PHNX Arizona Diamondbacks Podcast - What are the weirdest Black Friday deals on the internet?

Starting point is 00:00:07 Happy Black Friday. I hope you bought lots of things for yourself. This is the PHNX DBAX podcast. My name is Derek Montia, occasionally known as the mayor of Black Friday. This guy next to me is a thunderstick. He's the vice mayor of PHNX, the one and only Jesse Friedman. Derek, people are under the impression that Black Friday is over because it is now Saturday as we record this. But in the PHN locker, Black Friday has only just begun because the deals continue at PHNX Locker. So be sure to check that out if you haven't already, everyone. Get you the Sethserva shirt for 99 cents.

Starting point is 00:00:45 It is selling out quickly. I know because they didn't have it in the size I was trying to purchase for a friend of mine. So get over there to the PHNX Locker and get yourself some holiday deals. Of course, this show is brought to you by the fine folks at the Draft King Sportsbook app. America's top rated sportsbook app. Jesse, I love Black Friday. I have participated in Black Friday for years prior to,

Starting point is 00:01:10 like when you actually had to go to the store to get the stuff. Before everything went online, before it was on Thanksgiving night. I was there at 5 o'clock in the morning with Starbucks in my hand, my brother at my side, and we brought joy and merriment to many people in Black Friday. Because we were always in a good mood. We were happy to be out there.

Starting point is 00:01:31 We weren't trying to get the hard to find items. My daughter was very young, so it was easy to shop for her. And then everything else was just kind of what ridiculous things do they have on sale that, you know, you could never buy. I'm going to give you a couple of tips, by the way. Stores do, in fact, bring in items that are specifically sold on Black Friday. That's the biggest disappointment, I think, that there is for you to figure out that the Nikon camera you got on sale is, there are no reviews for it anywhere. because this camera's never been sold before because it was a, it's the most basic model of

Starting point is 00:02:08 Nikon camera you've ever seen in your life, and it was made just for Target's Black Friday sale. So just throwing some of those things out there. If you think that you're crazy, because you bought one of these items that has never existed prior to Black Friday, you're not alone. We're all out there. But it's still fun.

Starting point is 00:02:24 I feel like the, uh, the online shopping makes it, uh, a little easier for me not to actually leave the house. Though I did go to Walmart. today actually to just go grocery shopping and they still had tons of stuff left over from Black Friday. So I got my Black Friday shopping in, Jesse. Yeah, I do think that because Cyber Monday

Starting point is 00:02:46 is like so big now, it really seems like Black Friday has kind of lost its punch in some ways. It's like if you don't find anything great on Black Friday, then just wait around a day or two. There's going to be some more pretty crazy deals. It's also interesting. like you were saying earlier, how much like the internet is kind of taken over the whole thing. It seems, and I personally have never really done what you're talking about, but it seems like the days of like, you know, lines of hundreds of people outside of Best Buy or whatever at four or five in the morning. It seems like that's just not really a thing anymore. Because it was, it was like a sweepstakes in a way. They would advertise, they would advertise in

Starting point is 00:03:33 their newspaper ad that comes out on Thanksgiving Day that they have some ridiculous deal on a TV and then down in the fine print it would say limited to two per store. So like you almost had to go get in that line to win that sweepstakes to get that TV for that price. Well, and you had to tackle everyone else like around you in that line. You said you've never gone. And I know that a lot of people think that that stuff is a myth, but it's not. I've seen my own two eyes. My favorite thing like that that happened was one year at Walmart. They had the video games,

Starting point is 00:04:13 which were highly coveted at this time, wrapped up in a plastic wrap on a palette in the middle of the aisle. This is what they would do with a lot of their Black Friday items because the store would be open on, you know, Thanksgiving night or it would be open and the Black Friday items weren't allowed to go on sale until a certain time. And I actually saw grown adults get impatient. And all it took was one person.

Starting point is 00:04:41 All it took was one instigator to start what I saw as a feeding frenzy on these video games. It took one guy deciding he wasn't going to wait for a Walmart employee to open the plastic wrap. He was just going to do it himself five minutes early. And Jesse, within like two minutes. that it had been, the plastic had been ripped off. The entire display had been just completely freed of every video game that it had on any shelf in it. And it was the worst of humanity. It was literally the worst of humanity.

