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Speaker 1: We got a pull question for our two. Did we
Speaker 1: have one for hour one? You know, I don't know
Speaker 1: if we ever put one up. We got a bunch
Speaker 1: of suggestions. Okay, um, we have would you rather be
Speaker 1: good at two things or great at one thing? Love show?
Speaker 1: Hey toy, so would I would I rather be so
Speaker 1: get good at two things? We're great at one thing? Okay?
Speaker 1: Do you have an example? You could be a good
Speaker 1: pitcher and a good hitter or you could be a
Speaker 1: great at one of those two things. Okay, I would
Speaker 1: like to be good at two things. Given the salaries
Speaker 1: in Major League Baseball. If I'm a good hitter and
Speaker 1: a good pitcher, chances are I'm probably making fifty million
Speaker 1: dollars a year. Or would you even get that far?
Speaker 1: You're not great at one thing, You're good, Okay, I
Speaker 1: see what you're doing. Yeah, yeah, okay, all right. I'd
Speaker 1: have to be great at something for them to then
Speaker 1: allow me to be good at something, right, feels like right? Right? Right?
Speaker 1: How about do you prefer sporting events in the afternoon
Speaker 1: or evening? Well, I like a World Series game in
Speaker 1: the afternoon. Ah. Yeah, I don't want to be greedy here.
Speaker 1: We talked about an afternoon you know, it used to
Speaker 1: be when we were growing up, there'd be a after
Speaker 1: school special, it'd be a movie, would be a hokey
Speaker 1: movie with life lessons there. And I like an afternoon game,
Speaker 1: a national average afternoon game, and I would have Nickelodeon
Speaker 1: produce it, and I would just make it four kids.
Speaker 1: That that's You know, if you're a hardcore baseball fan,
Speaker 1: you know you're not gonna be offended by what you see,
Speaker 1: but you're gonna have fun with this and and maybe
Speaker 1: you you know, you got to bring in a younger audience.
Speaker 1: You know, you explain the rules, the subtleties, the nuances,
Speaker 1: you have some fun social media, you have some younger announcers.
Speaker 1: Maybe you have you know, a boy or girl who's
Speaker 1: an on the field reporter. Whatever it is, just do
Speaker 1: what Nickelodeon did with football. But you know, one day
Speaker 1: like Wednesday, Every Wednesday is afternoon, you know, after school
Speaker 1: special major League Baseball game of the week. Four kids,
Speaker 1: just say that's what it is. It's it's directed for
Speaker 1: you and just see. You know, maybe they I've maintained
Speaker 1: for years now that teams, I don't know why they
Speaker 1: don't do this is just get them get people into
Speaker 1: the ballpark. If you're a struggling franchise, how about this
Speaker 1: section is you know, two dollars, bring your glove, you
Speaker 1: get in free. Whatever it is, do something where you
Speaker 1: kind of create an atmosphere that you get to experience
Speaker 1: a baseball game in person. I still remember the first
Speaker 1: game I ever saw was spring training in Scottsdale, Arizona,
Speaker 1: and I got a chance to see Willie Mays and
Speaker 1: was fascinated that they had a player named Heyzu Salu.
Speaker 1: And my dad kept saying, you don't call him Jesus,
Speaker 1: And I said, but it's spelled like Jesus. He goes
Speaker 1: his name is Jeseus o Loo. I was fascinated. But
Speaker 1: I got to see Willie Mays and I got and
Speaker 1: I think it was nineteen sixty four and in Scottsdale,
Speaker 1: So I never forgot that that I got to see
Speaker 1: a game in person, the sounds of it, the smells
Speaker 1: of it, the announcer, the foul balls, and it was
Speaker 1: spring training. Get him into the ballpark. And this might
Speaker 1: be get you into the experience the world of watching
Speaker 1: a game on TV, because it's it can be a
Speaker 1: task sometime to watch a baseball game all the way through.
Speaker 1: Have it fun, dress it up, let's see what you have.
Speaker 1: Try something different there one day a week after school's
Speaker 1: special Major League Baseball. Yeah. And if you go back
Speaker 1: to the eighties, both WGM with the Cubs had a
Speaker 1: superstation and Atlanta Braves had a superstation. I watched a
Speaker 1: lot of Afternoon Brave. Even though I'm a Cubs fan,
Speaker 1: I saw a lot of Braves baseball. When I got
Speaker 1: home from school because it was on it was available
Speaker 1: nationwide all the time. There are a lot of people
Speaker 1: who light the Cub even though the Cubs stunk for decades,
Speaker 1: because it was available after school to them. And you
Speaker 1: bring up the Cubs. The Cubs were the lovable losers,
Speaker 1: and it felt like America wanted the Cubs to win
Speaker 1: a World Series. The Cleveland Indians to heartbreaking losses in
Speaker 1: World Series to the Cubs, and also the Marlins. Kind
Speaker 1: of root for the Now Guardians to win. But I
Speaker 1: had somebody say to me, you can't help it. Root
Speaker 1: for the Detroit Lions. I go, why, Like they'd never
Speaker 1: been good enough where it's heartbreaking. Don't you have to
Speaker 1: have that heartbreak before we go? Like the Red Sox,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, decades and decades they lost all eighty
Speaker 1: six with Bill Buckner, Bucky Dent, you know, all of
Speaker 1: this stuff. But they kind of throw it in there
Speaker 1: and it's like this big yarn of hardship. It just
Speaker 1: keeps gathering yarn and then it becomes massive and then
Speaker 1: we go, let's put them out of there, misery. Let's
Speaker 1: let them win it. Like the Lions haven't been good
Speaker 1: enough where you go, yeah, it's their turn. It's their
Speaker 1: time now. If you said the Atlanta Falcons losing twenty
Speaker 1: eight after being up twenty eight three, all right, I'm
Speaker 1: good with that rejemption there. I don't know what other
Speaker 1: NFL team where you go. You know, they've suffered enough,
Speaker 1: they deserve to win a Super Bowl. Yes, Buffalo Bills,
Speaker 1: they ding ding ding, and Minnesota Vikings like you would say,
Speaker 1: I think Buffalo Bills, you go, but now they're a favorite.
