For the thousands in attendance and the millions watching around the world. This is
the many bit Stiltoe corn is alive and kicking mun over here. I'll hit
but your ass a couple of times. You you know what I'm saying.
This brother breaking on the forty yard. But this brother, Come on,
sid, I hope I didn't kiss off. Jesus, you call that a
penalty's number one? That was number one. It's the La Clippers. Shut
up, you're staying it for all people. I would get a pregnant They
just called in and hangs up. Your mother fucker that can kiss me off?
Are you? Are you in the shower house totally in the show.
Yeah, he's not a coach. Can give me James stupid. You're a
super idiot. For get soup up tight over literally to clearly why I will
lie for attention my life at start, y'all, you're coming got it?
Guys looking to punch drunk sports where losers louse. I'm here with him,
a good man, Johnny, he's drinking, pissing out of space and my
good friend. Welcome our guest, Mike Carter. He's got a new podcast.
My probably my number one baseball friend. I would say, I would
say all of my friends, baseball is your number one thing. True or
false? Oh, that's true. But I would think that your best your
best baseball friend is your manager. He's up there too, Chase is up
there too. What's your team? What's your team? Oh, he's a
big white Sox got big big? I thought, No, sadly, sadly,
I'm a white Sox fan, long suffering, born and raised in Chicago.
That's true, Charago guy went to Now here's one of your claims to
fame. When I met you, I think, do you remember when we
first met? I do? I do? Not win was it and how
drunk was I? Well, I would just use a few keywords here.
First time I met you? Ball state the chug. Okay, sure,
I see. I thought I met you at high school. I thought I
met you maybe Albert's graduation part years. No, I didn't know, so
I didn't know him yet then. So my connection to Chris is that his
cousin Mike Pollock, and I went to high school together, right, and
so he and I were really good friends. He's the first person who ever
got me high God love him. And you know we we were good friends
at high school. And then we went to Indiana and we live. We
just ended up living on the same dorm floor. If you can imagine,
I have all the people in the world. So Chris lived two stories down
from where we were at and that's how we met. And then Chris and
I became obviously really good friends. Now you went as well as getting at
your claim to fame to me when I met you was you went to a
high school maybe maybe junior high school with Jenny McCarthy. I did, yeah
and two or false you put her foot in your mouth or you sucked her
toes at some sort of dance or something. What. Yeah, yeah,
you know that's my claim to fame, that's for sure. Don't ask her
that, you know, I'm sure, no. You know. It's really
funny though, is that. Um, she's from a family of four girls
and they grew up across the street from a guy that I played baseball from
the time that I was like six seven years old, and I would go
over to his house and he's a way better player than me, and I
was His name was Alan Ripke, and I said, I want to go
play fast pitch with you so you can get me better. He's like,
yeah, we'll go play in the morning, but in the afternoon, I
want to go swim in the mccarthury schoolball. Go. I don't have time
for that shit. I don't want to go swimming in the mccarthury school.
I want to play baseball. And he's like, no, you're gonna go.
You'll love the view, Like we're gonna go. Yeah. So anyway,
Yeah, Jenny was a year older than me in school. We went
to grade school together. We didn't have junior high in the city there.
Um, so we went to grade school together. And then I went to
an all boys private high school and she went to an all girls Catholic high
school. Because where I grew up, you can't really go to public school
and like live, you know, like you can't. You're not going to
survive it most likely. So that's where I ended up going. Yeah,
and so, um, you know, her family is a wonderful family.
They're really really great people. Her mom and dad were both really actively involved
in our school and the church and stuff like that. Her mom did this
thing that was really interesting and she used to get dressed up as a clown
every year. It was fucking scary, like she was like like not like
Andy the clown, I mean like like the you know, like you know
the clown from it and shit, like you're just kind of crazy looking stuff.
I know. Yeah, but it was pretty. They were great people
and she's she's always been super kind, like real down to earth person um,
really cool when she made went So we were like in college right when
she went on to that one What was that MTV show she was on?
The fucking she was on? I don't remember, but I do remember this.
So Paula subscribed to Playboy. Yeah about that's what it was, Johnny,
Yes, but she was. She was in Playboy. And so Mike
gets it and we're sitting around one night. He goes, hey, He's
like, did you knew somebody named Jenny McCarthy from your neighborhood? Right?
Yeah, yeah? And I look at the pictures like, oh, that's
not her though it doesn't look anything like her. And then they opened up
the centerfold and they had a picture of her in her Saint Trivia's cheerlead in
uniform. I go, holy shit, that really is her. I have
a picture of me standing in the exact same spot because it was one of
those photographers, right, they take the picture of movie on, take the
picture movie on cheerleaders, football players. Everybody kind of went through the line
hilarious. I was like, oh my god, that really is her.
IM needless to say, I saw her in a new light that day.
Now we're all of her sisters too, we'll get sports, but this is
great. Yeah, well one of her. Yeah, they're all wonderful,
beautiful human beings, like really great people. Um, she's the she's one
of four, and one of her sisters I think either still is or was
the leading scorer and DePaul at DePaul University women's basketball history. Oh shit,
could she could really play? Her name was joe Anne? Great great player.
That's not like the school of the Johnny's College team just whooped up on
Johnny. No, the Johnsonville Brotz or whatever they were called. What are
they called? Would you say? It's the premium historically black college in North
Carolina? That's what they are. What does that mean? I don't know.
That's what they were saying on the broadcast last night. They kept saying
it's the top historically black university in North Carolina, which I mean, well,
here's okay, it's on their website. If you look it up,
it says j CSU is where the brightest come to be brilliant, and they
capitalize brilliant. I don't know what that's about. They have a thousand students,
one thousand and ninety three students, and they're, according to them,
the number one private historically black college or university in North Carolina. So there
you go. They have fifteen Division two teams, so they're Division two.
So the number one university, the number one NCAA basketball team plays them a
little tunap game and how much did you guys win? By Johnny sixty one
points? There's one on one to forty forty and that dude they played.
I mean we played our white guys for the last ten minutes too. It
was not Now, that's that's what Carolina wanted. We know there's a racist
state you come from, Johnny, we know everybody in your family as we
have a black coach. What are you talking about? They don't. The
only reason we're playing this team is because his mother went there, which I
don't understand that because he said later they asked him if he would play the
school where his son goes, and they were like, I'm not sure my
wife would let me because it would be such a beat. Now, so
why were you okay just beating the ship out of your mother's school was no
longer with us, is do they? Is there some payout for the school
in that regard? Like, I don't really know how that works? So
they Is that why they did it? Yeah? They get a nice check,
yeah for sure to come up for that. Yeah, definitely. So
would they give us a check if the three of us played against North Carolina
money like, we might die. It might be a Tom Sagura situation.
And honestly, you I tell you this. You if you can find out
how much they got paid Johnny for half of that amount, I will let
every person on North Carolina raped me, every one of them. It was
twelve dollars team six bucks. They can all have ye six bucks. They
can all get something now, Johnny. Now I want to talk to to
you, Michael Bobby, because you just coached your son's team. That's the
expos hat reference. You're right, correct, Yeah, and they won their
literal league chance I can give. I'm sorry, I can give you an
answer on that really quickly. The exhibitions are not big pay days for a
Division two teams. The standard payout is in the ten thousand dollars range.
Now this was an answer for Duke, but I assume it would be about
the same for us ten to twenty thousand. Absolutely, you had me with,
you had me with twelve bucks. You think I'm not gonna let these
guys dick me down for five grips? Go get yourself a six pack of
zombie dust. Bro, you're in and I'm yeah, that's that's a free
six er right there. Bro. Now you coached your little league. Your
son's a little kid, now, Johnny, I think I told you the
story about my car wonderful kids. Both of his kids are just absolutely adorable,
love both of him. His sons might be the funniest little kid that
you will ever see. He's constantly stealing beers. And I'm talking about when
he was five or six. He'd always had pictures of him trying to steal
a beer. That's so funny. And I think I told you this story
about Jack when when he must have been about five, and we were at
Albert's Fourth of July party and he says to me, a teen, you
want to see my marble collection? And I go of course I do,
buddy, I'd love to see a marble collection. He takes me down on
the basement, puts his hand in his pocket and pulls out two marbles.
Oh, I thought this was going another direct. I thought he was pulling
out Well, he'll do that, he'll do that too. Yeah, I
think now, I think now he probably would. You bet that's a pretty
good gag. Actually, he pulls out these two marbles and just rolls them
across like the concrete floor, and they just roll all the way across the
floor. They hit the wall, and that was it. That was all
he's done. And then he looks up at me and he goes pretty fucking
sweet. Huh yeah that's and I go like this. I was so shocked.
I go, oh shit, I mean no, not ship Jack.
You can't talk like that. He goes, I could say whatever I want,
and he does. I mean he's been that way since he started speaking.
He told, didn't he tell his teacher is kindergarten teacher that she had
a badonka donk. And then he pretended like he didn't know what it meant.
Yes, and then he and then he actually like he didn't know what
he had just said was pretty funny. Yeah, that's so funny. My
nephew keeps mooning his class. He's got a real prob keeps taking his ass
out and mooning people. Little boys in their butts, man, it really
is. Yeah, little boys in nudity, they just love it. Now,
So what to like? I mean, how stressed are you coaching your
little kids? Could you love them? And you get to know all these
little kids were you having like I would have meltdowns? No? No,
you know, I mean I think I think for me, I mean,
obviously we don't take ourselves too seriously, but I think for me, what
I do with Jack is I let I let the other guys coach him up
a little bit more, just because of the fact that at the end of
the day, I still got to be dad, and I have an idea
of the way that I think things are supposed to play out, and if
I coach him too hard, then he gets upset and with me, and
then it carries over to home. So I found it really what we if
you find the right group of kids to put somebody with. I'm a big
believer and like neighborhood kids should play with the kids in the neighborhood, right,
Like I still talk to guys that I played with when I was seven
eight years old, when I played baseball, when I was starting to play.