Starting point is 00:05:13 I saw people fighting over games. When a game got dropped, it was like piranhas attacking, you know, a meat skewer. It was something I never wanted to see again. So that's one thing that the internet is good for preventing. I don't want to go to the, I don't want to be a part of that. anymore. I just I just want to click on the item. I want to add it to my cart. And then I want to go through the disappointment of going to check out and having that item gone because somebody now bought it instead of me. That's that's the way that I want

Starting point is 00:05:43 this to go. Not where I have to actually fight another man over a $29 video game. I'm not doing it. Can we talk about all the companies who for Black Friday give like a 15% discount and call it like a Black Friday sale? Oh yeah. I want to fight those people too. I want to line them up too. It's the William Wallace meme. I don't know if you've seen it where it shows the price on like a TV is $499 and he's saying hold. And then it says the week before Black Friday, 499. And he says hold. And then the last one is Black Friday was 799 is now 499. That's like attack. You know, that is what it gets to feel like. There are websites out there that you can check that stuff. I think one is called Camel Camel Camel,

Starting point is 00:06:28 where you can actually go and see if your item has actually gone down in price over the last, you know, two years or whatever the low price points were on it. Yeah. So that way you just kind of have an idea. A lot of this stuff, again, is just put out there to tantalize you. And honestly, it's not just items, Jesse. There's also MLB baseball players who are putting themselves out on a Black Friday deal and trying to tantalize any would-be shoppers to come pick them up.

Starting point is 00:06:56 This one actually has a bit of a tie to the Arizona Diamondbacks because it's Trevor Williams pitcher from the New York Mets who MLB.com had linked to the Diamondbacks as being a potential likely free agent edition or good, I guess a good fit for the Diamondbacks. Trevor Williams tweeted out, Black Friday free agent sale, all caps. Today only, all caps. Two for one deal by one Trevor Williams, the right-handed pitcher. and also get Trevor Williams, the left-handed hitting corner outfielder, deal expires at midnight Eastern Standard Time. Sadly, I don't think anybody picked up that deal. I salute him.

Starting point is 00:07:38 I tip my cap to him, but yeah, unfortunately, no one bit on that deal. Trevor Williams is an interesting potential free agent addition for the Diamondbacks, mostly because it appears like he wants to go back to being a starting pitcher, despite the fact that he had a tremendous amount of success with the Mets last season as a reliever. I got to say looking at Trevor Williams' career offensive stats, which mind you, I mean, he's played in the National League his entire career. So he has a fair and he was a starting pitcher before becoming a reliever. He was a starter with the Chicago Cubs or the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Starting point is 00:08:17 Then he was with the Cubs, not for very long though. but he has a career batting line of 123, 174, 123. So he has 18 hits and 173 plate appearances. He has no extra base hits. He has nine walks compared to 57 strikeouts. I don't know, Derek. That doesn't sound like a Black Friday deal to me. No, actually, you know what?

Starting point is 00:08:42 It sounds exactly like a Black Friday deal. It sounds like they're offering you some sort of extra thing, just so you meet some sort of price point. This is like where they make it that you have to spend $65 to get free shipping, knowing damn well that none of their items cost anywhere close to $65. Yes, you were there to buy a hoodie, and yes, you want free shipping. But now you're stuck in this position of spending $15 or $20 more just so that you can hit the free shipping. And that was their plan all along, Jesse.

Starting point is 00:09:10 It's to entice you with a bad offer to get you to spend more. And that's what Trevor Williams, I think, is going for on this. he knows that that that that free Trevor Williams left-handed hitting corner outfielder. That's that's a that's a bum deal right there. But he figures if he throws it in for free while you're out there just tossing stuff in your cart, you're going to go ahead and grab him Trevor Williams and throw it in because, you know, it's the buy one, get one free deal thing that you saw. Yeah, yeah, that's fair.

