The Pat McAfee Show - PMS 2.0 1513 - Ravens Back Out of the Maxx Crosby Trade, Team USA Baseball's Nightmare Scenario, Dr. David Chao, Daniel Jones, Jeff Passan, Adam Schefter, Darius Butler, & AJ Hawk

Episode Date: March 11, 2026

On today’s show, Pat, Darius Butler, AJ Hawk, and the boys react to the news that the Baltimore Ravens have officially backed out of the Maxx Crosby trade after he failed the physical, and what ramifications that will have around the league as the Ravens immediately pivoted to signing Trey Hendrickson to a 4 year $112 million deal. They also discuss Team USA baseball’s massive upset loss to Team Italy last night in the World Baseball Classic and how they now need help to get out of pool play, as well as everything else happening around the NFL as the new league year is upon us. Joining the progrum to chat about Maxx Crosby failing his physical with the Ravens, how common this is, and more is the Pro Football Doc, Dr. David Chao. Next, fresh off signing a new 2 year deal, the starting QB for the Indianapolis Colts, Daniel Jones joins the show to chat about his achilles and leg recovery, his new deal with the Colts, what his time table is looking like, and why he’s so excited for next season. Next, ESPN Senior MLB Insider, Jeff Passan joins the progrum to break down how exactly Team USA lost to Team Italy in the World Baseball Classic, who is going to get the most blame, and what they need to get out of pool play and into the knockout stages. Lastly, ESPN Senior NFL Insider, Adam Schefter joins the progrum to chat about the Maxx Crosby situation, which players might still be traded, Trey Hendrickson singing with the Baltimore Ravens, and all the other things that need to be wrapped up. Make sure to subscribe to youtube.com/thepatmcafeeshow or watch on ESPN (12-2 EDT), ESPN’s Youtube (12-3 EDT), or ESPN+. We appreciate the hell out of all of you. We’ll see you on tomorrow, cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello, beautiful people, and welcome to our humble abode, the Thunderdome, on the Sports Are Awesome. Wednesday, March 11, 2006. This program begins now. Sports are the greatest, and there is so much to talk about, okay? Like, I might never watch a baseball game again. Don't say it. It might be over. My baseball fandom might be over.

I learned some things over the last about 10 hours that I didn't want to know. Did you know that Team USA, the greatest team we have ever assembled? Wow. With billions of dollars in contracts on a diamond? People that are so incredibly kind to us. People that have been doing magic just beating teams. Bang, bang, bang. Then they've got to play who?

La Vaza Italians, the espresso martini boys. And all of a sudden, we lose to them somehow. Okay, I don't know how this is possible. Soccer, maybe. Certainly in the past, not in the future now that Ponce got the boys, fired up. So I don't think they're going to have soccer. If this is a cooking contest, I understand that the Italians are probably going to

beat us in most situations, all of them more. Everybody's known as seemingly has something that she can cook that's better than everybody else's. I grew up in Pittsburgh, it's basically Italy. So I understand that they're going to win that. Coffee making, I got it. Cubans might have a little bit of an angle to beat them, but I think the Italians will

certainly beat us in that case. Baseball? Yeah, right. We cannot be losing to Grazie Paisons in baseball, especially when you're minus 1,100 favorite. Yeah. Okay? So I've been dancing a little bit with Draft Kings.

Sure. Okay, I was out of the game for a while, and then I decided to make things a little bit more interesting. So I started to dabble with draft kings. I had some else hitting. Bang, bam, bam. I think this guy's going to hit a home run for a short. Guess what? He gets up to bat four times in a game, and guess what he doesn't do?

Doesn't hit a home run. Who's pitching against him? A plumber from another country. How's he not hit a home run? Well, actually, because it's a plumber, it's actually harder for him to. Okay. Because somebody told me that before I started better on these things. So my bets thing was just L, L, L, L, L, L.

I need a win. Okay? I need a win. Shout out champagne poppy. Okay. Need a win bad. Need a max win bad here. So I don't care what the odds are.

What's a guaranteed win that they're allowing me to bet on? United States of America beats Italy and baseball minus 1100. Every time. I put $5,000 on that thing because that was the only way I was going to win anything of significance. $454 win I was looking for, okay? $5,000 bet, $454. All I really wanted was the dub in the chat. That's it.

That is literally all it. I just wanted to scroll through and see one green thing. How much was I willing to pay for that? $5,000 I would like to see a positive, because I'm a big emotions guy. If vibes are high, if vibes are good, I think things are going to go good. In what? Everything. If there's good vibes, everything's.

I think there's even been a little bit of a science experiment that they put a documentary out that if you emit good vibes, there's a chance that the universal will actually bring positive back to you. So I'm always like that. Whenever you're just losing on everything, okay? You need one just to get back into good graces of maybe the gambling gods or maybe just vibe society as a whole. Minus 1100. We're not going to lose the stupid Italians at baseball.

No way. I know that. That's for sure. How much money went? $454. That's enough for me to be excited about. I can put another couple hundred dollar bets on things. I like that.

Let's go ahead and run it. Eight nothing. It gave what it was eight nothing at one point. Yep. I was at Grand Ole Opry. Jelly Roll was getting inducted. That looks fun. It was a huge night. It was a huge...

And then we got... What's his name? Jack Caglieri. An American back flipping his bat all the way back to his damn dugout as he's big donging all over our faces out there. I don't like it. No, you shouldn't.

Hate it. I don't like what's happening here. I don't like that they're judging Dero. Okay? Dero has been good for a broken. Hard not to. He should not have been saying, what he was saying.

Maybe the ticket was punched. He should not have said that publicly. Listen, the boys are having a good time. We got a great culture in the clubhouse. Guys are hanging out to 1, 2 a.m. here, you know? Dragging a bit today. Dragging a little bit as they're rolling in. Hey, these boys got after, they like being around each other, they're doing all these things.

That's good management actually. When I heard them say, I'm like, thank you for letting us know that the boys are coming together. Whenever I bet $5,000 on us to beat Italy, that'll be a safe bed or whatever. Then they lose. Then we find out not a ticket. They're not punched. They might knock. be in this thing. And it's like,

well, what do you mean? They're not in it. Well, now we've got to wait on Italy and Mexico, which was once on fucking 2B TV. He's now on Fox Sports 1 tonight, and we need the Italians to win bad. Okay? If the Italians win, we're in. If Mexico scores more than five runs, we're in. But if Mexico

wins, and they score less than five, one, if this is a cagey affair, if this is a 4-1 affair where Mexico beats Italy, the United States of America is not advancing out of pool play in World Baseball Classic Tournament that we put together to win so we can be everybody. Yeah.

I don't like that one bit. And I'll say this. You're doing for a good of baseball in Italy. Okay? I'll never talk of baseball getting this thing. I ruined baseball. That's kind of how I feel here. Clayton Kirshawa, I saw him warm it up a little bit. We need his ass out there earlier because I know what Clayton would do. I've been in there. I've seen this. I have seen this guy. He will do what he needs to do to beat you. Instead, we got these middle

pitchers coming in here and they're just saying, hey, guess what? boys, fucking welcome to the American batting practice. What do we have going on out here? And is this what baseball is always like? This guy at the talks table at Boston Corner. And now, granted, please, we're doing a lot of baseball right now. I apologize. Max Cosby seemingly got fucked a little bit.

Yeah, we'll talk about that in a second. But, Ty, as we wrap up baseball, what happened? How does this happen? What do we lose to Italy in baseball? And why are they speaking English afterwards? They're all Americans that are on that Italian team that just beat America in America to knock out America in an American tournament. In Texas.

I don't think I understand what's going on here. It was a tough night. Jelly Rolls got at Grand Opry. Exactly. Team USA not know that. I don't think they cared. I'm saying backstage like this. Roses sure did.

Lainie Wilson walks by. Laney Wilson walks by. Lainee Wilson walks by with Duck. Shout out. I start quack, quack, quack. You know, I go to see you guys. George Jones is way there. Nancy Jones is there.

Royalty of the place walking around. Ernest, Jellybelly. Everybody from the music community is doing their things. and I'm saying everybody's back to a huge ordeal. It is I'm looking at my phone. And I'm just seeing score run up the other way. I'm thinking my abs broken. His grand old operas got some magic in it.

It's giving the Italy win right now. That was not the case. We got our asses beat. We did. And then we started coming back late. And there was an opportunity for us to win it. No, we're not going to do this. I'm going to catch you off.

I'm going to cut you off right there. That's nine-year NFL, Darrys J. Butler. There was an opportunity for us to win it. I was experiencing this in real time on my phone while watching a long YouTube TV as it's traveling. on. Aaron Judd has a chance. One guy on, bottom of the ninth, two outs. How you doing? Hit a dinger here. Maybe this goes to extra innings. Maybe America gets a big-time win. Maybe this actually...

It's a good pitch. He's been seeing a lot of this. He's been seeing a lot. Bryce Harper had an opportunity. Well, who's front of the program. He's been good to us. We love that guy. Love him. He had an opportunity to do the bat flip that we talk about. Oh, yeah. Instead, but that thing was way... A picture God. Gobble goal on these guys. Rod Marinochia. Unbelievable. They got pepperoni in their glory. both says something to think about. It does feel like there's a little moots out in there. I mean, maybe we should

check the caps here or whatever. Bryce chases one, plies out. It's like, they might have us, and they did. And now we're not playing baseball ever again? What the hell happened here? How has everything changed in what seemingly is one night for all parties, including the fans and the team maybe? Yeah,

I'm honestly at a loss for words. Everyone has said everything. There's no way that lineup should have lost that game. Michael Lorenzen, the guy who started for Italy has thrown a no-hitter in Major League Baseball before. So, like, this guy's good, but, boy, listen, I know he's a friend of the program. Okay, he's

been great to us. We love him. But, but Dero, it just, there's really nothing else you can say. Dero clearly thought we were in, hey, listen, we want to win a game tonight, but our tickets punch in the next round. And our ticket was not punched.

We kind of put our, I don't want to say B lineup, these guys are all all-stars, but we didn't play all the guys we probably should have. And then it kind of, you know, reality set in in about the seventh inning. And it was like, oh, actually, you know, we can't get beat eight nothing.

If we can beat eight nothing, we're going to lose this game. So, you know, Roman Anthony, claws won back. Pete throw Armstrong was unbelievable. Hit two homers, kind of did everything he could. But it was just too little too late. And that's kind of what happens,

that or what can happen in baseball is, yes, we are the way more talented team, even though they have, you know, 21 American guys on their roster. But listen, if you don't put your best foot forward, whether it's pitching, whether it's with your lineup, you can get beat by a team who's got a bunch of MLB guys. And that's exactly what they did. So, yeah, now we're just hoping and praying that Italy either wins straight up today.

Aaron Nola's on the bump, great pitcher, so that's good. Or that Mexico wins and Alejandro Wobobody Kirk and some of these other guys hit a couple homers and they score more than five runs. But boy, just dark, dark, deadly will take care of for you guys. Okay, all right. That's good news. We hope the Italians will help us out today. They will.

Yeah, right. It's got a one half of the hammer. Died. Cowboys, AP term, before we move on to the Max Crosby situation with the Ravens, which has certainly rattled all NFL conversations. What are the odds on tonight's Italy-Mexico game? And as we kind of put this whole thing in a nutshell, is my minus $1,500, $5,000 hammer loss, potentially worst bet of all time?

It is potentially worst bet of all time. While you were doing it, you were like, this is great. I win $400 tonight. And Ty goes, yeah, I mean, there's no way Team USA lose tonight. We knew at that point, that was probably when they were going to lose. No, no, don't you put that on us. Yeah, no way. We didn't say anything.

No way. Mexico is $3 favorites tonight, a pretty large favorite. Being Aaron Nola is one of the best pitchers in the MLB for Team Italy. So we still have a chance there. Listen, if there is a team that could get it done for the Americans, it's Italy. Trust me. I know that deep down in my heart. I think the boys in the Azuri will do that for team. What?

Yeah, right. I'm sorry, they just beat Team USA, okay? Shut up! Shut up, you sound too happy. And that's kind of... I'm an American Italian, okay? I was bummed out last night. But I'm just saying if there's a team that can help out U.S., it's Italy.

All right. We appreciate the Italians for what you're about to do for America. With pizza, maybe. And I had espresso earlier today, and we will eat pizza, and we'll do it all. And we are very grotzy for everything you've done for America. But last night just came up. be happening. No, it can't happen.

And listen, to the boys in the club boss, I don't even know if you're there because we don't have any games potentially ever again. But just know, we enjoyed the hell out of the ride. Just that can't happen. You know, that can't happen. One of you should have told Deerro we still had to play a game. Yeah, where's the mayor at? Sean Casey, yeah.

It's not the mayor's fault. All right, let's move along. Let's get to the NFL. Speaking of mayors, I thought there was some rules. And I think we all learned quickly that I guess there is still some rules that you can kind of put in your back pocket allegedly. Now, we don't know the ins and outs of this entirely. I think the whole world knew Max Crosby wasn't

healthy, right? Wasn't that kind of the big deal with him? At the end of the Raiders situation is he wanted to play. They said he couldn't play. Pete Carroll came out and said, like, doctors just said, we can't do this. And then Max Crosby felt disrespected by the Raiders because he's like, all I ever try to do is play for the Raiders. Everybody wants to be get traded somewhere else.

All I want to do is play for the Raiders. I want to play for the Raiders. Now you guys won't let me play because are you trying to tank to get the number one overall pick? That's not what I want to be a part about. Then he heard the stories coming out like, never won, high school, he never won, college never won. Now in the NFL, he's never won. Maybe it's time for him to start thinking about winning

because the team that he thought he was so close with, obviously had a disagreement at the end of the day. Whole new generation in for the Raiders, whole new movement of Raiders. Let's move on from Max Crosby, and in doing so, we'll get two number ones as well. So we move on and do a next generation with Fernando Mendoza, Brock Bowers, Ashton,

Tom Brady, probably a little bit more hands-on. We'll move on from the Max Crosby era of the Raiders. We'll thank him for his shit. There'll be no bad blood, but we'll also get a lot in return. And the Ravens, Jesse Minter. How you doing? Keep moving your defensive head coach. You got Lamar Jackson on one side. Now you got the Condor on the other side.

It all made sense. It all felt like it made sense. All teams started acting accordingly. All other free agents in certain positions started acting accordingly. You got guys signed on the Raiders for Prove-It deals, basically. At tackle quarterback rushing positions, I'll take one-year, prove-a-deal if I'm going to get an opportunity to get on the field. You got other people making signings. You got Baltimore Ravens kind of hamstring because of what they got bringing in there can't do other stuff.

So everything kind of goes how it goes. and then last night we get a message yeah, Raven said we ain't doing it no, he failed a physical well we all knew he's going to fail physically didn't we kind of know he's that's kind of how we got to this whole situation with the injuries is kind of what it all is

yeah, couldn't pass physical so sorry we need us two ones back also too we fucking need those actually and also yeah we're signing Trey Hendrickson for four years, 115 million same exact position and we still have our two number one picks for this year and next year it's like wait a minute whoa whoa whoa so how many days

until Wednesday, I guess. This is the interesting thing about the tampering period, but nothing become official until Wednesday. And then being able to just say, nah, we ain't doing that because you failed a physical, even though everybody thought he was going to fail physical. And he was until probably Juneish, I think, July. Just an interesting dynamic here that doesn't look like it's, you know, good for the football gods. It doesn't feel like this has been handled right. Joining us now is a man who's an NFL team doctor for a long, long time, still a practicing physician, I do believe. And also, he is owner and operas. He is owner and operator of the sports injury central, which are a group of doctors in former sports medical people

that watch injuries happen and then they give their immediate diagnosis and projections. Remember, whenever we're calling games, we're like, we're not a doctor, we're not going to try to guess what that injury is. That's what they actually do. They do try to guess it. They put out publicly and they are normally spot on. On Monday, this man actually said, oh, we wonder what the Ravens do with the physical, because we all kind of know that he's probably not going to be able to pass it. it turns out to be the story. We appreciate him joining us right now in the middle of his workday, ladies and gentlemen,

Dr. David Chow. Yeah, Doc. How you doing, Doc? Thank you for taking time on this ever-present moment here of team physicians making decisions seemingly. Can you kind of just take us through why on Monday you put out the video wondering about the physical with the Baltimore Ravens?

