Pardon My Take - David Ortiz + Week 4 NFL Recap

Episode Date: October 1, 2018

NFL Week 4 fastest 2 minutes 92;27 - 8:02). Everything is back to normal in the NFL. The Packers won, the Jaguars look good again, the Patriots don't suck but the Dolphins may, Mitch Trubisky was incredible and Jeff Fisher made his debut in the booth (8:02 - 31:12). Explaining the MLB schedule (21:12 - 24:45). Football guy of the week, and who's back of the week (24:45 - 37:55) . Red Sox legend David Ortiz joins the show to talk about the pressure of October baseball, how he would get out of slumps, and the focus it takes to win a World Series (37:55 - 58:15). Segments include embrace debate is Frank Reich and idiot because James Franklin most definitely is. Thoughts and Prayers to team USA for the Ryder Cup. Bad Visual for Jimbo Fisher, sabermetrics for Sam Bradford and is Big Cat done or finishedYou 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 part of my take, we have David Ortiz for what seems like the third time in about six months. Really fun conversation with him though. We talk about the MLB playoffs, how it gets intense, what he used to get out of a slump in the MLB playoffs.

Fun conversation. We also have a full week for NFL recap. Fastest two minutes. We have Football Guy of the Week and a very special done or finished because we are taping this from my living room because my back, I threw it out and I cannot walk. I am officially done, maybe finished. We'll get to that at the end of the show. Before we do all of that though, you already know the Cash App is the number one finance

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back to school. We start in the frozen tundra where the red hot Buffalo Bills try to make it two NFC Norse victories in a row. Aaron Rodgers and his extended family of teammates had other ideas as he and Senator Lindsey Jimmy Graham investigated exactly where the end zone is for our first half touchdown. A surly Aaron Rodgers sounded angry at his head coach in his post game comments and if Mike McCarthy isn't careful, there will be no Christmas gifts in Green Bay this winter. Packers 22, Bills 0.

Golden Tate's one to no one said I know you are but what am I and put up two scores against the shockingly strong legalist Dallas defense. The Cowboys offense is dacking the saddle again and Ezekiel Elliott Ness was untouchable. Matt Patricia had his boys wearing 50 shades of gray and they got spanked 26-24. Out in Oakland Baker was cooking up butterfingers for his wide receivers all day. Jordy Nelson Mandela was left on an island but ended up prevailing in a wonderful story of inspiration. When the black hole hit your eye like a big pizza pie that's amare.

Cooper had the Browns over a barrel but the Browns D was putting their testicles in the sea gap. These refs had quicker whistles than a construction worker when literally any woman walks by them. Nick Chubb played hard but had a soft touch on his two TDs but it wasn't enough as the RRRRRR riders went in overtime. Some spread. I really wanted a tie there Teej. Gotta love the tie boom.

A.J. Green Acres really put on a show in a barn burner against the Millennial Falcons who looked like they were too busy thinking about tweeting instead of flying high. We were unsure if Andy Barbie Dalton had any genitals whatsoever but this was a coming out party for his testicles. That Ryan Whitney has also never won a Stanley Cup and it doesn't look like a Super Bowl is in the cards for him either if he keeps playing like this. Marvin Lewis and Clark are blazing an Oregon Trail and it looks like Dan Quinn has just died of dysentery.

Beggar was 37, Falcons 36. Hey Swamp, I cocked the wagon get it? Haha yeah yeah, because that's a good one Teej. We go down to Duval as Blake Bortles really enjoyed looking at DDs, talking boobs here Teej. As DD Westbrook had 130 yards receiving putting on a show for searching for Jeffy Fisher and this was a chess match. Sam Donald Schwarzenegger will be back but right now Todd Bowles' contract is in danger

of being dominated. The law Cole and Powell embarrassed himself and tarnished his legacy in front of the international community because it turns out the Jets don't have any key weapons of mass destruction like we thought they did. They're jacking it off in Jacksonville, 31, 12. Fumble!!! The Colts and the Texans tried their best but neither team could come away with a tie as Frank Reich went forward and forth down in their own territory in overtime huh?

Then tic tic tic tic tic tic tic and a pfffff and Deshaun Dodson had a few clunkers of a drive but he's just got enough motor to get you from point A to point 37. JJ Abrams Watt played like a shitty version of Superman and Kiki do you love me? Are you smiling cuz you had a hundred yards against the Colts team Kutei was dancing around the Indian secondary Like it was a car going slow enough to be driven by Jim Earth's a Texan 37 course 34 No, sorry, it's the best stuff there boom. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Love drink. You know I love drink. I'm all my feelings right now teach Standing on a quarter Janus Winston Tampa, Florida such a fine sight to see It's a back of my lord in a flatbed board try and get noticed by her cutlery

Come on James stop being so shameless Keep your tiny hands to yourself and you'll be playing This It's good to sing that song again teach. It's great bears 75 Bucks zero we go to music city where Marcus Marriota said aloha the hello kind to Corey Davis and aloha The goodbye kind to the Lost Column as he wasn't content to play for a delicious my tie and won the game in over time Alson Jeffrey Dahmer was a cannibal not decantable coming off the IR and putting his name on top of Carson

Winces most wanted less Mike ready willing and Vrabel roll the dice and the Eagles crapped their pants as this Super Bowl Hangover has given the whole team Sunday scaries Titans 26 Eagles 23 Finally Miami and Ryan Tannehill go up to Fox Oh We're gonna do Miami that time It's pardon my take presented by bar stool sports All right. Oh week four is in the books. We are taping this live from my apartment I am bedridden. My back has been thrown out. I'm an old man. We're gonna get to the donor finished later

Well, you're couch ridden from couch, which isn't really that different from how your life was before Let's just clarify I would love to be bedridden But I tried to go from my couch to my bed after I hurt myself playing basketball on Saturday And then ended up lying on the ground saying someone just put a bullet in my head. So mm-hmm back pain is the worst I should get you in touch with Bill Walton. I don't know what to do. I My legs are like paralyzed. I can't stand I have an idea fusion surgery. Oh, yeah Yeah, and then I can come back in golf and and fail for my country. We'll get to all that too

So week four in the books, we have some storylines. We got to talk about I think the first one that we have to Bring up is our are we sure they're good game the dolphins versus the Patriots? Mm-hmm turns out the Patriots probably are good and the dolphins continue to be their candy ass Fraud selves. I'm so sick of the dolphins I think we need to put an official disclaimer every year like hey the dolphins might start hot Just remember they always suck Yes, the dolphins they were thoroughly unimpressive the Patriots look pretty good I guess Rob Gronkowski is still like a no-show Hank was explained that it's gonna be fine though

It's just because the coverage is no I'm telling you. Yeah, so I'm fine The Patriots are kind of back I think this is you know their annual thing where they make us think that they're done into the dynasty Which I mean if there's gonna be a year this feels like it still could be the year Yes, but I mean the dolphins in New England give me a break never had a chance Stella By the way is also obviously in this podcast. So you'll hear Terry Pratt Bradshaw was so funny because in the Fox Pregame he they're like, okay, so Patriots Dolphins. He's like yep Patriots are done. They're gonna lose this game I'm gonna win three games total this year. So it doesn't like that. And and uh, and that was and everyone's like come on

