Speaker 1: Hellone. Welcome to Waken Jake, Myself, Jake's Story, Ellie, Big
Speaker 1: Baby David. As we officially get into baseball season. We
Speaker 1: missed the Alonso signing last week, so we'll touch up
Speaker 1: on that. A couple smaller ones happened. Keek back to
Speaker 1: the Dodgers shocker, and a little Super Bowl recap. I
Speaker 1: was down in New Orleans, so I can walk you
Speaker 1: through some of the fun stuff that we were involved in,
Speaker 1: along with the dismantling of your Kansas City Chiefs. Congrats
Speaker 1: to the Birds. Where I'll be giving myself some credit
Speaker 1: this episode, and then there will be moments where I
Speaker 1: give myself zero credit this episode. Stay tuned, time stamp
Speaker 1: it below. I guess let's let's check off some baseball quick.
Speaker 1: It's officially baseball season. The football season is done. Everyone
Speaker 1: gets their their tweets off. It's ready to go, pitchers
Speaker 1: and catchers reporting. It's also Valentine's Day this week. Get
Speaker 1: ready people, Thursday fourteenth?
Speaker 2: What's today? Today? Is Monday?
Speaker 1: So I think yes, Thursday, Friday, ten eleven twelve. I
Speaker 1: got I got myself too, so prepare for that as needed.
Speaker 1: Let's do pet Alonso's back to the Mets. This will
Speaker 1: be one of the examples of myself not giving myself credit.
Speaker 1: I thought Pete was going to get the contract, and
Speaker 1: it's a little bit of I don't want to say
Speaker 1: credit to new new age front offices because I still
Speaker 1: think Pete's really good. But I thought the Pee Alonzo
Speaker 1: home runs were going to speak volumes. I thought the
Speaker 1: phrase I ended up saying here and on Talking Baseball
Speaker 1: a lot was that if you are a front office,
Speaker 1: it's very rare that a free agent hits the market
Speaker 1: and you can say that guy is going to give
Speaker 1: me thirty five homers. There's a good chance he could
Speaker 1: give me forty homers, depending if you had your first
Speaker 1: base spot open or a DH spot, which pretty much
Speaker 1: every team could get Pete Alonso in their lineup. I
Speaker 1: think part of the problem for Pete I think he
Speaker 1: showed his hands a little bit. I think he wanted
Speaker 1: to be a New York Met. Pete likes being a Met.
Speaker 1: It's the most exciting time to ever be a Met.
Speaker 1: They added Won Soto, they made a nice postseason run
Speaker 1: last year. The Mets are sexy baby, and I'll give
Speaker 1: a partial assist to Trevor Ploof who stated he said
Speaker 1: he knew Pete was done when Pete. Early on in
Speaker 1: Pete's free agency, I think they were talking about those
Speaker 1: opt in, opt out contracts and he's like, the only
Speaker 1: team I'd consider doing that for is the Mets. Well,
Speaker 1: that's a sign that you'd want to be a Met Man.
Speaker 1: That's kind of some negotiating leverage out out the door there.
Speaker 1: So that was tough for Pete. What the final numbers
Speaker 1: land at.
Speaker 2: I believe the final is a two year, fifty four
Speaker 2: million dollar deal with an opt out in the in
Speaker 2: the years between, right, I think he's getting thirty mili
Speaker 2: thirty million for this season's salary. I don't know how
Speaker 2: much of like a you know, a buyout on the
Speaker 2: option there is. I don't know what's what he's literally,
Speaker 2: I mean he's it's a team, it's a player option
Speaker 2: to technically it's all guaranteed to him.
Speaker 1: And I mean there were other goals here. They originally
Speaker 1: want to set the first base record that I think
Speaker 1: was thirty two million. They don't get there. And yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean at a certain point you have to decide, Okay,
Speaker 1: what are you really going for? You're going for the
Speaker 1: years or where do you want to play? He wanted
Speaker 1: to be in New York met He wanted to cash
Speaker 1: in on the biggest number possible. And Pete Alonso still
Speaker 1: believes in himself and I think he should. I think
Speaker 1: Pete Alonso's power still played. I know he had a
Speaker 1: weird year last year. Is always funny checking in with
Speaker 1: Jolly Olive because you know, clutch is a weird thing
Speaker 1: in baseball, in any sport that okay?
Speaker 2: Or are you clutch?
Speaker 1: Is it opportunity driven in a sport like baseball, where
Speaker 1: you know, if Pete hit two forty last year, to
Speaker 1: have a clutch hit against a good reliever late, is
Speaker 1: that timing? Is it bad luck that Pete didn't? I
Speaker 1: think he didn't have a go ahead homer or RBI
Speaker 1: since April until the playoffs. So Pete had he played
Speaker 1: every game last year, matters to me. Thirty four homers,
Speaker 1: eighty eight rbi and like I said, offense being down
Speaker 1: last year hurt the look of Pete's numbers. Pete in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three had an eight to twenty one OPS
Speaker 1: five h four, slugging forty six home runs and three
Speaker 1: He had a He had the same OPS plus one
Speaker 1: twenty three, So I think those numbers were daunting. Pete's
Speaker 1: war has gone down the past three seasons, and yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean people were freaking out. And maybe they're right,
Speaker 1: and maybe this is where we are. I don't say
Speaker 1: Novice fans, that's rude to everyone. But they're saying Pete's
Speaker 1: body isn't going to age. Well, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't know how we judge that. Sometimes that's that feels
Speaker 1: unfair to me. Maybe they're right, But Pete Alonso the
Speaker 1: last four years thirty seven homers, forty homers, forty six
Speaker 1: and thirty four. So I think Pete got hurt by
Speaker 1: the first base market. We saw Nathaniel Lowe traded for
Speaker 1: a lefty reliever in his thirties. Wasn't super familiar with him,
Speaker 1: didn't have like a bang up year last year either.
Speaker 1: Let me get that because that one that one tends
Speaker 1: to I don't want to say it makes me mad.
Speaker 1: But Nathaniel, who had a one twenty oh ps plus
Speaker 1: last year similar war to Pete, making less money, got
Speaker 1: traded for Robert Garcia. You're lefty from the Nationals. He's
Speaker 1: twenty eight. Excuse me, I don't take my age off
Speaker 1: and he has a lot of control. Seventy two games.
Speaker 1: Last year he had a four to to two.
Speaker 2: So hasn't taken the next step yet.
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's coming. I believe Robert Wow, Robert Garcia,
Speaker 1: U C Davis guy Okay, didn't have that California boy.
Speaker 1: Sure that. Yeah, we saw the Christian Walker market come
Speaker 1: and go. You know, better player offense and defense is
Speaker 1: what the numbers would tell you are similar player offensively,
Speaker 1: better defensively, likes every first base charge.
Speaker 2: He's the best defensive first baseman by any metric you're
Speaker 2: gonna find.
Speaker 1: The numbers were obsessed with him. Paul Goldschmidt looking for
Speaker 1: a one year, low risk deal, you know, Carlos Santana,
Speaker 1: Carlos Santana.
Speaker 2: There were options out there. Of course Pete's.
Speaker 1: Better, but right, I mean, it's just it's a risk
Speaker 1: reward of teams are teams are more timid to give
Speaker 1: out the big contract unless you are a guy guy.
Speaker 1: And I guess that becomes a conversation where I think,
Speaker 1: almost I feel like Pete's persona almost might have hurt
Speaker 1: him a little bit in this where front officers were like,
Speaker 1: you know, that's not what we pay for. We pay
Speaker 1: for what's on the field. Pete now has two years
Speaker 1: to have a great season. I'm still on it. I
Speaker 1: think for these we saw Matt Chapman, we saw Snell
Speaker 1: cashing on these opt out opportunity deals. I think Pete's
Speaker 1: got more in there. It should be a better, better
Speaker 1: team this year. He should have some motivation and there's
Speaker 1: some more help. There's a little more help. There should
Speaker 1: be some more ducks on the pond.
Speaker 2: Seems like he'll get another opportunity to do stuff in
Speaker 2: the playoffs. Can help or hurt.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. I think teams are so if.
Speaker 2: You don't I feel like, if you don't get it
Speaker 2: done or early, it's not like in the offseason. People throw
Speaker 2: out the playoffs stuff the longer you wait. I've got
Speaker 2: some stats, okay.
