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Welcome to part of my take. Today is Wednesday, October 18th, and the Phillies are fucking good.

They just had another solo home run, probably.

Probably.

It's just that's what they do. And I was thinking that the other night when I was watching the Phillies game, it was like, they sure hit a lot of solo home runs, don't they? And I had no idea that tonight. They set a postseason record, they hit 13 straight solo home runs. They've hit 19 home runs in the last four games, they've hit 15 home runs. So, the all-time record for homers in a playoff, it was the Tampa Bay Rays in 2020, with 34 home runs in those playoffs. These Phillies are on pace to destroy that record.

Most leadoff postseason home runs all time.

Yeah, and it just seems like every time I look at the Phillies play, they've hit four home runs and they're up 4-0.

It's insane, they all are just trading who's gonna get hot? Like last year, he Schwarber didn't hit any, he's hit what? Three in two games? It feels like Cassianos is the first game in weeks that he hasn't hit two home runs. Bryce Harper, Trey Turner, all these guys, it's crazy.

Yeah, it's nice. I like to pitch clock. Going back to the bank, that's where the D, that's where the D backs are going to their bank.

We should, we should ask Max, because Max, I mean, you don't really have, you're not angry, there's nothing to be angry about. I guess credit to you again, cause you were right about the Castellanos barrel up in game two against the Braves. He then went on an insane streak. I guess you were also right to save all your energies and and and let the Eagles lose to the jets so that you could, you know, be ready for these two games. How are you feeling?

Yeah, I mean, right, today was just taking care of business. It's not even you're getting excited early in the game, but now you're just you're just watching your boys get the reps in.

You're wasting, yeah.

But this team doesn't, that doesn't exist. Oh yeah, they just keep hitting no max, it does.

You're wasting.

I guess, well, big cat. The good news is they're not really wasting runs because all their home runs are solo shots, yeah, so they might be wasting homers.

They're, they're wasting rally killers.

Yeah.

So that's a good.

How about you play some small ball, Max, get some guys on base and then drive them in? I mean, the last inning, they they had nine guys come to the plate, or the sixth, or I don't know, yeah.

It was a pretty good inning. There's batting around and then and then, yeah, the Rangers. I was shocked to see them go and take two from the Astros.

No, it wouldn't happen, it wouldn't happen, it'd be a real shame.

Real shame.

Real shame It'd be a real shame if they got swept, but no, they're not going to get swept. Okay, have you seen their lineup?

Yeah, I mean, it's, it's very good, Max. You have home advantage in the World Series against Who a whomst the Astros not.

The Rangers, Oh.

Oh, so, you're already thinking about the World series?

No, would you ask the question? Okay, I answered it well, you had to have thought of that.

That's fine.

I knew that I knew that answer before the series even started. You gotta, you gotta be prepared for all situations. There's still a lot of baseball we played left. We, you know, the series doesn't start until a road team wins a game.

Good point.

Billy's took care of business at home.

That's true, that's a fact.

So so you, you would rather play the Rangers, but you'd rather have home field advantage, so which is it? I? You play who you play, you know, no, but you can answer which team you'd rather play. Max, I would rather play the Rangers.

Oh, okay, so Max wants the Rangers? You're that scared of the Astros? I guess you did get no hit by them.

There was zero hits in a game.

I am.

I was at the bank though, big cat, that was, that was different.

That's true. Is there a chance that Kyle Schwarzer might become like the most beloved athlete of all time if he plays for enough teams?

Yeah, he's awesome.

He's, he's there. It's rare that you have a guy and I. He left under different circumstances to each team. You know, I think he was a free agent when he left the Nationals and the Red Sox. Obviously the the Cubs just wouldn't pay him, which was ridiculous even at the time. But it was a situation where it's like, how could you not love the guy? And then he goes to Philly and he's beloved.

Yeah, or go play in Japan, like after his M.L.B. career is over, make them love him too.

He's got deceiving speed, cause he's slower than he looks.

Yeah.

I felt it on that. He's like, Wait, do I have to fight big guy right now?

Well, I thought you were going to say, he's faster than he looks, and I was like, Yes, he is.

No, he is pretty.

That man can.

He is faster than he looks.

