Ryan Whitney, NFL Trade Deadline, James Harden Traded Again, CFB Talk And More
2023-11-01 02:13:26
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Welcome to pardon, my take. Today is Wednesday, November 1st and the Washington Commanders.
Are doing a fire sale? Yeah, everything must go half price. I was trying to engineer a trade of sweat and young to the Niners in exchange for Kyle Shanahan. To come back home did not work.
Congratulations big cat. Let me be the first to congratulate you on getting Montez sweat. He's a fine young player. Thank you second round pick.
I'm happy, you're happy. I think we both fleeced. I think it was a double fleecing, a double fleecing I am.
I don't know what I feel.
I don't know what I feel. Are you hungry? I'm, I'm always hungry, I could always eat. But yeah, I don't know what I feel in the fact that I like to move. Because I assume every trade like this, you assume that there is a deal in place to re-sign Montez Sweat.
So everyone's like, why would you trade a second round pick for a guy who's going to be a free agent? Obviously, if he becomes a free agent, this is the dumbest deal ever. I am assuming that Ryan Paul has already worked it out with his agent and there's a plan in place to sign him long-term. Which if that's the case, I like the deal. Because you probably aren't going to get a Montez sweat in the second round. Who can help your defense right away next year? But there's also the part of the bears are in this weird no-man's land now, where they added a very good player and but they're also trying to lose. The bears are all in.
This is an all-in move that you just made. It's a little bit of confusing. If they had traded Jalen Johnson, then I would have been fully confused. I would have been like, what's going on? Because there was rumors that Jalen Johnson would get traded, which made no sense. Because I'm a firm believer in when you're tanking as a football team, it is important to tank, but it's also important.
To hold on to your good player, yeah, so you got a good player, you got a very good young player. I think he's worth a second rounder.
I was surprised to get a second rounder, but I think there's no chance in hell that he just becomes a free agent. At the end of this, I would make it the dumbest trade ever. I think it actually would be the dumbest trade. Besides the Louisiana purchase and Chase Claypool, this would be by far the worst trade of all time. But at the very least, you could franchise tag him.
So you at least get a year and a half. But that also doesn't make sense to spend a second round pick on a player that's going to play what 24 games for you? Yeah, no, he, he's got a long-term deal. Let me be the first to report.
That Montez Sweat has signed a long-term deal with Chicago Bears, and he's happy to be here, and he's happy to be here. Yeah, no, that was the the the con, my confusion I am a believer in polls, but the confusion was when. I immediately saw the trade and I said to myself, I like this trade. Because I do think, like, if a guy is proven as an N.FL talent, it's more important than a draft pick, yes.
Because he's been there, done that, you know, he's going to be good. You're not just going off of measurements and hypotheticals, but my explanation of how I like the trade. The fact that they are going to sign into a long-term deal and he's better than a second round player that you're going to get. A lot of people pointed out that it was the exact same.
Reason I use with Trace Chase, Claypool. But he is actually good, he's not a head case. That's a big difference, and he's he's played through injuries, he's been a bright spot on the.
I've been saying for the last what year and a half I would rather keep sweat than young. And then two weeks ago, it was like, fuck it, trade both of them. So I'm glad they listened to at least what my train of thought was. Because it's a full-blown fire sale, it's a rebuild, and I think I'm setting a record.
I think all my teams are rebuilding right now, that's actually not bad, though, but to have all of. I was talking to Max earlier, like, my team's stinking, kind of as much shit as I give Max. He's got so many fun teams to root for now and and having expectations is James Harden, which we'll get to and it now.
It's like every, every team, every team is in a rebuild. It's very great. Are you thinking of Tatum? No, he's thinking of Jason. I've never.
Heard anyone call him, beat him? Jason Tatum? I mean, it's spelled as Tatum, Yeah, yeah.
But.
He's French, but Tatum, I don't see any. I was just saying, like, I'm, I'm. I'm fighting a rebuild on all sides, with the exception of the capitals, which are. They're the one team that might should be rebuilding, but they're just putting off a rebuild to engineer OVI. To get to the goal, the goal record, which I'm fine with, but it's tough. I traded it all for the for the James Madison Dukes.
That's what I did, what did it cost me everything? Yeah, but here's, here's how you.
Rank it as a sports fan. You obviously number one, you want your teams competing for titles, but I think number two is is rebuilds, number three is no man's land. And now I get to root.
For the Bears to lose all their games, so that second round pick basically becomes a first round. Look. We're aligned. yeah, fully aligned.
I like that I am a believer in polls, except for the one Hank put in the parking lot. But I think that he definitely has a plan in place to get a full like a big extension for sweat. And then, with Young going out to the Niners, I would like to officially announce I'm all in on the Niners now. Trent Williams chase young Kyle Shanahan. I said this on on Monday's show. But if you're a fan of a shitty franchise, the best you can do sometimes is to just root for your guys to win somewhere.
So I'm going to put a big future on the Niners, they're my team, they're friends of the program. Hank Yes, as you know very well, Uh, kittle, all those guys.
Now's the time to buy in on the Niners because it's buy low, sell high, and I like what the Niners did in the fact that.
Um, their secondary has been getting torched and they're like, you know what we'll do? We'll just make sure the quarterback can never throw. Yeah, I just beef it up even more, just run the ball.
Just defense is going to be awesome. Yeah, play with a lead, this, you know what this is. They're making it so they never have to play from behind and just have their defense be.
Nasty as hell. Yes, yes, so, uh, yeah, the N.F.L. trade deadline, uh, it's ending right now, actually, as we're taping this. Um, and that was the Josh Dobbs to the Minnesota Vikings.
Yep, uh, I feel like Josh Dobbs probably pissed about this because he's got to keep playing football. And, um, it hasn't gone well recently. Well, the best thing he can hope for is their.
Their backup in Minnesota, who's starting this week, right? Jaren hall, jaren hall. He steps in place when he comes back, and then he just gets a chill up. In Minnesota, we do get to.
Watch Kyler Murray Yeah, he that we, you would assume. I think Clayton Tune might be starting for the Cardinals this week, he might be starting this week, and then Murray next week, yeah.
And.
Then was there any other big trades? Uh, the Jets just signed Roger Saffold to the practice squad with the intent to promote him to the active roster. Oh, he was on the bills, he was on the.
Bills last year. So Donovan People's Jones is going to, Uh, the Lions, yeah, who? By the way, that was the most maddening, uh, Monday night football game I've ever watched, as someone who on the Lions. They should have won by 50. And they just let the Raiders hang around, even though the Raiders are dog shit, they're very bad.
They're hard to watch. Jimmy Garoppolo.
Had two missed passes to, Uh, Devante Adams, that would have netted, I think, like 160 yards worth of touchdowns. And one. He just threw the ball out of bounds by like 10 yards, the other he overthrew him by five. Jimmy is, Uh, I feel like Jimmy's not old, Jimmy, yeah.
He's not old, Jimmy.
I have a thing with Devante Adams, so it's become everyone is like, Oh, poor Devante Adams, he should be a free agent. I actually liked Robert Mays is a very good writer.
Uh, he had a great idea, which would be awesome, that we vote every single trade deadline and one player just gets like the best players. One player in the entire league gets released and the team gets a draft compensation, and then that player immediately becomes a free agent.
So Devante Adams was a free agent right this second, and the Raiders get a draft pick like they get the 33rd pick.
That would rule, but counterpoint. He would go to the chiefs and we'd be like, what the fuck?
That's probably true, but Devante Adams So I feel bad that he's playing for a bad team. But he wanted to go to the Raiders. He said that he said he wanted to be close to the West Coast with his family.
Yes, he obviously also said he wanted to play with Derek Carr, who then got, Uh, who's now on the Saints? But it wasn't like Devante Adams, like he had a say in how this.
All went down. You can make a choice, right? and then your choice is okay. You're going to opt for a big contract somewhere else and knowing that the NFL is a business, you might not be around the same guys for forever.
