Konnor Griffin Has Arrived In MLB + Have People Turned On Luka? | Mostly Sports EP 595 | 2.25.26

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So if your team has you feeling like you're ready to snap, call a timeout and snap into a Slim Jim. Welcome to Mostly Sports. I'm Mark Titus. He is Brandon Walker. It's Wednesday, February 25th. Sure. We are live from Chicago. Evo's wearing a helmet for some reason. Which person in here needs attention? I mean, it's a safety issue, Titus, when Jamie's podcasting with the big boys. Yeah, so I got to wear a helmet. Now, if you're going to start the show like that, you got to go 90 minutes like that. Yeah, I'm already. Also, you're saying which one of us needs attention with that jacket on. It was hilarious. What did you call it? A jacket? Yeah. Uh-huh. How about that, Ebo? It's a half zip. Ebo tried to say it wasn't a jacket. Yeah, okay. That's an awesome jacket. It is an awesome jacket. It's not a helmet. It is an awesome jacket, but that's the jacket you wear when you're like, everybody looking at it, like a fucking sick-ass jacket. Yeah. Did you wear the helmet? Turn to the side. Shout out Jordan Smith. Now the head of football ops at UCLA. He sent me this about two months ago. Oh, wow. Your school's so awesome, he left. And then he sent me this. And on the side, it's Captain America. Oh, okay. Yeah, that makes total sense for Jamie to have a Captain America on the side. I mean, he was a president. Captain America? What? Steve Rogers? Steve Rogers was the president of the United States? Mm-hmm. No. Imagine? No. Steve Rogers being the president of the United States? It won't be said. No. Hey, you know what, Brandon? It would be marvelous. I actually want your guys' opinion. Did I pick the right one? Let's see. I'm going to say no. I think I'm going Hulk. I like Hulk. Black Panther. Yeah, Black Panther would have been good. Yeah, but it doesn't. Hulk jumps off the helmet. Yeah. Hulk jumps off the helmet. You're saying Black Panther. I've got to see which one on top is the Black Panther. It's the one on the top right. Is that Thor top left? Thor, Black Panther. Iron Man? Yeah. I think you pick number two. I think it goes Hulk, Captain America, Iron Man, Black Panther, Thor. The top two look the same. Assign each to position groups. Okay. What position groups should wear Captain America? What position groups should wear Hulk, et cetera? I think Captain America is your quarterback. That's right. I think Hulk are your defensive and offensive lines. Your lines. Your lines are the Hulks, right? Black Panther is skill positions. Skill positions, Black Panther. Right? I think that's, yes. I would agree with that. Who we got left? Thor. Thor can be your tight end. Yep. And who's left to disperse here? Iron Man? Iron Man. Kicker. Yeah, Iron Man's doing the kicking. Which of these guys would make Con Pom? I don't know. Con, by the way. Con Conniple. 20-something points last night. Conniff a two-home run. Yeah, I mean. If we're going to talk about. We might be on the cusp of something with Conn or Conn or Conn. The Connors are taking over. I'm telling you, there was a moment last night where I had fallen asleep. I then woke up and I immediately was like, we need a date for Conner Conner Conner. We need to start scheduling. I saw some jackass replying to you on Twitter and being like, hey, Conner is not a Conner. It's not eligible for Conner Conner Conner. Fella, what do you think Conner Conner means? It's right there in the name. It's right there in the name. People got fired up about the rankings, which is a good thing, I guess, is that they're caring about it. But it's like, calm the fuck down. This is just supposed to be a celebratory thing for all the cons or connors. Well, I think they're taking con-pom seriously. Isn't that what you want? Exactly. No, that's what I'm saying. Passionate con-pom fans? I want that, but at the same time, I don't want to dissuade any of our cons or connors. What are the competitors to con-pom? Bart Torvik. Okay, so we need to start a Bart Torvik for connors. Yeah. We need to start a... And Fart... EvanMaya.com. Fart Morvik. Fart Mor. And Evan Miakawa, yeah. We'll get there. With great power comes great responsibility, Connor. That's what Captain America said Should con artists be included in Con Palm? I was thinking about it Frank Abnell? Abingale? Abingale? Abingale? He's a double con guy, right? Michael Rubin True Because the whole story's a lie, right? Martin Shkreli Who's the top con man in the country? I typed in con man Who's like the lady? It was the lady Oh, Elizabeth Holmes? No, the lady who was posing as an elite within the... I can't. I got to find it. Well said, Con. No, no, no. I know what you're saying. Redhead. There's a difference between a criminal and a con man, by the way. A con man... Just looks for the edges, right? And you want to almost root for him. He's unethical. George Clooney in Motion's Eleven. Yeah, he's immoral. He's unethical. But there's something about him where you're like, I kind of... Yeah. They're usually dashing, right? Yeah. Anna Delvey was the person who popped up. I kind of respect the hustle. I respect that they're pulling this con off. Con men are like James Bond if James Bond wasn't a spy and he was in fact just a, he skirted the law. Right, right, right, right. That's how I see it. You lasted Anna Delvey. First of all, her name's not even Anna Delvey. Anna Sorokin is a con artist and fraudster. Wow. There we go. When they throw in fraudster, you've really done something. so she acted like she was some sort of big shot and she wasn't yes and she i guess navigated her way into the big time socialite scene isn't that now just being called being an influencer you kind of act like you're bigger than you are i guess so that is why did you laugh coyly why did you why'd you do that because i thought i thought it was a comical observation on the world that we live in brandon i don't know are are people still falling for nigerian prince schemes is that still that's that one did people ever fall for them there's a lot of old the old yeah college football people getting their twitters taken from them right now like a lot of i think that's the new nigerian prince is getting your twitter fished off you watch your dms aaron brightman where Where are you? Also, Danny Boy Kane. Yes. I did have one that was suspicious the other day, and it was college football related, so I wonder if that one skipped, if I was able to sidestep that one. I don't know. Huh. Be careful. It's like a donation. But now I have an open invite to Lakefront Brewery Bar Trivia in Milwaukee on Wednesdays at 630, so now I've got to deal with that. Just be careful with Lynx. And also be careful with QR codes. Well, yeah, Lynx is one of the most dangerous cats. QR codes might get you now. have you QR codes are getting you people are going around like and putting stickers of scam QR codes over flyers of real QR codes see this is this is if you scan the QR code it just like cash apps them $100 or whatever people ruin things yeah so like don't scan QR codes in public unless you're confident about the the origins people ruin things yeah just be careful out there folks people are trying to scam well said thanks it's a Connor be conned world yeah I'm trying to just match Connor's energy. I want to just, whatever I say, I think I'm just going to add a little. Huh. Okay. Have you ever been, have you ever been to Lakefront Brewery, Brandon? I've not. See, that was well done. Yeah. No, it's great. It's a great time. No free ads or anything. I love that spot. Connor, have you ever, have you ever won a game in Chicago Rec League Volleyball? Yes. I have. Mark, you do one. Connor fucking... I don't know, man. I don't know. Hey, Connor. I don't know. How's your mom doing? She's fine. She's doing okay. Shout out Connor Griffin's mom, by the way. Shout out Connor Griffin's mom. We can talk about Connor Griffin's mom all day long. Connor Griffin, the baseball player. Yeah, this might get out of control. He actually is one of them ones. He is. we've been on the wave since 2024. He is capital H, capital I, capital N. Like, it isn't just the mostly sports universe that's going crazy because this guy might be pretty good. It's like the baseball world itself is going crazy. He's the number one prospect at 19. Connor Griffin is the superstar. The number one prospect with a bullet. Is this bad for you, Connor? No, we were talking about this today. I think this is great for you. Yeah, I don't care. Because Ibo, I think, was the one who pointed out, like, are you afraid that now you're not going to be the most famous Connor Griffin? Like, I don't give a fuck up. Ever in the world where you were going to be the most famous Conor Griffin? He's already, well, I mean, technically, yeah, there was a time where. I feel like there's a real estate agent in Denver who's probably going to pass you or something like that. I mean. You were the most famous Conor Griffin before this? If you had, like, Googled me, then I'm sure it probably would have been just me. I checked yesterday, and it's all this guy. If you Google Conor to see it still comes up here? Yes. Yes. It's all this. That's a problem. No, I don't care. Oh, did you mean. Did you mean Conor Griffin? Did you mean the actual Conor Griffin? This guy's a tank. It's an honor to have the same name as him. Your LinkedIn's the first result. Oh, yeah, I haven't updated that. Let's get a peek at that LinkedIn, by the way. Just take a quick peek. Quick, quick. So there's the picture we all love. There's the whiteout. Why do you have a football stadium as your professional background? Because I had this when I was at Penn State working in the athletic department. Do you think that an employer is going to look at that and be like, oh. Oh, he likes football. Oh, wow. He was the best. I work in sports. I don't know what you want me to do. Oh, Maresh. Connect with Maresh real fast. Why do you have a football? Why does Maresh have a LinkedIn? Why does anybody work at Barstool Sports? Because we didn't think we'd work here. Yeah, this was a requirement in college. We had to make one. You ever had a LinkedIn? I did as a joke. I don't think I've ever had one. But you never once were like, I need one. And you worked in an industry that didn't really cater to this. No, when I started my blog, I created one as like a... I could spend an hour looking at everybody's. The Barstool LinkedIn pipeline is fun. Scroll around it. I asked Google Gemini, which is like the new hot in the streets AI. They're considered the top tier AI. Are you being paid by them? I don't know. Okay. Okay. Anyway, Google Gemini. I asked them to rank the five most famous Connor Griffins. It goes baseball, Connor Griffin, number one. Basketball assistant coach for the Nets, number two. Connor Griffin reality star from Love is Blind, number three. and Connor Griffin, social media specialist at Barstow Sports number four. Four. Four's not bad. Ahead of Connor Griffin, the music, film, and TV composer. Mount Rushmore. I'm not familiar. You're on the Mount Rushmore. Connor, I don't think I'm making top four Brandon Walker, so that's pretty good. He's not making top four Mark Titus's. Yeah, no way. No chance. No fucking chance. What are you talking about? You guys absolutely are. There's not even four of them. Oh, we're joking about him. I bet you I don't make top four. I just love it. I'm asking my friend, my pet. Oh, you're number one, Brandon. let me see that tweet again tj at 19 years old connor griffin is looking to become the first teenager to make his mlb debut on opening day since ken griffey jr for the mariners in 1989 i is that surprising brandon i would have thought bryce harper i would have thought bryce harper as well i thought bryce harper did it i thought acuna did it you did do it didn't he oh wait does this have to