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The Best of Stugotz and Company LIVE! · Stugotz and Company

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Speaker 2: Now let's get this party started.
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Speaker 3: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.
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Speaker 2: It's Stu Gotts and Company. Sal Licata, you're hanging out
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Speaker 2: with the boys today, and I can't wait to get going.
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Speaker 2: After yesterday, we tried to get it going, give us
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Speaker 2: some opinion there. The connection wasn't working.
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Speaker 3: We're back.
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Speaker 2: No, Stu, we're back. You can hear me right, right?
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Speaker 2: We're good to go?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I can hear you. You sound great. You are great.
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Speaker 3: You texted me yesterday after the show.
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Speaker 1: Bleeping embarrassment. I knew you were going to take it
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Speaker 1: home with you. I told you not to take.
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Speaker 3: It home with you. I'm not mad at you. Taylor is.
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Speaker 1: We'll play what happened after you left the show yesterday
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Speaker 1: for you in just a minute, but everything went to hell.
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Speaker 2: So thank you. Well, we appreciate you having me back
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Speaker 2: because I wasn't so sure. And I do want to say, Stu,
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Speaker 2: I'd be remiss if I didn't bring this up to
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Speaker 2: start the show, not to be a downer here, but
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Speaker 2: it is the 25th anniversary of September 11th and the
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Speaker 2: senseless attacks. Also, I am broadcasting live from the SMY studios,
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Speaker 2: which is at Four World Trade Center. So, you know,
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Speaker 2: an hour before the show, I'm looking outside and I
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Speaker 2: could see where the towers were and just trying to
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Speaker 2: take it in. It's just it's hard to fathom what
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Speaker 2: went on that day, hard to comprehend the thought process
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Speaker 2: of the people that ran up that building or those
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Speaker 2: buildings and tried to save lives. And obviously we know
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Speaker 2: what happened. And then sports eventually brought us back to
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Speaker 2: some normalcy, you know, Piazza Home Run, all that stuff.
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Speaker 2: But I just want to make sure that people are
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Speaker 2: aware that we will never forget and honor and think
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Speaker 2: of those that lost their lives on that senseless day.
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Speaker 1: It's a good job by you, Sal. I lost a
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Speaker 1: friend that day, John Salerno. It's a tough day, a
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Speaker 1: difficult day. Every year I'm thinking about it. This year
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Speaker 1: obviously resonates more for a lot of people. And there
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Speaker 1: are still people dealing, of course, and they'll be dealing
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Speaker 1: with it for the rest of their life, the aftermath
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Speaker 1: of 9-11. Whether it was first responders, whether it's, you know,
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Speaker 1: families of the victims, it is still something that is
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Speaker 1: haunting us until this day.
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Speaker 3: It's crazy.
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Speaker 2: 25 years. Hard to believe. But we never forget. And also,
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Speaker 2: we know that sports played a part in healing, like
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Speaker 2: we said, with the country. And football in full-fledged here now.
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Speaker 2: You get two games under our belt week one. My
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Speaker 2: biggest issue, Stu, I love football. God bless football.
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Speaker 3: All that stuff.
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Speaker 2: I love it. But football now. It's like the week one,
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Speaker 2: week two, even week three, it's like preseason. And yet
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Speaker 2: we get this overreaction. Like now the Rams stink. The
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Speaker 2: team that everybody had consensus, oh, nobody's beating the Rams.
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Speaker 3: Look at them.
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Speaker 2: They're loaded, the super team. Now they're left for dead
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Speaker 2: at the hands of the Niners because they lost week
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Speaker 2: one in Australia. The overreaction is nuts.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, but I love the overreaction.
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Speaker 1: In fact, I was thinking today that Aaron Donald should
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Speaker 1: demand a trade to the 49ers. I mean– How about that?
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Speaker 1: It's what we do, Sal. There's 17 of these things.
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Speaker 1: They're so precious. They mean so much to so many people.
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Speaker 1: It's why it's our most popular sport that I'm okay
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Speaker 1: after a single game in Melbourne, Australia.
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Speaker 3: Weird pronunciation. I am okay.
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Speaker 1: That people feel like the Rams are overrated and maybe saying, hey,
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Speaker 1: you know what? I didn't know the Niners are going
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Speaker 1: to be that good. You know, I'm all right with that.
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Speaker 2: OK, I love reacting to week one. And obviously the
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Speaker 2: games mean something. But, you know, the way that preseason
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Speaker 2: is basically non-existent now.
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Speaker 3: You can see it.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I thought McCaffrey was hurt last night.
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Speaker 3: Where is he?
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Speaker 2: They're going with the backup running back. Where is he?
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Speaker 2: It's because it's essentially a preseason game. So the teams themselves,
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Speaker 2: we as broadcasters or whatever you want to call us,
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Speaker 2: sports talk guys, talking heads. We're trying to come up
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Speaker 2: with opinions and give reaction and all this stuff. And
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Speaker 2: we could say, well, it doesn't feel, because of the
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Speaker 2: way the preseason used to be compared to where it
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Speaker 2: is now, it doesn't feel like they've got to take
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Speaker 2: time to get going. We don't know what these teams are.
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Speaker 2: But for them themselves to be figuring it out early on,
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Speaker 2: that is telling. I do think that there is an
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Speaker 2: evaluation that takes place, even though it means something and
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Speaker 2: we all love it. The first three or four weeks
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Speaker 2: is kind of evaluating.
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Speaker 4: That flight to Australia looked like it aged Matthew Stafford
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Speaker 4: a decade.
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Speaker 3: I know you don't want the hot takes right now.
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Speaker 4: If you told Sean McVay he could replace Matthew Stafford
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Speaker 4: today with Josh Allen, but he had to walk to Buffalo,
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Speaker 4: how fast do you guys think he would get there?
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Speaker 1: You're talking about Josh Allen.
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Speaker 2: What about Brock Purdy or Sam Darnold?
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Speaker 3: Oh, he'd do that today.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm telling you right now, I know you
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Speaker 1: hate the overreaction, but if Sean McVay, if he was
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Speaker 1: being honest, okay, in an honest moment— And they asked him, hey,
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Speaker 1: you could have Purdy the rest of the way or
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Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford the rest of the way.
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Speaker 3: He would say Brock Purdy or he'd be lying.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 3: How about that?
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Speaker 2: You guys are out on the Rams already and Stafford already?
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Speaker 5: Yep.
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Speaker 3: Yes, yes.
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Speaker 2: I can't go there. I think the Niners are good,
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Speaker 2: but I can't say. I can't say I'm going to be.
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Speaker 2: Just same thing, Drake May. Like, Drake May gets ripped
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Speaker 2: to shreds. He played a bad game. Hey, guess what?
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Speaker 2: It happens. You'd rather have it happen in week one
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Speaker 2: than week 16 or 17. And now it's the same thing. Oh, Rams,
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Speaker 2: everybody loved them. Miles Garrett stinks. I was not aware
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Speaker 2: of the knee injury, by the way. He was an MIA,
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Speaker 2: and now he's using the knee injury as an excuse.
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Speaker 2: I hate that. Yes. I think both teams that lost
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Speaker 2: so far, whether it be the Patriots or the Rams,
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Speaker 2: still are going to be very, very good this year.
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Speaker 1: But Sal, don't you want like this is the NFL
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Speaker 1: is built for sports fans.
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Speaker 3: It's built for people like me and you.
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Speaker 1: OK, you can't break down 162 baseball games because most
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Speaker 1: of those baseball games. are fairly meaningless in the grand
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Speaker 1: scheme of things. You can't do it in the NBA
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Speaker 1: with 82 NBA games. You just can't do it, and
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Speaker 1: you're certainly not going to do it in hockey. Don't
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Speaker 1: you want fans to be so passionate about something, and
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Speaker 1: this is the sport they're passionate about, because there are
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Speaker 1: 17 games. They all mean so much. They are so precious. Again,
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Speaker 1: you're only playing 17. You need to win as many
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Speaker 1: as you can to get to the playoffs. And I
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Speaker 1: love that fans are irrational, but they're passionate about about
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Speaker 1: the NFL, meaning I have fired a Jets coach and
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Speaker 1: hired back that same Jet coach in a quarter. I
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Speaker 1: have gotten rid of my quarterback, and the next week
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Speaker 1: my quarterback is the greatest quarterback in the NFL.
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Speaker 3: I think that's what makes the league so magical. I
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Speaker 3: really do. I guess.
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Speaker 2: So then don't– the irrational– and look, fans are irrational.
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Speaker 2: Certainly I know that. I am one. But I'm trying
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Speaker 2: to remain level-headed, especially– with the NFL being what it
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Speaker 2: is in the early weeks. Like, I don't know. I mean, really,
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Speaker 2: nobody knows. But you could pick teams and think, oh,
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Speaker 2: this team's going to the Super Bowl or I love
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Speaker 2: this team in the division. I really need to watch
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Speaker 2: three weeks before I can say, okay, this is it.
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Speaker 2: Where I used to be able to do it, I felt,
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Speaker 2: at least, in preseason because you get a little bit
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Speaker 2: better feel. There's a great unknown. It's names on paper
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Speaker 2: that we haven't seen, literally have not seen. Name of
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Speaker 2: the stars who played in the preseason. It doesn't happen.
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Speaker 2: They barely play.
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Speaker 3: Right, it doesn't. Yeah, no, I understand.
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Speaker 2: That's my point. Look, obviously I love when fans react
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Speaker 2: to everything. I just, me personally, if I believe the
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Speaker 2: Rams are good or the Patriots are going to be good,
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Speaker 2: I don't think I'd be jumping off the bandwagon after
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Speaker 2: one game. And it's the first time that we've seen
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Speaker 2: them play all year long.