Speaker 1: Pete Alonso sixteen postseason games twenty twenty two for three,
Speaker 1: and then they had thirteen games last year two seventy
Speaker 1: eight four twenty nine A one dot ops well out
Speaker 1: of pistol Pete Alonso. So I think, I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's it's interesting that postseason I don't think teams super
Speaker 1: value because it's still the whole body of work and
Speaker 1: all the numbers they're putting into their system. Pete played
Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty two games. They're gonna value that
Speaker 1: over the thirteen games I said he played last year.
Speaker 1: I do think it's funny if you if you put
Speaker 1: in those thirteen games and Pete played one hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy five games last year, his numbers on the whole
Speaker 1: look pretty damn good. And it's probably like a close
Speaker 1: to a one thirty opis plus, Like it's if we did.
Speaker 2: His twenty twenty four stats all right, might have to
Speaker 2: that's probably a bump up.
Speaker 1: It might have to get. Yeah, the analytics department going
Speaker 1: on that adult Pete Alonso just turned thirty. He goes
Speaker 1: back to the Mets, and I it's it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a funny relationship to see the Yankee fans got to
Speaker 1: see when Judge was in the final year of his
Speaker 1: contract and he went on to break the Ale home
Speaker 1: run record.
Speaker 2: That was pretty wild.
Speaker 1: We also got to see Soto just have an amazing
Speaker 1: contract year and then enter the bidding table the right way.
Speaker 1: Pete's got two years to be good. And I think
Speaker 1: the bigger thing for me is, like Pete last year
Speaker 1: was bad for Pete, and again it was a one
Speaker 1: twenty three oh ps plus that I think if no
Speaker 1: team ever gives him the five year deal, I think
Speaker 1: he'll be able to string this thing along. And maybe
Speaker 1: what Pete need to come to grips with is how
Speaker 1: much do you want to be a Met if they're
Speaker 1: going to treat you like this? And our guy, Joe's
Speaker 1: McFly already thinks Flattie is going to be a Met
Speaker 1: next year.
Speaker 2: I don't know if that's true.
Speaker 1: Could be.
Speaker 2: Seems like the way the Mets structured this contract, my
Speaker 2: guess would be they want to be able to make
Speaker 2: a push.
Speaker 1: Could be, and maybe that's why they didn't have full
Speaker 1: interest in Pete. I think Pete Alonso is going to
Speaker 1: do his thing, because that's all that his baseball card
Speaker 1: would tell you that. I think he's going to get
Speaker 1: a payday. I don't know if it's from the Mets
Speaker 1: or someone else. And maybe this is you know, when
Speaker 1: you enter free agency a you don't know how it's
Speaker 1: really going to go. And like I said, Pete, I
Speaker 1: think he kind of blew his negotiating leverage just a
Speaker 1: little bit. That maybe he always wanted the Mets and
Speaker 1: he knew Cohen has the wallet, so he thought he'd
Speaker 1: go shopping around and he'd come back and hey, match
Speaker 1: this and we're good. Doesn't seem like that happen, Uncle
Speaker 1: Stevie In the Mets front office, they won this game
Speaker 1: of chicken that I think for Pete it's go out there,
Speaker 1: do your thing again, and then you probably have to
Speaker 1: be actually at grips with leaving the Mets. And if
Speaker 1: you have a great season, you do have the owner
Speaker 1: that has the deepest pockets. Now that if Pete goes
Speaker 1: out there and puts up a forty spot, tough for
Speaker 1: me to picture the Mets just letting him walk. I mean,
Speaker 1: Laddie would be a great Mets fans would be able
Speaker 1: to figure that out. But it's just a it's a
Speaker 1: weird mindset. I know Yankee fans and I probably had
Speaker 1: some very defensive rants when DJ Lemayhew was bawling out
Speaker 1: and hit free agency. It was like, we can't let
Speaker 1: this guy go. He's an essential part of the team.
Speaker 1: We're the Yankees, right, your guys, you have someone playing
Speaker 1: good for the Yankees, you keep that guy.
Speaker 2: That's what we do.
Speaker 1: It's ended up in a not so great spot, and
Speaker 1: maybe that's what the Mets are trying to be smarter than.
Speaker 1: But it will be very interesting to see where Pete
Speaker 1: lands the ship this year. If he has a really
Speaker 1: strong year, it's gonna be an interesting one for the
Speaker 1: Mets fan base. I had it wrong. I thought Pete
Speaker 1: was gonna get paid paid. Maybe he needed one or
Speaker 1: two more teams involved. I feel like we haven't had
Speaker 1: a lot of aftermath, like, oh, the Angels offered one
Speaker 1: hundred and ten, or we haven't.
Speaker 2: There hasn't been the like what was the other offer out?
Speaker 1: Yeah, not a lot of good gossip there. And I
Speaker 1: don't know it's one of those should should the Seattle
Speaker 1: Mariners have been involved?
Speaker 2: Absolutely?
Speaker 1: But yeah, I think Pete's Pete's value ended up in
Speaker 1: just a slightly odd spot that you know, the the
Speaker 1: Texas Rangers added Jake Berger where they're like, hey, we
Speaker 1: can get thirty homers from that spot. We don't have
Speaker 1: to pay him as much money. They allowed them to
Speaker 1: move Nathanielo who was trained for a lefty reliever. So
Speaker 1: who's apparently from California we just found out. So, uh,
Speaker 1: maybe the market wasn't there. Maybe Pete is declining maybe
Speaker 1: maybe all the nerds and geeks have this right, and
Speaker 1: we're going to look up and it'll be Pete Alonzo
Speaker 1: twenty five home run season. And it feels like the
Speaker 1: wheels are falling off at age thirty and Pete is
Speaker 1: literally built to hit homers.
Speaker 2: Feels like there's a verge version of him that even
Speaker 2: with an overall step back skill set or something, that
Speaker 2: still produces homers for a long time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and hey, he's happened quick. He's just got a
Speaker 1: couple of his couple of his buzzwords were just a
Speaker 1: little off when you look at the page, the war
Speaker 1: going down. Strikeouts were slightly up this year that it
Speaker 1: scared people away a little bit. But I guess I
Speaker 1: I think Pete still has twenty twenty two, I mean
Speaker 1: even twenty twenty three pet which that was a weird year,
Speaker 1: but he hit more homers to a lower batting average.
Speaker 1: But we're coming off. You know, he was MVP eight,
Speaker 1: MVP seventeen, which isn't really anything, and then last year
Speaker 1: he was still an All Star. I think Pete's gonna
Speaker 1: still do his thing, get the contract, and it's gonna
Speaker 1: be funny to look at all the opt in opt
Speaker 1: outs in a couple of years because Cody Bellinger's got
Speaker 1: a massive year coming up that if he has a
Speaker 1: good Yankee season, I mean wat shout that he will
Speaker 1: hit free agency the right way. And whenever I see that,
Speaker 1: the people also always bring up Korea. Which when does
Speaker 1: his really get funky in twenty twenty nine.
Speaker 2: I think he has four more straight up years and
Speaker 2: then it comes highly Funkyrea got a contract, yeah.
Speaker 1: Or I guess his original signing with the Twins.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was one of these that was so yeah
Speaker 2: nine column right, got it, got paid paid after people
Speaker 2: were tween at me Korea like in a bad way. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that was a good Okay, I'm gonna start adding him
Speaker 2: to the list like Canada. Among the mega deals, he
Speaker 2: signed one of the more team friendly ones, but he
Speaker 2: is guaranteed whatever MONEI dollar where.
Speaker 1: A couple of teams told them you can't play with us.
Speaker 1: So that leaves Bregman. We've done Pete n. Bregman for
Speaker 1: a while. There's some Cubs rumors rolling around Bregman which
Speaker 1: seemed to have some realness to him. This contract seemed
Speaker 1: like a bad sign for Bregman, and I just you
Speaker 1: wonder where he's really at, Where does he want to be?
Speaker 1: Is he willing to go anywhere? And what's still on
Speaker 1: the table? Because teams are.
Speaker 2: Cancer starting this week, the.
Speaker 1: Trucks are going. If you're If you follow whoever you
Speaker 1: follow on your team's Instagram or Twitter, they probably posted
Speaker 1: the picture like team trucks leaving.
Speaker 2: To like today's some pictures and catchers officially reported today,
Speaker 2: Yankees report days tomorrow. Pretty wild. We are here.
Speaker 1: Let's see what else the baseball world has for us.
Speaker 1: There's there's a bunch of little ones, the Padres, Connor, Joe,
Speaker 1: Jason Hayward, Key k is back to the Dodgers. Uh.
