The Bobby Bones Show - SORE LOSERS: How Did Lunchbox Get SCAMMED Out of $295?

Episode Date: May 1, 2026

In this episode Lunchbox airs out his frustration trying to get a tee time for Batters Box and himself this coming Sunday in Austin. Also Lunchbox is now worried he hurt his Dad's feelings by not inviting him to golf with his kids and Ray is upset with Justin for making fun of his lack of friends situation. Plus Lunchbox got scammed out of $295 and his kids are now calling him a liar. BabyBox's baseball career might be over after an incident at practice last night and Lunchbox tries to figure out where they go from here.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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It's only Wednesday. It is hump day. We need to bring that back. Nobody says hump day anymore. Nobody. I say to my wife, but that's on Monday. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. And she only agrees to it usually on Sunday.

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Man, I'm a little frustrated. I'm a little, I got to be honest with you. Because the world has made it more difficult than ever to get a tea time to play golf with your family members when you're going to Austin and you're going to see your family and you want to hang out with your brother and you want to play 18 holes of golf. It should be so simple. Hey, dad. No, I'm not talking about playing golf with my dad. I'm talking about playing golf with batters box. Does your dad play?

He played a few times like 15 years. ago when we'd go play, but now he does not play. No. Dang, yeah. See, I wish he played. That'd be funny. We went and played one time in Arizona. We went to see my uncle, Uncle Doug, and we were on the first tee box and old pops, didn't wear golf shoes, jockstrap. And it was a little dewy on the first tee. And he swung and whoop on his ass. I bet he's still feeling that one. It was pretty bad. So, no, he hadn't played in a while. and maybe I should have invited him to play golf with my brother and myself on Sunday.

But I just feel like he doesn't enjoy it. He gets tired. It's not really fun for him. But maybe he would enjoyed hanging out with his sons. Man, now that you say that, I feel bad. I just didn't know if he was on the circuit with you because you have your homies that you roll with. I don't know if he was part of the Garrett clan, for lack of a better group term. No, it's Garrett, Greg, Jacob. No, he is not part of that group. But anyway, So Sunday we are trying to play golf. Before work on Monday? Yes, Sunday.

Boy, you crazy. I'm trying to play early in the morning. My flight is at like 515, 545-ish on Sunday. I thought about taking the 10 p.m. flight, getting back at 12, 15 a.m., but I felt like that was pretty stupid and irresponsible and I'd be exhausted. That's getting all the orange juice out of the orange. 100. You got to squeeze at both ends when you go to Austin.

You got to see friends, got to see family, got to do a little bit of work in between, got to suck that orange dry. Make sure the banana's gone. So the Austin Municipal Golf System, they have a new way of booking a tea time. You can no longer call and get a tea time. You can never go in person and get a tea time. You have to go online and book a tea time. Yeah, that's what I do at the Muni.

and they don't do that at the munis here. They never did in Austin. Now it's new. They have this whole system. They redevelop their website, revamped it. Now you can book tea times. Great. So I'm trying to get a tea time for Sunday morning.

And I'm trying to figure out how to do it. I keep clicking on it. It's like, up, that tea time, you can't do that. You have to wait until at least seven days out. Does Garrett have a computer at the grocery store? Is he just in the aisles? He's in the aisles. Okay.

And so he can't book. Well, he's not booking for batter's box at myself. He doesn't care about batter's box. He's not trying to help me out. So he'd rather bag than play ball? He'd rather bag than ball. So it says you can book a tea time for Sunday, May 3rd, starting at 8 p.m. Central. Whoa.

Are you sure Sundays May 3rd? Yes. Continue. On Monday night at 8 p.m. Do that. I'm like, boom, I'm on it. Don't worry. I'll get on there. I'll get it.

My name's Monday. I know how to have a fun day. So I get the kids in bed, 7.51 p.m. And I go sit down on the couch and I pull up the website and it says, you have been entered into the queue. About to pull up. I'm like, wait a minute. There's a queue. Now I'm in a waiting room.

What are these walling tickets or an 18? It's 18 holes, but it is hotter than a walling ticket. 18 candles. And I got on there at 7.51. I didn't realize there was a queue. else I'd have got on there right when the queue started. Right? So I'm like, all right, here we go. Let's see what I'm going to get. And I wait in the queue and it has a little guy walking on a green line.

Guy walking on a green line. Once it hits 8.8 p.m. It's like, all right, here we go. 802. Still not my turn. 803, not my turn. 804, not my turn. 804, not my turn. 805, not my turn. 8.06. You're almost there. Are you a him or her? It's almost your turn. I prefer not to answer. There is no time limit on your transaction, so no need to rush once you get inside. Just find the tea time you would like. No problem, I will. 807 still not in.

808. Boom. It's your turn. We're redirecting you to the website. Oh, whoa. Do not click on the robot button. That will relink to porn. And I said, all right, here we go.