Yeah, but it's a it it. It sounds like we're sucking off the Phillies cause we are, cause they're too old. And I do think that most people that are objectively watching these games are having fun watching the Phillies like they are. They're without a doubt the, uh, the funnest team in baseball right now. And between Schwarber, the rest of the guys hitting taters and then, um, Trey Turner slides are just incredible.

Yeah, it's fun and the atmosphere is fun, and I'm sure the Rangers will be. It'll be fun on a Wednesday night when they go home.

Up to, Oh, I would like to nitpick one thing about the Phillies, though. I broached this with Max earlier, but I was watching the celebration after they advanced against the Braves. If you're Bryce Harper and you don't drink, are you allowed to be pouring beer on people in celebration? Like I would, I would be having a great time in the clubhouse, but then you've got Bryce Harper. Mormon doesn't touch the stuff, but he's pouring it all over me. That doesn't feel right to me.

He, yeah, he's the sober dude hitting on drunk chicks at the bar, you know? Yeah, okay.

Well, no, like drunk, but not, you know, buzz chicks, yeah.

No, I'm not, I mean, they're standing at the bar, I'm not. Yeah, Max went somewhere totally different.

Well, I just want to make sure that we're not saying any bad things about one of the greatest players ever played.

We're not.

And a great guy.

I think he should have to, he should have to. Pour like, mountain dew on people.

Yeah, yeah, ginger ale. Maybe that would piss people off so much if you just got Mountain Dew Club soda with a lime in it. So no one can really tell.

It's probably he probably gets like a contact buzz, you know? Like, if you've ever been in, like, if you ever partied in, like a, uh, like, college basement. And like, the fumes can get you drunk, that's probably what's going on.

I think, honestly, Bryce Harper, probably like, I could never do what Bryce does, which is hang around drunk people and have a great time if you're sober. That's actually the worst. That's my idea of hell, yeah.

You got to leave once they start getting drunk and they, like, want to have a conversation with you about life.

Yeah, exactly a conversation that you would absolutely love to have if you had six cocktails in you. But when you're stone, cold, sober, no, thank you, but yeah, yeah. Credit to Bryce.

Yeah, um, all right, other things. Monday night football, Justin Herbert debate rages on.

Yeah, yeah, the, uh, the charges often to look pretty bad. When Herbert was not only just missing throws, but he was also just going to the wrong guy, he was trying to force throws when he, when he had easier options. Open seat. I think Justin Herbert is actually him and Dak are not that dissimilar.

Well, I've also I've thought way too much about Justin Herbert, because I still think he's very good. Um, I think Justin Herbert's problem might be that. He came in to the league very good and like, polished and ready to go, and he hasn't really gone like the next full level. You know what I mean, like he, he's just always been very good.

Yeah, like it wasn't like back to what I was saying. Which is like, because of the fact that he came in pretty good, everyone's expectations went way up, yeah.

They expected that every year we get significantly better. And maybe he's just a pretty good quarterback, probably better than pretty good. I would take him like someone was like, Would you trade the number one pick for Justin Herbert? in a fucking heartbeat? I would.

He's top 10.

And what did we say? When he runs, things happen like he started running a little more. I know he's been scared to run ever since he broke his leg. But when he runs in the defense, gives him places to run, he can unlock a lot more and looks. He had a good game last night, he played well.

I think we just need to intentionally recalibrate our Justin Herbert expectations, like officially right now, Justin Herbert is basically Kirk Cousins in powder blue.

Well, he, he made the biggest mistake you can make in life. He was he. he raised his own bar to a level that he didn't have another level. That's why you always got a sandbag the first year, you always got to suck the first year. And then when you take the step up, everyone's like, Holy shit, look how good he is now.

He was panicking, too. At the end of the game, he gave, he gave off some Carson Wentz type vibes at the end of yesterday's game. It was so. Let's just say that that Justin Herbert is the perfectly average quarterback in the NFL and then, and we'll get to enjoy him when he plays well.

And we also, um, he is, he, he, ha, he is like on the Chargers, which is a cursed franchise, and I do admit that. So when people are like, oh well, his defense, socks or his offense, I mean, he has a shit load of talent around him, but they are a curse franchise. He he essentially has just become, he is Phil Rivers, he's going to be Phil Rivers.

Yeah, I hope not. I really do, cause like when he plays well, he's very, very fun to watch, but he did not play well on Monday, yeah.

