Pardon My Take - Super Bowl 54 Is Set, Chiefs vs Niners + Trevor Bauer On Astros Cheating Scandal And More
Episode Date: January 20, 2020Fastest 2 minutes from Championship Sunday (2:27 - 6:12). Chiefs offense was too much for the Titans and Andy Reid is going on a diet (6:17 - 24:28). The Packers got smoked by the Niners, Jimmy G thre...w 8 passes and running the football is back (24:28 - 39:48). Who's back of the week including Conor McGregor and his 40 second knockout as well as Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston (39:41 - 52:21). PR 101 for Baker Mayfield. Reds pitcher Trevor Bauer joins us in studio to talk about the Astros cheating scandal, whether or not he's a dick on twitter, experimenting on himself, and drones (52:21. - 92:50). 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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On today's pardon my take, Championship Sunday, we recap who's going to the Super Bowl.
We got it.
Super Bowl 54 is booked, Chiefs, verse 49ers, we're going to recap both games.
We've got a little who's back, Connor McGregor, and we have an interview with Trevor Bauer.
In studio, talk astro-cheating, and also Trevor Bauer basically being a strange guy.
Very strange guy, but interesting guy.
Does a lot of research on himself.
He definitely has several Reddit accounts.
Yeah, he's like Elon Musk if he was a pitcher.
That's a good description.
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Championship weekend.
What?
What?
Super Bowl.
He's not gonna get him.
We start in Kansas City where the Chiefs offense looked clueless in the first corner, dropping
another Paul Dunn falling behind 10 to nothing.
But it all changed when Patrick Mahomes found Tyreek Hill and said, I love you, man.
Derek Clapton Henry didn't look wonderful tonight and there will be tears in heaven
for crying Tannehill as God gained a team but lost a penis.
Andy Patrick Reed mastered offensive football and has everyone a believer as he took the
boys to Outback Steakhouse for a celebratory dinner and the lightning and the chocolate
thunder and the thunder and the lightning and the chocolate thunder.
We finish with Patrick Mahomes on the sideline.
Patrick, boy, I'm certainly proofed after that contest today.
It was real good that our defense was able to bottle up Traktor Cito.
The Titan season is finito.
The Chiefs one ain't that Nito.
Going to Miami for SBL Avito.
Traktor Cito.
I play baseball, home.
Thank you, Patrick.
Appreciate that.
We'll see you in Miami.
Chiefs 35.
Titans 24.
Fumble.
We go to the big bell bottom where these two historic franchises fight for a ticket to
the Super Bowl.
Raheem, hot, spicy, Chinese, most shirt was on a real egg roll, rushing for 220 yards
and four touchdowns and left fans want on more.
General So What, Aaron Rodgers, looked disengaged, enduring the five-second rule when refusing
to go for a second quarter fumble.
Devonte Adams-Lovine had moves like Jagger, but the Packers learned the hard way.
You can't always get what you want, as homeless Aaron Rodgers will be begging Danica to give
him shelter after this disappointing loss.
The 49ers have a chance to win their first Super Bowl since their victory over Natron
Mead's business when Steve Young got the Mucky Office back, only to shove it up his
own ass 25 years later for making fun of Joe Perl for drinking alcohol.
Alright, Championship Sunday in the books, wasn't super exciting with games, the games
weren't super tight.
The first game had its moments, at first it's like when the Chiefs only spotted the Titans
10, instead of spotting them what, 21, 24 on the other week, I can see how these games
are going to go.
It was, I still love Championship Sunday, everyone should love Championship Sunday,
it's great to watch, getting to the Super Bowl always feels like a big deal, it's like
the celebration is always a big deal and the home crowd and everyone behind it, so we'll
start with the game in Kansas City, the AFC Championship game, very cold.
Even before the game started, my biological clock was off, football Sunday because it
was a three o'clock start, so I had not to brag, go to the gym, workout, come back,
my biological clock tells me as a football guy, be on your couch by 1pm at the very latest,
so I sit on the couch, turn on the TV, and I'm like, we got two more hours of free games.
It was forever, forever.
So the game starts and the Chiefs, I don't know what it is, but they just can't start
a game without being in a hole, like that's when they wake up, it's basically Julian Edelman
getting a concussion and getting, you know, starting to play well, they need to be in
a big hole.
Down by double digits, that's their smelling sauce and it felt like for a minute there
that the Titans had like everything going perfectly for them, they're up 10-nothing,
they can run the ball, they can play their game, but they forgot about Patrick Mahomes
and they forgot about what this Chiefs offense has done the last two weeks.
So last week, they go down to the Titans, they're down 24-nothing.
After they're down 24-nothing, they scored touchdowns on seven out of nine drives.
Today, they go down 10-nothing, they scored touchdowns on five of the next seven drives.
It's insane what they can do.
You cannot guard all of them.
The Titans defense, which had played well against Lamar, had played well against the
Patriots, looked completely overmatched.
Well, even if you do guard all their offensive weapons, you know what's going to happen is
Mahomes, he's going to take off and run like he did on that 33-yard scramble, it was bad
tackling.
It was so bad.
That was the game.
He was so good at playing quarterback that he doesn't even need to do like a head and
shoulders fake.
He does an eye fake.
He uses his eyes and he'll make a defender that's pursuing him, stop to try to bat down
a pass.
He takes off, he rounded that corner, there was nobody near him.
And thing is, when he runs, and by the way, he's-
No, there were guys near him, they just all missed him.
He's had two injuries, like two leg injuries this year, like the dislocated knee, we forget
about that, but he's still, he's like deceptively fast as a quarterback.
So he turns the corner and he's gone.
The guy that tried to tackle him at the goal line ended up throwing him into the end zone.
There were three guys.
And away from the other guy that was about to knock his shit off.
37 just mailed it in.
I actually think that a little hot take, but the new rules with hitting quarterbacks makes
it harder for defensive players to fully go at a quarter.
It felt like guys wanted to tackle him, it was bad tackling, but it also felt like if
they went too hard, they would get a penalty because no one went, like it was crazy.
It was crazy.
That was your free shot.
You get, you very rarely get a free shot on a quarterback in the open field and they
missed it.
Not only did they miss it, they ended up just throwing him into the end zone.
And so once the chief's offense got cooking, it was, the game was over basically when at
the end of the first half, the Titans had the ball back with like two and a half minutes,
they'd go three and out and the chief score again and that, that was the touchdown to end
the half and they get the ball back.
They didn't score on the, on the first possession of the second half, but as soon as the Titans
had to play from behind, Ryan Tannehill, great run, they've been incredible.
It was an awesome, like no one thought the Titans would be in the AFC championship game,
but that's not a team that's, you know, can match points with the chiefs when the chief's
offense is cooking.
It was funny because the, the Titans had what looked like a back breaking drive that would
be a back breaking drive against most teams.
It was a 10, it was like nine minute, nine minute drive.
They just marched down the field systematically.
I mean, it looked like it was a lot of work to get down the field because it took, it
took so long, but it was a nine minute drive, they score, then they give the ball to the
chiefs who proceed to score in about like 95 seconds.
It was awesome.
And it's like, it's almost seemed not fair from a Titans perspective.
It's like, we worked so hard to put together this awesome drive and we give you the ball
and then you immediately score.
So it was 15 plays, 75 yards, nine minute drive, and then the chiefs turned around and
scored in two and a half minutes.
It was so cool to watch the two different styles though, because that's how the Titans
were going to have to score.
They were going to have to just grind it out.
And you, that was when they scored that 15 play, 75 yard drive.
You're like, okay, the Titans can win this game because they're up 17, seven.
They're basically just grinding clock, but then Patrick Mahomes does Patrick Mahomes
things.
And again, they start the game out 10, nothing down, 10, nothing in somehow getting to halftime
up four.
It felt like, yeah.
Like the tight, I mean, it was, it wasn't as severe as the Texans game, but it was kind
of the same script where you have the chiefs on the ropes in the first quarter and then
by halftime, the game is completely flipped and the chiefs feel great.
You let them get tired.
And Mike Vrable did, he did run a fake punt when everybody knew that it was going to happen
later on in the game.
Yep.
Earlier in the game, this was around midfield.
It looked like they were going to run a fake punt.
It was a classic Bill O'Brien thing.
They were lined up, looked like they were going to fake the punt.
The chiefs brought one of the gunners in and the punter checked out of it.
And you could tell because it cut to Mike Vrable right after that he was pissed off that they
didn't fake that one.
Yeah.
And at that point I made a little mental note in the PFT mental notebook that like be on
the lookout because Vrable is going to call it fake punt later.
The fake punt though.
But it was like everyone knew it was going to happen.
And it was basically Vrable saying, I think that my punter can throw a better pass than
Ryan Tenhill at this moment.
Now, one thing that we're not doing enough of in this postseason is crediting Jeff Fisher
for the Titan success.
It's true.
Because here's the thing.
He laid the groundwork because he made a trade with the Titans when he was the coach
of the Rams.
