Pardon My Take - Christian Yelich, An Insane Sports Weekend Recapping CBB, Fury/Paul, Russ Wilson Postmortem And More Plus Lottery Ball Drama

Episode Date: February 27, 2023

Wild sports weekend and we talk about all of it. College Basketball Saturday was insane with a bunch of upsets and buzzer beaters. Baseballs new rules are complete chaos. Paul vs Fury, PFT and Big Cat talk about how bad their teams suck and more(00:02:38-00:53:21). Who's back of the week including LIV Golf and Billy almost found a bone in the East River(00:53:21-01:09:49). Brewers outfielder and MVP Christian Yelich joins the show to talk about the upcoming season, our lifelong bet with him, the funniest times he's been ejected and tons more(01:09:49-01:54:41). We finish with the lottery ball and we have a winner(01:54:41-02:10:02).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

Hey, pardon my take listeners. You can find every episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. On today's pardon my take, we have our good friend, Christian Yellich, back on the show, a huge mistake by me and PFT for longtime listeners. They know that we have a bet that we will get into with Christian Yellich that we've had for about four or five years now. This was a mistake because we love Christian Yellich. We actually ran into him randomly on the side of the street. We were like, dude, come back on. But now everyone's going to talk about this again and we have just resurfaced the bet. But great conversation with him about

baseball, spring training, new rules, everything, getting kicked out of games. Awesome interview. We're going to talk a little weekend sports. We had an insane college basketball Saturday. Jake Paul versus Tommy Fury. LeBron, 23 most important games is going right now. And of course we got who's back of the week. Great show for you. It's brought to you by friends at Barstool Sportsbook. Barstool exclusives. Picks and parlays from Big Cat Alpres and other personalities to follow or fade. Tons of ways to bet. Daily odds boosts. Live in game bets. Move the line plus teasers and Parley plus to bet within same games or across sports. It's easy to navigate and use data and content to keep you informed. Easy and

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is Monday, February 27th. And boys, there was a lot of sports this weekend. A lot of things to discuss. I don't know where. Choose your own adventure. Where would you like to start? Because I actually have a list of things we can discuss. Yeah. Why don't you say, here, I'll number them real quick. All right. Say a number one through four. Seven. Seven. Okay. Seven. Bullriding. Okay. Bullriding. Yeah. It was sick weekend for bullriding. Canadian Bulls. Yes. It's like the opposite of the Stanley Cup is right now. Canadian Bulls are dominating the PBA circuit. They're all the way back. It's a PBA spelled EH. Yes. Yes. PBA. No, we had an awesome weekend of sports. I actually, why don't we start with the fact

that Saturday in college basketball felt like a March Madness day. It was absolute chaos. Nine ranked teams lost on Saturday. And the way they lost, and I want to say a quick shoutout to one of, because I think the, the, when we, when we talked to Titus last week and talking about how we miss coach K college sports, obviously everyone has their teams or everything went to school, everything like that. But a lot of college sports, because the players change every single year is about the program and the coach. And Saturday, I'm a big believer in the little signs and the butterfly effect. I think Saturday we got the chaos all because of Fran McCaffrey stare, stare down. It was from that point on, the day just went off

the fucking ramp. There's nothing like a good old fashioned coach just staring at a referee so close and neither one of them was going to walk away. They both stepped up. Yeah. It was incredible. It was just, so if you missed it, Iowa, Michigan State, Iowa was losing all game. Fran McCaffrey is a very angry coach. He's probably top three angriest coaches in college sports. He got into, it was in the middle of a time out. He used instead of coaching up his team, he decided to go walk and stare at the ref standing on the baseline with the ball. He started about 10 feet away from him and he slowly got, they didn't say a word. It was like Madison, Bob Gardner and Joe West didn't say a word to

each other. A good solid 25 seconds stare down. Both of them stepped into it. And then finally Iowa coaches, assistant coaches like Fran, you're going to get kicked out of this game. And then you can't get kicked out of a game for looking though, for not, not using your words for just the only way possible for a stare down like that to end with both sides saving face and neither side feeling like they lost is if they just continue to get closer and closer until they just kiss. Yeah, they had to kiss and then break it up. But, and then so the reason why I say that his stare down started the chaos, Michigan State was up 13 points with a minute 31 left and Iowa won the game by six in overtime.

It was absolutely chaotic, an insane scene. And then we went on, we had Florida State down 25. They beat Miami on a buzzer beater, which was just a brutal, like the guy hits Miami hits a three to go up two with like four seconds left. He's doing the like, are you not entertained? Florida State just inbounds the ball right back in his eye. Three buzzer beater. We had Arizona State buzzer beater. That was awesome. Awesome. It was pure from half court. And that was Arizona was leading by 10 with six 30 left. We had Indiana sweat Purdue for the first time in 10 years. We then I stayed up all the way till I saw. Well, congrats to Purdue for winning the big 10. Yes, on a loss. They won the big 10.

Yes, they did. They did. That was at least a share. But as we say on this podcast, that's a win. That's a win. That's a win. Big 10. And then we had it late into the night. Like I was like 1230 at night. I was watching on my phone in bed with my headphones in San Diego State buzzer beater to beat New Mexico and Rick Petino Jr. Unfortunately, the pit was rocking. But it was just like, it felt like one of those days where it really did feel like a tournament day where it was just nonstop action. Every two hours, another crazy result happened. And it was a nice reminder on like when we're starting to get our feet wet with all the other sports. Oh, yeah, college basketball fucking rules this time of year.

Sometimes the sport just knows when they have the spotlight. Yeah, this was the first weekend where truly college basketball could be like, OK, it's our season. Major League Baseball tried to upstage them with spring training games with the giant bases that they have. And I'll be honest, the bases do look awesome. Yeah, on TV. Thank you, Rob Manford for listening. He's got his finger on the pulse of Seamhead Nation. Yep. The bases really do it for me. So good job on that one. And baseball has its own moment right now because they're just trying to figure out all the new rules and is absolutely chaos. We had a game end today in a tie because you can tie in spring training on a violation, a shot clock violation for

the hitter. Yeah. Yeah. Not stepping into the box. We had a couple of those this weekend too. And the games are going way faster. It's like two hours, 20 minutes per game, as opposed to like two hours, 50 minutes. It's chaos. Old spring training games. Now, I've got I've got my guy that drafts for me every year for the Seamhead Express. He's the guy that he was in a fantasy league that he used to dominate that ended up having two future actual baseball GMs. OK, this guy, Corky knows his shit. He is projecting right now an average decrease in pitch velocity this year of 0.02 miles per hour because of the new shot clock rules. So yeah, keep that in the back pocket. We're going to see slower fastballs this year.

And also a lot more steals too, I would assume, because of the rules, the pickoff rules, you can only go twice and the bigger bases. Yeah, the bigger bases. Yeah, we'll get into more that with Christian Yelich. We also just shout out Keith Hernandez, who it's spring training for the announcers, too. He was calling a spring training game between the Mets and the Marlins and Marlins player, Jazz Chisholm. He introduced as Jazz Chisholm, which fucking rules. It's just a great name. This is he holding in right now, Keith Hernandez, because I think that he had he had some contract disputes, right? Like Keith Hernandez was he was like, I'll go to a different team. I don't care. No, he just he consulted with his cat, who

is I don't know if this is knowing too much about Keith Hernandez, which is just following him on online. But he he has a cat. He might have multiple cats, but I know he has a cat and he's house. He's set up like it's a it's like basically if exhibit did a pit my ride for a house for a cat. Yeah, like there's a bunch of like weird shelves. There's actually an entire shelf that goes the length of his ceiling that the cat can just climb around and like walk. The cat just walks around. He's like a Walenda brother. I love it. Just walking around the house. I love it. Here's a take that I'm going to squat on. Keith Hernandez has toxoplasmosis from living with his cat. That's why he's messing up names. But I mean,

is it really a mess up because Jazz Chisholm is just a hall of fame name. It's a better name. It's a way better name. Way better name. Someone's got to have that porn star name. So baseball tried to steal away the spotlight, but college basketball was incredible. UNC got their first quad one year. Yes, our quad one way of the year. Yes, yes, UVA. Yes. So UNC is back. You mentioned Rick Petino, Jr. Rick Petino is sneaky. Still a great coach. Oh yeah. Rick Petino, his name is going to be mentioned in some bigger jobs that are going to open up. John got to win the Mac tournament. That's all. All the math. Can you please say correctly? Yeah. There was there was a push by St. John's fans to have Rick come and coach

St. I mean, it would be great. The Red Storm once every 20, once every 28 days. Did you just fire Jim Bayhime? No, it doesn't have to be this year. It doesn't have to be this year. Okay. Yeah. When the time comes. What about this? What about this? Because we talked with with Mark Titus last week about how frustrating it is. The fact that Duke basketball is not hateable. Why don't we just get the Petino to Duke train going? How nice would that be? That would be Hanks. Yes, looked up. He's ready to John's. I was a good guy. Great guy. Great guy. Great guy. Is he winning basketball games? Well, they did. They kicked the shit out of Virginia. They're going to make the tournament. Yeah. And you're one. Yeah. I'm

just saying that's not due. They're supposed to be Duke, Jake. That's what you can always say. Oh, and speaking of speaking of hot seats, Cal is off the hot seat. Yeah. Tucky is hot. Yeah. They are. They killed Auburn. Oh, what about Petino to Ole Miss? Sure. They just fired their coach. Yeah. Yeah. He loves Ole Miss. That'd be nice. He loves young misses too. Yeah. I got all the Petino puns out. That was, BFT just emptied his college basketball clip with Petitos. No, I'm just, I'm excited about Petino getting a big job. I think that I think the time is right for him to get back. He's been laying low for long enough. The sport's better when Rick Petino is patrolling the sidelines in a major conference. You should

just go back to Louisville. They're the worst team in the ACC. It would make too much sense. So not awful. I actually saw a game in person, LIU versus Merrimack, which it was very funny because I went to the game. There was, you walked in for free. So I was like, Oh, they didn't charge? No. I was confused. Just walked in with my son, watched the whole game after the game, let him run on the court and then like all Merrimack staff was just like, What the fuck are you doing here? And then one guy on Merrimack came up to me. He's like, You know Ken Palm. And I was like, Yeah, he's like, We're actually the number one defense. No, Merrimack's the number one defense. Oh, LIU is 363. Oh yeah. They've won three games

all year. So bad. So bad. But I guess Merrimack is the number one defense in terms of turnovers. So that's nice. Shout out Merrimack hoops. There we go. He was like, it was just very funny that he pulled me aside was like, you know, Ken Palm number one in defense, a turnover hang the banner. Yeah. Like that's a subset stat. I love that. I love that. I mean, yeah, it was great. If I, if I was number one ranked anything in the world, you better believe I'm pulling that stat up all the time. But college basketball was awesome this weekend. And Katelyn Clark. Yeah. Women's side. You saw that buzzer beater. There you go. Yeah. That was a good one. Rutgers. Shout out Rutgers. Big comeback against Penn State. I bet on Penn

State. That was unfortunate. Yeah. I guess I should do. I was going to be my who's back. But Wisconsin just is, I, I, it's been torturous to watch them this season. The Hunter Dickinson, the one guy you can't have who's been basically being the heel all year. He hits a three when they should have fouled. I, they tried to foul at half court at the possession before, but everyone's like, they should have fouled. They should have fouled. They should have fouled. Greg Garg said that he did give the call to foul on that possession. I'm not talking about the, I know you're the one that you're talking about, but also on the last possession, Greg Garg, he was telling his team to foul and apparently they were trying to, but they

weren't fouling hard enough. It was bad job of fouling. And then Hunter Dickinson put the ski mask on. It was bad. Big buzzer. They are one in one against the Badgers this year. So I don't, that was, he was like, he, Hunter Dickinson put out an Instagram post being like, I stood by everything I'd say. The Badger killer. You went one in one. He's the Badger killer. You went one in one and it was two pretty tight games. But I, so I had a tweet after and I just, here's what I don't understand. So obviously we wear our hard on our sleeves as sports fans. I am 38. I should be more mature than this, but I'm not, I'm being honest and being vulnerable. I absolutely let my team's success dictate my mood. I was very

upset, grumpy, mad, all those things. My question to you, PFT is why can't I be a grumpy triggered bitch after my team's lose and everyone else can. I think I should be able to beat like I, if anything, people should be applauding the fact that I'm a grumpy triggered bitch after my team's lose because I could easily just remove myself and be like, Oh, well I'm, you know, I got a lot of things going on in my life. I got, I'm successful. I don't need to care about a bunch of 18 year olds playing basketball on a Sunday. It's kind of your job, but I do. Well, no, but I would care, even if it wasn't my job, that would have ruined my day. No matter what the way I look at it, you'd rather, you'd

rather care way too much than be completely numb to it. That's the danger that you live in if your teams are just consistently bad for a long time. So if you still feel pain, that actually means that you're, you're still expecting good results. It's once you stop with that expectation that you're just numb and you're used to it and then you just lose all interest in sports. You don't want to get down that road. I also think that there's something to be said for having sports be your outlet as a guy to have, to be able to get emotional about stuff. It's like, it's, it's a free space. It's a safe space for us to get triggered at because if you let those emotions seep into other parts of your

life, then that's bad. But now you've got this one outlet where, where you start stinking. They do. But, but the reason why is because of sports. Yeah. No, they send the whole day in a sprout. I'm just saying that's good. I think that's a good thing for you to have. All of our listeners are lovely AWLs. I guarantee when your team loses, you're a grumpy triggered bitch online and in person. Let me have the same, let us, let us be the same. Let me lash out and be upset for a little bit because I was upset. The way they lost upset me. It's good ruined my day because like you can't, if they had just lost in a regular loss, I would have been able to deal with it, but not fouling

