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So yeah, let's do it. All right, let's start with Sam Hartman's injury. Look, Wake Forest is not Alabama, so it's not like this is going to shatter the dreams of somebody who was headed to the college football playoff more than likely. But your thoughts on a medical, non-football related condition, not an injury. I know Hartman had a surgical procedure last night.
He was on the practice field today, although he didn't practice and he's not going to for some time. But your thoughts on what's going on with Sam Hartman? Obviously, we wish that whatever the condition or the issue is, that it's going to be resolved and that the procedure that took place is going to be able to clear things up so that he can be back. And the timetable that Dave Clawson is willing to commit to is no timetable. But if I'm to look at Wake Forest's schedule, Wake Forest can still accomplish many of the things that Wake Forest would like to accomplish this season if he is able to make it back before October 22nd. Now, October 15th is the off week for the Demon Deacons.
So that would be time for him to have no extra time in practice, extra time to get back into the rotation. But there are games that I do think even without Sam Hartman, Wake Forest is going to be able to win. VMI certainly is going to be at that list. I think at Vanderbilt, they will still be favorites even without Sam Hartman.
Liberty, that is another one right there. And Army, I do think that Florida State is the one game on the first half of that schedule. Everything before that October 15th off week, that is the one that I would say maybe flips.
So if you were all over the wind total of over eight and a half, then yeah, this probably breaks your heart. If you think that Wake Forest was going to finish first place in the ACC Atlantic division, which I guess would require Clemson losing multiple games because we haven't seen Wake beat Clemson. Well, everything that Wake has done has been fantastic. I think that Clemson was always going to be a loss. And now I'm starting to think that Florida State is an opportunity for the Seminoles to pick up what is a much needed win on a very tough schedule. After Army, you've got the off week and then come the games that will determine where Wake Forest is in the standings at the end of the year. What kind of bowl game there might be for the demon deacons. And even, you know, if to secure their place in the postseason yet again, that's what we're talking about. We're talking about games that are not going to be heavily favored one way or the other.
And that is where you want the experience. You want the production and you want the mastery of the offense that Sam Hartman provides. So if he can get back and everything can get cleared up and he can be cleared to play by August, October 22nd. I think that Wake Forest can still accomplish many of the same things that we thought going into the year again with only one game really altered by his absence. That's that's a credit to get old and stale. That's a credit to a system. And the fact that Dave Clawson, now one of the more tenured coaches at his current position in the ACC, has built up something really special there at Wake Forest. Incredibly significant. But again, if he's able to get it back for that, really, the toss up games, the coin flips at the back half schedule, then Wake Forest should still finish the year where it would like to be, which is playing in a bowl game.
The flip side of that, and let's just assume that Sam Hartman can come back and we'll say from the bye week on. I do think that, like, I don't know a ton about Liberty. I don't know a ton about Vanderbilt. But you know more about anything. So I know that Clark Lee, the head coach of Vanderbilt, who said at SEC Media Day that his goal was to make Vanderbilt the best program in the country.
Now, that is very vague, very open ended. And I appreciate Clark Lee leaving it that way. But with a quarterback in Mitch Griffiths, who is a little undersized, although that's okay in college football, and has thrown 15 passes in two years in the program. Even he's still a freshman. This is his third year.
I love the third year freshman. I mean, I could see that being a problem. I could see Liberty being a problem. You know more than I. You don't see those games being issues now that you don't have Sam Hartman? Not with an adjustment that makes it a coin flip the way that I'm looking at some of those games against ACC opponents at the back end of the schedule. But the great forest at Vanderbilt probably goes into that game with Sam Hartman favored by two touchdowns now might be closer to 910 points.
Now, 910 point favorites lose a lot in college football. It is college football. But what Vanderbilt Vanderbilt's been working to boost its team speed under Clark Lee. They still don't have like girth.
They still don't have muscle. They don't provide those sorts of challenges that teams from the SEC or SEC like teams like the Clemson Tigers. Where you're able to blow up what Wake does offensively at the line of scrimmage because your defensive line is huge. That's just not the way that Vanderbilt's built. In fact, Vanderbilt relying on team speed to try to win at the margins means that they're just behind schedule for what Wake Forest has been building up to over the last five years. So I I go think that Wake Forest again goes into Nashville, probably favored by a touchdown. You could lose again, but you're you're expected to win. And Liberty's just going to have a huge step back.
