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  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the Best of Stugatz & Company
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  Speaker 2: This is the Best of Stugatz & Company live on
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  Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio.
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  Speaker 1: We are thrilled to have a distracted Adnan Virk with
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  Speaker 1: us today because he's watching a Taylor Fritz match. John
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  Speaker 1: Fanta is going to join us in hour number two.
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  Speaker 1: Looking forward to that. The last time we spoke to Adnan. Now, Adnan,
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  Speaker 1: I promised them that you and I would not spend
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  Speaker 1: an hour and change here.
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  Speaker 3: Talking tennis. I want to, I could, I.
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  Speaker 1: Could have a 60 minute rally with you back and forth,
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  Speaker 1: but I promised the guys here, I would not do
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  Speaker 1: 60 minutes on tennis because the last time we spoke
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  Speaker 1: to you, you were headed to Rhode Island for the
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  Speaker 1: Roger Federer hall of fame induction. And you're wearing your
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  Speaker 1: fed hat today. So I promised them, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what to do. You and I want to talk tennis
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  Speaker 1: for an hour. And I had promised them that we
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  Speaker 1: won't do that at that. It's that constant balance, Stu.
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  Speaker 4: Our old boss, the great Scott Shapiro at ESPN would
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  Speaker 4: tell me, you got to play the hitch. You know,
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  Speaker 4: every hour, talk LeBron, talk NFL. I said, well, what
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  Speaker 4: do I want to talk about? Like, I just want
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  Speaker 4: to talk about Roger Federer. And as you had said
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  Speaker 4: to me, as you predicted to me, if you meet Federer,
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  Speaker 4: that 20 seconds is going to end up being 20
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  Speaker 4: minutes of content. Yeah. It's one of those situations where
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  Speaker 4: people have said to me, so what was it like?
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  Speaker 4: And I go, listen, you're going to get one of
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  Speaker 4: two versions, either the full version or no version. I
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  Speaker 4: can't tell it to you in 30 seconds. Oh, is this? No, no.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to tell you every damn detail of meeting
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  Speaker 4: Roger Federer, my lifelong hero and favorite athlete and favorite person,
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  Speaker 4: aside from my wife and kids. So I hope at
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  Speaker 4: some point we can dive in. Like I said, how
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  Speaker 4: many of the people could just say they're locked into
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  Speaker 4: Taylor Fritz right now? I mean, you're absolutely right. Sixth
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  Speaker 4: level of emoji. You love second sense. It's going to
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  Speaker 4: be an interesting balance today. Clippers, Rams, what the audience deserves,
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  Speaker 4: and what you and I deserve, which is some hardcore
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  Speaker 4: tennis talk.
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  Speaker 1: Right, but if you hear gaps, it's us watching Taylor Fritz.
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  Speaker 1: It's Fritz's fault.
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  Speaker 4: What do you got, Taylor?
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  Speaker 5: So I'm going to extend an olive branch since Adnan's
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  Speaker 5: here today. Let's get some tennis talk in right now.
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  Speaker 4: Really?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Why?
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  Speaker 5: I want to hear some tennis talk.
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  Speaker 1: I know, but Scott Shapiro told us to play the hits,
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  Speaker 1: and I promised Scott Shapiro we would do an hour
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  Speaker 1: on tennis.
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  Speaker 5: I'm going to be the judge of how long that
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  Speaker 5: tennis talk goes, but I want to hear some tennis talk.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 4: So how about this? Do you want because of the
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  Speaker 4: Federer story? I'm not kidding. That's going to be 15 minutes. OK,
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  Speaker 4: I'm assuming we're saving that for a cheat block. When
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  Speaker 4: you say tennis talk, do you want me to start
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  Speaker 4: the Federer conversation or do non Federer related time?
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  Speaker 1: No, here I'll start the tennis talk and then Taylor
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  Speaker 1: will do whatever it is he's planning on doing here.
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  Speaker 3: But let's start the tennis talk here.
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  Speaker 1: Were you thrilled as Novak Djokovic as a lover of
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  Speaker 1: Roger Federer?
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  Speaker 4: As Djokovic, why are there snores?
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  Speaker 1: As Djokovic was throwing up all over the court and
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  Speaker 1: losing to a guy who qualified to get into the.
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  Speaker 4: Open, the snoring's annoying me.
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  Speaker 1: Was Adnan happy because he doesn't want Djokovic to tack
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  Speaker 1: on any more majors here?
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  Speaker 4: Was I happy? The ultimate rhetorical question. I was delirious
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  Speaker 4: with joy. And the only thing that would have made
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  Speaker 4: me happier is to have actually stepped to watch the
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  Speaker 4: entire match. When Novak won the third set, I say
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  Speaker 4: he's up 2-1. It's 11 o'clock here on the East Coast.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to go ahead and go to bed. That
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  Speaker 4: was met with the gleeful joy. I felt like a
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  Speaker 4: child when I woke up at 4.50 to go to
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  Speaker 4: the bathroom. I said, what? He lost in five seconds.
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, yeah, yeah, this is so great. This is
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  Speaker 4: going to be a great day. What a perfect cap
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  Speaker 4: or two weekend. I get to meet Roger Federer, hashtag
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  Speaker 4: Team Fed, and then Novak loses on a Sunday night.
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  Speaker 4: Arguably the best 48 hours I've experienced in a long time.
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  Speaker 4: And people say, oh, don't you have sympathy? Of course
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  Speaker 4: I don't. If they're puking away, if you can't play,
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  Speaker 4: then don't play. Just bow out. If you think you
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  Speaker 4: can play, then credit to you. Battle it out. But
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  Speaker 4: you lost, and you lost badly. Stewie lost 6-2, 6-1,
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  Speaker 4: the fourth and final set. So what I say was illness. But,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, the shot of him puking in slow motion,
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  Speaker 4: I could have done without that. But macaron, the best
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  Speaker 4: line afterwards, you know, this guy's enjoying his big moment.
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  Speaker 4: And he says, see you on court 21 for your
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  Speaker 4: next match. Just completely douses the guy's dreamlike moment as
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  Speaker 4: he beats Djokovic. But for me, as you said, I
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  Speaker 4: do not want to see that majors record.
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  Speaker 1: Extended by Djokovic. I want him to lose, and I
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  Speaker 1: want him to lose badly. I think an interesting guy
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  Speaker 1: in this U.S. Open is Ben Shelton. He won in
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  Speaker 1: four sets.
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  Speaker 3: And time!
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  Speaker 4: What? Oh, come on. We're going to do Shelton.
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  Speaker 2: Come on.
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  Speaker 3: We can't he's right time. He called it.
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  Speaker 1: And Scott Shapiro did train us to play the hits.
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  Speaker 1: So let's play the hits. It's a think about it.
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  Speaker 3: Thursday.
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  Speaker 4: Give me the imaging.
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  Speaker 5: You know, that segment talk about it.
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  Speaker 4: Tuesday on Hockman Crowder and Solero.
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  Speaker 2: This is like that, but bigger and better. And 48
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  Speaker 2: hours later, this is think about it. Thursday.
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  Speaker 4: It's a staple every Thursday. We're playing the hits.
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  Speaker 1: It's Taylor's attempt to counter-program a local show down here
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  Speaker 1: in Miami.
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  Speaker 4: Weird.
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  Speaker 3: We're a national show on Fox, but it is a.
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  Speaker 1: Think About It Thursday, 877-99 on Fox, if you would
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  Speaker 1: like to think with me and Adnet.
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  Speaker 4: Go ahead, Taylor.
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  Speaker 5: So I saw a video on Snapback Sports on social media.
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  Speaker 5: A Cowboys fan was born in 2004, and he says
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  Speaker 5: Emmitt Smith is his favorite Cowboy ever, even though Emmitt
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  Speaker 5: Smith's last game in Dallas was in 2002. So that's
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  Speaker 5: what I want to ask you guys. Can your favorite
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  Speaker 5: player be someone who played before you were even born?
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  Speaker 1: A lot of Jet fans will tell you that Joe
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  Speaker 1: Namath is their favorite Jet player, whether they were born
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  Speaker 1: or not when he won the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 4: I don't.
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  Speaker 3: He's not my favorite player. I think he's overrated.
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  Speaker 1: But Jet fans, some Jet fans who were not alive
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  Speaker 1: in 1969, 70, they will tell you that Namath is
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  Speaker 1: their favorite Jet of all time.
