10-29-24 Hour 1

25 minutes of Yankee Game 3 talk!
Giants problems continue
Why do these injuries keep happening?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's love aking guzz on the voice of the Capitol
Regions Sports fan Fox Sports ninety five, nine and nine.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Eighty live in the GG Toys Studio. That's toys with
a Z. You know, you guys had jelly roll song around.
I am not all right. I'm barely getting by.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
If we could find it a podcast audience, all right,
I don't want to pay for those, right.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
It's just one of those things, man, Like you know, like, look,
I rarely get to be the positive guy about my
teams like you think about it. Like the quintessential Yankee
team for me was nineteen ninety six. That was the
team that you know, like I was. I was born

(00:45):
in seventy six. They they won in seventy eight. So
from seventy eight to ninety six, I convinced kim me,
what a big man you got this. I'm not. I'm not.
I'm barely getting hanging on by my nails, losing track
of day, what is it, lose a sleep and can't

(01:09):
remember if I slept last night.

Speaker 4 (01:10):
That's enough before we get sick.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
I was just saying, man, I was like, I'm feeling,
I was feeling, I was doing I was in the
car with that and a couple of other Stad songs
like I had a break up last night and they're
not done yet, like they still got a game left.
But but like ninety six was the team where all
the experts told you the Braves were gonna win that
thing in like five and then maybe four, okay, six,

(01:34):
you know, so, oh, Braves are just way better than
the yank Yankees are. They're ahead of schedule. They shouldn't
be here yet. And then the Yankees start winning and
it's like, wow, the Braves will win in five, the
Yankees winning it, Braves in six or seven, and then
the Yankees went in and then you're like, whoa, wait
a minute, what happened here? This is amazing? Like this
is this this to be the upset to do that?

(01:56):
And like I I didn't get convinced they were gonna
win until like game two, you know what I mean,
like even game three, maybe I was like sitting there,
I was like, even while they're winning, I'm like, I
don't know if they can do this. I don't now
like sitting here going to this one, I'm like, not
gonna be that guy. But he positive and now I'm
just positive that they needed to win game one. The

(02:18):
way they lost Game one was horrible. Aaron judges on
a milk cart in somewhere, Yo, Pooky, you see that?
Where are that? You ain't see that? Right? All right?
Pooky doesn't know where it is. Uh. Joe goes out
there and has a melt down on the mound. Just
I'm I'm not okay, I'm not okay, I'm not okay. Really, really, yank,

(02:55):
y'all need to listen to this today, because it's again it's.

Speaker 4 (02:58):
I hang out, I hang out with Lly Roll. I
think I would I feel.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
Like jelly Roll and I would be dead in a week.
There's no way two dudes like us can get together
and not just completely exceed all expectations of ingesting whatever
the hell it is we wanted at that moment.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
Of all of all the things to like about jelly Roll,
the comeback story, the late artists in his career, grinding
through it, face tattoos, face tattoos.

Speaker 4 (03:20):
The big man. The one thing I like most about
jelly Roll is he calls people bubba.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, bubba yeah. I don't know why I
call my pets buba bubba yeah, all my pets. I've
always have.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
I'm gonna call my third son coming Bubba. My boys
keep calling him Bubba for baby brother, keeping him Bubba.
I think I like Bubba.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
Let's kids a while. You drop a Bubba on somebody,
it's like a tear turnam of endearment? Is I like it?
But no? Like I yeah, I know, like Jelly roll
and I'd be like sitting there going Mago for a taco.
You too, huh hey, somebody we had one hundred tacos
like and then we'd beat be dead in tacos.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
It's wild that you open with the ninety six comparison.
In somewhere in the back of my brain besides my
Bubba thoughts and Jelly, I also was gonna go with
ninety six and oh nine. Now look, there's Yankee Championships
in between that stretch, but the ninety six and oh
nine comparisons are so similar to what we're watching here
at twenty twenty four. You laid a lout out a
lot of good stuf about ninety six, But the ninety
six comparison is that Atlanta strength in that World Series

(04:20):
seemed to be the difference why people thought that team
would win. It was the starting pitching Hall of famers
been there before, done that, the experience the Vats, some
power in the lineup. That was Atlanta's thing, that would
be the advantage, that would be the difference. That wasn't
the case. The Yankees took advantage in one that series
in two thousand and nine, in the match against the
Philadelphia Phillies. They had better bats in that lineup and

(04:43):
Hall of Fame caliber bats for the New York Yankees.
They were active in free agency. They brought in some
of the biggest names in free agency. They brought in
the biggest name that was a pitcher and the biggest
name that was a hitter, and they brought in cc
into Shia. Now Yammoto was the biggest pitching prospect or
biggest name out there available in the more recent freegency market,

(05:03):
and the biggest hitter. The timeline doesn't have to came
the season before. You already have that to exactly. You
have that, like we see and you ain't got soda.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
You ain't got soda, you know, I mean people don't realize,
like you almost forget about like everybody's so freaked out
about keeping one soda. You forget that. We just went
and got him like we have. We haven't had him.
He's still got a new outfielder. Smell like it's this
is and I I lock it like it's so. It's
so funny because one of the lessons that I continue

(05:35):
to teach my kid and and and her Beyonce, it's
never that bad like you like like he recently, my
my daughter's piance was in a car accident and he
didn't get hurt, but his car was totaled, and it
was like, and he's not in a position right now

(05:56):
to go buy a new vehicle. He's like freaking out,
you know what I mean, he got changing I do
all these things. I'm just sitting there. I'm like, bro,
it's not you think you can't get through it, but
it's not. It's you're gonna look back. You don't even
remember this problem. I'm like, I have. I can tell
you right now fifteen problems that I've had in my life. Well,
I'm not gonna get through this, divorce, this, that and
the other thing. And that is why I can live

(06:18):
through this, this horrible performance in a world series I
have to pull off, like like other terrible things that
have happened in my life to let me feel okay
about this world series, Like that's where I'm at. Does
that suck? Still playing? No? No, even Jelly gave up
at this point, Like no, seriously, like you think about it,

(06:39):
like like you know what sports means to me. You
can't do this job and not have sports be extremely
important in your life, Like you have to like like it.
My mood changes based on the performance of my teams.
Think about that. Think about what God's goes through hanging
out with a zero to three Yankee fan with a
Raider team that the owner had to write a letter

(07:01):
to ESPN saying, I'm not trading my defensive end. We're
so terrible, but I'm going to keep this dude like
that's it affects my mood and then the next loose
like I mean, this is where I'm at. So I
had to literally think about all these terrible things that
have happened in my life. You know, I'm still here,
and that is why I'll be okay even though it's
not all right, I'll be okay after this is over.

