The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Bob Ryan Reviews Barbie

Episode Date: August 11, 2023

Stugotz, Billy and Mikey discuss Hard Knocks and Robert Saleh's motivational crow/eagle speech. Bob Ryan joins GBF to give us his review of Barbie, discuss the possibility of Bill Belichick reuniting with Tom Brady and going to coach the Raiders and to play a Game For Your Life: Ruth or Ohtani. The guys debate whether or not Chris Simms flies commercial or private. Did Stugotz encourage The Bear to leave ESPN to potentially replace him? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffe King's Network. God bless football Billy Gill God bless football Mike Yay God bless football Stugas Mike Yay has a big smile on his face I have a big smile on my face Billy has the normal grain on his face the normal smile on his face like he's about to stir it up Billy is wearing his dolphin uniform that as like like a dolphin uniform you have rocking there man. No, it's a polo shirt. I went to like a parent's day at the school. Yeah, but you look like you could be Mike McDaniel's nephew in town, you know, doing a little, doing a little shouting on your own.

Yeah, Billy, Mikey A is right because you have the hat on and you have the shirt on and you have, but you have headsets on. And I do. You could pass for a coach. You could. Coach Gale, thanks. Quality control. That seems like such a BS job, quality control, right?

What do they actually do? What, like the get back coach? No, the quality control coach. What does that even mean? I don't know. You see, I mean. Yeah. What do that, what Sims was?

Isn't that what Sims was? They watch the tape and like, don't they do a lot of that kind of stuff, right? Whoa, whoa, whoa, Sims is not going to like being called a quality control coach. Like, I thought that was his first job with the Patriots was, was QC. Maybe it was. I don't know. I just, I hope it was it and Billy clips it in a way that we could play it back for some so we could tear your head off I mean geez sir

Not the first time it won't be the last time Maybe Billy knows I don't know I don't know you What are you doing right now? You know we got we got a lot of things going on lots of moving and shaking going on at the moment We have you have potential guests coming on at some point that I'm trying to get together. I have an idea that I want to try to float out there. See if you guys like this idea or not. Do you want to hear the idea or no? I would love to hear the idea. Yeah, before we get to hard knocks and the Jads and Mikey A

being very excited, let's get to coach Kills idea here. Well, okay. So we had Dan Nitro Clark, the American Gladiator on not too long ago. If you remember. He was great. He was great. And he just kind of in passing while he was talking to us about steroid use and almost like trying to recruit us to do that with him, which I thought was, you know, maybe not our most responsible moment, but like a jacked pyramid scheme.

Uh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, yeah, easy. Whoa, Mikey, no, you have Sims coming after you and now Dan Nitro Clark, what are you doing? No, he was, he was, he was talking about like, you know, uh, testosterone replacement, hormone replacement for stugas, because he's getting older, poor guy. Anyway, he was trying to get stugas on it, but he just casually mentioned to us that he's going to be doing fantasy football and could really use help with his fantasy football

team. I think it was meant as a throwaway nothing comment, because we invited him back and we're like, yeah, absolutely, we'll help you with that. And then we were approached about having people come on for fantasy football, like a fantasy football preview segment. So I said yes to them, but I also said, however, let them know that I would like them to help Dan Nitro Clark pick his fantasy football team. So now, now we get into a situation where we have to kind of align the schedules if they're down for that idea.

But I did not forget Dan Nitro Clark saying he wanted help with his fantasy football team. And I am making it my mission before this NFL season starts to get Nitro help with his fantasy football team. I love the idea. So you had a list of demands that you sent back to the guest booker, said, which I loved, by the way, not demands in any way. It was not like threatening. I was not like raising my voice.

I said, yes, I would like to have them on to do this. If we can make that happen. Fair. Yeah. But let's try to make that happen. But if they're not willing to do it or we can't get to an Nitro Clark, they don't come on at all. Is what you're saying. We haven't got into that point yet.

Because we have our guys will have Matthew Barry on at some point. We'll also have Matthew Cherry on. I mean, so we don't really need to put these maybe Matthew Cherry can help Dan Nitro Clark. I look. I honestly, I honestly think that if we had Matthew Barry on and we said, hey, we want you on, but we want you to help Nitro, the American Gladiator, he would love that. He's that seems like something he would like to do. Yes. Well, maybe you should

dangle that in front of whoever's pitching themselves for this show. You know, say, hey, if you're not willing to deal with Matthew Barry, well, I'm on that. How long until Nitro gets Matthew Barry on HGH? Wow. I'm still waiting for mine. So, well, he told us reach out to my person and you haven't done that. So, I don't know. I don't have the person's contact. He did kind of just like, hey, yeah, reach out to XYZ and we're like, okay, and we're like, who is that? Like, how are we going to do that? Like, if you say so, sure. Like, say that. I mean, H-E-H, just tell me who to reach out to.

I don't care. What would you do on H-E-H? I assume feel better? I don't know. Would you start working out? No. Okay. Yeah.

Is an H-E-H a shortcut for working out? Like, rather than work out, just put that all over yourself or no. Not all over yourself? I have no, well, not everywhere. Well, how do you think you use it? I have no idea, Billy. I'm inexperienced with steroids.

A growth hormones. So your team's on hard knocks, huh? Yeah, but I want to go to you on hard knocks first. To me, yes, coach. I want to go to you on hard knocks first. Okay. Yes. Coach, okay. Yeah. I want to go to you first because Mikey and I of course are excited about it. We love the first episode. I don't need to talk to Mikey.

