The Show Episode 540

Masters Review, Russani/Vrabel talk, MLB Talk

Transcript

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Yes, we are here. And we just completed watching the 90th match. And for the first time since 2002, I believe, we have a repeat champion. And that, of course, is Rory McElroy. He is the repeat champion. Now, you all are wondering, well, the host has to be so upset that Rory won. The host has to be losing his mind that Rory won. I'm not actually. I was actually rooting for Rory. Whoa, whoa, what? What, host? What? You were you were rooting for Rory? Yep, I was. I was actually rooting for the guy to win. The host has turned to babyface, as you would say, and wrestling terms with Rory. Oh, I was full heel last year with Rory and many years before that. I have turned the corner with Rory and I have become full babyface with him. I'm on his good side right now. Now, I'll tell you why I was rooting for him to win. If you've listened to this show over the last few years, and you would hear uh us comment on this show many times when the guest has been on, myself when I've just been solo on the show and talking about golf. And this is even with other sports, with Super Bowl champions, with NBA champions, with Major League Baseball champions. I'm okay with the same people winning. I rather have the same people win the championships. Once you win one, I like to see you keep winning. Now, if I'm not rooting for him today, other than Scotty Scheffler, I kind of was rooting for Justin Rose. Now, I kind of wouldn't have minded to see Justin Rose win. The guy's been there so many times that, you know, I wouldn't have, I wouldn't have wouldn't have cared if he won if he was a first-time matchup champion. That would have been fun. But there was no way I wanted to see Montgomery Burns win. I did not want to see the fat man Shane Lowry win. I did not want to see Cam Young win. I did not want to see how tall his lead win. Okay, I didn't want to see any of those guys win. Any of the other guys that were, you know, sharing the leaderboard uh at the time. Tyler Hatton, even though he's a live player, I didn't want to see him win. Enough of the Russell Henley guy. We didn't want to see him win either. So I was rooting for Rory. I was rooting for him to come through and win. Enough of the enough of the nap kid. You know, isn't the nap, wasn't it the naps, the nap kid? See a is he a member of the nap family that lived next to the burbs? You know, the movie The Burbs. You know, the one the Kolpex killed and took over the house. Never mind. Anyway, that went right over a lot of people's heads with that one. Um yeah, so I've come full circle on Rory. And I think Rory won this tournament. Of course he won the, of course he won, but I think he won the tournament playing it so aggressive and being so on top of his game the first two days. Why everybody else, if you watched the whole four rounds like the host did, and um I know a lot of you did, you would have, you would have, after watching the first two rounds, you would have seen like a lot of the guys play very conservative, and a lot of guys played the first two rounds trying not to lose. That's what a lot of guys did the first two rounds. They were just happy to make the cut. Now, Scotty Shefford doesn't play like that. He was just having a hard time Thursday and especially Friday before he played the best over the weekend. Scotty Shefford played the best over the weekend. He was minus 11 over the weekend, and Rory, who won, was only minus one. So you can see where you know the difference was uh in play if you paid attention and you watched this weekend between Scotty and Rory over the weekend. But I I just thought, you know, Thursday and Friday, and you know, the course was supposed to get harder uh as the weekend went on. Uh it just seemed like those guys were just so tight with their game, didn't want to make the big mistakes. They were all just playing to get to the weekend. And then when Saturday came around and Rory had a six-shot lead uh going into going into uh Friday night after the second round. When Saturday began, he had a six-shot lead. You knew everybody behind him was gonna start gunning for him. You knew they said, well, we got to make up some ground here. You know, we got to start playing golf. We made it to the weekend, we got to start playing golf, and that's what a lot of these guys did behind him, including Scotty Scheffler on Saturday, shooting a uh tremendous uh 65 to uh climb back in it to get in it today. You know, Justin Rose played good on Saturday, uh Burns played good, Cameron Young played great on Saturday. A lot of guys, Shane Lowry played great on Saturday. He had the hole in one that, you know, was uh uh everybody going crazy about. So uh a lot of guys stepped it up and played well on Saturday. And Rory, he didn't have his A game on Saturday. And, you know, going into today, you know, it could have been anybody's game. Anybody could have got hot. And at one time, Justin Rose was winning. When he got to the back nine, Justin Rose was winning this Masters. And