Mostly Sports With Mark Titus and Brandon Walker - Are The Braves On Track To Be One Of The Best Teams Of All Time? | Mostly Sports EP 3 | 9.14.23

Episode Date: September 14, 2023

The Braves dynasty grows stronger, Deion is pissing teams off again, NBA load management, LeBron might be on steroids, naming USA soccer players, a boat got stuck and more on xXJerzzzday69Xx episode of Mostly Sports. Mark Titus and Brandon Walker talking sports... mostly. Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MostlySportsTitusandWalker?sub_confirmation=1. Thanks to our sponsors: Cars.Com: Find your next possibility on https://Cars.com. Where to next? Follow Mostly Sports on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MostlySports Follow Mark on Twitter: https://twitter.com/clubtrillion Follow Brandon on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bfw Follow Mostly Sports on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mostlysportsshow/ Follow Mark on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marktheshark34/ Follow Brandon on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bwalkersec/ Follow Mostly Sports on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mostlysportsshow?lang=en Follow Brandon on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@brandonfwalker?lang=en Follow Mark on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@marktituspod?lang=en

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I did that on purpose. Okay. I'm Mark Titus. He is Brana Walker. Today is Thursday, September 14th. And what do we want to talk about for you? Are the Atlanta Braves on track to be one of the best teams of all time? I think they quietly are. Maybe not quite.

I don't know if it's quietly. These sons of bitches just wrecked shit. Everything that happens in baseball is a little quiet. That's true. Especially when football starts. It is crazy that baseball has its most important games in the quiet after football. All arrives. They should play the World Series in July and then play the rest of the baseball season.

They should backdate the rest of the games. That's how it should work. Because it doesn't matter when the fucking Rockies play the Padres, really, does it? It doesn't matter. I was out to dinner last night. Oh, wow, fancy money bags over here. Shout out to the guy who, this is big time for us. Someone recognized me at the restaurant.

I was walking out and he just goes, mostly sports and gave fist bump. Really? Good. We're two shows in. Yeah. We've already got some mostly fan. Yeah, we got some mostly Some most heads?

Yes We should probably workshop that We're going to work on most heads Some people that mostly like the show Yeah, yeah But yeah, the royals were playing The White Sox and I was like, my God This is bleak

This is a bleak baseball game Baseball is so long That when you get into September Even the good games are overshadowed By football, but the bad games Just God bless you If you go to one of these bad games Yeah

And I've been to a couple of September when the Braves were bad, like in 2018, I went to the Marlins Braves, September, like, 20th, just to see Stanton already had like, whenever it was. Stanton had like 54 home runs. I won't see him in the home run. He didn't. He didn't hit the home runs.

But it's September baseball is depressing. Anyway, the Braves are great. The Braves, so last night, my understanding, the Braves clinched the NL East, they're the first team to clinch a division. I didn't know they had won it five years in a row. Yeah, they've been pretty good. I knew they've been pretty good,

but I didn't know they had another division street going. You're from the set? Are you not a Braves fan? I am a Braves fan? fan. What? Kind of. Kind of.

I found out I wasn't a Braves fan when I got here, actually. Because I, my whole life, have been a Braves fan. And in the 90s, I was super big Braves fan, but I don't really, baseball is long. And I got here, and I was watching a playoff game on stream with that idiot out there, Big T. and another guy we used to have, Southern Mark, who just taught like an idiot. Southern Mark. And it was, you remember Southern Mark, T.J?

Oh, yeah. That guy was Southern as hell. He was super Southern. He disappeared. How do we come up with the monikers at this company? I just came up with it right now. Yeah, he was Carolina Mark. Carolina Mark.

There you go. Carolina Mark. That's even better. So Carolina Mark and Big Tea, it was one out into the wildcard game, and they're just high-fiving chess pop, and I'm like, what? It was just, it was a pop-up. And I didn't care about every single out. They were going crazy.

So I learned I'm not as big a baseball fan as I thought I was. I think I'm on their side in this. Well, I didn't, it wasn't a debate. It doesn't matter. I didn't. I'm still on that. their side. But I didn't bring it to debate. I didn't. Be that as it may. I understand. Yeah. I did not. I'm still, I'm still offering

my judgment. But I didn't put it on the table. So you just did that on your own. But real talk. All right. Matt Olson is the first baseman of the Atlanta Braves. First of all, they traded, they let Freddie Freeman go in free agency a couple years ago, right? Yes. And a lot of Bray's hurt by that. Freddie Freeman was hurt by that. Freddie Freeman was hurt. Yeah. But he's mad at his age. People thought, oh my God, they're letting him walk. What are you doing? Hard of the franchise. They go out and trade for Matt Olson.

Matt Olson right now has 50, he has 51 home runs and 128 RBIs. His OPS is right out 1,000. He is incredible and he is not even close to being the MVP on his own team. Explain to the people watching at home what OPS means. Exactly. Thank you, Mark. OPS, Ebo, walk me through this. Hold on.

I'm going to do it myself. OPS. is on base percentage plus slugging. That's what it stands for. So what does it mean? Slugging is the amount of times you get hits that are above a single, right? It is your total basis divided by your total admins. Okay, exactly.

I knew that. And on base percentage is the amount of times you come up to the plate and get on base after that. Correct. And if you put those two together, you get OPS. Now what in the motherfuck is OPS plus? OPS plus is just a way that we can normalize. so that we can determine how you are relative to league average. How is that normalizing it?

We already have the OPS. What do we need? Because I think people, people tend to struggle when there's a decimal place, so they try to make it easier by saying 100 is the baseline because people like the number 100. It's easy for them to digest. So OPS plus, if you're 100,

you're an average major league baseball player. Anything, any number above 100 is an above average major league baseball player. It's Fahrenheit and Celsius is what it is. Hold on. I was making, I'm almost there. I'm almost there. OPS plus, if you're over 100, you're an above-average baseball player, and every single player in the Braves lineup is over 100.

Correct. That's pretty crazy, right? Yeah, that's nuts. They have guys with 51 homers, 35 homers, 37 homers, 34 homers, 29. It's ridiculous. They're good throughout the entire lineup. The Philadelphia Phillies are 12 games above 500,

and they're 17 goddamn games back. First of the wild card. That's crazy. The Phillies are going to be the top wildcard team, and they just last night lost their division hopes. But that's fucking wild. The scary part is for Atlanta fans, for Braves fans, is the Braves fans were the best team in baseball

for the entirety of the 1990s. Yeah. They won most of it. Yeah. Well, who are you? I mean, the Yankees, late 90s. That, it kind of switched. But even in 98, or I think 99,

the Braves had a better record than the Yankees. Yankees just housed them. Like, the Braves were really fucking good, 98. They didn't make it to the World Series. They were really fucking good. didn't make it the World Series. They only won one World Series.

