Around the Bases: Pop Culture and Sports Podcast
Around the Bases: Pop Culture and Sports Podcast
Around the Bases 2.10: Where Tom Hanks is Unknown and Baseball Goes to Tokyo!
Harvey Silkovitz doesn't just dominate on Jeopardy—he inspires. Despite battling Parkinson's disease, our friend swept categories and won over $20,000, showing incredible mental fortitude when physical challenges might have slowed others down.
Deal or No Deal Island brings Philip Solomon's journey to a satisfying conclusion with a $75,000 payday. We celebrate his authentic representation, particularly how he opened up about his experiences with stuttering and bullying. As fellow game show contestants ourselves, we appreciate how he maneuvered against seasoned reality veterans like Stephanie and David, maintaining his integrity throughout the competition while still playing strategically.
Survivor delivers what might be the most chaotic tribal council we've ever witnessed. A perfect storm of events—Justin losing his vote on a journey, Mary winning the Shot in the Dark, and a tie vote—created an unprecedented situation where Cedric had sole power to determine who went home. His baffling decision to eliminate his closest ally might rank among the worst strategic moves in Survivor history, leaving us literally shouting at our television screens.
"The Floor" continues to deliver entertaining moments, including a contestant who shockingly couldn't identify Tom Hanks—prompting us to run through his iconic filmography from Forrest Gump to Toy Story in disbelief. Meanwhile, MLB heads to Japan with the Cubs and Dodgers playing in a beautifully customized Tokyo Dome complete with authentic stadium elements from Wrigley Field and Dodger Stadium.
Join us next week for our comprehensive MLB season preview with special guest Nicholas Pepin from Pop Culture Roulette as we break down every team and make our predictions for the upcoming baseball season! Have you ever experienced a tribal council as chaotic as this one? Let us know in the reviews!
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Welcome to Around the Bases, the pop culture and sports podcast, with your host, charlie Seymour, and I'm Tim Sterberg. Hit it, nick. Welcome back to another awesome week on Around the of aces, the pop culture and sports podcast. Charlie, how you doing, buddy?
Speaker 2:I'm doing good. How are you?
Speaker 1:doing, I'm, I'm doing great. I mean I I've been busy going to spring training, having a good old time enjoying baseball, which we'll talk about later you can say that.
Speaker 2:You can say that again've been gone. How many stadiums have you been to now?
Speaker 1:Oh God, six, I think. No, wait, wait, no four. Okay, been to four stadiums Went to, of course, clover Park, which is where the Mets play in Port St Lucie. Went to Cacti Park, which is in West Palm Beach, which which is the home of the nationals and the astros, and then went to roger dean stadium and jupiter, which is the home of the boo cardinals and the marlins, and, uh, went across to the west coast to um jet blue park, which is the home of the boston red sox.
Speaker 2:So that's kind of what we know now when you say west coast how far are we talking?
Speaker 1:like driving wise two, two hour drive about two hours fort, myers.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know, it's not california, right you.
Speaker 1:that's not the furthest one. You did right. We're talking like driving wise. Two hour drive about Two hours. Fort Myers yeah, I know it's not.
Speaker 2:California. That's not the furthest one. You did right, didn't? One of them you did was like a three hour ride, or three and a half.
Speaker 1:Not this year but previously. Yeah, we went up to Tampa to the Orioles home because we've talked about this the Orioles are my American League team, so I had to see the Orioles and uh, yeah, that's way before Adley Rushman you know, and the Orioles a little little history to a little little trivia, as we love here Um the. Orioles used to share a spring training facility in Fort Lauderdale with the New York Yankees.
Speaker 2:And I used to go.
Speaker 1:So yeah, back in Cal Ripken Jr's days.
Speaker 2:Shout out.
Speaker 1:Rosie, who's a big fan of Cal Ripken Jr.
Speaker 2:Speaking of trivia and Orioles trivia, you know something that was in the pop culture realm this week that was close to your heart because you know them personally. But Cal Ripken Jr did not play 2,130 consecutive games. Lou Gehrig did. That's the record that Ripken broke, which you and I knew.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so um my friend, my longtime friend, harvey Silkovitz who, by the way, he killed.
Speaker 2:That that was which I don't know how. That was the $200 question, but he got every. He swept the category.
Speaker 1:The and not just the category. That episode he dominated like. He literally ended the episode with like 30 grand. I mean going into final jeopardy the other players and one was a nine time champ, eight time champion that he defeated um. Unfortunately, you know, he kind of uh, he lost his momentum in the second game and he didn't continue, but I mean he won over twenty thousand dollars. Harvey is a is a real kind of um inspiration because he has parkinson's disease. So he was sitting there with parkinson's and, which is very difficult my dad unfortunately lost my dad to parkinson's related um symptoms. It's not easy, so major on top of kudos. Kudos to Harvey.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was impressive, he was dominating.
Speaker 1:Absolutely, and great job. I know Harvey just from who wants to be a millionaire. Back in 99, 2000 on ABC's website, when websites were in infancy, they used to have a message board of all the different shows. So you can go Dharma and Greg, right, and you go. Who wants to be a millionaire? And that's where the fans hung out, on these threads, these message boards.
Speaker 1:Uh, it wasn't real-time chat but it was close enough and we just had a, a group called the gypters, because, um, the first contestant that got zero dollars. We called them, they got gypped, so we called ourselves the gypters and harvey was part of that group. So we would always like be the phone game is coming or auditions are coming. And because of that group helped me tremendously to get on the show because I knew that the Savannah auditions were coming. I also there was a guy shout out JB at the time. He created this wood board. He was a he's a carpenter with buttons and I practiced the fastest finger, my dexterity, on those. So, yeah, it was just a great group of people and you could say that was the assist to get you on.
Speaker 1:Huh, absolutely, you nailed that fast finger, that's how I knew steve perry, my phone, a friend too through that group, um, but yeah, it's very cool. I, I listen. I am not a jeopardy person. I cannot even attest to going on that show. So anybody who can do that, kudos to you. Now I have a decent amount of pop culture knowledge. Pop culture Jeopardy I could probably do, but the wide range of stuff that's required by regular Jeopardy mm-mm, and plus my recall of Quick, quick, quick is not the greatest, but you know, maybe it's age, all right.
Speaker 1:So we went. That was, uh, I would call that batting practice. Okay, we went through a little batting practice. We are going to talk about a fellow um contestant of ours you, you and I, philip solomon, who is on the season of deal or no deal island. As we've talked about throughout this season of deal or no deal island, I would say this is his episode and maybe not well in some good way, but, um, yeah, philip I, I, I think he did, I think he did great, great, great season great, great season, awesome run.
Speaker 1:Represented himself very well. Um didn't come off as an asshole. Um, for lack of a better term, didn't know he stood up for himself yeah, he really did against two reality juggernauts.
Speaker 2:He didn't know, david I don't think he knew yeah, he didn't know david's status at the time.
