Pardon My Take - Scott Boras, Ryan Whitney, Cam Newton To The Patriots

Episode Date: June 29, 2020

Toledo wins the Natty and we're going to get a key to the city. (2:30-8:40) NBA schedule is out and they blatantly want Zion in the playoffs which is fine. (8:41-11:36) Trust falls. Who's back of the week including Dicky V and JR Smith.(12:56-27:13) Scott Boras joins the show to explain the labor issues with baseball, playing this year, and Kris Bryant's new contract with the Cubs. (30:09-1:02:22) Ryan Whitney joins the show to talk some hockey, what he's been doing in quarantine and who has the best chance to win the Cup. (1:04:39-1:20:22) Segments include PR 101 for Mississippi (1:21:48-1:24:20) and E-Sports update for Dr Disrespect (1:24:21-1:30:13)You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/PardonMyTake

Hey, pardon my take listeners, you can find every episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. On today's pardon my take, we have Scott Boris talking about baseball coming back, the entire labor situation that went down. We also have our good friend Ryan Whitney hockey possibly coming back. So it's a positive vibes only show trying to get sports back. We have who's back of the week. We have what else big breaking news happens in the middle of the show. I think you could probably guess what it was involves New England. So that's fun. We get instant reaction. And then yeah, it's great show. So let's get into it before we do that pardon my take is brought to you by the cash app. Not only is the easiest

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reaction. So right now we're living in a world where Cam recorded. Yeah, this yeah pre-recorded. We're in a world right now where Cam Newton's not on the Patriots. Yeah, no team's going to sign him. Yeah, will anyone sign him? You know what? If Belichick hasn't signed him by now, he's probably still injured. Right. So looks like the Bears were really right to sign Nick Foles because there's no other good quarterbacks out there. Good quarterbacks out there. Yeah. All right, so that that is coming up. Just get excited for that because it's literally I'm excited for it instant reaction. Hank is it is a time capsule. I love those little moments when there's a time capsule into part of my inside. Yes, where you can see the takes cooking as they occur. Yes,

but the other news we are boys. We're going to go to Toledo. We're going to get a key to the city. Unbelievable. Nice. So we're fucking football. Love it. The Rockets are national champions. They went down to the Nolans and they beat Texas. Texas officially not back. Nope. In the sugar bowl. So I'm going to let you have this time to celebrate the win. I'm not going to ask Doug's about his next destination. How do you feel right after the game? You you tried to give that game away. Billy tried to make you give it was a combo game of Billy and the chat. The chat. I'm going to just you know what I'm going to give put my tip my hat to the chat. They had a national title type game of calling me a pussy calling me soft for the entire second half because I was simply trying

to win a football game and then I threw the ball with 19 seconds left through a pick that almost was catastrophic. There's almost a pick six. But that's how the chat. The chat is undefeated. The chat has an undefeated season every year. You became the chat. Your brain became the chat at some point. You're one of us. It was barstool big chat and they were they were just swimming around in that little like gray matter area between your head. They made you say fuck it. Let's throw the ball. Yes. Let's throw the ball. I'm just excited that we get to go to Toledo and get a key to the city which I do not know what that entails but we will make the trip. Maybe we'll be grit week next year. It will be so great to get back out there. And yeah. I can't imagine. I don't know what

the what the ceremony is going to look like. They should buy a beer in Toledo ever again. That's right. Never pay for a beer. Yeah. They should actually make the key to the city open exactly one door like some like figure it out. It's the mayor's bathroom that you get to shit. It could be a house and I just go around for the rest of my life trying to open doors in Toledo. Yep. A little like one of those escape rooms that people love to do. Yeah. We should do one of those. No. I'm more of a hot lava guy. But as a podcast like to actually like go in and just try to escape the escape rooms like a dungeon and dragons. I feel like they know these just end up yelling at each other. Yes. Yes. It would go sideways real quick. I think that those escape rooms are mostly

designed for like mid-sized companies to do corporate retreats at. Right. Right. Which to say is awesome. Yes. The best thing ever. We should do a ropes course. Those are fun. The yeah. Trustful. Who would you destination adventure the outdoor camp where you go in a zip line. Yes. We should. Who would you trust least trust and a trustful. I mean really. Yeah. No Hank. You know you check your phone. You get distracted. Not because you're not physically capable of catching. Although many people are saying that you've gotten me Hank. I think we can all agree the person we I'm listening. I think I would not trust you to catch me. Do you want to do one right now. Yeah. Yeah. Do it. Hey. All right. All right. They're going to do it. So it's so stupid.

Billy are you going to catch him. Who's going to catch you. I want Hank to fall into Billy's arms. So Hank and vice versa. Close your eyes. All right. Trustful is PMT. Jake and you confirm his eyes are close. Oh my God. Hank put a back step in there. Hank. Billy left him out to dry. All right. Hank you go. Now Billy you go. Hey. Drop him. Drop him. Drop him. Three two one. Oh we got him. All right. So we trust each other. Hank would be such a dick move to do that. I was going to say the only one I really trust is Jake. Jake would absolutely. Jake wouldn't let us fall to begin with. No. He wouldn't even let us in this situation. Yeah. All right. So some other some other quick news. Yeah. Denny Hamlin won the Pocono 350. Yes. Our guy Denny. Our guy. Fuck yes.

Way to go Denny. Just the king. The Pocono the sixth major. Yes. Who won travelers. The actual sixth major. Dustin Johnson. Justin Johnson. I was. I was fucking. I got a major. I was glued to my TV watching that. Mhmm. Bryson DeChambeau. Fraud. Hitting bombs. We hate him. But. Hitting bombs. God damn those bombs are fucking sexy. I still don't think that they're actual bombs. He's like he turned himself bomb. He used his math brain to turn his body into a jock's body. He drove the foot. He hit the fucking green and on a par. Was that par four or five where he almost hit John Rom. I think it was a par five. He's hitting bombs. 400 yard drive. He's hitting bomb. No it wasn't a 400. He hit the golf cart or the cart path. Yeah. One drive.

That one was a bomb. That was a bomb. But the one that you're talking about Hank. I think the hole was like 400 yards long. But he cut off the dog leg. So it was really only a 350. I don't know. All I'm gonna say is I don't like him. I'm a Brooks guy through and through. But the bombs at least tickle my fancy. 420. I mean a little help. Yeah. But 428 yards. He had some help. He had some help from geometry. I'm sure Brooks when he gets back from his caddy having coronavirus probably start hitting bombs. That's all he's doing is lifting now. Yes. Exactly. All right. Oh. The other news. Yeah. What. Embrace debate. C. N. to the Pats. Trevor Lawrence was supposed to go to the Pats. Embrace debate. What is the debate. What is the debate. In the

draft. Would you rather. I mean. Are they going to. What. Are they. The narrative was. Yes. They were trying to get Trevor Lawrence if they. Who's a narrative. That. Are they. Also that means they would have to be the worst team in the league. I know. But I don't think Bill Bowichick will post the worst team in the league. But to a. What. OK. OK. Moving on. NBA. NBA has released their schedule. I'm very excited for this. I hope they don't take this away from us. Although Adam Silver. Shout out that guy because he said we are going to bring sports back because sports are important. It's OK to say that. That's a fact. It's OK to say that. That one hit me right in my heart. Felt good. The schedule is awesome because we are going to have day games day basketball

games and other notable things from the schedule. I don't think there are many except for the fact they rigged it so that Zion gets into the playoffs. And that's awesome. That's totally cool by us. Yeah. Absolutely. We're 100 percent behind that. Also this is actually really huge news. Adam Silver said that the TV broadcast will have unique and never before seen camera angles. Right. So what is that going to be. Ref bodycams. I think it's going to be like the the NCAA Final Four slider cam. Oh the one that makes me sick. The one that they debuted in like the 100 yard dash at the Olympics. Yeah. Just goes back to the mobile get Booger down there. He lives in the neighborhood. Yes. Get Booger on the sidelines. So yeah. They gave the Pelicans. Let's see. They played the Kings

