Pardon My Take - Alex Rodriguez, In Luka We Trust And Who's Back Of The Week

Episode Date: August 24, 2020

We are now a Luka Doncic show. We recap the NBA playoffs, Luka being incredible, the Blazers running out of gas, the Sixers process is broken and more (223:50). Who's back of the week including North Korea and Madden Codes (23:50 - 35:50). Alex Rodriguez joins the show to talk baseball, the new season of Corp dropping this week, possibly owning the Mets and more (35:50 - 69:31). Segments include shoe roast for the new A's cargo hats, not to brag but we called it the NFL has figure out a way to beat Coronavirus and Billy's List.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/PardonMyTake

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You get $10 for free, $10 to the ASPCA. Today is Monday, August 24th, and we are officially a Luka Donchich Stan podcast. Hell yeah. Luka, baby. It's so fun to watch. It's a pretty good day to be a bitch-ass white boy like you and I are definitely card-carrying members of that group. Oh yeah, bitch-ass white boy crew 43, 17, and 13.

His second, he's half of the times that Luka Donchich has played in the playoffs, he's averaged a triple, he's had a triple-double, and he hit the game-winning shot and all on basically one ankle, and all without Kristaps Porzingis, and he electrified everyone, and guess what? He's 21 years old. I remember when I was 21 years old, I was beer-bonging whiskey, yeah, like a fucking idiot, and like jumping through tables and playing beer-pong and being like, oh my god, I had the greatest comeback ever.

I hit three cups when there was one left on my side. Luka Donchich is averaging a triple-double in the playoffs at 21. Yeah, when I was 21, if I could just not get lost on my way to work, that was a big accomplishment. Luka's merkin people, big, big week for people playing on one foot, our own Jake Marsh with a big victory as well. That's a key to victory in a real athletic competition, having one sprained ankle. I also, Luka is awesome.

I didn't think, I mean, he could single-handedly beat the Clippers now, especially we're going to talk about playoff PP in a second, but he has like, he is the story of the weekend. The Mavs go as Luka goes and I just, I'm just going to say it to the Hawks who traded him on draft night to the Kings that took Marvin Bagley. Bad drafts happen. They do. Don't worry about it. They do.

You miss on a generational superstar that is going to be incredible in the NBA for like the next 20 years. Shit happens, man. Right. He was playing overseas in weird leagues that are like the Big 12 of, well, it's like Texas League. He was playing in the best league in Europe and he was dominating there. So who would have known?

It is like the Texas Act. You thought he was like a system player. Who would have known? He was just as likely to be the next Darko as he was going to be the first Luka. But yeah, he's fucking awesome. And again, that Clippers perimeter defense sucks shit. And the Hawks could have had him. They sucked fast.

And so could the Kings. And the Suns. Those are the things where whenever Luka does something good, you can tell just by looking on Twitter, not because people are talking about Luka, but you see Marvin Bagley starts a trend. Yep. And that's a big thing. I've been there.

Yeah, it happened. It sucks. The one if we're going to nitpick Luka, I have a nitpick for you. Yeah. His Twitter handle. It's Luka7Donchich. It always looks like it's a local TV channel when I see it. It looks like eyewitness news.

I chickchniz news. Luka7Donchich is what his Twitter handle is, yeah. Yeah. Luka7Donchich. Seven on your side. Exactly. Melo's going to lose the stay. Melo with the seven.

Yeah. Although he's double zero now. So he already has lost it. Have people compared him to the other famous Luka? Is he now the most famous Luka of all time? Luka Magnata. Yeah. You're referring to.

Yeah. So Luka don't kill any cats. Luka's out here murdering cats. Yeah. Right. He is. But like in the cool way to put it. Right.

Like if you're a fly-ass white boy. So playoff P. Playoff P.P. Holy shit. That guy stinks. I don't understand how you can be like considered. I don't think anyone calls him a superstar. There was a time when the, you know, he took the Pacers to the Easter Covers Final.

But one of the, you know, you would say the playoff P is at the top of the list for Second Bananas. And then the playoffs come around and it's like, dude, have you played basketball before? And I don't know. I mean, Kawhi, poor Kawhi, because he's like, you know, this was going to be the two of us and you just fucking suck. He finished third in MVP voting last year. Yeah.

That's true. So he is there. I mean, Lou Williams was awesome, but man, playoff P.P. And I know that it's also, we've talked about this before, but big game James James Shield. Like when you get a nickname like that, Charles Barkley had a great line. He's like, no one calls me championship Chuck. Uh huh. He's like, that's what it's like calling him calling him playoff P.

Did he give himself that nickname? I don't know. How sweet would that have been though? Playoff P. Yes. He should have had playoff P. People don't, people don't forget the time that you got teabagged by your dog and posted on Instagram.

That's true. Those nuts were just sitting there. Huge ass nuts. The nuts were straddling. That's what I think about. Every time I see him, I'm like, sucks in the playoffs, likes to have his balls, his dogs balls rest on his arm. It's also a tough look when you're catching direct shots from Seth Curry, the lesser of

the curries who just drills a shot and calls him a bitch ass right to his face. There's also a weird thing dynamic that like is not talked about that he plays for Doc Rivers. I'm pretty sure playoff P was dating Doc Rivers' daughter and then cheated on her with a stripper. Got a stripper pregnant. That's got to be awkward in the huddle. That's got to be like, they're professional about it and they pretend like, hey, this didn't happen. But when playoff P shows up and he really sucks, Doc has to be looking at him and being like,

you motherfucker. I actually think twice. Doc Rivers probably thinks he dodged a bullet that his daughter didn't get pregnant from playoff P. True. Other things. It's playoff P, not playoff sperm. Seth Curry is now married to Doc Rivers' daughter.

So there's an element of, I feel like where Doc Rivers, like he can't say it, but like when Seth Curry is lighting it up, he's kind of like, hell yeah, that's my boy. He's playoff S-I-M-P. That's my nickname for him. But wait, he's not a simp. He's a simp. No, he cheated on a girl with a stripper pregnant. I think if Seth Curry is able to roast you with any sort of conviction, you are a simp.

He also said, now to be fair, after the game, George cleared some things up. He said, to be honest, in hindsight, if I shoot the ball better, this series would be a lot different. Yes. He also did. The ball goes in. He did name himself playoff P. Yeah, I know he did.

He's lame like that. Yes, of course he did. That's exactly who he is. Paul George on guarding Donovan Mitchell. Y'all ain't met playoff P yet, huh? It's a fun guy to watch. It's an out-of-body person. It's, I mean, it really goes back to just don't trust a guy with two first names because

that's, I mean, playoff P, Paul George, just pathetic. You know what though? Here's the nice spin zone is that if Luca somehow goes on a run here and gets like the Western Conference final, that would be awesome because watching him play basketball is so much fun. And I think we said this on Friday, but you know he's good when the announcers start talking about how his hips and his last step and that Euro step that he does, it's just, it's unguardable.

Yeah. The step back. He gets so much clearance away from me. He's what, six, seven? Yes. And he's like a Magic Johnson almost. Like he does have that type of vision. Like he can play any one of four positions at all times.

He's a problem. And I can't believe he's this young. Yeah. 21. He plays like he's experienced. He's like 26, 27. Go ahead. You're 21, Billy.

He's a month younger than me. Yeah. And look at you. I wish we had Luca on this podcast instead of you. I also feel like 21. Straight up. I'm not like, is that mean to say? Straight up.

I wish Luca was our intern, not you. Would help with our European listeners. He would help with everything, money, everything. I think my English might be a little better. I don't know. I don't know. You talk to him sometimes. What do you think you do better than Luca Donchich?

I think I was thinking my naturalized English might be better. But like what, if you could pick one thing that you're like, I could beat him in. You think it's like overhead curls. I don't know about that. I don't know about that. I don't think I could grow up with football. I bet you. I still think handball, which is a harder sport to play.

