June 16, 2024 • 46 mins
The Divide is back! Recaping Mike's trip to London to during the Mets vs Phillies MLB Takeover series... Brady has another crazy event this time gets his number retired and more... Corey hates it... Mets have a hot streak since teaming with Grimace... Cards fan pulls off an amazing move then gets tazed... plus MORE!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:43):
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Speaker 3 (01:00):
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Back from across the Pond.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I can't even say it like a normal Yeah, across
the pond. That's on the pond.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Mike, you're from Chicago, Court Chicago. Cory's there.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
My favorite thing in the world is like that I
do the mixer and like when I hit it perfectly,
like the guy Welcome to the Divide and theme song
plays like.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
When you're wrapping something in the scissors glide.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
It's just it's like Heroin as a lefty, they never glide.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
You did you have?
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Like because we're both lefties, you're more amidexterous than I am,
or you are amidextrous.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
I'm not. Yes, I do you use scissors with your
left or right hand? Like?
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Are lefty scissors used with left hands? Like when I
cut with scissors, I use my right hand.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Is that weird?
Speaker 4 (01:50):
I think we're forced, Like you don't have a choice.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
That's why everybody, like lefties are like, oh you must
struggle with scissors.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
It's like, no, man, I figured it out. Yeah, just
use this hand and it works fine.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Yeah, you're at your own devices. Yeah I don't. I don't.
I don't know, but I multi like I prefer my
left but yeah I could.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Do the right for scissors. Right. Yeah, we're still talking. Okay, it's.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Welcome to the Divine everybody, all right, So let's let's
get into this because obviously it's a Philly station. I
want to recap because you were there the Mets Phillies
London series. Yeah, everything I read and every single goddamn
picture I see it looked amazing.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Yeah, it could be like just.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Fomo for me, just not being there like one with
you into just like an awesome baseball experience because the
last like you know what it reminded me of looking
at pictures is when we went to the All Star
experience was in New York. Yes, like that's what it
kind of reminded me of. Felt like that and that
was good. I was like ten years ago. Yeah, so
it's like you just get just give it to us.
(02:57):
What the run through, the ups and downs, anything that
was good, anything that was bad.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
The cool part was, ironically it reminded me of Veterans
Stadium because you were set back further than you normally
would be from the game, so it was a little
bit further back. The view is still amazing regardless of
where you were.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
It's a soccer stadium exactly. Yeah, excuse excuse me, football.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Football stadium, and the pitch was right there, you know.
So it was just it was this stadium itself was
really cool, right. They also had like concessions, like there
was a Shay Chicken spot, so it was like like
the first base line was all met stuff. The third
(03:44):
baseline was off Philly stuff, so there was a divide.
It was really cool to be on either side. You know,
they had everybody. You could tell. The London crowd was
going nuts over the baseball bats, beer bats, you know,
and you gotta remember that's only like four or five
years old here. Yeah, right, and we went nuts for it.
(04:05):
So it was really cool, like we have to get
a BA bat like, you know, so they were all
excited for that.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
I think mixing that much alcohol when then when you
finish it you have a potential weapon is fantastic.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Yeah, yeah, awesome is that?
Speaker 4 (04:18):
But also, like the other weird thing was I didn't
get any draft beer when I was there because it
was intimidating, you know, like when you buy soup like
Wanton soup. That was the container like it was that big,
like court, a court.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
I guess, I guess that's what's what it is. I
can think it's a court.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Yeah, at least it looked way too big and it
was exactly that cup. Now, what I will share.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Is the.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Everything everywhere you go and you buy beer, whether it's
Paris or London, they give it to you in this
awesome plastic cup. It's like a reusable cup, and like
some of the restaurants are like, oh just keep you
could keep the cup, but we prefer if we take
it back. But they're like really good to drink out of. Now,
with that said, if you get like an iced coffee
at Starbucks in Paris, it's in a paper cup and
(05:07):
it's so disgusting. So like there was, there was different things,
but I wish they put their coffee in their beer cup.
That's all I kept thinking about the same man.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
They just value their alcohol a lot more than they
value their car. Yeah, well, it's like they're more about
the downer than they are the upper.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
But they're all also more about like being eco friendly
than we are. It's like way like those plastic cups
do not exist, like and Starbucks. It's like, yeah, now
you Americans are like crazy to have those. London had them,
so I was like I was excited for that, but
yeah to be in London Square and like the cages,
(05:41):
Like first off, so the cage that was in the
center of the whole fan experience was like a top
golf cage.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
So the fan experience was literally in London Square. Yeah,
and they had everything from like batting cages to like
you throw pitches.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Get your own baseball card made?
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Really yeah? Okay, yeah, so so go on, do you
have the dude, you're in London Square. You have like
a top golf type situation, so it's like a simulator
when you hit these exactly these ball. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
So my daughter got to see me actually hit a
baseball for the first time and she's like, Dad, you
should tell the Mets pretty good. I was like, I
ain't that good, but if it did feel good for
her to say that, And.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
I'm looking at the record right now, you might actually
be that good.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
They got there. They're up to thirty wins now. I'm
pretty excited. Also, I shared something and I'll share this
real quick. Twenty twenty two when we got signed, uh
to Sean Brace's team, if you want to call it
sign it sounds it sounds way cool.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
I remember sign.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Yeah, we didn't sign anything, but when Brace was nice
enough to put us on his airwaves, the Mets were
way ahead, just like the Phillies are right now. Ye,
very similar record, and they were the Phillies at that
time were four games under so five hundred where the
Mets are like six or seven right now, so it's
(06:59):
very very similar. Uh, to be honest with you, it's
only a couple of games off where Philadelphia was in
twenty twenty two. So I got high hopes to steal
a term from.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
I mean, the parallel is there, man, I mean you
just really got to fire your manager and yeah, call.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
So the fan experience was Yeah, the fan experience was crazy,
Like they had forty seven the hack company, they would
they were like making like art like so you could
like have spray paint art on any of your shirts
or like a banner. So Peyton got a banner and
a koozie.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Uh. You know.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
The merch was great, with the exception of some of
the clad merch that had Phillies and Mets on it.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
I saw that.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
So you can buy like a T shirt. I think
the picture you sent was like a polo that had
both like Mets. That's got to be for people that
live over there, so here has to be.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
I'm gonna wait till it goes on clearance, but I'm
gonna buy one. And we got to run a contest
on the Gambler, like for somebody to have to wear
that to a game. Oh god as a punishment. Yeah,
it's rough, right, it's so disgusting.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Like yeah, oh my skin is crawling right now.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
I don't know who was like nailed it, Like I
even don't like.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
It's gonna get somebody killed if we do that.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Yeah, I don't like. I don't like those like London series,
And it has both logos, you know, like because they
do that with the World series merch they're.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Talking about like like a pennant or like towel, you know,
like you go to a playoff game and there's a
talic so and so verse so and so like whatever, man,
but a polo like something.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
That wine like you're gonna wear out. And it didn't
say anything about the London series. It's just the p
the Phillies p and the New York Team New York
so again. So you go into the square and the
left sides off all Mets, the right sides all Phillies
like kind of like kind of food and options. And
(08:53):
then they announced like, oh, Daniel Murphy is gonna play
a virtual hom un derby against Chase Utley.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Dude.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Aj Perzinsky was there because he was doing game one
for I guess Fox.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Yeah, right.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Yeah, so I got to see him in the cage.
I got to see Ryan Howard in.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
The cage, Ryan holding up.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
He didn't do too well, man, he did not do
too well. Shane Victorino still got it.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Yeah a j.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
They were both complaining about the way the ball dropped
in uh for for left handed hitters. AJ and him,
so like, uh, yeah, it was really cool and Utlely
got creamed by Daniel Murphy.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
It was.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
It was quite impressive. Murphy hit like four or five out.
Uh you know, Utly only hit one out.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
But anybody know that was gonna happen or it was
just like a nast like.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
I had no clue. I had no clue.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
I didn't know if it was on like any sort
of schedule.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
But they need to do more of those, like honestly,
like with that technology. Like uh so, I was talking
to Prizinsky like and he was like, it's pretty damn accurate,
Like it's it's close. He's like, I felt like that's
where it would it went if I hit it into
a major league ballpark. So and it was really cool
because then it would show virtually that they hit it
(10:07):
into traffic, you know. So it was it was done
so well, you know, people were just really having fun
there that then there was a bunch of other cages
you could hit. Peyton got to hit Timmy got to
hit my buddy, and I got to hit a couple
a bunch of times. So like it was just it
was an awesome experience.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
I had to handle the crowd. I feel like it
had to have been mobbed.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
So they eventually stopped letting people in, but was cool.
Was like once one person left, they legit let one
person back in because like, yeah, when they were doing
the derby, it hit max capacity, But.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
I mean the temperament over there.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
I know there's there's people that traveled from America over there,
but you got to think half the stadium's got to
be visitors. The other half has to be people that
live around the one.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Yeah, so that was the other thing. So like the
Mets fans, probably because of the record, but also maybe
slightly more classy. When we're like at the London Tower
and stuff, they wear normal people's clothes, like because in
Europe you dress up a little bit more, you know,
you you really do, like you could tell they say
(11:11):
two things they could tell a tourist from the yoga pants,
and like if they wear any shorts, shoes or like a.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Gym up here, bro, they can spot me a mile away.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
I think the two times I've been overseas, that's all.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
I wore, right, either gym apparel and shores or short.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Yeah, exactly. So they're like, yeah, that's how you could tell,
especially in France.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
But people don't wear shorts at all in France.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
I didn't see many. Really, yeah, I didn't see many.
I did not man were well dressed. Also, there's something
else on the air. Off the air, I'll tell you
about French people, but not in a bad thing. It's
just something I want to share on the air. It's
just so the the other oh, well, one thing I
will share is like they say constantly, And I think
(11:57):
it's also because my wife likes to ask questions. You've
been out to dinner with her, she'll ask like twenty
one questions about the menu, like oh can I can
I get avocado into the bacon or something like that.
