June 14, 2024 • 50 mins
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Welcome to the Divide with Mike andCorey, two diehard baseball fans who don't
agree on anything, which did putyour boy Todd Frazier. Hey, this
is Cliff Floyd. You can't catchme on the Divide. You can catch
me on the Divide on Fox SportsThe Gambler. Hopefully our disagreement one day
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bring us all together, so soso corny, my own our disagreement,
bring up I do and here weare Divide live on Fox Sports The Gambler
one of two, five Philly,one of four to one Trenton, and
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check us out on the iHeartRadio app. Back from across the Pond. I
can't even say it like a normalYeah, across the pond. That's on
the pond. Mike, you're fromChicago, Court Chicago. Corey is there?
Yeah? My favorite thing in theworld is like that I do the
mixer and like when I hit itperfectly like the guy Welcome to the Divide
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and theme song plays like when you'rewrapping something in the scissors glide. It's
just it's like Heroin. As alefty, they never glide. You did
you have? Like because we're bothlefties, you're more amidexterous than I am,
or you are amidextrous, I'm not. Yes, I do you use
scissors with your left or right hand? Like? Are lefty scissors used with
(01:30):
left hands? Like when I cutwith scissors, I use my right hand.
Is that weird? I think we'reforced, Like you don't have a
choice. That's why everybody like leftiesare like, oh you must struggle with
scissors. Is like, no,man, I figured it out. Yeah,
just use this hand and it worksfine. Yeah, you're at your
own devices. Yeah I don't.I don't. I don't know, but
I multi like I prefer my left, but yeah, I could do the
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right for scissors. Right. Yeah, we're still talking. Okay, it's
welcome to the divide everybody. Allright, So let's let's get into this
because obviously it's a Philly station.I want to recap because you were there
the Mets Phillies London series. Yeah, everything I read and every single goddamn
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picture I see it looked amazing.Yeah, it could be like just fomo
for me, just not being therelike one with you into just like an
awesome baseball experience because the last likeyou know what, it reminded me of
looking at Pictures Is when we wentto the All Star Experience fan was in
New York. Yes, like that'swhat it kind of reminded me of felt
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like that and that was good.That was like ten years ago. Yeah,
so it's like you just get justgive it to us. What the
run through, it, the upsand downs, anything that was good,
anything that was bad. The coolpart was, ironically it reminded me of
Veterans Stadium because you were set backfurther than you normally would be okay from
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the game, so it was alittle bit further back. This the view
was still amazing regardless of where youwere. It's a soccer stadium exactly.
Yeah, so excuse excuse me,football football stadium, and the pitch was
right there, you know. Soit was just it was this stadium itself
was really cool, right. Theyalso had like concessions, like there was
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a Shay Chicken spot, so itwas like like the first baseline was all
met stuff, the third baseline wasall Philly stuff. So there was a
divide. It was really cool tobe on either side. You know,
they had everybody. You could tellthe London crowd was going nuts over the
baseball bats, beer bats. Youknow, and you gotta remember that's only
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like four or five years old here. Yeah, right, and we went
nuts for it. So it wasreally cool, like we have to get
a bia bat like, you know, so they were all excited for that.
I think mixing that much alcohol whenthen when you finish it you have
a potential weapon is fantastic. Yeah, how awesome is that? But also,
like the other weird thing was Ididn't get any draft beer when I
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was there because it was intimidating,you know, like when you buy soup
like Wanton soup. That was thecontainer like it was that big, like
court, a court. I guess, I guess that's what it is.
I can think it's a court.Yeah, at least it looked way too
big and it was exactly that cup. Now, what I will share is
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the everything everywhere you go and youbuy beer, whether it's Paris or London,
they give it to you in thisawesome plastic cup. It's like a
reusable cup, and like some ofthe restaurants are like, oh just keep
you could keep the cup, butwe prefer if we take it back,
but they're like really good to drinkout of. Now, with that said,
if you get like an iced coffeeat Starbucks in Paris. It's in
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a paper cup and it's so disgusting. So like there was there was different
things, but I wish they puttheir coffee in their beer cup. That's
all I kept thinking about the sameman. They just value their alcohol a
lot more than they value their car. Yeah. Well, it's like they're
more about the downer than they arethe upper. But they're all also more
about like being eco friendly than weare. It's like way like those plastic
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cups do not exist, like andStarbucks. It's like, yeah, no,
you Americans are like crazy to havethose. London had them, so
I was like, I was excitedfor that, but yeah, to be
London Square and hit like the cageslike first off, so the cage that
was in the center of the wholefan experience was like a top golf cage.
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So the fan experience was literally inLondon Square. Yeah, and they
had everything from like batting cages tolike you throw pitches, get your own
baseball card made really yeah okay,yeah, so so go on do you
have the dude, you're in LondonSquare. You have like a top golf
type situation. So it's like asimulator when you hit these exactly these ball.
Yeah. So my daughter got tosee me actually hit a baseball for
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the first time, and she's like, Dad, you should tell them mens
pretty good. I was like,I ain't that good, But if it
did feel good for for her tosay that, And I'm looking at the
record right now, you might actuallybe that good. They got their They're
up to thirty wins now. I'mpretty excited. Also, I shared something
and I'll share this real quick.Twenty twenty two, when we got signed
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to Sean Brace's team, if youwant to call it sign, it sounds
it sounds way cool. I remembersign. We didn't sign anything, but
when Brace was nice enough to putus on his airwaves, the Mets were
way ahead, just like the Philliesare right now, very similar record,
and they were the Phillies at thattime were four games under, so five
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hundred, where the Mets are likesix or seven right now. So it's
very very similar. To be honestwith you, it's only a couple of
games off where Philadelphia was in twentytwenty two. So I got high hopes
to steal a term from I mean, the parallel is there, man,
I mean you just really got tofire your manager and yeah, call.
So the fan experience was the fanexperience was crazy, like they had forty
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seven the Hack company, they wouldthey were like making like art, like
so you could like have uh,spray paint art on any of your shirts
or like a banner. So Peytongot a banner and a koozie. Uh.
You know. The merch was great, with the exception of some of
the clad merch that had phillies andmets on it. I saw that,
so you can buy like a Tshirt. I think the picture you said
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was like a polo that had bothlike mets. That's gotta be for people
that live over there, so herehas to be. I'm gonna wait till
it goes on clearance, but I'mgonna buy one. And we got to
run a contest on the Gambler,like for somebody to have to wear that
to a game, oh god,like like as a punishment. Yeah it's
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rough, right, it's so disgusting, Like yeah, oh my skin is
crawling right now. I don't knowwho was like nailed it, Like I
even don't like, it's gonna getsomebody killed if we do that. Yeah,
I don't like I don't like those, like London series. He's gonna
has both logos, you know,like because they do that with the World
Series. Merch you're talking about likelike a pennant or like towel, you
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know, like you go to aplayoff game and there's a talic so and
so verse so and so like whatever, man, but a polo like something
that wine like you're gonna wear out. And he didn't say anything about the
London series. It just the pthe Phillies p and the New York Team
New York so again. So yougo into the square and the left sides
off all Mets, the right sidesall Phillies like kind of like kind of
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food and options. And then theyannounced like, oh, Daniel Murphy is
gonna play a virtual home run derbyagainst Chase Utley. Dude. A J.
Perzinski was there because he was doingGame one for I guess Fox.
Yeah that's right. Yeah, SoI got to see him in the cage.
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I got to see Ryan Howard inthe cage. How's Ryan holding up?
He didn't do too well, man, he did not do too well.
Shane Victorino still got it. Yeah, a J. They were both
complaining about the way the ball droppedin uh for for left handed hitters,
AJ and him, so like,uh yeah, it was really cool and
Utly got creamed by Daniel Murphy.It was. It was quite impressive.
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Murph hit like four or five out. Uh you know, Utly only hit
one out, But anybody know thatwas gonna happen or it was just like
a nast Like I had no clue. I had no clue. I didn't
know if it was on like anysort of schedule. But they need to
do more of those, like honestly, like with that technology. Like uh
so I was talking to Prazinski likeand he was like, it's pretty damn
(09:39):
accurate. Yeah, like it's it'sclose. He's like, I felt like
that's where what it went if Ihit it into a major league ballpark.
So and it was really cool becausethen it would show virtually that they hit
it into traffic, you know.So it was it was it was done
so well. Uh you know,people were just really having fun there that
then there was a bunch of theircages you could hit. Peyton got to
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hit, Timmy got to hit mybuddy, and I got to hit a
couple a bunch of times. Solike it was just it was an awesome
experience. How they handle the crowd. I feel like it had to have
been mobbed. So they eventually stoppedletting people in. But was cool was
like once one person left, theylegit let one person back in because like,
yeah, when they were doing thederby, it hit max capacity.
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But I mean the temperament over there. I know there's there's people that traveled
from America over there, but yougot to think half the stadium's got to
be visitors. The other half hasto be people that live around the one.
Yeah, so that was the otherthing. So like the Mets fans,
probably because of the record, butalso maybe slightly more classy. When
we're like at the London Tower andstuff, they wear normal people's clothes,
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like because in Europe you dress upa little bit more, you know,
you you really do, Like youcould tell they say two things. They
could tell a tourist from the yogapants and like if they wear any shorts,
shoes or like a gym up here, bro, they can spot me
a mile away. I think thetwo times I've been overseas, that's all
I wore, right, either Jimapparel and shorts or shorts. Yeah exactly.
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So they're like, yeah, that'show you could tell, especially in
France. But people don't wear shortsat all in France. I didn't see
many. Really, yeah, Ididn't see many. I did not,
man, I would not do welldressed. Also, there's something else on
the air. Off the air,I'll tell you about French people, but
not in a bad thing. It'sjust something I want to share on the
air. It's just so the otheroh, well, one thing I will
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share is like they say constantly,And I think it's also because my wife
likes to ask questions. You've beenout to dinner with her, she'll ask
like twenty one questions about the menu, like oh can I can I get
avocado into the bacon or something likethat. You can, but it's not
recommended. That's what everybody said toher, Like you start using that in
my whole life. You can dothat, but it's not mted. Yeah,
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so like and it's just like itwas kind of like this conversation where
it was like you could do that, but we'd prefer you not to do
it, Like please don't is whatI'm telling. Don't be a jerk.
Like so getting back you said,you're out seeing like the London Bridge and
stuff. We're at London Tower whereyou know, they're teaching you about all
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the well one they got the crownjewels that are right protected. Two like
that's where most up to I thinkQueen Victoria, all the kings and kings,
kings and queens lived there. Butthey're sharing you with a lot of
the kings. When they would therewere dirtbags. They were like forty years
old, marrying like seventeen year oldgirls or younger, and they would say,
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I'll love you for the rest ofyour life. So and a lot
of them got tried for treason andthey were sharing One of the princesses or
Queen's I should say, that wastried for treason and how terrible it was
and how she was murdered in themiddle of town of London Hall. So
somebody in a McNab jersey walks byand you just see this whole crowd.
