May 28, 2024 • 46 mins
The Divide is back! We're talking the red-hot Yanks, Phils, and the Mets!... lol jk. The boys are back just in time for Mike to leave for London. We talk space, baseball, Olympic games, and Angel Hernandez RETIRES!!!!! Also we break down the Tarp monster and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 3 (00:18):
Welcome to the Divide with Mike and Corey.
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
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Speaker 2 (00:33):
Hopefully our disagreement one day bring us all together, so so.
Speaker 5 (00:39):
So corny disagreement bring up, Yeah I do, And here
we are Divide Live, Fox Sports The Gambler one of
two five Philly on a four to one Trenton.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
It has been the better part of a month, easily, easily,
I think like April nineteenth last time we were.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Oh man, it's been a rough one for sure.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Life man, life's been life.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
And shout out to all the you know the ones
we lost. Happy moral day. Yes I missed that, you
know stuff like that. I mean, that was my first
moral day ever off because even as when I was eighteen,
as we had to work at six flags. So I've
never had one off and I've never been more tired
from it, Like I'm still tired from it, like a
(01:31):
good way.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
I went through the whole day thinking it was Sunday today.
I was going to wake up. Yeah, yeah, I'm waking
up on Monday tomorrow. But no, it's already Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Yeah that's I think that's the best thing about it. One.
I also have an early exit to this to that
this week going to London. I'm going to Paris. The
Mets Phillies play in London, because that's the most American
thing to do. Isn't another coatry, watch cricket or something.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Did you hear.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
About like the Mets refusing Like so, Chase Utley, for
people that don't know, is the MLB ambassador of London.
So it's his job to help all the other teams
that that are playing there, you know, if they need
help with reservations anything. Nobody from the Mets reached out
to them because they hate them. Yeah, it's so.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Funny, it's great. Yeah, it's here are your disposal guys
for the brand on brand Like I can't even ask them, like, yo,
where should we eat?
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Where can we get some good bangers in match.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Oh man, I bet you can't wait for your bangers
and Massy.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Also, there's there's a few things we're doing with all
different fan basism. Cut is gonna be sponsoring it. There's
a lot of fun things that are gonna go on
while I'm in London. But one of the things is
this diner that's going viral on social media. It's called
the Karens and it's it's literally right next to our
hotel room, and it's it's kind of like one of
(02:53):
those like restaurants themed restaurants, but all the waitresses and
staff are Karens no way, so they're just mean to you.
Like literally the logo has a middle finger.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Why hasn't that been I mean, I guess it was
thought of. I mean there's a few here where the
waiters their waitresses are just rude, But I think the
Karens is fantastic.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Yeah, And then like I asked, I was like, oh,
our children aloud, and they're like, of course that if
they are, like you know, like but they don't like
culturally like think of it as a bad like yeah,
the kid can't curse, but they curse in front of
the kids, like so I'm like, all right, like we'll
consider that, but yeah, I think we're gonna go.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
It's your first time in London mine.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Yes, I've been to Germany, been to Austria, been to Spain.
You know, I've been around the world, but not London
or France.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
And that's where we're going brag about it. Bro hold on,
So has your wife been in London?
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Yes? She dated a guy in Scotland and they were
also chat like her parents when she was like in
sixth seventh grade like let her go for a whole
year to London. So she actually was. Yeah, I feel
like that's too young, right, Yeah, for a whole year.
She was definitely way too young. Yeah, like boarding school
type kind of Yes.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Yeah. Why did I not know this about your wife?
I don't know because I don't listen when she talks
to you. Oh my god. So when's the game? You
get in on one Friday?
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yes, we get in on Friday and then it's about
a week to the game. We're going to Paris Disney
because that's what theme park enthusiasts like ourselves do. Payton's
pretty jacked up about it. They got a bunch of
different have like an Iron Man roller Coaster. I'm excited
for that.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
It's got the Disney Paris Disney situation. You're you're hitting
up Paris about two months before everybody in the entire
world hits up Paris. Good for you or I guess
just say a little more than a month. But you know,
that should be a good should be a good trip.
Hopefully the Mets win. Man, they're too good.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Yeah, I wouldn't put my money on it. I probably
will put my money on it, but yeah, man, it's
it's there's nothing finding new ways to lose like this,
Like yeah, we're like this team just can't can't win.
Like it's like, you know, this team doesn't know.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
How to lose.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Like this team does not win, Like they're just like,
we're not gonna do it.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
I want to know how the how the dancers are feeling,
the dancers rallying. Is there really a big push for
Stevie to to sell the team. I'm not I've seen
it all over the internet.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Is it more said in jest? Or is that like
from a met perspective.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
No, the majority of the fan base, like you know,
I called it from the beginning. I'm not bragging but
I just felt like we did not invest in this season,
and we could pretend we're shocked. But I looked at
this team. I looked at this lineup. I looked at
more importantly, the starting rotation. I was like, there's no
way we're gonna compete, not in this you know, not
in this division. You know, maybe if we're Central or
(05:45):
something like that, maybe you could argue that they would
have a shot. But no, I mean all of the
NL is pretty much trash. Outside of the Phillies. If
you look at the records, there's there's not that many
great teams Dodgers, you know, in Phillies, you're you're right.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
I mean, if you're looking at the National League at
this point, there's one, two, three, four teams that have
more than thirty wins. Everybody else's you know, mid to
high twenties unless you're the Rockies or the Marlins and
you're a little bit lower. But so yeah, I mean
compared to the AL, I mean, you got.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
To forget three four.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
About the same, believe it or not. Yeah, yeah, Uh,
the AL West is uh kind of lagging behind a
little bit. But no, man, I feel like, uh, I
don't know, can you is it. It can't be ownership, right,
You've never had an owner that's seemingly been more invested
(06:43):
in a team and their success. So is it like
we're the right people, wrong people? And you know in
the front office, like what is he doing wrong with
his personnel? Because I feel like you've you it's been
a long time since you've had or ever since you've
had an owner that's been in every game, this invested,
not afraid to throw money around, and now it's like
(07:05):
Jesus is tanking before June.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
It's attractiveness, right, So, like nobody wants to play for
the Mets. They want to use met ownership to up
their salaries, and that includes GMS. That includes like, look
like we're on the one year of a new GM,
so of course he was gonna burn it down. It's
not his you know, you saw it. You know everybody
pretty much get canned, you know, and it just yeah,
(07:30):
so I knew it was gonna be a step back.
They kept saying like, we're not in a rebuild, We're
in a reset, and I was just like, that's such
a dumb But it's so hard to throw away years.
You can't throw a year away like it doesn't, you know,
the Sixers would trust the process. Like when you try
to outthink the system, the system ends up. You know,
(07:51):
you end up falling behind because other teams are also
trying to reset and rebuild while they're competing. So I
think that was stressful. I think the sures are the
Verlander deals, like they're all very quick because we lost somebody,
uh you know, so there was so much other things
that didn't go the Mets way. And it's still like
(08:12):
the press, you know, Max finding out we're not we're
not going, we're sellers. He wants to be traded. Then
you know, all this drama, dude. But again, I think
it comes down to the facts, like people use Cohen's money,
like they called the Coen Tax to get paid from
other teams and leave and not be in New York.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
It's so wild. Yeah, I mean, it's it's pretty much
moneyball in a nutshell, you know what I mean. It's
just who's who's going to pay and and get out
of here? And now it's instead of over in Oakland
or wherever the hell they are now it's mis Queen's
I do let we have to get into it, Philly,
because you're listening. But I feel like the last time
we were on the air, Philly was not doing too great.
(08:53):
Now they're the best team in the National League, arguably
the best close to the best team in baseball depending
on what the Yankees do. Yeah, but it's it's unreal.
You know, Trey Turner's still not one hundred percent, Castianos
has has yet to even heat up, and they and
it just seems like they have depth. Man.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Yeah, no, you know, I knew it was gonna be
a fun team regardless, Like I knew that going into
the season. Uh, they just gel well, you know, everything
they even when a guy's doing bad, they tend to
push them across the finish line.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
So all that without dollar dogs. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
The funniest thing is though, like you would think it's
just too much excitement around the team, Like they're like
they're gonna win one hundred and seventeen games.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
It's like, bro, chill, come out.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Look, they're going for the major league record, They're doing this,
they're doing that. And then meanwhile the Yankees are like
a gamer, like right in the same round literally, and
they're like, what can we do better? Can we shine
showdo right now? Like you know, like that fan base
is kind of like taking it as if they've been
there before. Where the Phillies like every day I'm getting
a DM attacks wear a wagon like okay, dude, we
(09:58):
get it. Like great, but you know their ballpark is
filled on a Tuesday. Was shocked by that and they
didn't need hot dogs.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
No.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
No. So they're doing well, you know, and I hope
it continues for them. But it's good to see Atlanta
take a step back. The one thing I will say
is Atlanta said this in the spring training that they
were going to take a step back because it felt
as though winning the division actually hurts in some case.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
And we always talk about it too. I think every
time around when we're creeping up on postseason, we always
talk about it. It's almost like a curse now, like people
don't want it. They want to be humbled before they
enter the playoffs. Yeah, I think it's I don't think
it's by design with Atlanta right now. You know, it's
too early to be taking it.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Marquee players injured for the of course.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Of course, but Philly watch out. Don't get too excited.
It is a long season and we're not even in
the summer months. Yet, so I think you guys will
hold on, but don't start talking record season and over
one hundred and ten wins and all that come.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Well, it was June nineteen, twenty twenty two when we
started on the Gamblers because we both the Mets ending
Yankees were the hottest teams in baseball right by far.
And you know, we all know what happened after that,
and you know, the Phillies have never looked back since. So,
like you know, you never know, you never know. Those
dog Days of August, like you said, they're brutal, man,
(11:21):
they're so brutal.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Forget about the dog Days. Let's let's head over to
the Yankee territory before we start talking anything else. The
Big Three, man, I would have never thought in a
million years that both Soto, Stanton and Judge would be
hitting at the same time. Dude, I figured one would
get hot, the other two would be cold. When you know,
(11:43):
one hot, one cold, one injured. But it seems like
the Big Three are just they they can't turn it
off right now, and more power to them, I guess
that's kind of why they've been taking most of the
series they've been playing. You have a judge that what
long four games in a row. It's some sort of
crazy record with how many doubles and and all that stuff.