I think there should be an end of season award to either like, most misused guy or um, guy that you just feel bad for, really good player that you feel bad for. But looked like they were trying, trying their hardest. This year. They get like a vacation.
I don't feel bad for Devante Adams, you, you willingly chose to go to Josh McDaniels.
I respect what Devante Adams did after the game, which was. They asked him like, How are you feeling right now? And he just said, I don't have words that I can say that won't get me in trouble. So these are my words that I'm going to say right now. Because I don't know how else to express myself other than saying, fuck this entire organization.
That happens all the time on the show and then we make the person say it, yeah, and then we get to the bad points.
Then we get, then we get to. Justin Fields is wearing sunglasses. I don't like that.
Yeah, right, like this is how we go. So credit Devante Adams for for holding his tongue there. The Lions, by the way, Jameer Gibbs is awesome.
I love that they like they. I think they just decided like this is going to be Jameer Gibbs coming out party. We're going to game plan everything. He was sensational and the Lions it felt like they correct, like they should have won by more.
They still have some things to clean up, but you obviously needed to see a win after that Ravens loss, and especially them going into the bi-week. And don't wear those jerseys anymore, yeah.
They're gross, the 50 shades of gray ones. I didn't really like their throwback helmets either. No, I like the Lions. the Lions have great uniform.
The Lions normal jerseys are their throwback uniforms. I feel like they haven't changed that much in the last like 30 years, but they got. There was some bad plays by the Lions in the red zone. Jared threw that one pick six and then his next pass, I think went. I think. He threw out of bounds and tried to hit the mascot with it the next throw away that he had, so the Pig Six was bad.
Was it? Was it Reynolds that got tackled and like, there's no great catch and then he just fumbled the ball. There's no physical way that the human body can not. Not Reynolds. And um, which was a running back that got tackled and fumbled and you couldn't see the replay. I think that might've been Jameer Gibbs.
Yeah, where they?
Kept on zooming in and they're like, Is the shin there? There's the way that the human body is.
Built. There's no chance that he wasn't down, but they didn't have a camera angle showing that he was down. So they just they, they gave it to the Raiders. But everyone puts sensors on everyone. Yeah, sure, you know, like, like a madden style, have them all wear those suits during games.
And then we can tell, I think maybe we're all wrong about Josh McDaniels. Maybe he is an offensive genius, but maybe there's just no players that are good enough to play football at the level that Josh McDaniels expects. In order for his, his offense only works if it's Tom Brady and Randy Moss running it, and if it's anybody else, then it just looks like the biggest nightmare you've ever seen.
So this is Josh McDaniels is actually like Van Gogh, but we've only given him a pack of crayons.
I think in 200 years, we're going to look back and be like. Josh McDaniels was so far ahead of his time. A misunderstood genius, 100 the most misunderstood genius, cause that guy sucks.
He sucks, he sucks, he sucks, he sucks, all right.
Anything else with trade deadlines or NFL? Uh, Max, you said that this the Eagles did nothing.
Um, like Kevin Byard, all right, I was, I was. I was seeing if you were going to catch that. Yeah, yeah.
You got it, I was, I was hoping for more, I was definitely hoping for more. Max walked by and he just goes, Patrick should obtain is.
Going to be an eagle? I didn't believe that I was, just you were like, you're like, what's going to happen? I was like, maybe Patrick should obtain eagle.
Nothing ever happens at the NFL trade.
Deadline, that's the one common denominator. Like the big news that we had this year was like two defensive ends getting traded. Yeah, this was actually the most.
This was probably the most it's happened in a trade deadline in a while, because it was.
The commanders were like, we're trading everyone. And it wasn't just it was. Josh Harris had a big day today. Josh Harris won, I'm going to say it.
He won, he won the Sports Equinox because he traded sweat, and Young got a second and a third round pick for him. Which is better than some people thought that we would get. Does it? Does it make you a little bit upset? That Young went for a third rounder? Chase? Young only has one move. Yeah, cause I think that he's staying, I think sweats better.
Yeah, I do, too. So he traded those two guys and then he also traded James Harden. So big day for Josh Harris. Huge, apparently.
He got on the phone with Steve Ballmer and was like.
Please, please take my man. Yeah, so I need you to do this. So are you happy that James Harden is out of your life? Max James Harden, by the way, was traded at two in the morning, probably the.
Biggest win for WOJ ever. Where do you think James Harden was when he found out? Strip club, strip club, strip club. For sure, I know where WOJ was. They brought out like a bottle service for him in the flashing lights that just said, You are an L.A. clipper.
I know where WoJ was because I want.
To give credit to WOJ, because, you know, he's got a rivalry with Shams and I. You know, Woj getting up there in age, this was the pinnacle of WOJ, this was WoJ being like, asserting himself. I still got it. He dropped like a 12 minute podcast today.
So I listened to it on the way to work. Woj said that he was at the airport at Newark Airport, getting ready to fly to L.A. and someone told him, don't get on that flight. And he sat in the airport until like two in the morning, then went home and took a shower and then went and took a flight that like the next morning.
Cause he knew cause, cause he didn't want to miss it. He's like, I didn't want to be on a plane for when this news came down. That is, he gets Journalists of the year. It's commitment. I mean, can you imagine anything worse than sit being sitting at the gate of your plane ready to go and then being like, Nope. I have to now sit in the airport waiting for this news to drop. And then go home for 10 minutes, take a shower and then get on another plane.
If you're WOJ, was there, like a small part of you that was like, Man, what if? what if this flight crashes? Yeah, and I was told not to get on it because I broke the James Harden news.
Yeah, yeah, but Woj deserves the credit. You got it two in the morning.
Good for Woj He, he absolutely deserves it. And then Shams woke up and I think he had to, like, tack on, like, six hours late on the news. Yeah, Shams is never going to sleep again.
Yeah, he's going to become an insomniac. You can't do that like WoJ just, he basically said.
Hey, I ain't going anywhere, this is my block. James Harden individually has done so much for WoJ's career, just with all the trades and trade demands that he's made over the years.
So that was my question is, is James Harden like, he's not the Goat, but he's got Goat tendencies? Because he somehow has gotten traded now three times? Where everyone's like, he's got no leverage, he's lost all his leverage, he, he deserves at least respect for being.
How bad of like, a teammate and employee is right? Yeah, like, he's the goat at that, and he also eats.
Everything like a goat. I think that he's done a great job of forcing his way out of teams in.
New and creative ways. This one, we everyone was like, No, he's got no leverage, Darrell Morrow would never trade him. He'll, he'll always wait for the deal. What are we?
One.
Week into the season, his leverage was like, That guy's a liar. I'm going to go to China, put on a basketball camp and call my boss a liar, and that's the last move that I have.
And it worked. And Dale Mori probably was like, Oh, uh, Tyrese Max, he's playing really well and this team could be good. And you know what? The only thing that could ruin it is having James Harden hang out in their locker room.
Yeah, so I have a smart move by that. I have a question.
For you big cat right now, L.A. Clippers, they've got, Kawhi, yeah, super team they've got.
West Super Team, they've got playoff P Paul Joyce, who's, by the way, getting back on his bully shit this year. And now they add the final piece and James Harden. My question for you is.
How many balls are there? There's only one ball, there's just one ball, this team is loaded this.
Team is hilarious, they need to bring John Wall back. I can't wait to watch this team.
Win one playoff series, have all VSPN be like, watch out for the Clippers and then lose like four to one against the Nuggets. I don't even know if they're going to win one playoff. They give them one just cause I want to see it for the discourse. They're the funniest team in the NBA.
By far, I don't think that there's a close second either, and I don't think Westbrook and Harden.
Like each other anymore, didn't remember when they played briefly again. Was it with the rockets, I?
Can't keep track. I, uh, I would be shocked if they like each other, or I tell you what they'll probably like. Say all the right things, do all the right things to be like, Oh, this is title town. Watch out, we've got a super team and then things will blow up within probably a.
Month or two, I would imagine. Yeah, it does. It does feel like, um, I mean, playoff P is is basically the guy that you need to like, he's got to be the glue guy, yeah.
