Braves First Baseman Matt Olson, Barstool Is Independent Again, Hard Knocks Episode 1, Mt Rushmore Of Rookie Mistakes And Roasts With Uncle Chaps
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Welcome to pardon my take. Today is Wednesday, August 9th, and football is back.
Hard knocks, Baby, hard knocks. A tradition like unlike any other, we get super pumped up. We watch footballs on our screen.
We enjoy it and then, oh yeah, not a lot goes on. We already saw most everything that happened, but it was cool to see behind the scenes. The Nathaniel Hackett stuff, him with Aaron Rodgers and how they reacted to Sean Payton comments and all that, that part.
Was kind of cool, I like that. Yes, yes. So football is back. Let's talk hard knocks in a way.
Mincy's back. Uh, yeah. So if you are living under a rock, or if you only listen to the show, first of all, thank you. That means you're a wonderful awl. Uh. It was announced today that Penn, who, uh, owned us, uh Barstool Sports, has sold Barstool Sports back to us, back to Dave.
Um, they are creating a new app, or, yeah, in conjunction with ESPN, ESPN Bets. Uh, Penn, wonderful people. Jay Snowden will be a friend for life. Uh, they changed my life, they changed all of our lives. But the big news is that Barstool is back to being independent.
So it's pretty cool. Uh, it's been a crazy 20 years for Barstool. I think the 20th anniversary is coming up, uh, in a couple of weeks. It's been, you know, we. We've been doing this show for seven, eight years, uh, we are back to Independent, back to the Pirate ship.
I think it's a deal that works out for everyone very well. Uh, we listen, can't lose parlay. People saw what happened with that. Turns out, regulators maybe don't love barstool.
Don't love us, and I get that. It's totally makes sense. I think Penn had the same thought, like, hey, we thought this was going to work out maybe a little better with regulators, it didn't.
So we are back to being ourselves, uh, independent. And Penn is going to be doing something with ESPN and ESPN Bets, and I think it's going to be wildly successful because Penn has some really incredible people. But yeah, we are back to being independent. The pirate ship goes back out there into the ocean. Uh, I did see some people being like, Oh, can you guys now? like, do stuff you didn't do? I don't think we changed anything under Penn.
I truly don't like I know people will do that. Yes, there was different ways that we had to talk about gambling, gambling regulators were stringent. But like, in terms of the content of this show, I don't think we changed anything. Did we PFT?
Instead of piss dogs, shit cats. At one point, and Jay Snowden said, Hey, I don't know if we can go that far with you guys. Maybe dial it back, just keep it number one only. I have one too.
I have one wait, hold on before before you say yours or hank PFT. I'm sure you got the same thing of people being like, piss dogs back. They're just completely not realizing that. Both you and I have pissed our pants on camera in the last six months, yeah, multiple times.
So it's like.
I don't really know what I I, I, I guess within the last three weeks. Yeah, I love our, our fans.
Are the best fans in the world? I know everyone says that, but I truly do believe that. They ride and die with us through thick and thin, they're always behind us. We have a dream job because of the people that listen and support us and that never is lost.
I mean, never, ever, ever. But I will say too, we have not really changed that much. We've been pissing our pants.
Right, I would love to come back and say, like, Oh, I'm so glad. Because we get to really let everything fly that we haven't been able to. But we've, I don't think we've dialed anything back.
At all, yeah, it's just been. It's been how we talked about gambling, which I understand that was part of the rules and it made sense to to make sure that we talked about gambling the correct way. Under Penn. And even when we did that, and we were very. There was a lot of people who did a really good job of making sure everything was cleared with the gambling stuff.
And still, we issues with the regulators. I think that was kind of the eye-opening moment for all parties. And so, yeah, I don't think the content has changed on this show specifically at all, and it won't, and it will keep going forward. But it is fucking awesome that we're the pirate ship.
Hank Uh, yes, there was that. uh, it was 2020. There was the leaf blower video of the person blowing a leaf blower full of weed around a room. You guys told me to do it, I got a pound of weed.
To do the video in the studio and then you guys were like, Well, we're about to sell the pen, so you can't do it. So then I just had to hold on to this pound of weed. Oh, no.
Do you still have the pound? No, it was gone, uh, probably like June, um, it was Covid, so we can do that video.
Well, yeah, we're tired. But that was one thing that, you know, Penn, stopped from happening.
We, yeah, we'll bring that back. Hank along those same lines. I've. I've been angling to get a brand of pre-rolls put out there, called just Mids, just call them mids, just average weed. And I've been going for it. And they keep saying, no, we can't do that because it's it's, uh, sanctioning drug use, which I totally understand, but now maybe that's something we can get into.
Yeah, maybe put out our own weed strand, maybe the idea that we had the other day. Uh, we can do of me, Pft and Hank doing a three man scramble after eating mushrooms, and we try to beat Jake, who's dressed as Toad.
Max is Mario. I think we said, yeah.
But no, so, like, overall, yeah, it's a great thing.
Jake is So, it's going to be hilarious, but yeah, everything has it. I know that people will will try to think deeper and all this stuff. But I really do think that both parties are going to be very successful. And I think ESPN Bets is going to crush and I know.
Very, very smart. And this was kind of a thing where it's like, Hey, we know that the regulators are going to keep coming for us and it's going to be. We're going to play by different rules. And we thought it was going to work, and it didn't work exactly how we thought it still worked. It was still successful for a lot of the things. But, uh, yeah, that we are the pirate ship again.
So Jake is, Toad is coming. I do think it's the rare win, win, win. Yeah, I think like, I'm happy, I think Penn's happy.
I think ESPN is happy, I think everybody's happy, so we're all happy, it's good stuff. Um, speaking of dogs, I just want to share this story real quick because I'm raising a dog. Blake, right?
And Blake is about three and a half months old. Potty training. I'm doing really well for the most part. I went in to take a piss. He likes to follow me into the bathroom to watch me pee today.
He just followed me into the bathroom as I'm pissing, and he sees me peeing, and he's standing right behind me. And he starts pissing right onto the bath mat, onto the bathroom floor, he's a piss dog. Bro. Absolutely rocks. I loved it, yeah.
But not trained, not trained.
Not yet, not yet. We're working on that. It's a process, it's a process.
Trust the process, right, Max, isn't that what you always say? He's just nodding, cause he knows that if he unmutes his mic, we're going to be like, And how'd the process go? And then he's going to be like, we're going to trust it.
Um, all right, should we talk, should we talk some football? should we talk some some hard knocks? I'll just start with the fact that I'm not even doing a bit right now. I've never seen Aaron Rogers happier, he looks so happy.
He looks so relaxed, I'm so happy for him. It is great. It's like someone like, getting away from um, an evil, evil empire. He's, he's essentially been, you know, he's, he's gotten his. Uh, what am I looking for?
What's the word? It's late at night? The uh, swagger.
What are cackles? Well, I was going to say, it's like, What are cackles? it's?
Like an orca in in captivity with a curved fin, now it's out in the uh, in the ocean dorsal.
Fin straight up shackles. Yeah, by the way. A side tangent, Lolita being 50 years old like that, is that Orca is going to go in the ocean and die right away, right?
It might be just too much. It's never making it to the ocean, it's it's Brooke, it's it's Brooks from Shawshank. Lolita is going to end up in the ocean and be like, What the fuck?
I had a pretty good life.
The ocean wouldn't got itself in a big damn hurry. Yeah, fuck, he's going to be like.
I have to find food now, or she? So, yeah, that's the side tangent about Jim, or say, Uh, yeah, Aaron Rogers, the shackles are off. He looks like he'd be himself.
He changed his number, he looks happy, and his quarterback coach, this new, up and coming guy who I've never seen in the NFL before. Um, what's his name? He has a big beard.
Jack, I think his name is Nate Hackett. Nate. never seen him before. That guy looks like a smart guy. I he. I think he's future head coach.
