July 28, 2025 • 42 mins
The Trade Deadline is heating up and mike times 2 are back at it to break down another crazy day in the MLB. From suspensions to Harpers comments and all in-between! tune in!
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Give me my shot to do what.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
As the studio gets better, I start to look better.
Mikey and Mike are back with another Divide Live Shy,
Divide Parduce. But yeah, I'm a little less red today.
I don't know if you can notice. It's still a
little red, but not as red as yesterday. As Yeah,
it's really bad and like it was, it's crazy. We're
(00:46):
like I said earlier, we're renovating the studios. There's some
things going on behind the scenes. But yeah, man, this
is this has been an epic twenty four hours. Like
I got a mit. The Mets are still undefeated. Shout
outs the Pablo, shout outs to the backyard ball, shout
outs to you for making amazing content, Like I don't
know when you go to sleep. I honestly don't. Are
(01:07):
you a vampire? Mikey?
Speaker 1 (01:09):
No, I said I did see Sinners. Though Sinners was
an amazing film. I saw it like three times. It
was pretty good, but definitely definitely not I wish.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
So I know you saw Fantastic four. I have not.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
I did.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I have not also seen Happy gilmore of you.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
You I did, I did, I did?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I damn man, So you cut content, you cout content
for your boy, Mikey p the owner of that Give
us Shot network. You cut content for yourself and you
have time to watch movies and you have a girlfriend.
You're amazing. You're amazing, dude.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Man, I tried no Fantastic four. Fantastic four was crazy.
Though I thought Superman was dope. I thought Fantastic Four
was dope. I thought I thought they were both dope.
And that's saying a lot because I'm not a big
DC guy. I am whatever, you know what I mean.
But like, I feel like Marvel, Marvel's in a I
was nervous for a little bit after like the Avengers
(02:01):
endgame stuff happened, and you know, Robert Downey Junior left
and now he's kind of back, and it's like it's
kind of it's it's interesting, bro, It's it's kind of
cool because I well, for me, I was like eleven ten,
eleven years old, and like the Marvel MCU universe happened,
and now I'm older and I'm watching it like kind
of like start this new phase. It's pretty cool, man,
(02:22):
because now you're older and you understand things more. It's
it's more interesting for sure.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Yeah, Like I'll never forget going to see Iron Man
one and like just being like this is lame, Like
he's not even like a top five hero and you
left there and you look, oh my god, and I
feel like this is the first time with all these
Fantastic four movies that people like your text to me
was ridiculous and I can't wait to see it. Such
(02:47):
as the life I guess of a dad, Like I
don't know, is that I'm making excuses for myself. I
guess I don't know, man.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Yeah, you know, I mean being a dad is my
favorite part about being an uncle is that I just
to give them back whenever I feel like it. I'm like,
I'm gonna leave now. And then I get to leave
and I just go home, you know, and my car
breaks down a lot, and you know, you know, financial
trouble of a twenty five year old. It happens, you
know what I mean, But it's kid free, so you
(03:15):
know it's it's not it's not. I don't know how
you do it, bro, I don't know how any of
the dads to give us a shot, network or anywhere
can do it, because it overwhelms me, just like thinking
about like why I have to make dinner for other
people other than myself, and like that stresses me out,
so like people like even even like and again I'm
going on like a long tangent, but like I think
(03:35):
about you and like Peyton starting school and you have
to be like, hey, man, like you go watch my
kid and educate her the right way and trust these
teachers in order to do that, and like for me, like, dude,
I don't even like taking my dog do the groomers
because I'm like, do they clip his nails too short?
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Or like yeah, yeah, it's hard.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
I'm trusting this school bus driver who I don't even know.
The guy is just like take my kids to school
Like that freaks me out. I have anxiety in general.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Yeah, likewise, dude, no, like Peyton right now is in
between camps and whenever my buddy Vinnie's MVP camps not available,
she tries to figure out ways to get out of
these other camps, right and like last night she got
me good man, So she did not go to camp today.
She was She went to work with dad and hung
out until our neighbors let her go in their pool.
(04:26):
But yeah, it's tough. It's not easy as a dadd
You're right, I appreciate those flowers. At twenty five, I
was that uncle and I loved every moment of it,
So embrace that. But yeah, man like, baseball is rolling
on right Manfred and Harper, Like, let's get into that action, dude.
(04:47):
That was a crazy, crazy post, a crazy headline for today.
I have to get your spin on it. He pretty
much kicked Manfred out of the lock the clubhouse regards
arding whether or not there should be a salary cap
of any kind for the players, and what are your
thoughts on that and any any any defense either way?
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Yeah, Well, Bryce, Bryce has always been one of those guys,
you know what I mean. I mean he's at the
front of everything for the Players Association and just kind
of being the punky QB of the group, you know
what I mean. And it reminds me a lot of
like a Jim McMahon of the Chicago Bears, who's gonna
be at a convention in Chicago this weekend. But you know,
I think the thing with Bryce humble plug. Maybe maybe
(05:31):
we'll see him, maybe we won't, who knows, But you know,
I think for me, it's it's really interesting to see
Bryce kind of go up to bat for everybody throughout
the organization. But I also I also have some like
pullback also, like on Manford's side, Like you know, I'd
love to sit here and be like Harper's in the right,
Like yeah, like I'm into it, but like also I
think we have to understand like what we're arguing about.
You know, I do agree that there shouldn't be a
(05:53):
salary cap in baseball, but there should be a salary floor,
you know what I mean. Yeah, yeah, Bryce Harper played
for the Pirates or the he wouldn't be he wouldn't
care about the salary cap because the team's never gonna
make it there, you know what I mean. Me as
a Cub fan, it's like, well, we're kind of always
like in that middle ground territory, we're spending We're not
spending a lot of money, you know what I mean. So,
like I think it's interesting.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Man.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
I did see Durosa said something interesting. I don't know
if it was on foul territory or somewhere else. He
kind of said, like just a paraphrase, he was like, dude,
you don't know how powerful commissioner can be. Like you
don't want to do stuff like that, and that'll mess
up the mojo of the team. Hey man, the safe
They say the Phillies just traded for Paul Skimes. No
you didn't. Rob Man said, that's not going through, you know,
(06:35):
like the Chris Paul to La deal. Like that's like
real things that can happen. So there are consequences to
your actions, man, and you know you do got to
be held accountable and you do kind of burn those bridges.
I don't know if that bridge is burnt because we
weren't in the rooms. There's no videos of it surfacing
at the moment. But it's interesting, man, what do you
think is because you're in Philly. Man, you know the
type of guy Harper is. He's been a huge dude
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in the community. He's embraced Philly the right way. This
a very Philly statement. I know, you know Chas Franklin,
Khalia Copper, so many people from Philly. This was very
Philly of him to do that. So how do you
how do you think the city of Philly will embrace
what harpridg just did.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
I'm cracking up because I just got my Mets wings back,
you know, I got my credentials back. The met organization
is full on Mike Powers again. And I'm gonna tell you.
I'm going to tell you right now, man, it's very
very hard to hate Bryce Harper and the majority of
these Philly players because they speak their minds. I mean,
(07:34):
this is something. Harper got paid not as much as Sodo,
not as and he should have and he deserves that. Like,
but this, this sounds like we're going towards another strike.
This sounds like uh, there's very passionate sides on on
both sides. The fact that man Fred wants to talk
about this. Mind you, the commissioner is the voice of
the owners, right, so for him to go directly to
(07:54):
a player is insane, and especially for the player to
have that reaction is like, that's a bit a meeting,
like hey, like a team's meeting, Like Hey, I want
to talk about this? Do you want to talk about this?
Like it shouldn't have been in a clubhouse, in a
in a setting where it's not Hey, this is what's
going to be on the agenda and this is what
we're going to talk about. And in Menfred's defense, if
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that was why he was coming in the clubhouse and
talk to him, then Bryce went a little bit overboard.
But I love this because even top tier teams, when
they win, they go on cruise control. Like you could
argue from two thousand and nine to now, the Yankees
were kind of on cruise control in some of those years.
Granted they still had a productive team that made it
(08:40):
to the postseason, they weren't going for the juggler, they
were not going for the throats. You see a lot
of teams take a step back after they win. You know,
I don't think the Dodgers are that team, obviously. I
don't think there's a bunch of teams like that. But
there becomes a situation where you could win too much
and not make any more money.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Right.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
We just saw the Phillies and Yankees performed this weekend
and it wasn't a sold out crowd. I'd been willing
to take the attendance numbers and compare it to what
just happened with Banana Ball in Philadelphia and see where
the numbers were. And there was an extra game for
the Yankees Phillies, So you know, I saw something very
inappropriate happening in the stands, and I couldn't help but
look around. How many people weren't in that upper deck
(09:21):
and weren't up there, and and I was more intrigued
by that than that lady spading out.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
I mean, yeah, I sent that one the Sheffield Shuffler
and I just.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Know, Yeah, that's that's Chef's the part.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Chef's my guy I go to when I see the
what the f moments and I'm like, Chef explaining this
to me and in terms that will under make me,
like understand this, And he that was the first time
Chef said nothing. That was the first time I Chef
was like stumped, and he was just like, I don't know,
I have no idea what.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
I don't know how, I don't know how that happened.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
And I'm a I'm an Aaron Judge fantasy guy. So
Aaron Judge wasn't even playing, so what is there to
be excited about? Like I saw Aaron Judge play again
in person, last time I saw Judge play White Sox
Soto hit three home runs in one game. Incredible, Judge.
It was one short of his three hundred career home run.
I was I was ready to do the same thing myself,
but there's a time and a place for everything, and
(10:18):
it was just I just didn't get it didn't get it.
I didn't like that no one was saying anything about
it either, like my first record this, you know what
I mean, Like i'd kind of be like I'm gonna
go somewhere.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Yeah, Like what if you're getting up to like get
a drink or go to the bathroom and you just
look up and you're like like first off, second off,
Like it was a Yankee fan, the girl was a
Yankee fan, the guy was a Philly fan. Like Yankees
and Phillies coming together, Like that's that's unity.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
So I don't know, bro, it's it was weird. Like
imagine you're like in front of the guy and you're
like taking a selfie and you're like look.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
At yo right like and it's just like I mean
there's a time in the place like dark movie theater.