Yeah, but he didn't grow up with an American football. But he's such a beast, I think, that he could beat you in that. I think he's six, seven, 260 pounds. He could probably throw over 50 yards. Call of duty. I don't know if he plays call of duty. Yeah. So you got him on that.

We got to get you one-on-one versus Luca in call of duty, battle of the 21-year-old interns. All right. So the other games we had, the Blazers. Hiccup. They had a hiccup game. Blazers in five, officially done. Blazers in six now.

Okay. We had the mellow versus Lebron for a minute there, which was awesome. Go back. They were going one-on-one against each other. And then Anthony Davis remembered that he's the best player on the court, and he should just dominate all the time. The Blazers are a fun team, and I'm not going to regret rooting for them, and I'm going to continue to root for them against the Lakers, and I'll continue to tell myself that they

have a chance at winning. They don't have a chance at winning, but they're a fun team. Well, yeah. They've always been fun. I was always just against the Blazers' derangement syndrome being like anyone who realistically said they could beat the Lakers. Well, Charles Barkley said that. Yeah.

But again, I don't know if Charles Barkley actually minted or not. I think he's just rooting for fun. That's the kind of guy Charles is. Charles also, I think he mortal-locked or whatever it may be, guaranteed, oh wow, the Raptors put up 150 on the net. The Pacers on Saturday, he guaranteed that. That didn't work out. The Heat are looking good.

The Bucks are looking good. I got to take about Yanis, and I'm squatting on, but he's got to go to the finals this year. Because when he dunks on the magic up 20 and like pounds his chest, and I'm cool with like sportsmanship shouldn't exist in pro sports. But if he gets stopped in the Eastern Conference final again, like you can't do that where you just in the first round, you're a beast, and then in the second and third round, you get shut down.

Yeah. He's got to do that. I'm just putting that on my watch. Right. My watch list like he is. He is a great. If you're looking to buy stock in a does this person have a clutch gene argument, Yanis would be at the top of my list right now.

So I think you obviously like have to have some success if you're a superstar like that. It's like Lamar Jackson. You see a narrative emerging around him as he loses in the playoffs in basketball. This is the fun part about sports. There it is. It is. It is the best part. So if if Giannis, excuse me.

Gannis. Gannis. If Giannis. Gannis. Gannos. It's a G not a Y. If Giannis, if he is not able to get to the finals, then yeah, he's going to have that narrative right.

I'm just ready for it. Is he that we're going to do some cross sports? Yeah. We're going to be like, is he the Dan Marino of the NBA? Just be ready, Yanis. I'm not put trying to put pressure on you because I know you put pressure on yourself and you're a fantastic player and a lot of fun to watch. But just be ready because I'm watching and if you get stopped in the Easter conference

final, I'm going to remember dunking on the magic up 20 and like and pounding your chest and being like, I'm the man against the hapless magic. I also think that Giannis is at a little bit of a disadvantage from not growing up with the American media because he right now he reads all the stuff that people say about him. He knows like what the emerging narrative is and he is he's like borderline getting into fights in a lot of these games because I think he's out to prove that he's got a chip on his shoulder.

Yep. I think it might be you might see like a Draymond Green type situation later on in these playoffs where he might actually like get into a fight in a big game. Then he'll have to miss the next game and it would impact his team. Now we've got Hothead Giannis emerging as a narrative and then in two years he's going to go play for the Lakers. Yeah, probably. Speaking of Lakers going back to them, pre-Who's back of the week is JR Smith looking high

all the time. I just fucking love his face. I love his face. Whenever he makes a mistake, I think he fouled Gary Tran Jr. just a stupid foul shooting a three and then they zoomed in on his face and he looked like he was from outer space. What do you mean like he's starting to look high? No, no. He hasn't been playing though, he just signed and all that stuff so he's back like we're

getting him in prime time looking at his face being like holy shit. He's not high right now as far as I know but damn does he look high. I need to get one of these fun behind-the-scenes stories. We've had CJ McCollum had $6,000 worth of wine that was broken and moved to the first page of every book. Reading the first page of the book, Jimmy Butler selling $20 Starbucks cups. I think, well I'd love to read an oral history five years from now of how the weed delivery service has worked in the bubble.

How they were able to get marijuana distributed. If there was one guy, every team gets one person that's allowed to come there that has a grow-up in their hotel room because you know that there's some dro being cooked up down Orlando. I want to go back real quick to the little brawn reading the first page of the book because that went viral, I think it went viral late Thursday but over the weekend as well. That is the most relatable that LeBron has ever been because anyone who is not a real book guy but an aspiring book guy which I put myself in that camp where I probably about

a dozen times a year I'm like man I should read more. My brain feels better when I read more. I understand where LeBron's coming from where you see, first of all you judge every book by its cover. Whoever said don't judge a book by its cover is a fucking moron. See a book, looks like a cool cover, buy the book, read a few pages, never read it again. That's the recipe. So LeBron, people are giving you shit for that.

I think that's the most relatable he has ever been in his entire life. That's why you gotta be reading Kindles like Kawhi Leonard because nobody can tell what page you're on. You know what LeBron, he should just like put post-it notes on random pages in his book so it looks like he's been leafing through them. He did do, after that went viral on Thursday and Friday on Saturday I think there was a picture of Bookmark halfway through the book. Okay, there you go.

Perfect. He just slid in there. It was actually just bought. You know how they used to do that? They'd slide the bookmark in the middle of the book. Yep. We went to Barnes & Noble. That's what it was.

But I just dog-eared some of the pages. Fuck that LeBron. Just bend a few of them over. He's read the Godfather, the autobiography of Malcolm X. What else has he read recently? I don't know, but I just- One of the screenshots was from The Hunger Games. Perfect.

I don't listen to the haters LeBron. You are relatable when you just read the first pages of books because that's, listen, like 90% of reading the book is just doing it in public and letting people know that you're reading the book. Whether you read it or not, it doesn't really matter. You open the book, you bought the book. That's the hard part. Yeah, the coolest thing is if you ride the subway and you just have a book open in front

of you, you just know that everyone's looking at you and they're like, this dude is smart. This dude has exactly- your book's upside down, but you don't know that at the time. Hank, your Celtics have ended the Sixer season. Brett Brown's probably career as a coach for the Sixers ended maybe this era. I'd say the- Elton Brand is a GM. Elton Brand is a GM. Celtics killed the process.

The process is done. It's over. The process is, yeah, it's a tough way to go out. I don't know what they do, but it's so funny how it always works out where- I think you gotta like trade for Mark L. Fultz. Well, the crazy thing is the process, like people say like the process failed, but like the process was working. No, it worked.

You got the picks. You just have to hit the picks still. And then they got rid of the guy who set up the process and then the moves they've made the last two years have just been absolutely- Yeah, so if somebody designs a kick-ass spreadsheet or database for your company and then you fire that guy after you've already got like the work you put in, now you don't have anybody to maintain it behind the scenes. And you've just got like a series of monkeys at typewriters trying to figure it out.

It doesn't work the same. And you also drafted two great players that could not be worse for each other, and Joel and Bede and Ben Simmons. So I think that's where they have to do the- And they didn't draft Jason Tatum when they cut off. And they didn't draft Jason, but the like sports radio call-in, like you need to trade one of the two and just build around the other, I think is actually now true. Like Pete, someone in Philly has been saying, has been calling, Angelo and Philly has been

calling in for the last three years screaming about this. Angelo and Philly is correct. I do not think that you can win with both those guys. You got to try to figure it out. Maybe trade Ben Simmons to the bulls for Zach Levine and the number four pick. There you go. I would definitely- Who says no?

