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Here's exactly what I'm saying.
No, we can't because daddy's on air.
Can't take a lunch break.
He's on 11 to 3 every day.
Not air time.
No food time.
11 to 3.
11 to 3 is such a hot spot, dude.
Not bad for a fat guy.
Got it.
TG 121.
TG 121.
Turbo 6.
Sit, sick.
Hit, hit, hit.
Hit it.
Hey.
Hey, Turbusset.
All right.
What's up?
What were you saying?
Oh, we're on?
I was just doing that.
I didn't even though it was recording.
No, but it's, it's, yeah, whenever, whenever, uh, quarterback, you know, Brady or Breeze
will go out, you know, because inevitably somebody will ask them about their cadence or
play call or something.
And they explain it and it literally doesn't explain anything.
Like the whole play call in the huddle?
Yeah, but then they'll go up and they'll be like, yeah, so then I'd get up and we kind of
have two calls, right?
we kind of have, you know,
Waddy's a hut.
And then the second one would be,
you know,
kill, kill, kill.
Waddy,
Waddy,
that means the same exact thing.
Okay.
How do you know the difference?
Monday,
Monday, easy,
easy.
What are you?
It's so funny,
dude.
Listening to him.
Also, is it,
is it set hut?
Is it a hit?
Is it just,
it's a hit?
You aren't really like his set go.
Ooh.
So go,
just a general,
general sound of just a
Yeah, I'm like, how do you know the difference?
Sit, sit, sit.
It's like me yelling and happy.
Sit, sit, sit, sit.
Roll over, roll over.
That's a coach.
That's a cadence, QB cadence.
Stay, stay, stay, stay.
One treat, one treat, one treat, one treat, one treat.
Roll over, roll over, roll over, roll over, roll over.
Here we go.
Do you hear that?
Never mind.
Okay, anyway.
So, uh, sports podcast.
Nah, what are you talking about?
This isn't a football.
You're a big week for you, huh?
You're messing up to Caden's, son.
Where did he?
That dang it, Pellissy.
Do it again.
I hate it, man.
Hold on.
How badly do I just want to be a coach, an offensive coordinator for a JV football team,
just so I can rip the sophomore quarterback's cadence.
I freaking hate it, Davis.
Line it up and do it again.
A deep in your voice.
Pretend your little girlfriend's in the crowd, Davis?
Jesus.
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I got to get back out on the road.
I got to get back out doing shows.
Hit the rolled.
That was fun.
Hey, Clubhouse.
Or another funniest thing ever about this show and me and Ben's friendship.
What happened?
We both go to New Orleans for like 40 hours and at the same time.
And we don't even acknowledge each other's existence there.
Dude, that's how you know your friends.
That's how it should be, bro.
It's like, oh, I mean, yeah, all right.
I mean, all right.
I was like, where are you?
Where are you?
I don't even know if I finished the text.
I was like, where are you?
You're like a casino.
And I was like, I don't even know where that is.
And then I don't even know if I texted you back.
I'm driving.
Me and my dad head down Tuesday night.
We stop at like one in the morning in Mississippi and we sleep for like four hours and then get back up and head straight to New Orleans.
And that Wednesday morning we're driving there.
And I see Ben's Instagram story and he texts me.
He's like, see you soon.
B.
Oh my God.
You're insane, man.
I can't believe you're actually.
Because I texted him on like Monday.
I was like, you should come down, man.
Like I'm going to be there.
I mean, my dad.
It could be fun.
And you just never know.
been ultimate wild card, right? So then all of a sudden I say, I'm like,
holy shit, he actually is. This is crazy. So then I'm at Radio Row for like five hours.
He gets in. I don't know when. I got a show that night, a dinner as well. But like we're
trying to make something happen, whatever. Yeah, I text him at like four. I'm like,
where are you, B? And he just says, I don't remember what the hell he said. Like I truly don't
even know if you acknowledge that. You just said, where are you? And I said, walking by the casino.
No.
I was right there, though, at that Beny's place.
There's a Beny's place called Hot Beny's.
Did you get one?
No, man.
Yeah, you're looking.
You're looking trim, bro.
That's crazy to not get a Benier in New Orleans Super Bowl week.
That takes a lot of, like, willpower.
You're good.
It took a lot of willpower for a lot.
I think I went 30 hours and all I ate was a turkey avocado wrap that Fandul paid for me.
a few chips and salsa at dinner with my dad and T. Bob A Bear on Wednesday night.
And then I think that's it.
Dang.
No airport food?
We drove, dog.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
No gas station snackies.
Packed peanut butter sandwiches for the car ride.
That's how you do it, man.
You're on it.
Pete butter, samies and bananas.
Hey, two of those.
Can I get your stats from Super Bowl?
Food stats? What are we talking here?
Oh.
What did you go?
What'd you go?
It was a little, it was a little, it was a little, it was a different Super Bowl, man, because
I had to work early on Monday morning and the kids go to bed, like right as 630 when the game's
starting.
So we're like, I don't want to go anywhere.
I have to corral the kids who are trying to sleep, but then like stay way later or anything
and let them sleep there because I got to work in the morning.
And so I just, we just, it was just me, right, and the two kids.
No party.
Nobody came over.
Didn't go nowhere.
Right.
So I was kind of like, I don't even know what this is going to like, we may not even
have anything.
Then all of a sudden, I was like, oh, no, we actually, we're good.
We got a little spread.
So we had chili.
Last minute, probably made it so much better too.
Yeah, it was because in a little surprise.
Yeah.
And you're like not expecting a lot.
No, I had no expectations for the Super Bowl.
like we'll probably honestly be in bed by like 715 because the kids are going to be asleep
and like we're not doing shit.
So it's not going to be a full Super Bowl spread like it typically is every year.
But yeah, I ended up having chili and end up having shrimp cocktail.
Oh, let's go.
Cocktail sauce.
That's it right there.
16 shrimp.
And then, dude, jalapeno popper dip.
Mm-hmm.
What were you dipping in there?
And where was it from?
Sounds like a Trader Joe's type beat.
Nah, Riley made it.
Oh, homemade?
She's cooked that up real quick?
Oh, my gosh.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
She still had the Crockpots working.
So it ended up being a nice little,
we ended up being maybe one of my favorite of all time
because it was so last minute and under the radar.
And it was just us,
didn't have to worry about people coming in and.
No people.
No people.
No people.
So me and I, yeah, we did.
We did appetizers.
have jalapeno popper dip, shrimp cocktail, chili, the main course.
Then here you go.
You ready?
What we put in the chili?
Do you guys have like oyster crackers or anything?
What was going to?
What's just going to station know about that chili?
Forgot oyster crackers and it kills me because I'm one of those guys that like somebody
would say to me, you know, you're wanting chili with those oyster crackers?
Like I love dumping in the crackers.
