KFC Radio - CCK Podcast: Double Cuncel

Episode Date: August 3, 2020

KFC has officially concel'd the Mets, Jared has kinda cuncel'd the Red Sox. Kayce has 3 cults. Calls from Pittsburgh and Buffalo arguing over who suffers more as a fan. THe weirdest bar fight ever. The Rocket's new apartment.You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/kfcr

Hey, KFC Radio listeners, you can find every episode of KFC Radio on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. Kevin! Kevin! Kevin! Kevin! Oh. Kevin! You're just ridiculously stupid. Welcome back! Welcome back! Welcome back! Welcome! Welcome! Welcome! Is this Kevin? Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back. Welcome, welcome, welcome.

Is this Kevin? Welcome back. Oh, yeah, man, how you doing? You good? I know you like that. I know you like that. How long you been back? Welcome, welcome, welcome.

I see the girls in the club, they're getting wild. Welcome back to the winner's side of things, Rocket. The Red Sox take one from the Mets last night. More Phillies have COVID. Joe Kelly suspended. We got a million different places to go. And of course, Casey Smith joins us as well. Rocker, I'll let you take it from the launching pad.

Where do you want to go, babe? Well, here's the thing, Kevin. The whole thing about the Red Sox going up against Jacob De Grom, and you can probably relate to this more than anyone. Is it weird that that was the game that I had the most confidence in the Red Sox winning? No, because if you know anything, I don't, I don't know exactly your, exactly your reasoning there, but for me, it was, they don't score runs for Jacob. I wasn't sure how well known that quite is around the rest of the league, but yeah,

I could have told you that we would have won the fucking grab bag games. And then DeGrom comes out here, the bats go silent. He stutters for like one inning. I mean, watching DeGrom throw two wild pitches, give up a couple of doubles and score two runs is like, I didn't know.

I immediately was like, he must be injured. He's doing this on purpose. There has to be an explanation he's that fucking good that even just a little bit of a hiccup makes you wonder like what the fuck is going on but that's what happens that's that's Mets life and

Clem hit us with the stats today it's something like over his last 60 something starts he has a 2.01 ERA and he is like 27 and you know 33 or whatever the numbers are there. And I mean, it's a crime because I think he's done enough in his early career that despite it being like a lost relic, you could talk about him getting to 300 wins.

You could talk about him setting records. You could talk about him doing single season records and all the shit. And instead, he's just like the no decision king. It's, it's, it's a fucking disgusting tragedy. It's something that has happened so often that I'm starting to think it can't just be chance. And that it means the bats go out there and they do something different

because they have Jake on the mound. Logic would dictate that it would be easier. You'd go out there and you'd be loose and you'd score more because you have an ace on the mound, but I don't know. It's fucking disgusting. And the fact that I now know that even the, the opposition, the fans are like licking their chops to get to the DeGrom game is,

is very disheartening. Fuck you. I don't know that I was necessarily licking my chops. And I said this on starting nine, we just did that like an hour ago and Dallas doesn't believe me. Maybe you'll believe me. I don't know. But I,

I'm not emotionally invested in this 2020 Red Sox season. Like I'm not. So like if they, if they win, it's like, cool. Like, you know, it's, it's good to have some fodder for the podcast. If they lose, it doesn't, it doesn't hurt me. Like I'm already like, I guess you consult. Yeah. Yeah. Like I I'm not, I'm not emotionally invested. And it's not like, if you're listening to this, you might be like, oh wow, way to give up on your team after one week. That's not what this is. The Red Sox traded their best player and they lost their best pitcher and their second best pitcher and didn't replace them. Like the team told you, Hey, we're not trying this year. And I guess if there was anything that I am counseling, it's the idea that they could have

resented the fact that no one thought that they were going to do anything and they would have become the Cinderella story because the offense is still good. It's just that the starting rotation, like you could be in there with your fucking 16 shoulder surgeries. Like you, you have a chance to play for the Red Sox if you really wanted to. And that's why I can't get emotionally invested in this team is because if they're not trying, why should I care? Right. I mean, it's like if the if the team is going to kind of wave the white flag, give up on a season and start to gear up for the future in whatever plan they have, whether you agree or disagree with it, you know, that's what they're doing.

You as a fan have the right to do the same thing. I don't think there's anything. I think and I mean, you're talking to a Mets fan, we got Casey who's an Aggies fan, I think there needs to be like a shift, a paradigm shift in the world of being a fan. Because it doesn't make any sense the way we currently do it. Take all the bad and if you even waver or protect yourself from it in any way or voice your displeasure, you're now fair weather. You're not a real fan. It's kind of fucking crazy. And I'm not talking – I know there's pink hats. I know there's fair weather. I know there are fake fans.

I know that there's a lot of people who jump on bandwagons, the whole nine. But for the regular fans who actually are real fans, I do think that there needs to be some sort of course correction on what's actually expected from your fan base. Because if you repeatedly do shit, or in this case with the Red Sox, where it's like, we know what you're doing, we see what you're doing, and winning is not priority right now, well then, I'm going to treat you accordingly, and that doesn't make me a bad fan. Casey should be able to say, fuck the aggies this year this is ridiculous but you know god

forbid the a&m message board would go crazy or something i mean kevin that's why i'll never cancel you're getting canceled because you don't defend the fucking loser fucking yelling men i will well i will say that that was apparently was a a vocal minority because i did check with some of my normal aggie friends and they were like, yeah, that's not actually happening. But Jared, I didn't even tell you this. Like I got the angriest DM of all time yesterday because people were saying that Aggies have stopped listening to unnecessary roughness because I don't defend A&M hard enough against Brandon Walker when he makes fun of some of our traditions. I'm like, hey, guys, our traditions are cool to us because we went there. They're kind of weird on the outside.