Dude, you're not being serious. He's like what someone's got to say it And it was very funny He broke the fifth wall that everyone in in a broadcast booth has to at least throw that take out there Otherwise, it's not good video. Yeah, and and by the way, Terry Bradshaw's hair is just it's perfect now I I have no idea how he can keep getting more bald than he already is but his hairline is like creeping down his neck It's gonna look like a neck collar. Yes pretty soon like a big neck a donut neck pillow Going around the back of his head. Yeah, but yeah, somebody does have to say it though That's the first rule of sports media. You want to be the first one to declare the Patriots dead and be the first person to

Ever get that right? Yes, exactly Which is the yet to happen the other story we had Fitz magic is done Officially done right we can say it James comes in second half. Mr. Biscay. Well, no, I don't think it's fair I don't think it's fair to say that Fitz magic's officially done. They happen to be playing against the best team in the NFC Future Super Bowl champion Chicago Bears You can't really say that Fitz magic is over they just were in a buzz saw situation this iteration of Fitz magic is done He'll come back eventually somewhere else, but this iteration he actually he actually played it perfectly So, you know, we can talk about Earl Thomas later if we want

But Earl was obviously like upset with this contract and he came back he played even though he didn't really want to got injured Might affect him in free agency. What happened with with Fitz magic? He showed just enough on tape this year to ensure that he gets a big contract this off season Yes, somebody so he's he's gonna come back next year. We know that he might not be back this year But it was the perfect strategy. He played like he played well enough in the first three games and then crap the bed when it counted the fourth Meaning that like he's gonna get replaced and he's not putting himself at risk of injury this year I also think that I'd like to think of that Ryan Fitzpatrick is starting to get at least a little self-aware with how much he actually Sucks when it comes down to it because that week too when he comes out dressed like Conor McGregor

It almost was like hey, it's never gonna get better. Yep I know me better than you guys know me and this is the peak and this is when I can do this because as soon as this Press conference is over. I'm gonna start regressing to Fitz tragic. Yes. Yeah, and you know what? I heard Rex Ryan on Sunday countdown today. He used the Fitz tragic take Yes, it's like first half you get Fitz tragic second half. You got Fitz magic last week. So cease and desist Rex the other big quarterback news was Bethard that wasn't that bad, but then he got hurt Oh, and so we had like an unbelievable case of a backup backup quarterback Nick Mullins

Yes, there's a podcast come town. There's apparently a backup quarterback on the on the 49ers and he's in now Which just makes the case for Jay Cutler or Sam Bradford Jay Cutler wins that game today in San Diego San Diego, San Bradford definitely doesn't win that game, but it would be entertaining It's also so sad to see how many I don't think there's a single Chargers fan in these games It was completely red. It was all 49ers fan I thought you were gonna say the big quarterback news is the fact that Dak Prescott finally threw for over 200 yards Yeah, you would get like 215 yards something like that

I'm actually gonna say now that I'm looking back at this entire week. This is the week that order got restored Because the Packers, you know beat the bills. They didn't score. It felt like that was right It you know the Patriots take it to the Dolphins The Texans finally showed up in a game like I said, we're gonna talk about with embrace debate But the Texans finally like oh, yeah, maybe the Texans are good I feel like the you know the Jaguars beat the fuck out of the Jets The order was with Mr. Biskie's the best quarterback probably NFL order was definitely how it should be I like there were a lot of teams getting cute with it this week too with the little mini

I don't want to call them shovel passes There were a lot of shovel passes, but there are a lot of those like little touch passes Well, you just do like a volleyball bump that was you get credit for all those passing yards Yeah, and that was the moment that Matt Nagy was really feeling it when he had chased Daniel stand next to Mitch Shabisky Yeah, and take a fake handoff and then have to be a shovel pass. Yeah, he was he was Feeling a little extra. He Matt Nagy was basically like the Bucks defense is so bad What if we had the least athletic decoy ever created out here as a running right fake handoff and like what so it's a Quarterback handing off to a quarterback, but it's a fake

And in play work. He's essentially touchdown. Yeah, he's using chase Daniel like Sean Payton's using Taysum Hill. Yes Which is just what Taysum Hill actually is good Man, I would be so pissed off. I was Drew Brees. Oh, I just they keep like getting Taysum Hill They take you out of the game on like a third down and put Hill in yeah, furious about him And you know what I keep doing? This is so stupid to admit like out loud But every time Taysum Hill gets a big big like run I don't have Drew Brees on any of my fantasy teams No one cares about my fantasy team

But I think like someone who would have Drew Brees and I get angry for those So just so you know everyone out there that has Drew Brees on your fantasy team. I'm here for you. Yeah, I'm getting angry I'm getting second hand hand anger every time Taysum Hill grabs the ball Yeah, and then and then Baker do we know if Baker's good or not yet Baker's electric He's electric one way or another. He's gonna do something entertaining. Yes, his interceptions are fun to watch I don't I don't know if that's necessarily a good thing or not from him, but like he goes for it. Yes He's got balls. I love watching any game that's played on that field out in Oakland with baseball diamond I want when the Las Vegas Raiders move into their new stadium. I want them to have a baseball diamond on that field, too

Yes, yes, the the Browns by the way got screwed in that game. We agree. Yes, they got screwed on that There was a bunch of those calls that felt like this week where and and Clay Matthews shut out I do not like Clay Matthews I hope that he keeps getting fine But he did have a hilarious sack on Josh Allen where he sacked him with his with his like chest Yeah, he pulled his hands all the way back and sacked him by just kind of titty bumping them just shoving him over Yeah, he's gonna start sacking quarterbacks like he's a bully in high school and just like throwing his backpack into people Okay, so the real story though. We got to talk about Jeff Fisher Jeff Fisher in the booth Jets Jaguars. I

Listened to a little of it. I thought he did a fantastic job as an unbiased person I saw a lot of tweets saying that he was not good. I think those people are haters and losers and there are many of them There are I don't really understand why they would say such a thing. No joke He actually sounded like if you listen to this pot, here's what you do right now put this podcast on half speed Hi, I'm Jeff Fisher and I'm watching Blake Bortles and goddamn Blake Bortles looks magnificent on half speed That's exactly what Jeff Fisher sound okay. He also did this thing and like I said, I think he did a fantastic job He didn't know when to stop talking So he it was like being on a phone call where you can't fully hear the person and you don't want to have the awkward silence

So you just keep filling in time Yeah He would make a point and then if the person who his color or his play-by-play guy didn't say something right away He'd like well. Oh, so is it I'm still talking now and he would just keep so Who is it who got their first sack of the season Leonard Williams? I think yeah. Yeah, it was yeah He he just kept on talking like he's a good player He should have gotten a sack and the play-by-play guy didn't say anything and he finally Jeff Fisher's like Leonard Williams Welcome to the one sack club. Yeah, it's like okay. You don't talk any more Jeff. He's like you good

