Pardon My Take - Nats Win WS, UFC W/Jon Anik, Dean Blandino And Week 9 Picks

Episode Date: November 1, 2019

The Washington Nationals are your 2019 World Series Champions. Recapping Game 7, Gerrit Cole being team Boras, Strasburg getting paid, and Anthony Rendon playing out of his damn mind. (2:35-15:02) NFL Week 9 preview and Big Cat's can't lose ML Parlay. (15:03-32:53) Fantasy Fuccbois. (32:54-35:57) UFC's Jon Anik joins the show to preview UFC 241 and what its like to call a fight at the Mecca (MSG). (37:24-49:29) Dean Blandino joins the show to fix NFL officiating and talk Jerry Jones party bus. (52:11-1:07:36) Fyre Fest of the week, (1:08:45-1:12:46) THIS LEAGUE recapping all the drama in the NBA this week, (1:12:47-1:18:17) Big Cat teaches Bubba what he needs to know before his first Grateful Dead concert and exit interview for PMT Sports Biz intern Jake. (1:18:18-1:31:40) You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/PardonMyTake

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you get $5 for free, $5 to the ASPCA. Today is Friday, November 1st and the Washington Nationals are your World Series Champions PFT. Feels great, feels great to be World Series Champion. Team of Destiny. Team of Destiny and we did it together, right? I did it for the National League, for your Cubs,

that was part of it, for the city of Montreal. Yes, for our futures. An international championship, for our futures. I always hit futures when PFTs' teams win. It's good juju. And so we worked as a team, we won as a team, the first ever Cuck Sweep in the history of American sports, four games, one on the road

in the other man's stadium. The Cuck Sweep has occurred, it was electric. I would like to see a banner be hung up in Minute Maid Park for the Washington Nationals. I would like a ring ceremony to be in the first game that we play in Houston. That's our house now, we own it. It's weird because this World Series

will be remembered as very odd because it's never happened before, that the home, the road team won every single game. And the fact that like it was never, none of the games were really close, but there was drama. So it was very odd World Series, but the Nationals, like credit to them, they were unbelievable all post-season.

We talked about this a week ago, but going back to the error in right field for the Brewers, like how they were able to, they did it both ways. They survived defeat in insane ways. They dominated the Cardinals, they came back on Kershaw, they went on the road in game seven against the Astros. So like, they essentially, if you took the DVD, they hit like everything.

There were two, where do we start the DVD? Where do we start that? When they were 19 and 31. 19 and 31 probably, that's where it begins. I need to say thank you because the Nationals have directly turned around the Bears season. Matt Nagy put a PowerPoint out there showing the Nationals today.

Okay, yes, you're welcome, that's good. He is insane. Matt Nagy is so insane. He fucking did a fucking PowerPoint. He's really good at spin zone stuff. Go ahead, go ahead. I just want to say thank you. You're welcome, do your pod.

Right after the game was over. Fights, the first thing he said was, you know what? It really speaks to Boston sports dominance to the fact that since DC has won two titles in the last year, no one's even thinking about calling them title town. It hasn't even occurred. Fact check, they won three.

Oh, the missed excuse me, three titles, in his mind that's still Boston. I think it probably still is, but you guys get title town. We are the district of champions in DC. That's pretty cool saying. That's what DC stands for. Pretty cool way to say it.

I like that too. So yeah, it was very cool seeing them win that game. I thought they were out of it. I thought that they were going to leave Grinkey in, which they probably should have done. They took Grinkey out after 81 pitches. I was one hit and a walk and they said, you're out. Okay, so I was actually okay with pulling Zach Grinkey

just because in a game seven, a home run and a walk does feel like, like the wheels are falling off because it's so tense. And you do have to have a shorter leash in game seven. The fact they didn't go to Garrett Cole's insane. Well, they had Garrett Cole warm up and then sit down where it looked like they were playing a prank on Garrett Cole.

If you pull Zach Grinkey, you put in Garrett Cole. If you pull Zach Grinkey and you put in whoever the hell they put in, I think Smith or something. Yeah, Smith, the guy that looked like he sells head units at Best Buy. Did not have the face for a world series game seven, but that is where I like,

you can't lose a game seven and have your best player not play. You just can't. And Garrett Cole after, shout out to him because we've never seen someone divorce a team faster. He went into the locker room, took a shower, got in front of the media, put on his Scott Boris hat. Literally was wearing the Boris hat afterwards.

I like that. He is Scott Boris's favorite client. He said, I'm not an employee of the team. I guess as a representative of them myself and then talked about the game. He's going to make so much money, so much money. It'll be interesting to see what happens to these nationals too, because you've got Rendon that wants a lot of money

and he, he earned it. Okay. Even his performance in the post season. We have to mention the crazy stat ever. So they put this up and now he had to fly out after they put it up because that's just how Jinx's work. But Anthony Rendon in the playoffs, in elimination games after the seventh inning,

his epats went walk, home run, double, double, home run, double, home run. Insane. That's so ridiculous. It's insane. I actually think he would make more money. I think he turned down 220 million or something like that from the nationals, but they do the thing

that the, that the Mets did with Bobby Bonilla with all their contracts where they give you deferred payments until like 2060 when we're probably not even going to have a contract anymore. Yup. So he is probably looking down the barrel of like 250, $260 million payday right now. It's going to be crazy.

The nationals probably won't be able to resign him. I think he should trim the beard a little bit. Don't shave the beard Rendon. Okay. But the fact that it, it's kind of scraggly. It hangs off a little bit. Makes you look older. It makes you look slower.

Tighten it up. Fair point. If I'm Scott Boris, you have to pay attention to these small things. You have a binder filled with stats, maybe just a binder filled with some headshots and just encourage them to clean it up a little bit. Look at this guy.

Yeah. Steven Strasberg, if we're talking about contracts, he's going to opt out and make so much money because he was incredible in this post season. He has four years, $100 million left on his contract. In 2023, he will get paid $45 million and he's still going to opt out. Jesus Christ.

That's crazy. Future Yankee. Yeah. Everyone's getting their pinstripes. Yeah. They're going to buy all the pinstripes. Garrett Cole and Steven Strasberg. Yeah.

No, he's going to, he's going to get paid for sure. He's out, but you have to ask, did the Strasberg shutdown work in 2012? It did. It was one of those things where you never know. Maybe if they didn't shut him down, he hurts his, his elbow that season. Instead of a little bit later,

you never know what's going to happen with the comeback. I'm going to say they did the right call on the Strasberg shutdown. I'd agree. They won it. They won it. Flags fly forever. That's right.

Absolutely correct. And it was a fun team. It was an impossible team to root for. I'm still trying to think whether or not I'm going to go down to the parade because mostly the, the only reason I'm thinking about not going down to the parade is because I'm scared of having a hangover on Sunday.

Yeah. That's the only reason. That's fair. That's a fair thing to be worried about. When you're 34 years old, that's terrifying. Yes. That's the pre hangover is the worst. I'm already hungover thinking about it.

Right. I don't want to do this because it's a little mean, but I think it's one of those sports things that you got at least mentioned. The Detroit Tigers, the 2014 Detroit Tigers, they had Justin Verlander, David Price, Rick Porcelo, Max Scherzer, and Anibal Sanchez. They're probably glad they got rid of Verlander though.

They got swept by the Baltimore Orioles in the playoffs. Since then, all five of those guys have won a World Series. That's rough. That's like on different teams all too. Yeah. That's like looking at like the early 2000s Miami Hurricanes and being like, holy shit, look at all these guys, how they ever lose any games.

Like that's an insane staff and they got swept by the Orioles and then they all have titles not five years later. Yeah. Too bad for them. I'm sorry, Detroit. I didn't mean to do that. That was a hallfamer.

I'm going to defend you in a little bit because I think that the Lions are making the playoffs this year. I still think that. Maybe. They're going to be the team that you don't want to see. That's a maybe. At the end of the year.

But yeah, that sucks for them. It's good for the city of Washington, DC. It was pretty cool to watch them celebrate afterwards too. You had a lot of hot mics being directed into the mouths of fuck this and fuck that and asshole and hell yeah, this kicks ass. Yes. And the reporters were like, oh my god,

why are we going live right now? There's some people that were just like smoking weed directly into the camera on a live feed. It was great. It was good to see the city celebrating. I'd like to go down there and celebrate on Saturday. We'll see if I get, if I develop some courage, if I develop a spine in the face of this impending hangover.

I got one last thing I want to talk about this. So obviously incredible run for the Nats, the 19 and 31 to win the World Series. This is the year between the Blues and the Nats. Like if you suck halfway through the year, you're okay. Does this mean that Max Scherzer is the pitcher of the decade? Let's do a decade off.

A decade off. Because everyone says Clayton Kershaw is the pitcher of the decade. Now, Max Scherzer has a World Series. He has three Cy Youngs. He has three Cy Youngs. He won Cy Youngs in both leagues, seven time All-Star, and now he's got a World Series.

I would say, yeah, I'd say pitcher of the decade. Pitcher of the decade, Max Scherzer. Bumgarner would be the only other one that you could maybe throw in there. He's a try and try to forget. He's playoff pitcher of the decade. Yeah, he is playoff pitcher of the decade. Having the World Series takes him over the top.

Yeah, Clayton Kershaw has also three Cy Youngs. So I think the World Series now takes Scherzer over the top. But Clayton Kershaw has much better acceptance videos on SportsCenter. True. Fact. Okay.

