Speaker 1: Welcome to the No Sports Report, a production of our
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Speaker 1: recorded prior to the murder of George Floyd and the
Speaker 1: resulting global reaction in protests, which is the only reason
Speaker 1: it's not mentioned. Something to keep in mind while listening.
Speaker 1: My name is Jensen Carp and I'm a sports fan
Speaker 1: and I'm happy to hear the NBA is back. But
Speaker 1: I've been staring at the plan now for about two
Speaker 1: hours and none of it makes sense. Twenty two teams
Speaker 1: all at Disney World, basketball happening all day long, teams
Speaker 1: playing multiple times a day, eight regular season games that
Speaker 1: a playoff. Dallas might make it, they might not. Space
Speaker 1: Mountain might be opened with the kids, Epcot won't be
Speaker 1: Can the Magic play just so? Orlando makes sense? Have
Speaker 1: any players seeing the Florida project. I'm filled with questions,
Speaker 1: which is good because I can get answers as I
Speaker 1: continue to talk to athletes and sports industry professionals about
Speaker 1: what they're doing right now, hoping to figure out if
Speaker 1: fame is competing as much as I am is watching it.
Speaker 1: This is the No Sports Report. The Todd Father. Todd
Speaker 1: Fraser is a major league baseball sweetheart, and not just
Speaker 1: for his upbeat, positive attitude and willingness to talk to press,
Speaker 1: but also because he hits dingers. He was an All
Speaker 1: Star in both two thousand fourteen and two thousand fifteen
Speaker 1: and won the Home Run Derby in fifteen as a
Speaker 1: Cincinnati Read in his home stadium. He since played for
Speaker 1: the White Sox, where he hit forty home runs and
Speaker 1: then made stops on both of his native teams as
Speaker 1: a born New Yorker with the Yankees and the Mets.
Speaker 1: But he just signed on to join the Texas Rangers
Speaker 1: for the season, even if he's still worry about how
Speaker 1: that will come together. On this episode, we talked about
Speaker 1: his past as a Little League World Series superstar, are
Speaker 1: shared love for Dan Marley and his reasonable price on cameo.
Speaker 1: We're taking this one past the Warning Track with Tod
Speaker 1: Fraser on the No Sports Report from Godd Fraser to
Speaker 1: accept Press one. Hello, Todd, what's going on? I'm doing okay,
Speaker 1: I'm surviving. I want to know if you are and
Speaker 1: where you're quarantined and with who right now? Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm in Tom Geven, New Jersey with my three kid Blake,
Speaker 1: Kylie and Grant and my wife and we're just chilling
Speaker 1: out in this warm weather today. Man, having a good time. Okay,
Speaker 1: three kids, what what ages are we looking at? Like?
Speaker 1: It's six? Kindly as four and Grant as a year
Speaker 1: and a half old. Okay, this is that's an intense run.
Speaker 1: What what is that like in in the house at
Speaker 1: twenty four hours a day? You know, the four and
Speaker 1: six year old are mostly good. You know, they'll have
Speaker 1: their the meltdowns. But the one and a half year old, man,
Speaker 1: because the two older ones have been around with baseball
Speaker 1: and been from town to town and been out and
Speaker 1: they don't mind sleeping anywhere. But now feel like my
Speaker 1: youngest is not getting that responsibility or you know, distance
Speaker 1: from home, so it's a little harder when we try
Speaker 1: and do something. Uh, you know, he makes it a
Speaker 1: little tougher. So we missed having the babysitter at home
Speaker 1: here helping us out. But we're making to do and
Speaker 1: uh we're we're up in the bus. We're making some
Speaker 1: stuff out and having a good time. And uh, like
Speaker 1: I said, once the weather gets warm like this, when
Speaker 1: get outside more and enjoy the schools almost over, So
Speaker 1: schools over on the twelfth and we'll go from there.
