The Ringer NFL Show - Chiefs Dominate, World Series Insanity, and Week 9 Waivers
Episode Date: October 28, 2025The guys react to the 'Monday Night Football' game between the Chiefs and the Commanders. Next, SHOWDOWN TIME! Must-add players at each position ahead of NFL Week 9. (00:00) Intro(01:30) ‘Monday Ni...ght Football’(20:13) RB Waivers: Tyrone Tracy Jr., Bam Knight, Tyjae Spears(36:21) WR Waivers: Kayshon Boutte, Christian Watson, Alec Pierce(55:16) TE Waivers: Colston Loveland, Juwan Johnson, AJ Barner(01:02:55) QB Waivers: Trevor Lawrence, Sam Darnold, Joe Flacco(01:04:01) D/ST Waivers: Seahawks, Rams, Chargers(01:06:29) Emails Check out our 2025 Ringer Fantasy Football Rankings here! Email us! ringerfantasyfootball@gmail.com Find your kitchen dreams at IKEA.us/dreamkitchen The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit www.rg-help.com to learn more about the resources and helplines available. Hosts: Danny Heifetz, Danny Kelly, and Craig HorlbeckProducers: Kai Grady, Carlos Chiriboga, and Ronak Nair Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Welcome with the ringer of fantasy football show.
My name is Danny Hyphen.
I'm joined by Danny, Kaeli and Craig Krobeck,
and we are going over all the players to add after week eight,
entering into week nine of the NFL season,
made it through the bypocalypse.
The six teams were off.
Going to go through all the players you need
because there are definitely some stuff we have to hit.
We are going to go over Monday night football.
Chiefs destroyed the commanders 28 to 7.
It was not as bad as it seemed.
It also was just a totally outclassing of a game.
We also have some emails here at the end fantasy courts.
I'm sure Craig and are going to argue.
But full disclosure right off the judge.
We're doing FantasyCorp on this show or Power Hour?
Oh, yeah, right.
Sorry, I guess we'll do it tomorrow.
I already lost track.
I don't know.
I've just kind of been itching to talk about that all week.
We'll get to it.
There we go.
T's for Fantasy Court.
But I have to be up front right now.
We're recording this.
The World Series is on right now.
We're going to the ninth inning.
Vlad is just up.
And we're trying to be polite to both Carlos.
Ty game, yeah.
Sasaki's pitching to Vlad as we speak.
We were trying to be polite to Carlos who has to stay up to do this whole show.
Also, D.K., who's literally a baseball team was a limited.
by the Blue Jays and doesn't really want to watch this game.
So, we're on, GK, come on, this is good stuff.
It is true.
You're putting words in my mouth.
I definitely do want to watch the game.
Oh, okay.
Well, anyway, Otani's in the bottom of the ninth, and we're just going to, like, that will
just be interwoven throughout this.
And if there's some ending, then, like, that's cool.
That will come up later.
So with that said, I want to get this money in a football game.
Again, commanders lost 28 to 7 to the chiefs in Kansas City.
D.K.
I feel like there's a lot to talk about right now with, I mean,
where the Chiefs go, where Washington goes.
But honestly, for real life and fantasy,
I do think the story of this game is that Rishie Rice is just unbelievable
and just really has just changed the entire vibe of the Kansas City Chiefs offense.
Yeah, I mean, he has absolutely hit the ground running.
It's like, you know, he only played, I think it was like 47% of snaps last week.
And then he just came in and had nine catches, 93 yards on touchdown.
He probably, he came close to having three touchdown.
He should have two more feet would have gone.
Two inches away.
Two more feet, two more inches.
He would have had two more inches.
touch. He dove for the pylon twice. I should say he dove for the goal line on one and his,
I think his elbow came down literally like an inch before the ball crossed over the goal line.
And then again, later, he went for the pylon and his foot was just barely out or whatever.
So he looks like just an absolute, you know, difference maker for them, game changer for them,
their offense and what he does over the middle of the field, run after the catch, all that stuff.
The big winners right now are the people who got him in drafts spent whatever he cost,
five, ten bucks and survived the first six weeks of the season until he came back.
What's nice about Rishi Rice is that it feels like he is a little bit of like game script
proof because he's not just a singular talent like a Jemar Chase or a Cidid Lamb or you could in
theory double him and it's like, oh, what can you do?
He's not really the type of guy you can do that for.
I feel like in the chiefs find ways to get him the ball differently than just like a true
number one who can get doubled down the field.
Like Rish Rice is doing half the shit.
he's doing behind the line of scrimmage.
They're giving him handoffs.
Everything is engineered to get him the ball.
So he's a little bit more defense-proof
than I would say other guys in the top 10.
In a way, he's replaced Travis Kelsey in the offense
in that all, like, Eddie Reed,
as good as anyone is just get the ball
to your good players in their hands, however it comes.
Rishie Rice has replaced Kelsey as the guy
that Andy Reed is getting the ball at the goal line,
on third and short, like the whole offense.
I mean, the fact that they're doing,
they ran against the Raiders,
they ran what I just think of as the Kelsey play
where basically to have Mahomes do a,
little shovel pass that basically is like run blocked inside.
They did that for Rishi Rice a couple weeks ago.
This game, everything they're doing, I totally agree, Craig.
But I think next year in fantasy Rishie Rice is going to be a first shot pick.
Like, I think that's the level he's at.
I think that it's going to be like Jemar, you know, in terms of just pure.
And it's funny because it's not even clear how good Rish Rice is as a receiver
outside of this team.
Like he's not Jamar Chase.
He's not just a Jefferson.
He's not an elite wide receiver that would be dominating on almost any situation in the NFL
that isn't like the Jets.
but in this specific team, fantasy-wise,
next year I think he's going to be like,
Jamar Chase and Justin Jefferson and C.D. Lamb and Puka,
Nakua and like Rishi Rice is going to be like the fifth receiver.
He's going to be right there with the Monra and all these guys entering next season.
Like, that's how good it's going to be the rest of this year.
It reminds me a little bit of Devo Samuel in the way that the 49er used him.
Debo's more built more like a running back than Rishie Rice is,
but just in the way that they manufacture touches and basically built,
their offense around this guy's talents.
It just kind of has that vibe to him.
It can see him being an all pro at some point in his career,
especially if he sticks with the chiefs
just because they clearly have a role for him
and a plan for him every game.
It's funny, though, Hyphins, you're right about,
like, I don't know how good he actually is.
It's very bizarre.
It's like, it's almost like the chief saw him
and we're like, you know what?
You're good enough where we can make this work with you
because if he was on a different team,
Debo Samuel, D.K, when Debo was in his prime on the Niners,
he looked unlike any other receiver in the league
and with what he was willing to, like, was able to do with the ball in his hands.
Like his, he couldn't go down.
He had like a Marshaun Lynch ability to just like fight through tackles.
I don't really know.
If somebody said, describe Rish's style, like what is he amazing at?
I don't even really know if I can tell you.
It's like finding space against zones.
I guess you're right.
It's like Travis Kelsey.
He can sit in zones and find pockets and maneuver to most.
This is what we talked about last year, Craig.
I think we literally had this conversation last year where I was like,
why can't every receiver do what Rishie Rice does?
You know what I mean?
Like, I just think it's funny because he's running these little routes
over the middle of the field where they're getting him open,
like scheming him ways to get the football.
I just, you know what I mean?
Maybe it is just the fact that he makes it look so easy that it looks so easy.
But there are just times where I'm like, man,
I don't know.
I don't understand why everybody can't do this way, what he's doing.
So it's funny.
I mean, if you swapped Rishi Rice and McLaurin, you know, I'm not sure that Rishie
Rice would necessarily, I mean, Cliff Kingsbury might actually have a good idea of use
him.
It's funny that D'Bos in this game.
Frankly, the whole game pivoted off Dibo because the Washington had an awesome first drive
and then they had a ball bounce off Dibo's face that was intercepted.
This game basically started with five turnovers.
Like, if you include turnovers on downs, this game started with Washington,
having the pick off Debo's face,
then Mahomes had a pick,
Marshall and Latimore had an amazing interception.
Then Washington went turnover on downs.
I appreciated they went aggressive.
But then Mahomes had another pick
that also bounced off of Kelsey's face.
And then Washington had another turnover on downs.
So it was five straight back and forth
and back and forth turnovers.
And then the Chiefs just ran away
and they got their offense going.
And again, it was 28 to 7.
I was very impressed with Washington's running game in this.
Sorry, Kansas City's running game.
Like Kareem Hunt, I mean,
I was kind of like, what year is it?
Like, Carrey Hunt running downhill?
He looked like vintage Cream Hunt at times.
It was, you know, he's obviously not quite as fast as he was in 2018,
but he's certainly the fastest and most explosive.
I've seen Cream Hunt feel like in years.
Obviously, Washington doesn't have a great defense.
They lost, oh, no, the defensive tackle, I'm forgetting his name.
He went in the middle of this.
Javon Kynlaw, the massive guy who's been disappointing for the Jets and Niners,
but he left and then it got even worse.
I will say, though, during this game, I had an intrusive thought.
And I kind of think I'm right.
But watching this game, you know, obviously Bill's Chiefs is next week, D.K.,
but I kind of just think the Super Bowl is going to be Chiefs Eagles again.
God.
And I realized that in the middle of this game.
Yeah, yeah.
I will say at the beginning of the game, I was watching this game with my dad.
We were both like, ah, the commanders kind of showing, they're a little plucky in this game.
They're, you know, hanging in there for a while.
And then the Chiefs just slowly ground them into dust, which is what they're kind of due.
And so, yes, at the end of the day, I mean, the Chiefs, there are, in a league where there's no elite teams, are there any elite teams that you guys can think of other than maybe the fucking Colts?
I think it's the, I think it's the Chiefs.
We didn't even talk about Mahomes tonight.
Mahomes is just so quietly, his brilliant is just, you know, I mean, I think at Detroit, we did a good job explaining it of he just, his navigation in the pocket.
I was shocked at that step they had tonight of the first time he said three touchdowns in the game with four seconds on each, four seconds of time.
I think I'm dubious of that.
I feel like he threw 50 touchdowns in one season.