I was going to save the halftime, he the halftime, they tried to give him a timeout.

He had two timeouts and he tried to run the clock. Eight seconds left in the half, and they tried to give Mike McCarthy a timeout with eight seconds left. And he called the ref over, he's like, No, I didn't call that timeout, yeah. And then they just ticked it down to three seconds and kicked a field goal going with.

Two timeouts, I know that it was crazy. It was crazy to be like, Hey, two timeouts, we have some time. Uh, yeah.

Yeah, the ref came over, he's like, you want to timeout now, right? and Mike's like, Uh, what can you even really do in five seconds?

No, um, okay, let's, uh, we have a lot of college football to talk. And then we got hot seat, cool thrown, baldy drake. May. Um, so let's kick it to ourselves back in studio and, uh, we'll get to all of that more football.

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Okay, college football, we've got a lot to discuss.

We do what a weekend.

We got a lot. What a weekend. I think. Washington Huskies won the weekend. Incredible, incredible game. They look so for real.

He's a legitimately great story, too, like tearing both ACls. Yes, coming back like that's gotta be so frustrating if you're a great college quarterback, cause he was, he was very, very good his first year at Indiana.

Insane, insane. I made me a little sad that the Pac 12 is not going to exist anymore. Although Washington, Oregon, will get to play every year, depending on the Big 10 schedule, the so two things one. First, Oregon. It feels like Oregon is just destined to lose this type of game every year.

Yeah, kicks, kickers, kickers matter. Points don't leave all right.

Also to score points.

You want to go one step further with it. Extra deep kicker analytics if you want your kicker to make a field goal at the end of the game. Get them in a rhythm. Let him go out there and see one go through. It does better for me.

I think he was like, Oh, he didn't trust me.

Yeah.

This chip shot.

Yeah, so it's probably not true, right? But there's like, there's probably something in a lot of kickers brains that are like, let me go out there and get some points, cause I'm automatic.

But they lost by three and it's like, I know you can't play the. You know, the game plays out differently if they kick a field goal there. But it's not the worst thing to get bonus points, especially after an interception where Michael Phoenix doesn't throw a lot of them. That's point, that's bonus points, take your three points, take your bonus.

Be contented with them. He, Uh, I. I liked the decision at the end of the game because he was playing also a double. Analytics, an analytics game inside his own brain. Which was You're doing the too much time for Michael Pettit. Is it Pennix or Phoenix? I keep hearing both ways, I say, and I think that most people when they say it on television, they're just afraid that they'll say penis.

Yeah, so they, that's why, that's why they say Pennix.

Um, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, Phoenix, I like Phoenix, Phoenix, I love Phoenix, yeah.

Uh, you're are you talking about baby digs, babe?

No baby Phoenix, different guy. Yeah, also spectacular.

They lost because their kicker sucks.

I'm fine.

Well, yeah, that was a 40 yard or 40.

You should make it, that's that's maybe 40 yard, or you should make. And maybe if Dan Lanning had trusted their kicker to go for three points at the end of the first half, he would have made that.

I just I'm totally fine with trying to win the game right there, especially with how good Washington's offense is. And speaking of Washington's offense, I've heard the analogy be made and I kind of like it, uh, they still have a lot of schedule left, like they have a couple of weeks where they should win easily. Arizona State and Stanford. But then they have to go on the road to USC, they also have to go on the road to Oregon State.

It happened last year. I was guilty of this with the Tennessee volunteers, with their offense, but their offense, I feel like, I don't know. I haven't looked at the numbers compared to the Huskies this year, but I feel like the Tennessee offense was better than this Washington Huskies.

I don't know this. Washington. They're both very, very good.

And I learned a valuable lesson last year, which was, don't compare anybody to the 2019 LSU team until they win a national championship. And then and then you can do the comparisons in retrospect, like we'd never thought that we would compare, you know, any team to those U.S.C teams. With Reggie Bush, Lindale White, Matt Liner, those guys, there've been a lot of great college offenses. I'm going to wait until all the facts come out.

I saw a stat, I got to try to find it. I think it's Washington is averaging like something like 8.7 yards per play, something ridiculous.

It's insane, it's insane.

But yeah, and this was a game that a lot of people had. Oregon winning because Oregon's defense is better than Washington's defense and Washington's defense played tough. And like, if they can round into form again, I, I'm, I'm also, so I agree with you, don't ever compare. I would say I saw it.

