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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Are you pulling for anybody?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I mean not really.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
Do you have a favorite baseball team?
Speaker 2 (00:09):
If I would say any it would be the Nationals?
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Okay, that's fine, that's fine, that's great, that's great. Like,
for example, I do have a favorite baseball team. It's
obvious the Yeah, no, I'm my favorite baseball team is
the Yankee Huh? Right now, listen, I can pull for
I don't want the Dodgers to win, right. You realize
if the Dodgers win, they will have won back to
back World Series.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
You know, last team to win back to back World
Series the Yankees? Yankees, they won.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Three, last team to win back to back. I don't
want the Dodgers to win. I don't like the Dodgers.
I don't like the Blue Jays, but I'm pulling for
the Blue Jays? Right?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Are you like them less?
Speaker 1 (00:48):
No more, I'm pulling for them. I wouldn't even say
I like that.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Do you like anyone in the Al East?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
I don't like anybody in baseball, but I'm.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Just they're the foil to the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Yes, I need the to lose more than I need
the Blue Jays to lose.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
And listen, there are players that play.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
I'll watch any baseball game any night of the week,
even if the Yankees aren't playing, I'll watch. I'll watch
other teams I like, and I will pull for some
players like I like what I can appreciate what cal
Raly did with Seattle this year. I like Ellie de
la Cruz. I like watching Paul Skeene's pitch. I like
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watching Jacob Mizerowski pitch from the Brewers. But I'm not
pulling for the Brewers to win. But you have one
team that you like.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
You were pulling for the Brewers to beat the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Absolutely, I was for two reasons.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Number One, I like Misowski, but I definitely need the
Dodgers to lose. There's a thirteen year old kid that
I'm furious with, and it's not his fault.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
I blame his parents.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Is he affiliated with the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
I had to read this. My name is Augustus Sally Semmel.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
His name's Augustus, right, I'm a thirteen year old boy,
and I'm an avid baseball fan.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Yeah, I'm right there with you, Augustus.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
So so far, so good.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
I read that, and I'm like, thank god, I like that.
Thirteen years old you're into baseball. You're on the right track.
Good on your parents. Oh no. A month ago before
the playoffs, I went to the New York Mets versus
Washington Nationals game with my dad. All Right, again, I
don't know if he's a Mets fan at this point. Yeah,
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I don't know if he's a Nationals fan at this point.
He may not be a fan of either, but he
went to a games. Listen, I've gone to baseball games
that the Yankees aren't playing. I've gone to many a
Nationals game that the Yankees weren't playing. Are you ready
for this? A month ago before the playoffs, I went
to a New York Mets versus Washington Nationals game with
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my dad.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
I wore a Mets jersey in a National's hat.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Ooh, so he pulls for both teams.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
I chanted and cheered for both teams. Now I did
start scratching my head.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
I did that. I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Are you felting the dad for letting him do that?
Speaker 1 (03:20):
My kids wouldn't show up at a game like that.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Well, did he grow up in New York and move
town down to DC?
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Like there's gotta be again, you're scratching your head at
this point, going like, Okay, uh, you appear to be
a fan of one of those teams because you went,
or you're or you are.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Just going to a game.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
But I don't know why we're cheering on both of them,
and if that's not your team, you shouldn't be cheering
on either.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Of It happened to Donna during the Super Bowl. What's
that with Jason and Travis?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Like she has the split jerseys?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Oh yeah, I know, I don't think that. What's the
kid's name?
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Augustus has an older brother that plays for the Mets
and an older brother that plays for the National But
is what.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Is it with those two teams?
Speaker 5 (04:03):
Though?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Well, let me get to the third paragraph.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Oh so you weren't even upset with him that much
yet I'm confused, Okay.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Even crazier. I'm a Yankee fan and a Red Sox fan.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Oh no, huh.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Nobody could believe that I am on both sides of
arguably one of the most famous sports rivalries of all time.
I also root for, like this kid's got a problem.
I also root for the Baltimore Orioles, Detroit Tigers, Atlanta Braves,
and Tampa Bay Rays. Okay, a couple of things. Number One,
you really like a lot of garbage teams. You can't
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pull You can't be a fan of that many teams.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Tell me that you like Ellie de la Cruz.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
I just say, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
You still have a team. You still have a team.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Unless your name is Bettman, Manfred Goodell or Silver, you
don't have a You don't have a team.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
But the biggest thing is the fact that he's a
Yankees and a Red Sox fan. If if throw throw
that part out of it, you wouldn't you wouldn't get
as but hurt about it.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Oh yeah I would. You can't.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
You can't like again, tell me that you're watching the
game and you're pulling for you're pulling for. Like when
I went to see the Mariners play, he was pulling
for the Mariners.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
I'm not a fan of the Mariners, but I'm pulling
for the Mariners.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
See the picture?
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Is this the kid I knocked that hat off his hat?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
And then the bad Boston.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
The only thing worse than the team is their uniforms disgusting.
Like for example, for example, I like Huge in Vainy.
Great guy, right, great guy. I've seen him in person
will hug huge in vany is a diehard Red Sox.
You know what it would not be on top of
his head a Yankees hat.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
No, he often sends over the photo of the kid
flipping off.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Yes, exactly, I've told you. I've told you this.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
I unless either of my sons is doing something where
they're playing at Fenway, I will never step foot in Fenway. Ever,
I won't go on a tour. I won't go see
the Yankees playing Fenway. I will never step foot in
Fenway Park.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
No concert.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
I won't go to a concert in Fenway Park. Look,
get me, so this can't do it?
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Reasoning, it's not now, You've listed like ten teams at
this point.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
I don't. I don't think the kid knows what he's doing.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
If I'm being honest, he's got horrible upbringing, horrible upbringing.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Who to his parents? It's here four?
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Say again, I don't know?
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Oh, he doesn't say, Well, does he explain this?
Speaker 3 (06:57):
People are incredulous that I could show my fandom with
more than one franchise.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
By the way, he's got he's got it.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
He wears an MLB hat that's got all the team's
logos on it.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Oh, No, it's like when Rob Low or the NFL shield.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
I hate that. I hate that.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Here's my secret to my fanship of many teams tolerance.
I believe that there is a way to appreciate one
side or in this case, team, and not hate the other.
While the Yankees Red Sox rivalry is just a relationship
between two sports teams, This beef reminds me of a
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problem we seem to have in our country today. Instead
of being open minded and embracing, we close our hearts
and minds to people with different beliefs, making our population
very polarized.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Wit why did you read it so sing songy?
