Steve Bortstein

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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recording Wednesday.

Speaker 6 (01:10):
Since twenty four, two thousand and twenty five, it has
moved up about of years since we spoke this gut
on the show. My man sports journalists. Uh, I hate
to say this, former sports radio host. I mean, hopefully
one day you'll get back on there.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
Quibean monsieur.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
The world's not ready for that. The world world.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
I keep telling you, brother, to do a podcast. Man,
your right, I'm saying that I told you when you
I don't have time.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
I'm razy. Kids, I've got a full time job covering
high school sports here in the beautiful in the beautiful
middle of nowhere in northwest New Mexico. It's a full
time thing, and I'm I'm happy. I I There isn't
a day that was by though that I don't miss
the day to day you know, nonsense of sports talk radio,

(02:06):
and thank God like for outlets like this. I appreciate
the fact that your course, your your your opening intro
there says may have an inappropriate subject matter, because you
know we might. And I missed it every day. I
I do. I I miss it every single day. And

(02:29):
people like you and and Jordan, I know we'll talk
about Jordan Buscarini here in a moment. People like you
guys are the future. And thank God for you guys,
because you keep it real. And that's what I know.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
I appreciate. I appreciate that. I appreciate that. Now speak
of or Bruce Greeney, you you obviously you heard about
the story.

Speaker 6 (02:49):
This is the lackiest story ever. I'm still two months later,
still like I got goosebumps about that. The most randomness,
serendipitous encounter ever. Now he was on the show actually
a couple weeks ago, about a month ago, and we
talked about a little bit.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
And it's it's still shocking the way that played out.

Speaker 6 (03:09):
Like I'm literally and I live in Florida, I'm literally
in in Disney on my on my you know, we
do the annual family trip for a weekend before we
go to school starts again and all that, and and
happened to be where I'm in a spot I wasn't
supposed to be at because we had plans to go
on another ride and we said to go on this
ride and and I don't know where he spots me,
and I don't I don't know how he spotted me

(03:30):
because I wasn't even notice. I was wearing a cause
so hot that day one and I'm bald, obviously, so
I wear I was wearing that whole day.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
What the name of what we called it to put
over your head? Cool cooling town. It's cool town, not
I which was but it was cool so for him
to see me. He we had to heal he had
he would have to really point me out, and he said,
he said, what sold the one was finding me was
where black guy Metallicity T shirt.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
And that is exactly what I thought the minute I
saw the photo of you two. And I didn't want
to say that because you know, it's inappropriate, But what
the hell I thought to myself when Wordon sent me
the picture of the two you, I go, he's the
only black guy in Florida, probably wearing a Metallica shirt
at Disney World. You there's no I mean, that would

(04:24):
have been that would have been my only clue. That
would have been like, that would have been like finding
me wearing I don't know something German someplace, you know whatever,
Like I would have been the only one doing that,
you know. So no, I think I thought it was great.
I think that's amazing that, you know, in all the
the entire country, there's hundreds of millions of people, you

(04:47):
two happened to be in the same place at the
exact same time. I thought that was phenomenal.

Speaker 6 (04:53):
I met his wife, I met his kids, I met
his dad. I was there with my wife, my kids,
also my friends. I came along with the souls too
because it.

Speaker 2 (04:59):
Was it was cool, but middle Street in a sense too,
because the comn if you had a chance to talk.
He I realized he had gotten there two days before,
two days before I was there day after.

Speaker 6 (05:11):
We were actually in the same place also the day
before that at a water park. Okay, so even that
was super difference. But I was thinking the same of time.
So I feel bad because had I known he was
in town, I would have made it a point to
hang out with them actually again, spend time at dinner.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
So you know, I mean, I'm want of those kind
of people, you know, I mean. So I feel really bad.
So I told him, next time you go to disney
World or I go disney World, I want to make
sure that you know I'm gonna be in the park,
just in case you have happy to be there.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
So well, let's be honest here, when's the first or
last time you're gonna find yourself in Price Utah?

Speaker 2 (05:45):
Probably not, although I no, no, no, no, no, no
no no no. All the although although my sister and
her and her family, they they they want every year
two years they do go to Utah to ski every
year a fami trip and we had discussed actually about

(06:06):
two years ago, my sister and I about Posse maybe me,
my wife and my kids joining them one day on
those trips. So that same day when when we're discussing now,
I literally texted Jordan's ask them how far is priced
from where where they skate or ski rather, and he
said about two and a half three hours.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
So we everything.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
In Utah. Everything not right, But the thing is like,
it was cool though, man, And like I said, I
told him when him in Disney again and whatever, you know,
and I'd love to hang out with you. He's a
he's he's a good dude.

Speaker 6 (06:42):
I mean again, doing this medium as long as I
have you know about you know, we're approaching fifteen years
doing the podcast.

Speaker 2 (06:49):
How how life Chanting has been for me? And it's
not it's not it's not just a sports show, where
when I started the show, I want to do about
sports and this might get my takes off it. Now
it's bigger than that. Now, now it's the it's a
place to communion, to have good conversation in this course
and talk about what the fuck you want? Man, It's great.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
Well, and that was the whole point of when I
first started the radio show, and I know we're we
have one hundred things to talk about. When I first
started my radio show in New Mexico back in two
thousand and god, it's been seventeen years. I was doing
it two thousand and three, it was the hot take show.

(07:26):
It was that was how it started. And then and
you and I have talked about this before, and then
a TV show kind of kind of motivated me to
change it up a little bit. It was a TV
show called The Newsroom, and it motivated me, and it
kind of inspired me to instead of it just being
the people are going to call it and give their
takes and I'm gonna yell at them sort of thing,

(07:47):
it became a show with guests, and it became a
show with experts talking about things that maybe I had
a difference of opinion or they had a difference of
opinion with me, and what have you. And we changed
show around completely and it was at first met with
some reluctance, but then people really cater to it, and
I found Jordan, I found you. I found guys like

(08:10):
Larry Peppy who covered the UFC, and just amazing people
who brought something to the table that was desperately needed
and is still desperately needed. And that is a difference
of opinion and the ability to have those conversations without
it resorting to a shouting match, without it resorting to

(08:31):
you know, name calling, without it resorting to yelling and screaming,
which has become unfortunately far too common in sports talk
radio and on on avenues like ESPN and Fox.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
I never thought say this though, and maybe it close
to you all the time to appreciate it. I missed
the sports reporters.

Speaker 1 (08:49):
I missed the sports reporters. I miss I miss What's
the Show with the four People.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
Show?

Speaker 1 (09:00):
No? No, the one on ESPN with the but the
Tony really hosted it and he went around the horn
like I wasn't around the horn fan because it wasn't
a shouting match. It wasn't it was It was playful
and they had an opinion and they didn't like rip
into each other. I missed the sports reporters. I'm glad

(09:23):
that pt I is still on the air, although I'm
assuming that because it's relevant and because it's it's it's
socially comfortable, that it's probably gonna last on ESPN for
another six months or so you know, before they decided
to turn it off and and give and give Pat
McAfee another free hour of airtime, so I so I
can so that vomit all over my airwaves.

Speaker 2 (09:44):
I don't hate them, I don't hate the guy, but
I mean, I'm I'm.

Speaker 1 (09:49):
I'm done.

Speaker 6 (09:50):
I'm done for me because I watched wrestling too also,
so I get him on both ends, right, okay, a
little over the same same as team as myth overexposure.

Speaker 1 (09:59):
Oh, I'm just undone with it, I mean, and I mean,
thank god I don't have to deal with Skip Bayless anymore.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
But you know where he's an inependant now though you
can this is podcast, I know, but I yeah.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
That's the thing. Like, at least I don't have to
miss I missed, I missed the days of like I
like the Dan Patrick Show, I like the Rich Eisen Show.
Shore It's just a conversation.

Speaker 6 (10:25):
I totally agree with you, man, I totally agree with you.
We got stuff. First, we'll talk about Charlie kirk stuff,
Jimmykimmel stuff.

Speaker 1 (10:33):
Charlie Kirk tha is interesting, I guess, and from a
non sports fan person, from a non sports perspective, look,
I mean the reaction. First things first, obviously, it's terrible
what happened to this man. It's terrible what happened to
his wife. It's terrible what happened to their to their two.
That is, that is unconscionable. And no one, no one

(10:56):
at least in my world, is supporting something like that,
no one. But there is a part of me that
if if this is gonna be your mantra, if gun
rights are going to be your thing, and that's the
hill you're willing to die on, then that's the hill

(11:17):
you're willing to die on. And there is a part
of that, you know, And I mean, and you know
he didn't do anything wrong except have an opinion, and
you know, if we're just gonna start gunning down people,
and I know, and off the subject here, you are
losing your mind right now watching the Mets fall behind
five nothing.

Speaker 2 (11:39):
I'm good now, I'm watching right here with you, my man,
And it's so bad.

Speaker 6 (11:49):
I mean, the sensor urgency will lack of it, This
team is this mind numbing Okay, trust me, trust me.

Speaker 1 (11:58):
I'm wearing I'm ex sense of urgency doesn't matter right now.
We'll get to that in a minute. But yeah, the
the the Jimmy Kimmel part of it. Look, that was
poorly timed on everyone's part. You know, it was poorly
timed on the the the administration's part. It was poorly
timed on the Disney part. It was poorly timed on

(12:20):
the Jimmy Kimmel part.

Speaker 2 (12:21):
You know.

