Christian Yelich, An Insane Sports Weekend Recapping CBB, Fury/Paul, Russ Wilson Postmortem And More Plus Lottery Ball Drama

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Welcome to pardon my take. Today is Monday, February 27th, and boys, there is a lot of sports this weekend, a lot of things to discuss. I don't know where. Choose your own adventure.

Where would you like to start? Because I actually have a list of things we can discuss. Why don't you say here? I'll number them real quick, all right? say a number one through four, seven?

Seven, okay, seven bull riding okay.

Bull RidIng It was sick weekend for bull riding. Canadian Bulls. It's like the opposite of the Stanley Cup is right now, Canadian Bulls are dominating the PBA circuit. It's a PBA spelled E-H.

Yes, yes, PBA, No. We had an awesome weekend of sports. I actually, why don't we start with the fact that Saturday in college basketball felt like a March madness day?

It was absolute chaos. Nine ranked teams lost on Saturday. Yeah, and the way they lost. And I want to say a quick shout out to one of cause. I think the the when we. When we talked to Titus last week and talking about how we miss coach K. College sports, obviously everyone has their teams, wherever they went to school, everything like that, but a lot of college sports.

Every single year is about the program and the coach. And Saturday, I'm a big believer in the little signs and the butterfly effect. I think Saturday we got the chaos, all because of Fran McCaffrey. Stare, stared out. It was from that point on the day just went off the fucking rail.

There's nothing like a good old fashioned coach just staring at a referee so close. And neither one of them was going to walk away. They both stepped up. It was incredible, it was just so.

If you missed it, Iowa, Michigan State, Iowa was losing all game. Fran McCaffrey is a very angry coach. He's probably top three angriest coaches in college sports he got into. It was in the middle of a timeout he used. Instead of coaching up his team, he decided to go, walk and stare at the ref standing on the baseline with the ball.

He started about 10 feet away from him and he slowly got. They just didn't say a word, it was like Madison Baumgartner and Joe West didn't say a word to each other. A good solid 25 seconds, stare down, both of them stepped into it.

And then, finally, Iowa coaches, assistant coaches were like, Fran, you're going to get kicked out of this game and then you can't get kicked out of a game. For looking, though, for not not using your words for. Just the only way possible for a stare down like that to end, with both sides saving face and neither side feeling like they lost is if they just continue to get until they just kiss. Yeah, they had to kiss, they had to break it up. But and then so the reason why I say that? His stare down started the chaos. Michigan State was up 13 points with a minute 31 left, and Iowa won the game by six in overtime.

It was absolutely chaotic and insane scene, and then we went on. We had Florida State down 25. They beat Miami on a buzzer beater, which was just a brutal like. The guy hits, Miami hits a three to go up to with like four seconds left. He's doing the like. Are you not entertained?

Florida State just inbounds the ball right back in his eye. Three buzzer beater. We had Arizona State buzzer beater. That was awesome, awesome.

Arizona was pure from half court and that was Arizona was leading by 10 with six 30 left. We had Indiana swept Purdue for the first time in 10 years, we then I stayed up all the saw. Well. Congrats to Purdue for winning the Big 10..

Yes, on a loss, they won the big 10. Yes, they did, they did.

That was at least a share. But as we say on this podcast, that's a win, that's a win, that's a win. Big 10, the UM. And then we had late into the night like it was like 1230 at night.

I was watching on my phone in bed with my headphones. In San Diego State, buzzer Beater to beat New Mexico and, uh, Rick Pitino Jr. Unfortunately, the pit was rocking, but it was just like. It felt like one of those days where it really did feel like a tournament day, where it was just nonstop action every two hours. Another crazy result happened, and it was a nice reminder on, like, when we're starting to get our feet wet with all the other sports.

Oh yeah, college basketball fucking rules this time of year, sometimes the sport just knows when they have the spotlight. This was the first weekend where truly college basketball could be like, Okay, it's our season. Major League Baseball tried to upstage them with spring training games with.

The bases do look awesome on TV. Thank you Rob Manford for listening. He's got his finger on the pulse of Seam head nation. Yup, the base is really do it for me.

So good job on that one. And baseball has its own moment right now because they're just trying to figure out all the new rules and is absolutely chaos. We had a game end today in a tie, cause you can tie in spring training on a violation, a shot clock violation for the hitter, yeah.

Yeah, not stepping into the box. Uh, we had a couple of those this weekend, too. And the games are going way faster. It's like two hours, 20 minutes per game, as opposed to like two hours 50 minutes old spring training games.

Now, uh, I've got, I've got my guy that drafts for me every year for the Cement Express. He's the guy that he was in a fantasy league that he used to dominate that ended up having two future actual baseball GMs. Okay, so this guy Corky knows his shit. He is projecting right now. An average decrease in pitch velocity this year of 0.02 miles per hour because the new shot clock rules.

So, yeah, keep that in the back pocket. We're going to see slower fastballs this year and also a lot more steals, too. I would assume because of the rules, the pickoff rules, you can only go twice and the bigger bases.

Yeah, and the bigger bases, um, yeah, we'll get into more of that with Christian Yelich. We also just shout out Keith Hernandez, who? It's spring training for the announcers, too. Uh, he was calling a spring training and the Marlins.

And, uh, Marlins player Jazz Chisholm he introduced as Chaz Jism, which fucking rules? It's just a great name. Is this? Is he holding in right now? Keith Hernandez?

Cause I think that he had, he had some, uh, contract disputes, right? Like Keith Hernandez was. He was like, I'll go to a different team. I don't care. No, he just he consulted with his cat, who is. I don't know if this is knowing too much about Keith Hernandez, which is just following him on online, but he, he has a cat.

He might have multiple cats, but I know he has a cat and he's house. He's set up. Like, it's a. It's like, basically, if Exhibit did a pit, my ride for a house, for a cat, yeah, like, there's a bunch of, like, weird shelves.

There's actually an entire shelf that goes the length of his ceiling that the cat can just climb around and like, walk, the cat just walks around. He's like a Willenda brother. I love it, just walking around the house.

I love it. Here's a take that I'm going to squat on. Keith Hernandez has toxoplasmosis from living with his cat. That's why he's messing up names, but, I mean, is it really a mess up?

Because Chaz Jism is just a Hall of Fame name. It's a better name. it's a way better, way better name. But yeah, someone's got to have that porn star name. So baseball tried to steal away the spotlight, but college basketball was incredible.

Uh, UNC got their first quad one year, or Quad one way of the year against UVA, so UNC is back. You Rick Pitino is sneaky, still a great coach. Oh yeah.

Rick Pitino, his name is going to be mentioned in some bigger jobs that are going to open up. Got to win the Mac tournament, though. It's all all the math. Can you please say it correctly?

St. JohN'S Yeah, there was, there was a push by St. John's fans to have Rick come and coach.

I mean, it would be great. The Red Storm once, every once, every 28 days. Did you just fire Jim? No, it doesn't have to be this year.

It doesn't have to be this year when the time comes. What about this? What about this? Because we talked with with Mark Titus last week about how frustrating it is the fact that Duke basketball is not hateable.

Why don't we just get the Pitino to Duke train going? Ooh, how nice would that be? That would be Hank's, he's looked up, he's ready to. Uh, John's a good guy.

Great guy, great guy, great guy. Is he winning basketball games? he? Well, they did.

They, they kicked the shit out of Virginia Tech. They're going to make the tournament yeah, in year one, yeah.

I'm just supposed to be duke Jake, that's what you can always say. Oh, and speaking of speaking of hot seats, cows off the hot seat, yeah.

Tucky is hot, yeah, or they they killed Auburn? Um, oh, what about Pitino to Ole Miss, Sure?

They just fired their coach. Yeah, yeah, he loves Ole Miss. I'd be nice.

He loves young misses, too. Yeah, I got all the Pitino puns out. um, that was bft just emptied his college basketball clip with Pitino's No, I'm just I'm excited about Pitino.

I think that I think the time is right for him to get back. He's been laying low for long enough to sports better. When Rick Pitino is patrolling the sidelines in a major conference, just go back to Louisville. They're the worst team in the ACC. It would make too much sense. Not awful.

Um, I actually saw a game in Personnel Liu Verse Merrimack, which I was very funny because I went to the game. There was, I'm there, that you walked in for free, so I was like, Oh, they didn't charge. No. I was confused, just walked in with my son, watched the whole game after the game, let them run on the court.

And then, like all Merrimack staff, was just like, What the fuck are you doing here? And then one guy on Merrimack came up to me. He's like, you know, Ken Palm? And I was like, Yeah, he's like, we're actually the number one defense, No, Merrimack's the number one.

Oh yeah, they've won three games, so bad, so bad, but I guess Merrimack is the number one.

Yeah, so that's nice. Shout out, Merrimack Hoops. There we go. He was like, it was just very funny that he pulled me aside.

I was like, you know, Ken Palm, number one in defensive turnovers. Hang the banner, Yeah, like, that's a subset stat. I love that.

I love that. I mean, if it was great college basketball, if I, if I was number one, ranked anything in the world, you better believe. I'm pulling that stat up all the time, but college basketball was awesome this weekend. And now Kayla Clark, the women's side, you see that buzzer beater.

Yeah, Rutgers. shout out. Rutgers. big comeback against Penn State. I bet on Penn State.

That was unfortunate. Yeah, I guess I should do. I was going to be my who's back, but Wisconsin just is I I. It's been torturous to watch them this season. The Hunter Dickinson, the one guy you can't have, who's been basically being the heel all year.

He hits a three. When they should have fouled I, they tried to foul at half court at the possession before, but everyone's like, they should have fouled, they should have fouled, they should have. Greg Guard said that he did give the call to foul on that possession.

I'm not talking about the I know, the one that you're talking about. But also on the last possession, Greg Guard. He was telling his team to foul, I know, and apparently they were trying to, but they weren't fouling hard enough. It was bad job of fouling and then Hunter Dickinson put the ski mask on.

It was bad, big buzzer. They are one in one against the Badgers this year. So I don't that was. He was like, he Hunter Dickinson put out an Instagram post being like, I stood by the badger killer.

You went one-on-one, he's the badger killer, you went one-on-one and it was two pretty tight games. But I so, I had a tweet after and I just, here's what I don't understand. So obviously, we wear our heart on our sleeves as sports fans.

I am 38.

I should be more mature than this, but I'm not. I'm being honest and being vulnerable. I absolutely let my team's success dictate my mood. I was very upset, grumpy, mad, uh, all those things. My question to you BFT is, why can't I be a grumpy triggered bitch after my team's lose and everyone else can? I think I should be able to be like I? If anything, people should be applauding the fact that I'm a grumpy triggered bitch after my team's lose. Because I could easily just remove myself and be like, Oh, well, I'm, you know, I. I got a lot of things going on in my life.

I got, I'm successful, I don't need to care about a bunch of 18 year olds. Uh, playing basketball on a Sunday. It's kind of your job, but I do well, no. But I would care, even if it wasn't my job, I would that would have ruined my day. So no matter what way I look at it, you'd rather, you'd rather care way too much than be completely numb to it.

That's the danger that you live in if your teams are just consistently bad for a long time. So if you still feel pain, that means that you're you're still expecting good results. It's once you stop with that expectation that you're just numb and you're used to it, and then you just lose all interest in sports.