Melik Willis did so much for them. You freeze is going to on that schedule. Hugh Freeze is going to have a game or two where Liberty is very pesky. But I still imagine that that's going to be a spot where Wake Forest is going to be able to win that even without Sam Hartman at quarterback. Chip Patterson is here as he is every Wednesday.
You and I have been talking about this for a while. When the news came that the SEC was leaving CBS to go to ESPN with like giving everything to ESPN. We speculated that CBS would look to another conference and it does appear and we're a long way from it being official. The Big Ten hasn't announced it, but it looks like the 330 Big Ten game is going to be on the eye on CBS.
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All you got is call or you can text Adam to 21000 for coach Pete DeRuta. So as usual, these conversations are happening well above my pay grade. And I have been at this company. I've been a CBS Sports employee since 2010.
And I've I've learned my lessons and tried to represent the company. What I can say from the position of just providing analysis to the way that all the moving and shaking is being done is that the big 10 has created an opportunity. If the reports end up panning out and we've got it from the Sports Business Journal, the New York Post, you know, the athletic. It is it is well reported that your noon game is probably going to be on Fox. Right. But your 330 game is on CBS and that your primetime game would then be on NBC. What the big 10 is doing is just tapping right into like the most basic fan. Like we always talk about the primary start in Iowa. Right.
Or your network comedies or your network dramas. We're targeted at at the middle of America. Well, what conference is in the middle of America? The big 10? What do you mean middle of America?
Middle of our country? That's true. It goes from freaking Annapolis to Los Angeles. They are making this the most accessible college football products possible. It is going to be I mean, clearly there will be games on Fox Sports. One big 10 network will have its entire slate. But when you take the three biggest the three most important or the top pick big 10 games and you put them all on broadcast television from noon until midnight, you are making your sport and your product as accessible as possible. You don't even need a cable package to be able to watch the three biggest big 10 games every single week.
And that's I think that's a pretty good marketing plan. And I do think that is, you know, I'm I'm not getting too much into the media wars here. But as the big 10 has ended its relationship with ESPN and as it Fox is a 60 percent stakeholder in the big 10 network. So there's the the ongoing Fox ESPN battle here.
You're saying we don't we're not even worried about the cable, the cord cutters. All you need is a tuner to be able to access some of the most important big 10 football every single week. And I think that's casting a really wide net, which is a great thing to do for your future. There is no doubt about that.
The look, you we have talked about this for a while. I've been saying for I don't know how long that when it all shakes out, the big 10 is going to be the biggest player financially. Now, it might not that 330 window, which won't be the best big 10 game. It'll be the that'll be the noon game.
But that 330 window problem. I don't know if it'll do as well in the ratings as it did when it was the first CBS first choice of the SEC game. But it's going to be two giant universities playing football. So you could put Wisconsin and Minnesota and you've got, I don't know, 17 billion alumni who might be interested in that game because the universities are all so huge. The one thing about this deal, Chip Patterson is joining us and you and I, we could talk about a basketball angle to this as well.
And I haven't gotten good clarity on this yet. But according to Andy Katz, who works in the big 10 network, works in the NCAA. He reported out that an event like the Champions Classic, which ESPN owns, according to Andy Katz.
And I'm just taking it one step further. Neutral site game within the big 10 footprint, which again is the United States of America. That ESPN can't air it. I mean, I just don't understand how they couldn't air the Champions Classic, which they own. I just don't understand how they couldn't air that.
So I still haven't gotten clarification on that. But I guess they could if it was in New York City, like Michigan State could play in New York City and ESPN could air it. But it does create what happens to the big 10 ACC challenge? I think what it happens is there.
I go back to experience from precedent in a couple of cases. Number one, there have been times where because of what's going on within the SEC, the alignment in the schedule for big broadcast CBS to have that 8 p.m. kickoff. Right.
And it's not something that happens very often. But I do know that in the past there have been trades that were made once the season started unfolding. We want to flex LSU Alabama into the 8 p.m. slot.
