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  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the best of Stugatz and Company
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  Speaker 2: This is the best of Stugatz and Company live on
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  Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio.
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  Speaker 1: NFL kicks off tonight and we are loaded today. Jerome
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  Speaker 1: Bettis going to join us. Bijan Robinson and Justin Jefferson
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  Speaker 1: going to join us. In hour number two, we are
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  Speaker 1: stacked today. Seahawks and Patriots tonight kicks off the 2026
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  Speaker 1: NFL season, and we'll get to that in just a second.
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  Speaker 1: Taylor has been sitting on a take. He's upset he
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  Speaker 1: did not deliver this take yesterday, and he wants to
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  Speaker 1: deliver it right now as we get ready for the
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  Speaker 1: NFL season. I'm not certain if it's an NFL take. Mikey,
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  Speaker 1: are you aware of the take that he's been sitting
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  Speaker 1: on here?
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  Speaker 3: No, but Taylor gave me a take before the show
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  Speaker 3: and I've just been mad at him ever since.
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  Speaker 4: And I don't think that's the take you're referring to.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: But I've just been sitting here stewing about it. Like
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  Speaker 3: I I'm, I'm angry with him.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 1: So he has two takes. Cause I believe this is
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  Speaker 1: not the take that angered you. So let's get to
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  Speaker 1: the first take here, Taylor. What do you have for us?
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  Speaker 6: After watching Florida state SMU and seeing Florida state be
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  Speaker 6: three and 14 in its last 17 ACC games, It's
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  Speaker 6: harder to be this bad at Florida State than it
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  Speaker 6: is to be this good at Indiana.
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  Speaker 5: I agree.
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  Speaker 4: I like that take.
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  Speaker 1: Put it on the poll. Is it harder to be
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  Speaker 1: this bad at Florida State? than it is to be this.
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  Speaker 5: Good at Indiana.
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  Speaker 6: Because those results that I just read, those are Purdue-level numbers.
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  Speaker 6: They're Northwestern-level numbers. You're Florida State. You're sitting in the
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  Speaker 6: middle of one of the greatest recruiting states in America.
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  Speaker 6: You have a national brand, championship history, an enormous fan base,
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  Speaker 6: and your result is paying Ashton Daniels a reported $ 800, 000
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  Speaker 6: in NIL to be your quarterback. I wouldn't take Ashton
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  Speaker 6: Daniels on my roster if he paid me $ 800, 000.
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  Speaker 5: Put it on the poll. What's his name? Ashton what?
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  Speaker 6: Ashton Daniels.
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  Speaker 1: If Ashton Daniels paid you $ 800, 000, would you take him?
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  Speaker 5: Just put it on the poll just like that. What
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  Speaker 5: do you have, Mikey?
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  Speaker 3: This feels like Stu Gotts going 0 for 17 picking games.
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  Speaker 3: Like that's how Florida State, how bad.
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  Speaker 4: They've been is it's almost like.
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  Speaker 3: It's a mixture of luck and being bad that gets
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  Speaker 3: you as bad as they are.
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  Speaker 6: You have to actively work to be this bad at
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  Speaker 6: Florida State.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. They were in the title game, weren't they, a
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  Speaker 5: couple of years ago? Yeah, but.
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  Speaker 6: The fall off needs to be studied for this Florida
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  Speaker 6: state team for other college powerhouses to be like, what
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  Speaker 6: do we do to not replicate what Florida state did?
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  Speaker 6: And I think the simple answer is not recruit a
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  Speaker 6: quarterback in Ashton Daniels, who was six and 21 as
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  Speaker 6: a starter between Stanford, Auburn, and now Florida state.
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  Speaker 5: Or have Mike Norvell as your coach, right?
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  Speaker 6: I love Mike Norvell.
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  Speaker 5: You do, but you don't.
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  Speaker 6: He should be fired, but.
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  Speaker 1: You can't say that you love a guy and he
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  Speaker 1: should be fired at the exact same time.
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  Speaker 6: No, because this is like separating the artist from the art.
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  Speaker 6: I'm separating the person from the football coach. I love
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  Speaker 6: Mike Norvell, the person.
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  Speaker 5: Great person. Yeah, great.
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: The coach leaves a lot to be desired.
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  Speaker 5: The coach was the toast of Tallahassee two years ago.
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  Speaker 6: And nothing has gone right since.
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  Speaker 5: Ashton Daniels. Funny.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get to the take that upset Mikey. Who wants
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  Speaker 1: to deliver this take?
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  Speaker 5: Go ahead. No, no, no.
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  Speaker 4: Taylor's going to deliver because I won't even spit it out.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 6: So tonight's the NFL kicking off. My Patriots are in
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  Speaker 6: a Super Bowl rematch against the Seattle Seahawks.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: I'm sorry to say this.
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  Speaker 5: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 6: I'm watching on the TV right now Liverpool play in
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  Speaker 6: their Champions League.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: I'm more excited for Liverpool's Champions League campaign kicking off
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  Speaker 6: right now against Atletico Madrid than I am for the
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  Speaker 6: NFL tonight.
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  Speaker 5: Are you really? Because I wanted to talk tennis.
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  Speaker 1: Because last night I was up until 3.30 in the
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  Speaker 1: morning watching.
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  Speaker 5: What was perhaps the greatest tennis match of all time.
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  Speaker 5: And you won't let me talk tennis. And now you've
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  Speaker 5: dragged me into Liverpool.
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  Speaker 6: That Tiafoe match might've been the second. It was the
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  Speaker 6: greatest tennis match of all time. Tiafoe coming back down
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  Speaker 6: two sets.
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: It was the greatest tennis match of all time for like, no.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, no. This is my Christmas Eve.
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  Speaker 3: You guys are not going to take this from me
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  Speaker 3: by talking about tennis and soccer.
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  Speaker 4: No, this is my time.
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  Speaker 1: OK, I'm just making a larger point. I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: start today with tennis. You guys said no. And somehow Taylor,
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  Speaker 1: who was one of the two of you who said no,
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  Speaker 1: has dragged us into soccer talk. You want tennis talk now?
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  Speaker 6: It's Christmas Eve. It's Christmas Eve. And me and Stu
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  Speaker 6: Gatz are over here trying to celebrate Halloween.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, well, the U.S. Open is my Christmas Eve. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: I love it. I do.
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  Speaker 1: Francis Tiafoe, that match against Mickelson started when we were here.
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  Speaker 5: We were here. Mikey, we were here doing the show.
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  Speaker 5: I got home.
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  Speaker 1: The sun was coming down, and Tiafoe was still hitting forehands.
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  Speaker 6: Stu, when I turned that TV off yesterday before the
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  Speaker 6: Shelton-Alcaraz match.
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: I was tennised out the Tiafoe Mickelson. I said, there's
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  Speaker 6: no way the next match could be better than the
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  Speaker 6: match I just saw. So let me turn this off
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  Speaker 6: and let me turn on the Yankee game.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 6: And then apparently I missed an all time class.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that wasn't because you missed a woman's quarterfinal match,
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  Speaker 1: which was a good match on a great match. It
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  Speaker 1: was the match right after Tiafoe. That was Emma Navarro.
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  Speaker 1: She lost to Pagoula. Pagoula, an American, is now in
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  Speaker 1: the semifinals. Mikey is so upset. And then the Alcaraz
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  Speaker 1: match happened, and Ben Shelton beat him in five sets
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  Speaker 1: at 3.30 a.m.
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  Speaker 5: In the morning.
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  Speaker 1: Greatest match I've ever seen. I watched the entire match.
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  Speaker 1: I'm exhausted today. Mikey, so that's the take. It's the
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  Speaker 1: soccer take that upset you, huh?
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  Speaker 3: Yes because you're right we both did say no to
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  Speaker 3: you talking tennis you did even though you just squeezed
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  Speaker 3: that in thank you and i thought i had an
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  Speaker 3: ally in taylor i thought me and taylor were going
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  Speaker 3: to be a hand in hand no no no we're
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  Speaker 3: going to walk into this nfl season which starts tonight
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  Speaker 3: we are going to do this together we are not
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  Speaker 3: going to let stu gots derail us and then taylor
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  Speaker 3: hits me with liverpool and i'm just i'm i'm beside
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  Speaker 3: myself with how mad i am about.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I'm not derailing you.
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  Speaker 1: We have Jerome Bettis, Bijan Robinson, and Justin Jefferson on today.
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  Speaker 6: And just to be clear to Mikey, I'm not trying
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  Speaker 6: to talk about this Liverpool match. Maybe some platform would
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  Speaker 6: let me talk about Bradley Barkola getting his first start
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  Speaker 6: for Liverpool in a Champions League match.
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  Speaker 4: You're talking about it.
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  Speaker 5: This is the platform, yes.
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  Speaker 6: And if you told me I could only watch one,
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  Speaker 6: Liverpool versus Atletico Madrid or the NFL game tonight, yes,
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  Speaker 6: I would pick the Liverpool game. But luckily, I don't
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  Speaker 6: have to make that choice. I live in America. I
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  Speaker 6: could do both things.
