The Pat McAfee Show - PMS 2.0 386 - MLB Opening Day, Kevin Youkilis, & UFC Heavyweight Champion Francis Ngannou

Episode Date: April 1, 2021

On today's show, Pat and the boys  chat about MLB Opening Day, who is supposed to be good this year, and why baseball has lost so much steam as America's Pastime, plus they cover the fallout from the Justin Fields conversation from yesterday, and wrap up the other things happening around the NFL. Joining the show to discuss Opening Day and all things baseball, is friend of the program, Kevin Youkilis. Pat and Kevin discuss his thoughts on how baseball has changed, fights in the MLB, and who he ultimately thinks is going to win the World Series this year (53:27-1:20:00). Later, one of the scariest humans on the face of the earth, the new UFC Heavyweight Champion, Francis "Predator" Ngannou, joins the show to chat all about his life leading up to winning the UFC Heavyweight Gold last weekend, what it was like growing up in Cameron and working in the mines at a young age, when he knew he wanted to be a fighter, what he thinks about potentially fighting Jon Jones next, how much he respects Stipe Miocic and why he thinks he needed to lose to him for his career to progress, and what his upcoming plans include (1:27:55-1:53:38). Make sure you subscribe to youtube.com/thepatmcafeeshow and listen every day on Mad Dog Radio, Sirius XM Channel 82. We appreciate you all for listening, come and laugh with us, cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

hello it is thursday april 1st 2021 happy april fool's day hey happy april fool's day and happy opening day yeah baseball happened yes we had some great conversations deep conversations with you today i think you're gonna enjoy i hope so at least let's have a good time here be a friend tell a friend if by the end of this thing you enjoy it if not just act like it never happened by the way potential massive show tomorrow as well so let's keep that in mind. Yeah, keep your eyes peeled. Keep your eyes peeled and your ears opened. And your head down to the grindstone. Yep. And your feet

where you are. That's right. Be where your feet are. Be where your feet are. Let's get to the show. It's baseball's opening day! Yeah! Shout out to Twine for that beat drop that we just screamed over top of because our excitement could not be contained. This is one of the only days of the year.

There's only like two of them. We're pretty hard out there by Jay. Shout out, Jay. A little hot start there. Hey, baby, Jay. Cut the music, Jay, please. Cut the music. I mean, you screamed over anyway.

As fast and as abrupt as possible, Jay. Shout out, you. I do appreciate you, Jay, please. Cut the music. I mean, he screamed over it anyway. As fast and as abrupt as possible, Jay. Shout out you. I do appreciate you, Jay. Also, quick, happy birthday to Jay and I's grandma in heaven, Betty. Happy birthday, Betty. Happy birthday, Betty. Happy birthday. Happy birthday, Betty.

Betty taught me how to play poker when I was like eight years old and taught me how to gamble and everything. She was awesome. Rest in peace, Betty. That's why I come out to Black Betty whenever I perform live. Yeah, she told me, I think you could be good at anything. I think you really could be good at anything. Thank you, Betty.

I appreciate that. Nobody else tells me that, but I appreciate you do. She passed away whenever we were young. Happy birthday, Betty. Ain't that right, Jay? That's right. Happy birthday. Your gift to Betty was just turning that fucking music off. You know what I'm saying? I was starting the moment's silence early. Okay. No, no, Betty. Ain't that right, Jay? That's right. Happy birthday. Your gift to Betty was just turning that fucking music off.

You know what I'm saying? I was starting the moment of silence early. Okay. No, no, no. Moment of silence. She would not want a moment of silence, by the way. That's true. She would want a complete opposite.

She used a bowl with, I think, an 18-pound ball. Damn. Yeah, her whole life, I think. Yeah. Jeez. She would lug that thing around. She'd breathe a thunder every time. Yeah, yeah.

The fucking pins were going to know Betty was there. You know what I mean? Like, hey, we are showing up to have a good time. Rest in peace to Betty. But she wouldn't spit on that thing? No, I think she was very much straight on. I think that thing was going straight in there. Yeah, I think that thing was going straight in there.

She loved the lanes, though, I do believe. Hell yeah. She battled against various forms of cancer there. She got very religious at the end of that thing. And then kind of in and out. She was badassly happy birthday. But it's not about Betty today, okay? Although every day I do have conversations with Betty.

Give her a little how you doing, keep it moving. And every once in a while you feel as if the people that you loved in the past that have passed on, you get little signals. You're like, oh, there's Betty right there. She seems to be the most prevalent in my life, it feels like. Now, that could be all bullshit because I absolutely love that lady. But rest in peace to Betty. I appreciate you. Anyways, opening day for the MLB.

Hey, listen. Listen, there's two to three days of the year where baseball fucking matters at all. Okay? The last game of the World Series. Yep. Whatever game it could be. Whoever's beating who. Now, listen.

This is not baseball fans' thoughts. This is outside the baseball culture, looking at the baseball culture. Opening day, massive day. Even in Pittsburgh, where the Pirates fucking stink, opening day was still a very big deal, always has been. And then the third day is whenever Jet Passing breaks a massively dramatic story about something. And it's like, listen, did you hear baseball had wires attached to players and they were getting buzzed in the middle of games to let them know that a curveball was coming? That's when baseball's big opening day, and then last game of potential World Series.

It's a big deal. So we're right in the middle of it, and to be completely transparent, I am not the person that anybody wants to hear talk about baseball. You just heard how I described baseball's importance to the world of sports, but we do have a guy pitching college, I think. I think he had a chance to play in college. Oh, shit. Big arm, though. Diehard baseball. Named after a baseball

player, I do believe. No. Ty Cobb was a massive piece of shit, so I don't know. Anyways, big baseball fan who played baseball, knows baseball. His job today is going to be to let us all know what the fuck we should care about for this season.

Ladies and gentlemen, it's time for a brand new segment on the show. As we get things started here at Boston Connors here, Viva Lazzito's here. Our poll is involved with this. We'll hit that a little bit later. But ladies and gentlemen, it is time to reveal a brand new segment here on the show. But ladies and gentlemen, it is time to reveal a brand new segment here on the show. Ties. Ties. Baseball.

Ties. Baseball. Breakdown. Ty Schmidt, diehard baseball fan, big Yankee fan. What should we be looking at? Who's the champion? Who's going to be good? Do we care about any of them?

You did kind of hit the nail on the head, though, about baseball, about which days actually matter. Because, I mean, we are in the time right now. March Madness is basically done. We don't have NFL for a while. So, like, this is kind of, I mean, that's why the excitement's high, you know? Last year, Fotch was coming out. Yeah, Fotch was burning pitches down the middle on opening day. How about that curveball he threw?

That thing started at home, broke the first base. Yeah, unbelievable. Dropped off the table. Oh, my God. What a throw. So it is very exciting. But full season this year, 162 games. Last year, you know, they did the shortened season.

But a lot of people are saying, most people are saying the Dodgers are going to repeat again. Also, they're the reigning champs. They are the defending champs. Congrats! Good work by them. Big win. They also signed

a friend of the show, Trevor Barr in the offseason. The rich get richer. On the American League side, the Yankees probably have the best lineup and best pitching staff. So we'll see. They should advance, but they kind of choked last year. There are some value plays in both leagues, though, betting-wise.

Really? Oh, yeah. In the AL, a lot of people are hot on the White Sox right now. They're a young team. They've got a noted Hall of Famer managing. Big-time boost back. Well, yeah, on the White Sox right now. They're a young team. They got a noted Hall of Famer managing. Big time booze bag. Well, yeah, Southside White Sox. But a lot of people are saying they're going to win the division.

Barack loved the White Sox, right? He did, yes. President Obama? Yeah, he was a Southsider. Okay. That was his only flaw. One of many. That he was a White Sox fan?

One of many. So the Cubs people hate. Yeah, we're not even going to get into that. I don't know if anybody wants to hear Zito's dive job. That he was a White Sox fan? One of many. So the Cubs people hate. Yeah, we're not even going to get into that. I mean, I don't know if anybody wants to hear Zito's dive shot. Don't sleep on Berrio. I love Berrio. You're talking about Chicago fans of stuff, though, I assume.

You're talking about personal stuff for Berrio, not really what he did. One time he would catch him on a hot dog. I'm not going to get into it. I do it all the time. It makes the hot dog taste 10 to 15 times better. If you're not doing it, you're from Chicago. And if you're from Chicago, you feel like you own hot dogs, you don't. Okay?

There's hot dogs in other places. That's how you eat it. Especially on today. That's how you eat it. But Portillo's is a damn good hot dog, I will say. But Cubs hate White Sox in Chicago? Oh, yeah. It's a cross-town challenge every year.

Cubs stink? No. Amazing. Nah, Cubs are going to stink this year. No? What? Cubs hate White Sox in Chicago? Yeah, it's a cross-town challenge every year. Cubs stink? No. Amazing. Cubs are going to stink this year. No? What? Cubs stink? No, no, no. Cubs stink.

See, these are the things I want to hear. No, no, Grandpa Ross is leading us to a victory this year. We all know it. Okay, this is Ty's breakdown. Zito, please. Just don't come at the Cubs. Cubs do kind of stink, but in the A, a lot of people like the White Sox. I think the Twins are going to win the division.

They've won the second most regular season game since the Dodgers in the last two years. I think they're plus 110 to win the AL Central. I think that's a pretty safe bet. In the National League, the Padres, a lot of young guns. You saw Tati's last year. Everyone was coming after him. He was flexing on bases. Exactly.

Big contract. Hits home runs. I mean, it steals bases when they're beating the shit out of teams. Love it. They're plus 400 to win the NL pennant. They are in the Dodgers division, so we'll see. It's going to be kind of tough. Get money, though, plus 400.

Exactly. It's very top-heavy. The same four teams have kind of been the good teams the last couple years, and now teams like the Braves and the Padres and potentially the White Sox or the Twins, the Rays, they're kind of pushing up there. Red Sox. It'll be interesting because it's such a long season. You see how these guys react after only playing 60 games.

I mean, you're playing 100 more games this year. Do the Red Sox stink? They might squeak into the playoffs this year. Do the Red Sox stink? They might squeak into the playoffs this year. We're going to be very good. The playoffs are expanded. Squeak into the playoffs. Very good. You just got to get into the dance. Anything can happen.

It's very top heavy. I'm hearing White Sox, Twins, Tampa Bay, Padres. They might sneak it. Maybe even the Reds. Maybe, definitely. They might sneak into this Illuminati that's going on up the top. But Houston, I would assume they're also in the lead.

They lost a lot of guys in free agency. Well, yeah. I mean, we'll see. It depends on how much they want to cheat this year. If they really juice it up a couple notches, they could be right back in the conversation. But they lost a lot of guys in free agency. How come the Pittsburgh Pirates won't cheat? Well, they're cheap kids.

That's too much money. You know? Too much money to cheat on. It costs a lot to cheat. You're right. All those garbage cans. Yeah, yeah. The cameras that are behind there and there.

The buzzers are exo-gelatin. Well, hey, we were told by Jet that that was a lie. Well, which was interesting because Jet was the one that was reporting it, you know, months before. Whoa! Basically saying, like, yeah, Jose Altuve was in an exoskeleton rig, you know, hitting homers. I mean, and then he comes on here and, well, I never said that.