We've already used our 8 p.m. slot. So next year, you know, you get first pick during this week and it essentially ends up being some playing trading cards. And you go work your trade machine and you hit it and hopefully the deal works and everyone agrees to it. The other thing that comes to mind, which is very similar, which is why I think we're going to end up in a place where you kind of end up negotiating some kind of trade in terms of OK, ESPN will air the champions classic, but then, you know, there's some trade off down the line. It's going to be the the the way that these schedules are constructed, the way that these neutral side events are done. ESPN owns the event. But ESPN might be able to sell off the broadcasts rights to Fox for a certain price. Interesting.
Yeah. ESPN owns bowl games. And then within that's under ESPN events, which is an entirely different, different corporation from the ESPN broadcast side of things. Now, that's why ESPN has bought up all the bowl games so that they can eat from all the different bowls at the same time.
What I did there. But I think it's something like that where ESPN events would then be the company that would have to negotiate such that it could be aired on another network if they would be willing to do it. It might mean the end of the champions classic.
I don't know. I don't think it means the end of that. I think that'll be worked out. Let's remember also that ESPN traded a Purdue Penn State football game for Joe Buck. So that was actually a trade. That's how they got Joe Buck this year. They had to give up a football game to Fox to get it. I think the answer to the ACC Big Ten challenge is that that's dead. And I think the answer ultimately is the ACC SEC challenge in basketball. And that'll be maybe not as big a deal because the yes, the Big Ten is a better basketball league historically with more interest in it. But I think for a preseason game, I think ACC SEC challenge will be fine, which also creates the possibility of more Duke, Kentucky. And maybe that does mean the end of the champions classic. We'll play Duke in Kentucky every single weekend if John Calipari and John Shire would agree to it every single Saturday night. We're going to have Duke, Kentucky at 6 p.m. Eastern Time. Seven game series.
Yes, that's how you make the money in this industry. All right. We'll take a quick break with Chip Patterson when we come back. Forget about the coaches poll. CBS has their one through one thirty one. We're going to go through all of it starting at one. We're not going to start one thirty one and go through all of it. But we are going to talk about the poll. Also, we're going to make fun of the coaches poll for one vote for one vote. We got other things to do as well with Chip Patterson every Wednesday here on the Adam Gold show.
Well, I'll ask Chip Patterson, who joins us every Wednesday. Have you ever gone down the rabbit hole of live from Darryl's house on YouTube? You've recommended it before and I've yet to follow through on your recommendation, but I'm I've I was listening to to him on Questlove Supreme, I guess, maybe like a couple of weeks ago.
And it it reminded me that I need to do that. It's it's great. And they do a lot of covers, but tremendous stuff. It's a great episode with Darius Rucker, where they recorded in Charleston. Phenomenal, phenomenal episode. So I recommend it.
But they played it's his band from live from Darryl's house that travels with them. It's just great. All right, Chip Patterson, let's get to some some more college football things. I'm going to I'm going to talk about the coaches poll just for this reason. And then we're going to get to the CBS poll because I want to get your perspective on the on basically the the landscape of it. How did Texas get a vote for first?
I've got theories. So among the 66 coaches who participate coaches poll. Yeah, there are two that are in a very unique position in the non-conference schedule for Texas. OK, now Texas opens the season against ULM and you know, you go through and I don't I don't see Bowden.
OK, so no, no, no. Tommy Bowden wasn't. But week two, you know, Texas plays week two out of the Alabama Crimson Tide.
Oh, gosh. And if I need to make sure that Texas has as high a ranking as possible, if I need to make sure that we are out here talking about how good Texas is, we don't want to lose sight of how good Texas is. We don't want to be looking past the Longhorns.
I need my boys to know that somebody thinks that they're the best team in the country. I think Nick Saban might have been that first place vote. Now, the week after Texas, the week after Alabama, Texas plays UTSA, who you might remember won 12 games last year, went 12 and one and nearly went undefeated during the regular season. North Texas spoiled it a little bit late. Jeff Traylor, who is the head coach, is an amazing personality.
How does this increase introductory presser? And I think that Jeff Traylor might have similar motivations to Nick Saban in trying to gas up Mr. All Gas No Breaks Steve Sarkeesian as much as possible, because as Reddit CFP pointed out a little while ago, and I can't stop thinking about the most incredible week that we could have in college football in September would be for Texas to beat Alabama. We have an entire week of Texas's back and lose at home to UTSA.