Speaker 3 (07:26):
I was thinking about you a lot gosh out shower
that sounded not what I meant by it might be.

Speaker 2 (07:31):
The dirtiest nastiest thing I've heard today, and I'm not
a posed.

Speaker 3 (07:35):
We were in texting not that often last night. During
the Usually in the big New York sporting events, we
text a lot. That's just the part of it. We're boys,
I know, eat solid foods.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
Well, this is happening. I know it was a dangerous
I haven't heard alcohol in three weeks. Think about that.
So I you're welcome. I put my phone away. You're welcome.

Speaker 3 (07:56):
Once Freddy Freeman hit the home run and once I
think I see something like another big play at the plate,
and I'm like, you know what, that's enough text for
the now.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
You know this, you absolutely know this. You there's very
few people because we weren't. We weren't on the radio
when it happened. When Freddy Freeman became available, I went,
if the Yankees don't sign to Freddy Freeman, they're not
They're gonna regret it. I don't know when, but they're
gonna regret it. And I was like, well, once we
got Rizos, okay, well that's an actual first. But every
time we did a show, I'm like, look, you still

(08:25):
don't how first basement and one of the best ones,
like Freddy Freeman could have been there, he could have
been your guy. You hell, you could put him at third.
It's Freddy freaking Freeman. Can put him anywhere you want.
He said, VP, whatever you want to do, and I
said it. And guess what, I've never been writer than
that harbinger of sorrow that I was the day and
when we were doing the podcasts, I want to go
find it. I said, Hey, if they don't get Freddy Freeman,

(08:45):
they're gonna regret it one day. Like you know what
here I am.

Speaker 3 (08:51):
I like Freddy Freeman. I know New York sports fans,
I want to hear that today.

Speaker 4 (08:55):
I thought, do you not like the guy?

Speaker 2 (08:56):
It's not his fault?

Speaker 4 (08:57):
Well I got I got one.

Speaker 3 (08:59):
Look at this part my life is a father who's
going through with Toddler's and expected a baby.

Speaker 4 (09:03):
The fact that he's talking.

Speaker 3 (09:04):
About fatherhood in sports like it's connected like this, Those
are things that I find very important at this point
in my life. Right now, however, let us not forget
and New York fans, you can do this. There is
a Freddie Freeman out there that, oh I can't believe you,
maybe me sign with the Dodgers.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
I was tricked. My agent.

Speaker 3 (09:25):
I was supposed to go to Atlanta, and my agent
told me I had to sign with the best team
in baseball for more money. That world existed, and then
the agent sued Doug Gottlieb.

Speaker 2 (09:37):
What is it, Casey whatever, whatever?

Speaker 3 (09:39):
His I believe he is in one of those the
he's involved, his wife was involved in the gosh, why
am I blanking with the guy's name who got suited
Fox News? One of the big names ever, Jared Jeter's agent,
Casey Kerns or something. Oh so, there was a Freddie
Freeman world where he was crying because he had to
go play for the Dodgers, And here's what he's doing
in the World Series.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
Use that as you know, tearing down the man whood,
the guy who's single handedly kicking my ass, doesn't really
make me feel better. It's weird. I know, it's weird.
It's a weird thing to do. It's a weird thing
to do. It's like, you know, it's probably like somebody
loses to the Bears, going, yeah, well their quarterback whars
nail polished. Well, it doesn't make me feel better right
now at this exact.

Speaker 4 (10:18):
Second, Casey closes his name.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
By the way, I was just looking up for you,
and then I heard that.

Speaker 4 (10:24):
Gretchen Carlson is his wife, and Tucker Carlson.

Speaker 3 (10:27):
Wretchen Carlson who got in the legendary back and forth
there with the big boss of Fox.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
I don't remember any of this. You don't remember any
of this.

Speaker 3 (10:37):
No, this was she started the me too movement. Oh,
Rerechard Carlson is the one who started Roger Ales. Remember
she was the like the she sadly filmed them and
all that stuff, somebody.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
Who's outwardly flirty. I I like, I like that this
the me too movement happened. But I love that. I'm like,
I'm lucky enough to have the women in my life
who like know that I'm not creepy. I'm just trying
to be funny, you know, unless they go for it.
Oh wait, oh sorry, man, learn learn to read a room.
I mean, seriously.

Speaker 3 (11:06):
Wece the movie The Russell Crowe The Loudest Voice. I
saw the loudest voice. Roger Ailes, one of the biggest,
most influential people in the history of media.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
I I stopped watching like real movies. I watch horror comedy,
like really bad b movies. I'll watch lately, Like I
just I don't. I don't like because here's the thing,
Like all those movies like make me sad. They're all
like sad, Like horror movies are like they're not real,
you know what I mean. Like Mike Michael Myers is like,

(11:35):
sure he's gonna do Shrek seventy five, but he's not
gonna pick up a you know, a kitchen knife and
come for me. Different different people all together. Like those
movies are real and they're sad. I just get sad.
I don't need that in my life. I got the
Yankees if I want to be sad.

Speaker 3 (11:48):
I looked up that horror movie by the way, you
reference on Espace show, which one Black Christmas.

Speaker 4 (11:52):
Yeah, what a phenomenal film.

Speaker 2 (11:55):
You watch it?

Speaker 3 (11:55):
No, I read I read them. I read the plot
on Wikipedia. I knew I wouldn't have time to obviously
watch the.

Speaker 2 (12:02):
Film with the one with Margot Kinner.

Speaker 4 (12:04):
Oh my gosh, what a movie.

Speaker 3 (12:05):
I felt like I watched it after reading about it. Yeah,
and nineteen seventy four. I believe the film. What a
great film. I probably won't watch it ever because I
spoiled it for myself, but that's a great reference.

