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My thanks to my pals at Fanduel. All right, so we go into hour number three. Phone lines are open. I would love another phone call one eight hundred six three six eight six eight six. Also, as part of our number three, we have the ATP.
So get those in. Ask the pros. And as part of our number three, Alvy will have his week that was. All right, so let me give you a new topic though to start the third hour. If you thought, for instance, that Tony Romo.
Was going to make a spectacular midseason return to the CBS broadcast booth. You thought very wrong, because if you missed this news, Romo is officially out at CBS Sports after they mutually parted ways. Quote end of quote. Earlier today. And again, if by mutually parted ways he got his ass fired, then yes, they mutually parted ways.
Then again, how many people really thought that Romo was going to come back to CBS this season or at all? To quote my podcast guest this week, Ricky Waters: For who? For what? Why bring the guy back if nobody was missing him? Why bring the guy back if JJ Watt was doing?
Just as good or better than Romo was in that spot.
Now, had JJ Watt struggled in that role for whatever reason, that might have given Romo some hope and maybe might have given CBS some reason to think about bringing the guy back. But JJ has been very solid. Nobody's missing Tony like at all.
So Tony getting the axe was inevitable. Excuse me, the mutual axe. Yet they bleep can the guy. Essentially, CBS delivered their verdict, and no, Tony, you did not pass the test. Did I pass this test?
You turn around. No, I didn't. No, mutually exclusive. If I want to make an argument for mutually agreed upon, I should say. Mutually agreed upon the amount of money negotiated that was left on his contract.
Maybe there was a mutual agreement in that they were both unhappy with the number that they settled on, so they mutually agreed upon that. But I don't think there was a mutual agreement to separate. I think the guy wanted to come back and get all his money.
Now, to be clear, they fired him. And to be clear, it's because of how far he's fallen, both on and off the air. It's not just the OWI, and it's not just the mugger. It's the OWI and the mugger, and the drop off on the air that was so dramatic. It was performance based as well, if you ask me.
And I'm not in a position where I normally are commenting on other broadcasters or their performance. But this story was just so huge, both on and off field. It was the OWI, it was the mugger, and it was the fact that his performance was not nearly what it was when he first burst onto the scene, and he was a sensation. He went from being the future of commentary. To one of the more annoying dudes in a booth, which probably explains why the statement from CBS Today was so ice cold.
Ice. Check this out. Quote: CBS Sports and Tony Romo have mutually agreed to part ways. We thank Tony for his contributions over the past nine years, and we wish him the best moving forward. That's ice cold.
I can give you an example, a personal example. When I was not brought back after ten years on the NFL Today on CBS, I I got a call from the guy at the very top of the food chain. Called me directly, called me directly, Jim. It's a difficult call to make, but we're gonna move on. We're changing directions.
We want to thank you for everything that you've done. You've been a consummate professional, and I want you to hear it from me. Thank you very much for everything. But we're gonna go in a different direction. I mean, he didn't have to do that, and that that was from the number one guy at the network.
That that statement read pretty cold to me.
Now I'm not saying that I don't know what was said behind the scenes, but the statement that was released to everybody was pretty cold. I thought for CBS because they're warm, man. I work for all the networks. CBS was like a family. They treated me really well, really well.
My producer on that show, Drew Kaliski, who's one of my favorite guys and one of the best producers I've ever worked with, sent me an incredibly nice note. Didn't have to do that. In other words, back to that statement. In other words, don't let the door hit you. And hopefully everybody forgets that you ever worked here.
That's how that statement read to me. The only question left is what kind of a settlement did he get because they owed him roughly seventy mil or even more. Which brings me back to the guy. Imagine gambling with seventy mil that's coming your way, and all you have to do to get that bag. Is show up once a week, prepared with some occasional insight, and not drive around with an open container, and you're probably golden for the next thirty years.
It's not too much to ask, unless apparently you're that guy. Way to completely jack up the best thing ever, bro. Like. Romo trying to hold that field goal snap in the O six wild card. Can't believe how badly he botched the hell out of that opportunity.
Him running off to Cabo with Jessica Simpson the week before a playoff game. Can't believe the horrible judgment that he showed here.
Now the good news is. If he can get the help that he needs before this gets any worse, and he ends up like Mark Stabchess, he can still get this thing turned around. I mean, it could be worse. Romo could be Stabchess. Incredible that CBS's number one NFL analyst gets busted for an open container OWI.
