Throwbacks with Matt Leinart & Jerry Ferrara - MLB Opening Day, Greatest Left Handed Hitters Ever, Best Baseball Uniforms All-Time and Wrigley Field vs. Yankee Stadium with Anthony Rizzo

Episode Date: March 26, 2026

World Series Champion Anthony Rizzo joins the show to talk MLB’s opening day as the newest member of the Netflix baseball crew alongside Barry Bonds and Albert Pujols. Rizzo talks the 10 year anniversary of the 2016 Chicago Cubs team that took home the World Series and broke the 71-year “Curse of the Billy Goat.” The three-time Gold Glove winner revealed where the infamous baseball from that final out went, and just how much money he was offered for it, chose between Yankee Stadium and Wrigley Field and picked his worst fans to play in front of. Finally Rizzo picked his favorite left-handed hitters of all-time, while the guys discussed the greatest baseball uniforms ever.   New episodes of Throwbacks drop every Thursday. Make sure you’re subscribed on YouTube and following on all podcast platforms. Also, make sure you’re locked in on social @ThrowbacksShow on all platforms for highlight moments, bonus content, and to engage with the guys & the Throwbacks community. (http://throwbacksshow.com/)      00:00 Show open  03:08 Anthony Rizzo Joins  03:34 What is Rizzo looking forward to most with Netflix   04:12 Hall of Fame “Mic’d Up” guy  05:48 Epic nights out with the boys before a game  08:30 Rizzo gave the World Series ball away  11:50 Wrigley Field or Yankee Stadium   14:39 Throwback 3: Anthony Rizzo’s Favorite Lefty Hitters  16:00 Anthony Rizzo’s Favorite Teammates  17:10 Unbreakable MLB Records  21:10 All-Time Favorite MLB Uniforms  29:38 Matt Leinart’s big flag football weekend   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Did you ever have to pass on a miced-up opportunity? I did pass up a lot. I got most of my humor from watching you growing up. So there you go. Those entourage days were the best. All right, welcome in the throwbacks. Throwing it back. Today, we're throwing it back a little bit,

but we're also looking forward. Me and Maddie Liner, don't forget to follow us. All social platforms at Throwback Show. Give us the like and subscribe on YouTube. Barry Sanders episode last week. A lot of goat running back debate in the comments section. I saw there was a little back and forth. There's some Emmett Smith people in there, Matt.

Like, sure, but come on. Go listen to the episode. Barry Sanders, if you haven't already. And Matt, I mean, baseball's back. I can't, it doesn't feel like it should be back yet, but it's going to be back in our lives in no time. Yes, it is here, dude. Baseball is here.

Shout out to, what is, 162 game season. we'll get baseball for the next nine months. I feel like they have the longest season and the shortest off season. Like, it's not fair. But baseball's here, and we have an incredible throwback, man. Champion.

Champion. Chicago Cub legend. Former New York Yankee, Anthony Rizzo joins throwbacks today, man. And what a career, did. What a career. Now getting into TV for Netflix and doing some analyst's work, I think he's going to be great at it.

And if you have it, you know, obviously, If you don't know tons about Anthony Rizzo off the field, we should just check out my vote. And I'm going to, we talk to him about this. I think he's one of the best ever to be miced up. And I can't wait to ask him about those first base conversations because. What is talked about at first base as I want to know? And like sometimes they're laughing. Sometimes they're like, there's bits going on galore.

There's just bits everywhere. And I think Anthony Rizzo maybe was the best to ever do it. So we're going to talk to him about that. we're going to ask about some of his favorite lefty hitters. And then after the Anthony Rizzo conversation, we thought it would be very fitting now that baseball is about to come back into our lives to talk about our all-time favorite MLB uniforms. It could be from modern day, back in the day.

And let me tell you, the more you go down the rabbit hole. Toughest list I've ever done. And open to a lot of interesting debates, because there's a lot of way you can go hat in Jersey or just hat, a lot of different ways you could go. So we hit that right after we talk to Anthony Rizzo. And I'm locking in for 162. Let's go, man.

