Opening Kickoff 5-13-25 Jessica Kleinschmidt on MLB plus NBA

On this show: Dave Steinwedel, Payton Girod, Brandon Stephens, and David Miles are back to talk:

How their moods are. (1:10-6:20)

A's Pre and Post Game Host Jessica Kleinschmidt joins the show to talk Rafel Devers, the struggles of the Orioles, the influence of front offices in daily baseball operations, the start of the season and more. (6;21-31:30)

The guys talk NBA Playoffs plus are joined by a guest. (32:00-END)

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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(01:15):
the Opening kick Off Podcast. A little sorrow for one
of our members. On this show, we'll talk about that.
We're talking a little baseball here this week, I am
your Rose. Dave Salmonel joined as always buy my great
co host, starting with the man that's very happy right
now because the seventy six Ers got the third pick.
That would be David Miles.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
Yes, sir, I am doing a lot better than I
was ready to be today. I was going to be
very much. I'm already in my feelings because of what
we talked about off record. So you know, moving forward,
the future of the Sixers hopefully is breat But let's
let's take it one thing at a time, you know, Yeah,

(01:56):
let's let's get let's get into it.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Peyton Gerd is here with us. Peyton good to see
is always sir.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
You know, I have no I have no teams really
playing right now, so yeah, I can't be hurt. It's like, uh,
it's like that part when you don't follow every sport
like very thoroughly, or I mean, I don't have Pittsburgh
doesn't have an NBA team, so I literally never care.
Uh It's great because I can never get hurt, but
I can be like piss with the other fans to

(02:25):
get upset like everyone in the NBA. The fact that
Maps just got the first pick I think everyone's like
that just doesn't seem fair. That just doesn't seem right.
Something wrong with that. But I'm good, great, h.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
The guy, the guy only should that's not doing so
hot right now. Brandon Stevens doing fun actually great.

Speaker 4 (02:49):
Oh the game hasn't started. It soon, there's no two,
so they can't help me.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
They can't.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
I just don't even I don't even you know, this
talk just sad. I don't know. I don't expect this
from yet.

Speaker 4 (03:05):
But it's just so like you gotta understand how frustrating
and also funny it is to be dealing with the
same stuff from.

Speaker 5 (03:14):
Like six years.

Speaker 4 (03:15):
Ago, Like, yeah, nobody has learned a single thing in
this organization.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Really tell me more, Please tell me more.

Speaker 5 (03:24):
Really hilarious.

Speaker 4 (03:25):
I mean, it's kind not the same because we want
a championship, so like somebody learned something, just we You.

Speaker 5 (03:33):
Just can't shake the bad habits like the.

Speaker 4 (03:38):
Three the twenty twenty three heat series should have been enough,
like going down three and then somehow forcing three three
and then Tatum's ankles snapping in the first fifteen seconds.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
Yo, I forgot that even happened.

Speaker 4 (03:54):
Like everybody should have learned after that point they're like, Okay,
we can't just like mess around with these games, like
we need to just be winners.

Speaker 3 (04:05):
And then are you actually worried though? Are you like
actually genuinely like.

Speaker 5 (04:09):
Like where we lose tonight?

Speaker 3 (04:11):
Yeah, I mean, but forget that. Let's say right now,
this moment one to ten ten being like, oh my god,
if I could blow this team up and just save
us the embarrassment, I would do it.

Speaker 5 (04:21):
Absolutely not. I'm like a strong five and a half.

Speaker 3 (04:26):
I feel like that's high too, though, Like I mean
I don't I'll speak for myself, but I feel like
the other NBA fans here, like I do not feel
like this is out of your hands, Like you can't
you just beat the shit out of them in the garden.

Speaker 4 (04:41):
Yeah, I mean they haven't played a good game yet.
Like that's what's like really crazy. That's what I saw
a tweet.

Speaker 5 (04:48):
The other day. It was so funny.

Speaker 4 (04:49):
It was like the Celtics are crumbling because this is
the best roster that they've played with, this current composition
of this team. And I'm like, there's no way that
you watch the playoffs last year and that's the take
that you come up of this week, Like which one
of those teams did we play last year is losing
to this current Knicks roaster. Certainly not the Pacers, not

(05:11):
the NBA final runner up Mavericks, not the Cavs, like,
none of these teams are losing to the Knicks. So
I don't really understand what that's all. But there's my
my opening monologue.

Speaker 3 (05:23):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
Do you do you feel better to get that off
your chest?

Speaker 4 (05:27):
Brandon, No, no, no, no, I don't answer your question.

Speaker 5 (05:34):
No, I don't.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
The honesty is appreciated, Mallyam. Jessica Kleinschmidt from the Sacramento
Ace joined us a couple days ago. Did to hear
that interview in its entirety, lots to talk about in
the baseball world, including the struggle of the Orioles, Rafael
dever Is refusing to want to play first base, and
some fallout from that with the Red Sox organization. Potentially

(05:58):
it doesn't feel like there could be move there. We
talk about all of that and more with Jessica, and yeah,
we're gonna talk some NBA playoffs here in a couple
of minutes, but we're gonna turn it over to that interview.
Brandon and I got to do with Jessica here in
a moment, so we'll be back with more Opening Kickoff
a little later. Welcome back to the Opening Kickoff podcast.

(06:21):
Dave stylein alongside Brandon Stevens, and we are pleased to
be joined by one of the more talented people covering baseball.
I'm pulling up her bio right now so I don't
mess this up. She is an A's broadcaster, multimedia journalist.
She does some work for Baseball America and the hosts

(06:41):
of the Short and to the Point podcast, That would
be Jessica Kleinschmidt kind enough to join us on the
A's off day. Jessica, how's the season going?

Speaker 6 (06:50):
Honestly, not being biased, We're having a lot of fun
right now, and I think heading into that the most
recent Mariners series is a big test for the guys.
Has people believe in the strength or the non strength
of schedule and the A's. We're winning a lot of
games against you know, the White Sox and the Marlins
and those types of games, but we have a really

(07:11):
tough stretch ahead of us, so it's gonna be another
big test for the guys. Having fun though it's a
great season so far, I.

Speaker 1 (07:17):
Was gonna say, having fun in really an interesting situation
moving to Sacramento. How of the guys transition from being
in Oakland to now Sacramento calling that home.