Material, just the way that you it's, it tells you a lot. The way that you can get along with a star quarterback if you have that trust, that guy's a rising star, a guy to keep an eye on in the NFL. He's got to learn some stuff, probably about like clock management, timeouts, end of game stuff, stuff. You don't get to experience as a quarterback, coach or really an offensive coordinator sometimes.
But once he gets that under his belt, I think he's going to, he's going to turn some heads. He was, he also, by the way, has an ass, I think I think he grew his.
Ass out a little bit this off season. Yeah, he, he was very smart to go with. Uh, the new facial hair, he reminded me of, like a Duke player, a Plumlee. Going to the N.B.A. and getting some tattoos and a new haircut. Like, Hey, that's that, was the old me.
I'm, I'm, I'm Nate Hackett. Now I look like I have a child. I drive a chopper to work and he looked jacked and he was out there having fun. He looks like such a fun guy, I kind of want to get him on PMT.
Yeah, we should interview him.
The Gold member stuff. I bet he's got some great stories about Blake Bortles, he's coach him. Yes, yes.
Uh, what other things? My personal big takeaway was that crows are dumb as shit. Yeah, did you, did you hear the opening monologue that Robert Sala gave? So he, he sat the players down, gave them. An animal fact at the start, which is that crows are the only animal, the only bird that attacks eagles, and that eagles to defend themselves from crows. Let the crow land on their back.
Then they fly straight up, and then the crow suffocates to death and falls off and crashes to the earth. Crows are so fucking dumb. this is an Ironman crow. Yeah, I think it did, too.
I think it did, too. It's a miracle that that crows ever. I mean, this is one of the things that we probably can't go off, or we couldn't go off on when pen to own us. But fuck. Crows, like crows, have a marketing team. I don't know what it is, but I think that crows are the smartest bird in the world. And it's a miracle that they ever get out of bed in the morning without stabbing themselves in the butthole with their own beak. Because they're so stupid that they just hold on to the back of the eagle and die of not being.
Able to breathe and they're bad vibes. you see a crow. it's bad vibes. that's not a good vibes bird, that's a bad like.
You see a blue Jay, you see an Oriole, you see a cardinal. You're like, Ooh, I'm going to stare at that out of my back porch. You see a crow, and you're like, Wait, death is around the corner. They're bad vibe birds. They're called a murder of crows for a.
Behind that was, Um, if you ain't got no haters, you ain't popping, so Sala was saying that the crows are the haters, us, the media. And that the eagles are actually the jets, which means that they're going to fish in second this year, but they're just flying like, I don't know they're.
Flying all the crows off their back. Yeah, um, it is funny that there will be like a few people who are like, man, finally, they can say, fuck crows. Yeah, they never were able to say that before.
Uh, other things. I don't know if you guys saw my tweet, so if you did, don't answer.
This, But how old is Randall Cobb? Oh yeah, you brought this up last year, I think he's young.
Yeah, I bring it up every year. He is 32, he's 32 years old, he's going to be 33 in a couple of weeks.
You did see it? I did not. Oh, okay. 32 years old Randall Cobb.
Like, when I saw him in this, I was like, Holy shit, he's still in the league. And then I remember reminded myself like, Oh wait, he's 32 years old and he feels like he's been in a league for 10 million years.
Yeah, that would mean he's been the league for what? This is 12th season coming up. Yeah, it's crazy.
That is, that is crazy. He's one of those, uh, one of those like late babies. When you, when you're born in late August, early September, you kind of on that cutoff, sometimes on which grade you're going to be in. All the kids that were born, like September 1st, September, 2nd, were the best in sports in high school.
That's I'm I'm dealing with that right now on the home front, cause my son was born in June. And I'm like, let's hold them back for a year. Yeah, my wife's like, why? I was like, cause of sports.
That's not a reason, no, it is. it's a great reason. Yes, I don't think you can do June, though.
It's way too, it's like, if I could, I would hold back a kid who like if my kid was.
Born in March, I'd be like, let's hold them back. Yeah, you just purposely don't teach him how to read, so he feels he feels kindergarten. We got a repeat.
And then he's the first kid to hit five.
Feet tall. When he's like, when he's like, you know, in fifth grade, just dominating basketball, yeah, probably gets to play quarterback. Listen, that could shape a child. Even he's not going to end up being a great athlete, but if he was just a great athlete for a couple of years.
That could change everything. Yeah, if you are a true sports dad, you should only conceive a child with a New Year's baby. New Year's Eve is when football guys, no, it's no September.
I think you.
Can hold back for a full year. So yeah, so New Year's, New Year's. Oh yeah, you're right.
Yeah, conceive on New Year's. Yeah, you have them in September. I've told the story, but I played.
Three years of little league cause of a change back rule? And it was. It was the peak of my athletic achievement. I was 13 years old, six feet tall, throwing no hitters every game.
It was the best. That's awesome that rules like every parent should aspire to that, that like, Hey, let's be honest here, let's just break it down.
They're not going to be a college athlete, a pro athlete. Why not just let them dominate when they're fucking in sixth grade, like they'll just let them go crazy in sixth grade, and they'll have that forever?
Maybe get a college scholarship out of it? Who knows, Jake, can you actually set a reminder on the calendar? Remind me to have sex on New Year's Eve? yeah.
Yeah, also with football coming.
A little preview Look, week one I have some crazy reminders. Okay, give it to us. Can you give us a couple? Just a couple of teases? just a tease.
Uh, don't let big cat believe in, Carson went to fee starts. We'll talk about that. Well, that's, that's, yeah.
We'll talk about that later. And that's solved itself if a bad team is good in the first week of three weeks of the season.
Just wait, I'm not going to do that, I'm not going to do that, nope.
These are all very smart thoughts. The Colts have it one and nine straight week ones.
Oh, but Anthony Richardson's lighten it up and your season ticket holders now?
That's a we're going week one, like that's like, we're betting on the coast, we've won stat.
Yeah, we have water always finds level.
They've gotten PST to take Patrick, okay?
That's smart. Yeah, I can't wait for the first, can't.
Lose Parlay Oh, it's going to slap. One thing I'm learning from from Jake's notes here.
We're smart, we're just dumb, right? No, we're, we're, we're. We are emotional men, we are knee jerk, reaction, hard on the sleeve men who in the moment can't really get ourselves out. But with hindsight and a little bit of distance, we have some really good thoughts.
Yeah, no, we, we get it, we know ball, but just, yeah, you're right in the moment.
Like, football is an emotion, I got caught up in it, like, I can't wait till, uh, like the like. The Chiefs are going to go up seven to nothing, and I'm a live bet the Chiefs at like minus 300 and they're going to lose the game.
Like, I'm like, the Chiefs will never lose the best team ever, so yeah, that will happen, that will absolutely happen.
Uh, Jake, now I've talked to Max about this. I am stuck in a situation cause I don't. I don't want to root for the Eagles like I did last year again, cause I just don't want to do that again. That was that took enough out of me, but I do think the Eagles. What's the Eagle's schedule? There's a spot Pft.
We got to do this together, maybe with our Twitter payouts, we can do this. Uh, Elon was starting to hit, uh, Pft, or Jake set a reminder for me and PFT to put a future on the Eagles. On December 11th, they have a stretch where they play the Cowboys, Chiefs, Bills, Niners and Cowboys. That price is going to go there, that's going to be when we strike.
That's me. When we strike PFT, that's going to be when we strike.
Also, Jake set a reminder for week one to disregard all the other memos.
Well.
They lose week one. We'll check the price. I just can't, and this is something that, um, it sucks to admit, but I can't. I think I will probably have to bet the Eagles to win the Superbowl for the rest of my life, chasing that 22 to one. Because if they win it this year and I don't have a bet, I will be so, so upset. So, yeah, I, I'm just stuck and I won't talk about it.
I'll just put it in and just forget it, but I just know that, probably until the Eagles win their next Superbowl. I have a future on them, so it could be like 50 years and I'd be like.
