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Yes.
Small arms.
But he's got a little baby T-Rex arms, little tiny arms, fast feet though.
Um, doesn't look like he got much sleep, but damn, was he good last night doing this
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Yankees, according to RJ Santillo are well on their way to 162 wins after 7-0 last night
San Francisco.
They got to Logan Webb for five in a second while Max Fried pitch six in the third scoreless.
Let's get their season started this afternoon over at city field against Paul Schienz and
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He looked great in his pro day.
Well, we're going to recap yesterday's big time high level meeting relationships were made.
Great questions were asked.
Dan Grossel will join us at 930 to finish up our M L M L B season predictions.
We got some over and others we're going to do Thursday 745.
We have no observations.
Did it happen in Florida?
Thursday's world famous stuff.
You missed around 915, but before we get to all of that, the show's been a little risque
this week.
I'm just pushing past it.
There's already a long list of things we're in trouble for today.
Well, where do we start?
Dave started talking about putting things as mouth.
If you put it in your mouth, you couldn't swallow it up to chew it.
How was that?
No.
How was that?
There was a moment I thought I was going to vomit, actually.
And I said that to somebody after like, how great would that have been?
Why would you do it then?
That's right.
I get a free breakfast.
What a time.
I mean, I'm simple like that.
It's not a terrible reason.
Not exactly why I do it.
RJ, you know what he is?
What's that?
He's a comp day.
That's what he is.
I'm pretty sure you can't say that.
Parents are split.
And once having another baby, I think that's probably harder than dad's, you know,
a bunch of young celebrities.
You're right.
Can't say that either.
What I meant to say was he's having relations much better.
Okay.
Having relations.
Green light.
What you said.
Red light.
Fucking.
Like, I've been trying to get fired here.
They won't do it.
Yeah.
Well, with that mustache, maybe they will.
I don't know.
Who knows?
I'm dangerous with this mustache.
Well, regardless of that, he is a mustache, which is just not, it's not, it's not
hitting.
How dare you know what we should do?
High is such a loose turn.
What would you call it?
I phrased it using.
I was medicated.
What's medicated?
Dave like.
You know what I'm like?
Those kids, they don't let out of the apartment.
Their hair goes down to their bottoms for like 15 years.
All they do is watch TV.
That's me.
That is you.
Here he is.
We love him.
The one and only.
David.
You.
Brother.
Wow.
That was nice.
It's a lot.
And you saw, and no one saw you saw it behind the scenes.
Yep.
RJ.
He went to work.
He's a hero.
Because the music hits and Ray, what you didn't hear was sheer panic.
My computer.
I don't have my computer.
And RJ takes those little legs and just start like our village recent three cones yesterday
and running around the the tackland dummies and our great-bent, not great-bent, not
have great people were unhappy with that, but, but RJ, great-bent, because he's got the
load of the ground to begin with.
He starts moving, moving, grabs your computer and I saw runs back in, delivers it.
RJ is a hero.
Well done.
I'm not going to sit here and pretend like I'm surprised.
No.
Because if we go back when you showed up like three minutes before the show and needed
your car parked, I've never seen anyone get that lot in back as fast.
That's right.
In my life.
Right.
Now, by the way, me showing up three minutes before it, that's the thing in the past.
Yeah.
Five, five forty one today.
It's early.
I mean, it's early.
Yeah.
I love it.
I have the utmost respect for this show.
Clearly.
I mean, even during the meeting yesterday, I could tell.
You were dialed?
I was dialed in.
There was a good questions that were, you don't like my questions, but that's fine.
I was dialed.
I still stand by.
I don't think it's a bad question.
RJ.
Here we go.
RJ.
How was Dave's question yesterday?
Not a big meeting.
I, let's say I think it's a question worth asking, but the timing of it.
I thought it was a great question for that to be that early in the sit down.
I thought it was interesting.
Well, why?
Why should the timing affect RJ more embarrassing the question or when, uh, I know what you're
going to say when he didn't know Dave's name.
So I wasn't ready to fully commit to him, not knowing your name because he, he's, he's,
I don't think he learned it even after I said it because later on in the meeting, he's
like, and, uh, you, it's not like you have a difficult name to remember, but I'm irrelevant.
He was, he was there for one reason, right?
He was there for so no, yes, no, no.
That's not true.
They don't trust you on your own.
That's why I was there.
No.
Yeah.
They, because they want banter.
You can't do banter.
A middle name is banter.
You're middle nick please banter with myself.
Exactly.
No.
That's why they need me.
They know you're a big baby and you'll shut it right down.
I'll bring this up.
You're not involved.
I'm not a banter.
You bring up the product.
You bring up the product.
I'd be like, can we move on?
Yes.
Can't, please.
Yes.
Nobody cares.
Because you're a diva.
Now you got me in.
Yeah.
I'm two feet in and I'm going nowhere.
The first two feet are good for the single predictable pause.
Yeah.
I wasn't ready to fully commit to the idea that he didn't know your name.
He didn't know my name.
But you, you know, you know what I give you credit for?
What?
You, you, you, you saw that, that Daping Hall ran right through.
You're like, I'm going to make this a zoc word response like my name's Day.
It.
I'm Drew.
Hey, you name.
Well, you missed it.
He had no idea who Dave was.
Hey, he's like, is it Rick and all that.
Rick brings to the table.
And, and, and.
And I'm shocked at all that, but given how invested the guy seems to the show won't be introduced.
And I was like, I'm, damn, it wasn't as awkward as the, uh, the opening for the Netflix
game last night.
Oh, yeah.
That was, you know, you know what the sad thing about that is that the baseball is now
secondary today.
Well, I don't think the baseball can be secondary.
If you listen to people around the country talking about that game last night, it won't
be about Max Fried, it won't be about Caballero.
It won't be about Jess Chisholm.
It will be about.
Right.
But how much awful.
Okay.
I mean, so is that.
Is that a bad thing?
Necessary?
Yes.
Like, I mean, you've also the one that tells me that good publicity is good publicity.
So I mean, how much are you talking about a seven, nothing game last night?
If it wasn't for all the, you know, all the pomp and circumstance that a lot of baseball
people didn't like or how late the game started.
I couldn't anybody.
Let's get this thing going.
Well, you call a game for 805, first pitch was 825.
Why?
Get an hour pregame when the NFL says, and I know the NFL is different.
I get that.
When the NFL says a game starting at 815, 820, 105 went to the start at that time.
I turned on at 803, figuring, all right, let me get two minutes of, of whatever.
