The Dumb Zone FREE - Could Jaydon Blue be the juice the Cowboys are missing & Jared Sandler live from Fenway | DZ 5-6-25 PREVIEW

Episode Date: May 6, 2025

Hear the entire show by subscribing to the show at DumbZone.com or Patreon.com/TheDumbZoneDan starts the show asking why aren't male porn stars famous anymore. Then we ponder if Jaydon Blue could be the juice the Cowboys are missing. Jared Sandler drops in from Fenway Park to explain the recent Rangers moves and why this trip to Boston was an emotional one. And we have an animal fights "expert" weigh in on the 100 men vs. 1 gorilla ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Hey now, what you're about to hear is a free preview of one of this week's premium episodes of The Dumb Zone. If you would like to hear this program in full with the archive of all of our past episodes, you can subscribe at DumbZone.com. No, I want to ask you about Eric Nadel because we had him in studio last week and it was great. He's great, as you know, right? I'm sure he's your hero. Of course. He's been my, he and Norm, probably two biggest impacts on my broadcasting career. And I possibly have asked you this before, because, since I'm giving you the same words and everything. But, Nadal was talking to us about something he would change if he could change anything. And I thought his answer was pretty unique.

He would limit foul balls. And so I'm just wondering about your, if you got something being around the game as much as you are, what change would you make? I don't love the foul ball thing. I told Eric this week. We've had good discussions on this. I think it's a creative idea. I just think that there's too much skill involved that like you're penalizing the hitter for

doing a good job. Like falling off and 99 mile an hour fastball at the very top of the zone with two strikes is like a that's a good thing. And you're now penalizing them. Mine is more. It mine is less in game rule. The thing that I would really love to see, but it will never happen. It's more structural to the season.

So what is, what is one of the biggest challenges that baseball has? 162 game season. And even if they were to eliminate eight games, heck, even if they eliminated 20 games, that really wouldn't change the fact that a given game on a Tuesday in July just doesn't have the same writing on it that you know a Saturday football season or a Sunday football season might have. And heck even even random regular season basketball games obviously with load management it clearly is not that important but it just feels more that there's more to it.

So years ago Mike Bassig gave presented this idea so I need to give him credit but I actually I resisted it first but I like it. Split the season into two halves. That's what they do in the minor leagues. Now they do it for different reasons. They do it because the rosters and the minors fluctuate so much but split the season into two halves. Have and I thought the 2020-60 game regular season only further made this made this further appealing to me. If you if you want there to be more meaning in a given range or regular season baseball game, realistically speaking, not that this is super realistic, but it's more realistic than them shrinking the season

drastically. Split into two halves. And the reason I think of it this way as being beneficial is my goal should be as a sport to engage a fan base for as many days of the calendar season as possible. So Major League Baseball has, I think it's 162 games and 183 days. Forget spring training. All right, let's just throw that out there. This sport is structured in a way where if you're the Colorado Rockies, you know, and you knew two weeks ago, you had no chance. Now most people probably went into the year knowing they had no chance anyway,

but what about the 12 year old kid, the 14 year old kid? He was like, anything can happen. We're all zero and zero. You know, what if this guy becomes amazing, whatever in a 60 game stretch and not too dissimilarly in an 80 game stretch, anything can happen. The year the Rangers had the 60 game season, I believe they were 18 and 18 at one point. And then they just cratered. But if, if, if I have the season in two halves, if I'm a Rockies fan right now, I'm going to stay engaged because I'm curious if guys get better so that when the second half starts, maybe we have a chance.

And then on July, whatever the date would be when you get ready for game 82, all of a sudden everyone is zero and zero again. And now I'm reengaging my fan base, which by the way, is going to happen when there are no sports. The NHL Stanley Cup finals will be done. The NBA finals will be done. We will still be a couple of weeks away from training camps starting on the NFL. So you have a perfect time to reset and make it your own. And then all the other things that people ask, what about playoffs? We'll figure it out. We'll figure out how you award playoff spots. We'll figure out the trade deadline.

All right. It adds a strategic element. But if I can reset and give hope to a fan base that maybe is caught in a division with an unbelievable team and they had a slow start and I've lost interest, now can be re-engaged in early July like that to me is a realistic way to help solve the challenge of a 162 game season. I like it. Yeah I do too. Dilly dilly. Trivia answer. It's not quite one game a week but it's headed there. Yeah. quite one game a week but it's headed there yeah so we say Nelson Cruz TC is guessing like so is this in the chat mm-hmm okay we're not doing an email today all right is Nelson Cruz one of the answers

Nelson Cruz is not one of the answers a A rod negative. Hmm. That'd have happened since he didn't do it. So yeah, since 2012, since 2012, some really good get out. What about Prince Fielder? No, because remember his career ended with the Rangers. You sort of understand what it means. Corey Seeger. No. All right, let's go give it to us

Chris Davis and Chris Davis, ha Wow Wow, that's well done my friend Cnk I would have never thought black Chris Davis with a K from Oakland at a 41 20. That's an insane Did he was, we're half of them against the Rangers. Yeah. It certainly felt like it. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, but yeah, he had, uh, he had some awesome years and then he quit.