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Speaker 1: Mikey, how do you feel about Sal? Level-headed Sal, okay?
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Speaker 1: Not overreacting. Wanting to take three games before he formulates
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Speaker 1: any sort of NFL takes.
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Speaker 3: How do you feel about it?
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Speaker 2: Thank you, Sal.
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Speaker 3: I've missed you. I've been with these two hot take artists.
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Speaker 6: I've been trying to be the only level-headed person. They've
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Speaker 6: convinced me I'm crazy. And now you come in and
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Speaker 6: you spit all this logic.
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Speaker 3: And you know what? It's refreshing. Thank you.
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Speaker 2: Here's what I will say. Mikey, you guys are listening
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Speaker 2: to this on the radio. You can't see it on Zoom.
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Speaker 2: He's decked out in Jet stuff. Definitively, before I see
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Speaker 2: them play a game, the Jets are going to suck
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Speaker 2: this year. Like, that's going to happen.
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Speaker 3: He doesn't need to wait three weeks.
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Speaker 4: He knows.
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Speaker 3: Yes. We all know that one.
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Speaker 2: I told you that three years ago, they were going
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Speaker 2: to suck tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: By the way, your miles Garrett point is such a great,
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Speaker 1: great point because if he had three sacks, we'd be
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Speaker 1: hearing nothing today about him being injured. The idea that
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Speaker 1: he goes out there, goes to Melbourne, Australia. He's the
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Speaker 1: big off season signing. Everyone loves the Rams Rams of
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Speaker 1: the field. And he does nothing. I mean, zero gives
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Speaker 1: you absolutely nothing and comes out after the game and says, Hey,
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Speaker 1: I'm injured.
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Speaker 3: Do me a favor. Say it before the game or
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Speaker 3: don't say it at all. How about that?
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Speaker 2: Not once did I hear any, no, I could have
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Speaker 2: missed it, but the buildup to the season was Rams, Rams, Rams, Rams, Rams,
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Speaker 2: Donald Garrett, Donald Garrett. They're going to be the best
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Speaker 2: defense ever. Oh my God.
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Speaker 3: Look out.
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Speaker 2: Purdy's going to be scared for his life. He's going
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Speaker 2: to be murdered on the field on Wednesday, Tuesday, Is
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Speaker 2: it Melbourne? You say Melbourne. How do you say it?
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Speaker 1: Well, I thought it was Melbourne when we started today,
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Speaker 1: but it's Mel-bin, and that is courtesy of Noah Eagle.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, so the Australian pronunciation, Sal, is Mel-bin.
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Speaker 2: Mel-bin. Okay. Well, they thought Purdy was going to be
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Speaker 2: murdered in Mel-bin, and then all of a sudden after
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Speaker 2: the game, it's like, now my knee was a little
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Speaker 2: bit banged up. Not once did anybody report that ever
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Speaker 2: in the last several months.
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Speaker 3: Not once. Right. Yes, right.
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Speaker 1: So you have to do it on the front end.
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Speaker 1: You have to say, hey, I'm not 100%. Otherwise, I
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Speaker 1: don't believe you. You cannot put up a dud like
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Speaker 1: Miles Garrett put up in his first game and then
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Speaker 1: come out after the game and say, hey, I'm injured.
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Speaker 3: You're cranking up the excuse machine. Can't do it. Don't
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Speaker 3: do it. He did it. And he should be ashamed
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Speaker 3: of himself.
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Speaker 4: Sal, you mentioned people getting off the Rams and the
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Speaker 4: Patriots bandwagons right now. And I have this stat from
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Speaker 4: OptiStats that kind of highlights their underperforming. This is the
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Speaker 4: first time in NFL history that the top two finishers
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Speaker 4: in the MVP voting the previous season, each had a
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Speaker 4: team that scored 10 or fewer points in the season
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Speaker 4: opener with Drake May and Matthew Stafford. So It is
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Speaker 4: historical how bad these two played in a week one showing.
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Speaker 2: All right, so what does that mean? Does it mean
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Speaker 2: that Drake May stinks now? Explain that stat. I'm not
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Speaker 2: a stats guy, Taylor. You should know that. Explain what
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Speaker 2: those stats mean. And that's exactly my point. I love
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Speaker 2: that you said that. Ooh, big fancy AI stat machine
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Speaker 2: saying that Drake May and Stafford awful after where they
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Speaker 2: were a year ago. OK, so now are we to
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Speaker 2: think that those guys aren't going to be good? I'll
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Speaker 2: go the opposite. Week two, sign me up. Drake May,
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Speaker 2: Matthew Stafford, they're going to have monster games.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 4: Well, the problem with Drake May was this was Drake
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Speaker 4: May's chance to kind of silence the narrative that that
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Speaker 4: he was a schedule merchant when you're going on the
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Speaker 4: road to Seattle and. Against that defense, it was the
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Speaker 4: same story for Drake May, where the same questions you
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Speaker 4: have about Drake May after the Super Bowl, you still
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Speaker 4: have after week one.
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Speaker 1: Can I ask you guys what this stat machine looks like?
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's like the George Michael sports machine. It
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Speaker 1: just churns out stats.
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Speaker 3: That's a dated reference.
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry if you were born anywhere within the last
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Speaker 1: 20 years, you'd have no idea what I'm talking about.
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Speaker 1: But once upon a time, there was a guy who
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Speaker 1: was doing it before SportsCenter and George Michaels was giving
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Speaker 1: you all the highlights and doing it with a robot.
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Speaker 2: Right, way ahead of his time with the AI. I
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Speaker 2: remember that, that sports machine. Okay, but what do those
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Speaker 2: stats mean, ultimately? It's great to— oh, what are you insinuating
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Speaker 2: when you bring up those stats? Or somebody who puts
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Speaker 2: that out there, are we— okay, Drake May's no good? Like,
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Speaker 2: is that where we're at? I think it's fair to
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Speaker 2: say the jury's still out, but then it goes to
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Speaker 2: the overreaction last year where it's like, I mean, certainly
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Speaker 2: New England fans are talking about, oh, who needs Tom Brady?
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Speaker 2: You got Drake May. I mean— It's going to be May.
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Speaker 2: Everybody was going nuts.
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Speaker 3: Drake May.
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Speaker 2: So there's got to be somewhere in between where maybe
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Speaker 2: he's not Tom Brady, but maybe also he doesn't suck
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Speaker 2: after one questionable game in which his receiver can't even
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Speaker 2: catch a ball. If he catches that ball, Dubs, the whole.
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Speaker 3: Game has changed.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but what the stat means is what we're seeing,
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Speaker 1: at least through the first two games here, is something
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Speaker 1: fairly unprecedented.
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Speaker 3: That's all the stat has got to say. This doesn't
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Speaker 3: normally happen. That's all.
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Speaker 2: Let me ask you, Stu. Don't you think that that
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Speaker 2: is a byproduct of where we're at with the preseason?
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Speaker 2: Back to my point about that before where— It's week one.
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Speaker 2: We love it to mean everything because there aren't that
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Speaker 2: many games, but there also is a little bit of
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Speaker 2: a learning curve and feeling it out. They literally have
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Speaker 2: not played full NFL games, real contact games. This is
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Speaker 2: the first one where they used to at least play
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Speaker 2: one in the preseason.
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Speaker 1: If you're asking me, do I think if the Rams
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Speaker 1: are going to be good, even while losing the first
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Speaker 1: game of the season and what I think of the Niners,
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Speaker 1: I have the Rams now not making the playoffs.
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Speaker 3: The Niners are the favorites to make it to the
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Speaker 3: Super Bowl. How about that?
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Speaker 1: Look at us doing sports radio, fellas. This is exciting.
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Speaker 1: We're not playing sounds. We are talking sports.
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Speaker 2: You tried to teach me out of that way. And
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Speaker 2: I'm like, you know what? After we had talks, I'm like,
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Speaker 2: he's right. What are we doing here? Volpe stinks. Stafford stinks.
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Speaker 2: May stinks. And then next week, May is up MVP.
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Speaker 3: Come on.
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Speaker 1: I know, but I wanted you to drive the show today.
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Speaker 1: Because you got disconnected. You were very upset. You couldn't
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Speaker 1: get any takes off yesterday. Whatever takes you got off,
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Speaker 1: they sounded terrible. And so I wanted you to drive
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Speaker 1: the show so you could control the action today.
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Speaker 5: You know?
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Speaker 2: Okay. I have another take for you. The nonsense about
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Speaker 2: the Sean McVay. planning to go to Melbourne, I can't
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Speaker 2: even say it, Australia, planning to go to Australia just
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Speaker 2: two days ahead of time. I'm like, do you think
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Speaker 2: that that cost them the game? Or maybe just the
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Speaker 2: Rams were not as good as the 49ers on this
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Speaker 2: particular day. I don't think the sleeping habits or the
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Speaker 2: clock or the whatever, the travel, jet lag, so what
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Speaker 2: the Niners were there for two weeks, to me that
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Speaker 2: had nothing to do with it. Even with the 17-0
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Speaker 2: outscoring in the second half, I don't think that that
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Speaker 2: had anything to do with it.
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Speaker 1: It's interesting because a lot of people are kind of
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Speaker 1: pointing that out.
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Speaker 3: The Rams went to Europe last year, same strategy.
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Speaker 2: They flew in.
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Speaker 1: They hopped off the bird. They played the game. They
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Speaker 1: won the game, got back on the bird, and went home. Now,
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Speaker 1: Australia is a different animal, okay? You're going to Europe.
