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14-year NFL veteran Levante David. Basketball Hall of Famer Chris Weber. NFL Network Insider Tom Pellisero. Coming up. Actor Wilson Bethel.
And now, it's Rich Eisen. Our number three of the Rich Hodgen Show is on the air. I had a great chat with Wilson Bethel just during our commercial break. He and I have something in common. We're both on Disney Plus.
Okay. You know, I'm a daredevil. True, true, true. Although he plays bullseye. Yeah, he's trying to take out.
Uh, we're both tennis guys. Oh, I did mention to him that there's something about my tennis playing ability I'm going to bring up to him as I do to any celebrity guest that we have who likes tennis. We're really going to do that, he's very unaware of what it is. Excellent.
So, let's not keep going because we're the show's on in the green room. Yeah, of course. Um, he has no idea what's about to hit him. I'm sure he does not, to be honest.
Well, neither does Alcaraz. I'll just say that now. Speaking of hitting somebody, okay. Great second hour. Tom Palisero and what we just saw from the story of the day, which is Kirk Cousins signing with the Raiders.
What does it mean? And all of that. I gave my opinion at the top. Your phone calls are all about it. We'll take some more in a second at 844-204-Rich.
Number to dial. And then we had Chris Weber on the show just as Turner Sports was announcing. That while I and Eagle and the rest of the crew on TBS calling Michigan, Arizona, At the same time. On uh True T V. And on HBO Max.
Check out the Fab5. Having an alt cast during Michigan, Arizona. After Yukon. And Illinois is over. Then Chris and Jalen Rose, who's on Tomorrow's Show, Jawan Howard, Jimmy King, and Ray Jackson will all get together.
Man, that is so cool. and have an alt cast during that game.
So That's going to cause, I think, other colleges to put up their bat signal and maybe do the same thing with getting some of their legends together. Chris says they've been cultivating that caper. That's like the broadcasting of Tonsa Heist right there for some time. And Adam Lefko is hosting it. Nice.
So there's that. Syracuse. Go ahead. Say what you said in my ear. Go ahead.
You look like you got mad at me for saying that. I didn't say mad at you. Why do you view me? I'm just. Have I ever gotten mad at you?
Just one time. When did I ever get mad at you? It was something I posted on Twitter, I'm sure. I can't remember.
Okay. That's when I was on it to actually pay attention. Before you also got banned from it, because you, for some reason, kept trying to record things off of your television and post it. Why are you bringing up old stuff? Listen.
Back when Twitter actually had operating rules that they enforced. Yeah. Like the stuff that people would say and post on Twitter. Goes and I got it. Go ahead.
So when he said that all those guys were getting together, I just said to you, man, you should be hosting this.
Okay. Let me tell you one thing that I'm not going to be doing: being around too many other people during that game. Yeah, but not other people. I understand. It's the Fab Five.
It's the Fabulous Five. Do you think it's possible? I got to be locked in. That's true. And they don't.
To that point. Do you think it's possible that you care more about the Michigan basketball team than the Fab Five? I would say no, but for football.
Okay, hold on a minute. Hold on. I'm trying to find out what he's doing. You just said that you don't want to be around other people. Right.
You're going to watch that game on your own. Yes. They are going to be at the game together talking about it and watching.
Okay. Totally fine. All right. Let me just say this. All right.
I find it interesting how your brain works and the chemistry would say that I care more about the game than the Fab Five. Yes. I also know the way I'm wired. All right, and it's called self-care. What I'm doing.
It's self-care.
Something I try to preach to our children. That's what Susie and I try to preach to our children: self-care. Understand that what you need. for yourself in the moment to be a better person. Yeah.
and be mindful of others. That's the self-care. But you're a fanatic, and by definition, like fans kind of go out of body and aren't good people in those moments while they're watching games. Right. But they've also done it.
They were in the game. They've played it. It's a different perspective. No, they didn't lose the Final Four game, sir. As a matter of fact, Michigan's made the Final Four eight times or 7-1 in the Final Four games.
It's what they've. They've done the the yada yada yada part hasn't gone very well. But I'm just saying, like, it seems to me and I hear you talk about he's working you up and you know, like it feels just like you care more about the outcome than the guys who used to be in it. Um If you think them spending the game on the air doing it. Right.
Means that they care less than the guy who does the on-air stuff for a living, would prefer to be alone and just watching on Type. Right, exactly. Yeah. Yeah. If you take that to mean that they care less about it than I do, that's not what I'm saying.
That's a UP. That's a YP, not an MP. No, you care more than the outcome than I'm saying. Let me also say this. It's kind of weird.