No, he was he was like you've earned it. This is a big moment for you and for your family I'm just very happy that I could be here to witness It was great and he is in love with Blake Bortles as much as we are too. Yeah, which is great He's like first of he's like the head of the Blake Bortles fan club I love he was saying Blake was like by the way Blake was a wagon today. Yes He played really really well. I think at the start of the game He was maybe 15 for 16 and then he goes, but you know what I'm not going to count that in completion That doesn't count in my heart in my heart. He's still perfect because I was a throwaway

Can you write down? You know remember the we have to every week We unlearn the things that we learned because we everything we learn is bad Learn this real quick. We'll try to remember it The Jaguars are the ultimate up-and-down team every single week if they have a big win They just will they will completely mail in the next week and then off that they like I think Doug Maroon Maroon just has it has them on a yo-yo He just keeps going up and down. It's like all right. Well, you guys beat the Patriots go ahead take this week off against the Titans Oh, you lost nine to six now. You got a shit pump the Jets wherever they have that next week

I wouldn't be surprised the Jaguars kind of sleepwalking. Yeah, so learn that so we can unlearn it Well, what happens is one week Leonard Fennett will play very well in the next week He'll have a foot or a hamstring injury in the first quarter. Yes He'll have to get out of the game that guy's hamstring team that guy's hamstring is like a raw piece of like shitty flank steak That thing is always stretched out to high-hell actually doing something about that. Yeah, I mean, I would no joke I would I would love to eat Leonard Fennett's leg I mean, I've had Gatorade and Crackers for the last two days. So and Vicodin thoughts and prayers. Okay, uh They off drugs kids. Yeah. Well unless your back sees up and you can't walk and you want to just die

I'm Tony Romo was in rare form today. Yes, he was here. I'm doing some of those replays. Yeah Yeah, it was great. He was singing at one point. He was having a ball out there I think he I think what what's happening is Tony Romo like he probably week one was a little nervous that maybe Jason Whitton was good and now that he realized Jason Whitton is a robot and never will be good He can really he can we can really see the Tony Romo year to what he has him planned for us. Yeah He's singing songs. Yeah, he's gonna finally step out and show off a little bit more of that personality I did see an interview with Jason Whitton and say what you want about Whitton But he was always a coach's dream coach has always loved him, right? He's very coachable

And so in this interview he was doing he has obviously been told hey, man You need to start using emotions like humans do. Yep, that way they can tell that you're not at a computer program Yep, and in the middle of sentences, he would just start smiling Just like random sentences about like Dallas Cowboys They're gonna start to look to include Rico gathers and then he just starts smiling because he was like, oh, yeah I'm supposed to smile. I'm supposed to just tell people that I'm a human being So he's improving. Yes small steps. He's gonna learn it. All right before we get to football guy that we can who's back We got a couple things we have to do one is we have to actually know what I'm gonna save the embrace debate for

Frank Reich will talk also about James Franklin in the worst play call in the time So if you want to hear that if you're if you're a trigger Penn State fan That's coming up in segments if you are Penn State fans being triggered and sensitive I But we do have to do a post at you back up We do have to talk about the MLB playoffs and the craziest schedule ever This is so classic because major league baseball. I feel like they They kind of plan things but they always there's always this doomsday scenario

And they're like now that will never happen like the internet will never progress where the NBA becomes super popular because everyone shares All their clips because we let them do it now that one never happened Let's just build our own fucking database and we're gonna build our of our clip I'm gonna build my own internet. Yeah, that will never happen But so the that will never happen happened. We have two game 163s on Monday and Both all four teams are in the playoffs. So they've all qualified for the playoffs They are playing a game to see who has to play in the wild card game, which is then the next day. Yeah. Yeah

It's insane. It's like this should be a situation that gets resolved by like a coin flip or or any sort of tiebreaker These teams played each other like 18 times a year. Yeah, you think that maybe you just go with that They should do penalty kicks. That's what he said during the World Cup even Any event that's not a soccer event should also be settled using pks because they're electric Yeah, but yeah, this it doesn't make any sense like you're adding an extra game onto the schedule for the right to play in Another game, right and your your pitching staff will be all fucked up from it because you're gonna play You're gonna play on Monday if you lose you're gonna play on Tuesday And then if you win that you gotta play on Thursday

This feels like something that Bud Selig wrote and like left in a safe inside the the commissioner's office Do not change and then when Manfred took over he he had instructions to like open the safe And this is what we're gonna go right what why wouldn't you just start at least start the wild card games on Wednesday? But whatever either way we have the Brewers at the Cubs and the Rockies at the Dodgers I'm not gonna complain because it is free sports, and it's awesome because basically an extra day of the playoffs I would prefer if the Cubs could actually win a game and Stop the you guys mentioned beforehand team of destiny that is the walk I mean the Brewers have this They do have a vibe. I'll admit got a big vibe

They got Christian yellow to the best player in major league baseball. You're part of that vibe, too Because yeah, you've got an integral part and giving Christian yellow to the What's gonna happen tomorrow just a little preview for everyone the I've been saying the central was decided since I don't know May So if the Cubs win, I will say told you guys so the central's been decided since May Why don't you guys listen to me? And if the Cubs lose I will just tweet out a picture of how much pain I'm in for my back So please be nice to me. That's a good spend zone. Yeah, I like that I feel like that's gonna work, right? Yeah. Yeah, nobody's gonna be extra mean to you. No, no chance. Okay. Let's get to our

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We have some good nominees very good ones this week. So first up we have Jeremy Pruitt He is the Tennessee football head coach. Let's put in the audio You know these guys on this team have had a lot of negatives go go toward them in a while for a long time And I'm proud of them the way they fought They started last week And it ain't easy Let me tell you something that team in red today tried to change the way we thought That's the way they're coached. That's the way they play. They play the right way

Okay Our guys kept fighting Which means we're headed in the right direction and that excites me. It's why I'm getting a little bit of motion So that was Jerry Pruitt crying about his team never quitting after they got Smoked again and a week after one of his players actually did quit Literally quit in the middle of the game and refused to go into the game and said I'm transferring well That's progress. So he didn't have anybody quit during the middle of the game. That's that's a good thing I wish that Tennessee would bring back that big remember they had like a trash can they would hold up on the sideline

Yeah, yeah, they need to bring that back But it's definitely a football guy move to cry after a loss because you're so proud of your guys right and and also Crying about how you're not gonna quit. Yeah, so it's a future You're crying about how strong your team will be in the future because they suck and they're gonna keep playing the rest Of the season. It's also a big-time football guy move to cry about something else, but then pretend that you're crying about football Yeah, I think that's exactly what this was. I just crying because he keeps losing. I think he's like I'm not good at this job Yeah, he hates me. I'm in way over my head. Oh, yeah, this this is too much pressure for me I wasn't even your fifth choice to be the head coach. Well, I couldn't have just hired Greg Siano exactly

