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I'm doing so good, Romy. Thank you for that open desert. Nice to see Santa Monica. I know that's Malibu, right off of Canaan.
So, thank you for bringing me home a little bit. Awesome, absolutely. You are home, Tori. It's great to have you back on the program. Thanks for making time.
Listen, I know the end of the season was gut wrenching. It came right down to the final game of the year. I know it did not end the way that you wanted it to.
However, you agreed last week to a two year contract, and I was pumped to see that. I want to start right there. How gratifying is it to get that no new deal? And how hyped are you to continue with this team and this organization?
Well, I'm very hyped. You know, this is my home. I've been here now for ten years. This is, you know, this is where where I feel like I belong. And I didn't want to see what was on the other side of it.
And did we did have some tough losses there? The second last day of the season. We felt like we had things and in our control. We lost a really tough game, and you know we were up against it on the last day.
So on that last day, you know you're filled with a bunch of emotions. You know, is this the last time I'm gonna manage this baseball team? My contract has expired. Is there going to be a desire to have me back? Do I do I want to come back?
Those are a lot of the things that I had to to walk through, and I you know I wanted to decompress a little bit when the season was over, figure out what was best for me and my family, and then connect with Mike, and we did that on Wednesday, the day the Wednesday after the end of the season, and everything worked out just as good as we could have hoped. Tori Lovello joining us, Tori, I was going to ask you about that because Mike is Mike Hayes and the GM, and that was Wednesday. The season ended on a Sunday, and then you kind of went down, and you had to process things like you just said. What what's going to happen? Do they want Me back to.
I want to come back. Did you go Aaron Rodgers' darkness retreat, or how did you process that? What did you do those days? I went extremely dark. I was off the grid.
You know what? I didn't go on a bender, nothing like that. I just really shut it down and and did a little soul searching. My wife and I, who's my biggest fan and who knows me best, we talked through some things. And when we we were finished talking, we just stopped talking.
And you know, if it happened at two o'clock in the morning and in the in the middle of the afternoon, we just were we were we were you know. Freewheeling on any part of the conversation, any time. We were watching Ted Lasso. We we watched Ted Lasso from episode one. Wanted to get all caught up.
We were big fans of it for the three the three seasons. We wanted to be ready for season four.
So we went from season one to four with a thousand conversations in between about what what does it look like? What is what is a different side of of this look like? Are we do we want to move on? Are we going to engage? Do we want to find out interest level is?
And once we Made that decision quite easy. We figured this was a place. This is home. You know, I work with really good people. I work for a great owner.
I work for a great president, and Ken Kendrick and Derek Hall. And then it's clear that is an elite GM. And we got to finish this thing off. We got to find a way to win a world championship. Appreciate you so much, man.
That is so transparent. That is so real. That's so authentic. And usually, let me ask you something.
So you guys go through this entire process. You binge Ted Lasso. You and your wife talk about it. You're like, all right, this is it. We made a decision.
We've stopped talking. This is where we want to be. Did you know that they wanted you back? What if you went to that meeting and they had done the same thing and they binged head last?
So when they decided we had an amazing run, want to go in a different direction? Was that in the back of your mind at all, or did you know? Oh my God, you're the best! You know, the very after the after the last game, Mike Haysen said we wanted to talk about bringing you back.
So I I knew in the back of my mind that there was some interest, and you know, it wasn't a closed up deal. Time when he told me that, I said. I don't want no conversations. Everything's off. I need to.
I need to. I'm at. You guys need to figure out where you're at. Let's reengage some point during the middle of the week. It was great.
Mike was unbelievable. He would call me daily, check in, find out where I was. And and he, you know, I was off a bunch of things that were frustrating to me personally. And he was accepting of that. He was a great listener, and he said, "When you're ready, just let me know." Either way, we got to get this done if can as soon as possible.
So glad to hear it. Troy Lavello joining us. At the end of the year, the team trailed the Phillies by four games. Play. You took it all the way down to the last day of the season.
No, it did not end the way. How proud were you of the way your guys battled? They never let go of the rope. Yeah, I was I was extremely proud of the boys. You know, we we were we were hunting.
You know, we've been in the position where we were we were being hunted in 2024. Look what the Phillies did, and we knew that we had an uphill battle, hoping to get inside of a certain number to have that that three game series with with San Diego and be meaningful. But the Padres went on a total heater and got hot, and they clinched the day before we saw them, and then the next the next team in our in our crosshairs was was the Phillies, and I know that they were grinding. And through it, they were watching our scores very carefully because we were watching theirs. But our our boys just kept getting after it.
