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Not 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:23.800 as nice as Danny Parkins, who was I was talking 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:26.679 about with one of the pr people for the Bears 0:01:26.720 --> 0:01:28.679 today about Danny Parkins and I do in the podcast 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:31.959 Chicago Boy. So I went to the practice. There was 0:01:32.000 --> 0:01:35.760 a massive storm, so they moved it indoors. And the 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:38.680 first thing I was looking for is everybody said Caleb 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:41.320 Williams lost fifteen pounds. So I talked to him after practice. 0:01:41.319 --> 0:01:43.959 He said thirteen. But there was a breakdown on one 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:46.640 play and he moved left. And I am not joking. 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:50.840 He looked like a wide receiver. He was always a 0:01:50.880 --> 0:01:56.520 good runner, he is. He looked so fast and he 0:01:56.640 --> 0:01:59.360 was out like the corners had angles and they couldn't 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:02.160 they couldn't, they couldn't catch up on the angle. And 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:04.760 I was like, and you know why I lost weight. 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:08.079 He wants to be faster, right, he wants to everybody's 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:10.560 faster in the sport. The second thing that jumped out 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:13.320 Danny is and it was noticeable. And I talked to 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:17.960 Ben Johnson after practice. He's much tighter like post practice 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:22.600 during practice, accuracy it's different. He's always been a little 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:25.880 bit of a streaky accuracy guy, like he'll be great 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:29.120 in the fourth struggling in the second, but his speed 0:02:29.280 --> 0:02:34.280 was noticeable. He's much tighter with his accuracy. I was 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:37.080 just kind of blown away. The offense dominated practice as 0:02:37.160 --> 0:02:37.960 far as I can tell. 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:41.920 So first, I mean, it's rare for offenses to dominate 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:44.639 defenses early in training camp, right, Normally, like offense is 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:48.120 more timing, defense is more just like pure reaction and athleticism. 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:51.760 So normally defenses are ahead of offenses early. But the 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:54.960 Bears offense needs to dominate because their defense is not 0:02:55.400 --> 0:02:58.200 very good and they've invested a ton on the offensive 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:00.320 side of the ball with draft capital, with head coaching, 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:03.160 HighRes et cetera. So like it's good that the offense 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:05.440 is beating the Bears defense, Like the if the Bears 0:03:05.480 --> 0:03:07.560 are going to win, they're going to be doing it 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:10.880 with the top ten, maybe top five offense in the sport. 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:13.359 So like that that's that to me, It was like 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:17.400 a prerequisite, like they need to be beating the Bears 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:23.000 defense in camp slimmed down Caleb like faster Caleb is 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:27.320 a scary thought for the league. Oh because it looked 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:32.040 so he looked like a wide receiver. Great, bring it 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:38.120 on and listen. I people have been like like the 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:40.160 producers on the show, and like, let's do the like 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:43.560 are the Bears a regression candidate? Topic? Like, it doesn't 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:47.720 offend me to suggest that the Bears could regress. You 0:03:47.800 --> 0:03:50.520 have to be good in order to be a regression candidate, 0:03:51.000 --> 0:03:54.000 Like the Rams are a regression candidate, The Patriots are 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:57.400 a regression candidate. The Broncos are a regression candidate. The 0:03:57.400 --> 0:03:59.360 offensive line will not be as healthy, they will not 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:01.440 lead the league in takeaways, they will not have seven 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:05.040 fourth quarter comebacks. I agreed, agreed, agreed, point conceded, Point conceded, 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:07.800 point conceited. But if you have one of the most 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:12.200 talented quarterbacks on Earth with one of the best offensive 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:16.080 coaches on Earth, and it's year two of them together, 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:20.720 that's when the jump happens. Like, that's when the leap happens. 