Speaker 1 (12:21):
There is no appropriate way or inappropriate way to mourn
a public figure without someone getting their ass in a
bind about it. There is no way to do it,
especially someone who has gone out of his way to
make himself sort of the center of attention. Yeah, so

(12:44):
the reaction of the Jimmy Kimmel thing, you know, And
that's what he does, that's what his job is. His
job as a late night talk show host. Go back
to the days of Johnny Carson, go back to the
days of David Letterman. Their jobs were to stir the pot.
That's what they were there for. That's those they were
the pioneers of it. So this just suddenly come up

(13:04):
to this idea that, oh, well, you know, it can't
be appropriate anymore. Did you do not watch Saturday Night
Live in the nineteen seventies, I mean, all they did
was make fun of politicians. That was fifty years ago.
Turn on an episode of All in the Family and
see if that passes the censors today.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
That would not pass at twenty five. Not so, it's
great show. For the record.

Speaker 1 (13:27):
Now it's not getting it's not getting on network TV.

Speaker 2 (13:31):
I'll think we're get a pilot. Honestly, give it, give it.

Speaker 1 (13:35):
Yeah, it's not even it's not even making it. It's
not making it to the director's room.

Speaker 2 (13:39):
No, a lot of people will know.

Speaker 1 (13:42):
I guess for me, go ahead, I'm sorry, no, sorry.

Speaker 2 (13:46):
Now people are write what they say about the whole
thing with the talk show hosts and whatnot.

Speaker 6 (13:50):
They say that the complaint they always use is that, well,
he's very political, like night show like political like they will.
They would say that they who word as political as
they are now, and I kind of disagree with that,
to be honest, you.

Speaker 1 (14:07):
Watching, Yeah, I remember watching Johnny Carson when I was
a kid, and he'd make fun of everyone. I mean, mate, look,
and the fact of the matter is this, and let's
just relate this end to the Charlie Kirk thing. And again,
no offense to what he was about. He wasn't a politician, right,

(14:27):
he was a guy who had a lot of money
and an a loud platform. From a purely journalistic standpoint,
look up the word assassination. It generally is someone who
is political, who is in the political arena. It's not

(14:49):
Joe Blow. And then with the exception of him having
a lot of money, with the exception of him having
a voice, and with the exception of him having not
really a place in the administration, should officially he's a guy. Yes,
it's this horrible thing that happened to him. But we
use these I use this thing a lot about what

(15:10):
we call, you know, the bravery of being out of range.
Things that are now called breaking news are not breaking news.
Donald Trump tweeting something is not breaking news. And we
do this with the word, with words, and certain words
will get our collective anger going. Charlie Kirk was good

(15:31):
at that. Again, it's it's unfortunate what happened. It's unfortunate
the reaction has created this, you know, this this absolute
shit storm that's going on right now, you know. And
I'm glad that. I'm glad that somewhat cooler heads have prevailed.
I'm glad he found himself back on the air. I

(15:52):
treated the return of Jimmy Kimmel, the way I've treated
every night with Jimmy Kimmel from the beginning. I watched
about a minute and a half and I moved on
with my life. I didn't watch the show to begin with.
I didn't even know who the hell Charlie Kirk was
until the day of the until the day he was
murdered on television. Really no idea.

Speaker 6 (16:09):
Yeah, he had be you had be moren into like
the political like like you know, Cesspool, you gotta be
in that, You gotta be in that, you gotta you
gotta be in that world.

Speaker 1 (16:20):
And I have way to not be in that world.

Speaker 2 (16:24):
And I've kind of well you know this right in
the past and you come to the show that I
do dabble in that world a little bit. I've backed
the way since the election. I backed the way a
lot since then, just because of my mental health and me.
I look ill a politics.

Speaker 1 (16:38):
Men.

Speaker 2 (16:39):
But when it gets to the point where but guess.

Speaker 6 (16:40):
What is the point that people even people you agree with,
fine with you like, you know what, I'm gonna stop
step back a little bit now.

Speaker 1 (16:46):
Yeah. I posted a thing on on Facebook the other
day about my last most recent experience on going to Twitter.
So I and I wrote it in a kind of
humorous sort of way. Imagine going to a used car lot. Yeah,
and you're not gonna buy anything, but you just want

(17:07):
to look around for a bit. Yeah, and but you
realize that every car you pass is visibly damaged and
the people that are selling you cars are just unconsciable liars. Now, imagine,
if you will, You're still on the used car lot
and you're walking around for a few minutes, and you

(17:28):
realize that you're walking around in a river of human
shit in sewage. That's Twitter.

Speaker 2 (17:38):
Yep, you've been actually explained perfectly.

Speaker 1 (17:41):
Actually, that's Twitter to a false And I'm not gonna
call it X because I don't want to. I don't
want to disparage the twenty third letter in the alphabet
or twenty fourth letter in the I don't want to
disparage it that way. I'm gonna call it Twitter because
I missed the bird.

Speaker 2 (17:55):
And that was how.

Speaker 1 (17:58):
That's sort of how I viewed Twitter. And I'm I'm
I go there infrequently at best. I go there to,
you know, post links to stories that are relevant to
people that are not in my local area. And that's
about it, and I go there with that intent purely,
and and then I and then I go away because

(18:19):
I have no desire to just have my an hour
of my life ruined, you know, by by scrolling through
you know, mountains of crap. I just I'm not interested.
I remember when social media used to see grandma's recipes
and pictures of other people's annoying cats and and food.

(18:42):
I remember, I remember the old days, you know, and
I missed the old days.

Speaker 2 (18:46):
I try, you know, I try to create that on
my in my Instagram. I try to create an environment
of like, ok, you know what I mean. We can
tell posmles in a while, but as long as we
like having a good discourse, which I try to create.
But otherwise I shiitt.

Speaker 1 (19:04):
I write and talk about dumb things like home runes
and touchdowns and the Cubs beating the Mets five. Nothing
right now. So I write about.

Speaker 2 (19:16):
Recordings over to come back did last night hopefully well exactly.

Speaker 1 (19:20):
But that's what that's what we do. We write and
talk about dumb things. We write and talk about things
that aren't supposed to create that kind of division and
that kind of anger and that kind of discontent. It's
an escape and unfortunately there are times when you know,
politics gets involved in it, and that's just as much

(19:42):
media's fault as it is the participant's fault sometimes because
we make more of it than it should be.

Speaker 2 (19:50):
You know, like.

Speaker 1 (19:52):
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey got engaged and everyone and
everyone went ballistic because oh, she's this, she's that, and
he's this, and I'm like, the word congratulations is all
you need to say and move or don't say anything,
or don't say anything, just move on. Yees. Seriously, that's

(20:13):
the world we're in now.

Speaker 6 (20:14):
The worst part two also that the most annoying partment
is the whole Charlie Cirks thing though for me is
the reaction immediately where okay, so he gets murdered, right,
and the first reaction is that, oh, it's a leftist,
it's a left leading guy. And then when he find
and then then on the other side, when you find
out the athlete that the guy might be actually a

(20:35):
right wing guy, the left, the left does the play
the whole same game, and then the right the right
is like, oh no, but he got rack.

Speaker 2 (20:43):
How about this? How about who gets the fuck he made.

Speaker 1 (20:47):
My associate path?

Speaker 2 (20:49):
Right? He was he was, he made He was a
human being, tax maying human being who made an individual
decision as an individual to do this. What he's left
the right shouldn't even come out of people's mouth. I
don't give a ship. He's still scumback. So what this
this this idea, this this this feeling of people to
having to play to score political points online. It's so stupid, dude,

(21:12):
it's just beyond dumb.

Speaker 1 (21:13):
And was murdered. But Charlie Kirk was murdered by associopath
period sty move on.

Speaker 2 (21:20):
And the worst part is these people are trying. These
people people enter in the forties, something in the fifties,
like broxties. Yeah, you have kids and grandkids. Grow the
fuck up? Seriously, are depending people are defending parties that
wouldn't even spit on you a piss on you run fire?

(21:41):
Why the fuck are you doing this? Bro?

Speaker 1 (21:43):
Yeah? Because because because it doesn't cost anything to type
in words on a platform. It doesn't cost you anything.
You know it doesn't and it doesn't. It doesn't cost
you a nickel. And that you to Facebook made you
pay for every post. Imagine if you had to pay

(22:05):
a monthly charge for Facebook. Of those people would drop
out of sight. I don't want to first day with
Bitch and Melan because it's a oh it's it's taking
away our free speech. Well, first off, that's not that's
not a valid argument. Second, you have no place you'd

(22:27):
have to pay now to pay to post an opinion.
And you know when you when your when your opinion
is is when your opinion doesn't cost anything. It's about
as it's about as efficient and about as effective as
anything else that's free. You get what you pay for.

Speaker 6 (22:44):
Do you see a world where we we got we
got to go that way? Do you see a world
where my home Runner took up chairs and E six nothing?

Speaker 2 (22:53):
Oh my god? Do you see.

Speaker 1 (22:56):
I didn't want to say anything. I just watched it
with you.

Speaker 6 (22:59):
Do you see a world where social media companies start
charging and I'm just like I'm talking about beyond tears now,
Like I I do pay for Twitter right now, currently
for now anyway, because because it helps my podcastause.

Speaker 2 (23:12):
I mean, I'll post my shows and I get good
numbers in there.

Speaker 6 (23:16):
But I could see a world where maybe that means
that's so much right now, but down the road where
they're charging compans to charging now, where there's no, there's
no longer a free tier either. It's like the free
tier might exists. Why it's not gonna be a free
tier was like very very basic things doing on there.
I see a world where somebody companies meant to say,

(23:36):
but don't with the bullshit. We're gonna We're gonna charge
and that's it.

Speaker 2 (23:40):
I can see it.

Speaker 1 (23:41):
I can see it, but it's gonna be difficult to
maintain it on an international thing, dealing with different currencies,
dealing with different you know, countries and their their their
platforms and whatever. But I would love to see a
world where one day, one day, take a day, it
could be August twenty second, what it could be February twelve, whatever,

(24:02):
and that is a day that is exclusively social media free.
For twenty four hours, social media turns off. It's gonna
be the nicest day in the world. It's gonna be
beautiful outside, and people are gonna breathe the fresh air,
and they're gonna hear birds singing in the sky, and

(24:24):
they're gonna go outside and maybe maybe see a tree,
or or maybe they're gonna they're they're maybe they're gonna
call their mother, maybe they're gonna call their kid. Maybe
they're gonna do something. Maybe they're gonna do something other
than just sitting there, you know, scratching their ass and
posting something irrelevant.