And can any team do this, I guess? Just kind of say, well, we don't like the physical and how normal is this, if that makes sense, Doc? Yeah, thank you. You are catching me between surgeries here, so sorry for the attire and so forth. But yeah, on Monday on the podcast, on my podcast, I said, look, if it's a meniscus repair, that's something that you can't pass a physical in two months, and it's only been two months. So the Ravens would have to project him to pass a physical. But there's an additional issue that's implied here. Apparently they did additional studies. And it's not just, can he be ready for this?

season, is it worth the two first draft picks in terms of did they find some wear and tear on his knee with the additional studies? And yes, the Ravens, it's a bad look, but they are 100% within their right to determine a failed physical, not only based on today not being able to pass the physical, but the projection or long-term health projections. And that's what's in question here. Your Colts just signed Daniel Jones. He technically fails a physical today from his Achilles. but they're not worried about it and they're going to pass him on that portion. The Ravens, for some reason,

we're worried about it long term and there's nothing the Raiders can do about it. The league will not investigate. This is just the way that it is. Okay, Doc, I appreciate you giving us the real scoop and the intel on how it actually works, the projection of potential passing

of a physical in the future and also degenerative stuff potentially happening. Is this one of those things? And I know you doctors are all super geniuses so I don't want to knock anything. But is this something where one doctor will say there's not a problem. and another doctor could say it is a problem.

So the Ravens can be within their right saying our doctor said it was a problem, even if there was another doctor that said, whoa, whoa, like if another team today trades for Max Crosby gives a first rounder and a second rounder, and then their doctors pass the physical, it can be a differing of opinion, right, when you're trying to project what the future is, especially whenever it comes the elite athletes and stuff like that? A hundred percent.

Doctors analysis in some ways are like a scouting report. One GM may have this player graded as a first rounder, as a high second rounder. They're not all unanimous on their opinions. And I don't think anyone saying Max Crosby can't play football this fall. I think what the Ravens are saying is we're worried about our long-term investment in terms of what we might get based on what we're now seeing with the knee. Certainly they exchange medical information ahead of time. And the simple analogy I'll give you is when you purchase a home or sell a home, you enter escrow. There is a 10 or 14-day inspection period. And if the inspection doesn't go as planned for the buyer, they can unilaterally

cancel the contract. The roof doesn't have to leak for you to cancel the contract. You can just say the roof is older than I thought it was and might need to be replaced earlier than I thought it was. So I'm not buying this home unless you discount it or I'm dropping out of escrow. And that's probably the similar situation analogy that I would give you. Okay, on that note, if I publicly announced that I was buying a house and the house publicly it was announcing that I was buying it as well and it was a massive celebration in a big deal and the roof wasn't leaking water. I would assume that I would be okay with the physical being passed. It appears as if they found out now granted our source says have told us that Trey Hendrickson was dreaming if he was going to go to the Ravens

of playing with Max Crosby. That's kind of what all the intel is from the Trey Hendrickson camp that we have learned, both from Schaefter. and from our own research into that world is that they were basically fantasizing about a time with he and Max Crosby on the same D-line. So I don't think they potentially knew that was the case. But as soon as that deal gets announced, and they still have the one in the two, it's like, oh, this was clearly we didn't know, but now we can and we get buyer's remorse type feel is what the initial public reaction is that it's a bad deal.

How often does this take place? It doesn't feel like this happens that often, especially with how, highly sought after Max Crosby was, how big of a deal it was, and especially the Ravens organization, it doesn't feel like this would be something that would be coming out of there. How often does this type of thing take place, Doc, in your predicament? This type of thing has never happened in my experience, not of this magnitude, not evolving two first round trades. And remember, the landscape has changed over the last few days of who's available and draft picks and cap and so forth. And now the deal reverts. It's never happened like this before. There have been lots of incidents

where a player has failed a physical and some trades have not become final, not of this magnitude. Lots of incidences where a free agent signing doesn't conclude, including in 2014, the Raiders agreed to a deal in free agency with Roger Saffold and then failed him on a physical, and he reverted for less money to then St. Louis Rams. So failed physicals do happen, and no trader signing is fine. until the physical is passed. All right, we appreciate the hell out of you for your intel. Good luck on the surgery you're about to have,

I think literally in that room right there. You're the man. Ladies and gentlemen, Dr. David Chow. Thank you, pro. Okay, so this is something he said. The league won't look into this. This has always been there. This is what this is.

You can do this. He's never seen it before with this big of a name and obviously with this big of a trade. Us either, it all looks weird. As an ex-ex-player, as soon as I see the news come across, I'm like, oh, the Ravens just backed out of this deal for whatever reason. But then you see like Max traveled out there.

Max is taking pictures out there. Max is doing his whole thing. The whole podcast about it, it's like, that's a crazy game. It's a cold world if that is the case. And then what does Max do? Max's now going to play for the Raiders. And we looked at all the additions

at the Raiders at Doorn Free Agency. It's like, I think we even said on the show during Free Agency frenzy, it's like, this feels like not a good time for Max to leave the Raiders. If they were to have Max, that'd be fantastic. They're going to pick, keep him allegedly. He was the first person in the building this morning.

they can't afford them. It's like maybe this is a football God's telling him, hey, you're supposed to be a Rada, D. Bud. You're right. Maybe he's a one helmet guy after all. But yeah, it goes back. But for the Ravens, I've been hearing, I don't know this from my personal experience, that their doctor, their staff, their medical staff,

a little more strict than some of maybe the other units around the league. And the Ravens, like, they're investing, obviously, on his future. You're giving up a ton of pictures. You're going to give him a ton of money, most likely. So you're not only paying attention to what he did in Vegas, but what he's going to do in Baltimore going down the line. But him going back to the Raiders, man, like you look at those additions,

and then you have him. You brought in a former co-first-rounder, Quitty Pei, who now you'd be opposite of Max Crosby. If he plays this season, he'll be getting the best looks. I think he's gotten his career being opposite of a guy like that, and there's all these other additions. Lyndidbaum were obviously the biggest signing for them.

I mean, the lineback before. Karen Johnson. Yeah, I mean, great signings all down the board. So the item is big. That was the one-year, $11 million. deal that I saw across this graphic. It's like, oh, that's like kind of a proof-it deal there for hopefully to be able to eat. Now you got the condor back on every single snap.

Not that anybody's upset about that, but it is like a lot of deals were made under the guys that, hey, Max Crosby said here, we got two number ones too. They're making decisions with like, you know, two number ones and how this whole thing's operating. It's this is a fascinating little thing that can happen. I did not know that this could take place. Obviously, we know franchise tags have interesting situations. A player can sign it and get traded.

Transition tags. We know it's like kind of promoting, hey, coming and do business. Never has it been full celebration, hey, we're doing this. And then days later saying, no, actually we're not doing that. Get the hell out of our city. It's like it's 2026. It feels like our business is way too advanced to be at the stage of doing that. I'm sure the Ravens have some reasoning.

I cannot wait to hear what it is. And maybe it is just strictly their doctor seeing something and being like, We didn't know this was the case. And if that's the case, I guess you got to respect them for standing by it. But man, you almost want to have that info before you do the entirety of the deal. Which I believe they could have. But a lot of it last night, yes, it could have just been the doctors. It could actually been, you know, they went in there and looked at it and they didn't like what it was.

For the first, because you're giving up a lot. Two first round picks for the future. You're going to want him to be there for a long time. But there was also people on the internet who just kind of looked what they had done in free agency so far. And it was nothing. They signed one guy. They lost, I think it was like eight of their own players, Ricard, likely, Linderbaum, others.

So it was a situation where... Stott, punter. Yeah, Stott, Jordan Stott. So they had lost a lot. And then you're looking at right here. Like, they had lost a lot. And then, oh, Trey Hendrickson just happens to still be available out there. Oh, and we could potentially fail physical.

And we get our two first round picks back because we have a free agency hasn't gone our way. And we get to get Trey Henderson. So there's just some things out there when you look at it that people are questioned. It's a Steelers fan. Yeah, it's certainly a Steelers fan. And obviously, Dr. Chowell said this is something that can happen

and probably has happened just not with this magnitude of players. Probably like, you know, a new signing comes in, vet men, journeymen didn't know your knee was as banged up as it is. We got eyes on it. Okay, we're actually not going to do the deal.

I assume that happens. Max Crosby, though. This is Max Crosby. And the Ravens, it just feels amateur. Yeah. It kind of feels amateur, if that makes sense.

Especially like you mentioned it. Like I understand there's maybe some things that popped up to that, but they would have had to know to more extent than we do what his knee was like. You know, like we talked about it. Like, yeah, that was kind of known league-wide. Like, hey, this guy probably isn't going to pass a physical if he gets traded. And I just, I think back to like when Micah got traded last year. Like, he had back issues, missed a bunch of games the year before.

And the Packers did, you know, they did the same thing. And, like, he wasn't ready to go yet. But it was kind of like, you know what? We're confident with where you're going to be. Let's do this anyway. What did Bill Belichick tell us the story about him trading for Randy? Got to get him in for a physical. Got to get him in for a physical.

He's like, all right, so Randy walks in the building, and Bill goes, feel good? Yep, hit him on his shoulders. All right. He passed the physical. Yeah, Randy Moss is good. That's normally what it is. And you would think Crosby would be one of those guys. Yeah, so you're like almost slunking for a reason to get out of it.

I mean, maybe there's due diligence. They are. I mean, that's. So I got to respect that. Yeah, for sure. That's the biggest part to come by, you know, going in there and all the different team doctors getting their hands on you, especially I had a MCL injury

coming out, so every different doctor had to get their own thing. So maybe just going into there, it was just something that popped and what's Max, like 30? Yeah, 29. Yeah, so, you know, when you're at that age, you know, in the NFL, once you hit that mark, you're not a quarterback. Everybody's kind of looking for something. Hey, Max,

another team said they didn't want you to do. And this is just like, oh, I cannot wait to watch what it is. If he ends up moving on from the Raiders again and another team offers up. We'll be excited to see how that physical goes. But obviously, if he's back with the Raiders with what they did, and Mendoza, once again, we are believers. We are big believers. And we might be completely wrong. But I am a firm believer that Mendoza is going to be a very

good NFL player. The Raiders might be on to something. Might be a good football team. And maybe this might be a good football team. And this might just be the football gods. Speaking of the football gods, they blessed us. They blessed us. Okay. Amen, brother. Hell yeah. Dan Rolovsky was sitting over there with Shregs, which we certainly appreciate them coming out here alongside Schefter. And Dan Rolovsky said to us, me and D-Bud, he goes, Kyla Murray on a veteran men deal or Daniel Jones 50 million a year. And me and D-But sat for a second,

because that is obviously a big question, especially whenever you're talking about that amount of money, the Siler Cap, after we just signed the largest free agent wide receiver signing in the history of ball. So you and Jonathan Taylor's going to need another deal. It's hard to kind of piece it all together. And then me and D-But talked for, I don't know, what was like 15, 20 seconds?

And then we said, this dude or nothing. Give him $100 million if you have to. Well, turns out that might happen. Ladies and gentlemen, quarterback of the Indianapolis Colts, the Indiana Jones. Ladies and gentlemen, the man who led the NFL in offense, the man who led to Colts to 8 and 2 and number one record in the entire NFL before breaking his leg in one side and then tearing his Achilles in the other. We don't know how the physical is gone, but we do know he's back. Ladies and gentlemen, Daniel Jones. What's up, guys?

What's up? What's up? How are we doing? Hey, congratulations, man. Obviously, we think you have earned it. We are incredibly pumped that you are back here in Indianapolis. What was it like kind of not knowing what the future while also battling through injuries, which is obviously the big conversation with Max Crosby going to Baltimore. But for you, injuries in both legs, obviously in Achilles and Free Agency after playing your best football. How is this all gone and how happy are you that it's over? Yeah, I'm fired up, fired up to be back and definitely grateful for the opportunity to be back. and here with the Colts.

So it's been crazy. You know, the left leg's good. That's all heel. Working on this Achilles, making good progress with the rehab, and it's all good. I'm fired up. We will continue this conversation

on ESPN News, YouTube, ESPN Plus, Disney Plus, TikTok Live. College basketball will follow us here with Mr. Shulman and Jay Billis on the pool. Yeah, remember we're in college basketball season. We're also in Big Money for Quarterback season. And this man right here, Daniel Jones just signed a two-year deal

to sign back with the Colts. We'll continue to chat with him, and we'll see you tomorrow. Goodbye. Okay, now we're on ESPN News and we're on the internet. DJ, listen, it was Colts or nothing for you the entire time. We just had to kind of put out a little smoke screen, or maybe going elsewhere, because I want to let you know, when we thought you were potentially leaving, and then we put the transition tag on you, celebrate, and then we're told, that doesn't mean, then we're kind of bummed out. You coming back is a huge deal. But you had to feel something special in that building last year, I assume, whenever you guys were on that magical run?

For sure, for sure. You know, I wanted to be back, and I'm glad. we got it figured out. I didn't, the transition tag, that whole process was, uh, was interesting, but I always wanted to be here and, and, you know, had faith it would, it would work out. So, um, yeah, definitely appreciative, grateful and fired up to be here. We got a special thing going and working with this coaching staff, working with the guys in the locker room and fired up to get Alec back and all that. So, uh, looking forward to it. I know, obviously injuries are injuries and you talked about the broken leg being healed and you're dealing with the Achilles right now. We've seen a lot of Achilles is in the past. It feels like the science is evolving, but it's still

in Achilles. What are projections right now for you to be back? Because that was also a massive piece of who is going to be aware. Do we get a fill-in guy? Is Riley going to get some time? Then DJ's going to come back. What are your expectations and how are you operating with? We know that nothing is a hard lock guarantee. Yeah, it's all, it's all a process and going through it. My goal is to be back by week one and be ready to go. I think that's what we're working towards and should be able to accomplish. So it's all, it's all a process and we'll keep checking the boxes working with the guys here with the Colts and feel good about that. So I'm planning on being back and the goal is shooting for week one.

Hell you. That would be awesome. We're back on top of the world. Come on, Dan. I'm buying the suite again. I'm buying a suite again. I'm buying a suite. There's a lot of question marks. There's a lot questions marks. A lot of great moves were made, including a big one. Go ahead, D. Bud. Yeah, Dan, you mentioned Alec earlier. He was a top free agent wide receiver on the market. We were able to keep him as well. What was it about him playing with him? He obviously had his biggest year. And then Reggie Wayne, alleged Reggie Wayne, tweeted out after Michael Pittman Jr. went on to the still and said,

hey, that was kind of the tone-setter in that wide receiver room. So who steps up in that room is Pierce, Downs, in your opinion? Yeah, I mean, I think first just, obviously bummed to see Pit go. He was a tremendous leader, obviously a great player, extremely productive, and a guy you can count on as tough as they come.

You know, always being out there and wish him the best. I know he'll crush it with the Steelers. They're lucky to have them. But yeah, I think, you know, I think all those guys, I think you look at AP downs, both those guys played a lot of football, been really productive, excited to continue to work with them. And then, you know, we got a number of other guys with Ashton and Tread and, you know, a number of other guys working in. So I'm excited. I think that room will be great. I mean, I think Alec is as dynamic as they come down the field, making big plays. You've seen that for, you know,

four or five years, especially last year, too. So, I'm fired up. Yeah, here's some HEMBO stats about what you were leading whenever you're with the Colts. Colts had number one scoring offense in the NFL at the time of Daniel Jones's injury, 29.8 points per game. Is that good? It's pretty good. Yes, best in the league. Thank you so much.