Gets his ass fired, and still isn't having the worst year for a major network NFL analyst. That still belongs to Stabchess. You still have that going for you, Tony.
Now, look, we all know that Romo has made a ton of money. We all know that he loves playing golf. It's not like the guy's going to be bored. Hopefully, there will be way fewer trips home. Or way fewer trips away from home at the golf course.
That involve swerving lanes and open containers of alcohol. Can't have that happen again, obviously. For the record, here's his statement today: "Quote: I'm proud of what I accomplished at CBS Sports over the last nine years. I approached my role as a game analyst the way I approached everything in my life with a desire to win and be the best that I can be. I'm going to use this time to take a break, something I've never done before, and focus on my health and my family before moving on to my next opportunity.
I am grateful for my time with CBS Sports and for the continued support of my family and friends." Is Was the NFL community and fans? End quote. Bottom line: a break would be a great idea because if he cleans it up, he will work again. There's no doubt in my mind. If he wants to work again, he will work again.
His performance in recent years has not suggested that he has had much interest in doing the actual work or preparing. You see, the people who have longevity. And the people who crush the broadcasting portion of their career after their playing days are over are the ones who attack the gig like they did when they were players. No, it's not the same thing. Not even close.
It never will be. But it doesn't mean that it's not a job. It doesn't mean that you can't bring that same grind, that same level of preparation to it, that same passion. In fact, you have to. I've been in this game decades.
I have sat in so many production meetings with former athletes and coaches. You can tell within five minutes who's going to make it and who isn't. Who covets the opportunity and who thinks it's just a victory lap, not a job and something owed to them. If you don't do the job, they will fire you. Or if you don't do the job and they can't fire you for contractual reasons, they will wait until you give them a reason so they can fire.
You, or they will wait until your contract is up, and they will not re-up you.
So, you can bust your ass and make it work, or even you can bust your ass and still get fired. But he clearly wasn't doing that. In the end, he was just making weird noises and telling the viewer what they already knew. We saw him. You know, initially he burst onto the scene, and he was so different, and he was so unique, and he was so good, and everybody loved him because he had that one parlor trick where he could tell you exactly what was going to happen before it happened.
Everybody's just blown away. But then, even that bit him in the ass. Even that bit him in the ass in the sense that people didn't want to know exactly what was going to happen every single play. They wanted to watch the game. And then you know the silent part out loud.
There was the gambling aspect. You can't tell people what's going to happen before it happens because there is in-game micro play, micro gambling.
So I I just think the guy just didn't work as hard at it as he did initially. You cannot take that job for granted. There's always somebody. It's like anything else. There's somebody hungry who wants your job.
And who's better?
So, if this guy goes away, does some soul searching, cleans up, gets sober, gets that break, reinvents himself, comes back as somebody who's got that grind, then he's got a shot. He'll work again. There's no doubt in my mind. He's a really likable guy. Like people like him.
Somebody will hire him. But I'm here to tell you, he's not going to get that same gig. He's not going to get another gig for ten years at eighteen million per as the number one analyst. He's not getting that gig again.
So take all the time you need, do some serious soul searching, heal up, get right, and don't jack up the next opportunity. If you don't do those things, it could get worse. It could get dark. You could find yourself running the streets of Indianapolis in the middle of the night, whacked out of your mind, and getting stabbed in the face by some poor random truck driver dude who's just trying to do his job. Don't let it come to that.
He'll get another chance. He won't get that chance, but he'll get another chance. What do I always say? America is so forgiving of celebrities and athletes if you say you're sorry and you mean it and you get right and especially if you're a likable guy. I'd argue again, I'm no legal analyst, I'm no lawyer, but the situation he found himself in was a bad situation, and it was on video.
But the reason it didn't go even worse. Was he came off so well?
Well, for a guy who was drinking with an open container and an O.W.I. Other than that whole part, he just he was likable. He didn't escalate. He didn't make any problems. He tried to charm his way out of it.
He's likable, man. People like him, but. You still have to work. Just being likable is not enough to keep a job like that. You have to be good.
You have to be sharp. You have to be insightful. You have to do the work. You got to be plugged in. You can't just show up and be you.
And in the end, that's kind of what it seemed like, right? He just showed up, made a few weird noises. Hey, Jim! Jim, this. Jim, that.
He just—he was no longer unique. He wasn't different. And didn't seem like he was putting a lot of time in. You got to work that thing. You got to earn it.