Speaker 1: Now it's different Vikings. I don't know. People think back
Speaker 1: to the Purple People Eaters when they lost four Super Bowls.
Speaker 1: But those are franchises that earn the right for us
Speaker 1: to root for you if you have no rooting interest,
Speaker 1: But the Lions don't. Yeah, I'm mar and sometimes as
Speaker 1: a fan, I remember my grandfather specifically saying, man, I
Speaker 1: like John Elway, but I just don't want to see
Speaker 1: them get embarrassed in another Super Bowl, not lose, just embarrassed. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and so yeah, maybe is it like the fear like
Speaker 1: but the Lions. I think Fritzie said, I was like,
Speaker 1: the Lions haven't done anything to make you even think like, oh,
Speaker 1: remember that game in ninety one where they were up
Speaker 1: and they lost. They don't have any of those really, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they haven't been close enough to have that heartbreak that
Speaker 1: we then invest in you. Yeah, see, and they had
Speaker 1: a Hall of Fame quarterback, they had a Hall of
Speaker 1: Fame wide receiver. They have, you know, it's not like
Speaker 1: they haven't had a decade of you know, great players. Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 1: And it's interesting you bring that up. Did a little
Speaker 1: research here. Matthew Stafford's going to the Hall of Fame,
Speaker 1: Barry Sanders is in the Hall of Fame, Calvin Johnson
Speaker 1: is in the Hall of Fame. How many franchises have
Speaker 1: had a quarterback, running back, wide receiver all go into
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame. The Detroit Lions will be on
Speaker 1: that list. And that list includes the Dallas Cowboys who
Speaker 1: had two variations of that, Troy Aikman, Emmett Smith and
Speaker 1: Michael Irvin. They also had Rogers stallback, Tony Dorset and
Speaker 1: Drew Arson. The Colts they had Peyton Manning who did
Speaker 1: it with edun James and Marvin Harrison. Also Peyton Manning
Speaker 1: with Marshall Falk and Marvin Harrison, Johnny Unitis with Lenny
Speaker 1: Moore and Raymond Barry, Kurt Warner, Marshall Falk, Isaac Bruce.
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills did it with Thurman Thomas, Jim Kelly, Andre Reid.
Speaker 1: They also had James Lofton. The Steelers are in there,
Speaker 1: Terry Bradshaw, Franco Harris, John Stalworth, Terry Bradshaw, Franco Harris,
Speaker 1: John Stalworth, Lynn Swan, the Dolphins, Bob Greasy, Larry Zonka,
Speaker 1: Paul Warfield, the Jets. Although it's not fair to put
Speaker 1: John Riggins wasn't a great player with the Jets. He
Speaker 1: became a Hall of Famer with Washington, so I wouldn't
Speaker 1: put the Jets in there with Namath, Don Madard and
Speaker 1: John Riggins. The Lions are on the list. The Lions
Speaker 1: got three Hall of Famer at the skilled position players
Speaker 1: position quarterback, running back, wide receiver, and they have nothing
Speaker 1: to show for it. Now you might say, did they
Speaker 1: play together at the same time. You know, Barry Sanders
Speaker 1: had Scott Mitchell as his quarterback. He had a variety
Speaker 1: of quarterbacks there. Calvin Johnson did play with Matthew Stafford. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we were talking about Hall of Fame and Hall of
Speaker 1: very good. Matthew Stafford is for sure Hall of Famer. Yep, yep, Yeah,
Speaker 1: won the Super Bowl, wonted in Los Angeles. Absolutely, if
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers had done that, he'd be a Hall of Famer, guaranteed. Yeah. More.
Speaker 1: But I don't think Matthew Stafford was as good as
Speaker 1: Philip you know what. Sorry, sorry, you keep going. I'm
Speaker 1: not big on Matthew Stafford being a Hall of Famer.