Dana Jones average 11.5 yards per tip. Are these check downs? Is that what he's doing? He just, no, he's spinning it all over the place. 20.4 yards per completion whenever he's targeting Alec Pierce. Yeah, we're explosives all over the place. Other people are struggling to get explosives. Yes. Yeah, we were not.

That was not a thing. That's why Lucas Oil Stadium was awesome. I mean, it was... J.T. was... Oh, J.T. was all over the place. Oh, my God. By those measures, it's one of the most explosive tannums in the league history.

Wow. He just didn't add history there at the end. He was supposed to. So whenever we talk about what you did with the Colts last year, the Good Times, we were all incredibly happy about it. I don't think the national media fully got a chance to experience

what the Good Times with you were for 10 weeks. We are excited to get back to that as soon as possible. Now, getting back to that, obviously involves a lot of rehab for you. It looks like you're just walking around by the I like that. I don't know if you want to fucking take a little six-step, five-step drop and let us know how it's going.

Tone has a question for you, DJ. Yeah, DJ, I do. Obviously, two different sports, but you're in the same city. Tyrese Halliburton tore his Achilles in the playoffs last season. Have you had a chance to talk with him at all? I don't even know if you guys know each other, or have you talked to any other quarterbacks that have torn their Achilles in the last few years because there has been a few

to see kind of what the recovery process will be like. Yeah, I talked to Tyrese a little bit. it early on. We actually have the same surgeon. Nice. So we're, yeah, it was good to kind of hear his thoughts on just the initial stages of the process and the rehab. I know his is going well. And yeah, so talk to him, talk to a couple other guys, quarterbacks, you know, Rogers and Kirk Cousins, who've both had them and they were all helpful. So you just try to gain as much information and, you know, and much experience as you can to kind of help you through your process. But, you know, we got

great trainers, great PT guys here with the Colts and working with them. you know, listen to your doctors, listen to the surgeon, all that, I think, try to come up with the best process. I'm going to use this phrase in its actual intention. Ipso facto, your Achilles surgeon was also Jason Tatum's surgeon. If it was also Tyrese's surgeon, I do believe. And he just came back quicker than anybody in history. So I can't wait to see you running all over at Lucasol week one. Maybe preseason games.

Oh, yeah. Well, yeah. At least the third one. Yeah, let's let's let the world see what. the horses are about to be doing out there. But we are excited to watch your recovery. Last question here, as we talk about that locker room over there, we all know there's a sense of urgency.

Go ahead, comment. Yeah, Dimes, when you're thinking about that locker room and just the offseason and motivation when it comes to the regular season that, you know, you'll be starting for week one, which we're all very excited about. How much of a conversation is it just about, you know, the drought as far as winning the division goes inside the Colts building? I think we all agree if you stayed healthy, that probably would have changed. but is that a conversation between, you know, the boys like, hey, we need to reclaim the

AFC South for Indiana and Indianapolis? Yeah, I mean, I think for sure. We've talked about that. I think there's a high sense of urgency in the building amongst everybody. I think we realized, you know, last year we were, things were good. We were rolling and we didn't finish how we, you know, could have and should have. But I think there's, you know, so there's a level of confidence, I think, in what we can be and what we can do. but there's a high sense of urgency to do that

and make sure we get back to where we were and then sustain that through the course of the season. I'm pretty pumped to potentially get along with the locker room over there too. That's pretty cool. A lot of good news. Let's go, man. Come on. Yeah, it's good.

Yeah, all right. All right, I got it. It's good news. It feels like a lot of moves are made for that to happen. Yeah, like legit. If it does feel like that, and I'm very thankful for that. But I also think we're going into Super Bowl.

That's so awesome. Have you been watching Team USA baseball at all, DJ? I haven't. No, I haven't. I haven't been watching it. You're the man. You're the man. We appreciate you.

We appreciate you. We appreciate you guys. See you all. Ladies, John. Daniel Jones. Yay, Danny. There's no idea what's going on. Super Bowl's back on.

Just locked in. Have you seen USA baseball? My Achilles thing at 6 a.m. I got a. And then at 8 a.m., they got to. You've been in trouble if he's keeping tabs on team USA baseball. Well, mostly because of how negative it would be. Joining us now is a man who might have been keeping

tabs closer than anybody on this team USA baseball as their roster is being constructed as the dreams were kind of coming together. Now, he had a fantasy baseball league draft that he had to be at while we were out there with Team USA taking the bat against Clayton Kershaw, meeting the boys, chit-chat and seeing the vibes. And I'll tell you, he missed out on what we got to experience, which was what felt like a very tight group. Yep. Very proud group, a group that was ready for the moment. Yeah. Yeah. They wanted to win. I still feel that way. But last night, we lost to a coffee country. You got embarrassed.

Well. And a soccer country. Yeah. F1. Fashion. Food, arts. Organized crime. Bingo, that's the most important of them.

Gabuil. They invented it. Crime, that is. Organized. Yeah. Joining us now. Not chaos. They definitely did, though.

I mean, if you watch the documentaries, they had crime pretty good figured out. Yeah. They felt like they had pretty funny. The Irish back in today were trying. We were a little reckless. I think we didn't have it as. That was chaos crime.

Yeah, you guys are a little bit. more organized the most organized i never know i mean white he certainly tried it seems like from the documentaries that i watched it took down the italians no i didn't well i mean let's not even talk about frank that's right you know in uh in in uh in harlem uh i want frank lucas yeah frank lucas yeah i mean that's a great story he took he actually did yeah yeah that's one of the greatest of all time he did but why i want them cops he got them all he did bought that shit yeah that was great, that was a great rug. Should have been wearing that shit to the boxing.

No, definitely. He knew that, though. See, that's the thing. That's something that the Irish would have done. The Italians wouldn't have done that because they dressed like that all day, every day. Exactly. So it would have been no difference. It would have been outrageous. Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen,

as a man who watched the Italians beat the shit out of America last night. God. And he's going to tell us why I'm supposed to watch baseball again after what has happened. My heart's been broken on a diamond. Ladies and gentlemen, Jet Passing. Yes. Yes. Italians are good to organize.

crime. They are incredible at soccer, okay? They're good at cooking. They even make the World Cup. They actually make it, yeah. What's that? They didn't make it this year. They're not even good at soccer anymore. Wow, okay. They're baseball country now. New past then.

There's a certain team that may be getting removed that the Italians might slide in that spot. For the World Cup? Yeah. Okay, well, good luck to the Italians making it in World Cup. We're going to beat you in soccer. We can't be losing Italy in baseball. What did I watch last night? And why am I still going to watch baseball, Jet. I need hope

bad. I need hope bad at this exact moment, not only because America, but also because I was starting falling in love with this sport. I was really starting to enjoy this, all the boys. And now my heart's broken into a million pieces. I'm not going to be able to survive a hundred or some games, so I'm not even going to watch one of them, especially

if we can't get out of pool play in a world baseball classic, Jed. Could you imagine if Canada makes it? They might. They might. Canada might make it out of pool play. They do. They do. Sorry, Jet. I'm sorry, I'm rambling, but this is how I feel this is how your sport has me feeling right now. I'm very confused about it all. Maybe I'm not good at handling my emotions with this

because I've never actually become a brand new fan of something and then had it deteriorate so quickly. And I lost $5,000 on a guarantee you win. So if you could, Jed, if you could just talk me off of this baseball ledge, I'd be grateful. Thank you. The floor is yours. I will stop. Pat, welcome to baseball,

a sport where a group of, now they are Americans, they're Italian Americans, but we're a group of players who have like a couple of collective all-star appearances among them. And by the way, that was a tremendous bat flip by Jack Hagley on there. Put it in and a crowd. The damn diamond. Pat, if you hit a tank like that, that's the kind of bat flip you'd have had right there. But they're going against an American team that has MVP's, that has Cy Young winners, that has all-star appearances, that has Hall of Famers.

That is, I said this last time I was on the show, it's as loaded in. team as you're going to find. And in baseball, it doesn't matter a damn bit because a lesser team talent-wise can go out and absolutely wallop a better team on any given day. And that's what happened last night. The most amazing part of that game to me, just what happened on the field, the top five hitters in Italy's lineup, Pat, went 042. Oh, jeez.

And they still beat Team USA. They still embarrass this seemingly unbeatable American team. And right now, the Americans are resigned to sit back at their hotel and watching tonight as Mexico and Italy play and hoping that either Italy wins or Mexico scores a bunch of runs because if neither of those things happens, the Americans are going home. And in the five previous world baseball classics, they had at least advanced out of pool play. They lost a couple of times in the quarterfinals, you know, have won only once. Man, the aspirations and dreams of this team compared to what they're facing right now are just night and day.

It's our pastime, you know? Yeah. That was in a lot of group texts last night, I assume, not just ours. Trying to figure out pastime and pastime. So we got a mitt in ours. I assume everybody has theirs. We're all learning about baseball, not all of us, because there's obviously a massive baseball community. I've been very thankful for the baseball community, seemingly being as welcoming as they have been.

but there's a lot of us that this is us getting into baseball here because it's America. This is the same thing that happened with hockey. Hockey teams showed up. Women and men, great goals, physical fighting, all that stuff. Made it out of the group. We got ducks on the pawn. We got ducks on a pawn against Frankie Donuts up there. And we can't get home.

I mean, and then who's our pitchers? What are we doing? We got Kershaw in the, and what is that called where he's standing up there? In the bullpen. In the bullpen. I've seen that man's eyes recently. He can get it out if he needs it. Who do we have pitching for us?

Because it feels like those middle ones just walk in there and are delivering American BP for the other day. I mean, how do we tighten this up? And who are these people, Jed? Ryan Yarbrose is a guy who has made a career out of being able to start or relieve to typically call a swing man. We appreciate your service to baseball, Ryan, I guess.

This is the guy that just absolutely back, though. We don't. Yeah, right. You know, Ryan Yarbrose not a guy who's who's been an all-star. He's not somebody who you sit there and say is, you know, going to be one of the best pitchers in baseball right now. He's a guy who, in most circumstances, you have around to clean up some innings and not to pitch high leverage situations necessarily and comes in and walks Kyle Teal and gives up that bomb to Jack Caglione right there. And suddenly, three nothing's not great. Five nothing's a whole lot worse. And then when Brad Keller came in, things fell. apart even more. U.S. gave up 300 and runs. You know, Keller had a double play ball, spiked it, and Bobby Witt couldn't pick it up at second base. The U.S. just looked flat

yesterday, Pat. And when, you know, we're going to do an autopsy of this team eventually, and if they're out after tonight, there are going to be a lot of questions. And Mark DeRosa, the manager, and all the players, you know, said this had nothing to do with it. But

they were sitting around late. They were drinking beers. They were telling stories. They were having a good time. And if you're going to do that, you've got to come back the next day and take care of business. If you're all here with the eyes, you've got to be able sore with the Eagles. We're fucking America. We're the actual Eagles. I don't

like that this. Ty actually has a few questions for you. I'll tell you what, I don't know if you heard him over there. He was hitting a dry raceboard whenever I was asking some questions on some things that he would like to get off of his chest, I do believe. Jet, he is a dear friend of the program.

He was incredibly hospitable and couldn't have been nicer when we were out in Arizona. Mark DeRosa is the man. But after putting his foot in his mouth about a hundred times yesterday and saying, you know, like, yeah, we want to win this game, but our tickets

already punched the quarterfinal. And then the MLB in World Baseball Classic says, oh boy, we got to rip that thing off the internet real quick. In your opinion, how much heat does he deserve? And also, Tone had a good question. What

At what point do you think he realized, oh boy, our ticket is not punched? Was it like the eighth inning when he had Kershaw up in the pen and then someone was like, hey, moron, sit him down and put Mason Miller up, okay? We cannot give up any more runs. I'm just shit. I cannot believe we lost that fucking game last night. How much of the blame do you think Mark DeRosa deserves and how much do you think, what kind of fallout is there going to be from this?

because a lot of people on the internet, they want his head to roll. Not just as the, you know, Team USA manager. They don't want to fucking see him on MLBT either. He's got a show. They're coming after his morning show. We're flying home from Nashville and Gumpie's just reading off tweets. Oh, no, they're saying D. Roe more like D-No More TV for me. Like they were just like the internet was just.

It was a long night for him. Once again, Aaron Judge, who we love, had the opportunity. Bryce Harper had the opportunity. There was a couple, but that was all so late. It feels like, boy, we really missed a lot of things. He's going to take the blame for the... It feels like Mark DeRose is taking a lot of blame. And then, to your point, you did say,

boys walk in here a little slow today. So you say sluggish started. It was like that night before. They also interviewed him during the game, and to Jets point, like Ryan Yarbrough, who is a good, you know, swing man, but he's not an all-star. DeRosa was like, yeah, we need Yarbrough to just eat a couple

innings here because I think he was assuming, hey, we don't want to burn any of our top flight arms. Let's just let this guy kind of, you know, take a couple innings out. And then obviously you see what happens. Like, we didn't really come with our, you know, our elite guys that we really needed to have in a situation like that. Are you okay? Geez, Louise. I mean, this is what happens.

We can't have anything nice. We try. We love baseball. I'm still in on baseball. Red Sox players are doing really well. Red Sox are doing great. We got baseball bats. Mark DeRosa.

He's damn near Benedict Arnold at this point. No, he is not. That's what people are saying. Jet, can you please get us back off of this? We like Mark. Love Mark the guy. I hate him as a manager. I know that for sure now.

But I love the guy. I want to see him every day in here. I don't want to see him in the dugout. Not my dugout. No chance. Please, Jack, can you soften all this at least if it's supposed to be, you think? I'm going to try and walk you guys just through what I know and what I believe. No, Jet, we need to be walked off of this is all the deal.

Get us off the plate, Jet. Wrong legs, Jen. I'm going to walk you to the right place, Pat. But Connor won't shut up. Ty won't stop being angry. You're pissed and sitting there with his look on your face like boo-hoo. I'm thinking about getting rid of this. I'm thinking about this.

I can't because the American sting. You know the Kaglione bat flip? You know the Kaglioni bat flip? There's stings almost taking a few of these today. all right and I'm talking about it out of this building I almost said I'm not doing baseball again we can't do a nice thing $5,000 minus $1,100

on USA to be in Italy Italians sorry I was a bad bad they're saying worst of all times it's really bad I told you that too everybody's so smart

everybody so smart it was a good bet yesterday could you please talk it was tell us a fact it was good bet at 6 o'clock I was just looking for dubs in the chat yeah it's all I was looking for a little positive because I was missing on.

Everybody hitting home runs. Everybody's hitting home runs but weren't the guys I was betting on it. Italy can't even spell baseball. They added a thing. Minus 1100, Pat? What are you doing? It was an automatic win. Yeah.

That stuff picked out to spend that $454 on. That's what. Bingo, I had a dinger parlay that was coming in the next round. Oh, my, PCA. This guy shows up. This guy was outrageous. The surefire investment. That's our entire baseball team.

I had no idea. to do that. Okay. Johnny Pizza's here. What's his name? It's at the bottom there. Luigi Primo. This guy's going to be a world champ because of what he could do with that dough.

He was actually catching this. And hit. Yeah. Sorry, Jet. If you can please get us off of Luigi promo. And back in on baseball, we'd be appreciative of that. With the facts. All right.

So let's walk through everything that happened yesterday. Mark DeRosa goes on the hot stove show 9.45 in the morning says we've punched our ticket to the quarter finals. Now, he later told us. a group of reporters that he did not realize until he had gotten to the ballpark that he had said that mistakenly. Now, he said the night before he met with Michael Hill, who's the general manager for Team USA, and that they had gone over all of the scenarios and that he knew exactly what Team USA needed to do. I've known Mark DeRosa a long time.