up three with a second and a half left. That ruined my day. And it's Heather Dickinson who's, who's been, he's been trying to joker fi himself this year. Correct. He's been doing like a half fast version of method acting, turning into Heath Ledger, but this was actually like the Joker-ish response. The one time it actually worked for him. It worked. Well, they're going to lose to Illinois and Indiana. So they're probably won't even make the tournament either. Yeah. Two bubble teams. It's just, I just, just afford me again. I think that people should applaud the fact that I still let a bunch of fucking kids, they're just kids playing a basketball game on a Sunday afternoon ruin

my day and maybe my week and possibly my week. Like this one could have ruined my week yet to be seen how I wake up tomorrow morning. People should applaud that I still care when I could just be like, ah, fuck it. Who cares? This is a game. So just afford me the same right that you have to just be, you know what I mean? I know people when they get upset, when they run their team loses, they just go and they argue with people online. So it's an outlet that we all need. You know what you need? You need to get on that burner life. The burner life really changed the game for me. I like to just do it myself. It's so fun to just, to get anonymous and just reply to a major reporter's tweet or like a final

score tweet and nobody even knows that it's you. It's so good. Yeah. I just like to do it myself though. I like to just be myself and let you know I'm vulnerable. I bleed just like you. I'm getting into a dark place and the reason why I brought up the being numb to things is because that's kind of a personal situation that I'm anticipating going through very soon because you, you experienced it with the Bears this year, even before the season started, no expectations whatsoever with the Bears. I found myself in a place where the next year I really don't have anything to look forward to sports wise. Dude. Dude. At all. We're the same. Yeah. No, no, no, no, no. I was thinking about this independent

of you. I was thinking about how sad it is that the best thing that's happened to me in my sports life this year is that the Bears were the worst team. Yeah. That's literally the best thing that's happened. Yeah. Well, the best thing that's happened to me in the last calendar year is the report that Dan Snyder was going to sell the team, which looks like it's not even going to happen now. Right. So I've got, I've got the gnats. They're going to stink. The caps are selling everything. They stink right now. I've got the wizards kind of, but I'd never care about them. And then Dan Snyder sticking around. So I know I'm a DC defenders guy now to know DC defenders to know first place in the East. We need to

stick. We need to be like, like boondock saints when we're back to back, just fighting everyone because the hanks of the world, these people who are running around or even the almost winners, the maxes of the world, they can laugh in our face. I did the same calculation in my head. The Cubs might be frisky, but let's be honest, they're not going to like do anything. The, the, the like biggest story for the Blackhawks has been just waiting for Patrick Cain to get to see what you can best player ever. Yeah. Like the best American hockey player ever is, oh, when is he going to get traded? Uh, the bulls signed Pat Bev, who is a culture changer, but the peak now is to, uh, make the playoffs and losing the

first round. That's the ceiling. Yeah. And then the bears have the number one. Again, the best thing that has happened to me, the, the, the badgers are on the bubble and probably out. And the best thing that's happened to me this entire year is that the bears were the worst team in the NFL. Yeah. But that is a very good thing though. That's a very good thing. All right. I, I, the best thing, I guess, um, I guess I'm just going to have to be a full time smash golf club. Damn you. Three wins away. No, they can't play. Well, okay. So no, this is another one. I'm going to blame this on Hank's misinformation

because you told me they couldn't, they moved, they were still do you want Hank that said that, uh, cause he gets everything wrong in college basketball. It was so JMU when they moved up into the Sunbelt and football, they had a one year postseason ban. When you change conferences in basketball, you can do that. You can still do that. So Jamie and the colonial yeah, they can still win the Sunbelt tournament. I've been, I literally, I told like fucked it up. I told like 400 people this week. I was walking around all week, just telling people that. So the four C I look like such a fool. No, I know. I was like, Hey, did you know JMU can't make it? I know. That's what everyone's been talking. Ten teams in eligible

and college basketball. Oh, Merrimack's one of them. Yeah. Merrimack is one of them. That's a four year turnover. It's too hot. Last year, Bellarmine won the ACE on tournament. They couldn't go dancing. That was a bullshit. Yeah. Another piece of Brandon Miller news also happened this weekend. Yeah. When he came out on the court for pregame introduction, his teammate padded him down when he stepped down the court. Now he has been doing that all year. And it's a pretty common pregame introduction thing where they pat you down like you're stepping into the octagon. But as Nate Oates said, not great optics. Yeah. And when you say bad optics, that's just a code word for being like, it was bad. It

was bad. Nate. So Brandon Miller, like they again, they do it every time. I kind of figured that when I saw the like the intro is like, this is probably planned. It's like a handshake, never. He's an 18 year old kid. This this portion. I'm not going to talk about the other stuff, but this portion, he probably didn't think twice like, oh, I probably should do. Nate Oates is a fucking douchebag because Nate Oates is like, he said in the comments, he was like, yeah, I don't really watch the pregame. That's not what like part of what I'm doing. And then he realized like, oh, shit, this is another situation where I'm doing a boys will be boys. Yes. And he shut it shut it down in his own brain mid sentence.

It was like, yeah, we'll stop doing that. It was bad. Nate Oates, just have a little common sense for your team. You're coaching 18 year old kids. You have to be the common sense. Yes, he is. He's the brain. He is the adult. Yes, exactly. It's like if LeBron James got busted for distributing fentanyl, I would imagine that he would stop doing the chalk toss at the scores table pregame. Yes, correct. But he's an adult. He's he's a father of three. Right. Brandon Miller. Yes, maybe. You know what? I'm just gonna say, I think Brandon Miller probably should have not done that. He shouldn't. I think I will say that Brandon Miller, just because you're 18 years old, you should probably not do the weapon

path down. Agreed. But you also made I'm going to put a lot more blame on Nate Oates for all of this in terms of how he's dealt with it. I would say, yeah, in this circumstance, a bad guy, I would say 40% Brandon Miller's fault, 60% NATO. Yes. Yes. All right. So wait, when we talked about football there for a second, I had a thought that popped in my head talking about how bad our teams are. And I want to throw it out there as long as this is the trust tree. So maybe no one repeat what I'm about to say outside of these walls. I had a thought that popped in my head. It's a scary thought is something I don't want to happen. But I also have played it out in my head and it would be kind of exciting.

The Bears trade the number one pick. We all expect that if they don't, they should just burn the whole franchise. This smokescreen. The Bears trade the number one pick. The Bears also trade Justin Fields. Then you just get loaded. They have like eight first round picks and here's the reasoning. And again, I don't want to happen. I just feel this is the guy. I'm just saying this. You would become the Falcons. Your entire team. I'm just saying this. I'm just saying this because there is a theory out there when you're talking about the Eagles. Jalen Hurts. The Eagles were able to load up because they were able to take advantage of a cheap contract with the quarterback. The Bears are in a weird situation where they

have to get kind of good this year to see if Justin Fields really is that franchise quarterback. I think he is. But there's still some holes in this game. I'm fully admitting that. So you have to get kind of good to get to that point. And then to get to that point, you would then be in year four and start running the clock on like now you're getting really good, but now you have to pay him a lot of money. What if they said we've wasted two years of this financial flexibility of a young quarterback? What if we just strip it all the way down and get all the picks and have all the cap and kill Williams Drake Mays coming up? And you do that. Again, I do not want this to happen. The thought came in my head because this is what we do as

stupid sports fans where you're just sitting on a Friday night and your brain is wondering what you're watching a movie and you're thinking like, what if the Bears do this? That's literally what was happening. The problem with that is if you're the GM of the Bears and you hit that big reset, then you put yourself on a clock too. It's the craziest move. It's a crazy move. But it also, you could talk yourself into how crazy it is. You've been watching Draft Day. It's so crazy. It might be smart. By this logic, are you basically saying that the quarterback position is like the running back position and it's almost interchangeable? Billy, that's what we've started. We started that take like a month ago with Brock Purdy. It's like you don't even need

a good quarterback to be good at quarterback. No, no, you still need a very good quarterback, but it is pretty clear you either have a really great quarterback, Patrick Mahomes, Joe Burrow, Josh Allen, like whatever you want, Geno Smith, Tyler, or you have a very good quarterback. So it doesn't have to be all world great, but a very good quarterback on a cheaper deal and you can load up around them. But then I would point you to recent history and look at teams that have won Super Bowls and look at their quarterbacks. Patrick Mahomes. They're pretty good. Yeah, no, they are, but Stafford, but I would then point to you and say teams that lost Super Bowls, they went through this model. Yeah, no, no, it hurts. Jimmy Garoppolo, I guess he

was a little more expensive, but not as expensive. Yeah, no, it's actually, it is a great way to lose a Super Bowl to get to a Super Bowl and lose to a better quarterback to lose a Super Bowl. But I you wouldn't take losing a Super Bowl right now. Oh, I love to love to love that. If I lose Super Bowl, that's that's dream fair. I mean, you know, if you told me I could lose the next three Super Bowls, it'd be like, sign me up. Yeah, I mean, that's that means I could win three NFC championship games. Yeah, that actually that would total up if you have if you have three seasons a row losing Super Bowl. Yeah, it means that you have what 18 months of pure joy in your life over the next three years, including depending on like, if you get the buy or not, you have like,

I don't know, like seven to nine playoff wins. Yeah, the bills had they had no idea how good they had it in the late 80s, early 90s. They had had some great football. There's some great home games in the playoffs. I mean, it is true. I mean, now they're they're semi back. But like, it you would you wish you'd known it was a good old days when the good old days were happening. Yeah, there was a bleak. Oh man, 25 years in there losing Super Bowl is to be so fun right now. The Cowboys would kill to lose. Oh my God, Harry Jones do anything. What do you say, Billy? Who's your quarterback then? Next year. It's a it's a total like reset of everything. Again, I don't want to do this. I think Justin Fields very good. I think they should keep my my official stance is if the

Bears don't trade the first round pick or the first pick overall for more picks, everyone should be fired. And I want to keep Justin Fields. Justin Fields also kill Williams and Drake may are both we kind of very, very good quarterback prospects. We glossed over a little bit. Justin Fields was on the show, but he did say he hates playing in cold weather. He wants to do any wants and heights. Yeah. And he loves Aaron Rodgers. Yeah. What if you trade Justin Fields, keep the number one pick and take Anthony Richardson? Oh, shut up. That's the point is don't do that. No, no, no, no. No, just throwing it out there. No, that would be awesome. Why would you waste the pick? Go deeper. Max Duggan. No, you guys. No, it'd be trading Justin Fields for multiple first round picks,

trading the first pick for multiple first round picks. And then you have basically I'm saying I want the process because I always have thought that as much as everyone made fun of the process, the process was fun because it gave a very clear strategy to the fans being like, here's the plan because that's what happens a lot in sports is a team will tank and then like a team will tank and then the owner will be like, fuck this. I don't like this anymore. Like we have to start doing better. So then they sign a bunch of contracts that aren't very good and they get a little marginally better. I liked being like, hey, we suck. We're going to suck. But oh my God, once we get to the promised land, it's going to be incredible. You know,

it's funny is we can we can we can argue. So that's the thing is like we can talk about whether the process worked in Philadelphia, but I'm more of a process guy. So I'm actually going to take the side of the process of the process worked. Yes, the results of the process did not work because the process the process was in place. You just happened to take Ben Simmons and Markel Foltz right with your first set Jason Tatum instead of Jason Tatum. Whereas if you just appreciate the process of the process, it works. Yeah, no, he did everything that was planned. It's just the actual picks or the hard. We're getting double processed on this. That's where it's like this move that I just talked about for the Bears would be very stupid because the the

actual like plan of finding the players is the hard part getting the picks. Anyone could get a bunch of picks. That's how the Celtics team was basically constructed. They had like three years where we just had going into the draft. It was like we have 15 draft picks and then Danny would just trade them for other draft picks. Right. And you guys eventually now we're here. And Danny Age even admitted that he thought it was like it was actually kind of some luck because he didn't think that the Nets when they traded KG and Paul Pierce to them would be as bad as they were. And you guys are losing NBA finals, which is the dream. Get to a final and lose. Yeah, not for me, but that's your guys, you know, goals. I understand. Did you not have fun last year? No, I did. I get

it. That was a fun ride for you. It was an amazing ride. You think about I want to close your eyes and think about how fun that spring. I've experienced it. I'm not going to. I know I don't want to like, you know, ran on your parade. I know what you guys want. It's not as fun as winning, but it's still fun. Very fun. But once you win, it's like you just want to win. You guys have to get to that point. We had to taste it. Yeah. Yeah. No, we're losers. We are officially losers. I'm actually like we were such losers that in our wildest dreams of winning, we still lose. That's the best. Yeah. Yeah. Like I'm trying to think of what's a fair hypothetical. Like for the next 50 years, I said that your team can win one Super Bowl, but the rest of the 49 years,

they won't go to the playoffs. That would suck. Or in the next 50 years, your team can lose 15 Super Bowls. I would take one. I don't know. I don't know, dude. Because what a run that would be losing 15 Super Bowls. This is kind of a mini dynasty. You get to go to like just think about how fun Super Bowl week would be. This is this is dilute because we've actually, this is great because we both had the thought about how bad our teams are independently. And then we've stumbled upon this hypothetical that just shows how rock bottom we are. I actually think that the highlight of my next year in sports is going to be being ecstatic when Christian Yelich loses the home run derby. Yeah, it doesn't. When he tears his back. Yeah. Fuck. Man. Billy, do you feel bad for

us as bears and commanders fans? No, not anymore. Okay. All right. Cool. I actually had some kid come up to me. I can't remember. It was a Super Bowl week. And he's like, I want to fuck. I'm a Jets fan, lifelong Jets. I want to fucking fight Billy in that moment. We were riding high. We were like cheeseheads in Green Bay. That's right. It was after that. Come on. Yeah. It never, it never would be that high. I was thinking about Aaron Rodgers darkness retreat that he just got out of a little bit more over the weekend. I think he it's the same thing as doing a death simulator. Yeah, he was just simulating being dead for a prolonged period of time. But it wasn't even that long of a time. But I think like your body, if you just don't see

any light for two, three days at a time, you probably get that DMT hit. Your body thinks that you're dead. Yeah. But again, he went for two nights. Yeah. That's the craziest part. Oh, we had we did have we also had Russell Wilson, more Russell Wilson, like clean up the post mortem, the post mortem. Yeah. It's just basically any Russell Wilson hater just keeps getting like a new a new video just dropped on you porn. Come read it on the athletic. Russell Wilson had his own office and everyone thought it was weird. It's so basically talked about how everything fell apart in this past year, said that he asked for an ultimatum on his way out of before the Seahawks got traded. He asked for Pete Carroll and John Schneider. Is that right? It says to get fired.