Let's go. Let's go. All right, our guest, World Series champion, three-time All-Star, four-time Golden Glob. I love a good Golden Glove. And now a part of the Netflix MLB coverage, which I'm really fired up about because also they just announced recently, Barry Bonds, joining Anthony Rizzo on throwbacks today. How's it going, Anthony? great great yeah Netflix is going to be fun

I don't think I really deserve to be in that group with Coelso and Barry Bonds but I'll try to hold my own there I think you do I think one of the things about your playing career which you had a great career was obviously your personality just shine through what are you now being on this side of it right the media I'm on this side for

college football what are you looking forward to most you know doing this show just being myself that's what everyone I've asked the best advice they give me just be yourself everyone has all the information now everyone has all the stats all the analytics whatever you need you can get on the internet so but what they don't have is the inside information they don't have what guys are thinking potentially um inside access to the clubhouse or playing rides or the grind of 162 so that's hopefully what I could kind of share to fans that don't know the everyday grind of baseball.

Yeah, in addition to, you know, an amazing career, my vote, you are by far a Hall of Fame miced up guy. I mean, you must have got almost to the point where did you ever have to pass on it? Like, guys, you can't mic me up for seven straight games. I know this is working well. Did you ever have to pass on a miced up opportunity? I did pass up a lot. I got most of my humor from watching you growing up. So there you go. Yeah. those entourage days were the best but

I mean it's just having fun and being yourself and you know for the most part you know if you say something out of hand the networks he'll protect you especially the regional networks but yeah you don't really go overboard when you're on a mic was there ever a runner though against the first and just wasn't in like the first base conversation is that's really what I would love to be a part of as a fly on the wall

But did you ever come across dudes that were just not like, I'm not not chatting today? Yeah. Did you do the Mayu, who I love and I play with and respect. He always gets on. He's like with Subris. And then he's so locked in. And then you have guys like Freddie Freeman, him and I were talking about the night before, what we did, how he's feeling, how's everything. So the conversations are expand.

And they are very random, but they literally go from talking baseball to talking family to talking current events. I wish, I played first base back in the day, dude. I was a big old lefty. That was my, that was my position. But you speak of the night before and I want to know, there's got to be a great story.

Eric Carrow, so I'm sure you know who I've known forever at Fox. And he told me a story one time. I don't think he'd be mad at me telling the story because he's told it a million times. He was playing the Braves one time. And I think he was going up against Maddox. And Maddox, and owned him his whole career.

And so he told me, he's like, Maddie, I was like, I'm facing Maddox tomorrow. I'm going out, man, with the boys. I'm going to go for four against this guy anyway. So he goes, has a night out, whatever they did. And the next day, he basically tells the story. He's like, I end up going four for four against Maddox, super hungover, almost throwing up at second base. He's like, dude, it was the craziest thing.

Not that you've had a story like that, but has there ever been a moment? in your career where you're like you don't screw it man we're going out we're going out the night and then the next day you're a little banged up and you have a big game did that ever happen for you oh many many i love it give us a story you can't dip to the well too much on that yeah but with with the 162 grind you got to get out you have to feel normal um i would go on the road when we're on the road i would go to just normal gyms and work out in the mornings just to feel like a normal person and right there'd be after the games especially when i was younger we'd go out all the time i think when i would lester one night we were in um dc playing the nationals lester just pitched i think the

12 of us went out we're a mcdonalds at like three in the morning someone ends up building us it gets on tmz for a little bit oh yeah next day something at baseball i hit a home run so it's like i feel like when you go out you've got to be accountable your teammates the next day to really show up and you know they're in the same struggle bus with you, and it usually works out. But if you do it all the time, that's when it becomes a little bit high issue. I had a couple nights back in the day with Burns,

Eric Burns and Chris Young and Connor Jackson. Those are the D-Backs players when I was in Arizona. They used to go out all the time. I was like, how do you guys do this, bad? Burnsie was wild back in the day. Yeah, I mean, it's just such a stressful everyday grind that when you get done, you could sleep in.

As long as you don't really burn the whip too hard. And some guys did. And you'd be surprised how good they were. So part of the game. I love it. I love it. So I'm a big Yankee fan. Matt's a big Dodgers guy.

