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  Speaker 2: This is the Best of Stugatz & Company live on
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  Speaker 1: So we start today with a surprise small fact.
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  Speaker 3: Of the day.
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  Speaker 1: I have no idea what this is. Ben Verlander going
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  Speaker 1: to join us coming up. In about 15 minutes, we'll
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  Speaker 1: talk some baseball with him. But Taylor tells me, Mikey,
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  Speaker 1: he has a surprise small fact of the day. I
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  Speaker 1: have no idea. Are you aware of what it is
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  Speaker 1: he's about to unleash on us here at Small, though?
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  Speaker 3: I have tried to figure out what this could be,
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  Speaker 3: and he is giving absolutely nothing.
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  Speaker 4: He won't tell me what sport, if it is a
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  Speaker 4: sport that it has to do with. He will tell
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  Speaker 4: me absolutely nothing about this.
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  Speaker 3: Yes. To the point where this could actually be anything.
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  Speaker 4: He could be telling me about a black hole supernova
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  Speaker 4: type thing, and I still don't know.
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  Speaker 1: You were very Izzy-like. He announced that he had a
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  Speaker 1: surprise small fact of the day. You did ask a
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  Speaker 1: ton of follow-up questions, and he gave us nothing. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: He gave us absolutely– it's a big secret. He will
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  Speaker 1: not reveal a single thing to us, even though it's
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  Speaker 1: a very short fact.
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  Speaker 3: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 4: This is a short fact that all he did was say,
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  Speaker 4: I have a short fact for you guys that you're
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  Speaker 4: not going to believe. But at this point, I've asked
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  Speaker 4: so many questions and gotten so little response that this
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  Speaker 4: can't live up to anything.
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  Speaker 1: No. He also said he has a short game for
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  Speaker 1: us right after the short fact of the day. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: everything's short. All right, Taylor. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: You have piqued our curiosity. What is your surprise small
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  Speaker 1: fact of the day?
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  Speaker 5: So my fact that'll surprise you, because I'm not sure
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  Speaker 5: this is on anybody's radar. I'm not sure anybody's aware
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  Speaker 5: of it.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 5: The NHL starts tonight.
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  Speaker 3: What? We're back on the ice.
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  Speaker 5: This is a situation where the NHL has to know
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  Speaker 5: its place in the sports calendar.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 5: We got MLB postseason starting tonight. We're in the heart
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  Speaker 5: of the college football season, the heart of the NFL season.
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  Speaker 5: We don't need NHL at this point.
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  Speaker 1: Mikey, you seem blown away by that small fact of
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  Speaker 1: the day, as was I, by the way. I had
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  Speaker 1: no idea the Florida Panthers season started tonight. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: hockey starts. Hockey is back, Mikey. I belong to.
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  Speaker 3: All of the betting sites. And usually you get, Hey,
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  Speaker 3: the season started today.
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  Speaker 4: Here's a prop profit boost token for you.
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  Speaker 3: I've gotten nothing.
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  Speaker 4: I had zero idea that we were back on the
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  Speaker 4: ice today.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta be honest. If a Taylor didn't provide us
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  Speaker 1: with the surprise, small fat to the day, a month
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  Speaker 1: could have gone by. I still wouldn't have known that
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  Speaker 1: hockey had started. How about that? Huh?
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  Speaker 3: So who you guys got lifting the cup?
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  Speaker 1: Who lifted the cup last year? Who did?
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  Speaker 3: The Hurricanes.
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  Speaker 1: That's right. Congratulations to Rob Brindamore. How about that? Who
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  Speaker 1: hoisted this year? It's not going to be Edmonton. It's
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  Speaker 1: never Edmonton. It was Edmonton back in the 80s after
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  Speaker 1: the Islanders won. It hasn't been Edmonton since. So who's
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  Speaker 1: going to hoist the cup before we get to some
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  Speaker 1: baseball here?
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  Speaker 5: Ricardo is over my shoulder right now saying the florida
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  Speaker 5: panthers he keeps doing the i like their sound effect he's.
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  Speaker 1: Like yeah they got the wingmen they got brady and
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  Speaker 1: matthew kachuk it's a great podcast i love those guys
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  Speaker 1: uh yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Mikey listen nobody follows hockey like i do nobody follows
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  Speaker 4: the pucks like i do yes i mean i knew
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  Speaker 4: the hurricanes won last year yes so i'm telling you
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  Speaker 4: now right The Avalanche's Cup to lose.
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  Speaker 1: Put it on the poll, Taylor. Did you know the
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  Speaker 1: NHL season starts tonight?
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  Speaker 4: There's going to be 12 hockey hardos that are going
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  Speaker 4: to be so mad that that's even on the poll.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry, guys. Follow a better sport.
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  Speaker 1: Right, like hardcore hockey fans who are like, why are
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  Speaker 1: you guys doing this? Why are you talking like this
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  Speaker 1: about my sport? How do you not know when you
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  Speaker 1: do this for a living, host a national show– One
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  Speaker 1: of the four majors starts tonight.
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  Speaker 3: Who is worse? Which hard-o? Soccer hard-o or hockey hard-o?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, soccer hard-o is the worst. No, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 5: Hockey hard-o is worse because the hockey guy is always
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  Speaker 5: in comparison with the NBA, and they'll do anything in
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  Speaker 5: their power to let you know why the NBA is
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  Speaker 5: worse than soccer. The NHL and everybody else kind of
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  Speaker 5: watching is like, hockey guy, nobody really cares.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but the soccer hard-o is different. The soccer hard-o
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  Speaker 1: is constantly trying to explain why the game is so beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: Why the game is so great. They're constantly trying to
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  Speaker 1: explain to me what it is that I'm watching. I
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm watching. I'm watching two teams play on
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  Speaker 1: a pitch and no one's scoring goals. That's what I'm
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  Speaker 1: watching every single time I tune into soccer. I know
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  Speaker 1: what it is. I just don't like it.
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  Speaker 5: So the soccer guy is trying to explain the sport
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  Speaker 5: to you. The NHL guy is trying to convince you
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  Speaker 5: to like his sport.
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  Speaker 4: See, I agree with both of you, but I think
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  Speaker 4: the answer is easy. Soccer guy wants you to watch
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  Speaker 4: his sport. He wants to bring you in. He wants
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  Speaker 4: to grow it. Hockey guy is looking down on you
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  Speaker 4: because you're not already there with him.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the soccer guy could grow it if the
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  Speaker 1: soccer guy would go out on the pitch and score
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  Speaker 1: a couple of goals for me.
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  Speaker 4: Well, listen, we're not talking about which sport is better.
