WEBVTT - Walter Payton-Last Dance reaction, how the 2020 NFL draft will work, and group text rules defined. 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:04.520 Welcome to Good Calls with Dean Blandina, a production about Hardway. 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:15.040 What's up, Dean Blandino? Another episode of Good Calls? As always, 0:00:15.040 --> 0:00:18.239 I'm joined by the man in the mydth the legend 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:22.800 the Caucasian Rattlesnake himself getting thrown up symbols. I don't 0:00:22.800 --> 0:00:25.919 know what those handiestues are. It's three three, it's week 0:00:26.000 --> 0:00:30.040 thirty three already, Oh good show. Thirty three of the 0:00:30.080 --> 0:00:35.160 show Travis Hansen, Sha Roughty by Larry Bird, Oh nice, 0:00:35.440 --> 0:00:39.120 famous thirty three's we can do that? The problem that 0:00:40.560 --> 0:00:48.320 actually so I think this is episode thirty four. It's shock, 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:53.600 it's not Larry byrd. You know what, that's a good idea. 0:00:54.400 --> 0:00:58.600 Let's let's label each episode by a famous athlete with 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:01.880 that number. Basically, once we get to ninety nine, we're 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:03.240 not gonna be able to do it, but we can 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:07.839 at least get to ninety nine. I know who's obviously 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:11.160 we we can get to Wayne Gretzky. All right, let's 0:01:11.280 --> 0:01:14.280 let's make it the goal is to get to Wayne Gretzky. 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:16.360 Al right, So this is episode on the Tew years 0:01:16.319 --> 0:01:19.360 of the show. Who's Your Who's Your Most Famous? Thirty 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:24.400 four looking, I'm looking it up shout before right, you're 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:28.240 showing not three, right, Yeah, but I think we might 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:31.320 have skipped one. Joe might be right. It's not just 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:35.160 the audio guy. He can count too. I'm so good accounting. 0:01:36.440 --> 0:01:39.240 I love the optimistic message behind you, Jail. Better days 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:42.360 are coming. Speaking of better days are coming, let's talk 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:50.680 about the current situation, the current environment, Travis updates, cancelations, Hopefully, 0:01:51.040 --> 0:01:54.280 hopefully pretty soon we'll be talking about and I know 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:56.760 we've got a couple of updates, will be talking about 0:01:56.840 --> 0:01:59.120 when things are going to start up again. That's the goal, 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:02.480 all right. So what's happening around the world of sports 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:04.800 right now? Yeah? I feel free to jump in here 0:02:04.800 --> 0:02:07.680 at any time. UM. The first one we talked about 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:09.720 a few weeks ago, the Spelling Bees canceled first time 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:13.880 since nineteen UM at the sporting event. And then something 0:02:13.919 --> 0:02:18.399 that a lot of people watch and disappointing, UM one 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:21.040 that was here in l A. I'm just that is 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:28.560 it feels very draconian. It's my spelling words. Don't ask 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:35.440 Joe or I to spell anything that's obviously could put 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:40.000 The Spelling Bees could put World Series of Poker's postponed 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:43.920 um from May July fifteenth. I know Joe is a 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:46.760 big online poker player, right, Joe, you played a lot. 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:49.280 I guess they couldn't figure out a way to do 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:52.200 that online. Obviously people play online poker all the time, 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:57.519 but I guess that's not something that they could, you know, reasonably, 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:01.519 you know, do It wasn't feasible. I guess another story 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:04.799 that caught my Taylor Swift concert at so Far, which 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:07.800 is supposed to be the the kickoff event is uh 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:12.679 has been canceled. That was set for July. So it's 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:17.359 getting closer to that NFL season that we'll talk about later. Um. 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:20.880 A Japanese disease expert was I was talking about the 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:23.919 Olympics next summer, saying the very pessimistic that he thinks 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:26.360 that would happen. And then I saw another story that 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:30.920 people are having a conflict the IOC and and Japan 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:33.959 are having a little uh dispute over who's gonna pay 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:36.960 for all the postponent They saying it's gonna be like 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:39.400 two billions, two to six billions and postponed it for 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:43.600 a year. So yeah, pretty wild stuff going on there. 