is this technicality has to be opening day has to be opening day did a late call up thing? Well, even later, Acuna might have come up in May or something. But I think that's the technicality because I think... I know Bryce Harper and Acuna were in the league at 19. Soto was in the league at 19, right? If Bryce Harper... Yeah, but Soto got called up like mid-season. If Bryce Harper played at 18 and then the following year he was on the roster opening day... But that's not his debut. Then that's fucked. This is semantics. This is saying made his debut on opening day. That's stupid. That's stupid. Because Bryce Harper, when he was 19, he played an opening day. This makes it seem like he's doing something that's unheard of. It's not. It's just he's happened. And he frankly hasn't done it yet, although he should. The Pirates, if they have any sense whatsoever, just throw him up there. Let's go. Let's fire it up. He physically is a specimen. Like, he is 6'4", 6'5". You look at him, he does not look 19 years old at all. He looks like he's already. Mississippi built, man. He was 19. Mississippi's different, man. He took the physical specimen summer of 2024 very seriously. But he held on to it. Oh, so Conor Griffin turned himself into a beast in summer of 2024. So Conor was right. He never said it was him. He said, here Conor Griffin becomes a beast. He's becoming a physical specimen. You could put it that way, but you could also make the case that for volleyball season I was a physical specimen and I didn't let go. Same game yesterday. Jake Mangum with two hits. Jake Mangum, we're going to make that team. We're going to have a friend on the Pirates. Wow. We're going to have a friend and Conor Griffin on the Pirates. And Conor's mom. And Conor's mom in the stands. So you're a Pirates fan now, too. I think I'm a Pirates fan. And a Brewers fan. You're just collecting NL Central teams. You've got your chest puffed out about this theory that I'm a Brewers fan, and there's just no evidence to support it. Are they the closest MLB stadium to my house? Yes. Do I like going? Yes. Is it a comfortable experience? Yes. Have I slid down the slide with my kids? Yes. Have I been in the sausage race? Yes. What about this adds up to Brewers? Oh, by the way, since we're on this subject, the Admirals, the hockey team, have reached out about running it back over the next couple of weeks. And I don't know, what is the play? Do I let that one live in memoriam forever, or do I try to fix it? Redemption. In sports, winning takes more than talent. It takes strength, reliability, and the drive to go the distance. Sound familiar? That's the same DNA you'll find in a Chevy Silverado. As capable and dependable as a winning team, Chevy Silverado shows up and gets the job done. It won't flinch when the pressure's on. It doesn't take plays off. When it comes to trucks, Chevy Silverado is football guy approved. To learn more about Silverado, visit Chevy.com. I mean, you're never going to erase that. You dropping a perfect puck is never going to be like, oh, we were wrong about Brandon. And he actually is. It's simply going to give people a reason to play the old one again. Yes. I mean, I think you've got to slip four times this time. Is there something else you could do besides the puck drop? Drive the Zamboni. I think you've got to get comical with it. Like Marv, is it Home Alone 1 or 2 where he's slipping on the goo? Yeah. And he's just doing all that. Going like this like crazy. And he stops. And then he rego, you know. That was two. Because that was two. Two became just. They got more cartoonish. Yeah, yeah, it became cartoonish. Yeah, you got to do that. You got to go out there and just start. I think that's the play. Lost in all that. I don't know if it's on that picture. It's not on that picture, but lost in all that. The images of me slipping on the ice is, in some pictures, the biggest grin you've ever seen, Mark Titus, behind the glass. It might be that picture. Let me see. I don't think you're in that one. I think the orange guy is blocking you on that one. Oh, no, I'm in that one. Are you? Where are you? I'm right here. To your left. That's me right there. Getting the whole thing on video. There I am. That's amazing. Brendan, would they, like, help you, like, production value it up, maybe? Like, could you, like, drop in from the rafters? Oh, to Titus' point about the dunk contest. Yeah. bungee jump puck drop yeah here's brandon for the puck drop where is he oh my god look at the sky brandon brandon's naked and then i'm gonna ask you a legitimate percent chance percent chance i die if you bungee jump yes it's not zero no it's pretty high it's not zero every high 30 30 i was gonna say 30 yeah 30 35 that's too high of a percentage can i somehow die going back up how How much does it cost to rent for a night pyrotechnics just in general? I don't know what specific pyrotechnics. Fireworks and then maybe some cannons. I think I'd be willing to pay for it if it's reasonable. If you could get it for like $1,500 or less, would we go for the pyrotechnics? I would pay for it just for Milwaukee to pull them out and put them next to the red carpet. Just make a whole thing out of this. Batista's. No, I need Orange Cassidy's pyro. Have you ever seen that, TJ? Yeah. Orange Cassidy's pyro is one bottle rocket. It's going up. So, Ebo, since we're at baseball, we were talking Connor Griffin. The Pirates are, you know, all the talk about the Dodgers ruining baseball and everything, they've won two straight World Series, we're going to have a lockout. I look at the league, like the Royals think they're going to be pretty good, right? And they got a superstar in there in the prime of his career and Bobby Witt Jr. And they got some other good young players. The Pirates not only have Connor Griffin coming up, they've got Paul Skeens. They also have a couple – if Paul Skeens didn't exist, they'd be really over the moon about Bubba Chandler, right? They've got other guys that are – They've got a couple guys. Ashcraft, they're kind of bullish on. Yeah, they've got a couple guys. Like the Pirates coming into this year seem like they've got that little young core momentum building to where they're no longer just an afterthought. They're going to be an exciting team. I said to Lucas yesterday, we were sitting there watching the game, I said this could be kind of fun this year, right? And that's not something you have a lot of as a Pirates fan. It's hope and fun. I'm not saying you should expect to go in there making the playoffs, but you can – You've got things to watch. It's worthwhile to watch them throughout the summer, which is all you probably really want if you're a Pirates fan. Yeah. All you need is August 1st, turn on the TV and have some fun. I was thinking about this. In the world where the Dodgers are sitting on top of the sport and everybody assumes – everybody thinks that it just feels like it's inevitable for the Dodgers, There's a lot of teams in baseball with high expectations, with expectations to win the World Series this year. The NL East has three of them. The Mets, Phillies, and Braves all feel like they can do something. You've got the Cubs who are in an exciting time. The Brewers are in an exciting time, probably better than the Cubs, if I'm being honest and stuff like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, they beat the Cubs in the playoffs. They eliminated the Cubs from the playoffs. Right, right, right. That's just facts. I'm not even – Yeah, yeah. No, no, no, no. You're right. Yeah. You're right. Because you went to that game. Yeah, Brewers. You went to that game and had nothing to cheer for. Hang the fucking banner. Yeah, they won a five-game series. Yeah, sure. But you have – It's a joke of a series. For this talk that the Dodgers are crushing the sport, it feels like there's – Half the league has a lot of optimism going this year. If you subscribe to Fangraphs, Brandon – Because the Orioles, you kind of feel it. Yeah, excitement. I mean, if you subscribe to Fangraphs, wins above replacement, F war. the Dodgers are projected for 56.5 wins above replacement war. The next closest team is the Blue Jays, 47.9. But 2-10 is very tight. Like, Blue Jays to Cubs is 47.9 war to 43.7 war. It's very tight in the second tier of teams. So if the Dodgers get hurt or players underperform or players hit an age, there's hope. There's absolutely hope for teams 2-10 to win a World Series. Even if the Dodgers don't get hurt, it's just baseball. and sometimes... Yeah. Sometimes seven-game series. They barely won it last year. Yeah. In a five-game series, anything can happen. The Yankees, the Orioles are all in that mix. You go further, the Tigers are going to be up. The American League East is... Tigers have been up, but they're going to be especially up, I think. And you're a big soccer fan, so you would appreciate this metaphor. I would call the American League East the group of death. Oh. Yeah. I like that. The AL East is a group of death. And you have to be a soccer fan to understand what it means otherwise. If you're not a soccer fan, you'd be like, what could that possibly mean? Yeah, what could group and death mean? And for all the soccer fans at home, you know what we're talking about, right? Sure. And for the non-soccer fans at home, that just means – Explain group of death to me. Yeah, so like – So that's one team? Yeah, you go – Only one team comes out alive. Every other team, their players die. Everybody dies. Yes. That sounds bad. I got to get out of it. That sounds awful. Why would they join that? And we still – Why would anyone play in that league? By the way, we still don't know like which pitcher is just going to come out of nowhere and be unhittable in baseball. And it might be on my team. It might be on your team, Connor. It might be on your team, Ebo. I didn't even think about that. Oh, my God. Yeah. All I know. But that seems to happen every year is like the one or two pitchers that no one had. Scoogle pops up. Yeah, just out of nowhere, just completely unhittable for three months. I just know, and I don't think anybody's going to get this except for the soccer fans. It's 2026. Getting your protein fix should be easy with Tropical Smoothie Cafe's new protein blends. They're made with real ingredients like Chobani Greek yogurt. and get it up to 30 grams of protein. These small decisions add up and can make a big impact on your New Year's health resolutions. They offer a cherry berry protein, chocolate peanut butter protein, my personal favorite, and almond banana protein smoothie, to name a few. Available for a limited time only, Tropical Smoothie Cafe. It's tropic time. The soccer fans, if you're listening, you know that the AL West is going to be a park the bus type of division. You're going to want to park the bus in that division. Sure, yeah, and I agree with that. Yeah. And the reasoning being? Mainly just because they stink. And again, Brandon, you're not a soccer guy. But there are going to be some stinky doo-doo teams in that division. Should we do an MLB preview through the lens of soccer? I like that. An entire MLB preview? And for the soccer fans. Yeah. And you were talking about the Cubs and the Brewers. We all know the NL Central is going to be the goal, goal, goal, goal, goal, goal division. Goal! That's all you had Fred was over there like soccer I was thinking of soccer phrases Soccer Soccer Soccer Soccer Soccer Soccer Soccer goal What's it called when they score? The Pirates have their golden generation coming right now, right? That's what they Is that soccer? Yeah, that's soccer It's golden generation. Tiki Taka. Hold on. Put, hold on. Everybody stop right now. TJ, put the camera on me. I'm going 10 soccer phrases off the rip. Goal. Okay. Hold on. All right. You can still say soccer. Wait, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I just had no. Oh, goal. Full kit wanker. