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On today's part of my take, we are back shortly on break. We're going to talk a little NB.A. free agency. Then we have Gunnar Henderson from the Baltimore Orioles, future MVP Gunnar Henderson, and then we're going to do our Dingers only draft. So it is our week of vacation, but we're here to give you a little update of what's going on.

Boy.

Boy, boy, in the streets, there is violence.

And lots of work to be done.

We're gonna rock down to Electric Avenue and then we'll take it higher.

Oh, we're gonna rock down to Electric Avenue.

It's part of my take on martial sports.

I don't know, I think this is what switches all around for Philly. I like this, I like that, you know what?

Yeah, it's funny because I actually like to move as well. The Sixers have been building up to this moment. To add the third star. And Paul George is a very good player, but it is just very funny that it's Paul George. Because I just don't see how this is going to end in anything but tragic heartbreak for Max. And, you know, it's just the perfect setting.

How old is this guy?

Actually, he's 34.

Let me just jump in real quick, because it's really a big four, it's a big four. They got Embiid, they got Maxey, they got Paul George.

Yeah, shout out Tobias Harris. I mean that $50 million for two years from the Pistons. Yeah, great job everyone. Learn how to dribble and shoot. Because being an N.BA player this time of year, you just get reminded like, it rocks getting these kind of contracts.

That was the biggest form of loser talk that I've ever seen before in my life. Like, you get the biggest signing of the free agency, you finally get that two-way wing player that Embiid has been looking for since Jimmy Butler. And then you're like, if we get to an Eastern Conference final, it's a success. That's bullshit.

That's a success Eastern Conference, or like NBA.

NBA Finals beat the Celtics.

NBA Finals.

We have to beat the Celtics one of these next two years.

In the playoffs.

Yes, what if you get to the East, what if you get to the NBA finals? But the Celtics, you don't beat the Celtics on the path. Is that an asterisk?

Not an asterisk. It still will feel good, but it won't feel we could beat the Celtics in the first round and it could feel –.

So what, you guys got the eight seed?

No, the Celtics have the eight, we have the one.

I love how, in Max's wildest dreams, success is making it to the N.B.A. finals and losing.

Yeah.

No, no, no, no, that's just. That's the worst-case scenario, best-case scenario.

No, you said, that's the worst version of success.

Yes, yeah.

Yes, yes.

I do like the move for the Sixers they built up for this point. They got, you know, Paul George? It's going to be a good team. I also love Paul George, especially in this day and age.

Yeah, it is perfect. Like Paul George, a guy whose name is synonymous with playoff success joining the 76ers. It's funny, it's very funny. It's a great superstar addition for the culture of Philadelphia.

Yes, yes, okay. So Paul George was the big ticket again. It's funny because you have seen people complain like, Oh, this NB.A. free agency sucks. That was the whole point that you can't create, it's harder to create super teams now.

It's also great for the magic. The Magic showed a little light in the playoff. I think it's a great move for them. Yeah, that's, that's just Stan Kroenke being Stan Kroenke. But they might just look at the rest of their team and say, like, I don't know. Maybe we've got, maybe we've got the guys that we don't need them necessarily. And he's, he doesn't want to pay the taxes.

And the the Celtics hank, now, are you going to buy them? what's going on? Maybe if you can dunk, you'll have. You'll have a little seed investment on your way to buying the Celtics. They're for sale now.

Yeah, I'm forming a group, I'm trying to get a raise, some capital, but yeah, I mean, they're selling high. I guess, like, kind of makes sense. It's going to be, you know, probably the most expensive N.B.A. franchise ever sold. So I'm gonna see what I can do.

We should, oh man.

You guys want to throw down?

No, I'm just thinking about, we're going to be, listen, come on, we're going to. I'll, I'll. I'll give you if you dunk, I'll give you $10,000 and that will go towards it. Hank Whoa, what?

That's my money, though, after I dunk.

Right, but that's you can use that towards buying the Celtics hank. We're going to Tahoe next week to do a bunch of interviews.

Work.

I think you need to get a little elevator pitch. And every single rich athlete we talked to. At the end of the interview, you give them a quick two minute pitch on why they should, you know, invest in Hank Lockwood LLC that is going to eventually buy the Celtics.