I think he does, cause you have Kauai, who we know, his history. Uh, he's a robot, but the robot sometimes malfunctions. And then Westbrook and Harden, Yeah, playoff P has to sit everyone down and be like.
I'm, I'm the captain, but as a robot, do you think that Kauai is kind of built for this type of situation? Where if you are a computer program, you don't care who's entering the code? You don't care who's pushing the buttons, you just take the input and then you do your thing.
Yeah, no, Balmer just has to, like, go into the mainframe and say pass ball to James Harden now, yeah.
Or I was like, Okay, I got it. Blue Screen of Death on Kauai, Uh, the other, the other big part of this uh, trade, uh, and a hilarious part is, uh, your guy Max Furcon Korkmez, you love him, right? and he's fine. Korkmez is the, uh, direct opposite of James Harden. Because he has now asked for a trade from the Sixers three times and been not denied every single time.
So in 2018, he asked for a trade because he didn't get playing time. They're like, Nah, we're not going to do it in, uh, 2023. Last winter January, he asked for a trade. They're like, Nah, we're not going to do it.
You're Korkmez, you're, you're here forever. This time, he asked for a trade, and both the Clippers and Sixers said No, that's tough.
That's tough. What's going on with this guy, I don't know. But you got you got to see, like Harden getting traded and you're like, what, what? Why won't you do that? For me? I want everything.
For me, like, I don't think I've ever seen a guy just keep asking for trades of the Sixers like he. After the 2018, he re-signed with the Sixers. This poor guy. I've also never seen a bench player ask for a trade so many times, and never seen a guy ask for a trade. And both sides say no. I guess you should be happy that the Sixers said no.
Cause that means they want them. But the Clippers were like, No, we don't want him, so he set up the trade he wanted. He was like, throw me in this James Harden trade in both sides, like, No, thank you.
No, you're too, you will, you will blow up this deal. If you're you're in it, that's tough.
I mean, the poor guy. So I'm starting to think more about the Clippers losing the first round take. Uh, James Harden. When he was on the nets, he wasn't, he wasn't the primary ball handler.
Right, yeah. And they had the season where, uh, he Kyrie got hurt. And then the game against game seven against the box in the second round. That Kevin Durant almost single-handedly got them there. But James Harden had also gotten hurt that series.
He was playing okay up until that.
We're also forgetting that James Harden in the playoffs is not, he doesn't want to play anymore.
What if James Harden wants to go home? He gets some good games.
Yeah, but he wants Max. That's the thing about James Harden. He does not care about winning championships, and I'm not saying this is a bad thing about James Harden. I'm saying it's somewhat relatable where you get paid less money in the playoffs.
There's no real incentive to win unless you're a guy that cares about winning. James Harden, I think, does not care about winning NBA titles. He just wants to go home. He, he's done his bid, his season's over. He fulfilled his contract that year.
Now he wants to go hang out and party, like, I get it, I get why James Harden does it. I feel like most professional athletes that are that good are not wired like that, they're wired to want to compete and win.
But James Harden, I feel like, is just like, you know what, I'd rather just go hang out on my couch. It would rule if James Harden was awesome.
In the mid-season tournament, because it's not at the end of the year, yeah, and he was just like the greatest mid-season tournament player of all time. He might be, because those that counts as a regular season game, right? yeah.
Yeah, it's right. In the middle of the season, you don't have to worry about getting on a, uh, a yacht. He's good.
So you're good, you're, you're happy, obviously. Max Um, you got some, you got some flexibility too, you got, you got picks you got.
Pick you got picks, so somebody comes available at some point. Yeah, he got beat him, um, the only thing I woke up and I was upset because it was kind of like a strong arm of like. Dara Mori was like, I'm not gonna trade him without Terrence, man.
And the Clippers were like, Well, we're not giving up Terrence, man, and I don't like, Oh no, so you're not winning that battle. You got like, at the end of the day, you got four picks, I guess you got a couple depth pieces.
Rocco is not the player that he that he wants was. But you got a bully, Morris is a bully. Yeah, you got a dog, you know? I think that's all he does.
That's fine, like, you got, like, that's. That's an intimidating lot of. If you can put Pat, Bev and and Morris, I think it's Market Marcus Morris on the floor. The goal is, though, to put the ball in the hoop. Yeah, but.
Like you, like a hundred years old, but he is a bully. Max, he's a dog, but now you got two dogs.
Max, you're building a football team for basketball, that's fine, and you got assets.
If someone else becomes available in the middle of the season, more you can go make another play and you have time to like. If it waited too long and then somebody came up and then you didn't have any assets, then you wouldn't have any. Have any more moves left in the chamber, six or six years could be back. And Tyrese Maxie's MVP, that's the that's the end of the. The whole story is that Tyrese Maxie is playing like an all-star right now, but you already have an MVP.
I know, but like on your team right now, what if you could have two? No, you only have one? Well, you got one last year and then one this year, right? But last year was kind of was he really?
The MVP, Yeah, he was okay. The answer is yes. Uh, the real test is it's always like coming from your direct opponent.
Like, does the. Are you more fearful of the Sixers this year? Hank?
Or would you be? No, would you be more fearful? Hank's living in Porzingis heaven right now.
If they still had James Harden, would you be more fearful? What Hank's got no rings, he said.
2008.
He just farted on the big three, I was a freshman in high school, he just farted on it.
Yeah, I'm just saying like, you're you, you're acting like the Celtics are this sick team, you haven't won shit yet.
Sixers haven't won anything, neither of the Celtics.
Okay, but the question was, Are you scared of the Sixers? are you?
Are you more scared of them now than you were 24 hours ago? Well.
He wasn't scared of them 24 hours ago, so how could he be more scared?
But I'm less scared now, you can't be less scared, you can't be less, it can be the same.
James Harden won a game for them in the playoffs against the Celtics last year. Okay, maybe he's less scared, but Toome is not going to do that. The four picks that you're are probably going to amount to nothing.
They're not going to do that, but James Harden factor one game one for them last year. And you were like, you can't do this after everything bad.
That you say about James Harden, you can't go, you can't say like, James Harden sucks, and then you now are like, Well, James Harden won a game for you guys last week.
But, like, I'm less scared because you're not, you're not less chance to beat us in a, you know?
But he was never going to play. I think Hank's less scared, I believe him, I believe him too.
He seems less scared, he's not, though he seems like Hank was terrified yesterday. And yeah, Porzingis is is. The Celtics are unbelievable.
I got home last night, it was like six, 20. It's kind of weird. Uh, central time getting home, I forget.
I'm like, Oh yeah, Celtics are on, I'm like, Oh shit, the game's already on. It was already over first quarter Wizards.
They're up like 40 points. Jordan Pool just shoots up everything. The Wizards, I mean, it's obviously the Wizards. Poverty, you don't have to say that part of it.
You can just say.
Jordan Pool is Jordan Pool is the perfect player to have on your team. If you're trying to tank to have him as like the guy on your team. It doesn't get any better than that.
Are you scared of Tyrese? Maxi? No, why? what? what's there to be scared of?
He's emerging as one of the guards in the N.B.A. and now he has the opportunity that that backcourt.
Is his, oh, I feel like the last year and a half max. It's just he's like trying to make fetch.
Happen? He's like, Tyrese Maxi now like, this is real. No, he is playing incredible, this is real.
I know he has started the week, yeah, of the week, first week, there's only been one week.
The MVP was given out today, he would win it, that's actually fact that, or at least in the Eastern Conference, yeah.
The Eastern Conference Player of the week.
MVP Hank was not scared until he said he's the player of the week. And now I saw.
I saw some fear creep, actually got to go back to the drawing board on that. Anytime you do a.
Player of the Week? It's it's not great, that's all. That's all you can base it off of, right? What we have seen so far.
This year, Tyrese Maxi is the best player in the Eastern Conference.
Fact or fiction? Probably fiction. No, that is fact. You're wrong, Hank week.
Um, okay, uh, Razul Douglas, by the way, just got traded to the bills. That's a good pickup for the bills. Yeah, they need. He's a quarterback.