I know how much you love that first episode. I could feel it all the way from Florida. He said, could I get it? I felt I fired up. He was as we were watching that thing. Billy, what were your thoughts on it? Like I love hard knocks as a show. The quarterback show on Netflix is also excellent. I love hard knocks as a show. So, and I loved episode one because, because finally my team is relevant.

But what were your thoughts on it? I thought the opening, I thought the opening speech from Robert Salah was not as impactful as maybe he intended for it to be like where he was talking about crows attacking eagles and how eagles just fly all the way up until the crows suffocate and then fall to their death. And I think he said this is a valuable lesson for everyone. And I think he even said like take out your pens and write this down. And it's like, I don't think you need to write that down. And also, I don't really see how like that super applies to this situation,

because he's like, you know, crows are going to be coming for us. And it's like, so let's just fly as high as possible. So they suffocate and die. And I didn't get it personally, right? Right. Aaron seemed to like it, or he was laughing at him because he had like a big grin on his face and I'm like, does he motivated to see think his coach is an idiot? I don't know what the answer to that is. But, you know, as I

was thinking about like motivational speeches, I feel like when someone is delivering a motivational speech, you have to be open to motivation. Because if you go into it and you're not looking to be motivated, I think it's very easy to be like, this is an absurd speech, you know what I mean? Because I was thinking, as me, the viewer, not super motivated. However, if I was like a 22 year old New York jet,

I might be like, wow, he's right about that. I'm trying to think of a motivational speaker that could get through to Billy. I'm trying to think of somebody, some sort of analogy this, somebody could make. But the bill is point, Mikey. I think you don't want to be motivated. Nothing's going to work. If you don't, right, right, right. Yeah, like I'd have to to I'd have to be in a

position looking for motivation at the time. I'll look I'll tell you I'll tell you something and you'll think it's ridiculous. Sometimes I'll be sitting in there and I'll be doing like a class on Peloton or something and I'll be like, you know, 10 minutes in and I'm struggling because I'm in terrible shape. But I'll be like 10 minutes into like this ride. And then like the instructor will say like something and I'll be like, yeah, you're right. I am going to be a badass bee today. And then like I'll because I'm in the mood to be motivated because I'm like, you know, have no energy. It seems like that motivation, specifically sometimes is like geared towards like almost with the language like this is for a mom, but like I'm not a mom, but I can also be motivated like one you know

I mean because in that moment we're in this whole thing together, you know what I mean? Even if the class says like Peloton moms like in that moment, I'm a Peloton mom if that was right. The endorphins are running like you're about yourself in that 10 minutes after that you're removed from that bike You just go back to being Billy again, right? I Do get that like runners high even though I'm'm running on a trot of, you know, bike, but I do, I do, like, I do feel good and I always look at myself in the mirror afterwards. I'm like, huh, it's classwork today. And it's like, yeah, but if I look at it, it's like

I probably burn like 80 calories. So I look exactly the same. But in that moment, my head is convinced. There's a difference. The motivational speaker, I think that could get Billy fired up as Tony Robbins. Maybe. I don't know. I feel like Tony Robbins. No. He gives me magician vibes. He really, he's selling you a bunch of BS. I don't, I don't know. There's, yeah.

Tears too dark. There's something going on. I think I'm with you on this. I don't know. There's, yeah. Tears too dark. There's something going on. I think I'm with you on this. Feels like a total scam. I didn't say that. I did not. Magicians are scams. I don't care what you say. Whoa. Whoa. What is that supposed to mean? Wow. The tricks aren't real. I mean, that's,

says whom illusions. The illusion. Mikey, did we have that magician on from Lake Tahoe? Did we do that? If one boy, I'm one of these shows, there is a magician who like does a good opening act for all the golfers at Lake Tahoe. And we had him, I'm not certain Mikey was there. I know goal of junior was there and I think stands it because there he was a hack.

I mean, I'm sorry. I don't know what it is about, magic. Mikey, what do you think? Billy, by the way, just quickly here, on the speech, did you notice Robert Salah? It seemed like he was looking down at like index cards or something. Yeah, it's written down. You can't do that when you deliver a speech. It's got to be free flowing off the top of your head. You can't even if you have notes, you don't look at them. The terrible job by salad. Yeah, I think that's it. That's a thing that you kind of have to, if you're going to remember the story about the eagle and the crow, right? Like it started the whole season of hard knocks, but like that could have just been like a random day after something else, you know? Yeah.

Uh, Mikey, you wrote about the, uh, the first episode of hard knocks. Please tell the audience what you wrote, where you wrote it, where they could find it. They'd be interested in it. I'm interested in it. And I can't find it. Uh, A to Z sports slash New York Jets. I did, I did a running commentary. So basically you can almost feel my nipples get harder as you read because I was just so

into it. I loved every minute. I even, I'm even, you guys know how I feel about Zach Wilson. I am even starting to buy into the Zach Wilson redemption store. I am starting to buy into it. I am to I am to I feel like Zach is learning, which is kind of crazy, but I'm like, you know what? Aaron's parents really teaching him. This is great. Yeah. Why did you guys need to see it on your television screens? I said for a month now, one of the great things that could be a byproduct of getting our arrangers is he can teach you say a lot of things. Exactly. You just say a lot of things. But occasionally I get it right.

