Hour 2 - Pujols Hits 700

Jason and Mike talk about a weird week of press from Packers QB Aaron Rodgers, the fellas get some breaking news as Albert Pujols hits #700, NFL insider Jason Cole joins the show, and more on Apple TV+’s MLB broadcasts as Albert Pujols reaches 700 career HR’s on a paywalled broadcast.

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mets are winning like eleven nothing right now in the
fifth inning, and Oh it's some kind of night. It
is some kind of night. Well, it's such a perfect day.
I mean the Syracuse Victory obviously has you on cloud nine?
Would you say you're on cloud dying? We're on cloud nine.
You can watch some Boise state and you tip, if
you're feeling Frisky, with some more football. Obviously, the baseball stuff.

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My team quit. They didn't announce it, but the White Sox,
essentially this que this week, gave up. They they decided
they didn't want to play anymore, and that's fine. Well,
they laid down to the guardians and now everybody can
blame it on managers. No, you had a bunch of
players that you assembled a squad that couldn't stay healthy

(01:52):
and some of the guys that did, lack the professionalism
and the intestinal fortitude, uh, to move forward with that club,
or really any other in major league baseball. Wow, I
like you going testinal four. I know you're upset. Oh, well,
it's it's it's angering and and and you can go
back and watch a bunch of video clips from this

(02:12):
week of some of these guys. Oh, there's a groundball. Yeah,
I think I'll walk five feet out of the box
and just turned towards the dug out. How's your year going? Oh,
you're hitting two, twelve. That makes sense, but yeah, it's
a big weekend. Obviously, as we get to week three
of the NFL, we already have one game in the books,

(02:34):
a lot of speculation. You've got cooper rushed saying that
he and Dak Prescott had a laugh at the expense
of Jerry Jones comments, even though it's got a lot
of people mad, which is great. I like when people
are upset. Look and and and we'll have more on
the Jerry Jones situation, because today you had Mike McCarthy
had to walk out and say, Hey, listen, that's our guy, right,

(02:54):
I know, I know it. Did he have todack's our guy. Okay,
I'm telling you that. He was trying to do a
five minute stand up act was Jenny Jones, as if
he were gonna go open for Rob Parker in his
latest comedy club. But this weekend's really there's one game

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that's above almost every other one, and that is this
could be the last time we get Rogers versus Brady Right.
We may not get it again, because who knows, this
could be it for Tom Brady, not it for Aaron Rodgers,
but this could be it for brady, for Aaron Rodgers. Uh,
you know, you know here. Let's let's look right. You
know what, before we picked this game, let's talk about
Aaron Rodgers here for a couple minutes. Okay, because this

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week he was asked, hey, how much longer are you
going to play? Right? Are you gonna be like Tom
Brady and played to your forty five? And he said no,
I have other interests. All right, and I get it,
because you know, when you're thirty five can seem like
a long way away. And and he is kind of
enjoying the fact that he's this really we your guy

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that gets a lot of attention. And so when he
says he has other interests and he's not gonna play
untill he's forty five, my reaction is, man, I can't
wait to see what those are. Oh, the teaser we've
gotten already from him about what he likes to do. Hey,
here's some tea I like to drink, and I'm gonna
show all these pictures, and here's my tattoos and I'm

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gonna give you theories I have about vaccines and all
these different things. Oh, I can't wait to see what
he's got. Man, he's gonna be Great. He's like that
rock star that has found an enlightened path that suddenly is.
It's like like you read about the guys like in
the sixties and the seventies where they had these people
that they would follow them, you know, like around like,
Oh my God, he's my he's he's the Guy I follow,

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he's my icon. Everything he does I I want to do.
He's he's showing me the right way to live life.
I can't wait to see that, because he's gonna get
even weirder than he is now and I guarantee you
we won't even recognize the guy in relation to who
he was in his NFL career. We're gonna see video
of him and pictures of him like a couple of

(05:06):
years after he's finished playing in the the NFL, and you're
gonna go that's Aaron Rodgers, that's him really with that
big look, because you know he's gonna have a really
big long gray beard, right, that's the number one. You know,
that's a really big long coming from Oh oh, of
course I'll come on. Of course, ponytail. He might have
like a couple. He might go to those guys with
a couple of ponytails, like why do I stop at One?