I'm a little dubious.
He never had four seconds in any individual game.
But for each of the three touchdowns.
But I was really impressed at Kansas City.
Like, Tray Smith, the right guard.
I mean, one of their higher paid linemen.
He wasn't even in this game.
We had poor, what's the guy who filled in the Super Bowl?
We kept thinking in front of his name.
Mike Caliando.
We kept thinking he was the impersonator guy.
Right. I want to see it against.
But it's not like Buffalo's defense is healthy either.
So I don't know, man.
The Chiefs, I just feel like they're going to roll.
Before we move on, I have one note.
to make. I feel like the Monday night guys are often immune to the burn book because we do
burn book Sunday nights. They're kind of, they fall in this no man's land where we kind of
forget about it by the time the next week rolls around. Bill Merritt, I feel like got so much
hype coming into this year. Then Ackler got her all this stuff. Bill Merritt since week one
has scored single digits points in every single game, but one. His last three weeks are two
points, three points, five points. I don't know. He's kind of unplayable right now. Yeah. I know.
But he's such a meme.
He can't bench Bill Merritt.
Come on, man.
Nine rushes for 25 yards.
It's not great.
Chief defense, man.
But it's not, I mean, they played Dallas last week.
He had 33 yards rushing.
Yeah, that was bad.
That wasn't good.
It's not doing it.
It's not working for Bill.
It's hilarious because it feels like you can't sit him,
even though he's a fucking like seventh round guy that just came in
and he hasn't even actually done all that much.
Because I think all the hype was just like, oh, you can't sit Bill Merritt.
Crossie.
Merit, J-C-M?
You got a J-C-M nickname.
You can't sit that guy.
Bill.
I mean, similarly, Terry McLaurin, three catches, 54 yards for touchdown.
The ratio of how unbelievable what he did was versus impact was kind of weird.
The touchdown was, I think, as close as you can possibly get to getting two feet in.
I don't know if there's ever been a smaller amount of time someone got the two feet in than the touchdown McLaren had.
The other one, I kind of thought was bullshit.
It was really cool, and I'm glad that he got the catch.
But watch the live.
Oh, it was definitely a catch.
I know, but watching it live,
I'm like 80% of his body laid it out of bounds.
And as you can do it slow-mo, you're like, yes,
his leg actually got in first.
But you played full speed, and I'm like, I never,
maybe you guys saw it differently.
Watching that play full speed,
I never would have even occurred to me that Terry second-catch was in bounds.
No, I thought he was out of bounds.
But, I mean, his thigh clearly comes down first in bounds.
What are you talking about?
Wait, because it looked bad in full motion.
It's bullshit.
Well, this is like-
Clearly see it on the replay.
It reminded me of, it's because the catch thing.
And this gets confused about this whole rule that you're bringing up.
Well, it's because someone, we don't have to get it at all this now.
They lost by 21 points.
Yeah, it's kind of irrelevant actually.
It doesn't really matter.
Anyway, we'll get into one knee equals two feet.
Should we even talk about this Dodgers game now or should we wait to the game?
It's going to the bottom of the ninth here.
It's tied and Otani's up second.
I will just, I mean, we might as well set the stage down because maybe the Dodgers lost or whatever.
But win or lose.
This is, I mean, Otani, I mean, I will just read the stuff.
but everyone's probably seen it by now.
But Otani, I mean, feels it's pretty mainstream at this point to say it's the best baseball player ever,
and it's now just the resume has to build.
But tonight, four extra base hits tied for the most in a World Series game since 1906,
which is even longer than the tungsten Aram O'Doyle posed.
I got to say, that stat, I was a little bummed at whose record he broke or who he tied 1906.
It was Frank Isbell.
I was hoping for something a little bit stronger than that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's no good.
Who was on Frank Isbell's team, Craig?
Well, that I can tell you.
Look that up.
Otani also first player with three multi-home run games in a single postseason as a batter.
He pitches tomorrow.
He's the first hitter to have multiple home-run games.
Three home-run multiple home-run games in the postseason.
That was the best part about it.
They were like, they had the graphic up about all of the crazy things he's doing as a hitter.
And then on the bottom, it just said, he's pitching tomorrow.
Pitching tomorrow.
It's actually like, I know that we're getting repetitive and I've talked about this forever,
but I'm like, this is the craziest thing that.
That's happened in my life in sports.
I don't think that's unfair to say.
He's the best player.
He's the best hitter.
It's no, Tani's contract.
Did I say this already?
It's easily the best contract in baseball.
It has to.
No, I think it's up there with the best contracts
in the history of sports because it's going to save fucking baseball.
Otani's going to save the goddamn sport.
And they don't even have to pay him all the money until like, we're going to be dead.
Somebody retweeted a tweet onto my timeline that was like,
so they, he can't.
He comes up in, what was it, the top of the, or the bottom of the seventh, and it's five to four, Blue Jays.
And they have this, like, conference on the mound.
Like, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Here's the deal.
Don't throw a fucking meatball right down the middle.
The announcer literally is going, location, location, location.
And then they're just fast-ball.
The tweet just shows, like, the pitch, whatever graph.
And it's truly just right in the fucking middle.
Middle, middle.
It's like, oh, do I.
Right, center!
Why are you fitching it right down the fucking good old for this guy?
But I think,
DK, to your point,
I do think Otani reached the Tom Brady level
that you've nailed,
and it's so true,
the Alexander Great,
like,
I don't think he could die,
where it's like all these guys,
the irrational crazy confidence
that you're better than this person.
Baseball in particular,
because it is a series of one-on-one matchups.
And Otani shatters it.
Otani is like Barry Bonds.
They're probably the only two people
who have been good enough that the pitcher is like,
oh, my fucking God.
This is, like, he's a super union.
Yeah, like,
He's the type of guy where if the bases are loaded,
you block him instead of pitch to him.
Well,
I'm realizing now that we're all excited,
but there's no way that you're going to pitch to him right now.
So this is the nine hitter right now?
Probably not.
This is Andy Pahe's?
So they got to,
even if Paheus gets up,
they're going to walk of Tani.
But yeah,
I mean,
I guess Betts struck out the last time he was up.
So actually,
I guess now to think about it,
we're not going to get to watch this motherfucker hit on me.
Can I give one take that I,
that I noticed or that I just kind of felt.
It kind of just came to me as I was watching,
Otani hit that home run in the seventh.
I think the pitch clock has been fantastic for baseball.
Inarguably just a straight positive.
It's improved the game tenfold.
However, after a home run, I would like to sit in it a little more.
I totally agree.
I was shocked at how quickly Betts was getting pitched to after the home run.
I was shocked.
Oh, yeah, this is a thing.
It's like the players can barely even celebrate with each other
because you have to get back into the box immediately.
I get 30 seconds.
I think after Otani hits home play.
or something like that.
And it's just like,
I want to see,
you don't even get the replay
because Mookie-Ey Bents is up.
They should make it a minute
after a home run.
I totally agree.
That would be totally,
yeah,
that would be great.
It was so weird to not marinate it in that moment.
I actually could not believe he was bad.
Or maybe in the last three endings or I don't know what,
but like,
give us some time here to enjoy it.
Like,
like,
soaked into it.
Or yeah,
like,
adding 30 seconds after,
yeah,
after Homer,
I think that's a great point,
Craig.
I had the same note.
Were we aware that,
Were we aware of the original name of the Chicago Cubs?
Did I forget this?
I don't know.
Bears was the Decatur Stalys.
The Chicago Cubs were...
Oh, wait, wait, wait, we tell us.
Were they the Chicago Red Sox?
No.
Frank Isbell, who's nicknamed the bald eagle
due to his receding hairline.
Hell yeah.
That's funny.
That's funny.
That's my guy.
It's my guy.
It's my guy.
It's my guy.
Get the fuck out.
the Chicago Orphans
Yeah he made his debut for the Chicago Orphans on May 1st 1898
The Chicago Orphan
The Chicago Orphins
Yeah
That's pretty metal
That's pretty metal
You could get away with a lot of stuff back in 1906
Yeah
That's wild
Who is the
I mean who was the manager for the 1898 Chicago Orphans
That's crazy
He just read Oliver Twist
He's like these guys are badasses
Let's name our team after them.
Oh, my God.
The artful Dodger.
Is that how the Dodgers got their name?
Holy shit.
I actually don't know what the Dodgers is.
1890 Chicago orphan season.
Okay.
By the way, we are 100% just stalling
so we can see O-Ton.
Yeah, we can just, yeah, it's true.
That's just in case you were wondering.
Anyway, the National League winner in 1898
was the Boston Bean Eaters.
Wow.
What?
Yeah.
The Beanie.
Bean eaters?
Bean eaters.
So.
Okay.
Dude, all these names.
The National League,
the Washington Senators,
the Brooklyn bridegrooms.
What is what is going on?
Talking about.
What are you talking about?
What are you talking about?
I like that a lot.
What do you mean the Brooklyn bridegrooms?
The Cleveland spiders?
Did we know that one?
Yeah.
That one.
Yes.
That one,
I think there was a guy.
Well,
no, that's Richmond spiders.
Yeah.
Same thing, though.
I just think they had to pitch your long legs.
The Brooklyn Bridegroom.
The 1880 Brooklyn Bridegroom.
I have a question.
Is the bridegroom just the long way of saying groom?
Or does it mean something specific?
Well, here we go.
The Brooklyn, they were called the Brooklyn Grays.
They changed their name to the Brooklyn Bridegrooms,
a nickname that resulted from several team members getting married around the same time.
Men.
That's so funny.
They put no effort to it.
I don't know.
We all like turkey sandwiches for lunch.
What if we're just the Brooklyn turkey sandwiches?
You got to remember, Craig, back in the day, this was just kind of for people to hang out in the middle of the day.
All right. They're not even pitching you, Otani. Maybe because Jeff Hoffman allowed the most runs in the night.
They didn't even any pitchers. Also, just one final thing. You're right. Before we get to waivers, the manager of the Brooklyn,
McGonagate was Bill McGonagall. Bill McGonagall. Bill McGonagall? Bill McGonagall. McGonagle? The bridegrooms is pretty, that's the bridegrooms. Brooklyn. Bride grooms.
