Three Guys Around a Table and The Best Of…
Three buddies sitting around a table debating the best of everything and discussing what is on their minds
Three Guys Around a Table and The Best Of…
Three Guys, Two Blankets, Zero Ice Cream
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Opening Banter & Jerseys-as-Billboards
SPEAKER_03Three guys around the table. And by three guys, we're talking about three friends: a lawyer, an engineer, and a school superintendent.
SPEAKER_02And just like our personalities, our opinions vary, and we certainly don't always agree. Whether we're discussing the best of or giving our tips and tricks of things in everyday life, you're sure to learn something if you stick around. Well, very, very good evening, everybody. I'm sure you're out there watching the Red Sox uh play the uh Yankees and the uh You know what my favorite part of this is?
SPEAKER_04The Red Sox have a Mass Mutual logo on their on their shoulders.
SPEAKER_02Oh, they say that's gonna get real bad next season.
SPEAKER_04It's gonna be like in like in college sports.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. I don't like this. I didn't like it when the jockeys started. That's what I was gonna say. I didn't like that. Remember who the first one we ever saw the jockeys wear?
SPEAKER_04Willie Shoemaker.
SPEAKER_02Jeff Ruby's. It was Jeff Ruby's. That's exactly right. And then, yeah, I don't know. Look at that mass mutual on his shoulder right there. You're getting that corporate money in there. Anyhow, welcome into a popery of three guys around the table. We got a lot of good things to talk about tonight. One thing I'm pretty hot about, one thing uh Mark's pretty hot about, and Greg's I'm not hot at all. It's cold in here, actually.
SPEAKER_04I'm under a blanket. I'm quite comfortable. It is September 30th, and I'm under a blanket.
SPEAKER_02I'm wearing shorts and a t-shirt and quite comfortable. I'm wearing shorts and a t-shirt. I'm also under a blanket because it's negative seven in here. Whatever.
SPEAKER_04I mean, I think we are officially in the freezer of Mark's house. Not in uh not in the normal.
SPEAKER_02Did you not bump the rope bump roast coming in?
Ads, Celebrity Spokespeople & Media Skepticism
SPEAKER_03By the way, kid behind the ribs. Can I can I mention before we get into anything else, the fact that I saw a commercial for the general insurance, you know. Regular rate, you save some time to general or whatever, right? Guess who the spokesperson was? Shaq. Always to Shaq, but this is a new one. I haven't seen it. It's the spokesperson for the general commercial for the general insurance. I don't know if I believe it. Are you saying it's fake news?
Halftime Show Debate: Bad Bunny Announcement
SPEAKER_04I will be hunting it down. Chris, what's what's grinding your gears?
SPEAKER_02You know what really grinds my gears? We've all heard who the Not an avoid. So I've been I've been under the weather here the last couple days, so I'm still trying to come back. COVID? No, not at all.
SPEAKER_04If you had baby Billy's bubble mucker's elixir, you wouldn't get COVID. Not that kind of no more COVID.
SPEAKER_02Um I saw that the uh halftime uh performer for the Super Bowl.
SPEAKER_03Can we say Super Bowl? No, yeah, the big game, the big game. El Grande Americano Football game. What am I missing?
SPEAKER_04Nobody can say Super Bowl anymore. It's trademarked. It's been trademarked. So like ESPN calls it the big game.
SPEAKER_02Who trademarked it?
SPEAKER_04The NFL.
SPEAKER_02Wow. All right, the big that's been a few years ago. Didn't know that. Anyway, go ahead. Send me my thing. So they announced that uh uh Puerto Rican-born singer by the name of Bad Bunny will be the halftime performer. Right. And uh the only reason I've heard of Bad Bunny was because of he was in Happy Gilmore 2. I have not seen that. Um has a lot of cameos in it. And uh, you know, I there's been a lot of reaction online, and of course I admit that I'm an old guy.
SPEAKER_04Are you a get off my line guy now?
Who Picks Halftime? From NFL to Roc Nation
SPEAKER_02Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely. But I have to say that, you know, I was kind of taken back. I'm like, all right, maybe this is something that you know, maybe this is something I'm missing out on that the young kids listen to and that kind of thing. And I go back to last year's uh big game uh halftime show where they had uh Kendrick Lamar, which ended up whether I don't care if you're on which side of the thing, when he came out and said that was a political statement and all that, you know, I I I don't agree that's the time to do that, right? Sure. Do you know that there has been one company under the direction of one person that's picked every halftime show since 2019? I did not know that. Mark, did you know that? No, I did not know that. Jay-Z's Rock Nation. Jay-Z picks the halftime show and has since 2019. I did not know that. And since 2019, you can go back and look at the acts. But let's start a little further back. Let's go back prior to 2019.