There was no shutdown in our guys.
So tough about the end of the season to say goodbye to that group that fought hard. The odds were stacked up against them. We went seven, eight in a row before we lost the last two.
So they were hungry. They they responded to every challenge throughout here, especially in that last ten days of the season. They felt like we could do it, and when we smelled it, we got it, and we got it, and we got some fish in the water. We we felt like we could do it. That's what was so heartbreaking that we did all that work and couldn't close it up.
Figure out how to do that next time. You know, so heartbreaking, Troy. But I imagine also such a big part of reason why, if you want to be a part of this, like there was adversity. Guys are going to get hurt. Guys did get hurt, but then another guy step up.
Like Gabriel Moreno won the NL batting title. There are a lot of pieces, really good pieces. When you look at the core of that clubhouse, and then and then you look at the inevitable changes that there'll be this off season. Do you feel like you have a roster, or will have a roster that can contend? For a championship.
Well, first of all, we're in a really tough division. You know, the Dodgers—you can just that—they're going to be one of one of the teams that are going to that punch a ticket to the big dance. And then you know, it's usually the Padres too. They're a really good team, so we know what's in front of us. Do I think?
Absolutely, I think that every year. And I go into the off season thinking it and dreaming about it. And before it's happening, I'm kind of dreaming and thinking about it.
So, of course, that's where I've got to stand. But the realities are, we got we got some work to do. I think chips are one in the mundane prep. Got to be able to do things. We talk about winning inches.
You remember the movie Any Given Sunday with Al Pacino, where you got to win. Yes, I do remember that movie. Unfortunately, I'd say I remember that movie very well. Unfortunately, yeah, it's such a such a good movie.
So it actually was the worst movie ever. But go ahead. That scene inside of that clubhouse, we've adopted. We talk about winning the inch, so we have little signs all over our clubhouse. How are you going to go out and prep to win that inch?
How are you going to make this team be better on that given day?
So we love that. We embrace that challenge. Nobody complains about the Dodgers. Nobody complains about the Padres. We know we got to go up against every single day, and we got to win the inches.
Hey, Tori, I'm just saying that. And at morning, the reason I hate that movie is because they clown me in that movie. They clown me hard in that movie. Yes, yes. I want you to know why I am jumping in and interrupting you with, like you are telling me.
This is such a great movie. T here is a scene in this movie whereby I am like, yeah, I know that movie, Tori. They clown the hell out of me in that movie. That's why I hate that movie. Oh, all right.
I'm off of that movie. I'm not off of that. You can stay on that movie. Whatever we both get out of that movie, I got nothing out of that movie. Worst movie ever with the worst cliches ever.
But if you saw a scene that you could take from that movie that makes you and the team better, run with it, man. Run with it. I'm good with that. I'm good with that. I appreciate that.
I got to go back and log onto this. I got to see what happened. I don't remember that. Oh, you'll see it as soon now that you know when you watch it. You'll know.
You'll understand that we're talking to Torres Mello, Tori.
So I mean, it'd be. It would be easy, I suppose, to say, "Damn, I'm in this division with the Dodgers, and I know the Padres are always going to be there." I mean, you're too competitive. Was there ever, ever any point where you're like, "Hey, man, there's probably an easier way to get to where I want to go than to be in the NL West?" Did that ever enter your mind at any point? No, not at all. I love a good challenge.
I think that's how we're wired in this game. Everybody wants to, to, to climb to the top of the mountain. And you know, there, there's times I feel like you know he was pushing the boulder up the hill, and and Susie get to the top and keep rolling back down on him.
So I feel like that, but that just motivates me more for the next day.
So I'd, I'd rather, I'd rather choose the hard right than, than the wrong easy. And what, what is hard today will be more gratifying tomorrow. And I think that gets me out of bed, and I think that gets everybody. Hopping every single day, like we got to find a way to get this done. And when we do, it feels good.
We we beat the dodge. We knocked them out of out of the playoffs a few years ago, and that felt great.
So we got to continue to shed all that frustration, all those things that that are going to help us get there. We know what it's going to take. It's going to take all that prep work and all that belief in a team that's going to play together one through twenty six. I know that, Tori. I know you're going to choose hard.
You will always choose hard. Tori Lavella joins me from there, moment or so.
So are you keeping tabs? Like you've got a lot on your own plate. You got to. Charge, do your own thing. Are you keeping tabs on the postseason?