And it says, tea time. I say start 8 a.m. to golfers. Show me what you got. Show me the money. Show me what you got. The earliest available tea time, 4.50 p.m.

Let's go. What's wrong with that? My flight's at 5.45. You said you're going to take a 10 p.m. flight? I thought about switching it when I saw the tea times. Set the timeline. It works. I was eight minutes. Eight minutes into the tea times being allowed to be booked.

and the earliest time was 4.50 p.m. I tell you what, it is a virus growing across this country, golf addiction, a disease. I was like, what the crap? How is every tea time and every public course, or muni, that is, taken in the first eight minutes that I'm online, except for wait, what's this? Lyons Municipal? Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I heard a lot of dirt there. I haven't played there in a long time.

I've always wanted to get back and see if it's as hard as I remember it. And, I mean, it was so hard when I first started playing golf. I haven't been back. But that is where Pat Green, I was in the fairway. I think it was on number four or five. A ball came rolling up under my cart. And we were over kind of the crest of a hill, so he probably couldn't see us. And I was like, man, what the heck?

I'm going to say something to this guy. Pulls up, it was Pat Green. I was like, hey, good shot, man. Wave on, wave. Wave on wave. Oh, wave on wave. Is he still doing that? He's still singing?

I just know, I went to Texas, never heard of him. He was huge. South Beach introduced him to me on the computer. Listen to him for a while. The women made him go crazy. Oh, go crazy. Did you go to those concerts? Those girls were, whoo.

Ray Soppin. They were revving and ready to go. Anyway, so I'm like, oh, let me get that 8 a.m. then. That tea time is not available. It's in use. Well, no, it's not because I'm looking at it. Click on it again. Nope, that tea time is not in use. I sat there for 23 minutes trying to click on that tea time, never got it. And yeah, it didn't work out. Someone paid for those four slots. So back to the 450 tea times, then you have a decision to make. Is it just over? Or do you look at some of these private courses that aren't munis? You can't. You can't. You can't. You

can't do that. Don't you have to have membership? No, no, no. These are just not munis, but you can play at them. You're not a member, so maybe you don't have the proper, like, they don't give you the good tea time. So I'm like, all right, let me look. Is it like Gaylord Fawker? Yes.

That's private? Well, it's privately owned. Like, you don't have to have a membership to go there, but it's... I'm not asking if you're going to trade stock, coach. I'm not asking if it's a private or public IPO. That hell are you talking about play some golf so i'm like all right batters box let's see forest creek is up by

where he lives up there in flugerville uh i thought he lived in houston there's no tea times available all right cool man cool all right let me check out star ranch let me check that one out at earliest tea time available is 3 15 p.m well that's not going to work on my schedule sundays are tough on my course i don't even go on the website to look because i know the answer on saturdays Saturday I know the answer. I text chest day. And I'm like, dude, because his dad plays golf

three or four times a week. Really good golfer. Really good. I said, how the hell does your dad get tea times? He goes, oh, man, it's just, it's a war zone out there. He doesn't like the new system. He hadn't been getting the early times

that he likes. He's been having to go later in the day some days. I'm like, oh. And I said, because I was on here right at eight and I got nothing. Earliest available tea time, 4.50. And he texted me back.

He goes, just checked with pop. He said it was a bad day. They didn't get very many tea times either. It was not a good night. Not a good night. They're very disappointed. Wait, him and his crew? Yeah, his dad.

They have a bunch of them. They span out on the computer and try to get tea times. And he goes, but I do believe there's a resale market where people will sell their tea times. Hey, man, I'll meet you in the back of the parking lot. You got the tea time? Yeah, I've got a cup of tea. Meet you there. So I said, man, will you give me that website?

He goes, let me check with my pops and see. where the website is. 10 minutes later he goes, just talked with pops, confirmed there is no resale market for the T times. Like, dang it. So now what do I do?

On my course, you can play in 30 minutes if you want to go play today. Not trying to play today because batters box does not live here. He can't make it here in 30 minutes. Okay. On Sunday.

Yeah. Just play hypotheticals. Okay. What time, say you're not going to Austin, hypothetically. Need to play 8 a.m. On Sunday?

Yeah. I can book it right now. Bro, they're crazy in Texas. That's a bunch of sight. Those people, see, Billy doesn't even talk about it. Now they're just Stan Skowski. They're not golfing as much as they used to golf when we're in college. I don't get how it's that popular.

Billy hasn't sent me a golf text in a year. I think there's so many people that live there now and there's not enough golf courses. It's what I'm getting because even Garrett says, dude, it is so hard to get a tea time nowadays. So hard. Instead of Garrett, building store displays at H.E.B. Why doesn't he build a golf course? I agree. Why is he putting, you know, all the cheese, the, what are they called cheddar cheese crackers, cheese it's on the in cap?