She's all got married around the same time.
The Brooklyn Bridegrooms versus the Chicago orphans today.
Hopefully the bridegrooms adopts the orphans.
You got a stew going.
Bride grooms versus the brides versus orphans.
Bringing families together.
Oh my God.
It's funny because the orphans probably ate beans.
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Okay.
Waivers are-
Let's do this.
Let's go through all the waivers after week eight entering week nine.
Oh, my God, Otani, just tried to steal.
Is he out?
Oh, he's out.
Oh, you're out.
Oh, he's out.
Why are you ahead of me?
Oh, I don't know.
Sorry.
I think I had to fix that with streaming.
Oh, my God.
Wow, he's out.
He kind of, that was weird.
He was on, he made it, but then he fell off the base.
All right, let's like give a play by way.
This is riveting television.
Yeah, I know.
Okay.
So we're going to go position by position.
We're going to give our top pick at that position.
And then if we have the same guy, then we're going to go through waivers and we're going to simulate waivers by guessing a trivia question is get an order.
And then if you don't get your,
guy, you get to pick someone else. It's not the complicated. You'll figure it out.
Email us at ringer fantasy football at gmail.com.
For trivia questions, it has to be a number so we can get wrong in and order closer
to the green, basically closest to the pin, rather. So with that said, D.K., running back,
number one running back that you would add off waivers after week eight and they're in week
nine. Well, I'm sorry to say, but it's going to be Tyrone Tracy for the Giants because
unfortunately our boy Scadaboo is out for the season. Also, there are several,
guys on buy going into buy for week nine that i probably might prioritize more if i have a longer
time horizon that i'm looking at here but just for week nine i'm going with tyron tracy yeah like if
you have sayquan and quincean jenkins and they're both on by this week and you're like i need someone
now then i and tracy's available absolutely also the whole season but if he if he's available
yeah he he he definitely has value for the rest of the season but i think did you see big dom
brought like cheese steaks to Kim Skadaboo in the hospital?
I thought this was fake.
People sent this to me.
I was like, that's clearly not true.
Because that's what you want to be eating post-op.
Honestly.
Cheese steaks.
Why not?
Get whatever whatever you want it.
I thought this was fake, but chef-dragut.
You have a salad?
Yeah, I guess I don't know why that was weird.
Yeah.
What are you eating post-op?
I don't know.
That's fair.
I don't know.
Whatever.
He can eat, he can eat it.
I'll allow it.
I don't really like cheese-stakes for it.
He could eat garber.
You don't like bacon, GK.
You don't like bacon, cheese.
As far as I concerned,
cheese steaks are garbage.
Oh, what the?
It's cheese and steak happening right now.
I'm sorry.
I will besmirch Philadelphia.
One of the most beloved items of food in America.
That's why it's such a good take.
You don't like cheese steaks?
Is that real?
I really don't.
Really?
No.
But you know how I am.
I'm weird.
It's basically a cassidia in sandwich form.
No, it's just cheese, meat, and bread.
It's the same thing.
It's carbs between cheese and steak.
Deportions are totally different.
DeK has wild food takes.
Also, I don't put freaking meat in my casadias.
Okay, but you know what?
A steak casadia.
The way you just said that was like as if that's insane to put meat in a cassadia.
No, I'm just saying that's not what I like.
A steak is basically a Mexican cheese steak.
Let's be honest.
Or whatever.
A cheese steak is an American casadias.
I don't like steak casidias either, all right?
That also is just
I'm not, DK gets defensive
when I talk about this, but I'm just saying
what about a cheese cassidia?
What about, that you love that?
You have that literally every day for like a decade.
What about introducing steak into that?
You're like, not for me.
Like you don't like it?
Messes up the flavors, messes up the texture.
I get why you wouldn't do that every day.
It's expensive.
steak is like a little tough,
especially the type of steak you put in casillas.
So you think it makes it worse?
Correct.
No, if I thought it made it better, I'd probably eat it.
I know.
That's just interesting.
What do you want me to say?
But you like steak?
Correct.
All right, cool.
To each their own.
Yeah, anyway.
I want to, I can't wait for D.
Craig's like, Big Dom's going to bring Dekis from cheese steaks.
He's like, get the fuck out of my room.
All right, anyway.
Just give me a different kind of sandwich.
So, Craig, I assume you did too.
If Tyron Tracy is available.
I know he may not.
in your league. Yes, I did.
Tyrone Tracy, who I
yeah, I mean, you get the long-term
benefit, obviously, Camp Skad were being out. I doubt
the Giants are going to go get somebody who's going to
fill in and be a full-time starter ahead of
Tyrone Tracy. I feel like they're not at that
they're not
at that stage of the season where they would probably
need to prioritize that. So I feel like it is just going to be Tracy
the rest of the year. The only other guy I thought
about, he's not necessarily, I don't know if
he's going to come back next week. He, in theory,
could, but Trey Benson for the Cardinals
is like his four weeks are up.
So as somebody who could, like, be a factor the rest of the way.
Trey Benson, I think the Trey Benson, I'm curious, you guys think, in the leagues I'm in, I think roster ships weird with, like, IR spots.
I think any league where you have an IRA spot, Trey Benson's probably on I R if he's available.
I guess that's true.
That's true.
It's a weird in between.
I think let's not include Trey Benson in this exercise, but I think he is definitely worth picking up if he's out there.
If you need someone for week nine, Bam Knight, Zon of your night, depending on where platform you're on.
Bam Knight is, I think, a great option.
Like, he kind of surpassed Michael Carter.
The buy happens, so you never know exactly what teams are doing,
but Trey Benson can't come back this week.
I still think Bam Knight will be the leader.
And again, the Cardinals are playing Dallas.
Like, that's wheels up, other, obviously, than Bill Merritt.
The odds are just getting a touch center pretty solid.
So I think Bam Knight, again, if you have like both running backs of buy
and you're really desperate, I think Bam Knight's a great option.
And if Trey Benson's available, you can maybe throw Trey Benson in your I are, get both.
Having said that, Tyrone tracing.
So is the Tyrone Tracy Showdown Time?
Ooh.
Yeah, unfortunately, I, but it is, in fact, time for the Tyrone Tracy,
a guy that everybody kind of liked last year, Showdown Time.
He definitely got market corrected by Scatima big time.
Like Ila Fisher and Amy Adams and then Jessica Chastain to Amy Adams.
Yeah.
That was a Jason Concepcion hottest take from like six years ago.
It was pretty good.
There can only be one prominent female redhead in Hollywood.
was his take.
I like that.
Makes sense.
You like that?
I mean, I appreciate the take.
I don't like that there can only be one.
Just needed to clarify.
I would like more red-headed women could be leading actresses, you know?
It'd be a good time for a morning.
I feel like you're just constantly trying to trap me into saying something bad here.
Trying to catch you in a cancel box.
I know.
This one's from Chris.
Chris is.
Zibone.
So Craig pointed out on the...
K bone.
True.
It's a C.
C bone.
Craig pointed out pretty brilliantly on Sunday that
Alvin Camero, we don't really ever talk about that.
His name's fucking Alvin.
Which is just like bizarre.
So Chris has a question.
According to the Social Security Administration,
how many baby boys born in the United States
were named Alvin in 2024?
this year or last year last year
phenomenal question Chris thank you I like that
I have no concept of how many people are born
in a year I answer this very quickly
and I wrote it down for this one okay wait
sorry what the question is in the United States or in the world
in America okay from last year
this is tough okay
not how many to be clear how many Alvins were in America last year
it's how many Alvin's born last year right
okay
All right.
Three, two, one.
Five thousand.
Oh, God.
Which did you.
Okay.
I said 50K.
50K.
50? That's a lot.
That's...
I don't know.
Which means, DK is probably right.
That's how these things go.
I said 2,000, said 5,000.
DK said 50,000.
I feel like it's way too high.
Real answer is 316.
Oh, my word.
Wow, that is way less popular than I could have even imagined.
I thought he was going the other way with it.
All right, so I steal that win, thanks to Alvin.
316?
Hi, Vitz, did we get any emails from Alvins?
Oh, yeah, we did.
Nice.
They, well, so there's people who know Alvin.
They said a lot.
They said hello.
They got an Alvin.
It was like, I mean, we're just not that big, Craig.
How many, can you, I want to Google on the spot.
How many Craigs were named last year?
I'm just curious.
I can pull it up.
Oh, no, we don't have any out.
Oh, no, we do have an Alvin emailed us.
Oh, what about?
Typed in Alvin, emailed us last Christmas Eve.
Merry Christmas, Alvin.
You're just getting your email.
Merry Christmas.
I just found it.
You find that, Craig.
I'll pick, make a pick here.
So if D.K. takes Tyrone Tracy.
Yeah, if I need a player this week, I would take Bam Knight.
Even over Devin's single time.
Wait, I'm not.
I didn't win.
I was way off.
Oh, you're sorry.
Craig gets Tyron Tracy.
Good point.
I'll take Bam Knight for the Cardinals,
just because I think if you have to have someone play this week.
I do think Bam Knight when Trey Benson comes back.
I have no idea what the role is.
I honestly almost would have took for Shard Smith,
who, because Isaiah Pacheco,
limped off with like 90 seconds left in that game, but then the medical team checked him and
then he just started hoop and all, and he was like clearly fine. So yeah, I'd really rather have
Bam Knight. Devin Singletary, I just don't want to play him in my team for the next rest of the season.
If you need someone for the rest of the season, you could go Singletary. He will probably have
more playing time, but I'd rather have Bam Knight for Week 9 than Devin Singletary. So it's
A.K., you get the rest of the litter. Yeah, do we, do we want me to pick someone from Week 9
or talk about the guys that are also
like down the line. We'll do both.
Okay, so for this week and then
For this week, I guess I'll go last time.
Blue Jace just went for it. Oh, on top of 10th.
That was.
Wow, they didn't get it.
Oh, geez.
Got them out at home.
Wow.
Good throw from right field there.
I, you know what's funny?
I couldn't tell who I wanted to win the series.
But in that moment, I really didn't want the Blue Jays to score.
So I guess I feel that way too.
It's in your gut.
