After Hours with Amy Lawrence PODCAST: Hour 1

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Are you ready? It's my reindeer bell because it's my last show before Christmas. Jay, are you so happy the bell is back?

I know you're jealous. I love the bell. You do love the bell. It happens every year when I'm near my mom for the holidays. I'll wear this for about 12 hours around the house and she'll say to me, can you just take it off and put it over there for a little while? You just take it off and put it on that table for a while?

What do you mean mom? It's happy. It's festive. It's Christmas. So I'll put it down for a couple of minutes, but it's not going to stay there on that table. What's the problem? I have failed to see where there's a problem. You guys do not want to miss this show.

You want to know why? Jay's eating broccoli. Jay, when are you eating broccoli? When will you be eating broccoli? I'm going to do play by play of it because people won't be able to see you eating broccoli.

And I do think we have to allow people to participate in this torture that you have agreed to. By the way, I ate some of the broccoli for dinner. It's delicious. I don't know what you're talking about. I had it over rice, but Jay does not eat anything that's green.

He generally doesn't eat much that isn't fried or made on the grill. And so for that reason, it's a major step in the life of producer Jay as we get set to wrap up 2023. In fact, it's not just my last show until Christmas. What?

I can't hear you over the bell. It's also Jay and me, our last show working together before 2024. Wow. How is that possible? It's a long time.

It is. We're not working together again until, and he's actually taking off New Year's Eve. I will be back on, well, I'll be back on Christmas night. So I'm working Christmas night and the couple of nights after that. And then I will make the move back to New Jersey and we'll also then work New Year's Eve into New Year's Day. So I'll be working both of those nights, Christmas night and New Year's Eve. Jay is taking off a good, what is it, a week and a half? Yeah, roughly.

A week and a half at the end of the year. And so we will not be working together after tonight until 2024, which means this had to be the night when he would eat the broccoli. It's an Italian thing. Now, see, here's the thing though, Jay, if we're talking about Italian, you know, you have to play Dominic the Italian donkey, right? I guess you got a point there.

Yes. So, oh no, I have to sneeze. So on this edition of the show, we do have to play My Favorite Christmas Carol. You will hear the bell.

If the bell annoys you, you might as well turn off the show now. And there are some other goodies like Jay eating broccoli and your last chance to ask Amy anything before 2024. Because even though I'll have one more show on a Tuesday night into a Wednesday morning, that'll be the 27th of December into the morning of the 28th. Even though I will be working, we won't do Ask Amy that night because it'll be someone filling in.

I don't know who. I will be in Houston. He will be here in our CBS Sports Radio headquarters, which means that it just is too much. It's not Jay, which means it's going to be too much. So this is the last chance to ask Amy anything. Please send your questions to our show Twitter after our CBS.

Look for the bright orange box. If you don't have our show Twitter, well, now's a good time to follow. But you can also use my Twitter because I shared it. If you haven't yet voted for TD of the Week, we will give you those candidates because see, we also talk about football. We also talk about football in this edition of the show. So you can vote for TD of the Week for the next couple hours.

That poll is still live on either Twitter or our Facebook page. And we decided we would open up the phones on this edition of the show for a couple of reasons. Number one, it's the last time Jay and I will work together. In fact, the last time we'll see each other until after the new year. And number two, it's my last show as a single gal, which is kind of weird to say. Do you know I've done 25 years in this business and I always knew the day would come, but I guess I never ever put myself in the space where I thought at some point I'll do my last radio show as a single woman.

Can I tell you something, though? The questions about my future in radio persist. Jay, why do people keep asking me if I'm giving up my radio show? So I wrote back to one guy and said, why would I give up radio?

And his response? Because you're getting married. So what, I was just doing radio for fun until I got married? Is that a thing people do when they get married? They give up their jobs?

No, not people. It's coming from people who would never ask that question of a man. There's no way when DA got married that people wrote to him and said, hey, are you giving up your radio show? Unlikely. Heck, nobody asked him that. It's just this, I don't understand how people would think that I would give up my career that I have worked my ass off for for 25 years because I'm getting married.

I don't understand that. Anyway, if you don't know my future plans, you can find them in my latest blog post. I actually, as people continue to ask me that question, I just respond with my blog post now.

Here's the answer. Anyway, we're going to open up the phones. If you have anything you want to say to producer J before he dies, buy broccoli. That will be happening on this edition of the show. So even as I tell you, we have no more shows together until 2024. He may not survive this edition of the show. So it might be our last show together forever.