I feel like Oregon State is going to be a very tough game for for a Washington. Yeah, I feel like that's, that's, that's one that you can't sleep on at all, but yeah, I. It'd also be interesting to go back and look and see how the Bengals offense performed after the comparisons to the LSU 2019 team came out. If, like, Tennessee started getting all that clout, and then Joe Burrow and Jamar Chase were like, Hey, fuck that.

If you go just pros, there's there were, there were, probably. Although Washington will have a couple of first round picks, few first round picks. They have a couple of two insane wide receivers, they have a really good edge, rusher like, I don't know, they're playing good ball, it's fun.

It was very cool to see the Washington Student section rush the field. There were probably like 25, 30,000 kids on the field at that game after it was over. Looked kind of scary. And again, I'm always in favor of storming the field if you're, if you're in college, have fun, storm the field whenever you want, enjoy yourself.

Well, which is, players who stormed the field at Notre Dame was a douchebag.

Deserved it, yes.

That was a that was a douchebag. He went up to Caleb Williams, like, where's your fit? where's your finger paint now? Where's your finger paint now?

I like the idea of an open hand slap. My my idea was that you should be allowed to do anything that's legal during a football game. To a fan that gets up in your face. So you can tackle them. Yeah, as long as you don't go high, no targeting The targeting rule still applies.

You could do targeting and then just get ejected.

That's true. Yeah, you can get post game ejected from from being on the field.

But Caleb Williams had. He couldn't do anything there, and the kid was just in his face.

Yeah, douchebag. It happened with an LSU player the other day, too. It's just a nature is healing moment when they shove those kids back, yeah.

If I'll say this right now, if a player in a Power Five conference, they've. They rushed the field and A and A players provoked in the way that Caleb Williams was provoked, and they open hand slap the state, the the fan. I will help if they get arrested.

I'll match, Okay, I'll match, so there it is.

Yeah, but it has to be exactly the same situation. It has to be a a fan being a true douchebag to the player, not just running by the player or anything like that. You'll see every now and then we're like, a fan will be running and a player will just start like elbowing.

Yeah, and also if you're, if you're a college student, rushing the field, don't ruin it for everybody, right? If too much of this stuff happens, then they'll start to ban it and they'll they'll take it very seriously. Like most SEC schools will gladly pay the a hundred thousand dollars or whatever it is.

It also made it worse knowing that Notre Dame kicked the shit out of USC. So that kid was planning on saying that for a very long time. If it was a spur of the moment last second play, then I think it just becomes like, Hey, everyone lost their mind. But he was sitting there for the entire fourth quarter. I mean, USC got demolished.

If I were him, I would.

He's already won two national titles.

If I were him, I would absolutely.

The scary thing is, what are you looking at? Memes? memes is a Georgia fan? You don't like what we're saying, you don't like what we're saying.

Brock Bowers As somebody with a Tennessee and an Alabama future, um, and a Texas future. I would say Brock Bowers needs to do the right thing for his future, his own future, and not rush back. Let's let's take it slow. We don't want to have any. Any blips where you go into the combine and you're still a little bit nicked up, so just take it easy.

Why is Max wearing a tank top? It's all that sweat, put the camera on Max, show the sweat, show the sweat.

It's not sweat, it's got hot in here.

No, show the sweat.

I put a t-shirt on, Okay, you looked like Matt Ryan the other day up in the booth. It's fucking hot as dick over here, it's hot as dick.

Uh, the yeah, so it's going to be a quarterback winning, winning the, uh, Heisman, it's going to either be Michael Penix. Uh, by the way. Maybe Jaden Daniels, maybe Jordan Travis, maybe J.J. McCarthy. Because Michigan hasn't played anyone yet, but he has played good ball. Uh, but yeah, it feels like we can pretty. Maybe even Dylan Gabriel, if if the Sooners don't lose.

Yeah, or, I mean, Quinn Ewers, if he just gets on fire real quick, he's got the name. UM, and being at Texas would certainly help. But, uh, yeah, it's good. This is an awesome college football season.

It's great because there was, there was some kind of, I don't know what it was. There was some, uh, congressional hearing. Basically the worst people alive, uh, have opinions.