But I did marry a girl from Cleveland. And I was just actually with a bunch of Clevelanders. We're still talking about, well, I mean, they're still talking about the rain delay. They still talk about Game 7 and the rain. drain delay. And I think I got the story right, though, that you gave the ball to the owner of the Cubs. Is that to have that right? Yeah. So I'm a big, I'm a thief in the sense, like with entourage or anything I've worked on. I always try to take something, like from a season. It's weird. Shows have seasons like sports have seasons. But did you, did you walk out with

anything from that World Series? Even if it was your own gloves, you have anything like, I'm going to hang on to this and just let it, let it sit. Yeah, I took every jersey. So, after we won all the jerseys were were in the our showers at rigley on hangers and i go to otis tom helman who was our clubhouse manager uh rest in peace he just passed away he's been he was there for 50 years and i go otis what are we doing these they they want them i go okay can i have him goes i didn't see nothing old school just got them all my dad i gave my dad to game seven jersey um i have one of my game five jersey the only game we won at rigley first framed and the next year my dad wore the game seven jersey opening day i didn't got mustard on it so

um but we have all those have my glove and the ball the ball was a good one out that was worth a lot of money i got offered two million on the crate for that ball and but it belongs to the cubs that was the ball you put in their back pocket right yeah oh yeah that i mean the most the most incredible thing you literally literally you guys win the world series you grab it you just put it I think it was Chris Brian, right? Chris Brian threw the ball to you. Oh, man. What a moment, man.

You're a good man. You watch every single ending to a World Series my whole life to that point. And I'm always like, oh, this is what I would do. If I call it, I would do this or that or how you celebrate. So I wasn't really thinking of it, but it just naturally happened. And it was, I guess, came an iconic moment there. As many of you might know, we've added baby number three to the Ferrara household. So that means long nights, busy days.

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com code throwbacks. I was just going to ask you, like, you played for, obviously, one of World Service of the Cubs, which is awesome. And then you got a chance to play for the Yankees, two of the most iconic sports franchises in all the sports and all the world. What, what are you going to remember kind of from playing from each? Is there something that sticks out, maybe a difference? Because when I think of baseball, I think of Dodgers, I think of Cubs, and I think of the

Yankees. I was very lucky and blessed to play for both Chicago being there for nine, ten years was amazing. I grew up there. Had so many good memories, winning the World Series there, really turning a franchise around from, you know, oh, it's going to be next year to, no, we're actually expecting to win every year. And then getting trades in the Yankees, it was devastating at the moment, so that I thought it was going to be a tough for life. but then getting to play alongside Aaron Judge Charleau Stan, DJ Lemieux, Garrett Cole, all these superstars.

It was just a refreshing time and getting to play in New York and living in the city. Just loved everything. The two fan bases were incredible. So similar, but so different at the same time. They both are very passionate about their team and they show their passion in different ways. And you just learn to love both of them.

Well, I want to see right now how unbiased you truly could be. Taking away the emotional connection to the Cubs. Of course, you want to ring there and no one's going to question your loyalty to the Cubs. But just for a ballpark, just ballpark. You get to go play a game. You are a lefty hitter, by the way. You get to go play a game. Yankee Stadium, Riggly.

You get one game. Where do you want to suit up to play? Fan base aside, this is just a ballpark. 120 Riggly day game every day all day. There's nothing better. Summertime. Ivy's perfect. Everyone's there just literally partying.

So I loved Yankee Stadium. The energy there is really unmatched. I mean, Wrigley, Yankee Stadium, and Fenway are my three favorites. Dude, we did a, we did, you weren't there. We did Big Noon kickoff. I know you're tight with Urban, I think, right? Urban, yeah. So we did a 12 o'clock Wrigley field football game.

I was supposed to be there for that. I couldn't get there. That's sweet. I know. I was like, so we got to hit, this is just like me, Fannie. I was a baseball player growing up. We got to hit batting practice at Wrigley the day before. Wow. Off one of the machines, which was awesome. And then we did our whole show open in Cubs pinstripe uniform. So me and Brady were at home play like holding the band. And they did a drone. And they had like bear coming out of the, you know, the scoreboard, you know, you put your face to the scoreboard. It was, there is nothing better. I'm a big baseball guy, Anthony. There's nothing better, I think, than Wrigley Field.