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  Speaker 3: Can I just say, you're saying all this while wearing
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  Speaker 3: a Patriots logo right in the middle of your chest,
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  Speaker 3: claiming your best friend, Matt Collins, is playing on the team,
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  Speaker 3: and you would.
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  Speaker 4: Rather watch Liverpool and Atletico Madrid or whoever the hell
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  Speaker 4: it is.
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  Speaker 5: It's a big match.
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  Speaker 4: Instead of talking about your.
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  Speaker 3: I'm using air quotes for those who can't see me
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  Speaker 3: favorite team, the new England Patriots try and get revenge
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  Speaker 3: against the super bowl champion, Seattle Seahawks led by.
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  Speaker 4: Our former quarterback, Sam Darnold. And you would rather talk
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  Speaker 4: about soccer. That's what you're telling me.
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  Speaker 5: In fairness to Taylor, no one cares about the Seahawks.
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  Speaker 5: What do you do?
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  Speaker 6: Well, you do this with Seattle all the time.
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  Speaker 5: What am I doing? You want Liverpool.
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  Speaker 6: No, no matter what Seattle team we talk about.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: You always do this thing where you're like, nobody cares
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  Speaker 6: about Seattle. And then I'm left with the consequences of
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  Speaker 6: that where people from Seattle are messaging me saying, why
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  Speaker 6: does Stu always blast Seattle at every chance he gets?
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  Speaker 5: I'm not blasting Seattle. It's a lovely place. I've been there.
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  Speaker 5: I've been there several times. I love it. It's wonderful.
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  Speaker 5: It's beautiful. It's fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: I've been to the Gorge. I've gone to see concerts
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  Speaker 1: in Seattle. I've gone to the Gorge for Dead &
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  Speaker 1: Company shows. My college roommate, Chris Gordon, is from Seattle.
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  Speaker 5: I love the city.
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  Speaker 6: Gordo.
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  Speaker 5: Gordo. How'd you know?
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  Speaker 1: Because there's only one name that can be somebody like that,
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  Speaker 1: and it's Gordo.
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  Speaker 5: It's Gordo. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: So I love Seattle. Just nobody cares about the sports
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  Speaker 1: in the great Northwest.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, nobody.
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  Speaker 8: Nobody.
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  Speaker 5: Listen, the NBA doesn't care about him.
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  Speaker 1: They have one of the most exciting teams in the
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  Speaker 1: history of the NBA with the Rain Man, Sean Kemp,
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  Speaker 1: and the Gloved Gary Payton, and they.
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  Speaker 5: Moved the team. I mean, what do you want from me?
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  Speaker 6: I'm going to extend an olive branch to Mikey A.
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  Speaker 6: We could talk Patriots, Seahawks. Mikey, Travion Henderson, sideline. Let's
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  Speaker 6: get all your thoughts out that Travion Henderson, the Patriots'
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  Speaker 6: star running back, is out for this contest.
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  Speaker 1: That's not fair to Mikey. He's just excited that we
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  Speaker 1: have football, and it starts tonight.
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  Speaker 5: That's it.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: First off, if you want to talk about Travion Henderson
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  Speaker 3: being out, listen, you can do this to me with
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  Speaker 3: the NBA. You can do this to me with soccer.
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  Speaker 3: You can even do this to me with baseball. You
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  Speaker 3: cannot do this to me with the NFL. I will
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  Speaker 3: tell you how Ramondre Stevenson better have lost those fumble
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  Speaker 3: issues because right now Travion Henderson being out is the
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  Speaker 3: best thing to happen to him.
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  Speaker 4: Let's go, Taylor.
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  Speaker 6: I am glad that the Patriots got the Christian Gonzalez
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  Speaker 6: contract done before tonight because I didn't need the unnecessary
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  Speaker 6: drama or... Or distraction hanging over the team. Four years,
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  Speaker 6: $ 135 million, making him the highest paid defensive back in
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  Speaker 6: NFL history.
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  Speaker 5: Deserves it. Does he?
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  Speaker 6: I think he deserves it. At least Mikey doesn't.
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  Speaker 1: How many cornerbacks can you name that are better than him?
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  Speaker 1: Just off the top of your head. Sertan would be one, right?
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  Speaker 5: Stingley.
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  Speaker 4: I can name three.
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  Speaker 5: Who's the third? Stingley is another one, yes.
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  Speaker 4: I I'm going to say sauce Gardner.
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  Speaker 5: Wow. Okay.
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  Speaker 6: But the problem, the problem is you have a Christian
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  Speaker 6: Gonzalez already on your roster and he's their first free.
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  Speaker 6: He's their first, first round draft pick to sign a
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  Speaker 6: second contract with the team in the past 11 years.
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  Speaker 6: Donta Hightower was the last one. Like if you are
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  Speaker 6: the new England Patriots, you draft a guy like Gonzo
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  Speaker 6: to eventually give him a second contract. If we could
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  Speaker 6: debate where he is in terms of top cornerbacks, if
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  Speaker 6: he's a top five cornerback, you pay that top five
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  Speaker 6: cornerback to stay on, stay with your franchise.
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  Speaker 3: And no disrespect to Seattle, the way Stu does. I
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  Speaker 3: forgot Devin Witherspoon, who's also playing in this game.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 4: He's probably better than Christian Gonzalez.
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  Speaker 5: That's why I forgot him. He plays in Seattle. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: I understand.
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  Speaker 3: And you know what? I, we, we just did that
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  Speaker 3: whole thing where we were crushing stupors. And then I
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  Speaker 3: just went ahead and did it and forgot about them.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: I apologize.
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  Speaker 4: Seattle, Devin Witherspoon's up there too.
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  Speaker 1: To the great people of Seattle. I am not crushing
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  Speaker 1: you or your city. I'm just saying nobody cares about
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  Speaker 1: your sports teams.
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  Speaker 5: And I'm right.
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: I cared about Ken Griffey Jr.
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  Speaker 5: Did you?
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  Speaker 6: Ricardo just gave me an emphatic mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 5: The kid.
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  Speaker 4: And the unit.
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  Speaker 5: The big unit. Wow. Yes. No, they've had some great teams.
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  Speaker 5: I'm just saying nobody cares about them. That's all. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: come get me, Seattle. Seriously. I ain't afraid of you.
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  Speaker 4: Both of you.
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  Speaker 5: Mikey, I am so sorry that we started. It is
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  Speaker 5: your Christmas.
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  Speaker 4: My Christmas Eve.
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  Speaker 1: And in the stockings was tennis and a soccer conversation.
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  Speaker 6: It's a big one for Liverpool. Gotta get started on
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  Speaker 6: the right foot.
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  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of Stu Gatz and
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  Speaker 2: on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
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  Speaker 5: Jerome Bennett is going to join us in a few minutes.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get to Dan Beyer and the sports update in
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  Speaker 1: just a minute as well. Justin Jefferson, Bijan Robinson in
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  Speaker 1: our number two. We are loaded today as the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: kicks off its season. Taylor, let's go to college, though.
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  Speaker 5: Well, not really. It's kind of professional.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go to LSU and Lane Kiffin and what is
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  Speaker 1: going on there, because this has become.
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  Speaker 5: Laugh out loud funny. What is the latest here with
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  Speaker 5: LSU and the SEC?
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  Speaker 6: So it feels like we have finally reached a conclusion
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  Speaker 6: with this story because LSU is adding two players to
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  Speaker 6: complete its 105-man roster for the 2026 season, which eliminates
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  Speaker 6: the possibility of the program bringing in former NFL rookies.
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  Speaker 1: So they've capped their roster at 105. That's the amount
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  Speaker 1: of kids you can keep on a college football roster.
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  Speaker 1: It seems like too many. Seems like a lot. Seems excessive.
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  Speaker 1: 105 kids.
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  Speaker 6: You need people to fill out bodies at practice. Those
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  Speaker 6: scout teams don't.
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  Speaker 5: Fill out themselves.
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  Speaker 1: Something you're well aware of, by the way, right?
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  Speaker 6: I think when I was playing, there was like 120.
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  Speaker 5: Were you number 120?
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  Speaker 6: I was probably 127, if I could guess.
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  Speaker 5: Outside looking in?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah. Really?
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  Speaker 5: Really. That's too bad.
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  Speaker 1: So anyway, the SEC is now scheduled a meeting Thursday
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  Speaker 1: with its presidents and chancellors to vote on whether to
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  Speaker 1: terminate LSU's membership in the SEC.
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  Speaker 5: Let me tell you how that vote's going to go.
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  Speaker 5: All right. That vote's going to go, and LSU is
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  Speaker 5: going to.
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  Speaker 1: Be as strong as they've ever been inside the SEC.
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  Speaker 1: No one is voting LSU and Lane Gifford out of
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  Speaker 1: the Southeastern Conference. Nobody, not a single president, not a
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  Speaker 1: single chancellor is going to say, hey, this sounds like
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  Speaker 1: a good idea.