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Speaker 1: It's a six or seven. Well, I guess from L.A.
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Speaker 1: it's a bit further. But you're not going 22 hours
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Speaker 1: with a 38-year-old quarterback who can't just hop off a
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Speaker 1: plane after 22 hours, play a football game and get
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Speaker 1: back on a bird and go home. That was obvious
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Speaker 1: last night. So I don't know if the Rams did
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Speaker 1: it the right way, the wrong way. I just know
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Speaker 1: that people are going to point to it because San Francisco,
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Speaker 1: the team that got there a week to 10 days
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Speaker 1: in advance.
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Speaker 3: They looked very, very sharp. They did. They looked very good.
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Speaker 1: And so naturally, the next day, people are going to
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Speaker 1: point out, hey, the Rams didn't do it correctly and
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Speaker 1: the Rams didn't take this game seriously.
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Speaker 3: And I think that's what people are upset about.
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Speaker 4: By doing that, though, it feels like we're discrediting what
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Speaker 4: the 49ers did because I think that game could have
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Speaker 4: been played in any country, in any stadium, and you
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Speaker 4: were going to get the same result of the 49ers
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Speaker 4: just overwhelming L.A.
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Speaker 3: Well, hold on, Taylor. If that game's played in SoFi,
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Speaker 3: you think you're getting the same result?
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Speaker 2: Almost any stadium.
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Speaker 3: Got you.
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Speaker 2: I'm more so with Taylor on that, that I think
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Speaker 2: it is discrediting the Niners. Like, okay, so who do
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Speaker 2: we think is the worst team in the NFL or
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Speaker 2: going to be the worst team in the NFL? I'm
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Speaker 2: not just going to say the Jets. Who do we think? Miami?
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Speaker 3: The Browns, Cardinals, Dolphins.
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Speaker 2: If the Browns played the Rams or the Niners in Australia...
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Speaker 2: And the Browns got there two months before. And the
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Speaker 2: Rams showed up the day of the game. Like, the
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Speaker 2: Rams probably still would have beat them. I know that
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Speaker 2: anything could happen any given Sunday. But my point is
15:56
Speaker 2: I don't think it's about– that's a weird– same thing
15:59
Speaker 2: with the West Coast coming east. Like, come on. It's
16:02
Speaker 2: a bunch of nonsense.
16:03
Speaker 3: No, I understand that.
16:04
Speaker 1: But how do you explain the Rams, who are so explosive,
16:07
Speaker 1: who are so good, even without Aaron Donald playing that badly,
16:11
Speaker 1: like that poorly?
16:12
Speaker 3: They had the entire offseason to get ready for this game.
16:16
Speaker 1: They sent Todd from accounting over to Australia to figure
16:19
Speaker 1: out what's the right amount of time to spend in
16:21
Speaker 1: Australia before you play a football game.
16:23
Speaker 3: And Todd was wrong. So how do you explain it, Sal?
16:26
Speaker 1: Because that team, I would guess, that's the worst game
16:30
Speaker 1: that team is going to play this year.
16:32
Speaker 2: I would say that it's honestly rust. I really think
16:36
Speaker 2: that it's just first game, rust, good team. Now, we'll
16:39
Speaker 2: learn about them eventually. Could this be a harbinger the
16:42
Speaker 2: rest of the year? I mean, are the Rams— I mean,
16:45
Speaker 2: maybe things that happen in week one are going to
16:46
Speaker 2: be signs the rest of the way. I don't believe
16:49
Speaker 2: that that's going to be the case, especially with a
16:50
Speaker 2: team that's as well-coached as the Rams are and as
16:53
Speaker 2: loaded as they are now. Could Stafford fall off the
16:55
Speaker 2: cliff and be an older guy? That absolutely, I think,
16:57
Speaker 2: could be a legitimate reason to— to doubt them but
17:00
Speaker 2: for them playing as poorly as they did with the
17:02
Speaker 2: weapons that they have i just look at it as
17:05
Speaker 2: a they played a really good team who was maybe
17:07
Speaker 2: just more ready at this particular moment and maybe the
17:10
Speaker 2: rams are going to take a little time to get going.
17:12
Speaker 1: By the way if you're a rams fan you hope
17:14
Speaker 1: they didn't do it correctly you hope that matthew stafford
17:18
Speaker 1: isn't just aging you hope that it was the plane
17:21
Speaker 1: it was the 22 hours it was the fact they
17:23
Speaker 1: didn't get there a week before because if stafford's gonna
17:25
Speaker 1: look like that they don't have a shot what do
17:27
Speaker 1: you got mikey.
17:29
Speaker 6: Is Todd from accounting fired today?
17:32
Speaker 2: He should be.
17:34
Speaker 3: He should be. No, McVay should be. I mean, stop
17:38
Speaker 3: sending Todd from accounting. How about you go and figure
17:41
Speaker 3: it out?
17:42
Speaker 6: Todd from accounting had one job to do, and that
17:45
Speaker 6: was how long do we need to be in Australia
17:47
Speaker 6: to beat the 49ers?
17:47
Speaker 2: And he failed.
17:49
Speaker 1: So you're saying Todd called McVay and said, hey, you
17:51
Speaker 1: guys can hop on a bird, land, play football, get
17:54
Speaker 1: back on the bird and go home. That was Todd's
17:56
Speaker 1: report back to Les Snead and Sean.
18:00
Speaker 3: McVay, yes?
18:02
Speaker 2: That's exactly what happened. Then he's been fired, yes. They
18:05
Speaker 2: should have used more AI. I mean, come on.
18:09
Speaker 1: By the way, is anyone else worried about AI? I mean,
18:12
Speaker 1: you hear all these reports. I'm watching the news last night.
18:14
Speaker 1: It's like I'm living in a movie, for crying out loud,
18:17
Speaker 1: where AI is going to kill everyone inside of a decade.
18:20
Speaker 3: What are we doing?
18:22
Speaker 2: ChatGPT says we shouldn't be worried.
18:24
Speaker 3: Exactly.
18:27
Speaker 2: I started reading some Twitter threads yesterday on that, and
18:30
Speaker 2: I was like, I don't think this is going to
18:32
Speaker 2: be good for my mental health. Let me stop this. So, yeah,
18:35
Speaker 2: I'm scared. But realistically, are humans really dumb enough to
18:41
Speaker 2: create something that would wipe us all off the face
18:43
Speaker 2: of the earth?
18:44
Speaker 3: Yes.
18:45
Speaker 2: I'm wearing a Jets hat.
18:46
Speaker 3: Yes. You guys are dumb enough. Especially if it's lining
18:48
Speaker 3: their pockets.
18:50
Speaker 1: Hey, I'm going to enjoy the next decade, and I
18:53
Speaker 1: don't care what happens after that.
18:55
Speaker 3: But for the next 10 years, man, I am living large. Oh,
19:00
Speaker 3: my God.
19:01
Speaker 2: The AI stuff. Yeah. Less AI, more reality. And more
19:05
Speaker 2: real football in the preseason. Get us ready for week one.
19:08
Speaker 2: Less overreacting as well.
19:10
Speaker 3: All right.
19:10
Speaker 2: Did we do enough takes there still? Am I okay
19:13
Speaker 2: so far?
19:14
Speaker 1: You're doing great. Never enough takes. I want to play
19:16
Speaker 1: some sound from Taylor when we come back.
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20:07
Speaker 2: Salicata hanging out with Stu Godson Company here on Fox
20:10
Speaker 2: Sports Radio. It was supposed to be the second day
20:12
Speaker 2: this week, but yesterday we had massive technical issues. So
20:18
Speaker 2: I couldn't do the show, and that left Taylor, I guess,
20:22
Speaker 2: to do some reads. What went on there, Stu? What happened?
20:24
Speaker 1: Well, what happened was you couldn't get connected. We tried
20:27
Speaker 1: it out for a segment. We decided to let you go.
20:30
Speaker 1: You were upset about it, and then you forced me
20:32
Speaker 1: and Taylor to work. And so everything fell apart from there, okay?
20:36
Speaker 1: because I got to tell you, this feels like a
20:37
Speaker 1: spa day today for me, man. I am sitting back.
20:41
Speaker 1: I got, like, you know, my arms. They're wrapped around
20:44
Speaker 1: the back of my head here. I'm just chilling out.
20:46
Speaker 1: I'm wearing a towel because you're making this so easy
20:49
Speaker 1: for us to do because we do three hours before
20:52
Speaker 1: we even get here to 3 o'clock to do the
20:54
Speaker 1: live show. And so yesterday... After you left, we weren't prepared,
20:59
Speaker 1: as usual. And so everything fell apart. And this is
21:02
Speaker 1: what happens when Sal Licata leaves the show. I throw
21:06
Speaker 1: it to Taylor to do a live read.
21:08
Speaker 3: And this ensues.
21:09
Speaker 2: It's time to get your point. It's time to get your.
21:13
Speaker 2: It can be tricky. You got to read that before
21:19
Speaker 2: the show, Taylor.
21:20
Speaker 3: Come on.
21:24
Speaker 2: So damn much yesterday.
21:25
Speaker 1: Yes, we're talking in too many places. We really are.
21:28
Speaker 1: We're talking way too much. All three of us, by
21:31
Speaker 1: the way. Taylor, I don't think it is wildest dreams
21:33
Speaker 1: ever imagined he'd be talking this much on national radio.
21:38
Speaker 1: And this is probably why. He shouldn't be talking this
21:41
Speaker 1: much on national radio.
21:42
Speaker 3: Play it again.
