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The Bill Simmons Podcast
A highlight from Part 2: Zach Wilsons Alive, Belichicks in Trouble, Buffalos Cruising, and Week 5 Lines With Cousin Sal
"All right. So we're taping part one here. It is a little past 4 o 'clock Pacific time. Just watch the Pats completely shit the bed. We're not going to talk about that. That'll be part two. Part one. Ryan Russilla was here. We're talking Drew Holiday. The big trade. How is the NBA different for you right now, and are we done? Do we finally have the 30 rosters? Is this what we're looking at? Do we know who's going to be on everybody's team, or are we somehow not done? I never think we're done anymore in the NBA, and I know you're being a gracious host here, but you and I talked for five minutes today. I think you have the headline take on this, okay? I think you have the headline take on what the top of the league looks like. Are you ready to share it this early? I think Boston has the best top six. I did not feel that way 24 hours ago. I did not feel like there was a clear best. I trust this team in crunch time, and if Porzingis stays healthy, which is a huge if, I think they have the best six, and they can fill around, and they have the most ways that they can play whoever in the series. So from that vantage point, you had to do the trade. And they gave up a center who has been hurt every single year, and I don't fully trust that he's ever going to be out there when it matters. Brogdon, who was hurt, who was mad at the team, and two picks. And you get Drew Holliday, who was a 2021 Finals hero, who's one of the best defensive guards in the league, who's still really good, and just raises their ceiling. Now you can go white Holliday, Tatum Brown, and a center at crunch time, and you're good. You can switch on almost everything, especially if you get anything from Horford. So were you similarly enthused? Yeah, I love Drew. There's some stuff with his shooting in the playoffs where it's been pretty bad, or you're like, is that just because you can't make shots at the playoffs, or is it just what happened statistically? I mean, it does happen. I mean, if I'm getting the negative parts out of the way, like, yeah, sure, he's a little bit older. The big situation is a huge question mark. I can't believe what they got from Horford last year. So I don't know if you can just pencil that in, because he was way beyond expectations, at least for me, or for what I had for him. But when you can add Drew for those pieces, and I'm with you, when Rob Williams is right, it's really, really nice. But you can even tell when he's out there, you're like, is something wrong with him again? The number of times that I've watched Rob Williams in Celtics games, I'm like, I know he's out there, but wait, something. And every time, I thought Marcus Smart was trying to end his career with some of those Valley U passes, depending on how he lands, like, wait, is this going to be the last one we ever see from him? So to me, it makes a lot of sense. By the way, on that Rob point, my dad texted me after the trade, he's like, oh, I hate giving up Rob. I'm like, you complained about Rob more than anybody I know in my life. You would text me from the games going, oh, Rob's just off in the, Rob just walked in the tunnel again. I don't know what happened. I like just Brian Barrett had a tweet, 32 games, 29 games, 52 games, 61 games, 35 games. Those are Rob Williams' last five years. It just wasn't reliable enough for a team that's trying to win a title. I interrupted you. No, you didn't, because it's a it's a really good point, because what's going to happen? I mean, you know, it's just there's there's definitely like if Prozingis is hurt, it feels like the whole thing is screwed up and there's a really good chance that that could happen. But if you're talking about like the allocation of minutes and the talent that's getting those minutes, well, the talent that's getting those minutes just went up with Drew Holiday. And that's, I think, the simplest way to look at it. So they they turn Marcus Smart and Grant Williams and Brogdon and Rob Williams into Drew Holiday and Prozingis, more Derek White minutes, more Peyton Pritchard minutes. And then there's a little bit of an X factor with who's going to be like that ninth man, tenth man, kind of big four slash five person, maybe, or somebody you trade like that. I feel like that's the easiest position to pick up in January and February. The big thing for me is I think White was ready for a bigger role. I think White and Holiday together is magnificent as a as a backcourt. And I read some stuff today. They think White's going to come off the bench. I don't know if I see that. I think I would come out of the gates with White and Holiday and Tatum and Brown in the center and maybe bring to your Horford point, like maybe bring Horford off the bench and try to really try to rest his minutes during the season and be careful with him and make him a bench player. And then the playoffs reassess. But I think that having those four guys all together, they complement each other so well. You can play basically any kind of defense against any perimeter guy in the league. Those four guys and they're just better. I mean, there's there's just no way around it. They're better. He's a much better player than Marcus Smart was last year. And you know, you made that point about the shooting. He'd have those games. He'd go 5 for 22 in a playoff game. You know, he'd eat. But I do feel like he was asked to do a little bit more than maybe what he's supposed to be doing. I don't feel like he's a pure point guard. Right. Now you have White who can handle most of the ball handling. He could play off the ball and they're going to get the best version of him. Awesome locker room guy, too, by all accounts. I mean, really like a beloved teammate wherever he went. And I think they wanted to change the chemistry a little bit. I think this was an unhappier team than maybe they led on to the outside world last year. Yeah. Look, I definitely like him more than Smart. And you know, to be totally fair, when I'm looking at like the Lillard side of this trade last week before we knew the second piece of Drew and upgrading from Drew to Lillard, I'm going, OK, well, now you're top two in Milwaukee's like in the argument for the best two in the NBA. OK, that's that's really what this league has been about now post the teens decade where it was the arms race for your top three. It's you look around the league, you go, OK, who's got the two best? Like, let's come up with the five teams who have the two best. And with Lillard and Giannis, that's like a whole nother level. So when I was looking at it, it's like Lillard compared to Drew, you know, Drew is not somebody you're expecting to break down a defense off the dribble. Right. Oh, we're stuck into the shot clock, like make something happen where Lillard can literally do anything right in the final second of the shot clock and still you feel like it's still a decent look. So that part of it's a huge upgrade. But he's number three to four as far as an offensive option. He also and I don't know, this is just me talking out loud as I thought about the trade. It's pretty clear that when Boston's offense gets into trouble in the playoffs, like Tatum and Brown haven't figured out a way to kind of unlock it other than just like I can already picture my head like I know what the Tatum move is going to be. I already know what the Jaylen Brown move is going to be. And I don't know if Smart was able to make their life easier with the playmaking. And then sometimes I even think Smart would go like, well, if you guys are going to screw around, like I might just I might just be green light on this possession. I don't think Drew necessarily plays that way. So, you know, it's probably silly for me to think that like Drew is going to be the Steve Nash type who comes in and sets up all these great late playoff possessions. But there may be something in lessening the burden of those guys feeling that they have to do or defaulting to just forcing the issue as much as they do in the playoffs. I like how much ball handling they have, to your point, because they were talking about experimenting a little bit more with Tatum as a point forward this year, which makes me nervous a little bit just because, you know, he's six foot nine. I'm not sure that's the best use of him, but they seem pretty adamant. Like we feel like he could be a little bit more of a creator. And then you think White can do that. To me, White is the key to this season now, because if, you know, other than the Porzingis health thing, which I almost I'm going to knock on wood, but part of the reason they made all this movement and they got rid of Brogdon and Smart was I think they really wanted to push White to be the lead ball handler for them and a creator. And there's some unbelievable pick and roll stats with him. And just if certain people set him a pick in the way, even in the Miami series, he was one of the only guys who could create offense. So I think they have that plus they have Drew. And the reality is for Drew, this is this might be the deepest offensive team he's been on. Right. When you think back to like it was on some pretty weird Philly teams and some pretty weird New Orleans teams, and even when Milwaukee was at its best, it was really just Giannis, Middleton and Drew. And that was it. This is there's more shooting and playmaking around him than I think we've seen. Maybe it'll be a slight upgrade on the flip side. He doesn't have Giannis, who was the second best player of the century, probably, but I like the spot for him. It seemed like he really wanted to go to a contending team and I don't really know who they were competing against because for reading through some of the reports, it just seemed like Philly. I don't even know what the trade was for them. Portland wanted at least one piece back, probably two that they could do their keeper package. They wanted picks back. Golden State wasn't even in it. And it didn't seem like OKC ever threw their hat in the ring, which I was shocked by because I felt like OKC was the sleeping giant of this whole thing with Dort and some picks and just say, fuck it, let's let's see if we can be really good this year. So it seemed like it was down to Boston. The Clippers, they just had more assets. I don't know if Portland keeps Rob. He's on a good contract. They already have Ayton. My guess is that they're probably spinning him. Does it make sense that both of those guys? My sense is they're going to try it out, you know, but, you know, the thing with Rob is like, if you think he's an awesome defensive player that's just out there, like he's awesome when he's used a certain way. And once Boston unlocked that two years ago, where they stuck him on a non shooting big and then you could see other teams adapt to it, it's like, well, let's stop giving them an out where Rob can just roam off of this dude that's not a shooting threat, because I think that, you know, this is just going to turn into like now that he's not here. But I mean, have you listened to us talk about Rob Williams at all last couple of years? He you know, I don't I don't think he's I know what the defensive metrics are. I know the on off stuff. It's a big reason why I think the analytics models always love Boston. Like sometimes you look at him and be like, hey, I think this team's good, but like these numbers are overwhelming. This is like, yeah, it's it's so far like as if there's this huge gap between Boston and everybody else, which I never really felt going back these last two years. But you're if Chauncey Billups and you think like, OK, Rob Williams is going to go out there and like wreak havoc, it's like, well, he has to be used a certain way. So maybe they feel like that's in defensive support to Aiten. And with Aiten, you know, I have I'm not quite sure what to expect. Well, this is the one thing he's probably going to put up huge numbers because he's not going to have older dudes that have a higher status in the league that go, I'm sick of passing it to you. So he's probably going to get more touches. We'll probably see like early Aiten numbers and like twenty to ten for the first six weeks of the season. Yeah, I'm with you. Yeah. Like he'll he'll he'll put up some big numbers there. But, you know, defensively, it's really about his competitiveness because there were times I think going back two years ago when we were thinking about him with that run of the Suns, the finals, you're like, look at this guy. Like he can switch out on the smaller players. You can rotate. But it's all about the way he's wired. And I think long term, unfortunately, like we already kind of know the answer there. Like I don't think all of a sudden now you start playing with some fierceness after being in the league this long. So he was the fifth option on that team and there seemed to be real resentment toward him in that whole Phoenix culture of like, why doesn't he just realize we don't need his offense? We need him to basically rebound and block shots and crash the offensive boards. I think his attitude was probably twenty five years old. I want to be the best player I can be. I already went to a finals. I don't that's not I think I could do more than that. So I don't I don't think anyone was necessarily wrong. As I said, on my Thursday pot, I just hated the trade for Phoenix. I just thought they got the poopoo platter back. You know, they got some some some spare ribs back and a couple of egg rolls and and that's it. But they did not get an entree back. And I think he's an entree on the right team, whether he's a guy that made sense for them. I don't know. But I know that they didn't get a good haul for him. I think Rob, for his contract, for what his talents are, is a really intriguing piece for them or for another team, because you could trade for him. And it's not like a daunting salary. Right. I think he's in what is what is it, like 15 a year or something like that? No, it's a really good. Yeah. I mean, it was a really low cost extension and he's still a pretty young guy. Yes, so.
SI Media Podcast
A highlight from Andrew Marchand on MNF, McAfee, Swift/Kelce Coverage & More
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It's your journey. Welcome, everyone, to SI Media with Jimmy Traina. Thank you so much for listening. The usual periodic check in with Andrew Marchand from the New York Post this week. He joined the pod to talk about a variety of topics in sports media. We get into the ABC ESPN Monday Night Football staggered star double headers. We get into how ESPN and the ESPN and Pat McAfee marriage is going. Deion Sanders stuff. How the media has handled Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey. What's going on with WWE and Monday Night Raw most likely looks like it's going to be on the move. Andrew had some stuff on that. A couple of things about local New York radio. So a bunch of sports media topics with Andrew Marchand on this episode. And then Salicata joins me as he does every week for our train of thought segment. Where we get into some NFL things about the Eagles. Should the NFL ban the Eagles one yard play. Joe Namath and Lou Holtz making headlines. Get into these ridiculous prop bets on Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey. And Sal has a rough Sunday coming up. So if you're a fan of the train of thought segment, you'll want to hear that. Before we get to the full episode. I want you to make sure you listen to past episodes. If you've missed any and make sure you subscribe to us. I media Jimmy trainer. We've had a great run of guests. Kevin Clark from ESPN was on the show last week. Scott Hansen hosted the NFL Red Zone channel two weeks ago. Julian Edelman three weeks ago. Charles Barkley, Peter Schrager, Chris Russo, all recent guests. So if you missed any of those, give them a listen, download, subscribe to the pod and leave a review on Apple. We'll read it on an upcoming episode. All right. Andrew Marchand from the New York Post, followed by Salicata and train of thought. It's all coming up right now, right here. On S .I. media with Jimmy trainer. All right, training me now. S .I. media podcast regular. This periodic visit from the New York Post. And the March and Iran podcast is Andrew Marchand. Andrew, how are you? I'm good. How you doing, Jimmy? I'm good. I just realized I didn't put my phone on do not disturb. So I'm going to do that as we speak. And I'm going to let you know that I had a reader last week for my mailbag column on S .I. com, send it an email and said, when is Marchand's next appearance? So here we go. You made someone happy. Thank you that person. You made someone happy by coming on today. Let's start with this. A lot of media news to get to. Have you heard anything from ESPN or do you have any intel about how they feel about the last two weeks? How the staggered Monday Night Football doubleheader has gone? Because I've gotten a lot of emails and tweets about it. I'm sure you have as well. Yeah, I haven't talked to anybody specifically about how they feel about it. I mean, it is an NFL decision. ESPN is not in control of how those games are scheduled. Maybe they have some say, but it's the NFL decision. Yeah, I don't like it. Actually, in our podcast with John, it was my who's down this week. And the reason I just feel like I kind of said this on our part, it's too it's like having two quarterbacks and you have none. Right. And now if you have Joe Montana and Steve Young, there are two awesome games. Maybe that'd be better. But I just find my attention split and I don't know. And even at like halftime, I wouldn't recommend you go to the other game. Like I get what they're trying to do there, but it's not the NCAA tournament. And usually it's in like the second quarter, third quarter. So I personally don't think it really works that well. Now, I think they want to avoid I'm not positive, but I think they want to avoid that 10 30 late window. We used to get the Monday night and you get the, you know, crazy crew, either Chris Berman or Golick and Greenberg, you know, some of those crews back in the day. They probably don't want that late night game where, you know, you're losing that East Coast audience if it gets too late. But I don't know. I don't think this necessarily works. See, I like it. And what are the tweet? What are the tweeters say? Most people seem to not like it. Yeah. And why do you like it? The more the merrier. Give me as much football as possible. If I can watch eight games at one o 'clock on Sunday and four or five games at four o 'clock on Sunday, I can handle two games on Monday night. So, you know, I have two TVs. I put one game on each TV and two is better than one for me. That's just how I feel. Yeah, I've been a little running around these last couple of Mondays when this happened. So I may be a little bit, you know, my opinion skewed a little bit by that. It hasn't just been like I'm just chilling and watching, been running around a little bit. So perhaps that's, you know, maybe I could be swayed. I will say, you know, I don't know. This is a whole separate discussion. I would love to know your take on this, but I always feel like it's a little tough sometimes to criticize people in this podcast when I also have to book this podcast. So I try to be careful. Yeah, I notice you're very soft. That's what you're trying to say. Sometimes. So I'm sure this guy will never come on again, but they gotta do better than Chris Fowler on the secondary game. Just not, it's just not working. Chris is not a great play -by -player. Right. He was a great