Speaker 2 (24:43):
And then you're you're required to touch grass, and.

Speaker 1 (24:46):
You're telling are required to go outside.

Speaker 2 (24:49):
You are required, sally, go outside, and and and not
only go.

Speaker 1 (24:55):
Outside, you are required to speak to another human being.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
Yeah, and be nice and be nice like I remember.

Speaker 1 (25:04):
Getting shipped for this. Back in twenty twenty. We had
a during COVID but everything was shut down. Some friends
of mine and I we would go take a walk
in the park and and we'd all gather together, sometimes
with masks, sometimes with not Oh my god, how dangerous.
And I remember one day we were walking across the

(25:25):
bridge and these two, these two old women were walking
across and we weren't wearing masks, but they were, and
they were screaming at us about how we were socialists
and blah blah blah. And I went on this kicked
about changing the meaning of the word socialism. Let's change
because in my mind, being social is socialism. It's the
act of being social, that's true. I'm going to be

(25:47):
a socialist. I'm going to be sociable with people. I'm
going to go out and talk to people, and I
got such crap for that because people just didn't understand, like, well,
I want to bitch and mode, go ahead. I don't.

Speaker 2 (26:00):
I think for an hour. I think people need to
have more sex also to people.

Speaker 1 (26:09):
I'm sorry, I don't know anything about that anymore.

Speaker 6 (26:12):
I'm just saying, dude, people need to start, you know,
really getting back and just getting normal again.

Speaker 2 (26:18):
Bros.

Speaker 6 (26:20):
Completely yeah, but like like I feel like these events
will normally supposed to unite us, and then, dude, these
events are just only dividing us any more, COVID dividing us.
It doesn't matter a random school shooting here, you know. Now,
this situation is this making, it is this worse thing.

Speaker 1 (26:41):
I just want to. I just I just want to.
I'm fascinator when I can just sit home, my wife's
at work, I've covered a local game, and I can
come home watch a Dodger baseball game. Curse under my
breath when the Dodgers blow another lead, you know, my fist.
When the Dodgers actually don't blow a lead, and watch

(27:04):
a football game on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon, I
can just move on with my life.

Speaker 2 (27:09):
Simple is better, Buddy.

Speaker 7 (27:10):
I get older, I realized, you know, all the technology
we have now and all the access we have now, Bro,
simple better, just keep it simple because I'll be home
on my days I from work.

Speaker 2 (27:22):
I'm home watching my games. This, you know, That's all
I need.

Speaker 1 (27:26):
Bro, I'm going I'm totally totally totally.

Speaker 2 (27:32):
Are you stunned that Disney Kimmel.

Speaker 1 (27:36):
No, I'm stunned that there. I'm stunned that it took
as long as it did. I mean, I'm stunned that
did anything at all, because I mean, honestly, why are we?
Why are we? I don't want this to term too political,
but why are we? Why are we? Why are we
bending the knee for this guy? Why are why are why?

Speaker 2 (27:59):
What is he gooda?

Speaker 1 (28:01):
What's he possibly gonna do that we haven't already experienced
the first time around? So why are we now all
of a sudden we're catering to this guy?

Speaker 2 (28:11):
It's get way of power.

Speaker 1 (28:14):
We'll enjoy it, enjoy it because I don't think it's
gonna last. I don't think we're coming towards the end
of the world. I know all the I see all
the posts about you know, Oh, this is gonna be fascism,
and it's gonna be this. It's not gonna be any
of that, because in two or three or four years
from now, someone's gonna come up with someone better, and

(28:35):
someone's gonna come along and they're gonna get pissed and
the other side's gonna get pissed and everyone's gonna get
all into a flutter, you know, and we're all gonna
be fine. You know. I think we just need to
tone down the rhetoric, tone down the anger, cool things
off a little bit, have a tall, cold, frosty beer
on a Saturday afternoon and watch a football game, and
everything's gonna be fine.

Speaker 2 (28:55):
Go outside, tuchs grass, social media, have more sex. That's
I'm saying this.

Speaker 1 (29:01):
But listen, listen to listen to an album, you know,
churn on your favorite band on a Tuesday afternoon, driving
to driving to nowhere, and you know, and and and
get have a have a joint and move on.

Speaker 2 (29:16):
Yeah, thank you, bro, thank you. Uh. It's only a
few weeks though, But what what's what stood out to
you all the year?

Speaker 1 (29:26):
So every year, I every year, I've kind of gotten
into this phase now of picking a team just a
random team that I'm gonna follow and I'm gonna be
real interested in what they're doing. And I usually based
it off watching games a year prior and Okay, this
team looks interesting and this, this is and that, and
so right around August first, I was like, Okay, I've

(29:46):
got my team for the twenty twenty five season. I'm
all in on this team. I'm gonna proof to them
and see how far they can go. In the first
two weeks of the season were great. They won their
first two games. They weren't pretty, but they won their
first two games, and I'm like, okay, go Arizona Cardinals.
And then someday it all went the ship because James
Connor has a knee injury that looks like he's gonna

(30:09):
be like, you know, deactivated for the rest of his life.
You know, they lose the game to San Francisco on
a gonna on a last second field goal, and you
know they're done. Like that's the end of that.

Speaker 2 (30:24):
That was my Arizona was du I think mine this
year was Who's mine? This year? I locked into. I
was like, I'm really intrue to this team. Not the Colts, No,
not the Colts. Shoot, I for good? Was it Detroit? Now?
What's the Troit?

Speaker 6 (30:38):
There was a team I remember saying on the podcasts
like I'm very interested in this team and I can't
remember what is Miami?

Speaker 1 (30:45):
And that worked out.

Speaker 2 (30:46):
Well, you know, it's even worse now. It's even worse now.
I mean, I'm honestly I'm not a big Baltimore fan
because I love Lamar Jackson. I want to see him
gonna ring, but you know it's I don't know, man,
it's been.

Speaker 6 (31:00):
Very funny three weeks like some of I mean, the
Queman of Crop is gonna crapp you a buffalo, you know,
Philly and whatever.

Speaker 2 (31:07):
I think Baltimore, I think Bolt was fine. I don't
know what too be fine.

Speaker 1 (31:11):
I think Kansas City is gonna be fine. I know
everyone kind of lost their minds when they went oh
in two. But if you go back, if you want
to study history a little bit here, when the New
England Patriots went to the AFC Championship game, what was
it like eight years in a row. Yeah, in seven
of those years they started their season two and two.

Speaker 2 (31:32):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (31:34):
So the idea that Kansas City is probably is one
and two. Now they're probably gonna go too, and two
this weekend they're fine. Just lay off the whole Kansas
City Chiefs are done thing. That's probably not a real thing.
I am.

Speaker 2 (31:48):
I do think.

Speaker 1 (31:50):
I do think Philadelphia is a cut above Yeah, I
just have that instinct that Philadelphia is a cut above
everyone else because the way they came back. And I
thought about this from a pure gambling perspective. The Rams
went into that game as one and a half point

(32:10):
underdogs at Philly last weekend, and for the most of
the entirety of that game, if you had bet on
the Rams plus one and a half, you were sitting
on a gold mine. You were gold the entire game,
mostly all the way until well at the end, because
normally when the guy blocks the field at the end
of the game, he falls in the ball games over.
The Rams still would have covered. No, this guy ran

(32:33):
the ball back to the epizode and gave Philadelphia the
back door cover at the last second, and everything that
day you have, you had you were going to Aruba
until the last until the last second ticked off that clock.

Speaker 6 (32:47):
Right kind of crazy. Actually, the team I was telling
you about it, it was Minnesota that yeah, and they're.

Speaker 1 (32:57):
They're they're gonna be okay, I mean, they're they're gonna
Detroit might be a cut above everyone else. Tooll Detroit,
Detroit looks like that's something different going on there.

Speaker 2 (33:08):
So so my my, my process, you know, for the
first two weeks is that green Bay had those two
impressive wins is Washington and against the uh whose team
lost Washington and Detroit, And my my process is like,
oh well this is this is right now my clear
number two team NMC, and then Detroit. These last two
weeks after losing, green Bay has smashed Chicago and beat

(33:31):
Baltimore pretty pretty impressively on one foot on the road,
and all of a sudden, I'm like, okay, well, obviously
you have to get a green Bay first because maybe
they win the head head but I think when they
play again, it's where possible Detroit win that game. And
now what So I think Detroit's last two weeks after
recover after that really bad week one definitely intriguing. But yeah,

(33:54):
to your point, I think Buffalos cead cut ahead after
case there's an Okay, say Casey's fine Baltimore.

Speaker 6 (34:02):
In fact, I'm gonna go and say this one. Now
the game the game on Sunday this week. It's not
a must one for either team. They either seed to
lose this weekend and they'll be fun. Because the AFC
right now it's not that good. It's not think about it.