Yeah, I'm down, I mean, I know KG KG was super like. He was involved a few years ago and trying to, you know, in a group, trying to get involved with the Timberwolves. And was so fucking pissed. When you know he got passed over or whatever. So he's at the top of the list, but yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm down to make a run and just. We need to raise like $6 billion.

I think I wanted to be your group, though I don't want you to join another group, I want it to be Hank's group. That he brings everyone together. And then you get the sweat equity so you don't even have to put a bunch of money in.

Yeah, I'll raise 5.999,999 billion and then I'll throw down like 10 k, yeah.

Yeah, and then you'll dunk and you'll throw down 20..

Yeah.

Talk to Dave I'm sure Dave would be down to get involved in the Hank Lockwood enterprise.

Yeah, Dave's, Dave studies he. just he's 4.9 billion short.

It's so funny how, like the levels to Rich Guy there is, and like owning a N.B.A. or NFL franchise, the levels to Rich Guy are just so obscene. And out of this world that it's not even. You know, you could hank, you could talk to a thousand people, and it would still get you not even like one, like 10,000th of the way there.

The net worth of the entire, and it's all celebrities and rich athletes and actors and stuff. And I don't think you could combine all of their net worth and be like, a fifth of the way there.

Yeah.

It's crazy, like Dave's the richest guy any of us know, and he, he could liquidate all his assets and maybe own like one one thousandth of the team.

That's why banks exist. Thank you, just go to a bank and ask them for a loan to buy. The Celtics see what they say.

I've heard rumors that they're going to a casino. Is going to buy it and try and rebuild the stadium somewhere else. Which would be the craziest move in the history of Boston.

But would it be a casino stadium?

Well, there's on. There already is a casino, like, you know, in the Charleston, uh, Everett area. So like, Yeah, probably, but that would be moving it away from the garden would be bad, bad, bad.

And then moved it out of Boston.

Yeah, no, that'd be that would be bad.

Wouldn't it be awesome, though, if someone actually made a casino stadium? So it was just like live tellers at your seat? You could play blackjack in the middle of timeouts and stuff. Isn't that the next wave, yeah.

Sounds like a bad sports down to me. Uh, this is actually the downfall of the Celtics, though. Because they're just paid. This owner is just paying everyone a billion dollars. And then he's like, someone else deal with it, someone else with big money who doesn't actually care about.

Max.

You don't know, you don't know.

That's how this is going, that's how this is going, bro.

Learn finance, learn finance, learn assets, learn fucking value.

They locked up their longterm assets. Okay, yeah, but it's also very relatable to, just like, spend a bunch of money on future contracts and then be like, Yeah, I actually don't want to pay it. I just want to give them the guy giving them the contract is a fun part.

I guess you get all the credit, you get the handshake and be like, Yeah, I paid you that money, but yeah, Max, um, unfortunately for you, this take that you have right now, you're lumped in with the Darren Revelles of the world. Because he said the same thing.

Fuck.

I don't ever understand that. Why wouldn't you if you own? If you're trying to buy a team? And they're like, Hey, okay, yeah. $300 million to Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown. But you literally have your two best players locked up for the next whatever five, six years.

Learn value.

There's like 20 of them, they, they, they're, they're paying the whole team 200 million.

Derek White has, I mean, shout out to Derek White. He resigned on a fantastic deal. I think Tyrus Max, he gets paid like $80 million more, he's not better.

Paul George is 45.

Did you see? Did you see? I saw? I saw one of those fun little graphics that was like, Paul George's playoff numbers this year and Derek White's playoff numbers this year. Derek White cleared them by far.

That is fun.

Yeah, no, that's great, that's great. No, no, I'm. I'm excited. Get your get your celebration in now, Henry.

I did.

I have Celtics.

Yeah.

No, no.

Keep.

Keep keep riding high buddy, I will.

Things are going downhill, you know what, fine.

Oh.

Championship hank, it's actually going to be not as good for you in a couple of years, yeah.

I like you guys sitting next to each other, it's a good vibe, okay, other.

Other.

I had a question, actually, for for Max Max. You're sitting next to Hank right now, who, by the way, still looks great with his hair growing back in. It's a crime that that your punishment turned into something that you can actually use.