Are you not watching it? What about your two rivals in the NL West? What do you think about what you've seen? Yeah, of course I'm watching it. You know, it's baseball.
It's playoff baseball, and and my wife and I went to a Jack Johnson concert, and we were watching the game as we were having a little bit of dinner. And I I kept dreaming about being in that dugout. I feel like we should be in that dugout playing against the Padres, but that's how it is, man. That's just where we're at.
So there's a lot of frustration, and I love the teams that are in it. I love the way that the Brewers do a great job with that group. They kind of they think we do. They beat you by a thousand cuts.
So you know, there's Samson Elias, but there's really good. Baseball teams that have good baseball players that deserve to be in this, and it's big, lot of fun for me to watch. And you know, the best that time of the year, and it's crunch time, and that's where I feel like I enjoy watching baseball the most from this vantage point at this time of the year. If I can't be in the dugout, I'm going to be in front of the TV watching. Antonio, you mentioned your wife play, and you would come on the show.
You used to talk about your wife too. I'm curious that I'm married the best person I ever met, my wife Janet. What do you think is tougher, being a player as Wife or a manager's wife. Oh man, I I feel like how would she answer that? Yeah, yeah.
I think she's she's looking at me right as wife for sure. I I feel like you know she she's in on a little bit more of the conversations, the ups and downs, the ins and the outs. As a player, you're just head foot into into going out there and getting two three hits and helping your team win a baseball game. But I know that I know that she's in. She's here every single day, believing in me.
And I know that she's had some frustrating moments. She shares out with me, but I I for sure would think she's gonna. To say, being a manager's wife, got it. One last thought: What about your guy, Kattel Marte? Once again, we saw the issues rise this year.
You always had his back. You always had his back. Does he have to reearn your trust? Where are you at with him?
Well, that's a good question. You know, it's an evolving friendship. It's an evolving relationship every single day. And you know, I want to I want to raise these players to be the best version of themselves on and off the field.
So, I think people get a snapshot of me handling Cattel Marte, the baseball player. But I do more work behind the scenes, trying to help him grow up and be a young man, which I have. We've been together for ten years. And you know, when I'm talking about some of the things with Cattel Marte, I'm not talking about Right now, I'm talking 40 or 50 year old dad as a as a friend and as a husband. And you know, I've had some grinding moments with him professionally.
It's not has not been easy with some of the decisions that he's been made. But that's what happens in this game. You know, you just got to pick up the pieces, grow, learn. And my relationship with him has always been very strong. I'm always going to care for him.
But I got to find a way to make him a little bit more. More accountable to what what's right and wrong when those times happen when he gets so frustrated because I think that's where it stems from he just gets so frustrated he wants to step out retreat we all have that gene and it was wrong we want to pull back and think I think he likes to think about some things and sometimes it's a little bit costly so we got to get better at that and I want him to advocate for himself that's the most important thing. Tori Lovello, manager there on Diamondbacks, ten years he is the winningest manager in franchise history, long one of our good good friends on the program. Tory, I appreciate you so much. Congrats, well deserved on the extension.
Always good to see it, Tory. You're the best. All right, all right, Rome. You too. I appreciate the time.
Talk to you soon. Be good, Tory. Tory Lavello joining us. You're listening to the Jim Rome Show.
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So it's Wednesday. ATPs. Ask the pros. ATP. Ask us anything you want.
Ask the pros. In the meantime, been rolling telephone calls now for the better part of the last few weeks, with a lot of success. See it? Hey, look. If somebody calls from Baco, you know I'm going there, right?
It's a lock. Bakersfield, Bill in Bakersfield. Good to have you on the show, Bill. How are you? What's up, Romy?
Thank you for taking my call. Hey, listen, Paul Brown did it before. The owner of the Cincinnati Bengals. And the head coach. That's what I think it's going on.
She wants to be the first female head coach of the Colts.
Okay, there you go. All right, that's interesting. She want now. I know she doesn't want to be the next, you know, pop like Urse. She wants to be the next Brown, Paul Brown.
So she's working her plan and planning her work. She's down there on the sideline because not because she wants to learn as much she possibly can, not because she wants to educate herself so she can hold everybody accountable. She actually wants the head coaching job. The thing about that is, I'll play along. She owns the team.
She could be Paul Brown. She could be the owner and the head coach tomorrow. I guess that's kind of my whole point, though. She's not Paul Brown. She is somebody with a football acumen, or the football IQ, or the football educational level of a fifth grader.