He should be bent up building a sand bunker and putting the flag on the side hill, making it impossible to make a put. We get it. Produce on the right. Milk at the front. So everybody has to go, or milk at the back. So everybody has to go through the entire store before they check out to just get the milk that need. We know all the tricks, Garrett. Make a golf course. I mean, H.E.B., what are you waiting on? You've got all the grocery stores. You know how much money you can be making on a golf course? I got the land. 2.3 acres. They could build some good old holes out there. Part 3. Yeah. So,

then I just keep looking. And I finally find a place called Plum Creek. It's down in Buda. I mean, we're talking south of town. We're talking like two hours. Plum out of luck. We're talking like two hours from batterer box's house. I think it's next to San Marcos, though. It really is. And I said, hey, man, there's a T-T. The Texas State Golf Course. Dude, that's what we're almost down to.

I know. I can tell you all the places they hit. On hole one, that sucker will roll. You could roll right past it on the par four. You want to keep it low and just let it ride, but you're not going full swing. And on hole two, a little bit of a creek, but boy, is it a shelf. So as long as you can get it across the creek, you're fine. It's tough to sit on top of the shelf.

Hole three. You're going back across that Ray's Creek I just told you about. But remember, there's going to be a net towards a parking lot. So you're not going to want to hit it over hit it. You're going to go in the lot. Hole four, that same creek I mentioned before, it runs through that one. So you can either lay up or hit it all the way over it. If you do, there's houses to the right. Oof. Hole five. Coeds? Wide open. You can just swing the crap out of it. It can go anyway and you're still set up for probably a birdie. Hole six, you're going to continue.

you. So, I'm like Plum Creek, man, two hours from your crib. It's got an 815 and an 853. And he goes, well, I mean, let's, I guess we'll do the 853. After I heart festival. I said, you're going to have to pick me up at the hotel. And I'm going to smell like tequila. And I need you to get a Desani at 7-Eleven or come and go. And I said, I'm going to need you to have the breakfast tacos in the car. One and a million. And I said, if you're down to play at 8.53, we will play at 8.53. And I'm with another woman. Don't tell my wife. And I said, I don't know how serious you are about this. And he goes, well, yeah, if you want to play, we'll play. So I don't know if he's excited or not. You can't be. That is so much of a commitment. To play golf, I drive two minutes. Yeah. I drive two minutes.

Yeah. You're about drive two hours? He's driving two hours. I am not driving two hours. And then I said, all right, I hung up. And I talked to my wife about it. I'm like, man. I'm excited about this. I just don't know. She goes, how are your parents going to feel? I said, what do you mean? She goes, well, now you won't be able to see your parents because we're going to be playing golf all day.

And then by we, it's an hour from their house to, from the Plum Creek. I said, yeah, maybe they can meet me at a restaurant by the airport. We can have, you know, a quick bite before I go. So I call them. And I say, hey, look, I got some bad news. You know how we were going to do the meetup at your house? And the sister was going to come over.

with her kids and we were going to hang out all day. Well, didn't get to tea time until 8.53, hour away from your house. So if you guys want to meet to eat, you know, that would be great. My mom's like, oh, really? So you pick your brother over us? They got to get a Southwest ticket to go have lunch with you? I said, this is the problem with coming to town is you feel like you got to see all these people and someone always feels left out.

And so my parents are like, yeah, I guess, you know, golf is more important than hanging out with us. kid I'll be eating at that place with lemon moraine pie I'll leave a chair open if you want to meet up you're gonna pull up gonna link up and my dad was like well I've been trying to call Keith to see if he wanted to come over to and I'm like yeah I'm sorry and they're like oh no it's okay and I was like see this is why this is why I can't do this is why I can't going back to Austin is very stressful and they're like ah now we're just screwing with you man go have fun hit the golf ball we'll meet you for dinner what to tell your sister that we're going to meet at a restaurant and eat I'm like that's what I'm saying that's what I'm saying I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm talking about mom and dad. So 8.53 Sunday, we will be teeing off at Plum Creek. Get ready, boys and girls. We're taking over Buda or Kyle or whatever city it's in. I just hope you play well. if you're driving two hours outside of town, get one of the I-heart vehicles. Say, hey, I'm heading to the stage. And then, oh, just a little bit further. They'll drive you out there for free. Unless it's just

bones who's got the chauffeur. Well, yeah, he is. And Bobby, and Bobby won't drive me. He'll be headed probably back to the airport so batters box will pick me up so it is free either way for me it is kind of out of his way because he's going to have to come in and then out and then up and down he could just take the toll road but that's not going to work when he's got a swing by downtown and pick me up well in austin they got some great restaurants terminal two have your dad and mom meet you there really there's a good little ranch style place yeah yeah we'll take a break man but good news is batter's box and i got a tea time for sunday morning and garrett gregg And Jacob and I, we are supposed to play golf on Friday.