Bald is beautiful Pft. Join me.

What if the what if the Sixers win the championship next year with Paul George? You shave that head.

Uh, yeah, yes.

Okay, nice, okay, nice, nice.

What about the Uh, planter, or whatever the fuck?

Mid-season.

Uh.

No.

Soul Patch, Soul Patch.

Um.

The.

The other big news was, uh, Clay Thompson done with the Warriors, which we all knew now on the Mavs, I'm buying Clay Thompson stock. I feel like his ending at the Warriors was kind of sad, but I think he's going to be, I think you're going to get like a rejuvenated Clay Thompson.

Uh.

Hitting wide open threes because Luke is going to take all the pressure off him. I know Steph obviously did the same. But I'm buying Clay Thompson. I don't think this is the end of Clay Thompson. Everyone has has has written him off. I'm not going to, I'm not going to write him off.

Yeah, I mean, he's still a great catch and shoot shooter. He didn't do that well, uh, at the end of the season this year when he finished, like, Oh, for 10 and his last game.

He had a bad last game, he's still shy, like 39 from three. Uh, I w I. I also saw this awesome uh thread of a Warriors fan, who I think most Warriors fans appreciate everything Clay Thompson did, even though it got weird at the end.

I think we when we talked to Kurt Goldsberry one time, we asked him about that. He has the lowest dribble per point ratio in the in the N.BA. He just catch and shoot, catch and shoot, and it'll be in a great spot for that in Dallas. And it's funny because you're starting to see a little bit of like, the post-mortem on clay come out.

That's just that's poor sportsmanship, salty fan fandom. Well, you won, you won four championships.

He won four championships. I actually think you could make the argument, and and maybe we could do Mount Rushmore of it later this summer, I think you could make the argument. The Jordan Pool contract was the worst contract ever given out in all of sports, not just because of the money given to Jordan Pool. But what it did to the rest of the team. Because that was like clay watching that dream on watching that.

I don't remember the year, I don't think so I do know it's a it's a terrible contract.

But it like, screwed up the whole vibes of everything. Yeah, I think it was right around then. I think it might've been the year of, or the year directly after, but that might be the worst contract of all time.

It's funny to say that he was almost as bad as Draymond. You just didn't hear about the stuff, and the stuff that he did didn't make as big of, like a splash as as Draymond. Yeah, no shit, that's because Draymond actually kind of lunatic. But you don't need to lump clay in there just because you're upset that he's leaving.

Yes, agreed, all right. So it was. 2021 was the year they won, and then he got his contract a year later, I believe.

When I have something quick on the on the Clay Thompson thing, I don't know if you guys have seen.

You know what, I'll stand in front of clay for this. People should change that and just say, people forget Big Cat. Bet the over on Clay Thompson's points in that game. I was I, that was, you know, I'll take, I'll take the bullets for clay.

You know what it is is people just trying to relive the greatness of people. Forget the Golden State Warriors blue with three one lead in the N.B.A. finals.

You're absolutely right that moment, yeah.

We'll come back. You're trying to make it happen again, let it go. It was great.

He's trying to make Fetch happen, all right, the other two stories. I had. LeBron, as I don't think there's ever been a player that has held a franchise hostage more than LeBron has the Lakers hostage right now. And it's maybe my favorite ongoing thing that he's protected.

It would rock if he just decided not to sign that contract extension and just sign somewhere else and made him draft his son. That's what I'm hoping happened. What does it mean like? We need to get another good player.

Playoff p's gone, Casey p's gone.

Maybe his other brother, or maybe his other son.

The other son, Yeah, Donovan Mitchell, just signed with the Calves, which I think the calves had to do that. That's like a beware, though, of how these things always work out. I mean, the balls are are showing it when they're, they're trying to get rid of Zach Levine and they have to send a pick with him.

I ordered food in my fucking apartment.

Oh, no.

I do that twice a week, it's no, I do it all the time.

I did it after we came back from Beer Games, I ordered three orders to the hotel we were staying at, Nashville. I was like, Why the fuck is this not getting delivered? They're scamming me, and then I realized I just kept on smashing. Reorder to the hotel.