Speaker 1:I don't think anybody other than poverty knew. But um, you know, to go up against poverty, for example, and to smartly befriend her for a little bit. Um, he played a great game and honestly 75 000 if you told me you know, listen, you know if I'm on the show. When you say, hey, here's 75 grand, you want to go home, okay yeah, and that was I'm sure.
Speaker 2:I'm sure they also get something, like you know, per dm or whatever, like so that was just on top, yes, and pb I mean that's basically that's, that's like top of the and that's solid, it's very solid.
Speaker 1:He, he did well, finished in the top five not to mention the fact that he is miles ahead of getting on a show like the Traitors compared to us, you know. So I mean, that's pretty. There's some currency there, I think, with, you know, getting on a show like Deal or no Deal Island that he can use later on. So what did you think of the episode?
Speaker 2:Honestly, it was more interesting than some of the other ones.
Speaker 1:I thought honestly david was a jerk, though. I mean you. I mean I understand lying as part of the game, but, dude, come on.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like there should be honor the game that there are pretty much all setting themselves up where they're gonna lie to somebody. You know you're making promises to multiple people.
Speaker 1:You can't keep them all and, based on the previews for next week, I think it might come back to bite them in the ass. Um, because the players come back. You remember that challenge a lot in season one when they're on like the bridge I do remember that and it very well could.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's definitely multiple people that are, will be or are already upset would you say too.
Speaker 1:I have a question for you. Would you say? Ck is the equivalent of Amy from season one.
Speaker 2:I mean, she's so annoying, like so annoying so yes, but what I will say is, I don't know how, but she's kind of like Maneuvered through the middle the whole way and all of a sudden she's in the final four, like how did that happen?
Speaker 1:yeah, see, so like and people both sides didn't like her yeah, and that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:She was like a villain from multiple people for multiple weeks and to make it this far, honestly is honestly, it's quite impressive it is.
Speaker 1:And to your point. I mean honestly is is, honestly, it's quite impressive. It is, and quite you know, like to your point. I mean you can be as unlikable as as possible and trust me based on what I see out there yes, like dr will, but if they, if they're strategic and they're good game players, it doesn't matter, like you know, and honestly, uh, if you have a show full of 15 likable people, that's not good television.
Speaker 2:I don't care what like no one wants to watch that. All there needs to be someone to you know heels, yeah, yeah, a hundred percent. You know, throw some, throw some gas on the fire.
Speaker 1:And you know, listen, even on a show like the Goat, which we watched last year. I mean the greatest of all time there were some heels. On a show like the goat which we watched last year, I mean the greatest of all time there were some heels on that show. I mean even on a show where it's all the good guys, so to speak.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean I love dave on for that reason and we also sat here on a show, quote unquote of house of villains and we've sat here and said multiple people we don't feel fit the villain category because, just like your original point, it wouldn't be fun if everybody was, you know, an ass also. So exactly.
Speaker 1:No one wants to watch that, like Teresa, teresa wasn't. I don't think she was really a villain.
Speaker 2:I mean she literally was too nice and that's why she left but it did make, like you said, to your point.
Speaker 1:It made the show more enjoyable to watch her kind of and that you need that chemistry a little bit. And you need to your point, it made the show more enjoyable to watch her kind of and that you need that chemistry a little bit and you need to have like people to root for right, I mean that's. I mean you don't see villains as much on game shows, although I could name a couple um, but um, I will not. I had people text me, by the way, saying who are you referring to? Not saying um, not saying um, secret is safe, um, but you know you don't necessarily see that on a game show because game shows are all about fun, happy, yay, but um, on reality shows, where you have these long extended arc stories, it's necessary and honestly, I, you know, you and I met philip. We talked with philip in atlanta. I didn't know anywhere near as much about philip as I learned from watching deal or no deal island, even though we were with philip in person I mean I learned a lot about him.
Speaker 1:I didn't know about the bullying, I didn't know about the stuttering, I didn't know that history of him and it made me you know I loved him already. He's really one of the nicest people I met in Atlanta.
Speaker 2:Besides, you, and it was really cool to see him posting with Mitch from Survivor.
Speaker 1:Love that, love that Mitch, of course and we 'll talk about Survivor a little bit later but Mitch is a stutterer, he stutters and he's representing that very well. And you know that's what I say to my. You know, I advocate for kids with disabilities. I always tell my students it doesn't matter what you think, what your friends think you can do, it matters what you think you can do and what you know you can do. And I love this representation that we're seeing on television of people with disabilities that are showing in, not just Mitch, people on the autism spectrum that are going on these shows. It really shows these kids that you know, listen, I can be, I can see myself on television. Um, we had that a couple of years ago on big brother. Um, I forgot her name, but, uh, that representation matters. You know it, it, it, it, it in all parts of life, and that's as political as I'll get, but you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:Absolutely.
Speaker 1:But representation is so important. So Phillip did a awesome job. I texted him right after. He was very appreciative. I told him very entertaining season. Congrats on the 75 K. Well, not really, probably 30, 40 K after Congrats on the 75K. Well, not really Probably 40K after taxes, depending on your tax credit.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, you never know, with the extra they got for being on the show and all that that's true, that's true, Good makeup.
Speaker 1:But still, I mean again, you give me 40K. I'm very happy man.
Speaker 2:Right, of course, getting a new car. Not to mention, like you said, some maybe another opportunity from it as well.
Speaker 1:Exactly. So we had the final next week, so we ended up. So Phillip was the person that David eliminated he. So David had power where he eliminated somebody right away, which was Phillip, and I kind of felt that was happening. I mean I, even though they kind of edited it sort of to make it seem like it wasn't- I felt that that's what's going to happen. My guess is ck is going to play the deep banker.
Speaker 2:Um, and I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm actually rooting for ck to win and wait, you mean, you mean to tell me, in an episode in which they promise a double elimination, we didn't even see, no, gonna play the banker. Oh right, okay nbc so our, our season, our season and yearly long gripe continues dude.
Speaker 1:What the heck? Stop this nonsense. What are they doing? Come?
Speaker 2:on how many you could be.
Speaker 1:You can make a highlight reel of like a hundred times almost, of how many times we've had to complain about something like this, and they did it.
Speaker 2:It's worse because we didn't even get to see them play. We didn't even know who was playing you know what they should do like?
Speaker 1:do clip after clip and in between the clips go damn it, clip, damn it, clip, damn it honestly, you could get a bunch of them but you know what?
Speaker 1:it's okay. At least you know on the plus side, you're least you know on the plus side. You know you're, mr, positive on the plus side. We have an elimination right at the beginning of the next episode. Almost we have the banker game and, yeah, my prediction is I I'd like to see ck win against the banker and eliminate poverty. Um, do you think he's to pick poverty to play the banker?
Speaker 2:Oh man I, if she could convince him that CK is going to eliminate her but I think he's right, I think he wants her to go. I do too, and that's where I think it truly just depends on the. I lean that way. I think he wants her to go because he she's the biggest competition, and then if CK loses and CK is out and he can live with that.