So he's crying, but then he just spun it into I just love my guys. I love my guys. We're never gonna quit All right, next up. We have another college coach Matt rule Baylor head coach They got smoked by Oklahoma classic Baylor, Oklahoma game like a hundred points score. That's the easiest over of all time Oh of all time But Matt rule did do the thing where he was giving a lesson to one of his players and then at the end of the lesson Just decided to headbutt him in the in the helmet. Yes, like two or three good times Yeah, that's what football coaches do. They don't use punctuation and exclamation point is just a headbutt That's how you know end of conversation

I just like the idea of teaching someone a lesson like here You got to be smarter out there kid and then to show you how smart you got to be I'm gonna smash my head Against your metal helmet. Yeah, no, they had the smartest thing a Baylor coach has done in at least 10 years Yes, so got to give him credit for that easily Next up we have John Harbaugh who said before the Sunday night football game He said the players will watch Netflix instead of the afternoon games to pass time before a Sunday night game That's what I would do if I knew how to get on Netflix Just classic. Yeah, it's not that hard John. It's not that hard at all

I'm actually shocked that John Harbaugh doesn't get the Netflix DVD is still mailed to him Yeah, he definitely calls up Joe Flacco in the hotel. It's like, hey, can you come up here for a second? I got to go over the game plan real quick and then he brings a man He's like, hey, do you know how to turn on Netflix on this TV? Yeah, can you set my DVD player to record this game? That's on I need to get a wake-up call tomorrow Can you call down and do that for me? I think I feel like John Harbaugh still drives to the strip mall with a blockbuster used to be And he's like, ah shit. That's right. It's not here anymore. Yes. I wonder where the next one is Yes, it's got to be one close by. Yes

All right, last up we have the long snapper for the Rams Kevin McDermott who lost the tip of his pinky In a player's face mask, but stayed in the game got stitched up went back in the game now vote vote for all four a part of my take but This guy I feel like losing a pinky is is kind of a cop out. I don't know. I feel like anyone could lose a Yeah, it's be your pinky. He got his little finger circumcised. Yeah, that's not that much like little tip I will cut my people losing their fingers. Yeah Well, yes, I have long said that I would love to be in a fantasy football The way I could start caring about fantasy football again is if we played in a league where loser has to get their finger

Would you trade a lost pinky to cure the pain you're in right now? The tip of it. Yes. Yeah, the tip without it. It's nothing. I would line. Yeah I do. I also think there's something to be said for a guy who's got a nub. Yeah, like a nub guy has been through shit You know I could have shark attacks at a bar fight. No nub guys demand respect when they shake your hand It's just a great thing whenever you give somebody a handshake and they they're missing like a full finger. It's an immediate story Yes, it's an icebreaker. It's a conversation Jerry Garcia round manual a lot of famous people have You know round manual has nine fingers missing a half a one. Yeah, he definitely lost in some very very shady way Right, exactly. You it's a you're a man of mystery if you have a nub. I don't what do you use your pinky for anyways?

Is he the you're in trouble pinky that I use I throw out the point when someone's in trouble I say you're in trouble and I throw you couldn't make the devil horns at a rock concert that kind of sucks True or yeah, if you're a texas fan just a classy person. How are you supposed to show that? Yeah, but yes to answer your question Hank, I would I would I would take a nub in a second hurt back or not Yeah, I would take a nub to knock like five minutes off my commute. Yeah, also nub probably plays in the bedroom If you know what I'm saying, it's different anything different. It's a curveball Yeah, you're not you're actually a knuckleballer with a nub. Yeah in the bedroom. You don't know what's going on All right, let's do our who's back of the week. Hank. Why did you start?

Um, my who's back of the week is carnival greger Oh, I feel like people like he's fighting this saturday night and I feel like it's kind of not really being talked about that much Maybe because he's gonna lose. Oh You think so he is going against Habib, he's not he's the underdog right now who wrestled bears as a child. Oh, wow. He wrestled bears Russian bears Yeah, cotton McGregor just wrestled iris drunks, right? That's not quite as bad I do think there's a world where he loses and there is that element of cotton McGregor like can

Although he bounced back from his other loss Yeah, but I feel like the weak like if he thought he was gonna win there'd be a lot more promotion I don't know. I just feel like there's been no real promotion outside of like probably because data white doesn't show him to trust up some place and not commit six felonies Slash data white doesn't want to pay him pay this man his fucking money. Yeah He did have a did you see he he was interviewed before the fight like today and said no offense No offense to everyone, but I don't give a fuck about everyone. That's pretty good I love that. It's a no offense. So wait, this guy actually used to wrestle Russian bears. Yes

How is that? How does that happen like in his zoo or just like in his backyard? His dad was the the dad who like tied the kid's hand football like Todd marinovic's dad Tied his right hand behind his back so he became lefty. I think that was that but russia Yeah, I think that's fair play. Like if when I have a kid of my own I'm gonna do everything I can to make sure that he's left-handed and a punter and popular in high school Yeah, and can and can fight bears. Yeah. Well, that's all one of the same. Yeah PFT you want to go? Yeah, my who's back of the week is going to be The trouble and paradise between Aaron Rodgers and Mike McCarthy. Yes

So they're unhappy again with each other Aaron Rodgers made a bunch of comments after the game complaining about Not targeting the right players and space enough. We have to find ways to get our playmakers the ball We didn't target this guy enough to target this guy enough I love this. I love this time of year when because those two guys hate each other so much They've just kind of coexisted because Aaron Rodgers is really good And meanwhile, Mike McCarthy's eyes are just like getting closer and closer together And he's looking more and more like a dunce every single week. Yep

But yeah, it's a nice little rite of passage for every NFL season Uh, notice that pft said that not me so no one can come at me and say I'm being a hater But yes, they hate each other. They always have hated each other. It's great to watch Aaron Rodgers surly Malcontent uncoachable uncoachable and he's going to be even more uncoachable when he sees it Jordy Nelson had a good week this week. I side with Mike McCarthy in this. You know, yeah, oh, yeah You had definitely I mean look at his track record with backup quarterbacks. Aaron Rodgers is system quarterback Yes, exactly football supposed to be family. Yes. That's true. That's true. Your brother's in the locker room. You can't ignore them

Good point. All right. My who's back is Kanye being weird, which is kind of he's always been around It's not really a who's back But it was this snl thing where he dressed up like a water bottle and it's art I don't know what the fuck was going on I mean, I mean they that was one of the funniest videos I've ever watched because the song is called Like it's all about fucking and they just did a clean version on snl. It made no sense Like of all the songs to pick As a coating bottle that would have been better. They dressed up like a disani and a uh, and it's on parry on parry. Yeah

Yeah, don parry on. That's the champagne. I think that would have been the other one. Oh, sample grino sample grino Yeah, yeah, he's dressed up like a liqueur it was Kanye where's where do people land on connie because I've seen some people being like connie is a farce now He's a shell of himself. He's just a like a shill promoter and it's all fake Well, I think him wearing the trump hat gets people quite upset. Yeah, I'd say that's fair Didn't he also say that it wasn't a trump hat because he redesigned the bill on it that also is true So he turned back. Yeah, he turned it into art by by cutting like a corner off of connie's found himself in like the perfect spot in life where

