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Speaker 1 (00:04):
See the podcast called twenty five whist sucking for and
they went a whistle, Yes, you bed, but what did
you expect?

Speaker 2 (00:13):
It's a podcast called twenty five Whistles twenty wine. I
got a whistle? What that we're on? We're on, mother Juckas.
I didn't get to watch a lot of the basketball
game last night because I was watching OU win natural
championship again. Dang family, man, that is crazy. I watched

(00:35):
a bit on my phone, but I never fully could
commit Kevin. So we'll talk about the NBA playoffs per second.
I did bet a thousand bucks last night on the
Mavericks plus six and a half.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
What the so?

Speaker 2 (00:46):
How do you do that? So I lost a thousand bucks?

Speaker 4 (00:48):
Thousand bucks?

Speaker 2 (00:49):
Uh huh, how do you do that? I thought that
number was a little high, so I was gonna chase it.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
Hey, I thought that betting amountain number was pretty high.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
I think I'm let me got.

Speaker 5 (01:00):
Our draft Kings had nine and a half to before
the game, right, I think I got.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
It at six. I'll look at it all all. The
number I'm for sure of is the one thousand number.
Because I was like, you know what, I feel pretty
good about this, which shows him, I don't know. Crap.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
That's the NBA, dude, it's the NBA. It's the hardest
thing to bet on by far.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
Here's what I put my Beting's easier, okay, Eddie, Yeah,
because she as soon.

Speaker 4 (01:25):
As one team goes on a run, the other team,
you know it's coming.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
Reading. This is the bet from last night, right, So
that bet, that Caitlin Clark bet is old. Okay, the
middle one, all right.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
It's got that big red lost thing lost. That's like,
that's what mine looks like. Dallas Mavericks plus six and
a half pays minus one ten. Yeah, I wagered one
thousand dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
Yeah. I really felt like I got all they could
win the game. And then so I didn't even watch
the first part of it, watching the softball game. And
then I put softball game over for a second, click click,
and I was like, oh god, they're now twenty points. Yeah,
and I kept checking back. At one time they got
within like eleven, I was like, let's go, he has
got to cover that points that plus six and a half.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
And then close, man, yeah they only lost by eighteen.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
Yeah close. So I did see because I didn't watch
it at the beginning that Porzingis played and played well.

Speaker 5 (02:10):
He was the best player on the court. Crazy either team,
the best player on.

Speaker 4 (02:13):
The court all night.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
Twenty first half, twenty in the game.

Speaker 4 (02:17):
I think the first half maybe like twelve thirteen.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
How many minutes did he played total?

Speaker 4 (02:21):
Twenty two minutes.

Speaker 5 (02:22):
Wow, twenty one minutes, twenty points, six rebounds.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
He's good. I mean he could hurt next game, but
that's good. He had my good, solid game.

Speaker 5 (02:29):
He was I mean defensively he was the best player
on the floor too. He was blocking shots, he was
altering shots. He was unbelievable. And I can't help but
think he's been.

Speaker 4 (02:37):
Healthy for like two weeks.

Speaker 5 (02:38):
Yeah, just waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting, because
you don't come back and play twenty one minutes and
do what he did last night if you're haven't been
healthy for at least a week or two.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
It was scrimmaging. Yeah, but again not same intensity. But
good for him. I hate to see anybody that's injured.
It's gonna be interesting see what Dallas does again. Game
one A Game two are in Boston. I didn't expect
to blow out like this, Obviously, I have been a
thousand bucks on and half. I didn't really believe the
Mavericks would win. I thought maybe they'd keep it close,
but I believe they would win. I'd about the money line. Yeah,

(03:08):
so yeah, I lost thousand bucks there, but I did
bet five hundred on Oklahoma to win. Oh there you go,
uh game two of three, which they did. They won
game one and two, and so that's that bet.

Speaker 4 (03:18):
I watched them the other day come back against Florida.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
Yeah, we watched that one.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
Yeah, I think, well, so they went in. All they
had to do was beat at Florida once, and Florida
beat them the first game. Yeah. So then it went
to Olahoma one again.

Speaker 4 (03:29):
And they're up by are there?

Speaker 5 (03:30):
Oklahoma was down by one right and like the six
or something, and they came back and I saw that tie.

Speaker 4 (03:35):
I didn't see the full game. I din't see you
go to extras.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
So they went to the best of three against Texas
and Texas was the one seed. So Oklahoma beat them
first game and beat them second game. Patty or coach Gaso,
as America will call her, is. She's won four national
championships in a row, never been done before. She has
eight total national championships. Now she's now tied all time
with some old guy from forever ago. It's amazing, Like

(03:59):
it was playing on like diferent rules were like four teams.
Oh yeah, yeah, that kind of stuff.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
I mean you go back to that Florida game though,
and they were down, Yeah, they were down by two
runs when we started watching, which is I think the
fifth inning, and like just to come I mean right there,
you're like, oh man, this is tough, like two innings left,
you're down by two. They came back and they won
that game. And that's just that's just crazy because at
that moment you're like, oh my gosh, they're not going

(04:23):
to win it in Florida's gonna be Florida in Texas.
But now they did it.

Speaker 5 (04:26):
Imagine being those players to so much pressure, like who's
gonna break four in a row? So now next year,
like those players, that's a lot of presser. Even this year,
just three in a row and we got to keep
this going. Now we break this chain. You don't want
to break that chain. You don't want to be on
that team.

Speaker 2 (04:40):
And those freshmen they won every championship every year.

Speaker 4 (04:42):
That's crazy.

Speaker 2 (04:43):
Freshman sophomore, junior senior every year. I just texted Patty,
I don't want to text her last night because I've
been when they won the national championship and that night
goes on forever really because they win restaurant they get
their orange slices.

Speaker 6 (04:57):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
Then there's a press conference which we went to right
after the game, and then she does that, and then
there's a big party and she doesn't go to the
first part of it. So that's the kid. You know
that they have fun that she shows up. It does
a thing, but all all the families there. We almost
went this year. Kaitlin was at feeling good, so we
kind of pulled back last minute.

Speaker 5 (05:14):
I'm surprised you didn't, that's why.

Speaker 2 (05:16):
What's what's the party? Like? What do you got? You
got cake, you got food? You got Kaylen's drink on
TV A bunch last night. Yeah, yeah, that sits with
the family. I mean dj' is too much access hat.
DJ was on And by the way, DJ Gasso is
my brother in law, Patty's son. DJ coaches at Arkansas now.
But DJ can't wear Oklahoma stuff. He's a coach at Arkansas, right,

(05:38):
he can't do that, so he's wear of a too
much access hat. It was all over freaking ESPN.

Speaker 6 (05:41):
It was awesome.

Speaker 4 (05:41):
Yeah, that's really cool.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
Yeah, there's a lot of food DJ DJ at the party.

Speaker 4 (05:46):
Yeah, that's all campaign or no, no, because the college.

Speaker 2 (05:49):
Well, I mean there's there's alcohol. I think there was
alcohol there, but I don't know that was free for everybody.
Couldn't just go grab it.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
And that's tough for you. You don't drink, so you're
not looking to see alcohol. That's the first thing for
when I go to a party.

Speaker 4 (06:01):
Yeah, me too.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
Are we serving here?

Speaker 2 (06:02):
We're not?

Speaker 4 (06:02):
What what's the vibes here?

Speaker 2 (06:04):
You know?

Speaker 4 (06:05):
Is there an open bar?

Speaker 2 (06:06):
Yeah? So I imagine she didn't get in until one thirty
or something or two, so I didn't text her at all,
So I just ad pile me on, wait until today,
congratulate the goats of the goats. So cool. Four in
a freaking row.

Speaker 5 (06:17):
So she the best of all time? Yes, coach in softball?

Speaker 2 (06:20):
Well so just analytics data. We'll say data more than
analytics because it's not currently going no coaches everyone for
in a row. So she's the only Division one coach
to ever won four championships in a row, maybe the
only coach ever And then She's tied all time, like
I said, with eight national championships with some old dude

(06:42):
who won eight championships back again when they were like,
I don't know a team in this southeast of America,
Like I think I think Columbus had a team. The
Pilgrims had a team. That's pretty much it. Washington had
the Cherry Trees that they played.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
Yes, when are we going to do it too much
access with her?

Speaker 2 (07:00):
We almost did this year and we're gonna go do
them and Oklahoma State and something something personal happened where
she couldn't be there that day, so we didn't go,
and then she got irritated. I Oklahoma State well to cancel.

Speaker 1 (07:16):
Yeah, but I'm just curious, like maybe you know the
answer to this, but wow, what where does that success
come from? Like I know it's probably a mixture of things,
but recruiting's got to be a huge part.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
Of that, right, Yeah, but you don't get the recruits
until you win. Yeah, you don't win until you get
the recruits. So it's like college football, you're turning around
a program. You kind of need a coach to come
in and change the culture and have a little more
winning than the last coach with the same players, especially
pre in IL. Now, if you in IL, if you
come in, you pay a bunch of money to a coach,
you give them a bunch of money. You can shift
a team that way. But that wasn't the case with her,

(07:48):
or wasn't the case with other programs. It doesn't matter
the sport. But if you look at like, let's say
an urban Meyer goes in or the best scenario is
whenever Nick Sable went to Alabama, they went six and six.
First year, they lost like Louisiana Monroe. Yeah, but he
did a bit like a game better than the last coach,
and so he got a little better with the same players,
and then was also a really good recruiter. So he

(08:09):
started pulling in slightly better players and better coaching, and
the recruits continue to ascend. And that's how you change
a program.

Speaker 1 (08:18):
But if you give me or you the best players
in the nation, I don't think we could win, right, Like,
there's got to be something more than your recruit you
think you could.

Speaker 2 (08:28):
Yeah, because I hire great assistance. I'd be a CEO
had a if you're just by yourself, though, but that
doesn't happen anywhere.

Speaker 4 (08:34):
But you had to go out and play the best
of three games. You can't.

Speaker 5 (08:38):
No practicing, no nothing. You just go out there with
the best players like Eddy.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
You have to choose, you Lie, I could manage it. Yeah, sure,
I'm just managing at that point. Yeah. With the skip about,
I can win them.

Speaker 5 (08:48):
Also, when I watched the game the other day, I'm
glad I remember this right now. These pitchers are like
one hundred and fifty pitches.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
Yeah, because the arm motion it's different. It's a very
nat The girl last night that ended up coming to
close had pitched the last two games, the last game
against Florida. You're talking about three consecutive days. So two
days ago, full game against Florida, yesterday, full game against Texas,
and they brought her in to close the game yesterday.
It's because the arm. Your arm does get tired. But
there's there are emotions, not uh baseball, where that is

(09:17):
not how your arm is supposed to throw. Yeah, your
natural arm motion is this.

Speaker 1 (09:21):
We're eating dinner, right and I say, hey, pass me
a roll, throw me a roll. Do you throw it overhand?

Speaker 2 (09:26):
Yeah? No, you do underhand. You can throw rolls all
day and never be tired. They do get tired boys. Yeah,
they do get tired. Was that lunchbox? And Ray pomp
into our.

Speaker 1 (09:36):
Speakers checked our podcast?

Speaker 2 (09:40):
So why are you doing you underhand?

Speaker 7 (09:44):
The role?

Speaker 4 (09:44):
Well, it depends where we're sitting to Oh, how you
throw a roll?

Speaker 2 (09:47):
Yeah you don't throw it like a baseball.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
No, no, you never do. I mean that'd be too hard. Anyway,
it was to his point. Yes, it's more natural to
throw underhands.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
They won again.

Speaker 1 (09:58):
Yeah, that's amazing, man, that's really cool.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
I'm trying to make now I'm down like five hundred.

Speaker 1 (10:02):
So you didn't I thought you had split screens and
multiple TVs like you didn't have.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
I was watching my wife. I do that when I'm
watching video like playing video games, have a three screener.
Have you been upstairs in my house? Yeah? Okay, so
the three screeners have a middle screen video game, two
screens on the side, And I will do that in
my gamble room. Yeah, I'm playing mad all I got
stuff on. I'm watching or gambling on. But if we're
down in my life, we put on the living room.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
TV and not even during commercials, you go back and
check the game.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
Out on my phone. So had the basketball game on
my phone but then I stopped watching. It was out
of control, and I was like, I just lost a
thousand bucks. My nine year old had a basketball game,
so I missed most.

Speaker 1 (10:40):
Of the game last night.

Speaker 2 (10:40):
I bet a thousand bucks on it. You would have covered.
They won by eleven. They did.

Speaker 4 (10:45):
What did you get home?

Speaker 1 (10:46):
I got home at nine, about nine ten, nine to fifty.

Speaker 5 (10:50):
The game actually went a little faster just because it
was a blowout, so there weren't as many like timeouts
and everything like that. But so, what'd you see the
fourth quarter?

Speaker 2 (10:56):
I saw. I saw the fourth quarter.

Speaker 1 (10:58):
I saw about five minutes of Luca and Kyrie still
in and they pulled them. But I mean the Celts
played till the very end. I know I'll do my
team one. I was very happy, and I told you
you picked the right team. Yeah, I sure did well.

Speaker 2 (11:11):
Picked both. Be fair tonight. I have to make my
money back. But also bet them all. Oh I'm not chasing.
I bet them all at once, so I made one
thousand dollars bet. Then I made three five hundred dollars
bets at the same time, so hopefully I can make
my money back. I have the fever plus one. The
Indiana Fever are playing the Mystics site where are the

(11:33):
Mystics from Washington? In Washington? So I have that, and
then I have Caitlin Clark over seventeen and a half
points five hundred bucks on each of those. If you
want to, I got you see them.

Speaker 1 (11:44):
That's uh, yeah, that's about it, right, because one of
the when is the NBA play again Sunday? Sunday? God,
there's a long wait.

Speaker 2 (11:50):
Yeah, looks we gotta go. At least it's going. There's
something to talk about it. We had a game on things.
What's annoying about what's happening with the WNBA is, first
of all, we're ahead of the game. We've been talking
about this weeks. Yeah, we were on Caitlyn Clark before
became cool to be on Caitlin Clark. A big fan.
I'm a big fan. What's annoying now is this turned
into not just sports, to turned into a culture war,
and that makes sports not as fun because you can't

(12:11):
just root for a team, or you can't just root
for good good guy, bad guy. Now, everybody's got an opinion,
but it's based on some political belief or woke or
anti woke, or race or and it's like, well, this
is not near as fun as it used to be.
I just like coming on going, Well, everybody's hating on
Kaitlyn Clark because she's rich and they claimed she was

(12:34):
going to be the greatest, so they want to show
her and there's obvious hate and jealousy and let's go
Kaitlyn Clark.