once again, Justin Rose, I don't know if it's in the back of his mind. I don't know if he just can't step it up. I don't know if he just doesn't have it in him. Uh, he just doesn't seem to get it done at the right time in these majors. When he got the lead uh on the back today, Justin Rose, again, got very conservative on 11. Hit it way out to the right because he was so afraid to hitting it on the damn water on the left side, hit it way out to the right, had to ship it way across the the uh the grassy area onto the green, and then he missed an easy putt for Parr. And then he got a bogey, and then on 12, instead of going for the pin like Rory and Cameron Young did today, did you see their two shots going in the 12 today? Justin Rose stayed away from the pin, hit it to the left, ended up flying the green, and then had to get the grounds crew to uh come out, had to get the grounds crew to come out, clear the leaves away, and then he ends up duffing the chip anyway, and he ends up getting a bogey there, and that ruined all his chances of even trying to win a green jacket uh after he had the lead. Rory got back the lead and you know, built a two-stroke lead going into 18. Hit a tremendous uh chip shot on 16 to save Parr. Then another tremendous chip shot on 17 to save Parr. Little drama on 18 where he hit it to the woods. Better here, Trevelin say, uh, you know, oh, I don't know about his footing in the pine straw. What was he wearing? Bowling? You think he's wearing bowling shoes out there, Trevor? He's got golf shoes with spikes on him. He's not gonna slip on the pine straw. Um, maybe if it was wet, he might slip on it. But uh, it was dry. Of course, he hit a perfect shot, hit it in the bunker, you know, hit the shot out of the bunker, all he needed was, you know, two putts and putt it in, and Rory became back-to-back master's champion. And like I said, Justin Rhodes was right there again. And I just think that whatever he's done in the past, it's all in his head now. Uh, he shouldn't be at this point with his game. He's been he's been in these situations many, many times before, and he just can't get if I uh if the host, by the way, as I'm talking here, if the host sounds like his uh voice is crackling and cracking, uh the host has been uh a little on the uh sick side uh this past week. But uh I I should be all better. But it's just that uh my voice hasn't fully recovered yet uh from uh you know having the sickness or whatever the hell the host captured out there uh outside of this sound booth while I'm recording the show. I don't know what the host had. But uh uh I'm all better. It's just that uh the voice is not there yet. But anyway, uh uh Cameron Young, uh it looked like he at one point was gonna uh come away the champion. Of course, the whole talk this past week was oh, Scotty Scheffler won the players' championship in 2024, then he won the Masters in 2024. Rory won the players' championship in 2025, then he won the Masters in 2025. Well, Cameron Young won the players in 2026. They, Nats and Trevor Illman had him sewed in of winning the uh Masters because of that stupid stat. But uh he he faltered down the down the uh back nine. He played good on the back nine. He was even shot even par in the back nine. Just couldn't convert any birdies. He got in some trouble on a few holes, uh in the trees a few times, uh got out successfully, but saved par, but just couldn't get any birdies and take advantage and put some pressure on Rory when he had a chance. When Rory went down through his little uh tailspin in the round early uh by double bogeying that par three, Cameron Young couldn't take advantage and uh put a lot of pressure on Rory, so he failed the win. Oh, Montgomery Burns. Uh, you know, nobody wanted to see him win, especially CBS. They weren't rooting for him. They were, of course, they were rooting hard for Scotty and Rory all day, uh, were uh the CBS crew, but uh Burns just fell apart on the back, couldn't get it done. Shane Lowry was up there, he had a total collapse. Uh, how tall is Lee took a six on the 12th hole, and then he got a 10 on the 13th hole, slowed up play for a while. Uh, people were blaming the slow play of how tall is Lee uh uh taking all of Scotty Scheffler's momentum away when he was riding it at the time. Uh, I guess how how tall is Lee didn't show it on the broadcast, uh, putted his ball off the green into the water. That's something I would do. Let alone a professional golfer doing it. Uh and then yesterday you saw, if you watched yesterday, how tall is Lee had the uh meltdown on uh 15 where he hit a bad shot and he had a line drive into the water. So how tall is Lee? A couple meltdowns out there at Augusta uh this past week. Uh he didn't, he was no longer a factor in there. Uh nobody wants, as I said before, nobody wanted to see the Henley guy. He fought hard, but just couldn't string enough birdies together at the end. And uh, like I said, Scotty Scheffler, he played the best all weekend. He just couldn't do anything on those par fives. Man, you talk about a guy who was playing great, making birdies, making putts, but when