Listen, you know how I feel about Pat, right? You know how I feel about Mac. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
And I'm well on the record how I feel about him. We're huge fans.
Okay. He reached out knowing that I was at the Rose Bowl with, you know, He was doing an alt cast. In the end zone. Remember that? No, right.
Michigan, Alabama. I remember. He reached out. I know. Would like me to show up there.
I said no. That's crazy. Why is it crazy? I'm there with my kids. But you have to be there.
I'm here with my nephew. I'm there with my wife. And I'm there. This is the biggest football game of my Michigan fandom. I don't I I wasn't prepared to be on In front of other people with recording equipment, but you don't think fans of you and fans of the show and fans of Michigan football would have wanted to see you on the alt cast like that?
I don't. He doesn't want to let that creature out that way. Like, oh, you know, I'm giving people what they want by showing up and being a nervous wreck. That's what we do. And I wanted to focus on the game, not like with my back.
Focus on the game like you have anything to do with the outcome. I don't. You know, I'm not that guy. I'm not that guy, like, you know, although that guy is, you'd get to invite Dusty Mae on this program. Which is absolutely insane.
All right, I might not be rational right now, but I don't know. That's why I'm saying self-care. It's self-care.
That's why I'm asking you: do you think you can go to Weber and company huge Michigan watch party? You won't answer the question.
Well, I think also we as a history of higher than the players do anyway.
Sometimes it seems, think about how radical and how insane some fans are. Like, I can remember watching Tony Romo on post-game pressers, and he's just very, you know, and I'm sitting there because he didn't want to give anybody anything. Yeah, I'm still sitting there steaming, and I'm like, why does it seem like this hurts me more than him?
So I feel like that's how most fans are. They really do probably take things way more seriously. Right, but the players take things really seriously too. But now we're all fans. It's just that those fans, all five of them, Have been in this game before.
Right? Yeah. Okay. So it th it what would be the analogy that I've uh i i if if there's a a broadcast that the whole world watches a broadcasting competition? I could be there and talking about it while my other you know, other people who are following in footsteps doing it.
You know? There's no analogy. There's no analogy. I just want to be left alone. I just want to say, including by you right now.
I love that you're saying this, but you don't give, you don't understand why. I'm not telling you. I don't bother you guys. Leave me alone. I'm telling her to.
Just leave me alone. You want to be left alone, but you don't understand when I tell you guys: no, I didn't leave the house. I didn't want to go out. I didn't want to do something. Because, yeah.
But like when it comes to me, you don't, you seem like you don't get it. Where did Left Go go to school? Accused. Oh, did he? When the cups is in the house?
Let him do it. Yeah. Let him do it. Just leave Rich alone. Just leave me alone.
That's all I'm saying. You know, I got him riled up for eight minutes. Top five. I got a top five. Hey, Abba Zabba.
This is your idea, Chris. I give you the credit on this, sir. Appreciate that. Top five sporting events of the month of April presented by Hyundai. Hit it.
Hit it. One, two, three, four, and five. Rich's top five. All right, everybody. There's so many that you can actually fill out a top five list.
It's a crazy month. It sure is. And I'm actually, there's so many. I'm even combining number five. It's the beginning of the NBA and NHL playoffs.
Ooh. Um they begin. And this is the time where we're going to learn who's playing whom to start and who should be avoiding who and who couldn't avoid who, and the matchups this, the matchups that. And why in the world are we playing a game once every four days? Or what's happening?
Although the hockey playoffs, they come out. Every other day, boom, boom. Exactly. And then we'll find out at the end of the day, it's called NBA Finals, plural, but Stanley Cup Finals singular. Final.
We'll find that out. And then one thing that we try to determine now with the NBA playoffs being conducted the way it is, where do the points in the you know, play in tournament, if you will. Where do those go? Where do they go? They go in that sort of Superman 2 Phantom Zone of sports, right?
Superman's floating. Right? With General Zod floating and. you know, floating in the uh in outer space. Where do the points go?
But it's the beginning of the playoffs. It's the beginning of winner-go-home time in the NBA and the NHL. Long season's finally culminating. That happens in April. That's number five, number four on this list.
I want the camera on this man as I say it. I know. It's quite insane. It is WrestleMania. Let's go!
Look at you, Rich Eisen. See, I don't have my head in the sand. As a matter of fact, no contest wrestling is making me a more well-rounded host and Rich Eisen Productions, I guess, owner. Ye? Give you the floor.
Boletta's one word. What's so great about WrestleMania, TJ? Basically, and this is what I wanted to save this for the air, but I'll say it. No, basically, if you're a child. This is the air.