Speaker 1 (12:38):
Yeah, or someone sucks because they you know, missed all
their shots, like something simple like that. But yeah, not
culture stuff, exactly society it has.

Speaker 2 (12:48):
It has made me, uh, not like watching it as much.
Not the games. I'm still watching every w me again.
But to talk, Oh yeah, I don't like it because
now like normal shows are talking about it really and
they know nothing about basket ball in general. I'm talking
about like The View or insert whatever political show. It's like,
give me a freaking break. I just want to talk

(13:09):
about shooting threes. I just want to talking about So
Angel Reese is an idiot. She's an idiot. Whenever she
was talking about people watch me too. People come it's
not just her, it's me, And again you can roll
the clip you after that she starts to talk about
the league, but she's obviously very jealous. Yeah, but she's

(13:31):
an idiot. But I like that. I like that. I
think she's an idiot because we need rivalries. We'll think
Kaitlyn Clark's an idiot. I like it. That's what we need.
The greatest thing, no one would have known who Angel
Reese was unless they were a diehard fan of LSU
or women's college basketball or the WNBA, like the very
select few that watch that. You know, because listen, the

(13:52):
ratings are big. When Kaitlyn Clark plays highest college women's
basketball game ever, the arenas are filling up. J already
saying that made her relevant. Two people that aren't just
fans of Chicago, the w NBA or college basketball or
l ISSUE people know who she is. But that's amazing.
That's what she should have done.

Speaker 1 (14:12):
Do you think she did that on purpose?

Speaker 2 (14:14):
No, because she backed off of it a little bit after,
or she said, you know, and it's us and all.
She just should have embraced it and been that hero
slash villain idiot. We need a villain in sports, and
that villain isn't the villain to everybody. The villain's the
hero to some people. But yeah, no one would know
who Angel Reice was. That wasn't already a diehard fan

(14:34):
of women's basketball if it wasn't for Caitlin Clark, Like
Lex Luthor, wasn't even think til Superman came about. Yeah right,
the villain and Angelice is good. It's funny to watch
because she's, you know, leading in like rookie, rebounds shots
she misses, and she rebounds her own ball. It's crazy.
She has a lot of hilarious really yeah, and she's

(14:54):
she's for sure a good player. She's for sure a
really good player. But I someone go, it's not only
Kaitlin Clark. It fills up a WNBA arenas there. It
was two teams playing. I f forgured it wasn't. They
did a pan. It was like half fool. It was
a big arena. It was a bigger arena, but half full.
And the Tendants was on there, and it was like
ten thousand and a twenty thousand seater and they posted

(15:15):
all at Kaitlin Clark's fourteen thousand, fifteen thousand, and sixteen thousand,
like full arenas, you can't even put more people in there.
To me, even if you don't think Kaitlyn Clark's good,
I don't care about that but the whole reason the
WNBA is getting any shine right now outside of what
it would already be getting by WNBA fans is Caitlin
Clark or people that are anti Kitlin Clark, and that
makes it all about Kaitlin Clark. And I kind of

(15:37):
feel bad for Kayln Clark. She's not really involved in
any of it. She literally just plays basketball and it
goes all around her. She doesn't really do the many interviews.

Speaker 1 (15:46):
I hope that she understands that this is part of
the game and that's just kind of how it works.

Speaker 2 (15:50):
Like but it's never happened with anybody else ever in
the history of women's basketball, I know, but for her,
and I feel like when people have that spotlight on
them where it's just negative and the whole league doesn't
like you and you.

Speaker 1 (16:01):
Get body checked for no reason stuff like that, I
think for a normal person it would just get to
your head and you wouldn't be able to perform. But
hopefully that she understands, like, you know what, Hey, at
the end of the day, this is gonna look really
good on me. I'm not doing anything. She's keeping my
mouth shut. I'm playing ball and I'm doing what I'm
here to do. That's it, and like hopefully she ends

(16:21):
up being the top, like the best and just kind
of overcome this. And because right now it could get
to her head and she can play like complete crap.

Speaker 2 (16:32):
It's not I think what she probably she has good
people around her. I'm sure telling her is what's happening
on the floor and on social media is not actually
what's happening in real life. Because most of America, they
are curious about you, they like you, but you're not
experiencing that at arm's length. But if you look past

(16:53):
arms length, it's so much greater, bigger and brighter because
everybody's kind of rooting for you. Yeah, and you know,
and it is kind of a race. And I'll tell
you why. At least at first, white people aren't as
good at basketball. We just generally say that, yes, okay.

Speaker 1 (17:07):
So let me made a movie on this. White man can't jump.

Speaker 2 (17:10):
Yes, right, so whenever there's somebody and it doesn't have
to be basketball. But I use that white people can't
really wrap that well.

Speaker 1 (17:17):
Yeah historically, yeah, so.

Speaker 2 (17:20):
Old people don't really go to the Olympics fast, short
people don't really aren't really good at basketball. Yeah, yeah,
anytime there's somebody that usually isn't something that ends up
being everybody goes what we need to pay attention to that,
and if it's like Kaitlyn Clark, you're like, and it's

(17:45):
not just white or black people that are like rooting
for her, because you would see a lot of black
athletes to words for Kaitlin Clark, to being like she's awesome.
But it was just weird that it was a white
person because whiteop aren't a good White people are not
as good as basketball just generally speaking that they look
at the NBA. Yeah, short people aren't good to basketball.
Old people don't get in the Olympics. When there's a
forty two year old olympian, you don't think that's every
that's the story for a minute, or.

Speaker 1 (18:06):
Even like when you know the big centers were shooting threes,
like that was just like whoa.

Speaker 2 (18:10):
That's abnormal. Ends up being a highlight of a story,
and that's where the initial comes from. Now you can
take all that and it's not it wasn't in the
end just to a race thing because she didn't be
the all time scoring leader. But I think it was
pretty crazy that one she s the other weird thing
was she shot threes from so far away that wouldn't
even matter what color she was. If if she shot

(18:32):
like that, she was the logo shooting, it wouldn't wouldn't
have mattered. But Eminem great rapper. You didn't know how
great he was though it took him a while, but
at first, like, what's this white rapper doing?

Speaker 1 (18:42):
It's so rare.

Speaker 2 (18:43):
The usually aren't good if they're white.

Speaker 5 (18:45):
And he even says that, right, he says in some
of the song, He's like, if I wasn't white, I
wouldn't sell as many records.

Speaker 2 (18:50):
What was cool about Tiger Woods is he wasn't like
a stupid, old, crotchety white man. Gosh, that's so true,
and you know, and Tiger Woods was awesome, But what
was the appeal was He's not like all these the
loser white people. Yeah, so that there's definitely an element
of that, but it's not in the element of like
negative we're against a certain race or pro a certain race.
It's sometimes what's cool about Tiger was he wasn't white.

(19:11):
I think we all can agree with that. And another
freaking dumb white person playing golf, some rich white kid
and playing golf. We've seen one hundred thousand of those
who cares. Oh she got Tiger Woods.

Speaker 1 (19:22):
That was awesome, This young black kid, yeah and half Asian. Yeah,
named Tiger, name Tiger.

Speaker 2 (19:29):
You know, look at that. Okay, look at spud Web,
Look at Mark zy Bog.

Speaker 1 (19:34):
People still talk about spead Web because he was a
short dude, donky.

Speaker 2 (19:38):
It was just that it's different from what the norm is.
That's why she became known early. She's really good. They're
all these people are really good, but it takes a
while to be freaking great. But she was really good.
She was doing something wild. She was different than other
really good basketball players, and then she proved herself. But
that gets inserted in the conversation now, but in a

(19:59):
negative way. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (20:01):
Yeah, it's people just spin in it the way that
they want it to be spun with their own headline
or their own media grab, whatever it is.

Speaker 2 (20:06):
And when people will be like, well, she's only famous
because she's pretty straight and white, I'm like, no, no, no, no,
she shoots it from freaking half court and she's the
all time points leader in all schools. Like that's why
did people pay attention at first? Probably because she was white. Yeah,
probably a little bit because it's, well, I can't believe
that white girl can do that, Yeah, because most white
girls can't do that. And then it was even if
she wasn't white, but she was just crushed. Like look

(20:28):
at Sabrina who plays in Seattle. She's popping threes like crazy. Anyway,
all that that is a part. Race is a part
of everything, but it doesn't always have to be a
bad part of everything.

Speaker 1 (20:40):
Oh, I don't see color.

Speaker 2 (20:44):
That's not true, but race doesn't have to be a
bad part. Like again, Tiger Woods not white, but that's
what was cool about him because everybody else is white.
So I don't like the conversation that's happening now whe
everybody has to have an opinion, even if they know
nothing about sports or they don't care about sports, they
just want to have an opinion on a culture that
sucks and it ruins it. And I did war my

(21:05):
Caitlin Clark jersey the other day and I wore it
to the card store to turn in my cards for
the grading, uh huh, and the card store and I
felt kind of like I wore a jersey to our
card store. Yeah, dude, I mean that's perfect. It was perfect.
I know it's big nerdid, big nerd, big nerd. That's fine.
And everyone there was like, oh, Caitlin Clark Jersey is
so cool. And they were like, where'd you get it?

(21:26):
Because we can't because nobody can get them. They're so
hard to get. And I didn't have any sort of hookup.
I just was on hold for like three weeks on
getting it. Anyway, I'm in. I like Angel Reese because
she is she's the storyline. Also, when the Fever were
getting off the not the Fever, when Chicago was getting
off the bus and they were like, we were harassed

(21:48):
by people. It was it was one person asking the
girl who had hip checked Caitlyn Clark if she had
talked to her. You can see the video they posted. No, no,
it was nothing. One person was nothing. Unbelievable. Was it
a member of the press or just a person. It
was a dude. I don't know. They had their phone

(22:09):
that was recording it, but they weren't even like inner interface.
The security guard comes aroun, he goes doo doo doo.
But then they all start posting we get harassed, and
I literally felt bad for them. I was like, fans
are such freaking idiots. Like, this is sports. This is
not real life. There's no need to get on anybody's
bus when they're going to their hotel and like be
like you freaking suck, say that it's a game that
like that arena is built for that, but don't go

(22:30):
up to their table or restaurant and do that. Like
there's real life and then there's the theater of sports. Sure,
but then when I saw it, it was nothing. Really, it
was so nothing that I kind of got annoyed. But
that's what I like, Like, it's given me. Nobody cared
about the WNBA. Nobody not fair. They have their hardcore fans,
both of them, and they both their fans were gonna

(22:52):
go to their games, but nobody really cared about the
general population of sports fans didn't care about the WNBA
at all until Kateln Clark came about. And now what
we talk about is Kaitlin Clark, anti Kaitlin Clark, or
talk about other girls except Kaitlin Clark. And even that's
because of Kaitlin Clark, yep. But I honestly know four,

(23:12):
five or six other w NBA players now they're awesome
because of Kaitlin Clark. And I like that it's worked
a little bit where it's expanded me into knowing who
some of these other freaking awesome players are. But it's
because of Kaitlin Clark.

Speaker 8 (23:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (23:24):
An, wait, that's my that's my situation.

Speaker 1 (23:26):
There, Kevin. Did you see a fan take Jason Tatum's
of towel off his shoulder after the game?

Speaker 2 (23:31):
No?

Speaker 4 (23:32):
Last night?

Speaker 2 (23:32):
Yeah, just walking by?

Speaker 1 (23:33):
Oh yeah, he stopped in the security guard and went
and got it back.

Speaker 2 (23:36):
They got it back.

Speaker 1 (23:38):
But speaking of fans is being dumb, like what are
you thinking you can just.

Speaker 2 (23:41):
Grab something off of someone's shoulder? Fans are ridiculous. They
don't feel like athletes they're playing the game are real people,
right right? It's like us though, talking about not us,
but general talking about celebrities and oh can you believe this?

Speaker 1 (23:54):
Yah?

Speaker 2 (23:55):
You don't feel like they're real people because they're not
to you, because you only see them on your phone
or on your computer or on your television, and that's
not real.

Speaker 1 (24:03):
Life, yep.

Speaker 2 (24:04):
And but they are. They are real people.

Speaker 1 (24:07):
And props to those athletes, actors, celebrities whatever that can
just power through and be like, you know what, I'm
gonna just stay true to myself I'm gonna let that
bother me because that is a different world.

Speaker 2 (24:16):
Yeah, if it were me and somebody like grab me
or did something to be Detroit and Indiana all over again.

Speaker 4 (24:20):
Up the stands.

Speaker 1 (24:21):
Is that Malice in the palace.

Speaker 2 (24:22):
Alice in a freaking palace.

Speaker 5 (24:24):
Baby, basketball would be tough because they're right on top,
they yell.

Speaker 2 (24:28):
They yeah, that's why I look at you fans.

Speaker 5 (24:31):
Did you see at the beginning of the game. Neither
you guys probably saw. It was still close, and he
went in for a drive and got fouled, and then
he kind of like got into the stands a little bit,
you know, and and the fans were just sitting there
yelling at him, nothing bad, like just fan fun, you know.
And he's just sitting there laughing. He could just tell
He's like, I love this, and then.

Speaker 1 (24:49):
Sorry, dude, that's terrible.

Speaker 2 (24:51):
Okay, let's go over under the tittle tattle. Get it.

Speaker 7 (24:54):
It's got a break first here.

Speaker 2 (24:56):
No, okay, we shall go to break and then we'll
come back into the tittle tattle. Thank you, all right,
we're back, Kevin. You ready for the tit.

Speaker 6 (25:07):
Now?

Speaker 2 (25:07):
I am old tattle. Let's go.

Speaker 3 (25:12):
Name the tittle Tattle.

Speaker 5 (25:18):
The Phillies a Mets set the face off at Wembley
Stadium in London this weekend. If you can watch a
baseball game at any non baseball stadiums, where would it be.

