Episode 42- NASCAR’s response is what we should remember, MLB is back (hopefully), and Dean breaks down the best and worst part of an hour.

NASCAR’s response is what we should remember, MLB is back (hopefully), and Dean breaks down the best and worst part of an hour.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Good Calls with Dean Blandino, a production of
I Heart Radio. Hey you know, Welcome to another episode
of Good Balls, joined by producer Travis Hansen. Audio Joe Madrid.

(00:21):
We are we are still doing zoom. I imagine until
we get to uh in person, we'll be doing zoom.
Thanks Joe for coordinating all this and uh and let's
let's get right into it. Joe. Um, something happened today
that both Travis and I have not had in a while.
But what happened to you? To got sick at the gym?

(00:44):
Find the second day back in you threw up after
working out? What kind of workouts? Kick lots of kicks today,
and kicks just kick your ass, ma'am. You're kicking a lot.
It's just exhausting and I'm just not in shape. COVID
killed me, which is interesting because I know a lot

(01:04):
of people have gone the other way, Like I'm down
fourteen pounds nice since since COVID, which is which is
I'm actually like at a probably the lowest. I like
to stay around one ninety and now I'm like one six.
So are you really that small I was this morning?

(01:28):
That's pretty impressive. I think that goes really hand in
hand with our personalities though, like you, you really embraced
the working out at home and I need the social
you know, I need the raw rods in the background. Yeah,
I'm I'm thinking about canceling my my gym membership because
I've just been working out at home and jump rope
and I can do almost everything. I may keep it
just in case. But the gym what your gym open, Joe,

(01:50):
which will any what are the protocol so no jiu jitsu? Um,
they're My gym is kind of a smaller mom and
pop gym, so it doesn't it's not really not huge corporate,
so it's pretty much the same. A lot lot less
people in the gym, though way less. Like yesterday we
did a boxing class and it was like three people.

(02:12):
Usually there's like I think people are going to because
my gym, Equinox here in Santa Monica is opening up
on Wednesday, and there's just so many Obviously that's a
big right, this is a big corporate chain of gyms,
and there's so many rules. Now you have to actually
make an appointment through the app um. You you have

(02:35):
to maintain social distancing guidelines, wear a mask, unless you're,
um extracizing vigorously. So I think Joe you would have
fallen into the exercising vigorously because you vomited. Um. So
it's gonna be interesting to see what people define as
exercising vigorously because for me, like, if I go to

(02:55):
the gym, I'm gonna wear the mask unless I'm on
the treadmill, unless I'm doing some kind of cardi like,
I I don't if I see like to me, that's
a rule, Like I think if if that's the rule
exercising vigorously, you can't be on like bench pressing and
not wear the mask. I don't consider that, Like, yes,
you're exercising yet, but you're not. You're not going to

(03:17):
get winded from benching like you know what I mean,
Like you're not unless you're just going for reps reps, reps, reps,
reps and you're going low weights. Um. I just think
it's got to be some form of cardio. Maybe we
should create a rule that defines vigorously. That way you
could actually throw a flag at somebody in the end.
I think it's I think it goes I think your

(03:37):
heart rate, right, it's got to go with with your
heart rate has to reach a certain bpm. What is that?
You know what is the resting heart rate? For Joe,
You're you're clearly you know, a highly too de athlete.
You know what is your resting heart rate? Um? And
uh and we can go from there. That's a good,

(03:59):
that's a really good and see it now. Excuse me, sir,
I don't think you're working out vigorously. You need to
put that mask on. You need to do that on you.
Let me check, let me check your pulse, is it? No,
everybody should have to wear you can't someone that's not
social distancing, know what everything. Everyone should have to wear
a heart rate monitor with like with an LED display
on their chest, Like, oh, that dude's working out, you're

(04:23):
gonna get you're gonna get tested, right. I think part
of that is the is the temperature check and you
know that. That's just part of the deal right now.
And I think it's and everybody, look, it's just wear
a mask. It's not that hard ship to wear a
mask when you go out. I'm also a member of
Bay Club. I just canceled it though, but they're doing

(04:43):
the same exact as equals. You have to set an appointment,
I'm like too much. So it is a lot, and
so I would imagine you're not gonna have as many people.
I don't not I don't necessarily like to have to
set the appointment, but it is what it is. If
I want to stay at the gym, that's what I'm
gonna have to do, and I'll deal with it, and
you just that's part of the new norm. So okay,
that's what we gotta do. I'd like to completely never

(05:06):
say the new norm ever again. Well then what are
we gonna call it? This is life, the stupid time,
the world's world we live in. That's my favorite phrase.
This is the world we live in today. This is
what it is. Speaking of the world we live in.
What an unbelievable chain of events. UM with NASCAR over

(05:27):
the weekend, and obviously, right NASCAR is one of our
um you know, our inventory and Fox Fox Sports and
we broadcast the races and things like that, and obviously
have Bubba Wallace, who's who's an African American racer and
has been very outspoken and has has pushed um in
terms of like black lives matter and everything else with

(05:48):
with everything that's going on today. And then the race
is a tale Talladego, which is in Alabama. Someone left
a noose in his garage. Garage, I guess it was
Sunday night before the race, and obviously, um, you know
it's is it surprising, No, it's not surprising. Unfortunately, it's

(06:11):
it does it's not shocking. It's not surprising. Um. And
what was you know, the kind of the the shining
moment that came out of it was all of the
racers got behind Bubba and pushed his car to the
front before the race and actually even Richard Petty Senior,
who's kind of like the godfather of Nascar, UM, was

(06:32):
there showing their support for Bubba. And uh, and it
was one of those kind of seminal moments. But I
think just the act itself, UM, I don't know, like
I I don't think that way. But it doesn't surprise
me because and it and it what what kind of

(06:55):
what's interesting? Is right? We don't want to you don't
want to brush with broad jokes. You don't want to
because we I feel like we do throw the word
whether it's you know, hillbilly or redneck, we throw those
words around and and it's okay, right, it's it's okay
to to say those words. You're not going to get
um a lot of backlash. And so we're treating a

(07:18):
certain group of people that we feel like act a
certain way. And uh, and this to me, it's like
you think about someone that would leave a noose in
a an African Americans, persons anywhere, and what is that person?
What do you picture? Right? Like, what do you picture
in your mind? Joe dope one. But but you know

(07:43):
what I'm saying, I'm picturing the same and you're and
you're you're. What we're doing what this person is doing
is you are you are again, you're perpetuating this idea
that right, people from the South or whatever you want
to call have this mentality and not all people think

(08:03):
that way, right, not all people think that way. But
what it's doing is it just continues. It's just it's
and the fact that somebody would would would think that,
and that would do that, and would god forbid, has
children and is teaching their children that And that's the
messaging at home. Um, that's the problem. That's why we're
on the cycle. That that's why we're on the cycle

(08:26):
that that person whoever did that thinks that way and
is exposed to children, family, whatever it is, and those
children are brought up with that ideology and then we
just continue this over and over and over and nothing changes.
The other thing is sad about it is like it
could possibly be one of those guys that was walking

(08:46):
out pushing the car, because there's so many limited people
that can be at these events right now that it's
probably someone that's close to him, who has had conversations
with him and and but has access to the garage,
right So it's not some it's not some random fan
that that snuck in. It's somebody related to NASCAR. It's
somebody in the garage, somebody in the in that that organization, family,

