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New episodes of the sixth and final season of the spectacular and harrowing show on Hulu, The Handmaid's Tale. From that show, back on The Rich Eisen Show, Sam Jager. Good to see you, Sam.

How are you? Oh, stop it. You guys. It is an applause line. It is. Yeah. Oh, OK. It's an applause line.

You felt. Yeah, it is. It is. It's a laugh. It's a laugh riot. The Handmaid's Tale. You know, people like that's the first thing out of their mouths whenever they come to compliment the show.

Dude, man. I mean, when you're reading these scripts, are you just like shaking your head? Like what? Like how much darker can we go here? I mean, like what is what's it like when you're doing this show? Well, the show is a lot lighter than people would imagine it to be.

I think it's because of the circumstances of shooting it. You know, we're shooting in the dead of winter, usually in Toronto. And it's so cold and and such a you know, we're always out for some reason.

I'm always staying standing on a tarmac in the dead of winter. So luckily, the people that work with me all have great senses of humor and don't take themselves too seriously. We have so much fun. We have a great time on this show, you know, and then we, you know, go into shooting this this harrowing scene and then come out of it. I think we just you need that levity or else.

What's the point of living? Is there is there a Handmaid's Tale fantasy football league that goes down? Do we know nothing like that?

No, there isn't. I mean, we started once. You know, I did. We did it. We did a hip hop class together. Did you really this last season? Yeah.

Yvonne Strahovski is is big into dancing. And so we did. We did that collectively, which was humiliating. But, you know, you know, I do what I can. I get in there. I, you know, cut a rug. And then is that what the young kids are saying?

Cutting a rug? Are they saying that they are the one with the youngest child in the room? Yeah. I mean, he's five. Okay. Very good. Five. Yeah. All right. Yeah. He's just on the cusp of cutting a rug and watching the Handmaid's Tale.

Those two things. It's great family entertainment. But I understand why you guys would be tight, you know, on a set doing a show like this one and a hit show that you're in season six, which, you know, in this day and age, that's what did you start?

Did this show start a decade ago, technically? Pretty much. You know? Yeah. So, I mean, that there's there's reason to celebrate that. Absolutely. Working actor in this world. Yeah.

Right. So working on anything. I mean, I've been doing this professionally for twenty five years and, you know, out of those years, maybe two or three things. You're like, I can unequivocally say I'm proud of this.

A lot of other things. You're like, yeah, that's kind of embarrassing that I did that. Oh, I don't want to follow up and ask which one there was. There was a there was a phase, you know, sometimes you just have to work in Van Nuys on things and hope, hope nobody, hope your mother, your grandmother doesn't see it at the airport. Is that what you're referring to? The FBO?

It's airport adjacent. I mean, you do have a mustache right now. You know what's so creepy?

I'll go along with this. Yesterday, I realized I went to pick up my boys at the school and I was like, you know, because I usually pick up everybody and sometimes I'll pick up like just the neighborhood kids. And there'll be a minivan full of like six kids. And I went and picked up the kids yesterday and I and I got in the minivan.

I'm like, I'm a guy with a mustache in a white car full of kids. This is not looking good for me. So I drove as fast as I could, which is not great with either. So you're caught in between. That's when Yeah, that's when my second grader yelled out. I'm not even buckled, you dummy.

I'm not buckled. I get that a lot. I get that. Yep. Sometimes get that a lot. But that's what we want.

We're trying to teach them to parent themselves. Aren't we? Yeah. The bright shining star Sam Jagger is here on the Rich Eisen Show. Sam, have you spent time with Torrance before?

Sam from Torrance. That's right. Boogie Nights is based on my, my life story. Indeed. Indeed.

The Handmaid's Tale on Hulu, by the way, available right here on, on Roku. All right. I'm mandated to set this next question up this way.

Okay. When you are in the darkest scenes and again of this program, do you at all channel your Cleveland Brown fandom to try and set the stage for your character? You know, it's Sam.

It's always right there, Rich. It's a, it's a sadness that I can tap into at any given moment. Is that what it is? Yeah. It does that, you know? Okay.

So you're, you're sitting there and you're like, okay, I'm just wondering how it all feels and how do I get into this character? And then Spurgeon Wind pops into your mind. That's right. Pretty much. I think of the last home game at Municipal Stadium. I was in the dog pound with my, yeah, with my, my brother-in-law, my brother and my dad, you know, Bellacheck on the sideline.

Yes. Bellacheck on the sideline. They started ripping up the, the benches toward the end of the third. And you know, guys are just hammered drunk. I got a beer spilled on my back.