But here's the thing for Zach. Zach makes a great throw and our arrangers get to the credit. It's unbelievable. That is true. Also, that's that's kind of true. That is true also. That's that's kind of true. We've striber stole the stole the whole episode though. Really? Really? Really? I don't think you loved it. Oh, I loved every minute. When he's walking out, he's talking about walking out and needing to iron his shirt. I was laughing. And then when he talked about the football and he put it down, no, that was that was really funny. I thought he was awesome. That but Aaron trying to get everyone to go over and say hi to him. Yeah. Yeah. And then we're around. You know, and our friend hack was like, no, I'm good. Like, I'm not going to I'm not going to go over there. Jets coach step is jacked. Yeah. Notice that. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Salas Jack. Salas Jack. My wife is Jack. Olbrich Jack Jack. Oh my wife. Olbrich is like he's jacked. Yes. But he's he's also giving Salah a run for his money. Am I right? Uh, yeah. It appears like both of them have met day and night. Well, what is that supposed to mean? You know what I mean? You know what I mean? You know what I mean?

You know what I mean? Did you see when they broke down into like their individual, like, positional meetings? Yeah. Like every single coach was just like super cliche talk to all of them and it was kind of, I was like, man, this is just like the product of growing up, like your life being football is like,

you were at some point like this piece of moldable clay, and then they just molded all of these cliches into your entire life, and now you're older, and you're just passing down the exact same nonsense thing to the next generation who will then continue to give that to the following generation after that and then the generation after that. We will never lose useless cliches.

I don't think in football. No, we won't. And we shouldn't, by the way. I'm glad that we won't. I'm glad that we won't. Yeah. They mean nothing, but I've got to be won. I don't want Dan Campbell to stop ever.

I was just going to ask you about Dan Campbell. If you guys miss Dan Campbell this season because I kind of do, I do. I'd like to get him on this show if possible. Go look at him. Great. Yes. Really? Yes.

Go look at the relationship with Dan Campbell. I'll use Go look today and to try to get him off. We need to, we should, we should get him soon. Yeah. Because once the season starts, it's not going to be great. Did you see that he was on part of my take and he told them that he tried to get permission to have a live line on the sidelines and yeah, quote unquote, the NFL frowns on that. You could have it.

The fact that that means he actually asked. Well, yeah, I think he asked the team owner and the team owner was like, I guess, but I don't think the NFL likes that. I hope that there is some like mid-level management person that had to take that call and be like, so Dan would like a lion on the sideline. What do I tell him? The quality control coach, right? That's the job of the quality control coach, I think.

And the job is this request is absurd. We are never gonna do it. Find the person to blame for why we can't do it. Cause you will not be calling the league office and asking if we can have a lion on the sideline. They will think we're insane. So you need to find someone that says no, or make that person out.

Someone gets Sims. Yeah. And then they're like, oh, Dan Campbell, like, you know, Trudy Velasquez says we can't do anything. Oh, Trudy. And then he goes into the meeting and then he's like, who's Trudy? Just completely made up name, not a real person.

Just, who's the last question? Someone needs to be the person to say no. And that's the person. I made up for Trudy. Yeah, for Trudy, man. Trud no, and that's the person. I made a poor truity. Yeah, poor truity, man. Trudy was raining on operate. He calls in and he's like, I can't, he files like an official complaint. They're like, oh, don't worry, Dan, we let trudy go next time. You go get the line on this side.

Line, nothing we can do this time. The lion dead line. Shipper in that bridge. Yeah. The lion deadline was before training camp. Nothing we can do. Nike says that we can't put a lying on the sideline after a certain point in time. If Campbell wants Philly on the sideline, he can have him. This dog just wants to have. We didn't even hear him.

Philly's a good boy. Oh, you didn't hear him? I'm sorry. Okay. Well, this is going to be a strange sentence to the audience. But Billy, are we having Bob Ryan on this episode to break down Barbie? audience. But Billy, are we having Bob Ryan on this episode to break down Barbie? Um, you know, Bob Ryan is going to be on to talk about the patriots and the NFL. And if we just so happen to ask him about Barbie, which he has lots of thoughts on for some reason and keeps tweeting about, then that's what we're going to do. It's Bob's world, man, whatever Bob wants to talk about, we're going to talk about. All right. Well, thank you, Coach Gill. All right. Bob Ryan, I think breaking down Barbie. Next. That looks like the office of a man who was written his entire life.

Well, not bad. Just as I was 11. What did you do the first 10 years? That's the first time I was getting ready to get, you know, doing my preparation. Okay. That one I was ready. I finally wrote something for first time I was getting ready to get, you know, doing my preparation. Okay. That one I was ready. I finally wrote something for myself when I was 11. I wrote a column and it was about the grade school basketball league that I played in. And some random sports observations, including saluting the 56 57 Celtics. Wow. That's the first column you ever wrote? Yeah, I wish I had for years and years. I had. It was just for me. I wrote it called it the sports star. And I wrote it. And years and years, I actually had it

but it's somewhere along the way and one of the, you know, one of your moves you make it, it got lost. It's too bad. I love to have it. That is too bad. I would love a breakdown of, of the basketball league. I did say it and I'm quote, Bob Kusie. Quarterbacks does club master masterfully unquote. Wow. I do remember that one. The great Bob Ryan is with us. We want to have you on for a few reasons. Okay. Number one is I read a report and no one would know better than you because you are Boston sports. Okay. I read a report that I simply don't believe. And that report was that Bill Belichek is on the hot seat, Bob. So I asked you, is Bill Belichek indeed on the hot seats?