We are supposed to play at a private course kind of outside of town. Got a nice big old metal gate and you got to hit the little keypad to let you in. It is a looking like 100% chance of rain on Friday. So we do not know what we're going to do. That sounds like a tornado. And I said, boys, we still got to drive out there and we got to take our chances. Because an hour outside Austin doesn't mean it's raining out there if it's raining in Austin. And they're like, maybe we just go hit on a simulator.

I said, quit being a bunch of, jeez. A simulator. I ain't going to hit on a sim. Baser's been trying to get me to do that for the past two years. I ain't going to do it. I'm like, quit being, we'll go out there and we'll figure it out. Bring an umbrella, damn it. And we'll take a break.

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Lunchbox, more frustration in my life. I'm guessing I heart Austin. You got shafted your mom and dad or plum out of luck. It's either dad or darts on the green. And more of how many times Arnold and Abby hook up every weekend. What? It's on the menu. Man, that's not what it was on my menu.

I mean, you may have a different menu, but I got my frustration with the Nashville soccer club. I mean, I'm a season ticket holder. And what they do to me, I just can't understand it. Let's not get political. I can't understand it. And then Baby Box's baseball career almost came to an end yesterday. We could all only hope. Did I say that aloud?

Let's start the show. Yeah. We're going to do it live. We are the one, two. The sore losers. What up, everybody? I am Lunchbox. I know the most about sports. I give you the sports facts. My sports opinions because I'm pretty much a sports genius.

Y'all, it's Sisson. I'm from the North Alpha Mail. I live on the north side of town with Bayser. 2.3 acres, 23 kids at Vanderbilt. Justin's supposed to be looking after him. They're de-frosting. He now lives in Michigan. He's got a loft downtown there. Cascade Grand Rapids, one of the two. Life looks great. He texts me every night. It gets on our Facebook page. and bashes me about not having any friends

and then he'll text me again after posting on the Facebook page. So I don't know who's more lonely. Me or him, but I'm going to vote him. Over to you, coach. I just vented. That was your only vent, man. That's all one line. No, you're going to leave it alone?

It was just basically, and then he texts me and Bayser on Sunday morning, basically making fun of us that we don't have friends anymore. But we're like, I mean, you haven't come across really that you've been Mr. Personable in Michigan. Like you're just out on. on the town meeting people. I haven't seen one picture of you with somebody that isn't your family member.

I mean, I think you're the one that's not meeting people. But then he was happy that Dodd moved out. It was friend jealousy. He was happy that Heather left. And he's also happy that Angelina is out of our life since he was out of our life. And then was there one more? I'm forgetting someone.

Oh, yeah. We don't talk about her anymore. We broke up with her. No, no, no. It was Heather. It was Eric and Anna. Yeah, who I have to know my other friends. that moved out of town. How am I forgetting this person? South Beach. It wasn't South Beach. I was the crazy one. The neighbor? It was three of our friends have moved.

Yeah. Heather. Eric and Anna. Justin? Justin. Already thought of him as not a friend. Yeah. I mean, I saw that post. I thought it was a low blow. Because I remember I went to Boston one year and he was living in Boston. I said, man, how's it been going up here? He's like, man, I haven't met anybody. So I don't know that he is Mr. Making Friends right away. It takes a while. I think he's a little nervous, a little gunshot to go up to dudes and ask for dudes' numbers. But it's more numbers than he's going to get with chicks.

I'll tell you that. I guarantee you. Do you think he's cleaning up there? No, I said he's going to get more dudes' numbers. He's just got to start asking. Chicks, they're not going to want anything to do with him right now. I will say in his favor, the weather. Michigan, this is the best time of the year to live in Michigan.

When he first moved there, he goes, why did nobody tell me that it snowed in Michigan. It was miserable the first three months. But now you're able to get outside. You're on jogging trails. You've got ponds, rivers, lakes, all kinds of beautiful areas. You're out getting Froyo ice cream there at a nice beautiful little city town. Michigan,

this is it. Lake Michigan, this is where you're throwing a football like American Pie and you hit a girl in the tits. And next thing you know you're married to her. So that's up to him. He's got to get to Grand Haven. He knows where all the spots are. Justin, you're not going to want to stay in Grand Rapids. You want to get over there to Lake Michigan. All those spots that are lined up,

more past gun lake you're going to go even past grand haven you want to get all the way to lake michigan and it is just it's going to be boat week it's going to be the armed forces week this is the time to meet people get out there get a bathing suit get some sun uh there you go over to you man yeah so Nashville SC man they've been having a great year best year so far in their club's history they've only lost one game they're in this uh champions conquests Champions League and they're in the semifinals and they're playing Tigres in Nashville for the first leg of the thing. What is the tournament called?