(12:03):
But yeah, like you said before, though, kind of typical, typical.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
I want to see. Yeah, I want to see because
I know Judge is obviously up in the I want
to see how many are in the top five in
the home runs right now for the year?
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Current top five home runs? Yeah, MLB, let's check it
out right now. Currents stat leaders home run.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Judge Soto six judges tied for second, Sodo sixth, and
then Stanton's seventh right behind him. Yeah, so that's sick
Harper's seventh tied with Stanton. But yeah, thank god, John Carlos.
Stanton is doing something for you guys, like honestly, But
the issue is has always been his batting average, and
(12:55):
it's it's it's respectable right now, but you've seen it
dip down to a bus can change. So, like, you know,
as long as he could keep that average somewhat good
and hit thirty to forty home runs, I mean, that's
a home home run for the Yankees for sure.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Okay, look at this man, I mean, O Tody's got
the best batting average, so far of course, sitting at
three thirty six. You got Alec Bohm tied for second
for RBI's this season with forty seven.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
He's sick right now, right uh.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Right in front of one Soto of course, Jose Ramirez
at the top of that one through Cleveland. It's just
unreal this year. Man Harper's up there too. I mean,
the RBIs from the Phillies is just insane. You know
what surprises me because I can't stand him. Clay Holmes
has fifteen saves on the season. Absolutely unreal. Ok, He's awful,
(13:46):
so terrible, so terrible. So that's that's gonna be it. Man,
there's no because no one can compare to Mo anytime.
There's gonna be a good closer the Yankee that we're
just gonna any Yankee fans gonna make at it the terrible.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
How many guys walked on the Moon? How many runs
did he let up? I forget about it.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
It's so annoying, it really is. And uh I hate
that stat.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
By the way.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
Yeah, there's people who the home run too, by the way,
because we've never been to the moon, I know. Yeah, ever,
but apparently we're like building a train on the moon.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
But I'm like, it's unreal. Man, I don't I understand.
NASA has become NASA. I keep saying that NASA nansa, uh,
NASA has been this like uh, I feel like it's
the new Google. You know, there's like cool sleep pods
in this. It's just like a bunch of college kids
that are too smart for any just working on random
(14:45):
stuff that will never be true or paid for or whatever,
like yeah, a railroad card system on the moon and
this that like, getna stop it. Stop wasting money on
the moon? Man, what were my taxes? What do you do? Like?
Put those kids somewhere else in the government.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
My my favorite thing about our space conversations that happened on
the phone and we were talking. I was like, man,
what if we shot our garbage into space? Yeah, like
why wouldn't we do that?
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Right?
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Like that makes sense? And I was like I wonder
if it'd be like peeing in the rain and just
or peeing in the wind. It just comes right back
at you. And they found out that's what happened.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
It literally comes back into orbit.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
They're like, hey, we found a piece of trash that
was left.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
So it's terrible. We used to just shoot anything up there. Man,
there's like burnt out rockets doing something. I just like awful.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Well that apparently like the moon is cluttered with like
space junk too, and like it's like like.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
It looks like a junk start. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Remember when like it's senior year, they make you go
out and clean the beaches. Did you have to do
that and then you got to play hooky the rest
of the day.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
I think we had something like that. I just never went.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Okay, you played real hooky, you played real hook I
played the fake one.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
What not go in or clean stuff up? Yeah, I'm
just not gonna go in.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Yeah, so we went to like LBI. We would clean
up for the first half, having lunch, and then do
whatever you want, right, So, like people laid on the
beach people, I played basketball with my buddies stuff like that.
Uh laughing. Because it's four K they probably could see
your notes. Really, it's four K camera.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Probably can if they zoom in. Those are whole notes.
That's a stack for like the last two years now.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Oh man, I'm just looking at the one image I
keep looking at.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
I did I did not draw that?
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (16:30):
I may have drawn that. No, No, that's definitely German, he.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Wrote Team Effort online. I appreciate that germ, but yeah, man,
so like the whole moon.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Oh this is from the fourth of July last year.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Oh my god, this is the oh who kids button?
Yeah seriously, dude, Yeah, so my baseball life's over minus
this trip to London. Like I don't foresee anything, can't
even like, you know, Pete's gone after this year. There's
no doubt in my mind he's not. I wouldn't stick around,
Like there's no vibe with this team. Diaz is horrifyingly bad.
(17:10):
Makes me think he's still injured. You know, maybe something's
going on the game keeps catching up. So that's one
thing I'll share, you know.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
So it feels like it's just your situations, like a
Philly situation, you know, when Bryce was making his decision,
like you just need one guy like him to come over,
pull some other guys in, get the locker room back,
you know what I mean, Like what if Trout, because
Trout I think his contract's up this year, right, I mean,
what if Trout's like, screw it, man, I'm going East
Coast and I know, you know, everybody's sitting there going yank.
(17:39):
He's yank. He's like what if He's like, dude, I'm
gonna go to a team and try to you know,
I know it's not gonna happen, but like, I don't know,
I can't.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
He's got the golf course. That's the closest he's gonna
get to Queens. It's the golf course down the street
from us right now, you know. And I could see
him in Philly like, which is crazy, like a Lebron
type thing when Lebron went to the Lakers, you know,
towards the end. But like you know, with with Trout
and I just I don't think so. I the Angels
(18:07):
need them there for life.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
It's a shame, man. It's like the Mets are just
the New York Jets of baseball or no matter what
they do and who they try to bring over, it's
just I disagree with that. Awful you know what do
you mean you're in the same like like it's it's
right now, Like you got such.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
A Yankee take on.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
I could say Giants too. I mean, who do you?
I mean? Both teams suck right now. So it's just
it's not Philly. Something's going on in Philly. There's something
in the in the cheese steaks. There's something in the water.
There's something in the cheese steaks in Philly. You had
a busy week last week, you went to a candy convention.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
I did.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
I want you to talk about like we had like
two minutes before to take a break. I want you
to fill me in because dude, everybody knows we say
we talk all the time. We've been missing phone calls. No,
even like earlier today, I did, like I look down
and I texted, you know, like I missed call, and
I missed a call for like an hour agoing like
it's been awful.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
I missed you like normally we talked Saturday mornings because
that used to be working, that's right, yeah, or we'd
both be on our way to work and uh yeah, man,
So we've been missing left and right. But what didn't
miss was this?
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Uh this the.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Snack and candy Expo. And where was that Indianapolis?
Speaker 3 (19:22):
You know?
Speaker 2 (19:22):
I was in and out though.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Was that Lucas Was that Lucas Oil Stadium? No?
Speaker 2 (19:25):
But it was at the right next to it, literally
the convention center, and you could see it right there.
Indy five hundred it's all right there nice, and we
were not. We were over by the hospital area and
that was really bad.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
We didn't even have snacking candy convention. Man, you need
a hospital, dude.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
It was absolutely nuts, Like it felt like grown up
trick or treating. Like you're just meeting all these different businesses.
You're meeting all these new snack designs, uh, small family
businesses to mars to the biggest companies you could imagine.
I was there with Iconic Candy, the best news candy
company you could ever imagine. They resurrect childhood memories through
(20:04):
your candy. It's unbelievable that, you know, they stole the show.
Like their booth was just on fire the entire time,
to the point where Alex and I were kind of like,
let's get out of their way so they could do
their thing.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
You know.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
But Ouch Bubblegum is coming back. You know, they're the
guys who brought the team that brought back cream sabers
and they did that during colvid. No, it's crazy, right,
So people were buying them off the shelves and then
selling them on eBay for like fifty dollars a bag
when they came back, So to give you an idea,
and they're about to do that with sourbs. Altoid sours
(20:40):
are coming back and they're called retro sours, So you know,
and I know they got a lot going on this summer.
They're gonna be on the Q and O two Beach
door and like I said, yeah, we're proud to partner
with them. But it was an experience like you can
never imagine. Like Big League two was there. I got
to talk to our guys from there. I had a
good meeting with them, you know, and it was just
(21:01):
it was crazy. It was absolutely crazy. If you could
ever go to one yourself, go, if you know somebody
in the industry, I'm Tony, you need to go. It
was absolutely nuts.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Oh man, I'm said, I missed it. I would have
needed that hospital right next door. Though.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
It was crazy.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
They just give stuff away, so you just yeah, like
and it's all this like new stuff. So Chex mix
had like a Buffalo chicken sandwich mix, so like each
piece had a different type of flavor. So one was
the pickle, one was the bun, one was the chicken,
one was the sauce. It was crazy, like but if
you eat them individually, it tastes terrible, so so you
(21:39):
got to take like a big gulp and just eat it.
But yeah, it was uh you know different nationalities. Uh
you know squid games, that cookie game. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
that's a it's a real it's a real game kids
play in Japan or Yeah, and then so that they
made a candy company came out with a Mario version,
(22:01):
but it's a candy bar and you got to try
to get married away out of it. Yeah. I got
one upstairs. It's it's it's insane, just the stuff and
the concepts coming out of there. I was just blown away.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
That's awesome. That's awesome. We'll definitely check out the Snacking
Candy Convention this time next year if you guys are around.
Is it always in Indianapolis?
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Yeah, But like I said, I think it's like invite only.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
That's all right. We're gonna talk to our good friends
at Icon of Candy to make sure that we can
get some invites and head on over there. We're gonna
take a quick break. When we come back, we're gonna
talk about some Olympic stuff that's happening and the weird
event that is taking place for the first time ever
this year, stay with us, guys is the vie live
on Fox Sports.