Speaker 6 (07:30):
I mean, it's you have to remember, these guys don't
really live in their cities anyway that they play for
half the time, so they're kind of used to being
a little bit nomadic. But they're adjusting fine. I mean,
I love Sacramento. I'm from Reno. That's my hometown. So
it's right in between Oakland and I guess Oakland and
Reno because I'm making this about myself all of a sudden,

(07:50):
but those things where they like it because it's you know,
Oakland has it has that great coliseum and we love
it there. But I think Sacriment. I know they were
salivating at the mouth to bring a major League Baseball
team there. And I've called a bunch of games in Tripaa.
They have really smart and fun fans and so that's
been exciting. And like I'm kind of a food nerd

(08:12):
and they have really good food spots in Sacramento, and
I know the guys are the same way. But they're
adjusting fine. I mean, they're just playing baseball, it's more
about like cut and paste. I think the biggest adjustment
is we don't really know the identity of how the
field plays yet. People say, you know, it's a PCL
area or PCL stadium, so like balls are gonna fly,
But you can't really say that if they haven't played

(08:34):
that many games where there was two major league teams
going up against each other. So we'll see it's still
identifying itself. But yeah, balls fly there. It doesn't matter
that it's it's not turf like we were kind of anticipating,
but it kind of plays like turf, So those aspects
are there. But you mean, the other adjustments is just
like location in like the clubhouses are behind the field

(08:55):
and that's kind of different and those little things. But
other than that, like they're obviously adjusts really well, if
you just look at the record, I was.

Speaker 1 (09:02):
Gonna say the A's are one of the more exciting
teams in baseball. One of the more exciting teams is
the Boston Red Sox, and they're kind of in the
news today. Rafael Devers has been adamant that he's not
gonna play first base now. He did make a comment
a statement earlier today. That said and quote, he was
told in spring training he was gonna mainly be a DH,

(09:25):
he wasn't gonna play a lot of third. After they
signed Alex Brigman, Tristan Cossis goes down with the knee injury,
so the Red Sox then approached him about playing first base.
You're around teams covering them every day. How common is
it for a player to say, hey, I've been told this,
I'm not really gonna adjust to that. Because he makes

(09:45):
a good point in that it's hard to learn a
new position during the season. So when you see this
Rafael Devers stuff, what do you make of it?

Speaker 6 (09:54):
I think it's kind of an excuse, to be honest.
I mean, like you think about I think Tyler's so
Orstrum who is what was a catcher and he's young, right,
I mean it's a different mentality. You're young, you can
you're more spry. I understand that. To go from being
the catcher to the every day first baseman to moving
to left field. He was just like, whatever works for
the team. Mind you, you cannot leave a Soderstrum bat

(10:16):
or Miguel on doo hardbat out of that lineup. So
you have to figure out what they're going to do. Defensively,
Dhing is probably going to be Burnt Brooker, so I
can respect him being honest enough saying like, I can't
do this, and let's be honest. The moneyball quote. First
base is very hard to play, and we know that
because of the these gold gloves and these these these

(10:36):
hitters that come out of that position, and you have
to be wicked smart. I totally did that without realizing
I mentioned Boston. That wasn't towards you, Brandon at all.
But it's just one of those things you have to be.
You have to have a really decent baseball IQ to
play first base, and I don't want people to take
that for granted. So I can respect it, but I
also I mean, if you want to play a position

(10:58):
and you have a what is he batting right now?
Is he batting even well enough to stay in the lineup.
I mean, it's one of those things that you have
to think about there. And defensively, you know, first base
you can kind of move them around the lineup as
far as depending on how they're hitting. If they're hitting
for average, you can kind of cut in paste. If
they're hitting for power, you got to keep them in
the lineup. But you know, Bregman, obviously he's going to

(11:19):
have to stay there because not just from the fact
that they spend all the money on him, but the
way he hits is great at Fenway. So just one
of those aspects where I could see where he's coming from.
But kind of an excuse.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
I was just saying, two fifty five six homer owns
twenty five RBIs not bad numbers for devs, but you could.

Speaker 6 (11:40):
Argue each each way. But I feel like, if you're
playing for the Boston Red Sox, you have a really
very amazing coaching area, coaching aspect to it, so you
have the resources there. So I don't know, I just
fully it just feels like there's just more stuff coming
out around Devers and it's just like one thing after another,
these off the field stuff. So obviously there's more stuff,

(12:05):
there's more going on there. But I can respect him
saying like I respect this position too much and to
not take it for granted. But I'm not really getting
that vibe.

Speaker 1 (12:15):
I was gonna say the comments he made didn't exactly
come that way. The other part that kind of struck
me is he said he had the conversation with the
GM about that. He was a d H the whole time,
and I know we're in that era of gms are
heavily involved in the day to day operation.

Speaker 6 (12:33):
I believe that happened.

Speaker 1 (12:34):
I could believe that, okay, And that was going to
be my next question to you was whether that is
as believable because I we talked with Joe Madden a
couple years ago and he said the gms were starting
to get a little more hands on in the day
to day operations and Boston I never figured as one
that would be that way.

Speaker 6 (12:52):
Yeah, And I mean I work with David Forst who
I asked him actually over the off season, where's Tyler's
oors from going to play? And he said, if you
ask Mark. So he's good getting a lot of stuff
to cots. He's making sure that Kotsay can make these decisions.
But he also said, we're not going to be throwing
away Tyler's catcher's gear at all. So they're on the

(13:13):
same level. And we have asked managers before, are you
saying this or is it coming from the front office,
And it's difficult for them to answer that because obviously
they're in front of the media. But gms do make
decisions right, and that's why they have success. And the
front office they're just as competitive as the guys on
the field themselves. And a lot of times some of

(13:34):
these moves don't come to fruition in a long time.
The ROI is not there or the ROI isn't there yet.
But I could see that. I mean, you're going to
have a discussion about the overview of what it's supposed
to look like. But I mean, every single day something happens,
we're re anticipating cost is going down. No, So it's
just one of those aspects that take place. And when
you're a DH I get it if you're especially if

(13:58):
you grew up or grew up playing like you were
playing in the al for a while and that's what
you were adjusted to. But like times are obviously changing,
and so it's all about switching it up. And like
we have miguel on Duhart playing third base, and like
the last time he did that, I probably wasn't legal
to drink, you know what I mean, Like those things happen,
and I feel like Mickey's great, but he's not the

(14:21):
best third baseman in the world. You know, but we
have to put him in the lineup, but he was
willing to do that too. I feel like mentally you
could relate them, to relate him to Devors as far
as like the years and like kind of veteran status there.
But I also know that front office, if they're if
they're a really good front office, they'll let the manager

(14:43):
do his job. And I just that's Alex kra for you. Like,
he's definitely a guy that is super respected. Him alone
can get nine wins just from his managerial responsibilities. But
I don't know the vibe in the front office, so
I can't say it. However, gms are known to talk.

(15:03):
I mean they have to talk to the players, Like
forst is always out there during batting practice checking in.
I'm not sure he's out there saying you're gonna be
a DH forever, but it's one of those those things
where it's not unheard of.

Speaker 1 (15:18):
I've tried to delay this as long as possible, but
you are an Oriole fan because you grew up as
an Oriel fan. I'm a die hard go to as
many games as possible. This has been a tough start
for the Orioles, and right now there's a lot of
people that want a lot of people's heads to be
on the chopping block. They're ten games under five hundred.

(15:41):
They just got swept by the Twins. How close is
this to panic time for the Orioles?

