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We have the NBA Finals. We have Conor McGregor going out on a stretcher. We have USA Basketball. We have the Euro Finals.
We have our good friend Troops on the show to break down the Euro Finals. He was at Wembley. He saw the scenes. He talks to us about everything that happened there.
We have some segments. We have a lot. Oh, the Water Dogs were good. A huge packed weekend to get you going on Monday.
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And guess what? We got ourselves a series. The Bucs made sure Suns and Ford didn't happen. They beat the Suns pretty soundly.
And I think, I think the series is on. Well, it's not a series still. The home team loses it. So the series has to start.
The gentleman's sweep is still in play. I still think it's going to be 4-1 Suns. But Giannis is, I think, healthier than he's ever been in his entire life at this point. He's going to have to drop in 40 points like it's nothing.
Back-to-back 40s. Just jamming on people. He does look like the healthiest person on the court. And it was also a little bit of an anomaly in terms of the Jake Crowder game.
He shot 6 for 7 from 3. And they still got their asses kicked. Well, it was what we said on Friday's show. That if the Bucs, Giannis can't do it all himself.
He had 40-plus on Thursday, game 2. He has 41 tonight, 41, 13, and 6. But you can't do it all yourself. And we said if Chris Middleton and Drew Holiday could just hit a few more shots, his supporting cast around him chip in.
It also probably helps that Devin Booker had a horrific, horrific shooting night. He was 3 for 14. Pretty bad. So I do think that the Bucs, like, playing back games 1 and 2 in my head, I think it's going to be serious.
I really do. I think the Bucs, like, they have enough guys to make this a series. I do still think the Suns are going to win. But that was a great performance to come home, game 3.
Backs against the walls. Shout out our guy, Ryan Russo, who said you can't fake desperation because that's what it felt like. They had Dana Beers in the crowd. Young and Beers.
That probably is why they won. But the Bucs, that's what happened at the last game that he went to. So he chugged a beer and then they went on a roll. I'm officially calling it this as a series.
The Bucs, this was a very good game for the Bucs. And I think they can compete. Like, there's nothing that I've seen in the first three games that it's essentially who can play their, like, top-level ball. Because when the Suns, like we said, when the Suns have their guys going, Chris Paul and Devin Booker hitting shots and DeAndre Ayton, they're impossible to beat.
And the same is for the Bucs when they have Giannis throwing in 40. Oh, I just noticed that. First player with back-to-back 40-point games. Yeah.
What's the terrible saying that everyone keeps saying on ESPN SportsCenter? Give them his flowers? Is that what they say? Yeah, give them their flowers.
Give Giannis his flowers. I just know that I've seen it enough. As soon as Bleacher Report and the SportsCenter account does it, it's across the line. So give Giannis his flowers, ironically.
Okay, but not really. Give him his flowers now. No, we're going to mock it, but also do give him some flowers. Before he retires, give Giannis his flowers.
Give him some flowers right now. So we should also, we'd be remiss if we didn't mention Frank Kaminsky's stat line tonight. He had four rebounds, two assists, six points. The triple single.
Listen, they should have been playing him longer because he kind of dominated the first quarter. Also, the coolest highlight of the game in that doubt was Cam Johnson. And the dunk on PJ Tucker. The look on PJ Tucker's head, on his face, when he was picking his head up off the ground, he looked like he had just been born.
He had no idea what was going on. He was amazed. He was like, there's no chance that dunk actually went in, right? What would you say to catch the conspiracy theorists that say the NBA brought in Scott Foster to get eight in foul trouble because they know that playing Kaminsky will help the Bucs win?
Well, I disagree because I'm looking at it right now. I'm looking for a stat that would pack up what I'm about to say. Well, here's a fun stat. I don't know if there are any stats.
Frank Dominic's point. I think Chris Paul is 12 straight playoff losses when Scott Foster has been officiating a Chris Paul game. Okay, so there was one different one. I think the value game was Scott Foster.
So it's like 12 out of 13. And that one was a problem. Oh, you didn't play that game. All right, so in my point stands, it's a series as long as they keep Scott Foster around in Milwaukee, and then we can go seven.
Give Scott Foster his flowers. Yeah, give Scott Foster his flowers. I love it. You know what, though?
