All-Star Shenanigans and Football Nostalgia

The boys are back with a classic sports debate! We dive deep into the All-Star Game, from the ridiculous uniforms to the questionable format. We also reminisce about the glory days of the NFL, comparing the physicality and intensity of the past to today's game.

Plus, we ponder the ultimate question: If you could bring back the rules of any sport, which would it be and why? Get ready for laughs, heated arguments, and a healthy dose of nostalgia.

Episode Transcript

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The boys are back.

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July 16, 2024.
It would be a good week before this is out, but tonight is one of my favorite days as
a kid.
Major League Baseball All-Star Game.
We may reference it during the show.
But anyway, missing the commission, missing the Donfather, Lottie, Angry J, Crocker,

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in a chair tonight.
Pulled them out of the gallery, in a chair.
Literally off the couch.
Welcome, Crocker.
Yeah, what's with some of these guys?
They got the summer schedule?
I know, it's a matter with them.
One guy's in Vegas, like doing what?
Trying out for the WNBA.
Anyway, the Sky Gays are brewing.

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Always comes through.
Summer Shandy.
Capital of Securities.
Vice President.
Joe Morello.
Doesn't do things off the cuff, people.
Alive.
Well planned.
Well planned.
Joseph.
Guys, we got to do All-Star Game stuff first because I'm disgusted by it.

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Pete Rose.
Lit up Ray Fosse, right?
Guy was never the same.
You should have blocked the plate.
Well, the sport's never been the same.
Joe Torrey threw in a towel, 2002, Miller Park.
He ended a baseball game in a tie.
Best players in the world, we ended in a tie.
What's next to do over?

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No, the sweet uniforms they put out this year.
Holy cow.
What are they wearing, honestly?
What is that?
It looks like Super Mario.
Oh, man.
Really, it looks ridiculous.
Oh, the American.
It kind of looks like the first good baseball video game.
You know, the pitchers, and some of them had crazy breaking stuff, Coleco vision or something

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like that.
These aren't athletic uniforms.
Oh my Lord, look at those things.
They're brutal.
Those things are brutal.
And the hats?
Come on.
They're worse.
They're like squared off.
They're like the old pirates squared off hats.
The box hats?
Yeah.
Pilling box hats.
Come on, Major League Baseball.
Get it right.
You got judgy in that thing?

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Oh, brutal.
You can't be a judge like that.
Face of baseball?
Grown up.
One of my brothers was a Mets fan, and he had every yearbook.
And boy did I study those.
P. Falcone.
Sterns, Missilly, Youngblood, Trevino, Neil Allen, Craig Swan.

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Awful teams.
Ken Norman.
But anyway, the last couple pages had a full two page photo of the All-Star Game, All-Star
teams from those years.
Two pages for national, flip it, two pages for American.
And I used to get, you know, my jolly is trying to remember all the guys or memorize the guys.

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And they're all in their different uniforms.
And it was such a great look.
I think maybe one team wore their home version, so everyone wore it, except for a yank.
They had to pin stripes.
And then the away team wore their, for the most part, gray.
But then they throw in the pirates with the black and the yellow and maybe an Indians

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red jersey.
The Braves had some cool ones back then.
The Astros cutting edge.
You know what?
The Astros uniforms from back then that many people hate, they're way nicer than these
All-Star uniforms.
They're the best players in the world.
What I was telling you guys earlier, as a little kid, that was a great night.

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Just watching the introductions.
Because back then, for those of you that are listening, not every game was on TV.
So this was one of the few times you would get to see, especially the National League.
Dave Parker.
Because there was no interleague back then.
You guys like the Colbra and Schmidt and you're like, wow, Pete Rose and the big, you know,
the big red machine and all those guys.

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The introductions were the best part of the night.
The first 10 or 15 minutes.
And then you would, you'd obviously watch the game and those guys were playing the win.
They also wore their own uniforms though.
Like the Reds wore their...
It was awesome.
The National League was the home team.
They wore the white, you know.
Yup.
Welcome to the show, Jake.
Yeah, it was fantastic.
And that steak too.

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Yeah, I mean, well, they played for pride back then.
They wanted the home fielders to be next to it.
I thought that made it cool.
Yeah.
That was a thing for a little while, right?
That wasn't always...
No, it wasn't like that.
Like when I was growing up, but they did, to a cracker's point, they didn't make it part
of the home field advantage.
I think it was after the tie.
It was, yeah.

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Just to incentivize it a little bit more.
But I mean, what other... like, you know, judge may get one at bat tonight.
Like the star's got to play longer.
And not every team...
You think every team should have a representative?
I don't mind that, but they don't have to play.
You don't have to get in the game.
Like the White Sox have an all-star?
They got 20-something wins.

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No, they shouldn't.
I don't.
I think it's okay.
But you know, wave your hat, you know, tip your cap, and then don't play.
Yeah, but you don't need...
Yeah, you...
I'll give you that.
You don't need to expand it if you want to have every team represented, but not everybody
needs to play.
We don't need the gym White Sox in there tonight.
No, like if this was the late 80s night, I mean, Donny's got to play nine innings.

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It's Donny.
You know what I mean?
I know what you mean.
And the MVPs hit two home runs or get three hits and stuff like that.
These guys get one at bat, and then they're out of the game, and they're back on a plane
going home.
Yeah, they're not even getting a horse around the dugout.
Nobody in the dugout.
They're on to doing hot foot.
You watch those highlights from the 70s and early 80s.

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Those dugouts were invested.
Yeah.
After a home run or something like that.
Remember in a National League when we were little, they dominated?
Yeah, the American League.
I was just going to say that.
The American League didn't want it very often.
Leland would be in there ripping a dart.
You know what I mean?
That all-star dart.
Remember the Dave Parker throw?
Oh yeah.
What else would you change besides the uniforms?

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Dick Allen?
I would change that.
I still think it's the best all-star game because the NBA and the NFL are a joke, so
it's not hard to be the best one.
Well, these guys try.
Yeah.
The better.
Yeah, somebody still throw a 90-sector ball.
You got to be guarded there.
Yeah, you could die in that batter's box, knock on wood.
But Lottie, to your point, you brought up the most important word before pride.

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They don't have any.
They're businessmen.
There's no pride.
They're getting paid.
Those National Leagues and American Leagues were not fraternizing before the games.
No, everybody's just in big circles in the outfield during BP.
In any sport.
Yeah.
I read a book, I think it was called Killer Instinct by Koozie, and he said that when
he would go on the road, he would lock himself in his hotel room the night before a game

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because he thought if he saw the opponent, he might kill him.
Yeah.
I mean, a little extreme.
That's the Kooze.
Kooze.
With the converse on.
And a bell.
Five foot nothing.
And a bell.
Right?
Yeah, I'm sure Jordan wasn't fraternizing before games.
Kobe Bryant wasn't.
No Larry Bird.
LB wasn't talking to anybody.

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What happened?
Too much money.
Money.
Yep.
Too much money.
Man.
Anyway, we'll try to see Judgy.
We wanted to bomb here tonight and shut it down.
I mean, what else is he playing for?
We had a 40 game lead.
Now we're trailing by one at the break.
Are those pink?

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Are those uniform?
It's just silly.
No, can't pink.
The commission did come out today and said they're most likely going back to the uniforms
next year of the organization, but crack brought up a good point.
What were you talking about before?
Oh, they'll tweak it somehow.
They'll tweak it.
They'll make a couple bucks even if it's a little patch on the sleeves.