Speaker 6 (15:47):
You know what, I will say from the overview aspect,
there isn't one team running away with it, so being
ten games behind isn't really the end of the world,
I feel. Plus, it's still kind of early, and I'm
playing Devil's advocate just on the fact that, I mean,
there's a lot of talent on that team. I obviously
I know Raon Loriano very very well, and they were

(16:09):
very outfield heavy during the off season, which was very weird.
I also think that they didn't put any monetary value
in starting pitching. We weren't expecting the Morton move, right,
but those things happened. But I feel like it has
lots to do with pitching, because the hitting's there, the
defense is there. But it's also frustrating because the last

(16:32):
couple of seasons, like when JP Sears had a good
outing against the Orioles, that was a big deal because
of those bats, and now it's kind of like, okay, well,
but here's the thing though, y'all, baseball is weird. Baseball
is weird. People tried to get me to talk crap
about the Marlins when Mason Miller blew that save. But
Stours is a legitimate hitter. So like these young guys

(16:54):
that have these young teams, I guess are not really
as young as they used to be, but they have
some pops of talent, Like things will happen and it
could be you know, who they're going up against in
certain aspects, every guy, every team's going to have their
day and baseball is going to be baseball. But I
don't think they put enough value into starting pitching. And
obviously things shift, but coming from what I've seen just

(17:20):
from very successful teams over the last couple of seasons,
you've got to go for starting pitching and they just didn't.
And I think that that's kind of showing the domino effect.
Like I said, there's some talent on there, they're just
like not performing, they're not finding the gaps that they
need to. And not to mention the fact that there
was extra pressure there right because of what they did
last season, they were almost you know, kind of they

(17:42):
were right at the very beginning of postseason, and I
think with all the extra pressure that they have from
you know, these big rookies and winning these unique individual awards.
I got to be honest, Ali Rutchman, I don't know
what happened to him. I don't like he was supposed
to be everything and rightfully so, I just from my

(18:04):
point of view, I don't know if it was extra
pressure or what. But he didn't show up the way.
And I'm not just talking about numbers, because these things happen,
and I'm a firm believer if you put so much
pressure on a highly touted prospect, they're going to let
you down because that's just what they do in baseball.
You're playing a sport at the highest level of failure
in a professional setting. So people don't understand the numbers.

(18:27):
But I think for him it was extra pressure. I mean,
I think it was a domino effect and I'm just
not seeing the ingredients it takes to be a successful
postseason team right now.

Speaker 1 (18:42):
Yeah, that I'm a little disheartened, because that's honestly the truth.
I have had to debate Orio fans for a while
because there's also a point they have all these highly
talented prospects and everybody's loved them, but if you really
look at how they've done since they've gotten up here.
I mean, Gunner had a great year last year, he
hit two thirty ADLEI you mentioned that he hasn't looked

(19:03):
good at the plate in nine months. I mean he's
got the same swing that he's had since the All
Star break last year. And we all said last year, oh,
he was injured at he'll bounce back. He hasn't bounced
back Jackson Holiday, I mean he's had to tinker his
swing three times since he's been at the majors. Hes
sin kersaid, we love him for a month when he's

(19:24):
red hot, he hits one to ninety. The rest of
the time, that's like, there's too much. I almost want
to say the fan base here got too over zealous
too quickly, and really we're maybe starting to see that
like an Adlie Rutchman and I love this guy. When
I make this comparison, he's a Matt Wieters. Matt Wieters

(19:44):
hit two thirty with fifteen home runs. That's just not
what you were expecting Adlie Rutchman to be. But that's
what Adley looks like. Yeah, Orton.

Speaker 6 (19:53):
He and he was one of the rare catchers where yeah,
you're it's important for a catcher mainly to be the
servant the picture. We want to make sure you're calling
games well the game planning, but he also had We
saw what he was able to do power wise. And
it's weird because when you look at this team, you
mentioned the averages, and I swear in the last couple
of years, people don't give a crap about averages anymore,

(20:16):
and it drives me crazy. They're just like, oh, well,
they're hitting this many home runs and they're ops great.
And the isolated power, yes, that's important, but if you
don't balance that out with guys who were getting on base,
what are you going to do? So it's feast or famine, Right,
you have these solo bombs, great, but what are you
going to do when you're going up against a team
who can get runners in scoring position and get them

(20:39):
to more than ninety feet away And those aspects come
into play. So you mentioned the averages, and that's something
to pay attention to. And I feel like if you
wanted to take your job seriously, you would arrive at
spring training a little bit better than some of these
guys did I'm not going to even name names, but
I just feel like the amount of money and love

(21:01):
an organization puts into you and you show up not ready,
that's a sign of disrespect in my eyes. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (21:09):
How much of the Orioles issues do you think falls
on management? Because I think I have this conversation with
my friends at least twice a week about Brandon Hide
and I have no idea like how he's still the
skipper for the Orioles.

Speaker 3 (21:23):
I really don't get it.

Speaker 5 (21:24):
I mean, this guy's got the longest leash in the league.
It feels like.

Speaker 6 (21:28):
That's it's a it's a great question. I just know
that management is a huge thing. We were talking about
front offices versus management. I don't know how Alias deals
with Hyde, but I also know that when it comes
to some of the things that he's done, they've been questionable, right,

(21:49):
I mean the way he manages the bullpen, I don't
know the way the and when it comes to the bullpen,
that's the big test of like who the manager is.
They're not getting calls from from the front office most
of the time, at least that I know. I don't
know how it works, but when it comes to that.
And he's also kind of I feel like he's trying
to figure out what kind of a manager he is,

(22:13):
and it's difficult when you're those in between teams that
have kind of, you know, kissed the playoffs like little
peck on the lips of a playoff run, and there's
going to be extra pressure there. I understand. I'm not
the biggest fan of people just blaming it on one person,

(22:34):
but I also know that it's easier to fire one guy.
Just having with Shelton today, it's easier to fire one
guy than twenty six guys, right, So for him, I'm
just it's not growing pains anymore. And I talked to
him last year about development and he had the mentality
of they shouldn't be developed in developing anymore because if

(22:55):
the few years prior it was like the A's, you
just kind of get them out there. They need their
reps and if they get a lot of it, that's great,
that's how they're going to shine. But they had to
put a lineup together that was winning, so that's you
got to suck it up. There's no more development, and
especially because we're you mentioned holiday, maybe a little bit

(23:16):
more from him, but at least should be ready to go.
Gunner Jordan, like, these guys need to be ready to go.
I feel like there's something else going on. I don't know,
but I don't. I also don't like putting it all
on one person. I just know that if somebody does
get fired, it's usually just the manager. So yeah, And.

Speaker 4 (23:38):
What do you think the remedy to their runners in
scoring position problem could be? Since April twenty ieth, the
Oriels are sixteen for one twenty three with runners in
scoring positions. Do you think that comes down to like
roster composition or just how much effort guys are.