Speaker 1:so um, is you? One thing, too, that crossed my mind I was watching it philip never got to play the banker I know have you still got 75 000 this is probably a dumb question, but have you ever seen dumb and dumber?
Speaker 2:oh yeah, classic jeff daniels, I was jim carrey I was literally just thinking in my head as soon as I said that. I was thinking that was a chance we're willing to take. What have you shot me? What have you shot me in the face? David was easily. David was easily willing to risk ck going on if she lost so that just gave me a flat.
Speaker 1:I haven't seen that movie in years. It's so good. Oh my god, deal or no deal. Island yeah, watch the finale next week on NBC. And no, we do not get any extra for saying that wait, wait, wait.
Speaker 2:Is there going to be a cliffhanger?
Speaker 1:I hope not if it's the finale honestly, I wouldn't put it past you come back for season 3.
Speaker 2:Oh, my god, you imagine I would. I'm, you know I it's not, not gonna happen, but I just can't put it past them. I'll say point oh, oh, oh, oh what just because they're so bad.
Speaker 1:Oh man, I you know what, you're probably right. Miracle 80-foot shot at the buzzer.
Speaker 2:Every once in eight years it goes in.
Speaker 1:We should have a side podcast of this podcast called Side Bets, and we'll just kind of make side bets on all these things that are happening. I'll give you even odds. I love it.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, that even odds. I love it, oh my God.
Speaker 1:That's funny. All right, Coming up on Around the Bases, the bet cast Again. No, I'm kidding. Okay how about this? How about for a side?
Speaker 2:bet I would say for second base. A side bet is I would bet. I don't think I've ever seen a crazier tribal council in my life.
Speaker 1:I wouldn't take that bet because you're absolutely right. That was insane.
Speaker 2:Holy crap. We hardly even need to talk about the rest of the episode because tribal was so crazy.
Speaker 1:Dude, I'm literally watching tribal like this. I can't tell you how many times I audibly shouted during tribal of that episode well, you know, you should have. You probably got a clue and I didn't realize I was giving you a clue because I, you know, charlie and I text each other during the show. I tend to watch the episodes in real time and charlie smartly likes to kind of save.
Speaker 2:We start like 20 to 25 minutes late, so we can skip the commercials.
Speaker 1:Which is brilliant.
Speaker 2:Usually we're caught up right at the end, but there were a couple parts of Tribal that were so crazy I rewound a couple times so we ended up finishing like five minutes behind real time. We were pretty much real time.
Speaker 1:I text Charlie and I didn't realize. I'm like, okay, I'm at Tribal now voting, and I looked at the time. I'm like, oh shit, this is like kind of a spoiler, Cause he's going to see that they're already voting, and it was. I looked at my. I'm like wait, how are they voting already? It's only four people and we're not at the end of the show. And then I'm like, oh, it's a tie, oh, oh he doesn't have his vote.
Speaker 2:Oh, and it was like so.
Speaker 1:Much so rewinding a little bit there was a um a journey, yes, which was a one of the more unfair. I loved the journey.
Speaker 2:I I kind of like chance yes, believe me, I love that part of it. Yahtzee simply saying for how they decided who went that was unfair justin didn't choose to go, justin didn't he got? Screwed he got screwed with that.
Speaker 1:That was wild if he did not get chosen for that journey one million percent he would not have been eliminated oh yeah, no way absolutely not.
Speaker 1:Um, so justin gets chosen on the journey. So the journey is this folks, they're of course they're taking, like they always are on a speedboat to an island, and they are each going down three separate paths, and the game is this there are eight dice, yahtzee style dice on the. On the dice there's like a little triangle, which is basically a blank space. There's a skull and then there's a sun. It was a sun flame, a fire, a flame fire. Right, yeah, if they got the whatever the first four, they get either the four skulls or the four fires. If they got four skulls, they lost their vote. If they got four fires, they got an extra vote, and two out of the three people that went down the path got the skulls, and only one of the people got the extra vote and unfortunately for our pizza guy, justin, he was one of the people that lost his vote.
Speaker 1:And so now is always a problem when you're on a journey and you have to come back to the tribe and try to unveil what just happened I don't think it was to his benefit, based on his position in the tribe with cedric and with you know, just the fact that you know, um, sigh, it was, I forgot her name Cy.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she wanted to eliminate Mary. So I I think, based on his position, he should have just been totally honest with him and say, hey, I lost my vote. I don't think it would have been bad.
Speaker 2:Not only that, but I think his story post when he returned.
Speaker 1:So stupid Like a zero or a one on a one to ten and believability you're very generous.
Speaker 2:It was a freaking zero. It was negative like so bad. How did the people believe him?
Speaker 1:I don't think they did. That's the thing I think at first they did.
Speaker 2:But I think clearly, they did, because look how the voting happened but I think that's that's what I want to say.
Speaker 1:As the tie happened, I think, finally, cedric's wheels started to turn and go oh, this was bullshit. It was bullshit.
Speaker 2:Right, but why? How? That's what I'm saying, yeah.
Speaker 1:I know.
Speaker 2:How did you believe the story when it was told? And not only that, it's because he built trust. The first tie of tribal. How did neither of Cedric or Cy not realize that there were only two votes? They? How did neither of Cedric or Cy not realize that there were only two votes.
Speaker 1:They literally didn't understand until the second set of voting, although they did show Cedric Cedric's like he had. That look a little bit, you know.
Speaker 2:As soon as they tied the first time. What did he think? Someone couldn't vote the first time, but then could the second, Like what were we doing there?
Speaker 1:So exactly, and so they sigh and and cedric split the vote one justin and one sigh.
Speaker 2:cedric voted for size I voted for. Justin jumped a little ahead because mary played her shot in the dark and won it right so that's why mary is not even part of the equation. He was exempt couldn't vote and could not be voted for.
Speaker 1:So what happened was they? They voted, they split the vote and then they went to revote and then they split the vote again. So Jeff, you know, says to them listen at this point, normally what would happen is you guys would discuss and you would, you know, decide who you want to send home. But since this situation happened with mary, with the shot in the dark, and justin lost his vote, um and sy the only people that could vote were sy and cedric, and since cedric wasn't part of the vote initially, his name was written down. He had all the power to decide who went home. I will tell you straight up you'd be as pissed as you want, but he should have sent sai home.
Speaker 2:That was a mistake one thousand percent what was he doing?
Speaker 1:he turns to them and he says he goes. Will you guys be I'm gonna. I'm paraphrasing because it's funnier to paraphrase will you guys just behave yourself? If you guys behave yourself, then you know we can move on, but we gotta get over this, get along what the fuck okay, so hold on now.
Speaker 2:Now take a step back from a logic standpoint. He basically just asked two people on a tribe who hate each other to get along, which means, if they're to get along, they're're going to get his ass out, exactly, exactly.
Speaker 1:What the fuck? What is he doing? What the freak Like I'm watching. I'm like dude you just had two ladies. You just gave them all the power. What are you doing?