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:24.279 So you know how you can cover up for areas 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:28.960 of obvious regression by Caleb being awesome and the Bears 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:32.560 offense being awesome, which is fully what I expect to 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:33.880 happen for the Bears this year. 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:37.240 Well, we all know it's a quarterback coach league, and 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:40.360 it was Albert Breer was standing next to me during 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:42.359 the practice and we were talking about this. We're like, 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:47.480 there's not that many combinations where you have a coach 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:51.880 that everyone agrees that's an elite coach and a quarterback 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:55.960 everybody goes that's an elite quarterback talent. You have Vrabel, 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:59.960 Josh McDaniel who runs the offense, and Drake May Harbor, 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:05.919 Herbert McVeigh and an older Stafford. I think Dan Campbell 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:10.480 and golf qualify is very respected both sides. It's like, okay, 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:15.560 Ben Johnson and Caleb and then you start saying, well, 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:19.120 Kyle Shanahan, I don't think Brock Purdy is I think 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:21.880 Brock Purty is efficient. I don't think he's in the 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:26.400 Herbert class. Now I would have said Demko Ryan c J. Stroud, 0:05:26.440 --> 0:05:31.080 but c J. Stroud regressed badly last year. So the 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:35.360 reality is now now there's an argument, Matt Stafford, Jordan 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:39.680 Love they've had bad Septembers that they probably in that class. Ye, 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:44.000 Matt Leafleur, Jordan Love. But there's about eight of them, 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:46.640 nine of them in the league. In Chicago's one of them. 0:05:46.720 --> 0:05:49.840 Yeah, listen, I think that. Like, so I covered the 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:52.279 Chiefs when Andy Reid got to Kansas City. 0:05:52.360 --> 0:05:54.840 And I want to read Mahomes right exactly and one 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:57.360 of the things, but I was there before Mahomes got there. 0:05:57.600 --> 0:05:59.280 But one of the things, like when I really dug 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:01.719 into Andy Reid that was so impressive was like, man, 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:05.680 look at all of these different guys who had their 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:10.280 best season with Andy Reid. Sure, Donovan McNabb, Alex Smith, 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:14.360 but also Jeff Garcia, Kevin Cobb, Mike Vick. It was like, 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:17.920 whatever level of quarterback talent you had, when you got 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:21.040 with that coach, you had your best season or seasons. 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:25.000 Then he got the homes and it was five thousand yards, 0:06:25.040 --> 0:06:29.680 fifty touchdowns, MVP's super Bowls, like the great offensive minds. 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:34.120 So yeah, brock Perty is an elite processor. He's very accurate, 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:36.400 but he doesn't have the biggest arm. He's not the biggest, 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:39.160 he's not the fastest, he's not the strongest. When you 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:43.440 but like when you have Kyle Shanahan, your floor is 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:46.160 really high. But like I have no doubt Kyle Shanahan 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:47.960 traded three first round picks to try to go get 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:52.359 Trey Lance, like he he wanted the elite, super talented 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:54.800 player because if you can blend, if you can blend 0:06:54.880 --> 0:06:59.720 the ninety nine percent talent with the ninety nine percent coach, 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:03.760 that's when you get MVPs and Super Bowls. And I 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:06.800 think that's what Stafford and McVeigh have shown, That's what 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:10.440 Reid and Mahomes have shown, and I think that's what 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:14.000 Ben Johnson and Caleb are going to show. I think 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:19.760 that Ben Johnson is in that McVeigh Shanahan some level 0:07:19.800 --> 0:07:20.160 of coach. 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:21.240 And by the way, like. 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:25.560 I'm a little closer to that one. I have somewhat 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:27.640 of a relationship with Ben Johnson, not much, but like 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:29.320 he's been on the show, we text a little bit whatever. 