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  Speaker 4: We're talking about which hard-o is worse.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. Well, for me, it's soccer, but I understand why
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  Speaker 1: you guys would say hockey because Taylor's right. The soccer
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  Speaker 1: hard-o is simply trying to grow the sport. He cares
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  Speaker 1: that much about it that he wants to take the time.
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  Speaker 1: He wants to explain it to you. The hockey hard-o,
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  Speaker 1: he has no time to explain anything. He just wants
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  Speaker 1: you to watch. They're both awful meals because one of
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  Speaker 1: them has better customer service. Soccer does, right. It's like
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  Speaker 1: Chris Whittingham explaining soccer to you. He's going to do it.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to do it.
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  Speaker 3: He's got a smile. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: He's very polite. And you might actually find yourself liking
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  Speaker 1: soccer just because you like the guy who's explaining soccer
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  Speaker 1: to you.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Listen, I had a three-week run where I was really
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  Speaker 4: into Chelsea. And then they lost a couple of games.
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  Speaker 4: And I just– and football started. And I just completely
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  Speaker 4: checked out.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Who was my soccer team?
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  Speaker 4: I forget.
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  Speaker 1: I forget.
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  Speaker 5: Ashton Villa.
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  Speaker 1: How are they doing?
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  Speaker 5: They can't be doing well.
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  Speaker 1: They're just not that good. Let's talk some Yankees here
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  Speaker 1: before Ben Verlander comes on. You have Yankees, Red Sox tonight.
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  Speaker 1: You guys excited? Yankees and Red Sox. I mean, come on.
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  Speaker 1: I know you want it later in the playoffs, but
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  Speaker 1: you do have Yankees, Red Sox, wild card round. No judge.
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  Speaker 1: Stanton's playing. Not the guy you want playing. You'd rather
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  Speaker 1: have judge. If you could only choose one, you would
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  Speaker 1: want judge over Stanton. But how do you guys feel
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  Speaker 1: headed into the series?
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  Speaker 5: So I'm nervous heading into the series with no Aaron
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  Speaker 5: judge because you would like your MVP who crushes lefties.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: In against a team that's going to primarily throw lefties.
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  Speaker 5: Game one for me, it's as close as a must
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  Speaker 5: win as you could get when you have somebody like
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  Speaker 5: Cam Schlittler taking the mound for the Yankees. He's going
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  Speaker 5: to go up against Peyton Tolley from the Red Sox.
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  Speaker 5: And Tolley has held the Yankees to an 093 batting
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  Speaker 5: average over his career. He's 1-0,. 69 ERA, 18 strikeouts
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  Speaker 5: in his career against the Yankees. This is just strength
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  Speaker 5: on strength right now with Tolley and Schlittler. And right now,
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  Speaker 5: you would be... The only thing that gives me confidence, Mikey,
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  Speaker 5: is that this series is in New York. Other than that,
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  Speaker 5: I'm very scared for this wildcard series.
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  Speaker 3: Hmm.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not sure I wouldn't rather have a playoff Stanton
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  Speaker 4: on the roster right now than a playoff judge.
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  Speaker 3: Now, I want Aaron Judge back.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 4: He does hit lefties and all that stuff. But let's
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  Speaker 4: not discount what playoff Stanton is like. I will say this, though.
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  Speaker 4: This is kind of a lose-lose series for us because either–
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  Speaker 4: the Yankees are going to win and dominate like they're
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  Speaker 4: supposed to, because they are the better team.
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  Speaker 3: They're the better roster. There is no, like they just
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  Speaker 3: are the better.
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  Speaker 4: Team or they're going to lose in those ugly fashion
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  Speaker 4: stolen base in the ninth inning, followed by a single
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  Speaker 4: to lose the game type ways. Not that I'm still
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  Speaker 4: reeling from 2004. And it's just going to break my heart.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Aaron Judge batted 500 last postseason.
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  Speaker 5: I think we might want him in the lineup.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, 500, Mikey. And how many games? How many games?
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  Speaker 1: How many at-bats? Give me all the postseasons. What did
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  Speaker 1: he go, two for four? Hold on, I want to
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  Speaker 1: hear them all. Just relax for a second. He'll get
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  Speaker 1: to them. He's getting to them. He'll get to them.
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  Speaker 1: I want to hear all of them because this is
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  Speaker 1: the guy that Mikey doesn't– I.
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  Speaker 3: Didn't say I didn't want him in the lineup.
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  Speaker 4: I'm just saying historically postseason Stanton better than postseason.
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  Speaker 1: If you noticed, I was pulling my thoughts back there
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  Speaker 1: for a second. This is a guy he'd rather have
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  Speaker 1: over Stanton, would less rather have than Stanton on his
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  Speaker 1: playoff roster. Give me the numbers from last year for Judge.
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  Speaker 5: So last postseason, he was 13 of 26 in seven games.
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  Speaker 5: The one knock, if you're trying to give Mike Yeh
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  Speaker 5: credit here, only one of those 13 hits was a
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  Speaker 5: home run.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: So so that's the knock on Aaron judge that he
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  Speaker 5: has seven RBIs in seven games. And you would expect
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  Speaker 5: better production in terms of extra base hits for somebody
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  Speaker 5: like him when it carries over into the postseason.
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  Speaker 1: But what Mikey A is saying is the Yankees have
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  Speaker 1: to win this. Winning this series just means they did
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  Speaker 1: what they were supposed to do. Losing this series, you
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  Speaker 1: never stop hearing it from Boston. I'm totally with you
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  Speaker 1: on this, yes. You have to win this series. You
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  Speaker 1: have the better team, and you do have the better
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  Speaker 1: pitcher tonight, and you're at home.
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  Speaker 3: And where I live in Connecticut, it's a 50-50 split.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's it's it's a lot. So I can't
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  Speaker 3: get away from it. Taylor, you're down in Miami.
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  Speaker 4: Right. The Yankees lose and you just walk down the
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  Speaker 4: street and just nobody cares.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: I have to no matter where I go, there's somebody
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  Speaker 4: that knows I'm a Yankee fan.
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  Speaker 3: I go to the deli. They're like, oh, how about
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  Speaker 3: your Yankees? Go Sox.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. Mikey lives in a neighborhood where his neighbor could
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  Speaker 1: be a Red Sox fan, could be a Yankee fan.
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  Speaker 1: Every other house is a Yankee fan, Red Sox fan,
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  Speaker 1: Yankee fan. Red Sox fan. Although people do like to
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  Speaker 1: mock the Yankees nationally. They do. Doesn't matter. Like Taylor
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  Speaker 1: might walk into a deli in South Florida. It might
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  Speaker 1: be one random guy, you know, Ricardo, who just starts
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  Speaker 1: mocking him because the Yankees have lost to the Red Sox.