It could be my last day on this planet. We'll see. It's also not a rare occurrence that neither Kyrie Irving nor Kevin Durant are playing on the same night. It's still happening. They're not on the same rosters anymore, and yet they just somehow end up on the sidelines so often. We've got not one, but two big ejections in the NBA.

But one won't surprise you. Stop me if you've heard this before. Draymond Green getting ejected.

But so did Nicole Jokic. Can you guess what term he used? Jay, do you know what term he used? Not sure. You don't know? Would you like to venture a guess by not using your words? No. He called the official an MF-er.

Oh, is that it? But here's the thing, though. A lot of times that's just a technical. Why in the world he got ejected when a lot of times it's just a technical?

That's kind of interesting. I'm sure that gets tossed around pretty frequently on the court. And it is absolutely worthy of a technical. He said it.

Mike Malone said it. No one's saying that Jokic didn't deserve to get teed up. But to get ejected? For yelling at the referee?

Something that, as you point out, is relatively common? I wouldn't say that guys are yelling at referees every game because that does earn you a technical. But there's no doubt it gets muttered under the breath or away from a referee.

So if you direct it at an official, you're barking up the wrong tree. But if you say it to your teammates, generally that's not a technical foul. If Jokic was in a huddle, he's like, that MF-er!

Sorry, I get nervous about saying those types of things. If he's in the huddle and he's like, that MF-er blah blah blah didn't call a foul. Unless the official is standing right there and it was blatant, even though it wasn't said to the official, usually that's not... I wouldn't say that vernacular is uncommon on an NBA court.

Or on a football field or on a hockey ice rink. Yeah, even at that point I would think, if Jokic said it in a huddle formation just to a teammate, he would have to be making eye contact with the official. Yeah, well he was. He was looking right at the official when he yelled at him. Just the point is, he didn't just get his first technical. Usually you have to get teed up twice before you get tossed. But he got tossed immediately.

So that's interesting. Yeah, I mean, not the best idea to get the stars out of the game early for not a great reason. I know, and they're playing in Chicago.

Wait until you hear the call from Chuck Swerski on Bulls Radio. They're playing in Chicago where... I didn't actually know this. Well, I knew that Chicago had a large contingent of Eastern European, either immigrant or immigrant families, right? So there's a lot of people from Eastern European countries that have settled in the Chicago area. Chicago has a humongous Polish population. I know this because my father's whole side of the family is Polish.

So my grandmother used to tell me stories about when she was a little girl and she would take the train to Chicago and she and her friends would work and work for a couple of days and then they would take the train back to Wisconsin. So there's also a very large Serbian population and according to Jokic, it's the second largest Serbian population in the world outside of his actual country, Serbia. And so they're doing a special Serbian night around Nikola Jokic and the Nuggets being in town to play the Bulls and he gets ejected in the first half. And the fans actually booed the ejection. So that's kind of interesting.

You don't hear that very often. So yes, we've got fireworks in the NBA. We've got some disturbing news from the NFL. This is... Yeah, this is a bummer. It's not... Well, it's the worst case scenario for one NFL team. Juan Soto speaks out about choosing the New York Yankees and how... Well, choosing. I guess he didn't technically choose the team chose for him, but we knew that he wanted to play in New York.

And more of the reaction from the Dodgers themselves about Shohei Ohtani wearing the Dodger blue, except that we haven't heard from Ohtani yet other than social media. So we've got a lot to do. Really excited to connect with you. Last show before Christmas and my last show as a single girl.

And it's a little tough to wrap my brain around that. So please find me on Twitter, ALawRadio. But again, our show Twitter is where you can send your questions for Ask Amy anything, which comes up in the third hour of the show. And then also on our Facebook page after hours with Amy Lawrence, if you haven't seen our latest YouTube edition of Ask Amy anything, so it's a completely unique and different set of questions. It's a video version of Ask Amy, which are our most popular videos.

That's on a YouTube channel named after the show. So there's plenty to keep you company even after I've departed for Texas, which will happen in let's call it 15 hours or so. I'll be on the road. Bob and I are referring to it as our wedding odyssey, our wedding journey. It begins on Wednesday.

Actually it began on Tuesday when I had to sit in traffic to go get him at the airport. So love to hear from you. We are going to do open phones on this edition of the show too, which I never do.