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Can I just say looking fit Yeah All right In form In form yes All right The table Yeah. The table, the leaderboard's a table. Instead of standings, yes. The field is level. No, no. Okay. Nil-nil. Nil-nil. Nil is, okay. Nil. All right, good effort. Cody, put that out as a graphic. Brandon Walker's top ten soccer firm. Just leave the last five. Hold on. Strikers, too basic. If we're playing an attacking brand of soccer, that would be... So parking the bus is the opposite of attacking, but if we're attacking, we're... There's not a tilt to it? The field is tilted? Is it that hockey? Ice is tilted type thing? Yeah. I don't know. Maybe some people say it. Ticky-ticky. That's pretty good, though, Brandon. That's pretty good. That's pretty good. Pretty good. Pretty good. Again, it led off with goal. Goal, yeah. Yes. Which is only a soccer phrase. Sure. When you hear goal, you're thinking soccer. It could only be one thing. Yes. It could not be anything else. I really thought you were going to do goal ten times, but just add no every time. Goal. Goal. Goal. Goal. Goal. Okay. Just. Boy, by the time you're at the tenth, that really gets tiresome. Speaking of the baseball, the baseball, what does this mean? MLB's new ABS system is going to be tough on umpires. Yeah. The umpires aren't really in shape. So far, the spring training has not been going well? So yesterday, they had a game, and they were doing the ABS. I believe the third pitch of the game was challenged, and they used the four challenges in the first couple of innings, right? Yeah. And the umpires went 0 for 4. But we watched the clips on Wake Up Barstool this morning. I don't know if TJ's got it, but we watched it, and a couple of them I sided with the umpire. I thought the ABS was being a little bit judicious. I was like, I think it was being a little bit too punitive. There's one thing about tennis. There are lines, right? There are lines, and you won't see if the ball's out. You go in there. Except the one thing we showed on the show, though, was Zverev, Medvedev. Which one was it? Zverev and Medvedev. It was very fair of when he was like, I don't even care anymore. I just want you to see it. That's where it happened right there. Maybe these automated systems aren't always right, Brandon. But there aren't rigid lines because, you know, baseball players are different heights and different everything, different things. And anyway, yesterday, ABS was taking the umpires for a walk. Do you want to play You Make the Call? Yes. This is one that was maybe controversial or viral. Sure, there was one that... You make the call. Yeah. That's low. That's a ball. Called a strike. That's low. It happens that fast then. Yeah. So, what's... And that was low. I mean, that was easy. Yeah. The bad call. Yeah. Yeah. So, by less than .1. Right, but if that... That's where it gets a little crazy. Also, I believe ABS is measured from the middle of the plate. What does that mean? It's not like – I saw someone talking about this. I don't remember who it is. It was on a podcast. It was basically talking about there's like a bunch of different zones that you see. By rule, there's a three-dimensional box that is the zone. There's the zone you see like on broadcast where it's like the front square. It's across the front of the plate is a strike. and the ABS is in the middle of the plate measured as a percentage of your height. Interesting. What's this? That's what the strike zone is. By rule. The strike zone is not a 2D shape. So if it touches any part of this? By rule, that is a strike. But that's not how ABS measures it. So that seems like a problem. Maybe. I'm also fascinated by the batter. It's that fast. The pitch comes in, the batter goes, fuck you. And then they review it. I'm fascinated by how quickly they go through these challenges because every other challenge system, the head coach is the one in charge, right? Yes. And in this one, it's the individual player who's in the play. Catcher or the batter, usually. Which sometimes they can't see the forest through the trees, which I don't even know if I'm using that phrase correctly. But they are so focused on their own personal stats that they don't understand time and score and everything else in sports. You know what I mean? I have a question based on that, kind of the concept here, because the catcher has his own mindset. The batter has his own mindset, right? They're all kind of – does this get rid of pitch framing forever? No. I don't think so. Because if a catcher catches it down here and goes like this, it's not fooling anybody anymore. But if you take a – no because – Or does it become what it actually was? The pitches on the margin are still the ones that you're winning with the frame, and those are ones that are probably going to be more difficult to challenge. Maybe on like a 2-0, there's a ball on the outside that's outside, but I frame it, I stick it, and I make it 2-1. I don't know if a guy's going to challenge to get a 2-0 count to a 3-0 count. Pitch framing used to be legit, and it used to be pure. And it used to be, I'm going to hold my mitt out, and the pitcher's going to pitch it, and I'm going to freeze it right where I catch it so the umpire can see it's a strike. And over the years it became, I'm going to do this every single fucking time I catch it. You believe it used to be pure. I believe it was pure at one point where they were like, I'm just trying to show you off, this is where I caught it. This is a strike. Yeah. And that is a pure brand of pitch framing. And this is not pure. That's not pure. Huh. I think there are going to be instances of guys who have not gotten on base in like four games, and they're leading off the top of the third. in a 0-0 game, and they get three balls, and then the fourth one misses the zone in their eyes. They'll call it a strike, and they're like, fuck you, challenge that, just because they need to get on base. And the coach is like, the manager is like, you wasted our challenge in the third inning. We needed that. That's what I'm fascinated. That could be some controversy. Yeah, that's what I'm fascinated. What about if you're the batter, and it's 2-2, up brings you up, and you've got the humiliation of a strikeout. You don't want to go down like that. You're like, no, no, no, that was borderline. And then they go to it, and it was a strike. Does it feel like you struck out twice? Oh, yeah. That feels embarrassing, right? Yeah. It feels like you've got a golden sombrero because then you cost your team a challenge too. It's a soccer term. I kind of hate this now that I'm thinking about it. Well done. Because they're either be human umps or don't be human umps. And they're just laying in the middle. And the people that want – the old school people that are like, we should do away with technology, just let the human umps be the human umps. They're not satisfied. And the people that are like, we want robo-umps, they can't be satisfied because you're still letting the humans, I don't know. We're laying it in the middle. Pick a lane. That's what I say. I just don't like how we got in the NBA almost every single play, there's a player doing this and signaling for a review. Now we're going to be getting this in baseball where they're tapping on the helmet and they want to review, and it's like, yeah. But the reviews go kind of fast in baseball, right? It's going to get old quick. It will get old. But they still also review all the other plays, too, which don't go as quick. If they're doing after every, you know, ABS challenge, the batter is reviewing to see if it was a strike. You already have an announcer voice. You don't have to change your announcer voice. Yeah, they shouldn't have to announce it. Just do it quick. Just fucking – we can all figure it out. Yeah. Just call it a strike and then – I'm going to hate it. Never mind. Batter taps the umpire in the nuts with his bat. That's a challenge. TJ, put the camera on me. I have something very important to say. Put the camera on me, TJ. Thank you. To those higher-ups and decision-makers at Barstool, word has gotten around that you are currently building a possible roster for maybe a Barstool beach house of some sort this summer. That's rumor and innuendo. Maybe it's fake. Maybe it's – I don't know. All I know is I've heard some scuttlebutt that maybe it'll happen, maybe it won't. and you might be asking around for people to do it. I would like to submit right now that I watched Beach House last year. I thought there were some fascinating personalities, but some might be a one-off, so they're not going to do it again. You need some replacements. All I want in my life, Mark Titus, this is all I want in my life, is our sweet baby boy, Connor Griffin, to be on Beach House and not to find love, not to cavort around, not to engage in tomfoolery. I simply want to put him on a beach in the middle of summer for a full day and watch that sunburn kick his fucking ass. And I want to watch his cohorts go out at night, and I want one cameraman to have to be back in the house as Conor Griffin has to sit like this because his sunburn. Can you imagine him in a full day of drinking outside with the boys and the gals? He's going to glow. And I want that storyline more than anything. His entire storyline is just the sunburn. Just the sunburn. Sunburn on day one. He's dealing with it all week. It becomes a character. It becomes a character that he can't function. I fall asleep with a donut on my chest and just a light donut ring around my... Yeah. I think that's awesome. That's awesome. That would be awesome. Listen, skin cancer is no joke. Runs in the family. But, yeah, for the sake of content. I would watch every single clip and everyone would be the exact same. Me with a bunch of aloe. I can't move. No. They're like playing. All the boys are playing like cornhole, and one of them hits a big one, and they're all celebrating, and one chest bumps him, and he just. Ah! That'd be funny, Connor. I guess so, yeah. Did you see how red he was on? Stop. Okay, all right, not that one. Okay, but I don't know if we have access to it or if the Wake Up Barstool producers put it together, but the picture of you beside Jack. Oh. Do you have that? I can find it. Send it to TJ. I don't know if you've seen this picture, Mark. you've got to see this picture. It's Jack Hughes side by side with Connor Griffin. Of course Jack Hughes gold medal winning hockey player American hero, missing teeth. We forget that we have our own American hero sitting right here who once in a basketball game at the age of 12 I believe. 14. You were playing 12 year olds I forgot. The Premier Jammers right? That was my AU team. This is when I was playing for my high school. You shattered your teeth. They took the exact same picture. This legendary picture of Jack Hughes? No way. They took the exact same picture. We have side-by-side of Jack Hughes, Connor Griffin, right after smashing the teeth. Why are you having trouble finding this? Well, I don't have the side-by-side, but I have the picture that I DMed TJ. Yeah, that. Mark, look how red he is. It's not that bad. You are pretty red. Why are you so red? Look how red he is. I just got my teeth smashed in. I got curb stuff. That makes you red? I got curb stomped on a basketball. How did that happen? What was the play? I was diving for a loose ball, and my teammate got shoved, and his foot landed on the back of my neck as I was pushing myself up. And, yeah, I didn't get the loose ball. You face planted? And his foot went in the back of my neck, and then my head went straight into the hardwood. No, Gage, great guy. He still feels bad to this day that it happened. His mom, oh my God, his mom was in tears when it happened because she felt so bad. How about your mom? My mom was distraught as well. Inconsolable. My mom actually jammed the tooth back into my gums. What? That's what you're supposed to do to keep the... We wash it off, but you're supposed to keep the roots intact. Holy moly. The nerves and everything like that, yeah. Connor Griffin's mom? Connor Griffin's mom. Wow. Yeah, so that was that. Wow. Well, yeah, compared to Jack Hughes, it was very red. But I had just gotten my head smashed. Hanahan High School, there was a divot in the hardwood because my face took an absolute beating off. Just throwing your mouth all in that hardwood. Yes. Mouth wide open, too. Mouth wide open on the hardwood. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Seriously. Your friend shoved your face down into the wood. It was the back of his foot as he was falling after being shoved. Yeah, when you get your face shut down and then there's too much teeth. Yeah. On the hardwood? Yeah. Speaking of the hardwood and basketball courts, did you see the Cleveland Cavaliers basketball court last night? And before you talk about it, Brandon, I want to first say this spicy or sweet segment is brought to you by McDonald's Hot Honey Sauce. Hot Honey Sauce is at McDonald's for a limited time. Your favorite order just got better with Hot Honey Sauce. You'll want to make sure you're on time for McDonald's breakfast menu now that it has the Hot Honey Sausage Egg Biscuit. new hot honey sauce, now at McDonald's for a limited time. Only my question to you, Brandon Walker, you are diving headfirst yourself into the NBA. Yes, yes. You're all about that NBA action right now. I was the one that reported this court last night. Yes. Through the group chat, I was watching the Knicks and the Cavs. Sure. So I ask you, Brandon Walker, this court that the Cleveland Cavaliers were playing on last night, the Cleveland Cavaliers whose colors traditionally, I would say, blue and orange. Sure. Blue and orange. That's what we've come to know. By the way, against the Knicks. Blue and orange. Yes. Yes. Yes. Is the Cleveland Cavaliers court they played on last night spicy or sweet? First of all, I'm going to dip this hash brown right here into this McDonald's hot honey sauce, and it's going to be delicious. And there's the dip right there. You saw that dip? Yep, good dip. Good dip. Now I'm eating the hash brown. And it is delicious. Okay. All right. And then. Okay. Now he's chewing. Here it comes. Now he's going to take another bite. Just to run up the score a little bit. Okay. Now he's really hamming it up Gonna take one more bite Of the hash brown As we all watch him chew Okay Okay Alright Okay This would be great for social Cut up this clip This court and I we knew earlier in the season when they did the for the last couple years they've done the tournament and they did those courts those were almost awful by design those were just crazy yeah they were trying to be awful to grab your attention but now I've watched two games in back to back nights and both times the court has been awful the Pistons court the other night was ridiculous didn't have Pistons colors at all and last night the Cavs orange is a color look at this look at that they're wearing orange the entire court is orange like right now that's i'm showing you the lane but if you go out 94 feet the whole middle of the court everything's all orange everything is everywhere you look there's too much orange it was the craziest looking court i don't know how people why aren't people standing up and saying stop doing this just give me a wood court look the fact that we got technology now to basically have a different court every night for these teams that's what it feels like i i we got to pull them back that's crazy you can't have that that's too much orange that's too much orange so you're saying spicy that's spite that's spicy spicy that's too too much orange yeah because you know orange is a spicy food yes and that's too much i mean speaking of transforming courts and everything are you guys seeing the the proposition that paul george or not paul george that paul pierce made about the three-point line i did see this i loved it not not i loved it as a as a thought idea you love they came up with the idea That idea as a thought exercise. I love that. It's dumb as fuck. It's dumb as fuck, but it's... It's outside the box. It's fun to think about. Yeah. Explain it. You turn the courts into LED courts. The glass courts like the Big 12 will be playing on. Yeah, exactly. Where you can control what's on the court and everything. It's all animated, whatever. And in the last however many minutes of a game, you take away the three-point line. And there's no longer any more three-point shots. It is just all twos, all being strategic. He doesn't like turning on a game, and in crunch time, it's just nothing but hoisting up threes. So he's saying we get rid of this. All right, I don't mind the idea of a disappointing three-point line or disappearing three-point line. I don't mind the idea of taking away sometimes. Not in the final three minutes. That's when you want a three-point line. You want more threes. Yeah, I want more threes. I want game-tying threes. If you have a three-point lead, you've won the game. Put a four-point line down. Something like that. We'd never get a Mike Breen bang ever again. Never. Mike Breen would never bang again. What about a power play in basketball where you commit some sort of foul, you now lose your three-point line for the next two minutes? So a flagrant foul instead of a free throw, it's I lose my three-point line for two minutes. Yeah, that's right. Let's turn that off. Every three-pointer you hit, your three-point line backs up two inches. Every three-pointer, every foul you commit, hold on. Yep, you're off course here. I'll come back tomorrow with this idea. Because hitting a three-pointer then would be kind of like a – you'd be penalized for hitting three. You wouldn't want to bank your threes for late in the game. No, that's not – that's the opposite of what Paul Pierce wants here. Sure. Sure. What Paul Pierce is saying is remarkably stupid, but there is a nugget of an idea in there somewhere that we can get. Also, Paul Pierce, I think over the weekend, put out his top ten players of all time. LeBron James wasn't on there. The pettiness of these players is something to behold. It gets thrown out as an idea every so often of the home team draws their own three-point line. How do you think about that, Connor? I like that. I like the fact that with the MLB, every single stadium is different. Same with NFL. Obviously, the dimensions are the same, but the elements can be different. You can be in a dome. You can be outdoors. Whatever. I like the fact that I like the idea of potentially maybe throwing a wrinkle into some different home courts. I don't know. I saw a tweet from – it wasn't a Paul Pierce or anybody. And I don't know if it was a nobody. I just saw the tweet, you know, how things just come across your timeline. It was basically saying if people want basketball to be basketball again, just get rid of the three-point line and go back to fundamentals. And, Mark, I would argue, A, the three-point line's been around 40 years now. It's not like this is a new concept. I would argue being able to set your feet and consistently make a shot from 20, 25 feet is as fundamental as you get. You're not going to hit that shot if you can't fundamentally shoot a basketball. ball. And I know when they say fundamentals, they mean layups, they mean post moves, they mean all these things. Passing. Or the passing, moving the ball, all that. But the modern three-pointer is built on passing. The modern three-pointer in the NBA is built on passing, creating space, the extra pass, you can't defend that big of an area, so the passing creates the open three. That's why the three is so big, because teams finally figured out, if you whip that ball around and use five guys instead of one, you're going to get an open shot, because you can't defend the three-point line from pillar to post. But that's – I mean, you're a pie in the sky with that, though, because I think what you described is awesome when you see it. It's just more often than not, it's like the best player brings the ball up the floor, gets a ball screen, throws up a shot with 15 on the shot. I think in college that's more prevalent than it is in the NBA. You think so? You have three and these specialists in the NBA. You have 24 seconds. I think you've got – I think NBA is get the ball to your best player and get out of the way. I think that's a complete miscalculation of what NBA is right now. I think the NBA is, you know, maybe you throw it in, maybe you set one pick and roll, the guy drives, and there's so many kickouts now. Like the manner of kickouts is just – like I think drivers are now more inclined to kick it out than to take it up. Okay. I think the Warriors and LeBron James are really the ones that change basketball. The Warriors by being the ones that hit the – and Spurs too. The Spurs whipped that ball around, and all five guys always touch it and it always ended up in an open shot. Yeah. All right. Wow. Wow. Wow. Agree to disagree. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. The three-point line is interesting to me. Suddenly guys like Bob Ryan would call me a shithead. Yeah. I sometimes wonder if he has a point. I sometimes try to put myself in the shoes of those guys that 40 years ago. Yeah. It'd be like if you had a football. What was he mad at you for? Was it the Shea thing? Yeah, the Shea thing. If football had a – if they put in a rule that, like, if you score a touch – if you throw a pass from behind the 50-yard line, it's now worth 10 points. Yeah. I imagine football people would be like, what? What the fuck? That changes the – you know? Yeah. So it is kind of interesting. It has. It has unquestionably changed the sport. And for some people, for the better. For others, I would like to see more dunking, Brandon. I would like to see more post-move. I would like to see – I think if you watch the sport before the three-point line and watch the sport after the three-point line, the one after the three-point line is significantly better. Way better. I watched a Pete Maravich highlight tape the other night where he scored 63 points, and that was just the most ridiculous thing you've ever seen. Just dribbling to eight feet. Really? Yeah, I think we disagree. I think I'm exact opposite. I've grown bored with guys bombing threes. It's not that interesting to me anymore. I miss Zach Randolph posting up and turning and facing and jab-stepping and fucking baby-hooking. One dribble, chest-to-chest, and then going up with a baby-hook. I saw a video of him the other day. Somebody tweeted out, this is the type of shit that we're missing. Yeah, I miss that shit. Zach Randolph posting up never created a moment as electric as Steph Curry in the Olympics doing the dipsy-doo. Brandon, look at this shit. It was this highlight tape. Somebody said analytics killed this. Yeah. Like this game is just like not analytically. I mean, yeah, it's in the eye of the beholder, Brandon. To you, you're like, I don't miss this at all. To me, I miss this terribly. I miss this terribly. Also, this is basketball to me. This still does happen. Some teams do have this guy. But like this guy also can take like 30-foot, one-footed three-pointers. Yeah. This is not their special. This isn't an NBA, Brandon. Come on. It is not as much, no. Not even close. But this is a lot of ISO ball, too. This is a lot of stuff that people say they don't like. This is all ISO. Yeah. You don't see as much ISO these days. Except, you know, a couple players do it a lot. Somebody get in there and help. I mean, he is good. He's damn good. This is fun to watch. I'm enjoying watching this. So you watch the Cavs? You don't see much ISO in NBA, you don't think? There are certain guys. Like, LaMelo Ball does it a lot. Okay. But, like, the Steph