You're just trading for, I mean, yeah. I mean, they didn't trade for him. He was kind of thrown in for financial reasons, but he, he was not very good for Texas. Do you remember the Chris Davis story that we always, the Chris Davis is a ranger story that we always were in love with? Wasn't he like telling the squad when they were like 10 back,

like it's almost Chris Davis time. I'll be back in the lineup in a couple weeks. He was like, it's like the individual. I thought he like guaranteed the playoffs or something. It was something, yeah, he's like, hey, once it's Chris with a K Davis time, like buddy, no, that's crazy though. I had no idea. He had a 48, 142 season.

Yeah. He, I mean, he had three straight and remember 40 home runs. Isn't what it used to be. Like it's not as, not as many people get there. Yeah. In the late 90s. He led the league with 48. He had three straight 40 home run seasons. Would you look at that, Dan? Alright, there's one other thing I just wanted to mention because we got to take a break here, but you guys are, or you were promoting it for the Sandlot today, and I see that you were

not, at least in the video for it, you're having a cruise. Yeah, so, what does this bet? Eric, no, thanks for bringing it up. Eric, Eric has a relationship with a guy who puts together these like theme cruises. And so I think there are 2,500 people on this cruise and 250 of the tickets are allotted for like the theme portion, which is it's a rangers cruise. And so I think Dave Raymond's going to be on it. Mark McLemore. I think Jim Sundberg is going to be on it. Eric is going to be on it. Jose Guzman and they're going to have various like Q and A's and stuff like

that. And so they also donate a portion of the proceeds to aman and they're gonna have various like Q&A's and stuff like that and so they also donate a portion of the proceeds to a charity and they have been kind enough to select Sandlot. So if you are interested in going on this cruise which will take place in January it goes to Honduras and Mexico I think at Cozumel two different stops in Mexico. And you use the promo code Sandlot when you purchase your tickets or whatever you call it for a cruise, a portion of the proceeds go to Sandlot. So yeah, it's cool. Go to at Jared Sandler on Twitter.

I have a little video and like you mentioned, some information on it. And if people are interested in going and hanging out with Eric and Dave and some of those folks, Rangers Luminaries, then this is the cruise for you. That sounds awesome. And I'm not gonna lie, last week I Googled how many people do you need to do a theme cruise? Yeah.

And if you're telling me- You guys should do it. This guy would probably do it. I feel like if it's 250, the DZ cruise could be coming to you in a summer of 2026. Oh my gosh. Easy, right? Well, it's only... there's only one guy we have to ask to do this. I mean, dude, I hate cruises. I've never wanted to go on a cruise in my life. Oh, I would never want to.

But you're telling me we couldn't just get all the boys, the DZs, here right now, and just have a listener cruise with a few hundred people? It'd be incredible. I bet sitting here right now and just have a listener cruise with a few hundred people, it'd be incredible. I bet you we can get Brandon Aubrey. No. No? You're gonna use your card for Brandon Aubrey on that? That's a pretty big deal, it's a dumb zone cruise.

What are you talking about? He's not gonna go on a boat with us for a few days. Well, I'm gonna leave it to a guy who's better friends with him to be the judge of that. Like we just gotta get Aubrey. I just told you, got T.C. Okay. Well, all right. Yeah. We don't need Brandon Aubrey now. Get banger. Just get the credo. Jared, it's been fun. Thanks, man. Hey, can I say one last thing? I just want to.

Jesus. Yes, of course you can. Well, just given that we've talked about this stuff in the past. So I just, this is the only platform I've really other than the one podcast with Emily talked about the fertility stuff and Jake, you might appreciate this. But yesterday, Emily and I had a, my wife, Emily, not only Jones, Emily Sandler and I had to come up to Boston 14 months ago to have a procedure that ultimately ended a, a pregnancy of a 15 year, 15 week old daughter, because medically that she was not gonna make it.

We've talked about this and my wife came up to Boston it's the first time I've been back. It was a little emotional. We went to the hospital yesterday and met with our care team specifically the social worker who helped us kind of through that and it was an incredibly meaningful, incredibly meaningful trip. And I just, I don't know why I just wanted to share that

because that's one of the coolest things I've been able to do with the travel that this job allows. Yeah, and I don't know, we've talked about it on the show a little bit just cause it's funny to imagine you like doing a fantasy draft for the egg for your child and looking through, looking through the beast that Dane Bruegler puts out. But I've talked to you about this for years now

and I don't think people have a clue what this dude and his wife have been through. And the level of the taxing nature of it mentally, what I went through broke me and almost broke my wife and it's about a 5% of what Jared and his wife have been through emotionally, physically. This dude is one of the strongest people I've ever met in my life.