I would keep in B, but that's just for the argument of like everybody in the NBA is going small these days, build around a big man. Yeah. Think while everybody else zags. I would, I don't know, I'd probably keep Ben Simmons just hope eventually he can shoot a three. But yeah, that's a fun, fun thing for the Sixers to have to figure out. I just, it sucks, like Sixers fans like our good friend, Ron, he's a diehard Sixers fan.

And he's just sat like, I was like, so what do you think? He's just like, I don't know, man, like just everything sucks. Yeah. It's just the air of the Sixers were that team. There's nothing worse than having that team that, that feels like they're climbing the mountain and feels like they're setting something up for like a solid three to five year championship window and then wake up one day and be like, wait, maybe that none of that's real. I think the process got a little bit ahead of itself when they thought that they were

a little closer than they were. So they started bringing in like rental players, being like, this is the missing piece. And also Tobias Harris, well, there was some other things, but like $200 million to Horford and Harris. Yeah. Yeah. Those are solid contracts, but like sometimes it's dangerous to think that you're closer than you are.

Al Horford is such a great example of like when a guy is, I don't even know how old Al Horford is. He's probably like 33, 34. When he opts out, you got to know something's up. Like he opted out of that contract with the Southwest where he was guaranteed a lot of money and you're like, uh-oh, someone's going to give him too much money and it's going to be very stupid because a guy like that should not be opting out ever. I do like being reminded on a yearly basis that Al Horford can still jump occasionally.

Yeah. Like when he has the Al Horford game in the playoffs, you're not the same guy anymore. So, and then the Rockets Thunder series has been great as well. I mean, it's been great basketball, great basketball, great series, the Nets, sorry for your Nets. The Sticks. That was a pretty quick and easy sweep there. Nets are terrible, terrible offensively.

Awful team. I put way too much money on them on Friday and I was just watching, just screaming at the TV the entire time. Yeah. There were a bunch of guys that are trying to prove that they're supposed to be there next year. Yeah, the rental players. So, yeah.

Keep your eye on them next year. Yes. They got some good guys going down. Right. I think what, you know what I saw on Friday? They could get a couple guys. I saw a lot of heart. So, maybe that's a team that might be on the up and up next year once they get maybe

one or two impact players. I was thinking about, I think, I think it was because we live in New York City and we see the Yes Network commercials, but I saw a commercial when DeAndre Jordan was in it. Was DeAndre Jordan hurt or anything? I think he just said, there's no chance I'm going to get my ass kicked in the bubble. He opted out of the bubble. Yeah. Shout out to him.

That's a smart move. Not for me. Yeah. Uh-oh. Oh, KD and Kyrie are not coming. I'm out. I mean, think about the upside for them. What, best case scenario, they win like one playoff series.

Yes. Best case scenario. Yes. All right. So, playoff hockey, the hockey hanks watching the Bruins right now. The Stars and Avs started, that's going to be an awesome series. Anything else? I mean, the, oh, Mike Milbury got booted out of the bubble.

Yeah. Saying that it was nice to not have women around to be a distraction. That's hockey tough. Yeah. You don't hear any NBA announcement. Was that a hot mic or was it, was it like a Tom Breneman or he just said, no, he just said it. No, he just said it.

It was just pure take, just Milbury take. He threw it out there. He might not have been in the bubble. He might have been in Stanford. I think he was in the studio when he started. He was because he took that picture of the Space Needle. Oh, yeah. The Space Needle.

He called it the Space Needle. Whatever the hell it is. Yeah. So, his explanation was that there are no women in the bubble. So, it's not like. No distractions. The guys can't be distracted. Right.

We're trying to, trying to get. Guys can be juts. Yeah. Can't get that punani. Right. So, we got the announcers stepping in front of me. I bet you Tom, Tom Breneman was like, oh nice. Everyone's going to talk about Mike Milbury.

This is going to take the distraction off. It just didn't happen. Maybe. Because Mike Milbury is one of those guys where I don't think anyone really likes him. So. Maybe Tom was talking about the NHL bubble when he was trying to figure out what the capital of North America was. Right.

He was like, no chicks. Yeah. It must be. Heaven on Earth. Goal. Oh, you got another goal. Hockey Hank. One thing I've noticed is.

This overhead camera angle and hockey, you never score a goal live when that's on. It's like when they do that in the Final Four, when they do the overhead showing the court and it's the worst. It makes you want to throw up. Yeah. There's never been a goal score with that overhead angle. All right. Let's get to who's back of the week.

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Okay. Mm-hmm. New Batman trailer came out. Wait. Christopher Nolan? Not Christopher Nolan. Robert Pattinson speaking in Twilight. Who's that?

The dude from the office that ruined the office? No. No, he's in Twilight. He's in California. Yeah. He was one of the like, you know, the heartthrobs from Twilight. No, who's making it? Christopher Nolan?

Ah. I just want more Christopher Nolan. I don't think he is because I know that he's only was. I'm pretty sure. It's definitely not. But those are the best. We should just make Batman's every year and the world would be a better place. Is the Joker in this one?

Matt Reeves is the guy directing it. Hmm. The Riddler. The Riddler's in it. The Riddler. Okay. Remember Jim Carrey as the Riddler? Yeah.

He was awesome. Everyone was freaking out about it though. I kind of have like Batman fatigue. Like I feel like it's like too, a little too soon. It's been a long time. But the, I don't know. It's one of those things where it's like they make great movies like the Christopher Nolan ones were so good and then they're just going to do a less good.

I mean they did the Ben Affleck was Batman like two years ago. That's true. But we forgot about that movie. That movie come out. Yeah. Batman vs Superman and Justice League. Oh I never watched that. Yeah.

The trailer for this one looks pretty good though. Like I'm pumped to see it. Hmm. I watched it. I was like it's okay. And then everyone was like universal. Like this looks so, so, so, so, so, so good. So we'll see.

Batman's back. Just do old ideas again. Wait. Robert Pattinson didn't he, was he a vampire in Twilight? Uh huh. Slash werewolf I think. Vampire werewolf. Slash.

Fucking double comic. That'd be sick if they made. If they made this Batman like a vampire bat. That would be very cool. Yeah. Or if they made this bat giving everyone coronavirus. Mm hmm. That would be cool too if they threw that in there.

Batman's that it? For who's back? Yep. Yes. Okay. You're such a fucker. My who's back. Every time you have multiple ones and then one and then the time you have one you always

are like. Well I usually preface it by saying I have a few. Yeah. Who's gone with this one? Who's back? Yeah. My who's back. Hank is right.

Hank is 100% right. Okay. I have two. Is that okay? Yeah. My who's back of the week. First is North Korea. North Korea's back baby.

Because Kim Jong-un is in a coma. Allegedly. There's like some spy from South Korea that said that according to his analysis Kim Jong-un is in a coma. Just like Batman. We've seen this before. Yeah. He comes back.

We know how this ends. Kim Jong-un comes back from the dead so often. He's like Betty White or Harrison Ford or who else dies a lot. Almost dies. Marlon's man. Yes. Leroy. Many times.

He just keeps coming back. So I'll believe it when I see it but apparently he has a little sister who's like 33 years old. Yes. Who's going to be taking over. Now I want to say there have been a lot of reports out there that just refer to her as Kim Jong-un's sister. She has a name.

She's a badass woman. Who's her real name? Okay. Are you afraid of her? Her name is Kim Jong- Kim Yo-jung. Okay. So she's going to be taking over. Mike Milbury is shitting his pants.

He thinks that North Korea is going in the crapper right now. I support her as a strong woman even though she's probably going to be a dictator. She'll probably... It's going to be bad. She will fire like... But now we're in a pickle. She'll fire like a tank at you if you don't like already kiss her ass so we are on her side.

So I don't support North Korea. I think. But yeah I'm in a pickle mentally. I'll have to think this one through. Harrison. What's his name? Not Harrison Ford. Dennis Rodman needs to go overseas like post haste and try to figure this out.