Speaker 2 (12:16):
Yesterday. It's so funny because like all this time I
was trying to get you to watch the scary movies
and me, you'll read them. You just watch now.

Speaker 3 (12:28):
I'm not a spoiler person, like I don't like when
something spoiled. I don't know we're off, but I've just
accepted in my life. Look, it's not gonna happen. You're
not gonna ever watch this film. You have to accept it.
You're either going to Wikipedia to see how it went
down and be in the conversation and you're not right
to Wikipedia. At the end of the show, saw the
ending looks great. I'll go back and maybe wat YouTube

(12:49):
cut of it.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
All right, let me let me, let me transition back
in this st okay because the end of this series.

Speaker 3 (12:55):
Oh gosh, that was the exact question I was going
to ask you. Is there a chance is Lloyd Christmas?

Speaker 2 (13:02):
No, you don't need like Christmas his numbers hanging on
the wall, Yogi bearra it ain't over till it's over.
Like that's the it's right there for you kids, you
know what I mean, Like one of your legends said it,
and how how amazing would it be to do it?
To Roberts. How amazing would it be to get down

(13:23):
oh three to Roberts and then beat him. Did you
do you see the reporter ask him about that after
the game? No, so Roberts. They go, you know, as
being someone who came back from a three nothing depth.
So he goes, don't bring that up, like you shut
them right down. He was like it was it was funny,
shut him right down. But here, well, so here's the thing.

(13:43):
What needs to happen for the Yankees to to extend
this at this point, because when you're down, when you're
down three nothing, it's not about winning four games, about
winning one game four times, you know. So, so you're
out four to two, you lose that game. Now you're

(14:04):
in the series, you're down three to nothing. This was
the game for you too, by the way, because because
Walker Buehler, even though he went out there and pitched
a fantastic game for modern day baseball, I think you
have to specify that because again, oh five six innings.
Usually he came out in five or six innings. You
were like the fifth starter. You were like the old

(14:26):
man that he's just like the guy stud. He knows
how to get a little bugger on the ball. I
don't know he used it moving in the late innings.
This was your game. So now they get to go
with a bullpen game they don't need.

Speaker 3 (14:39):
What is the way the Yankees can get back into
this to make a four straight victories and have the
most historic comeback.

Speaker 2 (14:44):
You can't do four straight victories? You got? Can the
Yankees win the night? Can the Yankees win this game
right now?

Speaker 4 (14:51):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (14:51):
Can they? Can they rally together? Can they look at
each other and say they ain't popping bottles here tonight?
And if and if that be the case, that means
it's Luise Heel versus I believe it's bullpen. They're saying
underside it's a bullpen. Can Luis Heel go out and
give me? And now they kept putting the camera on
him last night and he looked like the dude who
was next in line for the firing line.

Speaker 3 (15:11):
You know, might take about bullpen games has changed over
the last few weeks because I thought usually usually what
it'd be is that your starter can have a better
performance than your bullpen game. And I decided to put
a little asterisk, a little parentheses next to that take.
Unless you're the Dodgers, because the Dodgers, if you asked him,
I would still stick by Buehler and Flaherty and y'all,
I'm momoto off. They believe all three of those arms

(15:32):
are better than a bullpen game. But their bullpen game
is just their bullpen game is pretty awesome. Well, then
what they did to San Diego a few times.

Speaker 2 (15:38):
If if I believe that, if they were down oh two,
it would have been a bullpen games for the bueler
because I think, I think, because you're up to nothing,
you throw Bueller out there, you go, hey, give me
four and two thirds, you know, give me what you
can do. If they were trailing oh two and now
they're now they're now they're chasing, it would have been

(15:59):
bullpen last Yeah, I could.

Speaker 3 (16:00):
I could hear that out because of how goold it's been,
how much it's needed, and how you banished the inanes.
That makes sense. Uh, But from tonight's game, can they
beat the bullpen?

Speaker 2 (16:09):
Yeah? Like the power is still there, the line oh
they need the power is there, but it's Judge right, Like,
if Judge hits, they win. I feel I honestly believe
that if Judge hits the baseball, and and and actually,
I don't know. I don't even know if he's to
go over the wall. I think it goes over the wall.

(16:30):
I think you see everybody kind of like like also,
you know those scenes in the movies, like when you
know Rocky's about to come back, or like it's a
whole Cogan match where he starts shaking. I think if
Judge is a home run, I think you'll see the
entire team pop up.

Speaker 3 (16:42):
Everybody wants it so bad for Judge to get out
of this thing. Now he's not getting a lot of pitches.
We could only use that excuse so often. You know,
the best teams and the best pitchers in baseball aren't
going to give you a meatball over the play.

Speaker 2 (16:53):
But that moment early But meanwhile, half a half a show,
Hey Otani, and we're walking his ass.

Speaker 3 (16:59):
There's that moment early in the game where Judge is like,
you know what, enough's enough. If anything's close to the plane,
I'm swinging first pitch, cranks it every It's a lot.
I wish somebody would have found the Sterling coll I'm
sure Sterling's sat.

Speaker 2 (17:12):
It is high.

Speaker 3 (17:14):
It's a flyoff, like everyone wanted it so bad from
Judge last night. There he's getting roasted on the internet.
I've heard people talk about Judge is now a generational
talent struggling in the postseason that other Yankee fans have
seen in the past, because he's more likable than the
other Yankees who have struggled in the postseason. He's not
getting the grief. I have the Internet now, I think
we all do. He's getting grief. Some of these stats

(17:36):
are just unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (17:37):
Comment the comments trade him stuff like that. It's like, okay,
calm down. But again, like you do. There there's guy
like Barry Bonds was couldn't perform in the postseason until
he could a Rod was crapping the posts until until
oh nine. Like, there's there's a lot of these guys.
I'm gonna bring this guy up later on the show.