Starting point is 00:09:40 Right. You don't make good decisions on Black Friday. You don't. You make impetuous decisions. You're in the moment. All of a sudden, blanket that normally costs $5, it's now priced down to $8,

Starting point is 00:09:51 somehow seems like a great deal. And you just grab it and throw it in the cart. That's the way it works. But the Arizona Diamondbacks, actually over the course of their history, have picked up a few good Black Friday deals, if you will. A couple of players that when you look back at the contracts

Starting point is 00:10:07 that the debacks signed were now, especially in retrospect, incredible. Or even players that they traded a way for. Like, you know, I know we have a few ideas in mind, but of course, Jesse, no deal to me that the Diamondbacks ever got in history was as good as the deal that they got when they signed Paul Goldschmidt to a five-year,

Starting point is 00:10:30 $32.5 million deal with a club option for $14.5 million. Yeah. Yeah. It's insane. One of the most team-friendly extensions in MLB history, frankly. I mean, getting him in the eighth, round of the of the draft wasn't uh wasn't too too bad of value in itself a few years prior deal yeah for sure do you think they used where he got drafted as a way to justify paying him so little um i i think that's maybe part of it uh i mean just the fact that like he wasn't he wasn't a top flight prospect really in the eyes of anyone even even as he was getting close

Starting point is 00:11:16 the big leagues. There were still a lot of, a lot of MLB analysts who were kind of skeptical of what Paul Goldschmidt was going to become in the big league, specifically Keith Law, who we, who we've thrown some shade out in the past. Keith Law was one of the guys in particular who was skeptical of Paul Goldsman, but he wasn't the only one. You know, when a guy is taken in the eighth round, there's going to be some skepticism. Right. We're going to forgive guys for doing that, I think. Like you said, when guys are taken in the eighth round plus Keith lost Spatchcock to Turkey on Thanksgiving and showed us all how to do that. So he's adding value somewhere there besides his MLB analysis.

Starting point is 00:11:56 But who do you got as a Black Friday deal that DeBaks have saved some money on in the past? So I'm just going to start on the current roster and then maybe we can kind of work our way back to some things that have happened in recent years or even closer to the beginning of the franchise's history back in 98. But Merrill Kelly signed another extension before this season began. And that extension just looks absolutely insane at this point. I mean, the fact that Merrill Kelly came out and had as good of a season as he just did. And also just happened to sign this deal before the season began. Remember, Merrill Kelly was going to be a free agent after this season had that deal not gone down. And Merrill Kelly would have made a heck of a lot of money.

Starting point is 00:12:45 money in free agency this winter if he had just been a free agent, right? So, um, so I, I have a hard time, honestly, finding obviously the gold shmint one is certainly going to be up there, but looking not only in the last few years, but in, in the entire history of the Diamondbacks, I think the extension that Merrill Kelly just signed has to be up there is one of the most team friendly that they've ever had. Um, and specifically, I can give the details here. So it was, uh, a two-year deal that runs through 2024, and it guaranteed Merrill Kelly 18 million. So it gave him a $1 million signing bonus, $8 million in both 2023 and 2024.

Starting point is 00:13:27 And then there's also a club option for 2025 at $7 million. So you're looking at the next three years of Merrill Kelly for roughly about $8 million per season, which is really just ridiculous given what he accomplished. in 2022. I agree. I couldn't agree more. I think Catell Marte's contract extension could end up looking like a deal in the end. I don't know so much now.

Starting point is 00:13:57 I still don't think it's a bad deal. I think five years, 76 million for Catelle is still fairly cheap based on the way that MLB thought of him and way I'm sure other teams kind of coveted him. I'm sure he would have been kind of stolen away maybe here after. his original contract was up, but his original contract was kind of ridiculous as well, Jesse. Yeah. It's it's the original one to me that really stands out. The five year 76 million, I mean, it, yeah, it happened just before the season started as well, like the Merrill Kelly deal. And we were, we were going crazy at the time because it seemed like a total steal for a guy who was

Starting point is 00:14:38 as good as Catel Marte was last year. It's like, why is this guy taking, you know, like about $15 million per year on average. It just seems like he could have gotten way more on the open market potentially, especially if he could come back and prove that he can stay healthy. But I don't know, Derek, does that, I don't know if that deal actually looks. Like, I'm not going to say it looks like, I mean, it's not the Madison Bumgarner deal, right? I mean, you're not that worried about it. But at the same time, I don't know if that necessarily looks like a steal for the debacks anymore,