When he had the Mean Street Posse. Yeah, that's true. Grenadier, Peak Gas, and Shano, they were all just hanging out. That's true, but it's also a little bit cooler to have a pitcher with two different colored eyes be the pitcher of the decade. And the fact that he owns four dogs

with two different colored eyes makes him the coolest guy. I think he just adopted another dog too. He's obsessed with adopting dogs. I can't believe Clayton Kershaw, I'm just looking at it right now. It was only 31. By the way, if we're ranking major sports trophies in this.

Did you know you went to high school with Matt Stafford? No. Oh, really? Were they friends? Yeah. Did they play sports together? Did you know Madison Bumkarner, dated a girl named Madison Bumkarner?

Yeah. That's weird too. Yeah. Wow, wait. It's crazy, right? Stafford, and next you're going to tell me that... Here's a picture of them highlighted, but just their two faces are highlighted.

Okay, gotcha. There's something so great about all knowing the same facts. Yeah. That I know the same facts as so many people in America. Did Justin Thomas go to high school with anyone? Is that the guy who went to high school with Jordan Spieth? Help me out. Yes, sure.

Isn't there another one that they do every single time? Tommy Lee Jones and Al Gore were roommates in college. They do it with the golfers. No, Spieth and Kershaw went to high school together. No, no. No, whatever. All right, so this is dumb. Antonio Gates played tight end in college.

Well, he did. He still plays tight end. I mean, he played basketball shit. I'm trying to find him. I'm trying to find myself here. There's a picture of Spieth and Jordan. Justin Thomas. There we go.

I was right. Okay, you got it. They are the Matthew Stafford and Clayton Kershaw of golf. Lincoln's secretary is named Kennedy. Kennedy's secretary is named Lincoln. What? Holy shit. But if you were a power rank to four major sports trophies,

where does the World Series trophy stand? Fifth. Yes. Agreed. It sucks. The NBA trophy is the worst set in the World Series trophy. It sucks that things are going to break. It looks like a budget fish kebab with tiny pieces

of chicken meat on it. It's awful. Where do you rank the Lombardi? Two. Lombardi and the NBA are the exact same trophy. It's just a basketball or a football on a fucking. But it's platinum. Football is better than basketball, so it's two.

No, I agree. And it's bigger. I agree. It's Cup, Lombardi, Larry O'Brien, whatever the MLS, they probably give you a stick or something. No, because the Lombardi actually has, I'm pretty sure, an accurately sized football on top.

The Larry O'Brien looks like the feeble one. They had a real basketball-sized basketball. I think it might be. No, no way. I think in the NBA trophy. I think they're both a little bit smaller. I think the Lombardi is definitely smaller than real football.

Either way, it's the worst. It looks like the World Series trophy was built just to break it. It looks like something that when you put it in your house, you're like, ooh, don't go near there. I bet you they have it insured like a motherfucker. I bet you that's the reason why they design it like that, so they can keep getting it repaired.

Yes. Makes the money. And it's also, you can't drink out of it. You can't hold it with one hand. The nationals tried to drink out of it. Really? Yeah, it didn't work. It didn't work.

Sean Doolittle thought it was just like a bunch of lightsabers. He was like, that'd be cool if we tried to drink out of it. All right, so that is the World Series. That is baseball. Congrats again to PFT. Thank you. I'm glad I don't have to do Saugui Soros.

Yeah, although we had something very funny planned that we will, whoever has Saugui Soros next, this is you. I'm the only one who's, PFT's the only one who hasn't done Saugui Soros. I mean, looking into the future, it's most likely that Hank would have to do Saugui Soros next because if the Patriots were to lose in the playoffs. Hank is still upset about the time

that he had to do Saugui Soros because the Celtics lost a random Sunday afternoon game to LeBron. Nope, that's not why I'm saying that the standard of Saugui Soros was set and then you guys have failed to meet that. Correct, gave off Saugui Vibes that afternoon, Hank. It was a prank. Got it. It's called a prank.

You fell for it. All right, let's do some NFL week nine previews. By the way, if you want to watch us, if you want to watch PFT and all his glory smiling year to year, go to barcelgold.com slash PMT, barcelgold.com slash PMT. We also, I also had to mention PFT Seeky question. Promo code, take $10. Are you excited for the NFL?

I'm very excited for the NFL. I thought you were going to ask, should the Washington Nationals put up a statue of that fat guy that tore off his shirt and did the slip and slide across the dugout? That was my question. They need to dip that guy in bronze. I'm sure he'd be willing to sacrifice his own life for it. Dip him in bronze and just put him on top of that dugout for

all eternity. All respect in the world, because when you go to rip off your shirt, if you don't get it right away, the moment is gone. It was the smoothest tear of the shirt. I'm sorry for using the F word or the chunk boy, our chunk legend. He was just, he was a large man. Okay. I listen, I respect him.

I think his shirt had been stress test for many years. So it was easy to rip, but either way, he's the new trophy. I just think if you buy a shirt, if you buy a shirt that big, it comes ready to rip because they just know you'll have to maybe extricate yourself from it at some point. Yeah, working. All right. Let's do some NFL week nine preview.

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So we have the PMT's. Hank has the Ravens plus nine and a half. PFT, Seahawks minus a half. I have the Lions plus eight and a half. Those all have to win. Guaranteed to win. Guaranteed to win. Let's start with, well, let's start with this.

Are we worried about Baker Mayfield? I'm not worried. I have long said that Baker Mayfield plays better when people think that he sucks. And he's done a very good job of making, he's tricking everybody into thinking that he sucks right now. Okay. And so he's getting all that hate coming at him.

He lashed out a little bit at a reporter in Cleveland this week, but I just want to say there should be an asterisk on that guy's name reporter because that guy is actually not a reporter because he said that he would retire from reporting if Baker Mayfield was taken number one overall by the Browns two years ago. Tony grassy Tony grassy. Yeah.

So technically that guy is not even a reporter anymore. Baker Mayfield lashed out at no one. Okay. Perfect. So that's, that's a great spin zone. I like that. Um, in all honesty, like I understand that Baker is, uh, well, maybe lashing out a little bit.

It's never a good look to go at the media like that. I'd be a hypocrite to say it. And Matt Nagy's been an idiot with the media. If Baker does that, he doesn't look great, but Baker is a passionate guy. And if you like his passion when he's winning, you can't accuse him of like you can't, you can't criticize his passion when he's losing.

Yeah. He's, he has these moments like once a month, once every four weeks, he gets, he's, he's like on his period. He's got PM, he's PMSing this week. He was a little bit bloated. He's fine right now. Uh, I think what does PMS stand for? Pre minstrel post metaposal syndrome, pre minstrel, which

is way more potent than minstrel syndrome. Mm hmm. Uh, you don't want that. No, you do not want that. Once you start bleeding out of various holes, shout out all the chicks. Shout out chicks. You're way tougher than us. Although I did get bit by a dog.

Yeah. Once on my dick blood. So that's kind of the same thing. I haven't peed in blood yet on the right. You're basically minstrating. Yeah. I actually peed a little blood last Saturday after I played basketball, but I think it's cause I went so hard in the paint.

I peed dark brown the other day. Yep. During squattober, gave myself rhabdo. So again, I minstrated. So we're basically the same. So all right. So Baker, we're not worried solidarity with Baker. We are also minstrating.

I think the Browns are going to win this week. I really do. And I think I think they're going to change the narrative their season. We actually went through the schedule on Monday's show. The Browns have a path. If they can win the games, they're supposed to win. It will basically come down to playing the Ravens and the Steelers twice and they can get into the playoffs at nine and seven in the AFC.

So the season is not over and I think it starts. The rebound starts this week for Baker. So I'm not jumping off the ship with Baker. I think it's good. I think it's going to get better before it gets worse. They're also playing Brandon Allen, who is the Broncos quarterback that's never played. They don't have anybody in the NFL that's ever played a snap.

Are they anybody on their team that's ever played a snap in the NFL? And he's also Alan's are back. He's the third Allen that's going to be starting at quarterback this weekend. Kyle, Josh, Brandon, so Allen's would come up as the mats are in decline. OK, Allen's. I wish one of them spelled it like a l a n. That'd be funny. That's a lot better.

Yeah, that would be very funny. All right. So we have a true London game early Texans Jaguars. Wait. And wait, are we setting the clocks back? Yep. OK. Daylight savings. So this is the trickiest Sunday morning you will have to deal with this year.

Not only do we have an early game, you have to get your bets in. You have to check your fantasy lineups. Shout out to fantasy football powerhouse factory Hanks podcast. This is going to cause problems. Everyone stop the podcast right now. Set your alarm for Sunday morning at. Nine a.m. Easter. Nine a.m.

Or if you're half sure, you know, games at nine thirty. Yeah, is that going to feel like it's ten thirty? It's fall forward. So your clocks forward an hour this weekend on your microwave. That's really the only clock that you have anymore in your house. Oh, we get an extra hour. Yeah. Oh, so it's not as bad. No, no, no, it's not as bad, but it's also going to fuck you up in a good way,

though. Yeah, yeah. But you still fucked up with sleep. But it's also like early game fucks you up. It's just going to be there's going to be some clock issues. I wish we had a clock expert. We could call Andy Reid. If we had Andy Reid here, we could give him a ring. I think that if you're a real tough guy, this is the weekend of adversity.