Is it the Conch-Cath? Conca Calf Champions League. That sounds like when we were in Beninian, we had conch. It does, but this is much better. No, that conch was amazing. Anyway, as a season ticket member, they usually give you the option. Do you want the tickets this round of the whatever special tournament is or do you not? and I guess I missed the email where they said that I had an option

because all I did was get an email that says you've been charged for the semi-final tickets. Guaranteed it's on the weeknight. Oh, it's definitely on last night, Tuesday night, it's 7.30 p.m. Because I know the regular season games are always on Saturday. Correct. And they do these stupid weird tournaments during the week.

They make no sense. And so I'm like, listen, boys, on Saturday, we ended up not going to the game. We were supposed to go to the game. We're having so much fun at what we were doing. and we didn't leave. And I was like, you know what? No matter what, we're going Tuesday.

We're going Tuesday night. It's a school night, but that's all right. We'll stay up late. We'll go to the game. It'll be awesome. Peanuts and lemonade for everybody. Okay, dad, I can't wait. I can't wait.

So yesterday school ends. Oh my gosh, Dad, we're going to the Nashville SC game tonight. We're going to the NSC game tonight. Woo, can't wait. Don't want to miss it. Then Baby Box has baseball practice. does baseball practice. And afterwards, they see a couple of friends.

They start playing wiffleball at the ballpark. And Baby Box 2 is like, Dad, just let us know when we need to go. Whenever we need to leave, we're ready to leave because we don't want to miss the NSC game. Glorified babysitter, you are. And I'm like, all right, yeah, dude, no problem. And then I look up at the sky and it's starting to get windy. And it's starting to get dark. It's like 530 games at 730.

I was like, all right, boys, we got to go home and eat dinner. We got to go home and eat dinner. All right, all right, let's go, let's go. We head home, get home, we're eating dinner. And I'm like, boys, I got some bad news. We might not be going to the game tonight. Your dad may melt. You said we are going to the game.

You lied. You lied. You're a liar. Blame God. I said, listen, boys, I don't control the weather, but it looks like it's going to storm. out there. But dad, if it's just raining, who cares? Like, who cares about rain? It was dark. I'm

with you on this one, dad. I said, well, guys, I don't really want to sit in the rain. And that doesn't seem like very much fun. We'll be soaking wet. Then Baby Box 2 hits me with what? But dad, but dad, but dad, I said a prayer. And I'm like, what do you mean? He goes, I prayed. I told God. I said, hey, God, please let it not rain so we can go to the National SC game. And then Baby Box 3 is like, Well, you got to say more than that. And Baby Box, too, do I really? What else do I need to say, Dad? Like, was that not long enough?

Can you not hear me if I didn't say a long enough prayer? I'm like, no, no, no, bud. That was fine. You're fine. It's okay. It won't be answered. And I said, some of the God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers. He's like, Dad, what do you mean?

I was like, let me play the song for you. Played the song for him. And he's like, I don't understand. I might not all prayers come true. They're not all granted, but that's basically what the song is saying. And it's okay. And we're eating dinner and it's like 6.30. And it was getting dark, boy.

What is this? What is it? Some song. What are you doing? It says lightning strike. That is the second time you've played that. And it's nothing to do with the weather. I hate to take from your story.

But when I say this, I'm not even joking. Somebody deleted my lightning strike. Oh my gosh. And then somebody deleted our crime scene. music. Oh, it's so annoying because the sound effects would really add to it right here. We may win a podcast award if you had the as I'm talking because we're sitting at dinner and it outside.

I said, oh, boys, I don't know. That doesn't look good. And my wife's like, let me look online. Of course, National S.C is still saying game, can't wait, showing pictures of the guys getting out of their cars, walking in. It's game day in National. They're not mentioning anything about the weather. They're not saying anything about, oh, it might be delayed, even though it's outside.

Like, all right, cool, man. Yeah. That's what it's doing. I was like, yeah, boy, that's a wrap. Doesn't look like we're going to the game tonight. They're like, why? And I'm like, guys, listen to outside. Baybox one's like, I did hear that.

I did hear that. And he goes, it's supposed to storm all night. So maybe it'll storm all night and I'll have to play tomorrow. we can go tomorrow. Smart. He goes, but what happens if they play while we're in school? Would we still go to the game? Same amount of people.

Those games are hurting, aren't they? They do put them. I'll give them props, but I'm driving home. They put it on the billboard if we won. That's great. Yeah, it's great. I mean, advertise. Yeah, not, I mean, football is going to be taking over in the fall.

You better take the summer. Yeah. Well, summer's going to be World Cup. So we're going to take the summer off. We won't have any games. Whoa, we got some of those Mexico games here? I don't know what we, no, we don't have any games here. in Atlanta, but the World Cup is in the United States,

and we will not be having MLS games at that time. Fun. So then we put the boys to bed, and I look online, and it's like, oh, the game is delayed, not going to start to at least 8.30 because of severe weather in the area. I'm like, see, that game would have been in and an end of 11 p.m. Kids couldn't have made it. Great idea not to go.