You don't want to get down that road. I also think that there's something to be said for having sports be your outlet as a guy, to have to be able to get emotional about stuff. It's like, it's it's a free space, it's a safe space for us to get triggered at. Because if you, uh, let those emotions seep into other parts of your life, then that's bad. But now you've got this one outlet where where you start stinking.

They do, but the reason why is because of sports. Yeah, no, that's what I'm saying. They send the whole day in a sprout.

That's good, I think that's a good thing for you to have. All of our listeners are lovely awls. I guarantee when your team loses, you're a grumpy, triggered bitch. Online and in person, let me have the same.

Let us let us be the same. Let me lash out and be upset for a little bit because I was upset. The way they lost upset me. It ruined my day because, like, you can't. If they had just lost in a regular loss, I would have been able to deal with it. But not fouling up three with a second and a half left that ruined my day.

And it's Hunter Dickinson who's who's been. He's been trying to joker-fy himself this year, he's been doing like a half-ass version of method acting.

This was actually like the joker-ish response the one time it actually worked for him, it worked well. They're going to lose to Illinois and Indiana, so they're probably won't even make the tournament either.

Yeah, two bubble teams. It's just I just just afford me again. I think that people should applaud the fact that I still let a bunch of fucking kids, they're just kids. Playing a basketball game on a Sunday afternoon ruin my day and maybe my week, and possibly my could have ruined my week. Yet to be seen how I wake up tomorrow morning.

People should applaud that. I still care when I could just be like, Ah, fuck it, who cares? It's just a game. So just afford me the same right that you have to just be, you know what I mean?

People, I know people when they get upset, when they run their team loses, they just go and they argue with people online. It's so it's an outlet that we all need, you know what you need.

You need to get on that burner life, the burner life really changed the game. For me. Do it myself, it's so fun to just.

Reply to a major reporter's Twitter like a final score tweet, and nobody even knows that it's you. It's so good. Yeah, I just like to do it myself, though.

I like to just be myself and let you know I'm vulnerable. I bleed, just like you, I'm getting into a dark place. And the reason why I brought up the the being numb to things is because that's kind of a personal situation that I'm I'm anticipating going through very soon. Because you, you experienced it with the Bears this year, even before the season started, no expectations whatsoever with the Bears. Um, I found myself in a place where the next year I really don't have anything to look forward to sports-wise at all.

I we're the same. Yeah, no, no, no, no. I was thinking about this independent of you. I was thinking about how sad it is that. The best thing that's happened to me in my sports life this year is that the Bears were the worst team.

Yeah, that's literally the best thing that's happened. The best thing that's happened to me in the last calendar year is the report that Dan Snyder was going to sell the team. Which looks like it's not even going to happen now, right? So I've, I've got, I've got the Nats.

They're going to stink, the caps are selling everything they stink. Right now. I've got the Wizards kind of, uh, but I'd never care about them.

And then Dan Snyder sticking around, So I know I'm a D.C. defender guy now two and oh, D.C. defenders, two, and oh, first place in the East. We need to stick, we need to be like, uh, like Boondock saints when we're back to back, just fighting everyone. Because the hanks of the world, these people, winners running around, or even the almost winners, the maxes of the world, they can laugh in our face.

I did the same calculation in my head. The cubs might be frisky, but let's be honest, they're not going to like, do anything. The the the like. Biggest story for the Blackhawks has been just waiting for Patrick Kane to get to see what you can get. Player ever.

Yeah, like, the the best American hockey player ever is go home. When is he going to get traded? Uh, the Bulls signed Pat Bev, who is a culture changer. But the peak now is to, uh, make the playoffs and losing the first round. That's the ceiling.

Yeah, uh, and then the Bears have the number one again. The best thing that has happened to me, the the the Badgers are on the bubble and probably out, and the. The best thing that's happened to me this entire year is that the Bears were the worst team in the NFL. Yeah, that is a very good thing, though.

That's a very good thing, all right, I I the best thing, I guess. Um, I guess I'm just going to have to be a full-time smash. Golf club wins away. No, they can't play, okay?

So no, this is another big one. I'm going to blame this on Hank's misinformation because they moved conferences. Do you want Hank? That said that? Uh, cause he gets everything wrong. In college basketball, it was so JMU. When they moved up into the Sunbelton football, they had a one-year post-season ban. When you change conferences in basketball, you can still do that.

So J We're in the Colonial. Yeah, they can still win the Sunbelton tournament. I literally, I fucked it up. I told like 400 people this week, I was walking around all week, just telling people that I look like such a fool.

I know, I know I was like, Hey, did you know JMU can't make it? I know that's what everyone's been talking about.

Ineligible in college basketball? Oh, Merrimack's one of them. Yeah, Merrimack pointed that out to four-year turnover. It's too high.

Actually, last year, Bellarmine won the ace on tournament and they couldn't go dancing. That was a bullshit. Yeah. Another piece of Brandon Miller news also happened this weekend, yeah.

When he came out on the court for pregame introduction, his teammate patted him down when he stepped down on the court. Now he has been doing that all year, and it's a pretty common pregame introduction thing where they pat you down like you're stepping into the octagon. But, as Nate Oates said, not great optics, yeah, and when you say bad optics, that's just a code word for being like, it was bad.

It was bad Nate, so Brandon Miller. Like they again, they do it every time. I kind of figured that when I saw the like, the intros like this is probably planned.

It's like a handshake, whatever.

He's an 18 year old kid. This, this portion, I'm not going to talk about the other stuff, but this portion. He probably didn't think twice, like, Oh, I probably shouldn't do it. Nate Oates is a fucking douchebag, cause Nate Oates is like, he said in the comments. He was like, Yeah, I don't really watch the pregame.

That's not what like part of what I'm doing. And then he realized, like, Oh shit, this is another situation where I'm doing a boys will be boys. Yes, and he shut it, shut it down in his own brain mid-sentence, and was like, Yeah, we'll stop doing that.

It was bad. Nate Oates. Just have a little common sense for your team, you're coaching 18 year old kids, you have to be the common sense.

Yes, he is, he's the brain, he is the adult. Yes, exactly.

It's like, if LeBron James got busted for distributing fentanyl, I would imagine that he would stop doing the chalk toss at the scores table. Pregame, correct? But he's an adult, he's, he's a father of three.

Right? Brandon Miller, Yes, maybe, you know what, I'm just going to say, I think Brandon Miller probably should have not done that.

He should say that, Brandon Miller, just because you're 18 years old, you should probably not do the weapon pat down. Agreed, but you also, Nate. I'm going to put a lot more blame on Nate Oates for all of this in terms of how he's dealt with it. I would say, yeah, in this circumstance, a bad guy, I would say, 40 Brandon Miller's fault. 60 Nate Oates fault, yes.

Yes, um, all right, so wait, uh. When we talked about football there for a second, I had a thought that popped in my head, talking about how bad our teams are. And I want to throw it out there as long as this is the trust tree, so maybe no one repeat what I'm about to say outside of these walls. I had a thought that popped in my head.

It's a scary thought. It's something I don't want to happen, but I also have played it out in my head and it would be kind of exciting. The Bears trade the number one pick. We all expect that if they don't, they should just burn the whole franchise down.

It's a smokescreen. The Bears trade the number one pick. The bears also trade Justin Fields. Then you just get loaded, then you have like eight first round picks.

And here's the reasoning. And again, I don't want you to happen. I just feel this is the guy, I'm just saying this. You'd become the Falcons, your entire team, I'm just saying this.

I'm just saying this because there is a theory out there. When you're talking about like the Eagles, Jalen hurts they the Eagles were able to load up.

A cheap contract with a quarterback? The Bears are in a weird situation where they have to get kind of good this year. To see if Justin Fields really is that franchise quarterback, I think he is, but you have to. There still is some holes in this game, I'm fully admitting that, so you have to get kind of good to get to that point.

And then, to get to that point, you would then be in year four and start running the clock on, like.

To pay him a lot of money. What if they said, we've wasted two years of this financial flexibility of a young quarterback? What if we just strip it all the way down and get all the picks and have all the cap and kill Williams? Drake Mays coming up and you do that again. I do not want this to happen. The thought came in my head. Because this is what we do as stupid sports fans. Where you're just sitting on a Friday night and your brain is wandering.

What, you're watching a movie and you're thinking, like, what if the bears do this? That's literally what was happening. The problem with that is, if you're the GM of the bears and you hit that big reset, then it's then you're you. Put yourself on a clock, too. It's the craziest move, it's a crazy move, but it also you could talk yourself into how crazy it is. You've been watching Draft Day?

It's so crazy. It might be smart. By this logic, are you basically saying that the quarterback position is like the running back, Billy?

That's what we've started. We started that take, like a month ago with Brock Purdy. It's like, you don't, you don't even need a good quarterback to be good at quarterback. No, no, it's.

You still need a very good quarterback, but there is a like. It is pretty clear. You either have a really great quarterback Patrick Mahomes, Joe Burrow, Josh Allen, like, whatever, you know, Smith, Gino Smith, or you have a a very good quarterback. So he doesn't have to. All world great, but a very good quarterback. On a cheaper deal and you can load up around them.

But then you, then I would point you to recent history and look at teams that have won Super Bowls and look at their quarterbacks. They're pretty good. Yeah, no, they are, but I would then point to you, Aaron Rogers, and say teams that lost Super Bowls, they went through this model.

Yeah, no, no, it hurts. Jimmy Garoppolo I guess he was a little more expensive, but not as expensive. Yeah, no, it's actually. It is a great model to get to a Super Bowl and lose to a better quarterback, to lose a Super Bowl.

But I you, you wouldn't take losing a Super Bowl right now. Oh, I'd love to. I would love to if I lose a Super Bowl. That's that's dream. Sir. I mean, you, if you told me I could lose the next three Super Bowls and be like, sign me up.

Yeah, I mean, that's title town, that means I can win three NFC Championship games. Yeah, that actually, that would total up.

If you have, if you have three seasons a row, losing means that you have what? Uh? 18 months of pure joy in your life over the next three years. Including depending on, like, if you get the buy or not, you have, like, I don't know. Uh, like, seven to nine playoff wins, yeah, the bills had. They had no idea how good they had it in the late eighties, early nineties, they had some great football.

There's some great home games in the playoffs. I mean, it is true, I mean, now they're, they're, they're semi-back. But like it, you wish, you wish you'd known, known. It was a good old days, when the good old days were happening.

There was a bleak, oh man, 25 years in there. Losing Super Bowls would be so fun. right now, the Cowboys would kill to lose.

Oh my God, Jerry Jones do anything. What do you say, Billy? Who's your quarterback then next year?

It's so it's a total like reset of everything again. I don't want to do this. I think Justin feels very good. I think they should keep my big my my. Official stance is if the Bears don't trade the first round pick or the first pick overall for more picks, everyone should be fired.

And I want to keep Justin Fields, Justin Fields also. Kill Williams and Drake May are both very, very good quarterback prospects. We glossed over. Justin Fields was on the show, but he did say he hates playing in cold weather and he wants to, yeah.

And he loves Aaron Rogers. Yeah, what if you trade Justin Fields, keep the number one pick and take Anthony Richardson? Oh, shut up, that's the point is, don't do that.