I have no reason to believe that he is a liar. He's never been like that to me. But at the same time, there were a number of decisions that were made yesterday going into that game, whether it's sitting Alex Bregman down, sitting Bryce Harper down, sitting Bryce Tarang down in the lineup, bringing Yarbrough in when he did, as opposed to going to some higher leverage relief guys to try and allow the score to stay a little bit closer rather than have an 8-0 deficit that you have to claw back from. Getting Clayton Kershop. And his explanation for that, I think actually makes sense.

there's a 25 pitch limit for relief pitchers in the WBC. And if David Bednar, who is in the eighth inning, had reached that, DeRosa didn't want to go to Mason Miller, his closer, and then do what's called an updown where you go up for an inning, sit down, and then go back out there. You know, a lot of the decisions that are made in the World Baseball Classic are not made by the managers. They're made by the teams that these players play for.

Michael Lorenzen, who threw four and two-third shutout innings for Team Italy yesterday, just absolutely carved up the United States lineup. He was supposed to pitch today against Mexico. They were going to piggyback him and Aaron Nola because Italy believed that this was a must-wing game for them. But the Colorado Rockies, who Lorenzen plays for said, no, no, no, you can't do that. We need to keep you on rotation, on schedule. You have to pitch against Team USA. So the way that all of this coalesced and played out on the Internet and the fallout from it, it's been a disaster, an unmitigated disaster of a 24 hours for Team USA.

And frankly, like, when you look at all of this, the question is not just about Mark DeRosa. It's about USA baseball. It's about the coaching staff. It's about the adults in the room, the people who are supposed to be in charge, and what they're, the players should know. And look, players were making plans for Miami, man. Like, they were. They were looking forward to going to Miami for the semifinals.

Now, they needed to win a quarterfinal game first. So there was that, and that's going to be in Houston. But they believed that they were going to be going there, and they believed that they were going to win this whole tournament, that they were going to beat the Dominican Republic or Japan, if necessary. And, hey, it's a bad, bad day. for team USA, but they're not dead yet. If Italy can win tonight, USA advances.

If Mexico wins tonight and scores five or more runs, then USA advances. So there are still opportunities for redemption here, but it's like Aaron Judge said. It's hard when you have things in your hands and then you fumble it and you leave it in someone else's hands. It's a paralyzing feeling knowing that the future of this team that believed, was going to be a champion rests on Italy and Mexico. And by the way, Italy and Mexico teams that hate the United States and would love nothing more than to be the ones who oust them from this term. Okay. Okay. On that note, Connor has the last question for you here, Jet.

Yeah, Jet, are we confident that Mexico and Italy aren't going to do some sort of backdoor, you know, behind the scenes, handshake deal? Like, hey. What's so funny. Yeah, you laugh and doesn't make you feel bad. 0 to the 9th. Yeah, 0. Let's strike everybody out,

and then Jaron Duran will come up in the bottom of the ninth, hit a one solo home run, and then Mexico win. Or just lay down a bunt. Just do a bunt home run right there. Are we sure that won't happen? Because the overrunners also at 8, and that doesn't make me feel good.

No, that is not. It's not an ideal situation for the U.S. I'll say this, that Italy's relief pitching is in a tough position. right now. Mexico's relief pitching is in a tough position right now. So I do think this is probably going to be a higher scoring game. I do have a little

WBC news for the program. And this is not big news by any means, but Italy lost its catcher Kyle Teal last night to a hamstring pole. And I don't know if you guys remember when Doug Mirabelli, Connor, you might

remember this. Doug Mirabelle gets a police escort to go and play a game for the Red Sox. Right now, Mickey Gasper, a Red Sox backup catcher, a Pisano, who was at Red Sox camp this morning, is on route to Houston and could potentially be in the lineup for Team Italy tonight as they're starting catch. They look to clinch Pool B and win this whole thing and go to the quarterfinals. I don't love that we're shipping people in for this game that could be cooked for us, but on that note, Benedict's socks. We're trying to help Italy win, you fool. And if Italy wins, we win, Tone, if you remember the ground thing.

Who struck out judge last night? What team is he played for? Sorry, Red Sox players are playing good. Oh, hey, listen, Canada. Sorry. I'll tell you what, if we don't make it out of pool play and Canada does, man. We're going to have to try to bury that conversation as fast as possible because it's going to be thrown in our face. We got hockey.

They can take baseball. Exactly. Okay. All right. John, we appreciate you. Hopefully that doesn't happen. Hopefully. Also, hey, Mexico. Let's have a fucking dong party today. In Italy. Let's hit some dongs out here. We're all Italian today, baby.

Yes. When a moon hits a rise like a big pizza pie. That's a moray. We need a moray. Home runs today. And also, we need a moray of them. How about their infancy? Are they always play like that? I'm watching them gunned people out at first.

Guy does a full split, like he's a gymnast at first base last night. What's his name? Vinny Pasquintino. Of course, passing Vinny Passing. Come on. Vinny splits out there doing that thing. And then the shortstop, second bit, which one's which? Uh, pass between me.

Shortstop is not next to the first base. He's next to the third base. Okay, whatever. Okay, so right in there. These throws at these, unbelievable, everything was a strike. It felt they were on their shit. Big time. What's in that espresso?

that's what I want to know. Because I know baseball has a little history of potentially add a little ha-ha for you, Dada. That is a great. Their manager, Frank Sevelli, who is Yankee Great, actually got pop for steroids. So something to maybe look at it. Are we trying to protest? Can we protest said game last night?

I don't know. There's caffeine in the espresso, guys. Come on. I'd like to. Oh, okay. That must be nice. Caffeine's what's beating America in baseball. Okay.

All right. I'm sure that's what it is. All right, we appreciate you. You're the man. Thank you. Thank you, boys. Chao. Ciao.

Come on, Italy. Come on, Italy. We're going to start a second hour with the Italian national anthem, but I'm doing that. I'm sitting for that one. I know that.

Don't take it neat. That's right. I'm getting a newspaper. I'm right here. All day. We need them. We are an alliance today. We need them.

Never. It'll be a silent alliance. for me. I hate that I'm losing baseball. I was just getting into it. I know. Good run. Dude, I think we did have a good run. Why'd he have to say that? Why'd he have to say that? And then for Jet to come on, I was about to

come back around on DeRosa, and then Jack comes on here and says, I didn't realize I said that yesterday. Are you kidding me, Mark? Come on, Mark. What do you mean? You just have a good time. He's shooting shit with the hot stove. He was in the kitchen. Routing for you so hard. You just, you live

down. Nothing else needs to be said. Well, that's it. All right. He did let us down. The boys, if they get in, they're going to win. Yes. That's how I feel.

And if they don't... I'll never watch the fucking world baseball class again. I'll get out of pool play. This will be my final voyage. What are you on the D.R.? Dominican Republic might be the team we start watching, but not because we love it, just because we have to. And boy, they are electrifying.

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Murder at the U. Listen now. Are fantastic, and there's so much to talk about. I mean, Max Crosby is not a Raven anymore. He's back to the Raiders. Was that some shady business? Well, Dr. David Chowell told him. us in the first hour. Teams can do that.

Never seen it before, but at this level with two number ones and it being a guy like Max Crosby, feels kind of amateurish. But yeah, teams can kind of predict if he's failing a physical now or if in the future he would potentially fail physical, especially for the value in which they're paying him. Said it's on the books. It's in the NFL books. It has happened before at lower level.

Never add something to this magnitude. Now the Raiders who are making a lot of decisions with the mindset of having two number ones from the Ravens. and also a lot of space cap-wise without Max Crosby and also some holes to fill. While they certainly did that during a free agency frenzy, they put out a statement and said, The Ravens backed out, all right?

Next, I don't know what to tell you. Max Crosby, first person in the Raiders facility this morning, 6 a.m. Later. Back to rehab, getting healthy, doing his thing. Everybody knew he wasn't 100% healthy whenever he was going to do anything here, whenever he announced that he was moving on from the Raiders or when Jake Glazer announced that their time was potentially ending.

We knew he had surgery. We knew that he was going to potentially be injured. So the fact that the Ravens made the big play for him, made the big splash for him, he's a raven, everybody's celebrated. And then doctor comes back and says he's not healthy. I think a lot of us go, well, uh, and then he signed Frey Hendrickson for $115 million in the same position while keeping two first rounds. It's hard not to go like, this feels like there was a little foul. Is it foul? Dr. David Chow was like, not foul.

Well, I'll do that. House, escrow, put the money up. Then he could kind of 14 days. You kind of back out of it. It's like, I don't know. How come nobody else does it then? They're like, eh. Can't tell you that reason.

I'm so many as possible. So interesting times for the Ravens, and maybe football gods telling Max Crosby, you're supposed to be a Raider forever. And with how they built that team and with how we feel Fernando's going to be, maybe this is going to be the best Raiders that they've ever been. Then in baseball, America loses Italy. We've talked about that enough. It's pretty depressing.

And then basketball is happening. College Basketball Championship League is currently taking place. There's a lot of magic everywhere, and we're lucky to be covering it all. Sports are the greatest. Let's never forget that, even though it can be heartbreaking. At times, talk to tables here at at Boss Conner and at Ty Schmidt. Todd, did you get everything off your chest in the first hour? Are you feeling better about yourself, Bob?

No, because we lost last night. And I just, you know, again, I can't stress this enough. I love Dero. Okay. He's a great guy. All right, okay. Someone needs to be held accountable. And our players, you know, those guys needed to perform.

But when you spot a team who has multiple guys who play in the MLB, I think there's 21 MLB guys on the Italian squad, all Americans, you know, when you get in those situations and you spot a team like that, eight runs, like guess what these guys are pros too? We kind of talk about it in the NFL, you know, we're not playing. Yeah, but Great Britain wasn't. No. Why weren't we doing this against them?

Why did we pick the due to Italy one where we have the guys who can't drive? Do you remember? Well, that's also not an excuse. You know, do these guys each drink 150 beers? The game was at fucking nine o'clock, you know? The mayor's telling story. Well, exactly. That is possible.

Maybe. Maybe it is. Maybe he's too, maybe he lights up the room too much. I can see that. Sean Casey, the mayor, one of the coaches of team USA, too good of a storyteller. Boys didn't want to go to bed tonight. He is a great story.

He is a great story. He's from Pittsburgh. Talking about Jim Leeland all night and then, you know. It was on DV Weekly. Exactly. But we tried to win those games. Dero clearly thought we didn't need to win last night. And the decisions he made and the lineup

he put out there, and the pitchers he decided to go to, kind of illuminated that. And, you know, the boys fought tooth and nail. It was actually a report that it was Sean Casey's fault. So Jose D. in a Team USA fool of great storytellers, coach Sean Casey, future All-famer Clayton Kirchon and Kyle Schwabber,

maybe the best storytellers. According to D.Row and Bobby Wood, Jr., team USA pushed his boss past midnight because Sean Casey was on what we like to call a heater. That's what he does. The tongue, that's why he's the mayor. He's at first base, just talking everybody knowing everybody's stories. Oh, I agree.

They just beat. Who did they beat the game before? Mexico. What did I win? We punched our tickets. I would tell you the one. Exactly. And then we start sitting down.

Into another. And he was batting coach for Yankees, right? Yes. Aaron, tell him about the, okay. Tell what I said. Tell what is it. So now we're moving. Schwabo gets in there.

Oh, my. He starts peppering in a little bit. Clayton Kershaw? We've been around him. A lot of stories, these guys. Oh, my God. and then Sean Casey says, oh, that reminds me. And he goes,

Campa, England. These guys go from 1159 to 234 or 5 a.m. They said once they got to the hotel, it continued as well. See, they're too tight of a team. So this is what happens when he put the boys in charge. Dero and Sean and Dino's out there doing his thing. Dino was in bed by 11. I know.

Dino's with the boys. If I had to guess, so is Andy Pettit, I bet. This is the problem. They became too tight of a team. And then whenever they didn't have the full direction of like, hey we still got a kill we don't have like a best of seven series here this is a this is a one night only type of situation they got caught that's what happens these these grades got caught in camaraderie in expectation and maybe we'll have another day because they thought maybe they did yeah and they

should three and one two teams well that that's a whole different how are you not how are you not in exactly how does the host country not automatically get into the quarterfinals it's like that's a great question we're giving up all these baseball stadiums exactly we created the thing and now we can't even It's like when the Soviets were out boozing the night before the miracle. No, nobody talks about that. They were very healthy. They were hydrated. They were not boozed up at all.

Nine-year NFL vet, Darius J. Butler. We were starting to become baseball fans. Now we're looking for a handout playoff. Batsy played catch for a half hour yesterday. He said, I'll never stop. I loved it, man. I do wish I would have tried it out. But you mentioned heater, and I know we got a guest coming up.

But last night, you know, I did have a good sports night for me as a Miami Heat fan. Bam out of bio. Oh, yeah. congratulations. 83 points. Some play most all the NBA game. Nobody said that. I'll say second most.

You know, but a little aster's next to Wilkes, a hundred points. But now he passed Kobe Bryant with 83. That feels like a big statement right there. Hold on one second. We're going to do that. We're currently on ESPN News.

Okay, so this is journalism type stuff, especially they put news right in there. So you need to respect it. And we need to respect it, as we can tell you, talk about the things that we're learning about. We just corrected who's telling the stories late night that are potentially getting

to boys camaraderie through it. a level that we never could have expected, but also sleep level a little bit low. You said something about Will not score 100 points? Some people question that. Who? Just people. People?

Do you ever have been? I'm just saying people. Well, you're saying this wasn't enough? Wait a minute. Hey, we haven't seen the video. And I know, you know, we know the stories. You know, the NBA wasn't this, wasn't that. You know, they didn't have live cameras, whatever.

But, hey, this is about, bam. All right. Wilk, Wilk's Wilk. Colby, rest of peace. He had a great 81 that we all saw. But Bam had his 83 last night, which was unbelievable. We had 43 to half. Obviously, 40 in the second half.

So 43 in the first half, all very ethical buckets. Now you go and you can start nitpicking in the fourth quarter. Yes, the team. Knitpicking. Everybody was trying to get him. The record. 36 free throws. Yeah, they were following him.

He was getting bucks. He was getting to the paint. Wifie was in the building. Mama was in the building. It was a great night for Bam. DeWay and talked a little shit about it, not being buzz in Miami. Spoh, you know, he got the boys going, and then Captain Bam, I believe this is his ninth year in Miami, also became the second player ever in Miami history, this across 10,000 points a couple nights ago.

So for him to do this, this is unbelievable. I don't care, 83, LA Fitness, Men's League, YMCA College League, do this on the NBA court. This is unbelievable. Congratulations to Bam. I don't think I immediately think whenever I think a bucket getters, I think of Bam out of Bio. So for him to go for 83, congratulations to him. You said first half, all ethical buckets is how you're just. describe it? Incredible way to describe what everybody was kind of talking about. Because 43 free throws, I think I heard white chocolate J. Will was quoted as saying, I don't think I shot 43 free throws in my career, let alone in one night. That is an absurd amount of free trade. So is that what's, is that what is that what BAM basketball is? Bam getting fouled a lot. And then he's knocking down 36 out of 43. That's hard. That's not hard. Fantastic. Tough to do. That's an unbelievable shoot. But what if he goes, what if he has a night from the stripe where he's just like unconscious? And he's, and he's not. He's, he's not hard. And he's. It's. It's not hard. And he. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's.

He puts up another, what, seven more points he at 90? Now all of a sudden you start thinking, Wilt had 100? Maybe. Maybe. Maybe Wilt did. I was at Wilt did not. Then this happened my time.

