want to go to the Big Ten office and
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meet with Commissioner Kevin warrent Um. There's been some some
you know, obviously high profile coaches like Jim Harbaugh and
UH and and others um that that want to play
Scott Frost and UH and then there was some even
some some some confusion as to whether the Big Ten
presidents even voted UM to you know, postpone the season.
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And there was some questions. And I know the president
of Minnesota had come out and I can't remember her
name right now, but she had come out so and
it was an interesting quote because I think she said,
I want to be perfectly clear, I'm unclear as to
whether we actually had a vote, and and UH and
so it just seems to be so much going on.
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And these these kids they want to play football. There's
a lot riding on this. Think about not just the
small percentage that are going to go play in the NFL,
but if if this is your if this is your
last year of eligibility, right to to to not be
able to experience that and go out and play your
last your last season, that's a big, big deal. And um,
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and I agree, those kids are gonna They're gonna bide
by the rules of the majority of them, but not
everybody on a college campus. And obviously from that picture
I saw that picture, I mean, no one's social distancing. Yeah,
the problem too is just that's why you know, as
administrators in these colleges, they are choosing to forego students
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on campuses certain schools because, um, I mean, college students
are not gonna you It's it's impossible to tell. Like
you know, if you have a full campus, it's like
thirty thousand students, No one go out and party like
all stay inside out right Like it's it's impossible. It's
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impossible to you know, you've got in dorm rooms, they're
not no, not you don't have one person per dorm,
you know, like before um sweet mates, the whole deal.
So that that's not I mean, that's not easy to
social distance. And I'm not and I'm not really even
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blaming this this students. It's like, look, you're sending us
off and these are that this is the first time,
uh you know, a fourth of those people will ever
have been away from home. What do you think is
gonna happen? And it's not even necessarily like nefarious, it's
just like they're on their own. They've got a lot
of time on their hands. You can't expect them to
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stay in a room the whole time. That was the
shock for me when you know, going to college, like
the time you have, right, you think you're in high
school and you you you go whatever you see, like
eight am to three o'clock, right, you're in school. And
then if you're doing if you're doing after school activities,
if you're playing sports, right, you're doing you go to
college and it's like, Okay, I got I got this
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class Tuesdays and Thursdays for an hour and a half.
And I got this class. If I'm doing fifteen even
a full force load fifteen credits, how many hours am
I doing a week? Right? Yeah, you could legitimately have
Mondays and Fridays off that four day weekends. You know that.
That's how I scheduled my schedule. Of course, like I's like, hey,
I'm like I'm doing no classes on Friday, no classes
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before eleven am. So you could go out like you said,
and then you're and then you're like, I'm not going
to go to class. Right, It's not like high school
where you know, it's you could just not show up. Obviously,
you you know, you can't drew up five, not show
up five six times in a row. You're not gonna
pass the class. But you could you could take you know,
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take one one class off every couple of weeks and
it's not a big deal. You're on your own. I
would say History major. I barely showed up to any classes.
All you have to do is read the books, and
I didn't even do that. Really well, we went to
we went to college in different eras. Like when I
was in school, you know, the the internet was not
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readily available where you had to go. Do you have
to actually go to the library get the book or
go to the micro feach okay, which which if you
don't know what that is. Google it, because now you
can google it. When I went to school, I was
I was still in school when you know the but
I had there were there was just books. That was
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the option. But I just mean, you know, if you're
a liberal arts major, you can kind of slack off.
I had all those friends who were you know, they
had hard science and I'm like, you're studying a lot. Yeah,
that was a broadcast major. We you had to go
to class. I went to a small school. You had
to go to class, but it was not difficult. Just
being there was was pretty much a grade. Yeah, so's
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not to break up the nerd talk, but n I
know I was gonna say that. I was gonna say
former Dodger as Dean's wearing his Dodger had current twins picture. Yes,
I loved he was a great for No No going
in nine. So they're letting him finish it out to well,
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it's it's the bottom of the eighth, they're they're batting.
But I don't see why we're gonna talk a little
baseball later. Let's before we go to break, Travis, can
we have a moment of silence for the CFL one
of years of the great it's it's a sad day
with their long with their long end zones and they're
they're they're they're wide receiver that starts running before the play. Like,
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I think that's the coolest thing. Yea, I wish the
NFL would allow that. Yeah, why don't they allow the
receivers to be in the running start the scrimage? You
know how hard that is? You know what what what
type of like the CFL. It's a different athlete, right,
the CFL, the receivers, the skill position players, it's a
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completely different athlete. If you allowed NFL receivers a running
start like that, I would you imagine in the in
the shorter field, you know what defenses would do, the
type of collisions and things and a ship show. It
would be an absolute ship Could you imagine Randy Moss
with a running start against Steve's back in the day
and an insane it since the first five yards would
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be an absolute battle because you would try to you
would try to get a jam and it would be
it would be so cool. All right, SEC start date
is the SEC we're what is the Big twelve? Tentatively
scheduled UM stand by you obviously weren't listening, because that's
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the one I actually had the sec I was, I
was looking at the Kennemata. You know it as a
Twins fan, you guys yet when I was watching the game,
but it wasn't a no hitter. Yeah, but it was
the game where they were thrown at the Astros. But
you you also literally turn around like you just leave
this the shot. You're just doing whatever. We don't know
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where you are, all right, Well, when travels will figure out,
let's go to break. When we come back will happened
for us? And I do want to talk a little
NBA when we come back next on good Quil, We're back.
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Gravis finally found in the accus scheduled to start of
the Big twelve, Big twelve September two. I was, I
was still looking at the Kennebeta. All right, kenn of
my ada is pitching a no hitter right now in
the ninth inning. Okay, So non conference games for the
twelve of September, okay, yeah, and then the twenty six
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is when they'll start their conference game, Like non conference games.
How are they gonna play nonconference games? Well? I think
there's they're the SEC the big twelve M A C C.
I think they didn't mention they want to play one
one conference game. All right, Well, moving on, you want
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NBA playoffs? Um, you know, I'm I'm excited, late, Joe.
I think your Lakers might be in trouble. No, they're fine.
I think Dame Dame Lillard is he's on the hypecreen
right now. He looks here losing right now. Blazers aren't
you know, the Blazers are bad? Could could they? Could
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this be the upset? Like Laders have not looked good
in the bubble. I mean, I know they were playing
for anything, they were locked in, but I'd love to
see the Blazers. I mean, the Bucks lost today. The
Bucks did lose today. That there are a fifteen point favorite,
and I think they lost by twelve. That's crazy, That's
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that's wild. That would be an incredible upset by three
and in the third quarter. So I think I think
they're in trouble. Um. But the game that got caught
my attention from an officiating perspective, that got a lot
of people going was the MAVs Clippers game one UM
with basically Christops porzingis former Nick who didn't want to
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play in New York, So I don't calm as a bit.
But he got teed up early. Um, and you know,
he had a clean block and look the officials quall
did he had a clean block. He reacted and got
teed up. Can you hear this? Monica? Actually streets of
sm Probably, I don't know, bro, somebody might have fell
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down a flight of stairs or a Botox emergency alert.
It's every life, every thesa Monica and it feels like
they're all in Santa Monica, everyone and it's it's another
life alert to save. Um. So Porzingis gets t up
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for I didn't. I look, I don't. I'm not an
expert in the NBA. Those guys have a hard job. Um.
I think it's one. I think it if not the
most difficult, it's one of the most difficult sports. Like
the guy's circling my block right now, like he's not
even though he's just stopped at your front door. And
it's a really hard sport to officiate. It's a hard
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game to officiate. But I think that the technical fouls,
I think I thought it was a soft technical. He reacted,
he thought he got a clean block, and then you
come back and there's a little bit of a kind
of a tussle, and he comes over and and he
pushes um Marcus Morris and Um ends up getting a
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second technical and out of the game. That's your second
best player in a in a really close game. And um,
you know they NBA Twitter went off. And it's what's
interesting is how NBA players are allowed to go on
Twitter and critique off initiating in the NFL. You can't
do that in the NFL. If you started like you
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will get fine for that. But NBA like players, they
went off. That's a soft tech. Patrick Mahomes chimed in,
he said, that's trash. Well, Patrick Romes won't get fine
for talking about NBA fishal he did that for NFL official,
he would get he would get fined. Hen afford it, Yeah,
he can afford it, but I have but you know,
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I've never seen a guy that that a better guy,
a better player, that signs a contract that is gonna
give him and his family's lifetime and security. That took
more ship for that contract that he could have got more. Um,
but anyway, and then he went and bought part of
the Royals too. He did Who's gonna win the NBA.
Who's gonna win the championship this year? Clippers, Clippers, that
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got um you know who I have? You know, I don't. Yeah,
I don't really like a lot of these teams. So
to be honest, I'd love it if the Blazers just
went on a run. I think that'd be fun. I
think for me, don't sleep on the defending champs. And
I know they lost Kauai. But Toronto the East actually
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is now weird because uh Ben Simmons is out potentially
for the entirety of the playoffs. Gordon Hayward they just
announced out for at least three four weeks. The Raptors
are good. The East is kind of open if the
Bucks are not locked in, you know, so if the
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Bucks get knocked to help in this first round, that
would be and a. And as much as I hate
the guy, Jimmy Butler, I mean he's he's clutched, the
heat looked good today. So yeah, no the heat, I
mean bam uh theo um. They've got a good squad,
the Gore and Dragic, I mean they've got I think
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they could win that series. You know you know that,
I I said Toronto before this whole thing started, right
did you know? It was on the episode you said
what's the best value and I said Toronto, And now
you're talking on that was the in person episode we
did talk about good value. Yeah. Either way, the no
hitter just got broken. Yeah, yeah, Eric, so keep talking
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about it soft liner away. Now, if they just lose,
it'd be fantastic. No, we want the Twins to win,
so they can lose the Yankees. Yeah, that's fine, just
get there. Um yeah, you know, there's another theory that
some people think about these technicals also. It's just that
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without the crowd noise, uh, the players can are heard
a lot easier. So even like uh you know, even
you know, swearing under their breath, it's gonna be loud
and they're gonna the officials are gonna hear it. It's
more Yeah, it's more evident as to what they're doing, um,
without the crabs. But they're they're actually doing a pretty
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good job. I saw, you know, with the virtual fans
when they're shooting free throws and you're on the road.