Still 22 to one, going to make it back. I'm a team player. I put eight grand on the Eagles to win the Superbowl because I couldn't root against Big Cat to lose. You know, 20, $220,000 or whatever. But I don't think. I don't think I can put a future on the Eagles. In good conscience, yeah.
I lost too much last year, too. It just goes against every fire. It's not like I, I despise the Eagles, I mostly despise. I've. I've grown up despising my own team more than anything. But still, every man has a line I can't put a I can't put a future on.
Division Wait for December 11th, wait for December 11th. When they're like popping it, like 12 to one, we're like, Ooh, watch out. Would I have to just put Max in a fucking Hannibal Lecter suit the day before the Superbowl?
We wheeling them around in Las Vegas, you know, have a fucking get mask on and everything. She'll be like, you can't drink anything, you can't do anything, just wheeling them. I actually think that for Max's own good.
He shouldn't be allowed to go to the Superbowl at. The Eagles are in it.
Oh no, he's go, he's going, and we're doing the same deal and he's going to sit front row. I want like $20,000 tickets this time, I won't even wait, I'm going to root against the Eagles.
Play the hits, run it back, okay, other things, yeah, hard knocks overall.
Like, nothing really best feeling in early August to see that music leave Schreiber showing up like, there's just nothing better. Oh, I had one other things sauce. Gardner and Aaron Rodgers have a very cool handshake.
Yeah, the the smoke, it's like a, it's like a triangle, and then the smoke.
Yeah, it's pretty sick. I actually agree with you on Aaron Rodgers. I think he does look happy, like watching him when leave Schreiber. Well, from the selectively edited 15 minutes of content that was approved by the team, Aaron seems like a great guy and a great football player.
Yeah, great fucking guy, great football player. I've always loved Aaron Rodgers this year.
That's a fact, you can't get that fact this season. yeah, this this season. Well, no, because he lost the Lions this year to 2020 2023..
I've been a big Aaron Rodgers fan overall. Uh, last thing, uh. Colin Coward released his list of quarterbacks Can't win a Super Bowl.
And he said, Dwayne Haskins can't um fact check, I guess. Technically true. Yeah, what a.
Did he ever apologize for that or say anything? I don't know, I don't know, that's a.
It's a pretty bad take on his, but I don't think he did it on purpose. I actually, which is maybe more of an indictment on Colin Coward. I, I don't think that Colin Coward.
Crazy, insane. Like to just, yeah, imagine if you're Dwayne Haskins family and you see that, you're like, watching the herd. Like, yeah, you can't want to say, Oh, cool, thanks, Colin.
Awesome job, Schefter's watching. It's like, Why? why couldn't you have said that?
The day it happened to take some of the steam off me, seriously, seriously, um, okay. We got a great rest of the show. We're going to kick it back to ourselves in studio.
We've got a hot seat. Including Jake's rant, Uh, Matt Olson, Mount Rushmore of rookie mistakes and Chaps with Rose. So unbelievable show. Let's kick it back to ourselves. No joke. I think I might have a.
Cane sauce problem I was at raising came the other day, getting my box combo with extra sauce on the side. Like usual, I have an order when I eat my canes, it goes crinkle. Cut fries, chicken fingers, the Texas toast and finish strong with the slaw.
So I start eating and before I know it, I'm scraping the bottom of my sauce. And I wasn't even done with my fries yet. This habit and I'm 100 here for it. Dip into canes. Get extra sauce for me, please.
Okay, hot seat.
Cool Throne. But we're doing things a little out of order because last night at about what was it like, nine o'clock? Uh, we got a text on the PMT group text by the way, someone was pointing out, so I tweeted out Jake's text, someone pointed out that it's called PMT Full Group.
Why did that?
Happen Billy's suspension Okay, the avatar was, uh, Billy's face with a circle and a line.
Through it over. So we should just go back to that one. Yeah, because I was, because people kept on saying, like, Ooh, I wonder, what's not the PMT full group, you know, like, chat it really, there's only one side chat.
It's me, PFT and Hank, and that's us talking about memes, um, so that there everyone, all the other conversation goes in the PMT full group.
I thought it was Billy, Jake was. Jake was so fired up last night. Yeah, I don't think we've gotten a text from Jake being like, permission to go in.
Yeah, so he said, Can I, can I rant?
On the Orioles broadcasting situation on the show Tomorrow, permission granted, am I allowed to talk?
On the podcast, It's your guys show, but I requested a segment, Jake, you're part of it.
What should we call it when Jake's really fired, like once a year, when Jake's fired up?
When broadcasters get suspended for no reason, okay, the Ides of Marsh, Tom Brenneman, How about?
That we should actually give away, we should give equity of pardon, my take, to everyone here. And then that way, if, like we ever have a controversy, we like draw straws. He has to take the bullets, yeah.
Jake, Jake, you have 98 of the equity on part of my take respect to biz. Jake Uh, okay, so Jake, are you ready? I'm ready.
Okay, let's give the context first. Yes, give all.
The context So, please don't be biased, though, Please don't be biased, there was no bias in.
The contact because I have. Yet it sounds like you're already a little bit biased.
No, I did an old debate trick. I told you last night that I'm going to take the side of John Angelos. I'm not, but I wanted you to prepare for that. You're not, cause then you would get roasted by the internet, too.
He kind of rules, but that's we'll talk about that later, yeah.
In a terrible, terrible way, okay? So Kevin Brown, play by play broadcaster Baltimore Orioles on Masson guy who punched the concrete, No.
Oh, different, Okay, yeah, you got confused by the.
Yes, uh, so a week or two ago, he was doing his broadcast open. Anytime you watch a game, you're on the air, you're on camera for a few minutes. Pre-produced segments, graphics, vos, things like that, a pre-produced, uh. Element of this. Opening between the Orioles and the Rays showed how the Orioles, who have been historically bad the last few years. They have not won 16 series in a row at Tropicana Field.
But this year, the Orioles Big Cats got a huge future on them. The Orioles are the darlings of the M.L.B this season. Yeah.
Okay, all right, I would actually argue that, yeah, they're a likable team.
The Orioles Young.
Stars like they've been the laughing stock expectations exactly their first place in.
The AL right now, right, the darling of M.L.B, that's true. He just, he just came back, so.
It's been since 2017, six years, since they won a series at Tropicana Field. But this season, Kevin Brown mentioned, they've won three times in five opportunities. So they're just they're. They're better this year. okay, they're much better this year compared to years past. But he pointed out that they had lost, but he pointed out that they had not won 16 straight series.
And, uh, the guy in charge of the Orioles, John Angelo, says, That's too sensitive, you're.
Out, you're suspended indefinitely, okay? The CEO of the Orioles, Yes.
Yes, now, would you clarify?
No, okay, I was stating facts, I'm going to play Devil's advocate, okay?
And I have more to say.
But that's the basis for those who are off PFT, and I will play Devil's Advocate after go off.
Okay, so rant, you're suspending the broadcaster for stating those facts.
Where did he get those facts from the truck? So where did the truck? where did the truck get those facts from the team's PR game notes? In that case, suspend all of that. Oh, he just tossed them. If you're going to just suspend him, you got to suspend everyone else involved with making that decision of making these facts come to light.
So Jake, how do you know that they got it in that?
Order that the that the guys in the truck got it from the team. I mean, they're not making up stats.
Like, when you're a producer of a broadcast like you, don't you google these, you get these from?
Yeah, okay, so in reality, you get these, you get these facts. Jake's, it's Jake Shapiro Facts.
Don't care about your truck. It doesn't make up these numbers, they get it from a source, right? Someone who's in charge of compiling the numbers. They were so proud.
I just got it from.
Looking at the actual stats and saying, Hey, but they were so bad, it felt made up.
Like, how could they be that bad? Yeah, so I don't understand why he has to take the heat for this because it's just insane. And every other broadcaster was clowning on the Orioles, like.