Describes who are closer to the situation than I, a visually retired person who still has his hand in things, okay? Full disclosure. Have you, have some have speculated and have actually used that damning phrase, hot sea. It's out there that some people think it's conceivable. I doubt it, only because it would mean that daddy craft has soured or would be on Sun Bill, you know, if you will. He has always, I just can't bring myself to believe that he won't give Bill a limited

vote like on the world to figure something out, you know. And I think this year's pivotal because there was so much talk about the offensive disaster last year and the OC Diazco, a Patricia and Judge, and so much optimism based on the fact that Bill Bryan is now here, and that he'll be the magic elixir that will make Mac Jones healthy quote unquote. So I think I can't buy it, but some people have dared to suggest, and they're closer than I, but I just, I just can't see it. Bob, you've known Bill for a long time. If he were to get fired, do you think he'd be done coaching or can you see him taking another job? I think I you see him taking another job? I think I could see him taking another job for the simple reason that I see no change in the following. I have long believed that nobody in the business, nobody loves what he does more than

Bill Bellicicic. First of all, he is a thorough football person. I also believe that never in the history of the, there's never been a more football all around knowledgeable person ever to coach in the sleep. You know, he's supposed to have a collection of football books that is the largest private collection of football books known to man, okay? I've always, yeah, I've always said that he knows more about Paul Brown, about Mike, then Mike Brown does, you know? And I believe that that by the way and those of his football like maybe not as paternal life anyway.

He likes every part of it he likes prep he likes practice guide knows he loves the offseason he likes draft preparation he gets immersed in it up to his neck. He likes he goes he doesn't like coaching in the north south game, you know, he loves, he loves being around people. He loves, he loves training camp. He loves everything. And, and by the way, that includes my belief that his, his, his meetings with the media are carefully orchestrated. And he's having the time of his life, making people uncomfortable. And, and that when he's done with one of those, you know, press conferences,

he walks back into the coaches room and said, hey, I did it again, you know. Listen, listen, by extension, Bob, if he's on the hot seat and he does get fired, by extension, everyone's on the hot seat, because coaches teams would fire their coach, even if it was a good one, to get Bill Bellagic. Now, his failing is not a failure. His feet of clay, if you will, is not coaching. It's drafting. You know, and it's like, like, Patino in Boston, the GM screwed the coach. The GM was Rick Patino.

And anyway, no, that's a anyway, no, maybe a stretching the reference, but nonetheless, Bill Balachix can be faulted for his drafting, but not for, and the other thing is he has to really swallow hard and grit his teeth to spend big money on a free agent, you know, and some have worked out You know, Darryl we've done we've just for a year with phenomenal obviously He wasn't a free agent it was a trade it was incredible But the ready-moss was a trade seventh round in a stay I'll never understand football and draptorist is frankly, but anyway, so

But but not the game-to-game coaching you'd still wouldn't I wouldn't trade Bill Bellagit for any coaching the game on once you keep not the game to game coaching. You'd still wouldn't I wouldn't trade Bill Belichett for any coach in the game once the game starts. Bob, could you see a scenario where, you know, let's say he is on the hot seat, things don't work out the way that Patriots fans or RobberCraft want to they let Bill go. Could you see a reunion maybe in Las Vegas where Tom Brady, now team owner, Highersville, Bella check, and then all is for the OEC. Exactly right, and all is forgiven. Well, yeah, well, that would be interesting because we did learn with the last question

that Tom Brady got tired of the billet check. And you know, and all the, he laid the groundwork and that infamous, if you will, interview with Jim Gray years ago when he was asked about as he feel appreciated in Boston, and he said, I plead the fifth. And we should have taken that as a very serious answer. And when he left, he didn't look back. It was no hesitation. And I think he did get tired of Bill Bellachik. Doesn't mean they could reunite theoretically, but just remember, it wasn't all kissy face at the end.

I've always wanted that story to be a situation where absence makes the heart grow fond or in the two realize how important they actually were to each other's career. Because they really did help each other. And it's a shame if that's just how it all ends. Of course it would be, And it'd be very sad. And I think you were 100% correct.

I think that's more likely scenario that Tom now, after he's, you know, even though he's one another one. And he knows he's now one that bought a battle in a public opinion because he's one in Bill Hasen, you know, and all that. But I think that's a very sound premise. And I would subscribe to Tom would see, we look at it differently now. But that's an interesting premise, believe me.

But I'll tell you what, Bill 70 on the nose, and he said, you know, he didn't act. He's bigger, he's healthy. As far as we know, you know, his enthusiasm for the job has not waned. And this will be an interesting year, you know, it's a bounce back possibility, and need not possibility. It's in a bounce back possibility, a need, not possibility.

It's in a bounce back necessity in a very challenging division. They're going to be the consensus picked for last. And that alone will fuel him. I'm going to make a bold prediction. If, indeed, he gets fired or he just steps down as a head coach of the NFL, we all know it's well documented his passion for the cross. I can see Bella check being a lacrosse head coach for the, you know, next five to ten

years, small college town, his daughters into which he's a coach somewhere. I can see Bella check doing that, can you? Well, we're, yeah, we're, of course, there, or, or, or, or, you, you know, viewers listeners know, but most people don't realize that, you know, if you know that you lived here, you wouldn't be aware of the fact that that he is a real big, big lacrosse guy. What about a potential return to New York, you know, he kind of did them dirty, comes back, does one for the jets, cleans up that, I like a good redemption story, Bob, you know what I mean? I don't like things ending sourly. So I like people going back and writing wrongs. But I find that very doubtful.

And I don't think, now, of course, do it. I know this for a fact, I was told by no less a howl of the president, than the late David Halberstam, who did a book with Bellacic and was a nantucket of friend, if you will, of Bellicic, that he only referred to the team in New York that is not the New York giants as the begins with an F jets. Oh, right. Okay.