Speaker 1: I think he's a Hall of very good. He's got
Speaker 1: like one Pro Bowl meeting. Okay, but we would always
Speaker 1: say this, and Matthew Stafford's good, but the Lions aren't
Speaker 1: any good. We never said the Lions aren't good because
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford's not good. You could say with Philip Rivers
Speaker 1: in the playoffs sometimes it would be on Philip Rivers
Speaker 1: that they weren't going to win. So does him being
Speaker 1: really good in Detroit help his case? Like, man, he
Speaker 1: was just really good. He was just on a really
Speaker 1: bad but he did stand out, you know, being a
Speaker 1: good player. They're always on Thanksgiving, so that was the
Speaker 1: one game you got to see them play. But Matthew
Speaker 1: Stafford's gonna be a Hall of Famer, yeah, Seed, would
Speaker 1: you rather your team be, say like the Bills or
Speaker 1: the Vikings? Where you've been to the super Bowl but
Speaker 1: never won, or more like the Lions, I've never been. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: I want to. I want to get so close that
Speaker 1: it hurts so bad that heartbreak is yes, is great. Yes, yeah.
Speaker 1: I cried when the Orioles beat the Reds nineteen seventy
Speaker 1: with Brooks Robinson, and I was so I did the
Speaker 1: first baseman come up? Hug No he did not, But
Speaker 1: I just like, damn it, this guy Brooks Robinson, the
Speaker 1: goofy batting helmet. He's killing us Seaton Hall in Michigan. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Noamon still hurts sobbing Robinson absolutely, yeah, yeah, all right.
Speaker 1: But Matt Staffor in the Hall of Fame with the
Speaker 1: with Detroit, he was seventy four and ninety as a
Speaker 1: starting quarterback if you flip flopped it, and Tony Romoho
Speaker 1: somehow got a ring with Dallas. Romo as a starter
Speaker 1: in Dallas was seventy eight and forty nine, very good record.
Speaker 1: He had two hundred forty eight touchdowns one hundred and
Speaker 1: seventeen picks. Romo no one even breathes his name as
Speaker 1: a Hall of Famer, but if he got one ring
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys, you'd have to write probably Yeah, two
Speaker 1: hundred forty touchdowns, one hundred and seventeen picks, very impressive.
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers doesn't want to play in the preseason. He
Speaker 1: had this to say yesterday. I definitely don't see any
Speaker 1: benefits to play in one series. You know, if we're
Speaker 1: gonna play, we should play and play a quarter, a
Speaker 1: couple of series, two or three series. If we're gonna
Speaker 1: just suit enough for four plays, to me, is a waste.
Speaker 1: So and I'm not saying this to send a message
Speaker 1: to Matt. I've already told Matt the same thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and so let's see what happens when we get there.
Speaker 1: It'd be nice if that were the case, if Ken's
Speaker 1: City was playing some other guys too. I get it.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know, you got to get dressed up,
Speaker 1: taped up, get ready to go, go through the whole
Speaker 1: process there Now that I think is valuable to just
Speaker 1: get into the moment of preparing for a game. But
Speaker 1: you get to that point where you know you you
Speaker 1: prepared for the pop quiz and there's no pop quiz,
Speaker 1: and then you're like, oh what am I doing here?
Speaker 1: That's sort of what this is. Hey, go out there,
Speaker 1: we got a pop quiz. You're gonna play a couple
Speaker 1: of series and that's it. Now. If he gets injured,
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, people are gonna go Matt
Speaker 1: La Florida, like, what are you doing? So I think
Speaker 1: Aaron knows should he be out there? No? Does he
Speaker 1: need to be out there? No. Rick Stroud, our buddy
Speaker 1: who covers the NFL for the Tampa Bay Times, was
Speaker 1: He tweeted this morning, the Dolphins and the Buccaneers are
Speaker 1: having a joint practice today, a scrimmage. Well, the dolphins
Speaker 1: new head coach Mike McDaniel was asked about the awkwardness
Speaker 1: of scrimmaging the Tampa Bay Buccaneers a week after the
Speaker 1: Dolphins were sanctioned for tampering with Tom Brady, and the
Speaker 1: new head coach said, for me, nothing happened. Everyone else
Speaker 1: is making it awkward and he's right, Hey, I had
Speaker 1: nothing to do. It not awkward for me. I'm all good.
Speaker 1: Is it awkward for Brady? I don't think Stephen Ross
Speaker 1: is at the joint scrimmage there today. That'd be great
Speaker 1: if he was. They finally got they finally got Brady
Speaker 1: in the building, or at least close to it. Premier
Speaker 1: League Saturday, Christiano Ronaldo, oh, and Manchester United head to
Speaker 1: Brentford Premier League mornings. I don't even know where Brentford is.
Speaker 1: It's in England, so I didn't I didn't think it
Speaker 1: was a store like Ronaldo was going to Brentford's. Oh
Speaker 1: what's he picking up? Obviously not shirts because he doesn't
Speaker 1: wear them. Uh, Brentford. I didn't even know Brentford was
Speaker 1: in the Premier League. Have they been in it for
Speaker 1: a while there Bentford Bees? Yeah, point Brentford is about
Speaker 1: an hour or so west of London. That doesn't mean
Speaker 1: anything to me. I've been to Brighton, Okay, that's coastal right, Yes,
Speaker 1: it is brightonhole alby end. I take the I took
Speaker 1: the train out. You get off the train and it
Speaker 1: feels like you go down a steep hill right to
Speaker 1: the water. Went there and uh, I wanted to play
Speaker 1: pinball in Bizar Yes, because the who's saying, abo up
Speaker 1: a deaf, dumb and blind kid? Yeah, sure plays a
Speaker 1: mean pinball is from soho downright? Okay, you must have
Speaker 1: seen him all something like that. And then my wife goes,
Speaker 1: why do you want to play pinball? I said, what's
Speaker 1: a whose song? And she goes, who I it's it's
Speaker 1: the who has a song called Pinball Wizard? Who's on first?