What air. Whose air is more special? What the hell's happening here? Basically, you know. ESPN, this is going to be the first time they're showing WrestleMania.
So it's going to open up a lot of people. It's going to be the first time a lot of people really get to see it. And to make a long story short, take all your major championships, whether it be the NBA Finals, NHL Final, your World Cup, your Super Bowl, that is essentially wrestling's. Super Bowl. WrestleMania is the biggest show.
It's the grandfather of them all. And it's the biggest show that the WWE puts on each and every year. 42 years now, it's been going on. And this year, this WrestleMania, though, is special because what's happening on the days before?
Well, On the Friday Before WrestleMania, O'Shea Jackson Jr. and myself will be, I guess, leading ESPN2's coverage. There's no guessing. Of WrestleMania.
So we will be doing a pre-show. For WrestleMania and um It's kind of, I mean, you gave me the floor here, so you shouldn't have done that. No, no. I don't think I've watched, you can't calculate the amount of hours I've watched ESPN or the amount of hours I've watched wrestling.
So, to be able to do this for ESPN in their inaugural jump into WrestleMania, this is incredible for us, man. And this go, baby. Yes, it really does. I've got something for you TJ. Yes, you put the contest.
Yeah. I would say you put the P in PLE, but people might not know that stands for premium. Yeah. But yes, anyway, very good. WrestleMania is the Super Bowl.
That's number four on my list. I take the floor back. I reclaim my time. Number three. I reclaim my time.
No contest. Number three, the final fours. Plural. Final fours. Final fours.
Plural. Men's and women's. Ladies first, Friday night, Arizona. Here we go. Saturday, men's, let's go.
Let's go. Championship game Sunday, Arizona for the ladies. Let's go Monday night. Starting an absurd time on Monday night. For the men's, let's go.
Nets being cut down, championships being crowned. Here we go. Number two. I'm putting the NFL draft here. Yeah, boy, Rich Hazard.
I'm putting the NFL draft here. And it's amazing how it's become a traveling road show now. It's the greatest. It's awesome. And I just love taking it from town to town to town to town.
Each town's going to be different. Each town, you know, the league has done such a great job of transforming a city or utilizing a city. And they're Landscape or their cityscape and turning it into their own draft hall. It's awesome. And I can't get enough of it.
It is an honor of my life to be hosting it, but even I know. There is a tradition unlike any other. We must talk about it. It's the Masters. The Masters is the top sporting event of April.
It really is. And. You know, Because there are many other... Um Tournaments. And there are...
other majors and every other major The Location Rotates. This one doesn't And as a matter of fact, the location is the star of the show. The location is what frames the event. and the history and the tradition. And it is Truly.
Unbelievable. And anytime. That's the beauty of this course, as well, is that no lead is safe. No lead is safe and no deficit is too large. And that's what we love about sporting events.
No lead is safe, no deficit is too large. It means as much to the. Players, as it does to us at home, all we want to do when we watch this tournament is go out and hit a golf ball thinking we can get the jacket ourselves when we absolutely cannot. Um because for us Most of us. And I include myself.
There's a pond. A pool is for the Folks who can win the green jacket. It'll be good for you. That's my top five sporting events list. Oh, what?
We'll get one more. I got one more. Normally, we'd be put baseball in here, but opening day. Doesn't exist in April anymore. It's now in March.
So, for baseball, I did include one. It's my new favorite pastime here on the Rich Eisen Show, which is. Updating our version of the standings between our teams. And as of last night's victory for the New York Yankees to take the series in Seattle. Because Cam Schlittler is dominant and the Mets losing, and the Red Sox losing.
I now have a two-game lead. Yankees are off today, so I'll maintain at least the two-game lead in the loss column. And the Red Sox are already four out. I hate these. Already four out.
Yeah, wins football, wins training camp. Hey, we're not up there, but you're ahead of us too now. You know what? We're not including you. Yeah, but you're ahead of us, too.
You know what I'm saying? I don't want to include you.
Well, because that means we'd have to put Del Tufo's face up. Exactly, man. And Del Tufo is now the avatar, thank God, of being a bandwagon fan. Lids, welcome. Thank you to.
I thought it was, is it Lids? Lids. Thank you to our friends at Lids. I don't know if you got it from here or not. But the stupid ass Yankee Dodger hat that Del Tufo wears.
Who gave it to him? Is the R.J. Mitchell? R.J. Mitchell.
Okay, the stupid ass Yankee Dodger avatar, you know, logoed hat that Jason you're holding up right now. Um you know That he wears thinking it's funny or whatever. Our friends at Lids used it as. an ironic April Fool's joke calling it the bandwagon hat.
