Speaker 1: Hey, Kristen before before full sale, did you go to
Speaker 1: Akron the zips? Do you see what they're doing? Stupidest
Speaker 1: thing ever, stupidest thing ever.
Speaker 2: Tachron.
Speaker 3: Diane is in Ohio.
Speaker 2: Yes, that all I know. No, no, no, no, here's
Speaker 2: what you'll know.
Speaker 1: So they have a they play in the MAC, right,
Speaker 1: which is like that whole eric. Like they play against
Speaker 1: Miami of Ohio and Ohio University. Like, there's several schools
Speaker 1: in the MAC. So anyway, Akron, Akron sucks And I'm Kristin.
Speaker 2: I'm not the school. I don't know if the school
Speaker 2: is good or not.
Speaker 1: The football team, Okay, turn yourself on, turn yourself on.
Speaker 2: Your football team sucks.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're not wrong about the football team.
Speaker 2: Oh they're horrible. Yes, they're horrible.
Speaker 4: Teams really great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I'm not talking about their soccer team. I'm reading.
Speaker 1: Akron football has been one of the worst programs in
Speaker 1: football for the last couple decades. They haven't are you ready.
Speaker 1: They haven't finished the year with a winning record since
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen, and have had more seasons with one or
Speaker 1: fewer wins than seasons with a winning.
Speaker 2: Record over the last twenty years. They're horrible.
Speaker 1: No, they really are. They are everybody's homecoming game. No,
Speaker 1: in the MAC, you're everybody's homecoming game. Now that being said,
Speaker 1: they do talk about how their facilities I've never been there,
Speaker 1: but they say their facilities are very nice. That who's
Speaker 1: their coach? Who is their coach? Joe moorehead? That good coach,
Speaker 1: Like there's nothing wrong with him.
Speaker 3: How long has he been in place?
Speaker 2: Has he been there for a while?
Speaker 4: Uh, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, people say good things about him. I don't know
Speaker 1: how long he's been there.
Speaker 3: Started in December twenty twenty one, all right, So I
Speaker 3: mean he's been there for a while. Why can't he's
Speaker 3: turn it around?
Speaker 1: And they even talk about how Ohio, the state of
Speaker 1: Ohio is a hot bed for football. He should be
Speaker 1: able to recruit some halfway decent players. Now, Listen, all
Speaker 1: the studs in Ohio are not going to go to Akron, Right,
Speaker 1: that's okay, But there should be when you're competing against
Speaker 1: Ohio Miami, Like, you're not going to get the kid
Speaker 1: that should be going to Ohio State. But that's okay.
Speaker 3: Are all the kids you've said that your son was
Speaker 3: not a fan of this or is not a fan
Speaker 3: of this at Miami, Ohio. Right, Are all the kids
Speaker 3: at Acron just Ohio State fans?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean we are a lot of the so
Speaker 4: the football tream.
Speaker 5: They were building the new stadium my freshman year and
Speaker 5: they move all of the freshman football players into my dorm.
Speaker 5: So they were told they need to go around and
Speaker 5: introduce themselves to everybody who already lived there. Right, And
Speaker 5: I'm not even kidding you. There was not one player
Speaker 5: from Ohio. So when they walked in and they saw
Speaker 5: all of my walls just plastered with OSU, they came
Speaker 5: in and threw it out the window. I took my
Speaker 5: slippers and I'm like, what, I just met you And they're
Speaker 5: from Jersey.
Speaker 4: They were from Yeah.
Speaker 1: But that's okay from there. Yeah, they're allowed to be
Speaker 1: from there and still want to go. They actually like
Speaker 1: Acrid more than you do.
Speaker 5: Yes, And they even said they're like, if you attend
Speaker 5: school here, you need to be rooting for your teams exactly.
Speaker 2: Oh it does. It drives my kid nuts.
Speaker 3: I've never heard that part. The kids in Miami have
Speaker 3: their rooms, no.