He's probably there. Yeah. He's giving like... Probably hanging out. Right. My other who's back the week is Earl Thomas. Yes. Earl Thomas is back as a free agent.

Earl Thomas and the Cowboys rumors are specifically back because he got cut after getting into some fights with his teammates for the Ravens. And so they're... I guess they were really pissed off at him because they're willing to pay like ten million dollars against the cap this year and five million next year. There's a leadership committee. On the Ravens. Yup.

They... A leadership committee decided they didn't want him. Yeah. So he's gone. He's... Maybe... Maybe this is Belichick move. Maybe Belichick picks him up.

They lost Patrick Chung for the year. They get Earl Thomas as like an impact veteran that everybody else has given up on. He also said that in his Instagram comment, he posted the video, he said, this has been one of my best camps ever. And immediately I was like, oh damn, Earl Thomas, the bear should get him because he said it. He's in the best shape of his life. Yeah.

Yeah. That's all it took for me to be like, man, he's still got it. Yeah. Just because he said it. What do you think, Hank? Patriots? I don't feel it. Getting for cheap?

I would love it if they get him. I think he's going to the count. It's always going to be. I just don't feel like it's something that's going to happen. Remember that time after a game in Dallas when he went up to Jerry Jones, he was like, come get me? Come get me? Yeah.

And then that's also where he banged his brother was in Texas somewhere, I think in Austin. Austin, yeah. So yeah, maybe he'll be going home. Actually, that would be perfect if he went up to New England. Tom Brady won what, two Super Bowls after he kissed his son. Imagine the dynasty they go on if they got a safety that fucked his brother. There's something to think about, Hank.

I think it was just one. Just one? Okay. Well, maybe you'll get two. Out of that. Out of that. Yeah. Step it up a little bit.

All right. My who's back is Madden Codes. Back on my bullshit. This is the week. Get ready. My mentions is about to be lit. Thursday. I heard, I got word Thursday is going to be the day.

I don't know what I'm going to do, but I'm worried. I'm going to send a lot of fake codes for sure. You know what you got to do? Are you getting that lottery machine? Yeah. Yeah. So put some. No, it is.

It literally is. Put some Madden Codes on ping pong balls. $1,500 on it. Have like, have, you know, one out of every five be an actual code. Yes. Ooh, that's good. Okay. So we'll do and we'll do a stream or something.

We'll give away codes. We'll probably give away some codes on Friday as part of my take. Yeah. Just get ready. Don't ask for the code. Just wait. I'll say the word and you'll get some codes. We're going to give up.

I'll give a bunch to all business Pete. He'll fucking give them away. It's going to be, what's to be reigning codes. I love it. Everywhere. I just, so I'm going to get mad in this year and I got you, bro. It's been a while. I got you.

It's been a while since I played. We played on that live stream. Yeah. I hope that it's good. I hope that my brain's able to make that leap. I honestly, honestly, I don't care if it's good or bad. Just bring back minigames. I just care about the codes.

Bring back the fucking training camp minigames. I probably won't even play. I just, Madden to me is just giving away codes. You remember? You remember though when they used to have like the running back drills and then the tackling drills and the pain cake drills and the passing through the fucking airborne ring drills. Yes.

Bring those back. Yes. Those were awesome. Or don't. I don't care. Just give me the codes. You just, yeah. I just like the power.

No, I don't. I do not care about the game. I just want to give away codes. I, it's, I want to get, you know, give to the people. Billy. My who's back of the week. Billy, not a Chad wearing a backwards hat and a Budweiser take top. My who's back of the week is cocaine.

Whoa. Billy. Go on. Oscar De La Hoya is coming out of retirement. What's his name? Oscar De La Hoya. Yep. And his friend Dana White was asked at a press conference about his thoughts on Oscar

De La Hoya coming out of retirement and he said cocaine isn't cheap. Yeah. Makes sense. Dana White is a hell of a name like a slang term for Coke. I'm going to start calling it that. Yes. You got any Dana White on you? Yes.

Coke literally translates to. Yeah. Yeah. So are you, you probably don't even remember Oscar De La Hoya. I think he fought Manny Pacquiao was. Yeah. But you like he fought Floyd Mayweather in like 2006 or seven. He's got to be like what 52 53.

He's got to be. He was older. He was old then maybe this is this is just him saying like John Bones Jones you need to come back to because cocaine isn't cheap. They really need to just have a senior tour for porn stars and boxers. They always age poorly. That's it. Those of you like you can't if you're a porn star or a boxer and you get past that

like age of 40. It's tough to fake it. I think they they do have a senior tour tour for porn stars. You just age into the milk category. Right. But I like you need we need like the full on like more sensual loving and and boxing like maybe it's maybe it's bigger. Yeah.

Yeah. It's like pillow gloves. Yeah. So no one's really getting killed out there. Watch it. But I don't want anyone. It's tough when you when someone boxes like Chuck Liddell when he was when he went back in there and was like as he was walking in you're like oh my god he looks terrible and

then he got the shit kicked out of him. It's a hard sell. You almost feel guilty watching him at some point. Right. It's like this is like my grandfather is just getting his ass right. Same with porn stars. You know what they should do. They should just allow old heavyweights to fight young lightweights.

That would be cool. Conor McGregor would sign up immediately. Yeah. Six year old. Yes. That would actually be a lot of fun. Just go out of weight class. All right.

That let's do our interview. Is that it Billy. Yep. Anything else. Jake do you have a who's back. Oh Jake does. The Yankees. The Yankees were off this weekend.

Onomatopoeia. Oh. Mike Breen a double bang today. The rare double. I saw that. Yes. By the way we I we should at least everyone to be like how could you not bring up Jose Bray what he did this weekend was insane.

He had six home runs against the Cubs and he hit four home runs and four straight at bats spanning two days. That's crazy. Do we know if my gotta feel like God when that happens. Has Mike Breen ever done a double bang before. I think maybe when Steph against the Thunder four years ago remember they're down like 30 and he hit like a half court regular season game. He either went bang crazy with a bang or did double bang.

I'll have to look again. Yeah. You got to you really got to pick your places if you want to alter your catchphrase. It has to be something very I would actually appreciate if you could do maybe like an analytical breakdown of the banks like seconds how loud decibels it would be interesting to see it visualize. The verbal meme of the chick that's getting reeled on her back and it's Mike Breen says oh fuck you're going to make me double bang.

Yeah. Do that. But also the charts. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. You got it. All right.

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drops on Tuesday and Thursday this week. It is Alex Rodriguez 1-1 A-Rod actually probably our first interview that we've had someone actually come in in a long time so it's good to actually see a person in person. It's great to be here. I love your show and I love to be in Barstool headquarters man. I think you're breaking in that couch right now. I don't think we've had a guest on that couch. A-Rod I'm going to tell you right now for your safety don't make any sudden movements

because Billy broke that couch. So the last thing I want is for you to make a sudden movement have it fall have your coffee fall in your lap and then Billy is going to be like lawsuit city. Yeah right. So A-Rod before we do everything else let's talk real quick about the Corp season three. First question how difficult is Dan to work with as a co-host. From 1-10 or 12. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Very difficult. You know season three presented some great opportunities and some challenges. The biggest challenge was he came to our home in the Hamptons wasn't allowed inside. You let. No. No.

No. No. No. We did not go inside. No. We interviewed. So we're going to release it Tuesday and Thursday. It's going to be the whole season.

We have. Should we just say the guess. We might as well. Yeah. Let her rip. Kevin Durant who will be on PMT. So that I at the end of the Kevin Durant interview I was like we got to do PMTs like oh I know because we've talked some shit and so that will be happening shortly.

We have Jay Snowden who is Penn National Gaming CEO Steve Madden ever heard of him. If you've watched Wolf of Wall Street you definitely have Jimmy Fallon Ice Cube all of our friend Joe Buck and then finally Jennifer Lopez. So a star studded Corp. Did you think this was our best. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah.