Like you said, a day game. The bars are all right out there. It was pretty cool. We do do a Jerry's good. We have a throwback three segment, but before that, I want to ask you really quick, who are the, like, who are the worst fans you've ever played in front of? And the NFL, it's almost concesses like it's the Philadelphia Eagles fans. They are just nasty.

They're dirty. they're grimy. They hate you, but it's also fun. Is there a fan base in baseball that you were always just like, oh shit, man, we got to play in front of these guys? Early on in my career, I think because I spent, I had a cup of coffee in San Diego when I was a rookie. They're low-key brutal, those fans that say, yeah.

They're brutal of their own players, too. But it's different now because they're sell out all the time. That's a great ballpark, too. That's a great ballpark. As I got old, I absolutely loved going there. When the Pirates were good, those fans were ruthless. They were, and I would have fun with them, but man, they would get out of you. And then the Philly fans weren't too bad because the Phillies teams weren't really that good when I was younger.

They were better when I got to the Yankees, but we didn't really go there. So I'd probably say the Pirates fans were the worst when they were at their peak. I'm going to hit you with our throwback three. We're just going to easy throwback question to when you were younger. And it can even be while you were playing or even before you got to the bigs. Your three favorite lefty hitters, because I feel like the lefties have such a connection that you watched either growing up or when you were coming up, your three favorite lefty hitters. Ken Griffey Jr., Barry Bonds.

And let's see. I really liked Cliff Floyd. That's far than bad. That's my golf partner every year at Derek Jeter's event. I get pitted up with Cliff Floyd. And let me just tell you, he hits lefty bombs on the golf course. I love being in a scramble with Cliff Floyd. I don't have to hit driver.

I just drive him around so we get to our second shot. And I play from his ball every time. Yeah, he's a good time to. And his funny, quick jersey story. So years ago, obviously my character on Autrash wore Yankee hats all the time. I did a shoot for MLB, and I think Maddo. majestic for the jerseys. And I did like, I was wearing Yankee stuff,

but they said, you have to pick a jersey of another play. You can't just do it yet. We have to have one, you and one other jersey. We shot this at Dodger Stadium. I picked an Anthony Rizzo jersey. I'm going to send you a picture after it. Yeah, please do.

I'm in Dodger Stadium all geared up. That's sick. With a Rizzo jersey, my fellow Pison. Yes. Yes. I love that. Do you have a, do you have a, like,

favorite teammate of all time, Anthony? Just someone that, I mean, I'm sure you had a ton, man. Yeah. Let's see. The one that comes to my mind right away is Dexter Fowler. Him and I were two peas in a pod. I feel like I had like four different careers as far as great teammates.

Judge with the Yankees was, I mean, him and I were like this. And probably earlier on, John Lester, too. He's just David Ross. David Ross David Ross Yeah brothers so I mean there's a bunch

But there's nothing better I always say in baseball You play 162 You're literally forced to be with these guys All the time All the time right You're not going to like everyone But you get

You have friends and teammates I said it all the time You have friends and teammates When you could really make friends in the game It's special I love your John Lester stories By the way I've heard you tell stories

about Lester On game day pitching In his Camo shorts I heard Your story about Lester are fantastic. All right. Andy, we're going to do this later. So basically the question is

unbreakable or breakable, some MLB records. And obviously there's some that we might not even ask because they're so unbreakable. I'm going to hit you with the first one. Do you think we will ever see Ricky Henderson 130 stolen bases

in one season? I do. I think that's breakable. Especially with the new rules, I think that's breakable. I don't know. Joe DiMaggio 56 game hit streak. Breakable? Unbreakable. No way.

No. No way. Okay. Nolan Ryan, 383 strikeout season. I want to say that's breakable because the pitching is so good. It's getting really good. It is. You're right.