it came to those par fives, he just couldn't score on it. Couldn't find the fair way on some of those par fives, couldn't get the second shot to be magical on some of those par fives, didn't have the right distance at times on the par fives. Yesterday on Saturdays, Scotty put it in the water on 13 and 15, both par fives. Both should be automatic birdie holes for these guys, but uh, you know, that's how it is at the Masters. It's tough. It's tough. It's tough out there. And uh, you know, like I said, Rory, he he won the he won the Masters Thursday and Friday. When everybody else was out there just trying to get to the weekend, Rory had his foot on the gas, relaxed, smiling. Ari had the Masters in the bag, had the champions dinner on Tuesday night. He was out there just playing relaxed, and he was on a roll right away, made that great pitch on uh on 17 on Friday when he was rolling, he chipped it in, and that's how he won. And he just had to survive the weekend and all those guys fighting to uh catch up with him. Now, today, when uh Tyler Hanton was getting hot at one point, and then he cooled off, he ended up with PARS on 17 and 18, and I think he finished minus 10. I was hoping he would post an 11 or a 12. You know, he was playing early. He was he was already he would have already been done by the time Rory got to 9 or 10. If he could have posted a score of 11 or 12, that would have that would have set those guys something to shoot for. And I think we might have seen a little different story. Rory Price still would have won. But we might have seen a different story and some different play out of those guys uh coming down the stretch there. Uh, if somebody would have posted a score of that low in the clubhouse with that many holes left, you would have seen a different, different way these guys would have played those holes a lot more aggressively, you would have seen uh on that back nine today. But that didn't happen. And like I said, uh Rory, your 2026 Masters champion, back to back. And again, as I said at the top of the show when I started talking, I'm not upset about it. Not mad about it. I'm fine with it. Yep. Last year I would have been, I was having a meltdown. I would have I would have been upset that he won. I'm fine with it. I like it when the same guys keep winning. I don't like introducing new people to the club. I don't like getting new people in there. You know? It's okay when the Seattle Seahawks won the Super Bowl. I would have been okay with New England winning the Super Bowl. They were they were past champions. It's okay to keep the same people to keep winning Super Bowl. You know? We don't want the Lions winning a Super Bowl. Right? We don't want them winning. We're gonna keep them out. We don't want the Cleveland Browns winning the Super Bowl. We don't want to keep them out. Just like we don't want to see, you know, Henley win a masters. We don't want to see Burns win a masters. We don't want to see Young win a masters. And I hate when when Cameron Young got done playing and he had the had uh he finished in second. Of course, Trevor Lemon's gotta say his little stupid saying, oh, I I oh oh Jim, I I I see I see a major champion there. Do you? He hasn't won one yet. Do you, Trevor? The same guy, right? Trevor, Trevor Illeman, who who won a Masters? Again, we're not gonna take that away from him. He won a Masters. But the same guy who backed into winning a Masters. When remember when they made people who don't know who haven't watched the Masters, remember when they made the course super, super hard for three or four years, and there was no roars, there was no excitement, and on the last day on the Sunday, Trevor Limmerman shot over par and won. Remember? That's this, that's that guy. That's that guy. Any major champion besides uh the US Open, US Open it will take to push that to the side. Any major champion on Augusta, a PGA championship, or the Open Championship, if you're shooting over par and you win, something's not right. Something's not right. No guy who shoots over par should win a championship. It should be even par or shooting under. Royals minus one. So the same guy, Trevor Inelman, with his stupid sayings, all weekend we had to listen to him. All weekend we had to listen to this guy. I should have written a bunch down like I did with the Bill Bill Rafferty a few weeks ago doing the NCA Final Four. Now, of course, I got my complaints about the coverage. Now that we've talked about all the golf and Rory winning. Remember when the Masters didn't have any commercials? Remember the Masters when Joe Ford would come on after you saw a few shots and the action got going, and he'd get on there and I wanna thank our sponsor, Joe Ford, IBM, Zero, Mercedes, for this uninterrupted coverage of 56 minutes of golf action. Remember when when that guy would come on and do that? No, you don't see that anymore. Did you notice all the commercials today? And yes. I I wrote this to the guest. I texted him. Every nine minutes you were getting commercials. And then and then the nine minutes of alleged golf action you were seeing, you'd get the