People, this is what we need for the NBA. The NBA will be like, oh, this is rigged. Aisha Curry, oh, I can't watch this anymore. I like that the NBA, when it needs a series to go a little bit longer, will send a guy, and you'll make sure that it goes a little bit longer.
I like that. Something that people need to quit doing is complaining about shit being rigged. They rig it to make it better. It's Buffalo Wild Wings.
They rig it to get as close to seven-game series as possible. I want more sports. Right, like a sweep in Milwaukee would have been, besides Suns and Four guy, who he now, he lost so much money tonight. Yeah.
Like he lost, his entire brand is gone. We said it, if the Suns had swept the finals, he would have, I think I said he would be like a multimillionaire, and I actually kind of stand behind that. Yeah, he would be. He would be the guy, at the very least, who would never buy another beer in Arizona again.
Right. He's probably going to decide to get into another fight. Yeah. That's really the only way out.
If you're the Suns and Four guy, you have to get into a fight, Well, he should just beat the fuck out of Dana Pierce. Yeah. He would beat up Dana. Dana cannot handle that.
He just got a second back. Yeah. So he's probably a little weak in the arms. No, I'm excited, though.
I want this to be a series. I do think the Suns are still going to win, but I'm happy for the Bucs. I do, too. I do kind of like, I feel gypped sometimes when I watch these games.
I can't say that. I feel screwed. There you go. G-worded.
I feel G-worded sometimes when I watch these games, and Aiton fouls out early, or he gets fouls out early. Aiton has become one of my favorite players to watch, just because he's always dunking. He's just always above the rim, and so when he's out, it becomes a different game. Less fun for me.
Yeah. Yeah, no, I mean, I always think that they should change the foul. You should get unlimited fouls. You should get unlimited fouls, and then it gets more punitive as you go along.
I think, yeah, your center should get unlimited fouls. If you get to six, now you get three free throws, and four free throws, and you keep going up and up and up, but I still want to watch the guys play. Yeah, yeah. I always go back to the Joe Kim Noah-Greg Oden final when they both got in foul trouble.
I was like, well, this fucking sucks. So, series on? Is everyone agreeing series is kind of on? It's kind of on.
It's low-key on. Wednesday is going to be game four. If the Bucs win that, then it is high-key on. It's very funny that during tonight's game, Major League Baseball had its draft during the final game, and it was also supposed to be game seven of the Stanley Cup if it had gone seven.
So stupid. I fucking love Major League Baseball. They're so dumb. They are geniuses.
How do they not have the draft tomorrow when there's no sports on, and it's the home run derby? You just do the picks in the middle of the home run derby. Do the first ten picks before the home run derby starts, and then start the home run derby, and there's always downtime during the home run derby. Start announcing the picks live while people are watching that.
Baseball is like, low-key on. I'm seeing right now the Deer District is popping off. The dojo. The dojo.
They've got fireworks going off. Looks like it's a good time. Everyone's going to party. Oh, I have one other point.
I'm done with the fans in 8K. I'm over it. Milwaukee's not really in 8K time. Well, no, it's not even Milwaukee.
Here's why I'm over it. Milwaukee is in... They should never have gotten HD television in Milwaukee. That's the standard definition.
Here's the problem. It's not that it's so high-definition. It's that the best fan moments that you have is when the fan doesn't know the camera's on them. With 8K, they have to get close enough so that you know that the camera's on you.
So it's everyone going crazy for the camera. It's basically like watching the Jumbotron. I want to see the Eurofinal, which we'll get to. I want to see Mario yelling at his girlfriend who's dressed up like a pizza.
That's what I want to see. They need to disguise the camera somehow. They need to have it in the mascot who's just walking around so that people don't know that it's happening. They do start to show off a little bit when you see a camera in front of you.
Throw in a dab. Maybe then you bring me back. I'm over it. I think it was cool for a minute.
Now, I think I'm done. Maybe I'll change my tune when they go to Game 5 back in. I think in Phoenix, the AK definitely plays. But in Milwaukee, no.
Give me those people as standard definitions you can find. All right. So we had a crazy, crazy sports weekend out of nowhere, too. This was one of those weekends when everyone was like, we'll just get through COVID because then all the sports will be happening at once.
This was one of those weekends because we had all the sports kind of happening at once. So UFC, Conor McGregor, his career is probably, well, it's not over as a legitimate fighter it is definitely over. They're already talking about the fourth installation of this rematch. So that's already tentatively been scheduled.