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They'll be something.
Could we get the runner off a second base next year in these or asking for too much?
I don't get it.
Have the Yankees won an extra inning game since they went to that?
I don't know, but it doesn't seem like it to me.
If it's extra in the off-star game, do they put the guy in second still?
Of course.
No, they'll just stop the game because Tori did it one year.

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We walked across.
I mean, I stayed up for that when we had Jeets in that game.
Joe was keeping Zimmer awake.
He gave him a couple of elbows, a little bigelote, and Joe was like, I got no pitchers left.
We're done.
Okay, Joe.
How do you do that?
Come on.
Somebody throw underhand and get the game over with.
You got to play.
Jeez.

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Bob Watson would have played.
Let them play.
Number?
Bob Watson, 1-28.
Good job, guys.
The cracker couldn't be reached for comment.
Let's go to say 14 times two.
What's Bob Watson famous for?
Good.
And he made you big baseball.
I'm going to say 14.
I'm going to say 14 times two.
What's Bob Watson famous for?
Good.
And he made you big baseball.
I'm going to say 14 times two.
What's Bob Watson famous for?
Good.

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He made you big baseball.
History.
Letting the kids play in the Astrodome.
No.
No.
He got them back out.
That's movie history.
Leek went out there.
Actually, it wasn't Leek.
It was the other kid, right?
It was the fake Leek.
No, it was Leek.
It was Leek.
It was Leek.
It was Leek.
It was Leek.
It ended up playing like four years in there.

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And Miguel was in there taking Paul Ford.
Who ever did?
Leek was 12 years old when he was like 22 years old.
He was 20 years old during the filming of that Bad News Bears, wasn't he?
Leek?
Not a good looking kid.
He's a creep.
I've seen him.
Watch the movie, Little Children.
We're going to vomit.
Okay.
Anyway, Bob Watson, should we know this?
How do you know it?
I got problems.
I told you on the last episode, we know.

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We know angry.
No, it's something about like...
He scored the one millionth round in baseball history.
Get out of here.
Boy, you do know a lot of stuff that doesn't matter to you.
Yeah.
96, Daniel Manner.
That's right.
Oh, yeah, he was.
Bob has gone the next year, I think.
Yeah.
He's going to get in there.
What's the matter with these guys today?

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George is...
George is booting left and right.
Guy won a World Series for the first time.
First time they won an E-T-T.
He's out of there.
He's out of there.
He's going to bring Hauser in there and the boys, right?
Anyway, getting back to the All-Star Games, guys.
If you could watch an All-Star Game or Pro Bowl, so...
And I don't care about hockey, so just football, baseball, basketball.

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If you could watch it and these guys did have a sense of pride and desire to win, let's
say you put their salaries at stake.
Which one would you rather be at?
If they're all going all out?
All out.
I'd go to the NBA game.

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Same.
Yep.
Yeah.
Best athletes in the world, definitely.
Rocker?
Yeah, I agree.
Yeah.
Because these guys out here, I mean, they're trying right now, you know?
They're not.
I mean, the footballers.
Who?
Who's the football player that laid out the kicker?
Who's that?
Sean Taylor.
Same guy, right?
They would destroy people.

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Basically.
Who was the kicker?
He almost took his hat off, right?
The Buffalo Pwner or Fry's, damn.
He almost took his hat off.
Did you ever see that, Lottie?
I gave up on the NFL Pro Bowl long, long time ago.
I used to love the Pro Bowl when they would have, you know, one side blue, one side white
or whatever.
But then the real helmets, that was neat.

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That was really.
Always in Hawaii on the artificial turf.
I do remember that, right?
Yeah.
Jack John Wood playing on a fractured leg.
And they would have.
These guys.
These guys are low.
Man, these guys playing in a meaningless football game afterwards.
Battle of the Superstars.
Yeah.
The day before or whatever.
Yeah.
These are like the Tuggle War and stuff like that.
Yeah.

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Man.
The World's Best Workstars.
No, no.
I know.
I know.
I'm just teasing.
They had a football one too, kind of.
Battle of the Network Stars wasn't the best show on TV on Saturday nights.
Loved it.
No, because they had one with, like Sugar Ray might be there one time.
Yeah.
Stratsky.
Yeah.
I remember this.
Oh, Stratsky.
Oh, Stratsky destroyed.
Stratsky destroyed.

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It was Sugar Ray Leonard.
Who was the other guy?
Bjorn, no.
Was it Bjorn War?
I think it was Bork.
Yeah.
Because I just saw the video.
I just saw the video.
Bjorn can't run.
Look at that hair.
They had their headband on.
What's that hair?
They had their headband on.
Gretzky put these guys to shit.
It was amazing.
All right.
Little tweak of my previous question.

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Like if you could bring back what's called the 80s, 70s, 80s rules to anyone of those
three sports, which would it be?
So no guy on second.
You could kill the second baseman on a double play.
You don't have to touch the base if you're near it because you don't want the guy to
die.

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You could take out the catcher.
They let you hit a couple guys before they started pointing all over the stadium and chucking
people.
The game that I would love to see go back to what it was when I was a kid, it would
be the NFL.
I don't know if it would be alive though.
It was just so violent.

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There was no rough in the passer.
No.
And there was no interference.
Corner backs, Walder Severs.
Like the corner backs for the Raiders.
They had to stick them and they had to, they were pulling you by the shirt.
Remember Jowarski used to get, I mean, I don't know how Jaws is still with us, man.

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He got tattooed.
He's not attacked.
He's not too sure.
I know you're right about the violence, but I just thought it was the toughness of the
sport.
These guys are tough as nails, don't get me wrong, but I just like the hits back then.
They used to sell it.
Yeah.
Remember like ESPN and NFL, what was the, the NFL prime time, these are like, you got

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jacked up.
They used to have that.
That's right.
They used to sell videos about, you know, about violent hits.
I mean, you go on YouTube and still see that kind of stuff.
They can't wait.
So what sport would you pick?
NFL for me.
NFL.
Angry?
I'm a basketball guy.
I want to see like physical defense like, not 43.
Do you want to see Mikhail and Rambus and all that?

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Yeah.
Yeah.
Lambert and Parrish.
How about you?
Absolutely NFL.
Yeah.
It's a totally different game.
Well, look at you.
You're a Steeler fan.
I mean, that, that was just Lambert and him and those guys.
That was borderline.
Like felony, some of those hits though.
You know what I mean?
Well, I'm, they had Andre Waters.
Like he was, his nickname was dirty waters.

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I mean, no concussion protocol back then.
I'm going to hit Jack.
They used to give him salt or whatever and then go back in.
Bradshaw.
Oh, your blank.
Go back in.
They give Bradshaw the spelling salts and he wouldn't even move and put them back in
there.
Who was the, was the Browns guy that, that sacked him like Spike Bradshaw like into
the ground like that?
No, it was Lyle Alzado.
No, there was a, a Cleveland Brown guy that.

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But Alzado was on the Browns.
And he's, he picked the guy up.
I'm pretty sure it was him.
Like there's literally a guy like, it was like WWE, WWE where he picks him up.
He's like, I'm already at kids.
I mean.
And he literally spikes him into the ground and there's like a 15 year old.
I think it was Lyle.
The guys.
What was it like a fine number?
77.
With the Browns, I'm not sure.
But yeah, with the Raider 77.

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Is he one of the first steroid guys?
He died from it?
He was a poster child of it.
Yeah.
Remember he was on what Roy Firestone?
Remember that show?
Yeah.
And he basically.
What was it called?
Close up.
It was the first of its kind.
Close up.
Close up.
I don't remember.
I'm asking.
But you remember the show.