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I'M gonna have two ponytails. He's gonna have that. We're
gonna get stories of bizarre things he's doing. What have
you done, Aaron Rodger, as well? I have found I've
gone into the to the Himalayan mountains, and I have
found that snake venom from this one snake that has
found in Himalayan mountains. This has transitive healing properties that
can actually make you float. And I and I floated.

(05:51):
I've I've sat down, I've drank the snake venom and
I floated in the air. Here's video of me. I
look like Max and stranger things. Sorry, spoiler alert, I'm
gonna it's just look at me floating up into the air. Oh,
he'll do interviews once in a while, just to back
that up and just till people go, man, look at
Aaron Rodgers. No, you've got other interests, man. I cannot

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wait to see what those are. The Himalayan Pit Viper
or the Glorious Himalanius? That's a real thing. Yeah, has
been found in altitudes up. It's him, yeah, him elanus, yeah,
H im a Y and us. Please tell me you

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mlanis there. You go founding altitudes of up to sixteen
thousand seventy two FT. Ye, there you go. So there's
the snake you're looking for. As for Aaron Rodgers, looked
at the bottom liners. What you go into retirement, be
as weird as you want, do whatever you're gonna do,
just don't harm people, don't defraud people, don't take after

(06:59):
your mentor in Green Bay. Just no, yeah, no, I
don't think it's gonna be something where he's gonna be. No,
he's not gonna go crazy to be destructive. No, no, no, no,
that my tongue in cheek. You know, kind of nod
to it, but you know, he yeah, he's gonna be
a curious character. There's no question about it. What what

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are these big outside? What? What's gonna BE? The big
thing that he it's gonna be. Okay, I don't know
where the wonderful Aaron Rodgers magical mystery tour is going
to take us, but oh man, I can't wait for that.
That's gonna be fantastic. I'll tell you I can't wait.

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He is. It's gonna be grabbed telling the snake venom
from somewhere. Snake Venom from somewhere is gonna have some
kind of properties and it's going to be something that's amazing. Yeah,
that's what that pit viper. Yeah, because I'm already thinking, Mike,
just this is just me. We'll get to Albert pool
holes to the second, but this is just me. I'm thinking.
If I say, because I got a blue checkmark, right,

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what if I said, hey, I have this remedy and
this is gonna stop you from whatever you you'll you'll
lose fifteen pounds overnight. Yeah, like, wait, what is it? Well,
where did you get it? And I would just say
this has been used in South America for years, or
this has been used in the northern parts of Europe
for years. People that live in Greenland, because there are

(08:22):
people lived there. People live in Greenland actually uses Antarctica.
There's IT's. All you gotta do is say is something
that is centuries old and it comes from really far away,
and people will go really, give it to me. How
much money do you need? Just give it to me,
I'll just hand it over, like James LD. They will
fork it over ay without even knowing what they're paying for. Oh,
you have something from a far off land that centuries old. Yes, get,

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let me have it. It's gonna make me better. Forget
about modern medicine. Let me have something that I have
no idea if it's even real, but I'll take that
because that's gonna help me. It sounds about right. I
can do it. There's plenty of that. Man. How many
ads are you served on a on a given day?
I mean the fact that we're speaking this allowed right

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now means one of us is going to get an
ad for a dietary supplement or some type of lifestyle
change that's gonna really revolutionize everything. Oh, I'm sure I'll
get it now, I'm sure. I'm sure it's already and
I'm sure the next time I go to Yahoo dot
com it'll be there. Between that, how you all are
in the gambling touch. They're both coming to me. Yeah, they're,

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they're yeah, they're all. Yeah, like I could sit in
my living room and go, Huh, I wonder when the
new season for Mrs Masiel is coming out, and I
could get up out of my chair and I can
go to my phone and just click on my phone
and and I could go to Yahoo. WOULD BE MRS Maziel.
Everything we know about season five right like when it comes,
like one of the things that, well, we don't know
when the season is gonna Begin, but boy there's a
lot of anticipation for it. I get that happens all

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the time. Yeah, Yah, yeah, who knows what I want
the walls, heaviers man. We'll have more on brady and
Rogers coming up in a few minutes. We've got Jason
Cole stopping by talking to some big NFL stuff. But
you heard Steve De Sager mentioned it moments ago. Albert
Pool hools is one home run away from absolute MLB immortality.