I think is our best and JLo was she smelled great. How tough was she to book. She smelled so good. I feel like she'd be tough to nail it. We had Jeff Lee. We had Nick. We had Ashley. We had our entire Corp office trying to wrangle hold down but it took us three seasons.

Yes it did. So it took a while. She loved it. Dan was so tough. Jennifer said never again. Yeah. For that reason. You guys got to get Jennifer on PMT.

Always. We'd love to. Yes. Sure. Absolutely. Yes. You know what. Let me check with Hank.

Hank you think we can make room for JLo. Yeah. Hank says maybe. We'll do that. We'll do that. So check it out Tuesday and Thursday it's all going to drop then you can binge listen to it. So Arod it's actually perfect that you're here today because we're taping this on Tuesday

and the Fernando Tati stuff just happened where the baseball world the unwritten rules of baseball are like front and center on Twitter. Where do you land one on unwritten rules. Are you an unwritten rules guy. Not really. Let me set it up right because I think our listeners at home may have not watched the game. So Tati's hits a grand slam late in the game.

The count is three and oh he swings hits a grand slam and you know the Texas Rangers and Woodward are basically saying that's Bush he shouldn't swing three oh so number one. Yeah. Up eight. Yeah. Up eight. Right.

You should never get upset at the player. It is the manager's responsibility to determine green light red light. So Dan if you're hitting and it and I'm in Europe eight and I'm the manager I have to tell you green light or don't swing. So that's the number one. They're going at the wrong kid Tati's did nothing wrong. He is basically our LeBron James in the making right following in the footsteps of Mike Trout. He is colorful.

He is fun. He fucking dances merengue. He's a good looking kid. He's colorful. We need more Tati's. Let's promote him and baseball. Let's just loosen up a little bit. Let's have a little bit more fun.

So in terms of unwritten rules you're very clearly against this one which I don't even think that this is an unwritten rule because it's like so nebulous. It's like OK perfect storm of things. You're down by eight three oh pitch etc. There's a lot of factors going to three oh yeah but what about like what are some unwritten rules that you do actually believe in. Well first of all I don't believe that if you're a pitcher throwing 98 miles an hour you should throw someone's head to even some type of you know argument or something that

you disagree with. If you want to hit someone you should hit them you know under the belt like yeah or at the ribs no higher than that because you can end somebody's life that's the truth of it. I think things like that if you're up nine you shouldn't be stealing bases. Like guys in basketball if you're up 20 if you want to shoot a three go for it. Right. We're out. Belichick Belichick and Brady if they're up 25 they'll go deep and they don't care.

You know what you don't do. Load the bases or get into a three oh count. That's right. Like I've always it's you could say maybe it's not great sportsmanship but it's it's perfect. It's not Little League. It's hardball. It's hardball not softball.

There's no sportsmanship in professional sports. I love that he's this kid. You guys got to watch him. He's a stud. What's the alternative like just strike out right up there and swing I guess but like what the swing less hard guess what the more home runs he hits the more money he's going to make like this this all like you got to go up there and try your best and let me give you one twist.

If you're up eight and they don't score and Texas Rangers comes out and hits a grand slam now a full run lead right now you have to burn up your bullpen look you I've been taught from Lupinella from day one you play to the last out is collected and play hard no prisoners and then his own manager is basically throwing him under the bus saying like you shouldn't be doing something like this like I've heard from like a few people in baseball that are saying like yeah you know what you don't swing on this type of pitch like how would you handle that as a player if your manager didn't seem to have your back. Well first of all I'm not sure the exact details but if the manager didn't put on the take

sign then he's given him free liberty to swing. So again a young kid you have to be patient you're not going to be perfect you know people make mistakes and I don't consider this one of them I do think that you have to coach mentor but let them fly let the eagle fly. Yeah I saw actually Eric Cosmer kind of talked to him after like hey listen this isn't what we do because I think it was more Eric Cosmer was talking about more like like pimping the home run a little bit more because then guys can get thrown at but from a player's perspective how often would you sit down one on one with the manager over the course of a season.

Well I sat down with managers all the time and there's different conversations right the conversation when you're a first year player to your second year player that conversation is very much like you're talking to a professor or your teacher when you're a veteran player and you've been in the league 15 20 years you're usually talking in collaboration almost like he's your partner to help out the young players but Eric Cosmer could not be a better leader he's a world champion he's a 305 guy from Miami and he is the perfect guy to lead that young bunch but again I think letting this young man fly and don't start putting guardrails on him that's the worst thing we can do what we need to do is promote him tell

his story and guys put him on here yeah put some more anger he'll get up and dance with boots check out his Instagram this is I'm so excited because we finally get a glimpse of what baseball could be and I love it. Another unwritten rule question what about stepping on a pitcher's mound. What about if it's a certain podcaster that might work as a co-worker of ours and you approach on his territory. First of all I love Braden because he was a great competitor you know his stuff was. That's what you say when someone sucks I like that. Dallas Braden really tried hard. Dallas he got the most out of his talent big cat. Was he Randy Johnson. No absolutely not but he was a great competitor and look in the

heat of the moment you do a lot of stupid shit and that was probably pretty silly but he was throwing a fucking no hitter and I wanted to do everything in his mind. Wait was that the oh that was a different game than the perfect game but yeah he was he was dealing that day. He was dealing that game like that was around the time he threw the perfect no hitter and he was dealing and we probably got one or two hits right so I actually wanted to you know how Dennis Rodman used to do like you know provocative things yeah that was something provocative to get him round up and get him out of his game. It didn't work he still shoved it up her butt. So so do you uh let's put it to bed forever do you think you look back on that like yeah I probably

shouldn't have done that I shouldn't have walked on his mount. Yeah I mean there's so many things Dan that I would take back but at the end of the day the reason why you don't take them back is because they're learning lessons but that was just game and shit. Yeah I knew exactly what I was doing I thought it would work it didn't work because he kept pitching. Well and it did work in that I love Dallas he's very very funny very very talented and he's also passionate so knowing knowing Dallas how I know him like you can get a rise out of him and he will be passionate which is actually a great thing because you need more of that in sports. Absolutely but by the way you should have the ability to express yourself that's how I wanted to express myself at the time

it was an unwritten rule but at the time I said fuck it we want to win this game and if I can get this guy thinking about me and not the other eight hitters then that's a win I'll take that. So speaking of Dallas he did throw a no hitter it was a perfect game but we say no hitter so he had that one game where it was like he reached the pinnacle. Were you ever on a team that got no hitter or had a perfect game thrown against you? I believe we got no hit. What does that feel like? Like shit terrible. Like are you saying it? I got it do I get it? No hitter I believe in 96 at the stadium. I'm gonna look it up but so you like when you're standing in the locker room or in the clubhouse in the dugout are you guys like hey anyone gonna get a hit today like do you

feel the pressure? You feel like you feel like a little bitch yeah you feel like especially after the game you're depressed. I wish I had more presidency then because that's what you feel like. What inning do you start noticing that? You start getting kind of a funny feeling around the fifth. Okay and do you say anything to the opposing pitcher because I know that you're not supposed to talk about it but you can be like hey you got no hitter. Yeah I said this fucking guy has a no hitter are you fucking kidding me let's go yeah and you say it loud enough we're only your teammates you can't do that today with no fans I mean they can hear you on the field. I'm gonna give you credit though I'm looking at the box score right now. I think you walk twice. I walk twice so you only

hope for two. Dan you're not gonna believe this the first step bat and you can go back and watch it which I'm sure you won't. I hit a ball that I thought was a triple and Bernie Williams went back and just made an unbelievable play and I said no big deal we're gonna hit good and hard today and sure enough no hitter. That's incredible. I love Doc. Does it feel any worse getting no hit or having like one guy on your team maybe one guy went three for four with like you know like two home runs or something like that and everybody else got shut down does that feel any worse? No I mean you always want you want to be on the scoreboard you want to get a hit personally but you want at least somebody in your team to get a hit. Yeah yeah. I'm watching it right now so