I mean, 20 and 43, Wilt was, yeah, Wilk. Then I'm like, maybe Wilt was. And then somebody's putting some AI videos together or real video of Wilt playing basketball. And his teammates were shooting and Wilt was jumping and catching it. And actually putting it in a hoop. And it's like, maybe Wilt did. Oh, I haven't seen that. That was AI, I think, saying this is how Wolf got to 100.

But Bam, doing 83. Congratulations, man. Yeah, that's real. That's awesome. It's good to see he held the paper up, you know, carry on the tradition. Joining us now is, man, we haven't talked to in a few days. Yeah, you're right, because that cannot be added it either in the future. And Gumpy, good call down there.

Thank you for pointing out. That's good journalism as well as we're here on the ESPN News. A man who hasn't been with us. Here in a few days, we certainly missed them. Ladies and gentlemen, a college football national champion, Super Bowl champion, Ryder Cup winner, AJ Haw. Hawker, good to see you. look fantastic. You've missed a lot here in the

Thunderdown. A lot of frenzy, darned frenzy. Yeah, it was a lot of friends. It was awesome. Awesome show to watch. You guys killed it. It was fun. I mean, Dano, I see Dano getting run on shows this morning about him not being able to get a bucket, which he eventually got one. I mean, his toe was on the line, but he's still me. Okay, so I didn't see the toe in the line in real time.

I should have called that out, certainly. But yeah, he's getting mocked. They called him Dan Brickorlobski on NFL live yesterday. Had an entire stripe around the whole studio. I mean, it was a whole thing. And the thing they're not even seeing is right before we want to break, he missed layup too. Everybody's talking about him shooting. Right before you go to break, if you were to rewatch that, he misses a layup, like right into the side of the rim, like classic eighth grade maybe, YMCA type.

Jumping off-fying football. This is them yesterday on. Yeah, I mean, they were killing this guy. Yeah. And I would like to say off camera, he shot for two hours in his suit, like a 12-year-old. He was lathered up. He was out here doing a squeaks. As soon as he walked in, grabbed the baseball and a mitt just started throwing.

as loud as he could. Right here, right here off of my head, right here, trying to piece things together. Hey, how's this all going to work? I don't fucking know, Dan. What are you? What do you guys want me to do, Dan? I don't know. I'm trying to figure that out right now, Dan. So Dan, Dan was active in here. We loved his energy in here. And I would assume anybody that's around him thinks he is hilarious. Because, man, he is like a 12-year-old who happens to have great football IQ and a great football resume and can deliver it well. And we'll give a take about anything, whatever you need, however you need it. But his athletic performance was certainly something we thought would be much better. AJ, we missed you, but we did have a man in here that was breaking all the news.

And yesterday, because he came out here, you actually had to do it on a plane. And it feels like they're flying his ass on coach. I don't know how that works at this point, especially with how much he's getting paid. He could personally update or upgrade himself, choose not to because he's a dog. Ladies and gentlemen, a man has been on top of it all for us and for the football world. Man who won the Free Agency Frenzy, Senior NFL Insider for ESPN, Adam Schepter. Yay, Shepter. Yeah, Shafty, good to see you, dude.

I appreciated you working in that plane. And we did have a picture of you that got sent in to the group text, and people zoomed in on your left hand, and it's actually in a full fist. You know, you know that you are in the middle of a lot of things. Danos posting you and blasting you all over the place. A lot happened last night that we could have never expected. In all your years, had you ever seen anything like this?

And how did we get to this Max Crosby point with the Ravens, basically, saying, no, we don't think his physical is good now or potentially in the future for what we're investing in him. We'd like to back out of the trade. Have you ever seen something this magnitude? And how did we get here, Shephti? Well, I think when you look at the biggest trades in NFL history, and this would qualify being that I think there were 15 trades made that involved at least two first-round draft picks,

this being one, none of them ever was voided or nullified due to a physical that did not work out in the opinion of one team. And so you see, the Raiders make the announcement that the Ravens have backed out of the agreement for the trade for Max Crosby. And what this was is Max was in Baltimore yesterday. And the Ravens doctors took a physical. They looked at the MRI. Other doctors looked at the MRIs, including the Dallas Cowboys doctor, Dr. Cooper, who performed the surgery on Patrick Mahomes and Malik neighbors and who teams and players around the league used on a regular basis. And after the Ravens got all the feedback that they could from multiple doctors.

they decided that they were not comfortable moving forward to trade. Now, I know people feel like, okay, they got cold feet, Trey Hendrickson. Again, they had the medical information that they felt did not make them comfortable. And in speaking to Dr. Neil Eletrosch, who performed the surgery on Max Crosby, he said that Max Crosby just had the surgery eight weeks ago. He's been on crutches for seven weeks. he's been off crutches for the first time a week ago, and he acknowledged that Max is where he should be in his recovery.

He's coming along, but that if you were going to do a physical at this time of the year, it was always going to be an issue like this, because it's meniscus, it's bone, it's cartilage, it's a few different things. So it's a pretty significant injury, but Max Crosby is where he should be, and he's going to be back and he's going to be bawling. I like that ball. The Ravens have two first-round draftics. The analogy I used this morning, and I heard Dr. Chow used to think like it,

so I guess it's probably old now, but I said I can get up this morning. You bought a house. You bring in the inspector. The inspector says the roof is leaking. The foundation's cracked. You could buy it, but I have some concerns. And the Ravens are like, you know what? The concerns we heard are enough to give us pause for two first-round draft picks

and the money that would be involved. And they said, no deal. That is much like I told Dr. David Chowell, if the Empire State Building was for sale and some super famous person bought it, And it was a big celebration everywhere. And then all of a sudden, the super famous person that bought it said, actually one of these pipes leaks, I'm out of here. That would certainly be a big deal.

So a little bit different than just a random human buying a house and putting their money into escrow trying to find something wrong with it. This was a huge deal. Elite player, elite organization. This feels kind of amateur, to be honest. And then with what Dr. Neil Elitrosh, who we have a lot of respect for, the Achilles factory over there in Southern California, he's a handsome lad too.

Oh, yeah. Super well-dressed. I mean, he is a fantastic individual. We are big Neo-Elletrosh fans. What he said was almost hammering down the point that we're all thinking. They were going to fail. He's like, yeah, he's going to fail physical. Daniel Jones is going to fail physical.

He just signed a thing with it. We all knew he was injured. Wasn't that kind of a part of the entire thing where they potentially snooping for it? Then that follows up to the Trey Hendrickson signing. Congratulations, by the way. I know you're on that for the entirety for 112 million. Our sources are telling that us that Trey Hendrickson was basically thinking about playing alongside. Max, right?

Like, but the decision to go with Trey and keep both first round picks is certainly what the public narrative is. So I think it's a fascinating little situation where it felt like the Ravens were definitely talking about having Max and Trey, but then they pull out of the Max deal and get Trey and everybody's like, oh, they fucked Max for Trey. How should we kind of read this, you think, Shepty? Well, I think that's exactly it. Trey said that his understanding was when he was thinking of going to Baltimore.

the idea was to team up with Max Crosby. And I don't think he was particularly thrilled that the Max Crosby trade fell through. He was looking forward if he opted for the Baltimore offer in the midst of his discussions with multiple teams to playing with Max Crosby. That was his initial impression. So, again, I think he's happy to get his business taking care of first and foremost. But I think it started out. In the conversation first start, he thought that there was the real possibility he was going to be playing with Max Crosby if that was the route he went. obviously he was talking to a number of teams.

The Baltimore offer was the one he took. Obviously, Baltimore stepped up after the Max Crosby situation, and here we are. Yeah, it's fascinating. All of it's interesting. And we'll never really get the truth from behind closed doors on why happened what, because different doctors can judge and deem different doctor things. But all we know, Max Crosby, first person in building for the Raiders this morning to continue rehab.

On that note, AJ has a question for you, Chefty. Yeah, Shepty with Max. I guess any of the teams that were in on him early trying to get for him, Are they still actively going to try to trade for him? If so, like, what do you think the price tag? What does it look like? Is there going to be a discount now with this whole medical situation? With Max Crosby now, he goes back to the Raiders.

The Raiders have said that they've already gotten several calls from teams. I go back to what Dr. Eletrash said. The time for physical would be a little bit further down the line. And so I guess somebody could step in an offer or something now, but the likelihood that somebody's going to make an offer now that compels the Raiders to deal him. Like, a serious enough of, I'm a little skeptical of. We'll see if it happens. I think more than likely these teams are going to come down on their price.

And that might be enough for the Raiders to move him. Like, they might want him. I think they wanted him all along. They were apprehensive about dealing him, and they were only going to deal them unless they got their price. Is another team going to continue to meet their price? or are they better off holding on to the player? I think everybody's kind of recalibrating and adjusting right now, now that the trade is off, which nobody was expecting to happen.

And I just think that Max Crosby absolutely still could be traded later on, but I think there's a scenario under which he does wind up playing for Las Vegas. And that would be a good thing for the Raiders, and we think it would be a good thing for Crosby and his Raiders relationship, because we love the moves they made, and they can still afford them. So you add Crosby into the roster that they just created, and we believe Fernando is going to be good. This could be a great time for Max Crosby as a raider,

and him showing up 6 a.m. this morning. I do think there's on his sixth year of sobriety. I believe this is the anniversary of his six year of sobriety. I assume he feels like there is some sort of universe messaging happening in this whole thing, and we cannot wait to watch him utilize the spite he has from the Baltimore Ravens saying he's not good enough now, as he's already become one of the best in the world, okay? everybody likes Max Crosby. Now he has the opportunity to utilize

the Baltimore Ravens telling him he's not good enough as motivation again. And everybody's going to have to eat shit for that, and the Raiders are certainly going to benefit from all that, we think. Now, if another team comes in, they know what the price is, right? It's two ones. You want Max? It's two ones. If you don't, you're not going to be able to get it.

Let's talk about some other moves that could potentially happen or have been talking about happening. Go ahead, Ty. Yeah, Shepty, Crosby, aside, we've heard names like A.J. Brown, J.L. Carter, Brian Thomas Jr., Jonathan Grenard's still out there. Do you anticipate, is there any chance any of those guys will get dealt today or in the coming days?

Or do you think because we saw so many trades over the first couple days of free agents be frenzy that it might kind of cool down a little bit now? Yeah, I don't see Brian Thomas. We talked about that yesterday. The Jaguar is moving off him. They've been pretty clear. The Eagles have had the same stance as the Raiders that if they get a price that they feel like is fair, that they can live with, that they can live with.

that they'd be open to listening and considering an A.J. Brown trade. So I think that that's always possible and open. Jonathan Gernard, yes, the Vikings have made him available. That wouldn't surprise me if he winds up being traded. And who was the last name of you asked him about, a fourth name? Jalen Carter. Yeah, the Eagles never have shopped him, never have shopped him. And that doesn't mean they can't in the future, but they have not made him available.

If he was available, I think that would certainly be a place to be, hey, we got something for you. We can go ahead and make some moves. It seems like there are some teams making some moves. Baltimore, obviously, being one of them. Go ahead, DeBud. Yeah, a couple MVP quarterbacks have reworked their contracts recently. Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson.

Any reason behind that, any moves, big moves potentially coming down the line for any one of those teams? I think with the Ravens, it was kind of to get under the cap. Everybody's got to be under the cap today, so they had to make adjustments. And the bills obviously been tied up against the cap. I'm sure the bills will wind up making another move or two here. The Ravens obviously went for Trey Hendrickson today. So it's these quarterbacks. You're just borrowing against their contracts.

You're pushing it out being that you know that they're going to be there. So you're a line of credit and you're borrowing against their contracts because they're not going anywhere just to give yourself a little bit more flexibility right now. Yeah, it's not just quarterbacks. Any high profile, I guess, or high-costing player. As soon as the team deems, you're going to be a pillar player for us, they can manipulate that contract, how many different ways? That feels smart. If you miss on who that person is, though, then you're going up that creek.

That's right. Yeah, with no paddle. And it's like, wow, this is just shit. That is what happens. But if you pick your pillar players properly and you pay them long term, you can manipulate their stuff for going forward and make your team much better at the drop of that.

Buffalo doesn't have as much free cash, I don't think, as was being reported. I do believe. Because we immediately thought they were going to go get Max Strauss. Okay. Okay. So now you're back in it. It's like, hey, that's going to come.

cost some stuff there. Rangles can afford them. Now, let's talk about, what's that? I don't see Max Crosby there. In Buffalo. What do you see? Do you see him in Las Vegas? Is that the only spot you see him? What do you see him? No, I think that this is a different situation. I just, I don't see Buffalo doing that right now.

What about the Indianapolis Colts? Because we're in on Trey Hendrickson, we can give them the 2030. I mean, but they just give them a lot of, I think a lot of teams that are going to explore, a lot of teams, but you're going to need the cap space and you need the draft big capital. I just think the cap space in Buffalo is a little tight right now.

You've been in, I don't want to say talking, but basically saying a deal for Daniel Jones to keep him in Indy is going to happen. You've been saying that to me literally since you got here in Indy. It's like, are we going to have Dan Jones or somebody else going to have Dan Jones? You guys have they'll get it out. They'll get it figured out. A couple of reports that a deal got done. Then it finally does get done.

We talked to him earlier. Obviously, he is pumped. He's projected to be back by regular season, but he is also utilizing the same surgeon that Tyrese and Jason Tatum used for his Achilles. so who knows what the recovery is at this stage. This is exciting news for him. This is exciting news for us. He wasn't the only signing, though.

There was another one that popped up after we went off to air. Go ahead, Conman. Yeah, Jeff, you know, I think Schrager said yesterday is basically, hey, Howie Roseman is not just going to go quietly into the night, and they end up getting Rick Willan, who was probably one of, if not the top corner of free agency. Was this expected? Did you see this coming?

Were there other teams involved? And do you see any potential long-term, you know, deal being done with Rieke Wollin at some time, or is this going to be like a one-year mercenary, let's go win another Super Bowl? Well, I think with Rik Will and that might have been the picture that Dan posted before Max Crosby went from Rik Willen to Max Crosby on the plane, but Rik Willem was smart about this. Like, if you're going to not get the long-term deal that you want in free agency, then the best thing you could do is go take a short-term deal in a system that you feel like you can

thrive in an organization that should win. So Rieke Willen in Philadelphia, playing for a defensive coordinator, Vic Fangio, should be able to thrive there with that defense. And if that's the case, then all of a sudden next year, he becomes one of the top free agents available. When a guy takes a one-year deal, obviously the long-term deal that he wanted wasn't there, and so you push it back one year. That's what it looks like happened here, and he put himself in a great position to be able to

have a huge pay day a year from now. Is Philly going to be in it again like they are every single year? We just assume yes, right? Yeah, he should be. It's a great signing for them, like Sheffty said, you're on the contract gear, so you expect a player to lock in and play his best ball and then being opposite with first-team-pro, All-Pro, Quignan Mitchell, then another all-pro with Cooper Jean in the slot.

So, yeah, they got some pieces, and we know what dogs they have up front as well, so they can definitely be right back in if that offense can figure it out. We're watching them get a pick right there against the Minnesota Vikings. Last question for us to you, Shefti, before you got to do some politics. Tone's got a question for you. Yeah, Shepty, the last few days we've been talking as if it's a foregone conclusion that Kyler Murray will be a Minnesota Viking when the new year starts. Is there any world where he is not a Minnesota Viking and what other teams could he possibly go to?

Well, there's always a world in this football league where things don't happen. We see it every day. So they're never absolutes. But when you just look at the field, I believe that that's the most likely landing spot for Kyla Murray. Now, it'll be released later today. That's what I've been told. and once he is, other teams can step in, other teams can talk to him, but I would think Minnesota is going to have appeal to him. I think he's going to have appeal to Minnesota, and it's up to those two sides to see if they can get something worked out once he is released.