No, no, no, no, no, just throwing it out there. No, that'd be awesome. Why don't you waste the pick? Go deeper?

Max dug it No, it'd be trading just fields for multiple first round picks, trading the first pick for multiple first round picks, and then you have. Basically, I'm saying, I want the process, cause I always have thought that as much as everyone made fun of the process, the process was fun. Because it gave a very clear strategy to the fans, being like, here's the plan.

Cause that's what happens a lot in sports is a team will tank and then, like, a team will tank. And then the owner will be like, Fuck this, I don't like this anymore. Like, we have to start doing better.

So then they signed a bunch of contracts that aren't very good and they get a little marginally better. I liked being like, Hey, we suck, we're going to suck. But oh my God, once we get to the promised land, it's going to be incredible.

You know, what's funny is is we can, we can, we can argue, so that's the thing is. Like, we can talk about whether the process worked in Philadelphia. But I'm more of a process guy. So I'm actually going to take the side of the process of the process worked. Yes, the results of the because the process, the process was in place.

You just happened to take Ben Simmons and Markel Fultz with your first Jason Tatum instead of Jason Tatum. Whereas if you just appreciate the process of the process, it works. Yeah, no, he did everything that was planned. It's just the actual picture of the hard part. We're getting double processed on this.

That's where it's like, this move that I just talked about for the Bears would be very stupid. Because the the actual like plan of finding the players is the hard part, getting the picks, anyone can get a bunch of picks. That's how the Celtics team was basically constructed. They had like three years where we just had going into the draft.

It was like we have 15 draft picks and then Danny would just trade them for other draft picks, and then eventually now we're here. He even admitted that he thought it was like it was actually kind of some luck. Because he didn't think that the Nets when they traded KG and Paul Pierce to them would be as bad as they were. And you guys are losing.

To a final and lose? Yeah, not for me, but that's your guys, you know, goals, I understand. Yeah. Did you not have fun last year?

No, I did I get it. That was a fun ride for you, it was an amazing ride, you think about it.

I want, I want to close your eyes and think about how fun that spring, summer I've experienced it. I'm not going to, I know, I don't want to like, you know, rain on your parade, I know what you guys want. It's not as fun as winning, but it's still fun.

Very fun, but once you win, it's like, you just want to win. You guys have to get to that point.

No, we're losers, we are officially losers. I'm actually like, we're such losers that, in our wildest dreams of winning, we still lose. That's the best, yeah.

Yeah, like, I'm trying to think of what's a fair hypothetical I get for the next 50 years. I said that your team can win one Super Bowl, but the rest of the the the 49 years they won't go to the play. That would suck.

Or, in the next 50 years, your team can lose 15 Super Bowls.

I would take one, I don't know, because what a run that would be. Losing 15 Super Bowls, this is kind of a mini dynasty you get to go to, like, just think about how fun Super Bowl week would be.

This is this is dilute. Cause we've actually. This is great because we both had the thought about how bad our teams are independently. And then we've stumbled upon this hypothetical. That just shows how rock bottom we are. I actually think that the highlight of my next year in sports is going to be being ecstatic when Christian Yellow loses the home run.

Derby Yeah, it doesn't back. Yeah, fuck man.

Billy, you feel bad for us. As as Bears and Commanders fans, No, not anymore. Okay, all right, cool. I actually had some kid come up to me.

I can't remember it was super weak. He's like, I wanted to fuck. I'm a jets fan. Lifelong gesture.

I want to fucking fight Billy. In that moment, we were riding high, we were like cheese heads and green, but it never, that's right. It was after that.

It was come on, yeah, it never, it never be that high. Um, I was thinking about Aaron Rogers Darkness Retreat that he just got out of a little bit more over the weekend.

I think he, it's the same thing as doing a death simulator.

For a prolonged period of time, but it wasn't even that long of a time. But I think, like your body, if you just don't see any light for two, three days at a time, you probably get that DMT hit. Your body thinks that you're dead. Yeah, but again, he went for two nights.

Yeah, that's the craziest part. Oh, we had, we did have. We also had. Russell Wilson, uh, more Russell Wilson, uh, like, clean up, the post-mortem, the post-mortem. It's just basically any Russell Wilson hater. Just keeps getting like, a new, a new video just dropped on you.

Porn, Come read it on the Athletic. Russell Wilson had his own office and everyone thought it was weird it was. It's so basically talked about how everything fell apart, uh, in this past year, Uh said that he asked for an ultimatum on his way out of. Before the Seahawks got traded, he asked for Pete Carroll and John Schneider.

Is that right? Is that his name? Uh, to get fired? So basically, you, you know them, or me situation. The Seahawks smartly were like, Well, okay, you, you're gone and we'll get a bunch of picks for it. Went to, Uh, Denver had his own staff in the building, had his own office upstairs.

And and and teammates were like he was, he told us all we had. He had an open door policy, yeah, and one of the anonymous sources was like, You know, what's an open door policy? being at your locker? Yeah, locker.

Yeah, yeah, everyone has an open door policy. It is very bizarre to, like, go up to your teammates being like, just so you know, you can always come and talk to me, yeah.

No shit upstairs and also make an appointment with my manager to see if I have time. So he's on his own floor, like it's. It was like the Bernie Madoff thing, where you have the secret floor where all the bad shit happens. So it was like him and Hackett upstairs and all the coaches and the, uh, the side. He had a whiteboard that was as big as the wall where he would just.

For himself to read, decorated like it was home goods. And, uh, the players could come up to the second floor if they wanted to. And before Hackett was fired, did he have office hours? He did have office hours before before Hackett got fired. Latavious Murray reached out to Sean Payton and asked Sean Payton, like, Hey, Sean, come to Denver, me and my backfield teammate, we want you there. And Sean Payton was trying to think of, like, what other running backs on the team he could be talking about.

He's like, What, who are you talking about? he actually wrote, and Latavious said number three, which? That was the week before they got their ass kicked by the Rams. Remember when Baker dropped like 51 on them? Yeah, that was.

That was so. Nathaniel Hackett was still the coach of the team, while players on the team were reaching out to Payton and saying, Hey Russ, and I want you to coach this team next year. Yeah, it was, um, I actually went away feeling bad for Nathaniel Hackett. um, I would like to get him back on the show.

I was thinking about it just to be like, if he could laugh about it and be like, Yeah, I was. I wasn't ready for that job. I think it would be fun. But he, his biggest crime, Nathaniel Hackett, was. He walked into a situation where he just wanted to please everyone and he wanted to please Russell Wilson.

And he wanted to kind of be his buddy, not his dad. That's what you get. Yeah, first time head coach, you don't come in and you're not going to lay down the law, he said. He wanted it to be like, collaborative, and that Russell Wilson wanted it to be kind of the Kyrie Irving model.

On the nets, the players helped coach the team, so it was Russell Wilson that was installing his own plays, along with the help of his quarterback coach. And they were giving input on what the play calls were going to be. To Nathaniel Hackett, he was like, cool.

Yeah, you know, I'm not like the other coaches, I'm the fun coach, right? You can come talk to me.

I'm right, I'm cool, I want you guys succeed. So that didn't work at all. Now Peyton's coming in, and Peyton's going to be like, Okay, new sheriff in town, get your quarterback coach out of my facility.

I'm going to be calling the plays because that's what I do as a head coach. I also love that. Uh, he was basically, uh, at the. I think it was the last two weeks of the season. They got rid of Russell Wilson's office, like, maybe it was a bad idea.

Um, little, little, too, too little, too late. I mean, that situation. I do you think he had his name on the door? Uh, maybe. It probably said Mr. Unlimited, Yeah.

Mr. Unlimited, come please come see me if you need, if you need. Anything like that has to be the most awkward situation to be. Like, like, imagine if I walked in one day? I was like, Listen, anything you need, you can always come to me. No, we're, we're teammates. Dude, what are you talking about?

Yeah, like, that's what he was doing to his teammates, just so, you know, like, I'm, yeah, I. If you have any concerns or questions, just give me a call. It's just going to be me and our HR rep.

And we're just going to, you know, talk like normal guys, pft. If you a quick run through of the ads with you before we tape the show, I'm happy to do that. That's awesome, it's very, very thoughtful of you.

No shit, his teammates are like, What the fuck is this guy on? Yeah, so, uh, yeah, that was a that was a cool story to read I'm looking forward to. I'm going to access some more content on my Athletic Premium Plus account to get the details.

You guys don't get. Yeah, I have, I have that thought of premium, do you? yeah, but do you have premium plus? yeah.

What would it gets? The podcast? No, you. The credit check is credit check, it's a four 99 a month, $400 a month. I just get all the information, the secret stuff that's like, very deep.

Got it? Yeah, you probably, I probably don't have. You need a letter of recommendation from three current subscribers and one editor. Yeah, and yeah, there's like a blood oath ceremony, right?

Yeah, yeah, we're not actually. But Hank, can you delete this part from the podcast? I'm not allowed to do violated my NDA? I actually do like the athletic.

It is funny, though, that, uh, not funny because people lose their jobs. It like, I saw that that Dork Stuart Mandel, uh, who hated the barstool sports, like saying that, uh? The Pac 12 is losing and losing RS or no teams are losing RSN. So, like the like, Ballet Sports isn't going to cover this team or whatever the day that the Athletic he's the college football editor.

The day the Athletic lost the writer for the Wash, for Washington Huskies and Virginia Tech hokies. Like the the idiocy of him to say that be like, look at all these teams are losing a great coverage while they're cause the Athletic.

This is my favorite part of the athletic, actually is the post-mortems that go on. They did one with Urban Meyer last year. I love when things are happening. It's like, we always think about hard knocks, but I can't wait to watch this on hard Knocks later, when shit gets super dysfunctional with NFL teams, I just can't wait to see that. Like, real clean font from the Athletic come out in three months, where they talk about all the shit that went down.

Yeah, I mean, Stuart Mandel, you're a Dork. Uh, you are, you're a dork. I'll put out some screen grabs from my Premium Plus stuff on Twitter so you don't have to subscribe to them.

I'll, I'll pass that along. Remember when he tweeted about how, uh, upset he was and the gassed he was? That the the vaunted Bowl, uh, world was getting like sullied by by the international sports name? And you just owned him. You're like, Yeah, it's not like we have a bowl sponsored by the company.

Yeah, Lockheed, Lockheed Martin. Lockheed Martin's business model is to figure out how to kill as many people as possible, as efficiently as possible. But damn, those guests that ask, Guys, have a bowl? Yeah, this is the end of the world.

That's a that's dork behavior. I'm not saying anything mean about him, he's just a dork. Um, all right, wow.

Oh, should we talk about Jake Paul, Tommy Fury? real quick? Yeah, I'll be honest. When it comes to Jake Paul fights, I don't. I don't really care about Jake Paul. But I am interested in watching the hype that's been built up around him, and specifically fighting a a trained boxer, really, for the first time.

And I can put that in quotes for for Tommy Fury, because Tommy Fury's opponents leading into this fight had a total record of 24, 176. And five, yeah, that includes you have Gingis and Dredge, yes, who had a lifetime record in boxing of 10, 102 and three.

Yeah, he's lost 102 professional boxing matches. Yeah, that's hard to do. It's very and then, uh, Callum Eda was zero, 26 and two. And then press my slaw.