I never said that. He said, all my studies have, or all my research told me that's not true, which is, by the way, good for the game of baseball. But, you know, baseball, i think my relationship with it is one that wasn't very existent for a long time never even played baseball until i got a chance to literally never stepped in a batter's box until i got to do it for the washington wild things but like i think over the last year or two with uh who's stooge commission stooge, commissioned Stooge? Bob Manfred. Okay, so with Manfred and the players and the bubble and the potential exoskeleton that's giving them alerts

when they're in a batter's box of when curveballs are coming from, which, by the way, was not true, but I'm just saying, those types of things, I think, are so much more fascinating about the game of baseball. Do we have any of that shit going on? Is there any drama happening right now? Because baseball creates massive drama off the

field. And I don't think they tried to. I don't think they tried to. I think it's just kind of the way it is. They got the worst commissioner in sports. Bar none. And Bob Manfred. Because I think when you're a commissioner, one of the big things you have to do is, okay, you're a representative of the owners. That's what you are. But you have to be able

to speak. You just have to be able to speak like that you just have to be a great speaker and we talked about this with goodell so when goodell says full stadium we're like okay that guy's saying that for a reason he is you know calculated everything he says there's a reason there's a mission behind him leading off with it was a statement or whatever with manfred he can get in front of a microphone and completely fuck it up oh yeah i mean there's a chance that the mlb commissioner can get right out there shove his foot directly into his mouth and then have to clean that up for the next four or five days and potentially lose leverage because of it which loses the owner's money so you're talking about the worst commissioner in the major sports at this

particular point is there anything going on in that world that maybe we can sink our teeth into as the season gets started? So last I checked, there was still an issue with payments from last season. I think guys basically said, hey, we're going to pay you one thing. I don't remember what it was. Jet came on and told us. But I believe that is still very much in negotiations. I don't think the players are happy. But, you know, once we had the ESPN ban, I kind of stopped reading Jets material as well.

So I haven't checked back in. But as far as I know, yes, there are still issues with the payments from last season. See, there's always something in here. Oh, yeah. But today it's opening day. Well, and see what happens this year too. Because I was just under the assumption and everything I've seen, like, hey, COVID basically hasn't been an issue yet.

There's very, very few positive tests. And we already, I mean, opening day we're fucking canceling games already. Because of Uncle COVID? Is this because we were potentially doing that? Well, yeah, exactly. You know, Raj told us COVID was dead and we took it as gospel.

And, well and behold, a couple days later, COVID's still in the fight. Hey, the thing we have learned about this fight with COVID, and maybe we did prematurely celebrate, okay, because of what Roger Goodell said. But maybe Roger Goodell was just like, you know, everybody thinks, you know, Fourth of July is the day or whatever. No, that was when we called our shot that that war was ending. You know what I mean? It wasn't until

like 1778, I think, or 1777. The war was not over yet. And we called our shot. Babe Ruth calls his shot. Maybe Roger Goodell was just like calling it, hey, listen, we got this thing on the ropes.

Alright, we think by the on the ropes. All right. We think by the time we're going to be able to go full stadiums. And then I think COVID heard that. And it's like a chip on the shoulder. Almost like you poked a bear a little bit. COVID was about to go into hiding, maybe potentially go to another planet. Hopefully we can take all the distant relatives that are definitely going to

come through and fuck us up at some point. COVID 20, 21, 22, by the way. I've heard great prospect, COVID-22. We've got to get that one under control. But I think it potentially got us a little bit upset because the March Madness is happening. Nothing really.

Seems like it's been figured out. These combines and pro days are happening. Nothing's really going on. Hockey seems to have had it figured out at the beginning of the season. They had a little bit of issue, but they seemed to figure it out. And now we're full stadiums kind of calling them out. And then COVID was like, where's that sport? What's another one we can get? MLB.

Yep, fucking open and day. Let's come in and ruin it. So COVID has a little bit left. I think this is still a battle that we're in, but I think the overall war, if we're going off of full stadium is being predicted by roger goodell who probably has information from people that know what they're talking about more than us i feel like we're potentially in the the final rounds of this

well that's what's crazy is kovitz canceling a game in dc and we got 42 000 fans going crazy you heard what president biden said about that It's irresponsible what the Texas Rangers are doing. I haven't seen what the... Do you think it'll sell out? I would imagine that thing is going to be standing room only. They might pack 65 in there. And by the way, I mean, all eyes

will be on... Okay, can everybody that went please post on social media that you went, and then we need you for the next, like, 14 days to also post. Yeah. Because if we can have you all just display, like, hey, I'm not dead, like, I think that's good news for you.

Big win. That's a big win. Now, granted, if after next week's game with, you know, President Biden already saying, think it's irresponsible, blah, blah, blah. That's a setup, by the way, for if that goes bad. Oh, my, they're going to choose. Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh, Texas knows this, though, by the way.

Texas knows that, yeah, we're going to do this. Dana was like, I want to sell, or Dana White was like, I want to sell out a ring down there in Florida or whatever. And they're like, okay, so since you guys are going first, you are immediately either going to be forever remembered as, okay, Texas Rangers were able to put $40,000 into a stadium. Dana White was putting $20,000 into an arena in Florida or whatever. If it goes right, it's like, let's remember what those two did,

just kind of stood right in the face of a lot of people who have a lot of degrees telling them they should not do that, and they did it. Once again, if it doesn't work out though, oh! I hope it works. I hope it works. I hope it goes well, but if it does not, it is...

I mean, we're all going to have to... Everybody's going to feel the effects of that. And plus, too, there's only like 25 tickets left on this website, and they're all nosebleeds. So I'm guessing. How much are those tickets, by the way? And the nosebleeds right now, pretty up there.

It's $119 each. So, okay. This is not because they're a great baseball team, right? No. This is 100% just so that you can be a part of the first big sporting social event in America post-COVID. I would assume that's why people... I'm going to guess those

tickets are usually $30 if I had to guess. Maybe even cheaper than that. I thought they were making up for the loss. It is a new stadium, but let's triple those prices. Maybe they're making up for the loss or whatever, but you can't have those prices if nobody's buying the tickets. I think there's a lot of people that are like, this is our chance to potentially do a full

on the logo here of beating. And everybody else that's watching around the country is like, hey, you all need to survive this because if you do, I think it's good news for the fucking rest of us. If it goes bad, Don, I do believe it's

bad news for the rest of us. A lot of eyes are on. I mean, there's bad news for the rest of us. A lot of eyes are on. I mean, there's questions now about how it's going to work happening in the political world. That's starting to slip into my timeline. And once again, I've said this numerous times. If something makes it into my timeline, that means if it's outside the sports world, that means it's a big conversation. All eyes are on Texas next week. Let's go down there. Hey, let's make sure we do whatever we got to do

to make sure the rest of us can potentially experience something like that within the next five years or so. Let's go ahead and do that down there in Texas. But maybe that's a game that people will remember forever as a monumental moment in our country's history. Maybe sell the ticket stub down the line for, you know. And then on the flip side, though, that could be remembered as a moment where.

Either or. We kind of danced on a grave of COVID, and COVID said, not so fast, my friends. Yeah, but. We are closers. Everybody thought we were a sprinter. No, we are a closer. I hope that's the case.

If it goes bad, though. Former. I mean, we got to remember, Goodell's a savvy businessman. He might have contacted COVID-19 and said, hey, let's work something out. We want full stadiums next year. Go get Manfred. Go get DMOB.

Let's forget about football for a little. Oh, you think Goodell is negotiating? Oh, yeah. We're talking about Roger Goodell here. We're not talking about Bob Manfred. You're right. Some stooge. What did the quotes from the press conference,

I don't know when the president was talking. I don't know if it was this morning. I don't know if it was an interview in his world, in our world. I don't know. But he said that they should be listening to Dr. Anthony Fauci and the experts. And as soon as I saw that quote, my first thought was like, yeah, but Joe. Fauci said, like, no NFL season. We had an entire NFL season.

He said no Christmas. A lot of people had Thanksgiving and Christmas. I mean, like, we tried with this Fauci. Like, we tried. A lot of this, we understand a lot is good. But, I mean, he seems to be a bit of a down. And it feels like he's a little bit of maybe a pessimist for a lot of these things, and I know he knows a lot more than all of us, but he was anti that NFL season.

In the NFL, NFL's medical advisors actually came out and said like, Fats, shut the fuck up. They literally came out and was like, we don't care what he says. The whole season happened. So I think it's tough for us just to listen to Fats now at this point, because it's like, yo, he was a bit negative about a lot of things

and I think a lot of things happened and they kept it moving. Now, I understand that Fouch is a world-renowned, intelligent, life-saving human being. But he's been trying to take away sports for a long time. I don't necessarily know if the sports fans are just going to be like, you know, yeah, let's listen to what Fox is saying at this point. Well, you would assume that the NFL has a blueprint on how to do all this, too. Like you said, Goodell's not just going to go up there and be like,

oh, we're going to have full stadiums next year and just have it be a bunch of bullshit. Like, Dave, this has been a heavily discussed topic for quite some time now. Goodell might have to do a press conference about six, seven days after that Texas Rangers one. Yeah, true. We thought, listen. We were wrong.

Bob came in. We would have done this right. Bob Manford comes in. Screwed it up. Now we, listen, we're not happy. Nope. But apparently we're not there yet. Or he's going to come out and say,

congratulations to the MLB for taking our blueprint on what we were going to do for our stadiums to your one stadium in texas we appreciate the success and blah blah it's either one of those two things but baseball by the way that might be the fourth day baseball there you go you know the whole year opening day world series day big drama day in the offseason and then also full stadium for a first time post-COVID. Yeah. Okay, we'll see. That's a pretty big day in this whole thing.

Zito, go ahead, bud. I'll redact my last statement. I was looking at Kansas City's tickets. The cheapest one for the Texas Rangers' first game would be $60 in the nosebleeds. Okay, so that does change a little bit of the conversation. $60 is still a lot of money. That's like very, very up there. It's a bigger stadium than Kansas City.

It's a new stadium you said? Yeah, brand new. The team sucks, though. Can we get to the poll? Who are they playing in that It's a bigger stadium than Kansas City. It's a new stadium you said? Yeah, brand new. The team sucks, though. Can we get to the poll? Who are they playing in that game, by the way? Kansas City. Yikes. Rangers, Royals. No thanks. Oh, no. Toronto Blue Jays. That's on me. Here we go.

I thought you were saying what game I was looking for. Blue Jays got some sluggers. That makes sense. Can we talk about the polls, Zito? The poll does have a little bit of baseball in it. And this is the only time baseball will be the first 20 minutes of conversation. We did sneak in some NFL conversation into the middle of it to kind of get back into our comfort zone. But it's a big day. It's opening day, especially in the world that we're in. Zito, what is the poll for today and what are the results thus far?

All right, so YouTube definitely likes this one. MLB opening day, do you care? With over 15,000 votes already, a fat nope, 65%. Yeah, MLB opening day, do you care? Nope, 65%. Yup, 35%. And we just spoke 24 minutes ago. This show stinks.

65% of the people said don't fucking talk about it. I thought it'd be nope higher. I really did. 85. Opening day. What happened to the sport? Opening day, 65% of the people voting on this poll on our YouTube page, 15,000 people have already voted in the first 15 minutes here,

and they're like, no, we don't give a single damn about it. What happened to baseball? Why don't we get back to the days where McGuire was out there just eating every single thing he could get. Sammy Sosa doing the same thing. All the pitchers on a bunch of stuff.

Balls flying. Pitchers getting mad. Fights happening. Sellouts going on in the middle of the summer. Is there any chance we ever get back to those days of baseball? I know those were incredibly unsafe days for the players, and I'm not saying we need to do exactly that, but do you think there's ever a time where baseball matters

to the pop world, the lexicon of Americana? Honestly, probably. I mean, if you're not a baseball fan, it's not something you're going to pick up and get into, really. It does have, especially with how limited people's attention spans are today, no one is watching a baseball game.