So basically, you know, them or me situation. Seahawks smartly were like, well, okay, you're gone and we'll get a bunch of picks for it went to Denver had his own staff in the building had his own office upstairs and and and teammates were like, he was he told us all we had he had an open door policy. Yeah. And one of the anonymous sources was like, you know, it's an open door policy being at your locker. Yeah, locker. Yeah. Yeah. Everyone has an open door policy. It is very bizarre to like go up to your teammates being like, just so you know, you can always come and talk to me. Yeah, no shit upstairs and also make an appointment with my manager. See if I have time. So he's on his own floor, like it was like the Bernie Madoff thing where you have that's the secret

floor where all the bad shit happens. Yeah. So it was like him and and hack it upstairs. And all the coaches and the the side he had a whiteboard that was as big as the wall, where he would just write motivational quotes on the wall for himself to read, decorated like it was home goods. And the players could come up to the second floor if they wanted to. And before hack it was fired, did you have office hours? He did have office hours before before hack it got fired. Latavious Murray reached out to Sean Payton and asked Sean Payton like, Hey, Sean, come to Denver, me and my backfield teammate, we want you there. And Sean Payton was trying to think of like, what other running backs on the team he could be talking about. He's like, what,

who are you talking about? He actually wrote him back. He's like, who do you mean? And Latavious said number three, which that was the week before they got their ass kicked by the Rams and ruined Bakers dropped like 51 on him. Yeah, that was that. So Nathaniel Hackett was still the coach of the team while players on the team were reaching out to Payton and saying, Hey, Ross and I want you to coach this team next year. Yeah, it was, I actually went away feeling bad for Nathaniel Hackett. I would like to get him back on the show. I was thinking about it just to be like, if he could laugh about it and be like, yeah, that was, I wasn't ready for that job. I think it would be fun. But he, his biggest crime, Nathaniel Hackett was he walked into a situation

where he just wanted to please everyone and he wanted to please Russell Wilson and he wanted to kind of be his buddy, not his dad. That's what you get. Yeah. First time head coach, you don't come in and you're not going to lay down the law. He said he wanted it to be like collaborative and that Russell Wilson wanted it to be kind of the Kyrie Irving model on the nets where the players helped coach the team. So it was Russell Wilson that was installing his own plays along with the help of his quarterback coach. And they were giving input on what the play calls were going to be to Nathaniel Hackett. He was like, cool. Yeah, you know, I'm not like the other coaches. I'm the fun coach. Right. You can come talk to me. Right.

I'm cool. I want you guys to succeed. So that didn't work at all. Now Peyton's coming in and Peyton's going to be like, okay, new sheriff in town, get your quarterback coach out of my facility. I'm going to be calling the plays because that's what I do as a head coach. I also love that he was basically at the, I think it was the last two weeks of the season. They got rid of Russell Wilson's office because like, maybe there's a bad idea. A little, a little too, too, a little too late at that. Yeah. I mean, that situation. Do you think he had his name on the door? Maybe. He probably said, Mr. Unlimited. Yeah. Mr. Unlimited, come, please come see me if you need, if you need anything. Yeah. Like that has to be the most awkward situation to be like,

like imagine if I walked in one day was like, listen, anything you need, you can always come to me. No, we're, we're teammates, dude. What are you talking about? Yeah. Like that's what he was doing. Yeah. He was teammate. Just so you know, like I'm, yeah, if you have any concerns. Yeah. Just give me a call. It's just going to be me and our HR rep. Yeah. And we're just going to, you know, talk like normal guys. PFT. If you, if you need me to do a quick run through of the ads with you before we tape the show, I'm happy to do that. That's awesome. It's very, very thoughtful of you. No shit. His teammates are like, what the fuck is this guy on? Yeah. So, uh, yeah, that was a, that was a cool story to read. I'm looking forward to,

I'm going to access some more content on my athletic premium plus account to get the details you guys don't get. Yeah. I have the athletic premium. Do you? Yeah. But do you have premium plus? Yeah. What gets the podcast? No, you the credit check is credit check. It's for 99 a month, $400 a month. What do you mean? I just get all the information, the secret stuff that's like buried deep. Got it. Yeah. You probably need a letter of recommendation from three current subscribers and one editor. Yeah. And yeah, there's like a blood oath ceremony. Right. Yeah. Yeah. We're not actually, hey, can you delete this part from the podcast? I'm not allowed to do it. I do like violated my India. I actually do like the athletic. It is

funny though that, uh, not funny because people lose their jobs with it. Like I saw that, that dork Stewart Mandel, uh, who hated the barstool sports bowl, like saying that, uh, the pack 12 is losing, losing RS or no teams are losing RSN. So like the, like ballet sports is going to cover this team or whatever the day that the athletic, he's the college football editor, the day the athletic lost the writer for the wash, for Washington Huskies and Virginia, Virginia Tech Hokies, like the, the idiocy of him to say that, like, look at all these teams are losing, uh, great coverage while they're, because the athletic needs to, they just need to do more Russell Wilson stories because I'll always read that. That's, this is my favorite

part of the athletic actually is the post mortems that go on. They did one with urban Meyer last year. I love when things are happening. It's like we always think about hard knocks, but I can't wait to watch this on hard knocks later when shit gets super dysfunctional with NFL teams. I just can't wait to see that like real clean font from the athletic come out in three months. Talk about all the shit that went down. Yeah, we just didn't add for them, but that's okay. I mean, Stuart Mandel, you're a dork. You are. You're a dork. I'll put out some screen grabs from my premium plus stuff on Twitter. You don't have to subscribe to them. I'll pass that along. Remember when he tweeted about how upset he was and the gas he was that the, the vaunted bowl

world was getting like sullied by, by the internet sports name and you just owned him. You're like, yeah, it's not like we have a bowl sponsored by the company that kills people with bombs. Yeah. Lockheed Martin, Lockheed Martin's business model is to figure out how to kill as many people as possible as efficiently as possible. But damn, those guess that ass guys have a bowl now. Yeah. This is the end of the world. That's a, that's dork behavior. It is. I'm not saying anything mean about him. He's just a dork. Um, all right. Well, oh, should we talk about Jake Paul, Tommy Fury real quick? Yeah, I'll be honest. When it comes to Jake Paul fights, I don't, I don't really care about Jake Paul, but I am interested in watching the hype that's been built up around

him and specifically fighting a train boxer really for the first time. And I can put that in quotes for, for Tommy Fury, because Tommy Fury's opponents leading into this fight. Yeah. Had a total record of 24, 176 and five. Yeah. That includes you have Gingis and Drevges who had a lifetime record in boxing of 10, 102 and three. Yeah. He's lost 102 professional boxing matches. Yeah. That's hard to do. It's very. And then, uh, Calum Idee was zero 26 and two. And then Presmeyslaw Bienenada was two and 26. And then another guy that was 0 and 12. And this is what happens in boxing. You obviously, they do this a lot with any, any young boxer, they want to get you as many wins as possible before they challenge you with someone legit. I, I was the skip ballast

tweet for this fight. I was, I was wrong about being wrong because I've always stood on the stance that Jake Paul, like it's nice what he's doing. The minute he fights a real boxer, he will get beat. Unfortunately, I didn't think Tommy Fury was a real boxer because I saw him fight in Cleveland and he fought Jake Paul's sparring partner who was like eight inches smaller than him and he struggled for four rounds. So that was my miscalculation. Yeah. I mean, but I was right about my original take that once Jake Paul fought a real boxer, he would lose. I just didn't think Tommy Fury was a real boxer. So now my updated boxer rankings are Jake Paul last Tommy Fury second to last Jake Paul is like the best amateur boxer in the world. Yeah. Or one of them. You

should fight Bobby Lane. Yeah. Like that would be a great fight or Billy. Yeah. Or Billy. I take that fight. No shit. Holy fuck. It's 180. No, no, no, against Jake Paul. You should fight Bobby. You should fight Bobby. No, I don't want Billy. Come on guys. But yeah, I always thought Billy would never fight. He's a cop, right? Yeah, I never fight a cop. He's not a cop. I always thought that Jake Paul would lose when he went up against a real opponent because it's just boxers are different like hand speed, all these things. And it just unfortunately, I didn't think Tommy Fury was a real boxer. His bet paid off basically him dodging him for that one fight that whole drama around getting a green card basically because he was connected to organized

crime with the Fury family. Like that dodging him for all that time paid off for Tommy. And like Hasseem Rockman would have killed Jake Paul. Any boxer. Yeah. Any boxer. Like they're doing that weird weight stuff with Hasseem Rockman. He's like they're basically trying to make me like not be able to rehydrate back to the full weight. They are. Jake Paul was trying to mess with Rockman pre fight so that he couldn't perform to his best in that fight. So I mean, it does set up the perfect rematch because I think more people are going to be interested. This was I don't want to see a rematch at all. But if you because at the end of the day, I watched it and I was like, these guys both suck. Yeah. So I do not. I'm not interested in a rematch. I mean, bad boxing is still good

visuals. Really bad boxing. Yeah. Is different. Tom Routy coming up on Friday night. Yeah. Yeah. That's yeah. March 3rd because you don't know what you don't know what to expect. Like actually the worst rough and rowdy bouts. We I think we have 20 plus fights on Friday night. It's going to be incredible in West Virginia. Every single time we do a rough and rowdy. It's so much fun. Usually the fights that are the least entertaining are the guys that know how to box the best. Do you know what I mean? Because they know how to defend themselves and they're they're trying to set up the jab and stuff. So when when you have guys who actually know what they're doing a little bit like Jake Paul and Tommy Fury, but they aren't good enough to be great boxers, snooze fast. Wait,

didn't Drake put 400 grand on Jake Paul? Yikes. I think maybe I might have made that up. Hank, is he porno? Yeah, Drake's por. He's por now. He's a broke boy. Memes like that one. The conspiracy. The conspiracy part of Twitter. The same ones that said Tyrone Woodley. Do you mean you? Yeah. No. No. I look, I am now, you know, giving the warning that this is a reply guy, reply guy. Okay. It is funny that we basically, you know, after January 6th, they had all those articles being like the making of someone who was like in QAnon, like how did this person get here? We're playing that out live every time Billy's brain. Yeah. But you know how like you see the, the devolution of a brain. No, but the people

were talking about the Tyson Fury fight. There was a lot of people who said, and Anderson Silva, they were saying like, oh, they're fixed fight. They're saying that Jake Paul in order to sell the next fight purposely knew that it would be bad if he won this fight. No, see, that makes zero. That makes zero. No, but it sells the truth. It sells the no one want to watch. It doesn't because this is what I said. This was going to be a fight for Jake Paul to prove that he can be a real boxer and then he would get a real, real boxer afterwards. So this just kind of like it pops the balloon of Jake Paul's growing like profile and boxing where now he has to go back and start over from scratch. And so no one out there can actually say with a straight face that

Jake Paul could compete in professional boxing. I watched this match. I watched the whole fight and at no point was like, I want to see this again. I think casuals might. I don't I I think the storyline is better for a second. Yeah, that's like if he beats me out on the set. That's like they would probably sell more for the second one in the first. Yeah, that's what I think. So I don't know. I don't know. So diving into Billy's conspiracy brain because we didn't even talk about the Anderson Silva fight. You didn't like you can spin that either way, though, depending on where you're at. I think there's a massive conspiracy like AJ Brown's tweet. Do you see that on Friday where he said that we haven't been to the moon because we've never been back to the moon?

Imagine if the US government sent people to the moon like every month, people be like, why the fuck are we spending millions of dollars to go to the moon instead of spending that money back here? You can play that either way to be conspiracy. So like Billy, with your point, if if Jake Paul had if he had won this fight, I'm telling you right now that his next fight would be much, much bigger. But now it's that he lost, then you could just pull it out of your ass and say, well, no, his fight's going to be better next time because it's a rematch. No, but like, for example, we didn't talk about the Anderson Silva fight yet. Like this, this Tommy, this matchup is the most profitable matchup for him that he's had. But he would have gone to

another boxer after this. Who do you think he would have kept up? It would have what PFT is saying. And I agree with like Jake Paul's, the entire premise was he's going to shake up the boxing world by slowly building up to real boxers. This was his first real boxer and it's what was the records of guys that he fought again? 24, 176 and five. Like if he had beaten him, then he gets another step up, then he gets another step up. But I don't think the next step would have been as big of a market of people wanting to buy it. Maybe that's what I'm saying. Because like some I just know personally, I did not. Yeah, I watched it and it was like, if this happens again, I don't because the reason why I tuned in this time was to be like, can Jake Paul beat

a real boxer? Also, he threw way like his punch output was so low. Jake Paul in the fight. It was like he was Tommy had 350 punches. He only had 157. I mean, it probably when you fight a real boxer, it's probably a lot harder to time it and also be like, fuck, I can get hit at any moment and a guy your size and age. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, I feel like no one won that one. Yeah. Well, that fight, Jake Paul. I like, I always like Tommy Fury. So you do? I'm happy. Yeah. You're a big Tommy Fury guy. Why is that? I watched this season of Love Island and I wasn't, you know, not a huge reality guy, but I got sucked into it and I actually liked him a lot. Yeah. Oh, by the way, Hank, since we're on you before we get to who's back the week in Christian

Yelich, would you like to talk at all about you just stomping on the grave of Philadelphia? They've already been buried in a Saturday night. The credit to the NBA, these Saturday games are fun to watch. Like they do a good job with the matchups and everything. But just a perfect way for Philly, like the Embiid shot was so fucking crazy and it didn't count. Jason Tatum is an absolute ice cold killer. How do you feel knowing that you just killed a bunch of people that are already dead? I feel great. I mean, my rivalry with Philly is really rooted in the Celtics and Sixers. Obviously, there was a Super Bowl a few years ago that kind of, you know, what happened? The Eagles beat the Patriots, but the Patriots have also beat the Eagles.