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  Speaker 5: Let's kick LSU, our best team perhaps, and LSU.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe the most famous guy in the sport right now
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  Speaker 1: in Lane Kiffin.
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  Speaker 5: He might be. Let's kick him out of our conference.
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  Speaker 5: Not happening.
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  Speaker 3: How much are the presidents of the ACC, Big Ten,
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  Speaker 3: and Big 12 hoping that they kick LSU out?
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  Speaker 4: How much are they sitting back.
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  Speaker 3: Going, please kick them out, because we will scoop them
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  Speaker 3: up so fast and just make our conference that much better.
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  Speaker 5: Right. You have LSU in the Sun Belt. Is that
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  Speaker 5: what you're doing there?
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  Speaker 4: No, I had ACC, Big Ten, and Big 12 is
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  Speaker 4: what I said.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 3: But, yes, the Sun Belt is also like, yay, us too.
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  Speaker 5: So there was a lot of pulpit pressure.
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  Speaker 4: That's how the Sun Belt sounds.
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  Speaker 6: There was a lot of public pressure for LSU to
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  Speaker 6: not add these NFL players.
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: And this feels like LSU kind of conceding to it.
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  Speaker 6: But I don't think Lane Kiffin really concedes to anything.
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  Speaker 6: I think this is Lane Kiffin watching his team play
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  Speaker 6: against Clemson and saying, I don't really need this headache
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  Speaker 6: right now.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: Whether we have the NFL players or not, my team
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  Speaker 6: is national title worthy. Let's let's just drop this.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I'm good without the pros. Yes.
• 14:49
  Speaker 3: I have this vision of Lane Kiffin just messing with
• 14:51
  Speaker 3: everybody this whole time like he was never going to
• 14:54
  Speaker 3: do it.
• 14:54
  Speaker 4: Like he was just like, watch, watch them all get mad. Watch.
• 14:57
  Speaker 3: Let's get it up to Congress. Let's get it all
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: the way to Congress where they're getting involved. And this
• 15:01
  Speaker 3: is never going to happen. But I'm just going to
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: keep messing with them.
• 15:05
  Speaker 4: I'm just going to keep putting my name out there.
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: Can I hear the voice, Mike EA, that represents the
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: Big Ten, the big, loud, confident voice?
• 15:13
  Speaker 5: Can I hear that voice first? I want to hear
• 15:14
  Speaker 5: that voice first. Can I hear it? What's it sound like?
• 15:17
  Speaker 5: This is the voice of the Big Ten.
• 15:18
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 15:19
  Speaker 4: The Big Ten.
• 15:19
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 15:20
  Speaker 4: We'll take them.
• 15:21
  Speaker 5: All right. And the Sunbelt Conference, they sound like what?
• 15:24
  Speaker 5: Just to be clear.
• 15:25
  Speaker 4: Yay, we want them. LSU joins us.
• 15:29
  Speaker 5: We'll take them.
• 15:31
  Speaker 6: My least favorite thing in this narrative with these players
• 15:35
  Speaker 6: wanting to come back from LSU from the NFL and
• 15:40
  Speaker 6: play out a fifth year there. The narrative has gotten
• 15:44
  Speaker 6: so far out of control, it feels like LSU was
• 15:47
  Speaker 6: trying to add Joe Burrow and Justin Jefferson to their roster,
• 15:51
  Speaker 6: and instead, it's players that didn't have the option when
• 15:55
  Speaker 6: the NCAA made these rulings to come back for a
• 15:58
  Speaker 6: potential fifth year, where yes, they went on to sign
• 16:01
  Speaker 6: with NFL teams, but if the NCAA had made this
• 16:05
  Speaker 6: ruling When before they had made that decision, OK, maybe
• 16:09
  Speaker 6: somebody like Daquan Wright comes back to LSU to play
• 16:13
  Speaker 6: out a fifth year because a fifth year at LSU
• 16:16
  Speaker 6: probably pays him 10 times more than whatever a practice
• 16:20
  Speaker 6: squad could potentially pay him. So that's why I was
• 16:22
  Speaker 6: kind of on the side of the players where you're
• 16:24
  Speaker 6: not talking about adding like 10 year NFL veterans. And
• 16:27
  Speaker 6: that's almost what it felt like the conversation had become like.
• 16:30
  Speaker 6: LSU was looking into adding pro bowlers to their roster.
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: No, it's a tricky spot, a tricky situation, unprecedented, one
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: might say. And the people who lose in this equation
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: is not LSU. It's not the chancellors. It's not the president.
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: It's the two kids because no one's running the NCAA
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: and no one is looking over college football.
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: There is no commissioner. There is nothing in place.
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: And the people who lose out are the kids who
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: declared themselves for the NFL draft and got drafted, wanted
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: to go back.
• 16:59
  Speaker 5: To LSU because there's a loophole, and now they can't.
• 17:02
  Speaker 5: So they lose out. What do they do? What do
• 17:04
  Speaker 5: those kids do now?
• 17:06
  Speaker 6: This could just be a never-ending cycle of people suing
• 17:10
  Speaker 6: people because now these LSU players are going to sue
• 17:14
  Speaker 6: the NCAA or sue the SEC for denying their chances
• 17:18
  Speaker 6: to stay and earn money in college. So when I
• 17:21
  Speaker 6: was in Baton Rouge— My least favorite thing about the SEC,
• 17:26
  Speaker 6: because I went there and I've been trying to embrace
• 17:29
  Speaker 6: the SEC culture.
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 17:31
  Speaker 6: It's just how pro SEC everybody is there.
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: Of course. Yes.
• 17:36
  Speaker 6: Because I grew up a Carolina fan. No part of
• 17:40
  Speaker 6: me cares even the slightest bit or has even the
• 17:44
  Speaker 6: slightest bit of pride if Clemson or Miami is winning
• 17:47
  Speaker 6: and saying, oh, that's great for the ACC. And if
• 17:50
  Speaker 6: you're an Arkansas Razorbacks fan doing the SEC chant because
• 17:54
  Speaker 6: the Georgia Bulldogs are winning national championships, you're embarrassing yourself.
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you really are. I am with you. In fact,
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: I would dare to say that if you're.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: A Carolina grad, a Carolina fan like you are, you're
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: rooting for Clemson's demise.
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: You don't want any other team in the conference to
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: outdo you.
• 18:12
  Speaker 6: Not even, not even just Clemson, not even just Miami.
• 18:15
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 18:16
  Speaker 6: Wake Forest is about as irrelevant a program as you
• 18:19
  Speaker 6: could get in the ACC. And every time Wake Forest
• 18:22
  Speaker 6: is playing, I look at them and say, I think
• 18:24
  Speaker 6: this would be better for me if they lose.
• 18:26
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: The Ole Miss president, chancellor, whatever they have there. Is
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: he voting to have LSU out of the conference or she?
• 18:34
  Speaker 6: No, they're all voting. We need LSU. LSU needs us.
• 18:38
  Speaker 6: We need LSU. It's a mutually beneficial partnership. But I
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: was watching tailgates in Baton Rouge and Baylor Auburn is on.
• 18:46
  Speaker 6: And I'm like, hey, who's everybody rooting for here? And
• 18:48
  Speaker 6: they're like, oh, we're pulling for Auburn.
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: I'm like, why?
• 18:50
  Speaker 6: And they're like. SEC SEC I'm like okay you guys
• 18:55
  Speaker 6: have me for about 90% of the day this is
• 18:57
  Speaker 6: just going to be the 10% that we could just
• 18:58
  Speaker 6: agree to disagree on Ricardo's an Alabama fan and I'm
• 19:01
  Speaker 6: an Alabama fan who are you a fan of? University
• 19:04
  Speaker 6: of Miami oh he's a University of Miami fan you
• 19:07
  Speaker 6: went to Alabama though man he's.
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: 305 Ricardo what are you talking about?
• 19:11
  Speaker 6: He dropped out of Alabama.
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: Oh, he did. Okay. You're not the only one. Most
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: fail out. You just dropped out, right?
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right.
• 19:21
  Speaker 6: It was my volition, Stu.
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: But do you disagree with the notion that SEC teams
• 19:26
  Speaker 6: aren't all rooting for SEC teams?
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: No, no, you are correct.
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: They do that.
• 19:30
  Speaker 8: One hundred percent. The only thing is, is because it
• 19:33
  Speaker 8: was the SEC versus the world. And for so long,
• 19:35
  Speaker 8: the SEC won so many national championships that it was
• 19:38
  Speaker 8: like a pride that, you know, nobody outside of the
• 19:41
  Speaker 8: SEC is going to beat us.
• 19:42
  Speaker 6: And SEC versus the world. What did Vanderbilt do to
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: contribute to the SEC against the world where they're in
• 19:48
  Speaker 6: Nashville doing SEC football chants with a stadium that's half-constructed?
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: They're there for academic purposes. You are so right about this.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: No one, if you're an Arkansas Razorback and you're an
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: alum of that school and you care about LSU, get
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: a life.
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: I mean, what a loser. All of you.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: No one cares about the rest of the schools in
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: their conference. You care about your school.
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: That's it.