As in never, as in NUCCA. And so if you would like to call in, speak to producer J. Most people just want to talk to J.

They don't really want to talk to me. If you would like to call in and speak to producer J or if you want to share your pre-holiday, pre-wedding sentiments, that is great. I will take your calls tonight.

Now I'm not going to allow you to spend seven minutes talking about, hmm, talking about how Seth Lugo has signed a free agent contract. Right. So we're not going to do that, but I would love to connect with you. We'll do something fun and different on this edition of the show, but just be prepared for the rain. This is how we people know they're getting cut off. This is your 30 second warning. And then we're just going to do what they do on award shows and start playing the music.

And it's going to be, I want a hippopotamus for Christmas. So when you hear the music, well, you know, that's your kid. Let's wrap it up. Let's wrap it up. Sometimes when I teach my fourth and fifth graders on Sunday mornings, my co-teacher, well, she doesn't teach, but she's my co-leader with our art class. She does, she sits in the back and does tech. And when I get a little long-winded or the kids answer questions and it takes them four hours, man, some of these kids, they can tell stories.

I'm telling you. Anyway, she'll sit in the back and she'll do the hand motion. Like let's wrap it up. Let's wrap it up. Like wrap it up, wrap it up. At least she doesn't do the throat slash. That would be inappropriate for fourth and fifth graders.

That would be aggressive. Dale is in Birmingham. Dale, welcome to After Hours, CBS Sports Radio. Hey Amy, I listen to you every night after JR first time college. I just want to say congratulations on your win and you're going to have more bad days than good days, but marriage is still good. Wait, why am I going to have more bad days than good days? Just saying, that's marriage.

Nah. Well, I'd just stay single if that was the case. Yeah, I mean, but marriage is good. It's good having a significant other.

You know, I mean, it's great. I just wanted to tell you, congratulations. Have a great marriage. Thank you.

And roll tide. Thank you. I appreciate that. All right, you're welcome. Have a good one. You too. Dale in Birmingham, the first up to offer congratulations with a caveat that there'll be more bad days than good.

What would be the point of getting married then? Like, seriously. All right. We are going to do a little bit from these objections in the NBA. Also, Luca has decided he's old. Seriously. I'm not kidding. He's decided he's old. So we're going to get to that.

We're going to do a little bit of the NFL looking ahead to week 15, though I will not be here, but we've got some quarterback news to be sure. As I say, Juan Soto. Oh, Devante Adams, he's ticked again. I love a ticked off Devante Adams. Not that I want him to be ticked off, but he's when he decides that he's going to tell us how embarrassed he is by the Raiders play.

He does not hold back. Also, have we heard from Micah Parsons since he took every fluid known to man so that he could get on the field and play against the Eagles on Sunday? I woke up with a hundred and two or three fever, just like, I mean, I took as many drugs and IVs as a man possibly could take to be able to play today.

I think Micah Parsons is one of my favorites in the NFL now. I did not see the edge posted today, so I think he's getting a little rest. Oh, it's a bummer. What a bummer. Okay, and I promise we'll get to your calls.

855-212-4227. In fact, we will get to those coming up next just because I open up the phones. We don't often do this. We've got to keep you on your toes and try something new every now and then. Just be ready if you hear the bell or you hear the run up to our favorite Christmas carol around here. That's your cue. You're about to get cut off. Also, don't take liberties and use inappropriate language because we've got a, we call it a dump button.

It's a dope button. Point blank period. Exactly. Thank you.

Forget the dump button. We'll just have Micah Parsons come at your ass. It's After Hours with Amy Lawrence here on CBS Sports Radio. You are listening to the After Hours Podcast.

Music. What's going on here, Bill? Jokic said something. Something's going on.

We've got the Denver security people. He's tossed, so he's there to get him off the floor. We don't know what happened. Well, apparently Jokic is headed to the locker room. He has been ejected. He must have said one of the magic words.

This is After Hours with Amy Lawrence. The magic words. I suppose there are a few of those, and yes, yes, he did say the magic words, but Nicole Jokic is still surprised that that resulted in him getting teed up and then tossed. It is what it is. I'm just happy that we didn't play in Serbia this game. It's going to be really fun to see how it will be ended, you know, so it was interesting, you know. It is what it is. Some guys can say whatever. I think sometimes what I said is not even a technical, so it is what it is. Sometimes what I said isn't even a technical, and then he says, it's a good thing this game wasn't in Serbia.