So if any franchise has perfected looking like the best team ever and choking, it is the Braves, even though they did, in fact, win two years ago. Yeah, the Braves are just absurd. I mean, Acuna just gets on base every time he gets up, basically. Yeah.

And then steal second. That's just kind of the formula. They figured that out. They're like, this guy, go ahead. Can we walk through this one, too? Ebo. I thought stolen bases were done in baseball. No, the opposite.

They came back? They came back in a big way. They hacked their way to it. They made the bases bigger. You're not allowed to pick off more than two times anymore. Oh, okay. So they did some NFL rules. I don't fully understand the pickoff rule because so like if you try to pick a guy off twice,

then why doesn't the runner then just like. Start taking off? So you can throw over a third time. But if you do not pick them off, it's a balk and they get the base. Oh, okay. That makes a little more sense. But I'm... All right.

But no, steals are way up. Stills are... Steals are... Yeah, like, because there are guys who are designated base Steelers that, like, when they get on first base, it's like, they're definitely... Yeah, but Acuna before this year was not a designated, and not a designated base dealer. He was a decent base steeler.

Now he's got 66 steel. Like, this guy's going crazy. Yeah. He's going to win the MVP, or I guess Mokey Betts is in it, too, right? Yeah, but if Moogie... Big Ten, team I have talked about this. Muki is like clearing him in war and like all the advanced stats, but Ocuna is going to do something that no one's ever done before, which is a 40-70 season

maybe. Like 40-40 was hard enough. Forty-70's crazy. I remember in 1988, Jose Konseko was the first 40-40 guy and they made a big deal of it. Yeah. I don't know why I said that. What year was it? 1988. Wow. Jose Konseco, he was on so many steroids. Yeah. A lot of steroids. A lot of steroids. Do you see LeBron might be on steroids? Do you believe that? I saw the, I saw the, I saw, I saw the LeBron's manager. Did your jaw drop like mine did? I saw the LeBron's managers on steroids. I don't know why his manager needs steroids.

I don't know what you're talking about. There's no direct link between his manager and him. Did they even talk? That ESPID article that was, yeah, that, uh, the, who they throw under the bus? Big show. It was like Big Show and LeBron's manager. And then they wrote this. They threw a big show over there?

Paul White? Yeah. Vacate all the Wichitael State basketball accomplishments because Paul White was doping the whole time. Can we talk about the Phillies congratulating the Braves? Connor, what the fuck is this? All right, all right. So the Braves have just won their six straight division title.

And they did it in Philly. Feels a little soft for Philly. Do you have the screenshot? And on the Jumbotron, the Phillies say, congratulations Atlanta Braves. You just beat our ass and you're the 2023 NL East champions. Real quick, soft? Mm-hmm. Question mark?

I responded back in the group Texas. I said the only thing soft in Philly are the pretzels. Philly soft pretzels are the best thing in the world. We're on this nice trend now, which I was fine with when Trey Turner was sucking. You turned around this whole season. Turned around the whole season. And I don't know what this is exactly if we're trying to keep down that nice route. There was also the time where we had a Mets fan throw out the first pitch at Citizens Bank Park when we were playing the Mets.

Was it Frank the Tink? No. That at least would make sense. You did get Frank to take a tour, right? We did. So we're doing this whole hospitality. I don't know that I want Philly to be nice. I don't know.

Listen, I don't like it. I'm fine if it's with our own players, and obviously it had a huge impact on Trey Turner's season, but in terms of congratulating. Don't you think he was probably going to turn it around anyway? I don't know. I don't you think that's how baseball works. He signed an 11-year contract.

Eventually, he was going to turn it around. But this season, I don't know. That was one of the longest ones I've ever seen. I don't want Philly to be nice, but I also don't want Philly to be assholes where they think that everyone hates them because they're jealous of them. You know. Oh, yeah. But that's their whole.

Isn't asshole. whole vibe that's their whole I want them to be assholes I just don't want to like Philly being assholes is is fun but then when Philly they're assholes and then they also win everything which I know they're like the narrative is kind of that they're losing because the Eagles lost and the Phillies lost them but you're still you're getting teams they almost like that's better than 99% of so with Philly

winning a ton yeah and their assholes then people are like I kind of hate Philly and I don't want it to be like Philly fans think we hate you because we're jealous. It's because you're assholes. And we hated you when your teams weren't even good. And I think when that's the dynamic of America versus Philly, it works. So basically what I'm saying is I don't want Philly to actually win stuff because then we're, then we're in trouble. You don't deserve it. Okay. Then we're in trouble. Two things on that. I think this time of my life, even though we have made it to the Super Bowl lost, made it to the World Series lost. This is the most fun I've ever had as a Philly sports fan. So I'm not complaining at all.

Why are you talking philosophically? This time of my life? I'm just saying... You're 22 years old. 23. 23, about to be 24. As I look back on the... No, but I'm just saying, like, this has been the most fun.

So I'm not one of those people who's like... Because there are people who are like, oh, we lose all the time. I'm in the summer of my life right now. But then there's also... The second part of that is people who think, like, we're assholes. We are. We're scumbags. But at the same time, like, Rico the other day was still bringing up, like, throwing snowballs at Santa.

We don't care to hear about Rico. I'm just saying, like, the throwing snowballs thing is what a lot of people use is just... It is your brand. You booed Santa Claus once. In the 80s or whenever that was. That counts. It happens. That was years ago, bro.

You called me, bro. No, bro. Are Philly fans the only ones that are that their brand is assholesishness? Is there anybody else out there? I mean, masholes. You know who else is. St. Louis Cardinals fans are assholes,

but it's because they call themselves the best fans in baseball. You can't call yourself the best fans in anything. Yeah, they're just like pretentious about it. Yeah, they're dickhairs. I would say it's like just the East Coast in general. It's New York, it's Philly, it's Boston. Those three markets. That section of the country really does fucking suck.

Those are where the assholes come from. We don't talk about it enough. Where does it end? I don't know that Baltimore's assholes. I think Baltimore gets free of it. Are y'all assholes? I think Baltimore is like a more like rural culture than it is like a city. Hmm.

Okay. Are we going to explain why we're all wearing jerseys, by the way? I wasn't going to. Oh, okay. I just thought, I just thought Jersey would speak for itself. Okay. This was your idea. And then I walked in wearing this and you got, you're disgusting.

I don't think that's a jersey. That's a shirt. It's a kid. That's a soccer shirt. How are we spelling, by the way? I don't know what the official spelling on that is. Well, how would we spell it? I was thinking it would be J-E-R-Z day.

Why would there be a Z? Just because it was cooler. I don't know. What was this the late? Is this the late 90s early 2000? You want to wear Zubaz pants too? That was a great time in my life. Are we extreme?

Is this the extreme version of? So would it be J-E-R-S? Yeah. Okay. I'm going to tweet that out right now. You can use a Z if you'd like. Use a couple Zs. Use two Zs.