SPEAKER_04Are you gonna go back to when Prince did it? Didn't you all say that was the best one? Prince is in 2007.
SPEAKER_02That was by far the best. Amazing ever. Yes. But you had Prince. I thought the NFL picked it. They did prior to 2019. They announced it. They announced it the other day.
SPEAKER_03That's interesting, man. That's interesting. I read something that it was going to be Taylor Swift, but she had some demands that the NFL refused, and that's how we got to Bad Bunny. I've heard that as well.
SPEAKER_02But since 2019, Jay-Z's Rock Nation has picked it. Okay.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_02So again, let's go to 2012. You had Madonna, right? You had the Who in 2010. I know the Who's one of my favorites, but not everybody's cup of tea, right? But 2012.
unknownI don't know who that is.
Looking Back: Best and Worst Halftimes
SPEAKER_02Madonna. You know, Beyonce, Bruno Perry. Who are you? Think about this. 2015, Katie Perry, Lenny Kravitz, and Missy Elliott. Now, keep in mind, prior to like 2006, it was all, you know, the best of the 80s and the best of whatever, and they had all these themes, the best of blues and all this. So then you move on. You get into, you know, cold play. Lady God.
SPEAKER_04Cold play. They're popular for some other reason now.
SPEAKER_02Lady God, you know, Justin Timberlake.
SPEAKER_03U2 back in uh 2002.
SPEAKER_02U2 was the first one to not be a um not the best of.
SPEAKER_03And it was and it was the after 9-11, and they did the uh scrolling names and all that was a great show.
Genre Drift & Country’s Stadium Pull
SPEAKER_02Now in 2001, it was called The Kings of Rock and Pop, featuring Errol Smith, InSync, Britney Spears, Mary J. Blige, and Nellie. Right. And then after after U2, Shania Twain, then you had Janet Jackson with Kid Rock, Paul McCartney, The Rolling Stones, which that was terrible. I remember that. So anyhow, what I'm saying is after Rock Nation took over picking, you've had Shakira with Jennifer Lopez, Bad Bunny, uh Jay Balvin and Emmy Muniz. I don't know who that is. 21 you had The Weeknd. 22 was my favorite one since the original one with Prince was Eminem, Dr. Dre, Snoop, Kendrick Lamar. That was pretty good. Mary J. Blige. And then you went to Rihanna. And then 24 you had Usher with Alicia Keys, Jermaine Dupree, H. E. R. Will I Am, Lil John, and Ludacris. And then in 25 you had Kendrick Lamar.
SPEAKER_03Don't like any of them.
SPEAKER_02Okay. So Don't know any of them. I'm sensing a massive um a massive theme here. And it's it's not I don't know if it's geared toward um it's not even an age-geared thing now. I think that we're going to a certain genre of music that is not uh not necessarily like Robert Els. So, you know, I just put that together that there was just a concert at the big house. The largest The Big House.
SPEAKER_03Uh we don't say that in this podcast. Hail to the largest.
SPEAKER_02Who was that?
SPEAKER_03A country singer.
SPEAKER_02It was a country singer. Yeah. The second largest ever was a country singer. The third largest was George Strait. The largest concerts ever held have been country. But yet the last country music singer was Shania Twain, which I don't call her country. Back in like what did I say? Back in like 2011. And she's gone crazy, by the way. Oh, I'm not saying her for a crazy car. It was like 2011. And that is telling me that the and the Big House was just this past weekend.
SPEAKER_04Who was it there? Was it Morgan Wall and he's no it wasn't?
SPEAKER_02No, no, no. It was uh Tyler um. Come on now.
Divisiveness vs Demographics in Music Choices
SPEAKER_04Tyler. Uh it would not be Tyler Children. No, it definitely was not.
SPEAKER_01Zach Brown. No, it was Zach Bryan. Zach Bryan. Good, I got one of them. Zach Bryan. Zach Bryan.
