Speaker 1: From the King of Sports Books comes the Key Sports
Speaker 1: podcast Unleashed, presented by the MGM. Here's your host, Jerry
Speaker 1: Ferrara and Olivia Harland Decker. All right, well, Jerry, we
Speaker 1: thought the craziest video we'd ever see of Antonio Brown
Speaker 1: was running off the field flipping off the crowd mid game.
Speaker 1: We were wrong. Oh what a week in sports. Welcome
Speaker 1: to Unleashed, Jerry. How are you doing eyes for someone
Speaker 1: who could maybe say it's unhinged. I don't know what's happening. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was definitely an interesting way to start off the
Speaker 1: NFL viewing week for sure. Antonio Brown Man Just I
Speaker 1: guess he's living his best life. I don't know what's
Speaker 1: going on. I don't know what's happening. I don't know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Some people are saying he had a
Speaker 1: better d than the Detroit Lions. Oh whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 1: Let's move on. She said it, she said it. So
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you that in London last week, the
Speaker 1: vibes were incredible. Yeah, just Vikings fans, I gotta say,
Speaker 1: outnumbered Saints fans. It really seemed like everywhere I walked
Speaker 1: I saw purple. My husband kept yelling, go Pat, go
Speaker 1: to people, and they just turned around like I'll miff
Speaker 1: you know people, is that asshole? Right? And we get
Speaker 1: into a London boxing match with a with a brit
Speaker 1: That would be really interesting, Sam, don't do that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's cool because we went to this one bar
Speaker 1: that's right in this awesome area of town for people
Speaker 1: who have been to London. It's right by Borough Market
Speaker 1: in London Bridge. It's called the Banker and the barrow
Speaker 1: Boy or something like that, but it's like the NFL
Speaker 1: bar for all these games. And I went with my
Speaker 1: friend Jamie Urdle, she is the host of Good Morning
Speaker 1: Football NFL Network, and I went to me here at
Speaker 1: the set, we hung out, we got to see the crew,
Speaker 1: Peter Schraeger. I brought the baby. He was loving it.
Speaker 1: It was really cute. And then we walked to this
Speaker 1: Vikings bar because she's a big Vikings fan. She was
Speaker 1: working sideline of that game if you were watching the game,
Speaker 1: and she's just a great, great person, really really excited
Speaker 1: to uh have gotten a seen her out here. And
Speaker 1: we grew to the Vikings Bar and every time they
Speaker 1: did the skull chant School School cool my baby, like
Speaker 1: the loyal Packer fan he is just started crying like crazy.
Speaker 1: He was hating this moment, like I had to bring
Speaker 1: him outside of the bar because you know, the Viking
Speaker 1: ism was getting to him. So is there no chance
Speaker 1: he's a Packer fan, meaning like the Chief's blood doesn't
Speaker 1: run it? Like is that? I know you could maybe
Speaker 1: handle two teams. You're well rounded, you're car you know,
Speaker 1: maybe what if he likes the Chiefs. What if Mahomes
Speaker 1: five years from now when he maybe starts watching football,
Speaker 1: still slinging it and he's like, Mom, I love Dad,
Speaker 1: I love Patrick Mahomes go Chief. You can't get mad
Speaker 1: at him. No, And you know what's going to be
Speaker 1: funny is like me growing up was Brett Favre Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers again. My grandpa worked in the front office for
Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers. My dad still calls preseason games
Speaker 1: before he starts his network NFL season. I've done Packer
Speaker 1: preseason games and work packer training camp like we are
Speaker 1: packer people. My husband, I don't think I's ever missed
Speaker 1: a game in his life, including and we've lived in
Speaker 1: Russia and Turkey, like we are obsessed. However, if Jordan
Speaker 1: loves the future of the Packers. I have a hard
Speaker 1: time thinking my son as he grows up, is going
Speaker 1: to get like really into the Packers, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean? Where Patrick Mahomes kids love Patrick Mahomes. And
Speaker 1: that's how it happens. As we know, as if Steph
Speaker 1: Curry has taught us anything with the young kids is
Speaker 1: that and my nephew who's thirteen now, they kind of
Speaker 1: fall for They fall for the player, not necessarily the team,
Speaker 1: right Like that's why, right, So you know, there's very
Speaker 1: possible our kids might just root for the team that
Speaker 1: their favorite player is on that didn't go on in
Speaker 1: my day and my day you pick a team, and
Speaker 1: if you're just stuck with the players that you have,
Speaker 1: you can't just hedge and say go Warriors. I love
Speaker 1: Steph carry So listen, if this podcast lasts for like
Speaker 1: three or four or five years, we're gonna have some
Speaker 1: very interesting fan hood conversations with our kids, that's for sure. Yeah,
Speaker 1: especially when years become Deshaun Watson fans. Well, I just
Speaker 1: can't handle me a Browns and Knicks. What kind of
Speaker 1: what kind of father? Am I? If? I if my
Speaker 1: son roots for the Browns and the Knicks. I'm basically
Speaker 1: setting them up for therapy. Deshaun Watson jersey for christ
Speaker 1: don't you? Oh my god? But no, it's really fun.
Speaker 1: I'm so excited. We record this on Tuesday, So now
Speaker 1: the slew of Packer fans are getting into town and
Speaker 1: Giants and Giants. I'll let you know next week. What
Speaker 1: I felt like I saw more of. But I am
Speaker 1: going back to the same bar because the bar owner
Speaker 1: told me, oh yeah, we're just switching everything over next
Speaker 1: week to Green and Gold and then the Broncos. It's
Speaker 1: also gonna be the Broncos home bar end of the season.
Speaker 1: Why how do they investigative journalist? How do they pick
Speaker 1: for his team? Right now? They're a very NFC North
Speaker 1: heavy bar. How do they pick? Why can't it be
Speaker 1: a Giant's bar next week? Why does it have to
Speaker 1: be a Packers bar? I don't know. I know that
Speaker 1: the Giants will also have like a team bar. It's
Speaker 1: like where they're doing pep rallies and whatnot. All I
Speaker 1: know is I'm not going right. Well this bars want
Speaker 1: to know? This bar is want to know? Would be
Speaker 1: really interesting if this bar for betters out there goes
Speaker 1: Packers and the Packers winning cover. You gotta sort of
Speaker 1: track this bar's picks. Then maybe this bar is the
Speaker 1: only the person who runs the bar is the only
Speaker 1: person who could pick. I will say as a team
Speaker 1: who doesn't really the Giants who don't really have a
Speaker 1: home field advantage. In my opinion, I just think it's
Speaker 1: hard to go watch games that met Life. It's hard
Speaker 1: to get to, it's hard to leave. It's hard. It's
Speaker 1: harder to get into the seat. It's longer to get
Speaker 1: into your seat than actually watch the game. I don't
Speaker 1: think the Giant fans are gonna really travel to London,
Speaker 1: but it on TV it looked like they were having
Speaker 1: way more of a good time London than anyone who
Speaker 1: goes to matt Life Stadium. Just one guy's opinion. Wh
Speaker 1: hasn't been to a football game in five years? Oh,
Speaker 1: first of all, we gotta change that. I try to
Speaker 1: get you to come to this one. But from New York?
Speaker 1: Are you kidding? You have no excuse getting New York
Speaker 1: to London. It's like New York to l A. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's nothing. So those Giants fans who want to travel
Speaker 1: and support their team, and obviously you know, probably expensive
Speaker 1: plane ticket, but come on, and for Packer fans, Packer
Speaker 1: fans travel really well, and Packers are packers, like the Steelers,
Speaker 1: And who else would we throw in this mix? Who
Speaker 1: are like international brands? I mean Cowboys for sure, Coolers
Speaker 1: for sure, you could say the Niners for sure, Raiders.
Speaker 1: I think Raiders are international. Maybe No, No, I mean
Speaker 1: I'm only those teams that were like all right back
Speaker 1: in the day there was only four teams on TV.
Speaker 1: Was like the Steelers, Cowboys, Raiders, Lions, Bears. I guess
Speaker 1: Bears have that. Yeah, But I do think there's gonna
Speaker 1: be Packer turn out this week. I do. I think
Speaker 1: this is going to be exciting. But you know, the
Speaker 1: NFL has had thirty one games played in London, which
Speaker 1: I thought it was less than that. So good for
Speaker 1: the NFL. This thirty second game played in London. Get this, Jerry.
Speaker 1: It's the first time two teams with the winning record
Speaker 1: are playing over here. Isn't that wild? Well, it's it's wild,
Speaker 1: but no, I think it's it's very accurate. That's data
Speaker 1: that we've all known. We've been serving arguably the worst,
Speaker 1: if not second worst game of the week to to
Speaker 1: these for these London games, and all they've done is
Speaker 1: embrace it and love it and cherish when these games
Speaker 1: are played. So I'm happy they're getting to winning teams.
Speaker 1: I'm shocked that my team is one of the winning teams. Uh,
Speaker 1: do you know what the Giants record is in London?
Speaker 1: In London? I don't undefeated in London. Let's go. You
Speaker 1: know we're going to talk more about that. I mean,
Speaker 1: here we are talking the whole episode about this. We
Speaker 1: knew this was happening, folks. We knew this week, regardless
Speaker 1: of it was in London or whatever, was going to
Speaker 1: be big. But I think we should place a little
Speaker 1: friendly wager on this one later on the show. It
Speaker 1: sounds good. I'm always up for that guy. No, I'm
Speaker 1: so excited going to the game. My mom's in town
Speaker 1: for the game. She my mom. By the way, if
Speaker 1: you want to go back to an NFL game for
Speaker 1: the first time five years, theory, go with my mom. No.
Speaker 1: One embraces the culture in the NFL and the tailgating
Speaker 1: and the post game party and the pregame party and
Speaker 1: the halftime party. Like my mama. She is fantastic game.