0:07:29.640 --> 0:07:32.920 Like I think, if you're a Jaguars fan, you're hoping 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:36.720 that Liam Cohen is also in that group. He helped 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:40.600 Baker Mayfield, He got you, you know, Trevor Lawrence to 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:42.560 have one of his best season ever and be a 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:45.240 top seven MVP guy. Like I'm not saying there's only 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:50.040 three or four of them, but if you have top 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:53.320 flight offensive coaching mind who is a play caller, and 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:55.360 that gives you stability of system and all of it, 0:07:55.680 --> 0:08:00.160 and then you inject them with top flight talent. I 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:02.800 just think your floor is so damn high as an 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:06.160 offense in a football team that I don't think there's 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:09.560 many outcomes where it can be a disaster or the 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:10.360 team could be bad. 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:14.840 Yeah, it was interesting. They drafted this kid out of Stanford, 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:17.400 Sam Rouch, who was viewed as a blocking tight end. 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:19.640 First of all, it's just he he looks like an 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:23.560 NFL eight year tight end. He is a big, strong 0:08:23.720 --> 0:08:24.640 It's like, oh, he'll play. 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:26.760 They want to move, they want they want to be 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:29.040 the leaders in the trend right of two and three 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:32.040 tight end sets. And you know, if you put small 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:33.960 guys on the field, we will run at you. If 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:35.959 you put big guys on the field, we will pass 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:37.920 at you. Like they they want to be among the 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:42.920 leaders in that evolution of football. So here's an interesting one. 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:48.199 This whole Sophie Cunningham story is really interesting. I know, yeah, 0:08:48.280 --> 0:08:52.640 well we can right right turn. 0:08:52.920 --> 0:08:57.920 So there's a lot of times and in my morning meeting, 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:01.360 this is a big discussion. What's a topic and what's 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:04.760 just a hot topic on the internet. And I think, 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:07.000 you know, I've said before, I think one of the 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:08.800 things our show does well, we talk about what the 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:12.280 country's talking about. But you can get fooled very quickly 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:17.199 talking about what the internet is talking about. So when 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:21.200 it comes to like trans athletes, you know, listen, it's 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:26.520 it's captivating on certain platforms, but on mainstream cable television, 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:31.760 you know, on broadcast TV, how many trans athletes are 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:35.160 playing in the WNBA zero. So it's like, what is 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:37.679 it as a topic. Then Sophie Cunningham, who works at 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:40.640 the Volume, you know, says, you know, I didn't think 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:43.560 it was that explosive, but it's a topic that is 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:46.120 just explosive, and she brings it up. But it was 0:09:46.120 --> 0:09:49.720 interesting because I asked my wife about it yesterday and 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:51.480 she's like, I have no idea what you're talking about. 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:55.079 And I'm like, right, like, so, I'm like, yeah, And 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:57.840 my wife doesn't love sports, but she no If I 0:09:57.920 --> 0:10:01.000 said to her, oh, you know, if somebody got traded, 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:02.959 she's like, oh, I know, it's all over. Plus her 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:07.880 sons are at you know, sports lovers, and I'm her husband, 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:11.839 so she's got some sense of it. But what's interesting 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:15.600 I mean about the whole thing is I texted somebody 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:21.000 the other day. I said, in my life, good leaders 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:23.760 who I've worked with or for have one thing in common. 