SPEAKER_03I wouldn't know him if he walked in here. Me either. But would you know Bad Money if you walked in here? I wouldn't know any of these people. No. You know what? Music in my day. Let me explain to you the greatness of Tommy Dorsey. What about the greatness of Hank Williams? Not Junior. No. Just Williams. Exactly.
SPEAKER_02So back on my horse here, real quick. Who are these people that are picking these halftime shows? Who are they not talking to? And who are they not listening to? Or who are they not paying attention to in the world? Are they too busy trying to make a political statement or doing whatever the heck they're trying to do?
SPEAKER_03I I don't think I don't think it's political.
SPEAKER_02I think they're just trying to But when Kendrick Lamaris came out and said it was political, like he did last year.
SPEAKER_03Well, I mean, the the artist may be political, but I think that's what I'm saying.
SPEAKER_02That's what I'm saying. No, no, no. That's what I'm saying.
SPEAKER_03I I think that you know, choosing the artists is just trying to get to a different demographic, a different, you know, generation. Uh, not for us old folks.
SPEAKER_02I think we've had the same demographic and generation now for the past four shows, though.
SPEAKER_03Oh, I I don't do not disagree. Yeah. I would think they would do something different, but do you want them to wheel out Neil Diamond?
SPEAKER_02Racklin Rose, make marriage. You know, it just I just don't know who these people think they are trying to reach.
SPEAKER_04So I I don't know who Bad Bunny is. It wouldn't know one song he sings.
SPEAKER_02I don't think he sings in I think he only sings in Spanish. I I don't even know if Yes, he only does.
SPEAKER_03Okay. He's from Puerto Rico. That's gonna be interesting. Right. It will be the first non-English, only non-English show.
SPEAKER_02So how I don't I don't suspect it'll be well received. Oh, it's been terribly received in social media and the media is in general now since it's been announced.
Taylor Swift Rumors, Payments & Production Rights
SPEAKER_03Yeah, so um I'm gonna interrupt this. So, what's the statement? What statement? I'm gonna give you what the statement is. I'm gonna play it for you right now. Okay. Are you ready? Yeah. All right, here we go. Tell me. This is this this is the statement.
SPEAKER_00Those big accolades didn't happen for a lot. But let me promise you one thing. I never give my opponent any breaks inside the rope.
SPEAKER_01That's right.
SPEAKER_00But outside the ropes, sometimes life hits you with something that even the most prepared don't see coming. That is when the general insurance is there to give you a break.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, insurance is unbelievable.
SPEAKER_03He tapped out.
SPEAKER_02Just for the regular name. Do you know what his real name is? Who yes, Walter. Walter Hahn.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah. And he's from Austria. Yeah, he tapped out twice. Yeah, whatever. Anyways, it doesn't matter. He's the greatest.
SPEAKER_02So, nevertheless, uh yeah, going back to Badges. Yeah, I just wonder what I'm saying is there's got to be a statement. There has to be a statement being tried to be made by somebody somewhere. Why can't we just have halftime show entertainment like we used to? I mean, my mother would only watch the big game for the commercials and the halftime show.
SPEAKER_04That's the best part. And then now commercials are typically the best part. They've been terrible the last few years.
Five Years of Hip-Hop: Trend or Tunnel Vision?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, they really have the last few years. Oh, I agree. But now, you know, starting this past this previous big game, it's it's it's a division again. It's it's people are it's just it's representative of society. Right, but don't you think for something like that we could just for one night get rid of it? What to appease whom?
SPEAKER_03Well, I just told you on here they had the one night they had so so, but it let's say that let's say that they name someone else that you like for them to have. Well, I'm not a good I'm not a good person for that because I have a ton of music. I'm another good for this.
SPEAKER_02I have a I have I love a ton of different musicians, right?
SPEAKER_04I love Well, you were talking about country. Who's the biggest country? You play Chris Chris Morgan Wallen Chris Stapleton out there. Okay. Morgan Wallen's got a little division in him because he got caught on video dropping some words he shouldn't have been saying on video.
SPEAKER_03Chris Stapleton out there. All right. So is that gonna tick off a large segment of the population? Sure would. I think it would.
SPEAKER_02Why would it tick somebody off, though? Just because it's not music you listen to. Kendrick Lamar came out and said this was a political statement. It was black versus white. That's exactly what he said. But Bad Bunny hasn't said that, though. You're you're assuming that. Bad Bunny has already started the thing. Why do we have someone who doesn't speak English at the halftime show?