• 20:15
  Speaker 6: And now you have Johnny Come Lately's, the Texas and
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: the Oklahoma's doing SEC chants at their stadium. You guys
• 20:21
  Speaker 6: have been in the conference for five minutes.
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: Yeah. And there's nothing south about you.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: I mean, you were in the Big 12 two years ago,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: and you're as far from the southeast as possible. I mean,
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: what are we doing here? College football, a complete mess.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin, the biggest star in the sport. They're going
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: to kick him out of the SEC. Our thanks to
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: Jerome Bettis for joining us in that last segment. Bijan Robinson,
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson going to join us in our number two podcast.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: If you've noticed a Pepin Taylor step lately, and how
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: could you, audience?
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: Why would you? It's because Aaron Judge is back.
• 20:59
  Speaker 6: You guys are waxing so poetically. Football is here. Football
• 21:03
  Speaker 6: is there.
• 21:03
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: The only thing I cared about yesterday.
• 21:06
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 21:07
  Speaker 6: Was 99 returning to that outfield.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah i know but i cared about the uh the
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: alcaraz match that took me that kept me up till
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: 3 30.
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: In the morning last night i'm exhausted you guys won't.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: Let me talk about it it's possibly the greatest tennis
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: match i've ever seen an american tennis is back when
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: he came anyway that's.
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: Aaron judge go ahead i hate you I'll have to
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: take your word on.
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: That tennis match.
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: Greatest tennis match.
• 21:27
  Speaker 6: I'm going to walk by somebody later and go, greatest
• 21:29
  Speaker 6: tennis match ever. And they'll probably be like, what are
• 21:31
  Speaker 6: you talking about?
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: Everyone will know, Taylor. Go ahead.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Just walk around the premises here and say, greatest tennis
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: match ever.
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: Where is he when I need him?
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: So yesterday, Aaron Judge returns to the Yankees lineup. Much
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: needed to help out a Yankee lineup that had been
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: pretty bad ever since he left in late May. He
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: goes over three in his return and Aaron Boone pulls
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: him at the end of the game or probably about
• 21:59
  Speaker 6: the seventh inning in this game.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 22:00
  Speaker 6: Because he's like, he's just coming back a long layoff.
• 22:04
  Speaker 6: We're going to pull them just to be safe. Aaron
• 22:06
  Speaker 6: judge in the post game was not happy about it.
• 22:09
  Speaker 6: And this was Aaron judge talking about it. All right.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: How did you respond physically? I feel great.
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: I played half a game. So I don't know what to, uh,
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: what to say about that.
• 22:18
  Speaker 8: Um, It seemed like you had a long conversation about
• 22:21
  Speaker 8: that with the manager when he went to take you out.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: How hard did you play to just stay.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: In there for a full night?
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: I respect Booney, so whatever he says, I'm going to do.
• 22:29
  Speaker 6: But, you know, I'm not happy about it.
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: But, you know, that's where my guy Ramos picked me
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: up and I had a nice little three-run homer there
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: to kind of put the game out so we can,
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: you know, be comfortable going into the last inning.
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: But, yeah, not too happy about it.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: You can't say I respect the manager and then say
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: I'm not too happy about his decision.
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: You can't do it. I mean, he did it, but
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: you can't do it.
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: So the move he's talking about, he gets pinch hit
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: for Elliott Ramos or he gets taken out of the
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: game for Elliott Ramos. And then later in the game,
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: Elliott Ramos hits a three run home run.
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: One of the Yankees trade deadline acquisitions.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: I do agree with you, Stu, because this does come
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: off as a little condescending towards Aaron Boone. But I
• 23:09
  Speaker 6: also do see Aaron Judge's side. You haven't played since
• 23:13
  Speaker 6: late May. You worked all this way to get a rehab.
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: You're back in the lineup, presumably because you're finally fully
• 23:20
  Speaker 6: healthy and there's no concern. So why are you not
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: playing the full game? Because he always gets hurt.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: Judge doesn't judge doesn't always get hurt he got hurt this.
• 23:33
  Speaker 6: Year yeah you're giving him the always gets hurt label
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: when i think you mean john carlos stan you're kind
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: of mixing the two together.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: I know but judge gets hurt sometimes not not as
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: frequently as john carlos stan nobody does in the history
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: of sports No one gets injured as frequently as John
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: Carlos Stanton, but judge has been injured. Does anyone get
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: injured more frequently in the history of sports that John
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: Carlos Stanton, that's the got seven 90 on X. How
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: many games has judge missed over the last couple of seasons?
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: It's been a bunch, right?
• 24:04
  Speaker 6: So 2025, he played one 52 out of one 62
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: and then 2024. He played 158 out of 162. Okay,
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: so he's been healthy. But he's coming back off of
• 24:19
  Speaker 6: an injury.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: You guys questioned whether or not he'd be back for
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: the regular season. He's back, and I don't blame Aaron
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Boone for wanting to keep him healthy for when the
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: games are important, the postseason.
• 24:28
  Speaker 6: No, I definitely agree with that. So Aaron Judge in
• 24:32
  Speaker 6: his back-to-back MVP seasons has missed a total of– 14
• 24:36
  Speaker 6: games the past two seasons. But for this Yankee team
• 24:41
  Speaker 6: to reach their potential in October, it's going to need
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: Aaron Judge being fully healthy. So I do agree with
• 24:46
  Speaker 6: you on being precautionary when it comes to Aaron Judge's return.
• 24:51
  Speaker 6: I'm starting to walk back my take that this is
• 24:53
  Speaker 6: my least favorite Yankee team of all time.
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: Why is that? Really? You made the take. Why? Why
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: are you walking it back? What's going on here?
• 25:00
  Speaker 6: Because they have adjusted some of the things that I
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: was railing against. And they've brought up more of their
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: young players like Spencer Jones and George Lombard Jr.
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: To where.
• 25:12
  Speaker 6: They're at least exciting. They're not always the best offense,
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: but at least the young guys are causing this infusion
• 25:20
  Speaker 6: of talent, of supposed talent to their lineup, where it's
• 25:24
  Speaker 6: not always strikeout, strikeout, strikeout. Because Lord knows I can
• 25:27
  Speaker 6: only watch Trent Grisham strike out so many times or
• 25:31
  Speaker 6: watch Jazz Chisholm pout his way after leaving. And I
• 25:35
  Speaker 6: think Brian Cashman's going to get bailed out by this
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: Austin Wells decision of not trading for a catcher at
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: the deadline.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 25:42
  Speaker 6: Lord knows I ripped him there, too. Austin Wells, he's
• 25:46
  Speaker 6: been a competent catcher the past month and a half,
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: and that's really all the Yankees need from that position.
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: Is Cashman really going to bail himself out? It doesn't matter.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Whether that works out or not, he'll be right back
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: where he is right now. Next year, he'll be there.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: He'll be the Yankees GM forever. It's a good point.
• 25:59
  Speaker 6: He's got job security for life. How did he acquire
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: a bullpen arm?
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: Him and Todd Bowles. I mean, it's unbelievable.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: They have job security for the remainder of time.
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: It's weird.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: Mikey A seems very disappointed with you walking back a
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: hot take.
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: That's not how we do it here on Sports Radio, man.
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: No, it's not how we do it, and it's especially
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: not how you do it when you got me to
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: buy into that take.
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: I am with you.
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: Well, I was with you, I guess. I hate this
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: Yankee team. This is one of my least favorite Yankee
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: teams ever, so much so that I was sent a
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: pre-sale for Yankee playoff tickets, and I immediately deleted it.
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: I am not paying to go see this team get
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: bounced in the ALDS, the wild card round, or whatever
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: else you want.
• 26:43
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 26:43
  Speaker 6: Send me that link. I might be interested in those tickets.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: That already passed. It has nothing to do with his fandom.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Everything to do with the drive and the hassle of
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: getting a Yankee stadium.
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: I mean, seriously.
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, that's part of it.
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: That's part of it.
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: Like, if I love this Yankee team, I'd be like,
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: I'll suffer.
• 26:59
  Speaker 5: I'll do.
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: I'll make the trip. I'll pay the $ 80 to park.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: So Boone takes Judge out of the game. and he
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: replaces him with Elliott.
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: What's his name?
• 27:07
  Speaker 6: Elliott Ramos.
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: And that guy hits a home run?
• 27:10
  Speaker 6: Three-run home run. It was a 2-1 game. Ramos' home
• 27:12
  Speaker 6: run made it 5-1, put the game out of reach.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: Was Judge spotted celebrating the home run, or did he
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: take his ball and go into the locker room?
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: What did he do?
• 27:21
  Speaker 6: I believe he was celebrating. No cameras on the YES
• 27:24
  Speaker 6: Network caught him pouting, doing thumbs down to Elliott Ramos
• 27:27
  Speaker 6: as he's rounding the bases.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: It's a fake celebration. He's celebrating because he has to
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: celebrate in that spot. He didn't want Elliott to do that.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: And meanwhile, Boone sitting there looking at him just out
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: of the corner of his eye, like, hey, good move
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: by me.