Speaker 1: I'm down. That's what I need to go back to,
Speaker 1: go back to. I have a theory with going I
Speaker 1: like going to football games, not my first sport. Basketball
Speaker 1: to me will always be like the number one sport
Speaker 1: to go watch in person. You know, I didn't know
Speaker 1: that well because it's quick and it's easy to watch,
Speaker 1: and it's you seem like a guy who you know
Speaker 1: you're not in it for the long haul. Also, I
Speaker 1: don't want to sit in a seat and be freezing cold,
Speaker 1: and I like East Coast teams. I'm sorry, I don't
Speaker 1: want to be and I'm married woman from the Midwest.
Speaker 1: I don't want to be freezing cold in my seat.
Speaker 1: I just I'm sorry. I've called me soft. Whatever you
Speaker 1: want to say, that's just just the wayest. Then you
Speaker 1: would hate at Lambeau. You know it's metal bleachers, like,
Speaker 1: it's not seats. I'm good. I'm going September. Newspaper you
Speaker 1: have to sit on newspaper because it's so called. I'll
Speaker 1: go September. I'll go to their second week two game
Speaker 1: next year. Speaking of that, this Packers game this past
Speaker 1: weekend against the Patriots, gorgeous day. Did you see how
Speaker 1: beautiful that looked on TV? And Unfortunately, people should have
Speaker 1: gone home earlier than they did. Gorgeous day, not gorgeous football.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know what to make of the
Speaker 1: Packers this year. I think they're good. I just don't
Speaker 1: know are they going to be trustworthy when you start
Speaker 1: getting down to late season and playoff games? Like we
Speaker 1: know Aaron Rodgers is trustworthy. Are these receivers gonna be trustworthy?
Speaker 1: Is the defense? I mean, you could tell too. Sorry,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Belichick looked so happy to be coaching
Speaker 1: in a game where like this is like straight out
Speaker 1: of We're gonna run the ball four hundred times, We're
Speaker 1: gonna like he just looked happy to be coaching this
Speaker 1: weird game when the way I'm having a quarterback, I know,
Speaker 1: speaking of kind of unpredictable. And how did you do
Speaker 1: betting wise this week? I feel like you've had a
Speaker 1: couple of dogs lately. Well, I'm losing the parlays, I'm
Speaker 1: hitting the teasers. I went against what I was doing.
Speaker 1: I've been doing ten point three team teases right, and
Speaker 1: I've I've won three weeks in a row on those.
Speaker 1: This week, I got a little cocky and I said,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm gonna knock it down and get
Speaker 1: the better odds. I'm gonna knock it down like a
Speaker 1: seven point tease. And I had the Panthers plus eight
Speaker 1: and they lost my ten. If it would have been
Speaker 1: a three team tease, they would have been plus eleven.
Speaker 1: So my thing is like, just keep the three team teases.
Speaker 1: Ten point teas is coming, don't knock the points down.
Speaker 1: This past weekend was a little rough. Definitely didn't hit
Speaker 1: but my Giants one which kept me coming. But usually
Speaker 1: I have the teams that I love to bet against
Speaker 1: year in, year out. And we've talked about this on
Speaker 1: this show before. Who are the bottom three NFL teams?
Speaker 1: Meaning like you see them? That's always where your eye is.
Speaker 1: A better goes to, like who it used to be?
Speaker 1: Like who are the Jags playing? Or who are the
Speaker 1: Texans playing? I don't think you could say that anymore.
Speaker 1: The Jags are up fourteen nothing in Philly and then
Speaker 1: all hell broke loose. We we talked last week about
Speaker 1: parody and it is. It's interesting bottom three teams like
Speaker 1: our Raiders got I have it. I think I think
Speaker 1: I have my bottom three and I first win. But
Speaker 1: I mean the Broncos looked terrible and they lost their
Speaker 1: best running back, the only one they have that doesn't fumble.
Speaker 1: I think you have to put the Steelers in the
Speaker 1: bottom three, even with Pickett. I I'm sorry, is there
Speaker 1: a way we can't put those Lions on the bottom
Speaker 1: three after watching that defense, America's Sweetheart Hard Knocks is over.
Speaker 1: It's old news. We fell in love. I'm on Ross
Speaker 1: Brown's amazing. If he's not like I love the offense,
Speaker 1: That defense is bad. Maybe I got them there, and
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I think I think it's the Commanders are
Speaker 1: on a fast track to be in the bottom three.
Speaker 1: I'll raise you, Carolina Panthers so well. You know you
Speaker 1: see Stephen A. Smith rant on Baker Mayfield. That was cold.
Speaker 1: I will say maybe if I can't find the teams
Speaker 1: that I always like to fade, I think maybe like
Speaker 1: kids rooting for their favorite players, I think you maybe
Speaker 1: start finding your quarterback to fade. And maybe that's Baker Mayfield.
Speaker 1: I know, I know, God, he's struggling, he really is.
Speaker 1: I don't know why. I like always feel bad. I
Speaker 1: don't care who it is, like, I feel bad when
Speaker 1: I see a quarterback, especially a quarterback, because they just
Speaker 1: they get the highest of the highs, but man, do
Speaker 1: they get dogged when they start failing. And Baker's had
Speaker 1: no no grace, Like, no one shows Baker any grace,
Speaker 1: not saying he deserves it. But even if you was,
Speaker 1: like had at least one win, two wins, like, I
Speaker 1: just feel like everyone's going to give him a hard time.
Speaker 1: People just want He's a guy people want to see fail,
Speaker 1: and I think that's really fair. I think people root
Speaker 1: for him to fail. Also because of the number one
Speaker 1: pick thing. I don't think that did him any favors
Speaker 1: in a way, although it's a huge honor and you
Speaker 1: could say at the time it was deserving, you know.
Speaker 1: I think right there that maybe was the start of
Speaker 1: like you're the number one pick, you're the best, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know if that it's all
Speaker 1: situational and also being a look, sorry, Cleveland, I love you,
Speaker 1: being a part of the Browns with the rotating head
Speaker 1: coaches and so before Stefanski and the rotating offensive coordinators
Speaker 1: and you know, not really the best situation to be
Speaker 1: in for any young player to start their careers. It's
Speaker 1: all situational. So you mentioned Pittsburgh earlier, and I was
Speaker 1: thinking about that. I was excited. Sam and I were
Speaker 1: sitting here watching and we go, oh my god, he's
Speaker 1: going in. He's going in. I think everyone was because
Speaker 1: it's a great story. You know, he played his college
Speaker 1: ball there. Fans were cheering for him. It's great. Did
Speaker 1: you know that the Steelers are oh and seven without
Speaker 1: t J Watt? I did not know that. He's pervious
Speaker 1: about Kenny Pickett. I mean he had two rushing touchdowns
Speaker 1: pretty quickly, and his three picks. I don't think tell
Speaker 1: the whole story. One of a hail Mary. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's whatever, it's It looks worse on paper than it
Speaker 1: was in the game. He definitely changed the energy. I
Speaker 1: thought he was exciting, but I mean, they need to
Speaker 1: teach it. What back my god, and their schedule coming up.
Speaker 1: Sorry Jerry, but it's tough sledding at Bills, at Dolphins,
Speaker 1: at Eagles. That's on the next four weeks and somewhere
Speaker 1: in between there is TV twelve at home. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I know tanking when basketball is frowned upon.
Speaker 1: I tried to fix it, and maybe they did fix
Speaker 1: it a little bit. And I know tanking and football there.
Speaker 1: I can't say it hasn't happened. If anyone should maybe
Speaker 1: kind of say it is too early to give up.
Speaker 1: But with this hellish schedule they have coming up, and
Speaker 1: if it doesn't go their way with a rookie corps,
Speaker 1: it can't be Rabinsky. If it's Chrabinsky playing, you're just
Speaker 1: waiting for Picket to be ready. Obviously that's not the answer.
Speaker 1: Long term, getting some draft value is probably good thing,
Speaker 1: especially if what's gonna miss sometime. The sucky thing is
Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin is a championship coach. I don't want to
Speaker 1: see a Mike Tomlin team rebuild. I just don't want
Speaker 1: to see it. I mean, I know he can do it.
Speaker 1: I think he's he's he's a Hall of Fame coach.
Speaker 1: I love Mike tom That's like one of my dream
Speaker 1: coaches for the Giants, but he never left Pittsburgh. I
Speaker 1: don't want to see him rebuild. I want to see
Speaker 1: him like competing for a championship. He's so good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but better to see someone like Mike Tomlin, who's young
Speaker 1: and cool and hip, rebuild than like Pete Carroll, like
Speaker 1: whenever Belichick Exactly. These guys can't rebuild. Come on, yeah,
Speaker 1: do they? And and I'm surprised they want to. I
Speaker 1: don't know. Maybe I don't know. I just think at
Speaker 1: some point you've done everything there is to do. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying like you don't love the job. Maybe they
Speaker 1: love being around the guys and the camaraderie of a
Speaker 1: football team, and maybe that's it. Quit. These guys can't quit.
Speaker 1: I just don't want to watch the Steelers, and I
Speaker 1: don't want to watch Tom when rebuild because I just
Speaker 1: I just love watching that too. In the player. You
Speaker 1: give him time to prepare for a team, it's almost automatic.
Speaker 1: I was just having this conversation at dinner to night,
Speaker 1: was why do old football coaches and old politicians not
Speaker 1: just go sit on a boat somewhere just freaking retire,
Speaker 1: Go enjoy all the fruits of your labor. These people
Speaker 1: are so rich and choose the most demanding, arduous professions.
Speaker 1: I could tell you who is not going to do
Speaker 1: that is going to be an old actor if he
Speaker 1: has enough money named Jerry Ferrara. You won't see me again, amen, Amen,
Speaker 1: you not see me again. A boat somewhere. I won't
Speaker 1: be on screen. You won't see me again. I love it. Um.