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Yeah.
Close.
Up close.
That's what it was.
Up close.
Yeah.
It was our ESPN, correct?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Guys, I go with baseball.
I want to see how McCray just tried to wipe out second baseman.
I want to see Reggie stand in the middle of the line.
He didn't slide enough.
He put a Randolph in left field.
How about Reggie in the World Series?
He just stands in the baseline and goes, he sticks his butt in the.

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He's sitting around third.
Yeah.
And then the hit by pitches.
I mean, they really used to govern it the way it should be governed.
You don't got these little wimpy like, I'm sorry, Eddie Rapp, but you don't have these
little wimps coming out here pointing all over the board.
What are they doing?
Point there.
Bobby Mack, the most important thing is they've shaved 25 minutes off an MLB game within
the last two years.

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Like, who cares about that?
If I go to a game, I hope it's five hours long.
What do I care?
If you don't want to watch it, don't watch it.
Right.
Baseball's timeless.
Now we got a pitch clock.
Yeah.
And games are ending with like walk off pitch clock.
What is that?
Soto got struck out the other day.
He wasn't in the box.

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Oh, 64.
The guy's name was Turkey Jones.
His nickname, obviously is Turkey.
I don't know what his actual number 64.
Like a memory.
Like he's dead.
You could see the replay.
Don't worry.
I remember that.
Bradshaw stayed in the game, though.
Yeah, right.
Give him a second.

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Oh, geez.
Maybe not.
Maybe not.
Do you guys remember Steve DeBerg?
Oh, yeah.
Absolutely.
Number 17.
Back when Sports Illustrator was terrific still, rushing home on Thursday to take a peek.
They had like his top 10 hits of all time and he gave him.
And he did 10, 9, and 8.

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And he said he didn't remember 1 through 7.
Steve DeBerg.
He took some, he was on some bad teams.
Chiefs Seahawks, maybe?
Who else?
He was on Tampa Bay.
Tampa Bay for a while, yeah.
After Niners.
Who'd you take?
Him or Dougie Craig?
Well, Doug Craig.
To large it?

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17 also?
Dave Craig, yeah.
Dave Craig, what'd I say?
Doug.
Doug.
Who was the other, the guy before him, number 10?
Zorn.
Zorn.
Yeah.
Dave Craig.
Number what, Interceptions?
Tumbles.
How about, he was not a bad car.
No, he wasn't.
What number was Burt Jones?
7.
Dan Pastoreini?

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7.
7.
Where did Burt Jones go to school?
Maryland.
I don't know.
J.
Bama.
You know this.
LSU.
I was kidding.
I, the football cars, the baseball cars, positive.
Are you sure it was LSU?
I'm thinking of Richard Todd.
Forget it.
Yeah.
Where'd Richard Todd go?
Bama.
Oh, all right, yeah.
Number 14.
What's the next change?
Don't just go, you guys want to see a poster of the sack exchange?

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Go to dirty Nellies and Yonkers.
McLean Avenue?
I've been here.
It's right there.
The old sack exchange poster.
Down Yonkers, right?
Who was on the sack exchange?
Wow.
We're off on a tangent here, but.
Joe Cleco.
Lion.
Marty Lyons.
Gastonau.
Who was missing number four?
Hmm.
Come on.

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Cleco, Marty Lyons, Gastonau.
Did Cleco just make the hall of fame?
Yes.
Was that warranted?
What movie was he in?
Any Which Way Beluce?
No, Cannonball Run.
Cannonball Run.
Cleco used to, his stance was on an extreme angle.
Yeah.
I saw those guys.

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One of the few football games I've ever been to.
I'm coming out of retirement this year, though.
I'm going again.
Um, come on.
Who's the other guy?
Come on, guys.
Where's our producer?
Look it up.
You got it right there.
Do you?
Bye, Nick.
What do you look at?
Yeah, it just says the three of them.

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Oh, okay.
Maybe they were in a three-four.
No.
They were.
No.
Shipped it to the three-four and eighty-five.
Oh.
Let's get out of here.
There was a fourth guy.
There was a fourth guy.
Yeah, there was a guy named Kenny Neal.
Number 74.
It can't be the guy we're talking about.
I'm looking at one of those four guys.
Gastonau, Cleco, Lyons.
I don't know who number 74 is.
That's Kenny Neal.

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That's a poster in Dirty Nellies.
Yeah, Nellies down the anchors, right?
Yep.
All right, guys.
Enough with this All-Star and what we wish to see in exchanges and this and that.
Let's get down to the impetus for it to have this show in the very first place.
The clown.

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I think I was duped.
I was believing it for a minute.
Lottie had the do-go plan and it's All-Star game tonight.
That day's dead.
He's got a little punk to him, but he stinks right now.
Gershwin doesn't try.
That was one of the most embarrassing Yankee moments of all time.

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Gleiber not trying.
Volpe not running hard.
That's what he's on the team for to run hard.
He's the leadoff hitter.
He's the leadoff hitter.
Not running hard?
Not no more.
That cost a game that night.
I'm going to disagree.
I'm not disagreeing with that costing a game, the most embarrassing thing.
We let a guy jog full time.

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Gleiber?
No.
Verdugo?
No.
Walks down the line.
Oh, Stan.
You can't get off that.
Get over it.
But we're going to yell at somebody for three quarters on the way down third base line.
It's hard to hold guys accountable when a designated hitter doesn't have to run.
He got thrown out last year on a single...

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That wasn't more embarrassing.
Yeah, it was bad, but he started doing yoga, he trimmed down.
And he still jogs and he gets hurt.
So it's hard to hold the guys accountable.
Like I'm not saying that what Grissom did a couple weeks ago wasn't horrific.
What are you going to say to him?
Hustle?
Say to who?
Grissom.
We're going to say hustle?
Yeah.
You're in center field.

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You're going to go field the bone, throw it in.
So we've got to take a base and...
All right.
So what are we going to say to the D8?
You walk to the first base.
It's home runs.
We've got to live with it once in a while.
I don't want the guy.
I don't like him, but we have him.
You said about a month ago to me outside, you're like, sign me up if he hits 30 home
runs and drives in 95 runs.
Yeah, bet 232 forward and give me those numbers, but he's got to play though.

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He's hurt again.
I know.
When's he coming back?
We need him.
It's supposed to be right after your all start game.
They do need him.
What about Dominguez?
How close is he?
He's dead.
I don't know if you'll see him this year.
They got to keep him down there another year so they can get another year of service time
form.
He comes up in September 1st.
He won't lose any service time.

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So I would say September 1st.
You kidding me?
We got that kind of piece and we're not going to bring them on.
The thing with the Yankees every year, they start off on fire, right?
And then one injury happens.
Rizzo got hurt.
FN Way Park on that collision at first base.
And then two days later, Stanton gets hurt and they can't recover from that.
Even though the kid Rice hits better than Rizzo.

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You can't over, you can't compensate for Stanton's loss.
You could argue that Grisham hits better than Stanton too because like when he plays a lot
of hits.
Grisham's better than Verdugo right now.
So speaking of these losers, did you see the game on Sunday?
Front day, the last loss?
No, I heard about it.

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3-2, Rice hit the 3-round dinger on the top of the lane.
We take the lead.
Yeah, 5-3.
Is this Holmesie?
Holmesie?
Yeah.
So all these Yankees who say he's an elite closer.
First of all, he can't throw strikes consistently.
So he walks two guys.
They end up with the bases loaded.