Curry Warriors were never really built on ISO. Yeah, but they're in the past. I'm talking about – what teams are you watching, the Spurs? Because I haven't been watching this year. Shea usually – That's all the NBA is to me is ISO. Really? That's why I would like to know – are the Spurs moving it like that? Spurs move it like that. Spurs are moving it like that? Spurs move it like that. They're fun to watch? Celtics move it like that. Especially with Tatum out because Tatum is an ISO guy. Right. we're getting very close by the way mark to a back-to-back shea mvp type of year where that's fine bring up the uh bring up i'm trying to get more into the nba right now bring up the nba mvp odds on on draft kings i really don't know who it is well so many people aren't going to be eligible because of the 65 game uh minimum that they put yeah they put it in to make people play and then people just still aren playing yeah no play yeah we don care about The list is crazy where like Jokic can only miss one more game Wemby can only miss four more games Luka can only miss five SGA is right there around six A couple guys have already missed it, right? Like LeBron's already done. Oh, yeah, LeBron's already done. Curry's already done. Giannis is already done. All right, so Shea's minus 125. Jokic is plus 350. Is Jokic one game? Yeah, one game left. So it really looks like a three-man race. Jokic misses one game. He's just off this board. And he's going to miss another game. Yeah. Because they're comfortably in the playoffs, and he's got back-to-backs, I assume. Wow. Luka probably going to miss, I would imagine. But this is where the NBA is kind of silly because Shea will win his second, and then he will basically become ineligible to ever win it again because they just won't vote for him. Yes. And he sucks. Yeah. There's that, too. He's a foul beater and kind of ruined the game. Yeah. You should not vote for him for that reason. I'm trying to think. Yeah, there's probably more ISO than I think. Brunson ISO is a lot. Shea Isos a lot. Luka is the worst offender, and I bring him up to say, has the worm turned? Am I using that phrase correctly? Yeah. Has the worm turned on Luka? I feel like the discourse, again, and I'm just a guy that's just kind of – when I'm watching ball at this time of year, it's college. I can't divert my eyes from what's going on in the Big 12 right now. But what I'm gathering from the way the internet is talking about Luka Doncic is that the people that were his biggest defenders are like, fuck this guy. The trade was still bad, but this guy is lazy and doesn't play defense. The thing about it to me is you can't – I don't think you can judge Luka to the Lakers until it's his team. LeBron's still there. You still have two – they're both better off in a ball-dominant situation. LeBron probably passes – well, they both pass a lot, but they both need the ball to be as effective as possible as long as LeBron is there, Luka is never going to be the guy they build around. And I think he has to be the guy. You do have to build around Luka because he's not going to defend that hard. He's not going to do all these great things. And Dallas had done it to get to the finals. They had built exactly what he needed. And the Lakers are going to have to build. And I don't think you can judge them until you've built what you need. What say you, Connor? I hate everything that the Lakers front office has done since the Luka trade. Yeah. Because they have not properly put a team together. And LeBron, I do think they are viewing as a hindrance to putting together a successful team. But you can't get – Yeah, you're not going to get – You're handcuffed. Yeah. Like, he might walk and go somewhere else this year and might retire. I don't know. But in this interim period, I know it's been over, I guess, a year now since they got Luka, and they really haven't done anything. They accepted last year. Like, yeah, this year isn't going to be our year. And then they're kind of already phoning it in now. Not really. I mean, they're in the mix. They're like a four seed, right? They're not going to do it. Yeah. They can't defend. But that's not phoning it in, Connor. No, no, but they haven't made any deals that have been jaw-dropping, like this is what they needed. This is the piece that they were missing. They've just kind of stayed the same. And to me, it's that level of – or it's a lack of a willingness to improve that I think has done them in, and that is what I categorize as phoning it in. Also, Luka last night, if you didn't catch it, passed up a wide open three. Yeah, that was weird. But that's the Luka LeBron thing. Yeah. Who should be taking the last shot? In a team where there's one alpha dog, he takes that shot. In a team with two alpha dogs, it creates confusion. Yes. You can't have two ones. And I do think there has been a lot of confusion. It's why Michael and Scotty work so good. It was a clear one and probably the best two in the history of the game. It's why Ricky Bobby and Cal Naughton Jr. work so well. That's right. We knew that Ricky Bobby was good with the number one. Well, Connor, they didn't work so well because Ricky Bobby took him for granted for so long that it eventually drove Cal Naughton into the arm of Ricky Bobby's wife and he stole his entire life and he stole his family. Ricky Bobby went through the depths of hell to get back. It didn't work out well at all. Well, you could say that a Frenchman was the one who got in the way of that. He was simply the straw that stirred the drink. That was always going to explode. I mean, Cal Naughton Jr. was second all those years, and Ricky Bobby took him for granted and never let him finish first. And he didn't value him. And then all of a sudden, Ricky goes down, Cal Naughton steps up. He's number one now. He's fucking his wife. Took his entire home. You can make the case that maybe a Frenchman this year will be the one that's the stir that stirs the drink. Yeah, the straw that stirs the drink. And maybe the Spurs knock the Lakers out of the playoffs. Whoa. And then all of a sudden, you have this real divide between LeBron and Luka. And then all of a sudden, Luka takes LeBron's way. So you think the Lakers issue, if you're pointing the finger, it's the front office right now. Yeah, Palenka hasn't done a great job. And even for that matter, I think going back to before they had Luka and it was LeBron and AD, I still think that they had plenty of holes that they never really resolved. Obviously, there's only so much money that you can spend, but it was very interesting. I don't know. I feel like they've wasted part of LeBron's last run that he had, and they're currently wasting a lot of Lucas Prime, because I also don't know how long Lucas Prime is going to last. he's not one of these like super durable guys who takes care of his body well i don't know you never know in this yeah you never know because he's his game's not exactly built on like elite athleticism either no it feels like he could be have a remarkable old man game maybe doing what he does but yokich is also what an old man game he's gonna have but clearly we know that luca isn't gonna get any better as a defender no that's only going down yeah and they haven't done anything to really, you know, suffice that need. So, I don't know. That wasn't a – that's not – that didn't work. Suffice that need? I don't think that – Suffice the – Suffice. Just stop a sentence there, I think. Maybe. Yeah. I don't know. To fill that need. Do you think Luka Doncic can win an NBA championship as the best player on his team? Yes. I'd say yes as well. Okay. But just, yeah, they – Because I get the sense that people are, like, turning on that idea. I get that too. That they're just like, this guy's going to put up numbers, but for what? He's going to dribble the ball for 20 seconds and either throw up a step back that misses or throw a hand grenade to a teammate. And then when the teammate can't score, everyone will say he needs more help. That seems to be the way people are talking about Luka right now. The main thing I'm seeing right now is the fact that people are really starting to get pissed by his complaining. Yeah, complaining. That's what I mean. Luka is the golden. He's getting back to that. Since he entered the league, he's been like a little bit of a golden boy, and he's going to be the face of the league. And I feel like time is ticking, and people are kind of getting impatient with this whole idea. And he's not as likable as they were hoping he would be. Yeah, there's one play where he misses a shot. He thinks he gets fouled, doesn't rush back on defense at all. Other team is pushing it out in transition, and he's still on the opposite end of the floor just yapping to the ref. And people are getting pissed. So, you know, people are definitely starting to turn. The worm. The worm is turning? Yes. Dennis Rodman? Yeah. Have we asked Dennis Rodman? No, but we should get his take. You're a grown man making better decisions about what you put in your body. Are you paying attention to what goes on it, Connor Griffin? I don't know. Just say yes. Sure, yeah. Here's the thing. Using grooming products with harsh chemicals is like washing your car with dish soap. 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He's hurt. Yep. I'll count it. Caleb Wilson. Yeah, we'll count that. Acuff. Yeah, there's Acuff. Yeah. I feel like there might be one more you could probably get. Corey. UConn? Yeah, they have a freshman. Yeah, he's going to be a freshman. Co-Pete. Co-Pete, yeah. Okay. In the year of the freshman, well, that's the reason I haven't said the one. Okay, all right. It's building up to the point. It's building up to the point. In the year of the freshman, we've seen all these guys have their moments, and all the discourse has been about Darren Peterson. And quietly, plugging along, averaging 20 and 10, just one of the best freshman seasons we've seen in a long time. Boozer at Duke. Last night they win by 44 points against the Corps of Notre Dame, but they beat Michigan on Saturday. Is this the coronation? It seems like it's going to be a coronation now. He's minus 5,000, national player of the year. Feels like we have – have I subtly missed his dominance by paying attention to all the other freshmen? Probably, I guess, yeah. He's got like a Tim Duncan feel to him. Just goes about his business. Boring is not the right way to put it, but it's so consistent. So he's not going to have a game really where he's going to score 50, like almost score 50, or he's not going to have – he just is very, very consistent, very reliable. Is he going to hit a three and check himself out of the game? He's not going to do that either. So there's not that content to talk about, that angle. Yeah, he's been incredible. And what's interesting to me is I wonder at what point does he become part of the number one pick discussion, which I think he was at the start of the season. and then as the season started to unfold, like DeBonce's potential and Peterson's just how smooth he is and how polished he is, his polish we'll say, those jumped off the screen at you. Whereas Boozer, you're like, is he doing this because he's bigger than everybody and when he gets to the NBA he's not going to be bigger than everybody? Is there a feeling he has a ceiling? Yeah, is the ceiling? Yeah, what is his ceiling? But at what point, Brandon, do you look at his floor? You say, that's a guy who is guaranteed to be a realtor. really really good NBA player he's guaranteed but then also like how what is the guarantee is he guaranteed I don't know but the more you watch him the more like for me it was the the Michigan he's been great all year but when they played Michigan Michigan has a perfect team to slow him down Michigan is maybe the best if not Duke it's Michigan the best defensive team in the country their front court is