azaleas in the background, the flyover of the court, the views of the leaderboard, highlights of who did what did who did this. You get some goofy old master stat, some stupid mumbling saying by Jim Nance, and then you get a few shots shown in. And then we go back to the same four commercials we saw all weekend. The Mercedes My Back commercial, the ATT with the kid playing and his grandfather watching him, the reenactments of the kids doing the old golf shots from old masters. I memorized him. I saw him so much. Well, host, you you you see what they did. They got their point across. You remember the commercials exactly. Well, yeah, of course they do. How many times did I? How much golf did I watch this weekend? I saw the same damn commercial 10,000 times. And then here's the other thing that kills me about the Masters. And I've probably said this before on this show. They have to tell you, the announcer has to tell you when it's a live shot. Oh, here we are live. This is live, folks. Why, why? Why, why do you have to tell me that? This this say the guy who's hitting the ball, say what holy's on, let's watch the shot. Why do you have to tell us me it's live? And here's here's what's driving me. Here's the other thing that's driving me nuts. Of course, I got the broadcast on, and on one other TV, I got the featured group on. Because people think I'm crazy when I say I like to I like to watch the featured group. Well, the host, you don't see everybody, they don't show everybody. Well, they sh they have four or three or four featured groups on the featured groups. It's not like you're just watching. Two guys play or three guys play. Sometimes you see nine to twelve guys play. And when you watch the featured group, you see the whole course. You see all the action of the interaction of the player with the caddy. You see them line up. You see them take the shot. But hosts, isn't that boring? Well, it's more, it's less boring than seeing the same four commercials every nine minutes, or flyovers of the course, or the Zalea Flowers, or Jim Nats telling you some stupid old tale from Augusta. You know, how many times do we have to hear a story about uh the Butler famed Butler cabin with its old chairs that look so uncomfortable? Did you see the end today with Rory getting the green jacket from Fred Ridley? You know, the guest's buddy, Fred Ridley. Because Rory won back to back. Usually the defending champion presents the green jacket to the winner. Well, Rory won last year. He can't present the jacket to himself, so Fred Ridley gets in on the act again. The guess's buddy, Fred Ridley. They're in there, of course, they got to ask him the stupid questions about how he played, what he thought. And then you got Jim Nance sitting on the edge of that, those crappy wooden chairs they got in the butler cabin. Those chairs look like something when you were a kid. You'd go over to your aunt and uncle's house and they had the old wooden chairs out for when more people come over and you sit in them and they're so uncomfortable, and your back is hurting after two minutes of sitting in it. That's what those chairs look like in the butler cabin. This is supposed to be the famed butler cabin, and they got chairs from a 1935 garage sale in there. I mean, come on. And then, you know, what I mean by the same coverage over and over, we gotta hear about the crow's nest. And they they gotta they they take you up and show you the crow's nest, and the crow's nest is show is there to show you where the the amateurs stay and how it is for the amateurs. Do you see the pictures of the crow's nest? It looks like an old attic up in your you know, your grandma's house. You know, when you used to go over your grandma's house, grandpa and grandma's house, and you you'd say you want to look at something, or your dad wouldn't want to look at something, and grandpa or grandma would say, Oh, it's up in the attic. You go up in the attic, it's got that old musty smell, and it's got the smell of just like old sweaters hanging up, and the wood is old, and it's not dusted, and no one goes up there. That's what the crow's nest looks like. You could you could smell the musty smell from the pictures they show on the TV. That's the crow's nest at Augusta. And they act like that is like the place to be. I mean, that's the word, that's the last place I want to stay, is the crow's nest. There's probably no, it doesn't look like there's no air conditioning in there. It's gotta be so musty and smelling in there. Oh, and we gotta we gotta see that all the time. Just show us what's going on with the golf action. And then this about the coverage today. Rory this tease off. He's on the first hole. Everybody is out on the course. What does CPS do? They go to this whole bro, this whole stat thing, and uh, you know, these, you know, these cute little shots of the holes. They gotta show us the three hardest holes at Augusta and the three easiest holes at Augusta. Meanwhile, all the guys, everybody's out on the golf course. They're all playing, and we're not seeing any of their shots. But yeah, we gotta know the what