Bro, put a gun in all those guys' mouths right now, all of them.
But we forgot them.
So no, I just straight up just had chili, man.
Kids and Rye had some noodles with theirs and some cheese.
I just had straight chili.
But the kicker.
David Aker.
Rye went to the grocery store to get like stuff for the week with Frank.
My little man walks in has a heart-shaped Super Bowl cookie cake.
No.
What was the icing looking like?
It was like a football field.
It's a green icing.
I got to go.
edges. I got to get out of here.
Little white numbers in there. And it was
perfect size too. It wasn't a giant one.
It was just enough for like us four
still have some left over for tonight.
Oh, dude. Teeth just
so green.
Did you see that commercial?
Green teeth. National anthem going on.
I'm like,
yeah, green teeth, cookie cake. I love that.
Tom Brady's pretty good. He's better than he
was.
Do you think Traves going to propose after this?
Spagnolia.
Jesus Christ.
Take a shot every time they say Steve Spagnolia.
Dead on the ground.
I'm,
it was a great four-course meal, dude.
That sounds amazing.
Drink?
What was it?
Sprite?
Anything sexy?
Went and snagged some Sun King creamail.
Pro, you had the best Super Bowl party of all time, dog.
Dude, Sun King Creamail is like, that's on occasion.
If you just have that on like a Tuesday, you're crazy.
Or like you're rich.
I went in and I was like, I was like, man, I went back and forth.
We didn't have much.
We just had some like bourbon.
I was like, that's insane.
It's just us.
It's like, I got to get up crack acid on tomorrow.
I don't want to do that.
But I was like, just kind of feels un-American to not have an ice cold beer on Super Bowl.
Creme ale is fire, bro.
That is the beer for like,
I'm just having two or three or like,
you know what I mean?
Just chilling.
Because I went.
It's a cremicle.
Here, here we go.
Here's the play.
Here we go.
What he said?
So I went and I was like, yeah,
we're going to get some beer.
And I don't want to get like drunk,
but you know,
I want to have a nice,
nice casual drinking beers for the game duration.
So I got a six pack of,
bottles of Mick Ultra, right?
Wow.
Light.
Wife loves them, you know?
Can still get them chopping if you need to, that kind of beer.
And then I saw it and I was like, man, tall can sun king creamails.
That's the ice cream.
That's the kicker right there.
That's a treat for Super Bowl Sunday.
So yes, I had, I think I had one Mikkelabultra, two Sunkenin cremails.
and that was honestly the best part of the night because the game fucking sucked.
Yeah.
What a great.
Dude,
you couldn't do it any better.
You can draw it up any better than that, boys.
But geez.
Did you have anything?
Were you at a party or anything?
No, man.
I just,
I did it like I usually do it.
I had no idea what time the game started.
Plus, we were L.A. time.
Game started at like 12, 15.
So weird, dude.
I was like,
what are we doing?
I just had morning coffee and they're about to kick it off.
It was really weird.
What time was,
did it start there?
6.30 p.m.?
Yeah, Super Bowl starts at 6.30 every year.
Is it?
Yeah.
Oh, that was so weird to me.
So 3.30 here.
I was like,
what are we doing?
My day was all messed up because I don't know why a bunch of stuff is going on.
I hadn't worked out yet.
And like the New Orleans trip kind of messed me up too.
So I was like,
I need to get a workout.
So I went to work out at the start of the second quarter.
So weird.
Being in a gym during the Super Bowl, just two guys there that have no idea what day it is or what's going on.
And I'm just like, how is this open?
I felt like it was illegal to be there or something.
Get back right when the halftime show ends.
I'm just looking on my phone the whole time.
I'm working out.
Just all tweets about the scorebug.
Probably talk about that in the second.
got back, told my roommate to preheat the oven,
preheat the oven,
just made like 40 chicken wings.
Like, you know how you buy them?
Like in the, you know, they're like,
just throw them in the oven,
flip them,
takes like 45 hours to cook.
I don't,
because you got to get them crispy.
You got to get them crispy.
Dude,
they weren't done until the game was over.
Yeah.
So I watched the whole game.
And then I just put them in a bowl and put barbecue sauce all over them,
sugar-free.
because we're on it.
But it tastes great.
This is the best.
Still got three left over.
Did you do a little toss?
I didn't need to.
Really?
I just kind of like,
they're piled in this bowl,
like cartoon style,
like Fred Flintstone.
And I just put the barbecue salt.
Every single one had a perfect amount.
And I was like,
this is great.
Watch the post game show and just ate 37 wings.
Hell yeah, dude.
And oh,
in a pineapple.
I just cut a pineapple.
and hate it.
Dude,
I'm this stupid
as shit of all time.
Would you eat a whole chicken
and a pineapple?
Just thinking about that
is stupid.
And I watched six plays
from the game.
I think I watched one.
But I was like hearing it.
It was all the same play.
It was really weird.
I mean,
the entire,
it was like every time
you would look,
pretty much,
yeah,
I watched,
I actually,
this is the first Super Bowl
I ever turned off.
Turned it off?
Turned it off.
Like, during, why?
Finally went up to bed, I think after or right before Hertz hit Devante Smith to go up 34
nothing.
It was right around there.
But I was just like, this game is horrible.
Like, there's not an interesting thing about it at all.
Yeah.
And so I just, we went upstairs and we were laying down and I was like, it's family guy time.
Like, I just put on family guy.
I think I could do that.
First one I ever did.
That's amazing.
Yeah, it was a bad game, though.
Scorebug talk, we got to do it.
Got a few messages about that.
Me too.
People were like, unfortunately, I don't have a sports podcast to listen to, but if I did,
what would you think about this?
It's crazy.
We're even talking about this.
You go ahead.
You go ahead.
I like it honestly hot take
It's clean
It's just everything's right there
You can see it well
I'm a big fan of stuff
You can just see well
Because everybody's complaints
It's like I don't even know
So they just made boom
It's right there
There's no like
I liked how it was transparent
You know what I mean
But they do needed to squeeze it
If they could just squeeze it down a little bit
That would have been my only suggestion
But other than that
I mean, kind of cool.
And I'm on board with everything Fox does.
I think they do graphics really well.
So they know what they're doing.
See, what's insane is that the green screen that Tom Brady and Kevin Burkhardt
were standing in front of, I thought it was incredible.
Because it looked like they were standing in Bourbon Street.
Like, it looked like they were in a different location.
Yes, you could tell it was like animated a little bit.
But it legitimately, it was pretty seamless.
It wasn't just like, you know how typically when the broadcasts,
booth, they go up to them, and behind them, it'll just have like NFL and Fox and the Super Bowl logo.
And you know that like right off to the side is just Mike Pereira sitting there.
This was all encompassing.
It was like a full 360 scope and everything around them was like they were standing on Bourbon Street.