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We had a routine round ball of Volpe.
The one guy who won a gold glove last year.
You can't feel the routine round ball.
Stayed back on it.
Puts it.
5-4.
And then they had a 5 ball to Verdugo where these methods came up where they would have
been caught 99% of the time.
So apparently the 1% of the time.

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Did you see it?
Saw it.
Saw it.
He took one step in and then it's like, oh, crocker.
Oh, my lord.
The socks couldn't wait to get rid of him.
Two-run double.
Oh, my lord.
But they can never compensate for injuries because there's absolutely no depth.
How is that possible with $300 million paintball?
That's what I'm saying.
It's just the greatest gentleman in the world.

(24:32):
Poorly constructed.
You got two.
That sucks.
Two generational players and then seven guys that collectively can't hit.
Volpe the first month and a half was amazing.
He's batted 120 the last month.
It's impossible to bat 120 over a month and play every day.

(24:52):
What's he down to like 2-47?
2-50?
Yeah.
They moved him down to the eighth spot in the lineup.
I saw.
Think about this.
They have two of the five best players in baseball.
Yeah, or is the third player, who is the third player and where does he rank in baseball?
Their third best player.
Yeah.

(25:12):
Might be one of the kids.
Their third best player is probably Volpe.
And there's a huge gap there.
So when you say where does he rank in the top five, I mean he can't be in the top 80, right?
He's not even a top seven, eight shortstop in the American League probably.
I'm like a white 150.
Ooh, that low.

(25:34):
I would take the other nine Orioles.
When he was hitting the ball well in the beginning of the year, where they have him
in the lineup, batting six or seven, they couldn't wait to get him in that lead off
spot.
Well, because they don't have a lead off it, because our general manager stinks.
They couldn't wait to get him up there.
Never been the same.
Can we get areas or whatever?

(25:55):
Torra has batted 220.
LaMeju can't lift a ball into the year.
These are everyday players.
I look around out.
DJ look around out.
I loved him too.
What happened to him?
Andrews.
He's a big guy.
Who do I like?
Who have I been saying?
I think Jay didn't like it the last time I said it.

(26:15):
You like Wells.
I like Wells.
Got to play.
Now he's going to play.
Did you see the one he hit in Camden?
Yeah.
That was hit far.
Now he's going to play every day.
I'd rather play Cabrera at third base.
Was that Sunday, Jay?
No, we won that game.
No, that was Saturday.
We won that game.
That's Saturday.
We won that game.
It would have been nice to sweep and have a lead.
We would have been tied, I think.
No, we would have been on point.

(26:37):
You know who's done the best job this year?
Cora.
Crocker.
The team's 11 over 500 with, I wouldn't say average pitching.
They're pitching above average, but they don't have any big names in that rotation.
Right?
Nope.
But they go first to third.
They steal bases.
They play the game the right way.

(26:57):
Boy, they like to run on the Yankees.
They like to run on the Yankees.
They get Trevino behind the plate.
When's the last time the Yankees won an extra inning game?
Never, because they get a guy on second base with no outs and they have no idea how to
move them over to third.
When did you retire?
What's it?
15.
Was it 15?
So I'll say 2015.
It's been about 10 years, right?

(27:19):
Mr. November.
Pathetic.
But we got a great general manager.
He's going to figure it out in the next couple of weeks.
We're not giving up, are we?
No.
Not when six teams make the playoffs.
I want to hear him say it.
Not giving up.
No, we'll make the playoffs and we'll lose in the first round or second round, whatever.
And we'll say, well, I'll just crap shoot.
We'll run it back.

(27:40):
What does it's right in front of us mean?
What is he talking about?
I don't know, but he had a great one after Sunday where he said, it's tough loss, but
we're competing in a good way.
That was a quote.
What's that mean?
I don't know.
I think he thinks they're ready to turn the corner.
I think that's what we're saying.
We're competing in a good way.
He's baseball's version of Camel Harris.

(28:02):
Yeah, he's tough to listen to.
He said it was a tough loss to go in, especially going into the break, but I like the way we're
competing.
I'm sorry, we're competing in a good way.
So they're not competing in a bad way?
I don't know.
Are they competing?
Suggesting maybe they were competing in a bad way before.

(28:22):
I know Grisham, Volpe and Torres don't compete at all.
At least Stanton goes yard.
Torres does not compete at all.
At all, Cracker.
What happened?
How can you be a professional athlete with no pride?
It's 38 home runs.
Juice ball.
Juice ball, a lot of these right.
Stanton hit the ball.
And new hard two.
And new hard two.
It looked like a rain and a canole.

(28:42):
And Urshala.
I'll take him back though.
Did Sterling's early retirement coincide with this?
No, because that was like game eight.
We still need him back.
All right, Yankee fans, crack you can chime into.
If you could only make one move, like what position do they need the biggest reinforcement?

(29:07):
Town manager.
No, no, no, on the field.
A position player.
I'm talking in the next two weeks.
A hitter.
If you could only get one guy, what position?
A hitter.
I don't, a left handed hitter.
It's got to be areas for Torres.
I hate this.
I mean, it'd be nice to have Mookie Bettson play him a second base if you're saying,
man, that's not realistic.
No, no, no.

(29:28):
No, A hitter.
The guy areas.
So the biggest upgrade you're saying is second base?
Yeah.
I don't care where we get the hitter.
Somebody that hits behind Soto and Judge.
We got him coming back.
We got the Martian in stand.
I would say second base too, because I would put Cabrera at third base and he'll hit 240
and play with energy at least.

(29:49):
We need a different second base.
How bad the organization has run.
They call up that kid, George Bit.
Yeah, they said.
He comes up on Friday.
He hustles to get to the park, plays catch for three games and he goes back.
He didn't get him in the game.
What?

(30:10):
What was he there for?
I don't know, but he's already back in the minor leagues.
What the hell is that?
Can't get on the field?
We're worried about guys developing and stuff.
Why don't we just keep them under and give them some of that bats or something?
I don't know.
Jesus.
Such a terribly run organization.
We've been saying it for a couple years now.

(30:32):
I gotta think we're at the point where one of them's gotta go.
They have to get rid of one of them.
They can't keep doing this.
It's not gonna be the general manager.
They're just clowning.
We get a general manager.
He could hire a manager and number off.
What are they extended to?
They still got two years.
They both signed four.
All right.
I think Boone was only three.

(30:52):
I don't think Boone's gonna survive.
But Cashman has two after this.
Cashman's not going anywhere.
Boone won't survive.
I don't think this time around.
There's nothing we can do to get rid of them.
I mean, like, come on, man.
You just fire them.
The owner could pay attention.
Maybe, I don't know.
We did sign.

(31:13):
By the way, did you see the Major League draft?
Their first round pick at an ERA of five and a half.
It took six right handed pitchers with their first six pitchers.
Then they took a left.
These first seven pitchers.
Off of college, though.
Five and a half ERA?
Yeah.
But he had struck out like a million guys.

(31:34):
What am I confused about there?
He has great spin rate.
Does anyone like Cashman anywhere seriously?
I mean, once in a while on Twitter, somebody says something that they back him a little
bit.
There's a few that talk about him being this great guy that finds relief pitchers.
Oh, she didn't find homes.
They weirdo.