21:43
Speaker 4: It's time to get your point. It's time to get
21:46
Speaker 4: your point. And all I had for him was, wreck it.
21:52
Speaker 2: And meanwhile, before today's show, I was like, all right, Taylor,
21:55
Speaker 2: send me whatever you need. You need me to do
21:56
Speaker 2: the reads or whatever?
21:56
Speaker 3: And they're like, no, no.
21:57
Speaker 2: I'm good Taylor's gonna do the commercial reads I did
21:59
Speaker 2: not know that there was a little snafu yesterday but
22:01
Speaker 2: I would have gladly taken over the reads and I
22:04
Speaker 2: have learned the hard way because there's been reads placed
22:06
Speaker 2: in front of me on live radio like okay you
22:08
Speaker 2: gotta read this now and I'm reading it as we
22:10
Speaker 2: go and I have no idea what some of these
22:11
Speaker 2: words are so you gotta read these things many times
22:14
Speaker 2: over before you go but Taylor wanted the duties today
22:16
Speaker 2: let's see let's see.
22:17
Speaker 1: If we can get through clean yeah I could safely
22:19
Speaker 1: tell you that through 20 years of doing this I
22:21
Speaker 1: have never botched a live spot so I mean I.
22:27
Speaker 4: And Sal, right now, if you remember George Lombard from
22:31
Speaker 4: the Yankees a couple of weeks ago when he had
22:33
Speaker 4: the six errors in six consecutive games, that's been me
22:37
Speaker 4: recently where I just have the yips when it comes
22:39
Speaker 4: to talking.
22:41
Speaker 2: Talking? Not even reading?
22:42
Speaker 3: Can we play the one from earlier in the week?
22:46
Speaker 3: He does.
22:46
Speaker 1: He has the yips, and he's hoping someone makes a
22:49
Speaker 1: colossal mistake to get the bright shining lights off of him,
22:54
Speaker 1: and no one's done it yet, Sal.
22:55
Speaker 3: Perhaps you'll be the one.
22:57
Speaker 2: Oh, let's hope it's not me. I mean, look, I
22:58
Speaker 2: embarrassed myself enough yesterday with the connection. I can't miss
23:01
Speaker 2: a read here or not or misspeak. I mean, come on.
23:04
Speaker 1: Yes. And this is what Taylor is talking about. Mikey
23:07
Speaker 1: was talking about. We're talking too much in too many places.
23:10
Speaker 1: We had Steve Spurrier on the old ball coach. He
23:13
Speaker 1: gave us a parlay that actually hit. I can't believe it.
23:17
Speaker 1: Spurrier hit a parlay for us. A celebrity prognosticator. I
23:22
Speaker 1: think it was a 14 parlay that the old ball
23:25
Speaker 1: coach came through for us with. But here is Taylor
23:28
Speaker 1: trying to say something fairly simple. The old ball coach.
23:32
Speaker 2: To get the old boat. The old boat.
23:34
Speaker 3: Yeah.
23:39
Speaker 2: That was even better.
23:41
Speaker 3: He's got the yips. That one's my favorite. That one's
23:44
Speaker 3: my favorite.
23:49
Speaker 4: Sal, what happens there is in my head I mess
23:52
Speaker 4: it up once, and then my mind tells me, okay,
23:55
Speaker 4: it's not as bad as you think it was. And
23:58
Speaker 4: then in my mind at that same time as I'm
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Speaker 4: saying it, I know it was bad. So then it's
24:03
Speaker 4: affecting me by the second time I'm trying to say
24:04
Speaker 4: it too.
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Speaker 1: Right, and by the time he shakes it off, which
24:06
Speaker 1: is the next day, I play it back a thousand times.
24:10
Speaker 2: That'll help his confidence. No, you're thinking. You got to
24:13
Speaker 2: stop thinking. Start doing.
24:14
Speaker 3: You can talk.
24:15
Speaker 2: I mean, you've been doing it since you've been born. Yeah,
24:17
Speaker 2: one or two, whatever it may be. All right. Let's
24:20
Speaker 2: get updated here. We'll come back, maybe talk about Tamera
24:21
Speaker 2: and Rodgers. Speaking of talking, do you see Rodgers, man? Rodgers, Maldi.
24:25
Speaker 2: Let's get you updated right now.
24:26
Speaker 3: Chris Perfette. All right, guys, we start in the NFL.
24:30
Speaker 7: The big news of the day, Falcons quarterback Tua Tongavailoa
24:33
Speaker 7: is ruled out for Sunday's season opener against the Pittsburgh Steelers.
24:37
Speaker 7: Cooper Rush set to make the start for Atlanta. Official
24:40
Speaker 7: reports indicate Tua is dealing with a oblique injury, possibly
24:45
Speaker 7: suffered in Thursday's practice where he appeared to grab at
24:47
Speaker 7: his side or back in discomfort after a passing attempt
24:50
Speaker 7: left the field. Cooper Rush took over for the rest
24:54
Speaker 7: of the training season. uh, session.
24:58
Speaker 3: Excuse me. I've got this.
25:00
Speaker 2: I've got this.
25:03
Speaker 3: No, no, no. But you're more Taylor wants to light
25:06
Speaker 3: off of them.
25:08
Speaker 7: Bleeding onto me here. Cardinals head coach, Michael first says
25:11
Speaker 7: first round running back. Jeremiah love is trending towards playing
25:15
Speaker 7: on Sunday.
25:16
Speaker 3: Miles Garrett.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
25:17
Speaker 7: You, we were talking about a little bit, didn't appear
25:19
Speaker 7: to really do much and definitely show up in the
25:21
Speaker 7: box score for the Rams. 27 to seven, uh, crash out. Uh,
25:25
Speaker 7: to the 49ers in, let me get this right, Melbourne.
25:29
Speaker 7: After the game, Garrett admitted that he apparently has a
25:32
Speaker 7: lingering knee injury that hurt his performance. I am sure
25:35
Speaker 7: that will be with him on the flight back the
25:39
Speaker 7: entire way. Patriots are placing wide receiver A.J. Brown on
25:42
Speaker 7: the IR due to a high ankle sprain. Brown left
25:45
Speaker 7: the game Wednesday against the Seahawks. It did not return,
25:48
Speaker 7: speaking of which, there was a game on Wednesday, NFL season.
25:51
Speaker 7: The move to IR means the earliest he can return
25:54
Speaker 7: is October 18th against, wait for it, the New York Jets. Yes.
26:00
Speaker 2: U.S.
26:00
Speaker 7: And Europe are tied 4-4 after the opening session of
26:02
Speaker 7: the Solheim Cup in the Netherlands on Friday. Your doubles
26:07
Speaker 7: women's finalist winners are Katerina Sinikova and Taylor Townsend at
26:12
Speaker 7: the U.S.
26:13
Speaker 3: Open.
26:13
Speaker 7: Currently in the first set between Zetarev and Kachanov in
26:17
Speaker 7: New York in men's singles semifinal action. Cubs have opened
26:22
Speaker 7: up a 5-1 lead on the Pittsburgh Pirates.
26:24
Speaker 3: And the U.S.
26:25
Speaker 7: And Europe are tied 4-4 in first day action matches.
26:29
Speaker 7: at the Solheim Cup in the Netherlands. Back to Stugatz
26:32
Speaker 7: and company, and I'm going to go scrub my mouth.
26:34
Speaker 1: Yes, it's contagious. We're sorry about that. You're excellent at
26:37
Speaker 1: your job. We're not, and we're sorry.
26:40
Speaker 3: Now the poor player's rubbing off.
26:43
Speaker 1: No, Sal, I don't know about you, okay, but for me,
26:46
Speaker 1: have you done updates before?
26:47
Speaker 2: I have not.
26:49
Speaker 1: Okay, so I have done updates before, and just knowing
26:52
Speaker 1: that there are difficult tennis names in the update will
26:54
Speaker 1: throw me off before.
26:56
Speaker 3: I even get started, you know?
26:57
Speaker 7: Yeah.
26:57
Speaker 2: That's one thing I've never had. I might have done
26:59
Speaker 2: a couple in my life, but that's what, yeah. The
27:02
Speaker 2: tennis time, with all those, you could hear him like, uh-oh.
27:06
Speaker 2: I've had that happen during reads, like I said, but
27:08
Speaker 2: those tennis names could be tough.
27:10
Speaker 7: Yes, I think we had a I think we had
27:12
Speaker 7: a producer around here who one night we were doing
27:15
Speaker 7: a UFC update and he I watched him. I watched
27:20
Speaker 7: him go back and forth practicing Khabib Nurga Madoff so
27:24
Speaker 7: many times.
27:25
Speaker 2: And when it came time to do it live, he
27:27
Speaker 2: nailed it.
27:28
Speaker 3: He nailed it.
27:28
Speaker 7: And what did he do? What did he do after
27:30
Speaker 7: pulling off the triple axle cartwheel? He stubbed his toe
27:34
Speaker 7: saying Conor McGregor.
27:36
Speaker 3: Yes.
27:37
Speaker 1: Well, you're so relieved you got past the big roadblock
27:40
Speaker 1: that you tend to trip up on the smaller one,
27:42
Speaker 1: you know?
27:42
Speaker 2: The rule of thumb, though, is you just got to
27:45
Speaker 2: plow through. No matter what you may think you said
27:48
Speaker 2: or how you– even if it's wrong, just say it confidently,
27:51
Speaker 2: and nobody really knows the difference.
27:53
Speaker 7: Yes.
27:53
Speaker 1: I want to ask you a question here before we
27:55
Speaker 1: get to Aaron Rodgers and what he had to say
27:58
Speaker 1: about Matt LeFleur. You and I have spoken about this.