twice. The Wizards. The Grizzlies. And they do have one game against L.A. But that's a pretty night in Orlando. So they basically play the bottom teams. Yeah. Good. It's like I learned one thing about Harry Potter when I was doing those podcasts a couple weeks ago and that's that they let Harry Potter into the Tri-Wizard tournament even though he was the fourth team because everybody wanted Harry to be in it. Yes. That's what's happening with Zion. He's getting he's getting Tri-Wizard. Yes. They actually it is incredible. They have one two three four four out of eight of their games are against teams that are not currently in the playoffs which they aren't as well. But that's a nice schedule for them. We get to see Zion play on TV. Yes. Whereas we would not have gotten to

see that last week. Hopefully he's not so chunk. I kind of disagree with you. Yeah. Well. Yeah. Really big. OK. All right. Anything else. Do we have anything else that we want to discuss anything else. I think that's open. The FA Cup back. The FA Cup. Yeah. It happened. It happened. Chelsea. Oh Liverpool. We never said congratulations to Liverpool. All the Liverpool Puddlings. Who's the most famous person from Liverpool. I can't. I can't think of any Pete Best. No. No. Who's that doing a joke. We're going to name the Beatles. All right. OK. The Peaky Blinders. Yeah. Birmingham. Alabama. They should do that. Paul Fineball. Peaky Blinders based out of Birmingham Alabama. Yeah. They should make they should just like keep progressing it

until they immigrate and become the biggest Alabama football now or Peaky fucking Blinders. Just like boosters. Peaky Blinders season 18 is just boosters. Yeah. Yeah. They like do all the savings bidding. They still wear those hats with the razors in them except they're they're the Houndstooth pattern. So it's like the Bear Bryant hats. Yes. Razor blades under the lid. All right. Free free show. We just wrote for you guys just like that off top of our head. OK. Let's get to who's back the week before we do that. It's back people because just like those that do the United States collection always comes back for more with 50 state labels. Mountain Dew fans can find the drink they call home and explore the 49 other bottles that make this

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So getting all 50 might sound like a tough task. Like I said but we're spreading the word do United dot com. And if you get all 50 earn a hundred dollars in each bottle you snag grants you a chance at winning one million. Billy is going to get all 50. He said it. He said it's going to he's not going to stop. He's not going to sleep until he gets all 50 for the do United Mountain Dew 50 state label game. Okay. Who's back in the week Hank. My who's back the week is the goat. Sasha Baron Cohen. Oh yes. Still got it after all these years. This weekend he dressed up as a guy named Hillbilly Jim. And there was like a the Washington State three percenters a right wing militia group. And it took over the stage like sung a song. That was like super

super fucked up at everyone that was there were like singing along thinking it was funny. And then it came out that it's Sasha Baron Cohen and they're embarrassed. Yeah. Okay. Washington State in Idaho and like Oregon I feel like has something like this come out about him a lot. I don't know why white supremacists started to flock to the Pacific Northwest instead of the South in the last like 50 years. Did you see the interview one of the guys did where he was like yeah we had this thing whole whole thing planned in the last second we had a private donor swoop in and start offering us money to like get musical acts and get a better venue and all this stuff. And it was just all Sasha Baron Cohen. So they said that right as he went on stage and started

doing it like he had all these security guys basically making sure that he could finish the song. And it was so he's a he's such a fucking genius. He's also got huge balls. I also sat next that he goes in. I also sat next to him on a plane once. Remember that. No. Yeah. That would have been terrible if that plane had crashed because everybody would have been like Sasha Baron Cohen died on this flight and not mentioned your name at all. Bubba was there with me. But did I say something to him afterwards. I can't remember. I think I pussied out at the beginning. My wife after like when we walked all the way out. Yeah. You introduced yourself after the flight. Yeah. I didn't say anything while we were sitting next to each other. I didn't say anything because I think

that's kind of awkward to like say something at the beginning of the flight and then be like OK so this is the situation for the entire cross country flight. But I think when we got it was a red eye and I think when we got out I said like hey man big fan. How sick would that be if the kicker that the Patriots drafted was Sasha Baron Cohen this entire time in the last like four years of his life. He was doing he was kicking in West Virginia or he was at Marshall right. He can do everything. He's kicking as a bit. It was a joke. I believe Sasha Baron Cohen could do anything at this point. I mean the fact that he's still breaking breaking moves. Oh yeah. Breaking moves. Speaking of the New England Patriots former NFL MVP Cam Newton has reached an agreement on a one year

incentive deal with doing the Patriots sources tell report and Adam Schefter. What they got. Let's go. Holy. Are you joking. No. This is how not joking. I am. I have tweet notifications for Adam Schefter set up. So it just popped up. Wow. Four seconds ago. Go. There you go. Hank. Hank. Hank. Walk me through your brain right now. Pretend I'm Joe Rogan interviewing your brain. I love it. I'm a big sitting fan. I was excited for the sitting era but Cam Newton is a super exciting quarterback and him being in New England is going to be fucking so the name of that QV room should be Stardom Stidham. Sure. I mean you're too quick with it. I mean you Hank. Let's go. Let's fucking go. And Stidham is like Tom Brady. If it doesn't work out like Stidham is

a great you know he's a he's a great guy to have in there like in reserves. I don't think he's going to be the reserve. Stidham. Yeah. You think Tim's going to start. No. No. Oh sorry. I'm saying if Cam Newton doesn't work out Stidham is still like yeah. No Cam Newton is going to be Cam Newton is going to be the starter. It's going to be electric. The Patriots are going to make the Super Bowl. It's going to be the Patriots and the Bucks and I'm going to be so excited. Although my other initial reaction is this like it's so bizarre thinking of Tom Brady being on the Bucks Cam Newton being in the quarter and the Patriots like it just makes me think football is not going to happen. Yeah. Yeah. Everything's weird. Bizarre world. Yeah. Oh man I bet you Ernie Adams

figured I had a crack the code in the weird text messages and fonts that Cam Newton used and he was like I like this guy. I've got him off. It was like the Enigma machine. Wow for a free agent quarterbacks. That was some big ass breaking news. That might be the biggest breaking news that we've had on the show. Hey Billy what do you got. You want to talk. Bellacheck's always been talking about how he wants a mobile quarterback and they say that was a big thing between Brady and Bellacheck because Bellacheck was like I want to get rid of you and get a cool new toy that can run around. So like the football like porn that's going to come out of this like the X's and O's and blocking schemes and you know quarterback counters that are going to happen

like like Bellacheck's brain with like a mobile quarterback. You're going to see like it's like mind blowing like to be honest. I mean Cam Newton is the MVP like what four or five years ago. You don't just if you win an MVP it's pretty good. Pretty good example of how fucking good you were 31. Yeah. Yeah. I mean he's got a lot of miles on him but who cares the one year deal. Right. And he looks jacked all the baby like he got miles on the Instagram. I mean the Instagram's are crazy. Who's back in the week. Julian Edelman. Yeah. He's got to be pretty pumped not only to have someone to throw to him but also to have someone to take Instagram photos with him. Yeah. And then both with their shirts off. Julian try to get in that car pool with Cam Newton

like you were Tom Brady. Get Cam listening to part of my take. We'll start texting you weird shit. That's huge though. Do you think Bellacheck's going to let him text like that. Yeah. He cares about what's on that becomes like Ernie Adams adopts Cam Newton's texting. That's what I'm saying. He's broken the code. Yes. He absolutely. It would not shock me if Bill Bellacheck was like he on his fenced account that nobody knows that he has. He calls it his like face snap or whatever. If Bill Bellacheck's captions were already being written in the Cam Newton front right now. Wow. He's way more in line than he wants. Huge news. Huge news. OK. Who are you ever who's back. I'm so fucking excited for football. That's crazy. I'm so fucking

excited. Let's go crazy. Yeah. My who's back of the week is XFL nameplates because the NBA is going to let players do like customized names across the back of their jerseys for this playoff situation that's going on down in Orlando. So the XFL did that. We all remember he hate me Rod Smart. Best custom name I think of all time. So now we've got I'm just excited to see what Javail McGee and J.R. Smith who is also back. J.R. Smith might be joining the Lakers to replace Avery Bradley. J.R. Smith Javail McGee. Yes. Dwight Howard. They're going to have they're going to have some real funny jokes on the credible group. An incredible group. I would understand why LeBron James is driven to drink if he has to play with those three guys all the time. Yes. Yes. Sheesh.