I would have wilted a long time ago. So, gay or not, if you're gonna bring it up, this dude is a fucking rock. I was just thinking that doesn't seem like a fun thing to do on your Boston trip. I was going to like do the witch hunt tour or something. You know, the, you're going. No, no, for sure.

And it wasn't, it wasn't fun. It was, but it was really important. I mean, this woman specifically, her name is Megan. I mean, I'll tell you, I don't know if people was But it was really important. This this this woman specifically her name is Megan I mean, I'll tell you I don't know people to be able to see this one of my prized possessions I got this necklace that people probably think I think I'm a gangster but I have it down here So it's by my heart and I know Dan that's probably rolling your eyes. It's corny. But Here you can see I don't want to cover it up, the footprints, the footprints of our daughter and the social worker at the request of my wife made sure that they got the footprints

after the procedure while they still were able to. And that, we have it on this sheet of paper and we put it on this necklace it is without question the most Important possession that I have and my wife has and it makes us feel like our daughter You know is with us and and we never you know the way it works they you have the procedure and then you're at it it's such an emotional day we never got a chance to thank these people in person and It was just very important to us that we did that. And yeah, I mean, I just, I don't even know why I felt compelled to share it. I just, I feel like for some reason talking about this stuff, because it is, there's such a stigma behind it is it's something I'm more compelled to do these days but that was that was that was awesome and I'm so grateful for for them and it's it's helped us honestly being able to see the footprints of our of our daughter who we

you know never got the chance to hold is it's provided a fuel that I don't think is describable to be honest well I'm I'm glad you brought it up. And I will say once again, Jake, that I'm always uncomfortable around Jared because he's just such an actual good person. No, I know. You've got to limit it. He's like a great person. You'll never see me with him and Saad Yusuf in the same place.

I am not. It's too much. Why does he? But anyways, we're rooting for you, man. I think it's very cool. You brought it up and, um, it's a, it's, it's a heavy topic. We got to run though, cause we have something a little more important. We got to get to that whole 100 men versus one gorilla thing on the other side. Thanks. See you guys. Thanks so much.

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I don't know a ton about that. I know Antonio Brown was the guest on kill Tony last night. So that awaits me out there in the ether. Then last night you had a good one. Well, it wasn't you. You were just retweeting someone else who was asking what stops someone from just strolling into any hotel in America at breakfast hours and acting like they're supposed to be there, getting a free continental breakfast and then leaving. And so I was thinking, first of all, right when I saw this, I sent it to my buddy Joe, you know, Joe from Cleveland, because he and I worked in Youngstown together as a,

at a, doing a radio show and the owners of our station would do, they had no self-awareness at all. And the station was right next to a hotel. It was like in a downtown square, very small town. And they would just walk back in every day with a couple of little tiny muffins and the coffee. And we're like, what are you guys doing? He's like, wait, you just go over there. Like we're just fellow business next door. It's like, no, no, no, you can't do that. Like I knew that and I'm like 20 or whatever. It's like, no, no, no, you can't do that. Like I knew that and I'm like 20 or whatever. Anyway, but you say, Jake tweeted on that, nothing stops you, my dad has done it for years.

And then a little add on there. Then he takes a dump in the lobby on his way out. Yeah, I didn't clarify that that isn't the lobby bathroom, but he does do that. Oh yeah, I assumed bathroom. Is that a joke or that's real? That is 100% not a joke. So.

Chappie would do this. Yeah, yeah. So here's what you have to know at the base of all this is my dad doesn't fly. And he's not afraid of flights really to my knowledge. He just prefers driving. I think it's a cost thing and I think it's a control thing. He doesn't like situations where he's not in control because he was everyone's boss for like 25-30 years and when he shows up to the airport there's a lot of

shit going on that he can't control he gets real wigged out. So he drives, and he's lived in Vegas, he's lived in Houston, and when he lived in Houston, he never missed a weekend or a game up here, and when he lived in Vegas, he drove back to see my grandfather all the time. And they would drive to Utah, and they would drive to the Grand Canyon. They drive a lot, and a guy like that, he's usually by himself who drives a lot.

He develops a plan and that plan involves, he always had two kettlebells with him. He usually had like a stretching mat because he would stop every few hours and get like a micro workout in. And yeah, long ago, he told me like, if you need to go to the bathroom, stop in any one of these motels, or not motels, hotels on 35, it's gonna be as easy as walking into a gas station.