And then into the game, they're having players run out past cabs with dancing, twerking
women.
You didn't see this?
I had the rangers.
I was watching the rain.
I know that.
I know that.
He's looking at me like I'm crazy.
Is that not true?
I smoke emanating from cabs as players were running past with women twerking.
I didn't see that particular text message, but I saw you guys like machine gunning text
about how this thing was dragging.
I said, okay, I've got to take a look at this.
It was all a good start.
Then on the other side for the giants, they're introducing and the giants, man, that line
up is something.
They started introducing those guys and they're running through a trolley car with the
same women twerking and dancing around.
Then they have some comedian who's screaming at me.
Bert, what's his name?
Kirschner.
Kirschner.
Yeah.
He didn't see all that funny last night.
Then they stick him in McCubby Cove and the camera's going in and out.
I'm sorry.
Kirschner.
Kirschner.
Yeah.
I don't know, man.
I thought it was, I thought it was an abomination what they did last night.
I thought it was terrible.
Are you going to still watch baseball?
Of course.
Are you going to watch baseball?
Is that the point, though?
I think that's kind of the point.
So if you're going to watch, you can't comment that you could call for, no, I'm not disagreeing
with you.
I'm just saying I, I don't love it, but I also kind of understand it.
So let me, let me explain it.
You explain this to me.
Yep.
This is for the young people, right?
You get this, this gets the young, do you think there are people out there just for
the young people, though?
I think it's for as many people as you could potentially get to the television.
Do you think there were people last night that were watching that eight o'clock to eight
25 and thinking, this is great.
No, I don't think that's necessarily the case.
I think that I was trying to think of a way to explain this to you because I knew you'd
be upset with it this morning is it's almost like you're having, it's an opening day for
a lot of people for me, for you, for people that love baseball.
It's like, it's awesome.
It's like Thanksgiving.
Yes.
It's my favorite holiday.
I love Thanksgiving.
Yep.
Okay.
There are certain times, if I'm having, you know, people at my house for Thanksgiving,
where I'm going to have to add certain things to my menu that I wouldn't necessarily have.
Okay.
Right.
I got my staple of people who, regardless of what I cook, will be at my house.
And then there are other people that maybe I say, hey, would you like to come over for
Thanksgiving dinner?
Like when I had candy over a couple of times.
Right.
He was bringing someone over.
That was a vegan.
So now I'm going to make some vegan mac and cheese and all these different things.
So I think what you're trying to do, and I understand that opening day of baseball doesn't
need all the stuff surrounding it.
But when you invest the kind of money that Netflix did into this, is you're trying to bring
as many people to the dinner table and I understand that.
And I can try to go down that avenue.
What I do.
And maybe I'm wrong.
And you can chime in eight hundred nine one nine three seven seven six, what they did.
Maybe I just don't get it as possible.
I don't know who is watching that thinking like like you're, you're trying to cater it
towards other people for your Thanksgiving.
Who is watching that thinking themselves, you know what?
This is good.
I need how many times have you watched things that your kids watch that they think is good
and you think is terrible.
So that's my point.
Are there people out there who watch that last guy?
I think this is really good stuff.
What Netflix is telling you is, is that as a specialized opening day is for us and for
Yankees fans and for Giants fans, like that's not why you buy it to service just Yankees
fans and Giants fans.
You're trying to service everybody that a standalone thing.
What did you do last night to attract you?
That's what I don't understand.
You're just adding.
You got the, you got the right screaming, but it's people that like him, that you're hoping
that maybe our baseball fans tune in to see him and then now that they're on your service
will be like, hey, I like this or I like this or maybe end up, you know, maybe I like
this baseball.
And while I didn't know how much I'd enjoy this, you know, it's weird too that they've
done.
Everyone has been completely ostracized from the game.
They bring back to like be critique David Ortiz who we don't know was on the report
or whatever, I think the two big ones are in the erad of Barry bonds, they've pushed
away and said, no, no, no, you're an embarrassment to the game.
We won't let you in the hall of fame.
Now they bring them to give their analysis.
They're not in the hall of fame, right?
That's just point.
We won't celebrate.
We won't celebrate their records.
We won't recognize better.
They've been totally ostracized in the game.
But now he's back.
They're on television.
There's my point.
He's short-circuited.
No, no, no, he doesn't understand.
They're on the Fox coverage.
As far as bigger in your face, oh my God, that's my point.
Is it you have taken these guys and pushed them to the side and you don't want anything
to do with them.
But for some reason now, like they're not allowed in the hall of fame, they're ostracized
from the game.
But when it comes to their analysis, then we bring them in and hold them close.
We want to hear everything they have to say.
I don't understand.
I don't understand.
You can be ostracized from the game and be on television.
I don't think you can.
They're not in the hall of fame.
I'll just point.
I'll just point.
How can you keep them out of the mold?
Like that is the most prestigious thing that you can be rewarded with in base or
rewarded with in baseball.
They're ostracized from the hall of fame, but not the game.
Like it's there.
All right.
How many people when you say who's the greatest player in baseball will save Barry Bonds?
Many people.
He's actually ostracized from the game, but was he on TV last night?
Yeah, I guess he was.
Tell us the same story.
Is it a rose number retired with the Yankees?
No, and it won't be.
Really?
Why?
Well, it's not because of him being on list.
It's because of him feuding with managed.
Well, okay.
So it's another thing.
Well, what was he spending for?
Right.
Right.
And did he sit there and lie?
Why not bring Raphael Pomerobak, Sammy Sosa, bring them all back.
Let them sit there and analyze the game.
Maybe they can maybe they will, but at least you can make the argument that he rods, I mean,
good on television.
I think he is good.
Right.
But I just think it's curious that you have a guy named Barry White.
He's great.
He's not even ever very good.
But why me bring him a choir, bring them all in.
I just think last night was a, and I understand that you want to do something different.
And maybe I'm wrong.
I thought the different was awful.
I thought it was, were you in, were you into it at all?
Did you?
No, I wasn't good for a second.
No, I was not.
Could you even look at it from your kid's perspective, or somebody else's perspective
and say, oh, you know, I could see why they'd like this.
The slime thing.
I don't watch the slime on Nickelodeon, but I can see why that attracts people.
I could see that that's something that that draws people in.
Right.
But that's also like, I mean, I have, I also have other options as to when I'm, where
I'm watching the game.
Correct.
It's like, I don't, do you get this?
Like in the upper right hand corner, where you go to commercials, this is commercial
two of five.
And then they start giving me a countdown clock.
So you think yourself, now I'm going to have seven minutes of commercials now, at least
you know how much time you have.