Oh dude you imagine. Sheesh LeBron is really good yeah.cht.12 Talking about this. Do you think LeBron Somali Somali Somali Somali Somali Somali Somali Somali Somali Somali Somali Somali Somali Somali Somali Somali Somali Somali Somali Somali Somali Somali Somali Somali Somali Somali Somali Somali Somali Somali Somali Somali Somali Somali Somali Somali Somali Smali Somali Somali players Somali Somali Somali Somali Somali Somali Somali Somali Somali Somali Somali Somali Somali Somali Somali Somali Somali Du We're too intimidated to ask for one exactly. It's like saying if you have to ask how much it cost you can't afford

It's smart. You got any t-shirt ideas pft. Well, why have you here? I would just have Thank you cam. Thank you cam. Let's see New England Patriots. What can we do with that? Don't put me on the spotlight I just gave you stardom stitum. I thought I was pretty fucking good. Do the Patriots in the cam text Yes, yeah RLF G in the in the cam font Yeah, with cam silhouette on it. That's pretty good All right My who's back is dickie v dickie v is back

Dickie v is trying to save the world dickie v is putting out PSA is about how important it is to wear your mask Dickie v is doing all this while not covering his nose with the mask one of the funniest videos I saw this weekend dickie v trying to get everyone which is a good thing We want more people wearing masks, but if you're gonna say that everyone should wear a mask You really got to get it over the nose Yeah, you got to be a PTP PPE or you got to do it You got to show up. You got to be a diaper dandy and really swaddle your face in that Yes, so dickie v though

Good try good effort keep going. Did you see the video that he put out last week of him in the hot tub? We're wearing his full shirt. Yes, you fucking made it Yes, that's an alpha move because you're like I have enough I have a closet filled with these ESPN polo shirts that they don't give to anybody else For some reason like dickie v has his private stash of the polo shirts No one else gets Bobby Knight had like an entire walk-in closet of just the ESPN sweaters Yeah, and nobody I wouldn't be surprised actually if dickie v made his own ESPN polo shirts Yes, yes. Yeah, just to like make sure like oh, I only have five

I need I need double that because I like to wear one for morning and afternoon and night And in my hot tub my hot tub ESPN shirt, so dickie v's back. I also Karen's are just having such a great moment right now that yeah, do you think Karen is gonna win time person of the year? I think it should I mean Karen's are having a dynasty The only thing I can see is now the Karen's are starting to get in on the joke and like self-referencing their Karen this right But it's once we start calling people Karen's I think that's kind of the line where it becomes not cool anymore It's incredible that this many people just keep losing it in public Not realizing they're gonna be videotaped every single time. I'm like

You realize you're being videotaped already in the trust tree right here. Yeah, so no Scouts honor this is only for big cat and Hank and Billy and Bubba and Jake to listen to nobody else can listen Okay, I think I'm sexually attracted to Karen's. Yeah, like I don't have an energy I don't care what they're saying or what they're doing. It's usually something important But whenever I see a Karen video, it gets me going. It's like a little bit of that craziness. Mm-hmm like Tell you what I go from six to midnight when I see a woman like throwing a pack of like frozen chicken thighs across a Walmart parking lot I mean the one that you get somebody asked her like baby shirt. Oh the baby shirt. Oh, that should be an immediate throwback for most people Yeah, but for me. I saw that Karen. I was like, you know what?

Would yeah, I mean Karen's have an energy about them. They're alphas. Yes, they are they're terrible terrible people But their alphas in their own right. Yeah, and they just they exude some kind of like, oh my god Like you you just get a look from a Karen and you feel like you did something wrong. You've been a bad boy There were yeah, exactly There was that other Karen that was in she was like going to lunch at a Tex-Mex place down in Texas She was complaining because her shredded cheese took too long to get out and so that was great picture of her Just like staring longingly into the distance. What an all-time self owned by that guy to his own wife Yeah, she'd be like look at my wife who can't handle not eating for he is

Without cheese by the way shredded cheese would be a sick name for like a paleo cheese Oh, people that are trying to get like absolutely shredded jack cheese. Yeah. Yeah cheddar jack Oh shit breaking news breaking news more breaking news bigger breaking news Danny boy Kane just tweeted Cam to New England on a one-year deal per Adam Schefter Confirmed so for anyone now. It's Danny boy. It doesn't fall out of Schefter now You know mm-hmm now you know the funny thing is Danny boy Kane just he absolutely broke that news to probably a thousand. Yeah Hell yeah, hell yeah, I remember where I was all right Billy you got a who's back

I got two Jake helped me with one first one competitive eating is back Joey Chestnut will be doing his His duty to the country by eating hot dogs on July 4th Just not in front of a live audience do you want to plug our video? Oh sure. I'm are you gonna talk? Well, yeah bar still bar against a bear. I'm taking I was there PFT KC KFC Fidelberg Brandon Walker Dave and I announcing against the bear. Yeah, it's that you would oh well. I'm not gonna spoil what happened I think I would have helped in a week. I would appreciate you not spoiling what happened. Yes. Thank you Billy I think I would have helped

Okay, okay. Well, you'll have to tune in to see who wins people or a bear. Yes It's not Billy, but Billy did help me Billy gave me some strategy ahead of time Yeah, and I'm not a drug guy, but I broke my own rule and I got high just to help Help everything start moving inside my body also Who's back of the week Mike Leach was messing around at a press conference for the SEC coaches He was he took a he snapped Lane Kiffin's mask off his face. Yeah guys Yeah, like Mike Lee

I can't wait to see the SEC when sports come back, but competitive eating coming back gives me hope I'm a little upset that we've been deprived of of Mike Leach memes recently I feel like somebody else somebody has Mike Leach's phone Oh, absolutely boomer memes that he wishes he could be posting every single day right now simply haven't been coming Yes, I would absolutely agree Mike Leach a beautiful mind never rests So maybe we'll have like a build-up, you know Eventually when he gets his phone back, we'll just have an avalanche just like leach means go nuts I would love to play for Mike Leach. That must be awesome. You're I know I know

But he also maybe lock you in a shit actually what what what if you were what if we just got you on Mississippi State? Would you get my ass wrecked would you go to Starkville though? If I had to what if you were just it? You could probably put walk on and be a special teamer I'd have to survive like nutcrackers in training camp, but you know how awesome with that I would be sick, but I probably wouldn't be able to speak normally after I feel like you could just from living in Mississippi for a year I don't know I feel like you played you played down and play up to your competition. Yeah, yeah ready to go What about personal pun protector? You can do that. Yeah, I'm Archuleta did that Tim Tebow did that. Yeah, I think you pee. Yes, but I

Know what they're gonna think I'm a fraud. Why because it's the nepotism. You like throwing me in there, and then they're gonna Yes, true. I'm not a grandfather Mike Lee. Yes, you are related to us as well. Yeah, so in anyway I just won't earn it. Yeah. Yeah, but you know what Billy at some point If that's the biggest hurdle that you have to get over in life is that people say that you're a product of favoritism You're still doing good at the end. Oh, so I I'll start applying to Mississippi State grad school. Okay. I'll probably work out Yeah, perfect. All right. Let's get to our interviews first up. We have Scott Boris We're gonna talk a little baseball before we do that whoop is a fitness wearable that provides you daily insights and the performance You're sleep how recovered your body is and how much exertion you put on your body

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We're in the process now of we have defined protocols players are going to be reporting and You know, we're ready to to begin on a scheduled date and they're putting the final schedules of that together in late July so We have every expectancy of playing a 60 game schedule that sounded like a yes But there was it was a little bit Safe there on the yes, if you had to guess like will it happen? Will it go through because we're seeing it right now with sports where the plan's there But there's hiccups even getting to the finish line

I know baseball has had a lot of hiccups along the way But from here to the to actually starting. Do you think it's gonna happen? I think the expectancy is that everyone's gonna play in an empty stadium and and Televised it that would probably take about a hundred and twenty five people to be tested and to Really have a forum which I think is very controllable and so the To set up a safe environment and do all that I think it's it's workable. Yes