Speaker 1: Just a note on the Dodgers they currently and again
Speaker 1: I went on a little High Song Kim thing last week.
Speaker 1: High Song Kim is the only player on the Dodgers'
Speaker 1: offense currently that has options now that KEYK has signed.
Speaker 1: So I don't know. I'm just so interested to see
Speaker 1: who he is as a ballplayer. The fact that Dodgers
Speaker 1: are in on him feels like a really good sign.
Speaker 1: And it's just hey man, there's a cool factor to
Speaker 1: the Dodgers that it's like, Okay, you're turning on Dodgers Baseball.
Speaker 1: How long have we seen Max Muntcy the only place
Speaker 1: we've seen Will Smith, Niggy Roe still riding it out,
Speaker 1: Chris Taylor and Key k are still there. Obviously, that's
Speaker 1: ignoring the cool stuff of having Mookie Betts, Sho Heo
Speaker 1: Tani and Freddie Freeman, Tay Oscar coming back that. I
Speaker 1: don't know, it's just it's very interesting. You Ually, there's
Speaker 1: flexible parts of team's roster. The only guy in their
Speaker 1: bullpen currently with an option is Vesia it Deserves, who
Speaker 1: was amazing for them last year. Injuries are going to happen.
Speaker 1: This all changes very quickly, but it will be an
Speaker 1: interesting part of the dynamic. If everyone stays healthy and
Speaker 1: guys are playing bad, there's not a lot of there's
Speaker 1: not a lot of go down to Triple A for
Speaker 1: a week.
Speaker 2: And last year that they had Paxton, who was pitching
Speaker 2: reasonably well from all things considered, dfade midway through the season.
Speaker 2: So they've they've had the difficult thoughts with some proven
Speaker 2: guys before.
Speaker 1: And maybe it doesn't even matter because it didn't matter
Speaker 1: last year.
Speaker 2: They could do whatever they want.
Speaker 1: I want to talk super Bowl because I was down
Speaker 1: in New Orleans myself justin Pennock Kyle on socials. I guess,
Speaker 1: let's we can do some game quick, because the game
Speaker 1: kind of was quick. And then for the for the
Speaker 1: True and Jakers were subscribed to the YouTube, like maybe
Speaker 1: you just are I can walk into some of the
Speaker 1: behind the scenes and some of the some of the
Speaker 1: fun highlights and all that. If you haven't heard, Eagles
Speaker 1: won pretty handily. It was there was a possibility of this.
Speaker 1: And this is where I didn't give myself credit before
Speaker 1: for Pete Alonso not signing what I assumed would be
Speaker 1: the bigger contract that a team would would convince themselves about.
Speaker 1: I flipped. I want to say it was week nine
Speaker 1: to ten something like that of the NFL season. I
Speaker 1: was on the Ravens train. I just loved the way
Speaker 1: that they were dominating games.
Speaker 2: I flipped.
Speaker 1: I went to the other Birds, go Birds, and the
Speaker 1: Eagles got it done. A crazy season going back to
Speaker 1: you know, were they two and two? And they lost
Speaker 1: the game in Brazil and then the whole thing just
Speaker 1: felt weird. They were supposed to lose to the Saints.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, they won in Brazil. They lost to the Falcons.
Speaker 1: They were about to lose to the Saints. They got
Speaker 1: bailed out in that game, and then they lost to
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers, and I guess before I do the zoom out,
Speaker 1: let's let's get the game done quick, because that's kind
Speaker 1: of kind of how it happened. Although that first drive
Speaker 1: the Eagles look like they're starting to home and play
Speaker 1: Eagles football, and then the offensive pass interference on fourth
Speaker 1: down kind of crazy. The broadcast was doing. They didn't
Speaker 1: love the call Tom Brady. Interesting day for Tom. Maybe
Speaker 1: we'll end up there as well. But you know, he
Speaker 1: Tom Brady calling the Super Bowl. This was a big
Speaker 1: one for him, and he came out and he very
Speaker 1: aggressively was like, oh, you know, you gotta let the
Speaker 1: players decide it.
Speaker 2: I don't like that call.
Speaker 1: They checked with Pereira. It was like a hand to
Speaker 1: the face, which, again, football happens fast, and when you're
Speaker 1: watching it on replay, the replay tends to make it
Speaker 1: look worse. With all the Chiefs referee storylines. To have
Speaker 1: that happen first drive, it was a little tough. It
Speaker 1: was a little tough. There was a decent little makeup
Speaker 1: call early on as the Chiefs were about to have
Speaker 1: the Eagles stopped again and they called a was it unsportsmanlike?
Speaker 2: We got necessary roughness on that?
Speaker 1: Like jump ball, unnecessary unnecessary roughness on McDuffie. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: going for the ball and their helmets hit.
Speaker 2: It just not happened. It happened late again, like a
Speaker 2: replay slow mo, it looks too late. But I think
Speaker 2: in everybody watching real time was like, I don't think
Speaker 2: that was anything. Everyone was shocked. That was.
Speaker 1: I think that one was more shocking. When you saw
Speaker 1: the flag come out against aj Brown, it was kind
Speaker 1: of a ooh, like I don't know.
Speaker 2: And he saw the reaping like oh that is that
Speaker 2: is like the rule of the two.
Speaker 1: Hey, this is the Super Bowl. Let's not go down
Speaker 1: like this. That that didn't have to be called. That
Speaker 1: was the more nervous part there. That one was like, wait,
Speaker 1: that's that's a penalty.
Speaker 2: Hey.
Speaker 1: The fact that balanced things out in the game at
Speaker 1: that point was still it was still zero zero was
Speaker 1: like okay, just kind of I knowe Shelfy replied to
Speaker 1: my tweet and he was like, yeah, I I obviously
Speaker 1: hated the first one. Now that it's done, like, let's
Speaker 1: let's not play that game all night. And luckily that
Speaker 1: storyline went away. But part of that was because the
Speaker 1: Eagles took flight. John Dotson, big night for Penn State. Uh,
Speaker 1: mark this down. If you're just a random jake says
Speaker 1: some stuff.
Speaker 2: And you like that.
Speaker 1: Uh, Penn State, I think is gonna have a full rise.
Speaker 1: Like I know they were in the College Football Playoff.
Speaker 1: Like I think Penn State is going to be back
Speaker 1: in a big way. Big Ten is back, Saquon is
Speaker 1: king of the world. John Dotson get a little love
Speaker 1: in that one of the top three picks in the
Speaker 1: draft is going to be out of Penn State Abdul Carter.
Speaker 1: Uh So, Penn State's been like.
Speaker 2: Dormant for a little bit.
Speaker 1: And I don't I don't want to say a laughing
Speaker 1: stock they because they haven't been a laughing stock. They've
Speaker 1: just been They've been in the mix while being out
Speaker 1: of the mix. No one has confused Penn State with Bama,
Speaker 1: Ohio State, the big boys of football. I think Penn
Speaker 1: State's going to be back. James Franklin, love him or
Speaker 1: hate him, he uh, I mean he made Vanderbilt an
Speaker 1: exciting football program for a little bit. It's been doing
Speaker 1: solid things at Penn State. I just I think the
Speaker 1: Penn State wave is coming. You got Saquon representing on
Speaker 1: the pro level. You're about to have a top pick
Speaker 1: college football playoff. They would have been basically in every
Speaker 1: college football playoff it was twelve teams. I think Penn State,
Speaker 1: we are is back anyways, John Dotson Penn State with
Speaker 1: the catch down to the one tush push. Eagles are
Speaker 1: in and there's something about the tush push that sets
Speaker 1: a tone, and I think the the Chiefs talked about
Speaker 1: it that it was, yeah, it's just like a bad time.
Speaker 1: I think Chris Jones said, it's like it just kind
Speaker 1: of sucks. And then he comes out of the first
Speaker 1: tush push and his neck is clearly all jacked up.
Speaker 1: From there, Eagles are driving in that the Chiefs are
Speaker 1: doing nothing. They got a first down on the first
Speaker 1: pass the first play of them have the football, and
Speaker 1: then they did it the rest of the second half.
Speaker 1: I mean, they had nothing, nothing. The O line was
Speaker 1: getting crushed. I mean, you've you've heard by this point
Speaker 1: the Eagles didn't blitz at all. It was Mahomes career
Speaker 1: high in sacks that this game came down to the
Speaker 1: big uglies. The Eagles defense was awesome. Trying to think
Speaker 1: what else is out there? There was a moment of
Speaker 1: like the Eagles were driving again to go up two scores.