And so get a bunch of good kids together in good families, people
that are like mine, and then teach them the right way to go about
playing. And the way that I teach the boys about playing is, you
know, your stats don't matter. I don't care. You're not playing for
a contract. This is an Aaron Judge Land. We're going to play to
win the game. This is the thing. These are the things that we're
gonna do. So, like this year, I taught them things like this
is how you when a ball sit to the outfield and you're on third lesson
two hours to come back and tag. They're eleven, you know, like
and the other teams in our league don't do that stuff. They and we
we we coach it. We um really demand them to play hard and aggressive
and it shows up, you know, I mean, you get results when
you do things the right way, and they did, you know. So
it stressful in the regards of like, I want all the kids to have
a good time. I want them to really enjoy it. I want them
to come back next year. Stressful in terms of winning, yeah, hell,
we all want to win, but we were. We were the first
team in the history of the league around the table. We ran the table.
We didn't lose since the season started in early August. We have a
string season, a fall season. It's gotten in the fall season. We
didn't lose. And the last game we won ten to nine. It was
a nail biter and parents were like shitting bricks on the stands. It was
hilarious. I kept looking over at them and it's like they were all nervous.
Even Katie, who could give two shits about who's winning or losing,
was like, oh my god, that was really stressful. You know,
um, I loved it. I think it's that's what you play for.
You play to be in the big games, right and big the big Fox
Valley Baseball League championship. You have, you have a coach and throw a
little chin music. Well, it's funny you say that because one of the
things that I did that I did teach the boys this year that came back
in the championship game that was hilarious was speaking of the devil there is Jack.
Hey, Jack, you want to say Hi, you want to be
on a podcast? No, so we um we did uhum. I taught
to catchers. I said, you know, when you have plays at the
plate, this is how I want you to handle it. And when a
guy comes to the plate, I want you to tag him with impunity.
And they didn't understand what that meant. I said, it just means tag
him really hard. So at the end of the game, what the second
out of the last inn and our catcher dove at the guy and tag the
guy who's trying to steal home. And he's like, was that was that
with impurity? I go and impunity and impunity? Yes, yes, very
well done, sir. It was great. It was great. It's really
fun. I love it. Jack is also responsible for giving me the worst
uh fucking roasted marshmall I ever had in my life. This last fourth of
July, everyone's roasted Marshmaller, having contests like who can make it the best
and shot all the kids? Yeah, And he roasts marshmall for maybe two
seconds and he goes, team take this and I pull it off the stick
and it is just liquid. I mean it is so sticky. It took
forever to get this shit off of my hands and I'm he goes, You're
welcome, team, You're welcome. I know, Jack, that was terrible.
What you mean it was terrible, Like I just threw him out of
the game or something. I go, look at my hands. I couldn't
touch it. It The next two days, everything I touched it was just
like like a fly paper in my hand was like fly paper. Everything was
sticking to me for two days. Man, that's funny. Now, Carter,
you just started your first podcast, right, You just started podcast called
Explain It to Me? Because it is it on the Triple It was it
called Triple Play Fantasy Network. Yeah, but yours is called The Fantasy Baseball
Beat. Yeah, so it's um. I've done a lot of podcasts,
as you know, I mean, I know you've always listened and shared them,
which I really appreciate, Thank you, Tum. I started going on
really about two and a half years ago. I was we were in the
middle of COVID, you know, and I was home at school. My
school shut down and we were doing everything from home, and um, I
started writing fantasy baseball stuff and got hooked on with a couple of different websites
and still do that. But what happened this uh this fall was I got
a really unique opportunity. I'm pretty good friends with the guys who won the
Triple Play Fantasy Network, and they had reached out to me and asked if
I would be interested in doing like a weekly pod, and I said,
well, sure, I don't know that I can host it. I don't
know that I have enough time to be able to do that, but I
would love to be part of something. And when they told me who was
getting involved, Carlos Marcano and Chris Torres, two of my favorite fantasy baseball
analysts on Twitter, honestly, I couldn't say no, and so we got
on it. So the main gist of what we're going to be doing is
it's all going to have a fantasy baseball bent. But what we're doing is
we're inviting major League Baseball beat writers to come on to the podcast for thirty
minute window at the beginning of it to talk about the prognosis for the team
the next year. So we just had Craig Mission last week from you know,
he covers the Marlins real heavily down in Florida, and had him come
on and talk about some of the prognostications for guys kind of coming forward,
you know, rookies that might look to have an impact next year, the
direction that he feels the team might be going in. And we feel this
is really valuable because these are people that are with the team every day.
You know, you the three of us are just watching from afar, but
you know, somebody like Craig Is, he's in the clubhouse. You know,
he's getting an idea of what's going on. And so we feel like
that's an angle that hasn't really been covered in a fantasy baseball podcast. Obviously,
there's a shitload of fantasy baseball podcasts out there, and everybody's kind of
got their favorites and things that they like about what those are. But we
think that this is a unique angle to kind of cover that. And then
at the end we're gonna be doing kind of our own you know, reactions
to what has happened on the podcast that we just had listening to the beat
reporter coming on and trying to engage with people in a little bit different way.
So far, the the feedback we've gotten has been really positive. I
mean, obviously I don't have a great radio voice or you know, radio
face even but you got a good face. I tell you. It's big
and fat and puffy. Um, but face is perfect for radio. Right.
But I think I think it's gonna be a really cool thing. And
we don't really know exactly where it's gonna go yet. That's just kind of
been We've recorded twice so far, we're gonna be we're gonna be covering in
the Red Sox next and and we're just kind of doing it in order of
when we get reporters come back. And not surprisingly, they love to talk.
I mean, they're really an underutilized part of the fantasy baseball game.
People don't follow them, people don't really know who they are, and they're
really really valuable members of of kind of trying to figure out what's going on
and anything that we can do to help people get an edge and win more
money. That's what it's really about, right, So sure, hey,
can I pitch a segment for your shell? You can use it, you
cannot use whatever. Let's call it up hitting hitting hitting dongs hitting dongersh And
then you ask these beat riders for each specific team, who's got the biggest
wang, Who's that's a really great that's a great idea. Yeah, I
like that. And then I'm sure Aaron Judge just has a fucking frozen rope
in his pants. Wouldn't it be great if it was like we had like
the astro Us guy on and he's like, hey, Al Tubas hung like
a bull, you know, like, wouldn't that be hilarious? He's five
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a little world series chatty. I know you're probably, oh, Johnny's a
gigantic brave. Well, I want the Phillies to lose now. I really
hate the Phillies, and I know the astro of their cheaters, but I
can't. I can't do it. I hate the Phillies. They're fans are
the most obnoxious people on the planet. They talk shit all year, even
though they were barely I mean, they're so lucky to make the playoffs.
They barely made the playoffs. So yeah, I can't. I couldn't deal
with an off season of Phillies fans. Honestly, I like him as underdogs.
I like they got Schwarber. I like that he they kind of rode
him this far at being the next Cub and I just hate you got Castiano's
a guy who can't I mean, was a terrible defender all year. Now
he's coming up with all these great catches and stuff. It's I just it's
annoying, dude. You know, I don't like Keith Olberman, but he
had a good point the other day on Twitter. He said, what is
the point now of the regular season if not to just extract money from people?
If you have a team like the Dodgers one hundred and ten plus wins,
a team like the Braves, the teams like the Mets all more than
one hundred wins and they're all sitting they're all sitting at home. Yeah,
the Yankees too, but I mean they at least made it to the CS,
you know. I mean, they're they're all sitting at home after the
DS now, I mean, and then he says, he says, that's
the reason why the World Series has become a niche event for the fans of
the two teams those are that's most. I mean, the ratings over the
past decade have been in the shitter. I'm sure the ratings this one to
be bad because but the World Series, you know, up until the sixties,
it was just the two best teams that won the pennant from each from
the National League. In the American League, they went directly to the World
Series and it was those teams that fought it out, and it was it
was a global phenomena. You know, it's a huge event. Everybody watched.
Now, I mean, there are other factors, but now it's very
much, you know, just an event for the fans of those teams.
Really. Uh. And and and you know, they keep expanding the playoffs,
which god, you got to think now that they maybe have some regrets
about that now that they lost their Yankees and their Dodgers. Uh, it's
gonna be interesting to see if they keep it this way going forward. It
is interesting, isn't it. I Mean, I think one of the things
I agree with you. I mean, I you know, you have an
eighty nine win and an eighty seven win team that make it all the way
down to the nitty gritty of the playoffs, and a lot of people,
a lot of fans, you know, perceived that as being the wrong thing.
I've been calling for what it's worth for expanded wild card playoffs for a
long time. I don't know how I feel about having an extra team in
it, but I love the fact that the wild card was best of three
instead of just way. Yeah, it shouldn't be one game as a joke.
Yeah, one game is a bad idea, But the problem. Don't
you agree that the problem is now because it seems like the teams that got
the five day layoffs, boy, they look sluggish, and those sluggish yeah,
I mean, but the Braves just never got it back. The Braves
never got it back. They ended the season, you know, stomping the
Mets and hot, and then they never got it back. So it's of
the things that's interesting that I read last week, you know, because I
have to read a lot about baseball, obviously, but from from nineteen sixty
nine through last year, the team with the best record in baseball only won
the World Series fourteen times out of the fifty two years that we're talking,
So as long as as long as team has been alive, essentially twenty seven
percent of the time, fourteen times in fifty two years as the team with
the best record won. And so a lot of people are are upset about.