So if you didn't grow up either playing it or were a fan of it by the time you're young, there's just no way you're going to pick it up after, what, 15 or whatever. Golf needs to have an option to be 13 holes for the standard. Let the pros continue to play uh 18 and all that stuff but i would like the the ability to pick 12 13 holes and just kind of go on with it you know it's to the the last five might as well be four hours long at that point if you're having a bad day or whatever but nine yeah but it's not and you know what i mean there's like uh i think there's a fine balance i think if they could redo the game for today's standards that would have been a move i think baseball you drop

that thing down to what five innings the world would be pumped about it it's the same thing though like they tried to do the seven inning double headers last year and it's just mickey moss it changes the game so much because now like having a great bullpen is like a huge part of baseball and if you only do like a five or a seven inning game that kind of eliminates it you know teams are paying 400 million dollars for these pitchers and then it's like you know that guy can pitch five innings every single time it eliminates the need for a bullpen think about how many more viewers are though then the tv deals are bigger than you do are they though just bring back the old lights. They love how baseball is. They've tried to, I think, do a lot of things

like speed the game up. Pitchers don't have as much time in between pitches. Not as much singing during a seventh inning stretch either, huh? In the ballpark, for sure, but on TV, you really don't get it. I thought they tried to capitalize on time saving there and just take that out.

They still do that. Did we do that in New York? I that. Oh, no, no, no. That stays. I think we left. No, we did it. We did it in Houston as well. Oh, yeah. That's when we got in. Yeah. True.

They finally let us in there. Are the baseballs still juiced? Oh, yeah. Big time. What was this? Juice? I mean, come on. Let's just be done with this and bring back HGH. Let's get these guys in balls out of the park. Okay, so the fascinating thing there is would that make the game better?

Yes. I believe so. But do you never read the first sentence of the paragraphs from the NFL or the MLB or even me, player safety is imperative. You're just over there telling them to eat needles over there. I completely agree, but hey, if you want to stick a needle in your body for an extra $250 million,

hey, let that be their decision. That does seem to be the baseball way. What was that documentary I watched where they were having a piece of gum that had that would activate a test boost or a testosterone boost in the middle of a game? They'd be stepping up to the batter's box, and there was some science that was created by, who was the person down there? Anthony Bosch. Anthony Bosch.

Screwball was the name of the guy. Yeah, what you just said. They're done by the Cocaine Cowboys documentary guy. It was done very well. And they had this thing down to a science and it was like all the players basically a rod's name was at the top of it because he was the most famous but the the way this dude was talking was as if he had every single baseball player they had it down to a science so much that they had a piece of gum that they would put in they

would chew it and then that would activate a testosterone boost that they already have in their body so they would be able to boost their test or whatever for the game and then it would fall back down for whenever they're going to get tested potentially after the game the science that baseball had to get to to become you know i would assume these players saw other people doing it and then it was like well if i don't do it i'm not going get that. And then it became a culture where it felt like now we've talked to a couple people who said it wasn't as rampant as we think so. I'm going to tell you from watching that screwball doc, that guy could have been full of shit. And he's a known manipulator of rules and everything who was being interviewed in there. I mean, that's why the documentary happened.

But the way he was freely talking about damn near everybody, it seemed like that was a big deal back in the day. They've cleaned that up completely now? Yeah, pretty much. I think there are still some of those fringe guys that probably – because guys still get popped for doing it from time to time. But I think it is just like with the NFL and stuff too. You start to get these better athletes that are playing. These guys don't really need – the true really good guys don't really need

to take steroids other than maybe to come back from injury because the season's so long and so grueling oh so it's good for you we will talk about what's that steroids yeah hgh good for healing yeah it helps you heal quicker oh yeah yeah but it also does but it grows everything in your body including cancerous cells allegedly so like if you yeah because when hgh when i learned of hgh i was i was in the nfl and i forget how the conversation happened somebody might they might have started testing for it or something like it got brought into our into the the our radar and i was just like talking about it and i asked the one trainer about it and this trainer uh athletic trainer had known about it, obviously,

doctored in a couple of different things. And I was like, what is this? And they started talking about it. Well, you recover faster. It's basically just like a fountain of youth. You don't get sore. Everything is just, because you recover so quickly, you can do like four workouts in a day because your muscles don't get sore.

If you really wanted to, it's that whole thing. I'm like, can we make this just available for everybody like is there any way and they're like well they don't know the long-term effects and also if you have any cancer cells or anything else in your body that's potentially bad it'll also grow that so they don't really know that whole thing and i was like as soon as i retire i'm fucking getting this i am as soon as i retire i'm getting this and uh then i retired i realized it's not just like the easiest thing to find i guess i guess you can't yeah it's not on cv i did i mean the day i retired i tried adderall for the first time i thought i was going to jump over a goddamn fence

at one point i mean it was unbelievable i was like i cannot believe that there are therapeutic exemptions in the NFL where guys are allowed to take Adderall because they've talked to doctors. I felt like a superhuman. It was the first time I tried it. And to be honest, I can't take it because it made me so focused on something. I was like, well, my brain is a – I enjoy the fact that my brain does it. But I remember taking it, and I was like, God damn, there's people in the NFL on this.

It makes sense why they are brain does it. But I remember taking it and I was like, God damn, there's people in the NFL on this. It makes sense why they are potentially crushing it. The HGH thing, I thought I was just going to be able to, the day after, I'm going to do HGH now. To Walmart, pick it up real quick. It's not just something you get. I guess it's very difficult to find. But by all accounts, it sounds like that

is the thing that really makes everybody better at everything and i think the baseball i think it was big in there because i guess your hand-eye coordination gets better your your dexterity gets the way it was like hey you don't want any of this shit man you know what it does all this dewey cox yeah you don't want any of this shit man what's it do it makes you you know more energized you don't want any of. That's kind of how the conversation was going whenever I had learned of it and I was talking to like a doctor or whatever about it

and I was like, so this is the greatest thing of all time. Well, there are some drawbacks and it's like, let me hear them. And then he was like, well, you know, cancer could potentially grow throughout your whole body. Which, oh, okay.

That's valid. That is. All right, that's pretty. And anything else you potentially have? All right. It's not that easy to find, I guess. So it's like a cancer watch, though, during that time period of taking it. Yeah, you're going to be under probably a watch, but you're doing something illegal.

Who's watching you? Yeah. And does that person really have your best interest at heart that's watching? Probably not. Doctor, patient, what do you call it? Can we just go with that? Yeah, but you're breaking a law, so now another law doesn't necessarily have to exist, right?

Yeah, sure, final loophole. There are those. I guess there are a bunch of them. I guess down in Florida, people are in California. All that shit, it's just going down. I mean, that's a league that would crush, right? Similar to how the XFL, not similar to how the XFL operates, but if there was a different MLB where everyone was just taking juice.

MLB Street or what? Yeah was a different MLB where everyone was just taking juice. MLB Street or like that. Yeah, exactly. MLB pole runs. Just absolute gorilla men walking into the batter's box, just swinging a guy as massive as Brock Lesnar. Telephone pole.

XBL. But also, let's say the pitchers, by the way, they're coming. We got balls. 150 The XBL. But also, let's say, the pitchers, by the way. Exactly. They're coming. Oh, my. We got balls. Yeah. Oh. 150 on the gun with a fastball.

Man, that'd be cool. That'd be the most watched sport of all time. Okay, so we need enough money and insurance. We're going to need a lot of insurance. Well, the thing about this league is that there is no insurance. Oh, jeez. You have to pay for your own. Your only refund will be escaping this death trap

with your life. That's right. Is this league that you just put together? Yeah. Okay, let's pivot back to something we know a little bit about.

It is obviously April 1st, and it feels like this is an April Fool's joke to you Packers fans, but it's not. Mark Murphy, president of the

Green Bay Packers, spoke about the Aaron Rodgers contract and future and everything yesterday in a press conference. And Rob Domofsky of ESPN asked him the question. And this was the answer from the guy who basically runs the entire organization, right? This is the pseudo-owner. This is the pseudo-head of the Packers because Ty and his friends are the pseudo owner. This is the pseudo head of the Packers because Ty and his friends are the actual

owners. But this guy is the face of it. He was asked about Aaron and it was not how I expected a response at all. No, I can't really get into specific players. Yeah, we've been able to create room with others.

Don't you guys want to ensure though that he's your quarterback beyond just this season yeah i'm not going to get into the specifics again good try though rob okay good effort rob good one what does that mean it just makes no sense because the guaranteed money is basically up after this season so that's why everybody although he's in contract for three more seasons after this season Because the guaranteed money is basically up after this season. So that's why everybody, although he's in contract for three more seasons, after this season, all the guaranteed money done, which in the NFL, especially at the quarterback position or any high-level paid positions, the guaranteed money stops. That's basically when a contract's over.

Because the player's going to say something, and the team now is at a point where they can just cut the player. So everybody sees the way Aaron's contract has been constructed. They see the Jordan Love draft pick. Then they see him go MVP. And the initial thought was, is Aaron going to get traded? Like, is Aaron trade?

And then it came out, no, we tried. They said no. There's been no real talk about that. So then the thought was, okay, with the way contracts are being set up right now around the NFL, you would think if the Packers wanted him for the rest of his career, which is what he has openly said that he wanted to do, and then he has now come to the point, he told us on this particular show,

that he has a very real view on how he doesn't control anything that could potentially happen. So you thought that there was maybe, whenever he was talking, a chance of, yeah, we're in conversations about maybe an extension to figure this out, maybe some voidable years to move some money around and all that. Instead, what Mark Murphy said there was very different. It was like, I'm not going into specifics. Get out of here.

It's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. What is good? Do you not want Aaron Rodgers for the rest of his career over there? Are you not happy about what's going on? He just won the MVP. The NFL only gave him 35 seconds to talk and accept it, but he just, what are we doing over there, Ty? It just makes no sense because you know what the reaction to this is going to be

a thousand out of a thousand times. It's not like he can come out. You have to give more than that. What are they going to make him have like another prove it year and even if it's like hey we're in negotiations right now like you say a little something don't i mean it makes you know it legitimately does make it seem like all the shows fuck this guy he's out of town all the shows this morning were is there a beef between aaron and the green bay packers after maybe the greatest year he has ever had? Statistically.

The team seemed to have more fun than they've ever had. He seemed to be tight with the floor, real tight with the floor, from the outside. So what are we doing over there, Ty? I don't know. I mean, I wish I had something. I wish I could tell you what the hell is going on. You'd think coming off an MVP season it would have been a no-brainer where it's just like, hey.

Let's set up a 10-year deal. Yeah. The last six are voidable. It's actually only a four-year deal here. We'll give you this. It'll be a signing bonus. We'll be able to move this to this. It'll just be, hey, let's make this work pretty easily here.

And it's like, not that at all. Aaron's over there in jeopardy. And they're like, what is bullshit? And Aaron's like, the situation I'm in with my team right now. The situation I'm in with my team right now. You know what I mean? This is, I don't know. I have not talked to Aaron since the last Aaron Rodgers Tuesday.

So I have not, I'm not in his camp of people. He would tell how he's feeling about anything. But last season season you know nfc going into the season nfc championship don't really do much to try to get go back to the nfc championship team looks even better so you're thinking to yourself okay maybe the team knew that that nfc championship appearance against san francisco a year ago wasn't the team that they were even though all year in the first year of LaFleur's offense, they weren't really winning, but it wasn't pretty.