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So they're telling this story and it'svery much like The Titanic, like where
Jack dies, like it's at thatpart and here's go birds and like so
many people go birds, like theyjust say it back and it's like this
unison, like if it was sure, no, if it was if it
was, it wasn't like the amenor the equivalent of like when you're watching
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a proposal in public and someone's likedo dude, Like I love situations like
that. There's because in my mindthat's hysterical, Like you pay for this
tour. It's probably you and thirtyother people. You're listening to this tour
guide who it's their job, Likethat's what they do, their tour guys.
They're awesome. They're just like likewhatever, they're getting into it.
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They're telling this story. It's aserious moment, and all of a sudden
it's some random person walking by.Gilbert. I didn't have a problem with
the English accent because I've been soused to dealing with the Delco accent for
the last fifteen years, so likethat was another thing that was kind of
Thank god. I thought it'd behard understanding you guys, don't ye Gilberts.
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You know brou So your seats inthere, dude, they were nuts.
I enjoyed them a lot, Likewe were around great people. I
was just gonna ask, are youwere you around people from London? London
right all behind us to the leftwhere uh he was ironically, I think
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born in Brooklyn, moved back andfamily in London. He moved back to
London at a young age. It'sso like he kind of understood American history,
but also like London he did share. He's like, yo, you
know, like you guys take alot of pride in the Revolutionary War.
He's like, we thought it wouldhave is like the way you explain like
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finance move like just like, yeah, we're not going to spend any money.
We have all these other territories.We got to worry about it.
We just didn't care, like becausethere was a viral Philly fan that wasn't
like yeah England, I think barstoolmade it viral or whatever. Which is
a great T shirt to be honestwith you, Yeah, it really is,
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and anybody it takes it seriously likecome on, man, Like it's
like arguing like the winners and losersof World War two, Like it's so
revolutionary wars where you're gonna really putlike your butt hurt over that. It
was also the eighties we won,by the way, there's a whole holiday.
Yeah, it was like the eightiethanniversary of D Day. While we
were there too, So that wasepic that you go to Normandy. Why
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you were there? I don't wantto get off baseball too much, but
I have to ask you. Wedidn't but I can't remember the battleship,
but it was right across the streetfrom London Tower, right across the ocean
or water and they did a salute. Also like Seymour Wiener was there was
Yeah he was, dud I haven'tYeah, Biden was there to bid him.
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Was not in England. I thinkhe was at Normandy for the Yeah,
not in London, but yeah hewas over there, but over where
over there? Uh? But yeah, dude, it was. It was
nuts, man, Like, There'sso many different things I could share.
The game itself was a lot offun. Now what I will share is
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I do think there was too manyAmericans there to be, in my humble
opinion, to the point where likethe announcers and stuff were trying to get
like football chants going, and evenLindor like changed all of his walk up
songs to like things that normally crowdsin in London or in a football just
didn't. It didn't hit. Itdidn't hit. Like what did hit was
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the hands touching hers reaching now touching. Why that's a thing that hated played
at baseball stadiums is beyond me.Why he's played at all. I mean,
dude, I'm not saying I hateNeil and I'm just saying it's the
song did per Man for a whileand still man, I love that.
Yeah, but what's the one memesyou know for a song called piano man?
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The guy with the harmonica really won'tshut up? It's so true.
All right, last question about thisbefore we take a break, Uh,
the whole fan experience. Could theylike, what's the best stadium or the
best city to do something like that? Because I'm picturing like, Okay,
if they make the upgrade to CityPark like they're supposed to, maybe that
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would be great, right because Ifeel like in Queens you do have that
the Bronx. You don't have anarea to do that at all. There's
no way you do that without shuttingdown a major Okay, so did bring
London? Like to bring soccer here? Not soccer, but if you were
to just do a crazy series andwhere it's two rivals and you try to
do the fan experience, like whatcity is it working? It? Even
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like if you were to try,like pick a city here that doesn't have
a baseball team and you want tobring two baseball teams, Like, what's
just a dope city that you cando that? Like Miami, Miami?
Just well yeah I would. Here'swhy because there's so much imports, right,
like how many whether you're from Philly, New York, New Jersey,
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like, how many people go downto like to Florida. That's fair,
you know. So I think TampaMiami that'd be dope and also would help
with their attendants, you know,and it'd be like, ah, that'd
be worth it, you know.But what I was thinking about was forget
the London series. Do you wantto Munich? That would be sick like
October Fest time. I mean,yeah, well yeah, Byron's also like
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the Yankees of German football, solike they're always competing around that time,
so they'd have to be around that. But that was the other Like I
started thinking about where else should theygo, and I was like Ireland,
Well, and this was just astepping point. So you know, they're
gonna try. It's gonna be likethe NFL. Now, like the NFL
is like it's gonna have a gamein Brazil or something this year, like
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and that got pretty is like didyou hear about that stuff? What?
Like they can't wear green really yeah, because like there's a gang in that
city, so they don't want theplayers. They're really worried about stuff like
that. Like if you're trying tohost, if you're trying to branch out,
right, like for the NFL,you know, for some reason,
they just need more money, soyou're trying to branch out, branch out
to Brazil or like all these othercountries, Like if they're gonna give you
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that type of resistances, like don'tyou think we should just maybe not do
it? Like come on, dude, how big does your not have to
be? But it's it's funny becauseyou asked like these questions of where we
would do it. I mean,look at what happened with the Dodgers when
they went back to New York thisweek in the Bronx. That was crazy.
That was crazy. So there's youranswer right now. It is the
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Bronx Baseball All right, Let's takea quick break, guys. When we
come back. Tom Brady is inthe news again, and actually so is
gizeb Believe it or not, bothfor completely separate things and Joey Chestnut was
done dirty like those dogs he's beenshoving down his gullet for the last how
many years. On the fourth ofJuly, we're gonna talk about all that.
Stay with us, Guy's Divide liveon Fox Sports The Gambler Good first,
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water like water, everybody water,ice water, ice, fucking I
love how you stopped yourself to somuch stuff. Yeah, because I have
to edit it. And so what'sup with the French? What's yourn?
No? It was, uh,it was. I still don't want to
(20:32):
say because we're all right, butit's not bad. Guys, it's again
very very well. As soon ashe tells me I'm gonna get on,
I g yeah, I would neverdo that. Actually, I'm actually locked
out of our account right now,and yeah, we gotta get Oh no
(20:52):
about that. You're fine. Youwere on vacation. I saw you sent
me a video of someone getting railedfrom our stuff. The video text message
someone getting railed. Please please explainYou sent me a Texas says one a
m in Disney Paris, and someLondon lady given it to some poor bloke
and it's a video. And Irealized whenever you texted it to me.
(21:15):
I don't know where I was.He wasn't, But I never watched the
video. Oh you're gonna play theaudio. Someone's not getting real. No,
not like you said, giving itto him, like like giving him
the business. Dude, it's thefunniest You gotta I got it. You
gotta play it. It's too funny. Put it, yeah, put it
(21:36):
in the headphones, chop in alarm. In the short, I could character
(22:12):
seriously shop shop in the whole timeand YouTube the shows the brain and everything
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and making the characters you in theshop and both of the character medic bro.
(23:00):
She yeah, he doesn't even saya word. Your girl wants to
meet a character. Man, you'rein Disney World, dude. You know
I didn't know the shops are sucha bad thing either. I was dying.
So the two adults getting in anargument because one is in Disney and
wants to meet characters, the otherone spends too much shops in the shop
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has got to be the worst combinationof people I've never want to meet in
my entire life. But also likeshe wasn't like, dude, I could
be going on rides or something.She's like I could be meeting in a
teenager or an adult in a costumewhile you are shopping for things that are
marketed towards teenagers. Like, it'sjust dumb. The funniest thing about the
whole thing is the fact that youdo not I don't know if that man
(23:47):
was in that room, if shewas on the phone with him, but
you do not hear his rebuttal,she's got to be on the phone.
Yeah, she's got to be onthe phone, but he's not saying anything.
She's not even giving him time,uh, if it was on the
phone to respond, But dude,I was a hallway and a half away
and I just kept hearing this noiseand I was like, I have to
(24:10):
go hear what this is. AndI was convinced it was like a TV
that was left on. Yeah,but it was so loud. It just
kept like I felt like a flygoing into the trap, you know,
Like I just felt like I hadto keep going. And then I was
so scared the door was gonna flingopen or something like. But I had
just this isn't where I parked mycar. Start speaking another language, just
(24:32):
run away. That's so great.But yeah, fucking man, all right,
let's get it. Let's get it. You're listening to the Divide right
here on The Gambler and we're backDivide Live Fox Sports The Gambler. Don't
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hell you call it this week FacebookYouTube Live. My Twitter got hacked.
(24:57):
My power to parlays one didn't reallyYeah, and here's my here's my logic
right now. I was like,you know what, let let this blow.
Can go at it, like maybeI'll get some more followers. So
I've not reported it yet, butyeah, I I walked into you know,
work, and somebody's like, yo, you're gonna fix your Twitter.
It's it's like suggesting like all thesebitcoins and cryptocurrencies, and I was like
(25:21):
what and the kind of tips arethey giving? Right, It's like maybe
I'm saving some good ones. Let'stalk about Tom Brady again because he's in
the news. Uh. He hadthis huge memorable night, uh three four
days ago now, whenever it was, it was basically a Patriots Hall of
(25:41):
Fame induction. We've all seen him. You've seen him for the Mets.
We you know, you've seen Docgoodin get his number retired. You've seen
I've seen countless Yankees get their numberretired. I'm just you know, which
I think is a little ridiculous.We've seen it with the Rangers. We've
seen it with the Devils, We'veseen it with the fire As, We've
seen it with you know football.It's just it's it's happened before. And
(26:03):
the reason I'm saying this out loudis because I know it's Tom Brady.
We all know he's the goat andhe's the best to ever play. But
Jesus Christ, did you look atthe lineup? It was like goddamn concert
And like, dude, we wentto Paul O'Neil day or not, that's
right, I went to Paul O'NeilDay. Like, yeah, Paul came
(26:26):
out, there were some speeches,like no one performed. He kind of
rode around and weaved to people.But like I mean, then his number
was retired, like the jay Zperformed, Then Tom walked out. Speeches
by a bunch of people, Ithink like Kenny Chesney performed. Peyton Manning
was there. I think Mike Ricohosted the whole thing. It was like
(26:48):
it was like it was a whole. It was like the roast all over
again with less jokes. Really wasit really was, and and and more
people and Pottsborough was packed and andI'm not saying he shouldn't be selling,
but what a money grab for thatorganization. Yeah, man, like you
couldn't do this before and during thehalftime and even a celebration after a regular
(27:08):
season game. Well, I thinkthey'll still cash in on that. There'll
be a game where they, youknow, show his number up in the
rafters or something. They'll definitely bea game where he's there. Oh my
god, dude. So Jay zUh performed public service announcement. And then
you had Kenny like as a KennyChesney performed the song Boys of Fall.