Max, Remember when you ordered all that taco bell to your girlfriend's place?

Yeah, that was, that was a good guy, moved by me.

That was a good guy.

Well.

What does Duke have to do with it? It's a Kyle Filipowski problem, like he got groomed.

Do you think they knew everything? I think they knew everything, how?

Because she's literally.

It's pretty clear that she's there a hundred percent of the time.

She was in the office.

Kyle Filipowski was in the office working out and she was there. I obviously didn't know the story.

I would have crazy revelation, I would have.

I would have, I would have literally taken out a whistle and been like, t them both up and said, Hey, Duke, do something. I mean, it's proud Duke.

I think it's more of. The family was telling Duke about this because the family was trying, was trying to get everyone to stop this, and Duke, they were telling everyone.

What is Duke supposed to do, though?

Like, riddle me that letting grooming happen.

How just say?

Stop.

And what if he says, I love her, which is obviously what he's saying?

No, you don't stop it, then you say, then you say you don't, you don't. You don't love her. You're being, you've been brainwashed right now.

Yeah.

You don't know what love is.

Yeah, hey, stop it right now.

I do think I the internet as a whole shares some blame in this, because the internet you have to, you have to know this before draft day, right? You have to be on this. The Instagram posts, they were public, they've been up. But it took the internet. Four years too long, three years too long to figure this out and put it out there for us to see. I don't like that part of it. That shows that we're between that and the Clay Thompson thing, we're we're slacking online right now.

Well, I agree, PFT. It also could have easily been John Shire just saying, stop it right now, and he never did that.

His parents clearly did that.

He clearly wasn't going to listen.

What hank?

You didn't.

They clearly didn't say it strong enough, they cared more about getting points and rebounds out of the guy than his own mental health well-being. The brotherhood means nothing, The brotherhood is essentially the brotherhood. Until you get groomed as a high schooler and then get snatched up, and then and then have your girlfriend excommunicate your family.

In my day, we used to say bros before hoes, and it looks like that day's over.

Yeah, yeah, but if you got a duke.

Everyone knows a guy that's, you know, caught up in a relationship that everyone else knows that they shouldn't be in.

But they don't want to listen when he's when you're 17 and she's 26, hank.

I mean, obviously I, it's a it's a a muddy waters, but it's like, is it?

Is it muddy? It's crystal clear.

It's fucked up by the girl, it's grooming, and it's not okay about what the girl did. But when you're 17, hooking up with an older girl is cool factor fiction.

Uh, hank, hank. This is now your money, your waters right now, no.

I'm just saying, like, money, no, I'm saying it's wrong by her. But like, from his perspective, it's like, Yeah, like, you don't. Obviously he didn't realize he was being groomed. But like, again, it's like, you know, when, when, uh, teachers hook up with students like, that's, that's fucked up.

No, I'm saying.

I'm saying.

I'm saying, that is fucked up. But when you're a kid, you guys don't want to hook up with any of your teachers. When you're a kid. You guys weren't like, Oh my god, it'd be so cool.

When our brains weren't developed.

That's what I'm saying. His brain, it wasn't developed. I'm not, I'm saying everything that she did is wrong.

Groomer.

But like, again, whatever it is, it is what it is.

Downfall of Hank starting now.

Max got it right.

All right, I'm done whatever, cancel me.

Well, hank, I don't think you'd have any idea what it's like to hook up with a girl who's like, nine years older. No.

Exactly.

Hey, this is bad, that was not shut up, bad spot. They didn't stop it, they were at the office and you didn't do shit.

Big cat.

If I had known, I would have taken him up.

I already said that.

So John didn't know either.

Yes, he did. How do you know that?

How do you know that?

His family was asking him for help. The girlfriend was everywhere, his family.

What do you mean? Instead, they DM you and you didn't do shit about it.

No, they didn't, they never DM me. If they had DM me. I would have whistleblowed faster than you could. You think me, me if I had a chance to take down Duke.

They were in this office and you did nothing I would.

I wish I didn't know.

Really sad it's. It's really sad that this unfortunate story is taking away from what should be.