But it does feel like it's over. He was getting his ass kicked in the first round. I don't think that Conor McGregor really feels pain because he just, he stepped on his foot and it bent. It bent at a 90 degree angle.
And then he looks at it while he's on the ground and he just like calmly diagnoses himself with a tib-fib fracture while he's on the ground continuing to fight back. Doesn't really wince in pain whatsoever. And then he's, he has a presence of mind after that first round's over to just insist that they call it a doctor's stoppage. Yeah, he was pissed about that.
I think he eventually got that. They got that light. Because he made it to the end of that first round. But I mean, he was like, he was so cool, calm, and collected as his foot basically fell off.
Yeah, he was, well, afterwards he was, he was the Rick James sketch in the Chappelle show where he had no leg and he was saying how he was going to beat Dustin Poirier's ass. It's like, dude, you just, you just had a fight. It's the Monty Python. It's a flesh wound.
Right, it's like, what are you talking about? You just lost a fight. So I will keep buying Conor McGregor fights forever because he's electric. And part of, whether you like it or not, guess what?
Like the fight business, pay-per-views, it's about the characters behind him. It's about promoting the fight. It's about your mic work just as much as it is about like what's going on in the ring. So him as a legitimate fighter, that is over.
He hasn't won. He's won one fight since 2016 and the guy he beat has lost or has not won a fight in his last six fights. So he's just not going to be able to fight at a high level. He had a great run, but enough is enough in that respect.
He's not a legitimate title contender. I'm still going to buy all his fights. He was getting stretchered out of the ring and then telling the guy like your wife was in my DMs. Which that one hurt though because he said all week that he was going to put, he was going to make sure that Dustin Poirier left in a stretcher.
And then he left in a stretcher and it's like, come on dude, but back in the world's cheapest because you know the instant reaction when someone gets injured? Like, stop showing the replay, don't show the replay. I want to see the replay as many times. I mean, I've professed this side of me many times and I like to watch the injuries and it's gross and it's disgusting but it's like fascinating.
I figured out that, so I can watch these injury videos but what I really like to do is I like to go find somebody that hasn't seen it yet and then watch that person's reaction to the injury videos. So I got to do that like three times and I would bring somebody new into the room and be like, you've got to watch this injury and then I'd just watch their faces and then I'd laugh and be like, yeah, you saw what I just saw. I love it. It's, I mean, I don't know.
I think something's a little bit wrong with me. You think so, Hank? A little bit. You think there'll ever be a time where people are like, yeah, you know what, you're right, like show the replay again?
Yes. Okay, good. So I'm ahead of my time. Yeah, it's like what we're still saying today.
It's like, say now in 15 years, there's no problem with that. Yeah, like now, like half of every... There'll be an injury replay show. Yeah, right.
You should have a channel. The Red Zone channel, I'd watch it. The Red is just blood. By the way, shout out our guy, Scott Hanson, re-upping.
Thank fucking God. So we don't have to listen to... Oh, no, I just took one of those who's back. Billy's who's back.
Nice, nice. Well, we still have the Red TV, so there's... No, fuck. Damn it.
But there should absolutely be a Red Zone channel for injuries. I just play like highlights. Oh, two things, the internet's killed. One is, well, really, the main one that comes to mind is like watching football following videos.
Like bloopers. There's too many bloopers out there now. There was... The NFL used to just sell a video that was just CTE in a can.
Yeah. I was like, look at these guys getting knocked out. This is crazy. There's a blooper reel and it was just players being concussed.
Oh, by the way, Scott Hanson, why he's the GOAT? I saw one of his tweets today gave me chills down my spine. He said, in nine Sundays from now, I'll be with you, folks. That's it?
Yep. I was like, holy fuck. I want to kiss you on your lips, Scott Hanson, and I want to punch... Well, no, what would I do to his balls?
He's so short. I would probably like... I would actually just trip into his balls, right? Step over.
Just step over while he's standing up. All right, back to the fight. Yeah, UFC. I really enjoyed watching these fights, mostly because I feel like one of the things that America can do now, we can come together around very small...
There's only like a handful of things that make everybody happy to do together. One of them is watching Greg Hardy get his ass kicked. Correct. And it was amazing.