And he gave the Titans draft picks that ended up becoming Derek Henry, Jack Conklin, Austin
Johnson, Corey Davis, and Johnny Smith, the building blocks of this team right here.
So we should be giving Fisher a little bit of credit for that.
The chiefs run defense was phenomenal.
And the question of like, can the chiefs play defense in a big time moment was answered
today because they were soft last year in that exact moment against the Patriots in
the AFC championship game.
But they were awesome.
And obviously the game flipped a little bit where the Titans have to play catch up.
But they were.
I mean, Derek Henry was not able to get like the times that Derek Henry got yards was just
really good blocking.
It wasn't Derek Henry just like running over guys.
So Frank Clark, you're off the hook.
That was an all time stupid thing to say before the game, but it turned out to be correct.
Like the chiefs run defense was phenomenal and they deserve credit.
And guess what?
It could be even better in the Super Bowl against the 49ers rushing attack, but they
need the credit because that was kind of the question.
Everyone knows Patrick Mahomes can do it.
And the offense has all the weapons.
Can the defense step up?
And they did.
The honey badger is awesome.
Oh, yeah.
So much fun to watch him play like just having him on the field.
You have to like as as a fan watching him, I feel like a quarterback that always needs
to know where he is.
Like I'm looking for honey badger before the play and I'm calling him out just to myself
and Leroy on the couch.
I'm like, there's a honey badger.
There's a honey badger.
And he had a couple of nice hits today.
Any time he wraps somebody up, it feels like he's going to make them fumble the ball.
Like his he finds a way to wiggle his limbs into these weird places and just punch at
the ball from impossible angles.
He's so much fun to watch play.
Andy Reid.
Can we talk about Andy Reid real quick?
I hope the flag.
I hope they let him coach in shorts as a Super Bowl.
Did you see the flag toss?
Yes.
The most casual waddle to a flag toss I've ever seen in my life.
He the Hawaiian shirts are going to be honest.
It was a drop.
Well, it was a toss.
For the people listening.
It was a toss.
You want to conserve your energy.
You can't be out there just gunning the flag across the field.
That's your time out hand.
Yeah.
And Andy Reid, I'm very happy for Andy Reid.
His post game when he picked up the trophy one handed and it looked like the smallest
trophy in the world next to Andy Reid.
Also, I think it was the owner of the chiefs wearing.
The president tried to peel it.
Wearing earplugs.
Yeah.
You see that?
Unless he has some kind of issue that I don't know about.
That's ridiculous.
He also, they cut to him during the game.
He couldn't even find a high five in his own box.
I mean, that's, we know that that happens.
But I, on a serious note for Kansas City, that looked like an all time fun environment
to be at.
And I love long suffering fan base.
They haven't been in the Super Bowl in 50 years.
They lose last year when they thought it was their year.
They had the one seed and everything.
So the redemption arc of that game and winning it in front of your crowd was so fucking cool.
That one shot when Patrick Mahomes had his arms up and everyone was going crazy after
a touchdown.
They had that long touchdown was so fucking cool and got me so amped up.
So I'm happy for Kansas City.
I truly am.
Like that's a fan base that you can feel happy for.
I don't have a ton.
I'm extremely excited for them.
And Casey Wolfe too.
Yes.
He's gone through his own shit.
The ups and downs of that mascot alone.
He's been basically bipolar now.
He's really happy.
I'm happy for any fan base one that's long suffering that gets to go to Super Bowl two
that lives in an extremely cold environment that gets to go south to Miami for a little
bit.
Take a sunbreak.
Yep.
Hang out down there with the guys.
I'm concerned a little bit about Andy Reed.
He said that he's going to go on a diet this week so he can fit into his Miami clothes.
He's going on the South Beach diet, which is just don't eat anything until you get to
Miami.
I think the diet that Andy Reed is going to go on is he will probably skip lunch tomorrow.
That'll be it.
He'll do brunch instead of breakfast.
He'll get like super hungry by dinner time and be like, well, diet complete.
Here's Andy Reed's diet this week.
Just one type of pork on your breakfast plate.
Yeah.
He'll choose between sausage and bacon.
God.
Andy Reed is also one of those classic.
He's in that classic situation where his legacy if he wins a Super Bowl will change so dramatically,
which shouldn't be like it shouldn't be that Andy Reed's legacy is all determined on one
Super Bowl win because he's been such a good coach for so long.
One you know with the Eagles with the Chiefs been basically in the playoffs every single
year changes his offense has like evolved better than any coach.
But that one Super Bowl win will take him from a great coach to like one of the best.
You know what I mean?
Like that's all it needs.
That's all he needs.
This is we're going to do all of our Super Bowl storylines on Wednesday, but this is
a legacy game for for Andy Reed.
Yeah, well, that's our job is to kind of open that gate and allow him up to the top of our
Pantheon.
Yeah.
If he does win a Super Bowl, but he really deserves it, but he has regardless of whether
or not he wins a Super Bowl.
He's been a great coach for like 25 years forever, but you got to have that ring, baby.
Got to have that.
Have that ring.
Otherwise, no choker.
You're beneath the pit.
You're buried underneath the Pantheon.
Well, you just think of all the losses.
Not the wins.
You just changes.
Our brains are so stupid that way where you where if he doesn't win the Super Bowl, well,
he lost in the big games.
He had, you know, a lot of conference championship losses to so what about what about Ovi?
That's what I'm saying.
Yeah.
One.
Yeah.
So you think everything different about him now?
Right.
Yeah.
Okay.
Right.
I'll give you that one.
But defensive there.
No, I was just you're right.
You're right.
You're right.
I'll stand up for Ovi when I hear when I hear slander upon his name.
He was slander.
He was making a good point.
It was a great point.
Yeah.
One of the things that he's got to have in terms of his legacy is that we don't think
about Andy Reid choking away that Super Bowl as much because we think more about Donovan
McNabb throwing leg throwing up on the field during that drive that Andy Reid mismanaged.
So there's that which he's got going for him.
Also can I just can I say a big fuck you to Mike Bloomberg?
Okay.
Running all these ads during my football Sunday.
Okay.
Like I have no idea what his platform is, but I do know that now it sounds like you're
triggered.
I don't think about Mike Bloomberg as being the guy that's not football because his ads
are all over my screen during NFL Sunday and I don't like it, Mike.
Yeah.
Sounds like a trigger.
I'm very triggered.
I'm exceptionally triggered about Mike Bloomberg.
Yes.
I don't I don't really pay attention to the ads anymore.
So he's got two hundred million dollars.
I read this that he's spent on ads and he's pulling out like four percent.
You got so mad.
You I would be more likely to vote for him if he just lit two hundred million dollars
on fire.
In one ad.
Yes.
Mike Bloomberg.
And look what I can do.
That would be cool.
That would be a lot cooler than interrupting my football Sunday, Mike Bloomberg.
You are triggered.
Jesus.
Well, yeah.
I'm you know what?
I'm scratching his name out of my out of my personal records for candidates that I'm
even considering voting.
I've only I've only seen that Tom Steyer guy.
Yeah.
He's always on there.
Same guy.
Same guy.
Yeah.
He's just walking around in like a Patagonia vest trying to talk to me walking down
like a nice country road.
If you're buying ads, political ads during a football game, you've already lost.
That's number one.
Number two, you should just have like Dennis Leary narrate your commercial like it's a
truck commercial.
Yeah.
Or the rock.
Yeah.
And just call you pussy.
Yeah.
Like you're pussy if you don't vote.
Have it actually just be like, hey, I'm I'm running for president.
But more importantly, here are two trucks trying to tow each other.
Yeah.
And then and vote for me.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's a could actually be the Republican truck and the Democrats.
Yeah.
And you just fucking have them.
And then be like, tune in.
Don't have it finished.
Keep it.
Keep it.
Keep the people wanting more.
Go visit Mike Bloomberg dot com to find out who wins the truck.
That's a new thing, by the way.
I went down a tiktok rabbit hole the other day trying to figure out what it was.
And I got actually very upset at this one kid who put 18 liters of coke into a big tub
and had 300 Mentos and was sitting in the tub.
And he slow mo was about to drop the Mentos and then said, go to my Instagram page to
watch the end of the video.
And I went to his Instagram page and he's like, I'm not releasing it till I get this
many followers.
And I got fucking mad.
Go to my Twitter account.
So mad.
To watch the end of it.
So that's what they got to do for the truck.
The truck off.
Just go to my go to the voting home to vote for me.
And then I will release if I get enough votes to be president, I will release the truck
video.
I like it.
Fuck.
It'd be a lot better than having to deal with that bullshit during football games.
This fucking douchebag kid from California had me just running around the internet looking
for this Mentos video and I want to kill him.
Not actually.
I don't want to be like, I don't know.
He might be a TikTok.
Like, you certainly are getting mad about not being able to see a teenage boy bathed.
Yeah.
Well, I want to see the Mentos just fuck him up.
The men, dude, the Mentos would have fucked him up.