People that I talked to you anyway, are Hey, you know,
the so and so and won eighty seven games and they won, well,
the Braves only won eighty eight last year, and they went and they got
hot at the right time. You know, we have a two thousand and
six Cardinals that won eighty three games and one. They beat the pod Rais
and the Mets and the Tigers in order, teams that were stacked to be
able to win the whole thing. You know, so like, it's not
a perfect scenario obviously, right. I totally agree with you. I mean,
I think people want to see the Yankees and the Dodgers doing bad at
all. But I don't give a shit about that because all I see them
do when it's throwing money around and buying the things that they want. Problem,
I actually kind of root for teams like that to lose, honestly.
Yeah. No, me too, Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean
it's you see, I mean, what the Dodgers are doing, if god,
if they end up, you know, if they end up were like
Judge or something like. I mean, come on, dude, I just
might stop watching baseball. I might stop watching baseball. I mean, it's
just unfair. It's unfair. Is that the only place he would be interested
in going on the day. San Francisco wants him really badly from what they're
saying, and they and he could. He would be an icon there.
I mean, I I look at him and think he should be a Yankee
forever. But I don't. I think Cashman could really fuck this thing up
too. Yeah, easily, just crazy, which is crazy to think about
the Yankees letting a guy like that off the hook is unbelievable. Yeah,
there's been some scuttle but here in Chicago, I don't know if it's really
true or not. I mean, you know, they always say a lot,
but there's been a lot of talk that Rizzo and Judge would be a
package deal. San Francisco. Wow, there is Oh, no, tell
me he played well in the Hey, he played well in the playoffs too,
So he did he did? Yeah, he did, he did.
Tell me if I have this wrong, because I think I remember now,
right after college, maybe didn't you do a thing where you went to every
almost every stadium baseball stadium in the country and wrote about your experience in each
stadium? No, you know what was crazy. Here's the thing that's so
upsetting about that, even to this day. So our roommates got together and
planned that they did all thirty They did thirty baseball stadiums in thirty days and
got David Sunflower Seeds to pay for the bulk of it. As they did
it. I was supposed to be the third person who was going, but
I had to finish a class for my undergrad still and was getting on to
go to work, and so I didn't end up being able to go.
Now, Damon, my roommate, Damon wrote quite a bit about it,
and then I subsequently wrote some things about it. But I've been writing out
and off about baseball probably for the last twenty years. And then when the
kids were really little, I didn't do it. And then when COVID hit,
I had an opportunity. I started working for sp Streamer, who was
a really great guy, Michael Simeone, and he gave me a chance.
And now I'm working at fan Tracks, which is really up and coming.
I mean, we had our meeting last month. They said that we had
over five million hits this year during the baseball season on the website, which
to me seems like a lot. Maybe it's not, I don't know,
but that's yeah. And so people are reading more than we're gonna get on
this show. So no, that's not true. That's not true. That's
absolutely not true. And a lot of I know a lot of people listen
to you guys, So m no, I think I think it's gonna be
Um. I've been doing that for a while and I really have the bug
to do it. You know, it's a really great hobby to have.
That's a nice release from the work week. You know, my work week
could be pretty crazy. So what was the best stadium they were rated?
And what was the worst experience from it? Like best to worst? What
were the bookends are like this was a great stadium, that everything was great,
and this stadium fucking sucked and why great question, Thank you, thank
you, John. We'll be right back now, go ahead, now.
I remember that was like nineteen ninety five, right, So the new stadiums
were like Colorado. They loved Colorado, they loved they absolutely loved Denver.
They loved Camden Yards. Um. They were a little bit down on Fenway
because they felt like it smelled and it was kind of a funky part of
town and they didn't really know what they were doing. They'd really liked Toronto
for some reason, I think just because they were in Canada and they liked
it. Um, Milwaukee was not a great set up for them. They
had trouble getting in and out. I think they also got a ticket there
and didn't care for being in Milwaukee too much. But one of the things
that I really remember the most was, um, this is when the White
Sox had Ken Harrelson and Tom Petorc as their announcers, and Petroc was half
in the bag, I guess while they were there, and he kept calling
Pa Mike Pollock looks exactly like Jeffrey Dahmer. Yeah, he's a dead ringer
for Jeffrey Dahmer. Pull up a picture tea. But I'm serious and so
and so Pature kept calling him Dahmer and like putting his arm around him and
stay and like, I guess I'm like on TV and stuff like that,
because it was crazy and they were just like they wanted to get away from
him so badly because it was really good. I'm never gonna be able to
look at again. No, no, no, no, you listen.
He's gonna be so mad that I said that. But like it's true,
Like it's true, he's better looking than Dahmer. But man, I swear
the guy with Mike's clean shaven, he's the fucking dead ringer for for Dahmer.
I mean, he doesn't share his Dahmer's affinity for you know, cannibalism.
But I know stranger to boners, He's no stranger. Bus No,
he's not gonna He's not gonna kill and eat anyone. Although I could see
him growing a tiny hole into somebody's head like dahmer, did I mean I
could see him like I could see Mike doing that? Oh? Absolutely,
did you guys see uh. Not to totally change the subject on baseball right
now, but this Chris redshit to get from the other night the comedian,
Yeah, no, he goes he goes to the UH. I just read
his right before the show. He goes to UH the stand in New York,
one of the bigger clubs in New York. He getting out of his
car and somebody that was dressed like a security guard, this really big guy
dressed like a security guard. As Chris Fred's getting out of his car,
he's trying to steal his chain, which broke. He didn't even get the
chain. Hits Chris Red right in the fucking nose with brass knuckles. O
Fox his whole ship up. He was in the hot I'm just okay,
I'm looking at the video here, the surveillance video. Holy, there's so
much blood all down the stairs, because that's a club that's like in the
basement. So all of this day was so much was going the seller.
The seller, I mean, not the stand. Yeah, the cellar.
Oh yeah, here goes the video. This is him right here. Oh
shit, he just drops like a oh oh out dude gone, Oh my
god, look at all I mean it was it was way more than that.
Was blood everywhere. But Jiminy Christmas. Man, it's so scared.
It's scary to be a comic these days. I'll blame Will Smith ever since
he slapped Chris Rock. Everybody, That's why I don't wear chains. So
is that why, Johnny, That's why you don't chains, Johnny? That's
right, that's right. So poor Chris Red. Yeah, that's man.
Well he got jacked up. Holy cow. One of my biggest fears has
always been, you know, you don't want to get jumped, you know,
but getting hit with brass knuckles, hass. Have you ever had brass
knuckles on? Yeah? Yeah, and you just kind of go like this
on your own fish and you go, oh my god, you kill somebody
that way. That's why, I mean, absolutely could kill somebody with those.
Absolutely. If I was a boxer, I would go brass knuckles on
both gloves and then tape over it and then put them right in the gloves.
They never noticed. Well you hear about like Margarito plastering is you know,
his inside his gloves, you know, And yeah, you killed the
guy. He was putting that paris on his knuckles and kill the guy.
Oh my god, just that. So imagine like when we were in college,
I think, oh my god, to them straight up killed him.
Now, well, let me ask you this real quick. And I've always
wanted this. What is your because you have this, I've noticed this little
love affair with taking off your own shoes and throwing him in swimming pools.
Why why do you do that? Well, sometimes sometimes what happens is you're
around a group of people and you maybe become overserved and you stop paying attention.
And there's a guy there that's a pretty funny guy who has a tendency
to become overserved himself. And when he becomes over when he becomes overserved,
he does he does sort of idiotic things like peele his own shirt off and
like you know, make up something for a straw and slip it out of
his own cup, or then he takes your shoes and takes them off of
your feet and flips them into the pool, and then refuses to go get
them. So does his name? Does his name Ryan? With duration?
Schmibo? It does? It does? And then and then it turns into
a battle of will because I'm not going to go get my shoes that I
didn't throw into the pool out of him. So my daughter there was a
pool behind me. My daughter is sitting there in limbo wondering what to do,
like an existential crisis, because my shoes are in the pool. It's
about forty it's like forty five degrees outside, and Tebe is refusing to be
rational. He's got a shirt off, he's wandering around town looking for fireworks
or whatever the hell it is that he's doing in that moment. And my
shoes they've never been the same, They've never been the same. I still
have them. They every time I put them on, they still squeak water
out of him. So you're ruined the man's shoes. Bruno's Yeah, I
will say this. We were in an argument, all of us were arguing,
and all you guys are white Sox fans, correct, And I'm the
only Cubs fan. It was sitting there. Ron wasn't there. So I've
only one We made a bet we did you remember? You remember the bet
and we're still holding to this. Yeah. The next team out of the
Cubs or White Sox to win the World Series, the other guy can't eat
pizza for one year, yeah yeah, or pizza related products. You can't
start getting an addiction like you can't have like Totino's pizza rolls, strombo.
Nothing right, basically nothing with red sauce is what you're saying. Right,
And so here's the thing. Ready, going into going into last year,
I was like, I like my chances as a White Sox. Well that's
what I was gonna say. What happened with that White Sox? Oh?
Well, you know when you have the crypt keeper for your manager, that's
that's for part of the problem. I mean, he's he was half dead
all season, and I mean it was just awful. That was such a
weird higher. That was such a weird high. Well it was you know,
he was the manager of the Sox in the mid eighties and they fired
fired him when they made Ken Harrilson the general manager. Ken Harrilson fired him
and then Ryan Storf, the owners eighty five and wanted to write or Wrong
and hired him thinking that they had a red carpet to the World Series because
they were supposed to have such a such a great team, and anybody could
manage that much talent asleep at the wheel. So here's a true story.
So the day that he walked Trey Turner with a one in two count with
two outs, Jack and I were at the game, and I was with
Pollock, as a matter of fact, in his nephew, and we're sitting
there and we're shooting the ship and I talking and Mike not paying attention.