They had the entire baseball world on their side and now people, not me. I want the cat to win 35 to one. Thank you. People are going to root against the Order Orioles just to see their owner.
I don't think so. Because, Jake, if this is your first exposure to how bad of a guy John Angeles is and Peter Angeles, like, what, what bad owners they are. Then you need to pay more attention to them in the past because nothing's going to change. Because I'll admit that's me, I'm not. We're still rooting for the team, the team is fun.
People will, the players are fun. The owner that you'll remember last, I think it was on Martin Luther King Jr. Yes, he gave his first public address to reporters in years, I think.
And they asked him because he had contacted Goldman Sachs to inquire about selling the team and what that would look like. They asked him about that.
They said also cause he was getting sued by his brother, he was getting sued by his brother.
But they wanted to know, like, what's the future of the Orioles? are they going to move the team? Are you going to sell it? are you coming back to Camden Yards because your lease is expiring?
And then he said, Listen, I think it's disgusting that you would ask me these questions when I'm here to talk about the great work that Martin Luther King Jr. has done in the community. And obviously, Martin Luther King Jr. would not care about a billionaire moving jobs away from a predominantly Black inner city community. That's nothing that he would care about.
But Peter Angelos and John Angelos are just world-class, they're world-class scumbags.
They're villains, they're villains. What are the DMV owners?
Pro sports Well, former, former and current. Listen, Jake, I'm not going to play Devil's advocate, I'm just the whole region.
I'm going to introduce you to reality.
No, the colts are sort of the rave. No, the colts moved.
Yeah, they did, they did. That was not Jim Mercer that did that. yeah, he was powerlifting, smoking cigs. But, uh, I'm going to use reality as a counter-argument to Jake.
In reality, this is the way that it's set up now, where teams own their own broadcast companies. I think in the case of the Orioles, it's 70, yeah, that's owned, yeah.
And that's a whole other thing where the Orioles owe the Nationals, like hundreds of millions of dollars and they just won't pay. But in reality, teams now own their own in-house broadcasting services, and if you're going to work for those broadcasting services like journalism, is long gone out the window at that point. So the all these owners are like little warlords in their own towns, and they control the message and they control the propaganda. And so this is just kind of what's going to happen.
But that's the point, it's not good.
This is spinning it in a positive way. I've seen local broadcasters get fired for being too negative about their team. This is the exact opposite of facts. So I it's terrible.
He should. Kevin Brown should be reinstated. Oh, here we go. Wait, you're supposed to say you're biased to start. I mean, you're supposed to say you're biased to start. That took a long time to get to that.
If he went to Northwestern, I'd have the.
Same exact response Well, who's to say, if we're a fifth, we'd all be drunk? Yeah, um, all right.
So yeah, it's, it's crazy. Kevin Brown seems like a really good broadcaster. This is also the same team that got rid of. Didn't, wasn't John Miller, right? The voice of some incredible baseball voice? So it's bad.
He should be rehired, he should be reinstated, he's going to be back. It's insane move. But I still keep going back to the point that if I owned a team, I'd do the same thing, I'd just be like, Cause.
There was also, they also found out, Uh, John. Angelos enacted a new policy mandating that their broadcasters were only team gear when on air. He's basically running this like North Korea, it's crazy. I have a question, Can I? I kind of like, I kind of like the idea of being like, insult? Facts are not allowed.
Can I wear part of my take here outside of the show?
I'm going to say no, because you're trying to back us into a corner here. Yeah, so that's pretty.
Much what he's saying, like, That's crazy, God forbid. He represents his team on the street.
Well, no, no, no, no, no, no. You have to only wear team issued gear while you're on the air.
You can't wear it. No, no, you can't wear anything else while you're on, Oh, okay, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
So Syracuse not that great. If Jake, you you bring up, you bring up some interesting points, which is this is bad and it doesn't seem right. It seems scuzzy and from a moral point of view, you're right. But as Big Cat says, if you own a team, he can do what he wants, he can do what he.
Wants, and he can be a scumbag. He'll never be able to do it, but now he has no one's going to spin.
Zone for Kevin Brown. He's coming out of this looking great. Oh yeah, he's got everybody across the world being like, ridiculous now, you know. What else happened is because of that, that mandate that you said, big cat, where you have to wear team issue gear. They kicked one of their radio broadcasters out there.
Kevin Brown then had to build it on the radio for that guy. Yeah, they're.
Also, they're also not allowed. They've been reprimanded previously for mentioning past Oreo players who are no longer with the team. Yep, he basically is like, I want positive vibes only.
Don't give me any insults. These are positive vibes your team has stunk the last few years.
And now they're really good. I was, I watched the clip, I was shocked. They hadn't won a series since 2017. In the truck, I didn't know that.
That's just so now I know that in the corner.
I mean, that's terrible, Jake. How would you feel? How would you feel if you do a PLL game? Right? Yeah, nail the final call.
It's a it's a buzzer beater goal, yeah, water dogs win.
Unlikely. Yeah, that's all right, so let's go back to reality, okay?
They tie and then it.
Goes to overtime, then they lose an overtime, but you nail the call at the end of the game, right? And then the first thing we say is, Hey, Jake, was that a shot of a lifetime? You'd probably be pissed off at us.
Right, we're bringing up insult facts from the past.
Kevin Brown Did he brought up insult? facts? Well, he brought up something that was.
Offered by the truck, which was which was put together by the PR team.
Sounds like you're throwing the truck under the truck, No, I'm just saying, like.
If he's going to be held responsible, then the owner should suspend every single person.
John Angela should call the Games himself. Yeah, which actually would kind of rule.
That would be awesome. Yeah, it's like that episode of The Simpsons where Mr. Burns runs.
The entire power plant, yeah, they go on strike. Yeah, I mean, again, this is everyone should.
I think it's one of. It's very hard to find a thing online where everyone is in agreement, everyone is in agreement that Kevin Brown got screwed. John Angeles is a bad guy. But I just the idea of insult facts it. It makes me laugh. Like if I walked around, I was like, anyone who calls me fat is fired.
That would kind of rule like everyone has to call me skinny. I don't know, learning. Simmons buddy, Yeah, so I. It. Kevin Brown deserves to be reinstated.
Hopefully this propels them to get an even better job, cause that would be the best ending. Is that another broadcast, another team is like, Wait, this guy's awesome. We have an old broadcaster who's going to retire or something, let's hire him, pay a shitload of money.
Get him out of there, he's really good, so he does ESPN, college football and basketball.
I don't think people will stop rooting against Orioles because no, I do think people can at.
Owners are complete assholes, and you still root for your team. Governors, yeah, governors, yeah.
I mean, Stan Kroenke, like, he's just he's won every title, it's not nuggets. Fans aren't like, Damn, I wish we didn't win that because of Stan Kroenke. They're just like, Yeah, look at Stan Kroenke whispering in people's ears on the stage, he's a weirdo.
Let's just pretend that that.
Doesn't exist. We won the title. Yeah, behind every great fortune is a great crime.
I think.
Red Sox got rid of Don Arcillo for no reason. And still, people are still mad. Yeah, yeah, that's.
Crazy, too, and he's doing well with the Padres, he's the best. I usually don't laugh at Wikipedia.
Edits I think they're like the lowest form of comedy. Besides, I don't know, like misspelling words intentionally badly on Twitter. But uh, there was a very funny one earlier today. If you go to John Angelos, his Wikipedia page, it says, Uh, he's listed as Giant baby John Angelos as his official name, which I think he we should just always refer to, John Angelos.
As giant baby John Angelos, and he's such a giant baby that he will never face the music. No, like you, said he, the last time he the first time he had been in public in a long time was Martin Luther King Day giving away a scholarship. The you even miss a part.
That was so funny that he called out the reporter who asked him the question, and he's like, Are you even from here? It was a beat reporter for the Orioles, who've been covering them for, like, years and years, he doesn't even know his beat reporters. So, uh, Jake Goodrant, I love the I need a clip of him kicking them all out.