And he also was doing in like a hotel lobby, which is a really douchebag move.
You seem like a body moving.
You guys had some wild weekends.
Yeah.
Crazy weekends.
Crazy weekends.
Political ads in TikTok.
Yeah.
Okay.
Last thing on the cheese.
Speaking of TikTok, we need to get Patrick Mahomes brother to teach us how to use TikTok.
He's really big on that platform.
Yes.
I don't know how to use it.
I logged in and I started in the account.
I think we have a part of my take account that we haven't put anything on as far as
I know.
I'm so happy that we have reached an age where, like I've said this before, but if TikTok
was big like six or seven years ago, I would have already gotten hit by a car on TikTok.
Try to get my cloud up.
I'm past that.
Yeah.
You would have been banned by MLB.
I would have sucked.
Yeah.
I would have been putting my Yabo videos on TikTok and then having them take everything
down.
All right.
Last thing on the cheese.
Well, it'll be a segue to the next game.
Should we talk quickly about the jerseys?
Pantones.
They're very close.
Everyone's talking about it.
Everyone.
Everyone is talking about it.
The cheese red is Pantone 186C.
The Niners red is Pantone 187C at Tipjake Marsh at PMT Sports Spurs.
These are one digit off.
The closest Pantones that have ever had a Super Bowl matchup against each other.
And the Chiefs are the home team, so they will most likely wear red.
I would wear red.
Yes.
I read a study 15 years ago.
It's probably outdated and debunked, but it's the last thing that sticks in my mind that
teams that wear the color red are dominant if you look across all sports professionally.
There's like a small bit of, I don't know what sort of Darwinian or evolutionary trait
being bright red gives you as a show of dominance.
Bright red?
Yeah, like a red, a robust red.
Doesn't that cancel each other out though, because they're both going to have red?
Only one team can wear red during a game.
A solid red.
Yeah.
Solid red.
The other team's going to go, one?
One?
Alabama's maroon.
That's a red.
That's not like a bright red.
They're actually crimson.
They're crimson.
Yeah.
Crimson's a red though.
Yeah, but like not, I don't think red.
I don't think crimson.
Yeah, but it's still, I think it's just any reds.
So when did you read this study?
About 15 years ago.
You read it during like the big red machines run.
I read it 15, 15 years ago.
I don't know what teams were, actually, you know what?
I remember I read it and I thought to myself like, there are no good teams that wear red
right now.
This story is bullshit.
But then over time, the pendulum, it's just all, you know, it's, it's give and take.
So we'll have Jake Marsh break that down for us.
He's got to get, Jake, you're listening to this right now.
I want a full breakdown of all the colors that have won all the major championships in pro
sports and then football and basketball in college.
So give it to us.
Give us all that.
Right.
However, teams that wear red, teams that wear red in the East, they don't win in the playoffs.
I know that.
Yeah.
For the NBA.
That's just my general rule of thumb.
I was betting.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Even though the whole nineties.
Yeah.
Even I disregard.
Throw that out.
Disregard.
Throw it out.
Yeah.
It was an anomaly.
Arroneous.
Okay.
So the next game, by the way, you can watch us.
40.
40 Niners Packers.
Anyone want to, anyone want to talk about the Packers being frauds?
Well, guess what's back is running football, frauds, frauds.
Most certainly had what?
200?
No, no, no, no.
We'll talk about the Niners in a second.
Let's talk about the Packers first.
Okay.
Let's talk about Aaron Rodgers.
I'm worried about Aaron Rodgers.
I'm officially worried about his mental health.
He looked disinterested, disengaged.
Business decision.
Business decision.
On that fumble.
Did not jump on the ball.
He made, he made Cam Newton look like he was hungry.
And that's super, was that Super Bowl 50?
Listen, I, I'm not going to beat up on Packers fans right now because I know like, you know,
the Bears didn't even make the playoffs.
That's fine.
I would personally prefer to not make the playoffs than get my dick kicked in in the
NFC championship game.
That's just my personal preference.
But we can agree to disagree.
The Packers roster, here's a nice spin zone for you Packer fans.
Packers roster is a average quarterback away from being a Super Bowl contender.
I was saying they should, if they can just find a quarterback, they would be good.
I think if they had benched Aaron Rodgers at halftime, that was a way to go get a spark
in there with Timmy D, Timmy Doyle in the second half.
Aaron looked, he looked pretty bad, bad all around.
He had a couple of nice passes in the second half, but the first half he just, he looked
like somebody that has been fucking Brett Farr for a while, just like completely blank
on his face, was just not impressed, not happy to even be there.
$49 defense was awesome.
And their pass rush is awesome.
But yeah, it was, Aaron Rodgers did not look good.
And he's getting older.
And that business decision was a little wild.
I mean, he didn't even attempt to try to get that ball.
He didn't even, that was a big, that was a big fumble.
They were going in for a score.
He didn't stop where he was.
He just kept back battling.
Yeah.
He was just like, no thank you.
No, I'm out of here.
So, uh, Raheem Moser was awesome.
I'll just throw this out there.
All points scored by the 49ers were by X Bears.
So the Bears kind of won this game.
Okay.
Moser, Bears legend.
He was on the Bears for a couple of games.
Bare for life.
Robbie Gold, Bare for life.
So just going to throw that out there.
But yeah, Raheem Moser was incredible.
220 yards, four touchdowns.
And Jimmy G with the Finesse God stat line of six for eight
for 77 yards.
I love it.
Incredible.
But guess what?
It doesn't matter because they knew that they could run on
the Packers and that's what they did.
He had, what, 30 excellent handoffs though?
30 excellent handoffs and Moser had 220 yards.
It felt like it was 500 yards.
They just were ripping off yards whenever they wanted.
And it wasn't like there were a bunch of really long runs
that Moser ripped off.
It was mostly just like 11 yards, 11 yards, 11 yards,
systematically down the field and there was nothing they could
do to stop it.
I'm going to defer my football analysis to a recurring guest
a part of my take, Cato Kalen.
He's a huge Packers fan.
Oh yeah.
He had a meltdown.
He says Packers have worst O-line.
They have no D.
As an owner, I want complete new coaching staff.
Get Mike Shanahan.
LaFleur is wrong choice.
His goatee and whiskers are not for a Wisconsin sports team.
It's too perfect.
Mike Shanahan, get back to coaching.
So he's doing like a little reverse nepotism deal where he's
saying like all these good young coaches instead of like hiring
their kids, go hire their dads to come back.
Does Andy Reed have a father?
If Mr. Reed is still with us, bring him back to coach.
Mike Brable's dad could probably coach.
I wanted Mike Shanahan for the Bears job before they hired John
Fox.
I did.
I very much did.
I very much was on the hire Mike Shanahan.
I need a Pantone check on Mike Shanahan's neck.
He might be one away from the 49ers.
That was an awkward Mike Shanahan going for the high five.
Then like they hugged Kyle and Mike when he was presenting the
trophies.
Like you guys are family, right?
Yeah.
Didn't really realize that.
But Kyle Shanahan, he is the new Sean McVeigh hottest coach in
the league.
His logo keeps getting smaller.
It reminded me this time.
It reminded me this time of the DVD save screen logo that
bounces around.
He should have a gift hat where it bounces around on his
head.
Unbelievable game though by the 49ers.
They're somehow, I guess I get it because the Chiefs have been
so dominant offensively.
The opening line for the Super Bowl is Chiefs minus one over
runners 53.
I'm going to take the over no matter what for everything.
I don't care.
I really don't care.
I'm rooting for the points in this one.
Have to.
So the 49ers like going from last year where they went two
games, obviously Jimmy G got hurt to this where they were,
they were the dominant team in the NFC all year.
Like this was, I beat up on the Packers and called them
frauds, but you know, you are, you know, you play the team in
front of you.
They won 13 games.
They didn't beat really anyone.
But that's kind of the rest of the NFC because the NFC besides
the 49ers just didn't really have any like strong dominant
teams.
And, and the 49ers were basically wired to wire winners in
terms of the NFC.
They were dominant all year and they finished the job and
they kicked the shit out of the Packers twice.
Hey, listen Packer fans, I'm sorry, but you'll be watching
Super Bowl with me.
Can you just imagine, which is actually the best place to watch
Super Bowl.
It's great.
It's great.
Couches are amazing.
Keep your stress level nice and low.
Can we just imagine for a second how good the 49ers running
game would be if they had a tight end that Doug Gottlieb
blocked?
Like how much more how many more yards could they have put up
today?
I like how everyone's like where I saw a few people like where's
Greg Kittle today?
And I was like, well, he's blocking his fucking ass off.
You know what?
Dominating everyone.
He left his dick on the field because he blocked it off.
He blocked for everyone and they that's their running attack
is insane.
I mean they they just won an NFC championship game by 17
points and they threw the ball eight times.
That's got to make that's got to make a lot of the analytics
nerds really upset.
Well, that's the pendulum that swung back where you just you
need to run the ball.
Well, they were they were the analytics nerds got a victory
in the first game.