Only referred to them as deep. Football jets. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I think those feelings are deep. I would find that very unlikely. But they have Aaron Rodgers now that might change it a little bit.

Oh, you're talking about for this year, but I'm thinking about down to a little bit. I'll talk about next year. Like I'm saying even if Salah went, you know, 12 and 5 and they made it to this simple, I'd still fire him for Belichak, you know? Yeah. Or what about a return to the Jettler Cleveland just to run them into the ground out of vengeance? Yeah, you know, he got caught and do it the Brady. And you know, he got caught in and the franchise relocation. Yeah, but he got caught in that. He was the

and I have he'll never get over that. He's a fascinating person. And really, he really is. And ever get over that. He's a fascinating person. He really is. And you know, it's, it's, it's, there's nobody just, as I said, just remember, if I leave him with the one thing, nobody, not, not he loves football more and it knows more about all aspects of football, including history that has ever coached his league in the billbelich. All right. So we play a few games. I'll get to you tweeted something out recently, and I want, I want you to elaborate on it. We'll get to that last year, okay? But we play a few games on the show. One of them is shot for your life, okay?

Shot for your life. This is the three pointer for your life. You can only choose one of these two guys, okay? They have to hit the three pointer, Bob, okay? You're choosing the guy that will most likely hit the three pointer. And if he does, you stay alive. If he doesn't, bad things happen to you. Bird or JJ Reddick, three pointer for your life. Larry in a breeze. Thank you. Good. Okay. Now if I ask you, Larry Bird or Michael Jordan, three pointer for your life. Three pointer? Oh, Larry had come.

Well, my uncle made himself into a decent three point shooter. Larry was one of the original practitioners of the art and the NBA and used it for strategic purposes only, not like the game is played today, where it is the game. Oh, no question. And by the way, I even think Michael would admit that. Yeah, okay. Steph Curry or Larry Burr, three pointer for your life.

For my life, I want to Larry. Yeah. And it's not about that. I was thinking when you mentioned three pointer, I would have had an answer to a question you haven't asked and I'll see if it comes up. Okay. I really don't have that.

And if it doesn't come up, please ask yourself the question and answer it, so guys. Yeah. All right. Now game for your life. Okay. Game for your life. You have to choose one of these two guys to be the best guy on your team for that entire

game. Dwayne Wade or Paul Pierce. Game for your life. This is tough because obviously I have a real stronger awareness of, you know, the presence of Pierce is supposed to wait. And he did that some awful big, big games. And I don't have an image of Wade being the closer kind of guy. Right.

And Paul could be. I'll tell you before he got LeBron though, he was the MVP finals with Shaq. I know he was. He got us inq. I know he wasn't sick guys. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You got to talk it out. I'm sorry. Bob, I'm sorry.

Billy's right. I'll say I'll be loyal. I'll say. What? Ah. Wait. I'm not going to the mattresses and that went by the way. Okay.

All right. Well, thank you. All right. Now, game for your life, different sport baseball. Okay. You got to choose one of these way, still. Okay. All right. Well, thank you. All right. Now, game for your life, different sport baseball. Okay. You got to choose one of these starters, Josh Beckett or Kurt Schilling. Mm-hmm. Schilling.

Wow. Schilling. All right. Is there anyone I could put, you know, with Schilling where you would not choose Schilling? Is there a Pedro or? That's interesting because Pedro is a better resume and it's the best. His best was the best that I've seen Embostin including Clemens is best that 99,000 pages the best picture I've ever seen up close and personal and

so And those and in that period of time I take Pedro in a walk But chilling was consistent. He did it in three different uniforms. So, you know, really, we had three different teams. And, um, um, it's it, but he was a big kind of guy. He came up all three at a time. So if I had to go for my life and I knew he was primed, I might say, I'll say she'll like, okay. Um, big game pitcher that's fair game for your life, different sport football Brady or Montana Montana's super-reserval

Resurators we know 11 TDs no interceptions right four for four Some of Brady's Super Bowl wins were game management wins in which he was not even remotely close to the best player on the field. I'll have to say Montana. Okay. Wow. All right, Bob. This one's going to be tough. Ruth or Otani. Yeah. Ruth or Otani. They can both pitch. They can both hit and that game for your life. Well, let's do one at a time. Who takes the bump? Ruth, as a pitcher, was on his way to the Hall of Fame as well. I think it was 92 and 44 or something like that.

There was no question he was constructing a Hall of Fame pitching resume as well. This is really interesting. Otani, I mean, you know, I'm God. Yeah. That's what I'm. Yes, it is. It really is. I mean, that's supposed to be easy. I just the bird reddick one was easy. That's it. Your life's on the line. I mean, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say O'Tani. Wow. Wow. On top of everything else, he can still have bass with you. Well, this is just pitching, though. We could do hitting separate, yeah.

Oh, just pitching. Yeah. So for pitching, you go, O'Tani, for hitting, you go, Ruth? Well, you know, we've, you know, obviously a game is different. He's a three, and then just never asked a 342 lifetime leader. Yeah. And so I say, Ruth, I'll stay answered three 42 lifetime leader. Yeah. And so I say Ruth, I'll stay loyal to that. Yeah. But yeah, I'll say, Ruth, I've got tiny

picture with better. Ruth had to go nine, 10 innings, though, when he pitched, you know, Tony six innings. Oh, my worries out of there. I mean, you know, he famously went, yeah, he went 16 once in a row. I was. So that surprised surprise me. But that's a game is the game is a bit different now. You know, you don't, you don't like it. But worse some would say, yeah, you don't like it. I mean, go out there and throw nine. Give me a break. Oh, I mean, I'm, I, this is a whole I like the discussion.