is outrageous they have size they have length they have uh the want to that everything about them says we we are built to slow down Cam Boozer yeah and he damn near got a triple-double on them and Duke beat Michigan. So, I mean, at a certain point, as you're forecasting how good he can be in the NBA, maybe don't overthink it. Maybe just be like, I mean, yeah, not all the time is the guy who's great in college doesn't translate to the NBA. Sure. But, like, he's doing it against every single team. He does not have a bad night. It's impossible. He won't have a bad night. So is he comparable kind of to his dad in that way? Because his dad was a real good, solid NBA player for a decade. Yeah. But he was never a superstar. I swear he's shooting 75% from three, by the way, and he's not. And I don't know if I'm wrong. The statisticians are wrong. But when I watch him play, every time he's open for three, just when you think his whole game is like posting up and then kicking it out to the open shooter, he'll fake a dribble handoff and be open and be like, yeah, I'll shoot this and hit a three. He's so good, man. He's good at everything. You want a list of every freshman ever to average 20 points a game, 10 rebounds a game and 4 assists a game. How many are there? Okay, so Cameron Boozer in 2025-2026. Okay. Stop right there. How many are there? And I'm going to throw it back to you guys. Oh, that's it. Okay. Damn it. I thought there was a trivia question. We were about to get ready to get cooking. Yeah. Do you know the last Power Conference? I said it on Wake Up Bars this morning. I don't know if it went in one ear or out the other, but last Power Conference freshman averaged 20-10 in a season. believe that okay so hold it 20 and 10 20 and 10 20 and 10 20 and 10 would be Michael Beasley it would be Zion didn't average 20 and 10 Zion probably did not get to 20 and 10 no because he didn't get to shoot enough Sam Sam Samwise I would say Michael Beasley I would lock in on Michael Beasley you don't have to go that far back Not a bad guess. How far back? Anthony Davis. You can go back as recently as 2017, 2018. DeAndre Aiden? Mm-hmm. And? That was impressive. Someone else that went high in that class. Two guys did it the same year? Mm-hmm. Oh, Luca. Marvin Bagley. Marvin Bagley. Yeah, then before that, Michael Beasley would be correct. The most recent, then Kevin Durant. Chris Humphrey. Anthony Davis didn't do it. Carmelo. Obviously. Yeah. He's not on the list. Wayman Tisdale. Wayman Tisdale. Oklahoma. Hell of a ball player. Is that right? He's the last 10. Yeah, Oklahoma. That Oklahoma team was loaded. They lost to Kansas in the championship. They had him and other people. Who the fuck did they have? Armand Gilliam? I'm just talking to myself. Michael Beasley's freshman stats are just this. Michael Beasley was absolutely. Zion averaged 20, surely. He just didn't get the rebounds. Oh, I don't think he averaged 20, did he? I don't think so. I don't think he was like, was he third on that team? 22 and 8.9. He was, yeah. I think I'm more surprised he didn't get the rebound. Led the country in effective field goal percentage. Which is shots that are effective. Adjusted based off twos and threes. Right, but that threes are. Mark, can I ask a question? Go ahead. Go ahead, Brandon. Field goal percentage is the amount of shots you make versus the amount of shots you take. Yes. Right? Yes. Make or take. Right. Effectively, that's your field goal percentage. Yes. 58% of your shots are effective if you're a 58% shooter, correct? Yes, yes, yes. So how do the nerds take that stat, which is very, very plain. Yes. You're making 58% of your shots. That's effective. How do they take that and nerd it up? They find a way. You have to wait things, Brandon. They find a way. Why? Because a three is worth 1.5 what a two is worth. Right, but you can just count that in his shots that he took. See, and this is the problem with the three-point line. This is the problem with the three-point line, Brandon. He just invented effective field goal percentage. All right, you guys that want the post-up game and all that, the problem is if you eliminate the two-point line, doesn't the game become only that? I don't know. It's what it looked like back in the 60s if it was only that. Yeah, I don't know. I wasn't around to see it. I think the solution there. But the rebuttal is it's only three-point shooting. The rebuttal is like you're watching a fucking... We still have high flyers. You're watching dudes that are like seven foot tall that should be down there fucking dunking on people. We're talking about a guy that's average of 12 to 10. Floating around the three-point line. I do like Goldsberry idea of cutting off the corner three. It'll drive you crazy. Yeah. The straight line? You just round it off at a certain point. I don't care how many seven-footers demonstrate that they can shoot threes, Brandon. I will always be triggered by like a seven-footer. A seven-footer misses one three. get your ass back in the paint. I will always be yelling at the TV like, what the fuck are you doing? In like the 60s or 70s, we would have absolutely ruined Kevin Durant and Dirk Nowitzki. They would have been the same old boring post centers that everybody else was. And that would have been – You'd be fined by me. Not by me. You'd be fined by me. I won't see Kevin Durant out there firing down. If it means I don't have to watch fucking like all these 19-year-old seven-footers that think they're Dirk Nowitzki and are – Well, that's always going to be fun. And are shooting 29% from three. Hello, Blutman. Why are you dressed like you work at TGI Friday's? No, I'm not. Cup of dirt, go to dessert. Can I see the TGI Friday's? Is that the right restaurant or is it O'Charlie's? It's definitely O'Charlie's. It's O'Charlie's? They're not rocking that. TGI Friday's is red, right? Red and black. This might be O'Charlie's. What? You have the uniform on of some sort of... Yeah, it's O'Charlie's. It's got to be O'Charlie's. It's O'Charlie's. Oh, Charlie's. Phenomenal tater tots. I've never even heard of that. You've never heard of Oh, Charlie's? Loaded potatoes. You guys aren't growing up in the era of the chain restaurant because it is kind of going away from us. What is that supposed to mean? Yeah. Where is now growing up in the southeast? No. He didn't grow up in the southeast. He knows what Oh, Charlie's is. Yeah. Just couldn't be further off. Ever been to a Ruby Tuesday, Blutman? Yeah, there it is. Click on the second picture right there. Yeah. So we get a real good look at that. Yeah, that's the one. And yes, man. That's exactly like. That's what you look like right now. Exactly. You ever been to a Romano's Macaroni Grill? I've been to a Macaroni Grill. You ever been to an Olive Garden? Yes, many times. Yeah, same. Chee Burger. You ever been to a Ruby Tuesday? Yeah. You guys ever been to a Quaker Steak and Lube? You ever been to a Claim Jumper? That's not a thing. Most certainly is a thing. This is what I'm talking about. You were born ahead of the times of the chain restaurant. No, I wasn't. I'm born in the peak of it. The 90s was the peak of it. We had a billion chain restaurants in the 90s. Now they're all going away. You don't even know. You guys have killed Red Lobster. I hope you're happy. I ain't never yet a Red Lobster. I'll keep that book. Guys, you never- Charlie's locations. Okay, well, I see my green dot in Tupelo. That's where I've been. So this is- Wow, they weren't national? You brought Charlie's to the table for a national- I just thought they were- They are a chain. They are a chain. Dude, Charlie's was my date spot in high school. Yeah. Yeah. Great bread. Great rolls, right, Brandon? Great rolls? I think so. That O'Charlie's? I didn't eat much. Oh, look at the O'Charlie's belt there in Tennessee. That's impressive. I'll give him a little bit. Imagine being a guy named Charlie bringing a date to O'Charlie. What's happening in southwestern Ohio there, too? There's a clutter. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Cincinnati loves O'Charlie. Give her the O at the beginning, ain't it? I would steal $20 out of my mom's purse, take a good-looking galley, rizzed up in third period. Yeah. Say, hey, what do you say you and I go get some loaded potato soup? Sure. Yeah. Yeah. Unlimited bread. Mm-hmm. What do you say? And there go them panties, Connor. That's all it took. There they go. It's easy. For us, it was Outback Steakhouse. That was the real, like, whoa. If you took a girl to Outback Steakhouse. I'm going to say a chain I do think was regional. I'm just going to test balloon it here. Garfields? Anybody? You ever been doing McAllister's? I don't know about Garfields. Almost on Mondays. They sell lasagna there? Never heard of it. I don't know much about Garfield. Banger. In sports, winning takes more than talent. It takes strength, reliability, and the drive to go the distance. Sound familiar? That's the same DNA you'll find in a Chevy Silverado. As capable and dependable as a winning team, Chevy Silverado shows up and gets the job done. It won't flinch when the pressure's on. It doesn't take plays off. When it comes to trucks, Chevy Silverado is football guy approved. To learn more about Silverado, visit Chevy.com. God damn it. Like this? Huh? That's a beverage warehouse. That's clearly a fucking beverage warehouse. It's a beverage warehouse. You know what? Sometimes you guys are racist against me for being in the South. Good point. And when I say things, you laugh at me. And that's hurtful. I was laughing at TJ's joke. Not you. TJ's never made a joke that made you laugh. That's a good point. What should we be watching for the second half of the NHL season? Good question. Who wins the Stanley Cup, maybe? Something like that. Lead off of that? Nathan McKinnon. Shoot a waffle? All eyes on Nathan McKinnon. Can I tell you something? Yeah. I think the Blackhawks are about to make a push for the playoffs. Oh. I think there could be some exciting hockey in April. They're outside the field now, but I think they're probably three or four points back. Now, I'm in no position to tell you you're wrong, but some of our audience has stepped up and accused you of being an unreliable narrator with the Chicago Blackhawks and Conor Bedard. Well, first of all, family. Second, some of our audience can suck my fucking dick. Okay. No, I saw some of our audience the other day being like, oh, Brendan's crazy. We didn't lose because Conor Bedard wasn't on the Canadian team. Obviously, they didn't lose because Conor Bedard wasn't on the team. He still should have been on the fucking team. He's still one of the best players in the NHL at a very young age. And just because they were looking for reasons not to keep him on, they kept some old guys that had no business being on the team ahead of him. And that is not just a home or take. This guy is one of the best young talents in the league. He might not – Celebrini might have passed him. Celebrini might be like the number one. Yeah, someone DMed me and said, Tell Brandon to get off his knees for Bedard. Celebrini clears easily. I hate it. We're doing internet phrases I hate. Clears is, you have no intelligence if you just say that. And then he said, P.S. Tell Brandon to unblock me. No, tell him to suck my fucking dick. I didn't do anything. And you can say Celebrini clears right now because he's been healthy and he's played very well. He's incredible. But that doesn't mean there can't be two young guys. There can't be two young goats, can there? There should have been three. Can there be two young goats, Blubbin? There might be three or four right now. Schaefer's coming. Yeah, you can't have multiple goats. That just doesn't make sense. Yeah, there can only be one. You've got to send one to the slaughter. Yeah. Faustino Oro, you know? There can only be one young goat. The three best players