But made it to the NFC Championship, who cares? They thought to themselves, year two, they're going to grow, here we go. Didn't really do much to, they saw other teams, Chiefs, Niners, Tampa, Saints even. There was other teams that were like trying to go. The Packers were very calm about it. Then you go into the season, everything seems to be going good. You would think after the season, it'd be like, hey, last year, our thoughts

were okay. They were pretty good. We'd get back to the NFC Championship. This year, let's admit fault. We should not have drafted Jordan Love. Aaron Rodgers is nowhere near the end. Let's try to go ahead and go for this thing. Let's renegotiate his contract. Let's get him in here. That's what I thought would happen.

And if you're Aaron, I assume you think maybe that will happen as well at some point. I don't know if he did or not. But that's wild to me what's going on in Green Bay. Yeah, it just stinks because after Jordan Love got traded, everything got perpetuated. And then he performed like he did. So, like you said, going into this offseason, you know there's going to be some stuff with the cap being lower. And obviously, they were going to have to do something. But I really didn't.

I expected it to be fairly quiet and to get done quickly. And I mean, I just. It doesn't sound like it's anywhere near. No, it doesn't. Writing's on the wall. Oh, no. Maybe he's. What if he was the Detroit Lion lion quarterback with motor city dan campbell up

he would never he would go down as the goat if he could win in detroit so think about aaron cleveland could you imagine if green bay traded aaron within the division that's how that's how they felt mark burfield's like get him out Murphy's like, fucking get him out of here. Detroit, fucking get him out. If there's one guy who could negotiate that, it is MCDC. Imagine Aaron on another team. We had to do a lot

of that last year whenever Jordan Love was drafted. It felt like they were trying to push him out. Him in a lot of different places would be incredibly dope. Oh, yeah. Who knows? Maybe San Francisco would dress Trey Lance at three. I don't know. What?

I don't know. They need him to sit for a couple years. Maybe they get a little bit more aggressive in pursuing someone. Rod's hometown team is the Niners. I don't know. Wow. Get something done, for Christ's sake. How about Pittsburgh? Oh, Indianapolis. Rodgers' hometown team is the Niners. I don't know. Get something done, for Christ's sake. How about Pittsburgh?

Oh, Indianapolis. I mean, anywhere he goes, instant contenders. Yeah. We're living in the year 2090 right now. We are live in Yankee Stadium. Getting ready for the Toronto Blue Jays in the New York Yankees to open up this MLB opening day. I'm Pat McPhee. Pretty cool where we're at right now.

Ty Schmidt, I believe you're with me. Boston Conner, you're with me. Unbelievable stadium. What a fucking place we're at right now, huh? This is wild. I mean, I really do feel like I'm sitting inside of Yankee Stadium right now. I do believe we

actually are. I don't know how this works, okay? I have no idea how we are living in the generation that not only is creating little starships so we can have intergalactic travel, okay, that's happening, but we're also in the time where Ready Player One's a fucking thing.

We are at Yankee Stadium right now. Thank God. We are in Yankee Stadium right now. And I'm going to try to bounce around here to a couple different things. But this is absurd. Aaron Judge, how you doing, pal? That's right. You hit a fucking homer today, Bob.

Huh? Let's go. Meet you, Judge. Huh? Let's go, dude. Thank God theyer today, Bob. Huh? Let's go. Need you, Judge. Huh? Let's go, dude. Thank God they have this, too. It's the only way I'd step inside this scumbag stadium. Through a VR headset.

Jeez Louise. Yankees stink. I don't think that's true, okay? The Yankees have always had an incredible squad, and they invest in their team. That's right. Which is why I appreciate the hell out of them. It's obviously opening day. We'll be joined by Kevin Euclid.

Euclid! Zito, I don't know if you're in the stadium with us or not. I'm not, no. Okay, can you tell us how many people give a single fuck that it's opening day? I think they would care more if they were here. A lot of comments are saying the only thing you guys are missing is concessions, like virtual concessions.

Is that what you think? That would be nice. We need virtual concessions. There we go! That's what I'm talking about. Attaboy, man. Attaboy. Thank you, man. get a course attaboy Mitt attaboy go ahead that's how to do it bye

alright Mitt attaboy Mitt thank you Mitt thank you Mitt thank you Mitt Mitt we really appreciate that a lot of this is

ridiculous though what's that you want a nice long big ass cold beer

and broke my heart I mean it's only a day. Yeah, Bud Light here. I will say, whenever we knew we were potentially going to be on the fucking field. Yeah, what are the tickets like right now? Where are you sitting?

We're right behind home plate. It's wonderful. Sitting next to Billy Crystal, pretty much. Get out of here. Love Monsters Inc., Billy. Thank you. Thank you for what you did. Great hosting.

Appreciate you, Bill. Great host. You're a great host, Bill. Fantastic. How's Aaron look? He's big. He's tall. I told him he could have a fucking homer because he's at like plus 350 right now to hit a home

run or something like that. And to be the first home run of the MLB season, I think it was like plus 2100 or something, right? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Juicy. He's going to hit one out. They're saying the like plus 2,100 or something, right? Yeah. He's going to hit one out. They're saying the wind is blowing away from us here, boys.

Perfect. They're saying the wind's blowing that way. It's a hitter stadium today. That's exactly what we need. Yeah, we were told it was blowing out to right field. So, I mean, we'll see. There should be a lot of dingers today. There should be.

Obviously, we got Garrett. Over here, they have the stats. Oh, yeah. You see, like, the stats. Garrett Cole versus Mr. Seaman here. Yeah, you click the thing on the bottom, too. You'll get the whole entire field instead of just the home plate. Get out of here. Little strike zone.

Oh, yeah. Really? It's unbelievable. You're bouncing around the whole fucking stadium, bro? I'm messing around. Hey, get back to your seat, dude. I'm everywhere. I'm in the grandstand.

Now, these are my people, you know. I'm in the nosebleeds. It's pee bleed. I'm in the nose bleeds. Mine just started saying it'll begin shortly. Yeah, mine's still sitting on this event will begin shortly. No, we're back. Are we not going to watch the game? I just saw warm-ups. I just talked to Aaron Johnson.

I'm watching Gary Sanchez take BP, boys. We're okay. It'll be back. Don't worry. We are all using the same login. I wonder if that has to... You think they know that it's being used on 15 devices? And the same IP address.

I'm using Don Tom Brons too, so I think we should be okay. We can switch. That's why you're okay. I think ours is potential. You guys got kicked out of the stadium already? Baseball stinks again. So you've been kicked out of the stadium already? Baseball stinks again. Baseball stinks again.

Baseball stinks. Damn over. So you've been kicked out of a virtual basketball game. Great. No. Virtual baseball game. Anyways, welcome back to the show. Thank you, Mitt, for the hot dog here with ketchup on it, which is the only way to eat it. Yeah, thanks for mine, Mitt.

Yeah, what the hell? What did you get? He brought in, he had a lot of stuff. I didn't get anything. I asked for everything. When I went out there to take a little, you know, urine trip. Uh-huh. Come on, man.

He had a lot of stuff. I'm assuming the behind-the-glass group is eating a lot of food right now, right? Oh, yeah. It's Monje Monje City back there. Mitt did great work. He even had a little thing he set up and decorated. Anyways, welcome back. Opening day.

We're trying to be active. We're watching the game now on TV here. We were in there yeah sitting in the stadium yeah it's a bummer this guy doesn't work because i mean all of a sudden i'm here and then hold on i'm in the state no yeah i'm in the state like that i'm here i'm in the state i was in the stadium i was in i was like that and then it just this event will begin shortly just shut off i'm telling it's bad i'm in this i. I'm in the stadium right now. I could be taking hacks from Garrett Cole if I really wanted to.

How's he pitching? Is the ball moving? Well, he's walking out to the mound now, but from the looks of it, yeah, he's going to be throwing gas today. Okay, so maybe take the under for the Torontos. Yeah, there you go. Maybe take Garrett Cole's over for strikeouts as well if he's throwing smoke. I think the over-under is at 8.5 or something like that. But there's also a same-game parlay you can hit right now on Fando.

And I think it's up to $10 off on a same-game parlay for one of these baseball games that is plus $400 or more. You have to opt in. But you get a free $10 parlay, basically. There's a lot of options in baseball for the same game parlay. I have a plus $25 hunch parlay from a $10. There's a plus $3,000 one I put together. The home runs, like Aaron Judge, I think it's like plus $250 or something like that just for this game.

Then if he's the first one of the entire MLB thing, it's like plus $2,100 or something. There's a lot of good gambling in this baseball. Oh, yeah, for sure, especially in this first. I mean, like the Yankees will hit home runs. Like that's what their offense is built on. The wind blowing out to, you know, I mean, the short porch out in right field. I mean, we're going to see some fireworks today, I think. Well, they need to get the pitch in here, all right?

No kidding. It's just 105 games start. It's always a little late. Classic kidding. What time does this 105 game start? Yeah. It's always a little late. Classy baseball. What's going on in there? Vlad Guerrero Jr. Look, boys, I know the Yankees have Garrett Cole and everything, but Vlad Guerrero Jr. looks yoked today.

He might hit three home runs, guys. I'm sorry. I'm looking at him in person. I mean, this guy's an absolute monster. Look out. It's not good for the Yankees, I'll tell you that much. Just a thought. I want to let everybody know, if you're listening, this is tough.

Yeah, you can get it. This is maybe the toughest big visual. I should have led off with we're all in Oculus, inoculi in the virtual reality world there. Whenever we learned that we could potentially be in the stadium as the game was starting, I mean, we immediately said, well, we're coming immediately back from the break and we're all wearing them. Homework assignment, bring in Oculi this morning.

Had to do this whole thing. We were pumped about it. I want to let you know, when you just gave that breakdown, Vlad, right there, and with your mustache being really the only thing you can see. Oh, sure. With how you're outside looking at him. I mean, that was exactly what we imagined. Yeah. Marcus Simeon, Stephan.

I mean, look, I was on the Yankees. I still am, even though I like the Red Sox. But his Blue Jays team looks tough, boys. And they're all up on the dugout. I mean, they're fired up now. Oh, the boys are buzzing. Oh, yeah. They're buzzing.

I'm nervous. We take the Blue Jays. I mean, ball one. up now. Oh, the boys are buzzing. Oh, yeah, they're buzzing. I'm nervous. We taking the Blue Jays? I mean, ball one. Uh-oh, guys. Hey, Zito's got his glove on. Yeah, I'm ready to catch one. Zito's got his glove on. Oh, here we go.

Can of corn. Here we go. Can of corn. Oh, see, you're ahead of the. Well, yeah, it's because I'm at the stadium. You guys have to delay. You guys have to delay on the feed. I'm at the stadium.

I'm watching live. I'm sorry. We need strikeouts, though. Okay. Yeah, we need strikeouts, not cans of corn. All right, Garrett, let's get them to lay low. I'm at the stadium. I'm watching it live. I'm sorry. We need strikeouts though. We need strikeouts, not cans of corn. All right, Garrett, let's get them a little... Come on now! Okay. It wasn't a can of corn either. Routine ground

ball. What game are you watching? Are you there? That was a can of corn. I mean, it was a pop off the bat, but hell, if that guy can't get that ground ball, then what is a can of corn these days? Let's go to the phone, shall we? Let's go to Sonny in Toronto. Sonny, what's going on?

What's going on, Pat? Shout out, you guys. Shout out, Pat. Shout out to the boys. I want to give a special shout out to an individual in the YouTube comment section. His name is Turk Davidson. He holds it. Don.

So, thank you, Turk. Okay. Shout out, Turk Ferguson there. Appreciate that. Thank you, dude. He hung up, by the way. I'm not hanging up, but that's literally all you want to do. Okay, shout out to Turk Ferguson there. Appreciate that. Thank you, dude. He hung up, by the way. I don't hang up, but that's literally all you want to do is give a shout out. Big shout out to Turk Ferguson.