Speaker 1: And but Brighton was very nice, So I've been to Brighton.
Speaker 1: I haven't been to Brentford. Do they take advantage of
Speaker 1: the Pinball Wizard? Like? Is there tourism around it? Not
Speaker 1: that Ivius aware of because like, what's that song? Uh?
Speaker 1: Stand on the corner in Winslow, Arizona. I think that
Speaker 1: they take advantage of. Yes, if you go to Winslow, Arizona,
Speaker 1: there is a pickup truck, Yeah, like a rock and roll,
Speaker 1: an old pickup truck, and they take advantage as a
Speaker 1: roadside stop out west. Yeah. I haven't been to Winslow, Arizona.
Speaker 1: It's about an hour west of London. Chris Berman would
Speaker 1: always go to oh Man. I remember when they had
Speaker 1: this Super Bowl and and Chris did a a Super
Speaker 1: Bowl video with Glenn Frye of the Eagles, and Glenn
Speaker 1: fry is driving a pickup truck and Winslow, Arizona, and
Speaker 1: Chris I think is on the street and he's like,
Speaker 1: whoa did Glenn Frye like, uh oh, you didn't know
Speaker 1: he was gonna be there boom the way he did
Speaker 1: the home run derby, he got onema. Glenn Fry sang
Speaker 1: the song. Jackson Brown wrote the song with Winslawyers. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: I like when Burman would would give you the different
Speaker 1: cities back back back that one East Stroudsburg. Yeah great, gay,
Speaker 1: I always love, I always love closed caption with Chris Berman.
Speaker 1: You imagine the person typing away what put in here? Yeah? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: do you spell that? He or e h? Where? Well,
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Speaker 1: Hey Otani, the second player in baseball history with at
Speaker 1: least ten home runs and at least ten pitching wins
Speaker 1: in the same season. Want to guess who the other
Speaker 1: player is Babe Ruth did it in nineteen eighteen. Let's
Speaker 1: see what else does it feels like? If there's ever
Speaker 1: a stat about Otanni, it has to do with Babe
Speaker 1: Ruth or he's included in the stat. Otani has three
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy nine career strikeouts as a pitcher one
Speaker 1: hundred and eighteen home runs. The only player to reach
Speaker 1: both those milestones is Babe Ruth. Yeah, you got it.
Speaker 1: So the next closest player with at least one hundred
Speaker 1: eighteen home runs and had forty three strikeouts. One of
Speaker 1: these guys played back in the late eighteen hundreds early
Speaker 1: nineteen hundreds, but Babe Ruth is usually the other player
Speaker 1: involved when it comes to Shoheyutani. Yes, paul I was
Speaker 1: looking back at Babe Ruth stats. We talked about this
Speaker 1: a few months ago. Over Rated. He was a pitcher
Speaker 1: for his first four seasons, like a full time pitcher,
Speaker 1: and he was the best pitcher in the game, or
Speaker 1: one of them. He had thirty five complete games in
Speaker 1: one season. He's twenty four thirty. But then he stopped
Speaker 1: being a pitcher around nineteen nineteen and was a full
Speaker 1: time hitter. He only crossed over for almost a year
Speaker 1: and a half where he was pitching and hitting full time.
Speaker 1: You know, his records would be way bigger than Otani's
Speaker 1: if he stuck with it. But none of the stories
Speaker 1: about Babe Ruth's really talk about the details of why
Speaker 1: he stopped pitching, because unlike he was an average pitcher,
Speaker 1: he was top three in the game. Well when did
Speaker 1: they realize, God, that guy can really hit. He won
Speaker 1: ninety games I think in his career as a pitcher.
Speaker 1: In nineteen seventeen, he won twenty four game games at
Speaker 1: the pitcher and he also had he had only one
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty three at bats. He was twenty two
Speaker 1: years old, so he was pitcher, not a hitter. Yet
Speaker 1: the next season he had three hundred and seventeen at bats.
Speaker 1: Nineteen eighteen, he hit three hundred with eleven home runs.
Speaker 1: Those eleven home runs led the league, and the next
Speaker 1: year he was just went crazy hit three twenty two.
Speaker 1: Who knows what those baseballs were made of back then,
Speaker 1: because these things now, I mean, you get they're tight.
Speaker 1: You know he's pitt he's hitting you know, something that's
Speaker 1: basically string wrapped together. But yeah, yeah, but he's thrown
Speaker 1: to a bunch of plumbers and fire mas. JJ Reddick
Speaker 1: might say, you know, babe Ruth, Yeah, who's he playing
Speaker 1: against a bunch of plumbers and firefighters. Aaron Rodgers, by
Speaker 1: the way, has a big goal that he wants to
Speaker 1: win another Super Bowl. I don't say this as a cliche.