(09:10):
whatever you want to call it. And you're right, Travis, like,
could that person or somebody that one of those people
in that kind of procession, this, this beautiful moment, be
the person or know the person that actually did that
that kind of heinous act? I don't is heinous? Do
I have to say H on heinus? There is an

(09:32):
h that henis? I said it right, right? Yeah, you
don't want to say it without the age, and that's
sounds something like something else an Yeah, you don't want
to say that Travis Henis, We're gonna get censored my
version years Okay, So but like the bigger picture, and

(09:53):
I don't know, I just okay, I didn't grow up
in the South. I don't And but I don't think
everybody in the South thinks that way. Um. I just
it's I don't know, it's it's kind of mind boggling.
But it's not surprising. And this is what black people
have been saying for a long long time. But this

(10:14):
is what we deal with, you know, every day, you know,
on some level. And now you're just waking up, um
to this reality. And uh and maybe we are, and
and we we've got to kind of figure it out
because this is you know, I was talking to my
son and who's nine, and he was mentioning, um, the

(10:35):
riots after after Rodney King and he you know, and
and all of that. And he said, he was like,
you know, how does that happen in and we're in
and we're still having these issues. And I said, yeah,
nothing has changed, right, nothing, nothing has changed. And and
that's you know, it's it's the hope is that what

(10:56):
we're seeing is that the youth in this country are
stepping up and that's going to be the next generation
and uh, and they have to kind of push this
and we all do, we all have to do our part,
but it's going to be that next generation that that
that has to make changes because you know, we don't
want to be going through the same thing in um
you know. And for me, it's easy for me to

(11:17):
say that, right because I don't. But for black people
in this country, UM, they're the ones that are gonna
have to go through it. And and we've we've all
got to work together to make sure that doesn't that's
the truth. Yeah. The Feds have also one gotten involved
and they're going to take a look at this as
well as they've both been a case on it to
find out if it's any kind of federal law that's

(11:39):
been broken here by these people. Well, yeah, I don't
know what the law. Could that be considered a hate
crime or does a hate crime have to be something?
What can be a death threat at a at a
federal level like that? So so I think that that's
how they're getting involved. Yeah, that's right. Could yeah, it
could be a death threat. Although I probably there's some
people in my time I'm at the NFL that that

(12:01):
we're guilty of death threats towards me on Twitter. Um.
But but that's the thing, like it is, it's just
it feel it's it's cowardly. It's like, you know, I'm
gonna leave this and then and then this anonymous thing.
It's like people online, and there's a lot of people
online that just feel like they can say whatever the
heck they want, insult people and treat people a certain way.

(12:23):
And and and that's not right either. Um and uh,
you know, I don't know. That's the world we live
in now. The keyboard warriors, that's the world we live in.
They call them keyboard warriors. Is that what we call them?
Keyboard warrioring warriors? I haven't heard of that. Yeah, behind
your computer screen, you need to put blast out whatever
you want. Look, the internet has. Right before the internet,

(12:47):
you wouldn't you had to go out and and and
if whatever message you wanted to get out, you have
to get out in front of people and speak and
talk and and you know, congregate. Now with the Internet,
you can, I mean the messaging you know, whether it's
good or bad. It's very easy to reach people. And
and there's a whole generation of kids that are that.

(13:09):
That's how they get there. They get their content, they
get their news, they get their their social um interaction.
It's it's on the Internet, and it's very easy for
someone that has a message of hate to um, you know,
to distribute that message online. You know. I was watching
a documentary on Netflix. Um uh call I believe it

(13:32):
was the Age of Rage, and it was it was
about the ault Right and and then this other guy
that was part of Antifa. It's just it's scary and
fascinating at the same time as to what, you know,
how the internet allows um, you know, a group like
you know, and and not not to I'm not an

(13:55):
expert on the alt right, but there are there are
groups out there that that do push hate and do
push a lot of um, you know, ideology that that
you know, I don't agree with. I don't think you
guys agree with. And they use the Internet to to
recruit people and to get them to buy into this
message and they and then they use the Internet to

(14:17):
distribute it and uh. And it's scary. It's really scary
what we're what we're dealing with today. The thing I
think about what this news is if it's one of
these guys that's involved with the NASCAR, which he probably
is because the like we talked about before, the access
they had, Like the person who did it probably told
somebody else. And if if the FEDS are involved in
NASCAR has got a heavy investigation and it too, that's

(14:38):
gonna come out who did it? And yeah, and then
how is there not a camera? There's cameras everywhere everywhere. Yeah,
I bet there is. I have to think there has
to be something. Yeah, I would imagine there's cameras everywhere.
And I would agree with Travis, like, unless this is

(14:58):
one person and they kept a mouth shut, somebody else knows.
And it'll be very interesting to see if it does,
if they do find out who did it or a
group of people whatever it is, what what ultimately what
NASCAR does? Um? If it is somebody associated with the
driver or you know, a driver themselves. Um, and then

(15:21):
obviously what you know, what law enforcement would would you
know what kind of like you said, whether it's a
death threat of terroristic whatever, It'll be really interesting. But again,
you know, it was good to see because look, the
bottom line is NASCAR. People look at NASCAR a certain way,
right you look at again, think of in your mind,

(15:42):
Joe Travis, what do you what's your average NASCAR fan?
Look like you don't have to describe it, but yeah, right,
what we're talking about, and so that is it is
a relatively white sport. It is a relatively you know,
a white fan base, and it is there is there
are there are regions in this country that are that

(16:03):
are more you know, inclined to to watching NASCAR. And
there's no way you can't kind of beat around the
bush with that thing. And and and it is what
we're seeing, right, Why did Nascar, no other sport has
to has to ban the Confederate flag or hey, no,
no other sport has because they don't fly the Confederate

(16:25):
flag at other sporting events like they do at NASCAR.
Because because of where, you know, the people that are
grown up in the South and grown up with that
history and grown up and and look, I'm not I'm
not saying that everybody that flies the Confederate flag is
a racist, but it does represent some really bad things
that have happened in this country and some really you know,

(16:48):
bad things that have happened in the history, especially as
you think about African Americans. And it's just you know it.
It just shouldn't be a part of what we're trying
to do to day. Ide I'm seeing a NASCAR statement now,
oh just right now. Yeah, So so just a little
more news coming out and says the FBI has concluded

(17:10):
its investigation at Tallie against Superspeedway and determined that Bubba
Wallace was not the target of a hate crime. The
FBI report concludes, and the photographic evidence evidence confirms that
the garage store pole rope fashion like a news has
been positioned there since his early as last fall. This
was obviously well before the forty three team's arrival and
in garage assignment. We appreciate the f guys quick and

(17:32):
thorough investigation and are thankful to learn that this was
not an intentional racist act against Bubba. Warm and steadfast
in our commitment to providing a welcoming and inclusive environment
for all for all who love racing. So, okay, that
is that is news. That's interesting. Um So, what they're
saying is that that was just the way the rope

(17:54):
was positioned for the garage the pulley, that it looked
like a news Yeah. And then like they're previously even
before the forty three car was to sign that garage.
So okay, so you know, there's gonna be a lot
of people that think that that, you know, that are
cynical like me, that are gonna not necessarily not I'm

