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Hey, it's Tony on today's show. We'll talk to Jason Locke and for about John Harbour moving to the New York Giants. Also about what he expects to see in the play of games this weekend plus James Carval and Jeff Ma. We'll call in with our weekly picks. But first, let's do some commerce. Previously on the Tony Cornizer show. You know, I think his holiness hears a lot more about the white stuff. I do. I do. White Tux fans. That's the hope as American sports fans, you know, there's a lot of weird stuff happening in 2025. That's the best story of 2025. I love this guy. I love his obsession with baseball and I every time he interacts with sports, it makes me smile. We've got the Pope. Yeah, we've got the Pope caring about football. Hey, who's that Rome? The Tony Cornizer show is on now. We are reunited. The three of us in the studio today. I'm back. Yes. Michael had jury duty. Do you want to tell us how it went? Sure. So for those of you who do not live in the DC area, you get called for jury duty here about every two years. You get the notice about two months in advance. And then the week of you get another reminder than the night before you call in. And I would say half the time that this is happening, I get the automated message that you're, you know, you're not required to show up. And then sometimes you are and you have to report by 8 a.m. And you sort of sit in a big room with a couple of hundred other people and then they call various jury potential pools to go into a courtroom to go through the voidier process. This only happened to me one time before. Up to this point, I was one for one being called into the process and actually ending up on a jury. This one, you end up answering. I think it's about 15 questions that the judge puts before you about your relationship to the case, any of the lawyers who might be in attendance, any of the witnesses who might be called the judge, you know, him or herself. And you know, your relationship to some of the, some of the beliefs that might come up along the way. So I end up being called to the bench and something that has changed and the DC courthouse is much more modern than I remember. It's a very nice way to go now, but you get caught up to the bench and they have this electronic buzzing noise. And it's so jarring. Oh yeah. Your words from being heard by everyone else. Yes, because you know, you're trying to create this, you know, you want to create a... A panel that has, you know, that is going to be as impartial as possible. So this is supposed to be something between just you and the lawyer's president and, you know, the defendant in this case. But it's hard to think. You know, you hear this when other people are going up, the one you yourself are going up there. It's hard to actually, you know, track your words and your line of thinking. So I end up talking to the judge. Yeah, because the noise, I end up talking to the judge. You know, I end up being dismissed after that conversation, you know, one trial one day. So overall, a very good service experience. I did my duty. I went down there. My one issue is I just wish it was easier to get there. So there's no parking that you can really handle in a legal way. Even if you want to go to a lot, it's blocks away. So it's just, you know, if you didn't have the 8 AM report to be easier to take a, you know, to take a bus to get to the metro to get down there, which would be, you know, a slower induction into the process. But man, it's tough to get down there. And they pay you a ridiculously small amount of money for your time. It's like $46. And it is. Your transportation to and from is triple unquadruple. At a great Uber driver on the way down, I actually listened to a local radio station where I got to hear some, I got to hear some commercials by one Kevin Sheehan. Oh, yes. That's great. It's my Sheehan voice. So you're, you don't have to go back for two years. Well, that's what you think. You never quite know. I don't have to go to all of them, too old. Yeah, you've been 70. You get away with it now. 70's cut off. No, I mean, even if you get called, you just right back. I'm too old and then say fine. The, you know, I would argue with the assumption that the assumption is that you reach a certain age, that age being 70 specific. And you can't handle it anymore. So I would argue with that. And handle the truth. It's OK. So the tough thing for me is I looked around and again, you're trying to create a, you know, a jury of your peers. You're trying to create a snapshot of where we live. And I had this realization that I have switched demos. You know, the last time I was down there, I was, you know, young professional of a certain age, you know, idealistic announcement. And they're like, I'm a father of three with graying, a graying beard and thinning hair. Yeah. And there's a lot of assumptions about me. Yeah. Well, there were the same assumptions the last time you were there, too. There were different assumptions, but there was a set of assumptions. Yes, yes. All right. In sports news, Kyle Tucker is going to the Dodgers. Not the Mets is going to make about $60 million a year. There's no point in arguing whether he's worth it. But that's not the issue here. The issue is who got him. The Dodgers got him. And there're going to be a lot of people like Mike Wilbon, who will scream that the Dodgers have too much money and they own baseball and something has to be done. And I would look the other way. I'm not Dodger fan. I grew up as a giant fan. I don't like the Dodgers. I admire the Dodgers. I don't love the Dodgers. I think that captures it perfectly. I admire them more the older I get. Yeah, I really admire them. And you know why? Because they have all the money and they spend it wisely. They don't miss. They don't miss. They get the right guy. They know what they're doing. The guy running the club, Andrew Friedman, used to get the right guy for Tampa, which had no money. It's your money. And now that he's got all the money in the world, here are the results. Two World Series in a row, champions. You're going to bet against him this year. You'd be crazy to bet against him this year. Kyle Tucker's a really good player. Again, the judgment isn't whether he's worth X amount of millions of dollars. The judgment does he help this team? For whatever they're paying, he does. Do you find it interesting that at $60 million a year, he's not even the highest paid teammate, a man on his team? Well, Tony makes billions. And should. Yeah, oh yes. Yeah, I'm proud of it. I'm proud of all of it. He doesn't take a dime. And I think it isn't something. He'll be the richest man in the world when he returns. New balance commercial. Yeah, it explains it all. Oh yeah. So, you know, so that's Kyle Tucker. I wanted to tell a quick, oh, well, I want to be before I tell the quick story. The renderings for the new football stadium inside the line in Washington, DC have come out. It's beautiful. It does. It's going to be domed, but it's going to be domed apparently with a clear