SPEAKER_03No hub. Uh that's that's my point.
SPEAKER_02I mean, I know I'm going down this hole. You guys are trying to lead me down it, but uh I'm trying to I'm trying to end it. Just because you don't like the music doesn't mean that's gonna tick somebody off. That just means, well, I'm not gonna listen to this kind of like the music. Instead, it's turned into a we're going to continue to divide this country over something as as petty as that. And guess what?
SPEAKER_03Well, I I my only point in the whole thing is if you say that, there is not an artist that is not divisive.
SPEAKER_02Okay, but here's the thing. Zach Bryan just I'm not talking about politically.
SPEAKER_03Hold on. I'm just saying because they they are different. Okay, there's there's not one unifying artist.
SPEAKER_02There's not. But here's the thing. When Zach Bryan sells at 114,000 people at a college football stadium, I couldn't tell you two songs he sings. I like him. But here's the thing he's huge. Obviously, he's has a huge following. Wouldn't you put him when he's on top like that? Well, don't you think the big game would say we won't.
SPEAKER_04I never heard of him. I mean, I I don't I wouldn't know him from Adam, but uh uh under that you would think that Taylor Swift would be the choice. There you go.
SPEAKER_02What oh no, what I heard on the Taylor Swift thing and I was read it as well is that she wanted the uh production rights for the show. They told her no.
SPEAKER_03Do you know how much those artists get paid for that halftime show?
SPEAKER_02Nothing. Zero. Right. Nothing. But she wanted the production rights and the NFL said no.
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College Football Surge: Ratings and Reasons
SPEAKER_02But she uh because I mean she she's gotta be the biggest dress. That's all Taylor's work and which divisive.
SPEAKER_03That wouldn't have you know been she would have been the one, I think, that wouldn't have been divisive. But I understand how it's divisive if you're just a uh music entertainer. You are divide. This was your topic. That you are you are saying that it's divisive.
SPEAKER_04Let me ask a question. Does is it Bad Bunny?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, Big Bunny, Big Bad Bunny. But seriously, I don't know his name at all. Bad bunny.
SPEAKER_04What kind of following does he have? I have no idea. Me either. I mean, I was I was asking, I d I wouldn't know him. If seriously, if he walked in the room, I might know him.
SPEAKER_03I didn't know who the weekend was when he did it a couple of years ago.
SPEAKER_04I knew one song he sang part of because it was popular when the boys were in high school.
SPEAKER_03Right. And last year, who was it, Usher or whatever? Kendrick Kendrick Lamar. The boys knew him. Okay, the year before was Usher, right? Yeah. I remember that Usher had that one song that I've heard a million times in song in like commercials and stuff. I I still don't know it today, but if I heard it, I'd be like, oh, I know that one. But here's the thing. That was it.
SPEAKER_02And then we're gonna move on after this. Five years in a row, five years in a row, and you've had a rap artist out there, or hip-hop artist, or whatever you want to call them. Five.
SPEAKER_04Is that the most popular music now? And I'm asking, I don't know the answer.
SPEAKER_02I don't know the answer to that either. I'm sure it is for a certain generation.
SPEAKER_03I would think um, and is that is that is that who they're trying to get? Yeah, I mean I assume young people love it. So it's again, it's geared towards the end.
SPEAKER_04It's not what my boys listen to, but I mean Oh, my daughter does.
SPEAKER_03Um look, Sabrina Carpenter was she's very popular. She's super popular right now.
SPEAKER_04See, I wouldn't know who she is. She is very popular right now. I mean, like not Taylor Swift level, but but rise.
SPEAKER_02But why wouldn't you bring in a bunch of these low-level country? Just mix it up, quit quit with all the raps. No, no, I don't care what it is. I like rap too, but just mix it up. I thought the great one was there with uh Dr. Dre and Snoop. I thought that was great. That was great.
SPEAKER_03I think that's the best one recently. I thought so too. And uh it's because we're old.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, we're old. But just mix up the music for those people who aren't rap fans. That's all I'm saying. All right, move on.
SPEAKER_03Point made now.
SPEAKER_02Thank you, thank you, thank you.
NIL, Transfer Portal & Fan Connection
SPEAKER_03Sorry, sorry, producer melon. Uh 16. Uh by the way, how is producer melon? Producer Mellon is doing fantastic. He is on a cruise up in uh the the Northeastern Canada.