Starting point is 00:15:12 given just how he played last year. Yeah, and just the ongoing injury issues. It just seems like the hamstrings are going to be an issue for him for a long time. Well, his original deal was five years, 24 million. And that looks substantially, yeah, that one looks substantially. Yeah, that one looks substantially insane now, especially considering what Kattel did over that period of time. But, I mean, historically looking back, Brandon Webb, four years,

Starting point is 00:15:40 19 and a half million dollars when we know what Brandon Webb was. Of course, how much he meant to this team. That's next to nothing. And yeah, I mean, I don't know. The Diamondbacks have had plenty of, I think, plenty of deals. I think that's one thing this team has done a good job of is, if you want to be particular, they've done a good job of keeping guys around

Starting point is 00:16:04 that probably could have gotten paid more somewhere else, maybe because they just liked playing here. I remember when Chris Young signed his deal. It was like six years, $30 million. And that at the time seemed like a tremendous steal. So, yeah, the Diamondbacks, I think, have done a good job. Of course, there's a couple of, there's a couple of non-Black Friday deals out there that we could talk about.

Starting point is 00:16:29 But why do that? We're having fun. This was a good time. We're not trying to ruin it. We're talking about Madison, Bumgarner, and Zach Granky's contracts. But of course. we want to thank you guys all for checking us out.

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Starting point is 00:17:54 make yourself comfortable and make sure Santa has a place to sit over at More Furniture's Fall Sale at MoreFurniture.com. You will receive a $100 gift card for every $1,000 you spend. I've been doing some Black Friday shopping, obviously. I've been talking about it, but you brought up some crazy things that we can actually see out there when we're Black Friday shopping. Just some of the deal. I think we get so used to everybody doing a Black Friday deal that we become a bit desensitized to how weird some of the deals are. And I'm not just talking about Trevor Williams trying to sell himself on. Twitter. I'm talking about a lot of weird stuff that you can see out there, especially if you go to

Starting point is 00:18:41 Amazon and just hang out there for their lightning deals because pretty much everything that's available on their website goes on sale at some point. And you really just get to see how deep the rabbit hole goes of shopping at Amazon.com. But Jesse, what, what are some weird deals that you found while you were out there shopping the Black Friday world? Well, yeah, so I have to start with a disclaimer that for me, Black Friday shopping this year was entirely online because I'm sick and I don't want to go around and infect everyone in stores right now. It's a good way to be regardless of health, but yes, I understand. And yes, to be fair, if I were not sick, would I, you know, be busting down the door as a target at 5 in the morning? probably not.

Starting point is 00:19:31 So maybe it didn't make much of a difference at all whatsoever. But perusing the interwebs, I did find some interesting things out there. I want to start with magazines, Derek, because I swear that like every magazine subscription, which apparently you can get on Amazon, they're all like 90% off. And that was eye-catching for me because as we've been saying, 90% off is pretty legit. Like everyone's got their Black Friday sale. Sure. But when you see the numbers start with a nine, it's like, all right, these people need this.

Starting point is 00:20:04 Now we're talking. Yeah. And then it occurred to me that these are magazines. And there's no and nobody reads magazines anymore. And so the only way that they're going to sell any of these magazines is if they make it appear that they are on some ridiculous level sale and that you absolutely have to capitalize immediately and buy them on Black Friday, which of course is, is, is, just an absolute bald-faced lie.

Starting point is 00:20:30 But I did find some fascinating magazines in the process. We have Ranger Rick, which I think is sort of like a wildlife sort of a thing. The front cover says Make Way for Hippos, which I found particularly intriguing. We're on board. That one was only 76% off, but I was still pretty tempted there. We have lots of food magazines here. We have the Food Network magazine. We have a car and driver magazine.

Starting point is 00:20:57 Yeah. I could see myself keeping some food magazine or food network magazines for recipes and such that are inside of them. Other magazines are getting tossed right in the trash. But those are those those have a rewatchability factor like Jesse's movie reviews for sure. Does anyone actually read magazines anymore? I, I do not. I don't know. It's and it's one of those things that you don't think about until you bring up the question.

Starting point is 00:21:22 And then you think, oh my God, I don't. As a matter of fact, I was at my barber the other day and I realized while I was there that they don't have magazines in the waiting room anymore. They don't even have the book that they used to have where you would find the haircut you wanted in it and point to it. And that used to be just always laying out. So it's like they've just abolished all physical media. A book where you point to the haircut that you want? Yeah. I've never heard of this in my life.