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Because it's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard of.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Big Red says, punt this kid to the sun.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
A man, and I don't like to be down on
a kid, and that's why part of me blames the parents.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
I believe this is more from the punting the kid.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
I believe that if Americans learn not to hate the opposition,
we would create a better and less extreme nation. If
you love baseball, you can embrace more than one team.
And if you really love America, you don't have to
boo the other side.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
I boo you.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
And now is he seventh or is the eighth grade?
Speaker 3 (08:37):
It doesn't matter. He could be sixth grade. He's probably
sixth grade. Got left behind. He was probably what is
four plus three? And he was like, well, I don't
want to be down on six or eight. No kid
has gotten under my skin more in the last in
calendar year twenty twenty five than.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
This kid from ladies who like baseball possible. The NAT's
fandom does not claim this child. He can go be
confused elsewhere, thank you.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
That's the other thing. That's the other thing. That is
a great point. And listen, I'll go to Nats games
and I'll enjoy it. Went to the what was the
last Nats game I went to towards the end of
the year. I saw the Gnats take on the Twins.
I saw the Nats take on the Padres, and I'll pull,
I'll even I'll even pull for the Gnats to beat
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either team. But that ain't your team, son, Pick one, no,
pick one, and stick with it.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
So Chris has an interesting theory.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
I've gone to games in Pittsburgh in caps gear.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Mhm.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Knitting lady would have to sneak into my funeral and
drape me in a Mulkin jersey before. I would now
if Maulkins showed Listen, I had a Yogur jersey when
he played here and I ended up.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Hating him when he was here. But I would never ever.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
If you told me, I can't even utter myself to
do it with Ov, I'll use Backstrom before Backstrom left
and went Overseas if Bastrom went on to play for
the La Kings.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Nope, nope.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
I feel like you violated that with Helpern though I did.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
I did violate it with Helpern, and I have violated
it with Eric Lindross.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Those are the and Luke Robatide right, Robitid.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
My favorite hockey player of all time, Lynn Dross Biggie
who I love.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
And Halpern. I'm sorry, the guy's a friend.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Now, but I would never wear I would never ever
wear a Halpern jersey from Montreal to a Caps game.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
God, that's like for an event?
Speaker 4 (11:05):
So can you can you have two teams?
Speaker 5 (11:08):
Though?
Speaker 4 (11:10):
No, it has to just be one.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
You can have one team and then you can have
other teams that you like and follow, but you only
get one team.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
So one is the max?
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Like I will, Hockey's bad because I follow thirty two teams,
but you have one team. Like I'll follow what the
Canadians are doing. I'll follow like that's fine, that's home,
but no, no baseball. I follow what the other teams
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are doing. I may pull for certain teams more than
other teams, but that ain't your team. You get one
team and it will be a cold sun, cold day
in hell that any fan is going to where Like,
for example, if you're a Nats fan, great, God bless you.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Everybody should have a.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Team, but you also like the Padres maybe maybe maybe
like as a kid you live there or whatever, But
the Nationals are your team. When the Nationals are playing
the Padres, you're not showing up at the game with
your NAT's jersey and a Padres hat.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Hell's no, not in a seagull household.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Sorry, Now, were you done reading the child's essay or
was there there's more?
Speaker 1 (12:27):
No, he can't write that much. That's okay, he can't
write that much.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
I didn't know if these people wanted to delete their comments,
like boo, this kid sucks.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Amen?
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Did this kid write the letter from the locker he
was recently stuffed into? And what a loser?
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Yes, can I get you to Chris's theory. Chris, yes, yes,
he said, is this a side effect of fantasy sport?
Speaker 1 (12:51):
No?
Speaker 3 (12:51):
No, no, no, no no, And.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
You did say you finished reading it, So the fantasy
sports does not get mentioned ones.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
No, it doesn't, it doesn't.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
And I'll tell you why I play fantasy baseball, right,
I had one Yankee on my fantasy team this year.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Did I pull for my players to do well?
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Yes, But if any of them were playing the Yankees,
I wasn't like, well, I hope this guy hits a
grand Slam. Hell no, no, no, no, no hard no.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Then is it what Eric thinks maybe happening here? He's
got bad parents accessibility to what back in the day,
you're rooted for the local team because watch that's fine.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
No, that's fine, I understand that. Now tell me team
you could see every team? Sure? Absolutely?
Speaker 4 (13:40):
Red zone. Scott loves red zone.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Yeah, he loves Good morning football. Scott loves red zone.
Scott's got one team.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Yeah, I mean he may go up with red zone,
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
No, no, no, But he may like players on other teams.
He may actually pull for a team to beat another team.
But he's got one team. He's got one team, Scott.
I ain't gonna put on a Jadon Daniels jersey with
a Ceede lamb hat. No, unless he was decapitated and
somebody was trying to hide his head and they put
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it under a Ceede lamb hat.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Cold day in Hell.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
Is strange to see that photo of Oh my god,
the New York hat.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
By the way, if my kid took a picture like that,
I'd be like, I don't know how much you're getting
paid by your buddies, but that's fine.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Get that off your head.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Gina writes, No, no, no, no, these parents are failures
a man and this kid has been dealt a life
sentence as a middling weekling.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Yes, one hundred percent again again. You could be, You
could be.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
You could have red zone, you could you could have accessibility,
and you could you can for whatever reason, you could
fall in love you you could grow up here and
go you know what I always just watched, I mean,
go back, go back to accessibility. How many Braves and
Cubs fans are there around the country because they grew
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up when TBS UH and WGN were the two that
were on. So there were people that grew up all
over the country Cubs fans and Braves fans. You could
still be a Braves fan or a Cubs fan. That's okay.
You could grow up. You could grow up in Cincinnati
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and go I don't know why, but I've always loved
the Texas Rangers and that's your team. And then you
may still go to Reds games. But you can't be
a Reds guy. You get eighteen eighteen, you've made that
clear period hard day.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Every single phone line is lit up. Yes, maybe these
people are going to.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
No.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
I hope Augustus is a non de plume.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
I think he's gonna get cyber bullied.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Yes, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Isn't he already?
Speaker 1 (16:03):
I don't know. Check our socials. Where am I going?
Kristin line too? Hi?
Speaker 6 (16:09):
Elliah the morning, Hey Elliott, this is why we need
to bring back bullying in school.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Ally tell you.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
Let me tell you. I went to a middle school.
Like my middle school, if you wore a band T shirt,
people would pull you aside and tell you to name
them five songs. So like they got to do the
same with sports sports teams.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
What's your favorite what's your favorite sport?