Speaker 1: And how have you been keeping them busy outside of
Speaker 1: home schooling? What are you guys doing to keep them
Speaker 1: at least on the ground. Yeah, I mean we have
Speaker 1: some cool things on the weekend. We have moving night
Speaker 1: on Friday's, sleep overnight on Saturdays. So it's kind of
Speaker 1: unique what we do. Me and my wife, we switched
Speaker 1: every couple of days home schooling. Well the other one
Speaker 1: takes kids youngest. But you know, a lot of board
Speaker 1: games hiding those seeks stuff, and you know, we challenge
Speaker 1: each other every night. And I'm not a big guys
Speaker 1: letting my kids win, you know, Um, I want them
Speaker 1: to try their hardest and let them know that. You know,
Speaker 1: it's not all about winning. You gotta you gotta be
Speaker 1: a good loser as well. So you know, one of
Speaker 1: those things not everybody gets the tromphy. So whatever the
Speaker 1: board game or we're playing ping pong or whatever it is, um,
Speaker 1: you know the word. I'm trying to learn them at
Speaker 1: a young age to figure it out for themselves to
Speaker 1: sen And And speaking of of competitive natures, have you
Speaker 1: been able to stay in shape during this downtime? Yeah?
Speaker 1: For me, I work out every other day. Um, I
Speaker 1: literally just got done with the work out. Now, I
Speaker 1: worked out perfect, try and hit two times a week
Speaker 1: and get outside as much as I can when the
Speaker 1: weather is good. In Jersey, you never know what you're
Speaker 1: gonna get, So days like this, I'll probably hit tomorrow morning,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, I got a couple of guys
Speaker 1: will throw me a live pitching to get prepared to
Speaker 1: take some ground balls and where we go. Because you
Speaker 1: live near your brothers who are also were in our
Speaker 1: baseball players, so you're able to sort of throw with them. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: so my older brother Charlie, who I I pretty much
Speaker 1: hit with for the for the two times a week. Yes, definitely,
Speaker 1: that's great. It's very lucky. I know you're a big
Speaker 1: sports guy in general, you especially basketball. I know you
Speaker 1: caught the last Dance. How much do you miss the
Speaker 1: NBA playoffs? For me, it's been it's been the hardest
Speaker 1: part of no sports right now, honestly. Um, to be honest,
Speaker 1: I'm more of a college guy. I used to love
Speaker 1: watching the NBA back when when Jordan's you know, when
Speaker 1: I was ten, eleven, twelve, fifteen years old, I was
Speaker 1: a big Jordan's but big Charles Barkley fan. You know
Speaker 1: the Knicks of the Old Age and the nineties with Stark,
Speaker 1: Anthony Mason, Patrick, going, Charles Oakley, the name a few.
Speaker 1: I love those games, that competitive nature, you know. I
Speaker 1: you know, I watched the NBA you know championship. Don't
Speaker 1: get me wrong, but I'm a big college basketball fan,
Speaker 1: a big Syracuse basketball fan, and Jim Beheim is one
Speaker 1: of my good friends, and I love watching those teams. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess in the same vein having no
Speaker 1: March madness, having no attorney has been a basketball in general.
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm going through withdrawals. Devastating. Honestly, it
Speaker 1: devastated because March is one of my favorite months of
Speaker 1: the year besides Christmas. And uh that's the time you
Speaker 1: get to fill out your brackets and talk to Smack
Speaker 1: and hopefully your team moves on. But you know, it
Speaker 1: is what it is. We've got something bigger than what
Speaker 1: we can control right now. So there's always next year,
Speaker 1: as they said. And I speaking of talking Smack, I
Speaker 1: was proud to see you online making sure there was
Speaker 1: no Dan Marley slander on Twitter. Why are people sleeping
Speaker 1: on sunder Dan? Listen? People don't understand he was a beast.
Speaker 1: I mean he I was a big Sun. Wherever Charles
Speaker 1: Buckley went, that was the team I was a fan of.
Speaker 1: And you know when he went to the Phoenix Suns,
Speaker 1: the next thing, you know, I'm a Phoenix Suns fan.