Technically the fans are like wave in and being distract them,
which which is interesting to trying to make it as
as closed to real real life as possible for you know,
real environment as possible. Um, all right, let's let's can
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we can we can we throw out the baseball on
written rule book? Can we just throw it out? Can
we can we be done with it? There's a few things,
and since there was a no hitter going on, there's one.
You shouldn't bunt to break up a no hit. That
that one, I feel like it's an unwritten rule. You can,
but you can every time a guy gets up that
pulls the ball. You can throw nine nine fielders on
one side of the fad. That's so I still think
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that's ridiculous. You can. You can shift and take basics
away that have been base hits forever, and and you
bunt and if I want to beat the shift or
a bunt to beat an later, that's that's unwritten. Or
a bunt bunt to beat the shift. Yeah, I'm okay
with that bunch of bid to break up the no hitter.
That's kind of sea. Yeah, I mean, I'm just I'm
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I'm with Travis, just that specific one. But yeah, they're
on the time. But the reason we got into this
conversation is that the three oh grand slam. They're up
ten three bases loaded, three oh pitch, right, and he hits,
he takes, he swings and he hits. He hits a
grand Slam. And the Rangers then they throw at Machado
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the next at bat, and the Rangers manager made a
big deal and even the Padres manager kind of and
I think he kind of backtracked because he said that
Tattoos missed the take sign and it's a moment for him.
It's a learning moment for him that you can't miss
those signs. Wait, wait, what was the score of the game?
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And three bases loaded in the eighth inning? There up
ten three, they're up ten three, and it's a three
oh pitch and he swung at a three oh pitch
and he eat a grand Slam and the Rangers Scott
butter and but I'm just like he so he's supposed
to literally just intentionally not get a hit. Well, no,
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you're supposed to be taking it three. You're supposed to
take the pitch. No, I understand that. But they were
pissed that he also hit the grand slam. Like they
were pissed because it's like the game's out of reach,
even though it's not well. I think that they're just
pissed and he swung three oh and there. But here's
the thing, is that, why is that an unwritten rule?
Why do I have to take a three oh pitch?
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I don't think, definitely don't believe that that's really I
played baseball many years. I don't really think that that's
an unwritten rule. I think you're allowed to swing, then
you get then the pitture has basically can groove one
and I can't swing. I think what they're saying is
that at three oh, when you're up seven, the games
pretty much how to reach it. You shouldn't be giving
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the batter of the green lights. But yeah, the manager said,
the padres said that they gave him the take sign.
But to me, it's all bullshit. Ten three in the
eighth inning. So I did a little research. Okay, uh,
what do you think? What do you think is the
is the the some of the best comebacks? What do
you think is the best ninth inning comeback in in
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Major League history? Twelve runs ninth in? Okay, I mean
it's gotta be big because I've seen I've watched a
lot of baseball, and it's like teams you can really
get going a rally. Uh yeah, I'll go. I'll go, well,
you know what, I'll go one higher, I'll go thirteen runs. Yeah,
so thirteen runs is a bit much. But there's been
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four times. I wasn't gonna say the stame answer as
everyone else. Four times. There's been four four times in
Major League Baseball history that a team has overcome an
eight run for deficit in the ninth tents. Okay, so
eight runs are more in the ninth inning? Right? In
ninety two, the Cubs were down eight two with two
outs and nobody on in the ninth inning and they
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won nine nothing. You know what their winning percentage was
down eight to with two outs and nobody on. It
was point zero zero one and they won the game.
At he We're down eleven three going into the ninth
inning and beat the Dodgers twelve eleven. The yeah, you
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know what's what's the record for the number of RBIs
number of runs batted in and one inning by one player.
You know with that record, seven, isn't it? It's eight?
Uh So they were up they were up ten three,
which is seven runs, and the record for one batter
in one inning is eight runs. You know who that
you know that record is held by Reggie Jackson, Kevin Mitchell. Nope,
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I have no get how about how about the guy
that's sired, Fernando Tattis Jr. How about Fernando Tatis did
two Grand slams against the Dodgers, Right, yeah, it's so
it comes down to, though, it's like, why are we playing?
Why do people like sports? Because there's all you think
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you've seen it all, and then once in a million,
something crazy happens, like a crazy comeback, which is why
you never let your feet off the gas, foot off
the gas. And the other thing is I get it
if this is a high school game or it's or
it's a you know, it's a team that's so clearly
outclassing the other team. These are professional baseball players, exactly. Yeah,
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not even high school literally maybe literally right, professional baseball players.
You know what the you know what, the most runs
in the modern day era, the most runs in one inning? Score?
What are you think? One of fifteen? No more than that,
It's more than that, right, DRIs take a guess? Nine
(32:00):
a nineteen seventeen runs in one any so, I don't care.
Ten three is not insurmountable can I can I ask
a question. I don't know, what are the tiebreakers for
this season? Who were on a shortened season, You're gonna
have less games? Like is run differential a tiebreaker to
get into the postseason? Just say if they had that,
(32:24):
then yeah, let's let's uh, let's more compliment. But but anyways,
like getting back to the core of this argument, which
is unwritten rules, Baseball is by far the worst of
the sports because every sport has quote unquote unwritten rules,
every living life has those, but baseball they're the most bizarre,
(32:48):
and I think it in this era especially, they stick
out the most because most of the unwritten rules tend
to be silly and like, uh, you know, against I
guess for lack of better term fun, you know, where
it's like it's about some weird sign of respect. And
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the other weird unwritten rule is if you like is
let me throw the ball at a guy because they
did it to us, Like it's these weird accelerating things
where it's not good for the game really, And then
this this just brings a weird spotlight to baseball, where
what are the unwritten rules, Like, what what are the
(33:30):
ones that the unret they mentioned right, the bunt to
break up the no hitter. Um, the you know, the
back flips that watching watching your home run not running
it out, Um that you know that gets pictures upset. Um,
those types of things. I think the big lead, yes exactly,
don't like don't Basically it's like, don't rub it in
(33:53):
their face that they're losing. But you know what that
cells man. There's a reason Connor mcgrevery all want gets
watched by everybody because and the and I agree with you, Joe,
because the other thing is in sports, you need a
hero and you need a villain, and it's not fun
if you like why are like the bad boys like
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the Detroit Pistons, It's like the University of Miami college
football team. They you need people to quote unquote like
rub it in people's faces because it it makes a
more compelling story. If everyone was and I apologize to
Mike Trout, I know he's a big fan of this podcast,
but if you're if every player was Mike Trout, it
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would be I mean, but it already kind of is.
Baseball is to me pretty boring. There's a lack of personalities.
Mike Trout is will go down as one of the
greatest players in the history of the game, but already
in his young career, Fernando Tattoos Jr. Is way more
interesting than the Mike Trout, I mean just and in
that and not nothing against Mike Trout, and we're telling
(35:00):
you don't be anything that you aren't. But to Joe's
point about Connor McGregor, right, Connor McGregor is as big
as he is. Yes, he's had to back it up
um in the ring, but he's not the best fighter
to ever grace the UFC octagon. You know he's not,
but he has easily surpassed. He's the most marketable and
(35:21):
he's the most lucrative fighter to ever be in the
UFC because he combined that talent with that bravado and
that image and Mike Trout that's just not who Mike
Trout is. And yeah, there's nothing wrong with that, but
it's just it is just a thing where um, it's
a it's just a little bit like it goes against
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how sports are these days, which is like bigger, larger
than life entertainment and a Grand Slam is really fun
and it's cool to hit a home run, so it's
very confusing. I think for people where they're like, wait,
why are people angry? Especially really, as I think Joe
has already said, ilse, it's like, you're a pro athlete.
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If you don't want to lose, just be better or
else keep It's like, why why are you complaining? Because baseball?
Baseball has been you think of look at baseball, you know,
the average fan, and that it's it's you know, it's
been the perception. I don't personally buy into that, but
that it's a dying sport. It's no longer the past,
time and everything else. This this sport is gonna be
(36:26):
carried by people like Fernando Tattoos Jr. And people that
young people can get behind and watch and find interesting
and and cheer for. So you don't want to tamper that.
You don't want to temper that. You want to you know,
you want to encourage it. And that's why, you know,
and I think a lot of people, and a lot
of people came to his defense. Um, even Johnny Bench,
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who's you know, Hall of Famer, one of the greatest
catchers and players of all time, who came and said that,
you know, tweeted that, and I love that Johnny bench
Is on Twitter tweeting, um that you know, what are
you supposed to do? You take three one pitch? You
take the three? Oh pitch now is three and one.
The picture makes a great pitch on on three and one.
Now you're three too, and then you hit into a
double play. You know what? What do you what? Why
(37:09):
is that? Okay? I don't think there's anything wrong with
that at all. You know, it's interesting. I actually played
baseball high school baseball with the Rangers with the manager
of the Rangers, Chris Woodward. He was our short stop. Yeah,
he's the one that's caused all this issue? Is he
the one that's all fired up? That's all but hurt.
So our high school baseball coach was really big on
(37:29):
that kind of stuff, and him and our high school
baseball coach were like almost like father and son. When
he got when he got when he got um, when
he got the job. He wrote this big old thing
about how our high school baseball coach, you know, help
help him get there, and he that he was like
always on the field with him and hanging out with him,
you know, on the weekends and everything. Because this is
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information you could have added so much earlier in the conversation.
Sometimes I don't know serious pertinent in from Asian, like, oh,
I guess what. I didn't want to name drop Rangers.
I used to play with them and like, well, like what, well,
I I don't like to name drop like you. I mean,
(38:13):
oh my god, I name dropped when Travis Travis talk
to him. Well, because I've hung out at sevest salone house.
By the way, the Twins game has got tied us
fantastic one. The one unwritten rule that I was involved
in at the NFL, which I thought was kind of
(38:35):
bullshit was when UM Tampa, when Greg Shianna was at
Tampa and on the kneel down when they tried to UM.
It was happening against the Giants first and they were
taking a knee at the end of the game, and
he had the defensive lineman play full board, like go
full in try to try to get the ball, and
it started a fight, and I thought that was kind
(38:55):
of that. That was kind of bush lee Um. But
other than that, I don't have problem with any Why
don't they just make a rule, a real a written rule.