SPEAKER_01Oh, I love it up there.
SPEAKER_03He actually just texted uh this morning or might have been yesterday and said, What's the deal? No new episode. Come on. Tell him about it. Right. I mean exactly. All right. I've got I've got to read this tweet. I want to talk about this for a second.
SPEAKER_04Total viewing a tweet or is it an it?
SPEAKER_03It's a tweet. I refuse to refuse to go to Elon Musk's propaganda and and political agenda. So uh total viewing of college football across all networks is still pacing at a record high, up plus 19% over last year, and on a five-year trend of plus 36. If there's an argument that anything other than college football is the hottest sport out there, I'd be curious to hear it. What say you?
SPEAKER_04Um, I think college football is the for me. I think the NFL's probably still the top dog. It's not for me personally. I I I'm not as big an NFL fan as I am a college football fan. Yep. Being from Kentucky, you would think that college basketball would be the top dog. But even for me, I I can watch no-name college football. Yep. I can't watch no-name college basketball. I agree. Um and honestly, sometimes I struggle to watch Kentucky's college basketball. Not as much last year, but the last few years. Uh, but college football, I can watch Kentucky get pounded and still watch it. What say you, Chris?
SPEAKER_02I believe I can watch any college play football at any time against anybody.
SPEAKER_04Except the overtime rules, which are stupid.
Targeting, Rules Confusion & End Zone Fumbles
SPEAKER_02But nonetheless. Yeah. I um I of course you guys know I'm a huge Kentucky homer, but I would rather watch Kentucky play football and lose than Kentucky play basketball and win. Now, I'd rather Kentucky basketball win, okay? Don't misunderstand what I'm saying. I get that. But if I'm watching For your entertainment value, you would rather watch football than basketball. Absolutely. I there's something about college football. To me, it's the most exciting sports of any out there. You don't have all the professional, you know, in the NBA, the babies run up and down the court crying at each other and you know, calling fouls for nothing. And and the pro football, you've got just when they're all so good. I mean, it makes such a big difference. But I think in college football, you've got talent that runs the gamut. And you're watching, I mean, think about it. Those kids, some are not gonna go pro. You know, I'd say what, less than a fourth of them may go pro.
SPEAKER_04Oh, it's way less than that. I mean, but it's way less than a fourth.
SPEAKER_02These kids are gonna give everything they've got, and they're just kids. Right. I mean, think about it. They've got logos on their batting helmets. Yeah. Our kids I mean, I can't take it. Yeah. The funniest thing with Logan is, you know, his fresh screen is like, you know, Dane Key lives two doors down. I'm like, yep. That's when he realized, wow, all these UK players I've watched all these years, they're my age now. Yep. Of course, I said, wait until you get to be my age. Yeah. And you're watching, you know, I would watch Dane Key. I'm like, if that was my kid, I'd smack him every time he acted like he did. Yep. Got a penalty on him. And it's weird seeing that. So now that our kids are the same age as these guys, you realize these college players, they're not going pro. So they're gonna leave everything out there. It's their last chance.
SPEAKER_03So that by the way, just so we know that that was not the superintendent that advocated advocating slapping children. It was not he was also not the lawyer. Uh that's true. Exactly. Who was being represented by an attorney? That was the engineer that doesn't like rap music. It was true. I do like rap music, but yes. So um, college football has overtaken, in my humble opinion, all other sports, all other spectator sports in terms of enjoyment and popularity. I'm very concerned that you know, kind of the way that it's going with nil, that it will get more like professional, and I hope that doesn't happen. Um that I think that's happening. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Um, but I don't love, and I mean, I know this is me being old, and you guys will probably agree with it. I don't love the NIL, and I don't love the transfer portal where you can just change schools willy-nilly. Yep. I mean the fans don't get to have a connection with players because they have 60 different players on the team the next year. Right. Um, and it's never gonna be like sure, one of your old school Ohio State teams that won the national title, that you had players there for four years. Exactly.
Ryder Cup Decorum, Rory’s Outburst & LIV Contrast
SPEAKER_02And how's that gonna affect? You know, that's a good thing. How's that gonna affect your Hall of Fame's in these schools? You know, we're not gonna see it at Kentucky. They're talking about, you know, who to put up in the rafters. Well, you've got a guy that played four years that had X number of points, rebounds, and all this, and now you've got a guy that played there one season and he was an all-American, but his stats are like holy cow.