I've thought this entire season that the players have done a Remarkably good job at holding the line at all kind of being on the same page And even if there are you know some cracks in the thoughts of you know, which things we should concede on which things We shouldn't they haven't been made public Were you surprised at at the job the players did in this age of social media where? Every player has an Instagram account and a Twitter account that if they wanted to they could say hey We should give in on this point to the owners. Are you surprised that that nobody has kind of crossed that line this summer? I think the you know again, I work with

You know the major league players I represent and certainly we had Weekly dialogues Information exchanges the interest level in this obviously was something where it was really more than a negotiation It was really about health and safety. It was about What we're going to do to get back and and aid our country and in playing the game and playing the game at a high level being competitive and Be even beginning in March, you know players really agreed to give away half their salaries

So they could play baseball and they knew that they were going to be good partners and they alleviated from the owners of a Huge responsibility of four and a half billion dollars in contracts and said, you know what whatever games we play Those are the only games I'm being asked to be paid for so I thought the players responded Ethically and then they were really great partners and yes, I think they were actively involved at every level and the solidarity of the group was The best I've seen in some time Explain this to me because I mean I kind of understand it, but I think a lot of people get confused with how baseball is run Why is it so hard for baseball owners to have?

transparency when it comes to their books and what they're they're gaining and losing every single season and Because it felt like the fix here from the beginning was if they just show exactly what is happening and how much money they're losing You could probably come to a good conclusion, but instead they're not going to be transparent And why would the players then trust them they shouldn't so why is it like that in baseball? Well, I think the What each franchise does is somewhat of a secret secret to each franchise You have ancillary

Revenue streams that are being created that under the rules. They do not want them to be a part of revenue sharing So I'm investing in hotels and restaurants and casinos and all these things within the arena of you know My attraction is my stadium and the games played there. Yeah, and in my opinion the athletes that perform in that stadium I don't think anybody sits in those seats to watch the grass grow So the reality of it is that you're that attraction and so when I have people this attraction What can I do to get them live? They're longer before and after and I also know that I can partner and invest There you know every owner in the game has been tremendously successful If you've owned your franchise over 10 years you

Increased your franchise value by four times and so you're now a billionaire You're now doing something that you may have bought it for two or three hundred million 20 years ago 15 years ago Well, now you're looking at having equity of over a billion dollars and they're taking that money and under the The debt equity rule they can borrow up to about 40% of it They borrow that money and they reinvested in other products that are going to enhance their revenue stream and the design of the Rules is that I don't want the other owners sharing in my local revenue. So I'm gonna build all of these I'm gonna start separate companies. I'm gonna build an outside center field, but it's not a revenue It's not something that goes on in the ballpark. And so therefore I'm going to do all of these things

The other thing is I'm gonna start RSN's the regional sports networks. I'm gonna build them I'm gonna have ownership So then I have ownership of the RSN So my right if I was negotiating with a true arms length transaction my right might be worth 300 million So what I'll do I'll pay my team 75 million for that 300 million dollar right I'll own the RSN and I'll keep that money and the RSN so I don't have to share with my other owners That's interesting. You talk about transparency. There's not really transparency with the owners themselves

Because they are using the rules to keep more revenues within their specific franchise And they don't really want to deliver, you know, for example, the RSN contracts are delivered. They're redacted You can't read them. You you have no idea what's going on So when people talk about revenue sharing you have to get a definition of revenue Get a definition of revenue. You've got to go in and talk about For every player who plays a game and attracts an audience what revenue is that audience bringing to the entirety of each franchise and

To create a definition that is brought to actually bring in that number I think it's not something that in any way an owner of a franchise or MLB's representation wants them to do because it would expose to the audience about Why these franchises are quadrupling in value over 15 years and the reason is they're making a lot of money That's interesting. So the competition is primarily between the owners and not necessarily between the owners and the players If you look at it from a very like high level a big picture They have more to lose in terms of their next-door neighbor

Kind of coming into their market and taking money out of their pocket as opposed to giving a bigger contract once every couple years I think PFT a lot of people think this negotiation is about management and players The real negotiation of my mind is about the infrastructure of how ownership shares this revenues and that if you are the Representatives of the owners and you're in the you're you're the lawyer for them You've got a problem because you've got a lot of people saying a lot of things to you And so you reach an agreement in March and all of a sudden There is a totally different strategic measure because every owner says they want to play games

And then all of a sudden a lot of owners don't want to play games and others do and so that Dynamic is what takes so long to get offers. We were done in March 26th They had an agreement for April 10th to get together and make offers do things First offer came May 26th. Why because there was a in my mind a real deliberation Among the owner's interest about how to approach this and what to do So as Rob Manford is kind of he's put it as a figurehead in charge of overseeing some of these negotiations here He said that 40% of revenue is tied to the gate now does do the individual owners have a legal Responsibility to tell him the truth in terms of their overall revenue or is he just kind of asking everybody?

Putting his finger in the air and saying yeah, it feels like about 40% Well, again, you use the term revenue And my point is the narrowness of what they describe revenue they can concoct a 40% number But the thing is that just in the RSN values just in the ancillary revenues to come in that term revenue is so I think varied from the consideration of the of the all the Potentials of how you define

what revenue is for each franchise and Until you have and you say we're going to look at anyway an Owner of a major league team can make money. I can go and work with my municipality Remember we reached an agreement the next day the angels announced this billion-dollar project to to build this tremendous Ancillary construction outside the stadium maybe a new stadium that is going to track is going to have hotels

It's going to have Restaurants dining it's going to be a Disney land to if you will and All of this is on and never announced until after an agreement and so consequently you've got a whole different business Plan that is done due to the attraction of the stadium I don't think you'd be doing all this in a parking lot in Anaheim off the five freeway unless there was a major league team there to Basically promote and draw attention to the millions of fans that will come to this area And so is that revenue or is it separate?

Is it something that we look at and how we talk about the value of players or how we talk about how the value of Ownerships is derived. We know in the purchase price of the teams That that is certainly considered because why are these teams now worth? You know two three four billion when they were worth Two or three hundred million twenty years, so you you said that they're gonna play this year We're it looks like they're gonna play this year But there's obviously the big looming CBA 2021. Do you think sitting here right now that it's gonna be? We're gonna get up to a strike and it's gonna be similar situations because what we're describing right now doesn't seem like a healthy

Financial relationship between the owners and players. Well, certainly, you know, we we had a billion dollars in revenue and ninety three billion and two thousand Around seven billion in two thousand ten and now we're up to eleven and going to fifteen Our industry is very helpful the media contracts in a pandemic. They just negotiated a three and a half billion dollar rights fee for the playoffs So this is a game fresh content The greatest thing about baseball is that now we have new streaming rules Where if you own the rights and the RSN you can have a menu and Netflix or Amazon or anyone can go purchase a game from you

And they could pay you double the rates and then because they want that game broadcast or streamed on there on their site So their platform, so there's all kinds of new ways to Create the content fresh content. That's really what the audience wants That part of baseball is so great because we have a hundred and sixty two dates We're not an event game. We're a life game, you know football They play once a week and they only play, you know, a few games a year and the reality of it is we were a part of life and that content is of great value and Therefore this game is very healthy now. It is really more it's not about

The idea that we're baking a great pie every year It's really how we distribute the pie. It's going to be the issue in this process So you are you've been very successful in your career I would imagine in part because you're able to put yourself in the position of your opponent at the Negotiating table or your adversary Whatever word you want to choose to describe that that person that you're going to be going to bat for against with a player In your opinion What would their strongest argument be on the ownership side for the reason why salaries have stayed the same

Essentially over the course the last four years while the revenue has grown It's certainly not revenues and it's not historic because we've always seen salaries go up When revenues have gone up in major league baseball when there is a representative Process where the players are collected players have solidarity when the players don't have solidarity I believe that they're there's their salaries Are not going to take the appropriate steps that they they should and so it's really about Players looking and deciding what their rights platform needs to be going forward What they're willing to do to obtain it. There's always a sacrifice made by a small group in that

