MLB Preview With Jeff Passan, Caitlin Clark Gets Revenge, The A's Ownership Is A Joke Plus We're Getting A Turtle

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Yeah, we love women more than any other podcast in America. We love women, I love women, love all.

Hank, Did you watch? Do you love women? I do love women I did watch.

What was your thought, Hank? what was your big takeaway?

Great play by both sides. She's her, which one's her?

They're all her, they're all her. Yeah, it was honestly a great game.

Even Van Lith No, yeah, she might not be her. Oh, you all hank pervert my take.

No, no, she's her. One. Bad game doesn't define a career.

I blame Kim Mulkey. Oh yeah, because Kim Mulkey just refused to make an adjustment. And then at the end of the game, when she put Johnson on her, that was—why hasn't she been defending Kaitlin Clark the entire game?

She did have a few fouls, but yeah, Johnson was—I think she had three fouls in the first half, but she was awesome. She's the one to watch, also her, also big time her.

Yeah, yeah, that's really what it is. It's a good point. And it was, yeah, it was a very bad job coaching by her to not make an adjustment on that. I knew that something was off with Kim from the second she stepped out on the court. And she was wearing the most understated thing that she could possibly. —I want Kim Mulkey to be like full-on Kim Mulkey, but wearing the technicolor dreamcoat instead.

But we can't be hypocrites because we've always said, like when Cam Newton used to dress in his crazy hats and then lose a game. I think Kim Mulkey knew that they were in trouble. And that's why she dressed down, that was her ass-whooping, that was her get-my-ass-whooped suit.

She didn't want to wear like a magic eyedress to the podium afterwards.

She wanted to wear a full Tiger skin.

Yeah, now, to be fair, I thought that LSU was just pounding the shit out of Iowa in the first half. And it also—it was awesome. It was a great sporting event because we were very excited to watch it. We had talked about it for a few days, it was highly anticipated.

Well, let's wait to see if it's a great sporting event because we don't have the ratings yet.

Okay, yeah, we'll wait to see that. It was only on ESPN.

We think it was.

If it had been on ABC, then maybe it would have been better than it was.

We have to argue the ratings, no matter what, yeah, whichever way they go, we have to find a way to argue about it constantly. Because, as everyone knows, we watch sports only that other people want to—a lot of other people want to watch. And if a lot of other people aren't watching it, then that sport means nothing.

And it's funny because the ratings when they are on network as opposed to on cable, there's always a massive difference. If you look at the men's side of the bracket, when they show the highest rated games of the season so far, or of this tournament, they're all the CBS Games, yeah, and the other ones—which I understand that it is a thing. But still, to this day, I don't understand who has CBS and doesn't have ESPN—or who has ABC and does not also have ESPN hospitals.

Maybe.

Old people.

Maybe maybe some hotels.

And you know what, I realized watching this game?

Who doesn't have ESPN? Because I got it, like 20 years ago, you understood, like, remember when ESPN got Monday night football and people were like, this is bullshit, yeah.

Can you even get a cable package that doesn't have ESPN?

I would like—.

Yeah, there's like a 10-channel basic package, it's like CBS, Fox, NBC, ABC.

Just thought of our next punishment.

Yeah, God, that would suck.

Oh my god.

Maybe dorm rooms Dorm rooms might not have ESPN.

That would be torture, no, because when I was in dorm—.

Kids in dorms are not using cable.

20—Oh shit, we just got aged.

Yeah, yeah, that's a fair point. Oh shit, I realize that Hank is right.

No, but I had ESPN when I was in college, I remember PTI like the first episode of PTI.

That's right, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Again, aged us. God damn it, we just—hank just said a trap and we just walked further into it. They're just using YouTube TV, damn it.

They don't have the women's college basketball game. For my Sega Saturn, it sucks.

We got to get off this topic because I've been having a couple days where yesterday I thought that Draymond Green actually bought a bedazzled testicle necklace.

Oh, the nutsack, yeah.

Yeah, it was NBA sentinel.

Yeah, that was going viral.

They get you sometimes, but yeah, the games were awesome. Kim Mulkey No idea what she was doing, but Kaitlyn Clark, like, that was something about great athletes and rising the occasion. And being like,—you could tell. It was very personal for her, even though she was saying it wasn't, but it was very personal getting the revenge, dropping 40 hitting shots out of nowhere.

It was a great game, I actually—.