Yeah, uh, okay, little baseball. Choose your own adventure world series going on. There were people who were upset at me for watching Monday night football.
Uh, I was also watching the World Series, but the World Series is going on. Rangers Diamond Backs Choose your own adventure PFT Go Diamond Backs when Garcia's got an oblique.
He does, he's not going to play tonight. Is that official? No, I'm just making this up right now, but this is choose your own adventure. Yep, uh, he's not going to play.
Doesn't, doesn't want to win a real gamer. We'll play through it. Dan Heron cooks up something special.
I think so, too, I'm.
Going to say, it's a shootout? Oh yeah, I think it's going to be 10, eight diamond backs. Okay, game four, four, 10, eight diamond backs.
Um, if anything crazy happens, we will, uh, record something. If anything crazy happens. There's like, a you'll have known some? well, yeah, you'll known, because we'll we'll put it in. Uh, there's like a no hitter in the world series, that that would be crazy, that would be crazy.
Almost a year since that's happened, I think it's.
Going to be eight one D backs, I think. Fam goes yard twice, Whoa, Longoria has two hits, whoa.
Hank I'm going to go six to five in the 14th. What? Wait? But that might be crazy, we might. I don't want to stay up that late. Who is D Backs?
D backs Well, if it's a walk-off, it's D backs. True? Yeah, yeah.
Walk off, I knew they were at home. Yeah, you've been tuned in. Is the roof open?
Uh, no, it's closed, they've been closing it. I think, okay, I don't like that.
Yeah, I don't need it. And also the the dehumidifier thing they did with the Diamondbacks, I don't like that either. They did it a few years ago.
Everyone stopped hitting home runs I don't like.
It, I did, I saw Randy Johnson threw out the first pitch yesterday, that's cool, it was very cool.
Two Luis Gonzalez, Two Luis Gonzalez. It was wild. I W. I was hoping so hard for a bird. Yeah, no, no to rock.
I kind of forgot that. The Yankees had a three to two lead going into the.
Ninth of that game, I thought it was tied well. I watched the old video. No, wait, oh, you're talking about 2001..
Yeah, no, they should have won that World Series three to two, yes.
Yes, going into the night nine 11. Yes. Should we have the robot UMPs discussion?
There were some bad calls yesterday, Yeah, there were, but I always think they even them out. I they. I saw someone was saying that there is the technology they're working on that you can, you can basically tap your helmet and they can go check it real quick. So it doesn't slow down the game, which I'm in favor of, the immediate review for it, yeah.
The immediate review. But then I don't know. I like, I like the human element of umpiring, I do like getting mad at umps, and I also like getting you know you. You start a game.
It's like, Okay, this is the strike zone, now we've got to adjust. You know, it's not uniform across the board.
It does add to the gamesmanship. If you're like, planning out, how are you going to attack somebody at the plate? And you know that this one-up has like a very wide strike zone, then you can. You can pitch a recording. That's how the Atlanta Braves won so many games.
Yeah, was getting. They had Eric Gregg calling pitches like three inches off the plate every day. So Maddox would get up there and just be like, Okay, backdoor, backdoor, cutter, all that.
I, uh. I'm a firm believer that if you could add replay without slowing down the game whatsoever, which is basically impossible, then I'm for it. But it's impossible.
Yeah, I, I do like the idea that you can get mad at somebody and blame a loss on somebody.
Yeah, that's right, it's if you take it away, then you don't have anything to get mad at all, right?
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It's Halloween, uh, so I got to go do Halloween with my kids. I don't think there's the first. Rankings are always funny because people freak out. There's still so much football left to be played.
If I had to take a guess, I would think that Ohio state will be one, and there'll be Georgia and Michigan. In a two, three. I don't know, they probably Georgia, then Michigan, and then four would be Florida State, five would be Washington, would be my guess.
Ohio State. Only because they do probably have the best resume on paper, with a Penn State win and a Notre Dame Road. Yeah, so that's. That's probably going to be the only.
Debate I think it might be Georgia, but I would be shocked. Yeah, I don't think Ohio State's better than Georgia. I'm just saying, resume wise, they put these rankings out knowing that people will get mad about numbers. And then there's a lot of season left.
And they know that if a certain team, like if Georgia beats Alabama, then George is probably going to become the number one team.
In the entire country, right, right, and I, yeah, it could very well be that Ohio State. They could just go exactly as the AP Top 25 or the coaches poll, where it's Georgia, Michigan, Ohio State, Florida State, uh, Washington. Straight down in a row. I wouldn't be surprised if they do that as well.
I just think that if you're just looking at resumes. Ohio State. Having that win at Notre Dame and against Penn State is better than what any win Michigan's done so far. And.
Georgia, yeah, and Georgia yeah, I'm I want to see simulated brackets for next year.
That's what I want to see is like, what would the matchups look like right now if we were doing a 12 team playoff? Give me a simulated bracket for you're saying this year, for next year, next year, this.
Is the last one? This is the last 14 playoff, Thank God we're going to get to the 12 team playoff. Um, I'm excited, though.
And I, Uh, I think I I talked about it on this show. I, I did officially switch my Washington future to Oregon before last weekend. I do think Oregon. What they did in Utah on Saturday, like that doesn't happen to Utah. They bullied them.
Yeah, they bullied them. Oregon. It's weird because even though they lost to Washington, they look like they're the best team in that conference, right? Because Washington has had. What is it? Two weeks in a row where they've had these wins that feel like holy shit, I can't.
Believe we got out of there with a win. Arizona State at home and Stanford on the road. They both were, uh, like, one score games in the fourth quarter and it feels like something's a little off. They have a few big games coming up.
Uh, I though. This weekend coming up, obviously everyone's going to talk about BaMa LSU. Um, which fun trivia fact you ready for this? The last? So Jaden Daniels obviously beat Nick Saban last year, uh, when Alabama went to Baton Rouge, who is the last quarterback to beat Nick Saban. Two years in a row, two years in a row.
Same quarterback two years in a row. Joe didn't do it, so Marcus Russell, Uh.
Who else was there? Matt Flynn, Cam Newton. Oh, we're not close, we're not close. Aaron Aaron Murray.
Nope. His name was Drew Breeze at Purdue. Wow, so when he was at Michigan State.
Yes, when Saban was, Yes, Okay, isn't that crazy? That is wild?
So Jaden Daniels looking to be that.
Uh, second guy to be Nick Saban two years in a row, that's shocking, I guess, if you're a good.
College quarterback and you happen to be good enough to beat Nick Saban, you're probably going.
To go to the NFL, or you'll come back and Nick Saban will beat you because he doesn't lose to.
Teams twice in a row or Nick Saban will have moved to a different school. Yes, but yeah.
So obviously everyone's talking about Bama, Uh, LSU this weekend, which would be a great game. I I'm pumped for the Big 12 this weekend. Big 12 is going to Big 12 is the funnest conference in the country.
It was basically the entire Big 12 looked like garbage in September. And now all these teams are playing incredible ball. And you have a Kansas State going to Texas, you have Oklahoma, Oklahoma State. Oklahoma State was dead, uh, in September, and now they're back playing good ball, like Kansas beating Oklahoma last week.
It's just utter chaos. The Big 12.
And now we have a weekend where we're going to kind of try to figure everything out. Who did Oklahoma State?
Lost to a, uh, like a sunbelt school in Week one, right? Oklahoma state? I don't know, I know.
Iowa State's also in that category because Iowa State is four and one. In the conference, they lost to Ohio. Remember when Matt Campbell was getting yelled at by a fans? Yeah?
They lost to, Uh.
Oklahoma State lost to South Alabama Week three. Yeah, um, so my my only qualm with the Big 12 schedule this weekend is Oklahoma, Oklahoma State. I know you're going to say this, and I agree. They're playing it at three 30 in the afternoon eastern.
Yep, that game, bedlam, should be played at night, it should be played at night, I say it every year. The sky in Stillwater, Oklahoma, is the darkest sky in the world.