(18:17):
not saying I don't believe that, okay, if that's what
they came up with, but they're gonna all be a
lot of people that that don't believe that that's the
case for sure. And that's interesting. I mean, we got
we go through this whole thing, this whole conversation, and
now that's what they figured out that it was not
a news at all. That's it's gonna be interesting people's reactions. Um,

(18:40):
did they state this is not a news or is
it saying it's been there forever? It sounds like from
what Travis read, right, Travis, you're you're looking at it,
that this was the rope was there that at least
since last fall. So my question is are they saying
it's not a news or this rope has been there

(19:00):
since last fall? It's well, I mean it says fashions
like a news, so so it's a pole rope. So
maybe it was fashion like news to say you could
grab it because you're gonna be pull it. I haven't
seen any photos of it. It's just wow. I mean,
it's very there's there's a lot of coincidence there to

(19:23):
say that that was that it looked like a news
and it was there since last fall. And Bubba, while
I think is the only African American driver at that race,
you know that his his garage. I don't know. And
that's what if. That's what they say, that's what they say.
It's just it's gonna be interesting to see how people
react to that. Every person that's ever taken a picture

(19:44):
of that garage is going to be going through their
phone looking for it in the background. So it'll come
out that's interesting. All right, Well there you go, um
another layer to the story. Wow. So we'll kind of well,
we'll kind of see, we'll see where it goes from there. Interesting,
you know what I'm I don't know. This reminds me
about the time that that dude put the canoeis in

(20:04):
your dressing room, my fox, Oh my god. That See,
it always comes back to the Italian American discriminate by
no means, By no means. Are we saying that someone
putting a cannoli in my dressing room is the same.

(20:25):
Speaking of cannoli, I have in my freezer right now
Ben and Jerry's Cannoli ice cream, which I will be
trying tonight. You got a live tweet about that. Yeah. Again,
when I found with these Ben and Jerry's is doing
these um limited flavors, these new flavors, and what I
found it's much ado about nothing. It's a lot of hype,

(20:47):
not a lot of substance. And I always go back
to I always go back to the King, the top
of the heat, the chairman of the board. F Baked okay,
but there have been some that have been like, okay,
not bad for for a pint, you know, a one off?
What's that Netflix and chilled isn't bad? Yeah, but like

(21:10):
you said, it isn't bad. Half baked is life changing,
and um peanut butter half baked is pretty solid too.
I feel like it's no matter what comes out, it's
kind of like your first love that's always gonna be
top of the food chain for you. It is, it is.
What was? Okay, let's Travis, what was your first love?
Doesn't have to be a person? What was the first
thing you remember loving? Probably baseball to be honest with you,

(21:34):
Like I was just a kid who just I looked
up to my older brother who started playing baseball before me,
and I just wanted to pick up a bat and
the ball and start playing. Um. I remember as a
kid going to like my dad's softball games, and it's
just it's just like such great memories of running around
in a park and and just kind of having freedom
as a kid running around and seeing the game, of
being around the game. Joe still looking, still looking so

(21:58):
waiting for the way in my py Uh. Mine's probably
baseball too, but I can't stand baseball anymore. So it's
kind of weird. Doesn't really want to know. Said I'm
gonna I'm gonna complete the Holy Trinity. For me, it
was baseball to um all the signs of change. It's yeah,
I mean we my dad loved baseball. He got us
into baseball. That's why I'm a Dodger fan growing up

(22:20):
in New York, because he grew up in Brooklyn and
stated Dodger fan when they moved to l a UM
and that's what I remember. I remember, you know, being
young and and watching Dodging games and um going out
in the yard and playing baseball. It was definitely my
first love question. Yeah, we talked about you know, we
talked about the tape all this weekend. We had a
whole tapeball discussion. Oh yeah, how we and all the

(22:42):
different games, right, all the different What's great about what
what's great about baseball is that you can as a kid,
you can play different variations of the same game. Right,
you can play stickball, you can play whiffleball, you can
play tape ball, because all these different It's a bat
in a ball, right, somebody throwing it, and you can
do And we used to have we used to play
running bases. You're play running basis? No, what's that? So

(23:06):
it was almost like so you'd have you have two
you'd have two bases at either end, and two people
with gloves like and everybody else would get in the middle,
and you throw the ball back and forth and you
have to run back and forth to the basis and
you could like slide in and have a play at
one base and then if you you know, if you
got caught, then you were one of the people with

(23:26):
the glove. And so we used to play that for hours. Um,
you know, we play stoop ball where you throw the
ball off the stoop and try to hit it into
the street for home run. There's so many variations of baseball.
You guys ever played cup ball? This is when we
always played. You'd be at the ballpark and maybe your
game got done in your brother was playing, or another
family member someone was playing. You'd waught up a plastic

(23:48):
cup or a paper cup, and then you just use
your hand as the bat. That's no, that's that's that's
really that, Travis. I don't yeah, I mean that feel
actually feel better for you now. Actually. In recent news,
Dean Blandino donates one thousand whiffleballs and baseball bets to
the city of Casper, Wyoming. I'm gonna stand for those

(24:12):
poor children that grew up like Travis hitting Dixie cups
around the baseball with their hands. You make, you make
do what you have you do. And on that note,
let's take a break. We co come back. We'll get
an update. Where are we with the four major sports
as we prepare for a return next on good Calls?

(24:50):
All right, we're back on good call. Let's uh, let's
get an update. Let's talk a little bit about the
latest and strong the NFL um obviously look, we're getting
more cases of COVID, more testing. As these players, uh
start to get tested more and more, we're getting you know,

(25:10):
more positive results. And that's that's the reality that's going
to happen. Um. I think you know, everybody's experiencing that.
We're experiencing spikes in certain states where people have have
gotten you know, opened up and and you know, reading
that Florida and UM, I think the concern always has been,
you know, not just the cases, but you know, the

(25:33):
hospital and overloading the hospitals and then what you know,
how serious are these cases? Are these people are symptomatic?
What you know? What what what is going to result
from this? So it's all still I mean, it feels
like right, everybody wants to get back to normal. And
I think with all of the George Floyd, everybody I
think focused on that, you know properly, but but COVID

(25:57):
didn't go away, and and and I think we're back
to um everybody kind of realizing that, hey, this is
this is still a thing, and uh and we have
to we have to figure this out. So I know,
the nfl UM nfl p A medical director Tom Mayor
UM released a statement saying that that players shouldn't be
practicing together, but of course who was practicing? Travis? What

(26:22):
what are we calling him? He's the habitual line stepper
is what I called him earlier today. Um, just Tom Brady,
He's he and at least a dozen teammates were out
working out together, so he's speaking of speaking. He put
the heat, put the photos out with it with no excuses.
I saw the one, and I like Tom and and

(26:44):
and I think, you know, I just we just need
to be smart about this because and I think, look,
they could be working out and and practicing social distancing, right.
They don't have to be you know, you're throwing a football,
you're running round, you don't have to be on top
of each other. You could be six ft apart and
talk and understand what they're trying to accomplish. So I

(27:06):
think they can be smart about it. So so I
wouldn't jump jump to any conclusions. What I will do
is I sent you guys a video and I'd like
for you to watch it now. Um. This was a
video of Novak Djokovic, who who um put this tennis
tournament together with no social distancing guidelines, and it was

(27:27):
just reported that he tested positive for COVID and watch
the video. This is the after party, So pull that up, Travis,
you're listening, just google YouTube Novak Djokovic party. Wow, Well
he tested positive. He did he? Which one is he?