the three hardest holes and the three easiest holes are. How about you save that to the end when there's maybe five or six guys on the golf course, and you need time to fill, and you show the stats then. Why do you have to show it in the very beginning when everybody's on the course and we want to see what's going on at the current time? So instead of us showing that, then we got to go to all the shops being on tape. And yeah, they rattle through all the shots. Here's so-and-so on nine, here's so-and-so on seven, here's so-and-so on three, here's this guy on two. And they go through the shots very quickly, but there's no need for that. Golf takes a long time to play. It takes forever to play. Let the broadcast breathe and let us enjoy the shots. Let us enjoy the golf course. We only get to see this course once a year. We only get to see this tournament once a year. Yet CBS loves showing you everything else but the golf. And I know that's part of the whole Augusta thing, and I know it's part of the tradition. I know all that stuff goes all in together. But just show the shots and the players playing the course. And this is what what I, before I went off on another tangent. With the featured group I had on yesterday, Scotty, of course, because he was farther back after the first two days and he had his work himself his way back in. He was well ahead of the leaders. When Rory and those guys teed up, Scotty was already on the 12th hole. And he was already shooting one hell of a round your shit. Well, he was part of the featured group on the app. So by watching that, you knew what was happening with Scotty. You got to see every shot, like I just described. Well, if you were to watch the coverage, you had no idea what Scotty was doing. On the featured group on the app, we saw Scotty play the 12th hole. He was already on 13. The main broadcast coverage didn't show you his score and didn't even show you what he did yet. Yet, the people who are watching the featured group already knew. And then they showed the shots by Scotty on the main broadcast on tape delay. Not even lie. He's having one of the best rounds of the day. He's the number uh number one player in the world. And you're not showing his shots? You're showing his shots on tape delay? He's a guy everybody wants to see. Not only is the number one player, he's one of the most popular players on the tour, he's probably the second most top popular player on the tour, besides Rory. And you're showing his shots on tape delay? Man, it just doesn't make any sense to me, some of the stuff that they show uh, you know, on the coverage and the course. Now, if you watched the broadcast on Paramount Plus, and I don't know what you guys watched watch the broadcast and stuff on. I don't know how you guys, I don't know how you guys uh watch it. Through the YouTube's, uh Paramount Plus, Masters app, uh, through your cable provider, DirecTV, I don't know. I don't know how you guys watch it. For me, and we've talked about this before, if you watch any sports on the YouTube, the YouTube, they compress their feet. And you don't get the best picture. The picture sucks, actually. So if you can watch any sport event that's on an app like Paramount Plus showing the Masters, watch it. Like the NCAA basketball tournament was on HBO Max, watch it on HBO Max. If you could do any of that, watch it on those channels. Because putting on Paramount Plus, the picture was so clear, so crisp. Unbelievable picture. And you could see that some of the greens weren't really that green at Augusta. Some were a little burnt out. Now I know they want the greens fast, and it was hot, didn't have any rain. That might have something to do with it. But a lot of the greens to me, this is our first time I've seen I've seen this at Augusta. This is supposed to be the most beautiful course course in the whole world. They're a little burnt out. Looking like a little public course out there. Augusta. Wasn't a great look on TV. Let's hope that they uh somehow uh you know get that figured out, uh, you know, for you know, the 2027 master. Let's try not to cut the greens so thin. They get them so fast. But uh wasn't a great look on TV for some of the holes there. And I noticed uh CBS tried to shy away from different views of certain green at times because uh the green looked bad. They they went to another clip, another camera view right away. I know they were trying to hide uh the way some of the course looked. Very smart by uh CBS to uh to do that, uh, you know, to protect the you know, the legendary Augusta. Uh anybody else see Sergio Garcia today destroy the T-Box on the second hole? Ho ho ho! He hit this terrible drive and destroys the T-box, he chops up some grass on it, and at the same time breaks his driver. So uh I don't know, I'm sure he was reprimanded. And of course, uh, anybody who also watched the golf this past weekend, Robert McIntyre gave the finger to the 15th pole after he put the ball in the water and he ended up getting a nine on it on uh Thursday. He was reprimanded by the Masters officials. Wow, sir Robert McIntyre! You do know this