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  Speaker 4: It's ludicrous. It's absolutely ludicrous, Stu. And I liked your
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  Speaker 4: point on Namath, by the way. Years ago, Sports Illustrated
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  Speaker 4: had this great magazine which they said overrated, underrated, and
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  Speaker 4: went through all the major figures. Most overrated quarterback was
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  Speaker 4: Joe Namath. Look at his numbers. The guy was a
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  Speaker 4: 500 quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 4: One unbelievable game. But, like, you look at his numbers,
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  Speaker 4: there's no way he should be mentioned with Brady, Aikman, Bradshaw,
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  Speaker 4: you name it. This doesn't make any sense, Taylor. Why
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  Speaker 4: on earth? Give me any team. I mean, this is
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  Speaker 4: beyond absurdity. That's like a Blue Jays fan born in
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  Speaker 4: 2000 saying, Joe Carter's his favorite Blue Jays.
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  Speaker 3: Like, what are you talking about?
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  Speaker 4: Just because you've seen the image of him jumping around
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  Speaker 4: winning the World Series?
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  Speaker 2: Like, no.
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  Speaker 4: If Emmitt Smith's your favorite player, the earliest you could
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  Speaker 4: have been born is 1990. Maybe at five years of age,
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  Speaker 4: you remember Emmitt Smith doing that.
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  Speaker 5: Like, that.
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  Speaker 4: That's like being a Steelers fan born in 1987. Who's
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  Speaker 4: your favorite player? Paul Amalo, Roethlisberger? No, Jerry Bradshaw.
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 4: I love Frank Harris. That's stupidity.
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  Speaker 3: It depends on the team, though. It really does, right?
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  Speaker 4: And that's why you're right. With the Jets, it makes
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  Speaker 4: a little sense because, unfortunately, you guys have been such futility.
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  Speaker 4: The one moment you go, well, I have to clink that.
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  Speaker 4: What other Jet do I have? I can't pick Nick Folk.
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  Speaker 4: What are we doing? Right.
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  Speaker 1: But if you weren't alive for the Cowboys run with Emmitt,
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  Speaker 1: Michael Irvin, Troy Aikman, you were born after that run
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  Speaker 1: and the Cowboys have been dreadful ever since. Maybe you
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  Speaker 1: care about the Cowboys that much. It's like it's in
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  Speaker 1: your family. You're a Cowboy fan at birth. Maybe Emmitt
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  Speaker 1: Smith is your favorite Cowboy of all time because you
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  Speaker 1: have no choice, you know.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess it's true. If you just have a
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  Speaker 4: complete lack of success, it would make sense. It'd be
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  Speaker 4: like an Angels fan born in 04, and all of
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  Speaker 4: a sudden, like, Darren Erstad, your favorite Angel. Like, what
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  Speaker 4: about Mike Trout? Like, Trout's never won anything. I gotta
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  Speaker 4: go back to the Rally Monkey until they won a
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  Speaker 4: World Series in 02. I'm riding with Jared Weaver. I'm like, okay,
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  Speaker 4: I guess that's how we're gonna do it.
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  Speaker 5: I'm trying to put myself in these shoes, and I'm
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  Speaker 5: thinking right now, if today I had a son... And
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  Speaker 5: he grows up to be a Yankee fan, and he's like, man,
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  Speaker 5: all my dad does is wax poetically about Derek Jeter
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  Speaker 5: or watching the Yes Network 24-7 and watching classics. The
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  Speaker 5: Yankees still haven't won a World Series. Their last World
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  Speaker 5: Series was 2009. Aaron Judge has let me down. Aaron
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  Speaker 5: Judge Jr. has let me down, too. I could see
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  Speaker 5: that kid being a Darjeet-er is his favorite player fan.
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  Speaker 5: And if that was my son, I would be damn
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  Speaker 5: proud of him.
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  Speaker 4: There's a big difference between saying I'm a big fan
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  Speaker 4: and he's my favorite player. So think about this. As
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  Speaker 4: an Eagles fan, I was born in 78. So Cunningham's
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  Speaker 4: my favorite player, right? That makes sense. That's the era
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  Speaker 4: which I grew up in. I love McNabb and, of course,
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  Speaker 4: Jalen Hurts and Saquon Barkley. So when I meet Ron
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  Speaker 4: Jaworski at ESPN, I'm like, oh, my God, Jaws. I
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  Speaker 4: know he's an all-time great eagle, but I was two
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  Speaker 4: when he was in the Super Bowl. He's my favorite eagle.
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  Speaker 4: I can say, Jaws, I love you, all-time great eagle.
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  Speaker 4: Favorite player? No. So as a Yankee fan, you can say,
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  Speaker 4: I love Derek Jeter, but it's supposed to be somebody
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  Speaker 4: more of your era.
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  Speaker 3: It's a ludicrous argument.
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  Speaker 1: But the Eagles have had success since. That's the big difference, yes.
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  Speaker 5: So I have a perfect example, I think, Stu. What
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  Speaker 5: about Chicago Bulls fans who have been born since Michael Jordan?
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  Speaker 4: Jordan's their favorite Bull of all time.
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  Speaker 5: You have the greatest player of all time. He's not
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  Speaker 5: your favorite Bull of all time?
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  Speaker 4: He's your favorite bowl of all time.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: If you were born after Michael Jordan stopped playing basketball,
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  Speaker 1: he is your favorite.
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  Speaker 3: Chicago bowl of all time.
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  Speaker 4: Of course. Right. Yeah. I think that's one where we
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  Speaker 4: have to make an exception because he's so supernatural. And again,
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  Speaker 4: the bulls have stunk. That's the key point that Stu
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  Speaker 4: is pointing out to think is key is that that's
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  Speaker 4: the nuance. If your team has still been good while
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  Speaker 4: you've been alive, then you should have other players to
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  Speaker 4: rally around. But if you're the bulls. It's been a
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  Speaker 4: lot of dreck ever since then. And Jordan's the greatest ever. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: you know what? I'll allow an exception. Bulls, no matter
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  Speaker 4: what age you are, you can be a Michael Jordan
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  Speaker 4: if you care.
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  Speaker 1: What if you're a Laker fan that was born after
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  Speaker 1: the Shaq and Kobe run and your choice is LeBron
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  Speaker 1: James who won a championship in a bubble?
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't really count.
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  Speaker 4: Or it's Kobe.
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  Speaker 3: I would go Kobe.
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  Speaker 4: I would.
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  Speaker 1: And I'd be okay with it. Meaning he saw LeBron,
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  Speaker 1: he didn't see Kobe. He or she saw LeBron, didn't
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  Speaker 1: see Kobe, and Kobe is still their favorite Laker of
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  Speaker 1: all time.
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  Speaker 5: And it's tough because the younger generation is growing up
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  Speaker 5: wanting to be LeBron fans, but the older generation that
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  Speaker 5: that is influencing these kids as Laker fans, they don't
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  Speaker 5: really respect LeBron's tenure in LA.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, again, that's where the wrinkle becomes. I would argue
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  Speaker 4: you had LeBron in purple and gold. It wasn't like
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  Speaker 4: a cup of coffee. No, he was there. He served
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  Speaker 4: substantial time. He loves Lakers. But he doesn't feel like
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  Speaker 4: a Laker. And the key point is, Stu, that championship
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  Speaker 4: was a joke. People mention the Dodgers. It's their first
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  Speaker 4: world title since 2008. What are you talking about? They go,
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  Speaker 4: the COVID year. I go, it was a 60-game baseball season.
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  Speaker 6: Stop.
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  Speaker 4: Stupidest World Series title I've ever heard of in my life. Like, what?
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  Speaker 4: No one's taking that seriously. No one goes, remember that
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  Speaker 4: arduous 60-game season? And then Clayton Kershaw finally won a
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  Speaker 4: World Series. I'm like, no, it's completely diluted. It's a joke.
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  Speaker 1: How would you feel if one of your kids said, hey, dad.
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  Speaker 1: Favorite tennis player of all time is someone other than
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  Speaker 1: Roger Federer.