You see what Joe Manchin said?

Oh, we have a couple, so I'll read a couple. Yeah, it's they're so stupid, uh. First, Lindsey Graham said, Utah is offering everybody on the team a new truck.

I would, I would like to hear Joe Manchin explain why, right? Why? In his opinion, is it hard for him to root for kids who are making money? Also, if you unpack that to a deep enough level, he is just completely in the wrong about everything. They're, they're 18 years old, they have a job.

Not only that, but it's always so weird to me and not to get the political. But like a lot of these guys who are making these statements, I would assume are are hardcore capitalists. We have a product that makes a ton of money and kids that are exceptional at what they do, why shouldn't they make money? They're not. If it was, every kid goes to college and is a millionaire, yeah, that would probably be an issue.

Another way to say what Joe Manchin just said is so can the other student athletes that don't make money?

Well, because they don't have a product that makes a ton of money, like eyeballs watch. Football stadiums are packed, people are buying the product, I get it.

Yeah.

I would love for some of the other athletes to get an AL deals, which I think they are, but their sports don't make the same amount of money.

They generate revenue.

It is true, bring in a ton of money. If you bring in a lot of money, you get to, you get paid a lot of money.

But what I would like to hear Joe Manchin explain is, uh, because this is the crux of his argument. He enjoys watching college football when players are poor, yeah, when they don't have any money, yeah.

Why amateurism?

Is is there anything, anything in life where you're like, you know what I really? I? I? Um, I like the person that cuts my hair, my barber's great. I just wish you had a little bit less money to spend.

It's it.

I wish he couldn't take care of his family.

It's just these guys telling on themselves that they don't actually watch the sport because it rules and college football is chaos. And I think, uh, Herb Street even said it, I love the NFL. Herb Street loves the NFL. What we saw at Washington, Oregon, on Saturday doesn't happen in the NFL.

Zero, hours, zero.

Yeah, that's how much they're watching.

Next time I'm eating a pizza, I'm going to be like, you know what? This pizza would taste so much better. If the guy that made it couldn't afford daycare for his kids, yeah, that would make me so happy.

Yeah, cause then he'd really put everything into it.

I got one other thing about about the SEC in particular, because this is, uh, Alabama.

Is definitely going to win the SEC.

It's a storyline that's bubbling up and it bubbles up occasionally. But I think we need to talk about a little bit. Jimbo Fisher and his buyout.

Yes.

I'd like to talk about a looming buyout, or a buyout that's out there. What is it now? Like? Probably 80, $90 million to buy him out of his contract, and, um, so much of Jimbo Fisher's buyout.

Okay, I like that.

And with, like all the instability overseas, who knows what happens with Egypt, with Saudi Arabia? If they get involved in a in the war over there, then oil is going to go like through the roof. So in a in a weird way like. That directly affects whether or not Jimbo Fisher is stinking rich without a job, or if he's still getting paid and doing a poor job. Coaching, yeah.

So Texas A&m to me, most delusional fan base in college football, uh, craziest fan base. Because of all the Yell leaders, every time a Yell Leader video comes out, it's like, What the fuck, why do they keep putting these out? And I know that you should aspire to be great, so I'm not saying that you shouldn't. But Texas A&M and Jimbo Fisher is getting paid a lot of money. Why is it?

McGee didn't do it.

No one. They are a good football program, they're a nine win team, they're an eight win team. JiMBO Fisher Last year was a disaster.

Yeah, I think it has something to do with the fact that they also claim, like, four national championships before things counted. Do you remember that they had to take down a bunch of, like conference championships from the side of Kyle Field that they put up? When they first did the renovations on it? They had to take them down because they got bullied too hard for claiming non-existent championships.

Yeah, when they were in the Southwest Concert Conference in the early nineties. They had a stretch where they won 10 games a year. Like five years in a row. But since then, since 1995, they have won over 10 games twice, they won 10 games.

It's more realistic to have done that in either the Southwestern Conference or in the Big 12, right in the SEC. Like, you wanted this, and it's going to be way, way harder.

To do that here and you're out, okay? Two more things I want to talk about college football real quick.

Can we still go back to what we said at the start of the season that if Deon Sanders has like a four game improvement, it'll be a miracle? Yeah, he did that, just slide the.