Yeah, but that's how quickly it swings.
They were so mad.
By the way, did you see how mad people were about that stat
that every time Derek Henry runs for 100 yards, the Titans win?
Yeah.
Of course we know that there's some like that those two don't
correlate.
Someone said it.
They're dumb.
And then they just use that to basically the analytics listen
football guy thing.
They just go at each other all the time and they both are just
yelling to no one.
What we've truly learned from this sample size.
I think it's big enough that in the AFC running the football
doesn't work.
Right.
NFC you need to be able to run the football and it doesn't
matter if you're able to pass.
Right.
Correct.
In NFC championship games.
Here's a stat.
Running backs that run for over 200 yards with four touchdowns
their team wins 100 percent of the time.
So if you can figure out a way to do that in the NFC, you're
golden.
It's comparable.
It's almost like you should just play to your team's strengths.
Maybe.
That's really what it comes out to.
The opponent's weakness.
Right.
It's the opponent's weaknesses that it you know the run pass
split doesn't really matter if you're able to run the ball
really well and if you're able to the Titans not be able to pass
it sucks.
Can I give a shout out to Salah the defensive coordinator for
the 49ers.
Yes.
I don't know if anybody picked up on this.
He puked on the sidelines today.
Perfect.
Because I'm pretty sure he probably had a dip in or something.
But the camera cut to him and he was like coughing for a
second.
And then he just blows just mad that he didn't get a job.
He's just a head coaching job.
This guy is such a football guy.
His hold back guy had a hold back guy.
Need it.
It was a chain of hold back.
Elfin walk is what we call it.
Yeah.
It was crazy.
It was awesome to watch that defense come out and play.
And Rob Lowe Rob Lowe took the internet by storm with the
shield hat.
Shield hat looked awesome.
Yeah.
So Hank you got to the bottom of it.
Right.
You got actual a word from Rob Lowe's camp which Rob Lowe's
camp just being his son.
Oh yes.
Rob Lowe's camp said that he was given the hat by the Fox
executives right before the game.
Huge breaking news.
No one else has that.
For those of you that don't know it was just the NFL shield on
his hat.
He looked like an umpire.
Rooting for both teams.
Yeah.
Rooting for both teams.
Just rooting for Roger Goodell to make money.
Just have fun out there guys.
We have Rob Lowe on one side of the DILF bowl and then we have
Paul Rudd on the other.
Yep.
So it's going to be it's going to be a big hit for people that
are up in the 90s watching movies.
It's going to be great.
So it's official.
We got the Super Bowl.
I'm excited.
This is going to be a great Super Bowl.
Yeah.
I don't know.
You can't really complain.
I was I was happy.
I was I was going to be happy for the Titans because Mike
Vrabel is a friend of the program and everything.
But any Super Bowl with Patrick Mahomes is going to be
exciting because of the type of player he is.
And he's so young and it feels like by the way there was
another thing I saw that was not I wasn't irritated but it
was just one of those things where I have to maybe clean up
who I follow on Twitter.
NBA Twitter was trying to figure out who Patrick Mahomes
is like is he LeBron and Brady's Jordan and Steph Curry
and then Peyton is Kobe and they were doing the whole
fucking thing.
I was like come on guys.
I can't do this right now.
He's definitely like three months.
His dad was an athlete.
His brother is taller than him.
It was so stupid.
It was so stupid.
But yeah.
So this is going to be an exciting Super Bowl.
I'm ready for it.
I'm ready for it.
And so I'm going to say yeah we got to clean up these
teams, we got to clean up these teams.
We've got to clean up these teams to kill time.
We'll do the storylines on Wednesday.
That's part of the time killing.
Andy Reid's going to be on a diet.
We got to be on a diet.
South beach.
Solidarity.
We're yet just look good at south.
I mean I am on a diet.
Yeah we have to we have to clean it.
I ate two salads in the last week and a half.
Yeah.
Can you imagine that?
No.
Can you imagine the state of mind I have to be into?
I cannot imagine.
In the salad room.
them by them going down and say thanks for coming out chiefs. And then Patrick Holmes
liking that tweet after he wins. I'm excited to have Travis Kelsie and Greg Kittle going
head to head so we can find out which tight end is more better than Rob Gronkowski. Hank.
I mean I don't know why you got to bring former players into this but it'll be exciting to
see who the best current tight end is. You got to embrace the bait when it comes to
whoever wins going to get that first role that'll be good for them. Yeah I hope it's
Kittle. Yeah. Oh you're rooting for the 49ers. Officially. As a journalist you're actually
going to root for a team and not for a storyline. Not officially. I'm still up in the air. Hank
is unofficially rooting for 49ers. I'm definitely rooting for Kittle. Okay. You're rooting for
Kittle to have a great game but don't know who you want to win. Correct. But wouldn't
you say that if Jimmy G wins a Super Bowl that is almost another ring for Belichick.
Fact. Yeah but it's going to be one of those things where it's already started with the
Boston media being like did the Patriots actually win the was it the right move to trade Jimmy
Garoppolo two years ago. Like so if he goes out and has an unbelievable game it's going
to be like. Eight. Eight. I hope Jimmy. Yeah I don't know. I'll save my I'll save my thoughts
for. Yeah we have enough time to get ready for all that. Okay before we do our who's
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I agree with what he says sometimes I don't but at the very least you have to admit that
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back hit me don't steal Connor because I was gonna do Connor okay Brangelina oh really they were on
the war show tonight they had a little moment backstage they were holding hands everyone's
getting excited what is Brad Pitt's wife think about that I don't think I think they're divorced oh
wait Brad Pitt named oh no divorce no Jennifer Jennifer Jesus that's my bad wow okay now there's
a roller coaster wait Benifer is Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez what was Brad Pitt and Jennifer
Jennifer Anderson Branniston be a Branniston Branniston's back King of the Norse sounds like a
shittiest in a Thrones character yeah yeah I just got I got my I got my celebrity couple names
but okay so Brannis Brangelina's they're done okay but Branniston wait Brangelina they're done
yeah yeah Brad Pitt and Angelina are broken up yeah when does he still have to look after
really yeah I guess that's how sure yeah being a dad goes fuck what the fuck he's off to deal with
those kids yeah yeah probably legally legally yeah and that's obligated I did see that I didn't
know that's breaking news to me he was rocking a Kansas City Chiefs hat tonight who Pitt Brad Pitt
Brad they've got Rob yeah Rob they've got when this October yeah oh I'm not that bad the October
is not yeah it's not that's forgivable yeah that's football season okay that's when it was finalized
it was announced a while ago okay my other who's back was just curb curb your enthusiasm is it
backpack backpack like back back back back back yeah it came out today it's out right now all of them
no oh see I can't can't do that yeah can't do that anymore like I might I'd like I like I prefer
TV shows I go week by week like so it can you fuck they give you control self-control so you
don't watch them all at once yes I'm always looking forward to yeah no I I like my TV shows where I
can sit down watch them all in one night and then just never remember what exactly happened now is
this going to be an episode or a season like they had in the past where there's a storyline that
kind of runs through all of it or is it just yeah Larry does something awkward yeah I have no idea
Larry finds himself in an awkward situation Larry how does he get out Larry does something to us that
seems reasonable but to the people he's acting with right is unreasonable Larry says something to a
woman in line and then he finds out the woman is actually his neighbor crazy I do love the show I
don't know why I'm mocking it I mean it's a very funny show it's a very funny show but we did kind
of nail like at least one of the episodes all right that's it mother almost Connor yeah all right
okay so we'll save that one for big yeah yeah my who's back of the week is technology
technology tech I'm big tech guy okay did you hear about this article in the New York Times
came out a couple days ago about Clearview technology I'm out of free okay free articles I
actually I subscribe to read this article can you give me your password yeah thank you wait for
every if you're listening to me big technology out there no no give me a password right now
you were so triggered about Bloomberg you you made the account and then it found articles since
yeah no no this is before I got triggered by Bloomberg popping up on my TV and ruining football
but it was good that you can I get to what your time subscription once you got triggered because
you can find out more about it if I wanted to right yeah so all right so there's an app called
Clearview artificial intelligence and what it does is it can take a picture of your face from any
surveillance video and it can run it through their database of pictures anywhere online
that will pop up with your pictures and links to all your pictures it can search like billions
and billions of photos it's like 10 times bigger database than the FBI is and it hooks up to google
glass technology so you could be riding on a subway and you could be looking at somebody just
looking at their face scan their face and find out everything about so basically what it's
terminator technology what right now they're only selling to law enforcement agencies
yeah but it's this is bad yes bad so it's really bad but as as somebody who welcomes the robots
I'm on your side Clearview for the rubber bower for the record you'll find out I'm on your side
so there was that and then that so I was looking all this stuff up and then something popped up
into one of my cookies when I was on a website that was it was an ad for a product no not not
tiana trump is that for a product that I had heard listening to my bluetooth speaker like 30
minutes earlier so I wanted to do an experiment I want to do an experiment I don't know what
funko pops are okay funko pop I've heard people discuss them I assume there's some sort of dessert
toy funko funko pops so I'm go pop we're gonna repeat the word funko pops and this is for you
guys to help out with too don't google it don't google it do not google funko pops but if funko
pops pop up in your cookies for the for the advertisers for native advertisements on a website
you let us know because it was us because it was us and we're very woke to the fact that big tech
is listening to all your shit and then adding in ads that pop up on your shit funko pops they're
double shitting you funko pops funko pops hank say it one time funko pops funko pops okay my who's
back is connor mcgregor he's back he's so fucking back 40 seconds cowboy surround 40 seconds peace
he's back the shoulder strikes invented yeah i love it i bought the pay-per-view which i got
shamed for i don't i think there's a cultural thing i think we're a little bit older and we