That's just a one-one match. But, you know, me and Max's contention and shit talking is always around the Celtics and Sixers. They've had a lot of playoff matchups in the past few years, so it's a very fun rivalry to watch. The Celtics win every single time. They were down like 15. Maybe that's why it's fun for you. Great, great fourth quarter comeback. Great Brad Stevens, you know, out of the timeout call. They asked him afterwards, like, how'd you come up with that? He just said, I stole it from Brad. And then Embiid, that was when he hit that shot, I was like, no fucking way. And then it was just just a second, second. He knew it, so he was in the locker room before they even reviewed it. You remember, I think it was last year or two years ago when

Embiid had that one full court heave from basically the foul line. He now has two of the best last second misses of all time. Yeah. It was so close. And Max is still on vacation. I'm going to call him real quick because he was upset that you were memeing him so hard. Not even hard. You know, I saved obviously the Eagles losing the Super Bowl. There were some very, very funny memes made by the AWL. I saved a couple of them. And then when they lost, it was so recent that they were just at the top of my game roll. Yeah, he is still on vacation. The biggest takeaway from that game at six or so. It's playoffs series would be incredible. If you're rooting for content for this show, it would be. It'd be us versus Max because of Blake, right? Insane.

Yeah. Yeah, I guess so. I would just watch. I'd watch you guys just kill each other. And I want to support interrupting Max's vacation right now. Max, sorry to interrupt your vacation. We need it. We need to comment real quick on the game. I didn't watch it. Okay. All right. Thank you. All right. See you. See you tomorrow. Hello. He did watch it. I know he watched it because we were texting with him after. Yeah. The Sixers Court looks six, too. I'm not I'm not just a fan of their court. Their uniforms, disgusting court looks gris. What would be the funniest outcome for a Sixers

Celtics series? Wapping. No, I think it would be a Sixers 3-1 lead blowing it. That would be the funniest content. No, no, no, no, no, no. Shut up, Hank. That would not be good content. Think about for the people. Yeah. A game seven. The Sixers being up 3-1, Max being like, we've won it. It's over. And then you guys coming back and winning in game seven would be I mean, he would maybe quit. I mean, if three nothing come back would be better. Yeah. If that's the case. Yeah. Holy shit. I think 4-0 sweep would be yes. Fuck you. You see, you don't you don't care that. And that's why that's not true. No, you don't care about the people. That's all I care about. 3-1 comeback. Doc Rivers actually throwing up on the court in game seven as the Celtics beat them.

That's the other funniest wrinkle of it all is that the Sixers fans hate Doc Rivers. Yeah. No, Jay Wright will be their coach soon. All right. We covered a lot. It's a great weekend of sports. Sports. It's a sports podcast. Sports baby. It's a lot of fun. Let's see who's back of the week. Brought to you by our friends at Coors Light. Covering out time in your calendar to kick back and relax and be tough with so much going on. Listen, you have free time. All of a sudden your free time evaporates. You think you have all this time and then boom, something pops up. Got to fix something with your car, your house. Got to go see family. Cherish your free time and you owe it to yourself by cracking open an ice cold Coors Light. The beer that's literally

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take. Hank, who's back the week? My who's back the week is Manny Machado. Yeah, got paid. Got paid 11 year $350 million contract extension. Damn. The Padres. Fun money. It's incredible. I don't know. I don't know where this came out of but they're, you know, they spend more than any other franchise I think in pro sports. Yeah, it's insane. I mean in baseball it's sometimes as simple as just having an owner that wants to win games. You and if you're rich enough, you can absolutely just buy your way into winning games. Yeah, Manny Machado, Tati's Junior, Soto, Bogarts, UDARvish. It also, Nelson Cruz, Carter. I mean, they're beyond stacked. I feel like part of it was the Lake Snell, the Padres. All right. So they did. So Pete Seidler bought the team in,

let's see, first Padres. So it looks like 2020 if I have that right. Maybe. So maybe that's why. I don't really have my ownership groups correct. But I think the Padres, once they brought back their old uniforms, their owner was like, this is sick. Why don't we have a good team? Yeah, it's a great color scheme. Yeah, right. The dark brown, the yellow, they rock pinstripes every now and again. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe they purchased it in 2012. I might have that wrong. Either way, yeah, they're spending fun money. It's crazy. It's insane. What are they going to do about Tati's? What's Tati's up to these days? Should tell him to be a good boy, please. Yes. He's got to be unsuspected, what, 50 games or something? Yeah, I think he had a, yeah, he should

be back. He should be back. Just please stop doing that. I think is all they're going to say. I think the Padres, they're going to be the most fun team in baseball this year. Yeah. That was their baseball preview. Yeah. Which we did with Ryan Michelle as well. That's true. Yeah. Who's, what's your who's back? Why who's back in the week is Sam Hurd. Yes. We might have spoken this into existence last week in our cocaine bear preview, but Sam Hurd has been released from federal penitentiary in Bastrop, Texas after serving a 10 year sentence for distributing cocaine and marijuana, just like copious amounts of cocaine. And I mean that even like as a Dallas Cowboys wide receiver, he was into significant amounts of cocaine. And so he's out of prison. Timing is very

suspicious with the release of cocaine bear. A lot of people are saying that this judge might have taken some money to do some grill of marketing for the movie. It's like that woman who was sitting in the MLB stands staring at people last year, whatever movie that was. Or when the clowns were a big thing in 2017 for it or IT as we called it. What was the, what was the coke that just like got us? Orange vanilla. Remember that? Whopper whopper whopper whopper. Remember that whole March Madness? Orange vanilla coke. Yeah. Yeah. What was the song? Orange vanilla. Yeah. Yeah. That sounds right. Yeah. So this is no way. Yeah. It's viral marketing. It's gonna bother me. I'm gonna look it up. But yeah, they had those guys sitting in the stands and shit. Yeah. So, so Sam Hurd is

officially out of prison. The Cowboys should sign him. Like it'd be very funny if Sam Hurd got back into the NFL after all this. Yes, I'd agree. Bring him back. Why not? Where is the, where's the orange vanilla coke? Let's see. And so he was, I think we talked about last week, he was trying to move like millions of dollars of cocaine at a time, which is, I mean, you gotta have dreams, you gotta have goals and ambition. And he knew that he wasn't going to be the best player in the NFL. So he's like, I might as well be the best drug dealer in the NFL, which he was on, on pace to do. But credit to him for having some ambition also for, for getting out of prison after 10 years. Yeah. That's gotta be such a great day, huh? Being in prison 10 years, you get out. I think

there's a movie about you. There's a movie about you coming out. I think first thing you do after you get out of prison in a 10 year sentence, I would probably just go, go to McDonald's. Get some fries. Yeah. Get a big Mac. Yes. Taco Bell. Yeah. I think you go fast food immediately. And then you have like a big dinner later on after that, where you go out and get a nice steak. But you just, you stop at the first fast food restaurant you see. Yeah. Can someone find this? This is going to drive me nuts now. What are you looking for? Orange vanilla. No, this isn't it. I think I was right. I think it's orange vanilla. Yeah, kind of. You're kind of right. I don't know. There was one ad someone will send it to me. Did you guys remember this?

It was like, yeah, non-stop. It was everywhere. Was it 2019? Maybe. Now we're just playing commercials. I like this. This is good podcast thing. People are like, no free ads. How do these guys do it? We just start playing music. Ads. Okay, wait. New orange vanilla coke. You got the green. Yeah, you're fucking right. Yeah. Fucking orange vanilla coke. That racked my brains. That what will be the ad this March Madness? There's always one because it's just the, the only time I know that we had the Whopper Whopper. Yeah, we had the Whopper Whopper all fall.

But March Madness is the one time a year where it's like you do watch 18 hours of TV straight for four days and you just see every ad. For a while it was impractical jokers. Yeah. They were everywhere. I feel like Chris Paul and Rogers Mahomes. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Something's going to make us want to kill ourselves. I'm excited to see the new Jim Nantz, Charles Barkley. Oh, yeah, road to it. They do it every year. Yeah, yeah. Albuquerque. Yeah. All right. My who's back of the week is LiveGolf. Yeah. But no one's watching it. So LiveGolf is back. It was broadcasted. So Greg Norman last year said there were four networks that were in a bidding war for LiveGolf. Ended up being CW was the network that won out of the four networks. You might remember CW.

Yeah, great network. Broadcasting, what, One Tree Hill? Yeah. Would they, did they do Barstool Sports Advisors for a year in Philadelphia? Yeah, they did. Yeah. Seven heaven. Yeah. So it got a point two rating on CW. It was outrated by World's Funniest Animals. And by the Barstool Sports Mini Golf Adventure. Yes. I think we got unofficially unofficially. But yeah, LiveGolf is back and no one's watching it. Also, I don't know if we ever talked about it, but it's very funny that LiveGolf doesn't have the Twitter handle LiveGolf. Yeah. Do you know who has it? Yeah, it's a girl named Liv. Olivia. Olivia Powling in South Wales. She's a junior golfer aged 17 and her Twitter handle is LivGolf. MBS is going to have his goons pay a little.

How has she not gotten the bag? Yeah. I'm my four year old son, Chris, walked in the other day and he was like, dad, can we put the the aces are playing? Yeah. Can we watch the aces? He's a big aces fan. I don't know why they thought like golf is not a team sport. No, it's never going to be team sport. No, I was Ryder Cup. Ryder Cup. Yeah. Every two years. But that's that's not teams. That's that's countries. It's America. Yeah. People are watching for America on that one. Yeah, they even try to do the what with the President's Cup. No one can really get into that because what is it? It's America versus the Southern Hemisphere. Yeah, I think it's the rest of the world. And I think it's the rest of everybody except for Europe. Yeah, it's the rest of the

world. That's like, come on, we want to we want to beat the fucking want to beat those guys. So I've been the golf but minus Europe is the official. What? Yeah, rest of the world minus Europe. Yeah. Yeah. The golf bug bit me big time. I've been practicing a lot. I think I'm not going to try to, you know, get on the PGA tour. I'm not trying to become a pro in that way. But I think I would be I think I'm going to make myself open for the live tour. Yeah, that's my goal is to have the live choice on you. It's gonna be breaking 100 mil. Just give me just pay me. Yeah. And I mean, you think the live tour would be interested? Absolutely. In a washed up podcast that sucks. Someone used podcaster as a slur at me today. I didn't like it. Yeah, it's our word. Yeah, it was very it was very

did he say with an A at the end or your your Jake Paul Stan 40 year old podcaster. Oh God. Yeah, it was fucked up. That's our word. Even Billy wouldn't say no. All those Yeah. By the way, speaking of golf, we will have our full swing review on Wednesday. So if you haven't watched it, it's on Netflix. It's awesome. We're gonna have a couple guys on who maybe we're featured. So get excited. Drive To Survive is also back and I watched the first episode and I was racking my brain on what happened and I actually don't remember. Yeah, we kind of fizzled out on that. I'm excited to see what happens. Yeah. Yeah, full swing though. We will do the full review. But just a quick review is, Oh, this was a fun memory lane of all the times I lost money betting

on Will Zalatoris. Yes, fucking. Yeah, I remember where I was just because I was a witness thing They're like, Oh, yeah, Will Zalatoris on the leaderboard. I was like, God fucking damn it. He was always around this year. This is the year for sure. This is I will bet him in every major until he wins a major. That is a guarantee. I'm going I'm going Willie Z and Max Max. Yeah. Masters. Yep. Yep. Okay, Billy, who's your who's back bones. Bones are back. Oh, yeah. Our dudes. So dirty water Don, the guy that Donnie does and I went diving the East River for bones with he has found a bone. He found a jawbone of a steppe bison, which is just a prehistoric gigantic bison, just like bigger horns, bigger, just like totally prehistoric bison. Anyway,

he found the jawbone in the East River. So that means that it is true. There were tons of bones dumped there. Is that where you guys were looking that same location? So it's a little it was a little different of location. It may have been because of how I mean, almost 100 years of tidal waters moving in and out has moved some of it, but they might have found like sort of the the jetty off where it goes, where they you could find the bone. So there they found the spot. They're looking at it more in depth. Rogan posted their picture. So I mean, they did it. They found the money is that worth because they were saying it was going to be worth like hundreds of millions of dollars. Right. So basically imagine like you're looking for a

cheser chest full of gold coins. They found one coin. Right. So then you find the rest of it and also step a bison, you know, bones aren't as valuable as a mammoth tusk, but means that they're sniffing in the right place. Which one did you find? We found a mammoth tusk fights Halloween. That's yeah, the giant. I would like to see any of these fuckers find that. Yeah, can't. Yeah, can't find it straight from the Halloween store. So are you going to go back? I actually now he's found it. I'm yeah, you got it. I'm going back. Definitely going to be a bone rush. This could be you could make millions of dollars. Honestly, I think it would probably go to them. We'll see if I get a cut. You're really bad at negotiating out Billy. All right, we need to talk before you get

on this boat. Yeah, you need to have come on or you need to buy a boat. Yeah. Yeah, I actually would you guys like to finance another journey because then we could I'm still waiting to get recoup for my initial investment. I know, but we they found the bone. So now this is promising. This is good. Basically, Billy found a bone. Wait, wait, do I get a cut of that because I financed his initial mission? Well, no, it wasn't the initial. If we found anything that day, I think you'd have claims, but the fact that you're not already just handing me money to go find the bones means that you're not. You're kind of missing out. You should just be handing me like a once in a lifetime and just then no, then no, probably not the cash. Just it's easier to move. Okay. But I'll

consider it. Just think about it. Can you give me a proposal? Yes. Okay. Billy just walked in and showed you the first Mac computer. Yeah. Do you want to Billy after you're done doing your New York Jets, which I'm getting done. Oh, when you guys are back from Indianapolis, it will be done. I promise deadline this week. When did you guys get back Friday? Okay. Yeah, it will be done. The full presentation. Yes. It's not just going to be you doing a TikTok green screen. No. Here's why this guy wasn't good. This guy wasn't good either. Right. So I actually have it totally outlined. You have till Monday. You have till Monday. And the chat GPT will not write this. Is he allowed to help me? Wait, wait, why do you think that the AI thing is a he?