It's neon black. The atmosphere at Bedlam at nighttime is crazy. That game should be at night. This is the last time they're going to do bedlam for a long time, right in the foreseeable future.
And we're getting it in the afternoon, it's that's an.
Abomination to God. I saw it and I was. I had the exact same feeling of you. I got instantly bummed out. I was like, Why is this game at two 30? It makes no sense.
Um, but shout out to Kansas, okay?
Do you think that was the win against Oklahoma that might've been the biggest win in the history?
Of Kansas football, they, well, that went against recent history. Uh, I'm not counting that last.
Year the year before, Kansas didn't have very good team, their team is like, their team's good this.
Year, Yeah, well, they and they're doing with their backup quarterback who stayed, he lost the job and stayed. I think he's a six year a beard, I believe his name is.
That was awesome. They had not beaten Oklahoma in forever. I don't even know the last time they beat Oklahoma. I'm actually going to look it up, cause I think it's something insane.
Uh, but yeah, that was an awesome, awesome game. Lance Leipold is an awesome coach. He won a million games at White Whitewater, he went to Buffalo, now at Kansas. But yeah, that the Big 12 was fun. There's just a bunch of teams that are all kind of was kind of written off for various reasons poor play, injuries.
And everyone's like, Oh, it's going to be Texas, it's going to be Oklahoma. And now we get a weekend where it's like, it could very well not like, I could see Oklahoma State beating Oklahoma, I could be Kansas State beating Texas.
It could all up end.
Do we know what's happening with Quinn Ewers? Is he on track to play this week? And I think that he is right. Uh, I believe so, all right.
This is the longest, okay. As of right now, Malik Murphy is in line to start against Kansas State. They they killed Byu, but he's, he's not.
As good as Quinn Ewers, uh. It had been the first time Kansas had beaten Oklahoma since 1999. So.
This century, that's crazy, uh but, but yeah, Quinn Ewers being out against Kansas State is a big deal. MALIK Murphy He's playing right now for the transfer window for the portal. Yeah, that's.
What he's playing for? Uh, because it's weird. They just don't like I get it. Arch is a big name, but like, I feel like no one's even talked about it, like it's not even floated out there.
That he could potentially. Oh, it was last week, it was, yeah, so he was. He was in line to take some snaps.
He's ready to go. But like Malik Murphy, I still pay attention to, um, like Austin Sports Talk Radio, because I listened to it for like, 10 years. So I'm not a Longhorns fan, but I'm a fan of the takes around the program. It's like, endlessly fascinating to me, the stuff that goes on at the University of Texas.
Murphy, a lot of people were saying, like, was better than Quinn Ewers when he got on campus. And they've been asking to see Malik Murphy. I think what we've seen is that Murphy's not as good. But if he plays well this weekend, then next year there's going to be some football team that's going to be very, very excited to have Malik Murphy. Yeah, and.
Kansas State's really good. They're, they're. They're successfully pulling off a two quarterback offense, Will Howard and Avery Johnson. I love that, and it's they're just a good team.
I Yeah, I. The Big 12 is the most fun conference. I think it will be going forward too, because you have all these weird teams that are getting added, who have been added. But it's a big weekend coming up, it's a big weekend coming up. I feel like we're going to get, you know, if LSU can somehow take down Alabama and Tuscaloosa. They're now very much back in the picture and then the entire Big 12 is going to get figured out.
You have the USC Washington game, which should have like a billion points because USC. They were very close to being like, this team is fully quit. And I didn't really like I. There was a quote afterwards, Caleb Williams.
I don't think their team has quit, I feel like their defense has quit.
I think maybe their whole team, like, date that, I mean, their defense maybe hasn't quit because they've always been bad, so they're just playing the same. Yeah, Lincoln Riley's kind of a genius.
Because he, he can kind of just get into a situation where he will never be on the hot seat, but his defensive coordinator will always be on the house. Yeah, Alex Grinch, Uh.
Caleb Williams said after the Cal game I had a few mistakes in the Notre Dame game, dumb passes that I threw. Uh, last week I had a 70 completion or something like that. This is talking about the game against Utah. So I had one off day in the past three years. I don't know.
Maybe that's what Ryan Day said to maybe just be like, you know what? We win as a team, we lose as a team, yeah.
Uh, and how I love, I don't know. I love the report that he's. He's trying to get equity in an N.FL team that drafts them. Yeah, that's. That's never going to happen, never, never going to if the Chiefs weren't going to give Patrick Mahomes equity with his longterm deal. I think the NFL stepped in and said, this can't happen in general. But yeah, for a, for a rookie to come in and become the owner of a team would be ridiculous.
But my favorite story in college football just got another wrinkle. Oh, it's kind of selling story, this, this might be, it's like this. And then the pole assassin story from Texas from a couple of years ago. At Halloween. Uh, my two stories in the history college football Conor Stallions was, Oh, you got to throw in, uh, our guy, the shark fucker, Oh yeah.
Yeah, McElwain Well, he's involved in this, too.
And Bobby Petrino, just Bobby Petrino, just him putting on the neck brace, everything. I mean, Hugh Freeze coaching from the hospital. Yeah, I mean, college football is always delivered.
It's.
Good, so, um, Connor Stallions was photographed, or there was a still shot of him during the broadcast on the sidelines of the CMU Michigan State game? Allegedly, it's him. There was also one from a few years ago, yeah.
And he's dressed up, he's wearing sunglasses, he's got a little goatee going and got his hat pulled down real low. He's wearing what appears to be a sideline pass. Like a pass that you would get if you were attending the game as a fan, right? Maybe not as a coach.
And he's hanging out on the sidelines, allegedly trying to steal Michigan State signs, maybe passing Michigan State signs along to the CMU staff. Because he does have. I think there are two coaches on CMU right now that he coached with in his past, or that he was he was around in his past. So, um, this story continues to get funnier and funnier and funnier. To the point where it honestly wouldn't shock me if Stallions was like Jim Harbaugh's illegitimate son that he had 30 years ago and kept secret for so long. Just to bring along, with the sole mission of making Michigan football national champion, that's exactly what he is, he.
So the only issue with the picture is I think the guy has hair in this picture. Connor Stallions doesn't, Either way, it's very funny that now Connor Stallions is Kaiser Sozay.
Every, every, every fan base that hates Michigan will see Connor Stallions in every picture they look at and be like he was here. Even so, the UM report about Ryan Day's brother who? I think he was in the C.I.A. And I think he does have a private investigating firm. But I think a Michigan fan just started the rumor that he was the one investigating the whole thing. Like, I don't think that's actually factual, I love that.
And and so all of these, like all of these stories, you could just say Connor Stallion did this, that. Where was he on January 6th? We don't know, we don't know at all, right? He's crazy.
It's, it's, it's such a funny and the story is going.
To flip flop like, 17 more times. Yeah, there was, um, somebody made the point that if, uh, so. CMU said that they're investigating whether or not that was him on the sidelines. It seems to me that if CMU saw the picture and recognized him as a member of their staff, they would just be like, No, that's our coach. Like we. I know exactly who that is, you could look it up.
The investigation should probably take no longer than 30 minutes. Does anyone know this guy? Yeah, hey coach, do you know this guy who brought this guy to the party? And then bring any chicks?
Exactly, yeah, exactly the fact that they haven't said that tells me it probably is, and I I just I love the story. So I'm just glad that Connor Stallions, I'm glad that he, um, developed, uh, an insane fixation on Michigan football instead of politics or religion.
Yes, because this would be very bad.
For the world, if he wasn't just a college football freak or or like, Uh, if he was like an incel.
It could have been very bad. Yeah, he, this could have gone so far. We should thank our lucky stars every day. That Connor Stallions chose to wrote his 500 page manifesto on college foot, right?
And we also have had, uh, Jim Harbaugh finally spoke, and he gave some great Jim Harbaugh quotes. so this is one of them, he said. Uh, Jim Harbaugh says. Michigan football is like field corn instead of a house plant, he said. Quote House plants, they have their functions, they can be beautiful in the home.