Speaker 1: But you'll see flags and stuff or like if they
Speaker 1: go to beat the clock, you'll see like Ohio State
Speaker 1: jerseys and stuff.
Speaker 5: Like that, but you never have Kent stuff. That's our
Speaker 5: biggest rival. Can't read right, Kent State.
Speaker 3: Finally something else to know about that university.
Speaker 1: So anyway, are you ready for what Akron's doing? So
Speaker 1: they're trying to so. Also, the other thing they don't
Speaker 1: have is money, right, Like they don't have a lot
Speaker 1: of nil money like they don't have they don't have
Speaker 1: the millions.
Speaker 2: And millions and millions and millions and millions of dollars
Speaker 2: that other schools have.
Speaker 1: Fine, but man, they're doing something stupid that I can't
Speaker 1: believe they're doing. So they open the season this year
Speaker 1: against Robert Morris.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's their home opener.
Speaker 1: Akron Is decided to let one season ticket holder called
Speaker 1: the opening drive of their home opener against Robert Morris.
Speaker 2: So whoever wins, you have to be a season ticket holder.
Speaker 1: So they're trying to encourage people to buy season tickets,
Speaker 1: and out of everybody who's a season ticket holder, there
Speaker 1: will be a winner. That winner gets to script the
Speaker 1: opening drive of a legit regular season football game. So
Speaker 1: not just one play the opening drive, oh my god,
Speaker 1: and not.
Speaker 4: A preseason game.
Speaker 1: Holy Moly the home opener against Robert Morris. Who again,
Speaker 1: maybe you think Robert Morris is so bad that anybody
Speaker 1: can call the opening drive.
Speaker 2: Your school hasn't won anything in forever.
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you what, if I were Joe moorehead,
Speaker 1: my head would be exploded.
Speaker 4: Did he come up with this idea?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Who came up with it?
Speaker 2: You really think he came up with Hey, you know
Speaker 2: it would be good? No, I don't know who. I
Speaker 2: don't know who it was people with No.
Speaker 1: Oh, here's the other thing that they weren't anticipating. People
Speaker 1: with no connection to the university are buying up season
Speaker 1: tickets to get a chance to actually call plays for
Speaker 1: a real Division one college football program.
Speaker 4: I don't like that. What if a freaking Kent player comes.
Speaker 2: Down, Well, it doesn't matter. Can't read, you can't write
Speaker 2: Kent State. No.
Speaker 1: No, I thought the same thing, except I thought, what
Speaker 1: if it's a Robert Morris guy who's like, opening play,
Speaker 1: here's what we're gonna do. Yeah, snap the ball and
Speaker 1: drop it and then just turn it over.
Speaker 3: That's not a play.
Speaker 1: The it is we call it the we call it
Speaker 1: the banana Hans forty three.
Speaker 2: Why would you do this. This is horrible.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like that's embarrassing missing something.
Speaker 1: No, you tell me it's a preseason game. Fine, and
Speaker 1: tell me it's like the first play of the preseason game.
Speaker 3: Fine, even preseason. I would you so obviously in the
Speaker 3: past you've auctioned off the opportunity to determine the starting
Speaker 3: lineup for the Capitals.
Speaker 2: Yes, for a preseason game.
Speaker 3: If you were afforded the opportunity to do something after
Speaker 3: puck drop, would you say that? May there may be
Speaker 3: some blowback for that, even if it was preseason.
Speaker 1: No, that I'd actually be Okay, it's preseason, and listen,
Speaker 1: I also know that it's preseason.
Speaker 2: Here.
Speaker 1: Here's also the other difference is it's hockey. And I
Speaker 1: don't mean that in terms of pop u larity. I
Speaker 1: just mean that in terms of I can get if
Speaker 1: I if I put somebody on the ice or set
Speaker 1: up something on the ice.
Speaker 2: I'm not talking about.