(17:59):
Clayton Kershaw still hasn't done it, you know what I mean,
like whatever, like it's that's right, but but but like you,
these players are next level great. And then when the
lights are the brightest, and again for a Yankee like
the Yankees light's brightest recent history. We've been very spoiled
by a dude to wear his number two or used

(18:20):
to at least like the light, the bright lights. Jeter
was just grow like you. He twelve feet tall, you
know what I mean, Like he would his three thousand
of his a home run, like it's just it's what
he does. No one liked the spotlight more than Jeter
and handled it better than Jeter. No one ever did
Judge looks like you like you added you know, growth
hormone a Jeter and groom in a lab. And now

(18:43):
he but he can't. And he was clutching in the
beginning of his career, like his first at bat was
a home run? Is this was a home run? There's
all these home runs he you know, he's the American
League single season home run record. Older, he's all these things.
And then the clocks like stretch October, Homie goes into hiding.
Just gone.

Speaker 3 (19:03):
It's a bad TV show. It's a bad movie where
if you're a Yankee fan, you thought you know how
the story would go.

Speaker 4 (19:09):
And look what's happened the first three games?

Speaker 2 (19:10):
Wait?

Speaker 3 (19:10):
Wait, wait, wait, wait we're throwing a starter against Freddy Freeman.

Speaker 2 (19:13):
No, no, no boom? What if no game two?

Speaker 4 (19:16):
Yamamotos barely pitched this season? Wait, the Rodin.

Speaker 3 (19:19):
Guy that we spent over two hundred million dollars on
can't outpitch Yamamoto, who has been gone for a majority
of the season. That's not how this is supposed to go.
And then Game three, what do you mean Aaron Judge
is flying out in the outfield? What do you mean
he hasn't gotten out of it. This is the opposite
of the story that Yankee fans and New York sports
fans thought was going to be told in the twenty
twenty four World Series. And I don't even mention the
results of the game now down three to zero with

(19:42):
a potential sweep on the line tonight, wrong story. I'm
not potting up jelly roll again because I can't find
the music. Then now I'm gonna hit the post, right
I would hitting the post. I would have set it
up and then gone to the song.

Speaker 2 (19:57):
And then you know, actually, I I guess I gotta
The voice is almost back, like I get it. It was great.
Well that's better than usual. I can feel it like
I still feel it. Thanks more recent, our friend Lynn,
What did I used to do historically for the Yankees
when they were in need? I'd sit out back, I'd

(20:21):
get a stogy going oh yeah, well, you know, three
three to pedopile. The game was going six fingers of bourbon,
and I would just I'd be out there for the game,
the whole game. And so last night I get a
text from Lynn, our friend who is one of the
high muckety MUCKs over at Sienna, and she's like, hey, like,

(20:41):
I can't believe that your daughter's engaged, and we gotta
get together, we gotta talk whatever. And then now get
your ass outside and let a cigar, and as I can,
I'm still sick. I guess if I sound like crap tomorrow,
it's because I'm outside with a cigar. I'm doing it.
I'm bundling up. I'll get the solo s of going.

Speaker 3 (20:59):
Do it for the CAUP To Region sports dands. You
get your butt out there, and he's smoked. We want
the stoke, we want you want smoke.

Speaker 2 (21:07):
All right tonight, I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna get
out there, all the yes app going. You know, I'll
make I'll make sure I listen on the right the
right frequencies of Gaza isn't yell at me.

Speaker 3 (21:16):
Also tell Lynn, you know what, text me back in
like a week because last time here hear and I spoke.
I'm like, hey, I have this great story for you.
She's like, none of this has ever happened in my life.
I was like, oh gosh, hey, how does he work
with this person?

Speaker 2 (21:30):
Who? Okay in an awkward conversation via text? Well, you
you're the king of awkward conversations.

Speaker 4 (21:37):
That's high on the list. That last one with her?

Speaker 2 (21:41):
Yeah, I won't Maybe I need to know more. No, no,
I don't pay attention. You guys are taxting. I stopped
paying attention.

Speaker 3 (21:46):
You didn't respond not thinking back, well, because it was
clearly about you.

Speaker 2 (21:50):
It wasn't you know what it was about? Where we work?
Oh no, I thought it was about did you want
to hang out with your dude?

Speaker 4 (21:58):
Oh yeah, yeah that party?

Speaker 2 (21:59):
And I figured like anything I was gonna say was
just gonna get in the way, like like like basically
I felt you know what I felt like? So so
just to paint this picture everybody. I know we're going along,
but who cares? I do what I want. My name
is the first of the show. They're supposed to talk
to me about contracts and stuff, so they're avoidabil like
to plague. I can do whatever I want. For like
a week, I felt like I felt like you're like

(22:20):
your fat friend, like you were getting hit on. You
guys reviving a little bit, having a conversation about doing
some stuff, hanging out, working. It was all work conversation.
I was clearly the third wheel, so I just just
vibed out. It was just whatever. I was just counting stars,
you know, that's what you know. It's a good A
good grenade doesn't get in the way, you know. It

(22:40):
was like, nobody's pulling this pin over here. Everything's good chances.
There's any chance guys gets to hold hands and skip
through a field with Jerry McNamara and it ain't gonna
be Jele backs fat ass that gets in the way.
I'll be over here drinking my watermelon. Jolly Rancher C
four That's what I'll be doing there, Dude. I have

(23:03):
to be honest with you. I am currently I have surpassion.
I'm the greatest spokesperson for Jolly Rancher C four energy
drink in the world. I converted five people to the
hand to hand combat what yep. I was in the office.
I was over at the Firebirds office. Coach Ware was there.
Benny Ice Nick the game day ops, our guy Zach

(23:25):
who used to help the game day opps, but apparently
he's important now. And they're like, A, I don't know.
I like this kind of drink. I like that kind
of drink. Where's like, I have one cup of coffee
a day and that's it. I don't I'm like, yeah,
but they have jolly rancher flavors. Now, He's like. Everybody's like,
hold on what they go, what's the best kind? I
go me, I love the Hawaiian punch. I love the
Hawaiian punch. So the guys everybody's like, well, well where

(23:47):
we get him? I go, you know what, I happen
to have someone in the truck, so I send Benny
Ice out. He grabs grabs one for everybody in the
in the office. Even coach Ware goes, I'm gonna try it.
But I swear to you, if i can't sleep at
eleve o'clock tonight, I'm coming for you. That's fine. You know,
I'll be crying in my backyard with a cigar. So
they all they all tried the Sea four Jolly Rancher.