That dude is soft. Yes, he would probably murder me, but he got caught. UFC hardos all over the place being like, try Greg Hardy on the streets. No, I don't think you.
Absolutely not. I will gladly watch other big people beat the fuck out of him. He should be on every part being like, watch, here, pay $50 at the bare minimum when you're going to watch Greg Hardy lose. Yes, give me like...
Have him fighting out of his weight class if that's even possible. Have him just like a guaranteed Greg Hardy gets knocked out of it every single fight. I'm in, 100%. Like, he is the world's biggest scumbag and nothing gives me more pleasure than watching him get punched in the face.
And on top of all that, the guy who did it, Bam Bam, from fucking Australia, who did a shooey after. What a legend. There's something about the heavyweight division when you get a guy who comes in and he's visibly kind of sucking in his gut and he's an incredible athlete. He's about to just do damage in the octagon, but he still has that in the back of his mind.
Like, fat kid, like, all right, there's cameras on me. Like, just, you know, tighten it up a little bit, but you can see it. I instantly love those type of guys. He was electric.
He was doing shooey's on the way out with the hot sauce, which was disgusting, but awesome. And that guy could have picked a better guy to beat Greg Hardy's face in. Agreed. When I first started watching that fight, I was like, oh, I think I made that poorly on this.
Because he wasn't even sucking in that much. Yeah. He was just kind of out there like, yeah, I've got a couple of rules. I've got a spare tire on you this side.
But yeah, it was just really cathartic to watch Greg Hardy get punched in the face. That should be a sport of its own. Yeah, never get sold. If Greg Hardy had an OnlyFans, with every video, he could pay $5, punch him once in the face.
Yeah, I think he'd become a millionaire that way. I had a question coming out of these fights. So is Conor McGregor a sore loser? That's what people are saying.
Like, hey, he mentions Dustin Poirier's wife. Dustin Poirier, to his credit, I love when guys, after a fight, the bad blood doesn't stop. That's when you know it's real. He's like, fuck this guy.
I fucking hate this guy. But is Conor McGregor a bad sport, or is he just the greatest heel who just keeps selling fights? I tend to lean latter, but I did see the sentiment that, hey, you're laying on the ground, you just lost, you broke your ankle, and you're saying, you're talking about this guy's wife. He's not a bad sport, he's just Conor McGregor.
Right. That's just what he is. And yes, Conor McGregor is a bad sport, but he's just being Conor McGregor. Like, that's his personality.
The reason why people watch the fights, the reason people get excited to tune in and watch him talk shit in a press conference is because he's Conor McGregor, and he does have that, like, I'm a heel personality. So I think it's too on-brand for him to be like, oh, you're a sore loser. Yeah, no shit, he's Conor. Well, and people sometimes get confused with the fight game, because I did see also Justin Poirier after is like, listen, I like to fight, I don't like all the other bullshit.
Well, unfortunately, all the other bullshit gets people to watch. Yeah, he's paid. Like, Conor McGregor, you might say, oh, asshole, scumbag, all these things. Guess what he does do as well?
He fucking breaks pay-per-view records all the time. That's why we're sitting here right now saying, hey, he's not a title fighter anymore, but I'm still going to buy every single one of his pay-per-views. Just like Tyson at the end, who they were giving him good opponents, but Tyson was the same, where it was like, he sucks now, but guess what? He's still like Tyson, and one punch could do it all.
Yeah, you might not like the entire package that goes into it, but you have to, so like for us, the reason why we're able to get paid to do the show is because we have Blaine Balls turn out burger reviews. Correct. Putting lights on, putting money in our pocket. The pole in the engine.
Yeah, exactly. So we get to look good doing this podcast. That's true. So yeah, it's part of the fight game, you have to have somebody that's willing to start the pot like that, and it was very funny listening to the interview with Conor McGregor while he was on the floor of the octagon right afterwards.
I don't think I understood more than two words that he said. Conor McGregor, I don't think he speaks, is it Irish? He doesn't speak Irish. He doesn't speak Irish.
He just makes up words. He just makes up words as he goes along. I don't think that's an actual language. It's like a language he invented.
He also, it just shows how tough UFC guys are because his ear was bleeding. Maybe brain, ear, maybe just cauliflower ear popping, and that's like a total secondary afterthought injury. I love, I think he's awesome. I don't know what the time is.