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Speaker 2 (23:12):
Yeah, Miikey Hughes Germ. Everybody's doing it.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
And everybody's been podcasting but us.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Yeah, I feel so bad, man, Like I've just been
that like definitely took a lot out of me. I
didn't realize it at the time. Yeah, that took like
a month and a half of me wanting to touch
a mic.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Did like a whole bunch of But that was a
lot of pod.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Yeah, a lot of pod.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
We need a podcast called a lot of pods. Just
fun to say all right, let's move on. So July,
I think insert dayty the twenty fourth, twenty sixth, whenever
it is. The Olympics are coming back towards the end
of July. It is in Paris now, which is gonna
be fantastic. If you guys haven't looked at the maps yet,
go ahead and look at them. It's just if you
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if you've never been to Paris. There's a bunch of
different districts that make up the city of Paris. It's
a really cool city. They have events scattered all over,
so they're all gonna take place, you know, at pretty
much the same time. Not all the events, but you know,
you're gonna get a group of events to take place
at the same time across the city. It's gonna be bananas.
I know people that are going to watch, I know
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people that are going to work. But it's I like
the Olympics. I like the summer and the Winter Olympics,
but a place like Paris is gonna be so cool
because you're just gonna have different venues set up, like
beach volleyball. You know, can you imagine like just watching
beach volleyball in the backgrounds like Eiffel Tower and stuff
like that, So it's gonna be really cool. There's one
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event that's brand new to the Olympics this year, and
that's breakdancing. I know I had the same.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
But I blame Steve Cohen for this, and that's what I.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Thought of immediately when I'm reading this. But yeah, the
US Olympic breakdancers are ready to show off the sports
community and culture at Paris Games.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Is it because Paris to pick something like how does
that work?
Speaker 3 (25:02):
I'm not entirely sure.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
It just goes on to say, uh, you know.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Because I know baseball's gone, but it will be back
when the Olympic Games are back in the States. So like,
we're taking this year off, but in four years baseball
will be back because it's being played in the Americas.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Oh maybe that's a good point.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Yeah, it just says it's some wonder if like Paris
is just known for wine, cigarettes and break dancing.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
So the teams are it's two and two, like two
women and two men, or at least the US Olympic team.
That's that's pretty much what we have. Now. I'm like
super curious on we're breakdancing originated? Now?
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Yo, I'm excited too, because like when we're in London,
like apparently like there's a lot of like uber boats
New York and you could drink on the uber boats.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
Uber oh, like they're going up and down the.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Yeah taxi boats.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Yeah, but all right, so break guys, breakdancing started in
New York. I don't know why we didn't know that.
Either way, you got break dancing for Paris the Paris Games.
The DJs for the competition have yet to be announced,
so I'm like, dude, these like you don't get to
pick the song. This isn't like figure skating where you
get to do your own routine. Is this gonna be
like a freestyle situation? I can't imit.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Like I'd love to see an actual like because how
many dance movies have there been, like or singing competition movies.
You know you'd never really like see one like yeah,
yeah they had that one, so you think you could dance,
but it was like it was just too much like
you know, I don't want to hear so And also
I wonder if it's gonna have that reality type vibe
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where you actually hear from the judges. Probably not, because
it's the Olympics. They're gonna make everything dry.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
I just could you imagine like being out at a bar.
I don't want this. This is your typical like how
you're sitting on the couch, stuff in your face with
like cheese balls and a gymnast like doesn't land on
two feet and you're like loser, you know what I mean?
But like I can't imagine like being at a bar,
and so I'm like, oh, yeah, no, I'm Olympian. Like
they have the Olympic ring tattoo and you're like, oh,
what do you do? I break dance? What you break dance?
Speaker 7 (27:16):
Well?
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Did you see us?
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Like I won this little move the little robot foul territory.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Todd had another guy that was on the Olympic team
with him, one of the younger guys, and they were
like talking to all the other athletes and they're like
they're in there eating drinking a beer and having McDonald's
and they're like, yeah, we got our metal game tomorrow,
and like all the other people are like, we've never
ate any of that and put that in our body.
So it's just like the difference between them and them,
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Like it was just funny. It's like, yeah, We're talking
to the swimmers and they're just like, yeah, we can't
touch that, please get it away from us.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Oh my god, like we.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Had pizza last night. They're like, get out of here.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Like this is why I love baseball. I feel like
you could be talking to a ball player chain smoking
a cigarette and.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Just look at John Crunk.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Yeah exactly, man, just a a world class athlete. Breakdancing
is only by the way, I'm going down this article,
this rabbit hole. It's not in the twenty twenty eight
Summer Olympics in LA right now. It's only for Paris
and then for the Brisbane Olympics in twenty and thirty two.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Yeah, that's what I mean, Like they just move LA,
we'll have baseball back. So break dancing essentially replaced baseball
so stupid that they.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Just like, oh, here's a sport and then they get
rid of it. Oh here's actually isn't there they doing
that for flag football in LA two. Isn't that going
to be in the.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
It's gonna be See.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
I'm a purre. I'm an Olympic purist, man, I can't
have that.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
You want the Lions.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
I don't know if that was every the Olympics, but
like I think it was once like naked bar Prince
Old Greek Olympics. Everybody competes naked. That's awful, so awful.
Speaker 6 (28:55):
Man.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
Speaking of Todd, let's go back there, man, he's been
crushing it. Yeah for the Yes Network. I know I'm
a homer and uh I'm a little biased here, but
it takes a lot to really balance out. Michael Kay,
Michael Ka like Paul O'Neill does an okay job. I
don't like the K and.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
A Rod Show.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
The K Rod Show, No, God no, because they person
I haven't watched any episode more than a year, so
I couldn't even tell you if they do it or not.
A Rod's too busy. The Timberwolves are still in the
playoffs long, but I mean they're maybe not by the
time this airs, buddy, that's for sure. But No, he's
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he's really you know, you know what cracks me up
to because I've been watching the Yankees all week because
my coaching season kind of ended, so I've had time,
and it's just like he's you feel like like you're
like we've talked to Todd. Yeah, I swear to god,
it's like he's talking when he's breaking it down, he's
just it's so oh, all right, I get it.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
You're like, why are you talking back to the TV? No, No,
he's great.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
My wife walks up my arm around the TV. I
know what you mean, man, like recording that.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
You muted during Michael Kaye's conversations responding.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
So he's so awful. I mean, obviously he had to
do a good enough job to be Michael kay and
to be around for around. But I can't do it. Man.
He's like, to me, he's worse than Joe Buck Now.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Yeah, And I don't know what it is.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Maybe just from listening to him for so long.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Yeah, everybody has their time.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
It's like, Mike, you gotta relax.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
But ye, for me, it was always like in the
backyard playing baseball or like on a field and somebody
does to see you, and I was just like, no.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Man, I'd rather hear a John Sterling call.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Yeah it's entertaining.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
Yeah, well, I mean yes, and no, it's just the sea.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Also, you know when they made that that that spotlight
show with Michael kay like interviewing like like Matthew.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Broderick and like like like the Yes Network just need
MSG just needed some something else.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
At the center stage with Michael Kay, I was just
like why, Like, no, I don't want to hear this
guy again.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
No. MSG was like, we were just going to play
commercials for an hour straight, but if you want the time,
you can have it.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Bought it.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Nobody's watching anyway.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Service announcement thing, oh man that he like produced the
whole thing.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
He invested his own money.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Just the only idiot watching it and.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
Like not even watching it but hate watching it. Yeah,
this guy doing what does he know about acting? Get
out of here? Didn't he?
Speaker 1 (31:37):
I think?
Speaker 3 (31:37):
I feel like he interviewed like fifty cent one time,
so I.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Probably out of hand. It was out of positive the
whole concept.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
Man, You just I Michael Kay.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Even the k Rod Show, Like I just want to
know how that happened, Like why they picked that, because
like it sounds like a great concept, But it would
have been cool if it was like big Poppy in
a Rod, Like it would have been better if you
found Because that's that's why the Manning cast is so great, right,
because it's two guys that literally don't know what they're doing.
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Michael Kay doesn't have that national attention to rope in
a national audience in my humble opinion, So.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
No, and and honestly, I mean you just look at like,
uh look, take a page out of the NBA's book,
Like everybody wants to hear a breakdown from an actual
player and someone like we want to hear. That's why
people are so excited for Brady to get in the
booth and for you know that, that's why people love Romo,
you know what I mean. Like, it's just like I
want to hear a breakdown from a guy that's looking
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at what we're looking at and knows it inside and out.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Yeah, it's speaking of Joe Buck. Did you see the
story he shared this week about how he got his
first like announcing gig.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
I didn't see it, but didn't his dad give it
to him?
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Well he was eighteen years old. It was his birthday.
He was supposed to go to prom with this girl,
and this girl was like, yeah, I'm not going with
you anymore.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
So he went to the game. It was in New
York against the Cardinals, Mets Cardinals, and his dad was
doing the radio broadcast, so like, come around the fourth inning,
they're like now making their debut. His debut Joe, like
my son Joe and him and the other announcer got
out of the station and just left him to his
own devices for that whole inning.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
Yeah, and the rest is history. And that's why we
heard Jesus Christ. Good God. Can you imagine you can't
do that in any other I mean a few professions.
Can you imagine if like a doctor's like pilot, Hey,
my son doesn't really know any sort of life direction,
but I'm gonna let him take this one. He's gonna
stitch you up, all right. Like, so he's in a pilot,
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all right. We were cruising at five thousand whatever, fifty
thousand feet, I don't know. I don't know altitudes.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
He just comes to the back of the playing the
pilot and he's got his feet up. It's like, yeah,
my eighteen year old Nick is gonna take us home.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
He's really good at video games. He'll be able to
land this thing, no problem. God man.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
That was the the other thing, Like when we're talking
to NASCAR, the simulators that the President of NASCAR gives
the Urban Youth School are like legit and like you
could really learn how to race on them, whereas like
I don't care how great you could be at NBA
two K, Like you're not gonna be able to transition
that into court, like onto the court. So it's just
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funny to really like think about that, Like, you know.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
But most people that are good at two k have
never held a basketball in their hands and their entire life.