Speaker 1 (34:15):
The AFC is. The AFC is well, and plus the
teams that were supposed to contend. Okay, the Chargers might
be might be. Okay, they might have fallen into one
of three. Yeah, you've got bo Nicks, who is going
through the sophomore slump right now. They're one and two
in Denver. You've got Joe Burrow who's out for the

(34:37):
year probably or at least most of the year. Yeah,
you know, so I think if you're I think if
you're AFC right now, you're kinda and Josh Allen the
Buffalo Bills, they're gonna be fine. But it's not they
They have not been the teams in the a f
C that are top their respective divisions have not been
as dominant as what I've seen from Philadelphia and the

(34:59):
NFC East, or as dominant as Detroit in the NFC North.
I think those two I think, like you said, I
think the NFC right now has a little bit of
an advantage. Again, that'll all change. That can all change
by week nine, week ten, week eleven, whatever. But you know,
I don't look at anything in the AFC. And I
do this with baseball too, Like I I'm a Dodgers fan,

(35:21):
so I look at the National League a lot, But
then I watch games in the American League and I'm like,
I don't worry about anybody in the American League. I'm
not worried about the Yankees. I'm not worried about Houston.
I'm not worried about anybody. I'm more concerned about the
National League. But I think we do that with divisions
in football and conferences in the National Football League as well.
Clearly the NFC right now has an advantage over the
AFC teams. And again that's all you know, It's all

(35:44):
relative at the time of the year and who's playing who.
You can't help who you play in the schedule. But
as far as Kansas is concerned, they're going to be
just fine. I did notice that they made a significant
change in that game last weekend, that they came back,
and one is that now Patrick Mahomes isn't running for
his life as much anymore. In those first two games,

(36:05):
Patrick Mahomes was running around like a chicken with his
head cut off, and then in the second half of
that game last weekend, he oh god, that's gone.

Speaker 2 (36:15):
Yeah, all right, here you go, still live? All right,
there you go.

Speaker 1 (36:20):
I mean it's you know, you're still down four, but
you know, yeah, that'll work. But it's still a lot
of time.

Speaker 2 (36:28):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (36:29):
But you know, I think there's still I think there's
plenty of time in the AFC for things to catch
up a little bit. Not worried about Kansas City. I
think Buffalo's at the cream of the crop in the AFC.
I think it's hilarious to watch Pete Carroll on the
sidelines with the Raiders and that Tom Brady storyline of

(36:50):
you know, he's not allowed to do this, but he's
the minority owner, And like, could Tom Brady and Bill
Belichick be any more alike than they are right now?
Out Like you're still holding on to whatever relevancy you
still have left. Tom Brady's trying to, you know, you know,
immerse himself at everything in the NFL, and and I

(37:10):
don't know what the hell Bill Belichick's doing other than
dating someone who is clearly clearly eye candy for everyone
around North Carolina State or North Carolina University. God bless them.
But those are two guys who just clearly haven't gotten
the message that you need to just go away. Now.
Both Tom and Bill need to go away and find

(37:31):
a find a nice park bench to sit on and
look back at the old.

Speaker 2 (37:35):
No. So like that talk about super contenders like my, my, my,
my method, and that my method. And when I say that,
is that a suplicintendent is someone a team that I
see playing in that conference championship game for their their
respectile conference. So right down to AMC, Well, in NFC,
I have at least six seven teams.

Speaker 6 (37:55):
I can see Philly playing in there. I can see
Green Bay playing there, Detroit, uh, San Francisco if they're healthy.
Who I am missing here? This is this couple more
teams Washington they was still last years time. I gotta
say Washington five, Tampa Bay six, and the seven. Yeah,
Tampa Bay and the Rams seventy to go there in
the AMC right now, And of course there's an change

(38:17):
in the weeks to come because the poles, the poles
still being being put together, identify three.

Speaker 1 (38:23):
It's the Bills Kansas City to Baltimore.

Speaker 2 (38:26):
Oh no, no, no, I don't have case case. I'll okay,
here's I'll do wellk see, I'll give a wild card
four for case only because once they're healthy, things to change.
But to me right now, my clear three in the
AMC Buffalo still Baltimore despite the lawsuit again and uh
San Diego whatever, yeah, whatever, who the fuck?

Speaker 1 (38:51):
I agree? I agree, but you could you can literally
have half the NFC and like a third of the
a f C, right, and that's pretty incredible. That's that
or even a quarter of the AFC.

Speaker 2 (39:02):
And comes to me here, the conversation was yelling around.

Speaker 1 (39:05):
Yeah, like it's a long it's a long run in.
But I've been impressed. I'll give I'll give Baker Mayfield
a lot of credit. What he's just in Tampa Bay
is impressive.

Speaker 2 (39:16):
He is in the MVP discussion for me.

Speaker 1 (39:19):
Yeah, clearly, you know, what he's done so far has
been impressive. And you know, say what you want about
Baker Mayfield as a person or you know what his
first few years were like in the NFL, but you
know he has become born again that guy, So give him.

Speaker 2 (39:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (39:35):
But the reason why, the reason why I say the
reason why I said this Chiefs Rabis game this week
is not a mustle of either team and they'll be
okay even they lose. It was because it was so bad.

Speaker 2 (39:45):
I guess see the Rabies an parting someone that division
because steels are not good. Uh, the Bengals were banged up. Browns,
come on, Really, the Chiefs will at least gets a card. Yeah,
the Chiefs will get a wald card the charge of
compeat within the vision, but at least get a wild
card because who else are you scared of? Who else
are you scared of? That conference?

Speaker 6 (40:02):
I'll mention no better because I'm saying it's it's white open,
it's hight open, you know. So that's why I feel
about that speakure wide open college football one month in
the National Talk conversation, Like, look Oklahoma, and.

Speaker 1 (40:21):
I say this, even with their quarterback going down, even
with their quarterback missing a few weeks, the running backs
are good, the defense is good. I like what I've
seen from Oklahoma so far. That win against Auburn was impressive,
and I I give Oklahoma a big look I even
without their quarterbacks in the next few weeks. Look, Ohio
State's are cut above. They're they're exceptional right now. And

(40:45):
I know I'm gonna get I know I'm gonna get
shipped for saying this. You haven't heard the last of
USC yet.

Speaker 2 (40:55):
You're You're now.

Speaker 1 (41:00):
Play Illinois this weekend. They're gonna beat Illinois because they're
banged up. And then it's then it's a showdown against
Notre Dame and they're gonna win that.

Speaker 2 (41:07):
You see, see Illinois. Had Illinois won that game in
the last week, that would have actually helped them had
it's a USC And they say, is the world that
Illinois won't be inane last week? Did you play Illinois
this week and you beat them? That's that's a massive
jump into the polls for you guys.

Speaker 1 (41:26):
But I I don't think we've I think Lincoln Riley
figured out there's a guy that stands behind the quarterback.
That's called a running back. And for for decades, that's
what USC was known for, was their running backs, going
back to you know, going back to the days of
Marcus Allen, going back to the days of reg pie Bush,

(41:49):
going back to the days of the guy who might
have killed the two people. You know, USC was known
for their running backs, and now all of a sudden,
It's like Lincoln Riley realized, Wait, we have running backs
here and they can run the ball, and now all
of a sudden, the offense can spread out. They've got
receiving threats. Now they've got a defense there. They they

(42:12):
if they get if they get rolling. And again, the
Big Ten Conference is a mess because there's just so
many there's between Penn State and Ohio State. Look, that's
a that's a massive undertaking to go through. But if
USC can continue to play this the way they're doing
right now, they're gonna be eight to no by the
time they have to face Ohio State. So that could

(42:33):
be a huge matchup.

Speaker 2 (42:34):
Is that the only is that the only real conqu
consequential game in the schedule for USC Oregon? Oh oh yeah,
it's huge. Yeah. Oh you guys being top you guys,
if you guys can speak at those games, Yeah, that definitely.

Speaker 1 (42:48):
Yes, we could be telling Yeah, they could be. They
could be top ten, top twelve, and then you then
and then by that point then you're getting into that
college football playoff discussion.

Speaker 2 (42:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (42:57):
And this is and I pointed this, My point to
this was this. I love now that the heritage teams
in college football are relevant again. I love that Florida
State's relevant. I love the Miami's relevant. I love that Michigan.
I love that Nebraska is relevant again. I missed those days.
Those were the heydays for me of college football because honestly,

(43:21):
I didn't give a shit about Boise State. I didn't
give a shit about Idaho or these schools that I
have no interest in whatsoever. I love the heritage schools.
Give me. Give me that matchup all the time between
Auburn and Oklahoma. That's a showdown for me. I want
those games. So for me, I'm glad to see that.

(43:44):
And maybe it's because it's nil, maybe it's because the
power conferences, whatever it might be. And I'm not a
fan of the nil because I think it's got a
little out of control. But I love the fact that
I'm getting to see the matchups that when we were
growing up. And I'm dating myself because I'm older than you,
but when I grew up, those of the matches that

(44:04):
I got to see. I got to see Stanford go
on the road to play Tennessee. I loved that growing up.
So I'm excited about the idea that we're getting these
these early season matchups now again between teams that normally
we haven't seen maybe in the last five to ten years.

Speaker 2 (44:24):
I am limiting the heels of next week's game. Obviously,
if episodused to do their job, this's with Virginia. You
amazon on a bi week this week, the FC Miami
game in the week and a half, you have You
have no idea how how public Steve it is my
favorite sports rivalie ever, I get it. I get it.

Speaker 1 (44:45):
And there was a time when and there was a
time when, like the entire state of Florida, it's like
civil war. Yes, you're depending on what side of the
aisle you're on that in that game.

Speaker 2 (44:56):
Yeah, I was I when I got Hot football in
nineteen ninety nine, twenty one, that's what I I watched
those wide rights that was the game. Yeah, yeah, two
of them.

Speaker 1 (45:09):
Yeah that was d Thompson of the early nineties. So
I understand that. I understand that completely.

Speaker 2 (45:15):
So I cannot wait. So that's for me.

Speaker 1 (45:16):
That's where I stand right now. Is college go ahead?

Speaker 2 (45:20):
No, No, what I what I do like about this
season though, and obviously the playoff adds this kind of
a dynamic. You really can't pinpoint, a clear cut team
or two teams, like I can see scenario I'm looking,
I'm looking to ap right now, I can see scenario
of upwards of ten teams or twelve teams any more
that can have a realistic shot at win the national

(45:43):
Challeel Campian Ship because of because of how the playoff works.