The greatest record in all the sports, Hal Ripkin Jr., consecutive games. like will never be broken, right? Never. There's no chance. I think it's like the one record in all sports that will never be broken. Never. I think is it Matt Olson who's got 700 something consecutive or I think I read something.

He had it, but he took a day off or no. I think he did. Right? He's like, screw this, man. Yeah, it's never be broken. All right. Last one before we let you go. This one, okay, this one is a recent one.

Most home runs for a team in one season, Minnesota, wins 2019 307. That'll absolutely be broken. Yeah, that'll be broken. Yeah. Especially.

I know. I wanted to get a few yeses because there's some of these I look at. Like we talked even off the air, each row 10 straight years of 200 hits. Yikes. Who's doing that? Pete Roe's career hits. I think someone has to have 200 plus hits in 21 straight seasons.

That's insane. Break that record. Some of these records are just Barry Bond. What he has? seven almost 800 home runs. Yeah, I didn't even ask about bonds. I don't think that's crazy. Yeah, I didn't even add.

And Nolan Ryan has seven no hitters. I also didn't touch that one. Right, yeah. All right. On the way out the door, I mean, we'll see you on Netflix, dude. Yeah, we'll see you. Matt's a Dodger guy.

Just know, we'll be watching. The Dodgers have to fade, right? They have to. They have to. I don't know. Over at some point. Please. They're so good.

I just, I don't want to, I was at, the World Series game a couple years ago in New York. I just had to say it. I watched the game six. It wasn't game six. It was game six. I apologize. Yeah. We won't go there. You're the man. You're the man. Thanks for coming on, dude. We appreciate it. Good luck. Have fun on TV and you're going to be great. Thank you guys. At Medcan, we know that life's greatest moments are built on a foundation of good health from the big milestones to the quiet wins. That's why our annual health assessment offers a physician-led, full-body checkup

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slash moments to get started. All right. Anthony Rizzo, by the way, did not hold back with his three favorite lefty hitters. He went, Griffey, Bonds, and then he did. Cliff Lloyd. I do think Cliff Floyd deserves love. He truly, truly great.

Who else would you have put in that list? I mean, Griffey the greatest, Bonds. I'm trying to think. I mean, look, I... Fred McGriff? Fred McGriff, I think, like, for a period of time, but a very small run, Giambi had like a really great five-year, but there was a whole bunch of stuff that goes with that.

But, no, I think those are really the three. The three... I would put McGriff up there for sure. McGriff would deserve a lefty. I mean, Shoah? Of Tony? Well, now it's, yeah. Oh, I mean, Eachero, for sure, too.

I mean, you had some of the, yeah, Babe Ruth, Ted Williams. I mean, these are some of the greatest. But Tony Gwynne. Tony Gwynne's the great. Maybe the greatest pure hitter of all time, right? I mean, he had one year where he, like, struck out like, 20 times, I think, only. Or something, some absurd. Shout out to the lefties, baby.

Yeah, give us your lefties out there. Go to our YouTube page. go on social at throwback show and give us your favorite lefty hitters of all time. But right now, we're going to do something that I think could actually lead to some big conversations. We are going to do some of our all-time favorite MLB uniforms in honor of opening day coming soon.

You can go modern. You can go way back. You can go, you know, homerism and just go homer out to some of your favorite teams. But there is a lot to pick from. And MLB had some interesting times. Dude, this is the hardest, like, list I've ever done when we've done. We've done a lot because there's so many, whether it's iconic or whether it's you like them based on the colors or based on the hat or based on the players that wore them. So I think this could be pretty interesting.

I'm going to go, I'll start with my third. Okay. And I'm going to go, this one's pretty universal as one of the greatest iconic all-time baseball uniforms of all time. And I love. It's the Astros. back in the 70s and 80s. The sunset jerseys. The tequila sunrise, orange, yellow, and red jerseys.

And just seeing Nolan Ryan flame bawling just strikeouts back in the day. And that was like one of those retro jerseys that you could still rock today, like out maybe. And people would be like, oh shit, that's a dope jersey. So not necessarily the hat and not their Astros of today, but the Astros in the 70s and 80s, the Tequila Sunrise. I think it's Sunrise.