So bad. You know? Has Mike reacted to that yet? It doesn't matter if he reacts to it. I don't know.
Because we're going to keep reminding him. But at any rate, it's my new favorite pastime showing our version of the Major League Baseball standings. right now, and those are my top five sporting events of April, plus one that means a lot to me. Brought to you by Hyundai's 2026 hybrid vehicle lineup. Advanced safety and technology meets hybrid efficiency.
It's the best of both worlds. Uh Usually there are many worlds in which things can be best. Unfortunately, Yankees and Dodger logos in the same hats. That ain't one of them. No.
More fortunately, I should say. Oh man. Yeah. Are you surprised they didn't put the draft one? No, I mean, I myself reaction was no, but then, yeah, the mass.
I might have done that Tuesday. My last days in an NFL network employee. That would be fun. I am now, I am just a totally different person. You are free of the shadow.
Oh, please. Free. Oh.
Okay, you can go hit the blackjack table, baby. Let's go. Woo! When? I mean, just in general, I mean, just, you know, whatever you want.
Okay. Wilson Bethel, let's bring him on out. Disney Plus is Daredevil Born Again Season Two. Airs Tuesdays on Disney Plus. Wilson joins us on this Thursday show next.
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Not just this show, but also Daredevil Born Again. Season two airs Tuesday's Disney Plus, an eight-episode season already off and running. The season finale is going to air on Tuesday, May 5th with the Punisher, John Bernthal. One last kill premiering the following Tuesday.
So we're just connecting dots. We're cooking, baby. We're bridging shows. Pretty damn and pretty damn amazing. And we just saw the trailer on the TV side of things.
You are now the third guest that we've ever had. On the show from this cast. Matthew Lillard's been on the show a couple times. And Vincent D'Onofreo, man. Dude.
He came on here, and I just like try to hold off on asking about Full Metal Jacket right away, you know, or anything else that he's been in being awesome. What's it like being in a cast with him? Dude, he's the best, man. I mean, like, Vincent is formidable, right?
So, like, you do not, you don't want to end up on the wrong side of Vincent. Right. But, um, but shy of, like, you know, screwing something up and really doing something to get on his bad side. He's just the loveliest guy. He's, um, he's like such a ready fountain of like advice and wisdom and care.
It's an amazing, and also just like legitimately an ego-free guy, which. I think again, like speaking to the the general vibe of the show and just what a gift it is, like it could such it could so easily be a show where you step on a set and like every third person is, you know, checking, I don't know, talking to their publicist every six seconds and, you know, whatever. No sh no no disrespect to publicists. We love them. Right.
But it's just, it's, it's like so little ego, and Vincent's an incredible example of that. Charlie, the guy who plays Daredevil, incredible example of that. And it's just the best. Yeah, I mean, when he was here and I asked him about Kubrick and Pullmetal Jacket. And he's he said, I've got two stories and which is a a gift to somebody sitting in a chair.
And then he started talking about like his acting process. And then and then I asked him a follow-up question on that. And I'll never forget, he looked at me and goes, really? Like, you want to ask me about that when I'm telling you these stories about it? Yeah, yeah.
And I kind of wanted to back off right away. I'm apologizing to my interview subject right here for going in a direction that he didn't. Think I wanted him to go. Yeah. It really, I look back on that and I'm like, oh, damn it, I should have just let him talk.
And he's very disarming in a way. There's like a tenderness about him that belies the six foot four, 270 pound bad MFer that he is. See how I'm trying to not swear? I'm like desperately trying. Really?
Yeah, yeah. And then like these like, these like, you know, abbreviated versions come out. And then I'm just like, I sound stupid.
So, all right. You know, like in another version of this, I should overdub myself. But, you know, we'll say that. We'll say potty mouth Bethel. You're a rich guy.
Really? I'm also being distracted by how bright white these socks are that I'm wearing. I'm like, I'm a little nervous. These socks are too white. I'm used to dirty white socks.
Yeah, I mean, should I say that from the, you know, from from the waist up, you look like one of those guys who should wear this medium shirt that you're wearing right now. Should I do this? From the waist up. From the waist down, I look like I'm wearing pantyhose. No, you look like Ben Franklin.
You know what I mean? You look like an American patriot. Can I tell you that with the shoes? I mean, I took this all a great choice, right? In sixth grade, I played Ben Franklin in my school production of 176.76.
So did my brother. No way. My brother played Ben Franklin. This is an important question we need to get to. Did your brother go full bald cap or did he like because I went full bald cap?
Well, he was in grade school, so yes. Yeah, okay, cool. Like, I didn't know.