(10:11):
He has homeward already. The cardinals lead the dodgers two
to one. A two run homer uh make it six
hundred and ninety nine home runs from Albert Pool hooles. See,
here's the thing, Ti Shi. People know it only goes
to forty one. Now. They know your but they know
your tricks. They've been listening to the show for a while.
They know. Okay, this is where it goes. Four forty one,

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forty one, forty one, four thirty eight, four forty one
is how it ends. Frances got one forty one, forty one,
forty one, forty one. Fast phone to get to it.
We can uh so pool holes at six. Now he

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has the better part of a week, two weeks, to
hit home run number seven hundred. He has said he's
going to retire after this year. So far the numbers
for Albert Pool Holes this year, with what he's done,
look pretty good. Right. He's in to sixty. It's got
twenty home runs. He's knocked in fifty four runs. He
hasn't played a ton, so it's not like pools has

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played every day. He's gonna wind up playing and about
a dred and ten games, hundred and twelve games, I
would say, over the course this year. And when you're
nineteen and fifty three and you're hitting two sixty, you
can still do it and I am sure the cardinals
would be more than open to having him come back
and at least be a platoon player at designated hitter, right.

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But I know he says I'm done, I'm done, I'm done,
and I and and hitting seven hundred you feel like, Hey,
I'm done. But when you hit seven hundred and you
are this close to Babe Ruth, how do you not
stay to break Babe Ruth's record? Right to get to
to get to Barry Bonds? That's gonna be a little

(12:01):
bit too much. You're talked about getting the seven sixty
and pools isn't. Doesn't have that left. But does he
have one more season where he can hit twelve home runs?
Sure he does. He's got one more for that. You Pass,
Babe Ruth. What if he finished with seven fifteen? How
awesome would that be? Right, because seven fifteen was the
number for so long, because that was that was when
Aaron broke his record. He at seven fifteen. He fished

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with seven five. I don't know how you walk away
when you're that close to Babe Ruth right like, how
did Alex Rodriguez not find a way to get to
seven hundred? How do you know? I'm good at six?
Would have accomplished dude, six not. How do you walk out?
How do you not find a way for for at
least a month to play and then retire? How do
you not find a way to hit seven hundred? How
do you not find to get there? Because I guarantee

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you he thinks about that every single day and he's
about every single day right now, as we're talking about
pool holes, in his March to seven hundred, seems like
there would have been a team to bring him back
right nine home runs in two dty three plate appearances
his final season, two thousand and sixteen in New York.
Tell him you couldn't have gone to Tampa or Pittsburgh

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or some random place and played another couple of months
to get there and look. Maybe he elected not to
h for any myriad reasons, but for Albert poolhols playing
as well as he has in five years. Jason. I
mean we're going back to two thousand sixteen. Was the

(13:23):
last time he hit this well? Hit Two fifty four
for the dodgers and eight five games last year hit
for the angels. So at two thirty six total. Go
back to two thousand sixteen. He at sixty. You look
at all the other secondary stat categories that we look

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at and it's as good or better than he was
virtually his entire time with the angels. That's that's saying something, uh,
and certainly for those last years. But he's got thirty
two extra base hits and three four bats entering tonight.
You can't walk away with that. If he does good
on him. Hey, he hit seven hundred, flips his bat

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in the air and says blank y'all, I'm going home.
I wouldn't blame up for doing that either. I just
don't know. When you're talking about immortality, and you know
Ruth's number was the one that you and I grew
up with so many trading cards of people chasing, and
every time we started talking about would be all time grades,