BNN was two and 26.

And then another guy, that was Owen, 12. So and this is what happens in boxing, you? Obviously they do this a lot with anyone, any young boxer. They want to get you as many wins as possible before they challenge you with someone legit.

I, I was the Skip Bayless tweet for this fight, I was. I was wrong about being wrong. Because I've always stood on the stance that Jake Paul like, it's nice what he's doing. The minute he fights. A real boxer, he will get beat. Unfortunately, I didn't think Tommy Fury was a real boxer.

Cause I saw him fight in Cleveland and he fought Jake Paul's sparring partner, who was like eight inches smaller than him, and he struggled for four rounds. So that was my miscalculation, yeah, but I was right about my original take that once Jake Paul fought a real boxer, he would lose.

I just didn't think Tommy Fury was a real boxer, so now my updated boxer rankings are Jake Paul last, Tommy Fury second to last. Jake Paul is like the best amateur boxer in the world.

Yeah, or one of them should fight Bobby Line. Yeah, like that would be a great fight, or Billy.

Yeah, or Billy, I'd take that fight, no shit.

Holy Fuck, No, no, no against Jake Paul. Yeah, you should fight Bobby.

No, I don't want Billy. I don't want Billy to die. come on guys. Uh, but yeah, I, I always Billy would never fight. He's a cop, right?

Yeah, I never fight a cop, he's not a cop. Um, I always thought that Jake Paul would lose when he when he went up against a real opponent. Because it's just boxers are different breed. Like hand, hand, speed, all these things.

And it just unfortunately, I didn't think Tommy Fury was a real boxer. His, his, uh, his bet paid off. Basically, him dodging him for that one fight, that whole drama around getting a green card, basically. Because he was connected to organize crime with the Fury family. Like that, dodging him for all that time paid off for Tommy. And, like Haseem, Rockman would have killed Jake Paul, Yeah.

Any boxer like they were doing that weird weight stuff with the same Rockman. He's like, they're basically trying to make me like, not be able to rehydrate back to the full weight they were. Jake Paul was trying to mess with Rockman pre fight so that he couldn't perform to his best in that fight.

So, I mean, it does set up the perfect rematch because I think more people are going to be interested in this. I don't want, I don't want to see a rematch at all. Because at the end of the day I watched it and I was like, these guys both suck. Yeah, so I I I do not. I'm not interested in a rematch.

I mean, bad boxing is still good, visuals, really bad boxing, yeah, is different, rough and rowdy coming up on Friday night.

That's March 3rd. Because you don't know, you don't know what to expect. Like, actually, the the worst, uh, rough and rowdy bouts. I think we have 20 plus fights on Friday night, it's going to be incredible.

Uh, in West Virginia, every single time we do a rough and rowdy, it's so much fun. Usually, the fights that are the least entertaining are the guys that know how to box the best. Do you know what I mean? Because they?

They're trying to set up the jab and stuff. So when, when. You have guys who actually know what they're doing. A little bit, like Jake Paul and Tommy Fury, but they aren't good enough to be great boxers. Snooze Fest Wait, didn't Drake put 400 grand on on Jake Paul?

Yikes, I think maybe I, I might've made that up. Hank, you're saying yes. Is he poor now? yeah.

Drake's poor, he's poor now, poor, he's a broke boy. Memes like that one.

The conspiracy, the conspiracy part of Twitter. Do you mean you? Yeah, no, no, I look, I am now, you know, giving the warning that this is a reply guy, reply guy. It is funny that we basically, you know, after, um, January 6th. They had all those articles being like the making of someone who was like, in QAnon, like, how did this person get here? We're playing that out.

Live every time Billy's in Billy's brain, but you know how you see the devolution of a brain? The people were talking about the Tyson Fury fight, there was a.

Anderson Silva They were saying, like, Oh, they're fixed fight, they're saying that. Jake Paul, in order to sell the next fight, purposely knew that it would be bad if you won this fight. No, see how that makes zero sense.

That makes zero sense, no, but it sells the truth, it sells the because no one would want to watch this. No, it doesn't, because this is what I said. This was going to be a fight for Jake Paul to prove that he can beat a real boxer, and then he would get a real real boxer afterwards.

So this just kind of like it pops the balloon of Jake Paul's growing like profile and boxing, where now he has to go back and start over from scratch. And so no one out there can actually say with a straight face that Jake Paul could compete in professional boxing. I watched this match, I watched the whole fight and at no point was like, I want to see this again. I think casuals might.

I don't, I. I I think the storyline's better. For a second. Yeah, that's like if he beats out on the set, they would probably sell more for the second one. Yeah, that's what I think.

So I don't know, I don't know. So diving into Billy's conspiracy brain because we didn't even talk about the Anderson Silva fight. You can, you can, you can spin that either way though, depending on where you're at.

I don't think there's a massive conspiracy. Like A.J. Brown's tweet, Do you see that on Friday, where he said that? We haven't been to the moon because we've never been back to the moon? Imagine if the U. s government sent people to the moon like every month? People be like, why the fuck are we spending millions of dollars to go to the moon instead of spending that money back here?

You can play that either way to be conspiracy. So, like Billy, with your point, if if Jake Paul had, if, if he had won this fight, I'm telling you right now that his next fight would be much, much bigger. But now it's that he lost. Then you could just pull it out of your ass and say, well, no. His fight's going to be better next time because it's a rematch. No, but like, for example, we didn't talk about the Anderson Silva fight yet.

Like this, this Tommy, this matchup is the most profitable matchup. Would have gone to another boxer after this, who do you think he would have kept up? It would have what PFT is saying and I agree with. Like Jake Paul's, the entire premise was he's going to shake up the boxing world by slowly building up to real boxers. This was his first real boxer.

And it's what? What was the records of guys that he put? 24, 176 and five? Like, if he had beaten him, then he gets another step up, then he gets another step up. But I don't think the next step would have been as big of a market of people wanting to buy it. Maybe that's what I'm saying, cause?

Like some, I just know personally I did not. Yeah, I watched it and I was like, if this happens again, I don't cause the the. The reason why I tuned in this time was to be like, Can Jake Paul beat a real boxer?

Also, he threw way like his punch output was so low. Jake Paul in the fight, it was like he was, uh, Tommy had 350 punches.

He only had 157.

I mean it, probably when you fight a real boxer, it's probably a lot harder to to time it. And also be like, Fuck, I could get hit at any moment and a guy your size and age, yeah, yeah.

Um, so yeah, I feel like no one won that one. Yeah, well, that fight. Jake Paul. I like, I've always liked Tommy Fury, so I'm happy, yeah.

You're a big Tommy Fury guy. Why is that? Uh, I watched his season of Love Island and I wasn't, you know, not a huge reality guy, but I got sucked into it. And I, Oh, by the way, Hank, since we're on you before we get to who's back of the week in Christian theology? Uh, would you like to talk at all about, uh, you? Just stopping on the grave of Philadelphia? They've already been buried in a Saturday night that credits the N.BA.

These Saturday games are fun to watch, like they do a good job with the matchups and everything. Uh, but just a perfect way for Philly. Like, the embiid shot was so fucking crazy and it didn't count.

Jason Tatum Ice cold killer How do you feel knowing that you just killed a bunch of people that are already dead? I feel great. I mean, my my rivalry with Philly is really rooted in the Celtics and Sixers. Obviously, there was a Super Bowl a few years ago.

That kind of, you know what happened? The Eagles beat the Patriots, but the Patriots have also beat the Eagles, so that's just a one one match. But, you know, me and Max's contention and shit talking is always around. The Celtics and Sixers, they've, they've had a lot of playoff matchups in the past few years, so it's a it's a very fun rivalry to watch the Celtics win.

Every single time they were down like 15.

Maybe that's why it's fun for you. Great, great fourth quarter, fourth quarter, comeback, great.

Uh, Brad Stevens, you know, out of the timeout call. They asked him afterwards, like, how'd you come up with that? He just said, I stole it from Brad, Uh, and then embiid. That was when he hit that shot, it was like, no fucking way, and then it was just a just a second second.

He knew it, too, he was in the locker room before they even reviewed it. You remember? I think it was last year or two years ago when Embiid had that one full court heave from basically the foul line, it almost went in. He's he now has two of the best last second misses of all time.

Yeah, it was so cool and Max is still on vacation. I'm going to call him real quick, cause he was upset that you were memeing him so hard.

Not even hard, you know? I saved obviously the the the Eagles losing the Super Bowl. There was some very, very funny memes made by the Awl. I saved a couple of them and then when they lost, they were. It was so recent that they were just at the top of my.

Uh, yeah, he is still on vacation. I the biggest takeaway from that game? A six or so playoff series would be the best. If you're rooting for content for this show, it would be it'd be us versus Max. Cause of Blake, right? Insane.

Yeah, yeah, I guess so I would just watch, I'd watch you guys just kill each other. Hey, do you support interrupting Max's vacation right now?

Max, Sorry to interrupt your vacation. We need to, we need to comment real quick on the game.

I didn't watch it. Okay, all right, thank you, all right.

See you tomorrow.

Hello, how's it? He did watch it. I know he watched it cause we were texting with him after, Um, yeah, I sixers court looks six, too.

I'm not, I'm not just a huge fan of their court, their uniforms. disgusting. Court looked great. What would be the funniest outcome? Celtics Series? I whopping No, I think it would be. I think it would be a sixers three one lead blowing it.

That would be the funniest content. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, shut up hank. That would not be good content. Think about for the people.

Yeah, a game seven, the Sixers being up three, one Max being like, we've won it, it's over and then you guys coming back and winning in game seven would be. I mean, he would maybe quit.

I mean, uh, three, nothing come back would be better. Yeah, if that's the case, yeah, holy shit.

I think four oh sweep would be, yes, fuck you, you see, you don't, you don't care that. And that's why we, no, you don't care about the people. That's all I care about.

A three a three one comeback. Dock Rivers actually throwing up on the court in Game seven as the Celtics beat them. That's the other funniest wrinkle of it all is that the Sixers fans hate Dock Rivers. Yeah, no, J right. We'll be there, coach.

So, uh, all right, we covered a lot. It's a great weekend of sports sports, it's a sports podcast, it's a lot of fun.

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It's incredible. I don't know, I don't know where this came out of, but they're, you know, they spend more than any other franchise. I think in pro sports, yeah.

It's insane, I mean, in baseball, it's it's sometimes as simple as just having an owner that wants to win games. You, and if you're rich enough, you can absolutely just buy your way into winning games. Yeah, Manny Machado, Taddeus Jr. Soto Bogarts, You Darvish.

It also um Nelson Cruz Carter, I mean, there's they're beyond stack. I feel like part of it was the Blake Snell, the Padres, all right.

So they did so, so Pete Seidler bought the team in. Uh, let's see for the first project, so it looks like 2020. If I have that right, uh, maybe, so, maybe that's why I don't really have my ownership, uh, groups, correct?

But I think the Padres, once they brought back their old uniforms, their owner was like, This is sick. Why don't we have a good team? Yeah, it's a great color scheme, yeah.

Right, the dark brown, the yellow, they rock pinstripes every now and again. Yeah, yeah, uh, maybe. They purchased it in 2012..

