Latest / Los Pickups Podcast / Episode 30 MLB Road to Playoffs, NFL Season Predictions and 49ers Offseason Drama
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- Los Pickups Main: we're not tripping. We're we're we're building. We're building. Yeah. I'm tripping. Okay. Stop. Tripping. Trippin'. Road tripping. Road tripping. Road tripping. Alright, here we go. Yeah. C senores? C senores. All right. Sorry. What's up man? What's up guys? Welcome back to another episode of LOS Pickup! Coming to you live from the Pacific Northwest with your hosts. We're actually doing a really funny thing right now. We're switching who we are today. So I'm Riley. That's Ernesto, and this is us line right here. So, thank you for tuning in. I love the clubies. Bing bing! Land again! That's me! Damn, that's not how I sound. I didn't fucking where's the baffle? Perfect. That was perfect. Actually I'm down pretty I'm down bad right now. I got Keystone apple. He's got capple, dude. Capel. Yeah. It's capple, dog. That is good. Cap. Hey man, them Cali boys is not gonna like you flippy floppy like that. It scratches the itch. I'm just gonna tell you. They're both red, it's okay. I'm not flip-flopping crazy. I'm not drinking like Bud Light apple. But anyway, thank you guys for tuning back in. We are those pickups coming to you guys live from the Pacific Northwest, bringing y'all your weekly dose or every other weekly dose of the generisms, tisms, and the fiddrisms. Fidurisms. Fidurisms? Fidge. With all the tickle biddies and everything in betweenies. I got fidget I fidgetisms right here in my booty. Putting it out of his butt. Yeah. Thank guys for tuning in again. But to my left, I have my boy. Bobby. And my man's Aslan. And my Ernesto. As you can see, it's been a minute. We're back. We're live and we're so happy to be here with y'all again. Thank you again for tuning in. We got plenty of great stuff to go over today. obviously you're gonna be catching a lot of our normal Weirdness, if as you can see. Goofiness exhibit eight. Yeah. we're not rusty. We're excited to be back, but more than anything, lots of good stuff to the fuck lots of good stuff to go over. First things first you want to talk about. Rest in peace, Uncle Phil. the first thing we want to talk about is just a quick check in with the MLB season. Now, we are literally on the road to the playoffs right now. between the Mariners, Dodgers and Cubbies. Definitely some things on the horizon. The playoffs can and will be a part of the a part of the scenario, at least for two out of the three of us. Hoping for three out of three, but we'll kinda check in here first with first or let's just let's just get the fucking Dodgers out the way. So yeah. Respectfully Riley. Or not. Yeah. Bobby Fresh. How are the Dodgers doing? They're doing well, man. They're gonna win the league. Eighty two fifty five, but we struggled against top teams like the Brewers and the Braves, so we'll see how that goes in the playoffs. You guys web by us. I didn't want to talk about it. Yeah, well I just wanted to make sure you didn't forget. I thanks, thanks. Respect. Respectfully. Respect. Respect you and your two world series. So we're not in the we're not talking about it business, Riley. If it's if it's the team we have to have to discuss it. Okay. Hey AZ the champ has spoken. Now please continue. Well We've the past two series against the Braves and we we lost the series against the Braves, all three games. sucked. Yep. And then Detroit we we struggled the second game but came back in the end today and won six one. School threw we struggled against Detroit but we came back to beat them six to one. Not much of a comeback bro You were down one run. I mean you're using You know, coming in as the underdogs, we really try and really band it together. Strapped ourselves up by our bootstraps to come back six to one. I mean, what he's trying to say is yes, they did get swept by the second game. They did get swept by Atlanta, but they won the series against Detroit with a six to one game today. It was a six to one game today when we lost the previous game two to one. saying. I see. Okay, I misinterpreted so no you're good. I just wanted to really let you have please let the record show I apologized. Please but look into that. Scooby I did let the record show that I apologized. Look into the camera and say that you acknowledge the apologies. I've acknowledged it and I feel it right to say let the record show. for let the record show. yes I okay. Well done. Thanks so let the record show that he grabbed like with two hands. With two hands that I've acknowledged his let go. Apology. So Dodgers road to the playoffs. Looking pretty good. Looking plausible. I think you guys got a gold brick, yellow brick road. A yellow brick road. A yellow brick road to the playoffs. It's gonna be a little rough. Is it? With a nine and a half game lead and again up on the rest of the division? Yeah, so that looks like a sounds like a very hard. I'm saying when we make it to the playoffs, it's gonna be rough. Yeah? Yeah. We're gonna have to But this is road to the playoffs, not road in the playoffs. We're not at that episode yet, Riley. Okay, okay. The segment is rotating. Our division, we're gonna do well. Great. Yeah. The division is yours, bro. Yeah, I know. Mm-hmm. We're gonna we're gonna win. And like here's the thing. We're gonna conduct some constructive coaching live. If you're gonna le s like steer into this whole I'm a Dodgers fan thing, yeah then fucking own it, bro. Don't be trying to don't try and undersell the fact that, we kinda, you know, lost one to two to the Tigers in the games second game of the series and then we got swept by the Braves. by the way, actually we have a nine and a half game lead on the fucking division. The next team closest to us are the Padres and they are doo doo. Right? So I don't know, if I was a Dodgers fan, I would say something like that. To be fair. To be fair. He approaches that shit with Argentina too. That's the only one you can't do it with. No, you can't do that. I'm kidding. And you can't be devil's advocate every time. He's a chill guy. He's just a chill guy. He's a chill guy. I like how we all fucking He's just a chill guy, bro. Bro, it was I wish we could I wish you could see what I saw. It was in fucking weird. We can't, no, like from my per from my perspective. Yeah yeah. Out of body. I'm sure it's gonna look beautiful on camera. But like in the moment it was like almost like an out-of-body experience. Like we we're both all of our expressions changed. We are all automatically leaned. It was awesome. Yeah, because we're good friends. We're really good friends. You guys should see me at home when I'm alone, but Sorry. I dream of it often. Alright, real size that that so Dodgers fan, Argentina fan, let us have it, bro. Like me and be Okay, fuck the Padres. They don't know what they're fucking talking about. They don't know what they do. They don't know Nine Games. They don't know what they do. Fuck Man Machado. He already said they're gonna do Playoffs have a yellow brick road. Yellow brick road. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I I I I said it. I'm I was just happy to see School actually play in the first game of the series against Detroit against his former team. seven seven strikeouts, one hit or earned run, sorry. Four hits. yeah, yeah, six innings still got the dub. Still got the dub, yeah. never mind. I'm thinking of the s first series, I guess, against Cubs is when he struggled. he actually pitched really well as the rest of the it's the bull spin and kind of fucking I thought you got he'll he only he only gave up two runs that game against us. I thought he gave up like a couple home runs. Yeah, those are two runs. Yeah, two wells. There's runs in the zone runs, it's kind of a difference, I think, to me. but yeah, cool. No, he's coming into his own. His Dodger owned well actually before we move on with the Dodgers. Trying to stay healthy though. I mean this is this is this is this this is a wells away awake, especially we're still gonna you touch on the playoffs. How do you feel about the match? keeping school. I I feel like you mean I like you think they actually have a chance 'cause he's kind of said that he's op open to the idea of going back to Detroit. Yeah, I mean I I still believe in Freedom of choice, right? Like you're gonna be able to do what you want in the league. So but if he's playing with us right now, win a cup win a trophy with us. And then go back to Detroit. Go back? he's not too long after he was traded he was on he was quoted basically saying that he he wouldn't be he wouldn't be opposed. to go back to Detroit. Yeah, well he's he's just putting his cards right. Yeah. I mean he's he's getting paid what he's worth now. I think it was a political answer, sure. Like like s like he's saying the right thing. Safes. Yeah. but I I do actually think there was a level of sincerity there that he didn't want to go. So Okay. That's why he I think he only pitched the f I think he just pitched the first six innings and then he didn't pitch for the rest of the series. So that was that was really cool. I mean, to see that and then We'll see if he pitches a lot more. We may rest him up for the playoffs. A lot more? Isn't he already pitching a shit ton? Not a lot. Not a crazy ton. I thought I saw his pitch count was like eighty or some shit. Well combined with when he was with the Tigers and Doctor. No, like eighty pitches in a game is what you get. Like you guys were I saw something fuck. It was like you got somebody compared him to like a rental car and it's like, yeah, you drive rental cars differently, that's why his pit that's pitch count's high. Yeah. No no for sure. And that's actually a a very valid point. So he I can't remember what the number is he I thought it was a high pitch now. He he will be more than likely when he does pitch, if he can ramp it up to about a hundred pitches an outing, he