Speaker 6 (23:54):
Putting in day and day of I think it could
be both. I mean, it's runners in scoring position is
one of the those aspects where I know I say
feast and famine a lot, but it's the truth. And
you know, the A's we're winning a lot of games
simply off the home run. And it was one run games,
and it was off of one home run. And I

(24:14):
know they say chicks dig the long ball, and that
helps every now and then, but I mean, whatever happened
to situational hitting or small ball, I still love that, right,
We're still playing that, so I think that is part
of it. And you mentioned the averages there and you know,
I mean Cedric Mullens has what he's tied with a
few guys with the most home runs, and that's fine,
But it's situational and it's one of those things where

(24:37):
if you're putting a lineup together, I'm a firm believer
and don't give up after the fourth spot, like once
you're doing with the cleanup heatter, you just kind of sprattle,
like put guys there and like hope for the best.
You have to stand which the guys who are making
contact in between the hard hitting guys, or you're not
going to get anywhere. And I know I'm not really

(24:57):
on the scouting report with what they're doing. I'm not
seeing exactly what they're doing or the small things they're
putting into their everyday stuff like obvious saying and with
the athletics. But I also know that it could be
a structure thing, and it could be a situation of
they think this is going to work out and then
it doesn't, but they don't change anything about it. Like
I said, I'm not looking at the roster every single day,

(25:19):
but it's just one of those things where it's a
baseball thing too, Like you can't force them to hit
the ball, like they're not all e chiero, or they're
just going to tell you where they're going to hit it,
or Jacob Wilson for that matter. So it's just one
of those aspects.

Speaker 2 (25:34):
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (25:35):
They just gotta they have to like just hit the ball.
And it sounds so cliche, but you know how many
guys give me the cliche answers because it's true. Like
Jeffrey Springs was really struggling for a few outings and
I asked him, like, what do you need to do
in your next start? He's like, I just need to
make my pitches and get the ball over the plate.
And this is a guy who's been pitching for a

(25:57):
long time, and when he did that, things happened. So
the cliches is slowing the game down. I don't know
what's going on. A lot of these guys are making
harder on themselves. They're getting in their head. They're trying
to tinker their swing too much. You mentioned Holiday, but
especially younger guys, right, Like if the numbers aren't showing,
maybe they're trying something else and not just staying true
to what they are supposed to be doing or what

(26:17):
makes them successful, because the numbers aren't coming as quickly
as they want. So that could be an aspect too,
But I mean there's a multitude of reasons why you
just leave guys like Ducks on the pond.

Speaker 3 (26:29):
You know.

Speaker 1 (26:31):
I want to talk about the other team in the
Bay Area. The Giants feel like the surprise of the
of really the whole baseball season, because we all knew
the Dodgers were going to be there, we knew San
Diego was going to be good, we expected Arizona to
be up there. The Giants kind of surprise everybody. They
go out and they get Willia Domas. Are the Giants
right now the biggest surprise in the entire in baseball?

Speaker 6 (26:53):
To you, I hm, that's a good question. I would say.
Hens they did have these like high, high brow moves
that I was like, okay, Like I'm not the type
of person to say like, oh, adamis was gonna change
everything because Yas is having a pretty amazing season. It's

(27:14):
like these guys that you're not always anticipating it from
who leaves healthy. You know, obviously starting pitching is super strong.
So I think that those are the type of aspects.
And obviously I'm a Bob Melvin girl. He's He's the
reason I'm so good at my job. I learned from him.
So from that aspect, I'm not surprised if you if
you look at the ingredients that they have, Fitzgerald underappreciated

(27:38):
these and he worked with Barry Bonds like you have
that resource. So these things don't surprise me in that aspect.
But like I said earlier, it's not really like one
team running away with it. Maybe the Tigers because they
were obviously I think at one point they're the best
record in the game. But for what I've seen from
the way that Boat mel manages, he's so smart and
he's so appreciative. He's a gamer and appreciates the eye

(28:03):
tests and the feel for the game where we're all
kind of obsessed with stats, and I think from that
point of view, on top of it, you know, hitting
and winning is contagious. You wan, I'm talking. I know
I'm on cliche run right now, but it's just true.
But really it really is. And you mentioned, you know,
the Padres and the Dodgers, like the Padres are one

(28:25):
of our probably the best team in my eyes that
don't ever win the World Series, right, they're like just
they're so damn good and they obviously it doesn't matter
if you're not a good October team, nothing else matters.
Like that's why the Boston Red Sox they're always good.
You can be at the mediocre team, if you make
it to the postseason and you're the Boston Red Sox,

(28:47):
you can handle it. You're gonna go far. And it's
just kind of one of those aspects. But I also
know that overall, I'm not surprised, but I could see
the people thinking it was a surprise. But you know,
I do look at some of these things, the minutia
of what they put in a little bit closely, so
like like for instance, Tyler Soderstrum and Jacob Wilson, I'm

(29:10):
not surprised that they're having the season that they're having
because I see what they put the work that they
put in, I know how athletic they are, so those aspects,
I'm like, yeah, of course we're gonna win some games.
And that's kind of how I feel about the Giants.

Speaker 4 (29:23):
Probably the Gariants are good like every years, maybe maybe
a little less, maybe like eight.

Speaker 5 (29:28):
They just put together like a season where you're.

Speaker 6 (29:30):
Just like, huh, but it's not an even year, so
they can't win the World Series.

Speaker 4 (29:34):
Okay, maybe there's something new.

Speaker 1 (29:38):
Yeah, it's gonna be the odds.

Speaker 6 (29:40):
The odd year. Honestly, that's a that's a great slogan
odd year.

Speaker 1 (29:46):
All Right, Jessica, we're gonna get you out of here
on this. What has Who is your favorite player this
year that you've gotten the talk.

Speaker 2 (29:53):
To so far?

Speaker 6 (29:56):
Oh gosh, I've got to talk to me. Julio rodri
I guess he's pretty awesome. I love him. I'm a
big Mariners fan just because like they're the one team
that the A's cannot be. The A's are playing the Yankees,
I'm chill. Yankees are playing Dodgers. It's fine. When the
Mariners are in town. I'm like, we cannot beat this team.
So I just it's chock full of talent, so probably

(30:18):
probably him, but I've met him before. It's just I
mean I met him again.

Speaker 3 (30:25):
All right.

Speaker 1 (30:25):
Well, that Julio is an interesting character. I love watching
him in center field when he robs guys a home
runs and then the guy does it to him when
he's at the plate and then that you have that
little back and forth during the game.

Speaker 6 (30:36):
Yeah. He also said I was very talented and I
like can never come down from that high.

Speaker 5 (30:42):
So me, that's a big up.

Speaker 2 (30:47):
I was.

Speaker 6 (30:48):
I was actually speechless, which is crazy for me.

Speaker 1 (30:52):
All Right, you and here Jessica all season long on
the pre and post game show for the A's. Thank
you for taking some.

Speaker 3 (30:58):
Time with us.