• 27:39
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• 27:42
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• 28:10
  Speaker 1: All right, we'll get to our game. Just me or
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: is it just me or is the name of the game?
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Perhaps I'll say it correctly. But Mikey, a funny thing
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: has happened here. We had Joel Anderson from the ring
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: around yesterday. He is fantastic.
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: I love him.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: I can't spend enough time with him. He is so
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: good at what it is he does.
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: Seriously. His knowledge is excellent. But he made a claim yesterday.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: And Taylor has not stopped texting me since he made
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: the claim that he invented raise the roof.
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: He just won't stop. He's relentless, Taylor. And I'm not
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: certain if he believes Joel Anderson. I mean.
• 28:47
  Speaker 6: So I want to go on the record and say
• 28:49
  Speaker 6: I believe Joel Anderson.
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: You love Joel Anderson.
• 28:51
  Speaker 6: I stand with Joel Anderson.
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: You love the ringer. Yeah.
• 28:54
  Speaker 6: It's just funny to think that that dance had to
• 28:57
  Speaker 6: originate somewhere. That celebration had to originate somewhere. And nobody
• 29:01
  Speaker 6: else has kind of stepped up and said, yeah, I
• 29:04
  Speaker 6: invented it because Joel's walking around telling everybody, no, I
• 29:07
  Speaker 6: invented it in Houston, Texas in the early nineties. And
• 29:12
  Speaker 6: nobody else is saying, you know what?
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 29:15
  Speaker 6: It's not me. And so I Googled, yes, I Googled
• 29:18
  Speaker 6: raise the roof origin celebration.
• 29:20
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 29:21
  Speaker 6: 1994 high school pep rally pumping the palm upward with
• 29:26
  Speaker 6: the elbow out is widely attributed to a 16 year
• 29:29
  Speaker 6: old student named Joel Anderson.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: Get out of here. He was telling the truth.
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: What?
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: Well, because he's widely attributing it to himself.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Well he claimed it I mean he saw an empty
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: lane and he said that's mine Respect. Why are you
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: laughing in a way that you're covering your mouth with
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: your hands?
• 29:51
  Speaker 6: What are you doing? Because I'm just reading further. Everything
• 29:55
  Speaker 6: that he said, it confirms it because the Houston Comets,
• 29:58
  Speaker 6: the WNBA team in the late 90s got credit. But again,
• 30:02
  Speaker 6: Joel was in Houston where he says he originated. And
• 30:05
  Speaker 6: then in 1997, you got Uncle Luke. Coming out with
• 30:09
  Speaker 6: the song Raise the Roof.
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 30:11
  Speaker 6: Joel started a movement.
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: He deserves royalties. He does.
• 30:15
  Speaker 6: We'll have to talk to Uncle Luke about that.
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: Get him on the show with Joel Anderson. We should
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: do that. It'd be fun.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: Let's get to Is It Just Me Or. The NFL
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: kicks off tonight. I wanted to talk tennis the entire afternoon.
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: The guys haven't left.
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: And I won't.
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: Well, I might. You might not have a choice here.
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: It could be your just me or.
• 30:42
  Speaker 5: Look at you. Look at me and you. Back and forth,
• 30:46
  Speaker 5: a little rally. How about it? How about that? It's
• 30:50
  Speaker 5: been a day. Who's kicking off the proceedings here? Taylor,
• 30:53
  Speaker 5: you want to go first?
• 30:55
  Speaker 6: Yep, I'll go first.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 30:57
  Speaker 6: Is it just me or when a team does a giveaway,
• 31:00
  Speaker 6: a promotional night, It shouldn't be for a select group
• 31:04
  Speaker 6: of fans there. It should be for the entire stadium
• 31:06
  Speaker 6: or nobody. I go to a Yankee game earlier and
• 31:10
  Speaker 6: it was George Costanza bobblehead night. First 18,000 fans in attendance.
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 31:15
  Speaker 6: First off, I had to get, it was a seven
• 31:16
  Speaker 6: o'clock game. I had to get there at five o'clock
• 31:18
  Speaker 6: just to get in line for the bobblehead. I'm standing
• 31:20
  Speaker 6: out there like a schlub for two hours waiting for
• 31:23
  Speaker 6: this bobblehead.
• 31:24
  Speaker 5: That's because it's a popular gift. Yes.
• 31:26
  Speaker 6: I mean, Okay, you're the New York Yankees. Have some
• 31:28
  Speaker 6: pride and say, our attendance is 40,000. We're making 40,000
• 31:33
  Speaker 6: George Costanza bobbleheads. So Taylor doesn't have to get to
• 31:36
  Speaker 6: the stadium at 5 p.m.
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: Right. It's why that team is worth a billion dollars, Taylor. Plus.
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: I would have liked it better if they did. We're
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: selling 40,000. We're making 39,000 bobbleheads.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: And I got to be honest.
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: If you're 18,001, you don't deserve one.
• 31:53
  Speaker 7: I mean.
• 31:56
  Speaker 6: Stu, you don't understand how early people are getting here
• 31:59
  Speaker 6: for bobbleheads. It's like people are getting the bobbleheads and
• 32:03
  Speaker 6: then they're just flipping them on eBay for like $ 35.
• 32:06
  Speaker 6: You can't tell me it's worth it to get to
• 32:08
  Speaker 6: the Bronx at 3 p.m. for a George Costanza bobblehead
• 32:12
  Speaker 6: night so you could sell it four hours later for
• 32:15
  Speaker 6: a profit of $ 35.
• 32:17
  Speaker 5: So what do you say? And spend those extra hours working?
• 32:19
  Speaker 6: Yeah, get a real job. And leave me the bobbleheads.
• 32:22
  Speaker 5: Stop trying to flip bobbleheads. Did you get one? Yeah,
• 32:28
  Speaker 5: I did. Did you flip it?
• 32:29
  Speaker 6: No, I kept it right on my shelf.
• 32:33
  Speaker 5: You don't like George Costanza?
• 32:34
  Speaker 6: Oh, that's where you're wrong.
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: Oh, really?
• 32:36
  Speaker 6: I love Seinfeld.
• 32:37
  Speaker 5: I didn't know that. I'm sorry.
• 32:38
  Speaker 6: Any show that's set in New York, I love. King
• 32:41
  Speaker 6: of Queens.
• 32:42
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Friends.
• 32:43
  Speaker 6: Friends.
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: You love Friends, huh?
• 32:47
  Speaker 6: Everybody loves Raymond. Oh, I love everybody loves Raymond.
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: Why?
• 32:50
  Speaker 5: Because it's about a sports writer from Long Island? Correct.
• 32:54
  Speaker 6: My big three is probably Seinfeld, King of Queens. Everybody
• 32:58
  Speaker 6: loves Raymond.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: When we're in Tahoe, when you see Ray Romano, when
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: you know he's a friend of mine because he says
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: hi to me every time he passes me, how come
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: you don't ask Ray to come on? If you're such
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: a big fan of the show, just ask him to
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: come on next year.
• 33:09
  Speaker 6: He never looks like he wants.
• 33:10
  Speaker 5: To come on. He doesn't want to come on.
• 33:12
  Speaker 6: He never looks like it.
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: But he will come on if you ask him to.
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: He'll get josted.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: No, not by him. Listen, he'd be unhappy to come
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: on the show with us. Because he's always unhappy.
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: Mikey, you have one here? I do.
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: Is it just me?
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: Or if you've seen one overseas NFL game, you've seen
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: them all as we're getting into the NFL season, as
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: it starts tonight, I can't wait. There's going to be
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: a game in Melbourne tomorrow. And I feel like it's
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: just going to look like every other game that's in
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: London or Germany or Spain or wherever else.
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: They get played. They're always sloppy.
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: They're always not nearly as fun as we want them
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: to be. And I'll be excited when there's a game
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: at 930 in the morning just because it gets to
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: extend my football day.
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: But if you've seen one game, you've seen them all.
• 34:05
  Speaker 6: It's the game you're excited for, that 9 a.m.
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: Game.
• 34:07
  Speaker 6: And then by the third quarter, you're like, wow, this
• 34:09
  Speaker 6: is really bad football. Watching J.J. McCarthy play Bo Nix.
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: Yeah, but this is Rams and Niners.
• 34:17
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 34:18
  Speaker 5: It's absurd. Did Raheem Morris miss a birthday on his
• 34:21
  Speaker 5: flight to Australia?
• 34:24
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 34:25
  Speaker 5: I read that somewhere.
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: He took off on the second, his birthday was the third,
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: and he landed on the fourth.
• 34:31
  Speaker 5: Really? Poor Raheem. EP Jason, you have one?
• 34:40
  Speaker 7: Is it just me, guys, or should the Dodgers and
• 34:42
  Speaker 7: Dave Roberts just sit Shohei Ohtani for the rest of
• 34:44
  Speaker 7: the season? They're winning without him. I think he's had
• 34:47
  Speaker 7: two hits in the last eight games he's played in,
• 34:51
  Speaker 7: and those two hits have been singles. He's got a
• 34:54
  Speaker 7: case of the Kyle Tucker toxic mopiness. He's just moping
• 34:59
  Speaker 7: around the dugout, and let's just sit him for the
• 35:02
  Speaker 7: rest of the season and bring him back for the postseason.