All of a sudden, I see Turners on first. So I asked Jack,
I go, did he get hit? He goes, no, I
don't know what happened. I was like, well, there was a one
in two count last I look. Then the guy next to me says,
oh, he just walked him intentionally. I was like, what in the
fuck. So then the next guy comes up, he hits a three run
homer off of our shitty lefty Tanner Banks or whatever, Bennett Susa, whoever
the hell it was, and that was the ball game. I was like,
you gotta be kidding me, and then after the game, instead of
saying, yeah, this was my thought process, he doubled down on it
and said, well, everybody knows that he's such and such hitter with a
one in two count I go, he had the guy in the ropes the
two outs, what are you doing? And then I did again a couple
other times, and it was just mind boggling stupidity. His postgame press conferences
were really something to watch because it was literally like watching the angry old band
down your street in his robe, you know, trying to get you off
of his lawn and getting his paper in the morning. It was It was
awful. One of my best friends is a big White Sox fan, and
he was just, I mean, he talks so much shit coming into this
season, and I don't know a single person. I don't know a single
person was like, you know what, yeah, give him, give him
a break. I mean, Chicago White Sox stands are vicious. Well yeah,
but the other part of it too, is that the guy's an asshole,
right. I mean, he gets pulled over from Duy, he's drunk
as a skunk, he pounds wine. Everyone knows it. Everyone in the
city knows it, and he pulled aside. He's like, hey, I'm
a Hall of Famer. You gotta let me off the you know, like
you're nobody cares who you are, Like, you're an idiot if you're seven
somebody, right, you have more money than God, Take an uber,
hire a driver, hire me, you know, notings me more nuts than
that? Then if he's rich, right, I go. You could have
anybody drive you any But you have all the money in the world, you
know, have somebody drive you and you go off. I'm gonna fucking drive.
I'll tell you what. If I was his driver, we'd have like
a casino repeat. Man, let me tell you, like he's going down
if I was his driver, like, we're gonna make sure that nobody has
to see him again, you know. But now you know, now they're
talking around here like, oh you know Aziye and got an interviews like why
on earth would you revisit that? Oh god? But what do they think?
What are you doing? You know? Anybody, honestly, just about
anybody would be better the guy from Houston. A Spot is highly thought of
Dusty's right hand man. Maybe Dusty wins. He rides off into the sunset
and a spot a gets the astro's job. I don't know, but I
haven't really heard much scuttle butt up here about who's gonna get that job,
and I'm not thrilled with some of the names that I've heard. That's the
that's the only reason, right that I mean, I want the Philly to
lose. But other than that that you root for the Astros. It's just
for Dusty to finally to get and Dusty he's a great guy. Have you
guys ever met Dusty? No, But so, my brother is a liquor
distributor in Chicago, and he used to um, he used to um invite
us to dinners, so he'd they hired like Ozzie Gian and then they had
Dusty Baker come to their their like wine company dinners and whatnot. And so
a couple of times my brother actually got me invited to come and sit there.
And the idea was, don't say anything until someone talks to you.
These are for like people that are higher ups in the companies. But like
when you get an opportunity to talk, feel free. And so Ozzie was
great as you would imagine Ozzie think exactly what you would think. He was
like every other world out of his mouth is the F word. You know.
He speaks English actually much better than what people think he does. But
Dusty was so classy, you know, he had he brought out all of
his coaching staff with him along for the ride. He talked about playing with
Hank Aaron like, I mean, it was like talking to a living legend,
right, a guy who's an icon, and you couldn't help I'm a
Socks fan. I couldn't help but come away from that being impressed. I
was like, man, this guy really is a quality human being, nice
guy, and I'm rooting for him to Johnny, like, I would really
like to see if um, you know, I'd like to see him win
one. It would be really cool for him. He's been in it a
long time, you know, and he's never won one, has he?
No? Never? No, never never. I mean, yeah, he's
seventy three years old, he's been around the game for more than fifty years.
Still sporting the sweat bands on his arms too, and the toothpick and
the crazy athlete text gloves. I mean, could couldn't you get something like
designer like get it like an astro's logo or something on those those gloves?
I mean, what the fuck is they doing. Couldn't somebody just make him
like a cool eye, right, you know, make him superstitious. I
think he's superstitious. Well, I know he's old and he doesn't want to
get he doesn't want to get COVID. But I'm like, Jesus God,
it's an awful look. You know. Now I'm gonna I'm gonna thread with
with Mike and a couple of Miles and buddies from Chicago and you know,
Chris and everybody. And one thing that we always do put in crazy stats,
Like you know, you see a crazy stat, it always pops up
in that and you're the first one to pop that add up that this is
the first time since nineteen fifty that both World Series teams did not have an
African American player. That's insane. It is crazy. And and the first
thing that I thought of when Mike posted that was isn't it ironic? You
know? MLB marketing is so poorly done right MLB marketing, that you're not
getting kids in the inner cities that are playing baseball anymore. It just doesn't
happen. Like you drive through the neighborhoods where I grew up. There's no
places for these kids to play, and MLB does a horseshit job of marketing
that, Like why would you not look at like like they did the dairy
queen thing with Tim Anderson right now? I know Tim Anderson's a flawed guy,
right, but he's an African American guy, really talented player. Why
are we not marketing more of that around? You know, Like I don't
I just don't get it, Like I don't know why they're not sending those
guys into the cities and and and having them, you know, market the
game these kids are. We're losing kids to lacrosse, for Christ's sake.
I mean, lacrosse is a fine in sport. I don't mean it that
way, but like, we're losing a generation of kids. And then here's
a great idea. Then let's have the World Series at eight eight o'clock on
a Friday night so that no little kid can watch it after they've been at
school all week. They're passed out at nine o'clock. What are they?
What are they forgot? I forgot it was Well that's another thing. I
have a beef with the playoffs scheduling. I mean, you had the Braves,
the defending World Series champions, who are inexplicably five hundred on the season
in day games. I mean it's the less. They were actually worse than
five hundred in day games. Weird, Yeah, really weird. And it
was just true all season they were bad in day games. They didn't get
one primetime game they played every every game was scheduled for the day. They
had one game that the one that they won, was ended up being played
at night because of rain delay. But yeah, because because you got the
West coast, so you got people I'll play it, you know who were
supposed to take off work. I guess on a Tuesday to go at four
pm down to uh, you know, out not even in the city of
Atlanta anymore county. So it's yeah, I mean it's that I have a
real problem with their scheduling. When you're up against the Yankees, they're always
getting prime time, even in the prices, right, and and then what
do you have happened? Right, So then you've got a little kid who
might be interested in watching that game with their school or whatever. They're at
school and then they get home, they're doing homework. Meanwhile, they could
see Ronald Lacuna in primetime. They don't get to see him. They don't
even kids up here have never even heard of him, you know what I
mean. It's like, it's ridiculous. It's absolutely ridiculous. They've done more
to kill the game just by doing what they do and not really being open
minded to any of it than just about any other sport that I can think
of. Well, Man Manford's a you know, a glorified organized crime boss
really, I mean, he's when you hear all this shit he did during
the during the steroid era to crack down on that, Like, are you
familiar with the story of him going down to Florida and track down on that
a rod shit? I mean, he was just just grinder, a grinder,
just a real piece of shit down there, like a mechanic. I
don't even know. I mean, what would he like, a Coppo or
whatever? Yeah, a henchman, a bagman, right, yeah, yeah,
yeah that was. And now he's running the MLB just like that,
and when it needs actually a soft touch and somebody who's more of a marketer
because they owned that's because that's what the owners want though. They want him
to be their their bulldog, right They don't. They don't, They don't
want, They don't care about marketing. What do they care about? They
care about making money, They care about the money in their pockets. They
don't care about marketing the game. How many how many owners are there in
major leagues that are minority? How many owners are there in Major League Baseball
that are women? None? Some some owners aren't even a person, Like
the Braves, I mean they're owned by a Trump, I mean like a
stole, you know, publicly traded company, which is just a nightmare when
you want to spend money on baseball players having right right right. So like
they you know, they ended up they ended up working out for the Braves,
okay, right, losing Freeman ended up working out Okay, yeah,
okay, and I yeah, especially but he wanted he wanted to be back
there. Yeah. Yeah, he's sobbing at the All Star break because that's
such a weird that that's a whole situation was weird. I mean, he
was still crying. He was still crying a couple of weeks ago, and
he like he was putting out videos of his kids, like watching the Braves
and Braves jerseys in the in the like when in that Big Series against the
Mets. It was very It's just a very strange situation, that whole thing.
Yeah, I just, I guess I wouldn't feel like I had to
be too oil to anyone when I was making that kind of money. I
don't know, no me either, Yeah, but I just, I mean,
I guess, what are the comforts of home worth worth to you?
You know, I'm willing to up this whole thing of the of the nineteen
fifties. Not an African American on either World Series team? Is that?
If that ever happens in the NBA the NBA finals, there's no black people
on either team. I'll suck every dick in the world on YouTube on YouTube
for free, every dick in the world. You just sign up, let
me know what your time, You're gonna be there, and it's just lines
of them. You know what we need to do. We got to figure
out a way to like lock team in a room and drug him for like
the next six months and then ending, and then find a way to have
like you know, like Kurt Rambis and all these other white all these old
white guys playing and have him convinced that it's actually the twenty twenty two finals,
and then he's just like, a promise is a promise, man,
let me take off my dentures now. Yeah, you gotta make him think
he was in a coma for like twenty years or something like that dog situation.