Yeah, thank you. YouTube community. What is Turk? Turk's holding it down in there. There's a couple people. We got Rusty Trombone, I believe, is also in there. Foxy Stinks is always doing something like that. Foxy Stinks is always holding it down.

Boots to Passes, I believe, is in there. Pepe, obviously. Pepe's in there. There's a couple more. Jin Shu. Anthony. That boy's eating that. Michael.

Yeah. Mike. Yeah, big Mike. Mike. Let's go to Clay in Minneapolis. What's going on, Clay? What's up, boys? This is an absolute dream of mine.

You guys are electric. Oh, thank you. You should see. This is a dream of ours, too, man. We thought to ourselves, if we could get a good call from a guy named Clay, today would be a good day. Here we are, Clay in Minneapolis, making fucking dreams come true. What do you want to talk about? Hey, I'll take it.

Let's go. I'm a student at U of M. I'm studying sports management. I work with the equipment staff for the electric PJ Plex. It is my dream to work with you guys, so I'm just wondering, what is it like to look around and be like, wow, this is my job. I created this with me and my boys, this fucking masterpiece. Well, Clay, good call.

Ended it with a complete bullshit statement. This place is not a masterpiece. Well, it's not Clay, good call. Ended it with a complete bullshit statement. This place is not a masterpiece. Okay, this morning I mean this morning we had a remote that didn't have any batteries in it and somebody was trying to use it. I would assume for numerous days and just, well, it doesn't work.

I guess that just doesn't happen. I mean, I was here this morning. I'm at Yankee Stadium. I don't know who did that, but it wasn't me. This place is obviously filled with a lot of very, very dumb things and happenings. But yeah,

I think we're all pretty pumped that this is a job that we get to do. Yeah, definitely. Pretty wild. Couldn't dream it up in a lap. Hey, Connor. Connor's been working construction before. Gumpy was painting ships. The only issue with that, guys, we do not drink snake oil here

and it sounds like he's been guzzling that with P.J. Fleck. Oh, you're talking about his. He's all the way. He's all the way in. I like P.J. Fleck. More power to you. Me too. P.J. came on and gave a speech on this show. People are like, want this guy to

run for president someday. Yeah, right. He's going to come on again. I don't do speeches no more. I don't either. Wider, so you were up in Minnesota and had a nice little 40 this morning, too. Really? Yeah.

Hey, let's not talk about Winfield Jr., dude. He is absolute stud for Tampa. Tampa needed him, rookie out of Minnesota. Hey, P.J. Fleck has turned that place around. Yes. They got a beautiful facility they let us use. I mean, I'm a big Gopher fan. Row the boat now.

Row the boat. Who hates Iowa? We hate Iowa. That's what Minnesota didn't say. Yeah. vote now. Who hates Iowa? We hate Iowa! That's what Minnesota didn't say. It's kind of a loser's mentality, but hey, do you. You don't hear Iowa chanting, we hate

Minnesota. Let's go to Corey in Shelbyville. The crowd was popping. Corey, what's going on? That place, we hate Iowa. That was a lot of hate. I never heard something that loud. It was awesome. Kind of a loser's mentality. What an answer there by an Iowa native.

What do you want to talk about, Corey and Shelbyville? The show kind of stinks right now. We are distracted. This is the only time baseball matters, and I think we all have a rather significant amount of money on this particular game. What do you want to talk about, buddy? This show is the greatest show on the Internet or TV every day.

Doesn't matter what baseball trash is. Doesn't matter. Not every time. You guys might want to check on Mitt in the back. Those phones are staticky as fuck, and I don't think he noticed. He was putting together. He has been doing that as well But he was of CBD That's right

But he's been putting together this This game day Him and him And I got It's very well done I don't know where the rest of it is But it's very good What do you want to talk about though Corey Well I had a question

I was wondering if you guys were as shocked as I was that Jay Glazer didn't break the news on the full stadiums last week. If Big Raj is bringing it out this week, I figured Jay would have had it at least. That's a good point. That's great. Listen, Corey, we didn't think about that. You know, we did not think about that. But I would assume he was in the know. You know, it seems like he was in the know.

But, Raj, I don't think he gets his leaks from the NFL themselves. You want to keep the NFL happy if you work in the NFL world. But we'd assume Jay Glazer knew a couple weeks ago. Obviously. The guy doesn't miss. Okay. So, shout out, Jay Glazer. Shout out to our guest right now, though.

Hey. Here we go. Listen, it's baseball opening day. Yep. Okay. The New York Yankees are currently playing the baseball against Toronto. That has nothing to do with the man that's joining us right now. Over 10 seasons in the MLB. Played for the Red Sox, White Sox, Yankees.

Two-time World Series champion with the Red Sox. He's also the owner of Loma Brewing Company and Loma Coffee Company. Let's go. Fantastic. Delicious. Fantastic. Both the coffee and the beer, by the way. And I think the last time we talked to him, or one of the times we talked to him, he said, well, I got into the beer, and then I realized I had

to get into the coffee as well the next morning, and they created something that was absolutely incredible. Ladies and gentlemen, they're not booing him. Kevin, you! Come on, what's going on, Bob? How are you, pal? Good morning, good morning. Happy opening day, man. Hey, this is big day. We led off the show with this. Baseball has three big days in the sports world. Opening day,

the final World Series game, like outside the baseball world, you know what I mean? And then whenever some ridiculously dramatic story drops in the offseason where Rob manfred said something stupid that those are the three days today's one of them i'm so thankful you joined us today yuk i'm glad to be here you got to slide the hand though you got to get that hand up and start sliding it down there it is wow and then i think you also did one of these as well yeah yeah on the pole. Slide down. There you go. Good. There's a lot of people. Yeah, here it is.

Were you pointing that straight at the pitcher? Yeah, it changed so much. Who knows where the hell that passed. Man, it was there. It was here. Who knows? I mean, there's so many different stances you can look at, man. It's not how you look. It's like what you do after all that. It's not how you start. It was here. Who knows? I mean, there's so many different stances you can look at, man. It's not how you look.

It's how you – it's like what you do after all that. It's not how you start. It's how you finish. Yeah, the swing, all you got to do is make contact, right? As long as you're – if you're getting through it and you're making contact, what matters? It does not matter how you look beforehand. No, no, no. People call me fat, though. It doesn't matter about looks.

Yook, when I played baseball one time, a lot of people on the Internet said I looked fat in my batter stance. What's that all about? I have no idea what that means. I mean, people told me I look fat all the time. I think I look great. I look great. Last year we talked to you before the state fair-like season was how it was being described. Like, this is not baseball.

It's shortened. There's a reason why you have bullpens and everything like that. It was changed baseball with the season. But it had to do what they had to do to get through the season. Now it's back to 162 games. Today's the first one. Have you had a chance to chat with people within the league on how much are they much happier this year going into the season?

Does it feel like pre-COVID season? Like what is the mindset of the players and everybody in the MLB as they approach this season here? Yeah, the coaches, the players are excited. They're pumped. I mean, it's just back to a little bit of normalcy. But the number one thing, which is always the most crucial part of playing sports, our fans are back.

When the fans get back in the stands it's the adrenaline rush when you play 162 games you need the fans i don't even know how they made it even through 60 games without fans last year because those backfield spring training suck like i hated those days when there's fans it gives you that atmosphere of like man i made it and this is the like just the cheers the booze you name booze, you name it, you know, the name calling, you know, walking in Yankee Stadium, seeing the, you know,

the fuck you shirts. One of my favorite parts. But that's the beauty of sports, right? Yeah. In the baseball world, because you guys travel so much and there's so many games. It's just like,

it feels like it's every single day you guys have a game. I always wondered about the mental fatigue potentially that you could experience. Now, obviously, with football, your immediate thought is like the fans are very important in football because defenses are going to have to run their faces into people. They need that adrenaline rush. But I would assume just for the sanity of a season, the different crowds or potential places you could go to experience, those are probably a little bit mood.

I would assume that is a big-time mood boost in the draining-ass season is normally the MLB. Oh, you guys live on the road. You're like rock stars. Oh, yeah, you're on the road constantly. You're waking up. I mean, you don't even know what time you're waking up half the time because your clock's always changing. You're moving different places.

But there was nothing worse than going to like – I mean, luckily the Red Sox, playing for the Red Sox, they travel, right? I mean, the fans are everywhere. They travel. They show up. But, like, there's nothing worse than going to Tampa Bay and playing in a stadium that is just dead. You know, it's hot.

It's summertime. Luckily it's inside. But it's just mood's summertime. Luckily, it's inside, but it's just mood setting. It gets you in the right mood. When you go into the old Yankee Stadium, the new Yankee Stadium is not as fun as the old one. There's just packed people on top of you yelling and screaming.

It also separated the great from the average, too. The guys that like to get up for that game and have those fans on top of you and in your ear and telling you, like I said, there's a lot of things we can't say probably here on the TV. Is this radio? Is this TV or radio or both? Well, you already said, fuck

you. I did say that, didn't I? I don't know how much. I don't know how much further you're going. I don't think you should. Let it fly, big guy.

Let it fly. We're streaming, right? It's all about the stream or whatever the hell we're on here. That's the beauty of it, man. The fans make it. They make it happen. There are some stadiums that feel better than others.

And they shit talk so much in baseball. You've got three and a half hours of shit talk. I mean, you go to Oakland, you're in the outfield. I played the outfield maybe one time in Oakland, and I got buried. I was running all over the map. I'm not an outfielder. I sucked at outfield. And they're like, go back to first base.

I'm like, please, tell my manager that. I'm ready to move back yeah because in the outfield by the way those are normally like five ten buck seats in the bleachers in some places or whatever you know and that is normally a good time when you go to the outfield that is a good time you're out there and the players are on an island none of their teammates are with them that they are literally just standing on a stage but it's not really a stage because it's lower not really a stage because it's lower than everybody. A stage would be higher. It's actually lower than everybody.

There is just a natural instinct in the outfield to be like, hey! You suck! Fuck you! It is a natural instinct to do that, but I feel like we get a lot more moments where the outfielders turn around and there's an interaction. I think those subtleties are what make baseball cool.

I think that type of stuff, you don't get that in many other sports. The strike zone, Yuke, is it not time to get rid of these umps? Let's get rid of these umps. Let's get the digital square on the screen. Let's just get them out of the game. We don't need somebody calling it tight down there. Let's get the digital square on the screen. Let's just get them out of the game. We don't need somebody calling it tight down there. We need, on TV we see it's a strike.

It needs to be a strike. You get them out of the game, Uke. Are we doing that ever or no? Yeah, I don't know. I mean, now you're cutting jobs. I mean. Oh, no, no, no, no. Move them somewhere else.

No, move them somewhere else. You're going tech and unemployment's going down. No, no, no, no, no. No, no. Move them somewhere else. No, move them somewhere else. You're going tech and unemployment's going down. No, no, no, no. No, no, no, no. No, no, send them somewhere else. No, no, send them out to the outfield, you know, or somewhere. Add another so the game gets better and there's more jobs, actually. And they can shit talk the outfielders.

That should be their job. Umpires should move to the outfield and just shit talk players all game yuk i uh every time i say that the people in baseball that are actual baseball fans get so they hate it like people like in baseball it's like the strike zone is a like that's something the game is about the up what the strike zone is like it's like those those kind of inside baseball things that i think if you're not in baseball you don't know about that But whenever it gets to like the World Series or playoffs and they have that thing on there and it's like that's clearly, clearly a strike. And I potentially bet on one of these teams that I know nothing about.