Dang, I didn't see that.
I thought it looked really good.
I thought it looked really good.
It was sick.
But then, yeah, they, the kickoff goes up and then they show the graphic for the first time,
the scorebug.
And I legitimately thought, oh, no, they had a green screen malfunction.
Like, you know, when the green screen's up and then it's on green, like you have a green screen
and it's filming green shit.
It makes it invisible and you can't see it and blocks it out.
And I was like, that's what my mind immediately went to.
And it's just to me, you get to a point where you're just too minimalist.
Yeah, okay, I see that too.
I get the cleanness and trust me, I'm like you, we're all clean, classy, cool, simple.
But I was like, damn, man.
I mean, they really just forgot that they had to do this.
Yeah.
So they thought they made, you thought they whipped one up.
Yeah.
I mean, they could have squeezed it down a little bit, made it a little more busy and like
added stuff like when things happened and I think that would have saved it a little bit.
But it didn't have enough.
Didn't have enough spice, honestly.
Like, you know, throw some firework graphics when they score or some like Louisiana,
Marty Grau.
Come on.
Get, I mean, the team logos in there even.
I mean, they were trying to see and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, I don't know, man.
Yeah.
They, uh, they, uh, they made it for.
grandpas for sure, but I guess, yeah, I mean, like, at least they had the colors of the teams in there.
Because they could have just straight up gone, like original Fox, where it's pretty much just black and white and the letters of the cities.
That was it.
I saw the one you tweeted.
It was the OG scorebug, which is like the most scorebug of all time.
The one of the before that.
But that, yeah, that's what I was saying.
I was like, if you're going for like simple and classic and minimalist,
with the red dot on it
loved it so much
throw that shit up in the
the top left corner
you know
give a little room to breathe
right
they score
oh
it's always
yeah
it's always
Chris Cooley
catching a pass
for three yards
in a flat
touchdown
Washington
well still trying to find
I'm still trying to find
the sound effect
for the
I've heard that
I saw it on Twitter
somebody tagged
guess it's good i i haven't been able to find it anywhere but i know it exists if you go back and
you watch the 2005 Patriots eagle super bowl in jacksonville i know you'll hear it now sports
podcast no sports podcast yeah dude so i mean new orleans what'd you think i like that city
i think it's like a mix of florida in l a it seems like were you was that your first time no
I've been there before, but I wasn't in the streets as much like I was.
I was just, I went on off, like, I just went on like a whatever trip.
It wasn't, there was no theme.
There was no like events or anything like that.
But dude, Bourbon Street, you guys, it's just so wild.
And I like how it's real tight.
Like, the streets aren't big.
It's like you're kind of in a neighborhood.
Even smaller than that, really.
And everything's all on top of you.
Like, I don't know, people know New Orleans, but like every single building has like a
second story with a balcony. I just think that's so cool. Every single building, I love it.
Yeah. Yeah, no, I'm the same way, man. I was like, damn, that was the longest period of time
that I've gotten to be there in that kind of scenario because I've been to New Orleans before.
But yeah, you felt it, man. You're like, this is, this is cool. This is, it has all those things
you mentioned and it does feel a little L.A. Florida. But then it's like Indy. That's where I feel
like I felt comfortable because it's like Indy in the way in terms of you can stay downtown,
walk to the stadium and you're there in like 12 minutes.
That was cool.
And then you can also walk to the media center, radio row, and you're there in like 10 minutes.
And you can go to Bourbon Street.
Like everything is walkable.
And so it's got that feel like, oh, this is a big time.
Holy shit.
This is cool.
A lot of culture, a lot of history, a ton of shit to do.
But also, by the way, like you're all just here on top of it, on top of each other, which
I thought was sick.
It might be the best city, man.
It just got everything combined.
And it's like kind of like spooky.
You know what I mean?
Halloween in New Orleans would be sick.
Bro, it's always a little scary.
And just, I don't know, bro.
They just have like cool food.
Like everything is so unique.
I don't know.
I really like it.
It's all purple and yellow and gold and green.
Yeah, dude.
And everything's like seafood.
I was like, yeah.
Am I on unbreakable?
Like is this Mr. Glass?
What the hell is going on?
You got to think it was Super Bowl Week so that, you know, they cleaned it up and did it right.
But I forgot about Super Bowl Week vibe.
Like, that is a different.
Dude, everybody's like, all right, let's get it.
Like, everybody's down.
It's so cool, dude.
Every Super.
I mean, I think you said something about it.
You haven't, like, experienced a Super Bowl since Indy and, like, Indianapolis.
And what year was that?
2012.
That's so long ago, bro.
But the Super Bowl changes.
is everything. It's so weird.
You're right. We got
there and it was like Wednesday
at 1045 and
if you would have walked
up to a place in the
French Quarter or just downtown New Orleans
that had one of the second story patios,
you're like, no one
would blame you if you're like
go get a bucket real quick
and just like figure out a game plan.
Everybody's trying to party at every second.
Restaurants are just like, let's go.
It's so sick, dude. Full staff.
They probably hired like 10 people.
You could, and everybody's everywhere.
Like every guy, every sports player.
Oh, I know that guy.
There's walking around.
It's like almost like a dream.
I saw Dan Levitart at the same restaurant I was at.
I was like, dude, this is sick.
Got too scared to talk to him.
Went to a different restaurant, actually.
You should have showed him the picture from 10 years ago.
Cool.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
No, but we.
go. Our hotel was right by
the Manning Bar and Grill.
And honestly, that place, we didn't even get to go in because it was
a private event or whatever. But right across the street was
a spot. And it was right where ESPN, like NFL Live and
get up and all that shit. Saw all that. Yeah. So all that's right
there. And the bar right next to it had a second story. On Wednesday
of Super Bowl week, they're doing $1.50 domestic beers.
sick. After I was on radio road for like five hours, me and my dad are like, you want to hop in there for a sec and just like take in New Orleans for an hour and I was like, fuck yeah. I had a few dollar 50 domestics.
To your dad's the best with that. It's so funny. My dad everywhere we go in a spot like that. He can't just like have a beer or two. He's always like, I got to get I got to get a little something. I got to get a little salt in me. I just got an order of fries. It's the best, man. That's the best way to do it.
it right there.
Po boys.
Fries, ketchup and beer.
Let's go.
You can't eat for two days, but let's go.
Cream mail.
Dude, I can stop thinking about that.
Oh, my God.
I know.
I think I have one more left.
That's going to,
once the kids go down on a Monday night
and put that bag,
has a little treat.
For sure.
Yeah, but
Super Bowl is over.