I love it. I love it so dumb. Let's take
a quick break when we come back, happy trails to
a umpire that nobody.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Some people need to celebrate this.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Well, miss, We're definitely gonna celebrate it when we come
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Let's check out what happened over Memorial Day weekend. I
think the tart Monster got somebody.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Good news, bad news.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
Good news.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
Reds are up four, we are through five.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Bad news.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
Tart Monster did get one member of the grounds crew
got undercut and is trying to army crawl a path
to freedom. I'm not sure if Charlie Steiner, Dodgers radio announcer,
might be part of it. With Mark maguire, that tap
you see the single Yep, there's somebody under there actually
injurious one of the bigger cheers of the day.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
Man, there are a few things terrifying, more terrifying and
embarrassing for this poor woman. Yeah. Uh at the Reds
game on Saturday, I guess, I mean storms just whipped
through the Midwest and East coast and the Reds I
think were up four at the time. And then of
course the tart goes on. Quick guys for baseball. They
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don't mess around, and they don't care if you fall trip,
if you have kids, if you're young, they don't care.
They're like, forget it, you'll survival of the fittest.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
It is still the most partbared thing you ever.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
Unreal, man, it doesn't this is not the Titanic. The
women and the children do not go first. There's no
respect when it comes to the tarp. And uh, this
chick unfortunately just got under and she it was like
when you have like a like under a blanket, just
like it's like a mouse under a blanket, right.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
Like a There's been a few times where like you
went under the blanket and he thought like, oh man,
I can't wait. You get to the other side. And
you're like that had to be that times a million.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
Oh my god, dude, the way to that tarp on
it so hard. She's army crawling. There's tens of thousands
of people watching live now millions thanks to the Internet.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
You see that motivational football movie where they're like something
like playing the Giants or something, and like they do
this like arm this crawl with the guy on his
back and he's like blindfolded them and he's like, keep going,
keep going. Like she had to have been like because
I would have just gave up.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
You're not gonna die here, Mike, You're not gonna die here.
She had like a person leading like tapping her, like no,
go the other way, like literally walking on the tar.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
The other like imagine almost being there and then just
deciding to turn back around and most going the wrong.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
Hurting her like a mouse through a maze, like poking
her with a stick from the tar and this way,
this way, keep going. Well hopefully she got a good
laugh out of it, and.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
Like is it is it like the Marines and stuff
like where you have to actually like tread water or
something like does everybody go through the tarp ones like
to learn that was the process like someone tripped around purpose,
Welcome to the team, Welcome to tarp duty.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
Oh my god, Angel hernandez Na, there it is. Purse
is uh out? He's out of here, finally retiring after
who knows how many almost thirty years, I mean three decades.
The article says, after three decades of missing strikes and
balls behind home plate, he finally has worked out a
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deal to where he's gonna retire. I don't know if
he gets a package he's May ninth was the last
time he was you know.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
Something, what's it gonna take? What's it gonna take?
Speaker 3 (38:21):
It's he hasn't worked in the last couple of weeks.
He's actually he's worked more recently than we have.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
I was gonna say, like, definitely they he could have
cashed in on this. It gofund me something like that, like, hey, guys,
I'm thinking about retiring, Like donate here.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
Yeah, set me up so I don't have to do
this anymore.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
Like yeah, sixty two years old. I mean that's the
other problem.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
Granted, he's been awful for an extremely.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
Saw something where's him and Joe West and Bolth were involved,
and it was just like a nightmare well, he had that.
Speaker 3 (38:51):
Thing where he filed a lawsuit like yeah, was twenty
eighteen seventeen because he thought he should have been a
part of the chief for the World Series. He was
passed over and he thought it was because of race
because he's Cuban. No, but he couldn't prove and it
had nothing to do with his terrible track record.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
This was definitely performance based.
Speaker 3 (39:13):
I could.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
I could promise you that, like, you know, so the
good riddans, thank God. Ironically, at the Snack convention, I
ran into a gentleman that worked for a cookie company
and he was a collegiate umpire and he was about
to get put into the pros really yeah, and we
were talking about like, you know, nobody really umpires don't
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have an outlet, and he wanted to make a podcast.
So we actually have a meeting in a couple of weeks,
and I hope maybe he gets a professional nod through this.
You know, I'd assume he'd start like, he is a
collegiate umpire, so maybe he gets to push the pros quicker,
but I would assume he'd have to do some type
of minor league.
Speaker 3 (39:54):
Yeah, I think that's how ye, how it works. Really
is from college to some sort of mind. I know
a kid that was a minor league. I think he
was only one step below the pros. So maybe just
maybe he'll get the push. It's got to dude, gotta
be better. A trash can can be better.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
I was gonna say a robot.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
But what is that game with the whiffleballs where there's
like literally a square behind home plate?
Speaker 2 (40:16):
Oh yeah, yeah, that set that up. Put that up.
Speaker 3 (40:19):
Yeah, like just get rid of catchers.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
But again, I again talking about like obviously there's a
reason why Angel Hernandez was probably around for a long time,
and he was good at his craft at one point, right,
because like, again, we can see the box at home
so we're like, come on, I did not see that,
you know.
Speaker 3 (40:38):
But yeah, I mean, and that's the thing, right, every
catcher or every catcher, every homeplate umpire has their own
strike zone, and as long as they're consistent, you usually
don't hear too much. Like if you're missing, if you're
missing the same pitch, just keep missing the same pitch.
Speaker 2 (40:52):
When yeah, but when you're ejecting people because somebody in
the crowd said something boone situation.
Speaker 3 (40:58):
Literally, someone says something in the crowd and he pointed
at Boone's only got out what Yeah, I didn't say see.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
The other one with John Boy where like they just
pick pick somebody.
Speaker 3 (41:11):
Or whatever such At this point, it's such an old
man or old just like an old man like I
can do this. I'm gonna do this, Like dude, nobody cares.
And getting thrown out in baseball means nothing. There's no suspension,
there's no fine, there's nothing. It's literally it's an act.
It's a charade.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
Like it's like now now the team has a substitute teacher.
That's pretty much it.
Speaker 3 (41:33):
Yeah, and the lineup cards in what else do you
have to do?
Speaker 2 (41:36):
Harper got tossed the other night, uh, and he was
just asking where the ball was at like and it
was like calm, he was still in the box and
the guy was just like, I guess I had a
bad day. But the thing is, like I was talking
to the Collegian umpire at the snack convention. I was like,
can you guys like not retract it? Like I've never
seen somebody get tossed and then cooler hair heads prevail
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and they're like you know what, yeah, all right, you
could saying like can you not once you're tossing, you
can't go back on He's like no, yeah you can't,
Like yeah, but come on, like you know, like.
Speaker 3 (42:08):
My thing is like dude, especially with the Bryce Harper situation,
like in every other sport you can have the at
least the captain or a player asked like talk to
the ref or at least, like hockey is the worst.
Like these players shot up curse like I have right
at the ref and they give it right back to him,
Like yeah, I feel like it's just it's weird man,
Like this is your grown men like you, why are
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you so sensitive? Someone's gonna look at.
Speaker 7 (42:32):
You like, yeah, that was a terrible call, Like yeah, hockey,
I almost get it though, because the way the refs
have to skate, they're probably jump hopped up on the
same kind of adrenaline as the hockey players.
Speaker 3 (42:43):
So yeah, yeah almost.
Speaker 2 (42:45):
Like they relate to each other absolutely, The respect.
Speaker 3 (42:48):
Is there, right, like they're not putting hands on each
other or anything. That's the thing about baseball too. You
go argue in someone's face and spit on each other
and no one throws hands, like.
Speaker 2 (42:56):
Come on you definitely it definitely like everybody says like
wrestling messed me up. Baseball arguments messed me up more
like as a child, because I would think like that
was normal, Like you could walk into a room and
just like.
Speaker 3 (43:10):
Get two inches from somebody's face, like.
Speaker 2 (43:14):
Like wrestling, didn't you know that nowhere.
Speaker 3 (43:17):
Else in life sending me from someone's face and not
get punched. Right, So dum Dallas.
Speaker 2 (43:23):
Green just screaming at people with this giant beer belly
and just yeah, it was nuts. Man Joe Torburg tour Burg, Uh,
he was like our manager for like a year. I
think it was like kicked out every single game in
the nineties, like it was insane.
Speaker 3 (43:39):
I love it when they take like garbage cans and
stuff and then just like put it behind home, like
give me that, give me that sort of I'll take.
I'll take stuff like that over the you know, arguing
nose to nose like punch someone like.
Speaker 8 (43:53):
Yeah, great, panelas amazing, but yeah that's also go away,
like you know, but I also think like the Mets
needed that, right, they need somebody to get kicked out,
like that's they need a fire it'll it'll fire up your.
Speaker 3 (44:10):
Your team team for a little bit.
Speaker 2 (44:12):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3 (44:13):
It shows the guys that I'm on the fight for you.
Speaker 2 (44:16):
I guess you know. Steve Cohen's not on the fight.
He already said on Twitter like the season was over,
and then he was like sorry, I meant to tm
that somebody that's such an old man, dude.
Speaker 3 (44:28):
It's like when the when Facebook first came out and
old people, like when it was like free for people
to use and all the old people were writing stuff
on their walls not realizing that everybody can see it
like that.
Speaker 2 (44:38):
Did you watch that Game Stop movie?
Speaker 3 (44:40):
No good?
Speaker 2 (44:41):
It's so good.
Speaker 3 (44:42):
There's a few on the list.
Speaker 2 (44:43):
He's back now he's back the roaring kidding?
Speaker 3 (44:47):
Is he? What's he saying?
Speaker 2 (44:49):
He did? He brought back Game Stop? And then he
also did AMC so he Yeah.
Speaker 3 (44:55):
I need a new tip. I need to make a
little bit of money fast.
Speaker 2 (44:58):
Yeah, you got a lot of the movie's great. Yeah,
it's like it reminds me it gets short, but it's better, okay.
Yeah yeah if that to give me an idea, it
does give me an idea.
Speaker 3 (45:07):
Thank you, thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (45:09):
And it's got Pete what you call it, Pete Davidson,
Pete Davison. Yeah, but he plays like kind of like,
what do you wow? I assume Pete Davidson would be
in real live, so I don't mind it.
Speaker 3 (45:21):
He plays the same role all the time.
Speaker 1 (45:22):
We dive.
Speaker 3 (45:23):
Yeah, it doesn't, it doesn't matter. That's that's perfect. All right, guys,
we'll be back next week. Maybe maybe not on it's
our schedule.