is not your regular course. Excuse me, and uh you shouldn't be uh, you know, defacing our primed Augusta course like that. One more warning for you, Mr. McIntyre, and that'll be your last time playing at Augusta. But, you know, they didn't have to worry about him playing over the weekend because he he played terrible again on Friday and didn't make the cut. But uh he was one of the guys who got reprimanded this past weekend. Yeah, watch yourself at Augusta. You know, can't be doing any bad things out there because you won't be playing that course again. So uh that's it for my Masters wrap-up. Uh, you know, I'm sure uh a lot of people are like, oh my god, oh, oh. How many weeks of golf are we gonna talk about on this show? Hey, that's it. The Masters. It's over. You made it, people. The draft is in two weeks. You made it. NBA playoffs start this week. You made it through the golf. You made it through the golf part of the of the show on here. Yeah, we may talk a little PGA championship in a few weeks. We may talk some more golf about US Open, but the majority of golf talk on the show, you survive. You made it. Of course, we'll we'll talk about stories that happen here and there, but we won't focus on a whole 35 minutes like we just did. But I had to, it's the masters, it's a big part of the show, it's a big part of what the guest and I do, big part of our lives. We play golf, so we had to go talk about it. Now, moving on to something entirely different. As I got a few more things here before we wrap up. Now, I know this has been a big story, and I don't know why, but now I'm talking about it. I don't want to talk about this kind of stupid stuff, but I gotta talk about it because I get on my phone, there's all kinds of stuff about it on my timeline and the Twitter. You got sports networks talking about it. We got people commenting on it. We may have an NFL team involved, which I think I'm not positive, and I don't know have any evidence. But we got to talk about this whole Diana Roussini, Mike Vrabel story. For those of you who don't know, Diana Roussini is a reporter with ESPN and the Athletic. And of course, Mike Vrabel's the head coach of the New England Patriots who led his team to the Super Bowl. Both are married. Allegedly. They were caught on camera with photos at an upscale Arizona hotel in Sedona, holding hands, laughing, flirting with each other. Several pictures were taken. They were shopped around for over four figures. Finally, the New York Post is the one who paid for them. TMZ actually turned it down, if you can imagine that. TMZ turning down hot scoop. New York Post finally bought the pictures and posted them, and the news got out. Well, after all this came out, it all made a lot of sense. Who's been reporting about AJ Brown in the past month or so going to the New England Patriots? Who's been reporting stuff about Stefan Diggs and him being released and him and his with his teammates and the attitude he's had with New England? Diana Rossini. So not only is she getting the inside scoop on what's happening with New England, well, she's getting the inside scoop because she's messing around with Mike Vaber. So now, of course, all her credentials are being questioned. All her reporting skills are being questioned for over the years of all the scoop that she's gotten. She's been suspended by the athletic. No word about what happened to her on ESPN yet. She's been suspended for, you know, how well her reporting is and how well she got her information. Since the whole Sedona pictures have been surfaced from a private investigator, oh, we'll get to that in a second. Other pictures have surfaced of her and Mike Vabro at the combine in Indianapolis together. And of course, Diana Rossini reported, you know, after the combine at Indianapolis, of who the New England might be taking in next week's trip. So something fishy's going on. But here's the thing that I haven't really heard anybody else mention. Who hired the private investigator? Who knew this was going on? And let me ask you listeners out there a question. I think what NFL team knew about this and hired DS. Mike Rabel's supposed to speak and be part of the New England Dra New England Patriots press conference talking about who they're gonna draft. Guess what? He's not part of that this year. They said he won't be joining. Wow. Now what NFL team is involved in this? The Bills? That would be the first team you would think of, right? Division rival. Want to get back? Be in the top of the division? Wanna make sure New England plays bad? Get in the coach's head. Could be the Bills, right? Well, one sneaky son of a bitch comes into the host's mind. One guy who likes to mess around with the press. One guy who you would if I as soon as I mention his name, you're gonna go, yep. He would do something with it. What team lost to New England in an AFC championship game? What coach thought he had the better team until his quarterback got hurt? What coach is so arrogant? What coach put a bounty on a quarterback on another team and got suspended for a year? Oh, it's Sean Payton. Now I'm not saying he's