Well, why is that? Well, because the fans actually cheered. Well, they cheer most of the time when a guy from the other team gets ejected, but they were cheering for Jokic in this game because it's a large Serbian population. The Bulls were running a promotion to get more Serbian fans in, so they were giving these group rates and group packages, so the Bulls arena was full of Serbian fans who are cheering for Jokic. So they've cheered for Jokic for the first half of the game, but then he gets tossed, and all of these Serbian fans, they end up not getting to see him in the second half.

What happened? So yeah, not something that you hear generally when a guy from the road team gets thrown out. I've never seen that when the posting team has been upset that the star player on the team has been kicked out. Usually they're like, yay, or booing the other player, but yeah, they were upset that he was getting kicked out.

Unfortunate for Nikola, obviously he was frustrated, felt he got fouled in that last post up, and they decided to toss him, but obviously we need Nikola out there. He's, uh... It says here that Graybar is a distributor? Yeah, we support electrical and datacom projects all over the country.

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Call 1-844-244-6363 for details. On-time payment history may have a positive impact on your credit score. Late payment may negatively impact your credit score. Results may vary. He's a great player, but with him out, with Jamal out and Pope out, everybody else stepped up, man, and it was fun to watch. These games are character wins and very, very proud of our group. So, Nikola Jokic, he's spicy. Actually, the team is 2-0 with him getting tossed out this year. He's been tossed out twice, both times ejected for Yappin at the ref. But this one's, yeah, this was an MFR and it was directed right at the official who didn't call a foul.

But still, to throw him out seems drastic. It seems extra. It's After Hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS Sports Radio. We are already taking your questions.

Actually, Jay put the posts up a few hours ago on both Twitter and Facebook. Ask Amy anything, last one of 2023. If you're looking for your wedding questions to be answered, Ask Amy walks down the aisle.

We've got three, three YouTube videos up to answer your questions and we still didn't get to all of them. So, check out the YouTube channel After Hours with Amy Lawrence. The call with the Bulls Radio Network, that was Chuck Swerski.

Let's go back to the calls here. Gary is in Atlanta. Gary, welcome to After Hours. Thank you, Amy. A long time listener, first time caller, wanted to congratulate you. I hope you have a long and prosperous marriage and, of course, I've been married twice.

So, just be patient. Compromise. And I had to look up your profile picture, very attractive. Oh, dear. So, your husband's getting a cutie. Thank you.

I hope he thinks so. Yeah, yeah. But I just wanted to get your take on Draymond. I played a lot of basketball. I'm a little guy. I would punch Draymond.

I'm from D.C. I've always challenged big guys. So, he might be my you-know-what.

I would punch him. But anyway, good luck to you, Amy, and I'll sit back and listen to your reply. Oh, thank you so much, Gary. I appreciate that you called in for the first time ever.

We're glad to keep you company. So, here's the thing about Draymond. He is an instigator. He wants to get under your skin.

If you're not going to punch me in my face when you see me, then shut up. He is trying to get you to lose your cool. The problem is Draymond, in his old age, has become far less adept at this game, in which he does try to get other players out of their rhythm by yapping, by talking, not by punching them, but he's a physical guy, and so he's an instigator.

He's trying to get under your skin with his intensity, with his heart, his spirit. He's a great defensive player, too, and he's brilliant at playing defense without fouling. Does he always?

No. But he is critical to the Warriors winning. Do you know they lose these games? Even tonight after he got thrown out, they were leading the Suns, and then he gets thrown out and everything changes because he's the cog, he's the center. Well, he's one of the main cogs, but he's that center in the wheel where pretty much everything with that first unit revolves around him. Obviously, Steph Curry is the spark plug and certainly the best offensive player, and we know what the Splash Brothers can do with the ball in their hands, but Draymond is the leader of that team out there, and so without him, they're not the same. I think he is becoming a little crankier in his old age, but I do know that this is part of his game. He's trying to use his emotion to get his marks, the guys he's defending, or really the entire opposing team, he's trying to get under their skin and take them out of their game mentally. The issue is that he crosses that emotional line, and there's no going back really, and Steve Kerr will say it. Draymond knows this. He knows that he's got to keep his cool. He knows that he's got to stay on the court for us and we're not going to win, and yet when Draymond loses his head, there's really not a whole lot that anybody can do. Steph Curry actually was talking about Draymond getting ejected following yet another instance.