host, studio host. Can I say one thing? Yeah. He's on tremendous tennis. Like I watch the U .S. Open every single day. I think he's great on tennis. It's football where it's just something feels off. Well, tennis is also slower. And like you look at people who do really well at the slower sports. Like, you know, Jim Nantz is better than Chris Fowler, but Nantz is really his best thing is golf. And I think he's an OK NFL play -by -player. And at the end of his college basketball run, he was definitely, I don't know, OK is probably, you know, he was OK there as well. And I think if you look at Fowler and his history, now he's been doing play -by -play for a while now. And he has gotten better. Like when he first started on the number one crew, I mean, if I were covering it then, that would not, I probably would not have been that kind. Because he has gotten better, but it's not really good enough. And he's the rare case, I think with Herb Street, that Herb Street makes him better. Usually it's the play -by -player who makes the analyst better. And yeah, I think you're right. And I also think, you know, in fairness to Fowler, you know, ESPN put that crew together. They replaced Levy there and they had a year or two under their belt together as a team. And, you know, not the full team, but him and Riddick, Levy and Riddick, and then Jadolowski. And I think they kind of don't, they underestimate chemistry. It takes time to build it up. And so I think that hurts. And he just, he's a college guy too. It's hard just to come into the NFL. I know he, you know, he's talked how hard his schedule is with the U .S. Open. And then, you know, doing a game a couple days later. And then doing a college. And so, you know, that's hard. And so, yeah, he's not a tremendous play -by -player. To me, this is just me, it felt like when ESPN gave him that gig, it was more about ESPN trying to impress the NFL. Like, look, we have our number one college game. Like you had said earlier, the secondary Monday night game for years was, you know, Golic and Greenberg and Chris Berman with a cast of character. Rich Ryan did it one year. I think this is ESPN trying to say to the NFL, because now they have a Super Bowl and they have this big contract. And, you know, they brought in Buck and Aikman. Like, we're serious, we're going to take our, regardless of what you think about Fowler, he's their lead college guy. So, I feel like they're like, oh, look at us, we're putting the lead when, you know, that. Yeah, I think they screwed up and I think they know they screwed up. I think that they ended up shifting who was in charge of the NFL. It was Stephanie Drewley. And they moved her off the NFL after, you know, I think that didn't help her cause in terms of staying on the NFL. I think they were satisfied with Levy. He was a good guy, which they value. After they brought in Joe Buck, he was very gracious. You know, Levy's a very good hockey guy, especially studio host. I thought he could have, you know, could have been the pregame show on Monday Night Football. He's in, again, not their, in my opinion, they had other people who are better play -by -players for football, but it was good. Like, so, yeah, I don't think it was to impress the NFL. They got Joe Buck and Troy Aikman. They got the Mannings. I mean, they spend, they're spending 50, 60 million dollars a year on their booths. Like, I don't think the second team booth is gonna, you know. If anything, I think it was, there was a thought before Buck and Aikman that Fallon and Herb Street might get the NFL. Might get Monday Night Football. Might get the potential Super Bowl. And then this is kind of a carrot since they didn't get it. But I'd argue, and I even talked to Chris Fowler about this. So, I don't know if this is the case. I just don't know if, I mean, Chris Fowler does the national championship. He does the biggest college game every week for Disney. I can't, like, I get it. Maybe he wanted to do NFL. But is this really gonna satisfy him because you're doing a second game, which generally aren't that great? I don't, I don't see that long -term, personally. And I think also, strategically, if I'm ESPN, I'm putting a young play -by -player. Now, Joe Buck, we both think it's great. Like, he and Ian Eagle are the best two play -by -players going right now. And, um, but, Joe Buck's contract's up in a couple of years. If I'm ESPN, and I, you know, I think they'll probably re -sign Joe Buck, and they should. That said, he makes a lot of money. And, you know, I would be saying, who can I develop? What young guy can I develop? So when I go into that negotiation, I really have somebody who's on the rise. And I can say, hey, look, you don't want this, you know, the 15 million a year? Then we'll go here, you know? But if you start demanding, I'm not saying this is going to happen, but, demanding even more and more money, I'd want an option. I don't think they've created an option. They've actually put somebody in that spot who they've already said they'd rather spend 15 million dollars on Joe Buck than have Chris Fowler as the lead play -by -player. So, I just think negotiation -wise, and strategically, in terms of saving money, it wasn't a great decision. Yeah. I don't understand the insistence on the three -person booth, either. They had Fowler, Greasy, and Riddick. Excuse me, excuse me. Levy, Riddick, Greasy. Now it's Fowler or Lofsky, Riddick. To me, that, and, Fowler's used to a two -person booth with Herb Street. They have Buck and Aikman, which is a two -person booth. I don't understand the insistence on the three -person booth. It's just, for football, it just, I don't get it, but, that's just my - It complicates, it over -complicates it. Yeah. And like you said, chemistry. I think it's much harder to develop a chemistry with three. I mean, you know, the local Mets situation is different with Gary Cohn, Ron Darl - Is it in baseball, is it football? What three men, can you name - I mean, I guess back in the old Monday Night Football days, there were three men booths that had - Yeah, Collinsworth and Aikman with Buck that one year. Yeah, one year it lasted, you know. So, I don't know. But, there's no more staggered double -headers. The next one is week 14, and both games will start at 8 -15. I think that's the one that's going to piss a lot of people off. But, that's a long way down the road. You got the two TVs. Yeah. I asked you if ESPN, how they feel about Monday Night Football. Anything you've heard about how they feel about their new partnership with Pat McAfee. I mean, it's early, but they're bullish on it. I mean, they've kind of handed the keys to the network to McAfee. I mean, you can't - it's kind of like Stephen A. now. You can't really turn on ESPN almost every day except basically Sunday without seeing Pat. And so, you know, I think initially the ratings weren't that good. I think they got a little better in terms of the TV ratings. I think that kind of makes some sense because if you think about it, he was a YouTube show. Yeah, he's got to play for TV. Yeah, and he's still a YouTube show. Well, it is a play for TV because they think that they had Max in there before. They think that the ratings will be high enough that they'll be able to charge more for the ad rates. I guarantee you the money they'll make off of McAfee on social media and YouTube will be 8 billion times more than the money they made off Max Kellerman on social media. Oh, 100%. No, you're right. No, you're right. There's no doubt about that. And look, they want to get, I will say this, like, does it work? I think a lot of times when companies make big moves, you know, big time moves, a lot of times they make those moves when the person's kind of towards the end, you know, they got McAfee on the rise. Like, you know, we, you know, you and I have been aware of McAfee for years now, but he's really like, you know, here, I don't think he's at the plateau, you know, where most people go up and then they plateau and then they go down. He's at, he's still, I think, going up and then maybe the plateau is on the horizon and you can plateau for 20, 25 years if you have the right attitude and personality and just have the right act. So that's where I think that makes a lot of sense as a bet because it's not, I'll hit one close to home, Rick Riley leaving ESPN. I mean, leaving SI for ESPN where, you know, Rick Riley is one of the great columnist ever, but at that point, you know, whatever, maybe it was the internet, I don't know exactly. It just didn't really work as well at ESPN as it did at SI. And so I just think they've done that and that's kind of, you know, teams do that in sports and I think sometimes networks do that. And so I feel like signing McAfee in his mid -30s is kind of like signing a baseball free agent who's in his mid -20s and I think that's what you want to do as opposed to getting a, signing a 35 -year -old and, you know, thinking they can still play, you know, like, I don't know, like a Josh Donaldson, maybe trading for someone like that, Jimmy. You see what I did there? I don't need reminders of the horrific Yankee season. I just did that on purpose. I don't need that. My head was going, who am I going to say? All right, yeah, Josh Donaldson, but it was a treat. Just a, yeah, you want me to say Brian Cashman should be fired. It's amazing too, they replay that. I didn't know this was going to be the situation going into it, but they replay the show as soon as it's over, I think, on ESPN 2 and then they replay it at night on maybe ESPN News or one of their, what you said about if you're going to put on one of the ESPNs at any point in the day, you're going to see Pat McAfee. Yeah. So that's good for him. Like I, you know, people feel like - But I also think, ESPN has to be, they have Aaron Rodgers on their air every week. It's a news making thing that's on their air every week. They've got Nick, he's got Nick Saban on his show every week. Yeah. That's a news making thing every week. I would think ESPN has to be, forget the numbers because the numbers, I think, will be there. It's still a new thing. You have, the ESPN audience is older, the McAfee audience is younger, it might take some, but I would think ESPN just on the brand and the cachet of that show has to be thrilled. I think so. I mean, but if you talk, like I have, again, I'll probably make some calls here in the near future, but so I haven't talked specifically with anybody about that. But generally speaking, when these things first start, everyone loves it. So then we'll see. Again, I'm not saying, I could see it either way. Like, you know, McAfee has not really stayed at any of these, throughout any of these contracts he's had. So that's something to watch. Maybe this one he does, but that hasn't been the case previously. So that is something. I think the fact that he's on game day has to help the relationship there a little bit with ESPN. Here's the thing about McAfee. If you're managing him, in my opinion, and it's like Casey Jones, the former coach of the Celtics, was known for just throwing out the ball and telling McHale, Parrish, and Bird to go play, Dennis Johnson. At least that's how I remember as a kid. That was his reputation. And I think McAfee is sort of like that. Just give him the ball, let him do his thing. He's not looking to, you know, for some strategy. Let's, you know, triangle offense. He's not looking for that. He's looking for, let me do my thing. I know what I'm doing. And the thing about McAfee is he's very smart. Like, I know he plays this, like, he's not smart thing. It works very hard. He works hard and he's very smart. He's very savvy. He acts as if, like, you know, maybe he's, you know, just a dumb jock. But he understands the media business very well. We need, we need to discuss the Kelsey Taylor Swift thing because I actually think it's a legitimate media story. If Fox is going to get these increase in their demographics of the female audience, the young people, the NFL has gone all in on this thing. I mean, they changed their Twitter header to, like, a Taylor Swift thing. They're putting out Travis Kelsey Swiftiest plays on their social media. He's gained, I guess, a ton of followers, the jersey sale. Let me start with this. How did you think Fox handled it on Sunday when she was in the stadium? Do you think they overdid it? Do you think the fact that they had an unwatchable game takes them off the hook? What was your take on the Chiefs -Bears on Sunday when she was there? I think the second part, and I wouldn't take them off the hook, but I think the second part, you have an unwatchable game that you had to switch most of the country out of because it was so non -competitive, that you have Taylor Swift there, it's a big deal. And, you know, there's a lot of Taylor Swift fans who are football fans, a lot of non -Taylor Swift fans who weren't watching that game, but it was a talking point, right? Like, I saw Taylor Swift in the concert this summer, but that was kind of - Look at you! Yeah, how do you like that? Look at you! You couldn't even get tickets. Big shot. Where'd you get tickets? My daughter's friend just won the lottery. No shenanigans. Oh, really? Tickets were $235 each, which is still a lot of money, but not, like, $1 ,000. And it was just kind of happenstance, how I ended up going. I was going to say, if your daughter's friend got tickets, how did you end up at the era's tour? I mean - Were you, like - It's just a long drive to get to the metal lands, didn't want them driving back. They're older, they can drive, but at, you know, one o 'clock in the morning from Taylor Swift, so - But you were in MetLife and watched the show. Yes. Friendship bracelets? Well, you want to know something funny? This is a good one. So, my daughter's friend said to me, do you want a - do you want a jewel? And I'm like, no, no, no, I'm okay. Thinking she's saying a jewel, like a jewel, smoke. But she was saying, like, to, like, get bedazzled, a little jewel, which I would have taken. So later, I was like, I told my daughter, I said, but your friend, she said she asked me if I wanted a jewel. She's like, no, no, she didn't say you wanted a jewel. She said, do you want a - a jewel to put some ju - you know. Right. I didn't have any bracelets, but I was into - I liked Taylor Swift. I wouldn't go again. I kind of felt bad being there, because there's people who give their left arm to be there. But it was - look, she is an unbelievable performer. I mean, it was - you could - first of all, I liked some of her songs. Secondly, the level of performance. It was just, you know, it was an A+. I mean, that - that - and that is something, even if you didn't like her music, you can appreciate it. And also, I appreciate it if I had to go to the bathroom. Easy pass right in there. No one. Right. No one's leaving their seat except for people like you who aren't in it. Yeah, and especially, yeah, and more skewed women.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A highlight from A Dallas Letdown, Taylor Swifts KC Date, Clevelands Crazy D, Chicagos Agony, and Week 4 Lines With Cousin Sal
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So that's where we're doing one of my favorite movies the last 40 years. Stay tuned. Coming up next, we had an action packed loaded week three. We're gonna talk Taylor Swift, Travis Kelsey. We're gonna talk about Miami putting up 70. Sal's team losing. We're gonna introduce a new character, parent corner. Sal sent his kid to college. Oh man, this is almost two hours. Let's get to it. First pro jam. Let's get to it. All right, taping this a little after 8 .30, Sunday night Pacific time. The hardest word come in and show business is here. Cousin Sal just watched Pittsburgh Vegas, a bizarre game, but we're not starting there. We're starting with your team. You're stupid cowboys. You compliment me and now that I see what you did here. Okay, all right. Your stupid team that I thought I could throw into a little 11 and a half Arizona, like throw a bit. All they had to do was run by two and a half. I had a FanDuel boost. I had real life money. I had a million dollar pick and it's like, of course they'll beat the Cardinals by two and a half. Rahim thought the Cardinals were tanking. No, no, that's not what happened. And now you're containing cowboys. They couldn't even make it to my birthday before they fell apart. They couldn't even make it to the end of September. Was that the goal? I guess had they known your birthday was a Monday. Yeah, they might've stuck around. I know, I know. I don't know what to tell you. It sucked. I had it tied to everything too. I had an Oregon this and the Chiefs this and the 49ers and the Cowboys and everything. And I didn't even care that they had three, essentially three offensive linemen out or that Trayvon Diggs got hurt. Not that I didn't care, but I didn't think it would affect this game. And then they just got, they went out there and got their asses kicked. 13 penalties and didn't force any turnovers and couldn't do shit in the red zone. And of course it's a double digit loss, jerks. I kept, I had in the back of my head Rahim's theory that the Cardinals were tanking and that they were only playing one, a good first half. And then they would throw away the second half because their real goal is Caleb Williams. So at halftime, I'm like, I'm not going to panic yet. Maybe the Rahim's theory, no. The Rahim's theory was not true. The Cardinals actually played really well. And your team, I will say, look, this happens sometimes. Usually it doesn't happen in week three. It happens later in the year. But the team that is getting smoke blowing up their butts, they have this easy game and say, oh yeah, we're going to Arizona. It's going to be half Dallas fans. This will be a layup for us. So we've seen this scenario, just not this early in the season. What worried me though, from a Dallas standpoint, forget about the offensive line and the blocking stuff. Cause you'll get those guys back. But you do seem to have like third and seven, third and eight if Lamb is covered, where do you go issued? Like, you know, not everyone has the Kelsey type, but you don't have the Devontae Adams. You don't have really any of those guys. You don't have that big physical tight end in the middle. You don't have the awesome, you know, James White type third down running back who's going to get open. And you could really feel it in the red zone. They were one for five in the red zone today. Yeah. I mean, you know, what's his name? The tight end who went to Houston, I already forgot his name from Dallas last year, was our second lead. Schultz was our second leading receiver last year. So yeah, there is something to be said about that. And I do want to put it in proper perspective. If the Eagles lose to Tampa Bay, which is a possibility tomorrow, the week is a wash in the NFC East, right? That means everyone will have lost. So I don't want to get too crazy, but it did expose, you're right, everything I always worry about. Can Dak come up with a big play down the stretch? You know, are these injuries too much to overcome? And Mike McCarthy in that play calling, it really seemed like we were up 12 points trying to bleed the clock, not down 12 points. And it's like, oh, maybe he's just afraid to throw it. And then when we saw, he threw into three defenders and you cleverly quipped, how did they know which of the three were to intercept it? Yeah, that was kind of wrenching. That was an angry text to yours. I was just angrily texting. Like it was your fault that I was losing all my teases. Yeah, he just threw into three guys on one of the biggest plays of the game. Complete panic throw.