Speaker 1 (30:59):
Jessica, we had thanks for having me. All Right, we
have more Opening Kickoff in a moment. Welcome back to
the Opening Kickoff podcast our thanks to Jessica Kleinschmidt from
the Sacramento A's kind of enough to join us on
their off day to talk all things baseball. We're gonna
wrap this up. NBA playoffs in full swing. Brandon already
alluded a little bit to his Celtics earlier. But there's

(31:23):
three other interesting series and we'll start with Golden State
in Minnesota, because if there's the second most polarizing series
right now, it would be that one because you have
the Draymond Green. Now you don't have Steph Curry, you
have Anthony Edwards and this Timberwolves team that it feels

(31:44):
like maybe starting to try to figure out what their
identity is in this playoff round against Golden State YEA
with a two to one series lead.

Speaker 3 (32:00):
I'm sorry you cut out. I was like, I don't
know if you did that for the dramatics or I
know you were to Thespian truly. Uh in your in
your spare time. Uh yeah, I mean it's just who
gives a ship? Like it's like without Steph Curry, it
feels like nah, like nah, like I want to see

(32:20):
he was going like it was kind of cool, like
Anthony Edwards's goat. He went for Katie last year, got
Lebron this year. It's like he was doing a little checklist,
you know what I mean, And now it feels like
what is he gonna run in the checklist? It's like
Steph Curry scratch it out. Draymond Green sign right there,
fella sign Like that's like what it feels like. And

(32:41):
I mean classic, like I don't even like get like row.
I don't even I've never actually really gotten that route
up for the Draymond Green incidents, Like Draymond Green does
this ship and he loves to do it. It's like
any any character that you've had on a sports team
that was not liked by everybody else. You love it
if he's on your team, and that's what it is,

(33:01):
and people try to paint it like a different picture,
but like everyone knows what it is at this point.
He tries to get people out of his game. That's
at least what I think. I think it's like a
tactic he tries to do to get people upset, unless
he's actually just insane and just can't listen to anybody
around him.

Speaker 4 (33:19):
Say, I think it's a fair mix between the twitives
for sure.

Speaker 3 (33:24):
Yeah, So I don't know, it's uh, it's just it's
like I'm tired of it. I don't know about you.
Guys like Draymond Green did something shocking like wow, right,
like that's not.

Speaker 5 (33:36):
Like gimmick was over there after you punched his teammate in.

Speaker 3 (33:40):
The Yeah, I mean that one is also still like
amazing to me because like definitely someone like sent that
clip like a security guard like got offered from TMS,
like yeah, here's ten thousand dollars. You send me that video,
you will lose your job, but it's ten thousand dollars.
He's like Manu, he said, he like literally like you

(34:02):
get in a flashback, and he's like, man, Draymond never
said thank you. Fuck that guy the door for him,
He said, get out of my way, Like, man, I'm
just trying to help you out. So I just think
it's like, you know, it's been played. You know, it's
it's like the Jerry Jones. It's all the other ship
you hear on first take every now and again. It's

(34:23):
just we're doing the hits. We're doing the hits. What
works for those guys, and it's like whatever.

Speaker 5 (34:29):
Yeah, treated the dude who got questioned, But.

Speaker 3 (34:33):
That does actually does tell you. I always say, this
is a that tells you how shitty of a person
Jordan Poole had to be, like like like I don't
think it will ever be talked about enough, Like because
he got assaulted.

Speaker 2 (34:49):
What else you have to remember, Like was he that
guy there or was he just the fourth option of
a really stars Yes.

Speaker 5 (34:57):
I think they were half him over ray didn't right.

Speaker 2 (35:02):
Now, I mean, you know, But also I guess my
thing is just he fit very well with what they
had and so the dream in his face. But my
thing is just I think that at the end of
the day, the warriors are showing you what they're like
when Perry retires, Now, was I was carried with thirty six?

(35:22):
Thirty seven? Yeah, like he's he's I don't, I mean, Granny.

Speaker 5 (35:28):
I think he's going He might.

Speaker 2 (35:29):
Last a little bit longer than Lebron if he takes
care of himself.

Speaker 5 (35:32):
At a rate.

Speaker 2 (35:32):
But I think that this is not gonna end well
for them.

Speaker 5 (35:36):
I think that is on. It is on it.

Speaker 2 (35:38):
I'm going to kill your king tour, and by all means,
I'm all for it. I have no dog in this flight.
He could kill everybody. That's fine, go ahead. Yeah, it's
it's fun watching him play. It's fun watching the fun
watching the Wolves play. Consider in fact that they used
to be a joke a couple of years ago. Now,
look at what the first overall pick does. He was
at first overall, but look what a top pick does.

(36:00):
Look what Look what talent does to a team like that.
It's beautiful to see. I'm happy to watch it. I
will be tuned in tonight.

Speaker 1 (36:08):
You know, you know who's not happy though. The league
will not be happy if Minnesota wins the series, because
you because ratings wise, ratings wise, Thunder and Grizzlies is
not gonna be at nearly the ratings get you have
a potential that you have one major market in the

(36:31):
if you're the NBA left after this, and that would
be Boston, Boston or New York. Excuse me.

Speaker 3 (36:39):
I think Anthony Edwards is like I think it's like
so prolific, like the amount of I look back at
like KG early two thousands, right like I was a child,
but like that was like must watch TV at one point,
like it was you gotta watch Kevin Garnett play fucking
basketball and it didn't it like it trumped the whole

(36:59):
market comversation. I hear you on that. But it's like
when a guy like Anthony Edwards is playing the way
he is and he's talking shit the way he is,
I mean, this is this is a pundit stream. I
mean this is WOJ is just looking at his TV
get in the game. He's like, what can I find out?
I will say one thing? Uh, They with the Curry

(37:19):
like kind of narrative, kind of like falling out of
the way because he's hurt. I did see the Steve
Kerr interview come back about his trial with the Warriors
that's been getting circulated the last two days. They're trying
to build a storyline very clearly of like, oh, he
wasn't trying hard and he was like all this and that,
and it's like Steve Kerr was just being a dick

(37:40):
that day. I think, like, I can't imagine that all
these NBA tryouts are even screwling workouts of all time
these days. I can't imagine. It's like, what's someone with
Kevin Garnett, what's someone where he he told Pat Ridley
to go fuck himself or something. That's a famous one,
isn't it. I can't remember there in the Olympics.

Speaker 2 (38:02):
Mmmm, he was like eight.

Speaker 3 (38:05):
I think he was getting drafted. I think it's like
he slammed, dunked. He I said that like such like
a white guy that doesn't know anything about sports. He
dust and he looked at paradly and said fuck you
or something like that, and it was like and then
he clapped because it was like very impressive or something.
But that's just what story is going on. Steve curR

(38:25):
wasn't impressed with Anthony Edwards, like set like five years
ago and now everyone's talking about.

Speaker 5 (38:30):
It so.

Speaker 3 (38:39):
Terrible.

Speaker 5 (38:40):
Well about the rest of the season.

Speaker 2 (38:43):
The rest of the season, including the play playoffs in
the last last round, in the whole team round. I'm
just saying, you saying, I can't sit here and act like, yes,
he made he had one or two man games or
to me, I'm just saying, I don't let the last
couple of games essentially diminish what he's accomplishing.