I'm in high school here. I'm just like, it was one of those things where you're like, okay, I could, I could take a couple of years off to just regroup from just this, this wellspring of sorrow that is the Cleveland Brown life. Yeah. Do you have an opinion on who that you would want them to take second overall next Thursday night? I think you should take Travis Hunter. I mean, there's no question in my mind.

No. I, and let's be honest, whoever they select as a QB is going to be a bust anyway. So just don't, just don't do it. Don't be the Browns, but you can't, if you're going to avoid the position in the NFL, eventually it must be addressed.

Maybe there's a world though. Hear me out. Hear me out. Let's let we get Travis, we get, you know, and you know, we just hike straight to the RV and go for it every time, you know, it, it reduces what we can do on the field, but at least it lowers the amount of bad passes and we've made a lot of them. Or we just teach this kid how to play quarterback. This looks like a guy who's about to throw on the screen right here. You know what I mean?

Like this, this looks like he could do it, you know? Yeah, I buy it. Yeah. No, I think he always got to go with the best available. He is a unicorn and I don't, you know, I, with all due respect to cam warden and you know, in, in, in this day and age, I'm now free to say anything disrespectful because I fronted it by saying with all due respect.

Yes. I don't know why we're not talking about this. This guy is the first overall pick in the draft, right? Because I guess this is a corner and he's a receiver and you can't choose them when there was a quarterback of cam ward's ability sitting on the board. I understand that, but he is that good. You know, what's funny is I think a lot of times people have people choose the QB because they don't want to be the team that passed on a QB.

That's correct. You know, and so there's a fear of, Oh, well we don't want to be, you know, I, I, there's an interesting study that they did on like soccer, you know, when you have that goal kick, when the, you know, it's a, at the end of the game, I don't watch soccer and they, they have the decision to dive left or right and it's one of the other. And this, the statistic proves that if you just stood in the middle, you have a better chance of blocking that kick, but nobody wants to do it because no guy on goalie wants to look like the guy who just stood there.

Even though this is an interesting analogy, by the way, we're fascinating creatures. Could you imagine that a keeper in a penalty, you know, I'm now showing off. I'm showing off now. I'm impressed.

I'm showing off. If a keeper just stands there and doesn't dive for any penalty kick. And then after the game, somebody goes, what are you doing?

It's just like, he'd never playing the odds. Yeah. They would be considered absolutely insane. Absolutely. So in this stage of your analogy, the keeper that stands straight, they have a better chance of catching that.

Somebody would draft Travis hunter first overall. That's right. As they should use this analogy covering the national football league draft next Thursday night. Absolutely.

On the NFL network. Yeah. You know, I have a thing about soccer or what they call football, football everywhere else. And I, I appreciate the sport. I go to angel city games with my wife, which is an awesome event because I'm going Friday night to angel city.

I am indeed. It's amazing because it's going to a sporting event without like machismo being the pervasive feeling at a football game where everybody's like, I got to out tough everybody here. I've been doing enough. I went to lions games. I went to Brown's games and there's always this like, yeah, we're going to tear these guys apart.

I hope I get into a beer brawl in the middle of this. You know, that's why I'm just like, I'd rather watch it at home, but angel city is great because it's, there's like a camaraderie, you know, for the whole stadium. My feeling about soccer is it feels, and this may be controversial. It feels un-American to me.

Why is that? Because the end of the game, we're big on our finishes. The end of the game is just some guy being like, all right. About now, now's the end of the game. It's just like, you know, we're going to add five minutes ish and then I'm just going to call it and we're going to leave it to some ref on the side. Like that is so the antithesis of what we are.

We are pioneers, especially since the number of the minutes that are added on is completely arbitrary, arbitrary, or accrued by somebody who just falls down. Right. Yes. And then it's, and then hold their phone as if it was splint splintered on the field. Some guy from, you know, Croatia comes out with a spray. Yep. Sprays their leg.

They pop up and run like a deer. Miraculous. And then we're now adding extra time on that front. So my comments following up on that is one, it's difficult to hear a football slagging from somebody who's got great soccer hair like you do. Thank you. I mean, your part right now is exactly what, you know, that's something I, I'm amazed that these, these guys run with a hair like yours with a part 95 minutes later and it's still just perfect.

Like, I don't know what that pomade must be made of. So I asked Kiki for the soccer hair. Very good.