Speaker 1 (45:46):
Now one one team that I one team that I'm
convinced is not gonna is gonna fall apart here in
the next few weeks and nothing, it's nothing to do
with the team itself. But can we finally put away
the arch manning thing for a year, But like, let's
give him a year because it's rough. This is this

(46:08):
is a this is a sharp learning curve for that
young man, and it's gonna take him into a year.
And that's okay. Just let let let him, let him
figure out what he wants to be when he grows up.

Speaker 2 (46:18):
First, And they are and they are fading in the
in the polls to like even games their things slowly,
So it puts press, It puts more pressure to like
these these big games have coming up they have to win,
you know, But doesn't.

Speaker 1 (46:32):
And I think it's been also duly noted here that
without Nick Saban and his money and the money that
he brought in Alabama is not the same Alabama as they.

Speaker 2 (46:43):
Used to be. I will say, I will say, and
his minions, I will say, though they have recoved pretty
well since Warstate loss, which helps us out because that
makes them win look much better. We're clearly on in
the same in error now, clearly. But I will say
that this week they have a good chance this week
to say, hey, that was a slip up. We're playing

(47:04):
Georgia this week. In Georgia. You went in Georgia on Saturday.

Speaker 1 (47:07):
That, Yes, but it does feel different there. It feels
different than it did in years past with Saban.

Speaker 6 (47:17):
Yeah, I mean kill Deboor, good coach. He ain't Nick
saving that that's clear. That's what's clear.

Speaker 2 (47:24):
So if I ask you right now with a week ago,
let'sen a week ago to He's dence, give me a
percent chances you think that your Dodgers repeat, You've been
You've been complaining a lot in this podcast of the Dodgers.

Speaker 1 (47:44):
Okay, I've drawn up me and Jordan actually had this
conversation today. I've drawn up the scenario by which the
Dodgers navigate their way through the wild card round, Divisional round,
National Championship Series, getting to the World Series. We've drawn
up a scenario by which the Dodgers starting rotation consists

(48:06):
of Yamamoto, glassnew Snell, and she and I believe I
put on there the bullpen. The bulk innings go to
Kershaw and O'ttani and one other guy whose name I

(48:27):
can't remember right now. But because there's seven and then
you have the rest of the bullpen, which cannot under
any circumstance. I don't care how well he throws. The
next seventy two hours cannot under any circumstances. Include Tanner Scott,
who could screw up a wet dream because the way
he's blown ten saves this season. Well drawn up that scenario.

(48:49):
And I say this because, okay, if you get through, Okay,
if it's three versus six, Dodgers get the three, that
means the Dodgers play. And I say this, EJ. I
love you. You're one of my dear friends. If you
get the Mets or the Reds, we're gonna beat them. Yeah, okay,
you're not beating Dodgers in the three games. It it's

(49:14):
the Mets of the Reds. We get past them, then
four versus five ends up being San Diego versus Chicago.
Padres are gonna beat the Cups. Okay, So now the
National League West, which in my mind is the best
division in baseball. I agree that you have four teams

(49:35):
above five hundred in this division, four teams going into
the final week of the season. That we're above five hundred.
San Francisco, Arizona, LA, and San Diego. Four teams above
five hundred. Most competitive division in baseball. Okay, that means
that now now you got three three Dodgers for Padres,
four plays one. That's Philadelphia versus San Diego, Milwaukee, San

(50:00):
Diego versus Milwaukee, LA versus Philly. We can beat Philly,
San Diego can beat Milwaukee. We can't win the We
can't win the National League playing Philadelphia or Milwaukee. We can't.
We've been swept by Milwaukee. We were swept this season
by Milwaukee. And I don't think and I think Philadelphia

(50:23):
might be the most complete team hitting and pitching.

Speaker 2 (50:26):
Wise in the entire.

Speaker 1 (50:29):
But there are started, there are there are starting to
get to be some signs. Aaron Nola is a little
dinged up and there's some issues there, but those are
the two most complete. That's the most complete team in
the National League. But the path to the World Series
means we have to get San Diego to win some
have they have to win a series. I hate relying
on that because we'll crush San Diego because San Diego

(50:53):
is our little bitch, and that's how we get back to.

Speaker 2 (50:59):
I uh, I agree with you. I agree.

Speaker 1 (51:01):
I think that's I think that's how we get back there.
And if you remember last year, the Dodgers had a
completely patchwork rotation getting to the World Series. They were
having bullpen games against the Mets, for God's sake, that's
how they were winning games. So I think we I
think there's okay. So you asked the question, what is
the percentage ten ten.

Speaker 6 (51:23):
Chance the dog lo I do think if they get
to the National League, but I agree with the challenges
when win the National League.

Speaker 2 (51:30):
Once they get to the World Series, this be a cake.
I think. I don't think anyone in.

Speaker 1 (51:33):
The no whoever wins the National League wins it all.

Speaker 2 (51:37):
Yeah, I agree.

Speaker 1 (51:41):
I don't. I don't buy the Yankees because again they're
pitching rotations not much. I don't buy the Astros because
I'm probably biased, I guess, I don't know. Maybe I'm
still a little bitter about twenty seventeen. But I just
don't buy the Astros because I don't buy I don't
buy their I don't buy their their ability to hit
the ball in pressure situations. I don't buy Seattle because
it's just one or two guys. I don't buy Detroit

(52:03):
or Cleveland because they're gonna murder each other just trying
to get out of it. And and I will say this,
like as the only team that would the only team
in the nationally that I would I don't mind if
they won, would be Cincinnati because I love Terry Francona.
I do. I adore Terry Francona. I think he's a god,

(52:24):
and I'd love to see him get a World Series.
I would, but just not against it. But I love
that guy. I love it Terry franc Now, the larger
question will be this, Dodgers get knocked out in the
first round. Uh oh, you just won a World Series

(52:46):
a year ago. Dodgers get knocked out in the first
round as a fickle community. Baseball is a fickle sport.
Does Dave Roberts get canned.

Speaker 2 (52:56):
No, no, no, But I will say that's my in
a in a real world like he's he's not even
in a hot seat in l A. He might be
in a hot seat because of that.

Speaker 1 (53:08):
In LA, he's gonna be on the hot seat. And
I've got one name of a guy who could be that,
who could take over, could run that team. He wants
the job. He's a Dodger announcer, he's a Dodger broadcaster.

Speaker 2 (53:27):
He wants that job.

Speaker 1 (53:29):
He wants to go ahead.

Speaker 2 (53:35):
No, I won't go so far as to say he's
fired if the first round, uh, you know, exit does happen,
which I doubt is happened anyway. But I think he'll
be in a hot seat pretty quickly. That's that's a week.

Speaker 1 (53:47):
That's I I I think there's gonna be that. I
think that discussion is going to happen. I'll throw the question,
do you even though you're the host, and I apologize
for doing National League MVP. American League MVP is obvious.
It's cal Rawley, Dodgers are one nothing on the diame
of Bucks nationally. M VP nationally is a schi.

Speaker 2 (54:15):
My gut says, My gut says swer. But you can, right.

Speaker 1 (54:24):
I mean, because Joe has done something that only one
other player in the history of Major League Baseball is done,
and that is hit fifty home runs and record a strikeout.
That other player was Babe Ruth.

Speaker 2 (54:37):
Yeah, maybe it was agent.

Speaker 1 (54:44):
That's where That's where the conversation starts and ends, is
that Bay Ruth, Babe Ruth and shown are the only
players in Major league history to hit fifty home runs
in the season and have a strikeout.

Speaker 2 (54:56):
So I'm gonna I'm gonna apply some I'm gonna apply
some logic that I used only for basketball and football.
It's a baseball Oh, they shouldn't matter in baseball because
it's different, different time of sport. This is where the
wins and losses kind of playing playing effect. So Phillis
was a better team mission in l A. No, that
shouldn't matter.

Speaker 1 (55:13):
But it's a valid thing.

Speaker 2 (55:16):
It's a valid But I'm seeing I'm seeing MVPs didn't
mat I mean, you know, he gets a terrible one.

Speaker 1 (55:21):
Year, Miguel Cabrera won the m v P one. You're the.

Speaker 2 (55:27):
Yeah, so I guess he's where a guy whin they
you know, his team was like less than what they
were last year.

Speaker 1 (55:33):
No, I get it. I no, I get the argument.
But you know, and I and I and I'm not
I'm not suggesting that I'm not suggesting that Schwarber is
not the most logical one of the most logical choices.
He is. What he's done this season has been remarkable.
But when Schwarbert, when when Schwarbert takes the hill and
goes six innings in a couple of games, let's have

(55:54):
that conversation scher on the matter for six innings.

Speaker 6 (55:57):
That's good point. That's it's a great point. It's a
it's a fantastic point. So we also got the announcement
last week Clayton Kershaw. While we were talking at the
end of the.

Speaker 2 (56:06):
Year, would you say he's the best pitcher in the
last fifteen years in baseball?

Speaker 1 (56:15):
He's I think he's the best pitcher. I think he's
the best lefty in the last fifteen years. Okay, And
I think he's been. I think he's been. I think
he's the best regular season pitcher for the Dodgers in
the last fifteen years. Postseason record not so much. But

(56:37):
I don't but but but it was funny we were
talking about the rotation and where you're gonna put guys
in the rotation for the Dodgers in the postseason. Didn't
it seem a little odd that you have the Clayton
Kershaw goodbye ceremony with seven games left? I mean again,
it was like, you know, I get it was their
their last weekend of home games in regular season, but

(56:57):
Kershaw is still gonna play for the Dodgers in the playoffs.
You can do something nice for it, but I don't
get that. I think the reason is because Kershaw may
not be the starting pitcher for the Dodgers in the
in the playoffs, Kershaw may be relegated to a bullpen
role red being a bulk innings guy who's gonna come
out of the bullpen and pitch innings three through seven.