Hank It's just really sad, the brotherhood has let everyone down. I just want any future Duke guys to know that if you go there, they're, listen, they all they care about is your points and rebounds. They don't care about the human being.

Fact.

Yeah, we'll cut this, we'll cut this, okay?

All right, okay, let's do hot seat, cool throne. It's brought to you by our friends at game time.

Only play one game, though, right?

Tonight $44,.

$44.

Uh, yeah, my heart. I mean, I wasn't going to do this, but it is fresh, fresh on my mind. After that, read Max Hot seat just ditching our playoff softball game for the Cubs game tonight. Uh, we're already like 10 men down, We're like scratching and clawing for everyone.

Heart.

My hot seat is Max.

Max Hank.

Hank isn't Max, like, the best player on your team.

No, but we need them.

You guys are bad sports town you got. You don't understand Hank as a Celtics fan, as a Boston fan, when your team is.

How many games are you going to?

I'm going to go to.

I'm going to go to all of them, what? I'm not all three. Yeah, the team is in town.

No.

You can.

You can send them back.

There's a million people that would love to take them.

You can send them back and go to the game.

It would be rude to not to not take the tickets.

I'm telling you right now, it's not rude.

Big Cat so graciously gifted them to me. All right, he's just putting it, putting on right now. I know that he really wants me to go, so I'm sorry.

I would not.

Not our sports teams.

I love, I love my, I love my, I love my sports teams.

I love my sports team.

He hates the pugs, he hates the pugs, he hates the pugs.

It's interesting, yes.

So is this team? who are you guys playing tonight? Do you have a tough game?

Yeah.

No, we beat this team 24 to two last time we played them.

Oh, you're fine. You're fine Hank, I hope so.

Why are you going to all the games? why can't you miss just one game?

Because I love the Phil's. Sorry, I love the Phil's and I saw them last night. It was super embarrassing.

Wait, oh yeah, what happened there?

I just like, saw them on the river walk and I got excited. I was like, and I started clapping. I was like, Let's go Phil's boys. And then I took like five steps back and I was like, why did I do that? That was so stupid.

You should have just said I have a podcast.

No, no, that's that's way worse. No, it's not way worse.

Come on, I do that all the time. You just walk down the street screaming at everybody. I have a podcast.

Ask me about Ask me about my podcast.

My cool throne is a hawk to a girl.

Oh, I had that as well, yeah.

She was in Nashville, she sung Revival on stage with Zach Brian, and she did an interview with Brie, our coworker backstage. That has like a million views, I think in one day.

Yeah.

Also.

Yeah also led us to one of the funniest exchanges on Twitter. Laura Loomer Who? You're going to have to help me pft. What is she?

I don't know, I don't know what she is, I just she's on Twitter, okay?

All right, all right. Oh yeah, she's investigative journalism, uh? She said. Watch the degenerate hawk to a girl whose real name is Haley.

Yeah, so we'll see. We're going to wait for all the facts to come out before determining whether or not she's good, she has, I guarantee you.

Like, we should maybe incorporate that into the show over the last week.

Just because every girl wants to be like, Well, I saw the video, I got to try the hawk to her.

Yeah, that was the segment.

That's great.

Would you blow this person or not?

It's a no for me, for Trump. And then people were like, This is crazy, she, she's a liberal. Oh man, that actually, it's very classy of her to be like, No, I wouldn't talk to her.

Yeah, he's a married man, yeah, he's the office.

Okay, that's also a lip move, right? That's what, that's what the Dems do.

Yeah, yeah, all right.

Talk to her, the president.

I don't know if there's, I guess, Monica Lewinsky.

Yeah, it's hot.

Nancy Reagan.

The only proof of Hawk to the president?

It was a great hawk to her.

Yeah, yeah, is that's a big question that the international debate is hawk to a Lib or a Republican move? It's woke, yeah.

My hot seat is Greg Berhalter, coach of the U S men's national team. We put them on the hot seat. It feels like months ago, it feels like years ago, it feels like two years ago.

I have a question for you, PFT. Now. I agree that Greg Berhalter should be fired, and I don't really have any basis besides everyone else's saying it. So I'm like, fine, fuck it. If there's a picket for, uh, you know, we're all. If we're all grabbing our pitch forks for coach I'm in, is there a chance?