Well done Kiki. I said, give me the football hair. Okay. That's number one. Yeah. Number number two is I'm completely with you on this front, you know, about this entirety of, of, of soccer and football and wondering about that sort of thing. And number three, is it weird that I go to angel city games full of McKee's mo?

Oh, is that, is that weird that I show up? You just go like raging. I'm throwing elbows. Yeah.

Just take them out. Yeah. You're like, I'll show you angel city, man.

You know what I mean? Like, I would watch it. I would watch it. My wife goes to these, my wife gets season tickets and she will, she'll take you out.

She teaches problem of God. So yeah, watch out. Well, I'll see you Friday night. Yeah. Um, all right.

And now I am mandated to, to bring up this subject about football in the state of Ohio. Is this about, is this about the white house visit? Uh, no, it's about the, uh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

It's about the, if we're talking about a visit to a house, we're talking about the horseshoe visit. Actually the actual game. Oh, great.

Great. It happened last November. I don't remember this, that, that game. Now, did you go to the Ohio state or you're just a guy from Toledo? I'm just a guy from Toledo. The guy from Toledo. You do realize that Toledo is the birthplace of Jim Harbaugh as well as urban minor born in the same hospital. I know Toledo. Yeah. And you're close enough to that state up north is it referred to that you could have like Charles Woodson and Desmond Howard and a bunch of Buckeye staters been a Wolverine, the Unabomber.

There's a lot of people that went to the university. Really? Yes. Yes.

PhD. But that's it. I don't, I don't bring that up. I'm not saying that you are equivalent to bring it up. Is that what you're saying?

Is it university of Michigan? I disowned him as I disowned Connor Stallion. Wow.

You know, there's a lot to be said here. I mean, I heard you actually showed up at the white house ceremony this week and I was no, no, no. I, I, I just was wondering, you know, cause there was some mention of some guy in a Michigan hat who threw the whole thing off. He was like shining a mirror at our vice president, which therefore who made him the championship trophy by the base. Oh, there it was actually, there's the guy that was at the white house. It's like Connor Stallion's in disguise.

That's weird. I submit that that looks a lot like Rich Eisen. If you squint, you know, cause he's got the Michigan hat on, there's the trophy. There used to be a base on this thing. Let me look at the floor.

Is it there? Yeah. Okay. That I, that picture, go back to the other one. The other picture of you, I want to say I spent this morning photoshopping and I think it turned out really good photoshopping, but I tried to, I tried to download the U of M logo. It was like, I felt really sketchy. Like somebody like there was going to be a like justice department was going to come and confiscate my hard drive because I downloaded that image graphic at the white house. Like that's weird.

I'm so proud of that Photoshop that, you know, really well done. Now we're going to play the whole thing and they're not playing it again. Okay.

It just drops. It's okay. Yeah. You know what? Listen, it's, it's, it's all good. You know, we just found out that two loss teams have a championship trophy that come in two pieces, you know, but two loss teams are still national champions. That's correct.

There was a, not a chance at this point that that national championship will be sucked away from us. Meaning meaning things are not looking good in Ann Arbor. By the way, when, when Chris makes a face like the one that he's making right now is means like he doesn't want to chime in even though he would love to chime in. He's like, he's, that's a, he's not wrong, but I like having my job. That's totally legitimate. I love that. It's, it's, it's all right that you believe that. I will say this is a, this is a rare moment in history where both fan bases, Michigan and Ohio state can, are looking optimistically and feeling like last season wasn't a bust. That turned out pretty well.

That I don't think it will ever happen again. Is that right? You don't think so? Well, I mean two years ago it was a bust for Ohio state. Yes, but you know, cause Michigan busted them and everyone else in front of them.

Yes. And then they felt great. And so Michigan felt great. But every year there's these, one of our fan bases is usually upset. Yeah. Usually upset. This last year we're like, well, you know, we won the national championship.

That's too bad. Only at Ohio state would it be like, you know, it wasn't a total bust of a season. We did win the national championship.

You did and played very well. And yes, you know, I, I, and I look forward to seeing how it all happens next year when Michigan goes for a fifth in a row. My, my theories, we have to give up the, the Teton and just call it Michigan. Cause it gives you guys way too much power.

The whole Teton bang and the issue gain and the red X. It's just too much work, but you know what it is? It's childish. It's a childish thing to do. I have no problem saying the Ohio state university. I have no problem saying, you know, the horseshoe or Columbus or it's because you have so much testosterone that you're going to go to a game on Fridays, just throw some elbows.