Speaker 2 (25:26):
That's cool, that's a fun thing. I don't care about
the Phillies or the Mets, but like taking it to London,
that's cool for them. That's that's an energetic environment because
it's new. It's like we did our podcast in Saint Louis. Like,
I just felt that was cool.

Speaker 4 (25:38):
That was fun.

Speaker 2 (25:38):
Yeah, that's fine. I like it when they do the
games in other countries for football a little bit because
they're just earlier.

Speaker 1 (25:44):
Like I like that too.

Speaker 2 (25:45):
Could you wake up? You get to watch that like
nine o'clock game? Yeah, your fantasy starts.

Speaker 5 (25:48):
I like that. Yeah, your days either or has made
better already.

Speaker 2 (25:53):
I think like a football game in the colseum will
be fine. I went to Colsseum for the first time,
the Roman Colsseum in Rome.

Speaker 1 (26:00):
I don't evely have anything there, dude, they right, isn't
the ground like all messed up because the chambers down there?

Speaker 2 (26:06):
So yes and no. I thought the same thing, and
I was like, why what's happening here. So what they
did is they removed the floor so you could see
what the chambers were underneath.

Speaker 1 (26:13):
Oh, I thought it was just time that weathered all that.

Speaker 2 (26:16):
Ok okay, times weathered everything there, and it's crazy. And
I hired a guide so I could ask questions. My
wife's wanted to go look at it, like a real
guide or a dude off the street. No, real guy, Okay,
up front, you Italian, you come with us. And I
learned a lot about that and probably stayed a little
longer than I think my wife would have enjoyed. But oh,

(26:36):
that's cool stuff though, dude, now, yes, it's awesome you
did that. But so that's what they did for people
to see, because you can't walk out there. They took
the floor in the ground and removed it so you
could see all the chambers below, like where the animals were,
where the people would be pretty cool. And so I
would pick football and that that's fine, that's my answer.
But what was cool about the Colisseum too was learning
about the gladiators. They would fight and there were a

(26:59):
couple of ways you could become a gladiator. And the
movie Gladiator is actually a pretty accurate portrayal of a
singular version of that, right.

Speaker 1 (27:07):
Prisoners and slaves, Yes, because I think that was the movie,
or so, Yes, you could be a they'd usually as
a prisoner, so if you got in trouble, it's kind
of jail, but you could work your way out a
slave obviously, or if you just had a terrible life,
like you could go in spend your time, if you
want enough matches, you would you kind of be lifted

(27:30):
up a class, so like instead of killing yourself, like
say you're just done, you're just like, man.

Speaker 2 (27:35):
I don't know if it's sad, but let's say you're
born into lower lower class, super poor, and you're like,
this sucks. I'm gonna go and fight four or five
six fights. I forget what they said, and you go
and you train. That a training facility basically where they
all trained. They all trained together, they had to fight
each other, they trained together, and then if you were
able to survive, and when you're fights, you're out and

(27:56):
you're kind of famous afterward and you're lifted up a bit.

Speaker 1 (28:00):
It's amazing.

Speaker 2 (28:01):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (28:01):
Yeah, I like to think that there was a gladiator
like training camp where they're just all there with their
swords and their shields, like getting better, and.

Speaker 2 (28:08):
Then some people just admitted themselves and like I'm here,
I'm gonna try. It's amazing there was and now I'll
mess up some of the facts and in Gladiator because
I haven't seen that in so long. But when I
was learning about it, there was a king and he
wanted to be a fighter, a killer, and so he
would go and fight either animals or people himself, but
he would make sure that they were like stabbed before

(28:29):
they went out wounded.

Speaker 1 (28:30):
Yeah, so they weren't full strength. So he looked what
a punk day.

Speaker 4 (28:36):
Oh that makes me mad.

Speaker 2 (28:38):
It's okay, it is a long time ago.

Speaker 4 (28:40):
I know, but it's still makes me mad.

Speaker 5 (28:41):
Like imagine being that person you get stabbed.

Speaker 2 (28:43):
Just he's retroactively pissed right now.

Speaker 1 (28:46):
I wonder that if that information is kind of like
when you find out that like somebody's been cheating in
the NBA.

Speaker 4 (28:51):
Like cork Batten baseball.

Speaker 2 (28:53):
Right, all right, next question?

Speaker 5 (28:56):
All right, A lot of people talking about Kyrie with
his comeback story in his career. What is your best
comebackstory in your career?

Speaker 1 (29:02):
I think maybe this what the twenty five whistles and
hell would come backstory, Well, we'd we had a sponsor.
We didn't have a sponsor. We came back with a sponsor.

Speaker 2 (29:16):
Funny, I would say, this is what I would say.
Really would probably be I thought I was gonna oh, man,
I have a couple like Big Ones where we did
a segment it got Lunchbox put in jail. We were
suspended for weeks. Thought we were getting fired. It's way
early in my career. After that, we were number one.
I don't know if it's a redemption because we weren't that

(29:37):
big before then because we were new. But yeah, everybody
was like they're over, they're done. We had some some
real heat on. It's like we were starting to make
some noise. We were twenty four to twenty five, so
that was good. There was another part where I was
find a million bucks by the FCC for a bit
that we did. But I never really feared I was
going to get fired. I wondered it, but I never

(29:57):
got suspended. You were puckered though a bit just because
the money was so high. But why say this is
because years and years ago, Andy Roddick and I did
a sports show on Fox Sports on the weekends. We
were just like, let's just do the show, and they
were like cool, and it was pretty good. Andy has
big personality. We don't mind fighting with each other. We

(30:20):
have respect for each other that we can tell each
other that they're idiot. And then we were friends so that
we always had that base so we could really go
at it. And he then was still playing tennis and
finishing his career, so we had to leave the show.
So I did it for another year by myself. Basically,
they had approached me to take the job after Jim
Rome left because I was still in Austin but I

(30:41):
was doing Fox Sports. They were like, hey, would you
want to consider doing a syndicated afternoon sports show. But
I was going to have to leave what I was
doing in the morning, and I built my own syndication
company and basically go and be that Jim Rome position,
which I had fun doing, but that really wasn't what
I was wanting to do do or go to Nashville.

(31:05):
So I moved to Nashville and got completely out of
doing sports. I did for We did it for a
little bit, but not really and it was me and
Lunchbox Ray and Ray and so we did the but
I was touring and I'd have to, like in Tallahassee,
go find a studio. So I stopped doing sports, and
I was not going to do sports anymore. I was
good and DraftKings came or like, hey, we want you

(31:28):
to do a sports show five days a week, and
I was like, I can't. I can't can possibly do that.
And we figured out a way to do this when
it was one time a week, and then now we've
kind of grown it into something cool. So redemption. I mean,
I didn't like get fired, but I did. I couldn't
really do it anymore. I never thought I would really
do sports again. But I think what we've kind of
rebuilt this into and you know, I'm going to fill

(31:50):
in for Rich Eisen, Like they think I have the
skills enough to go take over a national television and
radio sports show. Like that's cool for me, just even
that people would allow me to do that, because that
means they think I'm at least good enough to like
hold it up as he's gone. And then I got
to the NFL Draft. That's some other cool stuff coming up.
I think this is this is fun for us, that
we built something cool. I think this is kind of
a hey, we're back. Yeah that is cool redemption, But yeah,

(32:14):
we back, so that would be mine. But I didn't
step on anybody's leprechaun.

Speaker 4 (32:18):
Okay, exactly eleven cents, Yeah, just saying, all right, next one,
all right, if.

Speaker 5 (32:24):
The Lakers hired Dan Hurley, where would you put them
in the West.

Speaker 2 (32:28):
It's weird Dan Hurley's style with professional players. It's also
why college coaches for the most part, don't work out.
And I'm not saying he won't work out. And if
they offer a one hundred million dollars deal, let's go,
I go too. And he may he's want, you know,
multiple national championships, and he may be bored and maybe
that was his dream. So but I don't know that

(32:49):
relationship because he is a big personality and it's his
culture in college, he's for sure the only one that's
going to be here next year ever here, Yeah, if
he wants to be, he's the only one that it's
for sure going to be there. And he gets to
yell and he makes more money than the players, and
it's just a different vibe in the NBA. But because
I don't know, I do listen to people that I

(33:10):
trust that do know, and they regard him as a
like not just a big motivator because that's its own
style of coach, but like like a real developer of talent,
like basketball players. And they think, you know that, that's
why he would go to LA If he does, I
haven't seen if it's now announced or if they've closed
the deal. I thought it was reddick until I read

(33:30):
about early. I know I came out of nowhere, out
of nowhere, So I'm just going to trust the people
that I trust and know more than me. And they
think he'll be a great addition. But it's weird to
see a college coach go to the NBA or NFL
and succeed because it really doesn't happen a whole lot anymore.

Speaker 5 (33:44):
Yeah, because you see those clips of him in practice,
you're like, Lebron like that.

Speaker 2 (33:47):
Yeah, screamy Johnson man for sure. Right, And that's why
I'm like, how hard is.

Speaker 1 (33:51):
It to be a head coach with Lakers? This is
like a Jerry Jones situation over there, like where the
Lakers are still like the Showtime Lakers. Now Lebron's like
he's in charge or there.

Speaker 2 (34:02):
That's one thing with Lebron's obviously the biggest personality. It's
a good question too, the biggest personality, the biggest force
in the NBA, HM period, because that's not just basketball,
that's a company. And he's got to sign off on you. Yeah,
and when he's tired of you, you you go. So
I don't know. In some of these places, these smaller
market teams are teams that have had no success. I

(34:23):
can see where like even a Jason Kidd who goes
in and in doubt, like, that's freaking Jason Kidd. You
have to he's done it. He's done it at a
high level. That's your coach. You got to respect that
he's done in the NBA better than you have. Yeah. Yeah,
And so because he's all time great.

Speaker 1 (34:39):
My kids didn't know that. I had to explain that
to him who he was.

Speaker 2 (34:42):
Yeah, and like.

Speaker 1 (34:43):
We'll watch clips.

Speaker 2 (34:44):
So if you Lebron and a coach comes in that
never played like we played it like, it doesn't have
to be early. But if a coach played like D
two ball at Centennial and all of a sudden he's
telling you, you're like, bro, you ain't even done this before.
I don't know the answer to that. We're dynamic, Like
what he was an assistant.

Speaker 1 (34:59):
Before, Like I see him and where is he at?
And where's he at now? I know he's coach for
the Lakers, but Vulgel I see him just like, I
don't know this guy's credentials. Even the Miami coach he.

Speaker 2 (35:09):
In Toronto was Vogel in Toronto and they won the
championship as an assistant. I don't know, keep going.

Speaker 1 (35:14):
It's just that vibe of like he doesn't talk, he
doesn't yell, he doesn't talk. He actually looks like he
didn't say anything during the games, and he's very quiet.
So I'm thinking, like I don't remember him playing in college.
I don't remember him playing in the NBA, so I
don't know what credentials are. So I feel like people
can get away with that, Like even the Miami, the
Miami he coach what's his name, Spolster, Yeah, Spolster, Like

(35:34):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (35:35):
His but he wouldn't have got away with it had
he not, had they not super believed in him because
of how smart he was. Yeah, he's a tape rat that.

Speaker 5 (35:41):
He was surprising, Whereas like at the beginning of his career, like, oh,
he's just got Lebron and d Wade, duh, and then
now it's like, oh, actually ten years later he's pretty big.

Speaker 7 (35:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (35:49):
And not only that, you had people sticking up for him,
where he had pat Riley going I don't care what
happens with any of the players, like you're going to
lose if it's up to me. Spolster is the guy
telling his players that you gotta kind of have that
too school. What do you see?

Speaker 5 (36:01):
So Vogel was with the Pacers for five years and
Magic in sixteen and eighteen, than the Lakers from as
he in to twenty two, and then the Suns this
past year, and then he's coach.

Speaker 2 (36:10):
Yes, I may be thinking of the coach was fired
this last year. That was with the Toronto the Raptors.
He was an assistant with the Raptors. I think when
they won the championship hand uh Darvin Ham Yeah maybe yeah.
Looked at it because I could be wrong with that.
I'd love to be wrong twice wrong. That would be
excellent for me to be or maybe the Bucks or
something I don't know, okay, uh yeah, the NBA, I

(36:32):
don't know. It's a weird, weird dynamic there, especially coaching
Lebron because in football there really isn't a player that
overruns a.

Speaker 4 (36:39):
Coach the Bucks assistant?

Speaker 2 (36:40):
Was it the Bucks? They won the championship?

Speaker 4 (36:42):
He was with them.

Speaker 1 (36:43):
I mean you had Tom Brady. You couldn't coach Tom Brady.

Speaker 2 (36:47):
The one person that could was Bill Belichick, and he
did they.

Speaker 1 (36:49):
Yeah, I'm thinking more of what's his name in in
Tampa Bay kind of just let him.

Speaker 2 (36:56):
I think that was understanding going in. There's Justine here,
the coach here. They have been dealing with Bill for
twenty years. Now, I'm gonna do whatever I want. That's
probably the only reason he would even go there too, right,
It wasn't he's there and then he overpowers arians. I
think he doesn't even go there unless he knows he
has that control.

Speaker 5 (37:11):
Yeah, there was some type of agreement that sorry, what else?

Speaker 2 (37:13):
All right?

Speaker 5 (37:13):
Last one here? After a dominant winning game one. If
you're a MAVs fan, how worried would you be? On
a scale of one to five, five being.

Speaker 2 (37:20):
I'd be as scared as I was initially three. I
still feel they lost it on the road. It wasn't pretty,
but you also didn't know how good Porzingis was going
to be or what he could I I think they
learned a lot. I think they. I think I have
shocked one game too. I prob put a thousand bucks
on it.

Speaker 1 (37:35):
Oh boy, oh boy. My wife believes that they really
they didn't try to lose it, but lost it and
just to kind of let the Celtics feel like, oh,
you've got this whole thing. You can kill us here,
beat us by twenty points. I'm like, really, that's your theory.
You think stuff like that sometimes. But that and Kevin
thinks teams can sweep teams if they want to.

Speaker 2 (37:57):
We all have our version of that.

Speaker 1 (37:59):
I told him, like, really, okay, that works all.

Speaker 2 (38:01):
Right, that's a tittletat. I go ahead, the tattle tattle.
Do we want to do one of the interviews before
break or take a break first, or do one interview? Okay, hey, Kevin,
do uh set up the manager one here? I don't
have to pay per I through it away.