probably will. because like if there's no guarantee that he's coming back, then we'll let's that's use him up. Let's use him while we got him. That's yeah. kind of fucked, but I it's it's it's a business after all. Yeah. But yeah, d generally w once you start hitting the triple digits there, you probably are looking at trying to get the guys out. But no, like you said, Yellow Brick Road. Hopefully. Derek might be back. Well with that, 'cause we got a couple of things lined up, including talking about the forty niners this episode. Are we just not gonna discuss the Dodger scandal? The cell? how they're like kinda laundering. Which that's you guys. Or you. Yeah. You haven't heard about it? I I know bits and pieces of it. I kinda tune it out whenever it comes to the dodges if I'm gonna be honest. Yeah. It explains how the fuck they're paying everybody. It's Riley? Well the fact that he's looking into it, I'll tell you what I do though. These dudes, the Dodgers, are being called out because essentially they're owned by like certain businesses, right? And it's a thing where it's like they own the the team and then they own an insurance company. Yeah, it's so then the insurance family or Google they're getting insurance off of just themselves? Or like loans or some shit? They're buying Against them their own investment. Yeah. Yeah. So it's just their money. And so they're technically don't have to worry about ever defaulting because it's just in it within themselves, the organization. The details are eluding me. Go fucking read a Google thing about it. there's a tons of things. But essentially it's just like they're just borrowing a shit ton of money from their other companies that own them, and then they never really have to worry about like paying them back, so they're getting incredible interest rates, like, because they're borrowing amongst themselves. themselves and there's no real obligation to pay it back 'cause it's just their own money. So how do you feel about that? Yeah. I I read I read a few I read a few things about it. I want to try to ignore it as much as possible because that's We're not in the business of ignoring w sports news anymore. I know, I know, I know, I know. But now with the podcast we can't keep ignoring this. No. And I I mean I it was a four yeast not the best choice of words in my book. But me? Me. 'Cause I said I I'd kinda tune out whatever happens with with with the Dodgers. Yeah. I mean 'cause you know, as we know I already I already do think of them as like the evil empire as it is. Right? Yeah. So I get it. What my thoughts based on the information that has just been presented to me. Okay. Let me read the Google synopsis. Yeah. The owner's financial investigation. What happened? This is Google AI by the way, so we'll see how fucking legit this is. Mark Walter runs large insurance and investment companies outside of baseball. Federal authorities and regulators are probing billions of dollars in loans these insurance firms made to other private comp companies that Walter also controls. So I did mention loans among it loans against himself. Right. The issue investigators Are checking if these massive related party loans were hidden from state regulators and investors, which would break financial rules. Where the Dodgers stand, the Dodgers team itself is not accused of financial fraud and ownership, has stated the team is not for sale. However, the pressure has caused Walter to sell off other major sports assets like the L LA Lakers. So the one point one billion deferred money strategy. What happened? The Dodgers signed superstars like Shohei, Mookie Betts to massive contracts where most of the money is paid decades later. The team owes over one point one billion in future payments stretching into the twenty forties. And as of right now, yes, it's C or L B but essentially they're thinking that these loans to pay these people are just coming from companies he owns anyways. So maybe he's a partner or Chief of Keith owns them. He's the owner, bro. And so when you and and so when you're doing it that way, he's not inclined to What like report it because it's within his own companies. Yeah. To himself. So he's cheating the system is what you're saying. Riley. Yeah. Yeah. He's doing what America does. He's doing what any billion does. He's doing what America does. It's just that enough people hate the Dodgers enough to make the shit come out. Yeah. Damn. No LA Dodgers, are the Yankees truly America's team? Yeah, dude. They are. No, they're not. The Dodgers. I think the Dodgers are America's team. The Dodgers have something to say about that. Well Since you guys aren't going to formulate your own opinion on this, I guess we can jump over to the Cubs. Dibble over the Cubs. No, give me some. Don't dibble over it. We'll talk about how great the Cubs are in just a second. But My opinion is if there is ever any more reason for me to fucking hate the Dodgers There's another pretty anvil size like Crashing the Coyote kind of thing. It's still null. To protect myself in this. How so? Because My love Mhm. My love goes out to the players, not the fucking owner, not not the fucking people who lead the whole organization in it. So not so so names the name on the back of the jersey, not the name on the front? We're gonna cut we're we're gonna cut a little bit I'm gonna jump a little bit forward here and we'll discuss this in further detail. I'm standing ten toes with Jed York. I don't know what the fuck you're doing. My Yo what the f my my owner got caught consensually paying somebody for services. My my team's owner it not my sure sure that was a little My franchise's owner. Thank you for clarifying. my franchise's owner got caught consensually paying a sex worker for her services consensually. For their services, that hasn't been confirmed. in a trailer park in Ohio. It has not. They didn't name the sex worker. no, I mean like it w we does it was not confirmed it was consensual or no. like if she was a she or he was a he. I'm saying. god. Yeah. Well, fair enough. Children Park in Ohio. I think you can get everything you need then. It's twenty twenty six. It is twenty twenty six. Do what you want. But you know, he's gonna do the time and he still owns the forty niners, and I don't know why you're not vibing with guess he does have steak and ice and stuff like that. So Yeah, that's pr that's probably the biggest one. I retract Yeah. I retract. I redact any other franchise owner except for these fuckers. I was gonna say what do y okay, but isn't it hypocritical because wouldn't you commend the Cubs for trying that hard, doing those loopholes if you were doing what the Dodgers were doing and it puts you to the point where you got the show Hayes? I'm gonna I'm I'm gonna say it like this. I'm gonna say it like this because I I actually just experienced this first hand at the stadium, okay? Alex Bregman, a member of the twenty seventeen Houston Astros is now playing third base for my beloved Chicago Cups. and what happened in twenty seventeen? Alex Bregman and those Houston Astros were caught, st essentially stealing a lot of information, signals, whatever you want to call it, cheating in the sense that basically get them a leg up to and which il and inevitably led them to winning a World Series. Fast forward to twenty twenty six, Alex Bregman is on my team. Every time he steps up to the plate, I hear nothing but boobirds. And holy shit were they allowed. It was crazy. Like they don't hate Seattle Mariners fans, I mean, I'll give them this kind of credit. When they hate the fucking Astros, they hate the fucking Astros. Which Nice. They were arrivals, I get it. Yeah. I d don't feel good about it. I'm gonna support Alex Bregman because he's now wearing the Chicago Cubs uniform because he's now playing for my team. So the Cubs. they're gonna be fine. They got the top wildcard spot. they're probably gonna end up be big playing the Phillies in the work first round of the wildcard playoffs. yeah, these guys were right here. no, honestly it we control our destiny for the rest of the rest of the season here and I'm excited for us to see what we can actually I'm pointing to the Cubs lag. nice. What are you explaining? What are some What are some holes in your game that you know you gotta patch up? what do you excel in that you think maybe gonna be a problem for? Probably top to bottom we have maybe either top three the probably the top three like offensive lineups in the league. defensively we have the best defensive infield and outfield in the league in my opinion. when we're on, our starting pitches are phenomenal. Our bullpen might k be the death of us. If I'm gonna be honest. Yeah. we we we've given up a couple walk off wins actually three walk off wins in the last week, because of our bullpen shitting the bed. But that's okay. We still got about twenty five games to go to the season. We have some reinforcements coming, off the injury list, so, hopefully we can put it together and no more no more bad days in on the lineup, huh? Yeah. But otherwise, based on the trade deadline moves and how how how we can score in bunches, we we are not gonna be an easy out in the playoffs. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, with your guys' offense, it's like you're never really f I feel like you're never really out of the game. for example, yesterday, we gave up five runs, still one. We we scored seventeen. Yeah, so yeah, yeah, yeah. When you got that much firepower it's I mean, if I were you, I it's one of those games where you can watch every inning. for sure. For sure. we definitely have a team constructed to where like when we do lose a game i it's kinda like, Okay, what the fuck? That was stupid. Mhm. Like how did that happen? Yeah. But then we rattle off, you know six, seven, eight w wins in a row, something like that. and then all is good in the world again. we're one of the two teams in the league this year that has had both a ten game winning streak and a ten game losing streak in the same season. we've had two ten game mini swings this year. But But you guys have had pretty good blowouts between those games though. Our run differential is pretty awesome. Yeah. Yes. So I'm not I'm not complaining whatsoever. Well, you kinda do, but when you win you don't. Well when we lose is bad. Yeah yeah well we're on a ten game losing streak and then you score like fucking fifteen runs the next year is it's like that's not normal dude. And we're gonna we're gonna get into it. Yes, we will. Once the playoffs start. Mm-hmm. No, because the Mariners can't fucking do that shit. So if you wanna switch it over now. As as well, that's a good segue. the Mariners, who the Cubs were just in town to come play it, I was very fortunate enough to go to all three games while you're awesome. pretty pretty blessed in that sense. With family and friends. Family and friends. so yes, yes. I was only missing you two. That that I I w I think you guys would have had a field day in games one and two seeing me have Meltdowns w when we got walked off not once but once once your mom's is involved, I don't like to be an asshole. I think I would have just enjoyed the moment just because they're not my team, but I get to share that moment with you guys, but we can have that moment another time. We can definitely go ahead and sit in on a baseball game here. Maybe not maybe not during the playoffs, but Next season? Yep. So the Manders After that Akuna Matada ass moment. the Manders are sixty four and seventy-three right now. I just wish there was more fire sometimes. He does have fire, it's just not the kind of fire you like. His is more like hey, we're by It's not a yo yours is like the raging fire of the thousand suns thousand gasoline. I think he's more like not a bonfire, but like maybe a fire you make marshmallows over. Fair. You know. Whereas yes, I am ever everybody's invited. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yours is more like Chernobyl. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah, it's like it's like a black hole. Yeah. Like a star collapsing, creating a black hole and sucking everything in. You know. Are you okay? so the Maners. Sixty four and seventy-three. Now we're five games behind. We weren't doing so bad before this past series against the Blue Jays where we shit the bed. I think we lost every game. Let me double check. yep, yep, yep, yep. lost every game, got swept by the Blue Jays. Before then, we won the series against the Cubs and the Phillies though, so it was looking up and our offense was seemed like it was starting to wake up. And I think that's just the biggest point. the biggest thing that we've really needed is offense and the bats starting to light up and warm up and it wasn't like to see a cow look like and we decided yet for a little bit. For a little while. and it was also nice to get contributions from the team. Like everybody was contributing. Randy an insane stretch he was on. I I will always that second game to me will always be the Randy game against the Cubs. It was first pitch I don't know how you call him in baseball. the lead off home run. Lead off home run. He stole a home run. Stole a home run and then a walk. Which not very many people have done in baseball history. So shout out Randy. He's probably gone after this season from what everyone's saying and hope hopefully not. Well I never had a beef against him. The manager cheap. Fans can be very annoying. Fans were calling for Randy to get fucking traded after he didn't catch like a pop fly or some shit like that and made the effort that they didn't want. True. Well now who's gonna be the loudest fans loving Randy? It's the same fucking fans. Yeah. That's crazy. It's almost like they're from Seattle. I was trying to s not say that. That's what It does f it is kinda like that at some point. I mean Seattle is some diehard Seattle fans, especially specifically Mariner fans, you know I'm not talking about you when I say this. It's just everybody fucking else that kills it. It is like, bro, like I we're talking about a city that scorned Russell Wilson, which he was the only reason why your first Super Bowl first championship to the city. Yeah. Yeah. That was Seattle's first championship. Yeah. And instead they fucking would switch to Geno Smith over this fucking guy. And you wasted fucking three years of your of your franchise, three, four years with that bum bum. How many episodes have we got now where he just like He's gonna go more. Somebody make an edit time to talk about it. He's gonna go more. I'm sure it's gonna be a full circle, feel good moment when they get the wildcard spot and then he fucking butt fumbles to lose the fucking game and then the Jets go back into the oblivion of nothing for the next decade. Another butt fumbled by the Jets, dude. Mm hmm. Yeah. Because he likes it. He's gonna he's gonna write he's gonna write back. Yeah. Anyways No, Seattle fans tend to really like be assholes to their players. it's with every fan base though. Fortniners did it to Fort Niner fans did it to Debo. I was really sad when Debo left, but they booed him off the field several times. They were calling him fat. they were DMing him saying that he was fat and it got pretty bad. So Nah I I mean I I get what you're trying to say and I agree I agree with you to a certain degree. B it's again especially because I I had a a nice sample size to to I to hear it. Like I was I was amongst them for three games. Yeah. And The Mariners didn't seem like they were gonna win those three games. So there were certain points in that game where they let their fans let their team hear it. And some of the shit I was hearing, bro, I was like, bro, you guys make look Philly fans like fucking saints. That's funny. I was just about to call them the Philly fans of the Pacific of the Northwest. Yeah. And and everybody anybody who is affiliated with any kind of sport in any in any way, no Philly fans are brutal. Like they don't they don't hold back whatsoever. We're talking racism? W yes. Like I'm almost as bad as Boston fans. But but that's a whole other conversation. yeah. But like yeah, like some of the shit that these guys were saying dude against the stars. We're talking Julio Rodriguez. To Cal. Y'all were calling for Cal to get cut and traded. This is the same guy who was your savior last year. He this MVP candidate, the guy the guy who Fucking should have beat Aaron Judge and now you're asking for this guy's head? What the fu Like, what who's what fan in their right mind does that to your to your self-proclaimed savior? Right? Not self-proclaimed, but you know what I'm talking about. Like, you're you're you're you're appointing this guy to be the face of the franchise for years to come, right? Alright. Sh like anything else, there's the fucking ebbs and flows. The guy's still gonna finish with more than twenty home runs this year. It was it a down year? God it was a god awful year. But he's still fucking producing. And he's still top five catcher in the league defense. Defensively. Yeah, the i that was he the same guy from last year? No, he's not. Attribute it to whatever you want. But for you to turn on somebody like that is fucking asinine to me. I just it just it will never make sense to me. Alright, I'm the I'm off my horse now. Excuse me. No, that was good. At least I liked it. Somebody other than me is ranting. So yeah, Seattle fans tend to have that history. I am a Mariners fan. I think in general I'm a Seattle fan outside of football. I just can't give you guys that at all. Actually, no, you guys turn Me off. so that's that is your fault, the city of Seattle. but just to clarify. Well it it you do have to take into consideration when everybody was calling for Randy's head, Randy just doesn't care anymore. Randy needs to be traded. Does Randy even want to play baseball? Does Randy even like the Mariners? he wants to leave or whatever. And then he's out here doing like historically great shit for the Mariners, right? So just like ride with them. And also people throwing in the towels. We're statistically not not making the playoffs. We have like a thirty Well, it's probably like twenty something now. But we had like a thirty percent shot, which is still a great shot. And we're in a shitty fucking division. So again, we're five games behind. The last series again this past is gonna happen. This past series against the Blue Jays was not great. that really like I think was a gut punch to what we were expecting was maybe a turn with the series against Philly and the Cubs. But with that being said, eight days ago, Ethan on X tweeted, and I mentioned this in the bar so I'm just reiterating for the fans listening all the fans listening remaining games against teams above five hundred. The Astros have nineteen games left, the Rangers have sixteen games left, and the Mariners have seven games left. In like it was at that point like thirty games left, right? So the door's wide open in a shitty fucking division to at least perform well enough to be able to get in the playoffs and then once you're in the playoffs, you never know what's gonna happen. Anything can happen. All we have To do is catch fire at the right time, and we have the personnel to do it. Obviously, the personnel isn't that different from last year. I think moving Bryce to the bullpen is really gonna shore up the bullpen. I think that'll help out a lot. And then hopefully Kate Anderson can hold his own. Although I think he just lost that game. the second start was pretty bad. Which is not ideal, his second start. But we still have one of the better rotations in in for in baseball. and we just need our offense to wake up. We've been needing our offense to wake up, and we've had glimpses. As of late in the past few series, showing that we're it is something that we're capable of doing. We just have to do it at the right time and and and work together. So I don't know, maybe the pressure of this season was too much. But we're still not done for this season. So just keep trying. And you know why? I I I keep believing? Because I'm a fan of a franchise who has championship pedigree. And you always believe. Something Seattle needs to get used to. That was good. I felt pretty good. That was cool. I felt pretty good. Nice job. Thanks. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. That's awesome. I should've let that air out a little bit before. That's all No we're fine. Cool. Cool. Go. Fine screen? Yeah, n now you now you something better. The Dodgers. Be the villains. Buy everything. Keep buying money laundering. Keep borrowing against yourself. Yeah. w what are the keep what are the bending the rules and beating the system in Yeah. Because you can. Because you can. And you're in America. And well what do the codes cut? we do things by the book. If you can't beat him, sign Bregman To try to get a championship. So do we once I feel like he's he was just a part of the Astros team that did that. No, he did it? then why were you talking about him like he was part of an issue? Because he's just part of the whole team. We're talking about affiliation. Like, because he was on that Astros team. Yeah. So next thing we're gonna talk about is Jud York? Nope. That's a that's at that's at the end. That's at the end. That's at the end. That's at the end. That's at the end. That's at the end. We're gonna do regular season predictions for our NFL teams. The only ones that we give a fuck about. The 49ers, Chicago Bears, and Raiders. The Las Vegas Raiders, yes. That being said, and with that much enthusiasm and gusto, Riley, kick us off. What would you what would you have been saying? What are you saying to the world about or no? What are you telling the world and our and our faithful fans and listeners? What they should come to expect for this upcoming Raider season. Okay. Yes. Don't need the Raiders history again. No, but give us a summary of what you expect and then Big Dick Little Dick. And then pull up your phone, pull up the schedule, and we'll go game by game what you think. Win, loss, win. we're gonna do that. That's what I want. Okay. Absolutely. Okay. I mean as as far as starters go, Or I feel like we'll just start with we'll just do it with the QB. Just because I feel like that that was the huge expectation for the Raiders to have this season is to find a Q B and to make a starter. And I feel like Kirk Cousins will do that. I think this is Kirk Cuth Kirk Cousins, Matthew Stafford It i like it's Kirk Cousins Matthew Staffords season, like when he went won the Super Bowl for the Rams. my god, what do you think of that? Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold up. I know this was your s I know this is your segment right now. That was that was so that was Mendoza's just not a factor in your season this season? No. He hasn't looked well. You you're saying you're saying he's still Kirk Cousins about to have the Matthew Stafford season when he came in balled out and won the Super Bowl in this first year with the Rams. Yeah. With the roster that you have. Yeah. With the defense that you have. Yeah. With the two receivers that you have. Okay. This is Riley's time. Yeah. so please please explain. No no no no no. No Yes, yes, explain. Okay. Explain? Yes. That's the whole point. So w who d who did Matthew Stafford have when he won the Super Bowl? Cooper Cup. That's it, right? No, he had Cooper Cup. He had still Kyron Williams who was doing pretty decent. who else was a wide receiver on that team? That was when Kyron Williams was a little let me look it up. Let me look it up. He did have OBJ who helped in the playoffs. Yeah. And tore his shit in the in the Super Bowl. Yeah. Rams, Super Bowl roster. One second. No, you're good. That's why that's what I was asking. Don't worry, I'll wait. That is what I'm fucking saying. So we got Brock Bowers. Matt Stafford, Cooper Cook, OBJ. It was Cam Akers back then. But then you're looking at a defense with Aaron Donald. Jalen Ramsey, Max Crosby, Von Miller, Leonard Floyd at that time, and Eric Weddle, which was a great safety. Yeah. shout out Leonard Floyd. Yeah. So who do you have? Max Crosby, he just said. Okay. So you put that on par with Aaron Donald. So who do you have that's gonna That's your Jalen Ramsey, who's your Von Miller, who's your Leonard Floyd, and who's your Eric Weddle? Okay, I can name him. I got Adam Butler. Who? Adam Butler. Adam Butler? Yeah, he's a defensive tackle. Never heard of him. Dude, he's gonna be a run stuffer this season. Just watch. Malcolm Koontz, he's coming back. he he was doing really well his first rookie season with as a complimentary to Max Crosby. Uh-huh. When we upset the Chiefs during the Christmas game. Uh-huh. And then Torres ACL, afterwards, like the season afterwards, had a slow start. This and then last season was coming back from that ACL injury, coming back. I think he's really good. I think he could be our Leonard Floyd. Dick. Leonard Floyd's linebacker, but yep. Actually no, you're right, he is a defensive engine. D he knows what he's talking about. Okay. Nicoby Dean, Quay Walker, both studs. Both played together in college in Georgia. So you have that cohesion. Tommy Eisenberg. Are you just naming everybody on your defense? Yeah, I am. Because they're all studs? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, because I can. And I will. And this is what you fucking wanted. Sh true. This is what you wanted. You're not wrong. Tell them, right? We got Germ McCoy who could be our Jalen Ramsey, who I think I don't think you've pronounced any of these guys' names correctly. Jamon McCoy. Okay. Well yeah, when you slow it down you said it. Okay. Dick. I got Eric Stokes. He's really good. He's a good safety. Okay. I think he's gonna be a lock down deep threat. Okay. Jeremy Chin, big hitter. Isaiah Palmoil. He's gonna be really good. He was really good last season. Okay. That's that's our defense. I didn't name s a lot of these players. Those are the starters that I think are gonna be the starters. Mm-hmm. And I think they are gonna hold their own. I will say the defensive coordinator's really new, but we'll see how it works. And on offense you got Brock Bowers. JT. Yeah, we got Gente and Mike Washington Jr. Both running back duos, so that are gonna do really well together. Okay. They're gonna come Compliment each other. Michael Mayer, who's also still with the Raiders. He's another tight end. Yep. Got two tight ends. We drafted. We drafted him. We got Jalen Naylor. Jack Besch. We also drafted Jack Besh. Okay. Dante Thornton Jr. also drafted Dante Thornton Jr. from Tennessee. Trey Tucker. Deep threat. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I think that's better than the fucking Rams receiving core. From the Super Bowl? Yeah dude. Yeah dude. I do. Cooper Cop's really good, okay? I get that. Don't do drugs, kids. Fuck up. No, but what? What? I said don't do drugs, kids. my god. my god. So with all that being said, let's not undermine how much Riley loves the Raiders. He loves the Raiders. Like, Dodgers, yes. Yes. He loves Tottenham. Yes. Yes. This dude. I think would do some pretty evil things for a Raiders Super Bowl win. For a Raiders Super Bowl appearance. I think this is very evil things. So Riley, I wish you the best of luck. Thank you. Do you have any other toxic team? Because you're saying you're all in with Kirk Cousins and not the number one draft pick for Nano Mendoza. Yeah, because he hasn't shown a lot during the offseason or even the pro season. How about how about this? How long before how long would you give Kirk Cousins before you give the keys over I mean there's multiple opportunities to be taken to like effect where you have Kirk Cousins throwing interceptions. If that's the case then yeah, then put Jac Fernando Mendoza ends but don't know if But I think Kirk Cousins, if Fernando Mendoza learns from him and also Tom Brady, then he can do what Tom Brady did and replace Kirk Cousins later down the road. Right. Like he did with who who was Tom Brady back up to? Dr Drew Bletto? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So the thing is, Kirk is coming from a place that had B. John Robinson, Kyle Pitts, and Drake London. True. And that's those are great players and he was mid. Yeah. I mean he only threw it to when he played it for Minnesota, he only threw it to Justin Jefferson most of the time. Who's your Justin Jefferson? I'm gonna say Jalen Naylor dude. They can play together. I'm asking. I know, I know, I know. And I do think he has untapped potential. And I think he is. He's never been wide receiver one for anybody. He will be number one option for these guys. including Brock Bowers would be that secondary option. The only reason why I'm saying who is your Justin Jefferson is because I didn't think you were gonna lean on Kirk Cousins this much. Thank you. I think he was just a fucking bridge quarterback. I I don't think he is a bridge quarterback. I think we have to lean on him. What did Kirk Cousins do in college? To rebuild. He played for Michigan State. What did they do while he was in college? Did he win anything? Yeah, he won titles for them. And he broke I I can't remember, but he did break throwing or passing records. Shit. Okay. I just yeah, you know, you spent all that you spent the number one on Fernando Mendoza. Yeah, he's probably not playing all that well in preseason, but it's preseason and I to think that Kid has a clutch gene. And he's playing with not the ones. My man did just turn 38 too, by the way. Yeah, I mean like ten days ago. Yeah. Kirk? Yeah. Yeah. If Kirk can get to be Minnesota Kirk, you got a shot. I'm hoping so. That that's that's what I'm saying here is that I'm hoping that could be the case. I'm I'm really not positive and I've never been positive with my Raiders so I wanna which is why I was kind of befuddled you always love rookies and that rookies need shots and not before. Yeah, but after