Expectations they play at UCLA, they have Oregon State at home, Arizona at home, WHO Arizona has been playing really good ball at Washington State and at Utah, so they're going to have to win.

There's just so, so boring and so bad on offense, but they figure out a way to win and it's hilarious. So the note I had about Iowa was that I'm officially rooting for an 11 and one Iowa team who would probably be ranked. I thought, if Iowa goes 11 and one. And they continue to win games in the same way that they've been winning, what do you think they're? They're into? The season ranking would be probably like nine or 10..

Get blown out in the Big 10 Championship game, so that's the thing is, like, the matter. Well, I mean, they already, they already got smoked by Penn State. It'd be so funny if they didn't.

Though, yeah, I guess it's tough to beat a team twice. Well, not really. When. Penn State.

Beat him what 31? Nothing, it would just be the guy who even got like it. I would confidently say they're going to get blown out in the in the Big 10 title game. Which is actually makes it even funnier that people are mad about Iowa.

Going to be. They're going to have one win on their schedule and, or, excuse me, one loss on their schedule. And they're going to still be ranked. Like in the twenties for a very long time. Because it's the best it is. It's very funny football to watch, and if you don't, if you don't appreciate the ridiculousness that is Iowa football, then you're not a college.

Football fan It's also like, Yeah, okay, so you're mad about Iowa because they don't play offense? Well, guess what?

They remind me of the giants from last year a little bit. Yeah, New York Giants. I. I love watching Iowa football.

Just up by seven for the rest of the game. Listen, they've released the ratings for this weekend for all the games played. Wisconsin, Iowa, had like 2.4 million people watching.

It, it was like eighth on the list. There's a lot of sickos out there. Yeah, those are.

My people over under is 32 and a half this week against Minnesota. I love that, yeah.

That's going to be a great game. Yeah, and you're a psycho. If you take the over, yeah, I might take the over. Jessica's just to fuck around.

Cause if you take that over, you are actually you, you not hoping for. You need a defensive or special teams. yeah, you need a punt block, you can't get that over without a defensive special teams. And you probably need to, might need to, probably need to at least one one.

Touchdown and at least a short field. I'm going to stand up real quick for my James Madison Dukes, cause they are playing tomorrow night against Marshall. That's a Thursday night Sunbelt game should be a good one.

Yeah, no, it's dumb, we had this discussion last year, it's dumb, it's it makes no sense. Um, and when you say you don't want to get ahead of yourself, I've heard you many times in private say that they're going to go undefeated.

We invite them to the Arizona Bowl. Wrong, wrong, I said, I said, I said that, and I said, there's a lot of season left, so there's a lot of season left.

Imagine, imagine, we'll count ourselves national champions. I will, I will, I know, I'll do the use.

Ahead of myself, like I said, good chance we lose at Marshall, that's a hard game.

It's a very hard game on Thursday for people at home. He does not think they're going to lose.

I think if we could get JMU football into the Barstow Sports Basketball Invitational, they could win. Uh, probably not, that's it. It's a great, great Mississippi State's a good team.

I'm so excited. No, listen, I think you should think this. I just don't want you to delude the audience and be like, I'm not thinking they're going to go on, you are thinking, which is great.

Wait, he definitely does think that I'm planning ahead a little bit. Fun fact Their quarterback, Jordan McLeod, Ray Ray Ray Ray Ray McLeod's brother. Oh, that is fun, so.

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We already have a date for baseball, so we're set.

You want to get out of it. Max made a good point that I should wait until we're in the.

New office to do it. Max, you're right, which will be next week, next two, next Wednesday.

Take, I might, I might get a Tramp stamp. How about that? I'll. I'll have the answer by Friday. Uh, DM at part of my take on Instagram or on, uh, on Twitter.

Stream I that reminded me, Oh no, what are you going to say? Hot seat me?

Everyone that listens to the show when they're having a wedding, oh, I remember them talking, I took a wedding, be playing their wedding, oh, I remember when they were talking about it. They want to get invited, we should invite them.

The future wife's a listener. Yeah, there's female awls, too. The doctor is the mother.

I just saw all the DMs that I got with wedding invites. It was from the groom and I was just thinking to myself, like, are you sure that she's totally cool? No chance, no chance.

Asked, Uh, yeah, I okay. mistake, mistake. that was a big mistake. We'll go to a divorce.