We shouldn't, though. Yes, right now we do suck. yes, at this moment we suck at soccer, but our players are good.

Okay, but I, I was watching that whole game last night and um, we, we had to win and we basically just didn't try to score.

Um.

We looked like, shit again, this could be Berhalter, but then I was looking it up. Today. Essentially, U.S. men's soccer team has told everyone this is a golden generation, cause we can beat Mexico, we don't beat anyone else.

So that's the bar for, it's been the bar for for us soccer for a long time. It's like, if you can dominate your rival, then it's all good, if you can, if you can beat them in important games, then it feels like you've got a good team, which is a decent thing to have, as like your mark, whether or not your team's good. If Mexico is good, but Mexico hasn't been good, right?

But the players to have to take some onus. No, the the I saw Justin Moran tweeted out that, um, in the last six years, five years. If you take out our wins against Mexico, the best win that the U. S. men's national team has is over Iran. One, nothing.

Yeah.

Yeah, we don't. we. We don't score goals, we also just don't score goals. It's like it's also just a terrible product to watch. We don't score goals and we don't even create chances to score goals.

Yeah, we're not aggressive enough. We put in, we put in, uh, an extra defender when we lost a guy to a red card. Because we're just trying to get a tie. We love playing for ties, and it's bullshit, and it sucks. And it's it takes the fun out of watching sports when the team that you cheer for doesn't even try to score.

He's good, we'd have to pay him a ton of money.

Good, pay him, pay him all the money. I also I thought about maybe getting that German coach. Remember the one that used to stick his hand down his pants and and smell it on the sidelines? Remember that dude?

Yeah, he was cool.

The German coach, the one who was like his own boogers on the sideline, I'll take him, I'll take the Booger eater.

I don't know, I just I'm starting to think that, um, as bad as Burr Halter is again, everyone has told me he's terrible. So I'll. I'll agree with everyone on this, cause I don't know enough about soccer at some point.

Yeah, they haven't played well as a team at all, but that's the thing like they are good players who play on good teams overseas.

But they were good, we would win.

Yeah.

If they were good, we'd beat Panama.

No, you can have a good team, you can have a team of good players that suck playing as a team. It's possible, Greg, but.

But so then they. But I don't know how good are the player. I feel like everyone just tells us that this is the best players that we've ever had. And yet, if you look at it, it's like 20 years ago, we are 30 years ago, we accomplished way more.

So the the players that we have right now are playing at a higher level internationally than we've ever had before in this country. And that's not, you can't really debate that because it's just fact. But the team, the team, they suck ass, they stink, they're taking responsibility.

Yeah, I'm just I'm, I'm more just I want Burr Halter out, but maybe we stink at soccer story developing.

We do right. Yeah, right now. Right now we do stink at soccer, but we have good players and that's what makes it so frustrating. Is like, the World Cup in two years should be awesome.

Yeah, I just I keep getting stuck on like the on paper, and then as a team, they just never have done anything.

Well, yeah, they're, they're a young team, so they've only played, they've been in the history of this show.

I was like, Have we done anything? We win these random ass fucking?

We got it.

We got a tie in, like the Summer Mexico, that's what we do. Oh yeah, we won the Gold Cup.

We beat Mexico, that's it, we just beat Mexico.

And we beat teams by tying them, that's what, that's what this iteration of the team has done. They're good players, but they suck, they suck right now.

Okay, um, your cool throne.

My cool throne is just dad's asking if those are gunshots or fireworks. I like that week for that, yeah, huge week for that. You're going to hear a lot of pops and you get a lot of dads being like, Is that was that gunshots?

Yeah, that that is a fun, a little fun wrinkle that we have coming up. All right. My hot seat is, uh, something that we have all kind of forgotten, but it's going to happen on Thursday. Um, America's on the hot seat. Because it just dawned on me again that Joey Chestnut's not competing.

Yeah, and it's not going to hit the same. I know he's doing the competition against Kobayashi, but I need that on the 4th.

I think he's doing one on the 4th against some troops. Um, it just. I'm going to wake up on the 4th. And I just want to give everyone like a pre warning because the big news happened. What three weeks ago and now we're right on the cusp of the 4th of July.