It's weird or rude for the Dodgers
because I don't, but part of me is,
You guys...
Obviously, so, the Mariners lost to the Blue Jays.
Do you guys typically, once you lose to a team,
do you want that team to win the championship?
Because then it validates...
Then you can say we lost to the champs?
Right.
Or do you want them to suffer horrific pain?
Usually that.
The prospect of spending so many days in a row rooting against the team,
it's hard to recover from.
Also, like, I don't know how many conversations you actually have
where you can say, well, at least we lost to the champs.
And they're like, totally.
I don't, yeah, I don't think that's actually a thing.
I don't think it makes any sense.
It's a thing in college football.
It's in college football because there's conference solidarity.
So you do want your conference because then you end up talking about the Big Ten versus the SEC or whatever all the time.
Sure, sure, yeah.
And you also literally do need it for polls and your team in the future getting playoff spots.
But that logic has never extended to any of my other rooting interests.
Like, no, the Yankees lose to the, like, no, I mean, the Yankees lost to the Jews.
I don't, I'm not, I'd rather.
I'd rather the Dodgers win.
And I don't...
I know the Dodgers are probably bad for the sport,
but also,
unfortunately, all their players are super likable.
Like, I'm sorry,
but Freddie Freeman, O'Tonnie,
Betts,
these are like the most likable best players
in the entire sport.
Yeah.
Agreed.
Sorry.
All right.
I'm going to go with Tajay Spears for the Titans,
I guess.
Getting back to the trivia.
He's basically overtaken Pollard
in terms of like,
snaps and rushes and targets.
I guess Paul has one more target over the last three weeks.
But the problem with the Titans, and this has been a problem with Pollard the whole year,
is they're always losing.
And so Tajay Spears is getting more game scripted in because he's typically, you know,
more of a past catching type back.
He looks really good.
He's been explosive.
He's average 11 points per game over the last three weeks.
So I don't think he has a very high ceiling, but he gives you a little bit of a floor just
because the Titans are always playing from behind.
and he's out there more than Pollard at this point.
They get the chargers this week, and then they're on by.
Do you want to run through stash guys for the rest of the season?
Yeah.
I think there's one way huge blinking red light, huge stash,
and then a bunch of other ones that could work out.
Are you talking about Biggsby or Ollie Gordon?
Tank Biggsby for the Dolphins.
The fact that Saquan picked up groin injury,
the Eagles are going to buy,
so he's going to be fine for the next week.
But just, again, we've talked ad nauseum that, like,
Sequin had 500 touches last year, has a groin injury.
He's a fucking running back.
it's not hard.
And if Tank Bigsby had 100 yards this week,
Sequin barely, you know, came out of the, like,
that, the upside of when the guy actually gets the job
is so frequently kind of disappointing.
I think, I mean, the Eagles traded for Tank Bigsby.
I think if Sequin gets hurt,
of all these guys where you're just doing the stupid fantasy thing
of like, if a guy gets hurt, I could profit.
Tank Bigsby is like the highest return.
Yeah.
I don't think it's particularly close.
For sure, for sure.
They actually ran the ball really well, too, in that game.
They were using a sixth offensive linemen.
this was kind of a theme this week.
This is a new thing that I've always wondered about and people always told me that's not a thing.
That's stupid.
And now I'm watching it.
I'm like, why the fuck is this taking so long to have like eight plays a game with six
offensive linemen?
Well,
the lions did it a lot.
And they seem to do a pretty good job.
The bills last year were rolling with like,
you know,
just throwing it a sixth linemen every now and then.
So yeah,
take big speed is a great one to stash.
Dylan Samson for the Browns.
Jekkins went down and left the game.
I believe they said he was day to day,
which that never.
I don't know what that ever means.
That could mean like 30 days or what, you know, two days.
So it's tough to know.
But Dylan Samson, if Quintan-Junkins can't come back after their buy,
he would be a big winner in that.
And he's going to be utilized in the past game a lot.
It's also shoulder injury.
Like, you know, those get worse when you're tackled.
Right.
Isaiah Davis for the Jets, just in case Breeze Hall gets traded.
The Jets are also on buying week nine.
And then like, if you're really need.
need to scrape the bottom of the barrel here.
Ali Gordon for the dolphins had 10 carries.
It seems like the dolphins, another team that are going six offensive linemen,
they're trying to be a little more physical in the run game.
A-chan's rushing share definitely went down quite a bit in this last game.
So, Ollie Gordon.
And then Kyle Menongai also is basically just splitting snaps with,
shoot, what's his name?
Oh, yeah, D'Angi Swift for the Bears.
And so.
I would have Menangai higher because, again, this is so stupid.
Fantasy is the stupidest thing ever.
DeAndjew Swift is also managing an injury.
And yeah, and he's had injury.
He's had problems with injuries throughout his career.
He's had a groin injury for the last month.
And so he's playing well, the Bears running game.
The one thing I'll say about Isaiah Davis, it's funny.
I agree, D.K., because Breeland Allen has a multi-month injury.
30-90 days, who knows?
The only funny thing is, I think Breeze Hall kind of was going to get traded.
And then he threw a game-winning touchdown pass.
They're going on by it.
They can't fucking trade Breeze Hall now.
Can you imagine?
Imagine if the only win of Aaron Glenn's career so far was because of running back through a touchdown pass to win the game.
And then they go on their by week and the players come back and they fucking traded Breece Hall.
They can't do that.
I mean, if anyone's going to do it, it's Woody Johnson.
Wouldn't that be crazy though?
Like, you know, you got to do it's best for the team.
But like, what a crazy message that would send to the team of like he took two months to get a win.
You're running back through the touchdown.
You come back for vacation and just like it's a cold world.
It's like we acquired a fifth round pick for Brise Hall.
What are they going to do?
So for that reason alone, I feel like...
Rotational third string's cornerback next year.
That's cool.
So Isaiah Davis can get 2.2 yards of carry.
Yeah.
Oh, my God.
The Rams did get Roger McCrary, the cornerback from the Titans today, which is incredible
stateless from East and Freeze.
Or like a pick swap.
Fifth, six.
The Titans have one player left from the three drafts from 2020, 2020, 2021, 22nd,
Chico was the only one.
They made like 20 picks if one guy left.
That was five years ago.
Anyway.
Yeah.
How bad teams stay bad.
Yeah.
I know.
Okay.
So yeah, there's a lot of, the other, only other ones I'll throw out.
Honestly, dude, Amir Abdullah, bizarre speed guy.
He's 32 is one of the older running weeks in the NFL.
If Jonathan Taylor gets hurt, I think Amir Abdullah is the running back for the Colts,
which obviously is crazy valuable.
But I think the other Colts running backs behind Taylor are a kind of mess.
I think Giddons.
I'm not going to say sucks.
They would have a committee for sure.
But yeah, he might be.
Meeh.
Tyler Goodson's always hurt.
Like, Amir Abdullah is the only one that has looked good in the NFL.
The other guys are.
Josh Johnson of running.
backs. Yeah. So anyway, Amira, like, if you just talk about high upside, I'm like,
well, tank Bigsby, like, it's kind of one of those game theory things. If you were, like,
actually like an elite team and the other guy has Sequin, kind of want take Bigsby. If the other
guy is Jonathan Taylor, just add to me or Abdullah. Because if Taylor gets hurt, like, they kind
of go down. You have Amir Abdullah. Like, sometimes that's how things flip. Anyway,
fantasy's stupid. I can't believe I just had to talk about that. Wide receivers.
DK. Number one wide receiver to add after week eight, entering week nine.
There's actually quite a few options here that I like.
Yes.
And so it's hard to pick my favorite, but I'm going to go with just the floor option, I guess.
I talked about this guy last week, Kishan Bouty for the Patriots.
He's rostered in 40% of Yahoo Leagues.
Again, the thesis with Kishan Bouty is he is the deep threat for the best deep ball thrower in the NFL right now in Drake May.
So he doesn't even, he's like a supercharged version of Alec Pierce, I think.
He's not going to probably have a super high target rate, but they're looking for him.
downfield. Drake may trust him down there. He's made some pretty nice throws. I think he's
improved a lot. And if you go back a couple years to when he was at LSU, he was thought of as a
big time, maybe going to be like a top 10 pick type of player before things kind of fell apart for him.
He had some injuries. He had some off field stuff. He was an LSU receiver in the mold of all the
other LSU receiver. That was the book in Kesha. And so I think he's got a good amount of talent as well.
So it's just a good situation with a quarterback who is hotter than anybody right now. So I guess I'll
just go with Kashon Bouti, although there are some other guys I like here, too.
Booty is one of the, he's not stylistically at all, but statistically, kind of like Tyler
Lockett in that models are never going to like Kishon Bouti because inherently what Bouti's doing
is, seems unsustainable by those.
Catching long touchdowns.
Yeah, he just catches long touchdowns.
Right. Jump ball, contested.
And to your point you, he has four in the last three games.
It's just never going to be able to capture that Drake May has become one of the better deep-ball
passers, as you said.
And also, Booty's an excellent contested catch receiver.
Like, he's just become quite, I feel like he's actually one of the 10 or 12 better guys in the whole league at it.
Like on the scale of one to T. Higgins.
Like, Booty's pretty fucking good at it.
Yeah.
So, and also, there is something to boom or bust receivers.
I actually do, you don't actually want a guy who's going to get eight or nine points.
Like, most, if you just go to your matchups this week, most fantasy matchups aren't close.
Like, they are, you actually would rather have someone capable of putting up 20 plus.
And Booty will be able to do that every week.
Yeah.
So I like that.
Having said that the other person,
I'm wondering about those is Christian Watson for the backers because he was my second option here.
Yeah.
I was shocked at,
I mean,
he got injured really late last season and he clearly said a phenomenal recovery because,
I mean,
he looked fine.
You know,
he played like 38 stamps instead of tone.
Matt Lefleur said that was more than they wanted to.
But I'm like,
man,
part of me is like,
all these guys are dart throws anyway.
I'm like,
the idea that Christian Watson might get better as the season goes.
I kind of just wanted Christian Watson just because it's all,
they're all kind of similar.
And this week, maybe he's not the best option.