This is where you have to battle through. I like to just not reset my clock in my car. I like to go all winter without resetting because the thrill that you get when it resets back and you've been on there this whole time. You feel great like you accomplished something. Also, just for anyone who wants to be like their idol, PFT, he doesn't actually own a car. So that was great advice.

I used to. I used to not own a car. I used to own a car and I would never set my clock. It's like everyone's going to be not changing their clock. Like I'm doing this. He does. Here you are. Just fucking walking and taking the subway to work. I've proven it year after year that I can make it through the winter. The long harsh winter with my clock hibernating.

Oh, everyone's late to everything. I'll tell you what, in solidarity, I will not set my clock on my microwave. There you go. This weekend. There you go. OK. So I. So we have the true London game. Texas Jaguars. I have one loser leaves town game.

I do think it's Bears Eagles because I think a loss for the Eagles is very bad and a loss for the Bears. It's it's already over, but it's really over. It's not really, really over for either team. No, I it's really, really over. I want to see. I want to see if Matt Nagy has been able to just will himself out of this fuck this week.

He is. I want to see music. Maybe he's driven himself sane. He's gone so insane that he's come out the other end and he understands how to coach a football team. Probably not. Probably not. But there's a chance that that they figured out over the course the rest of the year. My loser leaves town is Houston and Jacksonville.

Oh, OK. That's a nice. Keep the other one over there. And yeah, yeah, OK. I like that. Just leave the Jaguars on the tarmac. I like that. So we also had I have a are we sure they're good game and it's really just for and I know people are going to get mad because I've I've made my peace with Ravens fans.

But this is a big test. Ravens Patriots is a great Sunday night game. It's a rain. Are we sure they're good? I'm trying the Ravens. Yeah. If the Ravens win this game, then they are now like really, really officially off and tender. If they lose, they're back to frauds. Well, no, no, no, no, they lost the F word.

But what's right above fraud? What happens? If the Patriots lose this game, Hank, are you at least? No, OK, zero. Here's OK. So are we sure they're good for the for the Baltimore Ravens? It's an are we sure they're lucky game for the Patriots? It's always sure the Patriots are historically good game. So if they give up, like, checkers,

if the Patriots lose as a chest, not checkers game. But if the Patriots give up like 24 points, they might not be historically good anymore. One thing you can count on in this game is John Harbaugh is going to have something up his sleeve like some weird loophole that he thinks that he's exploited. Yeah, he's going to try to deploy, and he's not going to be able to do it correctly

because of like some small technicality. So he'll show Belichick what he was trying to do, but not implement it successfully. Right. Right. Give him a different look, they say. And then I have a weird shit's going to happen in this game game. The Lions going to the Raiders. I just feel like that is the weirdest. Like those the Lions uniforms, for some reason,

whenever they're on the road, it just weird shit happens. And it will be, you know, the Raiders, Lions, just two kind of weird teams and they get together. They don't do it often every four years. It's a late game. It's the four or five games. So it's going to fuck everyone up there. There's going to be something weird to happen in that game.

I agree with that. Are they going to be wearing the grays? I don't know. Whatever they're wearing, it's just it. That game they will show in red zone. They'd be like, look at this. Matt Stafford has kicked a field goal. It also sucks that they're going to have to play it on Oakland's field without the baseball diamond.

Yeah, that does make a little less weird. It's not great. Yeah, that's good. I actually had my loser or I had my are we sure they're good being Tennessee, Carolina. So that is Kyle Allen. We're not sure if Kyle Allen's decent at quarterback yet. But if they win this game, I think the Panthers

have to stay with Kyle Allen. I don't think that they're bringing Cam Newton back if he has a good game this week. OK, I actually. So before we do our picks, I have my can't lose parlay. It did not lose last week. It is one and oh in the last one. Hank ready to rip it apart because you actually are.

I do trust your brain when it comes to this because you're addicted to money lines. Bills against the Redskins. Can't lose. Dwayne Haskins is playing. Can't lose. Cannot lose. Panthers at home against the Titans. Can't lose.

I don't think they're going to lose. I do not think they can lose. What is your isn't this to go against your Mike Vrable theory, though? Yes, kind of. But also they were favorites last week in one. So the theory is gone. OK, you're not getting two games

from Ryan Tannehill in a row. Yeah, again, two, three, three, three, two games in a row that have three scores all within like 10 yard drives. And I just would like if you told me the Panthers and if you gave me the Panthers and the Titans, just tell me what happened last week. And I'll just do the opposite of that. And then my final one is Packers Chargers.

In San Diego, where there will be only Packers fans. Yep. Can that lose? No, the Panthers Titans one is a little soft. But guess what? It's two to one odds. So sometimes you got to sprinkle that one in there. Yeah. All right. So that's the can't lose. It will not lose.

Let's do some picks. Hank, why don't you start? Give us your underdog. Oh, my underdog to start. Yeah, a little hezzy. Hey, hey. You want to do down under, Hank? My down under.

Yeah, I actually will do down under because I'm going to take the Jags, gone to Minshu, DJ Chalk. Then at four net. OK, I like that. There are going to be so many Halloween costumes in London of Garden of Minshu. Does Halloween, do they do Halloween? I'm sure they do.

Yeah, it's a big pumpkin country. I thought it was just because we burned a bunch of witches way back when. No, I think they just do everything that we do and copy it now. They probably still have Thanksgiving. OK, all right. And they just, and you go up to the house

and you knock on the door and they just have like a spoon and they just spoon a bunch of beans into your bag. It is just beans and toast. Throw a couple of sausage links, blood sausage links at your face. That's Halloween in London. My underdog is going to be Detroit. Oh, I like you.

At the Raiders, Matt Stafford, MVP season. Yep. That offense is exposed. Dark horse. I like it. Very dark horse. I like it. OK, my underdog, I'm going to go with the Steelers.

I think the Steelers are still going to get back into it. I don't I don't know what to make of the cults and I just think they play close games. So I'll take the Steelers. Hank, your favorite. That's OK. But you have the T's with the Ravens. The PMT.

You're betting against yourself. The Ravens. It's a little hedge hedge situation. OK, well, it's weird because you were so confident when you picked the Ravens. And it's actually I'm so it's the Galaxy Brain Pick because the Patriots can cover and my T's can still hit. So how's that?

Well, because they move on. You don't do you even tease PFT? Like I said, I tweeted this on Friday, but like teaching anyone how to tease is the deadliest that you basically are just saying, hey, go ahead and lose every bet for three months. I thought I was going to put one in and then it was like, do you want to do an 18 teaser?

And I was like, what? I thought you could tease one game. No, two games. You have to win two. It's right. I tried to do one on Monday. I'm like, all right, I'm going to do a Monday night teaser. And then I was like, wait a second.

That's just buying six points. A tease is basically just a way to it's a drug that tricks your brain into thinking that you're good at gambling. And thinking if you can outsmart the lines. But you can. OK, now your favorite. My favorite is Buffalo. Minus nine and a half.

Easy. Easy peasy. Yeah, a little bounce back. All right, I'm going to I'm going to ride with Baker. I'm a Baker believer. I'm going to take the Browns minus four against Brandon Allen in Denver. Hank, you're do both to your under and you're over.

My over is Bear's Eagles. I don't know why, but I'm addicted to Bear's Overs. I think I just keep I'm going to continually think that Mitch is due because he is. Sure. And then my under will be Broncos Browns. OK, what is that? The pukeball 39.

39. OK, PFC. I don't hate either one of those things. Good job. My I love when we compliment each other's picks. And then we go all of them lose. OK, good pick. Oh, yeah, all one and three.

Yeah, no, we all saw Larry was a good pick. Larry was three and two. By the way, I forgot as you're doing the ad read. You're high again. You'll have to do your high picks. No, we just did the show earlier than usual. And I forgot. We did the show and Hank forgot Larry, the goldfish.

We'll treat him out again. Yes. OK. My over is going to be Minnesota, Kansas City, 47 and a half. I like that a lot. Even without Patrick. I'm in love with it. No, I think he's going to play.

I don't think so. I think he's going to play this weekend. I feel like he I feel like they're going to be smart enough to not play him. I don't think so. OK. I think they thought about playing him last week. Which would have been really dumb.

It would have been really dumb. Now it's slightly less dumb. Andy Reed has said we'll give you a week off. Now you're back. Did you see that someone did a super cut and they cut two Patrick Holmes 40 times on Sunday night? Oh, really? Yes.

Jesus. Yes. Insane. My under is Houston, Jacksonville. OK. Something about the travel over there. Doug Morone said earlier in the week. It gives you diarrhea.

Down on that. He did say that. The Bologna doesn't slap the same way over in London. They're just going to be on the shitter all night ahead of the game. So it's going to be under 46 and 1 half Houston, Jacksonville. OK. I will take the over Chargers Packers.

I think that one's going to go to a billion because I don't know how either team has the ability to stop the opponent. That's a great pick. Thank you. Thank you, Hank. 48 and 1 half. I mean, that's too low.

What's going on? An ally? Force fires? Hot weather. I forgot about the force fires. Oh, the smoke. Yeah, the smoke. We'll monitor that.

And then my under is Redskins Bills, under 37. I don't think. I think if you want to take the Redskins team total under, if it's like 10 and 1 half. Take the under. Hammer it. Take the under. Hammer it.