And football
is over and uh... now the draft is in like fifteen minutes that's true that is like the second
season you know i'm like dude this football season never ends when's the draft april like
25th or something like that yeah but the combine's back in indy so all those people i just saw at the
super bowl i'm gonna see it in indy in like two weeks was the combo it's not sports podcast what was
the nfl combine in indy last year dumb question but i remember they were talking about moving it and
i was like i don't know if they did or not yeah they've been talking about
talking about moving it for like eight years and they just keep re-upping because I think they
realize like ah that's actually really dumb it's kind of crazy that it's just been in
it will not be here but for now I think they've they've re-uped for we built our city around the
NFL con the Indianapolis built their city around the combine there's like tunnels right there's like
an underground railroad for NFL combine like athletes dude everything's
connected downtown to keep them warm.
Totally. That's why I shouldn't go anywhere.
I mean, you're in L.A.
Until they talked about moving it.
It'd be a mess.
45-minute bus ride with a bunch of college kids to get their medicals done.
Bro. Come on.
Yikes.
Yeah.
This might be my last show with the hair.
Really? I was just thinking. I saw a picture of you in New Orleans. I was like, he's doing it again. He committed. I mean, I don't know. Did somebody say something? No, I mean, my parents. Your mom hates it. Hates it, dude. Your dad? Kind of likes it. No, he doesn't. What? Surprisingly, he doesn't.
Usually we went to good.
Yeah.
Before we went to New Orleans, they both were like, they were getting on me like I was,
you know when you're like 17, 18, 19 and you're going out for different job interviews that
are just like summer jobs or part-time jobs or whatever.
But, you know, your parents make it out to be like it's like the biggest deal of your life
and you've got to really present yourself and this matters and everything.
Dude, that's what they both were like to me as a 31-year-old man.
before we write down to the Super Bowl.
They were like, you got to present, you just look way better.
You got to present yourself.
I mean, this is essentially a job, but I'm like, guys, I don't.
I'm like, one, I get my hair cut by like a professional actual hair stylist.
So I put some care into it.
Two, I'm not a fat ass anymore.
So, like, naturally just looks better because I don't wait 225 pounds.
Yeah.
You know?
And, like, do you see, like, A-less celebrities?
like Brad Pitt will have like long hair every once in a while.
Like, come on. You know what I mean?
Looks good.
I'm not saying you're Brad Pitt, but like people do it.
Switch it up, babe.
I know that.
Yeah, it's like, hey, New Orleans is probably the best Super Bowl host city.
But every now and then you got to put one in Indy.
You got to put one in Minneapolis.
I love that.
Hey, put some respect on the Viking Stadium, by the way.
Sorry, keep going.
Things insane.
Yeah, I'm like, can we talk about that a little bit?
more? Dude, the Viking Stadium
one of a kind
and it has like ship
it has like ship
I don't know, it just looks at features
and stuff. It looks like a Viking ship.
I don't, I think
they need to make a bigger deal about that
because every other stadium they build now looks
exactly the same. I'm like
can we just do something different
and the Vikings did that.
That's true. Every stadium now has
the see-through top.
Like bro.
Like LED shit.
Okay, big scoreboard.
Yeah, the round scoreboard that goes all.
Hey, you know what?
Let's throw it back.
Just give me a giant fucking one and each end zone.
That's like a flat screen TV.
I really like the flat screen TV you've ever seen.
I do like that a lot.
There was nothing wrong with that either.
Nothing.
Dude, you remember.
You remember at Konseco Fieldhouse,
the original scoreboard.
OG.
Yeah.
That had the actual clock on it.
Hell yeah.
Hey, but it was like not numbers.
I was like, who's reading this clock?
The clock just had a bunch of like segment lines, like dashes for each number.
Oh yeah, just in case I need to check the time during the game.
It wasn't even the Pacers like score clock either.
Like the game clock, it was just like real Eastern standard time during the game.
Oh, it's good thing.
it's 832.
Boom, baby.
832B, we better get hit in the road.
Game tipped at 8.
Seriously, let's get out of here.
Had enough.
Hey, subway on the way home?
Yep.
Yeah, dude, that scoreboard,
that was like peak.
It's so funny because now that's what people are like starting to put in their own.
I've seen like six of them on Instagram.
But the pool table.
Let's throw this Super Bowl party.
I'll try as I DIY this Super Bowl party at my parents' house.
And they actually have that kind of scoreboard.
Yeah, above the pool table or like in their bar downstairs.
462 inch TVs.
I'm like, guys, do we?
You guys put that in a warehouse from 2000 Konseko Fieldhouse and just whip that out now?
Dude's whole basement is just Konseco Fieldhouse.
underrated stadium too
oh yeah
oh gee they like made it look old
I was like this is kind of hard bro
is there a train in here
like probably
so much brick for some reason
that shit went hard dude
you're like there's like different alleys
you can watch I was like
this is pretty sick and then
Germain O'Neill's just on the floor
like two minutes
just doing this
oh
Right.
Hard dribble.
Hard dribble.
Fade away.
Best screens in the NFL, you're going to hate this, but the Ravens.
God, that looks good.
Two flat screens.
They're like lower and they're wide.
I'm like, that looks sick.
Dude, outdoor stadium.
I'm like, that looks hype in there.
Good defense.
They like the length of the end zones.
Mm-hmm.
That stands out to me.
I always played there on Madden when you do.
just pick any field and it would randomly like be your home fans there. I'd be like Ravens, dude.
Or Seahawks. Seahawks is sick too, bro. The way that their stadium looks like a Mohawk,
like is, you know what I mean? Oh yeah. That shit is so cold. I love that. I'm still
kind of scared of the Seahawks Stadium. I know. It's like little, but it's like the coolest.
And it's always cloudy. I'm like, that is so sick. Never had a
sunny game in Seattle. Never.
I don't, and that's perfect. If you think about it, perfect.
Cloudy night game. It's it.
Cloudy four o'clock game.
Like there's rain in the air, but it's not raining.
It's the best conditions.
Doesn't matter how shitty the Seahawks ever are or will be.
If the Steelers or anybody has to go play there, I'm like, it's a tough environment.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm. Hey. Navy Uni, Navy tops, gray pants.
Oh my God, dang, dude. Somebody's returning the first kick. This is crazy. This is crazy. Percy Harvin's going to come back and just go for it. Ghost of Kurt. Yeah, ghost of Percy Harvin. And Golden Tate somehow. Do they have Golden Tate too? Hey. Yeah. Same guy. Percy Harvin, Golden Tate. Same guy. They were so good.
They did. Yeah. Cowherd's been talking.
talking a lot about how this Eagles team is a lot, like those Seahawks teams.
And they're like, kind of got a point.
They're stacked everywhere.
Kind of similar colors.
Uh-oh.
Yeah.
Let's, uh, not a sports podcast, holy.
Yeah, a whole thing about sports.
But that's what you do after the Super Bowl, baby.
That's what you do after the Super Bowl, babe.
Hey, what's your comment?
Your favorite stadium and why NBA, NFL, not sports podcast.