Starting point is 00:21:53 I want a number 76. You don't go. You see, you know, you need to go to hood barbers. That sounds like a way of ordering food, Derek. That's when you say, I want a number whatever. It's kind of is. And just like a place that has entirely too many combos, it's too much information to take in. You might, you might think you wanted a number 76, but really you wanted a number 23.

Starting point is 00:22:14 You know what I mean? There's a fine line between a number 76 and the number 23. Everyone knows that. Actually, there is. It's the fine line in the front where they line you up. But, Jesse, one ridiculous deal that I found that I think is one that people overlook,

Starting point is 00:22:31 much like your magazines, is Walmart had a 70-inch vizio that my friend Tick Hall purchased, uh, class V series TV 4K for $448. 70, 70 inches? 70 inches. 70 inches. And I just, I don't even know what we're doing anymore.

Starting point is 00:22:56 Where are we at as a society? Where are we at as a species when we're able to make 70 inch televisions that are flat screened and 4K for under $500? But you're going to charge like $500 for insulin? What is happening anymore? Why are we, where are we at as a people? Someone actually had a chart on Twitter about where inflation actually. actually is going to, like what things are actually the price is inflating on and what things are going down. And TVs are like at the cheapest they've ever been, Jesse. It is the best

Starting point is 00:23:32 time ever to own and enjoy a television set. Toys are also very, very cheap by comparison to time. But you know what's not cheap? Everything we need to live. Health care services, insurance, water. It's all very expensive now. It's all very expensive. Can I make, can I push back though and say that that's not that surprising? Like, isn't it kind of normal that as technology advances and as, you know, as processes for building things become a little bit more streamlined? Like the first laptops cost thousands of dollars a few years ago and couldn't do, couldn't do crap compared to laptops now, right? And now laptops are way cheaper than that. Computers used to be the size of a fucking room and cost millions of dollars at one point.

Starting point is 00:24:20 So you're not wrong about that. But my point is, is why aren't we advancing other things, other life necessities to a point where they're cheaper? Why are we taking advantage of the things that we need the most in life and making those more expensive when technology and other factors could be leading those to being cheaper as well, Jesse? I'm just saying we're focusing on the wrong shit. We're focusing on making TVs bigger and cheaper and phones smaller and more touchscreen and cheaper. But no, maybe not. phones are getting more expensive. But, you know, we are, we're just not, we're not, we're not prioritizing what our scientists need to be working on. We have too many scientists

Starting point is 00:24:59 working on 70 inch TVs and making them less expensive. We need them more. We need them, we need them in a lab saving lives is what we need. But please don't get me off on a tangent because I will, like, I'm already ready to go off on Ancestry.com. And I know that's on your list too, because we discussed this. Ancestry.com having a black Friday sale so fucking weird. It's so weird. Yeah, it's, I don't know. I personally have never done

Starting point is 00:25:27 one of those sorts of tests. And I never will, Jesse. I probably, I probably never will either. Maybe for, maybe for some people out there, they learned a lot of things about their families because of Ancestry.com and their little, you know, genetic

Starting point is 00:25:44 testing kit thing. But I do find it interesting that I want say it might be cheaper right now, actually. I'm going back to the original ancestry kit that I looked at on Black Friday. I'm looking at it again on Saturday, and I'm pretty sure it's less than it was on Black Friday, or at least identical. It says it's a Cyber Monday deal now. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Save $50 or more on special DNA offers. That alone is fucking weird. That's a weird sentence, Jesse. Save $50 or more on

Starting point is 00:26:20 special DNA offers. I don't, I don't like that. That's a little uncomfortable. That's a little uncomfortable. My bigger problem is what am I going to do with this information? When I get it back, what am I going to do with this? Right. I'm going to find out my ancestors were like a slave owner and I'm going to feel just like the terrible person the rest of my life. What am I going to, I want to find out that they were all rich and I'm just going to be sad that none of that wealth got passed down to me or I'm going to find out they're completely ordinary people and I'll forget the results of this test. I don't know what I would do with this information. Like that's that's the thing is I'm sure there are people out there that are curious.