it's that's that's hilarious though that you thought like oh this is gonna be my day and then everything goes against you. I god that would suck so bad and then the next day after no hitter what's the conversation in a clubhouse like when you all show up the next day you're like hey do you mention it or you're like hey let's just fuck let's get out there and try to get a hit here. This fucking happened in New York so the next day every paper no hit no hit no hit no hit. They carried him off. Here's the crazy thing I mean I grew up a huge Dwight Gooden, Daryl Strawberry, Keith and Andy that grew up a Mets fan so the fact that you know Doc had been through so much his father passed away that week so he throws a no hitter he points up at the sky

and honestly it was just an awesome story so from that point of view I was like okay if this is the condition of a no hitter I'll take it. Yes. Speaking of those 86 Mets another guy on that team Lenny Dykstra. Love Lenny. So Lenny you're a fan you're a big Lenny fan too. Love me nails. Yeah that's right so I guess what he would do before each game so it would make the baseball seem like a lot bigger to his to his naked eye he would just stare at a ping pong ball in the locker room. I like that. For about an hour and a half and he figured like if I stare at this small white thing then eventually when I get on the field it's going to look like a beach ball or something like that. Did you do did you have any tricks or any things that you did to get your eyes like

locked in? Great question I feel like you must have talked to or make or someone to give you prepare you. No I just I listened to Lenny Dykstra podcast like yesterday and I was like I thought A-Rod's got some stories. You know what I would do I'll get a broomstick and I will go to the parking lot of the hotel we were staying at and I would hit beans. I would hit a hundred beans like the little red beans yeah I would get those dried beans or out of a can dry beans dry and and with the broomstick I would clip them clip them and you obviously you hear the clip and sometimes when I had a horseshoe game I would go back to the hotel and I would tell my nephew who was at the time like 10 years old throw me some beans he goes why don't go Alex I'm tired I go let's go bean time

that's great I mean I don't think I could hit a bean no definitely not I'd go like 10 for 10 for 100 maybe and be like but it'd be so satisfying if you just like really made a solid connection with the beans and fine like first of all who was your fair player going up I liked so I like the Braves grown up oh they were on TV all the time so well Ryan Sandberg on the Cubs and then I would say like uh Chipper Jones Mark Limke Sid Bream Greg Maddox those old all those old Braves Griffey Jr. I just so it just came your your bad just came up you fucking rock that ball yeah like the fact that you didn't get a hit there I bet it was a trip off the bat yeah good it was unbelievable catch um who was your fair player uh Griffey Rhino I you know I I actually the

Mariners your Mariners a rod a rod yeah Randy Johnson being like so tall jay buter beast jay buter I was yeah Norm Charlton yeah I mean we we play this game sometimes where it's just like sit around and name players from certain teams and those mid 90s Mariners teams or one you can just like have an hour-long conversation just naming guys from that I like Terry Pendleton because he had a fat ass yeah yeah Terry's good you know what's crazy is we can talk about lineups from the 70s 80s 90s and it's hard for us today to talk about a full lineup there's so much change in the game it's true we're going to get back to a rod in a second but before we do let's talk about our good friends over three chi three chi is the leader and hemp derived cannabinoid products

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hey big boy i hope you're ready and healthy we're really struggling i came back i hit my first pitch home run baltimore cc through a complete game and then we we play like 750 baseball from that point and obviously won the world series but the point of the story is he said you're going to hit fourth every game in every game that year and every postseason game i hit fourth and that type of stability really helped me and i think is something that we need to get back to when you when when they change to the new yankee stadium did you look at it and you're like this is a joke like i'm going to hit so many home runs yes i mean sometimes it'll be a pop fly you're like wait how did that go out it was crazy the old stadium um had a better fan environment because it was like the old

you know right right in history yeah of course this stadium it was like we were moving into like the peninsula hotel like the you know something really really fancy but it was just a joke to hit home runs right and i'm sure that the it will eventually get to the place of the fan you just have to build history yeah you know like it takes time um so we got to address at least the elephant in the room uh what are our jobs going to be if you uh become the Mets owner we have some ideas pft why don't you start i mean i i don't want to ask for much i'm not here like looking for a handout all i want is to be the guy that drives the bullpen cart when the heaviest reliever goes into the game i just want to do that drive out there maybe put some put some

spinners on the golf cart maybe put a bitch in stereo system in there uh and definitely one of those like shag carpeting steering wheel covers yeah and drive back to the bullpen that's all i want i love it you don't even have to pay that that's a great idea that's free bringing the golf cart back with some like cool vibe i think that's a good idea okay so live out the game he's in for that i just want to be like a clubhouse guy like i want to my job will be to just lean up against the batting cage uh with you know like an oversized you know uh jacket on Mets jacket on maybe some you know seeds and just shoot the shit will you be a dip guy would you yeah dip i'll bust balls like you want to i'll towel go in the bathroom i'll towel whip people if you want me to like

just a guy that everyone's like hey hey you know he's just hanging out that's a guy yeah he's just hanging out that just wants to annoy your players no i want to hang out i want to and then maybe sit on the bench and then every now and then the manager can like look at me and be like what do you what do you think we should do here i'd be like i don't know we could do this we could do that what do you think i have a better question for you guys yeah if you guys were commissioner for one day what are the two changes you would do to make it more fun and more young good question uh six more dh's six okay that's like rob manford suggesting for everything he's like slap another dh on it that'll fix the problem i um i hate to say this because i do love like the history of

the game and this would probably screw with it but i kind of like these seven inning games i like the double headers i like the seven inning games people have been liking them i i just there's something about it there's a little more urgency to it um i just if you could maybe compact the season a little bit because i always thought when baseball season starts in the first month is teams playing in front of like no one and it's 45 degrees like what are we doing baseball is a summer sport people are liking the seven inning games so maybe you just figure out a way to like i understand if people don't want to get rid of 162 um but maybe the solution is a couple seven inning doublehead how about about shorter seasons should i yeah so like shorter in the calendar i don't know

if 162 i feel like people don't want to give that up but um expand the rosters a little and then throw in maybe make it a month maybe like july is just doubleheader month just bang out a bunch that'd be real nice because so i always get really interesting baseball right at the start of the season and then you know i lose track and i kind of forget about it for the next two and a half three months until like mid-july kicks in or after the all-star break so somehow some way to like condense those maybe give a longer all-star break because it's not even really a break right that's a good that's something that the players complain about all the time is like yeah we get a weekend off but that's not really enough time how about making an all-star like the whole week yeah right

and and do a little bit of an international flair and obviously you end on sunday with the big game but you know home on derby and festivals and music and just make it like host you guys to come at the house like we have to make the star player stars and make them interesting like this way this tati story to me is fascinating let's talk more about tati the fact that we're talking about baseball is a good thing because of this controversy that happened just you know last week when i think like 99 percent of people that are seeing this are like that was an awesome home run that's it's ridiculous to expect them not to swing on it so in a weird roundabout way uh like all the old baseball people talking about how this is not a part of the game is actually drawing more eyes to it

and people like yeah i like this so it's probably going to be good over the long term right um also banned shifts yeah i love that i hate i love that i was literally about to say that like have it have it be like in in other sports where it's like this player has to exist between this boundary right and then that way it's more offense you don't get you know all these ground outs that that should be seeing i think well i think you know the mba came up with illegal defense man-to-man or mba playing a zone would suck well they have it now but yeah they changed it but yes for a while and they obviously they they changed like the the defense where you know hand checking and all that stuff so yeah you have to you have to grow as a sport as evolution happens when it gets