In the last, what, five? Dwayne Trayn hasn't got. This isn't the first time he's got first team reps. That's true. Yes, but. Changes everything. Also, season of first at all. No, they haven't.

There was a report that. The two games that he played, he didn't take first team reps the week before. There was also a report that came out that said that he's having trouble remembering the plays. So that's not a good sign. In the last five games, they've scored three touchdowns, one of which was on a gimmick play.

And the other two, I think, were against the Dolphins. So technically, really only one touchdown in the last five games. OK, so yeah, all right. So yeah, that under is going to hit for sure. Let's do it. Let's do fancy fuckboys. And we'll get to John Anick and Dean Blandino.

What's up, boys? It's Mario Magazo. Mario. Mario. Princess. Luigi's mansion. My stardom is candy corn. People think it's just a fucking Halloween festival season,

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Get it. Keep those balls high and dry. Get it. My sleeper is Randall Cobb. Cobb salad. He's still available in a lot of leagues if you can pick him up. You want some action Monday night when you still, you know,

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Let's get to our interviews. First up, we have who are we doing first? John Anik. Let's do John Anik first. And then we will have Dean Blantino after that before we get to John Anik. Well, we're through week eight and the season is flying by. Not sure if we've determined that we're

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How excited are you to be in the Mecca on Saturday night? Well, I'm a Boston, Massachusetts guy, so there's always some enthusiasm that's curbed a little bit for me when it comes to New York City. But of course, it's the Mecca. It's Madison Square Garden. And at least as far as fight sports are concerned, this building is synonymous with winning and a lot of history.

And obviously with this BMF title fight, we're making more history on Saturday night. I'm bummed you guys aren't going to be in the building, but maybe we can change that here in the next 48 hours. Have you called a fight at MSG before? Yes, a few times. And it's very special for sure. I mean, logistically, obviously, there

are some things that the venue leads to be desired compared to like Barclay Center. But no, it's great. You feel that history the minute you walk in, even if there aren't a bunch of banners hanging over your head. Can you explain to me real quick what happened in this last week with Nate Diaz? Because it seemed like it was off and it was on.

It was off again. Then it maybe was back on. Now it's on again. Can you walk us through the ups and downs of what happened? I'll try to do it pretty quickly. But basically, there was some flag from USADA. And a lot of guys will get flagged by the US Anti-Doping Agency because it's the most stringent

testing in professional sports. But oftentimes, there are false positives or tainted supplements. This one, I think, had to do with a vegan daily vitamin. And I think in this case, it's a huge fight at the special circumstance, but it's also probably the cleanest athlete on the roster, right? A guy who immediately screamed innocence from the rooftops,

which you would want any guy to do, right? I always wonder why more guys, if they do get flagged, don't immediately do what Nate Diaz did and scream your innocence from the rooftops because then people really feel like you're innocent. In this case, obviously, he was. And thankfully, it's kind of much to do about nothing, even though about a week ago, I almost

was having a little panic attack. Yeah, it felt like it was going to be off. I think the answer to your question is most people don't scream their innocence because they're not innocent. Yeah. 100%. Yeah, and also, I mean, more than screaming

his innocence, the comeback of you're all on drugs, not me, that's even better. That's like, I'm so innocent that you're guilty. I got to contact Ty from now. Yeah, right. No, he just adds to his legend every time he opens his mouth. And don't bet against this guy if you're going to the window this weekend, right?

I mean, I'm not giving you a lean one way or the other, but there are smarter bets in sports for sure than walking to the window and betting against one of these Diaz brothers. Yes. So you mentioned BMF title, the baddest motherfucker. Nate Diaz called out Mazvedal. How do I say it, Mazvedal?

Yeah, Mazvedal. Yeah. OK, he called him out after the last fight. I watched that one, and he said he ain't no West Coast gangster. Now, are these guys, Nate Diaz is very fascinating to me because he seems like somewhat of a reluctant star that he doesn't actually care as much about the fight promo

game. So do these guys hate each other, respect each other? Where are they at in that? There is no hatred to be found. They couldn't possibly respect each other anymore. And I think when your star power gets to a level of a Nate Diaz, the power of fighting you is a big thing.

And Nate's not going to give that opportunity to anyone. It means a huge payday. And in this case, it means a created title for Jorge Mazvedal potentially if he wins the fight. But not unlike Conor McGregor. I do consider Nate Diaz in that class, true bona fide draw, top five USC superstar, who deserves to call his shots to some extent.

And he certainly did in this situation, wanted to give Mazvedal the fight. Israel Adesanya is most people's pick for 2019 fighter of the year. But part of the reason Nate Diaz gave Mazvedal this fight is because of what he's done, obviously, this year in knocking out Darren Till and then the five-second knockout of Ben Aspirin.

Mazvedal in a 16-year career has had a huge year and, again, just both guys just richly deserving of this showcase and this rare opportunity. Give us one of the fights leading up to one of the undercards that has the potential for a quick knockout. Well, there's a lot of power going both ways in the co-main event between Kelvin, Gasselman, Darren Till. You've also got two elite strikers in a feature bout

on pay-per-view, Steven Wonderboy, Thompson, and Vicente Luque. Vicente Luque is the fighter that nobody's talking about. The dude has won six in a row, 10 of 11, 10 UFC wins. He's finished the guy in nine of them. And he's going to go after the karate guy, Steven Wonderboy, Thompson, who, of course, has fought for the title

in this Madison Square Garden before. So that's a fight I got my eyes on. But you know they got to blow it out for Madison Square Garden. So it's almost like, how much time do you have? I mean, we've got a lot of great fights and a very deep five-card pay-per-view, obviously, to end the night.

Yeah, I'm excited for it. I'm definitely going to be getting it. So the thing I love about a big UFC fight card is the upsets. And how, you know, this is for boxing, fight, you know, MMA. You can always have this crazy upset, because when they get in the ring, the betting line and what reality is can always be, can be very different.

So what is the biggest underdog that you see as like a live underdog? That you're like, man, this guy, if he can fight his game, he is going to have a chance to win this thing. Well, it's a good question. I can't go too far down that line. Obviously, because I'm Paul in the fight. One thing that I found interesting, right?

Darren Kill is moving up to middleweight in the Komei event. And this dude is a monster. I mean, just kicks like a mule, hits like a truck. I think this is the right weight class for him. As a lot of people do, he cut massive amounts of weight down to 170 pounds. And we've seen a lot of money come in on Kelvin Gaslam

because of his UFC credentials, nearly beat Israel out of Sanya in what was an epic five-rounder in April. So I think people are sleeping on Darren Till in the Komei event. Even his opponent, Kelvin Gaslam, said to me on Tuesday, he feels like people are sleeping on Darren Till.

So as that Till price creeps closer to plus 200, I'd be surprised if betters don't have a little bit of an appetite for it, especially because this is the right weight class for Till. So unfortunately, my contract prevents me from going to the window, but if Till gets in that plus 200 range, I wouldn't be surprised to see some of the sharps be enticed to pull the trick.

Okay, that's kind of where he's at right now. I'm looking at plus 205 to minus 240 for Till. I don't hate the number. I love his opponent, Kelvin Gaslam's great, but I don't hate that number. Okay, so the other thing I had to ask for you when you're going into this huge card and you have Nate Diaz, is there talking points

that Dana White gives you when Darren Ravel sends his inevitable tweet saying whoever wins the title fight is not a real star and it's actually a bad night for UFC? Yeah, no, thankfully there are no talking points. I mean, certainly there are general promotional guidelines and things that they would like me to steer away from in a broad general sense, but I promise you,

there is nothing WWE about this thing or any pre-prepared storyline. The most we go down that line would literally be to have like B-roll prepared on the back end of a pay-per-view for potential next opponents. And that's about as far as it goes. Certainly, Mosfidol and Diaz, I think both could lay claim to deserving an undisputed title shot if they win this fight,

but I can assure you on the gamebred side for Mosfidol, his goal is the undisputed title. He wants all the belts and that obviously starts with this BMF title here in a few days. Yeah, the Ravel tweet's coming. You know, he always does it. Now it's a game. It's a game between he and Dana.

He will find a way to make whoever wins the UFC big pay-per-view cards say that they are not a good enough star and UFC's losing. I will have to unmute him for the weekend. No, I'm just kidding. No, you are gonna keep him on your block, block his ass. I'm just saying this right here. There's a guy named Johnny Walker fighting.

Can you just give me a reason to bet on Johnny Walker? Dude, this dude is a monster. I mean, certainly I wouldn't be surprised if people saw value on that side. I mean, just look at what he's done in the UFC thus far. Three wins, all of them very quick, all under two minutes. You know, the last two, I think 36 seconds and then maybe 15 seconds.

You know, the highlight reel's gonna show you PMPF a bunch of flying knees and crazy highlights, you know, but what it doesn't show you is all the work that he's done over the last eight weeks in Moscow training with Sombo wrestlers and a bunch of mallers and MMA heavyweight in preparation for this challenge against the outstanding wrestler Corey Anderson.

So Johnny Walker is a stud superstar in the making. He's put in all the right work in Russia and obviously he's got a big showcase spot this weekend. We'll see if he can, you know, take advantage. Okay, sold. All right, Johnny Walker. My last question, we're talking to Johnny Annick. He's gonna be calling UFC 241.