Don't say that why? because it's still the same thing as a wedding.

No, second, weddings are way more fun, I think, cause they're all like, we've done it if I've been to one, but it was only one of them.

We're also going to go to a bachelor party. What Jake's when he gets married? actually? that'll be very, that'll be very fun if Jake got engaged. And, uh, and then he hired us to plan his party for him.

Thank you, I appreciate that. I knew we'd be invited, but my question was how quickly, over under a minutes, or maybe it's hours, probably not hours, probably minutes, would we have? All of Jake's friends hate our guts.

About we just do drugs. Yeah, they're going to be listening to this and texting me and being like.

We love them. I think I think Jake would actually leave the weekend hating us. Yeah, I think that.

Would be the end of maybe we should do a bachelor party for Jake without Jake. Oh, that sounds, and Jake's friends, just Jake, his J, just Jake's friends in us.

There will be just like an hour to break a sweat. Man. If you were, if you were to have a bachelor party this weekend, where would you choose? Uh, Scottsdale, pickleball capital of the world.

Golf, pickleball, some fun, good weather. I like that. Yeah, I'm in. Uh, Jake, would you like it?

I If you let us plan it, I'll go okay. Cause there would be like, I know you'd be like the pickleball and then the big dinner on Saturday night. I've said this a million times.

The big dinner, the first night. You're the veterans, you got the ball, okay?

Excited I would love to go to your bachelor party when it happens someday in the future.

Yes, okay, and the cool thing is, pat bev, yeah, pandering. pat bev. uh, coming one with Billy.

Bad guy Pat Bev, good guy, that max, that was probably the most well-spoken Max has ever been.

In his life, I love Pat Bev. I just, you know, it's all right, not pandering, sorry.

But what if it was pandering? He would wait until the regular season? No one was watching. Yeah, this is like characters during the Phillies game, and it was during the.

One night football game, it was like, it's who you are, when nobody's watching, right? Take it back, literally nobody was watching.

Probably Jake's on the cool throne. He invited us to his bachelor party. Fact, that's it.

Permanent cool Throne. You guys can come to mine too. I'm down.

What? No, this is the face that you just made. I was going to say, Yeah, I knew. Are we ever going to get married?

I can just see the thoughts right in your head right there.

Golf Conversation Today PFT that was was we, I won't say, but it was we have an extended golf.

Conversation right now, Hank is planning on. Debate was embraced. How to take a vacation from golf?

Okay, now we have to say the debate was embraced. PFT. We had an extended conversation. You gotta, you gotta say it all, though.

I'll be here to record the show and I, I see I'm a I'm a non-traditionalist. I believe. Like everyone in corporate America. Listening to their job, they have 40 hour work weeks, they work like 10, and then they have weekends and stuff. We don't have a job like that.

We we work so much is because our job is fun. I agree. Listen, all 68 hours a week.

All I said is that I'm going to work twice as hard as the winter, so I don't have to work. I can work twice at all in the summer, right? And then it all evens out.

Golfed at all? I've barely golfed. It's fairly nice catch, nice catch.

Yeah, the moral of the story is like, no one's going to work, no one in this room will be.

Working harder than me this winter, and then no, it'll be working less than you in the summer.

And that's how I think America was should be. That's the, you know, actually, you're European, you're, you're on the European. Yeah, that's true, you're, I mean, Europeans do it right.

We just spent a lot of money on this big office. I would like people to work in the summer and I'm.

I will on select days, but you can golf in the office, saying it's not the same, I know.

But travel and stuff, it's like, Oh, this was travel, trips. Yeah, oh, I didn't realize that.

So when you're going to fly out on on Thursday night and then come back Saturday night, like every weekend, no Sunday morning, Sunday morning, but you said you wanted Mondays, yeah.

So that would be like, go back out, that'd be, that'd be, that'd be local golf, that'd be local.

Golf. I also threw out the idea. I mean, Big cat is just like whatever I also, I work, I I, I'm setting a tone. I threw out a half days Friday, half days Monday.

Me too. He was like, you, I have golf, you have kids, I was like. But I work my schedule like I go home for two hours, put my kids to bed. I'll be, I'm back at the office whenever I need to.

Same hank, hank, except for Mondays and Fridays, and be willing to leave for two hours at a time if you make golf, right. Listen, I, I. This is not a conversation I thought we were going to.