Speaker 2:No, he's lucky. If it was his boy he would have been there for him. He's lucky. They already showed it's a tribe swap because they were already down to three people. But can you imagine if they played another week and they? Asked what had been gone three, they lose, and then the two, he would be a bottom 10 survivor play of all time I still think his play was awful, like it's still awful, oh yeah, absolutely awful, because now he has zero allies at the merge, when he would have had his number one, justin, still there so dumb, like what you'd sometimes.
Speaker 1:You know what I would have. I would have voted for a side to go. I would have had a conversation with justin saying what the hell just happened after tribal. But you don't vote him out like and you don't. You look so weak when you sit there and you say, can you guys just get along? What the heck you're playing survivor. They're not gonna get along. And even if they get along, if they let you your point, if they get along, they're gonna get your ass out of there. What are you doing?
Speaker 2:yeah, what are?
Speaker 1:you doing? Oh man, I, I, I like you. I had to rewind it for a moment. I go did that just happen? What just happened? What just like? What just did he just tell them? I felt like I was back in school when I was teaching fourth grade. You guys can get along, please, like what.
Speaker 2:Another interesting part to be brought up is because there were so many firsts of this. The first time they tied, he explained aloud that. Now, to remind you, I have to say share this information, because normally when you have two people who tied, the two people don't vote because their votes cancel each other out. So he, for the first time ever, justin not having a vote, which is crazy yeah, that was just the whole tribal was just absolutely insane.
Speaker 1:You know, but honestly, at the end of the day, Justin, I mean, it wasn't his choice to go to the journey, but once he came back he made the choice.
Speaker 2:He played it bad. He should have told Cedric privately His concern was Cedric wouldn't. Maybe Cedric would vote the other way, but he had it was he had it if. If he's, if he tells hey, cedric, listen, in the worst case scenario, if, mary, this happens, if you, you control the vote, you just send her home and then I'll be your number one. He should have pitched much harder when they were talking about it. He didn't even seem to care. He just said oh, I'll see you at my pizza place next month, like you just got on survivor.
Speaker 1:If I'm gonna get on survivor, I'm fighting for my life every day. Dude, you're only there for 30 days if you're lucky. Like, what are you doing? Like this isn't like you're not big honeymooning on fiji, you're playing a game. And I will say this you know, if I had a dunce cap to give to one of them, I would still give it to cedric, because I think his move was so much stupider than what justin did, because justin was more out of a force of of necessity but justin also gets a dummy award.
Speaker 1:I mean, really agree, I mean he's vice president dummy and cedric's president dummy say when. I'm telling you straight up, I have prediction. When they, when they have the tribe swap, say, is going to rub some people the wrong way, she's not going to last long. On another, there's no way. Her, she, no. I think her social game sucks yeah it's so bad.
Speaker 2:We'll see if she's smart. If she's smart enough to maybe find the other bottom from each of the other tribes and then making like a bottom alliance, that might be your only way out. So we'll see it should be interesting now you're.
Speaker 1:You're the. You're the survivor guy. You know I was on my what third or fourth season back. Is it normal to do this early on, when they do it? Not really, that was uh, uh.
Speaker 2:Well, they're down to three players. They've been so bad, it's just. It's happened a couple times where I think they'd prefer each tribe to, you know, lose one equally, and then they can do it longer. But when you're down to three, let me this most even before they were down to three, one one tribe had to sit out, two people, the other tribe had to sit out one and they try to avoid that, because then you have situations where another time jeff has to make an announcement.
Speaker 2:Now, remember, you can't sit out back to back, and they sat out two last time, so there were only a couple people to pick from you remember what we talked about last week?
Speaker 1:we said why get rid of the strong guy?
Speaker 2:and you see exactly what happens they lose the another challenge like and now then, and it cost justin and cedric essentially both, and cedric.
Speaker 1:quite frankly, cedric was the reason why they lost the challenge last week. So, yeah, interesting, oh Interesting, ooh, all right, it's going to be a good season of Survivor. The funny thing is this this this is the. This tribe has been such a hot mess that we haven't really learned about the other tribes too much yet. Like we haven't really gone deep. It's so crazy.
Speaker 2:I also um the one I know I sent you this, but the Nate Bargatze sketch of George Washington where they do the thing Mike Bloom, your favorite Mike is one of my favorites. And then Mike Bloom had an amazing tweet with Survivor about it. I'm sure you saw it.
Speaker 1:Explain it. You showed it to me.
Speaker 2:It's him standing in front of me. He says we'll have a new advantage called Shot in the dark that gives you a one out of six chance of being safe and it will be a die. And you roll it. No, you put it in an urn. So you don't roll any dice at all. You do when you play yahtzee on a journey which they did today with justin, which was crazy I love.
Speaker 1:By the way, I love mike bloom is one of the better commentators. Survivor, he's so good. But yeah, he's exactly, and of course he's that. Nate Borghese sketch yes, perfect. And that was just a season too, which is funny, you know, it was earlier in the season of Saturday Night Live. So yeah.
Speaker 1:So we'll have to check out Survivor. You know it is slim pickings this time of year because we are in March. So you know we lost two big shows that we were watching Traders and Beast Games. I don't know about you, but now on Thursday, like what am I doing? But baseball's coming back. So that's fun, baseball's coming back.
Speaker 2:March Madness is literally going on in the background. I know you don't care, but I can still hear the squeaking feet of the big SEC game and the CBS Sports Network Mountain West game are still going on.
Speaker 1:Nothing about the sound of basketball with the. I can't even do the sound.
Speaker 2:You know who, surprisingly, really enjoys that.
Speaker 1:Who.
Speaker 2:Rocket.
Speaker 1:Rocket the. Do your doggy rocket's the best. I love rocket.
Speaker 2:Give rocket a hug for me um so the floor speaking of squeaking on the floor yes, exactly, whoa.
Speaker 1:Nice job, buddy, nice. Um, we are. You know it's. It's charlie. Charlie still needs to watch season two, but we are up to date on season three of the floor. Have you watched season two?
Speaker 2:no, not yet we're probably gonna watch it after season three is over it's.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna give you a and no spoilers, but I actually think season two is better than season three, so far from what I've seen.
Speaker 2:So there you go better as in skillful players or better as in entertainment wise, because we had some really really bad, bad players this week which were pretty entertaining with how bad they were. Because you're just yelling at the tv like what are you doing?
Speaker 1:listen, I have, I'm, I'm, I. I don't know if you know this about me we haven't really talked about this too much but I am a huge Kevin Smith fan. I love Kevin Smith movies. I love Brian O'Hanlon. I knew him before the season. Of course, most of us movie buffs know who he is. Can they please stop handing him $20,000 every week?
Speaker 2:I mean come on At least one more week.
Speaker 1:Thanks, why did they do that? Why did they spoil it? Like you know, he wins $120,000. Oh my God so.
Speaker 2:Brian.