(24:09):
They're all in. They all love them taste just like Hawaiian.

Speaker 3 (24:12):
Punch, smart guys, smart people. I love Jolly Rancher Sea
four as well. Get your C four today, support them.
They're awesome partners with this Lavaca is drinking it while
I'm talking. Always great flavors.

Speaker 2 (24:23):
Clost advantagy. You could feel brother had a.

Speaker 4 (24:28):
Green on this morning.

Speaker 2 (24:29):
Oh that's our apple. Uh huh. I haven't had that yet.
To be honest with you, I've been doing the watermelon converted.
I don't even like watermelon, but I like watermelon. Jolly
Ranchers used to put those in vodka, uh and zimas
And now I like this. This is good, So I'm
happy you can get those, you know, at speedways and
independent mobile shops.

Speaker 4 (24:46):
You know that I did, know that I did. Now
you know everything?

Speaker 2 (24:49):
All right, Miga, give yourself a Sea Force say you
will thank us. We went way too along with this.
Let's talk about hey giants, man, you thought you thought
you skipped We weren't coming for you. We'll come over
you next right here. Fox Sports right ninety nine eighty.

Speaker 1 (25:01):
It's Avakan guys on ninety five nine Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (25:06):
When we're at rivers. We can't vote for Coach of
the Year, can we? No?

Speaker 3 (25:12):
We cannot, damn it, we can. Oh, you're knowing the
NFL Coach of the Year. We cannot wager on that. No, yeah,
not no, No.

Speaker 4 (25:19):
I thought you and I no.

Speaker 3 (25:20):
I got confused because I'm like, wait, are we voting
for af one awards this year?

Speaker 4 (25:24):
Are we going to be selected? Because I don't know
the awards?

Speaker 2 (25:26):
I mean, I can work on I can't. I don't
want to vote for any of it.

Speaker 3 (25:29):
Were there no awards handed out for the AFL in
twenty twenty four, I don't remember, No we voted. I
don't remember the awards ever being announced.

Speaker 2 (25:38):
I don't either. I know we voted. I know coach
where and I voted. I literally looked at Coach where
and I went, who you want? You could? I didn't
like the way they did it because they just so
you know, and this is the way it was in
the NAL too, when we were in the NAL. You
can't vote for your own players, which I guess makes
sense because why wouldn't you just vote for all your
own guys? But like, you know, if if your guy

(26:00):
is clearly the best, and now I'm like, all right,
I guess I'll vote for the second best and then
you can't trust everybody else to do the right thing,
you know. So I like the old AFL. I got
to vote as a media member, that's right.

Speaker 4 (26:13):
I like that method.

Speaker 3 (26:13):
Two selected media members from each market, first, second, and
third place vote.

Speaker 4 (26:17):
That's actually a.

Speaker 3 (26:17):
Very fair way to do it because people get points systems,
and I like that. Major League Baseball does it that way.
A lot of sports do it that way. And that's
beyonso plugging myself to try to get an award vote
in twenty twenty five.

Speaker 2 (26:29):
I'm fine with it. Yeah, why did you bring up
Coach of the Year? Because I hear Mike Tomlin is
ten to one right now?

Speaker 4 (26:38):
Oh, ten to one?

Speaker 2 (26:40):
Tend to one?

Speaker 4 (26:40):
Right in the car?

Speaker 2 (26:41):
Yeah? Where we go? Where we got? How far do
we have to go? Jersey? Where we gotta go? Hello? Aware?
I stand by the fact that the Steelers are playing
better than they should be, and if that be the case,
I have to give. Like, like we've always made the joke.
Can you like Mike tom Everybody talks about how good

(27:02):
he is because he's he never has a losing record,
he's never won Coach of the Year, and the real,
the real truth of how great that dude is, or
at least was is. You had Ben Roethlisberger, Antonio Brown,
and Le'Veon Bell in one locker room, and you were
a winning football team. And by the way, while you
were running that shop, while you were while that ship

(27:24):
was under your control, we thought those dudes were gamers.
Like we didn't realize how crazy all three of them were.
And Roethlisberger is probably the least like outwardly crazy as
long as you're not a co ed in a bathroom,
or as long as he's not he doesn't like throw
an interception and they have to put on an air
cast over his entire body, but like to to take

(27:46):
and keep those that group focused forward on winning and
to win each and every week like that's amazing, that's impressive.
This team might be his greatest accomplishment though, because I'm
I'm sorry the old saying if you have two quarterbacks,

(28:07):
I mean you don't have it means you don't have one.
That's true. More often than not, this dude wins a
bunch of games with justin fields and then for no reason,
not because he lost. As a matter of fact, he
had one of his better games against the Raiders. He
goes Russell Wilson's Okay, we're gonna go with Russell Wilson.
And then Russ comes out and plays his best game

(28:28):
since he left Seattle. This game not as well, but
still managed to keep winning, like keep keep winning all
these games, and it's it's just it's really really impressive,
because I still I'm convinced the Steelers are not as
good as their record with.

Speaker 3 (28:50):
All that that Mike Tomlin has done this season. To
add to that, let's also remember the Ravens have won
a Super Bowl in his ten year. I'm talking about
the division like it's gotten a lot tougher because the
Raims have won a Super Bowl, They've hosted an AMC
Title game, the Bengals have played in a Super Bowl,
and the Browns have both won a playoff game and
had the best of records since they've come back to
the league. So it's not as if the North is

(29:10):
stunk for twenty years. All those franchise have been competitive
and been postseason teams.

Speaker 2 (29:16):
No. As a matter of fact, that division is so
good they're all going to be featured on Hard Knocks.
So to back up.

Speaker 3 (29:23):
Your point, Mike Tomlin is the coach of the Year
I'm shocked at ten to one. These Coach of the
Year awards frustrating me. We've talked about of Aaron Boone
in the past, We've talked about, I'm sure with Belichick
and Andy Reid and other names who have probably deserved
that award in the past. Not thinking back for the NBA,
probably anyone who ever had a coach lebron might have
needed to get more credit for the job that they did.