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:48.400 Sad one uh. The baseball back company Louisville Sluggers closing 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:52.440 down the factory for loan employees because no baseball. There 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:55.040 could be baseball coming up. We're gonna talk about that later. 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:59.040 Maybe possible. UM three cities going to be hosting hosting 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:02.960 baseball games. We hope that will happen. And uh, interesting 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:05.040 one year with the draft coming up here this week, 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:07.400 the w n b A with the most draft, most 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:10.480 watch draft in the sixteen years and the second most 0:04:10.520 --> 0:04:13.880 watch ever on ESPN. Yeah, I mean that makes sense. 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:16.880 I mean people are home there their star for sports. Obviously, 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:20.240 the w NBA draft, I would imagine that that is 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:23.960 not a ratings bonanza. Nothing against w n b A, 0:04:24.040 --> 0:04:26.520 It's just not something that right that that people are 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:30.720 gonna are gonna watch, um, you know, in large numbers. 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:33.960 And and that obviously makes sense. And I was excited 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:37.000 by New York Liberty getting the uh, the first pick 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:41.080 and getting um, what's her name, Caruscoe or and she 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:43.920 she was the first pick. She played at Oregon. She's 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:48.080 his absolute stud. And uh, I feel like the Liberty 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:50.560 are gonna, you know, at least one New York basketball 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:53.240 team is going to be successful in the near future. 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:58.200 Thinking of the New York basketball team. Um, I feel 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:01.560 like you didn't want to watched The Last Dance. That 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:04.280 was the most viewed doc on the at the N 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:06.680 and the history. They're like, I want to talk about 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:08.200 that a little bit mean, I want to hear why 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:13.000 you don't want to watch it. So obviously, the Last Dance, 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:16.960 this has been hyped, even before coronavirus. This was hyped. 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:18.960 This was gonna be, you know, one of the ESPN's 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:22.880 bigger productions and an unbelievable and I'm sure it was 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:24.599 one of the highest rating things. Like you said, it 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:28.000 was the highest rated dot on on ESPN All about right, 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:31.919 A ten part series about Michael Jordan and the Bulls 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:36.320 during that that run of championships. So here's the thing 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:43.040 I have. I have made peace with Michael Jordan's recently. 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:48.200 And then we're I'm talking about years, We're talking about months. Okay, 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:50.760 I hated Michael Jordan. There was a time when I 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:53.719 hated Michael Jordan more than anyone on the planet or 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:57.560 the history of the Earth. He hated him with a passion. 0:05:57.640 --> 0:06:01.560 This was obviously I was younger, I'm a Nicks and um, 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:04.160 the Nicks during that time, you know, late eighties or 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:08.080 early nineties, they were They were an up and coming team. 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:10.880 They put together a good core. Obviously with Patrick Ewing 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:13.840 draft lottery. Winning that lottery and getting you Ing, that 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:16.120 was kind of the kickstart. And they put together a 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:20.000 really good team that it felt like every year the 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:22.159 Bulls were the ones that were beating them and knocking 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:24.920 them out of the playoffs. And and I had such 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:28.279 a hatred for Michael Jordan. And let me preface that 0:06:28.320 --> 0:06:31.360 by saying, he's the greatest basketball player of all time. 0:06:31.800 --> 0:06:35.880 I don't care who you know, Mr Lakers guy over there. Uh, 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:38.200 and we'll talk about the game that was on the 0:06:38.200 --> 0:06:43.160 other day. But Kobe, no Lebron, no Wilt, Kareem, Magic, 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:46.719 Larry Bird, They're all up there. But Michael Jordan is 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:49.039 at the top. He's the greatest player to ever play. 