Like I don't know, man, Like when I was younger,
like that Ballparks day, it wasn't even a night game,
a game on a Sunday. That's that's family day, dude.
Like it's just like I I want to believe that
(11:16):
that was not real, Like I want to believe it was.
I think it was a fake. Also, like yeah, it's
just bizarre, man.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
So you know, Wrigley Field one on a Friday and
the bleachers. You'll see some crazy stuff, man, but that
was That was farther than You'll.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Never see that with a Met and a Philly fan.
I promise you that. But just to give you an
idea of the difference of.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
The rivalries, I get what you're picking down.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
I won't allow it, but no, in all seriousness, Uh yo, dude,
that was that. Finally, the Yankees took took one game
out of that series. The Mets have seven have won
the last seven games in a row, and like they're
just a game and a half and first, like, I
felt like the Yankees could have helped us out and
given us, you know, at least a three game lead,
that's all I was looking for. Three game lead. That
(12:03):
would have been dope, just win one more, you know,
give me two and a half games, whatever it would
have been. Uh, you know, but the Mets a rolling,
you know, speaking of Roland, we're rolling right into San
Diego and there was a reunion. The oh my God
reunion is today and I'm very fortunate to call J.
Matt Customs, the creator the oh my God sign, A
(12:23):
dear dear friend of mine. I have one of the
original signs, which is absolutely amazing just to think about.
But to see Iglesias with his team again was pretty dope.
But you know, I hope, I hope to god, oh
my god, I'd be so mad if we get swept
by the Padres. I'm just telling you so like, I
(12:44):
hope that doesn't happen. I hope we keep this movement going.
Understand baseball as one day makes you think you're on
top of the world and you'll never lose again, and
then the next second, you know, he lost five in
a row. So that's that's baseball in a nutshell. But yeah, man,
there's so much going on right now. It's it's it's
it's ridiculous, and I want to dive into that. The
(13:05):
trade deadline is heating up. We had some moves today.
Cookie Carrasco is now in Atlanta, brave. I didn't even
I forgot Cookie was on the Yankees, to be honest
with you, but Atlanta needs that depth in their in
their lineup. What's your take on that? That transaction? And
you know it's you.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Know, I think the last couple of days have have
been evident that not a lot of teams are going
to go in on the big dogs, you know what
I mean, And whether that you know that might be
for several reasons that maybe the price is too high.
That means some guys just aren't available. Like I've seen
so many mocks of Paul Skins, the Cubs, Paul Skins
to the Yankees, Paul Skins to the Dodgers, the red
Skins is going now everywhere. Paul Skins is not on
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the block right now. If Skins gets moved, I again,
I made the class a video earlier today. I'll make
another one where I'm wrong, but you know it's it's
definitely something for me where you know, you look at
the realistic possibilities of a lot of these guys getting moved,
and I think some organization to understand that this year
might not be our year. So we're gonna do something
so we do our due diligence so we don't get
fired and we don't have people rioting that we haven't
(14:08):
done anything. But uh, definitely an interesting one. And like
you know, for me, you know, not to tie it
into the Cubs, because we'll talk a little Cubs later,
but like you know, the Cubs extended Jed Hoyer today.
We talked about him yesterday. Good Jed, you know and
worked under THEO in Boston and Chicago. So I mean,
this is a guy who's won multiple World Series championships
under theo Epstein and you know, I think he's made
(14:30):
an incredible farm system bringing in dansby trading for Tucker.
But you know, I have a lot of questions. You know,
why does you know what's what's gonna happen in the
next few days Because Jed Hoyer was on the last
year of his deal. Kyle Tucker is a free agent
at the end of the year. We haven't made any
big trades yet outside of Kyle Tucker. So if he
doesn't do anything at the deadline, and that's an amazing Cub.
If he doesn't do anything at the deadline, and then Kyle,
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I know, I know that that's the goat, that's the goal.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
So this studio is so messed up. I can't figure
out where the camera is.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
You've been but no, man, I like, it's just interesting
to me. Bro, Like, you know, if if Tucker ends
up going to the Yankees and the Cubs don't compete
in October, was that extension worth it was it warranted,
you know, like you're you're kind of like you're you're
making him feel like his job is safe, and I
kind of wanted a jet Hoyer that's more aggressive. And
I tied it all back into you know what we
(15:23):
talked about earlier about these trades transpiring earlier today, they
were some cheesy moves, you know, like Chris Paddick getting
traded as well, Like Chris Pattick was a four point
ninety five e R this year. I if this was
Chris Paddock from the Pirates or The Rays, I'd be like,
this is lit, but it's not. So it's like I
don't I don't care, you.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Know, Yeah, it's a lot of sexy names. If it
was you know, twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Chris Paddock was good.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
I enjoyed Cookie as a met like so yeah, yeah, yeah, but.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
It was it was a great guy, like it.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Was towards the end for he had. Yeah, everybody's saying
the Twins are obviously the first known sellers. I guess
is that fair to say? Yeah? Yeah, so yeah, So
there's there's a lot going on. I mean, the Tigers
obviously are destined to go deep into the playoffs, like
(16:18):
I can't imagine them not so, but yeah, a lot
of these moves are and this is why they moved
the trade deadline up. Man, So it was like you
couldn't go for Broke, you couldn't like that week makes
a huge difference those few weeks that they've now required
people to hop on waivers and not be available for
the playoffs if you do get traded after that. So yeah,
(16:39):
I'm really Yeah, so you jinxed one of our guys,
Manny right, who is it? A man?
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (16:51):
A manual clause cluss a. Yeah, I can't say it.
I am bad at pronouncing names. But you know the
fact that you're talking about him yesterday and today he
gets suspended with pay pending investigation, uh, you know, for
his involvement in what seems like, uh, you know, a
gambling situation or something like that. It's either steroids or
(17:14):
gambling when it's baseball, and it's it's hilarious how both
are still affecting the sport.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Yeah, so I don't know, bro Like it makes me wondering.
I'm a big Sopranos guy and I've watched it a
million times, so like you always wonder, like, what's going on.
I've seen Casino, I've seen you know, Goodfellas, every single
movie that you could possibly watch it. It's a mobster
Italian movie. I'm I'm I'm knee deep in it, trust me.
But like as much as I love that, you started
asking like real questions, and again, class A, we have
(17:43):
no idea what's going on right now. There's a lot
of videos that show that first pitch he throws every
time he comes on the bump, and it's it's it's
very telling that something's going on and something's very strange.
But you know, again, we have to We're gonna see
it through. We're gonna see what happens. He hasn't been
suspended suspended by the league, per se, just kind of
got told go hang out over there for a little while,
(18:03):
you know what I mean. But it did just happen
in the NBA too, Mike. It's happened several NBA players.
So like my question isn't you know why is this happening?
It's how much money are these guys getting paid? Because
these are multi millionaires that are giving up the game
they grew up loving for what reasons? Like this isn't
this isn't FanDuel. This isn't draftking, Like I'm logging in
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and I accidentally bet on my team. This is like
this feels like some show, Hey Epe my bookie kind
of thing.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
It's it's a lot of money on the line and
people could be threatened, for sure. I think about Mike Piazza.
He was notoriously known for taking the first pitch, and
then all of a sudden, towards the end of his career,
he stopped doing it. And like what if he told
his friends, like every Sunday, I'm going to swing at
the first pitch, and like those first seven or eight Sundays,
like they could cash on first pitch swinging, right, Like,
(18:52):
think about that?
Speaker 1 (18:53):
So the same thing, I like, put the house on
the first pitch.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Yeah, so the same thing. It's like, yo, I'm never
gonna throw a strike the first page or whatever it
may be. Uh, is that illegal? Is that illegal? Is
that insider trading?
Speaker 1 (19:07):
It's if you did you see the did you see
the pitch he threw the one class?
Speaker 2 (19:11):
So what if I tell I get that? But what
if I told only Mikey? What if I only told
you that I will never throw strike the first pitch?
The whole season. It's like every other.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
You're you're first I from a casino or just like
a sports betting thing. It's like you're you're robbing the bank,
you know what I mean. Like it's you're you're manipulating it,
and you understand you have inside information. So it's like
and then like again, if you want to see something
that's truly criminal, whether Class A did it or not,
in that video of his first pitches throughout this season,
if you watch one of them, he just throws it
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straight in the dirt. It doesn't even make it to
it doesn't even make it to the batting like it's
just horrible.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
It's just it's it's it's like a no doubter, Like
he also doesn't want the hitter to swing, which is like, yeah, no,
I agree. I'm just just trying to play devil's advocate
over here, trying to make sense of it. For sure.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Just look, if it was you pitching and you told
me that, Mike, I'm gonna bet the house on it.
It's not my fault you did that, you know what
I mean? Like, if you tell me that, I'm like,
all right, what you know? It is what it is
Unfortunately I don't. I don't do I don't know anybody
in Major League Baseball. I don't work in Major League
sports or any sport, so like I don't have that
inside information. But if I was one of his friends,
(20:27):
I'd be like, forget you don't screw it, bro, if
you're doing it, fuck it like it is what it is.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
We got our first bucket of the night.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Want twenty minutes deep. You want twenty minutes deep. I'm
proud of you. We could take a commercial break and
be right back. No, I'm just kidding. We are not
chopping this up. Well, we probably will, like honestly, like
I told you I was, but in all seriousness like
this definitely, like I there's so many implications like if
the MLB didn't figure this out and he got dealt
(20:59):
to the club, was like, what would you be thinking
right now? And also does that void the trade? Like
there's so like there's gonna be rules based off of
what just happened right now. I'm gonna be honest with you.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
I think it would be perfect for Emmanual class A
to end up in a Cubs uniform because Wrigley Field
does have a DraftKings casino built inside the stadium.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
I can't wait.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
An whatever he needs to do, one twenty star, six
forty star, he can get there two hours early, go inside,
do whatever he has to do, you know what I mean. Like, look, allegedly,
I don't know allegedly if he wants to go in
there and bet on basketball or football by all means.