It says, hey, if you're gonna if you're gonna kneel
like there should be like a sign, talk about it,
talked about it, but ultimately they didn't want to They
didn't want to like legislate that play. Um. They just
(39:15):
they just said, listen, it is what it is. You
gotta be ready to play. Well, I think, why don't
they just like how they do the intentional walk now
instead of actually throwing the pitch and say, hey, we're
I think what I think where people had a problem
with and I know, you know Tom Coughlin had an
issue with, which which I tend to agree and I
love Greg Shiano and I think he's a great guy,
but that hadn't been done in the NFL ever. And
(39:37):
now he comes in as a college coach, no one
is expecting it, and they do it. And it was
just kind of the reaction like it's gonna cause a fight,
like it's going to it's gonna be an issue. And
they did it. They did it more than once the
first time. They rent it once and then they rented
on the second one. It's like you're asking for it
there and the likelihood that you're gonna they likelier that
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you're gonna get the ball because you can't interfere with
the snap. If you interfere with the snap, that's a foul.
So the likelihood that you're gonna get get the football
is so miniscule. Um that I thought was was it
was uncalled for in that situation. Then when everybody knew
it was, it was an issue, like they were gonna
teams were ready. Like I remember talking to Jeff Fisher
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and he's like, you know, if they try that, we're
gonna go into a kneel down and and we're gonna
we're gonna run like an option pass out of it,
and we're gonna we're gonna pitch to the to the
back and we're gonna throw and my end is gonna
go deep and we're gonna score a touchdown in a
game that's already out of reach, you know. So it's
just gonna led to that type of stuff. The one,
one last thing, the one underwritten rule about don't admired
(40:42):
her home run. That one gets me so angry because
it's just like just like that, like especially it's just
like you you let him hit a home run, it's
your fault, as the picture. So like it's it's very
weird that pictures get to be angry yeah, I agree
with you, and not to mention. If you're a great player,
(41:04):
you get fifty a year, why not admire it. I mean,
have you ever seen Dean after he blows his hair out?
He just stars? Yeah, and we understand when he goes
off the air after a great hit. I get way
more than fifty of those a year. That's the whole point.
If the strange sixty five days in a year, there's
I get three d and fifty really good hair days. Wow,
(41:28):
all right, let's go to break. We come back. Joe's
got some big news. All right, we're back on good glass,
(41:50):
and don't Joe has some news for us. Joe is
Joe is a very positive guy. He is oh boys
positive and he's the guy that like, he's the hype guy.
He's always gonna make you feel good. He's very liberal
with his compliments. I'm not good with compliments. Um, and
(42:11):
now I don't know if you can hear I got
a skateboarder outside. But anyway, Um, but Joe got some
news and he is negative. Joe, would you like to
would you like to? Would you like to share? Yesterday?
Yesterday was my birthday, and thank you and for my birthday,
Happy to Jackie Robinson. Jackie Robinson, Okay, And for my birthday,
(42:36):
I decided to get a COVID test and I got
the results this morning, and I'm I'm COVID free. Boys, congratulations,
so you might have. I definitely don't feel great. I
definitely don't feel great. I don't know why we've got
to be different. Everybody else is getting COVID. He's got
to get him model. I don't know. I just I
have a sore throat and a little bit of achy muscles.
(43:00):
Swollen lymph nodes. Swollen lymph nodes. That's not good. It
does sound like motto. Well, thank god that you're a
history major and not a doctor. I can tell you
the history of motto. Please please. All right, So I
think I told you guys. I've upped my Ben and
Jerry's half baked intake to two points per week, and
(43:22):
I feel like I can. I've been eating pretty healthy,
my portion control has been really good, so I can
have the two points. And I'm I'm actually really struggling
with this. How do I spread it out like I wanna?
I want to spread it out and not have too
big a gap between the pints. Because it's something I
legitimately look forward to when I wake up and I
know it's half Faith night, it's like legit changes my day.
(43:45):
So I was thinking, um, you know, initially I was
thinking Friday Monday. Okay, that was my first start. Friday Monday.
It gives me one. It gives me one weekend night
like Friday. Let's kick off the weekend to get crazy
and then a short window and then I get Monday
to kick off my week and then you know, I
(44:06):
kind of then I have the four day wait to Friday.
And then I was like, well, maybe maybe Saturday Tuesday
works better. I think a Sunday Wednesday is ideal. And
I'll tell you why I love. I love eating ice
cream Sunday night, like to cap off my week, like
almost like that glass of wine that some people have,
(44:27):
like I'm done with the week. Give me the Fridays.
You're done with the weekend, you know, with the week
as well. But I'm with I actually like Joe's because
Friday Monday is too close. I initially thought that, but
it's like you the between Friday and Monday, like Friday,
You're like, oh, it's not too long after I eat
(44:48):
that pint. I don't have to wait a long time.
And just to clarify too, this is your scheduling the
day that you can just eat the whole pint, right
that there's no yes, yes, and Scott, that's come on,
I really don't need any other dessert like that. That's it,
Like you know, like after dinner, I don't eat. That's it,
(45:12):
So eat the whole pint. So Sunday Wednesday, so that
would mean I have to wait. I have a pint.
That means I have to wait till tomorrow. Yes, So
you go tomorrow and then you do and you can
and if you really are if Saturday night is really lonely,
you can do a Saturday night instead of Sunday. So
you can do Wednesday Sunday or Wednesday Saturday in the
event that Saturday is just not really you need a
(45:32):
little flex schedule and I need it, yeah, like so yeah,
I like that because it's like if you if you're
really you just you you need it, you can flex
it on the weekday too. So it's it's just like
it's a like Sunday night football exactly. Like so it's
like you have one for sure during the Monday through
(45:53):
Friday week and you have one on that weekend or
I guess, say Monday through Thursday, and then you know
you have one Friday through Sunday. You want to try
to stick to a given date. But like Joe said,
you know you had a rough Saturday. There's something the
Dodgers lost. You can just go in it and think
about this during football season, it will be like Sunday night,
(46:13):
you had a long day in the Cube. You get
to look forward and we might be recording Sunday nights again.
You have to look forward to that point. Once we're
done with a good Calls episode. Yeah, why don't we
get along the cube? Why don't we get ice cream
for the Cube too? Like I think that's an addition
for this this year. No, dude, I I can't. No, No,
(46:36):
We'll just buy some points and put them in the
freezer and we'll eat him at some point during the day.
I like the flex though, I'd like the Wednesday and
then Saturday or Sunday because you would be like, oh, okay, Saturday,
I got this movie. I want to watch her Sunday.
You remember, you want to watch a movie you can
just like look forward to and you can get you know,
the hump day, and you kind of get and nothing
(46:56):
good happens on Wednesday, except now something good it does
up on Wednesday. I like that. I kind of like that.
I feel my day my Wednesday. I don't mind. My
Tuesday has always been my kind of like any day,
you know. So I just thought you should know that. No, no,
no lakers, I think. And there's one other thing about
(47:20):
the ice cream, I deein. I really want you to
expand your horizons flavor wise. It doesn't always have to
be half baked. Look, I've tried other flavors. It's not
the same. It's just not And I'm not gonna waste
a point on, you know whatever, whatever else it is. Well,
so do you are you? Are you against any other
ice premium brand ice creams? And no, I'm not against it. Um,
(47:46):
I just I am partially Ben and Jerry's I used
to be a big um like Look growing up, it
was it was like briers in a half gallon m
or friendlies and you go to friendlies and you guys
don't know friends least, but friendlies and you get like
a half gallon of ice cream or a big tub
of ice cream. Um and Then Ben and Jerry's came
(48:07):
around and it was like, oh, cookie dough, that's amazing.
Then they had chucolate fudge browne. I was like, oh,
that's amazing. You know, it would be even more amazing
if they combine those two into one pint and lo
and behold, there comes half into my life. I do
understand where you're coming from, because I have a talent
to the other night like a chocolate coffee and I mean,
(48:31):
just down. But it just wasn't about those Vermont cabins.
I don't know what about what about? I mean, there's
one in your in your areas. I don't love them,
but salt and straw, I know they do. You never
had there's one in your neighborhood, Scott. We don't do
the trendy stuff like that, dude. We just if it's
not a seven point, it's not that trendy. It's just
(48:53):
it's just another ice cream spot. You can't buy the
seven eleven. We're not you. You can get you can
get it at Whole Foods. And I know Dean is
a big Whole Foods guy. So you haven't gone. I
haven't gone the Whole Foods in a long, long time
I've I'm sorry, I'm going to either Bristol Farms or
(49:14):
now I'm just like, screw it. I'm just going to
ns oh Man. Just a regular old grocery store. Wow,
he's slumming it at Vans and the grocery store is
the closest one go to. The closest one is pretty
close Bristol Farms usually as this is great podcast, I'm
sure everyone across the country's loving what grocery stores we
(49:37):
like in you know, in West l A. You know what,
the pandemic last week's episode really inspired me. This week
I went shopping at a Theory I bought some beautiful stuff.
You you inspired that. You You were telling me how
much you like theory last week on the on the podcast,
and it happened to be at a theory outlet, and uh,
(50:01):
I got a black button up. We talked about that
on the button too. You know what. You know what
else I did there was a shock waves at least
in my life. Um, the dog is as has stopped
his giving up his rap career. Who's Z Dog? Can
you explain who Z dog is? The dog is this
(50:21):
Utah jazz super fan and he is famous and he
he went semi viral for a a dis video. Um
and Utah Jazz, I believe, I believe they were playing
the Rockets in the playoffs and he and he recorded
(50:44):
a disc track against the Rockets and I'm gonna play
it for you now. But here's the dog and uh
and just listen. Yeah, yeah you got here. You know
(51:05):
who it is. Clippers. It's so ugly man DeAndre Jordan's
shouldn't be an all star Clippers also public they smell
like the l A is the worst city ever. Not
(51:27):
it's the King and Tom Jazz. Yeah, Clippers fans part,
that's even. They smell like they smell like chickens. Yeah,
let's go Jazz. Playoffs, playoffs, baby, it's what rights. Clippers
(51:52):
are the worst team in the n b A. I
don't know why they have to have a coach like
Don Rivers. Dr Rivers is a cry baby. His son
Austin River smells that we Clippers. You're so physical, but
(52:15):
you're the worst team and the trashiest team in the
n b A. But my chaff on the best team
in the NBA. They have their number one fan and
they don you know that's me, that's me. Ze Donkey
Nazi caddy Zy Donkey Dass number one fan die Hard. Well,
(52:40):
the Clippers like making love to the referees. They don't
deserve all the calls. I hope like Griffin, Chris Paul
and Jonathon Jordan will leap the Clippers. Clippers are the
worst team in LA, but my chads will sweep up,
(53:00):
end up play yay yes, Ze Dogg Alert Jazz Nason
Jazz Nason Jazz Ion What okay, we didn't probably have
to listen to that whole thing. Huh, absolutely, what are
you talking about? The best? The end was the best,
but he he did get his wish. DeAndre Jordan's has left,
(53:25):
Chris Paul has left Lake Griffin has left. Yeah, they're
all gone. When the first time I saw that, I was,
and it gets better every time. He's he's giving up
his rap career. Wait wait, did he officially retire? That's
the tweet I sent you he gave up his rap career.