Starting point is 00:26:58 I have a weird background myself. My, my grandmother is Irish and she moved to Puerto Rico because she was in the military. She was part of the Navy. And that's the only reason why she was stationed in Puerto Rico. My mom, who is a white, blonde-haired, green-eyed American girl, grew up from being like six months old in Puerto Rico has the thickest accent you've ever heard and just was fully just grew up her entire life in Puerto Rico. And then my dad is just native Puerto Rican his entire life. Right. Like so there is a lot of interesting stuff.

Starting point is 00:27:33 I'm sure I could find out there. But it's stuff I'm going to pay all this money for just to register my DNA with the FBI and the CIA. And then what am I going to do with that information? Go, hmm, that's neat. That's interesting. And then I'm going to move on with my life. That's it. I don't, I don't see a purpose on this. It's a pretty good deal though. I mean, it's more than half off.

Starting point is 00:27:55 Well, if you want, if you want a good deal, Jesse, adult star, that's a porn star, it's a pornography, it's a pornographic movie, Jesse. Angela White, she has a Black Friday sale on her only fans page. So, hey, do with what you want to with that information. But I think it's weird, again, for Black Friday to now carry over to pornography, but to each their own, right? Nothing's weird anymore. These are all just things that happen in life. What's really weird is that Amazon was selling these two items. Jesse, I'm going to go with you back to back. These were both Black Friday items.

Starting point is 00:28:32 One was the Sauce Moto dip clip. It is a in-car sauce holder for ketchup and dipping sauces. In-car? In-car. so that you connect it to your air conditioning vent. And then it's right there for easy access for you to dip chips or dip French fries into your ketchup, if you will, while you're driving. That is looking really. Here's the thing.

Starting point is 00:29:00 Here's the thing. You guys are listening to this as an audio podcast right now. I just saw the most loving look in Jesse's eyes that I think I've ever seen from him. And it wasn't directed at me. It was merely directed at the idea of him owning a sauce motel. dip clip, which apparently I'm going to have to get them for Christmas. It sounds incredible. I cannot tell you, I'm a pretty big eat in the car guy.

Starting point is 00:29:22 Like if I go through- We know about you and your sick rap four, Jesse, we know. Yeah, and whenever I go to salad and go because it's been talked about, there's, there's nowhere to eat inside. You got to eat the car, right? So I am a very big eating the car guy. And there, frankly, is just not usually a great way to deal with condiments in the car. It's just kind of a pain. There's not a lot of things that encourage you to eat in the car.

Starting point is 00:29:48 You know what I mean? Like there's not enough like I saw there was a steering wheel thing where you could like put it like it's a little tray and you hang it on your steering wheel. So like if you're sitting and not moving like what you're saying where you're eating your salad and go in the parking lot of salad and go sadly by yourself without Tori Lobello in the car with you. You'll have a little little desk for you to set your food on in front of you. But there's not enough innovations like this out there. We need more. We need more eating in the car innovations, especially come on for road trips. That sounds great for road trips. That sounds excellent. That's exactly what I need. Well, it's you got. Well, I also have to add that any of those

Starting point is 00:30:25 fast food joints that are still using the packets of condiments, you know, that you have to like open and then like squirt out. It's all messy and icky. Those people, they're the ones who really cause the problem here because there's just no way, no good way to deal with that situation. Some places like, you know, raising canes or Chick-fil-A, they store their condiments in like a nice little cup situation where you just like hold the tab on the top. And that kind of works. I don't know if I'd actually need any other separate surfaces in that situation. But anyway, I guess I've talked enough about condiments in the car now. So I growing up was huge into Hot Wheels cars.

Starting point is 00:31:10 Okay. Just huge. I had an enormous collection and I would be playing with them all the time. I had those little rugs, you know, like those little rugs that had like a street. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:31:23 Yeah. Yeah. I was, I was hardcore obsessed and I would have all of my little Hot Wheels cars rummaging around going about their day on my little. on my little carpet rug road situation. And I noticed that there were some pretty good sales last night on some of the Hot Wheels stuff, which apparently is still a thing. Apparently Hot Wheels has not gone out of business since my childhood. And it still exists.