Speaker 2 (29:42):
But the amazing part about what.

Speaker 3 (29:44):
Mike Tomlin and the Steelers did yesterday and how good
they've been as a franchise is whether it's moments like
a firing up, special teams plays that played a huge
impact in the game. You mentioned the quarterback play getting
the most out of athletes and teams than most people
who are coaches could in that has been Mike tomlinstrik
that I even want to go a little bit further
with you Steeler fan because I'll use this in my life.

Speaker 2 (30:07):
Right.

Speaker 3 (30:07):
Well, you and I have a wonderful job. Yes, there's
more to our lives than just this show. We asked
to do all the tests, but for most people, they
might come up and talk to us about the show
or our family members and friends, whoever it might be.
I found myself over the years never ever wanting to
complain about what I do for a living because other
people have much more difficult jobs than us. And it's

(30:30):
a little tone deaf of like, oh, it was a
tough day. You didn't hit, you didn't hit the commercial
on the rights, your hot take wasn't hot. There are
certain people who might not want to complain about things
because it's not the level of what they wanted to
be achieved at, or it might be a tougher, more
difficult you know what I'm getting at here? Like Alabama
football fan, you didn't have a reason to complain for
a while, you had Nick Saban Celtic fan, not a

(30:51):
lot to complain about. Right now, Steeler fan, enough out
of you with Tomlin's job security, do not no Boston
Fann did it with Belichick. How's that going.

Speaker 4 (31:03):
For you right now?

Speaker 2 (31:04):
Not great?

Speaker 3 (31:05):
I don't want to hear it from Steeler fan theom
Mike Tomlin's not your head coach. He needs to be
on the hot seat. Just because everybody else complains about
their job, or their spouse or what their head coach
does in their favorite team doesn't mean you have to enough.
You've got a great husband, you've got a great job.
Enough complaints out of you.

Speaker 2 (31:26):
You know, it is it is. It's impressive that the
Rooneys do it right. Like was it three coaches in
the Super Bowl era? You know, Bill Cower, Chuck Nole,
Mike Tomlin? Yeah, now I know what, uh Curly Ford
or whatever the hell if you go far enough back
or whatever.

Speaker 3 (31:45):
Before our guy Tom Nolty reminds us about the nineteen
twenty Steelers.

Speaker 2 (31:49):
That's why I said super Bowl era before everybody picks
on their phone, super Bowl era. That's like you think
about continuity and what it means, like there's it's it's
important to get things done, and it's like obviously it
works now. But so last night Giants have been anything

(32:10):
but the picture of contnuity. I think they kind of
got robbed. I think there was some really really bad
calls in the last night's game. Like maybe they don't
win it, maybe the Steelers still are able to out
talent them over time in this game. But like the
Molik Neighbors call that brought back the touchdown, I know that,

(32:34):
like the one the referee guy said, like you know,
everybody's gonna stop. Troikan has spent six minutes explaining why
he didn't, and nobody corrected him. And if if anybody
is not gonna take the Giant's side, it's Akman, it's
bucking Akman. I'm sorry. So I agree. I think that
was a bad call. And what about the roughing the
kicker on the punter. I know these punters are out here,

(32:56):
you know, doing their best to get an Emmy or
or you know, at least some kind of acting award,
but that yet black neighbors, they were like holding his
hand down the field, like there was some really terrible
referee call, like there was for home cooking in Pittsburgh.
The Giants are probably not good enough to beat the Steelers.
They're nowhere near good enough to beat the Steelers, and

(33:17):
the referees. No, there's an ugly game.

Speaker 3 (33:19):
From lack of offense to lack of touchdowns, support officiating
to calls deciding the game. There's a lot to be
frustrated about if you're a Giant fan involving in that game. So, yes,
it feels like the officiating did play a huge part
in that. I always go back to this same amount officiating.
Maybe it's too cliche because head coaches say it all
the time. You can't let the officials beat you. You

(33:39):
can only control your controllables. Gosh, I almost felt coaching.
Could hear his coach to Wallace saying that in my
brain all of a sudden that yes, that's all true,
because like I remember this part at the end of
the game last night, one of the most important parts
of the game, and I shared it on Twitter at
Tom Guns tomgos Eazy.

Speaker 2 (33:57):
Brian's Able did.

Speaker 3 (33:58):
A fantastic manipulating that clock at the end of the game.
And if you don't know what I'm talking about, he
pulled the little Dan Lanning where he did that twelfth
man penalty on purpose to give the first down to
play the clock to get the ball back. So Brian
Dable did everything he could at the end of the
game to get the Giants to the football back at
the end by manipulating roles in the clock. But for

(34:19):
the second time this season, second time Giants have the
ball for a chance to win the game. Two minutes
to go in the fourth quarter, Daniel Jones has the ball.
Do you have any faith that he can make the play?
Like we can do this in all sports, right like
we taught we opened the show time about the World Series.
Your guys at the plate, down by one, two runners on,

(34:42):
is he going to cash in and win the game
for you? Guys, got the ball in his hand down one,
He's gonna make the shot for you. The most important
position on the team, the guy who's getting paid just
as much, if not more than anybody on the roster.
Here's the game on the line. Can your guy go
make a play nowhere close? For Daniel Jones to in
that game for the Giants last night against Pittsburgh.