SPEAKER_03I think one thing that you saw last year in the national championship run that Ohio State had was they had 13 kids that came back for that senior year because they wanted to get that taste out of their mouth of losing the way they did at the end of that previous year. And you're not gonna see that. I mean, that's that might be the last time that we see uh I personally college football to me is number one in terms of just enjoyment of watching. I can watch any game. Um, I would I would honestly say if I had to just I love the Tampa Bay Lightning hockey. I can watch any hockey game, any NHL game, any juniors game. To me, hockey probably might even be 1A, 1B with college football. But both of those, for me personally, are way above the NFL.
SPEAKER_04And I grew up I I don't, I I never grew up watching NFL.
SPEAKER_03I did. I grew up a huge NFL fan, and I'll watch it when it's on the Bengals.
SPEAKER_02See, I never grew up watching NFL. And so Clinton for Punishman. Can you two do me a favor and explain to me something real quick? What is targeting? Oh, but nobody doesn't know. Nobody doesn't know.
SPEAKER_04I see you, I sent you a tweet. If that's not targeting, I don't know what it is.
SPEAKER_03And I don't think you can ever call it. I was screaming that during the game. I was like, what on earth are we talking about? He hit him head to head and his head smacked back. Oh no, not targeting.
SPEAKER_04I don't think there should be targeting. No. First of all, I agree. Secondly, if there is targeting and that's not it, uh you can't call it again. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Well, here's the thing in the UK game, I was yelling because the guy, the fenseless guy caught the ball, right? Right. Well, the guy speared him. Well, it was called spearing back in the day. Right. That's just gone away now. So now we're gonna call it targeting. Right. Okay, I'm gonna lower my head and run into your chest and neck as hard as I can. Yep. But that that's not targeting. So what is it? It's nothing.
Baseball’s Robot Umps, Replay & The Human Element
SPEAKER_03So it's nothing. It should no longer be a penalty. It should not be a penalty. And while we're fixing penalties, by the way, if you're running to the end zone and you drop the ball and it rolls into the end zone and it goes out of the back, you should be shot on site. Hey, true. Not to kill you, but you fall down in misery. How do you lose possession? How does it go to the other team? Because if you if you fumble the ball out of bounds, it remains your possession. If you fumble it out of your end zone that you're trying to score in, the other team gets the ball at the 20-yard line. Please explain that to me. I don't get it.
SPEAKER_04We're gonna go to all these people, all these people who fumble the football as they're going into the end zone. Yeah, snap her in the back of the leg. Yeah, not to kill them.
SPEAKER_03Got it, got it, but just uh they don't deserve to run on the football field again. That Indianapolis Colt guy, uh uh Adame, whatever Mitchell or whatever his name was. I was watching that live when that happened. And as soon as he did, I was like, he dropped the ball. He did. He dropped the ball.
SPEAKER_02Just as just as right before he crossed the line, too.
SPEAKER_04And what they call it as is it is it hot it was hot.
SPEAKER_03I mean, is he just dropping it because it's I mean he wanted to hold it up to show the world? Like, you know, like what's is it Simba, the one that holds up the baby or Simba or Simba, right? It's Simba. It's the orangutan guy that holds up the line kitchen. The little baby.
SPEAKER_02Okay, yeah. It's good.
SPEAKER_04That was kind of like one more sports thing that I hadn't even thought about bringing up with you guys yet. Yeah. Rider Cup was this weekend. Oh.
SPEAKER_02What's this half point crap?
SPEAKER_04If you don't show up, that's that's in the rule, it's got to get changed. But that's not that's not even what I'm talking about. Okay, okay. Okay. So I don't know if how much of it you guys watched. None. Pretty good amount. Zero. Uh I think the Ryder Cups for three days is about as good as it gets. I mean, for golf, that and the masters are it.
SPEAKER_02Yep, yep, yep.
SPEAKER_04So at one point during the tournament in Europe won, paid me my money in cash. But at one point during the tournament, Roy McElroy, number two player in the world, extraordinarily popular on the PGA tour. Has been Mr. PGA Tour with I mean, even though Scotty Scheffler's the number one player in the world, he's the face of the PGA Tour since Tiger Woods went out. Turned around to the audience, told him shut the F up.
SPEAKER_03Oh, well, that's always good.