Is it sunrise or sunset? I saw both online of what it's called. So, but it looks to me always more like a sunset. Is my number three? Yeah. That's the funny part because like there's jerseys that are great. And then, but then the hats a little off. And then there's hats that are phenomenal.

And also I love the fact that they were like, they were like shirts back then. They weren't button up. The pole over shirt is the best. Fantastic. So Matt, I'm taking out what really is the most iconic of all time. You know what's the Yankees. We just know the pit. know it. I'm not choosing it. That's not what we're here for. And I'm going to do something that's so

wild and adverse to what my body wants to do. I'm going to pick another team from New York. No. Dude, go look. You're going Daryl. You're going Daryl. Daryl. Daryl. Daryl. Those jerseys and that color way, as much as I hate to admit it, because I hate the Mets, those jerseys, again, pullover shirt were sweet. I think it was the pullover shirt, dude. I remember growing up in Little League and, like, Pony. And, like, we would have, like, you know, you'd have the sick jerseys. We'd have the button downs, whatever. But every once in a while, we'd have an alternate one, like, for All-Stars.

And it would be the pullover. And we all loved one in the pullover. So, my number two is kind of, it's, it's in honor of just having Anthony Rizzo. It's the Chicago Cubs. And I'm a big, obviously, Dodger whites and Yankees, pinstripes, and some of those iconic ones. But I think it's, one, I had a Chicago Cubs hat. pretty much my whole life. I think everyone just had the sea, right? But it's like the blue, the white with the blue pinstripe, something about Wrigley Field. Ryan Sandberg was one of the

favorite players growing up. Rest in peace. And then just the logo has not really changed over time. Like it's been tweaked, but it's like the simplicity in the logo that has stood the tested time. I just think Chicago Cubs, man, like Harry, Carrie, like everything about that uniform and hat is just iconic. It really is. A shout-outs to Rizzo. Like I said, I wore the Rizzo jersey,

and that jersey looks nice. Oh, it's sick, dude. All right. I almost wore my Cubs jersey for this episode, but then I realized I can't be wearing grown-ups jerseys. My number two, I'm just putting this up there to strictly piss you off. And I'll give you a hint.

You don't need to give me a hint, dude. Well, here's the hint. I don't even think you'll get the hint. I must kill the queen. That is from the movie Naked Gun, where Reggie Jackson gets rebooted to murder the... And who was Reggie Jackson playing for in the Naked Gun? The California Angels. Matt, there was something about the name, though.

I did enjoy it being the California Angels. And I remember having my little sticker books where you could get stickers. of the players in the field. And I'm sorry, that Angels jersey, before they became the Anaheim Angel, that I'm not down with. This is the California Angels. There's nothing.

Iconic or great about the California Angels logo. That's by Tilt. Jerry. I wanted to put you on Tilt there because I'm very happy. Wally, Wally Joyner. Wally Joyner, yes.

I mean, Reggie Jackson with the glasses, with the lenses on. Listen, man, I went to, I went to Angel games growing up. I went to a world, they did win the World Series and what, I think 2000 or 2001. They had Troy Percival.

Yeah, yeah, I hated that to you. I went to one of those World Series games. But yeah, we can move on. All right, number one for me.

This one was hard, man, because I'm gonna, I had, I had the Montreal Expos back in the days. One of my top ones. I had the Kansas City Royals,

all baby blue. There was a powder blue in 70s, the Phillies. Oh, the Brewers. This one is solely. based on the hat.

It's the old school 70s Atlanta Braves. Hank Aaron. It's the hat. That's all it is. It's the red, white, and blue. It had the blue bill with the white front,

the blue on the side. It had the red A. And I remember probably all the way through college, I would rock that hat backwards, even at USC. I almost think there's a photo of me rocking that hat.

