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Let's go. Welcome to part of my take presented by draft Kings, the Crown is yours. Today is Wednesday, July 1st and PFT. LeBron James has informed the Lakers that they can look elsewhere. He is not fired. He quits and now is going to be a free agent for what we think is the last time late decision 2026. I can't believe we're here, but we're here. Yeah. I mean, he's also maybe the best

dad of all time because he waited until the day after Bronys contract was guaranteed to opt out and say, hey, I'm not going to be back next year. So looks like you're stuck, baby, sitting my son. Sorry, he's not that I can do legally. He now belongs to you guys. So if nothing else we can report that

LeBron James is all star dad. First team, first team NBA dad, LeBron James. Yeah. So now which

Paul is going around. He's talking to every team that will pick up his phone call and then rich Paul is going to present all the offers to LeBron and then there will be lead decision 2026. And it feels like yeah, we're back in like 2012 all over again. This is like will he won't he just won't stop and I guess you want to power rank the places that we would like to see LeBron play next year. Okay. Yeah. Last Golden State, which seems like the favorite. That's such bullshit by the way.

Like if we got mad at Kevin Durant for going to Golden State, this would be pathetic, pathetic and listen. It feels like it might be Golden State or Cleveland. Cleveland is the one

“that would I think we all can be like, you know what, that's actually a good ending for LeBron”

incredible career. Second best player of all time. He's done it for two two decades plus to

everything that goes involved in that. I think would be very cool. And I would be like, that's

“cool move. Golden State and and Golden State feels like it's a strong possibility because when”

horses, by the way, cooking right now, when horse, I know you don't like him PFT, but when horse is a cool thing. Sometimes he just gets over his keys and I take that he doesn't have enough time to think about. So when horse said, he's like, who acted? Who acted here? Did who acted with information beforehand? Did the heat know? Did the lakers know? Did the calves know? Did the Golden State warriors went dream on green, opted out and opened up the books a little bit? Yes. If he goes to

Golden State, come on, man. Like I get it. He want like he's going for happiness. He can do whatever he wants. It doesn't matter. And when horse also made a good point, LeBron James has every single place he's gone. He is he is delivered a ring. Everybody, everybody's gone as a free agent. He got drafted by the calves didn't get went a ring. Went to Miami one two went back to the calves one one one went to lakers one one that we don't count. Let's still. But it's Steph's team. It's Steph's

franchise. It's the exact same thing that everyone said about when Katie went there and it's like, it would just be weird. I don't know. You just can't even even the strongest LeBron fans. The LeBron sexuals would have to say that this is weird. Yeah, I don't think that LeBron sexuals would like it because they've also spent the last what like seven years saying that LeBron and the lakers, that's their team. That's where they're going to be rooting for.

And then to go to the Golden State, I don't think they'd be able to make that switch. And yeah, they did have. And for me, I guess because Dream on Op, what do you do? He opted out. And now he's going to he's going to come back for less money. Yeah. He said that he said that he's, you know, he's been there for a long time. He's won franchise. He doesn't want to go anywhere and he wants to help them try to make one last run to it. Well, so LeBron wants AD there. The problem with that is

that I don't think that the Golden State Warriors have enough stuff to give up for AD. Like as much

as LeBron wants stuff to happen at his back and call. It doesn't always work out on paper.

It just doesn't. So I don't think that's the time. He's going to run much everything he wants. His son is on the Los Angeles lakers. Yeah. That's true. I will say that the lakers disrespect LeBron because yes, they got him AD. Yes, they got him Luca. Yes, they drafted his son. But no, they would not potentially pay him $48.5 million and that's bullshit. At the very end. Yeah, a man has a line. You know what I mean? I thought they gave out like,

you know, lifetime achievement contracts with the lakers. I thought that's part of doing business where it's like you treat your stars great even then they're older years. Then they stick around and then they become part of the fabric and the DNA of the franchise. Then more stars will want to play the lakers. That's typically how it's been done. I just don't, I don't know that the Golden State Warriors will be like, okay, obviously as a Wizards guy, I don't think that the warriors

“have anything that I would want. Oh, that's why you brought up AD. My bad. What? No,”

you brought up AD. No, I know. I know. I know. I'm responding to the Rebron regarding those demands. Do I want like Jimmy Butler coming off of an ACL injury? Not particularly. He's not known for being the best guy to have around like a very young group of promising players. That might not be the best teammates to have there. I also don't want to see LeBron go back to Miami. I think that would suck, too. Yeah. That would suck. I don't want to see you in Miami and

then I saw somebody throw out the spurs. That would also suck. I don't want any of these things. I think Cleveland makes the most sense. I think Cleveland, I think everybody would be like, okay, that's kind of cool. And then that adds an entire new layer of intrigue of what do they do with the James Harden situation. How do they build out that roster? I think it'd be cool, though. I would like this back in Cleveland. It's Cleveland is a perfect ending.

The only other thing that I'd be like, all right, whatever is if he just picked a like if he maybe did a wheel on a live stream. I was like, hey LeBron, you're your New Orleans Pelican. Like, great. That would be cool. That would actually be really funny if his decision was just a giant wheel and he spun it and he just is like, this is where I'm going. Zack, Zack before. So, so I said at the beginning, if you, if you fast forward, Max and Hank are on Island.

“I actually got a, did you guys pick, you guys didn't pick up the face time from Hank? Did you?”

I do not. I was driving. So, safety first. Okay. So, I think what happened was, and I want this,

if Max and Hank are listening to this tomorrow, I want them to know that like there's literally zero problem with them missing this episode. It's, it's Max's wedding week. Like, I didn't expect them to come on a zoom and, and talk LeBron with us for 20 minutes. But they, uh, Max, I guess we're,

and Max told Hank to, to face time the group for a vibe check. This was like two hours before we're

going to record to kind of just see, test the water to see if like, hey, do we have to be there or not? This was, I was, I was in, in just like, father, hell of just getting my kids to try to eat anything that's remotely like food and not just potato chips. And I just got an off my youngest getting a little, he, he says he got bit by Stella. Stella, lift him and, and snatches a little big lot of his hand. I opened up the face time, and it's just fucking Jackie tables, drunk his

flock in the ocean with the drink in his hand. And I was just like, yeah, get my, get out of here. I don't, I don't, just get out of here. Just don't even come. So I feel bad because I think Max was like,

oh, man, he was pissed. I was just pissed because I saw Jackie tables having the time of his life.

“But that's why they're not here. They are having a good time. That's excellent time. Uh,”

Max is singing karaoke. Hank is handling lobsters. It's, it, it, it seems down in, uh, St. Martin. Can I, can I just, I hate to do this to Max. But he, he said that he was the best karaoke singer and then they asked for his playlist. What was his playlist? Does that one have it off top? You, yeah, piano man, piano man is not, that's not what you start with. And he did my way. And let me just say, doing my way in the, like, on island time in the Caribbean,

that, that is bubble. That is some soft Mickey Mouse karaoke shit. Because if you go away, if you want to sing my way, you be a man, you do it over in the Philippines where they kill you if you screw it up. Yeah, against the law. It's against the law to sing my way. And I believe a handful of countries over an Asian because they take it so seriously that if you mess it up, they will literally murder you. I, I got to know, listen, I, I grew that. I got to know what

time in the night, piano man was because piano man is a great karaoke song. There's no denying that. But it's an end of the night song. And it's like, you know, everyone's just fucked up and we can do it and everyone's sing along. If he's like, if that was the start of karaoke night,

you can't, you can't lead with piano man. That's a second set song. If I've ever heard one,

Zach, where you're going to set? I'll say, I'm not sure if Rockstar by Nickelback is exactly island karaoke thing. I don't know if that's the choice. It's bold for sure. Yeah, what's your, what's your go to when it comes to karaoke, karaoke if we're like seen more on an island and we're talking like wedding season. Maybe bubbly, Colby Calay could play anything pitbull, really played with like a tropical drink, a frozen drink.

And I guess we're going to round that out and really get into the mood of the wedding. Let me go, this whole house, Marina Lambert, probably. Okay. All right. Okay. Me. Have a go to karaoke. I'm a big call me, maybe. Yeah. Oh, that's a good one. He gets a crowd going. I just like doing to Kila and just standing there. I remember memes tried to do that. I got the at the last

“Vegas standup. That I did. Remember that. Yeah. It's a one-man show. I think that's what made Dave”

leave. I think I think it was you doing karaoke. And in our boss, they've portnoyed stood up and he's like, I can't take this anymore in the last buys book now. I don't know if anyone saw. There was no promotion from bar stool, but buys book now. Okay. No. David Threat. Dave, you did took out the old hammer. And he emailed the whole company. It was great. I love watching the the tweets fly after that. All right. Back to LeBron. Zach, you think he might just still retire. I think there's no way he

goes to Cleveland because the weather's on nice enough. The winner with that being said, I think it's because he's once he playing golf. He may just still retire. Like if he has a great summer and he's like, "Well, I've been really enjoying hanging out with the boys. Do I have to go back to basketball? I don't know if he does." That's not been saying. I was expecting a retirement tour from LeBron where he like demanded, you know, like a 30-minute pregame ceremony for every town

he visited, to give him a gift. But the more I see him playing golf, the more I see the possibility that LeBron is just like, you know what? I think I'm just going to do golf. I think I'm just going to play golf all day every day. Maybe serve on a YouTube channel, compete with Bryson. I could see, I could see him going that way. But the fact that he's trying to assemble a team, even if it is like the geriatric warriors, I feel like he is he is going to come back and play next year. I just hope

that it's with the calves and not somewhere else that everyone's going to hate. Yeah. Old and

“state. That's what skip, double them. That's really good. Really good. Yeah. The nine on the gun.”

Old and state. Between that and victim, Wimbledon Yama. He is having a summer. We actually should

He's hitting 55 home runs. What the fuck is going on right now? Yeah. This is weird. This is weird.

But I appreciate greatness. Well, he's still can. It'd be great if there was like a big story that skip has actually been just ripping like 80 milligrams of five answers to to get back to the old and state days. I'm trying to think what the what the PEDs for those kind of takes of because those are like old school newspaper guy takes like that's like cigarettes. Yeah. We're at it. And drinking whiskey. Yeah. And getting worse. Yeah. He might him and Ernestine might be on the rocks.

And he's just dipping back into the bottle. Maybe smoking some some sigs. And now he's cranking out takes left and right. Yeah. Like the true PED for that would be like a men's only country club that also doesn't allow any minorities or anyone of like that's not Protestant. He just goes sits in the clubhouse and he's like, yeah, you know what? I got it again. Still got it. It's now how funny would it be? And I wish Hank was on the show because I was just

going to I was just going to put the thought in his head of LeBron somehow playing for the Celtics.

“Just to see his reaction to that. I don't think he ever would do that. I think it's probably down”

to like I would say the calves. He might also be thinking about just going across town and playing for the clippers. Well, that's the other big news. So, all right, wait, one last thing LeBron because as you guys know, my assistant Tom, who's a a diehard calves fan, LeBron can do no long wrong. He gave me all the spark notes of things. He actually texted us today was like, hey, I just drove by LeBron's house in Akron and he's got mulch showing up or wherever his house is.

I don't know where his house is, but he's he was doing some landscaping. So that's pretty much a done deal. But LeBron here's some more nuggets. LeBron posted a new episode on mind the game. Today was Steph Curry. So that's a little also apparently LeBron. The calves assist in GM.

“Hold on, let me make sure I have this right. I believe the calves assist in GM. Yeah,”

Brandon Weems is a childhood friend of LeBron James. Cleveland needs a new GM with Mike Gansy taking the 76ers job. Weems could maybe get the job by also landing LeBron. Hmm, just some things to think about. These are no ways. And then also there's the he joined a country club in Ohio recently, which what? LeBron doesn't even have to like, I'm not, I don't know, I wish we had Hank here for this PFT. Like we don't thanks,

Hank's in a country club like LeBron doesn't have to, what do you say? I know they don't have a club house, but yeah, but LeBron doesn't have to actually do anything to join a country club, right? He just shows up and he says, hey, I'm LeBron, where do I side? Kind of the same thing like in Chicago. I was talking about this with Hank where every country club in Chicago has Michael Jordan and Barack Obama's members. They've got lockers form in case they ever show up

and they can just tell everybody, yeah, they have a membership here. 99% of the time they've never

been to that club. Correct. I would assume it's like that in Ohio, like every country club has a membership for LeBron James. Which actually, in a backwards way and I know we're me entering a little bit here, just shows just how much of a pervert Phil Mecclesan is to lose those country club memberships. Yeah, yeah. That was a jury. What's they love having anybody? Yeah, anybody who's anybody, so you can say, yeah, they remember here that,

“hell, that's why they like the Oakmont Country Club really leaned in to wind them smashing”

the lockers. Because like any stories like that, the locals love sharing that with their friends. It's like, yeah, you know, my club, that's where that's where wind them took out those lockers.

Yeah, pretty cool. All right. So we have KWI now to the Raptors. She never should have left.

Like the Clippers KWI era is maybe the most unforgettable or forgettable. I'm sorry, era of all time. Like they did nothing. Just an absolute tease. They open up state. Yeah. Yeah, play in a lot of trees. Maybe get maybe going to get in a lot of trouble. But KWI back to the Raptor. I mean, as this is make you nervous at all means. As I was going to say, PFT and I have to to maybe pump the brakes on like bulls and wizards being in that, you know,

competitive nature in the East. But you actually in Zach have a team that is defending a title.

a little nervous that he's on the Raptors? No. Okay. I thought you were going to answer that.

“No. They might be able to win a play all series now. Okay. Until they get a big man,”

then they're not really that much of a threat. Okay. Okay. I also, I have my doubts that KWI is going to say healthy. I know that this last year, he had like one of his best seasons. Yeah. He's still really, really like incredibly good. I just doubt that he's going to be able to do it back to back years. Yeah. All right. What other, I mean, I like it just in the, I like it because I could just see like hell quiet on the Raptors. Like, yeah, they were really good when he's on the Raptors.