Speaker 1: Something else from this weekend that was such a huge
Speaker 1: storyline going into week four was the big meeting Lamar Jackson,
Speaker 1: Josh Allen and will the m v P odds change
Speaker 1: it all? Because those two go on head ahead, someone
Speaker 1: was going to come out on top. And what a
Speaker 1: weird game. Josh Allen leads the biggest comeback of his career.
Speaker 1: They're down twenty to three, they go run and really
Speaker 1: different from last week. They led time of possession or sorry,
Speaker 1: Ravens led for twenty last week in Miami, Bills led
Speaker 1: for so weird, so don't you know, just time with
Speaker 1: possession even matter? But the craziest thing, Jerry, was that
Speaker 1: the odds did not change going into week four for
Speaker 1: Josh Allen or Lamar Jackson for m v P. What
Speaker 1: are your thoughts on that? I think it was justifiably
Speaker 1: so because the game itself, it didn't sway me one
Speaker 1: way or the other about how I felt about their
Speaker 1: m v P chances in that game. I think if
Speaker 1: anything like, yeah, I get their odds staying the same,
Speaker 1: and Jalen Hurts is officially on that watch of you know,
Speaker 1: if they continue to win these games and their records
Speaker 1: is gonna be impressive, and he's leading the league in
Speaker 1: rushing touchdowns. That's who I'm watching. But the Ravens really
Speaker 1: gotta you know, one point. I think almost every, if
Speaker 1: not every single game was like within one score, like
Speaker 1: mid way or late third quarter. I don't know if
Speaker 1: I've ever seen games that are just that close. The
Speaker 1: Ravens got to figure out how to play with the lead.
Speaker 1: And I don't know what the deals they have running bad.
Speaker 1: They don't know they they're now blowing some leads and
Speaker 1: those two games really might haunt them down the road.
Speaker 1: They're lucky they're in the North. Amen. Okay, Well, in
Speaker 1: addition to the NFL, we're going to preview the MLB
Speaker 1: postseason with former MLB pitcher the knuckleball Ace and Cy
Speaker 1: Young winner are A Dicky will be joining us. We'll
Speaker 1: get his World Series prediction, Jerry and if he thinks
Speaker 1: his former team, the Mets can make a run here
Speaker 1: and then your Yankees will teams even pitched to Aaron
Speaker 1: Judge in the postseason. I definitely want to get his
Speaker 1: take on that one. And I think you've got a
Speaker 1: couple of thoughts on postseason right, Yeah, listen, I hate
Speaker 1: to make this my unleashed for this week, but I
Speaker 1: think I have to. We're talking to r A Dicky
Speaker 1: the Mets just how to collapse. Baseball playoffs are going
Speaker 1: to start, so what better time than now? Knows? But
Speaker 1: if I try to, I try. I think of myself
Speaker 1: as a baseball purist. I don't love all the changes,
Speaker 1: but they've really opened my eyes with expanding the playoff
Speaker 1: amount of teams and all that. I do think that's
Speaker 1: good for baseball. And we're gonna ask our A Dicky
Speaker 1: about that. So let's go step further. We're gonna throw
Speaker 1: out all the stuff and just bringing all this new
Speaker 1: stuff baseball. Why now, look, I love baseball games in October.
Speaker 1: Now we are going to have games in Cleveland and
Speaker 1: New York and we might be gonna get some really
Speaker 1: really bad weather, not always the best for playoff baseball.
Speaker 1: Why are we still right on the NFL's corner when
Speaker 1: if you just maybe cut out thirty five games from
Speaker 1: the regular season, keep adding playoff teams, slide the playoffs
Speaker 1: back up into August, and end the season World Series
Speaker 1: Game seven just post Labor Day. I know baseball traditionalists
Speaker 1: are gonna roll their eyes and probably scream at me
Speaker 1: when they see that in the street. Tell me if
Speaker 1: the World Series wasn't on start Game one, wasn't September one.
Speaker 1: You're not making that like appointment television as opposed to
Speaker 1: you know, when is it going to be? Thursday night
Speaker 1: football gonna be a problem and Sunday night football? Like
Speaker 1: there's just too much competition. I don't know why we
Speaker 1: have to pair it up with everything going on the NFL.
Speaker 1: People are getting super psyched for basketball. I love baseball.
Speaker 1: I think it deserves its own month for the playoffs
Speaker 1: in World Series. Cut down the regular season games. Give
Speaker 1: me more playoff teams, give me more playoff games like
Speaker 1: you already doing, and end it by Labor Day. End
Speaker 1: by Labor Day. You'll own the month of August. You
Speaker 1: will own the month of August. No, I get it.
Speaker 1: August is like the slowest month in sports, So I
Speaker 1: like it. I'm with you on that take. We talk
Speaker 1: a lot about programming, you and me, because we always
Speaker 1: are questioning why sports are scheduled the way they are,
Speaker 1: Like your your ice cold Super Bowl Saturday pick. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm with you on that. That was a great take.
Speaker 1: You know you you're coming. You know you liked it.
Speaker 1: You know you like that take m Okay, we'll speaking
Speaker 1: of that. I I've got a transition because I think
Speaker 1: you and I should do a friendly wager for our
Speaker 1: two teams facing off in London. I can't wait. I'm
Speaker 1: going to the game and this is gonna be my
Speaker 1: unleashed because I think the Packers right now are an
Speaker 1: eight point favorite, and Giants we still don't know about
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones. He's still murky, I think. Was the headline
Speaker 1: I just read. I'm a little worried about your defense.
Speaker 1: They're pretty gnarly. Five sacks in the first half last
Speaker 1: week they only had three coming into the game, so
Speaker 1: I'm worried about how the Packers old line is going
Speaker 1: to hold up. As you know, David Batiaris still gearing up.
Speaker 1: Belton Jenkins on the right side has been struggling. But overall,
Speaker 1: I think Packers tip to tail are a better team.
Speaker 1: I like them to cover. I'm nervous about that though,
Speaker 1: but they are a top ten offense, top ten defense,
Speaker 1: and the Giants are in bottom third offense and defense.
Speaker 1: But I also would urge our betters take the under
Speaker 1: because the Packers are struggling score We obviously are seeing that,
Speaker 1: and it's been their lowest scoring total in four games
Speaker 1: than two thousands six So, uh yeah, take the under,
Speaker 1: but take the Packers to cover. At least take the
Speaker 1: Packers money line if you're not as confident. And with that,
Speaker 1: Jerry looks like just you know, like a friendly wager.
Speaker 1: This doesn't have to be intense and no money. But
Speaker 1: what do you think, what's something that we can bet
Speaker 1: against each other. Well, it's something we should try to
Speaker 1: do on this podcast, and it's something. Look, I do
Speaker 1: believe you're gonna win. I'm gonna go full reverse psychology
Speaker 1: on you and try to reverse CHINGSI the way Peter
Speaker 1: andrew it. Look a couple of things. The Giants who
Speaker 1: have given me so much joy this year where banged. Uh.
Speaker 1: I mean, first of all, Tyrod Taylor should just just
Speaker 1: give that guy like he should sue everybody. He's got
Speaker 1: the worst luck he does of any quarterback, and he's
Speaker 1: he's a very very talented quarterback. Like I don't know,
Speaker 1: they just someone gotta take care of that guy. He's
Speaker 1: he just wants to play. But I mean, we might
Speaker 1: not always say Kwan Barkley might be our quarterback tip
Speaker 1: with might still be her oh Lor might still be
Speaker 1: hurt anytime Cadarius Tony wants to play football, I'm ready.
Speaker 1: Kenny Golladay might be hurt. Big loss, They're real, big loss.
Speaker 1: I'm getting the eight points, right? Come on, all right?
Speaker 1: How about this, because and I do think the how
Speaker 1: about an honor of the cheesehead thing? The loser has
Speaker 1: to on this podcast for a good amount of the
Speaker 1: time where a piece of cheese that the winner gets
Speaker 1: the select Are we just doing money line? Fine? Fine,
Speaker 1: cheese on my head? Fine, yeah, yeah, Okay, loser has
Speaker 1: to wear cheese, real cheese on their head next week
Speaker 1: for the entire recording of Unleashed And okay, the winner
Speaker 1: can choose the variety, right, there's a lot of different cheeses.
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, isn't the guest like Kevin Garnett next week? No? No,
Speaker 1: I want to do that to you, all right? Can
Speaker 1: I at least take it off for the guest interview?
Speaker 1: M Please come on, I'm giving you money line. I'm
Speaker 1: giving you moneyline, and that's more than fair. I'm giving
Speaker 1: you money line. I could take the eight points. Just look,
Speaker 1: you're looking at the guests. Could you at least no
Speaker 1: cheese for the guests. Fine, no cheese for the guests,
Speaker 1: but the winner really gets to pick the cheese. And
Speaker 1: that does not leave out anything that is liquid. So
Speaker 1: think of kaso, think about fondue. You've got to think
Speaker 1: about think about sprinkled cheese. I don't like where this
Speaker 1: is going, and I will agree to this now. But okay, oh,
Speaker 1: I hope the reverse danks works right now, because then
Speaker 1: you are in for because you're being mean, right you are.
Speaker 1: You know you're gonna win, and you're you're messing with
Speaker 1: me right now? All right, guest today, Just like the knuckleball,
Speaker 1: he took a very interesting path to becoming a Young
Speaker 1: Award winner, and for a stretch he was one of
Speaker 1: the most dominant pitchers in baseball history. He pitched back
Speaker 1: to back one hitters while he's with New York Mets,
Speaker 1: and he recorded a hundred and twenty career wins. Are
Speaker 1: a dicky is here? So look, you retired in seventeen,
Speaker 1: not that long ago. I need to know when is
Speaker 1: the last time you threw a knuckleball? You're keeping the
Speaker 1: arm loose these days. Yeah, I'm limbered up, man. I
Speaker 1: I uh. I threw a knuckleball yesterday to my son,
Speaker 1: he's sixteen, and we played catch and I hit it.