(27:30):
I don't know, I'm not aKenny Chesney fan. Bill Burr was there.
Bill Burr did it and act awhole set or whatever it is.
Like, you had music, youhad comedy. There's a video from Brady's
family. The Brady four were there. Yeah, barstool like it's just you
name it. They were there.I mean Peyton Manning came out, Randy
(27:51):
Moss, Gronk Edelman just everybody wasthere to sell it. And don't get
them, guys. I'm not sayinghe doesn't need to be celebrated. The
guy's got seven Super Bowls. Youknow, he's he's literally the greatest to
ever play. He's gonna be thefirst ballot Hall of Famer for Canton,
(28:11):
Ohio. But come on, dude, you're retiring his number at a stadium,
like, let's let's call it whatit is here in the summer,
in the summer, yeah, likemini camps barely started. I love it.
I love it, you know,like the mccordy twins were there,
like just Belichick was there at awarm welcome. You know it had.
(28:34):
Look, I can't even tell you. I can't tell you honestly, we
went to Paul O'Neill day. Itwas fine because there was a baseball game
to watch. If it was justthe ceremony to watch Paul O'Neill get his
number retired, I don't think i'dpay to see it. No. I
go for work, Like if theywere like sending us somewhere, yes,
no, absolutely, but I'm notpaying just to go watch it. Now.
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You know, the more I talkabout it, the more like,
who am I kidding? Of course, I would like, tell me I'm
gonna go to this ceremony when isperforming. Yeah, And I could see
Bill burd who stand up like,come on, yeah, I'm an idiot.
I'm an idiots. Well here's speakingof idiots. Did you hear the
a Rod, David Ortiz and Jeter? Yes, walking around monument A fantastic
And I love the fact. AndI don't know if Ortiz if they set
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that up, it didn't sound likeit Ortiz, Jeter and because they were
doing and the Fox was game whenthe Dodgers came to town and uh Ortiz
in Monument Park, I guess theywere looking at just everybody's number, Jeters
included and looked at a Rod andsaid when are you going to get your
number retired here? Or something alongthose lines, and a Rod's clapp right
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back was like, I think youhave a better shot again your number retired
here than I do. And itwas kudos to both of them, because
you know, Alex is a littlehurt that it's not even considered, you
know what I mean, Like he'she's and he can't hide it and it's
never gonna happen, Alex, Imean, you had to come to New
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York to win a world. Youknow what, I like a Rod.
I did, but Ortiz did geta little bit loose with his mouth.
He said that the Mets should moveto like Oklahoma because they'll always be in
that brong shadow. And I feltlike saying, like, Bro, you're
spending a little bit too much timewith the Yankees, with Jeter and a
Rod. You need to shut yourmouth because I don't even think Jeter and
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a Rod feel that way though,you know what I mean. New York
is so big, we could havea third freaking team. You know who
couldn't have a third or second team? Boston? Yeah, freaking tiny,
tiny little go finance another play Boston. Oh God, I love Boston.
You can say ass on the air, just so you know. So I
didn't have to stop myself, butI did. I'm happy, man,
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and I'm happy you said it outloud, dude, Just that it's been
liberating. I mean, it's beena while since we've been doing this.
You don't know what you can sayanymore. Yeah, back to Tom Brady.
So Kraft told the whole crowd numbertwelve, no one's ever gonna wear
it, and then he told themsometime during this season, there will be
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a twelve foot because we just gottakeep saying the number twelve, a twelve
foot statue of Tom Brady somewhere outsidethe stadium, which could not be a
dumber idea for right now, Likeit can't be if something tragically happened to
Tom Brady. Absolutely, if it'stwenty years from now, give that man
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a statue. Even wait till hegets in ducked into the Hall of Fame
and then give him a statue then. But he's too young right now.
He just retired. Yeah, actually, remember when he retired the first time
and then unretired, not even foryour organization, Like, give the man
a second to breathe. For allwe know, some weird type Epstein list
can come out and he can beon it. And now you got a
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statue in front of your stadium.You gotta tear it. Don't let it
breathe a little bit. Let itbreathe. You don't know anybody did.
He's not even in the country anymore. We all thought he was all right.
Well, speaking of breathing, youknow who doesn't have much time to
breathe. It's Robert Kraft. SoI think he's trying to speed this all
up. Jesus, you're saying likethis would normally be likes in the make
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it right, But I think hewants to experience it all and he wants
to give it to Tom. Tom'slike his son. That's fair. Yeah,
so you know, I don't know. And then the argument is do
you do the same stuff for Billor anything for Bill. I don't think
Bill's gonna get any recognition, that'scrazy, dude. I think he might.
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I think Bill would probably get Iknow, you can't retire a number,
but you can have your name on. I think Bill will get his
name next to Tom, like inthe stadium, you know, like they've
done before. Bill's not got astatue. I don't know what the cut
sleeves on a sweatshirt. I wouldsupport a Belichick statue more than I would
support a Brady stack. Also,I would support an AI Belichick where it
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just didn't end to your questions,kept the reporting of Belichick experience, where
you're just asking questions to a cardboardcutout of Belichick because you get the same
answer anyway, Oh my god.Yeah. And then the other thing was
like just the simple fact that youknow, I don't know, So yeah,
I think about the Robert Kraft Ithink about Belichick. I also hot
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take. I think that if RobertKraft allowed Belichick to cook and they did
get rid of Brady when they feltlike it, he could have won a
couple more So. I think Ithink he would have been a lot more
competitive. I mean by the timethat they actually, you know, Brady
stepped away, and what was leftand how trying to draft and you gotta
remember like and and I will say, to Tom's credit, in the whole
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ceremony, when it was time forTom to speak, he basically said,
in so many words, I knowtonight's about me, but I'm not me
without if I didn't have great peoplearound me. And he thanked all those
people. You know, this isn'tit wasn't like he was like, you
know, it was your typical TomBrady like saying thank you, but also
saying, remember like I had RandyMoss, I had Rob Gronkowski, I
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had all these people. I hada coach like Belichick also to pay cuts
to get those people right, rightquarterbacks, And that's been public and you
know that's Tom. That's why that'show he you know, the Patriots dynasty
was able to be a dynasty.And I think to that note, just
like you know, Tom says itwas these people around me. Belichick was
the same way. I mean,dude, they stepped in and they stepped
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in it. The guy was draftedin the sixth round, a backup to
an already franchise quarterback that just hadsome freak injury at the beginning of the
season, you know what I mean. Like it was just this perfect storm
of everything. If bled Zone nevergets hurt, Brady never gets his chance,
and who knows what happens, it'sjust exactly speaking a shot. Giselle's
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relationship is shot. Oh right,God from that roads the boy friend left
because Yo, you're gonna cheat onTom Brady. You're gonna cheat on me,
like I don't what you look likeyou cheated on the goat. You're
gonna use That's why. Yeah,I think. So I think it finally
like I don't know, man likeor just like he's like, you know
what, I'm out like you know, and there is that saying, if
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you're gonna do it to them,you'll do it to me, Like I'm
no different. So I think thatI think got in his head, and
uh, she's blaming the roast fortheir breakup. So she was so listen,
the only thing that comes out ofIn my opinion, Giselle's only concern
coming out of that roast was forher kids, and Tom said the same
thing. Yeah, I just wasworried. I don't want my kids.
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Blah blah blah blah blah. Asfar as Gazelle goes, they're stupid jokes,
and not for nothing. You deservedevery bit of them, bro,
Like you said, you you're datingwhatever instructor jiu jitsu instructor, Like,
uh, you deserve those jokes.Have thicker skin. She would be tweeting
away in that uh you know,uh, Tom Brady's sweet every time something
bad would happen to Tom, likeit's crazy to me. Like Brittany Mahomes
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does something similar, like how thesewives of these professional players or NFL players,
like they don't have thicker skin.Just let your man play the sport,
dude, like just or and itgoes for anybody, you know,
if you have a wife that playsprofessional sports, just let them play.
Don't worry about the scrutiny. Soshe's sitting here getting all mad at jokes
and all of a sudden they split, that that's gotta be mainly her.
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He's thirty four years old, datingretired supermodel, has more money than she
knows what to do with. Ican't imagine what her alimony looked like after
the divorce. So it's like,dude, come on, man, and
it's unclear. Everything I look atsays like they haven't been photographed since late
April, So who knows when theyactually split and why they split. But
dude's thirty Actually, dude's thirty four, looks like he's forty four. He's
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not aging. Well, no,no, maybe that's why they split.
But some people speculate that the spotlightwas just too much for him. Joaquim
Valente, which is another thing.That's the spotlight, right, the spotlight?
Really like Ben, Ben and jare breaking up recording the rumors,
and they're saying, just Ben justdoesn't like all the attention. You're a
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movie star. What do you meanyou don't like walking into the car with
the duncan thing where he just lookslike we've all been there, like we've
all felt like I could feel howhe felt, but it's not like you've
dude, I can feel the wayhe felt if listen, if some miracle
happens and we blow up, andthat were to the point where we step
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out of our house and we getmobbed by paparazzi. The first two years,
we're gonna look like Ben Affleck,like, dude, what is going
on here? Yeah? Like Ben, you've been dealing. You had a
twenty five plus year career right now, you can't tell me you're still angry
at these people taking pictures and there'sso many women in this world, and
you went back with the woman thatyou knew this was gonna occur again.
Yeah, you know, like it'slike, what do we do the same
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thing with the two of them?Man? Like, Like you're you're a
jiu jitsu instructor first of all,I guess for a high class clientele,
since you have a gazelle you know, in your your class or your one
on one training or whatever. Andyou start dating and you don't think people
are gonna poke into you a littlebit. Now get added, and you
don't think that's gonna be worth ita little bit to not work the rest
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of your life. Yeah, Iwould do crazy things to not work the
rest of my life. Yeah.From one Glizzy champ to another. Joey
chestnutt has been banned from the Nathan'sHot Dog Contest. Is this a what
do you? How do you feelabout this? Do you want to get
into this next segment? Or doyou want to get into it now?
We'll get into that and we'll getinto Grimace too. Grimace, Yes,
all right, so let's let's saveit for the next segment. I think
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so, yeah, save it forthe next seven. Next seven, guys,
we're gonna take a quick, quickbreak. It's gonna be quick.