And I wasted all that money. I was going to say, you're burying the lead. How much were you out? Um, I was out $295. Ha! Tell me how it pays off to get season tickets, because I'm not seeing it. I'm not sure. When Messi comes to town and you can scalp them for a thousand, yes.

Other than that, I have no idea why you wouldn't just get them day of game. Saturday night, you're bored as hell. Let's go CSC. Um, I'm starting to think that way also. I'm starting to feel the exact same way you are because this being automatically charged $295, then the bad weather, so we didn't even get to go. And I don't even know that I had an option to say I didn't want the tickets. Well, and I, SC, I have a bone to pick with them as well. They gave me free tickets last year.

Yeah. I didn't go. I turned around and scalped them and made like $60 to $100. This year they said, hey, we're giving you more free tickets. Yeah. What's your email? I gave it to them. They never sent me the free tickets.

I wasn't going to go. I was going to scalp them, but it's the principle of it. But did you use the same email address? Yeah, they know that I'm still thinking about being a season ticket holder. But if you've already, this is for first time fans. If you use the same email address, they know they already sent you tickets and you've already been to a game. Well, I wasn't going to keep the tickets. They were going to be hot.

Yeah, they were going to change hands very quickly. But I'm still wondering why they didn't send me those free tickets. I would have at least thought about it. I just told you why. Next year, I'm going to do a new email. Yeah, so I watched it from the couch. We lost one nothing to Tigre's, and now we've got to go down to Mexico next Tuesday.

It's going to be very almost impossible to win. We've got to win the game, and then we have a chance to advance, but if we don't win, we don't advance. The tide does us no good. We've got to go balls to the wall. What city is Tigreys? Hopefully on Porto Vireta.

I don't know where Tigraise is. If someone can tell me where Tigray's is, I have no idea. Don't even know if it's in Mexico City, if it's in Reynosa, and that's about the only ones I know. We're thinking about Cabo this summer, and Beezer goes, no, I'm not doing Mexico. And I said the Porto Vaireta thing where they had tankers turned over and guys were bombing each other. That was, that's over. That's how you've cleaned it up now.

They've done a bunch of recycling, a bunch of street cleanup stuff. Mexico's back open. Really? Because, I mean, heck, from the ice storm, there's still branches in my neighborhood. So Mexico's a lot faster than we are. We're going to Mexico. I told her, I don't know what you've seen in the news about all these cartels. I mean, we're taking our playing cartels, taking my cards to Mexico.

We're going to Mexico. Well, I'm not going to Mexico, and I didn't get to go to the game last night, but I paid $295 to watch it on my TV. Cartels? Well, I'm going to find a car and tell them to take me to the nearest bar. Senior frogs. We'll take a break. We'll be right back.

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Baby Box, the Los Angeles Dodgers, they had practiced last night from 4 to 5 p.m. Oh, Tani randomly didn't play. Really? Yeah, Justin picked him and beat the streak and he went 0 for 0. But smart pick, Justin, he didn't even play. Yeah, it's a little worrisome that he could have pinch hit. He'd been over one, streak over, man. That's the worst.

Got to check that starting lineup, bro. Gotta check the starting lineup. But he had practice from four to five, and so we show up and get out there and he's warming up, playing good. Then they're running some drills and practicing and throwing the first, all this stuff, taking ground balls. Everything's going out great. Everything's fine.

He's loving baseball and then they're like, all right, we're going to hit a little bit. And they start assigning positions and they say, baby box, go to first base. That's where you want. And I'm like, okay, he's going to love first base. He's going to absolutely just eat it up over there. The next Andre's Gala Raga, the big cat. Dude, that was a great nickname. The big box.

The big cat was. He was my favorite player, dude. I wish I would have been the big cat, but now there's this dumbass at barstool named Big Cat. Dude, it would have been the best radio name else. ever, why did I not go by Big Cat growing up? I did. When I played, they call me Big Cat, but then I just randomly ended the nickname.

And then biggest dude ever, Big Cats, all over Barstool, the rest of his history, I can never use the nickname. Oh, you can be the crime dog, Fred McGriff. Basically, tell your kid to come up with an amazing nickname, just so somebody at Barstool or Pat McAfee, somebody doesn't steal the nickname and it becomes more famous than you

because then you can never use the nickname. Or it seems like you're ripping it off from some other guy. I guarantee you I had the nickname Big Cat, before Big Cat at Barstool. But he gets it and he gets all the notoriety. That's fine. That's neither here nor there. It doesn't bother you or anything, does it? I kick myself every day that I didn't continue that nickname from first grade, baby box's age.

Why did I not continue that? Because I would have been the big cat. Bones. Let's go in the glass room. What's up, Big Cat? What's up, guys? I mean. Good.