Can it help me edit? No. But like just like for grammar and stuff. I don't think I'm way out of bounds to tell you that you cannot have a robot do your project. I'm not doing my project. It's just editing my project. Like, you know how much might better my grades would have been if I had this thing looking over my essays in college, just like correct. Here's what I'll say. I want, give us the unedited and edited version. Perfect. Okay. Redline it. Yeah. Redline the chat GPT. All right. And yeah, give me the New York Jets quarterback presentation, then submit your proposal for more funding. Well, actually now that I'm thinking about this bone rush might be more time sensitive. So we got to push the jets back. All right. I mean, you do make a good

point because there are going to be people looking for these bones. Yeah. So as long as you promise that you'll do the New York Jets quarterback soon. So give us a complete investment breakdown next Sunday on the bones and then the jets the next week. Perfect. All right. Okay. Jake. My who's back is scoring points. We had the second highest scoring game in NBA history on Friday night. Oh, I saw this Kings 176 Clippers 175 Delhi, three different 51. So I had the Clippers and I was like, I'm good because I looked at the score and it was like 130 to 123. And there was like maybe three minutes left in the third quarter. I thought it was the fourth quarter. And then I looked back and I was like, wait, what? This is how the fuck did it? What was it?

Double overtime. 176, 175. Jesus Christ. Yeah. Also, congratulations to the Kings because in October I had them as the worst professional team in American sports. They're like good. You got to update that. You're all sports power rankings. Fox has been on tear. I have to update that. But yeah, the Kings are suddenly like more than relevant. Yeah. I'm looking at the box score right now. Two players that scored in the 40s, Malik Monk and Darren Fox, Delhi. Malik Monk, current guest. That's right. Yeah. Delhi contributed intangibles to that game. Yep. Did not play. Yep. He did. He absolutely did. He was on the bench for the second highest scoring game in NBA history. And he gave the boys a look and scout team. Yeah. Absolutely did. All right.

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Okay, we now welcome on very good friend of the show. We're current guest, fourth time on, it is Christian Yellich, the walkie-barrows, also the guy who's going to maybe give us, probably end the show. We should start with that. So for anyone who's new to the show, was it like four years ago? It was in Miami at the All-Star game. Yeah, we were like, you don't have a home run swing, Christian. You didn't. And you told us, yeah, I do. The next year you won the MVP and you were supposed to be in the home run derby and then you hurt your back a week before it, which was thankful for us because we said, if you ever win a home run derby, we will eat each other's ass. Yeah. Now there's a little bit of a story to that because there was

a video that came out. Christian has been in a porn. Christian was in a porn video. Allegedly. Allegedly, you were really tonguing down some fart boxes. And we said to ourselves, well, your home run swing, it's not existent. We'll eat each other's ass if you win the home run derby. And we were, we were very nervous. Yeah. For about, there was a three week period, we're meeting big cats sat down, we had to figure out, okay, how are we going to be able to eat each other's asses and still continue on with our lives? How are we going to go forward? Yeah. So, so, so let's start there. How is the home run swing feeling? And do you think you'll ever get back to being in the home run derby? It's feeling pretty good, actually. Yeah. You know

what? You know, feeling, feeling healthy, feeling good. I think that video is honestly how we started to get to know each other, actually. Yes. We watched it together. The alleged video. Yeah. I like to point out. But yeah, that's still one of my, still one of my biggest like regrets, what if moments of my career was not, not being able to do that home run derby. And it was like, not solely because like I wanted to do a home run derby in my life. It was because of everything that was on the line. And all the, all the ways that you guys were scheming up to try and like get out of that bet. How it was going to work. I was talking to somebody about the other day after we ran into you on the streets here in Scottsdale and I said, I gave them the backstory

and how, I mean, big cat, we're talking about what we would do to get out. And maybe like, I think we said we'd like cut a piece of our asshole, make a chili, put it into a chili, and then we'd eat the chili and that would be better. And they said to me, and I felt like the biggest dumbass in the world, like PFT, why, why wouldn't you just cut like a piece of your cheek off? You don't have to do the asshole. The bet, we never said that we need other's asshole. But I was like, Oh my God, yeah, you're right. We were just focused on the wrong hole. Yeah. And you did have, I mean, that year we hit what 44 home runs, I think was yeah, yeah. Not so great after that. What happened? No, dude, I just haven't been on the show in a while. You know, I think it's

you guys were the key to the Oh, you're gonna we're gonna use this. You know, everybody likes to get a comeback story. Yeah, it'll be like our journey back to the home run derby. And then I think we got six more, at least six more years left of playing. So you guys are you guys are on the hook for six more years. Oh, geez. Yeah, you mean you should have gone with the this year only bet. Yeah, which was 2018 or 19. I forgot. Yeah. For what year it was, but a little bit smarter. And then now all the all the fans of the show are gonna, you know, hold you guys accountable, which is unfortunate. And truthfully, like, I didn't want to see that happen. I was going to feel kind of bad if it did happen. Invited Junior, he was doing his best to help you guys out. I

think he had like 35 home runs in the first round. There's no telling if I would have been able to beat him. Well, and also Pete Alonso takes the home run derby way too seriously. So we just need him to just keep competing and having it be his World Series. That's true. Yeah, he wins, I think, every single year. Yeah, you never know, though, you know, we'll have a we'll be able to like pay him off or something. But hey, this year, you got to sit out because we got a lot of stuff on the line. Yeah. All right. So have everybody else throw the home run derby just to see. Yeah. So knowing that you will keep us to this, I think we can be mean back. What happened to your swing? You stopped hitting home runs. I don't know, man. Baseball's a hard game. It all went downhill from there.

But you know, it's one of those things. And like I said, everyone likes a good comeback story. Yeah. Did you lose muscle mass? Are you weaker? I knew you guys were going to ask about the steroids. The guys info that you gave me, you never picked up his phone. I'm offended that you thought that's where I was going with that. But if we're going to bring that up, I'm just going to rattle this off real quick. Four home runs, nine home runs, seven home runs, 28 home runs, 21 home runs, 18 home runs, 36, 44 home runs, then back to 12. COVID season. COVID season, then nine, then 14. You did have a couple of injuries in there. But you know, that's Brady Anderson, Christian Yelich. People are saying it's just

what was his, he had like, he had 58, 59, back to seven little fish here that, you know, ours was kind of going like this. And I think we're right. We're going back in the right direction. Are you are you fully healthy? Because I know you did have a couple injuries last year. Yeah, this is the best I felt like in a few years going into spring training and then hopefully keep it that way. Body feels good and swing has been feeling good. It's just been, you know, putting in more, more baseball time this off season to kind of just iron some things out and get back after it. So I've always been curious with this spring training, you know, we know that like preseason for football, guys don't like it. They don't like camp,

probably the same for basketball and hockey. It feels like spring training is just really fun because you guys get to be in Arizona, you get to golf, and then you play like a couple innings of baseball every day. And then you just, because we went to the Cubs spring training a few years ago, they would just like Rizzo would bat twice, then get a golf cart back to the facility and then just be out the door and like the fourth inning. Yeah, it's the beginning of spring training is fun because it's a, you come back, it's good to see everybody again. I really probably haven't seen many of your teammates over the off season or maybe one or two of them, but everybody's back together again, excited about a new year starting. And then yeah, you play like three innings your

first couple games and then you have a day off and then three days. And I mean day off from playing the game, you go practice in the morning, but if you're not playing the game, you're usually done by 10, 30, 11 o'clock and then go do whatever to you. I'll be back in the morning. I've always liked spring training. Yeah, is it true too with spring training, like the old saying hope springs eternal? Like every time you go to spring training, even if you're on a team that maybe doesn't have a ton of talent, you're like, anything could happen here. Oh, I've been on plenty of teams where it's like, everyone's got us underrated. No one thinks we can do this, but we're going to win the World Series. It's September and we lost like a hundred games. It was like, oh, I guess it wasn't

our year. They all give you like a shirt. Back in the day, we had a, I think it was about the Marlins one here. It was a shirt. It said like chip right here on the shoulder and like a bunch of different like sayings and numbers on it. It's like, no one's giving us credit. We got a talented room here. 95 losses. Our manager got fired on like May, Redmond. He's a great guy. We're all just like, we're sorry, man. We all really liked him and it's like middle of May. And then there's like the seventh inning and went back in the locker room to get like a protein bar or something. And like on the, on the TVs in locker room was like team meeting after the game and we were getting no hit at the time. It was like Shelby, Shelby Miller was throwing a no hitter

against us. He went eight and two thirds and bore got a hit actually broke it up. But in the seventh inning of that game on the TV screens was a team meeting after, after the game, like everybody stick around in the locker room and you could like hear it down the hall and then the president of the team came in and was like, yeah, we just, we fired Mike Redmond. We're not going to tell you who your next manager is and you'll find out tomorrow when you come, when you come to the stadium. And that's when they made, that's when the general manager of the team ended up becoming the manager and so yeah, that was a, that's crazy. Ended up not being our season, even though we thought it wasn't spring training, but I kind of circling back every, every, every all 30 teams, you know,

you think that you got a chance, which is, which is great. You know, you like being optimistic going into the end of the season, but you know, realistically, there's like probably 10 that have a chance to win the World Series. When you go into spring training, are there different managers that puts you through different drills to get ready for the season? Or is it basically everyone's working on the same stuff? Like baseball has been around forever. We know what we have to practice to get ready. I think most teams probably do like similar things. Each manager has like their own style about how laid back it's going to be or how regimented it is or what they want to see you guys doing. And even ours, like it changes every year. Like they're

like, oh, we did this last year. We really liked it. We're going to keep it. Or we didn't really like this stuff, like scratch that. We're not going to do that anymore. Is there any like weird drill that they put you through? You see like quarterbacks sometimes going out to a giant foam noodles or whatever and like trying to dodge beach balls, like big Ben. Outfielders, they kind of give like outfielders like a lot of time killing things because like the infielders and pitchers, they got to work on like bunt defenses or, you know, whatever that is they're doing. They always have like a ground ball routine that they got to do. And then it's actually important that they figure out like bunt defense stuff or it used to be like shift,

shift things. And then outfielders like you only catch so many fly balls or you work on like being around the wall or throwing the bases or picking up a ball against the against the wall. It's spring training. You basically like learn how to play baseball all over again. It sounds so fun. It sounds like a blast. So speaking of the shift, the new rules this year, we think it more hits. Oh yeah. Is it good for you? Yeah. I mean, any left-handed hitter it's going to be good because, you know, even if you weren't like a guy that was like full shift, full shift, like you're still losing hits because of it because basically the teams are willing to give you like a single to left field. Right. They just don't care because it's all about run prevention

is why people shift. So like they're like, oh, if this guy hits a single to left field, he didn't hit a home run. So they score like it's just a single. And that's why if you're bound against a shift, like analytically teams don't care. It's just more so like just don't hit a homer or hit a double. Yeah. Yeah. But you did get some shifts because of the, you did get some hits because of the shift as well. You'd get blown up and a ball that would stop in the infield grass basically. Yeah. Ended up being a hit and then you lose the one where you hit a line drive to right field and it hits the third baseman right in the chest. Yeah. What is the new rule again? It's you can't, you have to have two infielders on either side of second base. Yeah. I think,

but I don't know if it's like just the base that's dividing it or like there's more of like a a line that you have to stay. And it also has guys have to have their feet in the dirt. Yeah. Yeah. You can't be in the outfield. Right. Right. But I think you're going to see, and this is just like a guess is like, I don't know if you can like have like a guy in motion. You can send a guy from like shortstop and just have him start like running as soon as the pitcher throws. Like, I don't know if that's legal. That will be exciting though. That's great. Or if you have like a, you could probably do like, I bet you'll see teams that do like a two man outfield, like center fielder and left fielder and like move their right fielder to where like the shift guy

used to be. Oh, you know, if like, there's a guy that doesn't really hit the ball to left field very much. Yeah. There's ways around it. It'll be interesting to see like if teams get super, super creative with that. I bet like a team like the Rays or somebody would do something like that. Or like us, that's something like we would probably do too. Yeah. Why don't you guys take the catcher and when there's two or fewer outs and two or and nobody on base and less than two strikes, you just move the catcher and you put him at second base and you just being the umpire. There's like, there's still strikes, right? When they cross the plate. Technically, yeah. I'm sure the umpires will be stoked about. They'd all be fired up about that. Just having to wear

a hundred mile hour fastballs off the chest. Yeah. How many times have you been kicked out of a game? I feel like you were kicked out last year. Twice last year. I think four or five times total. Yeah. Bad attitude. No, honestly, there's been a few times where I'm like, oh, it's probably deserved. A lot of times they give you a chance. Like, especially if they kind of know like, oh, man, I might have missed it. They give you a chance to like stay in the game. I'll let you save some stuff. But then once you say a few magic words, you cross the line, you get thrown out. A lot of times, I mean, I think all of my ejections have probably been pretty well deserved. Were any of them intentional? Like you just didn't feel like playing the rest

of the game and want to get home? No. I mean, I got thrown out in the ninth inning one time last year. It was like ninth inning with two outs. We were losing about like three or four. Yeah. And that one, you just most of the time when you get thrown out of the game, you get back in the locker and you're just like, the fuck did you do that for? Yeah. That was not worth it. Yeah. But yeah, I don't I don't remember even I don't even remember what what they were for. It's all been balls and strikes for the most part. You can't argue balls. Well, one of them was I it was like a check swing. I kind of like dropped my bat and they appealed and they said I went around like strike three. So my bat was on the ground strike three, obviously didn't agree with it.