No, you know what? Get crazy. Get crazy. Get crazy. Use three Zs. Because I think if we use three Zs, we're tapping into like the skateboarding crowd. Like throw an X in there somewhere. Two Zs in the middle and a Z at the end, Thursdays.

Let them know we're cool. Like if, yeah. It's going out from the account. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, let them know. You know what? We're not like those other sports. Here's a bucket of Zs.

Use as many as you want. Use as many Zs as you want. You unleash me. It's your fault. There we go. X-X Thursday. The kids love it. This is like an Xbox 360 gamer tag in 2008.

We need some lowercase X's in there on the end. Yeah. Yeah, so everyone's going to be like, these guys look kind of old, like their beards are white. Yeah. But they seem pretty. pretty fucking cool for being old guys. They got Z's.

They got Z's and X's. We got Z's in 69. Yeah, you're just, what's your, what's your bone to pick with every time I talk about like United States, anything, you just like,

don't give a fuck. No, it's not that. It's very disappointing. It's not that. Although I do support. You didn't care about the, you didn't care about the women's world cup.

You didn't care about the, the Fibble World. Not because I hate the United States. You didn't care about the Feeba World Cup, the USA team. Basketball doesn't matter in August. And then I walk in wearing this and you roll your eyes. Because that's not a jersey, that's a shirt.

What's the difference between what they're wearing? What TJ's wearing? I don't know. I'm just being a difficult bitch. You want to do guys naming dudes U.S. soccer players? Alexi, uh, Lawless. Uh, Rockers. Yeah, he is.

Yeah, he is. Yeah, he is a Brian McBride. Tony Miola. Casey Keller. Kobe Jones. Landon Donovan. Landon Donovan. Landon, good one.

That's, that's, uh, this is the, I think, 2010 U.S. soccer. Tim Howard. Tim Howard. I'm almost out. DeMarcus Beasley. You made that one up. I think he's from Kansas State. He's from, uh...

Right? Your number two pick? He's from Indiana, I think, DeMarxie. That's pretty good. That was good. Clint Dempsey. I need one more just to feel good.

But I don't have it. It's not in my brain. Oh, the, the new kid that scores all the goal. Polic. God damn you. Yeah, I did it. So that one counts. TJ, give me another point.

Jose you out the door. How did you get a point? Because I was the one that said it. You couldn't come up with it. I was telling you who it was. But I got the answer. That's a, that's a point for me.

You know the guy who scores all the goals in soccer? Yeah, what the fuck, dude? How come you never point out of him and give me a point? Because you don't score points. I'm not only one of scores points on the show. I brought Tommy Walker a minute.

Brian, I feel like you could have used, you could have used like LeBron there. Because if you wanted to be on U.S. Soccer, he could be. Yeah. We established that, yes.

Do you want to talk about LeBron? You apparently. do i i mean lebron his manager's doing steroids uh that's his manager mark that's his manager i want to do a show this is for the this is for the summer if this show lasts that long um we should like this is this would be like peak offseason content as we uh go through like the best uh excuses for steroids like the best uh oh yeah yeah yeah yeah the best like coverups the best steroid coverups were like Peyton manning was getting shit sent to his wife right wasn't that a thing that was my favorite is rafiel palmero

forgot how to speak English in front of Congress. No, that wasn't, he didn't forget how to speak English. No, Sammy Sosa forgot how to speak English. Radvale Palmyra was a defender. Yeah. I have never, you sons of bitches. Oh, wait, yeah, I kind of did. But other than those times.

And then Mark McGuire was, I don't want to talk about the past. Yeah. I'm not here to talk about the past. Yeah, and then Lance Armstrong. What the fuck do you think you're here to talk about, Mark? Lance Armstrong tried to, like, ruin everybody's life and career. Yeah. And then Rick Riley cried.

We found out that, Really? Yeah, because remember Rick Riley was like, I will cut my dick off if Lance. I looked Lance Armstrong in the eyes. And I said, Lance, are you doing steroids? And he said no. Oh, another one, Aaron Rogers and Ryan Braun.

Aaron Rogers said that about Ryan Braun. He was like, he's definitely not doing steroids. Yeah, he looked me in the eye. Yeah, he looked me in the eye. I know him. He's not doing steroids. Turns out people that will put steroids in their body to make it bigger. They probably have no problem looking you in the eye and telling you an untruth.

Yeah. Has anybody ever fallen off faster than Rick Riley, by the way? I think Rick Riley got the bag and just got got got out. He went to ESPN and that was it. It was just, I think, I think Rick Riley is sneakily living an awesome life. He's got like a house in Italy and like a house in Southern California.

I'm sure he is, but he hasn't written anything interesting in 20 years. Doesn't need to. He bounces back and forth from like ball and ass house to ball and ass house and then tweets about shit that happened seven days ago. He does, he does have a delay on his Twitter. And he also kind of has a little Magic Johnson tone to his Twitter too.

Yeah, yeah. I can't wait to see. his take on the Mexican aliens a week and a half. What if those aliens are real, though? I mean, like, we laughed at them. I didn't realize until after we got done with the show, how small they were.

They're like this big. They're like this big. They're like Dave Portnoy. They're like this big. They're like this big. We were talking about the NBA. Yeah. Yeah.

The, the, uh, you got it, Mark. Well, I was the segue. The reason I wanted to talk about, about the braun is because the story in the NBA right now is that they're passing like a mandate it's so fucking funny that they have to do this as a league they're basically Adam silver has put his foot down and he said um you guys have to try he was like all the team you know the thing we do every night we have games you got to play in

them so as it turns out the B and NBA stands for basketball right and occasionally you got to do some if you think about it like I've always viewed this is an NBA thing and it is an NBA thing because if you think about Major League Baseball and NFL, nobody has to tell NFL players to play. No. And they're risking their lives playing. Right. Nobody has to tell NHL players to play.

Nobody has to tell anybody else to play. But they got to tell NBA basketball players. But that's the uncomfortable conversation you have about the load management stuff is that you do always inevitably venture into like whether you're siding with ownership or the players. Right. And it's hard to talk about because I think like, Every single fan is like, yeah, I want the fucking players to play.

But then if you start hashing out why they're not, you know. But common sense, Mark, it does dictate, listen, if you're going to an NBA game, if you're buying tickets, these things are not cheap and you go and the Lakers are in town to see your team, let's say you're a grisly fan and LeBron doesn't play. Like, you paid 10 times more for that ticket than you should have at that point. You're just getting robbed. No, I remember when people would make these arguments and, you know, the coastal elites would roll their eyes. be like, get over it.

That's not, you know, the players have power. What do you don't like, you don't want the players to have power? But now, I'm glad that it has gotten to a point where everyone realizes that is, that's a fair criticism of the league. That's a fair criticism that, uh, oh, it's a very fair. If you live, I mean, yeah, as a guy that grew up in Indianapolis, Lakers would come to town one time a year. Right.