Speaker 1: So thunder Dan. I mean, he's he had a great
Speaker 1: restaurant out there in Arizona too, as well, Marley's. But
Speaker 1: you know, people like to sleep on guys like that
Speaker 1: because they don't get talked about much, and they feel
Speaker 1: like back in the day, if you weren't Michael Jordan,
Speaker 1: you weren't good. But you know, Jordan played against some
Speaker 1: of the top dogs that we're ever going to see
Speaker 1: play this game, and you know that old debate with
Speaker 1: him and Lebron, and I just don't understand how people
Speaker 1: can say Jordan wasn't the best over Lebron James. I mean,
Speaker 1: let's go on just defensive stats alone. I mean, let's
Speaker 1: not forget about offense. The guys are like nine or
Speaker 1: ten time defensive Player of the Year, which people forget.
Speaker 1: You know, they know he's he averaged like forty points
Speaker 1: the game. But I feel like some of these guys
Speaker 1: back in the day, would would beat some of the
Speaker 1: guys definitely that are playing. Now, why Barkley, what spoke
Speaker 1: to you from Charles Barkley? Yeah, I mean that's a
Speaker 1: good question. I kind of let him make my game
Speaker 1: after him. You know, it wasn't the biggest guy, but
Speaker 1: I had to play down low as well at a
Speaker 1: young aid because I was either the tallest kid on
Speaker 1: the team or you know, I felt like I was
Speaker 1: the mountain round a rebound every time I went in there.
Speaker 1: I kind of kind of wanted to get all the rebounds.
Speaker 1: And um, he was a guy that he wasn't the biggest,
Speaker 1: but I love looking up to a guy like that,
Speaker 1: and um, you know, I just that was basically it. Well,
Speaker 1: you talked about your childhood. You you first entered the
Speaker 1: sports world as a preteen as a star on the
Speaker 1: Toms River Little League Championship team. Now, in because the pandemic,
Speaker 1: the Little League World Series has been canceled along with
Speaker 1: the regional attorneys. How devastating is that for you to hear?
Speaker 1: Of all people, very devastating. I feel bad for these
Speaker 1: kids because I remember when I was nine years old,
Speaker 1: my brother Jeff one I said, three years guys this
Speaker 1: is gonna be us. And you know, I had two
Speaker 1: my buddies there who we knew we're gonna be on
Speaker 1: the team. That was the biggest dream I wanted to
Speaker 1: do in three years was to play in Williams Sports.
Speaker 1: And at the end of the day, you know, if
Speaker 1: it didn't happen, I think I'd be very, very upset,
Speaker 1: and um, you know, I wouldn't know how to handle it.
Speaker 1: So I wish him the best and I hope they
Speaker 1: understand it was tough times. But you know, things do happen.
Speaker 1: And how much did that experience like shape you as
Speaker 1: a I mean a player, but even more as a man,
Speaker 1: Like are are you still in touch with those dudes?
Speaker 1: Like I just see it's such a large part of
Speaker 1: your origin story. I talked to probably three of the
Speaker 1: guys for sure, over over the years, and uh talk
Speaker 1: about baseball and what they're doing. Everybody's pretty much scattered around,
Speaker 1: you know, but yeah, we do keep in touch and
Speaker 1: every five years we try and have something together. And
Speaker 1: now we can have a few root beers here too
Speaker 1: as well now because we're over the age. So we
Speaker 1: try to get together hit a bar up or a
Speaker 1: restaurant and have a good time to be your first
Speaker 1: season with the Texas Rangers. Obviously spring training was cut short.
Speaker 1: Does that hinder the team chemistry you were hoping to
Speaker 1: build on a new team. No, Honestly, I thought our
Speaker 1: team chemistry was awesome. I was there for a little
Speaker 1: over a month. Everybody seemed to bond. Well. We got
Speaker 1: a good veteran corps with myself included, and we've got
Speaker 1: a lot of good younger guys that I want to learn.
Speaker 1: I mean they want to literally sit down and pick
Speaker 1: your brain, like Joey Gallo, Willie Calhoun, nixt. So like,
Speaker 1: we got guys that want to learn and want to
Speaker 1: be the best. So for me, I fit in real well.
Speaker 1: My personality was there, and I'm pretty excited once we
Speaker 1: do start to see how the season kicks off. Are
Speaker 1: you guys doing anything to sort of keep that going
Speaker 1: during the break keeping in touch? Yeah, we have. We
Speaker 1: have some video calls that we do. We email each other.