Exactly what I'm going to do. So the Handmaid's tale on Hulu, which is available on Roku, the sixth and final season premiered last week. And Elizabeth Moss is directing four episodes this season and Bradley Whitford as well directing the he directed some episodes last season. And so what, what, what can you tell anybody about this final season that you're particularly eager to pass along before I let you go on your, your Wednesday? I think it's, you know, it's a hard show. It was a hard show to watch for some seasons.

And I think we knew that. And so having some sort of, you know, we want to reward the fans this year because we put them through hell and and it's just a really riveting season and a fitting finish. And a lot of times people try to end shows and they don't know how. And I think we really stuck the landing because that's what you want.

You don't want to be lost for, you know, for all intents and purposes. You want to feel like, yeah, we got to the end and people feel satiated, but it also feels true to the show. And yeah, I mean, it was, it was just a joy to do truly from start to finish. Well, I mean, again, it's so rare to be on such a hit show that lasts as long as it does and mirrors a lot of what's going on in the real world as well as is a source. There's a source material from it as well. And for, for everybody to be on the show and it's successful at it is I offer my congratulations to you.

You are most welcome. Yeah. And I'm seeing the billboards all over the place with Elisabeth Moss up there and it's the revolution is here, but it's, it's her as well. So I am, I am rooting for an exciting finish here.

I think we'll deliver. Okay. Yeah. And it turns into a musical at the end. Is that what it is? Yeah. It's a little bit, sort of like Blazing Saddles.

Did you just burst through the scene? Well, Wicked was such a big hit that we're just trying to ride the coattails of that. I don't think it's a jump the shark moment either.

I think it's, it's going to feel like still part of the show outstanding, but just big numbers. So lots of jazz hands. You heard it here first.

There's lots of jazz hands at the end of the Handmaid's Tale, which is again, coming to a conclusion on Hulu. New episodes are sitting right there for you to check out Sam. Thanks for coming on your brother. Which always a pleasure. Everybody check out Sam Jager on Instagram as well.

Certainly when it's November in the late part of the season and there'll be fun things to talk about. We just planted the flag at the end of the interview right here. You had to go with that.

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Let me crowbar this in. I had a great time in Southern California over the weekend at the Long Beach Grand Prix. Always puts on a great event there. It's a great state. We've been there. We've seen it in the future. Yeah, we've, uh, we've, we've driven, uh, with, um, uh, Mario Andretti, Chris Brockman and I have done that and seen a kindergarten flashback before our eyes.

So it was good times. What else you got in mind? But my question is I did have some Hoosiers in, so we talked a little basketball. Okay.

And this is the question that, that I have. If you could go back in time and change NBA history and you could give one person a ring, right? Would it be Reggie Miller? These are your choices.

Reggie Miller or Charles Barkley? Oh, okay. Um, this is an easy one for me, Tim. Um, let me, let me sound it out like this is who wants to be a millionaire.

Okay. Um, while I, the positives of Barkley not having a ring is the real endless amounts of crap he receives for it on NBA, uh, on the, uh, inside the NBA, which just leads to fun television. I mean, even Ernie clapped back at him recently in a manner that is a very unearny, right? Um, so there's that. And for Reggie Miller though, you're talking to a Knicks fan, Tim, and he is without a doubt on the top five players that I despised while watching the Knicks in their heyday more than anyone else because of what he would do to the Knicks.

Can I interrupt? We hated Mark Jackson, but then we loved Mark Jackson. No, I understand that. And trust me, I once was ecstatic watching Wade Boggs on a New York city police officer's horseback, you know? Um, so I, okay.

So I understand the strange bedfellows part of it. Uh, and I would just again, the Knicks fan in me, I'd give Barkley the ring, but sorry, TJ, as a, uh, a member of the sons, right? Well, he didn't ask you that question. That's how, or was he on the rockets when he was taking on the sun?

It was the sun, right? I would, I would, I would prevent Jordan from getting another one just to see the bill bulls fans cry at that point in time. If I'm, cause I'm going back in time where I'm diehard, Nick fan hated watching the bulls do their thing, despised without question, Reggie Miller, I'd give the ring to Charles, even though that would create a fewer moments on inside the NBA that make me laugh. How's that Tim? I love it. I love it. Thanks for the call.

They appreciate it. Uh, let's go to Terzo and Iowa. All rise. Terzo. How you been? Good.

Rich man. Hey, what's up TJ. Hey, I got to agree with, uh, whenever it comes, hold on, Terzo, hold on, Terzo. Hold on. He's about to agree with me.

You can do that in a second. Uh, why is Mike on the pain? Oh, mindless. Well, what happened?