Broadcast Bloat: Timeouts, Reviews & Game Flow
SPEAKER_04I mean, drop the F bomb. Okay. And then proceeds to go up, hits a shot, hits it to like two feet. I I actually have no problem with it because the crowd gets a little wild in the Ryder Cup. They the teams agg the crowd on a little bit. Got no problem with it. It's really the only time in golf that this happens. Okay. But what I do have a problem with is then you can't go into the press conference and say the crowd was a little rambunctious and they need to be held to a higher standard because this is the PGA and we need to hold it to a higher standard. Don't turn around and tell them shut the F up. Okay? Yep. Um That's the issue I had. I think somebody may have spilled a drink on his wife too, and that may be what caused him to get really upset. But but you can't have it both ways. You can't turn around and tell him shut the F up. And then say, we need to be held to a higher standard. We expect better than this on the golf course.
SPEAKER_02I think the um the world of golf and the decorum that comes with it is very unique in its own right. I always wanted to go to the waste management because that's a very different world.
SPEAKER_04Wow, but now I've been to a live golf event in Chicago, and it's totally different. There's music playing at every tea box and at every green.
SPEAKER_02See, I think you know, you go to the masters and it's the masters is the best. You're sitting there on the tea box and I don't care who teas off, everybody yells get in the hole or you know, yells something out, and it's you know, they hold up the hush signs and or the quiet and all that kind of stuff. It's just like, you know, I there's something cool about it, especially when you're there. When you're experiencing it and you're seeing it, you're living it, and you're breathing it. And I'm watching on television, man, they're talking about he's making the three-inch butt on the left side, breaking it a little to the right. You know? I love that. I listen to it on the radio. I don't even have to be watching it. And people are just everybody's just waiting, waiting. And then they explode when they get the hull, you know, and I think it's fantastic. So which would you rather have it? Would you rather have it like the live, or do you want to keep the decorum as it is with PGA? Oh, I would definitely go with the decorum as the PGA tour. I would prefer that as well.
SPEAKER_04But like you said, Live was a little bit of a different experience, and the Ryder Cup was a little bit of a di it's like. But the Ryder Cup's going to be that way.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. It's going to be that way. Right. Um, but I was I was disappointed in in Rory's actions as well.
SPEAKER_04Uh, but it was a complete beat down until Sunday. It was a good charge of Sunday. It got interesting, but it was a complete beat down until Sunday. I'm Team Europe, so it doesn't matter. That's good. That's good.
SPEAKER_02They've won the last two. And uh yeah, yeah, yeah. And Beth Page Black's a tough place to play, though. They say that is a booger of a place.
SPEAKER_03Yep. So uh yeah, I can't I can't add anything since I I watched none of that.
SPEAKER_02Hey, another sports thing, real quick.
SPEAKER_03Do you realize that hockey starts in eight days?
SPEAKER_04Do you all right? We're watching the baseball playoffs. What are your thoughts on the robot umpires that have been approved for next year?
SPEAKER_02Okay, I'm gonna be the You mean the traversial one. You mean the Angel? That's why they're naming them that, right? They're gonna name them the Angel. I have no idea. In honor of Angel Hernandez, who was the worre on the planet. That's pretty good.
SPEAKER_04Who is the old? Old guy Joe West. Was that his name? Yeah, country Joe West. Terrible.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, awful. That's probably when they wore sport coats.
Ice Cream Standoff & Pete Rose Reflection
SPEAKER_03Um, so you're probably no, no, I I am a I'm a traditionalist. You know this. I do. Uh get off my lawn. I would really like to see the umpires be better. I got no issue with that. I uh you know it's a pretty simple thing. There's uh there's this one. Uh what's that? What's the umpire that gets all the heat now since Angel retired? There's another one. Um there's some bad ones. I mean, just awful. Like, and especially now that on TV they can put the little box on there. You can say, Yeah, that was a strike. How on earth did he call that a ball? Or, you know, that kind of a deal. You think there'd be some kind of quick check to the ump, don't you think? Well, the technology is so good, it you know, it can it can tell you whether it's a strike or a ball. However, I really like the human element of the game. I think that this Bob Manfred is destroying the game of baseball as the commissioner. He is bringing in all these things. Over time, the extra inning rule about star. Star. The extra inning rule is absolutely ridiculous. Instant replay should never happen. What about the pitch clock? So the pill the pitch clock, I will give it this. It has sped up the games. And and you know, I'm all for that, especially when you had the Sean Casey's of the world that would adjust their batting gloves 18 times before they would, you know. He's the mayor. Yeah, the mayor, Sean Casey. That's right. Um so but but I like the human element of the game. You know, in the in the NFL, they've experimented with some of these, you know, figuring out if it's automated first down or whatever. Again, there's going to be human error. We understand that. Just pay them as professionals, the umpires and the referees and whatever sport that it is. Pay them full-time wages as professionals, train them as well as you can, and leave it at that. That's that's where I am with that.