Speaker 1: When when when the winner has chosen the starting lineup,
Speaker 1: I can get that guy off the ice like that,
Speaker 1: Like you can you can make that change quick?
Speaker 3: Oh, now you're speaking as coaching staffs.
Speaker 1: Yes, you can. You can make that change quick. And
Speaker 1: there have been times where like, there have been times
Speaker 1: when when the winner has selected the starting the starting
Speaker 1: lineup for the Caps game, and I remember.
Speaker 2: And listen, beat reporters or reporters.
Speaker 1: From out of town. They don't know what's going on.
Speaker 1: They just know that they're playing the Caps for a night.
Speaker 1: There'd be stories that would show up. I can't remember
Speaker 1: where it was, but let's just pretend it was against Columbus.
Speaker 2: Their beat reporters are like, well, the.
Speaker 1: Caps really threw out an interesting lineup to start the
Speaker 1: game because they don't know what's going on.
Speaker 2: That's fine.
Speaker 1: If the Caps said you can do this for a
Speaker 1: regular season game, I would question, like Ted's got a
Speaker 1: drug problem, like somebody, like something's gone wrong.
Speaker 3: But if they gave you that access to do it,
Speaker 3: would you say no for fear of backlash.
Speaker 2: During a regular season game?
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, you wouldn't want to be associated with him.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. I couldn't do it. I couldn't do it.
Speaker 3: That's why coach is in on this. Coach okay this.
Speaker 4: It's like they've hit rock bottom and they've like, no.
Speaker 2: It's true, it's true.
Speaker 1: I or I mean, listen, and coach also works for
Speaker 1: somebody else. They could have just said, listen, this is
Speaker 1: what you're doing. Yeah, or you can leave. I don't
Speaker 1: care what your thoughts are.
Speaker 2: You're out now. I don't know. Maybe he was.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe he's ultimately had to just put his tail
Speaker 1: between his legs and go, okay, I'm in.
Speaker 3: Kevin said, I thought you guys meant call the first
Speaker 3: drive like the radio play by play.
Speaker 1: No, I'm I'm calling the plays that are going to
Speaker 1: be run.
Speaker 3: Because didn't It's happened before in baseball, But didn't the
Speaker 3: Phillies just have their winner up for an inning?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly did you.
Speaker 3: Hear that audio, Diane, No, let me see here. I
Speaker 3: know I think it was in your This is a contest, Yeah,
Speaker 3: the Cubs have done in the past.
Speaker 1: You just the optional teams get to do it where
Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, it's an auction, we're raffle in some cases,
Speaker 1: and they get to go into the play by play booth.
Speaker 3: All right, this just I guess, starts at the begin
Speaker 3: of the inning.
Speaker 6: We are headed to the third inning, Phillies on top
Speaker 6: two to one, and we're pleased to welcome Lewis call.
Speaker 2: But from Medford Lakes, New Jersey.
Speaker 3: He is our Phillies Fantastic Auction winner.
Speaker 6: He outbid the competition to spend an inning and do
Speaker 6: some play by play in the booth and lewis welcome,
Speaker 6: glad to have you here. Thank you, Scott. It's a
Speaker 6: thrilled to be here. It's a life flowing dream to me.
Speaker 6: Sound like it's cast booth. So here we go, Peter.
Speaker 6: But the first pitch to our tane that's in there
Speaker 6: for strike went, he's good too. At the bottom of
Speaker 6: the second to take by the way.
Speaker 3: I expected, Yeah, you expected a moron. He sounds awesome.
Speaker 3: He sounds like he's been doing this whole lesson.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he said.
Speaker 1: He sounds like he's a generation older. Yes, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's a generation older. But that was good. I couldn't
Speaker 1: believe it when I listened this morning.
Speaker 2: That was good.
Speaker 1: If Locker said come into the box and take Joby's
Speaker 1: place for two minutes, Nope, you couldn't do it.
Speaker 2: Couldn't do it.