(27:51):
There's a dozen shirtless dudes. He doesn't. He has a
shirt line. So now, oh my gosh, it's like the Worm.
Who is that? I don't think. I don't think Novac
does the Worm. But there's one point. No, he's wearing
his shirt and he's and he has he's on stage

(28:11):
and he has like I don't know if they're glow sticks,
but there's some kind of glow apparatus. Oh yeah, what
are those? Those are? They look like glow torches? Almost, Yeah,
he has some kind of glow. Again, being a former WIDO,
I know all about the glow sticks and I definitely
want whatever he has. But but so, needless to say,

(28:33):
he's tested positive. And his wife, who has also at
this event, and his wife, they're they're clearly not not
practicing social distance in this video. And this is the
difference between this is there's there's you can be responsible
and you can be irresponsible. This is irresponsibility at its

(28:54):
finest here and we're not out of this yet, and
if we want sports to return, we have to do
the right thing. And we can't have because what's gonna
happen is if we're not practicing social distancing guidelines, then
we're gonna have a spike in cases and and we're
not gonna have the sports return, and we're gonna be
stuck back like we were, you know, in April, um

(29:17):
in May, and it's gonna suck. So well, I'm just
gonna say it. I really wish I was at that party.
I want to. I want to look in a different
world if we didn't live in the world we live
in today. I want to party with Novak Djokovic, like like, no,
no ads of bus about it, like I want in.

(29:38):
I just want to. I just don't want a party
like that in the middle of a pandemic. That's all
we can. We take that move, hopefully get everybody vaccinated
and and I'm in. I'm in for the tournament. I'll
buy a ticket. I want to go to the after party.
I'm in because it looks like a good time. But yeah,
not the right time to be doing it, for sure,

(29:58):
just not the right time. Um So back in the NFL,
NFL and the NFL p A will have a call
on Wednesday, uh and UH, and that's to go over
the guidelines. I think some of the clubs are still
concerned about UM. The NFL put out guidelines in terms
of personnel and their access in the facility two players UM.

(30:19):
They put them into tiers Tier one, Tier two three,
Tier three, Tier one, like coaches and UM strength and
conditioning coaches, people that that have hands on with the
players there in tier one, Tier two UM, or even
people as important as a GM, a team president who
will will not have as much access on a daily basis,

(30:41):
you know, close proximity with players there in tier two
UM and then tier three or or everybody else UM.
I think some of the clubs are just concerned with
the numbers because you know, just talking to a couple
of clubs, there are clubs that have their facility and
their stadium right in the same you know, compound, and
they're gonna split. They're gonna split. They're gonna have part

(31:02):
of their team in the stadium and part of their
team in the facility, so they can practice social distancing
because there's lockers, right there's lockers in the stadium, there's
lockers in the facility, and if you're gonna be six
ft apart, most of these, whether it's a stadium or
the facility on its own, doesn't have the space to
handle that. So they're gonna be split. You're gonna have
to You're gonna have to basically have have maintenance personnel

(31:25):
that's gonna have to clean and disinfect, um and do
all of that. And I think some clubs are concerned about, Okay,
if I have a max of let's say eight people
in Tier one, are my cleaning people? A part of
that is that going to count? Whereas you know, I
also have people that are on the medical side that
need access to the players when they're recovering from you know,

(31:47):
from injuries. Whether it's a chiropractor, whether it's a mussus,
whether it's the athletic trainer. Um can they can they
be flexible with those numbers. So I think that's something
that we'll see UM coming out of this call, and
the league is going to have to clearly define you know,
who has access to players UM and UH and what
you know, what they can do because because again think

(32:08):
about it, there's still there's still they're waiting for training
camp start dates. They're waiting for the protocols there, um,
travel protocols, media put protocols, um who you know who
can be a practice? Are there going to be practices
where the media can come like in in a normal world.
All of these things have to be figured out. And
then obviously the testing, what happens when somebody tests positive, Um,

(32:31):
it's a lot, it's a lot. And and and I
think everybody's optimistic that the NFL will play, and I
and I'm optimistic. I do feel like the NFL has
a greater chance than college football, just because college football
there's so many layers we've already seen. I think one
college was about a Bowden. Bowden College has already canceled
fall athletics. It's a small Division three college. Obviously that's

(32:54):
not how state. But it is a possibility that other
colleges could allow suit if they're not going to have
students on campus, if they're concerned about about the social
distancing and everything else. So it's it's gonna be interesting
to see how that how that plays out. Hopefully we'll
have more information, but again, in all of this, it

(33:15):
couldn't have happened at a better time for the NFL,
right just the end of their season. They have all
off season to work through this, where the other sports
obviously have been impacted greater um and jumping to the
other sports. MLB a lot of news, a lot of
news on MLB. So the owners, the owners did put
forth a schedule, sixty game schedule. That's what they're gonna play.

(33:37):
And look what this means is unless the players strike,
which would be completely just insane, we're gonna have a
baseball season. Right unless the players strike, or obviously something
happens with COVID where it just makes it it's just unsafe.
But if if that doesn't happen to COVID aside, then

(33:57):
then we're gonna have a baseball season sixty games. Um.
What's interesting is that, right that the owners we're proposing
all these different deals and and basically what it came
down to was the players are gonna get thirty seven
percent of their out of their salary. And when you
think about thirty seven, thirty seven percent of their salary,
Mike Trout, who's the highest paid player in baseball for what,

(34:23):
what do you think Mike Trout is gonna make thirty
seven percent of his annual salary seven million, how much
Travis and I don't remember what his number is. Fourteen,
he'll make fourteen out of its thirty seven roughly thirty
seven and a half million dollar annual salary. He'll get
fourteen million the major league minimum at thirty seven percent,

(34:46):
will will still be two eight thousand dollars. So so again,
that's that's a that's still a good salary for most people. Um,
but you think about major league baseball players making two
hundred thousand dollars a year that you know into twenty twenty,
that seems unheard of. How is he supposed to live
off of that kind of money? Dean, what do they
expect two hundred If you can't live off two hundred

(35:08):
thousand dollars a year. Trout, he doesn't. Trout doesn't strike
me as the guy that's living the extravagant lifestyle. He
just doesn't. He see, he's from Philly, blue collar. Just
doesn't doesn't strike me as somebody that's driving around and

(35:28):
like you forget it, like it even for me, Like
I grew up very blue collar. But if I was
making thirty seven million dollars a year in the High life.
Let me do you I wouldn't. I wouldn't be driving.
I wouldn't be driving a Tesla Ji. I wouldn't. I

(35:51):
wouldn't be driving. Uh. You know, I wouldn't be living in, uh,
you know, a two bedroom condo. I'd be in a
being a much too much nicer spot. But anyway, so
that's the deal with salary. But what's interesting about sixty
games schedule? UM playoffs will still be ten teams, So

(36:12):
you're still gonna have your You're still gonna have your
ten teams UM in in the playoffs. But some of
these rules that that I've read that are going to
be implemented for UM, it looks like the universal d H.
So the N I will have a DH for only,
which I hope and pray that that's it, because I
hate the d H and I want the d H

(36:34):
to never be in the NL. Well, originally they wanted
it for this season, and one season they players said
no way, thank you players for that, Thank you M
L P p A. So it will be for this season. UM.
First health and safety, right and uh and then UM.
But the one that's really interesting that that I'm not