Speaker 1: I say this as heartfelt as I can. I want
Speaker 1: to win a championship. I've had all those individual success
Speaker 1: I could possibly ever have dreamed of accomplishing. I've got
Speaker 1: four MVPs. I'm an honorary black belt. I'd like to,
Speaker 1: uh to win another super Bowl. That's most important. Everything
Speaker 1: else would be just purely icing on the cake. Honorary
Speaker 1: that is great. If he just throwing that in I'm
Speaker 1: an honorary black belt, that's great. That made that sound
Speaker 1: bite special. Uh, wouldn't it be interesting if you said
Speaker 1: you now, my goal is not to win another Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: My goal is to be a better lover. Like to
Speaker 1: stay with that. You know, I'm planning on open up
Speaker 1: an ayahuasca farm. Yeah, yes, morph When I first when
Speaker 1: I first heard the sound, He's like, I got four
Speaker 1: of youps. I'm honorary belt belt. Okay, Oh, all right, see,
Speaker 1: oh you heard it differently than we did. Marginally, I'm
Speaker 1: an honorary black belt. Okay, all right, okay, I hear you.
Speaker 1: That's funny, that is funny. All right, Yes, Pauli, we're
Speaker 1: going back to I got I have a poll question
Speaker 1: off what we talked about. All Right, If the Buffalo
Speaker 1: Bills and Detroit Lions played in the Super Bowl, who
Speaker 1: would you root for? Neither of them are to our teams.
Speaker 1: If you didn't have a dog in the fight, Lions
Speaker 1: or Bills, I would root for the Bills. I'm picking
Speaker 1: the Lions to make the playoffs, but I don't know
Speaker 1: who America would root for. Because the Bills are a
Speaker 1: favorite this year. They might be the favorite to win.
Speaker 1: But he got four super Bowl losses. Now, granted, nobody
Speaker 1: was on the team that was playing now, but the
Speaker 1: franchise itself, great fans, Bills mafia. But you're a favorite now, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know. See. Sorry, just to quickly go back to
Speaker 1: the honorary black belt thing. Apparently it's a huge honor
Speaker 1: no joke. It's like a real thing that people have
Speaker 1: gotten and that it's made headlines. When there have been
Speaker 1: certain world leaders who have been stripped of their honorary
Speaker 1: black belt, and it was like controversial. How do you
Speaker 1: get said honorary? I think you have to be it's
Speaker 1: like an award. You have to be like a like
Speaker 1: a Nobel Peace Prize or something almost maybe not quite
Speaker 1: that significant. But can you imagine you're about to get
Speaker 1: in a bar fight you hey man, watch out, I'm
Speaker 1: an honorary black belt. Yeah. Even just like the there's
Speaker 1: even articles about do you agree with honorary black belt
Speaker 1: within the martial arts community. It's a controversial topic. It
Speaker 1: should be like I'm not afraid of somebody who's an
Speaker 1: honorary black belt. I'm afraid of the black belt. Now
Speaker 1: does he have to register his hands with the lethal
Speaker 1: weapons weapons? Well, his arm is his right arm. It
Speaker 1: do you get a black belt? I'm guessing you do.
Speaker 1: I wear it with your gee and nothing underneath my gee. Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm reading about this. I found this politician who we
Speaker 1: got it at the American Martial Arts Institute. Gives you
Speaker 1: an honorary black belt for years of service in the
Speaker 1: business and private acts in the community. But it's not
Speaker 1: like he's not assisting the karate community, is he. I
Speaker 1: would think that that's how you get it. Does Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers take classes in this? Is he involved? I don't
Speaker 1: know if you have to take taekwondo taekwondo kia in
Speaker 1: order to be awarded the honorary black belt. How about
Speaker 1: we just have Aaron rod asked the packers, if Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers can come on, But all we just want to
Speaker 1: talk to him about his honorary black belt. No background
Speaker 1: at all, type of kate. You're not gonna ask him
Speaker 1: about how he is in other departments of his great
Speaker 1: lower game. All right, those are the two things I'd
Speaker 1: want to ask him. Is he an honorary great Lover's
Speaker 1: there a black belt for that? I'm a ninth degree
Speaker 1: if you know what I mean. My daughter did taekwondo
Speaker 1: and she you get a trophy every month, like a
Speaker 1: trophy that's about three feet high, and you know it's
Speaker 1: a way of keeping you in taekwondo. But she would
Speaker 1: always you know, I'd say you're going to taekwondo and
Speaker 1: she go, taekwondo kia. I go, oh boy, this is
Speaker 1: gonna get tired. Then yes, taekwondo kya. I go, okay, oh,
Speaker 1: not gonna mess with you, you know, you're weigh forty
Speaker 1: two pounds. Not gonna taekwondo? Kia. I go, okay, use
Speaker 1: that body weight against you. I said, you can't use
Speaker 1: what you learn against your brother or your sisters. And
Speaker 1: then she said, well, why am I doing it? Taekwondo? Kia?