You got to keep earning it. But people will take you back. I mean, look, look at. Ask my guy Zay. That's my guy Zay in Cleveland.
Deshaun's the greatest thing ever. Cleveland. They took him back. Believe me, if they'll take Deshaun back, they'll take Tony Romo back. But he should use that time, man.
Use that time, like he said. I've never had any time off. Use that time, get right, get healthy, own how you ended up there, and absolutely somebody will bring him back because he's so likable. Oh, your reaction to it, and CBS is interesting. I I give CBS credit in the sense that they're not afraid to move now.
Like it's there's this really interesting. I don't want to call it a conundrum or a dichotomy. CBS is a really good company to work for, and again, I've worked for them all. They're really friendly. They're really warm.
However, it is a business, and they will make changes.
Some of these other networks do not make changes, and I don't mean layoffs, but like there are guys that are still on the air that I don't even need to get in names. They've been there forever. Like, do you have a lifetime guarantee or something? A lifetime job? Do you have to die to lose your job?
CBS is not afraid to make moves. They will move. They will move you out a little too early, as opposed to a little bit too late, or or or just when it's appropriate.
So I I think that's interesting. They they are aggressive, but they're warm. It's it's a good company. But obviously, I think that it wasn't just the O.W.I. I think if this guy were performing at a super high level, super high level, I don't know that this goes the way it went.
I think that was all those things together in a perfect storm. What is your reaction? Do you miss him? Are you going to miss him? Were they unfair to him?
Did he bring that upon himself? Where will he end up? Where will he show up? Do you like JJ Watt? Reaction.
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So I'm still hunting telephone calls and ATPs. Alvy's putting the finishing touches on his week that was. All right, let's go to the phones. Let's go to Indianapolis, Kevin. Great to have you, Kevin.
How you doing? Go ahead, Kevin. You're on the air. You got one more shot, Kevin in Indy, and now you're not. You ready?
If you're on hold, be ready. You don't like that? Be ready. Why would you call me and not be ready? One eight hundred six three six, Kevin.
Position eight six eight six. Let me try Orlando instead. Scott in Orlando. Hey Scott, what's going on? Jimmy, how you doing?
Good. Resonant Padres fan of the jungle. I am over the moon with what's going on with this team. I got to say, timely interview with Papelbon just yesterday. I sent the beef about not getting.
The Padres anyone any credit except for you and of course Peaty, but now I can add JP to that list. He is all in. Here he is talking about camaraderie of teams, and that's probably their biggest asset going in. And it starts with Craig Stammond. The guy does not get enough credit.
What he's done, the first year manager, and not to mention jungle guy, has done with that team. The first half offense was completely anemic, and he people don't realize he had all of two starting pitchers throughout the year. The rest were rotating for a various degrees success. It's just amazing. I tell you, as fans, we were not sure about that choice that the start, and especially the middle, but we are all in now, and we are just watching this whole thing explode.
Offense is through the roof. Pitching is getting healthier, and our bullpen has been and is still unmatched. Petco ridiculous has a delirious home field advantage now. It's a cupstone. We just boat raised them.
They're they're top two players basically. MIA. I heard they sold out every postseason game there in like twenty minutes. Like it's it's like no other now. The rest of the field, I'm telling you, we're coming for you.
We specifically got Matt Tober and those boys in blue in our sights. We just have to get by the Miz, but I like our chances. Nice job, dude.
Well done, ex-Patrick Grisham, and the gang's taken to the Ah! No, didn't mean to run you, Scotty.
Sorry about that. I mean, I'm sorry, Alvy's not because Alvy ran you. I think Alvy. I don't even need to ask Alvy if you go with that pregnant pause, and I think you're done. And I start talking, Alvy is going to object.
You jumping back in there and talking over me, so he ran you, or he's just in a bad mood. One or the other. Everything you said is true. I agree with everything you just said. You said he made the point.
I'm saying, hey, Jim, you're the only one. You and Jake Peavy are the only ones that are giving the Padres any kind of positive run or any kind of credit. He goes, I want to add JP, Jonathan Papelbon to that. Papelbon didn't just say they're hot. Papelbon didn't just say they're dangerous.
Papelbon said, I think they can beat Milwaukee and LA both. That they're playing that well, and they're that hot, and then he laid out a reason for it. He said, "Number one, they're that hot. They are that hot." I, the way I asked the question, I said, "They are going up against the team with the best record in the National League, but they're far and away the hottest team in baseball. They've won twenty of their last twenty six." And they believe, and there's something to it.