Speaker 1: Hurtz throws an interception that he didn't have to throw,
Speaker 1: and it was kind of like the Mahomes Reid factor
Speaker 1: that I want to circle to in a minute on
Speaker 1: the Jake wrong and right meter that I don't know.
Speaker 1: There's there's something about seeing those guys and knowing today's
Speaker 1: NFL and twenty eight to three Tom Brady's in the
Speaker 1: booth that there was a little bit for a while
Speaker 1: that it was like, I don't I don't know what
Speaker 1: can we rule out because this looks like an ass
Speaker 1: kicking And it was the Cooper dejen picked six that
Speaker 1: felt like icing on the cake to make it seventeen
Speaker 1: nothing when Kansas City hadn't done anything. You know, that
Speaker 1: can feel dramatic too, because if the Chiefs came down
Speaker 1: and they scored the next driver they were getting the
Speaker 1: ball out of halftime that it was like, I don't
Speaker 1: know if they can make it seventeen to seven, and
Speaker 1: then if they can score coming out of half and
Speaker 1: now it's seventeen fourteen, and now the Eagles are playing
Speaker 1: tight Super Bowl, et cetera. No Mahomes throws another interception,
Speaker 1: back to back interceptions on back to back passes from Mahomes.
Speaker 1: They had another drive in between, but it was three
Speaker 1: three rushes in a sack or two rushes in a
Speaker 1: sack that Yeah, it's seventeen nothing and you just gave
Speaker 1: the Eagles the ball in the fourteen yard line. Aj
Speaker 1: Brown wide open, twenty four to nothing. Just appear ass kicking.
Speaker 1: Same with Kendrick Lamar at halftime.
Speaker 2: Man, uh it was good.
Speaker 1: I man, the internet slash Twitter is in such a
Speaker 1: rough space that I understood what everyone was saying. Kendrick's.
Speaker 1: Kendrick's halftime show was good. I think the whole thing
Speaker 1: for a halftime show is it's it's supposed to be
Speaker 1: this otherworldly thing. And who have some of the recent
Speaker 1: ones been people?
Speaker 2: I think people liked Rihanna a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: Rihanna crushed uh Lady Gaga a few years before that
Speaker 1: was like really good thing. Performers by Weekend was twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one, but that was a weird COVID one. Yeah, Weekend,
Speaker 1: Like I didn't hate I mean every hey, we set
Speaker 1: a certain standard that it's like, well, super Bowl halftime show,
Speaker 1: Kendrick was great. I thought a obviously, the build up,
Speaker 1: the build up to the final song HM Not Like
Speaker 1: Us was pretty incredible. The Serena Williams drop it's like Wow,
Speaker 1: Sam Jackson, Yeah, Uncle Sam is the opener that was
Speaker 1: pretty crazy. So let's see, it was Usher last year
Speaker 1: with Usher, you're getting the dancing, you're gonna you're getting
Speaker 1: more bops.
Speaker 2: Like Kendrick, he has songs he could have gone to
Speaker 2: that were more of that, like some some especially older
Speaker 2: stuff Like there were some people like, well he doesn't
Speaker 2: have hits, he does right, and he showed he skewed
Speaker 2: more recent with his selection, like I think.
Speaker 1: For half as as far as halftime shows go. So
Speaker 1: the one that I jumped to Shakira and j Lo, Yes,
Speaker 1: I mean that was that was the super Bowl halftime
Speaker 1: show for me. Like those electric, we're dancing hit songs
Speaker 1: like putting on a show for me. That's that's what
Speaker 1: I think of when I think of super Bowl halftime show,
Speaker 1: seeing if any other ones jump out, Beyonce, God Stirking,
Speaker 1: Old Quick, the Who in twenty ten that I thought
Speaker 1: Kendrick was good I understand the people being like on
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl concert performance level slightly different it was.
Speaker 2: It was like incredible art.
Speaker 1: Yeah, not just a different it was a different approach.
Speaker 1: And I mean the way he built up and went
Speaker 1: into Not Like Us was just that's uh, that's all time.
Speaker 1: That's all time.
Speaker 2: But unfortunately the people who like don't like it, like
Speaker 2: the built like the issue with the genre like rap.
Speaker 2: If you're not into it, I don't think lends itself
Speaker 2: as well to like enjoying it in a live setting
Speaker 2: as much as like more pop and Yeah, and.
Speaker 1: It's just like I've tweeted something about it that I
Speaker 1: I was laughing that Tom Brady and Snoop Dogg kept
Speaker 1: doing the stop hate commercials and then the halftime show
Speaker 1: is built around not Like Us, which, yes, for everyone
Speaker 1: commenting on the tweet, hating a pedophiles different than racism.
Speaker 2: I agree.
Speaker 1: It was. I will say there was a couple of
Speaker 1: people I was talking talking with our social guy Kyle
Speaker 1: on the trip and he's like, dude, you gotta get
Speaker 1: back into Twitter more and I was like, dude, I.
Speaker 2: I'd like to, but it's also brutal like it.
Speaker 1: Go check out the replies on that because there's a
Speaker 1: lot of people that understand the joke that I'm making,
Speaker 1: and even there was a couple of comments that they
Speaker 1: were like and it kind of brought a smile to
Speaker 1: my face. I was like, Jay, these are the tweets
Speaker 1: from Jake. I like, like, we're being silly, We're having fun.
Speaker 1: It's just crazy how how people roll with it, Like
Speaker 1: the the arguments that are now going on in there. Okay,
Speaker 1: here's no I'm not even gonna read them. You can
Speaker 1: go read them if you want, like fun back and
Speaker 1: forth Sunday this tweet and dead this tweet starts. Then
Speaker 1: go back to suit Anne Pal like what are that
Speaker 1: has no business here? We're trying to have fun watching
Speaker 1: the super Bowl, and yeah, there's a lot of people
Speaker 1: and the world's kind of fueled by hate, which made
Speaker 1: me made me a little unhappy with not.
Speaker 2: Like us, because I was like, why do people love this?
Speaker 1: And I think a chunk of it is is because
Speaker 1: Drake is just getting rotted.
Speaker 2: It's a guy everybody knows, getting absolutely on the most
Speaker 2: national stage.
Speaker 1: Drake is just getting destroyed. And so it's a great song.
Speaker 1: I mean, when that for a reason, that's worth while
Speaker 1: when that little right, yeah, everyone's I don't know. So
Speaker 1: that was good and it actually was good Internet for
Speaker 1: a little bit. Like I saw the tweets that was
Speaker 1: like there's like a stock image of a of like
Speaker 1: a white family on a couch and they're all saying
Speaker 1: like a minor like, so, I don't know. The the
Speaker 1: Internet was doing some some good stuff there. Serena my god,
Speaker 1: one of my first crushes out there killing it, crip
Speaker 1: walking literally on Drake's grave. So uh well yeah, Compton
Speaker 1: represented so and then yeah, second half, people, you're trying
Speaker 1: to talk yourself into twenty four nothing, twenty seven nothing,
Speaker 1: reading mahomes it was nothing.
Speaker 2: I kept finding myself saying like, well, twenty eight to
Speaker 2: three to come back started with like two minutes left
Speaker 2: in the third.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, no, I mean the the phrase I kept
Speaker 1: using this week and with the Eagles was it felt
Speaker 1: like they could hand the ball off every time. Impressively
Speaker 1: they could not. The Chiefs run defense came to play
Speaker 1: Saquon twenty five for fifty seven. Wow, And again a
Speaker 1: lot of that comes with the Chiefs clearly made a
Speaker 1: commitment to that. That opened up stuff in the passing game.
Speaker 1: Seventeen of twenty two from Hertz DeVante Smith with the
Speaker 1: big highlight one kind of the game sealer, the slim
Speaker 1: reaper in the back of the end zone. Aj Brown
Speaker 1: getting his touchdown after kind of getting furious on the
Speaker 1: sideline while they were still dominating. His book comes back out.