But he said many Aggies have stopped listening. And let me tell you, I cared a whole fucking lot. Many Aggies. Many Aggies. Many Aggies. Many Aggies. I've heard this forever. I should be able to say things are weird.

Yes. I love Texas A&M. They do it wrong. I love it. I love going to school there. You're also 31 years old so it's like if you were fresh out of college and like you're still kind of ingrained in that society and that still feel the effects of the kool-aid you know yeah like you're as much as i know aggies love

their culture and to have that sense of pride like you're known for like the barstool cult more than the, the Aggies cult now. So like, you should be able to say, yeah, I went there and we do these weird things. And it's so crazy that I was a part of it, but like, that was so long ago now, like it's, you're on a different team. You got traded. No, I, no, I'm on, I'm on three teams. I'm on barstool and I'm on A&M and I'm on Hillsong. We all know that we can just keep the jokes. I'm on, I'm on three teams. I'm on Barstool and I'm on A&M and I'm on Hillsong. We all know that we can just keep the jokes. I'm my, my three Colts. Um, but I, I, my thing is like, I, like Kevin just said, you as a true fan of whatever team you should be able to be self-deprecating enough and be like, listen, sometimes shit is bad. Sometimes she was weird. I don't regret going to

A&M at all. Even though I understand some things that we do there are weird. I love Texas A&M. I love the traditions there. It is okay to say they look fucking weird from the outside. It is okay to say that team stinks. And let me tell you, the guy that was mad at me that sent me like a fucking Dickens novel yesterday is like 60-something years old. So it doesn't matter about the age. But there is a point that like, I mean,

even I, a college thing too, when you're, when you're in college or fresh out of college, it's one of your most recent and most influential experiences of your life. And, and like, whereas,

you know, now you get older, you travel, you do some things, you, you live other experiences that were like, Hey, that was just as cool.

Or that was just as amazing, whatever. Even with me as a Mets fan, like I truly things, you live other experiences that were like, hey, that was just as cool or that was just as amazing, whatever. Even with me as a Mets fan, like, I truly believe that you have a prime in your fanhood. And, like, even as excited as I was to watch baseball come back, it's like the Mets to me are this, they really are like a burden that I have to bear. And I do it. I'll still do it. are this, they really are like a burden that I have to bear. And I do it, I'll still do it, but I just don't have that same level of excitement as I did five years ago and ten years ago and five years from now it'll probably be even

less unless Steve Cohen can reinvigorate me. But I think it's only natural to like, as time goes on, you can't keep banging your head against the same wall. You can't keep the your head against the same wall. You can't keep the same excitement for old traditions. And if you don't have a team that wins consistently or periodically like the Red Sox or whatever, you know, it's it's gonna I think it's almost more fake to continue to be like that die hard or that involved. It's like you can't possibly still have i mean the same

connection you once did after they lose a thousand games in a row or after you're 10 years out of college or whatever it is like the way that you're describing it is like it's almost like a fandom battery that over time just loses its charge yes for me i don't i don't know if that's it for me because i think like no one has questioned my fandom for the red socks this season when i'm telling you like i'm not emotionally invested because you know that i'm still watching every single game and i'm blogging the games and i'm tweeting about the games and we're doing podcasts about the games but at the end of the day i think it's more fake to have a strong emotional response to this team because you're not being real with yourself. Right. If you're, if the red Sox,

like if the Mets, you know, fucking walk off grand slam tonight against the red Sox. Am I going to be like, fuck mother fuck. Like, I'm just gonna be like, ha,

that sucks. But like, it's, it's not going to hurt because I think if you have a strong emotional tie to this team, then it's almost like you're, you don't know enough to know that this team is not worth being invested in.

I hate to play the card of like we're a more informed fan than you are or you don't know what you're doing or talking about or you don't know what this franchise is about. But if you're not acknowledging it, if you came into the 2020 Red Sox season with the same level of fervor, the same hope, the same optimism, all those phrases, all those words. I don't think you really are that big of a Red Sox fan. You just don't know what the fuck's going on. You know?

Yeah. That's why I was going to war with Mets fans. Like, you can have a hope, but not real. I mean, not if you if you when you look at a team like the Red Sox, like for the Mets, I can have I have hope for the Mets while knowing it's just like in our DNA that it's not going to. Right. But we are. But I mean, even going into the season, the win now mode is like the window is theoretically open for the Mets. We're trending up and anything can happen. Maybe we're the team that surprises people. So let's have a little bit of hope. You know, baseball hope springs eternal. Whereas the Red Sox are like essentially waving the white flag, at least on this season for financial terms.

And like I said, you can agree or disagree with that, but you can't come into the season confident that like that means that your front office and your manager and everybody is operating under this framework of like this season. It's not about this season. You know what I mean? And I think that if you are the same rah, rah, rah, and not acknowledging that, you just don't really know what it is you're watching. That's why I always fight with young Mets fans who are like, you know, why are you so negative?

And I'm like, I get it. You are in your prime and you want to see your team win and you're getting excited. You're drinking the Kool-Aid about prospects. You're getting excited about people reaching their potential. don't want to but just trust me it's just because you don't have the experience yet and you'll see it eventually um and that's what's weird though nobody ever you know i can't win i do think that it is different with college though because i feel like sometimes like the people i argue with are like the way older people that are like,

oh, the generation just doesn't have the same passion for Texas A&M as we used to. Like they call themselves old eggs. Like that's like an actual term. So it's like the passion for the college doesn't necessarily go away. It's the way you handle it. Like I used to cry every time A&M football lost. I'm not going to cry every time they lose. Like that's crazy. But there are still people who do it and then get mad and call you a fake fan if you don't. Like, remember that guy used to call into the show all the time, the Cowboys fan. Yeah. And he called the Cowboys last year the Patriots after one game, and he would get mad that other Cowboys fans didn't feel the same way.