And if Kobe and Shaq weren't playing, I'd be pretty fucking shitty that I spent that much money on that I, yeah. Because as soon as the schedule comes out and Pacers fans see when the Lakers game is, they pounce on it. Right. Drives a ticket price up. Kobe doesn't play. I remember the first time I saw LeBron play, it was 2007. I bought tickets like two months in advance. I was so excited. And the night before, he got hurt in Washington. And I thought he's not going to play. And it destroyed me the entire next day. I still went. And then he was questionable. He was late minute he did play. And it made it up. But if he hadn't played, it would have ruined my entire experience. Ruin my entire experience. Now, Ebo, explain the rule to us. Yeah, read the rules to us. So essentially, if you have a player that is designated as a star, which is if you made an NBA All-Star team or an All-MBA team in the last three years, you can only sit one of them a night for quote-unquote rest.

That seems to be a wide definition of star. Yes. It is a very, well, I guess they wanted to make like an objective way to define a star. How many stars are in the league right now? There are 49 stars. I think Star, yeah, we got to get rid of that definition of star because there are some shitty all-stars. But you have to define Star. if you're going to have a rule like this.

Have you had sex with a Kardashian? Star. Well, Chris Humphreys. Those guys are pretty good at low-ad management, am I right? Go ahead and give Ebo. Ebo point. Give Ebo a point. Why is Ebo get a point?

That was good. Wait a minute. Hold on. We're at 44. We're at 44 and a half days? Yeah, we're going to do like an afternoon opening. No, but you're right. Like, there's guys that are not defined as stars.

Like, Jamal Murray is not defined as a star. Which is insane. Kauai Leonard's probably not a star, is he, or is he on the list? Because I feel like Kauai Leonard, if you go back to the last three years, has a star. He has? Oh, here's our stars? I feel like he hasn't probably.

Boy, I can't tell you how many times I've been going to a Hawks game praying Deonti Murray would play. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Wait, hold on. Ben Simmons is the only star on the next? These are the stars. They don't have to worry about load management. He's done.

Okay. I am surprised Kauai is on the list, but, Like, he's obviously a star, but I don't, so some of these make sense. But if you only have one star, I guess couldn't you sit Yokic whenever you want? Fred Van Vleet's not a star. Fred Van Vleet's a very good player. He's not a star.

Yeah. Drew Holliday's not a star. At this point, is Rudy Gober a star? Like Rudy Gober. He's a punchline. Yeah, he's a punchline. Oh, wait. But to your point, to your point, to your point, I think I do,

if I'm going to see the Timberwells, do want Rudy Gobert to play because I want to boo the shit out of them. So that's part of the, that is part of the experience for me. Zion Williamson is just hilarious. Like, he, he doesn't play.

He hasn't played basketball, so he's on the list that you can't sit him out. He's doing load management at all times. His whole life is load management. Zion has to play the tip. He plays the tip. He waddles down the court twice and then he gets subbed out. Demontes the bonus.

Yeah, why can't they just do like the, your highest paid player. Isn't that just seem obvious? Lori Marken's a star? Yeah, I mean, this is like a startling advantage for the Denver Nuggets

who just won an NBA championship and now they can rest theoretically if they want Aaron Gordon, Jamal Murray, and Michael Porter Jr., who are not considered stars. But can't they also rest Yokic whenever they won't?

Because the rule is you can't rest more than one and they only have one. Wait. What does it matter for teams that only have one? Right. That just doesn't affect those teams? I think the teams that have one player that's more for like

when you're resting them on the road in home. One of the rules is you have to arrest them more at home than on the road, right? Yes. Vincent's being the one guy on the debts. But that kind of doesn't make sense because back-to-backs are usually on the road, correct? You can play a home back-to-back. I guess you could.

But let me see the list again. Yeah, throw the list up. I don't ever take the list down, please. I just, I... Yeah, scroll back up. Scroll back up. What about guys who are, like, coming off injuries? Say, I'm going to use him, for example, he's not a star yet, but Chet Holmgren just missed the year because of stress fracture in his, he probably isn't well enough to play 82 games, especially with a lot of back-to-backs.

So if he were, if he had made an all-rooky team, would he be exempt from this? Or would he, how would that work? How do you, yeah, how do you? What if a guy gets an injury in the middle of season, misses six weeks, and then they want to bring him back slowly? So these are the five circumstances that they provide as exceptions. So multi-game absence is for a bona fide injury. So I assume that would apply to people who are recovering from surgeries. He's bona fide.

Personal reasons, rare and unusual circumstances, roster management of unavailable star players and end of season flexibility. You didn't like my old brother where art that quote right there? He's bona fide. He's got prospects. No. Yeah, I don't. TJ, give me a point.

No, no, no. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, not for that. Bro's on his knees begging for points. I was looking for a scoreboard yesterday, like a physical one. An actual scoreboard? Like a flip scoreboard. I couldn't find it. You know what we should do for the new studio?

We should go to a high school that's down on its luck or something to get their old scoreboard or something. We used to buy them a new one. My father was a, his career was a high school athletic director. Yeah. And when the high school that he was the AD at was getting rid of their scoreboards, he just brought them home. Yeah, that's awesome. And we had a hoop in our driveway growing up. and we would put the scoreboard like right at the garage so when you'd open the garage door

the scoreboard was just on full display and we like I would I would play my brother one-on-one and we would every every bucket we would let me go over and flip the scoreboard and you even drive by our house and we have this huge fucking scoreboard and it's like nine to seven that's awesome that's incredible it was very cool yeah yeah um get us a high school scoreboard please I look into it all right good on Adam silver though good on the NBA for taking this initiative And I think the important thing we need to... Why are you looking like you're reading that? Because I'm reading...

Yeah, I'm the straight man on the show. You're the other guy. And so I want to look professional and have my notes in front of me. The important thing about this, I think we can all agree, is that none of these players, none of these teams

are going to try to find loopholes in this. Correct. Yeah. And so I think this is a great initiative. And we will see these stars. Going back, not to be a reductionist or anything, but going back to the very beginning, It is amazing.

A professional sports league that pays salaries in the millions and tens of millions of dollars has to make a rule that you all have to play. You all have to play. I think Star is just like porn. You know it when you see it, you know? I really do think that it should just be like a vibes thing. Do you think it's, I mean,

it's got to be an accomplishment when you become a guy that gets to, that can't sit as much? Yeah. If you're, if you're in a league three years and you can sit whenever you want, you're nobody. Wouldn't it be funny? Wouldn't it be funny if this backfires and guys,

they're like, all right, I have to play, but now I'm going to, like, suck on purpose so that way I don't make the All-Star team, so that way as the three-year window. Right. And the All-Star game is now terrible? Even the All-Star game, yeah. It just becomes the Nets against the Clippers.