Starting point is 00:31:52 And it was only about like 40 to 50% off. So it wasn't exactly, you know, door busting level of sale. But I was still impressed. You were surprised you then. Hot Wheels are still like something that's popular with kids. Well, what surprised me even more is that it appears that Fisher Price still has a monopoly on basically all toys because Fisher Price also had a bunch of sales and it still appears to me that their toys are vastly superior to everyone else's, which was also the case when I was

Starting point is 00:32:23 five years old. So apparently nothing has changed in the toy industry over the last 20 years. It's all about brand dominance for sure. I think I bought my, uh, I bought my nephew a little tykes. It was either Little Tykes Fisher Price. It's a DJ table. It's a DJ tables for Mega Rans.

Starting point is 00:32:42 Wow. And it's so that he could get an early, early, you know, start on mixing for his dad. And I just couldn't believe that that existed as a product. You know, I also saw that people are taking the Fisher Price, like they have like video game controllers for kids that kind of light up

Starting point is 00:32:59 and play songs and stuff and they look like an Xbox controller. so that like, you know, a kid can play next to dad and feel like he's playing the video game too. And of course, geniuses needed to modify the controller so that you can actually use it on an Xbox. And it's fully functioning with all the buttons and stuff corresponding to Xbox buttons. So thank God for geniuses like that. Also, speaking of Hot Wheels, there's a theme park being built out right now as we speak by State Farm Stadium that is going to have a Hot Wheels ride. It's actually going to have like, it's going to be like a Mattel land. and it's going to have a bunch of Mattel properties like Thomas the engine.

Starting point is 00:33:35 Wow. Thomas the tank engine and like, you know, hot wheels. It's going to be great, hopefully, if it actually works out. I feel like we've been promised theme parks here before and it never delivers. But the last weird thing I found Jesse online for Black Friday was something called the boyfriend pillow. And the boyfriend pillow is like a quarter of a man basically in like a button up. shirt that I'm guessing I don't I don't want to like throw stones here but I'm guessing like a lonely

Starting point is 00:34:09 woman would cuddle up to you to feel like sleeping on someone maybe not maybe this could be like somebody who's like used to sleeping with their their significant other and then the person maybe goes away on trips or whatever and they miss sleeping on chest or whatever but it's a very it was a very pretty it was a very odd nothing to see on the lightning deals as I was scanning through. And I couldn't help but immediately backtrack and be like, what the fuck was that? And I'm very glad I went back and saw it because it has pretty good reviews. A quarter, a quarter of the man.

Starting point is 00:34:48 It's like, it's like half of his chest down to like the abdomen. Like, and then it's like an arm, like almost like the, you know, like, I'm a little teapot short and stout. Like it's the, it's the, this is my handle. part. It's like that. It's like an arm and like half the chest and half the abdomen. Yeah, I'm comfortable to say it's a quarter of a man. It's a quarter of a man. Okay. Basically. Or at least a pillow shaped like a quarter of a man.

Starting point is 00:35:20 The undoubtedly the greatest Black Friday deal of all, Derek, which is still available, is that the Seth Surveza shirt is still only 99 cents. I don't understand it. It doesn't make any sense. And if you're a diehard, you get an additional 20% off your order. I guess it's actually 79 cents. Seventy-79 cents. Yeah, you're getting for 79 cents. There is no better offer than that. And if you're not a die-hard, there's no better offer than you for you to become a die-hard. Forget getting presents for other people. Get presents yourself for yourself and become a P. HNX diehard. Of course, we're all about giving you guys everything you wanted. And that's why we

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Starting point is 00:37:13 as you've been. And I can't wait for next baseball season because the Arizona Diamondbacks are projected to have a winning record. They're projected to be an extremely exciting team. And I think that there is nobody that we're more excited to watch play a full. season of baseball at a major league level than corbin carroll yeah corbin carroll so i was just digging through some numbers um last night about his defense just you know as i do um and just just sitting around the off season just dig it around in the numbers this is what i do on black friday um corbin carroll had five outs above average last year which for those of you who are unfamiliar outs above average is just an advanced defense stat.

Starting point is 00:38:03 That is pretty much exactly what it sounds like. It's how many more outs above an average player has that player converted in the time that they've had. So five outs above average is a pretty decent number for a guy that only played 32 games, right? And he deached in a couple of them. So he didn't even play 32 games in the field. But yeah, that five outs above average was actually the most.