Speaker 1: Okay, he's got the puck, and he's got the puck.
Speaker 2: And now and now back to you and now he's
Speaker 2: got the puck.
Speaker 3: Okay. So people are very confused. A lot of people
Speaker 3: think this opportunity that Ackron's doing isn't is no different
Speaker 3: than what you saw with the Phillies this week.
Speaker 2: No, let me be very clear. Let me be very clear.
Speaker 1: They are when I say calling the plays, I don't
Speaker 1: mean calling play by play. They are saying, okay, team,
Speaker 1: you may as well go down on the field and
Speaker 1: say we're going to play. We're going to do a
Speaker 1: handoff to the running back and he's gonna run right,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna go for this, and now it's second out.
Speaker 1: The good news is he's only gonna have to call
Speaker 1: three plays in a punt and that'll be it.
Speaker 2: But it is a real game. It matters. It is
Speaker 2: a real game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Their graphic says offensive coordinator of the game. One
Speaker 3: lucky fan will be able to script the opening drive
Speaker 3: in our home opener, that is from the zips FB
Speaker 3: you Akron page on answergram.
Speaker 1: Can I tell you the other part of this that
Speaker 1: I don't like? And I'm being serious that I don't like.
Speaker 1: Did Akron not think of the gambling implications?
Speaker 3: Probably not explain what you mean?
Speaker 1: So, for example, you can go you could go online. Right,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna use the Commanders as the example. Right,
Speaker 1: you could go online and you could. You can bet
Speaker 1: on Jaden Daniels first pass of the game. Doesn't matter
Speaker 1: when it's going to be going to the left side
Speaker 1: or the right side.
Speaker 2: And I don't care if mclaurin's on.
Speaker 1: One side and Diggs is on the other, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: It's you can bet on what side of the field
Speaker 1: it's going to get thrown to. You can bet which
Speaker 1: way a running back is going to run. If I'm
Speaker 1: this guy who's calling the plays, and listen, the athletes
Speaker 1: know that. Like all these guys in college, they know
Speaker 1: that they know that there are It's not like everybody
Speaker 1: else knows what what sports betting is and the athletes
Speaker 1: are like, unfortunately some of them are are involved in
Speaker 1: are doing it. But the athletes know there are people
Speaker 1: out there that are literally sitting on the edge of
Speaker 1: their seat. And it's not just for Ohio State and
Speaker 1: Oregon and LSU and Tennessee and massive football programs.
Speaker 2: It's for the Akrons of the world. By the way,
Speaker 2: I don't know who the starting quarter who are they playing?
Speaker 2: Robert Morris, you can bet on what he's doing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this guy could easily go to all of his
Speaker 1: friends and go here are the first three plays of
Speaker 1: the game. Now, somebody may go, I haven't seen money
Speaker 1: like this bet On Akron in forever. He's not breaking
Speaker 1: any laws, he's not breaking any he's not violating any rules.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a weird. That's a weird piece to me.
Speaker 3: But is that where there's going to be some tiny
Speaker 3: fun that explains all of those issues?
Speaker 2: What do you mean?
Speaker 3: I don't. It's one thing to look at a graphic
Speaker 3: on social media right when you actually sign up via
Speaker 3: the season tickets.
Speaker 2: Oh, you can't tell your friends?
Speaker 3: Do you receive more information?
Speaker 2: I would hope, so, I would hope, So.
Speaker 3: Go zips.
Speaker 1: I mean you could go tell your friends bet a
Speaker 1: billion dollars. The first play of the game, he's going
Speaker 1: to throw it to the right.
Speaker 3: Because you know that stuff does get flagged.
Speaker 2: Oh of course, yeah, no, I know.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm being facetious, but I can guarantee you
Speaker 1: first pass of the game is going to go and write.
Speaker 2: And listen.