remembered like the days of tyson and like oh we get in the big pay-per-view this is awesome
everyone gets together you watch a big pay-per-view even mayweather delahoya
for some reason this is now like uh if i got so many people being like
way to go way to buy a pay-per-view for 40 seconds shut up i enjoyed it it was entertainment i got
to see a new move connor mcgregor's back i got to see the undercard just shut up but connor
mcgregor's back now the question is does he have a date with the shadow realm i think he probably
does they got to do masvidal right i don't know exactly i think hebebe is hebebe is going in april
and then i think maybe masvidal's got to fight hebebe but maybe i don't know either way connor
mcgregor's back it's great he is still he is the number one draw in terms of pay-per-views i don't
want to see another mcgregor hebebe fight though no because we know how that's going to go it's
going to be like five rounds of wrestling and hebebe's just going to dominate he's going to choke
him out i want to see what happens when you put masvidal in the octagon of mcgregor masvidal
probably baptizes him shadow would be my guess shadow realm shadow realm but then he comes back
better yeah or he has mcgregor again that would be cool that'd be awesome i would be either way it's
good for ufc that mcgregor is back and i think that the people that are shaming you are probably
younger i think they're younger people that are like we know how to get this fight for free using
all our hacking technology that you don't know because you're an old i want to watch the fight
where i can actually watch it on my tv i don't want to watch a periscope of it and then see
someone's like like candles and and their weird pictures of their family in their living room
that's always the best i'm sorry like somebody walks in the room and and turns the light on
they're like hey turn the light off on periscope stop shaming me for my friends i just i like to i
like the feel of hitting purchase on a big pay per view fight it's something about it you're just
like let's go when you get an image for the night when you get into the fight and everything's clean
and it runs smoothly you feel like a boss also not like i don't go out a fight or a fifty dollar
fight you feel good right you're contributing to the economy i don't go out i don't drink i don't
do anything i buy fights when i want to so suck it uh we also need to do a quick pr-101
off this fight for our guy baker mayfield tough look yes so he was sitting next to miles garret
wearing a hat quite a hat and uh our guy john anick said here's miles garret number one pick
former number one pick well former number one pick was there's a number one pick right here
in these stands yeah amazing so this is and then collin coward and they cut then it went to the next
slide was nfl quarterback tom brady yeah like they had that built into the package i'm not i'm not
i'm honestly not even shoehorn any pictures into that no i know i was watching yes yes it showed
baker mayfield that the next slide was a quarterback hank are you a little nervous that tom brady got
as they say in the biz a great pop in the arena no what do you mean that's what he deserves the best
he got a big pop in las vegas in las vegas and then he was talking to mark davis is there a team
that's going to las vegas a pop he got a pop seems like las vegas is a tom brady town you see phil
rivers moved he's moving to florida yeah he moved he moved out of uh san diego because he never moved
out of san diego imagine that flight imagine that flight with his whole family i hope he has a private
plane he probably doesn't just because he wants to just fucking like put all his kids on a leash
through the airport he's like one of those dogs he's basically all wearing the like liming shirts
yeah he's got a sled team of children that he's holding onto the reins in front of him
he probably did the uh vince young thing and just bought an entire southwest flight yeah just for him
and his huge family yes and uh brown's twitter thinks uh baker mayfield's fat brown's fans what
is that fat that's the thing going around he's just thick he's always been thick it's been tough
times for us he's not a baker podcast but we'll get through it pure 101 he should have worn a bigger
hat yeah the hat wasn't big enough it needed to be like a ferrell that arby's hat that he wore that
one time as a other uh you know big boy big cat what would you for like dealing with fat tip hats
hats are bad so if you're a bigger guy you need to have your hair have as much volume as possible
to hide the fact that you have a fat face when you put on a hat it always makes your face look
fatter as this is just it's a it's a rule you put on a hat unless it's a big hat no it's still
because it because it like you don't have any it doesn't show your hair so your head just
all the focus goes to your fat fucking cheeks so you need to have hair just crazy hair to take away
hair and beard are are a fat guy's best friend if you 100 percent if he had worn a bigger hat or
just his own jersey yeah that would work too it would have maybe john anick would have mentioned
him if he was wearing a jersey and that's why i'm saying because you need to get recognized if you go
in full kit yeah baker miff then cal and calard can't talk shit about you in the office it's like
you're always ready to play it's also kind of awkward the baker mayfield still has all these
commercials running yeah i'm talking about commercials there should be some sort of clause
written to your contract where you can you can back out of these commercials season doesn't go so
well maybe let's not run the hey i'm sleeping i'm living in the the browns stadium in the middle of
the afc championship game i don't know the erin rogers wants to still going to yeah with patrick
state farm commercial i don't understand those commercials by the way it's like erin's mad at
his agent because he's poor as douche i kind of like him yeah he's looking out for number one
yeah he is looking out for number that's what you need out of an agent um all right let's get to
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okay we now welcome on trevor bowyer he's a pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds which is that
weird now having you be you know announcing is your pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds yeah it
sounds a little different yeah I still used to hearing Cleveland Indians for six or seven years
that I trip up every time right and I feel like you didn't play enough for the Reds yet for it to
be like that will be one of those opening days oh yeah he's on the Reds now yeah um so you're joining
us you're here in studio it's actually perfect timing because uh you are basically the guy who
has been vindicated the most in the Houston Astros situation however the last like 48 hours been for
you watching all this stuff come out well as a fan of uh just the internet in general uh seeing all
the funny videos and memes and stuff have been has been really funny for me um just for the
sport of it all you know just enjoying laughing about it um but it's been it's been interesting
seeing all the things that come out and um things that you know we've heard about as players for a
while um I don't know it's been an interesting couple days for baseball I got I got mixed feelings
on it both ways yeah you were uh I guess the first person really point out the spin rate stuff
going on with their pitchers it hasn't been focused so much on that more on like that we saw the
bandages and the the vibrations on Jose Altuve's back or whatever the allegations are and then of
course all the other stuff with like banging the trash cans which so you had heard about the the
vibrating bandage stuff that that came out yesterday I've I've heard that rumor and I have no first
hand knowledge of it I'll say that but I've heard that rumor from three independent people that
don't know each other interesting around baseball and generally speaking when you hear it from multiple
sources that aren't you know it's not like they're in the same facility you're the same team or
something like that you know there's Mike trout Nolan aeronado no sources no sources wait so here's
what I don't understand how is how are you how have you heard about this for so long and kind of
knew about it for so long and it seems like a lot of people knew about it for so long and it was an
open secret and no one did anything about it well first off I mean players are yeah you're part of
an organization but in the offseason you train with people from all sorts of different organizations
minor leaguers big leaguers people in the front offices talk and it's like baseball has a lot of
things that get around that the public doesn't necessarily know about but everyone kind of
inside the game knows about so like just rumors like this spread and people hear things and but
I mean you've seen the backlash from it on the MOB side they don't they don't want
and rightfully so it's a black eye for baseball right they you know they don't want that coming out
if if they can handle it internally if they can handle it kind of quietly right and so until
something gets you know until the lid gets blown off it publicly like nothing nothing comes out
publicly stuff gets done but nothing comes out when you would pitch in houston would you know
that something was up would you try to change whatever you did because you're like they they're
on to me somehow man no I when I pitch I get so locked in on just the hitter that's up there I try
to make it as much of a one-on-one like personal competition as possible that I just don't like
you could be yelling whatever at me from the stands I just don't hear anything right so I didn't notice
it but like it needs to be said that the Astros are very very good at a lot of different things
that they do legally like their scouting reports and the information they have like going into a
game and their approach to the plate is extremely advanced so I know that going in I know that
their hitters know my tendencies very very well they hit that way like so I prepare for that game
a little bit differently knowing you know kind of how they go about doing things so it didn't
really bother me like I didn't think about it competition wise for me it's just the effect
that it has on other players around the league that may not have even played against the Astros
directly and for example so if they're stealing signs and their hitters know what's coming let's
say you have a position like just pick a random a right field position okay and one right fielder
for the Astros knows what's coming all year and puts up some offensive stats but a right fielder in
the national league that doesn't even play the Astros doesn't know what's coming might not put
up the same stats they both go to the free agency market the guy from Houston that put up better
stats is going to get more money or get the job if there's limited jobs and the guy that
played in the national league isn't right there's definitely a domino effect that occurs yeah when
anything like that goes down now so for for us we were talking when the scandal first came out
we're like where is the line cross between gamesmanship and cheating and for us it was like
once you get a battery involved once you have something that you need to plug into a wall
you know whether it's a video monitor or whether it's you know some sort of I don't know like a