That would be awesome. Anything that we could do, either on the Alabama side or UTSA, to gas up and boost the rankings of the Texas Longhorns to make them feel as big headed as possible. I think our two culprits for Texas's first place vote are on the month of September on their schedule. It's either Nick Saban or Jeff Traylor.
Gosh, that's just I'm you. Your mind is beautiful. Chip Patterson. I think about these things joins us every Wednesday here. All right. Alabama, Ohio State, Georgia. Look, it's no point even talking about it. Doesn't matter. One of those three teams is the best team in the country. As we start the season, they have the most pro prospects. All of that, blah, blah, blah. Coach Paul Clemson, I think you guys had Utah as number four.
I'm just going to ask this question. Is the gap between three and whoever is fourth substantial? Yes, the with Clemson probably has the best potential to finish at four. But there is some real damage that's been done.
I think I haven't seen all of the ballots for the CBS Sports 131. Right. But I think there was some real damage that was done with the performance of D.J. and young girl late last year, where they think that these he's not going to get fixed and that we're not going to see improved play.
And you're still probably going to see Clemson win the ACC Atlantic and win the ACC. But they see it really as a one sided defense first kind of dominance. So that's why you saw Utah pop up because Cam Rising is in a very, very good quarterback. Tevion Thomas is a very, very good running back. That offense in general has been strong under Utah.
And Kyle Whittingham comes with his own reputation. What we saw in the back and forth of that epic Rose Bowl between Ohio State and Utah, of which the Utes will bring back not all of their key pieces. Devin Lloyd at linebacker was a huge stud for them last year, but enough key pieces that you look at it and say, OK, Utah is going to be really, really good. We were higher on the Utes as a unit than the coaches poll.
And then I think a lot of other teams. But you asked about the gap because it's top three. And then the next group is like five to six teams. It's like spot number four through spot number nine. I think you could throw them up and they all land and you could sort them in any order. And I'm not going to come up with a big argument.
Then I think you start to see the next jump down once you get to about 10 or 11. It's funny when we talk about you and I had a I think the bulk of our conversation last week was about does the sport of college football need an expanded playoff to save the sport? And even though I'm against and I think you are to an expanded playoff for practical reasons. I do believe that's for survival. They they need it. And the biggest argument I heard against an expanded playoff and Dabo Sweeney said this last year is that, man, that fourth team doesn't have a chance.
Why are we doing this? And do you think the fourth team has a chance barring injury to somebody, you know, a key injury to one of the top three? Does the third team have a chance?
Is it possible? Is it a top two? So you cannot look past the many numbers which say that Stetson Bennett, the fourth is a top 10 quarterback. You know, his core is QBR, his efficiency numbers, his yards per attempt. There is sort of anecdotally what your eyes tell you, especially when you line him up next to Bryce Young and when you line him up next to Ohio State's CJ Stroud. And you say, well, these two look like they're going to be battling to be the first quarterback picked in the NFL draft. And you look like you're going to get drafted by Bill Belichick in the fifth. You know, there's just a major drop off in the quarterback play.
But Georgia was so good everywhere else that it made his life easier and he was able to have that. So when you talk about the top two, you know what? I don't even know if all three are going to make it to the college football playoff. I think that it's possible that all three could make it to the college football playoff.
But when when we really start to do the fine tooth combing of the top five in college football right now, the reason why Alabama is an overwhelming favorite is that Nick Saban wasn't kidding me. Last year was a rebuilding year. They were thin, inexperienced. They took injuries along the offensive line and put freshmen out there that weren't ready to play. And it required being down to first round wide receivers for the offense to finally buckle against Georgia after they beat the Bulldogs in the SEC championship game. Much love to Georgia.
I am glad that that starved fan base finally got to celebrate. They'd recruited enough five stars and four stars. They'd been had all the talent and it's all in your backyard. It was preposterous that Georgia had not added another national championship to the single one in their trophy case. But when we're looking at this team, it took an extraordinary set of circumstances for Alabama to fall short there in the national championship game. I think Alabama's beefed up.