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  Speaker 4: It's a great question. One of my friends asked me
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  Speaker 4: the other day, he said, hey, you know, since Federer's
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  Speaker 4: been gone, who do you root for? And I go,
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  Speaker 4: no one. He said, what do you mean? I go,
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  Speaker 4: I watch tennis, I love tennis, but... No one will
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  Speaker 4: ever match the sheer wattage and beloved nature I have
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  Speaker 4: towards Roger Federer. I like O.J. Aliassime because I'm Canadian.
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  Speaker 4: I root for Felix, okay? Right. Like you said, bounce
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  Speaker 4: Shelton to the left. He's got a good serve. Okay, cool.
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  Speaker 4: Taylor Fritz, we're locked in right now, you and me,
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  Speaker 4: but no one ever.
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  Speaker 4: It often makes me think, I think it was Bill
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  Speaker 4: Simmons who once said, a great sign of parental failure
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  Speaker 4: is if your kids don't cheer for your teams. Like
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  Speaker 4: if Taylor's kid Godwin was a Red Sox fan, he'd go,
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  Speaker 4: you must hate your father. Like, wow, you really stuck
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  Speaker 4: it to him by doing that.
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  Speaker 3: So you're right.
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  Speaker 4: If ever my kids didn't name Federer as their favorite player,
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  Speaker 4: that is parental failure 101. Managerial malpractice by me. Shame
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  Speaker 4: on you. I poisoned them into thinking like when I
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  Speaker 4: told them I'm going to run around to meet Federer,
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  Speaker 4: they saw he's the goat. He's LeBron. Like if you
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  Speaker 4: had other people in the makeup, well, Joker is 24 majors.
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  Speaker 4: The Dow beat him head to head. My kids are
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  Speaker 4: so poisoned by my nonsense. They're like, yeah, Rogers, he's
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  Speaker 4: the LeBron and the Michael Jordan of tennis. No one's
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  Speaker 4: even close to this guy. I'm like, yes, I've got
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  Speaker 4: them believing my nonsense.
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  Speaker 5: I would rather my kid grows up to be a
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  Speaker 5: Red Sox fan than he grows up to be a
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  Speaker 5: Duke fan.
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  Speaker 4: Wow. That's a good question. What would be the least
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  Speaker 4: favorite thing you'd like to see happen? He loves the Yankees.
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  Speaker 1: He loves Carolina. He went to Carolina. He walked onto
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  Speaker 1: that football team. So you're saying that you would rather
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  Speaker 1: your kid come to you one day and say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a Red Sox fan, just as long as he
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  Speaker 1: doesn't say he's a Duke fan, right?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's where I draw the line.
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  Speaker 4: Right. Interesting. To be clear, though, Taylor, again, I know
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  Speaker 4: we hate Duke, but Duke is a great school. Imagine
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  Speaker 4: your son's going to Duke Law School and he happens
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  Speaker 4: to be a Blue Devils fan. You're just saying fandom.
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  Speaker 4: What if he actually gets accepted to Duke, which is
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  Speaker 4: a great institution? You're not going to let him go
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  Speaker 4: to Duke? He's not going to let him apply to Duke.
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  Speaker 5: And I'm definitely not paying that tuition.
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  Speaker 4: He gets a full scholarship. Full ride. Super smart kid.
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  Speaker 4: He's going to Duke Law School and you're going to go, sorry, buddy.
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  Speaker 4: He'd rather pay for him to go somewhere else. He would.
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  Speaker 5: You go to Elon down the street, buddy. Be a phoenix.
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  Speaker 4: Not quite the same prestige as graduating from Duke.
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  Speaker 5: Elon over Duke.
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  Speaker 4: That is unbelievable. That is a true thing about a Thursday.
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  Speaker 3: Some people call Elon the Harvard of the South.
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  Speaker 4: No, that's not happening. There's no one saying that. Come on.
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  Speaker 4: Still people is no people. Taylor, put it on the poll, please.
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  Speaker 1: That's still got 790 on X. Does anyone refer to
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  Speaker 1: Elon as the Harvard of the South? 877-99 on Fox.
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  Speaker 1: Can your favorite player from your favorite team be a
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  Speaker 1: player that you never saw play?
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  Speaker 3: 877-99 on Fox.
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  Speaker 1: That's why we call it a Think About It Thursday.
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  Speaker 1: I'm thinking. I mean, I prefer not to think, but
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: here I am thinking. I just want to watch Taylor Fritz.
• 13:42
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• 13:45
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• 13:55
  Speaker 1: We'll get to the update and isaac in just a
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: minute here have some calls 877 99 on fox adnan
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: virk sitting in with us today let's go out to
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: mike who's in new york mike go ahead you're on
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: fox sports radio.
• 14:08
  Speaker 6: I'm a lifelong jets fan. Of course, I got some problems,
• 14:11
  Speaker 6: but I don't go around to, I would never say
• 14:14
  Speaker 6: Joe Namath is my favorite player. You know, I never
• 14:17
  Speaker 6: saw him play. I thought it's Martin player. I saw
• 14:19
  Speaker 6: Wesley Walker play. And, and you go to the bowls.
• 14:23
  Speaker 7: Like my analogy will be ice cream.
• 14:26
  Speaker 6: Like, how could you say your plate favorite flavor of
• 14:28
  Speaker 6: ice cream is one you've never tried.
• 14:30
  Speaker 5: You never saw Jordan play.
• 14:33
  Speaker 6: How can that be your favorite? You know, if you're
• 14:34
  Speaker 6: a fan, you're watching games, and one of the players
• 14:37
  Speaker 6: you're watching is going to become your favorite.
• 14:41
  Speaker 3: I love the ice cream analogy.
• 14:42
  Speaker 4: I do.
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: I'm not certain who you would go with if you're
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: a Bulls fan and you were born after Michael Jordan
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: stopped playing.
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: It's probably D.
• 14:49
  Speaker 5: Rose.
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: But that's terrible. He can't be your favorite Chicago Bull
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: of all time. D.
• 14:53
  Speaker 5: Rose had a moment.
• 14:54
  Speaker 4: He won an MVP.
• 14:57
  Speaker 5: Moment.
• 14:58
  Speaker 4: He would have won several MVPs had he stayed healthy.
• 15:01
  Speaker 4: He did have a moment. You're right.
• 15:02
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry. You stopped me again.
• 15:04
  Speaker 4: It was a moment.
• 15:05
  Speaker 5: It was a season.
• 15:06
  Speaker 4: It was more than a moment. It was an.
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: Entire season of MVP basketball at the highest level. And yes,
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: he's a good player, but Michael Jordan's the greatest player
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: to ever play.
• 15:17
  Speaker 4: But the ice cream analogy is apropos, too. Imagine if
• 15:20
  Speaker 4: someone said, this chicken parm is to die for. You're going, really?
• 15:24
  Speaker 4: I've never had it.
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: What?
• 15:25
  Speaker 4: What do you mean? Everyone's told me this chicken parm
• 15:27
  Speaker 4: is amazing. You're going to go to this restaurant. But
• 15:29
  Speaker 4: you have to sample a little bit. The difference is, though,
• 15:32
  Speaker 4: you said with Jordan, there's such a wealth of video
• 15:35
  Speaker 4: available that you could feel like you've lived Jordan's life
• 15:37
  Speaker 4: just by watching YouTube. Right. Like, I'm not certain you
• 15:40
  Speaker 4: can do that with Joe Namath and go back and
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: watch all these games. Maybe you could, I suppose. But
• 15:43
  Speaker 4: like in this era, you could go back as a
• 15:46
  Speaker 4: Yankees fan and watch all of Derek Jeter's games. They
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: replay them all the time. I feel like you're living
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: through them. So I do think that if you're a
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: player who is of our recent vintage, it's easier to
• 15:55
  Speaker 4: make that argument rather than an old relic from the past.
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: Taylor, do me a favor. After this call, if you can,
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: pull up Bob Ryan's tweets from the other day so
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: we can get at Nan's reaction to what Bob Ryan
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: was tweeting about. 877-99 on Fox. Let's go to Scott,
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: who's in Maryland today.
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: Scott, go ahead. You're on Fox Sports Radio. Hey, yeah.
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: Hey, thank you.
• 16:16
  Speaker 7: Love the humor. Love the lightheartedness. The last caller kind
• 16:19
  Speaker 7: of stole a little bit of my thunder, essentially the
• 16:22
  Speaker 7: same comment where your favorite player versus best player isn't
• 16:27
  Speaker 7: always the same. And I'll tape a Bay race fan
• 16:31
  Speaker 7: and through the early years here of their success. And
• 16:34
  Speaker 7: my favorite player was Ben's overest. I liked the underdog.