If you like if you pulled 100 people 50 of them would say he's a brilliant genius and 50 of them would say he's just trolling And looking for attention It's almost the best spot to be in because you have people that adore you and then you have people That can't stop watching you even though they think that you're a troll. Yeah So either way he's getting the publicity out there But you're absolutely right about like people that will still watch you for trolling So I don't think anybody out there is not downloading connie his new album because they don't like him I think he is probably getting a lot of new listeners to his music that are gonna end up hating the shit out of it

But they're gonna give it a shot. We're gonna be like, I like to cut of this guy's jib. He's maga and then they listen to him They're like, what is this? I don't like rap. Yeah, what's going on right now? What's going on connie? He's got the whole world. He's got the whole world buzzing. So at least he's incredible connie west has it all figured out Yeah, all right. Let's uh get to our interview with david orteez before we do that. We got two ads Pintz you want to do one? I'll do one. Yeah, let's do it. All right So we're all playing on fandal this week Uh and david's giving everyone a chance to steal some of his w ffc winnings The barstool content and stuies will be able to enter a contest to hashtag beat dav

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This now this offers through october 31st. No purchase necessary open to 50 us dc residents 18 plus Void where prohibited ends 10 31 18 for official rules. Go visit www.liquidgold sec.com and now big poppy david ortiz Okay, we now welcome on a now good friend of ours We've had john. I think this is the third time you can probably recognize that laugh. It is big poppy david ortiz Legend of the game a little bit nicer than the last time when we were standing in the sun in dc. Remember that? Yeah

Melting melting melting. So you're here with shared in Uh, you are doing a big day out with big poppy where you're surprising Unknowing fans for fun day out in in the city of boston and shared in the official hotel of mlb So what else what else are you doing with shared in here? I'm gonna spoke went for them. I joined uh the shardom family This year we're taking uh fans client or whatever people want to call them Around the city of boston, you know boston is uh, it's a city that have a lot of history behind So I get to hang out with them take them to restaurant, you know, taking the garden right across the street from fangway

Uh, we hang out at the hotel. We do a lot of different things. It was fun. It was a fun day I like what I like about shared in is when they clean the showers. They don't plug up the drain Like marriott does yes, we'll tell you all about that. It's true. Hey, uh, this might be a crazy question But how much is your watch worth? You like it. Yeah, the thing is you're so for people who are listening not watching Big poppy came in with a versace jacket. I actually have that same jacket and necklace So much bling that like my eyes are just lighting up if you don't say that They don't believe you have a pop in the building. Yeah, right. There's just bling everywhere. You got the bling. I mean

It's it's intimidating. That's a very nice watch There's one of the stars there. Uh, so yeah, let's uh, we like I said, we've had y'all and you you become a A friend, I guess can I call you a friend? Oh, yeah, okay. I had a question for y'all. Yeah So we just picture it right here. Lenny Dykstra. Why are you intimidated by by nails? You want to do a little locker room talk? You want to do some chalk? Let's do it. Yeah. So what who is the best uh, locker room talk guy in your career? I gotta give it to uh, Kevin Miller. Yeah Yeah, that's that's actually Without a doubt, you know, that was an easy one. Yeah

Yeah, kevlar definitely. Sorry. So fine. Who is the second best because kevlar is too easy. Uh, Let me see, uh Man, um Probably me I like that. Um, did you have any slump busters? Like because right now, you know, you can get into a funk on when we blog sometimes It's like, hey, I haven't cracked out a good blog in a week. What would you do to get out of a slump? uh

Well, it's all the pan. I mean I wasn't like too much of uh um You didn't really have slumps I did everybody everybody in baseball always have slump. I mean you always You can be doing really good and all of a sudden boom you awful teddy You know, it happens so quick. I mean awful teddy is like what five games

Yeah, I mean you go you you can go five 10 games without getting a hit in a heartbeat. You know what I'm saying so, uh I don't know. I I I think, uh Once I was going through it, you know, I always want to do things differently. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, just to like, uh, the way you can reset your mind and and and basically Get a concussion starting all over probably Would you use any my way have a lot to do with my, uh, uh different routines. So yeah I gotta give it to her

Would you lean on any teammates like Pedro Martinez or anyone else to help you out? If if I tell you three stories that Pedro did to me, you won't believe it. Oh, I think we'd believe it I think someone else might have told us Yeah, Pedro used to come out with different things all the time different types of You know, and it was a lot of you know being naked involved in the whole situation. Yes You gotta hear about Pedro before That's the locker room talk. Yeah, he likes to put different parts of his body So we're obviously getting close to october it is a week away playoff baseball nothing like it

What you know in terms of a team, how does it how does the energy and the feel of a team? It's like switch as soon as you get to october our guys just more focused or do you go with the more relaxed? Like trying to loosen everyone up so people don't get tense. How does the team approach october differently than uh, I mean the Six months of the season is that's a good question. You know, once you know, you're gonna be in it your your your mindset It's it's like, you know flipping a switch. It's just like, okay, uh It's a teamwork. I mean, it's always the teamwork but during the regular season You want to make sure that you bring something to the table personally

Every day, you know, people always talk about Being selfish uh Playing the game I don't mind if you so if you're selfish the longest you bring something to the table every day. You know what I'm saying so But once you walk into the playoff, it's a teamwork, you know, everybody needs to be in the same page Because it's a short series And and you want to take advantage of everything that is going on if you got man In the scoring position, you want to make sure the guy score

If you're a pitcher and you're facing a guy in a tough situation, you want to make sure you get the guy out If you're playing defense, you want to make sure you execute every play, you know I'm saying so because everything happens so quick and it's so short and all of a sudden if you don't execute the right way You can be at home or anytime. It doesn't matter if you win a hundred and fifty game How would you stay focused though not playing in the field? I always wondered that with dh's It's got to be tough for a playoff game where you know, you you know For at best five five at bats in a game to stay focused in in between those at bats How do you do that? Well, the thing is that in my case being one of the uh

Older And on the club and being one of the has been the longest in there the guy I was always My my job besides hitting was Feeding the guys back with information about what's going on on the field. So It wasn't really the time off for me. You know, I always Here come padroia. Here come mukibay. Here comes bogar. He they want to know what's going on What the guy's throwing, you know, I mean The idea this is the right way, you know, I mean, it's so much going on during the game that there's no way you can be

Unplugged at any time. We're so in other words, you were the guy with the apple watch that was cynic signals I gotta get myself one of those A lot of information going to this watch. I mean, this one is nothing but ice and the timing. Yeah, you don't even look at that one for time That's just for ice. You're just blinging on people. You're looking at your phone for time My time is always wrong in my watching Over the course of the regular season, would you like going out for batting practice every day? Would you uh Were there ever any coaches that you knew were watching like from afar and like keeping stats on