They can bring, bring great beauty and value to a home. But the field corn. Just drop a seed in a crack of a sidewalk and it'll burrow down. And come up with energy, then rise up in a stock like fashion and start producing. So that is what Michigan football is right now. Uh, he also said, Uh, I just channeled my inner William Wallace when it comes to keeping a one track mind, focusing on football instead of everything else on the field. Yeah.
That all checks out for.
Jim, I liked the fact that he's he's become a corn expert, he's a field corn expert. Yup, my theory is that, uh, Harbaugh knows everything about Michigan football.
Yes, at one point, he probably looked up what the word maize went, because they're the maize. And Blue found out it had something to do with corn, and then did a deep dive on corn, realized that corn is gritty, can grow anywhere. He was like, Okay, that's why that's our color. Yes, that's how come he knows.
So much about corn. Yes, yes, so he's the whole thing is great, the story is incredible.
We also had the conclusion, uh, the sad conclusion to the race at three 25 with Brian. Friends, Uh is going to continue coaching the rest of this year. And then he's been fired, slashes, walking away. I don't.
Like that, I don't like the pre-firing, I don't like anything, I don't like it. It would be great.
Though, if he just whipped off a bunch of scores here, what if they? just what if they averaged?
50 points a game for their last games. Like, with that, it's in his contract, right? He can say, Hey, we want this many games. Yeah, I brought my average up. And if he shows that he's improving at the end of the season, then his dad might just be like, Yeah, you know what?
He's you're my best boy, he's really come into himself recently. Um, but yeah, that's it is sad to see. Because I was. I was actually hoping that Iowa was going to somehow make, against all odds, make the college football playoff averaging like 12 points a game. It would've been great, it would've been great.
Uh, okay, so college football this weekend is going to tell us a lot. Very excited for it, uh.
Let's where you got one last thing. yeah, one last thing. We have a new record, speaking of Iowa football, the lowest over under total in the history of college football at Wrigley at Wrigley Field.
I might go, you should, I'm going to bet the over, I bet the over. When it was the previous lowest total against Minnesota, I think it was 30 and a half. It was 32 and a half, 32 and a half. This is 29 and a half, right?
It's northwestern Iowa. I think I have to go to this game, it's Saturday. You want to go at Wrigley? yeah.
You want to go over they finally. Okay, you'll have to drive to Indiana to bet it. Yeah, I'll drive to Indiana and bet it.
You will.
That's the only part I'm going to. Northwestern, this is 20 minute drive, this is maybe the dumbest.
Thing I've ever done, and I flew to Qatar for like 16 hours for a tie. Yeah, I mean, this is.
Dumber. This game is going to rock. And and they did finally figure it out. I was reminiscing, I'm rocking with Iowa, though.
The best was when they first did a game at Wrigley College, game at Wrigley. They did it like maybe 10 12 years ago, and they didn't measure the end zones correctly. And they had to play the game going one way, I think they should play this game going one way, yeah.
It would be awesome. Yeah, what about pick sixes? they? you can pick six it, but you can't. The offense starts going one way, that's sick.
It's like a delayed penalty in hockey. Yeah, I mean, they, they, they painted the lines and everything, and they're like, Wait, the outfield wall goes right up to the end zone line. This is a problem.
So what would happen if you? If you intercepted a pass, they would flip it? No, but you return, you're like, on the interception return, you're running all the way down the field. Somebody catches up behind you, forces a fumble and it rolls like two yards.
Into the end zone, Yeah, I guess it would still kind of roll out kind of, cause it would hit the.
Wall So they'd rule it out, cause I'm trying to think that's that's bad for the over, though.
Yeah, but they have figured it out, they've played games at Wrigley since that, they've figured out. But that was one of the funniest things ever to play a game going one way.
Yeah, they should do it for this game, game of the year, they should also play this game, like on a 60 yard field. Yeah, or just give us some more points, or just not at all.
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He was on TV today talking about the James Harden trade, and he referred to him using the R word. And well, to be fair, he had a first cousin who.
Was developmentally disabled, correct? So kind of gets a pass on that. And Stu Feiner was the one.
Who broke the story? Yeah, Stu Feiner was the one that tweeted the clip and then it, you know, all the the media outlets picked it up. Suspended fire is it is.
It is what? Where does that, where does, where does that word fall into the? I think he's okay. It's kind of like the five second rule with food, he said. His apology within the same segment I think he's okay.
Like, if he had not said anything and then he had to issue an apology the next day, it becomes a bigger story. He said. his apology within 45 seconds.
Okay, like, the ball was still. No suspension, no suspension. I don't know. I don't know he's going to get it.
I think he knew he didn't like, he kind of wound up for it. Yeah, I mean, it was. It was a hard one. I don't think it's an intrusive thought.
And his first cousin? Yeah, he literally immediately was like, on my feet, first cousin, who, by the way, passed away, yes.
So a month or two months ago, he didn't know, he didn't know when it was.
He was like, a month, two months. But as far as an excuse goes for why you said it, that that might be the wildest reasoning behind why that word slipped out of your mouth.
It's like, No, somebody that I love very deeply. Yeah, I was at his funeral and we were dropping them left and right. What go ahead?
If you say sorry right away, you're okay. Don't Devante Adams, Don't Devante Adams, it's a trust tree.
They were at the funeral talking about, damn, like he, kind of, he reminds us of James Harden. Yeah right. They're talking about how much they were remembering him being like, yeah.
He was so much like James. Well, it was actually, I think he was saying it to Nick Wright, because.
Nick Wright had a take he disagreed with, Yeah, so he went like, old school, yeah.
Are you right? Is James Harden? No, he, he. Chris Broussard just slipped back into, like, sixth grade. Yeah, it was crazy.
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Uh, Leo DiCaprio was at a party, uh, and there's pictures of him getting his butthole fingered. So it's it's the new craze. is it the new craze? I mean, if Leo's doing it, it's kind of like, Yeah, I mean, it's the Shane Gillis Street guys.
Can't have fun.
Anymore? They're making a big deal about this. I think it was at TMZ, they got it.
Yeah, she was like, you know, they were, she was over under, going over the top, down the pants, a little swipe, digging for gold. Yeah, you guys, um, I don't want to, I don't know.
I don't want to bring more publicity to this, but I'll just ask it, Do you do you guys know? Butthole? Barry? No, yeah.
Yeah, oh, I know it sucks. Yeah, there's a guy named Butthole Barry who replies.
To our tweets with just his butthole, Yeah, well, we don't know, I think it's his butthole.
Because it's taken from such an angle. Butthole Barry, he's, he's all up in the mentions you're.
Not going to be able to find like a picture online of a butthole from that angle, it's.
Definitely his the hottest 18 year old out type. Shit, no, it's. no, I think it's a dude. Yeah, it's a dude.
I mean, it's Elon's Twitter. Elon's Twitter has become just like every day I go on, it's it's people arguing politics. It's some person in China getting hit by a bus, and then it's a bunch of people being like, Um, I'll suck your dick, I'm the hottest girl on OnlyFans and there's Butthole Barry.
PFT posting Someone's leg getting cut off.
Yeah, it's a bad parking accident, that was violent. It was bad. I was talking to someone.
Get shot today on Twitter, like, straight up shot. And I was like, what is going on right now? And these are all coming from Billy Football's account, yeah.
Also, they did the classic, which I'm happy. I kind of held off on. Getting the verified thing where everyone's first paycheck from tweets was like, so high, and now no one, it's, it's nothing. I'm still getting paid, yeah, not when you got paid the first time.
Yeah.
So so Elon was like, I'm going to.
It's basically whatever he feels on that day. He's like, here's the money that's going to the content pool and then the rest of it. I'm just going to keep for myself. Um, I was talking to Kate the other day. Uh, by the way, congrats, congratulations to Kate, had her baby and the pat, they had their baby.
Good job. Not not Buckshot. No, it's Buckshot Alpha Force Cassidy. No, it is.