Yeah, right, exactly, exactly, really give me the old give
me the old one too. Johnny's going now to say this because I know
Mike and I all three of us love all the same kind of music and
go to a lot of countries. Johnny's about to see Ryan Adams for the
first time. No One, the first time at all. We saw him
in a record store with Ambo. Yeah, we saw him in Amba,
and then I saw him once on a festival set. Yeah, but this
first time I've been in one of his shows. Yeah, which he's been
doing these three hours, like yeah, thirty plus thirty plus songs, yeah,
which I'm he just I sent you, Jason, did you listen to
that Soul Asylum cover he did, which is Ian Morning When you were You
Were Still one of the cheesiest, one of the cheesiest songs of the nineties
that he just turns into kind of uh, you know, it's a beautiful
little ballad. I really, really he's the best I love right now.
He's really he's really good at that stuff. You know, he was he
was playing the Chicago Theater the night that we had the championship game, and
so we we Katie and I had thought about going. Um, but you
know, I I think that's what he does really well. Like I when
he tries to do the rocking stuff, I I like that, But when
it's just him and the guitar, I really think that's his too. Yeah.
Yeah, I agree with that. And I'm glad that he's sober because
one I saw him one time, which I guess I can share here.
Um at the Riviera Ballroom in Chicago, and team is familiar with the rim.
I mean it's a bucket of riz. Yeah, it's a terrible place,
but a great place to see a show. And he was so drunk
the night that I saw him. It was him with an acoustic guitar and
a harmonica, and he had a record player on stage, and like every
third or fourth song, he would put a record on and he would just
play along with the record. Well and about so about halfway through the show,
he put on madonnad like a virgin and played like a verge like like
it was karaoke almost like he was playing the guitar and singing in the microphone
like a virgin, and people were getting up and leaving it with what does
doing? He was just he was he was annihilated. I mean, it
was probably it has to be fifteen years ago. My parents have this story.
They went to see Hank Williams junior one time in like a bar situation,
you know, a smaller maybe club, and he was so ship faced
he passed out on the stool and had to be carried off stage by by
security. That's remember remember Hank, Hank Williams had a plastic face because he
fell off the side of a mountain wasted. So like, I mean,
I mean it runs in the family. For sure. You're winning, You're
winning. Your dad died in the backseat of a car at twenty nine.
You know that's Jesus, Yeah, don't. We can't even talk about that.
The three of us together probably can't even touch Hank Williams at twenty nine.
Yeah, I mean he went as hard as anybody. Tepstis pretty hard,
thank you, especially especially when he thinks that he's gonna be able to
give somebody a blowjob later. Then he goes, really, he's really hard
done. You got you gotta get the taste out of your mouth before the
dick. That's my fucking move, you know what I mean. It's just
so you can't even taste the fucking cock. Bro, you got date nights
night? You said, Hey, yeah, I'd love to do the podcast,
but it's date night tonight. What does date night and tail? I
know your lovely wife, Please tell her? I said, Hi, what
are you guys doing? Where do you guys go? Well? Well,
date night for her involves getting the COVID booster yesterday and passing out in bed
as an hour ago. So, uh, we're gonna shift. We're gonna
shift the plan a little tibe. We're gonna we're gonna hit the Mooseladge,
me and the me and the boys, Get my, Get my two two
hours and a quarter PBRs. It's also um Halloween costume night at the Mooseladge
tonight, um, and the fish Fry is also this evening, So I'm
gonna make some bad food choices. I'm gonna have about eight to ten PBRs
and chill out a little bit, watch the World series and then when the
karaoke starts, I'll probably go someplace and smoke a cigar quietly and watch the
game because I can't. I can't be around people singing, you know,
dressing up as Johnny Cash at the Mouselage and the middle of Illinois thinking that
they're going to be discovered. That night, I got to watch the game
and have my cigar and chill out. Are they really taking it that serious
at these Yeah? No, listen, so what you gotta come up with,
Albert one night and we'll just go to it. You won't fucking believe
it. It's there are literally people that are dressed up and go in there
and like are belting like something like there's a talent agent there, you know,
And I'm like, hey, man, like somebody somebody got out.
This is great. There was a woman that got up there the other night,
white lady, probably in her middle fifties, who went up there and
did Tony Braxton unbreak my heart? And I was like, this isn't really
fucking happening again, right, like exactly right, and she is like on
her knees like belting out. I was like, we gotta find out who
hurt her, because we have to go kill that guy or that girl,
whoever it was. I was just like, but they are. So there's
a group of about ten or twenty of them, and unfortunately me and my
big mouth, I'm sitting there with one of the other coaches and we're watching
the game and we're making fun of these people, and like two of them
are sitting next to me. They look like Ghanis, you know, like
people that just like roll out of some hill somewhere that we're getting ready to
sing and taking turns. I mean, it was unbelievable. And there,
of course they're drinking water. They're not drinking. They don't have an excuse
like they're intoxicated or whatever. They just go out there and do it.
So then my buddy was like, hey, what song would you do right
now? And I was like, you know what, I think we gotta
take it down or notch. It's getting a little loud in here. There's
a lot of people doing like guns and roses a CDC. I'm like,
I'm gonna do Patrick Squazy. You know, she's like to win, because
why not. You know, like, if you're gonna do, you're right,
I got You're gonna do like some sort of Bobby McFerrin song, No,
no, No, She's like the wind turn, turn the screen off.
I know every word. We don't we don't need this, we don't
need to look at the words. Let's do it, you know. So
Luckily, luckily, I I talked out of it before I went up there
and did it. It's like, dude, if you do that, I
have to leave. I'm like, well, and yeah, it was pretty
funny, but yeah, i'd say the Mooselade is a crazy time like I've
been more like I've been drinking a long time, obviously, as we all
have, but I mean I've left their absolutely shit canned, like One Eye
Blind and the bills like twenty seven dollars. I'm like, how can that
even be? You know, It's like it doesn't make any sense, Like
nobody's keeping a real accurate ledger there, you know. Yeah? Yeah,
yeah, um was I just gonna say, oh, One Eye Blind is
a good cover band name? Yeah yeah, yeah, you just get hammered
and just do all Third eye Blind songs? Who would they? Who would
they be? Who would they be? A tribute to Third Eye Blind?
Oh? See that? Okay, so do you do you guys know Johnny
won't know this, but team do you remember the old radio disc jockey Kevin
Matthews. So yeah, right, So he used to do a game like
that where somebody would call in and they would say they would say stuff like
that, like, oh, I was you know, I was one Eye
Blind or whatever, and he would say I was in a band called one
Eye Blind and the guy behind him would say tribute to and he would come
up with something crazy and it was always really funny, so something. It
was always something really stupid like that, but it was it was a it
was a pretty good bit that they did back in the day in the eighties
when I was a kid. Yeah, radio's gone, uh, just such
an antiquated I mean, there's a lot of people are working in serious to
still doing what it's doing. But it's I mean anybody that's like, hey
man, let's turn on the radio and listen to music, right, you
know. I listened to the local NPR station here only because they had at
night when I get in the car, they have really good new independent rock
like they have that comes on like and that's the only place you can find
it. But that's it. That's it. Yeah, Yeah, something like
that. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, right, if you could turn on
to like new hit what the kids are listening to the exactly, that's exactly
what exactly. But even like even like XRT here anymore TEA Like it's not
it's not like cutting edge anymore like it used to be. You know,
it is the radio station. Actually I think it's the out of Westwood from
UCLA. I'm pretty sure that's the Oh yeah, yeah, yeah probably.
By the way, Ucla is good at football this year. The quarterbacks of
that quarterback is great. I kind of got a little crush on UC.
I mean, I hate Notre Dame. I hate USC. I just spise
Notre Dame two two and in Chicago they're just like everything. People just love
fucking Notre Dame in this area. I mean I get it here, but
I mean the Chicago people just are fucking nuts about Notre Dame. A lout
of the South Side Irish. I think, you know, that's a big
thing for them. You know, I don't get that they have they have
a kinship with it, right, So they there's this idea that Notre Dame
is this very Catholic, straight laced university, you know, um, and
that they espouse all these you know, good Catholic south Side values, and
I think the area that I went to high school and it's pretty staunch Irish
Catholic, you know, And so I think that that's part of the reason
why there's such a love affair with it and the reason why I disliked it.
Not even be nothing against Notre Dame. I don't. I don't care
anything about the university or the team and the people that play there. But
there were so many people that I disliked it were Notre Dame fans that I
just figured if there was that many people that I didn't like that were big
fans, I must really be sucky. Yeah, yeah, yeah. A
lot of times, like I don't have a real problem with the team,
I have a problem with their fan base. Well, like Johnny said about
the obnoxious fan bases, I mean I had I have a couple of friends
that are Yankees fans, and they're the most obnoxious and suffering people. They're
great people to talk to you about other things like music or whatever. You
start talking about the Yankees, it's like their birthright. I'm like, you're
not on the team, fuck face. The Red Sox are like the Red
Sox fans are that way too, man. It's it's just I guess probably
every team has fans that are like that. But I hate that when you
took on Turn of the radio, people are saying we we we You're not
You're not on the team, dude, Like he stopped saying that. I
hate that. Yeah, you know that. I've a term for that,
when you don't actually hate the team, but you hate the fan base that
and that causes you to hate the team. I call it the Dave Matthews
band effect. I mean when you make the same record for twenty five years
straight. I have nothing against Dave Matthews, man, I've nothing against their
music personally, but I hate that his fucking fan base. They're all like
Ambercrombie and Fitch, fucking dumb fox that can't handle their booze, and they
fucking if you ever go to a shower, you get your experience ruined by
these fucking wing nuts. Yeah you know. I mean, I'm sure the
Red Sox are great. I'm trying to have fun if I went to a
Red Sox game, but I am so sick of the ear beatings the Red
Sox fans give. You are the Patriot fans. Nothing I hate more than
haminy rings. Do you have fun? Are the same amount as you do?
Zero? Yeah? You have no fucking rings? Yeah? Right there,
sh right, yeah, you know you don't have a Super Bowl ring.