I guess, I guess, but I thought in between innings was supposed to be this like, well, that's
my biggest problem with screaming anyway, is I want out.
Once that, once that goes to break, I want out, but you can't get out.
I want to go somewhere, watch something else and do it back.
You can't do it.
I just, I feel, I feel trapped and I don't like it.
You can't do it.
And if I, if anybody calls today, when the Aiki's winning seven, nothing and free putting
on that performance and bitches about Aaron, of course, they will, no, they won't absolutely
know.
Absolutely.
You think they to be people that call you playing about Aaron judge today, of course,
they won seven, nothing.
That doesn't matter.
Strike off four times.
Okay.
Yeah.
I mean, it was a bad game.
Hey, I'm not going to argue it.
I was told, I was told that him playing in the world baseball classic would have him ready.
That didn't look ready.
Who cares?
You won.
Nobody.
What?
There will be people that call.
I care.
I actually want some off the team.
No.
He fits.
No one is kidding when he said that.
Those were, those were misery.
If you are a Yankees fan.
Now, if you hate the Yankees, you're trying to, you know, tweak the Yankees fan.
That's different.
But if you're a Yankees fan and you have anything negative to say about Aaron judge today,
shame on you.
Really?
They boot him.
It's pretty training.
Or some people boot him.
Why is there this like, if he has a bad at bad or a bad game or a bad moment, like
he's not in the best players.
Don't hit 400.
No.
Like you're still failing a lot.
We had a bad game.
We want to stake dinner because of that.
Right.
Because he didn't his 400.
Of course he was going to hit 370.
He's 70.
It's sanity.
The guy hit 53 horns and won a batting title.
He's amazing.
That's so.
He is, if not the best player in baseball, the second best player in baseball, he's a three
time MVP.
Well, I think when Otani doesn't, well, Otani doesn't pitch, but judges the best player
in baseball.
There.
It's hard to ever get past that, but I mean, so you win and he was bad.
I'm not going to argue.
If he was bad, right.
But if you're Yankee's fan last night, we all, we all know that turned the course of
162 games, Aaron judge is not going to be the reason why you don't win the division.
Aaron, Aaron judges.
Of course not.
Right there to win the MVP.
I think both of us picked him to win the MVP wouldn't, if he's, he's going to have bad
games, right?
Of course.
Okay.
So wouldn't you prefer the bad games to come in games that you don't need him to be good?
Yes.
I would.
I'm not going to criticize him regardless, but if they lose fourth three and he strikes
out with the bases loaded in a big spot, I could kind of more understand why you would
be frustrated.
Yeah.
The game was not competitive.
No.
And yet, listen, I mean, if you're Yankee's fan, some of the things that we talked about
going into the season that, you know, as you're running this thing back as much as Brian
Cashman doesn't want to admit it is, hey, look at the bottom of the lineup.
Like what's that going to look like?
And last night, you got a lot of production from the bottom of the lineup.
I got to tell you to watch and stand on the bases.
He looks healthy.
He looked better.
I agree.
And Max Fried was like Max Fried.
He was phenomenal.
So a little wild early.
Yeah.
Well, that's one really good.
I got a nasty email about you.
Why would I do?
No, you didn't do anything.
And I thought it was a silly email.
Ben Rice said that, that nice pick in the first inning and the emails are saying Rick says
he's not a good first.
Well, okay.
Hold on.
Cause he had one play where he looked good.
Right.
But how many people told me that Peter Lonzo is not a good first baseman?
Could he pick it?
He could pick it.
Or he could pick it.
Yeah.
So game one.
I think it's game.
So, so judge thinks like you can't, you can't base everything on game one.
It's so focused in baseball, especially.
We get it in every sport.
Baseball is the most laughable one to get focused on one game because you play 162.
It's every single day.
It's every single day, which is kind of a blessing in a curse.
Um, yeah, I love it just because I feel like it's I like it to always all like romantic
about it.
Yeah.
But I can't, I couldn't imagine seriously.
I played 82 and I didn't play all 82.
So I think I was somewhere in the 60s, um, for, for the games that I played and then
the days off is kind of a mental day off.
I couldn't imagine playing every single day, 20 straight days without a day off, showing
up, like showing up, like mentally, what that would do to you.
How draining that would possible.
Well, fortunately, the aches don't have to deal with that.
But like, okay.
So you get today off, but it's like every day you show up, but it's not like, and these
guys play every day, they play every day.
It's not the same physical grind as your other game, but it's not even the physical part
in the mental part.
It's not as the mental part.
Yeah.
Of course.
I mean, especially with the expectation that this team has, and that Aaron Judge has,
like this, he, I don't care what anyone says, he can feel it.
He has to feel this.
Well, you have to feel it.
Because his biggest thing I've heard that I heard this yesterday was that he's been,
you know, his ability to say, Hey, that just happened.
Now we move on to the next one.
Whatever happens.
Now, I think that's the biggest ability in, in sports career, especially in this sport.
Right.
I mean, that's, and that's how you avoid having these long, you know, these long periods
of time where, you know, you're just, you're struggling because if you have that, you
know, hey, that one, you know, what I did in the past is in the past, let's move forward,
but still like between the WBC with his level of disappointment, because in the biggest
moment in the gold medal game, you didn't play well.
Right.
And now, you know, spring training, every athlete can tell you he didn't hear it.
He heard it.
You don't hear the cheers.
You hear the booze.
And now, right?
I mean, he's getting close now where it's like, okay, it's time.
I get it.
But it's on, it's unfair.
Of course it is, but that's the reality, like, when you're that great, you're helping
to a different standard.
I mean, you're following up, like, you're the captain of the Yankees, you're the face of
the league.
Like, this is you stepped into Derek Jeter shoes, and we know you're a better player than
him.
But as far as Yankees are concerned, those, like, those awards are great.
Just like, you know, when A-Rod was here, and that's different because he wasn't homegrown,
but still, like, the MVP's for you, the MVP's not, I don't celebrate your MVP.
That's great that we got to gather one of the MVP, but I don't, like, that doesn't do
anything to me.
And three time MVP in four years, right?
I want a champion.
I want a championship.
So you got some work to do.
Well, RJ thinks they're going undefeated, so I'm confident they won't.
No.
RJ, I probably shouldn't have been very nasty this morning.
He wasn't nasty.
So we're doing, we're doing, I mean, we're doing the overrunners.
Yeah.
And he's like, I don't know why we're doing this.
This is, this is just ridiculous.