Now today you wouldn't need it. Yeah, okay. Nice, man. Hey, as he is. He'd be able to hit the stage just the way he is and crush it, dude.
176. Oh, yes. I try to tell my kids all the time because Hamilton is a must in my house. Yeah, sure.
Okay. That before Hamilton, there was 1776. Yeah, hot take. Where there was a great musical. Maybe not quite on the same.
No, no, no, no. I'm kidding. I love it. I love Hamilton. Right, but 1776, we're sitting about the making of the Declaration of Independence.
Incredible. John Adams being an a-hole. Can I tell you?
So I was in, whatever, sixth grade. Sixth grade. It's important. This is an important conversation. I grew up with my mom who was like an avid yard sailor.
And so every Sunday we'd be going to yard sales. And I grew up in New Hampshire.
So there's a lot of weird stuff at these yard sales and old stuff. And so I got the role of Benjamin Franklin in 1776. And I'm taking it very seriously.
Okay. And one Sunday we're at a yard sale and my mom finds a wheelchair from like. 1777. Like, I mean, literally the oldest wheelchair you've ever seen in your life with like a wicker back. And she said, I'll buy this wheelchair for you for the play if you spend like the next three years, you know, doing yard work or whatever.
So that was like, I made a deal with the devil to get this wheelchair. And then, and then I did the production in like a museum quality, like 200-year-old wheelchair that everybody in my school knew was like a collectible wheelchair. Oh my god. Yeah. Anyway, whatever.
Did it help you? Transform into. I mean, here I am, the star of screen and stage.
So, look at Bullside now, man. Exactly. They were doubt bulls, but you know, I guess. Your Ben Franklin rolled so bullseye can run. Is that basically what we're saying right now?
Great. I think that sounds right. That sounds right. Daredevil born again. Ladies and gentlemen, season two airs Tuesday on Tuesdays on Disney Plus.
Wilson Bethel is here. On the program. You're a tennis guy. Yeah. Yeah.
I've been playing my whole life. You have been? Yeah. Okay. Yeah.
How good are you? I'm pretty good.
Okay. I'm still like, I still play at least twice a week. You do? Yeah. Okay.
I play at a pretty high level. All right. Yeah. So, who's your favorite tennis player? I feel like this is a leading question.
I feel like I'm falling into a trap here. You are not falling into any trap. Look, all time favorite. I'm not trying to. You may look like that, Franklin.
Well, I heard whisperings backstage. They were saying, Did he mention anything about Alcaraz? And so I was like, oh, then this is a trap is set. It's no trap.
Okay, all right. You answer.
So there's two answers.
Okay. There's two answers to this question. Sure.
Okay. My all-time favorite is. I mean, it's still Nadal. Rafa is still my all-time guy.
Okay, very good. But current player is Alcara. It's Alcora. And it's not that I have some fetish for Spaniards, but they both, there's something, yeah, there's something there. Cal Gasol is your favorite basketball player.
It's really weird. Exactly. John Rahm is your favorite golfer. Yeah. Really weird.
Yeah. Okay. Wait, maybe I do have a thing for that. You may have a favorite thing. No.
Alca b Alcaraz is unbelievable where He he can get to any anything ball. Any ball, he's also just like a pure, like, I think when I think of sports, one of the things that I appreciate, like, I appreciate pure athleticism. Yes. And that guy is about as pure an athlete as you'll find in terms of like power, speed, mental toughness. Right.
Like, I mean, it's, he is a genuine, like, crazy athlete. Right. And endurance. And we have him on perfect that you have this shot up here. The fact that he's, you know, loses to Sinner, you know, who looks like a guy on vacation who needs a better tan.
Literally, in this image, looks like Gumby in the green. Right. And when he first came on the scene, I'm like, I can't believe he's Italian. Yeah, yeah, right. Look, it isn't sounded.
He's not Italian. Yeah. But the fact that Alcaraz loses he's lost a couple of millions here. Yeah. Makes me think, again, I play, but not nearly as much as you.
Um I love playing. Yeah. Uh I'm not very good at it.
Okay. My 15 year old. You can get better. I used to teach tennis. I can get you up to speed.
So I no no, I I have trouble, you know, dropping the racket. You know? To hit from, you know, sounds maybe like a flexibility thing. We can work on that. It's no quite.
There's many issues that I can say. But I believe, I'm just trying to set the stage to tell you my lack of playing ability. Sure.
I believe I could get one point off of Carlos Alcarez.
Okay. One point. Anymore. If I play him. By the way, first of all, I appreciate your interest.
By this point in time, I'm already being shot down, correct? I'm actually shocked, Wilson, that you are entertaining a mere thought of this.