(53:47):
That was so good. That was the I don't want
the rundown I kept putting on there because I had
no idea what it was. But we just never talked
about it was weeks ago, Joe, you muted me I
was dying, I know, because since you and Dian are
on the same channel, every time you laughed, it would
cut the audio to the to the Z Dog. Now
(54:07):
that was smart audio engineering if I noticed that also,
So that was you know, that's what I went to
school for all those years. I can't like, it's so amazing.
It's so amazing. Z Dog. Oh my god, z Dog,
I'm gonna miss you. It's it's it's really a tragedy
that he's gone. He's still twoeting, he's definitely still a fan.
(54:33):
Oh he's not. He's done rapping though, and that's unfortunate. Yeah,
but you know how those musicians they always say they're
done and then they come back with a new single.
All right, ready it hurts random Blendino Go Goes Blended
(54:54):
Carlisle versus Heaven is a place on Earth blended Carlisle.
Oh Okay, if you grew up in the eighties, you
know what I'm talking about. Does anybody remember remember when
Belinda Carlisle, when The Go Goes stopped and then there
was a delay, and then Belenda Carlisle showed up and
do It did a solo album. Yeah, you're gonna be
(55:17):
I think you're gonna be on your own on this one.
Did you by the way, Dean, did you just watch
that Go Goes documentary that Showtime did. Yeah, that's what
brought it up. Okay, So, like the Go Goes were amazing.
I love the Go Goes, but they were like kind
of like this, you know, this poppy, fun group of
girls just you know, it's we're gonna have fun and
all this stuff. And then Blenda Carlisle comes out, you know,
(55:40):
there's a solo album and she was like she went
from this like poppy, happy, you know, girl band, too
sexy a f like unbelievable because I didn't want to
say as fun and I should just said as fun.
But um, well just just that entire line. Why no,
(56:01):
I know, but watch the watch the the Heaven is
a place on our video she looks. Everybody was like,
is that be Linda Carlisle from the Go Go Go Goes?
And I was watching that documentary and I just made
me think of that. Um and she's still performing today.
Do you like that song Heaven is a place on Earth?
(56:22):
So it's a great song. I don't think I know
that one. You know, she's beautiful, you know it Joe,
I guarantee you've heard it. I really was trying to
get Dean the thing at Verse for us, but I
think so well that it would be a copyright infringement.
Um you've you've heard it, uh As. I'm sure when
(56:44):
you were a young man you heard it in the
mother the other artists speaking of me my solo and
we're like completely like, whoa what what just happened? Well, Timberlake,
I guess you could say Beyonce, you know, yeah, But
and but I think like Beyonce to me, like I
(57:05):
always like you knew she was gonna be big. I
knew she was gonna be big, and she was always
but like it was like the be Linda Carlisle go goes.
It was like one of those movies where it was like,
you know, one of those team movies where it's kind
of like the nerd and then she's wearing glasses and stuff,
and then all of a sudden she takes up the
glasses and left down her hair and you're like, oh
(57:26):
my god, she's amazing. And that's what it was like
during that time. I just remember everybody being like, whoa,
we Linda Carlisle looks not that she didn't look. She
was just it was a different vibe. It was like
this cute ce pop thing and it was still pop.
But she was like, you're telling me that there was
the talk of Long Island when she went my high school. Man,
(57:47):
no question, dude speak Okay, speaking of music, have you
guys heard this the new card this new Cardi B
song Everyone's now No, of course, I like how this
is like this is a fish really like it's a
couple of weeks now and it's gonna be like, oh,
this is such an old man like, have you heard
this song that's really making some You don't listen to current?
(58:09):
You need to listen to it. Do you remember when
we were young? Like remember the two Live Crew songs
were like the whole like, oh my god, I can't
believe what they're saying. Listen to the listen to the
new the new Cardi B song. I like it. I've
seen it to us. I've seen stuff on Twitter about
it and I've seen like, but I haven't listened to
this song, so I don't know. I heard it the
first time on Saturday, and I was like, wow, a girl,
(58:32):
a girl told me about it. Two Live Crew speaking
to two Live crew. You want a little name dropping, um,
Super Miami. I listen to this crew was speaking of
a two Live crew at the Super Miami. I was
hanging with Michael IRV and Lawrence Staff and Luther Campbell
(58:54):
in Miami. Now I could say something very I could
say something things in Miami. Okay, I got the text.
I guess who I'm hanging out with. There's your Chris
Woodward for you. Okay. That had to a better, really
quiet crew to hang out with her. No, you know,
(59:15):
everyone didn't want to be the first to talk, right, Yeah, exactly.
I was just listening basically per usual, per usual. Hey,
you got two years in one mouth for a reason.
I like that. Wow, Okay, I like that a lot.
I'm gonna use that. Use that, Travis. When you're kissing
(59:36):
a little older, you tell him that, you tell him.
Uncle Dean said, So, you know what Uncle Deane always says,
years in one You know, you know, my mom called
me yesterday and was like saying, her and her and
her husband were watching old football reruns and now that
they met you, they get so excited when you go on,
oh my god, there's that boy. Dean Joey's friend there
(01:00:00):
you go on that note. Now your mom's name dropping me.
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The crew is all here social distancing again. We had
that one. We had that one in person episode and
(00:22):
it was me. It is the greatest two hours of
our lives. Highlight. It was the highlight of my post February.
It was really just in Travis's garage, hanging out, talking
about all the cool stuff I have in there, just
going Scott, you weren't there, you missed out, But we're
(00:44):
back to We're back to zoom. Scott, what's the latest?
Give us what's the latest on covid gets. Let's start
California and then and then let's go countrywide. What what
what's the latest? I mean, I've kind of just given
up at this period, and uh, well know, you know
this will seg nicely into everything we have to talk about.
(01:05):
But it was interesting. People were doing maps where it's like,
where are cases still kind of going up and they're
not doing so well? And where are they playing college football?
And it's basically one for one, all right, But why
why does California I mean weird? I feel like the
state has been very active. Why are cases still going up?
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It's I mean, I think it's just like the population size.
But what are you guys hearing? So what are you watching?
What I'm hearing like kids? And then I just heard
like a roar or something. Are you watching wild wild
country over there? There's like some animals sounds. I don't
hear anything. Do you hear still? You don't hear that? No,
(01:58):
You're you're own might be like connected to a speaker
or something, because it sounds like this is our audio guy,
We're hearing what you were looking at on your phone
right now, you know, huh. And we're gonna have to
mark this n So I thought it was I thought
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it was me for exathing, Like, am I going crazy?
What's going on? They've got a notification that they might
they might um suspend right Well that I got that
today too. That's that's not related to COVID. That's uh
Uber and Lift because he's based on the employee. Yes,
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California has legislation that's gonna possibly make contract workers like
that have to be covered more like like as an
actual employee. So Lift and Uber are threatening to leave
California if that goes through I mean right now, but
they they can't leave. Well. Also, it's like the timing
isn't really like there's not a lot of leverage for
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them threatening to leave where it's like, all right, no
one's using them. Anyone was using them now, but we're
all gonna like hopefully in in you know, whatever time,
we're gonna need him again. And because I don't want
to start calling Calves no, yeah, yeah, all right, so NFL.
Um so really not you know, not a ton going on.
(03:27):
Camp started in terms of right, they've padded practices this week, UM,
knock on wood. The news, you know, testing this protocol
seemed to be going well, and uh so not a
ton going on there. There wasn't some officiating news, um
the league, you know. It was um reported that the
league has done away with the full time officiating program.
(03:50):
Look this thing. When I was at the NFL, you know,
and I I was head of officiating two thirteen, and
we we had full time officials, like a program in place.
We started to go through an application process, we started
to interview, we were in the process of hiring full
time game officials. Um, it's gone back and forth. The
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league wanted to um, incorporate that in their new cb
A with the with the officials, and they actually hired
um ten full time officials this offseason. They had an
application process, they had an interview process, and there were
ten officials that were gonna be full time and then
basically they just pulled the plug. They cited costs, UM
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and so UH, there will be no full time officials
in the NFL this year. There we'll see, you know,
they're gonna cite costs as this COVID related UM. I
would imagine anytime the league cut costs, it's gonna be
related to UH to COVID UM and UH. And so
that's the deal with that. They did have five officials
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opt out for the season. They had to hire additional officials.
What's gonna be interesting is you're gonna have no preseason.
You're gonna have an official coming directly from college that
has never worked in the NFL game is going to
be out there Week one, working in the NFL game,
NFL rules, and not having that preseason. So it's going
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to be a steep, steep learning curve for these officials
and all of the officials without a preseason. UM. But
everybody's in the same boat. Players, coaches, no one has
the preseason, so five did opt out. It was funny
of one of the five that opted out that the
league UM let go UH several officials in the offseason
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based on performance and the you know, the the the union,
the NFL are A represents the game officials. Day filed
the grievance on two of those officials. UM the union
won that grievance, and so two of those officials were
reinstated for the season. And one of those officials that
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was reinstated it out. So this guy went from being
fired to guarantee a job in because of COVID. That
is using, that is making the best of a bad situation.
That's I feel like that's something Joe would Joe would
would pull off. Joe would be like slick like that.
But that's the deal. Some people maximize their opportunities, maximize.