28:01
Speaker 1: The first Sunday of NFL games is coming up this weekend.
28:05
Speaker 1: Have you done all the things? I taught you this, okay,
28:07
Speaker 1: because you're a married man.
28:09
Speaker 3: You have a child.
28:10
Speaker 1: Have you done all the necessary things, chores, all of it,
28:14
Speaker 1: so you could free yourself up for the entire weekend
28:16
Speaker 1: without your wife complaining about it?
28:19
Speaker 2: I tried. You're right. Look, I don't think. Sue, let
28:23
Speaker 2: me ask you. Do you think I could ever do enough?
28:25
Speaker 2: Like you never met my wife, but I'm going to
28:27
Speaker 2: tell you, I can't do enough. So I've tried, you know,
28:30
Speaker 2: taking our daughter for ice cream in the summer, taking
28:32
Speaker 2: some time away during the summer a little bit. I
28:35
Speaker 2: try to explain during, you know, like Sundays, I got
28:37
Speaker 2: to be left alone.
28:38
Speaker 3: I'm working.
28:39
Speaker 2: I'm watching the games. It's just not, I don't think
28:41
Speaker 2: it's going to happen.
28:43
Speaker 3: Do things that she could see. Okay.
28:45
Speaker 1: So on Sunday morning, what you need to do Saturday morning,
28:48
Speaker 1: whenever you do it, Just go out, mow the lawn, okay,
28:51
Speaker 1: while she's home, okay?
28:54
Speaker 3: Do some gardening. Look at me, honey.
28:56
Speaker 5: Yes.
28:57
Speaker 3: Whatever chores she needs done, you take care of that.
29:01
Speaker 1: Anything before 1 o'clock, just get it all done so
29:04
Speaker 1: she can leave you alone for the rest of the day.
29:06
Speaker 3: I'm telling you, just act like you're doing stuff around
29:09
Speaker 3: the house. Bring a hammer, a tool belt, whatever you
29:11
Speaker 3: got there.
29:12
Speaker 1: Just act like you're fixing stuff around the house so
29:14
Speaker 1: she knows that you still care about your relationship with her.
29:17
Speaker 2: Well, that's the point. She thinks I don't care about
29:20
Speaker 2: the relationship with her. And to be honest, 10 years in,
29:23
Speaker 2: I mean, I care a lot less than I did
29:24
Speaker 2: in the beginning.
29:28
Speaker 3: We all do, Sal.
29:31
Speaker 1: Well, she feels the same way, I assure you. Yeah,
29:34
Speaker 1: I'm sure she does.
29:35
Speaker 2: God bless her. I know. But that's the truth. But
29:39
Speaker 2: I do have I do have tomorrow. We were supposed
29:42
Speaker 2: to go to her friend's. house or whatever and watch
29:45
Speaker 2: their kids play– like, come on, talk about torture. I
29:49
Speaker 2: miss being single and watching college football from 12 p.m.
29:52
Speaker 2: to 12 a.m., betting the Hawaii-USC game, whatever it may be.
29:56
Speaker 2: But I now have to sacrifice Saturdays for the greater
29:58
Speaker 2: good of Sunday, and we're going to go to her
30:01
Speaker 2: friend's house and, like, watch them play softball, the kids.
30:05
Speaker 2: So I'm doing that. That should clear me for Sunday, no? No.
30:08
Speaker 1: Yes, but that's front-end work, and that's a heady play
30:10
Speaker 1: by you because you care less about college football Saturdays
30:13
Speaker 1: than you do. In the Northeast, we just don't care
30:15
Speaker 1: as much about college football. You care more about NFL Sundays.
30:19
Speaker 1: So if you are to sacrifice a day, Saturday would
30:22
Speaker 1: be that day.
30:23
Speaker 3: That's a heady play by you, yes.
30:24
Speaker 2: I mean, you really don't have to. I don't want
30:26
Speaker 2: to sacrifice any day, but that's got to be the one, right?
30:29
Speaker 2: You can't sacrifice football Sundays, so especially, like you said,
30:31
Speaker 2: what I would do for work. But that being said,
30:35
Speaker 2: I do hope to catch some of that Ohio State-Texas
30:36
Speaker 2: game tomorrow night.
30:37
Speaker 3: Yes, you'll be home by then, right?
30:39
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not taking you into the night, right?
30:45
Speaker 3: Kids got to go to bed.
30:46
Speaker 2: Oh, my goodness. Hey, I know you want to talk
30:50
Speaker 2: about the Rogers and the Jordan Love and the Matt
30:52
Speaker 2: LaFleur stuff, but did you see some of his stuff?
30:54
Speaker 2: Speaking of married life, did you see some of the stuff?
30:56
Speaker 2: He's been taking shots at his exes here. Did you
30:58
Speaker 2: see that?
30:59
Speaker 3: No, what happened?
30:59
Speaker 2: Cheyenne Woodley, the actress, I think that's how you say
31:03
Speaker 2: her name. So you just say it confidently and nobody
31:05
Speaker 2: knows it. Cheyenne Woodley.
31:07
Speaker 3: Uh, he was taking, like he was.
31:09
Speaker 2: I think he was on with his buddy, uh, Cam
31:11
Speaker 2: Hayward's podcast and he was just letting loose all over
31:13
Speaker 2: the place, including obviously ripping Matt LaFleur. But I was
31:16
Speaker 2: looking at the other stuff like, wow, he's opened up
31:18
Speaker 2: on some of these public relationships, Danica Patrick as well
31:21
Speaker 2: as Woodley. So I thought that that was fascinating from
31:23
Speaker 2: Aaron Rogers.
31:24
Speaker 1: Uh, Aaron Rogers seems like someone you would not want
31:26
Speaker 1: to date because he, he will do exactly that. He
31:29
Speaker 1: will talk about everything, uh, and be honest about it, uh,
31:32
Speaker 1: after he's done dating you. Um, I don't know why
31:35
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers has felt the need to express himself in
31:39
Speaker 1: such weird ways late in his career.
31:42
Speaker 3: It's weird.
31:43
Speaker 1: I don't mind him being honest. Aaron Rodgers was a
31:45
Speaker 1: friend of the show. He was on with me and
31:47
Speaker 1: Dan all the time. He's one of my favorite guests
31:49
Speaker 1: of all time. And I still like Aaron Rodgers while
31:52
Speaker 1: disagreeing with some of the things and some of the opinions.
31:55
Speaker 3: That he has.
31:56
Speaker 1: But I don't know, and I haven't been able to
31:57
Speaker 1: ask him, I don't know why he has felt the
32:00
Speaker 1: need to express himself this late in his career in
32:03
Speaker 1: about weird topics and weird things.
32:06
Speaker 3: He's an odd human being. He really is.
32:08
Speaker 4: My version of hell would be getting this version of
32:11
Speaker 4: Aaron Rodgers as my quarterback, where he's not the MVP-level
32:14
Speaker 4: quarterback anymore, but he's still going on every podcast and
32:17
Speaker 4: show known to man because he likes hearing himself talking,
32:20
Speaker 4: and Aaron Rodgers has to always show people he's the
32:22
Speaker 4: smartest person in the room.
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Speaker 7: Come on, Aaron.
32:23
Speaker 1: No, the hell is what me and Mikey A endured, right?
32:26
Speaker 1: It was three snaps. And then he didn't shut up
32:30
Speaker 1: for the next two years.
32:31
Speaker 2: But how about the fact that Rodgers won? I personally
32:34
Speaker 2: love Rodgers. I read his book. Actually, I listened to
32:37
Speaker 2: his book. Can you say you read a book if
32:39
Speaker 2: you really listen to it on Audible?
32:40
Speaker 3: No, you can't.
32:41
Speaker 2: You listen to a podcast.
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Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely. No.
32:44
Speaker 2: It wasn't a podcast. It was a full book, the
32:47
Speaker 2: audio book.
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Speaker 1: Listen, you cannot listen to an audio book, 877-99 on Fox.
32:52
Speaker 1: Can you listen to an audio book and say to someone,
32:55
Speaker 1: I read a book?
32:57
Speaker 3: Yes. I'm with you, Sal.
32:58
Speaker 2: No! It just sounds weird saying I listened to a book. Anyway,
33:03
Speaker 2: I listened to the book that Ian O'Connor wrote about
33:05
Speaker 2: Rogers a couple years ago.
33:06
Speaker 3: I loved it.
33:07
Speaker 2: I watched the Netflix special on him. He's fascinating to me.
33:11
Speaker 2: And the reason why I feel like he's responding to
33:14
Speaker 2: his exes is It's because they've been dragging him. I
33:18
Speaker 2: think it's easy to punch Aaron Rodgers right now. The
33:22
Speaker 2: public has basically been on Rodgers. They're saying, like, Woodley
33:25
Speaker 2: was saying, oh, he ruined my life. It was abuse.
33:27
Speaker 2: Whatever it was that she was saying about the relationship.
33:29
Speaker 2: Patrick says what she says about him. And then he's
33:31
Speaker 2: sitting there silent for the most part. Now, good for
33:33
Speaker 2: him coming out and punching back.
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Speaker 3: All right. You like that. You like to punch back.
33:38
Speaker 2: No, just giving, I guess, his side. Now, who the
33:41
Speaker 2: hell knows what to believe? Now, the stuff that we
33:43
Speaker 2: care about, the football stuff, Taylor's right about that, that
33:46
Speaker 2: at this point, it's just he's a diminished player. That's
33:49
Speaker 2: the saddest part of this whole thing. And the biggest
33:51
Speaker 2: pub that he gets is what he's saying with his mouth,
33:53
Speaker 2: not what his arm or his legs. Yes.