I think UConn's going to beat them, though, because I think Geno—like if you watch the second game. Geno had a game plan for Juju Watkins that Kim Mulkey just didn't have for Kaitlyn Clark.

Kim Mulkey's game plan was one-on-one. And then have all your bigs drop back. Yeah, and so she was just getting open, look after open, look, I think—you might be right. Because I think it's going to be Uconn and South Carolina in the finals, but it would be awesome if we had dueling N.C. state-Uconn finals.

That would be great.

In both brackets, but I think I like the format of the women's game better.

What do you mean, the quarters?

The quarters I like the quarters.

You know, I was thinking about this as well, because.

Fouls reset.

But I like that college basketball is the only basketball that does halves. Yeah, they're the only basketball that does halves.

Also, I like one-on-ones. Women's doesn't do one-on-ones. Yeah, they do five fouls per quarter as a double bonus.

One-on-ones are fun because you can just be like, Well, this guy sucks, he's out of chance.

Yeah, yeah, but I mean, my one knock against the NCAA tournament on the men's side is that down the stretch? If there's like two minutes left in the game, it just turns into a foul fest. Oh yeah.

Well, you get it sometimes. Remember Kaitlyn Clark versus Who was it? Oh yeah, Colorado or no, yeah.

At the very end of that game.

No, West Virginia. When she hit her over, she shot like 17 free throws.

Yeah, but I think it minimizes it, yeah, like it lessens it. Whereas sometimes at the end of men's games, it becomes like, Okay, there's really no action going on, yeah.

Either way, it was a great night of basketball I had, I was very like I was glued to my TV. I think a women's basketball already arrived, but arrived even more.

Yeah, I think it's here.

It's here, it's now, it's there, her.

It's very now.

It's until we see the ratings.

We're going to have to wait to see the ratings and the one group of people that did not like the game. Last night, the city of Albany Rebecca Lobo just took a wild shot at the city.

They got a stray shot.

When she's like, Yeah, there's really nothing to do in this city, and Albany is just sitting there, watching. It's so proud that they're hosting a game, all eyes are on the city. And then Rebecca Lobo just taking a big steaming dump all over it.

But did they have any arguments against? Yeah, yeah.

So McKinsey works here at Barstool. She's from Albany. Okay, she was quick to respond. We actually have the biggest Walmart in the world.

So also state capital.

So yeah, so up yours.

State capital has got to count. Yep, something like pizza. How many people do you think here? Here's something nice to say about Albany.

Yeah, maybe.

So then it's like, the fun, like, No, actually, it's Albany.

Yeah, Albany is the capital.

It's also I don't know if that was a compliment.

It might be the most corrupt city in the world, really. I think most people that serve at the head of the New York State government end up getting arrested at the head of office. I think it's like, 90 of Chicago's got to run for it, Chicago is pretty good to Baltimore.

Are you just basing that off the wire?

I've been rewatching The Wire.

I remember Amsterdam.

But don't you think that if you ask, like, 100 people, what's the capital of New York? they'd be like, New York?

I think most people would say, New York, what about New Mexico? That's another one.

Santa Fe.

Damn hank.

Nice hank.

Florida.

Tallahassee.

Hank, Mr. Geography.

What about, oh, this one's tough?

I know this one.

Close. What about the state you reside in?

Chicago.

Yeah.

Wait, Chicago's not a state capital.

No, you live in Illinois.

I live in Illinois, this capital of Illinois is Montpelier.

Yeah, correct, just keep saying Montpelier, you'll get it right.

Springfield.

Yeah, nailed it.

I think there's a springfield in all 50 states. I read that, like, 10 years ago.

Yeah, Simpsons.

Yeah, that's why Simpsons, everyone can claim the Simpsons.

Is somebody from Albany called an Albanian?

Yeah, they do.

Tough night for the Albanians. You'll rise up.

Or a New Yorker, you got it? They probably have good pizza and a lot of snow.

Someone brought a pizza, a pizza shop brought a pizza to Dave and they gave it to him on the way out. It looked amazing.

Yeah.

And there's a Sunni there.

There's a Sunni in every town in New York. Billy dragged me to TGI Fridays.

Yeah.

Dragged you to TGI, Jake, you should be so lucky. TGI Fridays is fantastic.

Dragged you there? Ah, all right.

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Other things we got to talk about, we got to talk about the Oakland. A's, so PFT and I have unveiled a gambling strategy. This year. We're betting against A's minus one and a half every single game.