dome, which is really a nice idea. The long shut towards the Capitol. Yeah. I mean, they're all in succession. They're all in a line. The Washington monument, the Jefferson Memorial, baseball football stadium. It's got a nice callbacks. Yeah, it's beautiful. It looks like RFK. The top, the flow of the top looks like RFK. This is very deliberately done. It's very deliberately done with consultations by the ownership and the architects. The architects are the same people who apparently have built the Viking stadium that everybody loves. Oh yeah. And so far, which everybody loves. Everybody loves them. And I can't imagine that the ownership of the Washington football team did not say to these people. We're building it at RFK. We want it to look like RFK. We want to wake the echoes of a great franchise that is no longer great. We want to deliberately go out there and create nostalgia for who we used to be and where we used to do it, because it's owned by people who grew up here. I think it's unarguable, right? No, there are reverberations of We Want Dallas. Yeah. Yeah. Oh yeah. Now, is it going to bounce? I doubt it. I've been there when it stands bounced. That's lovely, but probably dangerous. And so I don't think it's going to bounce. But that looks great. Looks great. So I don't have a lot of memories of RFK. That's what you do. There's snapshots. There are images that are sort of half-hated. I covered games here for about 20 years. But I just love being a DC native, where everyone will tell you their own best way to get down to RFK on game day. Yeah. It's, you know, you're going through neighborhoods. Well, it's easy. Would it have been possible to just lift up FedEx field or whatever they call it now? Whatever. And just keep it whole. Keep it whole. To dump. Metro-excessible. It's a dump. It's the worst day. OK, it's a slap-dash dump. And I don't, you know, don't blame Dan Snyder for this. No, Jack can't call him. He's a squire. Yeah. It's his not Dan Snyder. It's not Dan Snyder. Now, people stop going to it in the last 10 to 12 years because they hated Dan Snyder and they hated the building. Yeah. The building's hateable. The building had raw, flowing sewage in the suites. Come on. Expired beers. Come on. Yes. All of it. Awful. Yeah. Just awful. It's going to be there for four more years because this thing's not going to get built in 2030. Goud, I'm going to make it. But it was an easy state for a divisional rival fans to get to, at least. Yeah, well, that was bad. Convenient for the enemy. Yes. Well, for the last, again, 8, 10, 12 years because of the hatred of Snyder and the hatred of the building, there were generally more fans from the opposing team than cared about the Washington team, generally true. Certainly true with Philadelphia. Certainly true with the giants. Certainly true with anything that you could get here pretty quickly. So I had a water bill problem. I'm just going to explain the water bill problem as quickly as I can. I get a call. This is DC or a rover? DC. This is not the thing that happened the other week with the water where they did an aerial view of my house and decided to charge me $125 more per month, not for water, but for the Clean Rivers Act, if you're impervious acreage. Yes. It's not about that. This is the actual bill. I get a call, and I will say that I was very grateful to get a call from DC water saying, you're in a race. You, we sent you a bill, and you never paid the bill. And I looked up in my checkbook, and I said, this is the number of the check, and this is when I sent it. December 27th, and I said, we didn't get it. I said, well, what are my options? I said, I'll give you credit card number right now, pay the bill right now. They said, no, we can't take that. We cannot take a credit card. You have to go online. I go, no, no, no. I go too old. Don't understand that can't go online. They said, that's all you can do, or send us another check. And there's a penalty. There's about a $20 penalty for late fees. But when I was talking to the person from DC water, she said to me, well, the next bill, we will subtract what we have added for late fees. And maybe. Well, maybe, yeah, because we can see that you're a good customer who pays on time. And I said, look, here's the problem. I sent this out in the mail. The United States Postal Service did not deliver it to you. I did not deliver it to you. They did, they did not deliver it to you. So I don't think I should be charged anything. And they said, well, we can get it. I said, I understand that. But what, so it falls on me, it falls on me, Tony Cornheye. It falls on everybody when this happens. I go, I'll live with this. I call my bank. The bank says, that's right, that one was not delivered. And I said, we'll put a stop order on it for $35. Good. Wow. You know, so again, getting you everywhere, yeah. Again, I pay, I sent it to the normal way that I send it. And you're telling me that's going to cost me $35. And they said, yeah, that's our policy. I have no choice but to eat it. I'm gonna have a choice. You could take the risk, but the, I could take the risk. Yeah. Dependent of the event could be much greater than $35. It could be what it, I'm sure that that checking can wherever it is. So it's $75. No, even more than that, if they're, if they're sort of ripping off the account numbers and having that steady. So it didn't do it. So I took, you know, I took the $35 hit. So it's a $55 hit total? Total, but I'm supposed to get about 20 back. Now I would say this, you know, at this point, if they have not already gotten access to that account, it probably just got lost in the show. That's what I think too. But I talk to the bank and I say, well, can you make this whole for me? Can you just send this money? I give you permission to send it out of my account. No, you have to go online. Not everybody is, you have to go online. This is disenfranchising a sizable amount of people in the United States of America, who either a cannot go online because they don't have the facilities to go online, which is true. Not everybody has phones on, everybody has computers, or two, they're disenfranchising people like me that don't have any idea how to do this. Carol goes down to the bank and they say, you can go online and then they say, but we don't advise you to go online. There's too much of your information exposed. Don't go online. The bank is telling us, you can go online, but we recommend you don't go online. It's the truest. We don't, recommend we don't go online. So we did what we thought was the correct thing to do, which is write another check and go to the post office and get return receipt requested. Make it certified mail. So you can at least prove you sent something. You may not be able to prove you sent it for X amount of money if they never get it, but you be able to prove it has to be signed for. So you'll be able to prove that someone is in possession of it. That's what I do with estimated taxes. Oh, sure. Return receipt requested. This 10 bucks a shot. So now it's... You know, now I mean, if it happens... Every