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  Speaker 1: But you're right. Other than that, no one really cares,
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  Speaker 1: especially down here.
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  Speaker 5: My only pushback here is that. Calling this series a
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  Speaker 5: lose-lose for the Yankees. Because if you win, you still
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  Speaker 5: move on to the next round.
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  Speaker 3: You're supposed to win.
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  Speaker 1: If you win, you did what you were supposed to do.
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  Speaker 1: That's all I say.
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  Speaker 5: Are they really supposed to win? The Yankees are favorites
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  Speaker 5: in this series because it's in the Bronx, but I
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  Speaker 5: don't think the Yankees are supposed to win with their
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  Speaker 5: struggles against lefties.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, but if you look at their starting who should
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  Speaker 6: be the runaway Cy Young winner, and we're sitting here
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  Speaker 6: worried about Ben Toley or whatever the hell his name is.
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  Speaker 3: It's a lineup full of no names.
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  Speaker 1: It's Peyton Toley.
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  Speaker 3: Him too.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Peyton Toley.
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  Speaker 3: Him too. Yes.
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  Speaker 4: And now we're sitting here, and it's like the Red
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  Speaker 4: Sox road– an amazing run in the middle of the
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  Speaker 4: summer but they've been basically 500 since then there's no
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  Speaker 4: way the yankees should lose this series at home right
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  Speaker 4: starting cam schlittler max freed yeah and your game three
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  Speaker 4: starter just happens to be one of the best pitchers
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  Speaker 4: of the last decade like there's no way they should
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  Speaker 4: lose this.
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  Speaker 1: Series uh garrett coles who he's talking about uh most
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  Speaker 1: teams would love to have him as their ace as
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  Speaker 1: their number one starter he starts game three for the Yankees.
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  Speaker 1: Baseball is random. We all know that. The Yankees are
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  Speaker 1: the better team, have been the better team for the
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  Speaker 1: entire season. The Red Sox had their moment. They had
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  Speaker 1: their runs. But Mikey's right. They're kind of limping into
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs here.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, but even then, the Yankees are minus 170 favorites
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  Speaker 5: to win this series. It's not like they're a minus 400, like,
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  Speaker 5: a massive upset.
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  Speaker 1: No, but they're the favorites. He's just saying winning doesn't–
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  Speaker 1: it's no cause for celebration. If you win, you did
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  Speaker 1: what you were supposed to do. You moved on to
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  Speaker 1: the next round of the playoffs. If you lose, you
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  Speaker 1: get mocked by Red Sox fans who know they don't
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  Speaker 1: have a better team, yet they still beat you. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm with Mikey. We had a short fact here
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  Speaker 1: that blew us away. Hockey is starting. Now let's get
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  Speaker 1: to a short game that Taylor has for us before
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  Speaker 1: we get to Ben Verlander. Oh, there's music.
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  Speaker 5: Yep. Always is.
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  Speaker 3: Of course there is.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, if you want our football thoughts, last
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  Speaker 1: good stuff.
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  Speaker 5: So with the baseball playoffs starting today.
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  Speaker 5: Our two contestants, Mikey A.
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  Speaker 3: And Stu Gotts.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 5: I need you guys to do one thing for me.
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  Speaker 5: The Astros-White Sox game. Name either starting pitcher.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. Wow. Astros and White Sox. Wow. What a turnaround
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  Speaker 1: year for the White Sox. I mean, geez. Postseason.
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  Speaker 5: Also, while you guys are thinking, when Jose Altuve takes
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  Speaker 5: the field today, he will have played in more postseason
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  Speaker 5: games than the entire Mets franchise. Almost impossible.
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  Speaker 1: That's a great stat. That should have been your fact
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  Speaker 1: of the day. Vargas. Vargas. It's a good guess. No. No,
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  Speaker 1: it's a great guess.
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  Speaker 3: I'm trying to hear Ricardo laughing in the background.
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  Speaker 1: Well, because, yeah, there's probably 15 starting pitchers in the
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  Speaker 1: majors with the last name Borges.
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  Speaker 3: I played the numbers, man. I played the numbers.
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  Speaker 1: Vasquez.
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  Speaker 5: No, Javi Vasquez is not on the White Sox anymore.
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  Speaker 1: He's not.
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  Speaker 3: Should be.
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  Speaker 1: Contreras.
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  Speaker 5: Jose Contreras is not on.
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  Speaker 1: The White Sox.
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  Speaker 3: Mark Burley still doing things? Ah, Burley.
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  Speaker 5: Mark Burley hung it up.
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  Speaker 1: He's done, huh? Ooh, so an Astro.
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  Speaker 4: Listen, my favorite White Sox is Colston Montgomery because I
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  Speaker 4: love saying his name.
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  Speaker 3: He's an English gentleman who hits home runs.
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  Speaker 1: How about Danks? Wasn't there a pitcher named Danks?
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  Speaker 5: Bobby Danks.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: No, he's not starting, though.
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  Speaker 1: What? I think it was a closer.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Bobby Janks.
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  Speaker 1: No, there was a Danks, too, for the White Sox.
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  Speaker 5: Sure.
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  Speaker 1: Sure there was. Look it up. Back in the day.
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  Speaker 1: Not too long ago.
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  Speaker 5: John Danks.
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  Speaker 1: John Danks. Danksy. thank you later take that to the
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  Speaker 1: dank smith ah smith.
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  Speaker 5: Mikey you got it yes hey playing the numbers i
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  Speaker 5: was gonna say johnson the matchup tonight hagan smith takes
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  Speaker 5: the bump for the white socks at 5 p.m eastern
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  Speaker 5: yes first somebody named aj blue ball burnett A.J.
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  Speaker 1: Blue Ball. A.J. Burnett. Pitch for the Marlins.
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  Speaker 3: And the Yankees.
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  Speaker 1: And the Pirates. Yes, and the Pirates.
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: Really? Yep.
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: I didn't know that. I had to stop short there
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: for a second. Small fact of the day right there.
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: I had no idea. There you go.
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: Wait, so who's the pitcher that Mikey got right?
• 16:01
  Speaker 5: Hagen Smith.
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: Smith.
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: How many guesses would I have had to given you?
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: To guess his first name before you got it right,
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: you think?
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: Forever? We'd just be guessing forever. I would sneeze and
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: have a better shot of getting it right. Did you
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: say Aiken? Bless you.
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: I was going to guess Justin Verlander.
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of Stu Godson Company
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: live weekdays at 3 p.m. Eastern, 12 p.m. Pacific on
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: All right, let's get to the if the season ended today.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: It's a game we like to play around here after
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: each week. Week four is wrapped up in the NFL.