That's the real name, the real name actually rocks, it does, yeah, but so so. Kate apparently went to the liquor store the other day and she was trying to find a special ingredient for a drink.
So she was telling the guy at the liquor store, Hey, this is what I'm looking for. And she was pulling up a picture on her phone, scrolling through. And she showed him a picture of Butthole Barry by mistake. Yes, Butthole Barry's butthole, yes.
And the guy was like, what? and she was like, I swear to God, that's not my butthole, but he totally thought.
It was her butt. Yes, 100, yeah, butthole.
Barry's menace menace, Uh, it was a menace. Maybe just sends a video of a soccer player. Oh, it says this post has been deleted. Memes just sent us a tweet on the group chat of a dude just sliding down.
It is Northwestern, he said. It's Northwestern. It was a soccer team. You fucking was churning this weekend and Ravel's okay with.
That stuff, uh, okay, your hot seat, cool throne. uh, my hot seat. Is bet payoff season, so somebody reminded me yesterday on Twitter that I've got a lot of bets to repay.
Maybe I haven't done a great job communicating them on. Uh, when I'm going to be repaying the bets, cause I've. I've hit a cold streak recently. Um, but we will be doing the baseball challenge tomorrow. Well, that was my.
Hot seat. Because we initially were saying the second place team had to catch. And then I was like, Well, it'd be funnier for content at PFTs pitching. And I'm catching that. Don't make a joke about our relationship. I wasn't going to, uh, so I'm catching and I'm I'm going to get injured.
I'm going to get injured, we're both going to get injured. So right now, my my right shoulders hanging on by a thread, I've got a labrum tear, a rotator cuff. No, no, it's been, it's been injured since, like 2011, 2012, I've got a broken humerus at the top.
I've got a fucked up shoulder, so, uh, not looking forward to this bet, probably going to reinjure it. Um, but you still throw a.
Curve, I can throw him a nasty knuckle curve. We gotta, I gotta paint my fingernails for me, yeah.
Please do tomorrow. So we're doing that also going to be like, Yeah, it's going to be sunny.
Though, Oh good, great 30s and sunny also, Jake Hank and Max are going to be the outfit.
Yeah.
I'm going to get hurt. Yeah, we're both going to be hurt. This might be the end of part of my take. Actually, there's no episode on Friday.
Sorry, but we got, we got, we got hurt, we got.
Dead, yeah, we got hurt, we died, I'm worried.
I just don't know if I can, like, squat down catcher stands for, like, multiple innings. If BFT can't get anyone out, you can, just I'm going to get.
Everybody out, you can, you can sit down like, we're going to help you guys out, you think so?
Yeah, oh okay, you think you're going to be good out there, You're playing left, all right, fine.
Okay, I would say, it's, it's.
There's probably the best odds are.
Ending because of injury? Yeah, yeah, I'd say, yeah, I'd say ending for injury. Minus one 80..
Yeah, and and I mean, how many times do you think they'll bat around the order? I guess, yeah, what's the over under of runs? Because we will have the team we're playing, the infield.
Yeah, so if you can, just, and it's cold, not great hitting conditions, but you're going to be pitching like meatballs. The only thing that you might have in your favor is that you're pitching so slow that it's going to throw them off. And they just hit hard ground balls and they make good plays. How fast do you think I could throw 60??
How many? Yeah, I was going to say, 63, 60, how many errors? A lot I like I. We're not.
Yeah, I don't know why Jake is confident. Yeah, like, we are going to be. I mean, I'm going to misjudge some balls, but I can also misjudge, oh yeah.
But that's.
I'm just going to play at the wall if you misjudge some balls, we're like.
We have to get six out, we'll get them. Okay, I think there's going to be a lot of, uh, yeah. Not necessarily errors in the outfield, because an error would imply that you had to get your your glove on the ball, yeah.
You're just going to not know how to track a ball, yeah.
And yeah, anything, anything in the middle, like right, center, left center, yeah, you should. I should let them steal, I'll throw someone out. I got to work on my pop.
Your pickoff move? I'm going to work on ball trick, yeah, before we play. Oh, fuck.
Yes, we should get them, actually. Can we just get multiple balls? I mean?
I've run for you because I don't, I'm going to be cold. I didn't even think about a play at the.
Plate well the new rules. They can't touch you, or else they're out. I might just, I might just.
Reverse it and just like, not even try to catch the ball, just run at the guy running at me, I.
Like that, no offense, big cat, but maybe it gets out of the base path. If you get Buster Posey on a play, I'm just going to walk over and put you down like a horse that would suck. And Jerry's?
Going to be the UP which will help us. Yes, yeah, I got all the I bought so much shit.
He's.
Got he's going to look very official. Um, so yeah, that's going down tomorrow. I I'm not super excited about it, if I'm being totally honest, um, but no, you know what, fuck it?
We'll just the people, it's for the people. And um, then I'm going to be getting the perm and getting the tattoo on the live stream on Hank and Max's live stream. So all these bets will be paid off, but they will be paid off in the name of content. Yeah, we've basically we have to do that.
The.
24 hour stream is also punishment me and Max have had to do. But what? That? We've pushed off until we're able to use the full office facilities. And I've been just trying to shoehorn everyone, everything, everything to that. Cause I don't know what the fuck we're going to do for 24 hours. So that will come before the New year.
Yeah, I think soon, yeah, soon. so how soon?
Soon, two weeks, I think we, I think, before Black Friday. Well, and I also think we figured out there's like a really good Thursday night football game that we want you guys to miss. Yeah, no, it was like we were going to do it and it will end right as the Thursday night football.
How can? Oh, Bengals Ravens? Yeah, so we wanted you guys, we wanted you to be delirious.
While we recorded the show right after, Bengals ravens, You guys come out and the game's over.
And then we do the show and then I have to fucking edit. Yeah, that's that you can't do.
That sorry, you have to do your job, but this is like, the whole thing is my job, okay?
So Max?
Maybe you don't have to edit, but Hank definitely has to be involved in content on the show. I want delirious, very tired Hank, I want Yawns, I want everything. Where are we going to be?
The yawns are going to be so bad. Where are you going to? what? where are we going to be locked?
In, we're going to build a box, we're going to build a box, a boo box, yeah.
How big is this box big? We have a we have a huge basketball court, although we do have some empty rooms we could do.
Yeah, we should maybe do that. We just put you in an empty room. there's some small empty rooms. Are you going to give us some like toys?
Oh, if we just, yeah, if we just get like a puzzle. If we just put something over the glass doors in one of the conference rooms, we could do that. Yeah, I think one of the podcasts, No, that's not too small, that's not too small.
That's not too small, there's the big conference room. No, that's too big. Okay, that's way too big.
That's also too small, that's way too big. It should be like, this studio. No, this studio is too big. Me and Max are going to do like popcorn reading.
Oh, okay, but I think, well, we can, we can talk about it all right. Popcorn reading school.
I don't know what that.
Is, how do you? Even? How do you even popcorn read? I know what popcorn reading is when you're reading, and then all of a sudden you call a person's name popcorn. Pft, yeah.
Oh yeah, there's only the two of you. That was going to be my thing. But then you catch the person who's not paying attention, it's basically you're just trying to rat them out to the teacher.
But there's only two of you. Yeah, Hank's just going to be saying Popcorn, Max the entire time.
Yeah, I can read better than him, all right. Yeah, what's your cool throne?
So, um, maybe we.
Can take this out if we're not ready to say it on the show yet. But I think that this person's going to be on the live stream on Thursday. Yes, Clinton Portis, the other person, yes.
So everybody be cool, I'm trusting the listeners to be cool. no, but no, no, no, because everyone's.
Got to wear like, nice clothes. Yeah, Thursday night when you're watching the stream, we have to say it because we're, you know, brush your hair, you're going to be shocked. Shower.
We have.
A very special guest that's going to watch football with us, going to sit down for an interview on part of my take on Thursday in studio. As well as Clinton Porter, as well as Clinton Porter. So I'm also very excited about, um, it is Tiffany Gomez, the that motherfucker is not real lady from the plane, I remember, but she's so but picture, but she's kitchen, but she's so much more than that.