time to learn how to go online. Yeah, if it happens consistently, it's another 10 all the time. It's another 10 all the time. Plus the 35. Yeah. First stop. I'll handle your online... Plus the penalty. I'll handle the online billing for about $15 a month. You'll do it. Yeah. Yeah, I should probably do that. But I don't, I mean, I'm sure this will resonate with a lot of older people who say I don't... Don't want to this... And my other point was, what is the point of me having a credit card? If you can't. If I can't do this with you, can't do this over the phone like I do with, I don't know, 89 other things. Why and what's not our policy? We want people hide behind the word policy. Oh, of course. And you can't. I asked to talk to a supervisor. I got a supervisor. Supervisor told me to go scratch. You know, this is our policy. Yeah, I think this is a way to protect themselves that they're not liable of something happens in that, you know, the exchange of the numbers. Whereas if you type in your own credit card number and the expiration date, you're on the hook versus if someone else is... And I get all of this. I'm just saying that in this particular case, I did exactly what I've done for 100 years and did it with all good intentions. It didn't get delivered. You know why it doesn't get delivered? This is no real mail anymore. No. There's just junk mail and... Catalogs. Postal carriers don't even care anymore. They don't even care. You know, everything is email except what I want. You can accept the bills that I want. I just have this image of you walking to like a local library to get help going online to pay your water bills. I'm just absurd. You know, the shared computer typing everything in. I thought of the two of you one because I didn't think you'd be able to do this. Michael, I think you've done this. Something I did the other day. I got a check in the mail. It was cold and I didn't want to walk to the bank. So I did the take a photo of it and deposit it through my phone. I'm afraid of that. Make sure that the background is dark enough for contrast. Yes. I'm so afraid of that. Yeah, I was... I don't trust that. Liz does it all the time. It shows immediately dark hands. Yes, it was very spooky. Who are the people that come and fix everything here? And we have... Sherman is in Delaware. Who are the people in DC? Oh, sometimes he's crowd-med care. When crowd-med care comes over, they're always great. At the end, I go, okay, so how do we pay this? And I'd like to write a check and I go, sure, write a check. Then they take a picture of it and then just give me back the check and I go, what just happened? What just happened? What just happened? How did that happen? How did that happen? It didn't work, but it does matter. How did that happen? Yeah. All right, those are my stories. Why don't we get to real sports? We'll talk to Jason Locke and Fora when we return. I'm Tony Cornheyser. This is the Tony Cornheyser Show. This is a song called, One Am I Gonna Be Okay? It's by a woman named Elimis Emily Sebert, who says I'm an independent artist based out of Brooklyn. I'd love to submit one of my songs for a consideration of me featured on your podcast. We're happy to have it. Yes. One Am I Gonna Be Okay? Michael, if independent artists like Emily Sebert want to get on the show, how do they do it? Send us your music by emailing it to jinglesat. To an equalizershow.com and as you check out the remaining sales at Johnny O. Johnny O. We can't double up with codes, but TK gutter still available. It's what I do. Put it right in the gutter. Put it all in the small little ball right in the gutter. Place in Jason Locke and Fora, I don't know where else we can start. I just think that you gotta start with your thoughts on John Harball going to the New York football giants. What do you think about that? It's I think it's good for the giants, but is it good for John Harball? Yeah, I think so, Tom. I mean, look, there's whatever, eight openings or, I guess that includes the Ravens. So whatever, seven outside the Ravens, all those teams are gonna want an audience with him. They weren't all going to get an audience with him. There was interest obviously in the giants. There's interest in Atlanta. I think he would have heard out Miami on the different circumstances and maybe heard out Tennessee, but that would have been it. And really in all likelihood, I don't think he was going anywhere other than the giant sort of Atlanta. And one of those teams has right now a viable quarterback. And the other, you know, does it really, I mean, I think he's gone to Atlanta wanted to vision what cousins next year. Panics comes back to middle of the year, whatever. You know, and then you obviously still may have to sort out something long-term, but I don't think that was a far-fetched proposition. But why has men who's done this for a long time, by done this, I mean, represented people who are top coach candidates in place, them. Well, I was man, said in me a long time ago, look at who, especially with the candidate of this stature. Whoever they talked to first, whoever they talked to last, that's probably what I don't. And in this case, there was only one team that got the full fledged live audience with John Harball. And it was the Giants, and they made a full court press in a very compelling case. And they were always gonna be probably in the final two, no matter what. And it was compelling enough, and it was, you know, sort of a comprehensive enough. Now he's ready to cast his lot there, and didn't really feel like he had to, you know, go through this much longer, which is kind of how he's wired in his own brand for him. I know there's a lot of people saying, oh, gone from the Baltimore media, it's the New York media, like it's gonna leave a very different. Once at last time, they had a full fledged, bona fide, proven adult coach of the New York football team. Tom Coughlin. Right, this guy's gonna get such a long leeway. Yes. Like, the two people are gonna be, like he's going to get the benefit of the doubt. For, I believe, a long period of time. And the idea, you know, all of what he can be a little bit abrasive and all that. New York, as long as he wins the football games, nobody's gonna care. And when he doesn't mix it up with the media and blow out, mix it up with plenty of times. There's really a phone call, a couple days later or whatever. He understands people. He understands the dynamics that go into this. He understands how to clean up messes. I think he'll be rock star up there to be honest with you. And I look at that division and I mean, Mac to do one the first year, right? Gable one, I think the first year. If I could win the first year, but then also, you know, back it up. I would be interested to see if Joe Shane, the GM, is there in 2027, 2028. I suspect maybe not. I think he will get a level of power and control there that he didn't have in Baltimore. And I mean, I think people in New York are doing back flips right now and I understand why. And just because he was no longer the right coach, to the