Group for the for the large for the for the most And that's how unions work. It's always how they work and so the really a lot of this is the a choice and I think going forward that players will have to review and examine that and understand that There is never going to be a transparent Sharing of what the true revenues of the sport are

because The definition of revenue Is not shared by both sides And when you talk about when you have the information And others don't that's an advantage And so always knowing what the true revenues are Allows you to know what good business is to reach an agreement

and obviously The most difficult part for the players is to really Look at one another and say We believe this we understand this we know this and therefore we're going to take this stance versus the decision-making of of Ownership where they know a great deal more but my suggestion is that even

individual franchises Know what information they have to give the league and they know what they don't have to give the league So there's always that going on as well Uh, so you got criticized by trevor bower publicly on twitter. What happens after that? Do you reach out to his agent? Do you reach out to trevor? Like how how does that play out? Do you not care? What did you what was the next 24 hours like after he you know says that you're meddling with the mlbpa and making it difficult to bring baseball back?

um I were at my job as as an attorney. I represent you know the 100 or so major league players I represent um It has no I I frankly wasn't aware of it for A day or two because i'm focused on our clients and what we do right how we do it and I I always believe that

you know When you play professional baseball you learn that you deal with your teammates you deal with your people and you deal with people you work for and I have varied opinions on What the people that I work for I make sure those opinions are communicated to their union I'm not involved with the day-to-day operation of the union because of the fact that I represent individual players And my job is to make sure that their voices and their concerns are given to the union um and so as

uh People that speculate They don't know what I do. They don't know my role the players. I represent do um zack britain responded uh and told I think everyone involved uh where What my role is with them is that I give them information

We have discussions. I communicate their voice and really illustrated the truth of what I do And all I care about is that the players I represent know that And that um if players want to talk to other players that I don't represent and there is a question about it That's probably the best way to communicate Among them in uniforms so that they can they can get a dialogue and understand it Yeah, what are some of the unintended consequences is going to be going into next year's next off season's free agency When there are going to be so many fewer games played this year no matter what agreement is reached Obviously, I would assume that there's the argument that you could make

There's less wear and tear on the player's body. They're healthier going into free agency But then there's also some of the players that don't get a chance in a contract year To really step up and and have a year that defines them and puts them in a good position going into the off season So what are some of those other unintended consequences that we might not see coming for you and your clients? I think you always have to put yourself in an ownership chair and talk about What is it that I how do I make my decisions? Well, what what do we do? And the thing is when you have a player with a very consistent track record

Who is a an elite player and he goes out and for 60 days just does more of what he's done in the past Um that you're not really concerned about the length of the season. You're not you You you might particularly for pitchers you would probably say that's a benefit I'm getting a fresher fresher player when I contract with him because he had less innings on his arm and and such going forward um for players that have been hurt and players that have of uh um Have not established the consistency in their careers

um, obviously the shorter time Uh allows more speculation because there's Less opportunity, uh, you know, I always say that In our jobs, you you don't worry about the cup. You worry about the coffee Because whether or not there is a quarter of a cup or a full cup The reality of it is you want the quality of that coffee to be what it should be and so It's up to the cup how much coffee is in it and so that's not That doesn't have anything to do with the quality of the coffee and our job is the quality of the coffee

So, uh, the real reason why we had scott on the show today is he wanted to have a big platform to announce Uh chris bryant accepting a seven year hundred million dollar extension with the cubs hometown discount So walk us through that negotiation. What made you uh decide to Get probably a lot less money for chris bryant to stay in chicago. Great job. By the way Has the dream ended for you chicago? I thought maybe you tip your hand or something your reaction People or what we'll put this clip out You I thought I thought you froze on camera for a second

That's how good you are at uh with your poker face and not even giving like a twitch of like. Oh my god What does he know? No, there was nothing there nothing In this dream. Did you walk into in and out burger and get Five for one That day happened too Okay, so you're saying that chris bryant's going to sign a 35 year 500 million dollar contract I don't think I was referencing anything to do with chris bryant. I was We're talking about your dream about things that you would find to be most rewarding. Yeah, um, so so, uh

Realistically this year with the 60 games. Have you had any conversations with uh pictures? On your uh, you know your roster of clients and how teams might use them because I would imagine a lot of teams with that This type of sprint are going to maybe go short rests Uh, you know smaller rotations That probably affects clients both ways, you know, some guys probably fringe rotation guys not getting as many starts or You know workhorses getting uh worked a little bit more than usual. Have you had that conversation? I think the the starting pitchers it's more calculated as to their You know their program for

Building into a season Because you can you can define that what I'm most concerned about is the real the bullpen. Yeah, because the frequency of use The demands on them They are the When the starting pitcher has to come out earlier or when he has to Titrate is scheduled to build up innings all those things. I think are going to be protective measures that are easy to implement

The issue is going to be The games that go along the relievers that are pitching extra extra innings um, all of these things are going to be an issue and Just the frequency with which they're going to be used because essentially They are the the backstop They are the they are the in line for whatever irregularities occur in a game and it is It is those men that I have the greatest concern about and it's a good point because I would imagine managers are going to have a

You know quicker trigger when it comes to pulling guys out knowing that there's only 60 games managing games like the playoffs and Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is the year where we're starting that a pitcher who comes in has to face three batters, right? Correct. So that changes, you know, you can't go just you know, keep pulling one guy in one guy out guys are going to have to Pitch a lot out of the bullpen. Interesting Do you think that the owners are afraid of you? Oh, no not at all we we work with You know, we work with owners because remember that 95 percent of our jobs is really collaborative We're we're talking about players health. We're talking about players conditions We're talking about how to make players that we have in their organization better

um, this is a very uh um, you know, we we have resources and and in boros corp that Other agencies don't have because we have a sport fitness institute. We have 10 trainers. We have a medical staff We have psychologists We have a database that is Unlike any other and so consequently you're able to have conversations with with owners

At levels that really enhance the performance And we have success rate measurements that illustrate that our clients really do Form and succeed in the game at higher levels And so we like to share those things with them because really We have a we have a common interest in almost 95 of what we do and that is we want players to play well Be optimal do well and and execute their contracts both before and after they sign and it's it's really a

It's a very participatory relationship and you're you're really working together Pulling the same rope to make sure players play well I love it. Yeah, you you live your life kind of uh on the cutting edge of all these different metrics You're famous for having your binders or your folders that you will you will use to Demonstrate a player's value not only before they sign with uh with the team But also after as you're working with them My question for you is do you have a binder on yourself? That you show to a player that's trying to choose which agent to represent them and you're like, hey, here's here's boros corp's

Winds above replacement compared to the other agents out there. Well, we have many different ways of evaluating the system if you will Which I think is common to anyone who represents players Um, you know, the main thing is we talk about what we do and you know, we've We've negotiated over, you know the last Three or four years over two billion two and a half three billion dollars for the contracts and that's unparalleled and

in really any other Baseball agency and anyone involved and that really shows the illustration of working with ownership and working with great players and creating that bridge that allows them to Um, you know achieve their objectives and their goals And also work with ownership so that you know, we've we've had a lot of players sign big contracts and and they won world championships and uh or The discussions of signing major draft picks high level draft picks that have really allowed teams to win world championships

For example, there's a player you guys aren't really aware of and chris bryant Who was the second pick in the draft and became a rookie of the year and an mvp and won a world championship So these these types of things You know are in many ways franchise decisions And we're you get a lot of calls you get there's a lot of information exchanged. There's a dialogue um In the end clubs are going to choose the players they want And our job is to give them enough information so that that

That selection that they make uh is um, they've heard Everything that they can to consider to make what we would consider a positive choice And then once they do sign the contract the execution level Is second to none about what we do to make sure that players Perform at high levels this guy chris. He sounds like he's had a really successful career so far in Chicago Like it might be kind of a gamble if you were to ever leave You know the location that that he's really laid down roots in hitting eye. Yeah. Yeah, sounds like he should stay It feels like there's a lot of risk if you were to leave frozen again

Who knows what happens, you know the the greatest thing in sport is to be wanted to be coveted The greatest thing in sport for you is free agency And uh to be wanted to be coveted for a player It's it's such a warm feeling and I want you both to know that I will extend that message We we should have we should make a like a one shining moment where it's always the greatest You know plays in march madness in the thrill of sport

Except that scott boris is just headlines of huge contracts the greatest spill Thrill in sport free agency. I have one last question for you. It's a little out of left field to use a baseball term We went to your office last time Beautiful office gorgeous office When guests go to your office Are you okay with them using the bathroom that bathroom for everyone? Correct? We have multiple bathrooms. Yep. Oh And you use the media bathroom, right? Which is open for everyone