But throughout the season, I kind of, I know he's going to be the most volatile.
So maybe I'm talking about both sides of my mouth.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, he's kind of similar to booty in the sense that, you know,
wouldn't be too surprising if he saw two targets next week.
I know.
He's also the type of guy who could score 25 points in a game.
And it would not be surprising at all.
In general, the Patriots passing game and the Packers passing game is kind of similar in
that it's like four wide receivers who are all pretty good.
Any of them could go off at any moment and you're just kind of like gambling.
But they are efficient.
good passing attacks.
The only other guy here,
and we haven't mentioned yet,
who's had,
you want to talk about Spike Week's hype.
Troy Franklin,
like won me a week last week,
has disappeared at times,
but also it is kind of like
the number two in Denver,
and he had two touchdowns
and 100 yards this week.
The only reason why I would lean booty
and then Watson is probably
just because Troy Flankeons playing the Texans this week.
That's the thing.
I don't want to do Troy Franklin.
It's funny because I think
Troy Franklin is good
and also probably has,
to your point,
slim to kiss chambouti.
The problem is Troy Franklin's going from the worst past defense in the NFL in Dallas
to the best, basically, in Houston.
And I don't want that snipsnap.
Like, I have no interest in going from a guy allowing 400 yards
probably like under 200 in Houston.
Like, that's just, I'd rather skate to where the puck is heading.
Who's facing bad defenses?
So, like, the other guy, Alex Pierce for the Colts is also in this mold of Pittsburgh.
Over quarter.
That's what I'm saying.
Sorry, Craig.
Like, if I'm saying, Christian Watson looked good last week,
Alec Peter, like, we're just, how am I often do we have to talk about how the Colts can't,
so the Steelers can't cover anybody.
They've given up, like, the best quarterback games, like, of their, of each quarterback
that has played them has been like their best game of the season.
I can't wait to take the Colts in the ringer 107.
I know.
I'm going to take him so fast, you can't even believe.
So it's funny because I think Pierce is, we're talking about him as like the fourth option
here, but in reality, Pierce is the deep guy.
He's more than just a deep guy.
He's a talented receiver, but the Steelers can't cover anyone.
How many times are we going to talk about how the Colts?
have the most points per drive
in the 21st century since the 07 Patriots.
Like that they're on that list with the 18 chiefs
and all these like the best offense we've ever seen.
Alec Pierce,
someone was not scored a touchdown this year.
Like that's going to change.
All those catches seem to land at the 12 yard line.
He's going to score eventually.
So he those four guys though,
Christian Watson,
Alan Pierce,
Kishon, Booty, Troy Franklin.
Like those are better than you usually see on waivers.
Like they're not so desperate desperation options.
They all have some degree of relevance for the coming weeks.
Dodgers have.
the winning run at second right now.
Who's on second?
That wasn't a joke.
I've never said that earnestly
in my entire life.
I don't actually know that...
I don't actually know that whole deal,
the song or whatever.
Do you guys know it?
It's not a song.
It's like a poem or whatever.
Like who?
It's not a poem.
It's like a vaudeville act.
Whatever.
I don't know what it is.
What do you call?
I don't know.
It's just funny.
It's a poem.
The thing that they used to do, yeah.
Who's on first?
it's Abbott and Costello.
Yeah, Abbott and Costello, yeah.
Yeah, I wasn't really into that when I was growing up.
It's like, who's on first?
What?
He's on second.
No, he's on first.
Yeah.
The other guy that I want to mention here before we do the trivia is Jalen Knoll.
I guess all the Texans receivers are interesting.
Jaden Higgins and Xavier Hutchinson both played a bunch of snaps for the Texans last week.
both scored a touchdown.
Both are like big bodied red zone threats.
I do think once Nico Colin comes back, though,
those guys' role will diminish a bit.
And then Jalen Knoll, to me,
is a guy to kind of stash right now.
I don't think you should start up next week.
I think you're going to have to see how things shake out.
But he looks awesome to me.
And I think there's a chance down the second half of the season
that he just replaces Christian Kirk.
He's way more explosive.
And he kind of plays from the slot.
He can do some of those slots fades.
It's good.
Yeah.
So there's a chance.
Obviously, you're going to probably be playing Wackamol a little bit with these Texans
receivers, but I think Jail and Noel is worth stashing if you have a deep roster.
I feel exactly the same way about these Texans receivers as I kind of do about
Tre Franklin where it's like the Texans are going from this Niners team, this beat to shit.
Yeah.
And then the Texans have to play the Broncos who have this incredible secondary with Patrick Zertain.
Oh, wait, just kidding.
Patrick Zertain is like not going to play this week.
So I'm like, oh, but in reality, the Broncos defense is still good.
And then the next week is Nico Collins and Christian Kirk could be fine.
for when you play them in a week 10.
However, one thing about Sartain being out,
the Broncos, the way they do man coverage and everything,
basically man coverage is big boy football.
Like, can you actually do it?
But there's, frankly, basically no reason you would be a cornerback
instead of a receiver if you could,
unless your dad was a Hall of Fame quarterback like Patrick Sertane.
There's no reason to do it.
So the receivers are way better than cornerback,
so there's no one can play men coverage except like four teams.
So the Broncos, though, when there's trying to do it,
they fail every week.
Yeah, well, that's my point.
When you try it, you look ridiculous.
which is how the lions end up looking every year in defense
because they stop,
they refuse to stop playing man whenever it gets hurt
because Dan Campbell's like,
that's a test of your manhood.
My point being,
do you remember that one game last year
where James Winston had like 500 passing yards
and Bo Nix and him went back and forth?
That was like when Patrick Sartagn was out.
Like, that's what the Broncos defense looked like
when they try to play man.
And then Riley Moss is the number one.
Is he definitely not playing Sartan?
I just, I mean, let me pull it up.
I mean, it's the,
It just happened.
We're recording this like late Tuesday, Monday night.
This is, Certains expected to be out weeks,
like maybe an injured reserve of the peck strain.
So the Broncos defense, I'm a little hesitant to come out here
on Monday night immediately if this happens,
it'd be like, attack them, it's fine.
But I'm just saying,
Broncos defense is not going to be,
or might not be that scary because once you lose the horses,
it's kind of like, why,
suddenly it's like, do you do the system we've all practiced
that you're no longer prepared for,
but you do something you've never really,
you're not really, you don't major in.
It really makes – I think this is something that I've noticed a lot this year.
You notice it every year, too, but it's just been really pronounced this year,
is the difference between star players and regular players is so dramatic.
It's crazy.
Like, when you go from a guy, an all-pro, defensive player of the year in Curtan, to even a good backup,
it's like, shit falls apart.
It just makes you appreciate how good these guys are, you know, down in and down out.
Like I'm this is I just thought of this like going back to like Dorel Rivas man when he was
guarding a guy and man it was incredible what he was around yeah and I apologize
Certain did play that game but all the cornerbacks after him kept falling so like Certain was fine
but all the other quarterbacks got hurt in that game I got it backward but that's the point though
when you play main coverage and you don't have the starters yeah I totally agree yeah it's
that it's unless it's you know running back but even then kind of came back so
So in general, for wide receiver, I think we're saying, like, tier one is Booty and Watson, and then it kind of drops.
And you have guys like Troy Franklin.
You have Jalen Newell, Alec Pierce.
You could probably throw in the Raiders guys, Trey Tucker, Jack Bash, even if Jacoby Myers gets moved.
But yeah, Booty and Watson at the top, and we'll do the booty for showdown time.
Yes.
Tucker would move up a tick just because I do think Jacoby Myers will get traded.
Yeah.
So Showdown time, baby.
I wouldn't mind if you got traded to the Steelers.
It is the Kishon, booty, booty, booty, booty, boody, boody.
down time.
That was your best one ever, Craig.
We got an email from someone, this is not the trivia, but someone sent an email saying
that his ex-girlfriend thought that the line was booty, booty, booty, booty,
rocking down the well?
What is the line?
I don't actually know.
I just assumed it was booty, booty, booty, rocking everywhere.
I think.
But that he said, I think D.K. said rocking down the well.
And I just said what it sounds like.
I didn't actually say any words.
I was just, you know, I don't know what the words are.
Ben, your girlfriend is wrong.
But, I mean, obviously, there's a trillion lines people get wrong.
Is it even worth doing the emails on that?
I think there's too many lines people get wrong in song, Stephen.
Yeah, that's hard.
There's like a thousand.
Okay.
This is from Brian.
Brian, B-bone.
Sorry.
According to a 2010 study, also, wait, duty of context.
We were talking about a person emailed in about whether they should start dating their step-cous.
Not related.
So Brian says, according to you...
It's also not their step-cousin.
Yeah, well, it's way simpler than saying,
my mom lives with a guy he's not married to and it's his niece.
What are you going to fucking say?
It's actually worth being that specific,
so you don't have to say I'm dating my step-cousin.
Yeah, probably, yeah.
That's what step is for.
Anyway, Brian says, according to the 2010 study,
roughly what percentage of marriage is worldwide
are between actual cousins.
Not step-cous, we're talking second-cous.
Like first?
Oh, second or closer?
cousins are closer?
What percentage of marriage?
What percentage?
Worldwide?
Oh, wait, in America or worldwide?
Worldwide?
It's worldwide?
God, how do they fucking have that statistic?
That's why I said rough estimate.
Craig, how do they answer any of the fucking questions we've been asking?
Well, they did a study on it.
They tried.
They worked really hard.
What a pointless study?
Okay.
What a point of the study?
I'm going to find the researchers of this fucking study and send them and saying it's
point.
I'd be like, just trying to break up
marriages around the world.
Maybe focus your efforts on something else.
What percent of marriages?
I feel like it's going to be higher than you think.
I also gave an answer to this before I read it.
So I'm going to just say the answer out of your end up.
All right.
I think I got it.
Okay.
Three, two, one.
Four.
Point two.
Yeah.
Okay.
Hyphus, what did you say?
I said four.
I also said four.
Four and a hundred marriages or to your cousin?
Sure.
I don't know.
This is the whole world.
I know, I know.
I know it's different, but it seems high.
Okay.
High Fitz, do you want the over or the under?