transmitting device that has a battery in it that's when it becomes you know a little bit
over the line for you as a pitcher where would that line be for you I think that's probably a fair
assessment but look I mean people been doing this for a long time you'll look at replay video right
like the game after the game or whatever and you'll say okay like is the pitcher tipping pitches
that seems to be fair enough right so then if you creep that forward and you do that in game
because we have the live feed we're watching in the in the clubhouse like is that now cheating
because you're watching the game on tv well that's hard to say that's cheating right because
everybody's watching the game on tv okay so let's creep that forward like it's a very very fine line
there a lot of a lot of people have been looking at video in game to look at tells like that for a
long time everyone's fine with it I don't have a problem with stealing signs in that way if you're
looking at signs now MLB actually and this is one of the things that didn't really get talked about
they came out a couple years I think two years ago maybe it was just this year but they put the
games on a 15 second delay so that you can't do it in real time for pitch to pitch so and that one
didn't get talked about a whole lot but that is one of the ways that they tried to like fix or remedy
the problem right but I think yeah if you if you have a transmitter or something like that that's
probably a good line also just the the rate at which you can do it like if you have a guy in
second base and he picks to catch your signs that's perfectly legal right but if you have someone
that's sitting there and like able to analyze in real time like I don't maybe have a computer
algorithm where you have some sort of code cracking system or whatnot that once a nerd gets involved
right then it's cheating I agree hey man I'm a nerd I'm a nerd so yeah but it is interesting
because baseball unlike any other sport it feels like baseball has always had a culture of cheating
whether you just go back in the like passive baseball there's this gray area where everyone's
kind of trying to do it and it's the unwritten rules and all this stuff so I'm not surprised by it
and it almost feels inevitable that every 20 years baseball will have something like this
I guess the the transmitter like the band-aid transmitter that's crazy like that would be
and do you believe that's true I don't it's hard for me to say one way or the other definitively
all I know is I've heard from three different people independent sources that
it's true I also like I know how advanced the astros are in a lot of their systems and stuff so
it's certainly not out of the realm of possibility right um so yeah I don't have like a firm opinion
on it but it's it's shady did you make that video where you were saying you were playing poker that
night and you had the band-aid was that in 2018 that was uh I think that was no that was last
or that was this off season but um 20 yeah 29 November I think okay now is that a joke at the
astros yeah yeah yeah so you made that joke before any of this came out yeah full year no no like
few months yeah mid November yeah all right but still that was the joke you were making he had if
you didn't see the video Trevor had a little band-aid on his chest he's like going to play poker
tonight hope I can you know read my opponents pretty well or like read my cards pretty well
and he shows the band see if they were smart l2v would just put the band-aid directly over his
nipple and just say I get chaffage so this is just protecting me against my nipples bleeding
that's a real thing yeah it is a very serious issue in America yeah absolutely this morning
buster only was saying that he thinks that pitchers are going to start throwing at astros
batters next year have you have you thought about that well I personally won't play the astros next
year unless we face in the postseason so I won't be doing that I also don't think that that's the
right way to handle things like I mean getting hit in the head or just hitting general is dangerous
I got hit with a 92 mile an hour line drive in 2018 and broke a shin um miss from altube no no
unfortunately no it was um man the first basement in Chicago at the white socks I'm blanking on his
name oh mark grace abray abray yeah yeah yeah um so I mean that was just 92 and it hit me in you know
in the very lower leg and but I missed six weeks it's dangerous I never like I never want to see
people get thrown at unfortunately I think that's going to happen uh just given all the different
personalities in the league and how strongly players feel about this issue right I've talked to
I mean I probably talked to 10 or more players yesterday and getting their thoughts and feelings on
you know all all different aspects of it and people are not too happy right because guys are
probably like hey if we're playing it straight up and they're cheating it's bullshit um so last
question I have about the astros and what everything's going on here so going forward do you think
there how many teams do you think are like going to be caught up in all this stuff how many teams
do you think how widespread is this thing well I think that goes back to the question earlier
about what is the line right so like first I think we have to decide what the line is and
then we can talk about who is who's crossing who hasn't um man I mean
three maybe maybe it's it's so hard to say right I don't think it's just the astros though I think
there's other teams doing something similar or the same or the astros were just the team that
everyone kind of knew about I think that's it and also like they get a little bit of a bad
reputation for how they treat people you know and I again I have to preface all this by saying
I'm not an astros employee I've never played for them I don't know firsthand right but I
know firsthand right but you hear things have talked about you know people talking about how
they treat their employees or how they you know just different feelings and stuff so
when that's the case if something goes down you become a target you know so I don't know it's
it's a black eye for baseball though for sure I'm glad it's getting cleaned up hopefully
they get it all cleaned up and we can just move past it go back to juicing the baseballs yeah yeah
yeah right but hey home runs are home runs are fine everyone loves home runs right that's the best
part right bring back the super ball bats yeah don't cheat in baseball but baseball is juicing
baseballs right so out of the people that you've talked to around the league what is what is the
general sentiment in terms of the punishment that people would like to see happen oh man that's so
that varies so much you know some people like oh man they really got hammered some people like oh
that's just a slap on the wrist I think it kind of depends on the person's personal level of
involvement with it right I feel like Clayton Kershaw you know what here's what we'll do for
Clayton Kershaw I will remove one strike one tally mark from the Clayton Kershaw I can't pitch in
the postseason chart that I keep at my desk yes yes that's fair man poor Clayton I think he gets
such a bad rap I know it's so unfortunate that's happened to him do you it really is do you have
any of the guys that you got into the Twitter beef with on the ashows have they ever have any of them
reached out and been like oh it looks like you're right no of course not okay well they should
do you think it'd be possible to be a player on the astros like any player on the team and not know
that this is going on oh man good question I think I think it would be possible really I do um
unlikely guy unlikely I'll say but I think I do think it's possible I don't think that everybody
there is a cheater or like was complicit in it and also something that needs to be said about this
too is what are the guys there like let's say there's a player on the team that doesn't agree with
what's going on what is he supposed to do right in reality right can he come out and blow the
whistle on his own team he'll never play again right yeah he'll get blackballed who can you talk
to in your organization you might not know who's a safe person to raise that flag with right I mean
if it is organization wide and everybody's doing it then you don't have an outlet to you can go
anonymously to the media maybe but then like it just that you're risking so much you're risking
millions of dollars your job I mean if you have a family you're being able to support them like
I've seen some takes about oh fires didn't come out early enough and he should have come out when
it was happening it's like what do you expect the guy to do right he he can't do that right he's not
yeah he would he would definitely be blackballed um all right so moving on from the astros you are
very active on Twitter yes would you say it's safe to say you're a dick on Twitter I think I get
a bad reputation because my sense of humor doesn't come across to people that don't know me directly
got it so it's just a prank like I do things a lot for the laughs like I'm I'm very very very rarely
serious okay in I mean in in life on Twitter uh I just baseball is one thing that makes me serious
like when I pitch after my post game interviews and stuff I'm still like in that locked-in mode
but other than that I joke around non-stop so I just like I like making people laugh I like keeping it
light I think for people that don't know me it comes across that I'm upset or being a dick or
whatever right it's not the case okay are there any posts that you would you would take back that you
regret uh yeah there's one there's one which one was that how do we got to get into it yeah when
you bullied the girl no for like a week do you regret do you regret how that played out because
it was like it was I I don't think that you were trying to attack her personally but I think what
ended up happening was since you kept engaging whether other people saw this and she's not you
know she doesn't know that you're joking around necessarily right she's not inside your head
and so there were people that were tweeting at her for the week and it made her uncomfortable
no that kind of played out no yeah of course I see how it played out and like I that was never
my intention to like make someone miserable I never have that intention right like I responded
a couple times directly to her and in my eyes there was just like a playful banter like hey
you're my least favorite player welcome to the fan club I don't think you have fans well I have
seven hundred and seventy four thousand people on Twitter that say differently like it's just
his back and forth kind of like banter right and then the way Twitter works other people start commenting
on it and you get tagged in there's 15 people tagged in a tweet or something like that and it's
hard to tell who's talking to who when and what's being said to which reply and and so we both end
up tagging a lot of tweets that people were talking about and so I would respond to other people
but she would be tagged in it and so it just kept yeah kept on going it was never my intention
to go at her directly I had no ill will towards her or anybody honestly on Twitter like like I said
it's just for the jokes just for the laughs I you do the iced tea method yeah talk a little shit
log off yeah exactly yeah sometimes I don't log off quick enough yeah so wasn't your one