I might have that wrong either way. Yeah, they're spending fun money, it's crazy, it's insane.

What are they going to do about Tatis? What's Tatis up to these days? Be a good boy, please. Yes, he's got to be unsuspended.

What 50 games or something? Yeah, I think he had a Yeah, he should be back, he should be back.

Just please stop doing that, I think, is all they're going to say. I think I think the Padres, they're going to be the most fun team in baseball this year. Yeah, that was her baseball preview.

Yeah, which we did with Ryan as well, that's true. Yeah, uh, who? who's? uh who? what's your who's back by?

Who's back in the week is Sam Heard? Yes, we might've spoken this into existence last week in our Cocaine Bear preview, but Sam heard. Has been released from federal penitentiary in Bastrop, Texas, after serving a 10 year sentence for distributing cocaine and marijuana. Just like copious amounts of cocaine.

And I mean that, even like as a Dallas Cowboys wide receiver. He was into significant amounts of cocaine and so he's out of prison. Timing is very suspicious with the release of cocaine bear. A lot of people are saying that this judge might've taken some money to do some guerrilla marketing for the movie. It's like that woman who was sitting in the M.L.B stands staring at people last year.

Yeah, whatever movie that was, or when the Clowns were a big thing in 2017, for for it or it as we called it. What was the what was the coke that, just like, got us orange vanilla? Oh, remember that whopper, whopper, whopper, whopper, remember that whole March madness?

Orange vanilla Coke Yeah, yeah, what was the song Orange vanilla Coke?

Yeah, yeah, that sounds right. Yeah, so this is no way.

Yeah, it's viral marketing, it's going to bother me, I'm going to look it up, yeah.

They had those guys sitting in the stands and shit, yeah, so so. Sam Heard is officially out of prison. The Cowboys should sign him like.

It'd be very funny if Sam Heard got back into the NFL after all this. Yes, I'd agree, bring him back, why not? Where's the where's the orange coke?

Let's see. And so he was. I think we talked about it last week. He was trying to move like millions of dollars of cocaine at a time, which is, I mean, you gotta have dreams, you gotta have goals and ambition. And he knew that he wasn't going to be the best player in the NFL. So he's like, I might as well be the best drug dealer in the NFL. Which he was on on pace to do.

Um, but credit to him for having some ambition. Also for for getting out of prison after 10 years. Yeah, that's gotta be such a great day, huh? Being in prison 10 years, you get out, there's a movie about you.

There's a movie about you coming out. I think first thing you do after you get out of prison in a 10 year sentence. I would probably just go go to McDonald's, get some fries. Yeah, get a big Mac, yes.

Get a huge. I think you go fast food immediately and then you have like, a big dinner later on after that, where you go get a nice steak. But you just you stop at the first fast food restaurant you see, yeah.

Can someone find this? This is going to drive me nuts. What are you looking for? Orange vanilla?

No, this isn't it.

I think I was right, I think it's orange vanilla. Coke. Yeah, kinda, you're kinda right.

I don't know, there was one ad, someone will send it to me. Do you guys know this? It was like, nonstop.

Was it 2019? maybe.

Now we're just playing commercials. I like this, this is good podcasting, no free ads. How did these guys do it?

We just start playing music or ads. Okay, wait, orange vanilla coke, you got the green light.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, fucking orange vanilla coke.

That racked my brains that what will be the ad this March, man? This was always one cause it's just the the only time I know that we had the watery, yeah.

We had the one, yeah, we had the whopper, whopper all fall. But March madness is a one time of year where it's like, you do watch 18 hours of TV straight for four days, and you just see every ad for a while.

It was impractical. Jokers, they were everywhere. I feel like Chris Paul and Rogers Mahone. Oh yeah.

Something's going to make us want to kill. I'm excited to see the new gym dance. Charles Barkley Oh, yeah, they do it every, yeah.

All right, my who's back of the week is live golf? yeah, but no one's watching it, so live golf is back.

Uh, it was broadcasted. So Greg Norman last year said there were four networks that were in a bidding war for live golf. Um, ended up being. CW was the network that won out of the four networks. uh, you might remember CW from Great Network Broadcasting. What one tree.

Yeah, would they? Did they do martial sports advisors for a year in Philadelphia? Yeah, they did. yeah, yeah.

Seventh Heaven, Yeah, so it got a 0.2 rating. Um, on CW, it was outrated by world's funniest animals and by the Barstool Sports Mini Golf Adventure. Yes.

I think we got unofficially, unofficially, but uh, yeah, Live Golf is back, and no one's also. I don't know if we ever talked about it, but uh, it's very funny that Live Golf doesn't have the Twitter handle, Live Golf. Yeah, do you know who has it?

Yeah, it's a girl named Olivia Olivia Powling in South Wales. She's a junior golfer, age 17, and her Twitter handle is Live Golf. MBS is going to have his goons pay a little. How has she not gotten the bag?

Yeah, I'm my four year old son. Chris walked in the other day and he was like, Dad, the aces are playing. Yeah, can we watch the aces? He's a big aces.

I don't know why they thought, like, golf is not a team sport. No, it's never going to be a team sport. No, I was Ryder Cup every two years, but that's that's not teams, that's that's countries, it's America.

Yeah, people are watching for America on that one. Yeah, they even try to do the way with the President's Cup, no one can really get into that.

Cause what is it? It's America verse. Uh, the Southern hemisphere. Yeah, I think it's the rest of the world, no, everybody, except for Europe.

Yeah, it's the rest of the world that's like, come on, no, we want to, we want to beat the fucking want to beat those guys. So I've, I've been the golf bonus.

Europe is the official what? yeah, rest of the world minus Europe, yeah.

Yeah, I, I. The golf bug bit me big time. I've been practicing a lot. I think I'm not going to try to, you know, get on the PGA Tour. I'm not trying to become a pro in that way, but I think I would be, I think I'm going to make myself open for the live tour.

Yeah, that's my goal is to have. It's going to be breaking a hundred mil. Just give me, just pay me, yeah.

And I mean, you think the live tour would be interested in a washed up podcast? Absolutely, someone used podcaster as a slur at me today, but I didn't like it. Yeah, it's our word.

Yeah, it was very, it was very. What did he say? With an A at the end? You're a Jake Paul Stan, 40 year old podcaster. Oh god.

Yeah, it was fucked up, that's our word. Even Billy wouldn't say it, he says. All those uh the uh, yeah.

Uh, by the way, speaking of golf, we will have our full swing review on Wednesday. So if you haven't watched it, it's on Netflix. It's awesome. We're going to have a couple of guys on who maybe were featured, so get excited.

Drive to Survive is also back. And I watched the first episode and I was racking my brain on what happened. And I actually don't.

Fizzled out on that. I'm excited to see what happens. Yeah, yeah, full swing.

The the, the. We will do the full review, but just a quick review is. Oh, this was a fun memory lane of all the times I lost money betting on Wills out. Yes, fucking yeah. I remember where I was just because I was a witness. They're like, Oh, yeah.

We'll sell tourists on the leaderboard. I was like, God, fucking damn it. He was always around. This year, this is the year for sure this is. I will bet him in every major until he wins a major.

That is a guarantee. I'm going, I'm going Willie Z and Max Max for the Masters. Yup, yup, uh, okay.

Bill you, who's your? who's back? bones? Bones are back, our dudes. Uh, so dirty water, don the guy that Donnie does, and I went diving the East River for bones with. he has found a bone.

He found a jawbone of a step a bison, which is just a prehistoric gigantic bison. uh, just like bigger horns, bigger, just like totally prehistoric bison anyway. He found the jawbone in the East River means that it is true. There were tons of bones dumped there.

Is that where you guys were looking? That same location? It's a little, it was a little different of location. And it may have been because of how, I mean, almost a hundred years of tidal waters moving in and out and move some of it. But they might've found, like, sort of the uh, the jetty off where it goes, where they you could find the bone. So they're they found the spot they're looking at more in depth. Rogan Uh posted their picture.

So I mean, they did it. How much money is that worth? Because they were going to be worth, like hundreds of millions of dollars, right? So basically, imagine like you're looking for a treasure chest full of gold coins. They found one coin, right? So then you find the rest of it.

And also, step a bison, you know, uh, bones aren't as valuable as a mammoth tusk, but means that they're sniffing in the right place. Which one did you find? We found a mammoth tusk? Fight? Uh, Halloween, that's yeah. I would like to see any of these fuckers find that.

Yeah.

Can't find it straight from the Halloween store, so we're going to go back. Uh, I, I actually. Now that he's found it, I'm, yeah, you got it, I'm going back. Definitely going to be a bone rush.

Really, this could be you could make millions of dollars. Honestly, I think it would probably go to them. We'll see if I get a cut. You're really bad at negotiating.

All right, we need to talk. Before you get on this boat, you need to have come on, or you need to buy a boat, yeah, or a fleet.

Yeah, yeah, I actually would you guys like to finance another journey, cause then we could. I'm still waiting to get recouped for my initial investment.

I know, but we. They found the bone, so now this is promising, this is good. Basically, Billy found a bone. Wait, wait, do I get a cut of that?

Because I financed his initial mission, well, no, it wasn't the initial. If we found anything that day, I think you'd have claims. But the fact that you're not already just handing me money to go find the bones means that you're not swayed.

You're kind of handing me, like, once in a lifetime and just Benmo, probably not the cash. Um, just. It's easier to move, okay, but I'll consider it, just think about it.

I'll, I'll consider it. Can you give me a proposal? Yes, okay, Billy just walked in and showed you the first Mac computer.

Yeah, do you want to billy? After you're done doing your New York jets, which I'm getting done? Oh, when you guys are back from Indianapolis, it will be done. Oh, okay, I promise deadline this week.

Okay, yeah, it will be done. The full presentation, yes.

It's not just going to be you doing a tick tock green screen of Here's why. This guy wasn't good, This guy wasn't good either, right? So I actually have it totally outlined.

You have till Monday, you have till Monday, and chat perfect the chat GPT will not write this. Is he allowed to help me?

Wait, wait, why? why do you think that the AI thing is a he? Uh, can it help me? Edit? No, but like, just like for grammar and stuff, I don't think I'm way out of bounds to tell you that you cannot have a robot.

Do your project, It's not doing my project, it's just editing my project. Like, you know how much my better my grades would have been if I had this thing? Looking over my essays in college, just like, Correct, here's what I'll say.

I want give us the unedited and edited version, perfect, okay, red line it, yep.

Red line the chat, GBT, all right, and yeah, give me the New York Jets quarterback presentation, then submit your.

Actually, now that I'm thinking about this bone rush might be more time, uh, sensitive. So we got to push the jets back. All right. I mean, you do make a good point because there are going to be people looking for these bones.

Yeah, so as long as you promise that you'll do the New York Jets quarterback, it will be done all right. So give us a complete investment breakdown next Sunday on the bones and then the jets the next week. Perfect.

All right, okay, uh, Jake, uh, my who's back is scoring points? We had the second highest scoring game in NBA history on Friday night. Oh, I saw this. Kings One 76.

Clippers One 75, Delhi 51.

So I had the Clippers and I was like, I'm good. Cause I looked at the score and it was like one 30 to one 23, and there was like maybe three minutes left in the third quarter.