Would you say that it would be borderline inappropriate for a first time guest to your office to use the bathroom for an extended period of time? Well, remember that the we don't have a doorknob on our door Yeah, so the rarity of People that come to our office Usually you have to be a major league caliber, right? And therefore We invited you because you've reached that status and I congratulate you. Okay, so that means he Could have pft could have used the bathroom instead of making a stop at a 7-11 right down the street And he used that bathroom instead because he was so intimidated by you

Well, uh, the attendant in the bathroom was ready for you. Well, so I wanted you to know that we had all forms of sprays perfumes Dumb when you leave I was it was there for you And I if I'd only known the need we would have given you the appropriate response You said you said you said you said yourself that the the restroom is You know a lot of major league ball players and elite athletes go there I would assume that the infrastructure that you have inside the actual stall is more well equipped to handle the

production of a very Somebody with high nutrition in their body of which I am not so I was just trying to save you some money on your plumbing bill For some reason that makes me the worst person in the world. No Holding it in at a guest house before I leave Just to let you know in me player Facilities, we have video equipment and we also have their nutritional Juices and such that they drink now in the media room. We have donuts before noon. Yeah, and then we then we have

your classic filly You know cheese steak Yeah, type dynamic for you. So we we appeal to our audience. That's actually a good point You know how to keep the media happy the media bathroom disgusting things and uh, there's nothing that they have they have enough Soda diet coke and they'll be happy. There's nothing that media toilet Of course, we have we have a full Compliment of lice off spray, right, right? Okay. So you're the best. Thank you Um, thank you for Steven Strasberg. Just thank you

Always a pleasure fellas. You know that. Yeah, she had that. Yeah, and uh, hopefully we have no labor stoppage in 2021 although You're gonna get the best deal because you always do, right? Well, uh, that is not my arena. I represent individual players, but I'm sure the The the major league baseball players association is hoping for what you just said they want to I'm sure get this done and move forward And uh, and I hope they do and I hope all the all the baseball works that way Yes, all right. Well, thank you so much scott boris always a pleasure. We really appreciate it and uh, Best of luck in in the 60 game season. We all want to see it. So we're excited for baseball to come back

And you know, I congratulate You big cad pft on your success because when I first met you you didn't have a desk Yes, that's true. That is true. We're coming up now. We have an assignment test too huge huge huge come up for us You're on your way. Yes. Thanks again. I appreciate it That interview with scott boris was brought to you by our good good friends over at peloton Everybody knows I've got the peloton bike set up in my living room. I'm riding buns of anarchy. I'm beating jeff schwarz I'm beating matt liner. I I lost to blake kepka Unfortunately, he made his comeback you put his bike outside to get extra expert level

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Slash app and now ryan whitney and now for something completely different Okay, we now welcome on our good friend ryan whitney whit uh First of all, how's it going? How is quarantine for you? How's quarantine ben and how is your golf game? I'm assuming it's gotten better. Yeah, I mean at the beginning quarantine was a nightmare I was marked true still winter had nothing to do But it's the weather got better and better and golf came back slowly But surely it's gotten a little better. You mean I need something to do at night. I need sports back I can only watch dugs so often

But still I mean overall uh with golf back. I mean i'm living as good as I can. It's great to talk to you guys Yes, good to hear from you right here and from you. What's your handicap down to? Uh, it's about a zero right now. You know, no big deal. You're scratching out there. Nice. Nice Yeah, I just thought they're scratching in it. You know how it is. Um, all right, so We've heard about the mba We've heard about baseball Hockey had their announcement like a week ago or so where they said that this is what the seating is going to be Everyone makes playoffs basically

What we I feel like we haven't heard anything since are we gonna get hockey or no I go back and forth every day, but but I really do think we will I mean this there's It's just you see the reports of guys on the pga tour testing positive and people are flipping out They shouldn't be playing and blah blah blah, but in talking to players They want to play I'm kind of surprised by that Because it's been so long in its middle of the summer and hockey players love playing golf But when you look at the realistic Point that

Money next year will just be a disaster for these guys if they don't play Because of what's going to happen with escrow and all the boring type stuff So I mean I I think that that they're going to get it done. I really do I mean it's going to be weird and it's interesting to see all these teams that got in Barely into this playing round and I've called it. It's going to be the corona cup this year So they're actually only going to take off the top bowl of the Stanley Cup and hand it to the winners So forever a little bit of an asterisk people have argued with me over that but still I just think it's different It's odd, but I still want to watch hockey

So I think we will be back I really do and in that we'll be seeing what it's like to To watch hockey in front of no fans and watch fourth liners try to get up to You know getting people's faces and being pain in the ass without the fans You know firing them up. So it'll be it'll be weird. Wait. Are you serious that when they hand out the Stanley Cup? It's not going to have the bowl on the top No, it's just going to be the ball. They're just going to give the ball just the top Yeah, the only the only thing that you can drink out of is what they're passing around. I kind of like that

Yeah, exactly the stuff that's had, you know, god knows what in it before we'll just be handed around this year They had my lips on it. So it's got all sorts of communicable diseases. We know that In that case, nobody should be touching that shit. Yeah So what what when they do if they do come back and play And we all are hoping for it. How weird is it going to be to play in front of absolutely no one and how much does that change? Like which teams have a shot and which don't because like Obviously playoff hockey when you're on the road. It's very difficult It's going to be so bizarre. It's so bizarre and like I mentioned

I think it's way harder for the guys that That play that in your face like i'm a piece of shit type player where it's like the crowd fires me up Whether it's the crowd that hates me or the crowd that loves me because I do play this third fourth line role So it's like those guys, I mean, they're gonna have to get up to be in people's faces With no fans and no noise now For the viewers I've seen a bunch of different reports that they've already tested out how the You know the the computer generator to the fake fans would look and it actually looks decent

So I I mean that part might be decent might be okay But the players in terms of getting up for games It's going to be so odd and you'll be able to hear everything set on the ice to every guy The coaches will be able to be heard by the other bench. It's just What's hardest to even imagine it because we've never seen anything like this to even picture what this is going to be like I will say I I I've kind of thought this over And I think that the first few games will be bizarre And and people will be getting their foot

But by the time if this goes on and then there's you know, east of conference finals West of conference finals cup finals. I mean at that point, they'll be so used to it It'll be it'll be as good as you could as you could get I think it's just the beginning in terms of guys getting their feet under under them and figuring out like How weird it's going to be to play so hard and play in your in your face type hockey with no crowd You know what they should do? I think it would suck personally They should bring back the uh the fox puck track system and just have that for the first two games

So that we can all complain about that and how bad that is and then they can take that away And then the viewing experience will look great compared to seeing that little red dot fall of the puck around everybody So it's yeah, they give them something even worse to really block what you're worried about getting sure for I like that idea Exactly. Yeah throw throw the haters a bone very smart Um, what do you think that this favors teams that have kind of an older group of guys? They get some time off to kind of get their legs under them get rested up for the playoffs Or is it a young man's game? We're like, okay We're gonna we're gonna quarantine you all in this in this weird new city

So it's better if you're like a younger guy who's a little bit more resilient anyways Well, it's certainly the young guys league, you know young legs uh, but I don't know how these young guys have been living during quarantine, right? I mean the young guys would be the one who's ended up getting after it all the time You can't go to bars, but you could still have a bunch of house parties these older guys with their family They might have been just kicking it taking it easy the entire time So I know we talked to uh, Alex cologne on the on Tampa Bay and we were kind of asking him similar type questions

That he just mentioned that their whole team's already talked about just really being smart Living correctly doing what they should be doing in terms of on their own in quarantine So I really don't think it's going to help older or younger It's just going to depend on who's taking care of themselves throughout this three four month break So the draft lottery was on uh, thursday or friday night. Oh, oh, here we go So were you in fate for people who didn't see the nhl did the draft lottery? They decided the first uh, whatever it was eight picks ten picks. I think it was eight picks and then um, the last