Yeah, I think there were four players that they've spotted, but the the biggest names? Ruiz, Estuary, Ruiz. He was your hit by pitch guy.

He was my hit by pitch guy.

I think he led the majors in stolen bases last year. He's very fast. He started out, uh, I think he went three for five, yeah, and then they sent him down to triple A.

He was wearing a last dive bar bracelet.

He was wearing a last dive bar bracelet. Um, there was the other guy, Uh, they're they're all star from last year, he got benched, um, so there. It seems to be that they're punishing the guys that are wearing these bracelets, right?

And we like the fans who support us, we want to support them.

So they're punishing their own players allegedly for going up against the ownership, and it's sad. Man, like a I'm a little going to get a little bit serious. But there's nothing more evil than an owner of a sports team that treats their fans like, shit, and this guy is the king of it. This. It should be illegal.

Yes, and they're cowards. Because he doesn't, he never faces the music, he never answers to what he's been doing. He's been putting out a terrible product and basically saying, Look, no one's here. When we know when the A's are rocking, that place is awesome.

If you listen to the way that the manager had to justify the moves, you could tell he did not believe what he was saying. It sounded like he was just he had to say something that was not. The owner told me to do this. So he came up with something with Ruiz where it's like, Yeah, you know, last year he needed some things that he had to work on and he did not address at all what he's. You know, he's obviously one of the best players on your team and we're trying not to lose. It's a big double middle finger to your fans and credit to A's fans because they have organized boycotts.

They turn their replies.

That's the most cowardly shit.

They're cowards, so here's another thing that, uh, is crazy in the cowardly nature of the A's front office and ownership, uh. So last night we were talking via text and we were talking about how we won again because the A's stink again. This is not a we're betting against the players, we're betting against John Fisher because he's a piece of shit.

And he's gonna, he's actually going to do everything in his power to make sure that we keep winning our bets, correct.

Correct, So we were talking about it and we were talking about the Last Dive bar and how cool it was that. These guys are, you know, so passionate about the A's and trying to get the fans, you know, being like, Hey, we're still here, so, uh, we, we. I was like, let's go buy some of these bracelets, support them. I went on the Last Dive Bar website, their merch is awesome.

We do, and nothing would make me happier than if every single player on the A's wore that bracelet. Yeah, what are you? You can't fire all of us, yeah.

Yeah, they want to get paid.

And they want to get paid, they have families, they want to be in the big leagues. They're in a bad spot. I'm not saying that they're bad people if they don't do it at all.

Just sell the fucking team, man, like, just do it and go and go, fuck off.

And you can make a lot of money.

You can make a lot of money, sell it to that, sell it to that oracle guy.

Yeah, there's a lot of money in the Bay Area. Find another, just one billionaire, that's that's who we should be putting pressure on. Any of these, like, weird, Silicon Valley type people.

I have thought the thought crossed my mind because our betting strategy is that we're betting the same amount against the A's every single game. My thought, the thought crossed my mind that what if we just won a game? Doubled it, won a game, doubled it until we had a billion dollars and we'd buy the A's.

That would be an awesome story, wouldn't it? Also Major League baseball. You're currently embroiled in a gambling scandal right now. Do you think it's the best optics to move a team to Las Vegas? If Rob Manfred is serious about the gambling issue, I think the first thing he should do would be to not let a team move to the city of Sin.

I agree, I agree, but either way, the last dive bar guys. And like I said, I wish I had a list of the other ones. I'm sorry that I don't have all of them, but there's other A's groups that are doing great, great work. We are in preliminary talks, depending on where our travel takes us this summer to potentially come out and support Last Dive Bar.

I don't know, he doesn't talk to anybody.

We'll just put like a big box and a string and a pair of khakis underneath with a big striped polo.

Disregard everything that we've said, we are the biggest John Fisher fans in the world. Love to talk to him, pick his brain about how to be a successful businessman.

Hey, you know what, John Fisher, you're probably misunderstood. Want to come on part of my take and explain your side of things?

Because we're just getting one side right now.

Softballs only.

And it seems like in today's culture, billionaires are the easiest targets for people and they don't get to stand up for themselves. So we would like to be your mouthpiece.

Oh man, how great would that be if we could trick him to come on and then he walked off.

Yeah, that'd be great.

He's a piece of shit, man.