I couldn't, I couldn't tell if Mike actually made it into work. Well done counselor. You'll find out real quick. When I hang up on, I am the judge and jury in this man's courtroom right now. But I mean, I'm the Supreme and I, and I applaud you counselor.

I applaud you. All right. Now, now go ahead.

Go ahead. I like I said, I got to agree with Brockman whenever I saw Trey young get tossed. I didn't agree with that. Whenever I think of somebody kicking a ball into the stands, I think of Nick Nolte and blue chips. That's aggressive at all. That's that's that's how you get ejected on punting. Right.

Sure. And that was definitely a pun too. Um, but I got to give a shout out to my giants who are staying red hot, um, in the NL West. I'm kind of shocked that they're playing this. Well, I don't know if they can sustain it, especially against, uh, those Del Tufo Dodgers, but by the way, San Francisco giant fan, looking at you diehard Yankee fan turning into a Dodger fan.

I don't blame you for Terzo to put you in the paint on mindless. Yeah. No, um, the, uh, the, the giants are really good. Um, they just took two or three from my Yanks over the weekend. Um, and they are very, very good. And they, and the Padres are given the Dodgers and thanks to the cultures, all the early run for their, you know, money want to see how long I see again.

All right. The whole long season thing in baseball, like again, I want to talk baseball at this point in time of the season. Like it's football where each win or each loss is the end of the season or an indication that they're going to win it all. Right. Like that's the way you look at football. That's why we have our overreaction Monday podcast and segment that thank goodness knock on whatever this is, is popular.

Okay. That we treat everything like a complete overreaction. I would love to have baseball that way, but you can't because there's like five, six more months to go right now. And there's another game like tonight, most of, most of the time, but I would love to treat it like it is. I would love to treat it like it's football in that regard, you know, the Mets are on right now, uh, coming off of a loss despite Juan Soto home room. So we need like a second season, you know, which is great. So the Yankees have just beat the Royals for a second straight night. Max Reed looks like the Cy Young award winner that the Yankees hoped he would be. That's the way I'm looking at it. Right.

I had two bombs. Hey, your boy, this guy sends me, this guy sends me Instagram from who? Who's the, was it from the red Sox? MLB, MLB, right? Like have a day, Alex Bregman. By the way, he did first ever five hit game of his stellar career.

Two home runs as well. This is after you bitched and moaned on our show about how poorly the red Sox had been playing. You were, you were, you were a factor. Yeah. You're a factor. You were a factor.

But again, I'm just all I know is all I heard in March and February was, you know, good luck. Your team stinks. My team's better than ever before.

You're going to be, we're going to be, we're going to be looking down at you. And once again, as a Yankee found looking up, all I see is just nobody. There's nobody in front of them right now. They lead the division.

They actually have 10 wins. And we have nine. Let's not make it seem like, excuse me. We're in front of you. We're talking about it like it's football.

You are in trouble. Yankees are not. Yankees have won two in a row. The Martian just had three hits.

The Martian was great. Oh yeah. Jason Dominguez. He's playing a good left field.

It looks great. Hey, you know what the Yankees do is they not only win, they respect, they respect, which is why Aaron judge is the captain of team USA. And in terms of respecting last night, we see Jackie Robinson day and night in major league baseball, everyone wearing 42 Yankees won 42. That's their way of respecting. They're going to win and win by the margin and the final score to respect the day. Respect golden. Look up. Who else won 42 last night?

Nobody respect. That's how the Yankees play four dimensional chess. No, no, no, no, no. They're going to score four. They're going to give up two. They were short one.

They're going to score four and they're going to give up two. That's right. On Jackie Robinson. They were the only one to win. Only one to win four to two.

That's true. I mean, the Marlins did their point, their part. They scored four, but not to the Mariners scored for the giant scored for a lot of fours and one day, one day, one, four, two, and then one day deep into the future when there's an Aaron judge day, they're going to, they're going to go to extras nine to nine.

That's the way the Yankees respect, respect. What's the matter with what I'm saying? Nothing.

Everything's right. See, this is more fun than, Oh, it's a long season. We'll just see how it all plays out.

No, that's not fun. As a matter of fact, as a matter of fact, as a matter of fact, right now, I'm making this case up until the all star break. We are talking about baseball on the rich eyes and show as if it's football. It doesn't matter that they're playing another game tonight. It doesn't matter.