• 16:37
  Speaker 7: I liked the, the platoon player side of him. But
• 16:40
  Speaker 7: if I were to say he was better than Evan
• 16:42
  Speaker 7: on Gloria, I'd be a fool, you know? So, so yeah,
• 16:46
  Speaker 7: I like the ice cream analogy also. I think it's
• 16:49
  Speaker 7: okay to have a favorite, but it's also a different scenario.
• 16:52
  Speaker 7: If you claim your favorite was the best and that's
• 16:55
  Speaker 7: a different conversation.
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: Anyway, every tire in this lovely humor. Yes.
• 17:01
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: But if they just the ice cream analogy, if they
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: retired pralines and cream.
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: OK, which means I never tasted it.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: OK, but enough people told me it was the greatest
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: ice cream of all time. I would trust those people.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying? Like, I'm OK with Jordan.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: That's the exception to me. I'm OK with a guy
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: being born after Jordan stopped playing. and Michael Jordan still
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: being his favorite Chicago Bull of all time.
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: He's my favorite Bull of all time. He's my favorite
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: basketball player of all time.
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: I'm trying to put myself in the Rays fan shoes.
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: If I was a Rays fan growing up, I'm trying
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: to think, would I be a Rocko Baldelli guy as
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: my favorite player or Carl Crawford? Because I think I
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: would be Carl Crawford.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: I was going to say the great Carlos Pena, former
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: colleague and friend. 46 home runs, franchise record in a
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: single season. Pena to me was a great rate, but
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: I do like Baldelli and certainly Evan Longoria is at
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: the top of that list.
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: I think I might also be a Julio Lugo guy too.
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: Full underrated Julio Lugo.
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: He can pick it.
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: He can pick it.
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: But Adnan, your baseball team has had so much success
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: that it's easy to pick Derek Jeter. Had they not
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: won since you were born, you might go Joe DiMaggio,
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: you know?
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, definitely. If I was Mad Dog, I'd definitely
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: go with Joe DiMaggio. I mean, there's no question about that. DiMaggio,
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: how else is it going to be? The Yankees are lucky.
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: They've got so many different options as far as their
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: favorite players are concerned. But you're right. It becomes harder with, like,
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: these lousier teams. That's where, like, the ways, it's like, oh,
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: my God. Like, you just hold on to whatever semblance
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: of glory you've had.
• 18:27
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: That's where it becomes tricky. Go ahead, Taylor.
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: In the early, like, 1900s and 1920s, when.
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: Information wasn't as readily available. And the Yankees have somebody
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: like Babe Ruth, who was a catalyst in itself, like
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: an Aaron Judge type, like a Shohei Otani type. Do
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: you think people went to the ballpark and like, Roger
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: Peckinpah is my favorite player?
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: That's the second time.
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: I love that name.
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: You have trotted out that name this week.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: I'll shoehorn that name into any conversation I can. So
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: will Bob Ryan. Why don't you read Adnan before we
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: go to the updates? Why don't you read the tweets
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: from Bob Ryan? This is what Bob does. Adnan, you
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: remember when I was doing the show with Dan, we
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: would have Bob on to explain his tweets. Cause he
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: just puts stuff out there. He doesn't really elaborate. Uh,
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: but Bob is all about Boston. He is all about
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: the red Sox and he's all about crushing Derek Jeter. Uh, what,
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: what do you have for us?
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: Yeah. No context. Bob Ryan tweets out. Derek Jeter did
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: not dive into the stands to catch a ball. He
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: made a nice running catch in the playing field and
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: his momentum carried him into the stands. Nice play, but
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: not heroic. And then he followed it up 22 hours later.
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: Jeter was daringly reckless and he made a great play.
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: He risked injury. He should be commended, but he caught
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: the ball in foul territory and kept on going. He
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: did not dive into the stand.
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: Two tweets separated by 22 hours. And again, there's no
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: context being given to this. Nobody's asking Bob Ryan to
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: reflect on the Derek Jeter bloody chin game. Nobody's saying
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: Red Sox, Yankees, potential wildcard player preview. This is just
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: the musings of Bob Ryan, a legendary sports for sitting
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: on his couch, watching the Red Sox. You know what?
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: I'm going to tweet about Jeter today.
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: Yesterday, Bob Ryan tweeted out, I bet Mike Mussina knows
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: what day this is. I sure do. Because this was
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: the day in 2001 where Carl Everett broke up Mike
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: Mussina's perfect game on the last out.
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: He didn't put all that in the tweet, though, did he? No.
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: It was just, I bet Mike Mussina knows what day
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: this is.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: Right, and that's why we would have Bob on for
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: him to elaborate on what the hell it is he
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: meant by that.
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: Get him on tomorrow. Absolutely. The good news is Bob
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: believes in brevity. He just wants you to kind of
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: figure out the rest of what he's saying. It's a
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: little bit cryptic, but I like the fact it makes
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: the audience work a little bit. Bob Ryan, I'll tell
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: you this about Carl Everett. Dan Shaughnessy, speaking of Boston
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: sports writers, forever referred to Carl Everett by first reference.
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: This will make Tim Kirchner cry with laughter. On first reference,
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: he referred to him as Jurassic Carl, because Carl Everett
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: one time said he did not believe in dinosaurs. So
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: for years, I'm telling you, nine years later, Jurassic Carl,
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: the critical base, if you didn't know what the hell
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: Dan Shazzy was talking about, it was hilarious. And as
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: for Bob Ryan, he once said one of the best
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: quotes I've ever thought about broadcasting. And someone said to me,
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: do you think you're a good broadcaster, bad broadcaster? I go,
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: Bob Ryan said this, on my worst day, you could
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: wake me up in the middle of the night and
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: tell me to write a column, and I think I
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: could hit you a stand-up double. that's an all-time good
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: lie right did you hit a home run today you
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: got to know but like you could rustle me up
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: out of bed and i can hit you a stand-up
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: double that's bob ryan what would you.
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: Guys say is the mount rushmore of boston sports writers
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: because it feels like bob ryan and shaughnessy have to
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: be locks well those are two yes then the last
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: two spots it's like jackie mcmullin peter gammons bill simmons
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: is a.
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: Sports writer oh i would say jackie mcmullin deserves to
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: be on.
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: The mount rushmore yes yeah i think i think it's
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: jackie and i think it's uh who was the fourth
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: one you said Peter Gammons. Gammons, Simmons. Does Wickersham count?
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: Wickersham is always doing a deep dive on something.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: I mean, that guy.
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: If Seth Wickersham comes calling, I'm terrified. I have no guilt,
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: but I'm crapping my pants if Seth Wickersham. I just
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: want to talk to you for a second. I'm like, oh,
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: my God. How did he find out what I did
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: back in 1997 in Toronto? Seth, I have nothing to
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: say to you.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: I mean, if it's not Wickersham, it's Pablo. If it's
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: not Pablo, it's Wickersham. It's like tango and cash.
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: Both those guys give me hives.
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: Pablo's having a day though.
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: Oh my god credit to him like he could be
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: taking such a victory lap right now him and Samson
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: said they're just you know you don't need to brag
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: if you know what's going what the deal is right
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: they're just kind of like Barry Sanders just handing the
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: football away we scrubbed the touchdown yeah we called we
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: knew all along great moment the guy already won a
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: Pulitzer how can you top that by exposing Steve Ballmer
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: and the Clippers incredible His silence, his silence, his silence, Adnan,
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: is a victory lap. You're absolutely right.
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: Stone cold clip.
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: One other thing I wanted to mention, this is apropos
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: of nothing, Stu, but I just want to mention this
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: before I forget. The last time I was on with you,
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: I wanted to mention, I also couldn't care less about
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: Dan Orlovsky's interest in country music. I mean, that review
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: of McAfee's album was one of the dumbest things I've
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: ever seen. If Dan Orlovsky wants to talk about football
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: to me, I am all ears. If Dan Orlovsky wants
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: to talk to me about country music, I am tone deaf.
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: I could not care less about his opinion.
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: That to me is.
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: Not an endorsement. All right. I'll text Orlovsky right now.