Well, here's the thing. I actually think that it's possible because there is a world, and this is like people who've been playing tennis long enough know this. That's right. That great tennis players playing an infinitely inferior tennis player can actually lose because there is something about an infinitely inferior player, an inferior player that like explodes their mind. And once a tennis player loses their confidence, it's game over.
So if you got into Alcaraz's head with some kind of, and there's like some kind of like witchery, with some like trick shot with like stupid spin on it that he's never seen before, there's a chance you could beat him outright. First of all, I'm just saying they don't call this man bullseye for nothing. You are right. And the only thing you're a little off on is my strategy.
Okay, what's the strategy? I'm not going to come off and spin at the guy who's dominant on clay, grass, you know. Let alone a hardcore. Like, I'm not going to come up with something you've never seen before.
Okay. But I can get in people's grills. Great. I love it. I can get in between people's temples.
You know, even though Spanish is not my first language, doesn't matter. I could still, I can get there. It's better if it's fake Spanish. But my, my, there's my plan. Yeah.
And this is, I didn't have this until Marty Fish came in and gave me this idea of I didn't know this about tennis. I should have. Um If I keep serving it. And he gets closer and closer and closer. Right.
And he's destroying me. I still haven't gotten my point. And it's now like four, four, you know, he's up for love, right? But I'm serving. It's my last service here before he closes my ass out.
Yeah. Okay. So I'm now. getting ready he's as close as close I come up with a serve and hit him with it. Yeah, great.
A bullet. Love it. He can't get even, the guy who can get anywhere on the court can't get out of the way. Yeah. And if you get hit with the ball, as we know.
Whose point is it? It's your point. That's it. I love it. Thank you.
Genius. Genius. And there's what I'm saying is. Genius. There's a chance that at that point.
Yes. He mentally collapses over like the camera. And the whole set of just crumbles. Yeah, exactly. And then at that point, it's your match to lose.
Yes, my match to lose. We all woke up. Guys, Where have you been, man? Hey, man, I'm here. That's how you want me.
Where have you been? We've been talking about this for how long? Way too long. Not way too long. He lost in Indian Wells and he lost in Miami.
Yeah, to perfect players. Conhyman Roth. He lost in Miami.
So he is vulnerable. Yeah, he's primed. He's prime. There's one adjective to describe Carlos Alcarez right now. He's vulnerable.
Vulnerable. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Forget the fact that he's number one in the world. Oh, he could forget that. Yeah.
Not for long if he keeps losing it. Yeah, yeah, that's true. That's true. He's got Gumby on his tail. At some point, Gumby.
He says he doesn't. You know, and Medvedev's back too. I love that guy. That dude, the octopus, the Russian octopus. He's unbelievable.
He's like Randy Johnson playing tennis. He's unbelievable. Yeah. Look at this chopping it up about tennis. Man, did you like it?
So, did you talk about tennis? I feel like I feel like tennis. I come on a show like this, and I'm like, oh man, do I like, I feel like you want to talk about like big money sports. It's okay. Tennis is like niche, right?
It's a little boutique. Yeah, it's a little boutique.
So, Wilson Bethel here to talk about High Lie next. No, no, no, really. There's not a lot of phone lines that light up are like, wait, that's your Ionic sinner? I got to call in. No, that's not the way America is.
I mean, I grew up, you know, like I grew up like a baseball fan too. And like, you know, I grew up in New Hampshire.
So, like, you know, I grew up going to the Red Sox games. And yeah, yeah. I mean, I love, I love, you know, I love sports. Right. But you know what it was?
Like, so I grew up playing baseball and soccer and, you know, a bunch of stuff. Yes. I just I'm not great in a team environment. You're not? No.
Well, except this cast. Except the actor. Yeah, well, that's a different thing. But, like, in a competitive environment, what it is, in a competitive environment, I become too self-conscious of how the competitive mojo works interpersonally. Yes.
I want to be entirely responsible for my own competitive mojo. And that's why tennis sort of appealed to me. I was like, I want the entire experience to be in my hands. And I want my self-combustions to be mine alone. I don't want that to weigh on anybody else.
I can completely understand what you're saying. Yeah, all right. By the way, shout out 603, New Hampshire. That's right, man. Living free and dying.
Free and dying from Maine, 207. Yes, I love it, man.
So you're. You're from the Staten Island of Maine, is what you are. Staten Island of New England. I don't love that. You're the Staten Island.
I'm from Staten Island.
Okay. New York.
So he thinks I'm not really part of New York City.
Okay, that's fine. It's the fifth and forgotten borough, admittedly. Yeah, yeah. He's from Maine, which I keep calling the Staten Island of New England. New England.