Speaker 1: We have an email pretty much every day to go
Speaker 1: over some Scotter reports and stuff like that. Are our
Speaker 1: manager Texas all the time? And uh, you know like
Speaker 1: that just some some funny banter back and forth, play
Speaker 1: some video games, out a video game challenge. I didn't
Speaker 1: play because they got the three kids and I don't
Speaker 1: play those games. But uh, you know, it's fun to
Speaker 1: talk to smack and to keep the camaraderie going. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's better to not play against your teammates. Joey Gallo
Speaker 1: has proven he is a beast at the show. You
Speaker 1: do not want to play him. He's unbelievable. I mean, uh,
Speaker 1: I think he's in an apartment by himself down in Texas,
Speaker 1: so he's got nothing mouse to do besides worked out
Speaker 1: and get on that video screen. With all the rumors
Speaker 1: of an adjusted season looming, there does appear to be
Speaker 1: two player camps emerging. You appear to be on the
Speaker 1: more popular side. I saw that you retweeted Max Scherzer's
Speaker 1: recent tweet regarding pay cuts. Where do you stand today
Speaker 1: about getting back on the field without a vaccine or
Speaker 1: a cure or sort of like a real I guess
Speaker 1: an offer to the players union? That quote you know
Speaker 1: makes sense? Really? Yeah, I think first and foremost, it's, uh,
Speaker 1: we got to think about our health when I when
Speaker 1: I think about playing again, the biggest thing for me
Speaker 1: is I think about my three kids. You know, say
Speaker 1: we start playing and we go through something like this.
Speaker 1: Two weeks later, we know, we think we've made a
Speaker 1: huge mistake. My wife's not gonna let me live at
Speaker 1: home at least for two weeks. So you know, is
Speaker 1: there is there a plan for me to live somewhere else?
Speaker 1: So I gotta four cups of money? There's all different
Speaker 1: types of questions that have to go into this whole process.
Speaker 1: And you know, people talk about money. Yeah, that comes
Speaker 1: into it, of course, but um, there's principle that we
Speaker 1: have to go by. And uh, it's one of those
Speaker 1: things where we have a bunch of guys that all
Speaker 1: have different opinions and a bunch of owners that have
Speaker 1: different opinions, and we have to figure out a way
Speaker 1: to come together, not only just for you know, us players,
Speaker 1: but for the owners too. It's it's very difficult times
Speaker 1: and I think both sides have to come together and
Speaker 1: you know, figure it out. Yeah. I mean, I guess
Speaker 1: as someone who's just a sports fan and keeps the
Speaker 1: health of you guys in mind, it's like the one
Speaker 1: that scares me the most is it doesn't sound like
Speaker 1: there's any proposition for if a team has an outbreak
Speaker 1: and for you being in New York. You know, at
Speaker 1: least New Jersey and New York City, you've seen, you know,
Speaker 1: the hotspots, like something has to be in place. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, what are we gonna do if, say we're
Speaker 1: playing Seattle and Seattle and somebody gets it on our team, Say,
Speaker 1: I get it A might not to be stuck in
Speaker 1: a hotel in Seattle for two weeks. Uh. You know
Speaker 1: examples like that where I feel like we're on the
Speaker 1: right track. I feel like we really are, you know,
Speaker 1: with getting um, you know, tested every day, staying six
Speaker 1: ft apart. I know they already got things set in
Speaker 1: place for the locker rooms and stuff like that. So
Speaker 1: where I'm the right path, I still think it's gonna
Speaker 1: take a little time. But you know, the more, the
Speaker 1: faster we work, I think the better will be. You know,
Speaker 1: time stamps are tough because when you tell somebody like
Speaker 1: I'm getting something something worked on in the back ye already,
Speaker 1: guys said it's gonna be done by October. You're not
Speaker 1: done by October. I'm gonna gona be a little tick off.