Have the podcast. We were just, you know, it was a bracing debate. Yeah, we, we, we.

We actually found. The story, though, is that I will be when we're in this office and it's up and running, like, I will be there more than anyone. And then the weather's going to get nice. I'm going to be like, Damn, I work so hard.

Right, we have a podcast outside today, right? I I we. We actually found a good middle ground, we said we're going to just take a wait and see approach.

Negotiating position right now. Because we know that if Hank's not happy, that he'll come in and he'll be grumpy at work. And then we'd be like, God damn, I wish Hank was out on the golf course instead of here bringing everybody down. So we know we already know what you're up to preemptively. Well, we, that's, that's your move, and this was part of it that that big head didn't really verbalize. Is like, I'm going to be working so hard, so hard this winter, creating so much streaming golf content on the simulator. That I'm going to have, like, I've gone so much better that I'm going to need to see how that replicates to the real game.

That he needs a break to golf this summer is what you just said. Okay, all right, hot seat, cool, throw a pft.

In this all right PFT, your hot seat cool, okay?

Charger fan I like the same team, though, like I have seen it actually kind of are a lot of points.

And disappoint, very disappointed. Somebody that, like, moved from Atlanta to L.A. and decided to become a Chargers fan. If there's anybody out there like that, God bless you, yeah.

Court You can't DM up. Yeah, he definitely pissed some people off, but if he's fine.

No harm, no foul, no fun, exactly no blood, no foul. John Thompson would back him up.

Yeah, I agree. T o just dominating people and pickup basketball is very funny, it's exactly.

What I would do if I was an athlete like him? I still think t o could suit up. Yeah, I think.

You'd get in the league, definitely. Um, all right, my hot seat is, uh, John Fisher, that fucking scumbag. From the A's Trevor May, who was a relief pitcher for the A's this year. He was on the Mets last year, did a live stream Twitch stream and he unloaded.

Anyway, whatever, yeah, I like it, I like it. Great retirement, yeah.

On the field, take mommy and daddy's money somewhere else door. It would suck, it would suck to play for an owner like that, yeah.

Yeah, his dad would, I don't think he could. Yeah, he could, yeah.

I invited his dad, my my, uh, cool throne is Julio Jones, he's back. We got him out of retirement.

Squad, I think he'll eventually get brought up, but he's not signing somewhere if he's not playing.

I'm just saying also a great reminder that Julio Jones, his name's not Julio, really. what is it? It's Quintoris Lopez Jones Jr. That's right.

Name Max Dream team, though. big dream team vibes. Oh, congrats.

Congrats Max. By the way, you guys are the city of champs now. Because because we're doing this, because we're taping this in the afternoon. Uh, you heard us talk about Game two to start the show and Monday night football Max prediction Max Merrill. Kelly called, called out the bank. Uh, I say, seven, four Phillies. Okay, this is a timestamp.

Seven, four Phillies. He did, he poked the bank, he did. That's a that's a rookie mistake.

Also, you guys know, we have a bank series Chase Field versus the Citizens Bank part, Oh.

One's, Yeah, I wouldn't say Chase Field is the bank, though it doesn't have the word banking, yeah.

There's only one bank. Love it all, right? Jake? Um, my hot seats, the Miami Marlins.

The Marlins once again, a very stupid move. They parted ways with, uh, their general manager Kim Ang, who helped construct their first full season playoff team in 20 years. And they wanted to bring in someone above her, and she literally turned this franchise over, and then they said, we want to bring someone in.

Yes, agreed. I just don't understand like they have, I think I know why. So if you look back at the history of the Miami Marlins or the Florida Marlins, um, she did too good of a job, getting good players.

Sense that they've made the playoffs, three full seasons in their history and they have momentum. And then they do this. And then you wonder why people care more about the dolphins in the heat.

Well, she is the only Marlins GM ever to make the postseason and not win a World Series.

Correct, Maybe that's why. Yeah, so it's disappointing, but we'll see what happens. Uh, my cool throw is the Olympics.

Oh, multiple cities. No, that's the World Cup. Yeah, yeah, World Cups can be on multiple.

Continents next year After the U. S. U. S. Canada? Oh no, not this one, but like the one they just announced this week, it's multiple continents. Which one is that?