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: It moves quickly, guys. We're going to be at Radio
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: Rose and we're going to miss this thing before you
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: know it. So what do you have for us?
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: Well, week three wrapped up.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Week three. Listen, green screen. Kenneth Gainwell. I'm old.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: I'm senile.
• 17:06
  Speaker 5: I thought I lost a week.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm sorry.
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: It was a hell of a witching hour. Yes.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: Week three is wrapped up. My apologies with last night's victory.
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: Case Keenum has become the best backup in the NFL.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: What do you have for us, Mikey?
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: You want AFC playoffs, NFC playoffs or number one pick?
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: Taylor preference.
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: Are we not doing coach of the year? Because Clint
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: Kubiak has wrapped that up, right?
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: If the season ended today. If the season ended today.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Has he?
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: Ben Johnson would like a word. Ben Johnson would like
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: a word.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: Would he?
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: He would.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: I think Kubiak.
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: And that's just until Kevin O'Connell takes it from both
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: of them.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: Todd Bowles.
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: I'm not Todd Bowles.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: Todd Bowles. Brian Flores.
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: Brian Flores, my man.
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: Todd Bowles, the rare Owen three. Not on the hot
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: seat ever. Wait, so coach of the year?
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: Kubiak. So then I think we go number one pick.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: I mean, McCarthy. Who's the Browns coach? Munkin.
• 18:10
  Speaker 5: He's done way better than I thought.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: They're 2-1. Anyway, we're not doing that. AFC, Mikey.
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: You said, you said AFC playoffs, NFC.
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: Taylor, and then Taylor something. And then you ignored what
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: Taylor said. He said, just did it. You're you're listen.
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: He's in a green screen. We're good.
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: AFC playoff picture. The number one seed. No surprise. Patrick
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: Mahomes all the way back. The Kansas city chiefs. They
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: have the number one seat.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: All right. Makes sense. If the season ended today. Yes.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: Plenty of games to be played. They play the Raiders
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: this weekend.
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: But if the season ended today.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: If the season ended.
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: Today, the Denver Broncos are traveling to the Buffalo Bills.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: Playoff rematch from last year.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: Great game.
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: Revenge game for Josh Allen.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: It always is because he always loses in the postseason.
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: I was going to say.
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: Well, last year was in Denver. Now he gets it
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: at Highmark.
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah. How do you feel about Highmark, by the way?
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: I feel like I got a go to experience. It's
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: like giving a review for a restaurant before you taste
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: a meal.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: It's like commenting on someone's background when it's a green screen.
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: Like you can't really tell because you're just staring at
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: a screen.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: Thank you for reminding me.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: You're welcome.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: So this is a big game. It's a playoff game.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: It's Broncos at Bills. Josh Allen. And Bo Nix. I
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: don't know, man. I would take the Bills here. I
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: think it's Josh Allen's here. I'm going to say it.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: I think it's just if the season ended today, I
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: think it's Josh Allen's here. Yes. MVP. Yes.
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: Your second matchup in the AFC.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: The Ravens at the Jaguars. Another great game. It really is.
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: I like the Jaguars here.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: Really?
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So do I believe it in Trevor Lawrence. Are you?
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: Listen, if the season ended today, yes.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: Believing in Lamar Jackson, am I? If the season ended today,
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Baltimore with so much momentum coming off that win in
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: Rio to get themselves the home field advantage of this game.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: If the season ended today, I would take Lamar Jackson
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: and the Baltimore Ravens in that game. If the season
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: ended today.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: On the road.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I would.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: Against that juggernaut in Jacksonville.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: Yep. All right.
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: Your last playoff matchup in the AFC.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: If the season ended today.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: The 3-0 Las Vegas Raiders.
• 20:46
  Speaker 7: Jesus.
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: Get into a rock fight with the AFC North champion,
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: Pittsburgh Steelers.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins and Aaron Rodgers.
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: The last thing Aaron Rodgers wants to see right now.
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: The last thing Aaron Rodgers wants to see right now
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: is Max Crosby lined up against him. I love this
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: Raiders team. There's something about this Raiders team. I would
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: have the Raiders beating the Steelers.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: You like that?
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: You like that? I'm just trying to imagine just Lamar Jackson,
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: Josh Allen, Mahomes sweating the fact that they have to
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: play the winner. Aaron Rodgers. Kirk cousins. Oh boy.
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: No, they received. Remember one of them's got to face
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: the chiefs.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Right? I know. But just the idea of any of
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: them being afraid of either of those quarterbacks as they
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: go through the playoffs is laugh out loud. Funny. I'm
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: going to take the Raiders special season. If the season
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: ended today. Wow. Yes.
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: I don't disagree with you.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: I'm getting behind the Raiders, man.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: I am.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: I like them. Welcome.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: What do you mean, welcome? All right.
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: I've been here.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: The water's warm.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: He's been here. He has been here.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: Where?
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: He has.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: I'm not aware that he's been here. What do you mean?
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: I've been telling people since March that this Raiders team
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: was pretty good.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: That's right. The Raiders. Yes. He has been since March.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: He has been. Blessing in disguise from Max Goresby. Anyway,
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: NFC playoff.
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: NFC, your number one seed, coach of the year, Kevin O'Connell,
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: number one seed, the Minnesota Vikings.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 22:20
  Speaker 8: Fraud your first playoff matchup nfc west showdown between the
• 22:28
  Speaker 8: seattle seahawks traveling to the 49ers wow nine has been.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: The best team in the nfl this year i feel like.
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: I would pick the seahawks just because i don't think
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: the niners are going to have enough bodies to feel the.
• 22:40
  Speaker 9: Team soon plus if something happens to sam they have
• 22:48
  Speaker 9: drew lock Not the best backup.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: He's the second best backup. Case Keenum. I'm going to
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: take the Seahawks in that game to win it.
• 22:56
  Speaker 8: Okay.
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: Your next matchup. Dust off Case Keenum because it's a
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: rematch of yesterday.
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: The Chicago Bears at the Philadelphia Eagles.
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: At the Eagles. But Caleb is better.
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: Yeah, this is an easy one for the Bears winning.
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: Ooh.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: Well, listen, if you tell me Case Keenum's starting, I
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: agree with you. Ben Johnson.
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: Ben Johnson has Fangio's number right now.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: I still put it on the poll. Does Ben Johnson
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: have Fangio's number right now if the season ended today?
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: I am taking the Eagles. I still believe in Jalen Hurts.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: I still believe in Nick Sirianni. I'm taking the Eagles
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: to win.
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: And your last playoff matchup, the Detroit Lions are at
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: the Carolina Panthers.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Panthers are back, huh?
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: Matchup of cats.