Speaker 1: Eagles defense really good. They made the Chiefs one dimensional,
Speaker 1: eleven carries for forty nine yards. They're just like, wasn't
Speaker 1: time to even run the ball, barely time to pass
Speaker 1: the ball save you're Worthy ends up having a massive
Speaker 1: game and Mahomes had a couple. Mahomes had a couple
Speaker 1: Mahomes throws that first touchdown actually both touchdowns so Worthy
Speaker 1: were kind of insane. I mean that second one, the
Speaker 1: deep ball worthyes, flying, He's one of the fastest players
Speaker 1: in the league. And this is my I think I've
Speaker 1: busted this out before and it's not rocket science, but
Speaker 1: there's a Super Bowl theory that guys are just performing
Speaker 1: at their maximum level. There's there's no next week to
Speaker 1: play for. It's not you know, even in even in
Speaker 1: the AFC NFC championship games, like you're putting it all
Speaker 1: out there, but you're you're kind of not you don't
Speaker 1: you want to play in the super Bowl the next game.
Speaker 2: Like there's at least a party that's like, well, I
Speaker 2: don't want to get hurt.
Speaker 1: This is it, this is the super Bowl. Like that,
Speaker 1: I think the highlights are the highlights are the highlights
Speaker 1: that guys are playing at a faster level, like everything
Speaker 1: is more to the extreme. Watchad Xavier Worthy touchdown again
Speaker 1: and maybe I'll do the video on this. You hear
Speaker 1: him hit the ground and it sounds like he got
Speaker 1: hit by another player because he is full tilt, a
Speaker 1: guy that runs a four to two, one of the
Speaker 1: fastest guys in the league, full till till. The way
Speaker 1: he hits the ground is hard just because it is
Speaker 1: it is maximum. Almost none of this matters. The Eagles
Speaker 1: dominated Hurts was great on the ground and through the air.
Speaker 1: It was a blowout and I think it was funny
Speaker 1: this week the Chiefs were the favorites in Vegas minus
Speaker 1: one and a half points, so not by a lot,
Speaker 1: essentially a pick them. And I mentioned I'm giving myself credit,
Speaker 1: not giving myself credit. I hadn't bet on the game
Speaker 1: because I was down in New Orleans. Well, I had
Speaker 1: a a which something I could have googled very easily.
Speaker 1: I didn't know if sports gambling was legal in New
Speaker 1: Orleans yet it is.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 1: But before that, which again I did not google, I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, shoot, do I have to get my
Speaker 1: Super Bowl bets off before the Super Bowl? Like before
Speaker 1: I fly down there on Friday morning? And then I
Speaker 1: was like, I land at four thirty, which is more
Speaker 1: than enough time to get your bets in for the
Speaker 1: six thirty Super Bowl. So I'd been debating, and I
Speaker 1: was in New Orleans, and I tweeted out before the game,
Speaker 1: and there was just something to it that it Mahomes
Speaker 1: and the chiefs Andy Reid really started convincing me. The
Speaker 1: two weeks off made me think Kelsey was going to
Speaker 1: have something special up his sleeve, because we'd seen him,
Speaker 1: and we've seen older tight ends do this in recent
Speaker 1: years where it's like, Okay, you know we're running out
Speaker 1: of gas in the tank. That's let's save it for
Speaker 1: later in the years. I even think Mark Andrews did
Speaker 1: it this year. I think that's why he got off
Speaker 1: to a slow start, and then as he got in
Speaker 1: more game shape and ready to go, he started bawling out.
Speaker 1: The Eagles almost lost to the Rams. The Eagles were
Speaker 1: a Jalen Carter. You know, Jalen Carter got that sack.
Speaker 1: It was a missed assignment by the Rams front, Like
Speaker 1: the Rams kind of had him dead to rights. That
Speaker 1: would have ended the Eagles season. And what would we be
Speaker 1: saying about, Sirianni.
Speaker 2: They didn't.
Speaker 1: They rolled on the Commanders fifty five to twenty three.
Speaker 1: They rolled on the Chiefs forty to twenty two, which
Speaker 1: is not as close as this game was that leading up,
Speaker 1: I thought everyone thought it was going to be a
Speaker 1: close game. I you know, even the Chiefs. The Chiefs
Speaker 1: had one loss when they were playing their guys this year,
Speaker 1: and it feels like the Chiefs play a close brand
Speaker 1: of football between both these teams, just moving.
Speaker 2: The ball the right way.
Speaker 1: The Eagles are nasty on the D line and the
Speaker 1: O line. The no Blitz stat that we already talked
Speaker 1: about their offensive line and just how big those boys
Speaker 1: are and how they can dominate a game. Some of
Speaker 1: Hurt's dropbacks were comical. There was no rush because a
Speaker 1: they were scared of Jalen Hurts breaking out and running,
Speaker 1: but b also just those big bodies that clearly the
Speaker 1: D line on the Chiefs was like, we need to
Speaker 1: contain Jalen Hurts is running that. Jalen Hurts was back
Speaker 1: there just chilling, which allowed them to open up the
Speaker 1: passing game and dominate on every front. But yes, right
Speaker 1: before the game, I did talk myself and the Chiefs
Speaker 1: because I was doing Spagnolo and he's gonna be one
Speaker 1: of the first, the first coordinator in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1: Andy Reid legend could have an argument for one of
Speaker 1: the best coaches ever, has an argument for one of
Speaker 1: the best coaches ever.
Speaker 2: If they got the three peat, we'd have.
Speaker 1: An argument for the best coach ever. Mahomes still Patrick Mahomes,
Speaker 1: he's twenty eight years old, that if he was gonna
Speaker 1: get it done, he was gonna be on pace ahead
Speaker 1: of Brady right Kelsey for one game, Chris Jones for
Speaker 1: one game. And even like you saw that early Hurts
Speaker 1: interception and Hurts had another pass that was just like
Speaker 1: ugly early on that, You're like, Okay, if the Chiefs
Speaker 1: can make more of this happen.
Speaker 2: They could not.
Speaker 1: And I think I've I've talked about on here a
Speaker 1: little bit. Sirianni wasn't the biggest Sirianni guy. It's abrasive,
Speaker 1: it's aggressive as a paison. He's got the Italian flag
Speaker 1: on his hat, kind of in your face. He's got
Speaker 1: his own guy, Big Dom. That that whole storyline is crazy.
Speaker 1: And in the back of every Sirianni interview there's Big Dom.
Speaker 1: Seems like he knows where the camera is. They made
Speaker 1: him like an actual assistant coach this year so he
Speaker 1: could wear the headset when he's like not a coach.
Speaker 1: And I think even that that gentle BBD giggle you
Speaker 1: might have just heard, maybe it's just getting old and soft.
Speaker 1: With the Eagles getting it done and winning, it made
Speaker 1: every storyline kind of awesome to me, Like, Sirianni, we've
Speaker 1: done that whole thing before. And going back to there's
Speaker 1: there's the guy he was, you know, I flip over
Speaker 1: to NFL Network after the game because Chris Rose obviously
Speaker 1: and yeah, uh like their interview in Sirianni and Big
Speaker 1: Dom is just right behind him in the camera shot
Speaker 1: they did. He was the same thing with the post
Speaker 1: Super Bowl on the field interview, right behind him his
Speaker 1: Big don I realize he's his guy, but it's almost
Speaker 1: it's a weird sometimes when you haven't seen something before
Speaker 1: you just say weird.
Speaker 2: I don't like that.
Speaker 1: No coach has had their personal bodyguard just guy. But
Speaker 1: he's literally the definition of guy m And every time
Speaker 1: you hear someone talk about Big Dom, they say is
Speaker 1: a cool dude, and they say he does a ton
Speaker 1: of stuff. Like they say, if they need a bus
Speaker 1: to go somewhere, it's like a Big Dom, we need
Speaker 1: a bus.
Speaker 2: To go somewhere.
Speaker 1: I don't know all the ins and outs of it,
Speaker 1: but winning cures everything. And now, Sirianni.
Speaker 2: For what's that to a quick google? What does Big
Speaker 2: Dom do right? And senior advisor to the general manager,
Speaker 2: chief security officer and game day operations expert.
Speaker 1: It's all made up. I'll tell you. Big Dom does
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff that all those titles are made
Speaker 1: up the guy. He's the guy. And that's it that
Speaker 1: when you're winning, it all gets covered up. That's Sirianni
Speaker 1: for is quirks or intensity or whatever it is? You know.
Speaker 1: Going back to the two and two Eagles that were
Speaker 1: almost one in three, Sirianni was viewed as the two
Speaker 1: the week spot. The two week spots were Sirianni and Hurts.
Speaker 1: The Jalen Hurts story has become I mean, if you
Speaker 1: really zoom out or zoom in, it's one of the
Speaker 1: cooler sports stories. He he was benched in college for Tua.