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A highlight from The Floundering Pats, Lamars Big Day, the Struggling Wilsons, and Guess the Lines With Cousin Sal
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A highlight from The Debut of NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube
"Welcome everyone to SI Media with Jimmy Traina. I am your host, Jimmy Traina. Thank you so much for listening. Bonus episode, bonus podcast on this Monday after the first Sunday of the NFL season. We had the debut of NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube. It was on DirecTV for like 25 years. Now it's on YouTube. And Sal Licata, who joins me every week for Train of Thoughts from WFAN in New York and SNY TV in New York, joins me where we share our experiences with Sunday Ticket on YouTube, getting it set up, what we thought of it, full review, full breakdown of everything, what you need to know about it, what their differences are if you have YouTube TV, if you have cable, full breakdown of everything all related to NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube. That's what this pod is with Sal. It's like a full -blown Train of Thoughts. So listen to Sal and I discuss it, come back later in the week for a regular episode. If you missed any recent episodes, check them out. Last week, Julian Edelman was on. He was great. Just joining Fox had some great Brady and Belichick stories. Charles Barkley was on recently, Peter Schrager, Chris Russo. Check all those pods out. Subscribe to SI Media with Jimmy Traina. And this is one of two episodes this week. All right, let's get to it now with Sal. Full episode here on NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube. All right here right now on SI Media with Jimmy Traina. Welcome everyone to SI Media with Jimmy Traina. Thanks for listening. Bonus episode this week. This will be one of two. We're taping this on Monday after the first week of the NFL season, the debut of the new Sunday Ticket on Yahoo, on Yahoo. What a dope. On YouTube, on YouTube, I had to get on with Sal and we're just gonna riff about our Sunday Ticket experiences in week one. Sal, how are you? I'm great and I'm excited to have this conversation with you because we've had this many times over the years at dinner, at our houses, whatever, discussing this exact thing. And we both, I know, had great experiences yesterday. So I'm looking forward to talking about it with you. Well, let's start with this. There are many, many train of thought segments on this podcast over the last three months where you said you were not going to get Sunday Ticket. You were not going to get it. You're just focusing on the New York teams. And then I got the text message. Let's see here if I can find the text message. Even, even early, I noticed you were starting to cave a little bit earlier this week. Actually, 9 .34 a .m. on Sunday, I'm still on the fence. And then at 10 .45 a .m., the text came in from Sal. I'm in. It's like Michael Jordan returning to the NBA. I know. I thought about writing to you. I'm back. I was thinking about it as the week went on. I told you, like, because of the lineup with the playing Giants Sunday and the Jets playing Monday, that to me made it worse. Or you were saying, oh, well, you're going to have the national games. Yeah. But knowing that I didn't have to watch those games at that time made it more appealing for me to get the get the Sunday ticket. So I kind of thought I'd be going that way. And then Sunday morning I was like, fuck it. Let me just get this thing in. It's worth the money. Let me see what it's all about. And is it great. So so let me do a little preamble here before we get into it, because I want to say this and let me know if you agree, disagree. But before we even discuss this, I think what we need to establish is this. How you feel about Sunday ticket, whether it's direct TV, YouTube, the changes or it's it's going to depend on how you watch football, number one, and it's going to depend on what services you have. Now, for instance, Sal has direct TV. I have I don't have direct TV. Oh, oh, you have optimum cable. Correct. OK. Optimum cable. You were scamming the direct TV Sunday ticket all these years. That's right. All right. I did have direct TV. Right. And this is an important part of it. I don't want to gloss over it. And then I moved into the city and I was not allowed to get direct TV. So what they did was allow me to stream Sunday tickets. So I have been able to stream Sunday ticket for several years. So whether you have optimum like Sal, I have Verizon, Fios. Some people have direct TV. Some people don't have any cable. They have streaming services. That's a factor in all this. And then the other thing that I think added so much confusion over the last couple of weeks and is early yesterday there's also this huge Sunday ticket is different based on whether you have YouTube TV or you're just using YouTube. Now, Sal and I both have cable, so we're just using YouTube. If you have YouTube TV, the experience is different. So there's a lot of layers to this. It's very convoluted. I'm going to do my best to try to break it down for you now. So the biggest thing is this. If you have YouTube TV, you're good to go with Sunday ticket with your in -market and out -of -market games. You have nothing to worry about. If you don't have YouTube TV, like Sal and I, you're not getting the local market game. So on Sunday here in New York, Steelers, Niners was on Fox at one o 'clock. Browns, Bengals was on CBS at one o 'clock. Those games are not part of our Sunday ticket packages on YouTube. If you have YouTube TV, they were. So if you don't have YouTube TV and you just have YouTube, you have to have more than one television. I think if you want to watch all the games, if you care about one team, you're fine. You really do need to have two TVs because what I did was I had on my big TV, the multi -view with the four games. And on the second TV, I had one of the local games because that's how you have to do it. So, so far I weigh in on what I've said so far. Yes. Okay. Question here. Number one, if I had YouTube TV, do I then get the local games as part of the game mix? Yes. Oh, shit. See, so I may consider then, I don't know if I'm realistically going to do it, but that to me is like the number one thing that's been missing forever on the prior service. And now that I cannot have, because like you, I like to have the game mix and the four box grid, but it automatically takes out whatever local game is on. And I hate that. So here in New York, we could not get a four game multi -view that had either Steelers Niners or Browns Bengals in it on Sunday. Cause those are in market games. So there was no multi -view whether it was four games, three games that had those games in it. If you had YouTube TV, those games were part of the multi -view. So you, so you, so you would consider getting rid of optimum and getting YouTube TV. Well, I didn't know that that was the case. I mean, I probably, truth be told, I'll never be a cord cutter, but if I were to get it in addition, it might be worth it at least just for the season. Now I screwed up because I bought the ticket. Although I guess you have this period now where it's kind of, um, you know, the tree trial period and I can make a decision at the end of the week, but, uh, I'd rather than go back and get the ticket much cheaper if you buy YouTube TV, I think. Right. You know, YouTube TV is like $80 a month. It's like a cable service.
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A highlight from A Niners and Cowboys Party, Tyreek Runs Amok, Six-Man Booths, Four-Box Bliss, and Parent Corner With Cousin Sal and Jimmy Kimmel
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Hey, can I let you in on a little secret? I'm obsessed with the drop app. Drop makes it so easy to score free gift cards just for doing my everyday shopping at places like Ulta, Sam's Club and Lyft So if you're like me and love a good shopping spree Download Drop today and join the secret club of savvy shoppers and use my code GETDROP999 to get $5 AI has the power to generate solutions But if it's using unverified data, it could generate problems. Your business doesn't just need AI It needs the right AI for your business Introducing Watson X, a platform designed to multiply output by tailoring AI to your needs. When you Watson X your business You can train, tune and deploy AI all with your trusted data Let's create the right AI for your business with Watson X. Learn more at IBM .com slash Watson X. IBM Let's create Welcome everyone to SI Media with Jimmy Trainor. Thank you so much for listening. Big show this week We got the start of the NFL season. So we have Julian Edelman, Super Bowl champion, obviously from the Patriots and he is joining Fox's pre pregame show It's Fox NFL kickoff 11 a .m. Eastern, 8 a .m. Pacific. He's now part of that crew. So Julian talks about Going into TV going into media joining Fox great great stories about Belichick Brady Gronk talk about betting Some other NFL news with Edelman following Julian SI media Podcast regular John Oran joins the show to talk about the big dispute between spectrum cable and ESPN Disney Which is really ESPN 15 million cable subscribers do not have ESPN right now because of this dispute No one better to break it down than John Oran. We also get into Sunday Ticket on YouTube and College football ratings and a few other things with John and then train of thoughts with Sal Acada closes out the show We go through some week one NFL betting lines Talk about the US Open and some other things with Sal So we have all that coming up before we get to it real quick If you missed it last week over the Labor Day weekend We dropped a pod last week Greg McElroy from ESPN and comedian Jared Freed with the guests two weeks ago Charles Barkley Feedback's been phenomenal. If you missed it, make sure you check it out Peter Schrager three weeks ago Chris may have dog Russo four weeks ago So if you missed any of those check them out in the archive subscribe to SI media with Jimmy Traina and leave a review on Apple we're definitely gonna read those next week All right, Julian Edelman followed by John Oran followed by train of thoughts all right here right now on SI media with Jimmy Traina Alright joining me now Super Bowl champion and now in the media. He's joining Fox's NFL kickoff, which is at 11 a .m. Eastern every Sunday little pregame action Julian Edelman Julian, how's it going? Going well, how are you doing? I'm doing well. I'm doing very well cuz football is here. So it was back Thank God is fully back. I Mean, I wish I wish the trends Kelsey wasn't hurt because I feel like that takes a little bit away from the opening game But it is what it is If you look at it though over the last However, many years the Kansas City Chiefs have been on this run. They've had relatively pretty decent help Throughout their whole thing. I mean they left they lost the left tackle in the Super Bowl That's why they lost against, you know, Brady they couldn't protect Patrick Mahomes but it's it's getting to that time in their Era it where gets hard, you know being a guy that's been on one of those teams a dynasty. They're not there quite yet but uh You know, they're well on their way if they could stay healthy and you would know better than anyone about dynasty So when would you say they're there? How many would they have to win before you say they're a dynasty everyone knows it's three Okay, I don't know what's going on. Everyone keeps on talking like oh This is you you into no, it doesn't matter if you get to the Super Bowl We went to eight straight AFC championships or something like that. Like you got to win three to get to be in Cowboys previous Patriots Niners Steelers It's not two. It's not two So tell me I want to get into your Fox gig and transitioning to meeting that since we're on it It's a good topic because I'm just curious because one of the things I'm looking at is someone who's scouting Over -unders to bet and and you know who's gonna win the AFC and stuff like that The I Motivation shouldn't say the motivation. I mean, I think the motivation is there even if you win But is it difficult or how difficult is it after winning two like they've won? It's very difficult To get geared up every Sunday, you know people don't realize How hard it is once you go out win a Super Bowl Okay, now they have two that when you win that first one you become a target everyone circles you on the schedule You win another one now everyone circling now now Divisions and conferences are designing their teams to beat you. So it gets harder and harder and as an individual player You know Your motivation you have to pull what what's motivating you because natural human instinct you're like You know, we got this we're good and then you know something happens you have injuries here an injury They're a player doesn't sign back because no two teams are the same. It's a new team every year. So it's very hard mentally To keep it going, you know And you have and they have a leader in Patrick Mahomes that can do that We had Tom Brady Tom Brady was always always on he was like he was always motivated So that gives you hope for the Kansas City Chiefs because they have such a great player and Patrick Mahomes who's their leader You know their best player is is their quarterback is their leader and the way he is is huge. Do you think? the intensity to beat the Chiefs to throne the Chiefs is Similar to what you guys experience and I ask you from this standpoint and I hope you don't take offense to this But I feel like I feel like the Chiefs are not hated in any way I'd feel like no one dislikes Mahomes No one dislikes Andy Reid you guys and I think it was mainly because of your success But there were people who didn't like Tom for whatever reason there was the ridiculousness with the flake eight the stupidest thing ever people didn't like Belichick, maybe You guys I don't think we're like Completely beloved whereas KC seems like I don't know who maybe people are sick of Travis Kelsey a little bit Like our teams you think is amped up to beat the Chiefs as they were you guys I Think the games changed the player has changed Just as an overall, I mean we look at games nowadays you got guys over here You know dapping up helping guys back back when we were playing the Jets when I first got in the league Bart Scott was mother -effing Billy O 'Brien on the sideline guys were fighting before, you know, it's just it's kind of changed And it could be for good or could be for bad. That's for weather for everyone else to determine But and also, you know, the Kansas City Chiefs that the Patriots were on it for 20 years Okay, like when I got there they already had three Super Bowls and they were on a little drought, you know But they were still winning, you know, they went 7 16 and oh they you know 14 win seasons they were still putting out big winning seasons for a long a longer time and You know the Chiefs just haven't been there I'm so I'm sure the Chiefs keep on doing well that people are gonna start hating them too, you know, yeah. Yeah The I want to get into some other stuff about the Patriots and and Belichick and Brady and but let's talk about you going to Fox you did inside the NFL. I enjoyed you on there I wrote that a couple times for SI. Now. You're gonna be on the Fox NFL kickoff show. It's remarkable I don't know if you've seen it Maybe you just know it off the top of your head because you friends with all these people but it is remarkable how every patriot is in media now is on TV, you know, you've got the McCordy's Gronk is part of the Fox family. Everyone knows about the Brady situation McGinnis the TV Bruschi It's like if you're on you were part of our Patriot team good love winners. Yeah people love winners Yeah, and they hate them so, you know you get a little bit of both They're either gonna love your hate you but they're gonna watch you It's like you had no choice but to go into TV basically after after all it's it's I don't know it's uh, You know when you play for an organization like New England and You've had the success that we had over the years that we played, you know It opens up a lot of doors and it's plain and simple. That's that's really what it is The the sacrifice and the efforts that we put into our career helped us after our career and a lot of guys you know, they have that hard work mentality that still want to stay in the game, but may not want to be coaches and And that's what media is, you know, that's what I feel. You know, I get my football fix by Going into a pre -production meeting and I haven't done it with Mike Vick or Charles Woodson or Chris and Thomas or Peter Shrager But you get your football locker room kind of vibe when you do those like when I was on inside the NFL I'm sitting there talking with Phil Simms Patrick, uh, you know, Brandon Marshall Michael Irving, Ray Lewis, James Brown and you have these These meetings where you just get to sit and talk football It's before you go on the lights are shining but you sit and you're talking stories You're breaking football down with people that play football So, I think that's a huge probably reason about it and you know, it's not you know We're used to putting in these crazy hours 14 -hour days Seven days a week don't get this year family and media, you know, like you got to do your homework You got to you got to watch all the games, but you know, we can still have a life outside of it, you know These guys are going coach. I mean people always ask me. Why aren't you in coaching and I go You know, I did my time Like I put my my 12 13 14 hour days in and when I would leave work I would see coaches families in the parking lot Seeing the coaches before they would go to bed because they still had another three hours. I ain't doing that Yeah, you know and then if you go somewhere else where it's not like that Then I'm mentally all messed up because well, there's some people that are doing it, you know So it's just I like I'm happy or I'm mad. I'm excited to go out and entertain and talk my knowledge When you were playing and you're playing days towards the end of your career Did you think you would get into TV or did you not think about it while you were playing? I Didn't necessarily think I'd become an analyst and do what I'm doing right now I always enjoyed creating content You know whether it was our YouTube videos our Instagram videos and all the content we build on J around je11 You know that was booming with with the Patriot nation that would always support, you know I always I found a niche in that and and I enjoyed that process of creating content going in and sitting in a you know in a editing room and and Filming up all this stuff and thinking it's gonna be terrible and then cutting it down and then you know having all your other team Because there's a team of people, you know That put put the work in to to get this good content out and I enjoyed it So I didn't know it was gonna be to the extent of what I'm doing right now but I knew you know, I was comfortable in front of a camera and you know, I know I faced for radio, but Thank God I won a lot of games Had it and just tell me were were there other networks like in the running to get your services Was it just Fox like I'd end up at Fox why Fox? Tell me a little bit about joining I want to say any other names there were, you know There was another network that was involved and I sat down and I thought Fox would be perfect You know, I got a couple teammates there with Gronk Brady You know, I'm really excited to get to hang out with you know Charles Woodson and in talk football with Mike Vick and Chris Thompson Peter Schrager and you know Fox is like a If you know the story behind Fox, I mean they were created as This little small sport network with John Madden.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A highlight from Part 2: Guess the Lines Week 1, Plus Favorite NFL Futures With Cousin Sal
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A highlight from Part 1: The Annual NFC Over/Unders With Cousin Sal
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The Bill Simmons Podcast
A highlight from The Annual AFC Over/Unders With Cousin Sal
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We have a great show this week We have two guests Greg McElroy, who was just promoted to ESPN's number two booth for college football We'll be working with Sean McDonough calling a national championship playoff game This season comes on to talk about the upcoming college football season get into his broadcasting career stuff with Alabama Sleeper team, sleeper quarterback, new rule changes So we do all that with Greg and then comedian Jared Freed who has a Netflix special out called 37 and single joins the pod to discuss life as a comedian Shaping his act. He's a big sports fan talk about if Bill Belichick is funny and The business of being a stand -up comedian working with Netflix and stuff like that. No Sal this week He's off for the Labor Day holiday weekend. He'll be back next week as we kick off the NFL season and Obviously last week Charles Barkley was on the podcast the feedback on that was tremendous. You guys couldn't have been nicer really appreciate it I will get in depth on the Charles Barkley podcast next week when Sal is back because there's a lot to discuss there But really appreciate all you guys listening in the nice feedback. Also Peter Schrager and Chris Russo won in recent weeks So if you missed any of those episodes go into the archives check them out Subscribe to SI media with Jimmy Traina and leave a review on Apple. We're gonna read them next week Alright Greg McElroy from ESPN on college football followed by comedian Jared Freed all right here right now on SI media with Jimmy Traina All right joining me now. He is the new number two analyst for ABC's PN's college football coverage this year I'll be working with Sean McDonough placing Todd Blackledge is off the NBC Former Alabama quarterback Greg McElroy Greg. How's it going? Congrats on the new gig? Thank you guys so much Glad to be with you guys I've listened for a while you guys between all the media podcast always enjoy how you guys cover Cover the world before I even got into it. I was into it. So it's like this it's addictive, right? It's addictive the sports media world, but you guys do an amazing job. So happy to be joined with y 'all Thank you very much. Appreciate it. And I mentioned you're gonna be working with Sean McDonough this year Sean I'm a big fan of Sean. I've had him on this podcast. We we had some fun with his famous voice cracks Tell me about working with you know, Sean who's done this for so long has done every sport He's done World Series. He's done the NFL obviously Icon on college football tell me about the season going into it with Sean McDonough on ESPN. Well, I'm really excited I think Sean is just phenomenal. I mean, it's just a complete legend and in some ways, you know, I When you're playing or when you're watching as a fan at least for me, I was almost oblivious to the To the names and the and the faces that were on television Of course, I grew up with you know, watching NFL football as a diehard cowboy fan So I was you know Pat summer all and and listen al Michaels and and all the others that have kind of graced the television screen but I I recognized voices before I recognized names and as soon as I became more aware of this side of The game broadcast as soon as I heard Sean McDonough's like, oh my gosh, I've been listening in my whole life To be able to I've only done one game with him and it was the national championship game and we did the radio call 2021 would have been the year and it was Alabama against Ohio State and I was nervous wreck I mean, I'm going and working with a guy that I've been listening to for 20 years 25 years knowingly And I'm like this guy's a legend I just want to get out of his way like I just don't want to mess this up because I've aspirations maybe one day down the road working with him and He couldn't have