That's not me talking smack," she said to herself. "I have a fifth grade level of football intelligence, so I'm trying to gather and learn as much as I can. Yeah, but you've been doing it for years. You've been around it for years. This didn't happen right when Pop passed.
You've been gathering intel and data. Why are you only in fifth grade? Shouldn't you have graduated football elementary school by now? I'm not even saying you should be on the staff." I'm not even saying you should be the coach. I'm not even saying you should be, you know, cutting tape.
But shouldn't you be out of elementary school by now? This guy's like Rome. You don't get it. Paul Brown did it. She aspires to be Paul Brown, owner and coach.
I'm just, I stayed away from that topic as long as I possibly could, but the topic never went away. And people are still interviewing her and asking her about it. And I'm just saying, I don't. If you're the owner of anything, never mind a football team, but including a football team, if you're the owner. Or you're in a position of authority, and people report to you.
What do you want to do? What do you hear coaches say all the time? We want to put our players in the best position for them to succeed. Any business owner, any entrepreneur, any manager, anybody who is responsible for people underneath them would want to put them, the employee, in the best position for them to succeed. My point is: is the owner being on the sideline during a game, looking over the shoulder of the players and the coaches, putting them in the best?
Position to succeed, I would say no. And then, if your point is, hey, bro, overreact much? They're not losing because she's out there. No, not specifically, but it's not helping, right?
So, whatever information you need to gather, like for instance, if she wants to sit in and watch tape. With the coaches, her prerogative. If she wants to go to practice and watch practice and ask questions, her prerogative. I'm just saying, Sunday, man. Quote: Any given Sunday, I know I was in the movie.
All right, any given Sunday, like that's the most important time. Those three hours, those three hours. Don't you want your coaches and players to do what they have to do in the most pressure-packed three hours of the week? You have twenty one hours, twenty four hours of any other day to do what do? It's just it's it's not even the optics.
I just I don't get it. Can't you observe and take in all that information, write down all your questions that you have for the coaching staff, or forever, or for whoever, and ask after the game? Without being there during the game, or do you need to be on the field to get that information? That's weird to me, because if if if there was an advantage, wouldn't every other owner do it? Wouldn't every other team do it?
The reason this is such an issue is you're the only one doing it, and frankly, I don't think it's because you're a visionary. Frankly, I don't think you figured out something that nobody else figured out. I don't think you're ahead of the curve. I don't think you're the one person who's got the the courage and the gumption to go where no man or woman's ever gone before. I just think it's weird, and I I don't think it helps.
Singling I am singling her out because she's the only one doing it. Any other owner, I would have the same exact take. It's gender-based take. Imagine Jed Pork running around down there with a headphone on, taking notes. Imagine Jed Pork doing that.
It's so ridiculous. I can't even imagine it. And never mind that we can't find Jed Pork these days for obvious reasons. But just to pull an owner, Jed Pork. He's not doing it.
Woody Johnson, even Woody Johnson has enough sense not to do that. Jera is not even doing that. But then again, Jera always. You know why Jera's not doing that? One, he thinks he knows everything.
Two, he always has a puppet as a head coach, so he doesn't need to be down there. He can pull the strings from up above. Hell, you know an owner who seems out of touch at times, a lot of times. Bull cut, bull cut. Even he doesn't pull that crap.
Dude drives around with a flip phone in a minivan and hangs out at PF Chang's. And even he won't go on the sideline during the game with a headset on. Bull cut. Won't do that, so that that's why it's a thing. And I I tried to stay away from it as long as I could.
Super J Five on chat. If I were Carly, I'd be more into Pop's guitar collection than the Colts.
Something to be said for that. At the Sterling Savant. Carly's on the sidelines because there's literally nothing else to do in Indy. Signed Mark Stabchaz. Wow, my bro, my dude, to do in Indy.
Get stabbed. That's something to do in Indy. Get stabbed. I don't think she's on the sideline waiting for some truck driver to stab her in the face. I don't think that's what that is.
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Okay, all all these morons did are coming in and saying, "Hey man, he he just bailed because they suck." That's convenient. I've already told you it's a horrible take. If if and may lightning strike me if it happens, if Lane Johnson were to sign with the Vikings, these Vikings, then we might have a discussion about why he abandoned them. But we know why he did. He said so.
Sheamus, twenty-seven, Rome. The Eagle's season so far has been a kick in the stick. Lane Johnson retiring is not part of that. He's a legend. He has earned the right to walk away, however and whenever.
Wishing him well. Yes. Here's another one. Jim is a longtime Eagles fan. Lane gave us everything for 14 years.