But not, don't make it like because of the, you know, make it like, make it because of the screen, because of the, you know what I mean?
Oh, it could be the, yeah, it could be major league baseball too.
Ooh.
Like, I forget that one of the clubhouse members, when he sent in the, they actually had the clubhouse and like right field at the brave stadium because they got sponsored by Home Depot.
Oh, man.
Like shit like that.
there you go the weird cool part of your favorite stadium that a lot of people might not know about
like i don't know a lot of people knew that the consigo field house was like old right like they
made it they had to tie in like the hoosiers vibe yeah brick there's like old school barber shops in
it's so crazy it kind of pisses me off that people don't realize i don't think people realize
because I see it still now
where people like shit on those hickory
Pacers uniforms.
Uh-huh.
I'm like,
but they don't,
like you guys don't know,
like that's,
they're from the movie.
Like they didn't just,
they didn't just design those and we're like,
yeah,
we're gonna,
these are going to be our alternates
or our city jerseys or whatever for the,
for the year.
Oh,
they don't know that's from the movie?
Yeah,
I've seen,
I've seen some stuff on social
where people are just like shitting on,
I'm talking about, like, the patient has really rolled out in these.
I'm like, but it's a whole, it was a whole thing.
Like, it's because of the movie Hoosiers.
That's crazy.
I thought that'd be the number one thing that they, yeah, you got to be pretty dumb to
not know that.
It's like, you thought they would just come out with maroon tops and gold shorts.
It's from the movie.
It's like the most popular basketball movie ever, right?
Yeah, I will say probably did go on a little too long.
Like, they were running with those.
for like, I think a solid four years before they finally stopped wearing them.
Yeah.
It's like you have the freshness of them and they do it and you're like, oh, they do it for a year,
second year.
You're like, okay.
Yeah, I like them.
Maybe throw the away version.
Maybe away.
Did they do?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They did the white.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, that's not bad.
And then I think by like, yeah, like year four, I was kind of like, all right, man, like we've,
we need to switch it up.
We ran its course with those things.
Anyways.
Good idea, though.
Let's go check the mailbox,
clubhouse mailbox.
Team these guys at gmail.com.
com.
From Jimmy.
White home jerseys.
Fellas.
Had a thought the other day about home jerseys for NFL teams.
It's odd how the NFL has never really had most
or all the teams wear white as a home jersey.
Of course, Major League Baseball and NBA,
those leagues being mostly white home jerseys,
their whole existence,
and even the NHL had period between the 70s all the way
to early 2000s of white home uni.
So it got me thinking,
what NFL teams of today
would have a super clean, nice white home uniform?
Of course, we have Dallas already,
but I think teams like the Jets or Bucks would look good.
What do you guys think?
Slop my ass with Sean Alexander's elbow pads
with Lofa Tutu Kills me on a crossing route.
Sent from my iPhone for Benny Boy.
Nice.
What team would look good with a white home uni?
I do like the Bucks.
He's right about that.
Those are super clean.
Yeah.
I saw a bunch of highlights from the Bucks Chief Super Bowl this past week.
And the Bucs were wearing the whites.
And I love my favorite part about that jersey is the black
bar around the sleeves.
The bottom of the sleeves, just the black bar that goes,
I'm just like that really hits.
It's such a nice little touch that like pops but doesn't.
And it just looks great.
Top three uni.
You're right.
The white bucks, very good.
Now, I say, give me the pewter pants still.
Oh, white on white bucks.
White on white bucks is a good change up like once a season,
but the pewter pants are so sick.
Sean King
White on white pants
He's just the Bucks quarterback
For way too long
I was like goddamn still
Sean King bro
Hey where'd he go
Hey Sean King
He's head of his time
Sean King
Yeah
Honestly I think
You know when the Colts every now and then
Like drop the white on white on white at home
Do they?
Every now
then. I think it's mostly preseason shit.
That's nice. Colts have a good all white look because it's not like Storm Trooper
Week. It's like, no, the Colts just been doing this. Like, you know what I mean? Yeah.
It's very organic white on white on white. That's clean. They need blue face masks back so hard
though. Or even white or even all white. Like, come on. I know. I'm kind of just trying to,
it's been so long in helmets and like TV technology and everything has changed so much.
And I'm like, would it look good or weird?
It would look good, man.
Because they've already done it.
It's proven.
White, dude, white might make it go crazy.
Gray is just like not one of the colors.
And they know that.
Yeah.
It's like, dude, the Colts are white, blue and low-key black now.
They made that one of their official.
Gray's not a thing anymore.
But the Colts would look good.
I like it when the Colts wear blue pants.
They need to do that more.
you know, they'll just toss it in.
I'm like, that is a good look.
They haven't done that.
Dude, I don't think they've done that since the Harbaal days.
No, bro, they did it like recently.
I remember there's a picture of Jonathan Taylor blue pants on.
It's so cold.
But not white jersey.
Oh, yeah.
Okay.
You mean blue on blue.
Yeah, because they had like the,
they had the color rush blue on blue.
They had the,
they still have the Indiana Knights.
that has the black helmet, but that's blue on blue.
I'm talking blue pants, white jersey.
I don't think that's happened since Harbaugh.
Yeah, I remember there is a pick of Marshall Falk.
Yeah, dude.
Dirty.
Like, come on, man.
That's like a, that's not like a forced thing.
That just looks good.
Come on.
Colts with white jerseys might be one of those teams.
I'm trying to think what else.
The bucks makes sense because it's like hot.
too, you know.
Right.
Dolphins throw them in there.
Jags?
Nah, that teal is just banging.
If they...
Black helmet.
If they go...
Right.
If they go...
Well, kind of the same as bucks, though.
If the...
Yeah, but if the Jags wear teal pants,
white jersey,
black helmet,
okay,
you know...
Triple mismatch.
Right.
But if they go white, white,
black,
that's just...
That's too much of an offset.
I think Colts would probably be my top pick.
I know that's weird because we're here,
but I think you've got to have a white helmet or like a light helmet.
The Cowboys have the silver,
so the white jersey and the silver,
it like makes sense.
It meshes.
But if you get Ravens all white black helmet,
if you get Jags all white black helmet,
that doesn't work for me at least.
The angles couldn't do it.
Seahawks couldn't do it.
cold seems natural yeah but it's honestly all weird to think about because it's always
football has just always been like besides the cowboys pretty much you're at home
you wear the colorful jersey and i remember i asked my dad that one time when i was a kid
because i noticed that obviously and was a kid i was like you watch baseball you know the
yankees are in white pinstripes when they're at home the cubs pensions you know why like
why are the Steelers in black?
Why do the, why does USC where Cardinal Red?
Like, might be the, dude, you know when you ask your dad that question, your dad's like, we're in.
You know what I mean?
That's like that's like the turning point.