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So corny disagreement bring up, Yeah I do, And here
we are Divide Live, Fox Sports The Gambler one of
two five Philly on a four to one Trenton.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
It has been the better part of a month, easily, easily,
I think like April nineteenth last time we were.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Oh man, it's been a rough one for sure.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Life man, life's been life.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
And shout out to all the you know the ones
we lost. Happy moral day. Yes I missed that, you
know stuff like that. I mean, that was my first
moral day ever off because even as when I was eighteen,
as we had to work at six flags. So I've
never had one off and I've never been more tired
from it, Like I'm still tired from it, like a
(01:31):
good way.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
I went through the whole day thinking it was Sunday today.
I was going to wake up. Yeah, yeah, I'm waking
up on Monday tomorrow. But no, it's already Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Yeah that's I think that's the best thing about it. One.
I also have an early exit to this to that
this week going to London. I'm going to Paris. The
Mets Phillies play in London, because that's the most American
thing to do. Isn't another coatry, watch cricket or something.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Did you hear.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
About like the Mets refusing Like so, Chase Utley, for
people that don't know, is the MLB ambassador of London.
So it's his job to help all the other teams
that that are playing there, you know, if they need
help with reservations anything. Nobody from the Mets reached out
to them because they hate them. Yeah, it's so.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Funny, it's great. Yeah, it's here are your disposal guys
for the brand on brand Like I can't even ask them, like, yo,
where should we eat?
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Where can we get some good bangers in match.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Oh man, I bet you can't wait for your bangers
and Massy.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Also, there's there's a few things we're doing with all
different fan basism. Cut is gonna be sponsoring it. There's
a lot of fun things that are gonna go on
while I'm in London. But one of the things is
this diner that's going viral on social media. It's called
the Karens and it's it's literally right next to our
hotel room, and it's it's kind of like one of
(02:53):
those like restaurants themed restaurants, but all the waitresses and
staff are Karens no way, so they're just mean to you.
Like literally the logo has a middle finger.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Why hasn't that been I mean, I guess it was
thought of. I mean there's a few here where the
waiters their waitresses are just rude, But I think the
Karens is fantastic.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Yeah, And then like I asked, I was like, oh,
our children aloud, and they're like, of course that if
they are, like you know, like but they don't like
culturally like think of it as a bad like yeah,
the kid can't curse, but they curse in front of
the kids, like so I'm like, all right, like we'll
consider that, but yeah, I think we're gonna go.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
It's your first time in London mine.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Yes, I've been to Germany, been to Austria, been to Spain.
You know, I've been around the world, but not London
or France.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
And that's where we're going brag about it. Bro hold on,
So has your wife been in London?
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Yes? She dated a guy in Scotland and they were
also chat like her parents when she was like in
sixth seventh grade like let her go for a whole
year to London. So she actually was. Yeah, I feel
like that's too young, right, Yeah, for a whole year.
She was definitely way too young. Yeah, like boarding school
type kind of Yes.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Yeah. Why did I not know this about your wife?
I don't know because I don't listen when she talks
to you. Oh my god. So when's the game? You
get in on one Friday?
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yes, we get in on Friday and then it's about
a week to the game. We're going to Paris Disney
because that's what theme park enthusiasts like ourselves do. Payton's
pretty jacked up about it. They got a bunch of
different have like an Iron Man roller Coaster. I'm excited
for that.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
It's got the Disney Paris Disney situation. You're you're hitting
up Paris about two months before everybody in the entire
world hits up Paris. Good for you or I guess
just say a little more than a month. But you know,
that should be a good should be a good trip.
Hopefully the Mets win. Man, they're too good.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Yeah, I wouldn't put my money on it. I probably
will put my money on it, but yeah, man, it's
it's there's nothing finding new ways to lose like this,
Like yeah, we're like this team just can't can't win.
Like it's like, you know, this team doesn't know.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
How to lose.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Like this team does not win, Like they're just like,
we're not gonna do it.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
I want to know how the how the dancers are feeling,
the dancers rallying. Is there really a big push for
Stevie to to sell the team. I'm not I've seen
it all over the internet.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Is it more said in jest? Or is that like
from a met perspective.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
No, the majority of the fan base, like you know,
I called it from the beginning. I'm not bragging but
I just felt like we did not invest in this season,
and we could pretend we're shocked. But I looked at
this team. I looked at this lineup. I looked at
more importantly, the starting rotation. I was like, there's no
way we're gonna compete, not in this you know, not
in this division. You know, maybe if we're Central or
(05:45):
something like that, maybe you could argue that they would
have a shot. But no, I mean all of the
NL is pretty much trash. Outside of the Phillies. If
you look at the records, there's there's not that many
great teams Dodgers, you know, in Phillies, you're you're right.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
I mean, if you're looking at the National League at
this point, there's one, two, three, four teams that have
more than thirty wins. Everybody else's you know, mid to
high twenties unless you're the Rockies or the Marlins and
you're a little bit lower. But so yeah, I mean
compared to the AL, I mean, you got.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
To forget three four.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
About the same, believe it or not. Yeah, yeah, Uh,
the AL West is uh kind of lagging behind a
little bit. But no, man, I feel like, uh, I
don't know, can you is it. It can't be ownership, right,
You've never had an owner that's seemingly been more invested
(06:43):
in a team and their success. So is it like
we're the right people, wrong people? And you know in
the front office, like what is he doing wrong with
his personnel? Because I feel like you've you it's been
a long time since you've had or ever since you've
had an owner that's been in every game, this invested,
not afraid to throw money around, and now it's like
(07:05):
Jesus is tanking before June.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
It's attractiveness, right, So, like nobody wants to play for
the Mets. They want to use met ownership to up
their salaries, and that includes GMS. That includes like, look
like we're on the one year of a new GM,
so of course he was gonna burn it down. It's
not his you know, you saw it. You know everybody
pretty much get canned, you know, and it just yeah,
(07:30):
so I knew it was gonna be a step back.
They kept saying like, we're not in a rebuild, We're
in a reset, and I was just like, that's such
a dumb But it's so hard to throw away years.
You can't throw a year away like it doesn't, you know,
the Sixers would trust the process. Like when you try
to outthink the system, the system ends up. You know,
(07:51):
you end up falling behind because other teams are also
trying to reset and rebuild while they're competing. So I
think that was stressful. I think the sures are the
Verlander deals, like they're all very quick because we lost somebody,
uh you know, so there was so much other things
that didn't go the Mets way. And it's still like
(08:12):
the press, you know, Max finding out we're not we're
not going, we're sellers. He wants to be traded. Then
you know, all this drama, dude. But again, I think
it comes down to the facts, like people use Cohen's money,
like they called the Coen Tax to get paid from
other teams and leave and not be in New York.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
It's so wild. Yeah, I mean, it's it's pretty much
moneyball in a nutshell, you know what I mean. It's
just who's who's going to pay and and get out
of here? And now it's instead of over in Oakland
or wherever the hell they are now it's mis Queen's
I do let we have to get into it, Philly,
because you're listening. But I feel like the last time
we were on the air, Philly was not doing too great.
(08:53):
Now they're the best team in the National League, arguably
the best close to the best team in baseball depending
on what the Yankees do. Yeah, but it's it's unreal.
You know, Trey Turner's still not one hundred percent, Castianos
has has yet to even heat up, and they and
it just seems like they have depth. Man.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Yeah, no, you know, I knew it was gonna be
a fun team regardless, Like I knew that going into
the season. Uh, they just gel well, you know, everything
they even when a guy's doing bad, they tend to
push them across the finish line.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
So all that without dollar dogs. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
The funniest thing is though, like you would think it's
just too much excitement around the team, Like they're like
they're gonna win one hundred and seventeen games.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
It's like, bro, chill, come out.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Look, they're going for the major league record, They're doing this,
they're doing that. And then meanwhile the Yankees are like
a gamer, like right in the same round literally, and
they're like, what can we do better? Can we shine
showdo right now? Like you know, like that fan base
is kind of like taking it as if they've been
there before. Where the Phillies like every day I'm getting
a DM attacks wear a wagon like okay, dude, we
(09:58):
get it. Like great, but you know their ballpark is
filled on a Tuesday. Was shocked by that and they
didn't need hot dogs.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
No.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
No. So they're doing well, you know, and I hope
it continues for them. But it's good to see Atlanta
take a step back. The one thing I will say
is Atlanta said this in the spring training that they
were going to take a step back because it felt
as though winning the division actually hurts in some case.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
And we always talk about it too. I think every
time around when we're creeping up on postseason, we always
talk about it. It's almost like a curse now, like people
don't want it. They want to be humbled before they
enter the playoffs. Yeah, I think it's I don't think
it's by design with Atlanta right now. You know, it's
too early to be taking it.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Marquee players injured for the of course.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Of course, but Philly watch out. Don't get too excited.
It is a long season and we're not even in
the summer months. Yet, so I think you guys will
hold on, but don't start talking record season and over
one hundred and ten wins and all that come.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Well, it was June nineteen, twenty twenty two when we
started on the Gamblers because we both the Mets ending
Yankees were the hottest teams in baseball right by far.
And you know, we all know what happened after that,
and you know, the Phillies have never looked back since. So,
like you know, you never know, you never know. Those
dog Days of August, like you said, they're brutal, man,
(11:21):
they're so brutal.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Forget about the dog Days. Let's let's head over to
the Yankee territory before we start talking anything else. The
Big Three, man, I would have never thought in a
million years that both Soto, Stanton and Judge would be
hitting at the same time. Dude, I figured one would
get hot, the other two would be cold. When you know,
(11:43):
one hot, one cold, one injured. But it seems like
the Big Three are just they they can't turn it
off right now, and more power to them, I guess
that's kind of why they've been taking most of the
series they've been playing. You have a judge that what
long four games in a row. It's some sort of
crazy record with how many doubles and and all that stuff.
(12:03):
But yeah, like you said before, though, kind of typical, typical.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
I want to see. Yeah, I want to see because
I know Judge is obviously up in the I want
to see how many are in the top five in
the home runs right now for the year?