Oakland 68 was the other one. Oakland 68 is the other fan group that I think does great stuff. Worked in conjunction with Last Dive Bar.

Say something nice about the A's as well, their outfield grass is awesome.

Dude, the Coliseum rocks.

I love the grass in Oakland.

I even bought, I'll say it, I bought a couple art prints.

Oh, of the Coliseum, yeah, from Last Dive bar.

We're going to put it up in the studio, yeah, we're going to stand with Oakland.

And if you've seen the artist's rendition of the stadium that they're planning on moving to, or the one that Fisher just threw out there, it looks like the Sydney Opera House. Yeah, it's just ridiculous, they're not going to move into that stadium.

It has me juiced up, too. Because it's like, we have, you know, an awesome platform that we're very lucky to have. And it's like, if we can use it to stand up for the regular fans like, Fuck John Fisher, Yeah, this is a fuck John Fisher podcast, unless he wants to come on and then we'll have him on and again, softballs only, John.

Yeah, that's good, that's a fair question.

First question, John Hard question.

Tech vests are they back?

Yeah, when you thought of making polos with vertical stripes, were you like Ka-ching?

You remember those swing commercials that you used to have, with the all white background people jumping over each other? That was brilliant. Yeah, you're an advertising genius, John Fisher.

You're not a fail, son.

I would like to just put this out there. I will fight John Fisher. I would too. In rough and rowdy, yep.

I will fight him with both hands tied behind my back, so you fight him with one hand, I'll fight him with none.

Just head butts only from Big Cat Fight us John Fisher, you bitch.

Fight us, you won't. He's probably just sitting in his little mansion. I'm like, Oh, Vegas won't like you, that's the other thing.

Yeah, you're going to go out there. They've already got their billionaire Mark Davis.

Yeah, and he rocks.

He's not going to fight you.

He would never move a team.

Never he's not going to invite you to P.F Chang's.

Shit, damn it, we got ourselves in that one hank, call us old again.

You're old, okay, okay.

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Can I talk real quick about a fan base? since we're on fan base talk that I want to give a quick shout out to? And that is the Providence Twitter Providence Basketball Twitter fan base. Because I don't know if you guys have seen this, but they're basically gaslighting Ed Cooley into resigning.

Yeah.

They started, I think it was an April fool's joke, with a fake account Blue Checkmark account being like. Ed Cooley's about to resign story coming soon, and they've taken that and the hashtag The resignation is trending. And I actually think, if there's one fan base that could get someone to be like, Wait, am I resigning? It's the Providence Basketball fan base.

They're an army.

They're crazy, I love them so much.

They are a weapon. I do not ever want to be on the wrong side of Providence.

They got John, I mean, it was once John Fanta did the windmill dunk. They're like, our powers are unlimited.

Yeah, yeah.

So they're going to get Ed Cooley to wake up and be like, Am I resigning?

There's probably somebody in the Georgetown, in the university that has seen that and been like, Wait, is coach leaving?

Listen, I know that he's probably not resigning, but it was 0 chance on Sunday and it's at least a 5 chance today.

Yeah.

All because enough people are tweeting the resignation. Max You agree, right?

Yeah, no, I just love that you said it, probably because you don't know for certain whether he's resigning.

Exactly the thought has been put out there, and now he has to do a press conference saying he's not resigning. That at least has to happen.

You think he's going to do it?

He has to address it.

I think he might issue a statement.

He has to do something.

No, zap it.

The world is talking, and he has been weirdly silent, yeah, throughout all of this.

It is weird, it's a very funny situation. Shout out to Providence, Twitter. They are, Yeah, I saw the video Rico did with them. They're psychos.

Like, it's a great. They're just passionate about Providence basketball and they have time on their hands.

Yeah.

By the way, breaking news.

Great, great, good, brilliant day for basketball. My theory was that Ace Miss from Texas, yeah, everyone's like, why does he pronounce his name like that?

Yeah, I am.

Makes sense?

I am thinking about it.

But yeah, Zach Giede won, congrats.

So that wasn't enough for Ace Miss.

That wasn't enough for him.

He got close, but not enough. Yeah, Zach Giede is national player of the year back to back and we'll see if he can. Did you guys see the clip of Zach Giede playing baseball?

Yeah.

Very funny gas. I would have fucking taken that 300, 350 easy.

Respectfully.

Respectfully, knock it out of the park.

He threw what? 75.

74 I think, yeah.

Yeah.