Starting point is 00:38:29 among all left-fielder's in all of baseball. And granted, part of that is because teams don't tend to play their best defenders in left field. But it also is a testament to the fact that Corbyn Carroll is a very, very good defender. And if you extrapolate that five outs above average over a full season, you wind up with more outs above average than any outfielder in baseball had last year. theoretically on paper, he would have been on pace for 25. Dalton Varsho led baseball and outs above average this last year with 17. So there's actually a pretty decent gap between what Corbyn Carroll was on base for

Starting point is 00:39:07 and what Dalton Varsho wound up with, which was an incredible number in its own right. Right. And Dolan Varsho obviously also did not play a full season in the outfield. So he is also not factored in like for a full season compared to some of his peers who might have ended. up winning a gold glove, let's just say. Yeah, yeah, that's an absolutely good point. So, yeah, I mean, you just put it all together. And Corbyn Carroll is not only, you know, this guy that we're getting excited about

Starting point is 00:39:38 from an offensive standpoint, in the back that he had an 830 OPS in a limited sample size toward the end of the year last year. It's probably going to go into 2023 as one of the favorites, if not the favorite, for the rookie of the year award in the National League. I think he has a really good chance to win that award when everything is all set and done. But yeah, he's a juggernaut defensively. I mean, he was outstanding defensively in that brief stint that we saw. And at times, I went back and I watched some of the plays that graded out as like elite

Starting point is 00:40:12 defensive plays. And it's funny because they don't necessarily look that impressive. A lot of them, Corbyn Carroll, makes look very routine. And it's because he's so incredibly fast that he's. just gets to he just gets to the spot that he gets to spots that other guys couldn't even get to, right? And a lot of times he gets there with ease and he actually winds up having a pretty decent amount of time to make the play when he does get to the spot. So you can't always go based on the eye test with these things. There were a lot of incredible plays he made that weren't necessarily,

Starting point is 00:40:45 you know, leaping or diving grabs. They're just kind of routine Corbyn Carroll being Corbyn Carroll. and as we saw last year, that's a pretty incredible, pretty incredible defender. Yeah, you get me so excited for next year, Jesse, I just can't wait to watch this team hit the field,

Starting point is 00:41:02 especially considering guys like Corby and Carroll have that, you know, that newness to the main roster kind of worn off. You know, like by now he's been hanging out, you know, with these guys.

Starting point is 00:41:16 I sent you a picture of him hanging out with Christian Walker at like a Christmas party thing or holiday party thing. or holiday party thing. So it very much feels like Corbyn Carroll has the new, you know, the new player to the majors jitters out of the way. I mean, he really wasn't playing like that last season. But if there was any of that, I feel like we're going to see an even more comfortable

Starting point is 00:41:38 Corbyn Carroll next season, which, you know, based on the numbers, I can't imagine him being better, you know, than he was projected last year or better than he's projected to be, but he very well could be. It's going to be an exciting team to watch, and I can't wait for him to be a big part of this team. Last year, we got a sample, but I don't know, man. I think when we have Alec Thomas, Dalton Varsho, Jake McCarthy and Corby and Carole all in the outfield together, obviously not at the same time because that's not how baseball works, but all those guys is part of the starting lineup. It's going to be extremely, extremely fun to watch.

Starting point is 00:42:17 If you haven't done so already, make sure to download the draft king's sports, app. Of course, I was dreadfully wrong in my draft king's pick of the weeks. I should have given you my Thanksgiving picks because those actually were phenomenal. I wish I could go back in time and do that.

Starting point is 00:42:35 I took money lines all the way down. And even though these games were very, very good, Jesse, I hit on every single one of my money line bets for Thanksgiving day. Yeah, it wasn't hard. I wasn't taking any kind of, uh, I wasn't, I wasn't taking any kind of like underdogs. But I also, did not put these together in a parlay, which makes me a little sad.

Starting point is 00:42:55 I wish I would have done that. It would have gotten a little bit better value there. But of course, when you bet your family members and friends is holiday season, make sure you go big. You know, make sure that there's consequences. The way our fantasy football league at the office works, you got to go sit at a waffle house for 24 hours and you get an hour taken off for every waffle you eat.

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Starting point is 00:44:06 And remember, kids, baseball is fun, but it's so much more fun when you leave Trevor Williams on the shelf because we already have Trevor Williams at home.

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