I don't know. But I'm going, I mean, Hank Aaron play on a team, but it wasn't about that. It was just about the colors. For whatever reason, that A was, my all-time one. So I'm going the Atlanta

Braes. I think it's 70 in the in the mid-70s. Yeah, I do think it needs to be studied for a little while because in the 70s and 80s, there really was a powder blue epidemic. It was, like you said, the Royals, the Brewers, the Expos really had, like, even like the Phillies had

the Mike Schmidt Phillies had the powder blue with the dark maroony red. To the Expos. Expos were sick. Expos were sick. The Mariners were powder brew. All right. Also, I'm giving my number one. But honorable mention was the other Chicago team when they rebranded the white socks to the black and the gray

and that showed up in music videos and that starter. That became a very, very popular. That's one of the more successful colorway changes, I think, that worked. But my number one, bro, and it's wild and it's iconic, is the late 70s, early 80s, Pittsburgh Pirates with the square Pirates hat because it also goes

with the story. The 70s pirates, they were like literally known as like the cocaine pirates. It was Dave Parker. That team was legend. I go Google those pirate teams

and there's some great stories. They were like buying drugs from the mascot of the team. That led to all these baseball hearings. And that represents an era of baseball that is eerily similar to any other kind of scandal you've ever seen.

70s, a Doug. Doug Trabeck. Yeah, I like that. I like that. There's so many good ones, man. Shout out. Yeah, we want to hear all your greatest baseball uniforms of all time on throwbacks. There's too many to choose from.

I was going, the Cleveland Indians back in the day, like, I used to have this. Again, I was a big hat guy. I always wore a hat. Me too. It was like, I think I had red. I walked Blue Jay's hats a lot for some reason. I don't know why. That's because you're a New York.

You're a New York guy. That's why. It's kind over there. I don't know if there's anything better than an L.A. Blue L.A. Dodger cap, though. Maybe your New York black hat, but an L.A. Dodger cap, man, just wrapping Ice Cube. Yeah, let's go. All right, well, the only other jersey I wanted to say, but there's only one player who looked good in it

because it really isn't good looking. But Ricky Henderson in the Alt A's uniform with the yellow shirt, green hats. Yeah. But he's the only one who really. rocked it and it looked like, damn, Ricky Henderson. Ricky Henderson looked awesome in any jersey he ever wore, but young Ricky Henderson and the yellow and green A's stuff is iconic, but no one that, like, if I walked in with that jersey, I'd look stupid.

So shoutouts. I love that we mentioned Ricky Henderson four times on the show today. All right. So a lot happened to in the flag football world, a lot of conversations on Twitter, a lot of takes flying around. Now, Matt, you didn't play in the Fanatics game. But you had a fun weekend, part of charity event, I think, right? Yeah, not.

I play a rock a little bit. Yeah, through the rock. I'm sore shit still, dude, one week later. But RX3 Foundation, yeah, RX3. Aaron Rogers is involved. It's something they've done, I think, four or five years now, maybe longer, where they raise a lot of different, a lot of money for different charities. So every quarterback who gets to play.

So basically it's 10 teams, 10 different NFL quarterbacks, either retired or starting play. And you get an auction. right so these teams basically buy a quarterback to play so it's really fun dude and they do a really really great job our matliner flag football leagues a lot of our guys who work for our leagues are our volunteers for it as well so it's a pretty cool thing down in orange county and you know josh allen didn't come this year i think they're i think they've had a baby or they're having a baby but he's usually there errands obviously kind of represents the whole thing uh we have bryce young

this year mariotta jared stidham um me carson uh vick was there which was pretty dope um she's Throwbacks was on throwbacks legend. Anyway, long story short, the last time I played in this tournament, I won it. I won it three years ago. And it was freaking, we beat Dorian Thompson Robinson in the championship. I have my boy Darius had a couple kids who were at in Juko at the time. Studs. You saw USA flag football.

They were just, they were unstoppable. Shout to my boy Dylan Harbour, who was on The Bachelor, who's actually, my boy, Dylan was one of my receivers. He just won it with Aaron's team. All that. being said, let me just give you one quick story. So I'm on a team with Aminraa St. Brown, my guy, and Josh Norman. Josh Norman plays every year the great DB. So Josh was my go-to receiver all day. He's playing both sides. Amin-Raw picked it up as it got a little more competitive.