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: Meow.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: A lion or a panther. Lion's the king of the jungle, right?
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: Panthers are the king of the south.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: They are. It's well said by you. Something's got to give.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: A couple of kings cutting it up. I take Carolina
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: just because I want Carolina to never stop playing football.
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: I do love that team.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: They're a roller coaster.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of Stu Godson Company
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: live weekdays at 3 p.m.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: Eastern, 12 p.m. Pacific.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: Kenneth Gainwell is going to join us coming up here
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: in about 15 minutes. I'm looking at a report right
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: now on my television before we get to if the
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: season ended today. I'm looking at a report right now.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: that Lincoln Riley's future is in jeopardy at USC.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: No kidding. You don't say.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: What took so long? Why do you think it's in
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: jeopardy right now? I mean, just out of curiosity. Is
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: it because he's coming off a loss and because his
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: player tried to take the Oregon quarterback's head off? Oh, God.
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: I would probably say it's the 5-15 record against ranked opponents.
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: That's kind of what's doing him in.
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: That would help.
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: I would say that losing in a stage like that
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: with a player acting the way he did after a
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: hit like that, I would say also is very bad
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: optics for the university.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: So what it's going to come down to, USC, I
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: don't think there's any way Lincoln Riley comes back from this.
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: I think Lincoln Riley is a dead man walking right
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: now in L.A.
• 25:33
  Speaker 7: Mm-hmm.
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: It's going to cost $ 70 million to buy him out.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: And if you're USC, you have to decide whether or
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: not that price tag is worth it. if he's just
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: going to keep dragging your program down and making a
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: mockery of your program, is $ 70 million worth it? And
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: I don't really think we have that kind of answer
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: in college football.
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: It's a big price tag, but it's also USC.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: Like if you were to tell me, hey, pick three
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: schools that have the money to do a $ 70 million buyout, USC.
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: Is one of them, right?
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: Yes. Yes. Texas. There are certain schools that can absorb
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: that amount of money. And USC, with its lack of
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: fan base, is somehow one of those schools. But that's
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: going to be a job that a lot of people covet, right? Like,
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: coaches are going to want that job. Being the head
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: coach at USC still means something. Being the coach at
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: LSU still meant something to Lane Kiffin. It's why he's
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: at LSU, even in a changing college football environment where
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: you can win anywhere. Look at Indiana. Being the head
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: coach at USC is going to mean something to somebody, right?
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: They're going to get a big name. People are going
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: to be interested.
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: I fully agree with you, but I would also ask,
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: who's available that doesn't have one of those jobs you
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: don't leave that you're like, yeah, that's the guy they
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: can go after? Who's a coach that you're looking at
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: and you're going, you know what? We could pry that
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: guy away from that program because we're USC.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: Signetti from Indiana.
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I don't think Cignetti's leaving Indiana. Probably not.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: I want you guys to think about that. I want
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: you to think about what we just said. Cignetti would
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: not leave the University of Indiana to go be the
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: head football coach at USC. Man, have things changed. That
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: is incredible.
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: I think if you're USC, the pipe dream would be
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: Alabama season blows up. Alabama moves on from Kalen DeBoer.
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: Kalen DeBoer goes over, goes back to the West Coast
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: where he had his most success at Washington. And then
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: behind that, it's... The list of coaches right now, it's
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: not really that enticing. It's not?
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: No.
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: We're going to do the song and dance that we
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: do every offseason with somebody like Kenny Dillingham and Arizona
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: State doing their best efforts to keep them. It's Sataki
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: from BYU, and we saw what happened when Penn State
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: tried to get involved last year. And then it's going
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: to be like, do they take a chance on a
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: Georgia up-and-coming coordinator?
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: Right. Do they— Do they call Pete Carroll back?
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: I would. Hey, Pete. Hey, Pete. No.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: Hey, Pete, remember?
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: Pete, remember? He's saying, hey, Pete, so many times because
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: Pete is old enough where he can't hear what's being
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: said to him. Who is this? Yeah.
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: First off, Pete Carroll runs circles around you when he's
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: like 30 years old.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: Oh, I know he does. When he's dead, he'll be
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: running circles around me.
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: If USC wants my advice, is somebody in the failed
• 28:32
  Speaker 5: NFL head coach's tree right now?
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: Take Belichick.
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: No, I'm telling USC, stay away from the NFL coach
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: that flamed out.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: All right. How about Urban Meyer? You're going to get
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: those names. Like those guys are going to be interested.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you. How about your boy, Bob Chesney? You
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: love that guy. I mean, no, no.
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: You think he leaves UCLA for USC?
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: It's USC, man.
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: I think you're, you're seeing it now in, in the
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: college football world. Like, You're not taking, I think UCLA
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: to USC at best in 2026 is a lateral move.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: Okay. How about Will Stodd, Kentucky?
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: Hold on a second. Back to that.
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: What if it comes out that he said no? like
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: what kind of tarnishes that on usc to have the
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: ucla coach say no i'm not going there too risky
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: it's it's right it's a big swing and you miss
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: it's a big miss.
• 29:26
  Speaker 7: It's embarrassing correct and i don't think a a sitting
• 29:30
  Speaker 7: scc coach is leaving their job for a usc job
• 29:34
  Speaker 7: like like stew you mentioned will stein i think if
• 29:37
  Speaker 7: you want a successful coach you're going to have to
• 29:39
  Speaker 7: go to a conference like the ACC and somebody like
• 29:41
  Speaker 7: maybe Rhett Lashley at SMU who's had success at SMU,
• 29:46
  Speaker 7: but An SMU coach is getting on.
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: The first flight to LAX to be the next USC coach.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: Would Dan Lanning leave Oregon to go to USC?
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: No.
• 29:57
  Speaker 7: No.
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: He bullies USC right now.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: I know he does.
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's hated there right now, and he should be.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to think. Would– Well, I was going to
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: say Dabo, but why would you want Dabo at this point?
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: Clemson barely wants him.
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: One for one trade. Lincoln Riley for Dabo Swinney.
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: Who says no?
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: Clemson barely wants him. It's unbelievable. But Lincoln Riley should. Listen,
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: I'm glad that his job's in jeopardy. I shouldn't say
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: I'm glad. I don't root that upon anyone. But what
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: took so long?
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: Here's my question about Lincoln Riley yes this was a
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: guy who was one of the.
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: Most coveted coaches when he was at Oklahoma.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: He was the coveted coach Mike yes what what does
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: it look.
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: Like for him now like there's no Nick Saban to
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: come come be my offensive coordinator rebuild your image and
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: you'll go take another job right there's no like Sark
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: or or Lane Kiffin did so like where who wants
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: Lincoln Riley now.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: Huh it's a good question maybe back to Oklahoma.