Yes, you're right. You got four days off. I mean, put in a couple of extra rings, you know, not like you're going out there every day. It's not, I'm sure you would have felt out of. Yeah. Yeah, you know, Not like you're going out there every day. It's not, I'm sure you would if they let them. Yeah. Yeah. It's a David a game.

Now, the way the nerds have taken over. Yeah. And they really have. And, and you know, you all, we can't face somebody the third time around. God knows. Yeah. But there's a 17% batting percentage change

and, and, and, and, and, oh, well, well, well, well, I'm sure you've explored that one a few times. But that's the fault of Bill James, which is one of your brethren out there, oh, well, well, well. I'm sure you've explored that one a few times. But that's the fault of Bill James, which is one of your brethren out there, Bob, I feel like. I don't think, see, here's, glad you brought that up, because I've addressed it. Thank you. It's awesome.

Bill James was a pioneer who's one of the most important figures in the history of baseball, we never put on a uniform. But the revolution often overtakes the leader. Yeah. And all the Bill James, it isn't, no, if it stopped with Bill James and Runs created, which you know, you don't even hear about anymore, and somebody else stuff that he came up with,

he looked at the game from the different viewpoint and it was very positive and good for the game. It's been taken too far. It's great. So the leader is, the game. It's been taken too far. Let's read. So the leader has been put in prison, and the pups are running the show. Yeah. All right, Bob. So what was the question we didn't ask?

I was going to require to ask me about who I'd want to take the last shot among three 3-point shooters of note. OK? Steph Curry. Yeah. Reggie Curry. Yeah. Reggie Miller. Right. And the winner and still champion Ray Allen.

Wow. And I wanted to say Ray Allen. Oh, good. Good. The last shot among those three and the big game. And I know, I know, I know you got the last one, Ray Allen. Good. Because you feel like he was, he was not treated correctly in, in Boston, right? You want to he had a lot of what a great player he is.

But they had a falling out. He and it's all been fairly all been patched up. They're all hugging, hugging now, but they're a little bit of a far now. Ray, you know, they're interesting personalities going. That's a very distinct personality and Ray, of course, is well known, you know, for his intensity. He's borderline OCD. Seriously, you know, yeah, he is. And I mean, just the way he went about his life,

it could, I'm sure that they came into conflict on various things, so. But. If I threw bird in there as a fourth, it would always be bird, right? That's it. For the three. Yeah, bird or Alan, yeah.

Alan in the corner. Wow, over bird, huh? Alan in the corner, Larry out front. That's so great. I love, Ray in the corner, Larry out front. Oh, that's so great. Right in the corner, Larry out front. By the way, that's not just a joke. I mean it. Right?

Larry was pretty good from the corner, Bob. He was very good. He was very good. Let me tell you a story quickly if you got a second. It was a Chicago win. I didn't know what a game. And I'm talking to Larry and he shoot around, where you're early, and I'm there. And I I say to him, okay Larry, here you go.

I'll give you a five bucks if you can make a left hand three pointer. And so he immediately runs to the corner naturally, that's the easiest, you know, to short a shot. Second one, swish. So I take the five, I hand it to him and he does like this and he puts it inside the sock and I want to believe that this day he played the whole game with that $5 bill inside that sock. Would that be so Larry?

I love you, Bob. All right, we have to, this is, listen, we love everything that you've given us so far. But to be honest, this is the main reason we wanted to have you on because I stumbled across a tweet of yours at Globe Bob Ryan. This was August 1st, Bob. Okay. And it made me so happy. He put such a big smile on my face. Here's the tweet. And I'll just let you go. Okay. Guess what? I saw Barbie. It's creative and funny. But be advised that America Ferreira steals the show with one phenomenal rant. Well, yes, and I thought it would be funny. Sometimes you just want to have fun.

You know, Twitter, Twitter, and X-ing now. And I had seen it, and the reason I went, you know, people say, why buy Brian, go see Barbie. Well, we have a grandson and he's, he wanted to go see it. And I had to go logistically because of what was going to happen after the movie, I couldn't stay home. You wanted to watch it, Bob, it's okay. No, I didn't mind watch it. I read the reviews and I was mildly curious,

Barbara and Hymer and all that. I'm going to see, I'm here yet, but I will. Anyway, that's why I was there. I didn't go like, oh, I got to go see Barbie. I was a shopper. I was a grandpa. I was a papa, actually, you know. Well, and I was pleasantly surprised.

And it was well done, but if you've seen it, have you guys seen it? No, no, no, but I don't mind. You could spoil it. You want me to do a full disclosure? Absolutely. And I'm not. America forever plays a real live woman. And when Barbie comes to earth, it comes to out of Barbie land. It comes to America.

And it's a incredibly well-written and awesomely, passionately delivered. Talk about what it means to be a woman in terms of society expectations and society treatment, and it's really powerful. It's a feminist supreme, frankly, and it's so well delivered. And to me, it was, for me, it was artistically the highlight of the whole movie, and I wasn't ready for it. You know what I'm. And it wasn't ready for it. You know what I'm saying?

I wasn't ready for that at all. And she was terrific. And so I just want to let people know. You know, I wanted to say something nice about America for our era. And I think it's good. I think it's, you know, who was it? The one to Oscar once for like one eight minute

performance, it's worthy of that. It's worthy of a nomination. That's really. And someone did it once you won an Oscar for one once seen one eight minutes. So show once a back about 25 30 years ago. I'll think about it. Of course as soon as we get off, you know, we are done. But I remember.