33:56
Speaker 3: I happen to agree with him on his take on LeFleur.
33:59
Speaker 1: LeFleur came out and said, let's play the sound of
34:02
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers and him objecting here to what it is
34:06
Speaker 1: Matt LeFleur had to say about Jordan Love.
34:08
Speaker 8: He's probably still mad I changed too many of his plays.
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Speaker 3: And what it is that he said.
34:16
Speaker 8: Big statement when you had a guy win back-to-back MVPs,
34:19
Speaker 8: you know. Guess I wasn't doing too much at the LOS.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
34:25
Speaker 8: That's a clown man he says he says some things
34:27
Speaker 8: from time to time that are funny that he's like
34:29
Speaker 8: oh maybe i shouldn't have said that like he's backing
34:31
Speaker 8: up his quarterback i mean like yeah i'm sure jay
34:34
Speaker 8: loves real good line of scrimmage but.
34:38
Speaker 1: Oh that was a tough quote see my apology uh
34:42
Speaker 1: my apologies for talking uh in the middle of that
34:44
Speaker 1: sound so that that is on me but uh What
34:47
Speaker 1: LeFleur said is that Jordan Love essentially is better than
34:49
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers.
34:50
Speaker 2: At the line of scrimmage. And Rodgers clearly took issue
34:53
Speaker 2: with that. I mean, Rodgers is one of the great
34:55
Speaker 2: quarterbacks of all time. I'd rather Rodgers rip his ex-girlfriend
34:58
Speaker 2: than rip his coach. That to me is in bad
35:00
Speaker 2: taste right there. That comes across as petty. The play
35:03
Speaker 2: speaks for itself. I don't need Rodgers to say that.
35:05
Speaker 2: We can assess and say, why would LeFleur say that?
35:07
Speaker 2: That's just silly. It seems petty taking a shot. at
35:10
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers, and then Rodgers returns serve, U.S. Open, Rodgers
35:14
Speaker 2: returns serve, and then he gets even lower with that.
35:17
Speaker 2: So I'd rather him defend himself with the relationships up.
35:20
Speaker 2: That he didn't need to defend himself. We all know
35:23
Speaker 2: he's a better quarterback than Jordan Love.
35:25
Speaker 3: What happened to punching back? I mean.
35:28
Speaker 2: And certain opponents.
35:30
Speaker 3: I don't know. I mean, but it's the most ludicrous thing.
35:33
Speaker 1: There is not a single thing in life that Jordan
35:36
Speaker 1: Love is better than Aaron Rodgers at.
35:39
Speaker 3: There's not a single thing. When it comes to quarterbacking,
35:41
Speaker 3: is there anything Jordan.
35:42
Speaker 1: Love, in your mind, having watched football for as long
35:45
Speaker 1: as you've watched, Can you say to yourself that Jordan
35:48
Speaker 1: Love is better than Aaron Rodgers at X?
35:51
Speaker 3: There's nothing, right?
35:53
Speaker 2: No. I mean, maybe some people could say he's better looking,
35:55
Speaker 2: but no, he's not better at football than Aaron Rodgers.
35:58
Speaker 2: To me, Rodgers is one of the best quarterbacks I've
36:01
Speaker 2: ever seen in my life, period. I've always said that
36:03
Speaker 2: Peyton Manning was the best pure quarterback, reading a defense,
36:06
Speaker 2: putting the throws on the money. Brady, the greatest competitor,
36:09
Speaker 2: greatest winner the sport's ever seen. Before Mahomes, Rodgers to
36:12
Speaker 2: me was the best combo. He's so good that we
36:15
Speaker 2: knock him because he's only won one Super Bowl. He's
36:18
Speaker 2: only won one. He should win three or four. So
36:21
Speaker 2: I love Aaron Rodgers. Those comments to me were, I
36:24
Speaker 2: don't know, I think a little too insecure from Rodgers.
36:28
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37:08
Speaker 2: Company here, having a lot of fun on this Friday.
37:10
Speaker 2: We did a lot of football the first hour. We'll
37:12
Speaker 2: continue to do football here. But I do want to
37:14
Speaker 2: get to some baseball stuff here, Stu, if I may.
37:17
Speaker 2: Big game. We mentioned the 25th anniversary of 9-11. Subway
37:21
Speaker 2: series tonight in the Bronx. Mets and Yankees. Yankees battling
37:25
Speaker 2: for the American League East crown. And Anthony Volpe is
37:29
Speaker 2: back with the team. More on him in just a second.
37:30
Speaker 2: I saw this the other day and it bothered me.
37:32
Speaker 2: And you guys are giving me the platform to vent
37:34
Speaker 2: on this. This is a quote, and I hope you're
37:36
Speaker 2: not friends with him, but I'm going to say it anyway.
37:38
Speaker 2: John Marossi on MLB Network. Maybe a nice guy. I
37:41
Speaker 2: don't know.
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Speaker 3: You have me being friends with Marossi? Is that what
37:44
Speaker 3: you do? I mean, you have me being friends with
37:46
Speaker 3: John Marossi?
37:46
Speaker 2: Well, you know everybody. I just want to make sure. Okay,
37:49
Speaker 2: even if I.
37:50
Speaker 1: Were friends with John Marossi, I wouldn't be offended by
37:52
Speaker 1: what it is you're about to say about him.
37:53
Speaker 2: Good, because I'm about to torch him for a second.
37:57
Speaker 2: So Judge took a day off yesterday. He's back in
37:59
Speaker 2: the lineup tonight. It made me think of what he posted,
38:01
Speaker 2: or MLB Network posted this the other day. I guess
38:03
Speaker 2: Marossi was talking about Judge and him returning to the
38:06
Speaker 2: Yankees lineup. Quote, they are a different team when he
38:10
Speaker 2: is in the lineup.
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Speaker 3: No bleep. No bleep.
38:14
Speaker 2: He's maybe the greatest player the sport has ever seen.
38:18
Speaker 2: John Marossi, MLB Network. Quote, they are a different team
38:21
Speaker 2: when it's in the lineup. Oh, you think?
38:24
Speaker 3: You think? Oh, my God. Good God.
38:27
Speaker 2: Sal. I think the Patriots were better with Tom Brady. Yeah.
38:33
Speaker 3: Yeah. Hey, I don't know. Do you remember the Bulls
38:36
Speaker 3: without Jordan? I'm just saying. I actually do. The two years.
38:40
Speaker 1: I mean, they went to the Eastern Conference semifinals. They
38:43
Speaker 1: probably should have won, beaten the Knicks. In a game seven,
38:46
Speaker 1: Pippen was robbed.
38:47
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they were a different team when Jordan returned
38:49
Speaker 2: to the lineup.
38:50
Speaker 3: They won three straight.
38:52
Speaker 2: Dude, that was, like, I would never watch that, but
38:55
Speaker 2: it came across on Instagram with that quote. Like, that's
38:58
Speaker 2: the newsy quote from what Morosi said. They were a
39:01
Speaker 2: different team with the judge back in the lineup. No bleep, Johnny.
39:04
Speaker 2: Give me some info.
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Speaker 1: Uh you know cut morosi some slack that's the job
39:09
Speaker 1: of of john morosi he has to remind you okay
39:12
Speaker 1: you need to be reminded sometimes that yes the yankees
39:15
Speaker 1: are better when their best player is in the lineup
39:18
Speaker 1: i mean.
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Speaker 3: Good job by morosi they look morosi does.
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Speaker 2: He work for fox sports because if so i changed
39:24
Speaker 2: my opinion i'm sorry.
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Speaker 3: I have no idea nor do i care i mean
39:27
Speaker 3: if he does, too bad. We apologize. That was a
39:29
Speaker 3: terrible report by you. Oh, I'm wrong.
39:32
Speaker 5: Great.
39:32
Speaker 2: No, great stuff, John.
39:33
Speaker 3: Great.
39:33
Speaker 2: Really informative. So Volpe is also back in the lineup
39:37
Speaker 2: after Jazz Chisholm gets hurt. And then Volpe, who's been
39:39
Speaker 2: the punching bag here. So much so that I don't
39:42
Speaker 2: know how well it's transferred nationally. I know you guys
39:44
Speaker 2: talk a little bit Yankees, but Volpe has been, you know,
39:47
Speaker 2: the joke. And now he comes up, and again, the
39:48
Speaker 2: overreactions too. He has one good game last night, hits
39:51
Speaker 2: a grand slam. Now he's taking curtain calls. What's with
39:54
Speaker 2: the overreaction here?
39:57
Speaker 3: Why can't he take a curtain call?
39:59
Speaker 1: That had to feel good for a big-time prospect who
40:02
Speaker 1: has under-delivered in a big spot to hit a home run.
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Speaker 3: He wanted to celebrate it.
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Speaker 2: It's the Yankee fans that now, the same Yankee fans
40:10
Speaker 2: that were booing the you-know-what out of him for months,
40:14
Speaker 2: couldn't wait to get him sent down. He comes back
40:16
Speaker 2: up for a game, and now it's like, oh, our
40:18
Speaker 2: hero has returned. Yes. Yes.
40:21
Speaker 3: Well, that should be the objection.
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Speaker 1: The fans who booed him and were part of the
40:25
Speaker 1: reason that Volpe was sent down in the first place,
40:28
Speaker 1: you can't boo him on the way down and then
40:30
Speaker 1: he comes back up in a big spot, hits a
40:32
Speaker 1: home run, and suddenly he's your favorite baseball player.
40:35
Speaker 3: But that's fandom. Uh, that's what fandom is all about.