I thought it was the fourth quarter and then I looked back and I was like, Wait, what, this is how the fuck did it? what was it? Double overtime.

One 76, one 75. Jesus Christ, Yeah. Also congratulations to the Kings because in October I had them as the worst professional team in American sports. You gotta, you gotta update that you're all sports power rankings.

I have to update that. But yeah, the Kings are suddenly, like, more than relevant. Yeah. Looking at the box score right now, two players that scored in the forties, Malik Monk and Darren.

Current guest That's true, that's right, yeah. Delhi contributed intangibles to that game.

Yep, did not play? yep, he did, he absolutely did.

He was on the bench for the second highest scoring game in NB.A. and he gave the boys a look in scout team. Yeah, absolutely did. All right. Let's get to our awesome interview with Christian Yelich talking a little more baseball, catching up with him.

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Okay, we now welcome on Very Good Friend of the show. we're current guests. Fourth time on it is Christian Yelich Milwaukee Brewers.

Also, the guy who's going to maybe give us, probably end the show, we should start with that. Um, so for anyone who's new to the show, was it like, four years ago? Uh, Miami at the All-star game? yeah.

We were like.

And you told us, Yeah, I do. Um, the next year you won the MVP and you were supposed to be in the home run Derby and then you hurt your back. A week before it. Which was thankful for us because we said, if you ever win a home run Derby, we will eat each other's ass. Yeah, um, now there's a. There's a little bit of a story to that because there was a video that came out that has been in a poor Christian was in a porn video.

Allegedly, allegedly, you were really tonguing down some fart boxes and, uh, we said to ourselves, Well, your home run swing, it's non-existent. We'll eat each other's ass if you win the home run derby. And we were, we were very nervous for about. There was a three week period where me and Big Cat sat down and we had to figure out, okay, how are we going to be able to eat each other's asses and still continue on with our lives?

How are we going to go forward? So, so, so, let's start there. How is the home run swing feeling and do you think you'll ever get back to being in the home run? It's feeling pretty good, actually.

Yeah, you know what you know, feeling feeling healthy, feeling good. I think that video is honestly how we, uh, started to get to know each other. Actually, yes.

We watched it together, the alleged video. I'd like to point out, um, but yeah, that's still one of my, it's still one of my biggest like regrets. What if moments of my career was not not being able to do that home run derby?

And it was, like, not solely because, like, I wanted to do a home run Derby in my life. It was because of everything that was on the line and all the ways that you guys were scheming up to try and like, get out of that bet and how it was going to work. I was talking to somebody about the other day after we ran into you on the streets here in Scottsdale. And I said. I gave them the backstory and how me and Big Cat were talking about what we would do to get out. And maybe, like, I think we said, we'd like, cut a piece of our asshole, make a chili and then put it into a chili, and then we'd eat the chili, and that would. That would be better.

And they said to me and I felt like the biggest dumbass in the world, like Pft, why didn't? Why wouldn't you just cut like a piece of your cheek off? You don't have to do the asshole the bet. We never said that we'd each other's asshole on the bet. I was like, Oh my God.

Yeah, you're right, we were just focused on the wrong hole. Yeah, and you did have, I mean, that year we hit what 44 home runs, I think was not so great.

After that, what happened? No, dude, I just haven't been on the show in a little while, you know, I think it's you guys were.

The were the key to the oh, you're going to, we're going to use this, you know, everybody.

It'll be like our journey back to the home run Derby. And then I think we got six more. At least six more years left of, uh, of playing, so you guys are, you guys are on the hook for six more years. Oh, geez, I mean, you should have gone with the, uh, this year only bet, which was 2018 or 19..

I forgot, forgot which year it was, but a little bit smarter. And then now all the all the fans of the show are going to hold you guys accountable, which is unfortunate and truthfully. Like I didn't, I didn't want to see that happen. I was going to feel kind of bad if it did happen. And body Junior, he was doing his best to help you guys out.

Cause I think he had like 35 home run in the first round, so there's no telling if I would have, uh, been able to beat him well. And also, Pete Alonzo takes the home run derby way too seriously. So we just need him to just keep competing and, uh, having it be his World series.

That's true. Yeah, he wins that thing every single year. You never know, though. You know, we'll have a maybe we'll be able to, like, pay him off or something. But hey, this year you gotta, you gotta sit out, cause we got a lot of.

Everybody else throw the home run Derby just to see. Yeah, so knowing that you will keep us to this, I think we can be mean back. What happened to your swing? You stopped hitting home runs?

I don't know, man, baseball's a baseball's a hard game. It all, uh, it all went downhill from there. But, uh, you know, it's one of those things. And like I said, everyone likes a good, good comeback story, yeah.

Are you? Did you, uh, lose muscle mass? Are you weaker? I knew you guys were going to, I knew you guys were gonna ask about the steroids, but no, I didn't take the guys. The guy's info that he gave me, he just he never picked up, he never picked up his phone.

I'm offended that you thought that's where I was going with that. But if we're going to bring that up, let's I'm just going to rattle this off real quick. Four home runs, nine home runs, seven home runs, 28 home run, 21 home runs, 18 home runs, 36 44 home runs. Oh wow, then back to 12.

Covid season, Covid season, then nine, then 14.

You were, you did have a couple of injuries in there, but you know, that's Brady Anderson. Christian Yelich. People are saying it's just what was his. He had, like he had 58, nine, 59, back to seven. A little fishier than, uh, you know, ours was kind of going like this. And I think we're right, we're going back in the right direction. Do you are you? Are you fully healthy?

Cause I know you did have a couple injuries the last few years. This is a this is the best I've felt like in a few years, going into spring training and then hopefully keep it that way. Uh, body feels good and swing has been feeling good. Just, you know, putting in more, uh, more baseball time this off season to kind of just iron some things out and get back after it.

So I'm, I've always been curious with this spring training, you know, we know that, like, uh, preseason for football, guys don't like it, they don't like camp, probably the same for basketball and hockey. It feels like spring training is just really fun. Cause you guys get to be in Arizona, you get to golf and then you play like a couple innings of baseball every day and then you just. Cause. We went to the Cubs spring training a few years ago. They would, just like Rizzo, would would bat twice. Then get a golf cart back to the facility and then just be out the door in, like the fourth inning.

Yeah, it's the beginning of spring. Training is fun because it's, uh, you come back, it's good to see everybody again. Like, you really probably haven't seen many of your teammates over the off season, or maybe one or two of them, but everybody's back together again. Uh, excited about a new year starting? And then, yeah, you play like three innings, your first couple of games, and then you have a day off.

And then three days and I mean, day off from playing a game. You go practice in the morning, but if you're not playing the game, you're usually done by 10, 30, 11 o'clock. And then go do whatever till you gotta be back in the morning. I've always liked spring training, yeah, is it true to with spring training? Like the old saying, hope springs eternal.

Like, every time you go to spring training, even if you on a team that maybe doesn't have a ton of talent, you're like, anything could happen here. I've been on plenty of teams where it's like, everyone's got us underrated. No one thinks we can do this, but we're going to win the World Series and then it's September and we lost like a hundred games.

It was like, Ah, I guess it wasn't our year. They all give you like a shirt. Um, back in the day we'd have like, a, we had a. I think it was about the Marlins one year, it was a, it was a shirt, it said. Like, chip right here on the on the shoulder.

And like a bunch of different like sayings and numbers on it, it's like, no one's giving us credit. We got a talented room here. That's 95 losses, yeah.

Our manager got, our manager got fired in, like May, Redmond, he's a great guy. We were all just like, We're sorry, man. We all really liked him. It was like middle of May.

And then, um, it was like the seventh inning. And went back to the locker room to get like a protein bar or something. And like, on the on the TVs in the locker room. Was like, team meeting after the game and we were getting no hit at the time, like, uh, it was like Shelby, Shelby. Miller was throwing a a no hitter against us. He went eight and two thirds and Bore got a hit, actually broke it up.

But in the seventh inning of that game, on the TV screens was a team meeting after after the game. Like, everybody, stick around in the locker room and you could, like, hear it down the hall. And then, uh, the president of the team came in and was like, Yeah, we just, uh, we fired. Mike Redmond. Uh, we're not going to tell you who your next manager is, and you'll find out tomorrow when you come, when you come to the stadium. And that's when they made, uh, that's when the general manager of the team ended up becoming the manager. Um, and so, yeah, that was, uh, ended up not being our season, even though we thought it wasn't spring training. But I kind of, yeah, I kind of circling back every, every, every, all 30 teams.

Um, you know, you think that you got a chance, which is which is great. You know, you like being optimistic going into the season, but you know, realistically, there's like, probably.

When you go into spring training, are there different managers that put you through different drills to get ready for the season? Or is it basically like everyone's working on the same stuff? Like baseball has been around forever, we know what we have to practice to get ready, yeah.

I think most teams probably do like similar things. Each manager has, like their own style. About how laid back it's going to be, or how regimented it is, or what they want to see you guys doing. Uh, and even ours, I get changes every year, like, they're like, Oh, we did this last year.

Or we didn't really like this stuff like scratch, that we're not going to do that anymore. Um, is there any like weird drill that they put you through? You see, like quarterbacks sometimes going out there with giant foam noodles or whatever, and like trying to dodge beach balls like Big Ben.

Oh, outfielders, they kind of give like outfielders, like a lot of time killing things. Because like the infielders and pitchers, they got to work on like bunt defenses. Or, um, you know, whatever it is they're doing, they always have like a ground ball routine that they got to do. And then it's actually important that they figure out like.

Shift things. And then outfielders like you only catch so many fly balls. Or you work on like being around the wall, or, uh, throwing the bases or picking up a ball against the against the wall. It's spring training, you basically like, learn how to play baseball all over again, it sounds so fun.

It sounds like a blast. So speaking of the shift, the new rules this year, um, we think of more hits. Oh yeah, this is good for you, yeah.

I mean, any left handed hitter. It's going to be good because.

A guy that was like, full shift, full shift. Like you're still losing hits because of it. Because basically the teams are willing to give you like a single to to left field, right? Cause they just don't care, cause it's all about run. Prevention is why people shift.

So like, they're like, Oh, if this guy hits a single to left field, he didn't hit a home run, so they didn't score like, it's just a single. And that's why if you've been against the shift, like analytically, teams don't care, it's just more so, like, just don't hit a homer.

Or hit a double? Yeah, yeah, but you did get some shifts because of the you did get some shifts because of the shift as well. You'd get blown up and a ball that would stop in the infield, Grass basically ended up being a hit.

And then, and then you lose the one where you hit a line drive to right field and it hits the third baseman right in the chest. Yeah, what is the new rule? Again? It's you can't, you have to have two infielders on either side of second base.

Yeah, I think, but I don't know if it's like just the base that's dividing it, or like, there's more of. Like a a line that you have to have their feet in the dirt. Yeah, you can't be in the outfield, right? But I think you're going to see. And this is just like a. A guess is like, I don't know if you can, like, have like a guy in motion. You can send a guy from, like shortstop and just have him start running as soon as the pitcher throws.