I mean, do you guys agree with that?
Like, why does he have to take the why? Is he the only person getting in trouble for this?
Like, Yeah, no, it's crazy. Yeah, it sounds like you're trying to get everybody else in trouble.
Yeah, but yeah, it sounds like if they got in trouble, you'd be like, all right, that's fine.
I think you're tattling on the class. No, I'm not tattling on the class in that case.
Either suspend everyone or suspend everyone should walk out. I did, like when I, when I, when I was like, I almost respect John Angelos level of, like, controlling the media. One guy replied to me, it was like, This isn't a joking matter. A guy's, a guy's job is at stake.
It's like, Well, what, what? what other reason do we have to be on Twitter? Yeah, and also that's like.
Every time we talk about a player performing badly in a game, his job is at stake. Our jobs are.
We're tweeting for our job every day, we're podcasting for a job right now, where you get.
One chance. That's why I'm so buttoned up on here. One bad word you're done forever. So like this guy trying to just end his career like that.
Oh man, it really makes me mad. It would be if in.
Like, 10 years from now, Jake gets a play by play job somewhere and this happens to him and we take the owner's side. I will, I will, I absolutely will, Jake. Hypothetically, bad seed shouldn't.
Have said that John Angelos gives you a call today. Hey, the whole team walked out because.
Jake, we need you to step up and be play by play for the Baltimore Orioles. What do you say?
No, you turn it down, what? Wow, so we only get one shot, you said it.
Yeah.
It's contradicting what I say, but any young broadcaster reaches out for advice. They're like, what's the one thing? I say never say no to an opportunity, so that's right against that.
But rules are meant to be broken. Oh, okay.
Steve Jobs over there. First rule break all the rules.
But like, more morally, like, this is his job. Yeah, so Jake, what are you going to call the?
Person that takes his job a scab. Well, he used to be back. Yeah, so would you.
If someone took his job, would you call him a scab? Either way, the Orioles are an awesome, awesome story. College Camden has been packed. It looks sick. Uh, they have, like, a very fun young team.
Right, and I think actually even more so that people are going to root for this team because they know the history of the Angelos. That their window is so small. Because as soon as they start having to pay people, they'll just start trading them. So it's like, this is the.
Time I'm rooting, I want the Orioles. If they get eliminated, people are going to be like, good thing that guy's not getting it, not getting a ring, that would actually, that would be so.
Funny, if they win the World Series and then they hand the trophy right to John Angeles, he's like.
The big hero Yeah, yeah, uh okay, good hot seat that delivered, that delivered, Jake.
What's your?
Throne, My cool throne is Richard Sherman. Oh, okay, he's joining Skip Bayless, I'm going to.
Undisputed and lil Wayne, as I think we predicted that on part of my take, right? So they're going with the Stephen A. Smith model, which is just like, let's roll out a bunch of cannon fodder for Skip Bayless. Just mow down day in, day out, rotating cast of guests.
That's what it's going to be now. Some people will say that's because nobody actually wants to work with Skip Bayless. So they had to find like five different people trying to get into the biz. Um, I would say that's not the case. I would say that Lil Wayne and Skip Bayless are great friends.
And so that's going to be a great show. Richard Sherman and Skip Bayless have some history, too. Do you remember that? Yeah, I do not skip. Oh yeah.
He does, he's got beef, uh. Skip Bayless called Sherman out on first take, like 10 years ago, and then Richard Sherman was like, Skip Bayless. Like you've never played football in your life, I'm more accomplished than you are.
I've done more in my short career than you have they've got. There's some true animosity there, which I love. Perfect for it.
All right, good hot seat, cool throne, hank back to the regular order.
Uh, my hot seat is Shohei Otani. Oh, he sucks right. he drake, uh, a week ago was spotted out seeing a Shohei Otani jersey. Oh no, and since then he's gone two for 12..
Oh no, so the drake curse is back. Could have been the cool throne putting Shohei in the hot seat. You guys tried to jinx him last week. He then was player of the game twice in one day.
Well, it's we.
We tried to juice the drake, we tried to find a way to to be Shohei haters, and we couldn't even come up. It's similar to when we tried to be Steph Curry haters. And all we could come up with was his mouth guard and his posture, and his posture, so no, Kevin Durant's the posture, that's true.
Yeah, but yeah, there's some guys that are just universally loved. And Shohei stays that. uh, hopefully Drake doesn't fuck it up too bad. I would say Shohei is afraid of playing in a.
Major market.
That's what I would say. No, he's in Anaheim. Yeah, he's in Orange County. Learn.
Maps bro, what's what's their team name? Well, that's just they're just trying to get market shares. We all know where they play. He lives in the suburbs.
You can live in the suburbs and play.
In L.A. he plays in the suburbs. Let's look up where, where's the Angels Stadium? Let's look.
Up the team name, it's not in L.A. it used to be called both, right? Yeah, Los Angeles, Anaheim.
Is not New York City Market? Great question, Max. I would, I would, too. Let's see where this is.
You got me, got me, got me, got me, all right. I stand down, I'm standing down.
Uh, then my cool throne is bowling. Yeah, we're bowling today. Yep, plug God.
I am the plug God, that's what they call me. Uh, they're so far outside of Los Angeles, but I plug, see, I'm more of like a plug when I don't have anything else. For a cool throne, that's like a that's like a break.
Jake's just addicted to plugging. Okay, God forbid, I promote our sponsors.
And Hank's defense? He had no idea we were going to tape a show for Wednesday.
Well, you said we were going to do it tonight, and then, like, two seconds ago, you're like.
Let's just do a sequel. Well, no, we know. No, that's that's what we're going to do. Yeah, that was the plan.
The whole time you improvise one second ago, No, no. We always said we were going to tape the beginning of the show after hard knocks.
All right, I'm sorry, my cool throne is shorts. Yeah, good one.
Go off, Wait, no, tell us about bowling, bowling, we're going to be live streaming bowling tournament today, person tournament.
Jake's on the call, I'm competing what Jake is on the call.
I'm competing, big cats, competing, a bunch of people in Barcelona competing. It's going to be a great day. Starts at, I believe, Three Eastern, Three Eastern, Two Central, 16 person bracket, 16 person single elimination.
It's a lot of pressure, I think. Big Cat Sneaky a favorite? I think you're a top three.
Good bowl I'm a consistently okay bowler. if there's anyone who's in this tournament who can bowl in. Like the one seventies, I'm fucked three Eastern time.
I'm a like, never bowl below like one 10, but never bowl above a one 70 guy. Wait, Hank, where is it? Streaming is on.
Barstool YouTube Barstool YouTube, it's with Bolero, Bolero. I love Bolero. Best food and beverage game in the industry.
Yes, okay, pft. Your hot seat, cool throne. uh, my hot seat is the box. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
They just released their depth chart and it is fucking hilarious. At the quarterback position, they have Baker Mayfield or Kyle Trask listed as QB one. Love it.
The the the letters o r appear on a depth chart for maybe the first time ever. So it's like you have two quarterbacks, you don't have one. It's some college football, it's some. I would like to see them run some formations where it's both Baker and Kyle on the field at the same time.
Yeah, has any team ever done a two quarterback system? Uh, the dolphins, yeah, wildcat.
No, that's that's running backs, it's all running backs. yeah, they're playing quarterback, yeah.
Kind of, they just always ran the ball, yeah, but yeah, no.
Yeah, they always ran the ball. I feel like this is a. I feel like this is bad news for Baker, because most people assume that Baker was going to be QB one, right? The Or or. Kyle, Yeah.
This is telling me that Baker, they want Baker to be the QB one. But he's stunk in training camp, so they're like, Well, we can't demote him yet, so we'll just make it an. Or, yeah, we should release a depth chart.
For every PMT, uh, okay, hank or golf, we don't know why not both, okay.
Uh, your cool throat.