You can, but it's not recommended. That's what everybody said
to her, Like you.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Start using that in my whole life.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
You can do that, but it's not remmented. Yeah, So
like and it's just like it was kind of like
this conversation where it was like you could do that,
but we prefer you not to do it.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Like please don't is what I'm telling.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Don't be a jerk.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Like So, getting back, you said, you're out seeing like
the London Bridge and stuff, and we're.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
At London Tower where you know they're teaching you about
all the well one they got the crown jewels that
are right protected to like that's where most up to
I think Queen Victoria, all the kings and kings, kings
and queens lived there. But they're sharing you with a
lot of the kings. When they would there were dirtbags.
(12:55):
They were like forty years old marrying like seventeen year
old girls or younger, and they would say, I'll love
you for the rest of your life. So and a
lot of them got tried for treason and they were sharing.
One of the princesses or Queen's I should say, that
was tried for treason and how terrible it was and
(13:17):
how she was murdered in the middle of town of
London Hall. So somebody in a McNab jersey walks by
and you just see this whole crowd. So they're telling
the story and it's very much like The Titanic, like
where Jack dies, like it's at that part and oh
yours go birds and like so many people go birds.
(13:38):
Like they just say it back and it's like this
unison like if it was no, if it was if
it wasn't, like the amend.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
The equivalent of like when you're watching a proposal in
public and someone's like, doo, dude, Like I love situations
like that. There's because in my mind that's hysterical, Like
you pay for this tour. It's probably you and thirty
other people. You're listening to this tour guide who it's
their job, Like that's what they do their tour guys.
(14:07):
They're awesome. They're just like like whatever, they're getting into it.
They're telling this story. It's a serious moment and all
of a sudden, it's a random person walking by.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
I didn't have a problem with the English accent because
I've been so used to dealing with the Delco accent
for the last fifteen years, so like that was another
thing that was kind of Thank God.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
I thought it'd be hard understanding you guys, don't worry.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
This Goberts you know.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Bro, uh so your seats in there.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Dude, they were notts. I enjoyed them a lot, Like
we were around great people.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
I was just gonna ask or you were you around
people from London?
Speaker 4 (14:49):
London right all behind us to the left where he was. Ironically,
I think born in Brooklyn, moved back and family in London.
He moved back to London at a young age. It's
so like he kind of understood American history, but also
like London he did share. He's like, yo, you know,
like you guys take a lot of pride in the
Revolutionary War. He's like, we thought it would have is
(15:11):
like the way you explain like finance move Like we
were just like, yeah, we're not going to spend any money.
We have all these other territories. We got to worry
about it. We just didn't care, like because there was
a viral Philly fan that wasn't.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Like yeah England Comedy lead.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
I think barstool made it viral or whatever. Which is
a great T shirt to be honest with you, Yeah
it really is, and anybody it takes it seriously like
come on, man, Like it's like arguing like the winners
and losers of world War two, like it's so revolutionary
wars where you're gonna really put like your butt.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Hurt over that. It was also the eighties we won,
by the way, there's a whole holiday.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Yeah, it was like the eightieth anniversary of D Day
while we were there too, So that was epic that
you go to Normandy.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Why you were there? I don't want to get off
baseball too much, right to ask you.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
We didn't, but I can't remember the battleship. But it
was right across the street from London Tower, right across
the ocean or water, and they did a salute. Also,
like Seymour Wiener was there, was he? Yeah he was,
dud I have yeah him was not in England. I
(16:24):
think he was at Normandy for Yeah, not in London,
but yeah he was over there, but over where over there?
Uh but yeah, dude, it was. It was nuts, man, Like,
there's so many different things I could share. The game
itself was a lot of fun. Now what I will
share is I do think there was too many Americans
there to be in my humble opinion, to the point
(16:46):
where like the announcers and stuff were trying to get
like football chants going, and even Lindor like changed all
of his walk up songs to like things that normally
crowds in London.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Or in football just didn't. It didn't hit.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
It didn't hit. Like what did hit was the hands touching,
hands reaching, now touching.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Why that's a thing that he played at baseball stadiums
is beyond me.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Why it's played at all.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
I mean, dude, I'm not saying I hate Neil Diamond.
I'm just saying it's the song did per Man for
a while and still man, I love that.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Yeah, but what's the one memes you know for a
song called piano man? The guy with the harmonica really
won't shut up?
Speaker 4 (17:29):
It's so true.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
All right, last question about this before we take a break, Uh,
the whole fan experience. Could they, like, what's the best
stadium or the best city to do something like that,
because I'm picturing like, Okay, if they make the upgrade
to City Park like they're supposed to, maybe that would
be great, right because I feel like in Queens you
(17:51):
do have that the Bronx. You don't have an area
to do that at all. There's no way you do
that without shutting down a major.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
Okay, So it did bring London like to bring soccers.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Not soccer, but if you were to just do a
crazy series and where it's two rivals and you try.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
To do the fan experience, like what city is it working?
Speaker 1 (18:09):
It?
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Even like if you were to try to like pick
a city here that doesn't have a baseball team and
you want to bring two baseball teams, Like, what's just
the dope city that you can do that?
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Like Miami, Miami?
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Just well yeah I would. Here's why because there's so
much imports, right, like how many whether you're from Philly,
New York, New Jersey, like how many people go down
to like to Florida. That's fair, you know. So I
think Tampa Miami that'd be dope and also would help
with their attendants, you know, and it'd be like, ah,
(18:42):
that'd be worth it, you know. But what I was
thinking about was forget the London series. Do you want
to Munich? That would be sick like October Fest time?
I mean yeah, well yeah, Byron's also like the Yankees
of German football, so like there are always cant around
that time, so they'd have to be around that. But
(19:03):
that was the other like I started thinking about where
else should they go and I was like, Ireland.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Well, and this was just a stepping point too.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
You know, they're gonna try it's gonna be like the
NFL now, like the NFL is like it's gonna have
a game in Brazil or something this year.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Like and that got crazy because like did you hear
about that stuff?
Speaker 2 (19:19):
What?
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Like they can't wear green? Really yeah, because like there's
a gang in that city, so they don't want the players.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
They're really worried about stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Like if you're trying to host, if you're trying to
branch out, right, like for the NFL, you know, for
some reason, they just need more money, so you're trying
to branch out, branch out to Brazil or like all
these other countries, Like if they're gonna give you that
type of resistances, like don't you think we should just
maybe not do it?
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Like come on, dude, how big does your not have
to be?
Speaker 4 (19:47):
But it's it's funny because you asked like these questions
of where we would do it. I mean, look at
what happened with the Dodgers when they went back to
New York this week in the Bronx. That was crazy.
That was crazy. So they're your answer right now. It
is the Bronx.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Yeah, baseball. All right, let's take a quick break, guys.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
When we come back, Tom Brady is in the news again,
and actually so is Gizelle, believe it or not, both
for completely separate things. And Joey Chestnut was done dirty
like those dogs he's been shoving down his gullet for
the last how many years.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
On the fourth of July, we're gonna talk about all that.
Stay with us. Guy's Divide Live on Fox Sports against.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
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Speaker 3 (20:33):
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Speaker 4 (20:45):
My Twitter got hacked. My powers parlays one.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Did it really?
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (20:49):
And here's my here's my logic right now. I was like,
you know what, let let this blow. Cavin go at
it like maybe I'll get some more followers so to
Really I've not reported it yet, but yeah, I I
walked into you know, work and somebody's like, Yo, you're
gonna fix your Twitter. It's it's like suggesting, like all
these bitcoins and cryptocurrencies, and I was like, what.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Kind of tips are they giving?
Speaker 4 (21:12):
Right, It's like maybe I'm saving.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Let's talk about Tom Brady again because he's in the news.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
He had this huge memorable night uh three four days
ago now, whenever it was.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
It was basically a Patriots Hall of Fame induction. We've
all seen him. You've seen him for the Mets. We
you know, you've seen Doc Goodin get his number retired.
You've seen I've seen countless Yankees get their number retired.
I'm just you know, which I think is a little ridiculous.
We've seen it with the Rangers. We've seen it with
the Devils. We've seen it with the Flyers, We've seen
it with you know football. It's just it's it's happened before.
(21:53):
And the reason I'm saying this out loud is because
I know it's Tom Brady. We all know he's the
goat and he's the best to ever play. But Jesus Christ,
did you look at the lineup? It was like goddamn
concert And like, dude.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
We went to Paul O'Neill day or not. That's right.
I went to Paul O'Neil Day. Like, yeah, Paul came out,
There was some speeches, like no one performed. He kind
of rode around and weaved to people.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
But like I mean, then his number was retired, like
the jay z performed, Then Tom walked out, speeches by
a bunch of people.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
I think, like Kenny Chesney performed. Peyton Manning was there.
I think Mike Rico hosted the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
It was like it was like it was a whole
It was like the roast all over again with less jokes.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Really was it really was?
Speaker 2 (22:42):
And and and more people and Pottsborough was packed and
and I'm not saying he shouldn't be celebrated, but what
a money grab for that organization, And like you couldn't
do this before and during the halftime and even a
celebration after a regular season game.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
Well, I think they'll still cash in on that. There'll
be a game where they, you know, show his number
up in the rafters or something. They'll definitely be a
game where he's there.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Oh my god, dude. So jay z uh performed public
service announcement and then you had Kenny like a Kenny
Chesney performed the song Boys of Fall.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
I don't know. I'm not a Kenny Chesney fan. Bill
Burr was there. Bill Burr did it and act a
whole set or whatever it is. Like you had music,
you had comedy. There's a video from Brady's family.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
The Brady four were there. Yeah, barstool, like it's just.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
You name it. They were there.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
I mean Peyton Manning came out, Randy Moss, Gronk.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Edelman, just everybody was there to sell it.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
And don't get I'm guys, I'm not saying he doesn't
need to be celebrated.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
The guy's got seven Super.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
Bowls, right, you know, he's he's literally the greatest to
ever play. He's gonna be the first ballot Hall of
Famer for Canton, Ohio. But come on, dude, you're retiring
his number at a stadium, Like, let's let's call it
what it is here.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
In the summer, in the summer. Yeah, like mini camps
barely started.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
I love it, you know, like the mccordy twins were there,
Like just Belichick was there at a warm welcome. You know,
it had Look, I can't even tell you. I can't
tell you. Honestly, we went to Paul O'Neill day. It
was fine because there was a baseball game to watch.