Speaker 1: He again, it's new age college football, so like Jalen
Speaker 1: Hurts transferred to Oklahoma and balled out there, so it's yeah,
Speaker 1: benching is something. But he sat behind to it for
Speaker 1: actually a season before that, and then Tua got hurt
Speaker 1: in the SEC championship game and Hurts came in and
Speaker 1: helped lead Bam on that drive. So he's got like
Speaker 1: all the boxes you want. Never mind the fact he's hot,
Speaker 1: that's fine, but he's got everything. He's he's call calm,
Speaker 1: cool and composed. He's seen the highs and lows at
Speaker 1: every level. People coming out didn't know if he'd be
Speaker 1: able to be a quarterback at the NFL level. You know,
Speaker 1: he squats so much. Uh that yeah, I was. It
Speaker 1: was funny and I Jalen Milroe the quarterback out of Bama.
Speaker 1: This year, it's been funny to hear people debate about
Speaker 1: him in this year's NFL draft because some of his
Speaker 1: some of his games were ugly in college, but he
Speaker 1: does ooze talent and I Jalen Hurts put in the work,
Speaker 1: and I think that's the that's the going away message
Speaker 1: for whatever you're about Jalen Hurts. If he came out
Speaker 1: of college and he did the same amount of work
Speaker 1: as everyone else, he wouldned to have won a Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: He wanted to have the keys to the Chiefs right now.
Speaker 1: I mean, the the other thing that I had forgotten
Speaker 1: was he got drafted when they had Carson Wentz and
Speaker 1: they thought Carson Wentz was good. Like people were critical
Speaker 1: of the Eagles drafting Hurts because they're like, what are
Speaker 1: you doing. You have Carson Wentz, You're invested in Carson Wentz,
Speaker 1: why would you go and do this? Well, whatever the
Speaker 1: Eagles are doing front office wise, your team needs to
Speaker 1: look into that. Because Zach Bond being one of the
Speaker 1: best players in the sport this year, a one year,
Speaker 1: three million dollar free agent from the Saints who was
Speaker 1: like playing the wrong position. The Jalen Hurts story is
Speaker 1: now like all time cool. You gotta respect it and
Speaker 1: love it. Sirianni, it all felt bad when you're not winning.
Speaker 1: They won. Now, what Sirianni does seems pretty badass, right.
Speaker 1: The Saquon man it was it was really cool his
Speaker 1: postgame interview because I think they I think he said
Speaker 1: it on the post game, but he was like to grow,
Speaker 1: who you think about this, Saquon, Who's you know, top
Speaker 1: of the sports millions of dollars? You know, borderline Hall
Speaker 1: of famoush trajectory, Like, you know, some more work to
Speaker 1: be done, but an argument for best running back in
Speaker 1: the game. Like that's that's pretty nuts. That's what That's
Speaker 1: all you can really dream about. He was leaving the
Speaker 1: New York market. You know, Michael Strahan has been on
Speaker 1: TV forever now and he continues to be on TV.
Speaker 2: Looks great.
Speaker 1: By the way, if Michael Strahan had been a Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay Buck or even at Denver Bronco, he wouldn't be
Speaker 1: on Good Morning America. You want to be everywhere. Like
Speaker 1: there's sometimes when the New York effect can be real.
Speaker 1: And if you're Saquon Barkley, like you're leaving the New
Speaker 1: York Giants, you're the star of that team. I know
Speaker 1: they stunk, but no one blamed you for it. He
Speaker 1: left to go to the Eagles, So he left New
Speaker 1: York to go to their second most hated team.
Speaker 2: Depends on the year it depends on the year.
Speaker 1: I think Cowboys all in are more all encompassing.
Speaker 2: Hate, all else equal, whichever one if they're equally good
Speaker 2: teams in this moment the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys haven't been as as good as the Eagles
Speaker 1: that I think if the Cowboys were, I think that
Speaker 1: hate would be fine. That he left to the Eagles
Speaker 1: knowing that you're gonna ostracize a chunk of your fan base.
Speaker 1: Now everything's landed great, like real Giants fans are like, no,
Speaker 1: the Giants are idiots, Saquon good Giants idiots. And they
Speaker 1: said something about he didn't say like his brand ors
Speaker 1: or or anything like that, but he almost said like
Speaker 1: it would be better for his career to leave the Giants.
Speaker 1: And in a way, that's scary because the only way
Speaker 1: to do that really is to go to or win
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. And he did that in the first year.
Speaker 1: Like super Bowls are forever forever, and he did that,
Speaker 1: and he's kind of I won't say he's changed football,
Speaker 1: but I'll tell you a lot of teams are going
Speaker 1: to be looking at the running back position. They're going
Speaker 1: to be looking at their O line. You know, football
Speaker 1: football went way into passing like there's I remember even
Speaker 1: like I've seen some appenic in Dalton's clips and like
Speaker 1: football had this whole thing like teams don't pass on
Speaker 1: first down enough and all that, like a play to
Speaker 1: your team's weapons. Your team's good at X, do X
Speaker 1: win the game? And how do we get there? And
Speaker 1: what pieces do you have to get there? So hopefully
Speaker 1: it's huge for the running back position, although Saquan is
Speaker 1: a different animal. I mean seeing the way he again
Speaker 1: he didn't have a great game, but the couple runs
Speaker 1: he did have and finish off, we're pretty cool. And
Speaker 1: for Jalen Hurts, like you know he ran.
Speaker 2: For seventy four.
Speaker 1: He's in the middle of all those tush pushes that
Speaker 1: Chris Jones, one of the baddest dudes in the league,
Speaker 1: doesn't like being in and he's just he's so accurate
Speaker 1: when he needs it that yes he's not. I think
Speaker 1: that's the thing that's thrown off football and the NFL
Speaker 1: at chunk is that it was you need the pocket
Speaker 1: quarterback to throw thirty times and that's how you win
Speaker 1: the big games and all of that. This team doesn't
Speaker 1: do that, and yet they win and they're dominant, they're nasty,
Speaker 1: and all of that being said, the defense was gross,
Speaker 1: and I think that was the final thing that tipped
Speaker 1: me over the edge. Last second, Vic Vangio, former Broncos
Speaker 1: head coach, legendary coordinator, I think Greedha Mahomes were eight
Speaker 1: and zero against him. That again, when when you're in
Speaker 1: the sports betting lane, it's kind of like, okay, what
Speaker 1: what am I gonna wake up and regret? The least
Speaker 1: It's like, Okay, if Mahomes and Reid eat the same
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator nine straight times, or if I bet against
Speaker 1: that and the Chiefs win, I'm gonna feel like a fool.
Speaker 1: A couple other notes, The town was Philly. New Orleans
Speaker 1: was ninety percent Philly. It's kind of crazy in hindsight.
Speaker 1: And maybe did they know? Did they just travel better?
Speaker 1: Did Chiefs fans know? Because we knew there was a
Speaker 1: chance this was a blowout for Philly, like we did.
Speaker 1: You did the way they can dominate. But everyone assumed
Speaker 1: because it's a Super Bowl, and you gave Read two
Speaker 1: weeks to prepare that this was going to be close,
Speaker 1: and if it was going to be close, late herts
Speaker 1: and Sirianni versus Read and mahomes up until yesterday, wasn't
Speaker 1: a discussion. They did it. They did it. They dominated
Speaker 1: in on Hurts, trying to get in on Sirianni and
Speaker 1: Big Dom. I mean, I could end up hating them
Speaker 1: by before next year because Big Dom knew where the
Speaker 1: camera was last night. That's all I'll say.
Speaker 2: I have Big Doms Wikipedia up, and I didn't notice
Speaker 2: this before. And as I glanced back over, Wikipedia doesn't
Speaker 2: have a birth date for Big Dom. It says born
Speaker 2: nineteen seventy eight or nineteen seventy nine. Yes, some like
Speaker 2: you just gotta go. You gotta go back some time
Speaker 2: for individuals feature on Wikipedia that we don't have exactly
Speaker 2: what you're there for. That's that. That's that.
Speaker 1: Let me I'll walk you guys through our trip A
Speaker 1: little bit went down. Flew down to New Orleans on Friday,
Speaker 1: Friday morning, early seven am. Flight, so you know you're
Speaker 1: leaving for the airport five fi point fifteen ish, goes
Speaker 1: I'll say it goes okay, sneaky bad flight. Flight took
Speaker 1: an extra half hour just because like airport traffic and stuff,
Speaker 1: no Wi Fi, no TV.
Speaker 2: Oh, we're raw up there.