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:53.000 So I'll give him that. But I hated him with 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:56.039 such a passion. I thought he was a despicable human being. 0:06:56.520 --> 0:06:59.159 Maybe that was all on my head. I created that 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:02.839 because of what he did to the Knicks. And I've 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:07.200 recently come to peace with Michael Jordan's and I even 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:11.400 got my first pair of Jordan's. Joe helped me purchase those. 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:15.120 That was what Joe a couple of months ago. I 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:21.080 never I've refused to give anything to that. That whole 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:26.559 industry I hate with a passion. So I am. I'm 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:29.480 a much better Kindler Jetler right now, and I'm in 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:33.120 a better place, you know, through therapy and and everything else. 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:35.360 And I was the place. Yeah, I was gonna say, 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:37.720 how much have you spent in therapy getting about Michael 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:40.880 Jordan's Like can you say any of the self self evaluation, 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:44.920 self therapy and just going through it, And I think 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:49.240 it may have helped just having a child as son 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:52.720 that is interested in plays basketball and wanted to learn 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:57.040 about Michael Jordan in the history. Look, that was that 0:07:57.200 --> 0:07:59.760 was my time, you know, growing up watching the NBA 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:02.280 are in the eighties and the nineties, and that was 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:04.120 what I fell in love with the n B A 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:07.560 was during that time. And he was obviously, um the 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:11.040 greatest player, like I said, but I hated, hated, hated him, 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:12.960 and I don't want to go back to a place 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:16.600 of hate. I'm all about love and peace and harmony. 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:20.200 And if I watched that documentary, I'm gonna become a bitter, 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:23.080 bitter person. I don't want to do it, So that's 0:08:23.080 --> 0:08:26.560 why I'm not watching. That's fair enough. I watched the 0:08:26.600 --> 0:08:29.400 first two episodes and I thought they were great. I 0:08:29.800 --> 0:08:32.319 was a huge Michael Jordan fan as a kid. Um 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:35.240 they I think he saved the NBA. Like for me, 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:37.320 I did. I stopped watching the NBA after that ninety 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:40.199 eight season when Jordan left, I left the NBA too, 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:44.080 And and to me, he's definitely the greatest player, and 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:46.120 there's no question about it. He changed the game. He 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:48.160 made it what the game is today. He made it 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:51.760 so these guys are making these huge guaranteed salons. Let's 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:55.600 not get crazy. Let's not get crazy that Michael Jordan 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:57.439 made the game what it is today because there was 0:08:57.480 --> 0:08:59.959 a bunch of guys before Jordan came into the lead. 0:09:00.720 --> 0:09:03.120 And many people will say that it was magic like 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:08.000 that that made the NBA the modern NBA what it is, 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:11.440 and those Celtics teams and those Lakers teams while Jordan 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:14.440 was still you know, getting cut from his see your 0:09:14.440 --> 0:09:17.280 brain out the hate. You're bringing out the hate. We 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:19.319 don't have a debate show. I don't want to want 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:22.240 to do it. Here. You said you liked it. You 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:25.240 started blowing smoke up his ass and now I'm starting 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:28.360 to hate again, and this is why I won't watch it. 