But I didn't really do anything. I didn't really do anything yet at the time to get thrown out. And so I was walking back to the back to the dugout was like, all right, I got just, you know, it's two outs, just go back to the dugout, but my bat was still on the ground. And the home plate umpire was like, hey, you need to pick your bat up. And so at that point, you have like two, two choices, either pitch it out, like, okay, pick up your bat, or you just say you fucking pick it up and then you get thrown out of the game. Wait, I think there's more than those two choices. No, no, that's it. So that's what I said. Obviously, you know, it's coming as soon as you say that. Like you have that moment of where you've got to

decide like, am I picking this bat up? Or am I getting thrown out of the game? It's just like, fuck, I'm getting thrown out of the game. And so when you get thrown out, though, you get a you get a letter from the like the commissioner's office, like stating like, because the umpires have to write a report every time you get thrown out of the game. And it tells you in the letter, like what you did to get thrown out is like in quotations. And I forgot what mine said. But it said something like, at which point, like you were told to like pick up your equipment. And you said, and you said, you fucking pick it up. It's like, I always, I always save those letters because they're kind of funny. Yeah, you end up being closer with the umpires that throw you out

too. Because you're just like, yeah, like the next day, you still see him because they're there most of the time, the next series, you'll see him down the road. You're just like, yeah, my bad man, like, I know I deserve that. Like, you know, no hard feelings. Like, that's on that's on me. And like, it's cool. And then you laugh about it down the road. Yeah, did you did you end up picking up the bat? No, no, there you go. If you picked it up, the bat would still be laying at home plate at an American family field. You won that exchange. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, there's two choices there. You either pick it up, you regret that you picked it up when you're back in the dugout. Now I'm going to look at every every player that that actually picks up their own bat. Yeah,

after they strikeouts, kind of a beta. Yeah, I mean, imagine that I would never do that. Well, it doesn't happen most times because or I guess guys would probably do it on like a three, two count. This one wasn't this was like, two, two or like one, two. So technically, like, it wasn't like a walk to where the bat would be on the ground. So like, I know why he told me to pick it up. Right. Because like, three, two, like you thought you walked, you put your bat down or something. But I kind of went like this to the third base on fire. And somewhere on the like the bat kind of just like fell out of my hands. Right. I might have dropped it. But do you apologize to you? Are they ever like, yo, I fucked that up? Yeah, not when they not when they throw you out usually.

Like if there's like a, you know, they punch you out or something on a ball that was ended up being a ball because they get a, they get like a scorecard after every game that they do. So they kind of see like the calls they missed or like you could, you could strike out and be like, Hey, man, like I, I don't really think I don't think that was a strike. I had that wherever. And most of them will be like, Hey, let me know. Like, you know, I might have missed it. And you're like, you appreciate those guys or like, Hey, they'll tell you like the next day, like, Hey, man, like I messed it up. I missed that one. Yeah. Like, Hey, cool, man. Like I, I appreciate it. We're all human. It's a hard game. You know, the ball is moving 100 miles an hour.

They're trying to do their best, obviously. So when they miss one, like, Hey, dude, you know, I messed that up. You're like, Hey, it's all good. Do like no hard feelings. Like as long as there's no like animosity, they don't, they don't like target you for anything. Yeah. No, they're all, honestly, they're all really, they're all really cool guys. Like they're all kind of, you get to know a lot of them because, you know, especially the longer you play in the league, it's the same on Pirates every year. So you develop a relationship with these guys. And obviously you're cooler with some than others, but I wouldn't say there's really any, any guys that are too, too bad of dudes. So do you not want robot arms? I don't want robot arms. No,

because I think there's going to be a lot of unintended consequences with that. Because if you just have like a square that buzzes ball or strike that you have a guy that sits up on one side of the plate and then this dude yanks a hundred mile or fastball all the way across the other side of the play with the catcher diving and it nicks the box. Like that's going to be, that'll be a strike when on no time ever in baseball history was that going to be a strike, you know, or pitchers will be able to find a way to like, there's a lot of like curveballs or breaking balls that'll be like in the dirt that'll clip the bottom of the strike zone technically or like the ones that are at the top of the zone too. So I think there'd be a lot of unintended

consequences if it was just like the box, it'd have to figure out a better way to do it. Yeah, I don't want robot arms. Also, what you were talking about earlier, like, you know these guys, you know the umpires, I do think that there's something to be said for like the umpires are kind of good for the character of the game. Yeah, it's part of the game. It makes it feel like, you know, an actual thing that we're putting on here instead of some like sky judge overseeing everything. So and you get, I tend to agree with that. And you get like maps as like a player, like before the game, like the, you'll have like a hitters meeting every day before the game talking about whoever the other team starting pitcher is, and then you know who the home plate umpire is

going to be and like where there's a tendency for them to call more strikes opposed to other umpires or where they call less strikes. And then sometimes you know, like if an umpire kind of lines up with like what a starting pitcher likes to do, like this, this might not be good tonight. Yeah. If we don't have an actual umpire on the field, we need like a dummy that's dressed up as an umpire just for the managers to go out and scream at when something doesn't go their way. Like they're not, what are they going to do? Go yell at a robot? I don't know. I need to see managers like getting right up into an umpire's face. You're going to dress up as umpire and go out there? Yeah. I mean, there should be a decoy umpire. I'd go one further. It would be nice

if it was just a like decoy umpire and it was just Lupinella every time. And you just see he was just spitting on people kicking dirt. The best, like one of the best like baseball highlights that there's ever been going around the internet was when Terry Collins from the Mets got caught on the mic when, uh, when Cindergarde threw it at Lee and he just comes out there and he's just losing his mind. You're asking the jackpot. Yeah. And Tom Hallehan's awesome guy. Like he's a great umpire, uh, super good dude. And he's just like trying to defuse the situation, but fans just kind of see that on either TV or the stands. Like they think these two dudes are just going at it saying super personal shit to each other, but most of the time it's just arguing. And then one guy

trying to calm the other guy down. Yeah. And then, uh, he kind of just like ran at things to say. Yeah. Yeah. You're asking the jackpot. He's like, oh shit, like you agree with me? Yeah. Terry kind of. I'm trying out here. You gotta give me a chance. Yeah. But it's so good for the game though, because like people, it's entertaining. It's at the end of the day, it's an entertainment business. So like, Hey, make, make things that are entertaining. That's a fact. Did you last umpire question? Did you get Joe West anything for his retirement? No, I didn't actually, I actually really like, I really liked Joe just because, and he was actually like a phenomenal umpire when he locked it in like balls and strikes. He was one of the, he was one of the best guys in the league

when it was like, uh, you know, a Sunday night game or, um, playoff series. Like he, he was really, really good. Um, but yeah, he was, he was awesome. And like as a rookie, like he, he would kind of like test you, like intentionally do something to like where you're like, what the fuck man? And see how you kind of reacted. And if you just like kind of took it, like, okay, this is just part of like getting your feet wet in the major leagues, he would always like you. Yeah. If you kind of like turned around and like showed him up, like the picture could throw the next ball halfway with the backstop. There's going to be, there's going to be strike three, which, and I always love Joe and, um, I like all those umpires and like side note, like kind of, kind of get uncomfortable

talking about it because it's such a integral part of your life. You don't want to ever like critique them or have them think bad about you because like that's definitely not what it, you know, I'm trying to do or want to do because like those guys are in it with us, man. We're all trying to do the best we can. Yeah. Um, they're all really good dudes and this is a really, really hard job at the end of the day, even though I have been kicked out of a four or five games. We're going to try and stop that. We're going to try and stop that. No, maybe like once a year. Yeah. It's fun. Can you give us a heads up? Like, let us know if there's a game that you like, probably against the Reds or some bullshit team like that that you don't really care about

playing against. Uh, you can just give us a heads up like, Hey, Thursday, I'm going to get ejected. I get ejected. Let us know. It's never, you know, I wish it was like a pre-planned thing or just like, no, I want today off. Like first inning, I'm getting hooked, which my first ever ejection was a first inning ejection. And then madingly, he got thrown out as well. So you're like, Oh, shit. Like I got thrown out. And I just got my manager thrown out in the first inning. And then you have to sit with them. Then you have to sit with them. I sat with them in his office when we were up by five and you're sitting in your manager's office. It was like the eighth inning. It was on the Marlins. We ended up blowing the lead in the eighth inning. It was like madingly,

me, president of the team, all in his office, watching the game as we're blowing the lead. And you're sitting there just like, fuck you. It's like, I hope we win, man. We're going to get back to Christian Yellich in a second. Before we do, he's brought to you by part of my cheesesteak. Part of my cheesesteak is a delivery and pickup only restaurant brand bringing you craveable cheesesteaks and loaded fries. Since launching in August, we're now live in 695 locations across 43 states with new locations added every single week. I like the Chipotle cheesesteak. That's my favorite. I like putting a little extra hot sauce on there. Make it Billy style. You eat it and then you complain about it for six hours. It's a great

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a ton of handshakes with guys. Every now and then, there's three or four guys on the team like I might have something with. Yeah. But there's guys that have something with everything. Bross over there, he's got a handshake with everybody on the team, trainers, coaches, everybody. To me, that would be so stressful. When you go mid-season, you arrive on a team, now it's like, oh shit, I gotta relearn all that stuff in addition to everything else. You can always just do the DJ Jazzy Jeff and Fresh Prince one, which is the, that one always plays. Something simple. Yeah, that one plays. You gotta learn all your new teammates and coaches and everything mid-season trade. I got lucky, it was off-season traded. That's what spring training

is for. You got six weeks to come up with something. I saw a story. Did you lose a home run derby to Barry Bonds? No, so the media, they loved that one. So what happened? Because this was obviously when Barry was the hitting coach for the Marlins. Yeah, it was a spring training thing. So we were just hitting off a curveball machine on one of the backfields after the morning workout, getting ready for the game. And sometimes guys like to play games or competing against each other. So you have something where you're kind of locked in instead of just going through the motions with the drill, being like, I'm just going to take a few swings and whatever happened. So it was pretty unfair teams. Actually, it was like me, Stanton and Barry Bonds, and it

was against, I forgot who else. It was like Jeff Mathis, who's like one of my best friends in the game, but him, whoever else was on the Marlins at the time, but it was like Barry lopsided teams. It was like, you're just trying to score runs. So like, and I think Barry was the judge, whether it was a hit or not. So it was double singles and then obviously homerun scores whatever, whatever points at the time it was. And he hit the most homeruns during that drill, actually, still. But it wasn't officially a homerun derby. Well, it sounds like one. But he did hit the most, he did swing and miss at the first curveball. We're all laughing at him. Like, you don't got it anymore. And then the next pitch, the next like five, he hit a homer.

But maybe you still got it. But there was like some media guys or beat riders, kind of off to the side, like watching the thing. And it kind of just like turned into like Barry Bonds wins like Marlins homerun derby, which technically he did, but it wasn't a homerun derby. And I'm not saying that he couldn't win a homerun derby because he could and the game looked super easy for him when he was playing. And he helped me tremendously when I was with the Marlins, that he really helped me understand like hitting and how your body works and everything that goes into it. Yeah, we've always heard because Barry is a pretty private guy when it comes to the media. There's some reporters and I think this is like a baseball thing in particular,

where some beat reporters, they get mad at people for like not giving them enough coverage or access or whatever the case might be. But Barry always seems like he's, I mean, he's obviously a legend. And when he was coaching you, can you tell us like what he's like as a person? Because I feel like I don't really know anything about Barry Bonds, the person. He was, he was really like funny and fun to be around as a, as a hitting coach for us. And he just, he just understood like the game and hitting like different than really everybody else or had like really good awareness of like where his body was at or what he was trying to do and like accomplish because like anybody could, anybody could hit a homerun and not necessarily like

understand how that happened. Happens to me all the time. You could, yeah, you could hit a ball over the fence and you could like, okay, cool. Like that ball went over the fence. It was a homerun. But like, how did that happen? What did your body do to like allow that to happen like mechanically? And he was kind of able to break that down, explain it, show you and kind of give you like thought processes to help you achieve what that with your body, which was cool. And you know, maybe you guys are going to need to bring him out of retirement and enter a homerun derby if the day ever comes or unfortunate enough to compete in one and be healthy. How much money would you pay to not have to eat my ass?

At whatever Barry wants. Yeah, he didn't pretty much pick his number. Just blank. Blank check. Maybe we should throw that into, okay, so if you win the homerun derby, we obviously have to eat your ass, but within, we have to eat each other's ass. I almost had to eat your ass there. But if we can, if we can get Barry Bonds to compete against you within six months of you winning the homerun derby and he beats you, we're out. I mean, seems pretty fair. I don't know how we're going to have to, it's going to be like something. I don't even think like, I think like if you guys, I think if you guys like started a campaign to like fund payment to Barry Bonds, like I honestly don't know if people would donate to that because I kind of think they want to see

you play up on this bet, which is probably just like some sadistic bet. Yeah, but it's what we're going to end up doing. And this is just the God's honest truth. We're going to be like, if we eat each other's ass, pardon my takes over forever. So you guys can vote. And then people will vote and we won't eat each other's ass. It's a good chance that the show sticks around. I think that might be your, that might be your one out. It will just, it will just be, you know what it is, is if we have to end up doing this, it's more like the random silences. Yeah. Like when we're just sitting in a room together, it's like, we'd always know. Yeah, like, oh, so I know what your butthole tastes like. What's up dude? That's not something

that you could, that doesn't wash away. It's your deepest darkest secrets. Something that at the end of the day, like you're alone with yourself. Somebody said the other day, like your obituary will be written. It'll be the best thing that you've ever, or no, it'll be the worst thing that you've ever done followed by the best thing that you've ever done. And in this case, like when I die, my obituary would be like eight Dan Katz's asshole one time. And then it'd be a tough, it'd be a tough scene. Yeah, a tough scene. But honestly, it's weird for me, like that, that my association with you guys in this show is like synonymous with that. Because there's like, it's once a day at least. And somebody is like, you got to do the home run derby, bro.