Right? Well, I don't think that's fair, but you know. But I'm here also to just, you know, I'm here to make friends with everybody.
So I want to heal old wounds and I want us to move forward. We've just met. I feel like this is what happens when you're not allowed to curse. I become a different human. I suddenly become a therapist.
More amenable? Yes, definitely. Nice to everybody. Yeah, definitely. Because you're not cursing.
If he cursed, he'd say F in Maine. Yeah, get the F out of it. Like a hanging chat up there. It's practically Canada. Maine and New Hampshire are very lie.
Very like. Absolutely. Absolutely. Where there's a Cumberland Farms, there's Brotherhood.
Okay. Cumby's brain. My kids go to camp in Maine. Yeah. And the chocolate milk, the strawberry milk on Cumberland Farms.
Are you fine?
So good.
So good.
You know what I'm saying? Yeah, dude. A lot of bone density up there. What do you mean? Just from drinking lots of strawberry milk?
I don't know. A lot of big-bone kids. I still can't float. My wife gives me shit about it all the time. Oh, bad boy.
Oh, man. Hey. Couldn't make it. Yeah. Couldn't make it.
I can't float in the water. What? I don't know how to float.
Okay. And neither does my dad. Neither does my brother. Nobody in my family knows how to float. And so, like, my joke is that we've got bone density.
Okay. And I think maybe it's because we drank a lot of it.
Now I'm starting to put the pieces together. Not a whole pieces together. Yeah. Yeah. You're also an imperfect woman.
Nice roll you're on right now. Thanks, man. You know, that's on Apple TV. Yeah. Terry Washington.
Yeah. And Elizabeth Moss. Marquee Cass. And Kate Mara. As well, correct?
I'm getting this right. All the above, yeah. She is the uh, she's New York Giants football royalty. Yeah, no problem. She's been on this program and talking about you know, growing up going to Giants games and stuff like.
Her granddad's nickname is on the football. Yeah, yeah, it's crazy. That's pretty cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That would intimidate.
I know. Yeah. I mean, that whole cast, yeah, those are heavy hitters.
Okay. Same thing with you and the cast of Daredevil, Born Again, Season 2. Congrats on everything going on, man. Thanks, man. You got it.
All right, so what have we learned? This is the recap portion. This is the recap portion. Let's recap, everybody. You need to come back on and talk about how I can beat Carlos Alcarez anytime.
Done. I mean, even. With my over-glorification of any chance that I have. Never thought that he would collapse mentally and I would have a chance to just win the set. Look, at the end of the day, put me in your corner, man.
We'll figure it out. Like, I'll be your bench coach. You'll be, you'll be.
Okay. Yes. Okay. Yeah. All right.
Together. Yes. We will conquer Alcare. Beatable. Yeah, exactly.
Can we get D'Onofrio there to stare at him? Absolutely. Yeah. Just the private pile stare. Yeah, cast a shadow over him.
Okay, we got that. And then we learned that you're better cursing. Um and we we learned that um you know Daredevil Born Again Season 2 is on Disney. It's on air, and I'm murdering people left and right, man. It's a lot of fun.
You're doing that. And that, as soon as you're done here. Um you're gonna go off and um sign the uh Declaration of Independence. As ex-Ben Franklins do. I'm taking these pantyhose off.
First thing, as soon as they call, I'm lighting these pantyhose on fire and I'm leaving. Getting the F out of here. You're going to go discover electricity. Yeah. All right.
We're going to find them in the green room. Yeah, yeah. We're coming back. I'm going to sign it and put it on your wall, ladies and gentlemen. Look, Liz, I got a feather pen for you.
Thank you. Dude, I feel very comfortable with those here. That's what I'm saying. That's one of the lines from 1776. If I'm the one to do it, they'll run a quill pen through it.
I'm obnoxious and disliked. Dang, man. You really haven't been a super fan. I am, yeah. My brother was in it.
We watched it non-stop. I'd love to show my kids the problem is it's a musical about, you know, the Continental Congress in standard definition. And they're never going to do that. Yeah, that's a tough sell. That's a tough sell to a kid in 2016.
Let's watch Hamilton again right here on Disney Plus. Yeah. Good to see you, man. Thanks, man. Hey, thanks for everybody right here on the Rich Eisen Show.
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But here's one separate from that category: Carl in Antioch, Illinois, here on the program. What's up, Carl? Hey, guys.
So real quick, I wanted to talk ABS, but you reminded me of a story. I'm in high school. I'm on the baseball team. My center fielder is also the soccer goalie. I tell him I'm going to do a penalty kick.