Speaker 1:O'Halloran. At least he earned it in the last challenge. I mean, he didn't really earn it, but at least he had to go up against.
Speaker 2:He had to play.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay, I mean mean no, that was in the last episode. I think he had to play for it but this episode, yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, the cliffhanger was would he go back to play or not?
Speaker 1:right, exactly yeah yeah, so, um, he's up to a hundred thousand dollars and and that's the largest amount of money anybody has won without winning the whole 250.
Speaker 2:Might be the most he's ever made for a project ever.
Speaker 1:Why they don't get paid that much the actors.
Speaker 2:I mean, has he other? I mean, Clerks was so long ago, yeah, no way, he probably got that.
Speaker 1:Well, he was in Clerks too. Remember he worked at Moby's. No, no way, he probably got that so. Well, he was in clerks too, remember he was. He worked at mobis. No, no, I remember that.
Speaker 2:Do you think that you think he okay, so maybe second most clerks too was pretty recent I mean, he hasn't had any like massive parts. You know what I mean no, but important enough.
Speaker 1:Dante, right, he played dante. Uh, important enough. Uh, he was in. He was in dharma too, like that. That dogma, dogma, I love dogma, he was in dogma, I remember we didn't make 100k for that no, no, that's that movie. Harley made a lot of money.
Speaker 2:I enjoyed the movie and remember it's at least 120 that we know of my favorite, by the way, without a doubt is is clerks 2.
Speaker 1:Clerks 2 is like I never like. I died laughing in the movie theater for that movie. It's so fun.
Speaker 2:um, speaking of actors and this episode of the floor, yeah, what percentage of the world, would you estimate, knows who tom hanks is, who Tom Hanks is here?
Speaker 1:we go, I would say probably. If we're talking the world, I would say maybe 90% of people, let's say United States 99.9% of people know who Tom Hanks is. Well, we found.
Speaker 2:Forrest Gump.
Speaker 1:I mean big Forrest Gump saving private run.
Speaker 2:I mean I, I do, I have to we could, we'd be here all night naming his his exactly.
Speaker 1:I mean he in the 80s and 90s he was the most prominent actor that you would see. And even in the 2000s, tom hanks was like. You see him. I mean not even to talk about all the movies he did with meg ryan. I mean all the joe vose versus the volcano great movie, um, but there's so many movies I love that movie so good um what was that movie about?
Speaker 2:the?
Speaker 1:musicians terminal. What? About the talking about that thing you do that thing you do yeah great movie, um, and that's not even those, aren't even his saving private ryan boris gump, boris gump, life is like a box of chocolates you never know what you're going to get.
Speaker 2:I mean how about toy story?
Speaker 1:toy story 2, toy story 3, toy story 4 or how about a little movie from 1988 called big? How about? How about splash, which is really one of, I think, his first movie philadelphia philadelphia great movie with denzel washington, how? And he won the oscar. How about bosom buddies, the tv show in the 80s with peter scolari? That I old guy remember well I.
Speaker 2:It was before you. We found that 0.1% of people that doesn't know who Tom Hanks is, because not only did they not know who Tom Hanks was, but they stood there and wasted like seven seconds before. Okay, pass, brutal.
Speaker 1:Dude, when that happened I literally paused the DVR. I paused it on Tom Hanks, you know, right after she said, I think she said pass, I paused it and I turned to Erica and I said as loud as I could, who the doesn't know who Tom Hanks is, and I texted you. I'm like what the heck Like?
Speaker 2:are you kidding me? This was a nice change of pace because I actually have watched the floor texted you. I'm like what the heck? Are you kidding me? This was a nice change of pace because I actually have watched the floor before you.
Speaker 1:You did.
Speaker 2:And I had mentioned that there were like anywhere from four to seven moments where you were going to scream at the TV and you were right and I might have undersold it.
Speaker 1:There might have been more. It's the equivalent of showing a kid a picture of santa claus and a kid not saying who santa claus is. I mean, are you kidding me?
Speaker 1:it was so bad I mean, what the heck? I some of those categories and I'm gonna say this can we please stop with the pictures of inanimate kitchen objects. Come on, I mean, how many categories of cookware do I need to see? Or things in the kitchen? I mean there is a category coming up that you both, both of us are gonna love. Did you see it when they were showing the categories competition shows oh, I did see that dude, dude.
Speaker 2:That's like, that's not game shows, that's like reality competition kind of in that, in that same realm, we got to see in this episode, uh, real housewives which, admittedly, I have not seen much, but I did decent. I knew like 10, 12 of them, just randomly, not bad not bad. Did you know? You knew more you probably knew.
Speaker 1:No, I knew. This is that you said to me. You texted there's a trader's connection and that's the only the only people like. I was like, oh, dorinda, that's, like, uh, that's I mean, I only knew like two or three. That was not phaedra. I love you know, I love phaedra. There was only like two or three of them that I you probably knew kyle richards.
Speaker 2:I knew kyle richards and I knew Kyle Richards.
Speaker 1:I knew Kyle Richards and I knew Lisa Renna, because Erica and I are fans of Days of Our Lives, and she was on Days of Our Lives, denise Richards. Of course Anybody, any movie boss.
Speaker 2:And you probably knew Vanderpump.
Speaker 1:I had issues with that one. I know Vanderpump rules, but getting that name out was a little.
Speaker 2:But you knew, you know of her. I getting that name out was a little but you knew, you know of her.
Speaker 1:I mean, it wasn't, it definitely didn't do with these guys. I mean, these guys were back and forth. That was an impressive battle. That was, and he's an impressed the guy who won. Well, they were both impressive, but the guy that won was impressive player.
Speaker 1:I mean he had a good strategy and I like how he going for get the time boost and then play housewives go I I. It was good. It was good see there were. There were pluses, definitely. I want to ask you a question real quick on the competition shows what's your over under?
Speaker 2:that we are family is one of the pictures negative negative 55 less than the believability of justin's story.
Speaker 1:Returning home from the interesting is if they show a picture of the floor no, that would be, that wouldn't I would.
Speaker 2:That wouldn't shock me.
Speaker 1:Better chance of that we didn't see, we didn't. There was a category called star, the stars of stars, which was the hall hollywood walk of fame stars. They did it. Even though rob lowe has a star on the hollywood walk of fame, they didn't show him on that. And you know, it's interesting, I always, I always get caught up with that because I don't know if our audience knows, or you, you probably know, cause you're a celebrity buff you actually pay to have your star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It's not just something that they bestow upon you, you your your publicist or you pays like $20,000 to have your star on the walk of fame. I don't think a lot of people understand that, even though it is an honor, it's something that is initiated by the celebrity to do or the celebrities people on their behalf. So there's, yeah, that's I wow.
Speaker 2:That's. I did not know that. Actually that's crazy.
Speaker 1:They have to pay and he goes hollywood chamber of commerce and uh, yeah, I have you done that.
Speaker 2:They walk to hollywood boulevard yeah, but it's been a minute. They have one in some in palm springs as well they do.