(36:54):
sure if a lot of people know this is for
the regular season. They're going to use the minor league
extra innings rule, and so after the ninth inning, if
the score is tied, each half inning will start with
a runner on second base. So that's gonna be in
the major leagues this year. In the regular season, it'll
be it'll be the guy that made out the last inning,

(37:18):
he will be the runner. He'll start on second base,
so it's nobody out man on second and if that runs,
if that run scores, it's an unearned run. It's like
he got on. So just just imagine every half inning
will start with a two base error, like a guy
getting and and that's gonna be. So they don't want, right,
they don't want the players, they don't want fifteen sixteen,

(37:39):
seventeen in the games. Um. So from that perspective it
makes sense. But it's so gimmicky, like it's just like
I don't want to watch I don't want to watch
a guys start on second base and then we're gonna
get into which I like small ball, but we're gonna
now we're gonna bump them over to third and then
and then sat or the run and then the next
next team is gonna do that, and we're gonna go
We're gonna go to another at stranding and then it's

(38:01):
just so it definitely doesn't cut down the probability of
the game ending sooner or quicker. That's the idea though,
I know, but but but the scenario you just played
out like that is what teams do. Like if you
get a guy in second, you almost think like we're
going to score, Like you think we're going to score
on a a second nobody out. I don't know what the
percentages are, but I would imagine it's a pretty good

(38:24):
percentage of score. Right, you still gotta right, you gotta
get him to third and then right man out third,
one out, you right, if you if you're playing baseball
the way it's supposed to be played, you hit the
ball on the right side or you get you know,
you get it in the air to the outfield and
you not comment and you get you get the RB.
I right, So, but it's it is, it's just it's

(38:45):
just crazy to think baseball is always like they've had rules, right,
you have rules like the the All Star Game decided
the World Series, which I would have thought, which I
thought was so crazy. Thank thankfully they got rid of that,
but they're not. They're not scared to kind to go
outside the box and try different things. So, um, kudos
to them. It was our first love, right, all three

(39:07):
of us. So I like this rule, but not in
a shortened season where every single game is gonna mean
so much like maybe it's gonna count, right, every every
one of those sixty games is gonna be huge, as
they like to say huge, and and it's gonna be interesting.
And then we talked about teams, right that are the

(39:28):
does does a sixty game season? Which teams doesn't help,
which teams doesn't hurt? And to me, you know, you
always look at the best teams, right, the best teams
over a hundred and sixty two games season will will
play out, right, the cream will rise to the top. Right,
so you have your you know, who are the favorites
going into even before this, right, not because I'm a fan,

(39:52):
but the Dodgers had to be one of the favorites too, right,
the you know, the Astros. I'll hate to say, um,
but you have you have certain teams that that are
you know, favored to be um, you know at the
end of the season, And I think it hurt those
teams in a sixty games sprint if you think about, right,

(40:14):
you get an injury, you get a bad right, you
just you know, the team goes cold, you get a
bad start. If the team, if the team goes you know,
like a team starts out. You know, five and five
and twenty, right, hundred sixty two games season, you can
you can about five in a sixty game season, you've

(40:34):
already played over a third of the games. You gotta
go on some kind of tear. So it is going
to I think the start is gonna be key. And
if any one of those favorites stumble out of the gate,
it could mean that we're you know that we're looking
at um, we're looking at some teams that maybe people
didn't think about. And it always happens, right, you look

(40:56):
at in a it's like a short series in postseason, right,
the five team series. The better teams sometimes you get
a hot picture, you get a team that's hitting the
ball really well. Those those teams that aren't as good
on paper can win those five games series. Where you
think a seven game series usually the best team is
going to play out and with But so it'll be
interesting to see how that all plays out. Yeah, you've

(41:16):
got to think it favors the teams that have like
veteran pitching staff. Who you know, these guys who have
gotten a little extra time to recover the during the
during the COVID, like they'll be able to, you know,
like a natural national team. Like their chances repeating are
probably a little bit better now when you have a
Strasburg and and uh what kind of thing of his
name here? S Yeah, you have those two guys, like

(41:39):
those two veteran pitchers who have had a lot of
time to rest now and if they come out just
pitching lights out, like, well, I'm gonna win every every
couple of games. Think about your pitching staff, right, you
don't you don't have to save people's arms, right, sixty
games there's no innings counts. Right, you don't have to.
You don't have to give guys extra rest. You can start,
you can start on your normal five days rest, um,

(42:02):
and pitch. You don't have to worry about in a
sixty games season. Um, some of these veteran pictures, like
you said, they can they don't have to. They don't
have to save themselves in the postseason because they were
in the stretch run like you're already because you think
about if we're playing a sixty game season, a hundred
two games in, you know, where are we We're like
in August, right, you know, we're we're already, you know,

(42:26):
nearing towards the end of you know, the latter part
of the season. And uh, it's gonna be interesting, uh
to see how it all plays out. I just hope, pope,
hope that we do get a season. Um, well, the
players have agreed to we it's more breaking news during
the show. This is maybe our new favorite time to record,
it said, the mL B p A has agreed to
report to camp on July one to play the sixty

(42:48):
game season. Yeah, I mean that was that. I don't
think that's a surprise. Like I said, they would have
had the strike and that would have been completely disastrous, catastrophics.
Let's go, they're gonna report the camp and it looks
like you know, and that's the thing, if they if
they had, if they had gotten the labor stuff out
of the way, we might we might have been steeing
real games on July four instead of you know, the

(43:09):
end of July August, Like we are gonna now contest
is still going on though, So we're good with that.
No fans though, No fans of the hot dog eating contest.
No fans. Oh, the hot dog eating contest is still
going on. Yeah, it's six ft apart. They're gonna be
six ft apart. It is gonna be. It's interesting cause

(43:33):
I'm not traveling every year. I usually going back to
New York on July fourth last couple of years, and
this will be my first four in California for a
little bit. Um, so that'll be case somebody's interested. That's
my Travis MLB okay uh NHL. Not a ton they are.
I'm reading that they're narrowing down the two hub cities. Um.

(43:56):
It sounds like to me, if I had to, if
I had to put money on it, I like Vegas
and I like to ront them as my two Toronto
in the east Vegas in the west. Um, but it
sounds like there's still there's still a lot to be
decided there. They're supposed to announce the two hub cities
in a week or so. Canada does present some issues, Um,

(44:20):
Canada has you know, they have restricted travel over the
border in and out of Canada until I believe July's
nineteen twentie somewhere and there, So that obviously will be
something to keep an eye on. And uh, you know
players testing positive. Austin Matthews, Um, who you know? Superstar
Toronto maple leafs um is uh was tested positive. So

(44:43):
again you're just gonna have to keep monitoring this and
we're gonna hear about these tests. Um. That's the other thing. Um,
are you guys okay you're okay with me saying huge?
Are you okay that the Toronto maple leafs floral are
not the leaves? Are you cool with that? I've never
even thought about that. That's it's not quite right, is it.
I'm not okay with that? You're not you'd rather than

(45:05):
be the maple leaves. Well, it's dramatically correct. I think
we have to stick to that, right, I think. But
they've always been the maple leaves. You never realized. Honestly,
I've never even thought about that. And then this is
the first time. Yeah, they're the maple leaves. Well, I
know their name, but I never thought about Yeah, I know,
I had never thought about that until this week. There's

(45:26):
a lot of breaking news in this show. July one
is the is the day the restriction is lifted between
so they might not affect them unless they extend it.
I've got a question for you, Dean, since we talked
a little about the hot dog eating contest? What do
you think the over under is on the winner? Sixty travel?