40:38
Speaker 4: So my least favorite thing about being a Yankee fan
40:41
Speaker 4: is other Yankee fans.
40:42
Speaker 5: Yeah.
40:42
Speaker 2: Yeah. You hate yourself.
40:44
Speaker 4: I don't hate myself. I hate, I go to the,
40:47
Speaker 4: I go to Yankee stadium. I go to Yankee stadium.
40:51
Speaker 4: I sit down and I'm looking around at everybody and
40:53
Speaker 4: I'm like, man, I kind of hate everybody here.
40:58
Speaker 3: I thought the same thing looking at you, Taylor. It's
41:01
Speaker 3: why he's not as big a Yankee fan as he
41:04
Speaker 3: used to be. He took a look in the mirror.
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Speaker 2: Well, Taylor, where are you at with the Volpe stuff?
41:09
Speaker 2: First of all, I think the right move was to
41:11
Speaker 2: send him down to get right. This is why you
41:13
Speaker 2: do that. They took him forever. But are you one
41:15
Speaker 2: of these fans who's been flip-flopping here, wanted him down,
41:17
Speaker 2: and now all of a sudden last night stands it
41:18
Speaker 2: up in your bedroom or whatever watching this game? No.
41:22
Speaker 4: So I want to go out there and support Anthony
41:24
Speaker 4: Volpe because I do think it still could be a good,
41:28
Speaker 4: a nice little redemption story. If the lifelong Yankee fan
41:32
Speaker 4: turns it around, battles through adversity, gets sent down in
41:35
Speaker 4: the minor leagues, probably thinks he's never going to make
41:38
Speaker 4: it back to the major leagues. And then a couple
41:39
Speaker 4: of months later, he finds a way back into the lineup.
41:43
Speaker 4: When the Yankees are fully healthy, if Jazz Chisholm keeps
41:46
Speaker 4: hitting the way Jazz Chisholm has the past month, Jazz
41:48
Speaker 4: probably has that second base spot. McMahon at third base. Ideally,
41:52
Speaker 4: you move Jazz to third. You sacrifice some defense. And
41:55
Speaker 4: if Volpe, Sal, his swing looks a little different. If
41:58
Speaker 4: I could just play devil's advocate.
41:59
Speaker 3: Here for a second. Well, of course the swing looks different.
42:01
Speaker 2: His swing looks a little different. His swing looks really
42:03
Speaker 2: good right now.
42:03
Speaker 3: Taylor, put it on the poll. Does the swing look
42:05
Speaker 3: different when the ball goes out of the park? I
42:07
Speaker 3: don't know.
42:10
Speaker 4: But I'm watching breakdown videos and they're like, this top
42:13
Speaker 4: swing is Anthony Volpe from early in the season and
42:16
Speaker 4: this bottom swing is the bottom. And to be fair,
42:19
Speaker 4: I don't really know what I'm looking at, but I'm
42:21
Speaker 4: looking at that video, like one of those circle the
42:23
Speaker 4: differences magazines that you get at like the dentist's office.
42:26
Speaker 4: And I'm like, oh yeah, I think I do see
42:29
Speaker 4: something a little technical in his swing change.
42:31
Speaker 3: What?
42:32
Speaker 2: Why don't you pull up that stat machine and see
42:33
Speaker 2: if the stats could back it up in Volpe's one
42:35
Speaker 2: game back? How old is it? What would be the
42:38
Speaker 2: measurables there with Volpe? You know what I thought looked different?
42:41
Speaker 2: His confidence. If you do see on the swing, once
42:43
Speaker 2: he hit that ball, and by the way, it was
42:45
Speaker 2: a wall scraper at Yankee State. Let's not make it
42:47
Speaker 2: like Volpe muscled up and hit one nine mile. It
42:49
Speaker 2: was a wall scraper. But he knew it, and he
42:51
Speaker 2: dropped the bat. It was good to see him confident.
42:54
Speaker 2: So from that standpoint, sure, but like... It's one game,
42:57
Speaker 2: the same guy you just vilified for years. Now he's
43:00
Speaker 2: taking curtain calls. Everybody thinks Volpe is back in the
43:02
Speaker 2: great double play tandem. And the Yankees are going to
43:04
Speaker 2: go win a World Series now. It's ridiculous.
43:07
Speaker 1: What are you doing with fans today? NFL fans, Volpe fans,
43:10
Speaker 1: Yankee fans. This is how fans act, man. When the
43:13
Speaker 1: guy plays well, they cheer him. And when he plays poorly,
43:16
Speaker 1: they boo him and send him down to the minors.
43:18
Speaker 3: I mean, that's what we do.
43:20
Speaker 2: The extremes. Like, I'm not saying, certainly not saying you
43:23
Speaker 2: can't root for him. But the extremes to where, Stu, they, like,
43:27
Speaker 2: Volpe was villain number one here.
43:30
Speaker 3: Oh, I know.
43:30
Speaker 2: Yes. Get him out. And then he comes back for
43:34
Speaker 2: one game. And now it's like, oh, maybe he's going
43:36
Speaker 2: to be great. I just, I don't know. I'd like
43:37
Speaker 2: to see it. Now, I was rooting for him. Good
43:39
Speaker 2: for the kid to have success.
43:40
Speaker 3: Well, that's nice of you.
43:41
Speaker 4: Yes.
43:41
Speaker 1: I'm a nice guy. You're rooting for a guy in
43:46
Speaker 1: your favorite baseball team.
43:47
Speaker 3: That's nice of you.
43:48
Speaker 2: He's a Mets fan. Oh, I'm sorry.
43:49
Speaker 3: He's a Mets fan. My bad. That's a big mistake
43:51
Speaker 3: by me right there. But it was nice of you
43:53
Speaker 3: to root for Volpe, a kid who is a little
43:56
Speaker 3: bit down on his luck.
43:57
Speaker 1: And of course, when he hits one out of the park,
43:59
Speaker 1: he's going to look more confident. Once he hits one
44:02
Speaker 1: out of the park, that's.
44:03
Speaker 3: Natural, of course.
44:04
Speaker 2: Dropping the bat the way you saw that bat flip, Taylor.
44:07
Speaker 2: Not bat flip, but the way he put that bat in.
44:08
Speaker 3: He pimped it a little.
44:09
Speaker 4: Sal, my least favorite quality in Yankee fans is anytime
44:13
Speaker 4: I'm at the stadium and another fan starts chirping them
44:15
Speaker 4: because that team is winning and the Yankee fan... responds
44:19
Speaker 4: back with 27 rings and i'm like oh my god
44:22
Speaker 4: stop with the 27 rings more than a three-fourths of
44:26
Speaker 4: these rings were won in the 20s and the 30s
44:29
Speaker 4: when the tv was black and white have some self-respect
44:32
Speaker 4: for yourself bragging about world series rings from roger peckinpah's.
44:36
Speaker 3: Day you and the peckinpah again it's the third time
44:40
Speaker 3: you've mentioned them this week.
44:43
Speaker 2: I don't even know who that is. Should I know
44:45
Speaker 2: who this is? Roger Peckinpah? He was like a second
44:47
Speaker 2: baseman in the 1900s.
44:50
Speaker 1: Taylor has learned the art of just picking out. He
44:54
Speaker 1: could have picked anyone on that roster to search for
44:57
Speaker 1: the funny name.
44:57
Speaker 3: And that's the funny name right there.
45:00
Speaker 2: I've heard that argument my whole life. Oh, 27 rings,
45:03
Speaker 2: this and that. Now, I do root for the Yankees
45:05
Speaker 2: because of Boone. I love Aaron Boone. And I do think, actually,
45:09
Speaker 2: when you look at this Yankee team, I mean, you
45:10
Speaker 2: could throw the Dodgers into this conversation, obviously, although Otani's hurt. And,
45:14
Speaker 2: you know, with the Dodgers, they're a different team with
45:16
Speaker 2: Otani in the lineup. They're a completely different team. When
45:19
Speaker 2: he's in the rotation, they're a totally different team. So
45:21
Speaker 2: you know that that's the case.
45:23
Speaker 1: The problem is they were just fine when Otani was
45:25
Speaker 1: not on the team. They won a World Series. But
45:30
Speaker 1: I do look.
45:31
Speaker 2: At the Yankees and think that and it's not reaction
45:35
Speaker 2: to them sweeping the Rockies or even closing the gap
45:38
Speaker 2: with the Rays. It's only now three games. Could there
45:40
Speaker 2: be a little bit of what happened with the Knicks
45:43
Speaker 2: going on, where they have the regular season that's disappointing
45:45
Speaker 2: for a variety of reasons, then they get to the playoffs. Like,
45:50
Speaker 2: all the pieces are in place. I never thought the
45:52
Speaker 2: Knicks would do it, but the pieces were in place.
45:55
Speaker 2: They did it. The pieces are in place for this
45:58
Speaker 2: Yankees team. A weak American League, Dodgers banged up, no
46:01
Speaker 2: real clear team. Like, is Milwaukee really going to be
46:05
Speaker 2: that big of a favor over the Yankees? I think
46:07
Speaker 2: you can make an argument they could do similar to
46:09
Speaker 2: what the Knicks did.
46:10
Speaker 3: We shouldn't be surprised.
46:11
Speaker 1: Any team that makes it to the baseball playoffs, pretty
46:13
Speaker 1: much any team that makes it to the baseball playoffs,
46:15
Speaker 1: if that team goes on a run to the World
46:18
Speaker 1: Series and ends up winning the World Series, we shouldn't
46:20
Speaker 1: be surprised.
46:20
Speaker 3: Baseball is just such a random sport.