• 31:04
  Speaker 5: No, he's hated in Oklahoma.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: Taylor, you don't realize you can be hated for leaving
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: Oklahoma and then go back to Oklahoma and be the savior,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: and they'll love you all over again. I mean, that's
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: the way sports works.
• 31:16
  Speaker 5: I think there's always a place for somebody like Lincoln
• 31:18
  Speaker 5: Riley in the world where he's such a good offensive mind.
• 31:24
  Speaker 5: that that's going to play anywhere if his only goal
• 31:28
  Speaker 5: is let's recruit the best players, let me just focus
• 31:30
  Speaker 5: on offense, I don't have to run the entire team
• 31:34
  Speaker 5: because the problems that he had in Oklahoma and the
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: problems that he had at USC are now the same
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: where in big games, you cannot trust his defense to
• 31:42
  Speaker 5: get any stops.
• 31:43
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: But what level of school are we talking? Are we
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: talking like Arizona? Are we talking a school like that?
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: Are we talking like if Sataki leaves, is he up
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: for that job?
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: Or is that like, no, we're okay. Thank you, Lincoln.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: If Sataki leaves BYU, is Lincoln up for the BYU job? Yes.
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: It just doesn't seem like a cultural fit at BYU.
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: Of course it doesn't seem.
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: I'm talking like what program is the height of what
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: Lincoln Riley can get right now?
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: It's a good question. I don't know.
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: Bill Belichick leaves. Do you want him at North Carolina?
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: Taylor would take him at North Carolina.
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: North Carolina want him?
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: I think you take Lincoln Riley.
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: And North Carolina would want Lincoln.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 32:27
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 32:28
  Speaker 5: North Carolina is in no position right now to be,
• 32:30
  Speaker 5: to be beggars. Mikey, you mentioned the Dabo Lincoln Riley
• 32:34
  Speaker 5: one for one trade. The name I mentioned before as
• 32:37
  Speaker 5: a potential USC name, Rhett Lashley at SMU, I think
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: that's a situation where if you flip those guys and
• 32:43
  Speaker 5: get somebody new at USC and Lashley's coaching the Trojans
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: and then Lincoln Riley goes back to SMU, that's probably
• 32:49
  Speaker 5: a decent landing spot for somebody like Lincoln Riley to
• 32:53
  Speaker 5: try to get back in a much weaker conference and
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: establish himself again.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: Is there an NFL coach who perhaps is on the
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: hot seat who might be thinking, hey, you know what?
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: The college game don't look so bad right now. They're
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: getting paid over there. I'm wondering. LeFleur, probably. Yeah, but
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: LeFleur fancies himself an NFL coach.
• 33:12
  Speaker 5: Mike McDaniel.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: Oh, wow. He's right there. Oh, my God. Wow.
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: Actually, I forgot about that. Mike McDaniel is in L.A.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: He is situated right now. Wow.
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: I think I want Mike McDaniel to USC to happen.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: Why? Because you want him to be bad?
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: No, I just– you know what? I'd love to see
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: him in college.
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: I'd love to see him doing all that in college
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: in L.A.
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: I think– I mean– It just kind of fits, doesn't it?
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: Yes, it certainly does. Unlike Lincoln Riley at BYU. Satake's
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: never leaving that place enough.
• 33:52
  Speaker 5: No, they kind of showed that with Penn State, with
• 33:55
  Speaker 5: the crumble cookie money coming in and getting everybody from
• 33:58
  Speaker 5: Penn State off the Satake trail.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm trying to think of, I mean, they can
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: have Aaron Glenn. I'm just looking at it.
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: You would take Lincoln Riley?
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: For the Jets?
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: No, I would not. I'm just saying they can have
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: Aaron Glenn. I don't care who they're going to replace
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: him with. They can just have him.
• 34:17
  Speaker 5: I'm so torn on Aaron Glenn where every week, which
• 34:21
  Speaker 5: can't be a good sign for Aaron Glenn that I
• 34:23
  Speaker 5: flip-flop every week in terms of thinking that he's the
• 34:25
  Speaker 5: coach of the future because the Jets, just in comparison
• 34:29
  Speaker 5: to last year, The Jets are a much more competent
• 34:33
  Speaker 5: football team.
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: They are.
• 34:34
  Speaker 5: But then there's still moments that poke through on occasion
• 34:38
  Speaker 5: with Aaron Glenn where you're like, man, this guy, I
• 34:40
  Speaker 5: don't think he's cut out to be a head coach.
• 34:44
  Speaker 5: And if you're even questioning if a guy's cut out
• 34:47
  Speaker 5: to be an NFL head coach, I guess that's your
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: answer right there.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: Yes. Just looking through the NFL teams here. Just a
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: little scroll through the NFL teams, looking for the bad ones,
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: thinking Jim Harbaugh's not going back to college. There's no way.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: although he should. D'Amico Ryans would be a great college
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: coach and someone I would want and covet to be
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: coach of my favorite university or NFL team, for that matter,
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: even though they're 0-3. Robert Sala seems like he would
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: be a good college coach. Oh, I don't know. That's
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: a coveted job, though. I like Mike McDaniel. I think
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: Mikey's on to it. I think Mike McDaniel to USC
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: would make a lot of sense. And I'm saying this
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: having no idea if Lincoln Riley is ever going to
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: be fired. Just a rumor that he's on the hot seat.
• 35:30
  Speaker 5: Who do you guys think will be the first NFL
• 35:32
  Speaker 5: coach fired in 2026? Because it feels like a two-man
• 35:35
  Speaker 5: race right now with Todd Bowles in Tampa.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: Todd Bowles is never getting fired.
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: And Matt LaFleur in Green Bay.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: LaFleur.
• 35:41
  Speaker 5: And guess what? This week, Tampa versus Green Bay.
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: Oh, wow.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: That might be a loser-lose town. Loser doesn't get a
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: ride home, right?
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: The losing coach leaves town.
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: I'll throw out another one at you.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: Shane Steichen.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: Colts.
• 35:58
  Speaker 6: Colts.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: Colts.
• 36:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: They've already kind of given him like the shot across
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: the bow warning from the ownership. Right.
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: They they have been I mean, they lost what, nine
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: in a row. Then they eke out a win against Houston.
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: Now they're going to London.
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: I could see this ending quickly for Shane Steichen.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: I do think it's fascinating. I don't have an answer
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: for you, but I do not know if Lincoln Riley
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: would be coveted as a head coach elsewhere, anywhere. As
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: an OC, yes. As a quarterback whisperer, yes. I'm not
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: certain he would be wanted at any university. It's crazy
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: to say that because he was the hottest coach.