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: Save the country music reviews to somebody else. Yes. If
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: you're trying to support McAfee, I appreciate that. But let's
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: just talk about, you know, cover two. That's what I'm
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: looking for from Dan Orlovsky, not what cover band McAfee
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: should be doing next. I just want to make that clear.
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: Taylor said in my headphones, send the text and prove it.
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: We want proof. We want to send the text and
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: send the screenshot. Send it to Orlovsky right now. His
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: favorite NBA player. Adnan, I want you to medal stand.
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: We'll get to tennis in a second. All right.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: But I have an assortment of sounds, mistakes from the
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: show here. that have happened recently, and I want you
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: to put them on a medal stand, okay? I have
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: six to choose from, all right? We're going to start
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: here with our first one.
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: This is Taylor.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: I think you've heard this already. Unfortunately for Taylor, he
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: made this mistake on Martin Luther King Day. Here is
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: Taylor trying to say, back up quarterback.
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: Black backup quarterback. That was me being an ally.
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: Again, Martin Luther King Day.
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: Black backup quarterback.
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: On a scale of 1 to 10, it's maybe a 2.
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: What's helpful is the context of being at Martin Luther
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: King Day. If you just do it randomly, I'm not
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: sure why, but it's a better slub in terms of context.
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: It's 2 out of 5. I don't think it's a
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: medal statement. It's good. He's going to break them all down.
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: I love this.
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: Here's the next one.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: This is me, and this is a very dangerous name
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: to say when you're speaking quickly. This is me trying
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: to pronounce legendary producer of the Christopher Mad Dog Russo show,
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: Eddie Erickson.
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: Headset, and perhaps Eddie Erickson.
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: Headset, and perhaps Eddie Erickson. It's also two out of five.
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: It's not terrible. It's actually understandable because, again, it's a
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: tough name. Eddie Erickson, that does not flow off the tongue.
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: It's a cool name. It's a fun name.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: The alliteration is there, but if you're sitting quickly, you're
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: going to trip up. So that's understandable. That's not metal standing. Right.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: This one is also understandable because I'm terrified just trying
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: to throw it to the sound here. Here is Taylor
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: trying to say abdomen.
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: My shorts are tight.
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: I feel like your abdominal is about to explode. Yeah.
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: Adonimum.
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: That might be metal, Stan.
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: That could be a bronze medal right there. That's pretty brutal.
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: That's pretty bad. You haven't heard anything yet.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Here's Taylor trying to pronounce the easiest name in sports
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: media to pronounce.
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: T-Bob.
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: We have T-Bob A-Bear on. We have T-Bob A-Bear on.
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: That's like a four out of five. How are you
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: screwing up T-Bob here, Taylor? Come on. You're an educated man. Yips.
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: Yips.
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: Knoblock. That's what I said.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: We had a celebrity prognosticator this week.
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: It was Steve Spurrier.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: This is Taylor trying to say the old ball coach.
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: To get the old boat. I don't know how.
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: That doesn't win gold medal. That is brilliant. That is
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: the old ball coach getting mangled.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: I got to hear that again.
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: To get the all boat.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: The only reason that won't win is because the next
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: one is going to win. Dominique Foxworth was on the
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: show with us, and here was me trying to pronounce
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: my friend's name. 877-99 on Fox. I don't know why
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: I'm giving out the phone number. Dominique Foxworth. Now I
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: got it. Like Kevin Duckworth. Yes, Kevin Duckworth.
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: Laser center. Very good reference. Another name scary to say.
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: I just love Dominique's reaction.
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: Whoa!
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: What just got up in here? That escalated quickly. But
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: in fairness, too, that's not the first time he's heard
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: that before. That, I'm sure, is a common name that
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: has been yelled at him by many defensive backs coach
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: over the years. Yes, no question about it. I did
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: it on national radio live, though.
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>.
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: I'm going to hazard a guess. Trey Wingo never did
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: that NFL live. No. I'm going to guess Dan did
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: not do that with you on Levitard. This was a first. No,
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: Dan had a few slip-ups. I mean, Dan is a.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: Great broadcaster, but you're not putting him like with Vince Scully,
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: are you? Fair enough, yeah. I'm not putting him up there.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: Will McDunn either, by the way. Will McDunn is copying
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: our boss to Mount Rushmore.
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: Well, you know what happened there? Taylor just gave us
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: a fourth name, and we went with it. If he
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: just said, who do you guys think? Once he's, oh, Jack,
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: of course. Bill Simmons, yeah. Peter Gabriel, yeah. Listen, you
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: and I both love Sean McDonough. Sean McDonough wouldn't speak
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: to us for weeks if he did not put his
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: father in the Mount Rushmore of Boston sportswriters, to be clear. Yes,
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: he'd be very upset. Borda Ricardo loves the show.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: He's great. He's the most valuable player of this show.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: He really is on a daily basis. If you were
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: wondering at hand. He's a huge baseball guy, which I
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: love about him.
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: If you're wondering what all those sounds sound like all
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: mashed up together, here's what it sounds like.
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: 877-99 on Fox.
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: I don't know why I'm giving out the phone number.
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: Dominique Foxworth.
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: To get the all boat. To get the all boat.
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: To get the all boat. To get the all boat.
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: To get the all boat.
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: My shorts are tight.
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: I feel like your abdominal is about to explode. I
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: feel like your abdominal. I feel like your abdominal. I
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: feel like your abdominal.
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: Dominique's worth. Great job, Ricardo. And I think you nailed it.
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: The gold is definitely Dominique. The scooper is the old
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: ball coach. Strong bronze is the abdominal. That's... I have
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: an abdomen. Abdomen. That's pretty good. I might start using
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: abdomen now in conversation.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: I mean, black-up quarterback on Martin Luther King Day.
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: It's black-up quarterback.
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: 877-99 on Fox.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: Taylor was so excited today because I believe you and
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: I both rejected the idea. Taylor would not trade Cam Schlittler.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: That's a dangerous name to say right there, and I
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: nailed it. Yes, he said it early in the season
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: that he would not trade him straight up for Paul Skeens. Now,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: Skeens hasn't been great. Cam has been very, very good.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: You and I laughed at Taylor, and Taylor was excited
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: to throw it in your face. What do you have, Taylor?
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: Not only do I believe what Adnan says, I have
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: the exact question where I asked it to Adnan, and
• 29:39
  Speaker 5: this is that. sound. The Yankees' Cam Schlittler is Paul
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: Skeens with worse PR, Adnan.
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: Fair or foul?
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: Adnan, before you answer that, okay, he said earlier in
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: the week that he would not trade Cam straight up
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: for Paul Skeens, okay?
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: That's an absurd statement. It's a foul statement, okay? Okay,
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: for one season, Taylor can take his victory lap. Unlike
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: Pablo Torre, who will take a lap with class and
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: dignity and silence. Taylor would like to throw up my
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: face here. Congratulations. Paul Skeens is a 3-9-7 ERA. If
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: it was 2-9-7, the Pirates would be in the playoffs.
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: And last year, it was 1-9-7. But Schlibler has been awesome.
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: There's no question about it. 2-0-4 ERA right now leads
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: the American League. But he's not the.
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: Signing winner award yet.
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: Him and Dylan Cease going head-to-head is going to be great.
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: Cease has got him in fifth, if you want to
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: get nerdy about it. But both of them were great
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: last night. Schlittler, eight innings. Cease pitched six. Cease might
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: pitch the Blue Jays into the playoffs, so help his narrative.
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: He's been the ace. But on a rotation with a
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: signing award winner in Garrett Cole, with Max Fried, Carlos Rodon,
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: Schlittler has been awesome. And the coolest part is, as
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: you know, Taylor, My man just doesn't mess around. It's
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: all 98 mile an hour four-seamers. Like, he just goes
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: out there and gets it. He's been more efficient than
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: Dylan Cease. And I must admit, he is the Paul
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: Skeens of the American League this year. Right now, the
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: slight favorite to win the Cy Young.
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: On FanDuel, minus 240 to win the Cy Young against
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: Dylan Cease at plus 200. It's not Dylan Cease's fault, Adnan,
• 31:05
  Speaker 5: that his games don't carry the same stakes with how
• 31:08
  Speaker 5: bad the Blue Jays have been. But it feels like
• 31:11
  Speaker 5: it is an advantage for Cam Schlittler with that struggling
• 31:14
  Speaker 5: Yankees offense. Every start kind of feels like a playoff
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: game because there's zero margin for error every time Cam
• 31:20
  Speaker 5: Schlittler takes the ball every fifth game.