We don't need him in India. We got our guy. Don't you worry about us? All right, Chafty. We appreciate the hell of you, man. We love your brother. Keep going. And thank you for all your work.

Thank you for the time this week. It was a great honor to be with everybody. Hey, when do you take a nap after league meetings or when's that happened? Last night was a tough night, so I didn't really get much sleep at all. Well, we want to let you know. We appreciate you battling out there for the good of ball. But what does the schedule look like here? Never mind.

You're on something right now. No, no, no. The schedule is the schedule as it always is. It's just the league never stops. So that's how it is. After the draft, he'll be quiet down. All right. We'll see in Pittsburgh.

I love you, man. Love you, Chefty. We love you, man. Chef is got a lot going on. He does. He's like a coach. He's going to die with two phones. his hands like he's never going to stop he's never going to be able to get out of the game buried with him

yeah when he retires just two candy crushes just to get his fix on the day that i die of the american pie i got two guitar ms ms that's a what 10 minutes song we can sing it right now kind of get through this entire show yeah we're really good music last night dude i saw some really good music last night night. Craig Morgan, Redneck Yacht Club. Yeah, he didn't sing that, but he sang a bunch of it. He crushed it. He was phenomenal. Laney Wilson last night.

Ernest performed spectacularly. There was Leanne, the Southern comedian lady, she was awesome. Yeah, I've seen her pop up a lot. Yeah, she's very popular. She was very funny. She could just read, like, telephone book it feels like, you know, she had a super southern accent. Yeah, like, she, I mean, she was funny as shit.

And then Jelly Row went out there and performed. I mean, we had a full concert last night. It was spectacular. You're staying in this Grand Ole Opry place, and obviously this is like the Southern's, this is it. Yeah. It's like Augusta. It's like Augusta is the sports one,

and then the Grand Ole Opry is like the Southern music one. And getting a chance to walk through there. I got a tour. I guess in 1937, obviously there's a lot going on in the world. They were deemed, the Grand Ole Opry was a show that used to run out of the Ryman Auditorium. So the Ryman Auditorium also in Nashville still exists, still its own functioning theater.

The Grand Ole Opry was a show. that was operated out of the Ryman. And it kind of showcased country music to the country. 1937, 1920 something, they built their own place, their own facility. They took a circle of Ryman's wood from the stage and put it in the middle of the Grand Ole operative kind of pay tribute to the Ryman as they built their own

like country music museum. I think in 1937 they got a central business because they were on radio. So they were broadcasted out the 39 states in multiple countries on AM during the war. And basically it was for barn dancing is what it was. We're a barn dance will broadcast from this barn practice for this barn. It was called barn dancing.

So then everybody wanted to come basically to get onto that channel and that's kind of how it kind of build up everything. So the Grand Ole Opry is considered, I believe, one of the birthplaces of like country music being, you know, a thing to get people by. And you walk through there and the amount of names that are on the walls, it's like, oh, everybody.

And then there's some people walking around there with different crews that don't even know fucking Haggard. What? Who's kidding me? Yeah. Well, Gumpy's certainly not one of them, right? Gumby, we don't ever, we don't ever show up at a place and not know the icons that busted their ass that we could be where we are.

A lot of pictures. A lot of pictures. Yeah. Of Haggard. Of course. Yeah. Young Willie. Saw young Willie.

Yeah. Yeah. Bobby. Boy. You're a Yankee ass walking around in there and don't really know all these things that you're kind of taught since you are a little baby baby down there in the South.

Like bone. And all of a sudden you're, bones from Illinois. I think he had some trouble even last night. Wow. There's a couple, you know, these Southerans like to have their moment down there.

Like, Who's this again? Who's this right here? You know, it's like, oh, okay. They're trying to quiz you to see what you know. Oh, yeah. Well, I immediately fire first. Like, for instance, this is first time seeing Duck in a while,

and obviously, Laney was my first time meeting her in person. She crushed. Her and Jelly sang, her and Ernest sang. She sang. I mean, it was, she's world-class in what she does. Incredible Southern accent, too. I mean, holy shit. We are deep in there.

As soon as I see Duck, though, I immediately tell him, I heard you don't fucking know how I can. You know, just kind of set. the tone, you know, and that whole thing. He gets offended immediately, that I even said that. And then all of a sudden, now we're getting into the, oh, super famous person from country music just walked right in front of us. Who's that? Who's that? Oh, I love what they've done. I love. So it's been a lot of me selling that I have a clue of what's going on,

but what I'm learning about, I love. And I appreciated the opportunity to be down there. And congrats to Jellie. Congrats to everybody in that Nashville community, celebrating one of their own going in there, because obviously that's how they feel so. It was awesome. It was a magical moment out there. All the while I'm stuck to my phone watching the Italy number grow. In the USA one, stay at zero. I couldn't do it. And then Max Crosby, isn't a Raven anymore?

Where does that come from? I'm eating Miss Lemonade's popcorn. She double butteres it. She's been doing it that way. It's Brando opery for a long time. Her name's Miss Lemonade. Sounds delicious. She was a great little. Double. Just a lot of butter? What is double butter? Double butter. Whenever you walk through there, you understand if it's a Miss Lemonade popcorn or not. It's in a bag. It is spectacular. You have to have it. That's

Jeffers Simmons right there. Oh, shit. He's a big son of bitch. Tennessee Titans. He's a monster. I'll let him know, though. I took a pass set. Sure. I mean, right in front of him,

I'll let him know that I was going to get to my spot. And then before I even put my foot down, he said, left hand right into your ribs right now. I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. He look cool. He's obviously a staple of the Tennessee Titans

and of the Nashville community. They love him down there. He's a monster. Everybody in Nashville loved him. He was moving, and everybody was like, oh, there was a lot, which I think if you were to, a win for the Titans.

I think it is a... I mean, Vrable. Vrable was the one that kind of brought them back success, and you even heard how Ernest talked about him when he was here last week. Like, they love him. And Jeffrey Simmons is a guy that could do the whole, you know, kind of Miles Garrett-esque trade requests and everything,

and he never does it. Never does it. Just keeps kicking people's ass. Vrable said he could beat up everybody on team but Jeffrey Simmons. So I let him know that I knew that. If you zoom in here, Foxy, I don't know if you can on the photo or not, But as you see me getting to my spot right there,

and that's him, that's him saying with the left hand, left hand is going right to your ribs right now. Gumpy captured the exact moment that this took place. I had to try it. You know, how many times you get the line? Just had Kershaw. Yeah. I got Jeffrey Simmons right here.

I immediately just get down. Just so I can see it. You know, just so in my mind I can feel what it is. He is an intimidating presence. Yeah. He is mitts. These things. I could just bear paws.

He's so explosive. He shouldn't be able to move. like he can when a dude is that big. And he was dressed awesome. I mean, he was grand old Opry. I mean, we had we had the full denim, denim, denim, denim on with sweet boots with diamonds, I think, down the side of it.

Love that. I mean, he killed it. It was fun night last night. Denim, denim, denim. No wonder we lost Italy yesterday. It was Super Mario Day. It was. I just reminded me. Oh, my gosh. Who scheduled that? Denim, denim, denom.

Errosse. It was going to win the Probably. Hey, probably it. Easy. Loved the guy. Rumor hasn't they're supposed to play tonight.

He said, no, let's show it. I mean, tickets are already punched. Let's play Italians on, you know, Mario Day.

He did not say. I can't be real. I don't like how everybody's doing. Me either, but they were saying mean things about him. He misspoke. He misspoke. He really,

he really thought they were on. Yeah, they all thought they were in for sure. Yeah. And they should be. They were three and oh. It's a four-team thing. We beat three of the teams.

Two teams make it. Every sport that I've ever been a part of, send it. Now it's not run differential. It's just runs given up or something like that. Yeah, like per defensive out. The formula is, but I tell you what, people want their pound of flesh.

Five teams are in pool, B. Right. Not four. But same difference. You play everybody in the pool. But, you know, people not only in the baseball world, people on the internet, that they wanted their pound of flesh.

And, you know, when you look up and every time you look up, you know, Dero's putting his foot in his mouth. He kind of found your guy to get your flesh from. Passing. Passing saying like, oh, yeah, we talked to Dero after. We told him he said that. He was like, no, I didn't. I didn't say that. That's not what I said. He dropped to what you here?

Yeah, exactly. Just head to head not better. Are you talking to me? He's like, come on. All right, let's talk about some other stuff, please. Okay. Baseball team can still make it. Wake up call we needed.

Wake up call we needed. Sorry, Italy's going to win tonight. So wake up call the boys needed. Come on, boys. Fucking better. If they don't, I mean, it is. They better get out of this fucking pool. Okay.

Are you kidding me? The more we're talking about, the more pissed I'm getting. And I don't want to. You were pretty pissed earlier. I mean, you should have seen him. You know, everybody kind of knows the gimmick. So I'll have a conversation with somebody. I have no direction where I'm headed, wherever it goes, it goes,

which is not great. Sometimes it is spectacular. sometimes it is just like, wow, there are certainly some other stuff we're supposed to cover. That's good news. So the boys have dry race boards where it's like they have a question they would like to ask. So then you see me kind of try to get to what their question is so it's a little bit of a smoother enterprise. Sometimes the boys don't have any questions. They just lift things up to give me messages through the conversation as it's happening, their thoughts, their opinions on things. And it's a nice moment for us, I will say. It is a very nice moment for us.

This is the first time ever. Somebody has held up a dry race board. And while somebody has giving an answer, beating the shit out of the dryer raceboard. When I'm asking questions on why something's happening, and then he's hitting it. And then I go, hey, why did we choose the, and then he's just batting the hell out of it? Doesn't want a question. Okay, just wants to let me know, hammer home a point that maybe I need to realize that maybe it was on the skipper a little bit here. And maybe we got ducks on the pond to tie it up in the bottom of the ninth. Yeah, I'm sorry.

I didn't see the skipper in the batters box all night. Not one time. I didn't see him take one other. wish he was, though. I heard he's hitting bombs. Remember the coaches? I'm having a lot of those guys. I have a lot of fun hitting bombs taking BP, you know, sucking down ice coldies in the clubhouse after they win.

I mean, we still got games. We got to win. We got to know if we're through, Skip. Ryan, you are, bro? I love him. He's a Yankee, but fuck, D. I had no idea. I kind of just turned into that.

I know. Right to it. It was always a good idea. Coach J.B. Leave that team. I'd love to hear it on that day. It'd be 4 and 0. 15.0. Oh, 100 running. The mound business?

Oh, my God. Yeah, it would have been tossed from two games. Oh, at least. Before the game even started. All right. We still got it. If we make it, we win it. And we're good.

Yep. Yeah, if we make it. And if we don't, in Samurai Japan wins again. I'm done. I saw they were getting shut out, too, by a plumber. That were. team to worry about. Check? Yeah, I agree. We're not worrying about it.

I'm not worried about Japan. No. Yeah, you're right. Boy, they are doing something to baseball I've never seen before. It's like cosmic bowling whenever they came in. It's just a whole different. It's the same score. They play tonight. Huge one, actually. Them versus Venezuela.

Oh, I can all wait. The Dominican Republic team is taking the diamond tonight? The three games today. Have they punched their ticket? Do they know if they're in? They have, Dominican and Venezuela. They just don't know who's. one and who's two. Oh, okay. So, yeah, they played tonight, Dominican and Venezuela.

That one's at 8 o'clock. That one's for the number one in that group. Canada and Cuba starts off the day. The winner, winner goes in, loser goes home. Oh, come on, Kuha. And then Italy and Mexico. If Karen, it beats Cuba.

Cal Quantrills on the bomb. They're in trouble, brother. What's that? Cal Quant Trills on the bomb for the Canadians. He can spin it. Kuhas got somebody, too. I know. They can spin it too.

Not so much. Randy Johnson. Listen, if we're going to get Cuba? Yeah. He's doing up for them. I don't know that. I'll watch. Checks 23 of me.

I think there's a lot of that going on with this one. They don't do that in WBC. Yeah, there's no reason. We just need to field teams as many teams as possible, actually. What are the rules? Whether or not what you think they are. So if you identify as you can just join a team? Yes, I'm actually thinking about playing.

What's that? No, I remember that pitcher. Tried to go play for, um. Oh, roll this. Yeah. Not British. There's a graphic. Nice, great, pal.

Well, he said you're not fucking British. And he said, okay, you caught me. And he went back to it. He went back to Red Sox camp. He's very Dominican. They tried to make him me to play the beans and matched. And you want to do it? Oh, this was the graphic that was put out by John Boy Media, who's obviously a massive issue.

The WBC, the WBC has been fantastic. And by the way, John Boy Media has gotten into my Algo now more because I've been doing the baseball. They are talented at what they do. They are very good. Yeah. John Boy, I'm sorry. never really did the baseball as much. And my Algo probably knew that more than I did at the time.

So you never made your way in there naturally, only whenever you guys had your big shit happen. Now naturally coming in there. It's been nice to see the baseball content world kind of come into my life. There's a lot to love about baseball. The fucking Italians don't beat the Mexicans today, though. I'm out. Oh, man.

I'm out on baseball. That's it. Just think of how well, Schino Pitts. You got the Pirates. Yeah. We're going to make it through. Skeen's knows there's no chance on things. attention if we lose to it. He knows.

Ski-Skino knows. I assume that whole entire clubhouse expects us. Not the rest of the world. They've got to live their own lives. We've got a big MOB season coming up. I can't wait to maybe watch it. Maybe the last one, so we should. But they would understand completely if I was to get out because this happens. I think

they would understand me. They'd give me some grace. And on that note, we in Mexico hit more than five runs. Yep. And we need Italy to win. Yeah. And this game's at what time? Seven or eight o'clock. And when did the Dominican? can display.

8 o'clock. That's on Tooby. That was supposed to be on TV. That got flipped. Tube? Yeah. How did Tube get in? Fire up the Tube app. That's a good question.

This YouTube should have gotten, we should try to get in the game. We probably could have afforded to, could you imagine us broadcasts on these games. No offense, Tooby, never heard of you. But no offense, too, Tooby. Maybe 30 years from now we might need to do business. So please know that I say good things about Tooby whenever the good times come. I'm not finding what to be. Is that a channel?

Great movies. Stream the server. It came on one of my TVs automatically. Maybe a couple of my TV. Oh, this is like that one sports grid. The U-2 album. Oh, sports grade. Yeah, sports grade, yeah.

It's on 155 billion TVs nationwide. I got the pipes. Oh, maybe I'm confusing Roku and Tooby. Rido Roku. Yeah. Tooby is an American over-the-top ad-supported stream service owned by Fox Corporation. Okay, so that's how that.

There you go. It makes sense. All right, so we wouldn't have been able to buy that. Okay. Now we move on, and we're a little bit more educated and hopefully baseball does good things. 9-1-1, where is the emergency? It's the middle of the night in a small town on the Jersey shore.

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Listen now to Bridge of Lies, wherever you get your podcasts. Let's talk about some news that have happened. Dan Jones and Colts signed a two-year extension. AJ, we haven't heard your thoughts on this. This is obviously massive for us over here. Actually, AJ, kind of for agency frenzy as a whole, what are some of the big names and big signings that kind of rattled the NFL universe in your eyes?

It's hard to, after the Max Crosby news that hit last night, which at the first hit, I wasn't really sure it was real or not. I had to confirm it multiple different sources. I would assume other people did as well. That kind of shocked everything. I mean, Trey, the fact that Trey got the deal he got is awesome. That's impressive. I'm happy for him.

Let's go, Trey. Long time. Took him a while to get there. We know that. A couple of multiple years of going back and forth with the Bengals and everything like that. I mean, when you think about it, who's the best out of all of it? You tell me, AJ. I'm excited.