Speaker 6 (16:35):
Oh, definitely hockey right now? I mean I just love
Cap season, so I'll wear my Caps jersey and I
and listen, I like, I was a goalie for lacrosse
roller hockey, so like, you know what the Rangers were
playing and stuff, like I've watched them, but I'd never
wear Rangers and a Caps jersey put together. You know
what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
And listen, I get it. You're a goalie.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
You could turn on a Rangers game and go, you
know what, I want to watch Igor Stkin or maybe
he's not playing, and you want to watch Jonathan Quick
and you'll pull for them. Yeah that's fine, that's fine. Yeah, listen,
there's a there's a there's a backup goalie by the
name in Columbus named Jet Greeves. I really like him
and I pull for him. But I don't need Columbus
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to do well.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
Yeah for sure, for sure. I mean, and you go
back to the fancy football stuff like I don't. I
don't think that's causing this, because yeah, I play fantasy football,
but like, I will always be a Commander's fan and
I will never root for the Cowboys, but I have
uh what to say, ceedee lamb on my team. But
you know, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
That's financial. That is financial.
Speaker 6 (17:44):
Exactly. That's for bragging, right.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Yeah, I get it, man, I get it absolutely.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
Thank you, sir, thank you, But keep in mind this
is a child, and I don't mean stop going after him.
He only existed, No with accessibility and fantasy sports.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Okay, when I was thirteen, I had my team, but you.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Had didn't have that accessibility like you.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
Said, and gaming fantasy sports on every single website.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Whatever. Hi, Elliott the morning.
Speaker 7 (18:19):
Hi, this is me.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Yeah, Hi, who's this?
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (18:22):
This is Colin. Okay.
Speaker 7 (18:23):
I am a father of a four year old Happy birthday,
Charlie just turned four yesterday, and a two and a
half year old. I would never, ever, ever, in a
million years raise my sons to be as milk toast
as Augustus is. This is infuriating to me. This is
an affront on the sport of baseball. I'm also from Pittsburgh.
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Whatever Eli say, which you will, I don't care. I
don't care. But I've been a lifelong to my own
detrient Pittsburgh Pirates fan. This little craphead does not get
to go out there and say I'm go you can
root for both teams. No, no, no, no, no no,
you have never suffered under the fanship of a crappy team.
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If you are doing something like that, don't. I won't
stand for it. This is trash.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Now, let me ask you this. Let me ask you this.
Your kids, right, he's four. Happy birthday, Charlie. Will Will
you be pissed if he's not a Pirates fan?
Speaker 7 (19:20):
I would be disappointed. I would not be pissed because
Bob Nutting is a terrible human being and has held
my team hostage for thirty years, and I hope he
dies in a plane crash. But like whatever, that's neither
here nor there. No, I would be disappointed. I would
not be mad at him because they're horrible. Like if
he ended up liking the Gnats because he's grown up
in DC, I'd be okay with that.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Yeah, Like both of my boys are Nats fans. They're
not yet. I mean, first of all, I'm just happy
they like baseball and they'll watch a Yankee game with me.
But if you ask them their favorite baseball team or
the Nationals, that's fine, that's great.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
I have no problem with that. Yeah, that doesn't bother me.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
So I don't need my boys to be fans of
the same teams I'm a fan of now.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
They do love the capitals. Thank god, my boys.
Speaker 7 (20:06):
Will love the pens. That's all say on that. But uh,
you know what, anyway they.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Want, No, they want because your favorite, your favorite penguin.
When when your son, like is like next year, when
he's able to remember, he's going to be like, hey,
who's that number eighty seven guy skating with Nathan McKinnon.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
All right, dud, I thank you, my friend, thank you.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
Jessica wonders if perhaps his parents are active duty, does
not matter? Okay, so there's no pass if you're a
military brat.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
No I have, I have.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
I have friends whose kids they were military brats. Biggsy's
kid loves the San Diego Padres loves them because when
he was itty bitty Bigsie was stationed in San Diego.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
But you know what Biggsie's kid doesn't do.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
We're a Padres Jersey with a Dodger's hat. Oh atrocious again.
Tell me your name is Donna Kelsey and you're a
house divided. Fine, God bless you, but.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
I think we should stop short. Aaron Z wants to
call CPS.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
I get it.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
People are so mad at this kid. They glossed over
the owner dying in a plane crash.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
This is a great question, and I think we know
the answer, but people are just tuning in and not
having heard the entire essay. Was baseball the only sport mentioned?
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (21:47):
You didn't see a picture of him with any other No?
Speaker 3 (21:51):
No, well, I'm sure he's got an NFL hat with
all the teams on him. Christen, you like the you
love the Browns. Would you wear a Joe Burrow hat?
Speaker 1 (22:04):
No? Never? Oh no, you want a good one.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
What's the last time you slapped on a Syracuse T shirt?
Speaker 1 (22:11):
You would never do that.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
I hate the color orange because of Syracuse.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
You would never do that.
Speaker 6 (22:16):
Never.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Could you imagine your kid wearing a Georgetown in Syracuse hat.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
You would have to talk to him.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
But you're getting away from Augustus's message. He's not just
picking two longtime rivals and cheering for them both. He
has a million teams, so it's not like he's just
Georgetown Syracuse.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
He's every team in the Big East, basically Saint John's
why he loves all of them, Yes, all of them,
and he and he does it.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
He doesn't booze.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
Syracuse wear my Big East hat?
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Idiot, idiots, idiot.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
But I also can't get behind and I know that
you're pulling for the blue Jays because you don't want
the Dodgers to win. I cannot cheer for a conference,
divisional whatever the subset B. I can't cheer for one
of those teams.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Yeah, I'm not that bad.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
I'm not that bad, but I'm not really pulling for
somebody as much as I'm rooting against somebody. If the
Blue Jays were playing, if the blue Jays were playing
the Brewers, I'd be pulling Brewers.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Now, manifestly right. Screw up in Northern Virginia with no
local baseball team, so I became a Yankees fan.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
There you go.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Then the Nats came along after I became an adult,
and I'm a fan of both.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
No, you're not, you're not. I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Oh, here you go. Here's what you'll get. The Nats
are my National League team.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
You do get that a lot?
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Yeah, that's my National League team. That's okay. Listen.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
I enjoy watching Nationals baseball, so that is okay to
enjoy watching it.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Yes, it's ok I enjoy watching any baseball game.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
It's okay to have a team in a different league.