No, that might actually save the All-Star game because you'd have a bunch of dudes that, like, aren't making a ton of money. It's all dudes that are making, like, 700 grand a year. Yeah, no. They start busting their ass in the All-Star game. I've long said what the All-Star game needs is worse players.

That's definitely what the All-Star game needs The All-Star game sucks right now The All-Star game fucking sucks Why did they go away from East and West? It's the dumbest thing ever East and West, it's easy Put them on the East, put them on the West I don't know why we're doing team LeBron team whoever

It's just dumb Why would you root for that? It's for the draft that you can then laugh At who gets picked last And I don't I don't care Do you care? No, no Who would win an all-time dunk contest by the way?

All-time dunk contest Of the dunk contest winners You put all the dunk contest winners and do a pool who would win it. Spud Webb because I think... Vince Carter, right? Are you talking about, like, who had the greatest performance of all time?

I'm saying... I'm saying who would win an all-time dunk contest with all the dunk contests. I think it's Spudweb because I do think that... I think when you're that small and you're dunking, you can just basically do anything. But what about Nate Robinson? He was a much better dunker than Spudwhip.

He won every... Didn't he, like, win every single time he entered? Right, but Nate Robinson was a better dunker than Spudwet. Spudweb's dunks were not very... But Nate Robinson wasn't first. Spud Webb was the first little dude. But this is an all-time dunk contest now. But do we have the, like, I don't think you can have two little dudes out there.

They both won, though. It's winners. But I think they have to sit down and decide who wants to be the guy. We stack them on top of each other, and now they're one big dude. Now they go against Dwight Howard. They got to do the Superman. Nate Robinson's dunks were probably better, yeah. They were a lot better.

Spud Webb's dunks were not good. They were just. Spud Webb was dunking against Plummers and Fireman, is what you're saying. Yeah. He did beat Dominique Wilkins, but he was just like literally just, going off the backboard and one hand dunking it, and it was amazing. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

When you're a smaller, if you're under six foot, basically. He was five, six. Yeah. Yeah. If you're under, it honestly is like six foot. If you're like an under six foot dude

and you just dunk at all, people go fucking bananas for it. And I think you're going to win the dunk contest. Yeah. You want a dunk contest, right, Brandon? Tell us that story. The 1990s. Go ahead and read the ad.

Connor. Do we have an ad? We don't have an ad? We don't have an ad? Oh, we do. It's right next to you, Brandon. Yeah. Yeah, we do.

Yeah, we do. I got to tell you about the great folks. Get ready because you're next. Okay. I got to tell you about the great folks at cars.com. I love folks. Sorry, I wanted you to tell that dunk contest story. I will tell it right up to the ad.

But unfortunately, we have to do the ads. I will tell it right after the ad. We don't have time for that. So do the ad and we'll move on to what's next. Let me tell you something. In 1997, when I entered the slam dunk contest at West Point High School, it would have been incredible to have a prize be a car. Because we could have gone, the people that organized the dunk contest

could have gone to cars.com and had their pick of the litter. Good segue. And when I walked off, I wouldn't have been given a $5 bill as my winning purse. I would have been given. A $5.

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A Kia. A Kia Optima? I think it was a Kia Optima. All right, I want you today. What do you want? I can't just do the same thing as yesterday. Yeah, what do you want to have this one? I don't know.

I want it in your Reds announcer after. Castile. Yeah, yeah. I wanted that tone. I wanted that tone. Do it in like an apologetic, like, yeah. I've been here a long time and I'm sorry. Yeah, or like you're, yeah, you're, yeah, it's a sad story.

You're earlier, it's like, it's college game day and it's a cancer story. And like, the tone shifts. Tom Rinaldi just went off screen. Yes. Yes. Now it's like, oh, shit, this is. You want it apologetic, though? 20 minutes ago, you said a slur.

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for 2 million possibilities. Cars.com. Where to next? That was pretty good. I was trying to do the, because you've had me do the Tom Brennaman before. I was trying to tap into that. Well, it makes it so funny

and what made Tom Brinnaman? Yeah, Tom Brinman. That's a, boy, that's a mouthful. That's what got in trouble. All right, give Brandon a point. That was good. That was good. Give Brandon a point.

All right, fine. We'll give Brandon a point for that. What makes it so funny is you, like, can't change your voice. So you still have the announcer voice as you're trying to. You can't turn it off. You're still like... Did he ever resurface anywhere? I think he was doing high school games in Ohio somewhere. Yeah. He was on outkick, wasn't he? Didn't he have... Isn't he doing

something with Clay Travis on out kick? I think at one point he was maybe trying to get in here in somewhere for him. He was LinkedIn requesting a bunch of production people at Barstall. Yeah. Wow. Should I get Tom Brineman to be my second chair? Should we get Tom Brinnaman right here? Right here every day. Say it. Say it. Come on, Tom.

Come on, buddy. All right. Live show, Tom. Here we go. Good luck, Tom. It's just like a monkey in a zoo. We all just cross our arms and stare out of them. We should do a show with Tom and Ben Mitz.

There are our fillings. When we get sick or like we're on the road to it, something. Just a random Friday, you're going to tune into mostly sports and it's Tom Bruneman and Ben Mitz. All right. I should have had a deep drive. drive to left field in there. No, that's all right.

Oh, holy shit. College football. It's almost time to get silly, but we got, we got college football to talk about first. I see you eyeballing that hat. I am. About 10 minutes to go, I'll get the hat. College football, there's, I don't know if this is going to happen all year. I really don't.

But there's another, uh-oh, a coach-disrespected Dion story today. And it is. Was there, I miss this? Yeah. Do you get alerts for this shit? I don't know how I texted it. My college football guys texted to me. But so Jay Norvel is the coach of Colorado State.

They play Colorado this weekend. Jay Norvel was talking and he was like, I don't know how they got on the topic. But USA Today made an article about this today. I guess they wrote the article. They didn't make it. But they said, Jay Norvel said, I'm an adult and when I'm in a room with adult,

I take my hat off and I'm respectful. And the next article, the next sentence in the USA Today article was Deion Sanders is known to not take. his head off among adults in press conferences. But I look further into it, I thought, we're really stretching now. We're stretching. But I look more into it. And Jay Norvel was kind of calling out Dion for being a dickhead.

Yeah, he was doing him on purpose. He was doing it on purpose. He was doing it on purpose. So now this is the third week of the season. They're two and O. And we have a third person. It's personal. The first two.

Every year. It's personal again. The first two were, I think, made up. Like last week, there was that Matt Rule stood on the Colorado a logo before the game started. Every coach in America stands at midfield before the game starts. That one was a weird one for me too, because I think there are instances where you can obviously disrespect the other team by like stomping on their logo or spinning on the logo.