We're gonna say, we gotta paythe bills. Take a quick break.
When we come back, Joey Chestnutand Grimace in a duel that you would
never think. I don't know,I don't know the Grimmace thing. Mike's
gonna bring it up. But JoeyChestnut and Grimas are coming up next day
with us guys Divide live on FoxSports. The Gambler. Mhm, Grimace.
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He throws out the first pitch forthe Oh, that's right, that's
right for which it was like yesterdaythe other day, like just throughout the
first pitch he had his own glovetoo, So like I guess, like
that's weird, but also like Iget it, like McDonald's. Also I
get it for another reason that I'llshare on the air, you know.
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So. But yeah, all right, let's go. Let's do it.
Man. The thing you're listening to, the Divide right here on the Gambler.
I told you it'd be short.Divide Live, Fox Sports, the
Gamble. Let's get right into it. Joey Chestnut, the man that we've
known to love every July fourth ornerNathan's Hot Dog eating contest up at Coney
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Island, has been banned. Mikebanned from competing, according to the Major
League Eating Corporation, which is unreal. It's that there's the the mL E.
Who is the company behind the annualNathan's contest. They issued a statement
saying that they were devastated to learnthat Joey Chestnut has chosen to represent a
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rival brand, and that rival brandis some sort of beef substitute, a
vegan, a vegan hot dog.We see if I can get the name
here, which is great because wewouldn't even be announcing the name if he
didn't do it. It's great.So the end result for this, so
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just to give you guys the idea. He's currently as it stands, he
is not allowed to participate. Apparently, according to the mL E and Nathan's
Hot Dog that they had some sortof exclusive contract that paid Joey Chestnut like
two hundred grand each fourth of July, but like over the course of four
years, it's like a four milliondollar retainer or something like that to basically
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compete, but to not sign withany competitors. And Joey Chestnut is saying
that they've never had any sort ofdeal here. It is, Oh no,
that's not it. Yeah, sothey've said it is. Chestnut was
paid two hundred thousand to appear inthe twenty twenty three contest and offered,
excuse me not, for one pointtwo million, four year contract with Nathan's.
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They told that the New York Postthat mL E told the New York
Post, in return for his feesto appear and compete, Joey agreed every
single year to very simply to avery simple exclusivity provision. Jesus Man,
I gotta go back to school.That was a rough read that he would
not endorse or sponsor another hot dogbrand. So mL E and Nathan's is
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saying basically This was supposed to bean exclusive contract where he's basically getting one
point five million over the course offour years. He just can't he can't
sign with any other hot dog brand. Okay, but Joey's claiming that there's
no such deal in place, Sosomebody's wrong. And right now, whether
we like it or not, JoeyChestnut is paying the price. Now we
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both know what's gonna happen. Like, for example, Mike, how do
you feel on July fourth? Whatare you gonna be doing. I'm gonna
be barbecuing. I'm not gonna bewatching the Nathan's There it is, Yeah,
there it is? Uh Nathan's.You have a problem, Major League
eating. You have a problem.You think that people watch your hot dog
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eating contest for you when they onlywatch it for Joey Chestnut. The people
are gonna follow Joey, Yeah theyare. There's no like And how dare
you think that? If that wewe cut into our fourth of July festivities
and turn this on just to seeNathan's hot dogs. No, we see
Joey cram hot dogs. We don'tcare if it's a hot dog substitute.
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We don't care if it's Nathan,it could be brought worse for all we
care. Yeah, Joey guzzled sothat tie would run, you know what
I mean, Like and he didthe watermelon exactly of being inspired by Joey
Chestnut. It's just stupid. Also, what's funny is like you you said
in the Joey gouzzled, But what'sfunny is the glizzy guzzler. He He's
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already getting like million dollar offers fromother companies to do a like well,
Netflix is now doing an event Netflix. He I guess there's an adult industry
company called called cam Soda. It'slike an adult camera site. I don't
cam soda. It's called cam cA M Soda. It's an adult cam
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site, it says. I don'tknow really what that means. I don't
know if that's anyway. I guessI'll have to google it later. Off
company Wi Fi, but they alreadyoffered him a million dollars to headline its
first annual Innuendo heavy Wiener Wallap.Oh my god, it's it's an eating
contest. I'm sure it doesn't evenmake sense, but it's like, dude,
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Joey is in demand right now.Now only does he have the heartstrings
of America. People are throwing moneyat him, just like forget Nathan's,
your brand is going to dream itthey gave. Nobody would have known that
Joey Chestnut was endorsed by this vegancompany. Nobody would have known, Nobody
would have cared. Nobody would havecared. Nathan's would have ruled July fourth.
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It would have been the only thingtalked about on July fifth, outside
of fireworks, people losing limbs andand barbecues, you know, and maybe
a few barbecues blowing up too,uh, But outside of that, it
would have been Joey Chestnut, Nathan's, uh, you know, a navy,
a new like Kobyashi coming back fromthe dead like the Undertaker and winning
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or something. Who knows, butyeah, it's ridiculous, like why like
you know, like I just thinkabout like how the MLB is protecting Otani
and you know, we're just supposedto believe that his interpreter did all this
crazy stuff be on his back,which by the way, now he's uber
driving. I don't know if yousaw that in La. I want to
go to La to see if thisguy should it be ends up just like
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Hey, man, before I placethese bets, can you if I dip
you? Is this a good move? Let me sixteen times? Mike,
He's won the hot since two thousandand seven. This guy has been dominating
the hot dog competition. And Nathan'sis so self centered to think that we
turn this on the TV for you. We don't care. The only reason
people buy your hot dogs and ConeyIsland because they're only choice. Hey stop,
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what Nathan's is a staple of Brooklynheritage. Do we have potential deal
with No? I mean they're gonnaneed They're gonna need our help out.
That's true. You know what ifit's one hot dog that it always remains
faithful. I think it's that man. I've said it before. We can
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be bought guys Again, Mike hitus with what's going on with Grimace before
we get out of here? MisterGrimmace throughout the first pitch, personally,
I like the Hamburglar H So Iwas like a little annoyed. Then I
got the thinking, what game?Did he throw out the pits for me?
Monday? Tuesday? Sorry we wereoff Monday, so it's Tuesday night,
Tuesday. BA. Yeah, hethrows out the first pitch, he's
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got his own little glove, whichwas cute. It's pretty big. Did
it actually threw a decent pitch,So I'm not even gonna throw shade at
whoever was inside this costume. Theproblem I have with it is it's Grimace
and we're having a bad season,and it's just the optics look terrible,
Like how much the McDonald's pay forthis first pitch? You know, I
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did notice he's purple. The Cityconnect shirts are purple. I think that's
the reason why there's a connection there. You know, Navy there was money
given to the Ronald McDonald charity orsomething like that. But I was just
like, come on, man,we don't need this, like, you
know, like it's just added stupidityand added insult to a season that's already
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you know, off the rails alittle bit. Now. They did get
their thirtieth win, as I mentionedearlier, so maybe Grimace is gonna give
it. But you know, therewas also like a lot of uf with
the happy Birthday Grimace like and uh, people eating the Grimace shakes and then
dying like that. There was likea viral not really dying, they were
like fake dying. They were actinglike they turned into zombies from the Grimace
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Shake. It was actually pretty funny. Uh but you know there's Grimace has
the gen z U people like wrappedaround his palm, so he is bigger
than Ronald McDonald when it comes tothat, the Youth of America and McDonald's.
So those City Connect jerseys, thoseare the dark gray ones, right,
Yeah, I'm colorblind, but yeah, I think they're purple. Okay,
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their cement gray. Mister and missusmet gave Grimace a jersey and it's
it looks like the City Connect theygave. I'm only looking at the back
where it says Grimace he turned fiftyfive because it was his birthday. Yeah,
I don't know. Maybe maybe he'sfifty five years old. It says
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yep, No, that's it.They gifted in jersey exactly. Look,
man, I don't know. Ican't think of the last time I went
to a game where someone threw outlike a ceremonial first pitch where I actually
cared. Yeah, I was hopingit. Didn't ever seen anybody cool throw
first pitch. No, and evenactually always Sonny in Philadelphia they threw out
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a first pitch, but it waslike the first double play, it was
utly it was it was utly.Uh. So it was the guy from
Always Sonny, Uh, Charlie Day. Charlie Day, No, not Charlie,
the one that owns the h soccerteam with Robo what his wife threw
a ground ball to him. Hethrew it to Utley, that threw it
to Harper. So it was thefirst ever first double play as opposed to
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it first pitch. But the Metsbrought out Matthew Broderick and I was just
like, so for their home gamein London, that's who they picked.
And I was just like, that'ssuch a like, I get it.
He's he's a Met fan, buthe he really isn't. Like if you
listen to his interviews, he's like, yeah, you know, I just
decided. I'm like, manhats Likeit's just like he's like I root for
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both teams. Like he was verybiased about it, like very down the
road. The one thing I wantto share real quick is there was nobody
taste in London, but it didhappen in Cincinnati and it was hilarious.
Oh my god, shout out tothat guy. I don't know his name.
I'm sorry but you are, You'reroyalty when it comes to things that
people will watch forever. That's Summersult. He lands it and then it gets
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tased. But then he's in courtwith the judge and the judge is like
a lot of did you see thevideo? He's like, no, I
haven't yet. He's like a lotof people are saying you landed the Summersault.
And he's like he's like, whatdo you think about that? He's
like, I think I did,like you know, and it's just like
a boss about it. So itdoes not care at all. William Hendon.
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She was only nineteen years old.Yeah, that's crazy. He charged
with two misdemeanor accounts of criminal trespassand tructing official business. And he uh
oh he did land it? Hedid, Yeah, he did, and
then he got tased. Yeah,oh my god. Now do you think
the cop tasted him? Because hewas like, yo, you just like
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cause that's like a crossover move onit, Like you see a different view
of this. How do you dothe backflip right in front of and you
don't catch them just push him?Yeah, like how do you not want
a loser? Cop? And thenyou tase him? Come on? Bro,
all you do is take out hislegs. You're a cop, Like,
don't they give you more training?You know what? Also, I
wish he was wearing like a cutshirt or one of our sponsors, Like
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that's what I would get photoshop oneon there probably absolutely like look at our
guy. Hit it right on socialmedia. People don't fact check or anything,
and they'll believe you right away.All Right, that's it for us,
guys. We will see you nextweek. This was Divide Live on
Fox Sports. The Gambler
Welcome to the Divide with Mike andCorey, two diehard baseball fans who don't
agree on anything, which did putyour boy Todd Frazier. Hey, this
is Cliff Floyd. You can't catchme on the Divide. You can catch
me on the Divide on Fox SportsThe Gambler. Hopefully our disagreement one day
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bring us all together, so soso corny, my own our disagreement,
bring up I do and here weare Divide live on Fox Sports The Gambler
one of two, five Philly,one of four to one Trenton, and
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check us out on the iHeartRadio app. Back from across the Pond. I
can't even say it like a normalYeah, across the pond. That's on
the pond. Mike, you're fromChicago, Court Chicago. Corey is there?