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: Is it just me or no?
• 35:04
  Speaker 5: No, Shohei Ohtani. How about that?
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: No hit Ohtani.
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: No hit Ohtani, yes. He hasn't been good.
• 35:13
  Speaker 6: He's running out of gas. I think there is something there.
• 35:15
  Speaker 5: Well, that's why the Dodgers are so frustrating. They don't
• 35:18
  Speaker 5: need him. They never did.
• 35:24
  Speaker 6: Last 15 days, he's batting 139.
• 35:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah, but they're playing good baseball without him.
• 35:30
  Speaker 6: They might be better without him. Ewing theory.
• 35:32
  Speaker 5: Put it on the ball.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: The Dodgers better without Shohei Ohtani. Is it just me or.
• 35:41
  Speaker 5: Let me try that again. Is it just me or
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: is American tennis back?
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: It's just you.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: You know, you sit around the days of John McEnroe
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: and Roscoe Tanner and Jimmy Connors and Sarita and Venus
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: and Chris Everett Lloyd, Chrissy, and you say to yourself,
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: when is U.S.
• 36:05
  Speaker 5: Tennis going to come back? It's been a while.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: It's been since Andy Roddick, and now it's back.
• 36:10
  Speaker 5: U.S. Open.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: You have Blake Shelton. You have Francis Tiafoe in the semifinals.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: One of those guys will advance to the finals of
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: the U.S.
• 36:18
  Speaker 5: Open.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: And then you have Pagoula and Coco Gaul. On the
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: day that football starts, let me just say this.
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: U.S.
• 36:25
  Speaker 5: Tennis is back!
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: Our thanks to Bijan Robinson for joining us. Justin Jefferson
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: going to join us in a few minutes here. We'll
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: get to Dan Byer in the sports update as well.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: The NFL kicks off tonight. Who do you guys like
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: in tonight's game? FanDuel has the line set, and we'll
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: get to what's going on with Baker Mayfield here in
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: just a second. FanDuel has the line set at 3.5. Seattle,
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: minus 3.5, taking on the Patriots tonight. Taylor is a
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: Patriot fan simply because, well, what do you mean?
• 36:56
  Speaker 6: I'm not a Patriot fan. I'm a Matt Collins fan.
• 36:58
  Speaker 5: Well, I was going to say that.
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: He's not a Patriot fan. Not after what he said
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: earlier today.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: I know, but I was going to explain that he,
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: his friends, best friends with Matt Collins. And so wherever
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: Matt goes, Taylor becomes a fan of that team. That's
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: all I was going to say.
• 37:13
  Speaker 6: My only qualifier that I, Like, I don't like people
• 37:16
  Speaker 6: associating me with the Patriots because I don't really associate
• 37:19
  Speaker 6: myself with the Patriots.
• 37:21
  Speaker 5: I'm sorry.
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry. Hold on a second. What is that symbol
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: right in the middle of your shirt?
• 37:26
  Speaker 6: Well, this has caused the whole problem today because I'm
• 37:29
  Speaker 6: walking into the studio in Miami and it's like... Walking
• 37:33
  Speaker 6: in with a target on my back and everybody's like, oh,
• 37:35
  Speaker 6: boo the Patriots, boo the Patriots. I'm like, I'm stopping
• 37:38
  Speaker 6: to everybody I'm walking past going, I don't really care
• 37:41
  Speaker 6: about the Patriots. I'm just wearing this shirt. My best
• 37:43
  Speaker 6: friend's on the Patriots. And now they feel bad for
• 37:46
  Speaker 6: booing me when I walked in there saying, let's go Dolphins.
• 37:48
  Speaker 6: And I'm like, Dolphins, Dolphins, you guys are about as
• 37:51
  Speaker 6: irrelevant as it gets it.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: Why do you feel the need to explain yourself to
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: those bunch of losers?
• 37:57
  Speaker 5: And those bunch of losers are Dolphin fans. Who cares?
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: And Jet fans.
• 38:01
  Speaker 5: Right. And Jet fans. So what?
• 38:03
  Speaker 6: I'm walking through the hallways and I'm getting booed. You
• 38:05
  Speaker 6: think I like getting booed.
• 38:06
  Speaker 5: In the hallway? Who was booing you, Ricardo? I don't know.
• 38:10
  Speaker 6: I have to get names of who booed me. I'm
• 38:12
  Speaker 6: going to write a list down of everybody who booed me.
• 38:14
  Speaker 5: How many people? Seriously.
• 38:16
  Speaker 6: At least four.
• 38:17
  Speaker 5: What?
• 38:18
  Speaker 6: Four more than I would have liked.
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: OK, you should just replace it with Matt Collins's face.
• 38:26
  Speaker 6: I mean, jerseys are too expensive nowadays. I was considering
• 38:30
  Speaker 6: getting a Matt Collins shirt. I went to NFL shop
• 38:32
  Speaker 6: and you have to customize the jersey because they're not
• 38:34
  Speaker 6: just selling Matt Collins jerseys. It's the A.J.
• 38:36
  Speaker 7: Brown.
• 38:36
  Speaker 6: It's the Drake Mays. I go to the NFL shop.
• 38:39
  Speaker 6: It's like one seventy five and the material is terrible.
• 38:41
  Speaker 6: That's another thing. Fanatics has completely ruined the Jersey game.
• 38:44
  Speaker 5: Jesus Christ.
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: Just know that when Taylor's trotting around town in South
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: Florida wearing a paint or anywhere for that matter. wearing
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: a Patriot shirt. He is not a Patriot fan. He
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: is just a Mac Collins fan. The Patriots logo is
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: a symbol of his friendship for Mac Collins and his
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: dedication and loyalty to his friend, Mac Collins. If Mac
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: Collins was playing for the jets, he'd be wearing a
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: jet shirt.
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: Unfortunately.
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: I don't like associating with the Patriots is wearing a
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: Patriot shirt.
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: I'm just right.
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: So anyway, FanDuel three and a half right now. The
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: Seahawks are favored. This is a Super Bowl rematch, of course.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: Who do we like here tonight? Because I'm thinking Seahawks
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: for me.
• 39:22
  Speaker 6: I like the Patriots plus three and a half just
• 39:25
  Speaker 6: because the Seahawks have so much that they're replacing. Kenneth Walker, Reeves. Wolling,
• 39:30
  Speaker 6: Kobe Bryant, Boy Mafe off the edge. And when you're
• 39:35
  Speaker 6: looking at what they brought in, yeah, they brought in
• 39:37
  Speaker 6: a nice running back from Notre Dame with a first
• 39:39
  Speaker 6: round pick, but You look at the Patriots moves and
• 39:42
  Speaker 6: it feels like the Patriots moves were more intentional, bringing
• 39:46
  Speaker 6: in Verit Tucker to help kind of shore off their
• 39:48
  Speaker 6: offensive line. Romeo Dobbs and A.J.
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: Brown.
• 39:50
  Speaker 6: This Patriot team is a lot better than the team
• 39:53
  Speaker 6: that they played in the Super Bowl. And I think
• 39:55
  Speaker 6: it's going to take a while for for the Seahawks
• 39:57
  Speaker 6: team to kind of get up to speed.
• 39:59
  Speaker 5: They get a banner raised tonight. What do you think, Mikey?
• 40:03
  Speaker 4: Early in the season, defense is always ahead of offense.
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: And I think with the defensive mind that the Seahawks
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: have and the talent they have on the defense, I
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: think the Seahawks are going to win this game handily.
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 40:15
  Speaker 5: Handily.
• 40:16
  Speaker 7: Wow.
• 40:16
  Speaker 5: All right. Wow. Yeah. It made you rethink your stance here, Taylor.
• 40:21
  Speaker 6: Well, now I'm switching.
• 40:22
  Speaker 5: No.
• 40:23
  Speaker 6: Originally, I said Patriots plus three and a half. And
• 40:26
  Speaker 6: now I'm switching it to Patriots win this game.
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: Money line.
• 40:29
  Speaker 6: Comfortably.
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: Money line.
• 40:30
  Speaker 5: Oh, really?
• 40:32
  Speaker 6: I see your handedly and I raise it to comfortably.
• 40:34
  Speaker 5: You're fading Mikey A, huh? Someone's got to give. One
• 40:39
  Speaker 5: of you has got to be right.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: So Baker Mayfield, he had a two-year $ 100 million offer.
• 40:48
  Speaker 5: That wasn't enough. He was upset.
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: And now the bucks have come through for Baker Mayfield.
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: It is now a three-year $ 165 million contract. They've agreed
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: to that. So they tacked on a year. They tacked
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: on $ 65 million. and they made Baker Mayfield feel good
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: about what he's done in Tampa Bay. I worry, though,
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: because you have taken the chip off of Baker Mayfield's shoulder.