(57:19):
That's what That's why I think they did that that way.

Speaker 6 (57:22):
In fact, when I saw that initially, when I saw that,
the announcing like this, that's why I assumed, like, Okay, well,
he didn't play the playoffs, so why are younouncing that now?

Speaker 2 (57:31):
But you know, yeah, I took it that.

Speaker 1 (57:35):
Because they're not committing to him to being a starting
pitcher in the in the playoffs. Because if you look
at his postseason record. Why on earth would you because
he vomits on himself in the postseason. For the most part,
I did think it was a mistake for the Dodgers
to not pursue Walker Bueller when the when the Red
Sox kind of let him go. I think it was

(57:56):
a mistake because Bueller pitches well in cold weather, and
Bueller and we're gonna have Look, we're gonna have to
go to Milwaukee, we're gonna have to go to Philadelphia,
we're gonna have to go to New York. Bueller pitches
well in those situations, and it's it's unfortunate that we
couldn't bring him back just for that, just for that,
if nothing else, because he's the guy that you see
at the end of Game five beating the Yankees winning

(58:19):
the World Series last year.

Speaker 2 (58:22):
Yeah, it's a good point. It's a good point.

Speaker 1 (58:24):
So I thought that was a mistake. But this this
it's it's the same thing with any team in Major
League Baseball. When one thing is going well, one thing
is going average, and one thing is going to hell.
You've got right now, you've got great starting pitching, you've
got decent hitting, you've got a terrible bullpen, sixty days ago.
It was terrible hitting, great relief pitching, terrible starting pitching.

(58:47):
It just it. It's amazing how a one hundred and
sixty two game season changes so dramatically from Game one
to Game fifty, to Game one hundred to Game one
hundred and sixty. And that's why you have now the
greatest weekend coming up in baseball in recent years, where
you've got three division races, the American League Gainst, the

(59:09):
American League Central, and the National League West, in which
the top two teams are separated by less than two games.
That's phenomenal. You don't see that in the NBA. You
don't see that in the NHL. Whenever you watch the NAH.

Speaker 2 (59:23):
You know why to? Also, you know why to? Also
they don't those leagues don't really prioritize divisional title, No.

Speaker 1 (59:31):
They don't. They just prioritize getting to the playoffs.

Speaker 2 (59:34):
Am I wrong? Am I wrong? From missing that? I
said all the time too. Also I missed the days
when I was growing up as a kid. Sports are
so majestic and royalty to me that if you want
a divisional championship, regardless of sport, it was, it was,
it was, it felt like a big deal. It's a
big deal.

Speaker 1 (59:53):
It should be like when the Dodgers win. The Dodgers
have won the West twelve of the last thirteen years.

Speaker 2 (59:59):
Yeah, think of about that.

Speaker 1 (01:00:00):
I mean, then that's that. That's some what the Yankees do?

Speaker 2 (01:00:04):
You know?

Speaker 1 (01:00:05):
That's the Yankees is back in the twenties and thirties
and forties, you know. So it's kind of amazing that
we don't recognize the division. And can I just throw
off the record here. One Soto was the most gigantic
fucking mistake that that New York Mets team ever made.

Speaker 2 (01:00:21):
I said, I said it. I know I said it.
I thought I thought I said I said the podcast
last last year, at the time they was signed.

Speaker 6 (01:00:30):
Yet though I said, I don't mind going want Soda
on his roster. I don't want one Sodalls.

Speaker 1 (01:00:36):
Plus, I was so adamant as a Dodger fan when
he announced he wasn't coming back to the Yankees. I'm like,
I want nothing to do with him. I get how
talented he is. I get it, he's he's a once
in a generational talent. He is also a cancer. And
I wanted nothing to do with him. And I I
mean again, I no offense to you. You know I

(01:00:57):
love you, but no, you can. You can have all
the one Sodo drama you want because that is just
a that was just a mistake.

Speaker 6 (01:01:04):
From day one, everything I feared about the pitching staff
because of signing. So it's come the past, Yeah, has.

Speaker 1 (01:01:10):
Come to pass. And I will say that it still
irks me to this day that we the Dodgers don't
have a relief picture. Who has the entrance music of
Edwin Diaz. I love the Edwin Diaz music intro and
it it's amazing. And I hate to say that because

(01:01:33):
I'm not supposed to like the Mets, but I will
literally tune in if I know they're up by two,
they're going to the ninth, and I'll literally just wait
just to hear that trumpet Blair and I'm like me,
damn that guy, you know?

Speaker 2 (01:01:49):
Oh my god.

Speaker 1 (01:01:50):
No, Yeah, that's the But as far as the if
I'm picking the World series logically, logically, phil these Yankees.

Speaker 2 (01:02:04):
I think I was figuring it out before it's all
said none. I think I think they'll they'll turn it
on when it's all said none.

Speaker 1 (01:02:09):
I think Philly's Yankees logically, but obviously look, I want
nothing more than to be just an absolute douchebag to
strangers next year and have us win the World Series again.
Like I've made it a point now when out here
we have a lot of you know, bandwagon Yankees fans,
I make it a point now when I go out

(01:02:29):
with my wife or I go out to the gym
or the store, and I see a Yankee stan approaching,
I'll open the door, hold it open for the Yankees
fan whos approaching, let them in. They have to say
thank you to me. I'm wearing my Dodgers hat, and
I just look at them and smile and say, you're welcome.

Speaker 2 (01:02:45):
Would you say baseball is in the once work in
my mind, in my mind your personal favorite? I'm saying yeah, in.

Speaker 1 (01:02:55):
My mind, in my mind, it's odd because like my
top three are base ball, boxing, and horse racing.

Speaker 2 (01:03:04):
Wow, yeah, I can already if I already knew that though,
So yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:03:09):
Yeah, I mean, I mean, I'm I love football.

Speaker 2 (01:03:12):
I do.

Speaker 1 (01:03:13):
I'm not as big a I like college basketball more
than NBA basketball, of course.

Speaker 2 (01:03:20):
I'm not.

Speaker 1 (01:03:21):
I'm not big into I'm not big into hockey, but
like I've always been a boxing fan. I loved the
Canelo Prawford fight last weekend. I thought that was great.

Speaker 2 (01:03:30):
Do you think that may may actually influenced the next
resurgence of boxing, especially now doing it on Netflix. Something.

Speaker 1 (01:03:39):
I'm hoping something inspires. I'm hoping someone other than Logan
Paul inspires it. Anyone but him, anyone but that excited
see year only on my PlayStation.

Speaker 2 (01:03:56):
Really, I mean, everybody, everybody swears is not gonna lots
of fight until that day comes.

Speaker 1 (01:04:02):
Watch nostalgia.

Speaker 2 (01:04:06):
Come On're gonna watch the fight, you know?

Speaker 1 (01:04:10):
But I I I mean, I grew up around box
and I grew up around boxing with my father who
covered it in New York. And I grew up with
horse racing, you know. So those are my three most
passionate sports. And baseball I cover it here. This is
kind of a Northwest New Mexico has the Connie Mac
World Series, which is a very big national amateur baseball tournament.

(01:04:34):
Is one of the biggest things the sporting events we have,
uh literally in the entire southwest the United States. So
I I get wicked into baseball and I study it,
I marvel at it. I follow it in the winter
with Winter League teams and when spring training opens, I'm
already aware of, you know, the guys that are coming
up on the roster. Blah blah blah. Like yeah, I'm

(01:04:57):
I'm I'm a nut for baseball.

Speaker 2 (01:04:59):
Yeah. Have you even watched no NBA this year?

Speaker 1 (01:05:06):
No? Because I didn't want. I didn't watch it. Okay,
I didn't watch it before Caitlyn Clark, So why on
earth would I watch it now with Caitlin Clark. I
didn't women's basketball. I didn't care, but I didn't care
about Caitlin Clark. I watch Page Beckers, but I won't
watch Caatelyn Clark. You know, I'm just not look I

(01:05:31):
and I get that. I get it's I get that
there are some pockets of society where it's popular, but
it's just not. And I think we're all being sold
this giant bill of goods that it's supposed to be
popular and that you're cool if you watch it and
you're trendy if you watch the w NBA, No, you're
just wasting your time. Watch baseball instead. Damn it, Diamondbacks

(01:05:52):
tied it up. You're just being trendy and it's not
even trendy, Like it's not it's not enjoyable to me.
It's not in interesting to me. It's it's it's just
not something I'm I'm I'm fascinated about in any way.

Speaker 2 (01:06:07):
All Right, I turned the Mets game, pl the Reds
game could do an extra. Pirates are up now, I mean,
I'm sorry. I need I needed pirates to hold on.
So these uh nothing nothing changes today, you know in
the standards. You know so, I but it's gonna be.

Speaker 1 (01:06:23):
It's a great weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:06:25):
I thought I thought I would wash.

Speaker 6 (01:06:27):
I thought I watched one the NBA, but I have
not really honestly, I like you, I started, I started,
you know, not watching it and I'm not gonna start
watching it now because i just.

Speaker 2 (01:06:37):
Don't have anymimation to do it, honestly and and honestly, dude,
I got the point of my life now as an adult,
that after NBA is over.

Speaker 6 (01:06:47):
You know, you know, you know I love baseball. It's
not appointment tells for me. Every day I caauesse. I
guess I could see a box score, know what happened?
I need that break from sports for a few months
for football.

Speaker 1 (01:06:58):
Coming a break, I get it, I guess, break like
it's why, it's why we didn't. It's why no one
watches the UFL. It's where no one watched that god
awful ship show of the the the UFL. Like I'm
done with football, I need three a way from it
for a while, especially when all you're gonna offer me
the Birmingham Bramis and they're no good. I don't want

(01:07:19):
want to watch this.