Speaker 1:They do with the misters going and I remember doing that, but the one at hollywood boulevard, the sidewalk's pretty filthy and you have to get past all the spider-men and it's hollywood. Spiderman, it's Hollywood, and Highland, hollywood and Highland is this giant like shopping mall and that's like we stayed at the Roosevelt hotel right on Hollywood Boulevard. I won a trip, so we stay there. Surprised.
Speaker 2:That's cool, but yeah, I didn't know that yeah that was what we wanted.
Speaker 1:What are?
Speaker 2:you, what are you paying to have yours on there? And then it'll say like eight times what about you?
Speaker 1:Well, I'm not there yet by the time you do it. When I get into a movie or something, then we'll talk Perfect. Speaking of movies, there's a great movie coming out called the luckiest man alive. They just released a trailer today. It drops on April 4th in theaters and it's a story of Michael Larson, the ice cream truck driver who went on to pressure luck in 1984 and won over a hundred thousand dollars in 1984. It's, it's incredible, incredible story. So I'm looking forward to that movie coming out.
Speaker 1:That released a theaters yes, on uh april 4th, so I it should be good. I mean, it's been around for a while and they're finally I guess they got distribution. I'm hoping it's a little wide so I can see it. Um, it's one of those where you might have to like go to one of those art house movies by you to see it. Um, but I have to check it out. Definitely it's called the luckiest man alive. Um, speaking of the luckiest, unluckiest, unluckiest man alive, um, what are we going to talk about? The squirrel, jeff mcdeal? Um, dude, see, that transition wasn't bad.
Speaker 1:Um, not bad not bad for the met one of us, the mess infielders second baseman for the mets, jeff mcneil oh, they call him squirrel um, he is injured. He is on the injured list, of course. He's on the injured list, of course, because we can't have nice things um, and he was just, he was hitting pretty decently. I was very impressed with that um. But yes, so it looks like ronald acuna jr, not lewis angel acuna um will be um starting out the season in the bigs. I think I mean one of them for sure, right?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean I would Acuna or Mauricio or both.
Speaker 1:I think Acuna before Mauricio, but who knows? I think Beatty for sure was going to be Everything I heard about from David Stearns. It looks like they were planning on bringing Beatty up anyway. He keeps saying stuff like and I agree with him that prospects need to have time in the bigs and practice in the bigs. I absolutely agree with that philosophy.
Speaker 2:Um, so yeah, I think I think they need to get reps, plain and simple. You can't have a big prospect just sitting on the bench If they're not going. If they're going to do that, just play them every day in AAA until a need arises.
Speaker 1:But the benefit, you know, of course, in in in major leagues is you're, you're up against major league pitching and not.
Speaker 2:AAA pitching.
Speaker 1:So you know, I'm hoping that that's what they, I think that's what they're going to do. It depends on, also, what kind of rotation they want to go with. Are they going to go with a five-man rotation, or you know what's going to happen.
Speaker 2:Right Early in the season, an extra day off or two, maybe they keep an extra guy up. Well, I have my question for you, obviously because I want to go slightly cub related. Is our former friend going to make the squad with the Mets, alexander canario? Was he going?
Speaker 1:to be there listen I hope so in the lineup a lot. They've been playing him a lot. They've been playing him a lot. I think is a strong possibility. Canario starts in the majors. Um, how did he do with the cups?
Speaker 2:because I'm not that familiar with him he didn't get a big cup of tea, but I mean he had had a couple of big hits in September when he was up, but he was mostly a bench player.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and then obviously they just didn't really have any space for him between Kyle Tucker, pete Crowe, ian Happ and Saya. I mean it's tough with those four Tough problem to have.
Speaker 1:Exactly. I think that I think I think he's going to have. I think I think excuse me, I think the Mets are a better team for options for that and I think he might have some. I mean I've, like you you said I've been going I think he's been in like I've only seen only, but I've seen six spring six or seven spring training games and I think he's been in the lineup for at least half of them which tells me they're trying to work on.
Speaker 2:You've been Mets games except for one okay and I was gonna say for a certain at least two to three times I've seen him in the lineup.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and let's not forget one of the first games he went to Canario is still with the Cubs, so he wasn't even eligible to be in the Mets lineup.
Speaker 2:So right, probably more like two-thirds of the games he's seen.
Speaker 1:So I I think it's a strong possibility based on what I've kind of seen. Of course I don't know firsthand. I am a Monday on.
Speaker 2:St Patrick's day, mario would be four and five, right In the off. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Oh they are. They're trying to move Marte, so right.
Speaker 2:I don't know if that happens. I still think there will be some moves that happen. I think so too.
Speaker 1:I don't think Marte is going to be a Met in the beginning of the season. I think they want to move him and I think that's smart, because I think Marte has a little bit of good left in him and now would be the time to move him. If they're going to move him, I think now is a good time to move him.
Speaker 2:Otherwise I could see them running a nice platoon. He still could hit lefties absolutely.
Speaker 1:Um, it's just a matter, like you said, of of how much time they're going to get playing in and on the field and playing at the plate um, I'm going to be there on um st patrick's day, I purchased where erica and I are going to go the batting practice. We're going to be on the field at clover park and oh that's awesome.
Speaker 2:Who knows, we don't have my little microphone.
Speaker 1:Can I enter you for our podcast?
Speaker 2:that's amazing. Get a couple. Get a couple sound bites, pete pete, pete, I'm gonna.
Speaker 1:I should do like, do this for us.
Speaker 2:This fake press pass with our yeah, yeah, put a little press, put a little press badge, around. Why not have some? Oh?
Speaker 1:man. Yeah, I'm excited. Listen, that's the first time I'm ever you said on saturday done, uh, no, on monday monday okay, we're going, we're going up on sunday, we're gonna stay overnight because that drive is like I'm not a big, I don't. You, you probably drive a lot more than I do up in chicago, but I'm not a big. Well, you, you know, I know you drive more than I do, but I'm not a big person to. I don't like driving, especially at night yeah, this is one.
Speaker 1:That's what three, four hours away no, you're gonna laugh at me, no it's an hour it's an hour and a half, I mean but who cares?
Speaker 2:I know you were gonna say that, but no, no, no no I'm saying I'm saying, who cares that you're doing that, that's fine, yeah no, but it's just too much.
Speaker 1:Like I just it. What ends up happening is because I know what I have an hour and a half drive ahead of me. We end up never staying the entire game, which sucks. I like to. I like to enjoy the game, absolutely.
Speaker 2:You don't want to be rushed right.
Speaker 1:So I'm excited for that. I mean we'll be rushed on we'll be rushed on monday to come home, but um, we're gonna, we're gonna go to the game on Sunday too. We'll kind of make it.
Speaker 2:Do you have big St Paddy's Day plans on Monday at?
Speaker 1:home. I'm Irish, I'm half Irish, and so my mom wants a brisket. She doesn't want corned beef, so we're going to get that for her.