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I can't be upset with the guy. No, I don't
blame him. I don't blame him at all. But look,
here's the deal. Everybody, full time game officials, it's not
there's there's a misconception there game officials the benefit there. Yeah,
you know, NFL officials work right. Baseball umpires work. They
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worked the games that they're scheduled. NBA referees worked the
games their scheduled, NHL referees worked the games that their scheduled.
It just happens to be more games every week. There's
more games in those other sports. NFL officials worked the
games that their scheduled once a week and during the week,
and that's the way football has always been. So during
the week, what are they gonna do sit around though
they're gonna have other jobs, right and you know, yeah
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they can watch film. Yeah, you know, you're not gonna
have game officials, NFL officials working practice every week. Hey,
this year they can't even work practice. You're not gonna
You're not gonna have additional people of practice under these protocols,
but you can't. We're gonna be working practice and then
working games. UM, that creates that familiarity can create issues.
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They are as full time as they're gonna get and uh,
and I don't know. Labeling them full time, UM, to
me is more of just a pr thing. And and
you're still gonna have officials that, um make mistakes, and
you're still gonna have officiating issues, whether they're they're deemed
full time or not, but they do put in, um
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a lot of time into their craft. They spend full
time hours on officiating all all during the week and
uh and you know, and then on the weekends they're
they're gone and they're at the state, they're at the
city and putting in the work. So it's I don't
know what full time officiating gets us personally, but that's
just how I am. Joe's a part time audio guy,
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and he's one of the best in the business, the best, right,
the best. Um college football, So college football, Scott, you
were saying, right, so the a c C is planning
on playing U n C. Who's in the a c C. Right,
they were gonna have kids on campus, and then there
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was a rash of positive tests. Now we're gonna be online.
But UNC has said we are going to participate. What
what else is going on? M Notary Dame right seeing
bo Yes, yeah, so U n C. Uh, they weren't.
They're being a little coy about actually the total number
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of cases. But U n c s school paper had
a headline that said, uh, you know, this is a cluster,
but we can swear on this, right, it just has
the market explicit unfortunately that like the headline was like
it's a cluster fuck so market explicit. Yeah in the
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student paper like even then, so uh yeah, and now
Notre Dame, Um, you know they actually I think the
president of Notre Dame run in editorial, had an editorial
run in the New York Times like a few weeks
ago saying, hey, we're gonna have kids on class on campus.
But then you know, Notre Dame's moving to I believe
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a uh distance learning for two weeks now because of
undergrad outbreak. So um, you know these are schools that
have football plans too, So um yeah, Notre Dame is
gonna play in the a SEC. Obviously North Carolina is
in the a SEC. Um, this is you know, we're
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coming to crunch time where uh you know, the SEC,
the Big Twelve in the SEC, and the a c
C are gonna have to make some decisions pretty time,
pretty soon. Um. The y SEC is scheduled to start September,
so they pushed back. Um I think the Big Twelve
released part of their schedule. Um don't Travis, you can
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find out when they're scheduled to start. Um bcly I
think is pushed back but hey, the sun Belt is
scheduled September five, baby, yeah, the Belt football? Yeah. Oh.
And one other thing is uh, I believe it was
the Alabama a d tweeted tweeted out the other day.
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It's like a photo of people I believe it was
in Tuscaloosa, of people just kind of waiting in line,
and it's like, hey, these people don't want or the
exact thing is who wants college sports this fall? Question mark?
Obviously not these people, because it was just a big
pack of people. And I will say I think that's
really the big concern. I think because student athletes also
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we're tweeting. I believe it was Auburn student athletes that
were like, hey, we're back on campus and no one's
wearing masks. And for a lot of these guys, I
do think they'll follow the rules. We joke about, Hey,
they're gonna go out and party, but they want to play.
I believe the majority will follow the rules. But what
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can they do if they have to go to a
class where someone has been just partying all weekend and
has it and is spreading it in the classroom, you know,
so it's kind of out of their hands. A lot,
because even though they'll mostly stay together, they'll mostly be
eating together. You can't walk around a college campus a
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campus not everybody's gonna buy by the rules. And I
agree with you, Scott. I think I think these student
athletes they want to play. There's so much you look
at what what's happening with the Big Ten and and
Justin Fields from a house state, and they're putting together.
He put together a petition over which, injuring fifty signatures,
parents want to go to the Big Ten office and
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meet with Commissioner Kevin warrent Um. There's been some some
you know, obviously high profile coaches like Jim Harbaugh and
UH and and others um that that want to play
Scott Frost and UH and then there was some even
some some some confusion as to whether the Big Ten
presidents even voted UM to you know, postpone the season.
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And there was some questions. And I know the president
of Minnesota had come out and I can't remember her
name right now, but she had come out so and
it was an interesting quote because I think she said,
I want to be perfectly clear, I'm unclear as to
whether we actually had a vote, and and UH and
so it just seems to be so much going on.
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And these these kids they want to play football. There's
a lot riding on this. Think about not just the
small percentage that are going to go play in the NFL,
but if if this is your if this is your
last year of eligibility, right to to to not be
able to experience that and go out and play your
last your last season, that's a big, big deal. And um,
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and I agree, those kids are gonna They're gonna bide
by the rules of the majority of them, but not
everybody on a college campus. And obviously from that picture
I saw that picture, I mean, no one's social distancing. Yeah,
the problem too is just that's why you know, as
administrators in these colleges, they are choosing to forego students
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on campuses certain schools because, um, I mean, college students
are not gonna you It's it's impossible to tell. Like
you know, if you have a full campus, it's like
thirty thousand students, No one go out and party like
all stay inside out right Like it's it's impossible. It's
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impossible to you know, you've got in dorm rooms, they're
not no, not you don't have one person per dorm,
you know, like before um sweet mates, the whole deal.
So that that's not I mean, that's not easy to
social distance. And I'm not and I'm not really even
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blaming this this students. It's like, look, you're sending us
off and these are that this is the first time,
uh you know, a fourth of those people will ever
have been away from home. What do you think is
gonna happen? And it's not even necessarily like nefarious, it's
just like they're on their own. They've got a lot
of time on their hands. You can't expect them to
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stay in a room the whole time. That was the
shock for me when you know, going to college, like
the time you have, right, you think you're in high
school and you you you go whatever you see, like
eight am to three o'clock, right, you're in school. And
then if you're doing if you're doing after school activities,
if you're playing sports, right, you're doing you go to
college and it's like, Okay, I got I got this
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class Tuesdays and Thursdays for an hour and a half.
And I got this class. If I'm doing fifteen even
a full force load fifteen credits, how many hours am
I doing a week? Right? Yeah, you could legitimately have
Mondays and Fridays off that four day weekends. You know that.
That's how I scheduled my schedule. Of course, like I's like, hey,
I'm like I'm doing no classes on Friday, no classes
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before eleven am. So you could go out like you said,
and then you're and then you're like, I'm not going
to go to class. Right, It's not like high school
where you know, it's you could just not show up. Obviously,
you you know, you can't drew up five, not show
up five six times in a row. You're not gonna
pass the class. But you could you could take you know,
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take one one class off every couple of weeks and
it's not a big deal. You're on your own. I
would say History major. I barely showed up to any classes.
All you have to do is read the books, and
I didn't even do that. Really well, we went to
we went to college in different eras. Like when I
was in school, you know, the the internet was not
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readily available where you had to go. Do you have
to actually go to the library get the book or
go to the micro feach okay, which which if you
don't know what that is. Google it, because now you
can google it. When I went to school, I was
I was still in school when you know the but
I had there were there was just books. That was
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the option. But I just mean, you know, if you're
a liberal arts major, you can kind of slack off.
I had all those friends who were you know, they
had hard science and I'm like, you're studying a lot. Yeah,
that was a broadcast major. We you had to go
to class. I went to a small school. You had
to go to class, but it was not difficult. Just
being there was was pretty much a grade. Yeah, so's
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not to break up the nerd talk, but n I
know I was gonna say that. I was gonna say
former Dodger as Dean's wearing his Dodger had current twins picture. Yes,
I loved he was a great for No No going
in nine. So they're letting him finish it out to well,
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it's it's the bottom of the eighth, they're they're batting.
But I don't see why we're gonna talk a little
baseball later. Let's before we go to break, Travis, can
we have a moment of silence for the CFL one
of years of the great it's it's a sad day
with their long with their long end zones and they're
they're they're they're wide receiver that starts running before the play. Like,
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I think that's the coolest thing. Yea, I wish the
NFL would allow that. Yeah, why don't they allow the
receivers to be in the running start the scrimage? You
know how hard that is? You know what what what
type of like the CFL. It's a different athlete, right,
the CFL, the receivers, the skill position players, it's a
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completely different athlete. If you allowed NFL receivers a running
start like that, I would you imagine in the in
the shorter field, you know what defenses would do, the
type of collisions and things and a ship show. It
would be an absolute ship Could you imagine Randy Moss
with a running start against Steve's back in the day
and an insane it since the first five yards would
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be an absolute battle because you would try to you
would try to get a jam and it would be
it would be so cool. All right, SEC start date
is the SEC we're what is the Big twelve? Tentatively
scheduled UM stand by you obviously weren't listening, because that's
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the one I actually had the sec I was, I
was looking at the Kennemata. You know it as a
Twins fan, you guys yet when I was watching the game,
but it wasn't a no hitter. Yeah, but it was
the game where they were thrown at the Astros. But
you you also literally turn around like you just leave
this the shot. You're just doing whatever. We don't know
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where you are, all right, Well, when travels will figure out,
let's go to break. When we come back will happened
for us? And I do want to talk a little
NBA when we come back next on good Quil, We're back.
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Gravis finally found in the accus scheduled to start of
the Big twelve, Big twelve September two. I was, I
was still looking at the Kennebeta. All right, kenn of
my ada is pitching a no hitter right now in
the ninth inning. Okay, So non conference games for the
twelve of September, okay, yeah, and then the twenty six
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is when they'll start their conference game, Like non conference games.
How are they gonna play nonconference games? Well? I think
there's they're the SEC the big twelve M A C C.
I think they didn't mention they want to play one
one conference game. All right, Well, moving on, you want
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NBA playoffs? Um, you know, I'm I'm excited, late, Joe.
I think your Lakers might be in trouble. No, they're fine.