more physical you know mba got more physical defense kind of bogged everything down they freed up the game similar to the shift where there's nothing worse than a guy hitting an absolute piss missile single right to uh the third baseman who's now standing in between the second baseman in the first base right or the second baseman playing right field so let's recap so here here the commissioner you're deciding shorter game seven head or month yeah and i'd also i i'd approve a rod's bid to buy the mats yep that's the only thing that we know so double headers yeah all right i like that and then shorter season uh eliminate the shifts both off your feet have to have at least one foot in the dirt so second baseman can be playing in right field yeah and then i would

say more access we want to see the batting cages every day yeah we want to have it on their phone and we want to see what judge is doing at 430 yeah we don't have a vehicle right now to see judge or mike trout or tati i want to see what tateese looks like today in batting practice but in the tunnel so behind the scenes yes i like i'd also mandate one nerd in the dugout at all time so like one of these moneyball guys he sits in the dugout he has to wear a suit and a tie a laptop and he has to make at least one lineup change per game and then he has to deal with the guys around him face to face when he makes that lineup change just more confrontation in general i like it also allow fighting like in hockey i like the suit in the corner put him in a cube

in the corner with a computer yeah two computers yes yes have you talked to uh jeter at all since he got involved with the marlins he's been obviously criticized a bunch have you have you talked to him about what's your relationship with like him relationship is fine you know we've talked that we said hello a few times in passing but i i don't think he gets enough credit for i think the stanton trade was a good trade for him because it relieved a lot of financial yankees picked that up and i think for derrick give him five years before passing judgment because he walked into a very difficult situation here's a five-time world champion hall of famer derrick jeter's gonna be just fine i would not bet against mr jeter yeah okay yeah also coming

out of miami i wanted to to bring this up the super bowl halftime show uh j lo great job i don't know if you happen to see mike will bonds tweet about it or no tell me you've had issues with mike after this no what are you saying all right so mike will bond said uh best halftime show ever dot dot dot by far dot dot dot and i'm a prince fanatic dot dot dot but this is unequaled lordy dot dot dot the lordy he's coming in on jail did the lordy send up any red flags where you're like hey mike i appreciate you but step off michael let's set up a zoom we have to have a face to face yeah now i love mike mike's a friend and i'm a big fan of his work but i think a lot of people were saying that the super bowl she worked so hard i mean let me tell you about behind the scenes now i

mean she was working and jeff and nick the kind of test two sometimes three four o'clock in the morning for literally months and months and months and then you do all of this six months of work for six minutes uh she killed it yeah yeah it was an awesome great halftime show it was like the last time that the world was was normal yeah that's true yeah i look back on that weekend and i'm like man you remember concerts yeah that's that was kind of fun you remember being allowed to hang out with your friends yeah that was that was kind of fun um so arod we have the corp coming out tuesday thursday we actually talked to jaylo about uh the super bowl halftime and everything that went into that are you you uh you obviously are big dolphins fan are you buying in on toa are we in on toa

i don't know enough about football but here's what i'm buying is i cannot wait to see tom brady and tampon that's gonna be very interesting and grunk who did season two at the corp who we love around here barstool um is interesting it looked like he's doing a lot of good recruiting when did you how old were you when you retired 40 yeah so are you just watching tom brady and being like what the hell going on 41 yeah i am he's amazing could you know did you notice like the even the back half of your 30s like a difference in the preparation the recovery all that stuff was it year was it that noticeable that it was year to year yeah i mean in your 20s you can do whatever the hell you want i mean yeah nothing hurts you just get up and you just go out and head home runs in your 30s you

start having to really really work at it what helped me was is i had really really good work ethic in my 20s and i think that's a big key because like there's a residual in your 30s okay and anyone who plays into their 40s usually is a good worker right a good work you got to take care of your body and nobody's more meticulous than tom brady i'll tell you a story when uh about eight nine years ago i was playing golf with tom brady in in miami and i asked him how long do you want to play and i thought his answer would be like 35 i mean you know nfl guys are getting crushed he said i want to play till i'm 45 or 50 and i just kind of laughed and you know he shot another birdie or something and sure enough i mean he wants to play another five years man that's crazy did you see

that when he was doing the the match against Peyton Manning that one eagle that he had like the one hop into the into the cup that right there made me think yeah tom brady can do whatever he wants whatever he wants 50 years old whatever he wants um so yeah i think for most of us like we spend uh are like the first five years of our 30s forgetting that we're not in our 20s anymore right and then the second half of our 30s like trying to catch up and undo all the bad stuff that we did the last five years when you were getting up to your 40s like did you have to make any adjustments to your diet at that point oh yeah i mean look when you're in your 40 you start cringing about some of the shit you did when you were in your 20s too um you know his

his diet his rest is is sleep sleep is very underrated um i if i didn't sleep eight hours when i played especially as i got older i was i was a bum the next day is that possible though to to get solid eight hours of sleep all the time as you're going on these road trips as you're playing you know like back to back games some double headers sometimes like or is that really difficult uh it is difficult but you know what since you don't have to be at the stadium till about three sometimes you can just sleep into like noon or 11 but my routine was i like to get up on 930 go to the gym work out have a little breakfast and then go back to sleep for about an hour nice cat nap i have one last question me on these soft question of the day go to me on these

dot com slash pmt to get 15 off your first purchase my last question is billy what do you want to say to a rod billy is a huge yankee fan he's very nervous okay uh a rod corp has a very diverse portfolio of investments ranging from ufc licensed gyms card dealerships as well as real estate what factors do you look for when you're investing in assets and what is the common denominator between all of them what the what that was a real question what the hell really i feel like i'm on cnbc this is a great question billy squad box i like it i like it um first of all we like three things we like things that we understand really well we like things that we can bring more than just capital and things that we're really really passionate about like president would be a great

one um and then we like great people to manage these businesses so like in baseball we like playmakers in business we like playmakers now i have a follow-up question oh follow-up i look how do the Mets fall into that those categories good question billy well i mean look anything i can't talk about that but here's what i can tell you is that uh it goes into passion we understand it and uh you know i was a childhood fan mm-hmm billy asked him to go on your podcast you have a podcast no i don't have a podcast if you have one coming out go ahead say it right now no it's uh billy's a weightlifter uh he might dabble in some other things cross it cross freak yeah i mean i you're very interesting wide range of uh gyms and you know he would love to work out yes i would love

to work out talking about getting swole he literally just wants to work out with you so maybe internship next summer i i would love to enter whoa what's our answer what the hell Alex jeff you know what jeff leaves right here and in a week you're gonna text me like what the fuck take him back yeah i made a great first impression all right any other oh jake do you have anything you want to say jake's a huge yankee fan as well jake where you from going on some fellow south Florida guy from weston yeah weston yeah what high school cypress bay what college uh syracuse finance deal ever hear about it broadcasting broadcast yeah favorite announcer of all time mike tarika and what do you how do you feel about michael k i grew up a

yankee fan like big cat mentioned so i've grown to love him um i could see how some people have an issue with him having a talk show and offering maybe too many opinions as a play by play guide on the call but i like him in jack buck i mean joe buck love joe buck okay what's your question so on that note as a analyst what are you looking for as a play by play guy to make your job easiest uh great question i i think we're looking for just first of all chemistry uh in someone who is selfless that wants to put you in a position to win is like anything else in sports what made magic johnson so great i mean he would just pass the ball and you would dunk it he'd put you in a position to win i think that's what a joe buck or matt vas gershin does so well kevin burkhard

and my favorite broadcast to coming up was tim macarver and part of it is he worked with jack buck and joe buck for so many years and is that chemistry back and forth and sometimes you can't explain it but you can feel it thank you we're not a tim macarver company anymore though now that we have dion okay i have a long time oh that's right yeah i forgot about that yeah the cooler yeah the cooler we're in prime time yes yes um i love prime time uh yeah i just want to say last time we interviewed you i did a bad job as an interviewer and as a podcaster i feel like i need to make it up i mistakenly asked you about the painting of you as a minotaur and you said didn't exist hand up that was a bad question by me because the painting was a centaur yeah so you were able