And we would have done. Hey, we'll do it live. We're the one, two, three, sore losers. What's up? everybody I'm lunchbox and I know the most about sports I'll give you sports facts my sports opinions because I'm pretty much a sports genius what up y'all it's big cat I'm from the north

oh my god dude that would have been that that was so much more epic or I just start going it by it you gotta start sometime I mean we would be so much more memorable like people would remember our podcast more we'd probably have more downloads and you'd be like my name is big cat I got a cat named piper but they just don't know the history of it the only people that could back me up to my family, that he was my favorite. Everybody else is going to think I'm a rip-off. Well, we can just have a drop from your brother where he says, yeah, we used to call him Big Cat. Not much for words. Okay, we could go to Muff, and Muff would be like, yeah, he used to be called

Big Cat. Okay. Could have had it. Okay. But anyway, back to practice, man. So the head coach wasn't there. He was out of town doing something. I don't know what he was doing, but he was gone. So, yeah, the two assistant coaches out there and first batter up, you know, he's, you know, It's a little dribbler down on the third baseline and no one is hustling to get it. And Baby Box has got his foot on the base. So one of the coaches goes over there and grabs it. And he throws a strike to first. And Baby Box has got the glove out.

I mean, I'm like, oh, this guy's going to be out. Not sure what he did. Not sure if he took his eye off of it. I'm not sure if he moved his glove. If he blinked or what happened. but the glove the ball sailed past the glove and don't right off his head oh no

right off his head and I was sitting you know kind of in the stands and I was like oh oh I didn't know if it hit his eye I didn't know if it his mouth his nose and he immediately flings the glove off somehow he spits his gum out and he ah i want to go home i want to go home i want to go home i want to go to the sc game i want to go home

and i run out there and he sits down and i'm talking to him i'm like it's okay bud it's okay it's okay it's okay the coach did they allow you on the field yeah it was just practice correct did they allow you yeah they did the coach that threw the ball i'm the dad i'm the dad he comes running over he's like i'm so sorry i'm so sorry i'm so sorry it's like it's okay It's just baseball, man. It happens. You're going to get hit by the ball. Once or twice.

You're going to get hit by the ball. It's okay. I'm just so sorry. I feel so bad. I feel so bad. I'm like, this isn't on you. Was it a straight throw or a fairy throw? No, it was a straight throw.

And I was like, hey, bud, where did it hit you? And I don't see any blood. So that's good. There's no busted nose, busted lip. You want blood to make sure things are functioning as designed. Oh, I don't know. I got hit in the head multiple times. Fred, Heather's son just got drilled right in the face.

Kids are fine. Yeah. And so it turns out it drilled him straight in the left ear. He'll, he honestly will have some numbing. He's fine. I mean, we never thought he was going to be Harvard or Yale.

I think he'll be fine. And he's like, I want to go home. And I'm like, it's okay, bud, it's okay. Let's take a breath.

And he couldn't take a breath. Let's go for a walk. Let's go walk around the outfield. You want ice cream? And so we go walk around the outfield. He's, I just want to sit down. I'm like, all right.

So we sit down. And he's just, and it's like, it's okay, bud, it's okay. And he said, I just want to go home. I was like, do you want to get back out in the field? No, no, no, no. And I'm like, oh, no. That's how he ended his career.

I was like, baseball's over, man. Baseball is over for Baby Box. And I'm like, you want to bat out of this guy? You can bat. He goes, no, no, no, no, I just want to go home. I just want to go home. Then one of the moms, Miss, you know, Mayberry, she brings out this freaking ice pack. Whoa.

And put it on his ear. and he holds it there for a while and he starts to calm down. Would you mind making sure it's cold on your chest to make sure it's not too cold for him? I was like, see how cold it is. Will you put it right there? Oh, well, your nipples are shining through. It's cold enough. You can put it on your ear now.

She's like, this thing is freezing. I'm going to put it on his eye right now. I got it from the cooler. We can tell ice cold. Yeah, headlights are working. Can you turn your lights on? Ha ha, ha. because I can't see his ear

Can you shine your light Right over here? Thank you She's bent over trying to heal him Mama Well I've been healed How are you doing Mayberry And I'm like

Son we may have thought of something here Lay down And so then he's just like I was like you want to get You want to hit next? No no I just want to go sit in the dugout I want to go sit in the dugout I'm like all right

And I just know the best way to get over it is to get back out there. You got to get him out there so he's not thinking about it. Ice cream or an SC game. He'll forget about it right away. And the coach is like, do you like Gatorade? Do you like Gatorade? What color Gatorade do you want?

You want red? Okay, okay. So he calls his wife, she says, hey, when you come back to pick us up, will you bring a red Gatorade for him? And he sits in there for a minute, a couple batterers go up. And he's like, batters box? What up, everybody? It's a batter's box here. And he's like, Dad, I think I'm ready to hit now.