been more gracious. He couldn't have been more understanding. I was a little anxious I'd never been on a call for a game of that magnitude Either as far as the radio is concerned, but he was amazing and I'm just so grateful to to him and him Welcoming on to the team and they've been together for a long time and look Todd Blackledge. I've said this For a long time. I think he's the best the best guy doing what we do. I think he's just amazing and I've always looked up to him. I've always really admired how he calls the game and I've always appreciated very much all the things that that he kind of Interjects into the game and and just the perspective that he brings so replacing him is as an impossible feat But I'm gonna do the very best that I possibly can It's a big promotion because the number two team which is which is you and Sean gets to call one of the playoff games Around New Year's when that takes place On TV, so it's a big assignment you guys I should have mentioned at the top You have North Carolina South Carolina for week one and your first game together for the season We talked about Sean you're coming off a season where you work with Joe Tess who also in college football circles is one of those guys that viewers and fans Are big big fans of because of his exciting ways Tell me, you know now that you're moving on here. What was like working with Joe Tessitore in the past Well, I've been really lucky The Joe and and Dave Pash who I was with prior to that are two of my best friends Dave Pash is like my older brother. Like I didn't know anything about anything As it comes to calling a game if not for Dave Pash and Brian Ryder I would not at all ever be in a position to have found any level of success in this profession But they really showed me the ropes and took me under their wing and then three years ago I was fortunate to to be aligned with Joe and What I love so much about Joe is the passion and energy that he calls the game with he lives that Way all the time and the guys bouncing off the walls in the booth in the pregame Hitting me talking to three times a day on Monday Tuesday Wednesday and our week leading up as far as prep is concerned like he consumes college football 24 -7 365 I mean every podcast I do he's listening has comments has critiques has Has his own opinions that he wants to weigh in him. He is just an all -knowing consumer So it was a blast to work with him and we've developed such a close relationship I Joe love and I love Dave and and I love Scotty Matthews our producer last year who is just an amazing amazing person and Kim Belton who worked with us a few years back as Well, so I've been really really lucky to be around people that taught me to do it the way I think is the right way Everyone's got their own way of preparing for a game Everyone has their own way of calling a game and when to when to speak when to lay out But I've been very fortunate to been surrounded by very talented people that have helped me understand the dynamic of How to present a game and I've had Drake great truck support as well to kind of help me Figure out the best way to plan a review or a replay sequence or maybe do some art or some Telestrations things of that nature. So whether it's Joe or the or the truck the last few years with Scotty and Jeff for Dave and Ryder and Ryder's of course can be doing some Monday Night Football games now. It's a super pump for him I've just been very very lucky and and very very fortunate. I think Dave Pash is the most underrated play -by -play guy in He's phenomenal. He's And I love hearing that Joe Tess is Wacky, even when the mics are off before a game. I love hearing that that you know, it's the same energy Let me get I just want to be clear about something because I've messed up with math before on this podcast I I once called Roman Reigns 43 when he was 33, which I still saw what you're 35 I am yes, and you've been doing games for nine years This is year eight. Yes, you're gonna see I told you I would mess it up Okay, I was pretty close to be on I've said seven. So I've messed it up. You're not wrong It's my own once you get going. Yeah, my ultimate point is you started doing TV at 27, which is pretty young I think well, what do you remember back when I mean when you started out? How raw were you? How green were you? Did it take you a long time to get I mean because I think 27 is pretty Young to be doing TV. Well, it's it's really young when your NFL career is a dud But I feel like I didn't play as long in the league as I would have liked if I could have started at 33 after 10 years in the show, I would have been perfectly okay with that as well But I knew very quickly when I was wrapping things up in the league I probably could have grinded out a couple more perhaps But I was kind of looking at through the prism of I can start my next life now With the launch of the SEC Network and be aligned With a company at ESPN that I knew would cultivate and help us figure out how to do television It was the right time to go. I was still under contract with the Bengals when I agreed in principle with ESPN and Inevitably was in studio at first which I thought was a really good way to kind of get my feet wet and Understand just kind of the nuance of television lingo how to read a rundown how to Do the telestrator in the studio and more of a controlled setting? So if we busted something, it's like well, let's re rack it Let's go. Yeah, that was Comforting and and figuring out your cadence and your tone the following year Called a game that year but it was Lamar against Texas A &M a very forgettable game Jimmy if you didn't watch that one I'm not sure how you missed it. Well, I'm a better so I'm sure the line was about 50 So that'll that's all I need to know if it was that match I think you could have laid the points comfortably and come away a winner in that one. It got a little sideways Then the following year kind of had the perfect blend of studio and game by doing the SEC nation show With Joe Tess I might add so already developed a bit of a rapport with him and Kind of got to feel the energy of the crowd and the fact that yes, it's structured to an extent But you also kind of have to play to the audience some a little bit like doing a game It was almost the perfect blend and then in 2016 after a couple of games that I did in 2015 That's when I was given my first booth Alongside Dave Pash and I remember right out of the gate. Our first game was Houston and Oklahoma It was like number 11 against number four and I was a nervous wreck I mean just to complete I'm like, I'm gonna if I screw this up It's the last year my deal like I'll just be out and you know, go do whatever it is I need to do so I was a wreck and was very nervous. How long did it take you to get comfortable? Last year, maybe yeah, really For real I have I have butterflies before the game that are very comparable to when I played Still get them will always get them probably and I hope I do because that's part of what I love so much about doing this Job is that it is as close to being in the action as close to being a coach as close to being a player is any other professions In the industry, so I really enjoy it, but it probably took me. I was remarkably over prepared as Far as my week of prep is concerned all -consuming Totally dialed in I knew everything you need to know about the backup snapper you know to the point where it's like this is just I'm getting 2 % of my pregame prep into the show and it was almost it weighed me down some and I was trying to force things in so I Scaled back a lot over the course of a couple years to the point where I could be more efficient with my preparation Understand the things that I write down and notes that I take what's going to make air what might not what will benefit and allow? Me to have strong opinions on the air, even though it it might not necessarily come out exactly as I write it down I'll have a better fundamental understanding of what this team does and why they do it so I would say as far as my week of prep is concerned took me three years probably and then to get Really really comfortable and just having my voice and knowing when to go when to lay out when to allow the crowd to speak on Your behalf when to allow the players to speak on your behalf and to let my play -by -play guy really run with it I would say probably the last three years when I really started to hit a groove.
SI Media Podcast
A highlight from GMFB's Peter Schrager + Traina Thoughts
"He'll forget about the video game you gave him on his birthday. Wow! Thanks, Grandpa! But he'll never forget how you invested in his future with the U -Nest app. Wow. Thanks, Grandpa. The U -Nest app makes it easy for grandparents and family friends to give funds to a child's investment account for a limited time. Download the U -Nest app and use the code IHEART50 at sign up to receive a $50 bonus when you fund your account. That's code IHEART50 when you sign up at UNEST .CO for a $50 bonus. See terms and conditions at UNEST .CO. IBM. Let's create. What if I told you there was more to the story behind game -changing events? Get ready for my new podcast, That Moment with Daymond John. Every Tuesday on the Black Effect Podcast Network, we'll jump into the personal stories of some of the most influential people on the planet, from business moguls and celebrities to athletes and artists. Join me every Tuesday for That Moment with Daymond John on the Black Effect Podcast Network, the IHEART Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you go to get your podcasts. Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there. Welcome, everyone, to SI Media with Jimmy Trainor. Thank you so much for listening. Had a week off last week during a little summer, but appreciate everyone coming back. This week after the week off, we have the great Peter Schrager from Good Morning Football and FOX on the show this week. Football quickly approaching, get into a lot of stuff with Peter about the upcoming season. Big media changes in terms of TV, broadcast stuff, Peter's crazy schedule, doing Good Morning Football every morning, Monday through Friday, and then off to California for FOX. So great stuff with Peter Schrager, always a great guest. And of course, following Peter, we have Salicata and Trainor Thoughts this week, where we get into a variety of topics, including the scandal with The Blind Side, a little bit of the Johnny Manziel documentary, talk about some NFL win total over -unders with Sal and much more. So Peter Schrager followed by Salicata on this episode. Quickly, if you missed it, two weeks ago, last guest was Christopher Maddog. Russo got tremendous feedback on that podcast. Everyone who listened to it seemed to have loved it. Really tremendous feedback with Maddog two weeks ago. So if you missed it, check that out. WWE fan Seth Rollins and Cody Rhodes have been on the pod in recent weeks. Bob Kravitz from The Athletic, who was laid off and then took some shots at the company. He was on the pod recently as well. So if you missed any of those, listen to them. Go into the archives, download, listen, subscribe to SI Media with Jimmy Trainor, leave a review on Apple. We'll be reading those in a couple of weeks and appreciate it all. All right, let's get to this week's show. Peter Schrager followed by Trainor Thoughts and Salicata all right here, on right now SI Media with Jimmy Trainor.
a16z
A highlight from Classroom 2050: Unleashing AI, XR, Gaming
"The situation is not good, and a lot of people blame the pandemic, but it was pretty bad before the pandemic. The kids in school today are growing up into a world that's incredibly fast paced and it's complex. I think a common misconception is that technology is going to replace the pedagogy and it's not. Many parents are thinking differently about what learning looks like, learning on a continuum, different experiences. In Minecraft, they're like figuring out who they are as a human. Like if they're the person playing with their friends who's organizing the mission, maybe they're going to grow up to be a leader. It is not a clear path to Classroom 2050, so we have to be able to hold the optimism and hope and boldness. It's like the holodeck on Star Trek, and I honestly didn't think that was going to happen in my lifetime. I think that's going to happen in the next five years. I know this panel was called the Classroom of 2050, but I actually want to be very clear, it's the Classroom of 2023. It's happening right now. The year is 2023, and so much has changed in the last 50 years when it comes to technology. We now have smartphones that can fit in our pockets, we have the world's knowledge accessible to anyone with an internet connection, and even tools that summarize incredibly complex concepts in the voice of our favorite fictional characters. Now reflect on the state of the classroom, the very forum where we raise the next generation. How has that evolved during the same time period? Despite so many children actively using cutting -edge technologies like AI, XR, and gaming outside the classroom, those technologies haven't made their way in. And this episode explores why that is, especially given the learning loss we saw prior to and during COVID, and how these technologies just might help us radically upgrade the classroom of the future. This episode was actually recorded live at the Aspen Ideas Festival, which I got to attend for the first time recently, and I was joined by four guests with such unique backgrounds. The first was Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy, which recently unveiled KhanMigo, an AI -powered tutor. We also had Anurupa Ganguly, she's the founder of PrismsVR, which is using VR to better teach children math and science through spatial reasoning. We also had Allison Matthews, head of Minecraft Education, who's tailoring the world's most popular game to empower and teach young people skills from coding to active citizenship. And finally, we had Romy Drucker, director of the education program at the Walton Family Foundation, who has a unique bird's eye view of the challenges and opportunities in this space, also previously serving in leadership roles at the New York City Department of Education. I really wish I grew up in an era where these technologies were at my fingertips. So let's not squander this unique opportunity.
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Ch Ahn (Encore)
"Welcome to the Eric Metaxas show. They say it's a thin line between love and hate. But we're working every day to thicken that line, or at least make it a double or triple line. But now here's your line jumping host, Eric Metaxas. I have a very special guest today. As you know, on Miracle Mondays, we try to have someone on who believes in miracles, who's maybe experienced some miracles, whose life itself is a miracle. Today, I am thrilled to have in the studio with me, all the way from Pasadena, California, Che Ahn. How do I describe Che Ahn? He's the founder and president of Harvest International Ministry, a worldwide apostolic network of churches in over 60 nations. My goodness, he's also the international chancellor of Wagner University. He's received his master's and doctorate in ministry from Fuller Theological Seminary. He's written many books. He's been married for 40 years to his wife, Sue. They have four adult children, six grandchildren. I think that says it all. Che Ahn, welcome to the program. Well, thank you. What an honor to be on your show. Listen, it's my honor to have you. I've known you for many, many years. You haven't known of me, but I've known of your ministries. What was the one with fire in the title? I can't remember. It was Teen Mania, or what was it? It was something you did here in New York, like 12 or 13 years ago. Well, we did the Call New York. That's what it was. The Call New York. It was the Call New York. Yeah, 2001. That's, you know what? 2001? Yeah, after 9 -11. That is 18 years ago. Yeah, and it's interesting because initially when we came to mobilize the pastors, actually they were very, very rude. They said, we don't need the Call to come in. And then after 9 -11 hit, they said, we need to gather together and have a solemn assembly. We need to come together and repent of our sins. And before we knew it, over 100 ,000 people showed up in Flushing Meadow. The fact that that is 18 years ago completely blows my mind. Yeah, it's been a long time. Because I spoke briefly, I was on the stage, and I remember being amazed at the crowd. It was a huge crowd. Right. And I grew up in Flushing Meadow. I mean, I grew up a couple of miles from there, and we would, as a kid growing up in Queens, New York, I would hang out there. And so to see thousands and thousands of people, then that's when I met you. But for folks who know nothing about you, what is your story? How long have you been, by the way, in Pasadena? Well, I moved in 1984, but I grew up in Washington, D .C., in Montgomery County, Maryland. So this is out of D .C. My father was the first Korean Southern Baptist pastor in North America, so he immigrated in 1958. From Korea. From Korea, South Korea. There was no Korean Southern Baptist church in the United States. He was the first one, and so they wanted him at the nation's capital. There was a handful of Korean students who were studying at Georgetown, George Washington, Catholic University, to help rebuild Korea after the Korean War, which ended in 1953. Actually, it was a ceasefire that took place. And so they wanted the Korean government, wanted the top students to learn public policy, how to do government, and to rebuild Korea. And so there were around 200 students in Washington, D .C., but they wanted a Baptist pastor. There was a Presbyterian church, there was a Methodist, but not a Southern Baptist. And it was like my dad won the lotto. He applied and got the job because it was so hard to immigrate. I mean, it's hard now, but back in 1958 to immigrate to the United States, it was almost impossible because the U .S. government realized there was no Korean Southern Baptist church. So you were born here? No, here's the problem. We had a visa problem. So my sister, my mother, and I, we were separated from my dad for three years. And so finally, after three years, during my formative year or so, almost when I was five, then we got the visa to come to the United States. And so, to say the least, when I saw my dad, I couldn't recognize him because, you know, I was just two years old when he left. People have no idea what others go through. I mean, when you describe that and how many people want to come to America. But I mean, the idea that your father is a Southern Baptist preacher in America. Well, he passed away, but he was a pioneer. No, no, I mean, but in those days that he's from Korea. Right. And so you were raised in the faith, in the Christian faith. Well, I was, but I rejected Christianity very early on because of two things, you know. There was no kids in my Sunday school. It was just students, college students. And so there was no families. There was no other kids my age. And then I went to an elementary school, Forest Grove Elementary School. And my sister and I were the only two people of color in an all -white elementary school. And now, if you go to that school, it's very, very diverse. But back in those days, it wasn't until the fifth grade I remember someone of color coming in. And so there were no other Asians, no African -Americans, no Hispanic. And so we stood out. And so I got in fights all the time because people were calling me chink, even though I'm not Chinese. That's a drug term for Chinese and Jap, even though I wasn't Japanese. You know, by the way, I have a little joke. I say you could tell the difference between a Chinese, Japanese, and a Korean. If you see a rich -looking Asian, they're Chinese. A smart -looking Asian, they're Japanese. But if you see a handsome -looking Asian, he's Korean. Ha! Ha! Take that. Yeah, so anyway, but I got in fights all the time. And I wanted to be so accepted. Plus, my parents were working day and night just to survive in America. And so as a result of that, my craving for acceptance and to be popular led me into the whole hippie drug culture of the late 60s and early 70s. I joke I may have been the first Korean hippie in North America because I never met anyone. I stopped cutting my hair for three and a half years. And my dad is freaking out. He doesn't know what's going on. And by the time I'm 15, I'm doing everything under the sun. Heavy drug user, cocaine, heroin, LSD. And then by the time I'm 17, I'm pushing drugs to support my habit. And so I was totally out of control. But one thing my parents did was pray for me. And I really want to encourage people not to stop praying no matter how bad it looks. Because the Bible says in Acts 16 31, believe on the Lord Jesus and you and your family will be saved. And so my parents prayed me into the Kingdom. And so I'm here by the grace of God. I got radically saved at a Deep Purple concert. So that gives you a little clue where I was at. Wait a minute. You got saved at a Deep Purple concert? Yeah, in May 1973. They were just touring with Smoke on the Water, a new song that came out in 1972. And they were touring in 1973. And it was at the Baltimore Civic Center. I made a concert, 15 ,000 tickets sold out in two hours. They were the number one band in America at that time. And during the intermission I had an encounter with God where the Lord spoke to me for the first time. I'm not talking about audibly in the small still voice. Because I was having this for two weeks, this visitation from the Lord Jesus. Without anyone witnessing to me. That's why I'm saying the power of... Now when you say that because people are listening and I'm really one of them. Like you're thinking, what do you mean by that? I mean here you are, you know, you're a teenager, right? Right. You are big time into drugs and you're selling drugs. You go to a Deep Purple concert. Now you say that for two weeks up to that, God had been somehow communicating with you or visiting you. What do you mean specifically? Okay, so two weeks before I'm at my friend Sal's. We're at a party. Just guys bonging on marijuana and smoking and drinking beer. Nothing heavy. It wasn't like we were tripping on acid or anything. But I was just bored because I was just doing that every day. It was just so monotonous. You know, day in, day out, just getting high. So I went to another room and I was into Zen Buddhism at that time. Just experimenting with Eastern religion. So I went to the room just to go through my chant and after saying the stupid chant, I was saying it incessantly for almost a year. And finally I just said, you know what, this is the stupidest thing I've ever done. I said that to myself. I got nothing out of it, Eric. And you just said, duh. Yeah, right. No, but this is how he said that. So I said God, I said this audibly by the way, no one was in the room. I said, God, I don't even know if you exist, but if you do exist, if my parents, what they told me is true, that there's a heaven and a hell. Well, I don't want to go to hell if there is a hell, but I don't know. So reveal yourself to me. So I was expecting him to show me if he does exist in the days ahead. But as soon as I prayed that right there in the party, the presence of God came all over me and I started to weep because I felt so much love and peace about me. Alone in the room. Alone in my room. And I was sobbing and I knew, I knew it was Jesus. I just knew because I just prayed if what my parents told me as a Christian pastor, if Jesus is the way, if there is a heaven and a hell. And so I thought I was having some kind of emotional breakdown, but it lasted for three days. Every day that presence came on me and I would just start weeping. And I said, what is going on? No one witnessed to me. Are you kidding? Now hold on because we're going to go to a break. Jay on is my guest. It's Miracle Monday. I love these kind of stories. We'll be right back with the rest of the story. And there's plenty more. It's the air from Texas show.