If it was just the ceremony to watch Paul O'Neal
get his number retired, I don't.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Think i'd pay to see it.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
No. I go for work.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Like if they were like sending us somewhere, yes, absolutely,
but I'm not paying just to go watch it. Now.
You know, the more I talk about it, the more
I'm like, who am I kidding? Of course I would like,
tell me, I'm gonna go to this ceremony where jam
is performing, and I can see Bill burd who stand.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Up like, come on, yeah, I'm an idiot. I'm an idiots.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
Well here's speaking of idiots. Did you hear the a
Rod David Ortiz and Jeter? Yes, walking around Monument.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Are fantastic And I love the fact. And I don't
know if Ortiz if they set that up, it didn't
sound like it.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
So Ortiz Jeter.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
And because they were doing and the Fox was when
the Dodgers came to town and uh Ortiz in Monument Park,
I guess they were looking at just everybody's number Jeters
included and looked at a Rod and said, when are
you going to get your number retired here or something
along those lines, and a Rod's clapped right back, was like,
I think you have a better shot again your number
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retired here than I do. And it was kudos to
both of them, because you know, Alex is a little
hurt that it's not even cons you know what I mean,
Like he's he's public and he can't hide it and
it's never gonna happen, Alex. I mean, you had to
come to New York to win a world you know what.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
I like a Rod I did, but Ortiz did get
a little bit uh loose with his mouth. He said
that the Mets should move to like Oklahoma because they'll
always be in that brong shadow. And I felt like saying, like, Bro,
you're spending a little bit too much time with the Yankees,
with Jeter and a Rod. You need to shut your mouth, because.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
I don't even think Jeter and a Rod feel that
way though, you know what I mean, New York is
so big, we could have a third freaking team.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
You know who couldn't have a third or second team? Boston? Yeah,
freaking tiny, tiny, little go finance.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Another play Boston. Oh God, I love Boston.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
You can say ass on the air, just so you know.
So I didn't have to stop myself.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
But I did.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
I'm happy, man, and I'm happy you said it out loud, dude.
Just that it's been liberating. I mean, it's been a
while since we've been doing this. You don't know what
you can say anymore. Yeah. Back to Tom Brady, so
craft to hold the whole crowd number twelve.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
No one's ever gonna wear it. And then he told
them sometime during this season, there will be a twelve
foot because we just gotta keep saying the number twelve,
a twelve foot statue of Tom Brady somewhere outside the stadium,
which could not be a dumber idea for right now,
h Like, it can't be if something tragically happened to
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Tom Brady.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Absolutely, if it's twenty years from now, give that man
a statue. Even wait till he gets in ducked into
the Hall of Fame and then give him a statute then.
But he's too young right now. He just retired.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Yeah, actually, remember when he retired the first time and
then unretired, not even for your organization, right like, give
the man a second to breathe. For all we know,
some weird type Epstein list can come out and he
can be on it. And now you've got a statue
in front of your stadium. You gotta tear it. Don't
let it breathe a little bit.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
Let it breathe.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
You don't know anybody did. He's not even in the
country anymore. We all thought he was.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
All right, Well, it's speaking of breathing. You know who
doesn't have much time to breathe. It's Robert Kraft. So
I think he's kind of speed this all up.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Jesus.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
You're saying like this would normally be likes in the
make it, but I think he wants to experience it
all and he wants to give it to Tom. Tom's
like his son.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
That's fair.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
Yeah, so you know, I don't know. And then the
argument is do you do the same stuff for Bill
or anything for Bill.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
I don't think Bill's going to get any recognition.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
That's crazy, dude.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
I think he might.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
I think Bill would probably get I know, you can't
retire a number, but you can have your name on.
I think Bill will get his name next to Tom,
like in the stadium, you know, like they've done before.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Bill's not got a statue.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
I don't know what the cut sleeves on a sweatshirt.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
I would support a Belichick statue more than I would
support a Brady Stacks.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
Also, I would support an AI Belichick where it just
didn't answer your questions.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Get the report Belichick experience where you're just asking questions
to a cardboard cutout of Belichick because you get the
same answer anyway.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Oh god, yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
And then the other thing was like just the simple
fact that you know, I don't know. So yeah, I
think about the Robert Kraft, I think about Belichick. I
also hot take. I think that if Robert Kraft allowed
Belichick to cook and they did get rid of Brady
when they felt like it, he could have won a
couple more So.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
I think I think he would have been a lot
more competitive. I mean by the time that they actually,
you know, Brady stepped away, and what was left and
how trying to draft and you gotta remember it like
and and I will say, to Tom's credit, in the
whole ceremony, when it was time for Tom to speak,
he basically said, in so many words, I know tonight's
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about me, but I'm not me without if I didn't
have great people around me. And he thanked all those people.
You know this is it wasn't like he was like,
you know, it was your typical Tom Brady like saying
thank you, but also saying, remember, like I had Randy Moss,
I had Rob Gronkowska, I had all these people.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
I had a coach like Belichick also took pay cuts
to get those people right and quarterbacks, and that's been
public and you know that's Tom.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
That's why that's how he you know, the Patriots dynasty
was able to be a dynasty. And I think to
that note, just like you know, Tom says, it was
these people around me. Belichick was the same way. I mean, dude,
they stepped in and they stepped in it. The guy
was drafted in the sixth round, a backup to an
already franchise quarterback that just had some freak injury at
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the beginning of the season, you know what I mean,
Like it was just this perfect storm of everything. If
bled Zone never gets hurt, Brady never gets his chance,
and who knows what happens, it's just exactly.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
Speaking a shot. Giselle's relationship is shot, Oh right, God
from that roads the boy from left, because Yo, you're
gonna cheat on Tom Brady. You're gonna cheat on me,
like I don't care what you look like. You cheated
on the goat. You're gonna why Yeah, I think so.
I think it finally, like I don't know, man like
or just like he's like, you know what, I'm out,
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you know, And there is that saying if you're gonna
do it to them, you'll do it to me, Like
I'm no different. So I think that I think got
in his head. And she's blaming the Roast for their breakup.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
So she was so listen, the only thing that comes
out of in my opinion, Giselle's only concern coming out
of that roast was for her kids, and Tom said
the same thing.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Yeah, I just was worried. I don't want my kids.
Blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
As far as Gazelle goes, they're stupid jokes and not
for nothing. You deserved every bit of them, bro, Like
you said you you're dating whatever instructor jiu jitsu instructor, Like, uh,
you deserve those jokes have thicker skin. She would be
tweeting away in that uh you know, uh, Tom Brady's
sweet every time something Bay would happen to Tom, like
it's crazy to me. Like Brittany Mahomes does something similar.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Like how these wives of these.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
Professional players or NFL players, like they don't have thicker skin.
Just let your man play the sport, dude, like just
or and it goes for anybody, you know, if you
have a wife that plays professional sports, just let them play.
Don't worry about the scrutiny. So she's sitting here getting
all mad at jokes and all of a sudden they split.
That that's gotta be mainly her. He's thirty four years old,
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dating retired supermodel. It has more money than she knows
what to do with. I can't imagine what her alimony
looked like after the divorce. So it's like, dude, come on, man,
and it's unclear. Everything I look at says like they
haven't been photographed since late April. So who knows when
they actually split and why they split. But dude's thirty Actually,
(32:31):
dude's thirty four, looks like he's forty four.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
He's not aging.
Speaker 4 (32:34):
Well no, no, maybe that's why they split.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
But some people speculate that the spotlight was just too
much for him, Joaquim Valente, which is another thing, that's.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
The spotlight, right, the spotlight.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Really like Ben, Ben and Jalo are breaking up recording
the rumors, and they're saying, just Ben just doesn't like
all the attention.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
You're a movie star.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
What do you mean you don't like walking into the
car with the duncan thing where he just looks like
we've all been there, like we've all felt like I
could feel how he felt, but it's not like you've dude,
I can feel the way he felt.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
If listen, if some miracle happens and we blow up
and that were to the point where we step out
of our house and we get mobbed by paparazzi, the
first two years, we're gonna look like.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Ben Affleck, Like, dude, what is going on here? Yeah? Like, Ben,
you've been dealing.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
You had a twenty five plus year career right now,
you can't tell me you're still angry at these people
taking pictures.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
And there's so many women in this world, and you
went back with the woman that you knew this was
gonna occur again.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Yeah, you know, like it's like, what do we do
the same thing with the two of them, man like
like you're you're a jiu jitsu instructor. First of all,
I guess for a high class clientele, since you have
a gizelle you know, in your your class or your
one on one training or whatever. And you start dating
and you don't think people are gonna poke into you
a little bit, no get at and you don't think
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that's gonna be worth it a little bit to not
work the rest of your life.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Yeah, I would do crazy things to not work the
rest of my life. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
From one Glizzy chant to another. Joey Chestnutt has been
banned from the Nathan's Hot Dog Contest. Is this a
what do you? How do you feel about this?
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Do you want to get into this next segment? Or
do you want to get into it? Now?
Speaker 4 (34:15):
We'll get into that, and we'll get into Grimace too.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Grimace. Yes, all right, so let's let's save it for
the next segment. I think so, yes, save it for
the next seven. Next seven, guys, we're gonna take a quick,
quick break. It's gonna be quick. We're gonna say we
gotta pay the bills, take a quick break when we
come back. Joey Chestnut and Grimace in a duel that
you would never think. I don't know. I don't know
the Grimmace thing. Mike's gonna bring it up.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
But Joey Chestnut and Grimmas are coming up next day
with us guys, Divide live on Fox Sports.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
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Divide Live, Fox Sports The Gamble. Let's get right into it.
Joey Chestnut, the man that we've known to love. Every
July fourth urn the Nathan's Hot Dog eating contest up
at Cony Island, and has been banned Mike banned from
competing according to the Major League Eating Corporation, which is unreal.