Yeah, that, you know, would be awesome if if the hawk to a real competed in the Nathan's hotdog eating contest.

Yeah.

That would add a fun little wrinkle to it, or just spit on the hotdogs before you eat them. See if it works then.

Yeah, um, okay, my cool throne is, uh, I have to real quick, I just want to say it's it's early. But I actually think the Bulls and the Black Hawks are both doing good things. Cause they're actually coming to grips with the fact that they're not competing for championships and making the correct moves.

Uh.

Gone from the team. And then my other cool throne is, Did you guys see this, uh, guy on power slap name? I think his name is Butterball. Is that his name, Butterball?

Yeah, so power slap to. To my knowledge, it only exists as clips that we watch online. I've never seen a stream of power slap. I can't imagine going to a power slap event. Sober. That, to me, seems like that would be a just a crazy thing to do.

Yeah, the clips are very, very fun. Uh, what is this guy's name? Oh, no dumpling.

So if somebody's slapping down on me, it's easier for me to absorb that blow.

Correct and and dumpling.

I've never been knocked out.

Yeah, Dumpling is able to to slap up and just fucking knock dudes out.

I might have to give it a shot.

Pretty awesome, um, okay.

Maybe we do that live stream, power, power, slap the uh, two guys that finish in last place in Mount Rushmore.

I don't hate that we're going to bring Mount Rushmore back on Monday. Um, like I said, we're on vacation this week. Uh, thank you everyone who tuned in on Monday. Uh, for Dungeons and Dragons. We love doing those shows, do them a couple of times a year, but yeah, this is our one kind of vacation week of the year.

And the Dingers only league was meant to make us, to force us to start watching ball in these early days of the season. And you know what, it was better than last time, it was a better draft than last year.

It was, and Jerry.

Jerry's a huge piece of shit. Jerry's a huge piece of shit. For all Phillies fans out there, Jerry's a huge piece of shit.

Oh, okay, well, let's kick it to ourselves, cool.

Uh, man, shoot, I'm at, I'm at the ballpark every day, I'm trying to put in the work. Um, so, you know, put on for the Dinger League.

I like that humility is important for me when I'm selecting my team. Another thing that's very important for me personally is each person's walk-up song when they come up to play. I want to know that my guy is stepping up there with, uh, with the blood pumping, heart rate, heart rate going. Preferably, a good, nice, clean rock and roll song, old school.

I did have a rock and roll song, it was Kickstart My Heart, Uh, last year, but uh, transitioned into the Sweet Escape by Gwen Stefani and.

Uh.

It gets, it, gets the crowd going. Um, you get to get to hear them cheering on. So, uh, yeah, I, I do enjoy my rock and roll, but this one seems to get the crowd involved.

I like that one.

Gwen Stefani You can never go wrong with her. How about this, Gunner? Let's say, uh, situational baseball. It's late in the game, and, uh, you got first and second, and you may be doing a hit and run and that's called in.

I mean, I have it. The hit and run is a, uh, all you gotta do is put the bat on the ball. But didn't say that it had to be not in the air. So true, that's my take.

Okay, now, what? What about if it's a three no count? And you've got the green light? And a pitch comes in? Let's say, Uh, let's say the pitcher grooves a fastball. But it's up in the zone, it's looking like it might be ball for. But you know that you can hit the shit out of it. Are you still going to take a cut?

If I got the green light, I might, I might, I'm going to let something rip at it.

Okay, all right, I appreciate that. Um, how much do you hate getting walked?

Yeah, I've seen the videos where people think that I really hate walking, but I actually really enjoy walking. So, uh, I know that, I know that doesn't suit the, uh, the Dingers only league. But, um, yeah, I do enjoy walking a little to help the guy behind me get some, get some RBI.

You're, you're lying because we have seen the videos and you throw your bat and disgust and you're upset that you're walking. I like that you're up there to hit, so you like, I know that it's good.

Right, yeah, I mean, going up there, I wanted to do some damage. But uh, yeah, I guess, I guess walks are just as good as hits. So, um, I mean, obviously, I guess your one one position is to get a hit. But if they don't throw your strike, then don't, don't strike out and chase stuff.