Like, okay, my son like knows ball a little bit now.
Yeah, I think I was like 10 or 11, probably in that 10 to 12 range probably.
Yeah, he can't wait to answer that.
All he said was, and which to be fair, I mean, yeah, yeah, it's like, he was just like,
Yeah, because football is just like really festive and people tailgate and like, you know, people get crazy.
So like the home team wants to wear the colorful, the color jerseys to match like the vibe of the.
I was like, okay.
I mean, it works for me.
You know.
So weird.
I think it's weird that white seems a little too plain to be a home uniform.
Yeah, like colors, baby.
Represent it.
I don't do.
I think Florida, Florida Gators could.
Wear white at home.
Blue pants.
Orange pants, orange helmet.
White unis?
It's kind of a look.
I know it's not NFL,
but I'm like,
I'm just thinking.
Yeah,
dude,
when Florida brings out
the orange pants.
Always used to do that combo on,
the game on PS2.
Or all blues at home?
God,
that looks good.
Yeah.
Hey, Packers,
Packers white?
All white or just the white top?
Just white tops, yellow pants, yellow helmet.
Not bad.
But the Packers Unis are just unmatched.
They're so good.
There's something that would just be so wrong about not wearing golden green at home.
At home at Lambo.
Yeah, it's like the pinnacle of what your dad was saying.
Celebration.
Packers, wear the colors.
From Jared.
Ben's foam roller.
these guys long time listener third or fourth time emailing keep him coming i recognize your name jared first off
we need another johnson schmidt skit asap um some say it's been a how a long time jeez
come bye anyway did you guys have a coach that you swear began his life as a high school football coach
no childhood or teenage years he literally spawned onto the sideline with a backwards upside down visor
a huge dip in covering his face with a play card yelling a bend to hold the ball with three
points of contact slap my ass while reciting these guys phrases get a boat station out about this
not bad for a fat guy go ahead and go fish you that looks like jerry rice out there can't make
christmas daddy's on air yeah damn that is awesome that you just reel all those off and that we have
that many daddy's all there
So CFL's, Valentine's Day is already over.
God, that one is so funny.
That rant that we went on about Daddy's on there.
Still killed.
Couldn't watch the Super Bowl.
Sorry.
It was on there.
We were talking about what your sides were at the Super Bowl.
What spread do you have for your Super Bowl party?
Do you have buffalo chicken dip?
Do you have nach cheese?
What was in there?
Crockpot?
Call me up.
Be back after the break.
Haven't seen my family in two years.
Daddy's been on air.
Was at the Super Bowl for a week?
Couldn't see him and now I'm getting ready to head out for the combine.
Then the air felt draft.
Won't see him till summertime.
Daddy's on air.
But then training camp happens.
Won't see him anymore still.
Daddy's on air.
Had to leave my wife.
Daddy's on air.
Why'd you leave your wife?
Had to fill in 2 p.m.
The ticket in Connecticut had to fill in.
Haven't talked to my son in four years.
He doesn't know me.
He doesn't remember me.
Because I've been on air.
Had to start a new family.
My other family doesn't know about it.
Because I'm just talking Connecticut women's basketball.
Daddy's on air.
I love that character.
It's so funny, dude.
Sorry.
Don't care what you say, man.
You just rip.
You come up to me somewhere and you just,
Hey, glad to see you here.
Don't daddy be on air.
Oh, my God, dude.
I'd kiss you right in the matter.
I'd get the biggest hug, man.
Station out about that.
Oh, my God.
Just give me one of those anywhere.
And, dude, you can do it with anything.
You just be walking down the street.
Hey, station, know you're walking here?
Oh, my God.
Eating a bignet.
Hey, station, know about this?
Oh, it never gets home.
Oh, all right.
Station, know about that cream mail in your fridge?
Couldn't watch the game.
I was putting barbecue sauce on my chicken wings.
All to heaven's studio, because Daddy's on air.
I'm one of those weird, annoying hosts.
that clearly eats because I don't take a break from being on air.
Dude,
you know when hosts are doing that shit and you can just tell,
they're kind of like,
so it's exactly what I'm saying.
I'm like, can't you wait?
Here's exactly what I'm saying.
No, we can't because daddy's on air.
Can't take a lunch break.
He's on 11 to 3 every day.
Not air time.
No food time.
11 to 3.
11 to 3, such a hot spot, dude.
When you're on your way to work, I'm working too, I'm on air.
Dude, all gas, no breaks.
Forget, dude, forget morning drive, forget afternoon drive.
You line me up with an 11 to 2 or a noon to 3 slot.
That's the shit.
That's the shit right there.
Yeah.
I don't like 4 o'clock sports shows.
I'm like, it's over.
days over.
Right.
You've already heard we talk about all this since 7 a.m.
Dude, and then at 7 a.m. I'm like, too much, too much.
Right. In my face. Come on.
Takes high. Oh, my God. I'm like, God.
Four o'clock. I'm like, dude, you're washed.
12, though? I'm like, let's chill. Let's chill. Let's talk.
Every 7 a.m.
Sports radio show.
Like, every morning radio show, too, feels the need.
Like, they can't be on anything for more than two minutes.
and then they have to get like an update.
Like, and let's go to the scoreboard update.
And the Pacers last night didn't have like, like, bro, can we just, hey, I need a little just banter.
At noon?
Yeah.
Let's let's get it going on.
Hey, let's talk about sides.
Let's talk about what you're having in your salad.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
12 years so right.
The morning's too chaotic.
Afternoon is so like, 12.
a clock. Just talk about whatever.
All right.
Football coach. Yeah, dude. That's like, that's all of them.
That's all they are. Yeah.
God, they can't wait to be there.
They put their whole heart and soul into it, even if there's so much going on.
Scranton.
Do you ever have a coach that would play like scout team quarterback when you're like,
when you're just in shells?
Looks so bad. We're in just a helmet of Jersey and shorts. I'm like,
He looked like idiots, dude.
I had one one time that, yeah, and he took it really seriously and you get really shitty.
I liked it when they did that.
I was like, we're not going to get a better ball.
Like, give us the best ball you got.
But also at the same time, it's like, develop the QB.
At that point, the QB is probably on defense playing like safety or something because you got to put your best players out there.
Or like, have the, have the sophomore who's in charge of the bag of ball.
Yeah, let's develop his ass.
Let's let him go face the varsity.
The varsity wons.
It is so funny.
You know the coach can't wait for that, though.
He's like, yo, we got Skelly today, and I'm rolling out.
Dude, we had one coach who it was our, like, every Thursday, we would do two-minute drill, you know, like the two-minute offense, two-minute drill.
We just go against air, right?
Because we were trying to, like, get on all of our shit, get our crew.
communication down, everything.
But this coach, who, I won't say his name, but he's like a, he's, he's still doing very
well for himself and he was a stud football player.