(14:27):
it was well, this is the standard. And for Albert
pools to be that close and and perhaps walk away
leaving that undone, I just can't believe that. I just
can't be sure to catch live editions of the Jason
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(14:48):
heart radio lap Fox sports radio, the Jason Smith Show
with my best friend Mike Harmon. And my goodness we
have Jason Cole coming up in a second to talk
all all big time NFL with us. But we talked
about this a few moments ago and it just happened.
Make it seven hundred. No, not wins by the mets,

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a different seven hundred. Steve Sager all the details right now,
breaking news from Fox Sports. It's amazing. It just continues.
The Guy who's going to retire in a couple of
weeks at least from his regular season schedule. These cardinals
are good enough for the postseason. Well, yes, he's hit
two a dodger stadium. What did I say before he'd
even hadn't it bat? guys tonight. This is the perfect

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picture to be facing. Andrew Heeny has given up so
many homers in the past month as dodger starter. As
for the game, two long balls for pool holes. The
first gave the St Louis Cardinals A to nothing lead
over l a. Now he's hit home run number seven
hundred of his career, and so, at the age of
forty two, he's the fourth major leaguer to reach that mark,

(15:56):
following bonds, Aaron and Ruth. Pretty incredible. And, by the way,
he's over twenty homers for this season. He's hit fourteen
just since the start of August. Amazing. Albert poole's clearly
headed to the hall of fame is, you know, now
a magical number. Seven hundred career homers. Back to you.
Thanks a bunch, Steve. Appreciated my friend throw well, throwing underhand,

(16:20):
for crying out loud. Good God man, Hey, ready for
batting practice. So He's holding up the moneyball in a
home run dirty for crying out so you've seen injured. Yeah,
but this this is extra special. Hey, this guy's on
the verge of history. Let's let's make sure it's perfectly

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in a spot for him to hit. I get it.
They're playing, quote, meaningless games, but this is pathetic. Wow,
the only guy know who's upset that Albert Pool, fitting
number seven. It's not even your team and you're mad.
Three run homer, five nothing cardinals in the fourth. There
we go. Seven hundred for Albert Pool. Holes on signed.

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He could signed baseballs and photos forever. I gave up
seven hundred. Did you groove it? Damn right I did.
I wanted to be in. I'm never making part of
MLB history, so I just need to be part of it.
So I'M gonna give up the home run. At least
in five years people interview me and say where is

(17:26):
Andrew Heeney now, the guy that gave up seven hundred
two pools, and they'll come to my house and do
a story on me. I think it'll be great. Albert Pool,
seven hundred. We got more on this coming up, but
joining us right now on the hotline. Long time NFL insider.
He is currently a pro football hall of fame voter,
but that could change at any time. Check him out

(17:47):
at out kick. He's on twitter at Jason Cole Sixty two.
That is at Jason Cole Sixty two. And after the
big news a day ago of Jerry Jones looking for
a quarterback controversy, Jason Cole, the author of the new
book Cooper Rush, a relentless life in search of taking
over for Dak Prescott. Jason, welcome to the show again.

(18:08):
I'm working on that book deal right now with Cooper.
We're thinking minimum five thou dollars Um as up front money.
I'm thinking that's fair. What do you what do you
guys think? Oh, I think that's good to get up
at that point. There's no question about it. Yeah, I
don't know what he's even making that much. So I
think you're good. Yeah, I'M gonna get I'm gonna make

(18:28):
more than his minimum salary this year. So that's that's
what I'm planning. Will here. So are we saying that
Andrew Kenney is the AL downing of his time? Is
that what we're saying? Uh, Andrew, because I'm you know, look,
I know Al that denied it, but that was kind

(18:51):
of a room service fastball yeah, and for for, you know,
to break that record. I've always looked at it that way.
Now Andrew Kini is not, is not nearly as good
a player as outdown he ever was. So that you know,
Al had actually a good career. You know, he did
not besmirch the the dodgers the way that Andrew Heiny

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has so far. But Um, could we call him t
ball Heeney at this point? Is that what we're saying? Wow,
not ball. Wait, wait, wait, wait, ball. You need Tebow Heeny,
like Tim Tebow. You need Tebow Hei Tim too. He's
coming back to the jets. He could start for us again.