The inside broadcast crew is perfect. Joe Rogan sitting down next to the counter was fantastic, but I love, Daniel Cormier is one of those broadcasters where I feel like I'm learning something. There was that moment, I can't remember which fight it was, but it looked like someone was about to get choked out, and Cormier was like, no, he's good, look at where his arm is, and then two seconds later he was good. I was like, holy shit, how do you know that?
I'm always amazed he's a fighter, but he's awesome. He'll be watching two guys just wrestle on the ground, and he'll instantly be like, okay, he needs to put his right shoulder here at this time, and then he can get out with a reversal, which is something like, unless you've done it for years and years and years, it doesn't even comprehend how you're able to just look at two guys and mentally untangle them in your brain from afar. Right, right, and so we obviously do knock broadcasters from time to time, so when they do well, I want to say, hey, I love that. John Anik crushes it too.
John Anik's in the business. Yes, so I think it's a great booth. It's a great night. I love watching big fight nights.
That's the other thing, the last thing with Conor McGregor. Whether you like him, hate him, whatever you want to feel about him, he brings the big fight vibe where you just know it when you feel it. When you buy the pay-per-view, when you sit down, when the main event starts, and you are so locked in, it's one in the morning, chills down, you're fine, there's something that you can't replicate, whether it be boxing or MMA, on a big fight night. There's no other thing in sports like it, and Conor McGregor does that.
He does. He really does. So it was great. It was just fun to watch a full card.
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Yeah, I mean, you knew it was coming too. And it is very funny watching the horny cameraman try to find the one hot person from England in the crowd. You still haven't found them yet. They're still working on them.
Well, the chick who had a, the 69, there's also the Italian dude with the necklace and his shirt off. The fan cam is unbelievable. The pizza in Mario was so great, because I know that the conversation leaving that house could not have been going great when Mario turns to his girlfriend and put on his pizza costume, and it's not flattering whatsoever. You don't think that that's probably part of their vows when you get married in Italy.
She should have been leaving. No, you can't take your wife to a soccer game and then have her dress up as your brother. I think that would be hot. You think that would be hot?
Pizza. The fan cam to me was so entertaining today because every fan there was crying by the fifth minute, either out of nerves, because you were in Italy and you were behind and you're like, oh fuck, we're going to lose this, or because you're British and you're like, fuck, I've seen this movie before. We scored too early. Everybody was crying.
Everybody in that city was so, so nervous. But I don't know, after the 20th, 30th minute, I felt like Italy had it in hand. Even though they were losing at the time, this was a 1-1 Italy victory today. They scored too early.
They scored too early. But Italy-Bethy-Wayble, this is why they won. They did. Yeah, on aggregate, they won the Euro final.
I also credit to me, we're a huge soccer podcast, everyone knows that. I finally figured out that Gareth Southgate is the name of the English coach because for the longest time, when they would reference Southgate, I thought it was like a Scotland Yard situation where it was like the head of English football is on Southgate Street. Okay. And they're like, Southgate says this.
Doesn't it kind of play? I thought Gareth Southgate was like the name of the stadium in Liverpool. Yeah, right. It sounds like, oh yeah, the word out of Southgate is that we're going to have to start soccer today.
Yeah, so Southgate was on the British side. Who was the coach of? Fabrizio. Fabrizio?
That's another thing that we should discuss at some point. At what point do you no longer become a coach and now you're a manager? Yeah, Roberto Mancini. I was close.
Because if you're a college baseball coach, you're a coach, but then you're a major league baseball manager. Yeah. And if you're a soccer coach, I think you might be a manager in college baseball. Really?
Yeah. No, I think it's coach. I think it's college baseball coach. I guess it's coach, yeah.
Roberto Mancini did a great job with the guys out there today. We have that 4-3-3. It's the little things in life, like whenever they announce the whole Italian lineup, I just look at all the names and I'm like, damn, that guy's really Italian. Which makes sense because they are literally from Italy.
But I don't know why, like whenever you see a Luigi in the wild or Roberto or Fabrizio, I think is maybe a guy on the team. Give us a couple guys on the team. There was Immobile. Yeah, I just laughed.
Giesa looks so Italian that he starts to look French. Yeah, a little bit. He's the most Italian-looking person in the entire world. We got three goalies, Salvador Sirigu, Gianluigi, Donnarumma.