(45:50):
I was gonna say sixty five? Seventy one and a half?
Good god? How many did he eat last time? Well? Not, well,
now you're you're asking me questions. I'm not any four. Well,
Joey chest Out has won the last However many What
did he eat last year? Let's see hot dog eating
record four? No, but he didn't eat seventy four last year? Yeah,

(46:15):
contest hot dogs in ten minutes nineteen? Who won the
hot dog eating contest twenty nine? Well, I know he
won it. I'm looking for seventy one. Speaking of thrown
up after workout, you consider this a workout? And do
you throw up after this? Who could have to throw up?
I'd love to see. I want to see if you

(46:36):
could eat seventy one hot dogs in twenty four hours.
I couldn't. Couldn't four years. I don't think I could.
I did. The way they do it, and that the
competitive eating is fascinating because it's a it's a whole,
it's a whole like thing. It's a movement. And they
go and there's all these records like you could if
you if you look, you could google you know most

(46:59):
most um hard boiled eggs in in ten minutes, most
you know, chili peppers, and it's insane. They do they
set these records and they actually work out, they expand
their stomach. There's a there's a science to this because
the the the human stomach is not designed and neither
is the human stomach. Oh, stomach has a silent age.

(47:22):
Nobody makes it makes a deal about that. But the
it's not it wasn't made to take in seventy hot
dogs and buns in what is it, twelve minutes, ten minutes,
ten minutes. That's seven hot dogs in a minute. And
think about think about the advances in hot dog eating

(47:43):
when it when I think it was Koba Yashi who
started the technique of wetting the buns to allow for
easier you know, intake Like it's not you know, maybe
that's what we should do for the fourth of July.
Me you know, I'm not going to be a hot
dogs and just see if you could do seventy in
a day, I'm the three of us. I don't think

(48:04):
could do seventies. Three dude, we could definitely do hot
dogs if I if I go to barbecue and I
have two hot dogs with bonds and then I'm full, like,
I'm like good, Like did you say Mayo? What did
you say? Mayo? No mustard? Okay, I thought you said Mayo.
I was gonna We're gonna go down on the path

(48:26):
anything Mayo should be like band, there's nothing good, there's
no redeeming quad. Another interesting fact about the hot dogging.
He's a minus eleven hundred favorite. That's a huge favorite.
He's there's nobody that touches him. Now, it's not even
it's not a it's a question of whether he can
break his own record. That's it. I might get into this,
but still minus eleven hundred is that that's still not

(48:49):
the biggest underdog in history, the biggest faith one Tyson. Right, Yeah,
well it started there. I think it went off of
whatt I landed at thirty six. I'll look it up.
But we talked about it before. Okay, Um, all right, well,
who let's let's next week. Let's lay some. Let's Joe

(49:11):
put some that's out for us on the hot dog
eating contest, and next week we'll make some predictions. All right,
let's go to break. When we come back, I don't know,
we'll talk about stuff. I don't know what we're gonna
talk about. We're gonna talk about this stuff. Show forty

(49:32):
two next on Good Calls. All right, we're back on
Good Calls. And in honor of our forty second show,

(49:52):
we want to discuss who was the greatest player to
wear a number forty two? UM, so many great players.
But I think, and I'll be sleep as we think
about what's happening in the country today. It certainly is appropriate.
But to me with forty two, it starts and ends
with Jackie Robinson. I mean, if you think about how many,
how many players, UM have a day in their sport

(50:16):
where everybody wears their number right on Jackie Robinson Day,
when Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in in Major
League Baseball, UM, everybody wears forty two. I believe now
that the number is retired across the sports. Correct And uh,
And you know so for me, I think we take

(50:37):
Jackie Robinson out of it and and and he kind
of at the he's at the top, and then we
kind of say, okay, who who is the next best
to wear forty two? And there there were some legit
forty two's and just to name a few, Ronnie Lott,
Mariano Rivera, Sid Luckman, James Worthy, Paul wall of Field,

(51:00):
Bruce Sutter, mo Van Pat Tillman. I mean, out of
that group you're talking about, I mean, that's the cream
of the crop right there. Um. You know, I think,
staying with baseball, you probably for me, of that list,
it's tough, but I think it's for me, it's between

(51:23):
Lot and Marianna. Yeah, I think those are the two. Yeah,
those are the two favorites for me as well. I
think you look at obviously James Worthy was an unbelievable players,
Sid Luckman, Um, Paul Warfield, Bruce Suitter, who was who
was you know, really you think about the age of
the closer, and Bruce Suitter was one of the first
great closers, um along you know during that you know exactly, Um,

(51:47):
you know, ma Vaughn great player. I don't think more
Vaughan is in the category, um of some of these
other guys and certainly Pat Tilman. I think Pat Tilman
as a symbol what what heat repres zended. I think
that's um. You know, certainly a great player played at
Arizona State, played for the Cardinals. But I think what
he represented somebody in the prime of their career going

(52:08):
off to to serve his country and ultimately paying the
greatest sacrifice. UM is certainly the symbol. UM is amazing
in the person that he was. But if we're talking
about on the field performance, it's Rivera and Ronnie Lot right,
and these are two, um, two guys that that are

(52:32):
in the are I don't think it's a debate with Rivera, UM,
and it's probably a maybe there's a debate, but I
still think he's number one at their position, right, Maria
Mariano Rivera, As much as it pains me to say,
because I hate the Yankees, is the greatest closer revolves,
without a doubt unanimous Hall of Fame, the only player

(52:54):
that's gone into the Hall of Fame unanimously, Which is
crazy that there's only been one, right, Like that's crazy,
Like baseball writers, get your shipped together. Stop being an asshole, seriously,
because because if if if guys like William Mays and
Sandy Kolfax and and and Ted Williams and and you know,
Hank Aaron aren't getting in unanimously. But what what are

(53:17):
we doing? Like? What is that about? So but Marion
ribera Yes, um, greatest closed of all the time, Ronnie Lot,
you know who who? Who else would you put in
the same category from a safety perspective? You know better
than Ronny Lot, you know, just trying to think of
you know, Paula Mallo, I think Ed Reid, You've got

(53:39):
you know, I'm trying to think of of of players
from from that era seventies and eighties, UM into the
into the nineties. UM, you know probably you know, I
think those are those are so guys, those are some
of the guys. I just want to let me see
how Google Night Trying Lane was he had was he
he was a quarter back? He was Sean Taylor was

(54:01):
a corner to Was he a safety? Sean Taylor was
It was a safety. And I don't know if Sean
Taylor played enough. I'll tell you what you know. Finn
Jim Finn, who was on the show. He's a friend
of mine. And when I asked him, who was the
nastiest duty's ever faced. He said, without a doubt, Sean Taylor. J.
Taylor was monster doud. I mean Sean Taylor was on

(54:22):
was on those those Miami you know hurricane teams. UM.
Some of the guys listed here. You know you've got
Jack Tatum Um probably more remembered for the Daryl Stingley hit.
Brian Dawkins played, UM played more recently. Doron Cherry was
a great player with the Chiefs. UM, Willie Wood Um

(54:42):
old man Willie Um. You've got some Ed Reid. We
mentioned Steve Attwater, great player. Remember they hit on on
Christian McCoy U. Joe mentioned Troy Palamalo, Larry Wilson played
with the Cardinals Hall of Famer. UH, Paul Krausse played.
I have a question for going through my list, it's

(55:06):
maybe three or four guys. Here's my question, and since
you have some inside NFL information, was the cutting of
the fingers off thing? Is that a true story? Is
that a math? It's a true story. And I'll tell
you running a lot of story. Here's here's my Ronnie
lot So. Yes, it's a true story. UM. One of
the greatest stories it was. You know that he was
either you know, he wasn't gonna be able to play.