(19:36):
Doctor Him. Hey, lack of his elite after my favorite
part of that is the fancy being caught on, on, on,
on a hot mike going yeah, that touchdown is great. No,

(19:56):
not so much, Kevin. No, this is Kevin. This is
why you're supposed to get paid, you, this is why
you're paid millions and millions of dollars to know the
strategy better than the guys who play Madden. Right, like
you're supposed to know that. And when you're oh yeah,

(20:17):
great touchdown. Oh, we probably get beat on a couple
of big plays. You know, like he realizes that afterwards. Well, yeah, yeah,
that's what happened. Yeah, why do you look? Coaches are
smart people. Writes to fancy. You can't become a head
coach and not be smart. How do coaches? No, no, no, no, no, no, no,
Dave wants that not a smart man, head coach in

(20:41):
the NFL for ten years, ten years for your Chicago
Bears Harmon so he's he's your outlier. then. Okay, there's
always no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
What are you talking about? Smith, you got rich coach. Okay, yeah,
I can name, I can go through all thirty two

(21:03):
teams and I can find a dummy. All that's a book.
That's a book. There's your next book, Jason Cole, a
relentless life finding dummy. Now the question is, does wants
that get both the bears and the dolphins? That's does he?
Does he get the crown for the dumbest coach of

(21:25):
both of those teams? That's what. No, wait a minute,
because I think that I think this is a thing
here and and I'll only take three percent of the profits.
What if that was your new book and you did
a book on the worst head coach in every franchise,
because people would want to hear story. You know, look,
because forty fans would want to hear stories about rich
co tight. And you know jets want to hear stories.

(21:46):
How about the Jim Tom Sula stories? That's what they want.
But they know that Jim Tom seem like. But New
York fans would want to hear Jim Tom seula stories.
I think that's your new book. There's your book. Yeah,
I mean he's wants. That is five games under for
the bears and then he was eleven games over for
the dolphins. I mean Cam, Cameron was one. No, I'm

(22:08):
not talking about record, I'm just talking about literally being
a stupid person. This is not this is this is
literally like you look at somebody you go did he crack?
Did he crack triple digits in Iq, and you just
sit there again just did he make it or not?
And there's some guys out there I got questions about.

(22:30):
I just remember sitting down with Tom Seela going, Oh
my God, this is not a breat man dark, allegedly. No,
it's not dark. No, this is just straight truth. Okay,
this is alleged. The world according to Cole there. There

(22:50):
are a lot of guys who should have been pe
teachers in high school who became head coaches of the
NFL teams. I'm just telling you that right now. How
did which is still struggle with clock management? I don't understand.
It's very easy. All you have to do is sit
down for ten minutes. So I'm going to disagree. I'm
going to disagree with you on this, okay, and that

(23:12):
is managing a game is a lot more complicated than
just I'm staring at the clock to see what it's like.
Now you should be aware in advance of clock situations
and have it prepared. But here's your fail safe. You
hire somebody to get on the microphone say, okay, give
me down distance, time out situations. What are we doing here?

(23:35):
You hire somebody to do this. No parcels, and I
mean this is not advanced thinking. Okay, this is, uh,
you know, back in the eighties. Okay, it's been like
forty years. Ray Handley, if you go when we look
at tapes of parcels coaching in the eighties for the
giants and you look over his right shoulder on all

(24:00):
those tapes, when you see parcels on the sideline and
those you remember that? That that that that broadband striped
giants thing, red white and blue giants sweater that he
used to wear. That made him look even bigger than
he was. For but you look at parcels on that
and you look over that right shoulder, there's a guy
in a baseball cap and glasses. His name is Ray Handley.