When you go to the yard every single night, expecting something good to happen, anybody who's ever played baseball knows this. And it's it's more of a sports thing, even a life thing, but definitely a baseball thing. If you go to the ballpark expecting to barrel one up, or if you go to the ballpark and you know you're untouchable, if you go to the ballpark and you expect good things to happen, they generally do, especially that sport. And then, if you have an entire clubhouse that expects that, then it's a really dangerous thing. And then, Petco, man, Jonathan Papelbon said it.
There were years when that place was dead. He said, "Not anymore." He goes, "That is a hard place to play if you are an opponent," and it's true. I lived in San Diego. I spent time there when things were not good and teams were not competitive, and I spent time there when the Chargers were great, when the Padres were great. There's a different energy to that city, and they can bring it now.
I think a lot of you have this misconception that all of Southern California is soft, or all of California is like L.A. It's not. It's not San Diego can get pretty fierce. Honestly, even tougher than LA on some level. And right now, it's like that.
And they're hot, and their bats are hot, and everything about them is dangerous. That they can beat Milwaukee. And I'm going to say that LA. I'm not speaking out of school here. Dodger Jim about to weigh in.
The Dodgers are beatable. If you're going to get them, get them right now. They are imminently. Beatable, not saying they can't threepeat because that's the funny thing about LA. Every time you want to sell them out, every time you want to sell them short, every time you want to say it's not happening, at the end of the year they know how to win and they show up and their bats show up and and they do run an ace out there every single night.
There is that, and then you might say, yeah, Rome. What about that bullpen? What about it? What about it last year when nobody had any faith and then they showed up? It's going to be really interesting in the NL, but good to see Padres fan coming up in here.
Anybody else? One eight hundred six three six eight six eight six. The reaction. Oh, here's a breaking story. Yahoo Sports has this.
Newly acquired cornerback Joey Porter Jr. Has no injury designation and will be available to make his Cowboys debut on Sunday against the Texans. Per Todd Archer, Porter Jr. was initially ruled out for the Steelers Thursday night game with a back injury, but he practiced the past two days since being traded to Dallas. That's interesting.
My man healed up quickly. They got him ready quickly. About that game, Steelers and Texans. Safe to say, both those teams need that one. That should be really interesting.
Sean in Eliseo Viejo, Cowboys Texans. I should say, my bad. Point remains, they both need it. They both need that game. Dallas coming off that disaster in Brazil, and my man NTC and the Texans own three.
Sean and Eliso Viejo Alvey wants you to relax. How do I know? He wrote, "Geez, Alvey, relax." R e l a x. I don't know. If you know Alvey and you see triple X or eight X's.
He's only gonna get aroused. Hey, Avi, would you like to react to that? Geez, Avi, relax. Hey, Jim. Hey, Avi.
One second. Was this was this about Scotty? Yes. I mean, that was a pretty big pause, and then he came back. Usually, what winds up happening is they keep talking while you're giving them credit, and it just gets messy.
Scotty, it's a crap. It's a crap, Scotty Barnes, Scotty in Orlando. It's a crap. This is shame. All right, Alvy, go back to.
Alvy does not want me talking to him five minutes before his week. There was okay. Heads from bacon. Complete crap. Alive.
You mean Alvy? Alive is a stone cold killer. No lame pauses. Alive is a stone cold killer, man. Alive has been doing this a long time, man.
Alive is alive and a killer. Alive, alive thinks that if you're alive, but you're just dead, that he's gonna kill you. Julie Cresco nine two five six Alvy in a bad mood never hey Jules Jules you don't work with a live all right I do that's not accurate a live does have mood swings all right Jules Julie who are you to say that that is ridiculous oh a live a live's like I'm always in a good mood. Alive is like I'm in a good mood because I'm alive. Billy Webb nine three eight eight.
I do believe that they, Padres, are the only team in this playoffs that could beat the Dodgers and Brewers. Oh, okay. Thanks, Billy. Jonathan Papelbon just said that too.
Okay, here's some Tony Romo reaction. Haunted horse. Tony Romo hit the brick, pal. Signed Alec Baldwin. I didn't say that.
I didn't say that. What I did say was, get the help you need, spend some time with your fam, and come back with a renewed interest in putting it in, putting the work in, and somebody absolutely will take you back. Chris from Boston. All right, strong take. Romo pissed someone off at CBS.
Is all I can think of. I don't know that that's true. I don't know that that's true. I can okay. Here is my personal experience.