Speaker 1 (39:07):
Oh, by the way, before we get through the other series,
I do want to bring this up because we're talking
about the Warriors Joanni Santan and Compo MM exploring the
possibility of a trade. Can we all agree? Can we
all agree though, that the Warriors are not a good
match for him?

Speaker 3 (39:24):
Maybe that sounds terrible, That sounds actually like the worst
off spacing.

Speaker 1 (39:32):
Well, I was gonna say that, like they're gonna need
a shooter when Steff goes.

Speaker 3 (39:38):
A measurements, the court is only this big. We can't
fit you here. Yeah, that might be Actually I might
use that. I might steal that for like football. Yeah,
he just didn't work in the space. It's like such
a vague answer. No one will ever buy it. But
they won't. They won't have a follow up to that

(39:58):
because they'll be like, wow, I never even consider that.

Speaker 4 (40:03):
Yeah, I think he should I don't know, man, I
don't know where he's gonna go. Just I can't even
say stay in Milwaukee, because you got to get rid
of two coaches on your staff, and that's gonna.

Speaker 5 (40:14):
Be pretty hard to do. Yeah, just just I don't
know where.

Speaker 3 (40:21):
Does he go? What team?

Speaker 1 (40:23):
I'm just gonna say he doesn't have a lot of Charlotte.

Speaker 2 (40:27):
I mean, honestly, I think he's gonna go to a
team with a big market, with a big bag. But
I'm tryna throw this out there. What if he just
goes to Charlotte. Charlotte's got nothing but a bunch of
young talent. I mean, I'm just saying, you want to
get money here, he had a championship, Yeah, get your money.

Speaker 3 (40:47):
Get money money.

Speaker 5 (40:49):
Yeah, I'm too good to go to Charlotte.

Speaker 3 (40:53):
Charlotte.

Speaker 4 (40:54):
Picked up that phone, I'm banging it on him. One second,
one second their phone is and banged. There's no way
from janis I'm even entertaining the idea of putting a
or in his uniform.

Speaker 2 (41:07):
I will say I saw I saw the ESPN article
that it was like, will he go to the Sixers?
I was like, shut up, just shut up, Like.

Speaker 1 (41:17):
Well they did the same thing with san Antonio, And
it's like, I again, you're kind of back to the
spacing issue. You'd have a gold and Sea, you have Wemby,
Yama and Yiannis like you kind of have the same
type of stretch. Yeah, but you still have the same
type of player. Wemby's just a better shooter than Janie

(41:38):
is and that's what eventually, that's what makes me.

Speaker 3 (41:42):
What about the Mavericks.

Speaker 4 (41:44):
They'd have to give up their first pick and sending
Cooper flag the Milwaukee would be criminal. That'd be pretty funny. Actually,
I wish.

Speaker 3 (41:55):
We had someone to talk to about the mass.

Speaker 7 (41:58):
Yeah, so do I. Daniel Williams joining us.

Speaker 3 (42:10):
There we go in century man.

Speaker 5 (42:13):
We only hear from him when good things are happening.

Speaker 3 (42:17):
Only good thing.

Speaker 1 (42:18):
Life is good, all right, life is good man. You know, Hey, Dan,
I want to get your take on this. We're just
talking about Yiannis Azovan Coopo and we all agree that
he should go to Dallas for the first pick. Oh look, dude,
they want to trade Lively, TJ. Washington, Hardy Cooper flag.
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 8 (42:36):
The sombrero that is the state had of Texas in
the Longhorn Stakes, the whole nine.

Speaker 1 (42:40):
Look, whatever whatever it needs.

Speaker 3 (42:41):
To go to get Sombrero.

Speaker 8 (42:45):
Whenever we need to get you mean Texas, we can
send to.

Speaker 1 (42:54):
Look, the Spurs have already had enough championships.

Speaker 3 (42:56):
Bro, come on, we're good Brendan, Dallas, Brand and DAWs.

Speaker 2 (43:00):
So you've had enough championships too.

Speaker 5 (43:01):
We have one one?

Speaker 3 (43:03):
Yeah, nice Dan. I want to ask you a very
important question right now. Are you upset that Nico Harrison
got let off the hook? Care?

Speaker 4 (43:13):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (43:14):
Two bongs don't make it right.

Speaker 8 (43:15):
So I'm I'm not gonna say that what happened in
February was the right decision. But he has the now
chance to fix that, and this roster has a chance
to be very good in twenty twenty six.

Speaker 3 (43:32):
This man is going into his internship and he is learning.
I tell you what. This guy's taking notes. I mean,
good grief. I need you to write me, start writing
me some ship. When I forgot to send an email,
I'm sorry for that. Let me explain that will never
happen again. Now we have a new opportunity to make
some great decisions. I mean, what was that that was?

(43:55):
That was insane?

Speaker 5 (43:55):
That was like one of those answers him. Yeah, fan re,
I just got like fan boost.

Speaker 9 (44:04):
Okay, well yeah, a Brandon throwing off that little twenty
twenty five or twenty twenty four finals picture you got
there from the parade.

Speaker 3 (44:16):
Brother doesn't do you any help right now.

Speaker 2 (44:18):
You're down to one, all right, you'll better figure it out.
You'll better out.

Speaker 1 (44:23):
Reason usual.

Speaker 3 (44:26):
Easy to talk shit when you're not even at the
in the fight.

Speaker 4 (44:29):
Stick the football bro, Yeah yeah, stick.

Speaker 1 (44:36):
The man just coming on here and calls on all
sorts of trouble. I absolutely love it.

Speaker 3 (44:43):
Look, I love guys.

Speaker 8 (44:44):
I promise you I'll get back on full time with
y'all soon as you can see. Even though you can
hear the little one in the background.

Speaker 2 (44:52):
Nah ky, I'll be right there.

Speaker 3 (44:53):
You want to man, that kid don't give us ship
what he's doing right now? That kid is around. He
uses I want you to know Dan. I don't know
what the word is, but Dan, Yeah, he left Dan
Williams using his kid to get out of more ship
than anyone. I agree, But to a point, like I

(45:17):
know him, it's like he thinks, like I don't know
who he is, Like he thinks I'm going to like
believe that.

Speaker 1 (45:23):
Well, hold on, let's let's ask this question because we
are now completely off topic here. But here, here's the question.
Here's the question when, like where is it appropriate to
use kids as an excuse to get out of something.

Speaker 5 (45:43):
The first like six years?

Speaker 3 (45:47):
Yeah, like elementary school?

Speaker 1 (45:51):
But is it like you use it to like go
to when you don't want to go to dinner with somebody,
Like that's the easy one, David. David's got to look
like he might have already used this.

Speaker 3 (46:08):
Yeah, like David's using it for the right reason right now.
But yeah, yeah, but like I think if you use
it too much, if you use it too much in
the early going, people that are close to you, like this,
Dan Instence, I'm gonna know it's bullshit eventually, Like I'm
gonna be like, you don't want to go I just
just say you don't want to go.

Speaker 4 (46:31):
With your friends, like you could just be straight, like Doug,
I'm cool, like I don't want to do whatever.