They want to ring like that makes sense. It's a makes sense situation to me. Yeah. He knows that. He knows the town. Yeah. What? Yeah. I could see Lebron going to the Clippers now. That is a realistic spot. I hope he goes to the cabs. But I could seem going across town. But they're like,

they don't have, they're not, they're trying to basically just retool everything with like the

trades they made. They would try to get a bunch of picks, which they've done well on, you know, it's going to be Darious Garland and and Keaton walk, walkler going like that's going to be their future. I don't think he wants to restart. Right. You're probably, you're probably right. I'm just saying that that that is a, that would be on the short list of places that I could see him going to. What other of note moves have happened in the other genre? Oh, yeah, genre into the blazers. So

genre and trade to the blazers. I feel like they just wanted him out no matter what and they finally got someone to be like, okay, fine. We'll take him. So now he goes to Portland. I was hearing that from our colleague T. Bob that he might be going to New Orleans, which I would have been excited for just because with like jaw and Zion, then 40% of the starting lineup would be Bob Marley lyrics and that would be pretty incredible. But the blazers, I don't know, I don't know what

the blazers are up to and Dundin, they're their owner. It sounds like he's like laying the ground work for moving the team, which is pretty fucking early in this relationship for him to be like attacking the city and dropping hints that he's going to leave. I don't like that one bit, but yeah, I,

“listen, the memes you said at the jail blazers are back. Also, Portland did you know, I think Portland”

has the highest per capita number of strip clubs of any city in America. Is it so per capita always

fucks me up? It's like per person. Yeah, I know the how many strip clubs do they have? Is it going to be a wow numbers? It like they just have a decent amount for their size of the city. Let's see. I think they've got a decent amount. They've got over 50. That's pretty good. Yeah, that is pretty good. All right, yeah, I mean, jaw, like it's crazy how fast it's all kind of falling apart for him, where it's like he was, he was future faceless leak for a minute there

and Grizzlies were like, you know, rider die with him and then it's boom, he's gone. Now you have two non power conference guys and Damon job, like maybe the best two pairing of non power conference guys going going, you know, trying to lead the blazers? Yeah, yeah, except I don't know if they necessarily compliment each other. No, no, no, I'm just saying just simply the fact that they didn't

“play it like a blue blood and the blood's really good at basketball. That was the only thing that's”

the only nugget I have. Yeah. That's a fair nugget. All right, what else? Any other, any other moves? Get the obvious. It's actually, it's actually been kind of slow. Yeah, lendership at back, lendership and it's back, uh, Jose Alvarado's back. They're literally Mitchell Robinson, not back. He's most likely gone. I think it's certainly not that, uh, jailender and actually did probably play himself out of money because it looks like he's looking

elsewhere than the pistons, pistons basically like the the the rough and tough pistons

got like they basically got bullied by who do they lose to? Wait, they lost the calves, right? Yeah, like James Harden ended the rough and tough pistons. That's tough. Yeah. So yeah, I guess we'll have to we'll have to uh, be included in some of the someday we'll be back in studio so we'll recap everything. What is this going to pick up? I feel like it's off to a very, very slow start. I don't know. Yeah, it has been weird. Also, I know that maybe we haven't talked about it, but

who he wrote a piece about partial like what was that PFT like nine years ago? He yeah, um, yeah, I'd say probably 2017. He's he was probably the fairest that anyone from traditional media has ever been like just fair. Like hey, I understand why people like these guys. They have, you know, they have the detractors and like heirs the whole picture. But he's a very funny writer, really, really talented writer. And he's been pointing out over and over how ridiculous it is

when guys like Shoms make sure that they include the agents in these tweets. Because it really is the dumbest thing ever. So Shoms for Kevin to hurt her, uh, for Agent Sharp Shooter Kevin hurt her in 10 to sign a three year, $27 million dollar deal to return to the Detroit Pissons sources tell ESPN the Pissons work through the deal with Mark Bartelstein and Andy Schiffman of Priority Sports on Monday. What? Who the fuck cares, dude? Yeah. I mean,

Schefters been doing this too recently lately. They, they, they, they, they plug the, uh, the agents because that's very obviously who's feeding them the information about the contracts. And in exchange for that, they get to get the news out there like 45 seconds before somebody else tells you that exact

“same news. Uh-huh. It's how that's how it works. And then if somebody comes after Shoms,”

he can just pull up, uh, NBA head coach on FaceTime, be like here. Talk to this guy. Yeah. Oh, look at me out of this ticket. Yeah. Well, not FaceTime, just a text. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Let's do, uh, let's talk some world cup before we do that draft Kings, uh, winter go home. That's it. The cup knockout round is now and draft Kings has you covered for every single match. The draft Kings app is now available. And all 50 states includes all markets bringing

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sign up with code take. It's been five bucks to get 200 in rewards within 21 days. That's code taken partnership with draft Kings, the crown is yours. PFT, you are headed to San Francisco. Uh, as people are listening to this, you're on a fight. Yeah. Is this the most must win a game is ever bad? Yeah. It's definitely a must win. It's a must win that you cannot underestimate the herd's convenience as well as the bosons. Thank you. And I was doing some research on the

on the country. And I looked up famous people from Bosnia and or herdscavina. There's really all I got is use of Norkage. That's about, that's who we're going up against.

“But yeah, it's a must win. It's a must win because we are, I believe for the first time ever in”

the history of U.S. soccer were favored in a knockout round game. I don't think that's ever

happened before. Not only favored. Never, never, never. We're minus 700 to advance. So, but if you've

been watching any of these games, you know that anything can happen. You know that, you know, you can run up against a team that defends well. They draw it into extra time. They draw it into penalty kicks. And then it's kind of a crapshoot from that point on. So, like, these upsets do happen. And Bosnia is not a bad team. We should beat them. And if we don't, it's a massive disappointment for the U.S. team. Massive. And then all that talk about like extending poachatino,

that looks kind of weird, right? Like, I thought that that's the conversation you have after you win one to two knockout stage games. Like if we, if we end up winning, if we end up playing against Belgium in the second round, or Senegal. But like, I would say Belgium specifically, because we've

“we've played against them. And oh, by the way, I think the U.S. is something like 1 in 17 all”

time against European countries in the World Cup. The one win was 2002 against, against Portugal

in the group stage. We don't beat European teams in the World Cup. We just never have.

So it's realistic. We could, we could lose that game. And then we have a history against Belgium. And so if we compete, lose a close one against Belgium. I still think you probably would end up extending poach if we could through the next World Cup. Because we've, he's implemented new style and it's looked really good. And we've got some good results. But yeah, if we lose against Bosia and Herzgavina, that is, it's, it's, it's a disaster.

Well, it's, and, and it's going to be, I'm going to be very, very disappointed. That, that will be like the most heartbroken I've ever left the stadium probably. If we end up losing. You can't, you can't lose them. Because you, this, this is an expanded tournament. So the tournament doesn't

world. Correct. So if you're judging on like, you can't, you just, you have to, it'd be like saying

“that what you, you know, it'd be celebrating a play in when in the NCAA tournament. You have to,”

you have to get to this next round. And then we can start talking of like, hey, this team is different. Right. We got to win and we should win convincingly. They're probably going to try to kill them. I think we will too, because they play a very similar style to Paraguay and Australia, who we had no problem with either one of those two teams. And then, oh, yeah, Germany gets knocked out by Paraguay and they just parked a bus for 90 minutes and then, and then took

him to penalties. And that's how like an inferior team can win and happens all the time in the world up in this stage. But I think that given like we're totally healthy, pelicic looks really good. Then we got, you know, the nine other starters that we didn't have against Turkey that are going to be sitting up for us and starting. I think we win, I think it might be like three to one, three to nothing. Okay. I like that. I feel good about that. By the way, I know that, listen, we are probably the number

one perpetrators of what I'm about to say. People flying into a sport and being like, let me fix it. When a sport is doing just fine without casual fans being like, hey, you know, would fix soccer? I love penalty kicks. I know people like some people don't like, I fucking love penalty kicks. If you can't figure it out in 120 minutes, you got the, I'm right. We're going to go do penalty kicks. And the penalty kicks between Paraguay and Germany were incredible. Like Paraguay

just not having to fuck up those last two and fucking up both of them. And then having Germany come over the top and be like, hey, you saw how bad they messed that up. Let me kick this 40 feet above the bar. That was incredible. The Netherlands Morocco, uh, penalty kicks were incredible. Like,

I love them. I think it's an awesome way to end a game that is never going to end when you're

120 minutes in. I do too. There's no, there's nothing else you can do if you've played that much soccer. It's like, okay, well, we can't have these guys running for even longer. The games over penalties are great because it's all the pressure in the world. Like, you have everybody in your

“country is focused on one guy kicking a shot that should, you should make it 90% of the time.”

And it's just, it's so nerve-racking. You know what I fucking hate though? I can't stand it when you're taking a penalty and you've got the guy doing the little stutter step and you like stops and like you try to make the goalie jump out of the way. That's bullshit. That's unethical bullshit. Don't do that. Just step up there, kick the fucking ball. Even though that one guy in Germany, he, I think that ball might have hit the lighthouse. He hit it so hot. Like that was,

that was an insane kick. But also credit to that guy because he was a six guy up from Germany. And they asked for other guys who they wanted to take, and they said, no, and he said, yeah, I'll step up there and I'll do it. So yeah, it takes some balls. But like, that was also great goalkeeping by the paraglain goalkeeper who was like going side to side on the line. Like you can't take a step off. They watched that like a hawk now. But like that, he came up big in, in the

films, I love penalties to solve a game. I think it's awesome. I think it's nerve-racking. I think it's so simple that everybody can understand exactly what's going on. And the, the task at hand for the person who's trying to score is so easy. But then you've got the nerves that just turn

“them into like muddles of stress and sweat. And I, I love that. That's, that's why we watch sports”

is to see like exceptionally talented athletes crumble under unbelievable pressure. Yeah, and it's been an, I mean, it's been an incredible World Cup in Brazil, Japan, which was, you know, last second. Like it feels like half these games haven't, don't start until extra time. The, the only unfortunate, like, take away a half through half the way through the knockout stages, everyone's just playing for second because France is just playing on easy mode. Like they're

not even trying and they're just dummying people. Like that was, that did not look like

Sweden could play forever and they would never have had a shot. Like they could have played,

France could have played with nine guys and they probably would have won that game. They, they were so lucky. Sweden was so lucky in the first half. And they were just like missing shots off the post. The goal is making incredible fingertips saves. But it was just, you knew that the floodgates were going to open at some point. And in Bob is just, I think he's the best player in the world right now. And France, like I said, on Monday, he, he, France could play their backups and their backups

are probably better than almost every team in the entire world. Like they are chalk and they

air, like two of the best players in the entire tournament. And they're just, they're unstoppable

once they get going with, with another one. I love that game, by the way. That was, that was one of

“the most entertaining soccer games I've ever seen Netherlands against Morocco is, I think, one”

one, right, before they went to, yes. But it was like a very exciting one, one. The Dutch have just become like the dirtyest team in the world. And it's so fun to watch too, because they're giants. Netherlands, they're the tallest country in the world, like just by population. So when you ask, when you hear people say like, what would it look like if we had NBA players playing soccer, that's the Dutch. That is literally the Netherlands soccer team, because nobody in the Netherlands

grows up playing basketball. They have zero basketball culture. So all their tallest guys play soccer.

So they've got a giant, like just mutant group of thugs that go out there and just shove

you and kick you. And it's been like that since like the 2010 final against Spain, they're just like the most physically brutal team to play against. And then to see them crumble in penalties was awesome. That was so fun. Yeah, it's been a great, it's been a great world cup, like it's just the world cup rocks. And if you're not watching it, you're missing out, because it's been, and it's just, it's free sports in the middle of the summer. It's like having three games in a row

on a, on a Tuesday. It's just like, you just kind of said, you, like, it's going to be a similar to March Madness, where when this ends in two weeks. And I'm like, what do I do now? Like, what do you mean? Like, I don't get to just, I don't just get to flip on a game in the middle of

the day. This sucks. But yeah, it's been so much fun to watch. And then the other story we should

probably touch about on is, um, they bully, they bullied our boy Freddie, Freddie L. A seven off off the Twitter. So, yeah. So for people who don't know, Freddie L. A seven to German fan, who came to America, tweeted about American culture, got wildly viral and popular through these tweets was having,

“like, he was meeting, like, de-met J. J. What I think he met, he met, he met, he meet like a bunch of”

famous singers and stuff to Zack. Yeah. I think he, I think he went to space. Yeah, he went to space. Zack. What do you mean? He's doing like a, like backstage concert. And there's a couple of country festivals. He's backstage at artists. He's doing like penthouse sweets. He's unfathomable hotel rooms. And, and just like anything in 2026, seeing anyone have a genuine good time. We'll just piss off the majority of the internet for no real reason other than their mad,

their jealous, their pissed off. And they have decided that he is a CIA plant or fake or something. And just bullied him to go off of Twitter. I don't know. I, I guess I do know why we can't just enjoy things in face value, but it just, everyone should just take a step back and be like, hey, you know what, maybe like all the cynicism I walk around with in my head, maybe I'll just, you know, dial it down a little bit and see if I like my life a little bit more.

“So I did say, uh, Langley on three, when Germany got, when they got eliminated. Yeah, I don't think”

he's a CIA plant. I do think that there's something heartwarming about seeing him enjoy the small things about the United States. And then once it becomes like very, very corporate where, now it's like massive brands that are now paying him to like talk about, that's not his fault. Look, it's not his fault, but it also does, it makes people like appreciate the account less. Then when it's just a guy from Germany discovering the magic of like fried chicken and

Tennessee gas station. Well, people were hanging on it before that, even too, but it's like, eventually it just boils down to people are mad that they're getting free shit. Yeah, people are mad that they're getting free shit. And then also the fact that he didn't show his face, a lot of people were like, well, why is he hiding his face? It's pretty clear because the internet is filled with psychopaths. And, uh, and that would have led to some bad situations.

It, like, now he became an international superstar. I do also understand why it says, like, hey, the influence of life. It's not really for me. That's remarkable self-awareness in this part. Like, that's, that's a good thing that he's recognizing that too. And then also people are like digging through his old tweets and finding out that he was, like, talking about attending a rap concert and being like, well, how come we can't sing along to all the words? Yeah.

Yeah. And so now you've, you've reached that stage of, uh, people like coming through his history with a fine tooth comb. There was one weird thing about him, though. One weird thing, actually it's like two weird things, but it's kind of the same. Um, so he's a massive renaula fan, Zach. Yeah. My favorite favorite soccer player. I understand. Uh, and he's also become like a big Saudi Arabia defender since Ronaldo started playing soccer there. So now he's like, uh, you know,

the country, not really not that bad. Kind of like how Hank is for live golf. Um, but he was just

games, but then he skipped their last game against Columbia. And he went and watched like a little

league baseball game in Vermont and then went to some town in the middle of Maine. Well, where was Portugal and Columbia playing Miami? So I think because then he was going to Germany's knockout game in Boston.

“Okay. That's why he went. Yeah. Yeah. To Maine and said you will know. Yeah. He was he was like,”

I think they were doing the whole trip up there. I think they went to a game in Canada and then went down to get ready for the game, the knockout game in Boston. Okay. Got it. Okay. That makes a little bit more sense. But if you're like Ronaldo's number one fan, you probably want to see him play against Columbia, maybe. I think he's going to some of the other games. We, I just, I don't know. I listen, people can just judge however they want. I just, it buns me out. They were at a

point where just nothing can just be like, hey, you know what, that thing exists. If you don't

like it, close your eyes and just don't even interact with it. But instead, it's just, in the fact that he is like, I don't want to be part of this. More power to him because I saw many people. Peter play all around. He's still got like a whirlwind trip across the United States and did like shit that nobody has ever done before. Like he had a great time and he got a lot of stuff for free. So now we, we shake our hands. We go our separate ways and he goes back to Germany. Yeah.

And people were pissed that he had been to America before, but he did say that he was, he had gone to like New York in Vegas. Right. But not that point. It was just south. Yeah. Or maybe people getting mad at like a preconceived notion that they made up in their own acts. That Freddy said that he had

never been here. Freddy never said that it was his first time in the United States. He just was

like, wowed by, you know, the deep south. Yeah. As we all are at first time there. Yeah, people are okay with guys having fun, but as soon as he starts having too much fun, it's like, oh, I can't experience that. So we got to start dog pond on this guy. Right. And I like to see that. That's also the internet. I'm not really like, I'm not losing sleep over the fact. The internet bully this kid. I just, I just wish that I feel like personally everyone should just try to

maybe take a little bit of like step back and be like, hey, can I just, I don't immediately jump from it. It basically is a jump from thing happens to how does this thing, the worst thing ever, and we need to cancel it. We actively try to ruin things as like a collective society. I think it's, I think for this, it's like GG's everyone, Freddy had a great time, had unforgettable experiences in the United States. It did become a thing where it was just like,

I think everybody got upset once every PR company in America started using Freddy

“as an avenue to like promote whatever their thing was. I think that's what made people be like,”

hey, I don't like this anymore because he kind of took the magic. No, no, I'm not saying anything bad about Freddy at all. But he just like do that. He didn't work in France. He didn't was in. He didn't like take up a lot of those offers. I remember like the Delta guy was trying to like, get him a, a pride playing. He didn't, I know that he like, but talking to JJ, what? That's totally normal. Like, that's fine. I don't think he took advantage of a lot of the

shit that people were trying to like shove down strokes. I agree. I understand like it becomes just everyone's try everyone on the internet. It's like, oh, how can I get myself? I did see him. I did see him reading cancel me if you can though. I did see him promoting that. So I would have been funny if Freddy did a face reveal. Let's go by a book. Good for him. Good for him. Oh, I mean, you hate this kid names. You're the, you're the darkest heart we've got. No, he's cool. He experienced America.

There we go. Yeah. Yeah. I got, I got no problem with Freddy at all. I'm just saying that I think the reason why people started to turn on him was because they saw it as being like, oh, Freddy sold out in, in record time. And it's like, Freddy's just having a good time. It kind of sucks that now it's become like a cynical thing that we have to look at with like, you know, under a microscope. But I think people just, they started to see that Freddy was going from a cute little story and to potentially

just being like a face of public relations. See, I think that's too deep. I think it's simply

“guy goes viral multiple times and people get pissed off. That's how it's also like nasty online is like”

guy gets a little bit of shot. And everyone's like, fuck them. You know, it's as simple as that. Zach, you like Freddy? We just got to get back to fun internet. Everybody take a breath. You know, you have a good time. And then when he has, when it kind of blows up, all right. So he's having a little bit more fun. Like, yeah. Everybody take a sec. I don't do a staying shot for you. That look like a sick week. You say, called the week, Freddy. The internet used to be a lot more fun.

really. That was, that was like the, uh, tightest finding the, uh, the Oakley message form.