But if you want to go in there and make
specific certain interesting bets and not should take place, that's
(21:43):
on you, buddy, you know what I mean. I would
have loved Class A again. You know we kind of
mentioned those names yesterday, Mason Miller, Class A guys who
probably won't get dealt. You mentioned the Twins. They still
have Duran too, so like Duran probably one of those.
I mean, hey, Duran stock just went up if you're
the Minnesot the twins, because I mean, you know, you're
running out of closes that are available a role. As
Chapman thought he might get dealt. He's day to day
(22:06):
with Basre in this like it's it's gonna get more
interesting as it goes on. Class A was definitely like
a monkey wrench thrown into the fire there where it's
like it's I just use two analogies in one. But
like it was, it just messed up everything, you know
what I mean, Like it blew up everything, so like
it's it's crazy man.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Yeah, no, I I agree. I mean the one thing
that I would also share with this whole situation is
you're right, like it's it's I I I just personally,
I don't know where the sport could go. I know
a lot of veteran players that are no longer in
the sport that do enjoy gambling and enjoy like the
odds and stuff like that. And I know the players
(22:45):
are hit to the odds too, So like gambling and
sports go together, competition goes together. People like to win.
There's adrenaline with that. You know, I've seen it. You know,
even with the foul territory guys, they love talking nurfees,
they love talking uh you know, they got to deal
with bet MGM and and they love talking odds and
they love talking this. So it's like you're not that
(23:07):
far removed from this. But also like, yeah, where when
does it become a situation? And with this, uh class
A if he was doing that, like he's obviously manipulating
and if he was benefiting from that or a loved
one was benefit from that. Yeah, he's they're gonna.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
He's gonna be NBA. Who is uh? I know we're
not NBA guys like that, but like, who is the
guy in the on the Detroit Pistons that just kind
of had the FBI like looking at him. The guy
was due like one hundred and fifty million dollar extension
and then they found out he did it. I forget
what his name was, Gambling. I'm just looking up gambling
Pistons and see what happens. I feel like it was somebody.
(23:43):
Malik Beasley. Malik Beasley. Yeah, yeah, he's under investigation by
the Federal Investigation. Like this is serious, like and like
you can go to jail, Brothers. Like what I'm saying
is like how much money are they getting to throw
these pitches? Or hey, like Malik's missed the game winning three?
You know what I mean? Like how if he's do
one hundred and fifty million dollar extension for the season
(24:05):
that he just had, why would you, Like how much
money are you making to where that's worth it for you? You
know what I mean? This is a chump change, Like
this is like probably making good money, I would.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Yeah, yo, speaking of good money, speaking of things that
are going on right now. We we got a lot
on our plates coming up this week. You got a
vacation planned. When you get back from vacation, I'll be
on vacation for my fortieth and going to Alaska to
play golf with my daughter Peyton. I can't wait for that.
But before that, you know, you'll you'll be doing a
(24:36):
huge chunk at the National for US that Wednesday Thursday.
Details to follow. Tune in tomorrow to find out more
of where Mikey Hughes will be on the National floor
because because we're still trying to figure that out.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
He just expanded the floor. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Yeah, it's getting bigger and bigger and bigger, and.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
It's it's parking lot on a smoke break and.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
This is the right time to be a part of
this for sure. So yeah, we're working out all those details.
But my eyes lit up because you mentioned something that
I wasn't even privy to where I forgot and I
know you probably have mentioned it, and Chef has mentioned it,
But the Wriggly is now Wriggly World, So I've never
I never got to experience it as Wriggly vill so
(25:17):
I am scared. But any pointers besides not trying to
lose all my money at the DraftKings sports book can
side Wriggly. But if there's any must do stuff, please
say now or forever older piece.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Yeah, well, first, the DraftKings Casino, even though it was
a little a little plug there, we were not sponsored
by them onsoever. So you know, it is what it is.
But you're not gonna go there like you're not gonna work.
If you want to go out of your way to
go in there, you can go in there. But it's
not like in your face annoying. It's like connected to
the building. So it's like it's a to I entity
(25:51):
for me. Man Gallagher Way is always the way to go.
They have this little turf field and sometimes they have
like movie days and you see all the statues just
lined up outside of the ballpar Obviously, you can go
to Sluggers. I always go to I've been going to
Sluggers since I've been going to Sluggers a long time.
But you know it's a bar across the street, and
you know there's a batting cage and an arcade on
(26:11):
the second floor that's like so much fun. I mean
I remember, I remember when the core of Rizzo, Brian
and Baias got traded and we're up in Sluggers just
drinking and we're hammered and like you know, we're in
the batting cages and we're like, well, Rizzo, Brian and
Bayer's are gone. So like I got a practice for
tomorrow's game and we guys are just like hitting nukes
and we're just doing it and we're just like we
can do this, you know what I mean, Like we're
just like we're mourning the loss of our heroes and
(26:34):
like we're all we're just ripping baseball's man, and it's
just it's Sluggers as a blast man. Murphy's is an
amazing time as well, little Irish bar across the street.
I mean, I worked there four years, man, and it
was grounds through there for the longest and like being
able to experience everything from the ins and out of
being in the dugout every day sweeping peanuts to hosing
seats and power washing everything. Like it's it's an amazing time, man.
(26:58):
I would definitely say, you just enjoy it, bro, Like
I like, I know we're there for you're there for
the game, but definitely just walk around, man, and you'll
see the little creeks and these stairwells that we keep cleaning.
My guys over there, hot Ride, Will Kevo. Everybody's still
working over there, Bobby Jerry. They're all working there right
now from morning crew five am to eleven and they're
(27:19):
still kicking it. So you wouldn't even tell the buildings
as old as it is, man. But if you've if
you've been the new Yankee Stadium, or you've been the
other ballparks, like go here, man, you'll be like, damn, like.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
It's yeah, it's I So that's that's something I love
to do, and I'm glad you mentioned that, is walk
around a ballpark and get the feel for it, especially
if I could see the field at different angles, Like
I want to experience it all because like it's like
literally having ten seats in one day, right, Like I
get it. You could get the best seats in the
house and just enjoy it and sit there and order
(27:50):
your food to your seat. But I want to walk around.
I want to experience it. I want to see every
nook and cranny of a ballpark. Fnway was tough Fnway
was not easy to even get out of your seat.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
So I'm not sure how Wriggly is with that, but
it's you know, I love that, dude, because like honestly,
like that's why I like Baltimore. Pittsburgh's amazing with that
field and Citizens Bank the Yankees. Dude, you can't see
the field if you tried, like you just end up
(28:25):
in like what feels like the mall of America, like
in weird like areas and you're just like, where are
they even playing baseball here? Like I I just it's
so overdone, it's over commercialized. Uh And like I said,
it's it's lost its luster. Where the old Yankee Stadium,
although you still couldn't see why you walked around, you
felt ghost It felt like you were in a haunted house.
(28:46):
And do you feel that in Wrigley. I know that's
a weird question, but do you feel the history?
Speaker 1 (28:52):
You definitely do, Man, And like for me, like you know,
you're just a dream chaser. Man and I went to
high school with the PA announcer Jeremiah pap Rock, and
we played high school baseball together. We celebrated twenty sixteen together,
and like for me, Man, both of us ended up
working there. It's like our dream jobs. And obviously like
I'm sweeping peanuts and he's, you know, a PA announcer
during game. So like there's levels to it, you know.
(29:14):
But like I would get there sometimes really early, probably
like three thirty four am, and I'd go and you know,
you wouldn't clock in, but you would go in just
early because I didn't have a car and you got
to get to work. And sometimes you just kind of
like in Moneyball, you know that I've seen the Moneyball
where all the lights are off and there's only the
you know, the standing room lights are on in the back,
and it's just a dark field. And that's how it was, man,
(29:36):
and you just sit there. It'll be like four am,
completely dark outside. You're sitting in the concourse, just sitting
in one of the seats, and you're looking up at
the box and you're like, dang, like Harry Carey used
to be up there, or Jack Brickhouse, or you look
at the field. I remember, you know, we used to
pull the tarp off when it would rain in the mornings.
So then okay, rained last night, so we had the
tarpa on. We had to take it off, so we'd
(29:57):
have like fifteen twenty guys just run out and sometime
guys would get stuck under the tarp and come out
all soaking wet. But like you're walking on the field
and you're like, damn, like I'm standing where Bryant stood
or I'm standing where Ernie Banks used to stand, and
like it's amazing, man, It's it's it's kind of like
chills more than like ghosts. It's it's definitely something where
it's like there's so much history where you're standing. And
(30:18):
the cool part about Wrigley is it's it's always been there,
you know what I mean, So like you're looking legends,
like you know, Ted Williams and and Babe Ruth and
all these guys who have stood on that same ground,
same plot, and it's like super dope. But the last advice,
the one thing I did forget to mention, go to
left field. Right field sucks. That's that's a that's a given.
Don't ever go to right field. Right field is horrible.
(30:39):
You'll hear the bleacher creatures let you know that right
field sucks. They'll chant it a few times during the game.
So make sure make sure you stay in left field.
Center field's cool. Well that problems with centerfield. I'm always
in left field.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
I love it. It's like right field, nor I don't want
to go there, You'll get murdered. I love it. Yeah,
I know, I didn't expect that, I feel I thought
it was like, hey man, we'dn't leave our seats in
the fourth inning, like out of respect to or something like.
I know, I know obviously take me out to the
ballgame as is a tradition, like hopefully you know that's done.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
I hope, I hope you get somebody bro, because that's right,
You're gonna get me in a whole new thing. Now,
what they what they like to do since COVID, You know,
they don't always have a guest, you know, Jim but
Lush Big on coming to to sing take me out
to the ballgame, or like celebrities or former players. A
lot of the time they'll just put a projection on
the stream, not on the screen. Can't say words today,
(31:36):
and it'll just be Harry carry and they'll just play
a voiceover of Harry Carey singing the stretch.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
And I'm gonna text you if I get harried.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
As much as I enjoy that after you're like tenth
time getting hairy, You're like, man, I kind of wish
it was somebody else, you know what I mean. Like
I love it. It's nostalgic. It's cool, but like you know,
I always loved when like the celebrities did it, or
like you know, the Ozzy Osbourne one that was going
viral last week, like that was the funniest shit world
to me. Yeah, it's it's It's definitely fun when you
get a celebrity the.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Call her daddy thing. I get what she was trying
to do. I don't it failed epic fair.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Remember what you said. You gotta understand we said I
think yesterday, Time and a Place or no, we said
that at the beginning of the show.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Time and Place for sure.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
As historic as that and as simple as that, just.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Just sing it, just sing it, sing it. Just be yourself.