It's that there's the the mL who is the company
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behind the annual Nathan's Contest. They issued a statement saying
that they were devastated to learn that Joey Chestnut has
chosen to represent a rival brand, and that rival brand
is some sort of beef substitute, a vegan, a vegan
hot dog.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
Let's see if I can get the name here, Which
is great because we wouldn't even be announcing the name
if he didn't do it.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
So it's great.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
So the end result for this, So just to give
you guys the idea, he's currently as it stands, he
is not allowed to participate. Apparently, according to the mL
E and Nathan's Hot Dog that they had some sort
of exclusive contract that paid Joey ches not like two
hundred grand each fourth of July, but like over the
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course of four years. It's like a four million dollar
retainer or something like that, to basically compete, but to
not sign with any competitors. And Joey Chestnut is saying
that they've never had any sort of deal. Here it is,
Oh no, that's not it. Yeah, so they've said here
it is. Chestnut was paid two hundred thousand to appear
(36:25):
in the twenty twenty three contest and offered, excuse me
not for one point two million, four year contract with Nathan's.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
They told that the New York Post.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
That mL E told the New York Post, in return
for his fees to appear and compete, Joey agreed every
single year to very simply to a very simple exclusivity provision.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
Jesus man I gotta go back to school.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
That was a rough read that he would not endorse
or sponsor another hot dog brand. So mL E and
Nathan's is saying, basically, this was supposed to be in
an exclusive contract where he's basically getting one point five
million over the course of four years. He just can't
he can't sign with any other hot dog brand. Okay,
but Joey's claiming that there's no such deal in place.
(37:15):
So somebody's wrong. And right now, whether we like it
or not, Joey Chestnut is paying the price. Now we
both know what's gonna happen. Like, for example, Mike, how
do you feel on July fourth, what are you gonna
be doing.
Speaker 4 (37:28):
I'm gonna be barbecuing. I'm not gonna be watching the
Nathan's There it is, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
There it is Nathan's. You have a problem, Major League eating.
You have a problem. You think that people watch your
hot dog eating contest for you when they only watch
it for Joey Chestnut.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
The people are gonna follow Joey, Yeah they are. There's
no like And how dare you think that?
Speaker 3 (37:55):
If that we we cut into our Fourth of July
festivities and turn the just to see Nathan's hot dogs. No,
we see Joey cram hot dogs. We don't care if
it's a hot dog substitute.
Speaker 4 (38:06):
We don't care.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
If it's Nathan, it could be brought worse for all
we care.
Speaker 4 (38:09):
Yeah, Joey guzzled so that tie would run, you know
what I mean, Like, and he did the water Melton
exactly of being inspired by Joey Chestnut.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
It's just stupid.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
Also, what's funny is like you you said in the beginning,
Joey guzzled, But what's funny is the glizzy guzzler. He
He's already getting like million dollar offers from other companies
to do other like well, Netflix is now doing an
event Netflix. He I guess there's an adult industry company
(38:39):
called called cam Soda. It's like an adult camera site.
Speaker 4 (38:44):
I don't cam soda.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
It's called cam c am Soda. It's an adult cam site,
it says. I don't know really what that means. I
don't know if that's anyway. I guess I'll have to
google it later. Off company Wi Fi, but they already
offered him a million dollars to headline its first annual
Innuendo heavy Wiener wallap.
Speaker 4 (39:07):
Oh my god, it's an eating contest. I'm sure it
doesn't even make sense.
Speaker 2 (39:15):
But it's like, dude, Joey is in demand right now now,
does he have the heartstrings of America? People are throwing
money at him?
Speaker 3 (39:23):
Just like forget Nathan's nathing, your brand is going down, Freeman.
Speaker 4 (39:28):
They gave nobody would have known that Joey Chestnut was
endorsed by this vegan company. Nobody would have known, Nobody
would have cared. Nobody would have cared. Nathan's would have
ruled July fourth. It would have been the only thing
talked about on July fifth, outside of fireworks, people losing
limbs and barbecues, you know, and Navy a few barbecues
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blowing up too, But outside of that, it would have
been Joey Chestnut, Nathan's, uh, you know, a Navy, a
new like Kobyashi coming back from the day like the
Undertaker and winning or something. Who knows, But yeah, it's ridiculous,
like why, like you know, like I just think about
like how the MLB is protecting Otani and you know,
(40:11):
we're just spots to believe that his interpreter did all
this crazy stuff be on his back, which by the
way now he's uber driving. I don't know if you
saw that in La. I want to go to La
to see if this guy should it be ends up?
Speaker 3 (40:22):
Just be like, hey, man, before I place these bets,
can you if I did you?
Speaker 2 (40:28):
Is this a good move?
Speaker 3 (40:29):
Me?
Speaker 2 (40:29):
Sixteen times? Like he's won the hot since two thousand
and seven. This guy has been dominating the hot dog competition.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
And Nathan's is so self centered to think that we
turn this on the TV for you.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
We don't care. The only reason people buy your hot
dogs and Corny Alan's because they're only choice.
Speaker 4 (40:45):
Hey stop, what Nathan's is a staple of Brooklyn.
Speaker 2 (40:52):
Heritage. Do we have potential deal with No?
Speaker 4 (40:56):
I mean they're gonna need They're gonna need our help out,
that's true, you know, But if it's one hot dog
that it always remains faithful.
Speaker 2 (41:02):
I think it's that day that.
Speaker 3 (41:05):
A man, I've said it before, we can be bought
guys again, like hit us with what's going on with
Grimace before we get out of here?
Speaker 4 (41:11):
Mister Grimmace throughout the first pitch personally, I like the Hamburglar,
so I was like a little annoyed. Then I got
the thinking, well game did he throw out the pits
for Monday Tuesday. Sorry, we were off Monday, so it's
Tuesday night, Tuesday game. Yeah, he throws out the first pitch.
He's got his own little glove, which was cute. It's
pretty big. Did it actually threw a decent pitch. So
(41:35):
I'm not even gonna throw shade at whoever was inside
this costume. The problem I have with it is it's
Grimace and we're having a bad season, and it's just
the optics look terrible, Like how much the McDonald's pay
for this first pitch? You know, I did notice he's purple.
The City connect shirts are purple. I think that's the
reason why there's a connection there. You know, Navy there
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was money given to the Ronald McDonald charity or something
like that. But I was just like, come on, man,
we don't need this, like, you know, like it's just
added stupidity and added insult to a season that's already
you know, off the rails a little bit.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
Now.
Speaker 4 (42:15):
They did get their thirtieth win, as I mentioned earlier,
so maybe Grimace is gonna give it. But you know,
there was also like a lot of stuff with the
Happy Birthday Grimace, like and people eating the Grimace shakes
and then dying like that. There was like a viral,
not really dying. They were like fake dying. They were
acting like they turned into zombies from the Grimace shake.
(42:36):
It was actually pretty funny. But you know, there's Grimace
has the gen Z people like wrapped around his palm,
so he is bigger than Ronald McDonald when it comes
to that, the Youth of America and McDonald's.
Speaker 2 (42:53):
So those City Connect jerseys, those are the dark gray ones.
Speaker 4 (42:55):
Right, Yeah, I'm colorblind, but yeah, I think they're purple. Okay,
their cement gray.
Speaker 3 (43:03):
Mister and missus Mett gave Grimace a jersey and it's
it looks like the City Connect they gave. I'm only
looking at the back where it says Grimace and fifty five.
Speaker 2 (43:14):
I guess.
Speaker 4 (43:14):
I don't know he turned fifty five because it was
his birthday.
Speaker 2 (43:18):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (43:19):
Maybe maybe he's fifty five years old.
Speaker 2 (43:21):
It says yep, No, that's it. They gifted in jersey exactly. Look, man,
I don't know. I can't think of the last time
I went to a game where someone threw out like
a ceremonial first pitch where I actually cared.
Speaker 4 (43:37):
Yeah, I was hoping it.
Speaker 2 (43:38):
Didn't ever see anybody cool throw out the first pitch.
Speaker 4 (43:41):
No, and even actually Always Sonny in Philadelphia they threw
out a first pitch. But it was like the first
double play. It was utterly it was it was utly Uh.
So it was the guy from Always Sonny.
Speaker 2 (43:53):
Uh, Charlie Day.
Speaker 4 (43:54):
Charlie Day, No, not Charlie the one that owns the
soccer team with Rob yeah whatever. His wife threw a
ground ball to him. He threw it to Utlely that
threw it to Harper. So it was the first ever
first double play as opposed to first pitch. But the
Mets brought out Matthew Broderick and I was just like,
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so for their home game in London, that's who they picked.
And I was just like, that's such a like I
get it. He's he's a Met fan, but he really isn't.
Like if you listen to his interviews, he's like, yeah,
you know, I just decided I'm like mad haats Like
it's just like he's like I root for both teams.
Like he was very biased about it, like very down
the road. The one thing I want to share real
quick is there was nobody tasted in London, but it
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did happen in Cincinnati and it was hilarious.
Speaker 2 (44:41):
Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (44:42):
Shout out to that guy.
Speaker 2 (44:44):
I don't know his name.
Speaker 4 (44:45):
God, I'm sorry, but you are. You're royalty when it
comes to things that people will watch forever. That's somersault.
He lands it and then he gets tased. But then
he's in court with the judge and the judge is
like a lot of you see the video. He's like, no,
I haven't yet. He's like a lot of people are
saying you landed the Summersault. And he's like he's like,
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what do you think about that? He's like, I think
I did, like you know, and it's just like a
boss about it.
Speaker 3 (45:11):
So he does not care at all. William Hendon. She
was only nineteen years old. Yeah, that's crazy. He charged
with two misdemeanor accounts of criminal trespass and obstructing official business.
Speaker 2 (45:23):
And he uh, oh he did land it? He did,
Yeah he did, and then he got tased.
Speaker 4 (45:29):
Yeah made Oh my god. Now do you think the
cop tastes him? Because he was like, yo, you just
like cause that's like a crossover move on and like
see a different view of this.
Speaker 2 (45:39):
How do you do the backflip right in front of and.
Speaker 4 (45:43):
You don't catch them?
Speaker 2 (45:44):
Just push him? Yeah, Like, how do you not want
a loser cop?
Speaker 3 (45:48):
And then you tasee him? Come on, bro, all you
do is take out his legs. You're a cop, Like,
don't they give you more training than you know what?
Speaker 4 (45:54):
Also, I wish he was wearing like a cut shirt
or one of our sponsors, Like that's.
Speaker 2 (45:58):
What with the photoshop going on? There is probably absolutely
like look at our guys hit it right on social media.