No, the number one pick they left blank and they said there's going to be a phase two where they decide who gets the number one pick What did you did you know? Did they say this was coming this and was this a total like m night shamalan twist? Yeah, this was a serious twist, but it was so perfect. I mean, you know, it's like whatever what's that all PFC, you'll know what's it murphy's law anything that can't go wrong. Will is that it? Yeah. Yeah, we can change that to whistle Although I like that just take credit for it. Shout out to me. Shout out to me. Remember in that law I didn't understand the exact rules but going in I was reading about the lottery, but I was I was like, all right Well still we Detroit Detroit should get it. Detroit was just horrific this year for any one who is in a hockey fan Just a horrible season. They needed that first overall pick

It's gonna be this kid LaFrenier from the Quebec junior league I might be saying his name wrong, but he's sick So I was watching figuring Detroit would get it. They got the best odds and if not, it's another team that isn't playing anymore and what do you know The number one place card is just an nhl symbol It's like hold on We dragged you guys all in for this big lottery show Now we got to make sure we just wait a couple more months till we see who gets knocked out from the play in

Fake ground in the corona cup. So it's like what what else could happen? It just makes total sense so the one thing I was confused about was that I I texted our spitting chicklets group. I said so can a team who wins the Stanley Cup get first overall An r.a. Was trying to explain it to me making zero sense, but he ended up saying The rangers are the only team who could like realistically win the cup and get the first overall pick But it's crazy crazy odds that would happen but With law so you never know. Maybe the rangers do you pull this out? Everyone's saying it's rigged. They put karnic david and edmonton

There's no chance. It's rigged. Yeah, do they do the frozen envelope? Have there been conspiracies or I guess it would be like a warm envelope for a hockey guy But has there been ever any accusation of this type of thing? Surrounding the nhl like it did with david stern There was a lot of talk around sydney crossby in terms of Pittsburgh penguins You know, they were going to move to canton city You know mario lemus team was gone all of a sudden after a lockout They get they get the number one pick sydney crossby. I got to be rookies with him and then he you know the rest of the story

Right. Oh, I didn't know that you played the city crossby. You never bring that up all the time. Oh, that's cool I don't know. I never mentioned that on this show. I kind of didn't want to be uh One of those people who brags But I did play with them and that was that was an instance where you could say was this thing right Pittsburgh's given the the next greatest player of all time. So we'll we'll see I I just feel bad for detroit redwinds fans. I love the redwinds. They were team like team growing up So I do feel bad for them. Um, what so if they play give us a uh, the team you think's gonna win and maybe a dark horse team Okay, okay

I've said all year that I like Tampa just because of what they went through last year and then bouncing back And kind of starting off slow and just really picking things up before all this hit now Not that means nothing now But I just refused to to believe a team that good isn't going to win a Stanley Cup at some point in these few years So I'm just going to keep taking them every year. You know how that works And a dark horse team a dark horse team. I like man That's a tough one a team that let me let me try to think of a team who got in

And they shouldn't have if it wasn't for the corona cup Let's go to black hawks. Yep. Yeah, you're gonna say it jinx Yup, they got the pedigrees a little bit of that explanation Oh, they went in the past for you get hot you get, you know, you get a little momentum You don't have to go on the road. You get I actually think Correct me if uh, this is way off But I actually do think the first round Like there will be a benefit to playing in that first round playoff hockey five game series

And they're going to jump on some of those higher seeds That aren't don't fully have that like oh do or die mentality yet Because they've been just skating around playing the seeding games It don't really matter when there's you know, not as much as stake I know and they don't and then these games mean so much more to the teams and like to move on as opposed to the teams to figure out The seeding it's such I mean it's a clown show. I'm not sure for them They just had to be done. You had to figure out something they're doing the best they can but it is a clown show Yeah, and so the other team maybe maybe I'm thinking so I'm thinking of a weird scenarios and hot goal tending

You bring up Crawford carry price best goal in the world Wouldn't it be fitting if Montreal sneaks in and somehow wins the Stanley Cup or the corona cup? Excuse me. So who knows asterisks. Yeah, that could happen. Yes So we gave our list of teams in major league baseball where if they win the world series who gets an asterisk and who doesn't ahead of time I'm going to say right now if a canadian team wins a Stanley Cup It gets an asterisk. Yeah, if it's american team, we earned that shit Yeah, it's been about 27 years since canadian team won the cup. So where are they going to play? Have they figured that out yet? I know they they've narrowed the list down to what five different cities

I've been told I've been told sorry drop. I've been told east is going to vegas Makes sense and then the west is kind of the west is deciding I think you know Edmonton's up. They're making a push for chicago's actually a possible destination I don't really know exactly what's going to go down But I've been told the east is for certain in vegas. So those guys are prior wired up Yeah, um, they should just they should kill two birds with one stone in the west Have it at an awesome venue that already doesn't have any fans They're just send them to mystery Alaska and have the west play like pond hockey. Is it even frozen up there still?

I don't know. I don't know with global line. You never know Very true. You never know with all this water melting everywhere. What are you water's already melted Yeah, the globe is turning a bit soupy. What are you going to do? My last question is what are you going to do if they They're back. They're playing hockey. There's going to be some day hockey and it's Ryan Whitney has to decide whether he's going to play 18 holes or watch hockey because that's kind of your job Oh, no, I'm playing I'm playing all right. And um, you know later I catch up on You know the dvr The new dvr system that is put in some certain cable boxes and then we record check with it nice

So, no, I mean, I got I got about a five month golf season in Boston, Massachusetts So I'm playing golf. Okay. Those those day games will have to get my eyeballs later when I can fast forward through the boring parks Yep, congrats on not saying tivo. I would have I would have thought for sure that ryan Whitney would be a guy that just uses the word tivo instead of dvr You think I'm a tivo guy I played with crossby. You think I'm a tivo guy. Yeah tivo guys are a Are you going to be on nhl network? Am I going to have to look at your ugly mug every night? No, no, I'm done there. I'm done there. I'm full-time barstool boys. Welcome Love it. I should say thanks for the welcome. Love it. Love it. Um, Hank, you any questions for for your sigmask guy

No, but I was home last weekend and I was wearing a barstool shirt And uh, I was in the liquor store and the guy was like, oh barstool like pink. Whitney the shit sells like crazy I was like, yeah guys from situa. He's like, oh really? I was like, yeah, he's like, wow Yeah, fucking 02066 How does he not know ryan whitney I don't know. He was just like, oh, he's like barstool. He's like everything barstool sells it goes crazy Like new nurse and pick whitney. I was like, yeah, probably because you know How mad is biz that he didn't get his face on a uh on a bottle and it's you

You didn't give a shit. He's making the same amount of money. I am Okay, that's fair. Well, your your face isn't is that your face? Yeah, it's his face Um, I I mean, I lost a couple teeth. There's my face on there. I thought it was on there Looking at a bottle right now. I'm looking at a bottle right now. I mean disconnect doesn't have the same ring I think whitney's just a beautiful last name. Paul. I don't even think my wife married me. I also That was an all-time joke that you made on on biz. Yeah, it's the chick. It's the chicklets logo. My apologies I thought it was for some reason. I really don't put my no enormous ears That my ears would fit on the goddamn bottle. That'd be great though

Like that would be the the mark of when you've finally had enough pink whitney once ryan whitney looks attractive on the label Right, then then you've had enough. Yeah, put the bottle down. Yeah, also inspired by Once you give that guy above a six on the bottle kind of spot drink Also, uh inspired by you whit. I uh have been developing a drink of my own called the uh, it's it's vodka and v8 splash And I call it the red henry I like that. Okay. Isn't that just kind of like, um What's that drink people drink in the morning? That's terrible m m m mosa bloody mary. No

No Bloody mary. Isn't that just the bloody mary? No bloody mary is like bloody mary mix. This is just v8 splash No, v8 not v8. You think it'd be a juice v8 splash is like kool-aid type type drink Oh, okay. Okay. I was thinking v8 juice. Yes. All right. Hey, Hank. I'll crush her red henry. Yep. I like it Yeah, come on soon. It's you just invented juice and vodka together Well, yeah, I mean, yeah, it's pretty sick mix. I mean, I don't think anyone's ever had one That's the same way. I no one had ever had pink lemonade vodka. So it's it's incredible