Well, it feels like we're just adding things after we're doing it because the division
and wild card winners are almost identical.
I know.
What does that tell you?
Now, we have a similar bright baseball minds.
It tells you that you need to do something to differentiate from the exact same baseball
picks, or maybe not do it at all.
I like the idea of doing them.
You know what?
No, you can't pretend like you're like doing them now after you're so nasty thinking
that.
Yeah, I mean, it was so amazing.
No, I don't know why we're doing this.
No, I like the idea of doing the picks.
I don't love the overrunners.
Well, I like the overrunners.
Gross is excited.
He's going to join us to discuss the overrunners.
Well, that I'm excited about.
No, you're not.
I like that.
You'd prefer no overrunners, no grosser than overrunners with grosser.
No, I would have just steered it in different direction.
What direction would you have steered it?
I would have gone into like more of a postseason pick scenario than picking overrunners.
But that's okay.
Is it?
It happened, ain't it?
It was nasty.
This morning.
Listen, the good news is I scoped the rest of the schedule for the Yankees, all 161.
I don't.
You don't see a loss on it?
You're going to play the win-loss game with the Yankees.
It won't take long.
A lot of wins.
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You're going like, try to be nasty to me.
Is that the goal?
I said nice to me.
No, no, no.
It feels like your entire reason for beating is to chop me down the knees.
No, no, no, no.
Your day, I'm dayd.
Let me also go start it up.
You did like that, though.
You know, the pants with, uh, you know, Rick and, uh, you, I'm dayd.
This is DPA, Turo and Rathenburg.
I was like, I'm Gave on ESPN New York.
All right, Dinar, with you opening day for your New York meds.
You can hear the game right here on ESPN New York.
So what does that mean?
What does that mean?
K does never show today.
K has a show.
K has a show, but it's just going to be on YouTube, right?
So before this season, yes, tell me whenever there's a day game for the meds, you'll still
be able to find the end of Barton, Carlin, because like meds for the game comes on there.
And all of K in the beginning of DHR only on YouTube and the app and the app and the app
as well.
ESPN New York app.
So that's beautiful.
Nice.
That is nice.
So no one's getting bumped all season.
They're still there.
So you get just more options.
Yeah, you could.
It's like a, it's like a buffet.
You put the meds game on, throw on the, on the old, uh, mute if you want to watch on TV
or listen on 880 and then you could pair that with YouTube if you're listening on the
radio to the match and you throw K or Barton, Carlin on YouTube, a lot of options.
DHR here.
Don sing.
Don, did not, somebody told me, only one person told me so I don't know if it's true.
Okay.
That Don and Peter got to a real, another one for Fuffel yesterday.
Again.
That's what I was told.
Is there some tension between these two?
I don't know if it's true or not.
Maybe they should fight.
How do you think that would work?
Like, let's, let's get, let's get some big like like 16 ounce boxing gloves and just
let them go at it.
Don and Peter, yeah, it's like a locker room, I don't know that that would go well.
It would be over.
I think, wait, why is there probably clothes?
No.
Yeah.
No.
Hmm.
Peter's probably 170.
No.
No.
What do you mean?
I don't know.
I think with the kickboxing training, Don.
I don't know.
Don would kill.
I just say kicking.
You can't know kicking.
That's just the cumin tape.
I just think a big boxing gloves that I'm boxing a little bit.
That's like the age old high school sports way of handling things.
Right.
You know how much it's a metal?
It doesn't work.
Yeah.
I mean, you get on the same page.
Who's watching the doors?
We're closing the locker room for five minutes.
You guys handle this.
Locker boxing.
Yeah.
It's very dangerous.
No.
It wouldn't go well.
Peter would die.
That was going to get hurt.
That was really going to get hurt.
Okay.
He fine.
Okay.
Couple punches.
I think somebody could get hurt.
Who would that be?
I'm not going to say.
Maybe Peter Stinky's strong.
He's probably have 40 pounds on Peter.
I don't know if Peter's as light as you think.
You think Peter.
I think Peter's over 200 pounds.
No way.
Yeah.
No way.
Yes.
No way.
Let's wait you right now.
Breakfast.
He's definitely not 170.
Breakfast.
He's close.
Breakfast.
Okay.
Give me your number one.
Okay.
I'll set it at 200.
194 and a half.
You know, I was thinking that same line.
Breakfast.
Breakfast.
Okay.
Witness.
Yep.
Okay.
Call him right now in the air.
No.
How much do you weigh?
I'm going to call him.
Good morning.
Call him.
No.
I think he's doing another show.
He's doing another show.
He has another show.
All right.
What's texting then?
You mean what I originally said?
Yes.
Honestly, how much do you weigh?
Okay.
What's his name?
Rosenberg.
Geez.
I just forgot for a sec.
I mean, it.
This is what happened yesterday.
Where that was.
I mean, your name.
And now you don't know Peter Rosenberg's name.
I know.
You know, I know.
I know.
I love Peter.
I mean, don't be belittled.
I forgot for a second, because my, you know, your brain
doesn't always fall down properly.
No.
Does not.
All right.
Honestly, how much?
Yes.
Dude.
We have a bet.
Way.
We have.
And.
How much do we think Don weighs?
The kickboxing Don weighs now.
I would say Don's probably 225.
Hmm.
225, you think?
I mean, that's my guess.
Do you think he's more?
No.
I think he could be less than that.
I said 225.
225 is probably good.
That's still 20.
Yeah.
That's probably close.
Yeah.
All right.
So I've sent the text off to Peter.
Breakfast on the line.
Yep.
We'll get the answer momentarily.
Hopefully.
Jeff Passon.
You like him, right?
I like Passon.
Yeah.
Well, you're not going to like this.
He doesn't think the meds are going to be a postseason team.
Again.
I did not pick the meds in the postseason.
I think there are a few things that you could point to
that could be a Kelly's heels there.
They're starting pitching.
While their rotation right now is Freddy Paralto,
and Nolan McLean, Clay Helms, David Peterson,
Cody Sanga, looks pretty good.
I think it drops off pretty demonstrically after that.
There's that.
I'm not sure Sean Meniah with the stuff that he has.
There's going to be a real rotation candidate at this point.
But maybe he's living in 88, 89,
and can have the same effectiveness
he did when he was that way with the A's.
I think the health of their bullpen is really important.
And the lineup, I just think the lineup
is more solid now than it was in the past.
Carson Benj is going to be fascinating to watch in this season
because transitioning to the big leagues,
like the jump from Triple A or just from the minor leagues
period to the big leagues is by far the largest
when it comes to that evolution of a player.