Big Cat PFT. We got to get them to pay up. Every day, it happens every day during baseball season, like at the stadium. I get yelled at every day at the stadium with that. And then walking out of the street like it happened yesterday at Waste Management, just like walking around like, dude, you got to do PFT. You got to do PMT, PFT and Big Cat. Gotta make them pay up. We need you back in the derby. I'm like, oh my God. The same would happen to me when you had that insane season. Every time you had a home run, I'd get tagged in like 100 tweets. Your Twitter's just blowing up. He's hot. He's hot. All right, I get it. I get it. When you're playing the Cubs, I'm watching it and they're just like, look, you had another home run.

It would have been a great day in Barstool history, that home run derby. Whether I wondered or not, it would have been, it would have been an electric hour for you guys. Yeah, we were ready for our lives. I know. I feel so bad about that. That was a big part of the disappointment in not doing that derby, which I don't think a lot of people knew. I was just like, yeah, I want to obviously want to do the home run derby because it'd be cool to compete in it. But I think just that moment is just like, you just can't replicate, you know, what's on the line there. And if I remember correctly, I think you texted me like a week before being like, I think I hurt my back. And I was like, he's fucking with us.

Yeah, it was a few days before because, uh, yeah, I was hitting and playing and like, I, uh, I had some back stuff. I feel like I've hopefully gotten a handle on that the last, the last two years. But when it kind of, when it goes, like, you just know, like, oh, shit, like the next, next 10 days, the two weeks, like I'm, I'm fucked. Yeah. And I actually played in that. I played in the game like the next day, but I was still like not, not feeling very good. I put like two innings and left just because I was, I was starting the game. I was getting a hit lead off. Like there's, you're probably never going to get a lead off an all star game ever again in your life. Cause you have to be the visiting team. You have to be a starter. You have to be

the lead off hitter. So like, I wanted to do that, like start an all star game and do that. So I was like, I'm just going to go, I'm going to go out there and like, you know, Verlander starting the game for the American league and I get a lead off for the national league. So it's something that's really cool. I probably shouldn't have been out there even for the game, but uh, what did you, what did you strike out? I think I, I got jammed super bad and like soft line drive to the first base, which is fine. Yeah. And then the next time I just, I didn't swing and struck out and then I was out of the game and then just went home. Yeah. Major league baseball is probably pretty happy that you didn't compete because then they would have to answer

so many questions about like, why is Christian Yelich like blowing up online right now? Yeah, why is it trending? Why is it for a week straight? A big side show. Yeah, it would have been, it would have been bad for baseball, bad for the game. Although publicity. It'd be good for the game. It would draw out eyes to it. Maybe not necessarily, you know, the topic that's being discussed. Maybe they wouldn't be too proud of, but you know, it's a good buzz. I guess. Yeah, I'd reach a large audience. Yeah. Can you settle a debate for us? Because we've been going back and forth, back and forth since the World Series on this one. If a team gets no hit, but it's a combination no hitter, do they still, is that a, do they get no hit?

Yeah, I feel like you don't feel as bad. Like if you're on the other team, you're just like, I guess it just like wasn't our day. We didn't, we didn't get any hits today. Yeah. But if it's like one guy that no hits you, I think you're just like a little more, you're a little more pissed off if you're on the other team. And like one guy no hits you as opposed to like, combine no hitter. But anytime you lose like a World Series game, whether you got no hitter, you scored 10 runs and lost by one, like you're still going to be a loss. A loss is a loss. But it's a no, it is a no hitter because they got no hits. Yeah. I mean, you're going to be in history. You're going to be in the history books. As a no hitter. As a no hitter. Yeah. Okay. We just

wanted to clarify for Max. Max is a Phillies fan and he just adamantly was like, it wasn't a no hitter. It's like, well, did you get any hits? He's like, no. He's still doing it. He's still trying. I don't know if I've, I've been on a few teams that have been no hit. I don't think we've ever had a, I don't think anybody's combined no hitter. When it's happening, are you guys in the dugout? Like you feel it coming. Yeah. Yeah. It's like once the, once like the sixth inning rolls around, seventh inning rolls around, you're just like, Hey, like somebody should probably get hit right here. We're going to, we're going to get a hit. Like it doesn't even matter if we lose. It's just like, Hey, somebody get a fucking hit place. I don't care who it is. Like, you know,

back in the day, like it could be the pitcher. We don't care. Yeah. But you feel it coming, especially if the guys like on a roll, like if you've seen the guy a few times and you're like, Oh yeah, like this guy's got pretty good shit today. Yeah. We might be in trouble. Yeah. Are you in favor of bouncing to break up a no hitter? No. I mean, if it's, if it's like the first couple innings still, like maybe if it's like a zero, zero, one nothing game, but if it's like seven, seventh, eighth inning, I don't know. Maybe like in the World Series, though, that's a, that's a topic. If it's one, nothing in the World Series, like I feel like you kind of have to in like a World Series playoff game. I'd say even if it's the ninth inning in the World Series,

if it's a one nothing or two nothing game, yeah, it's the World Series. It's when it's like 10, nothing and a guy's bumping. Right. What are you doing? Right. And then it's like, Hey, man, like you got to add a respect to the other guy, like that you're competing against in the major leagues. Like, Hey, get like a, get a real hit. Yeah. Not that a bunch, not a real hit, but in that situation. Yeah. So off that, what's your favorite unwritten rule of baseball? Unwritten rule of baseball. I feel like a lot of them are gone now. Yeah. Most of them. I mean, that one's still, or that one's still around for sure. My favorite is just if you, if, if the team drills your best player, you got to drill the other guys, the other team's best player.

Yeah. I mean, what, what's kind of behind that is like, if you are the other team's best player and you see the other team just getting smoked all the time, when you go up to the plate, like it is still in the back of your head. Sometimes you're like, yeah, like shit, I could be eating one right here. And like the first pitch of the bat, you kind of like, sometimes you just kind of feel it out. Like, all right, like, let's see where this goes. Yeah, right. The guy throws it close to the zone or the strike. Like, okay, I guess I'm not getting hit right here. Or there are times where it's like, it goes behind you, you know, 97 miles an hour. So then the next pitch, you're like, oh, shit. Yeah, here we go. It would be nice if they just, like, when they do that, just not

throw it that fast. Just kind of lob it up and just let it, let you just take it. The gentleman's going, the gentleman's, yeah. And it's never the guy, like, if that ever does happen, it's like, never the guy that's throwing like 90. Yeah. It's always the guy that's throwing 100 miles an hour, 98 miles an hour. And you're just like, damn, that's gonna hurt. This is gonna suck. It sucks. It has to really suck. Yeah. And then you got to like pretend like it doesn't suck. But the whole, the whole down down to first base, you're just like, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck. I can't feel my arm. I can't feel my leg. Like something, it's just, this sucks. Yeah. And you know, you get the first base and like, Hey, you alright, dude? You're just like, no, I'm not

alright. Yeah. Yeah, I was like, I can't feel my entire arm right now. Like, oh man, that sucks. Yeah, it sucks. Yeah. Or when it's like on accident, I was like the, have me one time. It was like a day game. I think it was in Cincinnati. It was like a, one of those, like 1130 or noon start times. And I think it was Louise Castillo was starting for the Reds. And I was, I think I might have been leading off for the Brewers at that time at that time. And it was like, Hey guys, happy 4th of July. How's it going? You guys have a good one? You know, it's gonna be a hot one today. You know, talk to the catcher of the umpire, like everybody have a good game. And it's like, all right, cool, cool.

It's like first pitch was like 98 off the, off the ankle. Oh, God, this sucks. It's like, he's like, why bad? It's like, no shit. Yeah. We play together in Miami a little bit. Like, he's an awesome guy. Like Louise, Louise is a great dude. But it's just a really tough way to start your noon game. You know, after, after a night game, day game, noon game, 4th of July, 100 degrees in Cincinnati, just 98 off the ankle to start the, to start the day. That's tough. It's not going to be our day-to-day. I don't think. This isn't so much a question as it is just a topic for you to elaborate on and expound on. Do you remember the 2019 postseason? Yeah, it was quick. Yeah, what happened? What happened there?

I was watching that one from the, from the bench and it didn't go the brewer's way there. Yeah. That was a, you guys had a one game playoff against who was it? I can't remember. I'm not, I'm not entirely sure. I don't know who we were. I don't know who we were playing. It's always the national team. No, I don't know. I don't know if it was the national team. You guys were, you guys were, we crushed you that game, right? It was a blow up. Yeah. No, you guys were up. You guys were up late, right? Potentially. That might have been something that might have been like a four out window there that changed like baseball. Baseball history. Yeah. I can't remember entirely who we were playing, but it was a, that was a tough night. Yeah. Are you, are you like us

as fans? And you go back like, I'll look at the roster from that 2019 Washington national team and I'll just like, look at it and just fantasize and be like, damn, that was a good team. That was a really, really good team. Yeah. What do you think is, is the best team that's ever been assembled? Oh, I mean, some of like the recent Dodger teams probably could have given anybody a run for their money, even though like, you know, they won in 2020, but I think some of the ones that had like 21, 22 were like really, really talented. Anytime a team wins over like 105, it's like, it's so hard to do. You have to be, you have to be so good, like top the bottom to win 100 games plus. I think some of those Yankees teams from back in

the day were just really, really, really good. Everyone always likes to say like 98 Yankees is yeah, the best team. Yeah. But I remember us, like we played that national team in the regular season. Like this is a really, really talented team. Like they get in the post season, like this can be a problem. And like that's when you're playing really good teams like that, you want to play them like a one game playoffs, anything that happened in a game that you can beat anybody. The worst team in baseball could beat the best team baseball in one game. Right. Yeah, that one sucks, dude. Like anytime you're losing the playoffs, especially like that, because both clubhouses are like prepped for like all the, the champagne stuff. Yeah. So like

when you lose those games, because we've been in, we've lost game sevens, we lost that wild card. So when you lose those games, like all the celebration shits just like laying there. And you just like, you just like walk right by it into like a silent locker room. And it's like everybody's just super bummed out because your season's over and like anything can happen in the post season. Like you have a chance to win a World Series. So it's a, it's a depressing atmosphere after those games, especially like that. It could happen so quick. Like that was the bottom of the eighth inning. We lost three outs happened in like the next five minutes and like the game was over and we went from like winning to five minutes later like seasons over. That was

awesome. Right. Go ahead. I was going to say, is it, is it possible to drink a sad bottle of champagne? I haven't, I haven't seen it done. You're walking to the clubhouse and there's booze there. You're, you're upset. You just like, no, they take it all out and they bring it to the other side. There's nothing even sitting there. But what's sitting there is like the, the t-shirt and like the goggles, like that you see everything in the hat, like everybody's in. So like when you win those games and you do like the, the champagne thing, like usually, uh, like the guys that run the clubhouse are sitting there. They have like all the stuff lined up. You give them like the game hat and like you put your, your cleats in like a, like sections and then they hand you like all the

celebration stuff. So you put all that on whoever's doing like the on field interviews. Like they wrap that up. The manager gives a speech and then that's when you see like on TV, everybody like popping the champagne. So when you lose all that stuff still laying there, you just walk right by it. There's no champagne because they took it to the other locker room because they're going to be the ones that need it. Damn. That's brutal. Um, all right. So I have one last question. Uh, it's a row back question. RHOBACK.com use promo code take 20% off joggers, Q zips, polos, everything hoodies, uh, the best stuff out there without naming names, what position group is the biggest group of psychos in baseball? Oh, um, that's a good, I think there's different tiers of it. So

like all your position players, the guys that play like every day, they're like their own brand of psycho. Okay. You have the, the relievers. Those guys are pretty crazy actually because they'll like, it'll be like 10 30 at night and they're like slamming a red bull with P four and a five hour energy to go close at the game. Like they're not going to sleep till like six AM if you do that. Yeah. So those guys are coming in. I've seen guys that take like the red hot stuff. You guys ever had that? Yeah. Put on like your body feels like it's on fire. I play with a guy that used to put that up his nose in the, in the bullpen before he came in the game and he threw like a hundred miles an hour. That's badass. That guy's on our side. Yeah. Um, and then yeah, you just have like

starting pitchers all kind of have their quirks. Like I think just being in the game of baseball, you're kind of like your own brand of psycho. I always thought it would be catchers or I mean, like it feels like they're crazy or psycho and hockey and catchers feel the same way where it's like who would want to crouch for three hours every day. Yeah. Just stopping like projectiles. Yeah. Right. Getting hit with bats and foul tips and all kinds of things. So yeah, I'm like, yeah, you guys are crazy. I wouldn't want to do that. Yeah. Like you go out and you could go multiple innings in a row where you just never see the ball. I've been on whole games where like, I didn't do anything besides stand out there. There's like one or two of them a year where, uh,