I can't remember how many it is now, but it's a lot, which means another suspension could be in the offing. Our team, all the pieces fit for a reason. They have for a very long time, so when you're missing one, it's tough. We still had the opportunities to win the game tonight.

I actually won the second half. We obviously mixed up lineups, and we're trying to find the chemistry of our bench, but it's amazing. Again, so we want to be able to overcome the incident, his ejection, but we just weren't able to get it done, but we need everybody available. That's how we're built. It's no secret to our success. Sorry, that was a little off mic.

We'll get some better audio as we head through the show, but we wanted to flip that quickly. He's saying we really need him out there. We really need everybody to be out there so that we can win, because otherwise we're not the same team. Steve Kirk consistently indicates that Draymond is the most important guy when it comes to their defense and certainly when it comes to their emotion and when it comes to them sticking to their game plan, especially when we're talking transition. He's a great passer.

He can start a lot of fast breaks after he has the defense and the rebounds. Mark is listening in San Francisco. Mark, welcome to After Hours, CBS Sports Radio. Hey, Amy, congratulations. I didn't know that you were so attractive, but I heard that from the last caller. I just fell in love with your voice like five years ago.

Thank you. And you're the lucky man. So I called about Brock Purdy. So I wanted to ask you, we've got a third string quarterback who's getting 1.2 million. I think of guys like Josh Allen and Herbert and you say, oh, Brock Purdy can't get paid like those guys.

They're great. Hey, you look at the numbers, you look at the games he's won. You talk about athletes, you know, they call him around here, they call him Baby Bosa because of the way he's built below the waist.

Powerful quads. But, you know, he's making $750,000 a year for the next two years. What happens to that guy? Well, I'm not sure who's saying he can't get paid like these other quarterbacks. I mean, he's started essentially the equivalent of one full year in the NFL. So this is the benefit of rookie contracts, especially the fact that they got him with the last pick in the 22 draft, is that they're slotted, right? So every draft pick is slotted a certain amount of money and they've got him under contract for four years. Now, the benefit of not picking him in the first round is that he can be a free agent after four seasons if he wants to be. So they can't keep him for a fifth year.

There's no option for a fifth year. Those are only for first rounders. So they're going to have to pay him if they intend to keep him as their starting QB, which I think everybody believes he's the right fit.

But they don't have to do it right now because they're only going through year number two. He has two more left on his rookie deal. Now, could the Niners decide out of, you know, goodness of their hearts or just to get out in front of it that they'd rather pay him after this season to maybe save a little money if they would wait another year?

Yeah, because the going rate of quarterbacks is getting higher. But I don't think you should expect that Purdy is going to settle for, say, I don't know, $20 million a year. He doesn't have to do that. He's going to have all the leverage if they continue down this road that they're in as the top seed in the NFC.

And could you imagine, Mark, if they end up winning the Super Bowl? That's a big if. But if they do, he'll be able to ask for whatever he wants.

Okay. So he'll get paid eventually. Yeah, he's under his rookie contract right now.

Yeah. They call him, you know, oh, he's not, I listen to all these national talk show guys and they say, oh, you know, he's just playing in his system that works for him. There was a guy back in the 80s named Joe Montana. He said that about him for about five years, too. Well, you know that people said the same thing about Tom Brady. And here's the thing, Mark, it doesn't matter.

Who cares? Even if he is a system quarterback, if the Niners win with him as their quarterback in their system and it results in, I mean, they went to an NFC championship last year, if it results in a Super Bowl, who gives a crap whether or not he's a system quarterback? I mean, if he fits your system and you're winning with him, then great. And he's your system guy. Awesome.

And I just want to say one last thing. The problem isn't Draymond. It's Steve Kerr. Because he allows Draymond? Because he talks out of his side of his mouth about anything that's controversial.

You look at how he reacted. That's all right. That's not his. That's not. That's different from Draymond. It's different from Draymond. Draymond, he's one of those guys that you have to take with a grain of salt, right? You have to know that you're going to get that heart, that soul, that spirit, that energy, that intensity, but also sometimes when he goes over the edge, there's not a whole lot you can do. So you kind of take the good, you take the bad.

And I know it wouldn't be the case for every team, but Steve Kerr definitely has hitched his wagon to Draymond's star. Mark, thank you so much for listening in the Bay Area. Good to talk to you. We're doing open phones tonight, which is very strange. We never do this, but last show before Christmas for me, last show before the wedding for me. So I thought, let's do something fun. And we're taking your questions for Ask Amy Anything so you can send them to our show Twitter after our CBS or to our Facebook page.