You can decide.
I will let you pick.
I want to take the under.
Craig's, Craig scared me.
It's not 4%.
It's 10.4%.
Stop.
One out of 10?
One out of 10 marriages or to a cousin.
Now I want to look at this study.
Let's see here.
Who did this?
Okay, age, Bittles and
Boston University School of Medicine.
Okay, 2009.
Abstract.
There's little information on inbreeding
during the critical early years
of human existence.
God.
Going on and on.
10%.
Currently couples related
as second cousins or closer
and their progeny account
for an estimated 10.4%
of the global population.
That is shocking number.
Obviously, this is one study.
Don't kinksham.
Doesn't mean this is a fact.
Okay, wait a minute.
It's basically like a very, very, very educated guess.
Still a lot.
I just, no joke.
just typed into chat GPT.
We can check the time on it to show that I'm not cheating.
I said, how many marriages are between cousins and chat GPT's answer is, according to
available research, it is estimated that around 0.2% of marriages in the, oh, in the U.S.,
damn it, damn it.
Greg, you're thinking too locally, pal.
Brought in your horizons.
Pretty good, though.
I hit that.
Have I pitched you guys on my new app?
There's a lot of small villages scattered amongst the world.
then I guess we are traveling to
to study what they're doing with her marriage.
Sometimes you don't have other options, all right?
I have an app idea.
They want to have Hinge at certain places.
I want to reinvent Hinge because, I mean,
the singles...
It's called the family group chat.
Yeah, the singles who are listening now know,
the Hinge is exhausting.
All the apps are exhausting.
It's a dating app,
and your parents get to decide
who you get to see,
and there's like two options.
And you have to pick from one of the two or three people.
Your family gets to pick
who you see on that.
Can you go back?
Just go back to out of the first.
Like a soft arranged marriage.
Yeah, yeah.
It's like you get some autonomy.
You get,
you know,
they have almost four people on here.
And three of them are people you,
you were like,
no,
like no,
mom,
no.
But I just like the idea
that we're going to go back
to how we did it
the first like four million years.
I do kind of like when you,
you ever have like,
you're trying to decide with your friends
to watch a movie,
do movie night.
And you're like,
there are a million movies
we can pick from.
It will never land on one.
It's almost nice to have an outside party.
Be like,
here are the four movies you can choose from
and then you have to pick one.
The illusion.
What is it the illusion of choice?
No, not illusion.
The paradox of choice.
The paradox of choice.
That's like the original TED Talk that went viral.
It's super true.
I have a question.
This is purely academic.
I'm not thinking about doing anything.
What are the differences between the apps these days?
Because I don't even know what they are.
Hinge?
No, like Hinge.
Well, HIP is and I shouldn't be able to answer either.
Well, no, Craig.
He doesn't.
I've never been on apps.
I've never been on apps.
I've never been on apps.
Tinder still a big thing?
Tinder's for one night stands.
Tinder's for sex.
Hinges for finding a partner, life partner.
Oh, so it's more geared towards actual dating.
Right.
Hinge is the whole motto is designed to be deleted.
It's for people who are more serious.
Hinge is not purely for like carnal.
It's actually like you're supposed to go on a date.
Carnal.
The sins of the flesh.
Hinge is like you go and get coffee or a dinner and then or a drink.
And then Tinder is like you might meet up with someone at two in the morning.
Yeah.
And Hinge, do you, like, enter in things about yourself, and it's supposed to, like, find compatibility with other people?
So it's like, you have a photo of yourself.
It's filtered.
Yeah.
So it's, it's like you have photos and then you have different prompts.
And then sometimes, I mean, there's like 100 prompts you can pick from and you're like six or seven.
And hopefully you've had your friends pick your six or seven best photos.
And you kind of scroll through.
And it's almost like LinkedIn for like, not LinkedIn's a bad example.
But it kind of sounds terrible.
But yeah.
There's a lot about Hinge.
he's never seen it.
Well, he's, you've been on it at some point.
Yeah, seven years ago.
What are the other ones?
I look at my friends. What's Bumble?
Oh, stop. Fuck you.
What's Bumble?
Bumble is where only women can pick.
Well, women have to come to you first.
Okay.
Which was a business model.
And that was actually somebody from Tinder left to go make Bumble, but I feel like,
so only the women can reach out to the men in that?
The problem of the dating apps is that the people are, the women are the
product. So they kind of all the dating apps narrow into just gatekeep, like they see just who's
getting swiped on the most. And the people with the highest swipe rates then are gatekeep and kept
behind a paywall because they're basically like, if you'll spend 100 bucks to buy a woman
dinner on a date once, why wouldn't you pay us like a couple hundred bucks a year to get to,
so they gatekeep the top 50% swipe rates and everything. And it's just, also like it just,
they don't actually want you to leave the app. So it's just tough. Also dating men generally are
terrible. So it's difficult. It knows a lot about this.
of any single friends left Craig?
I'm just fucking with you.
I'm just having a laugh.
No, it's fine.
See, the Lord of Smelt it, Delta, okay?
I feel like back in the day there was one,
oh yeah, Christian Mingle.
Is that still around?
Farmers meat?
Yeah, there's like the ones that are really geared
towards specific things.
J-Date?
Farmers' meat had the funny commercials.
Farmers' meat?
Yeah, Farmers-only.
Farmers-only.
Like M-E-A-T?
It was Farmers-L-L-A-T.
only. No, it was M-E-E-E-T. Come on. Oh. We've already established. I don't like meat in my
cassidia. All right. I actually have never seen that one. Farmer's meat? I haven't either.
I don't like meat in my cassidia sounds like something you would say on your profile.
Farmer's meat. Your one-liner. We'll put that as your hinge. Yeah. Craig, maybe we'll make
Can you make that your Twitter bio?
I don't like meat in my case idea.
Anyway,
tight end.
Speaking of which,
okay.
Whoa.
Wait,
wait,
wait, wait,
wait, wait.
Hey,
Fitz one.
Oh,
my God.
We've been
Missed Booty.
I got second.
I got second.
Okay,
so I'll take Christian Watson.
I will take,
I will take Alec Pierce.
I actually think it's swapped.
I,
I kind of ended up choosing Watson there.
I'm a,
oh, you want Watson?
Yeah,
okay, I'll take Woody.
That's fine.
I'll take Pierce.
All right.
Cool.
This game is going to go on forever.
I know, God, let's get rolling.
DK, number one tight end after week eight, entering week nine.
I'm going with Juan Johnson for the Saints.
Pickens are a little bit slim at tight end.
This week, he had five catches for 53 yards.
Last week, five catches for 79 yards.
The important thing with him is for a while there,
the Saints were playing like a really big rotation,
Foster Moreau, Morrow, Taysam Hill,
but those guys have kind of been pushed to the side
over the last couple of weeks
and now it's the
Joanne Johnson show again.
He played 75% of the snaps
the last two weeks.
So, yeah.
Johnson, you know,
obviously, again,
I've watched the same to play
and I will let you do that.
Okay, who's gonna take?
I would rather have,
I would rather have AJ Barner
because that's like,
I want Donald throwing the ball.
They're playing Washington.
I don't know if I can take
Tyler Shuck
thrown to anybody.
Did you see Washington
trying to cover?
Travis Kelsey had 99 yards
tonight.
open all game. It's like the Washington that cannot cover...
playing the Rams in on the road. I'm like,
Bobby White is like the best
blitzing linebacker. It's like touchdown or bus with him
though. But that's all these guys. But I mean
it's kind of like every ten end. I agree
though. Agent Barner is generally
speaking probably not going to be a good bet on a week to week basis
but if you need someone this week, which you probably do because
I mean there's a lot of tight ends like Dallas
Godder, both Brownstead ends. Like
Barner again, Washington's just allowed kills to get 99 yards.
I think Barner is a good bet for a touchdown.
It's basically like if you want to spike
if you want to go for like 15
to 18 points.
It's AJ Barner.
If you want somebody
who's going to guarantee
get you seven,
maybe it's Joanna Johnson.
The other one to throw out here
is Colston Lovellum
for the Bears
because Comette has a back injury.
Loveland played almost 80% of the snaps
when Commet was out.
And the Bears go against the Bengals
this week,
who I believe have given up
the most fantasy points to tight ends.
There's an argument
that Colson Loveland should be
the number one guy.
Mason Taylor too,
but realistically Mason Taylor,
it's tough because on a buy.
I've refused to play Mason Taylor
when Justin Fields was playing.
If Tara Taylor's, it does start at some point, I actually would be interested in Mason Taylor,
but now I feel like Fields is going to play, kind of like Breeze Hall.
They have to play him, but he's on by anyway.
So Colson Loveland, though.
He had a touchdown from Breece Hall.
Well, that's the thing.
Fields can't get him a fucking touchdown.
Also, we never talked about if that play didn't work, what we would have said.
We never said, Mr. Hall didn't make that play.
We would have been like, wow, the Jets of the dumbest team ever.
Anyway, Colston Loveland, being the first tenant drafted, second.
half of the season, if he gets going with commit out, he clearly has the most upside,
but also people who drafted him are probably burned, but the people who didn't draft
close on Loveland, if you kind of, this is what we talk about with receivers who down the second
stretch. Loveland's like more of a pure tight end, so it's a little harder for him to adjust,
but this is what we're talking about, where rookies who do nothing in this first half,
contribute in second half all the time, Cole commit gets hurt, Bears offense is good, maybe,
you know, Luther Burden's concussion, like, you know, probably have to play more two tight end
sets or whatever.
If you're just going to throw a dart anyway and you're going to throw a dart against
the Bears and Bengals, if Colson Loveland does have a good game, that means you could keep
playing him probably because he'll play more.
So maybe Loveland's the smarter answer, if riskier, but way higher upside.
Yeah, love, love, if any of these guys, it can be like a top 10 tight end to finish the season.
It's probably Barna or Loveland.
I'm going to go to Lovell.
Who do we like?
Should we go Lovell?
I'm going to go Loveland because I'm realizing as I'm talking that they're playing the Bengals
and just the odds of a touchdown.
I'm more confident.
If my life was on the line for points this week, I'd pick Barner.
But what's the different two, three points?