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: So if Lincoln Riley was willing to take an NFL
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: offensive coordinator job Are you excited?
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: Is it Chicago?
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: No.
• 36:50
  Speaker 9: We'll say it's the Jets.
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: We'll say the Jets.
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: Get rid of Glenn. They're going to hire a new coach.
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: This coach goes, hey, Lincoln Riley's my OC. We're going
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: to bring in a rookie quarterback, and here's my guy.
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: You're excited.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: I'd be excited. Would you?
• 37:05
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: I would be intrigued. I would be very intrigued.
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: Because his sole focus would be developing quarterbacks.
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: He can do that. And running an offense, he can
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: do that.
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: Yes. It is interesting. I'm not certain what took so
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: long for Lincoln Riley to be on the hot seat
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: for his future at USC to be in jeopardy. But
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: we'll see what happens with him. Before we get to
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: Kenneth Gamewell here, do you guys have any– Have any
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: other thoughts on what transpired last night? I do feel like,
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: and I've been laughing about it the entire day, we
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: are making way too much of the performance of, God,
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: who's the Texans quarterback?
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: Case Keenum.
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: That guy, yes. I'm tired. I was up all night watching.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: The Texans quarterback.
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: You mean the Chicago Bears quarterback.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: I meant the Bears quarterback, but I associate him with
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: the Texans. I'm tired because I was up all night
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: watching that game because I picked up Case Keenum on
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: waivers for my fantasy team. I needed a QB, and
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: he delivered last night. But I am laughing that we're
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: making too big of a deal about Case Keenum having
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: the game that he had at home, a singular game,
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: and we're talking about Case Keenum. He's a pro's pro.
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: Troy Aikman said when your number's called, you got to
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: be ready, and Case Keenum is always ready. And they
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: asked him about his longevity in the NFL, and he
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: said he keeps getting up. That's the key to his longevity.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: He keeps taking hits, and he keeps getting up. He
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: hasn't taken a hit in five years. But we're making
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: too much of Case Keenum. Are we not? It feels
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: like we are.
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: I feel like we are making more about Case Keenum
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: than need be. I think the star of the game
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: yesterday was Keenum, but with Ben Johnson pulling the strings,
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: I think the more intriguing thing from yesterday's matchup is
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: just how inept the Philadelphia Eagles looked. on the road
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: against a team that you should have steamrolled without their
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: starting quarterback.
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts. We've all given up on Jalen Hurts and
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: the Eagles, right? You were just waiting for that.
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: I don't think I was ever on the Jalen Hurts train.
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: I know.
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: So if you're pounding the Eagles today, you were waiting
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: for a performance like that and a game like that
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: so you could pound the Eagles today, pound the quarterback,
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: and pound Nick Sirianni.
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: You're right.
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: It's a game they should have won. They lost. The
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: Eagles are going to be fine.
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: What I think is that Jalen Hurts has been screaming
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: for years that he wants everything his way.
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: And I think this is as.
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: Close to it that the Eagles have given him with
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: the offensive game plan, the play caller, the system, all
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: of it, and I don't think it looks good.
• 39:35
  Speaker 5: And this is now just a trend for this Eagles
• 39:37
  Speaker 5: offense dating back to 2025 where they have 60 drives
• 39:41
  Speaker 5: ending in three and outs. over that stretch, which is
• 39:44
  Speaker 5: 30th in the NFL. 7.7 yards to go on third down,
• 39:49
  Speaker 5: which is 31st. 131 rushes for zero or negative yards
• 39:53
  Speaker 5: over that stretch. That's 31st. Like, Stu, since 2025, this
• 39:57
  Speaker 5: has been a pretty bad offense that's just being buoyed
• 40:01
  Speaker 5: up by somebody like Saquon Barkley at the running back position.
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: I understand that, but they're still a team. Granted, they've
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: lost A.J.
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: Brown.
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: Granted... Last night was pretty ugly, but there's still a
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: team that has won a Super Bowl recently and been
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: to two, and they have a pretty good head coach. Listen,
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: I do think the bigger story is the Eagles losing
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: that game than the Bears winning that game, and I'd
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: rather be Chicago for the remainder of this year than
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles, but I'm not giving up on Jalen Hurts.
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: I mean, and it seems like a lot of people aren't.
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: I would argue that there is very few teams more
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: talented top to bottom than the Philadelphia Eagles roster is.
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: So what's the problem?
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: Nick Sirianni. He's headed to USC. I'm sorry, Kenneth Gainwell. Next.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: Kenneth Gainwell. Man, he's got a great smile. What a
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: nice kid, huh?
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: Fantastic smile.
• 40:58
  Speaker 5: Now, this is a radio medium.
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 41:00
  Speaker 5: So the radio audience is just going to have to
• 41:02
  Speaker 5: trust us that we saw Kenneth Gainwell smile.
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 41:06
  Speaker 5: And man, that thing glistened.
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: They're going to have to trust Oral-B and Crest because
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: they wouldn't select an athlete to endorse their products if
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: he didn't indeed have a great smile. And that was
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: a great smile.
• 41:16
  Speaker 5: There was also another awkward part in or an awkward
• 41:19
  Speaker 5: part in that interview where you were questioning him on
• 41:22
  Speaker 5: how nice his background was.
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 41:24
  Speaker 5: But he had a green screen background behind him.
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: I didn't realize. Yeah.
• 41:30
  Speaker 5: You had him in like this mahogany like office setting.
• 41:34
  Speaker 5: And I think that's why he kind of laughed off
• 41:36
  Speaker 5: your question about it, because every time he moved, you
• 41:39
  Speaker 5: would see like that that very clearly wasn't the background.
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: Taylor, you could have gone the rest of the time
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: without telling me that. I just would have thought that
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: Kenneth Gainwell.
• 41:49
  Speaker 5: For some reason- Man, the Gainwell's residence is beautiful.
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: Had a dark mahogany. Rich mahogany. He studied mahogany is
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: a great word. Put it on the ball. Is mahogany
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: a great word?
• 42:01
  Speaker 4: I know you can't tell on Zoom, but as soon
• 42:04
  Speaker 4: as you said that to Kenneth Gainwell, I looked at
• 42:07
  Speaker 4: Taylor and he looked at me and we both kind
• 42:09
  Speaker 4: of gave this- Did he really just ask him about.
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: A green screen background and where he is?
• 42:15
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: Because it was clearly a green screen. Like there was
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: things coming in and out.
• 42:22
  Speaker 5: And it was.
• 42:24
  Speaker 4: Every time you say we're the same age and then
• 42:26
  Speaker 4: you do something like that, it makes me mad.