But it can'tnot be it.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Can't be your exactly, okay, exactly, I'm fine with that.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
You can pull for them.
Speaker 6 (24:13):
I do.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
I pull for them to do well. I want them
to do well. I'd like to work in the front
office and help them do well.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
It's like the Rights. I have been a Cowboys family
my whole life. But I root for the Steelers whenever
I can because my mom is from Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Yeah, that's your mom. Cheer for him.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
But you just said that you want the Nationals to
do well.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
I do, so you're rooting for them. I want them
to lose the World Series every year.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
So no one, no one's gonna come with an argument.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
And you can't have behalf this kid. This kid wins
the World Series every year. This kid's going to every parade.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
Well, did he didn't mention every single team?
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Hold on, let me flip the page three. Oh yes,
every single team?
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Like I do see on his hat here that he
is photographed with. He has the Blue Jays. I don't
see Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
It's probably on the other side of the hat. Trust me,
it's on there.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
So this hat is not custom made. They sell a
hat like this. Yes, and that's every team.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
You can get it at the at the MLB store
in New York. You can probably get it online. What
is that hat called garbage?
Speaker 3 (25:21):
No? You know what?
Speaker 1 (25:22):
You know, you know what, it's called my dad's rob Manford.
Oh yeah, here it is.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
Yah.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Now, sometimes you can get one that has your favorite
team as the as the big logo, or you could
just get the MLB logo.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Yeah, there you go. Who would wear this hat?
Speaker 3 (25:38):
You got the Yankees logo front and center, and then
the Dodgers are right next to him with San Francisco
rotten hell.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
That is referred to as the MLB all over.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Yes, it should be.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
You're all over, You're done, It's all over.
Speaker 6 (25:56):
Damn.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
That is a busy hat.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Pittsburgh and Cincinnati next to each other, Jesus Christ.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
But you're at the Yankees logo. It's weird front and
center because the Major League Baseball logo is tiny but
on there but on the front.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Yeah, Yankee is bigger than major League Baseball.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
I mean I get it. Wow, you know what this
kid could never do? He could never be like one
of the shirtless dudes. And the shirtless dudes are taken
off all over the place.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (26:28):
So they they did it.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
It's it actually goes back aways And I think I
mentioned it when Oklahoma State did it where the one
guy went over.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
By himself and started twirling his shirt.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Olahoma State sucks in college football, so he was like
it was it was a man.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
It wasn't even a student. It was a man.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
And one of their like a buddy, was like, hey,
I dare you to go over to that empty section,
take your shirt off and start waving it around. And
he did it, and then more people showed up, and
more people showed up, and yeah, it was all guys,
and I think by the end of the game there
was like a hundred of them in there just waving
their shirts. Well, now it goes on all over the place,
like now Oklahoma State they started showing up. It actually
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goes way way back. I think Indiana started it way
way back. I think Hoosiers, not basketball, but football started it.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Oklahoma State did it. Now it's everywhere, It's everywhere.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
What am I missing? I feel like seeing shirtless guys
at sporting events is as old as time.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
No, no, no, But they all take over one section.
Oh Okay, Okay, yes, yeah, here you go. A rowdy
bunch of shirtless fans at Indiana sold out Memorial Stadium,
cheering on the number two ranked Hoosiers in a blowout
victory over UCLA, channing we want Bama. It was just
four years ago when Indiana football was mired into two
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and ten season. A bunch of shirtless Hoosiers fans congregated
during a November home loss to Rutgers.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
It started twirling their shirts.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Oklahoma State during their joyless loss to Houston October eleventh,
Trent Eaton was offered ten dollars to go over to
deserted Section two thirteen and wave his shirt, and then
everybody started going. Now, two weeks later, Oklahoma State is
still doing it, so is Wisconsin, Virginia Tech, Washington State, Pittsburgh,
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University of Cincinnati, Texas Tech, University of North Carolina, Florida International,
Oregon held the duck went over from Oregon. It took
its jersey off. So now it's not just like we're losers.
We don't have any fans. Now, it's just all fans
are taking their shirts off and waver them, waving them,
and it's freaking awesome.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
Wait, so you were in Oxford O High over the weekend.
Did the RedHawks have a.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Home Yes, they did. They beat Western Michigan. Maybe it
hasn't made it to Oxford yet.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
You didn't say your shirt off.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
No, No, well I did at those people's house where
I went to dinner at the VRBO, No I did not.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
What about Tennessee the I don't know if Tennessee's doing
it or not. That's a lot of flesh, a lot
of titties.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
No, it's all. It's all men.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Yeah, men have titties.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
There are some girls sitting there but their clothes.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Yeah, you're gonna tell me that fat guy doesn't have titties.
He's got hairy breast, big hairy titties.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Elliott, Do you see the guy's nipples, that one guy huge.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
In Vain Yeah?
Speaker 3 (29:26):
There you god, yeah, look, yeah, this is college football.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Now, this is awesome.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
This is awesome, and everyone's celebrating.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Virginia is solving the male loneliness epidemic.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Yeah, that's Virginia Tech, by the way, beating cow.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
There you go, Wisconsin, Wisconsin.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Getting shut out by Ohio State.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
But you're saying Augustus can never be a part of this.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Who's he go.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
What's he gonna do? Just go from stadium to stadium
with his shirt off?
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Loser. I wouldn't let him in.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
Oh yeah, there's the duck.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
There's the duck. So he took his shirt off. He's
waving it around, hysterical. I love it.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
Oh that's so funny until it gets old.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
And it will get old, and you need a section
where everybody can do it.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
So are they selling tickets specifically, like you have to
take your shirt off if you're in this section.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
No, it's just it comes over you. You're a bro.
You're taking your shirt off.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
I've never taken my shirt off in public life.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
I'm going to take caps fans over to those vault
seats that are wide open and do it there.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
You know where I used to sit. I love this.
No Augustus, No, no Augustus.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
Guys being dudes. What's better than that?
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Nothing? That's awesome.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
It's funny. This piece in The Athletic argues that this
is how you heal a fractured nation. So it's kind
of funny because that was how Augustus ended.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
His Yes, right, yeah, in a douchey way. Yeah, you
want to heal a fractured nation.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
Everybody, just take your shirt off and wave it around
helicopter that thing.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
Could you do this at Caps home games?
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Well, I mean the only sections that are available are
those vault seats.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
No, with current sections that are filled.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
I'll ask the SAJAX. It's me Pat and his son.
We're going to start it.