What just happened is gospel and 100% a window into a team's long-term success or failure. Why not? It's more fun that way. Isn't it? It's way more fun. You brought it up. It's way more earlier this week. And I totally agree because baseball's too long. I don't know who Jonathan Aranda is, but he's going to have 400 this year. Okay.

He's batting four 13. Great tape. It's a better take. When I just say I'm looking up, I don't see the red sign. Oh, wait a minute. There they are. Oh, hey. Braggy. Braggy. Braggy. Give me a break. Give me a break.

You are not allowed. You wanted him. I know that there is a certain point by which you are allowed to call him by his nickname. It's too early for that. When he hits two home runs in a game, you have to have the guy's gotta be on your fandom radar for more than, more than two weeks before you refer to him. Like you've been rooting for him since birth.

Well, he signed it. Braggy. January. No, no, no, no. There's a point. For instance, at this point in time, I got another idea for you talking about baseball. And another thing. I'm just coming up with ideas.

And another thing. Um, watching show a Oh, Tony. Um, the other night, uh, I knew he had a home run cause I heard it from the other room. The sound is great off. It's bad. It's different. The sound that happens in Dodger stadium is it is I'm sorry, with all due respect to his teammates, somebody else hits a home run. It's not the same noise as when Oh, Tony does it. It's it's different.

It's just different. He goes oppo. He goes second deck, although obviously there's no second deck for him to go.

No triple deck. You got to do that in Yankee stadium, which, you know, happens. All right. He does everything. He's, he's so great at everything and effortless at everything and high class. Sue sent me a, uh, an Instagram reel, uh, of cutups of him, um, tipping his cap to the, uh, opposing manager.

Have you seen that? He does that to the opposing manager, to the opposing pitcher, to the, to the, the catcher. When he steps in for the first time, he's just like perfect in everything.

And so great at everything. I turned to coop and I said, is he a hall of Famer right now? If he doesn't play another game, God bless my 14 year old. He knew exactly how many career home runs Oh, Tony had. Like I looked it up and he was right.

Wow. He's got 230 career home runs, not that much, which is I believe one more than no more in his career. It's 45 behind Mookie bets. He's deep down the list, but yeah, I kind of have to say like he's an MVP. He's pitched, he's thrown. He's done it all.

He steals. He's 50 50 first ever 50 50. He's he's done. I guys in no way is he a hall of Famer hall of fame.

Come on, come on. He's in the discussion. He's not in any discussion that flew by.

And you're like, that was awesome. The other day you sat here and you were very like stern and look at me like Shohei Ohtani is better than Barry Bonds at baseball. So if you're going to say that, then how can you flip it and say, he's not a hall of Famer because he hasn't done it long enough.

He's played like he's played. How can he be better than Barry Bonds? But because he, well, when you watch the game of baseball, you see that he is, which is why in my mind, if I had a vote and he didn't have to play again, I I'd have to say that you can't tell the story of the sport without Shohei Ohtani, which is the ultimate, which is the story of the sport without Bo Jackson. You absolutely could tell the story of baseball without Bo Jackson.

He only played well, he played enough, but yeah, 1000 percent multiple time MVP in both leagues. And I love Bo Jackson. One more World Series. It's all over.

There is no there. That's the point. And the reason why I'm bringing up is twofold. One is I want to make this. I want to make this a regular segment post draft on the show where we're going to come up with names of players in every major sport, North American major sport, and put it in some sort of a hopper and randomly select and finish a sentence if this player never played another game.

And have the conversation about players that are active right now. So I kind of wanted to pilot it and I think it works. But on top of it, at what point, like, because you say no, right? You say no.

Can he at least play 10 seasons first? I say no, I say no, I say no, you say no. We say yes. Oh yes. Daniel Bryan style.

Yes. And you're like longevity, this, that, the other thing. Mahomes hasn't played 10 years, but he's 100 percent it. He's a Hall of Famer. He doesn't play another game.

Heaven forbid he's in baseball or different man. Well then you could make that case. I get it fine. But like, will you alert me? You'll come into work one day, knock on whatever this is that we're doing this for as long as we want. And you will have to come into work one day and say, it's now it's now time he's in like, what does he have to do? Well, it's a mixture of longevity and consistency that he hasn't done yet. And you'll have to tell me when that is.

I'm telling you it's right now. And in that regard, just to bring this all together, because I weave tapestries, I don't just give takes. That's what you do. You weave. You're not at the point yet where you're allowed to refer to Alex Bregman as his nickname. I'll let you know where I think that you're allowed to do it.