People don't fact check or anything, and they'll believe you
right away. All Right, that's it for us, guys. We
will see you next week. This was Divide Live on
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I can't even say it like a normal Yeah, across
the pond. That's on the pond.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Mike, you're from Chicago, Court Chicago. Cory's there.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
My favorite thing in the world is like that I
do the mixer and like when I hit it perfectly,
like the guy Welcome to the Divide and theme song
plays like.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
When you're wrapping something in the scissors glide.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
It's just it's like Heroin as a lefty, they never glide.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
You did you have?
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Like because we're both lefties, you're more amidexterous than I am,
or you are amidextrous.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
I'm not. Yes, I do you use scissors with your
left or right hand? Like?
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Are lefty scissors used with left hands? Like when I
cut with scissors, I use my right hand.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Is that weird?
Speaker 4 (01:50):
I think we're forced, Like you don't have a choice.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
That's why everybody, like lefties are like, oh you must
struggle with scissors.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
It's like, no, man, I figured it out. Yeah, just
use this hand and it works fine.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Yeah, you're at your own devices. Yeah I don't. I don't.
I don't know, but I multi like I prefer my
left but yeah I could.
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Do the right for scissors. Right. Yeah, we're still talking. Okay, it's.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Welcome to the Divine everybody, all right, So let's let's
get into this because obviously it's a Philly station. I
want to recap because you were there the Mets Phillies
London series. Yeah, everything I read and every single goddamn
picture I see it looked amazing.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Yeah, it could be like just.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Fomo for me, just not being there like one with
you into just like an awesome baseball experience because the
last like you know what it reminded me of looking
at pictures is when we went to the All Star
experience was in New York. Yes, like that's what it
kind of reminded me of. Felt like that and that
was good. I was like ten years ago. Yeah, so
it's like you just get just give it to us.
(02:57):
What the run through, the ups and downs, anything that
was good, anything that was bad.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
The cool part was, ironically it reminded me of Veterans
Stadium because you were set back further than you normally
would be from the game, so it was a little
bit further back. The view is still amazing regardless of
where you were.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
It's a soccer stadium exactly. Yeah, excuse excuse me, football.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Football stadium, and the pitch was right there, you know.
So it was just it was this stadium itself was
really cool, right. They also had like concessions, like there
was a Shay Chicken spot, so it was like like
the first base line was all met stuff. The third
(03:44):
baseline was off Philly stuff, so there was a divide.
It was really cool to be on either side. You know,
they had everybody. You could tell. The London crowd was
going nuts over the baseball bats, beer bats, you know,
and you gotta remember that's only like four or five
years old here. Yeah, right, and we went nuts for it.
(04:05):
So it was really cool, like we have to get
a BA bat like, you know, so they were all
excited for that.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
I think mixing that much alcohol when then when you
finish it you have a potential weapon is fantastic.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Yeah, yeah, awesome is that?
Speaker 4 (04:18):
But also, like the other weird thing was I didn't
get any draft beer when I was there because it
was intimidating, you know, like when you buy soup like
Wanton soup. That was the container like it was that big,
like court, a court.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
I guess, I guess that's what's what it is. I
can think it's a court.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Yeah, at least it looked way too big and it
was exactly that cup. Now, what I will share.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Is the.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Everything everywhere you go and you buy beer, whether it's
Paris or London, they give it to you in this
awesome plastic cup. It's like a reusable cup, and like
some of the restaurants are like, oh just keep you
could keep the cup, but we prefer if we take
it back. But they're like really good to drink out of. Now,
with that said, if you get like an iced coffee
at Starbucks in Paris, it's in a paper cup and
(05:07):
it's so disgusting. So like there was, there was different things,
but I wish they put their coffee in their beer cup.
That's all I kept thinking about the same man.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
They just value their alcohol a lot more than they
value their car. Yeah, well, it's like they're more about
the downer than they are the upper.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
But they're all also more about like being eco friendly
than we are. It's like way like those plastic cups
do not exist, like and Starbucks. It's like, yeah, now
you Americans are like crazy to have those. London had them,
so I was like I was excited for that, but
yeah to be in London Square and like the cages,
(05:41):
Like first off, so the cage that was in the
center of the whole fan experience was like a top
golf cage.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
So the fan experience was literally in London Square. Yeah,
and they had everything from like batting cages to like
you throw pitches.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Get your own baseball card made?
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Really yeah? Okay, yeah, so so go on, do you
have the dude, you're in London Square. You have like
a top golf type situation, so it's like a simulator
when you hit these exactly these ball. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
So my daughter got to see me actually hit a
baseball for the first time and she's like, Dad, you
should tell the Mets pretty good. I was like, I
ain't that good, but if it did feel good for
her to say that, And.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
I'm looking at the record right now, you might actually
be that good.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
They got there. They're up to thirty wins now. I'm
pretty excited. Also, I shared something and I'll share this
real quick. Twenty twenty two when we got signed, uh
to Sean Brace's team, if you want to call it
sign it sounds it sounds way cool.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
I remember sign.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Yeah, we didn't sign anything, but when Brace was nice
enough to put us on his airwaves, the Mets were
way ahead, just like the Phillies are right now. Ye,
very similar record, and they were the Phillies at that
time were four games under so five hundred where the
Mets are like six or seven right now, so it's
(06:59):
very very similar. Uh, to be honest with you, it's
only a couple of games off where Philadelphia was in
twenty twenty two. So I got high hopes to steal
a term from.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
I mean, the parallel is there, man, I mean you
just really got to fire your manager and yeah, call.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
So the fan experience was Yeah, the fan experience was crazy,
Like they had forty seven the hack company, they would
they were like making like art like so you could
like have spray paint art on any of your shirts
or like a banner. So Peyton got a banner and
a koozie.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Uh. You know.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
The merch was great, with the exception of some of
the clad merch that had Phillies and Mets on it.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
I saw that.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
So you can buy like a T shirt. I think
the picture you sent was like a polo that had
both like Mets. That's got to be for people that
live over there, so here has to be.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
I'm gonna wait till it goes on clearance, but I'm
gonna buy one. And we got to run a contest
on the Gambler, like for somebody to have to wear
that to a game. Oh god as a punishment. Yeah,
it's rough, right, it's so disgusting.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Like yeah, oh my skin is crawling right now.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
I don't know who was like nailed it, Like I
even don't like.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
It's gonna get somebody killed if we do that.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Yeah, I don't like. I don't like those like London series,
And it has both logos, you know, like because they
do that with the World series merch they're.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Talking about like like a pennant or like towel, you know,
like you go to a playoff game and there's a
talic so and so verse so and so like whatever, man,
but a polo like something.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
That wine like you're gonna wear out. And it didn't
say anything about the London series. It's just the p
the Phillies p and the New York Team New York
so again. So you go into the square and the
left sides off all Mets, the right sides all Phillies
like kind of like kind of food and options. And
(08:53):
then they announced like, oh, Daniel Murphy is gonna play
a virtual hom un derby against Chase Utley.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Dude.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Aj Perzinsky was there because he was doing game one
for I guess Fox.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Yeah, right.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Yeah, so I got to see him in the cage.
I got to see Ryan Howard in.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
The cage, Ryan holding up.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
He didn't do too well, man, he did not do
too well. Shane Victorino still got it.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Yeah a j.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
They were both complaining about the way the ball dropped
in uh for for left handed hitters. AJ and him,
so like, uh, yeah, it was really cool and Utlely
got creamed by Daniel Murphy.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
It was.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
It was quite impressive. Murphy hit like four or five out.
Uh you know, Utly only hit one out.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
But anybody know that was gonna happen or it was
just like a nast like.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
I had no clue. I had no clue.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
I didn't know if it was on like any sort
of schedule.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
But they need to do more of those, like honestly,
like with that technology. Like uh so, I was talking
to Prizinsky like and he was like, it's pretty damn accurate,
Like it's it's close. He's like, I felt like that's
where it would it went if I hit it into
a major league ballpark. So and it was really cool
because then it would show virtually that they hit it
(10:07):
into traffic, you know. So it was it was done
so well, you know, people were just really having fun
there that then there was a bunch of other cages
you could hit. Peyton got to hit Timmy got to
hit my buddy, and I got to hit a couple
a bunch of times. So like it was just it
was an awesome experience.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
I had to handle the crowd. I feel like it
had to have been mobbed.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
So they eventually stopped letting people in, but was cool.
Was like once one person left, they legit let one
person back in because like, yeah, when they were doing
the derby, it hit max capacity, But.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
I mean the temperament over there.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
I know there's there's people that traveled from America over there,
but you got to think half the stadium's got to
be visitors. The other half has to be people that
live around the one.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Yeah, so that was the other thing. So like the
Mets fans, probably because of the record, but also maybe
slightly more classy. When we're like at the London Tower
and stuff, they wear normal people's clothes, like because in
Europe you dress up a little bit more, you know,
you you really do, like you could tell they say
(11:11):
two things they could tell a tourist from the yoga pants,
and like if they wear any shorts, shoes or like a.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Gym up here, bro, they can spot me a mile away.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
I think the two times I've been overseas, that's all.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
I wore, right, either gym apparel and shores or short.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Yeah, exactly. So they're like, yeah, that's how you could tell,
especially in France.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
But people don't wear shorts at all in France.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
I didn't see many. Really, yeah, I didn't see many.
I did not man were well dressed. Also, there's something
else on the air. Off the air, I'll tell you
about French people, but not in a bad thing. It's
just something I want to share on the air. It's
just so the the other oh, well, one thing I
will share is like they say constantly, And I think
(11:57):
it's also because my wife likes to ask questions. You've
been out to dinner with her, she'll ask like twenty
one questions about the menu, like oh can I can
I get avocado into the bacon or something like that.
You can, but it's not recommended. That's what everybody said
to her, Like you.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Start using that in my whole life.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
You can do that, but it's not remmented. Yeah, So
like and it's just like it was kind of like
this conversation where it was like you could do that,
but we prefer you not to do it.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Like please don't is what I'm telling.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Don't be a jerk.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Like So, getting back, you said, you're out seeing like
the London Bridge and stuff, and we're.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
At London Tower where you know they're teaching you about
all the well one they got the crown jewels that
are right protected to like that's where most up to
I think Queen Victoria, all the kings and kings, kings
and queens lived there. But they're sharing you with a
lot of the kings. When they would there were dirtbags.