Whatever else. What did Kyrie Irving do to the Celtics? He had unprotected sex on the logo. That's right. Which was weird. That's right. I remember that being a conversation when he went back to Boston and he like stepped on the logo and I've never really

The logo's on the court is on the field. You can step on, you gotta step on it. Like that's, that's how it works. But yeah, so that one was way, I could, I could understand it, but at the same time, I was like, I don't, unless they like did something. Do you think that's one of the softest things we do in sports?

Oh, he stepped on our logo. Who gives a fuck about your logo? Don't, aren't hockey guys like, they can't, big about the logo in the locker room? Yeah, you can't, you got to walk around it or something like that. That one, that was really. Like, that's a locker room.

Yeah. Are you superstitious at all? A little. I'm not Was that an attempt at like a Michael Scotcho? It was You know what? Take Brandon's point away

Take his point away for the Bruneman joke Take it away That was I like that it's like a call your own foul system For the points And Titus is the only one I'm going to score I try

I win every day It's crazy And no Patis was like not not a foul Checkball Checkball Yeah, I hated check ball. The idea was, we're going back and forth, playing one-on-one.

Checkball was like, we were two years into doing the show, and we both look at each other. We're like, I can't fucking believe our name, our name, Checkball. I just got to get away from Checkball. Yeah, mostly sports, though, is great because you can't find it anywhere when you search. Yes, it works because. If Google Mostly Sports, you can't find us. It works because it's so anonymous. And anytime you're trying to launch a brand, you want to be as anonymous as possible.

Absolutely. College football We talked about this when you came on my show this week The playoff picture Do you think With how you keep like towing or touching on the idea That there's a lot of balance in college football this year I think it's spread out

Do you think it is tracking towards absolute chaos For the playoff picture by the time we get to the end of the season? I think it's tracking towards chaos relative to what we've seen in recent years Where you have like five or six teams for four spots I think this time you could have eight or nine teams for four spots. Like in the Big Ten alone, I think the possibility of 11-1, 11-1-11-1-1 from those big three is very much in play. Now, that all depends if Ohio State can handle business when they go to Notre Dame. That's it.

If you hate the Big Ten, if you hate seeing Big Ten teams in the playoff, you have to cheer very hard for Notre Dame to beat Ohio State. Because if Ohio State beats Notre Dame, the Big Ten's probably getting two teams. But the thing about that is, Mark, that if Notre Dame beats Ohio State, they just kind of replace Ohio State in the playoff conversation. So, like, I don't know that it really clears up that much. So I think Florida State is going to have a legitimate. I think they're very good. I think they're going to roll through the ACCC. I think Texas is going to roll through the Big 12.

I think somebody's coming out of the Pac-12, which might be the best conference in the country this year. Somebody's coming out of the Big Ten. Maybe two teams are coming out of the Big Ten to talk about. Maybe two teams out of the SEC to talk about. Like, that's seven. And I haven't really stretched out yet. So I think there's going to be a lot of contenders this year.

There's going to be a lot of good football all through the season. And I'm excited that it's not just, all right, let's buy it our time until Georgia, Alabama, win the national title. Because I don't think that's what it is this year. Yeah. Let's do some reading schedules. I'm just going to read some schedules. That's something you got to do on sports shows every so often, especially football. You just read the schedule.

And Notre Dame, yeah, they have Ohio State. That's next week. At Louisville's Louisville good. Not really. Not really. But there's like some excitement to the program. They're probably eight and four good. They got a bunch of transfers and a new coach, yes.

they play USC at Clemson. Sure. Those are games they're going to play. And then they finish at Stanford. So that's Notre Dame schedule. Do you have a comment about the schedule? No, no, no. That's not how the segment works.

You just read the schedule. Oh, yeah. Just laying out the path. You just lay out the path. Yeah. Without regard to what the path might bring. No, you just kind of lay out the path so people know who Notre Dame plays. Give me Ohio State schedule.

So Ohio State, let's read some schedules. Ohio State at Notre Dame next week. Sure. At Purdue is sneaky. Yeah. Ohio State loses at Purdue every time they play Purdue. Purdue is pretty trash though. It's at Purdue.

Purdue is trash pretty often. If Ohio State's ranked in the top five, they will lose at Purdue. Spoiler makers. There are the spoiler makers. At Wisconsin, which I, Wisconsin doesn't seem to be as good as we were hoping they would be. No, I don't think they are. At Rutgers, TJ. Big one.

Are you all going to fight? And then Michigan State and at Michigan, Penn State. Why are you still reading schedules? Sorry. I thought that was... That's what you do. I thought that was what you do. You just read schedules as we flesh up here.

I like when you do two things. A, you read schedules because that's what they do. And then when you finish making a point, you tap your notes, dude. That's what you do. You tap your notes. See all these notes we have? You tap your...

Why would we have these notes if we weren't professional broadcasters? It would make no sense to have these notes. That by the way, we're giving to us at 850 goddamn seven. That's true. Okay. Subscribe to the show, by the way. We hit 10,000 subscribers, I saw before we sat down this morning. So thank you to everybody.

Thank you. In fact, I'm going to say this. I'm going to announce on the show that when we hit 20,000 subscribers, I'm taking the boys out to dinner. And you guys can all pick, you guys can all pick where we go. The only caveat is when you look, when you look the restaurant up on Google Maps, it can't say $100 plus. It has to be less. It has to be like, like if you want to do $50 to $100, that counts. You don't do $100 plus on it.

You want to celebrate the milestone, but not too much. Don't do this. I'm just throwing it out there. Don't do this. Because when I had you in my house, when I had you in my house, I had no regard for how much the stakes cost. If you were a true co-host and not a sidekick, you would be going half-season on this and you'd be like, I'll take half the tab and we'll take these three boys out to dinner.

But, you know, obviously it's my show and you're my sidekekeek. Well, you're the one. I guess I'll have to pick up the tab. Well, you didn't talk to me about this. You just simply did it yourself. How about this? At 15,000 subscribers, I'll take the boys off the dinner. All right.

Hurry on. Yeah. And I don't care where we go. At 14,000 subscribers. As long as it's reasonable. As long as it's reasonable, within reason, I don't care where we go. So you do care. So that's worse.

What? Because I'm defining my reason. I'm defining what is the thing. Within reason. Could mean anything, Mark. Because, dude, if you look at, if you get on Google Maps, like the restaurants that are 100 plus are kind of, like, we don't want to go to those anyway. Because I don't want to fucking dress up to go. go to dinner. It's basically just like pick a restaurant where you can like at 15,000

subscribers I'll pay for dinner and I don't care what you guys wear you can wear anything you want. It would be cool if we got all dressed up and I went to like an applebee's or something I do I do kind of want to dress up just to be honest that would be fun. So so 15,000 you're taking everyone out to dinner well most of them yeah I'm not coming we'll see we'll see how it goes at 12,000 actually how about this 15,000 me 20,000 you at 25,000 you Y'all got to take us out to dinner. I'm fine with that. Okay?