He just looked so.

I bet it'd be hard to hit, though.

Yeah, I mean, it's hard to look at on the mound. What were you gonna say, Jake?

Ace Miss's father said the B was originally a Sharps S.

No, he changed it to the Naismith word.

Wrong, it's a German letter that resembles B, but it's actually....

Respectfully, you're wrong, dude. Whose name it is?

You are wrong, we're too smart for you.

Yeah, okay, let's do hot seat, cool throne, and then we will get to Jeff Pass and great interview. We touch on the A's with him.

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Got those old eyes?

The jerseys just being pieces of shit.

Seeing it in person, I was like, those are really small.

The Nationals coat, like they have the first base coach, had like different colored gray top and bottom.

Yeah.

The Yankees pitcher, who was sweating, he just sweat through his jersey completely.

The sweat seems to be an issue for the road uniforms.

And I just feel bad for the fans because, like, if you order, it used to be like, if you order, you know, the most expensive jersey, it comes stitched, it comes everything, and the ones that the fans are getting are also shitty.

It's reached a point where.

I don't know what, like, they're on the hot seat, they have to solve this.

You have to order a knockoff jersey, yeah, and it comes and you're like, Wow, this looks awesome.

You have to order an old jersey.

Tom Lehrer, one of our great producers here at Barstool, had a perfect tweet when the Mets and Brewers were brawling. And there was a screenshot of McNeil, Jeff McNeil going crazy. And he was just like, It's so hard to look tough in these jerseys, because look.

Yeah, I saw you have, like, size eight.

It's so small, you can't be a tough guy in that. Cannot.

The side-by-side, with Jason Kelsey and Fletcher Cox throwing out the first pitch was tough because Kelsey was rocking the old uniform, Cox was rocking the new one.

Yeah, and you saw it.

And you're like, Wow, Kelsey looks way stronger.

The Cubs had the Cubs logo, the secondary logo patch on. Some players had it on their right, some players had it on their left.

That's bad.

It's crazy, crazy.

Crazy hot seat and then my cool throwing is big al.

Dang it.

He's back.

Kid from Jersey Little League World Series a few years ago said My name is Big Al. I hit Dingers.

Okay, I don't want to Bosco you. But he never made it to the region.

Little League World Series coverage.

He never, he never made it to Williamsport Williamsport. Yeah, you're right, he gets very upset when people say that, cause they're like, he never made it on TV.

Nah, it's, it's, it's hard. Were you on TV?

Yes, I was.

Okay, so that's. I'm proud to get those highlights that I have.

Yeah.

You have highlights.

We need those.

One for three with a ribby.

Did you do a camera thing?

What do you mean?

Like, my name is Max Delente.

I can send this to you right now.

I'm big Max and I drink sodas.

My name is Max Delente, my favorite player is Shane Victorino.

Wait, just pull it up.

Wait, your favorite player is Shane Victorino.

Send it to yourself.

All right.

My name is Max Delente, I'd like second place.

My name is Max Delente.

I'm never cutting my hair after this video.

And I'm going to grow into some big meaty clappers.

Yeah, big Al's skinny now. Uh, yeah, he's looks like he's skinnier than he was in that video. And he hit a home run in his high school game.

Yeah, yeah.

Billet and dingers.

He was jacked up.

I think he's just a little owl now.

Yeah, he is a little owl. Oh, here we go. Yeah, I remember watching this.

Big Diddy.

Delaney.

Yeah, what were you saying?

I thought I used to say that because I thought it sounded more Italian.

Delaney.

It sounds Irish.

You kind of had that. I look like I'm going to cry. I look like I'm going to cry face back then, too.

He has resting cry face.

Yeah, all right. Uh, Max Max shared something interesting with me the other week. We're talking about soups. Did you know that in Philadelphia they eat, they eat turtle soup?

Like actual turtles, like turtles.

They eat turtles and soup.

Snapper Soup.

Max's dad eats turtle soup like three times a week.

Red Snapper.

Yeah, I actually have an update on that. I talked to my dad about that this weekend and he, he couldn't fathom that. Other parts of the country don't eat.

Well, here's the thing is like, it is funny because you would think like we eat all types of meat, but turtle, I think it's because turtles, it's probably tortoise in the hair. Probably did the did enough good PR for them, yeah.

Franklin.

Yeah, where they. yeah, like, there's. They're all in children's books, little bunny, rabbits, little turtles. that they, they've skirted our appetites.