Speaker 5 (38:17):
Okay, here we go with Saint Louis Cardinals manager Ali Mormole,
also known as coach Alie, sat down with him in
Saint Louis for our visit for too much access.

Speaker 4 (38:27):
What's his name?

Speaker 2 (38:27):
No, Iady Alie?

Speaker 6 (38:28):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (38:29):
Skip yeah him every time right by the way too
much access, doesn't get the full interview, only twenty five whistles.
That's right. Exclusive. Well that's a per we do. That's why.
That's how I can justify it, because I lose a
lot of money on doing too much axcess right now,
so but we use it for this show too, so
full at full interview here Coach Marmle from We're in
his office by the way, sitting on a couch. There's

(38:50):
nothing in his We're all naked.

Speaker 6 (38:52):
All right with no one.

Speaker 1 (38:53):
We're not just gonna weren't, which.

Speaker 2 (38:54):
How only I was. And it was weird all right
with the Cardinals when we walked in. We sat down
for a sec and somebody walked in and like whispered
some top secrets up to you, and I did everything
I could not.

Speaker 3 (39:04):
I didn't listen. I did literally no.

Speaker 2 (39:06):
I don't know what was being said, but it felt
very important and there were some big decisions being made.
But I want you to know I did not hear it.
Now does that happen a lot where somebody comes in
as like we need to go to Businessess, you're so
close to the locker room, you gotta gotta keep that quiet.
Usually they'll close the door. But since you guys were
in here, it was very yeah, low key. Yes, I

(39:28):
did not listen much much. Okay, maybe I'll listen a
little more. Maybe I just heard a couple of words.

Speaker 3 (39:33):
But it's actually, yeah, did you hear a little bit?

Speaker 1 (39:38):
I didn't hear anything.

Speaker 2 (39:39):
Okay, we're hoping it's not a thing, because if it's
a thing, No, No, I don't know what you're talking about.

Speaker 3 (39:44):
I keep secrets.

Speaker 2 (39:45):
I know everybody's secrets, and I don't tell secrets because
I just I'm just an honest man coach. So I'm
gonna leave it there. But this is really cool, like
to be a manager of a major league team, all professional.

Speaker 3 (39:59):
Things aside like that. It's so freaking cool, right it is?
It really? Especially here? Yeah, I mean this is you
talk about baseball town. This is incredible. So to do
it for this organization. This is year eighteen for me
as a player.

Speaker 9 (40:11):
Then I couldn't hit, they released me, became a hitting
coach that came up through the ranks that way as
a manager, and then to be here and then hold
that seat.

Speaker 3 (40:18):
Man, it's it's incredible, It really is.

Speaker 2 (40:21):
When you look at you know, Herzog Metheni LaRussa. This
place has put out extremely in the baseball world, not
even just Cardinals, but in Major League baseball, like the
greatest managers in the history of the game. A little
bit of pressure like within yourself to just like perform

(40:45):
because of the past and the history in a good way. Though.

Speaker 3 (40:47):
Yeah, Like I it's one thing when you wake up
every morning.

Speaker 9 (40:50):
If you were with an organization that didn't care as
much as the Cardinals do, like I'm not sure I
would wake up for that and do it every day.
It's it's that pressure, the expectation of doing it well
that actually gets me going.

Speaker 3 (41:02):
Like, yeah, you go out there to night and you lose,
they hate you.

Speaker 9 (41:06):
There's something good about that that, Like it gets you
motivated to man, make sure you're not missing anything and uh,
the city loves their baseball and you better win.

Speaker 2 (41:15):
Yeah, the city there's like three Saint Louis, Chicago, Boston,
no doubt, you know, culture towns. Yes where when it's
game day, even if it's a week day, Like you
feel it the first day that you get to come
into the office, Like what's in the office?

Speaker 3 (41:29):
Is it empty or is there Just like what happens
when you move into a new I know what it's
like moving to a new house, but how about a
new office. It's it's empty. Well, no, the chairs and
stuff were here. I haven't done a whole lot to it,
be quite honest, we did notice that.

Speaker 9 (41:44):
I told myself I wouldn't do a whole lot until
I got an extension, and I should put some stuff
up on the walls.

Speaker 3 (41:49):
Now, yeah, you feel good about that extension? I feel
better about it.

Speaker 2 (41:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (41:53):
Why not good? No?

Speaker 2 (41:55):
Like?

Speaker 5 (41:55):
No?

Speaker 3 (41:55):
Yeah? Yeah, positive, yes, good, I feel great about it.

Speaker 6 (41:59):
We got yeah, I know, yeah, I tell a little
better about it.

Speaker 7 (42:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (42:03):
Skip.

Speaker 7 (42:04):
What is like?

Speaker 2 (42:05):
What's your day?

Speaker 1 (42:06):
Like?

Speaker 3 (42:06):
What? What?

Speaker 2 (42:07):
When do you like? Show up? Game day?

Speaker 3 (42:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (42:09):
When do you show up?

Speaker 2 (42:10):
When do you leave?

Speaker 3 (42:11):
Like? What do you do in the middle man? Longer days?

Speaker 9 (42:14):
You're usually here by eleven or so eleven thirty and
you start with meetings with the medical that's who walked in,
kind of gives you a brief.

Speaker 3 (42:22):
On all the guys we do that I didn't know.
They let you know kind of anything that you may
might may have happened overnight or anything like that. So
you go through that.

Speaker 9 (42:32):
Different staff members come in for about two minutes a piece,
and you kind of catch up with them, and then
you start your prep for that day. We got the
cups coming in, and you make sure you got everything
kind of tightened up leading into that series. That takes
a couple hours out of the day. And then right
around now players start showing up and you have certain
scheduled meetings with them, Guys you got to talk to.

(42:54):
That leads you to the hitters meeting right around three
twenty today. Pictures have their meeting right after that. Then
you go out, you hippip, come in, you eat, you shower,
and you strap it all.

Speaker 3 (43:04):
Yeah that's a visual Yeah me too.

Speaker 2 (43:09):
I don't like what I visualize. We'll edit that right, Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Whose favorite ball player growing up?

Speaker 3 (43:17):
Oh, I don't know if I had a favorite like
player player.

Speaker 9 (43:20):
I grew up watching like Omar the Scale playing short,
which I enjoyed watching him.

Speaker 3 (43:24):
One of the best defensive sort stops in the history.

Speaker 7 (43:26):
Of the game.

Speaker 9 (43:26):
So if I like watch the player, probably Omar. Living
in Florida, we caught a lot of the Marlins games,
a lot of the Braves games. So I watched a
lot of Braves, but never had like, man, my favorite player.

Speaker 2 (43:40):
Did you model yourself positionally after anyone, or did you
watch anyone's tape and like watch how they would do
it or or ways they would get to the ball.
I don't know, do you mirror it all? After Antegrate?

Speaker 3 (43:52):
Probably the scale in the way he played the game,
I mean defensive, just guru. Never meet him, never did,
no ever have I.

Speaker 2 (44:01):
Met my holiday once. I'll that go for you and
it went okay. He texted me and he said to
give you a hug. I have the text and I
was like, I'm just gonna say that, not gonna do
I said, hug on my camera. I was like, I'm
just gonna say that.

Speaker 3 (44:13):
So Matt and I have been really.

Speaker 2 (44:15):
Good friends for fifteen years, like old school. You guys
are super close, like real life friends. Yes, how did
that relationship come about? Man?

Speaker 9 (44:22):
He was in the big leases, I was in the
minor leagues. And his wife is a better person than
him and got along with my wife. Yes, and we
just we lived in Jupiter. They lived in Jupiter in
the off season, so we would go over there and
just hang out and have dinners and man, it was we.

Speaker 3 (44:38):
Were there a lot. So got to know him.

Speaker 9 (44:41):
Once I got this job, I offered him the bench
coach job and he did it for about three minutes
and then chucked the deuce on me.

Speaker 3 (44:48):
But I still love him. He also worked for his
brother for about three minutes and then yeah, he did
the same thing for his brother.

Speaker 2 (44:55):
When you have a friend like Matt and you watch
his kids grow up to be like, I don't want
to say better because then I don't put that pressure
on them.

Speaker 3 (45:02):
But they're elite, but both of them, does it make
you feel old?

Speaker 9 (45:08):
I attended the wedding for Jackson and he was standing
up there, and it was the first time I was like,
what are we doing like this? I remember him very little,
but manly. The kids a beast, and Ethan's incredible as well,
so it's it'll be fun to watch them.

Speaker 2 (45:22):
And Matt looks like he could still play if he
wanted to. If let's say, everybody like pulled the hamstring today, Yeah,
give him a call all at once.

Speaker 3 (45:29):
No, I'm not asking that. Could you do? Could you
give three innings right now?

Speaker 2 (45:32):
Me?

Speaker 3 (45:32):
Yeah? Oh no, I couldn't do it what I played,
but you give he gives three innings in the field.
I chucked the deuce, you chucked eight men eight. What's
what's the hardest part about this show?

Speaker 9 (45:47):
When you do it well, you sacrifice something. It's usually
comes at the expense of family, and it's hard not
to carry the losses home because I mean, you're thinking
about it NonStop.

Speaker 3 (45:57):
I got two little girls, there's six and four, and
I have to It takes me about thirty minutes.

Speaker 9 (46:02):
To drive home, and I need to by the time
I get home, I need to be dad because the
scrutiny is real.

Speaker 2 (46:08):
Man.

Speaker 9 (46:08):
This town loves one and then when you lose, they
hate you, and rightfully. So that's part of being a fan.
Things are going well great if they're not in somebody's head,
and that's mine. So making sure that when I get home,
the hardest thing is that I'm present and I'm there
for my wife and my kids. And then when I
leave home, lock it back in and do a good
job here.

Speaker 3 (46:27):
Could you get unlimited massages here with the staff?

Speaker 6 (46:29):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (46:29):
For sure, right, because that's what I would do.

Speaker 2 (46:31):
I would command every day. I mean, because obviously the
players need work. I mean, could you just come in
twenty minutes early and every day and have an appointment?

Speaker 3 (46:37):
Can I? Yeah? Yeah, I've never got one you're missing out.
That's the first thing I would do. That's the first
thing I tousted.

Speaker 5 (46:45):
Mind.

Speaker 3 (46:45):
I get all the free free clothes and massages from
the trainers.

Speaker 6 (46:49):
And all the gum and you see, pis.

Speaker 2 (46:52):
I can't do a lot of sugar now as I
gett an older sugarind of sits in my gut.

Speaker 3 (46:55):
But I would do seeds. Are you getting one while
you're here? I didn't know they were free, so we
have to have to talk to the staff. Yeah, yeah,
we'll do it. How are your injuries? Do you ever
feel them?

Speaker 6 (47:06):
Now?

Speaker 2 (47:06):
Like if you're interesting personal from plan days and the
weather because the Midwest weather it's like changing all the time.

Speaker 3 (47:11):
Yeah, you know, not really. No, I tore my moniscus.
I feel that from time to time. But no, I'm good.
How's your arm? You still throw? I don't throw? No throw?

Speaker 6 (47:22):
Great?

Speaker 3 (47:22):
Yeah. See that's the thing I would do too. I'd
be playing all the time.

Speaker 6 (47:24):
This is what I would be in the manager and that.

Speaker 3 (47:26):
Yeah, I'm asking him like, do you ever do that?
So if you had this job, you're running around the field.
Oh yeah, I'll be a player coaching. Get the massage
every day?

Speaker 2 (47:31):
Yeah, I get a massage, eat a bunch of seeds,
change like three outfit changes during the day with all
the free.

Speaker 3 (47:38):
And then I'd be a player coach shoe game will
be on point absolutely.

Speaker 8 (47:41):
If you understand he's so far away from your job
that he's fantasizing.

Speaker 3 (47:44):
All yeah, that's it.

Speaker 2 (47:46):
It's like, you know, I work, and I do stand
up and I do podcasts and radio, and but it's
like my dream has always been to be like a
big comedian of rock. So I just we created a
comedy band and we played these shows with thousands of people.
But only did that because I want.

Speaker 3 (48:00):
To be a rock star. Like we've schemed away to
be a rock star the same way I would scheme
away to be like a play to day. What does
your day look like today?

Speaker 2 (48:06):
What are you doing? So we did the radio show
this morning, and we did a podcast out in front
of this. Okay, we're here talking to you, we'll talk
to probably Paul. We're going to go, but we're watching
the game.

Speaker 3 (48:16):
We're gonna stay for the game. Are you hitting today?

Speaker 8 (48:19):
I don't know the lettuce that'd be nice, I hear you.
The thing is, you just talked about how much you
would hit.

Speaker 2 (48:26):
I know, I know, I hear you, but like I
probably need a massage after it. That's the thing I'm
worried about, is that is your whole closet red here? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (48:37):
Yeah, at home? No, but you know, I mean even
at home. Like if you can't wear let's say you
go to the grocery store and you're blue. No, I
never no, I never wore red outside.

Speaker 8 (48:45):
Why couldn't he wear blue because of the grocery If I.

Speaker 9 (48:47):
Assign at the grocery store, the Cardinals manager wearing blue,
wearing blue, I would be like, that's bull crap. I
get it anyway, right, Yeah, do you ever read about yourself?

Speaker 3 (48:57):
Oh?

Speaker 9 (48:57):
No, I used to have Twitter, and it's a it's
a dangerous place, very dangerous. Yeah, it's a yeah you
don't want to look.

Speaker 3 (49:03):
There's no love there. I mean I do really cool things.
Sometimes nobody ever tells me they still hate you. They
still do. Oh it makes me feel better. Yeah, No,
I don't go on there anymore. It's a there's one
hundred and sixty two, that's that's so many games. Yeah.
So the funny question is that's a lot of even
if you're you have a really good season and you
lose sor to sixty games. You have one hundred win.

(49:25):
That's still sixty losses that people get upset about. They'll
get upset even when you win sometimes too okay, But
the real question is do you think one sixty two
is too many games? Gosh, I don't even think about it. Man.
You put your head down and you just go, like
one spring training is over.

Speaker 9 (49:40):
I don't know what day of the week it is.
I don't know what time, Like you just show up
and you just go. I've never even thought of it,
to be quite honest.