And so he's going to go through some struggles.
But I think you look up and down this roster
and it's just a bunch of really solid players.
The lack of depth, I think,
is the thing that could have the net closer to that 75
than that 95, but I am bullish enough on them
that even if I didn't pick them to go to the post season,
I do think that there is a very decent shot that they do.
And I just thought other teams had a little better shot.
Closer to 75 than 95.
If the Mets are not a post season team,
I will lose my mind this year.
Their payroll is through the roof, right?
As bad as it was last year, you still,
I mean, you all you need to do is win a game.
And you're in the post season.
And that was with 83 wins.
David Stern's better hope that they're not close to the 75 wins.
The 75 wins, I got a couple of nasty text yesterday saying,
you think that Sterns could be out of the Mets
of another failed season, I really do.
I think Mendoza is clearly gone.
So gone.
Gone.
Do you think though?
I mean, buster only yesterday said that the reason why
when I asked that question, he says,
of course, he has this going to be pressure
and they'll be on the hot seat.
Definitely Mendoza was because of how much money
they're paying David Sterns.
Does Steve Cohen strike you as the kind of person?
No, no.
That's going to be the opposite.
That kind of money.
No, just the opposite.
I mean, he made how much money with his hedge fund?
I mean, like over three, like it was like,
it doesn't feel like money is something that,
no, plus what he's building around city field,
if David Sterns goes 83, it changes the core of the team
and then falls that up with another season
they don't make the playoffs.
I can't, I can't imagine.
You'd have to really start to have the conversations
of is this guy good at his job?
Yeah, or not.
I think he's, I don't think he can say,
is he good at his job because of what he did in Milwaukee?
Is he the right guy to handle this job
where you do have the luxury having this kind of money?
But that should make it easier and harder.
It's tough to get away from that though.
Where you like analytically look at things
and you have a value on everybody,
because again, like I don't know
and Buster said this yesterday,
if if David Sterns was left to his own devices,
if he pivots the, you know,
payin' boba shit with his payin' boba shit,
to play out a position.
After you just talked about, you know,
saving defensive runs saved.
And how bad he's looked at third base.
Right.
So again, I mean, that's not,
but if you're, I'm close at a 75.
If the meta are an 80 win team,
he's not wrong about the rotation.
He's not wrong.
When you look at Yankee's rotation.
Well, I think he's not having the concerns
about Menai as legitimate.
But look at, look at, look at how much money
the dodges and the Yankees are spinning on their rotations.
And look at how much money.
So let's walk through the meta rotation.
So your ace is parolta.
You like that, right?
I like that.
I like that.
He's good.
You look at your number two is good.
I like Max Fried, I like Max Fried too.
Well, you like Max Fried better.
I understand that.
But the Yankee's also payin' Max Fried
that's what I'm saying.
All the money and Max Fried
may be an unattractive contract
when you get, does that, should that bother you?
No, but you know the Metz philosophy
is you don't want to go long-term.
But why?
Because they don't want to be investin' in guys long-term.
I understand that.
But like, when you're lookin' to add someone like Max Fried,
that's the reality.
Unless you're gonna pay a crazy amount of money
like they did the Kyle Tucker.
Or if his market's not there.
Max Fried had a market.
Right, you're trying to, I mean, we're trying to
I understand.
I like, I like, but you gotta like the Yankees
are spinning when it's starting rotation.
You gotta lean into your strength.
That's one of your strengths
is I don't have to worry about that.
All right, so Peralta's your ace.
He's good.
Peralta's good, he's very good.
You look at McClain is your two?
Yep.
Okay, you're excited by him?
I love him.
All right.
You look at Peterson is your three?
Yeah.
You look at Holmes is your four and Sangas is your five.
I mean, he talked about Manayan.
I agree, Manayan is a massive concern.
But I think it depends, I mean,
I think it depends on the health of Sanga.
When you see, you know, when you see him healthy,
Sangas, great.
But how often do you see him health?
The problem.
It's a massive problem.
Right.
So if I ask you right now, who do you think the,
who's the highest paid pitcher on the mats?
Who makes the most money?
The most, well, it's clearly not McClain.
Uh, I'm gonna go Sanga.
I know.
Yes, I'm Peralta.
Oh, is it Holmes?
It's not a starter.
It is.
So it's Peterson.
Oh, Manaya.
Oh, okay.
There you go.
I was thinking that the guys are actually,
Sean Manaya makes 25 million bucks.
Yeah.
Well, right now, it looks like a horrible deal.
Peterson makes eight.
I mean, you can almost add it up.
The claim makes less than a million.
So what's that?
What do you mean?
You can almost add up the rest of the rotation.
Oh, that equals the Manaya.
So it only makes eight.
So Peralta's eight, right?
And he's a free agent after this year.
Yeah.
Sanga makes 15.
All right.
So now you're 23.
So it's gonna be way more.
Holmes and Clay Holmes.
Clay Holmes, you got it for as affordable.
Clay Holmes is 13.
13.
Oh, did you give me Peterson?
I gave you Peterson makes eight.
Eight.
You gave me a Peralta Holmes.
Sanga?
Sanga makes 15.
15.
And who am I missing?
Peralta Holmes, Sanga, Peterson.
The claim makes less than a million.
Less than a million.
All right.
So I'm eight.
15 is 23.
13 is 36.
15 is 51, 50.
So 52 million.
52 million.
On your rotation.
And what are the Yankees?
And the compared to the Yankees, who spend, who?
Even if you include Manaya.
So 52 and 25 is 77.
So 87.
Six man rotation, 77.
Give me the Yankees.
God.
Okay.
So you got max free.
It is making 27.
27.
Rodan is making 27.
All right.
You have.
We're gonna add it as we go.
Now we're at 54.
Okay.
Okay.
What's 54 and 36 at 90?
I think that's 90.
That's correct.
Yeah.
You have.
We count Clark Schmidt.
We'll give me six.
Clark Schmidt's four and a half.
All right.
So that's 94 and a half.
Yep.
Ryan Weathers makes, just where he makes another 1.3.
All right.
So that's what, 96.
Heal makes two.
98.
Did you give me Schlittler?
All right.
It's still the makes.
I mean, that's a million.
Less than, yeah.
Okay.
Ryan 100 million.
Yeah.
So the thing with the Yankees is they spend big money on three guys.
Yep.
Big money.
27, 27, 36.
And then they spend nothing on anybody else.
Right.
And you have the younger pieces to add to that.
And then the Dodger spend, I mean, they spend equally.