Uh, my cool throne is sports documentaries. Yeah, because Johnny Manziel Untold is out. This is not a plug. We got to watch it.
I'm just, I'm just saying straight up the untold.
Awesome, all of them are shorter than the quarterback. Oh yeah, I think it's just.
It's a it's a movie, so we should, we'll review it. Let's say Monday, yeah, give everyone, give everyone a few days.
Monday, we'll review the Johnny Manziel Yeah, just one episode, just.
Yeah, it's a movie, so I don't know if you've watched it, but they did one about, um, the trash pandas, the minor league hockey team. Yeah, that one kicks ass.
They did one about Mancy Tail. Yeah, the trash pandas is that, not the trash pandas. No thrashers.
The Thrashers, that's.
Raccoons, Yeah, yeah, Thrashers, talk about the animal, the minor League hockey one, Danbury trash, Danbury Trashers.
Yeah, and one one was really good, and one was great, Mancy Tail was good, and, uh, they, they got me to care about an Australian yachting team.
I was like, Fuck the New York yacht club, I just looked at Australia for life, uh.
One hour, 12 minutes, okay, so Monday, that's easy, everyone can do that Monday.
We'll finish the show instead of a Monday reading, we'll do the Johnny Manziel doc. Yep, I've tried to watch.
The QB show three times and fallen asleep by the end of every episode, you know what?
You know, what I don't like about the QB show is just how positive it is. I'm just like, I, I want to watch something and have a villain, there's no villain, it's like Kirk Cousins.
Nicest human being, Human being on the planet. They also should release it like late February, when you have that like first hit of withdrawal. Because right now we're so. I'm so much into like next season that I don't really care about last season. So, uh, all right, my hot seat. I can't believe we didn't talk about it on Sunday night.
Uh, but Carson Wentz, Carson Wentz released a picture. I think it came out Monday, it might've. He released a picture of him training. He's wearing a, uh, what is it? A Colts no Eagles helmet, colts or Redskins commanders jersey and Colts shorts?
Yeah, and he's basically, uh, he's a human parlay, he's a voltron of failure. Yeah, he's walking around, being like, I'm ready to go.
I'm going to be back in it. I got in. A debate about backup quarterbacks, I, I still think Carson Wentz, even though he is better than a lot of backup quarterbacks, probably doesn't feel the backup quarterback role very well.
No, you want a backup quarterback to be like able to just like seamlessly fill into any situation.
You want a backup quarterback who will tread water if you, if basically your backup quarterback is there to make your starter better and not threaten your starter. Like, be like, Ooh, looking over my shoulder. And also you want your backup quarterback to be able to fill in for like, one game, if it's more than one or two games, your season's fucked regardless, yeah.
Like Colt McCoy, right, maybe the perfect Chase Daniel. People were saying, Oh, he, Carson Wentz is better than Chase Daniel, and my point is Chase Daniel is way better than Carson Wentz at the role of.
Backup Yeah, I'd say that Kyle Trask is the best or quarterback in the N.FL, but probably not a backup quarterback. I actually, it'd be interesting to look up. Has there ever been a quarterback drafted in the top 10 that has gone on to become a great backup? Like great long-term backup quarterback? Like portals, like portals, a lot.
Wait, say it again, a quarter. A highly drafted, like top 10 quarterback, maybe top five, we'll say that's. Lost a starting job and then gone on to have a long career as a great backup quarterback.
Cause it is a good skillset.
Yeah, but you don't really see a lot of high drafted guys end up being backups. That's what I'm saying, right? No, I, I, I know exactly what you're saying.
You're right, wasn't Vic?
A backup for the Eagles at first, but then he, he ended up being a star. It means, I mean.
You mean, like, he was like, starter and waiting, Yeah, yeah, I don't know.
Carson Palmer, No.
No, it was good, but he wasn't a highly dry. He was like, fourth rounder. Yeah, Marcus Mario backed up.
Yeah, Marcus, Yeah, yeah, that's a good call.
MARCUS I don't want to say that.
No, he's on the Eagles now. Yeah, he's the Eagles. Yeah, no, but, Jake said.
Yeah, the car last year was just correct. Yeah, that might be that might be a good call. Um, all right.
My insult fact I'm sorry, yeah, my cool throne. I have two of them. uh, the first is Phil Mickelson.
I don't know if you guys saw this clip, I'll play it real quick. But, uh, I love Phil Mickelson, even though everything that goes along with Phil Mickelson. But this is him and Bryson DeChambeau playing a practice round and him going up to Bryson beforehand. What are we playing for? I haven't thought about that.
Well, what were you thinking?
About Okay, well, Cameron, I'll play you guys, you and, uh, Honor Bonds, we'll play a nine holes.
For a g perfect, uh, straight, best, ball, perfect, uh. And when you're down, when you're closed out.
You can press for half, not the full, not the full. Okay, so you gotta win the match to win.
Yeah, and if you want, what we'll do is we'll go 28 if you shoot 28 best ball.
Uh, it's double perfect, I love that. Okay, that's better.
He's playing a lot more than.
Phil just absolutely steamrolled him in that negotiation. He's like, Phil's like, Have you given any thought to it? Oh, I have. Here's what exactly what we're going.
To do today, you could probably rattle off like 10 different formats. But his shock at bright.
Be like, what are you thinking about if you're not thinking about gambling right now? Like, what is going through your head? That's like breathing, and then yeah.
Just rattles off. And then, he also said he said he never plays for more than that.
Which is just a lie, that's a lie. And in true gamblers fashion, Phil just kept on adding, like, double or nothing this, and like you can, you can push for half. If you shoot under 28, it's double G like it's. I love Phil for that.
Yeah, I love Phil, he's got, he's got a bank.
Rule now, yeah, Phil's free, he can gamble as much as he wants, and then my other cool throne is.
Uh, names? because, uh? A Twitter account named Bobby tweeted this the other day about, uh, kids playing in the Little League World Series game on ESPN. Right now, uh. The names are listed Fuller, Carver, Hudson, Harper, Knox, Nance, Cabot, Clark, Colton, Clayton and Case in Road. It's a lot of alliteration, I names are getting wild.
There's a lot of ends in there. I knox. Nance is a quarterback, he's, he's a quarterback. I will bet on mid, you know, midweek action.
Let's run through all the names again, and then we'll just assign them. Fictional job, Yeah. Fuller Carver, Uh. He is a coke head lawyer that works for his dad's firm.
Hudson Harper He got arrested.
For murder in South Carolina. Yup, knox dance, I think, is a Qb, yup.
Uh, I think Cabot Clark.
Uh, wine maker, yup, failed doctor. failed doctor pursued his passion making wine. Yup, Colton.
Clayton seems like a just a sick, and someone replied, And it was spot on a sick. Iowa tight end, Yup, Colton Clayton.
Yup, that's fair. And then case in rodent, uh, finance last off the bench for the water dogs. Oh, yeah, definitely, yeah.
A guy that we will eventually want to cut from our team. Case in Rodent. But yeah, names are, names are on the cool throne. Uh, okay, should we get to our interview?
We've got a great interview with Matt Olson. People in asking for some more, uh, baseball. Well, guess what? We found a guy who dressed up as us for Halloween awl. He came in seven 30 on a Friday night.
So shout out to Matt Olson. He also was just, I think he's hit a home run every game since he's come on. He is future Hall of Fame.
He's on team.
You think we're ever going to get somebody that dresses up as us for Halloween, and the guy dresses up as me, and the girl dresses up as you? No, probably not, probably not. This was a guy.
Guy Combo Oh it was. Yeah, it was guy Guy combo. Oh okay.
Yeah, good, good. So that also was me, and then his friend was.
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And now here's Matt Olson.
Okay, we now welcome on a very special guest in person, it is Atlanta Braves. Uh, all-star, two-time all-star Matt Olson. I'll say this, too. Future Hall of Famer Matt Olson.