And I think we need to start out by remembering that everybody, um, she's a nice lady, she's flying up to Chicago. Uh, not on American that was specified, and, uh, she's going to be doing an interview and and live streaming the game, so everybody be cool.
Just be cool, be cool, be cool, be cool guys.
We're all cool guys, right? Cool, we're cool, be cool.
Hank, hank, are you be cool? Um, yeah, we're gonna be cool, we're gonna be cool.
All right, uh, my cool throne, so my hot seat is, uh, having to catch tomorrow for PFT. Although we're going to fucking be, we're going to, we're going to crush that. I need some, uh, some red.
Man, can we get some red? Man? Yes, I need a bunch of red. I got a spider attack.
Uh, my cool throne.
Is charity? So I tweeted about this the other day. But a Weiss Fest that is going to be in Chicago Salt Shed on Saturday. These are people I've been, uh, you know, known for a very long time. Great charity. They raise money for families battling cancer.
So if you're in Chicago and you want to do something on Saturday, it's going to be sick. Natasha Beddingfield is playing, Oh yeah, cool, uh. Randy Hauser Plain white teas.
Uh, so concert, college football will be on all day. It's going to be a great party. 150 bucks is open bar basically all day, so it's gonna be a great time. I think there'll be some people from Barstool there.
So please go check it out. Is w e I s h fest..com um help out? yeah, help out.
It's a great people that I've known for a long time, so help out. Great lineup. Yes, great lineup.
And you get to watch college football with an open bar at the Salt Shed, which is an awesome venue. Perfect, uh, hot seat, cool throne.
Jake, my hot seat is Davos 20.
He had a radio show where he had some words for Tyler from Spartansburg. Uh, he's foreign for the season, he told him. He's part of the problem. If you want to apply for my job, go for it and good luck to you.
It was a five minute rant, Uh, you can listen to.
It, it's all over. He also dropped a great he went tie lure, which is just a very like, that's.
A great dad thing to do. He also said. To answer your question, I started as the lowest paid coach in this business. I worked my ass off. I'm not going to let the smart ass kid get on the phone and tell me how to do my job. I work for the Board of Trust.
He basically did the Dave Chappelle. When keeping it real goes wrong. I don't like people playing on my phone. Yeah, he, uh, but.
It is kind of crazy. Like Dabo, Clemson was not a national title team, Dabo came, they won 10 more than 10 games, whatever, however many years or seven years in a row, won two national titles. Bad year. I think he deserves at least one bad year, so Dabo is actually right with his answer.
Which was he raised the expectation so high that now you can't. It's impossible to fulfill your expectation unless you win a national championship. So Dabo is right in that, but it's also it's very funny to hear Dabo Swinney say the word ass. Yes, yes, that's my.
Take on it all, right, your cool throne, my cool throne. Well, it's kind of putting you guys on the hot seat. But Cooper flag, he committed to Duke.
He's dead to me, to the brotherhood Duke over Utah, and we'll see him next year in Cameron indoor, you know what? dead to me.
I think.
I think this is bigger than Duke, I think it's bigger than Duke. I think I might still be a.
Guy I'm not for the next year I will be. When he goes to Pro, I think I have to root for Old Cooper, he's a hometown guy here.
I don't like a flag, I do not like Cooper flag, all right, I'm.
Done with Cooper, he's going to be a problem, he's going to be a problem Cooper Flag is going to be.
A problem? He is very good. I'm not going to hate, I'll say it, I will not hate Cooper Flag.
I'm just gonna pretend he doesn't exist. You can do that for the next year, I'm going to.
I'm shunning him. Can you root for the brotherhood but not root for Duke at the same time? No, no.
All right, then I'm out. Also very funny, like it was like Cooper flag to the brotherhood and.
He's holding a pitchfork. The Trident, yeah, the brotherhood was an interesting choice there, yeah.
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Okay.
We now welcome on, Uh, one of our favorite guests. I think he might lead the league in part of my take appearances, so we had to have them on in the new studio, uh, and we have. NHL hockey is back in what a week.
So we got, we got two weeks till opening night, two weeks, so opening night. I want to do our hockey preview. Uh, talk about the upcoming NHL season. I'll start with this, I I'm big on, uh, the Golden Knights, I think they're.
Going to be good this year. Yeah, Golden Knights. I don't really see any Stanley Cup hangover coming there for some reason.
I talked to the guys that are ready to go. Um, so I think that they're going to come out buzzing and and honestly, just start the season off just the way they finished last.
Year I also kind of like the sharks this year, I feel like they're they they did a good job in.
The off season, I think the Sharks are really going to struggle to score goals. Um, it could be one of the worst teams we've ever seen in modern day NHL. Um, we'll see how it plays out.
Though you don't know, you don't all right. So obviously this season started. Uh, which is that?
This is how we do our previews. Um, so this is early, actually, this is early. But we also were like, Hey, we were opening new studio. Wit is I? I do think that you are the number one guest on this show. Um, so, speaking of the new season, from a player's perspective, when does the new season feel like you're, like, really in it?
When do you when does like, the panic of like, we're really good or really bad actually start? Because, you know, like baseball, it's usually somewhere around July, NFL it's right around now where teams trade deadline, figuring out what they are.
What is it for hockey? Uh, if I was a super informed guest. And by the way, what an honor. I think we said it last time, like number one sports podcast to be the most, the guest that's on the most. Like, that's kind of that'll go down on my resume when it's all.
Said and done so, thank you boys. It is an honor. Yeah, you're right and you're welcome.
So how? What percentage of Pink Whitney should we get then? Because you've done so much promotion on?
Our show Talk to your boy, Dave, because now he fucking owns everything, so ask him.
Okay, I'll buy it from you for a dollar. Do you just get a check every month, every quarter?
Oh, that's sick. that is kind of nice, fucking sick. I drive, I drive past a pink Whitney.
Billboard Both of you guys are making way more than me, so if we want to do this talk, we could talk. Can you guys give me some money? He's right.
We actually, Yeah, let's drop it.
We gave away our game checks for the next year. Uh, all right, wait, so back to the question.
When does the NHL season start? So real, I wish I had the exact numbers, and if I was a, uh, an informed guest, I would. But American Thanksgiving is the time when you, you know, and by that, I mean, I I pretty sure that if you're not in the playoffs come American Thanksgiving, you're like, you've got a 10 chance of getting in. Like, the numbers are crazy how it ends up working out. So, while there's some panic, um, for a team like myself, the Edmonton Oilers, I'm an Edmonton Oilers super fan. Once an oiler, always an oiler. There's some wary, but it's not. It's not too late as of right now.
Right, I think every team's played between seven and 10 games, so obviously there's some sketchy starts out there for some what were thought to be really good teams. But once we get to American Thanksgiving, that's when you look at the standings. And you can actually figure out. Like, there might be one or two teams that aren't in right now that get in, but this will probably be the top eight in each conference. Wait, the Oilers stink.
So we are now a new team. We won the outdoor, we won the Heritage Classic, we smacked around the Calgary flames who suck. Wait, when was the Heritage classic? Heritage classic was Saturday night, where the Edmonton, um, oh my God.
They did. What is their name? What is the CFL team in Edmonton? Guys, come on.
Oh, the Eskimos, I think it is the Eskimos. Yes, I think it is. Um, they played outdoor at their stadium 20th anniversary of the first outdoor game before the Buffalo Pittsburgh.
When I played in was Edmonton versus Montreal in 20, 2003, they did the 20 year anniversary, did the Battle of Alberta. It was actually sick. Nickelback played Nickelback guys, Connor McDavid said. They were the greatest band of all time.
Okay, you've got to respect when the great one says that, or, you know?
I didn't mean that they're not even in the playoffs right now. You just said the great.
One, Well, he got hurt, big cat. We missed we. He was up for two games and we lost both, and then he came back and he was dominating the other night.
So basically, that wind changed around the whole season, but as of right now, the Edmonton starts been a disaster, I could say that.
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