You don't have a fucking nothing. You know, It's so true,
It's so true. You know, the one the one place that I went
to. You know, I've been to a lot of different baseball stadiums and
the one place that I went to with the fans are genuinely great and don't
do any of that stuff as Pittsburgh U a beautiful stadium. I mean,
honestly my favorite stadium that I've ever been to baseball wise. It's a It's
a great place. Loved it. The ambiance there, m the bridges,
the fan base. They you know, Forbes Field, the place that they
played up in through the nineteen sixties, still has the walls that are there
on the Carnegie Mellon University campus. There really cool place like cool vibe,
and Pritsburgh's really kind of up and coming, honestly. I mean they got
a lot of really cool microbrews and great places to get sandwiches and stuff like
that. But the fans were like, hey, where are you from?
Like they were they were playing the Cubs that day when we were there.
Where are you from? Are your Cubs fan? No, I'm not a
Cubs fan. We're talking, but they know they're stuff. Man. They
were talking about seventy nine team and Willie Stargell and Dave Park are smoking,
and the dugout like just great, like really knowledgeable people who were not pretentious
at all. U And that was really cool. I had a similar experience
when we were in Denver, and I guess, you know, they've never
won anything either. I guess maybe that's why. But um, that was
That's a great place to see game too. I just love that city.
That whole state's beautiful. We went, you know, we went to Colorado
a couple of fucking months ago. It was I was just fucking blown away.
Yeah, fucking Colorado. I was blown away by how fucking beauty.
It looks like everywhere you look looks like a fucking postcarder and a graphic something.
Yeah, like you get deliver here and you can smoke pot and look
at all this shit. Yeah, it's something real. Speaking of smoking potter
heard you ran out of your fucking banana bread shit. Oh yeah, no,
the banana bread lady died what So yeah, the Muselage, there was
a woman that used to walk around. Johnny has no idea what we're talking
about. So at the Mooseladge, this is a funny story. So,
um, mouselage has older folks that they catered to, cheap food, cheap
drinks, um and and around here. It's sort of about five or six
years ago. It kind of became like people in my age group in their
mid forties to you know, um hang out there. It was a nice
cheap places to go and usually the wives don't like going there, you know,
so it's a really great place to go for that reason. So so
this old lady who would come in and she'd be she'd be walking around like
she'd make like zucchini bread or banana bread or whatever and she would offer it
to you. So one night, Tea Disert and I were in there,
and this was probably five or six years ago, and we were still pretty
much in our game at that point, and he's like, if this woman
comes around here one more time to offer me a piece of this fucking bread,
I'm gonna kill I'm gonna kill somebody. And I was like, well,
let's not kill her. I mean, she's like ninety or whatever.
So he every time we went in there, he would give her twenty bucks.
He's like, can I just buy the whole thing? And he'd take
it. He bought it, he took it, he threw it in a
garbage camp, gave her twenty bucks and said, here, give this to
the children, a moose hard or whatever. Like you know, you know
how, you know how he is better than I do, even right team,
So like that's how Jeff is. But here's a funny story. So
on my way home. One of the reason I like to mouseids because I
can stop it on my way home. I have a couple of beers real
quick or I got to get home to the kids and do whatever it is
I'm doing. So I walk in there, like on a Thursday afternoon in
the middle of summer last summer, and it's a pretty big bar. He
loops around, you know, probably probably forty or fifty seats around the bar,
and I walk in and there's these two old women, old old women
sitting there drinking Miller light out of the tap and they're down at the end
of the bar and me, that's it. And the bartender that's it.
There's only three people in the plaff and they're talking about it being one of
their birthdays. So I tell them at the muselage what you can do is
you can buy coins. You don't buy drinks, Like you don't go over
and say I'm gonna buy you a drink. You get them a coin.
And then the bartender goes to his m a coin and says, hey,
the guy down Tienne there wants to buy you a drink. Whatever you're drinking,
he'll pay for it. So they're drinking a Miller light. I'm a
big spender, right, probably costs me five bucks. I'm like, I'm
gonna buy her a drink for her birthday. It turns out she was ninety.
So there's the two women down there, one of them is ninety,
one of them is probably not far behind or whatever. I buy him a
drink and they waved me and then they waved me over. Oh shit.
So I go over there and I'm like, I'm the fuck right right.
So I'm like, okay, what's this all about? It like go and
sit over there, and she's just like, what's your name? And I
said, all my name is Mike. She's like, Mike, thanks for
the drink. That's really nice of you to do that. I go,
oh, you're welcome. I said, how's your day going? All my
day's going great. I'm really happy to be ninety blah blah blah whatever.
She goes. By the way, I just wanted to tell you something.
That's why I told you to come over. Just because you bought me a
drink doesn't mean I'm gonna sleep with you. And I swear to god I
did not bet an eyelash. It's one of those moments, you know,
how do you have those moments where like, later on you're like, oh,
wish I would have said that. This is one of those times where
I had it right in my pocket and I was like, guys, pulled
it out and I go, well, I didn't know that that was on
the table. If I had known it was on the table, I would
have bought you a stronger drink. It was pretty funny. It's a good
good time though. It's a cool place to hang out. Really, did
you guys see that this scumbag of all scumbags, this guy is the Kanye
West of the NFL, and Nio Brown is now selling t shirts of him
hugging Giselle. I mean, all he does is troll Tom Brady And now
you look it up online, he's trolling Tom Brady and selling pictures of him
and of Antonio Brown and Giselle. Oh my god, you have to be
kiddy. I gotta look this up. And he just got shoot for like
a million five. Antonio Brown's bizarre reasoning behind roasting Tom Brady with Giselle T
shirt? What is his bizarre reasoning? Oh that's crazy. I'm looking at
it on my phone here, okay, well here's I'm gonna read. I'm
gonna play. We're gonna play his like explanation of it here, which is
apparently, Uh, he really is the Kanye West of the NFL. He's
just strange, dude, He's so strange. Ask the question, Hey,
you play with this guy. This guy had your back. What happened between
the two of you guys, that's a that's a sincere question. What happened?
This is a guy I wrote what he said when you guys were done.
I'm sure you saw it, he says. Obviously, it's a difficult
situation. We all want him, everybody should find to help him do what
they can to help him in ways he really needs it. We all love
him, we care about him deeply. We want to see him be at
his best. Unfortunately it won't be with our team. We have a lot
of friendships that will last. Most important about football is a relationship with your
friends and teammates. They go beyond the field. I think everyone should be
very compassionate and pathetic. Some very difficult things are happening. So you know,
you know what he didn't do. Not once did he throw you under
the bus. How is he gonna tell me under the bus? But how
would you tell me under the bus? How? But but what I'm saying
is it's not how, It's not how. You know how, it's but
but but you did there the scar that hurts the most here, He's got
a scar that's massive. It's this big, and it's his wife and you
put salt all over it. That is that is a woman. He's got
kids with. Man, that's gonna that's gonna hurt if they did my mother
and my kids out too. Everyone. But he never did that to you.
But Brady didn't do that too. Bro, Brady had your back.
But Brady had your back the entire time. Brady was all in love with
you. Brady went that bad for you? I mean, how many Trady's
shirt to raise money for the fatherless kids. It's raising money for fatherless kids.
But even I'm saying, now, that's it did It's a real moment
that happened at the studio, at the game play the video it did.
Because you don't understand that. You're trying to make me rationalize and why are
you want why to tell you what it's going on? Like? What?
What did it? What do you mean? I'm not smashing this girl.
I don't know his car. Where I'm going something? What you just saying?
Okay, where I'm going? All right? Where I'm going? Where
I'm going? It's a T shirt that raised money from a real mom that
happened. How is this a reach? It says booming on it because they're
going through the voice. People go through stuff every day. Man, Yeah,
exactly what about me when I'm on the news for I'm crazy some happening
orders that's crazy. He is crazy and white. He's great. I have
two words for I have two words for you. Mood stabilizer. Let's let's
get one here, buddy, He's weird. He's lost it. This guy
speaking of lost it, Brady, I mean, is it over? What
are we looking at here? He looks like he's lost about fifteen pounds,
twenty pounds. Maybe he doesn't do any weight training anymore. I love it
from the look of it. I mean, if he if he if he
wants, if he's worried about keeping his weight up, he could hang around
with me for a couple of weeks. We'll get him right back to where
he was. I mean, they're so bad this year that it's great.
The Falcons and the Panthers are playing on Sunday for first place. The Panthers
are two and five. If they win Sunday, they'll be tied. I
don't I mean p J Walkers, the quarterback, how I don't want to
bet on anything. I guarantee he throws the ball more than fucking Mariota.
Mariota through fourteen more passes then fucking you did last week, and Johnny and
you can't. It's two guys that they don't trust to throw the ball much.
I mean, that's what you got coming up here. It's uh and
yet they are competing to be the best. The king of the NFC South
this year. At least, at least they're not the Bears. Worst division
in football NFC South Falls. Oh absolutely, it seems that way, of
course. Yeah, I mean it definitely, Yet team in there has a
winning record. We're trying to tank. No, dude, we're two and
five and if we beat you guys, we'll both be tied at three and
five and we'll be three and o in the division, so we'll be in
first place. That's crazy. With the losing record. There's something nice to
be said though, I mean to your point that you guys are making.
You don't want to see people get injured. You don't want to see people's
career come to a close because of some people. But like, it's really
nice to see Rogers and Brady struggle. It's their pomposity. It. Karma
is a bitch. She will come back and she will bite you. And
if you think that if you're gonna be able to play and brag abound playing,
I'm gonna play it on forty five. I'm gonna play it on fifty.