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:30.679 Now I'm now I'm fired up, and I don't want 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:33.640 to do that. I like it. I decided, being in 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:37.040 a while, this is good. So but the thing about it, though, 0:09:37.080 --> 0:09:40.040 which I think is good for everyone, is it felt 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:43.800 like the last Dance. Um. It was it was like 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:46.120 a big sporting event that everybody could watch. Because now 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:49.840 people are watching. Everybody's on Netflix or Hulu or Amazon 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:53.400 Prime and they're not watching at the same time and 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:56.840 just being on social media, it felt like everybody was watching. 0:09:56.840 --> 0:09:59.760 It was like like sixteen million people watching. Yeah, and 0:09:59.840 --> 0:10:02.560 it was like this, you know, it's that common. You know, 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:05.840 everybody watches a big playoff game. You know, everybody watches 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:08.880 Thursday night football, or everybody watches a bowl game, and 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:12.200 everybody can come in and and and exchange on social media. 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:15.960 So from that aspect, I thought it was really cool. Um, 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:18.040 but again I don't I don't need to. I don't 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:19.600 need to go back to a dark place. It's like 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:23.640 it's like if you if you got me, you know, 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:27.520 gave me a wife beater and a gold chain and 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:30.600 played some freestyle music that would take me back to 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:33.720 a dark place of my past and my you know, 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:36.320 we can we talk about that more, what happened there, 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:39.679 and if you if you did that to me, I 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:45.680 would absolutely fall back into an abyss. And and I 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:51.120 don't mean an abyss as like a chasm of despair. 0:10:51.160 --> 0:10:54.160 It's actually a club in Jersey. It's Guido Club called 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:56.920 the Abyss, and they play amazing music and that's where 0:10:56.920 --> 0:10:58.680 I would go back to. So I don't want to 0:10:58.679 --> 0:11:03.920 do that. So Guido Michael Jordan's that's the nineties for me, 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:07.640 and I don't want to go back there. Can I 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:10.600 get on record that we're we are taking a trip 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:13.320 to the Jersey Shore when all this is done, Like, 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:15.520 I just want to experience it, you know what I'm 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:19.640 going to them? I did, I did agree to that 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:22.640 and I will. I will follow through on that. So 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:26.280 when this is all over, hopefully we have one weekend 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:28.520 in the summer, because the Jersey Shore is a summer thing, 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:32.680 and I will take you to Belmart, New Jersey, UM 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:36.040 Point Plus in New Jersey. That's those are our hangouts 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:39.000 and we we got houses every summer and we'll hit 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:42.080 DJ's and we'll go to Jenkinson's on the boardwalk and 0:11:42.080 --> 0:11:46.319 and there's a whole bunch of places. It is amazing. 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:55.679 It you will, Travis. I would pay a million dollars 0:11:55.760 --> 0:11:58.880 to watch you in one of these clubs. It is 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:03.640 amazing and we're gonna have an amazing time. Single trap 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:07.080 probably have been better than married with children. Dad, It's yeah, 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:13.840 but still it's a good time. Will come out. It 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:16.400 is good. Like, yeah, I don't know if you you know, 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:19.920 dropkicking dudes on the boardwalk and flip flops is the 0:12:19.920 --> 0:12:26.920 way to go, but you know it. Yeah, Um, I'm 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:29.040 so excited that we got I'm just so excited that 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:31.839 we have this on record, Like I'm just I'm thrilled. 