watching and hearing a lot of other people talk about Fernando Mendoza and how he's been doing and what he still is in the learning process of th the NFL in general. Everyone's saying he's not a legitimate he doesn't look fit or ready for the NFL yet. So I don't wanna give that props to him until I see him on the field and play. I I and I I see what you're saying. I just feel like there is sometimes when the game means something, things click. Yeah. And I'm thinking that Fernando Mendoza is gonna be one of those guys. Maybe. I mean he's thrown a lot of picks lately. Yeah, but You're trying to be the number one quarterback, you cannot be throwing a ton of picks in the preseason. But did he throw I feel like he took care of the ball pretty well when he was in college. Well I think that's to be to his point, I think that's part of like the the step up the the the shock factor kinda. Yeah. It's like he didn't he I don't think he gave up a pick he only gave up one pick six in college. He's already given up two or three. Yeah. In the preseason. Yeah, and it's it's it's tough to say in this predicament because a lot of people think preseason isn't like all that or they lay lay low on it. They don't think it's as important but yeah. I think it's very important for a lot of players who are trying to fight for a position and j a job. I think it's very important if your number one draft pick is throwing pick sixes to second and potential third string error and they maybe even guys who may not even make the roster. Yeah. I don't think preseasons important or he's helping them make the roster by throwing those picks. So like it it's just I think people I don't I personally think people weigh too much into the preseason and it's a meaningless game. Why not try to figure out the pacing and the how quick the NFL is and squeeze some passes in it. I mean ev even with Clint Kubak in his interviews, he's he's still not ready for a number one, but I already know what his Other people think it is Kirk Cousins and people are also a lot of people are saying that AOC could be the second string quarterback. So A Aiden O'Connell could be the second string just because he has experience under his belt. He's had like seven different fucking coaches in his four year span. Did you guys know that? Yeah, I do 'cause you bring it up. Yeah. Fucking fucking insane, dude. Well it's cause Riley historically has had a hard on for Aiden O'Connell. Which rightfully so, he plays well. But Zzz gotta like You gotta let it go sometimes. Crazy. I let Trey Lance go pretty quickly. Do you? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You guys but that was four years ago. Why don't you give the guy a chance then? What's that? But that was only four years ago. Because I don't believe people should get as many chances as this guy does. Do you guys want my like game by game predictions at all? Just like win or loss. Yeah, win or loss. Like seventeen game seasons, what is your prediction like final win and loss record? Like final win and loss record? But go through each game and say win or loss, win loss, win loss. Okay. That's what I want. Okay. Yeah. No, don't give me like what you think about the thing you're playing. No, it's like it's like, we're playing we're playing the Broncos. Fuck the Broncos, that's a win. Be realistic? Okay. Schmedium Dick. So our first game is against the Dolphins. I originally thought it was against the Chargers just because in the past history we've always played the Chargers or the Broncos in the first game. It never the Chiefs for whatever reason, but we play the Dolphins. I think that's gonna be a win. We play the Chargers next, so that's our following week game. Chargers September twentieth. Don't miss it. No. Don't miss it. It's gonna be fun. But I think we're gonna lose that game. Actually, 'cause it Justin Herbert Justin Herbert's got the got the thing. They got the QB coach of Mike Madison. Mike D whatever it Mike Disney. Mike McMahon. I think he's a good offensive coordinator. I don't think he's a great coach, but I think he's a great offensive coordinator. Yeah, the Dolphins had a great offense. Yeah. Yeah. He was he wasn't being sure third game. So our third game is against the Saints. I think that's gonna be a very shocker of a game, but I think we're gonna pull through of a last minute win against the Saints and we're two and one at that point. We play the Chiefs. we are home against the Chiefs. Chiefs always win in Las Vegas for whatever reason. It pisses me the fuck off. I think we're gonna lose that game. We're gonna be two and two at that point. I'll keep track of the record. Okay. Just go. Okay. Thank you. Raiders versus Patriots is the next game, the next week, and I think the Raiders will hold their own and beat the Patriots in Lambeau Field. Or not not Lambeau Field. my god. Gillette Stadium. Foxboro? Foxboro, yeah. Gillette Stadium, right? Gillette Stadium. Yeah. My God. Hot Lane Willfield. That's the fucking Packers. Fuck me. Fuck the Packers. Fuck the Packers. Bills Raiders. Josh Allen comes to town and that will be a tough matchup. I think the Bills will definitely win that game. we're throwing three right now. We'll give the record at the end. Raiders ran the following season. God damn it. The following game. The following game, sorry, the following week. Rams Raiders. I think we beat the Rams. Nice. Even with Aaron Donald, I think we're gonna I think we're gonna really Donald and Miles Garrett. Doors are bad, kids. Doors are bad. Ash and Genty and Mike Washington are gonna blow up. So Raiders Jets next. So Raiders beat the Rams, Raiders Jets next. Raiders are gonna fucking sack the shit out of Gino. Fuck him. He doesn't deserve a fucking single word from the Raiders. He d is never going to be a Raider. He fucked us over. Fuck him. Fuck you! That could I'm a realist because I know that could happen because Carrie Collins did that to us against fucking breathe, breathe, breathe, breathe. So after the Jets. Jeff Garcia. Fucked and Jeff Garcia. Shout out Jeff Garcia. Hey, you know Jeff Garcia pretty well too, right? And then we play the Seattle Seacocks, dude. sorry, Seahawks. Seacocks? Sea Hey, is that in that is in Seattle, huh? No, it's in Vegas. Yeah. Yeah, I wish it was in Seattle. I would go to that game. I would buy tickets. but they play in Vegas, so I'm like, it might be really spendy. Might be really spendy. We're gonna beat I skipped the forty Niners by chance. I think Go ahead man, speak your truth. I'm gonna be honest, we're gonna lose. We're gonna lose against the Niners. Depending on their health So i if they're if they're healthy, if all their players are healthy, we're gonna lose. If they have individuals, like important individuals like receivers or Christian McCaffrey's somehow injured. Hope to go not. But I can see the Raiders winning that game. And then Seattle Seahawks versus the Raiders after the forty Niners. I see the Raiders beating the Seahawks. and second Shit of Sam Darnold a ton with Max Crosby. Hope so. And then the Broncos, because fuck the Broncos. And fuck Bonex. The Raiders will win that game. In Denver. Okay. Raiders-Browns next following week. I think the Raiders will beat the Browns. And I think it's gonna be a blowout. 'Cause that franchise is lost. Chargers will come to the Raiders Stadium this time around. So we play the Chargers again. I think that we will beat the Chargers at home. And then the Broncos will come home and beat us, because that's just how division rivals I think work. And then Titans play the Raiders after the Broncos. And I think the Raiders will pull out a win there. Unless Kibi just keeps running for whatever reason. I think Hm who Cam Ward. Cam Ward. I think he's a poised quarterback for the most part. Ken Ward. Yeah. I think he's pretty good, but I think we're gonna beat him. but Probably like a field goal. Uhhuh. Cardinals, we're gonna struggle against the Cardinals because I think the Cardinals are actually gonna be good this season. a lot of people hate that and hate that I say that, but I think they could be really good this season. but we're gonna beat them. 'Cause fuck it. And then Raiders play Chiefs. At the Chiefs. And we're gonna fuck up because fuck the Chiefs and I am going off my big head right now. You get yours. You get yours everybody. Yep. Just in feeling about Alright, so you have the Raiders Losing five games. Winning twelve? Twelve twelve and five on the year. Yep. Just like a twenty sixteen season. Ten years later, we're gonna make it happen. Eleven, but yes. Alright. Twenty sixteen. Twelve and five. Yeah, because we're in twenty twenty six, the twenty twenty six, twenty twenty seven season. But it was twenty sixteen and twenty seventeen so gotcha, okay. Okay. Yeah. Ten years later. Ten years later. Twelve and five. Wildcard spot I guess. Do you think that's wild card or you'll take the division? I think it'll be a wild card spot for us. I think the Broncos and the Chargers will be the team. Of twelve and five breakers and it gives you the wild card? Mhm. It's been happening more and more. Yeah, but beating your how many times did you beat a division rival? he pretty much went five hundred. And then they would win more games than us. Mm-hmm. But So four of your five losses was against the division by one you're gonna sweep the rest of the week? not the rest of the week, but just the Seahawks and Rams. Just the Seahawks and Rams time. Yeah. The two depending NFC contenders. Nice. Yep. solid. Okay. Twelve and five. Twelve five Raiders. Hey, let's go Raiders. Let's go Raiders. Let's go. Alright. Alright. Alright, Papa, you wanna give the Bears. Okay. hard to hard hardly gonna it's gonna be hard to follow that up. but they won't. First things first. Thanks. I why I saw the the release of our rivalry's uniform and the the little photo shoot that you decided to edit and have some fun with and send us. So thank you for that by the way. I will say Chicago Bears. You fucking idiot. The Chicago Bears, my beloved Chicago Bears. Y'all had the golden opportunity to bring us the fucking polar bear uniforms. And y'all shit to bed. Alright. Our uniforms looked at like the alumni. And don't get me wrong, I love the alumni too. But that's not the bears. We all you gotta do we've already had white on white before. We just need the white fucking helmet. Give us the polar bear uniform for fuck's sake. Mm-hmm. Maybe next time. I would like that. I like this. It does look a little college y though. But I'm not gonna be I'm not mad about it. I like I like the orange helmet. I I I know some people might have d a different opinion, but I I don't mind it. But it does look like we're now the Chicago alliance. But we'll see. Anyways. go Bears. Bear down. Dub Bears. Duh Bears. So, first master of the season, we've got the Carolina Panthers. We're in Carolina. That should be a dub. I don't even know who their quarterback is. Bryce Young, right? Yeah, with cetera McMillan. Shouldn't have easy. That should be that should that should be a dub. Okay. Yeah. then home opener against the Minnesota Vikings against Toddler Murray. I Kyler Murray. and Nine. Nine is gonna be in the background just fucking me mugging Toddler Murray the whole time. Yeah. tough, tough game, but it's gonna be a dub. 