Speaker 2 (49:47):
On one hand, I have a lot here's my thoughts.
On one hand, baseball as such, the history of our
country right, no doubt. And it's fun to see today
compete with fifty years ago. Okay, you know Mari hit
sixty one and sixty one, and you have McGuire, but

(50:08):
you have all of this like it's fun. This this
sport does that. It allows that to happen. So I
would hate for that to be gone. But I don't
keep up with one hundred and sixty two anythings Like
what would.

Speaker 3 (50:19):
You shorten to? I'd probably go in the one forties
ten excuse me? Like Little League?

Speaker 2 (50:28):
Yeah, you just do nine one.

Speaker 3 (50:30):
I probably go because I probably go like ninety and
then seven innings.

Speaker 9 (50:40):
Yes, I think one of the greatest things when we
did the during COVID, when we did the double headers
and there were seven inning double headers.

Speaker 3 (50:47):
Money. I think, like football, for example, it's ninety a week.

Speaker 2 (50:54):
By the way, Well, then I think we should do
eighty one and everything counts is double against the old.

Speaker 3 (50:58):
School, like you do eighty one.

Speaker 2 (51:00):
Okay, so I think one sixty two. As I get
older and my attention span gets shorter, I'm like, man,
I can't keep it one hundred sixt to of anything. Yeah,
I wonder if you had any thoughts on that, because
I feel like July like that's like burnout time for it. Yes,
you're right in the middle of it. Does it ever
get like that to you where you're.

Speaker 9 (51:15):
But you get that, you get the All Star break
and you get that reset, which is helpful, and three
days doesn't seem like a ton. But when you don't
get many days off, three days is an eternity.

Speaker 3 (51:23):
But what if you make the All Star team, then
you got to keep going. Does it look like I'm
making an All Star team? Well, you don't make All
Star office. There's nothing in here. This is the ending office. Literally,
So next season hopefully we'll see some stuff. But I
think you can.

Speaker 9 (51:38):
I think you guys no for a player, and that's
why some of these guys, man, they make it and
they're toast like they're like they're gassed. So I do
hear that, and the guys will come in. They will
make the all start team. They're excited about it, obviously.

Speaker 3 (51:51):
But it's it's a drained What about load management in baseball?

Speaker 9 (51:55):
Yeah, when you look at how you use your pen
and given this is a big part like our season
right now, dug ourselves a hole and you want to
give guys like.

Speaker 3 (52:05):
Goldie and Nato and some of these guys a day off. Man,
when you're trying to catch up. That's hard to do.
And they're great about it because they don't want days off.
But load manage it's a real thing.

Speaker 8 (52:17):
Skip where's your phone during the during the game, Like
do you have it on you or is it back
in your office?

Speaker 3 (52:24):
You can't have you can't have it on you.

Speaker 8 (52:25):
Okay, So so say your wife wants to get ahold of.

Speaker 3 (52:28):
You, she calls a trainer, Like if something real happens.

Speaker 8 (52:31):
Even like, do you have a buddy who's like, man,
I need to talk to you about something my chick
left me, Like I got.

Speaker 3 (52:38):
You know, if somebody needs me during the game, Yeah,
they're gonna wait. Yeah, you gotta wait.

Speaker 9 (52:43):
Yeah, Like if something happens at the house, she'll call
a trainer and they'll grab me and pull me in here.
But if you need to tell me about girl leaving you.

Speaker 3 (52:51):
We'll do that.

Speaker 8 (52:51):
I mean, we do a radio show and we always
have those buddies. They're like, man, I'm trying to call you,
Like we're.

Speaker 2 (52:56):
In like two hundred cities right now, so don't try
to FaceTime meant literally talking to millions of people.

Speaker 9 (53:02):
Yes, No, I don't get any calls like people just know.
So I don't get anything during the game. If someone really,
like if my wife really needs me, that's different. But that, yeah,
it doesn't happen.

Speaker 2 (53:12):
What if the let's say the eight hole, they get
the last out in the inning, so nine's up and
they go back and I don't.

Speaker 3 (53:18):
Know, they say they're watching tape, but they go back
here to check their phone. Does that ever happen? Yeah,
that happens, And that's okay. I mean it happens and
is what it is.

Speaker 9 (53:26):
It is what it is.

Speaker 3 (53:26):
Yeah, I mean the grown man. What if they're getting
a massage? What if you like, if they come back,
That's what I would do. I'll come back.

Speaker 2 (53:31):
I'll be like, my hamstring's killing me, and I'll come
back get some work done on my my hamstring.

Speaker 3 (53:36):
I'm just injured all the time. Like that's like the greatest,
the greatest thing they could happen.

Speaker 9 (53:39):
But take care of it before the game starts. Yeah,
and then you're out there on the bench with the boys. Yeah, Okay,
we were ranking cool things to get from players. I'm
gonna let you on a little secret. So I don't
mean for this to be a flex, but it's gonna
sound like a little flex' do it. I was the
youngest person ever put in like the Broadcasting Hall of Fame,
Sorry about it.

Speaker 3 (54:00):
Yeah, with your chest. I was the So basically I'm like,
I'm like the Babe Ruth of proadcasting. That's it. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (54:08):
So we were going to talk with Paul later, and
I was gonna go because you have players in basketball
for well, the culture. They'll trade jerseys now a big
part of it. And so I was going to go,
I'm gonna give you something to mine. I was gonna
just give him a microphone and see what he would
give me back as the bit that's funny without telling him,

(54:29):
we were doing it. Yes, and Paul knows of me
a bit because he played college ball down where we're from,
no doubt, and so we were ranking the cool things
to get from players. At bottom was the sign baseball.
That's like the worst.

Speaker 3 (54:41):
That's okay, I'm with you, okay. Second would be a
batting love. Yeah, that might be. Things seemed worse than baseball.
I'd rather have a ball, okay, Yeah, who are those
balls in your desk? By the way, my little girls
got it.

Speaker 2 (54:52):
Third, we got to the very top. So what's the
coolest thing you could get? Before we tell you what
our answer was, man, and don't go crazy.

Speaker 3 (55:00):
Skip like.

Speaker 8 (55:03):
The locker room.

Speaker 3 (55:04):
Out of the locker room. I probably rather have cleats
over a bat or a jersey or yeah. I thought
cleat's over bat. They didn't think cleats was that cool.
I thought cleats were awesome.

Speaker 8 (55:15):
I went batting helmet.

Speaker 1 (55:17):
When do you ever see anyone give their batting helmet away?

Speaker 3 (55:20):
Not often? And then they went glove. And then glove
because the glove would never happen, but that one's not
gonna happens. That's like, yeah, the thing that would be
Uh the players have multiple gloves in their locker.

Speaker 9 (55:31):
Oh gosh, yeah, yeah, but there's there's like a practice club,
a game glove, and then one that they're breaking in
in order to kind of cycle it through.

Speaker 3 (55:38):
So that was number one on the list. I can
see that. Do you have any cool memorabilia form players? Oh? Man,
I rarely ask.

Speaker 9 (55:47):
From that last year of Albert and the audience stuff.
I got some cool stuff there from them that they
kind of gave me at the end.

Speaker 3 (55:53):
Of the year, but I rarely asked. Like an opposing team,
how do you feel about managers wearing uniforms? I have
to No, I know, I know you have to, but
I'm saying, would you choose? This is a big thing
in the city. They get mad when I don't warn
my jersey. That's the thing. Yeah, what do they go
on Twitter? The thing that we talked about.

Speaker 2 (56:14):
We've heard of it?

Speaker 3 (56:15):
Yes, they really? Oh yeah, and I again, baseball is
awesome because it's traditions, right.

Speaker 9 (56:20):
Yeah, Like I wear pants and I don't mind like
throwing the hoodie on, and I'm good to go, you know,
but they really like the jersey's are real things.

Speaker 3 (56:28):
So I wear my jersey every day.

Speaker 2 (56:29):
But let's say that they were they get you were
the only person on the board of change. Would you
have managers wear the full uniform?

Speaker 3 (56:37):
The full uni Yeah, gosh, you're gonna make people hate
me even more. No, I don't think I would either, though. Yeah.
I think that's one of the traditions that I don't
because most not you great physical.

Speaker 2 (56:48):
Shape, Yeah, you look good, you look good skip, But
I would if I were a manager, I wouldn't want
my big gut hanging out over my.

Speaker 3 (56:56):
For me, I wouldn't want that.

Speaker 8 (56:57):
You're constantly like walking through your pants. That's a plumber fit,
right man.

Speaker 3 (57:02):
And I'm not talking about anybody specifically, but I wouldn't
want that about with me. Yes, and so you don't
worry about that for probably what would you wear?

Speaker 2 (57:10):
I was? I would just wear a hoodie and like
just like some no, the Adidas pant I don't want
baseball pants either.

Speaker 3 (57:16):
You don't fill them out. That's not very nice. We
don't like that.

Speaker 2 (57:21):
Being honest, I didn't like that one bit, all right, Okay,
so real question about this. Yeah, I feel like now
we're building a little bit, made a rough start. You
feel like we're almost back to five hundred as.

Speaker 3 (57:32):
Of right now. Yeah, duggerself as a whole.

Speaker 9 (57:37):
The biggest thing was the offense not coming together, clicking together,
and everything else actually looked really good when you look
at the pitching, the rotation, the bullpen, defense, all the
way around. It was it was clean. The hitters were
a little behind, and now we've caught up and we've
put it together and we've won eight out of ten
or so. But I do feel like we're heading in
a really good direction.

Speaker 3 (57:57):
You feel like you have an open door, and do
they accept the open door to the players come and
talk to you. Yeah, that's one thing that's been really good.
These guys.

Speaker 9 (58:05):
I mean, I've known a lot of them for for
a while, and they're comfortable coming in here and shooting
the straight.

Speaker 3 (58:10):
Like. Our biggest word is honesty, and sometimes you have
to say things that people don't want to hear. But
it goes both ways and I think it works well.

Speaker 2 (58:18):
Man.

Speaker 3 (58:18):
Are you younger than some of the players, I believe
so that's when Wayna was here for sure.

Speaker 2 (58:25):
That's awesome.

Speaker 3 (58:25):
Getting boss people around older than you, that's awesome. That's freak.
That's the coolest.

Speaker 2 (58:30):
That might be the coold part of the job.

Speaker 3 (58:31):
That would be awesome. Okay, I got We have three
final questions. Do you ever go to the mound full
intention to pull a guy and he convinces you otherwise,
even though is made.

Speaker 9 (58:43):
Up, it's happened before, Yes, this year it's it has
not with Wayno, it happened a couple of times with Wyno.

Speaker 3 (58:54):
So what could he say? Gosh, he's just like you
go out there. You know he's gassed. It's I'm And
there's a level of respect of like, man, let me
get this last guy.

Speaker 9 (59:05):
These are my runs. Let me be the one to
give it up. I got this and you you sit
there and you on your way back to the dugout.
You're going, this is a bad idea. And there's times
that works out, and there's times it doesn't. You just
kind of keep going. But there is a level of
trust of looking a guy in the eye and saying,
you know what, all right, I.

Speaker 3 (59:22):
Trust you, it's yours. Go get it, and it pays
dividends down the road.

Speaker 1 (59:26):
You know, yelling at the oh boy go yeah, Like,
what's like, do you think that you have a chance
when you get up there to win that argument?

Speaker 3 (59:35):
I don't think you're trying to win anything. What are
you what's the what is the win? Gosh, just letting
it eat.

Speaker 9 (59:44):
Just you hold it in for so long and you
see your guys get screwed and listen, they're trying to
do their job, and for the most part, they do
a good job. But there's times where you're just sitting
there and enough's enough and you go out and you
just yell into their soul.

Speaker 3 (01:00:01):
Yeah, we just Helarady wants robots, that's what I heard.

Speaker 2 (01:00:05):
He wants Have you gotten too close to where like
you spit on your Like no, no, man, Like you're
not trying to disrespect that right, No, no, no, I'm not.

Speaker 8 (01:00:12):
Actually I'm saying while you're yelling like no.

Speaker 3 (01:00:14):
No, I have not, And I actually like it when
they come back at you. That's what makes it. I mean,
we are in the entertainment business and people asked to
be thrown like once, yeah once. This was I think
last year.

Speaker 9 (01:00:29):
It might have been in twenty two, but yeah, I
went out and one of the first things was get
me out of this one.

Speaker 3 (01:00:35):
You just go at it for a little bit. They
tossed you. That's awesome. Yeah, it'd be so cool to
be tossed.

Speaker 2 (01:00:39):
Yes, I get a massage immediately training And where did
you go? Where did you go?

Speaker 3 (01:00:43):
Skip?

Speaker 9 (01:00:44):
When we're at home, I chill right here, I turn
it on the TV and we'll just watch it from
in here. And it gives you easy access in case
people still need you during the game. I'm trying to
think of on the road.

Speaker 3 (01:00:57):
I try to stay in.

Speaker 9 (01:01:05):
Dang it, no, because you still have to do post games,
so it's not start drinking and you know, slur your words.

Speaker 3 (01:01:13):
Last question, it comes to analytics.

Speaker 2 (01:01:15):
I feel like we've seen like the analytics stock market
go up and down and then it became everything. It's
fun as a per to look like ex of velocity, right,
Like that's fun to see and compare, But it gets
to be too much sometimes. And as a manager, how
much now do you do you feel like it's back
on the let's let's let human and intuition take over

(01:01:37):
a little more than it was five years ago.

Speaker 9 (01:01:39):
I don't think it needs to be nearly as polarizing
of a conversation as people make it like it's information
that's all it is, and I'm gonna take as much
of it as possible to inform my decision, but it's
not going to make my decision right. So I'm in
favor of bring me everything you got, whether that's a
coach that's seeing something and has a gut feel for
a player or a situation, or someone from upstairs coming

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down and saying, hey, here's what we're seeing trend wise.
So for me, it's man, give me as much information
to make my decisions possible. Still, you can contradict that, though,
and go, I'm not feeling that. I've never had someone
from our analytics apartment or president or anybody come downstairs
and question the decision based on your gut versus the numbers.

Speaker 3 (01:02:21):
Not once, and that's not everywhere. I can tell you that. Yeah,
and where would it be listening right now?