That, that's the internet. I wish I, that still existed. It's just a message board with dudes who rock their Oakley's every day. And they compliment each other and they take pictures of selfies in themselves being like, check out my Oakley's today. And they're like, dude, those are sick. Check out mine. And it's just there's no irony. There's no cynicism. Just dudes rock in Oakley's and hang it out. Share your memes with each other. Yeah. When Titus, I was on mostly sports

when he, he brought that out. And it was like, it felt like it was the year 2002. Yeah.

“And I say that in like the best way possible, where it's like, we don't know what, we haven't”

been through the battles of the internet so many times that we expect something bad to happen. It was just, just guys being pure. And I thought about getting involved in the Oakley forums. I don't think shady rays would appreciate that. No, uh, but listen, I understand why somebody would fall into that. And listen, I'm not also saying that I'm, I'm like the moral arbiter of, of cynicism online because we definitely fall into the trap of being cynical at times and shitting on things for,

for no reason we all do. I'm just saying, I've personally tried to, to take a step back and be like, hey, maybe not everything is the worst all the time. Maybe something's just can exist as they are and be okay. Also, I will say this that if what Freddie was doing during his trip to America was actually making you feel upset, like the emotion of anger, the internet might not be for you. Dude,

“I was talking to Todd to log off. Yeah. I was pumped that he was making me feel good as an American,”

like, oh, yeah. Chili's rocks. Oh, fuck yeah. We do. Yeah, you know what, Eastern Ohio is kind of cool. If you get the right sunset. Yeah, you know what, like a German

that just got over here? Yeah, let's send him to NASA. That always ends well. Let's do it.

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learn more today. Okay Hank and Max are out. PFT year up. Hot seed cool drone. My hot seed is

Grand closing. Damn. She was the only person to home. Yeah. She's probably still playing the doubles

“with with Venus. There was a two-hour game. There was six three six seven six three. So she won one”

that good for her. She's 44. That's pretty cool that she was able to do it. But yeah. Come back over. Also hot seed. Maybe. Maybe Jalen Brown. So there was a report that the offers that the Celtics have been getting for Brown are like nowhere near what they were putting out there. So Hank actually around about way might end up being right just because the Celtics might not get anything remotely close what they had planned to have him come back. And there was a comment on

Instagram. This was from Orlando vibe dealer commented under a Jalen Brown video says man as a

person can't stand the Celtics. I hope they do right by him by trading him to a city who respects him.

Jalen Brown liked that comment. Oh. So yeah. I don't know what's going to happen with them.

“But it seems like the the interest level is not what they thought it would be. Yikes. Okay.”

So so Hank's fan fiction of Jalen Brown asking for a trade, then not getting traded, then going back to Brad Stevens being like dude. It's okay. I'm good. Probably not looking good. No, I'm saying like there's a chance that he sticks around just because they don't get a good enough offer to end up trading him. But it sounds like Jalen Brown wants out. He does one out. Yes. That part like if he's not part over that part over. If he's like that,

if he's that upset, it feels like they might have to trade him even for not a great offer for nothing. You know that Danny age is trying to get involved in something. You know, yeah. The longer there's going on without the jazz, making moves. You know, Danny ages just sitting by the phone just feeling and just scratching, just shaking, got the cold sweats. You just let me get a quick hit of something. Just a small trade. Take the edge off. Yeah. Okay. You're cool. And then my cool

thrown is playing victim because the little follow up on the WMBA Caitlin Clark throat punch. Oh, it's Thomas is saying that now she's getting death threats and that people are threatening to leak her information online. So in a stunning turn of events, she was actually the one that had the most harm done to her after that fall. Again, I'd like to opt out of the Caitlin Clark discourse until she wins something. But it is ridiculous that this league cannot figure it out

in terms of how a combination of marketing, protecting, but also encouraging like good rivalries with her. Yeah. It's crazy that they haven't figured out how to how to make this work from a financial standpoint. Yeah. How to agree. Okay. My hot seat is Josh Nailer because I don't know if you guys saw but Josh Nailer, he got into a little bruhaha with with a former teammate Austin hedges. Josh Nailer stuck his arm out to get hit by a pitch and hedges John Boy did a lip reading and hedges

y'all that I'm you fucking loser. No one likes you. Literally nobody likes you. Which that would be fine. Whatever. It seems like people might not like Josh Nailer. But then we got a story that is quite something from Stone Garrett who said that did you guys see this? No. Okay. I'm going to read it for you. It means you saw this, right? I do not. Okay. So he, he was

“the story about Josh Nailer. Wait, I want to make sure that I have all the facts, right?”

And maybe, well, let me make sure because I don't want to, you know, Stone Garrett played with Josh Nailer. And so in the minor leagues and Stone Garrett wrote a story on an Instagram comment saying, Josh Nailer liked to play stupid games. Dude would come into our apartment.

We were neighbors with aerosol and lighters multiple times. That wasn't his first time in our

apartment with the butcher's knife. The guy hit in my closet waiting for me to get home. When I went to hang my shirt up, he jumped out with a knife pointed at me. It caught my thumb sliced it wide open. I went to the ER. He waits for me when I get back. First question is, are you going to press charges? Next day coach holds team meeting saying front office wants to keep it hush hush. I get surgery. He cut my nerve. Still can't feel my right thumb. He got

suspended for one game. Two weeks later, he goes to the future's game and gets traded. He's the most psychotic person I've ever met in my life. Holy shit. Kind of sounds like a fun prank.

I should have, I know. I mean, listen, I'd like to read the three true. Yeah, who sports wrote about it.

“80. Oh, wait. Here we go. Yeah. X Diamondbacks player. It says that, yeah, a 2016”

knife and this is from AZ Central. A 2016 knife against it involving an X Diamondbacks player in the Seattle Mariners. Oh, and I got to pay for AZ Central. I'm not paying. Get out of here. Former all star just now, a resurface on Instagram June 29th, stone gear to play the for air zone in 2022, called nil or the most psychotic person he's ever known. When he commented on a video posted by MLB social media influencer Mario, the poster Mario brought up the knife incident

asked for corroboration. Okay. So that was that's crazy. That's fucking crazy. If you're hiding in the

closet, I already did it for the jump scare. Why do you need the knife? If you're already going to get an action realism to it. Listen, I was cool with the air saw lighter thing. Everyone's done

“that. That's funny. Knife in a closet is a crazy. That's funny. That's not even really a prank anymore.”

That's just, that's just trying to stab somebody. Yeah, holy shit. So yeah, that I mean, that is stone gear. It's official account. And so he corroborated this. So I guess it was an Instagram MLB influencer being like, I've heard this rumor, can anyone corroborate it? And it's so weird. It was like, yeah, it was me. He jumped out of a fucking cloth. That's yeah. That's worse than the the Michael Irvin haircut story. Yeah, I guess this is all still alleged. We should just say alleged, but I'm

reading it right now on Yahoo sports on AZ Central Arizona Republic. It feels like there's some some like actual news places are are reporting on this. So how did that not get out? That's the other thing. I said hush, hush, hush, hush, hush. It's fucking crazy. Can't hear a note about that. Let's see, would that match up timeline? Would they say 20? No, 2016? No, I don't think that matches up. Man. Oh, that's come though. Holy shit. But yeah, Joshnailer, that would be my hot seat.

I'm trying to think, what did I have for my coolter? Oh, cool throne. Oh, we shouldn't, we should have also mentioned, uh, Malik Biesley. That seems bad. Yep. Yep. The way it meets is you have as your hot seat cool throne. Yeah. I don't know. All right. So you go into it, memes. My cool throne though is Ben Simmons because he's thinking about doing a comeback and uh, there's no one who does offseason hype better than Ben Simmons. He had a men's album back. Yes, pass. Well, he's on his

fishing boat in Miami and he had a feature in men's health being like he might come back. Yeah. Um, Ben, I feel like fishing is your calling. Yep. A great. That means you're your hot sequel throne. Hot seat, Malik Biesley. He is guilty and going prison. For yeah sports betting. Yeah, there's a lot of clips out there there tough.

“Oh, do we just lose be a thing? I think we lost PFT. He was frozen for a little bit there.”

Keep going. Let's keep ripping. He'll hop again. Other hot seat was Caitlin Clark. Emmanuel Ahcho said the W, the W MBA would be better without Caitlin Clark because she is a bigger distraction than she is an additive. Oh, shit. We need PFT here for this. Yeah, I know he said he was taking it to Clark. We'd say that say it again. The quote, the MBA would be better without Caitlin Clark because she's a bigger distraction than she is an additive. Oh, man. I mean,

Ahcho is just like, I know we just did this whole thing on say like he's just trying to

he basically is that mean like how can I go in there and make this about myself, right?

Every single discussion that happens online. He's like, well, let me come over the top with the fucking outrageous take. Did you know what? All right. I'm coming. I'm I'm sound this out. He is actually nice. Emmanuel Ahcho is nice in the fact that he does take heat off basically everyone else around him. Because he says something so ridiculous, that's like, okay, now it's about Ahcho. PFT, I was like, hey, medium, you can keep going,

going and PFT will hop back on. And then he was, it was, his other hot sea was Emmanuel Ahcho and Caitlin Clark and I was like, I'll fuck. I wish PFT was here. So Emmanuel Ahcho, I guess, came over the top

bunch of people saying that like Caitlin Clark should leave and start her own league. I don't think

that that's going to work either. I think that that's like we got to be, there has to be something in between that we can all agree on for the success of the W MBA and Caitlin Clark to work out together. And then Ahcho said that he gave like he gave that take and then somebody else replied like,

“you should hear what Ahcho said to us in 2020 when he spoke to our entire team and it was a”

guy that was on the Yankees. And for some reason they asked Ahcho to like give a pump up speech to the New York Yankees in 2020 and apparently ended up being the most ridiculous speech ever. I have to find out what was said in that like, what did Ahcho say to that team that was so outlandish that could happen. It was, I think was a Clint Fraser who said that because Clint Fraser, yeah, he let's it fly. We should have them on the show. He let's it fly. Nice. You Clint,

we got to have you on part of my take. I want to hear exactly the message that that Manilaacho delivered to your team. We need it. We're Sunday night, please, please. We would love to talk about what the Manilaacho speech will entail. All right, your cool term. Cool, thrown and just Mexico. Mexico fans were just outside Ecuador's hotel. She did not fireworks playing the drum. Keep

“in love with that. I love that. That's how you do it. Like that the home, the home field advantage”

here is a real thing for them. Take advantage of every, every little piece you can. Zach. Oh, my, my cool term this week, or my Hotsie this week wasn't going to be sure in Williams guy would say that she may be being a little selfish, but I can pivot there. My Hotsie this week is probably going to be PFT. Oh, no. I think PFT. I'm seeing a lot of stuff about Andy Davis leaving the wizards. I don't know if it's because I'm part of the the wizards

pipeline now, PFT, but it's so much so that if there's not a super team assembly clause in your bet, I think your car is gone. I think it's so me going forever. Zach, Zach, talk to me about this because I feel like you and I might be consuming different different new sources. You might be consuming new sources that are more anti-wiz that have anti-wiz, you know, wizards, arrangement syndrome. I'm consuming the real news that's saying that Andy Davis, unless we're getting

multiple first round picks and win now players, he's he's going to be a wizard. So you don't think it's going to be just the young core in Jimmy Butler? I don't know. I don't see a world in which that makes sense like from a basketball standpoint. You've got you've got too many people that would play that same position, including young guys

that need minutes and Jimmy Butler being old and coming off in ACL. And he's never been the

best guy to have on a team around like young emerging players. So I don't know, I don't know, what are you seeing, Zach? Are you seeing anti-davis to the warriors? Yeah. I was seeing like anti-davis to the warrior sir. Yeah. I think you can see just knowing that LeBron James tends to get his way. That would be, you know, a reason why he might go out there. But I don't, I think it's more likely that LeBron goes to the wizards than it is that

AD goes to the warriors. You want to play with AD so much? Come to DC, LeBron. We'll have you. There you go. That's an open invite. So safe space. You mean that? Yeah. Yeah. I do. I do. And not just saying that because if LeBron James came to the wizards that my season tickets would like quadruple and value. That's not why I'm saying that. Oh my God. It'd be the greatest investment you've ever made in your entire life.

Yeah. Yeah. It would be insane. A farewell tour? Yeah. It would be great. It would be great.

“You should do it. Listen, LeBron. MJ came to the wizards. Everybody makes fun of those years.”

If you came to the wizards, you got, I'll even say if you just get to like the eastern conference finals with the Washington wizards, that is worth more than winning a championship or two in South Beach. That's worth more than winning a bubble title in Los Angeles. I would put it almost on par for winning an NBA championship in Cleveland. Just getting the wizards to the eastern

conference finals for the first time since the invention of the three-pointer would be there'd be

no argument anymore. That would be like messy in this world cup putting a stamp on the fact that he's the goat. Ronaldo is clearly number three or four. If that happened, there's no argument anymore LeBron. You are legal. So do it. Zack, by the way, the hot seat that I had for you that I forgot about. I don't remember. We did the dinners only like like 10 days ago. We did the draft.

Something's bigger than performance. That's right. Is that what you said at the time?

I don't know if I said that at the time, but I'll stand on that right now. Okay, because I was taxing with Vinnie last night and I was like, hey, good news. You're on Zack's team and he's like, does he know that I'm like hurt? I feel like he's got great great doctors. Home runs coming too. Okay, all right. Good. I was like, I don't think he knows. I don't think he cares.

“No, no. Jersey was already in the rider from the season one, so I just out of respect, you know?”

Yeah. All right. Go ahead with your cool tour on Zack. My cool tour on this week is when we Nick Saben. So we did see everything going on with Terran Arnold. Lock going on there. You

maybe didn't have the best people around him. A couple guys not looking off for his best and just

but Nick Saben stepped in and said, like, I let you know as a character, testimony that the young man's a good guy could be not me, but on this young man is it what the new just trying to make him out to be, maybe. Nick Saben stepped up for his guy. Yeah. I think he it would have been a much more effective letter if he had started out by saying, I want to say that I am anti-kidnapping however, and then the rest of his letter just maybe lead off with that next time. So, you know,

people don't want people to get the wrong impression for coach, but yeah, I mean, if you look at it, like 99.99% of Terran Arnold's life, he has spent not kidnapping people and they don't talk about that.

“They just talk about the 0.01%. I think also like, was it over seeing, was it a fate like,”

he wasn't boots on the ground is what I was seeing a lot. Well, yeah, he was maybe just got the wrong people around, you know? Yeah. Yeah, he's got to get a better fall guy. I think he was kind of in charge allegedly, and then he showed up and he was deaf. They're alleging that he was a very,

very, very big part of everything, but I do, I don't know. It's kind of crazy. This is the first time

that I've heard Nick Saben like go out on a limb like this for one of his former players. So I don't know what that means, but depending on where they try the case and who the judge is, like that might end up working. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think it's a Hillsborough County. Okay. I'm going to move the other bone, but now you got to say at the house, because I forced the lines to rock them. That would be very, I mean, can you imagine a player playing in a game with one of the

ankle monitors? They requested the monitor, but he said he couldn't perform his job if he had the monitor. They did ask for it. That would kind of rock. That would kind of be awesome. If you had a guy, like, can you imagine like a pick six wearing the monitor? Be cool. Yeah. Take into the house. Back to the house. Okay. Let's, oh, last thing, obviously really sad story because the Chris Johnson news was was really, really sad for anyone who missed it. He did an interview with

Michael Strayhand on Good Morning America. He has ALS. I've talked about it before. I've lost some of my family to ALS. It's a horrific horrific disease, and it's like, there's no cure. So any funding helps and there's a ton of places that you can donate. You know, we, we obviously have a history with peak for 80s and the ice bucket challenge. I did something with Boob, Xiaomi for Lou Gerg, Day a couple of weeks ago. So anything that can help, we all loved watching and play

football. It's a horrific disease. It just, and it's not only just like it, it's the disease for the person who passes, but it just consumes your whole family and everyone around you because it just, it's really fast and, and just awful to watch. So terrible news, but yeah, anyone, if you, if you have extra money to, you know, throw around and give to a great cause, there's a ton of great causes that are doing ALS research because it'd be great if we could find a cure for it.