Baltimore Ravens, which I don't think he was, does not mean he wasn't the best option for a quarter of teams in the league right now that are looking for coaches. Let me get to this thing that you can't win without a good quarterback. Are we to assume that he looks at Jackson Dart as a long term fixture there and he's the quarterback? I think he's certainly hopeful that he can pick up where he left off and he can avoid the types of absences that were very much upon the Jackson Dart working year story. And there's a lot to like about that young man and the way people gravitate to him, the different energy and sort of fervve that that team played with when he took over. The way guys on the defense respond to him. And then obviously the play, his ability, he has playmaking ability, he has natural athletic prowess. And look, Harbs also knows, he's bringing, you know, he's bringing a lot of his band with him. He's bringing, it's not like this is a complete reboot. He knows who he can delegate to and how he can delegate to them. And a lot of those individuals are coming with him. And Todd Monkin with Jackson Dart just, it feels like a natural, it feels like a super smart coupling. He was just coaching kids in the SEC a few years back and doing it in Georgia as well as anybody. He had Lamar Jackson at his best season ever. We're in his two best seasons ever with Todd Monkin. So and Todd can handle, Todd's great with the media and he gets it. And he's not like one of these guys who's just saturated with being a head coach. Like maybe it happens for him, maybe not, but he's going to be focused on a test at him which is maximizing Jackson Dart. So yeah, I like if you're not sure who the coordinator is and your hope you get this guy, your hope you get that guy. But I think the fact he knows he's walking in the door with Todd Monkin made him immediately feel like that. Whatever that situation, quarterback situation is whether it was the best one out there or maybe the worst one out there, I can start making it better day one just Todd's with me. Here's it, here's my pushback. Okay. Four and 13 this year, three and 14 last year, six and 11 the year before. 13 and 48 the last three years. I watched people on television yesterday talk about how the Giants would be immediate contenders to go to the playoffs. And my response was, you're not walking into managing the Yankees here. You're not. They, you know, other than Kaufflin and Parcells, the Giants stink for the last 40 years. Not as bad as the Jets, nobody is. But you're not walking in here to a surefire deal. Yeah, I mean, I would agree with that, but you've got it. If he wasn't going to sit out of here, which he wasn't, you know, I wanted to coach. You want to coach right away. This is the field and that you look at the field. I mean, again, I think Atlanta's the best job. Right. I think Atlanta, like, again, I think you can win in a right division next year with her cousins. Bad owner. Bad owner. Bad owner. No, I don't know if he's bad owner. I don't know if I think I think he's got some blind spots for sure, but I mean, I saw him keep paying Matt Ryan when he probably shouldn't anymore. Like I've seen him continue to give Thomas the mix off a lot of money to spend at times when it's like, why don't they just reboot already? I think I think that owner, especially at this stage of his life, would have given John Armball anything he wanted. And I think John Armball just preferred the Giants. Right now. I agree with that. Yeah, I think Atlanta could be a better look. I don't think that only your group in New York has left me a lot to be desired for a long time. I don't think there's immediately tears there, Hills. And again, I think Atlanta's more of a blank slate on the personnel side, which would have appealed if I were John to me greatly, rather than having to deal with someone who already is kind of lame ducky in Joe Shane. So yeah, I don't think it's a plan, don't, but I think he will. I think he will steward them in a way that they're playing respectable football. They got to fix their defense. And we're going to see about his defense or side of the staff, because he's not plenty of woes there lately. But there's some talent there. And like the Eagles and Juggernaut, like his Siri, he coached that thing in two years. Like I don't I don't know. Washington's got a ton of question marks. And the Calam was will never win as long as Jerry Jones on the. So I don't know, man, I think that division is kind of there for it. Like, no, if that is wide open as the NSS South, but I don't know that I'm going to sit there and crown the Eagles right now, say that absolutely their division next year. OK. All the games this weekend is a one year sure of. Oh, I'm sure of. I mean, I think Seattle wins this game. And I think it's a low scoring game, you know? Right. I don't know that they blow this game at home to San Francisco. We have the full San Donald meltdown that some people are fearful of. And I understand why they're fearful of it. But I just I don't think it plays out that way. I think their defense is too good. I think San Francisco is to beat up. I think San Francisco can win that game, potentially 13 12 or something like that. I mean, I have a lot of other leans and things that I like. I expect the same kind of thing from Houston. They win. It's a low scoring game. You know, it's a rock fight. They're a little bit more equipped to win the rock fight as long as again. Stroud has that like that he can't do what he did last week. You know, you got a hold on the football song like we got to start there. We got a baseline. Now you cannot put the ground the ball in the ground five times and throw it to the other team a couple times and think our defense is that, you know, a generational. But I think the superpower in that game is Houston's defense. And they're built to win on the road. The road game's average is 35 points. And they've been winning a bunch of them and covering a bunch of them. And I think they're going to be able to, you know, produce that sort of an outcome. I mean, I really like the Rams, but I also know it's going to be extreme cold. Yeah. And I wish that like I don't believe that whatever was going on with the tip of Stafford's finger is a complete nothing burger. And I know he wasn't receiving medical attention at the time. But sometimes there's not much you can do for those kind of things. But that gives me a little bit of pause. Like I think I'll go out there and be Stafford. And I expect the Rams to win that game. But if they don't, I think I already know. You know what I mean? I already know I balls are selling. And it's even harder for him to control it because of the weather. And there's something really kind of messed up with his finger. But you know, I like the Rams Texans Super Bowl when the field came out. And I think that I think it hope my wallet really hopes don't that that vision is still alive three days from now. I will say this that weeks ago on the show, I asked you, I looked at the Baltimore. This is when the Tomlin fire Tomlin thing started. And I said, what do you think? Do you think both are back next year? Do you think one is back next year? Or do you think both are gone next year? You said both are gone. And I said, what? What? And you had that right? You did. You had that right. Good for you. I mean, you had that right. They definitely weren't both coming back. One of them was probably gone. And yeah, I thought the most likely outcome is both those teams, which they're always paired. It's just so crazy. Other always at the same sort. Like their timelines are always aligned. They really are mere images. Yeah, I thought both would be conducting head coach researches. For the first time in about 20 years. 