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Current top five home runs? Yeah, MLB, let's check it
out right now. Currents stat leaders home run.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Judge Soto six judges tied for second, Sodo sixth, and
then Stanton's seventh right behind him. Yeah, so that's sick
Harper's seventh tied with Stanton. But yeah, thank god, John Carlos.
Stanton is doing something for you guys, like honestly, But
the issue is has always been his batting average, and
(12:55):
it's it's it's respectable right now, but you've seen it
dip down to a bus can change. So, like, you know,
as long as he could keep that average somewhat good
and hit thirty to forty home runs, I mean, that's
a home home run for the Yankees for sure.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Okay, look at this man, I mean, O Tody's got
the best batting average, so far of course, sitting at
three thirty six. You got Alec Bohm tied for second
for RBI's this season with forty seven.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
He's sick right now, right uh.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Right in front of one Soto of course, Jose Ramirez
at the top of that one through Cleveland. It's just
unreal this year. Man Harper's up there too. I mean,
the RBIs from the Phillies is just insane. You know
what surprises me because I can't stand him. Clay Holmes
has fifteen saves on the season. Absolutely unreal. Ok, He's awful,
(13:46):
so terrible, so terrible. So that's that's gonna be it. Man,
there's no because no one can compare to Mo anytime.
There's gonna be a good closer the Yankee that we're
just gonna any Yankee fans gonna make at it the terrible.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
How many guys walked on the Moon? How many runs
did he let up? I forget about it.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
It's so annoying, it really is. And uh I hate
that stat.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
By the way.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
Yeah, there's people who the home run too, by the way,
because we've never been to the moon, I know. Yeah, ever,
but apparently we're like building a train on the moon.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
But I'm like, it's unreal. Man, I don't I understand.
NASA has become NASA. I keep saying that NASA nansa, uh,
NASA has been this like uh, I feel like it's
the new Google. You know, there's like cool sleep pods
in this. It's just like a bunch of college kids
that are too smart for any just working on random
(14:45):
stuff that will never be true or paid for or whatever,
like yeah, a railroad card system on the moon and
this that like, getna stop it. Stop wasting money on
the moon? Man, what were my taxes? What do you do? Like?
Put those kids somewhere else in the government.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
My my favorite thing about our space conversations that happened on
the phone and we were talking. I was like, man,
what if we shot our garbage into space? Yeah, like
why wouldn't we do that?
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Right?
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Like that makes sense? And I was like I wonder
if it'd be like peeing in the rain and just
or peeing in the wind. It just comes right back
at you. And they found out that's what happened.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
It literally comes back into orbit.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
They're like, hey, we found a piece of trash that
was left.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
So it's terrible. We used to just shoot anything up there. Man,
there's like burnt out rockets doing something. I just like awful.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Well that apparently like the moon is cluttered with like
space junk too, and like it's like like.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
It looks like a junk start. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Remember when like it's senior year, they make you go
out and clean the beaches. Did you have to do
that and then you got to play hooky the rest
of the day.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
I think we had something like that. I just never went.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Okay, you played real hooky, you played real hook I
played the fake one.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
What not go in or clean stuff up? Yeah, I'm
just not gonna go in.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Yeah, so we went to like LBI. We would clean
up for the first half, having lunch, and then do
whatever you want, right, So, like people laid on the
beach people, I played basketball with my buddies stuff like that.
Uh laughing. Because it's four K they probably could see
your notes. Really, it's four K camera.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Probably can if they zoom in. Those are whole notes.
That's a stack for like the last two years now.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Oh man, I'm just looking at the one image I
keep looking at.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
I did I did not draw that?
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (16:30):
I may have drawn that. No, No, that's definitely German, he.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Wrote Team Effort online. I appreciate that germ, but yeah, man,
so like the whole moon.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Oh this is from the fourth of July last year.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Oh my god, this is the oh who kids button?
Yeah seriously, dude, Yeah, so my baseball life's over minus
this trip to London. Like I don't foresee anything, can't
even like, you know, Pete's gone after this year. There's
no doubt in my mind he's not. I wouldn't stick around,
Like there's no vibe with this team. Diaz is horrifyingly bad.
(17:10):
Makes me think he's still injured. You know, maybe something's
going on the game keeps catching up. So that's one
thing I'll share, you know.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
So it feels like it's just your situations, like a
Philly situation, you know, when Bryce was making his decision,
like you just need one guy like him to come over,
pull some other guys in, get the locker room back,
you know what I mean, Like what if Trout, because
Trout I think his contract's up this year, right, I mean,
what if Trout's like, screw it, man, I'm going East
Coast and I know, you know, everybody's sitting there going yank.
(17:39):
He's yank. He's like what if He's like, dude, I'm
gonna go to a team and try to you know,
I know it's not gonna happen, but like, I don't know,
I can't.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
He's got the golf course. That's the closest he's gonna
get to Queens. It's the golf course down the street
from us right now, you know. And I could see
him in Philly like, which is crazy, like a Lebron
type thing when Lebron went to the Lakers, you know,
towards the end. But like you know, with with Trout
and I just I don't think so. I the Angels
(18:07):
need them there for life.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
It's a shame, man. It's like the Mets are just
the New York Jets of baseball or no matter what
they do and who they try to bring over, it's
just I disagree with that. Awful you know what do
you mean you're in the same like like it's it's
right now, Like you got such.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
A Yankee take on.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
I could say Giants too. I mean, who do you?
I mean? Both teams suck right now. So it's just
it's not Philly. Something's going on in Philly. There's something
in the in the cheese steaks. There's something in the water.
There's something in the cheese steaks in Philly. You had
a busy week last week, you went to a candy convention.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
I did.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
I want you to talk about like we had like
two minutes before to take a break. I want you
to fill me in because dude, everybody knows we say
we talk all the time. We've been missing phone calls. No,
even like earlier today, I did, like I look down
and I texted, you know, like I missed call, and
I missed a call for like an hour agoing like
it's been awful.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
I missed you like normally we talked Saturday mornings because
that used to be working, that's right, yeah, or we'd
both be on our way to work and uh yeah, man,
So we've been missing left and right. But what didn't
miss was this?
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Uh this the.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Snack and candy Expo. And where was that Indianapolis?
Speaker 3 (19:22):
You know?
Speaker 2 (19:22):
I was in and out though.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Was that Lucas Was that Lucas Oil Stadium? No?
Speaker 2 (19:25):
But it was at the right next to it, literally
the convention center, and you could see it right there.
Indy five hundred it's all right there nice, and we
were not. We were over by the hospital area and
that was really bad.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
We didn't even have snacking candy convention. Man, you need
a hospital, dude.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
It was absolutely nuts, Like it felt like grown up
trick or treating. Like you're just meeting all these different businesses.
You're meeting all these new snack designs, uh, small family
businesses to mars to the biggest companies you could imagine.
I was there with Iconic Candy, the best news candy
company you could ever imagine. They resurrect childhood memories through
(20:04):
your candy. It's unbelievable that, you know, they stole the show.
Like their booth was just on fire the entire time,
to the point where Alex and I were kind of like,
let's get out of their way so they could do
their thing.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
You know.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
But Ouch Bubblegum is coming back. You know, they're the
guys who brought the team that brought back cream sabers
and they did that during colvid. No, it's crazy, right,
So people were buying them off the shelves and then
selling them on eBay for like fifty dollars a bag
when they came back, So to give you an idea,
and they're about to do that with sourbs. Altoid sours
(20:40):
are coming back and they're called retro sours, So you know,
and I know they got a lot going on this summer.
They're gonna be on the Q and O two Beach
door and like I said, yeah, we're proud to partner
with them. But it was an experience like you can
never imagine. Like Big League two was there. I got
to talk to our guys from there. I had a
good meeting with them, you know, and it was just
(21:01):
it was crazy. It was absolutely crazy. If you could
ever go to one yourself, go, if you know somebody
in the industry, I'm Tony, you need to go. It
was absolutely nuts.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Oh man, I'm said, I missed it. I would have
needed that hospital right next door. Though.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
It was crazy.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
They just give stuff away, so you just yeah, like
and it's all this like new stuff. So Chex mix
had like a Buffalo chicken sandwich mix, so like each
piece had a different type of flavor. So one was
the pickle, one was the bun, one was the chicken,
one was the sauce. It was crazy, like but if
you eat them individually, it tastes terrible, so so you
(21:39):
got to take like a big gulp and just eat it.
But yeah, it was uh you know different nationalities. Uh
you know squid games, that cookie game. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
that's a it's a real it's a real game kids
play in Japan or Yeah, and then so that they
made a candy company came out with a Mario version,
(22:01):
but it's a candy bar and you got to try
to get married away out of it. Yeah. I got
one upstairs. It's it's it's insane, just the stuff and
the concepts coming out of there. I was just blown away.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
That's awesome. That's awesome. We'll definitely check out the Snacking
Candy Convention this time next year if you guys are around.
Is it always in Indianapolis?
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Yeah, But like I said, I think it's like invite only.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
That's all right. We're gonna talk to our good friends
at Icon of Candy to make sure that we can
get some invites and head on over there. We're gonna
take a quick break. When we come back, we're gonna
talk about some Olympic stuff that's happening and the weird
event that is taking place for the first time ever
this year, stay with us, guys is the vie live
on Fox Sports.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
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Speaker 2 (23:12):
Yeah, Miikey Hughes Germ. Everybody's doing it.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
And everybody's been podcasting but us.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Yeah, I feel so bad, man, Like I've just been
that like definitely took a lot out of me. I
didn't realize it at the time. Yeah, that took like
a month and a half of me wanting to touch
a mic.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Did like a whole bunch of But that was a
lot of pod.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Yeah, a lot of pod.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
We need a podcast called a lot of pods. Just
fun to say all right, let's move on. So July,
I think insert dayty the twenty fourth, twenty sixth, whenever
it is. The Olympics are coming back towards the end
of July. It is in Paris now, which is gonna
be fantastic. If you guys haven't looked at the maps yet,
go ahead and look at them. It's just if you
(23:57):
if you've never been to Paris. There's a bunch of
different districts that make up the city of Paris. It's
a really cool city. They have events scattered all over,
so they're all gonna take place, you know, at pretty
much the same time. Not all the events, but you know,
you're gonna get a group of events to take place
at the same time across the city. It's gonna be bananas.