involved at all. And I who knows? I could be, I could be just spouting this off on my show here as some kind of fake story. And just this blabbing it out there, just for controversy. And I'm not trying to create anything. I'm just asking a question and just throwing it out there just to get everyone else thinking about it. I'm not saying he did. I don't have any evidence that he did. But just because of all the stuff this guy's been involved with in the past. And it's because of everything he said. Remember, he made a big deal about how he allegedly tricked Minnesota into drafting JJ McCarthy so they could take Bo Nicks and he went public with it in the media? That's the same arrogant guy. John Payne. That he's the one behind the private investigator. If the husband of Diane Rossini was part of it, you wouldn't need to come out and say something by now? If the wife of Mike Ray was part of it, wouldn't if she'd have come out and said something by now? No one said anything. Someone had to know. Someone had to know where they are to hire a private investigator. Now, because they knew where they were, Sedona could have been the spouse of either one of them. But I'm just saying. Sounds like something to me that Sean Payton would be part of. But hey, I'm just some guy talking on a podcast here. But I I just think the whole story is just crazy. It's this, it's this whole thing of like what why is this the hot topic? And I'm talking about it. I just rambled on about it for seven, eight minutes on here. It's this whole thing, is this is this uh you know crazy right now to think that there's some conspiracy out there if somebody's trying to shake down Mike Frable and get up and get uh you know get their season already off the train before it even starts by putting this story out there. But you never know. You never know what little things could disrupt the football season and a team's chemistry, and it could be this thing right away in 2026. Um, couple other things. The uh Pirates in baseball off to a hot start. They're 9-6 to start the season. They brought up this young kid, Connor Griffin. He's supposed to be the new hot thing. He's played nine career games. He's batting 138. The Pirates already gave him a nine-year $140 million extension. That's how confident they are in this kid. The Pirates! You know all the Pirates, a team that small market team, a team that averages maybe 10 to 15,000 seats a game. Maybe a little bit more of that in the summer when the kids are out in school. A team that hasn't been good for what? 30 years since they were in the NL Championship series with Barry Bond. Maybe even longer now. They're so confident in this Connor Griffith kid. They give him a nine year $140 million deal. Now, meanwhile, they have one of the best upcoming young pitchers. In Major League Baseball. He's 23-14. What a 2.08 ERA. And he's won one Cy Young Award already. In two full seasons. He's two and one already this season. Yeah. There's no extension for him. Now, he may have a different agent. And you know these pitchers these days. Boy, the money they could command on the free agent market. If you're Paul Skins, don't you guys be a little upset that Connor Griffin, after nine games, got a nine-year, $140 million deal? And you've already won one Cy Young, finished third in another Cy Young voting, and they haven't offered you anything that we know of. Won't you be a little upset at that? Hey. He may be the future of the offense. I'm the future of this whole starting pitching set. Where's my money? Where's my contract? If I'm Paul's keen, I'm already calling the Dodgers. I'm already calling the Yankees. I'm already calling the Mets. What can you offer me? Because these guys don't want to offer me anything. They'd rather offer a guy who's only played nine games. I want a Sun Young award here already. I'm the best pitcher this team has seen. Since who knows John Candelian? Kevin Tacovey. So what are they offering me? The Yankees did have I mean the Pirates did have Garrett Cole until they settled the Houston first attack. They did have a good touchdown at one time. Of course, Garrett Cole's on a Yankees now recovering from Tommy Johnson. But man. You're Paul Skeen. After that. Nine games? $140 million after nine games? Baseball's weird now. I know baseball is weird with uh giving these young guys uh some big contracts right away. And I again, again, I don't know all the finer details about it. And maybe maybe I'm wrong. Maybe the pirates did offer him something. And I just have didn't see it. But it doesn't sound like it. Uh today, let me let me ask you this. This happened in baseball today. Let me let me run this stat by you. So today, we had a guy for the Washington Nationals hit a home run and he stole home base. Only eight players have ever done that in Washington Nationals Montreal Expos history. Ron Fairley, Ron LaFleur, Tim Rains, Andre Dawson, Andre Scalaraga, Marquise Grissom, Tony Tarasco, and now James Wood, who did it today. But here's my problem. For those of you who watch baseball and pay attention to baseball, what to you is stealing home