Like she's big enough where she didn't have to do that.
I love her. I love her. Her interview with Edgearon
is something that I've played back numerous times. Uh, you
know she you can't knock the hustle. She's better at
this game than we are. She's she was her own producer,
(32:48):
her own editor, Uh. She she literally you know, Portnoy recognized,
uh a shark, and she is that and she she
deserves now everything she at. She's built an empire for sure.
I just as a cub fan or a baseball purist,
as just as some as some of our haters would
(33:09):
like to call us they uh you know, shout o
say Eric Cartman. Uh, the situation is for me there,
like you said, there's a time and a place, and.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
But you know, for non baseball fans, like we're weirdos
bro me and you like, and that's just like baseball fans,
like that's what we are. We're just junkies of the
game and we just love them. Like for her, if
she never watched a baseball game and they told her
you gotta sing some stretch, like I wouldn't have known
what to do either, if I'd never watched a bootball game,
if I've never been to Wrigley Field. So like, you know,
I can't knock her too hard for like people saying
(33:40):
that she should she should be banned, or she should
be you know, disgraceful of what happened, Like come on,
like it was horrible. It would never invite her again.
But like you know, like it's not that serious, like
it is fun.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
The the coolest thing I've seen on a baseball field
and more importantly in announced booths. Uh this We was
Nate Burghetzi at the Brewers game. He called about like
two and a half the three innings and they had
to give him the boot because Prince Fielder was about
to come in and he did not want to leave.
And I think Prince is doing Homer on Derby X
(34:15):
if I'm not mistaken, and they wanted he had to
plug that and Nate did not want to leave and
they had to be like, yo, dude, you gotta go,
and like mid inning they switched him for Prince and
it was just it was so funny. But dude, it
was like the guy like just wanted to be there.
He just wanted to help announce the game. He wanted
(34:38):
to talk about baseball, he wanted to talk about Milwaukee.
It was just so cool, and I was like, I
need more of this. So I did enjoy the comedic
relief that could be put in a booth, and I
was like, man, we need more of this in our
lives because normally it happens even like you know, I
remember when you know, legends come back and they'll keep
him on for an inning and they'll be like, all right,
(34:59):
we're gonna let you go. Oh like you should like
if they want to stay on for a few winnings,
like let him go until they're they don't want to
be there.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Like in my Minister the other day, John Lester, they
were like, John, are you cool if you stay another inning?
And John was like, I'll stay as long as y'all
want me here. And I was bro, because like I
love big John. John Lester is like that's big country,
Like John Lester, get is down, bro, and like he's like.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
You're gonna have to get the national character. I love
John Dude. Lester's uh yeah, there's that's that's what the
Cubs man. Like, Like I said this earlier, like Rizzo
to me is the new Ken Griffy in my in
my book, Like he's never played for me, but I
love him, you know what I mean? And I wish
(35:41):
he was a met like if Anthony Rizzo and all
respects to Peter Lonzo, we could have figured it out
to have both. Uh, but Rizz nobody beats the Riz.
He's such a cool dude. He's just like a badass
and also like the guy I want on my team.
If if if stuff's going tough, like he's he's nails.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Man. I just bro, Like, if we can interview anybody
this weekend, we get interview Gianni's on is going to
be at the National. I could talk to Giannis for
three hours and all respect the Giannis, I'd be like
that was cool. If I interviewed Anthony Rizzo, I'm retiring.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
I'm done, lights out, lights out, dude, I'm done.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Like if you talk to David Wright, it's probably the
same thing.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Bro, I don't like if you told me Mike, Anthony
Rizzo or Michael Jordan who you interview and I'm interviewing
Anthony Rizzo ten times out of ten and I'm from Chicago.
I bleed black and red for the Chicago Bulls, unfortunately,
but I do, and like I would still out of
anybody who's ever played a professional sport. I'm interviewing Riz
or I'm interviewing Derek Rosse and there's like no in between.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
Mike, We're gonna end on this note. The Chicago UH
Bulls slash City Connects. Like I have a love hate
relationship with that I like him and I hate him
at the same time, Like, I don't know how I
feel about them. I've sent you pictures of it in
(37:03):
a new Jersey Dick's sporting goods, like, so obviously they
thought they're like nailed it. But then like in the
same breath, I'm like, this is like, I don't know, man,
I would never want because, like you said, you're a
Bulls fan, so like, is that a slap in the
face to the Cubs, Like right, Like I don't like
(37:24):
the I don't like the Rangers, like, and I don't
like the Islanders, and I don't like the Knicks, Like
I don't want a Mets Nicks connection because honestly it
wouldn't connect with me. And I'm not gonna wear it,
and like, don't tell me what my other team should
be like kind of attitude. Now I get mad. So
I needed a true Chicago opinion of it.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Well, the true Chicago opinion of it is the colors
they chose. I in certain neighborhoods in Chicago, you probably
wouldn't want to wear it around there. You know. There's
a lot of ongoing jokes that like it's just like
it's just not it's just it just wasn't the move.
But uh, you know, as far as you know you
talk about man, well, why would we randomly connect with
the Socks and not the Cubs. The owner of the
(38:06):
bulls is the owner of the socks, right, Like that's
like the idea of like, you know, Jerry Jerry on
you know, God willing he lives another ten, fifteen, twenty years,
but he's getting up there, you know what I mean.
So I think Jerry just kind of wants to do
a little bit of everything, just try to make as
much money possible and then we'll see what happens. Man.
So like, my true honest opinion about it is it's solid,
it's not bad onsoever. It's it's a cash grab. And
(38:28):
I and if I was a Sox fan, I would
totally buy that fricking jersey, you know, because it's it's clean. Mike,
I like it a lot.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
Listen, Like Todd, Todd was a white Sox player and
his whole times over South team is the Southsiders, and
he mimics that city connects. So you know, he's got
a lot of love for Chicago, got a lot a
lot of love for the White Sox and it shows
every day when his kids put on that uniform. But yeah,
I agree like it. It's it, it's it's just it's
(38:59):
it's strange because it brings me back, Like, dude, I
had that forty five jersey and Jordan Jersey when he
came back, I had, you know, I watched him in
the baseball realm. It made me prouder to be a
baseball player that he wasn't just an uber success over
at it because it kinda showed there was different avenues
to this and you can't just pick up a stick
or glove and play this game. You gotta like it's
(39:21):
it's it's harder, right like, and you can't just switch
sports like that, Like it just doesn't work.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
You know.
Speaker 2 (39:28):
There was a lot of intrigue of you know, watching
Space jam and and his return to the NBA. It's
just it brings back a lot of memories that Jersey.
So when I see it on a White Sox team,
I'm just like, this is cool. But I feel like
it should be for all Chicago, like you know, and
I so I don't know, Mike, you know, that's that's
(39:49):
that's my take on it. I think there is room
for that. I like it, but it should have been
like a giveaway or some men shouldn't be on the team.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
Yeah, and that's what I met earlier, Like you can't
wear it in certain neighborhoods. You can't say you're all
And that's what I mean. Like if you're a Bulls
fan and you go up to Wrigleyville and you wear
that jersey, it's like, well that's a socks jersey, brother,
you know what I mean. Like it's like for certain
places you just can't go and wear it, you know
what I mean. Like I'm going to the I mean,
I have gone to the South Side in the Cubs
uniform several times. But I'm not saying you should, but
(40:17):
like you know, it's it's definitely like hey man, respector
you're at you know what I mean. Then with a
collab jersey like that, with the other side of town
being predominantly Cubs fans, like it's I mean, I mean,
we don't care. It's not that deep. The city don't care.
But like you know what i mean, Like it's just
it's just funny to me because I'm like I couldn't
do it, still couldn't do it.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
And my last question before we get out of here,
whose career you're going to ruin today?
Speaker 1 (40:40):
M Well, we're in Wriggly North right now, playing against Milwaukee,
So I think Christian Yelich is gonna have an MVP
caliber season to finish the year. Jackson Curio right behind him,
and everybody else on the Milwaukee Brewers staff. Man, they're
just fantastic. Brother. If you know this is your bus
(41:01):
broke down tomorrow, I'd be really unfortunate. I don't know how.
Speaker 2 (41:05):
This is the Chi Divide, Mike Powers from the Divide,
This is my buddy, Mikey Hughes follow him at the
Chaike Chai.
Speaker 1 (41:13):
Kid, we have to talk about an email you sent
and c seed me later. You spell Yeah, spelled Chicago
wrong again in the in the No.
Speaker 2 (41:24):
That's auto correcting, Like I think I spelt.
Speaker 1 (41:26):
It's so wrong, and I look at it every time
and I'm like, that's that's Mikey Powers, Like that's it's
it's it's dude, that's.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
Mikey Powers putting out five hundred emails in one hour,
like just so you know, like I wish Mike is
amazing what he does, but no, it's not.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
Yeah, in Chicago. It just doesn't.
Speaker 2 (41:44):
It's just yeah, I don't. Yeah, like, he just doesn't.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
I was like, I read it, I go chic Chicago.
Speaker 2 (41:51):
Yeah, I was like, I tried it. I tried to
say it the way you guys pronounce it. This guy,
I love you, brother, thank you so much, thank you
for tuning in. And uh, who knows, we might be
back tomorrow. We might just go on to heat a
winning streak. Shout outs to the baseball backyard, shout out the man.
Speaker 1 (42:13):
Yeah, man, I'll blow seven and seven with the Mets.
Speaker 2 (42:16):
We still got an hour until the Mets kick off.
It's unreal. First pitch is in an hour, so I to.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
Be done in about an hour, so I'll be asleep.