20 years. And of course, because it's so incestuous, their list will end up being very similar. Yeah. Because they are similar in some ways. So I do think it's interesting. The Steelers owner is actually going to meet with all these candidates. And the shoddy's going to stay on his yacht until they will live down the fort. And then he'll get involved. Says, you know, he's got other stuff going. Steelers owner probably don't have a yacht. Plug one about for us. Plug one about. That's one way to look at it. Hey, yeah, we've got all our plays this weekend on the NFL. A lot of them we've already given out on one about it. It's a daily seven day a week sports wage or a game show myself, that way Ben Haw. We give you all of our favorite plays and all the markets that we are gambling in. We tell you why we bet on. We tell you how we've been doing in those markets. We show all our work. We track every bet. We tell you how up we are. How down we are at times right now. We're up. And we see plus money value. We're not trying to parlay a bunch of minus 400 things together. Look, we're trying to come up with strategies that inherently attack the books in some ways. Maybe they're a little vulnerable. 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It's the play in music for James Carville, who was not 6 and O last week, as he was the week before. But who had both overs right in the college games and then fell down in the pro games, ended up two and three, but 53, 50 and two, all three humans, not our ape. All three humans are above 500. And you know, depending on what happens in the last couple of weeks, it's a real chase. This week's picks, excuse me, with James Carville and Jeff Ma brought to you by Fandall Sportsbook. Make every moment more. Do you want to reflect upon last week or just move ahead to this week? No, I want to reflect because it is all my fault. I made the thumbest rupting mistake you can make. And remember, we six and O, they're both college over undis. So we ate no. Yes. And the packers are 19 up. And I said the most jackass techs in history. No, it looks like we got this one in the bag. And I was four count for 70 years. You think I know not to mouth myself. Yeah. All my fault. Like, we have to get his burr. It's all my fault. Well, I'll just tell you that it made Wilbon happy and made Wilbon happy. And I just wondered. I wondered if, you know, I know you picked Jacksonville and a lot of people picked Jacksonville. But I wondered if you talked to Luke about that and the fluke was unhappy that you went against Buffalo in that game. But man's got to be ruthless and merciless and his pursuit of winning. No, that's all right. Bob Gibson. He threw it his own grand dog. Yeah. All right. What do you got this week? What do you got? Well, I got what I got. I, but we got spaced out. At first of all, 40 dollars. Saturday night, you get seven points at Seattle. Yeah. That's what you call the common sense contrarian, Beck. He's a common sense of telling you to bet on the Seattle. But yes, well, I would say because just a couple of weeks ago, Seattle smothered them in Seattle. So that's what I would worry about. So you're going to take 49. I would do. But that, but you got to have to curse to go. OK, I guess. Come. OK. I like to ramps bears over 48. You like over in the cold and the wind. I do. And I like to, I like to under in the Indiana Miami game. The under Miami's Indiana story. Under the, under the torture. Yes, Indiana scoring 100 points a game by themselves. Not by this guy. See what my or his defense is. It's good. It's good. It's good. It's good. So you're good. Good for about a week. So you're going to take the under on Monday night, the under 47 and a half. And over the over with the Rams and the Bears on Sunday night. That's the late game, I think. Yes. That's right. And you got to Saturday night league game. You got to see Francisco at Seattle. All right. But I killed it. Eight and oh, you want to point up. It looks like it's in the bag. Yeah. That means you're in a toilet when you do that. Yeah. Thank you, James. The best of luck, as always. Thank you. James Carville. And we have Jeff Ma with us. And Jeff had a bad week last week. Uncharacteristically bad week. We'll get to that in a second. He was one and four last week. And he has opened the door to Chuck Todd and James Carville to maybe catch him. It's going to be hard. Jeff would have to have bad couple of bad weeks in a row. And they'd have to be great. But suddenly it's not a three horse race, but it's no longer secretary against shame. It's no longer that. It's no longer 35 and a half lengths going to the wire. Jeff is with us now. Unlike you, you had one winner. You had Indiana minus three and a half. You could have had him at minus 25 and a half. But you didn't get old miswrite and you didn't get the bears right. You had the Packers in that one. You had Jacksonville. You had Pittsburgh plus three. That was the one that sort of confused me a little bit. Take us through the anxiety of having a one and four week. I mean, I didn't sleep the entire weekend. And no, I mean, these things happen. And what's funny is, last week I felt good about the tics. I mean, when I bet Philly, I'm sorry, when I bet Green Bay in that game, they had them roughly at even. They ended up minus 130, meaning they became a pretty big favorite, similar thing with Jacksonville. You know, Ole Miss also was, you look at how the line moves at the close of the game. And that's kind of how you evaluate your process. Essentially, if you bet something at minus three and it closes minus five, you feel really good about your opportunity. You don't know what's winning those cases. But in all these cases, I beat what is called the closing line. So if you beat the closing line, that's typically how you evaluate your process. Because if you beat the closing line more often than not, you will win. It doesn't mean you will win all the time. And again, in the case that you need to go back to this, it happens. And so, yes, it was tough, obviously, going into that Pittsburgh game, which when you look back on it, given the turnovers and whatnot, Pittsburgh probably should have lost that game by even more. Yes. And they were never really in that game. They didn't have the game plan that I thought they'd have. Broght, they looked very old. And Houston unleashed an offense that we haven't