Speaker 1: I hit him in the knee with it. It's still good.
Speaker 1: He went to Yeah, he went to catch it and
Speaker 1: bounced off his knee, So I know I still got
Speaker 1: it in there. I might be making a comeback when
Speaker 1: I'm about fifty, when my kids were out of the house.
Speaker 1: So if, for instance, the Mets made an emergency call,
Speaker 1: how many innings could you do you think you could
Speaker 1: eat up right now? And the Mets could have used
Speaker 1: it this weekend. I can tell you that if they
Speaker 1: made an emergency call, how many innings, like right now
Speaker 1: tomorrow could you could you go? If you had to?
Speaker 1: I think I could probably go three. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: not in baseball like endurance shape, but I could get
Speaker 1: through three, you know, because I don't have to be
Speaker 1: at max effort with that pitch. You know, I can
Speaker 1: throw it sixty and have it danced around and got
Speaker 1: swinging mass, so I don't have to get my arm
Speaker 1: like fully in shape. But to be a starter, I
Speaker 1: need a mind. Oh my, but three innings still, I
Speaker 1: mean I'm dead series. I really think the Mets would
Speaker 1: have loved nothing more than to pull you out of
Speaker 1: the bullpen against the Brasy What what what is it
Speaker 1: about the knuckleball? And I'm sure you could ask us
Speaker 1: all the time, but like, why don't we see more
Speaker 1: guys trying? Is it just that difficult to master? Which
Speaker 1: it seems like an it's like the mystical pitch. It
Speaker 1: really is. Yeah, you know it is that there is
Speaker 1: some you know, I joke all the time with people
Speaker 1: that I had the good fortune of getting to work
Speaker 1: with Phil Niekro and Tim Wakefield and all those guys.
Speaker 1: I call him like the Jedi Council of knuckleballers. I mean,
Speaker 1: there is something, there is something very mysterious about that
Speaker 1: pitch that causes it to move around like it does.
Speaker 1: And to answer your question, I think one of the
Speaker 1: reasons that you don't see more guys doing it now is, yes,
Speaker 1: it is very difficult to do, but you also have
Speaker 1: to have people that have a stomach for it. And
Speaker 1: I don't know, in this narration, if you've got a
Speaker 1: front office that has the patients to deal with, you know,
Speaker 1: catcher running to the back stock across the balls rolling around,
Speaker 1: or a guy walking three or four guys in an inning,
Speaker 1: or they're looking for the next Steven Strasburg. They're not
Speaker 1: looking for the next White Wilhelm, you know. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's that's interesting. Are there any types of hitters that
Speaker 1: especially see knuckleballs well or is it just as unpredictable
Speaker 1: for them as it was for you? Well, I'd like
Speaker 1: to say that, you know, it was immune to all
Speaker 1: types of swings and types of hitters. But I think
Speaker 1: the reality is there were certain guys that were really
Speaker 1: good at going to the opposite field that gave me
Speaker 1: fits Like I I could face Aaron Judge and Mike
Speaker 1: Stanton all day like that. That was good a Rod
Speaker 1: those guys. But it's the little kind of natty guys
Speaker 1: that are okay taking their single to right field that
Speaker 1: gave me all kinds of trouble. And if you have
Speaker 1: a guy like Freddie Freeman, for instance, who probably has
Speaker 1: you know, a career six average against me, he's good
Speaker 1: at both like he he likes going the other way
Speaker 1: and he's got power, so he was double trouble for me.
Speaker 1: So when I got when when I got signed to
Speaker 1: the Braves, he was the first guy to call me,
Speaker 1: and he was so disappointed because he wanted to face
Speaker 1: that keep facing me. Think. So, I'm a Yankee fan,
Speaker 1: but obviously I had a great deal of respect watching
Speaker 1: you pitch for the Mess. And I'm not a Met hater.
Speaker 1: I like to give my Met fans a little bit
Speaker 1: of a hard time, my friends, But I do want
Speaker 1: to ask you this because this is a debate we
Speaker 1: always had. You know, you go back to that Aaron
Speaker 1: Boone walk off home run and that in the series
Speaker 1: against the Red Sox off of Wakefield. Now, the origin
Speaker 1: of that was Boone was essentially benched. He was in
Speaker 1: one of the worst slumps any Yankee has ever had. Now,
Speaker 1: my friends always suggest that Aaron Boone hit that home
Speaker 1: run because he was slumping and like bat speedwise, almost
Speaker 1: like you said, like he almost just took the knuckleball
Speaker 1: and just did whatever he could with it. He wasn't
Speaker 1: trying to rear back, Like is there anything to that,
Speaker 1: not saying like a guy slumping is more prone to
Speaker 1: hit a knuckleball or was it just right place, right
Speaker 1: time for Aaron Bone Well, you know, I'll say there's
Speaker 1: no There's no pitch that's more difficult to hit in
Speaker 1: baseball than a perfectly thrown knuckleball, and there's no easier
Speaker 1: pitch to hit than a poorly thrown knuckleball. And so
Speaker 1: I think it was just a it was a combination
Speaker 1: of tim you know, and Timmy I'll tell you. You You
Speaker 1: know that he kind of rolled one up there. It
Speaker 1: was probably about you know, seventy mile an hour BP ball,
Speaker 1: you know, because if if that, if that ball rotates
Speaker 1: just even a full rotation, it's going to straighten out
Speaker 1: and turn into the easiest VP that you could possibly hit.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're you could you could probably hit one
Speaker 1: out on it. So, you know, I think it was
Speaker 1: a kind of a combination of both, like the right guy,
Speaker 1: right time, and he threw a clunker up there that
Speaker 1: got crushed. You know. Now, I don't know if you
Speaker 1: were messing with us or not, Like do in your mind?
Speaker 1: And I'm always asking professional athletes this after retirement, you know,
Speaker 1: do you because retire it's a tricky thing for anybody.
Speaker 1: You do something for so long at such a high
Speaker 1: level and then not having that in your life. Like
Speaker 1: if you watch a baseball game today, do you always
Speaker 1: get those feelings? I could go back out there, I
Speaker 1: got more left. Yeah, you know, that's a great insight.
Speaker 1: I think that really a guy who, regardless of the
Speaker 1: sport that he's played, if he's played it for most
Speaker 1: of his life. And I played professionally for twenty one years,
Speaker 1: so it's the only life I really ever knew, or
Speaker 1: my wife for that matter. And to learn that dynamic
Speaker 1: of how to do life apart and together and then
Speaker 1: apart and then together for twenty one years takes a
Speaker 1: lot of skill. And then all of a sudden you're
Speaker 1: thrust in this Petri dish of being next to each
Speaker 1: other all the time and who's in chart? Like that's
Speaker 1: a difficult thing for anybody. And so that took some
Speaker 1: real getting used to. But to answer your question, when
Speaker 1: I watch baseball, you know, I really don't follow I
Speaker 1: follow friends now more than teams. I mean, I grew
Speaker 1: up a Braves fan because I'm in Nashville, Tennessee. But
Speaker 1: I still have really close friends that play, and when
Speaker 1: I watched them play, you know, I still sometimes evaluate, well,
Speaker 1: could I could I still get Freddie Freeman out? Could
Speaker 1: I get Dames be Swanson out? Could I get Josh
Speaker 1: Donaldson out? All these guys that I played with? And
Speaker 1: the answer is a resounding yes I can. And so
Speaker 1: I didn't retire because I ran out of steam. I
Speaker 1: retired because I felt like I was being called to
Speaker 1: be a husband and father, and so walking away. You
Speaker 1: know that John Hart was going to exercise my option
Speaker 1: for two thousand and eight teen with the Braves, but
Speaker 1: I just felt like my kids needed me. I had
Speaker 1: two daughters that were coming of age and needed a
Speaker 1: day at around to help supervise that part right. And
Speaker 1: so it was the right time for me to step away.
Speaker 1: But my body is still in good condition and I
Speaker 1: feel like I could do it. That's really powerful testimony
Speaker 1: and really refreshing. I think to hear you probably understand
Speaker 1: more than the average person does what Tom Brady is
Speaker 1: talking about. You know, he says, I've got demands at home.
Speaker 1: I've got a family of kids who are getting older,
Speaker 1: wife and wants me home. Do you ever, you know
Speaker 1: your ears perk up when you hear Tom Brady say
Speaker 1: some of the stuff, do you know? And to be
Speaker 1: perfectly honest, I wish there were kind of modalities in
Speaker 1: place for guys who can see the end in sight
Speaker 1: to help that transition, and because it it can be messy,
Speaker 1: like when you're seeing that play out maybe in the
Speaker 1: public eye a little bit with Tom, but he you know,
Speaker 1: who knows the real truth there. I mean, let's not speculate,
Speaker 1: nobody really does. But I will speak from my own
Speaker 1: story and tell you that, you know, it is hard,
Speaker 1: and it does ring bells when I hear you know
Speaker 1: that he and just Sell maybe having some trouble around
Speaker 1: his retirement and retirement because you're torn between two worlds.
Speaker 1: It's all he's ever known since high school, literally, and
Speaker 1: that it's hard to do that for a long long time.
Speaker 1: You sacrifice much and you get a lot. There's no like,
Speaker 1: I have complete empathy for that piece, but you also
Speaker 1: a lot of people have to give up stuff for
Speaker 1: you to do that. Um, if you have a family
Speaker 1: in particular, yeah, I always marvel at you know, I'm
Speaker 1: a relatively new dad. My oldest is three, and my
Speaker 1: youngest is one and a half. Olivia is a relatively
Speaker 1: new mom. And it's one thing when you're kind of
Speaker 1: working and doing whatever your career dreams are, when it's
Speaker 1: just you or even just you and your significant other,
Speaker 1: like you, it's it's a it's it's workable. But yeah,
Speaker 1: the minute the kids come involved. Even if I get
Speaker 1: offered an acting job. These days, my first questions used
Speaker 1: to be, well, who's in it, who's starting? Like who else?