AP News Radio
Police fire tear gas and protesters burn vehicles near home of Senegal's main opposition leader
"Clashes between police and the supporters of Senegal's main opposition leader have continued days before a court verdict is expected on charges against the politician. Police fire tear gas and demonstrators burn cars near usman sonko's home. He's being tried for rape and death threats against a woman working at a massage parlor and could face up to ten years in prison if convicted he would also be barred from running in next year's presidential elections. But sonko and his supporters accused president Mackey Sal's government of trying to derail his candidacy. The clashes come a day after police stopped sonko's freedom caravan from traveling from his hometown in the south where he's mayor to the capital where he was forced into his duck our home last week, one person was killed and others were injured in similar clashes between police and sonko's supporters in the south. Senegal's government says it will stand firm against any attempt to disrupt public order. I am Lawrence Brooks
The Eric Metaxas Show
John Zmirak Unpacks Guy Ritchie's Brilliant Movie "The Covenant"
"I'm talking to John's murak hey John, how are you? I'm fine, and I've seen some wonderful movies lately. Now, one movie that I've got a column coming out today at the stream that you haven't heard about is called the covenant. Guy Ritchie's latest movie starring Jake Gyllenhaal and an absolutely amazing Iraqi actor who really steals the show and I'm looking up his name. Wait a minute. Is it Burgess Meredith? No. Mr. T now, his name is darlene, Dar Salim. He lives in Denmark, but he's from Iraq, and he plays an Afghan translator who worked with the Americans and is targeted by the Taliban with his wife and child and has to go into hiding. He was promised a Visa by the U.S. government for his dangerous work, helping American soldiers, and the government doesn't come through. Just wait a minute. A good movie called the covenant made by the Guy Ritchie, who was once married to Madonna. Yeah, I'm telling you, he has made a number of very good movies. I think he's really grown as an artist. Oh, there's no question that if you follow this that he's clearly smart conservative, whatever or something is happening to him. But Madonna will do that to you. The movie, the covenant, it shows really powerfully in a really well made movie, the betrayal of the Afghan people and our allies there by the Biden administration, which cut and run left $90 billion worth of military equipment for the Taliban, giving them the fourth largest military budget on earth. Bigger than Russia's bigger than France is bigger than Germany's.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
"sal" Discussed on The Bill Simmons Podcast
"On the eagles tonight, Sal, will people remember this game from mahomes? Or for a garbage call at the end? I hope they remembered from a home. And I had the chiefs, by the way, getting a point and a half, my God. I just think it's weird that we're at a place where we can't even believe them. Like, all right, did we go with the most courageous miraculous comeback of all time for a person who should have his leg amputated? Or is this a fake injury? And now I'm hearing more fake injury than anything else. Now he's cowboy bob Orton all of a sudden with the arm, but the cast that was on for a three years too long. You know, I was watching sports center after. And mahomes did a stand up interview with Chris Berman and Steve Young and booger and was just standing on the set for 5 minutes. Casually talked about the game. And I'm like, I thought his ankle was bet 5 different ways. What's going on? And sprinted sprinted to go to Berman, right? He was like, oh, he's over there. All right, I'll get there in under three and a half seconds. Maybe this will lead to a new, I don't know, football philosophy where teams will pretend they're guys hurt more than it is or whatever it works. It was one of the reasons people were picking the eagles this week was I have a home. You can't really move. Hit the key point of this game. What did he scramble for 30 yards? How long was that? And like at some point, when you're running that fast and that far, whenever you come down, that's it, man. It's gonna hurt. It's gonna sting like, unless they carry you into the end zone. You're in trouble, but that was when I thought, oh, come on, he got right up. He shook it off. It says it is a weird thing, but I mean, he won MVPs plus one 30. We're gonna give it to him anyway. He had under 200 yards passing, right? But the three touchdowns and just, I guess, by the fact just being in there and everything else, he deserves it. He was awesome. After he heard his ankle, he went 13 for 14 for 92 yards and two TVs. We could talk about the bad rep stuff, but I think we should talk about my homes, and I think we should talk about how
Unchained
Why the Celsius Examiner Report Shows 'A Complete Disaster'
"Today's guest is kadam schubert investigative reporter at the Financial Times. Welcome Adam. Thanks for having me on. This week, the Celsius independent examiner, shoba Pelé, dropped her 476 page report on the failed crypto lender. And it was quite the bombshell. What were your main takeaways from the report? The main takeaway from the report is that Celsius was a complete disaster in almost every way imaginable and almost from the very beginning, in a way. One of the major things that came out in the examiner's report is to do with the Celsius native token cell, and the way that the way that the examiner portrays what was going on with Sal, is that Celsius spent an enormous amount of money, including its customers, Bitcoin and Ethereum, including investor cash, simply on buying its own native token to prop up the price. And then the real kicker here is an examiner's report. One of the reasons that they were spending so much money buying its own token was so that executives, including Alex mashinsky, could sell their token. And so that their sales would not crash the public price. And I think the amount is something like $68 million worth of sound that Alex musky sold. Yeah, and that's referring to the CEO. That's right. The CEO and former CEO and founder. You know, it's a very long document. It's almost with the appendices. I think it's like 600, 700 pages. But it is extraordinarily damning.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"sal" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"A conversation with Sal Khan, founder and CEO of Khan Academy on the impact of artificial intelligence on education. You know, there's a lot of what we already know is going on and then there's a lot of potential, even before these large language models and all of that. We've always thought, hey, AI could be used to, this is being used in for profit companies to recommend the right ad to you in an education setting, maybe it can be used to recommend the right content to you. And we've used variations of that in the past at Khan Academy. I think what's exciting about these large language models is the potential for them to start to act like a socratic tutor for them to introduce modalities that might not have existed before. I know people are really worried about this doing essays for students, but maybe we can embrace that and say, well, maybe it can help the student do something more ambitious. Maybe it can help give feedback that traditionally when you write an essay at best it might take you a week or two to get the feedback and then even if you make it better, you may or may not get a chance to get feedback on that. Now you could get instant feedback, I did a little experiment with my daughter where we used a large language model to co write a story, but then she had a chance to talk to one of the characters. That's something that's just seems like science fiction, but it's now doable or we're at the cusp of making these things doable. So if you imagine, I think we're in the next year, we're going to see layers on top of tools like Khan Academy where you might have a tutor and AI tutor. Now, once again, I don't think this replaces the human, but it just gives more leverage to the human teacher
The Bill Simmons Podcast
"sal" Discussed on The Bill Simmons Podcast
"And automobiles. I was waiting to do this until they released the Blu-ray that had all the deleted scenes. There's like 70 minutes of deleted footage that answers some questions. In the movie, there's some unexplained things in this movie. It's an all time classic. I love this movie. I can't wait for to release the podcast. Monday night, planes trains and automobiles, 35th anniversary. So that is happening. Coming up on this podcast, cousin Sal and I are going to break down week 12. NFL. On my dad's 75th birthday, my dad turned 75 today. He made it. Three quarters of a century. I'm going to have to have him on on Tuesday to talk about the resurgent winter Boston sports scene. Celtics bruins. He's like one of the two people I know. Three people. Who still religiously watch regular season hockey. But anyway, happy birthday, dad. We'll have you in the pot on Tuesday. Talk about all this stuff. Right now, Sal's coming up first. Our good friends. From project. All right, it is 8 36 Pacific time. Just watch eagles. Packers, Sunday Night, cousins town and we're going head to head and fantasy was a loser of these town fantasy match. Christian Watson on my team, 75 yarder. And a touchdown in the last like 7 minutes, semi garbage time. I knocked you out. You're done. I hope I win the title.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
"sal" Discussed on The Bill Simmons Podcast
"Return it up to 1500 miles C CarMax dot com for details, CarMax, car buying, reimagined. Sal you're in the clock. All right, I gotta find this now, so the parent corner is not gonna involve my kids, but involves my mother to me, and that's a child parent relationship. If you're sparing at home. My mother texted me the other day. It's Thursday. It's right before the game. Like the hour before the Thursday game, I'm getting all my bets and trying to narrow it from 25 to 12 because I need to have as much action on the game. It's possible. And then I get from my mother, she sends me a text that says, because I love you, I have to share. And then it's this video which I didn't watch. It's a YouTube video, and it says diabetes and erectile dysfunction, healing the body with the right foods, part one. Part one. So I guess there's a part two if I enjoy this enough. This is what she's sending me. She became a vegan at age 71. She's 76. And from then on, she's been a complete pain in the ass. Now, raised us on salty meats that you couldn't Italian. Italian. Yeah, she's actually Jewish, but she's Jewish. Yes, but might as well. Right, my Italian father's mother taught her how to cook, everything was a Italian cooking, and then boom, I don't know what she on Facebook, she saw all these plant based this, and that God blessed you if that's your thing, but it's not mine. And forever. And I tell her, I was like, look, when I'm 71, if I'm lucky enough to make it, I'll do this too. Give me 20 more years. Can you imagine all this erectile dysfunction thing? She sends me a grown man. I have to sit through this. And I say to my wife, I'm like, listen, you got to text her and say that Sal has no problem in that department. With diabetes. Yes, of course. ED. And you know, be very graphic, but she's like, no, I'm not doing that. I'm like, please do that. But she won't. But anyway, mom, please stop sending me this. I'm not watching this video. Why did she send you that? I don't understand that at all. She thinks I'm gonna get diabetes. Yeah. Although, I will say, right before Halloween is a good time to send this if you're gonna send it at all. I'm gonna put down 75 minutes. My mom doesn't send me clips. She just sends me texts like today she texted me about the watcher. It was really, really good, very well done. The scariest part was me or Farrell's face. But I don't know. It felt like it. Well, there you go. Tell me if aero space.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
"sal" Discussed on The Bill Simmons Podcast
"People respect the falcons, but I think they should. Here's the thing with them. If they're down ten, they can go get a cheap touchdown with three minutes left. I like these underdogs that you know that they're not going to just score 9 points, like the jets. The jets today. Right. Where they could just be bad and Flacco could have four turnovers and that's it. The offensive stifled from the start. Oh, that browns thing. I know you were bragging about not being on that bad lateral play at the end, but I just I wasn't bragging. I was so happy. I wasn't involved. Well, your friend Sal was involved. I had to go there on a tease or in other people at the Steelers on a teaser. And it's just disgraceful. We talked about like having blackjack insurance. You know when they say insurance and you actually get mad at the dealer for you insurance. Like, yeah, just flip over the Jack of diamonds and what you've done here. So I would take it every time because on that play. Kick off lateral insurance? Yeah, I mean, it can't be even odds, right? But you have to, it just has nothing to do with the game. It sucks so bad. It's as if it's as if they said, okay, everyone's bets are good, but we're going to do one more thing. We're going to let a lion on the field and to lion eats the football. And everybody loses. It's nothing to do with anything. I hate it so much. It should be worth like, yeah, you're right, like two points. That's 6. It's so funny as fantasy implications. It ruined teases. In that case, it ruined the Steelers seats. Now, that we're looking to, they never went up field. It's like hot potato immediately. I'm like, oh, this ball's definitely hitting the turf, and it's going to be gobbled up in the end zone. Here would be my counter. Did you put Mitch trubisky in a tease? No, no, I had the under. In fact. Count my money there. That's terrible. I'm sorry. I'm with you with the Steelers being a bottom 5 team. But I also don't think the browns are two in one and really could be three now. Well, the Steelers are the team this year where the wide receivers run in the ball sales ten feet over his head and he just stops running and all the life sinks from his body and he kind of has that like he just got a parking ticket. There was Arizona was that team that one year when the after Kurt Warner, like every year there's that one theme where the quarterback is just so unreliable, the receivers know it and they're making business decisions over the middle. Like if they know the safety's coming, they'll just stuck out. They're just like fuck this. I want to keep playing. The thing with Tomlin and great. All right, that's quite an achievement. You've never gone under 500, but this is the first year he has a quarterback. Controversy, and he's not handling it, right? He's like, under no circumstances am I putting Kenny Pickett is like, really, you have it if trubisky and I feel like you and I hung on the trubisky longer than most people. If he's not going to run the ball, who needs his 14 for 21 for one 80, whatever it is, without a touch that, right? With his two picks. Yeah, you can get there anywhere with anybody. Yeah, he's stubborn. It's like our cousin Jimmy, when you get in Texas arguments with Jimmy and he said, no, that's not what it was. And you're just presenting him evidence. He's like, no. That's it. He has a press conference after every show. Yeah.