(55:28):
And then they said, okay, just and it's not his
whole pinky, it's it's you ever me running a lot.
It's it's part of the pinky. It's like the top half.
So he has like a nub um and yes, like
you know, just get rid of it and and and
he can play. Here's my my running a lot story.
Ronnie lot Um was on. There was a there's a

(55:49):
group called the Player Safety Advisory Panel UM, which is
a group of former players, coaches, um, medical people that
John Madden shares with the NFL and they they advised
the commissioner and the Competition Committee on issues related to
obviously players safety. Righty Lott was on this was on
this panel. And uh and so you know I used

(56:10):
to be on conference calls with them and worked with
coach Matten on it and meetings and and I remember
it was two thousand ten, two thousand eleven, and then
this was when the league really started to look at
hits on defenseless players, especially hits on receivers. And if
you remember the Steelers at that time, you know, we're

(56:31):
coming off the Super Bowl championship, they had, you know,
James Harrison and some of these guys in the secondary,
Ryan Clark and some of these Troy Palamalo, big big hitters,
and and there was just some high profile hits that
were illegal in the league really started to crack down
on those hits. And it was a big, big bone
of contention with the players, especially the defensive backs and

(56:54):
the safeties. Um saying that, how how do you expect
me to make that play? When the receiver right, the
receiver jumps to catch a pass, my aiming point is
in the chest, and then the receiver comes down to
the ground and I end up getting him in the head.
How am I supposed to adjust at full speed? And
and it was interesting now here. I am like, right,

(57:15):
I'm in officiating. I can't tell Troy Palamalo or Ryan
Clark or Brian Dawkins. I can't tell them what they
can and can't do, right. I can only tell them
what the rule is and what you have to avoid.
So hearing from me was only gonna go so far.
But Ronnie Lot Ronnie Lock got up and said, listen,

(57:35):
he said, early in my career and this is running.
Lock played right in the in the eighties and nineties.
This was we're talking about two thousand and ten and beyond.
He said, early on in my career, I realized that
I had to change the way I played or else
I wasn't gonna play in the National Football League very well.
I was. I was going to injure myself and I
wasn't gonna play. So that carried so much weight when

(57:58):
somebody like Ronnie lots Is, Hey, I changed the way
I played. I was able to do it. You can too,
and and and it was just like, okay, like, you know,
screw that Blandino guy, Ronnie a lot. You know, this
is a guy that is, you know, consider the greatest
safety of all time, considered one of the toughest, biggest
hitters of all time. And he said, look, you can't adjust,

(58:21):
and you have to adjust or you're not gonna stay
in this league very long. And that really hit home.
And I remember him telling me, Ronnie telling me that,
telling it to the players, and uh, and it was
really important to to to hear that, because again, those
players safety rules are there to not just protect the
player getting it, but there to protect the player who's
who gets who delivers the hit, And uh, and so

(58:41):
that was you know, I thought Ronnie Lott stepped up
and uh and really made an impact there. So that's
a that's a great story. Like we didn't know going
into this show when I was putting the rundown together,
like that was gonna come out of it. Like the
stories that you have are just it's amazing. And one
thing I take away from that Ronnie lot stories, it
just shows you the great player just make adjustments and

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and these guys who always make make excuses about stuff
like yeah, they just they just they go away and
they were And then Mike Tomlin made another comment in
a meeting where you know, this is a guy that
you know, was coaching a team that was you know,
that was winning. Um because of how physical they played
and because of the you know a lot of you
know a lot of what they were doing on the

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defensive side of all. They had good offense as well,
um with Roethlisberger and and and and and some of
the guys on the offensive side, but defense was what
was doing it. And that's always been the Steelers kind
of calling card um. And we kept hearing over and over,
how am I, how am I supposed to make that play?
If I if I if I can't hit that guy
in the head because of where my body is positioned,

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I can't. I can't not hit him in the head.
How am I supposed to make that play? And Mike
Tomlin stood up, and this is a guy who has
a lot riding on on these games, and he said,
you know what, sometimes you just can't make that play.
You know, you just can't make playing that That's that's
the reality of it. If you if you've got to
hit him in the head, you can't make that play

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that way because you're gonna hurt yourself, you're gonna hurt
the player, you're gonna hurt the team. And we've got
to figure out another way to do it. And and
that's the the amazing part about what NFL athletes. And
I'm sure it's for other sports, but my experiences with
NFL players, they adjust whatever rule change you throw at them,
they adjust, and the fouls may you may get an

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uptick initially, but they tend to level off because players adjust,
coaches adjust, and they know what they're doing. They know
what techniques to teach, they know how to coach bad
technique out of the game. And you still see fifteen
and sixteen fouls a game historically, even with all the
players safety rules that have been added over the last
however many years. And that's that's because the players and

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coaches know what they're doing and they know how to
adjust and uh and and that's you know, that's what
it is. But um so, if we're gonna say Mary
Anno versus Ronnie Lott, who's the greatest forty two outside
of Jackie Robinson, I'm voting for a lot. Dude cut
his finger off, can't lose. You can't see Mariana River

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being cut off my finger. Let me go pitch. Nor
is his left hand? Maybe listen? And he pitched one
inning a game. I'm sorry. He was great at what
he did. But you pitched one in a game. Bro,
this guy's out there, did you just wrote? Marianna River wrote,

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so toughness factor record the day, toughness Factor. And you
pitched one inning. Bro, Let's put it on a shirt, Bro,
you pitch one in in Bro. If I was negotiating
his contract and his agent came, was like, we want bro,
you pitch one inning. Let's extract it like that. Of course,
the whole scene, I think Stein Burner said that to
them one time, to his agents, like, Bro, he pitches

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me and Steinbrenner got a lot in coming, Travis, Um,
I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go with Ronny a lot
because when you think of big hits, and if you
pull up the tape on that guy, the hits are incredible,
Like he just hits people. They go down and he
kind of just doesn't look like he's even phased. We
had him recently on one of the FS one shows
in the in the highlights that were playing when he

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was talking, the guy just leveled people and it just
never seemed to face and he cut his finger off.
And you know you pitched, Bro, you pitched one inning.
I think I don't. And look I am I am
as I am as anti Yankee fan as you will
ever find um. And I always I do recognize the
greatness of Marianna Rivera, and he does. He did only

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pitch one inning, Bro, but it was the most important inning.
And if we if anything, if anything, if anything history
has taught us about baseball is the hardest three outs
are the last three ounds. And those Yankee teams didn't
have to worry about then ninth inning especially in the postseason.