Speaker 2 (42:26):
All right, Well, good night, buddy. I don't I don't
think it'll be asleep, but uh, like I said, shout
outs to the Vampire track It all right, good night everybody,
Give me my shot to do what.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
As the studio gets better, I start to look better.
Mikey and Mike are back with another Divide Live Shy,
Divide Parduce. But yeah, I'm a little less red today.
I don't know if you can notice. It's still a
little red, but not as red as yesterday. As Yeah,
it's really bad and like it was, it's crazy. We're
(00:46):
like I said earlier, we're renovating the studios. There's some
things going on behind the scenes. But yeah, man, this
is this has been an epic twenty four hours. Like
I got a mit. The Mets are still undefeated. Shout
outs the Pablo, shout outs to the backyard ball, shout
outs to you for making amazing content, Like I don't
know when you go to sleep. I honestly don't. Are
(01:07):
you a vampire? Mikey?
Speaker 1 (01:09):
No, I said I did see Sinners. Though Sinners was
an amazing film. I saw it like three times. It
was pretty good, but definitely definitely not I wish.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
So I know you saw Fantastic four. I have not.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
I did.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I have not also seen Happy gilmore of you.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
You I did, I did, I did?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I damn man, So you cut content, you cout content
for your boy, Mikey p the owner of that Give
us Shot network. You cut content for yourself and you
have time to watch movies and you have a girlfriend.
You're amazing. You're amazing, dude.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Man, I tried no Fantastic four. Fantastic four was crazy.
Though I thought Superman was dope. I thought Fantastic Four
was dope. I thought I thought they were both dope.
And that's saying a lot because I'm not a big
DC guy. I am whatever, you know what I mean.
But like, I feel like Marvel, Marvel's in a I
was nervous for a little bit after like the Avengers
(02:01):
endgame stuff happened, and you know, Robert Downey Junior left
and now he's kind of back, and it's like it's
kind of it's it's interesting, bro, It's it's kind of
cool because I well, for me, I was like eleven ten,
eleven years old, and like the Marvel MCU universe happened,
and now I'm older and I'm watching it like kind
of like start this new phase. It's pretty cool, man,
(02:22):
because now you're older and you understand things more. It's
it's more interesting for sure.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Yeah, Like I'll never forget going to see Iron Man
one and like just being like this is lame, Like
he's not even like a top five hero and you
left there and you look, oh my god, and I
feel like this is the first time with all these
Fantastic four movies that people like your text to me
was ridiculous and I can't wait to see it. Such
(02:47):
as the life I guess of a dad, Like I
don't know, is that I'm making excuses for myself. I
guess I don't know, man.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Yeah, you know, I mean being a dad is my
favorite part about being an uncle is that I just
to give them back whenever I feel like it. I'm like,
I'm gonna leave now. And then I get to leave
and I just go home, you know, and my car
breaks down a lot, and you know, you know, financial
trouble of a twenty five year old. It happens, you
know what I mean, But it's kid free, so you
(03:15):
know it's it's not it's not. I don't know how
you do it, bro, I don't know how any of
the dads to give us a shot, network or anywhere
can do it, because it overwhelms me, just like thinking
about like why I have to make dinner for other
people other than myself, and like that stresses me out,
so like people like even even like and again I'm
going on like a long tangent, but like I think
(03:35):
about you and like Peyton starting school and you have
to be like, hey, man, like you go watch my
kid and educate her the right way and trust these
teachers in order to do that, and like for me, like, dude,
I don't even like taking my dog do the groomers
because I'm like, do they clip his nails too short?
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Or like yeah, yeah, it's hard.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
I'm trusting this school bus driver who I don't even know.
The guy is just like take my kids to school
Like that freaks me out. I have anxiety in general.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Yeah, likewise, dude, no, like Peyton right now is in
between camps and whenever my buddy Vinnie's MVP camps not available,
she tries to figure out ways to get out of
these other camps, right and like last night she got
me good man, So she did not go to camp today.
She was She went to work with dad and hung
out until our neighbors let her go in their pool.
(04:26):
But yeah, it's tough. It's not easy as a dadd
You're right, I appreciate those flowers. At twenty five, I
was that uncle and I loved every moment of it,
So embrace that. But yeah, man like, baseball is rolling
on right Manfred and Harper, Like, let's get into that action, dude.
(04:47):
That was a crazy, crazy post, a crazy headline for today.
I have to get your spin on it. He pretty
much kicked Manfred out of the lock the clubhouse regards
arding whether or not there should be a salary cap
of any kind for the players, and what are your
thoughts on that and any any any defense either way?
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Yeah, Well, Bryce, Bryce has always been one of those guys,
you know what I mean. I mean he's at the
front of everything for the Players Association and just kind
of being the punky QB of the group, you know
what I mean. And it reminds me a lot of
like a Jim McMahon of the Chicago Bears, who's gonna
be at a convention in Chicago this weekend. But you know,
I think the thing with Bryce humble plug. Maybe maybe
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we'll see him, maybe we won't, who knows, But you know,
I think for me, it's it's really interesting to see
Bryce kind of go up to bat for everybody throughout
the organization. But I also I also have some like
pullback also, like on Manford's side, Like you know, I'd
love to sit here and be like Harper's in the right,
Like yeah, like I'm into it, but like also I
think we have to understand like what we're arguing about.
You know, I do agree that there shouldn't be a
(05:53):
salary cap in baseball, but there should be a salary floor,
you know what I mean. Yeah, yeah, Bryce Harper played
for the Pirates or the he wouldn't be he wouldn't
care about the salary cap because the team's never gonna
make it there, you know what I mean. Me as
a Cub fan, it's like, well, we're kind of always
like in that middle ground territory, we're spending We're not
spending a lot of money, you know what I mean. So,
like I think it's interesting.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Man.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
I did see Durosa said something interesting. I don't know
if it was on foul territory or somewhere else. He
kind of said, like just a paraphrase, he was like, dude,
you don't know how powerful commissioner can be. Like you
don't want to do stuff like that, and that'll mess
up the mojo of the team. Hey man, the safe
They say the Phillies just traded for Paul Skimes. No
you didn't. Rob Man said, that's not going through, you know,
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like the Chris Paul to La deal. Like that's like
real things that can happen. So there are consequences to
your actions, man, and you know you do got to
be held accountable and you do kind of burn those bridges.
I don't know if that bridge is burnt because we
weren't in the rooms. There's no videos of it surfacing
at the moment. But it's interesting, man, what do you
think is because you're in Philly. Man, you know the
type of guy Harper is. He's been a huge dude
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in the community. He's embraced Philly the right way. This
a very Philly statement. I know, you know Chas Franklin,
Khalia Copper, so many people from Philly. This was very
Philly of him to do that. So how do you
how do you think the city of Philly will embrace
what harpridg just did.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
I'm cracking up because I just got my Mets wings back,
you know, I got my credentials back. The met organization
is full on Mike Powers again. And I'm gonna tell you.
I'm going to tell you right now, man, it's very
very hard to hate Bryce Harper and the majority of
these Philly players because they speak their minds. I mean,
(07:34):
this is something. Harper got paid not as much as Sodo,
not as and he should have and he deserves that. Like,
but this, this sounds like we're going towards another strike.
This sounds like uh, there's very passionate sides on on
both sides. The fact that man Fred wants to talk
about this. Mind you, the commissioner is the voice of
the owners, right, so for him to go directly to
(07:54):
a player is insane, and especially for the player to
have that reaction is like, that's a bit a meeting,
like hey, like a team's meeting, Like Hey, I want
to talk about this? Do you want to talk about this?
Like it shouldn't have been in a clubhouse, in a
in a setting where it's not Hey, this is what's
going to be on the agenda and this is what
we're going to talk about. And in Menfred's defense, if
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that was why he was coming in the clubhouse and
talk to him, then Bryce went a little bit overboard.
But I love this because even top tier teams, when
they win, they go on cruise control. Like you could
argue from two thousand and nine to now, the Yankees
were kind of on cruise control in some of those years.
Granted they still had a productive team that made it
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to the postseason, they weren't going for the juggler, they
were not going for the throats. You see a lot
of teams take a step back after they win. You know,
I don't think the Dodgers are that team, obviously. I
don't think there's a bunch of teams like that. But
there becomes a situation where you could win too much
and not make any more money.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Right.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
We just saw the Phillies and Yankees performed this weekend
and it wasn't a sold out crowd. I'd been willing
to take the attendance numbers and compare it to what
just happened with Banana Ball in Philadelphia and see where
the numbers were. And there was an extra game for
the Yankees Phillies, So you know, I saw something very
inappropriate happening in the stands, and I couldn't help but
look around. How many people weren't in that upper deck
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and weren't up there, and and I was more intrigued
by that than that lady spading out.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
I mean, yeah, I sent that one the Sheffield Shuffler
and I just.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Know, Yeah, that's that's Chef's the part.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Chef's my guy I go to when I see the
what the f moments and I'm like, Chef explaining this
to me and in terms that will under make me,
like understand this, And he that was the first time
Chef said nothing. That was the first time I Chef
was like stumped, and he was just like, I don't know,
I have no idea what.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
I don't know how, I don't know how that happened.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
And I'm a I'm an Aaron Judge fantasy guy. So
Aaron Judge wasn't even playing, so what is there to
be excited about? Like I saw Aaron Judge play again
in person, last time I saw Judge play White Sox
Soto hit three home runs in one game. Incredible, Judge.
It was one short of his three hundred career home run.
I was I was ready to do the same thing myself,
but there's a time and a place for everything, and
(10:18):
it was just I just didn't get it didn't get it.
I didn't like that no one was saying anything about
it either, like my first record this, you know what
I mean, Like i'd kind of be like I'm gonna
go somewhere.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Yeah, Like what if you're getting up to like get
a drink or go to the bathroom and you just
look up and you're like like first off, second off,
Like it was a Yankee fan, the girl was a
Yankee fan, the guy was a Philly fan. Like Yankees
and Phillies coming together, Like that's that's unity.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
So I don't know, bro, it's it was weird. Like
imagine you're like in front of the guy and you're
like taking a selfie and you're like look.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
At yo right like and it's just like I mean
there's a time in the place like dark movie theater.