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
AJ Recalls Flipping the Pages of 'Mafia at War'
"Whenever my father would tell me stories of his days as an undercover narcotics cop for the US Treasury, he'd get to talking about chasing mobsters like Joe Gallo, Joe profaci Joe Colombo, a lot of Joe's back then. I was only a kid when he bought me a magazine with a lot of gangsters in it and a bunch of black and white pictures of a lot of guys who got rubbed out. It was called mafia at war. And he'd tell me who he knew and who he chased and which ones used to come to my grandmother's house in Brooklyn and drink her wine and eat her pasta. And eventually he pointed to one hard nosed mean looking gangster in the fedora and an overcoat who was named Harry happy mayon, who was a hitman for Meyer lansky, and a member of murder incorporated. And my father would say, this is a great uncle on your mother's side. I'd say, why'd they call him happy? Because he was a mean son of a bitch. I love that magazine. I used to memorize those guys like kids in my class would memorize them baseball cards. Some kids could tell you how many hits Hank Aaron had, I could tell you how many hits Sal maranzano survived.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
"sal" Discussed on The Bill Simmons Podcast
"Have new stuff on the Ozarks, the first four episodes of the new season as well as the newest euphoria episode big Hall of Fame episode of an old prestige show come in later this week. I'm not going to spoil that one. I am going to spoil Monday night's rewatchables because I tipped it off. You should follow me on Instagram. Sometimes I'll tip off things. Sometimes I'll post them videos. I think I have a solid Instagram. I think I have a high batting average on it. Anyway, posted a video from casino, the black Jack scene, because we're doing casino, and it's coming on Monday night. We had been due to do an a lister for a few weeks now. We hadn't done a true banger for a while. So that's Monday night. Me, Sean fantasy, Chris Ryan. Brian koppelman was supposed to be on it, but he flew back to New York. So that's what you get. You're 3000 miles away a couple. I'm sorry. So casino, Monday night, the rewatchables. Check it out. Coming up on this podcast. The greatest round two of all time. I hate the greatest I hate to go to hate all that stuff without real evidence. There's no way we had four better games in one week, and then this cousin Sal and I are gonna break all of it down, winning bets, lose your bed stum decisions, heroes, goats. We'll make fun of Aaron Rodgers. We got it all for you. It's all next. First, our Friends from. Pearl Jam. All right, we're taping this. It's a little core 8 o'clock on Sunday Night. He did an extra hour after those games. I need just regroup. Sound needed to drive home, he was watching with a bunch of friends. Best.
Against All Odds with Cousin Sal
"sal" Discussed on Against All Odds with Cousin Sal
"Game week one versus the whole fantasy which is crazy. Oh it's all bragging rights. I don't know. I don't know if i can quit although harry quit all. Nc double a. polls right just cold turkey right. We just for one year just for one year doesn't root for any teams just doesn't do pulls just that doesn't matter to pools footballer ways embarrassed about bay heim in syracuse and the in the history. Everything that went on there. I don't blame them. I don't buy all right dolphin okay. Patriots minus three and forty three and a half over the dolphins again. I'm zagging here with what i think is gonna happen for the season. I have dolphins under their win. Total i think they go eight nine and i think that patriots make the playoffs. I think checks a good bet for coach of the year around sixteen to one. But i think the dolphins plus three are either lose by a slim margin or win the game I don't know. I just don't love the back jones that i may maybe just being around simmons enhancers seven hours in the last two nights. A hinch was unceremoniously sent home. He was already just that meeting on the zoom. But that's another story. You could catch that on extra points rookie quarterbacks to start week one since two thousand ten six twelve and one. Completion percentage fifty nine percent twenty six passing touchdowns twenty-five giveaways we forget how good this dolphins defense was eighteen interceptions last season tied for the most in the nfl. I think they give mack jones a little bit of a fit to is not. I don't have high hopes for two by any means. But i think the dolphins defense controls this game. It's a twenty one twenty final polly kid. You disagree with me. you're on the patriots bandwagon. Here yeah you know. Jeeze what do i have more confidence in matt jones in this game then too. I really shouldn't right. I mean to a has games under his belt. Jones just really has the preseason. I seem to have more confidence in mack jones than to a For whatever reason You had a great preseason. Bella check i think really has probably been preparing for this game now really since the first day of training camp really a district you know the they obviously have things to get accomplished in the preseason but this is what's been on his mind he's been preparing for over a month for this game right now is going against his protege and coach. Flora's down there in miami. But i think you're gonna see a good dose of damian harris for the pats and There are other running backs. I think it's going to set up some play action from matt jones. I think the patriots score just enough. And they get one defensive touchdown that makes the difference in this game escort a bunch of them last year and so i think they picked off or they sack him. Get a scoop and score and that's gonna end up ultimately being the difference patriots when a close one now twenty four. Seventeen all right. You know i will say this. The dolphins are not going to get a better situation going into foxborough right september. You don't worry about the weather mac. Jones's first start. It's absolutely spoon fed to them. Can't get better can't get a a better setup for this so they blow speaking. Yeah speaking of better setup. So the nfl. I don't think they purposely did but just a lot of intrigue the to bama quarterbacks and we'll talk about some of the other ones but is there some dream match. Here's and this nolan drama. Like the nfl. There do it's terrific. It's really great what they've done. I go to another good game. Packers at saints now. It's an unfortunate circumstances will not be a new orleans. It's in jacksonville. Green bay favored by four over unders. Fifty starter around three went up to four obviously times in new orleans thoughts and prayers out to the residents there but this games in jacksonville. The world's moved to jacksonville because they figured it would be a tough place for packers fans to travel to let alone. The packers turns out. There's a packer contingency. Green bay contingency in central florida's. I don't know if those cheeseheads melt or what happens there but this is a nice spot for matt leflore as a small favourite on their mala floor. Backers are nine and three and eight and four against the spread average margin of victory eleven point four and in september six and one green bay and straight up and against the spread. Listen they don't give the ball away a lot and it's a testament. Aaron rodgers obviously a bizarre summer with him. And i think he lost a few fans casual fans football fans at least. But this guy doesn't matter what kind of offensive line ads and they still have some injuries on the line. He doesn't turn the ball. They have eleven turnovers as team last year. And that's big that's small. That's big going into this game against new orleans who again tough to get it. all together. went to a quarterback change. Whether you'd think winstons better than brees is another situation but they lost two tight ends in the preseason and they lost Michael thomas all right. He didn't play a ton last year but he's out for who knows how many maybe ten weeks this year so their offense is gonna take a take some time to get going. I like green bay minus the force certainly like it. Money line What do you think bri by the you guys see. This fly attacking south face. I saw you ever see the breaking bad episode where they tried to fly. This is exactly. Hey we don't have seven million dollars spent on this episode. Let's just have a fly attack. This is like the fourth the fourth most famous fly. you got the cable. Tv so pants and everything. Yeah the movie the fly pence and then the brig this this is number of. This one's gonna kill me. Shoot the number one but I've actually surprised the lines. Only for here it should be higher. It's a neutral site game. Yeah rogers is won six straight openers. Offense if you look at like game by this offense was consistent consistently great under the floor last season. Now do you trust winston week. One like with the receivers. They have responsibility for kamara like you were saying for a few times the packers turn the ball over right. I'm a winston could easily turn this ball over three times. So i think there's you know either the saints will be a little too conservative with winston or he'll probably make a few bad aggressive plays but to me. This is like gal thirty one twenty one type of game but i just love the four. I was thinking about it for my best bet. But i'll i'll stay away from it. But i do love it. Yeah i and listen. I get a thousand people were excited. They got as calloway for three dollars. Or in the ninth round or something. I think it's a steal because he scored a couple touchdowns in preseason but is against a top defense and a defense at trying and the first unit so. I'm not counting him in the in this blockbuster offense just yet. So that's a fun. One that's on fox and catch dad and other great one. Browns at chiefs owes at a divisional round game. I guess it would. It would have to be right. That was the chiefs. I playoff game last year. The browns are getting six and a half at arrowhead. Fifty four and a half is the over on there. I like the browns here. I don't know that they upset them. But again i think the chiefs get a little bit of slow start here like most to and the browns can stay with them. Offensively last season third in rushing yards per game third red zone. Touchdown percentage third and quarterback hits allowed. They keep baker upright and for that reason he could be In the fifteen to twenty five range and quarterbacks in the nfl. I really don't usb that good for this team to thrive. I think they win..
Against All Odds with Cousin Sal
"sal" Discussed on Against All Odds with Cousin Sal
"Now sometimes people are freaking out a little bit too much so he is. The one i feel like is most likely to bust at his position. You have thirteen draft thirteen leagues. You said or you will up thirteen leagues. Who is the one players on most of your rosters or the most okay. It's probably a brandin cooks. Which sounds ridiculous but the value he so late you can get him so late or for free for like a dollar to. He's the wide receiver one for texas and look for houston. Nobody one eight tyrod. But i know that they're going to be from behind all the time in garbage time counts so you can get like a two dollar three-dollar brandin cooks like later in the ninth round. Why not i mean first week especially the matchup versus the jags. I'm rolling it all right. I like it. I was in a league where one he was. The only texan drafted. So it's gonna be interesting Wanted i have a million questions for all right potential sleepers. Why don't we do that. Potential sleepers at well brain. Kicks is one. i guess. He's not really a sleeper darnall mooney. Somebody i really like He had great separation last year. Now we he may be with better quarterbacks especially just field should they go justin fields. He's going at a value. I actually kinda liked zach ertz He's like a last round pick and everyone was into dallas qatar dallas gutter really is a better pass catcher but now the earth's is staying one people don't realize is that dallas got it is also the better locker so if you wanna get the most out of your team you're gonna use got her to block and you're gonna get hurt in the slot and that adds up to fantasy points so he's a free pick. I really like him late And especially if you take an early pick like a pit. I do have a lot of kyle pits as well. I really like him this year. I want them to thirty three dollars on him. When like andrews went for eighteen but i had a little money so i figured what. Yeah that guy's really gotta come through otherwise for the whole year. I think ramon about fifty percent of my teams do you. They'll be fun to watch okay now. So that's who you reach for. I'm trying to think all right. What's your what's your thing with tight ends now because now there's kelsey there's waller there's kiddle and as you mentioned pits do you kinda you wait on titan is tied at tight ends always been like quarterback from me way as long as you can and then you're going to get the middle of the pack which is not much difference if you don't get the top three. Do you feel the same way anymore. So it's one or the other. It's the top five to me which would be like Kelsey waller kittle marketers. Tj hopkinson his. Somebody's got to catch the ball in detroit. And then basically i wait. I'm not taking any of those middle guys like logan thomas or Mike it's just it's too early pick to spend. I'd rather take a wide receiver. There and i'd rather wait a lot and then i'm talking like huge upside guy like coconut zach ertz John johnson You know those kind of guys. Maybe even in austin hooper gerald ever it these people that are value at the point. Because you're playing the touchdown lotto once you get that deep so you know just be willing to stream them and i think that's a great thing team so i think you choose what you don't do is start using tight end. Pick because you're looking at your roster and you're like oh well i filled on my other slots i gotta get a tight at no. Just start building your bench. Wait wait if you get that point. Just wait all right. Let's begin a wait. Let's just get to it though with kirk cousins. Could harry loves this year and right now we laughed at harry with robbie ray love that he gave right now. That guy's going to Cooperstown but i don't know i. I don't think anyone drafted in my league last night Obviously the trevor lawrence's the trae lances mack jones. Does harry have any hope with kirk cousins. Yeah he does. I actually take kirk cousins in my soup. reflects league for sports. Illustrated's took him. I took him as my first. Qb and the i. Exact wilson is my second. But i did that. Because i wanted to zig when everyone else's eggs zag zagreb's zigzagged. I don't know i'm not that cool. I don't know how to use freeze neither. You got it. But i decided to keep hammering running backs and wide receivers. Everyone was taking their quarterbacks early. Because i think that he is someone. That's very competent. I mean he's finished each of the past three seasons as the qb eighteen or better So he's kind of a safe floor guy. I don't see a really high ceiling. But we saw him last year. Have like monster monster games and now he has justin jefferson. People are going to be worried about the run game dobbin cook. There's certain certainly opportunities at least on a week to week basis to play the match ups and then you could get like another quarterback later on or stream another one if he has a bad match up so i don't have a problem. I don't think he's gonna be like jenn in three years in minnesota. You ever just thirty touchdowns here we go here really is he endured here. He in derek carr both kind of underrated and they're yesler in fantasy. I agree they're good. Backup quarterback speaking of you know we had this. I think polychaete In our league. Someone recommended this. David chang who by the way was responsible for the great Spread of my party. That saturday recommend he put it to a vote. He wanted to quarterbacks start like and that's the super flex right and everyone's like oh no it was like. Hey let's hear him out here. There are a lot of good quarterbacks. And then as we're doing the auctions like yeah. There should be two quarterback starting like some of these great quarterbacks are going for eight dollars dak win for like russell. Wilson went for eight dollars. Where you on the super flex i preferred non super reflects because i'm a traditionalist and i the way i mean not maybe not in an auction league. Your point is well taken. I haven't done it. Auction super flex. I've only done a snake super flex. Well there's another leading That would make it more fun for an auction. Actually but i tend to like a one quarterback leashes because it feels a little bit. We're like what's really on the shields like you. Don't start to quarterbacks in football game let me ask you this. What his worst for you drafting twelve and a twelve person league or fielding drunk tax on a saturday night from jim definitely feeling drunk tax. I mean. I had to be like really zoned in yet. Actually i like the twelve spot. I love to do on the wheel. Yeah they can put two picks together be like rb are wr. and then. i'm like just said so. I like the wheel. I have no problem with that. Is it stupid though. Sixteen teams or eight hundred. Someone said they were in a twenty-four personally drafted third. And it's not even that's not fine now. You're just doing the nfl your actual jam. Yeah what's your limit fourteen. That's stupid fourteen all right. You guys have any questions for jen by the way. Because i play against harry this week and brother i played against darren. Computers put that out next year. We need to have an extra points league. Yes we'll do one hundred percent. We need january. We got up here. I wanted at being twenty leagues jen. Just wondering what you think with bruce arians and the box who's going to get the touchdowns in the red zone inside the ten when they run the ball is can be jones before nut..
Against All Odds with Cousin Sal
"sal" Discussed on Against All Odds with Cousin Sal
"Advantage anymore. They tease their fans with aaron rodgers. All the off-season not even close wonder. Will they have done something in the draft. Would they have taken just fields if they didn't think they can get rogers. Yep they'd intake fields right at nine starting quarterbacks over the last five years bridgewater would be ten if he sees a game and he probably will cause you have drew lock fifty seven percent passer wars completion percentage in the league You got teddy to gloves for a six round. Pick which pretty good thirty two turnovers. I in the league they lose lindsay and john james again bridgewater like a said williams was a draft pick from north carolina. Maybe he could know there could be a little spark. Cortlandt sutton back from injury On defense i get kyle fuller all darby so the some corners patrick sir towns if i pick You know they out will allow thirty one points. Berg i get it. Von miller was out right so that that really says it all denver why they allowed thirty one points a game over the last eleven weeks. They signed this. Justin simmons for sixty one million dollars I have them at eight. I'm not doing it again. I can't take him over. I think i bet three on. There's and i think. I have the raiders of my only over in this The vision i had them at eight wins area. I think they lose to your giants. I think they lose at jacksonville. Then have them winning three in a row which is pretty pretty generous may and then just you know mostly losses the rest of the game. What halford denver. yeah i think. Eight and a half is too many to the schedule. Isn't that bad but still eight and a half as high a you mental twenty-fifth points against On defense last year games. Eleven games up twenty six points or more Twenty four in total offense and quarterback issues even with bridgewater added. I don't know how much how great he can be. In terms of running this offense. He can manage games. But i don't know about putting up points and their defense again soft last year. Just can't see either these guys either lock or bridgewater getting it done in the fourth quarter when it matters and games to get ws i just think eight and a half to high seven maybe eight. We all are on the under here. I will point out there extra three games because now you have extra three games you don't you don't play the opposite division. Play the division your own division jets. Detroit and at jacksonville doesn't get easier for a team than that on. I think for your exter- three games but Bri you're on the under as well. Yes it's weird i. I'm glad you finally took the under on this team. I feel like they set this now. They win the super weird. It's like i felt like two months ago. They set this at eight. And a half and i feel like this should have come down but it still stayed at at eight and a half even not knowing. Qvc situation. but there's i mean there's talent on this team. There's talent on defenses talent and skill position But i don't know i i would entrust vic vic fangio unlock or bridgewater here. Fangio is going to be one of those coaches on the hot seat. And i this. Qb situation. i think they're i mean that's gonna cost them. I'm actually you brought it up. Though i mean they really should you know. They had an opportunity to draft. They had an opportunity to draft one. Or two of those quarterbacks. I love to know if they really thought they were getting. Rogers i wanna know like all right. It's a it's acceptable if that's what they thought Otherwise i don't feel like bringing teddy bridgewater finding a couple. Yeah but i don't know what they were thinking you know they gave. They gave away games last year. The you know. The final game against the raiders. Yeah they they gave it away. They also got blown out to the raiders last year. Again lose to the raiders last year. Get blown out. Same quarterback same coach. Two games better in the win win. Total predictions Laura lack missed a ton of throws last year. I mean he was definitely One of the most frustrating quarterbacks if you were a broncos fan So yeah i think yeah eight and a half this. Yeah this number should be like seven and a half's too high. I have ate That that's all do eight nine That's probably too generous to the league doesn't trust and they have one game one. Prime time game. Thursday night. At cleveland bollocking. Trust them either yet. No this is my third straight under here for this division sheets over This this might be the hardest one for me because i do like their pieces. I like judy I think he's gonna break out year I like sought now like thought their tight end. I think Look out there running back situation. Fancy wise melvin. Gordon ross freeman and like we mentioned devante roy williams is going to end up being the guy there but again. It's it's kind of uncertain so that doesn't help the quarterback right To not may be have a threat like The play action that they like to throw off of as much as you can't and but bottom line like we've already said it really comes down to the quarterback play here. I'm not a fan of of either. These guys i think these guys are adequate But adequate designed get you over. Eight and a half. When's i have the mets six wins going into their last three games. This where it gets interesting Kosdaq last three games are home. Verse detroit home versus. Cincinnati and at a raiders And they'd have to win all three of those and they'll be capable of doing it But the bronx. I just don't i don't think they're ever good enough to win three games in a row. I don't see it happening. I think they get to seven possibly eight year and that will be there ceiling I just i you know. Now that we're all really off the broncos. Maybe this is the year they do it. But i don't see it happening. Mud sold on v. Fangio as their coach either. But.