You know where you were putting the ball in batting practice or was that just strictly a time? Where it was like you could go out there and work on whatever you wanted. Yeah, that's that's exactly how it worked, you know, like uh The coaches they kind of like Get on the mix whenever you're doing something wrong Whenever you you are in the slum they want to watch what you're doing And then here comes the tv time where you you you compare what you're doing in batting practice

Uh with what you're doing during the game and then the mechanical part of it. That's when the coaches get in the mix, right other than that To me in batting practice the experience Uh play a big role because I want to go out there and consistently every day Do what I know that I need to do to cover the whole you know from pole to pole The whole field, you know, so I I that was something that I used to work on every day And then you have a guy like mookie bae coming into the league sitting down watching they learn Bogard watching they learn and that's why those guys are so good because Baseball is something that you had to be on it

24-7 you can just sit down and And let you let yourself get kind of sleeping, you know, I mean there's competition There are people that they are Waiting to get that that opportunity to to earn that position So you got to work hard every day Who is your uh favorite person in the media? In the media. Yeah while you're playing. Um, I gotta say, uh My favorite media besides you guys

Uh You have to be uh, what's my man name the afro? Uh, uh Densha, Densha, yeah, you like then hell no But by the way, I was fine with the media, you know, like like, you know how the media isn't boss You know, like you go back and forth. I know that the media is always trying to do their job Uh, um, it was so much negativity Once I get there, but once we start winning

Things start changing, you know, it the attacking was different Uh, but the media, we had to say something to make things interesting, you know what I'm saying? So if you understand that you you you you'll be fine. You got a job to do. We got a job You got a job, but we got a job By the way, calling saying that Densha has an afro is probably the highest compliment he's ever seen. I know He's gonna just sit down and like beat off to that for a month Uh, so there hasn't been a team to repeat in baseball in a really long time And you obviously were part of three world series teams. Obviously never repeated

What's the what when you're trying to get when you're back in the playoffs after winning a world series And you're trying to repeat and you're trying to defend your crown Is there what what goes into that and why did you guys fall short? Like is there a feeling of okay? Well, we already won one so maybe not as much urgency going into it because I find it interesting It hasn't happened in baseball in a while Actually, you know what you get caught into so many things once you win That is so hard to repeat for example

You know once you win a world series everybody won a piece of you And for you to prepare for the following season You don't have that much time because Everything that is going on. I mean you see a team that win the world series right now You see a group of them in LA doing tv. You see a group of them Somewhere else. I mean it's there's so much going on way But I wouldn't I wouldn't say that that is the the the one thing that That gets you off doing the following season. I think

The competition started paying more attention To what you guys to what the team did the year the the the previous year, you know, so And then they start attacking those those part of those aspects of the game The way you you don't get to be able to execute the the same way you did the year before the previous year So there's there's there's once you win the world series The rest of the of the league start paying more attention To why you won the world series, right? That's the way I I can describe it That's why the washington nationals never do it because we don't want that target on our backs

Yeah, we want to pull off season to prepare which is smart. Where do you think price harbors is going to go? I would say You're probably gonna go to an american league team Interesting. So pinstripes, boston. Uh, no, I think we we we are stuck in boston. We good. Hope fielder, you know saying and You know, you don't think his dog's name is wriggly And his other dog's name is finway Well, you know what? I uh, uh, be honest with you. I think philadelphia I've actually heard that. Yeah, that's the dark horse philadelphia is trying to win a world series the next few years

They got pinstripes too. Yeah. Oh, yeah, you're right. So it's just he wants to get those stripes Although that season the philly season is actually interesting because they were kind of they were obviously in the east the nl East for a very long time this year They were an upstart team to kind of put it together They've been doing a rebuilding thing and then the last like week and a half they've just kind of fallen off the face of the earth How does that happen where a team can just essentially die at the finish line? well, remember They I don't think everybody was expecting them to do that. Well, yeah

But then they have a manager, which is my boy Uh gay cabler. Yeah gay cabler is one of the Unique person in baseball that I can tell you the guy is straighter than in an arrow, you know, like this guy He wants things to be perfect and I think that's was one of the reasons why Uh, this team did so well First half of the season, but remember In the second half of the season Experience play a big role because guys start getting tired, you know, there's a lot of games too much traveling

so The second half you have to approach the season different than the different than the first half of the season So if you look at the the Philadelphia team Everybody pretty much is very young. So Uh, there's not much of experience But I would say that This year gonna carry over in the following years Plus with the help of gay cabler for them to

stack up and Have different seasons and years to come. Okay. Obviously, you know, you still get that paycheck from the red socks So you have to say that they're gonna win the world series, right? Without a doubt. Yeah smart Smart business decision. Those jackets don't pay for themselves. You know what I'm saying. Yeah But if you had to say what the weakness on the red socks is this postseason, what would it be? No, poppy. Uh, I'm a little concerned to be honest with you about Uh, the middle reliever. Mm-hmm. You know, um, I think

We need to uh approach, uh The opposition better when it comes down to it starting rotation To me it's better than what he had ever been Um Sell look good. I mean when you have selling amount, you know, it's sometimes a guarantee win, but Once sell get out of the game In the six or seven

those Eating and a half I want to make sure that we are covered until we get to uh, my man the closer. So Okay That part of the game is the only thing that concerned me a little bit but other than that, I think We're ready to attack. Okay. So you obviously will if I asked you for your world series pick you'd say the red socks Give me a backup. So you said the red socks. Give me the backup Um Houston

Okay, even though the repeat thing. Yeah, yeah, Houston. Houston. It's looking good. Houston have a little bit of struggle during the uh um regular season with some injuries by They have everybody Already playing now. So and they're in the playoffs. So you gotta don't forget about them. They yankees to be honest with you They have the big boy back. Yeah Uh, and you know, they're a different monster when they have the big boy. They don't pitch him though

Can you say yankees like six times? It's always awesome Yeah We absolutely have to sample that and put it in a song Yeah, I love it when you say But the way we play the way the way we play against the yankees this year. So I I'm not I'm not really Uh, worry about it. Plus the yankees. They can't hear cell. Yeah, that's true. Yeah Are you ever worried about the fact that so full disclosure? I don't know if I've ever told you this but I work for a rod Uh, I'm part of a rod corp. Okay. Are you ever worried that he's better? He was a better player and better

Uh, broadcaster than you Uh, no Well, I disagree as an employee of a rod corp. I disagree. You better say that Yeah, yeah, I know where my bread is buttered man. Yeah, big catch. Come on Baggy sweatshirts aren't free, you know, it's like me talking trash about the rest of you Yeah, you can't do it. Exactly. We're just sitting here and just staring at each other. I understand you I got you back. No, I do love though. You got you and a rider are great together. Yeah He's very professional