I think Dame Dame Lillard is he's on the hypecreen
right now. He looks here losing right now. Blazers aren't
you know, the Blazers are bad? Could could they? Could
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this be the upset? Like Laders have not looked good
in the bubble. I mean, I know they were playing
for anything, they were locked in, but I'd love to
see the Blazers. I mean, the Bucks lost today. The
Bucks did lose today. That there are a fifteen point favorite,
and I think they lost by twelve. That's crazy, That's
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that's wild. That would be an incredible upset by three
and in the third quarter. So I think I think
they're in trouble. Um. But the game that got caught
my attention from an officiating perspective, that got a lot
of people going was the MAVs Clippers game one UM
with basically Christops porzingis former Nick who didn't want to
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play in New York, So I don't calm as a bit.
But he got teed up early. Um, and you know,
he had a clean block and look the officials quall
did he had a clean block. He reacted and got
teed up. Can you hear this? Monica? Actually streets of
sm Probably, I don't know, bro, somebody might have fell
(21:38):
down a flight of stairs or a Botox emergency alert.
It's every life, every thesa Monica and it feels like
they're all in Santa Monica, everyone and it's it's another
life alert to save. Um. So Porzingis gets t up
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for I didn't. I look, I don't. I'm not an
expert in the NBA. Those guys have a hard job. Um.
I think it's one. I think it if not the
most difficult, it's one of the most difficult sports. Like
the guy's circling my block right now, like he's not
even though he's just stopped at your front door. And
it's a really hard sport to officiate. It's a hard
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game to officiate. But I think that the technical fouls,
I think I thought it was a soft technical. He reacted,
he thought he got a clean block, and then you
come back and there's a little bit of a kind
of a tussle, and he comes over and and he
pushes um Marcus Morris and Um ends up getting a
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second technical and out of the game. That's your second
best player in a in a really close game. And um,
you know they NBA Twitter went off. And it's what's
interesting is how NBA players are allowed to go on
Twitter and critique off initiating in the NFL. You can't
do that in the NFL. If you started like you
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will get fine for that. But NBA like players, they
went off. That's a soft tech. Patrick Mahomes chimed in,
he said, that's trash. Well, Patrick Romes won't get fine
for talking about NBA fishal he did that for NFL official,
he would get he would get fined. Hen afford it, Yeah,
he can afford it, but I have but you know,
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I've never seen a guy that that a better guy,
a better player, that signs a contract that is gonna
give him and his family's lifetime and security. That took
more ship for that contract that he could have got more. Um,
but anyway, and then he went and bought part of
the Royals too. He did Who's gonna win the NBA.
Who's gonna win the championship this year? Clippers, Clippers, that
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got um you know who I have? You know, I don't. Yeah,
I don't really like a lot of these teams. So
to be honest, I'd love it if the Blazers just
went on a run. I think that'd be fun. I
think for me, don't sleep on the defending champs. And
I know they lost Kauai. But Toronto the East actually
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is now weird because uh Ben Simmons is out potentially
for the entirety of the playoffs. Gordon Hayward they just
announced out for at least three four weeks. The Raptors
are good. The East is kind of open if the
Bucks are not locked in, you know, so if the
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Bucks get knocked to help in this first round, that
would be and a. And as much as I hate
the guy, Jimmy Butler, I mean he's he's clutched, the
heat looked good today. So yeah, no the heat, I
mean bam uh theo um. They've got a good squad,
the Gore and Dragic, I mean they've got I think
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they could win that series. You know you know that,
I I said Toronto before this whole thing started, right
did you know? It was on the episode you said
what's the best value and I said Toronto, And now
you're talking on that was the in person episode we
did talk about good value. Yeah. Either way, the no
hitter just got broken. Yeah, yeah, Eric, so keep talking
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about it soft liner away. Now, if they just lose,
it'd be fantastic. No, we want the Twins to win,
so they can lose the Yankees. Yeah, that's fine, just
get there. Um yeah, you know, there's another theory that
some people think about these technicals also. It's just that
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without the crowd noise, uh, the players can are heard
a lot easier. So even like uh you know, even
you know, swearing under their breath, it's gonna be loud
and they're gonna the officials are gonna hear it. It's
more Yeah, it's more evident as to what they're doing, um,
without the crabs. But they're they're actually doing a pretty
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good job. I saw, you know, with the virtual fans
when they're shooting free throws and you're on the road.
Technically the fans are like wave in and being distract them,
which which is interesting to trying to make it as
as closed to real real life as possible for you know,
real environment as possible. Um, all right, let's let's can
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we can we can we throw out the baseball on
written rule book? Can we just throw it out? Can
we can we be done with it? There's a few things,
and since there was a no hitter going on, there's one.
You shouldn't bunt to break up a no hit. That
that one, I feel like it's an unwritten rule. You can,
but you can every time a guy gets up that
pulls the ball. You can throw nine nine fielders on
one side of the fad. That's so I still think
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that's ridiculous. You can. You can shift and take basics
away that have been base hits forever, and and you
bunt and if I want to beat the shift or
a bunt to beat an later, that's that's unwritten. Or
a bunt bunt to beat the shift. Yeah, I'm okay
with that bunch of bid to break up the no hitter.
That's kind of sea. Yeah, I mean, I'm just I'm
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I'm with Travis, just that specific one. But yeah, they're
on the time. But the reason we got into this
conversation is that the three oh grand slam. They're up
ten three bases loaded, three oh pitch, right, and he hits,
he takes, he swings and he hits. He hits a
grand Slam. And the Rangers then they throw at Machado
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the next at bat, and the Rangers manager made a
big deal and even the Padres manager kind of and
I think he kind of backtracked because he said that
Tattoos missed the take sign and it's a moment for him.
It's a learning moment for him that you can't miss
those signs. Wait, wait, what was the score of the game?
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And three bases loaded in the eighth inning? There up
ten three, they're up ten three, and it's a three
oh pitch and he swung at a three oh pitch
and he eat a grand Slam and the Rangers Scott
butter and but I'm just like he so he's supposed
to literally just intentionally not get a hit. Well, no,
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you're supposed to be taking it three. You're supposed to
take the pitch. No, I understand that. But they were
pissed that he also hit the grand slam. Like they
were pissed because it's like the game's out of reach,
even though it's not well. I think that they're just
pissed and he swung three oh and there. But here's
the thing, is that, why is that an unwritten rule?
Why do I have to take a three oh pitch?
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I don't think, definitely don't believe that that's really I
played baseball many years. I don't really think that that's
an unwritten rule. I think you're allowed to swing, then
you get then the pitture has basically can groove one
and I can't swing. I think what they're saying is
that at three oh, when you're up seven, the games
pretty much how to reach it. You shouldn't be giving
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the batter of the green lights. But yeah, the manager said,
the padres said that they gave him the take sign.
But to me, it's all bullshit. Ten three in the
eighth inning. So I did a little research. Okay, uh,
what do you think? What do you think is the
is the the some of the best comebacks? What do
you think is the best ninth inning comeback in in
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Major League history? Twelve runs ninth in? Okay, I mean
it's gotta be big because I've seen I've watched a
lot of baseball, and it's like teams you can really
get going a rally. Uh yeah, I'll go. I'll go, well,
you know what, I'll go one higher, I'll go thirteen runs. Yeah,
so thirteen runs is a bit much. But there's been
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four times. I wasn't gonna say the stame answer as
everyone else. Four times. There's been four four times in
Major League Baseball history that a team has overcome an
eight run for deficit in the ninth tents. Okay, so
eight runs are more in the ninth inning? Right? In
ninety two, the Cubs were down eight two with two
outs and nobody on in the ninth inning and they
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won nine nothing. You know what their winning percentage was
down eight to with two outs and nobody on. It
was point zero zero one and they won the game.
At he We're down eleven three going into the ninth
inning and beat the Dodgers twelve eleven. The yeah, you
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know what's what's the record for the number of RBIs
number of runs batted in and one inning by one player.
You know with that record, seven, isn't it? It's eight?
Uh So they were up they were up ten three,
which is seven runs, and the record for one batter
in one inning is eight runs. You know who that
you know that record is held by Reggie Jackson, Kevin Mitchell. Nope,
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I have no get how about how about the guy
that's sired, Fernando Tattis Jr. How about Fernando Tatis did
two Grand slams against the Dodgers, Right, yeah, it's so
it comes down to, though, it's like, why are we playing?
Why do people like sports? Because there's all you think
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you've seen it all, and then once in a million,
something crazy happens, like a crazy comeback, which is why
you never let your feet off the gas, foot off
the gas. And the other thing is I get it
if this is a high school game or it's or
it's a you know, it's a team that's so clearly
outclassing the other team. These are professional baseball players, exactly. Yeah,
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not even high school literally maybe literally right, professional baseball players.
You know what the you know what, the most runs
in the modern day era, the most runs in one inning? Score?
What are you think? One of fifteen? No more than that,
It's more than that, right, DRIs take a guess? Nine
(32:00):
a nineteen seventeen runs in one any so, I don't care.
Ten three is not insurmountable can I can I ask
a question. I don't know, what are the tiebreakers for
this season? Who were on a shortened season, You're gonna
have less games? Like is run differential a tiebreaker to
get into the postseason? Just say if they had that,
(32:24):
then yeah, let's let's uh, let's more compliment. But but anyways,
like getting back to the core of this argument, which
is unwritten rules, Baseball is by far the worst of
the sports because every sport has quote unquote unwritten rules,
every living life has those, but baseball they're the most bizarre,
(32:48):
and I think it in this era especially, they stick
out the most because most of the unwritten rules tend
to be silly and like, uh, you know, against I
guess for lack of better term fun, you know, where
it's like it's about some weird sign of respect. And
(33:09):
the other weird unwritten rule is if you like is
let me throw the ball at a guy because they
did it to us, Like it's these weird accelerating things
where it's not good for the game really, And then
this this just brings a weird spotlight to baseball, where
what are the unwritten rules, Like, what what are the
(33:30):
ones that the unret they mentioned right, the bunt to
break up the no hitter. Um, the you know, the
back flips that watching watching your home run not running
it out, Um that you know that gets pictures upset. Um,
those types of things. I think the big lead, yes exactly,
don't like don't Basically it's like, don't rub it in
(33:53):
their face that they're losing. But you know what that
cells man. There's a reason Connor mcgrevery all want gets
watched by everybody because and the and I agree with you, Joe,
because the other thing is in sports, you need a
hero and you need a villain, and it's not fun
if you like why are like the bad boys like
(34:16):
the Detroit Pistons, It's like the University of Miami college
football team. They you need people to quote unquote like
rub it in people's faces because it it makes a
more compelling story. If everyone was and I apologize to
Mike Trout, I know he's a big fan of this podcast,
but if you're if every player was Mike Trout, it
(34:38):
would be I mean, but it already kind of is.