Speaker 1: At these schools, a lot of their opening drives or
Speaker 1: twenty plays or thirty plays are all scripted out anyway,
Speaker 1: so it's not like that doesn't go on already.
Speaker 2: But they all know the rules.
Speaker 1: I'm not worried about the acron quarterback telling anybody but
Speaker 1: the what are they calling him?
Speaker 2: The offensive coordinator?
Speaker 1: I don't work for the NC doule a go to hell,
Speaker 1: hell do it yourself.
Speaker 3: Bo Wright's o s calling the actual football players. Yes,
Speaker 3: WT of a real game.
Speaker 1: Again, if you told me it was preseason, I'd be like, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is a real game with real implications.
Speaker 3: From Jeff pick six on three. Christen, did you attend
Speaker 3: their games?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're fine?
Speaker 2: Oh good? Oh wait, the Achroan games are fun.
Speaker 4: Yeah they lost all the time, but they're fun.
Speaker 2: Right, so you had a good time. Yeah, good, good
Speaker 2: for you.
Speaker 4: And the new stadium was absolutely beautiful.
Speaker 1: Well, they do say it's got a very nice facility.
Speaker 1: It's just they never they've never had they've never had
Speaker 1: to worry about.
Speaker 2: The goalpost coming down.
Speaker 3: Plenty of people are shocked to learn she went there.
Speaker 3: They thought she went to iow State, got to represent
Speaker 3: I can't believe they threw out your decorations.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, they don't buy them. By the way, I
Speaker 2: don't blame them.
Speaker 4: Through it out.
Speaker 2: I don't blame them.
Speaker 4: They were serious. They said, if you want your stuff
Speaker 4: and go get your own trash.
Speaker 3: But what did they do it with the like their
Speaker 3: jersey accent?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah?
Speaker 3: Were they trying to be playful about it?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: No, they were dead serious.
Speaker 2: I was if I were them, i'd be pissed.
Speaker 3: Too, And now Christian, she should be pissed, not at all.
Speaker 1: After slippers, I'm busting my ass out here for for
Speaker 1: hours school. You're walking to my dorm room to introduce
Speaker 1: yourself and then you throw my crap outside.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: The first thing they acrid when the door opened was
Speaker 5: a big OSU banner.
Speaker 4: And they're like, oh, hell no, and then just like
Speaker 4: and they're massive.
Speaker 2: You know, yeah, they're huge football players.
Speaker 4: Of course, super nice guys other than that throwing myself.
Speaker 2: So well, see, I wonder if it gets pulled.
Speaker 3: When is the game.
Speaker 2: It's got to be a couple of weeks.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you don't have an actual date yet.
Speaker 2: Oh I didn't look.
Speaker 1: I didn't look at what the Oh yeah, so it's
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks away.
Speaker 3: And did you say that they choose the winner on
Speaker 3: the nineteenth of August. Oh, I don't know when the
Speaker 3: winner is chosen the week before they are at wake Forest.
Speaker 2: Oh, let's see call Calshi.
Speaker 1: By the way, you're better off letting them call the
Speaker 1: opening drive against wake Forest.
Speaker 2: You have no chance there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but how much is that gonna getting paid for
Speaker 3: that game?
Speaker 1: A lot that, you know what, You're right, that's a
Speaker 1: lot more than my my auction went for. Yes, I
Speaker 1: hope it's the I hope the Robert Morris coach is
Speaker 1: the winner of the UH auction.
Speaker 2: That would be that.
Speaker 1: That would make me so happy. All right, Kristen, what
Speaker 1: is our cheer about Kent State?
Speaker 2: Wait?
Speaker 3: Hold on, hold on, I have to first make sure
Speaker 3: was it Colleen who's listening? Who chanted along with her
Speaker 3: the first time she did it?
Speaker 6: Bah?
Speaker 3: The whole state hates KM.
Speaker 4: Yes, but it's Akron's biggest rival, right And what is
Speaker 4: it again? Can't read? Can't write? Kent State