Speaker 2 (01:02:35):
We really appreciate it, really cool to see that that
that turn around already the season and now rooting for
you guys, I got to keep it going, and yeah,
let's keep it going.

Speaker 8 (01:02:43):
I like you.

Speaker 1 (01:02:43):
I think I've decided I'm going to play for you someday.

Speaker 3 (01:02:45):
All right, some day, dude, your life. All right, thanks coach,
Now you.

Speaker 2 (01:02:49):
Got us all right, thanks to coach Mama, Thanks to
the Cardinals. We'll come back in a minute. We'll talk
to Paul gold Schmidt and we'll do our endody good. Yeah,
all right, we'll take a break, all right. Paul gold Schmidt.
What a big freaking dude.

Speaker 1 (01:03:03):
Oh he's a monster. I didn't realize he was that.

Speaker 2 (01:03:05):
He's a football player. Big. He's big. He's not, He's
not just like big. He's tall, big bone. He had
a big muscled, big dude. His hands excuse me what
I didn't notice?

Speaker 1 (01:03:15):
I didn't notice his hands.

Speaker 2 (01:03:16):
Yeah, I was talking more like his biceps. A big dude.
It's super cool to us. I think it was cool
that he was a listener of the show back in
the day. Yeah, when he was playing collegeball, he would
listen to the bibone show. That was super neat.

Speaker 1 (01:03:27):
I think it helped, dude, And honestly, I think I
got the best compliment that I've ever gotten in this
industry or whatever you want to call it is. After
the interview, he says like, wow, now I understand, Like, well,
you guys do what you do, You're really good at it,
and I'm like, that's really cool.

Speaker 4 (01:03:41):
That's cool.

Speaker 2 (01:03:42):
He said he hates doing interviews, but he and he
enjoyed this one.

Speaker 4 (01:03:45):
Yeah, he wanted to do this one.

Speaker 2 (01:03:47):
Yeah, which was cool. I think again it helped that
he was familiar with the show as a fan. And
then yeah, we just kind of let him have it,
you know how we do here. He is in l
MVP twenty twenty two. And by the way, he started
playing some ball after we left. Yeah, he did Homer's smackeroose.
The team started playing ball after we left.

Speaker 4 (01:04:06):
Did you guys have any influence on that.

Speaker 2 (01:04:08):
It's that's up to you. Well, we left and they
got they were like, thank god, and they gotten a
lot better.

Speaker 1 (01:04:12):
I saw Nolan Aeronado hit a homer.

Speaker 4 (01:04:14):
Yes, he was.

Speaker 2 (01:04:15):
We were with him.

Speaker 1 (01:04:16):
We were with him too.

Speaker 2 (01:04:17):
I'm just saying, oh, here you go. Paul Golschmidt, one
of the guys on our show, was the announcer for
like the baseball team and so at Texas State.

Speaker 3 (01:04:26):
Yeah, and he was like, you guys are going to
see Paul.

Speaker 2 (01:04:29):
You actually have a small mini helmet on my desk
that you had signed somewhere. I don't know how, but
it's on my desk right now, you.

Speaker 7 (01:04:36):
Bought it a charity auction.

Speaker 3 (01:04:37):
That is important.

Speaker 6 (01:04:38):
That is exactly what.

Speaker 2 (01:04:39):
No, that is what.

Speaker 7 (01:04:40):
That is where I got it.

Speaker 6 (01:04:43):
I wear it every day.

Speaker 2 (01:04:45):
But no, it's a mini help. But and it came
up because he was like, oh, I used to call
his name out and we were like, oh, yeah, I
went to Texas State.

Speaker 6 (01:04:52):
Yeah, so you had we thought it was school. Get
even heard of us?

Speaker 7 (01:04:55):
I know that's true. Who knows, I'm not. I heard
you all on the radio, you know. But now this
is what I really remember. We would have six am
workouts and I remember we'd be sitting in the cars, like,
meet my three roommates and and how did you start
the show? Someone dude? Yeah, so we tried to get
pumped up before the coaches would tear us a new one.

Speaker 6 (01:05:16):
And it's probably why you're so successful.

Speaker 7 (01:05:18):
Honest, Yeah, that was pumped up. That's probably like the
thing that motivated us.

Speaker 2 (01:05:22):
And wow, how did you end up at Texas State
from because you're like Delaware Northeast right.

Speaker 7 (01:05:27):
So I was born in Delaware. My parents are both
from the northeast, and but we moved to Texas when
I was about a year old. So I grew up
in Texas, lived in Dallas area for a few years,
and then I grew up outside of Houston in the Woodlands,
and so just you know, got recruited by a few
of the Texas schools and chose Texas State, and it
was awesome there too.

Speaker 6 (01:05:45):
I was looking back at like the hard data of
your career.

Speaker 2 (01:05:49):
I didn't realize you had been drafted so late when
you were drafted and even you went to college, right,
you didn't go and play a minor league ball?

Speaker 7 (01:05:55):
What we had to go to the miners after college.

Speaker 6 (01:05:58):
But I'm saying a lot of like people, some folks
I know, don't even go to college.

Speaker 7 (01:06:01):
They go right to Yeah, yeah, they go that's true. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:06:03):
What clicked was it physically? Was it mentally like to
be drafted that late the Dodgers draft?

Speaker 7 (01:06:10):
You Dodgers took me in forty ninth round, which doesn't
even exist anymore, just they like doesn't I think we
only do twenty rounds now.

Speaker 2 (01:06:17):
So what happened like physically mentally? What was it for
you that clicked in a way of like, oh, I'm
starting to get this now.

Speaker 7 (01:06:24):
I mean I was always a good player. I just think,
you know, every team knew, like, this guy's gonna need
more time. If we're gonna draft, we're gonna emeo. Most
of the guys that are signing are just very very
talented out of high school, and they're just you know,
we need to get this guy now. It's not even
ways of going to college. But I think, you know,
probably half half of the league are probably college guys,
and so you know, we go to college, you continue

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to mature, continue to learn, get a lot of playing experience.
Even then, I went in the eighth round, so there
was probably two hundred and something guys drafted before me.
So I think again same go to the minor leagues
and just kind of see what's happening and continue to
get experience. I was probably the biggest thing.

Speaker 3 (01:07:01):
I think.

Speaker 7 (01:07:02):
I just played every single day as many games as
I could, continue to just practice and work as hard
as I could, and just wanted to be ready if
I got that opportunity.

Speaker 6 (01:07:12):
What was your ascension? Did you go rookie ball, A double,
A triple, A majors get sent back?

Speaker 7 (01:07:17):
Like? What was that man I I had? I got?
I got fortunate. I went to rookie ball. The first
year it played pretty well, didn't get called up that year.
So the next year I went to High A ball
and didn't get I had a good year, but didn't
get called up again, and I'm like, okay, And then
I got to Double A the next year, and I
was having a probably the best year of my career,
and like, man, I guess they're just gonna let me

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keep playing. And then all of a sudden I got
the call and they said, you're going to the big leagues.
Got to skip Triple A and uh go up with
with Arizona. We played in San Francisco and obviously a
day in a moment I'll never forget.

Speaker 6 (01:07:50):
Did you stay up?

Speaker 3 (01:07:51):
Did you ever go back down? No?

Speaker 7 (01:07:52):
Pretty fortunate that.

Speaker 1 (01:07:53):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (01:07:55):
You know, as always, I think that's one of the
hardest things we get called up, is just like trying
to get comfortable. You want to get a few hits,
especially some big hits. You're not gonna most guys aren't
gonna get up there and just dominate. So you know,
I definitely had my ups and downs, but was able
to kind of do enough to uh to stay up.

Speaker 2 (01:08:11):
One of my best friends, you actually had the biggest
contract that replaced his biggest contract one of my really
good friends is Matt Holliday, and so he got sent down.
He didn't come up here the same like he got
sent back down. We're gonna let the leaves he get blown.
We edit this out, fire them, fire them, you have.

Speaker 7 (01:08:31):
We need those guys.

Speaker 6 (01:08:32):
Yeah, yeah, So what are they doing blowing water off
the field?

Speaker 7 (01:08:35):
Water or just dirt, sunflower seeds, whatever it is.

Speaker 6 (01:08:38):
They don't know who you are, No, they do.

Speaker 7 (01:08:40):
That's why it takes such good care of the field.

Speaker 6 (01:08:42):
Somebody said that they're the best around. Like do you
just say that every ground Yeah? Everybody said there or
is like.

Speaker 8 (01:08:48):
What makes them so good?

Speaker 7 (01:08:49):
No, they do good.

Speaker 6 (01:08:50):
They don't even care that the stars doing an interview.

Speaker 7 (01:08:52):
They don't care about interviews. I think to me, it's
just they care about it. You can we're undername names
where there's some places where the grounds crew kind of
does their job and they leave and you don't see
him for a few hours, or they just kind of
like break the infield. And then you see most places
where the grounds crew is always there. If some needs attention,

(01:09:12):
they're kind of going overboard, like you know, sweeping up
some flower sieves which make no uh no effect. On
the ball.

Speaker 6 (01:09:19):
Do you feel like if you bench press a lot,
your swing gets a little tighter. I do plans off ball, yeah,
of course.

Speaker 3 (01:09:25):
No.

Speaker 7 (01:09:25):
Yeah, there's a point of no return where you know
too much bench press is too much. But uh I
think you also want one strength too.

Speaker 6 (01:09:34):
So do you give a max out?

Speaker 7 (01:09:35):
No, Well, the last time I did that was probably
in college, and uh so, no, I think not many
guys are max out it.

Speaker 2 (01:09:43):
Yeah, I did that like three weeks ago. Yeah, take
a guess. Take your guess, und we'll take it close.

Speaker 6 (01:09:50):
We'll move on with real close. Yeah, we'll take it
a real question.

Speaker 2 (01:09:53):
So in twenty two, when you win the MVP, do
you watch what's happening as it's going, like you think
I'm in the race?

Speaker 6 (01:10:00):
Like, do you keep up with that at all?

Speaker 7 (01:10:02):
I really try not to. It's more just like I
don't want to get distracted, you know, I don't want
Oh i'm doing good, let's keep it going, or if
that adds pressure, Oh I'm struggling now I need to
step it up. So for me, it's just really staying
in the moment. But that year was unique just because
you know, I went to the All Star Game and
then going into that last month, you know, you get

(01:10:22):
asked a lot of questions by the media, and I
think that's where I just kind of find everything out.
And so I knew the last month that you know,
me and a few other guys we had a chance
once you do that, So I didn't want to put
too much pressure on myself. And I actually didn't have
a good last month, so maybe maybe that was the reason,
but ended up good enough and was able to win
that award.

Speaker 2 (01:10:43):
What's a slump for you? How many at bats without
getting a clean hit.

Speaker 7 (01:10:49):
Any hits, a clean hit. I mean, I'll take any
hit I can get, but I mean you start going,
you know, you go a whole series was three or
four games. I mean you're thinking, man, that was that
was over thirteen? Yeah, over twelve. I wouldn't call it
a slump. Maybe double that. Maybe you get into twenties,
you're like, okay, there's got to usually be some bad
luck once you get into fifteen twenty. I mean, you
can swinging bun or you can find a hole out

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there somewhere. But when you start to get it there,
and I think a couple of weeks ago I had
like thirty that might have been if it wasn't my longest,
it felt like the longest.

Speaker 6 (01:11:19):
So what do you do to not think about it?
Or what do you do to break it?

Speaker 7 (01:11:23):
Break it? You just keep waiting and again try not
to try not to press, and for me it's a
little bit maybe just have some fun with it, but
I think seriously just trying to stay in the moment.
I mean, each day is a new day, and try
to just keep that mindset. And you know, we've been
training for that, so same thing when you're going well,
you don't want to show up and just kind of

(01:11:45):
goof off for a few hours and not get ready
for the game. So try to find that sweet spot
of focus but still having fun.

Speaker 3 (01:11:51):
Goldie.

Speaker 1 (01:11:51):
When you hit one out, do you know as soon
as you make contact with the bat that it's it's gone?

Speaker 7 (01:11:56):
I'd say about ninety eight percent of the time. Yeah,
there's the two percent where you're like, oh, that's going
to be close, and whether it's the win or just
the way you hit it, and then you're just kind
of watching. But yeah, yeah, ninety five ninety percent of
time you're like, you know, what's gone, which even watching
other guys they hit it and I'm like, I don't know.
When they start celebrating and goes over by like two feet,
I'm like, man, how'd you know that? Every once in

(01:12:19):
a while you get caught and then that's why you
got to make sure you're running and don't get embarrassed
out of there and throwing out at least get a double.
But I don't know, maybe just because we've done it
so much. I don't know why, but it's just like,
you know, like even a BB that's gone. Although the
worst feeling is when you think you get it and
then they catch it and you're like, oh, man, that's
something's off today or something like that.

Speaker 6 (01:12:39):
The NBA.

Speaker 2 (01:12:41):
Working a lot of the players with load management, right,
a lot of games, so not as many as Baseball,
but you know they're playing ninety games.

Speaker 7 (01:12:47):
They run a lot more than us.

Speaker 6 (01:12:48):
They do run a lot more than you, but you
do you play a lot more.

Speaker 2 (01:12:51):
How do you feel about load management in Major League
Baseball to keep players healthier longer.

Speaker 7 (01:12:57):
Well, I mean that's one strategy I think for me,
when I came up, you had to play every day.
If you didn't play every day, you know you weren't
going to have a job. Honestly, So you know, I
kind of give our guys a hard time if if
they're taking I mean, the play does It's not really
the player's choice, you know, it comes from the management
or the coaches or whatever. And I understand that there's
times to take days off, but I think just the
whole theory on that has changed a lot. I mean,

(01:13:18):
when NBA, NFL, MLBS, like you, you played until you
got hurt or until you couldn't play anymore, and so
that was kind of the way I was brought up.
So it's it's hard to change my mindset on that.
And I think there's a mental part of that too
that's really good. It's like, man, maybe I'm not one hundred.
I mean, you're never really at one hundred percent, but
maybe this would be a good day to take off.
But somehow you go out there and it's you know,

(01:13:40):
it's almost like you're just that mental toughness, that physical
toughness to push through it. And I think that can
pay dividends in the long room. But there's also times
when you know you got to take days.

Speaker 2 (01:13:49):
Off, right final five, adding your question, can you hear
people when you're on debt, like and I don't want
to give them fuel.