(12:55):
They were like forty years old marrying like seventeen year
old girls or younger, and they would say, I'll love
you for the rest of your life. So and a
lot of them got tried for treason and they were sharing.
One of the princesses or Queen's I should say, that
was tried for treason and how terrible it was and
(13:17):
how she was murdered in the middle of town of
London Hall. So somebody in a McNab jersey walks by
and you just see this whole crowd. So they're telling
the story and it's very much like The Titanic, like
where Jack dies, like it's at that part and oh
yours go birds and like so many people go birds.
(13:38):
Like they just say it back and it's like this
unison like if it was no, if it was if
it wasn't, like the amend.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
The equivalent of like when you're watching a proposal in
public and someone's like, doo, dude, Like I love situations
like that. There's because in my mind that's hysterical, Like
you pay for this tour. It's probably you and thirty
other people. You're listening to this tour guide who it's
their job, Like that's what they do their tour guys.
(14:07):
They're awesome. They're just like like whatever, they're getting into it.
They're telling this story. It's a serious moment and all
of a sudden, it's a random person walking by.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
I didn't have a problem with the English accent because
I've been so used to dealing with the Delco accent
for the last fifteen years, so like that was another
thing that was kind of Thank God.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
I thought it'd be hard understanding you guys, don't worry.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
This Goberts you know.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Bro, uh so your seats in there.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Dude, they were notts. I enjoyed them a lot, Like
we were around great people.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
I was just gonna ask or you were you around
people from London?
Speaker 4 (14:49):
London right all behind us to the left where he was. Ironically,
I think born in Brooklyn, moved back and family in London.
He moved back to London at a young age. It's
so like he kind of understood American history, but also
like London he did share. He's like, yo, you know,
like you guys take a lot of pride in the
Revolutionary War. He's like, we thought it would have is
(15:11):
like the way you explain like finance move Like we
were just like, yeah, we're not going to spend any money.
We have all these other territories. We got to worry
about it. We just didn't care, like because there was
a viral Philly fan that wasn't.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Like yeah England Comedy lead.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
I think barstool made it viral or whatever. Which is
a great T shirt to be honest with you, Yeah
it really is, and anybody it takes it seriously like
come on, man, Like it's like arguing like the winners
and losers of world War two, like it's so revolutionary
wars where you're gonna really put like your butt.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Hurt over that. It was also the eighties we won,
by the way, there's a whole holiday.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Yeah, it was like the eightieth anniversary of D Day
while we were there too, So that was epic that
you go to Normandy.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Why you were there? I don't want to get off
baseball too much, right to ask you.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
We didn't, but I can't remember the battleship. But it
was right across the street from London Tower, right across
the ocean or water, and they did a salute. Also,
like Seymour Wiener was there, was he? Yeah he was,
dud I have yeah him was not in England. I
(16:24):
think he was at Normandy for Yeah, not in London,
but yeah he was over there, but over where over there?
Uh but yeah, dude, it was. It was nuts, man, Like,
there's so many different things I could share. The game
itself was a lot of fun. Now what I will
share is I do think there was too many Americans
there to be in my humble opinion, to the point
(16:46):
where like the announcers and stuff were trying to get
like football chants going, and even Lindor like changed all
of his walk up songs to like things that normally
crowds in London.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Or in football just didn't. It didn't hit.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
It didn't hit. Like what did hit was the hands touching,
hands reaching, now touching.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Why that's a thing that he played at baseball stadiums
is beyond me.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Why it's played at all.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
I mean, dude, I'm not saying I hate Neil Diamond.
I'm just saying it's the song did per Man for
a while and still man, I love that.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Yeah, but what's the one memes you know for a
song called piano man? The guy with the harmonica really
won't shut up?
Speaker 4 (17:29):
It's so true.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
All right, last question about this before we take a break, Uh,
the whole fan experience. Could they, like, what's the best
stadium or the best city to do something like that,
because I'm picturing like, Okay, if they make the upgrade
to City Park like they're supposed to, maybe that would
be great, right because I feel like in Queens you
(17:51):
do have that the Bronx. You don't have an area
to do that at all. There's no way you do
that without shutting down a major.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
Okay, So it did bring London like to bring soccers.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Not soccer, but if you were to just do a
crazy series and where it's two rivals and you try.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
To do the fan experience, like what city is it working?
Speaker 1 (18:09):
It?
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Even like if you were to try to like pick
a city here that doesn't have a baseball team and
you want to bring two baseball teams, Like, what's just
the dope city that you can do that?
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Like Miami, Miami?
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Just well yeah I would. Here's why because there's so
much imports, right, like how many whether you're from Philly,
New York, New Jersey, like how many people go down
to like to Florida. That's fair, you know. So I
think Tampa Miami that'd be dope and also would help
with their attendants, you know, and it'd be like, ah,
(18:42):
that'd be worth it, you know. But what I was
thinking about was forget the London series. Do you want
to Munich? That would be sick like October Fest time?
I mean yeah, well yeah, Byron's also like the Yankees
of German football, so like there are always cant around
that time, so they'd have to be around that. But
(19:03):
that was the other like I started thinking about where
else should they go and I was like, Ireland.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Well, and this was just a stepping point too.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
You know, they're gonna try it's gonna be like the
NFL now, like the NFL is like it's gonna have
a game in Brazil or something this year.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Like and that got crazy because like did you hear
about that stuff?
Speaker 2 (19:19):
What?
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Like they can't wear green? Really yeah, because like there's
a gang in that city, so they don't want the players.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
They're really worried about stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Like if you're trying to host, if you're trying to
branch out, right, like for the NFL, you know, for
some reason, they just need more money, so you're trying
to branch out, branch out to Brazil or like all
these other countries, Like if they're gonna give you that
type of resistances, like don't you think we should just
maybe not do it?
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Like come on, dude, how big does your not have
to be?
Speaker 4 (19:47):
But it's it's funny because you asked like these questions
of where we would do it. I mean, look at
what happened with the Dodgers when they went back to
New York this week in the Bronx. That was crazy.
That was crazy. So they're your answer right now. It
is the Bronx.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Yeah, baseball. All right, let's take a quick break, guys.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
When we come back, Tom Brady is in the news again,
and actually so is Gizelle, believe it or not, both
for completely separate things. And Joey Chestnut was done dirty
like those dogs he's been shoving down his gullet for
the last how many years.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
On the fourth of July, we're gonna talk about all that.
Stay with us. Guy's Divide Live on Fox Sports against.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Spreads, totals and all the prop that's in between. It's
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Speaker 3 (20:33):
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Speaker 4 (20:45):
My Twitter got hacked. My powers parlays one.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Did it really?
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (20:49):
And here's my here's my logic right now. I was like,
you know what, let let this blow. Cavin go at
it like maybe I'll get some more followers so to
Really I've not reported it yet, but yeah, I I
walked into you know, work and somebody's like, Yo, you're
gonna fix your Twitter. It's it's like suggesting, like all
these bitcoins and cryptocurrencies, and I was like, what.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Kind of tips are they giving?
Speaker 4 (21:12):
Right, It's like maybe I'm saving.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Let's talk about Tom Brady again because he's in the news.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
He had this huge memorable night uh three four days
ago now, whenever it was.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
It was basically a Patriots Hall of Fame induction. We've
all seen him. You've seen him for the Mets. We
you know, you've seen Doc Goodin get his number retired.
You've seen I've seen countless Yankees get their number retired.
I'm just you know, which I think is a little ridiculous.
We've seen it with the Rangers. We've seen it with
the Devils. We've seen it with the Flyers, We've seen
it with you know football. It's just it's it's happened before.
(21:53):
And the reason I'm saying this out loud is because
I know it's Tom Brady. We all know he's the
goat and he's the best to ever play. But Jesus Christ,
did you look at the lineup? It was like goddamn
concert And like, dude.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
We went to Paul O'Neill day or not. That's right.
I went to Paul O'Neil Day. Like, yeah, Paul came out,
There was some speeches, like no one performed. He kind
of rode around and weaved to people.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
But like I mean, then his number was retired, like
the jay z performed, Then Tom walked out, speeches by
a bunch of people.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
I think, like Kenny Chesney performed. Peyton Manning was there.
I think Mike Rico hosted the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
It was like it was like it was a whole
It was like the roast all over again with less jokes.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Really was it really was?
Speaker 2 (22:42):
And and and more people and Pottsborough was packed and
and I'm not saying he shouldn't be celebrated, but what
a money grab for that organization, And like you couldn't
do this before and during the halftime and even a
celebration after a regular season game.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
Well, I think they'll still cash in on that. There'll
be a game where they, you know, show his number
up in the rafters or something. They'll definitely be a
game where he's there.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Oh my god, dude. So jay z uh performed public
service announcement and then you had Kenny like a Kenny
Chesney performed the song Boys of Fall.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
I don't know. I'm not a Kenny Chesney fan. Bill
Burr was there. Bill Burr did it and act a
whole set or whatever it is. Like you had music,
you had comedy. There's a video from Brady's family.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
The Brady four were there. Yeah, barstool, like it's just.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
You name it. They were there.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
I mean Peyton Manning came out, Randy Moss, Gronk.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Edelman, just everybody was there to sell it.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
And don't get I'm guys, I'm not saying he doesn't
need to be celebrated.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
The guy's got seven Super.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
Bowls, right, you know, he's he's literally the greatest to
ever play. He's gonna be the first ballot Hall of
Famer for Canton, Ohio. But come on, dude, you're retiring
his number at a stadium, Like, let's let's call it
what it is here.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
In the summer, in the summer. Yeah, like mini camps
barely started.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
I love it, you know, like the mccordy twins were there,
Like just Belichick was there at a warm welcome. You know,
it had Look, I can't even tell you. I can't
tell you. Honestly, we went to Paul O'Neill day. It
was fine because there was a baseball game to watch.
If it was just the ceremony to watch Paul O'Neal
get his number retired, I don't.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Think i'd pay to see it.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
No. I go for work.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Like if they were like sending us somewhere, yes, absolutely,
but I'm not paying just to go watch it. Now.