So Steve Gleason does a lot of stuff. Yeah. And what's kind of crazy is that he had a Chris Johnson had a teammate Tim Shaw who was diagnosed with ALS in 2014. Like two guys from that

“same Titan's team. Um, or our deal with right now, but yeah. Yeah. It's a great cause if you want to”

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very special guest. It is baseball Hall of Famer, John Smoltz, and he's getting ready for the American

century championship in Tahoe, which we've, John, we've done it for the last two years. It's our third

“year. Maybe our favorite week of the entire year. I'd have to imagine it's the same for you, right?”

It is. Perfect venue, perfect time. Collection of so many different celebrities that you couldn't share at the come, right? Like there's to come from all different walks of life and all different backgrounds and certainly all different golf games. So not all 91 of them obviously have a chance to win, but it's one of those where do you rank within your peer group and the ones that are there, like myself that have a chance to win? We want to win. Yeah. It's a great competition. The fan base

is crazy, but listen, American century, they do an unbelievable job, not only behind the scenes, but putting on this event for over 30 years, the charity component, everything that they do for that only cancer research, but really we're just, we're blessed as athletes to get to be in a unique spot at that venue where people are screaming and it's not your normal golf tournament. Yeah. Does it feel like the juices flowing again? Like every once a year you get to feel what

you felt, maybe maybe it's not the same as starting pitching or closing a game, but getting a little bit of that back has to feel kind of special, especially for some of the retired athletes. It does. It takes a moment to get used to that kind of tournament golf where you're waiting on the last three holes quite a bit to get those shots in because of the jam-packed, par five, par three, par five. So when you get to that point, that's when it starts

playing on your nerves a little bit. You can maybe get close to the sport of pitching with the bases loaded or pitching in the world series and just having the ability to close out a golf tournament so difficult until you've done it a few times. And 17 is unique, man. It's that heart free shot that there's tons of people playing music and all the different anxiety that comes over you when you're just have an iron in your hand. You would think when you have an iron

in your hand, it's no big deal, especially at nine hour in a pitching wedge. But that's where it starts getting a little nerve-wracking, especially if you've got a chance to win or you're in the hunt. Yeah, yeah, I mean it's a very fun tournament to be had to fun tournament to watch. Do they do get any protection from from having to be paired up with no disrespect, you know, the Charles Barclays of the world, some of the guys that might not have a shot to win the whole tournament,

do you get to kind of like make sure that you're going to be playing with guys that are in your

“same bracket? I think they do a good job with that in the pairings. They really put the guys together”

and the gals together that have kind of a similar style of golf. But there's unique setups as well too. So, you know, in the past, I've been with some baseball people and then I've been with a bunch of different people. And if that's a fun part of seeing what pairing is, but then knowing,

you know, you're looking to the leaderboard, especially after about the first nine holes to see

if anyone's having that tremendous start to his tournament. It's a unique tournament where three

a much better chance of winning because for some reason, all I do is make pares when I get out there.

Pares is no good. Usually, pares is good. You've got to make some birdies. You're better off making birdies in bogies. I tried to adopt that philosophy. Birdies in bogies. Birdies in bogies. Be aggressive. And then you get in the thick of things and you still don't, you know, you don't want to ever make a bogie. You don't want to ever three-cut. But what you definitely don't want to do is make a double bogie because that's minus two points. So, I got to find a way

to get out of that par mode. I had 29 consecutive pares, one tournament. Jesus. And that is not, you would think that would be great when it's not. It's like a snail's pace where other people are making six birdies and ten bogies and they've passed me. You know, that's the difference. Yeah, I mean, a lot of people are saying out there. I don't know if you've heard the rumors and the buzz is going through the media. John Smoltz can't win the big one. They're saying that you have

that you can't win this tournament, no clutch gene. That's such that's true to this point. So, I do something about it. Yeah, I joke about my career path in baseball as the same as my

career path in towels. In baseball, we finished second four times, five times. I didn't want to even,

you know, one in five in the world serves or one in four. Whatever it is, trying to get that.

“That's what's happening in Tahoe. I'm finishing four seconds, four times. That's got to change.”

So, I got to find a way to be the oldest winner, which I will. At some point, I'm going to be the oldest winner of every win towel. It's just a matter of when. Yeah, yeah. Can we talk some baseball? So, we're taping this before the All-Star break. Is there a tears of like teams that you've seen kind of shaking out where it's like these teams, maybe it's the braves and the Dodgers, who are just that much ahead of everyone else and it feels like it's their season to win a

world series and everyone else is chasing them? I think with the National League being more balanced, there's more teams for sure than the American League. Now, the braves are on a little bit of thin ice with some of their injuries. They've got a nice lead, but it's dwindling because you've got the fillings making a charge now. You've got some teams like Milwaukee proven. They're not just that small market team again. They keep doing it. They keep finding ways to have young

pitchers be dynamic and then you've got some teams that you scratch your head about the Chicago Cubs. They won ten and a row two different times or more and then they've lost ten and a row or more. So, it's a straight, I don't understand the San Diego Padre's. They've been a disappointment.

“The Diamondbacks are trying to get healthy with a couple of their guys, but I think yes, the Dodgers”

are the prohibitive favors as they should be, but they don't have lakes now. They don't have glass now. They don't have some of their bullpen, guys. The narrative of baseball and I hate it is health. We should be dealing with more health than we are. And so it comes down to who's the healthiest team at the right time either make the trades to improve their club or obviously in the postseason. So, even though there's more balance in the national league, some teams are dealing with

some injuries that drastically change their season. Yeah, who would you say would be like are there any teams out there that people might be thinking might be sellers who you could see end up being buyers?

Yeah, I've always said and they've never proved me wrong. Unfortunately, I've always said that the

Pittsburgh Pirates sooner or later got to be buyers, but they end up being sellers. They end up not you know, being in position. They've they've accumulated a lot of talent. They've got Paul schemes. They've got to find a way when you got generational players to get in the playoffs to maximize that that player because you're never going to sign them. They haven't shown that they're going to

“re-sign any of these guys to a long-view of contract. So, I think what they eyes are going to be on”

is the New York Metz. Do they do enough by the, by the all star of rate to not be sellers? And still have that roster which has been banged up and it's got a ton of salary on it. So, I look for the Metz to be interesting to watch. The nationals are getting closer and closer to being really relevant, which you know is ahead of the curve. And so, they're going to be an interesting team. The marlins, I don't think the marlins ever look at being as buyers, but they're

planning really good baseball. And so, you got the same old kind of markets that that you look to that the big teams cherry pick from that is going to be interesting. The central has a lot of competitive teams. They were all close to 500 or above. I think Cincinnati, now just below. But I think what everyone's going to be looking at is the American League teams. What teams do they feed stop of? Yeah. And, and that's going to be the, the buyer seller market is going to be majority

And it's very rare that you would get a picture that is that talented that could be available.

So, who do you think makes the most sense in terms of like what teams do you think will be

“most aggressive for school? Well, I think first and foremost, if it's not in this order,”

but you've got to be able to think that Detroit may have waited too long. So, I don't know what kind of package they get for a generational left-hand a picture, but they're going to expect a lot. Otherwise, I think they're going to hang on to them to the end. And then, of course, not be able to recite them and lose them. But I think the teams that are are able to not only have the prospects to trade for, but the ability to sign him long-term before this labor dispute

get settled or whatever comes on the other end of it. So, I think a big market team actually could be in the play for, and it's, it's crazy to think that the Dodgers would be one of those teams, but they're going to be one of those teams. Whether they do it or not, they have all of the prospects, they have all of the money, and they have obviously spent a lot of money to see what happens on the shape, out on the other side. Now, I don't think that a small market team,

even if they're in the position of making the playoffs would make that kind of move. But I heard

“from the beginning of the year, wouldn't it be unbelievable? And I think this shift may have passed,”

but what would be the prospects of Pittsburgh getting school with schemes, and being relevant in the postseason, trying to get through those two monsters in the postseason, all of a sudden you've got a team that's marginal to all of a sudden, they are very dangerous. Again, I don't think that's going to happen, but if I was a Pittsburgh fire fan, I would be like, man, let's put all our ships to do that and try to make something happen. But I think, for the most part, it's going to be somebody

who has the ability, I think. Unless they're just willing to give up a bunch of prospects for a two-month fire, which is tough to do, I think the big market teams actually have the best play. Are you shocked at all about how hard guys are throwing now? Like the Jacob Miserowski, his, you know, if you look at his stats and the fact that he's touching 104 regularly,

“like that's just a different game than when you were pitching, not that you weren't throwing”

hard and there were guys not throwing hard in the 90s, but it seems like if you don't have a couple guys on your staff throwing over 100, you're at a disadvantage and it's just like, it's nuts how it's all evolved. Yes, but it's worked and it's insane. The reason I say that is it's the reward system that players are chasing, it's because what clubs want is not sustainable. It's just not.

Nobody has survived it. We might have one freak, one Nolan Ryan in a generation. I always use this

example. Nolan Ryan was a freak, right? You can't even come close to saying there were five other Nolan Ryan's on Nolan Ryan pitched. We have 25 Nolan Ryan's now, right? That's just genetically possible. That's a manufactured against the odds where your body can't sustain it. Yes, the radar guns a little juice, first of all. And guys are definitely training to throw the balls hard as they can. No doubt. The training of baseball pitchers is way ahead of the training of hitting. And you see

this shift going on and what clubs are trying to do and how they use 38 pitchers a year. Think about that. 38 pitchers to get through a season. That's insane. Yeah, but because they have a lot of factory arms, because they have guys that don't ought to pitch but can throw, they can fill the gap with the rules that exist in baseball. Things have to change in a rule change down the road, which is going to come, but they got to get this labor thing behind it. A rule change is going to come just

like an affected the pitch clock and the planning of the shift and all the things that have now made baseball row of it again, we're going to have to do that on the pitching front because right now clubs don't care whether a guy last five or six years. They just care about that moment and time

where he can max effort. And we're having discussions that we should never be having on the narratives

like this. Oh, man. Terrible. Unbelievable. When's he going to get his? Well, he had a precursor. I already want to lose little. I call it, you get a sneak preview of what's coming. When's Paul Scheme's going to get his? When's Mr.owski going to go? I don't want to have those conversations. I said 10 or 8 years ago what was coming and it's here. And nobody cares because the guys that are running the game have never played. And so they only care about the bottom dollar and the

opportunity to maximize run prevention. So from their side, if I had the jump on their side, here's what I would say. It works temporarily. But then you got to find the next guy. And until until that runs out, which there is no sign that that's going to run out, guys careers are caught in thirds eighths. It's insane. But if I had the jump on that side, I would absolutely

that this is how you get drafted. This is how you get paid. Oh, by the way, you're never going to

have a 10 and 15-year career. Yeah. So that's the buy product. Or I should say the downside of what's

“going on. Well, off that. So you were, I think you were the first pitcher to be elected in the”

Hall of Fame who had Tommy John surgery. And Tommy John surgery now is just like commonplace. It's basically like you're saying like, oh, you're going to pitch for a couple of years and you're getting a Tommy John, then you're going to be back. What is the rehab like on Tommy John? When you came back from Tommy John, do you feel like brand new or because it does feel almost like an injury that's like, all right, check that box. He got Tommy John. Now he's going to be back. He'll be fine.

Yeah, here's the myths, Brown, behind Tommy John that nobody is paying attention to. The theory is, this is you're going to be better, stronger, and you're just going to, like a 10-day, just got a weight 16 months, 16 to 18 months, which is way too long. But everyone's okay with waiting 18 months to think that they're going to get the guy that can actually throw harder. That's a myth. You don't throw harder. You don't get to a place where you just imagine everybody like for me,

I had about 2400 innings as I was wearing down in all those postseasonings and pitching through pain and discomfort. I knew what was coming. I was pitching with a torn ligament for a year and a half. And I was going to retire. But Tommy John himself called me, the doctors talked me into it, and I pitched seven more years. And I was back to where I was, pre- Tommy John. But the myth is, you're going to make it. Like if you have it at 16 years old, there's no guarantee you even

get to the next level. Right. You can pick it back to 16. Here's what Tommy John stats are.

Wherever you have your surgery, wherever you were at, you got a high likelihood of going back to that, but not necessarily advancing from that. We forget about the hundreds and thousands of pictures who never advanced past what their Tommy John, but yeah, there aren't good and they're almost good. But what I felt like I came back in 10 months, which is really early. And I had a set back with some tendonitis, but then once I was able to get over it, I went to the bullpen. I pitched

another seven years, never really had an injury with my elbow. My shoulder was the one that ended up going. But this is this mindset that parents have. It's insane. I'm going to have a little Johnny, as Tommy John a 12 and he's going to be fine, because look at this guy, look at that guy. The earlier they have it, the more susceptible they are to a second. We've got guys with two Tommy John's and three Tommy John's. This is not normal. The arm just that in the body is

telling you, this is not sustainable. When I see a young man at 14th or 92 miles an hour, I cringe. When a parent says, what should I do with my, you know, I said, put him in the outfield. Stop pitching. He's got the gift. What are we doing? Why are you dominating a 12 and 13 and just pushing the body to the point where it's okay to have a Tommy John surgery? I spent five minutes of my

“holiday speech on this topic and it fell on deaf ears. Yeah. And I think that's the reality of the”

why we need rule changes coming towards pitching to change the philosophy and change what we're asking guys to do. If we don't get that, we have a sport where the iconic and, and must ETV starting pictures are gone. There's no matchups. There's no, let me look and go to this game because I got this guy starting. When you look around the league today, I can't find 10 guys

that I would buy a ticket to a from a fan to go. I have to go see him pitch. The reality is there's

not that many that go six or seven innings anyways. And there's not that many that have the head up matchup where you go, that's a must ticket. So baseball is compartmentalized. The entity that was a strongest unit that got you to the postseason that was the marquee matchup. They've taken that away and used three pitchers for that one. And now it's taking 12 pitchers to 14 pitchers between two teams to get through a game. So if you're scrolling around going, yeah, Paul schemes,

I want to go see him pitch, but who is he going to pitch against? Those matchups have been diluted

“because we devalued the great net role of a starting pitcher by Alex. So I mean, I think you make”

a whole lot of sense and I wish people would start paying attention to you. What rule change could you possibly put in though to discourage the way that clubs are just tune guys up and spending them out? Right. And there's a couple ways you can do it. And when you, when you would have thought about the rule changes that we have today, when those came up, everyone said you're crazy, not really, because now we realize the game's movin' along, the shift, which was killing left-hand

ground balls and killing right-hand ground balls is no longer. So when you have a society of the game that is trying to lift the ball out of the ball park because it's counteracting high velocity,

the ways, and I floated this out five years ago, and of course they thought it was crazy, was you tie your starting pitcher to the DH. Well, what is that going to do? Well, that's going to give you a competitive advantage if your pitcher goes seven or eight innings versus the four or five. That's also going to eliminate the stupidest IV in the history of the game as an opener,

“because if you want to start a guide for one inning, then you got five or four pinch hits”

coming down the pipe because you lose your DH. So that's one way to think proactively towards all right, I'm a club that sees this rule and goes, I'm going to come in a continued business the same way. Great, you can do it. See, it doesn't, it doesn't say you can't, it's just I don't think you'll be advantageous down the road. Now your club says, okay, I got these guys that throw 103. I got to teach them, I really don't want them to max effort every single pitch. I want them to have 103,

but let's just try to train them to give me seven eight innings, which you can do by the way. Like, I don't understand why all of a sudden, that's such a bad thing. So that's one way to do it. The other way to do it is limit roster manipulation in the farm system and roster big league rosters by only having 11 pitchers. If you only have 11 pitchers and you got six bullpen guys, good luck trying to get four and five innings out of your starters every single time.

And couple that with you don't have an elevator system where you can just, you can just have guys come up and down and it will. It's interesting that you mentioned the, the opener. I was going to ask you about the opener. If you thought that you would have been a good opener back, you know, later in your career, you had switched to the bullpen. You were a fantastic loser. Do you think the opener role would have been one that suited you? I would have quit. I would have quit.