It's like, yo, like, you're a grown up. Like, yeah, you can love your team. And obviously, like, I'm emotionally connected to A&M. I always will be. And I want them to win. And it sucks when they lose. But I'm not going to like tie my life emotions to that shit. You can't do that as adults or you're going to go crazy.

Right. That's really the thing is just like at some point it's actually detrimental to your existence. And you're like, fine, call me a bad fan. Call me whatever. But I can't do this anymore because it's like literally not going to cry my eyes out every Saturday. Guess what? A&M is probably going to lose at the end of the year. And I have enough to cry about. I know I'm going to lose. So why? Why would I keep crying?

It's like you're rooting for the coach. You're rooting for the institution. There's so much turnover with players, you know, with the Mets. It's like I'm going to have to watch Robinson Cano for several more years. I've seen bad contract after bad contract, you know, in a way, I guess it's similar. It's like you are, you're rooting for like the team or the coach. And, and that's like the permanent, the permanent piece of the puzzle for me, it's like the permanent piece of the puzzle is bad owners. So I know, you know,

you know, you don't really have a shot in the sec. I know I don't ever have a shot in major league baseball with, with like the way our organizations are being run. And that makes it almost that. Then, you know, what happens to Rocket? Then the trickle down effect of like, I'm not going to sit here and argue over the fourth and fifth starter. When I know that my ownership group is the real problem.

Like, yeah, we can nitpick the management and the, and the GM and, and we can like, you know, critique players. But if you want to just get to the root of the problem, let's just save ourself the argument here. So it really kind of permeates like every level of being a fan. Yeah, it's it's it's a disease because it really is. Ideally, Kevin, so you could push a button and just give up. Would you do? I don't even know if I really would that because I know I think a button and just give up the, would you do, I don't even know if you do that because I, if you could push a button and have,

you would, I think, no, because you've already, you've already dedicated too much time to not get the payoff. And I think that if you're getting rid of the will ponds, like there's right now, you were like,

yes, yes. So I don't, I wouldn't necessarily call it a light at the end of the tunnel, but it's a new chapter. Like you at least have to see that through. Yes. I wouldn't necessarily call it a light at the end of the tunnel, but it's a new chapter. Like, you at least have to see that through. Sure. But if you told me that the Wilpons, Bradley Wilpon was coming up and Jeff was going to keep it in the family for another generation, basically ensuring my entire life, I would absolutely push that button.

No, I agree. I agree that you would do that. But knowing that Stevie Cohen could be coming to town, there's no chance you'd push that one. That's a totally different story. No, as a matter of fact, I'm ready to start to ramp it back up again because I think that there's – I'm trying. But that's the thing is I can't – I'm a real dude. I'm not – I can never fake my fandom. I can't pretend to be more excited than I am.

If I'm not, I can't pretend to be any feeling than I am. If I'm not, I can't pretend to be any feeling. I just am what I am. But I am keenly aware that this next potential regime is my best and only shot at sports happiness. And I want to be ready for it. God willing, if it happens, I'm very nervous. It's been a little quiet. It's been a little like no reports, no quotes, no nothing from either side.

The A-Rod drama died down. Yeah, I mean, they said they started it when they did with the hope of having it wrapped up by January, by year end. So I think they predicted this to be a while. Like this coming January or this past January? Like 2021? Yes, they want to have this done by january 1st 2021 it's like i would fucking hope so um so i mean i guess i gotta stop holding

my breath here but um but it is like if i could push a button and get rid of it and then also like not even have the memory of it and just be like, I'm a guy who's interested in, um, foreign films. And that just brings me joy. I don't fucking know. I cricket. I love,

I love fucking polo. I love, uh, yeah. We'll still lose that though. I know. You're right. You know what?

Yeah, you're right. It would be totally different. I would just be like, I'm interested in classical music. I go to the orchestra. I go to the opera. I go to the,

that's what I do. And it brings me infinite joy. Yes. Done. I would do it in a fucking heartbeat. That's sad though. I don't think I, you can't lose.

You can't lose. That song was good. You can see a shitty one though. You can see a shitty Broadway play. Yeah, sure. And that might make you upset. You're never going to feel,

what, what is it about sports that like you, why? I would love to know what happens it about sports that like you why i would love to know what happens inside your brain that you know it can move you to tears it can make you punch a wall you feel the we effect you feel that you're in there you're it defines who you are you lose friends over it like why that i think it's your whole life it's your whole life i mean and even if it's not like even if you're a fan of like like, I don't know, it's the, like, if you love sports, that's what you want to do.

You want to watch sports and you want to talk about it. Right? Right. But, like, you know, it kind of happens with music. Like, you'll see people, like, argue over Kanye and it comes to, like, passionate, you know, blows. But it's not like, you know, if you have a favorite band and they put out a bad album, you're like, all right, that was, like, disappointing. Like, I liked their first one better, but like whatever.

Whereas if your favorite team has like a bad season, it's like, well, my life is over right now. It is a good question. And it is very accurate. I don't know if it's maybe because. When Rocket dies,

I want you to, when you inevitably like kill yourself, Rocket, shoot yourself in the chest, we'll study your brain, and we'll find out what's going on up top there, because who fucking knows why the Rocket is the way he is. Did you see my video last night in the ninth inning?

No, I don't think I did. Let me see. Was it for Morningwood? No, it was during the ninth inning last night, and I think the Red Sox, it was like 6-4, then it was 6-5, then the bases were loaded. And I took a video from the loft. Oh, yeah, I did see that with your bridge to jump off of.