Speaker 1 (01:13:57):
But but but I remember I went to a Mets game,
like a long time time ago, and Mike Piazzas had
just died his hair like white, like blonde, and somebody's like,
you dip, you dip, and one hundred percent he heard him,
but Mike never turned around, Like can you hear him?

Speaker 3 (01:14:10):
One?

Speaker 6 (01:14:10):
And how do you deal with that crap?

Speaker 7 (01:14:13):
Yeah, yeah, you can hear him, And uh, you know,
for me, it's like just that perspective. I think there's
times when maybe you can, you know, get annoyed or whatever.
Usually when you're struggling and then you know you're going good.
You got two hits and a homer, like you say
whatever you want. I'm I'm about to go get my
third here right here. But I kind of just changed
my mindset of like just kind of enjoying it and
just taking it. I mean, it doesn't happen at home. Obviously,

(01:14:33):
they're cheering for you most of the time, and so
you go on the road, you know, those tougher environments
and I'm just like it's fun. And also, man, I
grew up going to a lot of ball games. I
yelled at a lot of guys, and I was an amateur,
so I always tell her, I, man, this is payback now,
and so when it happens, I'm looking back at my
sixteen year old self as I was in the stands
talking trash, like all right, you deserve this right now,

(01:14:54):
and then that kind of just makes me smile and
just try to take it in.

Speaker 6 (01:14:57):
All right.

Speaker 2 (01:14:57):
Four left, Who did you play with or against when
you first came up where you were like, that's freaking cool,
I'm on the field with this person.

Speaker 7 (01:15:05):
Well, my favorite player was Lance Berkman growing up in Houston,
So when he got to first base and he knew
who I was, that was pretty cool. But I mean
then there's Derek Jeter at the All Star Game. I
mean that was like everyone's favorite player. I think those
two guys kind of stick out, and a lot of
times my rookie year is like, don't think about who's
on the mound, you know, because I'm competing against this guy.

(01:15:25):
But I've been watching a lot of the guys for
ten plus years and you knew him, maybe you're rooting
for him, or you just know how good they were.
And it was almost like this mental mind trick to
just be like, all right, he's just another guy, or
you know, compare him to someone else to try to
just you know, stay competitive.

Speaker 1 (01:15:39):
Is it cool to be at the mall or someplace
and see you're like someone wearing new jersey and do
you even go up to him?

Speaker 3 (01:15:45):
Sometimes?

Speaker 7 (01:15:46):
No, I usually I won't go up to him, but no,
it is cool. And I think especially when it first
happens when you're young, and now even now and you
just see the kids, especially because that's I still pitch
myself as a kid, and you know, I watched baseball
and all sorts every night and just wanted to be
like those guys. So I think when I see those kids,
and you know it used to be autographed, now say
can I take a selfie with you? Or can I

(01:16:07):
take a picture? But uh, you know you walk away
like man, that was really cool because I could, you know,
see myself in there in their shoes.

Speaker 2 (01:16:12):
All right, Final two questions. You play a lot of baseball.
You play a lot of baseball here, But where is
your It's gonna be difficult question. Possibly where do you
like to play?

Speaker 6 (01:16:22):
That's not here?

Speaker 7 (01:16:24):
I mean wherever I play?

Speaker 6 (01:16:25):
Well, what but you're you're going what what stadium do
you like like aesthetically or you hit well.

Speaker 7 (01:16:32):
I haven't. I haven't played well there, but I do
like when we go to Philly you talk about fans
talking trash, there's they're as good as anyone, And uh
so I kind of try to just enjoy that energy
that that those stadiums bring and with them kind of
you know, being in the World Series a couple of
years ago and be so good that that place has
had a lot of energy. It's a good place to hit.
You know, no one wants to go to the stadium
where there's not as many fans. And then also as

(01:16:54):
a hitter where the outfield's huge. You know, if you
got you know the ball where the ball flies or
the pick, you know, probably going to like the course
field where the ball. Yeah but yeah, So I mean
anytime we can kind of feel that adrenaline, feel the crowd,
feel the big game, whatever it is, you know, that's
fun because with one hundred and sixty two games, we're
not feeling that every day. And there are some games,

(01:17:16):
as much as we don't want to admit it, that
can just kind of feel just kind of a little
bit more boring. And so when we can get that
adrenaline for whatever reason, whether it's the fans, the stadium.
Sometimes it can be the other team or something that's happened.
It's always fun that way, all.

Speaker 2 (01:17:29):
Right, Last question the culture in sports NFL, especially NBA.
You're singing, I don't know if it happens much in baseball,
but like after a game where players will trade jersey.

Speaker 6 (01:17:37):
Has that ever happened with you guys?

Speaker 7 (01:17:40):
I saw it the last couple of years, but not
as much, right, No, not as much. And again like
in those I don't know why, but I guess it's
probably tradition and those sports the players are kind of
on the field at the end and they're kind of
shaking hands. We're in baseball. We just shake hands with
their own teams, so you don't really have that much interaction,
especially once the game's over. But when we had Albert Pools,
Yadi or Malina, guys are coming across, hey, cree jer

(01:18:01):
jerseys or are after the game, so you get the
greats like that. You know guys will will go out
of their way to try to get something from them.

Speaker 6 (01:18:08):
Well, this is what I have.

Speaker 2 (01:18:09):
This is my final suggestion on this question. So because
of that, culture. I know you probably don't know this.
So I was the youngest member ever in the Radio
Hall of Fame. You be in the Hall of Fame
one day, for sure.

Speaker 6 (01:18:20):
I'm gonna trade you my microphone. Look at this, this
is this is yours. You get to have this, all right,
give me back, that's yours.

Speaker 7 (01:18:28):
I mean, I guess I gotta go with a jersey, right, No, no,
it's what you don't have to do anything. So what
you're gonna want is a baseball bat because that's the
best collectible.

Speaker 6 (01:18:37):
We also debated what the best collectible was for me.

Speaker 7 (01:18:40):
It's baseball bat for sure, okay, and that's what I
have from guys on other teams that I like. And
so if you go go to my house, I got
I got a bunch of one display. It's cool because
they're all different. I don't know if all the microphones
are the same. But you know, in jerseys, again, they're cool,
but they're all the same. They're all mostly the same size,
are the same. For bat, you know, the grips are different.
I don't know most people know the wood bats can

(01:19:02):
be completely customized way shape. There's limitations, but uh so
you go pick up Albert Pools's bat. That guy was
like a Greek god. So he's got a heavy bat
that you can swing somehow faster than anyone you might
get another guy. Uh he's got you know, a skin
in your bat or a lighter bat. And so to me,
it's it's cool when people come over the house and
they want to see all the players different bets.

Speaker 6 (01:19:22):
What about the helmet though, Paul, I mean that's just.

Speaker 7 (01:19:24):
The size of your head. So uh that's uh, there's
not They're all the same shape. But yeah, we debated.

Speaker 6 (01:19:30):
Okay, I'm gonna sign this Hall of Fame microphone ask
this to you. This is the first and.

Speaker 3 (01:19:34):
I've never done this before.

Speaker 6 (01:19:36):
All right, yeah, and so we know you're gonna value
and treasure this.

Speaker 7 (01:19:38):
I'm gonna definitely it'll be displayed. It'll be it'll be
with all my other mom in.

Speaker 2 (01:19:42):
The garbage, and then we'll just see what at some
point what comes back. I'm gonna sign this. We go,
here we go, Okay, silver one.

Speaker 8 (01:19:52):
We have a silver one.

Speaker 6 (01:19:53):
Oh, let's go. Do we need here?

Speaker 3 (01:19:55):
We go?

Speaker 2 (01:19:56):
Read?

Speaker 6 (01:19:56):
Thank you seriously?

Speaker 7 (01:19:58):
Though, which which one of you all is from Saint
Louis or interesting Lewis fan neither. I mean, I thought
one of all due.

Speaker 1 (01:20:03):
What's crazy is I was telling him earlier that my
dad he went on a business trip when I was
like eight or nine years old and brought me back
to Saint Louis hat and like, I mean automatically at
that age, You're like, I love the Cardinals, you know,
so like I don't have a team. I'm from Texas
to the Astros were our team.

Speaker 7 (01:20:17):
Yeah, I love the Cardinals, dude, Yeah, that's cool.

Speaker 6 (01:20:20):
I can't tell you the truth. I've been very quiet
about the truth.

Speaker 7 (01:20:23):
You're your Cubs fan massive. That's why you're here tonight.
No to watch it, watch it, to watch this beat
your team.

Speaker 6 (01:20:28):
No, I know that I have not said that. I'm
being respectful. And I even have on a red sto hat.

Speaker 7 (01:20:35):
I know that's impressive.

Speaker 6 (01:20:36):
Notice that, like there's not a Cardinal on it.

Speaker 2 (01:20:39):
But it's me trying.

Speaker 6 (01:20:40):
I'm trying.

Speaker 7 (01:20:40):
You know, we're in St. Louis. Yeah, you're halfway there.
We're good.

Speaker 2 (01:20:43):
I'm trying and I did not admit that to anybody,
and I'm being but yeah, yeah, I grew up a
massive Cubs fan.

Speaker 7 (01:20:49):
I still have respect for that. You gotta cheer for
your team. You gotta be low to your team. And no,
I'm not a Cowboys fan, all right? Uh Cowboys man?

Speaker 6 (01:21:02):
You are you a Texans fan?

Speaker 7 (01:21:04):
I like the Texas. I've just been gone from Texas
for so long. It's just hard, Like, what are my
brothers and my dad they go when they root for
the Texas. They still live in Houston. I don't know.
I don't really have a NFL team, right. I mean,
I hate to say it, but it's fantasy football now,
and I hate that because I love rooting for teams.
But I just did you play high school football? I
played in seventh and eighth grade. Wedding and play in

(01:21:25):
high school? Were you bigger than everybody by the end
of high school? But now when I started, I mean,
I think and that I think that's what kind of
I was kind of how you go play wide receiver
and you're kind of short and quick and uh. But
I loved baseball. And I didn't choose baseball because I
thought I could make a career of it. I just
I liked it and I was getting pounded by a
lot bigger guys. And in the state of Texas, football

(01:21:46):
is no jokes. So here we go, Here we go,
SHARPI thank you, all right, here we go.

Speaker 6 (01:21:53):
This is a hall of fame. I'm never giving away
a microphone before.

Speaker 7 (01:21:56):
Well you got to write h on it, of course.
My hero Anthony Rizz. Hey, I'll get this to Anthony
Rizzo for you. I'll get it to him.

Speaker 6 (01:22:12):
That's all the time I've ever done this. He's still here.

Speaker 3 (01:22:14):
You go.

Speaker 2 (01:22:14):
Paul, go, cards, Hey, go cards, card Let's go. All right,
we really appreciate the time.

Speaker 6 (01:22:21):
Throw that away.

Speaker 7 (01:22:22):
Leave no chances.

Speaker 2 (01:22:24):
Thanks, all right, thanks to Paul or is that he
calls him Goldie Goldie, thank you? And check out our
full too much Access episode where we talked to them
obviously and we play ball on the field.

Speaker 1 (01:22:33):
And Eddie breaks his foot. Man, and I want everyone
to know, like, look, I had broken my foot early on.
So when you see me miss all those fly balls,
my foot was broken, I.

Speaker 2 (01:22:42):
Hear you, and I completely agree that you if it
was broken, But that foot does it when you're trying
to run and get to the ball, even the ones
you went running to the form.

Speaker 7 (01:22:52):
That I know.

Speaker 1 (01:22:53):
The wind was blowing, wind was blowing, and if people
could just see that wind blowing in Saint Louis that
day that ball was moving left right.

Speaker 5 (01:23:00):
Was your adrenaline just pumping or yeah, dude, I.

Speaker 2 (01:23:03):
Mean there was no one in the stands, but all
you see are our seats.

Speaker 1 (01:23:07):
You're in the stadium, and it's just I mean, it's
like high tense moment and that ball's coming and it's
coming fast, and it's moving left, it's moving right, and
then you're gonna put your face right under it. I'm like,
now I'm not doing that.

Speaker 2 (01:23:19):
But that's how you catch a ball. Go watch your episode,
mister Bobby Bones on Instagram or at two much access
Bobby Bones, and we will come back after this quick break. Okay,
So a couple of things. One Jake Paul and Mike
Tyson that has been moved to November fifteenth. Oh, they
are to still have the fight. And it wasn't that.

(01:23:39):
Mike Tyson was so so so sick. He couldn't fight.
He got also couldn't train, so like he had an
ulster of flare up when they pulled them off there Heay,
he wasn't a wheelchair off the plane, but you wanted
a wheelchair for your foot, So it's like it that's true.

Speaker 6 (01:23:53):
Store.

Speaker 2 (01:23:54):
But so they still expect the fight to happen, but
it wouldn't have been fair becus Tyson couldn't train. Hey,
what's up with McGregor?

Speaker 1 (01:24:01):
Yeah, what I saw a post that he heard that
said find out why he canceled the press the press conference,
and I was like, oh, click on the link and
it was some subscription. I'm like, I'm not doing this
if it.

Speaker 4 (01:24:12):
Was promo for it last night at the game on
the during the game, the fight is still on.

Speaker 2 (01:24:15):
Yeah, but fight.

Speaker 1 (01:24:17):
The fight is still on for June twenty eighth, I believe,
or twenty nine.

Speaker 2 (01:24:23):
That's what I thought it might be canceled. I thought
McGregor might have been injured, injured himself in training or something.
That's all Chandler like posting stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:24:29):
On his Instagram, Like, dude, Chandler looks strong.

Speaker 2 (01:24:31):
Motivational quotes and crap, he looks strong.

Speaker 1 (01:24:33):
He looks like he's so ready to go.

Speaker 2 (01:24:35):
I mean, we're all ready for Chandler, right, we are
one percent.

Speaker 1 (01:24:37):
And I love I love McGregor, I do, but I
feel like McGregor's that, uh, that's just kind of been
chilling making movies and kind of just loving the.

Speaker 2 (01:24:46):
He was like at a club. You see clip him
at a club like week ago.

Speaker 4 (01:24:48):
Uh yeah, was his wife?