I know that what here's what's going on again, it's a stratomatic baseball. When you do this,

you're basically telling whatever that starting pitcher is that's coming in behind that can't face the lineup three times or the top of the order. You're saying to him, you're not that good. And so you've already impacted that next guy because he's coming in in a second inning, he realizes he can't face Aaron Judge in the first inning. But he's eventually got to face him. He's just going to go to face him one in maybe two times. So again, on paper has ruined baseball.

“And, but it's not against rules. So that's the rub, right? And I think when you start getting”

cute with the game and you start thinking on paper is the maximum success rate, it just doesn't work. That can work in a game by itself. But if you keep doing that, look at all the teams that did that. And then the one problem, I don't have a problem with analytics. I think analytics is great.

But the problem is if that's all your resources and that's the only decisions you make

is on analytics, I think you're missing the boat. I think you just absolutely have no chance of winning a world series and/or anything else because you don't understand the game and how it's played over 162. You've got to use your eyes and you've got to be able to blend. So these kind of things I've been saying for years and it's definitely showing up every year in a world series. You see the teams that win, the teams that don't TBA from the way that they go about the game.

Now, I will say this. If every game was playing the dome, then you can get more universal kind of statistical categories that are neutral. But you got wind, you got elevation, you got all these other elements that we want to quantify by a stack. We want to show how smart we are to come up with an algorithm or a stack that just quantifies 100%. There's no such thing. But if you show me 100%

“analytics as a manager, I will not deviate from that. But there is no such thing. So you have to balance”

it and you have to play the game in a certain way so that you can understand the flows and the ads and the human nature and the elements. But if everything wasn't at home, then you would have a better case to make for those kind of numbers. Who's your favorite picture to watch right now and why? That's a great question. Thank you. I just think I'm a generational guy. I like a guy who can sustain time. I mean, don't get me wrong. I love watching schemes. I love

watching school. I love watching Garrett Cole. I've always been partial to a Zach Wheeler.

My favorite for the longest time was Justin Burlander because yet I call him a 10-speed bike. You know, he could start at 92 and 99 or throw it 100 in the first inning and still ended 100. He manipulated the game and he understood he could pitch in any generation. And my fear for these guys is when they lose their miles per hour, they have no tools in their tools that they have no way to know how to pitch with less velocity because they've been taught

max velocity. So, you know, Jacob DiGramman, he came on a scene. Drule came out of my mouth.

"Why my gosh, this guy would be unbelievable. I hope he sustains it. I hope he could learn

"that he doesn't have to be addicted to 103." You know, that we don't have to keep talking about miles per hour and we talk about his success. Every time, I mean, I want, I kind of want to throw up when I see his stats. All they talk about is how many pitches he threw over 102 miles an hour. He could have, he could have given up seven runs or thrown a no-hitter and they're talking about 102 miles an hour. We got to get back to pitching and rewarding these guys for great efforts. So,

there's so many dynamic arms and there's so many guys that you just, you go, "Wow, my number one thing is please say healthy, please say healthy, please say healthy. I want to watch you pitch as long as you possibly can." Yeah, and a question about your career because you are the best ever,

“I would say, that started and then closed. When you went into the bullpen, what did you have to”

change about your mentality and because a lot of guys don't like that, I would assume, like they're either starters or, you know, it's almost like the old saying, like a bullpen guy's just a failed starter. Like, that's a guy if he could start, he'd be making more money, but he can't, so he's in the bullpen. You did both at such a high level. What was that, what was that change like for you, mentally and just emotionally and how you watch the game? It was the hardest thing I've ever done,

and I know people are going to be like, "What? You're still throwing a baseball, but the structure, the personality, everything you just mentioned." First of all, when I started, it was longevity,

my reward system was different. You know, we were taught to train for eight, nine innings. I never

maxed effort of pitch. I could throw 94 to 97, but I varied my speeds, I varied my angles. All the things we were trying to do, guys had a two strike approach. All of the things that hitters had, we're totally different than they are today. There was no badge of honor that you struck out three times but hit a home where you would like looked at with a funny face. But when I went, the closure's rolled for an inning, I could actually let the ball eat, as you would say, 98, 99, but I still

wasn't maxed efforting. I wasn't grunning. It was just the ability to do that, sustain it, and have 81 appearances or 78 appearances that I did my first time. I was exhausted. I've thrown 256 innings in a regular season, and I threw 81 innings or whatever it was, my first time as a closure, I was gasped as a closure. All the warmups, all the times getting ready, all the times you didn't get in, and just that continual three in a row, five out of six, six out of eight, those

those dynamics have changed dramatically. Guys don't pitch three games in a row anymore. Guys are maxed effort trying to strike out three in an inning. I'd say mostly to try to strike

“out four in an inning if they get a pass ball, and I think it's the difference is the what they're”

being rewarded for. But man, oh man, was it difficult for me to make that transition? Because of the structure and discipline for pitching, starting pitcher is the greatest life in the earth. It is. It's a greatest life, greatest job, and most people are invious of it when you do it well, because it is the greatest job. Then when you go to the bullpen, you're like, forget that. You've got to be ready every day, you work out, you're eating habits, everything changes, and

I learned on the hard way. I learned on the job because there wasn't time for me to gain experience. The one thing I did have in a bandage of is my 14 previous years in starting pitching. Gave me the leverage that when I came into the game, guys didn't want to get two strikes. So I got a lot of quick outs. I got a lot of you, you know, outs without throwing a ton of pitches, and they didn't want to get two strikes. So I knew how to put guys away, and then it became a leverage

“forming when I got to the closing world. How did that affect your golf game, though? I imagine”

the starting pitcher, you get to play a lot more golf than as a closer. In theory, yes, but reality, no, I played every day as a closer, because I only had to get three outs or six outs at night and about 10 30 at night. So I couldn't play the day at pitch as a starter, obviously reasons. So I played 40s in between as a closer. I know a lot of heads turned, I know an upper management was freaking out, and I told him it's not that big of deal.

There won't be any, you know, I won't sacrifice my ability to pitch. After 55 saves my first year,

then I never questioned me about playing golf again, but I played a lot of golf as a closer

because of the ability, just you could, and you didn't, you know, you could rest and take a nap, whatever it is. Golfs not, by the way, a strenuous sport, especially if you're not walking 36 or, you're not shooting 100 or six. How many of your friends, I would imagine the invite to the American Century Championship is something that you cover, because we talked to the guys, and they're like, I just want to get invited back every year, because it's that much fun.

Have you, do you get hit up a lot, having people be like, hey, can you get me in? Can you, can you help me out? Yeah, that's been a popular text. I try my best, but the turnovers about 18 to 21 per

for granted, you know, I'm honored to have been now 16, 7 down, even though how many years have

“been, it's been awesome, I missed it once, for Tahoe, for Miss Tahoe once, because I got inducted”

in the Hall of Fame, and I really, really, really wanted to go to Tahoe, but I felt it would be a bad luck if I missed the Hall of Fame. So it's definitely a, again, it's a calendar thing, I told all my kids six of them, don't plan anything, no weddings during July right around the All-Star Break, because I won't be there. Yeah, it's smart, and that's smart. So we've had Greg Maddox on a couple of times this show. He's obviously a Hall of Famers well, but also a Hall of Fame prankster.

Did he ever get you with something? No. No, there was kind of, I don't know, you know, we kind of had an unwritten code picture on picture crying, but he did, he did a little bit of things that, you know, let's just say, I don't know how he didn't get beat up when he was a kid, you know, if he did these as a kid, but he had a way about him in his sneaky kind of weird thinking way of getting, getting through it without anybody really, I guess if he was a 500-feature, he couldn't get away

with it, but he's such a great picture, and one of the best all times you knew where your place was, when it came to try and get him. So he set the standards that Indirectly said, you can't touch me, which, yeah, kind of brilliant, but also, yeah, no, a picture on picture crime was kind of looked really, really poorly if that, if that happens. Yeah, was that weird at the time that like in the media, the way that Greg Maddox was talked about was like a boy scout professor,

combination, and then behind the scenes you're like, this guy is the most disgusting human being in terms of the pranks that he tries to pull, like how, who's his PR team? Yeah, you, you had no idea at the settlement most of the time with how, listen, I will say it was brilliant, everything that he did because he gave horrible interviews on purpose, horrible, and it took the owners off of him and it put it on us. Me and Glavin probably did more interviews about him that he did

about himself and the latter part of his career, and I look back and I go, it's actually brilliant.

He could walk down the street, no one knew who he was. He always was by the numbers and did things

that made him, you know, have an advantage in leverage, and yeah, he created a persona that was

“totally different. I'll never forget when Ernie Johnson, one of our, and Pete Benware, and an”

answers to TVS, I think they coined him the professor. I think that's where it started, and we're like professor, give me a break. But, you know, in the scheme of things and what he was doing and how far advanced he was when he's thinking, then that fit. But when it came to everything else, heck, now it didn't fit. Yeah, you know, but he was, he was a good fielder, he was a good athlete, he was a pretty good golfer. All the things that he could have had in his era, he could have had

every commercial, he could have been one of the highest-marked marketable guys, but he was low-keyed on purpose, and all those things I think, when I looked back, I'm like, you know, he did it his way, and he did it where the attention was kind of off of him because he made it. When you get the answers, like, you know, I just kind of got lucky or just, you know, people are like, "What?"

“So I think, I think he knew what he was doing. You guys, obviously, were part of an all-time”

pitching staff with the UMatics and Glamen, and would you guys like share with each other? Would you tell each other things? Like, what was that relationship like, or was it like, "Hey, I'm just doing my thing. You worry about yourself. Let's just go get wins." You know what I think the beauty of our three some was that we talked about hitting a lot, hitters a lot. What would you do, you know, ask each other question, we pitched three total different ways. Glamenematics were more similar in their velocity

in the way that they got hitters out with off speed. I was the guy that was deemed to have all the stuff and show the one all the while, you know, all the hardware and the stuff I owns. And I had

all that pressure that basically I was in most people's eyes, not delivering to, but they were

great teammates. Greg was great in the way that he taught me some things, and I was able to teach him how to have fun and play games and still have a career because he was living such a hot, level, and an expectation was so great that there's nowhere to go from there. When you win four side owns in a row, there's nowhere to go from there. Like, and again, was under performing

how to just be how to fake it. You know, how to have no, I was an emotional picture. I wore my emotions on my sleeve. It had its advent, advantages, and it had his disadvantages. He taught me how to fake it because when Glamen was on the mound, you didn't know if he's winning or losing. You know, they had a no hitter or give it up 10 runs. And I think that part of I learned how to have a successful campaign and successful year from Greg. I learned how to fight through my issues and not give

the hitter an advantage to Tommy. And so collectively, we showed up every day without saying it, trying to one-up each other. And by one-up in each other, that meant indirectly, it

breakthrough, complete game to run five hits. Then for me, it was, all right, I want to give up two

runs and four hits or one run and you know, so it made us better. And we checked our ego every time we came into the locker room because if you did, each one of them had a chance, you know, if you

“wanted to be the ace, then you were going to be humiliated at times. If that's what's your mindset.”

And we all lived in our lanes. And I like this example. During the regular season, over the course of our 10 years, Greg and Tom took turns driving the car. And I was in the backseat. Compos season, I jumped in the front seat and I started driving the car. That's the way I felt. That's the way I felt about what I could do. And it all worked out, you know, for three special years, three special careers to end up where we did. Yeah, it was a great team and another great

player that was on some of those teams, Fred McGriff, the crime dog. I'm wondering, did you ever watch the Tom a Manskey defensive drills video? Can you imagine how much great pizza from that? I mean, to this day, he's still as a horse laugh every time we bring it up. And I think he got stiffed to be honest with you. I don't even think he got paid. That commercial was on probably

“like 40 times a day for 20 years. I know. Did you do the crime dog and how jell giant he is?”

And how what an awesome teammate he was, it's just, it's perfect to see him in that video, just we would laugh every single time. But the crime dog was awesome. That's awesome. I was a great I'm Fred McGriff. It was like he was reading cue cards for his own name. And that one clip that they had. It was an awesome commercial. And your manager at the time Bobby Cox recently passed away RIP, just seems like an all-time baseball guy. I've read a lot of the stories, heard a lot of his players

talk about him. But was there anything special about him that you identified with that you really appreciated? Well, first of all, you know, a lot of people criticized his loyalty towards players as being blind and just it wasn't that way. But he did have tremendous loyalty to his players who

who discipline themselves, put in the time and the work and were always prepared. He understood

“the game was hard. And it was so easy in this game to jump ship on guys, especially managers who”

are on the hot seat because of their starter player or few players he never did. He had such credibility in our locker room for what he had done in the past. But his ability to lead men and I'd run through a wall form. Like I said this all the time and he traded for me as the GM and then he was my manager for 20 years. And he was the biggest reason, the single most reason why my career identified with what it did. I could have taken so many different terms for the worst

under under different leadership in 1991, I'm 2011. I mean, there's no precedent for a 211 first half guy to stick around in a rotation. In my day, you were going back to the bullpen or back to the miners. And he stuck with me. I went 12 and two of the rest of history. So he just had this ability to treat men, light men. And then if you weren't a man, teach you how to be a man. And then the same time give you confidence when you didn't have it.

That's a lost art in a game that's identified by failure. And can you I can even imagine today

if he was managing and guys are in 220, which they do. And the league average is the worst has always

been. He would find a way to make that 220 guy feel like he was sitting 320. And that's a special talent because you can see your average every time you go to the plate. And you can see what you're not doing. And it would be much easier to get that guy out of the lineup than to sustain him on give him confidence. And he had a gift for that. Yeah, John, this has been awesome. We can't wait for the American Century Championship. We're going to be rooting for you this year. We'll be out

in Tahoe that entire week. It is one of our favorite events. Like I said, we got one last question. It's a rowback question. RHO, BACK dot com promo code take 20% off your first purchase. Cusops, Polos, hoodies, joggers, shorts, rowback dot com. Great golfwear. I wear a polo every time

How are you doing today sir? Good. Thank you. Great to hear that. I did have a quick question. With the American Century Championship coming up soon, if you could hands select your pairing.

“Is there like a group of guys you'd want to play with most out there?”

Oh, good question. Oh, yeah. That's a great question. I've never actually played.

And I don't think I played in the same group with Steph Curry. But I'd love to play in the same group with Steph Curry. He's got, you know, typically when he comes in the Tahoe, he's coming off of a long playoffs. And he doesn't have that this year. So his game is going to be ready. I always love playing with Marty Fish. Marty Fish is one of my all-time favorites. And now we play together on the pro tour that we've started. And a lot of the athletes that playing on the

pro tour are going to be a Tahoe. But really Joe Provelle skis, another one that's one. I just love playing with guys that, first of all, are really, really good. And I learned a lot by watching really good players, even though I'm probably way older than all of them. I love good swings. I love emulating good swings. I don't have any technique downpat perfect. But I just like playing with people who are, who are pretty good. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you're very, very good. So maybe

this is the year. Do you feel like your games in a spot where this is the year? My game is a great spot. I've gotten two years removed from both my hips being replaced. I have learned a lot about my body since my hips. You know, I was playing golf, banged up way too much because I'm addicted to golf. There's no doubt about it. I'll play through a broken leg, broken arm. I don't care.