Wait, wait, wait. That's it, Gianluigi. I don't know. It's very stupid.
I admit that it's very stupid to me. When I see them in the wild, I'm like, oh, fuck, that guy's Italian. Yeah, so the last goalie for Italy was also named Gianluigi. I think it's like number 10 to give that to the best player.
Yeah, that starting goalie for Italy always has to be named Gianluigi. And then if you win in the entire time, that's him. Gigi Buffon was Gianluigi Buffon. Got it.
And then before him, it was like, I want to say Gianluca. Gianluca. I love it. I love it.
Yeah, that guy was really good. Give me a couple other names. Give me a couple. Giovanni Di Lorenzo, Giorgio Cellini, Leonardo Spinozola, Emerson, the last name, Francesco Acerbi, Leonardo Bonucci, Alessandro Bastog.
Leonardo Bonucci? That's a fucking fire name. I don't know. Matteo Pessina, Andrea Bellotti, or Bellotti, Lorenzo Insigne.
I love it. They all sound like they'll come over your house and smoke all your cigarettes. I just fucking love them. Federico Bernadeschi.
Yeah, so shout out Italy. It's coming Rome. All right, what else do we have? Oh, the Water Dogs are good.
Yeah, well, they're solidified in the middle of the pack right now. Yeah, they did my blog jam. I watched the entire game on Friday, skipped the entire game on Sunday, but I watched the entire game on Friday and they played very well. They kicked the shit out of Paul Rabel's team.
We're beating some inferior opponents right now. Yeah, the only problem I had with them on Friday was they just stopped playing for the over, which we got to talk to the coach and figure that out. I had Billy crunch some stats. Give it to me, Billy.
So our strategy is simply just shoot more. The Water Dogs shot the most out of any team in their game against the Cannons. There it is. How many shots?
50 shots. Boom. Versus the Cannons shot 28 times. That's all you got to do.
Just shoot the ball. And they also had the second highest total with 48 shots in their other game. So wait, so we had first and second highest total. Tied for second with the Archer.
So this works? Yep. The results are there. There was a curveball shot Listen, we're a results-oriented management company here.
Good dogs. Good boys. Very good boys. Yeah.
They get to sleep back inside. No more out in the doghouse. All right, let's do our Who's Back? Then we have troops and we have some segments for everyone today.
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Okay, Henry is back. We're back. The whole crew is back. Shout out to Jake and Tongue filling in.
Much appreciated. Tongue, Tongue. Big Tongue, we are back. Great to be back.
Jake brought back a sickness. Are you sick, Hank? Not a sickness. A little vacation hangover.
Oh, you got the beach flu. Did you get sick on vacation? Well, I went really hard out of the gate and then I think I got the beach flu like halfway through. And I'm on the back end of that.
How many days is this beach flu on? Is this a two-day hangover? Well, it was a long vacation, so it was like the first four or five days I went hard and then I got sick after that. And then I'm feeling better now.
Two more vacation questions. How was the shaming curve a little bit? People were respectful of your vacation time? Yes, somewhat.
Good. For the most part. Two, did you see Barry Alvarez retired and he accrued 31 weeks of vacation? Yes.
He got paid out a fat check. But I don't know that I would do that because he didn't take the vacations. He got to just take the vacations. I think he probably did and just, you know.
I mean, his whole life is a vacation. Yeah, right. He came back to take a job. That is essentially what he would be doing in his free time anyway.
$300,000 he'd be baked. Sorry. Hank, can you fuck? No, what?
What? Just serious. Jesus Christ. Serious.
All right. Scratch. Scratch. How so?
And DK Metcalf. Jose Altuve's back because of that game against the Yankees? Yep. Yankees blew six from me in the ninth.
Altuve had to walk off. Take his shirt off. They got the easiest punishment of all time. That was the only thing on the note we talked about in real time with COVID.
They got let off more than anyone's been off the hook in the history of anything. Because fans are back now, but it's so long ago that they don't care. It's not right that he's able to take his shirt off and play into that joke without having ever really been punished for that. Correct.
I'm not laughing at it. It's also very funny and sad for Yankee fans that they got the ultimate punishment of all of this by signing Garrett Cole for a shitload of money who is only good... Well, he had a great game on Saturday night, but seemingly is only good when he can cheat with spider attack. Right.