Human beings aren't then to play professional sports at that age anymore. Man
Like, they're gonna get you. Someone's gonna get you. And you don't
want to see get hurt. I think he I think he finally didn't getting
He wasn't all in. He clearly didn't have both feet in, you know
what I mean? Like that, that just shows you even I mean,
it shows you how much talent he had that he could do it this this
far, you know, at this age to begin with. But it also
shows you that if you did just lack the little bit of edge, I
mean, it just all goes it all goes on. It's a great point
because he's clearly distracted. I mean, and and he can't either, you
can't know. That's why, It's why it's why Baker was so bad,
is because they spent so much time dicking around about how much of their sal
his salary they were gonna pick up that he missed all of training camp happened
and barely had time to learn the place. Yeah, so yeah, I
mean it's yeah, but Brady, Yeah, I mean, what do you
think now? Will he say so the divorce happens, he feels like that's
done. Is he gonna want to go out like this? Do you think
he's gonna try again? Will anybody high or will anybody have him back?
Because he's the kind of guy. Does he want to go out like this?
You know what I mean? Well, he's not gonna be one of
those kind of guys. It's gonna take a fucking uh, you know,
five million dollar contract to maybe be a backup and earn a starting. He
like to be a starter. Yeah, So who the fuck is gonna pay
him thirty million dollars for one fucking year HB injury. He's gotta wait for
an injury something yards Yeah, I was wondering if maybe that's what happens here.
You know, you get the phantom injury, he has to hang it
up, you know, he's done, and then he goes into the booth
and makes fifty million dollars a year. You think that. I don't think
anybody's gonna be up to booth. I mean, but what but here.
The thing that I think that's interesting about Brady is like I don't think he
knows how to quit, Like I don't think he knows how to walk away
from it. So like I could totally see him, now that he's not
married anymore, I could totally see him going into the booth and being great
at it, Like I think he'd be really good at it um, but
you know, he doesn't know how to go. It's the same thing that
happened with Jordan. They just don't want to They don't they don't know when
to stop. There's such competitors, they don't know when to make it be
done. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I don't know the sooner he's
out of the NFL that have your which Lebron? You're seeing Lebron fall apart?
Yeah, he stink, they stink. That's pretty wild, Hulks.
I don't think anybody saw that coming. I'm not a big basketball guy,
but I didn't see that coming nothing. Five sure as shit not. Yeah.
And then it's funny. You got all their fans talking about all the
guys they need to trade for. They just have no concept of you know,
well you have to have something to offer. They're like, yeah,
we'll send Westbrook and get Terry Roads year back and we're like, you know
it's Horns and we're like, uh no, nobody wants Westbrook on their team.
No, thank you, he's the cancer. Nobody wants them. It's
so funny. It's they're just used to tampering and you know, having Lebron
James basically be their gm that they think they can do whatever they want.
But yeah, it's a they're they're in for a rough ride and it couldn't
happen to a better, a more deserving bunch of h speaking of old people.
No, wrapped us up pretty soon here, Johnny, Are you have
any attists or are you watching? I know Mike in not a huge combat
sports guy, but you got this, uh Anderson Silva fucking Paul brother.
Oh the Paul thing? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm I'm
gonna check that out for sure. That's about three hours. It's the best
fight. That's the best person he's fought by far. Would you say,
oh, he does is fight forty five year old retired people, But this
is the best person, right, Don't you think this is the best person
he's fought though, by far? Yeah? Yeah, I do. This
is the probably whatever the odds are, and you can go to our good
friends in my bookie dot com use a code PTS and they'll double whatever you
put in. That's great up to two thousand dollars. But I really want
to see somebody beat Paul, Johnny, did you see the Footaul is a
big favorite? Actually? Uh? Minus two forty. He's going off.
You got one hundred pounds on the fucking guy. He really and twenty years
many pounds, ten years and thirty pounds or something. But uh, did
you see the footage of Paul getting his fucking world rock sparring? No?
By who who did it? Look it up? Look at it. It's
a great Johnny. This guy gets so fucking wobbly. Throw the R word
in whatever you want to do. He gets fucking knocked crooked. Wait wait
now, are you talking about Silver or Paul? They got Paul I loved
Hassim Rockman junior. He takes an overhand right. I'm just gonna pull up
here. You tell me what it's an overhand right and he kind of walks
towards the camera. Tell me what I'm looking for. I got in with
I seem rock band junior. Here. Uh, they're talking about Anderson Silva
getting kote and training. No, he did get knocked out, and they
were a little worried about having the fight go on. But Silva got fucking
I mean, uh, Paul sparring. I'll note if I fucking see it,
it's kind of Jake. Paul knocked it knocked the fuck out sparring.
Is this it? This is him knocking? I mean he gets super here
we go. This might be it? Right, guys should like to subscribe
here fans of Jake Paul or Tying Wood. This is from year ago.
Now that's not I'll find it. I'll find it in sent you, Okay,
I mean this is this guy is highly susceptible to an overhand right because
he gets completely cuckoo for cocoa puffs. Actually wait to see him go down
walk and they just immediately stop everything. It's but I mean, I'll be
Now there's an NFL guy fighting an MMA guy on there on the card.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, who is it? It's the next running back?
Hold on, check it out. It's like one of them, maybe
the second fight. It's not even like one of the co names or anything
like that that I'm interested in too. Uh. Let me see if I
recognize anything's name. It's a running back. Oh, Leon Bell's fighting your
Ryah Hall. Wow, that's your Rya Hall. Oh wow. Levian Bell
is probably gonna get killed. That's that's that's interesting. Levon Bell fighting it's
his first ever fight going again, he's fighting your Ryall's so funny. And
they're probably about the same height, same weight. But I think Levan that
was a dead man. What do you think it is? These guys just
think they can do anything right, notorious prick. These are guys though that
they've been able to do anything they wanted their entire lives, so they think,
obviously I can beat people's ass in the ring too. Oh yeah,
one hundred million billion percent. Yeah, I'm excited. That's my fucking plants.
And I watched little World Series. Maybe I'll meet you at the Moose
Lodge and then I'm going to uh and watch these nights. I'm gonna watch
a world series, watch these fights. There's no real college football on tonight
man Penn State almost, I'm sorry. What there is? The University of
North Carolina rank number twenty two in the country taking on Pittsburgh for the for
the Coastal Crown. Essentially, we'll win the Coastal Division basically if we uh,
if we win that game. So I've never seen any time. Maybe
my love for the sweet sweet sweetness of of young Wick, who the second
to that for man crushes and someone that's got a boner for another man's Johnny's
loved for this quarterback at Carolina. Oh he's so good. Oh he dude,
he'll be the he'll be the number one quarterback in two years. Absolutely.
He's a freshman, but he's I mean he's a freshman. He's got
the best stats in football right now. That's awesome. Yeah, he's great.
You love Drake May's the guy's name. He remember Luke May that got
hit that shot in the to Saint Kentucky home a few years ago in the
tournament. Yeah, it's his it's his little brother. Ah. Interesting,
okay, Yeah, And he's great, he's great. He was committed to
Alabama, changed his mind, came to North Carolina when they when Alabama brought
in the kid that's there. Now, what's his name? You know,
I'm talking about their quarterback right now. Uh And and he's uh yeah,
he's everything. He's all world best quarterback I've ever seen. M Yeah,
I mean he's already. I mean he's yeah. And Sam Howe when we
had Sam Howe and we had Trubisky and you know, we've had some people.
Don't say that again, but I mean they were good college quarterbacks,
you know, like solid college quarterbacks. And he's far better than than either.
Oh. Yeah, uh huh. Nobody's a guy. Come on.
Yeah, although I mean poor Bears fans, I mean Fields, Jesus,
I can't throw well. They you know, they did alter the game plan
last weekend, and it was pretty interesting to see how they did that.
I mean, they obviously took some plays out of Great Romans Lamar Jackson playbook
and did some runs and Um and design runs for Fields that opened up a
little bit of the passings for him. He's made some adjustments. I mean,
they beat the crap out of the Patriots. I know that the Patriots
are pretty bad. I thought they were going to be far better than the
Bears, though, and the Bears finally getting Mooney the ball too. That's
that's important for my fantasy. Yeah, for sure, he's a good receiver
well, and he's a little bit miscast as a number one on that team.
Probably better off as a slot guy probably, But um, Fields is
showing some some progress. I mean, obviously not as fast as what anybody
would want it to be here, but um you know, he tends to
hold out of the ball too long and be indecisive, and I think anything
that they can do to help him facilitate that and make it a little bit
quicker decision making for him is probably going to be helpful. Jason, we
were talking about how weird a year this is for quarterbacks, right, Remember
you were running down the same this is the craziest year for quarterbacks. So
I can ever remember, I can ever remember you had all the drama and
Carolina with you guys having every quarterback, and now they're all on the bench.
For p J. Walker, a guy who was there the whole time.
He was there the whole months, six months of hearing where Garoppolo is
going to go? He goes nowhere what's his name? And Wilson goes to
Denver and shits the beat. Aaron Rodgers and Tom Brady are shiitting the bed
now Brady's going through this divorce. I mean, it's the craziest fucking year
for quarterbacks. And then you got Geno Smith. I mean, like,
if I told you to Gino Smith, PJ Walker, and fucking uh,
you know, all these guys would be the best quarterbacks in the NFL,
you'd be like, you would have bet me anything. That's J Walker.
I mean, he had one good week. Let's let's not get carried away
here. I'm just saying if I, okay, if I would have told
you in August, hey, with everything that's going on in Carolina, Oh,
don't forget about the fucking hand job prince in fucking Cleveland all that.
Yeah, of course, yeah, I mean, I mean that's still ongoing.
But if I told you in August, p J. Walker's your starter,
you would have done you would have taken any bet. Well, dude,
an ESPN did this big story this week about, uh, the whole
how everything went down in Carolina with the quarterbacks, you know, and just
kind of went through each quarterback that they read that you sent that to me.