'cause as you mentioned, division division games are are always a tough a tough matchup. Yep, yep. Yep, yep. right after that, we have another home game against Philly. Philly's gonna be remembering the mollywapping we gave them in Philly last year. So I do expect them to come out swinging. The two pushes buns, no pun intended. I think you should've intended that pun. That's a good one. Yeah, that's pretty cool. I I I'm pretty proud of myself. Then after that, damn we got three home games in row. What the fuck? That's crazy. Never seen that. the Jets come to town. Gino might throw a season record, seven interceptions, and that's gonna be great 'cause we led the league of takeaways last year, so why not do it again this year, right? So yeah, club dub all the way. We're four and up. Mm-hmm. calendar matchup right here. Circled on the calendar because last year we went one and one with these motherfuckers. We're sweeping their bitch ass this year. We're we're we're gonna step in to Lambo and we're gonna fucking get up all our nuts in that Lambo leap shit. Fuck all them cheeseheads. Yeah. Yeah. We're gonna sweep We're riding a little too high because we're five and at this point. Get a little ahead of ourselves. We got the Atlanta Falcons. Who's on the Falcons? Who we got Tua? We got Michael Penix. I don't know. Neither of them can fucking throw a ball because they're both left-handed, apparently. We're gonna fuck it up and shit the better and we're gonna look human. In Atlanta. Pannix is like recovering from his shit still. The way Tua's been playing the preseason, they might just throw his ass in there just to see what happens. You're saying you're gonna lose to Tua. I know, I'm not proud of it if it's gonna happen. my god. I'm not proud of it. Hey, five and one. Okay. Five and one, yeah. Okay. Then we got quarterback matchup from the same draft. Drake May and the New England Patriots come into town. Tough game. Th this is this is the team that went to the Super Bowl. Probably shouldn't have been the Super Bowl, but it was there. We gonna whoop that ass. Yeah. Then we got my boy, who I in another life, that'd be my dog. For real, for real. Bacon Mayfield and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Sorry, dude, you're in a contract year and I know you're pretty butthurt about your whole franchise not giving you the contract you deserve. We're probably gonna still whop that ass too. So, there we go. The Saints coming to town. Okay? And yes, this is based off last year's success. I know we are we are very much in the midst of potentially having a shit season because we set the bar so fucking high for ourselves last year. But what kind of fan would I be if I didn't have a certain level of of delusionism. Mm-hmm. Right? Yeah. Degenerism. The generism. Okay. You you saw my prediction. Twelve and five. Twelve and five twelve and five. Being the Rams and the Seahawks. Okay. We got the Lions. Now, for whatever fucking reason, the Lions always play us tough. It's always been a thing for as long as I can remember to my days to cheering for fucking Trubisky, to cheering for Jay Cutler, to growing up with Rex Brosman. Games against Detroit, for whatever reason, they were always a pain in my ass. We're in Detroit, we're probably gonna lose this game in Detroit. I'm just being real. I mean if you think about it, it's like the animal channel, Animal Kingdom. A lion and a bear. It's always gonna be a tough fight. It's always gonna be a tough fight. True story. You know a National Geographic on the ass. Right? Well they went national geographic on the This is this is my segment. Okay. Okay. Because we're emotionally exhausted and we just went to war with these Lions, right, who just went national geographic on our ass, we're gonna have a bit of a lull and we're gonna play a decent Jacksonville Jaguars team at home. We're probably gonna and we're well we'll lose first back to back games of the season in my opinion. Okay? That's our third loss right there. We come back, have a bounce back game against the Dolphins. Malik Willis will give us fits because he cut us up during the regular season matchup last year, so I totally understand that. But we should still have the the superior team on paper and it's the Dolphins. Clubbed up. Josh Allen. Superman himself We're playing AJ Brown. No, not AJ Brown, DJ Moore, our old friend. AJ Brown was a Patriots. DJ Moore, old friend, wish him nothing but the best. Give us gave me some of my core memories last year. He's got a good quarterback in Josh Allen too. So he can he's gonna pop off against us. Last lost number four. But because we had such an emotional reunion with DJ Moore, we got our buzz cake by the Buffalo Bills. Round two with the Patriots. At home, guess what? Bear down, baby. Zesty nesty fistigo. You think the Patriots twice? No, the Packers. You said round two with the Patriots. my bad. Packers. Damn. Yeah, I'm just gonna sidestep that, sorry. that's okay. Yeah, win, dub. Yeah, club dub. Dub City. Dub City. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Round two with the Lions and then round two with the Vikings, dub and dub. So we're gonna go thirteen and four win the division and we're supposed to be bowling now, baby. Thirteen and four. Thirteen and four. Okay. yeah. Makes sense to me. Yeah. Makes sense to me. Yeah. Now going into the season, what are your thoughts on the Bears? Okay, speaking as realistic as I possibly can, yes we have holes. It's sucks that we're losing co Kobe Bryant for the f a good first chunk of the season. he was our our big defensive signing at corner. Yeah. he off the Super Bowl champions Seahawks. that's tough. We did not address the defensive end need at all. You tried to. We tried, failed miraculously. Or not miraculously, marvelously. I still think based on the personnel that we have and that we got, th they fit Dennis Island's scheme. So I think we're gonna cover up a lot of holes. because of the lack of talent. The scheme itself will make up for a lot of it. will we have another season where we lead the league in takeaways like like crazy like we did last year? Maybe. But I I I think I do think we're gonna have that we're gonna see that number drop a little bit. Yeah. We're finally gonna have a four thousand yard passing quarterback. Ooh in our franchise history. I don't know. I something something about the connection, the understanding between Ben and Caleb. I don't know, man. I think I think there's something there. I I think we have something good for like the foreseeable future. Yeah. For real, for real. Yeah. I've told you before Caleb Williams is is really good. He was good in college. Mm-hmm. But he just needed a a good coach to help him through. Yeah, absolutely. Matt Iberfluss was not it. And we all saw that. Yep. No, I I I'm I'm very very excited. I'm saying I think we're gonna have a a huge a huge year offensively from him in his third year. And DeAndre Swift's back too, right? Yeah, DeAndre's DeAndre Swift's still gonna be our number one option out running back. guy can can stay healthy. I do like that one two punch. I I think that's our version of, you know, Sonic and Knuckles from from his Detroit days. Yeah. Maybe not as potent or as efficient, but we'll get there. DeAndre had his best season as a bear last year with with with Ben, so I mean that's that that's that's just as he can protect ball. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then no, I think the connection between Caleb and Colston, that's his that's his safety valve. yeah. We saw it time and time again last year. and I'm I'm predicting either one of the two, either Luther, Luther Burden, or Romo Dunze is gonna pop off. Yeah. What's your receiver core right now? so we've got Adun Zay Burden. Xavion Thomas, Khalif and Raymond. Khalif Raymond and Jade Walker. Yeah, I guess it does have to be Adun. I've been rooting for Dunze since he's a he came out of Seattle. For sure. Yeah, he's a husky. He's a husky, hope does well and he was battling injuries last season so he wasn't able to really pop off or kinda but hopefully it comes back on great. Contract year? Huh? Contract year? Four year four? Roman Dunze was a rookie last season. He's on a rookie contract. I think No, this is ye no, he he year three. yeah, three. Yeah, this is year year year three for him, I think. Yeah, so they got one more. So optimistic for the franchise. I'm very optimistic. For the franchise. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. Nice. Okay. Forty Niners? Bang, bang, bang again. Okay, somebody has to keep track. Forty Niners are gonna start off with the Rams on Thursday. I am gonna go off the assumption that we're fucking healthy all season. Okay? Yes sir? Likelihood of that happening? Very low. but if my predictions come out not accurate, it's because we were probably fucking injured. So so long as we stay healthy, Fortiners Rams is gonna be a very tough game, but I think the Forty Niners have a lot to prove this season. Fort Niners at Rams. Mm-hmm. Okay, I'll be realistic. We'll lose to the Rams game one. At Sofai, they Miles Garrett, they got Aaron Donald. It's gonna be a tough game. their division rival, they still have Puka Nakua, they have Devontae Adams, they still have Cooper Cooper Cups on the ram Devante Adams and Pukonakua and then Matt Stafford's gonna be I think he's gonna be on one this season. So starting off with a loss, not great, not worried for nine football. Then Dolphins are gonna go to Santa Clara and we'll smack the Dolphins. That's just their fucking ass. Cardinals are gonna be ass, so we're gonna beat them. Broncos is gonna be a tough game. I don't think Bonix is gonna be back yet, so we'll take that win. then it's Fort Niners. versus Seahawks two days after my birthday. I think Debo Samuel is gonna love to torch some fucking bird again. George Kittle is gonna be fucking pissed away that they lost and kind of use check. So we're gonna take that shit in Seattle, October eleventh. So yeah, we'll beat the Seahawks. First game. Commanders versus Forty Niners. I think the Commanders are in a weird space right now. Fort Niners are gonna beat it just 'cause we have a great team and a great a a very sound game plan when it comes to you cannot be fucking laughing about the Commanders and the Niners. my god, dude. Alright, I'm just gonna ignore you. Forty Niners Falcons, we're gonna smack the Falcons. Fort Niners Raiders, Raiders aren't gonna stand a fucking chance. Wait, hold on. Okay. Forty Niners Cowboys. we own the Cowboys, so we're gonna beat them. Vikings, Forty Niners. Vikings have always given us a tough time. Last time they concussed Brock Purdy and he made a stupid ass interception to lose the game. But I don't think Kyler Murray or JJ are anything this or are anything. So we're gonna take that win. Seahawks at the Forty Niners, we're gonna smack the Seahawks. that is gonna be easy peasy. Forty Niners at the Giants. Damn, our schedule's kinda easy. 49ers at the Giants, Giants are be anything who they got? right, yeah, so they're cooked. Rams at forty niners. I think I think the Rams could beat us again. that makes us the two because we're gonna be on a hot streak since then, 'cause I'm pretty much saying we're gonna. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Going into November. so we'll we'll get swept by the Rams. I don't give fuck. We'll see them in the playoffs. Fort Niners Chargers, I don't think we lose to the Chargers. Fort Niners Chiefs. We're probably gonna lose to the Chiefs 'cause we always fucking lose to the Chiefs. And Br Patrick Mahomes might be back by d by December. Fortners at Eagles, we're gonna smack the Eagles again because they're just little bitches. Four Niners at Car Cardinals, Cardinals are still ass, they'll be at the bottom of the division, so we'll beat them. So what's that? Fifteen and two? What? What? I got two losses against Rams. Yeah. One loss against Chiefs. Chiefs and then a loss. You said a loss against no. I put win, sorry. So fourteen and three. Yeah. I think if we're all healthy, that should be that. Yeah. I think the men 14 3, 13 and 4, 12 and 5. Yes, yes, it is. I think the big thing I think I'm more delusional than My thoughts on the forty niners, I haven't given them yet. Yeah. If we can stay healthy, the only people that can beat the forty niners are the forty niners. That's not true. Why would you say that? Because I can't like Historically that's not true though. We can take it back if you want. I'm not taking it back. No, we can take it back to what we actually played. 'Cause we settled this last s year. In the shootout? Yeah, and what gives you the inclination that you're gonna we're gonna lose to you. Yeah, we lost we we lost that game. You didn't beat us. We just gave you that game. so we're just gonna ignore Brock Purdy moving in the pocket at the end on the We're talking about delusional, right? We're talking about being delusional, right? I guess one of us is. We b I think we all are at all. I think I'm more delusional than you. I'm not attacking any of y'all. I think you're a overzealous. You aren't attacking anybody? Okay. Anytime the Cardinals came up, still suck. Fucking looking at Riley, dude. They have Carson Beck and Jacoby Brissett. He thinks they're gonna be good. But What's wrong with that though? Who the fuck is Carson Beck? He was getting his soul sucked by a bell of danger. That's why he's sucked in the natty. That dude didn't do anything during the natty. I Jacoby Brissett is a serviceable bridge quarterback. I In a in a division. I'd be happy to get myself. In a division. In a division with Matt Stafford. You're talking Matt Stafford. You're talking fucking I guess Sam Darnold at this point. Brock Purdy. Jacoby Brissett and Carson Beck. With Marvin Harrison who's been kind of a bust so far. Okay, here we go. The only person they have is Trey McBride. There's only one only one real way to settle this. Because we're we're talk we're talking we're talking out our ass right now. I'm not. I I think he has a point against with the Cardinals. I just think that if the Niners lose either game against the Cardinals, we we we should we should have a pass. No, he should wear a birdhead. That's public humiliation. Don't do that to me. You should wear a beak or something. We should get like a beak for him and then he can wear a beak. I'll wear a beak. Give me a beak. Give me a beak. Yeah, dude. I will wear a beak if we lose a game to the Cardinals. Give me beak, I give you beak. No. No. If we lose to the Cardinals, I will wear a beak for an episode. Find me a beak. I will wear it if we lose a game to the Cardinals. I I am the middle person here. I'm just saying you're being a little aggressive every time the Cardinals came up towards my bed. In what world are they gonna be doing this? In what world? What are we What world are you going fourteen and three, I'm going thirteen and four, he's going twelve and plausible. It's plausible that we can win those games. What are we talking about? You guys won the division last year. The 49ers made it to the fucking playoffs just to have ha half. team play. Yeah. If we're healthy we can go fourteen and three. The Raiders have a lot of things to be optimistic about. I know, that's what I said. I I'm way more than They can go twelve and five. They can. They could go twelve and five. I think you should be happy if get ten. I know. Dude, I'm gonna be happy if I get eight or nine. If you get ten, that's that's a good season. Shoot for the moon, land in the stars, you know? Dude, I'm gonna be very happy if we get eight or nine. So it's it's fine. I but you're gonna get twelve. But you're gonna get twelve. So I think if the 49ers can stay healthy. The only people we only beat ourselves. We are unstoppable as a team. We still have great players. Christian McCaffrey. We have we're playing with a Hall of Fame team. Fred Warner, Christian McCaffrey, George Kittle. I think if Debo stays with us and isn't stupid about his career, he could also be a Hall of Famer. That's love. Who else? Nick Bose Trent Williams. Trent Williams for sure. Nick Bosa if he can stay healthy. Would have been there, but he's had a couple bad seasons. You have a solid squad. When healthy. That's not a question. Yes. So I think it's yes, we can go fourteen and three. Yes. Or thirteen and three or whatever the numbers are. Fourteen and three. Mm-hmm. I am scared about the Rams and I've had conversations with Seahawk fans and I'm like, if they get Miles Garrett and Aaron Donald comes back, our division is in trouble. Everybody is in trouble. blah blah the rainbow blah blah blah blah. They don't believe that that's a fucking difference maker. So I hope the Rams give the Seahawks hell. Two ge both games. I hope they make Sam Darnold see ghosts. I hope they have no time to throw the ball. And then getting rid of Kenneth Walker, who was the Super Bowl MVP, comes back to bite them in the ass. With every time the Rams play them. Well said. I agree. Yeah. But so you hear it here folks. Pre season or NFL season preview. Niners going fourteen and three. Bears going three thirteen and four. Raiders going twelve and five. We're all gonna be in the playoffs. Book it. And it's gonna be amazing. Book it and R. P. Calchy. RP Calp Calci. my god. Sad, sad day. August twentieth was a rough day in the state of Washington. And y'all fucked it up. Yeah. You fucked it up. Now I have to go to the casino every week. Once a week. You know how much gas that is. Now I have to drive to the casino and maybe play like forty bucks in a in a in a thing all the time now. In the thing? In the slot machines. Because you've given me no choice, Washington. Sad day. Very sad day. Five day yeah, five days. Any last thoughts? I was gonna say five dollars for like And then Parlays. Parlays. Yeah. Yeah, it was just really cool when I could just do that from my couch. before we get to their final segment here, two quick shout outs I wanna quick or quickly make. That was the dunnet, sorry. for sure, shout out Odell Beckham Jr. Yeah. Made the fifty three man roster. Made the fifty man fifty three man roster with the Giants. I hope he has a successful season altogether, all things considered, even if I don't fuck with Jackson Dark, he's little bitch. Dude is playing with no ACLs. But my man's on the team. And and and he looked good in the preseason. I'm not gonna lie. It's a small sample size. I know I know you have your your reservations about what the P season means, but he's still out here competing and that and I think that's beautiful. Yeah. The other shout out real fast, Nick Chubb. Nick Chubb. Shout out Nick Chubb. Man, well