Speaker 2 (01:24:50):
Yeah, they were like going in front. What do you
mean they granded? They were, they were having they were
I don't know. I thought maybe he was drunk or
on something. They were the club going hard.

Speaker 1 (01:24:58):
Yeah see, and then I'll you see Chandler, this dude's
at the gym. He's not at the club.

Speaker 2 (01:25:05):
I can't say what it's for, and two final things
will be done. I can't say what it's for. You
guys know, but they won't let me say it. Yeah,
but I am playing in something and they've asked me
for a walkout song. Oh, so be thinking about that
for the next episode. A walkout song, because I yes,
I'm not represents you, and I'm not sure if I'm

(01:25:26):
what I'm doing because you know right.

Speaker 1 (01:25:29):
I do know, you know right, you know right, I'm
gonna saynything I think.

Speaker 2 (01:25:32):
So I'm not sure if it's on TV or not.
It might be streamed on something. Usually i've seen it
on TV. Yeah you have every Yeah really yeah, yeah,
I did not know that you talk about that for
but think about that. I need to come out to
a walkout song. Don't spend a whole bunch time on it.
But we'll do that, okay, and then I have let's

(01:25:52):
do our final thoughts and then I'll wrap it up.
You have your final thought any Yeah, he's searching for
a final thought, right, No, no, no, I have it.

Speaker 3 (01:26:00):
I have it.

Speaker 1 (01:26:01):
Do you want to read that statu I sent you? Oh,
Eddie sent me dak shocks that you didn't want to
talk about the CD.

Speaker 6 (01:26:09):
And oh yeah, yeah yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:26:11):
Basically I threw it away. What do you mean you
threw it away? I had a bunch of paper here
and I was it's basically.

Speaker 1 (01:26:16):
It's a comparison of Justin Jefferson and CD Lamb. You
want to read, it's right here, but I think the quarterback, sure,
but it's kind of saved under his favorite.

Speaker 2 (01:26:23):
Everything's not the same, so okay, season's four four.

Speaker 1 (01:26:27):
I mean everything's not the same. Obviously they're playing different teams,
different and different quarterbacks, different quarterbacks, different goals as a
team all pros.

Speaker 2 (01:26:35):
Of the four, Justin Jefferson has one more.

Speaker 1 (01:26:38):
So what are the numbers?

Speaker 2 (01:26:40):
But hold on, so I would say Justin Jeffersons has
thirty three percent more All pros than C. D. Lamb
that's a pretty significent number. What's an All Pro Pro Bowls?

Speaker 7 (01:26:46):
Three?

Speaker 2 (01:26:47):
Easy to get the Pro Bowl? Almost got voted to
the Pro Bowl. Catches are basically the same, Well stop
with the basically the same. There are three catches apart.
It's not even one person who's on top. Ceedee Lamb
has three ninety five. Just Jefferson has three ninety two.

Speaker 1 (01:27:04):
Exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:27:04):
No, but here's my point point, CD No, with three
less catches, Justin Jefferson has over seven hundred more yards.

Speaker 1 (01:27:10):
But you don't understand those situations. You don't know, you
don't know, you don't know. If they were Hill Mary's.

Speaker 2 (01:27:15):
You know what, they were probably down. Justin Jefferson sucks
and Ceede Lamb's the best.

Speaker 1 (01:27:19):
How many touchdowns did you see that? Justin Jefferson thirty
one touchdowns in four seasons.

Speaker 5 (01:27:24):
But I will say, Eddie, I'm sorry, Justin Jefferson missed
almost half of the season last year.

Speaker 1 (01:27:28):
Well that's that's it's on him. Hey, what do you
say that.

Speaker 2 (01:27:34):
You're holding tight with it?

Speaker 1 (01:27:35):
Yeah, I'll send that to you, and.

Speaker 2 (01:27:36):
They should pay him a whole bunch because if they do,
you know, they can't sign up the players.

Speaker 1 (01:27:40):
Yeah, I didn't say that it's a cat. But whenever
you talk about the top receivers, I want you to
put some respects probably fourth phones you put Justin Jefferson
in either one or two. Yes, you need to put
CD in there either two, no four.

Speaker 2 (01:27:56):
I put him at four. You're crazy because one and
one A to me is Justin Jefson and Jamar Chase
and Tyreek Hill is two. But that would be three.
But Tyreek kills three c Lam four. I don't I
feel like it's a pretty good spot to be.

Speaker 5 (01:28:10):
I was gonna say, nowadays, a beer receiver top five,
that's pretty dang good.

Speaker 2 (01:28:14):
Yeah, man, congratu.

Speaker 4 (01:28:16):
Rogers had a top five receiver.

Speaker 2 (01:28:17):
Jason Tatum, like number seven overall in the NBA. All
of us come on.

Speaker 4 (01:28:23):
That means Ford is the top three.

Speaker 2 (01:28:25):
Not after one game there, Kevin? What you got?

Speaker 6 (01:28:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:28:28):
I got some personal news.

Speaker 2 (01:28:29):
Actually he's pregnant. Oh yes, what do you have? I
don't know the news.

Speaker 5 (01:28:34):
It broke some news to Eddie not too long ago,
and apparently he got mad at me because I didn't
tell myself.

Speaker 4 (01:28:39):
He had to find out from somebody else.

Speaker 2 (01:28:41):
What's the news?

Speaker 4 (01:28:41):
The news is? I am in a relationship.

Speaker 2 (01:28:44):
Have we already done this once? No, you haven't the
last time he had a girlfriend?

Speaker 3 (01:28:47):
When you did that?

Speaker 2 (01:28:48):
Right? Did we did this last time you had a girlfriend?

Speaker 4 (01:28:51):
I think he might have just asked me about it,
and I don't think so.

Speaker 1 (01:28:53):
Bones Okay, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:28:56):
It's not that shocking because one, you're a pretty good dude,
normal dude, and you already had a girlfriend at one point,
So I guess I'm not that shocked.

Speaker 1 (01:29:01):
This is a serious one.

Speaker 2 (01:29:02):
It is serious girlfriend.

Speaker 4 (01:29:04):
It's the same girl.

Speaker 2 (01:29:06):
What as before?

Speaker 4 (01:29:06):
Yeah, I'm back with the same girl.

Speaker 6 (01:29:08):
Wait, that's.

Speaker 2 (01:29:11):
Okay, Now we've twisted.

Speaker 4 (01:29:12):
Yes, okay, so that's a twist on it.

Speaker 2 (01:29:14):
Yeah, you sait this with a.

Speaker 5 (01:29:15):
Dead people and I'm that sixth sense and I'm back
with her and things could not be any better. And yeah,
like I just said, it's a very serious one. How
did you guys get back together?

Speaker 3 (01:29:25):
It was me.

Speaker 5 (01:29:26):
Took about a year off. We didn't even talk for
a year. I did a lot of work on myself.
Therapy actually is probably the biggest thing I could put
that too. Did a lot of work on myself.

Speaker 1 (01:29:35):
And it wasn't with Eddie, right, Yeah, we would meet
once a week.

Speaker 2 (01:29:38):
Yeah, so a.

Speaker 5 (01:29:39):
Completely different person, much more intentional now with my feelings
and with her and things cannot be.

Speaker 2 (01:29:44):
It's good man, that's awesome. Yea, I was not expecting this.
It was the same girl though.

Speaker 1 (01:29:48):
Yeah, it's pretty awesome. I mean I liked her. She
used to come to our basketball games when Kevin was
an assistant coach for my ten year old son.

Speaker 2 (01:29:55):
I'm surprised she took you back.

Speaker 4 (01:29:56):
I am too, thank god.

Speaker 2 (01:29:57):
Mostly but more dudes, and we do dumb. Yes, it's
hard to like usually somebody else scoops them up.

Speaker 1 (01:30:03):
Yeah, that's what I was just saying, that she didn't move, you.

Speaker 5 (01:30:04):
Know, she wasn't within anybody else like, and he's like, wow,
you got luckily, no, dude, I know.

Speaker 2 (01:30:09):
So very happy, very fortunate.

Speaker 1 (01:30:11):
Okay, before you man, thank you.

Speaker 6 (01:30:12):
So here's the decision I had to make.

Speaker 2 (01:30:18):
Oh yeah, this is the invitation too after RSVP about
five o'clock today. It's the Tops Transcendent Party invitation. I
bought it online. What day is that it's on. It's
in Baltimore, it's today, it's in August. To date, it's
in August August.

Speaker 1 (01:30:39):
Yeah, pretty open in August.

Speaker 4 (01:30:41):
So I don't even have to look at my calendar.
I'm open.

Speaker 2 (01:30:43):
The deal is and it's tough. It is a tough decision.
I bet it was, but I'm doing pretty clear. In August.
Here's the deal, Eddie. I'm going to offer it to you. Yeah,
hold on, yes, but you don't you get to go.
I don't know who the celebrity is gonna be this there.
I don't even know what it is. But any of
the cards that they give away I'm keeping. Just give

(01:31:03):
me one, okay, I'll tell you what. I'll give you
a few, okay, but overall, because I had to pay
two thousand dollars, I forget how much I had to
pay for this, maybe twenty eight something like that, And
that's awesome, that's how much, because they usually went for
five thousand. And I knew I got it last minute
because the personbably faking out, he wouldn't be able to

(01:31:24):
sell it. That's the invitation right there. So I got
an email.

Speaker 1 (01:31:28):
It's a golden ticket. So yeah, it's like, will you
I have to steal with a baseball on it and everything.
So here's the dates. Yeah, make sure I'm open here,
I see you got it's we got a dental cleaning
on the twenty third.

Speaker 2 (01:31:42):
Oh to find the day clear.

Speaker 1 (01:31:48):
It's the twelfth, okay, twelve, no dot on the twelve, dude,
I'm open. What time are we leaving? I'm gonna put
this in right now. This is amazing.

Speaker 3 (01:31:59):
So we'll go to Baltimore.

Speaker 2 (01:32:00):
We may all go to Baltimore. We may go to
do the podcast up there too. I don't know. I'm saying,
if we can get any sort of access anyway, sneak
these guys in.

Speaker 1 (01:32:06):
They can't get into this, well why not? Because this
is hey, dude, No, they can dress up like chefs
or like some.

Speaker 5 (01:32:12):
That door, like wedding crashers.

Speaker 6 (01:32:15):
I can do that, no problem.

Speaker 2 (01:32:16):
Okay, So I'm going to I'm gonna but once our
SDP you can't not go.

Speaker 3 (01:32:21):
Yah.

Speaker 1 (01:32:22):
Well, let me find that out with the boss. I'm
sure I'm better.

Speaker 2 (01:32:24):
I have to know in like the next hour.

Speaker 1 (01:32:26):
Yeah yeah, I'm going home right after this.

Speaker 2 (01:32:27):
Okay, So I'll keep this well r s CPU. It
says r SVP by five pm Eastern, and you're not
gonna get pissed. So that's four pm Central.

Speaker 1 (01:32:37):
What You're not gonna get pissed? If I like see
like Wade. They bring Wade bogs and me and Wade
just hang out all night.

Speaker 2 (01:32:43):
Nah, I's all right, okay.

Speaker 1 (01:32:45):
Because Wade's my dude.

Speaker 2 (01:32:49):
What Wade's my dude? Okay?

Speaker 6 (01:32:52):
All right?

Speaker 2 (01:32:52):
Next up, So I saw something and I got Mike
a gift, much like I got Kevin a gift with
Robert Parrish Jersey card.

Speaker 9 (01:33:00):
So I was on.

Speaker 2 (01:33:00):
I go on this auction site. It's called a heritage auction,
and a lot of times it's like crazy stuff, like
fancy stuff. I don't even get evolved in. I bought
a few cards. Yeah, I bought like pewee Reez nineteen
forty one. Whoa like stuff like that? They have really
cool Stat's cool. So I got online. They were doing
an auction for this what your video is? They were

(01:33:24):
doing an.

Speaker 6 (01:33:24):
Auction of.

Speaker 2 (01:33:28):
Classic cartoon movies, and the auctions where because back in
the day when they used to animate, they would just
draw it hundreds of times in like basically flip boocket.

Speaker 1 (01:33:38):
Yeah. So what I have here anymore?

Speaker 2 (01:33:40):
Nah? Computers?

Speaker 7 (01:33:41):
Now?

Speaker 2 (01:33:41):
Man, what I have here for Mike. It's from nineteen
forty and the movie Pinocchio. This is Stromboli, one of
the animated animation drawings from nineteen Holy crap, that is amazing, Mike,
And like all the information is up on the side here,

(01:34:03):
but it's like from nineteen forty and it's got like
it was like a production two thousand and three scene eight,
whatever that is. But that is Strongboli from Pinocchio in
one of the many animation drawings.

Speaker 1 (01:34:16):
It is amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:34:17):
You know how much I love animation. Yeah, and this
is like old school awesome.

Speaker 6 (01:34:20):
I thought, Yeah, like.

Speaker 2 (01:34:21):
An animation sale has been in my dream of like
owning something like that.

Speaker 6 (01:34:24):
So there you go.

Speaker 2 (01:34:24):
I kept it. It's not bent, it's in the thing.
Do whatever you want with it, or we can flip
a coin fifty fifty. Hey, Mike, what you need to do?
Hand that over to Mic. You need to find Hey,
what you need to find, Mike, is that scene that
frame in the movie. That's amazing. There you go, Man,

(01:34:49):
that's cool.

Speaker 1 (01:34:50):
Somebody really drew that.

Speaker 2 (01:34:52):
So now everybody's got a gift.

Speaker 3 (01:34:54):
You got a gift.

Speaker 1 (01:34:54):
I'm going to a party. You know who got screwed?

Speaker 2 (01:34:57):
Kevin he got like a Robert Parrish fifteen twenty dollars card,
and Mike's got a Pinocchio nineteen forty and Eddie's got
a going to a party.

Speaker 5 (01:35:04):
All right, all right, I got plenty of plenty of
gifts in life.

Speaker 2 (01:35:06):
I keep I keep an eye out.

Speaker 1 (01:35:08):
He's got a girlfriend.

Speaker 4 (01:35:09):
Yeah that's true.

Speaker 2 (01:35:09):
All right, blow that whistle.

Speaker 9 (01:35:10):
We're out here.

Speaker 4 (01:35:11):
See guys, where's it up there?

Speaker 2 (01:35:12):
It is

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