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:26.960 Sometimes they go to Ivy League schools. Sometimes they are 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:30.120 going to Jayc's. It's not an education thing. They're really 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:34.320 good leaders. Take little campfires and don't allow them to 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:39.199 be infernos, like they're always a step ahead. George Bodenheim 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:42.680 or ESPN. I've talked about he just ESPN every day 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:45.920 you had something right, like you have to put fires 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:50.680 out and on this trans topic for the WNBA, like 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:54.480 you could see it coming down the road, and like 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:57.760 players talking about it, and I feel like Kathy Engelbert, 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:02.040 it's like now they're reeling now. I mean, Sophie Cunningham 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:05.800 basically gets closed line that looked like Bill Lambier going 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:09.719 after Kurt Rambus. So now you've got You've got a 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:13.360 lot of this stuff like player on player owners screaming 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:17.160 at fans for the Seattle storm. And my big takeaway 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:21.640 on this is, Jesus, could you guys get ahead of anything. 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:25.520 You're just constantly playing catchup. And I do wonder if 0:11:25.559 --> 0:11:28.280 it were just reached a point where listen, we got 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:30.319 to get a new commissioner in here. Adam Stilber's like, 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:33.319 we got to get a new commissioner. The league's exploded. 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:35.840 She's just not built for it. But I felt like 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:40.800 that Seattle Storm owner the Clothesline hit on Sophie Cunningham'm like, guys, 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:45.319 you're just you're in reaction mode every third day. 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:51.239 The last time we talked about the WNBA on this podcast, 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:56.760 I said the thing as a not daily, weekly, monthly 0:11:57.000 --> 0:12:00.600 WNBA viewer, but just a viewer of sport who likes 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:08.240 big same into big events, in big games, and like 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:11.080 everyone was swept up in Caitlin Clark and all of that. 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:13.679 But I'm not claiming to be a WNBA expert, but 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:17.559 just as a I would say, an expert of media 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:22.559 and sport. It's very clear that they have outgrown their leadership. 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:24.520 Like that's what I said to you the last time 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:28.000 we were on, which was six news cycles ago, probably 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:31.680 talking about it. I agree with you, they've outgrown their leadership. 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:39.439 This story, though, it really does make me mad because 0:12:40.800 --> 0:12:46.080 the people who are pretending to care about it are 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:55.760 doing so just so transparently out of self interest slash 0:12:55.920 --> 0:13:01.160 motivation for like to cash in on the commerce of rage. 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:05.600 Like you said, it is not one of the ten 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:15.600 to twenty to fifty biggest issues facing mainstream people in America, right, inflation, wars, whatever, 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:19.160 There's a million things going on. And then you have 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:25.320 these people that were so adamant that athletes needed to 0:13:25.360 --> 0:13:28.920 stick to sports when they were talking about topics that 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:32.360 they didn't like, But now when they see a topic 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:38.400 that they feel like benefits politically their side of the aisle, well, 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:41.959 why isn't Caitlin Clark speaking out for Sophie Cunningham And 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:44.240 why is't Kathy Ingelber doing this in the WNBA should 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:47.280 do this? And they did it. You don't care, You 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:51.680 don't actually care. And so it's just it's so transparently 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:56.240 transactional that it really does to me bring out like 0:13:56.360 --> 0:14:00.480 the worst in all of us and in common terry, 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:04.320 and I just it bums me out, like on like 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:06.440 a like a human level, because like, again I'm not 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:10.520 a huge WNBA fan or consumer, but objectively it's going well, 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:16.240 record attendance, record ratings, record, Uh. 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:18.280 The quality of play is better than a decade ago. 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:19.359 The quality of plays. 