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: Well, it should make you happy that we're not the
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: same age. You're 15 years younger. Wait, so the look.
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: It's called 20.
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: The look you gave Taylor and the look that Taylor
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: gave you. Is it a look that Stugatz is old
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: and senile?
• 42:43
  Speaker 5: And the look that Kenneth Gainwell gave you while you
• 42:44
  Speaker 5: asked that question.
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: Yes, I didn't even notice. I was staring at his teeth.
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: And his mahogany. And his hands, his great hands. Wait,
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: so it was a Greed's Greed?
• 42:56
  Speaker 4: 1,000%.
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: 1,000%.
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: You're sure?
• 43:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah, my guess was he was up against a beige wall,
• 43:03
  Speaker 5: an empty wall or something.
• 43:05
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• 43:41
  Speaker 1: That's a nice story. We're making too big of a
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: deal of it. I mean, seriously. He wins the Express
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: Pros Employee of the Week? I mean, what are we
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: doing here?
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: Should. Give me a better pro this week. Go ahead.
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: I dare you.
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: He's a pros pro.
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: You're right.
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: He's a pros pro. Listen, they called his number, and
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: he was ready when his number was called. That's all
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: you can ask from a pro's pro. You're right, Mikey.
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
• 44:05
  Speaker 5: He's number one in my backup quarterback's power rankings now.
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: Really?
• 44:09
  Speaker 5: Yep.
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: He vaulted ahead of Drew Locke? I mean.
• 44:12
  Speaker 5: What have you done for me lately?
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: And Jameis.
• 44:14
  Speaker 5: Oh, Jameis stinks. Something's wrong with Jameis Winston. I'm going
• 44:18
  Speaker 5: to be the first one to call it right now. Yes.
• 44:21
  Speaker 5: There is something wrong with Jameis Winston's arm that they're
• 44:24
  Speaker 5: not telling us about. Because Jameis Winston used to be this, like,
• 44:27
  Speaker 5: fun fantasy quarterback. Like, he's out there slinging it. He's
• 44:31
  Speaker 5: going to throw interceptions. He's going to throw touchdowns.
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: He'd get you six and take six away. Yes.
• 44:36
  Speaker 5: And now when you watch him throw, there's no zip
• 44:39
  Speaker 5: on the ball.
• 44:40
  Speaker 4: No.
• 44:40
  Speaker 5: And I know it's going to happen. They're going to
• 44:42
  Speaker 5: use the Rams game as an excuse for a short
• 44:45
  Speaker 5: week in preparation. Jameis wasn't prepared, even though, again, that's
• 44:48
  Speaker 5: Jameis Winston's fault that he wasn't prepared to step into
• 44:52
  Speaker 5: that game when Jackson Dart goes down. And then the
• 44:54
  Speaker 5: Titans game, they're going to say it was weather-related. That's
• 44:58
  Speaker 5: why Jameis Winston... didn't have a great performance but there
• 45:01
  Speaker 5: is a reason why the giants went out and got
• 45:03
  Speaker 5: jj mccarthy yesterday yeah i think jamis is playing for
• 45:06
  Speaker 5: his job this weekend.
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: Uh you could have said i know what's going to
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: happen jj mccarthy is eventually going to be the starting
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: quarterback for the new york giants it would have been
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: a lot more efficient there i understand what it is
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: you're saying something is wrong with his army as a
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: noodle arm now yeah mikey.
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: What happens if J.J. McCarthy does well? I can't even
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: say it too loud. I'm not whispering. But, like, what
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: happens if he does well?
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: Right. Well, what do you mean what happens? You mean
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: next year? What happens when Jackson Dart comes back?
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: When Jackson Dart comes back, it's going to be his job.
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: But if J.J. McCarthy plays well.
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: Are teams going to be trying to get J.J. McCarthy?
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: Are the Giants going to try to resign J.J. McCarthy?
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: Do you think Jackson Dart likes the presence of J.J. McCarthy?
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: I think he likes it with Jameis.
• 45:53
  Speaker 5: There's no world where J.J. McCarthy steps into the Giants'
• 45:58
  Speaker 5: starting quarterback position enough to displace what Jackson Dart is
• 46:02
  Speaker 5: as their potential franchise quarterback.
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: There's always enough.
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: But with two years of injuries, season-ending injuries.
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: Do they lock him up a little bit? Like, hey,
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: Dart's our guy. But JJ, you just hang around. You'll
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: get some time.
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: Well, if he's good, why would you not lock him up? Yeah,
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: I would think, right? If he's good. And why would
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: you not consider him over Jackson Dart? I mean, the
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: guy's always injured.
• 46:26
  Speaker 5: It feels strange with JJ McCarthy where I'm not even
• 46:30
  Speaker 5: sure if there's a precedent of it in the NFL
• 46:32
  Speaker 5: where He was drafted in the top 10 in 2024,
• 46:36
  Speaker 5: and just 10 games into his career, we've already kind
• 46:38
  Speaker 5: of written him off as a quarterback?
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: Yes. Well, most people have. John Harbaugh hasn't. I mean,
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: he just hasn't. How do you guys feel when an
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: expert like Ben Verlander comes on and he says your
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: team is going to the World Series? I am wondering,
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: as Yankee fans, is that something that's encouraging to you?
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: Would you rather not hear about it? Like, how do
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: you feel about experts saying your team is the team
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: That's going to the World Series. He had Phillies-Yankees, which
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: is a World Series that everyone would love.
• 47:06
  Speaker 5: What I don't understand there, if you're going to go
• 47:08
  Speaker 5: as far to say the Yankees are going to make
• 47:09
  Speaker 5: the World Series, the Phillies are going to be the
• 47:12
  Speaker 5: thing that stops them?
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 47:14
  Speaker 5: The Phillies aren't like the big red machine in the 70s.
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: No, but that's why they're far from it. That's why
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: it was a bold prediction by him. He said, bold take,
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: bold prediction. He's going with the Philadelphia Phillies to make
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: it out of the National League against the Yankees. And
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: by the way, the caller who called in last week
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: about Aaron Judge, the Yankees winning a World Series without
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: Aaron Judge, Ben Verlander says they're getting there. I don't
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: know if Judge comes back or not, but if it
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: does come to fruition, that is the worst case scenario
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: for Aaron Judge.
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: It is.
• 47:49
  Speaker 4: I can't speak for Taylor, but getting to the World
• 47:51
  Speaker 4: Series is not the goal of the New York Yankees.
• 47:54
  Speaker 5: They play for rings.
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: 27 of them.
• 47:57
  Speaker 5: We'll remind you of that at every turn.
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: We know you will. Embarrassing. Yes, but you're not... Neither
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: of you answered my question correctly.