Nothing but respect, love, and admiration for him. And I wish him all the best in hoping he gets right. Jergens was basically the handpicked successor by Jason Kelsey for Jason Kelsey. He's never been anything other than average, without superior players on the line alongside of him. I love the return of the trade.
I'm bummed in the short term that it feels like we're now punting on the season, but the stagnation of this offense that frankly looks no different than last year, despite a new OC, is unacceptable. Expect more changes. I think no one is safe. Mark in Maine, go Birds. That's tough, and that's totally reasonable.
Was everything, just as Lane Johnson gave the organization everything he had, Mark in Maine gave me and us everything he had. That's not unfair. It does feel like they're punting on the season. It does, but I don't think they're doing that. I think that knowing Howie Roseman the way we do, he's going to try and rebuild on the fly to the best of his ability.
But the return that he got for Jergens, I agree, is really good. Jergens is out of position, out of place, didn't really live up to the hype, and they got a second rounder.
So Howie's always going to hunt value where he can. A tip major, I get. Carly Ursey Gordon is the owner, and could fire Shane Steichen in a moment's notice. But he is to blame here. The hood allow such tomfoolery.
I don't agree. I don't agree. You said that you get that she's the owner, and could fire him. But he's the one to blame here. The hood would never allow such.
What does any of that have to do with any of that? Believe me, if that old perv Bob Kraft were to come down the sideline, Belichick couldn't make him go away. If Kraft wanted to be there, I don't think Kraft wanted to be there. Any owner could put themselves there. That's the whole point.
No others. And and you know what. We can say what we want about the hood and what's happened to him. Shane Steichen does not have six rings. Shane Steichen is not the goat.
Shane Steichen does not a Jew. Shane Steichen is on thin ice. He's not going to tell the owner, "Get the hell off my sideline," when he's already on thin ice. What are you talking about? Hood would never put up with that.
What do Hood and Shane Steichen have in common other than they've both been NFL head coaches? I don't. Shane Steichen is going to roll over to Carly and say, "Carly, Carly, you know this is my sideline, right? I'll talk to you after the game, Carly. Beat, beat it.
I, you know who the hell I am. I'm Shane Steichen. Carly, see after the game, all right? To fuel up the jet." Don't you want you uh go look at your old man's guitar collection? All right, get off my sideline.
You know who the hell I am? I'm Shane Bleeping Steichen. What are you talking about? The hood never put up with that. Yeah, well, Shane Steichen's not the hood.
One eight hundred six three six eight six eight six. It's just odd. It's odd for anybody. Stan Kroenke is not down on the sideline. Jared is not on the sideline.
Even find me the weirdest owner. I don't know Bullcut. Bullcut's not on the sideline. It's odd. I've already spent more time on it than I thought that I ever would.
I know Benson down there. And and if she goes down there, I'm gonna have the same take. And if Jared goes down there, I'm gonna have the same take. And if Woody goes down there, I'm gonna have the same take. And spocking headsets, and they're taking notes.
Amy Adams Strunk, dude, she's hands on now. That's an aggressive, hands on owner. You can feel her presence. She's not tucked away in some box somewhere. Even she's not on the sideline.
With the headphones on, taking notes. Nobody is. All right. When we come back, ATPs, please ask the pros. What would you like to ask any of us?
I have a question. Where's my guy Moose Johnston? Hey Moose, where are you? That's just my ATP. Can you hear me, Moose?
Moose, can you hear me, Moose? Yeah, I can hear you, buddy. Can you hear me, Juice? Did you kill Bill Walsh? Yeah, I'm just wondering why didn't you call Rome?
Yeah, did you kill Bill Walsh? I know you didn't kill Bill Walsh, but why didn't you call Rome? It's not too late, Moose. Can you hear me, Juice? Can you hear me?
I can hear you, buddy. It's not too late, Moose. Yeah, me the man. Remember when you played? I love you, Moose.
Remember when you played fullback for the Cowboys? Yeah. Did you kill? Remember when you were an NFL and Fox analyst for 26 years? Can you hear me, Juice?
Anyway, Moose, we're good. You're the best. When we come back, one last segment. I've got a podcast that I will do after the program. We are not done.
How about some ATPs? Hit me up. You're listening to the Jim Rome Show.
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Ooh, Eddie Edward Marino from Madonna Beach. What is he known for? Ed, cover your ears. Extremely bland, boring ATPs.