Speaker 2:Love that.
Speaker 1:Awesome. Yeah, I'm excited. I love St Patrick's Day.
Speaker 2:And that day will be the eve of Major League Baseball kickoff, because the Cubs will be playing in Tokyo.
Speaker 1:We need to talk about this 12 hours after that.
Speaker 1:We need to talk about this. I have questions for you now and I'm going to ask you questions First of all. Real'm going to ask you questions First of all, real quick. Before I ask the questions, I want to preface this. They showed pictures of the Tokyo Dome. They have the staircases that are in clubs and Dodgers. What a wonderful job they did on that Unbelievable. They had the Wrigley sign and I'm not even listen, you're the diehard. I like the Cubsubs and I kind of got goosebumps.
Speaker 2:I'm like this is freaking awesome and they had shoda and craig council. Do the honorary uh the breaking I saw the ceremony that was so cool. And then did you see, seya suzuki was slicing with a samurai sword.
Speaker 1:He was I saw that crazy. I saw oh man, dude, this is.
Speaker 1:This is really cool and I think listen the Dodgers and the Cubs have a decent, some decent Japanese players and I think it's great for them. It's exposure in Japan, not that baseball really in baseball it's pretty big in Japan. It doesn't really need that exposure. But why not, um, and you know, show people like Trevor Bauer what baseball is all about, and I say that. But so with that, I have questions for you. First question because I purposely don't follow it is because I want to ask you on the show who went? Oh, I know Justin Turner, because he's been busy on social media who went over to represent the Cubs? Like not the whole team, obviously. So who stayed?
Speaker 2:back who went. So the roster rules are actually rather interesting because they don't want to make it a penalty to the Cubs and Dodgers for having to cut people too early. So basically the Cubs went over with a 31-man roster, okay.
Speaker 1:But it's usually 30, right.
Speaker 2:It's usually 26.
Speaker 1:Oh, 26.
Speaker 2:Okay 26 is your opening day lineup roster, and they went over with 31. Now three of the 31, each game will be inactive. They will be there as more of like an emergency if someone gets injured or something like that. One of them is like the third catcher and then they also have two pitchers that they can designate inactive for that game. So like, let's say, shoda starts the first game, he doesn't count against the roster spot on day two. That's how they get around it, essentially they, so they have a little extra pitching and they also are playing a couple exhibition games prior to, so they needed to carry some extra. Oh yeah, they're playing like the, the, the japan, two teams in the npb I love that.
Speaker 2:I love that tigers and then uh, I forget who the other ones again are those going to be broadcast?
Speaker 1:I believe so. Oh, I want to watch that. That's cool.
Speaker 2:I mean obviously the Cubs and Dodgers games, for sure will be, but I think they are at least on the Cubs network. I'm looking here and it says Tokyo Exhibition Gate Watch on marquee. So I'm pretty sure that it is. They've got the. You know what they're playing tomorrow night at 11 o'clock pm, your time, oh, 10 o'clock at night. It's on marquee marquee oh I don't get that but they have a free app.
Speaker 1:I think you can check it out I, I, I, really I, I love, I love that exchange. I love the fact that they're doing an exhibition. It's good practice for them too. So the rest of the team is back in Arizona still working out and still kind of doing their thing, or is everyone?
Speaker 2:They're on the back fields, getting reps and having games. One guy that actually did not make the trip over that is an everyday starter, but it's just cause he's not fully healthy yet. It's Nico Horner. His goal is to be ready for domestic opening day, which is the 28th um. So instead of having him travel you know time zone, uh, jet lag, all that they wanted him to keep getting more reps faster, so they thought it would be better.
Speaker 2:So you'll see, he's partly bummed out about it oh right, I'm sure to be missing out on it, but you'll probably see either john birdie or videl brujan at second base. Unless he wants to get cute one game, maybe he slides rookie match over and plays turner at third, but I still think that's I think brujan probably say that again you think brujan will go in?
Speaker 2:brujan or birdie at second probably has more experience, doesn't he? Yeah, uh they're pretty close. Birdie's been around the league also. Birdie, former marlin, I know it's crazy but I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 1:By now by the way, real joke by now every Major League Baseball player is a former.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:Dude, I mean as a Cubs fan. I mean the only downside, of course, is it does take away a home series from you guys.
Speaker 2:Yeah, two home games.
Speaker 1:Yeah, is it two games a series?
Speaker 2:Yeah, two home games? Yeah, Is it two games a series? It's two games that count. And then they come back and play more spring training games before the regular season. It's weird, but it's cool.
Speaker 1:It's the weirdest thing I've ever seen.
Speaker 2:And if your team's playing in it, you know more power to it.
Speaker 1:No, I'm excited. Listen, I'm excited for the Cubs. This is not their first trip outside of the normal sphere, right? Didn't they do something else?
Speaker 2:Yeah, you remember. The Cubs played the Mets in Japan in 2000.
Speaker 1:That's right. Opening day.
Speaker 2:They did. Do you know who hit a grand slam in that game? Let's test your memory.
Speaker 1:Mike Piazza no oh.
Speaker 2:No, I am in that game. Let's test your memory, mike Piazza.
Speaker 1:No, oh no, I don't know.
Speaker 2:As soon as I say where this player was born, you're going to know. Is that a good hint?
Speaker 1:I don't know, dude Is it a bet.
Speaker 2:What the fuck? Ooh, one of the most, oh, such a great baseball name, benny Agbayani.
Speaker 1:Oh yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, wow, wow.
Speaker 2:I didn't see your baseball.
Speaker 1:Knowledge is so much more than mine.
Speaker 2:I played in that game so it's just burned in my memory. Another Cubs-Mets opening day. That has some. You were a teenager in 2000. You remember a guy by the name of Tuffy Rhodes? Oh yeah, he hit three home runs on opening day against the Mets. Wow, and I believe, if my memory serves me, I believe Doc Gooden was pitching that game. Oh, you check me on that if you're.
Speaker 1:Well, we're definitely going to share that. Yes, after I'm going to check it out, you're going to look it up now I'm gonna look it up here, let's see, so has it opening 84 there.
Speaker 2:It is so good. Chicago cubs, toughy roads, made history by hitting three home runs all off mets pitcher dwight gooden. But the mess still won the game 12-8.
Speaker 1:What year was that?
Speaker 2:1984., 1994.
Speaker 1:Dwight was still with the team in 94? Yeah, he must have been. Oh wow, or maybe oh Because at some point he went to the Yankees, I was eight years old, probably running around every time he homered 1994, I was 22. My wait, was I 22? Yeah, because I was 20 when I got married in 92. When we got married 92, oh my god, you were eight. Uh, you little baby.
Speaker 2:But in 2000 you were a teenager you were having a beer watching the game.
Speaker 1:I don't drink alcohol I know I'm just kidding, because you were 22, I know I did drink at 21,.