Baseball is to me pretty boring. There's a lack of personalities.
Mike Trout is will go down as one of the
greatest players in the history of the game, but already
in his young career, Fernando Tattoos Jr. Is way more
interesting than the Mike Trout, I mean just and in
that and not nothing against Mike Trout, and we're telling
(35:00):
you don't be anything that you aren't. But to Joe's
point about Connor McGregor, right, Connor McGregor is as big
as he is. Yes, he's had to back it up
um in the ring, but he's not the best fighter
to ever grace the UFC octagon. You know he's not,
but he has easily surpassed. He's the most marketable and
(35:21):
he's the most lucrative fighter to ever be in the
UFC because he combined that talent with that bravado and
that image and Mike Trout that's just not who Mike
Trout is. And yeah, there's nothing wrong with that, but
it's just it is just a thing where um, it's
a it's just a little bit like it goes against
(35:43):
how sports are these days, which is like bigger, larger
than life entertainment and a Grand Slam is really fun
and it's cool to hit a home run, so it's
very confusing. I think for people where they're like, wait,
why are people angry? Especially really, as I think Joe
has already said, ilse, it's like, you're a pro athlete.
(36:03):
If you don't want to lose, just be better or
else keep It's like, why why are you complaining? Because baseball?
Baseball has been you think of look at baseball, you know,
the average fan, and that it's it's you know, it's
been the perception. I don't personally buy into that, but
that it's a dying sport. It's no longer the past,
time and everything else. This this sport is gonna be
(36:26):
carried by people like Fernando Tattoos Jr. And people that
young people can get behind and watch and find interesting
and and cheer for. So you don't want to tamper that.
You don't want to temper that. You want to you know,
you want to encourage it. And that's why, you know,
and I think a lot of people, and a lot
of people came to his defense. Um, even Johnny Bench,
(36:46):
who's you know, Hall of Famer, one of the greatest
catchers and players of all time, who came and said that,
you know, tweeted that, and I love that Johnny bench
Is on Twitter tweeting, um that you know, what are
you supposed to do? You take three one pitch? You
take the three? Oh pitch now is three and one.
The picture makes a great pitch on on three and one.
Now you're three too, and then you hit into a
double play. You know what? What do you what? Why
(37:09):
is that? Okay? I don't think there's anything wrong with
that at all. You know, it's interesting. I actually played
baseball high school baseball with the Rangers with the manager
of the Rangers, Chris Woodward. He was our short stop. Yeah,
he's the one that's caused all this issue? Is he
the one that's all fired up? That's all but hurt.
So our high school baseball coach was really big on
(37:29):
that kind of stuff, and him and our high school
baseball coach were like almost like father and son. When
he got when he got when he got um, when
he got the job. He wrote this big old thing
about how our high school baseball coach, you know, help
help him get there, and he that he was like
always on the field with him and hanging out with him,
you know, on the weekends and everything. Because this is
(37:52):
information you could have added so much earlier in the conversation.
Sometimes I don't know serious pertinent in from Asian, like, oh,
I guess what. I didn't want to name drop Rangers.
I used to play with them and like, well, like what, well,
I I don't like to name drop like you. I mean,
(38:13):
oh my god, I name dropped when Travis Travis talk
to him. Well, because I've hung out at sevest salone house.
By the way, the Twins game has got tied us
fantastic one. The one unwritten rule that I was involved
in at the NFL, which I thought was kind of
(38:35):
bullshit was when UM Tampa, when Greg Shianna was at
Tampa and on the kneel down when they tried to UM.
It was happening against the Giants first and they were
taking a knee at the end of the game, and
he had the defensive lineman play full board, like go
full in try to try to get the ball, and
it started a fight, and I thought that was kind
(38:55):
of that. That was kind of bush lee Um. But
other than that, I don't have problem with any Why
don't they just make a rule, a real a written rule.
It says, hey, if you're gonna if you're gonna kneel
like there should be like a sign, talk about it,
talked about it, but ultimately they didn't want to They
didn't want to like legislate that play. Um. They just
(39:15):
they just said, listen, it is what it is. You
gotta be ready to play. Well, I think, why don't
they just like how they do the intentional walk now
instead of actually throwing the pitch and say, hey, we're
I think what I think where people had a problem
with and I know, you know Tom Coughlin had an
issue with, which which I tend to agree and I
love Greg Shiano and I think he's a great guy,
but that hadn't been done in the NFL ever. And
(39:37):
now he comes in as a college coach, no one
is expecting it, and they do it. And it was
just kind of the reaction like it's gonna cause a fight,
like it's going to it's gonna be an issue. And
they did it. They did it more than once the
first time. They rent it once and then they rented
on the second one. It's like you're asking for it
there and the likelihood that you're gonna they likelier that
(40:00):
you're gonna get the ball because you can't interfere with
the snap. If you interfere with the snap, that's a foul.
So the likelihood that you're gonna get get the football
is so miniscule. Um that I thought was was it
was uncalled for in that situation. Then when everybody knew
it was, it was an issue, like they were gonna
teams were ready. Like I remember talking to Jeff Fisher
(40:21):
and he's like, you know, if they try that, we're
gonna go into a kneel down and and we're gonna
we're gonna run like an option pass out of it,
and we're gonna we're gonna pitch to the to the
back and we're gonna throw and my end is gonna
go deep and we're gonna score a touchdown in a
game that's already out of reach, you know. So it's
just gonna led to that type of stuff. The one,
one last thing, the one underwritten rule about don't admired
(40:42):
her home run. That one gets me so angry because
it's just like just like that, like especially it's just
like you you let him hit a home run, it's
your fault, as the picture. So like it's it's very
weird that pictures get to be angry yeah, I agree
with you, and not to mention. If you're a great player,
(41:04):
you get fifty a year, why not admire it. I mean,
have you ever seen Dean after he blows his hair out?
He just stars? Yeah, and we understand when he goes
off the air after a great hit. I get way
more than fifty of those a year. That's the whole point.
If the strange sixty five days in a year, there's
I get three d and fifty really good hair days. Wow,
(41:28):
all right, let's go to break. We come back. Joe's
got some big news. All right, we're back on good glass,
(41:50):
and don't Joe has some news for us. Joe is
Joe is a very positive guy. He is oh boys
positive and he's the guy that like, he's the hype guy.
He's always gonna make you feel good. He's very liberal
with his compliments. I'm not good with compliments. Um, and
(42:11):
now I don't know if you can hear I got
a skateboarder outside. But anyway, Um, but Joe got some
news and he is negative. Joe, would you like to
would you like to? Would you like to share? Yesterday?
Yesterday was my birthday, and thank you and for my birthday,
Happy to Jackie Robinson. Jackie Robinson, Okay, And for my birthday,
(42:36):
I decided to get a COVID test and I got
the results this morning, and I'm I'm COVID free. Boys, congratulations,
so you might have. I definitely don't feel great. I
definitely don't feel great. I don't know why we've got
to be different. Everybody else is getting COVID. He's got
to get him model. I don't know. I just I
have a sore throat and a little bit of achy muscles.
(43:00):
Swollen lymph nodes. Swollen lymph nodes. That's not good. It
does sound like motto. Well, thank god that you're a
history major and not a doctor. I can tell you
the history of motto. Please please. All right, So I
think I told you guys. I've upped my Ben and
Jerry's half baked intake to two points per week, and
(43:22):
I feel like I can. I've been eating pretty healthy,
my portion control has been really good, so I can
have the two points. And I'm I'm actually really struggling
with this. How do I spread it out like I wanna?
I want to spread it out and not have too
big a gap between the pints. Because it's something I
legitimately look forward to when I wake up and I
know it's half Faith night, it's like legit changes my day.
(43:45):
So I was thinking, um, you know, initially I was
thinking Friday Monday. Okay, that was my first start. Friday Monday.
It gives me one. It gives me one weekend night
like Friday. Let's kick off the weekend to get crazy
and then a short window and then I get Monday
to kick off my week and then you know, I
(44:06):
kind of then I have the four day wait to Friday.
And then I was like, well, maybe maybe Saturday Tuesday
works better. I think a Sunday Wednesday is ideal. And
I'll tell you why I love. I love eating ice
cream Sunday night, like to cap off my week, like
almost like that glass of wine that some people have,
(44:27):
like I'm done with the week. Give me the Fridays.
You're done with the weekend, you know, with the week
as well. But I'm with I actually like Joe's because
Friday Monday is too close. I initially thought that, but
it's like you the between Friday and Monday, like Friday,
You're like, oh, it's not too long after I eat
(44:48):
that pint. I don't have to wait a long time.
And just to clarify too, this is your scheduling the
day that you can just eat the whole pint, right
that there's no yes, yes, and Scott, that's come on,
I really don't need any other dessert like that. That's it,
Like you know, like after dinner, I don't eat. That's it,
(45:12):
So eat the whole pint. So Sunday Wednesday, so that
would mean I have to wait. I have a pint.
That means I have to wait till tomorrow. Yes, So
you go tomorrow and then you do and you can
and if you really are if Saturday night is really lonely,
you can do a Saturday night instead of Sunday. So
you can do Wednesday Sunday or Wednesday Saturday in the
event that Saturday is just not really you need a
(45:32):
little flex schedule and I need it, yeah, like so yeah,
I like that because it's like if you if you're
really you just you you need it, you can flex
it on the weekday too. So it's it's just like
it's a like Sunday night football exactly. Like so it's
like you have one for sure during the Monday through
(45:53):
Friday week and you have one on that weekend or
I guess, say Monday through Thursday, and then you know
you have one Friday through Sunday. You want to try
to stick to a given date. But like Joe said,
you know you had a rough Saturday. There's something the
Dodgers lost. You can just go in it and think
about this during football season, it will be like Sunday night,
(46:13):
you had a long day in the Cube. You get
to look forward and we might be recording Sunday nights again.