That's cool. At 30,000, we draw a name out of a hat and a random fan has to take the whole show to dinner. Yes? So I thought I was going to do something cool for the boys. At 50,000. Brandon just turned it into a mockery because you're in your feelings about. At 50,000, Big Cat takes us. And at 100,000, Dave Portnoy has us to his house for dinner personally.

And at 150,000, at 150,000, we get out of our contracts and take the show somewhere else. At 150,000, we sell the show to ESPN. At 150, we're out of this bitch. No, I am. I know Brandon's joking, and Brandon is definitely not going to drive down from Wisconsin and take the boys out. But I will, at 20,000, I will take the boys out to dinner. Thank you, Mom.

How quick do you think we-smash the subscribe button? If you want to see these boys feasting. I mean, these boys ain't missing any of me. What else is going on, Brandon, you want to talk about? Thursday night game tonight. Fuck as I know. Thursday night. All right.

I thought it was interesting because, you know, it's one of those. I don't like to talk gambling on the show, but week two is such a strange week in any sport. You look at what happens in week one, like the Vikings being so disappointing, right? And you think, well, that'll carry over. The Vikings aren't very good. And they could literally, they could go out and beat the Eagles tonight. And I hope the Vikings play the Eagles tonight. Is that right?

Yes. Okay, good. You are correct. What day of the week is it? It is Thursday. Okay. It's actually, Jersey. It's XX.

It's Thursday. Thursday. 69 XXXX. 69. Um, yeah, I'm, I don't know. Vikings Eagles is boring. I'm trying to make it sexy, but it's whatever. Oh, the Eagles did not play super well.

The Vikings obviously lost to the Buccaneers. Um, I, but, but this, this feels like a game that, uh, even though the Eagles want, the Eagles, Pat's game is so weird because I feel like the Eagles lost and the Patriots. one based on like the vibes around both teams coming out of the game. But that's not, in fact, that's not what happened. The Eagles did win. You're the, you're the Philly representative, Connor. How do you feel?

Yes, I am. About one, how the Eagles played week one, two, tonight. My issue was more so with coaching. We had to replace both coordinators and Brian Johnson, former Mississippi State guy, is now in an OC. And I thought his play quarterback. Oh, the quarterback? Yeah.

He's your OC? He was on NCAA 05, 04. He was a cover athlete. 07? He was a cover athlete. Sure. But he was, I thought he did not call a good game at all. So that's my main issue.

It's not necessarily that we don't have, you know, the same guys that we did last year. You know, I'm not worried about Jalen Hertz, even though he was sluggish. But it was mainly just we need to get in a groove with the new coaches getting acclimated and everything like that. Kind of a boring take on that. When Greg Oden was a cover athlete, did you all get free video games? No, no. I was in that video game, I think. You should have been?

Yeah, I think I was. Because he was. No, he wasn't. Oh, it was that year after, but you're still there, right? Yeah. I think I was in two video games, and the first one wasn't even close to me. Like Ohio State number 34 was like a 6-9 black guy or something, you know. And then I think the second one I was in was actually me.

I think it was like a 6-4, yeah, slow-game. Well, you're not 64, but I understand closer. Thursday night football's gotten better, hasn't it? It has. It used to be the dregs of football, but now it's gotten better. Well, they put effort into it. Yeah, they started putting some effort into it. And they got, you know, the Eagles obviously went to the Super Bowl last year,

and the Vikings were a playoff team as well. So it'll be good. What's the worst matchup that can be on prime time as far as uniform combinations? Because Eagles Vikings is a good uniform matchup. It's going to be a pretty, a pretty scene. The worst. Yeah. It got to be Brown Steelers.

And then they play a lot. But Browns Steelers is an ugly game. Browns Bingles is kind of ugly. Browns Bengals is kind of ugly. Browns Bingles is kind of ugly. You can't have two orange helmet. on the field one time. Yeah, that was, that was, that's uglier than I, I, I realized until the game is,

is happening in front of you. We, we, we, we made it a long time in the show without, without, without getting silly, without getting silly. Can I have the hat? I'm fighting right now, because I feel like I got a bugger. The hats, the hats up here. All right. Give me the top hat.

I don't want the same hat every day. What do you think I'm some sort of, so. I figured out a, I figured out a use for the top hat, by the way. What is it? So, I want to do a thing on the show. I had this idea before. where you said the meat riding's crazy little bro to Dave on the college football show,

that I want to, I want to on the, I swear this one. Okay. I want to have, I want to write down a bunch of phrases, put them in the hat, and then every so often I draw one out of the hat.

You have to close your eyes. I show it to the audience. And then I'm going to just say that word or that phrase as often as possible and just try to like slip it in and see if you can notice what it is. An example would be I just call touchdowns tuttees. I would do that, like a key phrase,

key phrase kind of day. Yeah. And you're in the dark, but everyone else knows what it is. Can we write down phrases for announcer voice to say every now? Yeah. I mean, I don't for that.

I think that what the hat is, is just a bunch of prompts. It could be something for somebody to say. It could be something to talk about. It could be a guys naming dudes. And we just pull and that's what we do. Okay, I like that too. Yeah.

So if you have any suggestions in the chat, We should just write You're all right? Yeah, I don't know Episode 3 This is episode 3 man I'm not Sneeze again, I got sneeze again

I have sneeze Is this part of the The silly No, I thought I had sneeze I like the idea Just like writing athletes names down And putting them in the hat too And we just like draw one out

And it says Nolan Ryan And then What do we do with Nolan Ryan? We just talk about Nolan Ryan He said He beat up Robin Ventura once Yeah

And that was awesome He also pitched until he was like 50 years old. Yeah, he's one of those, he's one of those athletes whose name is bigger than he was actually good. Like he was very good, but he's not like a top 10 pitcher all time. He's got like the Babe Ruth myth to him, though. He's got Babe Ruth myth to him, although Babe Ruth was good. And then Pete Rose is another one of those guys that played so long that he became a legend. Like he is a legend, but he wasn't like, see?

He's not a top 20 hitter in baseball. If we drew Nolan Ryan out of a hat, we just do what we just did. We kind of just did it though. What do you want to get silly about? Is there anything? I don't want to get silly, but I, well, naturally, we are silly. A luxury cruise liner is stranded between two glaciers and freezing cold temperatures as COVID spreads about the ship. What?

Yeah, John Rich blogged it. You want to guess the price tag on the cruise? I'm going to say it was $5,000. Not even close. The way you said it was, it's an expensive cruise liner. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're not close. 10,000? Not close.

20,000. get a little close a 50,000 dollar cruise costs and they are now stranded outside of greenland where are they going well greenland seems to be one of the places i don't um i need something else in this headline if i'm being completely honest what do you know what are you missing covid in 2023 doesn't hit the same like like saying covid boy i had it three weeks ago and that motherfucker hit hard it hit good but it doesn't i like when i read that covid sprit like this would have hit in 2020 i would have been like oh shit i think that's a dune's scenario i need i need some diarrhea somewhere I need some.