You know, the more I talk about it, the more
I'm like, who am I kidding? Of course I would like,
tell me, I'm gonna go to this ceremony where jam
is performing, and I can see Bill burd who stand.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Up like, come on, yeah, I'm an idiot. I'm an idiots.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
Well here's speaking of idiots. Did you hear the a
Rod David Ortiz and Jeter? Yes, walking around Monument.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Are fantastic And I love the fact. And I don't
know if Ortiz if they set that up, it didn't
sound like it.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
So Ortiz Jeter.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
And because they were doing and the Fox was when
the Dodgers came to town and uh Ortiz in Monument Park,
I guess they were looking at just everybody's number Jeters
included and looked at a Rod and said, when are
you going to get your number retired here or something
along those lines, and a Rod's clapped right back, was like,
I think you have a better shot again your number
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retired here than I do. And it was kudos to
both of them, because you know, Alex is a little
hurt that it's not even cons you know what I mean,
Like he's he's public and he can't hide it and
it's never gonna happen, Alex. I mean, you had to
come to New York to win a world you know what.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
I like a Rod I did, but Ortiz did get
a little bit uh loose with his mouth. He said
that the Mets should move to like Oklahoma because they'll
always be in that brong shadow. And I felt like saying, like, Bro,
you're spending a little bit too much time with the Yankees,
with Jeter and a Rod. You need to shut your mouth, because.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
I don't even think Jeter and a Rod feel that
way though, you know what I mean, New York is
so big, we could have a third freaking team.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
You know who couldn't have a third or second team? Boston? Yeah,
freaking tiny, tiny, little go finance.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Another play Boston. Oh God, I love Boston.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
You can say ass on the air, just so you know.
So I didn't have to stop myself.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
But I did.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
I'm happy, man, and I'm happy you said it out loud, dude.
Just that it's been liberating. I mean, it's been a
while since we've been doing this. You don't know what
you can say anymore. Yeah. Back to Tom Brady, so
craft to hold the whole crowd number twelve.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
No one's ever gonna wear it. And then he told
them sometime during this season, there will be a twelve
foot because we just gotta keep saying the number twelve,
a twelve foot statue of Tom Brady somewhere outside the stadium,
which could not be a dumber idea for right now,
h Like, it can't be if something tragically happened to
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Tom Brady.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Absolutely, if it's twenty years from now, give that man
a statue. Even wait till he gets in ducked into
the Hall of Fame and then give him a statute then.
But he's too young right now. He just retired.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Yeah, actually, remember when he retired the first time and
then unretired, not even for your organization, right like, give
the man a second to breathe. For all we know,
some weird type Epstein list can come out and he
can be on it. And now you've got a statue
in front of your stadium. You gotta tear it. Don't
let it breathe a little bit.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
Let it breathe.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
You don't know anybody did. He's not even in the
country anymore. We all thought he was.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
All right, Well, it's speaking of breathing. You know who
doesn't have much time to breathe. It's Robert Kraft. So
I think he's kind of speed this all up.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Jesus.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
You're saying like this would normally be likes in the
make it, but I think he wants to experience it
all and he wants to give it to Tom. Tom's
like his son.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
That's fair.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
Yeah, so you know, I don't know. And then the
argument is do you do the same stuff for Bill
or anything for Bill.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
I don't think Bill's going to get any recognition.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
That's crazy, dude.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
I think he might.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
I think Bill would probably get I know, you can't
retire a number, but you can have your name on.
I think Bill will get his name next to Tom,
like in the stadium, you know, like they've done before.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Bill's not got a statue.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
I don't know what the cut sleeves on a sweatshirt.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
I would support a Belichick statue more than I would
support a Brady Stacks.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
Also, I would support an AI Belichick where it just
didn't answer your questions.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Get the report Belichick experience where you're just asking questions
to a cardboard cutout of Belichick because you get the
same answer anyway.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Oh god, yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
And then the other thing was like just the simple
fact that you know, I don't know. So yeah, I
think about the Robert Kraft, I think about Belichick. I
also hot take. I think that if Robert Kraft allowed
Belichick to cook and they did get rid of Brady
when they felt like it, he could have won a
couple more So.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
I think I think he would have been a lot
more competitive. I mean by the time that they actually,
you know, Brady stepped away, and what was left and
how trying to draft and you gotta remember it like
and and I will say, to Tom's credit, in the
whole ceremony, when it was time for Tom to speak,
he basically said, in so many words, I know tonight's
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about me, but I'm not me without if I didn't
have great people around me. And he thanked all those people.
You know this is it wasn't like he was like,
you know, it was your typical Tom Brady like saying
thank you, but also saying, remember, like I had Randy Moss,
I had Rob Gronkowska, I had all these people.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
I had a coach like Belichick also took pay cuts
to get those people right and quarterbacks, and that's been
public and you know that's Tom.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
That's why that's how he you know, the Patriots dynasty
was able to be a dynasty. And I think to
that note, just like you know, Tom says, it was
these people around me. Belichick was the same way. I mean, dude,
they stepped in and they stepped in it. The guy
was drafted in the sixth round, a backup to an
already franchise quarterback that just had some freak injury at
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the beginning of the season, you know what I mean,
Like it was just this perfect storm of everything. If
bled Zone never gets hurt, Brady never gets his chance,
and who knows what happens, it's just exactly.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
Speaking a shot. Giselle's relationship is shot, Oh right, God
from that roads the boy from left, because Yo, you're
gonna cheat on Tom Brady. You're gonna cheat on me,
like I don't care what you look like. You cheated
on the goat. You're gonna why Yeah, I think so.
I think it finally, like I don't know, man like
or just like he's like, you know what, I'm out,
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you know, And there is that saying if you're gonna
do it to them, you'll do it to me, Like
I'm no different. So I think that I think got
in his head. And she's blaming the Roast for their breakup.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
So she was so listen, the only thing that comes
out of in my opinion, Giselle's only concern coming out
of that roast was for her kids, and Tom said
the same thing.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Yeah, I just was worried. I don't want my kids.
Blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
As far as Gazelle goes, they're stupid jokes and not
for nothing. You deserved every bit of them, bro, Like
you said you you're dating whatever instructor jiu jitsu instructor, Like, uh,
you deserve those jokes have thicker skin. She would be
tweeting away in that uh you know, uh, Tom Brady's
sweet every time something Bay would happen to Tom, like
it's crazy to me. Like Brittany Mahomes does something similar.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Like how these wives of these.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
Professional players or NFL players, like they don't have thicker skin.
Just let your man play the sport, dude, like just
or and it goes for anybody, you know, if you
have a wife that plays professional sports, just let them play.
Don't worry about the scrutiny. So she's sitting here getting
all mad at jokes and all of a sudden they split.
That that's gotta be mainly her. He's thirty four years old,
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dating retired supermodel. It has more money than she knows
what to do with. I can't imagine what her alimony
looked like after the divorce. So it's like, dude, come on, man,
and it's unclear. Everything I look at says like they
haven't been photographed since late April. So who knows when
they actually split and why they split. But dude's thirty Actually,
(32:31):
dude's thirty four, looks like he's forty four.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
He's not aging.
Speaker 4 (32:34):
Well no, no, maybe that's why they split.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
But some people speculate that the spotlight was just too
much for him, Joaquim Valente, which is another thing, that's.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
The spotlight, right, the spotlight.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Really like Ben, Ben and Jalo are breaking up recording
the rumors, and they're saying, just Ben just doesn't like
all the attention.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
You're a movie star.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
What do you mean you don't like walking into the
car with the duncan thing where he just looks like
we've all been there, like we've all felt like I
could feel how he felt, but it's not like you've dude,
I can feel the way he felt.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
If listen, if some miracle happens and we blow up
and that were to the point where we step out
of our house and we get mobbed by paparazzi, the
first two years, we're gonna look like.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Ben Affleck, Like, dude, what is going on here? Yeah? Like, Ben,
you've been dealing.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
You had a twenty five plus year career right now,
you can't tell me you're still angry at these people
taking pictures.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
And there's so many women in this world, and you
went back with the woman that you knew this was
gonna occur again.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Yeah, you know, like it's like, what do we do
the same thing with the two of them, man like
like you're you're a jiu jitsu instructor. First of all,
I guess for a high class clientele, since you have
a gizelle you know, in your your class or your
one on one training or whatever. And you start dating
and you don't think people are gonna poke into you
a little bit, no get at and you don't think
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that's gonna be worth it a little bit to not
work the rest of your life.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Yeah, I would do crazy things to not work the
rest of my life. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
From one Glizzy chant to another. Joey Chestnutt has been
banned from the Nathan's Hot Dog Contest. Is this a
what do you? How do you feel about this?
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Do you want to get into this next segment? Or
do you want to get into it? Now?
Speaker 4 (34:15):
We'll get into that, and we'll get into Grimace too.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Grimace. Yes, all right, so let's let's save it for
the next segment. I think so, yes, save it for
the next seven. Next seven, guys, we're gonna take a quick,
quick break. It's gonna be quick. We're gonna say we
gotta pay the bills, take a quick break when we
come back. Joey Chestnut and Grimace in a duel that
you would never think. I don't know. I don't know
the Grimmace thing. Mike's gonna bring it up.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
But Joey Chestnut and Grimmas are coming up next day
with us guys, Divide live on Fox Sports.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
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Divide Live, Fox Sports The Gamble. Let's get right into it.
Joey Chestnut, the man that we've known to love. Every
July fourth urn the Nathan's Hot Dog eating contest up
at Cony Island, and has been banned Mike banned from
competing according to the Major League Eating Corporation, which is unreal.