You know on the set and he do his homework man. I tell you I Me personally I can tell you that I had learned Uh, a little bit from him Uh, he do his homework. He want to be right on you know what I'm saying and he's very professional. Yeah. Yeah Um, have you ever pitched in a game? No Would you ever want to? Uh, and the minor league think I do want. Oh, yeah. Yeah What's in your arsenal? What kind of pitches you throw? I got slider

changea and changea plus Can you throw a curveball? Oh, yeah, I got a 12 6 brother Knee buckler Right at you coming back to the toes I like that a lot Do we ever ask you who the hardest or the toughest pitcher you ever faced was we did Pedro. Yeah, that's why I joined him They all tough man, they all give you a hard time I mean, basically it's like going back and for my museum

Yeah, give me a hard time at the beginning of my career How would you prepare for a guy like that? How like if a guy's getting you out So say you're going into October and you know, you're facing a team where the pitcher has given you trouble all year How do you do you change everything you do? You say I'm going to trust what I do because it's you know regression the mean all the baseball the nerds, you know You know with the nerds, uh, they all say that so but how like how do you approach it? Well, like I go to the videos Videos are like the best thing that I ever happened to sport

You know I'm saying you you go out there and you see you get ideas because sometimes it's hard to retain Pitch by pitch how the guy approached you But once you go to the video and you see the percentage of pitches That the guy had throw you and then now you start making up your mind, you know, like my museum and he have a three different angle breaking ball, so Um At the beginning for me and then he got the good fastball at the time he was throwing 95 So I was a fastball hitter

So I want to approach the fastball, but He noticed that and then he want to give me the fastball when I wasn't expecting it Right So at one point man, he pulled me to the side. He was like, why don't you sit and want to give you? And I'm like, what are you talking about? You want me to forget about my fastball? No, show him that you can hit a breaking ball and then he will give you the fastball and money used to hit really well of my museum and and and And I approached and I started having better results

But it's one guy that even into the last day of my career now, I remember He Have such a great stuff And to me he had one of the best slider coming from a left hander Pitcher, which is my boy Zizi. She's Sebastian. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think cc is is He had one of the best slider from a lefty against a lefty. Yeah, you know and and uh, cc was was I mean, he was right on even to the last day

I play cc cc was was was a hard guy to hit Okay, uh, we're gonna wrap it up because I think you have another interview you got to do Uh, you're doing it with Jared. You know, Jared Crabis. Obviously the diehard redsox fan thing. Oh, yeah Can you just do one thing though? So I beat you in the home run derby five years ago We did it again this summer. I beat Jared. So I kept my crown. So make sure you give him a little shit for that Well, yeah, I got him. Yeah I I actually should take a picture with you and Jared and just be like look at all look at all the guys I beat my b8th Yes, exactly. Exactly. Exactly. Big poppy. Thanks so much. I mean with the way this goes. We'll probably see you in two months

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They went for it. They didn't get it The Texans turned around got one first down and kicked a field goal and won the game Afterwards Frank Reich said I don't play for fucking ties. I play to win the game. I don't know if that's a exact quote But let's just say it is Do you think that that is smart or he's just being a Kind of like a football hardo. I well the answer is no it's not smart But in a way it's very smart because it's pure football It's like, you know the riddle of Solomon. Are you familiar with that? Yes

So they're saying well, you could we we're going to take this win And we're going to cut it in half and give half of it to each team And then Frank Reich's like no fuck that. I would rather him have the win Yes, and have the win go to somebody then see it destroyed and divided. So really yes It is a very very football guy thing to do. I I actually I mean, it's so dumb because he did just hand the game over and I think I would understand it more if There was like, I don't know In the moment I was like, this is so stupid. You're you're just handing the game over and that's exactly how it played out

But I do kind of understand the thought process of I don't really want to tie in our record because then it screws up the math And I'm not a big math guy. So let's just keep it clean here. Like there's got to be a winner and a loser Yeah, if we tie it's going to take me like 20 minutes to explain to Jim or say what a tie is And then I'm going to have to remind him every week that we have that one thing in the tie column Like you don't forget about that tie Jim. Like when he's trying to add up, okay So we have eight wins. That means we have eight losses. Nope That's high jim after week 17 or say would be like, well, we got one last game coming up Right, like no, dude. No, we're nine. We're six and nine, but there's a one at the end. So

I also have a little stay woke here I that line if you watched it it bounced around so many times from As much as like Texans minus one and a half to Texans plus one and a half I feel like that was Someone someone got a huge middle and bet both sides Although now that i'm saying it doesn't even work because the tie would have won that so what I just said Makes no strike it from the record strike it all from the record book. You can keep it in Hank But what I just said, that's my back. It's a backyard of me

That is your back talk. You're in the black back. That was back talk with big cat Well, one thing that we do know is that the rivalry is back on that's That was like the moment remember when I remember I when I used when I was getting a little too high A couple years ago and I thought st. Mary's was shaving points Yeah, and I stayed up till like two in the morning trying to uncover a big big conspiracy. Yeah, you were watching That was kind of what happened with the Colts thing. I was sitting here like oh, fuck someone's really getting Someone's double dipping here. You were watching like high school basketball film of australian gas and comparing their shot selection technique Listen, yeah, well the only reason they stopped was because they knew I was on to him

Well, listen, you know what? It's like that movie conspiracy theory with mel Gibson He had you know a million of them and he was right about one of them, right? So you you got to look into it. Yeah, you got to keep casting your nets out there unless you're not going to get anybody Yes, um, but yeah the the Colts I don't know. They're on a short week this week They got to be just like you have to lose faith in your coach after a decision like that, right? Yes, I think that he tried to take the football hard-o stance afterwards

Um, but in real time he was just being complete more on that's not he was how he was thinking He was like I just want to be like aggressive and go for it right here Right, um, he really there's no chance he could have thought that through because if you have if you have a play like that That's going to swing the game one way or another at least make it a creative play call Well, this was like the stupidest play call. That's a great segue because James Franklin had Somehow the worst play call off of two timeouts that I've ever seen The Ohio State Penn State game, which was awesome to watch End of the game fourth and five needs it to keep the game alive. He's got three timeouts

He uses two of them to decide what to call Yeah, and then calls a handoff in that Went nowhere and then afterwards is like well, we saw something with their defense. We thought there'd be a crease there I still don't understand how that guy can get away with it Well, if you see something in their defense and then you call two consecutive timeouts I'm not a football coach. Let me practice if I'm saying this Yes, but something's probably going to change in their defense over the course of those two timeouts that I spent Yes, right

And it's he was just he was trying to hit pause on the other team's defense and then change the play And it's something about urban wire just makes the other coach just coach the worst game of their life It's fucking infuriating. Yeah. Yeah, because you're you're afraid that you're going to kill them if you beat them Yeah, lay that guilt trip on him for he's going to walk over and delete all your text messages Even though he doesn't know how to he does not know how to guys Uh, we have a pr 101 for the u.s. They suck rider cup. What a what a what a waste of a tournament What a waste of a fun time. You know what stink and the games are the the matches my bad. Yeah on at 2 30 in the morning Yeah, something about golf in france doesn't sit well with me either. Yeah, I agree