And I said, one of the great new features of my new apartment is that there's a balcony that goes right off where the TVs are. So if the Red Sox blow this game, I can just hurl myself to the first floor. I mean, that would literally be a problem for me. Let's not pretend that wasn't a flex, Jared. You were flexing that your apartment is two stories. A little duplex action for the launch of that. No big deal.

It is what it is. What am I supposed to do? Yeah, you could jump and you could end your life because of the Red Sox, but also, hey girls out there, I have a two-story apartment now. There's going to be no kitty cats in this apartment. This is just for dogs. Just doggie dogs.

You and Kevin can jump together. You can jump together. You want to have a suicide pack, Rocket? I would love to have a suicide pack, but on the same note, I don't think this jump would kill you. It just hurts. Maybe you're probably just getting a noise complaint.

Yeah. And also Kevin, you've got, that would mean that would mean that you'd also be a part of a murder because we've long known that Jared is going to murder me in a murder suicide. That's right. At some point before he kills himself,

he has to kill Casey first. Well, I need someone to walk me to the gates of heaven and talk to Jesus for me because we've got some discrepancies in the whole. You need an agent to negotiate on your behalf. Can I call in? A personal favor. Can I call

in? I got my girl here. She's cool. Carl Lentz. You know him, right? You guys are boys. Could you maybe get my guy in the club? Can you smuggle him in the back? Can I cut the line? Just give me a little stamp on my hand i'm here's the cover charge do anything grease the bouncer basically st peter basically what i'm hearing is so like if jared starts being like over the top nice to me like really really really nice i should know that i'm getting murdered soon because he's buttering me up so i can get him into heaven with me it's basically

pretty much he's just gonna use you okay that's get him into heaven with me. Pretty much. Pretty much. He's just going to use you. Okay. That's pretty much it. Let's go to a couple calls. We go to Nick in Pittsburgh. He's a Pirates fan, so I know he wants to kill himself. What's up, Nick? Jared, yeah, man.

You're starting to sound like we do every single year. You know, you're living this year, but we live in, you know, eternally. Every year. Pirates, man. You know, selling your best player, losing your best pitchers, not bringing anyone in to replace them. Lost J.A. half-back and we won 98 games replacing with John Neese. I mean, the nose, nose, the nose, nose. I will give you this, Nick. When I complain

and I make my argument, and I still stand by this, I do believe my existence as a sports fan, given the dynamic of New York City with multiple teams, with the crosstown teams being championship winners, I think my existence is the worst that there is in sports. But when Pirates fans come to the table, I'm always like, you guys got an argument. I'm not going to argue against you. You're right there with me. Yeah, yeah. Because it is absolutely criminal. Yeah, Mets fans and Pirates fans, we're brothers, you know?

Yeah, we really are. It's sickening. It's like, you know brothers. We really are. It's sickening. It's like, you know, Pittsburgh could be good. It's a good sports town. They don't have to be small markets. It's a great sports city. Right. It's not like it's, you know, I don't know, like Tampa or a city that's just like this. You know, it's not going to work here. It's like we know that

sports works in Pittsburgh. We know you have fans who would come out and spend money. So how can you not figure it out? Bob Nutting, 17th richest owner. He's spending his 29th in Pittsburgh. We know you have fans who would come out and spend money. So how can you not figure it out? Bob Nunning is the 17th richest owner. He's spending his 29th in payroll. I don't know what we've got to do. Yeah, he needs to sell the fucking team. He's the problem.

Anytime that I meet a Pirates fan in real life, they'll be like, hey, I'm a Pirates fan. And the first thing I say is, I'm sorry. I genuinely am sorry. And it's not even like a taunting thing. I just know that that's one of the worst owners in professional sports. And I guess where it varies, like my situation from yours is that the Red Sox can spend money. They're not because they can't because they made a bunch of dumb decisions. I would be more pissed as a Pirates fan that, uh, the idea that you would trade Tyler glass now and Austin Meadows for Chris

Archer, who stinks and he stunk even at the time of the trade and watching glass now be what he is right now for Tampa. That would make me physically ill more so than the pirates being bad at baseball is watching how good Tyler glass now is that would infuriate me. Garrett Cole, Charlie Morton, Tyler glass.

Now we have all those guys, you know, at some point on our team in the last five years and they're gone. And that's it. Garrett Cole, Charlie Morton, Tyler Glasnow, we have all those guys at some point on our team in the last five years and they're gone Garrett Cole was never going to be that in Pittsburgh because he went to the Astros and then they taught him how to cheat they have, like the Astros

have basically created instead of like rosin or pine tar, they make this like sticky shit that's like a hybrid pine tar where it's like they they melt coca-cola and they mix it with rosin and pine tar and it's for sure illegal and that's why all the pitchers that go to houston their spin rate goes up through the fucking roof is because the substance that they're using no other team has and garrick obviously brought that to New York.

So yeah, he's just a big fucking cheater, just like the rest of them. Fair. Yeah. Honestly, you'd rather have your integrity, right?

I mean, you don't want to be known as a fucking scumbag cheater like the Yankees and Gary Cole are. So I know you're a loser, but at least you have your integrity. Hey, I mean, and then we're the only team to go in and win a series in Houston last year,

year somehow. I mean, I don't know how the hell we do that, but I mean, yeah, I'd rather have the integrity than cheating. Then again, you guys have a world series for that time being. Yeah. I don't know if that's necessarily the truth. Oh, Nick, I I'm being 1 billion percent facetious. I would absolutely sell my integrity. I want to cheat, claw, scratch my way to the top, garbage cans, substances, corked bats, juice, whatever. Give it all to me as long as I can win.

Yeah, yeah. Let's go to Ryan. Paul Tucker is the fucking man. Ryan in Buffalo. Maybe you can relate to this, Rocket. He's a fan of a bad wrestler. And I think that might be a world where there's a little bit of parallels. What do you got, Ryan?