Are you pulling for anybody?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I mean not really.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
Do you have a favorite baseball team?
Speaker 2 (00:09):
If I would say any it would be the Nationals?
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Okay, that's fine, that's fine, that's great, that's great. Like,
for example, I do have a favorite baseball team. It's
obvious the Yeah, no, I'm my favorite baseball team is
the Yankee Huh? Right now, listen, I can pull for
I don't want the Dodgers to win, right. You realize
if the Dodgers win, they will have won back to
back World Series.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
You know, last team to win back to back World
Series the Yankees? Yankees, they won.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Three, last team to win back to back. I don't
want the Dodgers to win. I don't like the Dodgers.
I don't like the Blue Jays, but I'm pulling for
the Blue Jays? Right?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Are you like them less?
Speaker 1 (00:48):
No more, I'm pulling for them. I wouldn't even say
I like that.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Do you like anyone in the Al East?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
I don't like anybody in baseball, but I'm.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Just they're the foil to the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Yes, I need the to lose more than I need
the Blue Jays to lose.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
And listen, there are players that play.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
I'll watch any baseball game any night of the week,
even if the Yankees aren't playing, I'll watch. I'll watch
other teams I like, and I will pull for some
players like I like what I can appreciate what cal
Raly did with Seattle this year. I like Ellie de
la Cruz. I like watching Paul Skeene's pitch. I like
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watching Jacob Mizerowski pitch from the Brewers. But I'm not
pulling for the Brewers to win. But you have one
team that you like.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
You were pulling for the Brewers to beat the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Absolutely, I was for two reasons.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Number One, I like Misowski, but I definitely need the
Dodgers to lose. There's a thirteen year old kid that
I'm furious with, and it's not his fault.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
I blame his parents.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Is he affiliated with the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
I had to read this. My name is Augustus Sally Semmel.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
His name's Augustus, right, I'm a thirteen year old boy,
and I'm an avid baseball fan.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Yeah, I'm right there with you, Augustus.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
So so far, so good.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
I read that, and I'm like, thank god, I like that.
Thirteen years old you're into baseball. You're on the right track.
Good on your parents. Oh no. A month ago before
the playoffs, I went to the New York Mets versus
Washington Nationals game with my dad. All Right, again, I
don't know if he's a Mets fan at this point. Yeah,
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I don't know if he's a Nationals fan at this point.
He may not be a fan of either, but he
went to a games. Listen, I've gone to baseball games
that the Yankees aren't playing. I've gone to many a
Nationals game that the Yankees weren't playing. Are you ready
for this? A month ago before the playoffs, I went
to a New York Mets versus Washington Nationals game with
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my dad.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
I wore a Mets jersey in a National's hat.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Ooh, so he pulls for both teams.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
I chanted and cheered for both teams. Now I did
start scratching my head.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
I did that. I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Are you felting the dad for letting him do that?
Speaker 1 (03:20):
My kids wouldn't show up at a game like that.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Well, did he grow up in New York and move
town down to DC?
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Like there's gotta be again, you're scratching your head at
this point, going like, Okay, uh, you appear to be
a fan of one of those teams because you went,
or you're or you are.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Just going to a game.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
But I don't know why we're cheering on both of them,
and if that's not your team, you shouldn't be cheering
on either.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Of It happened to Donna during the Super Bowl. What's
that with Jason and Travis?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Like she has the split jerseys?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Oh yeah, I know, I don't think that. What's the
kid's name?
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Augustus has an older brother that plays for the Mets
and an older brother that plays for the National But
is what.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Is it with those two teams?
Speaker 5 (04:03):
Though?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Well, let me get to the third paragraph.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Oh so you weren't even upset with him that much
yet I'm confused, Okay.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Even crazier. I'm a Yankee fan and a Red Sox fan.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Oh no, huh.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Nobody could believe that I am on both sides of
arguably one of the most famous sports rivalries of all time.
I also root for, like this kid's got a problem.
I also root for the Baltimore Orioles, Detroit Tigers, Atlanta Braves,
and Tampa Bay Rays. Okay, a couple of things. Number One,
you really like a lot of garbage teams. You can't
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pull You can't be a fan of that many teams.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Tell me that you like Ellie de la Cruz.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
I just say, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
You still have a team. You still have a team.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Unless your name is Bettman, Manfred Goodell or Silver, you
don't have a You don't have a team.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
But the biggest thing is the fact that he's a
Yankees and a Red Sox fan. If if throw throw
that part out of it, you wouldn't you wouldn't get
as but hurt about it.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Oh yeah I would. You can't.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
You can't like again, tell me that you're watching the
game and you're pulling for you're pulling for. Like when
I went to see the Mariners play, he was pulling
for the Mariners.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
I'm not a fan of the Mariners, but I'm pulling
for the Mariners.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
See the picture?
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Is this the kid I knocked that hat off his hat?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
And then the bad Boston.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
The only thing worse than the team is their uniforms disgusting.
Like for example, for example, I like Huge in Vainy.
Great guy, right, great guy. I've seen him in person
will hug huge in vany is a diehard Red Sox.
You know what it would not be on top of
his head a Yankees hat.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
No, he often sends over the photo of the kid
flipping off.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Yes, exactly, I've told you. I've told you this.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
I unless either of my sons is doing something where
they're playing at Fenway, I will never step foot in Fenway. Ever,
I won't go on a tour. I won't go see
the Yankees playing Fenway. I will never step foot in
Fenway Park.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
No concert.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
I won't go to a concert in Fenway Park. Look,
get me, so this can't do it?
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Reasoning, it's not now, You've listed like ten teams at
this point.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
I don't. I don't think the kid knows what he's doing.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
If I'm being honest, he's got horrible upbringing, horrible upbringing.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Who to his parents? It's here four?
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Say again, I don't know?
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Oh, he doesn't say, Well, does he explain this?
Speaker 3 (06:57):
People are incredulous that I could show my fandom with
more than one franchise.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
By the way, he's got he's got it.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
He wears an MLB hat that's got all the team's
logos on it.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Oh, No, it's like when Rob Low or the NFL shield.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
I hate that. I hate that.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Here's my secret to my fanship of many teams tolerance.
I believe that there is a way to appreciate one
side or in this case, team, and not hate the other.
While the Yankees Red Sox rivalry is just a relationship
between two sports teams, This beef reminds me of a
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problem we seem to have in our country today. Instead
of being open minded and embracing, we close our hearts
and minds to people with different beliefs, making our population
very polarized.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Wit why did you read it so sing songy?