You can get it on ESPN plus, ESPN plus? Yeah, ESPN plus, right? But that's my question. ESPN plus, yeah. Yeah, how the hell, I can't fucking figure out how to get it on my TV. I can get it on my phone. What the fuck?

I wanna be able to just click a button. Yeah, so basically ESPN plus is like the conduit through which you buy the pay-per-view, so it's not like Xfinity or anything like that anymore. So, but there are a number of ways to do it, but my best bet would be go literally on a desktop computer, ESPN plus.com slash PPV and that'll populate on all of your devices.

All right, cause it's really, so you can't get it on the TV. You know, yeah, like I want to go old school. I like to really like feel it when I hit that, like, okay, do you wanna buy this pay-per-view? 69.99, okay, I like that. Yeah, do you remember those days? I mean, I've actually had a few pay-per-view nights.

I feel like Mayweather, McGregor, I ended up having to call in and try to order it old school style with the landmine. Yeah, it's the best, yeah. Hitting those, mashing those buttons and hearing them and then the robot saying, are you sure? Yes, I hope my parents aren't listening online right now. That was the heyday.

Do you guys have a landline at home? No. I mean, I have a landline. You do? Yeah, well, I think if you're like, if you're a radio guy, right? Like, see, you guys are elite, so like we call you as guests.

But for most radio hits that I do, they call my landline so I can assure that the signal's clean. Damn. So we're on your landline right now? No, cause I gotta call you guys, so I don't dial out from that thing. I don't even know where the phone is. I got a baby that plays with it,

so the battery's probably out of it right now, but it's here for emergencies and radio hits. Okay, so my last question isn't about the fact that I get frustrated. I can't buy the pay-per-view old school way. My last question is, when are we gonna see Conor McGregor again? I think it's gonna be January 18th,

our first pay-per-view of 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada. I mean, he has hinted at that date. Other fighters have hinted that he has contracts in hand. So I'm hopeful for January. You know, I thought we'd squeeze him in fourth quarter this year, December 14th, but we'll have to sell for three title fights instead that night.

But I'm hopeful that January 18th it shall be done. And it's gonna be Cowboy, right? We'll see, you know. I would love to see him fight Justin Gayche or Donald Cowboy, Seroni. I'm not sure he had the appetite for the Gayche fight, but I wouldn't want to put words in his mouth. But yeah, I think Seroni's probably got the inside track.

Okay. All right, well, have a great call. Did people say that? Have a great call? I appreciate that, man. Yeah, have a great call. Good words. May you have all the best words.

So, yeah. I will take those words, and I wish you safe travels to Chicago, congrats to the Washington Nationals, and hope everybody will tune into the pay-per-view this weekend, boys. If they can figure out how to fucking buy it. Hey, I knew that was coming.

Yeah, I mean, obviously. I'm probably gonna text you right before it starts, be like, you lied to me, I can't buy it. Here's what we'll do. We'll give out his number, we'll give out John Annick's number on tomorrow's podcast to our listeners. If you have trouble buying the pay-per-view,

just call him as he's making the call live, and he will text you back and let you know exactly how to buy it. Yup, give out the number, I'll try to text you guys back. Okay. One by one. Two hours of live TV.

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And now, Dean Blandino. And now for something completely different. Okay, we now welcome on. He is, you hear him every single weekend. He is a rules analyst for Fox Sports. He has a podcast called Good Calls. It's Dean Blandino. He's been in officiating for many, many years.

So we have Dean on to talk about the state of officiating. And let's start there. Can you fix everything? Please, we're sick of it. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, this is, officiating is never perfect, right? Everybody always has some complaint about officiating. I spent 20-something years at the NFL

and it felt like every couple of years this was the worst it's ever been. It does feel, the scrutiny is pretty bad right now. And with pass and a fair inch review and everything else, it's a lot. And we're seeing games impacted by calls, you know? It's a tough game to officiate, but we need to get these calls right.

Do you think that we're seeing some of these pass and a fair inch calls not overturned just because of the simple fact that referees don't like to admit that they were wrong on a play? No, I don't think so. I think when replay first came back, that might have been, there was some hesitancy to overturn calls.

But I think now, officials like replay because it helps them get it right. Nobody wants a call to affect the outcome of a game. But I just think the standard is so high right now. And it's really changed from where it was earlier in the season, but we did get a pass and a fair inch overturn in the indie Broncos game. And so maybe we'll see some more going forward.

I should have started here actually, because I'm always curious. So you've basically been in officiating your entire life, your adult life. What made you do that? Like you like rules, do you want to be a cop? Like what is appealing to someone being like, I want to be a ref.

I never wanted to be a ref. It was never, I played sports, I love football, I wanted to stay involved in sports. And I grew up in New York, I sent my resume to the NFL and they had an internship in officiating. And I was like, all right, I don't know anything about officiating. I'm not interested in officiating,

but I want to work at the NFL. So I'll start there, get my foot in the door, and then I just kind of went from there. I was surrounded by good people and learned about it, learned the rule book and ended up just becoming a career. It was never really a passion until I really got into it. What is your favorite rule? Ooh, that's a good question.

My favorite rule is maybe the illegal touching rule. And I think that might be my favorite rule, is that can expand beyond football? No means no. No, exactly, exactly. But it's a rule that a lot of people don't understand and sometimes it gets complicated and that we like complicated rules

because rules analysts then keep their jobs. So that's important for us. So you've had, a lot of your background is in instant replay. You've been working in instant replay with the NFL and college football for a very long time now. I've noticed that it seems like there is a push to have instant replays be more game speed and not this slow frame by frame.

Is that a mandate that's coming down from the top in the NFL? Are they trying to make this more, I don't know, sensible to the regular fan watching it instead of making it this super slow moe where it has nothing to do with what the game that's being played on the field looks like? Well, I don't know if it's a mandate,

but I think when I was there, that was always something we were really aware of because you want it to be obvious, right? And if I have to slow it down, go frame by frame and overanalyze it and peace angles together, that's not obvious. So if you can see it in real time, then it's obvious. And I think that's where the league needs to stay.

Any league that has replay, because again, if we get overly technical, then that's not obvious. Do you think that there's a problem occurring in the NFL where they're taking those that have the most amount of expertise like yourself, Mike Pereira, you're getting all these contracts from civilian companies, not the NFL.

There's the rules analyst industrial complex that is taking away the most talented, knowledgeable people out of the game and putting them on TV. I think there's, look, good referees have left in the last couple of years. Gene Starrator, John Parry, Terry McAuley, a lot of good referees have left. And I think that's a concern.

I think the league needs to put resources behind officiating. They need to make sure that good people stay and whether it's on the field or in the office. And because as we all see every week, officiating impacts games and you want the best officiating. And I think the league has to continue to put resources behind it.

What's, so our river runs obviously been getting a lot of heat. Is that position just a thankless job that has like no wind to it? Or is there something that he can specifically do to maybe get people to change their perception of officiating in the NFL? It's definitely a tough job.

And sometimes it's a thankless job. And so it's hard for whether it's out river on and myself or prayer, whoever was in that seat, you're always going to be a target. And I think the one thing the league can do is just continue to try to be transparent and just be a normal person. Don't hide behind the shield.

Come out. If we screwed it up, hey, look, we screwed it up. Here's why we're working to get better versus just only talking about the calls we get right or overly defending calls and just being transparent. I think people will appreciate that. And I think that's something they could definitely do. I saw earlier today, Bruce Arians was saying

that there's no accountability in place for NFL officials. I don't think that's necessarily true. I think that there is, you know, you guys have certain accountability things in place, but what have you heard from head coaches? Like what do head coaches want to instill in terms of accountability? Yeah, and I know Bruce and we're pretty close.

And I think he's just letting off steam. I think he gets it. He knows that officials are held accountable. It's just not, it's not like a public thing. It's not, you don't fire officials in the middle of the season and make it a big deal. It happens during the off season. They're graded on every call.

And those grades impact their livelihood and whether they get postseason assignments or whether they get retained. So I think you talk to coaches, coaches want consistency and they want accountability. Coaches lose their jobs, players get cut. And so they want, they want to make sure that the officials are held accountable.

And they are, and Bruce knows that, but it's frustrating when you lose a game the way he lost that game yesterday on a missed call really that took away a touchdown. I don't blame a coach for being upset. And obviously he's going to, you know, he's going to want to point the finger a little bit. Is there a, we always kind of assume

that the pendulum swings back and forth where if we have a weekend where there's a ton of maybe a high profile calls, the next weekend, NFL officials will swallow their whistle a little bit, so to speak. Does that happen? Is that a natural thing? Or is it, is it something that's talked about?

Like, hey, we've screwed up a bunch of stuff. Let's let these guys play a little bit more than we might have last week. Yeah, you know, it's an interesting point. It doesn't, it doesn't happen. Like it's never, at least in my time, it was never a directive. Hey, there's been some controversy.

Let's let them play this week. You always just want to officiate the game. However, it's presented, but it's definitely a factor when you have a week, you know, you go back whenever that Monday night game was, the Lions and the Packers and everyone was talking about officiating, and then the following week, it was quieter.

And so I don't think it's a conscious thing, but again, these are all human beings. And I can't sit here and say, hey, we're in the, we're in the news right now. Let's back off a little bit and maybe let it, let it die down a little bit. And then it could happen. Yeah.