I recommend. I am saying that it's Oscar worthy. No. Really? So like best picture, best actress, best old. No, best supporting actress. For the best supporting actress. How about best picture, no?

Yeah, I'm going to best picture. I would, I, I, you know, first of all, I haven't seen. No, I don't think real surprise, but it's well done. And, you know, Greta Gerwig is noted to be an excellent director. And, you know, people are who are Bob, no woman, no young girl, no woman who was once a Barbie fan, you know, and there's now grown up woman. Well, they'll all love the movie. It's really well done. Judy Dengess who you're looking for, Bob. No. No.

Dengess won the other. No, no, it's not. No, it's not. Oh, okay. Well, okay. There must be two there. Okay. I'm going to do the Dengess. But anyway, it can be done and done. And I'm telling you, America for RR is really a nomination. Unable to break right then. How many Larry birds would you give it? Oh, well, let's scale one to 10. Yeah. And it's a, it's a, it could be a perfect 10, but it's at least a 9.8. Wow. Birds, nine pointy birds. What else else is what else is on that level? What else is a 10 bird performance? Oh, well my bird

make a question Everybody the game six and 86 I believe against Houston though the no it's a triple double But the numbers aren't that extravagant but that was The quintessential all-around learning He was extraordinary. It was the best defensive game he ever played that I ever saw. It was everywhere. And he seemed to be everywhere. He anticipated passes in the lane. He he double teamed properly. He helped. He was phenomenal. And he said, those are Ralph Samson team. He was playing against Bob. What's the team? They remember they lost game five. That's what's in the fight with Jerry

Seasting and and and and they got beaten. They got manhandled. They got beaten on the boards really badly in game five in Houston. And the game six is on Sunday afternoon and day on the day before Larry told us to practice, I'm going to be ready. I'm going to be ready. Well, he was ready and he played this phenomenal game. He even got a jump ball against Elijah. How that happened? He did. He slap somehow. So anyway, that's what America did in the movie after the game. I mean, after time was on. I did the book with him, you know, two years later, he said, I was never more focused on it was that day, that day. He said, my heart was pounding out of my chest. Okay. So people have to know game 686. Of course, the heat game on June 6, 1984,

when it was 97 degrees Fahrenheit inside the Boston Gardening. We had a heat wave outside, and of course the garden was unheated. I mean, on air conditions. And the liquors were dying. They just went to go home. They were so miserable. And they had oxygen for the cream and everything else. And Larry went 97 degrees Fahrenheit when the game went through the ball. Larry went for 34 and 17, who shot 15 for 20 from the floor. That's just amazing. I'm essentially peak Larry racing to the moment kind of thing.

So there's two. Okay. Bill, you want to ask, go ahead. Yeah, Bob, speech for your life. America, Ferreira, Larry Bird. Well, Larry Bird. Larry was a known for his speech making. So I mean, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I and easy call. I'm just trying to I mean I'm ever other you know, been yet some movies. Alec Baldwin and Glengarigan Ross amazing. He did get nominated for that right? Yeah. And his idea. And

you know he was he just jumped off the screen. Well this woman jumps off the screen. It is really good. How about Burger or barbie shop for your life? No, you know, are we over anything we go with there? Corner or our front doesn't matter, right? All right, Bob, we love you. We miss you and I will tell Dan that we had you on and give him my best. I miss you guys. It was always fun.

Okay. Well, we miss you too. And we appreciate you doing this for us. Thank you so much. You gave us everything we needed, Bob. You were on your game. You were locked in. You were dialed in. I choose Ryan over bird shop for my life. About that. Wow. Not over America for Robert. Thank you, Bob. So long. I love him. I know you do. He'll just anything you ask him. He'll go. He's got something on everything. I love it. He's great. I mean, he navigates Zoom better than Goliath

Senior, better than me. I was very impressed by that. I was impressed before before we got him on Zoom. There was a there was a bit of a hiccup because we didn't think that he was going to join the Zoom. We thought he was just gonna dial in. So we're like, let's just, you know, and shame on us by the way, because we even said like, let's make it as easy as possible, just send him like one thing he has to click.

He faced time to me and was like, hey, this isn't working. And I was like, can we do Zoom? And he's like, absolutely walking over to the computer right now. Boom, he was in there and two seconds joined it. He was like, I can't really see, but we're starting. Let's go and just went through. Oh, God. Yeah. Pro is pro. Yeah. I'm talking about, but there were some great moments there. Okay.

You wanted him to give examples of more movies. He went right into a rocket. It's still this game. Five NBA finals game Larry bird best offensive performance he's ever had. Not what you were asking, but who cares? It's Bob Ryan. One of my favorite things he said bird double teamed properly in that game. Yeah. It's like 84 like only he could say that a professional athlete did it properly.

Correct. You didn't do it great. He wasn't amazing that night. He did it properly. The way he solved it. He had Oppenheimer as Barbitheimer. I mean, but does it matter? It's Bob Ryan and giving a glorious review really broke it down of the movie Barby. I might have to go say it. I'm going to go Bob Ryan told me. I know. Everyone's saying that it's good. I mean, it's making all gets bringing all kinds of records and it's like a top of the box office every week.

It's going, I'm sure you guys not being big movie guys. I picture you guys don't go to the movies too often. You too. I'm okay watching things when they're available at my house. Stay. If that makes sense, like I don't need to rush and beat the crowd to go to theaters. Also, and this is kind of like an embarrassing admission because I always see when movies become available on demand or like you could rent them or whatever.