seen them have. So similarly in that Buffalo game, we talked about the only reason you bet on Buffalo and that game is Josh Allen. And that is what happened. Josh Allen, he did it. And the Pittsburgh, I'm probably the game that bothered me the most was obviously Green Bay Chicago because you won 21 3, 21 3 at the head. He looked dead. He looked dead. And I was looking forward to a disappointed will bomb. But it didn't happen. And now will one will one's out in Chicago today. He's going to go to the game. I hope he takes a shirt off because it's going to be eight degrees. I hope that works out for him. But yeah, I mean, the packer should have won that game comfortably. That it is, you know, I don't know how you figure this. And I don't know what you think about this if you are doing this professionally. The Chicago Bears have won seven games this year while being behind in the last two minutes of the game. That seems to me not just extraordinary, but unbelievable. Do you factor that in when you when you bet on those games? Well, you actually do factor it in. And it is it's almost like a knock against the Bears because ultimately one of the reasons that the Bears feel overrated is because of how many close games they won. A lot of these close games can be, you know, like coin flips. And if you think about even Kansas City as a team this year who historically has won the close games. Not just very high mark. And this year they didn't, you know, so that and that was kind of the difference. And so, yeah, I mean, I think you expect regression at some level and you expect that the Bears won't continue to get, you know, the throw that Kay Labrilliams made in that game, roll into his left throwing it all the way to Roma Dums. That was incredible. And how often is he going to be able to make that pass that way? I don't think that often. So I mean, I again, like to spoil or I don't I like the Rams this week because I don't think the Bears can keep it up. Yeah. Okay. Let's do the picks. Well, before we do the picks, I mean, you said is that we had Boogermock Farlin on PTI yesterday. And what he said about Kay Labrilliams rings true to me that, you know, don't look at the numbers. Don't look at all the times he gets in trouble. He has it. He has that special quality. He's got it. Do you think I think that's possible that he does? I mean, he's got a lot of talent, right? I mean, when he was in college, we all believed that he had almost the same amount of talent that my homes might have. And then, you know, he had like a weird senior year and then a weird rookie year. Yeah. I mean, the talent is there, right? So it's like whether he's got that leadership, the leadership narrative is a little bit of what we call a confirmation bias meeting like all of a sudden now because he's winning people see something that they didn't see in him before. You know, I think he's a very talented player. I mean, he's basically had a lot of the same skills and homes as he's not quite as accurate, but he can make these incredible plays and let those highlight. I mean, I've probably seen that play on Twitter like 16 times because of how big a play it was. All right. What have you got? Tell us what you got. All right. We'll start in the NFL. We'll pick all the NFL games. C-Hawks. You have a minus six and a half or minus seven? I see it at minus seven. Yeah. I'm just taking a minus seven against the Niners. This line opened. It took the half, went up all the way to eight and a half and is now kind of back down to seven. I'm surprised that it came back to seven. I just think the 49 like this, this rest issue is huge. And you know, we talked about it in college and not matter. Yes. But in the NFL, it still matters a lot. Like time off for these guys a week off is huge. The Niners are completely beat up and you know, obviously, this is a really tough spot for them. So I like to see out a minus seven. Okay. What else? I'm going to take the Broncos, basically minus one or even against the bills. I don't know what you guys have, but you know, I'm the narrative now would be to continue to say like, okay, the bills are the favorites in the AFC because they're by far out of the best quarterback. I'm not falling for it. And ultimately, I think that the Broncos are pretty much better at every position except for quarterback and running back. And by a consider on bound at home, again, getting rest, I'm going to take the Broncos. Yeah, I mean, I think if you bet Buffalo, you bet him because you are just in love with Josh Allen, especially after last week. And you think there's nothing he can't do. But Denver, Denver's been real good all year, not real good all year. So that's minus one. We've got that at minus one. Yeah. Okay. What else? I'm going to take the Texans. I'm a Patriot fan. So this pains me to say, but I think that defense and their ability to get pressure with, you know, three or four guys is going to be a lot for Drake May in this spot. Obviously May has been incredible all year. I also think that the Texans have an ability to have a higher ceiling if CJ Stroud plays well. And despite the fumbles and despite some of the brain dead things he did in that game, he played pretty well. And they had a running game that we haven't seen. So I think that, you know, as an underdog here, getting three might be three and a half points, when it's all said and done and we take the Texans. I understand that their defense is really, really good and defense travels more than offense travels. I understand that this is a game where I would, you know, I don't know what the over under is, but I'd be inclined to take the under in a game like this. Over under. It's probably real small, probably in the high 30s. A 40.5. Yeah. What do you think, Jeff? Would you be inclined to do that? That's a real low over under 40. Yeah, it is low. And, you know, it's priced in. And I don't know how the weather will be. That's obviously a big determinant. Yeah. But, you know, the New England Patriots were the team with the most explosive plays in the NFL. Really? You get two or three of those explosive plays and all of a sudden, you know, that was one of the interesting matchups with the charters because Mentor's defenses is out there trying to prevent what they're really good at is preventing explosive plays. And they didn't really get any explosive plays in that game, but they, you know, slogged their way through and the charters couldn't do anything on offense. So they ended up covering pretty easily. Okay. And the Rams, you're going to take the Rams. What are they minus? Minus three and a half? They're minus four. Minus four. I've seen it minus three and a half now. All right. I'll take the three and a half for sure. You will. Yeah. I mean, the Rams are a team that obviously, the first half of the season was the best team in the NFL, like a historically good team and everyone thought they were head and shoulders better than everyone. They've definitely stumbled a bit that game against Carolina. I think gave everyone pause for calling them the tension super bowl