I'm like, Loveland talent over the course of the season, I'd rather have him out on my team.
Fuck it.
Let's go Loveland.
Let's do Loveland.
You really can spam bad defenses in fantasy and get away with a lot on a week-by-week basis.
You can just attack the shitty defenses.
Like, Troy Franklin playing Dallas live.
You can do that.
And it is pretty effective.
Yeah.
Sorry.
So Colson Lovel to Show.
Watch him have zero points.
Well, we're going to the 12th.
Yep.
All right, it is the
DK, you did a 15 inning game.
You could tell us what it's like.
I know, yeah, that's why I was like,
should we wait and watch this game?
I'm like, I don't know.
I think we're going to wait at home.
Yeah.
All right, it is the Colston Loveland.
This is fun.
Showdown time.
Let's go.
Let's go.
What do we got?
By the way, there's 88 babies named Craig in America in 2024.
88?
Not that many.
That's very low.
A quarter of the,
a quarter of Alvin.
Yeah.
Wow.
How many Craigs do you guys know?
I guess, 50,000.
How many Craigs do you know that's not me or Craig Gaines?
Zero.
I know one.
Nice.
Well, you can't at least more.
Craigs in my life will be offended.
Just say you know one.
Just pro.
Yeah, I know one.
Three.
I know three total.
Yeah, good point, D.K.
There's no upside to say you don't know one.
That's good point.
And him hearing it.
Makes me feel more unique.
Well, we were joking, but we actually think we can make you a top five most famous
Craig in America.
Like who, what's even the list?
Craig Ferguson, Craig T. Nelson, Craig Robinson is as far as we got.
Those are all like not that famous either.
Yeah.
Scottish?
Yeah, but he had an American television show.
I'm trying to help you.
I'm just saying, Craig Ferguson is more famous than me, obviously.
I think Craig T. Nelson and Craig Ferguson are more famous than you.
Craig Robinson, too.
For sure.
You're like fourth.
Can't be.
The idea we can easily get you to the top five.
I would like to think that when we're done with whatever this is, you could be
top five most famous Craig
does Craigslist count ahead of me?
Kind of like Helvin Camarie, you never just think of
Craig. I don't think Craigslist counts because it's not a person.
I know what it's claimed after a guy named Craig name Craig.
I'm sure. That guy doesn't want to be found. No one knows
who that guy is. If he didn't want to be found,
he shouldn't have named his fucking company, Craigslist.
You didn't think it through. That's very true.
Yeah, that was founded by Craig Newmark.
Yeah, but no one knows him.
No. If he knew what Craigslist would really become, he probably
would have named a Craigslist.
Anyway
Oh yeah
So this is from Brian
So simple
Love for the Spone
Another Brian
Brigh guy
How many dots are there
On the original Pac-Ban maze
Ooh
Oh wow
That's all right
I think we have to not
Think about
We almost have to like
Just give ourselves
Five seconds
And then go
Three
Two one
One hundred
Sixty-six
Oh my God
You said 64
Craig and you said
65 DK
Yeah
Wow
Oh it's more than that
It's more than that
Damn it
That's so weird
guys picked. Do you know how many times we'd have to do that again, just zero to 100 for you
you to pick two numbers next to each other? It would take a long time. You can't remember how big
the dots were. I think there's more dots than I'm imagining. Yeah. Probably like a hundred
by team steel. I know. Damn it. I said 100. The answer is
244. Whoa. I also feel like the screen size that you play Pac-Man on, I feel like they make
versions where there's less dots and it's on a smaller screen, but maybe I'm wrong. Yeah, like
The Game Boy one or something.
Yeah.
Damn.
Okay.
Highfitz.
24.
So I'll get close to Lovelin.
It's got two today.
So D.K., then you get...
Is he taking the lead?
The trivia score is
Hyphitz and DK. F.C. have 7.
I have eight.
Okay.
Damn it.
Close called.
Close game, though.
Okay.
So Hyfitz is taking Lovewood.
I'll take John Johnson.
Over A.G. Barner still.
Yeah, I'm taking A.G. Barn.
He'll do anything to reverse Jenks to Seahawks.
I mean,
I like AJ Martin.
I think he's a good player,
but he just gets like three targets a game.
Quarterback.
If you like him so much,
why don't you pick him?
I also like John Johnson.
Of Oregon fame,
as we've established.
Quarterback,
if you need a quarterback this week,
I think Trevor Lawrence off a buy.
I feel like he was released
in a lot of leagues of men.
I don't know if he's available
playing the Raiders.
He's running more.
I just think Trevor Lawrence is super solid.
Sam Donald also off a buy.
Just an oddly quality.
fantasy option that might just be available
because a lot of people released guys
during Biomedadden.
So Lawrence and Darnold definitely the top two
and then Joe Flacco versus the Bears.
He has an injury.
We'll see.
I think he's going to play.
Joe Flackover's to Bears.
Beers defense is ass.
He has Jamar Chase.
Jamar Chase will get 25 targets in this game.
Not really, but the fact that that actually is possible
is hilarious.
The fact that I just said that as a joke
and then realized that actually could conceivably happen
is why you should play Joe Flacco.
Tua, I, I,
I don't even want to recommend it because it's like Charlie Brown,
like he has one good game, you'll play him.
The other reason is too is Thursday at football.
And I just like, it's the Ravens.
And I'm like, if you have another option and I don't know,
you don't want to make the decision for Thursday.
So Mike,
I'd rather, even Michael Pennix,
I'd rather probably over to it just because I don't want to make that timeline
by Thursday.
Lawrence, Donald Flacko, Pennix, too.
And then if, yeah, we'll see from there.
Defenses, a lot of, there's,
I think there's a lot of good defenses available.
Seattle.
probably the best defense you will be able to get all year,
just because they're on by.
I think Pete,
no matter how good defenses are,
they get dropped sometimes.
The Seattle defense being dropped,
I think if you can go get them because they run by,
you should go get them.
Like,
they're next playing Washington,
which you'll maybe,
if that's Mario,
is still,
it would be amazing.
Arizona,
then the Rams,
then the Titans,
then the Vikings,
where Carson,
we even talk about this.
Carson Wentz is out for the season.
So J.J.
McCarthy is going to be playing for the Vikings.
That looks like my take on Bill's pot is not living up to.
Well,
McCarthy hasn't played yet.
Could be a week, I guess, yeah.
Anyway, I just think the Cilch defense is elite,
and if you can get elite defense, I would go get them.
Both Los Angeles teams, the Rams, again, off a buy,
playing the Saints.
I don't care if it's Spencer Rattler or Tyler Shuck.
They all suck.
Rams defense rules, just that's a bizarrely great streaming option.
Similarly, the Chargers with 10 days rest facing the Titans.
Just an incredible streaming option to go and get the Chargers
with 10 days to plan for Cam Ward.
Like that is also Cup runneth over.
Jags off a buy as your fifth option here,
facing the Raiders in Gino-Smith.
Obviously, the Raiders, you know,
you would think that they would want to buckle down,
but, you know, who knows,
maybe Bowers is back and healthier,
but the radio, Geno is still throwing a ton of picks.
Jaguars have had a ton of turnovers.
Obviously, that stuff regresses,
but you never know.
Ravens, even, I would consider
if all those things that are gone.
I think the Ravens' defense is coming back now.
A lot of guys are coming back.
I mean, Wuzier and Roquan and Humphrey,
and a lot of guys are coming back.
Kyle Hamilton obviously gets all the press is,
basically the best safety in the entire league.
Roquan Smith is the fulcrum of the defense.
The whole system, the concepts the Ravens run,
the inside linebackers of like is paramount.
And if Roquan's able to play in this game,
I mean, Tua, like, I know he had the good game,
but I just, if all the, if Seattle, Los Angeles Rams,
LA Chargers are all gone and that you don't want the Jaguars.
Like the Ravens defense is probably available in your league.
I think Rochon played last week.
I'm assuming he's playing this week.
So the Thursday of football, I,
Miami, I kind of think
there's a chance the Ravens fucking rock
Miami man. Like,
Lamar's gonna come back, Lamar's from Miami, I don't know, man.
And then Cleveland, who's just
also on a buy, but then they come back
to the Jets. And
just want to throw that out if you're trying to
think a week ahead. Yeah. The Browns versus
the Jets, fields.
I don't know. Okay.
Those are waivers.
Want to read an email or two when we get out of here?
Yeah. Let's save some of these for power.
This game is still going on, by the way.
I wanted to start out by just an email here from eBone.
Ebone.
Ebone.
Any breakfasts?
I would love to know.
Oh, we have breakfast.
Yeah.
Okay.
We actually have a bunch.
I actually think I've subconsciously cut some of them out.
I'll pull up EBO.
How dare you, sir?
Again, if you're listening, please send us the breakfast along with your email.
Ebone did not.
But I'll include the breakfast.
You're right.
I'm sorry.
I'm skipping on the breakfast.
Wow, I just randomly found a great low-stakes conspiracy.
by accident trying to find this guy's name.
Read it.
Read it.
It's kind of better than Ebon's email.
We'll do both of them.
Do both.
Throw Ebone a bone and then we'll do the conspiracy.
Okay.
Don't let me forget.
Ebone, so Ebone wrote in and said,
because I was saying how the ATT commercial
on Sunday football was like, we invented the phone.
Oh, I saw that today.
So Ebone, what did you think when you watch it?
I don't know.
I was already colored.
My opinion was colored by our pod yesterday.
Just hit me.
Like, I was just like,
What do you mean you invented the phone?
How have you never brought this up?
So Ebon writes,
you youngsters are apparently unaware
that for many years,
there was only one telephone company.
And that company was the predecessor to AT&T.
And this was when I realized it.
It was called Bell.
Yeah.
Because, you know, the guy who made the phone
didn't realize that.
And so anyway,
the feds finally used antitrust laws
to break up the original company.
The lack of knowledge of history
that folks your age had is appalling.
The feds finally fucking broke up
that gravy chain.
Yeah.
I fucking invents a phone and they're like, yeah, no.
I invented it.
I invent the piano net tie.
I invented it.
Anyway.
Thank you, Hyvitz, for getting that.
That was good.