And he's like, actually, so for him it was reversed. And he added to that, and if you're there in the morning, you can eat for free. And I haven't tried it. I've seen him do it though. I've stayed with him before, and he will do it. They don't ask you your room number. Next time you go do one, try it.

Just see, is there anything here indicating that I actually am staying here? He's done it, he's probably done it in the last month. I'm not kidding. So I was thinking of a bit Would we I don't know if this is a good bit or not like we send someone out To various hotels just to see if they can pull it off like Bring it bring us a breakfast. I mean I or Marv is on line one. That's what I was thinking about

I was thinking about. I was thinking of Marv who was at the golf tournament with us, so is TC. TC's in with us in this hour of the program too. Hello. But yeah, I was thinking, or is there something there with a continental breakfast review? We do a whole new YouTube series.

Yeah, that's good. Where you can eat for free. Yeah, we just show up at various hotels and we're like hey we're just here to do our continental breakfast review and yeah now these eggs you know little runny, no yogurt you're kidding. Yeah. You got to start with yogurt man. If you're gonna have cereal one option is probably not enough. Just scrap the cereal idea

if you're gonna give me just honey. Yeah, so now I'm sitting here and you know, you know what, I prefer the individual boxes, but here we are where they have the big bin of Froot Loops and Cheerios and whatnot. And in the middle of every video, abruptly some guy's like, hey, what are y'all doing here?

Yeah, yeah, it's gotta be, the review has to include that, so you might get kicked out. Yeah. You're not telling them ahead of time. Yeah, you just start filming. That you're doing this. No, we'll get lighting, we're good, dude.

Back off, pal, we'll handle this. All right, anyway, that's another thing on Twitter, but the thing that really has us all talking, now this is like this week in Twitter, is a 100 men versus one gorilla this is not the 100 Don Zimmers versus one Pedro Martinez now that we would all love to see but 100 men versus one gorilla has lit the internet on fire so many people are talking from both sides, right? You've got your defenders of man. Hey, I don't even think it'd take a hundred.

With our teamwork? Give me Seal Team Six. Then you've got your other, you know, analytical nerds. They're like, look a girl average gorilla born density you can listen yeah and shut up well anyway you're right we're saying shut up to everybody really because we have our own expert on this top like he's literally an expert on the topic. He is Brad Folsom. He's been on the show before. He joins us again here. He is the author of many books, including Roman Spectacle on the Rio Grande, Borderland, Animal Fights at the Turn of the Century. He's written a book about, now this is mostly Bradley, are you there? Yep. So can I preface this by saying that my expertise

is that I own an account to like old newspapers, like an old newspaper website. So the whole thing I do is I just look up and see if these fights have happened before. I'm not an expert, I'm just good at Googling things. It is the most Brad Folsom thing of all time that we set something up as like, boy, he's an expert. He really, he's poured his heart and soul. He's like, I don't know, I just have a membership. What do you think an expert is? Right. Yeah. Think of anyone you think of as an expert on anything.

Do you think Adam Schefter has, how many downs has he played? Yeah. We try to hype you up moon. I probably suck My contention is that you don't need to be an expert if this stuff has happened before so like people always have these debates Who would win between this animal and this animal and they're arguing and my thought is you don't have to see if you don't Have to argue because it's happened before like the Romans through just about every animal in a cage with one another So you can look back and see it then. So yeah, my expertise. Yeah, your expertise, at least your book was more about elephants fighting bulls, lions fighting bears. Yeah. But not so much about humans against an animal or many humans

against one animal? Yeah. And I should probably say that right out is that obviously a hundred humans versus a gorilla hasn't happened before. And not that many gorilla fights have happened before because humans didn't really know about gorillas. I mean, like some remote African tribes did, but they didn't write anything down. Uh, the Romans didn't know about gorillas. Like the first, yeah, they didn't write anything down. Uh, the Romans didn't know about gorillas. Like the first, yeah, they didn't.

I would have thought they would have the first, uh, reference we have to gorillas is a Greek ship and like 400 BC, something like that, uh, went around Africa and they said they found these hairy creatures they called gorillas. But we don't even think they're gorillas. We just think they were just hairy people. But that's it. That's the only reference. And then the Romans never imported them to fight in the Colosseum or anything.

So the first actual scientific evidence we have is, I think, 1848. So we're operating on a short time span, and they really rare animals. Like there's not that many of them. And so like they're really expensive. So people aren't going to put them up in fights with, uh, humans or other animals very much because they're so expensive. It does beg the question. What would the Romans do if glow Rilla showed up? Would they stone her to death immediately?

Or would she become their king? I think probably the stoning more likely for hip-hop sensation Glowrilla.