Speaker 1: So that's why I'm not a big believer in putting
Speaker 1: time stamps on things. I'm a big believer in getting
Speaker 1: it done and then figuring out so we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: Are you guys being tested now regularly or that's something
Speaker 1: they want to start once the season starts rolling. I
Speaker 1: think it's once the season starts rolling, So you know,
Speaker 1: I haven't been tested. But uh, you know, they had
Speaker 1: something where they gave out seven or eight thousand two
Speaker 1: staff workers and players too that thought they needed it.
Speaker 1: It was a necessity and that was about it. But
Speaker 1: I know, you know, from what I'm hearing, they'll be
Speaker 1: millions on millions and millions of tests that we're gonna
Speaker 1: have and where we could be okay with that every day.
Speaker 1: Did you ever think, you know, you're you're a big
Speaker 1: sports guy like me, grew up watching it. Obviously you're
Speaker 1: playing it a lot better than me at least. Uh,
Speaker 1: did you ever think people would look to sports like this?
Speaker 1: It does seem like people are like, are we okay? Okay?
Speaker 1: Is sports coming back? It's almost like the second question. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's pretty funny because I mean, my wife, you know,
Speaker 1: could care less about watching sports on TV, and I'm
Speaker 1: a big google about watching it on TV. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: believe in it. I think sports brings people together. It's
Speaker 1: something to talk about it. You know, being a fan
Speaker 1: of a sport, it's big time. You know, you think
Speaker 1: about basically what goes into being a fan, you know,
Speaker 1: a die hard fan especially, you know, when I played
Speaker 1: in New York. There are some die hard New York
Speaker 1: fans out there, and if they don't get their fixing
Speaker 1: sports man, it feel like the day's loss. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I definitely believe in it. And um, you know, we're
Speaker 1: definitely missing. I think bringing sports together and having teams
Speaker 1: out there is a positive and I feel like, hey,
Speaker 1: if they can play sports, you know the world's gonna
Speaker 1: be better. And that's just you know, in my opinion
Speaker 1: for sure. Yeah, and you spoke about New York a bit.
Speaker 1: You grew up in New Jersey idolizing New York baseball
Speaker 1: like I spoke with Adam Odovino recently, and I think
Speaker 1: both of you guys have lived out crazy childhood dreams
Speaker 1: very similarly. But you you took it one step further.
Speaker 1: You not only played for the Yankees like Adam, you
Speaker 1: also played for the Mets. That's like if I did
Speaker 1: a song with Rundy m C and Best Boys Dreams
Speaker 1: coming true. How how big of a deal was that
Speaker 1: for you and your family? Very very important. But I'll
Speaker 1: be honest, I never really thought I would play friend
Speaker 1: of New York team, especially when you get drafted you're
Speaker 1: you really think that's the only team you're gonna play for.
Speaker 1: With the Cincinnati Red but then getting traded to the Yankees,
Speaker 1: I got a monster ton of guys that are you know,
Speaker 1: probably of my friends of Yankee fans and Mets fans.
Speaker 1: So you know, I felt on top of the world
Speaker 1: and down switch I got both Jersey tinking about man Cave.
Speaker 1: I couldn't be happer. I've been blessed along this great
Speaker 1: growth of baseball, and uh that was probably the toppings
Speaker 1: on the kake beside one in the World Series. Without
Speaker 1: sports in your life right now, how do you feel
Speaker 1: you're getting your fix? Like even just as a fan,
Speaker 1: because so many people that I've talked to on this
Speaker 1: show are at their core more than just a player.
Speaker 1: They're a fan for me. Um, you know a couple
Speaker 1: of things, you know, I like to watch on TV,
Speaker 1: the old games. I'm trying to, you know, stay ahead
Speaker 1: of the game. I just got a system put in
Speaker 1: called win Reality, which you can. Basically, it's a virtual reality.
Speaker 1: You get to watch or you get to pretend you're
Speaker 1: in a batter's box, but goggles on and you get
Speaker 1: the face against any picture you want. So you know
Speaker 1: every team we played first, you know, I get to
Speaker 1: see all the pictures, see the spin on their ball,
Speaker 1: and you know, get my timing down. It's really awesome.
Speaker 1: Me and my my son and I used it all
Speaker 1: the time, and you know we go outside and play.