Yeah.

Yeah, but if you were even in the if you were in the wilderness, like Bunny, you think it's fair game. I would never think like, if we get a turtle, we can eat this.

No, they swim around the mud, although, but think about it.

Bunny, let's get a bunny, we can, we can catch a bunny, and then we can cook.

You can't catch a bunny.

No, probably not. No. You could catch a turtle, I would go for the river and just catch it.

But that's the thing is, you could catch turtle.

With my bare hand.

Easy to catch a turtle Not easy to eat a turtle, though.

It's like lobster.

No, just crack it over a rock.

Like, a yeah.

Smash, but yeah, turtles.

Giant Gusher.

Turtles and bunnies They've gotten great, whoever did the PR on turtles and bunnies.

Chickens, chickens, though, got great PR and we can't stop eating chicken.

Do they have great PR?

They do their little red hen.

No, I don't think that's good PR, yeah.

The sky, Oh yeah, did she say? The sky is falling?

No, that's not good PR, cause they're not like, cute, yeah, like turtles and bunnies are cute.

Turtles are just so slow that it seems unfair to eat.

Right, they're just like, Well, I'm going to get there eventually.

Yeah, there's a bunch of guys, like in the 1600s in Pennsylvania, let's go hunting. Yeah, you just walk outside and they walk slowly after a turtle and got it.

Yeah, it's. It actually is like the easiest thing to catch, I would imagine.

Yeah, Turtle.

My other cool throw is Ray John Wando.

Oh yeah, retired, didn't know he was not retired.

At least I thought he'd been retired for three years, yeah.

I thought that was NBA central when I saw that.

That kind of rules, though, to just be like a drop of retirement when everyone's like, Wait, what, you were retired?

Yeah, but yeah. Shout out to Ray John Wando.

Great career.

All time great.

Yeah, we actually had a funny Were You With Me? PFT. When we were in Indianapolis and we saw Blake Portals, Uh, agent? And we were joking, we're like, Yeah, I remember when he retired, just accidentally on the show, he's like, Yeah, that caused a lot of problems.

That's awesome, he rocks, yeah, good for him, yeah.

Okay, your hot seat.

My hot seat is USPS, the Postal Service.

Okay.

Cause they're seeing a big, big uptick in traffic via Cooper to Jean.

Oh yeah.

So Cooper to Jean, cornerback at Iowa, a gritty guy, hard worker, coach's son, coach on the field, plays the game the right way. Smart ham and eggs, shifty, gritty guy, sneaky athletic guy.

First one in, last one out.

Yep, so he is, uh, he's recovering from a leg injury, he had a broken leg. And he has sent a letter to every NFL team informing them that. After suffering the broken fibula in November, he has now been cleared to return to all football activities. He's going to do his own workout April 8th at Iowa, he's going to do on-field testing and position work without any restrictions.

I saw that it was. It's a try hard move, but you got to try hard.

Yeah, if you're applying for a job, you have to stand out somehow. Yeah, how many other defensive backs sent a letter? None.

Oh.

Because it finally made it, as we talked about at the top of the show, big matchups. But it didn't officially make it until Bob Ryan weighed in about it. Oh, yes, and Bob Ryan, uh, had this following tweet after the Uh, the Iowa LSU game. I applaud the greatness of Caitlin Clark, Paige Buchers, Angel Reese and Juju Watkins, et cetera. But in fairness to their predecessors, I don't see a better point guard than Dawn Staley or a better post player than Lisa Leslie.

And and just flexing on everyone I've been watching for a long time.

Also, the back in my day here isn't even back in Bob Ryan's. Bob Ryan was old. Yeah, when Lisa Leslie-.

He was like, 50 years old.

Old, older, I think, Yeah, and Dawn Staley were playing.

We, we. It was a one-two combo because it was Bob Ryan, and then it was Ravel. Saying, Still believe? Caitlin Clark could have gotten a better deal for herself and a better deal for U.S. sports fans if she returned to Iowa. Versus going to the WNBA, she's got a shot to change the WNBA, but it's still a long shot, just the perfect. We watched an awesome game, we should celebrate it. Well, actually, fuck you dude.

And then people were replying to him, basically calling him a clown, which Ravel has to be used to that by now, that's the default.

He probably has the clown emoji muted on Twitter.