As we played defense a lot. And then we get into the quarterfinals and we're playing Vicks team, and we're down and we're making this comeback. Because if you get a turnover and downs, you get two points, and interceptions, three points. So you have your way to kind of work back into a game. We're down 3224 with nine seconds left on the one yard line going in with a timeout, right? So we actually had, we probably had two, three plays. Two, three plays. And long story short, I throw, I kind of throw a ball in a tight little window. It kind of gets, it kind of gets deflected a little bit, kind of off the chest, whatever. And Keenan Allen intercepts me for the, for the, for the win, dude. So I threw an interception to Keenan Allen to lose. I did throw a sweet little go ball to Amman

off or a touchdown. No, it was fun, man. They do a great job. But, um, but yeah, dude, I mean, it gets you thinking about this bigger topic before we go. Yeah. Flag football in the Olympics and whether NFL players current retired, whatever, should be able to play. Now, one, you should be able to play or at least try out, right? You go for it. But I think what this past weekend did was it showed how, one, how different flag football is than real football. We all know that. And the type of player and how much time those guys put into playing that and how freaking great they are right like like it is it's a machine it's a different world so i i'm happy for those guys because they had they had an opportunity for everybody to kind of watch them and see how they played

and that and they and they deliverment i mean they beat the living shit out of the nfl guys right and like i thought it was awesome and it's awesome for the sport i love the sport um and i was happy for those guys that represent our country because they are absolute stars yeah it's it's you know i i saw the the highlights and stuff and it's like, it's almost like the difference of like darts and pool, right? It's still billiard sports, but my got like similar skill sets, but... You just can't compare. It's too hard to compare. It's not comparable. It's an open game.

You have to have a certain type of player. The rules are different. You know, it's just, it's just different. And by the way, we played in the girl, we played the girls, the girls USA team in the RX3 thing. How sick are. And they are, I mean, I know a couple of them because they went to some of our camps grown. They are unreal. I mean, they, We beat their team 28, 21, and it was a battle. I mean, but they are, I mean, just shout out to flag football, the women's and the men's team. I'm so pumped to watch. Yeah, I'm so pumped to watch those teams in the Olympics.

I haven't done the research yet because we're still two full years out from the Olympics. But who's, you know, basketball, I could tell you, it's like, all right, we got to worry about Australia, Spain, France. I have no idea, dude. Who are we worrying about when it comes to flag football? I haven't really done a search yet. Maybe Canada, just because there's some... I mean, they could be awful. Maybe because there's football up there, you know, the CFL and stuff.

Maybe... I just feel like we're going to steam roll. Oh, we're going to steam roll. Everybody. By like... This is going to be like the dream team going into the Olympics in Barcelona, wherever that was. How cool is that that flag football players are going to have a chance to win a gold medal for our country? And it's going to be cool because it's going to be here.

It's going to be... I mean, are you going to go? You're going to be in L. You go support the flag football. Listen, man, I'm going to go to as many Olympic events as I can being in LA. We'll see. Oh, yeah. All right.

We're getting out of here. How does the, so you're sore, but scale of like, okay, say your Heisman year, you were 10 out of 10. Arm strength, accuracy. Like, how is the arm? Not good. Not good. Not good, dude. I walked away thinking, man, I don't know.

I saw you throw when we were at USC and I would know. we were just having to catch you. Oh, like, dude, no, I can throw and I can wing it and I can, yeah, and I can be accurate and I can throw, but like, yeah, it was, it's, it's, it's like my basketball game, man, it's just slowly deteriorating, like, like, like, I can play catch with my kids, like, I mean, it was, it was pretty high,

I mean, we're playing, we're competing pretty hard. I'm trying to throw balls on there, but I'm throwing 10 yards here, maybe a 30 yard throw, but like, I walked away, it was like, man, I'm just, I'm getting old. It's getting old. You got a lot ahead of you. I got to come to one of these flag football things. I'll get you out there, bro.

Well, I am a beach ball MVP. All right. We will be back next week. Shout-outs to Anthony Rizzo. Baseball. I just, you know. It's here. It's here.

Let the grind start. I don't know if anyone's going to beat the freaking Dodgers. I just can't take any more of this. All right. Back next week.