And he would be the only defensive player and he would take one of our defensive linemen's
helmets, put it on and just go up and like one on one on five pass rush the
offensive line while we were just playing on air doing our.
two minute drill.
That should be.
You don't have to talk about Coach Coons like that, dude.
O.G. Coach.
So coach, man.
Dude, like, like smack in helmets and shit.
Let's go.
Trying to do a pass rush move,
just like smacking the shit out of the 17-year-old junior center.
That's how it should be.
Get a little pass rush in there.
Give him something.
Oh, man.
Just puts a helmet on and goes crazy.
Love it.
just the helmet.
I don't even think he strapped it up.
Just Donovan McNabbed it.
Yes.
Donovan McNabb never played one full game with this chin strap on.
Not both of them.
He was the king of that.
Undercenter with one dragon.
I was like,
he's the coolest guy in the world.
When I,
like 2006,
when I was playing CIO ball,
definitely tried to leave one on Dundone.
Me too. Come on.
Dude, he gets screamed at.
Yeah, that guy.
Snap it up,
Carol! That got nipped in the bud quick.
Like you forgot, you're just doing it because it looks so cool.
Chunky soup, eating chunky soup after this too.
Why did he?
Hey, yeah, that when you're warm it up, when you're doing the laps, both of them hanging down.
So cool.
But we had this.
A little Bob.
We had the snaps that were right here.
So they hung like this much.
But if you had the snaps up here, oh, dude, you're letting them fly Randy Ma.
pregame style.
Yeah, I don't know why that was so cool or felt so cool, but it was like a,
I don't know it was like you are like, like alien and predator or something.
You have like little fangs hanging down.
I don't even know.
It just, it just relaxed.
Like, when you're chill, like it just looks cooler.
You felt like you were bobbing a little bit more than if it was just,
yeah, it was just like, yeah, we're good.
Hey, we're good over here.
Chin straps undone.
That's noon to three.
Chin straps up.
Sin straps type.
It's get up with greeny.
Get up!
I'm like,
Jesus.
With an exclamation point too, bro.
Get up!
Just right in the morning.
I'm like,
goddamn,
dog.
Hey,
we're talking about it,
until by the last
the break.
I'm like,
Jesus Christ,
did I just open my eyes?
Get up!
Yeah,
dude,
those morning shows,
it's just like,
they come on,
tell you everything
you're going to talk about.
Let's get the traffic.
Two minutes of traffic update.
And that's the traffic.
And now we'll go to weather.
30 seconds of a weather update.
All right.
Don't forget, we got who's going to be the Colts quarterback coming up this season?
That's after the break.
Six minute long break.
Come back.
And this is an ESPN scoreboard update.
Scoreboard update for 45 seconds.
All right.
And now we're going to get to a look at the traffic.
What do we got?
They never talk about anything.
It's just getting from one thing to another.
Oh, wow.
I never even thought about that.
they don't say shit, do they?
They just always tell you what they're going to talk about and never talk about it.
They open up for four hours.
By the way, after the top, after the four minute national hit, right, that opens up the show.
Then they come in and they tell you, they do like a three and a half minute rant about what happened the night before.
And then just teases for the rest of the show.
It's all radio is is teases, dude.
Hey, let's cut a tease for Monday.
Let's cut a tease for Sunday.
Just teasing.
for Mike. Mike says Brian Finneran. That's a nice one. He was a number one receiver for the Falcons on that Madden where Michael Vic was insane. So true. I was like, they need a new receiver, but we'll rock with it for now. Mike said, love the pod for everyone to listen to every week. Thanks, Mike. Everything resonates from growing up in Catholic school, going to Mass and naming random football players of the boys. I'm actually a college football coach now and relisten to old ones every time I'm out on the road recruiting. That's so sick, man. You're the
the best. Tell the staff.
Wanted to share a story that the clubhouse will appreciate. I was nervous on my wedding day and my
groomswoman could tell. So to calm me down, we just started naming random sports figures.
Went on the whole time and my best man actually tapped me on the shoulder during the ceremony
to tell me, quote, James Starks. Oh, man. Dude, I need to be, I would have gone to that wedding.
Wow.
To play that one off in front of everyone. You guys are awesome. One or both of you should come to
Montana to do a show. Slapped my ass with the orange strip you have to wear and
SUIO ball when you don't make weight.
What a dog.
Mike, can we come just perform or just speak or just come to practice at your school?
That's it right there.
I don't want to do a show.
I don't want to come to a game.
I just want to come to a Wednesday practice.
Can I just come to Pazzo?
Dude, how, like, what a weird mix and sensation of like how relaxed.
Pato was, but how stressful it was at the same time.
Is it just me?
No, you're right.
It was like chill because you didn't have the head coach on your ass watching you.
It was just like position coach.
Like, let's just like get it right.
You know, it's kind of like a good little ramp up into like, this is not a sports podcast,
but Skelly and team, you know, we're stretched, we're ready.
Let's get a little pazo for the appetizer.
And then we can get into Skelly where I can get yelled at for running a 15-yard
dig instead of 12.
Not a sports podcast.
But Paus...
Pazzo was like...
Yeah, let's go through the high knees.
You know?
Just don't fumble pretty much.
Yeah. Let's do the ropes.
Let's do the bags.
Let's do some bag pedal.
Let's chop it up with the coach real quick.
Keep it light.
Maybe it's one of those days where the coach is like not taking it seriously.
You know, you're like having fun a little bit.
New drill.
It's fun.
You're like hitting the shit out of your.
your friend with like a big pad.
We're doing Gauntlet today.
Oh, dude, I'm going to fuck him up.
Software.
This is from Johnny.
Ladanian Tomlinson's visor.
What's up, fellas?
Greetings from Cleveland.
Started listening to the Shah after closing the book on coaching a second to
fourth grade flag football team to a 7-1 record.
Nice.
A high school JV, but we'll do.
Hell yeah, dude.
Seven and one.
Because those are, I mean, that age group, like, they're not listening to shit, man.
So get on you.
You had them together.
As a former high school athlete turned very amateur stand-up comedian, turned chill middle school baseball assistant coach for all your content.
Bro.
Wow.
Just same life.
There's our target audience right there.
Side note, recently drove past a little league field and said aloud, who's not going yard here?
Every time I see a baseball field.
Ooh.
Dude.
Yeah.
Who's not going yard here?
Bye.
Every time I would do that, though,
0 for 4, 2Ks.
Dad yelling at me in the car after.
Never worked.
My question for you is this.
In your playing days,
were you or a teammate ever accused of cheating in a game?