No. Yeah, I did. Yeah, me potentially. And it kind of fucked me over a little bit there. It's like outside baseball. We need to do this. We need to do this. With hockey, it just happened with a ref getting a hot mic where basically it was exposed that in hockey, there is like game management. And like, if a bad call is

one way, there's a makeup call the other way. And all the people in hockey came out and were like, we understand that that happens. That's our game. Baseball seems to have a lot of that, doesn't it? I think baseball has a lot of that stuff inside of it. You know, the worst one is the 3-00 the 3-0 automatic call i that was my least favorite of all the calls like if it's anywhere near the strike zone they're like ha and i'm like wait wait wait hold on you're telling me you like this guy can't throw a strike in 3-0 i gotta wait no i can't go to first wait what like i'm so confused here like no no we're gonna speed up the game but now you're not speeding up the game because that's one more pitch.

And then the next one he throws in the dirt, and then he walked down to first. I'm like, guys, you got this all wrong. It's a strike. It's a strike. It doesn't matter if it's 3-0, 0-0, 1-1, 2-1. Call the damn game the way it's supposed to be called all the time. So I'm in agreement on some of this stuff. But, you know, for me, it's not my, I'm not hung up on the strike zone thing.

I know that I think also the box too, from what I've heard is when they used in the Arizona fall league, the curve balls were being called strikes because of the box, but literally they're almost hitting the ground. So it's not all there yet. I think the technology will get there and, you know, you can't,

you can't fight it, man. Tech always wins in the end. I'm here in Silicon Valley and tech always wins. A lot of things, by the way. They win everything. All the things. Grocery shops, they tech one. Anything that you think they're potentially not going to win, tech

will win. You just said 3-0 automatic strike coming basically from the Yumps because 4-0 probably strike coming basically from the yumps because the 4-0 probably looks bad or they feel bad whatever the case is uh is there anything else like that because i remember like uh bryce harper was getting into some shit with the uh baseball purist then last year uh old buddy uh tatis was getting into some trouble with that it feels like there's a lot of like rules almost that the baseball community has. And it seems like those are all kind of coming to light as more and more of them are getting broken.

Is there more that we don't know about? And what is your kind of feelings on the evolution of sport almost that is baseball? Wow, it's like a dissertation I'm going to have to write here. Wow. Really? I'm kidding, man. That was a good yeah that was a really long and good question you asked there well i wanted to make sure i laid it

out to people that don't know baseball too you know yeah that's true there's a lot of people out there that don't understand it but the big thing yeah this is really i want to make you feel better though and i want to say there's a lot of people that don't understand it thank you but it's really just you oh yeah okay got it yeah no, the one that used to always get called, which changed immediately with instant replay, was if the ball beats you, they would tag you, but if the ball beats you, you're out. Like even if you slid underneath the tag or got around it,

you were automatically out. So that's one rule that's changed dramatically. It's also the one I don't like, too, is the super slow-mo replay where if the guy slides off the base and he's up in the air a little bit but he's been safe the whole time, and just that little glimpse of him being off the base, they call that. That's one I'm not a big fan of. You know, he was safe usually back in the day.

But, yeah, I think the evolution of baseball is just basically this. Pitchers are trying to throw the ball as hard as they can. They're trying to spin the ball as hard as they can, which is basically – I mean, I'm not going to get into that. You're going to have to Google that one, spin rates. Hey, that kid can spin it. Yeah. That kid can spin it.

Yeah. Look for a ball. Get a ball. But, anyways, spin rates are high. When you throw a fastball up in the zone, you get more spin. Guys are trying to swing and hit home runs, so their swings are going underneath more. Guys are pounding the top of the zone.

You get more strikeouts. You're getting more walks. You're getting more hit by pitches and less balls in play. So for me, I'm not a huge fan of less balls in play because I like to see action. I think the fans agree with it. And baseball is just going to have to adapt and adjust over time. Because if the fans don't like it, you're going to have to change.

But if the fans keep coming out, keep doing your thing, boys. So baseball success still going, huh? Baseball as a sport, a lot of still growing and growing in the baseball world, yeah? Yeah, I think so. I mean, baseball is always – I think it's – you know, I didn't look at the attendance record from like 2019 versus 18 and all that um it's just changing right i mean everything's changing in life with streaming and i think youtube has taken over baseball in some way so you can watch it on youtube but let's go uh you know it's just uh i think the hardest part about baseball is getting younger fans and we just we need to fix some

things at the lower levels and younger levels to make baseball more exciting you know and that's pretty much my mission going forward is you know i can only change so much the major league level but i can really help out the younger levels and try to change some things because we got to get this thing rocking more kids need to be playing baseball we need athletes i agree can we get can we get the pitchers to relax whenever somebody hits a home run and gets excited about it? Can we get that to potentially? And on the flip side, can we get some pitchers talking more shit

when they strike people out? Can we get a little bit? Can we get more of that? Or is that something? Oh, you don't like that. You don't like it. Well, no. Well, for me, it's just it never ends well, man.

I mean, it's always somebody charging them out. There's always bench-clearing fights, and it's going to happen, man. It's always somebody charging them out. There's always bench-clearing fights. It's going to happen, man. It's just human nature. When you get 20-year-olds that don't have fully developed brains, I was there at one point. Science. You kind of get sensitive, and the next thing you know, it's go time.

Everyone's out there, and then you've got the one guy in the back that's like, hold me back, hold me back, hold me back. I'm the craziest one, but I'm always in the back. Good for the game. In football, it's way different. I mean, in football, they probably have that too. No. But you always have the craziest dudes, right?

Well, I always say it's the DBs and wide receivers that are always getting in. They're always getting in fights. And then it's always the big dudes that have to come in. They put their hands on people, move them aside. But there's always the one dude in baseball that's at the back, like come on back and acting crazy. Yeah. You always, so in football fights, the West Virginia team I was on people, people like starting shit with us. It felt like, so there was numerous pregame like situations that happened. And when those things happen, you have to be on the film.

Like so, you know, you have to be in. You have to. It does not matter. You cannot be seen on team film, game film, not being in it when everybody else is. So that was something I think I learned in college. And in the NFL, there was a couple of situations that popped off in my area. There's a film of me that we watched in the, literally, Chuck like circuited at one point. A scruff starts, I put my helmet on and I immediately just run right into the middle of it. There's no objective, no objective at all. I just went right into the middle of it.

And then everybody kind of got pushed away. And I just kind of fell back and just started punting into the thing again. And the question was like, what the fuck are you doing? I was like, well, there's no way. If I'm not in there, even if I'm getting beat up, if I'm not in there, we got big problems here. And they were like, just fucking stay out of it. Just stay out of it or whatever. But baseball, those.

Yeah, what was your thought? What was your first thought when you ran in there? Like, I want to know what your first thought was. Like, who am I going after? No, that's not the thought. What am I doing? The thought is, okay, I should eat a punch here if anybody's going to take it. I have to get in here.

You know what I mean? Like, I have. And by the way, it was just like, it was something on the sideline. So I didn't go onto the field. It was near the kicking net. way it was just like it was something on the sideline so i didn't go on to the field it was near the kicking net but it was just like a clean helmet on let me just run i got nothing on anybody in this i would get killed but it's just like have to be seen on film those baseball fights though do you guys have mission are you guys trying to knock each other is that because they seem so intense like at least the batter in the picture there is so much intense.

And then when everybody else comes on, how many people are like, ah, fuck, my God, we got to go do this? Or is it like all hands on deck whenever those fights happen where you got to swing? Well, you always have a certain few players that are always the ones that you have to worry about, right? Like, there's a couple players that you're like, oh, God, if that switch goes on, it's I mean, there's going to be haymakers thrown. I mean, there's going to be just craziness that ensues here. So it's always on both teams. So you always have to spot them.

You know, the funny thing is, like, speaking of the Yankees, an opening day, this but like Kyle Farnsworth, that was a guy that luckily he was in the bullpen. Right. And he had to he was in the bullpen, right? And he had to run out from the bullpen. If he's coming in out of that dugout, we're all like, who's got him? Who's got Kyle Farnsworth? And it's not who, it's how many guys are going to take on Kyle Farnsworth and get this going. Because the thing about the baseball fights too, they get so stupid a lot of times but when they start scrumming like when the scrum and you get the pile it is this all-out nonsense because you got cleats you got spikes i mean it is this you know something you're coming out of there with something right but no one really throws a good punch right you're kind of

all just hugging you're kind of like doing your thing and it feels like there's a lot of bad punches in baseball why is that why is that because you guys. It feels like there's a lot of bad punches in baseball. Why is that? Is that because you guys are just throwing like it's a baseball? Well, you know, that's one thing I learned after like – it's funny. After baseball, I started doing jiu-jitsu and I was like, man, there was a lot of things I would have done differently in these fights. Like there had been a lot of different things I would have done

that would have been a lot of fun. There I'd done that had been a lot of fun. There was only one time I got a guy pinned down. It was the Cocoa Crisp charging, and I was on top, mounted. I was mounted. I was a perfect BJJ mounted. And just thinking about what I could have done in that situation. But I didn't get in the fight, so I wasn't as angry. I think, you know, it was more the fight or flight where you're in it.

Yeah, you had a good position, though. I was mounted. It was it. Like choke hold, I could have got in on it. You could have. Oh, you were on his back? You had his back? No, mount.

In mount. So he was opening up his elbow. You could have dropped some bones on him. Yeah, it would have gone to work. Right. Then it could have done the choke out. You know, there are so many things. They have no side control.

So if you pull up that, right, pull up that fight because I know you have Sean Casey on sometimes. Sean Casey beat me out of the – Sean Casey gets thrown out of second base like I've never seen on balls hit off the green monster to 380 in right center field. He is on a full sprint out of the dugout, and I'm running out there as fast as I can. Sean beat me in a race to the freaking pitcher's mound. I was somewhat excited for him to see speed finally in his life,

but I was also embarrassed by the time I got out there that I was chasing Sean Casey to the pitcher's mound. But that Coco Crisp fight is pretty amazing if you go watch that one. Johnny Gomes, watch the punches he throws. Hey, so the interesting thing is, and by the way, shout out that you're doing jiu-jitsu. You're rolling every morning over there. You're getting people to tap out.

Well, I'll tell you what, man. I think I've been tapped out more than I've tapped out people. I trained jiu-jitsu one morning. It was me, Matt Mitrione. I don't think he's a known jiu-jitsu guy either. He tapped me out three times in one one morning It was me, Matt Mitrione I don't think he's a known jujitsu guy either He tapped me out three times in one minute It was awesome, broke both of my arms At one point

Could have broke my head, I had a double arm lock Couldn't even tap out I had to do it with my twin You get in the weirdest position in the hospital Your arm is over here And next thing you know you're like How do I tap? You try to figure out how to tap.

Yeah. And you got thighs on. BKJ is where it's at, man. It's a workout. It's hard. And you know what? It's humbling as hell. You learn real quick that, oh, I think I'm tough.

You're like, no, I'm not tough. I got to keep going here more. Ty, what do you have? Luke, have you heard anything about the COVID protocols from guys and how it's going to go? Because I feel like last year, doing that through a 60-game season in terms of how guys prepare for games might have been a little bit easier than this year when you're going to have to do that kind of stuff before 162 games. Do you think that's going to impact any guys?

Yeah, I think I haven't heard too much about the protocols and how they've changed. My wife and I were watching the basketball games. And can somebody please explain why they put all the chairs next to each other on the court in the timeout, but then off the court they all have to sit like 20 feet apart? It doesn't make any sense at the time. They do sprint those out. Yeah. Sprint those out.