Against All Odds with Cousin Sal
"sal" Discussed on Against All Odds with Cousin Sal
"I have them nine and seventy over unders nine and a half. Plus one ten you get for the over playoffs. Yes plus one twenty six. I know damasec likes them. But i'm going on here Polly kid you agree under nine. And a half i agree with you again I look like the young coach here. Date guy he was actually a quarterback at dayton but he called defense for the rams and very interesting right scenario there Her look herbert surprise. All of us she with how good he was. How quick out especially how quickly he was. Dynamite loved watching the kid play. But the chargers had a hall of fame quarterback for many many years in phil rivers and only once in the last eleven years had. They reached double digit wins. And that's what you're asking them to do here. The chargers are going to charge her We know a charges fan brian. You know we all know. Paulie buddy Him and i years go back and forth like the cowboys and chargers and they basically the same t writing rivers romo like they can only do so much bosa going to miss a few games. You could take that to the bank. He's going to be out for some point. You know He's not hurt now but eventually he'll be out and missing some time Keenan al has been great like you said he averaged. These averaged four hundred catches a year for four straight years. Who's there number two. I'm still waiting for mike williams to kinda bust out losing hunter. Henry is a big loss. I don't think cook and really replace henry. I just don't see it They've lost some key players on defense. I mean they have james back that helps. I just think this nine and a half is a little too high for a team that i said. What do they ever reach. Double digit wednesday did almost never do i. Can't i can't go with them yet. I so i gotta take the under nine and a half. Their extra games are new. England minnesota and add houston not terrible for by the way by the way that kickers going to lose them. Two games to right all right. They're gonna lose two or three games. Just based on the field goal kicker missing some big field goals. You can take that to the bank as well just beat the washington team week. One for our cowboys. I have them. I have them actually losing that game. bryan before. Harry tries to convince us with the over jump on this on there with us. Yeah i mean. I don't have necessarily ton to add. It's funny you would think maybe like do i do. I think they should be good. Yeah they should be good right. Do i trust them. Not really. I mean maybe. The coaching change changes some of their lucked up. But it always seems like the chargers lead the league in injuries right. It's usually what i'm surprised. We haven't heard anybody go down yet. but like their their lines should be better. Defensively james coming back. We'll we'll help. But i will say even with all of that. Herbert was phenomenal last year. Right i mean and way better than anyone expected kenny duplicate. Kenny kenny. Be better or can. Even great point. I can be. It's hard to be better can even especially in second year on kenny. Kenny duplicate what he had last year and again maybe also as a rookie quarterback. Maybe it's a little bit easier when you go on the road when there's no not a lot of fans at those games so right back it also help or playing at home. I mean not that they're gonna have well. I guess they'll have more fans at home now but Well that's the whole thing. What kind of team are they ever going to have more fans or is this just going to be the road game. Every closing team buys a road game every time so it just one of those things right all but five games last year were decided by seven points or less which always seems to be the case in these charges season so a lot of variables Again i think this comes down to whether or not the coach can change the culture whether the injuries are there. But i do think like you guys said nine and a half is a lot and for them to get the ten. It's it's too high. It's not fair considering. The chargers in the raiders The charge the raiders have been better the last two years for there to be a three ga- three wets everyone gap between the two of these. This kind of ridiculous. That is ridiculous. it's weird. I'm looking at their home schedule. And this is all by friends now. Obviously the cowboys. I think i'm going to that game week to Chargers her home You know. I know some cleveland fans they come to l. a. I know of course million idiot patriot. Fans they come to la pittsburgh fans that they'll dominate that. No fan wise the giants. Come here it's it's crazy. I'm trying to think of. Will they ever have an advantage. Harry liked the over on. The team has won a division since two thousand nine. Yeah i like overnight and after a bear not a lot by do like get the ten. Brian mentally herbert was better than up. Plenty expected New coach new attitude here with the chargers of for joey boats really pumped up to play for him. I listened to an interview with awesome actor. He can't wait to play for this guy. And you mentioned like miss games last year and they were still practically on extra points. Harry what are you. What are you. Listen to at two thousand two thousand nineteen. He had sixteen hundred yards eleven touchdowns at mentioned miss six games. Here going to be an intrical part of this offense. I think ten. It's doable for the charge. I don't love it. But i think they can get the tenure they also have Cincinnati houston on their schedule. You mentioned south of the nfc east. I didn't think they can get the time if you look at the exact wins ten. Get plus six. I think we like them all. I think we like them. Between eight and ten wins right so he can figure that out. Aid is seven. One nine is plus five fifty the adjusted lines on fan dawn. Ten is plus six fifty. So that's the chargers for you. You know paula kit. You mentioned that like i. I was confused. When you said all fame quarterback phil rivers no super bowl We're going to get the same thing with herbert. And dan fouts. Same thing like they could have Jumping the gun a little with her out here but imagine. They have three all fame quarterbacks and none of them got to the super bowl that. I wonder what the record is that that. Yeah it's a great point where we agree. That rivers is a hall of famer right. I mean i. At least. I think he is a half. Say if you want you got to say it not easy to win those super balls house rivers our out rivers the hall of famer. Darren you say it's not though is better quarterback. Well his body were just set. You just said years just because he won a super bowl. Does it be great coach. He goes back and forth. So an he's flip the flop all right last but least denver broncos. They're over unders. Eight and a half overs minus one. Oh five to make the playoffs. Yes is plus one fifty-six no is minus one ninety. I gotta say like this is a division of disappointing teams really is i take the broncos over every single year to live the vision i bet them in the falcons every year losing record four straight years..
Against All Odds with Cousin Sal
"sal" Discussed on Against All Odds with Cousin Sal
"A hanukkah harry of course but no of course it's a terry gag. Non part man. Part vending machine is the absolute best and texas. You've got last night. harry wasn't on it. I feel honestly cheated in life than i've only known this man for a year. You guys are gonna lock is for the first time in forty eight hundred joel said that it was like it was kind of sad because it almost felt like joe like i don't have much time left like it was like years by the way i it's funny you say that i feel the same way about harry's brother who i i can't even explain it. Where would just take hours. But i'm like. Oh i feel so selfish that people have never met him or meeting them for the first time and i tried to get your brother on here for a little pep talk harry to get you out of this funk oats one. Am one and then we started talking about zoom. And i was like there's just works. He doesn't he doesn't outside yeah. he can't tax. I can't believe that. I i even got like claims he has. Is he coming out for harris birthday. No east coming out for on party in july. Remind boats be supposedly. And what happened. Harry your father in law to be can't make it for the party. Ken sent a little disappointing. That there Aunties parents aren't coming. But it's okay it's okay. Kansas kansas lock than i am oh for sure of course of course is. He said he said what happened. They get they get free flights on south west but they just don't like being around people. Father feels uncomfortable around people that he doesn't know so they're not coming. Is that so terrible. I don't know well. I don't know i do know there are other well. He's like you talk. If you tell sal this that i won't. I won't make it tonight. Ordeal that's it. I'll tell sales not gonna carry their way. He's like oh yes he. Well that's a no we won't even either. I just think it's funny not gonna care like you. Do you think it's negative thing that you're right but i do love it. I love that he's upset about it. Joel what are you gonna do. You're gonna meet harry. You're going to meet his girlfriend. He's meeting meeting ken and he's meeting cannon kens hairdresser. Everyone's invited to this thing is. The whole event is going to be top notch in. This is my disneyland. this is i can't even joel meet my joel joel. Me you and the oyster shock are going to take a picture together. Joel do not accept any gumy's from harry's girlfriend the last time somebody did that wiped out a whole group of people have never heard. We never heard from them again. Those canadians those canadians are week. All right joel. You have a good point bad point for us before we get going here. Honestly i do have a good point. And sal i. I honestly don't think we're giving you enough credit. I'm giving you my good point You on a unraced on one wednesday. It reminded me of someone carrying an injured teammate. Across the finish. I mean harry goes box. And then i think it was a dicky barrett. Wise man once said. Have you ever had the odds stacked up so high you need to destroy most don't possess it came down to do or die. You had a rise above the rest of the you did you truly you said i. I can't. I can't let harry down. We're going against him and Q the titanic music. You did it. We we We won thank you. That was great and you know what next so now. We have a tuesday game right. Pollock does game sick back. That'll be our last race to and we'll get everyone involved. Everybody here is going to be involved. harry's father in law you name. It will all have money on this. We'll make sure he doesn't have to be around the player. That's okay. yeah he's going to bet on all right and what's the bad point. Joe i hate to leave on a sour note. But oh i didn't give harry a gift Yet give him my bad point. Well we're getting one. You're getting to bed. Point of the day kevin stansky i. He wasn't even at that playoff game. They warning.
Against All Odds with Cousin Sal
"sal" Discussed on Against All Odds with Cousin Sal
"Hedge against. This is all confusing. Todd firmin's big bucks bet. He gains fa- futures bed on fox. Bat live so i had. I need the box. I wanted to bring the bucks down to even or something so i could have done box combined with each team scoring at least one hundred points which they did the sun's disk they had brought at ninety nine with a minute left and they scored like with almost no talk and booker. They let booker go with easy layup. But anyway i stayed away from that and took this market chev- moneyline like you told me and now you're saying it's like the way i think he's gonna win easily market. Chevy's been well the problem. The reason i'm taking the distance house because market chef to win on points is minus one. Twenty the fight to go the distance as minus twenty four. So i just. I just figured actor pretty much the same number i just get the added benefit of i mean he's a minus seven. How knockout even also knock. I could not get plus three thirty by market chavez of submission by him Fifty which. I got to do the double chin. Yeah you can do the job. Knockout and submission. I mean it's very possible. I mean look. He was dominated by. Kitchen was dominic against dober- who i think is a really good fighter. The only thing boys in in one thousand nine hundred has never been stopped. They've all gone the distance fi- five of his last six fights. Five last six fights have gone the distance. Although these are three round fights both guys haven't fought five round fight so Yes over five is less six point. Zero gone the distance market. I think you know Two of his last three of gone the distance at three. For he's minus. He's oh he's when he is he is dominant. He is is is an animal using kid. You could go. you could go. What would you do you go by. Tko plus submission. That's plus one forty or would you go and points minus two wait suit. Was there a tko oser. Knockout or points option. Yeah that's mine that's mine is to nats. Yeah that's the highest. Yeah all right. Let's go the distance. I think he'll he'll i think he'll win almost every round but yeah i think it's this is another one all man i. I hope we don't have to leave this up all his main event. Now he's pretty dominant not to say it's good but yeah Dhammika parlay kid Let's get back to the nba where we know. The officiating is a screwy. what your best. Yes song gonna stick ya. I have The one i gave out the other day fleetwood to finish in the top twenty right now. That would be happening. He's tied for eighteenth. It was several players to wonder couple haller to left. So that's at least as a shot on going to be taking the sons to win and crowder five or more rebounds at plus one. Oh four crowder is gone. Five straight games with over five rebounds seven of his last eight. He's gone over five rebounds. I think the sun's come out. Nah play greg game as we talked about before crowded grabs five. Boards has been very good. He had eight yesterday And that's plus one of four. So i really liked that all right. I'll go with you there. paul ince. he's the most annoying player demand the final. So let him just annoy me a little more right. Let's just re route for all you gonna look. I mean eight six ten nine five that's his rebounding totals before dad who's four. Seven cities is money with these rebounds. He's gonna get five five. Plus i like the fact that it's you know it's five or more kind of like i had cam johnson last night on my extra points pick. I actually thought. I lost Said something because it was ten or more points and he had ten. I was thinking it was like ten the ten plus ten plus and that plus one. Oh wait harry what's got deal it's got right. Can i bet that he'll wear an undershirt. I really think mine is absolutely all right. Listen It's time to take a ride on the riverboat casino. Where once in a while. The degenerate try than i set sail tackling pretend propositions based on sports and pop culture. Our friend harry here. Big time loser is lost. Last three weeks has not won a game but we love him just the same. He's turning fifty years old a half century of losing only boy yes. Fifty turns on. Friday turns fifty and goddess thinking in honor of our harry's fiftieth birthday. Who is the greatest harry to ever walk. The earth is it. Harry gagged on. Yes that's our guy minus. Four hundred. Is it harry carey. Famed chicago cubs announcer three to one odds. Harry truman president. Seven to one odds harry. Houdini famed magician twelve to one odds or the field at even odds. All right brother bribes. First of all say harrison is a much better name. Right harry is just very just seems like a nickname right. is that true areas that even Strong it's not harold. Harold vanass many many times. What your real name and on my birth certificate. Say harry. i'm actually a junior ari junior. I can't believe they have birt's just to give the doctor a non lottery ticket and say thank you. That sounds right. I do like harry carey while we also have. There's harry styles give us. I guess watermelon sugar of the layout of the last year. We have harry. From harry and the hendersons which i was thinking of but he doesn't talk So i'm gonna go with go with harry done What are the all time. Great characters from from my youth dumb and dumber Yeah i think he's worthy. I mean he was the smarter of the two I know if i guess he's dumb right he's dominant and lloyd hammer So yeah you know it's It's a step up from harry. And harry done already done better hair. Better to better ari ari all right paula. Kid first of all harry. Happy fiftieth Well done it talk about against all odds right. Fifty awesome job big brother brian. I unfortunately won't be there but what we're going to be filled in all the hijinks happen. I'm going to say. We'll harry's harry's probably the most infamous harry out of those out of that list right is definitely the most infamous but than say harry houdini because he could make our harried disappear. All right. Not easy to do yeah. Hey didn't harry. Houdini die got punched in the stomach and diet guide fifty two years old. Somebody was like part of a stunt wasn't really a magical stuff. You should do that harry you. Should you know the way two years of your lucky enough to get there but at fifty to challenge someone to do the same Listen We could make fun and and pick these other guys but are harry is the answer. There's just no question. These other harry's have nothing on him. It's been a legendary fifty years. Let's break it. Down to harry. Carey ever turned down a career in broadcasting literally drive by his internship in atlanta continuing onto the bright lights of vegas where you started career as a lead professional for three days before he went flat broke down that he did not did harry. Houdini a kid harry. Houdini ever as treasurer of his dirtbag fraternity brothers to bed on monday night. Football games and those funds disappeared. That's online student apple. That's koroma lines. They went under because of harry. Harry truman ever do a podcast. In costa rica giving out his best golf picks on the phone while a prostitute nibbled on his ear. Yes did i looked at up to do that. That's actually how he got elected the second time. So there you go. Our harry wins at my one hundred hours. I'm thanks good job. Joe baby-faced joel solomon. You have anything to add here. You guys did forget about my favorite hairy a hanukkah harry of course but no of course it's a terry gag. Non part man. Part vending machine is the absolute.