(31:55):
He's a weirdo.
They say he's a great eighth inning guy.
You can't have a closure that doesn't have strikeout stuff.
He's a contact closure, which is not good.
He does strikeout.
But he just can't throw strikes consistently.
You never know where the sinkers go in.
And the other day when they lost against the Orioles after the Rice Woman, he was pitching

(32:18):
a seven, eight and nine in the Baltimore lineup.
I didn't walk two of them.
Walk two guys.
Now, again, the plays need to be made behind him.
I get it, but you can't put two guys on base.
You can't do it.
Beginning of the year, all the Twitter folks are killing Judgy with the slow start.
Do you remember this?
Oh, yeah.

(32:39):
He is leading the team in batting average, homeruns, RBIs, OBP and hits.
This is with Soto in there, right?
So bat in 306, 34 homeruns, 85 RBIs at the break, 433 OBP with 105 hits already.

(33:00):
Yeah.
And he'll never win one because of this clown.
The break is a little later than normal, isn't it?
Yeah, they only got like 64 games left after the break.
What?
Yeah.
It's closer.
50 something and 40 something, right?
Or 50 something and 30 something.
I think they're, yeah, they're 57, 58, 38, something like that.

(33:21):
They've played like 94 games.
Crocker, judge the best player on baseball.
I mean, the stats are unbelievable.
What do you have at the break?
Like 83 RBIs or something like that?
Is that right?
I just said 85.
85 something.
My, crap.
I mean, Devers got like 25.
I was told in the end of the catchment, I couldn't even think about judges then.

(33:42):
They're 58 and 40.
They played 98 games.
58 and 40, they got 64 games left.
58 and 40?
Yeah, that's amazing.
They've played that many before, right?
I don't know.
Who would be better?
Who would be better than judge?
Seriously, there's, who got more money than him?
Like maybe Otani.
Otani.
Gunner, Gunner, Hatterson, who's had a great year.
I love those, Wargo.

(34:03):
Harper.
Judge is definitely having a better year than Gunner.
Got knocked into the middle of the next week by a Holmesie sinker.
No, that wasn't him.
It was, the guy's name, Kujerstad or something.
Heston.
Sure about that?
Yeah.
Anyway, and then they hit, by the way, they hit judge on Sunday.

(34:25):
Right on the, nobody mentions that.
Right on the tricep.
He got hit another time too this year, didn't he?
Yeah.
On his wrist.
He missed a couple of games.
He's in the season.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
I think he wore one.
Against Baltimore.
At home?
Yeah.
Yeah.
He got hit in the wrist.
Oh yeah.

(34:46):
And he, yeah, that's right.
We didn't do anything.
We thought he was going to be gone for the year.
He came back like two or three games later.
We didn't do anything in retort.
We've hit a lot.
Yeah.
Yankees have hit them 10 or 11 times.
Baltimore has hit the Yankees three or four, something like that.

(35:06):
Whatever.
All right.
Whatever.
Go, Sacks.
Come on, man.
You two are negative.
I'm not.
Yankees are going to make the playoffs.
I would never say that.
Yankees are going to make the playoffs.
I couldn't believe it, sir.
Yankees are going to make the playoffs.
Like, I'm not worried about that.
We're in.
Yeah.
They're back.
We are back.
We got Cole.
Rodeon has done nothing in a month.

(35:27):
Heel.
He's resting.
Heel has kind of.
He's kind of balanced himself off a little bit.
Heel?
Yeah.
I was, we can't quit on him.
No, no way.
Great stuff.
I think their starting rotation is actually good enough.
We got a hit.
That's what I'm saying.
We need our hit.
We need some pop.
Not even, not even power.

(35:48):
We just need, we need guys that get on base.
That's all.
It's kind of a.
They're talking about putting, judging the leadoff spot.
That's how sad it is.
I know, but I, I, I mean, that's not where he belongs, but look at El Capitan.
I mean, he batted one, two, sometimes three, never really below that after 97 really,

(36:11):
right?
Yeah.
Late in his career, I think they moved them down a little bit, but no, they didn't.
Gerardi was stubborn.
He kept them in the two hole, I think, or the leadoff.
Yeah.
That was the captain.
Oh, El Capitan.
Under your head, Jeter or Donny?

(36:32):
As a player?
Donny.
Two cheers in the hall of fame.
He's got over 3000 hits.
Donny shouldn't be.
No.
He didn't do it long enough, buddy.
I wish I could agree with you, but.
We'll get them in on the old timers ballot someday.
It's Donny.
Look at him as a coach too.
Great coach.
Munson should be in over Donny.

(36:54):
He could only have one guy as a catcher.
Over.
Get a year and MVP in all those championships.
Over Donny?
Mm-hmm.
You know who I'd like to have on this team right now?
Willie Randolph.
Willie.
Willow.
Remember that?
He, uh, Henderson would lead off.

(37:17):
Get on base somehow.
Little second, Willie, get him over to third, selfless baseball, and you know who got him
in.
Donny.
Donny.
Donny.
Where's he from?
The Good Old Days.
Evansville.
What?
What?
It's just in the Good Old Days.
Howdy, Eye Black.
What's up?

(37:37):
In the converse.
Oh, the sun would never get in on him, dude, between the low brim and the eye black.
Come on.
All right.
My prediction is we get it together.
It's right in front of us.
No, the cash clown's got to go.
I mean, the whole podcast is a failure until he's fired, right?
I mean, that's why we started it.

(37:59):
We had some juice going.
I was getting a protest organized.
The next thing you know, they give him an extension.
Jeez.
Whatever.
Basketball.
Um, who would have thought the NBA Summer League is something that so many people are
invested in, um, I don't even remember it.

(38:20):
They didn't televise it back in the day, right?
No, they televised everything now.
It wasn't back.
Yeah.
And BATV has everything now.
ESPN.
So, um, our guy, the Oak, the Charter Oak, got beat up a little bit on social media.

(38:40):
People coming at him because he only had four points in his opener.
Guys, he had four points, but he had 13 rebounds in five blocks.
NBA teams don't need that rebounding and the, in defense.
Come on, man.
Also, he ripped three threes.
Um, two of them.
Yeah.
Oh, for three.
Two of them, I thought were down and just missed.

(39:00):
He only took one in game two, but like, I think it's just important that he's showing
he's going to shoot that ball because now you got to come out there and guard seven
foot out.
How tall is he?
Seven.
Seven two.
That far from the basket.
And then he, game two, he, he got to the hoop and, and yoked a pretty good one.
He went for eight, 11 rebounds, three, three blocks and five assists.

(39:25):
I think he's showcasing exactly what we hoped he would.
And there's going to be a place for him.
Now with the Blazers, I mean, Aten obviously starts, right?
If he's still there.
Yeah.
What do you think their plan is give the oak half a season and see if they can move Aten?

(39:45):
I think it almost becomes, in my opinion, it's going to be kind of like his freshman
year at Yukon where he played 12, 15 minutes a game.
That's what I see right now.
These are 48 minute games.
Yeah.
I think he's going to play about 15, 15 minutes a game.
Yeah.
They got Robert Williams too.
So it's kind of a time.

(40:06):
Lord.
Yeah.
That's right.
I would have think like you said, maybe where they see where they are at mid season.
I don't know if that means nobody's really going to want Deodra Aten.
No, I know.
Because he signed a big contract too.
But no, I agree with you.
I, I agree with you with, I think he'll, he'll kind of like ease him in at first.
But I just watching two summer league games, man, he, I was saying to you guys off, off

(40:29):
the air there, he's like in such better shape than he was just a couple of years ago that
he gets up and on the court and he, right now, like he's not a great offensive player by any
means yet.
He'll definitely, I think get much better as he gets older, but he's a factor on defense
already, man.
Like he's, he's a problem.
Like these guys are shooting moonballs over him and stuff and he's still blocking some.