Like, I don't know if that's legal. That will be exciting, though. Or if you have like a, you could probably do like, I bet you'll see teams that do like a two man outfield, like center fielder and left fielder, and like, move their right fielder to where? Like, the shift guy used to be, oh, you know, if, like, there's a guy that doesn't really hit the ball to left field very much. Kind of just going to be like a chess match. So there's ways around it.

It'll be interesting to see, like if teams get super, super creative with that, I bet. Like a team like the Rays or somebody would do something like that, or like us, that's something like we would probably do too. Yeah, why don't you guys take the catcher?

And when there's two or fewer outs and two are and nobody on base and less than two strikes. You just move the catcher and you put them at second base and you just being the umpire. Because, like, there's still.

Technically, yeah, I'm sure the umpires would be stoked about they'd all be fired up about that. Just having to wear a hundred mile an hour fastballs off the chest, yeah.

How many times you've been kicked out of a game? I feel like you were kicked out last year, twice last year, I think four or five times total, yeah.

Bad attitude? No, honestly, there's been a few times where I'm like, Oh, it was probably deserved. Like a lot of times. They give you a chance, like, especially if they, like, kind of know, like, Oh man, I might've missed it. They give you a chance to, like, stay in the stuff.

But then once you say a few magic words, you cross the line, you get thrown out a lot of times. I mean, I think all of my objections have probably been pretty well-deserved, were any of them intentional, like.

You just didn't feel like playing the rest of the game and want to get home.

Um, no, I mean, I got thrown out in the ninth inning one time last year, it was like ninth inning with two outs. We were losing by like three or four, yeah.

And that one you just most of the time when you get thrown out of the game, you get back in the locker room and you're.

Like, that was not worth it. Um, but yeah, I don't, I don't remember, even I don't even remember what, what they were for. It's all been balls and strikes. for the most part. you can't argue balls and strikes well. One of them was, Uh, I, uh, it was like a check swing.

I kind of, like, dropped my bat and they appealed and they said I went around like, strike three, so my bat was on the ground. Strike three. Obviously didn't agree with it, but I didn't really do anything. I didn't really do anything yet at the time to get thrown out. And so I was walking back to the, uh, back to the dugout. I was like, all right, like I.

Just, you know, it's two outs, just go back to the dugout by. My bat was still on the ground and, uh, the home plate umpire was like, Hey, you need to pick your bat up. And so at that point you have like, two, two choices.

You either pitch out and be like, Okay, pick up your bat, or you just say, you fucking pick it up.

You get thrown out of the game.

I think there's more than those.

That's what I said, obviously, you know what's coming as soon as you say that, like, you have that moment of where you've got to decide. Like, am I picking this bat up or am I getting thrown out of the game? It was just like, Fuck, I'm getting thrown out of the game. And so when you get thrown out, though, you get a. You get a letter from the Like, the commissioner's office, like stating, like, cause, the umpires have to write a report every time. Uh, you get thrown out of the game and it tells you in the letter, like, what you did to to get thrown out as like in quotations.

And I forgot what mine said. Um, but it said something like, at which point, like, you were told to, like, pick up your equipment, and you said, and you said, you fucking pick it up. It's like, I always, I always, uh, save those letters, cause they're kind of funny.

You end up being closer with the umpires that throw you out too. Cause you're just like, Yeah, like, the next day you still see them, cause they're there most of the time. The next series, you'll see them down the road. And you're just like, Yeah, my bad man. Like, I know I deserve no hard feelings like, that's on, that's on me.

And like, it's cool and then you laugh about it down the road. Yeah, did you? did you end up picking up the bat? No, no, no, no.

He picked it up, the bat was still be laying at home plate. American family, you want that exchange, yeah.

I mean, there's two choices there, you either pick it up and you regret that you picked it up when you're back in the dugout. Now I'm going to look at every every player that that actually picks up their own bat after they strike out. It's kind of a beta, yeah.

I mean, I would never do that most times because, or I guess guys would probably do it on like a three, two count. This one wasn't, uh, this was like two, two, or like one, two. So technically like it wasn't like a walk to where the bat would be on the ground. So like, I know why he told me to pick it up because like, three, two, like you thought you walked, you put your back down or something. But I kind of went like this to the third, third base on fire.

And, uh, somewhere on the like, the back kind of, just like, fell out of my hands, right? I might've dropped it, but, uh, do you apologize to you? Are they ever like, Yo, I fucked that up?

Yeah, not when they, not when they throw you out usually, like if there's like, a, you know, they punch you out or something on a. On a ball, that was ended up being a ball.

Cause they get a they get like a scorecard after every game that they do, so they kind of see like the calls they missed. Or like, you could, you could strike out and be like, Hey man, I got, I don't really think I don't. I don't think that was a strike like I had that wherever. And most of them would be like, Hey, let me know.

Like, No, I might've missed it. And you're like, you appreciate those guys, or like, Hey, they'll tell you. Like the next day, like, Hey, man, I got, I messed it up, I missed that one, yeah.

Like, Hey, cool man. Like, I appreciate it, we're all humans. It's a hard game.

You know, the ball's moving a hundred miles an hour. They're trying to do their best, obviously. So when they miss one, like, Hey, dude, you know, I, I messed that up, you're like, Hey, it's all good, dude. Like, no hard feelings.

Like, as long as there's no like animosity, they don't, they don't like target you for anything. No, they're all honestly, they're all really, they're all really cool guys, like, they're all kind of. You get to know a lot of them because you know, especially the longer you play in the league, it's the same umpires every year.

So you develop a relationship with these guys and obviously you're cooler with some than others. But I wouldn't say there's really any, any guys that are too too bad of dudes. So do you not want robot umps? I don't want robot umps. No cause.

I think there's going to be a lot of unintended consequences with that cause. Like if you're just have like a square that buzzes, ball or strike, that you got to have a guy that sets up on one side of the plate. And then this dude yanks a hundred mile an hour fastball all the way across the other side of the play, with the catcher diving, and it nicks the box. Like, that's going to be, that'll be a strike when on. No time ever in baseball history is that going to be a strike. Or pitchers will be able to find a way to like.

Like curve balls or breaking balls, that'll be like in the dirt. That'll clip the bottom of the strike zone, technically, or like the ones that are at the top of the zone, too. So I think there'd be a lot of unintended consequences if it was just like the box, they'd have to figure out a better way to do it.

I don't want robot umps. Also what you were talking about earlier, like, you know these guys, you know the umpires. I do think that there's something to be said for, like, the umpires are kind of good for the character of the game. Yeah, it's part of the game. It makes it feel like you know an actual thing that we're putting on here. Instead of some like Sky Judge overseeing everything.

So I can agree with that. And you get like maps, as like a player like before the game, like the you'll have like a hitters meeting every day before the game, talking about whoever the other team's starting pitcher is. And then you know who the home plate umpire is going to be. And like, where there's a tendency for them to call more strikes opposed to other umpires, or where they call less strikes. And then sometimes you know, like, if an umpire kind of lines up with, like a starting pitcher, likes to do shit like this. This might not be good tonight, yeah.

If we don't have an actual umpire on the field, we need like a dummy that's dressed up as an umpire. Just for the managers to go out and scream at when something doesn't go their way, like, they're not, what are they going to do? Go yell at a robot? I need to see managers like getting right up into an umpire's face, you're going to dress up as an umpire and go out there.

Yeah, I mean, there should be a decoy umpire. I'd go one further. It would be nice if it was a decoy umpire. And it was just Lou Piniella every time.

He was just spitting on people the best. Like. One of the best baseball highlights that there's ever been going around the internet was when Terry Collins, from the Mets, got caught on the mic when Cindergaard threw it at Utley. And he just comes out there and he's just losing his mind. Your ass to the jackpot, yeah.

And Tom Hallion's an awesome guy, he's a great umpire, super good dude. He's just like trying to defuse the situation. But fans just kind of see that on TV or the stands.

They think these two dudes are just going at it, saying super personal shit to each other. But most of the time it's just arguing. And then one guy trying to calm the other guy down, yeah, and he kind of just ran out of things to say, yeah.

Yeah, your ass to the jackpot. He's like, Oh shit, you agree with me? Yeah, Terry, kind of just like, what?

Terry, I'm trying. I don't know what to do. Terry, I'm trying out here. You got to give me a chance, yeah.

But it's so good for the game, though, because people, it's entertaining right at the end of the day, it's an entertainment business, so like, Hey, make things that are entertaining. That's last umpire question.

Did you get Joe West anything for his retirement? No, I didn't. Actually, I actually really liked. I really liked Joe just because, and he was actually like a phenomenal umpire. When he locked it in, like balls and strikes, he was one of the. He was one of the best guys in the league when it was like a, you know, a Sunday night game or a playoff series.

Like, he was really, really good.

But yeah, he was awesome and like, as a rookie, like he would kind of like, test you, like, intentionally do something to like.

And see how you kind of reacted, and if you just like, kind of took it, like, okay, this is just part of like, getting your feet wet. In the major leagues, he would always like you, yeah.

If you kind of, like turned around and like, showed him up, like the pitcher, could throw the next ball halfway up the backstop. It's going to be strike three which? And I always loved Joe and I like all those umpires. And like, side note, like, kind of uncomfortable talking about it. Cause it's such a integral part of your life, you don't want to ever, like, critique them or about you. Because, like, that's definitely not what you know, I'm trying to do or want to do.

Because, like, those guys are in it with us, man, we're all trying to do the best we can. Yeah, um, they're all really good dudes and this is a really, really hard job.

At the end of the day, even though I have been kicked out of a four or five games. We're going to try and stop that, we're gonna try and stop that. Nah, maybe like once a year.

Yeah, it's fun. Can you give us a heads up, like, let us know if there's a game that you like, probably against the Reds or some bullshit team like that that you don't really care about playing against? Uh, you can just give us a heads up. Like, Hey, Thursday, I'm going to get ejected. It's never, you know? I wish it was like a pre-planned thing, or just like, Nah, I want today off.

Like, first inning, I'm getting hucked, yeah, which my first ever ejection was a first inning ejection, and then mattingly, he got thrown out as well. So you're like, Oh shit.

Like, I got thrown out and I just got my manager thrown out in the first inning. And then you have to sit with him. I sat with him in his office, so we were up by five and you're sitting in your manager's office.

It was like the eighth inning, it was on the Marlins, we ended up blowing the lead in the eighth inning. It was like, mattingly me, president of the team, all in his office, watching the game as we're blowing a lead. And you're just sitting there, just like, Fuck, dude.

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And now here's more. ChrisTian Yelich Oh, when you got, when you got traded from the Marlins. How long did it take you to learn all the new, intricate handshakes in the clubhouse when you got to the Brewers? It changes every year. And honestly, I'm not. I'm not like a huge, I'm not a huge handshake guy. That's always been a part of, like, my career, where I needed to, like, step that up.

I don't really have a ton of handshakes with the guy every now and then. There's like three or four guys on the team like I might have something with. But there's guys that have something with everything. Like Bross over there, he's got a handshake with everybody on the team, trainers, coaches, everybody, that'd be so stressful.

When you go like mid season, you arrive on a team. Now it's like, Oh, shit, I got to relearn all that stuff. In addition to everything else, you can always just do the like the DJ, Jazzy Jeff and Fresh Prince. One, which is the yeah, that one, that one always plays. yeah, that one plays.