All I ever saw when I worked there, and I was there ten seasons. I would be on the set when okay. What they do on that show. The pregame show, we or they would rehearse the entire show before the show, and then as part of that rehearsal, they would kick out to the various venues, and they would kick out to Tony, and everybody seemed happy to talk to Tony, like we go now to New York or we go now to New England and whatever it was. And they would do a cross talk, a talkback with Tony, and everybody was happy to talk to Tony.
And Tony was always in a good mood, so I never got that vibe. I don't know. I don't know what goes on behind the scenes. I don't know how much heat or pressure they felt because the internet turned on him. I don't know.
And two pause. Shlomo checking out.
Well, pervy lefty checking in. Pervy Lefty, you know it's really interesting that that story drops that he checks in. He actually already checked in and left. Let's keep it real. The story was actually the story was new.
The report was new, but him checking into rehab for quote family trauma. I don't even know what that means and addiction. And then he had since checked out, and was really interesting to me that nobody even reacted, nobody even cared. Like, TMZ had the story, some golf publications had the story, and nobody even cared, which tells me that nobody cares about him at all. Like, everybody's already turned him out.
The sport does not care. The sports turned its back on him. Nobody cares. Like nobody, oh, oh, good, good for him. Oh, this good guy, good for him.
He hopefully he's turned the corner. We can't wait to welcome him back with open arms. They're not saying that at all, right? Like everybody's already turned to him out. Like Tiger Woods, Tiger Woods goes abroad, gets his treatment.
It's secret. He comes back. Everybody's happy to see Tiger. Phil goes and gets his help. That's probably comes back, and nobody says a word.
Like nobody cares. Nobody's happy. Nobody wants to see him. Nobody's embracing him. You know, toughen up.
See Dovaz, seventy-eight quote: "Romo will have a YT channel in a few months." I don't think. I mean, maybe, but I think they will have a bigger job than that for sure. That's not to say that if you don't play the YT game correctly, and some do, you can crush it. But I think that he will end up with a network or a streamer or something. Cincy kid eight thousand quote.
Jim Nance had Tony fatigue. We don't know that. That's speculation. I don't know that that's true. I don't think that Jim Nance made that call.
Now was he consulted? Maybe did somebody ask him his opinion? Maybe could he have saved him? I as powerful as Jim Nance would be. I don't think if the network decided.
Put it this way: Does his opinion? Does Jim Nance's opinion matter? Yes, of course. Kowalski thirty seven sixty nine quote. I can't believe he made it nine freaking years.
That seems like a long time, doesn't it? It doesn't seem like he'd been there nine years. Matt in Calgary, this Romo talk sounds like a future episode of the Reinvention Project. Not so much to the host of the Reinvention Project. I mean, maybe.
Doesn't feel like it at this point. Joseph Price, thirty-two, eleven. Romo will be running a bowling alley from like one a.m. to six a.m.
somewhere. Seriously, doubt that. Highly doubtful. V in the feed. If America is so forgiving, Rome, why couldn't I have my memorabilia back?
Thanks, Oge.
Well, V, I have said America is an incredibly forgiving nation if you apologize and you mean it. Oj never apologized for anything. In fact, not only did he say I'm sorry, that memorabilia belongs to me. He held everybody at hostage at gunpoint. That's why he wasn't forgiven, and in fact was jailed.
War, Chris Darden, being the lawyer on retainer for my family. V, why do you got to be like that? Because you don't have to be like that, V. V. I've seen that two percent of you that brings something really good to the program, and the ninety-eight percent of you that brings garbage.
Why do you do that? Because you don't have to. You do not have to. Cut it, OJ. Come on, cut it, OJ.
Stop it, V. It's good, Austin. Telephone call. All right, so Alex, he says line four. Is he on line four, or is he on?
He hung up. Juan, Juan, you're gonna get your run in the jungle. Why did you hang up? All right, I'm not gonna. I don't trust the other callers.
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Oh wow! You know what's interesting about that though? Yes, but no, because you know what? That was not when I first found out about that band. My good buddy Vic Matthews.
Turned me on to the replacements, but it was for the album Tim, and Tim was released. Hey Tommy, can you look this up? Either in '86 or '89, maybe '86.
So I found out about Let It Be. That was '85. Was Tim?
So that was the album before Tim.
So that does not make me feel as old, believe it or not. Let It Be is a great album. That's raunchy. That's raunchy. That's that's a dangerous album.