You have to look forward to that point. Once we're
done with a good Calls episode. Yeah, why don't we
get along the cube? Why don't we get ice cream
for the Cube too? Like I think that's an addition
for this this year. No, dude, I I can't. No, No,
(46:36):
We'll just buy some points and put them in the
freezer and we'll eat him at some point during the day.
I like the flex though, I'd like the Wednesday and
then Saturday or Sunday because you would be like, oh, okay, Saturday,
I got this movie. I want to watch her Sunday.
You remember, you want to watch a movie you can
just like look forward to and you can get you know,
the hump day, and you kind of get and nothing
(46:56):
good happens on Wednesday, except now something good it does
up on Wednesday. I like that. I kind of like that.
I feel my day my Wednesday. I don't mind. My
Tuesday has always been my kind of like any day,
you know. So I just thought you should know that. No, no,
no lakers, I think. And there's one other thing about
(47:20):
the ice cream, I deein. I really want you to
expand your horizons flavor wise. It doesn't always have to
be half baked. Look, I've tried other flavors. It's not
the same. It's just not And I'm not gonna waste
a point on, you know whatever, whatever else it is. Well,
so do you are you? Are you against any other
ice premium brand ice creams? And no, I'm not against it. Um,
(47:46):
I just I am partially Ben and Jerry's I used
to be a big um like Look growing up, it
was it was like briers in a half gallon m
or friendlies and you go to friendlies and you guys
don't know friends least, but friendlies and you get like
a half gallon of ice cream or a big tub
of ice cream. Um and Then Ben and Jerry's came
(48:07):
around and it was like, oh, cookie dough, that's amazing.
Then they had chucolate fudge browne. I was like, oh,
that's amazing. You know, it would be even more amazing
if they combine those two into one pint and lo
and behold, there comes half into my life. I do
understand where you're coming from, because I have a talent
to the other night like a chocolate coffee and I mean,
(48:31):
just down. But it just wasn't about those Vermont cabins.
I don't know what about what about? I mean, there's
one in your in your areas. I don't love them,
but salt and straw, I know they do. You never
had there's one in your neighborhood, Scott. We don't do
the trendy stuff like that, dude. We just if it's
not a seven point, it's not that trendy. It's just
(48:53):
it's just another ice cream spot. You can't buy the
seven eleven. We're not you. You can get you can
get it at Whole Foods. And I know Dean is
a big Whole Foods guy. So you haven't gone. I
haven't gone the Whole Foods in a long, long time
I've I'm sorry, I'm going to either Bristol Farms or
(49:14):
now I'm just like, screw it. I'm just going to
ns oh Man. Just a regular old grocery store. Wow,
he's slumming it at Vans and the grocery store is
the closest one go to. The closest one is pretty
close Bristol Farms usually as this is great podcast, I'm
sure everyone across the country's loving what grocery stores we
(49:37):
like in you know, in West l A. You know what,
the pandemic last week's episode really inspired me. This week
I went shopping at a Theory I bought some beautiful stuff.
You you inspired that. You You were telling me how
much you like theory last week on the on the podcast,
and it happened to be at a theory outlet, and uh,
(50:01):
I got a black button up. We talked about that
on the button too. You know what. You know what
else I did there was a shock waves at least
in my life. Um, the dog is as has stopped
his giving up his rap career. Who's Z Dog? Can
you explain who Z dog is? The dog is this
(50:21):
Utah jazz super fan and he is famous and he
he went semi viral for a a dis video. Um
and Utah Jazz, I believe, I believe they were playing
the Rockets in the playoffs and he and he recorded
(50:44):
a disc track against the Rockets and I'm gonna play
it for you now. But here's the dog and uh
and just listen. Yeah, yeah you got here. You know
(51:05):
who it is. Clippers. It's so ugly man DeAndre Jordan's
shouldn't be an all star Clippers also public they smell
like the l A is the worst city ever. Not
(51:27):
it's the King and Tom Jazz. Yeah, Clippers fans part,
that's even. They smell like they smell like chickens. Yeah,
let's go Jazz. Playoffs, playoffs, baby, it's what rights. Clippers
(51:52):
are the worst team in the n b A. I
don't know why they have to have a coach like
Don Rivers. Dr Rivers is a cry baby. His son
Austin River smells that we Clippers. You're so physical, but
(52:15):
you're the worst team and the trashiest team in the
n b A. But my chaff on the best team
in the NBA. They have their number one fan and
they don you know that's me, that's me. Ze Donkey
Nazi caddy Zy Donkey Dass number one fan die Hard. Well,
(52:40):
the Clippers like making love to the referees. They don't
deserve all the calls. I hope like Griffin, Chris Paul
and Jonathon Jordan will leap the Clippers. Clippers are the
worst team in LA, but my chads will sweep up,
(53:00):
end up play yay yes, Ze Dogg Alert Jazz Nason
Jazz Nason Jazz Ion What okay, we didn't probably have
to listen to that whole thing. Huh, absolutely, what are
you talking about? The best? The end was the best,
but he he did get his wish. DeAndre Jordan's has left,
(53:25):
Chris Paul has left Lake Griffin has left. Yeah, they're
all gone. When the first time I saw that, I was,
and it gets better every time. He's he's giving up
his rap career. Wait wait, did he officially retire? That's
the tweet I sent you he gave up his rap career.
(53:47):
That was so good. That was the I don't want
the rundown I kept putting on there because I had
no idea what it was. But we just never talked
about it was weeks ago, Joe, you muted me I
was dying, I know, because since you and Dian are
on the same channel, every time you laughed, it would
cut the audio to the to the Z Dog. Now
(54:07):
that was smart audio engineering if I noticed that also,
So that was you know, that's what I went to
school for all those years. I can't like, it's so amazing.
It's so amazing. Z Dog. Oh my god, z Dog,
I'm gonna miss you. It's it's it's really a tragedy
that he's gone. He's still twoeting, he's definitely still a fan.
(54:33):
Oh he's not. He's done rapping though, and that's unfortunate. Yeah,
but you know how those musicians they always say they're
done and then they come back with a new single.
All right, ready it hurts random Blendino Go Goes Blended
(54:54):
Carlisle versus Heaven is a place on Earth blended Carlisle.
Oh Okay, if you grew up in the eighties, you
know what I'm talking about. Does anybody remember remember when
Belinda Carlisle, when The Go Goes stopped and then there
was a delay, and then Belenda Carlisle showed up and
do It did a solo album. Yeah, you're gonna be
(55:17):
I think you're gonna be on your own on this one.
Did you by the way, Dean, did you just watch
that Go Goes documentary that Showtime did. Yeah, that's what
brought it up. Okay, So, like the Go Goes were amazing.
I love the Go Goes, but they were like kind
of like this, you know, this poppy, fun group of
girls just you know, it's we're gonna have fun and
all this stuff. And then Blenda Carlisle comes out, you know,
(55:40):
there's a solo album and she was like she went
from this like poppy, happy, you know, girl band, too
sexy a f like unbelievable because I didn't want to
say as fun and I should just said as fun.
But um, well just just that entire line. Why no,
(56:01):
I know, but watch the watch the the Heaven is
a place on our video she looks. Everybody was like,
is that be Linda Carlisle from the Go Go Go Goes?
And I was watching that documentary and I just made
me think of that. Um and she's still performing today.
Do you like that song Heaven is a place on Earth?
(56:22):
So it's a great song. I don't think I know
that one. You know, she's beautiful, you know it Joe,
I guarantee you've heard it. I really was trying to
get Dean the thing at Verse for us, but I
think so well that it would be a copyright infringement.
Um you've you've heard it, uh As. I'm sure when
(56:44):
you were a young man you heard it in the
mother the other artists speaking of me my solo and
we're like completely like, whoa what what just happened? Well, Timberlake,
I guess you could say Beyonce, you know, yeah, But
and but I think like Beyonce to me, like I
(57:05):
always like you knew she was gonna be big. I
knew she was gonna be big, and she was always
but like it was like the be Linda Carlisle go goes.
It was like one of those movies where it was like,
you know, one of those team movies where it's kind
of like the nerd and then she's wearing glasses and stuff,
and then all of a sudden she takes up the
glasses and left down her hair and you're like, oh
(57:26):
my god, she's amazing. And that's what it was like
during that time. I just remember everybody being like, whoa,
we Linda Carlisle looks not that she didn't look. She
was just it was a different vibe. It was like
this cute ce pop thing and it was still pop.
But she was like, you're telling me that there was
the talk of Long Island when she went my high school. Man,
(57:47):
no question, dude speak Okay, speaking of music, have you
guys heard this the new card this new Cardi B
song Everyone's now No, of course, I like how this
is like this is a fish really like it's a
couple of weeks now and it's gonna be like, oh,
this is such an old man like, have you heard
this song that's really making some You don't listen to current?
(58:09):
You need to listen to it. Do you remember when
we were young? Like remember the two Live Crew songs
were like the whole like, oh my god, I can't
believe what they're saying. Listen to the listen to the
new the new Cardi B song. I like it. I've
seen it to us. I've seen stuff on Twitter about
it and I've seen like, but I haven't listened to
this song, so I don't know. I heard it the
first time on Saturday, and I was like, wow, a girl,
(58:32):
a girl told me about it. Two Live Crew speaking
to two Live crew. You want a little name dropping, um,
Super Miami. I listen to this crew was speaking of
a two Live crew at the Super Miami. I was
hanging with Michael IRV and Lawrence Staff and Luther Campbell
(58:54):
in Miami. Now I could say something very I could
say something things in Miami. Okay, I got the text.
I guess who I'm hanging out with. There's your Chris
Woodward for you. Okay. That had to a better, really
quiet crew to hang out with her. No, you know,
(59:15):
everyone didn't want to be the first to talk, right, Yeah, exactly.
I was just listening basically per usual, per usual. Hey,
you got two years in one mouth for a reason.
I like that. Wow, Okay, I like that a lot.
I'm gonna use that. Use that, Travis. When you're kissing
(59:36):
a little older, you tell him that, you tell him.
Uncle Dean said, So, you know what Uncle Deane always says,
years in one You know, you know, my mom called
me yesterday and was like saying, her and her and
her husband were watching old football reruns and now that
they met you, they get so excited when you go on,
oh my god, there's that boy. Dean Joey's friend there
(01:00:00):
you go on that note. Now your mom's name dropping me.
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