That really sucks, right, Jake and Billy? Small sample size. Of just Saturday night him being good? Of what?
He had three bad starts and then one good one. Not enough yet. Okay. He'll get a grip.
I like Billy. He's back. Okay. And then what was the other one?
DK Metcalf. For what? He did like a one-legged box. Oh, yeah.
That was fantastic. 42 inches. It was insane. I was thinking a 12-pound basketball.
I mean, I can't even do a one-legged without any weight. I would imagine most people can't. He's like 20 inches. Maybe.
He's a beast. Yeah, but he also struck out twice in the Celebrity All-Star Game tonight. He did? In slow-pitch softball.
Yikes. Is that going to air tomorrow or today? Well, I don't know. There are people at the game that were giving me reports on his possibility.
Yeah, I think they might air it after the home run derby or something super weird. I need to see his two strikeouts, though. We need those. All right, PFC, your who's back?
My who's back of the week is Shark Week. Shark Week's back. Shark Week, boo, Shark Week. Although I do have kind of a shutdown kind of pre-calling on this one.
I think that we're overdue for Summer of the Shark. The media hasn't really had anything to keep us in fear about after COVID has kind of started to become an afterthought. The media, they are overdue for another Summer of the Shark. You weren't scared about the story of the shooting that was planned in Denver?
That was pretty scary. Oh, that one? Yeah, that was pretty scary. That one was really...
They were saying that they found a shitload of guns and it could have been like a drug deal that was going on or they were selling guns, maybe not necessarily like a planned massacre. Yeah, but that's how the media... The media definitely got to be scared on that one. Exactly.
When you find... If a reporter finds a room that's got seven guns in it, they're going to be like, but I do think that we're overdue for Summer of the Shark. There might be one shark attack on the East Coast the next month and then everybody will just freak out and be like Summer of the Shark attack. Shark Week sucks.
Shark Week does suck. It doesn't make a genius to figure out how to make Shark Week good again. And that's just give us some eating. Give us some feeding friends.
I don't even have... Don't make someone die just for Shark Week. Just get more cameras out in the ocean so when someone does die, naturally, we can put it into Shark Week. I'd like to say if I get eaten by a shark and it's on camera, I want you to use that for content.
Correct. Don't let me die in vain. Tease it up on Shark Week. My who's back is the GOATS because it was a big weekend for the GOATS.
Messi wins his long-eluded international trophy with the Copa America. Is that what it's called? Yeah, sure. Why doesn't he play in fucking...
Euro? Yeah. South America is in South America. Oh, true.
Was that? No, no. That was right? No, that was a draft.
I'm back. I'm back. Just kidding. Come on.
It was a big tournament. It was South America instead of Europe. Right, right, right. It's basically the World Cup except not Brazil and Argentina.
Right. And Colombia. Totally understood. Totally.
Yeah, but he won. We'll just pretend that the ending didn't happen when he just totally missed from like two feet away. Argentina won. Argentina won.
Messi, my GOAT. So now Ronaldo and Messi have the same amount of trophies, international trophies, I believe. And that's really the only thing that was separating them at this point because Messi's kicking his ass and everything else. Everything else.
And then Djokovic, it's over. He won his 20th Grand Slam title. Wimbledon, it's over. He's tied Federer and Nadal.
He's slightly younger than those guys. He's going to win at the US Open. That's the calendar year Grand Slam. Actually, they were saying it might be the Gold Slam if he wins the Olympics as well.
He's the GOAT. Jake, what do you say to this because you've been on the wrong side of history and I'm wiping the floor with you. You're a Federer guy. We all know everything.
No, you're a Federer guy. Three-way tie for 20. Great for the sport. You're a Federer guy.
We need all three in the semifinals at Billie Jean King Tennis Center in two months. All in the semifinals. There's no chance that Federer comes back and adds to that. Nope.
The 20th has a period next to it. He had a good run this tournament. No, really? He lost in the quarterfinals.
Yeah, he's not getting it. See what you're doing right now talking about Federer? Can you imagine five years ago being like, you had a good run? Ronnie last in the quarter.
Yeah, you're right. It's over. It's over. See the Queens?
No. Actually, we were talking about we might go to one. A game. Is this the one that he got kicked out a couple years ago when he tried to kill a football?