It's that there's the the mL who is the company
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behind the annual Nathan's Contest. They issued a statement saying
that they were devastated to learn that Joey Chestnut has
chosen to represent a rival brand, and that rival brand
is some sort of beef substitute, a vegan, a vegan
hot dog.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
Let's see if I can get the name here, Which
is great because we wouldn't even be announcing the name
if he didn't do it.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
So it's great.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
So the end result for this, So just to give
you guys the idea, he's currently as it stands, he
is not allowed to participate. Apparently, according to the mL
E and Nathan's Hot Dog that they had some sort
of exclusive contract that paid Joey ches not like two
hundred grand each fourth of July, but like over the
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course of four years. It's like a four million dollar
retainer or something like that, to basically compete, but to
not sign with any competitors. And Joey Chestnut is saying
that they've never had any sort of deal. Here it is,
Oh no, that's not it. Yeah, so they've said here
it is. Chestnut was paid two hundred thousand to appear
(36:25):
in the twenty twenty three contest and offered, excuse me
not for one point two million, four year contract with Nathan's.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
They told that the New York Post.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
That mL E told the New York Post, in return
for his fees to appear and compete, Joey agreed every
single year to very simply to a very simple exclusivity provision.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
Jesus man I gotta go back to school.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
That was a rough read that he would not endorse
or sponsor another hot dog brand. So mL E and
Nathan's is saying, basically, this was supposed to be in
an exclusive contract where he's basically getting one point five
million over the course of four years. He just can't
he can't sign with any other hot dog brand. Okay,
but Joey's claiming that there's no such deal in place.
(37:15):
So somebody's wrong. And right now, whether we like it
or not, Joey Chestnut is paying the price. Now we
both know what's gonna happen. Like, for example, Mike, how
do you feel on July fourth, what are you gonna
be doing.
Speaker 4 (37:28):
I'm gonna be barbecuing. I'm not gonna be watching the
Nathan's There it is, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
There it is Nathan's. You have a problem, Major League eating.
You have a problem. You think that people watch your
hot dog eating contest for you when they only watch
it for Joey Chestnut.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
The people are gonna follow Joey, Yeah they are. There's
no like And how dare you think that?
Speaker 3 (37:55):
If that we we cut into our Fourth of July
festivities and turn the just to see Nathan's hot dogs. No,
we see Joey cram hot dogs. We don't care if
it's a hot dog substitute.
Speaker 4 (38:06):
We don't care.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
If it's Nathan, it could be brought worse for all
we care.
Speaker 4 (38:09):
Yeah, Joey guzzled so that tie would run, you know
what I mean, Like, and he did the water Melton
exactly of being inspired by Joey Chestnut.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
It's just stupid.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
Also, what's funny is like you you said in the beginning,
Joey guzzled, But what's funny is the glizzy guzzler. He
He's already getting like million dollar offers from other companies
to do other like well, Netflix is now doing an
event Netflix. He I guess there's an adult industry company
(38:39):
called called cam Soda. It's like an adult camera site.
Speaker 4 (38:44):
I don't cam soda.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
It's called cam c am Soda. It's an adult cam site,
it says. I don't know really what that means. I
don't know if that's anyway. I guess I'll have to
google it later. Off company Wi Fi, but they already
offered him a million dollars to headline its first annual
Innuendo heavy Wiener wallap.
Speaker 4 (39:07):
Oh my god, it's an eating contest. I'm sure it
doesn't even make sense.
Speaker 2 (39:15):
But it's like, dude, Joey is in demand right now now,
does he have the heartstrings of America? People are throwing
money at him?
Speaker 3 (39:23):
Just like forget Nathan's nathing, your brand is going down, Freeman.
Speaker 4 (39:28):
They gave nobody would have known that Joey Chestnut was
endorsed by this vegan company. Nobody would have known, Nobody
would have cared. Nobody would have cared. Nathan's would have
ruled July fourth. It would have been the only thing
talked about on July fifth, outside of fireworks, people losing
limbs and barbecues, you know, and Navy a few barbecues
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blowing up too, But outside of that, it would have
been Joey Chestnut, Nathan's, uh, you know, a Navy, a
new like Kobyashi coming back from the day like the
Undertaker and winning or something. Who knows, But yeah, it's ridiculous,
like why, like you know, like I just think about
like how the MLB is protecting Otani and you know,
(40:11):
we're just spots to believe that his interpreter did all
this crazy stuff be on his back, which by the
way now he's uber driving. I don't know if you
saw that in La. I want to go to La
to see if this guy should it be ends up?
Speaker 3 (40:22):
Just be like, hey, man, before I place these bets,
can you if I did you?
Speaker 2 (40:28):
Is this a good move?
Speaker 3 (40:29):
Me?
Speaker 2 (40:29):
Sixteen times? Like he's won the hot since two thousand
and seven. This guy has been dominating the hot dog competition.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
And Nathan's is so self centered to think that we
turn this on the TV for you.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
We don't care. The only reason people buy your hot
dogs and Corny Alan's because they're only choice.
Speaker 4 (40:45):
Hey stop, what Nathan's is a staple of Brooklyn.
Speaker 2 (40:52):
Heritage. Do we have potential deal with No?
Speaker 4 (40:56):
I mean they're gonna need They're gonna need our help out,
that's true, you know, But if it's one hot dog
that it always remains faithful.
Speaker 2 (41:02):
I think it's that day that.
Speaker 3 (41:05):
A man, I've said it before, we can be bought
guys again, like hit us with what's going on with
Grimace before we get out of here?
Speaker 4 (41:11):
Mister Grimmace throughout the first pitch personally, I like the Hamburglar,
so I was like a little annoyed. Then I got
the thinking, well game did he throw out the pits
for Monday Tuesday. Sorry, we were off Monday, so it's
Tuesday night, Tuesday game. Yeah, he throws out the first pitch.
He's got his own little glove, which was cute. It's
pretty big. Did it actually threw a decent pitch. So
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I'm not even gonna throw shade at whoever was inside
this costume. The problem I have with it is it's
Grimace and we're having a bad season, and it's just
the optics look terrible, Like how much the McDonald's pay
for this first pitch? You know, I did notice he's purple.
The City connect shirts are purple. I think that's the
reason why there's a connection there. You know, Navy there
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was money given to the Ronald McDonald charity or something
like that. But I was just like, come on, man,
we don't need this, like, you know, like it's just
added stupidity and added insult to a season that's already
you know, off the rails a little bit.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
Now.
Speaker 4 (42:15):
They did get their thirtieth win, as I mentioned earlier,
so maybe Grimace is gonna give it. But you know,
there was also like a lot of stuff with the
Happy Birthday Grimace, like and people eating the Grimace shakes
and then dying like that. There was like a viral,
not really dying. They were like fake dying. They were
acting like they turned into zombies from the Grimace shake.
(42:36):
It was actually pretty funny. But you know, there's Grimace
has the gen Z people like wrapped around his palm,
so he is bigger than Ronald McDonald when it comes
to that, the Youth of America and McDonald's.
Speaker 2 (42:53):
So those City Connect jerseys, those are the dark gray ones.
Speaker 4 (42:55):
Right, Yeah, I'm colorblind, but yeah, I think they're purple. Okay,
their cement gray.
Speaker 3 (43:03):
Mister and missus Mett gave Grimace a jersey and it's
it looks like the City Connect they gave. I'm only
looking at the back where it says Grimace and fifty five.
Speaker 2 (43:14):
I guess.
Speaker 4 (43:14):
I don't know he turned fifty five because it was
his birthday.
Speaker 2 (43:18):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (43:19):
Maybe maybe he's fifty five years old.
Speaker 2 (43:21):
It says yep, No, that's it. They gifted in jersey exactly. Look, man,
I don't know. I can't think of the last time
I went to a game where someone threw out like
a ceremonial first pitch where I actually cared.
Speaker 4 (43:37):
Yeah, I was hoping it.
Speaker 2 (43:38):
Didn't ever see anybody cool throw out the first pitch.
Speaker 4 (43:41):
No, and even actually Always Sonny in Philadelphia they threw
out a first pitch. But it was like the first
double play. It was utterly it was it was utly Uh.
So it was the guy from Always Sonny.
Speaker 2 (43:53):
Uh, Charlie Day.
Speaker 4 (43:54):
Charlie Day, No, not Charlie the one that owns the
soccer team with Rob yeah whatever. His wife threw a
ground ball to him. He threw it to Utlely that
threw it to Harper. So it was the first ever
first double play as opposed to first pitch. But the
Mets brought out Matthew Broderick and I was just like,
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so for their home game in London, that's who they picked.
And I was just like, that's such a like I
get it. He's he's a Met fan, but he really isn't.
Like if you listen to his interviews, he's like, yeah,
you know, I just decided I'm like mad haats Like
it's just like he's like I root for both teams.
Like he was very biased about it, like very down
the road. The one thing I want to share real
quick is there was nobody tasted in London, but it
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did happen in Cincinnati and it was hilarious.
Speaker 2 (44:41):
Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (44:42):
Shout out to that guy.
Speaker 2 (44:44):
I don't know his name.
Speaker 4 (44:45):
God, I'm sorry, but you are. You're royalty when it
comes to things that people will watch forever. That's somersault.
He lands it and then he gets tased. But then
he's in court with the judge and the judge is
like a lot of you see the video. He's like, no,
I haven't yet. He's like a lot of people are
saying you landed the Summersault. And he's like he's like,
(45:06):
what do you think about that? He's like, I think
I did, like you know, and it's just like a
boss about it.
Speaker 3 (45:11):
So he does not care at all. William Hendon. She
was only nineteen years old. Yeah, that's crazy. He charged
with two misdemeanor accounts of criminal trespass and obstructing official business.
Speaker 2 (45:23):
And he uh, oh he did land it? He did,
Yeah he did, and then he got tased.
Speaker 4 (45:29):
Yeah made Oh my god. Now do you think the
cop tastes him? Because he was like, yo, you just
like cause that's like a crossover move on and like
see a different view of this.
Speaker 2 (45:39):
How do you do the backflip right in front of and.
Speaker 4 (45:43):
You don't catch them?
Speaker 2 (45:44):
Just push him? Yeah, Like, how do you not want
a loser cop?
Speaker 3 (45:48):
And then you tasee him? Come on, bro, all you
do is take out his legs. You're a cop, Like,
don't they give you more training than you know what?
Speaker 4 (45:54):
Also, I wish he was wearing like a cut shirt
or one of our sponsors, Like that's.
Speaker 2 (45:58):
What with the photoshop going on? There is probably absolutely
like look at our guys hit it right on social media.
People don't fact check or anything, and they'll believe you
right away. All Right, that's it for us, guys. We
will see you next week. This was Divide Live on
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