Honestly, the Titans are doing some work. I like what they're doing with their defense. I think they're at least giving themselves a chance and Robert Sala to make something working. You pop that list up of, yeah, you see the Titans' additions. I like what they're doing their back end for sure. John Franklin Myers, I think he's an under the radar player as well. I mean, look at the deal.

It's not really under the radar. He still got paid very well. But when you popped it up, the Raiders, I believe. The Raiders, look at what they're doing. I think Quay Walker, he's a great player. And Green Bay is going to miss him for sure. and the Kobe Dean as well. And then if Max does play for you,

like if you are Fernando Mandoz, you got to be kind of excited about what these Raiders have been doing. Yeah, definitely. The Raiders had to spend money. They did, and we like it. And we assume, and we think from our source says, and Tom Brady is a little bit more.

You know, like, hey, let's actually try to maybe listen to this guy. From my understanding. Now, he is a minority owner. So what does he get to say versus other minority owners? Because he's the greatest of all time, who knows? But from our understanding,

understanding is there is a little bit more of a Tom Brady influence when decisions are being made. That's why you see Linderbaum get 30 million dollars. Hey, we need a, if we're going to get a rookie quarterback in here, we need this. What else do we need? Well, we definitely need a defense. That's going to help. Okay, let's load up a defense maybe. And let's try to protect this guy, and let's try to make sure he's not getting run off fields by other team. Yeah, you got five starters right there. Obviously, Stokes is a holdover that they had him in a little already. That's a former first round pick, too, by the Packers. Super Fast guy picked this. career back up to Taryn Johnson.

I want the best slot defenders in there. You get edge help, and then you completely rebuild your line backing core. And then Naylor, he'll step up to a much bigger role on offense. Probably a number two receiver, depending on what they do, either in the draft, or even down the line of free agency, maybe they make a trade, but he's a great weapon as well. So they've done all the right things to set Fernando McDowell for success. Yeah, and what do you think about Dan Erlovsky just kind of, you know, he-hawn around about Fernando maybe being the number.

one overall pick. You think this is just kind of, I'm sorry, is this Bam Orlovski football, which is what he is calling himself now on X after Bam out of Bayou goes for 83 points and he goes one for seven on television shooting the rock here at the Thunderdome. Bam Orlovsky, some are saying, obviously, not us, but he's found folks that have said that. But he was talking about Mendoza and Ty Simpson. He's been kind of teetering on that. Mendoza hasn't sold him yet. Why do you think that is the case? Do you think it is just small school? Like if he would have wanted to LSU and did this, like let's say Joe Burrow did whenever Joe Burrow transferred down there. Do you think there would be more respect for more national people than what it is?

Because I think everybody understands he's going to go number one. But I think a lot of people are like, kind of a weak, number one overall pick. Why do you think that is the case? Yeah, even, you know, people were taking shots at him when he won the Heisman. You know, saying it was kind of an underwhelming Heisman class. I mean, we saw him boots on the ground. And obviously, you've been with Game Day. You saw him a little bit more.

But, I mean, he checks all the boxes. But he's not like an Andrew Luck type prospect or a Cam. Newton or one of these guys who, you know, you're tanking for a couple, even to him. He was coming out. It was a tank for tour campaign. So he's not one of those prospects. But we've seen him and we've been around enough quarterback to see and know, like, hey, he does all the right things.

He looks the part. And then he can't be a guy which most guys are. If shit isn't in place around him, he can't flame out and not be great. So I think the Raiders, like I said, are doing all the right things. It's going to be interesting to see him in this offense, too, a lot more undercenter, a lot more play action, kind of half rolls, half boots, a little different than what he did in college, but I think he's smart enough and he's definitely talented enough to figure it out and make those

adjustments. And he's got the grit. Like, I think Lesney was the one who came on the GM for the Rams and basically said, like, hey, we look for guys who transferred from lower schools, went on to a bigger school and then performed because they want those big moments. Like Mendoza, yeah, he went to Cal.

He was supposed to go to Yale, first of all. Then he goes to Cal so he can play, like, legitimate high D1 football. Then he goes to the Big Ten. And then he performs in the biggest moments. Like, that is well, just the want to be great. But the other thing, too, with Ty Simpson, that's kind of in the same boat is, like, Ty Simpson probably could have transferred while he was out Alabama multiple times

because he wasn't the starter when he first got there. And him sticking through it, especially through kind of the regime change. Because Ty Simpson also a Saban guy. Like, I don't know if that's been talked about enough with him. So both of them might end up being fantastic, but there is clearly one that outperformed. We think, because we saw boots on the ground and we watched them play against each other, and we followed it all more so than anybody else

because we live in Indiana, so we were kind of forced to do that. Go ahead, Tom. To put it in perspective, like, over the last few drafts, I was listening to Daniel Jeremiah and everyone, all the scouts and GMs that he talked to at the draft. And if it was, if we go back, like the last three drafts, he had Mendoza right below

Caleb, Jaden, and Drake. The same as Cam Ward, but then ahead of like Bownecks, Boecks, Pennix, and McCarthy. So, like, as far as, like, coming out, maybe a little bit below those guys who were like considered like elite elite but higher than guys who are like projected to just be like a good average starter in the yeah normally if you're going to be the number one overall pick you're going to a shite situation just kind of how it goes the raiders to everybody's point here making it better

hopefully making it easier they're not the only one they're record breaking amount of money spent during three agency frenzy here 3.3 billion dollars in contracts we're given out congratulations to the NFL and all the players You guys have built a product that is so successful and so healthy that people are literally able to change not only their lives, but generations of their families to come if they're able to play a position well in the sport of football. We are very grateful for that being a profession. We're also very grateful that it changed people's lives so damn much. It gives people hope in situations in which they know they might not be able to have anything else. Sports take care of people.

The NFL has taken care of a lot of people. The NFL has made a lot of people millionaires, myself included. The NFL is given a lot of opportunity. The sport is given a lot of opportunity. So for that, I'm incredibly thankful. Now, is everything perfect? Absolutely not. But $3.3 billion in contracts out to players

to guys who've worked their ass off to get themselves in a position to be able to negotiate with 32 franchises that are worth billions. And billions of dollars because of their abilities to play football is a beautiful thing. This is wonderful. And it was really cool to be a part of, AJ. And I love that we are a league. and I say we as if I'm a part of it. I will be looking for a percentage of a team though at some point.

We will be looking for a percentage of a team at some point. Lynn Ben operates. It feels like it's going to take a long time. Yeah, exactly. Lynn Bin, let us know it's going to be a long time for us to be able to get into that game, but hopefully we'll be able to get there. But I love that our league blesses so many people because of how successful and great the sport is, AJ.

Yeah, football is king, and the NFL is the best. I mean, that's the fact that free agent frenzy is such a big deal and people pay so much attention to it, just tells you all you need to know about the NFL. Like, this doesn't happen in many other sports. I don't know. Maybe I just don't pay enough attention to other sports. But when it comes to the NFL, we know everything.

Like Shifty said, that's why Shepty doesn't get to sleep ever, because the league never sleeps. The league is 365 days a year, and the stuff is actually interesting. And we're seeing franchises possibly turn things around or possibly go to poop. So this is where it is. It's where you are right. Yeah, some teams stay in poop.

Some teams go to poop, but everybody's looking for glory hole. And that glory hole is obviously. Obviously, Lombardi, at the end of it, they need to do something about what happened with the Ravens and Max. That's bad. Because if this number is just able to just disappear, like a Walmart rolling prices thing,

like that cannot be. They're saying legal tamping periods, gone. Yeah, that's what we're saying, too. We're saying Monday at noon, this shit starts. Just let everybody lock it. Because us being able to talk also, just for the good of free agency frenzy. And you talk about free agency frenzy is a thing.

I feel like it certainly has become one. I feel like it has become a thing. But if you talk to the league offices, like, Schaefter was one of the first people ever to be like, hey, this day is a big day. And maybe people were a little resistant, both at the league network, and then when he gets the ESPN,

he's like, hey, this is a big day if we were to make it a big day. I think ESPN bought into it a bit more, and then the league bought into it a bit more. It's also something where they understand whenever they have moments. You know, like they understand whenever they have moments and they promote it. They're a healthy business. It's like free agency frenzy,

we assume is only going to grow. I mean, what the draft has become, it's only going to grow. They're going to create new shit that's only going to grow, which is only going to make that number, that $3.2 billion number, or a $3.3 billion number only bigger in the future. It's like they're nowhere near where they're headed in this entire game. And now we're here on Thanksgiving Eve. He's becoming a day in which the NFL is going to take over.

It's like that number's only going up into the right. And that man right there certainly has been booed a lot of times, but he has shown up and delivered for these owners with every, everything he said he was going to do when he started his commissioner and what he is now. Global expansion, okay, the valuations of franchises, the TV deals that we can get. Health and safety. Health and safety for the players, the product of our game. It's like they are in a good spot. And these three days are basically a showcase of that. And the talented players are the reason why the game is where it is and the business is where it is. And I think the reason why we like

this so much is because we're seeing that and them get kind of blessed through the old opportunity. I love free agency frenzy. To your point, AJ, it's become some of my favorite shit we got. Yeah, I mean, it just illustrates how healthy the league is. And, I mean, going into it, everyone talks about, like, this isn't that great of a free agency class. You know, we don't really have the quarterbacks. And then look what happens. You know, like we still get $3.3 billion worth of deals.

As long as the cap continues to rise the way we think it will, like, it doesn't matter if there are a bunch of, you know, like superstar household names available free agent-wise. Like, teams are going to spend money, and this is going to continue to be as big of a deal as there is on the NFL calendar. I don't think, was there a position group? Was reset outside of Trent McDeaf, I know that was a trade. Center. Interior alignment.

Yeah, okay. That's what I would be the one thing. But other than that, no. Yeah. But looking back at that list of the top five, and I know Comman mentioned it earlier in the week with the Seahawks in the Patriot being top five spenders last offseason. Who from this list can you see?

I know Washington's been in the NFC championship. No, Jayton's rookie year. Who from this list can you see making it at least a championship weekend? Well, since the Ravens said, I don't think so to Max Crosby, I mean, you could just go ahead and let me be wooed about everything that this happened over there. Give me the Las Vegas Raiders. Tennessee Titans, after meeting Borganzi and Sala,

and Cam Ward, we know. And now Jeffrey Simmons, it's like, their stadium's ass going to be until they get a new stadium, but the city's ready to explode. So maybe their Washington commanders have had it, right? We know Daniels can potentially do it. And then Bryce Young and the Panthers, they take a huge swing day one

and spend a lot of money to up. their roster. It's like any of them, I guess, at this point, you can really see it. Yeah, I mean, like that division doesn't stink. That isn't the right thing to say, but they won that division last year and you look at everyone else up here. I mean, I guess the, you know, saints are included in that, but we expect Shuck to make a jump. But yeah, like, I mean, coming off winning the division and then almost, and taking the Rams to the brink, who a lot of people thought were maybe the Super Bowl favorite or the second best team, like Panthers got a lot better. I mean, they did kind of go from good football team to potentially great football.

So on that note, we didn't give you an answer. Who do you think? Those two answers. Yeah, well, I gave you five answers. I mean. Panthers. Panthers we like? I got the commanders.

I mean, the commanders aren't far off. They can stay healthy. Yeah, and they got much better at edge because their defense has been horrendous. Debutch, you correct me if I'm wrong. I feel like they still have holes in the secondary. Titans still have O-line issues. Who else? Saints still have some issues on the defense side of the ball.

But like Panthers were just there. They almost beat the Rams last year. Like, what would they? Oh, Conner says hold the phone. I kind of think the Saints. With ETN, what they did and just how shug, like, if you just look at their offense as a whole, Juan Johnson came on as a tight end. O'Lave is kind of proven as a very legitimate thousand-yard receiver.

E.TN in the backfield now. Now their O-Line, we'll see, but they also added Caden Ellis. A couple guys on defense. Kind of love what they were doing. We have a math correction after Danny Dimes deal is done. The Colts have entered top five spenders. Wow. So who was in the Super Bowl last year?

Patriots and Seahawks. Patriots are the number one spending team in free agency the year before. Seahawks are the number four spending team. Oh, so top five spending teams make it a Super Bowl? Okay. That's what I just heard. We're doing fucking stats or not.

Since 2025, two of the top five teams in free agency spending will make the Super Bowl. So now we're doing trends. Okay, so we're doing stats, we're doing trends, we're doing everything. And with the Danny Dimes deal, not only do we know who our trigger man is and we assume he's going to be healthy to play,

which he told us earlier today, we're also top five spenders, which if you read the trends, which I like to do, I like to get into the nitty grid. I like to know what has happened before so we can predict what's happening the now and the future.

That's why I want to ever Tokyo, Japan, take a look at the stocks because they're 13 hours ahead of time. I want to see what's going on on. That's what's happening here. So their top five spending team all of a sudden, it's like, wait a minute. Cold Super Bowl is back on, brother.

And Pards might have just been a little bit hanging out, you know, towards the end of the season after Danes got hurt, he said, sorry, boys, I was hanging up here with all the Beatles there, I mean, we're having a blast. Had no idea, we're going to break a leg atorn by week and then the Achilles happened. I'll get you next year, boys. So Jim Hersey season to the

Super Bowl is certainly just next year because we're top five spenders, and also shout to Carly, shout to Kalin, shout to, shout to Casey, a lot of up front money having to come out, too. They're making the decisions to go. I love that. But I also like the Carolina Panthers taking huge swings on day one. Yeah, and the Titans.

huge. There was a trends yesterday. I forget what the exact graphic was, but the number one team is spending in free agency basically for the last 10 years has up their win total by like three games, right? Yeah. Patriots for 10 last year, but still, at least

three games, like if you're thinking about the Titans with the four overall pick, potentially adding Jeremiah Love to everything that they've already done, like Titans might be fantastic. Oh my God, I didn't think about Day Bowl with Jeremiah Love and damn word out there. man I think you put Jeffrey Simmons on offense too just after what I saw last night

they did this past year think something to think about I don't know who's tackling him honestly see sunny styles maybe in that oh actually or Jeremy I love Tennessee time yeah the logo that was released we will continue digitally YouTube ESPN plus Disney Plus TikTok Live X can't believe we're leaving ESPN news I know we're gonna stop doing new shit though we're telling you that yeah miss you so if you want no more new stuff here in six seconds or so We'll be back tomorrow. Be your friend.

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No news. Okay. We're not breaking the news. Was that the melody? Remember Conman you see you like on this day in America? On this day. I do remember that. Yeah.

We really wanted that to continue. And then Connor just said, nope, I'm not fucking doing it. Anytime we plan something with me, it just doesn't work. Yeah, but I mean, we don't, don't you. Don't you think we could get past that? I think with AI now, actually, it might be a little easier. I might be able to... Because you might be able to just do it live in real time.

Exactly. No, granted. They could... Yes, they can. Especially live. You got to double check their ass. And triple check. And you also do...

Are you sure? Yeah. That's always a good one to follow up with these AI things. Hey, listen. And how does that read is, are you sure? Do they go, oh, good question, actually. Do, do, do... Actually, I'm not quite sure.

Like, is that ever going to happen? You caught me. Shit, I was wrong. I was lying you. I was fucking lying you, just like your dad did back in the day. Before there was internet on your phones, I fucking lied. You got me. Here we go.

You got to check me. I got one right here. Ladies and gentlemen. Yes. On this day. In 1892, March 11th, the first public basketball game was played in Springfield, Massachusetts, just over a year after James Naismith invented basketball. And on that day, well, went for 100, right?

Yeah. A year? He was a few years after. That was what year? I don't see. 1892. 1892. I get my timelines fuck for times.

Yeah, it was around there. Also, tennis legend, Steffie Graff in 1991 on March 11th. She had an incredible run as the world number one woman's player ended. Oh, after 186 consecutive weeks. Oh, it's a good run now. Great run. Yeah. Monica Sellis.