I've noticed that your, your personal attire has changed over the years. There was a moment where you would go on TV. You wouldn't be wearing a tie, kind of like the Andrew Yang style. And nowadays you're always, at least what I've seen recently wearing a tie, is that something that you made a conscious decision to change?

It'd be like, I need to present myself as a tie guy. I need to step it up a little bit. I need to be more professional. I think that's just a Fox sports thing, is whenever we're on the air, we're, we're suit and tie. You know, Pereira goes three piece. I'm not a three piece guy, so I'll go more two piece. But you know, if I could, I'd do it in a t-shirt.

I'd like the casual look much better. Do you and Mike have a competition? Do you keep track of who gets the most calls, correct? He does. He definitely does. He keeps track. He won't tell me, but he definitely keeps track. There's a little, there's a little rules analyst,

kind of, you know, some tension. You know, Mike and myself, you've got CBS has Steritor, Macaulay, there's a little, we're going to do a behind the scenes one day about all the rules analysts. It's going to be unbelievable. I like that. So you work in the college game as well,

more in the off season. What is a rule the college game or the NFL game could take from the college game? Maybe your favorite rule in the college game that you could see graduating to the pros and then adopting it? Well, I, I like, if we're going to review, I'd rather have the NFL review player safety files

like college rules, targeting versus pass and interference. I think past interference is way too subjective. And all we end up doing is just debating it further. And so I like the idea of reviewing, you know, those are 15-yard penalties. They're big penalties. Obviously, it's an ejection in college.

But I would like to see some form of replay on some of these rough in the passer calls or hits on defenseless players. I think that makes more sense for the NFL. I agree with that because pass interference, you can see pass interference on every play, or you could not see pass interference on every play, but having the ability to maybe review some of these plays

where the guys fall on the quarterback and it's really not that hard, but you watch it and you're like, what the hell is going on here? That's really what should be being reviewed. Yeah, I like that because like the three of us could look at 100 pass interference calls and we might not agree on 10 of them. And I think that player safety stuff,

I think it's still subjective, but it's a little bit less subjective. I want to go back in time. This is a few years ago. You made the news probably for a reason that you didn't want to be in the news. And I think you know where I'm going with this. You were photographed getting off

of Jerry Jones' party bus. I am of the mindset that if Jerry Jones invites you on to your party bus, you go because it's probably a hell of a time. I want to know how hard Jerry put the screws to you to try to influence you while he was pouring Johnny Walker blue down your throat. He, so here's the, so Jerry wasn't on the bus that day.

That was, that was Stephen Jones was on the bus that day. And I'm like you said, he's, I worked for the NFL at that time, I got 32 bosses. I've got every, all the owners are my bosses. So one of my bosses says, hey, we're going to go on a party bus and we're going to go down Sunset Boulevard and we're going to go to a club.

I'm in, right? And then, you know, then we get on the bus. What happens on the bus stays on the bus. I can't really go into too much detail, but uh, but Jerry was not on the bus that night. Hmm. That's so he says. I don't buy that.

Yeah. I don't buy that. I think Jerry lives on the bus. He's always there in spirit. Yes. He's always, always there in spirit. And there's actually a giant, there's, there's like a giant photo of him

on one wall on the bus. And the eyes follow you. Yeah. Yeah. Follow you everywhere you go. Were you surprised that that became a big story? I was. I was.

I mean, look, I'm, I'm by no means was I a celebrity or am I a celebrity now? And, and it was one, it was one sports writer who saw a quick glimpse and, and, and wanted to make it a story, a conflict of interest deal. And that's the thing. When you're in a role, you're building relationships. I've hung out with, you know, head coaches, owners,

general managers, you're trying to build those relationships. Cause if you have better relationships, then they're going to be more likely to listen to you when there is something controversial as it pertains to officiating. So I didn't think it was a big deal. I was with, you know, my buddy Jake laser and we, we still joke about it today.

Jay's everywhere. He's everywhere. Everywhere. Do you work out at Jay's, Jim? I've, I've been there. I don't do it regularly because I try to, I try to keep my Jake laser intake, you know, not just moderation type thing.

So, but I have been there. It's, it's definitely, it's an experience. All right. So my last question, we're talking to Dean Blandino. You can listen to his podcast called Good Calls. My last question is the onside kick. Why have we ruined it? And can we please bring it back?

It sucks that at the end of games, there's no chance that onside kicks can be recovered. You're, you're absolutely right. And we were talking about this the other day. The onside kick with all the changes now, it used to be like a 13% success rate. Last year went down to eight. Now we're under 4%.

And literally, if you don't have an onside kick, then the two, two score game, three score game, late in the fourth quarter, you got no chance. And so the league definitely has to look at this. And because that's going to promote comebacks. And if you don't, and I don't know how you guys feel, but I don't like, I would hate to see a gimmick play like a fourth and 10 or whatever it is.

I like the kickoff, but I think they need to figure out a way to make it a, you know, a higher percentage play. What about that Justin Tucker kickoff that he hit a couple of weeks ago where he did the drop kick, but he let it bounce too high? At what point does the ball bounce too high? Cause isn't that still a drop kick? Yeah. So by rule, it has to, you have to kick the ball

as it touches the ground or immediately after. So again, it's subjective, but you can't, I guess they told the Ravens it was okay, then they told them it wasn't okay, but I think you got to like kind of, as soon as it hits the ground or immediately after you got to hit it and he let it bounce, he let it bounce too high.

Or how about this? What if you kick off and if you hit the upright, then your team gets the ball at the 35 yard line. That's not bad. I don't like that. That's, I think there's a lot of options and keep the kick in the game. Like there was one I heard where you kick off

and you have a returner in the end zone and you got to get it to the end line. And if he can stop it, then it's no good. But if you could kick it past him over the end line, then it's good. I like that. It's kind of like a soccer thing. Yep. Makes soccer.

Exactly. Like goalie. Yeah. Goalie. Okay. All right. There you go. I think we came up with it. There we go. Done. All right, Dean. Thank you so much.

Anytime you're in New York, please stop by. We'd love to have you in person and congrats on being like a narc your whole life. I don't really know. I mean, it's crazy that you've made a profession out of this. Made a profession out of it. 21. There you go.

All right. Thanks so much, Dean. Appreciate it, man. Thanks, guys. Okay. Let's get some segments. First up, we have our fire fest. Hank, why don't you start off with your fire fest? My fire fest, I woke up.

This is actually happening this morning. I woke up in the middle of the night. I had a little Doug Morone, a lonely London situation going on in my stomach. Oh, no. I woke up, walked to the bathroom, and I was half asleep, and I sat down and just fell straight in the toilet.

Oh, you didn't drop the seat. Didn't drop the seat. You should get mad at your girlfriend for not leaving the seat down. Yep. It's probably her fault. That's on her. And I just sat there and I was half asleep,

and I just sat there and just like, I took me, I just sat there for like 30 seconds and was just like, oh. Also, you got it. It really just happened. This is an instance where it would have been helpful to have an ass. Yeah.

Did you get in the shower? No. Oh. But yeah, when you've got the middle of the night, Doug Morone, a lonely situation. There's clean. No, you're never clean after you drink out of the toilet. Nope.

Okay. Well, okay. All right. Yeah. All right. Okay, fine. All right. How's the diarrhea now?

It's gone. We're all wondering. It's gone down. Yeah. Okay, have you showered since then? Yes. Okay, good. It's fine.

Okay. PFT, what's yours? My Firefest of the Week is just following along to the Trent Williams trade news out of Aspen, Virginia for the Redskins. So today he said that he was misdiagnosed six years ago by the Redskins medical staff. Cancer has been growing on his head

Jesus Christ. for the last six years. They told him it was fine. He said he almost died. He went to the hospital for several weeks over the summer. No one from the team came to visit him. And then when he came back, he reported to the team right after the trade deadline

and immediately said, this helmet is uncomfortable. So I'm gonna fail my physical. So he's doing the AB model, trying to get traded. Next he'll call Bruce Allen the Cracker. Yep. And then he'll be shipped out of town because they don't tolerate, they don't tolerate racial slurs for the Redskins.

Correct. They will not stand for that. They deserve every bad thing in the world. I agree. It's terrible. How mad do you think Snyder is watching DC teams win and he's not doing anything? No, he probably thinks that like, ooh, this is, we're next.

Oh, he just believes in the luck of it. Yeah. He's like, oh, this is definitely gonna come around. I said today that I think the Redskins are more likely to win a World Series than they are a Super Bowl in the next five years. Yeah, I'd agree. I'd agree.

Just by like a random shit show of occurrences that somehow become a Major League team. The Nationals changing their name to the Redskins. Yes, exactly. That has more likely than the Redskins winning a Super Bowl. Absolutely. All right, my fire press, I got two. One is October's over.

That always sucks. It's the best month. In October, you can delude yourself into thinking that it's not getting colder. Right. Now that it's November, it's like, you're about to get smacked in the face with Freddie Shivers. It sucks not only that, but also October has every sport

and it's the best and it's like every night is a sporting event. It's a lot of work, but it's also just the best. Can I give you something to kind of numb that pain a little bit? Yeah. I think we have 27 consecutive nights of football starting now.

Perfect. Wait. Yes, because Maxion's back. Yeah. Yeah, that's true. This is, we're gonna get that stretch. We also have college basketball back, which is really when I start losing all my money.