(40:50):
And I mean, he got a five second call.
If you guys saw yesterday, like at the end of the game where they put him on the ball
and they couldn't get the ball bounce.
I agree with everything you said.
Oak, I agree with everything that you said.
I think his vision at that size is amazing.
He's a great passer.
He doesn't foul.
He goes straight up.
He alters the game on the defensive end.

(41:11):
He's never going to be a great back to the basket guy and in the NBA, you don't need
to be anyway.
But to Jay's point, his athleticism in terms of getting up and down the floor.
So much better.
So much better.
He looks, he looks like he took 15, 20 pounds off and he looks, he looks good out there.
Can you play three centers in a NBA?

(41:33):
Together?
No.
African Twin Towers over here?
No.
African Samson and Elijah one?
No, but they, I mean, probably Williams has always heard anyway.
Yeah, I think at all.
And I, I only think Williams does one thing better than him anyway.
Thanks to the ball.
I mean, he's super, he's a super athlete for her.

(41:54):
Now I take these games with a green assault only because what 80 to 85% of these guys
won't be on an NBA roster anyway.
Yeah.
I don't know what he can do when the, when the lights are on and in November, but you
know, it's a real small sample size, but I'm not, I'm not surprised about anything.

(42:15):
He's done the first two games.
I think he's going to, he's going to make a nice living.
Let's put it that way.
Is he playing right now?
They play tonight.
I'm not sure what time, but.
Okay.
Yeah, they're on.
Crackers, you watching any of those games?
I didn't get the opportunity.
No, he hasn't been to the line yet, right?
No, he did last night.
He shot a couple, not a both of them down.
They actually looked pretty good.

(42:37):
He's got to be a Celtic someday.
Man, he was starting to cheer for you at the draft.
He's guys caught that.
When they said, oh, he's a clapping.
His eyes lit up.
He's clapped a one and a half times and.
And he's like, yeah, maybe I should be doing that.
Steph Castle.
I'm not surprised in any way, but they got a full bag.

(42:58):
The spurs.
I mean, he's got a lot of everything.
And most importantly, he seems to be cut from the mold of pop.
Toughness, unselfishness, play basketball the whole time.
Grown man, six, six.
He defends.
His IQ is fantastic.
He's a legitimate consistent jump shot away from being a problem, in my opinion.

(43:22):
I just think he's so, just so strong.
He's not scared.
Yeah.
He's not scared at all.
Like he's not.
I was watching him the other day.
He was actually pretty good.
And just the way he plays though, like he's, he's up on you too.
Man, if he whoever has the ball, like he's, it can't be fun to play against.
They shut him down with a so-called wrist injury.

(43:43):
But I think they saw enough in that one game.
Hey, he had 21 points and just he's got an NBA body.
Came up with a Yankee injury.
Yeah.
So yeah, we're good.
We'll see you at training camp.
He's got to be ready for Chris Paul and Wemby.
Oh, right.
He's going to be a player for a while too.
He's going to be a player for somebody.
I'll give you one right away.

(44:05):
Not quite as good yet, but potentially maybe hopefully someday through holiday.
Obviously, you have to get a much better jumper and stuff, but like kind of plays a similar
like me.
Yeah.
Similar like defender first.
That's like I said, unselfish.
I'll go with that.
I like that one.
Great call.
Better than a Tony Allen.

(44:26):
Potentially.
But even if he has a Tony Allen career, I mean, that's pretty damn good too, because
considering to Grizzly just retired his number.
Maybe a little bit better offensively down the road than Tony.
Oh, yeah.
Get to the basket.
Who's stopping him on these straight line drives?
I mean, he's just he's a grown man.
He's up or finding his way.

(44:47):
What an incredible job they did at Yukon with him.
I mean, geez, I mean, you would think a kid like that's, you know, counting shots and
they came Spencer, I saw the first guy.
He's going to make it.
The first game he I forgot what they played.
He he he was pretty good too.
Like he played really well.
Doesn't miss when he's open.
Yeah.
So you're going to make the team?
I don't know.
I don't know.

(45:08):
I got a lot to pay, but like I got to see the roster.
I'm not sure.
Somebody just hit a bomb.
Judgy National League.
My Rutgers boys, one with the Celts, tough roster, tough place to make a team.
And then you got McConnell gets hurt like right before the game, right before day before

(45:35):
or right for tip off or whatever happened to him.
But he was a scratch.
I think he can make a team.
He's got a little of that Andre Jackson juice to him.
Do you guys see the dunk he had the other day, Dre Jackson, the Pupak?
Oh, yeah.
The one hander off the.
I mean, he's got a play this year.
He was playing last year in the playoffs.
I mean, they were decimated by injuries, but he was getting a ton of run in the playoffs

(45:59):
for them.
Fan favorite.
Speaking of fan favorite, not, but the poor kid, Ronnie has been robbed of a chance to
become the best version of himself by fast tracking him to play daddy ball.
The father ruined him.
He ruined every chance he had to get better.

(46:23):
His highlights, I their cringe worthy.
I feel bad for him.
I feel bad for him.
Has he made a three yet?
No, no, not even close and even close.
I feel bad for him too.
I hate LeBron, but then I can't.
I can't hold that against this.
The kid, I feel horrible for him.
What's next to kid with the glasses going to be on the team too?

(46:44):
I'm surprised Chris Sabo is going to be on it.
Let's say other ones named.
Right sir, right sir, but what's his name?
Chris Sabo.
You know what I mean?
What are those glasses?
He's got a Rex Pex, whatever.
Oh boy.
It's going to be LeBron, Ronnie and Sabo.
You know, when, when for the Lake show.
When, when a quiet Leonard got hurt again and is off the Olympic team, I was waiting for

(47:10):
LeBron and tried to get the brownie on.
I thought he had earned it.
So yeah, he dictates the team he goes to and then Crocker was saying beforehand, guaranteed
two, two year deal.
Yeah.
Four, no, four year deal, which is, which is just unheard of for a late second round
pick.
1.8 million a year, 1.9.

(47:31):
So he's making 2 million a year.
It's actually a pay cut.
He made like seven, seven million I saw for USC last year.
He just, the kid can't score.
I mean, he's asked that he's athletic.
Well, what is he?
Six, one.
Is he a scholarship player?
Like, is he honestly, I'm not, he scored four points a game at USC.

(47:52):
He's not a major division one player.
Not at all.
Can he play a central Connecticut?
Yeah.
He just got picked.
That's really the way it is, huh?
Your dad's LeBron.
So they, well, they're going to sell tickets.
Well, the, the, the agent came out and said, if anybody else takes him, he's not going
there.

(48:13):
They held them hostage.
Yeah.
Well, they, they said that, but the Lakers still had to pick up like, yeah.
Well, he did obviously.
But so when the season rolls around in November and there's three minutes to go in the game
and the Lakers are now like 25 or something.
Bring in Brony and they bring in Brony and the Brian is going to stay on the court.

(48:35):
Obviously to play with his son and they're going to score.
Some alley-oop or something.
Yeah.
They'll be an alley-oop from one of them.
They'll be a shot from Brony actually that need, you know, like he misses, but he misses
by so much.
You know, crowds chanting.
It's just being a Laker.
It'll be, they'll lose, they'll lose by 18 to 20 and it'll be the lead on sports center.

(48:55):
The lead on that.
You're right.
They'll talk about it for Stephen A. Smith and Mad Dog will argue about it.
Yeah.
Whether he should be there.
It'll go on.
It's really newsworthy.
Yeah.
Remember the old days with Mies and Berman and Bob Lee?
This highlights no commentary.
Dude.
Get after it.
Berman.
Yeah.
You know, Nick names were great.
It's amazing how much LeBron controls.