Speaker 1: You know, I pitched to my son all the time
Speaker 1: and try and get his focus on baseball too. So
Speaker 1: it's basically like a virtual reality video game. But they
Speaker 1: have footage of every picture in the Major's throwing and
Speaker 1: with their pitches and everything. Yeah, it's unbelievable. So you're
Speaker 1: in a major league stadium and so you want to
Speaker 1: face now was synderguard today? You know he has the
Speaker 1: long hair. Uh, all his antics are in there. You know,
Speaker 1: whether he keeps his arm up or down, And it's
Speaker 1: like facing a real, live major league picture with the
Speaker 1: same speeds and um, you know, it's big for time
Speaker 1: and it's big for seeing to spin on rotation on balls,
Speaker 1: and I know pictures aren't happy about it right now,
Speaker 1: but you know, mostly all the teams are coming together
Speaker 1: and getting and I got my own at home, so
Speaker 1: it's pretty cool. Well, I I feel weird that I
Speaker 1: was stuck with baseball stars in my whole life. Now
Speaker 1: I feel like Nintendo did me wrong. Yes, you brought
Speaker 1: up some players not being happy with an unfair advantage.
Speaker 1: I wanted to know you now share a state with them,
Speaker 1: wondering if you think the break that the stoppage and
Speaker 1: work is helping the astros or is it hurting them
Speaker 1: or people forgetting what happened? Do you do you think
Speaker 1: this is gonna be a break for them. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: feel like they're going to get off Scotch free if
Speaker 1: you wanted the truth, because you know, I was talking
Speaker 1: with Sussan and Wllman, and um, you know there's gonna
Speaker 1: be no fans in the stands to yell at them.
Speaker 1: You know, guys that test positive for steroids, all of
Speaker 1: a sudden they get crushed during the stadium, which is
Speaker 1: well deserved, and um, they're basically getting away with it
Speaker 1: Scotch free. Nobody got suspended, and they're they're not gonna
Speaker 1: feel any pain for many fans, you know, yelling are
Speaker 1: screaming at them. So people are saying, oh, you know,
Speaker 1: just you know, they're probably saying, you just let everything go.
Speaker 1: You know, we made a mistake, but you know, some
Speaker 1: things you just can never let go. And you know,
Speaker 1: that's something that I had a chance to win a
Speaker 1: World Series or make a two World Series and never
Speaker 1: did because the teams cheated. So um, it's still very
Speaker 1: it's still still uh still lingers. Yeah, I do think
Speaker 1: there is a part of me that wonders because just
Speaker 1: recently they've started to pop up more on social media
Speaker 1: and they're being a little more vocal and I've seen,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of the astros have been gone for
Speaker 1: a long time, and I think now that they know
Speaker 1: no fans are going to be around there, they're not
Speaker 1: that they're being chippy, but they're being a lot more
Speaker 1: out in public. Yeah. People say time as a presidency
Speaker 1: heal all wounds, and uh, you know, I believe that thoroughly.
Speaker 1: But you know, when we start playing, there's something that
Speaker 1: you know, people are gonna forget, and that's something I
Speaker 1: won't presure. Todd, as someone who's played in the World Series,
Speaker 1: could you ever imagine, you know, sort of going through
Speaker 1: with that big of an event in your life without
Speaker 1: any fans in the audience. Yeah, I mean, listen, how
Speaker 1: do you celebrate? Do you put masks on and jump
Speaker 1: up and down six ft apart? You know, I don't
Speaker 1: know what would happen, but I'll tell you right now,
Speaker 1: I'll take that ring any day of the week, whether
Speaker 1: we play sixty games or a D and twenty games,
Speaker 1: I'm all for it. You know, you're just have to
Speaker 1: celebrate in different ways and spray champagne from six ft apart.
Speaker 1: So I'm all for that. That's the exciting part of it.