That was great.
Dude, the whole reason why Hollywood is in Hollywood and not the East Coast is, I guess
it's not antitrust, but Thomas Edison, like, invented the camera.
And then he basically wouldn't let anyone else use it without them.
paying him. So people were like, we need to get as far away from Thomas Edison as we can.
So he can't, so he doesn't know we're using his cameras. And so they went to the West Coast.
Are you serious? Yeah. That's the reason? Yeah. They were like, this fuckers in New York. We got to get
our boss said, we got to get the hell out of here because he's not going to let anybody use. So when did he
find out? They just put some Charlie Chaplin movie out. He was like, those motherfuckers. He's like,
damn it, what they're doing out there. But that's, that's partly the reason why Hollywood is in L.A.
that's unbelievable also that's wild if you would ask me who invented the camera
i actually don't think i would have knew it was thomas edison
i feel like i need to watch these movies that were about thomas edison
and i don't know Alexander grandb i don't know very much just watch the family
guy joke where thomas edison just bashes to make a movie recently craig about
maybe it was tesla the prestige guy the guy well yeah no i've heard i've watched the prestige
that was a good movie uh i don't know really really
recently about Tesla? Not sure.
Yeah, maybe it would, but it might have been
talking to the guy. Just for anyone.
I think it was about light bulbs and shit.
Yeah, Thomas Edison created the phonograph, the motion
picture camera, the alkaline storage battery.
And the guy was it, the guy was cooking.
You know what?
There's like a bunch of people like that that don't get enough credit,
like Charles Babbage invented the computer.
The old timer, though, is the guy who invented the internet is alive in like
63 and he's a British researcher.
It's not fucking Al Gore.
It's like, just a guy invented the internet and is not famous.
And you know why we have the internet and our fucking
careers in everything we do because he refused to patent it.
One guy was like, I don't want to patent this.
I want everyone to have this.
And he's not that rich.
Wow.
Sorry to interrupt you.
The movie I was saying it was the current war,
which had Benedict Cumberbatch in it.
I didn't know that.
Dramatic story of a cutthroat race between electricity,
Titans, Thomas Edison, and George Westinghouse.
I got to watch that.
Yeah.
Sorry.
Report back.
Let me know.
Yeah,
I will.
I feel like there was another one too.
What a weirdly good segue to this random email I just found from Cam?
Cam.
I think we've read this before, but I don't even care.
Sea bone.
I asked for low stakes conspiracy theories,
and Kim said,
why can't we harness lightning?
Can't we?
He's like,
they say it's hard to predict and store and collect it,
but like, is it?
well
I mean
I love the idea
of the three of us
trying to unpack this
well let's think about this
why can't you just collect the lightning
what about that little ball thing
that like has like all the lightning stuff
you know and you like
lightning rod
no there's like a
I don't know what it is
I don't know what you're saying
but there's like a little ball
that like shoots
fucking lightning
it's like that Isaac Tesla
has the fucking power balls
yeah
yeah
Also, aren't there, like, you know, high points on buildings where lightning always strikes?
Why can't we harness it that way?
Put something there.
We put solar panels with the sun on.
Yeah.
You know what's funny?
This is how James Dullen.
Yeah.
This is how James Dullen built a sphere.
He was like, why do you have walls?
By harnessing lightning?
No, James Dillon was like, just make the whole thing screen.
And James was, and they were like, James, you can't do it.
He said, why are their walls like around a screen?
Just make the whole, make the walls a screen.
And they were like, fuck.
And then they did it.
So.
we should do this.
I think there was one more movie about like electricity or something.
And I'm trying to figure out what it is.
Maybe Rosamond Pike in it.
Wow, that was a crazy ass play.
Yeah, was that was that really out?
We're just watching a play where ground or to third.
So you'd like wait for it to get there.
There's a guy running this third.
And yeah, the third baseman like has to wait for the ball to get to him while his foot's on the bag.
Oh, he's safe.
He's very safe.
Baseball has a ball.
Every time you watch baseball in the playoffs,
there are certain elements that they really could grab for other sports.
One, the managers were in the jerseys.
The idea that there's a space that you have to stay,
and if you leave, you're, like, in danger is great.
And, like, literally, like, the little tiny safe space.
It's a pretty great thing.
It is.
It's kind of a childish, like, invention.
It's very.
It's very floor is lava.
Like, you know, you're a kid.
You can't jump off the couch type of vibes.
It's so funny that grown men are like,
no, I was touching the base.
I was touching it.
I was on base.
And there's a third guy who just has to stare at it and go, no.
You were there.
I will say, every time I've ever gotten mad at a ball or strike,
putting the cameras of the umps,
when they show the ump cam,
I've never gotten the call right one time.
I can't believe that's their job.
Do you think umps like watching sports outside of their job,
or is that exhausting?
baseball or like other sports?
Are they putting on other games?
Yeah, like, as an up watching baseball in his off time.
Do you think they criticize the refs?
Because that's my favorite thing with like players.
So the NFL players will be like, man, like, you guys can't criticize.
You just sit, like, what do you mean?
You don't know what's going on in the locker room.
You don't know the context.
And then like, like, if you watch them watch a basketball game, they're like, fuck Kevin Durant.
Yeah.
They yelling at the refs.
Come on, blue.
Like, does an up get home from a long day?
day and like throw on Sunday night baseball?
Craig, it's like, does a gynecologist go home and I'll let you fill in the blank there?
Someone went on the subway takes the other day and was like there should not be male
gynecologists.
That's probably true.
I found it, you know, it's hard for me to argue against, you know?
Yeah, that's one of those things where I feel like that's the right take, but I also,
I don't know.
Yeah.
We found the one that Craig won't weigh in.
I've thought that before as well
I feel like everyone's had that conversation
and yet
I don't know
there are male guy
I don't know it's weird
you see
anyone wants to email in
bring your fancy football
let us know
do you think there should be
only male urologists
he's giving it some real thought
if you went to the doctor
for a penis issue
and your doctor was a woman
would you be like hey
I feel like they might have a hard
they might have a hard time
well if anything
sometimes an outside opinion
And, you know, maybe that's helpful.
Also, the penis is much less complicated.
Right.
Yeah.
But I'm debating telling something.
Yeah, my, I had multiple friends who don't know each other who,
dude, you ever talk to your friends who are doctors about like what they do in medical school?
Fucking nuts.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Like, like, like, like.
Lordy.
Like, what did you do at work today?
Like, I don't, that, I still don't understand why doctors work the hours they do and why med school is the hour.
Like, it's just like this.
tradition that they won't break, but like,
oh my God.
Do Liz's sister is a doctor and she,
I mean,
she is working literally like 32-hour shifts.
It's sort of like a weeding out.
Is it a weeding out strategy?
No, we don't have enough doctors in this country because medicals, like,
let's all look at.
You don't want bad doctors.
No,
or lazy doctors.
We do need more doctors, though.
Right.
It's just funny that like,
you would think that the profession that knows about the human body would not
want to employ people who are working on a lack of sleep.
Right.
Like the people like with you,
when your lack of sleep,
it's like somewhat equal to being drunk.
It's like being drunk.
They are the most aware of the,
of the,
you know,
cognitive decline that lack of sleep causes.
It's just so weird.
Email us at ringer fancy football at gmail.com.
I know this is a lot of doctors
in the show.
Email us for your fantasy football at gmail.com for,
I will take any crazy stories of just,
I mean,
doesn't have to be like how hard you work,
but I'll take them.
But also just like,
crazy shit's the wrong word
but just like
things you wouldn't believe
things if you don't know anything about medicine
are just shocking
about like going through medical school
just the realities of how it works
because it's also
I talk about this whole time
it's the only thing
that's like the NFL draft
where they're like
oh you want to be a doctor cool
you have to go to this place
for six years
and then you don't like
that's it
and then
Kirshah's in now
Kershaw's in?
They're fucked
Oh and the bases
wait
bases are loaded
two outs
did he come in
Is the end this or to keep him on base?
I didn't see.
I don't think he's been in the whole inning.
Dude,
Kershaw had that nice thing
at the end of the regular season
and he got fucking worked
in the NLCS.
And he,
you know,
has some playoff moments.
People probably remember.
Shout out Ryan O'Hanlin
if he's listed this episode
who's the first person
in the world who was like
Clayton Kershaw sucks
in the playoffs.
He figured it out first.
This is good.
We just sit here and watch this game.
My brother-in-law ran into
Clayton Kershaw on the streets of Boston
like two months ago.
It was the best day of his life.
He's a huge.
What did you say?
He just, like, wanted up to him and was like, hey, I'm a massive fan.
This is so cool.
I'm speaking to you.
And then they took a photo.
Kershaw was just like hanging out with his family in a park.
That's rad.
All right.
Anything else on?
We've come this floor.
Wait, what was the, did we already do the, uh, oh, this lightning thing then?
It was lightning.
Okay.
Well, I mean, we're going to end.
Three two count.
Well, after this, after this pitch.
Kurtz was about to blow this game.
We're going to end the show.
I mean, I'll do the thank you.
Thank you, D.K.
Thank you, Craig.
Thank you, Krellas, thank you Ron. Thank you, Kaj. Thank you, Austin. Thank you, Kershaw, for blowing this game momentarily.
Oh, come on. He's going to fucking blow it.
Watch. Thank you, Lord. Lord.
Oh, geez. Thank you, George Clinton.
I don't know. I want to hear from Dodgers fans who are mad because every Dodgers fan, whether or not he blew it, is thinking that he's going to blow it right now.
If it always says, like, the most random things he has really strong opinions on.
Really?
Clayton, Kershaw?
I realized I watch way more baseball than you guys.
Well, you definitely do.
That's fair.
Also, the last time he played, what did he even, he got, what did they score on him last time he pitched?
What's, what George Clinton?
What's the biggest George Clinton song?
Oh, that's a good question.
I'm not sure.
I used to listen to this song called Bob Gun.
That's really good.
I don't know if it's actually George Clinton or if it's, uh, all right, he did it.
I'm wrong.
Wow. Okay. Good. I actually like Clayton Grishall a lot. I'm happy that that was...
Oh, he did the glove flip. I love the glove flip.
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