It's so interesting as a Carolina fan because apparently a lot of the front
office was sold on Justin Herbert and trading up for him, and they had
a great relationship with Dave Kettelman, you know, the former GM. They
could have jumped, they could have jumped the charters and gotten him pretty easily.
But it sounds like Matt Rule, who made series a series. I
mean, just one bad decision after the other with respect the quarterbacks. Uh
didn't want to waste the draft capital. H So we could be having I
mean, it could be Justin Herbert and we're not worried about this at all
right now. And yeah, it's it's I mean, it's just a nightmare
if you read through it. Matt Rule then was sold on Darnold and kind
of forced that down managements throughout. I mean, he went to Fitterer.
It's like Arnold, Darnold, Darnold and they said that his management styled Matt
Rules is to just grind the owner and grind the GM until they are on
the same page. Uh. And so you know he did the same thing
with Mayfield. He was sold on Baker and and now he's gone. So
good. Glad, glad, glad to see it. Bye bye. Yeah,
I mean that you can tell it. You can tell us the head
coach, because immediately they're playing better. I mean they're playing better immediately after
he left. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. I mean. Oh,
by the way, I hate to say this to you, Mike, but
I'm i'm I'm I'm taking the Cowboys in my fourteen parlay guys, but I
think you guys are in trouble this week. Oh the Bears, the Bears.
Yeah, defense, that defense with your offensive line. This was what
I was saying. This is my impression of his fields in the huddle.
This is what he calls every play. Okay, run from my life on
three break. How was Prescott last week? I didn't see I didn't see
much of that. Rusty Yeah, serviceability, rusty serviceable. Rush was his
first game back, right, that was his first game back. That defense
just saves his ass every fucking time. You got you guys want to run
the lines? What's that? Do you got time to run through the lines
real quick? And run through the lines for Panthers Falcons? That's uh,
Falcons going off by minus four, their favorite PA. I like Falcons,
and I and and I'll tell you I got a fourteen parlay for everybody,
and we'll go over the code here in a second for for my bookie.
But the Falcons are in my fourteen parlay. I like the Falcons to win
that game by about maybe nine. Okay, all right, I yeah,
I mean shit, I don't have a strong feeling about that game. Honestly,
I think you're probably right. I can't. I just can't trust p
J. Walker, the guys. I've seen him be bad so many times.
Well, I like the under that it's over Runner forty one. You
like the under on that Okay, if the over under on that was nine,
I still like the under. Okay, okay, um, you got
you gotta pick for us, Michel Oh, I have no idea, no,
okay, Who's who's playing? What do you We got Panthers, Falcons,
Panthers Falcon. Atlanta's favored by four. Man, I would I would
hope if the Atlanta could win that game. Jesus, yeah, real,
I mean the two and five team that's trying to tank, desperately trying to
tank. Uh. We got a six thirty am game for me here on
the West Coast, Broncos and Jags. That's in London. Jacksonville's favored by
two and a half. There. I like Jacksonville on that day. Again,
this is the return of Russell Wilson, so we'll see what he can
do after two weeks off. But does anybody care? Nobody care? I
mean that we're sending to two two and five teams to England. How does
that get a break? England can't get a break in Thursday night? Right
that in Thursday Night. They've just been getting the worst games, awful,
the worst games. Um, okay, Then we got the Bears in the
Cowboys Dallas favored by ten shit, dam yeah, I might take I might
take the Bears there actually to cover you know, well, they don't get
blown out, man, I mean honestly, other than the one game that
they've played this year, they keep everything pretty close. Just traded one of
your better defensive lineman, correct, and that's gonna hurt tomorrow night. Well
we didn't even talk about McCaffrey. Yeah, I mean that had to be
done. Yeah, I don't think. I don't think the Bears are gonna
win that game, but I think that they could cover that spread. I'll
take the Bears in the points. Yeah, I mean too. Okay,
Dolphins Lions the one single win. Lions Miami's favorite only by three and a
half. Though, I'll take Miami. Yeah, me too easily. I
think Cardinals going to Minnesota. Minnesota's favored by three and a half. There.
I'm taking Minnesota all day, no one, Hey, I will too.
Yeah. The Cardinals are just really dysfunctional. Yeah. Yeah. Mary's
another guy that if you told me, you know, a year or two
years ago, that he was going to be this what he is now,
I would I'd be shocked. I thought he was gonna be maybe top five
quarterback in the NFL. Yeah, I think he's got that RG three syndrome.
You win Rookie of the Year. It's too little. You play violent
and you're little. It's tough. That's tough, all right. We got
Raiders going to New Orleans. Uh, Vegas only favored by one and a
half. Here. I'll take Raiders on that. Yeah, shambles. They're
banged up and I can't playing quarterback. Is it Dalton again? Quarterback?
Who? I think? I thought Dalton was starting tomorrow. Then that means
take whoever they're playing against. H We got Pats traveling to New Jersey to
play the Jets. Uh. New England's favored by two and a half heres
on that, Yeah, I would too. I was shocked at how bad
New England was last week. I didn't know if they were that bad.
That's a weird line to me. Two and a half there. Oh yeah,
I think you guys are right. But something that's fishy about that two
and a half points. Um. Uh, Steelers going to the Eagles.
Eagles are favored by eleven. That's a boy they run. I still take
the Eagles. Yeah, me too, Although that kids look pretty good.
I mean, you know, although you, I mean shit him or true
biscuit. You could flip a coin on who's gonna be better. I think
right now, please stop saying his name. Yeah Mitch Mitchell, Mitch uh
okay, Titan's going to play the Texans. Wow, that's an even,
that's a that's a pick them. You know why, because the rookie is
starting. Oh wait for the for the Titans. I mean, the Colts
just fucking bench Matt Ryan and now they got and that's another quarterback. Crazy
thing. Who saw Matt Ryan getting bench for the rest of his Yeah of
course, yeah, I mean but off my field. So they so it's
two crazy quarterbacks going. The Colts got this guy that's never played before and
uh, well no, it's Tennessee though, Tennessee. Tennessee's got the rookie
going, Um wait, who's at quarterback? That one guy, Tanneh Hills
hurters. Oh he's okay, he's hurt, Yeah okay, yeah, mister
rookie that they got that everybody was so sexy after the guy from that small
school Liberty. Oh yeah yeah, Malik Willis Relie Quillis is starting. So
I think they just go, hey, man, we don't know what to
do with this. You got two quarterbacks that have barely played in the NFL.
To you, I'm taking the Titans, and I take i am as
well. I just gotta trust that they know what to do with that.
N out. Um Commanders going to the Colts. Uh, Indies favor by
three? Um, boy, I'll take Washington. Yeah, I think I
would do that too. Yeah. They've been Boy, they've been gritty,
haven't they. They've been in everything. They're another team has kind of been
there. Washington just kind of Yeah, it's Taylor. Taylor's healthy, right,
he'll be play's healthy. Um Niner is going to play the Rams another
even game here, picking Wow, I'll take the Rams. I'll take the
Niners because they own the Rams and I this is the crazy thing about LA
sports is the Rams are practicing on a silent count all week for a home
game. Oh, it's gonna be it's gonna be some mainy Niners fans there.
That's interest er fans for the in Los Angeles. Dude, I was
surprised. We went to see the Panthers play a couple of weeks ago,
and uh, you know when the game with Robbie Anderson lost his mind on
the sideline, which yeah, and and there were a ton of Panthers fans
there, a ton of Panthers fans. I guess that place is just always
gonna be, you know, a good percentage visitors. Um, we got
Giants at Seahawks. Seahawks getting three I mean sorry, giving three points there,
six and one Giants going to four and three Seahawks in there. I've
bet against the Giants every week, and every week they'd bite me, and
uh, you know what, I'll go, Giants. Is there an injury
there? We don't know, but that's a weird. That's weird. Respect
giants who because there is an injury. Well, the Jet I think DK
Metcalf might be out. Well he's questionable, that's what they're saying. Lockett
is also, of course questionable. Yeah but no, but I'm expecting the
Giants to be favorite. Seattle's favored by three. It's at Seattle, right,
Yeah, But I mean the Giants are six and one, dude,
they're three and o on the road. Yeah. But are there any good
yeah? I mean Daniel been okay, Okay, I just thought I have
no idea how good they are. Yeah, the Giants aren't getting any respect,
though, this feels like one of those games where they maybe they take
it personally and and do something. By the way, I just want to
say, there's another situation Stafford, like weird quarterback thing, like who saw
him not being I mean he's been Panthers. He was so bad, I
mean, like a different guy. It's been really odd. Yeah. And
then okay, we got the last two here. Uh, Packers at Bills.
Bills are favored by ten and a half points, playing the past point
they kill, the Packers kill Green Bay. Mike's a big packer guy,
Mike Rogers suffer. Please, I got Bills on that. I think the
Bills are gonna Steamer. I hope, God, I hope. So they're
all packers of garbage. This does seem This does feel like the game though,
where like if Rogers is gonna turn it around, he kind of finally
draws the line in the sand and figures it out. He needs to do
it this week if he has to. Yeah, it has to because it'll
be slipping away from them if they don't. Okay, and then finally we
got the big rivalry game here or the Bengals playing at the Browns. Uh,
Bengals are favored by three in Cleveland. Did the Browns still play?
Yeah, you're right, no, Jamar Chase, that's right. Yeah,
I still take the Bengals too. Yeah. Is there a more hapless franchise
than any sport than the Browns? It's so sad. Yeah, and the
Browns are also missing. And Joeku I forgot about that. He's a good
tight end. Uh yeah, they're they're fucked all right. That's it.
That's it for football. That's it for football. That's it for the podcast.
Mike Harter, thank you so much. Everybody go and how how what
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