Still have that poll up for TD of the Week. We've also got Marco in studio, and I've been saving this. Are you ready? I've got news. Are you ready? Okay, sure. Okay. On Tuesday afternoon, now this is after Bob left for the airport, so he wasn't there, but he had rigged a camera to look out his front door and down onto the porch. And after he left for the airport, he saw a box show up on his front porch.

Okay. So box number two with flowers and wedding decor arrived on Bob's front porch around 2.30 central time on Tuesday afternoon. So box two has been delivered.

That's great. One question, though, because he's not there. Who picked it up? Oh, my mom. Okay. All right. So somebody picked it up.

The second, so this is kind of crazy. Bob went ahead and invested in Wi-Fi on the plane so that he could watch his camera the whole time. People think I'm obsessive. So he was watching his camera the whole time, sees the box get delivered, and ends up communicating. He can text, too, with the Wi-Fi.

So he texts me, he texts my mom and her husband, and they went right over, they got the box, and then they took it to the woman who's designing our flowers. So that's good news. Good. But there's more. Okay.

So this is kind of crazy. I had a friend, well, I wouldn't even say friend, because I don't know him personally, a U.S. Postal Service employee who has been hearing about my plight with these boxes of flowers that have not been delivered, and he reached out a couple of days ago and he said, hey, I work for the USPS. I'll see if I can get some phone numbers for you where you can call the distribution centers. I'll check tracking. I'll see if there's any more information, blah, blah, blah.

So I had given him my tracking numbers, and he was kind of looking. So on Tuesday morning, box number one, he said, I'm so sorry. There's no update. It's not been scanned in days.

Is it possible that the label is crooked and they can't scan it correctly? He said, I know box number two is about to get delivered, but there's no sign of box number one. He said, I'm really sorry. Maybe call back. So he shows me a screen shot of the computer that he's looking at, and it actually says next to box number one, case closed. Customer, it said customer service request, because I called a couple days ago to try to figure out what was going on.

Case closed. And I said to him, why would they market case closed when it's not closed? We don't know where the box is. And he said, oh, actually the postal service encourages the local post offices to after a couple days, just put case closed, even if it's not. I said, are you kidding me?

He's like, no, around the holidays, the U.S. Postal Service is actually encouraging the local post offices to close out their cases, even if they haven't found a resolution. If they've looked into it, well, then just write case closed. So anyway, I'm frustrated. I get on the phone. Is this crazy? That makes no sense.

Exactly. I get on the phone on Tuesday afternoon while Bob's on a plane, and I'm prepared to be on hold with the postal service for another 45 minutes. That was the hold time to reopen the service request and figure out where this box is, because we're running out of time. So I'm on the phone holding. I'm about five minutes into my 45-minute wait, and I decide, you know what, I'll check tracking again just to see what it says. If anything's been updated, no joke. It somehow, after no scanning for over a week, got to the right post office, and it will be delivered tomorrow. There you go.

Oh, my gosh. So nothing for seven days, Marco. It went from December 5th to December 12th, which was Tuesday.

No scans, no information, no nothing. And they closed my case. But then after so many prayers and so many kind thoughts, you guys are awesome, it will be delivered on Wednesday to Bob's porch. So my poor mom has to trot back out there to Bob's house, get the box, and take it. But the flowers and all the decor will be arriving just in the nick of time. So all is well that ends well. So all this and you're going to have all of it there, that's great. Oh, my gosh. Well, and more, because we ended up buying a few more just in case.

And there you go. But, yeah, I mean, there's been a lot of pre-planning and contingency planning, but now... And she'll have enough time to take care of all this stuff? Well, she says it's going to be tight, but she's going to work on it. Yeah, for the next few days she's going to work on it. And my mom has volunteered to help.

And I'll be on a road trip so I can't do anything except for look at pictures. But can I just tell you, do you want to know what I did in my kitchen when I found out that the second box had been delivered and the first one was going to be, I'm dancing around, I'm yelling like Alexander Ovechkin. No, that's good. Sorry, for a second there I thought you meant, you have no idea what I did to my kitchen when all this was going on.

Like you destroyed the whole thing and now you got to fix the kitchen. Oh, come on. No, that's not me. That's why I was like, huh, I got to say that. I didn't really think that was coming.