Speaker 1:So the year before I wasn't legal to drink at my own wedding. Go figure, that's funny, that's so funny. But listen, I'm excited for this series. So I mean it's very odd to have spring training go play two real games overseas. Come back to spring training. That a little odd, but I like that they did it that way because I think it would have given, it would have been unfair to both I don't care if the dodgers are unfair or not, quite frankly but it would have been unfair to both teams to have to travel and then go into a regular season kind of schedule. So I think it makes sense the way it happened.
Speaker 1:Um, and I love it for the japanese fans, which the japanese market has grown tremendously in baseball, so much in major league baseball. I mean, of course, jj, the nippon league is already a big thing in japan, but the fact that so many players want to play a major in the major leagues, of course, look, yeah, over the last couple years you had shoda, yeah, you've had shohei, you've had um, you've had kodai, um in kodai. Imagine kodai, looking in on the series, that's pretty cool. Um, yeah, so I I'm excited, of course.
Speaker 2:Go cubs, go where this podcast is rooting for the cubs 100 the next time we record, the cubs will have played two major league baseball games. That's pretty crazy.
Speaker 1:And we're going to start the show with them, we're going to talk all about them, and I'm going to watch them with you Can't wait to look forward to it.
Speaker 2:Go Happer, go Cubs. Are you going to be up at 6 am on first pitch?
Speaker 1:Am I watching on delay? You will be up at 5, am I know you? You are the biggest Cub fan.
Speaker 2:I know I will say that the that that night before and then the night after the first game will probably be the earliest I go to bed in decades, just so I can get up and watch them.
Speaker 1:I don't doubt that at all. I don't doubt at all. I, I, you know, listen, I think it's a huge deal, I think it's fun, I think it's exciting, and I think the fact that the Cubs are going to be two and oh, to start the season before any of the other.
Speaker 2:I love it. Put that out there. Yeah, not going to lie. Not going to lie. If we're sitting here next week and the Cubs split the games, I'll consider it a win. Absolutely. Sign me up for two wins, two wins. I love where your head's at 100%, let's go council.
Speaker 1:Get the team going, let's go, let's go, cubs, let's go, let's do it.
Speaker 2:Matt Shaw made the squad traveled with them, so probably going to be the opening day third baseman, so looking forward to it.
Speaker 1:Awesome and of course our buddy, ian Happ, is going to have gold gloves.
Speaker 2:We'll have more of an MLB preview next week.
Speaker 1:Absolutely yes, we are going to go deep into baseball um a little bit and then in the following week we have our buddy, nicholas Pepin from pop culture roulette is going to come on with us and we're going to do a whole MLB baseball preview special. So excited about that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that'll be next, next, right Next week, I think so.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think it's the next week, oh so, yeah, major league thank you for correcting me. Uh, major league baseball preview special coming up, nicholas. Thank you, nicholas, love it, nicholas. Of course, diehard angels fan. Um, we're going to talk all about baseball. We are going to be specific on the cubs, the mets and the angels, but we are going to talk about everything. We're going to go team by team and talk about Maybe some predictions.
Speaker 2:awards records.
Speaker 1:And we have a certain fantasy baseball draft coming up.
Speaker 2:I saw we do, we do.
Speaker 1:Time for me to get some recovery.
Speaker 2:This is your comeback year.
Speaker 1:I did want to tell you, though, because I know you have this player on your, on your team, edwin diaz. Do you have him in this league?
Speaker 2:um, I did have him in a league, but I probably not, probably not as a keeper. He'll be available in the draft so edwin diaz is.
Speaker 1:His velocity has kind of been suffering, bro.
Speaker 2:I'm worried about it a little A little bit Is this your way of softening the market.
Speaker 1:Would I do that to my friend?
Speaker 2:He can fall into the polar barracks for rest lineup.
Speaker 1:Would I do that to my buddy?
Speaker 2:Would I do that Come? On, I'm just teasing you no, I know, but that's good Something to keep an eye on. It could be nothing, it just will slowly ramp it up. So who won? It'll be interesting to keep an eye on that.
Speaker 1:So who won the league? I didn't. Who won the league? Our league.
Speaker 2:Our buddy Dan Parcell Shout out, Dan, he won the league last year. So Dan, I'm just saying I've got to say, uh, he has in this league acuna and he won the league with acuna out all season.
Speaker 1:So that's pretty impressive that's kudos don't get cocky, dan. I'm just saying.
Speaker 2:You know, you saw me as a weakling or something, I don't know be scared because, remember you, your team will be making a leap in its own, because you have a very, very exciting young keeper in Jackson Holiday.
Speaker 1:I do.
Speaker 2:That would be a fun guy to have on the squad.
Speaker 1:That was my smartest move last year, without a doubt. Yeah, I'm excited. Hopefully I'll make some smarter decisions as the season goes, but you know, baseball, the only room to go up baseball's a tough fantasy sport. I mean, I think it's the toughest fantasy sport. Uh, football. I never have a problem doing fantasy football and I'm not a big as big of a football fan right, speaking of which it's just the games, yeah I have to say joey Bosa to the Bills.
Speaker 2:Dude Joey Bosa.
Speaker 1:Signed a big, huge contract with Josh Allen Holy cow.
Speaker 2:We didn't talk about that. Yeah, big new shiny money.
Speaker 1:Bills making some moves, holy cow, oak and Joby. I think the Bears and the Bills are the be-be-be-be. You know that connection.
Speaker 2:We'll see the Bears and the Bills or the. You know that connection, put it out in the universe Cubs, bears and Bears, bears.
Speaker 1:Bills Super Bowl. Bears Bills Super Bowl that would be crazy. Wouldn't that be nuts? We would have to get a legit press pass and actually go to press roll and do this podcast.
Speaker 2:That would be crazy If that super bowl matchup happens, we we almost have to do it oh my god, absolutely.
Speaker 1:Or, if you know, the national league championship series is the cubs in the mets. Gotta do it, gotta listen. I'm just saying, you know we might have to do a trip to New York.
Speaker 2:MLB preview episode next week.
Speaker 1:Yes, we will talk about that. I hope everyone tunes in for that and Nicholas is. I love talking baseball with you and I love talking about it with Nicholas and I look forward to that. Anything else you'd like to talk about?
Speaker 2:No, that just about does it Get it ready for some March Madness, some MLB baseball. We're ready.
Speaker 1:I'm excited. I'm excited we got some major sports gearing up. We got March Madness, Like you said. Baseball we also have the NBA. The NBA playoffs are going to start and go Heat. I won't ask you about the baseballs.
Speaker 2:I watched about one minute of NBA basketball this year.
Speaker 1:What about hockey? The Panthers I mean, you know.
Speaker 2:The Ice Cats. Ice Cats, yes.
Speaker 1:All right, this has been Around the Bases. The Bob Culture and Sports Podcast with your host, charlie Seymour, and I'm Tim Sterberg. Until next week, everybody, let's go Cubs in Japan. Bye everybody, sturberg. Until next week, everybody, let's go, cubs in Japan. Bye everybody.