Yeah? My favorite thing in theworld is like that I do the
mixer and like when I hit itperfectly like the guy Welcome to the Divide
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and theme song plays like when you'rewrapping something in the scissors glide. It's
just it's like Heroin. As alefty, they never glide. You did
you have? Like because we're bothlefties, you're more amidexterous than I am,
or you are amidextrous, I'm not. Yes, I do you use
scissors with your left or right hand? Like? Are lefty scissors used with
(01:30):
left hands? Like when I cutwith scissors, I use my right hand.
Is that weird? I think we'reforced, Like you don't have a
choice. That's why everybody like leftiesare like, oh you must struggle with
scissors. Is like, no,man, I figured it out. Yeah,
just use this hand and it worksfine. Yeah, you're at your
own devices. Yeah I don't.I don't. I don't know, but
I multi like I prefer my left, but yeah, I could do the
(01:51):
right for scissors. Right. Yeah, we're still talking. Okay, it's
welcome to the divide everybody. Allright, So let's let's get into this
because obviously it's a Philly station.I want to recap because you were there
the Mets Phillies London series. Yeah, everything I read and every single goddamn
(02:15):
picture I see it looked amazing.Yeah, it could be like just fomo
for me, just not being therelike one with you into just like an
awesome baseball experience because the last likeyou know what, it reminded me of
looking at Pictures Is when we wentto the All Star Experience fan was in
New York. Yes, like that'swhat it kind of reminded me of felt
(02:35):
like that and that was good.That was like ten years ago. Yeah,
so it's like you just get justgive it to us. What the
run through, it, the upsand downs, anything that was good,
anything that was bad. The coolpart was, ironically it reminded me of
Veterans Stadium because you were set backfurther than you normally would be okay from
(02:55):
the game, so it was alittle bit further back. This the view
was still amazing regardless of where youwere. It's a soccer stadium exactly.
Yeah, so excuse excuse me,football football stadium, and the pitch was
right there, you know. Soit was just it was this stadium itself
was really cool, right. Theyalso had like concessions, like there was
(03:19):
a Shay Chicken spot, so itwas like like the first baseline was all
met stuff, the third baseline wasall Philly stuff. So there was a
divide. It was really cool tobe on either side. You know,
they had everybody. You could tellthe London crowd was going nuts over the
baseball bats, beer bats. Youknow, and you gotta remember that's only
(03:44):
like four or five years old here. Yeah, right, and we went
nuts for it. So it wasreally cool, like we have to get
a bia bat like, you know, so they were all excited for that.
I think mixing that much alcohol whenthen when you finish it you have
a potential weapon is fantastic. Yeah, how awesome is that? But also,
like the other weird thing was Ididn't get any draft beer when I
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was there because it was intimidating,you know, like when you buy soup
like Wanton soup. That was thecontainer like it was that big, like
court, a court. I guess, I guess that's what it is.
I can think it's a court.Yeah, at least it looked way too
big and it was exactly that cup. Now, what I will share is
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the everything everywhere you go and youbuy beer, whether it's Paris or London,
they give it to you in thisawesome plastic cup. It's like a
reusable cup, and like some ofthe restaurants are like, oh just keep
you could keep the cup, butwe prefer if we take it back,
but they're like really good to drinkout of. Now, with that said,
if you get like an iced coffeeat Starbucks in Paris. It's in
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a paper cup and it's so disgusting. So like there was there was different
things, but I wish they puttheir coffee in their beer cup. That's
all I kept thinking about the sameman. They just value their alcohol a
lot more than they value their car. Yeah. Well, it's like they're
more about the downer than they arethe upper. But they're all also more
about like being eco friendly than weare. It's like way like those plastic
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cups do not exist, like andStarbucks. It's like, yeah, no,
you Americans are like crazy to havethose. London had them, so
I was like, I was excitedfor that, but yeah, to be
London Square and hit like the cageslike first off, so the cage that
was in the center of the wholefan experience was like a top golf cage.
(05:31):
So the fan experience was literally inLondon Square. Yeah, and they
had everything from like batting cages tolike you throw pitches, get your own
baseball card made really yeah okay,yeah, so so go on do you
have the dude, you're in LondonSquare. You have like a top golf
type situation. So it's like asimulator when you hit these exactly these ball.
Yeah. So my daughter got tosee me actually hit a baseball for
(05:53):
the first time, and she's like, Dad, you should tell them mens
pretty good. I was like,I ain't that good, But if it
did feel good for for her tosay that, And I'm looking at the
record right now, you might actuallybe that good. They got their They're
up to thirty wins now. I'mpretty excited. Also, I shared something
and I'll share this real quick.Twenty twenty two, when we got signed
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to Sean Brace's team, if youwant to call it sign, it sounds
it sounds way cool. I remembersign. We didn't sign anything, but
when Brace was nice enough to putus on his airwaves, the Mets were
way ahead, just like the Philliesare right now, very similar record,
and they were the Phillies at thattime were four games under, so five
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hundred, where the Mets are likesix or seven right now. So it's
very very similar. To be honestwith you, it's only a couple of
games off where Philadelphia was in twentytwenty two. So I got high hopes
to steal a term from I mean, the parallel is there, man,
I mean you just really got tofire your manager and yeah, call.
So the fan experience was the fanexperience was crazy, like they had forty
(07:03):
seven the Hack company, they wouldthey were like making like art, like
so you could like have uh,spray paint art on any of your shirts
or like a banner. So Peytongot a banner and a koozie. Uh.
You know. The merch was great, with the exception of some of
the clad merch that had phillies andmets on it. I saw that,
so you can buy like a Tshirt. I think the picture you said
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was like a polo that had bothlike mets. That's gotta be for people
that live over there, so herehas to be. I'm gonna wait till
it goes on clearance, but I'mgonna buy one. And we got to
run a contest on the Gambler,like for somebody to have to wear that
to a game, oh god,like like as a punishment. Yeah it's
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rough, right, it's so disgusting, Like yeah, oh my skin is
crawling right now. I don't knowwho was like nailed it, Like I
even don't like, it's gonna getsomebody killed if we do that. Yeah,
I don't like I don't like those, like London series. He's gonna
has both logos, you know,like because they do that with the World
Series. Merch you're talking about likelike a pennant or like towel, you
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know, like you go to aplayoff game and there's a talic so and
so verse so and so like whatever, man, but a polo like something
that wine like you're gonna wear out. And he didn't say anything about the
London series. It just the pthe Phillies p and the New York Team
New York so again. So yougo into the square and the left sides
off all Mets, the right sidesall Phillies like kind of like kind of
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food and options. And then theyannounced like, oh, Daniel Murphy is
gonna play a virtual home run derbyagainst Chase Utley. Dude. A J.
Perzinski was there because he was doingGame one for I guess Fox.
Yeah that's right. Yeah, SoI got to see him in the cage.
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I got to see Ryan Howard inthe cage. How's Ryan holding up?
He didn't do too well, man, he did not do too well.
Shane Victorino still got it. Yeah, a J. They were both
complaining about the way the ball droppedin uh for for left handed hitters,
AJ and him, so like,uh yeah, it was really cool and
Utly got creamed by Daniel Murphy.It was. It was quite impressive.
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Murph hit like four or five out. Uh you know, Utly only hit
one out, But anybody know thatwas gonna happen or it was just like
a nast Like I had no clue. I had no clue. I didn't
know if it was on like anysort of schedule. But they need to
do more of those, like honestly, like with that technology. Like uh
so I was talking to Prazinski likeand he was like, it's pretty damn
(09:39):
accurate. Yeah, like it's it'sclose. He's like, I felt like
that's where what it went if Ihit it into a major league ballpark.
So and it was really cool becausethen it would show virtually that they hit
it into traffic, you know.So it was it was it was done
so well. Uh you know,people were just really having fun there that
then there was a bunch of theircages you could hit. Peyton got to
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hit, Timmy got to hit mybuddy, and I got to hit a
couple a bunch of times. Solike it was just it was an awesome
experience. How they handle the crowd. I feel like it had to have
been mobbed. So they eventually stoppedletting people in. But was cool was
like once one person left, theylegit let one person back in because like,
yeah, when they were doing thederby, it hit max capacity.
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But I mean the temperament over there. I know there's there's people that traveled
from America over there, but yougot to think half the stadium's got to
be visitors. The other half hasto be people that live around the one.
Yeah, so that was the otherthing. So like the Mets fans,
probably because of the record, butalso maybe slightly more classy. When
we're like at the London Tower andstuff, they wear normal people's clothes,
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like because in Europe you dress upa little bit more, you know,
you you really do, Like youcould tell they say two things. They
could tell a tourist from the yogapants and like if they wear any shorts,
shoes or like a gym up here, bro, they can spot me
a mile away. I think thetwo times I've been overseas, that's all
I wore, right, either Jimapparel and shorts or shorts. Yeah exactly.
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So they're like, yeah, that'show you could tell, especially in
France. But people don't wear shortsat all in France. I didn't see
many. Really, yeah, Ididn't see many. I did not,
man, I would not do welldressed. Also, there's something else on
the air. Off the air,I'll tell you about French people, but
not in a bad thing. It'sjust something I want to share on the
air. It's just so the otheroh, well, one thing I will
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share is like they say constantly,And I think it's also because my wife
likes to ask questions. You've beenout to dinner with her, she'll ask
like twenty one questions about the menu, like oh can I can I get
avocado into the bacon or something likethat. You can, but it's not
recommended. That's what everybody said toher, Like you start using that in
my whole life. You can dothat, but it's not mted. Yeah,
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so like and it's just like itwas kind of like this conversation where
it was like you could do that, but we'd prefer you not to do
it, Like please don't is whatI'm telling. Don't be a jerk.
Like so getting back you said,you're out seeing like the London Bridge and
stuff. We're at London Tower whereyou know, they're teaching you about all
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the well one they got the crownjewels that are right protected. Two like
that's where most up to I thinkQueen Victoria, all the kings and kings,
kings and queens lived there. Butthey're sharing you with a lot of
the kings. When they would therewere dirtbags. They were like forty years
old, marrying like seventeen year oldgirls or younger, and they would say,
(12:46):
I'll love you for the rest ofyour life. So and a lot
of them got tried for treason andthey were sharing One of the princesses or
Queen's I should say, that wastried for treason and how terrible it was
and how she was murdered in themiddle of town of London Hall. So
somebody in a McNab jersey walks byand you just see this whole crowd.