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:26.360 Much like a franchise valuation, expansion investors, superstar talent across 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:29.840 the league in number of places, like it's objectively going, well, 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:33.600 it's a basketball league with great basketball that is gaining 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:37.240 in popularity and money. And then they so then these 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:41.240 just like people just try to siphon out the joy 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:46.520 to feed into culture war stuff that it just it 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:48.960 makes it it makes it so that the basketball is 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:52.720 so secondary or tertiary that it it bums me off 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:56.640 for people who are actual legitimate WNBA fans, because I 0:14:56.680 --> 0:14:59.120 do wonder like maybe they have to walk past a 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:02.200 protest walk into an arena, but then they go to 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:05.520 an arena and they watch great basketball and they leave happy, 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:09.000 and it's like, are we just we're just bringing the 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:12.400 worst of the internet front and center and it just 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:14.840 it feels like the league and its fans deserve so 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:15.480 much better. 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:19.480 Well, also, just because Caitlin Clark and I did an 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:23.000 essay this week, I saw this just because Caitlin. Just 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:26.760 because Caitlin Clark did not want to talk about an 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:29.120 issue that Sophie brought up, it doesn't mean they're not 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:32.040 close or great teammates. I mean, like Michael Jordan was 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:36.720 a political Tiger Woods a political Lebron James Moore political, 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:39.400 it's like you can be best for I have friends 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:43.000 that are hyper political. I'm not. I'm kind of agnostic. 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:46.040 I'm a social liberal, fiscal moderate to conservative. I don't 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:48.720 talk about it that much. I do think there was 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:51.400 a moment, I'll say you an interesting moment. This was 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:58.320 a month before the Trump Kamala Harris, Uh yeah. I'm 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:01.040 at a club called the nine hundred Club in Manhattan Beach. 0:16:01.360 --> 0:16:04.680 It's a nine hundred member club, very much hoodies and 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:06.680 tennis shoes. But it's like where you go if you're 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:09.040 a local during the summer. It gets packed. You know, 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:11.040 it's very terurist that you go inside and it's just 0:16:11.080 --> 0:16:13.680 a watering hole, real nice, like a lot of sports. 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:16.640 You go watch a UFC fight or a college football 0:16:16.640 --> 0:16:18.760 game on Saturday. It's my favorite place in the world. 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:21.440 And it was about a month before the election. And 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:24.680 when I go there, you know, everybody's asking we talk sports, Yes, 0:16:24.800 --> 0:16:28.240 that's what you talk. Maybe your kid's doing something, and 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:31.640 it was really instructive. I was sitting there a month 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:34.160 for the election and it's like eight guys and I'm 0:16:34.200 --> 0:16:38.080 about ready to go. Two beers get in my car, 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:43.720 drive a mile, go home, and somebody brings up, you know, 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:47.160 a couple of young like eighth grade basketball, eighth ninth 0:16:47.160 --> 0:16:50.040 grade basketball in Orange County, which is the southern county 0:16:51.080 --> 0:16:54.920 south of La County, Orange County, like kind of legendary 0:16:55.000 --> 0:16:59.680 for a couple of TV shows, reality shows right La Counties, 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:04.880 Hollywood and stuff, Dodgers Stadium, usc All, that stuff. So 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:11.880 somebody brings up their friend had a daughter that played 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:14.800 against a team that had some trans athletes and that 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:19.399 the biological boys just dominated. And I sat there for 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:21.960 fifteen minutes and I didn't say a word because I 0:17:22.040 --> 0:17:23.960 was you know, you and I observe a lot for 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:26.080 a living, Like we talk a lot on the air, 0:17:26.119 --> 0:17:29.000 but off the air, we observe two talk. And it 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:33.800 was so visceral and so intense. I remember getting in 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:38.600 my car going home that night and telling Anne, like, 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:43.800 I think Trump's gonna win. I've never seen guys get 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:47.200 so worked up. Here's like forty five year old, fifty 0:17:47.240 --> 0:17:51.080 year old guys. We just don't talk politics in that place. 