I know people that are going to watch, I know
(24:17):
people that are going to work. But it's I like
the Olympics. I like the summer and the Winter Olympics,
but a place like Paris is gonna be so cool
because you're just gonna have different venues set up, like
beach volleyball. You know, can you imagine like just watching
beach volleyball in the backgrounds like Eiffel Tower and stuff
like that, So it's gonna be really cool. There's one
(24:38):
event that's brand new to the Olympics this year, and
that's breakdancing. I know I had the same.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
But I blame Steve Cohen for this, and that's what I.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Thought of immediately when I'm reading this. But yeah, the
US Olympic breakdancers are ready to show off the sports
community and culture at Paris Games.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Is it because Paris to pick something like how does
that work?
Speaker 3 (25:02):
I'm not entirely sure.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
It just goes on to say, uh, you know.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Because I know baseball's gone, but it will be back
when the Olympic Games are back in the States. So like,
we're taking this year off, but in four years baseball
will be back because it's being played in the Americas.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Oh maybe that's a good point.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Yeah, it just says it's some wonder if like Paris
is just known for wine, cigarettes and break dancing.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
So the teams are it's two and two, like two
women and two men, or at least the US Olympic team.
That's that's pretty much what we have. Now. I'm like
super curious on we're breakdancing originated? Now?
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Yo, I'm excited too, because like when we're in London,
like apparently like there's a lot of like uber boats
New York and you could drink on the uber boats.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
Uber oh, like they're going up and down the.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Yeah taxi boats.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Yeah, but all right, so break guys, breakdancing started in
New York. I don't know why we didn't know that.
Either way, you got break dancing for Paris the Paris Games.
The DJs for the competition have yet to be announced,
so I'm like, dude, these like you don't get to
pick the song. This isn't like figure skating where you
get to do your own routine. Is this gonna be
like a freestyle situation? I can't imit.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Like I'd love to see an actual like because how
many dance movies have there been, like or singing competition movies.
You know you'd never really like see one like yeah,
yeah they had that one, so you think you could dance,
but it was like it was just too much like
you know, I don't want to hear so And also
I wonder if it's gonna have that reality type vibe
(26:47):
where you actually hear from the judges. Probably not, because
it's the Olympics. They're gonna make everything dry.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
I just could you imagine like being out at a bar.
I don't want this. This is your typical like how
you're sitting on the couch, stuff in your face with
like cheese balls and a gymnast like doesn't land on
two feet and you're like loser, you know what I mean?
But like I can't imagine like being at a bar,
and so I'm like, oh, yeah, no, I'm Olympian. Like
they have the Olympic ring tattoo and you're like, oh,
what do you do? I break dance? What you break dance?
Speaker 7 (27:16):
Well?
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Did you see us?
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Like I won this little move the little robot foul territory.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Todd had another guy that was on the Olympic team
with him, one of the younger guys, and they were
like talking to all the other athletes and they're like
they're in there eating drinking a beer and having McDonald's
and they're like, yeah, we got our metal game tomorrow,
and like all the other people are like, we've never
ate any of that and put that in our body.
So it's just like the difference between them and them,
(27:44):
Like it was just funny. It's like, yeah, We're talking
to the swimmers and they're just like, yeah, we can't
touch that, please get it away from us.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Oh my god, like we.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Had pizza last night. They're like, get out of here.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Like this is why I love baseball. I feel like
you could be talking to a ball player chain smoking
a cigarette and.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Just look at John Crunk.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Yeah exactly, man, just a a world class athlete. Breakdancing
is only by the way, I'm going down this article,
this rabbit hole. It's not in the twenty twenty eight
Summer Olympics in LA right now. It's only for Paris
and then for the Brisbane Olympics in twenty and thirty two.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Yeah, that's what I mean, Like they just move LA,
we'll have baseball back. So break dancing essentially replaced baseball
so stupid that they.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Just like, oh, here's a sport and then they get
rid of it. Oh here's actually isn't there they doing
that for flag football in LA two. Isn't that going
to be in the.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
It's gonna be See.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
I'm a purre. I'm an Olympic purist, man, I can't
have that.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
You want the Lions.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
I don't know if that was every the Olympics, but
like I think it was once like naked bar Prince
Old Greek Olympics. Everybody competes naked. That's awful, so awful.
Speaker 6 (28:55):
Man.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
Speaking of Todd, let's go back there, man, he's been
crushing it. Yeah for the Yes Network. I know I'm
a homer and uh I'm a little biased here, but
it takes a lot to really balance out. Michael Kay,
Michael Ka like Paul O'Neill does an okay job. I
don't like the K and.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
A Rod Show.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
The K Rod Show, No, God no, because they person
I haven't watched any episode more than a year, so
I couldn't even tell you if they do it or not.
A Rod's too busy. The Timberwolves are still in the
playoffs long, but I mean they're maybe not by the
time this airs, buddy, that's for sure. But No, he's
(29:36):
he's really you know, you know what cracks me up
to because I've been watching the Yankees all week because
my coaching season kind of ended, so I've had time,
and it's just like he's you feel like like you're
like we've talked to Todd. Yeah, I swear to god,
it's like he's talking when he's breaking it down, he's
just it's so oh, all right, I get it.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
You're like, why are you talking back to the TV? No, No,
he's great.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
My wife walks up my arm around the TV. I
know what you mean, man, like recording that.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
You muted during Michael Kaye's conversations responding.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
So he's so awful. I mean, obviously he had to
do a good enough job to be Michael kay and
to be around for around. But I can't do it. Man.
He's like, to me, he's worse than Joe Buck Now.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Yeah, And I don't know what it is.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Maybe just from listening to him for so long.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Yeah, everybody has their time.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
It's like, Mike, you gotta relax.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
But ye, for me, it was always like in the
backyard playing baseball or like on a field and somebody
does to see you, and I was just like, no.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Man, I'd rather hear a John Sterling call.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Yeah it's entertaining.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
Yeah, well, I mean yes, and no, it's just the sea.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Also, you know when they made that that that spotlight
show with Michael kay like interviewing like like Matthew.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Broderick and like like like the Yes Network just need
MSG just needed some something else.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
At the center stage with Michael Kay, I was just
like why, Like, no, I don't want to hear this
guy again.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
No. MSG was like, we were just going to play
commercials for an hour straight, but if you want the time,
you can have it.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Bought it.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Nobody's watching anyway.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Service announcement thing, oh man that he like produced the
whole thing.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
He invested his own money.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Just the only idiot watching it and.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
Like not even watching it but hate watching it. Yeah,
this guy doing what does he know about acting? Get
out of here? Didn't he?
Speaker 1 (31:37):
I think?
Speaker 3 (31:37):
I feel like he interviewed like fifty cent one time,
so I.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Probably out of hand. It was out of positive the
whole concept.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
Man, You just I Michael Kay.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Even the k Rod Show, Like I just want to
know how that happened, Like why they picked that, because
like it sounds like a great concept, But it would
have been cool if it was like big Poppy in
a Rod, Like it would have been better if you
found Because that's that's why the Manning cast is so great, right,
because it's two guys that literally don't know what they're doing.
(32:10):
Michael Kay doesn't have that national attention to rope in
a national audience in my humble opinion, So.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
No, and and honestly, I mean you just look at like,
uh look, take a page out of the NBA's book,
Like everybody wants to hear a breakdown from an actual
player and someone like we want to hear. That's why
people are so excited for Brady to get in the
booth and for you know that, that's why people love Romo,
you know what I mean. Like, it's just like I
want to hear a breakdown from a guy that's looking
(32:37):
at what we're looking at and knows it inside and out.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Yeah, it's speaking of Joe Buck. Did you see the
story he shared this week about how he got his
first like announcing gig.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
I didn't see it, but didn't his dad give it
to him?
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Well he was eighteen years old. It was his birthday.
He was supposed to go to prom with this girl,
and this girl was like, yeah, I'm not going with
you anymore.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
So he went to the game. It was in New
York against the Cardinals, Mets Cardinals, and his dad was
doing the radio broadcast, so like, come around the fourth inning,
they're like now making their debut. His debut Joe, like
my son Joe and him and the other announcer got
out of the station and just left him to his
own devices for that whole inning.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
Yeah, and the rest is history. And that's why we
heard Jesus Christ. Good God. Can you imagine you can't
do that in any other I mean a few professions.
Can you imagine if like a doctor's like pilot, Hey,
my son doesn't really know any sort of life direction,
but I'm gonna let him take this one. He's gonna
stitch you up, all right. Like, so he's in a pilot,
(33:43):
all right. We were cruising at five thousand whatever, fifty
thousand feet, I don't know. I don't know altitudes.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
He just comes to the back of the playing the
pilot and he's got his feet up. It's like, yeah,
my eighteen year old Nick is gonna take us home.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
He's really good at video games. He'll be able to
land this thing, no problem. God man.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
That was the the other thing, Like when we're talking
to NASCAR, the simulators that the President of NASCAR gives
the Urban Youth School are like legit and like you
could really learn how to race on them, whereas like
I don't care how great you could be at NBA
two K, Like you're not gonna be able to transition
that into court, like onto the court. So it's just
(34:23):
funny to really like think about that, Like, you know.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
But most people that are good at two k have
never held a basketball in their hands and their entire life.
I love it. I love it so dumb. Let's take
a quick break when we come back, happy trails to
a umpire that nobody.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Some people need to celebrate this.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Well, miss, We're definitely gonna celebrate it when we come
back The vide Live on Fox Sports The Gambler.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
The Gambler, Philly's home for all things sports, gambling.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
And Welcome back Fox Sports The Gambler The vide Live.