are those fun? Kind of. Yeah. We had one game. I think we had a game with the Brewers last year where there was not one outfielder that caught a fly ball. Holy shit. There's all ground balls and strikeouts. That's so awesome. I would love to. You're just, you're just sitting out there like he went and just like hung out on left field for an entire makeshift league game. Like anybody in the stands could have done, did what you did that day in left field. But you're also like repositioning yourself depending on who's at bat. So you're like, you're walking around. Yeah, you're walking. Well, you have like a car that tells you like where to stand. So like before every game, they give you like a whatever team starting lineup is like they have like the analytics

car that they give to you. Yeah. So depending on if it's like a right handed or left handed pitcher, it tells you like basically where you're supposed to stand. So you just walk to where it says to stand there. The next batter, you walk to where that tells you. So you're just kind of like, we just went for a walk for three hours. It's a great day. Yeah. Looked around, took a couple of bats, hung out, took in the scene and went home. Yeah. Oh, I have one last last question. The slide that you have. Yeah. In Milwaukee, like two reporters broke ribs and and wrists and legs and people get hurt on that every year. Why is that? Why does he go down? You do go down fast. I guess Bernie obviously goes down all the time. I've only been down at one. I went down at one

time actually last year. And you come off that thing hot. I didn't think you did. There's like a whole pad set up at the bottom of it. And you're just like, it looks like a normal regular like little slide and you're you're hauling ass down that thing. And so I started training. He's like, yeah, I do every every year. I got like two or three calls from like the other side where they have somebody that needs to go to the extra room from the slide. And yeah, as a Dodgers reporter, he like broke his broke his wrist and hand in a bunch of different places. All time. The game with the cash. He still played. He still played the game. He did. He did. All right. Well, Christian has been awesome. Great catching up, man. And I'm not going to say

best of luck because you're in the Cubs division, but you know, opening day, we play those guys in Chicago or Milwaukee in Chicago. Oh, really? Yeah. So I'll get food and it will be like have to wear it for three hours out there. Yeah. And people, you know, don't say mean things to Christian wink, wink. They won't listen to you. I promise. Yeah. Yeah. Don't don't be mean to him. Don't say mean things to him. Don't tell him, say, Hey, I saw you on that porno when you're eating that ass. Don't do any of that. They would never do such a thing out there, especially in the bleachers on opening day in the field. No, no, no, no such thing. Please don't. All right, man. Thanks so much. Always a pleasure, guys. Christian Yellich was brought to you by Omega Accounting Solutions,

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if Hank ever gets it, they're just going to delete the tapes because it's good for content. Hank would actually murder us. Like he would kill us. You would quit the show. Yeah, you guys. I could delete tapes. Billy can delete tapes. You guys wouldn't even know. I don't know how to delete tapes. He's an expert at that. I do not know how to delete tapes. If Hank, if you get it right, then I mean, what people don't realize is that Hank's life has become a never ending series of people coming up to him and whispering numbers into his ear. Because Hank is very, very much looking forward to turning the page on this. All right. So let's do it. Have you ever gotten it? Have you ever gotten it? No. Yeah. It's never

going to happen. Let me go 99. It's a number shift. It's a false start. Okay. So what does that mean? That means you have to wait now to pick last. I'm last. Okay. Number 69. Who has it? Check the tapes. I'll give it to you. Billy, do you have any comment about last week when you told everybody to check the tapes and I clearly beat you on the tape? You also are saying that when you were losing beer competitions, it's also were videoed and you could see that you lost. Well, the thing is, when you're chugging the beer, you can't see when the other person finishes. Right. So when you finish, you're like, no way I lost that.

Because I was, well, the thing is the first night the heavy hitters showed out. And then I was getting caught with some IPAs, which just aren't fun to, I'm not chugging IPAs. Fact check. Really tried getting a beer snake onto the broadcast when I was calling. It was unsuccessful. It was successful. It just went down really badly. It was, we couldn't try it again. It got into the video camera and then it just went coming, crashed down on all the people around us and it was just really bad vibes from some parents. All right. So you have, you have 69. Hank? Let's go 99. I'll go 17. Bitch. 18. Remember three is out and I think 45 is out. My son picks six.

Four. 45 might come back in. I'm gonna go 55. Oh man. I'm actually rooting for 20 to be a kid. Because max being an almost winner would be just so fucking funny. Yeah. Wow. He needs the money too. He does. Did he pay you? Well, let's just say Max paid me half and I was like, Oh great. He's just, you know, Venmo restrictions. He's got to pay me the other half tomorrow. We're on like day six of tomorrow. He's been on vacation though. He has. UCLA one today on the road at Colorado. Yeah. So that price is going down UCLA. So when I put my future in it was plus 1400. Now they're down to plus 1200. Yeah. And they're going to be a one seed probably.

Yeah. Other than good shape. Yeah. I like UCLA. I'm gonna have UCLA. I have Tennessee UConn and then I'm going to have a mystery team that it is your team if you're listening right now, but you don't know what team it is, but it is your team. Yeah, you. I'm talking to you right now. Jamie. No, no, it's, it's your team. The people who are listening right now. Yeah, I bet on your team. Nice. So I'm rooting for your team, but it's a mystery team. 18 18. You've never got this. This will be an all time fuck up PFT. If you fall started and you got it, I know. I would take credit for it. Oh, 55. Oh, yeah.

Pay the man is mine. Oh, my God. Oh, Hank and Hank, my number. Oh, man. What did you just make? Like three K. Oh, man. Did you pay this week? Oh, no, what's crazy is that no, no, that dollar bill has been there for three weeks. That's not a dollar bill. No, that $20 has been there for three weeks. I know because I thought it was one of your guys. I ain't taking, you know, what's wild is that I said 99 and then I started then Hank was I'm going to take his number. So thank you, Hank. Thanks for the assist. Also, I'm pretty sure Hank said it's been a trend of double numbers. How much money hit last week? There has to be so much money in here. Oh, man. Oh, my God. PFT.

I don't even know if that's accurate. Third time. Third time. That's probably like four grand in here. Oh, good for you. Hank. Thanks, Jake. Hey, you could have. If you had just not taken PFT's number, it could have been you. You know what? Here, let me see. Let me see that money. I don't have the key. Oh, who's got the key? Like memes does. We might not ever be seeing that money. I feel like we're going to get it out. Oh, no, I memes remember I gave you the key. Me's got the key. Damn, Hank. That was so close, except not really. What was your other pick going to be? Fifty-five. You're going to put it on jam. You're going to put 55. I might. Yeah, I think you were. I think he was going to pick fifty-five. Seventeen. You know what, Jake, since you were

the first to congratulate me and you were very sincere about it, I want you to have this money that was outside. Oh, that's nice. Here you go, Jake. That's nice. Oh, we got what is that? Congratulations. Champagne. We got it. We have a champagne. Now, Hank has to put more money in here, right? A little Vove Clico. So you owe more money in here, Hank? Oh, no, you have to double it, right? I don't want to take it. It's your winnings. Jake, don't double sportsmanship. You have to double it. Jake, take it. You have to double what's ever in here. Don't give it to Billy. Do not give it to him. Oh, my God. Come on, Jake, you don't want it. Should I pop this right now? Hank, can you open the cell for me? Billy, Jake, you don't want it. I'm not going to

max myself out. Oh, my God. It's the blue. It's the blue cash. I'm going to count you out like I'm a bank teller. Wow. That's the blue cash. Yeah, wow, this sucks. How many seconds of the episode is that in payment? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10. That's a thousand. If there's insufficient funds, we just do the math. How many weeks times how many people? 13, 14. I don't need to nickel in time, you guys. I've won it before. It's not that big of a deal for me. Wow. 17. Hank, 18. 18 grand. Wait, watch out. 18 grand in there. $18,000. Yeah. Wow. Wow. That's, I'm happy for you, PFT. Thanks. You deserve it. Thanks, big cat. After this, you just said you needed to win

something. This almost, all your teams think that's true. This almost makes me whole for the doink, almost. Yeah. There you go. And Hank, you have to double that? Or where does that work? Are you going to put it in here? Do you put it in here? What do you do? PFT's money. So you're going to pay me $1800? Wow. Oh, congratulations, PFT. What a moment. Oh, true. Where were you? Wow. Oh, it tastes so good. Oh, pass this to Hank. I'm good. That's great. You want to sip? You want to quick sip? No, thanks. Thanks for doing the thing where he's watching like Stefan Diggs. Yeah. Like, I remember this. Also, I'm glad you were drinking champagne after a victory. Oh, man. Learning lesson from Max's. Good point. Oh, Billy, this does mean we all have to put $20 more into

it. Right, right? Yeah. Why not? I think the tradition should be all the winners get to celebrate. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Billy, all the wins. Everyone who's gotten it should be drinking champagne right now. What time does Jake take a swig real quick? What time does the Hustler Club close? Now, Jake, pass it to Hank because you've won it, right? Nope. Oh, no, but memes only guesses like memes guess like four times. Memes has won it, right? No, he hasn't. Oh, should I should I call Max Alma? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, Matt. Yeah, I'll call. Yeah, call me. Give a virtual. I'll call our other Max. Here, if you want to give them a virtual, you know, let's call both Max's champagne. This is fucking great. Or let's call the bar. He's had an order in a glass of champagne. Hold on.

Hold on. I'm gonna tell Max that Hank won it. And then he'd be like, no fucking way. This is so much fun. Hey, Hank, Hank won the lottery ball. No, he didn't. Yeah, no, he didn't. PFT did though. So we're drinking champagne. Yeah, so we had everyone in the studio who's won it gets to drink champagne. So I wanted to call you because you would be drinking champagne with us. I may need to get a glass of champagne. Yeah, you should. Yeah, send it to the group text. Send us a picture of you drinking champagne as a lottery ball winner. Okay, all right. Awesome. All right, see ya. Oh man, that's great. Crazy take but Coors Light tastes way better than champagne. That's not that crazy. Coors Light's the best beer ever. See if he's gonna pick up. He's probably

in the West Coast, right? Yeah, make sure he drinks some champagne too. And anyone at home who's won it, please raise a glass of champagne. Hey, Max, what's up? What's up, dude? Hey, I wanted to let you know that I got, I got the lottery ball. Correct. Yeah. That's what I'm gonna take tonight. Yeah. And so we're passing around champagne. Everyone that's gotten it is taking a sip of champagne. So I wanted to let you know that as a past winner of the lottery ball, you should have some champagne, Max. Drink some champagne. Look, we got champagne. Wait, can I get a look at Hank not getting any? Yeah, no, he didn't get to drink any champagne. He didn't get to drink any. Oh wait, Max, Max, Max, you know what the best part is? PFT went off sides on the pick. So you can't say

your number until I say numbers. So he said it too early. He said 99. And then Hank decided to take PFT's number. So PFT went to a secondary number, that number one. Oh, brutal. How sweet it is. I got that. I got that live money, Max. Oh, yes. Great. All right, have some champagne. Yeah, have some champagne. Hey, you're the best PFT. Hank, you stink. All right, love you, Max. And that's coming from a loser. Max is a loser. He choked in the Genesis. People don't forget. Yeah, no, yeah, yo, stop it. Stop it. No, Max is good. He's good people. Hank, any comments about what is taking place here? I was actually texting Max on Friday and was like, you don't actually consider that a win, right? And he was, he said, no, he said, if you know, if your friends asked

me, I'd say yes. If my friends asked me, I'd say no. And then we were talking about how I told him I just need to win it and win the money. Oh, but I won the money and I didn't have you didn't win the money. I mean, can we make sure we get another bottle of champagne for whoever wins it next? Because this it will, it will happen again. It won't be Hank. It's this cash. Yeah, shout out to you. You can find me that the Arizona merch you never bought me. Oh, oh, now we're getting in the bed. I asked you if you wanted me to buy you the merch and you said, forget about it. Oh, no, no, we walked past the store in the airport and you're like, you wanted here. I was like, no, if you wanted to air the home interview before the episode, it would have

come naturally. Yeah, right. It did come naturally. It counts. Give Hank a little sip of champagne. Come on. Give him some champagne. Give him some champagne. Give him some. Can you take a little sip? Hank, you want $100? It's good. I'm 24 hours sober. Yeah. Yeah. Come on. This is fucked up. All right. So we could, we could, we could keep this show going for 24 hours. You want $100? Take it. There you go. Take it. There you go. Oh, wow. You actually gave it. Yeah. There's $100. I'll be needing that $1800 back from you though. I actually, yeah. Big guy, you want $100? Yeah. Yeah. Billy, you, you know what? You have my $100. There you go. Psych. Scouts, ScoutsHonor, I owe you $40. Thank you, Billy. Take that $100. Mims, you want $100? Yeah. Get Mims. Get me $200,

$200. How much Mims? Yeah, $200. Here's $200 Mims. Oh man, this is fun. This is Christmas. Okay. Yeah. Um, what an ending to the show. That's great. I just want to see what the next poll beat doesn't count. Okay. I just want to see. I want to see. Wait, do we have any cheese takes left? Oh, 99. Wait, what is that? It gets so dead inside. Oh, it's 80. Oh man, you're such a loser. I love this show. You'll never get it. I'm so happy because the only way I've had all weekend is just watching you lose. God damn it, doesn't feel good. You can have our graphics guy, Shane, make a banner for how many times? I'm four. You guys, you're three. I think that's three for me. You're one or two. I had that one where I went back to back,

but that was on short porch. Was the number? Official part of my take ones. Yeah. Really, what are you, five? Hey, imagine that. I didn't even try to get two in a row. Max is one. Like, I'm mad angus. And you haven't even gotten one. Officially? No, but listen. Oh, okay. But you haven't even gotten one practice. I see you. Every morning I come in a little behind the scenes. I get around 830. Hank is in here just pressing the lottery ball machine, guessing numbers. And he still hasn't gotten it. The guy's practicing and he still hasn't gotten it. All right. What a fun show. Nothing matters. I mean, I don't care anymore. This is stupid. Love you guys. All wooly mammoths have won the lorry ball this machine the same amount as Hank. I actually,

I had that plan. It's written down on my notes that that was.