I bet him I could score on him. I'm going to fake left. I'm going to go high right. All right, I'm not good at soccer at all, but I told him I could score on him. I get running, I fake left, go top right.
He jumps to the right side of the net. But I'm so bad that I missed and it went rolling bottom left at about four miles an hour, ended up going in the goal. I didn't even plan it, but I was so bad I ended up actually beating him.
So the center fielder is the Alcaraz in this story. Yes, I was so bad that I actually fooled him. It's like throwing a fastball to Aaron Judge at 63 miles an hour and he swings and misses. And it's like, that wasn't a changeup. That was the best I got, but he's just not used to it, you know?
So, you know, so the ABS, I got to say, personally, I love it. All right. You got to think of it like this. If you're a parent of a teenager and their curfew is 11 o'clock p.m. and they come in 11.05, 11.10, and you don't punish them, they're going to start coming in at midnight, 1 a.m.
until eventually they come in at like Wednesday morning with like a lady of the night and an empty bottle of moonshine and they're putting their fingers in your yogurt saying, make me some eggs. You got to set down the law and nip it in the bud. If you punish them, But with the small things, the big things will never happen, which is a blown call in the WBC or the World Series.
Okay, so I think if we give a raffle out to like the audience to the attendance and every time the guy misses a call, we get raffle tickets and then there's a raffle at the end of the game. The umpire goes in a dunk tank and then there's a raffle to throw balls and try to knock him in. If we can also put his stats up and announce it to be getting good at game, like you know, the umpires for the game home plate, Joe Johnson, who has a 37% failure rate of calling ball just tried to like announce it, and that'll really drive them to really do good.
Now, sometimes I think I overreact, but then sometimes again, I think I just miss my dear friend And Carl at Antioch, Illinois. Very entertaining and informative. Thank you very much for the call, Carl. What was that part about the yogurt and the finger? Do I want it?
Moonshine. I got it. I don't think so. Listen. I like ABS.
I like it a lot. the issue I see people having with it is a lot of these Um Pitches in question are less than Yeah. Less than one-tenth of an inch out of the strike zone. And the fact that that's called a strike or a ball to begin with. Is a sign that the umpire is pretty damn good to start.
Okay. Yeah, so what are we doing? It's the ones that are right down Broadway that you're like, oh, God. Right? And so I feel The whole the this is the dunk tank.
To use his analogy, right? You know, these ideas. We're doing it by shame. We're shaming people.
Well, it's not shame, it's getting the call right. to begin with. And the difficulty here is, again, Home plate umpires are, for the most part, Pretty accurate. But then there are ones where the ABS needs to fix them.
Now, do you want to make a tweak to ABS if if it is within Um a tenth? That the call stands. One inch. This big. Right.
So it's got to be outside of that. Yeah. For it to be overturned. Overturned. If it's inside of that.
Now. It stays as called. It stays as called. I think we've just gone overboard on replay in general across all sports. That one I'll push back on.
You want 100% accuracy in a sport that, in all sports, that is impossible.
So these umpires are 98% accurate generally every single game. Why isn't that good enough for everyone?
So potentially, it shouldn't be. Is it in that strike zone? Or is it even infinitesimally outside of it? And if it's infinitesimally outside of it, We're overturning it. or if it's infinitesimally inside of it, we're overturning it.
We're going to overturn the original human call. that maybe now we should make it like it's got to be Give a little bit more grace to the home plate on. These pitchers are going 100 miles an hour, and these guys are making split-second judgments and are right 98% of the time. That's good for me. Why is that not good for everyone else?
That's crazy. What do you think? That we that that it's it doesn't have to be so Yeah. It's that there's a gray area that we should allow the ABS to not have anything to say about it. If that's the case, then we just should accept that in every walk of life.
Like, you know, I got a 75 in school. Should I get an A? Because I would close. That's not right. 98%.
These umpires are getting it right 95 to 98% of the time, every single game.
So you don't want 100% correction?
So let me ask you a question: It's not a sport based on 100%. Is it me or my child getting a 75 on the test? Let's say you're a child.
Okay, absolutely. Give him an A. 70% failure is an all-time great, but we want 100% from our umpires on balls and strikes. What are we doing? But if you can't get 100%, why don't you get 100%?
Then why do we have umpires at all?
Well, then let's focus on the wrong thing. Damn it, I thought we would solve ABS in the final seconds of the show. Thankfully, there's a Friday one. Thanks for listening to the Rich Eyes and Show podcast. You can watch and listen to The Rich Eisen Show live weekdays from noon to 3 Eastern on ESPN Radio, Disney Plus, and on the ESPN app, The Rich Eisen Show, the podcast.