I was playing short and caught a pop-up that went higher than
Josh Gordon, 2012. Instinctfully, I tagged the runner on second. The momentum of the ball and the
base runner being small in stature caused the tag to bump him off the base, and I tagged him again
for the unassisted double play. The ump called him out, and the third base coach exploded like I had
punched the kid in the jaw. Anyways, just curious about your experiences. Smack my ass while Travis
Kelsey reps my hometown, only to let me down in fantasy weekend and week out. Maybe you can tell us what kind of
hard Travis Kelsey drove in high school
Johnny. Because we don't know.
We don't think about that. And we want to.
I've never thought of it. But we think we know.
Yeah, maybe he really does know.
That's the pinnacle of this podcast.
Like once we find that out, like we're good.
But will we ever find out, you know?
Who played high school football with Travis?
Yeah, with Travis Kelsey.
Yeah, Johnny, do a little recon for us out.
there.
Caught cheating during a game?
But in school that day?
Yeah.
Got caught cheating in school
then had a game after and I was cold
and panicking the whole time because my dad
was going to yell at me. Yeah.
Done that.
Track me after I just got a
detention for cheating during a test.
I was like, okay, I'm going to get done.
No point
in even being here.
Yeah.
Hey, just keep running.
Just a 13-400-meter dash.
Just keep running and keep running all the way home
because I'm not giving your ass a ride.
You're going to think about what you did.
That'd be some shit my dad would say.
I never cheated in a game.
I don't remember any of that,
but it did make me think of a story.
So when I was 17, kind of one of my first,
like actual part-time jobs that wasn't just like one of my dad's friends being like,
hey, come do these hours with me this summer and I'll pay like 60 bucks.
You know, it was like, so I was an ump.
Right, right.
So when I was like 17, I was an umpire for Little League baseball.
That was always the go-to job that I couldn't do because I never played baseball.
I got an ump a couple games.
I'm like, damn, that's cool.
Yeah, I'd ump like three games a week, make like,
I don't know, 85 bucks or whatever.
And you're like, cool, I can give McDonald's and B-dubs and dip.
Save up two weeks.
Get the Vince Carter shocks.
Come on.
And so I did the age group.
Yeah, I was like probably eight and nine-year-olds.
Okay.
So eight-nine year old baseball, when he gets to kids pitching, it's pretty brutal.
because most of the kids can't throw a strike.
It's kind of chaos.
The game can kind of drag.
You just want it to be over, right?
So it's like a summer night,
and I'm upping this game,
and they're like eight or nine.
And I had plans after that I was like really wanted to,
you know, I think it was like an open house or, you know,
it was just one of those things you were like,
dude, I just want to get the hell out of here
because I want to go have fun.
and I'm 17.
And so I remember it was like the bottom of the sixth.
That's,
you know,
it's a bottom of the ninth for these kids.
You know what I mean?
It's the last chance.
Bottom of the sixth.
And this team was down like three runs going into the bottom of the six.
So I'm like,
okay,
we're going to be quick here.
No way they're going to come back.
You know,
this will be done.
Thank God.
All of a sudden they started staging a comeback.
Okay.
So now the tying.
run is on third base with two outs, bottom of the sixth, and I'm starting to get nervous because
I'm like, I do not want this to go into extras at all. Oh, no. Oh, no. So, of course, what happens
almost every other pitch at that age, a wild pitch, right? Because the kid's pitching, it throws
in the dirt, catchers not good enough to stop it yet. So the kid's on third, wild pitch happens.
kid tries to come home
you know take home
I don't even call it steal it because it's like
it's just a wild pitch so he's just trying to score off a wild pitch
play at the plate
catcher somehow yeah like gets it
throws it to the pitcher covering home
pitcher hits his glove
like as he's going down
it comes out of his glove but he had it
he's going down he puts the tag on
comes out of his glove
but I called the kid
out. And I did it because he had it in his glove. And so it was like a rookie mistake as an umpire.
I didn't let it play out. But I also didn't let it play out because I just wanted to get the
hell out of there. Oh, no. So I called him out. And you see the ball clearly like dribbling kind of
away. And when I tell you, I can imagine the dads, bro. That the entirety of this, the field that I was at,
just goes berserk.
Like, because the team, the team that I, the team that won, you know, they're like excited,
but even those coaches and everything kind of know that they got away with it.
And then the dads, the coaches, dude, I had moms waiting for me when I got to the gate
to leave.
What was that?
How did you resolve that?
I just like put my head down and just kind of like let him say, chirp, whatever they were
saying to me and everything.
So as they're doing that, I'm walking away.
They're still yelling at me as I'm walking away, right?
There's a separate section where the umpires park at the ballpark.
So there's always parking there for them, you know, so they don't have like a situation
where they're running late.
Dude, I make my way out to my car finally.
The first base coach from that team is out in the umpires parking lot waiting for me.
What do you look like?
Oh, dude.
Bald.
You already.
Go to him?
Balding.
balding with spiky hair coming out of his visor a little bit, goatee, gut, like wearing coach's
shoes, sunglasses.
And so I'm like, in my head, I'm walking up.
I see him just kind of like walking back and forth in the umpire's parking lot.
I'm like, oh, here we go.
And so I get out there and he walks up to me and he gets classic like umpire coach this
close to my face and everything.
And I just go, you have something you want to say to me, sir?
And I'm like, mullinard.
I'm like getting heated because I got these moms and everybody yelling at me.
I'm like, it's a nine-year-old baseball game on Wednesday night in the summer.
Who gives a shit?
So I'm getting hot.
So I say that to him, and he kind of like, you can tell he's got a lot that he wants to say and everything.
He's getting real heated and he went and all that.
And he just takes his sunglasses off.
He just looks at me, shakes his head, and he just walks away.
When I was like, I just got my car, went to the open house.
You know, probably got drunk of my friends.
And now I have a story.
Oh, man.
The way you just ruin everyone's life.
The way they'll never forget you.
And you're just listening to Roscoe Dash on the way to Jordan Reeser's open house.
Girl, the way you're moving.
I was like, I'm out of there.
I'm getting my paycheck later.
It's summer.
I'm good to gole.
I wonder what that guy was really going to say.
But it was crazy, dude.
Like, I was alone.
Yeah, that's tough. That's like a, I don't know. That's a bad moment. I would not, I would not want that to happen. Oh, Rookie mistake too. And you can't go back on it, right? Like, I mean, I guess I could. I guess I could have like pointed at, if I was a vet umpire, I could have like pointed at the ball and they've been like waved it off and call them safe. But I was 17. I'm like, I committed. That's the call I made. And also I want to leave. So.
God, every ref wants to leave.
Every ref.
Yeah, dude.
So that didn't happen to me while I was playing,
but kind of one of those
effed up stories from...
And the city of Southport hates you.
Okay.
Edgewood.
Yes, definitely.
Not welcome back to Edgewood Athletic Association.
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Favorite weird thing at a stadium that nobody might not know about, that you like, though.
like they can see go just regular clock.
They're just underappreciated stadium things,
not sports podcast.
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