Speaker 1: Did anybody do taekwondo growing up? I never did, but
Speaker 1: my son did for a little bit. Okay, he did
Speaker 1: just a little bit, and then eventually he was really
Speaker 1: really into it. And then one week he was not
Speaker 1: into it. Yeah, like okay, buddy, let's put that away
Speaker 1: for a little bit. It's like boy Scouts, Boy Scouts.
Speaker 1: My son went through. It was an Eagle Scout. It
Speaker 1: was wonderful. I lasted one day. One day, that was it.
Speaker 1: But then I'd have to go to these camping you know,
Speaker 1: they have to. I did. My wife would go, you know,
Speaker 1: you should go with your son and you know, go camping.
Speaker 1: And then it'd be a weekend and I was like,
Speaker 1: this is not me. But they loved it. You know,
Speaker 1: they're doing all these different projects and you're getting your
Speaker 1: your swimming metal belt or patch or something, and uh,
Speaker 1: I remember going out and sneaking beer into the So
Speaker 1: they had this huge container of water that you were
Speaker 1: going to have to drink, and it was damn cold water.
Speaker 1: So I went out and got a six pack of beer,
Speaker 1: put string on the top of the six pack, put
Speaker 1: it down into the water supply, and then I would
Speaker 1: go around the you know, the corner and shoot beers
Speaker 1: so I could get through the weekend. You risk your
Speaker 1: son's Eagle Scout career? I did. I did. I heard
Speaker 1: that being coming Eagle Scout is like kind of legit
Speaker 1: where it can help you on college applications and like
Speaker 1: going to oh it's West Point and things like that. No,
Speaker 1: it's huge, yeah, huge, And my son fought us all
Speaker 1: the way. But a week before he turned eighteen he
Speaker 1: got his bat You you have until you're eighteen years
Speaker 1: of age, and then he realizes, now how big a
Speaker 1: deal it was. But going through it, my wife deserved
Speaker 1: the Eagle Scout, not my son. But yeah, they do
Speaker 1: wonderful things, the group, the people, the lessons they were,
Speaker 1: it was pretty spectacular for him. Let's get some phone
Speaker 1: calls in here. How about that Ben in Texas? Hi? Ben,
Speaker 1: what's on your mind? Hey? Dan? Talking a little bit
Speaker 1: of baseball today? Just fallen out of the sport over
Speaker 1: the last several years, but stumbled across the documentary last
Speaker 1: night facing Nolan, which I think if you watch the
Speaker 1: trailer you'd be hard press knots puny up the five
Speaker 1: bucks to rent it. I meant to call on last
Speaker 1: week twenty nine years ago, Robin Ventura made honorary black belt.
Speaker 1: I'll advise the decision to charge Nolan on the mound. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: Seaton saw the documentary and I'm I'm a huge Nolan
Speaker 1: Ryan fan. I can't imagine playing in the field when
Speaker 1: he was pitching had to be one of the more
Speaker 1: boring experiences because when Nolan Ryan pitched, he either struck
Speaker 1: you out or walked you. He might have given up
Speaker 1: one or two hits, maybe one or two runs, and
Speaker 1: probably at a no decision. His records will never be
Speaker 1: broken because pitchers won't get that many starts go that,
Speaker 1: you know, the eight or nine innings, complete games, striking
Speaker 1: out guys. You know, I think he's struck out over
Speaker 1: three hundred and fifty batters in a couple of seasons,
Speaker 1: like back to back to back. Yeah, and then he
Speaker 1: had what three eighty three is the record? Sandy Kofax
Speaker 1: had three eighty two. Those records will never be broken. Now.
Speaker 1: Guys strike out more now, but pitchers don't pitch that
Speaker 1: amount of time enough innings. Yeah, that many innings over
Speaker 1: that many years. I mean, that's just it's never gonna
Speaker 1: happen because and it was crazy too that you see
Speaker 1: he you know, he makes his debut for the Mets
Speaker 1: in like sixty six. Yeah, and then he's you're all
Speaker 1: the way up through ninety three through a no hitter,
Speaker 1: what ninety two? It was like eighteen years in between
Speaker 1: no hitters or something. It was crazy, crazy numbers. I
Speaker 1: have a baseball card here, a Nolan Ryan baseball card,
Speaker 1: and it's it's him pounding Robin Ventura. So that's that's
Speaker 1: the baseball card there, and it's autographed here. The only
Speaker 1: unfortunate part of the documentary the about Nolan Ryan is
Speaker 1: that the end of it, they say Robin Ventura declined
Speaker 1: to be interviewed for it, Like, oh buddy, you can't
Speaker 1: still be salty about that. See, that's a little different
Speaker 1: than this sportsmanship we saw at the Little League World
Speaker 1: Series yesterday. Okay, which would you rather? Robin got hit
Speaker 1: and then he went out, and then he got pounded
Speaker 1: by Nolan Ryan. So they had it. There's a verly
Speaker 1: funny backst well. I don't want to give away the
Speaker 1: story about how that all came to pass the because
Speaker 1: it's in the documentary. It's a story I had never
Speaker 1: heard though, but apparently they had a It wasn't a bounty,
Speaker 1: but it was like if you get if Nolan Ryan
Speaker 1: hits you today, you get five hundred bucks if you
Speaker 1: storm the if you charge them mount Oh. And so
Speaker 1: Robin Ventura got hit and you can see he starts
Speaker 1: for a second and he's walking and then he takes off.