Speaker 1: You never know what can happen this year, and you
Speaker 1: know it's one of those years where you just can't
Speaker 1: expect anything. Just be ready after this more with the
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Speaker 1: Now here's the rest of my chat with All Star
Speaker 1: third baseman Todd Frasier. Like I said, this will be
Speaker 1: a new team for you this season. It's a one
Speaker 1: year deal for you from a business standpoint, if you're
Speaker 1: looking at it from your contract, with the season having
Speaker 1: so many odd variables, does it scare you to go
Speaker 1: out there and prove yourself to a city and a team.
Speaker 1: There's no fans, there's a shortened season. Uh. You know
Speaker 1: you hear about these weird divisional mix ups, Like does that?
Speaker 1: Does that freak you out of it? No? Not really.
Speaker 1: I I'm a guy that can go with the flow.
Speaker 1: You know. Are there concerns? Yeah, but you gotta take
Speaker 1: what you can take sometimes, And just like I said,
Speaker 1: that's why we're preparing right now. We're all professionals in
Speaker 1: there's a lot of guys that are worried about that,
Speaker 1: and that's why that's we go back to the underlying
Speaker 1: questions that have to be have to be made. You
Speaker 1: know what what's going to happen if somebody gets injured,
Speaker 1: you know that they go in the fifteen d L
Speaker 1: they're missing you know now they're missing the fourth of
Speaker 1: the season. So basically, we have a lot of adjustments
Speaker 1: I got to be made. I'm gonna go out there
Speaker 1: and play the best of my abilities because I want
Speaker 1: to still play for two or three or four more
Speaker 1: years and play as long as I can, and you know,
Speaker 1: we go from there. But I'm trying not to think
Speaker 1: about that once the season does start. Well, you had
Speaker 1: a great escalated season last year, so I'm excited to
Speaker 1: see where it goes. I do want to ask we
Speaker 1: sort of end everything with positive and then something real stupid,
Speaker 1: but the positive part. Is there anything anything you think
Speaker 1: we've taken on during this pandemic that you believe we
Speaker 1: should keep even when this thing is over and done,
Speaker 1: Something that we've adapted to Maybe a couple of things
Speaker 1: for me, I think, you know, if we're getting away
Speaker 1: from sports, I think wearing a mask to go into places,
Speaker 1: I think, is there's something I think we should keep?
Speaker 1: I think that and only help and keep America's safe
Speaker 1: and healthier. I talked to a lot of people. I said, listen,
Speaker 1: once this is all over, we can't take anything for granted.
Speaker 1: And you know, whether that's taking five more minutes out
Speaker 1: of your days, your son says, hey, man, that stay
Speaker 1: with me for five more minutes where I go to bed.
Speaker 1: You know, let's do it, because you know people are
Speaker 1: losing lives. Uh. You know, there's a lot of crazy
Speaker 1: stuff going on, you know, and you know, whether it's practice,
Speaker 1: whether it's school, Give everything you got and you know,
Speaker 1: have as much fun, but still take the added time
Speaker 1: that whatever you need, and make sure you do it
Speaker 1: to the best your abilities. Because it's something like this
Speaker 1: happens again and you didn't take advantage of what you
Speaker 1: were doing, you know, before, and now you're doing it now,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a tragedy. So take advantage of what
Speaker 1: you can, go the extra mile and enjoy life to
Speaker 1: the full. Well said U. I usually have these suggestions
Speaker 1: I give people for pandemic, but during quarantine, you did
Speaker 1: something that a lot of athletes have done, and that's
Speaker 1: turned to cameo to pass the time, creating these personalized
Speaker 1: messages for ends mostly celebrating something you're very good at it.
Speaker 1: You are what I call a bargain at a going
Speaker 1: rate at seventy dollars for Todd Fraser. So I want
Speaker 1: to play a game with you that's called higher or lower.
Speaker 1: I'm going to mention a celebrity that is currently on
Speaker 1: cameo and you have to tell me if you think
Speaker 1: they are lower or higher than your current rate. Let's go. Okay,
Speaker 1: We're gonna start with an easy one. This is Super
Speaker 1: Bowl champion Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Farve. I'm gonna higher.