Thanks to New Hampshire and for listening to me finally. Yes. Absolutely. All right. Well, wit Uh, thank you as always. We appreciate it. Hopefully we will talk some hockey when hockey does come back But thank you for joining us. I'd love to come back on when there's actual sports going on. So I love you guys very much Yeah, it only took me three days. You just just completely ignored my first. Yeah, sorry. I'm a real bad tech guy Ask anyone. I mean, you're famous to shit. Sometimes we've got to keep you in, you know, keep you in check All right. Thanks, man. Talk to you later. Thanks. What? Hey guys That interview with wit dog was brought to you by our friends over at simply safe They've been sponsoring us for I believe about four or five years right now

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Free shipping 60 day money back guarantee with that url. Okay. Let's get some segments We got a pr 101 for the state of mississippi state of mississippi has Finally voted to get rid of the confederate portion of their flag, which is It's crazy that that still existed in 2020 but good on them for getting rid of it it did it is kind of uh shows how It works in the south when the sec says they aren't going to do any championship events in the state of mississippi

And that basically changes everything and they start losing recruits and players It's the sec when the sec talks then people listen. That's yeah when it affects college football, right then change happen You know what they should do they should impose a billionaires tax on like the richest people in mississippi And say that okay, we'll increase this tax But 33 of the revenue generated is going to go to hire new coaches So like it'll be a direct impact on the system on on your favorite team, right? So now we have to redesign the mississippi state flag. I know billy was thinking the other day with kyle long Why not bring back the union battle flag? Nobody nobody reps the north the winners only yeah a banner

Just have a championship banner. How about we have our friend brandon walker He just becomes the flag. Okay, it's his face. Yeah, I was saying like dk meccaf taken a piss on the field Also good. That'd be sick. It's got the flag has nothing but straight lines on it. Yeah, also good Let's see maybe what if it was just It's like subtraction by addition and you keep the confederate flag on there But then you put a circle with a line through it on top of it. Mm-hmm. I like that I like that the um or just right sucks next to it or just or just maybe just have the word mississippi on there Because mississippi's always kind of cool to read. Yeah. Am I crooked letter crooked letter?

Yeah with the ism iss iss I ppi. Yeah, that's kind of cool Just have that just have it say mississippi. Oh, you know what it should be it should be If depending on who wins the egg bowl that year if it's Ole Miss or if it's mississippi state Their logo gets to get to go in the upper left hand corner of the flag for the remainder of that year Oh That would now that would be incredible the flag bowl that would be incredible. I like that a lot You just get the you get the entire State

Yeah, every single for for 365 days. Mm-hmm. Yes. Um, all right. What uh, oh, we have one more. We have the esports update doctor disrespect What the hell happened He so doctor disrespect for those that don't know was like top, you know top three streamer It's like nick merc's him a few other guys But he's one of the one of the big guys big cash cow for twitch his account just got taken off twitch on friday There was no news. There was no statement. They just said that they took his account down without giving any details

So no one really knows what's going on Uh, people think he might have got arrested people think i'm of the of the thinking that There's a conspiracy theory and all the this is like the most twitch thing ever all the conspiracy theories and stuff are coming from 4chan so it's like who knows what to believe Yep But one of them is that because the mixer stuff we talked about last week like ninja and all the big streamers from them Aren't on mixer anymore that there's a rumor that Spotify who obviously we know spends a shitload of money like on podcast joe rogan all that stuff

They're starting a streaming gaming service And they were recruited doctor disrespect and all the people from mixer and twitch found out and shut them down But there's been no There's been no no no light. No nothing has been brought to light. It's crazy like in in today's day and age when like People get to the bottom of stuff so fast. There's still no answers Yeah, but just so that we're clear What should our company line be on this right now? We want the company that's paying him to pay us Okay, so that we want it. We want the bag allegedly. Yes, the company that is allegedly paying doctor disrespect

Yes, our ears are open. Why don't why don't I start like a Rival character to doctor disrespect because i'm already halfway there. I can't grow mustache. I wear sunglasses inside same thing What if I start like professor he's tall you're short professor politeness Where I just like go around giving cpr to people and call a duty. Oh, you should yeah, no Yeah, no kills you just you just heal the team constantly that would actually be electric I kind of like that idea. So is a mr. Manners. It's a permanent ban a permanent ban Yeah, so like there was also a few weeks ago. I know that sounds really stupid to say No, well, so there was a big dcma thing where like uh like like with twitter

uh Music companies randomly went back through a bunch of people's streams and we're like dcma So at first people thought it was just like a dcma temporary ban, but it came out like it's a permanent ban All the emotes are gone. He had partnerships with discord. That's gone. But it's a permanent ban a permanent ban Yeah, but wait if it's absolutely if you subscribe no chance you subscribe you got your money back But no chance could there ever be a world where doctor disrespect comes back to twitch No, I think there's a chance, but like they's not permanent. They they gave money back. You'd have to re subscribe Okay, okay, but but so it'd be a fresh start

So if he is just going to a different service Why would discord also drop him right the other the other four chain rumors? Like there was some type of like sexual assault that went on at at a twitch con or something but that It's all it's all rumors. It's all four chain shit. So it's like who knows what to believe I saw it's all like crazy like it's just crazy that it's crazy to me that nothing has come out officially I saw one rumor that he was cheating like He cheated on somebody that was also cheating on their spouse He cheated on his wife like last year and took like a month off from streaming

But he he did tweet he did tweet out on saturday He tweeted out on saturday that twitch hasn't given him a reason why he's been banned and like nick mercs Tim the tat man who are like arguably one two and three of twitch streamers if they're supporting him They probably know what's going on behind the scenes. I feel like if it was bad, yeah, they probably wouldn't outwardly be like Showing their support for him, you know Damn, I heard you just didn't have his doctorate and he lied. Oh Billy good one. You had all weekend to come up with that and you nailed it. That was good. You nailed it Were you a doctor disrespect fan?

No, I'm a respect guy remember. Yeah, that's true I just had no idea who he was people were very mad that I didn't know who he was and I was like I I said as a gamer should I care and that one guy was like The douchiest thing you could ever do is tweet as a gamer. It's like, yeah, I know I know I know. All right, so Anything else? Do we have anything else? Oh, yeah, there's some more news that just broke actually about the patriots. This is crazy. So this is on the other This is all patriots news broadcast right now. We're fired up now. I'm fully back in and season. Yeah, so it's insane

So I I just read this and my first thought was great So the patriots have cam newton and now they have a chip on their shoulder a huge chip In addition to the one that just got taken off cam newton shoulder It's the NFL has handed down these penalties to the patriots for their television crew filming the bangles browns game It still blows my mind that that bellichick thought that he needed to get an edge on either the bangles or the browns Didn't the camera crew it was a separate outside camera sources tell Mike Reese 1.1 million dollars in club finds Loss of a 2021 third round pick. Oh, wow. This is this is the dagger

This is what's going to piss bell check off patriots tv crews not allowed to shoot games during 2020 season Oh, shit Wait, that's a lot of last part again. The patriots tv crews are not allowed to shoot games during the 2020 season That is I mean the the the pick I don't really know what that even means It's just like they won't have to do your job. Yeah, they can't make a documentary So this kind of sucks where hank won't be able to use the thing of saying Oh, this is the start of the documentary this year after a bad loss because there is no documentary about those tv crews Right, right, right. Okay. All right. Well hank you feeling you feeling like you're ready. I can't wait

We can also crazy stay very woke. You might have gotten like a top 10 quarterback just out of nowhere You can stay very woke on this and say like bellichick's probably excited about that last point. Yes, like oh, I'm not allowed to I'm not allowed to film stuff. That's true. That is gonna. He's gonna like reinvent the way motion pictures are captured He's gonna yeah, you know what you never said I couldn't draw every single like VR yeah, you have a flip book of the entire season 360 mode VR Yeah, it's so that would be sick of bellichick invented an entirely new type of camera. Yes. Yes. Um, all right, Wednesday We have uh an extra long awesome Dungeons and Dragons episode some big-time things happen It was honestly one of the funniest hour of uh hours of part of my take that I've been a part of it was ridiculous

So, you know, yeah, it's great. And then we're not going to be no show friday because we're off for the 4th of july Uh, so enjoy your 4th of july weekend and then the take ease on monday. So get excited for that lake of the year We'll see everyone wednesday. Love you guys Oh Oh Oh Oh