favorites. So they should have lost last week. They should have lost in Carolina. They should have. They're, they're, they're not. And I had picked them for the Super Bowl when we had to do that on P2I about five or six weeks ago. And I'll stand by it. But I thought they were going to lose to Carolina again. I did. Got it. All right. So I mean, I think, I think that's a situation again, like where, you know, if Luke and Niko catches that ball at the end of the first half is that game different. Yes. Yes. Yes. And that's a ball. He probably catches, you know, 95% of the time. There was pretty bad win. So a lot of this can depend on whether if it's just told it shouldn't be a big deal. But if it is windy there, that could have a really big impact on Stafford and the Rams. That's why they call it the windy sea. That's what they're expecting. All right. College game. You going to pick the college game, aren't you? Yeah. I'm going to pick the college game. Even that we've talked about since the beginning being, you know, the sort of, you know, like sneaky favorite and what they didn't get to Oregon was pretty incredible. But I'm going to tell you what's interesting about this game before that game, before the Indian Indian or Oregon game, when we knew it was going to be Miami against someone, the Indiana was slated to be favored by only five and a half points. Based on that win, that line popped at seven and a half, meaning like there were two points of value that introduced by Indiana beating Oregon. And then all of a sudden, it's up to eight and a half. And it's just hard for me to believe that that win should really have moved that line, you know, three points went so much of that blowout. You know, obviously, Indiana looked amazing, but so much of that blowout was based on Oregon's ineptitude and turning the ball over. And, you know, three 21 points were literally delivered and hand picked to Indiana. So I'm going to take Miami plus the points plus the eight and a half because I just think they had to inflate this line so much because how good Indiana looked at Oregon. And I think that performance was a little bit misleading in how bad that blowout was. In your mind, do you think Miami can win the game? Yeah. I mean, I think that can. I mean, I don't think that, I mean, if you, if you gave me Indiana minus five and a half, I would take Indiana, but I'm going to take Miami. So I mean, obviously they can win. They probably will, you know, 25% chance to win this game, but I would take, you know, Indiana 75% of the time. It's interesting because Miami has, you know, five star blue chip recruits. They got real players there. And of course, Indiana doesn't. I'm rooting for Indiana just because it would be, it may be the greatest college football season of all time. But they finish undefeated and they have been so terrible for so long to have this two year burst like this to culminate with 16 and oh, and they're pounded. Their plus minus is 374, Jeff. Three hundred seventy four. I mean, we talked about it last week. We said, we said like if there was a different name on the front of their journey, you know, if it said something like Alabama or Ohio State with this kind of performance, they would have been favored by, you know, close to a touchdown, probably against Oregon. And now that is what you're seeing here. There has been that reaction. So, you know, again, like betting is a market. You're betting into a market. And when the market is high on someone, they're almost too high. That's when you've got to go the other way. And that's one I'm taking Miami. All right. Thank you, Jeff. We'll talk next week. Thank you. Thanks, Tony. Okay. Jeff Maul, boys and girls are this week's picks with James Carval and Jeff Maul. 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Why do I feel like I'm buying influence in Washington right now? They are unbreakable tees. You're very cool. And you say that you use them a lot in a simulator room. So if you're at, yeah, very, very as soon as you have to use something that's non-marking. So this looks like it'd be appropriate for like a, you know, hitting off of a range mat in a simulator. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Very cool to know that there were 3D printed though from a kid. Yeah. I hope he doesn't make bombs. We don't do that. Yes. Claire Arguns, Claire N' Tolla, Delaware, Ohio. Each holiday season since 2017, little's have come to get out of the race funds for charity. Please give my sincere thanks to all the little's who donated $2,491.6 last month. The Rock Goes Warriors. Over the last 9 years, little's have donated over $23,000 during our holiday drives. Doesn't include money we raised during special events like Little Paloza at other times of the year. Little's continue to demonstrate their generosity as second to none. Speaking of Little Paloza, everyone should save the first weekend of June for the next little Paloza in the DC area, June 5th through 7. Planning is well underway. So stay tuned to the usual social media channels and to Chuckton Roxy's lower little podcast for details. From Andy McBride, I've attached a few songs for you. This is the mixed apes. Yes. We didn't get to this the other day. The first one I think might work for your episode. Groundhog Day is often overlooked holiday that deserves a little more attention. Not because of the rodent, but because it celebrates one of the greatest characters in film history. Our band, The Mixed Apes, dedicated a song to the incomparable Ned Ryerson. Attention must be paid. And if we're so lucky to get one song on, why not press our luck for a couple months? So these are. Yes. We didn't play the Groundhog Day, the Ned Ryerson song, but I'm holding that for a couple weeks or a while. Yes. It's worth it. Paul Wade in Columbia, Missouri. Long time listener, six time emailer, I understand the new connective tissue is whether you've met an astronaut. In 2017, I was selected to be a Pat Tillman scholar. It was a real honor. I didn't understand just how small it would make me feel. The time I was a purple card awardee and former Airborne Qualified Infantry Officer served three deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan, completed an MBA at Benedictine University and was entering my last year at law school at the University of Missouri, made famous when its marching band had a rendition of the mail back theme played on this very show. Among the many people I got to meet in my first Tillman honors weekend was Johnny Kim, a Tillman scholar himself, but also a Navy SEAL who I believe at the time was finishing up at a little school called Harvard Medical before heading off to NASA to start training for his next job astronaut. There was an optional running group every morning. It happened to be next to Johnny and another Tillman scholar who had been in Green, Veray, and Ralph Running. They were talking about having to learn different languages. Apparently, Johnny had to learn Russian to be able to work on the space station. All I could add to the conversation was it seemed