Are we doing that right now? I was looking at the numbers and you, if you stay healthy, you're a future Hall of Famer.
Wow, that's, that's a that's thrown a lot on me, uh, right out the gate. Big Cats never jinxed anything in his life. I'm really aware of that, so I'll probably have a.
Great career for me. Yeah, so so, Matt, it was. It was very funny we were doing. I don't know if you listened to our baseball draft, uh, but we did our Dingers Only league. And our producers picked you. And, uh, someone was like, you know, Matt Olson's in Awl?
I was like, What, how do you know that? And then we looked and you had dressed up as us for Halloween a few years ago.
Yep, so I was you. It was like a last minute. We've got to throw something together for Halloween and we're, you know, me and my buddies listened to PMT and I was like, shit, I'll just get a mustache and some some see-through glasses and throw it together. But, uh, my buddy did remind me that night and asked me if I was Jeffrey Dahmer.
So I don't know if that says more about me or you. Um, I did also listen, I did listen to that Dinners only draft. And so I do have a slight bone to pick with Hank over there. Uh, I do believe it was never heard of him when.
When the draft pick happened, well, I mean, Hank's a pretty big seam head, he knows every player.
And then, and then, he found out that I listened to the podcast, and he quickly changed his, uh.
Opinion So it's funny how that works for us. We were like, Oh, he likes us, yeah.
We love him.
Yeah, we're always been Matt Olson, that's just any baseball player like, I don't, I'm not.
I'm not locked in. Y'all haven't done a ton of baseball, guys, right? This is going to be.
Yellich Yeah, Yellich is our guy. You're now going to be a recurring guest. But yeah, we get a lot of tweets being like, Where the baseball podcast? So here it is.
Here we go, Yeah, I.
Remember the I remember the Yellich one from the Uh, the bet, Yeah, maybe some not going to make.
That one, yeah, well, here's the thing. If you ever get in the home run derby against Yellich, we are going to absolutely dose you with steroids, we're going to make sure that that happens.
Yes.
I'm going to throw it if it's me versus him in the finals. Well, you are consistently.
You might, though, that's the thing. Yeah, you would. You're sick, oh.
I mean, if, if it, if it came down to it, maybe you threw me a little coin underneath the table.
Yeah, you, I would never make that bet with you, though, because you actually are consistently a great home run hitter. Unlike Yellich, who just mysteriously had like, one awesome year.
Hmm, huh, interesting, that is the numbers, we're just looking at numbers here.
There's a big spike.
In a low valley. Yes, yes, yes, but you guys drove into that.
Yeah, we did, we did. We doubted him to the point where he was like, I almost want you guys to make some dumb bet for me, like.
He's almost more of a sicko than we are for even offering that. The fact that he wants it to happen, was it his idea? No, it's a long story. There's a There was a porn that came out featuring Christian Yellich. Uh, there's a guy that looked a lot like Christian Yellich.
He says that it wasn't him. Uh, was he eating or getting his ass standing up? Yeah, yeah.
And it looked he'd get. He'd get tagged in it constantly, to the point where he had to be like, it's not me guys, like, please stop saying it's me. So, uh, yeah, that was a dumb, that was a dumb move, but we are happy you're here. Um, I guess, I mean, since we're talking about dingers only, I'll do just a dumb question, How awesome is it to hit a dinger in Major League baseball?
Cause what are you two? 39, 239? Uh, total, yeah.
Uh, I don't know, I know I.
I know I hit my 200 this year, at some point it's made 217, but either way you're hitting a lot. Yeah, it's, it's a good feeling.
I mean, you know, there's that's, I would probably say, that's. That's the peak in the sport of of being able to to get one off a guy especially. Uh, you know now that now that the A's have broken up a little bit. I've had a chance to face some old teammates and I've, uh, I've gotten a couple of them. Chris Bassett Uh, was was a fun one to get, cause we'd talk a lot of shit to each other. So, um, you know, it's it's. It's fun when you can leave the yard, it's even more fun when you got a little story behind it, talking shit to somebody. Do you have a favorite dinger?
Um, yeah, I think my favorite is probably last year we we played a series against the Mets at the end of the year where we had to. We had to basically sweep them to win the division. And, uh, night one, we faced Degrom and first inning, I think it was Riley hit a homer in front of me and I went back to back with him. And I feel like it kind of set the tone for for the series. We ended up sweeping them.
When you do that, do you imagine Frank the tank watching? And just like having an actual aneurysm? Like, if you hit a home run against the Mets, are you thinking to yourself, how big is the hole that Frank the Tank just chewed through his shirt?
Uh, we I, I'll say that, uh. The videos were checked after some games last year.
The more we learned, Frank the tank is is somehow like the most famous person at Barstool, and every NLE's team uses Frank the tank as motivation. They're like, how much?
How pissed off can we get? Frank Yeah, especially, especially with like, kind of the way it went for us at the end last year where they had the big lead and then we ended up winning the division. Uh, there were, there were some, some dudes in the clubhouse who were.
Pretty tuned in. Does that ever? Okay? This is really dumb to even ask this, but I am serious. Was there an element of Frank before the collapse happened, when he he spelled out how the Mets were going to collapse, right?
And everybody else was like, You're full of shit, Frank. The Mets are so far ahead right now. But he, to the law, to the letter of the law, said exactly what the Mets were going to do before they did it, and what the Braves were going to do before they did it. Was there any motivation where you guys saw that and you're like, you know what?
I think we can do.
It, Frank says, that we can do it. I don't know if he gave us extra motivation. But, uh, I remember seeing a clip of a different dude saying that, Uh, like, the division is over or something like that. It was in July when they had the big lead. You know, I mean, it's not like we needed any, you know, huge motivation or anything like that, but it's funny to kind of look back on it.
I'm just giggling right now because the idea that you're in a pennant race and you're, you know, you're, you're. You're trying to catch the Mets. You're in New York. You have a huge game, you beat Degrom. And then the first thing you do when you go to the locker room is pull up, Frank.
The tank's Twitter and just laugh, Yeah, cause I mean, everybody watches, you know, the bars, full stuff and everything. And I mean, it's when, when he gets on his rants. It's it's a pretty must see.
TV It's incredible. You mentioned going back to back with Riley. did you know? Fun stat I just.
That you and Riley have combined for back-to-back home runs in a game in April, May, June, July and August. The season. The only teammates in Major League baseball history to have back-to-back home runs in a game in five straight months in a single season. Is that, right? Pretty crazy. I didn't know that. Back-to-back home runs, that's gotta be a pretty cool feeling, too.
Like is it?
Cooler for the second guy or the first guy? Uh, I think it's probably. It's probably cooler for the second guy, because, um, but it's probably harder for the first. Like, you can't get the first without, or you can't get the second without getting the first guy, the first guy usually gets.
Pitches a hit because the second guy is also a dinger threat, too, right? I will say, hitting.
After a homer is is a tough gig sometimes because you know, fans are still sitting up and they're playing the music. Still, nobody's watching in the dugout. Pitcher's pissed, you're getting like his a hundred mile an hour fastball.
You're getting this dirty shit because he doesn't.
Um, that's, that's a pretty cool stat, yeah, what? So the Braves are incredible this year. Uh, you guys, it feels like every night you're just a pitcher's nightmare. Do you guys feel that in the lineup, where you're like, everyone can hit? And and is it? Does it motivate you to, like, be even better? Because you know that everyone around you don't want to let them down?
I don't think, no, I don't think it works that way, I think it's. It's almost the opposite, where you don't like it's okay to have a shitty night. In our lineup, you know, there's a lot of lineups that, you know, one or two guys are doing it most every night. If they're scoring a lot. Like, you know, the the three or four hole hitter is is doing the damage and, and, you know, hitting two homers or whatever.