I want to get on the golf course. But I've learned a lot about my game and the bottom line for me,

it's not a hard answer to answer. If I don't put, well, I will not win. But I'll finish in a top 10. I just make too many cars in Tahoe. And I'm going to change that. I don't care if I have to sleep on the green one night to get one to the green. But it's a different surface. Poana treats me differently. I'm going to put my golf ball that week with the idea that I'm the greatest

“cutter in the world. Because that's the only way I'm going to change the narrative. When you”

make that many cars, you just don't have a chance to win. So it's got about birdies to bust and maybe sprinkle in an eagle. I haven't had many of those either. Yeah, we better not see a leave any punch short. We'll get on you if you leave them short. Yeah, you gotta leave a punch short if it's

for par, but you should never leave it short if it's for birdie. Yeah, because the transition of

that three points versus one versus zero. So if you two aggressive on the car pots, you go from one to minus two real quick if you three pots. Right. Yes, you're right. Leaving them short is not a great recipe, but it's the reality of golf. When you first get there, you don't want a three pot. But it's okay to three pot for a birdie. It is. It's okay. Like you can get everyone there's, oh, you missed a two footer coming back. Yeah, okay, but I was trying to make that three

that three pointer, which is more important than that one pointer. So that here 100% right than that and I'm working on that. That's analytic. Yeah. You're embracing it. You're abusing it. You're abusing it. You're abusing it. You're the number one analytics guy that we've ever had on the show. That might be one of the coolest things you've ever seen. Yeah, yeah, I'm it. Like I said, I'm kind of branded as the anti analytics guy, you know, as a Fox analyst, I'm not. I'm just not,

I'm just not going to spit out all this information just because I can't decide the smart. I'm going to balance it both. And so when I start looking at golf game, you know what I do? I have notes, books of notes of every round that I play that I learned. What do I, what I have to do different? So yeah, I'm doing my own analytics. I'm looking at those things because if you don't look at it, you're stupid. Yeah. But if you, if you look at it and that's all you pay attention to, then you're

“stupid. Yeah. You have to be able to balance what you feel like you're breathing, you know,”

how how different things work. And so that's, that's kind of where I'm at. Yeah, just to tip going forward, just don't say I don't hate analytics because that's always a telltale sign to someone who hates analytics. It's always a big plot coming. Yeah. Exactly right. But when I, when I talk about it, I'm baseball and I tell you how the games being played and what should or shouldn't happen, that's based on experience. But then I have to follow it up with, but this club wants to do this

because it's based on their information. Yeah. So it's definitely a blend that I've learned over the last 10 years. And the reality is, if, if people own up to their mistakes in the game of baseball and, and make necessary adjustments, I think that's great. But when you're smart and you want to stay smart, you never admit that you need to make changes based on your algorithm. I think that's

brewers make adjustments on the fly by the way, which is brilliant because then that's telling you

what we once thought was wrong. And now we're going to do this. And when you, when you do those things, that means you're paying attention to the information and the way that you try to play. And then

“you're, you're adjusting on the fly. And I think that's great. Yeah. Is there one analytic, like a number”

that you'll reach out and say, OK, the analytic nerds were right about this one? That's a great question because the one thing that I promoted them to try to come up with is one that I think would, would serve us better value in the sport. When you're addicted to exit velocity, it doesn't tell you to store it. It just tells you that big strong dude hit it 117 off the bat. No kidding. It's going to go over 400 feet. When you're addicted to miles per hour, that's

up. So what I asked them to do is I said, come up with the staff. It's not sexy to see all these

stats that they come up with. They want to, they want to, they have a quantifiable factor behind it. The one I don't like is expected X. Like, how can you tell me what a player is going to do based on this current 10 game spanners, 10 starts? Like, that's the one area where I say, no, you'll lost me because when you throw 240 innings, there's an ability for you not to be as good at the end, that when you're throwing 160 win a side young and everyone goes crazy,

because they try to translate, well, 240, this is where you'd be. Now, done work that way. So the staff that I like is that X in velocity, you give me the average X in velocity of every time the ball is put in play or an out is made. So in other words, if you hit a ball at 110, great, you get that. But if you swing and miss and strike out, you get a zero. And at the end of the year, all the different things that you're going to have an average X of velocity of a lot lower number.

But I guarantee you the number that is going to be in 70s to 80s is going to be your best hitter. And that's going to prove it because that taking the value of every time he hits a ball, and the value of every time he doesn't hit a ball. Because when I'm when we get to X of velocity, they don't tell you that that guy struck out 210 times a year. Yeah. Right. They're just cherry-ticking a bad pitch, cherry-ticking a good swing. And to me, that there's no value in that.

We just get to see like we're enamored with, oh, wow, 117 off the bat. So that to me is when you start drawing a line to that's a stat that doesn't mean anything. Give me a stat that's more relevant.

“And I'm all in. Like that's the way I think. And when they come up with those, I'm like,”

great job, but when they do the ones that just, again, my osmosis were addicted to how hard someone swings, how hard they throw. It's not telling the story. It's not helping your teammate. And that's the one thing that, you know, I kind of balance out. Yeah. All right. Well, John, thank you so much for joining us. And we can't wait to see you in Tahoe. Appreciate it so much. My pleasure, guys. I look forward to seeing you there.

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put a blue pitch. Max pitch, Steven Chase still has the pitch. That's right. Yeah. As a quick

refresher for everyone, it is our fantasy baseball league that we start halfway through the baseball season and the only stat is Dingers. So we have Hank, Steven Chase, Max, PFT, myself, Brandon Walker, Jerry, Zack, and memes. Nine teams this year and we are all going to draft nine players. So no

“pitcher, obviously, it's going to be D.H. instead. You have to get the actual position and the”

only stat is Dingers and the loser is going to have to pitch against a college or better baseball team. Steven Chase, you still have to do that, which it might take for. I actually think Steven so bad at pitching, we should just, we should play against Steven. Us. Yeah, it would be fun. I'm bad at pitching. I didn't realize the mound was, I mean, I did realize, but like when I stood out on a real mound, I went to a field recently, far and elevated. Yeah, he might be so bad if

we have a good field, like we have the bananas again, pitching so slow, like PFT pitch so slow that I put the hitters, the hitters weren't able to. That's not true. I pitched time up the pitches and if you have a good field. I pitched an average of, I believe, an average of like 60 miles per hour, 65 miles per hour. Right. Well, that's what I'm saying at my time. It might be fun to just stand in the box with Steven and take walks and then hit Dingers off them. I threw my hardest at Yankee Stadium,

like 10 years ago in front of us, but I'm at her or whatever, those are called 59. Okay. That was 10 years ago.

Is that something you're proud of? I'm just saying I can't. I can never, I can't really tell

“with your cadence of whether or not proud. Okay. So we're going to, in Brandon's catch, second place. I think”

Zach, right? Zach has catch, Stephen Jay. We'll get that done. We'll get that done at some point this summer. Brandon is the defending champ. So time. He would, he requested that we this year, maybe everyone puts in a hundred bucks, so there's a cash prize because he's mad that he keeps winning things without cash involved. I've won the dozen twice, and I've won this twice, I've won $0 at barstool sports. Okay. So congratulations. I win the dozen brand. Thank you, PFT. Is everyone, is everyone?

Is everyone, is everyone for soccer? I actually for, thanks for that. But how much would it

would it would have been 10k, but I gave it to my team. I've never won a card damn thing to have

money attached to it. All the things I win are bullshit. With the MVP for the dozen day, there was a cash prize of that. Did you win that for the tournament? You didn't win that? Who won? I did. I got the cash prize. Oh, fuck yeah. Congratulations. But I, I also, forget it. Yeah. So I close to the second place, right? No, I have to the kids. You want to try to win lib of the year, Jerry's won that a couple of years in a row, like 1000 cash prize.

“Lib of the year? Get a go. Get a palmo poster. Are you still going for it or not?”

Yeah, I think this year might be 50k. Yeah, but we're taxing that at 100%. Yeah, 100% tax. Jerry just found that people can switch back and forth between being gay. So he's yeah, opening his eyes before it. What happened there, Jerry? Dude, I went viral on gay Twitter. I don't know. Pat, like, I don't know. Pat made a video. What? It's held a story. He's so pretty much. I have a gay cousin who has met at a gay club. And like my gay cousin introduced himself to

the pat. I don't know if they were trying to get with each other or anything. But they were separated. They were together. Him and him and the other gay, like, like, this is his partner. Whatever. His boyfriend. His boyfriend. Correct. Okay. So they were together for multiple years. They broke up about two years ago. I found out that out through the Facebook. Then I'm scrolling Facebook. This is two years later now. This is like a couple of days. Like a week ago.

I'm scrolling. I'm like, what the fuck? No, that's. And I zoom. I'm like, notice him. That's like, oh, this got to be AI or something or joke. His ex-boyfriend who was gay. He's not gay anymore. He actually has a baby on the way with a female. So he just totally was like, fuck that. I'm straight now. Okay. And then like, I'm saying to myself, like, that's just not possible. Like, like, you don't just wake up and like, oh, I'm not gay no more, right? Well,

I mean, you could. It sounds like maybe he was bisexual. Yeah, I don't know. And like, I feel like there's just, you're either all in or you're all out. Like, isn't that kind of how it would put, I mean, okay, jerk. No. No, because. So it's you like women. Correct. Yeah. Like physically. You like looking at a woman, right? Correct. Yeah. You like having sex with women. Yeah. Like seeing naked women. Correct. Yeah. You also kind of

like look at that TJ what? Mm-hmm. And you're like feet. I've seen you look at the man's face.

you're not in love with TJ what, but when he comes on the screen, you're like, that's it.

“Okay. Okay. Look at me. I'll say this. I've never even had a conversation or even like,”

known somebody who took to go both to do both. Have you watched porn? Yeah. Kind of gay. Really? Yeah. It wasn't another guy. But I was dick in it. Yeah. I guess you're right. But the tweeted that Jerry throughout their without context said, there's no way I can just turn gay. So how did that happen? So that makes it look like I'm gay. Like I'm saying, oh, I woke up. I'm just gay now. Yeah. Yeah. But that yeah. So I didn't, I forgot to add the context to it. Like,

hey, look at my other tweet. Yeah. I'm straight. This is a thing. Yeah. We're never gay. All right.

We're going to decide the order with a sporkle. So how it works is there's going to be a sporkle up.

“We'll start with Hank. You just answer any of them. And then it's till till, you know, if you get”

something wrong, you're out. And then the last person saying to get to decide if they want the first pick or whatever picked it. We snakes. Thanks. But just the person who wins picks their spot. Yeah. And then it goes. We gotta go with you. Yes. Correct. And please say the, the, the question that you're answering for the podcast listeners. So they can, they can, they can here. All right. Here we go.

Ready Hank. It's up. It's a grab. Do a free mode. Free mode. Yep. All right. So just we're going to go around

until until there's one man standing. Somebody should read this all seven milk options at Starbucks. Oat. Okay. Okay. Okay. Four. Okay. Four. Okay. Four. Okay. Four. Yeah, read all the categories. Go ahead. One drink,

“served in Waterfound in movie. Idiocracy. Three subatomic particles, three main characters and trailer park boys.”

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for Philadelphia 76ers. Okay. Max. I was going to be nine. I'll go with the Detroit pistons for teams Alan Iverson played for. Okay. I'll go with the Denver nuggets for teams Alan Iverson played for. I will go with Sweden for Ikea countries to make these brands. I will go with field of dreams Kevin Costner sports movies. Okay. I will go with the Starbucks seven different milks. I will go with skim. Nice. I would also like to go seven different milks and go almond.

We're cooking now memes. I'm going to go trailer park boy characters. Bubbles. Okay. I got to you Hank. I will go trailer park boys characters. Riki. Seven milk options at Starbucks. Two percent. I will go Alan Iverson Grizzlies. Well done. Nice. Sure. The Jerome bet is played for the Rams. Nope. I'm going to go with Kevin Costner sports movies. Tincup. Nice. I will go milk options.

Whole. I will go Kevin Costner sports movies. Bull Durham. See you Jerry. Okay Jerry. Jerry might be in trouble here. Do some atomic particles. Oh, okay. Sorry. I just had to read. I'm going to do the running backs with Dan. Can you read me the yards again? 10k career rush yards and eight or more one k rushing sees it. Okay. Eight or more. It's a lot. Yeah. It's a lot. Yeah. I'm going to go Barry Sanders.

Got it. Nice job. Zack. Or like take subatomic particles. And I would like to go with Adam. Oh, that's tough. And that's Zack. I can't believe that's all right. Me. A lot of aboard. It's a crazy boy. Killer park boy, Julian. Okay. Six actresses to appear in the following movies. I will go Margo Robbie. Nice one. Nice. Nice. Thank you. Seven milk options. The Starbucks. One person. Running out of milk over there. And it's wrong. Good. Good night.

following movies. Hally Barry. Nice. You know what I said. I extra once you have a few. Yeah.

So big deal. I remember she loved me. I watched that scene as a child. Yeah. I'm going to go with

“actresses to appear nude in the following movies. Titanic Kate Winsley. Nice. And that's what I thought”

you were. Give me Emmett Smith for Running Best. Okay. Brandon. Right. 10 Kevin Costner sports movies. Give me Mac Farland USA. Wow. Whoa. He's flexing. He's going to dominate that. Okay. Dan, I'm sorry. I can't see anything. Yeah. Can you read me the milk that we read off? Yeah. We've read off whole skim. 2% almond oat. Two left. We got two left. Two left there. Yeah. And then we got. Then we got running backs, right? Yeah. We still got running. Milk are running

backs. I've never seen the boys. Milk boobs running backs. Where's booze? What's booze?

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“big movie. No hard feelings. Fast times of wild things. Okay. Let me go running backs here.”

You go milk. I could go milk, but I'm out. All right. I'm going to take a flyer. Yeah. It's could not. This can this can this can backfire quick. Okay. We got 1% we got 2%. Let's go 3%. All right. All right. Oh, sorry. Yeah. Jerry Steven and Zachara out memes. You're all. We didn't get 1%. 1% we didn't get. Oh really? Yeah. Draft that. Good one. Good pick memes. Good one. Seven original members of the seven in the boys. I'm taking a look at the deep.

Nice. All right. Max. I will go Kevin Costa sports movie for the love of the game. Nice. Good pick. Okay. PFT. Seven milk options at Starbucks. I'm going to go with 4%. Soy. Wow. Good one. I didn't know that's a milk. Show me Walter Peyton. Oh. Braden. You got to cost her movies? Well, I had for love of the game. There's.

“Five. No, not five. Oh. Jerry. Jerry took forever. I can't see. I can't see either. What are they say?”

Hold on. Let me do it run. Let me do it run. Let me do it run. Let me do it run. Let me do it run. Let me do it run. Let me do it run. Let me do it run. I'm going to do it running. I'm going to do it running.

Here's what I'm going to say. I'm going to do a fuck. Hold on. Hold on. I'm going to run it back. Five.

There's not five, four, three. Just stop that. You all are bothering me. Breaking away. Ten Kevin Costa sports movies. It's a good movie. Fuck. But it's not Kevin Costa. You're right. God damn it. Oh, no. It's bicycle in movie. Meems. So it just memes max PFT and I. Do you hold me? I was going to be mine. Yeah. And thank. Let's go with France for eight countries for the falling brands. Nice. No. I will go with Japan. Oh shit. That was what I had.

Good pick. Good pick, dude. I'm going to go half and half for milk options. I'll start looking. Show me half and half. Meems knows every single one of the boys is by the way. So he's just going to win. Half and half not there. Oh, half and half. No, half and half. Oh, then he and Thomas in. That's good. That's it. There we go. All right. Meems you're up and do black noir. Oh, shit. It tells no all these. He knows every one. Fuck. So Hank, you're. I'm out. Oh, you're out. It's just

Matt, Max. Me, Max and memes. Come on, Max. Fight them off. This is just more. No, he knows every single one. It's more in line. And so we got to we got to we got to beat him on that. We got to beat him on that. I'm going to go with. Come on. Come on. You know, if I'm going to go out swing and I'm going to go out swing and six countries and make these brands. Give me Italy. Yeah, that's Prada. I feel like one of these two has to be America. Lego, Lulu lemon has no Lego. I do nothing. Okay. So Lulu lemon. No feels like a mare. Give me America. Show me

America United States. There we. Where to go? Where to go? That counts. Yeah. How does that count? It does. Has America. I think it's a type in USA. See if that's what they're looking for. All right,

Yep. Do you drive me in it like it counts? I would do. I'm going to sit around. You're right. Well,

“are then you go. No, it's you. I just think he got America for it. I'll do proton. Oh, shit. What about”

what about what about neutron spark something? What about spark anything else? What about Jamal Lewis Raven? No, I'm out. Baldwin line. I didn't deserve to be in. Do Jennifer Lawrence. No hard feelings. Oh, wow. Come on Max. Max. Max Max. Max. Max. Max. Five. I'm going to go with three. Two. Electron. Yeah, Max. Yeah. Max. Max. Way to go. Max. You're going to do a train? Okay. Damn it. He still has the

position. He's got you. Oh, is it wrong? Is it a dash train? Oh, yeah. Come on, Max. See, she wasn't an original member. I know Starlight is I don't think she counts as an original member. Could I go China? I feel like one of those has got to be China. Good. Yes. I'm going to go China. China. Oh, no. All right. Means got to get one right now. You do translucent. Okay. I mean, all right. So memes. I was see if see if what's their name counted. All right. They show answers.