like a lot of work just to get a better view of your reign. Johnny Kim was a really nice guy. You can follow his journey on a lot of social networks if you're interested. He just got back from space last month. Barry Scanlon, Alexandria, Virginia. If still collecting random astronaut legend encounters I offer, I worked for a Clinton cabinet official and attended the Clinton Library opening ceremony, which was outdoors, brutally cold, and pelted by a merciless driving rain. The IP's an idiots like me alike got drenched and frozen and back into shuttle buses. As we got back to the capital hotel in Little Rock and quickly bought dry clothes and a gift shop that made us all look ridiculous, we sat down with an older couple from the bus to eat soup. It was tough to know who was with, who, with all the hoodies. We all casually recounted the event eight or soup. The random guest even gave me his bread and crackers. Wondering who these people were, I arched an eyebrow and got this response from the boss who says that's Senator and Mrs. Glenn. That's the most humble and friendly legend all time. From Fred Nauer, Minneapolis, Minnesota, first time long time, just heard on your high quality podcast about a John Glenn siding. Here's mine. When I was in second grade in 1962, my dad worked for 3M. The company that made the material, the spacesuits were made of. He got a piece of material to bring home. He gave it to me so I could bring it to school for show and tell. He told me this was the material that John Glenn's spacesuit was made of. Let her that day he got a call from my teacher saying I told the class, I had a piece of John Glenn's spacesuit was a story that made into family lore and talked about for many years. Fast forward to 1991 through a North Carolina college flight school I'm attending. Me and a group of students found ourselves at the Mercury dinner in Washington, D.C., a dinner that raised money for scholarships and celebrated the 30th anniversary of Alan Shepherd's space flight. Six of the Mercury seven astronauts were in attendance. I bought a piece of shiny material with me. As luck would have it, John Glenn walked by our table. I stopped and told them the piece of John Glenn's spacesuit story. Got him to sign it. That's bringing the lore full circle. Tell Paul, great deed. Well done. Tom Munch. I've listened to all of your shows for years. I'm a former teacher and coach, your friend Rob Stronick. Well, the astronaut meeting game has finally gotten me to email. My son Bill is a documentary, the artist and the astronaut. He has interviews from Alan Bean, Jerry Carr, Gene Kranz, Frank Bournemon, many other astronauts and astronauts wives. Excuse me, the film has won many honors in his on Amazon. It centers around Jerry Carr and Pat Music. I believe Rob gave you a link to the film, build it all, interviewing, editing and production. His friend Todd Hobb and did the score. Took eight years to make. He became friends with all the astronauts. I hope the littles will give it a look. Thanks for being the medicine we need to keep us moving forward. Tom Munch pronounced Munch or Munch, either Munch or Munch. Bob Gray, Prince Edward Island, that's in Canada. I can't wait to jump in on the astronaut game being a total space nerd. NASA texts me when the space station will be visible overhead on Prince Edward Island. I'll run out in the cold and snow just to watch it travel across the sky. Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield commanded the International Space Station for five months in 2013. He video called into schools across Canada all during the flight, speaking live with thousands of students, answering questions and talking back and forth. Also, he sings and recorded a cover of David Bowie's Space Auditing Ground Control from Major Talk. From Space, it in the subsequent video, were huge hits worldwide. Oh yeah, all he does is write best-selling mysteries now. He's a household name in Canada, huge inspiration hero. I met him at one of his school video calls that's got a count right. Chris Hadfield has so much of the right stuff. It's remarkable. That's amazing. Dan Chase, Asheville, North Carolina, in the late 90s. At my high school, North Carolina School of Science and Math, one of my friends was laid back and talented Christina Hammock. She was into photography and good music and got along with everyone. Then in 2020, the International Space Station orbited through the sky over my home. I went outside and jokingly waved to load to it from my lawn. That night, I did a little research and discovered that my old high school buddy is now named Christina Cook. And she was on the Space Station at the time. She was then in the midst of the longest ever space mission by a female. Now, Christina is one of four Artemis astronauts who will fly by the moon next month. Oh, it's amazing. I predict she'll be the first woman to set foot there someday. Tell Reginald in case he wants to put some money down on that bet. From George Malay, I hope you and Nigelon getting overwhelmed with encounters between littles and astronauts. My most recent astronaut meeting. So that's his hat. Others. Happened in the spring of 2024 while covering the solar eclipse at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, daytime darkness together. Astronaut Andrew J. Fustel, I hope I pronounced that correctly, was among the celebrity guests. He made three trips to space, including on the telescope. He performed three space walks on that mission. So this is a problem because the, oh, yeah, it's not on the thing. But anyway, anyway, so George, he also met John Glenn in an elevator at the Russell Center's office building in 1982. So he's got a lot of these things. Then he's got pictures of it. She's great with astronauts and astronauts. And here that's wonderful. But the next time we printed, we should try to get it on the same piece. Yes. From Joe and Greensboro, if the game is tell us about the time you met an astronaut, I have little to offer, but still a connection to the space program we're sharing. My father was a technician and designer for the aerospace company, Rockwell International in California in the 60s. Rockwell was contracted by NASA for several pieces of equipment needed for the Apollo 11 mission. My father was the one who manufactured the plaque that currently sits on the moon. Wow. Picture attached. I vividly remember him showing me the blueprints of the plaque in my younger years. It's on the moon. It's on the moon. The real moon. The real moon. The real Torgon ski, Su-City Iowa. I've not met a single astronaut. I've never been duck pin bowling. I have, however, seen Mike Singletari on two separate occasions and two different airports. He was not duck pin bowling either time, nor has he been an astronaut as far as I know. I guess technically I didn't meet him, but he walked by me both times. Anyway, I'm sure Wilbond would not be impressed as I'm sure he has single-taring one of his group chats along with Sid Luckman and Bronco Negursky. 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