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:36.200 I'm excited. I'm gonna keep it on my phone. Let's 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:40.200 go back to so the news broke um this week 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:44.280 and the whole thing. Honestly, it just sucks. The XFL 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:47.719 stuff stocks it was. It was so much fun to 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:50.760 be a part of, and it was really doing well 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:55.520 and it was refreshing and it showed that spring football 0:12:55.600 --> 0:13:01.000 could work. And obviously everything with Corona and it just 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:04.480 Vince McMahon and I get it's a business decision, but 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:06.600 then the news dropped at Oliver Luck who was the 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:10.679 commissioner of the XFL, is suing Vince McMahon and um, 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:13.080 you know, just to see how this is gonna play out. 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:15.839 And I didn't realize Oliver had a contract guaranteed for 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:21.240 twenty million dollars and that's a big, big number and 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:27.280 you know, a huge and the way you know, I 0:13:27.320 --> 0:13:29.280 don't know. Look, I don't know all the details. I 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:31.600 don't know what happened, but it sounds like, you know, 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:36.880 the XFL they let Oliver go the day before, they 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:41.439 informed Oliver on a Thursday, and then that Friday morning, 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:44.800 they had a conference call with the entire staff and 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:47.160 they let them know. So Oliver they actually let go 0:13:47.240 --> 0:13:49.240 before that. And so I don't know if they were 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:51.880 setting that up to, you know, for some kind of 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:53.680 breach of contracts so they wouldn't have to pay it 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:55.400 out if he had guaranteed money, and there was some 0:13:55.440 --> 0:13:57.840 clauses and there. It's gonna be interesting to see how 0:13:57.920 --> 0:14:01.000 that plays out. But again, it just makes me. It's 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:03.720 just so sad. It's so sad that it came to that. 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:07.640 Whereas a little more than a month ago, you know, 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:10.839 we were you know, wrapping up the first half of 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:13.080 the season and thinking about the second half and thinking 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:17.080 about the postseason and the championship game, and everything was great, 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:21.760 and in such a short time, it just all it 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:24.400 all went down the drain, and it just kind of sucks. 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:31.040 Totally different. Pointing um major League Baseball. You mentioned Travis 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:34.080 you know, I was reading, and this is an interesting concept. 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:38.040 I think baseball is really and I like, I'm a 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:42.160 big fan. I've never met him, but just from watching 0:14:42.240 --> 0:14:44.640 him publicly and some of the things he said, I 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:47.560 like Rob Manfred. He seems like just like kind of 0:14:47.600 --> 0:14:51.200 like a down to earth regular guy, and he seems 0:14:51.240 --> 0:14:53.560 to be pretty transparent and open. And at this point 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:56.240 he said, look, we don't right now. We have ideas, 0:14:56.320 --> 0:14:59.280 we don't necessarily necessarily have concrete plans. And I think 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:02.720 that's real. That's you know, because who knows when it's 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:05.160 gonna be safe and these restrictions are going to be lifted. 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:10.840 But one of the plans or ideas that has now 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:16.880 been floated is a three state set up where you 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:20.240 divide the league into these three states, the three states 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:24.880 being Arizona, Florida, and Texas, and you play in the 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:28.280 stadiums in those states. All of those states have retractable 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:30.960 roof stadiums, so you can play you know, weather is 0:15:31.000 --> 0:15:34.200 not an issue, and you keep the teams you know, 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:37.120 in those areas, and then you play the games, you know, 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:40.600 a shortened season at this point. And uh, you know, 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:44.080 so that's been floated. And and obviously I've heard you know, 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:47.840 players like Mike Trapped play and Kershaw other guys have said, 0:15:48.120 --> 0:15:51.120 you know, they're not necessarily looking forward to being in 