I think they're deeper. And those freshmen that weren't ready are going to be ready. And oh, yeah, Alabama got Georgia's best wide receiver and added it to its roster. Alabama got Louisville's best wide receiver, added its roster, and Alabama got one of the best all purpose players in the A.C.C. in Georgia text Jameer Gibbs and added it to its roster all around.
Oh, I don't know. The reigning Heisman Trophy winner in Bryce Young. There is an overwhelming number one. Then there is a top two and then there is a top three.
I think it is not a debate in terms of that. The reigning Heisman Trophy winner. And they also have the guy who should have won. Will Anderson, the Heisman Trophy, who I voted for last year, Will Anderson, is just amazing. And by the way, add Dallas Turner to your sort of like watch list for your eyes, because he is everyone's going to be focused on trying to stop Will Anderson from having sixteen and a half sacks again this year. He's been Alice Turner was a freshman who flashed in a big way.
And I think that he will be the benefactor of all these offenses trying to provide extra blockers to Will Anderson. And you're just not going to be able to stop Alabama in the pass rush. It's funny that there was a time where Alabama, with its three, four defense and all of its size and all of its five stars, they would squeeze the life out of you. And that's how you win with A.J.
McCarron. That's how you win with Jacob Coker. You've got Derrick Henry and Trent Richardson and Eddie Lacey just hand the ball off 40 times a game. Let your defense go out there and make the other team quit. Well, now Alabama's defense makes you quit with terrifying pass rushers that are ready to fly at like predatory cat like speeds and crush your quarterback and speed up their clock.
Alabama has adapted and adjusted their high flying on both sides of the ball. Again, number one with a with a strong dot for me. Then there's a top two. Then there's a top three. And then there's a gap as Clemson, Utah, Notre Dame, Oklahoma, Michigan all try to make an argument for why they might be able to be the fourth best team at the end of the season.
I'm throwing NC State in there because I want to. All right, Chip Patterson, before we get out of here, you mentioned Stetson Bennett, the fourth. And if I'm not mistaken for much of last year, you jokingly referred to him as Hudson Swofford.
So Hudson Swofford was one of the so beautiful. God, it's on a platter for me to chip. I termed yesterday a three and one win for the PGA Tour. It could have gone either way. You got to the 17 T and you were and you were two up. You still haven't. You still didn't grant drag it into the barn.
But ultimately, they the live players couldn't prove irreparable financial harm by being left out of the FedEx Cup playoffs. Is that a proper way of looking at it? And I have an idea going forward. But what's your what are your thoughts on the ruling? I kind of feels like we're going to get a double or nothing, right? Like meet me back on the first tee tomorrow and let's run it back. I don't think the end of litigation and the end of the pettiness between all of this, the immediate result of these golfers not being able to participate in the FedEx Cup. I don't think that there's a huge adjustment to the way that we view the action in Memphis this week.
I don't think that there's a huge adjustment to where we're standing, looking at the back and forth. I do think that there are some comments that we got from this ruling that will be significant when it comes time for the majors to make decisions. I think that there are some comments and some things that came to light that are significant when they try to start making their argument to the official World Golf rankings about the way that their tournament should be treated. And of course, that plays right into the decision of what to do with the live golf tour and how to let it play into major championship contention.
I don't think that the PGA Tour should be gloating about it, though, because when we start to look at the reported and inevitable, in some people's eyes, exit of a Cam Smith and a Mark Leishman. June 19th, 2006. But it all started May 6th, 1997, with the announcement that the Hartford Whalers were coming to North Carolina.
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Find Canes 25th anniversary wherever you get your podcast. You are starting to look at a future where the PGA Tour is simply the American based tour and the live golf tour is more of the global tour and the PGA Tour fancied itself as the best golf in the entire world and was the best place for the best golf in the entire world. But as more and more global stars continue to leave and go to live golf, then that means that PGA Tour is no longer the best golf in the world. It's American golf. I'm not sure I 100% agree with it being the best American golf, especially since at least half of the live tour is going to be played in the United States. I also don't think that, I mean, there are going to be more players going.