So what's going on, guys? First time, long time. Love the show. I just wanted to say that would be like watching Monday Night Raw every single week and only watching the Heath Slater matches or watching the Gilbert matches, where you're not going to watch The Rock. You're not going to watch Steve Austin. So that's why

I live in Buffalo, which I will raise the Pittsburgh fans with Buffalo fans having the Bills and the Sabres for 110 combined years and having won nothing as a city. At least Pittsburgh has the... But here's the thing. But that's what I mean. Buffalo, that is your

fate. Buffalo, that is your fate. Buffalo, New York is this weird upstate city that's like a weird rural spot. Pittsburgh is like a major city with other major championship teams. And so you are kind of doomed to a small market existence. And I know it's not small market in hockey and football is different. But you know what I'm saying? You're not supposed to be good. Pittsburgh is supposed to be a city of of winning of real teams of real sports you know and that's where i think it gets harder that's why i go so crazy because i get i get my teams operate like they are from buffalo and i'm in new york fucking safe

so i i feel you but it's also even harder when you have the reasonable expectation that it should be different. But yeah, Buffalo is a desolate, desolate place. And it gets worse every year because I've lived here for about 10 years now, and every year it's the build year, and every year it's the savers year. And especially this year, with no Brady, Buffalo fans are losing their minds. Right. This year, with no Brady, Buffalo fans are losing their minds. We've now got Stephon Diggs, Josh Allen's coming up, and I'm just like, hey, guys, just wait.

Wait till week six when the Bills are 1-5, like they always are, and the Sabres are, and like, you know, and two years ago the Sabres traded away Ryan O'Reilly because he was the quote-unquote problem in their team, and then he goes over to St. Louis, takes that last place ass to a Stanley Cup, and wins the playoff MVP award. And Buffalo fans are like, oh, yeah, no, he wasn't the problem. We just suck.

And it's the same thing. Their ownership group, too, doesn't want to spend the money. I do like the comparison, though, of Monday Night Raw. It's like you could just watch other teams. I could just be like, I'm a Dodgers fan. I'm going to root for a good team. It's the product that's out there every night for me to consume. I just, for some reason, am tied.

We just choose to root for shitty teams sometimes. Yeah, but it's not even like – it's a choice, but it's not. It's like I'm compelled to. I have to watch the shitty undercard for some fucking reason. That's why this year I've dedicated myself to the now Buffalo Blue Jays. Why not? Jump on board with that. Every night I still listen

to either WEI or watch it on the MO with the Red Sox games but in the back of my head though I'm still the Blue Jays are the team this year that I want to beat the Yankees because obviously that's what the whole world doesn't want is if not the Astros, then not the Yankees. Yeah, listen, with Vladdy Wagon, Bo Bouchette. I mean, they're a fucking they're a team. Nate Pearson made his big league debut.

He fucking dotted ninety nine on the black. He's going to be a problem. Right. I mean, it's at least there's some fun in that. So enjoy that. We'll go to one more question before we hit our break. One more call. We got Chris from Kentucky.

What's up, Chris? So I got to ask, this is mainly, I got to ask for Jared. What Reds team do I have in Cincinnati? Do I have the team that gives up five runs in the first inning of the Cubs a couple nights ago, or do I have the team that beat the shit out of them last night? Can I just interrupt before Rock answers? I understand you want to go to the baseball expert. I will let him answer.

You know damn well what fucking Reds team you have. It's the same fucking Reds team. No, no, Kevin. Yes, it is. Yes, it is, because the Reds are one of those teams. It's the Mets that are doomed. Yes, they are. Yes.

So the Mets, the Cincinnati Reds, I picked to win the Central this year. They're two and four right now, and their rotation is arguably one of the best in baseball. Like Sonny Gray, it's amazing what can happen when that fucking guy gets out of the Bronx. He looked nasty. Eleven punch

outs. Trevor Bauer is a fucking sicko. Amir Garrett's a stud. Luis Castillo has the best changeup in baseball. It's your bullpen. The bullpen's an issue. And if they can do it, I mean, Lorenzen's got Lorenzen was giving up the bombs to, uh, to buy us or whatever, but I still think he's going to be nasty. You just need to add in like a glacius, another guy that needs to figure it the fuck out. I have, I'm all in on the Reds this year, like adding Castellanos, adding Moustakis to an already good core with Evado's hitting bombs. And he has a rebound season because he kind of stunk last year and Suarez. Like that's one of

the best fucking offensive infields in major league baseball. Just get me a bullpen. The guys that are here right now, figure it the fuck out. The rotation's nasty. I'm all in on the Cincinnati Reds in 2020. The NL Central belongs to Cincinnati. You say that and it all makes sense. Everything you lay out makes sense. But if a team like the Reds has a critical problem like the bullpen, that will be their bugaboo. That will be their failure and their undoing. and it just won't happen but the guys that they have are good they just haven't they haven't clicked yet it's only been one week it's only been a week it's only been a week is the red i cannot wait to fucking celebrate the 2020 nl central champion cincinnati reds when it's all said and done well if you think i'm gonna

let you get away with that fake season i mean they. I mean, they can go win the World Series, and I'll tell you I'm still right because it's a fake season. Well, listen, I've got a friend group. I've got a friend group. Three of them are Yankees fans, and the other one's a Phillies fan. So I'm in a horrible spot. Well, fuck them. How about fuck all your friend group?