You have the Dodgers numbers?
Oh, snow makes 36.
Yeah.
I mean, snow makes 36.
Hang on, hang on.
So, snow is 36.
Glass now is 30.
Glass stuff for 30s.
Not a good deal.
You have a model over just over 16.
Can you include Otani?
You almost can't even include him in this.
No, I can't even include him, really.
All right.
See, 36, 36, 16.
You gave me snow, right?
I gave you snow makes 30s when I say 36.
Who else they have in that?
Sasaki.
Is he considered a starter at this point?
Actually, hold on, hold on.
That's, that's, okay.
Yeah.
So that's the,
A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A,
1226, 36.
She in, is he in the starting rotation?
If you want, I mean, if you want to put him there,
I think he is going to be his starter.
Sasaki, I think, is in for now, too.
As a starter?
I think, save that game was bad.
Okay, and what's, what's he at?
It's not giving me, it's giving me TBD here.
You see, on di salad.
Right, they don't know,
well this is the right.
When you check shows up,
I'm on the wrong one.
I don't know.
Because I'm on fan graphs.
I don't like fan graphs.
All right, I want to use whatever it gives us.
So I'm on, I gotta go out and get the
nggakrap part.
To the other guy.
Let's go to the Dodgers.
Oh, Peter wrote back.
What do you say?
I'm right.
I haven't looked lately because I'm fat,
but I'm confident I'm at least 200 pounds.
Yes.
Yes.
All right, so it looks like you have a, is there any?
It's a breakfast.
No, there's no way.
Don't do that.
What?
Don't do that.
Could weigh in.
Why can't I ask him to weigh in?
No, because he's not gonna weigh in right now.
Why?
Why not?
What do you mean?
Why not?
What do you mean?
What do I mean?
Why couldn't he jump on this?
Why is it so outrageous?
Is it outrageous for me to ask him to get on the scale?
All right.
At this point, it is.
He just said I'm sure, but I would like validation.
He just said I haven't got on the scale because I'm fat.
Like, when I look at Peter now, I think like 175,
he's carrying it very well.
It's like it's just trying to further embarrass him.
I'm not trying to embarrass him at all.
I was actually doing him a service.
I thought he didn't weigh a lot.
All right, so I'm gonna give you, here's what I'm gonna give you.
This is the actual, this is actually the money
that's being spent like with tax implications.
So what they're actually spending on it.
Okay.
This is the Dodgers.
This is the Dodgers.
So Otani has all that money that's...
I think Otani's unfair to even incorporate into
what you have.
I mean, it's against their taxes on 46 million.
46.
All right.
So I'll include it.
Otani is 46.
Self-31.
Glastos 27.
Uh-huh.
Yeah, I'm a Motos 27.
I mean, that right.
You're gonna give me Sasaki, did you?
No, that right, just that right there.
Sasaki makes less than a million, it makes 820.
All right.
So I'll put a million for that.
Uh-huh.
Sheen, you wanna give me one more
because we did six with the vet.
Sheen, say the same thing.
So that's a million.
All right.
So RJ, can you add this up?
You have a calculator, you can add this up ready?
Okay, go ahead.
46.
31.
27.
27.
And two.
133.
133.
So the Mets are 77 Dodgers are 133s, is it?
Correct.
Two-star pitchers.
Yeah.
There's a two-star pitchers.
At least.
I mean, it's a big difference.
And they're also big things.
It also allows them to kind of manage their rotation
and manage the amount of endings.
No one that wants to get to the post is
because they already lived that movie.
Right, they already had it where they have,
I mean, they can figure anything out.
Well, but they had to go get,
they wouldn't got Jack Flourty
and they went and they were doing bullpen games.
Right.
And then they figured it out with a great bullpen.
They can wear the great starting rotation.
They bitch anyway, they want to beat you.
Right, they can beat you when they're not the best team.
They can beat you when they're behind in the series.
They are the prohibitive favorites.
I was reading ESPN yesterday
and I think they had like 30,
but maybe we'll get into it a little bit later actually.
They had all the predictions
from all the insiders and experts.
What we'll get into it later is a little fun little exercise.
RJ and I are making our headway
with our overrides.
I saw that.
That was a nice system you guys had.
You like this?
You like that?
Well, because you're here working.
You should see it.
He's leader at the corner.
You heard Jack's last night when he was mic'd up.
Both stealing sides like we do it too.
It's part of the game.
Why would you not?
Of course you're going to do it.
But I don't know how you guys stealing signs benefits you.
If we tell you what we're doing,
what does that benefit you?
Because it's a draft, okay?
So we got a flip of coins to you goes first
and now you could feel my team.
And we're in the same position all over again.
No, we can't.
No, you can't.
You can't do football.
You can't take it.
That's right.
So we're going to take our team
and then you guys can't,
that is off limits to you.
Interesting.
Have you guys even started this?
Yeah, we started it.
Grasso went to sleep early last night
just to be ready.
Said he needed his beauty sleep.
But nine, three.
That's what he said.
Stop it.
The man has rooms.
Okay.
The man has rooms.
I'm going to peel back the curtain.
I'm going to peel back the curtain.
We had the Rangers last night.
Dan Grasso was doing the hosting.
So, you know, go ahead and use that.
Well, what does that mean?
We didn't get done till after 1030, Dave.
But are you guys officially out of the playoffs?
That was the, that was the clincher last night.
Last night was the clincher.
Good.
Good.
I mean, I know you do what it's like
to watch your team and root against them.
Yeah.
It's an awful thing.
Kind of question is that for me.
That's why I said it's probably not a fair comment.
That was a review.
It was rude.
It was on purpose.
It actually was.
It was what he did not.
He knows what he did.
I'm Dave.
You know, the Rangers have played in four of the highest watch, ten highest watch games
this year.
How was that even possible?
I'm just throwing that out there.
Because they're the Rangers, Dave.
That's why.
Well, then you know what they meant?
I make sure that Gavin McKenna winds up in the blue.
I show you guys dinner.
When I went on my little Friday night dinner.
Okay.
Luffy came walking in.
Really?
Yeah.
See, the places you go.
I saw the places that I go.
I was fortunate to get the reception.
I went to the corner store.
Right over here.
Yeah.
I'm telling you right now.
If you can get a reservation there, take share of there.
Is that good?
Start to finish.
It is the greatest meal I've ever had.
All right.
Let's break.
I ate french fries.
I come back.
What was it like?
I haven't eaten french fries in 20 years.
Air fried?
No.
With dipping sauces.
Multiple dipping sauces.