tweet that you regret no no what was the one tweet you regret um there's a there's an exchange a
couple years back where um people were going back about like oh you should quit Twitter you should
do this like I hope your mom gets cancer and just general like BS on Twitter right and um
someone said something to me and I responded like a in a way trying to illuminate basically
like how ridiculous uh the person sounded and I said you know feel free to delete yourself or
something like that right and I I meant nothing by it you know but of course it comes off as like
I'm right encouraging right yeah it's like and yeah that one I mean yeah that one definitely
crossed the line I do feel bad about that when I deleted it I like okay so there's a contrition
boom no you ended up deleting yourself yeah yeah yeah okay um uh I want to say thank you I'm a cubs
so thank you you're welcome for being an idiot yeah uh with the drone but great hold on I'm
I'm not just an idiot with the drone I'm always an idiot but hold on spin zone here our guy Hank
he's a producer he has also cut his finger on a drone oh baby and was out on the dl for a while
how long well it wasn't I wasn't really playing a sport but I didn't get some stitches in my hand
I was out for like a week yeah how many did you get uh just like two it wasn't too bad it was
like the top of my middle finger what happened what what exactly happened when you when that when
that went aw man so I custom designed all my own drones right really I designed them on CAD I
get the parts either cut by and these are the racing drones though not like I I was usually I
was like filming like I was trying to do one of the camera like this is you're talking about like
the drone racing like yeah yeah this is the one that I built like topped out about 80 miles an hour
okay um but I custom designed everything right so then I have to assemble all of it I have a
3d printer I print my own parts I get the electronics wired up all this different stuff so I just
finished this brand new design I went out the earlier that day and I flew it and it was doing well
then in the middle of a flight it kind of tumbled out of the air and usually when that happens a
motor went bad right so um but he's shaking his head he's like this is exactly what he's doing
yeah so the way the way you test it is you you know normally you would take the props off
and you would turn the motors on and see which one didn't spin but these motors are tricky sometimes
because if there's no load on them if there's no prop they'll spin but as soon as you put a load on
it it won't spin so I set it on my bed and the plan is to flick it on you know stand back like
15 feet in the room flick it on see which motor doesn't spin turn it off and then I know which
one to fix so as soon as I touch the battery leads there's like a short in the flight controller
board I touch the battery leads and one of the the motor that wasn't working spun at full throttle
had the prop on it and it cut me three times before I could get my hand out of there oh yeah so I
okay so the way you just described it I'm gonna say you're not an idiot I thought you just grabbed
it out of the air okay that would have been way sicker if I did that no I thought you were just flying
drones like before a game on the field and you're like here comes my drone and just snagged it and
like boom I cut my finger to be honest not an idiot we probably perfect what is it perpetuated that
myth yeah that you've done that we just snatched and drones out of the air we assume that you hurt
your hand the exact same way that I get super nervous anytime I say I don't I won't go near
and when the blades are spinning yeah so every time I turn it on I put my feet on top of the
propellers so that they can't like they can't spin when I plug it in in case you cut your foot
yes I got shoes on so all right yeah here's the other thing here's the other nice part about this
there's a long list of dumb baseball injuries so you're just part of that like that is actually
a prideful thing like uh who is it uh uh there's the guitar hero one right yeah the guitar hero
I know Sammy Sosa sneezed and threw out his back I think John Smoltz tried to iron a shirt that he
was wearing yeah there was one back in the day there's all kinds of their wrist washing their car
yeah you know Chris Sayl broke his ankle getting like walking off his truck uh Suspitous the wild
boar he broke his ankle and being chased by a wild boar so you're just in there yeah I mean I'm on
that list I'm on the uh dumb you know throwing the ball out of the stadium list yeah I'm on a lot
of lists that was kind of a flex by you but you do that a lot right I don't I don't want yeah I do
that a lot just not in a game right that was the flex part where you're like look at me strong man
throw that was actually yeah that was actually nowhere close to my max distance I think I threw
it like coming from 10 feet behind the mounds and it's four I think it's 410 in Kauffman so it
must have been like a 340 foot throw or something like that 330 foot throw but I've been out to 400
before so damn that's crazy 400 so wait when you do that you do you think that part that
played a part in you getting traded it's two days later how much how much can I yeah yeah it looks
like I asked yeah um it might have you know obviously any any information you have going into
the deadline like plays a part in right in decisions that are being made and emotions are had right
that right right okay so maybe that had a part because it was two days later you never that was
your last start that was my that was my last start yeah last throw I made as an Indian yeah
but the reds probably saw that and they were like that was cool as shit well at mind you at the time
that it was going on well not like at that time specifically on like that Sunday but when I got
traded Puyg was in that same trade and he was involved in that Amir Garrett pirates brawl
yes which is awesome yeah um so we have yeah I'm getting traded to the reds Puyg has been
traded to the Indians but it's currently brawling with the pirates and I think the reds twitter came
out and just said the tweet was a lot's going on right now yeah and then didn't you go back to
to the Indians games after you'd been traded oh yeah yeah so okay so for people that don't know about
kind of how a trade works I have a momentum made a a video for me my media company of kind of the
behind the scenes of it but there's a lot of stuff you have to do when you get traded uh you got to
clean your locker out and you got to talk to the media usually you get a there's a lot of things
that go on um you tip the clubbies you say bye to everybody all this different stuff right
so I found out that I got traded at like 11 o'clock at night and I got to pack my entire
apartment up get my stuff I want to get you know to the reds as soon as possible join the team
so I was asked that night not to talk to the media because it wasn't technically official yet until
all the uh physicals cleared and stuff like that so I decided I was going to talk to the media the
next day so I didn't bother to pack up my locker or anything I just went home packed up my apartment
and I was going to come back the next day to pack up my locker so I did came back in the morning
packed up my locker but when I came back in the rush of everything I forgot my checkbook
so I didn't have I couldn't tip the clubbies couldn't take care of the people that were you know
it's you write checks 2019 right yeah I still write checks I just wanted to make sure you're gonna tip
the clubhouse guys with checks that's that's always what I do yeah that's a shock you seem like a
Bitcoin guy yeah Monero Monero is an altcoin yeah different have you heard of Bitcoin to Jen I have
not I'll tell you about it after the interview okay all right but keep going yeah so um I go back
in the morning don't have my checkbook clean out my entire locker but I went I made sure to get there
before anyone was there so I didn't have to like you know I wasn't in the way of any of the new
guys coming in or whatever the case is so go back home and I still hadn't talked to the media
because they weren't there when I got there so I was supposed to come back my media director asked
me to come back closer to game time when all the media was there to talk to the media so I come back
and stand in the hallway outside of the clubhouse never actually went in and gave the head clubby
Tony checks to distribute to everybody and thanked him and stuff like that and then went to talk to
the media did the whole media scrum is the game was going on and so after that I was like you know
I've never actually seen a game in progressive I've never been in the third deck right I've never
like walked around the stadium while I'm here before I leave I might as well just go see what
it's like as a fan because I've never done that before you know and so that's what I did I went
went up to the third deck walked around went out to the um the bridge and the home run porch and just
kind of checked out like an inning and a half of the game just for novelty sake right and then got
blown up and you know someone snapped a picture of me and it kind of went viral on Twitter and
people had all their different opinions but yeah that's that's a story behind that's kind of cool I
yeah I mean you never like think like a guy doesn't you know picture or player doesn't get
to watch the game from the stands why not check it out yeah I'd never actually like I'd never been
to a game right an MLB game like while I've been a player because we don't you know we were in the
dugout but would you buy anything did you buy beer no no actually um I had some Trevor Bauer jersey
just one for the I had a couple from my locker that we get to keep um but I had some extra bobble
heads um because my bobblehead and I was two weeks earlier or something so I had a couple yeah
I had a couple sitting around in my locker so I actually handed out handing those out to some
fans okay and whatnot all right man of the people all right so you have I was reading you had night
you have 19 pitches at over the course of my career I've thrown a lot of different variations
do you name them all uh no some can't be said on air oh whoa okay we'll bleep them out no no
can you write it down and we won't say it have you ever thrown an ethos uh I'm working on an ethos
actually yes I want to throw an ethos yes do it some of those videos of like the 50 mile an hour
like slow pitch softball looking pitches that just land perfect I mean it'd be so great to
pull that out in the game El Duque yeah do you think you could do you think that it would
screw a hitter up if you if you just bust it out an ethos I think it would the first time but
I mean as a rod showed us if you throw two in a row they get destroyed
but you got that one time it's like and now it's just one other thing for them to think about right
did you ever see the uh darvish green key game which one the way they were going back and forth with
ethos curveball yes I remember that yeah and they just kept getting slower and slower they got down
in like the mid 50s yes and like darvish would throw in at 70 and green he'd be like nope I'm
throwing at 69 and then darvish would be like I got 65 and then green key's like oh I can go 60
like as the game went along they just kept throwing these like big looping ethos is great you need
the ethos wait so can you don't tell us what the no name pitches do just tell us the name of the pitch