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, although I would argue the same could be said
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: for the Blue Jays. I mean, if they lost to
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: Cleveland yesterday, like, that's it. The season's over. And Dylan
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: Cease was their ace, and he went up there and shoved.
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: And Vlad Jr. had five RBIs, and they played great.
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: And I said, going into the series, the Blue Jays
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: had to win two or three to make that a
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: race right now for the wild card. But you're right.
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: The Yankees' offense has been atrocious without Judge. They are
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: 30th in batting average, 20th in OPS, 27th in slot
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: without judges is May 31st. But the good news, as
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: you know, is Judges is coming back. He's on the
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: road trip right now. I don't think he plays Labor Day.
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: My best guess, I don't think Booney will respond to
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: my text, but I believe it's Tuesday or Wednesday. I
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: think he could DH. And then by the weekend, he's
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: playing in the outfield. So Aaron Judges is coming back.
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: That's good news for Cam Schlittler and that Yankee staff.
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: Has Orlowski responded to your text? Orlovsky's going to take
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: serious umbrage at this. Listen, I know my country music.
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: I know my bona fides. I can talk George Strait.
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: I can talk Johnny Cash.
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: I can talk Pat McAfee.
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: Orlovsky, save it. I don't need you pumping up a
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: guy's country music. How many people do you think still
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: honestly said to themselves, I was on the fence about
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: purchasing this, but if Orlovsky's in, I'm in.
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: If you played one single.
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: Person into buying Pat McAfee's country album on Orlovsky endorsement,
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: I'm going to go ahead and say no.
• 32:39
  Speaker 5: And I think it did the opposite. I think people
• 32:41
  Speaker 5: were like, I'm not listening to this now.
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: He likes it. I'm out. Right. Lofsky endorsement actually hurt
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: Pat McAfee's sales.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of Stu Godson Company
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: live weekdays at 3 p.m.
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: Eastern, 12 p.m.
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: Pacific.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: We will get to Adnan and his trip to the
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: Tennis Hall of Fame and his question for Roger Federer
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: and him meeting Roger Federer. which is a dream of his.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: He has the Fed hat on. He is a proud
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: member of hashtag Team Federer. We'll get to that in
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: just a minute. I know he had a great time.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: The question he asked and the response from Roger.
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: Is laugh out loud funny, at least to me.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: But Taylor had a— so we'll do that at the top
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: of the hour. John Fanta going to join us as
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: well in hour number two. Taylor had a strange interaction
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: at the gym. Now, we were laughing yesterday that my
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: feet will never step into a gym ever again. But, Taylor,
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: what was your interaction? He is still young. He's still
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: trying to stay in shape. He was a walk-on football
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: player at North Carolina, and before that, he was a
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: track star at North Carolina.
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: So Taylor is still hitting the gym. What was your
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: funny interaction, Taylor?
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: So I recently started going to a new gym, and
• 33:55
  Speaker 5: I'm going at the same time. So I see the
• 33:57
  Speaker 5: same gym crew every time. When I go this week,
• 34:01
  Speaker 5: I'm wearing a Jets cutoff tank that I got. I
• 34:04
  Speaker 5: just like the design on it. I don't think anything
• 34:06
  Speaker 5: of it. A guy comes up to me, and he's like,
• 34:09
  Speaker 5: let's go Jets. And he's ready to talk Jets football
• 34:12
  Speaker 5: with me. I'm like, I don't really have much. My
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: days of being a Jets fan, Justin McCarron, santana moss
• 34:18
  Speaker 5: so i i go to him and i say hey
• 34:20
  Speaker 5: i'm not really that big of a jets fan i
• 34:22
  Speaker 5: kind of bounce around my favorite nfl team and he
• 34:25
  Speaker 5: looks so disappointed now we're just staring at each other
• 34:28
  Speaker 5: awkwardly and i'm wondering how you guys would have handled
• 34:31
  Speaker 5: that situation.
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: Uh he was so surprised by the way to see.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: Someone wearing a jet shirt couldn't wait to talk there's
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: another fan out there uh how do you feel about
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: that edmund Yeah, I could totally understand the guy's dismay
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: and being let down.
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: We are so passionate about our teams that whenever you
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: see somebody who's got the same laundry on, you want
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: to engage in a conversation. So I like your honesty, Taylor,
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: but if I were you, I'd have lied and played
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: along a little bit more. While I was in Newport...
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: along with enjoying hashtag Team Fed. I took the cliff walk.
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: It was a very famous thing to do in Newport.
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: It's this gorgeous walk. It's basically a long hike. And
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: I saw a guy walk with a J's on it.
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: I go, go J's. And he comes and goes like,
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: he came like an awkward, and then after he sends
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: me a DM. He goes, oh my God, I can't
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: believe it was you. He goes, I didn't realize it
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: was you until 30 feet later. I go, that's Adam Burke.
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: I'm so sorry I didn't realize it was you. And
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: by the way, go J's. And then I think he
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: wanted to go into a conversation. I go, no, we're
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: done now. Like I said, go J's. You didn't pick
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: up on it. You didn't stop me to start talking
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: about Carlos Delgado. We move on.
• 35:27
  Speaker 5: And the problem there is you are never going to
• 35:30
  Speaker 5: see that guy ever again to where if I if
• 35:33
  Speaker 5: I was keeping the act up, pretending I'm still a
• 35:35
  Speaker 5: Jets fan.
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: Why would you?
• 35:37
  Speaker 5: The next time the next time I go into my dresser,
• 35:40
  Speaker 5: what I'm never going to wear another NFL team shirt ever.
• 35:43
  Speaker 5: If I show up to the gym and a Dolphins
• 35:44
  Speaker 5: or Bills or a Patriot shirt, that guy's looking at
• 35:47
  Speaker 5: me funny, being like, wait, you're the Jets guy.
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: To your point about wearing a jersey or shirt apparel
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: of a team you're not a fan of, the great
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: Alex Cora, when he was the manager of the Red Sox,
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: I was there at spring training two years ago when
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: they were Jake Peavy. And afterwards, Peavy knows the equipment
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: guy of the Red Sox, T-Mac, very famous guy, great guy.
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: And Peavy whispers to him, hey, Adnan's got four kids.
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: If you can get him some stuff. And he comes
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: back with, I'm not kidding, like... eight t-shirts of the
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: red sox and cora without missing a beat walked by
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: and goes what are you gonna do with that like
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: he goes this guy's a james fit like he's not
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: gonna wear this stuff so i had to give it
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: to guys at work i just found the red sox
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: fans right and i kept one shirt for myself exactly
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: for what taylor's describing i said well it is a
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: good shirt to wear at the gym so i wore
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: it once at the gym but then i was petrified
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: of somebody saying hey how about the socks and what
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: do you think about roman anthony i'm like well i
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: don't this conversation yeah so i wore it once discarded
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: it still in my closet this is literally the shirts
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: that the boston red sox wear it's invaluable and i
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: just can't wear it to avoid that gym confrontation.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: Uh in fairness to taylor he was wearing a shirt
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: in which he thought no one would approach him and
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: have a conversation a jet shirt in south florida yes
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: yeah right well in south florida if you're in new
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: york i'm like ah you're gonna get something south florida
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: who the hell wants to talk jets.
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: With you there I know, but South Florida is like
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: New York South.
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: I mean, it is.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: There's a ton of Jet fans here. You go to
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: a Jet Dolphin game, there are more Jet fans than
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: Dolphin fans. As I get older, okay, I am tired
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: of talking to people, Adnan. I need silence, so I
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: don't wear any sort of conversation starter. That's why I
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: never wear a team jersey. I don't want someone like
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: you or Taylor coming up to me going, go Jays!
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: But I figure if it's a quick comment like that,
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: it's fun. I think Taylor's situation is much more egregious
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: because the guy literally, if Taylor had indulged him, they
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: would have been talking about the free safety battle. Like,
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: it would have been far too in-depth for anyone's interest level. Like,
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: you're just looking for head coach, quarterback, skill players. This
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: guy wanted a lot more than Taylor was willing to
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: give him.