Like I don't know, man, Like when I was younger,
like that Ballparks day, it wasn't even a night game,
a game on a Sunday. That's that's family day, dude.
Like it's just like I I want to believe that
(11:16):
that was not real, Like I want to believe it was.
I think it was a fake. Also, like yeah, it's
just bizarre, man.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
So you know, Wrigley Field one on a Friday and
the bleachers. You'll see some crazy stuff, man, but that
was That was farther than You'll.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Never see that with a Met and a Philly fan.
I promise you that. But just to give you an
idea of the difference of.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
The rivalries, I get what you're picking down.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
I won't allow it, but no, in all seriousness, Uh yo, dude,
that was that. Finally, the Yankees took took one game
out of that series. The Mets have seven have won
the last seven games in a row, and like they're
just a game and a half and first, like, I
felt like the Yankees could have helped us out and
given us, you know, at least a three game lead,
that's all I was looking for. Three game lead. That
(12:03):
would have been dope, just win one more, you know,
give me two and a half games, whatever it would
have been. Uh, you know, but the Mets a rolling,
you know, speaking of Roland, we're rolling right into San
Diego and there was a reunion. The oh my God
reunion is today and I'm very fortunate to call J.
Matt Customs, the creator the oh my God sign, A
(12:23):
dear dear friend of mine. I have one of the
original signs, which is absolutely amazing just to think about.
But to see Iglesias with his team again was pretty dope.
But you know, I hope, I hope to god, oh
my god, I'd be so mad if we get swept
by the Padres. I'm just telling you so like, I
(12:44):
hope that doesn't happen. I hope we keep this movement going.
Understand baseball as one day makes you think you're on
top of the world and you'll never lose again, and
then the next second, you know, he lost five in
a row. So that's that's baseball in a nutshell. But yeah, man,
there's so much going on right now. It's it's it's
it's ridiculous, and I want to dive into that. The
(13:05):
trade deadline is heating up. We had some moves today.
Cookie Carrasco is now in Atlanta, brave. I didn't even
I forgot Cookie was on the Yankees, to be honest
with you, but Atlanta needs that depth in their in
their lineup. What's your take on that? That transaction? And
you know it's you.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Know, I think the last couple of days have have
been evident that not a lot of teams are going
to go in on the big dogs, you know what
I mean, And whether that you know that might be
for several reasons that maybe the price is too high.
That means some guys just aren't available. Like I've seen
so many mocks of Paul Skins, the Cubs, Paul Skins
to the Yankees, Paul Skins to the Dodgers, the red
Skins is going now everywhere. Paul Skins is not on
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the block right now. If Skins gets moved, I again,
I made the class a video earlier today. I'll make
another one where I'm wrong, but you know it's it's
definitely something for me where you know, you look at
the realistic possibilities of a lot of these guys getting moved,
and I think some organization to understand that this year
might not be our year. So we're gonna do something
so we do our due diligence so we don't get
fired and we don't have people rioting that we haven't
(14:08):
done anything. But uh, definitely an interesting one. And like
you know, for me, you know, not to tie it
into the Cubs, because we'll talk a little Cubs later,
but like you know, the Cubs extended Jed Hoyer today.
We talked about him yesterday. Good Jed, you know and
worked under THEO in Boston and Chicago. So I mean,
this is a guy who's won multiple World Series championships
under theo Epstein and you know, I think he's made
(14:30):
an incredible farm system bringing in dansby trading for Tucker.
But you know, I have a lot of questions. You know,
why does you know what's what's gonna happen in the
next few days Because Jed Hoyer was on the last
year of his deal. Kyle Tucker is a free agent
at the end of the year. We haven't made any
big trades yet outside of Kyle Tucker. So if he
doesn't do anything at the deadline, and that's an amazing Cub.
If he doesn't do anything at the deadline, and then Kyle,
(14:53):
I know, I know that that's the goat, that's the goal.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
So this studio is so messed up. I can't figure
out where the camera is.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
You've been but no, man, I like, it's just interesting
to me. Bro, Like, you know, if if Tucker ends
up going to the Yankees and the Cubs don't compete
in October, was that extension worth it was it warranted,
you know, like you're you're kind of like you're you're
making him feel like his job is safe, and I
kind of wanted a jet Hoyer that's more aggressive. And
I tied it all back into you know what we
(15:23):
talked about earlier about these trades transpiring earlier today, they
were some cheesy moves, you know, like Chris Paddick getting
traded as well, Like Chris Pattick was a four point
ninety five e R this year. I if this was
Chris Paddock from the Pirates or The Rays, I'd be like,
this is lit, but it's not. So it's like I
don't I don't care, you.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Know, Yeah, it's a lot of sexy names. If it
was you know, twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Chris Paddock was good.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
I enjoyed Cookie as a met like so yeah, yeah, yeah, but.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
It was it was a great guy, like it.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Was towards the end for he had. Yeah, everybody's saying
the Twins are obviously the first known sellers. I guess
is that fair to say? Yeah? Yeah, so yeah, So
there's there's a lot going on. I mean, the Tigers
obviously are destined to go deep into the playoffs, like
(16:18):
I can't imagine them not so, but yeah, a lot
of these moves are and this is why they moved
the trade deadline up. Man, So it was like you
couldn't go for Broke, you couldn't like that week makes
a huge difference those few weeks that they've now required
people to hop on waivers and not be available for
the playoffs if you do get traded after that. So yeah,
(16:39):
I'm really Yeah, so you jinxed one of our guys,
Manny right, who is it? A man?
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (16:51):
A manual clause cluss a. Yeah, I can't say it.
I am bad at pronouncing names. But you know the
fact that you're talking about him yesterday and today he
gets suspended with pay pending investigation, uh, you know, for
his involvement in what seems like, uh, you know, a
gambling situation or something like that. It's either steroids or
(17:14):
gambling when it's baseball, and it's it's hilarious how both
are still affecting the sport.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Yeah, so I don't know, bro Like it makes me wondering.
I'm a big Sopranos guy and I've watched it a
million times, so like you always wonder, like, what's going on.
I've seen Casino, I've seen you know, Goodfellas, every single
movie that you could possibly watch it. It's a mobster
Italian movie. I'm I'm I'm knee deep in it, trust me.
But like as much as I love that, you started
asking like real questions, and again, class A, we have
(17:43):
no idea what's going on right now. There's a lot
of videos that show that first pitch he throws every
time he comes on the bump, and it's it's it's
very telling that something's going on and something's very strange.
But you know, again, we have to We're gonna see
it through. We're gonna see what happens. He hasn't been
suspended suspended by the league, per se, just kind of
got told go hang out over there for a little while,
(18:03):
you know what I mean. But it did just happen
in the NBA too, Mike. It's happened several NBA players.
So like my question isn't you know why is this happening?
It's how much money are these guys getting paid? Because
these are multi millionaires that are giving up the game
they grew up loving for what reasons? Like this isn't
this isn't FanDuel. This isn't draftking, Like I'm logging in
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and I accidentally bet on my team. This is like
this feels like some show, Hey Epe my bookie kind
of thing.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
It's it's a lot of money on the line and
people could be threatened, for sure. I think about Mike Piazza.
He was notoriously known for taking the first pitch, and
then all of a sudden, towards the end of his career,
he stopped doing it. And like what if he told
his friends, like every Sunday, I'm going to swing at
the first pitch, and like those first seven or eight Sundays,
like they could cash on first pitch swinging, right, Like,
(18:52):
think about that?
Speaker 1 (18:53):
So the same thing, I like, put the house on
the first pitch.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Yeah, so the same thing. It's like, yo, I'm never
gonna throw a strike the first page or whatever it
may be. Uh, is that illegal? Is that illegal? Is
that insider trading?
Speaker 1 (19:07):
It's if you did you see the did you see
the pitch he threw the one class?
Speaker 2 (19:11):
So what if I tell I get that? But what
if I told only Mikey? What if I only told
you that I will never throw strike the first pitch?
The whole season. It's like every other.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
You're you're first I from a casino or just like
a sports betting thing. It's like you're you're robbing the bank,
you know what I mean. Like it's you're you're manipulating it,
and you understand you have inside information. So it's like
and then like again, if you want to see something
that's truly criminal, whether Class A did it or not,
in that video of his first pitches throughout this season,
if you watch one of them, he just throws it
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straight in the dirt. It doesn't even make it to
it doesn't even make it to the batting like it's
just horrible.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
It's just it's it's it's like a no doubter, Like
he also doesn't want the hitter to swing, which is like, yeah, no,
I agree. I'm just just trying to play devil's advocate
over here, trying to make sense of it. For sure.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Just look, if it was you pitching and you told
me that, Mike, I'm gonna bet the house on it.
It's not my fault you did that, you know what
I mean? Like, if you tell me that, I'm like,
all right, what you know? It is what it is
Unfortunately I don't. I don't do I don't know anybody
in Major League Baseball. I don't work in Major League
sports or any sport, so like I don't have that
inside information. But if I was one of his friends,
(20:27):
I'd be like, forget you don't screw it, bro, if
you're doing it, fuck it like it is what it is.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
We got our first bucket of the night.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Want twenty minutes deep. You want twenty minutes deep. I'm
proud of you. We could take a commercial break and
be right back. No, I'm just kidding. We are not
chopping this up. Well, we probably will, like honestly, like
I told you I was, but in all seriousness like
this definitely, like I there's so many implications like if
the MLB didn't figure this out and he got dealt
(20:59):
to the club, was like, what would you be thinking
right now? And also does that void the trade? Like
there's so like there's gonna be rules based off of
what just happened right now. I'm gonna be honest with you.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
I think it would be perfect for Emmanual class A
to end up in a Cubs uniform because Wrigley Field
does have a DraftKings casino built inside the stadium.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
I can't wait.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
An whatever he needs to do, one twenty star, six
forty star, he can get there two hours early, go inside,
do whatever he has to do, you know what I mean. Like, look, allegedly,
I don't know allegedly if he wants to go in
there and bet on basketball or football by all means.