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:55.800 essence quarantined or quarantine away from their families and sequestered, 0:15:55.880 --> 0:15:58.800 you know, in some state, in some location away from 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:01.520 there there you know, the spouses and their children and 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:04.760 their loved ones. And I can understand that. But but 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:09.560 you know, the economics reality is is that these leagues, baseball, 0:16:09.720 --> 0:16:12.120 they got to start playing because it is going to 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:15.680 be a real hardship on on a lot of people 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:17.920 if they're not playing games. And that goes for the 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:21.560 other sports too. And again this is this is unlike 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:25.040 anything we've ever experienced in our lifetime, and um, it'll 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:27.600 be it'll be interesting to see how it all plays out. Hopefully, 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:29.040 you know, you just hope for the best, and like 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:32.920 Joe says, better days are coming. Speaking of baseball, though, 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:36.400 I would like to introduce a new segment. I don't 0:16:36.400 --> 0:16:38.800 know if you guys remember back in the day, it 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:42.000 was This Weekend Baseball. You remember This Weekend Baseball, the 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:48.760 show on Saturdays, the voice Bob Yucker. Yeah, there was 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:51.800 Joe Garrazola, there was others, but it used to be 0:16:51.840 --> 0:16:54.400 This Weekend Baseball and they would do like around the league. 0:16:54.720 --> 0:16:56.320 And I used to live for that, you know, as 0:16:56.360 --> 0:16:58.480 a little kid. And uh, and so what I want 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:00.840 to do is, since they're playing, and we talked about 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:04.280 them last week, and there's something newsworthy this week, it's 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:07.399 this week entire Neese Baseball. So that's gonna be the 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:10.119 new sentiment. So last week we talked about they were 0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:13.240 gonna play with cardboard cutouts. This week they had a 0:17:13.240 --> 0:17:17.000 bench clearing brawl. And did you watch the video of 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:20.800 the brawl? Oh my god, we could spend a whole 0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:24.440 episode talking about that ten minutes or whatever. It was. Yes, 0:17:25.040 --> 0:17:29.440 it was as far as baseball brawls go, it was bad. 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:35.480 It was not a good brawl, but we are starved 0:17:35.800 --> 0:17:39.680 for something. It was the most exciting thing I've ever seen. 0:17:39.760 --> 0:17:43.640 And even the announcers were like this is exciting, they 0:17:43.680 --> 0:17:47.360 were saying. And what was fascinating is that? So it 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:51.280 was it was It revolved around they had a protest 0:17:51.320 --> 0:17:55.720 about a back. The one team protested the other team 0:17:55.760 --> 0:17:58.879 was using an illegal back. I don't know what the 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:01.879 rule is, but obviously it probably has to do with 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:06.119 you remember the famous George Brett pine right. So the 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:08.360 bat didn't have pinet are on it, so I would 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:14.280 imagine it's something to do with the diameter or the 0:18:14.480 --> 0:18:20.040 type of wood. I don't know, but they they protested 0:18:20.080 --> 0:18:25.000 this bat. The umpires looked at it. They were communicating 0:18:25.200 --> 0:18:28.120 with someone outside of the umpiring group, and they determined 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:31.240 that the bat was legal. So I guess the guy 0:18:31.480 --> 0:18:34.600 that was protesting the bat. The next time he gets 0:18:34.680 --> 0:18:38.600 up the picture, just threw four straight balls, and like 0:18:38.880 --> 0:18:43.680 each one got increasingly and it was like, Okay, this 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:48.080 one's inside, this one's more inside, this one's more inside 0:18:48.160 --> 0:18:52.199 than the catcher and the bench. The dugout and the 0:18:52.240 --> 0:18:55.679 batter started getting into it. And then the last one 0:18:55.720 --> 0:18:58.719 he just hit him perfectly right in the pocket, like 0:18:58.960 --> 0:19:01.080 right in the right in the mind, right in the pocket. 0:19:01.760 --> 0:19:03.479 And then it wasn't that you should hit a guy 0:19:03.480 --> 0:19:08.840 if you're a guy. It's if you hit him, you 0:19:09.200 --> 0:19:11.800 hit him below the neck. You don't go anywhere near 0:19:11.840 --> 0:19:14.200 the head, and you aim for the middle of the body, 0:19:14.440 --> 0:19:17.240 you know, And and that's what you do. Even it's tough. 