Speaker 1: And now my question is like where is it? And
Speaker 1: how long? Because my mind is immediately to how long
Speaker 1: do I have to be away from my family? So
Speaker 1: that's a really interesting way to think about it all.
Speaker 1: I want to switch gears for one second because I'm
Speaker 1: a big baseball fan. I've been watching it was my
Speaker 1: first love. There's so many rule changes now kind of
Speaker 1: going on, and I just would love to talk about
Speaker 1: someone who's stood on the mound and and you know,
Speaker 1: looked at home plate. You know, we got the pitch
Speaker 1: clock ten seconds, we got the the banning of the
Speaker 1: infield shift. Are these things that ultimately may may help
Speaker 1: baseball long term or is it getting too far away
Speaker 1: from the things that we all maybe loved about baseball? Well,
Speaker 1: you know, I think that's a great question. Um, I
Speaker 1: think it just depends on what side of the aisle
Speaker 1: you fall. You know, if you're a baseball purist, then
Speaker 1: you're probably gonna be stand office to a lot of
Speaker 1: the things that are being implemented presently. If you're a
Speaker 1: new generation watch it. You know, you're you want the
Speaker 1: game to be faster and more entertaining, and you want
Speaker 1: to get in and out in three hours. And like
Speaker 1: there's a lot to that. You know, we because of
Speaker 1: you know, I don't want to get into a big
Speaker 1: philosophical thing here, but technology wise, we have been groomed
Speaker 1: to want things very quickly. You know, Um, information is quick,
Speaker 1: Things happen quick. We want results fast, and so it's
Speaker 1: the game's got to keep up with that if we
Speaker 1: want to hang on to not so much you probably Jerry,
Speaker 1: because you're a purist, but you know, the my kids
Speaker 1: right like, um, my kids, they want it to happen
Speaker 1: one way or the other quickly so they can move
Speaker 1: on to the next thing. Um. And that's kind of
Speaker 1: what we're up against is an industry and baseball is
Speaker 1: how do you keep some of the things that made
Speaker 1: baseball so special and so deep and earthy and have
Speaker 1: a balance of that and the entertainment piece, you know,
Speaker 1: keeping people around and engaged and and that's a that's
Speaker 1: a tight rope to walk. It's hard. Okay, So those
Speaker 1: are the actual rule changes. What about all the unwritten
Speaker 1: rules in baseball? How to work with a knuckleball pitcher.
Speaker 1: Did a manager ever tell you, hey, are a we
Speaker 1: need you to drill their best hitter. Can you just
Speaker 1: reach back fire one into his back? We need this man. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, I was a veteran for a lot of
Speaker 1: my career in the major leagues, and so most of
Speaker 1: the time the manager wouldn't have to tell me when
Speaker 1: something like that needed to be done. You you did
Speaker 1: that kind of You did that because you knew that
Speaker 1: was what was called for. And of course I did
Speaker 1: that on occasion, and you know, I was at more
Speaker 1: risk than most because if you got hit with a
Speaker 1: fastball from me, you knew it was in internal right
Speaker 1: because I don't throw fastballs, throw knuckleball, and so if
Speaker 1: I hit you in the back with a fastball, you
Speaker 1: knew right then that it was the real deal, and
Speaker 1: so you were probably going to either be aggravated or
Speaker 1: charge or you knew that it was just the medicine
Speaker 1: that you needed to take because of what you did
Speaker 1: the ending before. It was some combination of all that.
Speaker 1: But of course, uh, I have had to do that,
Speaker 1: and I never throw a knuckleball when I hit somebody
Speaker 1: on purpose, that's for sure. I'm gonna be a tiny
Speaker 1: bit hypocritical for a minute, because I did say I
Speaker 1: was a baseball purist. But you know, the sort of
Speaker 1: expanded playoffs I do think ultimately is just good for
Speaker 1: the overall health of baseball only because we love playoff games,
Speaker 1: you know, and we love October baseball. Is that is
Speaker 1: that something you wish were was around, like more playoff
Speaker 1: spots available. I know I'm being a little hypocritical. I'm
Speaker 1: a purist, but I love playoff baseball. There's no bet
Speaker 1: to me. It's it's it's up there with any other sport.
Speaker 1: I agree with you. I think I do enjoy an
Speaker 1: extended playoff period with more teams involved. You just got
Speaker 1: to be careful. You do so much work. You play
Speaker 1: a hundred and eighty three games and hundred sixty two
Speaker 1: games and a hundred eighty three days. It's basically what
Speaker 1: you do. So you've grinded for that long and if
Speaker 1: you put yourself in the right position at the end
Speaker 1: of that, you want a reward for that, and so
Speaker 1: you want to make sure that you can fairly do it.
Speaker 1: But I absolutely agree with you, Jerry, that it's good
Speaker 1: for baseball and good for cities. And good for the
Speaker 1: industry to have more playoff baseball going on. So all right,
Speaker 1: the knuckleball is such a rare pitch, so few have
Speaker 1: mastered it. Do you think we'll see another knuckleball pitcher
Speaker 1: in the MLB again? Um? I do. It might be me,
Speaker 1: but it might Uh, it might take some time. I
Speaker 1: think there's a couple of guys in the minor league
Speaker 1: that um are doing it. And there's there's enough of
Speaker 1: the old school regimes skill in place there, at least
Speaker 1: at the concern a tent level, that they know the
Speaker 1: value of the pitch. So I do think that there's
Speaker 1: gonna be opportunity. The problem is, guys, it's just the
Speaker 1: longer that we go without one, the more difficult it's
Speaker 1: gonna be for a club to really give it a chance.
Speaker 1: You know, you're gonna have to be really supernatural with
Speaker 1: the pitch because you've got to You've got to earn
Speaker 1: the trust of the front office more so as the
Speaker 1: knuckleballer than any other picture, because they keep waiting for
Speaker 1: the other shoe to drop, no matter how good you are.
Speaker 1: They just think it's kind of a blue key thing
Speaker 1: and they don't understand it. And and none of the
Speaker 1: data or the metrics can really predict it, and that
Speaker 1: that's hard for them to stomach. Can I also just ask,
Speaker 1: off piggybacking off of that, how do you get to
Speaker 1: the decision to be strictly a knuckleball guy? How did
Speaker 1: that even come about? I think it's just because you
Speaker 1: no longer are good at doing what he wants. We're
Speaker 1: good at uh, you know. So it's a lot of
Speaker 1: it's just because you're a failure really, I mean and
Speaker 1: true in truth, and you've got to be okay with
Speaker 1: that piece. And I think that's what keeps people that
Speaker 1: have good knuckleballers from being really good, is they still
Speaker 1: have to hang on to that piece of their ego
Speaker 1: that that made them who they were for so long.
Speaker 1: In order to be a good knuckleballer, you have to
Speaker 1: forget who you once were and embrace this new path.
Speaker 1: And if you can't really do that, it's going to
Speaker 1: be a hard road to hope. And so you Rare
Speaker 1: is the and I'm not saying this because I did it.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying it's a fact. Rare is the guy
Speaker 1: who can let go of that ego enough to be
Speaker 1: able to embrace that he's no longer who he once was,
Speaker 1: and if he ever wants to have another chance to
Speaker 1: playing in the big leagues, he's got to embrace this
Speaker 1: thing that's really hard to do. Now you met, you
Speaker 1: mentioned pitching to your son earlier. Has he shown interest
Speaker 1: in learning or not yet or maybe ever? I think
Speaker 1: he assumes that people expect him to do it, and
Speaker 1: so he toys for ound with it. But in truth,
Speaker 1: like for him, he's a he's a you know, six
Speaker 1: three too oh weight, So his hands are too really big,
Speaker 1: and so he can't his your your fingers have to
Speaker 1: be a certain link to be able to put pressure
Speaker 1: on the baseball in the way she need to to
Speaker 1: manipulate it, and his hands are just too big. So
Speaker 1: my my goal for him is to teach him how
Speaker 1: to throw a hundred you know, forget the knuckleball. That
Speaker 1: would be so amazing though, if he was in like
Speaker 1: a big like three to count bases loaded, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: and he just busted out the knuckleball and struck someone
Speaker 1: out with the bases load, that that might be the
Speaker 1: if nothing else, you should make that into a movie.