46:22
Speaker 1: As you know, the Marlins, 97, they got there, won
46:25
Speaker 1: the World Series.
46:27
Speaker 3: 2003, got there again, worst team, won the World Series.
46:31
Speaker 1: So for me, any team that makes the Major League
46:34
Speaker 1: Baseball playoffs wins. has a chance of winning the World Series.
46:38
Speaker 1: We should not be surprised if any of those teams,
46:40
Speaker 1: including Milwaukee, who chokes every single year in the postseason,
46:43
Speaker 1: we still shouldn't be surprised if this is the year
46:46
Speaker 1: they make it to the World Series.
46:47
Speaker 4: And the reason for confidence when it comes to the Yankees,
46:49
Speaker 4: it's Cam Schlittler, Garrett Cole, Max Fried being your one, two,
46:53
Speaker 4: three on the mound. And then it just feels like
46:55
Speaker 4: with your lineup, the magic number, Sal, is probably like,
46:58
Speaker 4: if you could score five runs in the postseason, this
47:01
Speaker 4: feels like this Yankee team with this rotation and the
47:04
Speaker 4: bullpen probably wins like 95% of games if they could
47:07
Speaker 4: just hit that number.
47:08
Speaker 2: Well, that's kind of my point is that the offseason,
47:11
Speaker 2: it was Yankees didn't do enough. They didn't do anything.
47:14
Speaker 2: They basically ran it back and hoped to get healthy. In-season,
47:17
Speaker 2: didn't do enough. Lots of injuries, not good enough. Ray's better.
47:21
Speaker 2: Red Sox coming. Red Sox were hot. Still losing stand. Okay,
47:25
Speaker 2: the Yankees added the deadline. Didn't add enough. They didn't
47:28
Speaker 2: add the bullpen that we would hope. And yet here
47:31
Speaker 2: we are where because of Schlittler, who to your point, Taylor,
47:34
Speaker 2: you were on this early on in the year saying
47:36
Speaker 2: you'd rather have him than Paul Skeens. Right now it's
47:38
Speaker 2: a blowout. I mean, that's not even close.
47:40
Speaker 1: He's so proud of that take. I have no idea
47:42
Speaker 1: how that take stood up for him.
47:44
Speaker 3: I mean, I really don't. What a lucky take that was.
47:47
Speaker 1: Nobody, nobody except for CeCe Sabathia agreed with that take
47:52
Speaker 1: at the time.
47:53
Speaker 4: To be fair, CeCe Sabathia agreed with me around, like,
47:56
Speaker 4: all-star break when it was very clear which way it
47:58
Speaker 4: was trending.
47:58
Speaker 3: He was late to the party.
48:00
Speaker 4: CeCe didn't really put his toe in the water with me.
48:03
Speaker 2: Plus, he's a homer anyway. You can't take what CeCe's saying.
48:06
Speaker 2: He's a great guy, but he's going to obviously favor
48:08
Speaker 2: the Yankees. But when you look at Schlittler, Cole— Freed
48:12
Speaker 2: now coming back. I know it wasn't great last night,
48:14
Speaker 2: but getting healthier here, that's the recipe for success in
48:17
Speaker 2: the postseason. Tell me who's definitively better. Judge back in
48:21
Speaker 2: that lineup, Luis Garcia Jr., the one thing that they
48:23
Speaker 2: did add, the guy's been raking, so he replaces what
48:26
Speaker 2: Stanton would have done had he come back. I'm not
48:29
Speaker 2: saying they're going to do it. I think the pieces
48:31
Speaker 2: are in place, though, for the Yankees.
48:33
Speaker 3: So do I.
48:34
Speaker 1: I would also say that Major League Baseball has it
48:36
Speaker 1: exactly the way they want it right now in terms
48:38
Speaker 1: of peak interest in the postseason. All the markets and
48:41
Speaker 1: teams they want to be good, for the most part,
48:44
Speaker 1: are really, really good. Yankees, Red Sox, Cubs. Dodgers, major markets,
48:50
Speaker 1: big brands, big teams, big stars. And so the postseason
48:54
Speaker 1: should be fun. But of course, Sal, why would anyone
48:56
Speaker 1: be surprised if the Yankees make it to the World Series?
48:59
Speaker 3: If they make it to the playoffs, they can make
49:01
Speaker 3: it to the World Series.
49:02
Speaker 2: OK, well, Taylor had one great take, another take. And
49:04
Speaker 2: he was texting me this quite often. And I'm sure
49:06
Speaker 2: he was saying it on all the podcasts and the
49:07
Speaker 2: radio shows that you guys are doing. This was his
49:10
Speaker 2: least favorite Yankee team of all time.
49:12
Speaker 3: I think he's taken that back since, yes.
49:14
Speaker 2: I've started to walk it back a little. You can't
49:17
Speaker 2: walk that back.
49:18
Speaker 3: Come on. The team hasn't even changed.
49:21
Speaker 4: When I said it, I was getting ready to gauge
49:23
Speaker 4: my eyes out watching Trent Grisham strike out all the time,
49:27
Speaker 4: and now we've replaced some of those at-bats with George
49:29
Speaker 4: Lombard and Spencer Jones, and we're getting some of the
49:33
Speaker 4: young guys in here who are at least– Even if
49:36
Speaker 4: they're going to strike out a lot and not play
49:39
Speaker 4: to high contact rates, at least they're exciting.
49:41
Speaker 3: Yes.
49:42
Speaker 1: Mikey, how do you feel about Sal being some sort
49:45
Speaker 1: of fan policeman? Like he is the guy who determines
49:48
Speaker 1: what fans can say, what they can do, when they
49:51
Speaker 1: can take it back, when they can't take it back.
49:54
Speaker 3: I love Sal being in charge of all fans.
49:58
Speaker 6: I'd just be happy if he was in charge of
50:00
Speaker 6: Taylor's fans.
50:03
Speaker 3: Keeping track of Taylor's takes. I am all over the place.
50:06
Speaker 6: You kind of are all just, you're a little volatile
50:09
Speaker 6: either way with your fandom, Taylor.
50:12
Speaker 2: I like Sal reeling you in.
50:13
Speaker 1: The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, Taylor. Stay
50:16
Speaker 1: exactly the way you are. He's ripping my guy booty
50:20
Speaker 1: left and right.
50:20
Speaker 2: Oh, this team stinks. I can't watch them. And now
50:23
Speaker 2: he's like, yeah, they can win the World Series. And
50:25
Speaker 2: that's obviously, we know that that's what fans do. But
50:27
Speaker 2: to your point, Stu, I feel like in New York,
50:29
Speaker 2: at least, Now, maybe I'm just brainwashed by the 90s
50:32
Speaker 2: and the Yankees having a dynasty and like they would
50:34
Speaker 2: dominate in the regular season. There was no doubt they
50:37
Speaker 2: didn't win. They're not winning. They didn't win the division
50:40
Speaker 2: last year. They're still not winning the division right now.
50:42
Speaker 2: So that's a big part of like, well, how are
50:43
Speaker 2: they going to win the World Series? They have to
50:45
Speaker 2: go on the road. They have to face the Red Sox.
50:47
Speaker 2: Then if they win that, have to go on the
50:48
Speaker 2: road in Tampa, which is a tough spot. The path there,
50:51
Speaker 2: I think, is what makes me think that that maybe
50:54
Speaker 2: they're not going to be there, even though the probably
50:55
Speaker 2: odds on favorites, maybe why it would be a difficult road.
50:59
Speaker 4: To be fair, when I said they were my least
51:01
Speaker 4: favorite team, their backup catcher was an Uber driver, JC Escar.
51:05
Speaker 2: They have Ali Sanchez. He's basically an Uber driver, too.
51:08
Speaker 2: He stinks, too, yeah.
51:10
Speaker 1: But that should make them your favorite team. They have
51:13
Speaker 1: a bunch of former Uber drivers on your roster, and
51:16
Speaker 1: you're still going to make it to the playoffs.
51:18
Speaker 3: Little underdog.
51:19
Speaker 2: Listen.
51:20
Speaker 6: Having the former grocery store bagman as your quarterback is
51:24
Speaker 6: fun when it's Kurt Warner.
51:26
Speaker 2: When it's JC Escara, it's not.
51:27
Speaker 4: And he's batting 150. Yeah, you don't want the Uber
51:30
Speaker 4: driver when he's batting 150. Some redemption story. He's batting
51:33
Speaker 4: below the Mendoza line.
51:38
Speaker 2: That's nasty. See, I can be the fan police. I mean,
51:40
Speaker 2: now you're going to players, Taylor. Come on. That's not nice.
51:43
Speaker 2: He's trying to make a living for himself. Sure, he's
51:45
Speaker 2: a great guy.
51:48
Speaker 3: We'll take it. All due respect. All due respect.
51:51
Speaker 2: He's probably a great guy. But as I always say,
51:53
Speaker 2: you start ribbing. And then nothing personal. Morosi, whoever, a scar.
51:56
Speaker 2: Nothing personal. And then tee off on them.
52:00
Speaker 3: Wait, so Morrissey works for Fox? He does? Yes, we've
52:02
Speaker 3: confirmed that?
52:03
Speaker 2: Yeah.
52:03
Speaker 3: I take back everything I said. Joe Moe. Joe Moe,
52:07
Speaker 3: love you. Give me some Moe. All right, we'll take
52:12
Speaker 3: a quick timeout.
52:13
Speaker 1: I am told here Ricardo has written a song and
52:16
Speaker 1: voiced a song about Arch Manning.
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Speaker 3: We'll play it for you. Coming up next.