Golf in france is not a golf country tiger woods 0 for 4 in his matches Uh, did you see what's his name? That's not fair play though. They they put it in france on purpose So that no he's still they knew that tiger woods would go over there And he'd see all the women none of which are wearing braziers. Yeah, and just get really really distracted by everything So it was all match play So, you know, if you're up three if you're up three holes or four holes going down the stretch if you get to You know hole 16 the game's over They they asked francisco molinari, uh, what he thought about 17 and 18 the holes

And he's like, I don't know. I think I might have played that in a practice round on tuesday That's the biggest flex of all time. That's awesome. Good for him. Yep. So and patrick reed Listen patrick reed did the whole kogan ear to the booing fans before the tournament started when you do that You better fucking back it up. No, now i'm disgusted. I'll probably never watch golf until the master No, no, that was misconstrued. Well, somebody was playing imagine dragons on a speaker Way off in the distance and he was actually trying to hear it He was trying to get his jam onto lightning and the thunder and the thunder and the lightning and the thunder But this is it. This is it. Um, I am boycotting golf except for filvers tiger

I'm putting the dung chain on golf except for filvers tiger and then the masters. Yeah, are there any other golf tournaments coming up though? I don't think so. Yeah, there aren't so yeah This is like saying i'm going to boycott watching football uh from tuesday until thursday morning Yes, except when maxions and maxions people so wednesday. I'm not going to watch any football on wednesday. Yeah, except for the all 22 Sometimes uh when game pass gets loaded up on time. Uh, okay. We have a bad visual for jimbo fisher Uh, he grabbed he face masked one of his players. Yeah, and the internet got very upset including one guy Uh, chris long said that this is unacceptable and then someone said sounds like he never played football chris long, which was such a fantastic

Uh, this is this is one of those things where uh, everybody that didn't really play football says If you actually played football, you're you would know that coach does that to you every single practice Right, and it's like no, no, no, it doesn't really happen like that. Isn't it kind of like what the baler guy did? Yeah, but you know, it's different the baler a headbutt is affection. It's a symbol of affection It's like a it's like a eskimo kiss. Yeah, Hank football You ever you ever play with a cat before when they bump their head into you It's their way of saying I love you when they scratch you with their claws It's sort of saying. Oh, yeah, I'm a cat. I'm an asshole and I don't love anybody

Nothing's gonna happen to him though. No, I mean, it's it's this is texas. Yeah. Yeah, it's texas. Listen jimbo That's probably why he took the job. He's like, I'm gonna go to texas and I can do even more fucked up shit with my players Yes, exactly. I can lock them into a concussion room. That's just a two by two shed Saber metrics Sam Bradford He is losing 300 thousand dollars per game now thoughts and prayers because the Cardinals are making him the third string quarterback Which means that we're one step closer to getting Mike Lennon in the game Which is that's a big positive right there. Oh, I can't believe we didn't mention this already We'll get back to Sam in a second the brocketship made an appearance. Yes. What do you what do you do by the way?

Nothing just a lot of tweets. Yeah, absolutely Talking about the branch. Uh, but yeah with Sam Bradford. I that's a that's a that's a bargain I would pay Sam Bradford 300 thousand dollars to not play. Yeah, and he's doing it for free The only thing is they do they have to can we call their bluff? Like if Josh Rosen gets hurt They have to put in Mike Lennon, right? Yes. Absolutely. Wow Is that how it works with the quarterback? Yeah. Yeah. Well, he's the emergency quarterback. So he's not active So they would be Oh, that's too bad about Sam Bradford. He's a lot of money real shame

I hope he can figure out how to feed his family again. Yeah, but I like I'm saying this is them stashing him as trade bait Yes, uh, all right. So last up we have done or finished me So we're taping this in my apartment. Uh, I have not been able to move for two days now Do you think I should hang it up? Well, first of all, can you run us through the uh play by play of the injury? Yes, happened. So I've done this injury before it was like eight years ago It's a but it's the technical injury is a bulging disc. Yeah, it's a Steve Levy special We've got to be careful how you say that So essentially what happens is, you know, like you're I don't know the fucking jelly in between your vertebrae bulges out

Hits a nerve Your whole body just shuts down like I I went Played basketball got home And I stood outside of my apartment for 20 minutes trying to muster up the strength to walk in because my whole body was locked down Yeah, so real quick. I got pushed in the back going for a rebound It hurt a little bit. I said, oh no, I'm good because I'm fucking tough, you know, like whatever. Everyone thinks I'm tough I'm tough. Whatever. Yeah, so I got pushed in the back and then the next game I went for a loose ball because I hustle so I'm tough and I hustle and then my whole body locked up and I was fucked

Yeah Hey, Stella and there's Stella and Stella's making her parents over climbing on top of me. Yes Um, she's an alpha by the way. Oh big the first thing that Stella did when I got in this apartment She just walked over to me on the couch and just sat directly on my lap and was like, this is my seat Yeah, she gave me a lap dance No, so thoughts and prayers to you this is one of those, you know, once you get your first back injury That's the first sign of being an old man. Right. Um, what the kids are done though The kids are saying washed. I you might not be done. You might not be finished, but you might be washed

Right, but am I done? Am I hanging them up? Do I get do I should I stop playing basketball? I think forever. No, I I think you were doing the right thing. You were hustling. Yes, you were hustling You were cleaning the glass. So but this becomes a question like is playing is getting a possible injury worth playing Correct. So I haven't had this injury. That's good. Last. That's why I hold out from playing basketball In hopes of a big future contract the last time I had this injury was eight years ago And it was because a dead list when I was actually working out and doing crossfit and that pain There was a lot of things that came into play, but that pain was part of the I'm never working out again pain

And now I'm back at it. So now I think I just need to I think I'm going to become one of those guys who just drink smoothies and does yoga And just be like my core man card just man card But I mean it's better than this pain pilates like I actually think that I mean my abs Are a disaster not news to anyone Uh, and I think I probably had a part in to to do with this back pain Yeah, it might but listen big cat. Don't sell yourself short like it's important to remain physically active throughout your 30s Otherwise when you get to 40, you're gonna have a lot of gray hair and you're gonna look super old

And you're just gonna be bad look city for you. Yeah, so you got rid of the gray hair, but then you got a back injury So are you more are you more or less washed? Then you were a week ago today water always finds this level Yes, you are back where you started from. Uh, so yeah, I hopefully Hopefully Tuesday show we'll be back in the studio. I went from Saturday not being able to move To sunday being able to sit up. So I'm hoping by Tuesday I'll be able to walk. There you go That's more active than Brock Oswell has been on sunday for a while worse than dog bite Way worse. No worse than a foot injury. He wouldn't know he wouldn't know way worse. Yeah There's nothing worse than a back injury except foot injury your whole body except a foot injury my home my legs are numb

My arms are numb My nose is running. So in other words, you have you're not even sick, but you sound sick You have you have the stranger on both hands. Yeah, so your masturbation life is about to get a lot nicer Yeah, all right. We'll see you guys tuesday wednesday. Love you guys Oh Wait It's part of my take presented by bar stool sports