Speaker 1: So that was tough, you know, I had a couple
Speaker 1: of podcasts, was going through Simmons, NBA Trade Deadline and
Speaker 1: that stuff. So whatever, played some online chess for the computer.
Speaker 1: But you also end up in that crazy cycle where
Speaker 1: you feel like a mental patient because you're like, well,
Speaker 1: maybe the Wi fi works now, So every ten minutes
Speaker 1: we try to log into the Wi fi.
Speaker 2: Didn't work, it's down today.
Speaker 1: Whole flight.
Speaker 2: How long is that flight? I don't have a good gauge,
Speaker 2: so again in my head, I would just sort of assume,
Speaker 2: like the same as when we go to Tampa. But so.
Speaker 1: I think it's supposed to be a little over three,
Speaker 1: maybe close to three thirty, but I think it was
Speaker 1: closer to four because again we extra time to get
Speaker 1: in there, and I four hour flights like a totally
Speaker 1: different animal. Like two fifteen hour two fifteen flight compared
Speaker 1: to a four hour flight are completely different. No TV,
Speaker 1: no movie, don't I didn't bring a book, so just
Speaker 1: podcasting an intermittent chess. So that was kind of tough.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be honest, that lasts like an hour of that.
Speaker 2: It's just grind.
Speaker 1: Hey, let me walk onto the way fin now.
Speaker 2: Nope.
Speaker 1: Ubers and lists were so crazy couldn't get one, had
Speaker 1: to taxi. Hate taxis, feel like they're normally scam this
Speaker 1: was not. They had a locked in price from the
Speaker 1: airport to Orleans, so.
Speaker 2: That was massive.
Speaker 1: Eate a meal, go down to Bourbon Street and it's
Speaker 1: organized chaos. We're doing some men on the Street stuff
Speaker 1: and yeah it's Eagle Green good and you know, it's
Speaker 1: a little crazy. It's the afternoon man on the street stuff.
Speaker 1: Not my strength. But we figured you walk Bourbon Street
Speaker 1: enough times, you're gonna get the characters. And you know,
Speaker 1: we were like, you know, we'll get the one or
Speaker 1: two baseball people to recognize us.
Speaker 2: We could tap into them. But we didn't really have a.
Speaker 1: Game because there is no game plan. That's the secret
Speaker 1: with man on the Street.
Speaker 2: You just need to talk to people.
Speaker 1: So we just walked up and down Bourbon like four times,
Speaker 1: which was exhausting. Got some of the stuff we needed,
Speaker 1: reset good seafood, dinner, went out on Bourbon Street. But
Speaker 1: we're all exhausted. This is now nine to thirty PM.
Speaker 1: Watch Yukon lose to Saint John's feeling that twenty two turnovers. Disgusting, disgusting,
Speaker 1: Go back out. Bourbon is packed We kind of don't
Speaker 1: know where to be year where we want to be,
Speaker 1: and like Yon Crew is coming out. It's a long
Speaker 1: travel day. Went into a country bar to try to
Speaker 1: make Panic happy. Wasn't the place you wanted to be.
Speaker 1: We got out of there. Pados Patio's is one of
Speaker 1: the famous places down there. We went there. That was nice,
Speaker 1: good indoor outdoor vibes there. They have a piano bar
Speaker 1: there is two packed, but they have an absolute legend
Speaker 1: that plays on a serving tray.
Speaker 2: You just have to see it to believe it. So
Speaker 2: that was good.
Speaker 1: Panic was getting some some love from football people down there.
Speaker 1: That was pretty cool to see. And then you know,
Speaker 1: fight or Flight. It's a long day. We have to
Speaker 1: be at the parade at nine am the next morning,
Speaker 1: which means, you know, you're waking up seven thirty eight.
Speaker 1: We don't really know what the parade is. DraftKings didn't
Speaker 1: tell us too much about it, going to be part
Speaker 1: of the parade, ready to go at a p raid
Speaker 1: at nine am. So after a travel day, we're all
Speaker 1: looking at each other like, hey, let's call this. We
Speaker 1: leave eleven thirty midnight something like that. In the uber home,
Speaker 1: get a call from Chris Rose, where are you guys
Speaker 1: out with? Out with my wife and my niece? Okay,
Speaker 1: Chris Rose probably wouldn't met up with any anyways, worked
Speaker 1: out that we were still in the uber.
Speaker 2: So next day, wake up, head to parade. We're nervous.
Speaker 1: We don't know how to check in. Nobody's ever really
Speaker 1: been in a parade, and we didn't know. Like DraftKings,
Speaker 1: we knew they had to they cause they were like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll get two of you on the float. We had three,
Speaker 1: and then that became a thing that it wasn't an
Speaker 1: easy ticket to get a hold of. So we didn't
Speaker 1: know if there was gonna be other DraftKings people there, influencers,
Speaker 1: famous people, or if it was just gonna be like
Speaker 1: DraftKings employees that.
Speaker 2: Got like a cool perk at the job. Turn out
Speaker 2: it was a mix.
Speaker 1: We walk on the float, Big Andrew Whitworth is on there,
Speaker 1: Chad O Cho Sinko is on there, and Rob Riggle
Speaker 1: is on there. So we're looking around like okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 2: So what do we do? Do we say hi? Do
Speaker 2: you not say hi? You don't want to be weird? Whatever?
Speaker 1: I just thought I'm gonna go for Whitworth because trev
Speaker 1: went to Vegas with like Whitworth and the Staffords like
Speaker 1: a year ago.
Speaker 2: I was about to say, Whitworth's like at least tangentially
Speaker 2: part of that crew.
Speaker 1: R yeah, and they like, you know, I think we
Speaker 1: had the picture up on Talking Baseball or or somewhere,
Speaker 1: and you know, it was a nice pick. It's trev Whitworth,
Speaker 1: the Staffords and like Trevin you know, trevn Stafford now
Speaker 1: or guy guys that I was like, you know, there's
Speaker 1: some Whitworth ripple effect here, right walk up to Whitworth's
Speaker 1: one of the biggest humans you've ever seen, you know,
Speaker 1: slim down, looks good, but just a big frame. It's like, oh,
Speaker 1: John Bay Media, we do baseball stuff. You're Trevor Plouff.
Speaker 1: He's kind of boys asat for now. And he just
Speaker 1: gave me like okay, He's like all right, So that's
Speaker 1: that's not gonna lead to any follow ups.
Speaker 2: That's bad.
Speaker 1: Leaving the Whitworth conversation, Panis saw it as his window
Speaker 1: to go in panic bowls.
Speaker 2: Me over on the way to Whitworth.
Speaker 1: My foot got stuck under like something I basically go
Speaker 1: down is a tough scene. Panic apologized to me after,
Speaker 1: but it was like, Okay, we're probably out on Whitworth today.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's happening. We're on like the empty flow,
Speaker 1: not moving for a while. Parade's supposed to start at ten,
Speaker 1: it's like ten thirty.
Speaker 2: We haven't moved.
Speaker 1: Ocho's kind of in the front, you know, just casual. Hey,
Speaker 1: how are you is? We're back there with Rober Wriggle,
Speaker 1: kind of hanging out. He was cool, not a ton
Speaker 1: of not a ton of back and forth, but he
Speaker 1: was cool. And then the parade started and it was
Speaker 1: kind of nervous. You're like, okay, are we throwing beads?
Speaker 1: Are you's hitting people? Do you need to like? What
Speaker 1: are the rules of engagement here? Is this parade gonna
Speaker 1: be a mess? Is it gonna be fun? Like? What
Speaker 1: is it gonna be a shit show? Uh? It was
Speaker 1: a blast. It was a blast. You throw it first
Speaker 1: couple of beads and I was like, okay, people signed
Speaker 1: up for this. And there's a couple turns where people
Speaker 1: were going crazy. It was crazy to see how excited
Speaker 1: people were for Rob Wriggle, and you know, got got
Speaker 1: some love myself loved the podcast. There was a my
Speaker 1: favorite moment. There was a Mets I mean once he
Speaker 1: got into a rhythm, like you had a game plan
Speaker 1: and if people were calling for him, you're kind of
Speaker 1: trying to shoot. I mean two hours, I was just
Speaker 1: tossing beats NonStop, non I didn't. I took one break
Speaker 1: to post something on social media because I was like
Speaker 1: I should, But that was it. There was this his
Speaker 1: bro in like a Mets jersey that was like Rob Wriggles.