Like a ketchup.
Ah, they had a delicious ketchup.
They had some aoles.
A secret sauce, which was like a big mac.
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They called me.
They called me.
They called me.
They called me.
They called me.
I was like, I'm a man.
I was like, hey.
I'm a man.
You got to walk in like you read a sales convention with a name tag or something.
Yep.
All right.
So go ahead.
What do you say?
So Kyle.
Who I liked.
Yeah.
Well, I guess this could change things.
So he was going through about, you know, what we were doing and he goes, listen, I understand,
like, you know, sometimes when the everyone is is playing up their personality and things
like that.
And, you know, sometimes when you have like the jokester in the like the straight man, right?
Like sometimes you're just kind of classifying what people are the term he used for you as someone that plays off of Rick.
Rick, do you want to tell him the word? No, I think you should do it.
And this pains me. This is verbatim. This is great. He said I know sometimes they play the athlete and the bozo.
That is great.
Oh, no, you mean like bozo the clown. Don't don't get mad at me. Oh, no.
RJ is just a messenger. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. Rick, Rick, can you confirm this is what you heard? I just heard it. Yeah. That guy said this.
This don't don't get mad at me. That's a cowboys fan right there, baby. You know what? And now it all comes full circle.
The athlete in the bozo. The athlete in the bozo. I might get that t-shirt, mate.
That was going to say I see a line of t-shirts. All right. Let's just let's just do the overunders because that doesn't really matter.
Does anything really matter? It explains. I'll tell you what it bozo 10 o'clock is out. It explains the hand-stapping and the farting.
Dang. Can you snap your fingers? Absolutely. I snap my finger. Let me hear. See? He's very good. It's really good.
I'm actually pretty good at snapping. Good. Can you fart with your hands? Can I fart with my ear? Absolutely. Yeah.
It's like a squeezy fart. Yes. Could I hear that? I'm there a little wet. Oh, it sounds like a symphony.
Could we hear that for a second? No, my hands aren't wet. They're cut right. You want to hear mine?
This is watching. Watch this. Tell me that's not unbelievable. That's pozo. Yeah. Well, I know they play the athlete in the bozo.
I didn't say it. You know, but you love it. You eat it right up like like low-main. You know, no, no, no, no, no.
Fine. Whatever. I'll be I'll be your bozo. It's working for you. Great. All right. Dan. Yes. So you know, we're doing here, right? The little overunders.
All right. I've been clamoring for this for three years. Well, you finally got your wish. Stop looking.
Let's try to cheat. The athlete's trying to cheat. All right. So you get you guys want to go first. You want to take picks two and three?
Oh, we're sneaking. No, we're not snaking. We're going one. Then we go two or vice versa. And then we go one, one, one.
So you want one? Do you want two, three? That's a snake. That's not a snake. Yeah, it is. You go one and if you go two, then you take the next pick. That's a snake. That's not a snake. Last pick gets the next pick.
Go. What do you want to do? Dan, what do you want? You want one or two, three?
Uh, let's go. Let's go two, three. We'll go. It's okay. RJ, you want to lead us off here? Since you're, I think the team captain.
Well, you have our picks. You don't know anything of what we're doing. No, I do, but you have them. You have the official. So you're, you're driving. Okay.
We're going to start out in the American League. Okay. And we do look at the American League East as a gauntlet. Yep. And I think the acres are a 90 plus wind team. I think Toronto's going to be very good. I think, uh, we, I should say, I think Boston as well.
That's sold on Baltimore hitting the 85 and a half number. We will take under 85 and a half for the Baltimore Orioles. All right. How do you feel about that?
I don't mind it. We had Baltimore on the under on our list. Okay. Okay. Um, Dan, you want me to make these picks? You want to make the picks? Go ahead. Take one and just get the first one out there. All right. So we are also going to stay in the American League East.
And are not a bozo. RJ is going to love this. We are going to take the New York Yankees over 90 and a half Yankees over 90 and a half. That's right. All right. You feel like you have an advantage because you have the one game in the wind column or no?
Um, 162 and 0. Yeah, when they went all 162 won't be close. They should have just went up after that game last night. You can. Should. What do the Yankees 90 and a half?
90 and a half. Okay. Spice. It wasn't 120 and a half after that performance. All right. Go ahead with your second pick.
Dan, do we really want to do you feel good about this next one? Absolutely. I feel that like I get these the strongest one. I think this next one is the strongest one you like. Absolutely.
All right. This is Dan loves this one. We are going to take the New York Mets over the 90 and a half. That wasn't the one I was talking about. Which one?
No, not too late. Oh, I don't know. No, we don't want that one. The Mets are 90 and a half. No, we don't want that one. No, you want to. You talk about the Dodgers.
That's what I said. And I'm the bozo. Sorry. I'm the bozo. We will take the Dodgers under 102 and a half. Then we like that. Yep. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry.
We did like. I'm a man. I make mistakes. Are you about a clown? Would you like to go? Like I said, you have to do anything. You don't remember anything that we have. You you read them. It's fine. Okay. All right. I just want to be all encompassing. We are a team here. We're going to go to the National League East and maybe it's part hatred. But RJ also jumped on this. We're taking Philadelphia under 89 and a half. We don't think the Phillies get to 90 wins. We will take that in such and that will be win
number two. Philly under 89 and a half. Take another picture. No, we don't. Oh, now we're alternating now we alternate works. Yeah. All right. We are going to go with. We are going to go to the American League. We are going to take Tampa over 77 and a half. You like that one, right? That was that was one of our picks. They very rarely have bad consecutive season. Yeah. And I think that number's low. Oh, that's very unfortunate.
Oh, yeah, see down where we got right in their head. You should see him looking at this. No, that's fine. We're going to stay in the American. RJ, I think we focus on the American League because they've taken one off the board American. We got it. We're going to stay in the American League. The division is not great. We don't love Cleveland. We're going to take Detroit over 85 and a half. Detroit over the 85 and a half. Detroit over. Yeah. Daniel, what would you like to do here? We got two American in one national. Do we want to go national or close up the.
Close up the American. Go national. I like the national one. And I like that under that I told you in the in the East and enemies. All right. We'll take the Atlanta Braves under the 86 and a half. That's another one we had on our list. It's a baby. They're stealing our babies. Yes. I suppose it was getting very upset. All right. Atlanta. I also get upset. This is the greatest thing that's ever happened that he said that. It felt mean. It would. It is and it's meant and it's meant to be mean.