So much so, so much so that I wonder if he's trolling me. You know, kind of like Madge, kind of like Irv, kind of like Trage on X. Like you're Urban Magic Johnson. There's no way you take so that horrible. You're one of the greatest players ever.
Like you're the Irv. You win. You got me. You hooked me. You are such a troll.
There is no way you are that bad on X. There's no way those are your takes. I started one of the same thing about Edward Moreno. Like his ATPs are so bland and so boring. I'm like, bro, you don't mean this.
You're trolling me, aren't you, Eddie? And then this. This is spicy, Edward. Mr. Rome.
Would you rather go on paternity leave or be with your team while they're playing in the playoffs? Respectfully, Edward Moreno from Redondo Beach. Damn, Eddie, spicy! Wow, you're a Patriot fan, obviously. All right.
So he's talking about Mason Miller. What would you quote rather do? What's more important? Your wife, the birth of your child, or your team—it's his first child. Are you asking me what I would do, or are you asking Alvin what he would do, or are you asking?
What are you asking here, Edward? Are you are you being rhetorical? Listen, I I've okay. What I do is different, perhaps, than what Mason Miller does, and he is the best closer in the game, and extremely important to what they do. Obviously, I I've been able to grind through a lot of things, but here's the thing: when Jake was born, I left the studio.
When I got word from the hospital that it's time, the baby's coming now. I was at work, and I knew we were close. But Jana was in labor and had a terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible labor with Jake. Like it went on for over twenty-four hours. It was horrible.
And finally, I got to a point, and I talked to one of her friends. We had to make this decision because I wasn't there, and. You know the whole long story. Her doctor wasn't there. Jake was premature, and we decided, like, cut her, Mick, cut her, Mick.
And then when it came, it was fast as any C-section is.
So I guess the answer is Eddie. I would leave because I did. I left. I left in the last segment when I was on the air one day.
So yes, I would go. Let's see here, Jim. Since you mentioned earlier in the show that your pops told you he was proud of you once he heard you, we're getting big in Santa Barbara. I'm curious, did he ever listen to your show and offer any feedback? Regards, Nick in Detroit.
See, that's the funniest thing. Yes, yes. Jay had lots of feedback, lots of feedback, and I didn't agree with very much of it at all. And I would say, like, yo, Jay. Do it.
Do I tell you how to manufacture your garments? Do I tell you how to manufacture your high tech garments? Why are you telling me how to do the show? We would go back and forth on that because again, he was he. My dad was the reason that I was in the sports.
I my dad grew up in Boston as a gigantic sports fan. I got my love of sports from my father, like a lot of you. You passed it down generation. I got it from him.
So of course he had opinions. Not only on sports, but on the show and on business. Yes, he would give me feedback. Here's something: you ever do this with your kids, or your kids ever do this with you? Here's something that he hated.
So I would come up with some question about some like dilemma in my life or in business.
So I'm like, Yo, Pop, I want to run some. I want to run something by you. I want to bounce something off you. You got a minute? Sure, sure, kid.
What do you need? I'm like. Blah blah blah blah blah. Should I do this or this? He's like, absolutely do that.
I'm like, okay, thanks, Pop, appreciate it. He's like, you got it. And then I would do the other thing. Oh my god, dude, he was furious. He would say to me, "Why do you ask me?
Why would you ask me what I would do?" And then do the other thing. And then I would say to him, in all earnestness, "I'm just gathering information." I'm just trying to make the best decision I can with the best information I have, and he didn't buy that at all. He's like, "Stop asking me my opinion if you're going to do the opposite." And I never understood why he was so mad. And now that I've got kids, I kind of understand why he was so mad. Rome Slice, what is the weirdest interaction that you ever had with a fan?
Maybe it started good, but ended weird, or maybe it was just weird all the way around. Were you naming your new feline Taco Cat, and also were Lauren and Alvy syncing up that clip of Aaron Rodgers yelling at Big Mike and having him say the clock, Mr. Falcon, Scott and Seabus. Clone since '96. Boy, there's a lot in that.
Well, by the way, I named the cat, and Janet signed off on it. I'll say that maybe for tomorrow. The cat has a name. The cat has a name. The weirdest interaction I ever had with a fan.
I don't know. Anytime. Anytime Dino hits me up here, I don't. Yeah, you mean in person? Lots of odd interactions.
I would say this: one percent bad, two percent weird. 97% normal. The game's just ended. The conversation starts now. The NFL Digital Reaction Show, and without further ado, Player of the Day, Play of the Day, Game of the Day, Team of the Day, and the Fan of the Day in the NFL.
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