Speaker 3 (46:38):
Yeah, but I think Dan Williams is a is a
he's a fucking lie. Yeah yeah, well here's what he does,
and I get it is you know, he's a very
busy fella during the season, and it requires a lot
of time, so he doesn't get a ton of time
at home, which I get. But at some point this
is like for anybody, like even when you're visiting your

(47:00):
folks and stuff, if you want to go visit your
parents after not being around you know, as much or whatever,
they start to get a routine. So they're gonna be
like when are you gonna start doing some ship? Like
what are you? When are you leaving? Right? Like Kyle
is like when are you going back to work? So
I can start watching more movies? And yeah, you got
me going on, You got me doing trying to do

(47:23):
these hoops and ship?

Speaker 1 (47:24):
When is iPad time?

Speaker 3 (47:27):
Ractically? When is blueing coming back out? When are we
watching trolls one, two, and three in a row? Like
when are we doing that? So yeah, I don't know.
I don't know what the right answer is. I mean
I plan to abuse it myself one day, which will
be very funny because I will use it against Dan
and be like, sorry, man, couldn't get kid kids busy

(47:50):
or something like that. Kid's got this, kid's got that
hell of no idea. He won't remember this.

Speaker 5 (47:56):
I know, like the older guys in my office, like
using the excuse to way. They just like my kids
got soccer, they got like baseball.

Speaker 3 (48:03):
Or something that's a classic. One gotta be easy one easy, yeah, uh,
kids gotta gotta take a kid to Dennis the point
I would imagine, I would imagine it's like doing this
at school, Like when a kid's fake sick too much.
They're like, all right, you're you're probably not acting. You
don't need to go home. But if you're like you

(48:24):
gotta go pick your kid up, Eventually they're gonna ask
for the note for the doctor. Your boss is gonna
be like, all right, I mean, is your kid like
dying or like, what's going on here? That's what we
gotta we gotta talk. Do you need more help or
what's happening? So, I don't know what would you use
it for, Dave?

Speaker 2 (48:41):
I mean, what have I used it for.

Speaker 3 (48:45):
You? Yeah, that's a great yourself.

Speaker 2 (48:48):
I've used We've used it to get out of a
family cookout because we just got back from traveling, we're retired.
We got it out of using we got it. We
use it together church things plenty of times because we
didn't they getting up in the morning. I at one
point think my boss thought that I was using my
child's doctors appointments for working from home because I have

(49:12):
to go to the office every day, And at one
point I had like four appointments within the span of
two weeks. I had asked him like the last time, Hey, like,
do you might have my have appointment? And he looked
He's like, yeah, sure, this is.

Speaker 3 (49:29):
The last one.

Speaker 2 (49:32):
Let's see what us. I've used it to get out
of a couple of friend functions that it's not like
we didn't want to go, it's we were exhausted and
Camden was crying. We used it to get out of
going to the store plenty of times. Yeah, Like it's
always just a matterer, just like you know, hey, is
she being unruly? Is she being tired?

Speaker 5 (49:54):
Are we tired?

Speaker 2 (49:56):
And but really, if we're tired, we'll be like, yeah,
Camden's so the nine untout of ten, we're tired because
of Camden. But we'll be like, hey, we probably should
go to this thing, but this counts as mad comfy
and Camden just got put down to sleep, so let's
just show right here. So yeah, like there's definitely times

(50:19):
where like you don't want to overplay it because the
people will count you out. But I mean at the
end of the day, if someone really wanted you there,
to make sure you're there. So it's kind of like,
all right, it is.

Speaker 3 (50:31):
That's a good point. That's a good point. Though you
use it too much, you can fall out of circles
pretty quickly. You just stop. Yeah, they're like, he's got
a kid.

Speaker 2 (50:42):
I mean a couple of things that There are a
few things that will help you fall out of a group,
and one is moving out, moving out of the region.
If the group isn't that tightly knit, then next thing,
you know, boom and you come back.

Speaker 3 (50:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (50:54):
People is different if you get a relationships sometimes and
that you don't know how to balance your friends and whatnot.
That's and another thing is when you have kids and
when your friends don't have kids. Sometimes your friends don't understand, Hey,
this child has been screaming all day and they just
get for a nap. I'm not leaving the house. Your
friends who don't have kids sometimes won't understand that. Some

(51:15):
do you love them. The ones who have kids be like,
you know what, I get it, enjoy your night. I'll
hit you later. But that's just that's just comes with
growing up. And some people you know, in the face
of the inny or not.

Speaker 3 (51:28):
Yeah, I think it's like this has become like a
father's podcast where you get diapers. I think that the
other part is like you also start to fall in
once the kid gets old enough, you start hanging with
the parents, the kids your kid hangs with. That becomes

(51:51):
that that becomes the new crew.

Speaker 2 (51:53):
Like I mean, because you have to look at it,
like you how your friends from school were friends because
as you all went to the same school together. You're
friends with these people because your kids are always together.
It's a friends by proximity. Sometimes they become your best friend.
Sometimes they become you know, for the for the for
the for the for the occasion. Yeah, but yeah, I

(52:14):
mean that's that's the But we're gonna fall in a
couple of years from now, and honestly I could us
a few more friends. But you know, at the end
of the day, I got my core friends. I know
who I can rely on. And if for some reason,
Camden decides she wants to go to different school, I'll say,
by those friends.

Speaker 3 (52:29):
Get yeah, very well said. So there's basketball.

Speaker 1 (52:38):
But I don't even think we try to make the
segue back. I think we just I mean, we're just the.

Speaker 5 (52:46):
Culprit.

Speaker 4 (52:47):
Woh uh, Well, your jeans tried a little bit, all right,
all right, we're not gonna stand a little bit, and
they did not win, but they did try.

Speaker 1 (53:07):
For the video. For the people that can't see, we're
roasting David for the fact that cam then does not
look totally like David.

Speaker 2 (53:15):
Look. For those of you who want to sit here
and rag on me, I just won't let you know that.
It's gotten better there. And Janet is now questioning why
I'm talking. They're they're making fun of the fact that
Cammon looks doesn't look nothing like me.

Speaker 1 (53:27):
That's what gone off the rails.

Speaker 2 (53:31):
All right, Well, Jane's people said that she looks like me.

Speaker 3 (53:33):
So that works a yeah, I would say she looks
like that for sure.

Speaker 2 (53:38):
Well, when she came out, yes, it was splitting himage.
It was Coby peaste. My jeans are starting to fight
back now, stay tuned.

Speaker 3 (53:43):
You know you know what.

Speaker 1 (53:44):
They were down three to one in the series.

Speaker 2 (53:47):
They were down three to one, they were down twenty three,
down three one in the series with two minutes left,
and my genes are not starting to fight back.

Speaker 3 (53:55):
Yeah, I was just saying I don't feel like you
can make the claim who the kid looks like immediately
and you gotta let it. You gotta give it a
little minute, right, like.