And he goes up and he hit. and then he went back in the field and coach hit him with another fairy ball no and he played the rest of the practice we went home showed mom he was great and when we went to bed he goes dad can I tell you something I said yeah bud and he goes man

I'm glad that didn't happen at a game I'm like why and he goes I'd have been more embarrassed I'm like why why would you be embarrassed but you know you just It happened. He goes, well, because there would have been a lot more parents there. There had been another team there and they all would have been looking at me. I'd have been more embarrassed.

There would have been that homeless guy digging through the trash? And I said, it's okay. And I said, you still want to play baseball? He goes, yeah. I said, see, I mean, it shows. It hurts. It hurts to get hit by the ball. I'm not going to lie to you.

It hurts really bad. But now you know that it doesn't hurt forever. It hurts for a little bit. But it doesn't hurt forever. And he goes, yeah. Good night, dad. I said, good night, son. And I thought, and so he's going to keep playing baseball.

Dad, it wouldn't have heard as much if it was a soft soccer ball. I should have been playing your sport. Yeah, so Baby Box will continue to play baseball. And you guys have a great Wednesday. I mean, Baby Box talked more than I did this podcast. Good God. Dad, I'm going to go to sleep now and dream about soccer. Go, SC, go SC.

And they get boat raced by the Tigray. They didn't get boat right. They pretty much got dominated the whole game. They got shut out. Yeah, one nothing. We didn't have very many good opportunities. Sam Surge not playing? He wasn't playing, man. He jacked. He had a little hamstring injury. He came back on Saturday. He just played this weekend. And then he hurt his back. He got a little knock in his back at the end of the game, so he didn't play. I think about going every weekend. I look it up and then we go get slammed with the Dodds and I'm like, oh, let's go back to bed. But not back to bed, but just back to chill. I always think, though, every weekend, huh?

Maybe this is the Saturday I go swinging CNSC games. He's Surge in person. Do we still got Mucky? Yeah, we got Mucky Tar. What about Zimmerman? No, he's going. Okay. He's gone.

But Sam, Serge, and Mzaki. Yep. Yeah, yeah. And we got Espinoza. He's good. And the Har's great. Dan Lovitz is great. Dan Levitar?

No, Eddie, Eddie Tagseth. He got hurt last night. That really hurt. I don't know. His quad. He grabbed it and he had to come out in the first 16 minutes. wasn't good. What's our mascot? A music note? Tempo.

Tempo. You got to beat. No, I'm not. Let's go tempo. No, you don't cheer for the mascot. Yeah. And I figured you didn't have anything to say because the spurs advanced and you don't want to talk about spurs because you hate the spurs. So go Spurs, go. Wimby is a freak.

Spurs are great. Let's go. Who do they got now? Is it the thunder? No. We don't play the thunder to the finals. Okay. You're lucky. Lucky. They're lucky. Why are we lucky? Why can they not be lucky? No, I'm just saying you need to get your nuts under you a little bit and then you could give Thunder a run. Oh, we can give the Thunder a run. You really don't know who you play nice? No, no one's advanced. Do they reseed in the NBA? No. NBA playoff. Not the NFL. We play either the Timberwolves or the Nuggets.

That's who we play. No one's advanced. There you go. But you said who do you play? And I don't know because they haven't advanced. You're going to play, you're going to play Denver. Nope. You're going to play Minnesota. Ant Man's out, man. That's right. You're going to play Denver. Yeah. And Devenjinzo, out. But Minnesota's up three, too. You're going to play the T-WOLs.

Oh, okay. All right. The Thunder get LeBron and his kid. Hey. They're about to wax, Brody. Yeah. Hey, how about the pistons, man? Ooh. Good. I hate Detroit. They can't shoot, man. They can't shoot in

Orlando's taking it to them. We really got to go, man. Oh, Celtics are about to get beat by the Sixers. They're up three, two. Yeah, you're right, dude. You don't have to play the Thunder till the finals. Yeah, I know. That'll be dirty.

It'll be dirt. That'll be must watch TV, and it'll be in a reasonable time. It won't be playing a West Coast team, so it won't be so freaking late. Yeah, this Lakers Rockets. Oh, my, the Thunder. The Rand hadn't played in about six months. I mean, what? Dude, that dude is going off the deep end.

That dude has gone off the deep end. When I turn on ESPN and LeBron's throwing oops to his son like they're in the backyard, what has happened to the NBA? What are we doing? They're about to get house by 40 every game to the Thunder. What are the Rockets doing? LeBron's throwing an oop to his infant son right over the top of every defender. I'm not about the play is awesome.

The fact that he's playing with his son is awesome. But guys, how do you let that happen? Like, that would be like me getting crushed by you and Baby Box. I would swap the crap out of him. All right. All right. Yeah, just we got to go. We got to go.

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