It moved when I said that out loud. 27 nights of football. I'm so excited for Maxion. And there's no way I make it through. No, no, November. My other firefest is a pre-firefest. I am taking a four month old on a plane tomorrow to Chicago, so.

Big firefest. I'm so, so scared. Are you doing the thing where you're making little packages to hand out to people sitting next to you, being like, I'm sorry, I have a kid here, your earplugs? No, I'm just gonna desk there. Yeah. Oh, fuck out of people.

I've been practicing my whole life for the desk there. Yeah. I actually don't like it when people hand me those earplugs and stuff. It's like, I can handle a baby. Yes. So it's gonna, we'll see. He's a good baby, but man, I don't,

I just don't know what to expect. So that will be, we'll see on Sunday. I'll tell you guys how terrible it was and how I'm never flying with my baby again. All right, let's do a quick this league because this league is trying to steal every headline in October, in November. Holy shit, this league.

Steph Curry? This league. Injured. This motherfucking league. Kat, where's your deck? Where's Karma? Is empty. They empty the tank on the Karma?

Steph Curry's trash. Oh, he's trashed. Oh, yeah. What? Oh, yeah. Why? What do you mean? He doesn't have the help around him

and clearly has his own place. He just broke his broken hand. That was like LeBron. That was as LeBron as it gets. Like partially broken hand. Yeah, like wait till your absolute team is doing terrible and the season's already in the gutter and they're like, oh, they're broken hand.

Yeah, spin zone. You would much rather have him get injured right. It's actually better for the Warriors if he gets injured right now because then they get their younger players more minutes out there and he's going to come back. They're going to make the playoffs anyway. So it doesn't really matter about seeding.

Could you imagine if the Warriors tanked and got the one pick? Oh my god. That would be whatever. OK. I am looking forward. Maybe they traded it. Hopefully they traded it.

What if in like two weeks they're on a five or six game winning streak and we start to get a take? Are the Warriors better without Steph Curry, Clay Thompson, Kevin Durant. I'm here for it. I'm here for it. All right. So that's the first this league speaking of the Warriors.

Kevin Durant said that Traymond Green was the reason why he left. Is did he say that exactly? No, but he admitted he was like it on the first take with Stephen A. and Kellerman. They asked him was like, was that part of the reason you left? And he was like, yeah, it bothered me. And they were both.

Kellerman was like taking him back. He was like, wait, he answered this honestly. Right. Right. Can you expand on that? And he was like, yeah, I mean, honestly, it wouldn't like someone that you play with says something like that. Like it affects you and it bothers you.

Yeah. And it did. OK. And I actually love the honesty there. And I also have no problem with Traymond Green being Traymond Green because like he is the heart and soul of the Warriors and his maybe brash style is a lot of the reason why they had success.

Yeah. You take the good with the bad. Yeah, I agree with Kevin Durant on first take. I think they should just give him his own show for this entire year and his own show should just be him responding to people on Twitter instead of going at him and tweeting or using burner accounts. Just like a live feed of Kevin Durant reading his mentions

and then roasting everybody. I like that. I like that. So that's a this league. And then we had Carl Anthony Towns and Joel Embiid getting a fight and Ben Simmons hopped in and gave Carl Anthony Towns a rear naked chokehold made him tap. Literally he tapped.

It's never happened in hockey. It's never happened in hockey. Then on top of that, this league Embiid walking off the court. Cats. Mom was yelling at him, cat, you got to get your mom better seats. That was embarrassing. And it turned to a grand fest and then a grand fest and a

Twitter fest where they basically called each other bitches and then Joel Embiid said he was raised with lions. So he didn't care when a little cat scratched him, which was awesome. I think Joel Embiid bringing Jimmy Butler in it for no reason. Jimmy Butler. Yeah, not part of it, but part of it. Did I basically say like, I know Jimmy.

I know secrets about you, cat. Yeah, pretty much. There's a year at that's kind of a bullshit thing to do. No, but Jimmy Butler was like, it's funny. Like I knew it was coming. Like once I saw the fight, he was like, I knew I was going to get like brought into it somehow. And I knew it was going to be Joe.

Oh, yeah, Jimmy, Jimmy, I knew that he I was going to get brought into this somehow. He is not a man who keeps secrets. I can tell you that much. And Jim. And then yeah, Joe Embiid said I am not a bitch and no cap, no cap and it's awesome. I love this.

I love Joe. I didn't get any suspensions. They got two games each and yeah, and then Jay Crowder, this league, which I liked Jay Crowder tweeted, it was like, Oh, you only get two games for punting someone in the face with like the thinking emojis. So he's like looking at the schedule. Like, all right, who am I going to play and I get to play two

games after that. Let's go. There's something awesome about watching two seven footers fight. Yes. Like a couple of giraffes just hitting their necks next to each other. Yeah, it was great. But if you fall from that, if you just fall down as a seven

footer and you hit your head on the ground, it's over. Yes. So it's a strategic advantage to be shorter in that situation. I Joe Embiid, I threw this out there earlier, but like, is there a city that loves a player more than Joe Embiid is loved in Philly? It is he is Philly at this point. Like he's a walking sound clip. He's getting in fights.

He's talking about how he's been raised by lions. I ain't no bitch other than just being wildly out of shape every spring and then not being able to get out of the second round. I don't think you can do no. He can do any wrong in Philadelphia. I would say that he is the most beloved sports figure in a given city that hasn't really won anything. Correct.

So maybe Gordon Hayward in Boston. They love him there. They're back though. Yeah. Gordon Hayward. He's playing well. Yeah, they killed Giannis last night. Second half come back, team's fired on all cylinders.

Yeah. Yeah. So didn't one of these guys apologize on Instagram or they tried to squash it at the end? No. I think one of them stopped it. No. No.

No. Cat. No. Cat. What does no cat mean? No cat bro. Means no cat. No cat.

Yeah. No cat. Okay. No cat. You know what no cat means. No, I know what dry station is. You don't know what no cat means. Right.

Your cat. I don't know what that means. No cap. All right. Hats off to you. Yeah. It's a sign of respect. No. Embedie. It's like the little kid in the gift. Yes. There you go. Embedie accused cat of deleting his Instagram comments. Oh shit. Yeah. This is that's some heavy shit going down right now. Yes. Don't delete another man's big no no big no no. Okay. Let's finish up. We got FAQs and we also have an exit interview with our darling Jake who's going back to be the voice of Vermont cat amounts basketball radio. And so make sure you check it out. Listen to America's

team. America's team will be following along. We're jazzed up for the season before we do that though. We have another thing we got to address. Liam Bubba our darling Bubba is going to a dead in company show on Friday night. Bubba are you excited. I don't really know what to think. Yeah. You asked for my advice and I said I needed help because I knew he was a fan and I don't know a single song. It's all one song. It's all one song. So all I need to know is one song. Yeah. Pretty much Bill Walton is like the only knowledge I have of The Grateful Dead. Okay. So I wrote down a couple of things. You're not going to learn the songs fast because you have 24 hours. So if you want I mean yeah I texted him and I was like send me a playlist of like

the ones I need to know. That's not going to work. It's never going to work. Okay. I mean I mean I'm going to touch a gray. I looked at what they've been playing. If you want to try to listen to Scarlet Pogonius and Terrapin Station and maybe standing on the moon standing on the moon which makes me cry every time I listen to it. They might play those. All right. Here's the first one. That's all one song. I already wrote that down. When you go in there's going to be a lot of people outside saying they need a miracle or they need to kick down to get down. They're just asking for a ticket. Okay. You got that. Okay. So don't give them a ticket. Okay. When they play they do drum solos during every single concert. This is tricky because you think this is

the time to go take a piss or get a beer but that's what everyone's thinking. So you got to try to figure out when to take a piss or get a beer right before drum solo. Okay. Or maybe after. How would I time that. Well it's like the seventh inning stretch. It's going to happen in the second set at some point and if you can do it if you can see it coming and you can get out into the hallway fast enough you'd be okay but everyone goes and takes a piss during the drum solo. My way to time it would be once you start to hear the wolf sound effects to chime in because I've seen him one time and there were just these wolves that started howling. I was like that's fucked up. There's some wolves here and then it led its way into drum solo. No idea if they still

do that but if you hear the wolves. Yep. Time to go drain the lizard. The first set's going to be faster. Shorter songs. The second set is going to be when you're going to want to get really high because it's longer jams. He's going to be high going into it. Right. All right. Speaking of high. Good point PFT. Thanks for bringing that up drug guy. Is yon going. Is yon going. Smelling salts. The first thing you're going to want to do before you go into the show or before you meet up with your friends to go to the show is just delete the Twitter app from your phone. Yes. That is good. If you're going to be doing mushrooms or acid do it about an hour before you go in the show. Okay. So you are going to be doing it. Got it. You failed. People are going

to pass you weed. Make sure if you bring weed to pass it to other people around you. Okay. You might get an STD or a random cough or something but that's okay. You don't want to be the narc who like the people standing around you. They're your family dude. Vibe equals tribe. Okay. The STD is going away. Yeah. That's true. But that's your tribe. Okay. So that will happen like people in front of you people next to you. They will pass you a bowl. Do not turn it down. And when you bring out your joint or whatever you're bringing you better pass it back. It's all one bone. Okay. That's pretty much true. Goo balls. If you want to goo ball those are like little things that basically just mash a bunch of shit together and there's weed in it but usually

there's not weed in it and they're just fucking scamming you so don't even get a goo ball. So yeah when someone says I need a miracle outside my instinct would be to just pass him a joint at that point. No they're looking for a ticket. Okay. But they'll probably also take a joint and they got one finger up. They're going to be walking around one finger up. All right dancing you're going to have to dance. Okay. I knew that. Okay. But it's not aggressively. It's more of a like white old dad at a wedding dance. So you're going to get up. You're going to be stiff but you just kind of move with it because if you dance too much you're the person who did too much acid. Okay. And if you dance too little you're the person who did way too much acid. So if you're

sitting down or you're standing still you are in trouble with how much acid you did. Got it. Okay. Okay. Move at a medium medium. You're not and you're going to have to stand up. Make sure you sit down in between sets because you're going to have to stand up for the rest of the show. Drink a lot of water before. And then the other thing I wrote down. Let's see. Pass weed. It's all one song. Yeah. I think you're good. I think you're good to go. Just you know. Oh don't wear cargo shorts because in your cop that's Alpine Valley in Wisconsin every car every cop wears cargo shorts don't wear cargo shorts. Okay. Okay. You got basketball shorts. What's it. What's a good attire to put on. Yeah. November. Oh yeah. Good point. But it's always short season.