Speaker 1: He's like, I'll crap, I gotta go. I got I
Speaker 1: got the bet that we said that we would do it.
Speaker 1: Whoever gets hit would go. I did not know that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's I might have the details a little fuzzy, but
Speaker 1: it's basically like he didn't really want to go out there.
Speaker 1: He had to go out there because of his teammates.
Speaker 1: By the way, Robin Ventura is as nice a man
Speaker 1: as you'll ever meet. Chill I've known him since he
Speaker 1: was in college at Oklahoma State. Nolan Ryan maybe not
Speaker 1: as nice as Robin Ventura. It feels like Nolan would
Speaker 1: still want to buzz the tower, he'd want to hit you.
Speaker 1: At his age now he's probably seventy something. Yeah. See,
Speaker 1: they have another quote from Nolan Ryan in there, the
Speaker 1: story where's he's really struggling one day, right, and that
Speaker 1: he just doesn't have it, you know, and he's having
Speaker 1: one of those games where he just can't find the
Speaker 1: play it or whatever. And the manager comes walking out
Speaker 1: and he's like, hey, Nolan, how you feeling or whatever.
Speaker 1: He's like, well, I'm feeling a hell of a lot
Speaker 1: better than whenever you're thinking of bringing in from the bullpen,
Speaker 1: So why don't you get the hell off my mounds.
Speaker 1: I'm a lot better than whatever the hell you're thinking
Speaker 1: about bringing in. So once you get off my mound,
Speaker 1: I can't imagine being the manager or pitching coach. Where
Speaker 1: you gotta go You know, you have to go out there,
Speaker 1: but you don't want to go out there because you
Speaker 1: don't know more than he does. And you gotta go
Speaker 1: out there and say, hey, how you feeling. Hey, you know,
Speaker 1: you gotta feels like you're you're not bending your back,
Speaker 1: you're not getting down low enough or something. Yeah, Paul,
Speaker 1: the Nolan Ryan stats are really silly. He had two
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty two complete games in his career. For
Speaker 1: to Ki reference, clayt Heirsha, who's a fantastic pitcher pitcher
Speaker 1: of his generation, has twenty five complete games in his career.
Speaker 1: Nolan Ryan, his last five years in the Bigs after
Speaker 1: age forty were better than his first five years. Well,
Speaker 1: he was a relief pitcher with the Mets. The Mets
Speaker 1: had such a great rotation that Nolan and that was
Speaker 1: the Jim for Goosie trade where for Goosie was traded
Speaker 1: for Nolan Ryan, I believe. But he was a real
Speaker 1: leaf pitcher for the match they won the World Series
Speaker 1: in sixty nine. But they had Kusman Matt Lock and
Speaker 1: they had Tom Seaver and I think Gentry was the
Speaker 1: other starter on that team. So he couldn't He couldn't
Speaker 1: break the rotation at the time, but he threw extremely hard.
Speaker 1: He just was wild. Didn't get it over the play.
Speaker 1: He never won the cy Young Yes, Ton So Robin
Speaker 1: Ventura couldn't make himself available for this Nolan Ryan documentary.
Speaker 1: But Bill Buckner can like take pictures and sign things
Speaker 1: with Mukie Wilson. Granted they made some money off of that,
Speaker 1: but how could you? How could venture and not just
Speaker 1: take a few minutes to be part of this? When
Speaker 1: Bill Buckner is willing to sign things of the ball
Speaker 1: going through his legs with Mookie after they lose the
Speaker 1: World Series, I reach out to Bill Buckner. So this
Speaker 1: is nineteen eighty six, and I said, I want to
Speaker 1: come up and I want to sit down and do
Speaker 1: an interview with you. And he didn't want to, and
Speaker 1: I said, no, I want to. I want to humanized this.
Speaker 1: And he didn't understand what I was saying by humanizing,
Speaker 1: and I said, I want I want people to see
Speaker 1: the person and they forget that you had like twenty
Speaker 1: eight hundred hits in his career. If not for bad knees,
Speaker 1: Buckner would have had three thousand hits. He was a
Speaker 1: fast player, He was a great athlete. He was a
Speaker 1: wonderful player. So I go up to Boston and he
Speaker 1: started telling this heartbreaking story about the abuse his sun
Speaker 1: got in school and that he was going to move
Speaker 1: and he eventually moved to I think It's Star Idaho,
Speaker 1: and Billy passed away. But I just remember I said
Speaker 1: to him, you know that he was there to answer
Speaker 1: every question after that error that cost them the World Series.
Speaker 1: He sat there. I can tell you where he was
Speaker 1: in the locker room, and I was. I walked in there,
Speaker 1: and he sat there and answered every single question. And
Speaker 1: I can say the same thing about Mitch Williams when
Speaker 1: he gave up the home run to Joe Carter. Mitch
Speaker 1: sat there and answered every question. I went to do
Speaker 1: an interview with Mitch that summer or that winter after
Speaker 1: he gave up the home run to Joe Carter. So
Speaker 1: I wanted to show sort of, Joe Carter hit the
Speaker 1: home run, here's his life. Mitch Williams gave up the
Speaker 1: home run. Here's his life. And Mitch said, look, it's baseball.