in the game right now are McDavid, McKinnon, and Macklin. You think Macklin's already there? McKinnon said it himself. He thinks Macklin's second best player in the world. But that's just talking to the press, man. That doesn't mean anything. No, that's Nathan McKinnon saying that moves the needle because Nathan McKinnon ain't doing that type of stuff. I got to get you hip to Nathan McKinnon and the psychopath that this guy is and taking out all the food. Psychopath? Let me tell you what a psychopath does. A psychopath scores a goal when 286 pucks would fit in there for his country. That's what a psychopath would do. Yeah, well, be glad he didn't, right? Yeah, I am glad he didn't. I had a question. You think he's going to go on a tear, though? Yeah, and I think the thing to look at, yeah, the Colorado House as a whole, The thing to look at in the second half of the NHL season is with the Olympics happening, you have a condensed schedule. You're going to have a lot of back-to-backs, a lot of two games and three nights, etc. Action-packed puck over and over and over again. It's going to be a fun playoff push. What's Pittsburgh do, though? Pittsburgh was in a spot to make the postseason. Crosby's out for a month. Are they going to have to end up selling assets or what? Trade Crosby. Can't. Can't. Trade him. Can I ask you a question inspired by hockey? Go ahead. Okay. World Cup is coming up this summer. Now, that's soccer. World Cup is coming up this summer. Uh-huh. USA just won gold in hockey on both the men and the women And what followed for whatever your opinion is on it what followed was three days of absolute pure trash discussion and bullshit that the likes of which we rarely see would it even be worth it to win the world cup in soccer if hockey did this to america what the fuck would soccer do it's worth it yeah it's a lot of bullshit out there right now man are you kidding me of course it is worth it but can you imagine the shit storm can you imagine the shit storm the shit storm i don't think the shit storm started with the world cup or with the gold medal no what i'm saying something would happen you're right that it was like there was we would ruin it somehow i'm saying the shit storm's coming whether we won the right that's what i'm saying who cares if the shit storm is obviously winning the world cup will be worth the shit storm is happening we might as well win the world cup but might as well win the fucking world this shit storm right here would be like tiny storm compared to whatever we would come up with i'm saying if it's not if it's not the world cup that triggers the shit storm, it's going to be something else. August 8th. Just a random day in August. I've got to sneeze. We're arguing right now and I've got to sneeze. If those are my options, I would rather have the World Cup than just August 8th. Are we worried, Blutman, about a hangover from the American players? Yeah, I mean, you're going to have guys not playing for a bit. I'm worried about it. I'm worried that these guys... How could Jack Hughes give a single fuck about playing hockey for the New Jersey Devils when he just did what he did. There's got to be a random Tuesday night, and he's on the road playing in Columbus, and it's the first intermission, and he's sitting there in his locker, and they're down 1-0, and he's just like, what am I doing? He FaceTimes all of us for sending me my gold medal. This is so boring, dude. What am I doing here? Why can't we just go back to Milan? Such a cool place, and win another gold medal, dude. I'm not going to fully disagree with that, But what I'll say to that is the chase for the cup trumps all. Most of these guys would rather win the cup. I think their lust for the cup is greater than their lust for that gold medal. Even though the gold medal payoff was incredible. I think Connor McDavid could have 35 gold medals and trade every single one to have a chance at winning a cup in a game seven again. Give me your Stanley Cup finals right now. Go. Colorado I don't have a team from the east yet Well you're going to have to You're going to have to have a team Legally You have to have a team from the east Colorado beats a team from the east Sharks I don't know yet I don't know What about the Hurricanes No never the Hurricanes Okay what about the Bruins Let's work through this What about the Capitals Lightning What about the Islanders? The Lightning are up there. Keep that one in the back pocket. I love rooting for the Islanders in the playoffs. Okay. Canadians. No, I would love that. You want to pick poutine teams? Should we do an elevated cupcake experience for a team? What's an elevated cupcake? Didn't you thumbs up the message in the chat? Whatever. I want to do a poutine team. You want to do a poutine team? Yes. And whoever picks the winner right doesn't have to eat the poutine. Everybody else does. If you... Okay, yeah, you want to eat poutine. You thumbs up that you ha-ha'd the message. What is this? Why are you so flummoxed by this when you ha-ha'd the message? Macklin Celebrini. Oh, that, yeah, sorry. I was envisioning a literal cupcake. Will Smith signed Macklin Celebrini up for a, quote, elevated cupcake experience without him knowing. Celebrini going through with it? Well, it was like a charity event. and in your heart out trying to win a gold medal for your country and you come up short and then you go back home and you find out that you have to go and do a cupcake experience with strangers well that is exactly what is happening to Macklin Celebrity right now and the internet is loving it let's talk about it I cover hockey stories every single day just make sure I get on with it yeah obviously we all know how well Macklin Celebrity did the Olympics but also during that time over the last couple days the San Jose Sharks had their annual wine tasting event and there they do a bunch of different auctions to try and raise money for charity and one of them was this cupcake experience here and you can see in the auction description there it's for you and five guests you get to go have a private experience at this local san jose business but then you can also see that there will be san jose say what it is dude and that's where this whole thing became a massive meme online from what i've been able to piece together online basically what happened is the man who was auctioning off the different items whenever it came to this cupcake experience i'm I'm out. I get the joke. In fairness. He signed him up for something. Can Will Smith sign Macklin up for a trip here? In fairness, it did say hold for two times speed because the guy knew that people would just want to get through the video. Well, why don't you just say it faster? Because you get one minute for more money. Yes, you get paid based off of how long the video is. That's so stupid. How do we do poutine? The video has to be a minute. How do we do poutine teams? I think we do it like we do the waffles, except the amount of poutine you eat is until you get a tummy ache. You have to eat just too much poutine. No. Maple syrup team where you just have to drink a whole thing of maple syrup. How about servings of poutine based on how long the Stanley Cup finals went? You can go from four to seven. Okay. Seven poutine. Seven orders of poutine, four orders of poutine. Yes. Something like that? Okay. Do we have to go to Canada for the poutine? No. Are we doing Chicago? We still have to make a poutine. We'll get Chef Donnie to make us some poutine. Well, I'll ask him. I'll fuck that up. Yeah. Okay, Mark. He'll find a way to... Right. I'll handle talking to him. He'll read the instructions and fucking his ass will throw fucking mayonnaise and fucking... All right, Mark. Fucking... Yeah, whatever you say, Mark. Fucking vegetables and fucking... You know what I'm saying. Yeah. Yeah. Gluten-free. Fucking... Yeah. All right. Pick a team. We're picking teams who will not win the cup, but they have to be inside the playoffs right now? Yeah, sure. no wild cards? pull up the standings TJ based on the playoff standings not just divisions playoffs if they started today that's good that's good we can do it that way in sports winning takes more than talent it takes strength, reliability and the drive to go the distance sound familiar? that's the same DNA you'll find in a Chevy Silverado as capable and dependable as a winning team, Chevy Silverado shows up and gets the job done. It won't flinch when the pressure's on. It doesn't take plays off. When it comes to trucks, Chevy Silverado is football guy approved. To learn more about Silverado, visit Chevy.com. Top half of the league? Do conference. Do conference. All right. So it's a top eight? Yeah, so there's your top eight. Top eight. You have to pick one of the top eight. Yeah, inside the top eight. Oh, man. All right, so that's the east and out of the west. You've got the Avs, the Wild, the Stars. I already got my team, by the way. The Knights, the Mammoth, the Oilers, the Kraken, and the Ducks. Can I see the East again? Can I draft first? Yeah. I'll take Sabres. I'm taking Buffalo Sabres. Taking the sixth seed in the East, the Buffalo Sabres. All right. I'm going to go a little more aggressive, and I don't think those bitch-ass dudes from the Wild are going to win it. Whoa. Minnesota Wild. Whoa. Now, that's Quinn Hughes, right? That's Quinn Hughes. That's Boldy. Some American heroes over there. Yeah. I don't like their uniforms. Wow. Take them to Minnesota Wild. You dropped your nuts on that one. Well, I just think that's... I think I'm going to see the Blackhawks in the wild, please. Okay. Connor? That was wild. Could I see Western again, please? Wow, that's crazy. Actually, I picked the wrong... There's so many Americans on the fucking wild. Yeah, Brock Favre. The Kraken. You just called them bitch asses. Yeah, I shouldn't have done that. Take those bitch ass wild. You're taking the Kraken? Yeah, the Kraken. They're not doing it. You guys are really kind of pussyfooting this. I also was the one who did have to eat 40 waffles. Well, then you shouldn't have picked the wrong team. I'm just saying. I've done it before. It's not like I'm pussyfooting. This isn't waffles. This is poutine. Is it my turn? But it's still a lot. Sure. Well, is it 30 years since the Canadians have won a Stanley Cup? I'll take the Canadians. All the Canadian teams? Or the Montreal Canadiens? The Montreal Canadiens, yeah. Yeah, you're fine. Yeah. You'll be all right. The Leafs aren't in the playoff position. Aren't the Leafs always good? They've been struggling, man. Maybe they missed Marner. I'll take the Mammoth. Yeah, the Mammoth can't win. They're not a Stanley Cup. Go back down. They're not a confetti team. Can you go all the way down? Because the Blackhawks are way further out of playoff position than I thought. They're currently 10 points. 