They're all like getting in. They're all getting in. They're all getting in like team. But then it's like, whoa, spread out, spread out, spread out. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. Hopefully they all just get vaccinated as soon as possible. And listen, I know we have to get everyone vaccinated, but this is a lot of entertainment value for a lot of us. So if we can get everyone vaccinated as soon as possible,

whether it be fans, players, let's get this thing rocking. Now, I'm sorry I was distracted while you were talking about that. I think that's in every sport, by the way. College football has that happening right now. I think the NFL is having that same conversation. Yeah, the MLB, same whole thing. I'm watching a fight. A guy just pegged you in the middle of your back.

You sprinted out, threw your helmet at him. Then you did this number here do you remember this is this the fight you're referring to yeah i actually did yeah i actually did a podcast about this uh so we did we did a reenactment play-by-play i looked at one point my left foot is right behind my right foot horrible form uh one of my buddies uh i don't know if you troy evans played for Saints, was the captain of the Super Bowl. He texted me the next day. He's like, dude, horrible form.

On the helmet? I was like, I know. I was high. But I didn't realize he's 6'6". And next thing you know, like, oh, my God. But the whole thing was funny because I got hit the night before with 97 in the ribs because we hit – Miguel Cabrera got hit. And so they retaliated. Edwin Jackson drills me 97.

One of the ones that goes and goes straight down. Anytime you see the ball hit somebody and go straight down, it hurts the most. So when you're watching baseball, that is pain. So I even went to Jim Leland. I was like, I'll take it tonight. I'm not taking it again. Next thing you know, Victor Martinez in the first inning. Oh, sorry.

Miguel Cabrera gets hit again the next day. First inning, he's out of the game. Victor Martinez is in front of me. They throw, like, literally music. He gets out of the way, pops up the pitch. I go out to the field. I lead off the next inning like, oh, nothing's going to happen, right? I got hit before, I believe, Jim Leland.

First pitch, 94, hits me that far from where I got hit the night before. Jim Leland. I'm going to run to the mound. I'm going to sprint. Next thing you know, he's like running the other way. I'm like, oh, God, this is a lot crazier than I thought it would be. He did not run towards you. He actually was going to contain the bull.

Normally a pitcher will go towards you. Is this fight why you started doing jiu-jitsu? No. That's good. That's good. Yeah, I was way past my prime then. Like when I started, you know, I was retired. I was bored as hell in life.

And I was like, I can't go to the gym every day. I need to do something. And I also live in California. You know, there's a little bit of laws here and there, a little crazy. So, you know, I can't use certain weapons in California, so I might as well make myself a weapon. So you're going to become, listen. Yeah, so if that guy walks into my house with a weapon, the jiu-jitsu, throw it out the window. It ain't going to mean shit.

Hey, can you do one of those cool things where you, like, you know what I mean? Like disarm someone? Oh, yeah. Who's captain now? You know what I mean? Take this on someone. Who's captain now? Can you do one of those things? Try to get work done. If somebody breaks into your house, please have the SimpliSafe cameras rolling.

Try to do that one in there. I think that'd be cool to watch. That'd be good for all of us if you could do that. Yeah, you know, that would be the highlight of my life if that ever happened. Who's going to win the World Series, Yuke? Oh, gosh, the tough questions here. It's going to be hard, man, not to pick the guys that won it last year. They're fully loaded.

The Dodgers are fully, fully loaded. That team is just super stacked. So to go against them and go against the Vegas Odds would be tough. Some of the craft shoots that we, you know, we went over, I did a whole list of this with my buddy, but I got Dodgers versus White Sox. I mean, that's pretty easy to put out there. The White Sox are looking really strong. They got, you know, just they're loaded.

They're fully loaded. They got an old school manager coming, so we'll see how that happens with Tony La Russa. But looking over you know all these teams i think they just you know it all depends on pitching whoever has the best pitching you're gonna you're gonna you're gonna win the world series so and that's who i got and honestly like most years what happens in the first hundred games does not matter yep pretty much don't don't worry about the first month the first month is like you see the fans that are on teams that kind of stink we'll say kind of average that are hot that's the hottest they'll be all year and that that's it and then

you're going to see some teams that you know they might be 500 in the first month and they're going to go on to win 100 games so uh baseball is funny like that and it's kind of a you know you got 162 for a reason you gotta play those last. The last 81 are the most important. After that, you know, I guess it's a little bit before the All-Star break. But after the All-Star break is when baseball really, really picks up and you see who's going to make it. All right. Well, we appreciate you, Kevin.

You are the best. I appreciate our conversations. Good luck with the jiu-jitsu. Good luck with the beer. Good luck with the coffee. And we appreciate your time. Thank you, guys. And NFL Draft.

Great month. April, baby. Love this month. You're right. It is. It is. NFL Draft teams could get better or worse. Or worse.

Or worse. Or make some bad decisions. You got MLB opening day. You got March Madness. No, March Madness is happening. National Championship. National Championship. Yeah.

I mean, this is a good month. This is a good month. The great month. And the question is, are you going to announce another pick? No, I don't think they're going to have me on there. The orangutan is coming back. Ladies and gentlemen, Kevin Euclid. Thank you, man.

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that I think the sports world maybe has ever seen. I mean, we're talking whenever the documentaries are made, when the books are written, whenever like 10, 15, 20, 30, 50 years from now, whenever the UFC is a publicly traded company and it's huge, but i'm just saying even bigger they're going to tell stories about this human that's about to join us in his his entire life schedule it is i'm pumped for this one oh yeah oh yeah you know what i mean i don't

know if i've really seen very many interviews with him either like you always see him like knocking out guys but because he hasn't been the champ I really don't feel like I've seen him do very much media. He was on with Helwani the other day, and I will watch it after this. I didn't want to watch it because I wanted to, you know, have fresh things, but it seemed as if coming out of that interview, it was getting quoted everywhere. It's because the story of the dude is un-fucking-believable.

We'll get a chance to chat with him in about a minute or so. Also, we'll cover some things happening in the MLB opening day. The Yankees are still in the lead over the Toronto Blue Jays. We all have a rather significant amount of money on the team that wears the pinstripes. Shout out to Frank Abagnale and his father. Opening day is a big day for baseball. Maybe the biggest day that they have all year. Ty's been loving this,

celebrating during the break. Just loving everything about this as baseball will float back into irrelevance immediately starting tomorrow. Yeah, pretty much. Today is the sprint. All 30 teams were supposed to be playing today. Two games got cancelled, but everybody's playing today,

and then after today you kind of settle in, okay, now the marathon starts. Now we get into this sport. Exactly. There's stuff happening in the NFL, mostly drama. Quarterback pro days are happening all over the place. Mack Jones is slowly emerging, it sounds like, as the guy behind Trevor Lawrence, Zach Wilson, for whatever reason, Mac Jones seems to be there,

Trey Lance, who Dan Orlovsky actually complimented massively about everything that he does shortly after what he said that he heard about Justin Fields, but nobody seemed to hear that particular part. But it feels like these quarterbacks, and if you think back, Joey Burrow, Justin Herbert, Tua, and then you think back to the wide receivers that are coming out as young rookies dominating, it feels like, and the stats don't say this at all,

the stats say that a majority of these first-round quarterbacks that are drafted are not going to end up on their team 10 years from now. There is an alarming graphic that we displayed yesterday, and we actually honed it in even a little bit more for today. Quarterbacks in the first round, there is a chance, a good chance, that three to four out of these six guys we're talking about currently, big bust oh yeah and maybe not bust as in like uh is absolutely terrible but we're saying getting in kind of doing the thing maybe nine and

eight maybe six and eleven like that whole thing that's that's a very possible thing how many guys if you're a first-round quarterback that have a lot of buzz this year, there's six guys it feels like that are really getting buzzed. How many of them are going to really make it? And that's the thing like as Orszalowski was getting buried yesterday on the internet, I was thinking to myself like in five, six years from now, I wonder if Orszalowski

if Justin Fields goes on to be an absolute superstar, will say that obviously the people that told me the information were completely wrong. And if it ends up being which is very there's there's a chance that could happen i'm not saying justin fields doesn't have all the intangibles be great but there's a chance that uh trevor lawrence is it i mean there's now that's just the way the nfl is in this whole thing i just i'm very fascinated to see all the hype that has been made around some guys because in the men's league, there's only so many spots. And there's players that are holding some of the positions that are trying to get

that are like Mount Rushmore of all-time football players. It's not like these positions just open up and it's easy to get and be great. Once you get to the NFL, that's when it almost gets even harder. It's like I'm really intrigued two, three years from now how we view this draft class because there's been a lot of conversation, a lot of debate, a lot of moving, and it will all be very clear four years from now, five years from now, who was right and who was wrong. It's a whole different league.

Like you said, it's a men's league. And think about how we view Kyler Murray. I feel like I at least view him as a very good quarterback. The best he's done is what, eight and eight? And there's a chance, by the way, that people don't think Kyler Murray has lived up to the hype. And he is, when you watch him, he's fucking unbelievable to watch play football. There's just so many things that have to go into it. And we can have all these conversations about who, hey,

who is throwing the ball off balance better, who's not doing that better, who's doing all this stuff. But at the end of the day, where they get drafted, the situation they get dropped in is going to be a massive determining factor on whether or not they have success. So I feel like there's a lot of conversation happening about something that might not even be a level playing field anywhere

wherever they end up at. We have to pivot back to somebody who's got absolute ambient in their pockets. We can put you right to sleep. Somebody who's got absolute ambient in him. We can put you right to sleep. Advil PM, Tylenol PM, Ambien, whatever it is.

Just an absolute monster of a man. But also, maybe one of the most fascinating lives that the world has ever seen. Not just the sports world, the entire world. The UFC heavyweight champion of the world ladies and gentlemen francis and gong how are you man let's go baby hey how are you boss how's life as the champ how's life as the champ life is great life is good you know life uh has always been i mean lately life has always had life has been awesome nice with me and things i i find a good angle to look at life you know good perspective to your life

life, you know, good perspective to your life. Switch until I get to the angle that I see. I have the nice you, and then I stick there. Then you see that life is good. I would assume life is good. Francis, I want to talk about how

we have this graphic. We did some research on you. Your life, basically, is one that they'll make movies about your life will be movie it'll be a documentary there'll be books it'll be everything heavyweight champion of the world who had to overcome a lot of things are all these things that we find on the internet accurate accurate born in 1986 forced to work in a sand quarry at the age of 10. Is that real? And what is that? It's definitely true.

And yes, as you said, the only thing that I have always think about it primarily was the book. Obviously, the documentary is being working on. But the only thing that I have been thinking of like for years and years even before I Discovered MMA was a book and I had a title of the book Name Bonfleece become king I think this is absolutely the right moment to claim that title of the king

so yeah as far as for the book I'm sure and certain of what it's going to be like I mean the writer might have some proposal for the title but as long as he

stick around and become king proposal for a title, but as long as he sticks around Buzz Lightyear and becomes king. I always loved that title. Hey, that's an unbelievable title. It tells the story of your life from Cameroon and then you got rejected from Europe

like 12 times and there was a chance that you could obviously fall into gangs and things like that chance that you could obviously fall into you know gangs and things like that and then you get arrested in Spain whenever you do that you become homeless in Paris then you sign to the UFC and here you are six years later heavyweight king of

the of the fucking world face let's go that's amazing that's unreal I mean I think from my perspective, I don't really realize as for now what is truly going on, but I just think I'm just trying to connect from my past to what is going on right now and that's how I am kind of able to like get into this thing and understand like exactly how it's working you know and he just seems like somebody like like some story I don't feel like it's my life you know because

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for a friend. There's a White House. World War II. All those stuff. They are in here. The Lincoln Memorial. And, uh, yeah. it's the entire world right here that's what your story encapsulates by the way and it's captivated everybody at this point whatever you had i'm a citizen i'm a citizen of the world of blue i'm a global citizen You know I'm a citizen of Europe

By France I'm a citizen of Cameroon By born and raised And I'm a citizen today of The United States of America By making here my new home With my new family here Well, we're all lucky to have you

We are all lucky for you to claim home in our place because you are a fantastic... Let's get to the fight that you just had and one that's potentially coming up. Whenever you, after the fight with Stipe, there was an interaction between

you two with the microphones that was caught and it was basically you said to him like, you brought out the best in me. You bring out the best in me, and you guys, like, dapped each other up and you hugged. What was it like getting prepared for the championship fight against Stipe? And then as soon as that thing's over, what are your immediate thoughts that are potentially rushing through your head?