(24:23):
Ray Handley Stanford Grad with a degree in mathematics. He
was the running backs coach of the giants. He was
the time out and clock guy and he was the
predecessor to what became Ernie Adams under belichicked right, you know,
having a math guy over there to no down distance
situations and be prepared for that. You want to have

(24:45):
that guy because again, you're sitting here going, okay, how's
my left tackle plane? Does he look tired as what
do I need to do? Do I need to protect
that guy? You know what kind of Russia we call
him here? What's what does their quarterback look like? I mean,
there are a lot of things that go into managing
the game in critical moments and so you can lose
track of the clock, but you just hire a guy

(25:05):
to keep track of that's his one thing and you're
constantly checking with him. But the situation with Stefanski in
the Cleveland game is the most elementary of elementary. This
is the kind of stuff that you're supposed to go
over with your players during the off season and preseason
and say, okay, score, clock situation, time outs, get the

(25:28):
ball here. If you're you know, they're gonna let you score,
essentially because they want to see if they can get
back in the game. Don't score. This is you know,
you just go over that kind of stuff and it
shouldn't be a decision in the middle of the game.
And that's the stuff that drives me crazy. This is
all the stuff you prepare for. Like there's nothing worse

(25:48):
than I've ever seen that you get to a fourth
and goal situation from the one yard line in the
first quarter and a team called the time out. What
did you spend the off season and all for days
leading up thinking about why you need to have a
time out in the first quarter of a game on
a fourth and goal? That decision should already be made

(26:11):
long ago and far away. Jake Ole, question for you
coming up. Sunday. We got Rogers Brady. With all the injuries,
I feel like we're almost cheated, unless they actually fight
each other. UH, possible. We see it again. Yeah, but
they've got finger issues. I'm one of those guys. So
who's got to be would be careful coming forward. Um God.

(26:32):
What would a brady Rogers fight look like? Would would
rogers come out doing like some meditative thing and then
break into Cobra Kai? I really thought you were immediately
they would, Jason, no, no, No, im it's tell exactly.
First they would come out and they would warm up

(26:52):
with ten minutes of Yoga. That would be the first. Definitely,
there's like there's ten minutes of Yoga and stretching, like
watching that, and then it's Rogers comes out and you
know he's got the man Bun, so he goes a
little bit Segal. But it's then Cobra Kai. But how
is how's Brady doing this? Is He you know? Is

(27:13):
he going M M A um? Does he do gymnastics
and and try and jump over Rogers and land on
him like it's like a video game coming what what happened?
That's why I want now agi dough. If anything could
happen that would harm his health and if it was,

(27:36):
you know, this is what happens? He comes out in
costume because he's the master fighter. Ah, that's what you do.
Pulled it all together. Yes, it all. It all comes
around and and Gills the rest. Okay, it will be
the first time she appears at a game all season.
So there you go. All right, I'm digging that. How

(27:59):
do you see the game on Sunday? Which one Green
Bay and Tampa Bay, not the fight between them. How
do you see the game? I don't know. There's two
teams like these are two teams that are going to
show up and play a game and neither one of

(28:19):
us is going to resemble anything like what they're going
to be in December. That that's the problem with these
because Green Bay is trying to figure out like who
do they trust and the receiving corps and how they
going to run their offense, and Tampa is like, okay,
we're really old and we're just trying to get healthy,
like we're just trying to survive this season. And Yeah,

(28:41):
they'll play hard and there'll be an interesting game and yes,
I would rather go with Tampa at this point in
time because, you know, I I just think they're the
better team right now. But I don't think it's any
it's hard for me to tell what they're going to
be going forward and they're so damaged right now out
that they're both kind of dysfunctional. So I don't I

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don't get. I mean again, I think Tampa wins and
they probably went in this game by ten points Um,
but I'm not. I don't feel really confident about that.
If if you were, if I was, if I was
a betting man, I would not feel confident in making
that wager. He's on twitter at Jason Cole Sixty two,
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(30:37):
League Baseball? Well, if you have apple TV, Albert Pool
Holes just hit home run number seven hundred of his
MLB career. The cardinals are thumping the dodgers. It was
six in the first inning and a couple of innings
later it was seven hundred for pools. There's a lot
of angles on this story, but what I think is

(30:59):
the most interesting one, Mike, is there's going to be outrage,
both fake and real, over Albert Pool's hitting number seven
hundred on Apple TV. I mean it's amazing. Here's what
he did. There's gonna be real outrage and there's going
to be fake outrage and I think it's all all
fake outrage. Get over it. I don't see I don't know.