SPEAKER_04I'm good with it.
SPEAKER_02I I I could not agree more.
SPEAKER_04What what football game was it in college where the guy came and they were measuring for fourth down and it was like three or four inches short and it was clear and he went, first down.
SPEAKER_02The coach starts going crazy. He's like, What that happens all the time. That's the reason I think in college, you're just doing like they do. Just give the coaches two challenges per game, one per half. Because in Kentucky, we've lost to Florida. When they the time clock ran out on Florida, we lost. We would have won that game, but the clock had ran out. It was obvious. We lost uh we lost a basketball game. Well, actually, we we lost to uh I can't think of that team, Wisconsin. About clock, shot clock violation. You know, the there should be challenges, okay? You're getting into pro sports, it's a different game.
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SPEAKER_03And to me, I can't tolerate, I can't tolerate the college basketball the way it was this year.
SPEAKER_02Because they stop it and check the clock every five.
SPEAKER_04I don't think the refs a basketball game takes two and a half hours. It used to be just under two hours. It takes two and a half hours. The refs shouldn't be allowed to stop the game. Yep, they're coaches get two challenges that take. Well, look, now this is a criticism I got about college football, too. There are too many television timeouts and they take three minutes into changing. Too much money. Too much money. 100% agree. Yeah, you're not going to be able to do that. I mean, I hate being at the UK game and you're and something happens and you're like, okay, and then you see that guy come out on the field with the clock. So three minutes and 16 seconds come out.
SPEAKER_03Oh, yeah. Look, I was at the state championship football game last year, a high school football championship game. And they had the guy that came out on the field for the TV timeout. I was like, are you kidding me? In a high school football game, we're going to have the TV timeout guy.
SPEAKER_02It's terrible. Crazy. It's there's too much. Get off my lines. Too much outside money, too much outside corporate businesses. There's too much. They're changing sports so much.
SPEAKER_04Well, so I have one more thing to say, and I don't know where we're at on time. 34 minutes. I have one more thing to say. So we there's no candy bars here.
SPEAKER_03Yep.
SPEAKER_04There's also no ice cream.
SPEAKER_03I have a significant issue with the fact that we are weeks into this sting operation that we took a part in and made sure that you and Daddy were taken care of. And there's no ice cream. And there's no not one scoop. Not even a lick of a cone.
SPEAKER_02Did you check in the back corner of the freezer over there behind the pot roast?
SPEAKER_03I looked, and there's no ice cream in here. Behind the pot roast? Can I just explain something to you? There's two orphans at this table, and all we're asking for is just one scoop of ice cream.
SPEAKER_02Real quick, before we go anything else. Giving a shout out. It's been one year. Do you realize a player could get a hit in all 162 games for 26 straight seasons? And that player would still be 44 hits shy of Pete Rose. One year ago today, boys, we lost number 14.
SPEAKER_04Well, there you are. I didn't know that was a year ago today.
SPEAKER_02Nope. Think about that. 162 games, 26 years, still be 44 short.
SPEAKER_04And it was it's terrible that they're going to put him in the Hall of Fame now.
SPEAKER_02Oh, it's awful. I think it's disrespectful.
SPEAKER_03I think it is too. And uh I will say uh prior to uh signing off for this episode, uh there's going to be some vacation coming up for some of us. Yes. That would be and you guys. And so the the two orphans are going on separate vacations. That's true. This orphan will be at home. Um that's a false day.
SPEAKER_04Where were you at before you came over here? Okay. Thank you. That's what I thought. So you know where you were not at? I do. That's where you were. We were not in lime. I was trying to convince him to move. But do you know what ice cream we can get in lime? Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_02Didn't you hear me his spots orange today? I did hear that. It's the orange.
SPEAKER_04It must be the ice cream you all had that he had left over on it. It must be like he must have had like an orange cream sickle or something.