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We'll talk about the Phillies in a moment, but first I have to recap. Yesterday, me and Fights get out of work, and we go across the street to a bar, and what unfolded was pure, unadulterated chaos it was absolutely fucking insane the scenery that and it was a moment where i was like it was a now you're in new york moment where i was just like there's like nowhere else on the planet earth right now that is as weird as this we sit down and there's a crew of stoolies who are there clearly a few a few more rounds than we were, and they're feeling good, and they're yelling out Fight's name. They're yelling out my name. And I think they recognize me from Instagram,

where recently I did a couple videos about Kanye. And so these guys are loud and funny, and they're just saying what's up to us. They're clearly, like, feeling no pain. And at one point the guy says, fuck Kanye. And I'm like, yeah, man. Hey,

yeah, fuck Kanye. Sure. Whatever. And then sitting in front of us is this dude who is this grizzled old construction worker. He is thick. He's,

he's shaped like a boulder and he's still got his like overalls on and his work year on and shit. And he thought he heard the guy say, fuck concrete, not fuck Kanye. And he takes great offense to this because he is a construction worker. And concrete is his living. And it's offending him and his union. So he's like, what the fuck did you say? And he starts going on and on about

the benefits of fucking concrete. He's screaming to the heavens. Anybody who will listen as this is happening, that crew comes over to us. They wrapped up, they paid their bill and they want to get a picture. They grab a fucking priest who has his collar on and his full black outfit. And I don't think father was feeling any pain either. I think he got out of mass and he did a little bit of drinking himself. And he's trying to take a picture for us while all these guys come around us. Now, he's an old man and he can't figure out the phone. At this point, the guy who's defending the honor of concrete starts to yell at the guys that came over to take a picture with us because he thought they're the culprits who don't like concrete.

So they're jawing at each other about to, like, start a fight while me and fights are literally sitting there staring at each other, sitting across from the table going, what the fuck is going on? Eventually, the group gets their picture. They move on. A twosome of girls come and sit down. Next to the stark raving lunatic. Who is yelling to the moon. To the moon. To the moon with concrete. She decides to pick a fight with him. And talk about how she works harder than he does.

And he goes off. Screaming about how he's got jackhammers in his ears all day. So now we have a second round of fight coming with this boulder of a man. And the owner of the bar decides to come out and stand in between him and the girl. So nothing happens. And it turns into like a 2020 racial war where I can't believe it didn't escalate to any anything more than just arguing. But the line of the fight was the old black construction worker telling the bar owner to take a hike, go back home,

like go back home to your wife where she's already probably fucking a guy who looks like me, just screaming. And all me and John wanted to do was have a couple beers and talk about life. And we had stoolie regimes and drunk priests and drunk construction workers and feminists and racial wars. And I was like this. If you showed this, if you showed the last like 15 minutes of footage to someone who lives in like, you know, Montana or Yellowstone Park or even just the suburbs or anywhere outside of New York City, if you showed them that and then explained to people that you pay a premium to live in that area, people want to live there and will pay you thousands of dollars to do so,

exorbitant taxes, all of it. I mean, if we ever show that to aliens, they'll be like, why did anybody ever live here let alone flock to it it was sheer lunacy from a bunch of drunks a priest and a guy who got confused over kanye west and concrete it was one of the worst experiences of my life i was like i'm never doing jared you know where that bar is that they were at i do i i was they were waiting for me to get or not waiting they were over there already like while i was recording And so they told me to come over. I got to the door of our building and I could hear somebody screaming. And I thought it was somebody screaming like in the Barstool shantytown right next door. It's across the street. That's how loud that this man was yelling. You could hear it

in the foyer of the Barstool building. So when I get over there, I sit down and I'm like, how long has this been going on? And they said it'd been going on for like 15 minutes and they were just sitting three feet away from a man who was screaming so loud you could probably hear him on the fucking moon and they were just sitting there drinking their beers like nothing was going on i mean it was normal rational people would have gotten up and left and old old me probably would have propped up the camera but the new me was just like i i want to see what happens, but I'm not going to film this. I don't want any smoke. I don't want any problems.

I definitely don't want to be involved in a fucking race war or something. So I just want to see how this plays out. And I mean, it was it was the worst bar experience of my life. I couldn't believe it. I could not believe this. Casey told me this story. And obviously, like, there are a lot of details here where it's like, well, that sounds fucking crazy. But the first question that I had was why did this man get so upset thinking

that someone said, fuck concrete? Like how, how passionate could you be? Well, to the game, bro, married to the game.

Like you, you're just ready to take up a battle over uh a concrete slander like where where i didn't even listen but fights was the one who was like i think he's mad about this guy slandering concrete and i think he's like yelling about his union and his job and his livelihood his jackhammers like no not fuck concrete like what if you were uh involved in steel what if you did work that wasn't involved in concrete would you would you would you have a problem then sir the whole thing was absolutely ridiculous and then it turned into a race war which was it's like concrete

started a race war at this bar i honestly i mean and jared i sat down in the midst of this and still had a drink too so i mean it wasn't like i was like hey guys like we should probably just find another bar because there's millions around here that we could just move to like no let's just sit in the middle of chaos i can't believe the cops weren't called i'm not surprised at all that you didn't leave casey because you have allegiances to bars that like are like blood like if once you find a bar that you're like, this is mine. This one's not. This one. This one, no. But this one is because of its proximity is a

regular spot. Oh, okay. I know what bar you're talking about. Yeah, you're not. Yeah, actually, I went to that bar with your sister one time. Why? I mean, why do we have to always... in this interview? I'm just saying.

I know what bar you're talking about. I went there. Yeah, we went there one time. Yeah, whatever. Not a big deal. You and my sister went there together by yourselves? I mean, yeah. Is that a problem? It happens. Where the fuck was I?

Probably at work. I have so many questions it was a little like uh hey you're hey you're in town you want to like dip out for a little something i hate you i really do what i really kevin am i wrong like i'm just i mean you're just explaining a fact as far as i know yeah the fuck i think he's making it up. I'm not. I mean, you can ask her. I don't like the way that you just change your tone like that. That was a clear indication of you can ask

her. Ew. That was very gross. I'd like to change subjects. Let's change. How bad is this Phillies report, Rocket? It's only a couple people, but I feel like to change. I'd like to change subjects. Yeah, let's let's change. How bad is this Phillies report rocket? It's only a couple people, but I feel like, you know, players.