base? Right? Stealing home base to me is you're on third, pitcher's in his full wind up, you immediately take off, and as the pitch is coming in, you score. And you slide into home play, you're either safe or you're out. Catcher tags you, ump calls the play, safer out. That's stealing home base to me. You know how James Wood stole home base today? The guy that was standing on first tried to steal second, the catcher threw down the second, then James Wood tried to score, and the second baseman then tried to throw the home and they tagged him, he was safe. That's not stealing home base to me. So to me, this stats shouldn't count. That's all I'm saying. Yeah, it was a great play by James Wood, great alert play, paid attention, knew he was, he had New Year's fast, knew the strength of the second baseman's arm. Great time play by James Woods to take off the minute the catcher threw down the second. But that's not stealing home base. That's just a good heads-up running the bases play. That's not stealing home. Again, stealing home to me is you're on third, you get a lead off, pitcher's in this wind up, and you go. And you either beat the tag at home by the catcher, or you don't. And you get credited with stealing home play. Throwing the ball down to second and taking off and then scoring, that's not stealing home play. So to me, that's that's him. Cow now I'd like to see the highlights of these other guys, how they scored. And somebody needs some baseball expert. Maybe the guest will explain it to me tomorrow when he listens to this. Some baseball expert needs to explain to the host if that's correctly stealing home base. Because I, as I said, set, I see stealing home base in a different view than what the stat mongers do in giving that guy, you know, the stat for yes, he stole home base. But he joined that elite group, some big names on that list. Some big names on that list of people who stole home base and hit a home run in the same game. Uh, Tim Rains, Andre Dawson, Andres Galaraga, those are some big names in Washington Nationals, Montreal Expos, baseball history. Well, that's all I got for you guys on this show. I mean, I I could I got more stuff here, but we're gonna leave it just like this at 50 minutes. And I'm glad you guys are enjoying the show. I'm gonna tell you this. And I know I really don't talk a lot about the numbers of this show, but I gotta talk about this because deep down, you guys are have been great. Now we did two shows last week. Two shows that were new. Uh, we did episode 538 and we did episode 539, and then of course, 539 was the master show with the guys. I just want I just want I I and this is I'm not bragging at all. I just want to share with you what accomplishments we've done with this show. And we're just a little show. I'm in my back room in an enclosed space doing this podcast because I love to do it. I think it's great. I love talking on here. I love being uh giving you guys information. I love talking about stuff. I try to make you guys laugh. Again, I try to act like we're sitting at a bar having a conversation, me talking sports. That's why I, again, for those of you new uh from all these numbers, that's how we try to perceive this show to come across on this podcast. Yes, people want video. I I I people have asked me for video. I don't want to do video. You do you really want to see me with the camera in my face? You know how many podcasts out there I look at and people with video and they got the camera right in their face? That's what you want to see. You want to see the host's mug right in front of the camera like that? I just I just see those as really goofy. People have asked me, I the the host has gotten invites to be on other podcasts, and the podcast has a camera. And I say, I don't have a camera, and then I don't get invited on the show on somebody else's podcast because the host doesn't go on video. It's not that I don't want people to see me, I just think it's silly to be on video. But I know, I know a lot of podcasts, a lot of popular podcasts have a video. I I know, I get that. I understand that from doing this, and I know it's popular. I I understand it. But I'm just not there yet. But just to give you guys a little insight in. And I I got I got this stat right here. I could show anybody who asks me. I can print it and show you. I'll put it on the Twitter if you want. The seven-day total of the last two shows. 873 downloads for this show, people. That's why this is the 97th ranked podcast in all the United States of sports talk. Right here. Because of you, my listeners. Thank you, as always. Thank you for listening to this. Thank you for downloading this show. You guys are great. You guys are awesome. And again, for all my loyal people who've been with me for 540 episodes. Thank you. You guys have you guys have made it. That's why this show's like that. Because of you guys. Thank you. And you know where to get the show by now. That's the host of CLDS7.2, Twitter, X, whatever. Spotify, iHeartRadio, Google Podcasts, Podcast, and of course, Amazon Music. 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