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Because it's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard of.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Big Red says, punt this kid to the sun.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
A man, and I don't like to be down on
a kid, and that's why part of me blames the parents.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
I believe this is more from the punting the kid.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
I believe that if Americans learn not to hate the opposition,
we would create a better and less extreme nation. If
you love baseball, you can embrace more than one team.
And if you really love America, you don't have to
boo the other side.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
I boo you.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
And now is he seventh or is the eighth grade?
Speaker 3 (08:37):
It doesn't matter. He could be sixth grade. He's probably
sixth grade. Got left behind. He was probably what is
four plus three? And he was like, well, I don't
want to be down on six or eight. No kid
has gotten under my skin more in the last in
calendar year twenty twenty five than.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
This kid from ladies who like baseball possible. The NAT's
fandom does not claim this child. He can go be
confused elsewhere, thank you.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
That's the other thing. That's the other thing. That is
a great point. And listen, I'll go to Nats games
and I'll enjoy it. Went to the what was the
last Nats game I went to towards the end of
the year. I saw the Gnats take on the Twins.
I saw the Nats take on the Padres, and I'll pull,
I'll even I'll even pull for the Gnats to beat
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either team. But that ain't your team, son, Pick one, no,
pick one, and stick with it.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
So Chris has an interesting theory.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
I've gone to games in Pittsburgh in caps gear.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Mhm.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Knitting lady would have to sneak into my funeral and
drape me in a Mulkin jersey before. I would now
if Maulkins showed Listen, I had a Yogur jersey when
he played here and I ended up.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Hating him when he was here. But I would never ever.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
If you told me, I can't even utter myself to
do it with Ov, I'll use Backstrom before Backstrom left
and went Overseas if Bastrom went on to play for
the La Kings.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Nope, nope.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
I feel like you violated that with Helpern though I did.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
I did violate it with Helpern, and I have violated
it with Eric Lindross.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Those are the and Luke Robatide right, Robitid.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
My favorite hockey player of all time, Lynn Dross Biggie
who I love.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
And Halpern. I'm sorry, the guy's a friend.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Now, but I would never wear I would never ever
wear a Halpern jersey from Montreal to a Caps game.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
God, that's like for an event?
Speaker 4 (11:05):
So can you can you have two teams?
Speaker 5 (11:08):
Though?
Speaker 4 (11:10):
No, it has to just be one.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
You can have one team and then you can have
other teams that you like and follow, but you only
get one team.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
So one is the max?
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Like I will, Hockey's bad because I follow thirty two teams,
but you have one team. Like I'll follow what the
Canadians are doing. I'll follow like that's fine, that's home,
but no, no baseball. I follow what the other teams
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are doing. I may pull for certain teams more than
other teams, but that ain't your team. You get one
team and it will be a cold sun, cold day
in hell that any fan is going to where Like,
for example, if you're a Nats fan, great, God bless you.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Everybody should have a.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Team, but you also like the Padres maybe maybe maybe
like as a kid you live there or whatever, But
the Nationals are your team. When the Nationals are playing
the Padres, you're not showing up at the game with
your NAT's jersey and a Padres hat.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Hell's no, not in a seagull household.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Sorry, Now, were you done reading the child's essay or
was there there's more?
Speaker 1 (12:27):
No, he can't write that much. That's okay, he can't
write that much.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
I didn't know if these people wanted to delete their comments,
like boo, this kid sucks.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Amen?
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Did this kid write the letter from the locker he
was recently stuffed into? And what a loser?
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Yes, can I get you to Chris's theory. Chris, yes, yes,
he said, is this a side effect of fantasy sport?
Speaker 1 (12:51):
No?
Speaker 3 (12:51):
No, no, no, no no, And.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
You did say you finished reading it, So the fantasy
sports does not get mentioned ones.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
No, it doesn't, it doesn't.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
And I'll tell you why I play fantasy baseball, right,
I had one Yankee on my fantasy team this year.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Did I pull for my players to do well?
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Yes, But if any of them were playing the Yankees,
I wasn't like, well, I hope this guy hits a
grand Slam. Hell no, no, no, no, no hard no.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Then is it what Eric thinks maybe happening here? He's
got bad parents accessibility to what back in the day,
you're rooted for the local team because watch that's fine.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
No, that's fine, I understand that. Now tell me team
you could see every team? Sure? Absolutely?
Speaker 4 (13:40):
Red zone. Scott loves red zone.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Yeah, he loves Good morning football. Scott loves red zone.
Scott's got one team.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Yeah, I mean he may go up with red zone,
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
No, no, no, But he may like players on other teams.
He may actually pull for a team to beat another team.
But he's got one team. He's got one team, Scott.
I ain't gonna put on a Jadon Daniels jersey with
a Ceede lamb hat. No, unless he was decapitated and
somebody was trying to hide his head and they put
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it under a Ceede lamb hat.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Cold day in Hell.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
Is strange to see that photo of Oh my god,
the New York hat.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
By the way, if my kid took a picture like that,
I'd be like, I don't know how much you're getting
paid by your buddies, but that's fine.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Get that off your head.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Gina writes, No, no, no, no, these parents are failures
a man and this kid has been dealt a life
sentence as a middling weekling.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Yes, one hundred percent again again. You could be, You
could be.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
You could have red zone, you could you could have accessibility,
and you could you can for whatever reason, you could
fall in love you you could grow up here and
go you know what I always just watched, I mean,
go back, go back to accessibility. How many Braves and
Cubs fans are there around the country because they grew
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up when TBS UH and WGN were the two that
were on. So there were people that grew up all
over the country Cubs fans and Braves fans. You could
still be a Braves fan or a Cubs fan. That's okay.
You could grow up. You could grow up in Cincinnati
(15:31):
and go I don't know why, but I've always loved
the Texas Rangers and that's your team. And then you
may still go to Reds games. But you can't be
a Reds guy. You get eighteen eighteen, you've made that
clear period hard day.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Every single phone line is lit up. Yes, maybe these
people are going to.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
No.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
I hope Augustus is a non de plume.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
I think he's gonna get cyber bullied.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Yes, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Isn't he already?
Speaker 1 (16:03):
I don't know. Check our socials. Where am I going?
Kristin line too? Hi?
Speaker 6 (16:09):
Elliah the morning, Hey Elliott, this is why we need
to bring back bullying in school.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Ally tell you.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
Let me tell you. I went to a middle school.
Like my middle school, if you wore a band T shirt,
people would pull you aside and tell you to name
them five songs. So like they got to do the
same with sports sports teams.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
What's your favorite what's your favorite sport?