Speaker 1: That's a great storyline. I'd be incredible, I know, I
Speaker 1: so like, we for sure have talked about how to
Speaker 1: do it well, and he'll pop out a good one
Speaker 1: every ten pitches like that we throw on or we're
Speaker 1: practicing on the stove. He'll throw one good one out
Speaker 1: of ten. But it would be epic if he threw like,
Speaker 1: you know, eight and two thirds innings with a runner
Speaker 1: on third, you know, dropped the one in there to
Speaker 1: end it, that would be that would be off. Oh
Speaker 1: I got I could get tears ago and just even
Speaker 1: thinking about that, that's incredible. Yeah, incredible. Well, we've got
Speaker 1: to look forward to playoffs a little bit. Let's start
Speaker 1: with the Mets. They couldn't hold onto the division lead,
Speaker 1: but they still got to Graham Shures or how do
Speaker 1: you like their odds in October? Yeah, I'm torn because
Speaker 1: I grew up a Braves fan, but my best years
Speaker 1: of my career were with the New York Mets and
Speaker 1: having incredible relationships with the fans there. So you know,
Speaker 1: I love the pitching that the Mets have, but it's
Speaker 1: going to take more than just that for them to
Speaker 1: do it. I really feel like the depth that the
Speaker 1: Dodgers have is good. You know, it's it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a it should be a really good playoffs. Like, if
Speaker 1: you're a baseball fan, this will be this could be
Speaker 1: one for the ages as far as top to bottom,
Speaker 1: from the wild Card games all the way to the
Speaker 1: World Series, you're gonna get really good baseball. I think, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I the Yankees were actually the first New
Speaker 1: York team that had their lead in their divisions slipping
Speaker 1: away and they managed to hold on. But I look
Speaker 1: at it like to me, especially the American lely. Obviously
Speaker 1: you can see the Dodgers. I think the Dodgers of
Speaker 1: the odds on like sports book favorites right now, but
Speaker 1: I do think it's outside of that. I do think
Speaker 1: every other team it's really who gets hot at the
Speaker 1: right time. I worry about the Yankees because they're so
Speaker 1: top heavy with judge and standing. Playoff baseball is just
Speaker 1: different right where I feel like one even hot picture
Speaker 1: could could could win you a series because you could
Speaker 1: see them every third day. Yeah, Jerry, you are you
Speaker 1: are really a baseball guy, because that is really a
Speaker 1: two observations. I feel with the Yankees they are top heavy,
Speaker 1: and also most playoff series should come down to the bullpen,
Speaker 1: and so if you can identify the team that's got
Speaker 1: the better bullpen, you're usually going to find those guys
Speaker 1: that painting throughout. And so if the bullpens show up
Speaker 1: for the Yankees, I like him. If they don't, then
Speaker 1: it's gonna be tough for them. Yeah, it's kind of
Speaker 1: been my concern with the Yankees all year, kind of
Speaker 1: lasting for me. I know, I know I'm doing this hole.
Speaker 1: I'm a purist rent playoffs being in October and you
Speaker 1: start looking around like there's gonna be playoff games in Cleveland.
Speaker 1: You know, I've spent time in Cleveland. There's gonna be
Speaker 1: playoff games in New York now, and it just gets
Speaker 1: so cold. So you know, did you have ideal whether
Speaker 1: conditions would be like a windy October night kind of
Speaker 1: be that's awesome for you, right, Yeah, it can be.
Speaker 1: I need a little like from my yeah, from my pitch.
Speaker 1: I need a little humidity, so you know, it's a
Speaker 1: little bit more moist than cold, like the way the
Speaker 1: ball reacts to humid weather, especially with like a thob
Speaker 1: moll or a breeze in my face. I mean that thing,
Speaker 1: you know. You know Bob Viewker's quote, like the best
Speaker 1: play to catching knuckleballs, but wait till stuffs rolling and
Speaker 1: pick it up right, So you would I would be
Speaker 1: throwing a lot of those types of the pitches in
Speaker 1: that kind of climate. But you know, I've played in
Speaker 1: with Toronto, the Toronto Blue Jays. We were in the
Speaker 1: playoffs against Cleveland in October and it was bridging. It
Speaker 1: wasn't like the your adrenaline take sober. And you know
Speaker 1: Cleveland fans are you know, they're they're tough, so it's
Speaker 1: not a big deal, but it can get pretty cold.
Speaker 1: I want to go back for a second. You said
Speaker 1: Freddie Freeman was a guy who loved to play against you,
Speaker 1: But did any hitters ever come up to you and say, okay,
Speaker 1: all right, I'm getting embarrassed, just give me some advice
Speaker 1: on how to hit this thing. Did the opposite ever happen? No?
Speaker 1: You know what I was fine with. You know guys
Speaker 1: that were a lot of times, guys that were going good.
Speaker 1: We would go into a series and I knew that
Speaker 1: who their hot hitters were, because you know, you've got
Speaker 1: all the analytics and the data before you get to
Speaker 1: a series. I would see some of those guys on
Speaker 1: the day I pitch Peel out or take their one
Speaker 1: day off a month because they didn't want me to
Speaker 1: interrupt the way they were feeling at the plate. And
Speaker 1: so a lot of times that I would get that
Speaker 1: that that that would tell me more than anything, you know,
Speaker 1: my saw young year. A lot of times I wouldn't
Speaker 1: face the other team's better hitter or their best hitter
Speaker 1: because they were going well and didn't want me to
Speaker 1: interrupt what they were doing. Um, which can can happen
Speaker 1: if you let it get in your head. You know,
Speaker 1: I can interrupt you a hot street group click, or
Speaker 1: I can put you into a hot street. Well all right,
Speaker 1: I can't thank you enough for doing this. I really
Speaker 1: do hope we get to do this in person one day,
Speaker 1: because I really do want to at least just even
Speaker 1: just see the I just want to see the grip.
Speaker 1: I just would love to just because I'm a civilian.
Speaker 1: I just want to look as as someone like we
Speaker 1: all just wanted to always know how to do it.
Speaker 1: So there is a mystic. I love that you're a
Speaker 1: part of the Knuckleball Council. I think that's a thing
Speaker 1: that we should talk about more. And I beg anyone
Speaker 1: who makes baseball decisions. Yeah, no, do not lose enthusiasm
Speaker 1: for knuckleball. And I would love nothing more than to
Speaker 1: see you towing the rubber a year two whenever you
Speaker 1: feel like it's okay to come back. I root for that,
Speaker 1: I really do. I would love to see and I
Speaker 1: think you could do it. I think you can do it.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that you never know. You know I I
Speaker 1: thought about it seriously from the last couple of months,
Speaker 1: really just what it might take to do it, so
Speaker 1: we'll see. Well, I've got to ask, because you said
Speaker 1: it would take you a month to get back to
Speaker 1: real plane shape. What would you do in that month? Uh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Well a lot of it would just be getting my
Speaker 1: arm in shape. Like I don't call you back. Really,
Speaker 1: I'm fine, but I would have to get my arm
Speaker 1: able to throw a hundred pitches in a game, and
Speaker 1: so that just takes about a month. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to have to do it. Oh my god. I would
Speaker 1: love Well, now we know, I would love to see Gerry.
Speaker 1: Maybe you could play in a month. I can't do
Speaker 1: any No, I can't do any I I will not
Speaker 1: be I will not look. If I retire from acting,
Speaker 1: I will not be coming back after that. Because that
Speaker 1: means I can't do it anymore. So all right, thank
Speaker 1: you so much. Enjoy the awesome baseball players started coming up,
Speaker 1: and uh yeah, I also look forward to at least
Speaker 1: let's make the movie about the kid who throws a
Speaker 1: hundred miles an hour and throws the sickest knuckleball to
Speaker 1: strike someone out with the bases loaded to win a
Speaker 1: playoff game. This has been awesome. Thank you so much. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're welcome, guys, You're welcome. I'm glad to be here. Yeah, Gary,
Speaker 1: I have done it. I finished season three. It was fantastic,
Speaker 1: as advertised of entrage, so so good, and I gotta
Speaker 1: admit I'm a little embarrassed to say this. I teared
Speaker 1: up at one point when Johnny Drama has his new
Speaker 1: series on NBC and the reviews were horrible. He gets
Speaker 1: in his car that you got detailed and cleaned. Now
Speaker 1: you have a new love interest. That the whole another story,
Speaker 1: And then he goes to Arizona and wakes up like
Speaker 1: in the middle of a canyon, sad, depressed. His career's
Speaker 1: gone nowhere. And then you all call him to tell
Speaker 1: him they had sixteen million viewers on the premiere episode
Speaker 1: and it's such an emotional moment of what's kind of
Speaker 1: been an emotional season. You've got to tell me about
Speaker 1: that episode. Yeah, this was really the genius of Kevin
Speaker 1: Dillon a k a. Johnny Drama coming to play here
Speaker 1: because you had two and a half three seasons of
Speaker 1: build up to this emotional moment where he finally gets
Speaker 1: his payoff. And uh so that episode ends at the
Speaker 1: Grand Canyon where he screams victory. Right, So flashback to
Speaker 1: when that episode aired on HBO. We were on that year,
Speaker 1: I think right before The Sopranos, So that episode ended
Speaker 1: at the Grand Canyon. Total random episode of the Sopranos,
Speaker 1: which is a big one. If you haven't watched that one,
Speaker 1: I won't spoil it for you. That episode of the
Speaker 1: Sopranos right after ours, ended at with Tony Soprano at
Speaker 1: the Grand Canyon. So it's two Grand Canyon endings. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like Johnny Drama in Success. Everyone that has that
Speaker 1: friend that's like the worst enemy to himself, he actually
Speaker 1: had his moment. It was great. It was so good,
Speaker 1: such a good episode. Another good episode of finish out
Speaker 1: that season was when you go to del Mar the
Speaker 1: horse races and you and Drama end up kind of
Speaker 1: in a pickle. You end up with this horse and
Speaker 1: he gets arrested. This whole thing. Tell me about that episode,
Speaker 1: because you said every time you guys go away, you
Speaker 1: have a lot of fun. And that's I mean. Del
Speaker 1: Mar is kind of a way. Del Mar's away and
Speaker 1: uh yeah, if any of you are unfamiliar del Mar,
Speaker 1: which is right near Lahoya, basically San Diego, beautiful track.
Speaker 1: It's right on the Pacific Ocean, so like you're watching
Speaker 1: horse races, and then to your right is beautiful some
Speaker 1: of those beautiful views you'll ever see. And as I
Speaker 1: mentioned to you when we talked about the Vegas episode,
Speaker 1: where there's gambling, there will be bets made. And let's
Speaker 1: just say in between takes we were shooting out a
Speaker 1: real functional racetrack, we were all making bets. I always
Speaker 1: love long shots. We found the sixties six to one,
Speaker 1: and I think my logic was I looked at Dillon
Speaker 1: and Connolly and I said, hey, you guys are Irish.
Speaker 1: This horse is from Ireland. Sixty to one. Let's go.