(49:15):
Like with the, this cracker was bringing up like his, the clutch sports is telling him
not to draft them.
He won't play for anybody else.
Nobody else want it?
Not if you guys follow like Gilbert Orinas is like making excuses for the kid now too.
They're going on.
I don't know.
So they have this.
He has his own podcast.
I know.

(49:35):
It's not as good as ours obviously.
Hell no.
But he had, he has Richard McCants on him, remember him?
And Brandon Jennings was on with him.
Brandon Jennings was killing him.
Was killing Ronnie James.
Good for Brandon Jennings.
Yeah.
Did he have a little step stool to get up to the mic?
Not good.
But so Gilbert Orinas was just like complaining.
He's like, what do you mean?
He's like, you know, it's the 55th pick.
Why is he, why is this and that?

(49:57):
What do you expect out of the 55th pick?
And Brandon Jennings was like, man, you're just making excuses for him because it's the
Browns kid.
And like he was, Orinas was like, legit getting pissed.
And he was like, he's like, it was a my kid.
This is Brandon Jennings talking.
He's like, he's not ready.
I tell him he's not ready.
This is the same Gilbert Orinas who says nowadays he would average well over 50 points.

(50:20):
He wore designer sneakers like Christian Dior sneakers.
He could score.
Great Lord Orinas.
Didn't he bring a gun into the locker?
Not just one.
How about some self-awareness of Ronnie himself to say, dad, I was only scoring four in college.
I averaged four.
It was even four.
I was like four points.

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Dad, I'm not ready.
But dad, maybe another year would serve me well.
I don't know.
But who knows who's in this kid's ear too?
Oh, LeBron knows.
He's a lot of years.
Yeah.
But I'm saying like he like LeBron like controls like so much like the media and like the way
everything's talked about.
Like I was saying like sports center rolls around.

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And as soon as the kid scores a basket, man, like it's an actual game.
Imagine being a fan of that team.
I'd be disgusted by that.
I just couldn't watch it.
They're not good by the way.
They had the fake championship in the bubble, which by the way, I thought Jimmy Buckets was
going to get them and they just didn't have enough.

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But Davis is unlikeable.
LeBron, unlikeable.
Deans and LaRussell I think is still there, right?
But he's an interesting career for him.
He stinks.
He started there.
I thought he was going to be better out of Ohio State.
I thought he was going to be better.
Did he play with Odin?
No.
That's Conley.
Conley.
Oh yeah.

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Well, that's going way back.
Who did he play with?
Did he play with Aaron Kraft?
Maybe.
Might be.
Was Kraft the one that transferred to Michigan for a fifth year?
No, that was that was a dockage's son.
Was it?
Get out of here.
Boy, that's got to be a tough transfer from Ohio State to Michigan.

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Remember Chris Carter said that Deans and LaRussell was only 28.
I think he only played one year out of Ohio State.
He's like 35, doesn't he?
Yeah.
Well, it seems like he's had two stints with both the Lakers and the Nets.
But do you remember Chris Carter said, was it Chris Carter?
Said when you got hurt at Ohio State or no, Chris Carter went to Michigan.

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Chris Carter went to Ohio State.
No, it was Joey Galloway.
Said it.
Joey Galloway, Ohio State, right?
Said when you got hurt and you couldn't participate in practice at Ohio State, they made you
wear a Michigan t-shirt on a sideline.
That's pretty cool.
You can't.
Nowadays, they've been bullying.
You hurt my son's feelings.

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Imagine the money being kicked around in football.
Holy cow.
Anyway, Brani, I actually like him.
I'm going to root for him and support him in any way I can.
But the old man ruined it for that kid.
And if Sabo ends up on that team, I'm going to be pissy about it.
You know what I mean?

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Yeah.
Freaking Sabo.
All right.
This next segment brought to you by Capital Securities, a life.
Well planned.
This is the Who'd You Rather segment and Lottie is making his debut as the Who'd You Rather

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guy.
I know.
I don't usually get a chance to do this.
But in honor of the homeroom derby, I looked up all the past winners and I came up with
a little head to head based on five right-handed matchups and five left-handed matchups.
Same era?
Yeah.
So what I was thinking, you got to pick one of these guys, obviously, and the guy gets

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10 pitches.
And you got to say which one, obviously, is going to hit the most homeruns off those 10
pitches.
So I tried to make it as even as I could.
So my first matchup, Tino Martinez against Giambi, both past winners.
Tino against Giambi, two lefties.

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At their best.
At their best.
You get 10 swings at strikes.
Who's hitting the most homeruns?
I'll go with Giambino.
Tino did it in the contest out in the course field, I think it was.
They both did.
So all these guys have won the homeroom derby.
They have all won it.
Tino wasn't at course, was he?
I think it was.

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Anyway.
Giambi loaded up.
That's a stance, by the way.
That's a stance.
I'm just saying.
Well, Giambi right before we got him, he was a frightening hitter.
He 40 homeruns with Yankees twice.
Well, he was a good Yankee.
I got to go to the Bino.

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I got to go with the Bino.
You got it.
Look at him rolling.
Crocker just answered a question.
I just sat through an hour of Yankee baseball talk.
Yeah, but Giambi and Tino weren't just Yankees either.
I understand.
I'm going Giambi too.
All right, next one.
Bonds and Griffey.
Bonds.

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Ten strikes.
I mean, when you say at their best, it's got to be bonds, but like, I'd be rooting for Griffey.
One solo, two run double, make it three to two.
Yankee baseball.
We're back.
We're back.
It's got to be bonds.
We playing tomorrow? Bonds.
Well, you made weird rules.
Ten strikes.
Ten strikes.
It's not like you get ten.

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You get ten swings at strikes.
Yeah, so it's not like this where you hit home.
BP toss.
Yeah, it's not timed.
It's not unlimited if you keep going ten swings.
Yeah, come on, man.
Bonds, man.
We have bonds.
He's a beast.
All right, I'll take Griffey.
Soto Harper.
Harper.
Soto.
Harper.
Harper.
You guys are fans.

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If you're talking bombs, I mean, it's got to be Harper.
Ryan Howard.
David Ortiz.
I'm taking Ryan Howard.
I'm underrated.
More than a man, but less than a god.
It's got to be Ortiz.
Soft.
You ain't the only one.
Homerun Derby.
Matt, I need a base hit, the right center.
Homerun Derby.

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To win the game.
Homerun Derby.
Ten strikes.
I'll actually go.
I'll go Harper, believe it or not.
It was Howard and Ortiz.
Excuse me, Howard.
I'm going.
I'm going over here.
I'm going Howard, too.
Really?
Yeah.
I'm going to go for it.
Prince Fielder.
Cano.
I'll go Prince.

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Though Cano was pretty impressive when his dad was laying him in there.
Where did he win his, do you know?
Remember when he was clueless?
I'll say Milwaukee.
Might have been.
I got to go Cano, but I have to say this.
I'm not a launching little guy, but Prince's uppercut hack was something.

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Crocker.
You know, he's swinging a mess.
You're like, oh, I met Prince when I was 12.
That's right.
I'm going Cano, too, because of the level swing.
I think he just drove.
You know, his swing was beautiful.
We're looking for singles?
We're talking about things.
That ball, it would just take off though.
All right.
Those are the left-hand matchups.
Right-handed.
Ryan Sandberg.
Cal Ripken.