Speaker 2 (01:07:21):
Yeah, I live by the same same montrey. You know,
Absence makes the heart grow fonder. If football is always
in my face, I'm not gonna appreciate it. Yes, I
need a break from it.

Speaker 1 (01:07:33):
Yeah, you know if I'm watching. And that's why, you know,
like when the baseball season comes to an end, When
the baseball season comes to it, and it's the perfect
time because then I can immerse myself in the college football.
I can immerse myself in the NFL. And I'm good
until February when pictures and catchers report and we've gone
on with our lives, and then that just comes right
back to baseball again. You watch what are you gonna

(01:07:59):
watch the writer up this weekend?

Speaker 2 (01:08:01):
Probably? Not? Will you?

Speaker 1 (01:08:02):
Will you watch the rider cut? Now? Not not a
golf guy? Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:08:07):
You know, so I started. Uh I'm appreciating a little
more in the last year, and maybe I'll tune in
and to see what's going on. But when I sit
there and watch the entire thing, no, no, no, not happening.

Speaker 1 (01:08:21):
Time watch an hour?

Speaker 2 (01:08:24):
Yeah, that's more just to giggle at it. That's one
more hour more than I've given it around a couple
in the last ten years. So look, there you go
a second. I'm just I mean, I I follow I
follow golf. Yes, I do follow golf, but I don't
watch the events like that. Like I watched the I
watched the final rounds and stuff like what's to the end.

(01:08:45):
By my committing the entire weekend for that, I'm just
not doing it. No, I watched. I'd rather watch TV.

Speaker 6 (01:08:50):
In TV shows and movies speak, speaking of which, if
I don't think it's out here, we always do some
every time in the show what are you watching, Steve?

Speaker 2 (01:08:59):
Wait?

Speaker 1 (01:08:59):
What?

Speaker 2 (01:09:00):
Yeh?

Speaker 1 (01:09:00):
So I have now kind of gotten away from the
TV thing that there are two shows that are currently airing,
one on HBO and one on FX that I'm watching.
The one on FX just started last week. It's a
show called Low Down Ethan Hawke Peter Dinklice about a

(01:09:21):
small town reporter in Oklahoma following kind of a uh,
kind of a country story. It's it's an interesting show.
I haven't it's two episodes in, still developing, but it's nice.
And then uh task on HBO.

Speaker 2 (01:09:36):
I heard about that one. Actually, who's that?

Speaker 6 (01:09:38):
Who's I heard of that was talking about that show
on on UH on the podcast they enjoyed that show,
somebody was.

Speaker 1 (01:09:43):
But yeah, that's where that's that's worthy Sunday night viewing.
But I've become more of a movie guy. My wife
and I'll take the kids out to the movies or
sometimes on her on our days off, we will go
to movies. And what I have to say right now
is there's a home run.

Speaker 2 (01:10:01):
Yeah, yeah, I got the alert.

Speaker 1 (01:10:07):
Horror movies and I use that term because they're not
really horror movies anymore, but the suspenseful mystery movies. There
have been some in the last year or so that
have been utterly amazing. Really Weapons was brilliant, The Long
Walk is brilliant. I'll go back a year and a

(01:10:30):
half to a movie starring Nicholas Cage called Long Legs,
which was outstanding. The Jordan Peel movies US and You
and get Out have been phenomenal. There's a different age
now to the horror movies thing. Sinners should be the
best picture of the year without a shadow of it out.

(01:10:54):
It was outstanding in every way, shape and form. It
had everything. It had mystery, it had drama, had sex
because Hailey Steinfeld he had Yeah, Josh Allens, Hey, Josh Allen.
He may not win a super Bowl, but goddamn no,

(01:11:15):
Sinners was amazing. It had music, it had everything. So
the horror movie genre has changed a lot now. We've
gotten away from the recycled Nightmare on Elm Street Part
eighty six and a reimagination of Halloween and you know,
Jason Number twenty seven or whatever. You know, we've gotten
away from them where we've actually gotten some creativity in

(01:11:37):
our horror movies or sub suspense movies or whatever. And
they're really really good weapons. If you haven't seen it yet,
was absolutely diabolically beautiful Sinners. But it's it's still in theaters.
It'll be I'm sure it's on some streaming thing now.

(01:11:57):
The Long Walk just came out like a week ago,
based on a Stephen King book. It is extraordinarily good.
A little bit on the personal side for me, but
you'll understand that when you see it. But it's beautiful.
It's really well done. Long Legs, which is a Nicholas Cage,
which outstanding. There have been a couple of other horror

(01:12:18):
movies or suspense movies that have been really good. The
last Final Destination movie was good. There have been a
few that I and I'm glad to see that because
I grew up a horror movie fan. We all did
as kids. The Nightmare on Elm Street. It's the Halloweens.
The friend of the third kids watching this and they
just it just became so bad. Like the last great

(01:12:39):
director was Rob Zombie, you know, and I was twenty
years ago, but now have really came up with I'm
dying to see him. I'm dying to see him. Okay,
the movie about the football player, I'm dying to see
that one. That looks really good. So I'm excited about that.
So that's kind of what I've been watching. And I

(01:13:00):
feel bad because I've actually said Nicholas Cage and good
movie in the same sentence, which is odd. But that
Long Legs thing, if you get not a lot of
people saw it, but I'm sure it's on a streaming platform.
Now find it because it is it is diabolically good.

Speaker 2 (01:13:17):
Yeah, I'll tell you that definitely. I actually enjoy I
have done at a little bit though. But Tuesdays they
do final Final Tuesdays here and Tuesdays, my wife is
at work, my kids are in school, so I have
a little window. So sometimes I go to movies, you know,
for like myself took for two hours.

Speaker 1 (01:13:37):
I do the same thing. I get it.

Speaker 2 (01:13:40):
I used to love on the.

Speaker 1 (01:13:40):
Movie check out weapons, check out weapons, check out the
Long Walk. So I you'll come away. I think you'll
come away pleasantly surprised.

Speaker 2 (01:13:50):
Yeah. I started watching peace Maker, okay, and I like it.
John Cena, it's really good.

Speaker 1 (01:13:59):
I got yeah, I I I have to admit, like
the whole John Cena thing got weird when he turned bad.

Speaker 2 (01:14:06):
In the w w E. Because that was he's good again,
he's good again, he's good again.

Speaker 1 (01:14:10):
I know he's good again now because there was that
was so badly done by the w w E. I think,
no offense to Paul, no offense to Paul triple h Levesque.
He's not doing a very good job running.

Speaker 2 (01:14:23):
W w E. I don't think I will say the
honeymoon's over there. The turn the turn us up was good.
The first month leading up to the mainium match was good,
and then after that everything with the ship and then
he this is fast turn back to baby faces made
no sense at all.

Speaker 6 (01:14:40):
But uh yeah, but and this it's funny watching him.
You know, you see the hustle on respecting and the
clean cut guy in w E. You watch his shows
like completely complete one eighty cussing and fucking, sex crazed
and almost crab.

Speaker 2 (01:14:55):
It's insane though, if sitting in that role, like, oh
my god, so who are you John? Which one? Which one?
Are you really acting? Which one?

Speaker 1 (01:15:05):
I'll check that out.

Speaker 2 (01:15:06):
That so really good Ray Raf watching me again? So yeah,
I love that one. The did you see Dallas Cowboys documentary?

Speaker 1 (01:15:19):
I did, I didn't. I'm happy to say that absolutely
none of it surprised me at all.

Speaker 2 (01:15:26):
Not at all. I love those I love these stories, dude,
Michael Lober in the White House and the Cocaine.

Speaker 1 (01:15:33):
Like like, I mean, I think and I think you
know when when when I when the Cowboys were big,
when that era was taking place in the Cowboys, I
was in my mid twenties at the time, but it
was seemed obvious, like, there's no way this could be sustainable.
There's no way that all this ship could be sustainable
with all the personalities and all the egos in the room,
with the Mike and Levins and the Troy Aikmans and

(01:15:54):
the Ammon Smiths, and the the the head coach Johnson,
Jimmy Johnson, all those personalities, there's no way that it
was sustainable. And then when you watched it absolutely fall apart,
it just seems so obvious when by the time Barry
Switzer got there, and that just made it even more
of a ship show, you know. And so that's and

(01:16:15):
I think that I think that Jones still is clamoring
for those days that you can push around. Those don't
exist anymore. Those coaches don't exist. You're not pushing these
guys around anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:16:34):
And pay now, will the money and pay No, you
can't do it, you can't do it. And I feel
like even with with that, with that documentary, as much
as they shared on that documentary, I feel like that
I feel they they shared half of what really happened,
because I'm sure as much, I'm.

Speaker 1 (01:16:53):
Sure there's so much more to that story that we
didn't get you know much like I think that was
the That was the thing I liked the most of
about the the Michael Jordan documentar about the Bulls The
Last Dance, because I think that one you got all
of Michael Jordan, and that one you got to understand
everything about that team and that player and those relationships

(01:17:14):
with that guy. That one I think dealt more, got
more in depth than this one did. With the Cowboys.

Speaker 2 (01:17:20):
No, I grew with Homer. Yeah, I enjoyed it though.
It was great. Like I said, Jerry, I just watched
the las out here, so wow, what I being And
we need you guys to do your job tonight against
the It's so.

Speaker 1 (01:17:39):
Let's let me give you let's let's uh, let's see
where we're at right here. I don't know, let's see. No,
trust me, I trust me the minute and I'm done
with this podcast. Trust me. I'm going right to this game.
I guarantee you that much. Right now. One one bottom
of the second.

Speaker 2 (01:17:57):
There you go and the home run putting. I know
that that's crazy. That Yeah, get sick.