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So they're telling this story and it'svery much like The Titanic, like where
Jack dies, like it's at thatpart and here's go birds and like so
many people go birds, like theyjust say it back and it's like this
unison, like if it was sure, no, if it was if it
was, it wasn't like the amenor the equivalent of like when you're watching
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a proposal in public and someone's likedo dude, Like I love situations like
that. There's because in my mindthat's hysterical, Like you pay for this
tour. It's probably you and thirtyother people. You're listening to this tour
guide who it's their job, Likethat's what they do, their tour guys.
They're awesome. They're just like likewhatever, they're getting into it.
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They're telling this story. It's aserious moment, and all of a sudden
it's some random person walking by.Gilbert. I didn't have a problem with
the English accent because I've been soused to dealing with the Delco accent for
the last fifteen years, so likethat was another thing that was kind of
Thank god. I thought it'd behard understanding you guys, don't ye Gilberts.
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You know brou So your seats inthere, dude, they were nuts.
I enjoyed them a lot, Likewe were around great people. I
was just gonna ask, are youwere you around people from London? London
right all behind us to the leftwhere uh he was ironically, I think
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born in Brooklyn, moved back andfamily in London. He moved back to
London at a young age. It'sso like he kind of understood American history,
but also like London he did share. He's like, yo, you
know, like you guys take alot of pride in the Revolutionary War.
He's like, we thought it wouldhave is like the way you explain like
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finance move like just like, yeah, we're not going to spend any money.
We have all these other territories.We got to worry about it.
We just didn't care, like becausethere was a viral Philly fan that wasn't
like yeah England, I think barstoolmade it viral or whatever. Which is
a great T shirt to be honestwith you, Yeah, it really is,
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and anybody it takes it seriously likecome on, man, Like it's
like arguing like the winners and losersof World War two, Like it's so
revolutionary wars where you're gonna really putlike your butt hurt over that. It
was also the eighties we won,by the way, there's a whole holiday.
Yeah, it was like the eightiethanniversary of D Day. While we
were there too, So that wasepic that you go to Normandy. Why
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you were there? I don't wantto get off baseball too much, but
I have to ask you. Wedidn't but I can't remember the battleship,
but it was right across the streetfrom London Tower, right across the ocean
or water and they did a salute. Also like Seymour Wiener was there was
Yeah he was, dud I haven'tYeah, Biden was there to bid him.
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Was not in England. I thinkhe was at Normandy for the Yeah,
not in London, but yeah hewas over there, but over where
over there? Uh? But yeah, dude, it was. It was
nuts, man, Like, There'sso many different things I could share.
The game itself was a lot offun. Now what I will share is
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I do think there was too manyAmericans there to be, in my humble
opinion, to the point where likethe announcers and stuff were trying to get
like football chants going, and evenLindor like changed all of his walk up
songs to like things that normally crowdsin in London or in a football just
didn't. It didn't hit. Itdidn't hit. Like what did hit was
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the hands touching hers reaching now touching. Why that's a thing that hated played
at baseball stadiums is beyond me.Why he's played at all. I mean,
dude, I'm not saying I hateNeil and I'm just saying it's the
song did per Man for a whileand still man, I love that.
Yeah, but what's the one memesyou know for a song called piano man?
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The guy with the harmonica really won'tshut up? It's so true.
All right, last question about thisbefore we take a break, Uh,
the whole fan experience. Could theylike, what's the best stadium or the
best city to do something like that? Because I'm picturing like, Okay,
if they make the upgrade to CityPark like they're supposed to, maybe that
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would be great, right because Ifeel like in Queens you do have that
the Bronx. You don't have anarea to do that at all. There's
no way you do that without shuttingdown a major Okay, so did bring
London? Like to bring soccer here? Not soccer, but if you were
to just do a crazy series andwhere it's two rivals and you try to
do the fan experience, like whatcity is it working? It? Even
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like if you were to try,like pick a city here that doesn't have
a baseball team and you want tobring two baseball teams, Like, what's
just a dope city that you cando that? Like Miami, Miami?
Just well yeah I would. Here'swhy because there's so much imports, right,
like how many whether you're from Philly, New York, New Jersey,
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like, how many people go downto like to Florida. That's fair,
you know. So I think TampaMiami that'd be dope and also would help
with their attendants, you know,and it'd be like, ah, that'd
be worth it, you know.But what I was thinking about was forget
the London series. Do you wantto Munich? That would be sick like
October Fest time. I mean,yeah, well yeah, Byron's also like
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the Yankees of German football, solike they're always competing around that time,
so they'd have to be around that. But that was the other Like I
started thinking about where else should theygo, and I was like Ireland,
Well, and this was just astepping point. So you know, they're
gonna try. It's gonna be likethe NFL. Now, like the NFL
is like it's gonna have a gamein Brazil or something this year, like
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and that got pretty is like didyou hear about that stuff? What?
Like they can't wear green really yeah, because like there's a gang in that
city, so they don't want theplayers. They're really worried about stuff like
that. Like if you're trying tohost, if you're trying to branch out,
right, like for the NFL,you know, for some reason,
they just need more money, soyou're trying to branch out, branch out
to Brazil or like all these othercountries, Like if they're gonna give you
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that type of resistances, like don'tyou think we should just maybe not do
it? Like come on, dude, how big does your not have to
be? But it's it's funny becauseyou asked like these questions of where we
would do it. I mean,look at what happened with the Dodgers when
they went back to New York thisweek in the Bronx. That was crazy.
That was crazy. So there's youranswer right now. It is the
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Bronx Baseball All right, Let's takea quick break, guys. When we
come back. Tom Brady is inthe news again, and actually so is
gizeb Believe it or not, bothfor completely separate things and Joey Chestnut was
done dirty like those dogs he's beenshoving down his gullet for the last how
many years. On the fourth ofJuly, we're gonna talk about all that.
Stay with us, Guy's Divide liveon Fox Sports The Gambler Good first,
(20:10):
water like water, everybody water,ice water, ice, fucking I
love how you stopped yourself to somuch stuff. Yeah, because I have
to edit it. And so what'sup with the French? What's yourn?
No? It was, uh,it was. I still don't want to
(20:32):
say because we're all right, butit's not bad. Guys, it's again
very very well. As soon ashe tells me I'm gonna get on,
I g yeah, I would neverdo that. Actually, I'm actually locked
out of our account right now,and yeah, we gotta get Oh no
(20:52):
about that. You're fine. Youwere on vacation. I saw you sent
me a video of someone getting railedfrom our stuff. The video text message
someone getting railed. Please please explainYou sent me a Texas says one a
m in Disney Paris, and someLondon lady given it to some poor bloke
and it's a video. And Irealized whenever you texted it to me.
(21:15):
I don't know where I was.He wasn't, But I never watched the
video. Oh you're gonna play theaudio. Someone's not getting real. No,
not like you said, giving itto him, like like giving him
the business. Dude, it's thefunniest You gotta I got it. You
gotta play it. It's too funny. Put it, yeah, put it
(21:36):
in the headphones, chop in alarm. In the short, I could character
(22:12):
seriously shop shop in the whole timeand YouTube the shows the brain and everything
(22:36):
and making the characters you in theshop and both of the character medic bro.
(23:00):
She yeah, he doesn't even saya word. Your girl wants to
meet a character. Man, you'rein Disney World, dude. You know
I didn't know the shops are sucha bad thing either. I was dying.
So the two adults getting in anargument because one is in Disney and
wants to meet characters, the otherone spends too much shops in the shop
(23:22):
has got to be the worst combinationof people I've never want to meet in
my entire life. But also likeshe wasn't like, dude, I could
be going on rides or something.She's like I could be meeting in a
teenager or an adult in a costumewhile you are shopping for things that are
marketed towards teenagers. Like, it'sjust dumb. The funniest thing about the
whole thing is the fact that youdo not I don't know if that man
(23:47):
was in that room, if shewas on the phone with him, but
you do not hear his rebuttal,she's got to be on the phone.
Yeah, she's got to be onthe phone, but he's not saying anything.
She's not even giving him time,uh, if it was on the
phone to respond, But dude,I was a hallway and a half away
and I just kept hearing this noiseand I was like, I have to
(24:10):
go hear what this is. AndI was convinced it was like a TV
that was left on. Yeah,but it was so loud. It just
kept like I felt like a flygoing into the trap, you know,
Like I just felt like I hadto keep going. And then I was
so scared the door was gonna flingopen or something like. But I had
just this isn't where I parked mycar. Start speaking another language, just
(24:32):
run away. That's so great.But yeah, fucking man, all right,
let's get it. Let's get it. You're listening to the Divide right
here on The Gambler and we're backDivide Live Fox Sports The Gambler. Don't
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hell you call it this week FacebookYouTube Live. My Twitter got hacked.
(24:57):
My power to parlays one didn't reallyYeah, and here's my here's my logic
right now. I was like,you know what, let let this blow.
Can go at it, like maybeI'll get some more followers. So
I've not reported it yet, butyeah, I I walked into you know,
work, and somebody's like, yo, you're gonna fix your Twitter.
It's it's like suggesting like all thesebitcoins and cryptocurrencies, and I was like
(25:21):
what and the kind of tips arethey giving? Right, It's like maybe
I'm saving some good ones. Let'stalk about Tom Brady again because he's in
the news. Uh. He hadthis huge memorable night, uh three four
days ago now, whenever it was, it was basically a Patriots Hall of
(25:41):
Fame induction. We've all seen him. You've seen him for the Mets.
We you know, you've seen Docgoodin get his number retired. You've seen
I've seen countless Yankees get their numberretired. I'm just you know, which
I think is a little ridiculous.We've seen it with the Rangers. We've
seen it with the Devils, We'veseen it with the fire As, We've
seen it with you know football.It's just it's it's happened before. And
(26:03):
the reason I'm saying this out loudis because I know it's Tom Brady.
We all know he's the goat andhe's the best to ever play. But
Jesus Christ, did you look atthe lineup? It was like goddamn concert
And like, dude, we wentto Paul O'Neil day or not, that's
right, I went to Paul O'NeilDay. Like, yeah, Paul came
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out, there were some speeches,like no one performed. He kind of
rode around and weaved to people.But like I mean, then his number
was retired, like the jay Zperformed, Then Tom walked out. Speeches
by a bunch of people, Ithink like Kenny Chesney performed. Peyton Manning
was there. I think Mike Ricohosted the whole thing. It was like
(26:48):
it was like it was a whole. It was like the roast all over
again with less jokes. Really wasit really was, and and and more
people and Pottsborough was packed and andI'm not saying he shouldn't be selling,
but what a money grab for thatorganization. Yeah, man, like you
couldn't do this before and during thehalftime and even a celebration after a regular
(27:08):
season game. Well, I thinkthey'll still cash in on that. There'll
be a game where they, youknow, show his number up in the
rafters or something. They'll definitely bea game where he's there. Oh my
god, dude. So Jay zUh performed public service announcement. And then
you had Kenny like as a KennyChesney performed the song Boys of Fall.