Let's check out what happened over Memorial Day weekend. I
think the tart Monster got somebody.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Good news, bad news.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
Good news.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
Reds are up four, we are through five.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Bad news.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
Tart Monster did get one member of the grounds crew
got undercut and is trying to army crawl a path
to freedom. I'm not sure if Charlie Steiner, Dodgers radio announcer,
might be part of it. With Mark maguire, that tap
you see the single Yep, there's somebody under there actually
injurious one of the bigger cheers of the day.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
Man, there are a few things terrifying, more terrifying and
embarrassing for this poor woman. Yeah. Uh at the Reds
game on Saturday, I guess, I mean storms just whipped
through the Midwest and East coast and the Reds I
think were up four at the time. And then of
course the tart goes on. Quick guys for baseball. They
(35:58):
don't mess around, and they don't care if you fall trip,
if you have kids, if you're young, they don't care.
They're like, forget it, you'll survival of the fittest.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
It is still the most partbared thing you ever.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
Unreal, man, it doesn't this is not the Titanic. The
women and the children do not go first. There's no
respect when it comes to the tarp. And uh, this
chick unfortunately just got under and she it was like
when you have like a like under a blanket, just
like it's like a mouse under a blanket, right.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
Like a There's been a few times where like you
went under the blanket and he thought like, oh man,
I can't wait. You get to the other side. And
you're like that had to be that times a million.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
Oh my god, dude, the way to that tarp on
it so hard. She's army crawling. There's tens of thousands
of people watching live now millions thanks to the Internet.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
You see that motivational football movie where they're like something
like playing the Giants or something, and like they do
this like arm this crawl with the guy on his
back and he's like blindfolded them and he's like, keep going,
keep going. Like she had to have been like because
I would have just gave up.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
You're not gonna die here, Mike, You're not gonna die here.
She had like a person leading like tapping her, like no,
go the other way, like literally walking on the tar.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
The other like imagine almost being there and then just
deciding to turn back around and most going the wrong.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
Hurting her like a mouse through a maze, like poking
her with a stick from the tar and this way,
this way, keep going. Well hopefully she got a good
laugh out of it, and.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
Like is it is it like the Marines and stuff
like where you have to actually like tread water or
something like does everybody go through the tarp ones like
to learn that was the process like someone tripped around purpose,
Welcome to the team, Welcome to tarp duty.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
Oh my god, Angel hernandez Na, there it is. Purse
is uh out? He's out of here, finally retiring after
who knows how many almost thirty years, I mean three decades.
The article says, after three decades of missing strikes and
balls behind home plate, he finally has worked out a
(38:13):
deal to where he's gonna retire. I don't know if
he gets a package he's May ninth was the last
time he was you know.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
Something, what's it gonna take? What's it gonna take?
Speaker 3 (38:21):
It's he hasn't worked in the last couple of weeks.
He's actually he's worked more recently than we have.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
I was gonna say, like, definitely they he could have
cashed in on this. It gofund me something like that, like, hey, guys,
I'm thinking about retiring, Like donate here.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
Yeah, set me up so I don't have to do
this anymore.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
Like yeah, sixty two years old. I mean that's the
other problem.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
Granted, he's been awful for an extremely.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
Saw something where's him and Joe West and Bolth were involved,
and it was just like a nightmare well, he had that.
Speaker 3 (38:51):
Thing where he filed a lawsuit like yeah, was twenty
eighteen seventeen because he thought he should have been a
part of the chief for the World Series. He was
passed over and he thought it was because of race
because he's Cuban. No, but he couldn't prove and it
had nothing to do with his terrible track record.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
This was definitely performance based.
Speaker 3 (39:13):
I could.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
I could promise you that, like, you know, so the
good riddans, thank God. Ironically, at the Snack convention, I
ran into a gentleman that worked for a cookie company
and he was a collegiate umpire and he was about
to get put into the pros really yeah, and we
were talking about like, you know, nobody really umpires don't
(39:37):
have an outlet, and he wanted to make a podcast.
So we actually have a meeting in a couple of weeks,
and I hope maybe he gets a professional nod through this.
You know, I'd assume he'd start like, he is a
collegiate umpire, so maybe he gets to push the pros quicker,
but I would assume he'd have to do some type
of minor league.
Speaker 3 (39:54):
Yeah, I think that's how ye, how it works. Really
is from college to some sort of mind. I know
a kid that was a minor league. I think he
was only one step below the pros. So maybe just
maybe he'll get the push. It's got to dude, gotta
be better. A trash can can be better.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
I was gonna say a robot.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
But what is that game with the whiffleballs where there's
like literally a square behind home plate?
Speaker 2 (40:16):
Oh yeah, yeah, that set that up. Put that up.
Speaker 3 (40:19):
Yeah, like just get rid of catchers.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
But again, I again talking about like obviously there's a
reason why Angel Hernandez was probably around for a long time,
and he was good at his craft at one point, right,
because like, again, we can see the box at home
so we're like, come on, I did not see that,
you know.
Speaker 3 (40:38):
But yeah, I mean, and that's the thing, right, every
catcher or every catcher, every homeplate umpire has their own
strike zone, and as long as they're consistent, you usually
don't hear too much. Like if you're missing, if you're
missing the same pitch, just keep missing the same pitch.
Speaker 2 (40:52):
When yeah, but when you're ejecting people because somebody in
the crowd said something boone situation.
Speaker 3 (40:58):
Literally, someone says something in the crowd and he pointed
at Boone's only got out what Yeah, I didn't say see.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
The other one with John Boy where like they just
pick pick somebody.
Speaker 3 (41:11):
Or whatever such At this point, it's such an old
man or old just like an old man like I
can do this. I'm gonna do this, Like dude, nobody cares.
And getting thrown out in baseball means nothing. There's no suspension,
there's no fine, there's nothing. It's literally it's an act.
It's a charade.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
Like it's like now now the team has a substitute teacher.
That's pretty much it.
Speaker 3 (41:33):
Yeah, and the lineup cards in what else do you
have to do?
Speaker 2 (41:36):
Harper got tossed the other night, uh, and he was
just asking where the ball was at like and it
was like calm, he was still in the box and
the guy was just like, I guess I had a
bad day. But the thing is, like I was talking
to the Collegian umpire at the snack convention. I was like,
can you guys like not retract it? Like I've never
seen somebody get tossed and then cooler hair heads prevail
(41:57):
and they're like you know what, yeah, all right, you
could saying like can you not once you're tossing, you
can't go back on He's like no, yeah you can't,
Like yeah, but come on, like you know, like.
Speaker 3 (42:08):
My thing is like dude, especially with the Bryce Harper situation,
like in every other sport you can have the at
least the captain or a player asked like talk to
the ref or at least, like hockey is the worst.
Like these players shot up curse like I have right
at the ref and they give it right back to him,
Like yeah, I feel like it's just it's weird man,
Like this is your grown men like you, why are
(42:30):
you so sensitive? Someone's gonna look at.
Speaker 7 (42:32):
You like, yeah, that was a terrible call, Like yeah, hockey,
I almost get it though, because the way the refs
have to skate, they're probably jump hopped up on the
same kind of adrenaline as the hockey players.
Speaker 3 (42:43):
So yeah, yeah almost.
Speaker 2 (42:45):
Like they relate to each other absolutely, The respect.
Speaker 3 (42:48):
Is there, right, like they're not putting hands on each
other or anything. That's the thing about baseball too. You
go argue in someone's face and spit on each other
and no one throws hands, like.
Speaker 2 (42:56):
Come on you definitely it definitely like everybody says like
wrestling messed me up. Baseball arguments messed me up more
like as a child, because I would think like that
was normal, Like you could walk into a room and
just like.
Speaker 3 (43:10):
Get two inches from somebody's face, like.
Speaker 2 (43:14):
Like wrestling, didn't you know that nowhere.
Speaker 3 (43:17):
Else in life sending me from someone's face and not
get punched. Right, So dum Dallas.
Speaker 2 (43:23):
Green just screaming at people with this giant beer belly
and just yeah, it was nuts. Man Joe Torburg tour Burg, Uh,
he was like our manager for like a year. I
think it was like kicked out every single game in
the nineties, like it was insane.
Speaker 3 (43:39):
I love it when they take like garbage cans and
stuff and then just like put it behind home, like
give me that, give me that sort of I'll take.
I'll take stuff like that over the you know, arguing
nose to nose like punch someone like.
Speaker 8 (43:53):
Yeah, great, panelas amazing, but yeah that's also go away,
like you know, but I also think like the Mets
needed that, right, they need somebody to get kicked out,
like that's they need a fire it'll it'll fire up your.
Speaker 3 (44:10):
Your team team for a little bit.
Speaker 2 (44:12):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3 (44:13):
It shows the guys that I'm on the fight for you.
Speaker 2 (44:16):
I guess you know. Steve Cohen's not on the fight.
He already said on Twitter like the season was over,
and then he was like sorry, I meant to tm
that somebody that's such an old man, dude.
Speaker 3 (44:28):
It's like when the when Facebook first came out and
old people, like when it was like free for people
to use and all the old people were writing stuff
on their walls not realizing that everybody can see it
like that.
Speaker 2 (44:38):
Did you watch that Game Stop movie?
Speaker 3 (44:40):
No good?
Speaker 2 (44:41):
It's so good.
Speaker 3 (44:42):
There's a few on the list.
Speaker 2 (44:43):
He's back now he's back the roaring kidding?
Speaker 3 (44:47):
Is he? What's he saying?
Speaker 2 (44:49):
He did? He brought back Game Stop? And then he
also did AMC so he Yeah.
Speaker 3 (44:55):
I need a new tip. I need to make a
little bit of money fast.
Speaker 2 (44:58):
Yeah, you got a lot of the movie's great. Yeah,
it's like it reminds me it gets short, but it's better, okay.
Yeah yeah if that to give me an idea, it
does give me an idea.
Speaker 3 (45:07):
Thank you, thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (45:09):
And it's got Pete what you call it, Pete Davidson,
Pete Davison. Yeah, but he plays like kind of like,
what do you wow? I assume Pete Davidson would be
in real live, so I don't mind it.
Speaker 3 (45:21):
He plays the same role all the time.
Speaker 1 (45:22):
We dive.
Speaker 3 (45:23):
Yeah, it doesn't, it doesn't matter. That's that's perfect. All right, guys,
we'll be back next week. Maybe maybe not on it's
our schedule.
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