Speaker 1 (01:18:07):
Other than that, I've and he gets he gets sixty,
which is amazing. You know, he deserves all the drops
for that, you know, And I and anyone who wants
to tell me that, oh, Aaron Judge should get the homework,
could get the MVV. No, cal Rawley did something that
the catcher doesn't do. Catchers don't hit fifty nine home

(01:18:27):
runs period. That's it.

Speaker 2 (01:18:29):
Anti this guy Anti that team to the playoffs on
top of that.

Speaker 1 (01:18:33):
Yeah, so no, it's there's no way it's not cal Rawley.
There's absolutely no way it's not. Are you okay with
the rule about the automated replay for balls and strikes
next year?

Speaker 2 (01:18:45):
How do work exactly?

Speaker 1 (01:18:48):
So technically now, technically now you're not allowed to argue
balls and strikes. You're allowed to argue pretty much everything else.
But now you can argue balls and strikes next year.
So I and there's gonna be there's gonna be a camera.
There's gonna be a camera set up behind the umpire
that's gonna be able to tell you whether it was
a ball or striker.

Speaker 2 (01:19:09):
So I do like appreciate the progression of getting it right.

Speaker 6 (01:19:15):
I'm with you on that, trust me. At the same time,
we're gon we're gonna learn very quickly we're gonna miss
the human element of the game.

Speaker 1 (01:19:25):
I agree, I'm I I understand umpires are making more mistakes. Well,
let me rephrase that. Let me rephrase them. Umpires make mistakes.
They've been making mistakes since the game was invented. The
only reason we know about those mistakes is because television
networks put that stupid rectangle across the bat or across

(01:19:50):
the home plate. Now that's the only reason we know it.

Speaker 2 (01:19:52):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:19:53):
If we took away that, if you take away the rectangle,
we don't know any better, or at least we didn't
care as much.

Speaker 2 (01:19:59):
Yeah, totally agree to agree.

Speaker 1 (01:20:01):
So I think that I think the idea of having
the replay thing, whereas it's a nice technical advancement, I
think it's it's going to it's going to fundamentally alter
how umpires call games because now they're gonna feel like
they are being watched, and now they're gonna be more
protective or they're gonna be more you know, conservative in

(01:20:23):
their calls. And I think that, and I think that's
gonna change. I think there's gonna be a game, there's
gonna be a game where it's gonna come down to
a miss call that's gonna get overturned, and it's gonna
change the entire game and everyone's gonna be up in arms,
So just be ready for that next year.

Speaker 2 (01:20:38):
Absolutely. Absolutely, I've been I've been watching documentaries on Netflix, like,
you know, the The Quarterbacks documentary Season two was really good.
I started The Receivers one O.

Speaker 1 (01:20:49):
One and I watched that.

Speaker 2 (01:20:51):
Dude, is that a list? Do you enjoy it?

Speaker 1 (01:20:54):
I watched The Menendoz Brothers one and I remain even
more convinced that those two were just a bunch of
rage excide.

Speaker 2 (01:21:00):
So so, but you think this should be in jail?

Speaker 1 (01:21:04):
Absolutely? Okay, absolutely, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You
murdered your mother and father then reloaded and murdered him
some more. Right, Yeah, Like no, you should be in
jail for the rest of your lives. And anyone who

(01:21:25):
says different is insane.

Speaker 2 (01:21:27):
I remember that case as a kid, but that was
the nineteen ninety ish ninety one. Nothing was.

Speaker 1 (01:21:34):
J Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:21:35):
Yeah, so I remember that trial. I remember that the
whole thing and not understanding it as a kid, but
you know, at the same time, it was like it's
a big deal, like another like one of those core
memories you remember to Menenda's brothers, you know, what I mean. So, yeah,
that was I gotta I gotta watch that. That's that's
on the list of thing dude, I am.

Speaker 1 (01:21:52):
It's a good documentary. You don't like that.

Speaker 2 (01:21:54):
Yeah, it's so overwhelming to get some contents.

Speaker 6 (01:21:58):
And then right now, this time of year is the
worst part as sports Baseball playoffs starts next week, NFL
coll football, NBA's back very soon.

Speaker 2 (01:22:06):
So it's NHL content overload right now. Brother, It's too much.
It's too much.

Speaker 1 (01:22:11):
And we have and and the reality is we have
shit to do. I've got games to cover, you've got
podcasts to do, You've got shows, you've got kids to raise,
you got a wife, you got we all have things
to do. Thank God for streaming devices that we can
actually watch things at at our leisure. You know, we
don't have to we don't have to rely on going
to a video store or you know, renting something or whatever.

(01:22:33):
You know. But yeah, there's just there's just so much.
There's so many things to do, so it just makes
it difficult. But you know, we all we we we
will find our time when we can. We will find
our times for those things when we get them.

Speaker 2 (01:22:47):
Yeah, anyway, Steve, anyone to plug.

Speaker 1 (01:22:51):
Uh sure, check out my newspaper's website, Tri City Record
and m dot com. I cover a plethora of sporting
events here in Northwest New Mexico. And if you ever
find yourself, why would you coming to northwest New Mexico.
But if you ever do, you can check out you
can check out the best in high school sports here
in the area. We got a big matchup in college

(01:23:13):
football this weekend, the in state rivalry between you and
m and New Mexico State coming up on Saturday. Go
Lobos or go Aggies. I could care less. So that's fun.
And you can check out our website at Tri City
Record and m dot com and check out if you're
a horse racing fan, Uh, you can check out the

(01:23:33):
Breeders Cup coming up in about a month and a half,
which will be happening at del Mar so you can
check that out. Coming up soon. I'll start doing some
stuff on that, covering that for our local paper and
some other outlets as well. And uh, yeah, that's about it.

Speaker 2 (01:23:48):
Yeah, it's all you struck out. I think you want to,
so just turned on. Since I have it on now,
the Dodgors A game.

Speaker 1 (01:23:56):
I can't watch it here because we live too close
to Arizona, so I.

Speaker 2 (01:24:00):
Can't watch it back down.

Speaker 1 (01:24:02):
I have to. I have to listen to it on
the MLB app Well, I.

Speaker 2 (01:24:05):
Am a Docter fan. It's this series. And I'll tell
you what. There are scenarios right for the Daughters. If
they play the Phillies, they play the Keys, I get it.

Speaker 1 (01:24:14):
I mean, look, like I said, I'm still saying ten percent.
But if it's the best division in baseball. And what
this says more than anything about the Dodgers is, remember
how at the beginning of the season, Oh my god,
how many games are they gonna win. They're gonna win
one hundred and fifteen games. They're gonna win one hundred
and ten games. They're gonna run away with things. Baseball

(01:24:37):
more than football, more than basketball, more than hockey, More
than any other sport. Baseball is the hardest sport to
win a championship in because it's so long. It's the
longest grind you can imagine.

Speaker 2 (01:24:51):
It's so long team and it's nine players in a
lineup and they all gotta be engaged somehow. Yeah, it's
it's it's it's weird.

Speaker 1 (01:25:02):
It's just it's a it's it's a weird it's a
weird thing that happens when a team goes into a slump,
you can tell. And they all get into a slump.
There's a theory. One hundred and sixty two game season.
Every team's gonna win fifty four. Every team's gonna lose
fifty four. It's what you do with the other fifty
four unless you're the Rockies, in which case you're not

(01:25:23):
gonna win fifty four unless that's that's the beauty of baseball.
That's the beauty of baseball. It's what you do with
the other fifty four games. So yeah, it's what you
do with those other games. And that's that's that's that's
the beauty of it. And it's the longest season. It's
a grind, and it's hard to win. It's just hard.

(01:25:45):
And that's why you don't have a team. That's why
you don't have a team really running away with anything. Okay, yeah,
you've got a couple of teams that are winning divisions. Big,
you got Philadelphia winning their division. Big. You got a
couple of teams that are, you know, five or six
games up. But again, you've got half the league, half
the divisions, in the league that the division races are
going to be decided in the next ninety six hours. Yep,

(01:26:07):
after six months of this, after six months, they're coming
down to the last four days of the season. That's extraordinary.

Speaker 2 (01:26:14):
And it's the best time you're to watch it now too.
I love it. It's great. Good job, good job. Okay,
that's going to third all right then, men in the
corner free kind of basic.

Speaker 6 (01:26:28):
Steve good times. Always go watch a game and go Dodgers. Definitely, yes,
I mean you need to help. Yes, and we will
do this soon, I hope, definitely will do it.

Speaker 1 (01:26:37):
Definitely because I'm actually doing Jordan's show on Friday.

Speaker 2 (01:26:41):
Are you really yeah? Nice?

Speaker 1 (01:26:43):
Okay, okay, so I'm so I'm getting my I'm getting
my radio fixed in again a little bit this way.

Speaker 2 (01:26:49):
That's good. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:26:50):
I promise you I'll make sure this time around, I'll
have you on the show way more often than this,
once a year or twice a year.

Speaker 2 (01:26:55):
I mean, you do you do, you do what you
have to do.

Speaker 1 (01:26:58):
I watch you all the time time when you're doing
your your your your daytime game with the Palm Beach
Kennel Club. Is that what it is?

Speaker 2 (01:27:05):
What is that that's correct. That's correct. Is that what
it's It's correct.

Speaker 1 (01:27:09):
I watch it a lot, and I I tuned, I
tune in there and and I I I enjoy that
very much because, honestly, the first time I saw Palm
Chunnel Club, I honestly thought you were going to talk
doll bracing. That's what I honestly thought you were going
to be doing.

Speaker 2 (01:27:21):
I mean, it was dogs track for a long time.
It was I know, you know, but I believe.

Speaker 1 (01:27:28):
I remember I used to when I was a gambler.
I used to bet it. Trust me.

Speaker 2 (01:27:31):
I know, Steve good Job was always broke so much
of the time.

Speaker 1 (01:27:39):
Yeah, I appreciate it.

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