Speaker 1: He is higher. That is three hundred dollars. That is
Speaker 1: quite an investment. The is a lot, but he does
Speaker 1: respond within five days, which I thought was kind of
Speaker 1: surprising for Brett Farve. Yeah, okay, here we go. Tays
Speaker 1: On Day, this is the kid who's saying chocolate rain
Speaker 1: on YouTube and went viral. I'm gonna say he under
Speaker 1: seventy dollars. He is under seventy dollars. He is forty dollars.
Speaker 1: So your two for two already. Tas On Day has
Speaker 1: a bit a bit of a lower number. He's not
Speaker 1: as impressive as you and his samples though, So that's good.
Speaker 1: There's some guys, there's some guys on nothing to pick
Speaker 1: on him, but the guys that I feel like they
Speaker 1: read it off the script. You've got to come from
Speaker 1: the heart. Man, I don't do it at all, you know,
Speaker 1: I agree. Let's go to musician, former in Sync member
Speaker 1: Lance Bass. Now keep in mind, this is not justin
Speaker 1: timber Lake. This isn't even J. C. Shauz. This is
Speaker 1: Lance Bass. Is he higher or lower? You know? I
Speaker 1: feel like he's really close to me. Don't ask me why.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say he's around. Man, I'm gonna says, I'll
Speaker 1: go a little bit over. Well, I agree with you,
Speaker 1: he should be that, but he is at two hundred
Speaker 1: and forty nine dollars. Where do you get the front?
Speaker 1: Where do you get that? That's a great question, he thinks,
Speaker 1: seeing two fifties too much? I guess all right. Next
Speaker 1: one is a character actor named Larry Thomas, who you,
Speaker 1: as in New Yorker will know very well. He played
Speaker 1: Soup Nazi on Seinfeld. Is he higher or lower than you? Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say he's lower because over for a while, well,
Speaker 1: he would be wrong. He's eighty dollars. Man, I say,
Speaker 1: you know what, I gotta move my fights up. Man
Speaker 1: of his conversation. I'm going up to like a d well.
Speaker 1: There's no no soup for you, all right, Last I
Speaker 1: got I got a couple more. Actually, this one is
Speaker 1: Doug e Fresh, the rapper, the entertainer, the the show.
Speaker 1: You know, he's great, he's he's got to be under
Speaker 1: very little under. He's sixty two dollars, so he's eight
Speaker 1: dollars below you. Again, where does he come up with
Speaker 1: sixty two? I mean, listen, I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's confusing, but hey, maybe it adds up to something
Speaker 1: else that he needs. All right, if he beat boxes,
Speaker 1: I think that is a good deal. Alright. Moving on,
Speaker 1: Dr Sandra Lee. This is someone we know is the
Speaker 1: pimple Popper. She's on YouTube as well as TLC. I
Speaker 1: love it. I love it. She hired lower than you.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say she's hired just because of the show.
Speaker 1: Two hundred dollars. She's she's more than more than do
Speaker 1: wh man, she's I wonder how many she's gotten so far,
Speaker 1: and you know people pay that price. I just I
Speaker 1: just don't know if I can never go that high.
Speaker 1: I can't imagine that I would even buy it if
Speaker 1: I if I wasn't able to see actual pimples being popped.
Speaker 1: There you go, that makes sense. Lastly, this is Selfie Kid.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you remember him. He was from
Speaker 1: the two thousand eighteen Super Bowl. He took a selfie
Speaker 1: with Justin Timberlake, who's come up twice during this game. Surprisingly,
Speaker 1: but I mean that's that's all he's known for. Selfie Kid.
Speaker 1: Higher or lower than you. I just got a feeling
Speaker 1: it's like way too high. But I'm gonna say he's not.
Speaker 1: He is. He is lower than you, and he has
Speaker 1: fifteen dollars dollars good, you know what. I respect him.
Speaker 1: I respect that for him. He's keeping it logical. He's
Speaker 1: he's not quite lance pass about things. But I appreciate,
Speaker 1: appreciate you talking to me and playing with me today,
Speaker 1: and please stay safe with your kids. And I'm hoping
Speaker 1: to see you guys out on the field. But I'm
Speaker 1: also hoping that it's a situation that makes the most
Speaker 1: sense for you. I appreciate that big man that's talking
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