Speaker 6 (16:35):
Oh, definitely hockey right now? I mean I just love
Cap season, so I'll wear my Caps jersey and I
and listen, I like, I was a goalie for lacrosse
roller hockey, so like, you know what the Rangers were
playing and stuff, like I've watched them, but I'd never
wear Rangers and a Caps jersey put together. You know
what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
And listen, I get it. You're a goalie.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
You could turn on a Rangers game and go, you
know what, I want to watch Igor Stkin or maybe
he's not playing, and you want to watch Jonathan Quick
and you'll pull for them. Yeah that's fine, that's fine. Yeah, listen,
there's a there's a there's a backup goalie by the
name in Columbus named Jet Greeves. I really like him
and I pull for him. But I don't need Columbus
(17:18):
to do well.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
Yeah for sure, for sure. I mean, and you go
back to the fancy football stuff like I don't. I
don't think that's causing this, because yeah, I play fantasy football,
but like, I will always be a Commander's fan and
I will never root for the Cowboys, but I have
uh what to say, ceedee lamb on my team. But
you know, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
That's financial. That is financial.
Speaker 6 (17:44):
Exactly. That's for bragging, right.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Yeah, I get it, man, I get it absolutely.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
Thank you, sir, thank you, But keep in mind this
is a child, and I don't mean stop going after him.
He only existed, No with accessibility and fantasy sports.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Okay, when I was thirteen, I had my team, but you.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Had didn't have that accessibility like you.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
Said, and gaming fantasy sports on every single website.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Whatever. Hi, Elliott the morning.
Speaker 7 (18:19):
Hi, this is me.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Yeah, Hi, who's this?
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (18:22):
This is Colin. Okay.
Speaker 7 (18:23):
I am a father of a four year old Happy birthday,
Charlie just turned four yesterday, and a two and a
half year old. I would never, ever, ever, in a
million years raise my sons to be as milk toast
as Augustus is. This is infuriating to me. This is
an affront on the sport of baseball. I'm also from Pittsburgh.
(18:45):
Whatever Eli say, which you will, I don't care. I
don't care. But I've been a lifelong to my own
detrient Pittsburgh Pirates fan. This little craphead does not get
to go out there and say I'm go you can
root for both teams. No, no, no, no, no no,
you have never suffered under the fanship of a crappy team.
(19:06):
If you are doing something like that, don't. I won't
stand for it. This is trash.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Now, let me ask you this. Let me ask you this.
Your kids, right, he's four. Happy birthday, Charlie. Will Will
you be pissed if he's not a Pirates fan?
Speaker 7 (19:20):
I would be disappointed. I would not be pissed because
Bob Nutting is a terrible human being and has held
my team hostage for thirty years, and I hope he
dies in a plane crash. But like whatever, that's neither
here nor there. No, I would be disappointed. I would
not be mad at him because they're horrible. Like if
he ended up liking the Gnats because he's grown up
in DC, I'd be okay with that.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Yeah, Like both of my boys are Nats fans. They're
not yet. I mean, first of all, I'm just happy
they like baseball and they'll watch a Yankee game with me.
But if you ask them their favorite baseball team or
the Nationals, that's fine, that's great.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
I have no problem with that. Yeah, that doesn't bother me.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
So I don't need my boys to be fans of
the same teams I'm a fan of now.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
They do love the capitals. Thank god, my boys.
Speaker 7 (20:06):
Will love the pens. That's all say on that. But uh,
you know what, anyway they.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Want, No, they want because your favorite, your favorite penguin.
When when your son, like is like next year, when
he's able to remember, he's going to be like, hey,
who's that number eighty seven guy skating with Nathan McKinnon.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
All right, dud, I thank you, my friend, thank you.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
Jessica wonders if perhaps his parents are active duty, does
not matter? Okay, so there's no pass if you're a
military brat.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
No I have, I have.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
I have friends whose kids they were military brats. Biggsy's
kid loves the San Diego Padres loves them because when
he was itty bitty Bigsie was stationed in San Diego.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
But you know what Biggsie's kid doesn't do.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
We're a Padres Jersey with a Dodger's hat. Oh atrocious again.
Tell me your name is Donna Kelsey and you're a
house divided. Fine, God bless you, but.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
I think we should stop short. Aaron Z wants to
call CPS.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
I get it.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
People are so mad at this kid. They glossed over
the owner dying in a plane crash.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
This is a great question, and I think we know
the answer, but people are just tuning in and not
having heard the entire essay. Was baseball the only sport mentioned?
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (21:47):
You didn't see a picture of him with any other No?
Speaker 3 (21:51):
No, well, I'm sure he's got an NFL hat with
all the teams on him. Christen, you like the you
love the Browns. Would you wear a Joe Burrow hat?
Speaker 1 (22:04):
No? Never? Oh no, you want a good one.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
What's the last time you slapped on a Syracuse T shirt?
Speaker 1 (22:11):
You would never do that.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
I hate the color orange because of Syracuse.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
You would never do that.
Speaker 6 (22:16):
Never.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Could you imagine your kid wearing a Georgetown in Syracuse hat.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
You would have to talk to him.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
But you're getting away from Augustus's message. He's not just
picking two longtime rivals and cheering for them both. He
has a million teams, so it's not like he's just
Georgetown Syracuse.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
He's every team in the Big East, basically Saint John's
why he loves all of them, Yes, all of them,
and he and he does it.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
He doesn't booze.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
Syracuse wear my Big East hat?
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Idiot, idiots, idiot.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
But I also can't get behind and I know that
you're pulling for the blue Jays because you don't want
the Dodgers to win. I cannot cheer for a conference,
divisional whatever the subset B. I can't cheer for one
of those teams.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Yeah, I'm not that bad.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
I'm not that bad, but I'm not really pulling for
somebody as much as I'm rooting against somebody. If the
Blue Jays were playing, if the blue Jays were playing
the Brewers, I'd be pulling Brewers.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Now, manifestly right. Screw up in Northern Virginia with no
local baseball team, so I became a Yankees fan.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
There you go.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Then the Nats came along after I became an adult,
and I'm a fan of both.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
No, you're not, you're not. I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Oh, here you go. Here's what you'll get. The Nats
are my National League team.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
You do get that a lot?
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Yeah, that's my National League team. That's okay. Listen.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
I enjoy watching Nationals baseball, so that is okay to
enjoy watching it.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Yes, it's ok I enjoy watching any baseball game.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
It's okay to have a team in a different league.