Oh, that's good. So so what coaches or what? Yeah, coaches, team personnel. They're shutting down Citizens Bank Park. I think the the bad thing is that it seemed they didn't use the word, but they kind of danced around saying that it's shut down indefinitely like there was no right like we're shutting it down for today we'll see you tomorrow see you in a couple couple days maybe next week they they just said until further notice

that's not good yeah that yeah so that's bad but i also the problem is here i can just play somewhere else it's in a way it's almost worse when it's like non-players because it's like those aren't going to be the people who might be more at risk you know what i mean if you have team personnel who's like older or or not the ones really with millions risking at all like it feels to me like it needs to be none or it's a problem because you can't start splitting hairs on like well it's only one or two people and they're not the important ones because it's like, well, God forbid, it's like the worst case scenario for some somebody in like the media that travels with the team who who isn't worth millions. Like then, you know, you can't start your you're kind of playing God with like which lives you worry about, which ones you don't. And I think the Marlins having 16 now all of a sudden makes to look like, well, no big deal.

But it's like it kind of still is really not good. And if you see, I mean, are they confirming? Like, do they think this came from the Marlins or do they have belief that it came anywhere else? Because, like, if if that starts to trickle in, because like we said, it doesn't, you know, the first round of tests didn't show anything. But it starts to rear its head in the coming weeks. Like if it just starts to get worse for the Phillies, I think, I don't know. I just don't, you know, it's, it's such a, such a domino effect. I don't know what they do.

How can you shut down indefinitely with two different teams? And then what are the teams which was scheduled to play them do? And you know, what, what the fuck? I think the crazy thing here is that I think we've kind of tricked ourselves into this false perception where it's it's like steroids like if you if you injected steroids right now and then tried to take a steroid test you'd fail but right these these players that are around like the marlins and then like they're testing them the next day it's like well they might not test positive right away like

they they could get it from the marlins players but they're not going to know if they have it or not right away. Like, that's not how like viruses work. So, uh, yeah, I mean like the, like no players have tested positive right now,

but like, that's not to say that they wouldn't like a few days from now, who knows? That's the problem with this whole disease is like, it's, you know, deadly enough, but,

but not deadly enough that you, you know, run away and hide, not deadly enough that you run away and hide. Not deadly enough that it infects you immediately. It's kind of the perfect way to kind of like Trojan horse you way through. It's a motherfucker, Kevin. It really is. It is such a motherfucker.

And varying effects and varying long-lasting effects. Some people die. Some people don't feel anything. Some people's heart and lungs aren't the same. Some people get it. Some people don't. Some people get it on day one. Some people get it feel anything. Some people's heart and lungs aren't the same. You know, it's some people get it. Some people don't. Some people get it on day one. Some people get it on day 14.

It's just like there's no rhyme or reason. It's all madness. And you got baseball trying to just be like, well, we're going to power through it. And it's like, you know, we've never really seen a this is one thing you can't really power through. This is one thing you can't outwit. You can't outfight. You can't outspend. Whatever.

It does not matter. And the unbalanced schedule is fucking bananas. The Red Sox have already lost more games than the Phillies have played. And with no... We'll try to make these up, but we're already on a tight schedule, so maybe not. And now we're

going to go to the winning percentage thing. It's just like... And then despite all that, you got dumb fucking Rob Manfred, who just has this, like, gift from God fall into his lap. Like, you know what? I totally botched the Astros situation. There's no way that I can deliver the retribution, the retaliation, the punishment, whatever you want to call it, the karma to the Astros anymore. But Joe Kelly comes along and does it for me.

And he does it in the perfect way where nobody even gets hit, let alone injured. Nobody's ejected. It's just a couple when you really break it down, it's just a couple of brushback pitches, but the world of baseball is on fire. Fans love it. They're the headlines and everything.

And nobody even need to need it to get beans of the ball. And Rob Manfred feels the need to come out with like a way over the top punishment and, and just setting himself up for the inevitable. Well, the Astros didn't get suspended a single game. Joe Kelly's going to serve eight. I mean, literally anybody who tweeted that yesterday got

like thousands of retweets it was the most universally agreed upon thing that rob manfred just stuck his own fucking head in the oven on that one he could have just said like here's a warning or like we don't encourage this release some sort of fugazi statement but an eight game suspension which is equivalent to fucking a third of the 24 to 22, 22 games. Sane. It's, it is crazy how much he is bad at maneuvering and navigating. And like,

I'm sure, I'm sure the Astros would have been like, Hey commissioner, what's the punishment here. And he could have just said, shut fuck you fucking mouth. If you have the nerve to even talk to me, I,

I protected you guys when it literally cost me my legacy. And I'm not crying for Rob Manfred, but he did protect that team at the risk of ruining his legacy. That's exactly what happened. So shut your fucking mouth. That's what he should have done and said. I actually had

my first 100K like tweet yesterday, Kevin. Atta boy! That's what I mean. people are swarming right i mean what would you say exactly i actually like there were a couple of i had two joe kelly tweets one of them got like over 50 000 likes and that was the that was the shitty one and the other one was like 100k and it was i was that's what i said i was like joe kelly will get punished um if he serves even one game of the suspension more than any of the Astros. And then I said over a 60 game season, it's it's basically a 22 game suspension.