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He was to worry about the last three outs I've watched,
I've watched. I'm a Dodger fan, whatever team it is,
you don't it was over, like it was over. The
closest that I experienced that from my team was when
Eric Ganyer, and we know that that he wasn't doing it,
you know, cleanly. But when Eric Ganyer, you know, saved

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whatever the record was, saves in a row like it
was the lights out. He came in and the game
was over. And that's what rap Rivera was throughout his career,
especially in the postseason. All that said, screw the Yankees running. Yeah,
my cat, the Yankees is there to revent. Mariano Rivera

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closed that way to when he gains against my Twins
of days. Twins crushed me every because I want the
Yankees to lose. It's like, oh, the play Twins, playing
the Twins, and it's like it's not even like a series.
Now have won a game in New York in thirty years, right, it's, oh,
my god, like it. And they've had good teams all right.

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The other here's one that I wanted to throw at you.
I was thinking about this the other day. Um the
timing right. We have an hour, and I broke up
the hour into four fifteen minutes segments, which fifteen minute
minutes segment in the hour goes longest, feels the longest,
and which feels the shortest the longest in our strongest. No,

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in life, when you when you're sitting there and you
have an hour, right, it's coming to say, it's coming
up on four o'clock is four to four fifteen, four fifteen,
four thirty, four thirty to four forty five or four
forty five to five o'clock, which feels like the last one,
the last one feel the longest, Yeah, because you start

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to get that anticipation like I'm almost getting ready to leave. Yeah,
I wanted to go down with something fun. Well, you
have to you have to tell us that I'm thinking
of ji. I just think on it on on. In general,
for me, the one that feels the longest, I don't
know why is thirty. I don't know why, Like, what

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is going on in your head? Do you actually think
about these things? Quarrantine dude? So here's the other thing
for me, how do you picture how do you picture
time in your mind? I don't or or or dates.
How do you picture that? Or days of the week?
See I picture it. I pictured day days of the week.
There's boxes and it goes from right to left and

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Monday is the Sunday is the first box, and then Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
and it gets progressively the shading changes as you go
through the week. Wow, you draw? Can you put this together?
And I want an need to see this? What are
you like, rain man? Now? What's going on? That's what
I picture in my mind. The same thing for the

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calendar in the month. It starts at one and it
goes right to left and it works its way up
and each It's like a calendar, but it's not like
what you would normally picture a calendar. It's one line
that goes across. Okay, it's a timeline. Yeah, it's just
a timeline. You know how I picture of a calendar.
Just open up your iPhone. It looks exactly like that

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goes the longest. For me, I've never once even considered
thinking about that. Yeah, I have to. I have to
go with Joe on that. Like the only thing I
would instantly think of. I wouldn't think of the fun
things I'm doing. It's like you're not watching the clock.
When you're doing that. It's like when you're thinking about
getting out of work and you're like, Okay, can I
duck out of here a little early? All right? So
you're you're thinking about getting out of work. You have

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an hour left, you have an hour left in your day,
and you know you can leave at five o'clock. It's
now four o'clock. Which one of those fifteen minutes segments
is going to go the quickest? And which one? And
you're doing the same thing, whatever your job is, you're
doing the same thing. Which one is going to feel
the quickest and which one is gonna feel the longest.
I have to think the longest is just the last

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fifteen minutes. See, I don't think that way because at
that you're already at the end. I kiss. Yeah, you see,
you're on the downslope of it. Maybe that four four
thirty you're like, oh man, that's like, I just get
the four thirty. I'll be, I'll be. I'm in the clear.
I'm on the slope. But I want to get to
four five because now i'll start packing up. You convinced me,
so now I'm packing. So four thirty to four five

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is the biggest hump. See which set of your intensive
exercise or whatever it was, is the hardest. It's always
the last. No, it's not. It's not the last because
you're you can see the light at the end of
the tunnel. That's this might be a poll. We should
put this out because I think it's the end. I

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agree because when I'm doing these workout classes with my wife,
I didn't want to talk about it earlier. I do
these thirty minute workout classes my wife now in the garage.
I don't throw up after him. But I tell you
what when that when that instructor on YouTube tells me
ten seconds left, I'm like, gripping hard. I'm going, I'm going,
and I'm down ten pounds two Dean. Nice workouts with

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your wife. Huh yeah, all right, that's cool. We're going
to motivate her and she motivates me. Where are the
eight kids when you guys are working out the two kids?
This is the one time in the day when their
naps will line up and we're able to get outside
for a half hour. All right, cool? All right, well,
let's you got a bonus. Let's go. Let's do bringing
Blendino people that smoke indoors? Okay, people who smokes indoors anymore?

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My aunt, my aunt does who smokes anymore? Period? Who smoked? No,
there's people still smoke, but who people that smoke indoor
is our next level? Like that's next level if you like,
there's something. I'm not a smoker, and kids, remember don't smoke, okay, right,
but there's some there's kind of like a badass tery

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element to somebody that just lights just in in your
living room like a guest and just lights one up.
There's just like like that's that's giving absolutely no And
and that was the norm for how long. Like we
could smoke on airplanes back in the day. On airplanes,
you could smoke in an office. You could smoke. Like

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there wasn't a boardroom in America where people weren't just
right smoking eaters Like you're pretty you're pretty old, Dean
was did you ever? Were you ever on a plane
when people were smoking? No? God, how horrible that would be.
I mean, I remember I remember bars. I remember bars,
and I remember smoking section in restaurants. Restaurants, Remember the

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way in the non smoking section was too long. I'd
be like, all right, I'll go sit in the smoking
section and then I'd get a pack of Marlboros from
the from the cigarettes machine. Horrible. I don't even like
doing Vegas casinos anymore because just a hard to breathe. Well,
remember what your clothes smelled like after night out at
the bars and get smoking bars clowes smell like an amstrap. Well,

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that's what I always just always thought of, like asking
people like how long is it until Vegas has smokeless casinos?
Like will that happen? Like I don't know, because then
because they would that would that would eliminate a big,
big portion of their of their customs. Yeah, there's one
at every table, and and there's like just people that
sit at the slots with their bucket and there and there,

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you know, the parliaments and they just go at it
like pulling that we pulling that lever and smoking cigarettes. Um.
But I do think that anybody that smokes indoors is
is next level, Like without question, where did you even
come up with this? Like who's doing that? You've seen
this recently at my aunt nuts my even my brother

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doesn't smoke inside that He'll go outside of the house
and he doesn't give a half about a Yeah, my
brother would even go outside. Now he's actually moved to
the vaping. And then then then that's a whole new thing.
It's like, well it doesn't smell, is it okay? If
I do it inside? Now just go outside, dude. They
want to do it that, they want to do it
in the tesla. Come on, bro, now they're coming no
way right, No, the Tesla. Tesla, I think, doesn't tesla

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have an automatic ejection seat if it smells, No, but
it doesn't know. But it does have a clean air
filter filtration. It definitely does. Elon Musk is putting something
and like you you if you smoke in a Tesla,
they zap your life force and you live on top
of the smoking. You live like an additional five years.
I'm glad we talked about the testa because I was

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gonna bring it up earlier. When you're talking about the cameras,
because the I mean, the Tesla's got cameras all over them.
They're constantly recording. If you scratch my car, I'll know
what it was. You see now, although you're although you can't,
you can't charge you Tesla at the Fox Lot for
all the for all the great the great technology it has.
You can best prank you've ever played. I don't know

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