Speaker 1: I think we put like a hunter bucks each on it,
Speaker 1: or so we hit big. We hit big, Yeah, did
Speaker 1: you have to do the same thing that you did
Speaker 1: in Vegas drive home? That you were scared to take
Speaker 1: that much money home? I guess you're already driving. Well,
Speaker 1: this was this was del Mar so we were drying. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was say I was well in my criminal organization
Speaker 1: and having done nothing wrong and was able to drive.
Speaker 1: I was able to drive that cash right home. It's
Speaker 1: just different now, a little more season veteran at this point, Olivia. Oh,
Speaker 1: I love your kind of naivete with this whole thing.
Speaker 1: How do we get this cash them? What do I
Speaker 1: have to look forward to in season four? I can't
Speaker 1: wait to start. So season three is all about getting
Speaker 1: that opus right. Vince's chasing Median and getting that dream
Speaker 1: movie that's going to validate him as an actor. And
Speaker 1: I will say it might be a be careful what
Speaker 1: you wish for season potential movie has been so cursed.
Speaker 1: I keep thinking, Oh, they're they're, Oh they're not, Oh
Speaker 1: they're they're they're not. And then the directors like, I
Speaker 1: want the whole thing in Spanish. I have the Median
Speaker 1: poster behind me, So spoiler alert, the movie does get
Speaker 1: made happen. Yeah, but you're now at the apex part
Speaker 1: of the roller coaster, you might be on the way
Speaker 1: down potentially. Okay, By the way, the whole storyline with
Speaker 1: Adrian and his agent, that whole part just really pissed
Speaker 1: me off. I'm like, no, no, no, don't not the agent.
Speaker 1: You don't, don't the agent that sidetrack. But oh, that
Speaker 1: storyline kissed me off. You. Yes, and I'm sure somewhere
Speaker 1: there's no way that was ending. Well no, and I'm
Speaker 1: sure somewhere in Hollywood that's probably happened. Although everyone says
Speaker 1: Entourage was a fictional world, and it was, but I'm
Speaker 1: sure somewhere along the way something similar happened to somebody.
Speaker 1: Are you hinting at something? No? No, not me, No,
Speaker 1: not you, not you? Are you hinting? Is his character
Speaker 1: based on No? No, no, no, oh my god, off Air?
Speaker 1: I hope you tell me. Although this show, I mean
Speaker 1: we kind of we kind of say it all on.
Speaker 1: There are any of the characters based on real people?
Speaker 1: By the way, Yes, and no. So you know, obviously
Speaker 1: it was always technically inspired by Wahlberg and his friends,
Speaker 1: because he really did have entourage and stuff. Obviously, when
Speaker 1: Adrian was cast, he's never really been mistaken from Mark
Speaker 1: Wahlberg physically, so it it evolved. Yeah, all there is
Speaker 1: a Johnny drama out there of who was Mark's boy,
Speaker 1: who was part of his life for a whole time.
Speaker 1: I think he actually did used to do the thing
Speaker 1: where he picked up his shirt and showed his abs
Speaker 1: and called them the Hollywood squares. That was like a
Speaker 1: real thing. Uh yeah. And then I think it became
Speaker 1: Mark's Friends. And then once Doug Ellen, the showrunner was
Speaker 1: in charge and writing, he merged it with like his
Speaker 1: group of friends. So we're a bunch of people's childhood
Speaker 1: friends merged into HBO character. Oh my god, it's so fun. Okay.
Speaker 1: Season three was amazing, as they all have been, so
Speaker 1: I can't wait for season four. All right, coming to
Speaker 1: us live from the Bahamas from his own wedding weekend,
Speaker 1: Peter Andrew, you have one understanding bride, my friend, because
Speaker 1: if this was my husband weekend of our wedding, forget it.
Speaker 1: You have to do what podcast gonna do? What I
Speaker 1: told you, this is not worth this. I love you, guys,
Speaker 1: so I'm happy to be on here for some time
Speaker 1: with the parents. So it's all good. We love you too.
Speaker 1: We're so glad you're on. Hey real quick, Jerry and
Speaker 1: I were just thinking we both have gotten married in
Speaker 1: the past. I don't know what what Jerry, this is
Speaker 1: my five year anniversary coming up with it for you.
Speaker 1: I just had five year anniversary back in June. So
Speaker 1: we are wise, we are experienced. Darry, what's your top
Speaker 1: piece of advice for Peter this weekend? My top piece
Speaker 1: of advice is look. I Also, it's very similar to
Speaker 1: what it's like on a on an acting set, right you,
Speaker 1: there's the two stars of the move of the movie,
Speaker 1: and there's one and two on the call sheet they
Speaker 1: call them. In this case, your future wife is number
Speaker 1: one on the call sheet. You are number two. And
Speaker 1: it's gonna be like that for a long time, and
Speaker 1: it should be. My advice to you is just take five,
Speaker 1: even ten minutes alone where it's just you and her
Speaker 1: after you've been married, away from all the people in
Speaker 1: the party, and just even if you're just sit in
Speaker 1: silence and stare lovingly into each other's eyes, just have
Speaker 1: ten minutes where you just connect and just celebrate, and
Speaker 1: then then you go into the party where you guys
Speaker 1: will be justifiably so the stars of the show everyone's
Speaker 1: gonna want to talk to you and eat when you
Speaker 1: can because you ain't gonna eat, so whenever you see food,
Speaker 1: eat that's it. That's all I got. And my advice
Speaker 1: is write her a letter the night before the wedding.
Speaker 1: There's a lot going on, rehearsal, dinner, welcome party, all
Speaker 1: this stuff, people in and out. You feel like you
Speaker 1: have to like entertain everyone in case the day gets
Speaker 1: away from you. I like the idea of writing your
Speaker 1: future spouse a letter that just lays out everything that
Speaker 1: is the reason you're doing this in the first place.
Speaker 1: What do you think about that, Olivia, I've already started
Speaker 1: writing that way so way ahead of you. Someone else
Speaker 1: gave me that advice too. There will be some things
Speaker 1: that I add from this week, but I started it
Speaker 1: yesterday before we left so and and yeah, and Jerry,
Speaker 1: you you gave me that advice on your podcast. And yes,
Speaker 1: that's something we've been talking a lot about. Is just
Speaker 1: get away from the craziness. Even it's like you said,
Speaker 1: for five ten minutes, just to make sure we're soaking
Speaker 1: it in and enjoying it. Really put things into kind
Speaker 1: of perspective. So I love it and really appreciate it
Speaker 1: for you. Guys. Now I have my wedding gift for you.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give it to you on this podcast. You're ready, Okay,
Speaker 1: your wedding gift is this is your last week picking
Speaker 1: games on this podcast as a single man, quote unquote.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna close the chapter after this week. Whatever
Speaker 1: happens this week, whether you're up or down, we're ending
Speaker 1: that part of Peter Andrew on this show and we're
Speaker 1: starting the new part next week as a married man. Well,
Speaker 1: we're gonna start tracking your wins and hopefully not losses,
Speaker 1: because I just feel like you're gonna start seeing the
Speaker 1: ball a little differently now that you're officially a married man.
Speaker 1: So this week you're down a little bit on the show,
Speaker 1: not much, a little bit, So this is gonna be
Speaker 1: Peter Andrew's last few little picks here as a single man.
Speaker 1: However you finish after this week, we're closing that chapter
Speaker 1: because we're onto a better one married Peter Andrew. So
Speaker 1: last week was a little rough. You flip flopped off
Speaker 1: one t a. It just was rough. It just was
Speaker 1: rough all around for everybody. This week. How are you
Speaker 1: feeling in general? I like this because I was like
Speaker 1: big ten Wisconsin Pete. Now I'm sec Bama Pete. So
Speaker 1: I kind of I kind of like that we're at here.
Speaker 1: That's exactly it. That's exactly we uh. We said it
Speaker 1: quickly before we started. But you know, it's tough a
Speaker 1: couple of injuries, especially in that Viking Saints London game
Speaker 1: last week, no excuses. We're gonna return the chapter, like
Speaker 1: you said, um this week specifically, so I've done things
Speaker 1: slightly differently. I really like the Titans minus three at
Speaker 1: the Commanders, so we're gonna put five units on that one.
Speaker 1: I think the Titans Titans what you saw last week
Speaker 1: way more focused effort with Derrick Henry twenty two rushes,
Speaker 1: hundred fourteen yards touchdown, even got them involved in the
Speaker 1: passing game. I think they're they're realizing that's obviously the
Speaker 1: work horse they need to get going again. You still
Speaker 1: need to see a lot from Tannehill. Losing a j
Speaker 1: Brown becomes more and more apparent. So where does Robert
Speaker 1: Wood step up? We'll see. But I think you know,
Speaker 1: the ground and pound game that's been working for what
Speaker 1: five six seven years now with Derrick Henry, you've got
Speaker 1: to get back to that um and the commanders their defense,
Speaker 1: the rush defense, specifically middle of the pack, and I
Speaker 1: would say they haven't played any outstanding running backs yet.
Speaker 1: So get Cowboys, Lions, Jags last couple of games. They
Speaker 1: haven't played that one A kind of guy, so I
Speaker 1: think they'll struggle. Washington as a whole just doesn't look great.
Speaker 1: So love Titans. Mine is three and I'm putting five
Speaker 1: units there. Okay, so ten units overall, half your stack
Speaker 1: going to Tennessee. What do you got with the remaining five?
Speaker 1: So it's I'm putting two here. But if you want
Speaker 1: to get a little crazy, as as a fan of
Speaker 1: customer Lions, over forty five and a half against the
Speaker 1: Paths at home, the Lions are literally putting up thirty
Speaker 1: five a game. They're given up thirty five a game,
Speaker 1: and then you've got the Pats who were given up
Speaker 1: twenty four game. That is a recipe for another sixty
Speaker 1: point a game like last week where the Lions I
Speaker 1: think they combined from ninety four or ninety two points
Speaker 1: something crazy. I just I don't know why this total,
Speaker 1: well I do know why this total is forty five
Speaker 1: and a half, because Pats are without Hoyer and mac Jones.