Speaker 2 (35:03):
I know what should all beyond him. Look if it's
more of it, and well, the quarterback gets the credit.
The quarterback gets the blame. I mean, you know, anthy Richardson,
he's getting a bench. You get the blame. Don't tap
your helmets the quarterback, what are you doing? Dale Jones,

(35:24):
he gets, he gets the blame. Russell Wilson would have
got the blame one the other way, at least a
lot of the blame. But I thought Dale Jones there
was he looks. I guess one of the things like
with Dale Jones one, his physical ability is fine. Physically,
he can do all the things you need him to
do as a quarterback. I would say that he there's

(35:46):
something like his ability to read a defense maybe not
where it needs to be, or there's there's something else
going on there. But I think the number one thing
that people hate about about Danny Dimes is he looks
like he doesn't care. He looks he looks like Well
used to call it Eli face, but he Eli would
still occasionally show emotion, at least stale. Jones had some

(36:07):
emotions last night, Like I got closer to liking him
last night in a loss than I have in most
My favorite part about him before last night was when
they beat Tampa because it drove you insane. That was
a good time. But this is and he's he's pretty
much he's done because you've got to consider benching him

(36:33):
because if he gets hurt, his contract be is fully guaranteed.
So like, at what point, if you're the Giants, do
you go? And I hate the idea of benching a
healthy player. Boston Dan was when who brought it up
last night, which and I knew it was coming and
I was getting ready for it, but like, you literally
have to consider it because if he goes out there
and keeps playing Your best case scenario is the light

(36:58):
bulb goes on again and you win a bunch of games,
and you probably just missed the playoffs. But that means
you're not drafting the quarterback, which means you have to
redo his deal, and then you without a quarter So
there's another two years of Daniel Jones well, and if
he comes back the way he's been, whatever best case scenario,

(37:19):
you betch him, you lose a lot of games, and
you get your quarterback next year.

Speaker 3 (37:23):
The defense played really well, keeping Pittsburgh out of the
end zone, doing what they can, bending but not breaking.
Your defense plays well, but Leak Neighbors doesn't have a
standout game because Darius Slayton is the one who leads
in receiving a third or second string wherever you want
to rank him in the talent makers on the outside
gets over one hundred yards. The rookie Tracy Junior might
be the starting running back for the rest of the season.

Speaker 4 (37:44):
He's there.

Speaker 2 (37:44):
Yeah, a concussion though, I think right yeah.

Speaker 3 (37:46):
Whenever he comes back. Those are tough two weeks, one week,
three weeks. But he had another monster game and he's
earned the spot. He's outplayed Singletary, so you're telling me
a rookie running back, your third best wide receiver, and
your defense are all have standout games and you're gonna
force your team to be in a position to win
the game at the end, you need one more person

(38:07):
to stand up and make the play. And that's not
blaming the loss on Dino Jones. You open talk about
the officials, they no doubt play the factor in the game.
But at some point when everybody on the team is
doing their job, but everybody on the team is having
a breakout performance, something needs to put you over the top.
And the easy answers quarterback. And the easy answer is quarterback,

(38:27):
because that's the right answer. At some point, somebody's got
to make it.

Speaker 2 (38:30):
Play.

Speaker 3 (38:31):
Bills fans know it now. They see it all the
time with Josh Allen making plays. Chiefs fans know it.

Speaker 2 (38:36):
They know Mahomes. We're not asking for a Hall of
Fame MVP level quarterback. Nope.

Speaker 3 (38:41):
You could take somebody who's in the middle of the
road to get out of the pocket and make some
place where you have a rocket arm, be a playmaker.

Speaker 4 (38:47):
You just can't do it.

Speaker 2 (38:48):
For the Giants. I I just whatever happens, I want
to see Dable get a year. I don't want him.
I don't. I mean you you shared with me he
pulled the twelve man out field to get an extra play, right,
I mean like like he's a good coach, he's a
smart guy. When when they were talking about Anthony Richardson

(39:08):
all week, like it was like his accuracy and whatever,
and people try to compare him to Josh Allen. Josh
Allen was never thirty percent. You know, there was a
point where he's like forty five fifty. But he's never
as bad as But what changed Josh Allen? You and
I saw it. It was Brian Dable in practice, Brian
Dable in practice and then Steph Diggs being added. That's

(39:31):
what made him more accurate. So like, I believe in
Brian Dable.

Speaker 4 (39:40):
Nice.

Speaker 2 (39:41):
Sorry, couldn't help myself, So like, oh, I would love
to see him look over the draft. Can you action
you got Drake May you had any of this?

Speaker 3 (39:50):
Like come on, I don't know if it's because I
was talking to people from Boston earlier and this is
where this guy is from, but I love this comparison. Now,
Brian Dable is to Conan O'Brien of NFL head coaches.
Here's why he's the coach.

Speaker 2 (40:03):
Two days in a row. You've referenced Conan O'Brien.

Speaker 3 (40:05):
By the way, Miss Conan, I don't watch him as
much as I used to. He's the Conan O'Brien of
head coaches, because we all know Conan's funny. It could
be up for de baby, but I think Codin's a
pretty funny guy. Con O'Brien got the dream job he wanted.
Brian Dable got the dream job he wanted that hosted
the Tonight Show, the host of the New York Giants.
But they said, hang on, we'll give you the Tonight Show,

(40:25):
but Leno's gonna be on every night ten to eleven.
We'll give you the head coaching job for the Giants,
but you gotta take Daniel Jones. Yeah, Conan lost the job,
but he's like the Leno thing.

Speaker 2 (40:37):
Remember, Oh no, we're.

Speaker 3 (40:38):
Gonna bring him back. Brian Dable, you might lose your job,
the Daniel Jones thing. Yeah, but we're gonna bring back
Lenno where you might bring back Belichick. They both can
look and say, we know we're funny, we know where
we're gonna wear jobs. You handcuffed me. You never let
me be as good as I could have been and
let me do my thing.

Speaker 2 (40:57):
If I was any other team owner, if I was
another GM around the league, I would just I'd be
going to Mara. I'd be like, yeah, you should fire
that guy. You should just fire that guy right now.

Speaker 4 (41:07):
You see that lord knocks, I saw it.

Speaker 2 (41:09):
I would I would get rid of I mean, look
at we lost all that win. I don't trust any coaches, man,
I'll tell you that right now. And I would hire
that dude in fifteen seconds to be my OC. And
I would tell him flat out like, hey, if everything
goes wrong, you ain't getting fired, like I'm bringing in
with my OC. So you can focus on my rookie
quarterback or young quarterback for a year and that's all

(41:32):
you're gonna do. And then next year, I'm on clip
the head coach, and you're gonna take over. That's what
I want, Brian Dable, I'm ready, like I'm I'm oh man.
But again, Steelers continue to just be special, and and
I don't. I just I don't think they're I don't
think they're as good as they're playing. I really don't.
That's I've been proven right with that in the past

(41:54):
with them, I could be proven wrong with that this
time around. But I think Tomlin, like if we go
anywhere where I can quick that I can go vote
on Coach of the Year. I'm putting money on Tomlin
because if they make the playoffs and he doesn't win
Coach of the Year when every talking head had them
missing the playoffs this year, having his first losing season

(42:14):
in his life, then something's wrong. Something's real wrong. He
right now Tomas coach of the Year in my opinion,
And I'm still not ready to do the voice. That
takes a lot of That hurts a little hurt. It
hurts a little bit when I do it.