I mean, yeah, absolutely. That's exactly what I said to him. And I told him, like, it was an honor to share the Elfagon with him. I think he's by far the fighter who brings out the best of myself. Because if you see most of the improvement in my game, in my fighting acro and my techniques and everything, I'm going to tell you something that is true. Stipe brought that out of me. Stipe brought me to a motivation.

Like in the past three years, he was like my nightmare. At the same time, he stood as my motivation. Because my whole goal was to get better and to fix what he exposed he exposes about me you know what make me mistake that I understood what he heard me to understand to understood about myself to fix it and I think that's just how fighter um we all grow together and somebody help somebody to uh impact somebody like and i and i would always say this you know the first time i fought kipi obviously i lost the fight he didn't go my way but listen uh the reality is like in

the bottom of my heart like right away i knew that that was probably what i needed at that moment not what i wanted but what i needed in order to get better to improve because i was before that fight um i wasn't mature enough to handle this level of competition and i had a lot of thoughts in on my mind on in my game and i was by myself concerned about a lot of thoughts on my mind, in my game. And I was, by myself, concerned about a lot of things, asking myself, okay, what happened when this happened? What happened in this situation? Obviously, I've been here knocking people out and get here so fast,

but what experience do I truly have about this game? Honestly, none. You know, not as much so um i was having all those all those patients and just after that fight i realized that this is the first time that i really and the best experience that i could expect to have out of some fight and to know exactly where is my limit what is my what is the goal of my game and everything

so from that night from that fight on I became a different fighter and I knew that if he wasn't of that fight if i have won that fight let alone he would have uh cash me he would have caught me because i would have made that the same mistake that i did in that fight since i learned to listen and he would have caught me in the even র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র� I have this experience, you know, like when you get in the mountain, how to stay there, how to deal with the wind coming from all over with the speed, the power and everything.

I had this experience. I went back. I was better. I work on my base and all this thing. And obviously I came back better as a fighter. Well, that's a great answer, by the way. And I think your experiences are what lead to your maturity, not only in life, but also in whatever sport you have. So whenever you go through that experience with Stipe before, the fact that you utilize it as motivation instead of, you know, potentially starting to doubt yourself is basically the story of your life. I think everybody that was around you at the time would probably be like,

okay, yeah, he lost, but this is, we are going to conquer this whole thing when did you when did you get introduced to fighting because africa has three champions now is it something that's going to continue to blossom in cameroon and is that a big thing down there fighting and did you play soccer growing up what did you do how did you get introduced to the fight game because it feels like you were created for it at this point you just you're you're unbelievable at it um i love the sport since the first the first day that i can remember of my life i always love fighting i always love uh everything anything everything about like combo sport about action movies that was my like my best thing I remember see like what was that that's cool yeah yeah oh I'm we were like just a kid then after that I went to the because we were living in the village then I went to the to the farm and it then start kicking banana trees and then broke them up.

And then after I get punished of breaking them up because I'm like, OK, you're spoiling food. Because you have to produce food and you're spoiling them and we're going to starve here, you know. And then I started to put like sand in the back and hang it up and then box it, kick it. You know, just excited about it. Everything that was connected about fighting and power was the most exciting for me. Obviously in Cameroon, fighting wasn't the most popular sport, but it was soccer. But soccer, I played as everyone played soccer. I never dreamed of becoming a soccer player, even though it was the most famous one.

I had a passion of something that was fighting. But at the same time, I was always about my reputation reputation not to have a bad reputation as my dad so that kind of like hold me back a little bit from from being a great thief or from putting myself in fighting uh around so um until i was like 13 when i was at school with all this frustration for always being pulled back at school always been humiliated from not having pen or book note notebook or clothes shoes or scholarship always been ashamed of that and by the age of 13 i remember exactly that moment i was so upset about my life then i was like okay রেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরের്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র� and help me to over to um manage those situation so i was able even though i was just 13 i was strong enough to be able to handle certain uh work as much as the uh my uh stand quarry and um i had

that frustration i'm like okay like at this point because i was just rejected by other kids like didn't wasn't a good profile to be a friend you know kids like to have a cool friend a friend that bring that cool new stuff who sometime will be uh who impress them with something uh or sometime রেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরের� something to share with them from this and then I was the tree I retreat my everything myself being myself always like lonely and thinking and that's how by the age of 13 I get to come I combine that my love with everything involved power my reputation my need of having a good reputation and not get involved in like fighting a street fighting and the fact that I want to prove them something I had to I wanted to prove something to

those kids but at that point of time he wasn't not just to become normal anymore because becoming normal uh would have would have been wouldn't be seen by those kids at the time so in order of that i had to do something spectacular i have to do something that's going to put me in the uh in the scene the step the first step so i combined all those dreams and then suddenly with my love of like a combat sport തത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്রেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরের� carried this dream from 13 until i was 22 and 22 was 22 was the moment that i'm like okay i'm running out of time this is getting out of control i need to take action i dreamed for long time for so long it's time to take action to push you this dream. Obviously as they always say as they said he might not become true because it's hard because nobody has done it yeah that's true yeah maybe I'm losing it I'm going crazy as they're saying yeah maybe that's

true but guess what I had something that i know that i really wanted so what does really matter in life i'm gonna do it i'm gonna give it a shot maybe he won't work i mean maybe and maybe you end up being the heavyweight champion of the world yeah that was the goal but That was the goal. But listen, from where I was to truly believe that was really hard to believe. But I take it step by step. I'm like, okay, I'm giving myself a shot. I'm going out there trying this and then do what gives my best.

It might not work, but guess what? I'm going to give all. I'm going to look at myself a few years from now. রেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরের� what the hell is that find yourself a job you know trying to get build your own little family i'm like yes i i might do that but in which which end like i'm gonna have a family have a kid they're gonna end up in the same situation that i have been to and uh maybe they won't be uh as lucky as i was to have like a spiritual uh uh angel garden will guide me and keep me away রেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরেরെর്র്রൾর്রൾর്রൾর്রൾর്রൾর്রൾর്রൾর്রൾর്রൾর്রൾর്রൾর്রൾর്রൾর്রൾর്রൾর്রൾর്রൾর്রൾর്রൾর്রൾর്রൾর്রൾর്রൾর്রൾর്রൾর്রൾর്রൾর്রൾর്রൾর്রൾর്রൾর്রൾর്রൾর്রൾর്রൾর്রൾর്রൾর്রൾর്রൾর്রൾর്রൾর്রൾর്রൾর� very quick I realized that they were wrong you know he gets very tough I couldn't afford a sneaker to train and anything and I was supposed to I have to support my the charge of everything by myself he gets very tough on top of that I would see which make it even worse. So I abandoned boxing, but not the dream though.

Until like four years later, because I understood that being in Cameroon, I won't go any far than my nose. Hey, but now, hey, listen, now you are, because you had these big aspirations, big dreams, there's other, hopefully, young women and men from wherever you're from that are thinking themselves, you know what, I saw Francis do it. I saw him go do it.

It's like your big aspirations that everybody probably called you crazy for is now going to be something that everybody else is going to try to hopefully duplicate to want to get it out there and do it. So congrats on that last thank you thank you very much listen i think this is the best part the best part about it and uh i always love it this is like my personal reward something that nobody can take it from you you know like when i go home i see those kids uh today they believe in something they believe that it can happen which is something that uh 20 years ago nobody would have believed i remember even when i talk about dustin even when i started even my mom people talked everybody thought i was losing my mind and even my mom my mom said listen son

um you know uh i support you i'll always be on your side even when you're losing it you're losing it as right now i'm always on your side uh well i mean if you're kicking down banana trees i feel like you probably had a pretty good idea that you're going to be okay at this thing we're happy you obviously thank you for telling us that by the way that was an incredible story of maybe one of the most interesting stories i've ever heard in my entire life through from a right that your book hey your book we cannot wait for but a quick question here before the boys have one as well um i saw you say you tweeted out something about like uh you don't care who's next like and then you signed yourself uh sincerely

the king whoever jones uh obviously the beast lewis stipe there's a lot of conversation right now about who you're gonna fight next uh for you as the champion this is this i assume something you're just expecting like hey everybody's gonna want a shot at the champ at some point? Or are you leaning one particular way? Is there any thoughts that you have about this thing? And have you and Dana had any conversations about potentially who's next? No, we haven't had any stuff. Me and Dana, we haven't been in contact at all.

we haven't been in contact at all. But what I mean by whoever is like, you know, I want to stay here and like expect for something or hold on to something while there's so much opportunity around. Obviously, in my opinion, I still want that big fight. I still want the fight with Jon Jon, which will be a big challenge you know after uh just uh getting a win over the greatest heavyweight of all the time i think it would be great uh to have a win um over the greatest miss martial art of all the time uh as a man and in the man of John Jones you know I think this will be a very big fight for the not only for the MMA community and we can everybody all day long explain for who this will be a defy for myself this will be a very big fight for my resume for my personal accomplishment you'll be a big fight

obviously that's the one defy that I would like to have but you know we all র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র്র� or what is going wrong. But what I do know is like, I don't want to sit here and then get myself in such frustration like that. I just want to enjoy my moment. I just want to take a time, enjoy my life, and just being a fighter and be able to deliver as much fight as possible in order to have more experience and to keep my friend uh uh to give

action to my friend and to stay active since the past two years i almost fought i fought two times in almost two years which is very very low and uh that was very unexpected um thing in my prime that was very unexpected thing in my prime, wasting of time like that. And I want to catch up to that. So my goal is to fight sometime, like maybe two times, two more times this year.

Okay. So for that, and that's what will truly matter for me. Let's put it the priority, Jon Jones, obviously. But if not, we move on. Derek Lewis is right there, and I think it's going to be a good fight for me, a good fight for us, and for the fans.

It's a fight that we own them. We never give them that fight. I think it's the time to pay it back. Okay. Well, I want to let you know, I can't thank you enough for joining us, Monsieur Nganou Champ. Merci beaucoup pour le parlay for your time.

Yeah. Ah, dirais-je, vous en prie. Oh! I ain't got it. You kill it, man. You kill it. Hey, good luck.

We appreciate you so much for your time, man. Thank you. Thank luck. We appreciate you so much for your time, man. Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate you guys. Ladies and gentlemen, the UFC heavyweight champion of the world, enjoying his moment, the predator, Francis Ngannou. Can't thank you enough for choosing to listen to the show.

The fact that you allow us to penetrate your ear holes, I am legitimately thankful for every single time. Francis and Garner just opened up completely. Yeah. That was cool, man. Wild story. That was really cool. And then Uke was entertaining. Always is.

Good stuff today. Yeah. All right, we've got a big one coming tomorrow, too. Be a friend, tell a friend. Ty, please play some independent music and repel these people into a beautiful Thursday night. We'll see you tomorrow, huh? Yeah.

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