All right. They got that. Yeah. All right. They did it. That makes you feel better. Yeah. And it's the Curtis. Oh, Peter said I was going to save it. I was like, no, what else? I don't know. I'm afraid of a drone bed is you bitch. Oh, man. That's pretty good. Yeah. I can not milk. I guess half an half doesn't count as milk. Do you talk about good nut? Uh, a good nut. Yeah. Good nut. All right,

memes. You would you like first pick? I would like first pick. All right. So we'll go memes. Then Hank,

all the way back to Zach and all the way back around. Oh, that's good. All right. I'll be taking Kyle Schwerber. That's a good pair. I had him on my board. Good pick. I was so close to getting Schwerber. Good pick. My fucking boy. You got boy. He got all the, he can't compete with the boys.

“Okay. It's memes is favorite show. It's the only thing he talks about. And wait, who decided,”

which it's literally the only television that memes talk. And who decided, which sparkle we're gonna do? memes. Oh, interesting. Oh, really? And memes still hasn't commented on Gino. That's very interesting. Interesting. That's really interesting. All right. Go ahead, Hank. I will be taking Ben Rice, right, of co-hasset. Okay. You for real? Oh, we're judged crazy. It's fourth and home runs this year. Check those, it's on your sheet. You don't get home runs. You don't get home runs that

have already happened. Yeah. He plays the Yankee City. He was a lefty. Taking a Yankee, that's interesting. Okay. All right. Steven. Oh, go with potential future triple crown guy, your Don, Alfred. Good. Good. Good. Good. I'll take a good Tony. Oh, that's not a good spot about a Tony. Oh, that's a good pick. I won once on the board right now. James Wood. Take James Wood. Okay. D. C. Zone. Good wood. Number one in barrel. As a right fielder, I will take one so-to. Okay. Let's check that really quick, because I have him as a left.

Okay. Okay. Well, he's a right field on my board as well. James Wood is right field. He's got a laser left field on the SPN. As long as he's play at least 10 games was the rule last year. Yeah, I'm just she says right field, but I'm fine with taking him left field. And remember, if you draft a player that gets accused of child pornography, it has had a failure, you are allowed to have one penalty free

“cut option for that player. But you have to cut him before the MLB decides. Yes. I cut Wanda Franco”

before the MLB decided on his punishment. I'm up. I will be taking, and I will say this name slowly. Oh, he's the left fielder. I don't know why it's right field in this sheet. All right. God damn the left fielder. Yeah, that's evil. PFT you're taking wood as right field correct. I am yes.

Okay. I will be taking first baseman. Nick. Kurt's nice. You can say it again. We can cut out.

I'm going to go with C Walker first base. Okay. Christian. Christian Walker. Christian Walker.

Live in the year Jerry won't even say the word Christian. Okay. I would like to take Boba Shatt.

“Boba Shatt. You have two. You have two. What position does Mr. Bishop?”

Sure. I think he's playing third. He's probably eligible for short. You have two picks here. All right. I would like to take him. And then I would like to, I would like to go to future Hallfay where I'm my team. I think I'll take any pass container again. Oh, that. Good pick. Good pick. Good pick. Use first base. Kurt. That is correct. Okay. I'm going to go with a center fielder. Byering, Bob stands. Yeah. Good pick. Twins. Good pick. Good pick. I'll be taking catcher.

Cal Rally. All right. All right. I'm going to take friend of the program. First base,

Matt Olsen. Oh, I was going to take him. Yeah. Make sure Hall of Famer. I'm going to try to call him and see if he wants to be on my team. Yeah. Tell Chuck. I didn't, I didn't prep him at all. Did you prep in it? No, I didn't. No, I didn't prep anyone. No, I didn't prep anyone. It's kind of a hard to be in the cave. We're doing a draft. The fantasy draft, the middle of the season. And I want to

“call you. What's is it more awkward to just call Call and say that?”

Well, I don't know. We'll see. We'll find out. And I'm guessing he's not going to pick up. I'm pretty sure he's not going to pick up. Doesn't appear. It's going to pick up. Seems like a none pick up. Yeah. We will also. We'll make one other phone call whenever Gunner Henderson gets picked. Steven's gonna have to call him. Okay. Pifties up. I'm going to take a future Hall of Famer.

Maybe future best player in the history of baseball, healthy for the first time in a long time.

Mike Trout. Nice. He's actually hurt right now. What? He's literally hurt right now. When did that happen? Stop it. He's just got like three days ago. Are you fucking serious? You've already taken him, but he, like, you said healthy for the first time. Do you end his off the chest? He's only injured this right now. Like he got injured like yesterday. Mike Trout. Three days ago. I'm looking at his injuries. Uh, with Trout on the IL form. Okay.

I'm showing injury shells. I'm showing injury shells. Trout. I'm showing that. I'm picking someone at the end. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. He's not. He's all part of the game. We've all drafted guys that have been for before. Hamstrings are easy to come back from. He's not out. All right. I will take. Capture. Sure. He'll handle the ears. Nice job, Max. It's a damn good pick. Thank you. And those guy. A's. Oops. Hold on, sir. Steven. Steven. Yep. Sorry, I'm sorry. I'm trying. Um.

All right. And what point is Steven going to take PCA? Nope. I'm technically going to take a guy who's injured right now. It's for the culture. Okay. I'm going to talk you more. Okay. That's good pick. Oh, yeah. He's going to be back very soon. That's him. What the right name, but just not his name. Yeah. And what was the culture? I'm going to talk more coming. Yeah. And what was the culture? We all knew what he's doing. He's for anyone who's maybe not a baseball fan. He was trying to take

the Asian guy on the white socks. Yeah. Right. Did you say that? Moonball. Did you?

“You passed on a lot of Tony earlier. Yeah. He did. Just to take. You should have done in all the Asian”

friends. Right. I got it, Tony. Yeah. That's true. I will take catcher for the Colorado Rockies altitude hunter Goodman. That's a good value pick. Thank you. Really good value pick. I would like to do Colson Montgomery. Okay. And Peter Lanzo. I have not by the way following who's been. No. No. I just got it all. I got it. That's why it's going to be long ago. There you go. Okay. Peter Lanzo. That's actually very valuable. I'm I'm happy. Thank you for doing that.

That's the event for us. That was terrible. I will take Chicago Cub, left fielder, Ian Hap. Does hit a lot of home runs. Not forever. It's not the average league. No. Sorry. Who do it? It means who didn't mean you didn't. It ain't the batting average league. He took Peter Lanzo. You don't. Hang. And 100. No. Montgomery. Yeah. Colson Montgomery. Okay. I will go with. This guy is a second baseman. I'm going with Brandon Lau on the pit spurge

Oh, good pick. Good pick. Nice pick. Thanks. Good pick. Great pick. Thanks, everyone.

“Has Shea Leglearsman pick. He has. We're not going to shame that. No, no, no. We're not sure if that's all.”

It seems like there's a lot. No, but I just want to go forward because that's going to happen to me. Yeah. I'm going to take Detroit Lions catcher Dylan Dingler. Nice. So far for the Lions. Detroit Tigers are. Yeah. Say Lions. You did. Yeah. Troy Tigers catcher. Dylan Dingler. Great. Dingler name. I will take PCA. I will. I will be taking. Um, felt good. Right. Fielder for the Atlanta Braves.

Ronald Acunia Jr. Nice. Nice. He needs to come back from injury as well.

Good pick. I will take third baseman Jr. Kim and I like that. I'm an hero.

Shut up. I don't want to listen right now. They're the best. No, we're having fun. Yeah. There's left field. Are they green available? Yeah. I'm very available. I take Riley Green, left field. Okay. You got another pick. All right. And then I would like to run. I would like to take another pick here. I want to go hope. Sprint and low available. No. No. All right. What about, uh, what about Shay? Not available. Yeah. All right. Well,

“here we go. Sorry. Um, uh, I'm going to go George Springer. Oh, what position is Mr. Springer?”

Do you want to tell your opposition guy? I'm writing him down. He's our doctor mentor. I'm a judge. My bad. I thought your George Springer is a DH. Probably need a documentarian too. I'm documenting my own team. I'm just spreadsheet. We can all just pull up. Let me go with short stuff, uh, CJ Abrams. Good pick. Here you go. Good pick.

I'll be going with third third baseman. Are you Hino Suarez? Good pick. Good pick.

Is someone take judge? No. No. He's how, what's the time table? July to August. Earlier is possible. Late July. I'm going to take judge just because it's going to look awesome on my roster. He's got a field correct. Yeah. Yeah. It's going to. I've a, I'll feel the one, so to a PC. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I'm going to take, uh, left fielder for the Milwaukee Brewers. Jackson, Churio. That's a damn good pick. Yeah. Good pick. People forget he was injured the

first, uh, first month. Yeah. He's been good since then. I will be taking second baseman. Could tell Martell. Oh, that's a hell of a. That's a great freaking my pick. Yeah. Well, you, you're, you're, but you just have to go far away. You're so far away from your pick. Okay.

Uh, sorry. Who'd you be just pick? Uh, I took a tell Martell. Second place, sorry.

All right. I'm just making sure this guy's like injured. All right. I will take, uh, Dodgers third baseman, Max Munsey. That's not a great pair. Why? I don't know. Uh, I will take just got off the D.L. On June 5th, Jose Altuve at second base. Okay. Has Jordan Walker been picked? No. No. I'm not. I'm going to pick him. Smart. And Aussie albums. Sorry. Can you guys take positions before you call the players? Uh, right fielder.

Okay. Jordan Walker. You're in second baseman. Aussie albums. Nice picks. Good picks. Good picks. Good picks all around boys. Uh, I will take Yondi Diaz of the double raise. D.H. And who do you pick right for that? Uh, Jose Altuve. Okay. Okay. All right. I'm in trouble. I'm in trouble. Stephen, um, Stephen.

“Stephen, I'll go with Stephen. Stephen. Stephen, Jay. Stephen, Jay. You're up. You know what?”

Oh, yeah. There we go. Do it. Fucking do it. I was going to pick, you guys have

Okay. Call. Okay. All right now. Yeah. Call them. Give them a call.

“Face time or phone call. Phone call. Phone call. I'm going to ask him if he's willing to be on”

your Dinger's own. Okay. Can you forge the trade? If he's not. Yeah, that's true. If he doesn't agree, this is going to be really awkward. Call Eli. Stephen's going to call calling. I hope he's not playing right now. Yeah, he's not. It's Monday. Is it just Monday? It's just Monday. Yeah, it's like coming back. I want to see if I can drive you on Dinger's only. I hit me up. I am drafting you on my Dinger's only team. I just wanted to officially

walk you into this squad. Have a good season. Call me back. Call me back. Okay. Max. I will be going

with centerfielder Julio Rodriguez. Good one. That one lasts way too long. Yeah, that's a good pick too. Good pick. Thank you. That's a really nice guy. I like that pick for you. I'm going to take Toronto Blue Jay's left fielder. Kazuma Okamoto. And that's a hell of a pack. Chase, have anyone taken Bobby Whitt? No. Okay. I want Bobby Whitt Jr. That was embarrassing. How do you study spell WIT? No. You don't know the Asian's name? The EOBBY.

Kazuma Okamoto. Yeah, my phone. Was that a shit? Yeah. I got them right below. I will be taking. Oh, wait PFT. You have two. I know you have them at Thurbase. Thurbase. You have them at Thurbase. I'll be taking designated hit or a Brent Rucker. Mississippi State. Nice. Nice. Nice. Nice. I'm going to meet so funny when you don't win this year and there's cash price. Because you just take. I took Bobby Whitt Jr.

WIT. You're going to take a right fielder. Say yes Suzuki. And that's a hand. Oh, medals and call me back. Oh, let's go. Hey, Matt. I just drafted you on my Dinger's only team. Do you, uh, you ready to hit some Dingers? Yeah. One of the stars. Uh, July 1st. So don't hit it. So yeah, just maybe don't hit any between now and July 1st. Okay. I'll send them up. All right. All right. Well, all right. Welcome to the squad dude. Let's fucking crush it.

All right. Love it. All right. Talk to you later, Matt. All right. Bye. He was super fun. Yeah. Yeah. It's

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“chemical. Okay back to Dinger's only. I think take a Maymachado. Okay. That's going to be”

third base. No hustle. Worcester on the lead. Don't say that. That was hate Brandon. The one that also like to take is Matt McLean available. Yeah. Yeah. I take an ear. Can I disavow Matt McLean pick a pick a different pick? No. You don't have to disavow him. All right. I'll take fine. I'll take him. What? What position is this? Why do you want to disavow? Yeah. Why would you give me? Because he's like strong language. I would like I jump to him too

quick on the board and then you can pass. I just stuck with it. That was a mistake last time

Well, what position is Matt's going to be a, uh, I believe Matt's a second basement. Okay.

“Okay. Are you guys okay with me swapping Matt to South Stewart though? Sure.”

All right. Yeah. I'll take South Stewart. Stay in the crowd. South Stewart is a great first baseman for the reds first baseman. Okay. Really good. That was a good step off. All right, Jerry. I'm going to go DH. Casey Schmidt. Okay. The giants. Brandon. Second baseman. JJ Weatherholt. Rookie. I will also go DH from the giants. Raphael Devers. You see him, uh, not take a, yeah, not a bad. Yeah, so bad. He was, he got

walked late in the game and they tried to pinch around and he literally just said no. No, I do not want

“to come off. Show like that manager. Um, what do we think about my guy?”

Freddie Freeman has been drafted. He is not. He's not. I'd like to take first baseman

Los Angeles Dodgers Frederick Freeman. Uh, I'm going to say one that I think is already been picked and I apologize for that Colson Montgomery has been picked. Okay. See, I'm happy that I apologize ahead of time. Um, in that case, I will be taking a Kyle Tucker. Yeah, boo. He's still on the right. Yeah. Yes. Okay. Somebody should take those air mirrors. I'll be taking catcher for the Atlanta Braves Drake Baldwin. Okay. Hopefully he comes back

healthy. He played yesterday. Hopefully he comes back healthy. I don't know what to tell you. I will be taking expected to return shortly from the, a hamstring injury. Ellie Dayla Cruz. Short stop Cincinnati Red. It's a good pick. It's a good pick. It's a good pick. It's a good pick. I'll be doing O'Neil Cruz. Fuck. I was a critter. I was a critter. It's a good pick. You're going to go cruise missiles. Yeah. You can almost have to let him do the crew. That's too. It's fucked up.

Were you going to take Ellie? No. See, that's, that's selfish. You, you went the wrong cruise. No, I, I guess, yeah, you're right. Damn. Fuck. Get onto virus that way. And then my filming a do Cody Belinger. Fuck. I'm going to make sure this person isn't injured. Oh, Jerry, you just said it, right? The injured is all you said. Is your mirrors? I don't know. I picked him last year. It was great. Yeah, I'm going to take them.

No, I'm going to take Julio Rodriguez. No, he's going to take it. Larry, taking them. Then it's tough. It's tough out here. I will take. Will your, a brave Red Sock, right, field there? I'm going to definitely pick some guys in the party. Yeah, that, at this point, that's okay, everyone. It's okay, everyone. I will be taking. It's okay, everyone.

Left, fielder, dammit. Mickey, Moniac. Oh, that's okay. Oh, I like that. I'm all over the place right now. Believe in yourself. I don't believe in myself. He's a puddle right now.

I will be taking. I will be taking. Oh, you got this third baseman. I apologize if he's

“already been picked. Miguel Vargas. Sounds like he hasn't. I don't think so. Why anybody would take you?”

I'm going to take, I think he's a third baseman too. Yeah. He's like, is that, he's the third best one I have most. I'm going to take, you know what, you know what, we're going to do what we're going to do. Take, designated hitter from the Seattle Mariners.

Fuck. That was a long time ago, wasn't it? It's okay. We're all struggling out here. Exactly.

Right. Shit. You want to give them up to Bicca? Oh, no. We got all right. All right. All right. I need two kids. All right. I'll do, uh, add the restroom.

“Infield. Right. That's catcher. Take, um, left fielder. I think I don't know if he's”

picked or not. Why it lengthened? You're good. Sounds like you. Uh-huh. All designated hitters are off the board. Okay. Good to know. Good to know. Good to know. Good to know. That's, that's late. That's just not true. Well, everyone, everyone has one. Oh, actually everyone has one. All right. All right. All right. Sorry. I'm going to take, um,

I'm going to go with, um, jazz chism, second base. Love it. Yeah, I love it. I love it.