You got to learn all your new teammates and coaches and everything. Mid-season trade, I got lucky, it was off season trading, that's what spring training's for.

You got six weeks to come up with something. I saw a story. Did you lose a home run derby to Barry Bonds? No, so the media, they love that one.

So what happened? Cause this was obviously when Barry was the hitting coach for the Marlins. Yeah, it was a it was a spring training thing. So we were just hitting, hitting off a curve ball machine on, like one of the backfields. After, like the morning workout, getting ready for the game.

And sometimes guys like to play games where, like, compete against each other. So you have something like where you're kind of like, locked in. Instead of just like, going through the motions with the drill being like, I like, just going to take a few swings and whatever happens. So it was pretty unfair teams, actually. It was like me, Stanton and Barry Bonds, and it was against. I forgot who else, but it was like Jeff Mathis, who's like one of my best friends in the game. But him, whoever else was on the Marlins at the time, but it was like Barry, lopsided teams.

It was like, you're just trying to score runs, so like, and I think Barry was the judge. Whether it was a hit or not. So it was double singles and then obviously home run scores. Um, whatever, whatever points at the time it was. And he hit the most home runs during that drill, actually, still, uh, but it wasn't officially a home run derby, but he did hit the most.

He did swing and miss at the first curve ball. We're all laughing at him like, Oh, you don't got it anymore. And then the next pitch, the next, like five. He had a homer, maybe you still got it. But uh, there was like, some media guys or beat writers, um, kind of off to the side, like watching the thing.

And it kind of looks like turned into like Barry Bonds wins like Marlins home run Derby, which technically he did, but it wasn't a home run derby. And I'm not saying that, I'm not saying that he couldn't win a home run Derby because he couldn't. The game looked super easy for him when he was playing. And he helped me tremendously when I was with the Marlins that he really helped me understand. Like, hitting and how your body works and everything that goes into it.

Yeah, we, we've always heard, because Barry is a pretty private guy. When it comes to the media, there's some reporters, and I think this is like a baseball thing in particular, where some beat reporters. They get mad at people for like, not giving them enough coverage or access, or whatever the case might be. But Barry always seems like he's, I mean, he's obviously a legend.

And when he was coaching, you can you tell us, like, what he's like as a person? Cause I feel like I don't really know anything about Barry Bonds, the person he was. He was really like, funny and fun to be around as a, as a hitting coach for us, and he just. He just understood, like the game and hitting like, different than really everybody else. Or had, like, really good awareness of, like, where his body was at, or what he was trying to do and like, accomplish. Cause, like anybody could, anybody could hit a home run and not necessarily like, understand how that happened.

Like, you could, happens to me all the time. You could, yeah, you could hit a ball over the fence, and you could, like, okay, cool, like that ball went over the fence. It was a home run. But like, how did that happen? What did your body do to, like, allow that to happen, like, mechanically?

And he was kind of able to break that down, explain it, show you, um, and kind of give you like thought processes to help you achieve that with your body. Yeah, which was cool. And, uh, you know, maybe you guys are going to need to bring him out of retirement and enter a home run derby. If, uh, if the day ever comes where I'm fortunate enough to compete in one and be healthy.

How much money would you?

At whatever Barry wants, yeah, and he didn't pretty much pick his number. Just blank check. Maybe we should throw that into, okay.

So if you win the home run Derby, we obviously have to eat your ass, but within where we have to eat each other's ass, I almost had to eat your ass there. But if we can, if we can get Barry Bonds to compete against you within six months of you winning the home run Derby and he beats you, we're out. I mean, it seems pretty fair. I would, yeah.

I don't know how we're going to have to, it's going to be like something I don't even. I think if you guys, like, started a campaign to like fund payment to Barry Bonds. Like, I honestly don't know if people would donate to that. Cause I kind of think they want to see some sadistic bet, but it's, uh, what we're going to end up doing, and this is just the God's honest truth.

We're going to be like, if we eat each other's ass, pardon, my takes over forever, so you guys can vote, and then people will vote and we won't eat each other's ass. It's a good chance that the show sticks around. I think that might be your, that might be your one out. It will, just it will just be. You know what it is is. If we have to end up doing this, it's more like the random silences.

Yeah, like, when we're just sitting in a room together, it's like we'd always know. Yeah, like, Oh, it's like, I know what your butthole tastes like. What's up, dude?

That's not something that you can that doesn't wash away. It's your deepest, darkest secrets. It's something that at the end of the day, like, you're alone with yourself. Somebody said the other day, like your obituary will be written. It'll be, uh, the best thing that you've ever, or no, it'll be the worst thing that you've ever, the best thing that you've ever done.

And in this case, like when I died, my obituary would be like, Yeah, eight, Dan Katz's asshole. Yeah. And then it'd be a tough. It'd be a tough scene. Yeah, it's a tough scene, but honestly, it's weird for me.

Like that, like my association with you guys in this show is like, synonymous with that. Because there's like, it's once a day at least. I'll be walking down the street. And somebody is like, you got to do the home run Derby bro, big cat Pft. We got to get them to pay up every day. It happens every day during baseball season, like at the stadium, I get yelled at every day at the stadium with that.

And then walking down the street, like it happened yesterday at UH, waste management, just like walking around like, Dude, you got to do PFT, you got to do PMT, PFT and Big Cat got to make them pay up. We need you back in the Derby. I'm like, Oh my god, the same would happen to me when you had that insane season.

I every time he had a home run, I'd get tagged in like a hundred tweets. Yeah, Twitter's just he's hot. I get it, I get it.

When you're playing the Cubs, I'm watching it and like, they're just like, Look, you did another home run. It would have been a great day in barstool history, that home run derby. Whether I wondered or not it would have been, it would have been an electric hour for you guys. I know I feel so bad about that.

Like, that was a big part of the disappointment and not doing that Derby, which I don't think a lot of people knew. I was just like, Yeah, I wanted to obviously want to do the home run Derby, cause it'd be cool to compete in it. But just that moment, it's just like you just can't replicate, you know what's on the line there?

And if I remember correctly, I think you texted me like a week before being like, I think I hurt my back. And I was like, he's fucking with us. Yeah, it was a few days before because, uh, yeah, I was hitting and playing and like, I, uh, I had some back stuff. I feel like I've hopefully gotten a handle on that the last, the last two years. But when it kind of when it goes like, you just know, like, oh shit, like the next next 10 days, the two weeks, like I'm.

I actually played in that, I played in the game like the next day, but I was still like, not not feeling very good. I put like two innings and left just because I was, I was starting the game. I was getting a hit lead off like there's. You're probably never going to get a lead off an all-star game ever again in your life.

Cause you have to be the visiting team, you have to be a starter, you have to be the leadoff hitter. So like, I wanted to do that, like, start an All-star game and do that. So I was like, I'm just going to go, I'm going to go out there. And like, you know, Verlander, starting the game for the American League and I get a lead off for the National.

Shouldn't have been out there even for the game. But uh, what did you? what did you? Did you strike out? Uh, I think I. I got jammed super bad and like a soft line drive to the first base, which is fine. Yeah, contact.

And then the next step, I just I didn't swing and struck out and then I was out of the game and then just went home. Yeah, Major League baseball is probably pretty happy that you didn't compete. Because then they would had to answer so many questions about like, why is Christian Yellow? It's like blowing up online.

Why is it trending? why is it a big sideshow? Yeah, it would have been, it would have been bad for baseball back for the game.

It'd be good for the game, it would, it would draw a lot of eyes. So maybe not necessarily, you know, the topic that's being discussed. Maybe they wouldn't be too proud of, but any buzz is good buzz. I guess. Yeah, it'd reach a large audience.

Can you settle a debate for us? Because we've been going back and forth, back and forth since the World Series? On this one, if a team gets no hit, but it's a combination, no hitter did they, still is that a did they get no hit?

Yeah, I feel like you don't feel this bad, like if you're on the other team, you're just like, I guess it's just like. It wasn't our day, we didn't, we didn't get hits today.

But if it's like one guy that no hits you, I think you're just like a little more. You're a little more pissed off. If you're on the other team and like, one guy, no hits you, as opposed to like, combine, no hitter. But anytime you lose, like a World Series game. Whether you got no hit or you scored 10 runs and lost by one, like, you're still going to be a loss to the loss. But it's a no, it is a no hitter, cause they got no hits.

Yeah, I mean, you're going to be in history, you're going to be in a history book as a no hitter, no hitter, yeah.

Okay, we just want to clarify for Max, Max is a Phillies fan. And he just adamantly is like, it wasn't a no hitter. It's like, Well, did you get any hits? He's like, No.

He's still doing it, he's still trying. I don't know if I've. I've been on a few teams that have been no hit. I don't think we've ever had a I don't know if anybody's combined. No hitter.

When it's happening, are you guys in the dugout like, you feel it coming? Yeah, yeah.

It's like, well, it's like the sixth inning rolls around, seventh inning rolls around. You're just like, hey, like, somebody should probably get hit right here, we're going to need somebody to get a hit like.

It doesn't even matter if we lose. It's just like, Hey, somebody get a fucking hit. I don't care who it is. Like, you know, back in the day, like it could be the pitcher, we don't care.

But you feel it coming, especially if the guy's like, on a roll. Like, if you've seen the guy a few times and you're like, Oh yeah, like, this guy's got pretty good today. Yeah, we might.

Are you in favor of bouncing to break up a no hitter? No. I mean, if it's if it's like the first couple of innings, still, like, maybe if it's like a zero, zero, one, nothing game, but if it's like seven, seventh, eighth inning, I don't know. Maybe, like in the World Series, though, that that's a that's a topic.

If it's one nothing in the World series, like, I feel like you kind of have to in like, a World Series playoff game. Yeah, I'd say even if it's the ninth inning in the World Series. If it's a one nothing or two nothing game, yet, it's the World Series.

It's when it's like, 10, nothing and a guy's bunting, What are you doing right? Then it's like, Hey, man, like, you got to add a respect to the other guy like that. You're competing against in the major leagues, like, Hey, get like a get a real hit.

Yeah, not that a bunch, not a real hit, but in that situation, yeah, so off that. What's your favorite unwritten rule of baseball?

Unwritten rule of baseball.

I feel like a lot of them are gone now. Most of them, I mean, that one's still, or that one's still around. For sure. My favorite is just if you. If if the team drills your best player, you got to drill the other guys, the other team's best player, yeah.

I mean, what, what's kind of behind? That is like if you are the other team's best player and you see the other team just getting smoked all the time. When you go up to the plate, like it is still in the back of your head, sometimes we're like, Shit, I could be eaten one right here. And like the first pitch of the at bat, you kind of like, sometimes you just kind of feel it out, like all right. Like, let's see where this goes, like the guy throws it close to the zone or it's a strike.

Like, Okay, I guess I'm not getting hit right here. Or there are times where it's like, it goes behind you, you know, 97 miles an hour. So then the next pitch, you're like, Oh shit, yeah, here we go. It would be nice if they, just like, when they do that, just not throw it that fast, just kind of lob it up and just let it let you just take it.

The gentleman's going, Yeah, and it's never the guy that, like, if that ever does happen, it's like, never. The guy that's throwing like, 90, it's always the guy that's throwing a hundred miles an hour, 98 miles an hour. And you're just like, Damn, that's going to hurt.