Tim was a little more polished. Alvy, go ahead and do your thing. Everyone, thanks for coming. I'm excited to be here. I know why some of you guys came.
Welcome to the jungle, Avery. Good Monday to you. My name is Jim Rome. Lots of football to cover, lots of ground to cover. Let's get after it.
Nine is officially now a New York Giant.
So Minnesota was fine trading away nine for a pack of footballs. Then again, at this point, the Vikings are probably thinking we're good to get anything at all for this guy. And the Ravens. How about them Cowboys? How about them seven seconds?
Way to Cowboys, Cowboys. Way to go all the way to Brazil to gag and choke and blow it in front of the entire planet. More awareness, more decisions. Those are my meatball subs. Herbert cannot be serving up absolute meatball subs like he's working at a Sando shop.
Chase in Denver. Let's just go with the Chasey. How old are you? I'm thirteen. And do you know who you're calling?
Tim Riley. All right, so I'm gonna teach you a little lesson about life, and it's gonna hurt. This is what's known as being run. Tom Pelissero. What are your thoughts on Drake May?
He's got Jared Wilson, his center, who's bleeding from the hand, and Drake May takes a snap with a bloody ball, and it slips out of his hand for a turnover. It's like if it can go wrong, it's going wrong.
So many phone calls. Kellen Meling and Riley. Heads needs to roll. I rather watch Moana for the sixth time today with my two and a half year old daughter than watch another USC game. Go, Cardinals!
The karma of you doing what you did with Racini has now caught up to the team, and are the joke of the NFL. Hey, YouTube chatter, your mom just texted me, which is weird because she normally does that much later at night. But she said your pizza rolls are done. Come upstairs and get them, you fat lard. PJ Black rubbing that blood all over his face.
Imagine if he would have been on the Oregon game over on Dante, rubbing all that blood all over his face. Did that actually happen? Was that a 38-year-old third stringer who not started an NFL game in over 1,000 days that lit Soldier Field on fire? True team loss. Live from Los Angeles, this is the Jim Roberg Show.
Y'all act like you've never seen a bathrobe. Oh, you have a problem? The guy who didn't play in the game taking a shower. Of course, I'm talking about Jonathan Vilma. He's talking to Shantay.
You need to lose weight. You're getting fat. What is he talking about?
So Sean goes over and he weighs himself. I will never forget this, Jim. He was two hundred and forty-two pounds. Can we gloss the chat, Chatsworth? He glossed me, the mayor of Chatsworth.
I had to call in. You repeatedly like to slander my up-and-coming shiny city of Chatsworth. It's got to stop, Jim. Dan Lanning proceeding with an abundance of caution. Dante's going to be okay.
You had a problem with the hit, obviously. Do you have a problem with the Trojans? No problem. No. You really want to talk about that next game, don't you?
Sorry, Jay. Unsportsmanlike conduct. The Steelers losing the rest of it. Your Okanu is joining us. Oh my goodness!
It was just—he got that sack, and I'm running up to him. I'm trying to celebrate with him, and I look over. I'm like, "Oh, this is gonna be a flag." So wrong. Jr. Swish.
He's beating up family members allegedly. There's the mugshot. Lighting wasn't. The only people flaming Tomlin or like making weird assessments about it are people who have never played the game.
So I don't want to hear a gem A plus from me. How is your Minecraft city coming along? I'm definitely not speaking that world, so not very good, I guess. What is your beef, Rich Rod? Put a defense on the field, you dirty scumbag!
And there's three, four big. Yeah, on your right, white with a little bit of green. Miles, if people want to dress casual, let them. Love bugs down here, man. These things are horrible.
It's like a big one and a little one. It's like Sandusky all over again, Romy. Sandusky can never be a punchline. Small carts, big carts. Big Kurtz, small Kurtz.
My beef is when the fam takes the boat for a booze cruise and I get left behind. That's the problem, right there. My Red Sox, they they sucked ass, man. There's no other way to put it. We have to be comfortable being uncomfortable.
I appreciate you. Would love to come on again, Jim. You're the man. Classy duel with the monkey. Classy duel with the monkey.
Real slawer knocker. It's great always being on with you. Love your energy as well.
So thanks a lot, Jim.
Next question. This is how they create juice. The fake energy.
Well, do you like crab legs?
Well. Tyler Murray short, hurries away before growing another injured limb. I actually did go to Javier's. You know, you got to go to the Spectrum every now and then. Happy postseason till you brother.
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