0:17:51.160 --> 0:17:54.520 We talked sports, family, Hey, where'd you go on vacation? 0:17:54.720 --> 0:17:57.840 You know, it's just a beer games are on and 0:17:57.880 --> 0:18:01.879 so I do think if you have daughters who play 0:18:01.920 --> 0:18:04.520 in sports, I think it becomes much more personal. I 0:18:04.600 --> 0:18:07.880 don't my stepdaughters are like, they'll ski, you know, they'll 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:10.080 do that kind of stuff. They're not team sports kids. 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:12.639 But I do think if I had four daughters and 0:18:12.720 --> 0:18:15.679 I was living in it, i'd probably have I'd be 0:18:15.800 --> 0:18:19.760 I'd have a more emotional response. My kids aren't, you know, 0:18:19.800 --> 0:18:22.439 they golf, they ski, they don't do team sports. So 0:18:22.520 --> 0:18:24.320 for me, it's like I asked my wife, Like I 0:18:24.320 --> 0:18:25.840 told you, I asked my wife about it this week. 0:18:25.920 --> 0:18:27.720 She's like, I don't know what you're talking about. It's 0:18:27.720 --> 0:18:29.040 just done a topic in our house. 0:18:29.119 --> 0:18:33.760 Yeah, listen, man, I don't know. I just maybe I'm naive. 0:18:33.840 --> 0:18:36.399 I do not think that what is happening is that 0:18:36.480 --> 0:18:39.400 a bunch of people are transitioning to get a leg 0:18:39.520 --> 0:18:42.399 up in sports. Like I just I don't. I don't 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:45.480 think that that is like a the motivation or the 0:18:45.600 --> 0:18:49.119 end goal or anything like that. And I think that 0:18:49.200 --> 0:18:52.280 this is, like I said, I think it is a 0:18:52.320 --> 0:19:00.160 win politically for one side to amplify it, to make 0:19:00.240 --> 0:19:04.240 it seem like a much, much, much bigger issue than 0:19:04.280 --> 0:19:07.119 it is. Not saying that there are not incidents where 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:09.280 it is an issue. Not saying that it is not 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:13.000 something that should be addressed with common sense, just I 0:19:13.000 --> 0:19:16.960 think that empathy and common sense should carry the day. 0:19:17.640 --> 0:19:20.000 And the idea that this is some sort of like 0:19:21.359 --> 0:19:25.560 I don't know, national crisis, I just I just reject 0:19:25.600 --> 0:19:30.480 it on its merits. Like again, I would say to 0:19:30.520 --> 0:19:33.360 people who really like, I think that a bigger issue 0:19:33.400 --> 0:19:37.240 in the trans world of again issues, I'm saying that awkwardly, 0:19:37.280 --> 0:19:40.440 I apologize, would be like Google's suicide rate among trans 0:19:40.480 --> 0:19:43.720 people feels like a bigger deal to me than the 0:19:43.800 --> 0:19:47.000 high school sports team feels like a bigger deal. And 0:19:47.040 --> 0:19:48.879 I just we don't get anywhere near that amount of 0:19:48.920 --> 0:19:53.920 coverage because it's that's not a political winner. So and again, 0:19:53.960 --> 0:19:56.480 the most obvious point to make is the people who 0:19:56.520 --> 0:19:59.479 wanted athletes to stick to sports now when it's an 0:19:59.520 --> 0:20:01.919 issue that the AC is a win for their side, 0:20:02.600 --> 0:20:04.520 don't want them to stick to sports at all, which 0:20:04.600 --> 0:20:08.760 just makes the whole thing so transparently pathetic. 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And then so the preseason isn't 0:21:55.400 --> 0:21:59.760 what it used to be. There's you know, I'm interested, 0:22:00.000 --> 0:22:02.119 although he's not going to start week one. I do 0:22:02.160 --> 0:22:05.119 think the Fernando Mendoza story is interesting, but he's not 0:22:05.119 --> 0:22:07.560 going to start week one, so I don't care. So 0:22:07.640 --> 0:22:10.280 I have found myself And maybe it's because I'm in 0:22:10.359 --> 0:22:12.919 Chicago and the Cubs just swept the Dodgers, and the 0:22:12.960 --> 0:22:16.880 Dodgers are reeling, encircling the drain. But I will say this, 0:22:17.080 --> 0:22:20.679 I have found myself the last two to three years 0:22:20.720 --> 0:22:26.680 in August being much more engaged with baseball races. And 0:22:26.880 --> 0:22:29.800 I think this is I think this is something that 0:22:29.960 --> 0:22:36.440 baseball maybe incidentally, maybe it's just been a matter of luck. 0:22:37.040 --> 0:22:43.360 But Cub's good, Yankees interesting, Dodger's reeling, Brave's excellent, Here 0:22:43.400 --> 0:22:47.520 come the Astros. It's like all these brands, Red Sox 0:22:47.600 --> 0:22:50.320 the hottest team in like eight years, Like they can't 0:22:50.359 --> 0:22:54.159 lose games. And I've got to tell you the trade deadline, 0:22:54.200 --> 0:22:56.120 I was like, I didn't know half the pitchers going 0:22:56.160 --> 0:22:58.399 to these teams outside of like, you know, the Cubs 0:22:58.400 --> 0:23:00.880 got somebody from the Jays i'd heard of. But I've 0:23:00.920 --> 0:23:05.640 found myself one of the rare instances, I'm like, I'm 0:23:05.720 --> 0:23:09.439 choosing in August. I'm choosing some baseball on TV instead 0:23:09.440 --> 0:23:12.560 of like looking at mock drafts and caring about football 0:23:12.600 --> 0:23:16.439 in the NFL preseason. Do you share that sentiment or not. 0:23:18.040 --> 0:23:20.720 I'm real into the Cubs right now. I'll tell you that, 0:23:20.840 --> 0:23:24.720 like I am, we want to do a whole PCA 0:23:24.880 --> 0:23:28.800 for MVP conversation, like, am I am your huckleber. 0:23:28.600 --> 0:23:29.960