But it's like, I can go up and punch out four times. And. And Orlando Garcia and Mike Harris are eight and nine hitters can have six RBIs together. So I kind of feel like it takes some of the pressure off. I mean, honestly, we got Ronald Acuna, the stuff that that he's doing at the top of the lineup is is stupid. I was talking to somebody about it the other day. It's like, he's, he's almost like when you go golf with a scratch golfer. Like, you see the big home runs, he hits the the the number he's put, numbers, he's putting up, it's hitting what? 340.
Now he went three for five. He's probably in like 340, 50 stolen bases. But it's like, at the end of the game, you're like, What did Ronald do today? and you check? And it's like, Oh shit, he went three for five and had two stolen bases and three RBIs.
It's like, when you go golf with a scratch golfer, you're like, he didn't do anything that cool. He just hit every fairway, hit every green. Yeah, but he makes it all look easy, it's so.
And I mean, it sounds like you guys are good teammates to each other. Cause, I guess the question is more like, if I were in the Braves lineup and I was like, hitting 50 dingers, I'd be giving everyone shit who didn't hit 50 dingers? But it sounds like you guys have each other's back.
No, no, we're not doing that. Somebody. Somebody might've said something to Mike Harris the other day about him being the only one in single digit homers, but he hit two that night and.
There you go, that works, too. Yeah, yeah, I love that.
So if you, if you do, go over for one night and you go over for the next night? How soon do you start to think to yourself, I gotta, I gotta change something up? I got like, you start to think, maybe it's the batting stance, maybe it's just like, I don't know. Have a different pregame meal. When do you? When do you start to think, like, Okay, time for a change?
Yeah, I mean, actual change, like actually diving in and doing baseball change. Probably not that quickly. But I'm I'm eating something different, or, you know, putting my socks on a different way. Everybody says they're, they're not superstitious, I think.
You get so much time where you're just like waiting around. Exactly your mind works, too.
Much, yeah, everybody takes their the bat weight off on deck. A certain way. It's like, you can tell me you're you're not superstitious, doing stuff every way, but yeah, I'll mix that kind of stuff up.
Um, actual, actual dive into baseball. Mix it up. We're going to give it a little more time than that. Do you know your longest slump? Uh, I do not, okay.
No, I don't.
But I was wondering, I've always just, I mean, I'm always amazed by baseball players because the mental toughness it takes to play the game. And yeah, a two 70 hitters is a good hitter right now. And in today's game. Where it's like, if I, if I didn't get a hit for a week, I would just be like, I'm going to retire, I'm never going to get a hit again.
Yeah, I mean, a week, a week. I would probably be there a little bit. If you're going over my longest ofer stretch, I don't think is is that crazy? But um, I'm going to look it up right now. Yeah, look it up.
Um, I hope it's like, I'm going to be, I'm going to sound like an idiot when you're like, you're over 75.
Uh, but um, no, I, you know, it's, it's part of it. I just as stupid and cliche as it is. Like, it's a long ass season and, uh, all the all the ups and downs will kind of level out at some point. Yeah, do you get bored during a baseball season?
For sure.
Yeah, is that like August, like, right now, are you bored? Um, well, luckily we're, we're winning.
And we got a we got a pretty fun team. So, um, that helps a little bit of it, but just the monotony of of a baseball season is tough. Uh, you know, it's even with the bigger bases that doesn't help out. Yeah, the bigger bases and the pitch clock makes it a lot better.
Yeah, so games are so much quicker. Yeah, um, but uh, no, there there's a point, like I said, luckily we're winning. Um, you know, I'd. I'd feel bad if we were about to lose our hundredth game. And you get 150 games in or so, it's like, let's get this shit over with.
But yeah, um, we, we got a good squad and we have a lot of fun with it. Yeah, all right, so I'm looking it up, I.
Couldn't find your longest, uh, slump, but it says that you can't hit a slider. Is that true? is that?
Right, yeah, well, I did take a slider right down the middle today earlier, so it could be.
It's trending. The Braves did beat the Cubs eight to nothing today. Uh, all right, so was that.
That was off Hendricks, that was, uh, no, that was after, yeah, uh, when that, or when Esky came.
In Yeah, so facing a guy like Hendricks, though, we were talking about a rate whereas you walked in, is it weird to face a guy like that? Who is? Velocity is so different than everyone else you you go up against.
Is he, like, a rare enough that? That's why it works. Yeah, yeah, and I mean.
You look at it, he's got like a career three five era, so the dude's been doing it. But yeah, I mean, I feel like we just faced a week straight of guys throwing 95 to a hundred. And then you get up and Hendricks is floating 80 mile an hour change-ups and they're just like, Shit, you don't see anymore, right?
And it is, it's almost like, it's, it's so crazy that it's effective, yeah.
I mean, you guys did hit him well today. Who's the who's got the nastiest stuff?
For you, uh, I'm, oh, for off. Garrett Cole. I haven't. I haven't faced him in a while, I was when I was in Oakland, I was facing him a good bit in the Houston days.
And I don't. I don't know the exact numbers, but it's around over 20 with about 15 punches. So, uh, I'm going to need to. I'm going to need to get back out there and try to fix that. We probably won't.
See him in the postseason this year, that's the good news. Is there a picture that you have their?
Number Um, I gotta be careful about this, I don't, I don't want to jinx it. Uh, I think I've, I think I've had pretty good. There's actually a guy which is which is weird.
Um, Alex Claudio, who's a submarine? what team bears? Uh, don't think so.
He was, he was with the Rangers for a, and Angels, um, but he's, he's a. he's a brewer's now okay, there you go, Hank.
He's a sidearm lefty and I think at one point I was like seven for seven off the guy and and just couldn't stop just crushing him. Which is weird because they always, they always bring them in. I'm like, Are y'all fucking checking the numbers? I'm crushing this dude, right?
You don't see, too.
Many submarine pictures anymore, I feel like we used to have them more back in the nineties, like every team had one submarine guy. Yeah, but is that? is it that much different?
Seeing, like, where the ball comes out of his hands is it like, fuck up your entire process of identifying what pitch?
Is coming? Yeah, it does, and and for whatever reason. Now, most of the submarine guys that are left or are throwing like 95 to now, it's it's the Schreber dude with Boston, and, um, Tyler Rogers guy with with, Uh, San Francisco is just crazy, weird. Slide. It's like, yeah, it's kind of like you don't see all the time, so it's so backwards that it throws you off.
Yeah.
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So what, what was that decision like? Because you don't? A lot of guys do end up playing in college baseball if they have that kind of offer, especially at school like Vanderbilt. But what made you decide, like, hey?
I'm just going to go straight to the minors here. I don't know I, you know I. I'd be lying if I said that the signing bonus wasn't a part of the decision, but it wasn't.
I can look it up right now, you can just say it, or we can look it up. All right it was.
It was just over a million. You got a million dollars when you're 19 years old. Yeah, that.
Sounds pretty good, but I mean, it was, it wasn't. It never was, you know, the reason why I do it, but it was more so. Like a like a. You got an opportunity to go do it, especially as a hitter. Going to college is way different than going and getting like 500 at bats I actually went to.
Wisconsin first year, which sucks. Yeah, sound boy, Wisconsin boy is the sound of Fart makes.
In a toilet, yeah, say it out loud, it's not. It's pretty close to what the city looks like. Snappers you played for.
You played for Stockton, that's not far from.
Madison Yeah, Yeah. Stockton Ports, Midland Rock Hounds and the Nashville set Where's Midland Rock Hounds at Midland, Texas?
Okay, where are the Stockton Ports? Stockton, California?
Okay, Northern California. Oh yeah, oh yeah. Was that fun on the bus?
Yeah, was it? fun was there.
Any element of minor league baseball that was fun for you? Um, I think in the in the moment it was.
Cause we'd we'd get on the bus, and, you know, at times we'd do a big beer bus and everybody would play cards. And we thought it was cool to to drive 12 hours through the night and then play.
Back, it's like, that was fucking brutal. Yeah, seriously, I don't know how minor leaders do it.
So you? So, when was the moment? Um, it was there, like a special moment when you got called up.
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