Speaker 2 (54:04):
I mean, but to a degree, because like that's that's
like I've been back and forth between my parents depending
on what they should be bad. When I didn't have
a beard, everyone thought that. So everyone thought I looked
like my mom just kind of.

Speaker 5 (54:16):
But then once I.

Speaker 2 (54:17):
Grew my beard out, then they're like, oh, you look
just like your dad would even your ready, And I'm like, okay, well,
which one is it right now? So to a degree,
it will always change, go back and forth. But for
I mean for Camden, it was from out the gate
she was nothing like me, and all of a sudden.

Speaker 5 (54:35):
Wow, she looks like David.

Speaker 2 (54:37):
And I'm like, yes, yes, my family got strong jeans.

Speaker 3 (54:40):
Let's do it.

Speaker 2 (54:40):
Let's go.

Speaker 4 (54:41):
Okay, I don't hear that. I've always got my dad,
and I really couldn't disagree more.

Speaker 3 (54:49):
Make sure pulling up Brandon's looking at the Dada. I
feel like I've seen I feel like I've seen a
photo of them, and now I even like put this
all together.

Speaker 2 (55:01):
Oh, I think I think I can find a photo
of my dad. We talk about off topic here we are.

Speaker 1 (55:12):
We live well off the rails, you.

Speaker 3 (55:15):
Know you Yeah, you look, that is exactly what you're
gonna look like, older dad sixty one, sixty one, that's
who you look like. Dad. On there you go. That's nice, though,
you know what you'll look like. You're like, well, I mean,
you can prepare for it. You can be like, like,
my dad didn't wear that very well, so I'm not
gonna wear that dumb ship You're like, I would say,

(55:38):
like my dad had some interesting fashion choices.

Speaker 4 (55:42):
I'm already I'm already going through that right now, right now,
I'm already like, all right, I know what the what
they stay away from? Yeah, God forbid, I get cut
in it in that trick.

Speaker 2 (55:59):
Oh yeah, I put I put a picture of my
dad at my age in the group. Yet, just for
you all reference.

Speaker 1 (56:07):
Let's see we have not gotten it yet, David.

Speaker 4 (56:11):
Yeah, Oh my goodness, Yeah, I don't even know how
you argue. How do you even argued?

Speaker 1 (56:21):
Oh yeah, you're you're look you're.

Speaker 10 (56:25):
I mean, how I word it is, how I look
at it is that I will always see my dad
and my dad's picture no matter what it's hard for
me to see myself within any of my parents, like even.

Speaker 2 (56:38):
Within my brother.

Speaker 5 (56:39):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (56:39):
Everyone's like you and your brother looks similar.

Speaker 5 (56:41):
I'm like, I don't.

Speaker 1 (56:43):
Right now, you look like the actor that is portray
your dad. That's how dead one you are.

Speaker 5 (56:50):
You are young, young in the biopic, like.

Speaker 1 (56:55):
They casted you perfectly.

Speaker 3 (56:58):
Yeah, I have. I have a picture actually that I
normally use for my brother. It's a fun one of
h when we cleared out my grandmama's place. It looks
like I mean it, it's my dad. And we used
to play with random people, who do you think this
is Ryan or my dad? And it would be like
fifty to fifty. No one would ever get it right.
It was just so insane, but it was uh, yeah,

(57:20):
I don't. I think I don't get anything. I look,
I get that too. Kind of what you said, like
people like you look like your brother and I'm like,
my brother is three inches short of me. No, he
fucking does not a chance.

Speaker 2 (57:32):
I mean my brother, my brother is shorter than me,
he's a lot bigger than me.

Speaker 5 (57:37):
He's bald.

Speaker 3 (57:38):
I have hair.

Speaker 2 (57:38):
For now, I'm usually pretty skin of you, Like there's
the differences between me and my brother that everyone you
looking like I see it.

Speaker 3 (57:48):
Either way.

Speaker 2 (57:49):
As long as my dad looks something like me, I'm cool.

Speaker 5 (57:52):
You know who's got the bold jean? Oh yeah good.
I actually look.

Speaker 1 (57:59):
I've had a receipting hairlines since I was fifteen, so
I really don't.

Speaker 3 (58:02):
But I think I think the thing is I think
you would look I would think you would look fantastic.
Balld You're a fucking high school football coach. You live
in Carroll County. I mean like you're literally like David
knows this guy or with him Payne Lapeer. I convinced

(58:24):
him this is this sounds bad, but we were at
a wedding and I hadn't seen him in a while,
and he still had it. Let me tell you, Dave,
like you are doing great. His was on, like holy shit,
someone get this guy to an emergency room. I was like,
and I had like no one had told him, like

(58:45):
no one had said it to him. And I'm like,
shave your head and he was like, and I said,
I'm being so serious. You look so much better. And
he was like really, And I literally labeled out you're
I school, you cut football, you're white, you got a beard,

(59:05):
just shave it. He was like, okay, see I see him.
No ship. Like a month later he shaved his fucking
had and everyone was telling to me, look great, And
I was like, I told you great, Lo's fantastic.

Speaker 5 (59:18):
Sometimes you just gotta sometimes you got to hear it
from the right person.

Speaker 2 (59:22):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean I've been holding on my
a little bit for at least two years now. Me.
My original deal was I had a picture with my
with my child as long as I had hair.

Speaker 5 (59:32):
I got that.

Speaker 2 (59:33):
Now I'm just like, all right, now it's the pride thing.
So my brother, my brother cut his off at eighteen
or nineteen, and my dad he cut his off like
well in his thirties, even though he had missed. He
probably cut it off earlier. Like it's a matter of
just you have to have the right person tell you,
get that other right, come out of confidence with it,

(59:53):
and then you go from there.

Speaker 5 (59:55):
I'm right here. Yeah, yeah, I tried to do.

Speaker 4 (59:57):
I cut mine off in twenty something like the twenty sixteen.
Maybe it was the summer after high school. I cut
my hair off. That was bold for lick a month.

Speaker 3 (01:00:11):
Love it.

Speaker 1 (01:00:12):
But yeah, yes, okay, okay, I'm almost thirty, so the
day is coming sooner rather than.

Speaker 3 (01:00:22):
I'm lucky right now. My dad had has three brothers
with no hair and he has full head, so he
got they were they're not doing They weren't great with
it either. I mean it's it was. It just didn't
seem fair.

Speaker 10 (01:00:38):
That's what using people like, who is your day?

Speaker 3 (01:00:43):
Grandpa? He ain't have no hair either and not a
lick of it. But I'll say it like this is
they My grandfather and then my uncles were all worked
in the uh they work in the cold coal mines.
So I think the theory is that we all have
is that that hat, wearing that helmet every day. Just
I mean, it's gonna fuck your hairline up eventually. And

(01:01:06):
if you don't have good hair jeans to start, I mean,
you're really fucking yourself. So my dad didn't go in
a coal mine, so he worked out on a desk,
so yeah, he'd beat it.

Speaker 1 (01:01:17):
Yeah, all right, we have had a lot of fun
on this show. We hope you enjoyed it. For Jessica Kleinsmidth,
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