You'll still do it anyway. Oh, I'm not listening to you about this at all. You can't go breggy like whatever Max like. Trust me, I love what Max Fried is doing. I got to meet Max Fried. He doesn't have a fundraiser for the Altadena Little League right around a corner from where you live.

It's a place in the beautiful valley. So, yes, I love the guy. I've met him.

I met his dad. I see what he's done already. Three and O for the Yanks. I'm a big fan of his, but whatever his nickname is, I wouldn't refer to him as that because he's not as many Yankee long enough. He's show to me. Oh, he hasn't earned his pinstripes yet and that stupid BS. No, I just can't. No, I haven't said he's not a true Yankee fan.

I haven't said that. I just can't. What's his nickname? Does he have one? Does Max Fried have a nickname?

You would know confirm the Braves. He doesn't. It's just whatever, whatever it would be. Maxie. Maxie. Oh, here comes Maxie.

Freezy. You know, I just, it's just like all of a sudden, oh, let's refer to him as breggy. That guy's got a nickname. He's now on my favorite team.

Okay. He's hitting bombs. I'm calling him breggy. It's too early.

What are we talking about? It's too early. It's too soon. It's not wrong. It's not right. What do you call one? So DJ, come on, man.

Huh? No. You know what he calls him? New York. He calls him money. See the guy's so money.

He'll play for anybody. Mr. New York. He's money for his family. It's better to talk about this way. Red limo all over again.

The ferry right now it's coming through. No, he's so money. He is money.

Clearly. It's his North star. It's everybody's North star. Don't let. Yeah.

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Learn more at Hyundai usa.com call 562-314-4603 for details. What memories does that bring up for you when you see that 99 all star start in Fenway Park? Well, before the game, I remember shaking a lot. I've never seen planes in an all star game. Lights all low. I was standing on the mound and I'm warming up and when the planes went by after the anthem, you know, I'm almost done warming up.

Right. The flyover. I did not expect the planes to light so low and they kind of shook me and shook the entire stadium. It was like the most amazing sound I've ever heard. And then just watching the old century team to me was great. It was unbelievable. I remember Hank Caron coming over and wanting to shake my hand and to me that was like, Oh my God, this is it. But it got even better because after the game, again, I knew what I could do.

I was facing those guys during that era. But what I was able to do and have Ted Williams come bring me over to his tweet where he was. Actually, there's a little video.

I don't know where it is. The Red Sox have it where he says, you won hell of a pitcher. And he shook my hand and he signed the program. And that was pretty much my trophy. That that capped it up. I think that just being part of the most unique All-Star game that I that I can think of, have the old century player something we might not see in this lifetime is probably the most amazing gift I could ever get in an All-Star game. Forget about the strikeouts. Forget about the performance.

An All-Star game like that deserves that and probably even better. Because I just remember that after the All-Century team had been announced and then the the players had been announced, I'm assuming you're warming up in the bullpen. Is that where you were? It was just about it was always delayed. Remember how everybody mobbed over?

Well, that was it. Yeah, they they asked the announced the public address announcer asked you essentially you guys to break it up. Yeah, I was already and you know, walking to the bullpen, but it was so delayed because everybody wanted to hug Ted Williams that I had to actually hold myself from pitching something I did not like. But because it was an All-Star game, you're flexible to doing anything. And if it was in a regular game, I'd be pissed.

I'd be really angry at everybody, TV and everybody. But it was the All-Century team. It was dedicated to Ted Williams.

To me, it was an honor to just be part of anything that that happened that day. Now, is he a fan of the appearance of Pedro Martinez or as Chris Brockman referred to him two days after he joined the Red Sox? Peaty. You're the worst. You're such a hater.

You are such a hater. Here's Peaty. It's got him from the Expos and here's Peaty Martinez. Peaty.

He's so good. Peaty. Let me take all the rings out from this century. And I can't. What do you say? I don't think I'm off on this. Bregie.

You just joined a team. You can't just be so familiar. You don't know him like that.

You don't know him like that. Mr. Bregman. Mr. Bregman. How would you prefer me to call him Alex Bregman? Bregie. Like you're rubbing elbows. You're getting tagged in everything. Still here arguing about Bregie. Petty level Tom.

Alex Bregie. But what do you think of that idea that we come up with a bunch of names, put it in a hopper and every still often just randomly select a name and debate whether that person's Hall of Fame or if they no longer play another down or snap. I'm a pretty harsh Hall of Fame. I know you are.

I have pretty high standards for barbarian at the gate for Hall of Fame. So I'm worried I'm going to be just no on everyone. I don't think so. If it's if it's if it's Mahomes, you don't say no. Like we're going to put Mahomes in that hopper.