I'm not Cam Smith, Mark Leishman, who's really struggled this year. He won't be the last. There will be more. I do think that Cam Smith has a chance to be the asshat of the year, playing in all three events, maybe even winning the FedEx Cup. And then the next day saying, see ya, which would be the giant middle finger towards the PGA Tour, but I have an idea. Because the President's Cup has a chance to be completely irrelevant based on who's not there. Although Tom Kim, I am team Tom Kim.
Gosh, that kid is amazing. How about in non-Rider Cup years, because none of the Rider-Cuppers will be able to play on the European Rider-Cup team, PGA Tour versus live. Oh my gosh, would this be good TV. We might actually have fights. I think that's what Liv wants. I think that Liv would love to be able to, like they, Liv would love to be able to create a WCW versus NWL. Like Liv would love to be able to create the television spectacle of our best team against your best team and let's sell the television rights for it.
I mean, we're talking about this as golf fans. It would be incredible theater. I would absolutely sign up to watch. And I think that that is probably one of the end games that has been entertained is that you create these rival tours and then you set up these storylines that play out in the majors and then you create team events at the end of the year. I mean, it is very much part of the long-term brainstorming, I'm sure, when the people got together and started creating or at least even pitching some of the people that are leaving to go to live golf. I mean, there were people who would watch on like a Monday and a Tuesday that have that ridiculous Tavistock between the two country clubs in Orlando, Florida that played each other.
This would be super high ratings golf on TV. Chip, you and I just did it. So we're taking credit and we get money for it. You're the best, Chip.
I don't want to get too tied into my commitments here. We're dealing with some very... No, it's all right. It's ours. You and I. We're going to share. We're going to reap the benefits of this. Love it.
Love it. Talk to you next week. Good. Y'all be well.
All right. We had to go a little bit over. We had some stoppage time because Chip and I got carried away. It happens.
Yeah, it always happens on Wednesday. All right, Victoria, take us away. Now, your halftime entertainment.
OK, so big news. It's National S'mores Day. Are you a s'mores person? Here's my problem with s'mores. I have no use for marshmallow.
OK, I can see that. I love chocolate. Dark chocolate better than milk, but I'm not going to debate it with people. And I love graham cracker. Yes. So I just don't like the marshmallow.
I can see that. My dad's a Peeps fan and I can't get down with Peeps. Excuse you? You've never seen or heard of Peeps?
Those are OK, though? Is that what you're saying? No, I've just never heard an adult like them. Oh, yes. My dad is one. Yes, one of one, I guess, because he loves them.
Loves them. But see, maybe that maybe that's what you need to like fancy up a s'more. You need to change it up or something, because, you know, some people will make them bougie and they'll put like Reese cups in them or they'll use the cinnamon sugar graham crackers.
Well, that's not now we're changing the s'more, not to a s'more game anymore. The the former producer of this program, forget his name, used to like slam people like you'll take a grilled cheese sandwich and you'll put something on it like like tomato or chicken. It's like, no, man. Now you're talking about a melt.
It's not a no longer grilled cheese. And he has a point. But I will I will just say that. Yeah, I just don't you just make if you like s'mores. Right.
Embrace it. Here's the other question. Why are we doing it when it's hot outside? That's usually a campfire activity. It's like a thousand degrees. Why am I going to stand by a campfire and do this? It's a very good point. National S'mores Day should be like in November.
Yes. October is perfect for bonfire. The Saturday of Thanksgiving weekend.
I know National S'mores Day. We just fixed it. Why can't I make the rules? OK, next up. So I'm a huge for whatever reason, Carolina Panther fan.
What do you mean for whatever reason? They just disappoint me so bad. It's like an abusive relationship.
So much love for them. And they just disappoint me. Well, or last season. Perfect analogy. It's like when you first start dating someone and they make Valentine's awesome because they give you great things. And then the rest of the year they stink. And it's like, what is going on here?
I digress. It's Fan Fest tomorrow, which I've been to multiple times. Now it starts at seven.
I'm telling you this a day ahead of time because it feels like it takes a day to get there. So, you know, coming from Raleigh, I would say also bring a poncho because the last experience I had, it was a torrential downpour. So that kind of put a damper on things. And I checked and Charlotte, there is about a 50 percent chance. So that means it's going to happen.
Yes, they get rain, unlike some of them, although we're in a pattern where we're getting a lot of rain anyway. So the Fan Fest are always fun, man. That was do stuff for the kids.