(31:20):
Refresh your social media channels or anything where, instagram or
twitter or whatever. You can see it right now. Oh,
you could. You could see look, I could see it.
But people want to see it. They want to see
it live. I want to see it when I turn
my TV on. I don't want to have to buy
a a streaming service to be able to see this.

(31:41):
I want to be able to if you put this
on a regular pay service, I had to pay to
watch baseball, that's what I would pay. But I'm paying
to watch get something that I don't normally want because
I only get baseball on one night. Why am I
paying for a service that I only get baseball one night?
What if I want to watch baseball? Not? No, I
got I gotta get everything else that goes along with it. Right,

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I mean look in the real outrage is from people
who are going to say, okay, you're making me pay
premium for a product that has a lot of things
that I don't want on it. Right. That's the real outrage.
The real outrage is because if I want to watch
baseball and I want to watch baseball on Friday night,
I gotta pay for Apple TV. Right, I gotta Buy
Apple TV. Now you can get it for for free,

(32:23):
for a little bit or for the APP, but now
free every every Friday night. But it's the problem. You
don't need to subscribe to anything. You literally need to
download an APP or loaded on your tablet. That's it.
But eventually it's going to it's going to be a
pay thing. So it's it's not right now. I get it,

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but the real outrage is going to be I'm paying
for a product. I'm getting a product where I only
want some a small part of it. So I only
want that. So I get that because that's where it's going.
It's not gonna be free forever. It's just this is
what we're doing this year and I get that part
of it where I want to watch baseball. So I
get this. Tell us how many people have done that
for the NFL? Yeah, but the NFL doesn't offer a

(33:08):
package where, hey, to get all the NFL Games, you
also have to have Netflix or you have to buy this.
You have to buy this. Note. I want the NFL package,
by the NFL package. So the so the real, the
real is going to be. Hey, you're telling me that
for baseball I gotta get all this other bunch of
stuff that I don't really want, because that's the way
it's going, with all the streaming services that are buying sports.

(33:29):
That that that's the way it's going. I understand that
part of it, but the part I I don't is, well,
it's a little bit too much for me to get
to get the streaming service. I don't know where it is.
It's hard. I gotta make a phone call, I gotta
download things on my phone. You know, that's that. That's
just progress. All right, that's just that's just something that's
called progress. Don't you want to really you don't want
to be able to watch a baseball or football game

(33:50):
on your phone? You know, I'm able to do that.
You know, this is just how things are going forward
and because things change so quickly now and with every
passing year, big adjustments that are made in lifestyle or
pop culture, whatever it is. I get it that sometimes
it moves too fast for people and they they I
want the world to slow down a little bit. Yeah,

(34:10):
I get that, but this is technology and trying to
bring you stuff and and this is just the way
of the workplaces. That that I don't get. Well, it's
it's a pain to go get it. Well, all right,
that's that's kind of how it works its life. That's
that's that's just how it is. So I see both
kinds of outrage from it, because you know that that
that the way of the sports right now with Apple TV.
That's the way it's going. It's gonna be. Okay, now

(34:32):
I'M gonna pay. I don't want Amazon prime, but I
got that's where football is on Thursday night. So now
I gotta. I'M gonna have to get Amazon prime at
some point because that's where it's going. This product is
not gonna be given away for, you know, forever for free. Yeah,
I mean it comes back to a UM. Now I'm
just gonna use it as I like to do in
in songs, and I'm gonna go back to uh, one

(34:52):
of my favorites, called the last dj by the late
Grade Tom Petty. Uh. As we celebrate mediocrity, all the
boy is upstairs want to see how much you'll pay
for what you used to get for free. Hello, and
that's it. One one day service after another. You know
what put a list up of all your APPS. I

(35:15):
do it for my parents, I do it for family
members as they need to. You'll get over it. Your
habits will change. UH, and they're banking on it, and
soon enough they'll be linked to your bank account to
withdraw money for it. Twitter and out about a FRESCA,
Mike and Swollen don't we got more on Albert Poolos
more with our big selections for this weekend and NFL

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