Speaker 1: I threw it, he hit it. He was the better man.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's how he rationalized it. He didn't go out.
Speaker 1: I cost my team the World Series as much as
Speaker 1: give credit to Joe he hit the home run. But
Speaker 1: I'll never forget going into Joe Carter's kitchen because I said,
Speaker 1: where's the baseball, Joe? And he goes, it's right there
Speaker 1: in the in the drawer. It was a junk draw
Speaker 1: I go, come on, no, no, where's the home run ball.
Speaker 1: I opened the drawer, the cabinet and there was the baseball,
Speaker 1: and I went, you know, you've got forks and knives
Speaker 1: and you know, take out menus, and there is one
Speaker 1: of the most important baseball artifacts in history. It's like
Speaker 1: a bunch of batteries and oh, nobody's gonna look in
Speaker 1: the drawer. They're like, hey, let's break into Joe Carter's
Speaker 1: house and steal the baseball. They'd never look in that drawer.
Speaker 1: Just you open a drawer and the ball starts rolling
Speaker 1: out and I go, I see what are you doing
Speaker 1: on He goes, I don't know. I just put it
Speaker 1: in there, autographed it from my wife. Yeah. The funny
Speaker 1: thing is he keeps old Scotch tape and soy sauce packets.
Speaker 1: That's safe downstairs. It's very odd. Take a break back
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Speaker 1: only on Peacock from the Charlotte Observer. Baker Mayfield establishing
Speaker 1: himself as the clear QB one. Now. I also heard
Speaker 1: about this that maybe Carolina is exploring trading their other quarterback,
Speaker 1: but Baker Mayfield is getting most of the reps here.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if Sam Darnold is going to
Speaker 1: be traded, but I think that there is that possibility
Speaker 1: of if you're Sam Darnold, you say, look, if I'm
Speaker 1: not going to start, you know you got backup quarterbacks here.
Speaker 1: You drafted somebody Matt Carroll. Maybe I can find a
Speaker 1: new home. But that Baker Mayfield establishing himself as QB
Speaker 1: one in Carolina. Imagine if it was the other way around,
Speaker 1: how do you think that would go? I think Sam
Speaker 1: Darnold might be wired a little better to be in
Speaker 1: a backup than Baker Mayfield would be. But Sam, and
Speaker 1: Sam's not very old. What's Sam twenty five? I still can't.
Speaker 1: That's one of those where you go what happened? It
Speaker 1: almost felt like he was so hot the one year
Speaker 1: at USC. Then he stayed one more year and felt
Speaker 1: like he regressed, and then that's when the scouts started
Speaker 1: picking him apart and his but his draft profile was
Speaker 1: he was the safe pick. Felt like, but he was
Speaker 1: going to the Jets. I think he got jets and
Speaker 1: uh jets. And what's the update on the poll results? Are? Seaton?
Speaker 1: Update on the poll results? Good question? Right, find some
Speaker 1: time here. Let me go to Josh and Texas. Hi, Josh,
Speaker 1: what's on your mind today? Hey? What a DP about
Speaker 1: second time? Long time six one one set? He thought? So?
Speaker 1: First of all, shout out to Shane Irving U. The
Speaker 1: thing I want to say is like regarding, you know, um,
Speaker 1: the whole Deshaun Watson thing with Stephen Ross, you know,
Speaker 1: potentially campering with TV twelve Deshaun Watson not just coming
Speaker 1: out and admitting, you know, hey, I have an issue,
Speaker 1: I need some help, I need blah blah blah. We'll
Speaker 1: never get those answers for a long time from anybody.
Speaker 1: I was listening to Pro Football Talk this morning before
Speaker 1: your show, and Mike Floria was going off on a
Speaker 1: tangent when Chris Simms arguing about, you know, why did
Speaker 1: Sean McVay lie about contract extension? All three situations are
Speaker 1: correlated with lawyers. They read the paperwork. They're all advised
Speaker 1: to keep your mouth shut and or lie because you
Speaker 1: are innocent until proven guilty, you know. And so that's
Speaker 1: that's why Deshaun Watson, you know, whether he does or
Speaker 1: doesn't have an issue, which clearly seems he does, it's
Speaker 1: it's just a thing that they're advised to do by
Speaker 1: somebody who no, no, I understand it. We talked about,
Speaker 1: thank you, Josh, if he had been honest. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying that's what he should have done. Well, I mean,
Speaker 1: he's got to do it under the advisement of a
Speaker 1: lawyer here. But I'm wondering, could this have been over
Speaker 1: a long time ago, would we think differently of Deshaun Watson.
Speaker 1: He hasn't even admitted he as a problem. The judge
Speaker 1: said this was predatorial behavior. The commissioner said that he
Speaker 1: says he's gotten treatment. Is he still getting treatment treatment for?
Speaker 1: What if you don't have a problem, What are you
Speaker 1: getting treatment for? If you weren't guilty? Why'd you settle?
Speaker 1: I don't get this, and that's why he's gonna get
Speaker 1: a season of punishment here. They're going to suspend him
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