You do not want to be aboard a cruise ship when dysentery breaks out. Yeah. Dysentery, if you're like, everybody is shitting their pants and vomiting everywhere. Yeah. I'm into this. And this is an interesting story.

I think it's got too many words in it. A luxury cruise liner is stranded between two glaciers and freezing cold temperatures. I don't think freezing cold temperatures is needed there if they're between two glaciers. Are you playing editor right now? I think I can put together that it's cold if they're between two glaciers. How did COVID? I thought COVID didn't like the cold. Did we come up with that a couple years ago?

Do we, remember that? Where do you get your news? No, no, I remember when COVID started. Michael Greer is. No, this is real. This is real. When COVID started, we were like, when it gets cold, it'll go away.

When COVID started, I think we were a lot of things. I think we were like, yeah, we didn't know what was going on. I think that was kind of the point of why it was. Remember staying at your house for three weeks? I think that was why it was a wild time is because no one knew what it was going to do to do. Did you enjoy staying at your house? We thought Tom Hanks was going to die, like, immediately. Like, when Tom Hanks was like, I have COVID, I remember like thinking,

There's no, I don't know that we have any indication he didn't die. Did you see Elvis? I mean, that was a really bad acting job. That's probably not Tom Hanks. You didn't like it? You didn't like it? I didn't like Tom Hanks in that. That movie was an hour too long.

I haven't actually watched it. Okay. So you got me. I don't watch movies. What do you want to do? Take another point away from Brandon. Why are you taking another point away from me? Did Travis Kelsey, Taylor Swift situation?

Do you care about this at all? I'd be lying if I said no. But I'd be lying if I said yes. So I'm somewhere in the middle. do I care who she's dating no but the fact that it's a famous athlete kind of makes me care a little bit how about that the part that makes me care is he called a shot I respect that that was a baller movie how do he call a shot he was just like on his podcast and he was like Taylor hit me up let's date basically that's not calling a shot at all that's calling her he was also he was going to go to the Taylor Swift concert and he had a bracelet one of those like cool bracelets that

they would do at the Swifties with like sharing everything and he was going to try and get it to Taylor fuck Travis Kelsey did you see Insink got together the other night Did they? Yeah. On the VMAs, they came out all together, and they gave Taylor a bracelet. Who's your favorite member of in sync, Lance Bass? No, Justin Timberlake. Although Lance Bass is second.

You have something in common with Lance Bass, right? We're both from Mississippi, correct. That's what I met. Yeah, he's from Clinton, Mississippi. That's what I was talking about. I like Joey Fat One, too. Joey Fat one's a good one. All right.

Are we done with the show? We're close. We could just end it, right? Did you see this beach hole in Ireland that they thought was aliens, but it turned out to just be two dudes digging with a shovel? Why do we think everything's aliens? Why would aliens come here and dig a hole? A mysterious...

Hold on, hold on, hold on I go back. A mysterious hole on a beach has caused a stirred North Dublin. A little astronomy enthusiast is hoping the crater is... That just means meteorite. That doesn't mean alien. But look at that community note. in fact, not a cosmic event. Instead, it was dug out the day before by two lads.

And then we got video of them digging the hole with the beach spade. They did that with some little ass shovels, man. The guy thought it was aliens. I need to know Tommy Walker's thoughts on aliens. You want aliens next week? I think we want aliens. Can I put in a request? You can make requests.

I want a request for aliens. I'll put the camera up, say, Tommy, what about aliens? And that's all I'll say. and see where he goes. Let's see where he takes it. Here's something I want to ask you about. I saw that yesterday was the anniversary of the Auburn, Mississippi State,

three to two game. What are your memories of the 2008 Auburn win over Mississippi State where Mississippi State lost three to two? Do you ever go through all five emotions of grief in one night? That's what it was. By the end of that, it was total acceptance.

Like, okay, this makes sense. But there was anger. there was sadness, there was bargaining. If we could just get another penalty, we'd win four or three. It was all of that. But I went through every single emotion. Now, we came into that year thinking we were going to be like 10 and two good. And we lost a lot tech in the first game.

And then it was all, every game was like that where he lost three, two, just garbage, garbage, garbage. It was, 2008 was a bad time. How did the SEC get to a point where, like, LSU and Alabama could play in a national title game? And you could package that and market it to the rest of America as great football. But when the Big Ten does it, it's just like the shittiest, sloppiest football you've ever seen. Well, when have two Big Ten teams play for a national title?

That's true. That hasn't happened yet. You had a chance last year, neither one of you can win. But if like Ohio State and Michigan were a slobber knocker of a game, a barn burner. Well, that happened in 2006. We already talking about this season a little bit. 2006, it was 42-39. They were number one and number two.

And a lot of people won't a rematch. That's high score. That was a barn-burner is a lot of scoring, right? Bar-Barn-Burner. Barnburner is just close game to me. Barnburner is just a close game. I feel like it's a back and forth. A slobner knocker is a low score and close game.

I like that. Okay. I'll like that. So LSU Alabama in 2011 was a slobnernerner. It was nine to six, right? Yeah. And then so, yeah. So we like barn burner is better than slobnerner.

Barn burners are, yeah, are the back and forth like every, like USC, Texas in the Rose Bowl was a barn. But burning a barn doesn't sound. down good. Barnburner is like whoever has the ball last, they're going to score the game winning touchdown. It feels like that. Slobber knocker is like you kicked a field goal

halfway through the first quarter and that might be enough. Trying to see if it holds up. We'll see if that's going to hold up. I love that game when it was 9 to 6. The defensive talent there was incredible. I enjoyed that game immensely, but I know a lot of people don't because I'm of a higher class than most people.

All right. That's our first. Do we want to go through and point out what jersey? You guys wearing specific jerseys? I'm wearing Magic Johnson. I'm wearing Magic Johnson. Bryce Harper. More on the way, too.

My mom is sending me some jerseys. I got my Adley, Ruchman, Orioles big series this weekend. I'm going to go for the sweep. I'm wearing a Rutgers, Isaiah Pacheco jersey. All right. Is Bryce Harper's loved in Philly?

My favorite Phillies. So you guys just all wore your teams. I thought it was just, we were just celebrating. This is the only one I have right now. That's why I'm getting my mom to send me jerseys from home. But he wore Oreos, you wore Phillies. I could have worn Mississippi State. I should have worn Mississippi State.

Maybe. Titus loves America. I love America, yeah. I might just wear those jersey every Thursday. All right. Mostly sports. Subscribe, like, leave a comma. We'll be back tomorrow.

Silly Fridays. Silly Fridays. Are you going to watch the game tonight at least? I watch most of them. I'm going to a high school game tonight. Oh, my God.