Definitely so. People were calling him out and then he said. It's not a great deal for U.S. sports fans, even in the replies, so I don't know what Ravel means by that U.S. sports fans.

We do, we do, we demand better. All right, my hot seat is, um, we didn't talk about it on on Monday, but it happened late Sunday night.

There's a There's a great quote that is completely proven by this video. Never get into an argument with a fool because from a distance, no one can tell the difference.

Yeah, and as you watch this video, you're like, it's two fools.

Russell Westbrook Excuse me, I almost said the b-r-i-c-k word, so Russell Westbrook, uh, looks like a much bigger fool than the balloon hat guy because he's arguing with a balloon hat guy.

And I just, I don't want people to antagonize NBA players. But it would be funny if we could just see. Like, how ridiculous of a costume someone could get in an argument with Russell Westbrook wearing. Yeah, just just keep upping it, a guy in a literal balloon.

I feel like if you wore a balloon hat, the malice at the palace doesn't happen. Yeah, the guy that throws down.

Yeah, he's like, Oh, they'll bigger target it was this guy.

Also, seeing the balloon fly off with a punch would have been awesome, awesome. It just floats up into the sands.

Yeah, but can we get like, Can we get a Russell Westbrook arguing with a furry?

Yeah, we could probably do that.

My Little Brony, the My Little Pony Bros.

Yeah, that could definitely also happen.

Maybe someone who's just actually naked?

I don't know if you'd want to fight a naked guy. That's also a great way to get out of a fight. Yeah, just take all your clothes off and try to fight.

But it would be funny to see how far, cause he will argue with anyone, including Balloon hat man who's a hornet. The Hornets fan is definitely the saddest part of this.

Do you think he would get?

Like, the balloon hat is like, whatever he saw a balloon hat, he put it on. Being that hard of a diehard of a Hornets fan, you got problems.

Do you think he would get into a fight with somebody wearing a Russell Westbrook jersey?

Yeah, yeah.

That'd be great.

I think it's, I think there's no limits. Uh, and then my cool throne is, um, Adam Schefter, because Schefty finally got his revenge for, uh, the whole Aaron Rodgers saga. Lose my number, Adam, all that stuff. Uh. Schefter I didn't even know this was a thing, but Schefter treated jets QB.

There's a reason why he did it to Aaron Rodgers and not to Damar Hamlin. Yeah, I want to see the Damar facts. How much did Damar get paid last year?

Yeah, this is a cool system, though. If you, if you're on a shitty contract and you play a shitload of snaps, you should get more.

Yeah, I like it.

Yeah, but uh, good job Schefter. I know he was smiling when he said that, Uh, Jake, your hot seat, cool throne.

My hot seat is studying, uh. A student at N.C. state emailed a professor saying he's lit AF right now and asked if he could move the test to Wednesday. And he did.

Smart.

The professor was like, This is awesome.

This is possibly my favorite email of the year, you've convinced me.

Yeah, I like it.

That's that's really strong work.

Usually, those don't work.

And great job like you not only helped yourself, but the rest of the class. That was too cowardly to send that exact same email.

Lit af.

Lit af.

I always hate the stories this time of year from professors that are like, we're still in school. To go to school, yeah, you have to come to class every single day 9am. I don't care if there's a parade.

Although I do think this is very specific. Like, um, if it was like Duke or Kentucky or Kansas, I feel like the professor has an ability to be like, we expect to be here. Yeah, you know what I mean? Like, N.C. State, you have to let them take the test the day later because no one expected this run.

I could see it happening because it's the biggest thing there. Yeah, Duke Definitely not, yeah.

Also, if I was a professor, I just wouldn't schedule an exam for the three weeks of the tournament, cause you never know.

Well, but if you're N.C. state, yeah.

You didn't even think you're gonna be in the tournament.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Uh, my cool throne is no hitters. The Astros did it again.

Yep.

And this time, it was one person.

Again, they did it again.

They've thrown a lot of big no hitters, yeah.

Yeah.

I'm so over. No hitters Remember when no hitters used to be, like you did even go to bonus coverage?

I so I'm over no hitters, but I can pinpoint exactly when it started. I think it was the start of last season.

Oh, I think I've been, Oh, yeah, you're right.

I became over no hitters.

Right at right opening day.

Opening Day 2023.

This is pretty crazy. Since June 2022 via Jason Stark Astros Four No hitters, the rest of the league three.

Oh, so that that's a big one.