Salis. Two great players. Celis. That's what I thought took over the top spot. Well, that's what happened. On this day. See that? Not bad.

It's back. It's back. We can't wait for tomorrow. Call her sees clearly. What's going to happen? So we'll read it live. Which might get us to Debutt's point in what we were talking about earlier. There's a fact checker coming right down a fucking pipe.

That's right. I think I think it's all right. Right here. Right here. There's somebody coming. Actually, my fucking granddaddy. Oh, we got a baseball one. Okay.

We know. Yeah, get in and out. Okay. This is what, this is per A. A quirky in parentheses and shady moment in baseball history. The Cincinnati Inquirer, AJ, reported that Baltimore manager John McGraw signed a player named Tocohoma, supposedly Cherokee Native American.

See, AI, you got to watch out what they're going to say. What they say? They dropped an eye word out there? Yes, they did. And I am not going to finish. What? What's that? Who was it?

Which AI is this? It was, just so we know what World Speer. I think we know which one I'm using. Okay. All right, okay. I told my A to always act like it's 1995. So it says some stuff. All right.

Why? Why? That's what, hold on. I didn't hear what he just said. I was reading what you just. looked up apparently. How is that what was decided to send you on this day? Those are just the four. Those are just the four

that it gave to me. Wow, story to history. Love where we're at in sports. What a time to be alive. We are so incredibly thankful that we get to do this for a living. I think what do we miss? Do we miss anything? College Hoops is happening. Yeah. We got bam. We talked about Bam.

Got Bamming. Thank you for getting that in. That's a huge deal. We're happy for you, Bam. I mean, yeah. Ethical buckets. That was perfect. Ethical buckets at first. half. He had 43 to first half. Perfect. Ethical buckets. Bruce would die if we didn't mention, that 4-4 is now running behind 4-2.

4-2 is about 300 pounds, Patrick Ricard. Yeah, that is a crazy signing for John Harbaugh to have Cam Scadaboo and Patrick Ricard in the backfield with Jackson Dart at quarterback, who we know will just, he'll send it right into your face. It does not care. This can be a tough physical football. This can be hardball football to a T. I also do appreciate how like six

ravens went right to the Giants. John Harbaugh selling the team like, hey, I see, we win game. I mean, I don't know what they're so mad about the other. I have no idea what they're going to do. It's an interesting operation down there, but these guys are all good players. They know exactly what we're going to do. Yeah, we want to sign them. Sweet.

To all the players, it's going to be the exact same way we just now live here. Yep. That's what we're going to do. Everything good. More places to eat. Sweet, yeah, you're going to love the food. Apparently, they bring a lot of shit in here for that. Northern Jersey, you're going to get some great Italian.

Ricard, you're Italian. Baltimore's got some good Italian, right? I assume. But Shadi's the owner, but does he live there? Are there Italians in Baltimore? No, I know Jimmy's seafood, and that's about it. He's Greek, right? Yeah. Maybe the Italian food is the cell.

It needs not be the Italian baseball, though, other than tonight. Other than tonight. We need, like, the first inning, like going into the second, like the second inning, we need to be like eight to eight. That'd be good, right? Yeah, then we're good. Yeah, then we're good. That's not going to happen, but yeah, we do need that.

Well. Why? Why is that up? going to happen. We just got fucking shelled by Italy. Dude, anything that happened. I know we did. It's not going to be 8 in the second inning. I have a feeling, unfortunately, that we're going to be fucking gna on our family. We need Noah. Bloody little nubs. We need

Arrow his worst to appear. I'm putting the rest of my money into this, too. Don't, don't. I'm doing it for the... That was a good bet. Connor brought it up. I did not love... I just needed a win, AJ. I just need a fucking win. I am with you. I am with you. That's a lock. That's a lock that should have hit. Italy baseball. Okay.

I saw it. I saw it. Sometimes you just just want to see the ball go through a hoop. Yeah, I saw that. Thank you, Action Network. That was exactly what I wanted to listen. Whoa, whoa. That's a little month. That's for tonight. That's fucking gross.

Is the anthem all? I can't hear it. Oh, it's a team. That's not it. We love your P-Dat-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-A. We're not doing it. Enough. We need to relax with this whole thing.

We need to remember who's our team and who isn't our team. Our team is America. Mm-hmm. But boy, we need the fucking Paison. tonight to hit some fucking dong shots. Let's get the Lavaza, boys. Okay, let's get that thing. Some lemon cello.

Let's get it all here. Definitely, let's get some of that. Let's get all the Gobagool actually. We would like to pay for the Gobagall. We would like all the Gobagool in Houston delivered to the fucking Italians today. Please. Crutory tray in the dugout.

Wrap the baseballs in Perjute, boys. Please, with Mbats right on the outside. Let's make sure the boys are ready. Get them enough wine. We would like to supply all the wine for their celebration afterwards. You see Paizano walking in there? Oh, yeah, Pisano-Pasmentino.

Clear as English I've ever heard straight out of America. Where's the fucking wine? Yeah. He's lais dey's Pasoanito. You're saying he's not Italian? I love him. For America, we need that as well. But again, for America, we need you tonight. We would like to buy at least four bottles of wine.

Now, I don't know enough about the wine world, but I do know some of these bottles are fucking outrageous. You seen what I just did with the Americans last night, $5,000 out the door. We don't have that anymore. You guys are getting bagged wine and you're going to like it. Franzia is fine. Delicious. These guys will love it.

It's a delicacy. I will buy all the box wine that you fucking need, okay, for the entire country. What about some sambuca? I'll tell you what, if you guys need a little sambuca to get the job done tonight against Mexico, I'll fucking throw some of that in there too. I mean, it's a good chance. They shot their load early, right? And like, they don't have a whole lot left.

The Italians? That's the worry, though. They have loads for days. They work out every more. mornings. You know why. That's right. They're up early building the loads, brother. That's what's all about. They're delivering the loads. They're cooking the loads. They're making the loads. And tonight, they unload. Okay. And they need to do it again. And we need them. You know what? Pepperoni pizzas too for all. Yeah. If they have loads left because they

they shot a big one yesterday. A bunch of them. Yeah. Let's there's a rope loads. The fucking throwing people out at first with a guy doing a split. I mean, ropes everywhere. Holy shit. Is that baseball? And then you watch the Dominican team play. It's like, Was that baseball? This is what baseball is? I love that sport. And then college baseball people are like, look at this fucking shit.

They're sending me highlights of college baseball down in the south. Wow. I didn't know that was possible. We need that tonight for Italy. Yeah. Or we need the espresso flying around. Sorry, I'm just...

No, no, all good. Mexico, if they want to score a bunch of runs and win, too, that's fine. That works, too. Yeah, they should just score five first inning, boom. Okay. And then we're good. Zito, my Spanish-speaking friend here,

Zito, I believe Andalé is for Mexico. Vamo. And Andalé, though, I think is a Mexican dialect of Spanish. Because I believe a lot of Spanish speaking, they all speak different Spanish. Everybody speaks different

Spanish, right? I mean, you would know a little bit more down South Florida. Because I'll learn something from Ray Mysterio. Sure. And I'll feel like a fucking beast. Sure. I'll just walk in somewhere. Ki Estamos, me, meigo. Undole, I mean. It's like, no. That's fucking wrong one. It's like, all right, shit.

I'll take a fucking cafe, can't let you. Jesus Christ, I thought I was a hero here. You know, and they know immediately. They know immediately. But I think Andalé is the one, right? Zito, is that right? Undelay, yeah. So, hey, underlay, boys, fucking big ones.

Undlelele. Undle. We're here, boys. Big ones. Bang out there. Vamos. Vamos. Big ones.

Boom. You'll be so cool. Mexico hanging seven in the first day. Yeah, exactly. Yes, it would. Who's pitching? For Mexico? Italy.

Italy, Aranola. That's not really. That guy's... He's the one... Bryce Harper brought him up when we were out there and doing the interview. He said he's got the best fastball. Yeah, I believe.

Best fastball. So that means the boys from Mexico just need to be sitting on that. Yeah, Jaron Ding Dong tonight. Dead Red. That other guy that we always... Alejandro Kirk. Yeah, Wobobody? Yeah, he keep going to Wobble Body.

I don't know if he's going to love that. That's not who he is. He's the catcher, right? Yeah. And that's for his job. He's built that way. Jonathan Miranda, first base been very good as well. And you know what, Italy?

Why don't you guys win too? You know? Yeah, exactly. You guys should win too. Yeah. We basically can't lose here tonight. Bingo. I'm a bet on that.

Let's not say that again. USA to advance. Yeah, you should definitely bet that. I just hope Dero knows that we're still alive and that he hasn't booked a plane ticket back to New Jersey yet. That's my hope. I don't know. Italy has moved from plus 240 to plus 190.

Okay. Okay. Is that good for us? A bunch of American arts. Yeah, a lot of money coming out of Italy. They believe in Aaronola. Struggling to figure out if that's good for us. That's good.

That means Italy's going to win. Yes, it does. For America. For America. Hey, those boys, a lot of Americans in there. Yeah, there are. Obviously Italian Americans. American, Italian.

We see what you're doing. We respect it. Yeah. We love the boot country. We love it. We say garazzi all the time. Yeah, we do. Now you get a chance to do your thing for America, too, boys.

Okay? You're doing your thing for Italy? Tonight you've got an opportunity to do something for America. Don't fuck us. And we grotzi that. Yeah. We grotzi the shit out of that. That's right.

Right, AJ? Yes, we do. But didn't Jets say that both these teams hate the U.S. team? Yes, they did. but what we're trying to do here is trying to get past that. We're trying to set our swords aside. I just want a bunch of runs, a bunch of runs early, and then we can relax. Unload.

Yeah, unload the loads. All right, I guess there's only one way to really find out what's going to happen tonight. Okay. This one's for Italy. Okay. Okay. Okay. All right.

Oh, no. Got a couple ops here. Do one for Mexico and five plus runs. All right. This is for five plus. International ball. There we go. Perfect.

Yeah. Oh, geez. That's your one for Mexico under five runs. Wait, I have any more balls? I mean, that wasn't the right one anyway. I think you need to take a pitch and just hit Go Yard. In here? All right, somebody put on the catcher's gear.

No, I'm joking. All right, we'll watch baseball tonight. We'll obviously follow along with all the free agency. AJ was great to see. We did miss you, man. Definitely could have made it happen. Well, you know, you got a lot of shit going on. And also next trip is going to be fantastic out to league meetings out in Phoenix.

Hell, yeah. That should be fun. Man, right around the corner. Speaking of league, we're proud of. Always, every day. Certainly. 3.3 billion dollars in contracts in two days in our league. PGA TOR gets one of our guys, second in command guy, to go run their shit.

Brian Roll-up, we've got a lot of pride in Brian Roll-Roll-up. Brian Rull-up's done a lot for the NFL. Good egg. He's done a lot for our league. PGA. gets him over here. What the fuck were they doing to this guy? Can we get a better

shot on this guy? Disgusting. He's done a lot for the NFL, okay? He's your new boss. We don't know if this is first press conference or what it was, but can we get a zoom in? One fucking time? There's not even a sponsor in the background. It's just PGA tour. Unbelievable. It's

like I'm so pumped for him. He's speaking. I'm like, Brian's good speaker. He's good. He's also. Wouldn't it like a thousand people, too? I saw a clip, but there's a bunch of people that came to this presser. Yeah, it was a ton. Yeah, it was a time. So I was like, pumped for it. We're like, let's put it on TV. Where's that? Golf Channel. Let's fucking put that on. Let's shut everything else up. Let's put it on.

He walks up there and starts talking about, like, is this? This is not real. They've got to be doing a zoom in at some point. It's like, no, if I can put a name tag under him, actually, it's got to build up towards his chin here. It's got and make the height up here on the hat. Yeah, let's fucking. Hey, come on. You got a guy. This guy's really, really good. This guy is really, really good at what he does.

I think he will probably guide the PGA Tour to places that the PGA Tour has never been before, especially in this modern market where he understands the streaming. He's no negotiated deals with every streaming platform. It's like, can we just show the guy a little respect here? Help him out. Please show a little respect to the guy. I don't like it. I didn't like it, AJ, as soon as I seen it. Man, just crop it a little bit. Tiny bits. Jordan Schultz on our show. Yeah. Light him up. Put some lights on him and crop it a little. I miss that bit. Anyways, we need you more press properties, dude. Only the bit, though.

Fair. All right. Teddy. Come on. Tones always causing problems. He certainly is. So are you. We miss you last couple of days.

We'll be back tomorrow. There's a big 12 game on ESPN right now. It appears we'll go watch for that and try to get back after last night's guarantee not hitting. Yeah. Because America can't fucking hit whenever there's ducks on a pond. That's what I learned. What's that about? We'll find a favorite.

We'll find a minus 900 favorite today. And we'll go get it. 45 minutes Canada and Cuba. What's the all way odds? Canada is now minus 170. Can't happen. This can't happen. I like Canada.

We've been saying... Say it again. Fuck you! Good baseball. No, no. Against Cuba, I like Canada to winter. It's good baseball, too. I like Canada.

This guy right here. No, they know that. You just said it too. To be fair. Yeah, there it is. We all like Canada. This is great. It caught me slipping.

What is happening? It's got me flustered. We fucking lost Italy in the baseball. Listen, Italy does this really well. I've gotten into this a lot. Espresso coffees. Yeah. I heard they're changing the name to baseball a lot.

All right. Be and friends, something nice with my change their life wanted to sit together, okay? Yeah, I heard that too. Did you say, come on after that? No, no, no. It wasn't worth it?

No. He's the thing saying, come on after he says something that's so absurd. It's outrageous. We appreciate you all so much. Shout to sports. Jay was great seeing you again. Dee Butt, thank you for traveling up.

Great work this week. We'll continue to talk about everything in the sports world that we learn about. So anything else that you think we should learn about, please send it in. I'm at Pat McAfee's show at Boston Connor, at Ty Schmidt, at Tern Diggs, at Darius J. Butler, at Evan Foxy will get on, at Bruce Brown will get on, and at Bubba Gumpino, he's never sleeping. No. Okay, so he will see it. And also, if you think you can get a world record in something, please for the love of fucking God, will you send us an idea?

Christ's sake. Come on. I thought there'd be thousands of great ones. There's really not any good ones? We thought there would be, dude. I've never been more. It's a really bad one. Wow, we got no juice. We can't fucking find anything. In my life, we can't.

If you have a world record-like ability, that doesn't take 15 to 20 hours. Yeah. Or it would be entertaining on TV. Eating a hat. Boom. Bingo. Or eating like a thousand hard-boiled eggs. That's got to be a record.

Okay, whatever the case. World's longest pee is eight and a half minutes. I've had my shirt on a second. Bring the bowl. He put him right in the middle of the basketball court. Dong out. Stop watching his hand. We are looking for those on that note.

That type of thing. Not that, because we've got to get around that. But you know. You can bore it. Safe travels, wherever you go. Be a friend, tell your friends. I'm nice. It might change your life.

We're in this thing together. Thank you all so much. This has been so much fun. I hope we are able to continue to talk about baseball going forward. Yeah. We will. We will. And I hope my broken heart heals. When the Italians play an asswop it on Mexico and IOR,

Mexico just scores five runs. Yes, early. We need it. Need it in that first inning. Love you, Diro. Love you, Diro. Dero needs it more than we do. Yes, he does.

Because if the boys get in, they're going on away. Uh-huh. Team on me. We'll see you tomorrow. three. One, two, three. Team. Goodbye. Every March, are brackets the only thing you can think about? Do you have symptoms such as constant bracket obsession or moderate to severe bracket-related distractions? You may be living with bracket brain. Thankfully, there's ESPN Tournament Challenge, the number one proven way

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