I love it. We're going to go center field and he pages. Yep. We'll take, we'll take close. I also do a left field is in half available to someone scooping half. You've gone. You also have a left fielder and Riley green. Oh, no. All right. Nice to take. I like to keep Riley green. Okay. You need a right fielder. Yep. And a catcher. Catcher. Yeah, you need a catch. I'm going to catch a quick. You just pick up a catcher. Yeah,

I'll just go, uh, right field instead. I'll go. Adola's Garcia. He's hurt for the year. The gray comes max too. Oh, okay. Yeah. We did tell people that he had to do that.

“Great coming. The trout is coming back. Are you saying this guy's out for the entire year?”

Hoping to return by 2027. Oh, thank you. That's really what happened. Toor something in the shoulder. What about why they're a braille gone gone. Okay. Wow. Anthony Santander, you're good. I'm sorry. Well, right field. Is that correct? That's correct. Yeah. Is anybody picked a left fielder Jackson Cheerio? Yes. Yes. Okay. Um, this is the part of the draft where we keep doing. No, this is going to be a tough part. Yeah. That's okay. It's okay.

You got to stick with that. Even I need a left fielder I'm guessing. Yeah. You need a catcher. Okay. And a left fielder. Yes. Yeah. Oh, okay. I will go with left fielder. Spencer Steer. So it sounds like a horrible pick. No. I like that you can hear memes is last. They're the brand and you need a short stop. And a center

“or a center fielder and a center fielder. Yes. Center fielder Joe Adele. The Joe show. Yeah. What does Neil?”

Shit. He just got hurt. But I'm trying to go for like splashy Nate. I'm trying to go for the all splashy. You just want to look good on the graphic. No, you know what? I'm not going to. I did want to look good on the graphic. I was thinking about taking Jackson holiday, but he's yeah. He's hurt again. He started hurt. He's hurt again. I'm going to just say some names and you guys just tell me if they've been drafted. Mmm. As JJ weatherhold, been drafted.

Yeah. Okay. And Bryce's drink obviously was drafted. No. Oh. Oh. Okay. I'll take Bryce to

try. Okay. That's that's not. That's the second baseman. It's great. Good pick. It's a really good one. Yeah.

It is a really good pick. I'm going to take me to the second baseman and you're going to take Bryce short stop. I was not I was locked in on Zack nettle. And that's a hell of a good pick. It's a great pick. I was thinking about hand. Thank you. Yeah. It's a barrel rate is really good. You're going to have a little bit of it. I'm strictly looking at barrel rate. One one stat man. So let's let me see here. I still need left field correct. Steven. Oh. Thank god Steven did

write everything down. Yes. Left field and short stop. And you left field and short stop. I am going to go. God damn it. Oh. I'm going to go with. I'm going to go with. I don't know.

about to be terrible. Oh, wait. Everyone's about to laugh at you. You're going to take in Christian yellowish? No. I'll take Christian yellowish. Okay. He's left. Next. Left. Yes. Okay. I will go with Michael Harris. Atlanta Braves Center for you. Good

“pick. I will go with the guy who's been struggling. But I think he's going to have a big second”

half of the year. Give me third baseman Alex Breggman love it. I was going to take him just out of

solidarity. Yes. I'm thinking about doing that too. Yeah. Listen. He's going to he's going to turn around. All right. Means needs a third baseman. I'm going to go Zack Geeloff. Third baseman. Yeah. Oh. Athletics. And you're going to take one door. No. I already am sure. You told me you're going to take one door. Catcher. Liam Hicks. Marlins. Yep. Farmery Accolation. Hank. Do you know any of these? I need a center field there. Yes. And I'll take Dodger Andy Pages.

He's been taken. I will take brave Michael Harris. I just don't just been taken. I will take. Listen, it's going to happen, boys. It's going to happen. Yeah. This is how this is how this is out fingers only goes. Yeah. This is how it goes, boys. Jackson Marles been taken. I don't think so.

“All right. Pa dead. Jackson Merrill. Okay. I think Hank has a good team. I came second last year.”

I think I'm going to try to take me. Maybe a charter. Oh, he came in second. Yeah. I came

in second last year. I came in third. I need a right fielder. What do you guys need? Max and I need a short stop. He did. What do you need? Second baseman. Is Jake Burger been taken? No. Okay. Great. I'm sorry, burgers. See, yeah. That's big for you. Yeah. That's much huge. Need it. I will tell you. Leave a check. Steven Chase off. Shock, gag, Leonardo. Okay. Good pick. What was the same with you?

Should I bring down the idea? Yeah, sure. Or no, Kansas City. Max needs. I am going to take short stop. Short stop. I am going to take short stop. Moogie bets. Just good pick. P15 is a second baseman. I need a second baseman. And this is where I'm about to either win the whole damn thing for myself or possibly lose the whole damn thing for myself. Because we're trying to time the market

“on Fernando Tauti's junior. Yeah. I think it's, I think it's a, and I'm going to time the market.”

I'm taking a FTG. Oh, that's a brand it was trying to do. Is that what you're going to do, Brandon? I'm happy to do it. Try time the market. Don't you need a second baseman? Yeah. He's playing second baseman. So your second baseman does he? Yeah. He does. Yeah. He does. Yeah, memes. That's all me. I got to, uh, it's got two home runs. You know, it's going to hit 20 too. Yeah. A third baseman. Yeah. I don't know how many, I've heard of this first and third. So I got to

do it. He's listed his first and third, but I don't know how many he's played the same one. No.

Hill, Jake Berger. How do I get to? I always go to, I was doing baseball right now. I'll do it for you.

Thank you. But I can't get, I have last five games, but I don't have. Yeah. No, I got. I got it. You got it at it. So how many, how many do they need for the 10 games? 10 games? Well, first and you're trying to draft them at first. First, first, first, first, first. I'm seeing, he's got my list as a third baseman. I'm seeing zero games at third baseman. Zero games at third bases, you're seeing zero. Okay. Well, good thing. That was integrity. Can we just all take a moment

and just say, then, create integrity? Uh-huh. Great integrity. Um, all right. That, that's us, because that would have been pretty cool to have Jake Berger on my team. Um, all right. You know what? How's Alec Bomben? He's getting hot. All right. He's on hot. That was what you're going to take? No, but you should have taken that guy. Who? Austin Riley? Well, that's okay. And you're taking that

getting hot. Uh, short stop when door. Okay. Uh, wait a second. What position does JJ with a

“whole play? The play is second base. Okay. I got. Has Goodman been drafted? Yes. He can't sure. All right.”

I'll go. Wait. Did you, you still need a short stop? Brand us. Taty says and played any games, it's short. Short stop. He's on my list of short stops. It does matter because it does matter. Because I just needed to play ten games. No, doesn't matter because I didn't get him. I know. But so you, you did, you wouldn't be able to use him any good. Yeah, but it doesn't matter. So we're good. Yeah. Because I didn't get him. This is how you win the league every year. Yeah. Who do you

speak for in them? Windor. Okay. Because I was thinking the same. I was looking at him at short stop and then I went to go check his game log. I was like, I didn't play any short stop. It's right. But I didn't get him. Yeah. So that's good. So it doesn't matter. We're on the same page. He's got a hundred twenty-one bulls hit over 95 miles per hour. Wow. Yeah. Two home runs. There's two home runs. That's about to happen. That's turned around. Kyle Schwabberg has as many had admit.

This past weekend, Kyle Schwabberg had as many home runs in one inning as Fernando Taty's had all year. Wow. It's a great stab. Good stab. Good stab. But all we care about is home runs to come right now. I know. I'm just saying. Actually, not even fun fact. I don't want Fernando to do shit. Yeah. The next like. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I forgot about that. Yeah. These are all wasted home runs. Every home runs. Yeah. What a great pick. It lendor is. Jury and Zach both need catchers.

I'm going to go with catchers Salvador Perez. I was thinking about going catcher Ben Rice,

but he may not be a catcher. Oh, he was also picked in like the first round.

That's a second overall. Yeah. That's a good game log from you guys. My bad. I'll go Augustine Ramirez. Is that available? Yep. All right. I'll go Augustine Ramirez catcher. So in the past, we've all picked a pitcher in case of a tie for strikeouts. I'll take it. I'll check him as we're asking. No, we're not going to do. We haven't done that.

“Oh, we're not doing that. Okay. Yeah. All right. So good draft everyone. Do you want to go through your teams?”

Meems. You want to start? Tell us your team. Hold. Okay. Thank you. You want to start? I got Ben Rice at first base. I got Hunter Goodman at catcher. Okay.

I got Ian Hap in the left field. I got Jose Al Tuve at second base. I got Yandi Diaz at DH.

I got Ellie Dale Cruz at shortstop. Willier, Abraeu in right field. Alex Bregman at third base and Jackson Merrill at center field. I got triple crown Yordon at DH. We got Mooney Taka Morakaomi. That is nine. Yeah. Triple crown. That's right, right? I don't know. Moonball. We got him at first. Brandon Laos second base, Max Muncie third. Oh, an infield. Gunner Henderson, shortstop. We got catcher Drake Baldwin. We don't even touch the outfields. We lost three rounds.

Mickey Moniac. That's a left field, Michael Harris second strategy and in Jockhack. That could be. What do we know? No. That's definitively the most home runs are coming from the outfields. Yeah, but most, but that also means that. Yeah. There's more of the shortage in the area. Yeah. Yeah, but the shortage in the infield is like the gap between home runs and the infield is like four. Like all the second base and I've like there are different between four. Okay.

Listen, this is a little chip on your shoulder. Yeah, do you? What about that? That's the beauty of fingers. Oh, we're all gonna find out. Yeah, they're playing small ball. Yeah.

“That's not what you should do for fingers. Max, we're manufacturing home.”

I don't have a, I don't have an order here, but I have catcher, Shay Langelears first base, Bryce Harper. What do you mean you have an order? I didn't, I didn't write it down like the draft order that I did. I did it by position. Yeah. Second base, Catell Martae, shortstop mooky bets, third base Miguel Vargas, left field Christian Yellowwich, center field Julio Rodriguez, right field Kyle Tucker, DH show Hayo Tani. Nice. It's good team. Yeah, that bad. Okay. I've got

left field Jackson, Chorio, center field, the super healthy Mike trout, right field James Wood. That's a good outfield. Really good outfield. Third base, Kazuma Okamoto, shortstop Zach Neto, second base Fernando Tatis Junior, first base Freddie Freeman, catcher Dylan Dingler, and DH Dominic Kinzone. Okay. I have DH Raphael Devours, catcher Adley Rushman, Matt Olson at first, Bryce Terrain at second, Bobby Witt Junior at third,

or shortstop, Alec Bomb at third, and then my Alfield, I want to jerk off to my Alfield.

Nicholas Kurtz, catcher, Cal Raleigh, right field of Ronald Alcuni, Junior, third baseman,

Ahu Heneo, Suarez, DH Brett Rooker, second baseman, J.J. Weatherhold, left field, or white, laying for centerfield of Joe Adel, shortstop Frank Siscoll and door. I got catcher, Salvatore Perez, left fielder, Spencer Steer, second base, jazz, chism, DH Casey Schmidt, right field. Sayya, Sayya Suzuki, shortstop CJ Abrams, third base junior caminero, center fielder, Byron Buxden, first baseman, I do not know who I have. Christian Walker, Christian Walker.

That was your first baseman. Love that. I've got a, doesn't it hit a George Springer, center field, we've got Andy Page, left field, Riley Green, right field, Anthony Santander, shortstop, boba shed, catcher, Augustine Ramirez, third base, Maymachado, second base, Sal Stuart, and now first base of any past continue. Nice, great roster, memes, finishes off.

I got Kyle Schwabber, DH, Colson Montgomery, a shortstop, Peter Lanzo, first base,

Jordan Walker, right field, Ozzy Alby's second base, O'Neill Cruz, center field,

“Cody Belinger, left field, Zach Elaw, third, and Liamix, at catcher. Shane, who'd we miss?”

Vlad Guerrero. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. Yeah, glad you didn't have any home runs this year, but he's gonna hit them. Yeah, yeah, that's mistakes. That was a mistake. Solderstrom. And reminder, you get one add and drop throughout the year, but that's it. That's it. It has nothing to do with, you can only add and drop an injury right now. Correct. Otherwise you're, but like, set, is it like, rest of the year injury or any injury?

Oh, it's any injury, but then you ask, you don't get that guy ever again, God. But he has to be injured. You can't just be like, this guy sucks. I'm driving him. We need to, we need to check on someone.

In the pet of us. So, South Stewart. Yeah. Okay, positions, first baseman, third man.

So, okay, so he plays them all, I guess. Prior to the setback, Mike Trout was enjoying a highly productive and remarkably durable season, appearing in 74 of the Angels for a 75 game. 17. How long are the high? Okay. Sorry, PFT. Sorry, PFT.

“It's okay. I think you're fine. I think you'll be back while I be early July.”

Have a really very healthy. Yeah. Written, are you more of a singer's only expert in college football? I'm, uh, I'm equal and both. I'm a dead one. One you've won twice the other you've won once and got dog walked away. We've only done it twice, and I did not get dog walked. I think I was still in it going into one team in the playoff. And that was the team playing for the National Championship. No, you got some old. No, I didn't. I think I, statistically, would have wanted.

If Miami won the National title, you didn't even know. They didn't. They didn't. They didn't. They didn't. They wouldn't have. I didn't get smokes. And you didn't pick Indiana. It was just more about. Neither I was picked Indiana. I didn't have, like, barely any teams that were in the playoff. That's right. You had no good. And you could have picked up a game. What he's really good at singers only. Yeah. That I get no money for. Well, this year you can win it and get money.

Nobody agreed to it. No, we, is everyone agreed to 100 bucks? Nobody agreed to nobody agreed to it. Right. We'll, everyone agreed to everybody. As much money as you got. You can't agree to 100 bucks. But I'll do 500 with you. And it can just be whoever wants to put it. But just us then. I will. I'll say 100. I will do 100. But I will do 100.

But I'm in for 100. All right. So the pot will be 500 for me, 500 of PFT, 500 from Brandon. A hundred from everyone else. No, wait a minute. Yeah. Deal. All right. I'll accept that. Deal. Deal. That's a deal. Fucking money is you make. Who? You. Make money. I lose money. Sheer. What about? Well, no, you know what, Jerry, instead of 100 bucks,

you got to put up 1% of Bush. He's got 0. You got 0. Oh, I just got 0. You got to give up 1% of your 0. About 1% of your future stakes in Bush. Any stake in Bush that you might not think I'll ever get any stake in. I want, I want 1% in the pot. I mean, 1% worth nothing right now.

“But just to say, say it, 1% in the market. I can't say, I got nothing like what do you mean?”

1% of Bush. Fine done. All right. Deal. 1% of Bush is for the winner. Wow. We need to make an exception here. Oh, South Stewart has played at time of taping 7 games at the second. Oh, no, but that's about it. Is Zack's pick? Yeah. Yeah, that's about it. We said that last year. Zack almost won. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. So tough list. I feel great about my guys this year.

Yeah, I mean, Vinnie. Yeah, he, I don't, yeah, I feel good about the guys. Yeah. I was looking at the wrong staff for a couple of picks, but we pivoted him. We're good. What was that? You're looking at, I was looking at hits on home, Ross. It's only would be a good lead. It's only. I don't, I don't hate maybe thinking of hits only next year. Walks only. Oh, that would be

changes to the Brandon Walker walks only. Yeah. Yeah. Down with that. Yeah. If he wins,

“we are, we're officially doing walks only three in a row. We got to do something. Yeah. We got to have”

some kind of party spots to k. Yeah. And one percent of it, but just cut the hundreds of thousands of

dollars. Yeah. And he thought to like a most correct ABS calls incentive at the end. Oh,

oh, we get who has like the highest percentage. Oh, an ABS only league would be good. That would be a lot of suck. That would suck. That would suck. Who overturns the most calls? Yeah. No,

“we draft umps. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, who gets the most who gets the most overturned on them.”

Yeah. Yeah. All right. Good job boys. Dinger's only complete. Let's let's get out there and hit some

home runs. Okay. Numbers. 70. 50. 26. 95. 7. 31. 69. 90. Eight.

“That's their rule. 67. Oh, so close. 69. 67. I love you guys. Have you heard they tame a cray?”

I'm sure. I'm sure. I've heard they too America. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music]