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I don't know, I'm not aKenny Chesney fan. Bill Burr was there.
Bill Burr did it and act awhole set or whatever it is.
Like, you had music, youhad comedy. There's a video from Brady's
family. The Brady four were there. Yeah, barstool like it's just you
name it. They were there.I mean Peyton Manning came out, Randy
(27:51):
Moss, Gronk Edelman just everybody wasthere to sell it. And don't get
them, guys. I'm not sayinghe doesn't need to be celebrated. The
guy's got seven Super Bowls. Youknow, he's he's literally the greatest to
ever play. He's gonna be thefirst ballot Hall of Famer for Canton,
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Ohio. But come on, dude, you're retiring his number at a stadium,
like, let's let's call it whatit is here in the summer,
in the summer, yeah, likemini camps barely started. I love it.
I love it, you know,like the mccordy twins were there,
like just Belichick was there at awarm welcome. You know it had.
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Look, I can't even tell you. I can't tell you honestly, we
went to Paul O'Neill day. Itwas fine because there was a baseball game
to watch. If it was justthe ceremony to watch Paul O'Neill get his
number retired, I don't think i'dpay to see it. No. I
go for work, Like if theywere like sending us somewhere, yes,
no, absolutely, but I'm notpaying just to go watch it. Now.
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You know, the more I talkabout it, the more like,
who am I kidding? Of course, I would like, tell me I'm
gonna go to this ceremony when isperforming. Yeah, And I could see
Bill burd who stand up like,come on, yeah, I'm an idiot.
I'm an idiots. Well here's speakingof idiots. Did you hear the
a Rod, David Ortiz and Jeter? Yes, walking around monument A fantastic
And I love the fact. AndI don't know if Ortiz if they set
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that up, it didn't sound likeit Ortiz, Jeter and because they were
doing and the Fox was game whenthe Dodgers came to town and uh Ortiz
in Monument Park, I guess theywere looking at just everybody's number, Jeters
included and looked at a Rod andsaid when are you going to get your
number retired here? Or something alongthose lines, and a Rod's clapp right
(29:41):
back was like, I think youhave a better shot again your number retired
here than I do. And itwas kudos to both of them, because
you know, Alex is a littlehurt that it's not even considered, you
know what I mean, Like he'she's and he can't hide it and it's
never gonna happen, Alex, Imean, you had to come to New
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York to win a world. Youknow what, I like a Rod.
I did, but Ortiz did geta little bit loose with his mouth.
He said that the Mets should moveto like Oklahoma because they'll always be in
that brong shadow. And I feltlike saying, like, Bro, you're
spending a little bit too much timewith the Yankees, with Jeter and a
Rod. You need to shut yourmouth because I don't even think Jeter and
(30:26):
a Rod feel that way though,you know what I mean. New York
is so big, we could havea third freaking team. You know who
couldn't have a third or second team? Boston? Yeah, freaking tiny,
tiny little go finance another play Boston. Oh God, I love Boston.
You can say ass on the air, just so you know. So I
didn't have to stop myself, butI did. I'm happy, man,
(30:48):
and I'm happy you said it outloud, dude, Just that it's been
liberating. I mean, it's beena while since we've been doing this.
You don't know what you can sayanymore. Yeah, back to Tom Brady.
So Kraft told the whole crowd numbertwelve, no one's ever gonna wear
it, and then he told themsometime during this season, there will be
(31:08):
a twelve foot because we just gottakeep saying the number twelve, a twelve
foot statue of Tom Brady somewhere outsidethe stadium, which could not be a
dumber idea for right now, Likeit can't be if something tragically happened to
Tom Brady. Absolutely, if it'stwenty years from now, give that man
(31:30):
a statue. Even wait till hegets in ducked into the Hall of Fame
and then give him a statue then. But he's too young right now.
He just retired. Yeah, actually, remember when he retired the first time
and then unretired, not even foryour organization, Like, give the man
a second to breathe. For allwe know, some weird type Epstein list
can come out and he can beon it. And now you got a
(31:52):
statue in front of your stadium.You gotta tear it. Don't let it
breathe a little bit. Let itbreathe. You don't know anybody did.
He's not even in the country anymore. We all thought he was all right.
Well, speaking of breathing, youknow who doesn't have much time to
breathe. It's Robert Kraft. SoI think he's trying to speed this all
up. Jesus, you're saying likethis would normally be likes in the make
(32:15):
it right, But I think hewants to experience it all and he wants
to give it to Tom. Tom'slike his son. That's fair. Yeah,
so you know, I don't know. And then the argument is do
you do the same stuff for Billor anything for Bill. I don't think
Bill's gonna get any recognition, that'scrazy, dude. I think he might.
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I think Bill would probably get Iknow, you can't retire a number,
but you can have your name on. I think Bill will get his
name next to Tom, like inthe stadium, you know, like they've
done before. Bill's not got astatue. I don't know what the cut
sleeves on a sweatshirt. I wouldsupport a Belichick statue more than I would
support a Brady stack. Also,I would support an AI Belichick where it
(32:59):
just didn't end to your questions,kept the reporting of Belichick experience, where
you're just asking questions to a cardboardcutout of Belichick because you get the same
answer anyway, Oh my god.Yeah. And then the other thing was
like just the simple fact that youknow, I don't know, So yeah,
I think about the Robert Kraft Ithink about Belichick. I also hot
(33:22):
take. I think that if RobertKraft allowed Belichick to cook and they did
get rid of Brady when they feltlike it, he could have won a
couple more So. I think Ithink he would have been a lot more
competitive. I mean by the timethat they actually, you know, Brady
stepped away, and what was leftand how trying to draft and you gotta
remember like and and I will say, to Tom's credit, in the whole
(33:44):
ceremony, when it was time forTom to speak, he basically said,
in so many words, I knowtonight's about me, but I'm not me
without if I didn't have great peoplearound me. And he thanked all those
people. You know, this isn'tit wasn't like he was like, you
know, it was your typical TomBrady like saying thank you, but also
saying, remember like I had RandyMoss, I had Rob Gronkowski, I
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had all these people. I hada coach like Belichick also to pay cuts
to get those people right, rightquarterbacks, And that's been public and you
know that's Tom. That's why that'show he you know, the Patriots dynasty
was able to be a dynasty.And I think to that note, just
like you know, Tom says itwas these people around me. Belichick was
the same way. I mean,dude, they stepped in and they stepped
(34:30):
in it. The guy was draftedin the sixth round, a backup to
an already franchise quarterback that just hadsome freak injury at the beginning of the
season, you know what I mean. Like it was just this perfect storm
of everything. If bled Zone nevergets hurt, Brady never gets his chance,
and who knows what happens, it'sjust exactly speaking a shot. Giselle's
(34:52):
relationship is shot. Oh right,God from that roads the boy friend left
because Yo, you're gonna cheat onTom Brady. You're gonna cheat on me,
like I don't what you look likeyou cheated on the goat. You're
gonna use That's why. Yeah,I think. So I think it finally
like I don't know, man likeor just like he's like, you know
what, I'm out like you know, and there is that saying, if
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you're gonna do it to them,you'll do it to me, Like I'm
no different. So I think thatI think got in his head, and
uh, she's blaming the roast fortheir breakup. So she was so listen,
the only thing that comes out ofIn my opinion, Giselle's only concern
coming out of that roast was forher kids, and Tom said the same
thing. Yeah, I just wasworried. I don't want my kids.
(35:34):
Blah blah blah blah blah. Asfar as Gazelle goes, they're stupid jokes,
and not for nothing. You deservedevery bit of them, bro,
Like you said, you you're datingwhatever instructor jiu jitsu instructor, Like,
uh, you deserve those jokes.Have thicker skin. She would be tweeting
away in that uh you know,uh, Tom Brady's sweet every time something
bad would happen to Tom, likeit's crazy to me. Like Brittany Mahomes
(35:57):
does something similar, like how thesewives of these professional players or NFL players,
like they don't have thicker skin.Just let your man play the sport,
dude, like just or and itgoes for anybody, you know,
if you have a wife that playsprofessional sports, just let them play.
Don't worry about the scrutiny. Soshe's sitting here getting all mad at jokes
and all of a sudden they split, that that's gotta be mainly her.
(36:20):
He's thirty four years old, datingretired supermodel, has more money than she
knows what to do with. Ican't imagine what her alimony looked like after
the divorce. So it's like,dude, come on, man, and
it's unclear. Everything I look atsays like they haven't been photographed since late
April, So who knows when theyactually split and why they split. But
dude's thirty Actually, dude's thirty four, looks like he's forty four. He's
(36:44):
not aging. Well, no,no, maybe that's why they split.
But some people speculate that the spotlightwas just too much for him. Joaquim
Valente, which is another thing.That's the spotlight, right, the spotlight?
Really like Ben, Ben and jare breaking up recording the rumors,
and they're saying, just Ben justdoesn't like all the attention. You're a
(37:04):
movie star. What do you meanyou don't like walking into the car with
the duncan thing where he just lookslike we've all been there, like we've
all felt like I could feel howhe felt, but it's not like you've
dude, I can feel the wayhe felt if listen, if some miracle
happens and we blow up, andthat were to the point where we step
(37:28):
out of our house and we getmobbed by paparazzi. The first two years,
we're gonna look like Ben Affleck,like, dude, what is going
on here? Yeah? Like Ben, you've been dealing. You had a
twenty five plus year career right now, you can't tell me you're still angry
at these people taking pictures and there'sso many women in this world, and
you went back with the woman thatyou knew this was gonna occur again.
Yeah, you know, like it'slike, what do we do the same
(37:51):
thing with the two of them?Man? Like, Like you're you're a
jiu jitsu instructor first of all,I guess for a high class clientele,
since you have a gazelle you know, in your your class or your one
on one training or whatever. Andyou start dating and you don't think people
are gonna poke into you a littlebit. Now get added, and you
don't think that's gonna be worth ita little bit to not work the rest
(38:12):
of your life. Yeah, Iwould do crazy things to not work the
rest of my life. Yeah.From one Glizzy champ to another. Joey
chestnutt has been banned from the Nathan'sHot Dog Contest. Is this a what
do you? How do you feelabout this? Do you want to get
into this next segment? Or doyou want to get into it now?
We'll get into that and we'll getinto Grimace too. Grimace, Yes,
all right, so let's let's saveit for the next segment. I think
(38:32):
so, yeah, save it forthe next seven. Next seven, guys,
we're gonna take a quick, quickbreak. It's gonna be quick.
We're gonna say, we gotta paythe bills. Take a quick break.