But it can'tnot be it.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Can't be your exactly, okay, exactly, I'm fine with that.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
You can pull for them.
Speaker 6 (24:13):
I do.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
I pull for them to do well. I want them
to do well. I'd like to work in the front
office and help them do well.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
It's like the Rights. I have been a Cowboys family
my whole life. But I root for the Steelers whenever
I can because my mom is from Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Yeah, that's your mom. Cheer for him.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
But you just said that you want the Nationals to
do well.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
I do, so you're rooting for them. I want them
to lose the World Series every year.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
So no one, no one's gonna come with an argument.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
And you can't have behalf this kid. This kid wins
the World Series every year. This kid's going to every parade.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
Well, did he didn't mention every single team?
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Hold on, let me flip the page three. Oh yes,
every single team?
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Like I do see on his hat here that he
is photographed with. He has the Blue Jays. I don't
see Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
It's probably on the other side of the hat. Trust me,
it's on there.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
So this hat is not custom made. They sell a
hat like this. Yes, and that's every team.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
You can get it at the at the MLB store
in New York. You can probably get it online. What
is that hat called garbage?
Speaker 3 (25:21):
No? You know what?
Speaker 1 (25:22):
You know, you know what, it's called my dad's rob Manford.
Oh yeah, here it is.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
Yah.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Now, sometimes you can get one that has your favorite
team as the as the big logo, or you could
just get the MLB logo.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Yeah, there you go. Who would wear this hat?
Speaker 3 (25:38):
You got the Yankees logo front and center, and then
the Dodgers are right next to him with San Francisco
rotten hell.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
That is referred to as the MLB all over.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Yes, it should be.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
You're all over, You're done, It's all over.
Speaker 6 (25:56):
Damn.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
That is a busy hat.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Pittsburgh and Cincinnati next to each other, Jesus Christ.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
But you're at the Yankees logo. It's weird front and
center because the Major League Baseball logo is tiny but
on there but on the front.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Yeah, Yankee is bigger than major League Baseball.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
I mean I get it. Wow, you know what this
kid could never do? He could never be like one
of the shirtless dudes. And the shirtless dudes are taken
off all over the place.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (26:28):
So they they did it.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
It's it actually goes back aways And I think I
mentioned it when Oklahoma State did it where the one
guy went over.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
By himself and started twirling his shirt.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Olahoma State sucks in college football, so he was like
it was it was a man.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
It wasn't even a student. It was a man.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
And one of their like a buddy, was like, hey,
I dare you to go over to that empty section,
take your shirt off and start waving it around. And
he did it, and then more people showed up, and
more people showed up, and yeah, it was all guys,
and I think by the end of the game there
was like a hundred of them in there just waving
their shirts. Well, now it goes on all over the place,
like now Oklahoma State they started showing up. It actually
(27:06):
goes way way back. I think Indiana started it way
way back. I think Hoosiers, not basketball, but football started it.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Oklahoma State did it. Now it's everywhere, It's everywhere.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
What am I missing? I feel like seeing shirtless guys
at sporting events is as old as time.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
No, no, no, But they all take over one section.
Oh Okay, Okay, yes, yeah, here you go. A rowdy
bunch of shirtless fans at Indiana sold out Memorial Stadium,
cheering on the number two ranked Hoosiers in a blowout
victory over UCLA, channing we want Bama. It was just
four years ago when Indiana football was mired into two
(27:48):
and ten season. A bunch of shirtless Hoosiers fans congregated
during a November home loss to Rutgers.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
It started twirling their shirts.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Oklahoma State during their joyless loss to Houston October eleventh,
Trent Eaton was offered ten dollars to go over to
deserted Section two thirteen and wave his shirt, and then
everybody started going. Now, two weeks later, Oklahoma State is
still doing it, so is Wisconsin, Virginia Tech, Washington State, Pittsburgh,
(28:22):
University of Cincinnati, Texas Tech, University of North Carolina, Florida International,
Oregon held the duck went over from Oregon. It took
its jersey off. So now it's not just like we're losers.
We don't have any fans. Now, it's just all fans
are taking their shirts off and waver them, waving them,
and it's freaking awesome.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
Wait, so you were in Oxford O High over the weekend.
Did the RedHawks have a.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Home Yes, they did. They beat Western Michigan. Maybe it
hasn't made it to Oxford yet.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
You didn't say your shirt off.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
No, No, well I did at those people's house where
I went to dinner at the VRBO, No I did not.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
What about Tennessee the I don't know if Tennessee's doing
it or not. That's a lot of flesh, a lot
of titties.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
No, it's all. It's all men.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Yeah, men have titties.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
There are some girls sitting there but their clothes.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Yeah, you're gonna tell me that fat guy doesn't have titties.
He's got hairy breast, big hairy titties.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Elliott, Do you see the guy's nipples, that one guy huge.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
In Vain Yeah?
Speaker 3 (29:26):
There you god, yeah, look, yeah, this is college football.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Now, this is awesome.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
This is awesome, and everyone's celebrating.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Virginia is solving the male loneliness epidemic.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Yeah, that's Virginia Tech, by the way, beating cow.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
There you go, Wisconsin, Wisconsin.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Getting shut out by Ohio State.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
But you're saying Augustus can never be a part of this.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Who's he go.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
What's he gonna do? Just go from stadium to stadium
with his shirt off?
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Loser. I wouldn't let him in.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
Oh yeah, there's the duck.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
There's the duck. So he took his shirt off. He's
waving it around, hysterical. I love it.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
Oh that's so funny until it gets old.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
And it will get old, and you need a section
where everybody can do it.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
So are they selling tickets specifically, like you have to
take your shirt off if you're in this section.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
No, it's just it comes over you. You're a bro.
You're taking your shirt off.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
I've never taken my shirt off in public life.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
I'm going to take caps fans over to those vault
seats that are wide open and do it there.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
You know where I used to sit. I love this.
No Augustus, No, no Augustus.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
Guys being dudes. What's better than that?
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Nothing? That's awesome.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
It's funny. This piece in The Athletic argues that this
is how you heal a fractured nation. So it's kind
of funny because that was how Augustus ended.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
His Yes, right, yeah, in a douchey way. Yeah, you
want to heal a fractured nation.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
Everybody, just take your shirt off and wave it around
helicopter that thing.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
Could you do this at Caps home games?
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Well, I mean the only sections that are available are
those vault seats.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
No, with current sections that are filled.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
I'll ask the SAJAX. It's me Pat and his son.
We're going to start it.
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