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: Perhaps he'll find another one. I'm certain that he will.
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: Maybe he wanted 170 instead of what it is that
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: he actually agreed to. But Baker Mayfield, who has been
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: great and who has earned and deserves this contract, He
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: gets three years, 165, but I don't like Baker without
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: having some sort of chip on his shoulder.
• 41:31
  Speaker 6: So when you see that Baker Mayfield is getting $ 55
• 41:34
  Speaker 6: million per year, I think we just got our answer
• 41:37
  Speaker 6: to how much money it would take to put up
• 41:39
  Speaker 6: with Todd Bowles being your head coach.
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: $ 55 million a year.
• 41:42
  Speaker 5: That's it. They can go 8-9, 9-8, and they probably will.
• 41:47
  Speaker 5: And Bowles will be right back there next year.
• 41:49
  Speaker 6: This goes back to the point, though, that Chris Sims
• 41:52
  Speaker 6: makes with us. Yes, this is now the new market
• 41:56
  Speaker 6: when it comes for quarterbacking, but it's hard to justify
• 42:00
  Speaker 6: paying Baker Mayfield $ 55 million a year where you're seeing
• 42:04
  Speaker 6: a team like the Chiefs with Patrick Mahomes struggling to
• 42:07
  Speaker 6: put talent around him because of what you're paying these
• 42:10
  Speaker 6: top-level quarterbacks. And I think this is now why you're seeing—
• 42:14
  Speaker 6: teams like the Seahawks winning with Sam Darnold, where they're
• 42:17
  Speaker 6: paying him like $ 33 million. And then if it ever
• 42:20
  Speaker 6: gets to the point where you have to pay Sam
• 42:22
  Speaker 6: Darnold that, that upper echelon quarterback money, goodbye. And we'll,
• 42:27
  Speaker 6: we'll find our next quarterback. We'll reset the cycle. And
• 42:30
  Speaker 6: this just feels like the bucks kind of giving into
• 42:32
  Speaker 6: the demands of, okay, we'll pay a good quarterback, but
• 42:35
  Speaker 6: not an elite quarterback, this money.
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: But this is also why there's so much pressure on
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: rookie quarterbacks coming out of college to start and be
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: good right away because everybody wants to win while they're
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: in that small window where we're not paying you record-setting,
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: market-resetting money. We're paying all the other guys around you,
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: and you have to.
• 42:55
  Speaker 4: Be good enough.
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: That's why I think you're seeing so many quarterbacks come in,
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: get thrown into the fire, and flame out.
• 43:01
  Speaker 5: Except Mendoza.
• 43:02
  Speaker 4: Except Mendoza yet.
• 43:06
  Speaker 5: Right. They're going Kirk Cousins. No, it's a fair point.
• 43:08
  Speaker 5: You have that two or three year window where if
• 43:10
  Speaker 5: the quarterback Bo Nix is in it right now. Right.
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: With the Broncos. He's kind of in it right now.
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: Here are the quarterbacks that are paid more on average
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: than Baker Mayfield. Mahomes at sixty three point one million.
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: Deserved more. He deserves more. Dak Prescott at sixty million. Dak,
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: that's a tough one.
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: Josh Allen at $ 55 million. Joe Burrow at $ 55 million.
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford, Baker Mayfield, Trevor Lawrence, Jordan Love, all at
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: $ 55 million annually. Below that, this is important, below Baker,
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: Jared Goff, Brock Purdy. I feel like Baker's kind of
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: slotted in correctly.
• 43:54
  Speaker 6: I really do. I think Baker's better than Jared Goff. No,
• 43:58
  Speaker 6: he's for sure slotted in correctly. My argument would just
• 44:02
  Speaker 6: be you are better off in this next quarterback draft
• 44:06
  Speaker 6: taking a chance on one of those guys, whether it's
• 44:09
  Speaker 6: a Dante Moore, an Arch Manning. Even if your pick
• 44:12
  Speaker 6: isn't the best pick, reaching on somebody like Trinidad Chambliss
• 44:15
  Speaker 6: from Ole Miss. than committing this kind of financial commitment
• 44:19
  Speaker 6: to Baker Mayfield when you're the Tampa Bay Bucs and
• 44:22
  Speaker 6: Baker Mayfield really isn't doing much to help elevate you
• 44:25
  Speaker 6: to be a Super Bowl contender when now you have
• 44:28
  Speaker 6: to pay him this kind of money and you still
• 44:30
  Speaker 6: have so many more holes on your rosters.
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: They've made the playoffs in two of his three seasons,
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: I believe. But once they get there, they do nothing.
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: So you're saying to pay a guy $ 55 million. Mikey,
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: they've made the playoffs two out of the last three years.
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: And I'm pretty sure they beat the Eagles one year
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: when the Eagles were a juggernaut. So to say they've
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: done nothing is really saying they haven't gone to the
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: championship game.
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: I'm just saying for $ 55 million, when you're paying a
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: quarterback $ 55 million, you'd like to be a Super Bowl contender.
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: I don't think anyone views the Bucs as a playoff team, yes.
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: Win a game in the playoffs, yes. Win three games
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: and go to the Super Bowl, no. Todd Bowles is
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: my response.
• 45:12
  Speaker 6: At that point, if this Bucs team wins a Super
• 45:15
  Speaker 6: Bowl with Baker Mayfield, they would have had to exceed expectations,
• 45:20
  Speaker 6: you know, 10 times over.
• 45:21
  Speaker 5: Right. Yes, that's what I'm saying. And so Taylor's asking
• 45:25
  Speaker 5: a very good question.
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: Is it worth paying that guy $ 55 million a year
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: when you could be bad and just get a rookie
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: quarterback on a rookie contract?
• 45:35
  Speaker 4: Ask a Jets fan. Ask a Browns fan.
• 45:39
  Speaker 5: The answer was yes for the Jets. Their quarterback just
• 45:42
  Speaker 5: became great in Seattle. Which one?
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: All right, we'll get to our game. Just me or
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: is it just me or is the name of the game?
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: Perhaps I'll say it correctly. But Mikey, a funny thing
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: has happened here. We had Joel Anderson from the ringer
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: on yesterday. He is fantastic.
• 46:01
  Speaker 5: I love him.
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: I can't spend enough time with him. He is so
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: good at what it is he does.
• 46:06
  Speaker 5: Seriously. His knowledge is excellent, but.
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: He made a claim yesterday and Taylor has not stopped
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: texting me since he made the claim that he invented
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: raise the roof.
• 46:18
  Speaker 5: He just won't stop. He's relentless Taylor. And I'm not
• 46:21
  Speaker 5: certain if he believes Joel Anderson. I mean, so I, I.
• 46:25
  Speaker 6: Want to go on the record and say, I believe
• 46:27
  Speaker 6: Joel Anderson.
• 46:28
  Speaker 5: You love Joel Anderson.
• 46:29
  Speaker 6: I stand with Joel Anderson.
• 46:30
  Speaker 5: You love the ringer. Yeah.
• 46:31
  Speaker 6: It's just funny to think that that dance had to
• 46:34
  Speaker 6: originate somewhere. That celebration had to originate somewhere. And nobody
• 46:39
  Speaker 6: else has kind of stepped up and said, yeah, I
• 46:41
  Speaker 6: invented it. Because Joel's walking around telling everybody, no, I
• 46:45
  Speaker 6: invented it in Houston, Texas in the early 90s. And
• 46:50
  Speaker 6: nobody else is saying, you know what?
• 46:51
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 46:52
  Speaker 6: It's not me.
• 46:53
  Speaker 5: And so I Googled. Yes.
• 46:54
  Speaker 6: I Googled raise the roof origin celebration.
• 46:58
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 46:58
  Speaker 6: 1994 high school pep rally pumping the palm upward with
• 47:03
  Speaker 6: the elbow out is widely attributed to a 16 year
• 47:07
  Speaker 6: old student named Joel Anderson.
• 47:09
  Speaker 5: Get out of here. He was telling the truth.
• 47:13
  Speaker 4: What? Well, cause he's widely attributing it to himself.
• 47:17
  Speaker 5: Well, he claimed it. I mean, he saw an empty
• 47:19
  Speaker 5: lane and he said, that's mine.
• 47:22
  Speaker 4: Respect.
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: Why are you laughing in a way that you're covering
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: your mouth with your hands?
• 47:29
  Speaker 5: What are you doing?
• 47:30
  Speaker 6: Because I'm just reading further. Everything that he said, it
• 47:33
  Speaker 6: confirms it because the Houston Comets, the WNBA team in
• 47:37
  Speaker 6: the late 90s got credit. But again, Joel was in
• 47:40
  Speaker 6: Houston where he says he originated. And then in 1997,
• 47:43
  Speaker 6: you got Uncle Luke in Coming out with the song
• 47:47
  Speaker 6: Raise the Roof.
• 47:48
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 47:49
  Speaker 6: Joel started a movement.
• 47:50
  Speaker 5: He deserves royalties. He does.
• 47:52
  Speaker 6: We'll have to talk to Uncle Luke about that.