It's all about kids. Yeah, absolutely. And you. Right.
And suckers who love them. I'm sorry you're going to be stuck here and you can't go to Fan Fest. I get to hang out with you. It's just as fun. You know, I'll hear all the Panther news I need. Such a lie. It's all right.
You know, you don't have to like shower me with... You know what? The Panthers are on national news nonstop nowadays, so I feel like I'm already there. We talked about this yesterday.
We did, yeah. I mean, stop. It's insane. What are we doing? Well, all it really highlights is that there's not that much to talk about.
Tell me it's summer during football season without telling me it's summer. Yeah, exactly. And last up, because we're short on time. No, no, we're good. You're good.
All right. So it's also National Lazy Person Day, like being lazy, but this doesn't sound like people being lazy. So apparently people make an average of one hundred and twenty two decisions a day or every eight minutes.
So that's another way to put it in perspective. Interesting. I'm trying to think what decisions I've made today.
I know. Well, and they're counting this poll, I say is counting things like what to watch on TV, what to eat, what to wear. Probably whether to make that turn or go this direction.
But you know what? People need to make better decisions when it comes to Twitter, because sometimes that's another decision maker. Sometimes that decision should be just to log off. Yes, exactly.
That would also be a decision. And that's fine. National Lazy Person Day. I'm surprised that National Lazy Person Day actually has a date. I know for some people it's every day. It's just not just or it's a lifestyle.
When should National Lazy Person Day be? I don't know. Right.
And they don't make decisions. Not one hundred and twenty two of them. So who's going to, you know, I know it is interesting. OK, well, and you can chime into this one more so. As a Mets fan, you love the Mets, right? Absolutely.
All right. Apparently, fans are already comparing Matt Vogel back to the modern version of Babe Ruth. Is this too soon?
Well, I mean, other than it being inaccurate, yes, it would be too soon, but it's entirely inaccurate. I think they're talking about Babe Ruth when at the end of his career, when Babe Ruth was a little fat. But to me, he's the he's like refrigerator Perry. Yes, he's not. He's a decent hitter. He's not an amazing hitter. He doesn't pitch like Shohei Ohtani is actually Babe Ruth because he did something, I believe yesterday, that only Babe Ruth has done, which is pitch a certain amount of innings in a game, strikeout, whatever, and hit a home run. So Ohtani is actually Babe Ruth. No, Matt Vogel back is not.
You're not one of those fans. He's a nose tackle. Yeah, exactly.
I did see a comparison of the pictures and I'm like, OK, well, I can see maybe a resemblance there. But when it comes to just the end of his career was Babe Ruth kind of portly. He was just big. Yeah. Back in the day. Yeah.
Well, OK. And this last. Now, we all know that Aaron Rodgers might be a plant person, but are you a plant person? Meaning do you have plants at your house? Can you keep them alive? Oh, we have plants. They're not mine.
Right. My wife has some orchids which have to be watered every once in a while. But we have a little bit of a tomato and cucumber garden outside.
So but those are all my wife's hobbies. I have can't remember the last time I watered a plant. Yeah, but I'm not I don't I don't when I have had them, I don't kill them. Right. So I used to have a little herb garden, but I don't have one of those right now.
Yeah, no. Well, there's apparently a poll out there asking people if they're plant people. I love plants. I don't kill them fast. Sometimes it's a gradual thing. But apparently only 33 percent of people actually keep plants alive.
The rest of them don't even dabble in it. So currently right now, fun fact, I have watermelons in my driveway. Because you and I both live out in the woods.
Oh, yes. And I like to garden every now and again. But deers don't allow that.
So, yeah, it's a little experiment. Watermelon in your driveway. Yes.
I have a huge tub that I'm like, OK, if I can surround it by cars and things like that. Maybe deers won't eat them. Right.
It's working so far. I'll have to show you a picture. OK. It's like that grown watermelon pumpkins all grow the same type of way. Cucumbers also grow that way. Yeah. They grow on a vine. They just kind of spread out everywhere and they go crazy.
They go everywhere. Awesome. So, yeah, that's it. Well done. All right. We're going to place bets. We haven't heard from Dennis, right? No, we have. Good. Good.
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