to deny yes the existence of the minotaur painting how many alex rodriguez centaur paintings did you have zero and i was actually i thought that was the best part of the interview because you gave me an opportunity to clear that okay so uh no to your first question last episode and second one and when i come back if you guys have me back i want you to ask him one more time okay so we can just keep clear like oh well clear let's clear this i thought you how do you feel looking back about the kissing yourself picture i thought it was a very cringing moment i wish i can say that somebody paid me like uh you know a thousand bucks to do that but i they just convinced me and i said yeah i think that's a good idea my god what an asshole it happens sometimes someone tells you a good

idea yeah i think i think a lot of younger athletes need to realize that when you're doing these photo shoots you can actually say no if you want exactly you don't have to go along with it i was just so excited they were taking a picture of me i said yeah do that why not yeah kiss myself um all right well a rod thank you so much everyone tune in like i said uh corp season three is coming out tuesday and thursday of this week seven great guests and uh always a pleasure to have you on awesome guys thank you that interview with a rod was brought to you by shady rays shady rays are high quality shades for far less than expensive brands they have the best warranty in the sunglasses industry they will give you replacements if you lose them if you break them and they have a lifetime

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i like them too i'll be honest with you like they if you were a drug guy if you're not that's where you'd put your drugs that is perfect and i think that major league baseball if they want to grow the game they want to appeal to the youth out there i know for a while mlb was dropping hats all the time that were like subtly gang influenced where they would have like the gang colors that they'd put out for certain teams trying to like market any way that they can this is a great way to market to stoners i well dad specifically dallas braden this is this oakland a's hat with cargo pockets on the side is specifically for dallas braden dude this is a dad hat too it looks like john olroves dad you have like four kids go to the game you know keep keep all the shit up there on the hat you never

have to worry about it you know it looks sick if you're a dad out there wondering like how come there hasn't been a hat that i can clip my external cell phone holster into boom look no further really oakland a's hat let that 5g really fucking roast your brain yeah boom put that put your hat put your phone right in that hat all kidding aside i would rock the hell out of this hat we know you would yes not for the drug reasons no no not for the drug reasons that it's it's good hat it's a good looking hat it's a great hat um the other thing we had was all of the i think it's not to brag we called it but whatever's going on the nfl right now with these false positives yeah you suspect very suspect i have a stay woke on an aflac and goodwill hunting

you suspect i have an important stay woke me and billy were chopping it up about this earlier today but i think well this most recent lab that had all the fault false positives it's a brand new lab that the nfl is using you know where it's located where new jersey you know what else was in new jersey the sopranos christ christie oh yeah and chris christie both um and i think just stay woke on this if there's a lab that can kind of put out these false positives on game days get some line movement going on the action there's a lot of money to be made out there i'll put it that way well it simply makes sense that they would the false positives are perfect because now going forward if you get tested positive and it is game day like well let's just play like we said

the nfl is going to do a good job of making sure everyone plays no matter if they have coronavirus or not i'll put it this way if patrick mahomes tests positive on a sunday morning and he's got sunday at football and then you know what it's a false false positive at that point where godel will be like it's a false positive he's gonna play and then two days later be like well the false positive reading is false good job nfl you've you've muddied the waters enough that we can now safely go into the nfl season just assuming every test that is positive is not actually positive until it's negative the bears had which case it's negative the bears had what 10 players yep their tight end room was depleted uh every team was affected this time it was like

the bears the brown it's so perfect though because now we can just say well it might not be everyone's dog brain can can kick into overdrive whenever your favorite team has a player to test positive you can say well it's probably a false positive and guess what if the player is important enough it will be a false don't figure out a way to wink wink yes it will absolutely be a fucking the nfl always gotta figure out so next time we say the nfl doesn't have to figure it out just remember they haven't figured out i had i had a theory just not through actual health measurements and like take care of their players but through just making sure the games money made right they haven't figured out in terms of generating revenue for sure um i was thinking that if there are college

teams that aren't going to be playing football this fall why not just allow those like senior quarterbacks to be the emergency quarterback for whatever team is in that district so like if it's the browns or the bangles they could sign justin fields to be like their emergency guy so in case like baker if he's playing a prime time game and he goes out he tested maybe a false positive maybe a false negative bring justin fields in are he justin fields could do double duty in atlanta as well there's actually nerf fuck sir yacht but uh he i don't know why i'm still believing him but he said that all college football is in trouble and i actually think that's true now so why are you believing him now when it's a bad thing because i can't quit him yeah he's got a great name i can't

quit him sir yacht he's obviously really successful sir yeah fuck you is there a way you really fucked me billy you probably know this is there a way that you can train dogs to sniff coronavirus yes they just you don't know that i don't know that check page two of my list okay page two of billy's list wait the back of page one you have absolutely nothing about chinese man big belly saves him from falling down well that is at least three weeks old i remember being tagged in that fucking story it was like it happened well this is the homer simpson thing yeah uh what there's nothing about dogs i don't see any dollars researchers train dogs to sniff out cova 19 infection in just a few days but isn't that isn't that the same as a test well they can sniff it

they say the meta but what's the metabolic process of your body changes when you wait okay hold on this is very important this title i'm assuming you copy and paste it it's confusing researchers train dogs to sniff out cova 19 infections in just a few days now do they train the dogs in just a few days or can they sniff out the infection in just a few days in just a few days so the dog has to be like it has to have his nose buried in your groin for a full weekend and then i like it says it it's in just a few days where do you have this i don't i don't have this on my sheet billy it's on the back he's on the second back of the second billy's saving trees now so we get everything in two pages okay got it up here but you see you see how it's a little confusing there

like i didn't copy page that if the if the dogs sniff it out in just a few days what's why wouldn't you just get the rapid test right but if they train them how to sniff it in just a few like it only took them three days to train the dogs i guess we'll just go with the fucking cova dogs yeah every team has dogs i was i was saying that they should do an air butt about this diagnostic labs diagnostic laboratories well it's like in world war z when they're like going into israel and then they had the dogs that sniffed their zombies you're barking going crazy you're quoting a movie for medicine for how we should do our medicine i kind of like this though exactly i never saw it go on well they have the dogs sniff if they're zombies or not and the

dogs figured it out yeah they go nuts but i think yeah why don't we do that in a few days i think they mean like after a few days after getting covid no but that you could smell it but that makes no sense because why wouldn't you just get the test i think it's in a few just a few days that's how long it took them to teach them yeah it's really smart dogs right like they have good dog trainers that would be sick though if every starting quarterback got assigned a covid sniffing dog that he had to take around everywhere yeah and just stayed away from it yeah boom that would be perfect um okay that is our show uh great show everyone anything else on the list that we should address here oh there's an asteroid that's going to hit earth on election day who cares pretty cool

who cares everything we get to to hurt there's a do you see that apple did you see that map someone had a great treat it was uh when you go to the bathroom for like 20 minutes while you're playing sim city because it was a map of the us and half of it's on fire and then there's two hurricanes coming at the same time yeah to the Gulf of Mexico yep guess what guys everything is going to shit the world is fucking crumbling but we have sports back so just say fuck it and listen apart it might take we've got luca yeah at least we've got luca we trust love you guys billy take us out with a closing thought please so that you worked very hard on closing thoughts there's two extremely important um chemicals in your brain serotonin and dopamine and you

should try to make them as high as you can because i'm pretty sure the serotonin chills you out and the dopamine makes you want to do fun shit so what you gotta do is you gotta exercise so make sure you exercise because it keeps those chemicals high in your brain and that means you can do cool stuff and that's really fun love you guys you okay And the rain is spilling through the night And tell me, baby, what's the matter with you?

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