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Sandberg.
Sandberg.
Ripken.
What in it's Sandberg 1-1?
Really.
I think it was 90 when I was looking.
I'm going to go Ripken.
I think they had it.
Who won the first home run derby?
Not those black and white ones.
Mid-80s.
I was just going to say, do you know when the first one was?

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It was 86.
It's 85.
Do you know who won it?
No, I don't remember.
We mentioned his name earlier for a uniform in the All-Star game.
Dave Parker?
Yes.
Nice.
Cobra.
Frank Thomas.
Sammy Sosa.
All-Past winners of the home run derby.

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Margot Sosa.
He had some absolute missiles in the ones he won.
You see the Milwaukee highlights?
Oh my God.
Big train.
Big train.
Big hurt.
Big train is all you're talking about.
That was the commercial, right?
No, there's a collision at the plate.
He goes, I'm going to be the big train if you remember that.
I don't recall that.
Big hurt.

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Sosa or the big hurt?
Hurt.
How about you?
Sosa.
Just because.
Soft up.
I think the ones in Milwaukee went 5-3.
Oh, so it'll be.
Tied it three.
Sosa looks like Patrick Kamasso now.
Sosa is an early MVP candidate in the All-Star game.
Sosa's getting a sunburn.
I mean, if he's down to sun too long, he's going to do some newt.
Vlad Guerrero, the old man, Vlad Guerrero, or Juan Gonzalez.

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I hate Juan Gonzalez.
I'm just going to take Vlad Guerrero just for that.
Juan Gonzalez might have invented steroids with Sammy Sosa.
What, were you Yankee?
Gonzales.
Without a doubt.
You said that before.
Jay.
I don't know what.
We had him.
We didn't have Juan Gonzalez.
We did.
We played for the Yankees.

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I remember you saying that once before.
I don't think so.
I'm going Vlad.
I'm going Gonzales.
Bobby, did you choose?
I'm going Gonzales.
I'm going Gonzales.
I'm going Gonzales.
I'm going Gonzales.
Bobby, did you choose?
Vlad or Juan?
Depends if Juan played for the Yankees.
Juan gone?
He definitely didn't play for the Yankees.
I'll take Vlad.
Forget it.
All right, here's a good one.

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Stanton.
Alonzo.
Alonzo.
Stanton.
Stanton get hurt after three swings.
Oh, it was oblique.
First guy going IELTS.
He checks his swing on the first pitch at a whole round derby.
Oblique.
Gash has got him off for six weeks.
What are you taking, cracker?
I'll get the scan.

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Christ.
You could have him.
Bobby Mack, Stanton or Alonzo?
It's one of my favorites.
Stanton, MVP.
I'm going Alonzo.
Last but not least, Maguire, Judgy.
Maguire, Judgy.

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Ten swings.
Got to be Big Mac.
I hate to say this.
It's got to be Big Mac.
He hit one upper tank against Kamenickie, ruined my night.
Judgy.
These guys aren't even fans.
I like Judgy.
Oh, boy.
Captain.
Give me a hard time picking Yankee.
I thought you said I don't like him.
Last one.
Those were the home of derby ones.

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If you had one person to sing the national anthem for the All-Star Game, Carl Lewis,
Roseanne Barr or Ingrid Andres.
I'll go Carl Lewis only because as bad as he was, he was giving effort.
He was bad.
He stopped it.

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He had some dial-rock there.
He said, I'm going to make up for it.
I'm going to make up for it.
He did.
Derek Coleman's biting his...
He was.
But Roseanne Barr was the worst.
She made a mockery of it.
Purposely.
And the other girl was drunk.
That's the home of derby one?
I would say.
Yeah.
I would say.
I would say.
I would say.
I would say.
I would say.
I'm going Carl.
Carl.

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Yeah.
He had...
If he screwed it up so bad he could haul ass out of there quicker than anybody else.
He had some fun with it.
He didn't take himself too seriously, but he was giving him some effort.
He did sing again at another game by the way.
Did he?
And he wasn't as good.
That was bad.
Yeah.
He wasn't as good.
You got so many retorts that I got to keep to my...
Oh.
Ingrid Jay.

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What?
You have a good Hootie rather just in terms of better player
Yeah, so we I threw this out before mark McGuire or
The big hurt you call him the big train everybody else calls it the biggest something commercial
He goes I'm gonna be the big train mark McGuire Frank Thomas. I'm taking the big hurt

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I don't buy much no, it's McGuire all day
McGuire all day
Thomas saved the game so Frank Thomas
Some quick stats for you. My liar has like 60 more home run the
Frank Thomas has pretty much it
Leads him and everything else. I'll sluggy percentage is in McGuire, but like doubles runs scored RBI soft big hurt two MVP's

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Amazingly in the 2000 season the bigger hit
324 with 43 home runs and
143 RBI's and so I realized for the second
In MVP belly and did not make the all-star team. How many all-star games games that he make
He made five

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That's hard to believe how many years he play he played 19
But the last three were like he didn't play a lot of games, so he's hurt a lot of us three
But that's hard to fathom my wire plan 12 they could hit the ball like that
Hall of Fame
Already Hall of Famer out of Auburn
All right, so who were the other American League first baseman back then he never played in a National League, right?

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You know a lot of good first baseman in American League name one
Donnie no, he was he was after Donnie
Toma
The told me not wear batting gloves. No, you are okay all the route probably made a bunch cuz Toronto was really good back there
And they would sell out and they have to punch the ticket back then Ralphie pop goes to weasel pal Mero. Yeah

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Tino maybe
Yanks were winning a lot back then Mo
Move on he was gone. I think the big cat
No, no, that's Galarago. What was a Delgado's nickname?
Oh
Yeah, I don't remember his nickname he had one he had to be one of the guys that was being picked a lot

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Oh, he was great. He was great for a minute
Little longer than that. Oh, so ever you say Tino
Mm-hmm
Dude, don't forget about Ron Kummer. Oh, yeah, no, I'm kidding
number eight
We had him we had him we have run cool. How's that one good all search?
Whatever
So who's you guys take you're taking a punch Rodriguez. I'm taking I was there a punch started opening day

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No, but you think we should be thinking of the Baker
You want a couple more? Yeah, yeah, man. Let's do it. Let's go Joe Maurer Buster Posey
First baseman in a cat. Oh, no both catchers. Oh, I was thinking more. No
My words is made the whole thing
Should he have?
I'm gonna say something that's controversial here. I think those two guys were very overrated

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Both of them. I think so. I really do
Posey won they won three titles. Yeah, I know
MVP and a batting title
Would I rather have though? I
Rather have Maura believe it. Ah, actually he won three World Series. Yeah
Giants were so good back there. He didn't miss games either. Yeah, would a bunch of guys. I'm taking the catcher

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Just position they're both catcher. Yeah, but my first second
I remember more as a first baseman. He came up. Oh, that was more. No, please. No, but then he did go over first base
He's tall as heck right six five catcher, but more no stole MVP from Jeets. Yeah, then I'm going. I'm definitely going
I'm definitely going Posey from the captain

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Stole it look it up. See Steve now. I think I threw this one out before
Mike trout
Mookie bets Mookie
He plays Mookie plays and he wins Mookie
This is hurt, but I agree with him Mookie. He'll be back there
He'll be back before trout again because trouts now at least August. Do you I would say maybe at the break

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I love to hear the games per year that trout has played since he's been in the major leagues
He's he's got he's stantonist. Yeah, I agree. I got um, I take bets. Yep
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