• 37:41
  Speaker 5: And if I went back to the days I was
• 37:43
  Speaker 5: a Jets fan, it would just be like, hey, what
• 37:45
  Speaker 5: about LaRon Landry and... carry roads at safety.
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: Carry roads, yes. We don't need roads. Good one.
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: It's a tough conversation to carry.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: A Jets conversation if you're not an actual Jet fan.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: Taylor has his top five college football games for week one.
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: College football kicks off tonight, fellas.
• 38:08
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: This is exciting.
• 38:09
  Speaker 5: It kicked off last week.
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: I mean, it did, and it did.
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: Now all of a sudden the Carolina game matters. A
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: little appetizer.
• 38:15
  Speaker 5: Last week, but this week's the main course. More of
• 38:18
  Speaker 5: an amuse-bouche.
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: He gets to sit back and relax because Carolina has
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: a bye week, and it'll be 1-0 headed into week two.
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: He's very excited about that.
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: Still in the mix. So you have your top five games.
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: Not a great slate.
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: It's really not.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: You have Clemson LSU. I guess that's the big matchup
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: on Saturday night. But other than that, the slate, well,
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: we have no idea because we don't know which of
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: these teams can make it to a playoff. But it's
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: not a great slate, is it, Mikey?
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: I don't feel like it is.
• 38:45
  Speaker 5: No, it's not. It's not a great slate. What are
• 38:47
  Speaker 5: you guys doing in college football? College football, every week
• 38:51
  Speaker 5: that college football is played, it is a great slate.
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: It's a great week. It's not a great slate. It's
• 38:58
  Speaker 4: a great week, not a great slate.
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: It's a big difference.
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: Mikey is right. Are you excited for the.
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: Canes and Stanford on Friday night? I'm going to ruin
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: his top five college football games. Let's get to your
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: top five college. I am excited for that. I think
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: Andrew Luck could pull off an upset. I don't know
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: why I'm making it Andrew Luck. He's the only name
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: I know at Stanford. Let's get to Taylor's top five
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: college football games for week one.
• 39:27
  Speaker 5: We have one OLI. Miami at Stanford.
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: Ah, there it is.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: All the way oh upset alert I mean what do
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: you think.
• 39:37
  Speaker 5: Not upset alert this is just making this just misses
• 39:40
  Speaker 5: the top five just because I'm excited to see what
• 39:43
  Speaker 5: Miami's offense looks like with Darian Mensah coming over from
• 39:48
  Speaker 5: Duke and anytime the same way I feel about college
• 39:51
  Speaker 5: football every week that college football is played it's a
• 39:53
  Speaker 5: great week yeah Anytime you could watch Malachi Tony on
• 39:56
  Speaker 5: a football field.
• 39:56
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 39:57
  Speaker 5: I'm signing up for that.
• 39:58
  Speaker 4: That's a great week. Yes. They're very talented.
• 40:00
  Speaker 5: They're very, very good.
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: I don't know why I have Stanford and Andrew law
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: pulling off the upset.
• 40:04
  Speaker 5: You like Micah Ford there, running back. Was a solid
• 40:07
  Speaker 5: running back last week.
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: If you say so.
• 40:08
  Speaker 5: And Davis Warren.
• 40:09
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 40:09
  Speaker 5: The former Michigan quarterback.
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: My guys.
• 40:12
  Speaker 5: One of the worst passing quarterbacks I've ever seen. Davis
• 40:15
  Speaker 5: Warren at Michigan. Beat Ohio State, though.
• 40:17
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 40:18
  Speaker 5: Throwing like 132 passing yards that year. Ments is going
• 40:20
  Speaker 5: to be great, right?
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: I mean, if they turn Carson Beck into what they
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: turned Carson Beck into, Ments is better coming to Miami
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: than Beck was.
• 40:27
  Speaker 5: He should be. Right. If I had to do a
• 40:29
  Speaker 5: power ranking right now on the fly, Carson Beck, three.
• 40:34
  Speaker 5: Gary Mensah 2, Cam Ward 1.
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: I mean, they've done wonders with quarterbacks. That's all I'm saying.
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: And Mensah's going to be great because they've done it.
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: They've done it with worse.
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: Talent, you know?
• 40:44
  Speaker 5: And it's like the new formula. Like, every year Miami
• 40:46
  Speaker 5: has to go into the transfer portal and identify their
• 40:49
  Speaker 5: next quarterback. And so far, they're two for two. And
• 40:53
  Speaker 5: the team keeps getting better every year because you're giving
• 40:56
  Speaker 5: Cristobal more time to build. But number five. We have
• 41:01
  Speaker 5: tonight's matchup, a Thursday game, Colorado at Georgia Tech.
• 41:05
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 41:07
  Speaker 5: Both teams with new quarterbacks. You have Julian Lewis at Colorado,
• 41:10
  Speaker 5: former five-star who flipped from USC. He started a few
• 41:13
  Speaker 5: games last year for Colorado, but it's his team now.
• 41:16
  Speaker 5: And Georgia Tech starting quarterback? Alberto Mendoza.
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: Really?
• 41:22
  Speaker 5: The brother of Fernando. He transfers in from Indiana.
• 41:24
  Speaker 4: Wow, Cignetti, let him go, huh? I mean.
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: That might not be the best sign for Georgia Tech.
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: I think it's a terrible sign for Georgia Tech. If
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: he was any good, he'd still be with Cignetti.
• 41:34
  Speaker 5: Cignetti looked at Josh Hoover at TCU and was like,
• 41:36
  Speaker 5: I'd much rather that kid than Alberto Mendoza. I like
• 41:39
  Speaker 5: Alberto Mendoza. He's Miami, yeah?
• 41:41
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: Are we calling Alberto Mendoza this year, Taylor, your guy
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: that you want to watch, the guy that you want
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: to get in with early so that when he blows up,
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: he's friend of the show?
• 41:52
  Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
• 41:53
  Speaker 4: Because last year, you called Fernando Mendoza.
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: Credit where it's due.
• 41:56
  Speaker 4: Yes. You did call that last year. Right. It didn't
• 41:58
  Speaker 4: help getting him on, though.
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: I mean.
• 42:00
  Speaker 5: So I actually have that sound clip, Mikey. This was
• 42:04
  Speaker 5: last year before the season with Mike Golick, where we are.
• 42:08
  Speaker 5: Me and Mike Golick were tasked with let's find our
• 42:10
  Speaker 5: next under the radar quarterback. This is like a June 15th.
• 42:14
  Speaker 5: God bless football. My quarterback from Indiana, Fernando Mendoza.
• 42:19
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 42:21
  Speaker 5: He's a Miami guy. He went to Columbus High School.
• 42:23
  Speaker 4: No, he's out. 6'5, 225.
• 42:26
  Speaker 5: He transfers in from Cal, threw for over 3,000 yards
• 42:30
  Speaker 5: last season.
• 42:31
  Speaker 4: All right. That's a good pick.
• 42:33
  Speaker 5: He is interesting if he keeps opening eyes.
• 42:38
  Speaker 4: That's a pretty good one.
• 42:41
  Speaker 5: Alberto Mendoza is not my pick, though, this year.
• 42:43
  Speaker 4: Do you have a pick?
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: What is better than Golic validation, by the way?
• 42:47
  Speaker 4: Nothing.
• 42:48
  Speaker 5: I do have a pick this year for my breakout
• 42:51
  Speaker 5: star at quarterback.
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 42:53
  Speaker 5: Drew Messamaker. He transfers from North Texas to Oklahoma State.
• 42:57
  Speaker 5: He follows his coach there. I think you'll see another
• 43:00
  Speaker 5: Mendoza-level bump going to the Big Ten.
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: All right. Let's hopefully hopefully he does. And let's hopefully
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: get Drew on the show. I mean, if he does,
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: only if he does, only if he does.
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: Otherwise, no interest.
• 43:15
  Speaker 5: My number four game this week.
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: I had no idea where you left off.
• 43:18
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 43:18
  Speaker 5: Baylor versus Auburn. Baylor's quarterback, Florida transfer DJ Lagway.
• 43:24
  Speaker 4: What are we doing?
• 43:26
  Speaker 5: Baylor's coach Dave Aranda. He's in save his job mode
• 43:29
  Speaker 5: right now.