0:19:17.280 --> 0:19:18.760 You don't want to hit somebody in the ribs. You 0:19:18.760 --> 0:19:20.479 can break a rip knock somebody out, But if you're 0:19:20.480 --> 0:19:22.960 gonna hit somebody the good meaty part of the thigh 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:25.680 or the butt, that's gonna be the best best way 0:19:25.680 --> 0:19:27.440 to do it. So it was a perfect bean ball. 0:19:28.160 --> 0:19:30.879 And then it kind of it wasn't It wasn't like 0:19:30.880 --> 0:19:34.360 to throw your helmet charge him. Yeah, there was no charge, 0:19:35.160 --> 0:19:38.439 and they just kind of got together. But it was 0:19:38.760 --> 0:19:44.119 very like it was very like sophisticated and and civilized, 0:19:44.240 --> 0:19:47.359 and there wasn't There was one push the picture pushed 0:19:47.359 --> 0:19:49.439 the one guy, but that was it. And what was 0:19:49.600 --> 0:19:54.400 fascinating the announcers are like, this doesn't happen in Taiwanese baseball. 0:19:54.600 --> 0:19:57.040 They don't, he said, they don't argue with the umpires. 0:19:57.520 --> 0:20:01.840 He said, they don't. They don't. They have bench clearing stuff. 0:20:02.600 --> 0:20:05.919 And what was so funny is that that's happening. And 0:20:05.960 --> 0:20:10.159 then you're watching the cardboard cutouts in the stands and 0:20:10.240 --> 0:20:12.880 you're just seeing the people. And they didn't even they 0:20:12.880 --> 0:20:16.160 didn't even put like there was literally, from what I saw, 0:20:16.640 --> 0:20:20.359 like maybe eight cardboard cutouts in the entire stadium. Right, 0:20:20.400 --> 0:20:23.359 they showed the whole white shot the stadium EMPY, so 0:20:23.400 --> 0:20:25.560 it just looks crazy and weird. And they put our 0:20:25.880 --> 0:20:30.040 three behind the backstop and there's just these three random 0:20:30.080 --> 0:20:33.879 people cardboard cutouts. So that's what's happening this week, and 0:20:33.920 --> 0:20:37.240 Time with These Baseball will be back next week, Travis, 0:20:37.240 --> 0:20:39.720 and we're gonna go through the teams. We're gonna do 0:20:39.760 --> 0:20:42.199 a whole one on one the teams. One of the 0:20:42.200 --> 0:20:45.840 teams was the Monkeys, right, the Monkeys, I don't know 0:20:45.880 --> 0:20:48.240 what the other team was, but we're gonna do The 0:20:48.280 --> 0:20:51.639 mascots were going, we're doing it. They had a guy 0:20:51.760 --> 0:20:54.320 like zip lining. So next week we're gonna do a 0:20:54.320 --> 0:20:57.439 full rundown and for all the listeners, you're gonna you're 0:20:57.440 --> 0:21:03.080 gonna get into Time with These Baseball. And then lastly, positive, positive, positive, 0:21:03.520 --> 0:21:06.159 um the PGA Tour is going to start in June, 0:21:06.520 --> 0:21:09.720 and and so you know, I looked at the schedule 0:21:09.840 --> 0:21:13.120 and it's gonna be obviously a condensed schedule. I don't 0:21:13.160 --> 0:21:16.520 think that the majors. It looks like the p G 0:21:16.680 --> 0:21:20.520 A Championship is the only major on the schedule. And 0:21:20.560 --> 0:21:23.560 I don't know if they're if they're using other tournaments 0:21:23.600 --> 0:21:26.760 for majors, but um, look it makes sense. I know, 0:21:27.040 --> 0:21:29.880 you know, I was talking to Mike Prayer the other 0:21:29.960 --> 0:21:32.399 day and the golf course Mike is a big golfer, 0:21:32.400 --> 0:21:35.080 and the golf course at the club that he goes 0:21:35.080 --> 0:21:38.280 to in Sacramento, it's open. And he says, you know, 0:21:38.359 --> 0:21:41.040 the club shop the club, the club isn't open. The 0:21:41.080 --> 0:21:43.560 shop isn't open. Um, you have to you know, you 0:21:43.560 --> 0:21:45.920 have to be six ft away from from the nearest person. 0:21:46.119 --> 0:21:48.520 But you can go out and play, and it makes sense. 0:21:48.560 --> 0:21:51.720 The golf is, you know, you're not in large groups, 0:21:52.000 --> 0:21:54.960 you don't you know, there's obviously gonna gonna be no spectators. 0:21:56.240 --> 0:22:00.159 And I really I've never been to a professional golf mean, 0:22:00.840 --> 0:22:03.960 you know, Joe, you you went to UH Waste Management 0:22:04.000 --> 0:22:07.199 in January. I always felt like golf was more of 0:22:07.200 --> 0:22:11.840 a TV sport anyway. But you know, you guys might disagree, 0:22:12.320 --> 0:22:14.520 but I think it'll be it'll be good to have 0:22:14.640 --> 0:22:19.200 something back Joe, you raped about Wate many but you 0:22:19.240 --> 0:22:20.720 said it a lot of fun. I've never gone to 0:22:20.880 --> 0:22:25.439 golf live barely. It wasn't really actual golf tournament. It 0:22:25.520 --> 0:22:28.760 was just but waste. That's the one in Phoenix that's 0:22:28.760 --> 0:22:33.399 super Bowl weekend. It's not about the golf necessarily. People 0:22:33.480 --> 0:22:37.040 get dressed up. There's what is it the sixteen Green 0:22:37.240 --> 0:22:42.000 or whatever it is, like everybody there's a grand stand. Um, 0:22:42.040 --> 0:22:45.560 it's a big party. And I've never been to that event, 0:22:45.600 --> 0:22:48.959 but I've been to the Super Bowl in Phoenix, and 0:22:49.000 --> 0:22:52.679 so I've been to after parties where people from the 0:22:52.760 --> 0:22:55.000 from the golf tournament were there, and obviously people for 0:22:55.000 --> 0:22:57.160 the super Bowl were there. And you see these people 0:22:57.160 --> 0:22:59.399 in these colorful outfits. And I know that you know, 0:22:59.520 --> 0:23:03.240 Joe was raving. Um, the sites are very there's there's 0:23:03.359 --> 0:23:06.280 quite a lot of good sites, if you know what 0:23:06.320 --> 0:23:10.160 I mean. At the point, there's a lot of stuff 0:23:10.160 --> 0:23:13.360 to look at. There's a lot of attractive people at 0:23:13.400 --> 0:23:16.639 the at the golf course. Is why they ask you 0:23:16.800 --> 0:23:19.360 what else you got? What else we got? I'm gonna 0:23:19.400 --> 0:23:22.040