But if you want to go in there and make
specific certain interesting bets and not should take place, that's
(21:43):
on you, buddy, you know what I mean. I would
have loved Class A again. You know we kind of
mentioned those names yesterday, Mason Miller, Class A guys who
probably won't get dealt. You mentioned the Twins. They still
have Duran too, so like Duran probably one of those.
I mean, hey, Duran stock just went up if you're
the Minnesot the twins, because I mean, you know, you're
running out of closes that are available a role. As
Chapman thought he might get dealt. He's day to day
(22:06):
with Basre in this like it's it's gonna get more
interesting as it goes on. Class A was definitely like
a monkey wrench thrown into the fire there where it's
like it's I just use two analogies in one. But
like it was, it just messed up everything, you know
what I mean, Like it blew up everything, so like
it's it's crazy man.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Yeah, no, I I agree. I mean the one thing
that I would also share with this whole situation is
you're right, like it's it's I I I just personally,
I don't know where the sport could go. I know
a lot of veteran players that are no longer in
the sport that do enjoy gambling and enjoy like the
odds and stuff like that. And I know the players
(22:45):
are hit to the odds too, So like gambling and
sports go together, competition goes together. People like to win.
There's adrenaline with that. You know, I've seen it. You know,
even with the foul territory guys, they love talking nurfees,
they love talking uh you know, they got to deal
with bet MGM and and they love talking odds and
they love talking this. So it's like you're not that
(23:07):
far removed from this. But also like, yeah, where when
does it become a situation? And with this, uh class
A if he was doing that, like he's obviously manipulating
and if he was benefiting from that or a loved
one was benefit from that. Yeah, he's they're gonna.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
He's gonna be NBA. Who is uh? I know we're
not NBA guys like that, but like, who is the
guy in the on the Detroit Pistons that just kind
of had the FBI like looking at him. The guy
was due like one hundred and fifty million dollar extension
and then they found out he did it. I forget
what his name was, Gambling. I'm just looking up gambling
Pistons and see what happens. I feel like it was somebody.
(23:43):
Malik Beasley. Malik Beasley. Yeah, yeah, he's under investigation by
the Federal Investigation. Like this is serious, like and like
you can go to jail, Brothers. Like what I'm saying
is like how much money are they getting to throw
these pitches? Or hey, like Malik's missed the game winning three?
You know what I mean? Like how if he's do
one hundred and fifty million dollar extension for the season
(24:05):
that he just had, why would you, Like how much
money are you making to where that's worth it for you? You
know what I mean? This is a chump change, Like
this is like probably making good money, I would.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Yeah, yo, speaking of good money, speaking of things that
are going on right now. We we got a lot
on our plates coming up this week. You got a
vacation planned. When you get back from vacation, I'll be
on vacation for my fortieth and going to Alaska to
play golf with my daughter Peyton. I can't wait for that.
But before that, you know, you'll you'll be doing a
(24:36):
huge chunk at the National for US that Wednesday Thursday.
Details to follow. Tune in tomorrow to find out more
of where Mikey Hughes will be on the National floor
because because we're still trying to figure that out.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
He just expanded the floor. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Yeah, it's getting bigger and bigger and bigger, and.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
It's it's parking lot on a smoke break and.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
This is the right time to be a part of
this for sure. So yeah, we're working out all those details.
But my eyes lit up because you mentioned something that
I wasn't even privy to where I forgot and I
know you probably have mentioned it, and Chef has mentioned it,
But the Wriggly is now Wriggly World, So I've never
I never got to experience it as Wriggly vill so
(25:17):
I am scared. But any pointers besides not trying to
lose all my money at the DraftKings sports book can
side Wriggly. But if there's any must do stuff, please
say now or forever older piece.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Yeah, well, first, the DraftKings Casino, even though it was
a little a little plug there, we were not sponsored
by them onsoever. So you know, it is what it is.
But you're not gonna go there like you're not gonna work.
If you want to go out of your way to
go in there, you can go in there. But it's
not like in your face annoying. It's like connected to
the building. So it's like it's a to I entity
(25:51):
for me. Man Gallagher Way is always the way to go.
They have this little turf field and sometimes they have
like movie days and you see all the statues just
lined up outside of the ballpar Obviously, you can go
to Sluggers. I always go to I've been going to
Sluggers since I've been going to Sluggers a long time.
But you know it's a bar across the street, and
you know there's a batting cage and an arcade on
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the second floor that's like so much fun. I mean
I remember, I remember when the core of Rizzo, Brian
and Baias got traded and we're up in Sluggers just
drinking and we're hammered and like you know, we're in
the batting cages and we're like, well, Rizzo, Brian and
Bayer's are gone. So like I got a practice for
tomorrow's game and we guys are just like hitting nukes
and we're just doing it and we're just like we
can do this, you know what I mean, Like we're
just like we're mourning the loss of our heroes and
(26:34):
like we're all we're just ripping baseball's man, and it's
just it's Sluggers as a blast man. Murphy's is an
amazing time as well, little Irish bar across the street.
I mean, I worked there four years, man, and it
was grounds through there for the longest and like being
able to experience everything from the ins and out of
being in the dugout every day sweeping peanuts to hosing
seats and power washing everything. Like it's it's an amazing time, man.
(26:58):
I would definitely say, you just enjoy it, bro, Like
I like, I know we're there for you're there for
the game, but definitely just walk around, man, and you'll
see the little creeks and these stairwells that we keep cleaning.
My guys over there, hot Ride, Will Kevo. Everybody's still
working over there, Bobby Jerry. They're all working there right
now from morning crew five am to eleven and they're
(27:19):
still kicking it. So you wouldn't even tell the buildings
as old as it is, man. But if you've if
you've been the new Yankee Stadium, or you've been the
other ballparks, like go here, man, you'll be like, damn, like.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
It's yeah, it's I So that's that's something I love
to do, and I'm glad you mentioned that, is walk
around a ballpark and get the feel for it, especially
if I could see the field at different angles, Like
I want to experience it all because like it's like
literally having ten seats in one day, right, Like I
get it. You could get the best seats in the
house and just enjoy it and sit there and order
(27:50):
your food to your seat. But I want to walk around.
I want to experience it. I want to see every
nook and cranny of a ballpark. Fnway was tough Fnway
was not easy to even get out of your seat.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
So I'm not sure how Wriggly is with that, but
it's you know, I love that, dude, because like honestly,
like that's why I like Baltimore. Pittsburgh's amazing with that
field and Citizens Bank the Yankees. Dude, you can't see
the field if you tried, like you just end up
(28:25):
in like what feels like the mall of America, like
in weird like areas and you're just like, where are
they even playing baseball here? Like I I just it's
so overdone, it's over commercialized. Uh And like I said,
it's it's lost its luster. Where the old Yankee Stadium,
although you still couldn't see why you walked around, you
felt ghost It felt like you were in a haunted house.
(28:46):
And do you feel that in Wrigley. I know that's
a weird question, but do you feel the history?
Speaker 1 (28:52):
You definitely do, Man, And like for me, like you know,
you're just a dream chaser. Man and I went to
high school with the PA announcer Jeremiah pap Rock, and
we played high school baseball together. We celebrated twenty sixteen together,
and like for me, Man, both of us ended up
working there. It's like our dream jobs. And obviously like
I'm sweeping peanuts and he's, you know, a PA announcer
during game. So like there's levels to it, you know.
(29:14):
But like I would get there sometimes really early, probably
like three thirty four am, and I'd go and you know,
you wouldn't clock in, but you would go in just
early because I didn't have a car and you got
to get to work. And sometimes you just kind of
like in Moneyball, you know that I've seen the Moneyball
where all the lights are off and there's only the
you know, the standing room lights are on in the back,
and it's just a dark field. And that's how it was, man,
(29:36):
and you just sit there. It'll be like four am,
completely dark outside. You're sitting in the concourse, just sitting
in one of the seats, and you're looking up at
the box and you're like, dang, like Harry Carey used
to be up there, or Jack Brickhouse, or you look
at the field. I remember, you know, we used to
pull the tarp off when it would rain in the mornings.
So then okay, rained last night, so we had the
tarpa on. We had to take it off, so we'd
(29:57):
have like fifteen twenty guys just run out and sometime
guys would get stuck under the tarp and come out
all soaking wet. But like you're walking on the field
and you're like, damn, like I'm standing where Bryant stood
or I'm standing where Ernie Banks used to stand, and
like it's amazing, man, It's it's it's kind of like
chills more than like ghosts. It's it's definitely something where
it's like there's so much history where you're standing. And
(30:18):
the cool part about Wrigley is it's it's always been there,
you know what I mean, So like you're looking legends,
like you know, Ted Williams and and Babe Ruth and
all these guys who have stood on that same ground,
same plot, and it's like super dope. But the last advice,
the one thing I did forget to mention, go to
left field. Right field sucks. That's that's a that's a given.
Don't ever go to right field. Right field is horrible.
(30:39):
You'll hear the bleacher creatures let you know that right
field sucks. They'll chant it a few times during the game.
So make sure make sure you stay in left field.
Center field's cool. Well that problems with centerfield. I'm always
in left field.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
I love it. It's like right field, nor I don't want
to go there, You'll get murdered. I love it. Yeah,
I know, I didn't expect that, I feel I thought
it was like, hey man, we'dn't leave our seats in
the fourth inning, like out of respect to or something like.
I know, I know obviously take me out to the
ballgame as is a tradition, like hopefully you know that's done.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
I hope, I hope you get somebody bro, because that's right,
You're gonna get me in a whole new thing. Now,
what they what they like to do since COVID, You know,
they don't always have a guest, you know, Jim but
Lush Big on coming to to sing take me out
to the ballgame, or like celebrities or former players. A
lot of the time they'll just put a projection on
the stream, not on the screen. Can't say words today,
(31:36):
and it'll just be Harry carry and they'll just play
a voiceover of Harry Carey singing the stretch.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
And I'm gonna text you if I get harried.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
As much as I enjoy that after you're like tenth
time getting hairy, You're like, man, I kind of wish
it was somebody else, you know what I mean. Like
I love it. It's nostalgic. It's cool, but like you know,
I always loved when like the celebrities did it, or
like you know, the Ozzy Osbourne one that was going
viral last week, like that was the funniest shit world
to me. Yeah, it's it's It's definitely fun when you
get a celebrity the.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Call her daddy thing. I get what she was trying
to do. I don't it failed epic fair.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Remember what you said. You gotta understand we said I
think yesterday, Time and a Place or no, we said
that at the beginning of the show.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Time and Place for sure.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
As historic as that and as simple as that, just.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Just sing it, just sing it, sing it. Just be yourself.