could have been dude. major major bummer, but thank you for the for the amazing highlights that you gave us while we had ya. and your retirement, man. For real. Yeah, it was he was monster of a player. He was a very like no bullshit player. He went in, scored a touchdown, put the ball in the in the end goal and jogged back to the sideline. Like dude was just as straight up of a player and a great person by all accounts. For sure. one of the gnarliest leg injuries I've ever seen and so I felt really bad about that. I think with his trajectory, I think he would have been a Hall of Famer, for sure. he was one of the few things that the Browns had going for them and kinda bund that Cleveland after the injury never kept him, but Cleveland Cleveland is Cleveland, so they are horrible. And that doesn't surprise anybody. Baker Mayfield, I.e. drafting Johnny Manzel, I. e. fuck letting it rid of getting rid of Nick Chubb. And then Mr. York going to a trailer park in Ohio. So anyways, that being said That being said My man's. your your your I forgot we were still talking about that, bro. How long is it? It's great. Let's touch on it. yeah. so Your boys been in in in the media. Yeah. For a plethora of things, not football related. Well it wouldn't Fortnite football if it was about football. So I mean you got the inside scoop. let us have it. For starters, Brandon Ayuk acting up, getting himself pretty much banned from playing football again for being stupid and acting like a rapper, pretty much. he's cooked, he's done, he I don't think we'll have play football again. Kyle Shanahan getting in a gnarly car accident where he had to get like eleven stitches on his face. Came back with a mustache though, so probably should have kept mine. I think Kyle Shanahan saw God for a second and he's gonna stop fucking around with dumbass plays. And that's why we're gonna be good this season. So it's gonna work out to our benefit. Okay. it's unpack there. Yeah. Mm. Well, it was a pretty it was a really bad accident. it was weird 'cause they kept quiet about it. So people were wondering like I guess it it was his fault and he just wanted he didn't want people to like be coming at the person that he hit. Right. Yeah. I guess he like his phone fell and he was trying to grab it and he just fucking it was his fault. It was a pretty bad we were there were during training camp he he was like concussed, like a really bad concussion, so he wasn't really involved in training camp and his coaching availability was up in the air for the start of the season, but it sounds like he will be there. And I'm hoping it was eye opening a little bit to to get a fucking ring. For my benefit, right? And then Jed York, the owner of the San Francisco Forty Niners, was arrested in Ohio for attempting to purchase sex services from a prostitute in a trail park. The owner of a multimillion dollar football franchise was arrested for trying to buy a prostitute in a Ohio trailer park. I think it was like a hundred and thirty dollars. Pause for a second. Owner of a multi million dollar American football money churning machine was arrested for trying to pay a prostitute in a trailer park in Ohio a hundred and thirty dollars. One hundred and forty ten dollars more. Don't skip out on those on those Ohio prostitutes, man. Now A millionaire getting arrested for sex services, I'm just gonna say I'm happy that as of right now, they were it was contentional. Consensual? It was it was consensual. Was it? I'm assuming We're hoping so. There's there's you can't shame a sex worker. You c you can't you can't really Yeah, that like No, I'm not shaming. No no no not shaming. You you can't really question it considering that's the line of work. So like I mean I I don't think they're about to turn down money. Yeah. And as yeah things go, you know. Need a little. I just need a little, you know ba basically what he's trying to say is as we justify as we justify the the actions of our beloved franchise owners and all their all the personnel that are affiliated, sometimes you need a little extra something to kinda take the edge off. Yeah, so he was arrested. I think it was like he spent a few nights in jail and then he had to pay a fine of like a thousand dollars or whatever. I think it has to be like some weird millionaire kink. I think it has to be like a dirty peasant kink thing. Where it's like, you're so dirty, I gotta go to like an a trailer park in Ohio. You know. Well, I I I think we're gonna venture off into like the social aspect of our episodes or our or of our content. But but I kinda equate this to to when significant others cheat on one another. Mhm. Give me a second. I'm going to this. I've got I a point for no, you're good. I'm good. thank you. You know, it's like why why would you step out and get yourself a McChicken when you got steak at home? Well my answer to that is Sometimes you just want a fucking McChicken. What the fuck? You know what I mean? Like Have you ever had a McChicken? Have you ever had a McChicken with with the Mac sound mail? Late at night mcchicken. On the way on the way home from a night out drinking? It's I'm gonna tell you right now, it sh it it does something to me. Alright? The McChicken. Not infidelity. Not infidelity. I don't condone infidelity. Neither do I. I do condone the creaminess of the infidelity. I don't know how to use the word condone, that's why. I don't I'm not cool with infidelity. He was using it right. Thank you. but I'm not saying it's a justification by any means. But the thought process I do understand. To an extent. I'm not saying every night. Okay. A trailer park in Ohio is pretty gnarly. I'm not saying the trailer in Do think you do a trailer park in Florida? I feel like that's worse. I don't know, man. I feel like you get I don't know. I mean we're Ohio's pretty gross. So is Florida. Florida's got action. Florida's got I'm just saying, if you're gonna be safe, j or just do that stuff, just be safe. That's really good. Also you're probably to the point where you can afford to pay for some discretion. Or like high level escort service, right? I'd imagine. I mean like the type of like that comes to you? Yeah. Is he married? No. He was. He divorced in like twenty eleven. Okay. He's a single man, he can do whatever fuck he wants. Yeah. It's better than getting tuggies. Non consensually. Mm yeah. Yeah. Yeah, 'cause this was consensual as far as we know. Yes. Per my sources. yeah. Given that, I do think he's still a better sports owner than the daughter's owner. which is what He said he said that. Yep. Uh-huh. I mean, I think the reason I I think it's wrong in both senses. Well the reason b you mean to tread lightly, first of all. The reason I say that and I or say that I agree with my man Aslanama right here is because one organization's owner went to go to a trailer park in Ohio, the other one publicly funds I detention centers. So now that one's kinda hard to get around, in my opinion. I thought Jorge also did that. Does he? J he's just saying shit out of his ass. Why would you believe that, bro? He's a San Fran he's a San Francisco forty nine owner. Shame on you. To joke about stuff like that. Let's see. And shit like that is why we shit on you. Does Jed York fund detention centers? Google's about to b break our glass. Shattered glass right here. There is no public record or evidence. His known philanthrop philanth philanthropic? Philanthropic and board involvements are tied to healthcare and community foundations. Rather than the private prison or detention industry. Does the Dodgers owner fund detention centers? to read, that's why he's taking so long to say it out loud. He's confused now. That's why he's called No, the owner of the LA Dodgers no longer has financial ties to companies that run immigrant detention centers. No longer. No longer. Mark Walter owns the Dodgers. He is also the leader of a financial firm called Guggenheim Partners. Guggenheim Partners previously owned millions of dollars in shares of the GEO Group. The GEO Group is a private company. It runs detention facilities for U.S. immigration and customs enforcement. Yeah. Ice. Yeah. Fuck. community groups protested the team and the owner because of these investments. Guggenheim. Guggenheim Hartners reduced its shares and completely sold its remaining stake in the GEO group in March. And then they pledged a million dollars to support local nonprofits and help immigrant families. Just a million, huh? Does the Chicago Bears Chicago Cubs owner fund detention center. Why are we looking this up? I know, but I I we'm not mad at it. A really weird way to end the episode. I know. But that's alright. Yeah. No, the owners of the Chicago Cubs, the Ricketts family, do not fund detention centers. But it brings up Mark Walter again. was historically a Chicago Pubs Cubs season ticket holder before buying the Dodgers. So your ticket holders. Aha! I got you dead to write a bitch. No wonder we shit the bet against the fucking Cubs, dude. I'm just kidding. You guys kill kick terriers. is prominent in finance and politics. But they have no ownership or ties connected to private prison or immigration. So There you have it folks. Los pickups bringing you the news that Google presents to Now the Mariners. Yes. I know. I'm just kidding. No. We can. Shit. Well I mean episode. I opening episode. It's glad to be back with you guys. I'm glad to be back with you guys. It's gat it's nice to be back with you guys. Live and in charge. Mm-hmm. Absolutely. Man, the NFL season is right around the corner. Literally two weeks away. I think it's gonna be another great season all around. lots of good stuff on the horizon for all of us. The MLB playoffs are also just around around the corner. Not to mention the NBA season is gonna come back pretty soon too, but I'm really the only one excited on this on that from our group. I mean Riley is too, but not so much as mine as me, which is okay. 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