Yeah, I think in theory, you understand that walks are good, but as it's happening to you, you're like, I really wish I could have hit a tater.

Yeah, I mean, uh, obviously, like I said, a hit is obviously the one one uh scenario. But um, I guess walks come with, uh, come with the game as well.

What's the farthest home run that you've ever hit?

Um, I think it was last year, the one on Utah, I made it to Utah Street, it was my first one ever. I think it was like, 462. That's what they, what they did.

It's pretty good, yeah, pretty good.

What's your favorite home run you've ever hit?

Ooh, favorite one.

Um.

So I have one later in the game against the Rockies last year. Um, left on left. Uh. I think it put us up by one in the bottom of the eighth. But like, two outs. I want to say, so that one, that one's up there. And then my first career Grand Slam was, uh, that one's up there too.

Okay, uh, wrong answer. It was the next one, your next one's your favorite home run, and you keep saying the next one and the next one.

I have one in Houston, okay, and then I know I have one in New York last year.

Okay.

Uh, after this Dinger League draft, hopefully a couple more.

Yeah, good answer.

I like that a lot. This feels good. We should interview every player.

Have you ever hit the warehouse in batting practice?

Uh, no, I have not not made it that far yet. Okay, still getting there.

Are you more of a cat person or a dog person?

More of a dog person.

All right, good answer, good answer.

How do you feel about the name? Gunner? Do you like it? I feel like Gunner is a good Dinger name.

Yeah, I feel like that's, uh, that would be up there in the uh, Dinger league draft of names.

Yeah.

I'm hoping that'll, uh, that'll put me over the top for, uh, if you have any split decisions.

What about other guys on your team? Because so the Dinger Only league, how it works is we have to have one guy from every position. Pitch us on someone else that you think might have a hot second half. Because the Dingers Only league. We started in July, so the first half of the season doesn't count, so it's just every, every dinger after, like, July 4th.

Okay, so, uh, I got one for you first baseman Ron Mountcastle, he's, uh.

No, no, he got dizzy last year, I had him on my team, he couldn't stop getting dizzy.

Oh no, he seems to be over the vertigo, but um, yeah, he does hit a lot of homers. So he's, uh, he's been saving them. This is what he told me, He's been saving them for the second half.

Okay.

And, uh, I got him having a big second half.

Okay, he's, he got over the vertigo, yeah.

I just remember getting updates like every couple of days, like Ryan Mountcastle, still dizzy, and I was like, God damn it.

I drafted this Ryan Mountcastle, probably no longer dizzy. Yeah, all right, but I might give him a shot.

I might give him another shot, that's that's good one. What about, what about Colton? Should we? Should we take a look? Late round pick?

Yeah, I mean, that's go with, go with what your heart tells you. I mean, he's he's going to get, he's a streaky home run hitter, so he's going to give you at least a good. I would say he gets close to, pretty close to 2025 homers this year, so it's going to have a big, big second half.

Okay, um.

I have a question about your, your actual owner. Have you seen his copy of the Magna Carta that he owns?

I have not.

Did you know that he owned the Magna Carta?

I did not. That is news to me. That's a that's pretty sick.

That's like the most baller thing you can do. It's like, I, I own the law.

That is freaking sweet, yeah.

Would you have any problems playing for an owner that, uh, that didn't own the Magna Carta, uh?

I wouldn't say, I wouldn't say I have a problem with him not having it, but it is pretty baller status to have it.

I don't have it yet. Yeah, um.

Yeah.

Can we expect a full?

When you get it, then we'll talk.

Can we expect full injury reports from you if we draft you to be on our team? yeah.

I mean, uh, it's, it's all inclusive, oh.

I love that, all right. So, Gunner, we have um Ebo here who's a diehard Orioles fan. He was not in the office when you came in the office.

What's up, Gunner? I just want to say first off, Uh, you're the man, um.

Nice, nice question, yeah.

Uh, you're the man, uh, I've been following you since you were in, uh, Norfolk, and I've heard from some, uh, people in Norfolk that you were. You were the best basketball player in major league baseball, you were an unbelievable basketball player. Alabama State Player of the Year.

Whoa?

Could you have gone D1?