Speaker 1: He took out his phone, he was all excited. I
Speaker 1: was like, I'm gonna crack. This kid cracked it, dropped
Speaker 1: it right in the bucket. He turns, he looks at me,
Speaker 1: He's like jump by. So I was like, that was
Speaker 1: That was a perfect situation. It was crazy. I mean,
Speaker 1: New Orleans knows how to do a parade, and yeah,
Speaker 1: we were kings for a little bit, just hucking beads,
Speaker 1: kind of no rules. You're making people's day, like just
Speaker 1: that feeling of being in the crowd and someone's like
Speaker 1: yeah and then you hit them with the beads. You're
Speaker 1: a great part of our society. So that was good.
Speaker 1: That was But again, that was just two hours locked in.
Speaker 1: We get off the float, get lunch at the closest place,
Speaker 1: just because like our brains weren't working yet. Chris Rose
Speaker 1: was in the area, met up with him, walked around
Speaker 1: with him a little bit, and his wife Michelle. Great
Speaker 1: to see them, and then yeah, we had to go
Speaker 1: back to Bourbon Street to kind of finish off some
Speaker 1: of the shorts we were recording. Bourbon Street had multiplied
Speaker 1: and become pure chaos, just pure chaos, and we weren't there,
Speaker 1: like we we had come down from the parade like eight, lunch,
Speaker 1: come down that.
Speaker 2: Now we're back in Bourbon Street.
Speaker 1: It's hot, it's eighty, it's steamy out, people are drunk,
Speaker 1: it's all football fans from all over its Bourbon Street.
Speaker 2: That that was a bad time.
Speaker 1: I kind of had a dip where it's like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, like we gotta let's film a couple things
Speaker 1: and get out of here because we have to go
Speaker 1: to the Captain Morgan party in a couple hours.
Speaker 2: So we did that. We go, we reset.
Speaker 1: Me and Panic are panicking a little bit because we
Speaker 1: planned outfits with jackets and we just got cooked by
Speaker 1: the sun. Captain Morgan Party starts at seven, so the
Speaker 1: sun would be down, but it's Bourbon Street. Temperature came
Speaker 1: down enough that we were good, and then went to
Speaker 1: the Captain Morgan party. T Pains supposed to be playing
Speaker 1: makes sense now, but they only had Captain Morgan drinks,
Speaker 1: so you're like, okay, we're gonna gonna be having Captain Morgan.
Speaker 1: We found a safe place to establish ourselves, a little
Speaker 1: second floor table vip ish area that was like, all right,
Speaker 1: let's get some space, let's get comfortable.
Speaker 2: We did.
Speaker 1: That place was when we got there, place was kind
Speaker 1: of empty, starts getting packed, packed, happy, we had our
Speaker 1: side table, but it's good to have a home base.
Speaker 1: And then yeah, it starts getting close to T Pain
Speaker 1: time and it's packed and he was playing on the
Speaker 1: first floor, so we could we could kind of poke
Speaker 1: our heads and get it get in there. But if
Speaker 1: you really want to see T Pain you had to
Speaker 1: you had a wrestle. We didn't do a ton of wrestling,
Speaker 1: but we were there. We had a good time. Towards
Speaker 1: the end of T. Paine, there's four floors. The top
Speaker 1: two floors you couldn't see T. Pain. We went up there,
Speaker 1: there's just space. We had an area and then basically
Speaker 1: same thing that got that got packed and we were like,
Speaker 1: all right, we've been We've been at this Captain Morgan
Speaker 1: party for four and a half hours. Uh So we
Speaker 1: went back on Bourbon Street, walked around half crazy, half
Speaker 1: not crazy. Everyone's on a different timeline, especially with Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: Like you know, some people are getting their nights started
Speaker 1: at midnight. Some people have been dead zombies for four hours,
Speaker 1: like full mix that. We walked around a little bit,
Speaker 1: nothing super calling our name and we we had to
Speaker 1: fly out the next day. Pennic's not a drinker, so
Speaker 1: you know that's however many hours we were on Bourbon
Speaker 1: Street of him being sober, that's a tough that's a
Speaker 1: tough ass for anyone, not putting the blame on him
Speaker 1: because we were. We were coming up against it too.
Speaker 1: But yeah, the city was on one. It's a city
Speaker 1: that's normally on one. The super Bowl an absolute chaos multiplier,
Speaker 1: and uh yeah, I think the city, the city has
Speaker 1: some different dynamics between its waterfront and the French Quarter. That.
Speaker 1: Uh again, the afternoon on Bourbon Street that was brutal.
Speaker 1: Everything else was okay, even that Saturday night, because I
Speaker 1: think there was enough different events spread out that. It's like,
Speaker 1: there's there's a reason that they were having their eleventh
Speaker 1: Super Bowl in New Orleans eleventh or twelfth. So yeah,
Speaker 1: it was cool to see. Kind of would have been
Speaker 1: fun to go to the game. I that was an
Speaker 1: interesting question Jess asked me when I got home. She
Speaker 1: was like, where a lot of people going to the games?
Speaker 1: And I guess I was like, if they were. If
Speaker 1: I met someone who was a Phillies fan or an
Speaker 1: Eagles fan, they were going to the game. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it becomes an equation because there are all
Speaker 1: these like work companies and stuff that go that I
Speaker 1: think by the time tickets get sorted, it's like if
Speaker 1: you're a if you're a fan of that team, you
Speaker 1: figure it out. Like if you're an Eagles fan that
Speaker 1: works for DraftKings, I think you however, you probably however
Speaker 1: you have to land. Well, if you work for DraftKings
Speaker 1: and you're not an Eagles fan, you're like, well, I
Speaker 1: don't have to go. It'd be sick if a ticket
Speaker 1: is offered, but if not. So that's kind of how
Speaker 1: that sorted out. Okay, flight home, I'm trying to think
Speaker 1: what other other goods love Greg Olsen was in the airport,
Speaker 1: didn't say Hi, had a little hip wiggle to his
Speaker 1: walk that it was like, wow, you probably got hit
Speaker 1: by the strongest men in the world for like a decade.
Speaker 1: Good looking guy also thinned out trying to think what else. No,
Speaker 1: it was a it was a good trip.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 1: It was kind of grindy, just because like we're on
Speaker 1: Bourbon Street having to do work. It's kind of the
Speaker 1: opposite for everyone else. It's a weird feeling. It's a
Speaker 1: man on the street just not my strength.
Speaker 2: It's a little inherently draining and it's a different like
Speaker 2: for you personally, it's a different environment than the who
Speaker 2: you've done for travel for this job.
Speaker 1: Yes, so yeah, it was a good trip. Well, uh,
Speaker 1: I think super Bowl maybe uh, semi regular thing maybe
Speaker 1: every year. I don't know, maybe depend on the city,
Speaker 1: Maybe depends on the teams. And yeah, Tom Brady on
Speaker 1: the broadcast, I said, I was gonna circle around Tom.
Speaker 1: It was okay. I think everyone everyone likes to land
Speaker 1: in area that's not okay. There was a part of
Speaker 1: where he was bringing everything back to him and it
Speaker 1: was like easy Tom, Like they were talking about losing
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl and he's like, that's a feeling I feel.
Speaker 1: Three times. It's like, we know, man, so losing the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl seems bad. I agree. He Yeah, football is
Speaker 1: in the books and it will be. I mean, NFL
Speaker 1: always finds a way between draft, free agency, quarterback storylines. Sure,
Speaker 1: you get a lot of Rogers coming up for us,
Speaker 1: a lot of baseball, a lot of baseball. Uh, we'll
Speaker 1: see where basketball rears. It's ugly head the next few weeks.
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis out our madness. Before you know it, that'll
Speaker 1: be fun. Golf's going. But yeah, we'll be locked in.
Speaker 1: We've got our tier lists that have been rolling out.
Speaker 2: Do we have this week's is already scheduled? Yea, back
Speaker 2: on the grind of recording those this week.
Speaker 1: People like those. I like doing those as well. Kind
Speaker 1: of lets us know and maybe, uh maybe we'll mix
Speaker 1: in a couple other ones. It's it's kind of like
Speaker 1: the off seasons over Alex Bregman. There's some Jose Kintana's
Speaker 1: out there and things like that. But it's and we've
Speaker 1: got teams are reporting, We've.
Speaker 2: Got videos of Max Free pitching to Spencer Jones, So whoa,
Speaker 2: that's the good stuff.
Speaker 1: Let's get ready to sink our teeth into baseball season.
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