can you do that like one of your mystery pitches can you tell us the name no that's what I can't
say that's what I can't say why that's because they're dirty words got potentially dirty words
and got it yeah just internal named after people internal either there might be there's you know
there's some there's some skeletons in the closet there what about a gyro ball uh okay so you know
what a gyro ball is you know what gyroscopic spin is absolutely not delicious okay yeah uh a football
so a football a spiral it's just that's gyroscopic spin the axis of rotation is pointed in the direction
of travel of the ball so a lot of people throw gyro balls actually in the big leagues they're
just sliders that don't you know they're just okay a gyrospinning slider so I hear the term gyro ball
right and I think back the dice case pitch he's the only one on planet earth that knows how to throw
it yeah I had to I gotta break some myths here okay so can you throw a knuckleball so I actually
throw three knuckleballs at the end of every throwing session because I figure when I'm like 40
and throw 82 I might be able to extend my career a couple years yes if I if I work on it so it's a
slow build but it's working uh I'd say it works like every like once every two weeks interesting
which is up from never so it's improving through yeah it's improving very slowly by the time you're
42 you'll be able to throw like a hundred knuckleballs I think I'm on pace you have to make the joke oh
the uh off-speed pitch coming where's the where's the where's the trash can it's air in the
place yeah hanging out thanks for setting me up for that one what about a screwball
I've thrown a screwball actually in the past I called it a reverse slider back in college
my idea was to create like a slider spin but the opposite way so and that's basically just a screwball
it worked it was fine but as I dropped my arm angle I couldn't get to the inside of the ball
as easily and so I kind of nixed it you're like a mad scientist you like to tinker with things I do
you're like the breaking bad of pitchers I read that you've melted down like coca-cola
and pine tar and mixed them together is that true yeah I heard about this uh x Detroit pitcher who
used this mixture and so I decided to test it out and see what happened and uh my spin rate went up
400 rpm oh were you like science bitch yeah pretty much those exact words put an aster's jersey on me
spin rate baby I've checked out a lot of different stuff like um I test a lot of stuff in the off
season from foreign substance to aerodynamic effects to um right now I'm throwing with uh special
swimming goggles with duct tape on them for testing some eyesight stuff uh so I tinker with
a lot of stuff I like to use those pft yeah I got some rec specs that are tinted if you want
might as well try them out we'll see so do you kids I've watched some of your videos where you're
tinkering with everything do you in your mind are you like if I can just tinker long enough I'm
gonna eventually just never give up a hit again I wish that's that's the goal right it feels like
you're thinking that which I love I love that idea of like I can perfect this right let's get as
close to perfection as possible right with the understanding that you'll never actually get
there because we're unfortunately still human and cyborgs haven't taken over yet so but you're
trying to make yourself a cyborg yeah that'd be cool I think yeah do you welcome the cyborgs
I actually that's how I want to die I want to die either in the robot revolution or get
killed by a decepticon now are you saying that are you just saying you want to die in the robot
revolution to like befriend the robots so like uh they're probably they're probably gonna kill me
anyway I just want to see you that's where you're wrong see you're saying that you want to die
fighting against the cyborgs I want I want the robots and all artificial intelligence know
I'm on its side right now from the get go I'm selling out my people so when they eventually do
become sentient and can fight in wars they know I'm a good guy right there we go they'll probably
enslave you that's fine they might look at your twitter and be like hey this guy's jokes aren't
funny he must be a robot that hey that's a great point that is a great point um can you power rank
things that are most hilarious out of these three oh boy here we go 69 yes okay 420 all right and
Bofa oh both Bofa's gotta be at the top man you still like both Bofa's gotta be at the top for
sure I just there's so many different applications for it um I actually have I have a yeah a shirt
bower outage for America and just says Bofa it's like a political campaign nice so Bofa's gotta be
number one and then um yeah 69 is just nice that's a that's a it's a good second place yeah
420 and third that contract these sounds pretty pretty sick what happened what's the story behind
so full of regrets you know I really I wanted to file it a very certain specific number and
didn't get to um but yeah no it was I just like I said I do it for the laws yeah you have some fun
yeah I like that you're not taking it too seriously because I think that that you are right when you
were explaining Twitter earlier I think a lot of people take Twitter very seriously yes and
everything they read they're like this is meant literally and they don't realize that half the
things that we say on Twitter are just joking just fucking around 100% right like if you're sitting
out at a bar with friends and you say some of this stuff it comes off completely different
than if you write the exact same thing in the exact same context on Twitter it is true that's
Twitter is dangerous that way have you tried Skyline Chill yet I have not I was only actually
in the city of Cincinnati for about a month because we play you know half our times on the road right
and so between trying to find a place to live and then a place to stay for next season and
figure out how to actually get to the field and how not to mess up uh with timing and routines
and stuff like that I didn't really try anything right okay it's delicious it is delicious I'm not
yeah I'm I'm terrible I've heard different I've heard mixed reviews a lot of people in
Cincinnati swear by it they love it basically anybody outside of Cincinnati has negative
reviews of it so yeah I'm excited to try it all right I got one last question it's Seeky question
put in promo code take go to a Red's game next year promo code take you $10 off the now that
you're in the NL central I don't know if you've ever played in Milwaukee have the the Indians
ever go play in Milwaukee yeah we played there a couple times all right so heads up the Pfister
hotel is haunted I'm all about it so go there we actually had a ghost hunter and we ghost hunted
in the Pfister hotel how how did that turn out did you find anything they found a shit little
god in their equipment they measured the frequency of the signals from the ghost and the polter there
was a poltergeist in a room actually it was it was Hank's room right it was a whole thing
sick yes you guys got to take me next time that sounds awesome we can go ghost hunting yeah we'll
do ghost hunting let's make a t-shirt anytime you want to do ghost hunting we'll ghost hunt
what are you doing the uh in the off days do you just hang out um I run two businesses
and train non-stop so so you just hang out yeah pretty much yeah okay got it got it um my last
question I want to know more about the transcranial direct currents oh yeah wow so man you dug deep
apparently well I read a single article okay and it was good yeah it's good research so apparently
you hook up electrodes to your head yep and you electrocute yourself and it helps you learn
facts faster yes basically it works well it's really hard to say they have some studies that
they did the the study that I read they did with sniper training and they had one group that would
wear the actual unit and one group that would wear a placebo unit and they were testing target
acquisition so they'd flash a target out there and see if it was you know an enemy or a friend
leader or whatever right and the group that used the actual unit vastly outperformed the group that
didn't in a six-week study and they're so super accurate they had a much higher accuracy in identifying
the target and also hitting the target so were they were they getting electrocuted as they were
trying to search for the target so was this immediately after no it's immediately after so
you have this like hour-ish long window after you use it in which you can work on your skill and
your brain is just hyper sensitive to acquiring new information oh we should do that we should
electrocute ourselves to do rubik's cubes we've been trying to figure out how to do that yes yes
become geniuses pro tip here though make sure that the lead is all the way plugged into the machine
because if it's only halfway it's gonna be a new injury for you isn't it like trevor bauer dl
brain stimulation yeah so the first his own brain the first time I plugged it in I thought it was
all the way in I turned it on and I'm like okay I turned it up a little bit like very low just to
test it out and I'm like I don't really feel anything and all of a sudden I got this complete
everything just went white just like flash like me cushion yeah powder yeah I don't know what I
became I was gone for a second but yeah you're obviously very intellectually curious guy which
I appreciate the hell out of because those people are always the most interesting people what other
things are you like tinkering with along those lines you got any other theories that you're going
with we're we're junk science guys too man I'll test anything in the offseason honestly
there's the amount of like different substances I've tested on the ball what about prayer I have
prayed Lord I have prayed there are certain times we're all mostly around Duke basketball games
you're a Duke fan I'm a big Duke fan oh my god oh is that is that it trevor you guys aren't just
twins he's a Duke fan too I'm actually going to the game tomorrow um after I've lost Duke Louisville
you need to pray for coach K's health whenever he goes because he's always got the flu or a back
injury mm-hmm lays down my man my man does not sleep very often why he's just too busy giving
cash away what's going on I mean I don't know anything about that all right yeah right exactly
all the fans don't know anything about that man I liked you too and then you just dropped the Duke
bomb on us I'm not you shouldn't like me so I'm glad we've we've come full circle you like but see
this is where I think that you're playing mind games you like being unlike I think there's a lot
of fun to be had yeah in that in that gray ground but if you like being unlike if I unlike you
then you are really liking that so I'm making you happy yes yeah so yeah so either way I win right
so if you like me I win and if you dislike me I'm like oh yes I win right so you're like a troll in
real life where if somebody doesn't like you you're laughing at them because they don't get the joke
but if they do like you you like funny you like them because they think you're funny exactly I got
you yeah yeah I hope you the smartest man I've ever talked to I'm the dumbest I don't know probably
that all right well Trevor thank you very much appreciate your time man yeah that's been great
thanks for having me on thank you
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