Against All Odds with Cousin Sal
"sal" Discussed on Against All Odds with Cousin Sal
"Always mcveigh dayton guy. At least he lived in dayton staley played for dayton so another new guy joining the ranks. It's amazing harry. It is pretty good and it's been fantastic so parlay parlay kid wanted a trade. Ob top for basically nothing. Yes basically nothing. So i was just gonna straight up. Let's do it top sexton straight up. Yes south mcveigh There's a lot of chatter coming out of la about Mcveigh in stafford. Just working some magic already Getting along stafford looks awesome. I think this is not just about mcvay. But this is a stafford's chance to and i do think the rams are the best team in that good division and i think if the rams go say twelve and five win that division which i think that is probably the most balanced division football. I think mcveigh's got a leg up. I did have mcdermott on the last year. And i don. I was really upset that he didn't would it last year. I think that was his chance to win it. I think i had him. I might not have picked. I had money on him. Mcdermott and disappointed. He didn't think mcveigh That look we know. Their defense is dynamite and stafford. Yeah i i guess. We didn't realize how much goff was. Probably holding mcveigh back. Because i think mcveigh's very creative offensive coach and last year. When you watch those rams games they were terribly. Boring games i they. They couldn't really do much of anything. So stafford is going to be a major upgrade. Their stafford has a lot to prove. Mcveigh's gonna help them get to that that next level at least From a team perspective. I think this team makes very deep run End up mcvay coach. The makers could at the end of this year. Be on top three back right so he came on and africa came on and one seventeen and one stafford to win. Mvp if you like that sort of thing. I love these big number so early in the year. Let's jump harry. I don't like your victim. And i'll stefanski twenty one to one and know everybody's on the browns bandwagon and i. I am too for season with the browns won. We won the awards. let you mentioned these lebanon. Lebanon five cleveland's moving in the right direction. They have their sights set on winning the division this year. Pittsburgh's got many issues on offense a same with baltimore in terms of the wide receiver core. They smoked embarrassed. The steelers in the playoffs last season. Finally giving the fans of cleveland. Hope first time probably since ballot check coached them in the mid nineties. Great rushing attack beckham his back mayfield's only getting better and cleveland went defense were the first two picks in the draft which is very smart to do week one. Listen i might be losing all these games. But i haven't lost any in football weak one. They are beating the cheat on the road. I'm calling. I've called it on the show before and calling it again. Weak one they beat the chiefs in arrowhead straight up. Well that would help your bet here. But what doesn't help is that. They haven't had back to back coach. Understand but if the browns division he's going to be right there. I actually think they do on the debate again. Well that's i mean it could be someone mcdermot but like they have to have the best record in the. Afc right for that to happen. They got beat they got. Can't they gotta beat. Kansas city gets fourteen in the browns. Win the division and get twelve or thirteen last year into. That doesn't go back to back but still the laughing stock did win last year and this year is this year. So that's all right. Let's let's jump to sharp tank. Let's do it. I think all your picks none of them played out right. You're shark tank picture. Tuesday because they all golf how we doing on the god. What what we mind lost borakove was lab took morikawa. He's top ten right now. You love him. He's always does well right off the top ten he's I think he was eighth. Finished on a. Let's change a little bit but this is all going to be over by noon. West coast time on sunday right brian. Shahrukh ryan guy. Louis is in is in the league so Yeah i mean these guys like one guy who's on eleventh hole but these were almost done with around one here it's it's eleven towards worth civic time. Lewis is zander. Outright abe through zander. He didn't get them burden and then he gave it back the next all right. I'm keeping an eye on day shambo. Because i'm i shorted him all the way to not make the cut to to lose to kapka. Where's captain respect minus. Wanna are tied for thirty three. We got yeah i was. I was talking to you guys. I think like these. I'm watching this course and it just doesn't seem like there's any way bryce and gets out of it without a four bogeys in around now. He had five today. A few birdies too. But i think it's just impossible for him his style to avoid bogey so look for him in the match. Ups rahm surprising. Darren you took fleetwood right yeah. Fleet was right. Now mickelson mickelson. We should've went to not make the do that. I always go against and that would have been so damn thing is even last plus eight team. Oh rash anybody know where anybody were. Fowler sitting right here one under so he'll have to make the cut that sucks. That's john. I lost out with the sun. Went in one by one to ten remember. That was my shirt. That's right that's right jeeze all right. So harry start off. Let's change the mojo first of all. It should be known. The streaky has gone on extra points. Dot com so. That's different from the shark tank although those have been bad but so Listen let's go. let's keep it. God just shark tank though the extra points dot com. He has the over in the red sox yankees nine and today Vandal went up to ten. But i have. Is that what people are. Actually betting the over. You're not suggesting based out. At all. I don't know listen. I'm going under here. What are you doing here. Go game five of box. Sons janas over thirty three and a half points at minus one ten. Alex mentioned only had eleven shots in game two and game to and phoenix or game. One game two and phoenix shot. Sixty eight percent from the field. At forty two. In the regular season game and phoenix. Jet sixty five percent had forty. Seven middleton at forty yesterday was fantastic but on the road. He's been shaky. That's where you're honest probably will need to pick up some slack. Some scoring slack. If middleton is middle of the road jaanus over thirty three and a half points as my shark tank. All right brother brian. Congratulations by the way you call the wnba all star game right going up against the nba finals here which was fun but It was a little early was bef- yet. They added that they put it on seven. I mean i guess yet tonight probably would have better and better night to to play it. Probably yeah i had a team. Wnba versus the olympic team essentially a getting five and they won. They won the game outright. They could probably beat the men's olympic. They'd bounce back a little bit all right. What do you got all right Well i've had a good run abetting the overs In these ufc fights a nice little string here. So i'm going to go for the the main event in the market. Avoid noises fight I'll get a taking the fight to go. The distance is minus twenty four. While why did you take market to. So i needed to hedge against. This is all confusing. Todd firmin's big bucks bet. He gains fa- futures bed on fox. Bat live so i had. I need the box. I wanted to bring the bucks down to even or something so i could have done box combined with each team scoring at least one hundred points which.
Against All Odds with Cousin Sal
"sal" Discussed on Against All Odds with Cousin Sal
"He doesn't matter his shoulder can get injured. Come back the next day and hit two home runs and then i'll still four basis. He's pretty great at. That's probably decent odds. I'm knockin argument to there. I'm just kinda bombed gr-. I mean as a kid like you. You have one all star per to somehow the pirates up to all stars and the may only have one and he's not showing up to the games. Imagine like as a seven-year-old like yeah so that's why that homerun derby win was so big jan. Anything else jump out at you. I know these there are some to not make the playoff odds at are fun to look at but yeah. I've got a couple long shop playoffs cedar plus many. I wouldn't mind sprinkling a little on angels to make the playoffs of plus seven fifty. Back to five hundred. They've about five hundred who they competing with the mariners. I mean yeah the as but again. The angels are a high contact team. They put the ball in play all the time. If they can fix their pitching they still had yet to see. Justin upton and mike trout like they need the. They're not all healthy yet so if they can all be held the i can see them going on rent. Don has been unhealthy all year. He's on the isle right now. So get all those guys back in the lineup. Shohei otani is the best player in baseball. Obviously he's gonna take the al mvp in jared walsh's been just unbelievable like fifth in the league. Rbi something like that insane. So i can see the angels doing that at plus seventy and the other one if this is really crazy. But they've done it before plus eleven twenty on the nationals. Again if they get back a healthy schwarzenegger they get back. A healthy strasbourg and juan soto has yet to get hot and he will was just starting to heat up so i it's possible they could make a late pushes while so those kind of long shots. That's pretty good. I don't wanna say. Obviously my mets are in the first place but that division is up for grabs right like i was looking at braves. Five to one phillies. Five to one fifteen and one is a little out. Their rates are dim. Why who's done. Braves accused season at around ian anderson. Probably going on. I l like they're they're done. Yeah so we'd give them but you know it's still the mets and phillies at five to one. That's fifteen one to jump out there like you said you know mrs a few starts. We get a couple. I don't know how we're doing it with some of his pitching like really just crazy in the sunday show. We did bullpen by committee. And it didn't work. I see you'd have a bunch of games like that coming up by the forgot to throw in my my pick brewers thirteen to one. They were fifty to one the start the year. They're fifty three and thirty nine ever four-game lead which is the biggest in the nl. I think for councils. Don't it with the arms. I have four all stars right burns. Peralta would drift closer hater. All stars narvaez batting three hundred. And like when you talk about. I get it pitching in october. You know maybe kershaw's out maybe bowers out. Maybe they do have the best staff in the league. So i would take the nationally brewers at thirteen to one or fifty to one. I think that's decent decent nuts. I don't know what do i know about this Jen were you Pleased with your performance in the extra points dot com draft. Now i take too. many longshots. Should've played more safe. Plays but what. I get to write jovovich to win wimbledon and astor's to be leading it all star break. Got the last one right right. Oh i guess technically yeah you got jovic to win. Yeah so i was looking at this aisle. I forgot to count them up. But i think there were so what we did was. This was february. This was like the week after the super bowl and about fourteen of us competed a futures draft. And it's a snake draft and you could take most futures on the board that that pay off by july fifteenth or by the all star break. So there was. Mvp people took lebron win. Mvp people took the kentucky derby of which we had no idea which horses were n. but anyway i think harry the only horse that actually raced in the kentucky derby we had you had home run leaders at the all star break. You had wimbledon yet french open. You had everything and brother brian. Congratulations you came in first thing on. Did you get to write. what did you do. yeah. I got I got the most improved player. I think he was. I think i had like one hundred fifty at seventy one. And then i got chelsea hundred on chelsea at twelve. So would you have one actual money if you had steak the way we laid it out because what were we given. We're given as remember i remember. I can't remember the total amount. Either it was a thousand total. Yeah i think it was at the thousand. Yeah you were over a thousand if you're over. Yeah yeah. I would like fourteen to fifteen hundred now. So here's the thing. I think there were twenty counties up again. I meant to write this out. But i think you would think you would make your the distance. And it became a non factor. 'cause he'll produce jim cunningham add vlad guerrero junior and i had to tease to win the mostly ruined by the all star break and otani went crazy. He wouldn't five up on them the last week and we couldn't catch up so that was it but jam. What would your strategy be differently. Because twenty five players to lead the league in home runs and none of them want twenty-five we're taken amongst us i mean yet is crazy but one of the things is the hardest to predict in baseball is runs and people think that's so easy but it's actually really not to call a home run so really difficult and to pick a leader because all of those guys they're stack cast metrics said they do it. Everybody that you picked but yet it's shohei ohtani. There was no sign of that. There is no way that that was happening as far as we were concerned. Preseason not in the was he not in the top twenty five like a- guys were trying. Yeah i'm trying to think there must have been odds for him though right. Yeah i think they had is yes. We should look at what they were. We'll find out if you have. If you guys could find show otani will odds for homerun but this is also just by the all star break. I don't know if that makes it right here. Or i don't know it's hard anyway. Harry joel a shock. And i hit three futures bets. Each now wasn't enough but we're going to run it back probably in the next month. We'll figure it out obviously a lot of football involved and baseball. Well johnny did did well. I don't know never going to get to the end of this with the astros and and yankees should should. Maybe he should get a tattoo. I'll to maybe that should be as pontiff. Maybe shed yes chooses. I don't know we'll figure it out what else you have gender promote a lot of stuff going for.
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"sal" Discussed on Against All Odds with Cousin Sal
"Jen. Jen's saying and brian you know i was a girardi guy. I you're i don't get it that you're right. They just wanted a nice guy who can play. Nice nice with these with these players. It's just yet has all right. So how are you like oakland to make the playoffs. But as a wildcard team again harry. He's not giving us great odds here minus one sixty four. Yeah but oakland still twelve games over five hundred. Only three and a half back in the west Matt tattoo fantastic season. He leads the team in Average home runs with twenty. Three are b is fifty nine pitching chris bassett again another great season. Ten and two averaging nine ks per nine innings urban and manera also been excellent starters and they've made the playoffs. Oakland has actually three years on the road. Sign up for brian. I should've gone to you. You are now picking answer team eight games out you like. The red sox won a division. Yeah like them to win the division even though this this race is closed with the rate. It's hard to imagine the in. Stay at the top when your best starter is rich hill. It's amazing that you know right. Now he is their best star but the red sox starting pitching hasn't been great but the bullpens been decent in that lineup. Is you know top three or four and baseball but my thing is you know the red sox are gonna make few moves here to distance themselves from the raise in. It's unlikely for the raise unless they're bringing up somebody from the minor leagues that you know that they're going to make any type of any type of big moves there so again. I think they're starting. I don't know when i look at that him. I know they find ways to do it every year but just richhill for some reason. Stare me in the face as their best starter. Just a overcome the red sox all right jim. What else you got. I think I like carlos ran for the aol. Cy young or we let you do. Yeah and here's why. I think that degrading well. I shouldn't talk about. Let's just talk about carlos redone garrett cole. His spin rates are off. They are if you go down and look at the game feed. He's one of the people who has been affected by this spider tack. Whatever museum have to blow extends in june he stunk. Now he did dial in and face the astros but i also think that he knew how to pitch the astor's and there was a lot more on the line there and he was just really focusing knows how to pitch at minute maid which is pitchers kark believe it or not. Even though the astor's all this offense so i really think garrett cole down the stretch. He has a higher era than carlos. Redone and he has a lower strikeout percentage curls don striking out batters thirty six percent of the time. Kohl's down to thirty three percent. Now i just don't think he's going to have the edge and also usually this voting goes to a team that makes the postseason white sox going. They've still got yet get back illinois. Is the waste robert. Their pitching staff has been spectacular. And plus it's a great story. So i'm kinda rooting for carlos redundant husky one hundred. It's a lot more fun than garrett cole. Well here's the thing. And i had done to two to one odds. And there's a nice record. One seventy percent of his at seven three to thirty one tied for second in strikeouts had g alito for the white sox to have the most strikeouts in the beginning you that was one of my bus picks but if you just go by the stats is so garrett call it really is and i know i get. Most of this was before everything turned around. But if you go wins above replacement if no ego all these categories all the major categories. It's caracol so you're betting on him to fall apart or jan said for the spin rate to really come into play and you know what we saw a you know aside from the astros game the other day The last two months at a coal is what you're thinking. So that's basically what you're betting on down I will say what else do. We have also brian. She brought up the white socks. You like them to win the al. Yeah i liked him to win. A l i i like them. That was one of my picks. I think they're over under wednesday at the start of the year. But it's even with the crazy i mean. Jeez they've had so many injuries but even with the crazy amount of injuries there's still a top heading team in baseball. They pretty much don't have to worry about the division so they can look to get healthy before the postseason like jenn was saying they get robert back at some point but that's probably later in the year jimenez. We'll be back grondahl back to that. Lineup is going to be crazy. Get come the playoff time. And then plus you have you have one of the better pitch starting pitching staffs in baseball to lend rodong and then even yeah gio lido. Even though his numbers aren't what they have been. I mean as a number three starter right now. That's that's still really good. Yeah absolutely and well. let's finish it off barley kid. Let's go now go. Nl mvp going against my guide. Degrom That's it. Because i went against garrett cole. That's why you jones at all. I just don't think guy was going to win thirteen games. She's gonna get. Mvp safe for this hill could still. Maybe i love. I love thirteen well right. Maybe my being generous. When i say thirteen this by the way he writes out the game to graham sits out the game where you could potentially get some run support. Finally for god's sakes play the all star game. Do you agree with that. Mean for him to be the. Mvp favourite could've pitcher. I have no problem with them. Winning fourteen games and winning the cy young i think with other numbers is going to put up absolutely. But how will you be the. Why would you be the mvp with like. Say fourteen wins. Max like maybe he gets fifteen up to fifteen. I'm sure he's going to miss a starter to. He's going to come out early some games so i'm going to go with tatty. At plus one fifteen is on pace for What you would say is is going to be very close to a forty forty season which we use to rave about right if somebody was forty home runs forty stolen bases playing a premier position on top notch team. And he's becoming the face of baseball at plus one fifteen. I'm writing with him all day for. Mvp jump on him now before those odds changed. Jan you're shaking your head again. I hate to be so agreeable. But i have been down here for the same reasons i think. Degrom is a lot for the ailsa. Cy young absolutely no what. We know that much about baseball. Y'all just exhilarating for the nl. Cy young. There's no question about that. And i but i don't think that the writers are necessarily gonna vote for him to win. Mvp because everything he just said i mean taty says the face of baseball. They want to spread it around. We still have a whole second half offense to watch and we don't need to give to awards to one guy is fantastic as jacob. Degrom is and he is. He's the best pitcher in baseball much better than garrick. No question about it. But todd seizes the pay here for me. He has twenty eight homers and seven seventy four game..
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"sal" Discussed on Habits and Hustle
"Was tony robbins. You listening to have its in hustle. I have at my friend on today. How have say. Sal distefano. I did for distefano. I was gonna screw up. And he's one of the hosts of mine pump which is one of the best health podcasts out there and you guys are all hilarious and i love you and adam and well justin and doug. I don't know as well but you guys are just great together to end..
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"sal" Discussed on Agents of DAMNED
"Maybe not. I might not be the best person to do that. You're in great state of mind like arlo like starts. We'll say good and say it's like a shell of. Oh yeah not that okay. Just me then circled ryan. All right for you balls ryan. Speaking onis dunmurry. Sal is sal. Amanda to report yes.