• 43:29
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 43:30
  Speaker 5: The opposite end of that spectrum. Auburn hires Alex Golish
• 43:32
  Speaker 5: from USF. He brings Byron Brown with him from that
• 43:35
  Speaker 5: Bulls team last season.
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: One of the interesting things in college football, Lagway was
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: the number one recruit in America when he came out
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: of high school.
• 43:42
  Speaker 4: Number one.
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: Best high school football player in the country. And he
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: was okay at Florida. Never met those expectations. What's interesting
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: is to see if he can exceed those expectations by
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: going somewhere else with a different coach. That's the interesting
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: part of the portal for me, you know?
• 43:58
  Speaker 5: Week one of college football has become the new preseason
• 44:00
  Speaker 5: in the NFL where you're like, DJ Lagway's a Baylor Bear?
• 44:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah, what? Wow.
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: All right, what's next?
• 44:10
  Speaker 5: My number three game of the week, SMU at Florida State.
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: Yep, SMU, a sneaky team. They are.
• 44:17
  Speaker 5: SMU is a sneaky team, but I think people are
• 44:19
  Speaker 5: writing off Florida State a little too soon.
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: Well, I think you were writing off Florida State a
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: little too soon, weren't you?
• 44:25
  Speaker 5: People were, yeah. Yeah, you were leading that. You were
• 44:27
  Speaker 5: leading that charge.
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: You said a win's a win. That Florida State win
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: was not a win.
• 44:32
  Speaker 5: Because I don't think that game against New Mexico should
• 44:34
  Speaker 5: have counted as a win for Florida State.
• 44:36
  Speaker 4: Well, what would you count it as, a loss?
• 44:39
  Speaker 5: A no contest.
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: All right, they haven't started the season yet.
• 44:42
  Speaker 5: But this game against SMU, Mike Norvell's laying in the coffin.
• 44:47
  Speaker 5: This game just determines if we're nailing the coffin.
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: So he's in a coffin right now, and if he
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: loses this game, there's going to be a nail nailed
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: into that coffin?
• 44:56
  Speaker 5: Nail in the coffin.
• 44:57
  Speaker 4: Is it the final nail?
• 44:57
  Speaker 5: And if he wins? Right. If he wins, it is
• 45:00
  Speaker 5: the final nail because I'm only putting one nail in
• 45:02
  Speaker 5: this coffin.
• 45:03
  Speaker 4: Oh, really?
• 45:03
  Speaker 5: Yep.
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 45:04
  Speaker 5: It's a one-nail coffin.
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: So it seems like whenever he loses, that nail is
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: going to be nailed into the coffin.
• 45:08
  Speaker 6: Yep.
• 45:09
  Speaker 4: Okay. You don't need too many nails in a coffin.
• 45:11
  Speaker 5: But, Mikey, your point.
• 45:12
  Speaker 4: They're dead. Yeah.
• 45:15
  Speaker 5: Mikey, if he wins, Norvell's out of the coffin.
• 45:20
  Speaker 4: Out of it. Got up, walked out.
• 45:22
  Speaker 5: So he gets out of the coffin and then just
• 45:24
  Speaker 5: back onto his hot seat.
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: Does he coach the game in the coffin?
• 45:28
  Speaker 5: That would be electric.
• 45:31
  Speaker 4: Can you imagine that? He just pops out like Dracula? Yes.
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: This is the game that decides whether or not we
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: put a nail in his coffin, and he has to
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: coach the game on the sidelines from the coffin.
• 45:41
  Speaker 5: He just pops up and he goes, I want to
• 45:43
  Speaker 5: beat SMU.
• 45:46
  Speaker 3: Is that your count, Dracula?
• 45:49
  Speaker 5: I want to beat the stangs.
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: I want to suck your blood.
• 45:57
  Speaker 4: Lance, I mean.
• 46:00
  Speaker 5: Number two.
• 46:01
  Speaker 3: Mikey, what are you making faces about? The coffin game
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: is a good idea.
• 46:05
  Speaker 4: We can't hear you.
• 46:08
  Speaker 5: It's a fantastic idea. I'm more upset that we're not
• 46:11
  Speaker 5: doing it.
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: I would like two coaches on the hot seat. They're
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: both coaching from coffins. And whoever wins gets to get out.
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: And whoever loses gets a nail.
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: I mean.
• 46:21
  Speaker 5: Does he move from the coffin to the hospital bed? Hmm.
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: Haven't thought it through.
• 46:27
  Speaker 5: Anytime I think of coaches on a hospital bed, I
• 46:31
  Speaker 5: think of Hugh Freeze. That one time they... That's exactly
• 46:33
  Speaker 5: what I was referring to. Giving the thumbs up, like,
• 46:35
  Speaker 5: I'm okay, guys.
• 46:36
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 46:36
  Speaker 5: Okay, Hugh Freeze.
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: Maybe there's a scenario where, you know, it's one foot
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: out of the coffin and one foot still in the
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: coffin because we're not.
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: Yes, I love this idea.
• 46:44
  Speaker 4: The coffin game.
• 46:47
  Speaker 5: Number two.
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 46:49
  Speaker 5: Louisville... versus Ole Miss.
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: A lot of people like Louisville this year Ole Miss
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: goes without saying they're good they're talented but a lot
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: of people like.
• 46:57
  Speaker 5: Louisville this year yeah and I just like the fact
• 46:59
  Speaker 5: that it's a ACC SEC battle expectations still really high
• 47:03
  Speaker 5: in Oxford Trinidad Chambliss probably outside of Malachi Tony Trinidad
• 47:07
  Speaker 5: Chambliss would probably be number two on my most explosive
• 47:10
  Speaker 5: players yeah in college football.
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: He's really exciting uh do you think the ACC will
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: get two teams into the playoffs It's going to be Miami.
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: The second team would be Louisville or SMU or Carolina.
• 47:21
  Speaker 4: Carolina.
• 47:21
  Speaker 5: Here comes Carolina.
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: What it up?
• 47:25
  Speaker 5: Spoiler, North Carolina, East Tennessee Tech next week or East
• 47:28
  Speaker 5: Tennessee State, whatever it is, Tennessee State. It's going to
• 47:31
  Speaker 5: be on my top five games of week two.
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: Was Belichick in a coffin in Dublin?
• 47:34
  Speaker 5: Yeah, he coached his way up.
• 47:36
  Speaker 4: He did.
• 47:37
  Speaker 5: He wanted to beat the frogs.
• 47:43
  Speaker 3: What's your best game of the weekend coming up here?
• 47:46
  Speaker 5: No surprise here. Clemson versus LSU. It's kind of like
• 47:50
  Speaker 5: the devil and the angel on your shoulder. You got
• 47:53
  Speaker 5: Dabo Sweeney saying, I'm not bringing in transfers. He brought
• 47:56
  Speaker 5: in 10 transfers this year. And 10 transfers to Dabo
• 47:59
  Speaker 5: Sweeney might as well be revamping your entire roster with
• 48:02
  Speaker 5: the transfer portal. And then you have Lane Kiffin on
• 48:04
  Speaker 5: the other side who... The most polarizing figure right now
• 48:07
  Speaker 5: in all of college football.
• 48:09
  Speaker 4: Yep, he'll take anyone.
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: What Dabo said is he wants nothing to do with
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: professional players.
• 48:16
  Speaker 3: He'll take transfers.
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: He won't go to the NFL and take players who
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: have already declared themselves for the NFL.
• 48:20
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and Dabo Sweeney, he said, I'm going to stay
• 48:23
  Speaker 5: in my own lane. And then he said, no pun intended.
• 48:25
  Speaker 5: But Dabo, that was very clear what you were doing,
• 48:27
  Speaker 5: making a Lane Kiffin joke with it, right?
• 48:31
  Speaker 4: Is Clemson supposed to be good? I don't know.
• 48:34
  Speaker 5: They can't be worse. I guess they could be worse
• 48:36
  Speaker 5: than last year, but it's hard to see them being
• 48:39
  Speaker 5: that bad again.
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: Is Lane Kiffin in a coffin?
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: Does he have to? This is a must win for Lane,
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: is it not?
• 48:45
  Speaker 5: I think it is a must win.
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: You can't lose at home to Clemson after everything you
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: did to get yourself to LSU.
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: You can't do it.
• 48:53
  Speaker 4: You can't. Coffin gift.