When we come back, Joey Chestnutand Grimace in a duel that you would
never think. I don't know,I don't know the Grimmace thing. Mike's
gonna bring it up. But JoeyChestnut and Grimas are coming up next day
with us guys Divide live on FoxSports. The Gambler. Mhm, Grimace.
(38:55):
He throws out the first pitch forthe Oh, that's right, that's
right for which it was like yesterdaythe other day, like just throughout the
first pitch he had his own glovetoo, So like I guess, like
that's weird, but also like Iget it, like McDonald's. Also I
get it for another reason that I'llshare on the air, you know.
(39:15):
So. But yeah, all right, let's go. Let's do it.
Man. The thing you're listening to, the Divide right here on the Gambler.
I told you it'd be short.Divide Live, Fox Sports, the
Gamble. Let's get right into it. Joey Chestnut, the man that we've
known to love every July fourth ornerNathan's Hot Dog eating contest up at Coney
(39:37):
Island, has been banned. Mikebanned from competing, according to the Major
League Eating Corporation, which is unreal. It's that there's the the mL E.
Who is the company behind the annualNathan's contest. They issued a statement
saying that they were devastated to learnthat Joey Chestnut has chosen to represent a
(40:00):
rival brand, and that rival brandis some sort of beef substitute, a
vegan, a vegan hot dog.We see if I can get the name
here, which is great because wewouldn't even be announcing the name if he
didn't do it. It's great.So the end result for this, so
(40:23):
just to give you guys the idea. He's currently as it stands, he
is not allowed to participate. Apparently, according to the mL E and Nathan's
Hot Dog that they had some sortof exclusive contract that paid Joey Chestnut like
two hundred grand each fourth of July, but like over the course of four
years, it's like a four milliondollar retainer or something like that to basically
(40:47):
compete, but to not sign withany competitors. And Joey Chestnut is saying
that they've never had any sort ofdeal here. It is, Oh no,
that's not it. Yeah, sothey've said it is. Chestnut was
paid two hundred thousand to appear inthe twenty twenty three contest and offered,
excuse me not, for one pointtwo million, four year contract with Nathan's.
(41:12):
They told that the New York Postthat mL E told the New York
Post, in return for his feesto appear and compete, Joey agreed every
single year to very simply to avery simple exclusivity provision. Jesus Man,
I gotta go back to school.That was a rough read that he would
not endorse or sponsor another hot dogbrand. So mL E and Nathan's is
(41:36):
saying basically This was supposed to bean exclusive contract where he's basically getting one
point five million over the course offour years. He just can't he can't
sign with any other hot dog brand. Okay, but Joey's claiming that there's
no such deal in place, Sosomebody's wrong. And right now, whether
we like it or not, JoeyChestnut is paying the price. Now we
(42:00):
both know what's gonna happen. Like, for example, Mike, how do
you feel on July fourth? Whatare you gonna be doing. I'm gonna
be barbecuing. I'm not gonna bewatching the Nathan's There it is, Yeah,
there it is? Uh Nathan's.You have a problem, Major League
eating. You have a problem.You think that people watch your hot dog
(42:21):
eating contest for you when they onlywatch it for Joey Chestnut. The people
are gonna follow Joey, Yeah theyare. There's no like And how dare
you think that? If that wewe cut into our fourth of July festivities
and turn this on just to seeNathan's hot dogs. No, we see
Joey cram hot dogs. We don'tcare if it's a hot dog substitute.
(42:44):
We don't care if it's Nathan,it could be brought worse for all we
care. Yeah, Joey guzzled sothat tie would run, you know what
I mean, Like and he didthe watermelon exactly of being inspired by Joey
Chestnut. It's just stupid. Also, what's funny is like you you said
in the Joey gouzzled, But what'sfunny is the glizzy guzzler. He He's
(43:07):
already getting like million dollar offers fromother companies to do a like well,
Netflix is now doing an event Netflix. He I guess there's an adult industry
company called called cam Soda. It'slike an adult camera site. I don't
cam soda. It's called cam cA M Soda. It's an adult cam
(43:28):
site, it says. I don'tknow really what that means. I don't
know if that's anyway. I guessI'll have to google it later. Off
company Wi Fi, but they alreadyoffered him a million dollars to headline its
first annual Innuendo heavy Wiener Wallap.Oh my god, it's it's an eating
contest. I'm sure it doesn't evenmake sense, but it's like, dude,
(43:53):
Joey is in demand right now.Now only does he have the heartstrings
of America. People are throwing moneyat him, just like forget Nathan's,
your brand is going to dream itthey gave. Nobody would have known that
Joey Chestnut was endorsed by this vegancompany. Nobody would have known, Nobody
would have cared. Nobody would havecared. Nathan's would have ruled July fourth.
(44:16):
It would have been the only thingtalked about on July fifth, outside
of fireworks, people losing limbs andand barbecues, you know, and maybe
a few barbecues blowing up too,uh, But outside of that, it
would have been Joey Chestnut, Nathan's, uh, you know, a navy,
a new like Kobyashi coming back fromthe dead like the Undertaker and winning
(44:38):
or something. Who knows, butyeah, it's ridiculous, like why like
you know, like I just thinkabout like how the MLB is protecting Otani
and you know, we're just supposedto believe that his interpreter did all this
crazy stuff be on his back,which by the way, now he's uber
driving. I don't know if yousaw that in La. I want to
go to La to see if thisguy should it be ends up just like
(45:00):
Hey, man, before I placethese bets, can you if I dip
you? Is this a good move? Let me sixteen times? Mike,
He's won the hot since two thousandand seven. This guy has been dominating
the hot dog competition. And Nathan'sis so self centered to think that we
turn this on the TV for you. We don't care. The only reason
people buy your hot dogs and ConeyIsland because they're only choice. Hey stop,
(45:24):
what Nathan's is a staple of Brooklynheritage. Do we have potential deal
with No? I mean they're gonnaneed They're gonna need our help out.
That's true. You know what ifit's one hot dog that it always remains
faithful. I think it's that man. I've said it before. We can
(45:44):
be bought guys Again, Mike hitus with what's going on with Grimace before
we get out of here? MisterGrimmace throughout the first pitch, personally,
I like the Hamburglar H So Iwas like a little annoyed. Then I
got the thinking, what game?Did he throw out the pits for me?
Monday? Tuesday? Sorry we wereoff Monday, so it's Tuesday night,
Tuesday. BA. Yeah, hethrows out the first pitch, he's
(46:06):
got his own little glove, whichwas cute. It's pretty big. Did
it actually threw a decent pitch,So I'm not even gonna throw shade at
whoever was inside this costume. Theproblem I have with it is it's Grimace
and we're having a bad season,and it's just the optics look terrible,
Like how much the McDonald's pay forthis first pitch? You know, I
(46:27):
did notice he's purple. The Cityconnect shirts are purple. I think that's
the reason why there's a connection there. You know, Navy there was money
given to the Ronald McDonald charity orsomething like that. But I was just
like, come on, man,we don't need this, like, you
know, like it's just added stupidityand added insult to a season that's already
(46:50):
you know, off the rails alittle bit. Now. They did get
their thirtieth win, as I mentionedearlier, so maybe Grimace is gonna give
it. But you know, therewas also like a lot of uf with
the happy Birthday Grimace like and uh, people eating the Grimace shakes and then
dying like that. There was likea viral not really dying, they were
like fake dying. They were actinglike they turned into zombies from the Grimace
(47:13):
Shake. It was actually pretty funny. Uh but you know there's Grimace has
the gen z U people like wrappedaround his palm, so he is bigger
than Ronald McDonald when it comes tothat, the Youth of America and McDonald's.
So those City Connect jerseys, thoseare the dark gray ones, right,
Yeah, I'm colorblind, but yeah, I think they're purple. Okay,
(47:37):
their cement gray. Mister and missusmet gave Grimace a jersey and it's
it looks like the City Connect theygave. I'm only looking at the back
where it says Grimace he turned fiftyfive because it was his birthday. Yeah,
I don't know. Maybe maybe he'sfifty five years old. It says
(48:02):
yep, No, that's it.They gifted in jersey exactly. Look,
man, I don't know. Ican't think of the last time I went
to a game where someone threw outlike a ceremonial first pitch where I actually
cared. Yeah, I was hopingit. Didn't ever seen anybody cool throw
first pitch. No, and evenactually always Sonny in Philadelphia they threw out
(48:22):
a first pitch, but it waslike the first double play, it was
utly it was it was utly.Uh. So it was the guy from
Always Sonny, Uh, Charlie Day. Charlie Day, No, not Charlie,
the one that owns the h soccerteam with Robo what his wife threw
a ground ball to him. Hethrew it to Utley, that threw it
to Harper. So it was thefirst ever first double play as opposed to
(48:47):
it first pitch. But the Metsbrought out Matthew Broderick and I was just
like, so for their home gamein London, that's who they picked.
And I was just like, that'ssuch a like, I get it.
He's he's a Met fan, buthe he really isn't. Like if you
listen to his interviews, he's like, yeah, you know, I just
decided. I'm like, manhats Likeit's just like he's like I root for
(49:07):
both teams. Like he was verybiased about it, like very down the
road. The one thing I wantto share real quick is there was nobody
taste in London, but it didhappen in Cincinnati and it was hilarious.
Oh my god, shout out tothat guy. I don't know his name.
I'm sorry but you are, You'reroyalty when it comes to things that
people will watch forever. That's Summersult. He lands it and then it gets
(49:31):
tased. But then he's in courtwith the judge and the judge is like
a lot of did you see thevideo? He's like, no, I
haven't yet. He's like a lotof people are saying you landed the Summersault.
And he's like he's like, whatdo you think about that? He's
like, I think I did,like you know, and it's just like
a boss about it. So itdoes not care at all. William Hendon.
(49:53):
She was only nineteen years old.Yeah, that's crazy. He charged
with two misdemeanor accounts of criminal trespassand tructing official business. And he uh
oh he did land it? Hedid, Yeah, he did, and
then he got tased. Yeah,oh my god. Now do you think
the cop tasted him? Because hewas like, yo, you just like
(50:13):
cause that's like a crossover move onit, Like you see a different view
of this. How do you dothe backflip right in front of and you
don't catch them just push him?Yeah, like how do you not want
a loser? Cop? And thenyou tase him? Come on? Bro,
all you do is take out hislegs. You're a cop, Like,
don't they give you more training?You know what? Also, I
wish he was wearing like a cutshirt or one of our sponsors, Like
(50:36):
that's what I would get photoshop oneon there probably absolutely like look at our
guy. Hit it right on socialmedia. People don't fact check or anything,
and they'll believe you right away.All Right, that's it for us,
guys. We will see you nextweek. This was Divide Live on
Fox Sports. The Gambler
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