No, that's not me. I shed some tears over it. And I did have a fair amount of anxiety last week. And then I just decided this week, you know what, if they don't show up, we'll have a contingency plan, we'll figure out something different. But now they're, after I found a calm place, well, one's been delivered, the other one is on the way. Tremendous.

Yes. Now, now it's full speed ahead, baby. Let's go. All right. On Twitter, Alaw Radio, you guys are so nice. You sent me hundreds of messages about the flowers. So thank you.

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Or give us a call at 855-212-4227. The Cleveland Browns. Flacco on fourth down and three. Play clock is at five. I don't know if they're going to snap it. Play clock is at two.

They do. He rolls right. Throws the middle.

It's wide open. Down at the 25. At the 20. 15. 10.

5. Touchdown. It's David Bell.

Oh my goodness. They forgot to cover David Bell. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers. It's second down and six from the 11-yard line.

Good snap. Mayfield looking. Throws the ball left. There's a caught ball. Caught ball. Touchdown. Tampa Bay. Cade Otten makes it over the shoulder catch. And the Bucks retake the lead.

Yeah. One-on-one coverage. You could tell by the body language of Mayfield, he was going to Otten the whole way. Before the pass was thrown, holding defense number 27. That penalty's declined. Touchdown. Tremendous throw by Mayfield to put it in a perfect spot. That's a big play.

The Tennessee Titans. This is second down. Give Henry. Turning the left side. Diving. Touchdown. Tight ball. Derrick Henry has nodded the count with 1.49 to go. On a three-yard run.

The Baltimore Ravens. Ethan Evans finding the Tylan Wallace. Evans hangs a wobbler. Wallace settles under it at the 25. Gets a block.

Comes to the near side. 30. Spins out of one tackle. 35. Along the near sideline. 40.

He's at midfield. Wallace to the 40. Still in the seat. 30. 20. 10. Celebration time.

No flags. Wallace in the end zone. Hayes in the barn.

And the Ravens win it in overtime. Oh, we've got some great candidates in the TD of the Week. Polling is still open for another two hours. So check it out. Just retweeted A-Law Radio.

I know a lot of you still weighing in on Facebook as well. The options. Jim Donovan. Joe Flacco's third long touchdown for the Browns in their victory over the Colts on Sunday. And David Bell. 41 yards.

Also, you've got Gene Deckerhoff. Baker Mayfield to Kate Otten. 31 seconds to go as the Buccaneers take over the lead in the NFC South division.

Hello! Derrick Henry in what was an incredible come-from-behind win for the Titans on Monday night. Yeah, they were down 14. 13. They were down two touchdowns. 13 points. With about four and a half minutes to go and were able to come all the way back. And I don't know why you make it rocket science.

It's not complicated. Just give the ball to Derrick Henry. Mike Heath on Titans Radio. And then finally, in overtime, Jerry Sandusky on Ravens Radio.

Tylan Wallace. First time in his pro career he's ever returned putts. It was because of an injury to a Ravens teammate. And he takes one to da house in overtime for the Ravens as they escape the Rams and they get that victory. And by virtue of that win for the Rams, they are now the top seed in the AFC. Now what did Mike McDonald... Mike McDonald, sorry.

I was thinking Aiden O'Connell and then I was thinking Kevin O'Connell and so I said the wrong name. Mike McDaniel. What did he say about top seed in week 13? Oh well, wake me up when they shorten the season to 13 weeks.

My answer to that would be who the F cares. Okay, that was taken out of context but alright. Do you think he should get teed up?

He should get teed up, right? No credence to that. So it's not as though you win the top seed in week 14. Nah, it just happens to be a changing of the guard atop the AFC.

And I would think that it might change again. The Ravens only have the one game lead right now over the Dolphins. And so Baltimore is at 10 and 3. It's interesting as the AFC beats up on each other how you're starting to see more and more teams get dragged back to the pack. And so right now the Ravens are the only team that have 10 wins and the Dolphins are the only team in the AFC with 9 wins. So how about that? Not nearly as top heavy as what we have in the NFC where you've got 3 teams that are at 10 and 3. One at 9 and 4 and then everybody else is mediocre or a lot worse.

So it's very different. NFC, it'll top over because it's head is too big. It's top heavy but in the AFC it's pear shaped, stick around the middle. Alright, that's one hour down. Find us and send your questions for Ask Amy Anything. We'll get to that later on the Hump Show here on CBS Sports Radio. Tell them Big Snoop Dogg sent you.

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