Speaker 3 (42:27):
Uh, we were gonna talk about one of our wonderful sponsors.
We'll save that for the next hour.

Speaker 2 (42:32):
Okay, all right, I see you.

Speaker 3 (42:33):
I see this whole thing called the run. You've got
a story about the NBA coming up here.

Speaker 2 (42:37):
Dude, dude, I don't know if you saw what happened,
but this I something is wrong. Something I like a
lot of dudes must be answering. Got milk with no
We'll explain coming up next right here, the back guys,
Fox Sports Radio ninety five nine nine eighty.

Speaker 1 (42:52):
It's Love Ack and Guz on the voice of the
Capitol Regions Sports Fan Fox Sports ninety five to nine
and nine eighty.

Speaker 2 (43:00):
We are in the GT toys too, the toys with
a Z. Did you see the Taylor Hendricks injury in
the Utah game?

Speaker 3 (43:12):
So that's that blue stuff in this run? Hang on
it just as a oh, that's like a yeah, okay,
I'll get better at this.

Speaker 2 (43:18):
Hang out. You're not if you scroll a little down
in that bag right here. You see that.

Speaker 4 (43:24):
You see the video, I'm watching it.

Speaker 2 (43:25):
Here you go. You're watching the video.

Speaker 3 (43:27):
Oh God, dude, come on, then, I'm not.

Speaker 2 (43:31):
This is I don't look at the run. I don't
How does that happen? So Taylor Hendricks of the Utah
Jazz was his second season as a pro. He runs
out into the wing, his ankle and leg give out.
No one near him, There's no one, No one is

(43:52):
anywhere near this dude, and his fibia breaks and his
ankle dislocated. How the hell does an in shape athlete
break aphibia and just locate an ankle running by himself

(44:13):
and I don't spontaneously combust go into the bathroom, Like, dude,
what how does that happen?

Speaker 4 (44:20):
So we've got Paul George ran into the thing.

Speaker 2 (44:24):
Gordon George hit the actually like you saw it, this
was a non contact injury. Gordon Hayward sort of.

Speaker 3 (44:32):
I was ready to give a take of something's wrong
with the courts because remember Kevin Ware at Louisville. Remember
that one happened in the Final four. That was an
elevated court. So it's like, oh, the injury Kevin Ware
suffered for Louisville where it was awful Eastern Sunday, Like, oh,
they can never do elevated courts in this is a
regular basketball court.

Speaker 2 (44:52):
Good gosh, man? Is it? Is it conditioning? Is it
how the body's built? Is it speed? Is it? Is?
No one drinking milk anymore? Like I know that there's
a lot of people that think you should drop drinking
milk as you get older. Maybe there's enough calcium I did.
I've been doing like I'm trying to get my health
right again, so like for you to for your body
to properly digest calcium, he's supposed to have like like

(45:16):
acid in the diet as well. So I've been buying
calcium rich orange juice. Is that why I can walk
as a large fat man without my legs exploding and
these guys can't.

Speaker 3 (45:29):
You're onto something here, Levac. Guess who doesn't have their
legs break like this? People who don't exercise like that, well, well.

Speaker 2 (45:36):
Hold on, like I do exercise, I just don't do
not like that. But this isn't. This is a dude
just running and he's not even running. He's like he's
like it's like a very very slow pace.

Speaker 3 (45:47):
It's getting a sweating that's like like an YMCA move
right there. You know, he's not, you know, just get
a quick, healthy run in.

Speaker 2 (45:53):
His leg is like completely It's like something in a
horror movie. If you told me that somewhere outside of Utah,
some old lady on a farm just took a voodoo
doll of Taylor Hendricks and snapped the leg, I'd be like, yep,
that's right. That tracks that is what happened. Because it

(46:13):
don't make no sense. He's not like when the non
contact happens and it's a joint, I'm like, oh that sucks.
This was the ankle dislocated and the phibia broke. He's alone, nasty.
How does this happen. So dude needs a milk mustache,

(46:33):
is what it is? Right there, God's from I don't
want to see anymore do I'm watching him watch it
for like the twenty eeth.

Speaker 3 (46:39):
Oh all right, it's crazy, right, I don't need to
see anymore.

Speaker 2 (46:45):
But like, like all right, Aden Hutchinson, he broke his
leg around another leg, like his leg whipped into another
leg and broke it. There's nothing here. It's like he
ran into an invisible I beam like Steele, I beam
or something.

Speaker 4 (47:00):
We did a video a long time ago.

Speaker 3 (47:02):
It's out there on the internet where we made people
react to the video.

Speaker 4 (47:05):
I think it was Gord Hayward's injury.

Speaker 2 (47:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (47:07):
I don't want you you listening how to react to it.
I'm not sharing that on social media.

Speaker 2 (47:11):
No do it. No, there's you're gonna go. They're gonna
go look for it. It was caught on camera. It's
a full It's like like there's a lot of out there.
You don't get to see the whole thing. Nowadays you
can see all that one you see all of it.
It's bah. I feel bad for the kid. So he
was a ninth overall pick in twenty three, so he's
just figuring out how to play basketball at a pro level.

(47:32):
He isn't even there yet, and then that happens. So
I hope, I hope he heals quick. I just I
just don't. There's so many non contact injuries right now.
But like like on the field, I could see it,
like the cleat catches and whatever happens, or you know,
like the ACL goes whatever. This just ankleing Fibia just going,

(47:52):
Chris Daisy, I'm I'm.

Speaker 3 (47:55):
Ready to move on to the top four before I
get sick and vomit everywhere.

Speaker 2 (47:59):
Please don't do that, because bro, you go, I'll going
all right, Uh it's the top four four? How are
you out telling you want to do that next? Please
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