Speaker 1: But it just seems like the Lions can't stop anything.
Speaker 1: And again they're gonna put up even without Alman ros
Speaker 1: st Brown a lot of injuries. They're putting up thirty
Speaker 1: thirty five points game minimum. So I don't understand why
Speaker 1: you would take the under here, especially when it's only
Speaker 1: sitting at forty five and a half. I'd say that
Speaker 1: goes up as the week goes on. Public clost at,
Speaker 1: the Lions are that wedding cousin. They're a guests. They're
Speaker 1: a cousin at your wedding. That's like, oh God, Billy's
Speaker 1: had too many. He's not too much. Just someone go
Speaker 1: get Billy. Billy's out of control. That's the Lions at
Speaker 1: the wedding. They're just out of control on both sides
Speaker 1: of the ball. I like to pick everyone's got a Billy.
Speaker 1: I've got like seven billies coming this weekend. I only
Speaker 1: say the name Billy because my cousin Billy had a feel.
Speaker 1: So I'm not like typecasting all billies. I'm just I'm
Speaker 1: pulling from my own experience. It was my cousin Billy
Speaker 1: who was the guy who had one too many, So
Speaker 1: that's the only reason why I'm pulling from that experience. Alright,
Speaker 1: you can, but we'll see. Yeah, And I was gonna
Speaker 1: say a third piece of wedding advice. Don't be billy.
Speaker 1: You can't be billy. You have to be the groom.
Speaker 1: You gotta be the star. Okay, for your one game
Speaker 1: parlay Colts at Broncos. Broncos really struggling last week, they bought,
Speaker 1: they lost their best rusher, Davonte Williams, Melvin Gordon struggled,
Speaker 1: fourth bumble of the year. And you are going to
Speaker 1: really build up a monster parlay here, Okay, and then
Speaker 1: you know, third game. This is another one that's tricky
Speaker 1: but doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Vikings
Speaker 1: minus Aid at home. The Bears are bad. They are
Speaker 1: really really bad. They're the I think the second worst
Speaker 1: rush defense. And you got Madison and Cook which seemed
Speaker 1: unhealthy and looks like he's good with his shoulder injury
Speaker 1: a plane against that second worst rush defense. I think
Speaker 1: the Bears really really struggle on the road at Minnesota,
Speaker 1: and they're almost dead last in terms of putting the
Speaker 1: points too. So they're putting up something like fifteen seventeen
Speaker 1: points a game. I don't see how they keep it close.
Speaker 1: I think the game comes down to justin field and
Speaker 1: can't he score touchdowns, which just doesn't seem likely. So
Speaker 1: Vikings minus A two units there feel good about that
Speaker 1: one as well. Just the Bears are a tough team
Speaker 1: to watch. They made the Giants looked great last week,
Speaker 1: which is somewhat difficult. Sorry, Jerry, that was a jabbing.
Speaker 1: You guy doesn't invite me to his wedding, and then
Speaker 1: he's making fun of my favorite football team. All right,
Speaker 1: all right, I see, Okay, Then all that is left
Speaker 1: is your famous one game parlay, and you're building a
Speaker 1: pretty big one this week for Colts at Broncos. Broncos
Speaker 1: struggle last week, giving the Raiders their first win of
Speaker 1: the season and losing their top rusher, Davante Williams. What
Speaker 1: do you like here? Yeah, so, I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's famous yet because I've just missed by one or
Speaker 1: two every single week. But I've changed the strategy a
Speaker 1: little it here. So so to your point, Olivia, losing
Speaker 1: Javonte Williams, they're obviously going to be a bit more
Speaker 1: reliant at home in the passing game. So I think
Speaker 1: Russ and the team. You know they tightened ship or
Speaker 1: writing ship a little bit. Russ over a hundred seventy yards,
Speaker 1: not a lot to ask for their Courtland Sutton first
Speaker 1: touchdown of the year. I got him fifty plus receiving yards,
Speaker 1: so I think they get him more involved. Judy thirty
Speaker 1: five yards, so again you're really not asking for much
Speaker 1: around their two wide receivers, they're one and two. Mo
Speaker 1: Ali Cox on the cold side, getting him more involved
Speaker 1: last week fifteen yards. Again that's a catcher two, so
Speaker 1: again not asking for too much. And then the last
Speaker 1: two things more games specific. Broncos minus three and a half,
Speaker 1: I think they win at home. Colts do not look good.
Speaker 1: Um and the Broncos over twenty three and a half
Speaker 1: so total, I think they put up somewhere between to
Speaker 1: thirty points. Looks like Jonathan Taylor may not be ready
Speaker 1: to go next week. That toe has been bothering him.
Speaker 1: That's a plus five fifty parlay. So lots of appealing
Speaker 1: alternate lines, whether it's the alt line on the game,
Speaker 1: the oltline of the points, or the atline on some
Speaker 1: of the player props. So I like that. You know,
Speaker 1: one unit ten dollars take home sixty five bucks, not
Speaker 1: too shabby. So hopefully these work out and this new
Speaker 1: strategy pay some dividends. This is why I love that
Speaker 1: we're gonna label this one, uh, not asking for too
Speaker 1: much single game part like, because the way you laid
Speaker 1: it out, if we would have laid out that case
Speaker 1: before week one for the five hundred million, however, many
Speaker 1: hundreds of millions of dollars, Russell Wilson's getting paid to
Speaker 1: play quarterback with all the weapons he has, we would
Speaker 1: have been like, wait, thirty over thirty five yards over
Speaker 1: a hundred and seven, like those are no brainers. And
Speaker 1: now we've been reduced to saying this is our wh're
Speaker 1: not asking that much for this single I think those
Speaker 1: are great picks, but you never know it with with
Speaker 1: this is just shocking. The I'm sorry, I'm going on
Speaker 1: a tangent here, but you just really it got to
Speaker 1: me because you are not You're right, you're not asking
Speaker 1: for too much, but that single game parlay at all,
Speaker 1: And who the hell knows what's going to happen with
Speaker 1: with this Broncos team. Clearly they've cost me some money
Speaker 1: at some points this year. How emotional I'm getting it's crazy.
Speaker 1: I mean, you guys talked a lot of about it
Speaker 1: a lot in one of your early segments, how great
Speaker 1: this division was supposed to be, and we've talked about
Speaker 1: it too, and look where we're at now. I mean,
Speaker 1: Chiefs have proved to be legit great win last week
Speaker 1: on the road, but Raiders look awful, Broncos very very questionable.
Speaker 1: Even the game they squeaked out against the Niners that
Speaker 1: put charters barely held the lead against the Texans they
Speaker 1: barely had they held on barely. And it's again, it's
Speaker 1: like a thirty for thirty. What if I was to
Speaker 1: tell you the NFC East it would be the best
Speaker 1: team in the NFL, It's like a thirty for thirties.
Speaker 1: It is ridiculous. NFL is drunk at the at the
Speaker 1: at their Billy. Yeah. Last week was the Olivia special
Speaker 1: that you built. This week is the Pete's Wedding special.
Speaker 1: So I think you're going to be a winner. Yes,
Speaker 1: So I feel good about it. But there's a little
Speaker 1: bit of tension in the room here because there's a
Speaker 1: specific game nine thirty Sunday in London, Someone's Giants for
Speaker 1: Someone's Pack. The lines at plus eight right now, Giants
Speaker 1: without potentially Daniel Jones without potentially t Mobile Tyrod Taylor.
Speaker 1: How do you guys feel about that? Well, we have
Speaker 1: a little bit built in of our own. Do you
Speaker 1: want to tell them about our bet? Yeah? I got
Speaker 1: set up. I'm vulnerable here and basically the loser for
Speaker 1: you know, I guess we're honoring all the cheese heads
Speaker 1: out there because they're probably gonna win. Has to wear
Speaker 1: for the entire ship? Is this the entire show? I
Speaker 1: think has to wear a piece of cheese on their head,
Speaker 1: real cheese, not like the little styre foam cheese heads
Speaker 1: that we've all loved. Real cheese on their head for
Speaker 1: the duration of the entire podcast. I might be starting
Speaker 1: se Kwon Barkley as we're starting quarterback, and my lovely
Speaker 1: co host thinks that this is just fine, So she
Speaker 1: used to put some stinky ass cheese on head for
Speaker 1: an entire like blue cheese, blue cheese crumbles in this hair.
Speaker 1: It's awful and it's vulnerable, and I'm gonna totally play
Speaker 1: it down because I still think the Giants are gonna win.
Speaker 1: But it'll be fine. You just grossed out a lactose
Speaker 1: and tolerant guy. So bad here, don't get let's not
Speaker 1: let's not get Pete feeling a little little queasy before
Speaker 1: a big day. Buddy, congratulations not only on having an
Speaker 1: amazing single game parlay, but also marrying your partner for life.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be great, Peter Andrew. Everybody, this is give Stephanie,
Speaker 1: I love and everything. Thank you so much, later, buddy,
Speaker 1: all right, Olivia, that's gonna do it for another episode.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Ari, Dicky. Awesome interview. Thank you, Peter Andrew.
Speaker 1: I'm getting married. It's gonna be awesome for you. Odd giants, packers,
Speaker 1: London cheese. Bet, it's gonna be It's gonna be a
Speaker 1: good one. You you. I don't like it, but a
Speaker 1: good job. Can you smell the JEDDA. I can't wait.
Speaker 1: This is gonna be fun. We'll see you guys. Can't
Speaker 1: wait to go to the game. I will tell you
Speaker 1: all about it next week. I can't wait.