And it's like, you could rent this movie for $20. It's like, I'll wait a month and then I'll rent it for $4. Thank you very much. Like, if you wait another month, it will be $2. Seriously. And if I wait a month after that, it's going to be available for free on peacock. So like, I'll just, I can play the waiting game like no one else can. You know what I mean?

Like, I am not necessarily in on these trends. Now, I will say this, and this is a shameful admission. So as you guys know, and have made fun of me, I guess, for having a child recently. Right before my child was born, a fast and the furious movie came out and my wife was like, you want to go to the movies and we'll see that just to like get like one last like normal thing in, one last movie, whatever before we can go, right? And we have a two year old. So it was like, can we do this? And we quickly realized, you know, with how she's feeling about to get birth

with a two year old, till we really have two and a half hours to do this. And we ended up buying the Fast and Furious on demand. So I own the Fast and Furious 10 Fast X on demand on Amazon Prime or Prime Video, whatever, for the rest of my life. And here's the crazy part, because I was always like,

man, this is such a scam. They're gonna, they charge you, it was like $24 or something. And I was like, how can I possibly justify spending $24 to own Fast X? And then I looked at movie tickets, and it was like $13.99 a seat or something. I'm like, it is cheap.

It's cheaper for me to do this at home. I can make a popcorn in my microwave. That's gonna save me another $8. Like, you're not burning any gas. Prices are out of control right now. Don't get me started and gas prices. Oh, don't get me started. See, that's where you're wrong.

I don't care how good they make microwave popcorn. Nothing will beat the popcorn at the movie theater. Like 100%. 100%. You're right. I love the movie going experience. It's just not as important to me as it wants was the last time I went to a to a theater was Maverick with my wife that's it because that that needed to be seen on the big screen

But I'm with belly all the way for it to come out and I'll save money and I'll watch it right on my couch I mean, I'm care. I dropped the ball on Maverick like everyone said watch this on the biggest screen available The biggest screen available and then finally when I was gonna go see it I found everyone that I would have gone to see it with, ended up going to see it. So I'm like, well, now I've waited too long. And then I'm like, you know what? I'll ask my dad, we'll go.

And he's like, I already saw it. I'm like, oh, perfect. Like, why did you go to a movie theater as one's the last time that happened? So then I was like, well, we'll go see it anyways. And then it wasn't in theaters anymore. And I'm like, well, I guess I'm watching this one at home. And I watch it at home, good movie.

Yeah, well, it's better on an extreme though. I probably, well, you know, you know what my remedy for that was, I just sat really close to my TV. I was like, you know what, just gonna sit on a little kid mat right in front of the TV. I feel like I'm in an IMAX. I think next time me and Chris Simm should fly down and go to the movies with you, Billy.

Wow, what happened to him? I invited him to come down here to show me how to read, like watch film. What happened to that? Yeah, he doesn't like you. Yeah, that's what happened. And why are you flying that with Chris Simp? You pissed off Simp today.

You call them a quality control coach. Because I assume he can fly private and I'd like to try it. Do you think he does? Simp's? Yeah. I think he has. If he needs to. Yeah. Which is really all you want. If I need to, I can go private. That's what you need. Right. No, I think he absolutely has. NBC, I'm certain, is flying him private, right? I would think. I mean, I'm gonna ask him the question. No, I think he flies first class commercial. And yes, I don't think there's a well, we can ask guys.

He guys, he lives right down the street from Adam silver. I mean, no, no, no, no, he definitely has the beans. That's not a question. What I'm saying is, and this is, I don't intend for this to be as rude as it's going to come off. I don't think NBC sees an instance where it's like, we need Chris Sims here in two hours. Get them on the PJ. You know what I mean? It's like what's the next flight? He can get that one. But I just imagine that entire crew flies out if they're on location. They'll go into a game that entire much the way game day. I imagine all the game day guys are flying private to whatever whatever place they're

going. But they all live in different areas. Yeah, I don't think so. They don't live in a house. The wheels up is a sponsor. So I think they get it to be. Yeah, but they all live in different areas. Yeah, I don't think so. They don't live in a house. The wheels up is a sponsor. So I think they get it on trade. I could be wrong, but wheels up is definitely a sponsor to that show. Sounds like someone's been looking into this. By the way, did you see who is replacing the bear?

No. Stanford Steve? Yeah, Stanford Steve. It may not be the bear's job that he's replacing, but he was announced as like a college football. It's awesome playing expert. Yeah, good for him. That's who it should be if it's not gonna be me.

I was gonna say, I'm pretty sure you were asking around to see how that could go for you. I gotta be honest, I did not, I thought about it. I did not ask, I did, but I did think about it. Can I ask you a question? Who is someone who has come up to you with a, because I feel like you're close-ish to the bear, and I don't know if you had any conversations with him before he left or anything like that, right? But has there ever been an instance where someone

has come up to you and said, I have this opportunity to do X, but I would have to leave this like sweet gig that I have. Like, what do you think? Who's someone that you said, yeah, you should do it? Because then you saw, well, that would be a good landing spot for me back there where they're leaving. You know? Yeah, not a great, great, great question. A perfect question.

One has it happens. And you know, I'm going to do something that really, I probably wouldn't do if it were me, but I'm doing it just so that spot opens up and I can for you. Yeah, yeah, yeah See I mean I texted boomer or size in the other day should retire Very good And the bear I forgot to follow up in the fly-per shop. you