Don't wear a hat. Let your hair flow. People will actually think that you're like that you might actually be able to sell them some goo balls. Okay. So on your way out just grab like maybe a couple munchkins and mash them together and then just start selling them in a plastic bag for 20 dollars. Okay. Also request free bird. They'll love it. Yes. It'll kill. They will always play free bird if you ask. All right. Let's finish with our exit interview. Jake. Do you have anything you want to say. Oh you're supposed to interview us. That's when exit interviews. Okay. No that's okay. Jake how was you. You are now graduating. You're still going to be involved. Yes. You're still going to be part of this show. We hired you. How long ago. When did you start beginning of June.

Holy shit. What did you learn while you were here. Just question someone actually wrote this in and they said based on your intern. Oh wait. What's the weirdest question you asked Jake in his parcel interview but Jake you should answer the question. What's the weirdest question you were asked. You guys had me do a play by play pretending Syracuse was playing football and Donahue McNabb is under center and you just puked on the field. Oh yeah. That's right. Oh that's right. Did the great polish make an appearance in that too. Yes. I think he did. Yeah. It was a dual quarterback system. Yeah. That was good. You did well on that. You passed. I think that started off well. What was the funnest fact that you tweeted out or learned this summer

as far as sports biz goes. Oh great question. Thank you. That's tough. There's so many. Yeah. What was your favorite moment. Let's go with that or your favorite interaction on Twitter. The the all star game Ruben. Oh yeah. Spelling of the Ruben. Yes. That was good. Yes. That's very good. The XFL 40 was nice. Yes. This is not your content was a seminal moment in your young career. I got a question for you. Yeah. Have you been secretly back channeling with Revelle at all. I have not at any contact. Okay. Good. You don't have his when you met him when when you were at that combine. Yeah. You didn't exchange numbers anything like that. We did not. Okay. Do you think this is the summer that you've like surprised because Revelle's had a bad

run of it. I feel like I mean he just what he just sat with fucking mattress Max Max. Yeah. Yeah. His whole life now is just chasing people around to have big bets on things. Yeah. Yeah. So do you think at least his mom to hang out with him. Yeah. I mean I don't want to be cocky about it but like it's been going on but it seems like on Twitter the people side with me. Your engagement rate is higher. So even though but I don't have what was his line. Don't spend as much time with data as he does. Don't get in a data war with you're not ready for a data war yet. You're still in data basic training right now. Right. Right. Okay. So we go ahead. Based on your intern experience who would live longer in the wilderness with only a machete.

Mr. Cat or Mr. Commodore reasons please. Throwing Hank there too. Well if you have a machete you need to have some swallowness to you. Okay. And you don't go to the gym unless you tweet about it. So Mr. Cassie only want to tweet about going to the gym. Nice. I'm a good body. I do squats and squats. If you don't tweet about it doesn't count. Good point. Squats and squats over between me and God. I do tweet about going to the gym even sometimes when I don't go to the gym. Question for Darling Jake as a Syracuse alum in current UVM announcer how do you handle the UVM upset of Syracuse in the 2005 tournament

a horrible tragedy or a great moment to never forget. How old were you 10. Okay. I didn't grow up a Syracuse fan. So but now that you know that now I know if people ask me all the time if they play each other in this year's tournament I would root for Vermont because wow that's my answer. That's the biggest J answer you can have. Yeah. No it's the wrong answer. Yeah. For nobody. Oh yeah. The storyline. Shit. Jake what have you learned this summer. Come on. No although he's the home radio guy. So yeah I can have a little bit of a he's not a national guy. You get your pulse can quicken and your voice can show excitement but you can't clap. I don't clap. No clapping in the press. Your hands must never touch one another. Yes. You understand.

Yeah that's fine. Okay. All right. Do you have any others Hank. Jake how much can you bench. Good question. Nothing. Well I told my labrum senior high school and have not benched since. Okay. What were you benching when you tore it. I don't remember. Dog will work you dude. Fuck you up. How did you tear it. I'm playing tackle football with my friends. Okay. All right. It was actually tennis. We know it was tennis. Yeah. Here's an FAQ for you guys. Do the guys ever actually listen to Jake's Sports Biz Minute or do they just wait a couple seconds and say very cool since it's edited after the fact. Very cool question. By the way I like those Sports Biz Minutes and think they are actually very cool. Very cool. Very cool. Very cool.

Very cool. Thanks Jake. That was good. Very cool. We listened to him the morning after. No I never listened to him. I've never listened to one. Unless one of you are in here. That's true but I appreciate the score. Every now and then we like randomly walk in the studio and he's taping it. I'm like oh shit. I heard a little bit of that. Sometimes you'll retweet me. Yeah that counts as a thing. I don't actually. Better for the numbers. Right. I'm actually you know what here's a compliment. Jake thank you for not saying anything wildly offensive when I retweet the Sports Biz Minute without watching it. I appreciate that. Here's a compliment. Jake thanks for not tweeting out a picture of my penis or my phone number. Yes. Not every intern gets through an

entire summary not doing that yet. That's trust. Any others Hank. This was not related to Jake but I was curious too because I don't even know if this is a real thing but it said hey world champion PFT. I'm seeing Eric Church in concert tomorrow with my girlfriend Bragg. Can you please explain your beef with the chief. All right. He's got terrible bap it is my problem with Eric. You have beef with Eric Church. I do have a little bit of beef with Eric Church and my beef stems from the fact that one time when I was in Austin I got tickets to go see a concert right and then I accidentally went to the concert a week early. It was on a Tuesday. I didn't know that went the wrong Tuesday. Okay. And no I was not. I was not intoxicated maybe a little bit and I get there

and the guys like yeah we actually have a different show tonight. Do you want to just go into that one. I was like who is it. I was like Eric Church. So I was like sure I walk in the entire balcony was empty was like me and two other people who were also letting it for free and then he came out like 30 minutes late played a bunch of songs played some of them twice because he was recording it for a DVD special and so it was just in general a low T show. Got it. That was my first experience with him. It was not the concert I intended to go to that night. Therefore I have a bad taste of my mouth. I'm out and for that reason I'm out on Eric Church. Okay. Any others. Well it's okay if we don't have any others. Are you related to yourself.

Oh fuck. I have relations with myself sometimes twice a day. You know you're related to yourself right. Whoa. Whoa. Yeah. All right let's finish with Jake. Thank you for all your hard work and again he's not going to be gone. He's gone but he's not gone. It's not by steel later. It's yeah right. It's unlike some of our other interns. He's not going to disappear and never come back. So he is going to still be involved. He still has his Twitter account PMT sports biz. He's going to be blogging stuff. He's going to be doing some PMT sports biz minutes. We're going to see him every now and then and listen to Vermont catamounts basketball radio and I'm excited for the season. I will follow the season now. I will. I'll pay attention especially if they go

on like a little run. Can I plug the games. Yeah. We're on one on one point three of the game in Burlington Vermont. Okay. Can follow me at Jake March 18 for pregame post game in game highlights. Okay. Whatever you need to count on basketball. What about your IG handle. Yeah. Jake March 18 as well. Okay. Trying to get up to 100 K for Jake Marsh and we have the girls though. Yeah. And we have a friend of the program noted weight lifter. Ryan Russell is doing one of your intros. Yeah. He's going to be doing my pump up pregame for the season. It's basically like the Electric Avenue of Vermont Vermont basketball. Okay. Wow. It'll come out mid next week. Should be fun. Okay. I'm excited for that. All right. Do you think he do you think we're still we're still

probably like his egos probably hurt a little bit because like SVP just did LSU like night game pump up and he's doing the radio for but he's doing it when the team makes a little run in the turn. That's true. Yeah. That's true. And Russell's got a good sense of humor. If we can get Hank to do like a gold gym promo gold gym commercial that'd be the trifecta disappointment. So shout out to Ryan for doing that. Check out Jake's going to have that next week. So Jake thank you. Thank you. Not goodbye. See you later. And we will see you later. Love you guys. You You

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