10 points away. That's not good. That's what I'm saying, Brandon. You're an unreliable source. I mean, if your goat celebrini is so good, why are they in 11th? That team stinks. If you got all of your NHL information from this show, as I do, you would be led to believe that Conor Bedard is the second best hockey player on planet Earth. He's amazing. And the Blackhawks are going to be a three- Guys, I'm a fan of one team, all right? And that's the Chicago Blackhawks. And if you're going to rely on me for information, that's how it's going to be colored. I'm sorry. Oh, sorry. I'm a fan of one team, too, and that's the United States of America men's hockey team. You've been gushing over Celebrity the Canadian the whole show. Macklin rocks. What do you want a fellow to do? Deny that? Lean goal scorer at the Olympics. No big deal. Give me the Carolina Hurricanes. To not win. To not win. Of course not win. They never win. They could never win. Okay. Fraud system doesn't win the playoffs. Cody, pick a team. They turtle. Cody, do the big dogs thing again. Honestly, Cody doesn't. He won't do it. He won't do it anyway. He's still got to go to games, though. Yeah. They get tarred and feathered and then tarred again. He's taking minutes with him? Yes. Oh, man. Xbox is reportedly being sunset as a brand. Yeah. Is that depressing, TJ? That seems like something that would depress you. This news kind of was news like a year ago where they sort of said the next console is their last hardware piece. Right. What? So are they rebranding or are they getting out of the game altogether? Like they're not going to make... So Microsoft gives up. They're not going to make physical hardware anymore. So the world belongs to Sony and Nintendo. Focusing on the software side of things. And that's doing games for the other systems. Okay. In theory, yeah. So that means if they ever bring a Halo back, they'll just give it to Sony and Nintendo. No, it would just be on Steam. Anybody could get it. They'd buy it. Yeah, it could just be through digital platforms. PlayStation wins. They're going to make the next Xbox, and then that'll be the last time they make a film. You can go buy an Xbox. Allegedly. It is not confirmed. Wow, I'm a PlayStation guy, and as much as I want to gloat, I tip my cap to Xbox for a hell of a rivalry. Yeah. Man, what a run we had. Yeah, I was a big PlayStation guy. And the problem, whenever you would play an Xbox, whenever you go to a friend's house, the buttons sucked. Yeah, the buttons sucked. The buttons sucked. Xbox had a moment, though. Xbox, it was Halo, right? It was when Halo was popping off. I remember being in college, and I stayed strong. I was like, I've got to stick with my boys at PlayStation. I think loyalty, it's got to mean something. Yeah. Xbox 360 made it. Everybody had an Xbox. Outside of Halo, what are the Xbox exclusives? I can name Halo and Forza Motorsport. That was their Gran Turismo clone, right? And then they had, for a while they had the 2K baseball games. They were the only ones that had the 2K baseball games. Yeah, but that wasn't worth playing. Yeah. Trying to think what else they had. What's another one? They had to have five or six, right? No? Gears. Gears? What's that? Gears of War. Okay, yeah. Why don't you just say Gears of War? I'm not going to be able to realize it's just. Gears. All right. That was like their other main exclusive blockbuster franchise. Oh, Cody just picked one player, I guess? He just picked one player. Cody picked Penguin. I liked Fusion Frenzy was on the Xbox. It was like a Mario Party-esque game. TJ, did you pick your team? Yeah, the Mammoth. They can't win, obviously. Some of y'all are pussyfooted. Yeah, pick that. Would that be good or bad for the league if the Mammoth won? I think it would be pretty good. I think Smith's a really good owner that's super bought in. I think it would be neat to see. That's interesting. I think they have a great atmosphere, too, with their game. Their players got super annoyed, though, because their fans kept whistling during games, and they were like, you guys got to stop whistling. This is so annoying. Oh, Vanderbilt baseball should do that. Just randomly whistling? They're doing it instead of clapping, or are they just randomly throughout the game? 10 minutes left, I feel like, in the third period. The mincy Vanderbilt Whistler stuff is so far removed from it now, but that's such a funny – that was such a funny mince saga. Oh, my God. Staring down the Whistler. Oh, my God. Kate Colligan. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Was it Owen that Collin said the Whistler was blowing my girlfriend's back out? Yeah. did you ever see that one where Mintz was he confronted the Whistler he went on Birmingham radio the next day during the yak he was on and the yak just spent the next five minutes calling him Kate called and explained that her little kid had gotten away see if you can find the Kate call because it is very funny her little the Vandy Whistler saved her kid's life because the whole the whole appearance by Mintz on radio was to shit on the Whistler shit on him and now you're saying he's actually a great guy yeah In Tennessee, what's up, Shelly? Hi. I just wanted to speak to Mintz real quick because I've been seeing the Vandy Whistler thing. You got him. He's listening. So I'm from Murfreesboro. Go Vols. And I took my four-year-old son, Travis, to a game at Vandy. And I was wrapped up in the whole thing. It was a tight game. Next thing you know, I look over. I cannot see my son. I start screaming his name. Travis, Travis, I'm panicking. The Vandy Whistler himself came over to me and said, we're going to find your boy. He starts whistling so loud. The whole play stopped. The whole game stopped. It's the Vandy Whistler calling for Travis. And whistling. My son heard that whistle. Thought it was something cool came running. That's the only reason I got my son back. So to hear you riffing on him like that is really disturbing. So I just think you have everybody ripping on him. He's the reason I have my son. That's incredible. Yeah. That's awesome. Frank calls herself on. Yeah. I see you here. The UFL has rule changes. Mm-hmm. The only reason I mention it is just that we were talking about the three-point line, and then I'll be goddamn. Football's actually doing a four-point line of any field goal of at least 60 yards. I kind of like that. Is that sacrilege to say that a four-pointer from 60 yards out is – The field goal should be worth more if you're kicking them from deeper. Well, the fact that a 29-yard field goal and a 65-yard field goal are worth the same amount of points is kind of silly. Yeah. Yeah. Ban most punts inside the opponent's 50-yard line according to a series of rule revisions the league announced. Ban the tush push. Adopted the NCAA rule for only one foot inbounds for a completed catch. I like that. I say ban most punts inside the opponent's 50-yard line I'm vehemently against because punting from inside the 50-yard line shows us who the stupidest coaches are. And this would save them from themselves, and I don't want that to happen. I want to still see guys on fourth and one at the 41-yard line puss out and lose the game for their team. So I don't want to save coaches from themselves. I think the difference between NCAA and NFL in terms of having the one-foot or two-foot thing, I think I could be talked into either one, and I flip-flop by the minute, really. I have no idea where I stand on that. I think the NFL idea is you demonstrate you have full control of your body and the ball and everything and getting two feet down. says as much. But then it gets so confusing. Then there's an Omar Cooper catch in Indiana. Yeah, an Omar Cooper catch. And really it should just be any body part touches the ground in bounds. Yeah. Like that. Because otherwise you're doing the – how many – what's a butt cheek worth that's worth two feet? Mm-hmm. A knee is worth two feet. Mm-hmm. A hand is not worth two feet, though. At some point your leg – your ankle starts to be worth two feet because then the shin – Is a hand worth two feet? No. Like if you were to Spider-Man catch one like that? If you caught it like this and you're going out of bounds and you touch your hand inbounds as you're – I almost feel like – I don't think it is. I could be talked into the first part of your foot hitting inbounds because remember that catch by Tony in the national championship game or maybe it was the semifinal. Yeah, but his heels came down out of bounds. Where his toe hit inbounds and as his body came down, his heel touched the – Any part of you is inbounds. If the first part of you is inbounds. Yeah. I mean, what Tony did was he did drag his toe inbounds. Yeah. didn't drag it the right direction which i've always thought is dumb yeah oh you're right if he's dragging that and it goes out of bounds then it's fine yeah it's fine yeah um work hard and hydrate hard with body armor flash iv whether you're working in extreme heat or powering through a long shift body armor flash iv delivers faster longer lasting hydration with more than 2 000 milligrams of electrolytes vitamins b and c and zinc coconut water and no artificial sweeteners flavors or dyes body armor flash iv keeps you performing at your best get body armor flash iv at your local 7-Eleven. Anyway. All right. Let's do a grid. And let's focus. By the way, Brandon, I ran a poll in the chat. Puck drop, try it again or don't try it again. And try it again, 86%. Yeah, I mean, that's easy. Yeah. Okay. Should Brandon Walker embarrass himself again or not, Chad? What do you think? Where did we think that was? 14% of people are just being nice as hell. That's a one-person poll. They're not saying that you're going to embarrass yourself. They're saying they want to see you do it again. Yeah. I'm getting a little concerned with how touchy you are with the otter. Let's do a grid, boys. You're real touchy with the otter. Let's do a hockey grid, please. Connor. Please. He's not giving up that otter. Second half of the season starts tonight. Oh. Blue Jackets. Okay. All right. All right. Now, hang on a second. All right. Now, Wawrinski, Blue Jacket American, right? That's right. Bottom right. He's not played for any of those other teams? Oh, wait. No, he's only played for the Blue Jackets. He was drafted by the Blue Jackets. All right. All right. So, there's that. Oh, I got a middle middle. What is it? Wawrinski. Zach. Zach. Zach Wawrinski. Connor, you were saying middle middle is Mika Rantanen, right? Wawrinski. This one? Yeah. Wawrinski. Middle middle. God. That's good. The delayed reaction. You're a real motherfucker. You know that? All right. American Buffalo Sabre. You the man, Evo. Give it to Brandon. Wait, wait, wait. Everybody shut up. Jack Eichel got drafted by the Sabres, correct? Correct. American Buffalo Sabre, Jack Eichel. Ryan Miller. But also, Ryan Miller maybe played for another team? I'm certain on Jack Eichel. Okay. Cool. Can I give it to Brandon? Middle, middle, Miko Ranton. Middle, middle, Miko Ranton. That boy, Brandon. Two Ks. Out for a bit now. Got her at the Olympics. All right. Stahl. Were the stalls Canadian or American? That's a great question. Okay. Cam Ward? Was Cam Ward American? Reeves. It got to be. You watch Team USA, right? Is there a hurricane on there? I don't know which hurricane's on there. Hillary Knight. That's a good guess. Thank you. Blue Jackets. I know. I don't have anything for Leafs or Stars. None of my guys played for the Leafs or Stars. I don't think there's a Yager here either. Brayden Holpe ever play for the Blue Jackets, Titus? Ever play for the Sabres? Brayden Holpe. Ben Bishop. Just saying shit. They're stars. Ben Bishop, Brayden Holpe. For what team? Stars. The stars. You guys got to get the USA sweep at least. We have to get the USA Hurricanes. I think Am Ward is a pretty decent guess. Is he American? Sounds like it. We got a Yager in there? Can we Yager? No. We can go Cam Ward for American. American Hurricane. There's a Cam Ward that plays hockey for real? He did, yeah. That could be. He could just as easily be Canadian. That's the thing. Yeah, do that. Do that. Cam Ward. He's Canadian. Slavin, man. Ridiculous. Who? TJ said it. Yeah, you said Slavin. Foligno played for the Maple Leafs? I didn't know that. Get down a little Jackson Blake mill, right? We got to remember Holla. Holla. Holla, Holla, Godella. Holla. Tej. When I doubt Holla. Tej was on the Olympic team, too. Sorry, we got that spot. Tage. Who the fuck is Steve Ott? Pronounce Tage. Dude, it's Tej. Man, there wasn't that many. I got excited because I saw the USA flag and the blue jackets and thought... America. Thought I might have something and just didn't. Thought you guys were going to put Johnny there. All right, that's the show. We'll be back tomorrow. That's a ball's done. That's tough. That's fine. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. ... ... ... ... ...