And the one detail, there were a couple of things that I added to it when I said, how are you going to suspend Joe Kelly at all? When the umpires didn't even deem that it was do anything. He wasn't he wasn't thrown out of the game he wasn't ejected from the game so uh that that's your judgment which you're saying is is going against what the umpires felt and I I like looked into I went back and looked at the game log and I was like is there plausible deniability here in, in a hearing like a, cause he, he is appealing the suspension and he got Jose Altuve on the first pitch of the inning. And then Bregman, he walked on four pitches and then he later walked, uh, another batter. I think it was Yuli Gurriel to bring

the tying run to the plate. And then in the Carlos Correa at bat, he never threw a fastball to Correa. So clearly he's acknowledging that he doesn't have control of the fastball. And he he he only had one pitch for a called strike the entire inning. And it was on a curveball. It was all over the fucking place. So if you look at the pitch log, it's 100 percent like you can look at that and be like, yeah, he had no control of his fastball. You have the Bregman at-bat where it goes behind his head. It's like, well,

he'd be the first to tell you he has no fucking clue where his fastball is going. Then in the at-bat to Correa, he didn't throw him one fastball. It was like six or seven knuckle curves. That was it. I mean, it would be unbelievable if he won

that, but I feel like he has no shot. Right. I think he'll get it reduced. I think he'll get it reduced. But the fact that the fact that he got eight games in a 60 game season for not hitting anyone. And he also got six games for hitting someone with a fastball and then fighting him. Right. I mean, it's not.

He threw two balls is what he did. He threw two exciting ball for pitches and like that. And that's it. Now we're doing eight game suspensions. It's like, it's, it's reminiscent of when, you know,

the NFL would give you like a slap on the wrist for domestic violence and then like suspend you and find you more for a uniform infringement. It's like the standards are just all out of whack here. But more importantly, just the opportunity. The opportunity for Rob Manfred to kind of wink with the fans and be like, you know, yeah, I know we fucked this one up, so I'm going to let this one slide or whatever. It's just he is quickly rising the ranks, if not already. He's incompetent.

It is brutal. And, I mean, like, it's just such a blown opportunity. I can't get over it. But it just increases the, like, folklore status of Joe Kelly. As much of a punishment, as outrageous of a punishment as that is, I sign for that every time. Eight games in a stupid season when you're not even in a superstar status to go down in history and be the face of the guy who fought back

against the cheating Astros. Fucking sign for that all day, every day. Here's a little vacation during COVID season. Did you see the fucking beep that I had with John Heyman? That motherfucker? No, what did that fucking asshole do? Oh yeah, I saw that. Oh, because he was the one who tweeted, can we stop saying that we need... No, he said Joe Kelly

deserves every bit of that eight game suspension. And I just quote tweeted it and I said, this take sucks. And he responded, I was laying on the floor this entire show i just stood up on my feet uh and and this motherfucker said thanks for your unbiased opinion and i was like well john will john defend your shitty take because how are you gonna say that

he deserved and the other thing that he said on top of joe kelly deserving every bit of the eight game suspension was that he said why does joe Joe Kelly even throw at them in the first place? He wasn't on the 2017 Dodgers. Well, here's the answer to that question. You fucking idiot. Number one, did you, were you not paying attention when every single player showed up to spring training and they all had something to say about the Astros? This is not about the team that the Astros beat in the world series. It's about everyone being like, fuck the Astros for what they did, whether or not they played them. And Joe Kelly was on the 2017 Red Sox that year, a team that got eliminated by the 2017 Astros. You fucking moron. What I didn't understand one bit of that tweet. He got ratioed like I've never seen it

before in my life. And then he comes back at me for being like, this take sucks. I think it's pretty obvious when you have one tweet and within an hour you have 3000 replies that your take sucks. But yeah, take it up with me for just calling you out on it. I also don't I don't understand the like you have to have been directly in the path, which, by the way, they were. But if you were just like these guys, I go out there every year and compete for a championship. They stole it. So in essence, it's the everyone they ran through,

and it's the entire league that they cheated. And I decided to stand up and be the guy. And whether it's true or not with Joe Kelly, it'll always be up for debate. But I feel like any baseball player who wanted to speak out or retaliate against the Astros has every right to, especially if you were a guy who they did run through. So it's not just the Dodgers. It doesn't have to be active Dodgers from the 2017 season or 18, whatever it was, that's allowed to be upset about this.

Everybody hates it. And Joe Kelly stepped up. So fuck off, John Hayden. I mean, he's just Joe Kelly is a hero. Joe Kelly. He's one of those guys that his any one of his teammates on any team that he's ever been on, like would take a bullet for that man. Right. And you see why and stuff like that.

Like, yeah, he wasn't on the Dodgers in 2017. And even if he wasn't on the Red Sox in 2017 or a team that the Astros beat to win their World Series, last night still happens anyway. 100% guaranteed. 100%. No doubt. No doubt. He's a hero. You also a hero. The people who develop Peacock TV over at NBC Universal.

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this might be a problem, or they're just going to kind of keep it case by case and cancel game by game and just cobble this together? Yeah. I mean, like Rob Manfred is basically just looking at this situation where the Phillies weren't playing games. The Marlins weren't playing games. The Yankees had to miss games because of who they were playing on the schedule. And he's just looking around being like, uh, all right, that seems healthy. That seems healthy. You guys play each other. And I guess that's going to work. Like ultimately what we're looking at here, if you go back to March,

right? One player on one team test positive in the NBA. And they're like, shut it the fuck down. At least the MLB is like, let's figure it out. Let's just, let's just mix and match.

And we'll, we'll figure it out later. Yeah, that's, I'm sure that's a surefire way to make it work. I don't know. Deal that a little later. No big fucking deal.

Watch baseball fucking crumble. Rob Manfred, you dumb asshole. All right, that's it for us. We will be back tomorrow for a Friday edition. The boys at Barstool Chicago are up next for the 3 p.m. hour. And we'll see you tomorrow, same time, same place. In the meantime, everybody stay hot.