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: Get him on the show with Joel Anderson. We should
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: do that. It'd be fun. Let's get to Is It
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: Just Me Or. The NFL kicks off tonight. I wanted
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: to talk tennis the entire afternoon. The guys haven't left.
• 48:11
  Speaker 4: And I won't.
• 48:12
  Speaker 5: Well, I might. You might not have a choice here.
• 48:17
  Speaker 4: It could be your just me or.
• 48:20
  Speaker 5: Look at you. Look at me and you. Back and forth,
• 48:24
  Speaker 5: a little rally. How about it? How about that? It's
• 48:28
  Speaker 5: been a day. Who's kicking off the proceedings here? Taylor,
• 48:30
  Speaker 5: you want to go first?
• 48:32
  Speaker 6: Yep, I'll go first.
• 48:33
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 48:34
  Speaker 6: Is it just me or when a team does a giveaway,
• 48:37
  Speaker 6: a promotional night, It shouldn't be for a select group
• 48:41
  Speaker 6: of fans there. It should be for the entire stadium
• 48:44
  Speaker 6: or nobody. I go to a Yankee game earlier and
• 48:47
  Speaker 6: it was George Costanza bobblehead night. First 18,000 fans in attendance.
• 48:51
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 48:52
  Speaker 6: First off, I had to get, it was a seven
• 48:54
  Speaker 6: o'clock game. I had to get there at five o'clock
• 48:55
  Speaker 6: just to get in line for the bobblehead. I'm standing
• 48:58
  Speaker 6: out there like a schlub for two hours waiting for
• 49:00
  Speaker 6: this bobblehead.
• 49:01
  Speaker 5: That's because it's a popular gift.
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 49:03
  Speaker 6: I mean, OK, you're the New York Yankees. Have some
• 49:06
  Speaker 6: pride and say our attendance is 40,000. We're making 40,000
• 49:10
  Speaker 6: George Costanza bobbleheads. So Taylor doesn't have to get to
• 49:14
  Speaker 6: the stadium at 5 p.m.
• 49:16
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: It's why that uh it's why that team is worth
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: a billion dollars taylor plus.
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: I would have liked it better if they did we're
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: selling 40 000 we're making 39 000 bobbleheads.
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: Right and i gotta be honest thousand of you not
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: getting it if you're 18 000 and one you don't
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: deserve one i mean.
• 49:34
  Speaker 6: Stu, you don't understand how early people are getting here
• 49:36
  Speaker 6: for bobbleheads. It's like people are getting the bobbleheads and
• 49:40
  Speaker 6: then they're just flipping them on eBay for like $ 35.
• 49:44
  Speaker 6: You can't tell me it's worth it to get to
• 49:46
  Speaker 6: the Bronx at 3 p.m. for a George Costanza bobblehead
• 49:49
  Speaker 6: night so you could sell it four hours later for
• 49:52
  Speaker 6: a profit of $ 50. $ 35.
• 49:54
  Speaker 5: So what do you say? And spend those extra hours working?
• 49:56
  Speaker 6: Yeah, get a real job. And leave me the bobbleheads.
• 50:00
  Speaker 5: Stop trying to flip bobbleheads. Did you get one?
• 50:04
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I did.
• 50:06
  Speaker 5: Did you flip it?
• 50:07
  Speaker 6: No, I kept it right on my shelf.
• 50:10
  Speaker 5: You don't like George Costanza?
• 50:12
  Speaker 6: Oh, that's where you're wrong.
• 50:13
  Speaker 5: Oh, really?
• 50:14
  Speaker 6: I love Seinfeld.
• 50:14
  Speaker 5: I didn't know that. I'm sorry.
• 50:16
  Speaker 6: Any show that's set in New York, I love. King
• 50:18
  Speaker 6: of Queens.
• 50:19
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Friends.
• 50:20
  Speaker 4: Friends.
• 50:21
  Speaker 5: You love Friends, huh?
• 50:25
  Speaker 6: Everybody loves Raymond. Oh, I love everybody loves Raymond.
• 50:27
  Speaker 5: Why? Because it's about a sports writer from Long Island?
• 50:30
  Speaker 6: Correct. My big three is probably Seinfeld, King of Queens.
• 50:35
  Speaker 6: Everybody loves Raymond.
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: When we're in Tahoe and you see Ray Romano, when
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: you know he's a friend of mine because he says
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: hi to me every time he passes me, how come
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: you don't ask Ray to come on?
• 50:43
  Speaker 5: If you're such a big fan of the show, just
• 50:45
  Speaker 5: ask him to come on next year.
• 50:46
  Speaker 6: He never looks like he wants to come on.
• 50:48
  Speaker 5: He doesn't want to come on.
• 50:49
  Speaker 6: He never looks like it.
• 50:51
  Speaker 5: But he will come on if you ask him to.
• 50:54
  Speaker 4: He'll get josted.
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: No, not by him. Listen, he'd be unhappy to come
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: on the show with us. Because he's always unhappy. Mikey,
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: you have one here?
• 51:08
  Speaker 5: I do.
• 51:09
  Speaker 4: Is it just me?
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: Or if you've seen one overseas NFL game, you've seen
• 51:15
  Speaker 3: them all as we're getting into the NFL season, as
• 51:18
  Speaker 3: it starts tonight, I can't wait. There's going to be
• 51:21
  Speaker 3: a game in Melbourne tomorrow. And I feel like it's
• 51:23
  Speaker 3: just going to look like every other game that's in
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: London or Germany or Spain or wherever.
• 51:28
  Speaker 4: Else they get played. They're always sloppy. They're always not
• 51:31
  Speaker 4: nearly as fun as we want them to be.
• 51:34
  Speaker 3: And I'll be excited when there's a game at 930
• 51:36
  Speaker 3: in the morning just because it gets to extend.
• 51:38
  Speaker 4: My football day. But if you've seen one game, you've
• 51:41
  Speaker 4: seen them all.
• 51:42
  Speaker 6: It's the game you're excited for, that 9 a.m.
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: Game.
• 51:45
  Speaker 6: And then by the third quarter, you're like, wow, this
• 51:46
  Speaker 6: is really bad football. Watching J.J. McCarthy play Bo Nix.
• 51:51
  Speaker 5: Yeah, but this is Rams and Niners.
• 51:54
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 51:55
  Speaker 5: It's absurd. Did Raheem Morris miss a birthday on his
• 51:58
  Speaker 5: flight to Australia? Yes. I read that somewhere.
• 52:04
  Speaker 3: He took off on the second, his birthday was the third,
• 52:07
  Speaker 3: and he landed on the fourth.
• 52:08
  Speaker 5: Really? Poor Raheem. EP Jason, you have one?
• 52:17
  Speaker 7: Is it just me, guys, or should the Dodgers and
• 52:19
  Speaker 7: Dave Roberts just sit Shohei Ohtani for the rest of
• 52:22
  Speaker 7: the season? They're winning without him. I think he's had
• 52:25
  Speaker 7: two hits in the last eight games he's played in,
• 52:28
  Speaker 7: and those two hits have been singles. He's got a
• 52:31
  Speaker 7: case of the Kyle Tucker toxic mopiness. He's just moping
• 52:37
  Speaker 7: around the dugout, and let's just sit him for the
• 52:39
  Speaker 7: rest of the season and bring him back for the postseason.
• 52:41
  Speaker 4: Is it just me or no?
• 52:43
  Speaker 5: No, Shohei Ohtani. How about that?
• 52:46
  Speaker 4: No hit Ohtani.
• 52:47
  Speaker 5: No hit Ohtani, yes. He hasn't been good.
• 52:50
  Speaker 6: He's running out of gas. I think there is something there.
• 52:53
  Speaker 5: Well, that's why the Dodgers are so frustrating. They don't
• 52:56
  Speaker 5: need him. They never did.
• 53:01
  Speaker 6: Last 15 days, he's batting 139.
• 53:05
  Speaker 5: Yeah, but they're playing good baseball without him.
• 53:07
  Speaker 6: They might be better without him. Ewing theory.
• 53:09
  Speaker 5: Put it on the ball. The Dodgers better without Shohei Ohtani.
• 53:17
  Speaker 5: Is it just me or... Let me try that again.
• 53:23
  Speaker 5: Is it just me or is American tennis back?
• 53:29
  Speaker 4: It's just you.
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: You know, you sit around the days of John McEnroe
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: and Roscoe Tanner and Jimmy Connors and Sarita and Venus
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: and Chris Everett Lloyd, Chrissy, and you say to yourself,
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: when is U.S.
• 53:42
  Speaker 5: Tennis going to come back? It's been a while. It's
• 53:44
  Speaker 5: been since Andy Roddick, and now it's back. U.S. Open.
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: You have Blake Shelton. You have Francis Tiafoe in the semifinals.
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: One of those guys will advance to the finals of
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: the U.S. Open, and then you have Pagoula and Coco Gaul.
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: On the day that football starts, let me just say this.
• 54:02
  Speaker 4: U.S.
• 54:03
  Speaker 5: Tennis is back!