Like she's big enough where she didn't have to do that.
I love her. I love her. Her interview with Edgearon
is something that I've played back numerous times. Uh, you
know she you can't knock the hustle. She's better at
this game than we are. She's she was her own producer,
(32:48):
her own editor, Uh. She she literally you know, Portnoy recognized,
uh a shark, and she is that and she she
deserves now everything she at. She's built an empire for sure.
I just as a cub fan or a baseball purist,
as just as some as some of our haters would
(33:09):
like to call us they uh you know, shout o
say Eric Cartman. Uh, the situation is for me there,
like you said, there's a time and a place, and.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
But you know, for non baseball fans, like we're weirdos
bro me and you like, and that's just like baseball fans,
like that's what we are. We're just junkies of the
game and we just love them. Like for her, if
she never watched a baseball game and they told her
you gotta sing some stretch, like I wouldn't have known
what to do either, if I'd never watched a bootball game,
if I've never been to Wrigley Field. So like, you know,
I can't knock her too hard for like people saying
(33:40):
that she should she should be banned, or she should
be you know, disgraceful of what happened, Like come on,
like it was horrible. It would never invite her again.
But like you know, like it's not that serious, like
it is fun.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
The the coolest thing I've seen on a baseball field
and more importantly in announced booths. Uh this We was
Nate Burghetzi at the Brewers game. He called about like
two and a half the three innings and they had
to give him the boot because Prince Fielder was about
to come in and he did not want to leave.
And I think Prince is doing Homer on Derby X
(34:15):
if I'm not mistaken, and they wanted he had to
plug that and Nate did not want to leave and
they had to be like, yo, dude, you gotta go,
and like mid inning they switched him for Prince and
it was just it was so funny. But dude, it
was like the guy like just wanted to be there.
He just wanted to help announce the game. He wanted
(34:38):
to talk about baseball, he wanted to talk about Milwaukee.
It was just so cool, and I was like, I
need more of this. So I did enjoy the comedic
relief that could be put in a booth, and I
was like, man, we need more of this in our
lives because normally it happens even like you know, I
remember when you know, legends come back and they'll keep
him on for an inning and they'll be like, all right,
(34:59):
we're gonna let you go. Oh like you should like
if they want to stay on for a few winnings,
like let him go until they're they don't want to
be there.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Like in my Minister the other day, John Lester, they
were like, John, are you cool if you stay another inning?
And John was like, I'll stay as long as y'all
want me here. And I was bro, because like I
love big John. John Lester is like that's big country,
Like John Lester, get is down, bro, and like he's like.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
You're gonna have to get the national character. I love
John Dude. Lester's uh yeah, there's that's that's what the
Cubs man. Like, Like I said this earlier, like Rizzo
to me is the new Ken Griffy in my in
my book, Like he's never played for me, but I
love him, you know what I mean? And I wish
(35:41):
he was a met like if Anthony Rizzo and all
respects to Peter Lonzo, we could have figured it out
to have both. Uh, but Rizz nobody beats the Riz.
He's such a cool dude. He's just like a badass
and also like the guy I want on my team.
If if if stuff's going tough, like he's he's nails.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Man. I just bro, Like, if we can interview anybody
this weekend, we get interview Gianni's on is going to
be at the National. I could talk to Giannis for
three hours and all respect the Giannis, I'd be like
that was cool. If I interviewed Anthony Rizzo, I'm retiring.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
I'm done, lights out, lights out, dude, I'm done.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Like if you talk to David Wright, it's probably the
same thing.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Bro, I don't like if you told me Mike, Anthony
Rizzo or Michael Jordan who you interview and I'm interviewing
Anthony Rizzo ten times out of ten and I'm from Chicago.
I bleed black and red for the Chicago Bulls, unfortunately,
but I do, and like I would still out of
anybody who's ever played a professional sport. I'm interviewing Riz
or I'm interviewing Derek Rosse and there's like no in between.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
Mike, We're gonna end on this note. The Chicago UH
Bulls slash City Connects. Like I have a love hate
relationship with that I like him and I hate him
at the same time, Like, I don't know how I
feel about them. I've sent you pictures of it in
(37:03):
a new Jersey Dick's sporting goods, like, so obviously they
thought they're like nailed it. But then like in the
same breath, I'm like, this is like, I don't know, man,
I would never want because, like you said, you're a
Bulls fan, so like, is that a slap in the
face to the Cubs, Like right, Like I don't like
(37:24):
the I don't like the Rangers, like, and I don't
like the Islanders, and I don't like the Knicks, Like
I don't want a Mets Nicks connection because honestly it
wouldn't connect with me. And I'm not gonna wear it,
and like, don't tell me what my other team should
be like kind of attitude. Now I get mad. So
I needed a true Chicago opinion of it.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Well, the true Chicago opinion of it is the colors
they chose. I in certain neighborhoods in Chicago, you probably
wouldn't want to wear it around there. You know. There's
a lot of ongoing jokes that like it's just like
it's just not it's just it just wasn't the move.
But uh, you know, as far as you know you
talk about man, well, why would we randomly connect with
the Socks and not the Cubs. The owner of the
(38:06):
bulls is the owner of the socks, right, Like that's
like the idea of like, you know, Jerry Jerry on
you know, God willing he lives another ten, fifteen, twenty years,
but he's getting up there, you know what I mean.
So I think Jerry just kind of wants to do
a little bit of everything, just try to make as
much money possible and then we'll see what happens. Man.
So like, my true honest opinion about it is it's solid,
it's not bad onsoever. It's it's a cash grab. And
(38:28):
I and if I was a Sox fan, I would
totally buy that fricking jersey, you know, because it's it's clean. Mike,
I like it a lot.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
Listen, Like Todd, Todd was a white Sox player and
his whole times over South team is the Southsiders, and
he mimics that city connects. So you know, he's got
a lot of love for Chicago, got a lot a
lot of love for the White Sox and it shows
every day when his kids put on that uniform. But yeah,
I agree like it. It's it, it's it's just it's
(38:59):
it's strange because it brings me back, Like, dude, I
had that forty five jersey and Jordan Jersey when he
came back, I had, you know, I watched him in
the baseball realm. It made me prouder to be a
baseball player that he wasn't just an uber success over
at it because it kinda showed there was different avenues
to this and you can't just pick up a stick
or glove and play this game. You gotta like it's
(39:21):
it's it's harder, right like, and you can't just switch
sports like that, Like it just doesn't work.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
You know.
Speaker 2 (39:28):
There was a lot of intrigue of you know, watching
Space jam and and his return to the NBA. It's
just it brings back a lot of memories that Jersey.
So when I see it on a White Sox team,
I'm just like, this is cool. But I feel like
it should be for all Chicago, like you know, and
I so I don't know, Mike, you know, that's that's
(39:49):
that's my take on it. I think there is room
for that. I like it, but it should have been
like a giveaway or some men shouldn't be on the team.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
Yeah, and that's what I met earlier, Like you can't
wear it in certain neighborhoods. You can't say you're all
And that's what I mean. Like if you're a Bulls
fan and you go up to Wrigleyville and you wear
that jersey, it's like, well that's a socks jersey, brother,
you know what I mean. Like it's like for certain
places you just can't go and wear it, you know
what I mean. Like I'm going to the I mean,
I have gone to the South Side in the Cubs
uniform several times. But I'm not saying you should, but
(40:17):
like you know, it's it's definitely like hey man, respector
you're at you know what I mean. Then with a
collab jersey like that, with the other side of town
being predominantly Cubs fans, like it's I mean, I mean,
we don't care. It's not that deep. The city don't care.
But like you know what i mean, Like it's just
it's just funny to me because I'm like I couldn't
do it, still couldn't do it.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
And my last question before we get out of here,
whose career you're going to ruin today?
Speaker 1 (40:40):
M Well, we're in Wriggly North right now, playing against Milwaukee,
So I think Christian Yelich is gonna have an MVP
caliber season to finish the year. Jackson Curio right behind him,
and everybody else on the Milwaukee Brewers staff. Man, they're
just fantastic. Brother. If you know this is your bus
(41:01):
broke down tomorrow, I'd be really unfortunate. I don't know how.
Speaker 2 (41:05):
This is the Chi Divide, Mike Powers from the Divide,
This is my buddy, Mikey Hughes follow him at the
Chaike Chai.
Speaker 1 (41:13):
Kid, we have to talk about an email you sent
and c seed me later. You spell Yeah, spelled Chicago
wrong again in the in the No.
Speaker 2 (41:24):
That's auto correcting, Like I think I spelt.
Speaker 1 (41:26):
It's so wrong, and I look at it every time
and I'm like, that's that's Mikey Powers, Like that's it's
it's it's dude, that's.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
Mikey Powers putting out five hundred emails in one hour,
like just so you know, like I wish Mike is
amazing what he does, but no, it's not.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
Yeah, in Chicago. It just doesn't.
Speaker 2 (41:44):
It's just yeah, I don't. Yeah, like, he just doesn't.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
I was like, I read it, I go chic Chicago.
Speaker 2 (41:51):
Yeah, I was like, I tried it. I tried to
say it the way you guys pronounce it. This guy,
I love you, brother, thank you so much, thank you
for tuning in. And uh, who knows, we might be
back tomorrow. We might just go on to heat a
winning streak. Shout outs to the baseball backyard, shout out the man.
Speaker 1 (42:13):
Yeah, man, I'll blow seven and seven with the Mets.
Speaker 2 (42:16):
We still got an hour until the Mets kick off.
It's unreal. First pitch is in an hour, so I to.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
Be done in about an hour, so I'll be asleep.
Speaker 2 (42:26):
All right, Well, good night, buddy. I don't I don't
think it'll be asleep, but uh, like I said, shout
outs to the Vampire track It all right, good night everybody,
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