Close up. I think he obviously thought your question was ridiculous. Maybe that's fine. All right. What do we have? We got them in a pro. That's fine. We're going to. Go into the National League. Okay. And we there's a lot of belief in this team. And I think they're good. I think they're better than they've been. We don't believe that Pittsburgh is a 79 win team. So we'll go under these 78 and a half.
But the Pittsburgh pirates. Oh, that's surprising. Yeah. Good. They're surprised. They went under with Pittsburgh then. Not really. I think if you have to roll the dice in your life, depend on it. You probably go that way because it's Pittsburgh. It's one of the proof and they know what the hell they're doing. So you like that pick. I like it. Yeah. Well, here Rick was thinking about going over and I was like, I wouldn't do it my life. So if you're not going to go over, you go under. All right. Here we go. We're going to put a tight a little bow on our American link picks here. If they take our team, RJ, we're going to take the. We're going to take the Sacramento.
A's over the 75 and a half. I don't know that that's going to hit. I don't love that. I was actually I was flirting with the A's possibly, possibly, even as a surprise wild card. You can't go crazy about that. That's it. He loves it. Okay. By the way, Dan, you do realize you're on the hook for a breakfast for you know, but who loves? Is there a person at the studio that loves breakfast more than Dan? Definitely not. All right. We got to move here. We got four in the books. We're going to take. We're going to go America.
We're going to take. We think they're bad. Minnesota under the 72 and a half. Boxing's never healthy. That's just not a great baseball team. I think that's 70 underwind. That's a situation there. Real bad situation. Minnesota under 72 and a half. Daniel, we got one more. Yeah, we go one more. We go one more National League. We like to want. We like the one we picked. Absolutely. All right. Daniel loves it. We're going to go with the New York Mets over the 90 and a half. The Mets and Yankees have the same name.
Number. What it says on that. That's what it says on the Yahoo situation. That's crazy. People like the Mets. The Mets are 90 and a half. Look at that. We got all our picks. That's great. Good for you. Yeah, you did. We got two stolen from us. We're going to go to a team we watched play last night. Offensively. That's just not a very good baseball team. San Francisco 80 and a half. We'll take the under. All right. Good division. Take the under. All right. So you got the twins under Baltimore under.
We got the giants under Billy under Detroit over Pittsburgh under. So mostly unders view. We got four unders two overs. Yeah. Yeah. We got Dodgers under Yankees over Tampa over Atlanta under. A's over and the Mets over. Okay. I hope you're out with the, uh, I mean, too. That's I mean, partly. Just for that. Yeah, existence. All right, Dan. I love you. We got to go. We'll talk to you next week, buddy. Love you guys. All right. There you go. That is the great Dan Grasse. I know you. You and he don't have a great relationship. We're great. Really.
We're back. Thanks for listening to my D. P. H. Rowan, Rothenburg podcast, looking for more access to the show. Why? Because you know why follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook at dr on ESPN. It's opening day. Of course, every show will still be on the ESPN app. And on YouTube, uh, the Mets will be on 880 ESPN, New York, as will the Knicks starting this evening. So very full busy sports day all to college basketball.
Lenders in action as well. Met starting lineup. reads like this leading off playing short Francisco lend or his back, he's healthy. One studio in the left field batting second, Boba,
shet will play third and hit third or a polonco will bat fourth and play first.
Luis Robert Jr. center field bat fifth Brett Bates your DH today, which is interesting
that he's not going to be in the line up defensively, but he'll hit six.
Semi in will he's going to play we could play him at third.
Are they going to? Can I please do this? Okay, but push it to their face. I understand that.
I understand that you can name it first. But polonco was brought into play first.
So what do you want to sound the alarms now? I'm not sending alarms.
But that's what those game one. All right.
Look, can I go through it? Semi in is going to play second and bat seventh.
Benz will hit eighth and play right. Is there a better ninth place hitter in the league than
Francisco Alvarez catching hitting ninth? If he's healthy, he should be good.
And of course, Freddie Peralta will be on the mound.
You don't like the lineup? No, I like the lineup. I don't know. Do I put what? I mean, what?
I'll put bench ninth. Yeah, that's fine. Whatever. Whatever. I'm just on being nitpicky.
Okay, very nitpicky. It's fine. Baseball guy. All I am is a boso. So who am I to judge?
What what you have going there? I don't know. You're you're the you're the athlete.
You're the delicate genius. All right, Ray. Three stars.
Today's three stars. Number three. All sorts of unsettling things today.
What do you belong to? Yeah, really questioning. I could do so many things with both hands.
Like I know you can. You're very proud of yourself. Number two.
And he should be. I have a history with thermometers. And I wanted to know the level of
planliness and what you have to do. He's like, it's so easy. You see what excited he got?
It's so easy. Yeah, Kyle was very excited with your meeting yesterday.
It's a soap water situation. Great. Now I know. Now I know I don't have to, you know,
break out the whatever. Chlorox bleach. Sure. Because that's what you do.
Especially like I have the one who wants it. And because I'm a gentleman, I was like, Rick,
you take it. Well, we're just going to use it. You don't think I would like to feel feverish?
You take the temperature last night? No. Of course, you're not going to use that to take my own
temperature. I'm going to use that to take the temperature. There's two of them. There's only minutes
ago that a troubling, well, fact came out. He said, I know sometimes they play the athlete and
the bozo. Oh, dear. Number one was. It's worse when you hear it another time. It's not good at
any time you hear it. Let me tell you. Also, not good as you wanted Don and Peter to fight.
Maybe they should fight. How do you think that would work? Let's get some big like 16 ounce
boxing gloves and just let them go at it. Yeah, one problem. They're probably not in the same
weight class. I think weight wise they're probably close. No. Yeah. No. You think Peter, I think
Peter's over 200 pounds. No way. No way. Yes. No way. Let's wait you're right now.
Peter did confirm. Oh, Peter wrote back. What do you say? I'm right. I haven't looked lately
because I'm fat, but I'm confident I'm at least 200 pounds. Yes. Great. I thought he was a
skinny man. I didn't realize he was massively obese. You better get to a doctor. What do you mean?
I've got nothing else to add at this point. 5, 8, 2, 12. Is it Alejandro Kirk?
I didn't realize he was so heavy. You've got a problem. You need to clear the stuff. You need to
clear the stuff. And massive is grade three. Morpently, I think. No, you're not even massive anymore.
Carmen lost like 150 pounds. Oh my god. Are you done, Ray? Can we get off the area?
It's rule 76. No excuses playing a champion. It's DPH or on the burger. And the mozo. Here at ESP in
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