Yeah, of course. Well, we don't because it's obvious that he is right. You've already put him on the Mount Rushmore. According to Chris's criteria, he's done enough even in this short amount of time. Even the seven years is different than baseball. So a seven year seven year vet in baseball can't make you the Hall of Fame. No, no, absolutely not. Hmm. So years.

I don't know. I think Otani's done enough. I think he's he's really ready.

Ready for this. OK, do in the postseason. I know he didn't have a great postseason last year where he I mean. He wasn't the one in they won in spite of it in spite. But it's like that annoy me because then the guy doing in the postseason win a ring, he wins a ring and then people go, well, then do it in the postseason like, you know, either one in spite of them. Then he's going to do it again. And then someone's going to be like, well, now you've got to win three rings or four.

The goalposts keep getting. We don't we don't know that they're going to get back to the World Series. Well, at some point, again, I'm not a betting man, but if I had to bet some hard on cash, I'm to say that this team will. I bet Dan Marino thought the same thing.

Dan Marino was never on a team like this Dodgers team. That's for sure. Now, I know you're you're maybe making a point.

You're you're the devil with the advocacy over there. But do you really think. The Dodgers are not going to make the World Series again in this man's tenure as a Dodger.

I have no idea. OK. The Padres are undefeated at home. And I know we've decided the way to stick to it. Let me tell you where to stick to it, because if this was football, the Dodgers are in deep trouble. Yeah, they're done. Well, the Dodgers are in trouble. Not only are the Padres impressive this year, so the Giants are the Giants. Yeah, the Dodgers are third place team.

Yeah. Well, guys, the Cincinnati Reds are in the four game winning streak. So they're the best team in baseball. If this was football. The Dodgers would have been the Dallas Cowboys up until last year. Dave Roberts, hot seat.

Yes, they haven't done it. Haven't done it in 30 years. Fastness with the covid. All that business.

All of it. I'm back with the Yankees. I leave the Dodgers.

Yeah, this guy signed the certificate. We've the Dodgers. Paul Haman's joining us in hour number three.

Don't you dare move. So very good. Back here on the still here on the program here on the ROKU Sports Channel. Tony's such a great pitcher. He averages four wins a year.

What are we doing? Is this the guy that's been saying that he definitely should pitch? No, he said he should.

No, I said he should never pitch again. And I said, there's a reason why there's a seven in front of his salary. The Mets are the only one to pay somebody just to do one thing because it sure ain't feeling sure enough. We're going to pay this man up. Not that much. The same amount of money.

Not that much. We were going to back. Oh, did you just switch from? We're not paying attention to him at all. We're not. I was still a Yankee fan.

You've been excommunicated. I was still at that point. I can't say anything to you because you still stuck for me with the water, but I don't let it slide today. Tomorrow, I'm going to get on you about this. No, no.

I mean, you paid a lot for that guy. You know what? Also, just to just to connect everything together again.

He doesn't even have an area yet this year. Let's just connect together. Everyone back together again. Earlier in the program, I mentioned that somebody here wasn't filling up the Kehrig with water and just leaving it.

You know what I mean? Just like my kids would just leave the plate in the sink. It's like, who's going to go? Who's dealing with that?

It's degenerate. Who's dealing with that? Oh, we'll do with that. You could have just put it right in the dishwasher. It's right next to the sink. It's right there. Okay. That's right there. What are we doing? Okay. Now the funny thing is Susie would say on that way, we're just leaving clothes on the floor.

There's the hamper. We're mad. I'm just giving full disclosure here. But one person thought I was talking about him. And so he's basically an NBA referee right now.

Very, very, very sensitive. It's TJ Jefferson sent me this photograph. He had Adam, our call screener, who I think, if I'm not mistaken, you're trying to out. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Okay. It's someone else. I don't know. There's only like eight people here.

It's not like we're a large scale operation. I took a picture weeks ago of me filling this up just to prove that I do it. This wasn't just now, even though you're wearing the same shirt and the photograph as you are currently right now, sometimes we double up on clothing sweaters that you've worn on the clip. And yeah, that was just another day.

That wasn't today. Okay. Very, very odd. Look at you saying, it's not me. It's not me.

I'm filling up the water. For me, he was going to point his finger at me. There's one way to look at this picture, which is, Oh, it clearly can't be him. The other way you can look at this picture is it's a track cover. That was from June. I mean, from January covering some tracks. It's not from January.

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